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  1   T-I|   punishment lightened by a gentler Caesar.~For myself, I wish whomever
  2   T-I|          high Palatine, to climb to Caesar’s house.~That august place
  3   T-I|             I beg you, add to great Caesar’s anger!~Often when one
  4   T-I|          the life that’s granted~by Caesar’s relenting anger, to the
  5   T-I|           not deserve death.~~  ~If Caesar had wished to send me to
  6   T-I|        sails desire Italy’s shores?~Caesar does not want this. Why
  7   T-I|             and offered incense for Caesar and the Caesars –~if such
  8   T-I|           day was already here that Caesar ordered~for my departure
  9   T-I|        weight to your fleeing ship.~Caesar’s anger drives you to leave
 10   T-I|       orders me. Loyalty will be my Caesar.’~So she tried, as she had
 11   T-I| faithfulness offends the god!~Often Caesar praises loyalty among enemy
 12   T-I|        blast everything nearby.~But Caesar approves of a friend who
 13  T-II|            omen for me.~Poetry made Caesar condemn me, and my ways,~
 14  T-II|          influences the great gods. Caesar himself~ordered the mothers
 15  T-II|            sees only once.~Merciful Caesar, I plead these as my precedents:~
 16  T-II|            if only time will mellow Caesar’s anger, ~whose mercy in
 17  T-II|       enough to re-open your wound, Caesar,~it’s more than sufficient
 18  T-II|            feels your vigour,~and a Caesar wages war for a mighty Caesar.~
 19  T-II|       Caesar wages war for a mighty Caesar.~Truly there’s no weak part
 20  T-II|             a rich mind can tell of Caesar’s mighty deeds,~if the content’
 21  T-II|            end.~I wrote it recently Caesar, under your name,~but my
 22  T-II|           origin, I bring the work, Caesar, to your times!~You’ll see
 23 T-III|          guiding me, said: ‘This is Caesar’s~Forum, this is the Sacred
 24 T-III|            endures.~Perhaps one day Caesar, aware of the long years,~
 25 T-III|       shouldn’t address~the crowd – Caesar, greatest of them, hear
 26 T-III|            everything by attacking ~Caesar’s life, which is the life
 27 T-III|           and delight in my genius:~Caesar has no power over that.~
 28 T-III|        death is such, I complain of Caesar’s anger,~who did not avenge
 29 T-III|           if I endured no anger but Caesar’s naked anger,~then is our
 30 T-III|            naked anger,~then is our Caesar’s naked anger not enough?~
 31 T-III|           my fate’s most miserable,~Caesar’s anger brings with it every
 32 T-III|             tell what he’s heard of Caesar’s triumphs,~of prayers made
 33 T-III|       specified, as home?~Gods, let Caesar not will my hearth and home
 34 T-III|          you to do with Pontus? Did Caesar’s anger~send you, as well,
 35  T-IV|            of the gods are of great Caesar’s party,~heaping as many
 36  T-IV|             in the victory chariot, Caesar, high above,~wearing purple
 37  T-IV|            can he prevent it, since Caesar is the State,~and a share
 38  T-IV|          should not have wanted~had Caesar stripped me of my inheritance,~
 39  T-IV|         here.~If you don’t know it, Caesar has left me all my rights,~
 40   T-V|           what I was.~If invincible Caesar’s anger were milder to me,~
 41   T-V|        globe has no one kinder than Caesar.~Ah! What will I do, if
 42   T-V|           Bacchus,~try to influence Caesar’s power with your own.~You
 43   T-V|           sails.~Yet, you gods, and Caesar, destined to be a god, ~
 44   T-V|            lives on having offended Caesar, will be so.~Are you interested
 45   T-V|      rescuing a poet, would remain.~Caesar’s gift is supreme: that
 46   T-V|             m able to remember.~May Caesar and the gods always befriend
 47   T-V|           am I saying? In offending Caesar’s~divine will, I also deserved
 48   T-V|             leave my native hearth.~Caesar’s power proved lenient to
 49   T-V|         rightly, sing your praises, Caesar,~however good they are,
 50  ExII|          against the gods,~In short Caesar, though he doesn’t need
 51  ExII|           for a wretched exile.~For Caesar doesn’t know, though a god
 52  ExII|         create nothing greater than Caesar,~and as it has been under
 53  ExII|          may the earth stay under~a Caesar, passed on through the hands
 54  ExII|           my ghost.~This might move Caesar’s spirit if he heard it~
 55  ExII|    companions,~and her mother Atia, Caesar’s aunt, so regarded her~
 56  ExII|        tears, that you might soften Caesar with your prayers,~so her
 57  ExII|           beyond Thessaly’s border.~Caesar’s anger harmed me, at whom
 58  ExII|            and the wife worthy of a Caesar!~Would that the Dawn, Memnon’
 59  ExII|            to the weary: you were a Caesar to me.~Yet I don’t push
 60  ExII|         been meagre punishment.~But Caesar, who sees all things, saw
 61  ExII|            warring Rome, and mighty Caesar, should approve of you?~
 62  ExII|         There perhaps you wish that Caesar might temper ~his anger,
 63  ExII|           loyalty:~and request that Caesar’s anger not be final:~He’
 64  ExII|          conceits!~If any fear that Caesar’s anger sits too lightly
 65  ExII|         always need,~for as long as Caesar’s godhead is offended with
 66   ExI|           The Triumph~ ~The news of Caesar’s triumph has reached this
