THE LOVE BOOKS OF OVID
INTRODUCTION
I
II
III
IV
EPIGRAM
ELEGY I: THE POET EXPLAINS HOW IT IS HE COMES TO
SING OF LOVE INSTEAD OF BATTLES.
ELEGY II: THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE.
ELEGY III: HE COMMENDS HIMSELF TO HIS MISTRESS
BY THE MERITS OF HIS POETRY, THE PURITY OF HIS MORALS, AND BY THE VOW
OF HIS UNCHANGEABLE FIDELITY.
ELEGY IV: OVID, HIS MISTRESS AND HER HUSBAND ARE
ALL BIDDEN TO THE SAME SUPPER. HE GIVES HIS MISTRESS, A CODE BY WHICH
THEY CAN TESTIFY THEIR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER, BENEATH HER HUSBAND'S VERY
EYES.
ELEGY V: HIS DELIGHT AT HAVING OBTAINED
CORINNA'S FAVOURS
ELEGY VI. HE CONJURES THE PORTER TO OPEN THE
DOOR OF HIS MISTRESS'S HOUSE.
ELEGY VII:
ELEGY VIII: HE CURSES A CERTAIN OLD WOMAN OF THE
TOWN WHOM HE OVERHEARS INSTRUCTING HIS MISTRESS IN THE ARTS OF A
COURTESAN.
ELEGY IX: HE COMPARETH LOVE WITH WAR.
ELEGY X. HE ENDEAVOURS TO DISSUADE HIS MISTRESS
FROM BECOMING A COURTESAN.
ELEGY XI: HE ASKS NAPE TO DELIVER A LOVE-LETTER
TO HER MISTRESS.
ELEGY XII: HE CALLS DOWN CURSES ON THE TABLETS
WHICH BRING HIM WORD OF HIS MISTRESS'S REFUSAL.
ELEGY XIII: HE ENTREATS THE DAWN TO HASTEN NOT
HER COMING.
ELEGY XIV: TO HIS MISTRESS, WHO, CONTRARY TO HIS
COUNSEL, DYED HER HAIR WITH NOXIOUS COMPOSITIONS, AND HAS NEARLY
BECOME BALD.
ELEGY XV: THE POETS ALONE ARE IMMORTAL.
BOOK II
- ELEGY I: HE TELLS WHEREFORE, INSTEAD OF THE WARS
OF THE GIANTS, WHICH HE HAD COMMENCED, HE IS CONSTRAINED TO SING OF
LOVE.
- ELEGY II: TO THE EUNUCH BAGOAS, BEGGING HIM TO
GIVE HIM ACCESS TO THE FAIR ONE COMMITTED TO HIS CHARGE.
- ELEGY III: HE APPEALS ONCE MORE TO BAGOAS, WHO
HAD PROVED INFLEXIBLE.
- ELEGY IV: HE CONFESSES HIS INCLINATION FOR LOVE
AND HIS ADMIRATION FOR ALL MANNER OF WOMEN.
- ELEGY V: HE UPBRAIDS HIS MISTRESS WHOM HE HIS
DETECTED ACTING FALSELY TOWARDS HIM.
- ELEGY VI: HE LAMENTS THE DEATH OF THE PARROT HE
HAD GIVEN TO HIS MISTRESS.
- ELEGY VII: HE ASSURES CORINNA THAT HE HAS NEVER
HAD ANY GUILTY COMMERCE WITH CYPASSIS, HER MAID.
- ELEGY VIII HE ASKS CYPASSIS HOW IN THE WORLD
CORINNA COULD HAVE FOUND THEM OUT.
- ELEGY IX HE BESEECHES CUPID NOT TO DISCHARGE ALL
HIS ARROWS AT HIM ALONE.
- ELEGY X HE TELLS GRAECINUS HOW, DESPITE WHAT HE
SAYS TO THE CONTRARY, IT IS POSSIBLE TO BE IN LOVE WITH TWO WOMEN AT
THE SAME TIME.
- ELEGY XI HE SEEKS TO DISSUADE CORINNA FROM GOING
TO BAIAE.
- ELEGY XII. HE REJOICES AT HAVING AT LAST WON THE
FAVOURS OF CORINNA.
- ELEGY XIII. HE BESEECHES ISIS TO COME TO THE AID
OF CORINNA IN HER CONFINEMENT.
- ELEGY XIV. ON CORINNA'S RECOVERY HE WRITES TO
HER AGAIN CONCERNING HER ATTEMPT AT ABORTION AND TELLS HER HOW NAUGHTY
SHE HAS BEEN.
- ELEGY XV. TO THE RING WHICH HE IS SENDING TO HIS
MISTRESS.
- ELEGY XVI. TO CORINNA, BESEECHING HER TO VISIT
HIM IN HIS COUNTRY HOME AT SULMO.
- ELEGY XVII. HE COMPLAINS TO CORINNA THAT SHE IS
TOO CONCEITED ABOUT HER GOOD LOOKS.
- ELEGY XVIII. TO MACER: TO WHOM HE EXCUSES
HIMSELF FOR GIVING HIMSELF UP WHOLLY TO EROTIC VERSE.
- ELEGY XIX. TO A MAN WITH WHOSE WIFE HE WAS IN
LOVE.
- BOOK III
- ELEGY I. THE TRAGIC IND THE ELEGIAC MUSE STRIVE
FOR THE POSSESSION OF OVID.
- ELEGY II. THE CIRCUS.
- ELEGY III. TO HIS MISTRESS, WHOM HE HAS FOUND TO
BE FORSWORN.
- ELEGY IV. HE URGES A HUSBAND NOT TO KEEP SO
STRICT A WATCH ON HIS WIFE.
- ELEGY V. A DREAM.
- ELEGY VI. TO A RIVER WHICH HAS OVERFLOWED ITS
BANKS AND HINDERED THE POET, WHO WAS HASTENING TO HIS MISTRESS.
- ELEGY VII. THE POET REPROACHES HIMSELF FOR
HAVING FAILED IN HIS DUTY TOWARDS HIS MISTRESS.
- ELEGY VIII. TO HIS MISTRESS, COMPLAINING THAT
SHE HIS GIVEN PREFERENCE TO A WEALTHIER RIVAL.
- ELEGY IX. ON THE DEATH OF TIBULLUS.
- ELEGY X. HE COMPLAINS TO CERES THAT, DURING HER
FESTIVAL, HE IS NOT SUFFERED TO SHARE HIS MISTRESS' COUCH.
- ELEGY XI WEARY AT LENGTH OF HIS MISTRESS'
INFIDELITIES, HE SWEARS THAT HE WILL LOVE HER NO LONGER.
- ELEGY XII HE LAMENTS THAT HIS POEMS HAVE MADE
HIS MISTRESS TOO WELL KNOWN.
- ELEGY XIII. THE FESTIVAL OF JUNO AT FALISCI.
- ELEGY XIV. TO HIS MISTRESS.
- ELEGY XV. HE BIDS FAREWELL TO HIS WANTON MUSE,
TO COURT ONE, MORE AUSTERE.
THE ART OF LOVE--BOOK I
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