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 1   T-I|    than my powers.~Wise poets, write of my troubles not Ulysses’:~
 2 T-III|        your faithful care.~I’d write more: but my voice, tired
 3 T-III|   cling to our shared studies,~write learned verse, though not
 4 T-III|      Acontius have~an apple to write words on for Cydippe to
 5 T-III|     and I think I could almost write in Getic metres.~Believe
 6  T-IV|      appreciate Latin words.~I write, and read to myself – what
 7  T-IV|      tears run down, too, as I write,~the paper has been soaked
 8  T-IV|        hand ~stirred itself to write me a few lines?~Why has
 9  T-IV|      Helicon alone,~I tried to write words that were free of
10  T-IV|        and whatever I tried to write was poetry.~Meanwhile, as
11   T-V|        this hateful place.~You write that my songs are being
12   T-V|       68 Poetry In Exile~ ~You write: I should lighten my sad
13   T-V|      have had~no more power to write in this situation.~If I
14   T-V|       me.~Or do you urge me to write because at first my verse~
15   T-V|        from composing poems.~I write, and burn the books I’ve
16  ExII|     Maximus: The Compulsion To Write~ ~Ovid, who once was not
17  ExII|     this too that you read, ~I write while barely forcing it
18  ExII|        had harmed me!~Why do I write then, you wonder? I wonder
19  ExII|      Neither brief nor safe to write would be the history~of
20  ExII|      is the fact that I, Ovid, write these words, still hidden
21  ExII|     true I wouldn’t venture to write this~to everyone, in case
22   ExI|        if I weren’t allowed to write.~You reprove your foolish
23 ExIII|      your support.~Other poets write about triumphs they’ve watched:~
24 ExIII| particular work.~What should I write of but the ills of this
25  ExIV|        often, when I wished to write to others,~my hand, unwittingly,
26  ExIV|      you~such verse as I could write concerning the new god.~
27  ExIV|       And one said: ‘Since you write all this about Caesar,~you
28  ExIV|      my fingers, so they can’t write,~still chase after the weapons
29  ExIV|      fault of mine.~Wanting to write otherwise, I fall to speaking
30  ExIV|         and he who had Ulysses write to Penelope~in his ten year
31   Ind|      Ovid may have intended to write a poem about the war. He
32   Ind|        is long and not safe to write about, that it is a fault
33   Ind|      Ovid may have intended to write a Gigantomachia, the story