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  1   T-I|        book, go without me – I dont begrudge it – to the city.~
  2   T-I|          saying by chance what isnt needed!~The reader, prompted,
  3   T-I|            untroubled by fame,~dont be ashamed to displease
  4   T-I|          name.~Enough now if I dont hate those studies, verses~
  5   T-I|     foreigner in a mighty city~dont think you come as a stranger
  6   T-I|            quietly so my verse wont hurt you,~it’s not as popular
  7   T-I|          anyone thinks you shouldnt be read~because you’re mine,
  8   T-I|       wounded me.~Only see you dont do harm, while you’ve power
  9   T-I|          angry emotion’s quiet dont rouse it, ~don’t you be
 10   T-I|         quiet don’t rouse it, ~dont you be a second cause for
 11   T-I|          care for your father,~dont love any of those three,
 12   T-I|          is left but prayer? –~dont shatter the ribs of our
 13   T-I|         our storm-tossed ship,~dont, I beg you, add to great
 14   T-I|       hurls my words away,~and wont let my prayers reach the
 15   T-I|         winds.~The ocean waves dont know what lord to obey.~
 16   T-I|           and groans at.~She doesnt see me hurled through the
 17   T-I|            by the winds, she doesnt see death nearing.~It’s
 18   T-I|     nearing.~It’s good that I didnt allow her to ship with me,~
 19   T-I|         before the eleventh.~I dont fear dying: but this way
 20   T-I|          Stygian waters,~he wouldnt have needed your help in
 21   T-I|         the life that’s ruined can’t now be saved.~Though the
 22   T-I|            The Destination~ ~I dont plough the open sea to trade
 23   T-I|        furthest shores.~There wasnt time or desire enough to
 24   T-I|           Libyan shore,~and couldnt be informed of my fate.~
 25   T-I|        misled me,~so that he doesnt think my fault a crime,~
 26   T-I|           the god is content I can’t be wretched.’~I spoke to
 27   T-I|           amongst my tears:~‘I can’t be separated. Together,
 28   T-I|    defeated, obeys his boat, doesnt guide it by skill.~As a
 29   T-I|           for my wreckage.~And dont be anxious with false fears,
 30   T-I|            you’d credit, ~that wont be believed, though they
 31   T-I|            tongues,~I still couldnt compass all my ills in words,~
 32   T-I|       reminder of me.~Yet they can’t be read patiently by anyone~
 33   T-I|        praised in full,~if you dont despise me, reader.~Have
 34   T-I|      greater favour, since he didnt publish them, ~but they
 35   T-I|            be nothing that you can’t believe.~This I prophesy
 36   T-I|        their feelings.~What, werent there powerful reasons for
 37   T-I|        continuing love?~What, didnt you share so many of my
 38   T-I|          trivial moments, and didnt I share yours?~What, didn’
 39   T-I|            share yours?~What, didnt you not only know me in
 40   T-I|           in Lethe’s waters?~I dont think of you as born in
 41   T-I|       alien to you now,~and wouldnt stand accused by me of harshness.~
 42   T-I|         well known, though it wasnt ostentatious.~But when the
 43   T-I|       think, though my offence can’t be defended~by eloquence,
 44   T-I|             as far as you can, dont abandon~a friend’s cause:
 45   T-I|          Minerva,~my resources wont stretch to a larger sacrifice.~
 46   T-I|        marvel myself my skill didnt fail me~in such a turmoil
 47   T-I|            as they are.~They werent written in my garden, as
 48  T-II|            Muses, my reproach?~Isnt one well-deserved punishment
 49  T-II|            justified indeed: I dont deny I deserve it –~shame
 50  T-II|            deserve it –~shame hasnt completely fled my cheeks –~
 51  T-II|         time men sinned,~it wouldnt be long before he was weapon-less.~
 52  T-II|             added, ~since you didnt subtract it, my family wealth.~
 53  T-II|            family wealth.~You didnt condemn my action by Senate
 54  T-II|         father of the country, dont take away~all hope of placating
 55  T-II|        forgetful of my name!~I dont beg to return, though we
