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 1  T-II|        below,~the mind can be harmed by every sort of poem.~Yet
 2  T-II|        and what was worse, it harmed your authority.~I returned
 3  T-II|      did Aristides and wasn’t harmed~for weaving vile jokes into
 4 T-III|      to the Muses though they harmed me,~forcing words to fit
 5 T-III|    hurt me,~you too have been harmed by my punishment.~Have no
 6  T-IV|    good to me now because she harmed me before,~when she was
 7  T-IV| delight in books, though they harmed me,~and I love the weapon
 8  T-IV|     you.~Either fear or error harmed me, above all error.~Ah!
 9   T-V|     curse the poetry~that has harmed me, and my Muses, ~when
10   T-V|      name.~But, so you’re not harmed by the homage of a friend ~
11   T-V|      my imagination’s dulled, harmed~by long disuse, and much
12   T-V|  winter’s immoderate cold has harmed me.~Yet if only you are
13  ExII|     except the ones that have harmed their author,~who admired
14  ExII|      s border.~Caesar’s anger harmed me, at whom earth trembles~
15  ExII| profited me – I wish none had harmed me!~Why do I write then,
16  ExIV|     grief’s in train, and the harmed seek help.~After many days
17  ExIV| poetry’s no help. Poetry once harmed me,~and was the prime cause
18  ExIV|      Shall I never stop being harmed by poetry,~and always suffer
19  ExIV|       no loyal crowd would be harmed by me.~Tomitae, my situation’
20  IBIS|       Myrrha’s author, Cinna, harmed by his name,~may you be
21  IBIS|     standing stone, or Battus harmed by his own tongue.~If a
22   Ind|      48 Poetry has in a sense harmed him, through the banning
23   Ind|       healed by the hand that harmed him.~Book EII.II:1-38 Ibis: