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 501   Ind| scientifically with the elements, and atomic theory, following Epicurus.~ ~
 502  T-II|               prey.~Even fate must be atoned for, among the powers that
 503   Ind|               Capaneus was one of the attackers in the War of the Seven
 504 T-III|           tried to ruin everything by attacking ~Caesar’s life, which is
 505   Ind|            turned into a swan when he attempts suicide to spite Phylius
 506   Ind|            155-206 Ovid prays for her attendance on Tiberius’s campaign in
 507   Ind|          Arethusa~A nymph of Elis and attendant of Diana-Artemis. She was
 508   Ind|            Ovid. I am reminded of the attitude to John Donne after his
 509  ExIV|        neither wine nor illusory dice attract me,~those usual ways in
 510   Ind|              The region was a tourist attraction for the Romans. ~ ~Niobe~
 511   Ind|               moon, fertility and cow attributes. (In Sulla’s time a college
 512   Ind|           island of Icaria. ( See W H Auden’s poem ‘Musée des Beaux
 513   Ind|           cleansing of the stables of Augeas king of Elis.~The killing
 514   Ind|      Capitoline. The great temple was augmented by the lower temple to Jupiter
 515   T-I|        observed, taught it me:~it was augury, a future prediction, based
 516   Ind|               was placed in the Forum Augustum (vowed at Philippi in 42BC
 517   Ind|              both the Consuls, namely Aulus Hirtius and Gaius Vibius
 518   Ind|               the deified Augustus.~ ~Aurelia~Book EII.III:49-100 The
 519   Ind|              name for the land of the Aurunci, later a poetic term for
 520   Ind|             Dawn, mother of Memnon.~ ~Ausonia~A Greek name for the land
 521   Ind|              EIV.VIII:49-90 Rome, the Ausonian city.~ ~Auster~The South
 522  T-II|             whom you entrust the high auspices and the gods,~and so are
 523 T-III|              makes peace with him~who authored me, and, under the same
 524   Ind|               for failing to tell the authorities about it, but for the mere
 525   ExI|             tried to record it all in autobiographical verse,~a whole Iliad could
 526   Ind|            grandson of Cadmus, son of Autonoë, called Hyantius from an
 527   Ind|             meadow saffron, colchicum autumnale, that sprang from the blood
 528   Ind|             in Tomis are hot, and the autumns mild. (Constanta is now
 529  IBIS|              departed your limbs,~may avenging horses drag your vile body.~
 530  IBIS|          full-fed:~and may you not be averse to human flesh: but in whatever~
 531   ExI|               wrath,~warns me against aversion to life, losing heart.~And
 532   Ind|               near Apollo’s temple to avert evil. (Strabo 10.2.9, Ovid
 533   ExI|              dog,~thinks it’s a wolf, avoiding true help in error.~The
 534 T-III|              may a happier use of art await you,~in whatever way you
 535  T-IV|              the tresviri.~The Senate awaited me: I narrowed my purple
 536   T-I|              My friend, a great stage awaits your talents.’~No sheep’
 537   T-V|             the bones of Lycurgus the axe-bearer be crushed,~and Pentheus’
 538  T-IV|              sacrifice, struck by the axe-blow,~the gifts promised to the
 539   Ind|          Black Sea, originally called αξειυος:axenus, inhospitable, because
 540   Ind|              was built eastwards from Axiopolis to Tomis, to protect against
 541   ExI|             to you beneath the frozen axis.~You’re here, unwittingly,
 542   Ind|              Livilla Julia the Elder (b. 13BC), sister to Germanicus
 543 T-III|             day.~They even say when I babbled disjointed things,~your
 544   Ind|           Mesopotamian capital of the Babylonians, in modern Iraq.~Book EII.
 545   Ind|               EII.IV:1-34 Its heat.~ ~Bacche~A Bacchante, one of the
 546   Ind|       alluding to this and Augustus’s bachelor adventures. ~Book TIV.II:
 547  ExIV|               rivers aim their course backward to their springs,~before
 548  T-II|               Far away from here, you badges of modesty,~the thin headband,
 549   T-I|              to steer for: his art is baffled by uncertain evils.~Surely
 550   Ind|            Odysseus’s crew opened the bag of the winds given him by
 551   Ind|      uninhabited site is now known as Bal-Kiz.~Book TI.X:1-50 On the Minerva’
 552  ExIV|             road, and your feet won’t balance,~and the land lies shrouded
 553   Ind|              of Pompey, Marcellus and Balbus. The three forums were the
 554   Ind|           Krounoi, ‘the springs’. Now Balchik (40 kilometres north of
 555   Ind|         Illyricum roughly the Eastern Balkans was divided after the Pannonian
 556 T-III|              with light weapons,~play ball games, or with the swiftly
 557  T-II|             tells of various kinds of ball-game,~that one teaches swimming,
 558   ExI|            misfortunes~and help me by bandaging my wounds.~In return, if
 559  IBIS|               of a man~seeking peace, bandies my name about the forum:~
 560   Ind|              library. He mentions the baned Ars Amatoria, the Metamorphoses,
 561  ExII|               who’s placed an eternal bar on civil war, who rules ~
 562   ExI|            been hurt by a treacherous barb~thinks there’s a bronze
 563   T-V|               the Getic pronunciation barbarises.~There’s not a single one