 56  T-II|            as well as my home arent taken from me,~so as not
 57  T-II|        checks,~so your subject can’t be captured by the enemy.~
 58  T-II|          as~the high heavens, hasnt time to notice lesser things,~
 59  T-II|           a prince:~but that doesnt render it contrary to established
 60  T-II|            of Rome.~And so you can’t doubt whom I wrote it for,~
 61  T-II|          sinful in my song.’~Havent I rigidly excluded from
 62  T-II|         nothing’s useful, that can’t also wound.~What’s more
 63  T-II|           The Circus’s freedom isnt safe:~here a girl sits close
 64  T-II|           many things they shouldnt be doing.~Often grave-browed
 65  T-II|            wit and taste.~Why didnt I attack Troy again in my
 66  T-II|           gates?~Warring Rome didnt deny me matter,~it’s virtuous
 67  T-II|       theme.~A little boat shouldnt trust itself to the waves~
 68  T-II|   imaginary desires.~I wish I hadnt. But destiny drew me on,~
 69  T-II|             and so was he.~It didnt harm you, Callimachus, who
 70  T-II|           her brother.~Again, didnt ivory-shouldered Pelops,
 71  T-II|           her wicked brother, hadnt loved Aerope~we’d not read
 72  T-II|        touched tragedy~if she hadnt shorn her father’s hair,
 73  T-II|            shameful words:~it didnt harm one author to show
 74  T-II|           vice,~but Aristides wasnt driven from his city.~Eubius
 75  T-II|         from his city.~Eubius wasnt exiled, writer of a vile
 76  T-II|            waves of Phasis,~couldnt keep silent about his own
 77  T-II|     Sisenna did Aristides and wasnt harmed~for weaving vile
 78  T-II|          cheat her spouse.~It didnt do him harm, Tibullus is
 79  T-II|         glow in our houses,~so isnt there a little painting
 80  T-II|            and Prayer~ ~Still, dont think that all my work’s
 81  T-II|          of them who grieve:~I dont believe there’s one who
 82 T-III|         hand, in my weariness:~dont shun me in fear, in case
 83 T-III|           author’s fate he shouldnt try,~the wretch, to hide
 84 T-III|           theatre:~that too couldnt be entered by these feet.~
 85 T-III|           rather – since I shouldnt address~the crowdCaesar,
 86 T-III|        Getae and Sarmatians?~I can’t stand the climate, I’m not
 87 T-III|         and the land itself, I dont know why, displeases.~There’
 88 T-III|          you have no hour that isnt sad.~Still if my fate’s
 89 T-III|          place itself:~my body wont grow weak on a familiar
 90 T-III|         Epitaph~ ~Hearing this wont your whole heart be shaken~
 91 T-III|          whole heart be shaken~wont you strike your faithful
 92 T-III|           with trembling hand?~Wont you stretch your arms in
 93 T-III|          husband’s empty name?~Dont lacerate your cheeks or
 94 T-III|           if you can – but you can’t, best of wives –~be glad
 95 T-III|       Dolon,~his foolish son, hadnt yearned for Achilleshorses.~
 96 T-III|             and I think~you wouldnt want a place in my verse.~
 97 T-III|          ease my pain somehow,~dont refuse an outcast a loyal
 98 T-III|            trouble,~yet you couldnt have embraced me more closely~
 99 T-III|            by the slight hope: dont remove it from me,~that
100 T-III|            Achilles?~But he couldnt suffer aged Dardanian Priam’
101 T-III|       possessing sight.~True I can’t entirely defend myself from
102 T-III|             we’ve nothing that isnt mortal,~except the benefits
103 T-III|           water, earth and air dont suit me:~ah me! A perpetual
104 T-III|           of the jar,~and they dont drink draughts of mead,
105 T-III|             Since the dolphins can’t hurl themselves into the
106 T-III|         They destroy what they can’t carry, or lead away,~and
107 T-III|             Sarmatian herdsmen~dont drive creaking carts on
108 T-III|            things, I’m sad I havent seen,~will be an instant
109 T-III|       situation and the times arent such~that I can be joyful
110 T-III|    prepared for a tall pyre.~I dont wish to offer incense to
111 T-III|  unresponsive gods,~fine words dont rise to my lips in evil