 67   ExI|            ve cheated fate.~Even if Caesar doesn’t wish me any joy,~
 68   ExI|           his will.~The delights of Caesar’s heart are mine too, as
 69   ExI|      entreaties, after I’d deserved Caesar’s anger:~such is your loyalty
 70   ExI|             to set her head beneath Caesar’s foot. ~Tiberius himself
 71   ExI|         countenance!~But instead of Caesar’s face I see the Sarmatians,~
 72   ExI|          pain that distressed great Caesar’s feelings,~you swore immediately
 73   ExI|          mother’s well-being, after Caesar’s.~I recall you used to
 74   ExI|          worth:~and you wished that Caesar’s anger towards me ~might
 75   ExI|            of Youth’s studies,~that Caesar who made a name for himself
 76   ExI|            even the silent wrath of Caesar?~Bitter words were added
 77   ExI|         ends of the world, hold me.~Caesar, your laurel should offer
 78   ExI|             Imperial Likenesses~ ~A Caesar arrived with a Caesar, for
 79   ExI|             A Caesar arrived with a Caesar, for me, just now,~those
 80   ExI|          would be worthless without Caesar.~As I gaze at him I seem
 81   ExI|          His Prayer ~ ~And you, the Caesar closest to Caesar, if it’
 82   ExI|          you, the Caesar closest to Caesar, if it’s allowed,~let your
 83   ExI|          deities present here.~When Caesar arrives the gladiator exits
 84   ExI|        country so well,~that we ask Caesar to control the reins of
 85 ExIII|            Penelope’s weaving.~It’s Caesar’s wife your lips need to
 86 ExIII|         nothing more glorious,~save Caesar, from the sun’s rising to
 87 ExIII|           harsh laws?~But don’t let Caesar’s anger at me be implacable,~
 88 ExIII|        arrows,~by my mother, and by Caesar’s life, I’ve learnt ~nothing
 89 ExIII|         army.~So forget your fears: Caesar’s anger will relent,~and
 90 ExIII|             You can learn how great Caesar’s mercy is, in the midst~
 91 ExIII|       Justice moderates his powers.~Caesar recently established her
 92 ExIII|             back to life again,~but Caesar reprieves many or lightens
 93 ExIII|           if anyone asked.~Assuming Caesar’s anger doesn’t forbid it
 94 ExIII|             merciful gods to lessen Caesar’s ~anger, and my bones to
 95  ExIV|             favour you, Jupiter and Caesar will do so.~The Curia will
 96  ExIV|             given the thanks due to Caesar and the gods,~(he’ll give
 97  ExIV|             understood. ~Germanicus Caesar will claim the time left
 98  ExIV|           above all to be a gift of Caesar’s mercy.~With grateful lips
 99  ExIV|        voice.~Let your god be young Caesar. Please your divine power,~
100  ExIV| immortalised in part by poetry.~So, Caesar, if there’s any life left
101  ExIV|             land~sees the shrine to Caesar in my home.~His virtuous
102  ExIV|            it may sometimes reach a Caesar’s ears: from whom~nothing
103  ExIV|          the whole world is hidden.~Caesar, received among the gods,
104  ExIV|             d praise me: I speak of Caesar.~My new attempt was helped
105  ExIV|            you write all this about Caesar,~you ought to be restored
106  ExIV|             ought to be restored to Caesar’s dominions.’~That’s what
107   Ind|           the inheritance at Julius Caesar’s death, despite his will,
108   Ind|            dedicated to the deified Caesar.~ ~Apollo~Son of Jupiter
109   Ind|       Augustus~The Emperor Augustus Caesar (63BC –14AD). (The title
110   Ind|      Tiberius). Augustus was Julius Caesar’s grand-nephew, whom Julius
111   Ind|      declared as his heir, Octavius Caesar (Octavian). (The honorary
112   Ind|        doubtle-entendre as to which Caesar might grant it.~Book TI.
113   Ind|        where Ovid celebrates Julius Caesar and Augustus.~Book TIII.
114   Ind|         Agrippina (Caligula, Drusus Caesar and Nero Caesar, the latter
115   Ind|              Drusus Caesar and Nero Caesar, the latter not the Emperor
116   Ind|            the Curia Julia begun by Caesar in 45BC flanking the Forum
117   Ind|    conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar, and a writer on philosophy
118   Ind|          Grandfather of Pentheus.~ ~Caesar~Ovid uses Caesares, the
119   Ind|          that of the deified Julius Caesar. It was rebuilt by Tiberius
120   Ind|       Cornelius Cinna, after Julius Caesar’s assassination, he was
121   Ind|            See Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.~Book TII:421-470 His dubious
122   Ind|         146BC and rebuilt by Julius Caesar in 44BC as a Roman colony.~
123   Ind|           the adopted son of Julius Caesar. Ovid’s irony is subdued.
124   Ind|           she bore Gaius and Lucius Caesar, Agrippina who married Germanicus,
125   Ind|            s son. She married Gaius Caesar grandson of Augustus, and
126   Ind|            in 42BC to avenge Julius Caesar’s murder. It was dedicated
127   Ind|             lenito Caesare’, from a Caesar who has softened, or equally
128   Ind|           or equally a more lenient Caesar to come! He acknowledges
129   Ind|            stresses his loyalty to ‘Caesar and the Caesars’ who would
130   Ind|            severed head was sent to Caesar. The headless corpse was
131   Ind|          wrote an epic dealing with Caesar’s campaign against the Sequani
132   Ind|          king of Rome’, e.g. Julius Caesar. See Fraser’s ‘The Golden
133   Ind|           built in honour of Julius Caesar), a statue that had belonged