 564   T-V|             there are more than a few barbarisms~in this book: it’s not the
 565   Ind|            allowed him to die for his barbarity, having been prepared to
 566   Ind|            commander, son of Hamilcar Barca. Ovid may refer to the incident
 567  T-IV|              and mud,~dragging a slow barge against the current, sings:~
 568  ExII|              poplar~closed with fresh bark, as you cried over your
 569  T-II|           little less.~He knows who’s barked at, when someone prowls ~
 570   Ind|         Serpens Caput, which contains Barnard’s star, having the greatest
 571  ExIV|              it aids me~my foundering barque will rise again from the
 572   Ind|               the Neptune Fountain by Bartolomeo Ammannati, Piazza della
 573 ExIII|          statue of the deity,~and the base, lacking its goddess, is
 574  IBIS|          Atarnean may you be brought, basely,~to your lord as a prize,
 575   Ind|               from buildings like the Basilica Julia nearby.~Book TIII.
 576   Ind|             as far west as the Danube basin.~Book TI.II:75-110 Ovid’
 577   Ind|              They may have formed the basis for the Amazons. Sarmatia
 578  ExIV|               I remember that you too bathed my wound~with your tears
 579  ExII|               Getae with weapons, and battering winter hail:~let me live
 580 ExIII|             have to raise an Amazon’s battle-axe for me,~or carry a curved
 581   Ind|              Book EIII.1:67-104 Their battle-axes.~Book EIV.X:35-84 Mentioned
 582   Ind|          roughly eastern Switzerland, Bavaria and the Tyrol. Raetia became
 583   T-V|           trail of a frightened deer,~baying, and held in check by the
 584  T-II|          seeks out the arena,~and the beached ship returns to the surging
 585   Ind|            girls were involved in her bear-cult. At Ephesus she had a famous
 586   T-I|               darkened by Bootes, the Bear-herd,~or a southerly drew wintry
 587 T-III|               to bear what’s scarcely bearable. ~Still, while I was hurled,
 588   Ind|            Ursa Minor.~ ~Arcturus~The Bearkeeper, a star in the constellation
 589  IBIS|             match the contours of the beast:~like cruel Phalaris, your
 590  T-II|              your soldiers rejoice at beating the enemy,~the enemy’s a
 591   Ind|               Auden’s poem ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’ referring to Brueghel’
 592   Ind|              also a messenger, at the beck and call of the suitors.~
 593   ExI|             to your prayers,~and your bed-mate who alone is equal to you,~
 594 ExIII|            his left hand on the maple bedpost,~no neck-let, no pin in
 595   Ind|          fecundity of fields, flocks, beehives, fishing and vineyards.
 596   T-V|               Such is the piping that befits my funeral rites.~~ Book
 597      | beforehand
 598   T-V|            poor~now eats the bread of beggary himself.~Fortune wanders,
 599   Ind|              mother Aurora, the Dawn, begged Jupiter for funeral honours,
 600   T-I|               raises his hands aloft,~begging help, in prayer, forgetting
 601   Ind|        two-headed god of doorways and beginnings, equivalent to the Hindu
 602  IBIS|             blood,~of whom Arctos was begot, that never knows the water,~
 603   Ind|               the water-nymph. He was begotten by Saturn disguised as a
 604   ExI|                Since hostile fate has begrudged me that,~I cherish the forms
 605  ExIV|           with snake venom,~and human beings don’t become a hideous offering:~
 606   Ind|               area between Vienna and Belgrade. ~Book TII:207-252 Tiberius
 607  ExII|           live, shackled with chains,~believing that his limbs will be freed
 608  T-IV|              dead.~Nor has Envy, that belittles present things, ~attacked
 609  T-II|              an effeminate ~Achilles, belittling brave actions with his verse.~
 610   Ind|                Belides~See Danaides~ ~Bellerophon~He was entertained by Proetus
 611  T-IV|             Scylla has dogs below her belly, that there’s~a Chimaera,
 612  T-IV|             the rest of the world, on bended knee, to the Caesars,~and
 613  ExII|         helpful in wartime:~is it not beneficial to contain the creator of
 614   Ind|              later extended by way of Beneventum, and Tarentum to Brundisium (
 615  T-IV|        promised to the temples of the benign gods,~are being prepared
 616   T-V|               of his sons,~and Niobe, bereaved, to lead the festive chorus.~
 617  IBIS|             be like the Phrygian, the Berecyntian hunter,~whom a pine tree
 618   Ind|               fallen in love with the besieger Amphitryon, betrayed her
 619   Ind|   subsequently murdered by the satrap Bessus. The incident referred to
 620   Ind|           honorary title Augustus was bestowed by the Senate 16th Jan 27BC).
 621   Ind|           Jason and agonised over the betrayal of her country for him.(
 622  T-II|              Ajax sit there, his look betraying wrath,~and savage Medea,
 623  T-IV|              in your father’s tongue,~bettered by no other in the Roman
 624   Ind|         private garden of the Turkish Bey.). The spring was said never
 625  ExII|              I couldn’t accompany the bier, or anoint your body,~the
 626   Ind|             of Thessaly, hence called biformes, duplex natura, semihomines,
 627  ExIV|           senate,~your house scarcely big enough for everyone’s attentions.~
 628   T-I|             the tides and the leaping billows,~not drenched, or overwhelmed,
 629   Ind|           duplex natura, semihomines, bimembres.~They were the sons of Ixion,
 630   Ind|              Sandys painting ‘Medea’, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery,
 631  T-IV|              of the year saw both our birthdays:~one day celebrated with
 632   Ind|              The Thracian King of the Bistones who fed his horses on human
 633   ExI|             by a youth of Thrace:~and Bistonia’s land is made proud of
 634   Ind|             Ovid living among them.~ ~Bistonii~A Thracian people of the
 635  IBIS|               the child’s throat with bitches’ milk:~that was the first
 636   Ind|            horses.~ ~Cales~Probably a Bithynian river south of Herakleia.~
 637   T-I|             defending me, despite the biting words:~a poor case will
 638  ExII|            start to use the file more bitingly,~and summon every single
 639   T-I|              my loving wife wept more bitterly in my arms,~tears falling
 640   Ind|               Propertius, for example BkIII:25~Book TIV.X:41-92 A friend
 641   Ind|            the echoes of Propertius’s BkIV:7 ~Book TIII.VII:1-54 Note
 642   Ind|             Dawn.~Book EIII.III:1-108 Black-skinned.~ ~Menander~The Athenian
 643  ExIV|              lips.~And even if I were blacker in words than Illyrian ~
 644   Ind|            and the home of Vulcan the blacksmith of the gods. Philoctetes
 645  T-IV|            unafraid of ambush, or the blades~of Sintian soldiers, storms,
 646   Ind|              susceptible to lightning blasts.~Book TV.II:45-79 Augustus
 647  IBIS|           divides, from the brothers’ blazing pyre:~than you and I lay
 648  T-IV|         plumage,~and white old age is bleaching my dark hair.~The years
 649   Ind|            for the Roman stage, often blending material from different
 650   T-V|          readers would never cease to bless you:~your honour, in rescuing
 651   T-I|         drowning, and death will be a blessing.~A natural death or dying
 652   ExI|            freely, I’d ask~a thousand blessings on you, for showing such
 653   Ind|              and the resultant storms blew them off course.~ ~Aerope~
 654   Ind|             Ceos, angered the gods by blighting the fruits of the earth.
 655   Ind|              166 Depicted as blind or blindfolded.~ ~Fundi~Fundanum solum,
 656   Ind|             underworld for spirits in bliss, rewarding virtue in life.~ ~
 657   Ind|              50 Book EIV.VIII:49-90 A blonde-haired tribe of the area.~ ~Corinna~
 658 T-III|        without a mother: these are my blood-line, my children.~I commend
 659  IBIS|             breast,~and clapped their bloodstained hands together thrice.~They
 660 T-III|              exult in my misfortunes,~bloodthirsty, endlessly using the law
 661 T-III|          countryside:~and the meadows bloom with many flowers,~and the
 662   T-I|     straggling hair.~No shame at your blots: he who sees them~will know
 663 T-III|               writing’s streaked with blotted erasures,~the poet marred
 664   Ind|               74 A fierce Aegean wind blowing Ovid’s words away.~The warring
 665   T-I|                Mercy, you gods of the blue-green sea, mercy,~let it be enough
 666   Ind|               central jewel being the blue-white star Gemma.~Book TV.III:
 667   Ind|               Book EIII.III:1-108 The bluff, frank and open hero type.
 668   T-I|              two gulfs on my way,~and boarded the second ship of my exile’
 669   Ind|            minor office on one of the boards of tresviri (monetales,
 670   Ind|               She rejected Latona and boasted rashly about her fourteen
 671   Ind|               as a funeral feast, and boasting of Tiberius’s protection
 672 T-III|                See how the light cork bobs on the waves,~while its
 673  T-IV|            far as I can see, given~my bodily powers, there’s little time
 674  IBIS|          wrestler died, thrown by the Boetian stranger,~his conqueror
 675   T-I|               the waves,~and throw up boiling sand from the deep!~The
 676  T-II|              belongs with them, Anser bolder than Cinna,~and the light
 677  IBIS|              suffer the three-pronged bolts of angry Jove,~like Hipponous’
 678 T-III|                my flesh scarce covers bone, food barely finds my lips:~
 679  IBIS|         remedy for your deeds, and my bony form your face.~Whether,
 680   T-I|            your own house, the curved bookcase,~you’ll see your brothers
 681   Ind|           general term meaning Greek. BookEIV.VII:41 etc.~ ~Danuvius,
 682   Ind|            mainland. (The Corinthians bored a channel through the isthmus
 683   T-I|              Still, if this ship were borne on a favourable breeze,~
 684   T-I|           cedar-oiled paper,~no white bosses, ‘horns’ to your dark ‘brow’.~
 685 ExIII|               man who makes verse and bothers~to correct it, among the
 686   Ind|           from which it rolled to the bottom again,~ ~Sithonius~Of the
 687   Ind|             Hades by having to fill a bottomless cistern with water carried
 688  ExIV|             to you, Sextus, or you’ve bought:~so I am yours as well,
 689  ExIV|          Parthenius, Cynapses rolling boulders, ~sliding on, Tyras, fastest
 690   Ind|             of war and the goddess of boundaries – see the Stele of Athena,
 691 ExIII|            carried in secret over the boundless sea in their boat.~The youths’
 692 ExIII|          possible to leave Scythia’s ~bounds, and enjoy a more favourable
 693   Ind|             the morning after a heavy bout of drinking. His ghost begs
 694   Ind|      semibovemque virum, semivirumque bovem, and all three were probably
 695 T-III|     rebellious Germany, at last, have bowed ~your sorrowful head beneath
 696  T-II|               teaches swimming, this, bowling hoops.~others have written
 697   Ind|              into the sea in a wooden box by her father Acrisius,
 698   Ind|               with whom Ulysses had a boxing match on returning to his
 699  T-IV|             Autobiography: Childhood, Boyhood~ ~Listen Posterity, and
 700  ExIV|              a potion that clears the brain,~whatever’s in all that
 701   T-I|            voice, lungs stronger than brass,~and many mouths with many
 702   Ind|               sculpted bust (copy) by Brassides, the Jupiter of Otricoli,
 703   T-I|             by my will,~but forced to bravery through my fear.~Ah me!
 704   Ind|              to appease Jove for this breach of his role as a guest.~
 705   Ind|              a lictor when in public. Breaking of their vow resulted in
 706   Ind|              decorated Athene’s aegis breastplate.~Book TIV.VII:1-26 Ovid
 707  T-IV|          sword.~It’s time I no longer breathed foreign air,~or quenched
 708   Ind|            crushed by the Gauls under Brennius in a battle by the river
 709   Ind|            safety, whom Agamemnon had bribed him with gold to kill. Polydorus
 710 ExIII|            command~learn how to cheat brides, and make paternity uncertain?~
 711   ExI|            swiftly,~often the day was briefer than my words.~Often you
 712  ExIV|               found a reason there to brighten my glance,~and cease to
 713   T-V|               the sky,~and shine more brilliantly than the neighbouring stars:~
 714   T-V|            little saltwater from this brimming sea.~Though he takes much,
 715   Ind|               Tarentum to Brundisium (Brindisi) by the middle of the 3rd
 716   Ind|          Hippodameia, the daughter of Briseus of Lyrnesus, and the favourite
 717  T-II|              not content with her, he broadcast many love poems,~in which
 718  T-IV|            true,~and the horse that’s broken-in often fights the bit.~My
 719  IBIS|            the unconquered god.~May a brooding lioness of your country,
 720  T-IV|               So, when her weary mind broods on her just grievance,~does
 721   Ind|               sons of Boreas, and his brothers-in-law, rid him of their loathsome
 722   Ind|              Beaux Arts’ referring to Brueghel’s painting, Icarus, in Brussels)
 723  T-II|         teaches what juices erase the bruise~that the imprint of a love-bite
 724   Ind|       Brueghel’s painting, Icarus, in Brussels) See Ovid’s Metamorphoses
 725   Ind|               hunting Cynegetica, and bucolics.~Book EIV.XVI:1-52 A poet
 726   Ind|          goats’ ears, tails, legs and budding horns. Sexually lustful.
 727 T-III|              Wherever the vine grows, buds break from the stem:~but
 728   Ind|        Sarmatian river, now the River Bug.~Book EIV.X:35-84 A river
 729   Ind|            roughly the area of modern Bulgaria and Serbia, taking its name
 730   Ind|      describes the preparations for a bullfight.~Book EI.IV:1-58 A horse-racing
 731   Ind|             fasces, axes encased in a bundle of rods, the symbols of
 732   T-V|          beats the gentle air,~so I’m burdened with sorrows: if I tried
 733   T-V|          mouth calls me ‘exile’,~stop burdening my fate with that lying
 734  T-IV|               the grapes swell on the burgeoning clusters,~till they can
 735   Ind|            once a year and one of the burghers set apart for that purpose
 736  IBIS|              not fighting mad~as yet, buries itself deep in the yellow
 737   Ind|            crown and white robe, that burst into flames when she put
 738  T-II|             hands away.~Any woman who bursts in, where a priest forbids,~
 739   Ind|              Hera). (See the sculpted bust (copy) by Brassides, the
 740  ExII|             and drink~be served me by busy Hebe’s lovely hand,~still
 741  ExIV|             to him who tasted it.~I’d buy those juices, that make
 742   Ind|               sweet to taste. (It has Byzantine columns, and was once the
 743   Ind|               Roman tragic poet, born c170BC in Umbria. He also wrote
 744   Ind|               Publius Terentius Afer (c195-159BC) an ex-slave from North
 745   Ind|               general of Megalopolis (c253-182BC: see the life by Plutarch:
 746   Ind|            mercenaries and ruled from c279-276BC.~Ibis:413-464 His fate.~ ~
 747   Ind|              The Athenian playwright (c341-c290BC). The most celebrated dramatist
 748   Ind|           Athenian Greek philosopher (c469-399BC), Plato’s teacher. An ethical
 749   Ind|             at Salamis. He was exiled c474-472BC.~Book EI.III:49-94 He went
 750   Ind|             Euripides~The tragic poet c480-406BC, one of the three major
 751   Ind|        residence at Crotona in Italy (c531BC), where Numa (anachronistically
 752   Ind|            the Roman lyric poet (c.87-c54BC) the lyric and iambic poet
 753   Ind|                Croesus~King of Lydia (c560-546BC), famed for his wealth.