112 T-III|            for my books:~they didnt deserve their author’s sentence.~
113  T-IV|            in the fields,~who hasnt reached the protection of
114  T-IV|          your troubled body?~I dont doubt these and other things
115  T-IV|        what prayer to speak, I can’t say~what feelings I wish
116  T-IV|         that time – unless you dont wish it recalled –~when,
117  T-IV|       wished for as a husband.~Dont be ashamed even now, that
118  T-IV|      through her rash request.~Dont let the blush of shame redden
119  T-IV|       thought, a god.~Though I wont need to, I’ll accept the
120  T-IV|           this letter of mine wasnt prompted by you.~And I commit
121  T-IV|           you in happier days.~Dont fear lest my friendship
122  T-IV|       earliest days -~at least dont wish that fact to be concealed,~
123  T-IV|            long space of time hasnt granted me patience,~and
124  T-IV|            can see, and what I can’t see, moves me.~There’s only
125  T-IV|          In all that time why hasnt your hand ~stirred itself
126  T-IV|          you from here.~If you dont know it, Caesar has left
127  T-IV|        voice in the future.~It wont be your own age only, that
128  T-IV|          fortunate my trouble wasnt while they lived,~and that
129   T-V|    suffered many sad things.~I dont compose them with wit or
130   T-V|           me harms you.~But it wont harm you: my writings were
131   T-V|            putting it aside?~I dont alter it, let it be read
132   T-V|            talent.~In short, I dont seek glory, or that fame~
133   T-V|          to genius: even so,~I dont wish my mind to dissolve
134   T-V|          with anxious fingers?~Dont worry, I’m well: my body
135   T-V|           punishment: truly, I dont evade suffering,~but I beg
136   T-V|         part, among them, and didnt displease you,~I who am
137   T-V|            as he should,~and doesnt shy at the bit like an unbroken
138   T-V|          hopes the god’s anger wont last forever~conscious there
139   T-V|           fate your character didnt deserve,~and all too justified
140   T-V|           confess, but you shouldnt have taken it up.~if you
141   T-V|       Palinurus, in mid-ocean?~Dont go: don’t let your loyalty
142   T-V|           mid-ocean?~Don’t go: dont let your loyalty be less
143   T-V|       suppose it is disturbed, dont you think Orestes~Agamemnon’
144   T-V|       demand reverence.~If you wont consider me, you should
145   T-V|            it’s inappropriate,~dont desert our ship in the midst
146   T-V|           one among them who doesnt carry~bow, quiver, and arrows
147   T-V|         know yourself, my Muse isnt eager for applause.~Still
148   T-V|        them at length, I still can’t be without them,~I seek
149   T-V|          Cape Caphereus.~Yet I dont labour all night for the
150   T-V|            even occur to me.~I dont doubt there are more than
151   T-V|         make wild beasts weep,~dont thaw you, or reconcile you
152   T-V|    merciful than him it obeys.~Isnt it true, that, though no
153   T-V|          often been bright,~so dont rejoice too much in my downfall,~
154   T-V|             have no fear.~I wouldnt obey if you didn’t count
155   T-V|          wouldn’t obey if you didnt count on my remembering.~
156   T-V| remembering.~What your voice doesnt forbid, I will be: grateful. ~
157   T-V|         the nights,~and winter can’t make the days any shorter.~
158   T-V|            houses.~Even if you dont fear them, you’d hate the
159   T-V|        exile~from the city, I didnt perhaps deserve to exist
160   T-V|           it still floats.~He didnt take my life, my wealth,
161   T-V|          truth to you, my Muse~can’t be prevented from composing
162   T-V|       outcome of my labours.~I can’t, and yet I long to, make
163   T-V|           and loyal, here:~you dont need to search for fame
164   T-V|         through suffering.~And dont think I’m admonishing you,
165  ExII|      somewhere, anywhere.~They dont dare go entering a public
166  ExII|            verses!’~They still wont go, but as you see they
