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4505 T-III| the violets ~that grow, un-sown, born of the countryside:~ 4506 ExI| that’s pure as milk or the un-trodden snow:~you admire others, 4507 T-IV| second Phoenician ships, both un-wet, since~you see all from 4508 ExI| reward:~sought for itself, unaccompanied by outward benefit.~You 4509 T-I| your faithfulness would go unacknowledged.~Pirithous would not have 4510 T-IV| my flight:~she alone was unafraid of ambush, or the blades~ 4511 IBIS| armed received a wound, unarmed help:~or he who fell headlong 4512 ExIII| truly, as she’s timid and unassertive.~Naso, endure this too: 4513 Ind| been deceived by Juno. Her unborn child Bacchus was rescued.~ 4514 T-I| herself before the Lares, hair unbound,~touching the cold hearth 4515 ExI| you must strive with head unbowed,~if you allow your strength 4516 ExIV| encased in hard iron or unbreakable steel.~But this land will 4517 T-V| t shy at the bit like an unbroken horse.~He hopes the god’ 4518 T-I| to see if it can find an unburied corpse,~so someone, faithless, 4519 T-III| crushes him,~and fear the uncertainties of change yourself.~~ And 4520 ExIV| and stubborn fortune is unchanging, and slyly~obstructs my 4521 Ind| Virgin, who was accused of unchastity, but fulfilled the oracle 4522 Ind| 28 Hector was one of his uncles.~ ~Ixion~Ibis:163-208 King 4523 T-II| Actaeon, unaware, saw Diana unclothed:~none the less he became 4524 Ind| Eurydice – Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg: and the 4525 T-IV| sorrowing at the feet of the undefeated leader.~Offering her proud 4526 T-III| fields unguarded,~their undefended wealth is plundered,~the 4527 Ind| overestimate his power, and underestimate the distaste for Ovid’s 4528 IBIS| the torments you should undergo that could be recalled ~ 4529 T-V| trails to their granaries underground,~so dense is the crowd of 4530 Ind| factual credence. That also undermines his exaltation of the Caesars 4531 Ind| into long loose spikes. The undersides of the leaves are pale. ~ 4532 ExIII| mind was free for no great undertaking,~while I sang your, and 4533 Ind| alternative was exile, which he underwent in Smyrna.~ ~Rutuli, Rutulians~ 4534 T-II| have drawn my spirit.~I’m undeservedly blamed. Narrow the furrow 4535 ExIII| honour to Marcia.~Nor am I undeserving: and, if you’ll confess 4536 ExIV| Even now your compassion, undeterred by my~swift fate, offers 4537 ExII| stronger than all reason,~undoes the work your letters have 4538 T-IV| across, they say, to his undoing,~and turn your bright face 4539 IBIS| feeds the birds with his uneaten entrails.~Let no second 4540 T-III| scarcely be eased.~Live unenvied, pass sweet years, unknown,~ 4541 ExIII| many wish it: who’d be so unfair to me~as to desire me to 4542 T-III| charge against me,~take your unfeeling hands from my deep wound,~ 4543 Ind| leading him to wage war when unfit to do so. He fell from his 4544 T-III| ills?~A barbarous land, the unfriendly coast of Pontus,~the Maenalian 4545 ExI| pregnant sow~if she left unfulfilled the prayers of labouring 4546 T-III| wheat furrows,~show through, unfurl their tender tips from the 4547 ExII| mingled falling tears with the unguent~and laid your bones to rest 4548 T-I| eyes,~and silently wishes, unheard by enemies,~my punishment 4549 ExIII| bolt, live~and recover, unhindered by Jupiter.~Leucothea didn’ 4550 T-II| unfinished,~of bodies changed in unimaginable ways:~you’ll come upon praise 4551 T-III| Further there’s nothing but uninhabitable cold.