 754   Ind|      Lucretius~Titus Lucretius Carus (c95-c54BC) the greatest Roman didactic
 755   Ind|          Perilla. Probably one of the Caecillii Metellii family. Possibly
 756   Ind|             312 BC by Appius Claudius Caecus and later extended by way
 757   Ind|         waiting for leniency, ‘lenito Caesare’, from a Caesar who has
 758   Ind|          Pentheus.~ ~Caesar~Ovid uses Caesares, the Caesars, of two or
 759  ExII|         daughter is fine, shut in her cage,~she yearns to return to
 760   Ind|               light verse.~ ~Catullus~Caius Valerius Catullus the Roman
 761   Ind|             239-169BC) from Rudiae in Calabria, the important early Roman
 762   Ind|            The rock projects from the Calabrian coast near the village of
 763   Ind|            Imperial House.~ ~Calamis, Calamus~An Athenian artist c.460BC
 764   Ind|          Influenced by Antisthenes he calimed total freedom and self-sufficiency
 765   Ind|               by Megara, also founded Callatis, now Mangalia, on the Minerva’
 766   Ind|     Hellespont (Dardanelles) opposire Callipolis (Gallipoli), colonised in
 767   Ind|               the son of Chrysaor and Callirhoë, and King of Tartessus in
 768   ExI|              appeared in his chariot, calm-faced,~his forehead wreathed with
 769  ExIV|            help.~After many days have calmed the mind’s hurt,~he only
 770   T-I|               disaster,~has been made calmer by your own success.~I knew
 771  T-II|           whole world employs,~you’ve calmly watched these staged adulteries.~
 772   Ind|              him, perhaps through the Calpurnian clan.~Book EIII.III:1-108
 773   Ind|            Naftia between Catania and Caltagirone~Book EII.X:1-52 Visited
 774   Ind|              of Calydon, hence called Calydonis, and the sister of Meleager.
 775   Ind|          ram-horned god.~Ibis:311-364 Cambyses sent an army to attack the
 776   Ind|              easy time for Ulysses.~ ~Camena~A Roman term for Muse.~ ~
 777   Ind|            Book EIV.VII:1-54 Vestalis campaigned against them.~Book EIV.XIII:
 778   Ind|             II:1-74 Tiberius is still campaigning in Germany, with Germanicus
 779   Ind|              lesser contemporaries.~ ~Campania~The region of southern Italy
 780  ExIV|          Forum of Augustus,~like your Campanian estate, dear to your eyes,~
 781   Ind|    constellation of the hunting dogs, Canes Venatici. He is sometimes
 782   Ind|           refer to the incident after Cannae when Hannibal sent ten Roman
 783   Ind|               presided over barbarous cannibalistic practises. He was transformed
 784   Ind|   constellation and was deified. (See Canova’s sculpture – Hercules and
 785   Ind|            handling the name Tūtĭcānus in elegiac verse. It can
 786  ExII|            courage,~and their horses, capable of long journeys,~and knowing
 787   T-I|           Every Greek who escaped the Capherean rocks~always turned away
 788   Ind|        overseeing the public mint, or capitales, the prisons and executions)
 789   Ind|           peril to the Greek fleet.~ ~Capitolium~The southern summit of the
 790   Ind|               del Circeo extending to Capo Portiere in the north, and
 791   Ind|         Naples, Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte)~Book TII:361-420 A tale
 792   Ind|                This was traditionally Capri, or more likely one of the
 793   Ind|             sun is in the tenth sign, Capricorn, i.e. at midwinter, making
 794 T-III|             ll go eagerly to meet the captain, and greet him:~I’ll ask
 795  T-IV|               And many-metered Horace captivated us,~when he sang his polished
 796  ExIV|     conquering~India, and Hercules by capturing Oechalia.~And Germanicus,
 797   Ind|               Roman Road from Rome to Capua (132miles) built c. 312
 798   Ind|         course.~ ~Anchises~The son of Capys, and father of Aeneas by
 799   Ind|              branches as thyrsi. (See Caravaggio’s painting – Bacchus – Uffizi,
 800   Ind|           Narbonensis near the modern Carcassone. He translated or adapted
 801   ExI|             you drank deep of Lethe’s care-dispelling waters. ~Sooner will the
 802  T-IV|               a deer was substituted,~cared for the offerings, of whatever
 803   Ind|              He turned to a political career, becoming consul in 69 but
 804  T-II|         finally he begs her more than careless husband~to keep watch too,
 805   Ind|             for eternity in a cave on Carian Mount Latmos by Zeus for
 806  T-IV|             does soft sleep leave her caring heart?~Do cares rise, while
 807   Ind|            Book TV.IV:1-50 The use of carior and the remembrance of the
 808 ExIII|         virtues,~not a few women will carp at your deeds.~It’s for
 809 ExIII|         Brutus, you tell me someone’s carping at my verse,~because the
 810   Ind|         Gallery, London: and Annibale Carracci’s fresco – The triumph of
 811   Ind|              Persians from Crassus at Carrhae (53BC) and from others in
 812   ExI|              along in a swift-wheeled carriage,~the road often seemed short
 813  IBIS|              his entrails evermore to carrion birds.~and the Belides who
 814 ExIII|         weakening, unable to drag the cart,~see that you shoulder the
 815   ExI|           habit, and as falling water~carves out a stone with its constant
 816   Ind|               of the River Anio as it cascaded into the valley below. It