167  ExII|           hiding the name.~You dont like it, but you can’t prevent
168  ExII|         don’t like it, but you can’t prevent it:~my obliging
169  ExII|            Caesar, though he doesnt need it himself,~lacks no
170  ExII|           way for the hero:~so wont all paths open to a book
171  ExII|            the prince’s anger,~dont think I’d not wish, for
172  ExII|            an exile:~but death can’t arrange things so I never
173  ExII|            exile.~For Caesar doesnt know, though a god knows
174  ExII|           of a merciful man wouldnt have sent me here,~if this
175  ExII|            known to him.~He wouldnt delight in me, or any Roman,
176  ExII|      himself granted life.~He didnt choose to destroy me as
177  ExII|         then he did nothing I didnt compel him to do:~his anger
178  ExII|            as I too found him.~Dont ask for my happiness, but
179  ExII|            his naked sword~shouldnt take the life granted me
180  ExII|        wife’s your charge:~you can’t ignore her and still keep
181  ExII|          of a hand.~The doctor can’t always cure the patient:~
182  ExII|            the heart.~Medicine can’t remove the crippling effects
183  ExII|            Sorrow too at times isnt curable by skill –~or, if
184  ExII|          Diogenes, the Cynic, didnt grieve, far from Sinope,~
185  ExII|            you tell him.~Yet I dont deny if my wounds were curable~
186  ExII|             the help you bring wont aid my desperate sickness.~
187  ExII|      desperate sickness.~And I dont say so because I’m the wiser
188  ExII|        suddenly saw me, you wouldnt know me,~such is the ruin
189  ExII|           mine,~if great fame didnt merely hide the truth.~He
190  ExII|         words to you, Maximus.~Dont look to find my genius in
191  ExII|      should be erased.~Still I dont alter it. It’s a greater
192  ExII|            and my fragile mind can’t bear anything onerous.~Should
193  ExII|            like death to me.~I dont enjoy lying drugged with
194  ExII|         the lure of the dice doesnt grip my luckless hands.~
195  ExII|           I’m afraid the Getae wont approve them?~Perhaps I’
196  ExII|          my mediocre writings, dont register where~you are:
197  ExII|         believe a friend who doesnt lie,~ought to be called
198  ExII|       cease asking~about them: dont disturb them if you want
199  ExII|           reduced, therefore, hasnt completely left me.~Hope,
200  ExII|          sands of Tomis~if you dont promise me this, for sure.~
201  ExII|       noticed by the Caesars doesnt think himself a friend?~
202  ExII|            Caesar to me.~Yet I dont push in where I’m not allowed
203  ExII|             it’s enough if you dont deny your house was open
204  ExII|           before.~Your father didnt repudiate my friendship,~
205  ExII|      Atreus, or the Twins:~he didnt disdain me as a friend and
206  ExII|          and companion:~if you dont think these words likely
207  ExII|       closed to me.~But it shouldnt be closed: no power is strong
208  ExII|          be given for favours,~isnt it due your position to
209  ExII|          deserved them,~if you dont grieve at his suffering,
210  ExII|           Ovid whom you loved.~Dont ask how I am. If I told
211  ExII|         and exile:~the rest, I dont begrudge them, live in safety.~
212  ExII|      shores of Styx, lost you.~Dont think it’s so much the comforts
213  ExII|            and Via Flaminia.~I dont know who I’ve cultivated
214  ExII|           furrowed earth.~I wouldnt hesitate to clear the weeds
215  ExII|          implacable:~live, and dont deny you could ever be pardoned!’~
216  ExII|          allowed in Rome.~I couldnt accompany the bier, or anoint
217  ExII|         has weakened ~my body, wont allow it to exercise its
218  ExII|           True I’ve no pain, I dont burn and gasp with fever,~
219  ExII|             still their savour wont excite my jaded palate~and
220  ExII|      Though it’s all true I wouldnt venture to write this~to
221  ExII|            than fresh wax.~I havent contracted these ills by
222  ExII|         ruinous passion:~she doesnt usually come to a sorrowful