~Ah how near I am to 4552 Ind| destroyed by earthquakes. The uninhabited site is now known as Bal-Kiz.~ 4553 Ind| Rape of Deianira – Yale University Art Gallery) Hyllus was 4554 ExIII| even Mars’~tithe seems unjust, in his own judgement.~But 4555 T-V| sword dispenses justice~unjustly, and wounds are often dealt 4556 ExIII| hair fell softly over his unkempt cheeks,~and his plumage 4557 T-IV| poets,~fame has not been unkind to my gifts,~and though 4558 T-III| I’m punished because my unknowing eyes ~saw an offence, my 4559 Ind| Epopeus king of Lesbos who unknowingly slept with her father. She 4560 IBIS| you’ll forgo your life, unlamented: and the mob will all applaud ~ 4561 ExII| wish to call it love or unmanly tenderness,~I confess my 4562 T-II| if not for her meant for unmarried life,~there was no other 4563 T-III| slippery shell gripping the unmoving deep.~Seeing was not enough: 4564 ExIV| your brave deeds can’t go unnoticed,~with swift strides you 4565 T-V| racehorse thudding on the unopened~starting-gate, with its 4566 ExIV| and youths whose work’s unpublished~so I’ve no right to speak 4567 ExII| ve known this brief and unreal joy,~remembering the happiness, 4568 Ind| commited suicide. Still unrepentant, her daughters were also 4569 T-III| wish to offer incense to unresponsive gods,~fine words don’t rise 4570 IBIS| longer.~Then, if you persist, unrestrained iambics will hurl~my missiles 4571 T-II| sinner.~Yet it’s no crime to unroll sweet verse: the chaste~ 4572 T-II| many things,~you’ve never unrolled my witticisms?~Yet if, by 4573 ExIII| no pin in his hair, his unruly locks~not neatly groomed 4574 ExIV| any part of your shield’s unscarred.~Unhappily, your body can’ 4575 T-I| bedraggled, hair straggling over unshaven cheeks.~Maddened by grief 4576 ExIV| stands on its top beneath her unsteady feet.~She’s less certain 4577 ExI| whatever immortal Homer left unsung,~so the Trojan War won’t 4578 IBIS| abandoned pyre:~and, lest it lie unsupported on the naked earth,~they 4579 T-III| salvation.’~While he was unsuspecting, fearing no such attack,~ 4580 T-III| song-birds welcome spring, untaught:~and the swallow, denying 4581 T-IV| thanks might harm you,~an untimely honouring of your name might 4582 T-I| in concealment.~If I’d an untiring voice, lungs stronger than 4583 T-I| troubles. ~Go then, book, untroubled by fame,~don’t be ashamed 4584 IBIS| followed him, though I’m unused to this sort of thing.~Its 4585 T-V| granted the luxury of being unwell?~Yet my mind’s ill, it gains 4586 Ind| gave him the clue that he unwound to mark his trail, subsequently 4587 T-IV| tired by long waiting.~The unwounded gladiator, in shining armour, 4588 Ind| He explains that he was upbraded by Augustus personally, 4589 Ind| into a bird, the hoopoe, upupa epops, with its distinctive 4590 Ind| Poetry), Erato (Love Poetry), Urania (Astronomy), and Polyhymnia ( 4591 Ind| hence Megara is called urbs Alcathoï.~Book TI.X:1-50 4592 T-III| brought back in a little urn:~so I’ll not be an exile 4593 T-III| birth, comes, on his day,~uselessly – what was the point of 4594 Ind| had powers of prophetic utterance) His ghost sank to the Fields 4595 T-V| read,~nor can you vanish utterly in the mournful pyre.~Though 4596 ExII| on a cross, a man still utters prayers.~How many people 4597 Ind| was his brother-in-law (uxoris frater). Athamas too suffered 4598 ExI| return this spirit to the vacant air,~before my thanks for 4599 IBIS| here the one who snatches vainly at branch and wave,~here 4600 T-V| different from mine! – ‘Vale’.