 817   Ind|              lesser contemporaries.~ ~Caspios Aegisos~The founder of Aegisos.~ ~
 818   ExI|               father’s no tyrant from Cassandrea or Pherae,~no Phalaris who
 819   Ind|         Apollodorus the cruel lord of Cassandreia in Macedonia. Apollodorus
 820   Ind|               the Ethiopian King, and Cassiope, who was chained to a rock
 821   Ind|            constellation Perseus near Cassiopeia. He is depicted holding
 822   Ind|             and his mother Danae were cast into the sea in a wooden
 823   Ind|              Trojans.~Ibis:413-464  A castaway.~ ~Achilles~The Greek hero
 824   Ind|             Art Gallery, England: and Castiglione’s painting, ‘Medea casting
 825   Ind|        Castiglione’s painting, ‘Medea casting a spell’, Wadsworth Athanaeum,
 826 ExIII|          temple of his heart.~Jupiter casually hurls his lightning at many,~
 827   Ind|     Philadelphos, where he produced a catalogue (the Pinakes) of the library’
 828   Ind|         modern Lago di Naftia between Catania and Caltagirone~Book EII.
 829 ExIII|              the work.~Any talent can catch alight, from the applause~
 830   T-I|              hunger,~eager for blood, catches the fold unguarded,~or as
 831  IBIS|          those who tore apart Actaeon catching shy~Artemis bathing, and
 832   Ind|               king of Colchis and the Caucasian nymph Asterodeia. She is
 833   Ind|          split constellation, Serpens Cauda and Serpens Caput, which
 834  T-II|             ve never hurt anyone with caustic verse,~my poetry’s never
 835   Ind|               outraged Deianira. (See Cavalli’s opera with Lully’s dances –
 836   Ind|           journeying through the deep caverns from Elis to Sicily. This
 837   T-I|              I~ ~ ~‘laeta fere laetus cecini, cano tristia tristis: ~
 838 T-III|                If I’m not golden with cedar-oil, smoothed with pumice,~I’
 839   T-I|                no vermilion title, no cedar-oiled paper,~no white bosses, ‘
 840   Ind|               dubious use of the verb celebrare which means to frequent
 841   T-V|           attracted by the glitter of celebrity and fame.~Now things are
 842   Ind|              wife of Quintus Metellus Celer. Catullus also wrote epithalamia,
 843   Ind|                Triptolemus~The son of Celeus, king of Eleusis in Attica.
 844   Ind|              in a jar of honey in the cellars of Cnossos, whom Polyeidus
 845   Ind|               ancestor of Vestalis, a Celt who took service with the
 846   T-I|              joined her at Corinthian Cenchrae, and she~was the loyal friend,
 847   Ind|           through weeping for her son Cenchrias, killed by accident by Artemis,
 848  ExIV|               the gods from his lowly censer~has no less power than that
 849  T-II|              Propertius:~yet he’s not censured in the slightest way.~I
 850   Ind|        nearest star to the sun, Alpha Centauri. The father of Ocyroë, by
 851   Ind|              sky by the constellation Centaurus, which contains the nearest
 852   Ind|            Games, Ludi saeculares~The centennial games (17BC) celebrated
 853   Ind|              Ovid was a member of the centumviral court, mostly dealing with
 854 ExIII|            used to sit, as one~of the Centumviri, in judgement of your words,~
 855  T-II|             the cases examined by the centumvirs.~I also settled private
 856   Ind|       craftsmen and wizards living on Ceos, angered the gods by blighting
 857   Ind|        between the Acarnian Coast and Cephallenia, the home of Ulysses (Odysseus).
 858   Ind|             Andromeda~The daughter of Cepheus, the Ethiopian King, and
 859   Ind|          devotees of the moon-goddess Cer, whose weapon clashing drove
 860   Ind|    unacceptable marriage or a related ceremony, involving the younger Julia
 861   Ind|           Fraser’s ‘The Golden Bough’ Ch1 et seq.~Book TIII.I:1-46
 862   Ind|           Byzantium on its west bank, Chalcedon on its east. It is distinguished
 863   Ind|          Thessalus son of Hercules by Chalciope. Ovid has him leap from
 864   Ind|         bronze Athena Promachos (‘The Champion’) presented to Athens by
 865   T-V|             himself.~Fortune wanders, changeable, with uncertain footsteps,~
 866  T-IV|               at the noise~of all the chanting, the applause, and the din.~
 867   T-V|             Getae on this coast,~it’s characterised more by the barely civilised
 868   Ind|             Agrippa) was in exile. He characterises himself as unwise and cowardly (
 869   Ind|           succession, with its divine characteristics. The problem of Ovid’s past
 870  T-IV|        posterity forever.~I’m already charging, without raising my horns,~
 871   Ind|              The father of Ocyroë, by Chariclo the water-nymph. He was
 872  IBIS|               rare, devoid ~of common charity, a face offensive to your
 873  T-II|               find the same maxims in charming Propertius:~yet he’s not
 874  IBIS|            ancient chaos,~while dread charms are sung by treacherous
 875  ExIV|               they can’t write,~still chase after the weapons madly,
 876   T-I|            cloud,~so the fickle crowd chases the glow of Fortune:~when
 877  T-IV|            own ruin, still he clings,~chasing after the substance of his
 878   Ind|               is still being a little cheeky.~Book TI.XI:1-44 A remembrance