223   ExI|         fate.~Even if Caesar doesnt wish me any joy,~he should
224   ExI|       powers allow: that House can’t be a private one.~Thanks
225   ExI|          my misfortunes,~and I dont stain Scythian arrows with
226   ExI|     hesitate to read on!~Read, dont banish my words with my
227   ExI|          with cruel wounds you wont make me afraid.~A Trojan
228   ExI|     injured.~Some might say it isnt wise. I admit it.~But my
229   ExI|        admit it.~But my ship doesnt sail through calm waters.~
230   ExI|           weariness,~and a doe wont hesitate to trust herself
231   ExI|           audience, I beg you,~dont close a harsh door against
232   ExI|            its proper heirs.~I dont ask that it should try to
233   ExI|            such~that, since it can’t be healed, I think it’s
234   ExI|       apart from my country,~I can’t throw myself before the
235   ExI|         try it if you think it wont be harmful to me.~Forgive
236   ExI|       bright virtues,~you, who dont allow your nature to be
237   ExI|          falls by Fortune.~You wont easily find one in a thousand~
238   ExI|      reward.~If right action doesnt gain a prize, it fails~to
239   ExI|       mid-ocean:~while others didnt even wish to be seen to
240   ExI|    Antilochus, Nestor’s son.~I can’t believe it would vanish
241   ExI|          sank my attempt,~I couldnt support the weight of what
242   ExI|           d do this even if I didnt ~ask it, add to it their
243   ExI|       slight crowning touch.~I dont deserve your praise, but
244   ExI|        your art and eloquence arent hidden.~~ Book EII.V:41-
245   ExI|         and I’d be dumb if I werent allowed to write.~You reprove
246   ExI|           to reprove my fault:~dont speak bitter words to the
247   ExI|         the tired swimmer,~and dont regret supporting his chin
248   ExI|           you care about me.~I dont doubt you do, yet real dread
249   ExI|    overwhelmed my life.~Who wouldnt dread even the silent wrath
250   ExI|           what you’ve started, dont desert the ship~at sea,
251   ExI|     granting me riches, you wouldnt have given me more ~than
252   ExI|           and always will be, arent situated in a hateful region.~
253   ExI|      surrendered me to you – I dont complain ~of her in doing
254   ExI|          in this one thing she isnt hostile to me.~Welcome my
255   ExI|   shipwreck on a gentle shore:~dont let the waves prove safer
256   ExI|            temple?~If the sea didnt offer calm waters for my
257   ExI|           The sacrificial goat wont offer its throat to long-haired
258   ExI|      Bacchus,~if grape juice doesnt flow under the trampling
259   ExI|     protect me in my exile.~I didnt come to Pontus, guilty of
260   ExI|            confessed here.~And dont ask, what it is, I wrote
261   ExI|             Did I sin further? Dont seek to know,~so my guilt
262   ExI|           as your love for me hasnt vanished.~You owe it to
263   ExI|      unsung,~so the Trojan War wont lack the final touch.~Master
264 ExIII|            wife.~Take care you dont slip from that position.
265 ExIII|       claim is true. ~Though I dont complain myself, fame, as
266 ExIII|        when I’m silent, if you dont show care for me.~Fate has
267 ExIII|          ruin.~And my writings wont let you pass unknown,~you,
268 ExIII|           ensure that jealousy can’t say:~‘She’s indifferent
269 ExIII|          praised as a wife~you wont be thought to have brought
270 ExIII|           even if others wish, wont harm you.~But add this one
271 ExIII|            being asked,~if you dont succeed, the failure won’
272 ExIII|           succeed, the failure wont harm you.~And don’t flare
273 ExIII|            won’t harm you.~And dont flare up because I ask you
274 ExIII|      established for all time:~dont let your courage be less
275 ExIII|          than your virtue.~You dont have to raise an Amazon’
276 ExIII|             or not at all.~You wont lack tears, well provided
277 ExIII|          burning pyre.~But you dont need to die, don’t need
278 ExIII|         you don’t need to die, dont need Penelope’s weaving.~