~~ Book TV.XIV:1-46 In 4601 Ind| Tatius and founder of the Valerian family to which Messalla 4602 Ind| Ovid and Tibullus, Lygdaus, Valgius Rufus and Aemilius Macer. 4603 IBIS| murmurs through infernal valleys,~and you with your hair 4604 ExIV| tribute:~it is a thing of value in your judgement.~And if 4605 T-I| one could be more highly valued:~or if anyone’s climbed 4606 T-V| still standing, when she vanishes.~Yet whenever virtue itself 4607 T-I| in Rome: Departure~ ~Now vanishing night denied me more delay,~ 4608 T-V| implicitly, since you wise vapours~turn from the Bears and 4609 Ind| Eridanus that contains the variable star, Mira. She was chained 4610 Ind| drained: rich in wildfowl and varied tree species.) Cicero mentions 4611 Ind| her island. (Moly has been variously identified as ‘wild rue’, 4612 Ind| Lysippos. It is near modern Vasilikó.) ~Ibis:311-364 The incident 4613 ExIV| placed there among the vaulted stars,~hear my prayers spoken 4614 Ind| Lyra containing the star Vega. (See John William Waterhouse’ 4615 Ind| River Cremera, against the Veientes, when more than three hundred 4616 T-I| your heart circled with veins of flint,~and iron seeded 4617 Ind| the hunting dogs, Canes Venatici. He is sometimes identified 4618 Ind| of Mysia in Asia Minor, venerated as Lampsacus, from the town 4619 T-V| that the goddess hates.~Vengeful Nemesis exacts punishment 4620 Ind| Europa – Palazzo Ducale, Venice).~Book EIV.X:35-84 She gave 4621 ExII| it’s all true I wouldn’t venture to write this~to everyone, 4622 ExI| it’s one that has only ~ventured to destroy me, not cause 4623 Ind| EI.IV:1-58 A horse-racing venue.~ ~Ciziges~A tribe living 4624 Ind| and a dubious use of the verb celebrare which means to 4625 Ind| three were probably similar verbal tricks). Seneca claimed 4626 T-I| colour to go mourning –~no vermilion title, no cedar-oiled paper,~ 4627 Ind| contained the point of the vernal equinox (The First Point 4628 Ind| Raetia~The district north of Verona from the Alps to Vindelicia 4629 Ind| a white bull. (See Paolo Veronese’s painting – The Rape of 4630 Ind| for bribery. He defended Verres against Cicero but lost 4631 Ind| of the most brilliant and versatile figures of his time, general, 4632 Ind| destination for trading vessels.~Book TIII.XIII:1-28 The ‘ 4633 Ind| Her chief festival was the Vestalia on 9th June. The Virgins 4634 T-V| hair.~A few still retain vestiges of the Greek language,~though 4635 T-III| cause of my misfortune,~I’m vexed by insomnia since I reached 4636 Ind| Aulus Hirtius and Gaius Vibius Pansa, died in defeating 4637 Ind| brazen bull for him where victims could be roasted alive and 4638 Ind| authority and local knowledge.~ ~Victoria~The goddess of victory. 4639 Ind| roughly the area between Vienna and Belgrade. ~Book TII: 4640 IBIS| lacking eyes, that had viewed gold sinfully,~the father 4641 IBIS| tragic poet~may a pack of vigilant dogs tear you to shreds.~~ 4642 ExII| temper ~his anger, and your villa entertain me as a guest.~ 4643 Ind| the goddess at Eryx. See Vincent Cronin’s book on Sicily – 4644 Ind| emblem. (see Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawing of Neptune with 4645 Ind| Verona from the Alps to Vindelicia on the north, Helvetia on 4646 ExIII| words, I pray, with swift vindication.~~ Book EIII.V:1-58 To Cotta: 4647 Ind| their lands as tree-less and vine-less. ~Book TIII.XIV:1-52 Book 4648 IBIS| knew.