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vertet in offensas libera verba suas.

seu memor ille mea contentus manserit umbra

et tanti cineres duxerit esse meos,
discite venturam iam nunc sentire senectam,
caelibis ad curas nec vacet ulla via.

95 quod mihi detractum est, vestros accedat ad annos: prole mea Paullum sic iuvet esse senem.

100

et bene habet: numquam mater lugubria sumpsi:
venit in exequias tota caterva meas.

causa perorata est. flentes me surgite, testes,
dum pretium vitae grata rependit humus.
moribus et caelum patuit: sim digna merendo,
cuius honoratis ossa vehantur aquis.

93. sentire O lenire Schrader. 102. aquis NFLV2 equis DV avis Heinsius.

90. vertet in: 'will interpret them to imply.'

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93. nunc: with sentire. tire to realize'; cf. Ovid, A. A. 3,59: venturae memores iam nunc estote senectae.

94. nec vacet ulla via : 'and leave him no access.'

95. quod sc. tempus. Cf. Tib. 1, 6, 63: proprios ego tecum, sit modo fas, annos contribuisse velim.

96. prole mea: a Propertian abl. The idea is essentially causal, however the grammar is to be explained. — sic: i.e. if you are so spared to comfort him.

97. bene habet: 'I am content.' lugubria sumpsi: put on mourning.'

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P. OVIDI NASONIS

AMORVM

LIBER PRIMVS

EPIGRAMMA IPSIVS

Qui modo Nasonis fueramus quinque libelli, tres sumus: hoc illi praetulit auctor opus; ut iam nulla tibi nos sit legisse voluptas, at levior demptis poena duobus erit.

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Arma gravi numero violentaque bella parabam

edere, materia conveniente modis;

AMORES

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Epigramma Ipsius: there is no reason to doubt the genuineness of this epigram thus prefixed to the first book of the Amores. - Nasonis: Ovid is fond of calling himself by his cognomen; cf. Am. 2, 1, 2; Trist. 5, 13, 1; etc. quinque an earlier edition of the Amores was published in five books. Ovid later withdrew some of his more youthful efforts from circulation and published the existing edition in three books. Cf. Cicero's change of plan in the Academica. - libelli: a term of modesty. hoc illi: the present to the earlier.'-ut:

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even if.'

legisse cf. Tib. 1, 1, 29, n.

66

I, I

1-4: 'I essayed heroic strains, but Cupid drove me to elegy. 5-20: Who gave you the right to interfere?" I complained, "let every cobbler stick to his last." 21-26: But he drew his unerring bow at me, and now love rules my heart; 2730: so elegy is my province.' Cf. 2, I, II sqq.; Prop. 3, 3.

1. gravi numero: the hexameter; cf. modis (v. 2) (of the melody) and inferior versus (v. 3) (i.e. the second of a couplet) for a variety of expression of the general idea.

2. edere: 'to produce.'

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par erat inferior versus: risisse Cupido

dicitur atque unum surripuisse pedem.
'quis tibi, saeve puer, dedit hoc in carmina iuris?
Pieridum vates, non tua turba sumus.

quid, si praeripiat flavae Venus arma Minervae,
ventilet accensas flava Minerva faces?

quis probet in silvis Cererem regnare iugosis,
lege pharetratae virginis arva coli?

crinibus insignem quis acuta cuspide Phoebum
instruat, Aoniam Marte movente lyram?

sunt tibi magna, puer, nimiumque potentia regna:
cur opus adfectas, ambitiose, novum?

an, quod ubique, tuum est? tua sunt Heliconia Tempe?
vix etiam Phoebo iam lyra tuta suast?
cum bene surrexit versu nova pagina primo,
attenuat nervos proximus ille meos;

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