279 ExIII|       shows that ancient times~dont touch our age in their praise
280 ExIII|      adverse tide.~The oracles dont always deliver sacred prophecies,~
281 ExIII|            temples themselves arent always open.~When the city’
282 ExIII|          by hastiness.~Again I dont suggest you pick a time
283 ExIII|         part you have to play.~Dont defend my actions: a poor
284 ExIII|         say that.~I suspect it wont harm you. She’ll see ~you’
285 ExIII|            her majesty. And it wont hurt~if your speech is interrupted
286 ExIII|             What fearful man doesnt avoid contagious illness,~
287 ExIII|            hatred of me.~They didnt lack loyalty or the wish
288 ExIII|           or fearful,~but they dont deserve to be called bad.~
289 ExIII|           to hexameter.~You wouldnt let me reach to Homeric
290 ExIII|         mother’s, reign.~That wasnt enough. I also ensured by
291 ExIII|       foolish poem~that you wouldnt be inexperienced in my Arts.~
292 ExIII|          paternity uncertain?~Hasnt every woman the law protects
293 ExIII|   forbidden by harsh laws?~But dont let Caesar’s anger at me
294 ExIII|          the painful thing shouldnt be told,~and you can’t say
295 ExIII|     shouldn’t be told,~and you can’t say that you are free from
296 ExIII|          come, at your prayer.~Dont be scared at the delay,
297 ExIII|       Memnon.~But milky liquid can’t be altered to dark pitch,~
298 ExIII|          malice, vice of fear, wont show itself in noble~natures,
299 ExIII|           s skill.~Great poets dont require indulgent readers:
300 ExIII|        leaders and the places~arent known to me. Nothing is
301 ExIII|             His Prophecy~ ~I havent been remiss: idleness hasn’
302 ExIII|         been remiss: idleness hasnt slowed me:~but I live on
303 ExIII|       Anyway, weak elegiacs couldnt carry the weight~of so great
304 ExIII|             a time when they werent more pleasing to me than
305 ExIII|            sinned, if my Muse hadnt caused my exile,~your own
306 ExIII|           I lie)~if I, absent, dont see you at almost ever instant.~
307 ExIII|           enjoy your speech.~I can’t tell you then how blessed
308 ExIII|           from my case, if you dont already know.~If I were
309 ExIII|          deserve, myself,~I wouldnt reduce the sentence, I suffer,
310 ExIII|         suffer, one iota.~He doesnt forbid anyone to remember
311 ExIII|            Jupiter.~Leucothea didnt refuse her aid to Ulysses,
312 ExIII|        spare the wretched,~and dont always, endlessly oppress
313 ExIII|         Yet that fear of yours can’t be allowed to disturb your
314 ExIII|            s a great thing you dont dare to ask, my friends:~
315 ExIII|      Assuming Caesar’s anger doesnt forbid it me,~I’ll waste
316 ExIII|             But this mistake doesnt cloud my judgement,~I don’
317 ExIII|          cloud my judgement,~I dont immediately love what I
318 ExIII|          they’re the same, I havent addressed the same~friends,
319 ExIII|        learned ones, but that wasnt the object:~my work’s reputation
320  ExIV|           for his life.~If you dont stop me setting down your
321  ExIV|         from gratitude.~Please dont let anger bear down on my
322  ExIV|            Moreover my skill doesnt respond as before,~I turn
323  ExIV|        that writing a poem you can’t read to anyone~is exactly
324  ExIV|      silently steals by,~and I can’t delight in renewing earth
325  ExIV|             You dissemble too: dont want to be thought to know
326  ExIV|            the one, though you dont want to hear it, joined
327  ExIV|          the one, traitor, you dont know if I’m still alive,~
328  ExIV|          your deceit:~if you werent inventing it, your fickleness
329  ExIV|       being unhappy?~If you couldnt bring me help in substance
330  ExIV|         Croesus’s wealth?~Yet didnt he, a captive, have his
331  ExIV|            human weapons, I couldnt do so at all against supreme
332  ExIV|            place so barren it hasnt a useful herb,~lost as a
333  ExIV|             Pity me, because I wont be there among that crowd,~
334  ExIV|            that crowd,~my eyes wont have the power to enjoy