~Like those about to violate the temple of Libyan Jove,~ 4649 Ind| accused his son Phoenix of violating her. Amyntor blinded him 4650 ExI| Telephus.~Sometimes temple violators seek sanctuary at the altar,~ 4651 Ind| Euboea, and who attempted violence to Latona (Leto), and suffered 4652 IBIS| like those whose bodies violent Aeacides sent ~to the high 4653 IBIS| may you who trample on me, violently, in my fall,~be made wretched 4654 Ind| Helicon is hence called Virgineus. Their epithets are Aonides, 4655 Ind| Amatoria II.24: semibovemque virum, semivirumque bovem, and 4656 Ind| words of the Aeneid, ‘Arma virumque cano: I sing of arms and 4657 IBIS| it subsides consume your visage.~Or like he who once set 4658 Ind| Museum, Paris: See Peter Vischer the Younger’s Bronze relief – 4659 Ind| Octavian’s naval commander, Vispanius Agrippa, at the naval battle 4660 T-I| that had to die with me,~my vital parts, on the devouring 4661 IBIS| wooden Horse,~so may your vocal passage be closed off with 4662 T-IV| aptitude of mind~for that vocation, and I shunned ambition’ 4663 Ind| avenged his death by killing Volcens, before dying himself.~Book 4664 Ind| variations on the theme in the Vollard Suite)~Book TIV.VII:1-26 4665 T-I| Whoever touches these volumes, bereft of their author,~ 4666 Ind| straits. Charybdis was the voracious daughter of Mother Earth 4667 ExII| Danube’s~other name, barely vulnerable because of its walls and 4668 Ind| and suffered in Hades. Vultures fed on his liver, which 4669 Ind| island of Icaria. ( See W H Auden’s poem ‘Musée des 4670 Ind| Medea casting a spell’, Wadsworth Athanaeum, Hartford, Connecticut). 4671 IBIS| which bitter wars should be waged.~ ~ The End of Ibis~ ~~ 4672 T-II| your vigour,~and a Caesar wages war for a mighty Caesar.~ 4673 Ind| constellation of Ursa Major is the Waggon, or Plough, or Great Bear. 4674 Ind| The constellation of the Waggoner, or Herdsman, or Bear Herd. 4675 ExIV| poetry completely.~One moment waging war, the next coercing words,~ 4676 ExIV| ox-herd~lead his loaded wagon over the Danube’s floes.~ 4677 ExIV| of the Wain, Ursa Major, wagon-shaped,~are very close to us, and 4678 ExII| spend the long hours of wakefulness?~Shall I forget the ways 4679 T-I| places, with my words:~I’ll walk among them on what ‘feet’ 4680 Ind| painting – Circe and Scylla – Walker Art Gallery, Sudley, Merseyside, 4681 ExIV| makes the sea a pathway for walkers,~so where oars, a moment 4682 ExIV| passer-by, despising boats, walks without wetting his feet.~~ 4683 Ind| the twins built the first walled settlement on the Palatine. 4684 T-V| beggary himself.~Fortune wanders, changeable, with uncertain 4685 ExIII| that my friends’ zeal has waned,~than that petitions they’ 4686 ExIV| forgive this fault of mine.~Wanting to write otherwise, I fall 4687 ExIV| Thermodon, known to the Amazon war-bands,~and you, Phasis, once sought 4688 T-I| eased my pain:~Minerva the war-goddess brought him aid.~And as 4689 IBIS| Oeagrus:~than Hypsipyle’s ward, Opheltes: than he, of famous 4690 ExII| go shouting the customary warnings to them.~I’d control the 4691 ExII| olive branch is helpful in wartime:~is it not beneficial to 4692 IBIS| turn,~and the soft sand washes from under your feet,~so 4693 Ind| National gallery of Art, Washington)~She transformed Ulysses’ 4694 T-I| angry god?~A wretch, I’m wasting idle words in vain.~My mouth 4695 Ind| Cerberus~The three-headed watchdog of Hades.