 879 ExIII|           turn itself to happy songs.~Cheerful words, though searched for,
 880   Ind|      description of the Getae and the cheerless environment. All things
 881   Ind|       childlessness, who was cured by Cheiron the Centaur and became guardian
 882   Ind|           feet down the cliffs of the Chelmos ridge to jojn the River
 883  ExIV|               in the future? Everyone cherishes what they’ve made.~As Venus
 884   T-V|               their sheepskins, their chests covered by their long hair. ~
 885   Ind|           Book EII.V:41-76 Laurel was chewed to induce prophetic trance
 886   ExI|             thyrsus fails to aid you, chewing laurel’s for me,~and yet
 887   Ind|      half-breed Greeks and barbarians chiefly of Getic, Indo-European
 888   ExI|              sun,~and so many captive chieftains, chained by the neck,~they
 889   Ind|         originally Roman goddesses of childbearing but were assimilated to
 890 T-III|          features.~Foolish, why utter childish prayers for them in vain,~
 891   T-V|          Latona’s children made Niobe childless,~they still did not order
 892 ExIII|            the mind, with worry’s icy chill,~and tightens the rein on
 893   ExI|               climate:~perpetual cold chills the Sarmatian coastline.~
 894 ExIII|         remote place, never peaceful.~Chionian Eumolpus was not such to
 895   Ind|               c. 8th century BC? born Chios or Smyrna?), supposed main
 896  ExIV|            troubled water builds in a choked spring,~so my mind’s been
 897   T-I|           this,~my wife more so, sobs choking her half-heard cries.~She
 898   Ind|             138.~Book TII:77-120 Ovid chooses this myth to indicate his
 899   T-V|         bereaved, to lead the festive chorus.~You think poetry and not
 900   Ind|           according to Saint Jerome’s Chronicle of Eusebius, at the latest
 901   Ind|          Arcadian Pheneus. He married Chryse the daughter of Pallas. ~
 902   Ind|         Phidias on the Acropolis. The chryselephantine statue on the Parthenon,
 903   T-I|               What mountains of water churn!~Now, now you think they’
 904   Ind|             108 He taught Achilles.~ ~Cilicia~Ibis:163-208 The southeast
 905   Ind|             Sea.~ ~Melissus~Gaius (or Cilnius) Melissus, a freedman of
 906   Ind|               Vercellae in 102-1BC.~ ~Cimmerii~Book EIV.X:1-34 A people
 907  IBIS|            womb, his vile body lay on Cinyphian soil,~a night-owl sat over
 908   Ind|           verse.~ ~Cinyphus~The river Cinyps of North Africa flowing
 909   Ind|       religiously by the colonists at Circei. (‘On the Nature of the
 910   Ind|            which is the promontory of Circeii. (Cape Circeo between Anzio
 911   Ind|              set.~Book TI.II:1-74 The circum-polar stars.~Book TI.III:47-102
 912   Ind|             the Phoenicians. Both the circumpolar constellations can be used
 913   Ind|        haliaeetus albicilla. Her name Ciris, from κείρω, ‘I cut’, reflects
 914   Ind|              by Octavian at Mutina in Cisalpine Gaul, and Octavian’s naval
 915   Ind|           having to fill a bottomless cistern with water carried in leaking
 916 T-III|            broken.~It’s brave to take citadels and standing walls:~any
 917   Ind|              of oak, the civic crown (civica corona) was awarded to Romans
 918   ExI|             study of the liberal arts~civilises the character, and inhibits
 919  ExIV|               to the Coralli,~a tribe clad in skins: escape the savage
 920 ExIII|           gained strength from such a clamour,~like a raw recruit hearing
 921  IBIS|             Erebus on his breast,~and clapped their bloodstained hands
 922  T-IV|            custom,~applauded by their clapping, all along the way,~flowers
 923   Ind|          elegiac poet of Colophon (or Claros) fl.c.400BC. His most famous
 924   Ind|             which the rocks ceased to clash.~Book TI.X:1-50 On the route
 925 T-III|             felt your encircling arms clasp my neck,~and your kisses
 926   Ind|             Sybaris.~Book TII:361-420 Classed as containing obscene material.~ ~
 927   Ind|              noblewomen, and uses the classic defence of eroticism and
 928   Ind|               of Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus, who became Empress. Her
 929  IBIS|               your entrails, beak and claw, ~and the greedy dogs rip
 930   Ind|          birds with girls’ faces, and clawed hands, and their faces are
 931  T-II|     dinner-parties:~another shows the clay from which pots are moulded,~
 932   ExI|              my hands from ever being clean.~Did I sin further? Don’
 933   Ind|         precipitated a great flood to cleanse the world. The father of
 934 ExIII|              Fortune shows herself~as clear-sighted, and falsely charged with
 935  ExIV|               heroes,~Borysthenes and clearest Dyrapses, Melanthus~silently
 936   T-I|             Now, I pray, she may also cleave the gates of wide Pontus,~
 937   Ind|          father Peleus, after killing Cleitonymus, son of Amphidamas.~ ~Pedo~
 938   Ind|            line. He follows it with a cleverly ambiguous comment on divinity.
 939  T-II|            destiny drew me on,~and my cleverness punished me.~Ah, that I
 940  ExIV|              he asked~for help from a client, and in a submissive voice,~
 941   Ind|           Tarpeius, Tarpeian Rock~The cliff-edge in Rome from which certain