335  ExIV|            road, and your feet wont balance,~and the land lies
336  ExIV|          ten days, even if you dont hurry ~on the journey, you’
337  ExIV|     reached the threshold, you wont get~the chance to see the
338  ExIV|        your heartfelt care he didnt warm~some Bistonian sword-blade
339  ExIV|            his own resources werent depleted.~He swears he’ll
340  ExIV|            his death (though I can’t be so important)~Now I fear
341  ExIV|         than your role.~Danube wont deny it whose waters were
342  ExIV|            your hands.~Aegisos wont deny it, recaptured at your
343  ExIV|          that your brave deeds can’t go unnoticed,~with swift
344  ExIV|      missiles flung from above dont stop you,~nor those arrow-tips
345  ExIV|           Unhappily, your body can’t escape every blow:~but the
346  ExIV|            a poet yourself you can’t despise a poet’s tribute:~
347  ExIV|   judgement.~And if your fame hadnt called you to great affairs,~
348  ExIV|        than poems:~even if you can’t abandon poetry completely.~
349  ExIV|         eyes as well.~The gods wont consider it, and perhaps
350  ExIV|           Flaccus~ ~Meanwhile, dont let me complain about everything, ~
351  ExIV|            the slender arrows arent tipped with snake venom,~
352  ExIV|        venom,~and human beings dont become a hideous offering:~
353  ExIV|            still to stay here.~Dont take my word for this: there
354  ExIV|          away from the city, I dont bring it to your notice,~
355  ExIV|       dangerous seas:~yet, he didnt endure the anxiety of fate
356  ExIV|        singing:~and the lotus wasnt bitter to him who tasted
357  ExIV|          were offered.~And you can’t compare a city of Laestrygonians,~
358  ExIV|     winding course.~Cyclops couldnt outdo cruel Piacches in
359  ExIV|         times spew it out, you can’t compare her~with the fierce
360  ExIV|         with more licence, yet wont leave this shore alone.~
361  ExIV|           Well believe this: I wont let you remain in ignorance~
362  ExIV|           in faithfulness.~You dont have to master enemies,
363  ExIV|            true loyalty?~You mustn’t think these words spoken
364  ExIV|            part, if your name wasnt present in my verse.~Since
365  ExIV|           with tears.~But I wouldnt, stupidly, dare to console
366  ExIV|     white-haired age.~If that didnt move you, I’d think you’
367  ExIV|         that the winds of hope dont desert my boat,~protect
368  ExIV|            difficult to say:~I can’t find anything to try, to
369  ExIV|           or not desire,~and I dont exactly know what would
370  ExIV|         stand out.~And you shouldnt marvel if my art’s defective,~
371  ExIV|        sent to you, whose name wont fit~my metres, as I complained
372  ExIV|           I’m fairly well,~you wont hear of anything else that
373  ExIV|          all away from here.~I dont care where I’m sent to from
374  ExIV|            my fingers, so they can’t write,~still chase after
375  ExIV|        that land, still Ascra wasnt angry with its poet.~Who
376  ExIV|        troubles.~An honour you dont often grant to one who’s ~
377  ExIV|           by this sad gift~you can’t say you own nothing in Pontus.~
378  ExIV|          or a remedy for it.~I dont ask because I doubt: but,
379  ExIV|        Hercules,~if that hero wasnt already Juno’s son-in-law:~
380  IBIS|      itself is a great wrong) ~wont grant me the title of an
381  IBIS|            take up weapons.~He wont let me, a man banished to
382  IBIS|          name about the forum:~wont let the companion of my
383  IBIS|           you as yet,~my shaft wont seek your hateful life at
384   Ind|           Corinna was Julia. I dont suggest any direct affair
385   Ind|            Those who think he didnt do enough for the poet probably
386   Ind|        eager for applause, he hasnt written for the theatre.~
387   Ind|         court of law. He still can’t resist a subtle double entendre
388   Ind|          work to Germanicus. I dont think the Latin here indicates
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