 942  ExII|            like to be shepherd to the cliff-hanging goats: ~leaning on my staff,
 943   Ind|           first of the two reached on climbing the Capitoline (Cassius
 944  T-IV|              with your virtues:~glory climbs the heights by dangerous
 945  IBIS|        Rutulian.~Or like the scion of Clinias, surrounded by dark fires,~
 946   Ind|              patronesses of the arts. Clio (History), Melpomene (Tragedy),
 947  IBIS|            and on stumbling feet,~and cloak all your bodies with black
 948   T-I|            these times.~You’ll not be cloaked, dyed with hyacinthine purple –~
 949   Ind|        Metella, the sister of Publius Clodius Pulcher, and wife of Quintus
 950   Ind|           Each head had three rows of close-set teeth.Her cry was a muted
 951   Ind|               the formula here of the closing lines of the Metamorphoses
 952   Ind|               II:1-74 Sidonian purple cloth.~Book TIV.III:1-48 Used
 953 ExIII|              Here no clustering vines clothe the elms,~no apples bend
 954   T-V|           speech:~and let me wear the clothes I wear only once a year,~
 955  ExIV|               enemies, with sword and club,~those who made the Isthmus
 956  IBIS|              as Philoctetes, ~heir to Club-bearing Hercules, from venom’s torment.~
 957   Ind|              Ariadne who gave him the clue that he unwound to mark
 958 ExIII|               on their heads.~Here no clustering vines clothe the elms,~no
 959   Ind|              one of whom was probably Clutorius Priscus, who wrote a lament
 960   Ind|              s fate.~ ~Clytaemnestra, Clytaemestra, Clytemnestra~The wife of
 961   Ind|           putative father), sister of Clytemnaestra, and the Dioscuri. The wife
 962   Ind|              of his father by killing Clytmenestra and her lover Aegisthus.
 963   Ind|               1)~Marcus Junius Brutus co-leader of the conspiracy to assassinate
 964   Ind|            Germanicus, who apparently coached Germanicus in oratory.~Book
 965 T-III|               and roast him over slow coals:~he’ll bellow, and it will
 966 ExIII|             whose name’s no less than Coan Bittis’.~So whatever you
 967  T-II|           take the Annals – nothing’s coarser than them –~she’ll surely
 968   Ind|             infested the neighbouring coasts.~ ~Talaus~Ibis:311-364 There
 969 T-III|             beards gleam white with a coat of frost.~Wine stands exposed,
 970  ExII|               bristle, covered by the coating of arrows~fixed there, and
 971   Ind|             historically significant) Codomannus, defeated by Alexander at
 972  ExIV|           moment waging war, the next coercing words,~what’s labour for
 973   Ind|            Leto~Daughter of the Titan Coeus, and mother of Apollo and
 974   Ind|       depicting a man entwined in the coils of a serpent, consisting
 975   Ind|               famous for its electrum coinage (staters) known as ‘Cyzicenes’.
 976   Ind|       banishment) is surely more than coincidental.~ ~Juno, Hera~The daughter
 977   Ind|          depicted on ancient Athenian coins. See Metamorphoses II:566~ ~
 978   Ind|             drug colchicine, tinctura colchici, used as a specific against
 979   Ind|       extraction of the narcotic drug colchicine, tinctura colchici, used
 980   Ind|               crocus, meadow saffron, colchicum autumnale, that sprang from
 981 ExIII|            arms.~Though my heart were colder than snow and ice,~frozen
 982 T-III|            hard times, after my hopes collapsed,~if you believe anything
 983   Ind|             head of Orpheus – Private Collection, and Gustave Moreau’s painting –
 984   Ind|        attributes. (In Sulla’s time a college of priests had been founded
 985   Ind|             the Bronze Age, it helped colonise the Black Sea region (800-
 986  T-IV|         anxious place, where I, a new colonist,~am hidden away: ah, the
 987  ExII|             You have the Campus, or a colonnade’s dense shade,~or the forum
 988   Ind|              epic and elegiac poet of Colophon (or Claros) fl.c.400BC.
 989   Ind|           changed into the rock dove, columba livia, with its purple breast
 990   Ind|            his head, but his daughter Comaetho, having fallen in love with
 991  T-IV|             stained with the blood of combat,~in armed Minerva’s festival,
 992   Ind|                March 20th) when armed combats took place. The year was
 993   Ind|             is that the offence was a combination of the morally dubious and
 994   Ind|               44 A sign of rain, when combined with a southerly wind.~ ~
 995   Ind|        librarian. He wrote Trabeatae, comedies of Roman manners among the
 996  ExIV|           deny it, recaptured at your coming,~gaining no advantage from
 997   Ind|          rising to over 4500 feet and commanding a fine view of the Hellespont
 998 T-III|           guard, from that house~that commands the holy place, ordered
 999  ExIV|             call it a crime that I’ve commenced being unhappy?~If you couldn’
1000 T-III|            blood-line, my children.~I commend them to you, they who’ll
1001 T-III|           Phalaris, tyrant of Sicily,~commending his work of art in these
1002   Ind|             significant, but note the comments above.~Book EIV.XIII:1-50
1003 T-III|          Boreas gaze at me.~I have no commerce, in speech, with the wild
1004   Ind|            from the River Maeander. A commercial port from the Bronze Age,