~Book TIV.VII:1- 4696 T-V| I’d tried to number the water-drops in the Icarian Sea. ~To 4697 IBIS| Belides who always bear water-jars on their shoulders,~that 4698 Ind| Ocyroë, by Chariclo the water-nymph. He was begotten by Saturn 4699 Ind| England, and Gustave Moreau’s watercolour in the Fogg Art Museum, 4700 Ind| Vega. (See John William Waterhouse’s painting – Nymphs finding 4701 ExIII| feel well.~While others waver, and desert the storm-tossed 4702 ExI| evil news of my offence,~I wavered, doubtfully, between confession 4703 T-III| of power,~and my writing wavers with the tremor of fear.~ 4704 ExII| enduring nature of my fate, I weaken,~and slight hope subsides, 4705 ExIII| Request To Her~ ~Since I’m weakening, unable to drag the cart,~ 4706 Ind| century BC. Though at one time wealthy he ended his life in poverty.~ 4707 T-II| t be long before he was weapon-less.~When he’s thundered, and 4708 T-I| whitened dovecote,~but a weathered turret never attracts the 4709 T-I| set out long before.~She weathers the tides and the leaping 4710 ExII| called.~Yet I’m struggling to weave verses, as you see:~though 4711 Ind| birth at the new year, a week after the winter solstice. 4712 T-IV| me as they are now:~they weigh more heavily now I know 4713 IBIS| only to my words:~and let weighty matters follow from my verses,~ 4714 ExIII| to its setting.~Choose a well-considered time to ask,~lest your boat 4715 ExIII| Though all my work depends on well-disposed indulgence,~that one in 4716 ExI| name.~Those towns were not well-enough defended against you,~despite 4717 ExI| rainy south wind melts,~welling tears ran down my terrified 4718 ExIV| despising boats, walks without wetting his feet.~~ Book EIV.X:35- 4719 Ind| constellation of Cetus, the Whale, between Pisces and Eridanus 4720 T-I| hurrying Sun reverse his wheeling team,~earth will bear stars, 4721 | whence 4722 | whereas 4723 | whereby 4724 ExIV| precisely,~I’d say: ‘I’ve whiled away the time, held off 4725 T-IV| thread,~diverts herself, and whiles away the hours of toil.~ 4726 IBIS| rake your flanks with her whip,~till the measure of your 4727 T-I| planks echo, the rigging’s whipped by the wind,~and the keel 4728 Ind| of their vow resulted in whipping and death. There were twenty 4729 ExIV| Halys writhing, full of whirlpools,~raging Parthenius, Cynapses 4730 ExIV| extended undiminished to white-haired age.~If that didn’t move 4731 T-I| See how the doves fly to a whitened dovecote,~but a weathered 4732 ExII| decline of life is on me, whitening my hair,~now the wrinkles 4733 | whomever 4734 T-V| Getae,~to Persia, and the wide-flowing River Ganges,~and all the 4735 T-IV| chance is given,~and the widest field lies open to your 4736 T-IV| life, that you’d been left widowed, and alone!~This spirit, 4737 ExI| separated by a whole world’s ~width, you can still know that 4738 ExII| be granted you~to always wield the sceptre in your noble 4739 ExIII| and there’s none that is wilder,~it’s clear that friendship’ 4740 Ind| of Salerno, a ruin in a wilderness, with Doric temples that 4741 Ind| cyclophyllus) is a spring wildflower on nearby Parnassus. The 4742 Ind| they were drained: rich in wildfowl and varied tree species.) 4743 Ind| the star Vega. (See John William Waterhouse’s painting – 4744 ExII| or sweet grapes, here,~no willows green the banks, no oaks 4745 Ind| on which boats could be winched across the Isthmus.~Book 4746 Ind| thigh. His blood formed the windflower, the anemone.~ ~Adrastus~ 4747 ExIV| the Danube reveals in its winding course.~Cyclops couldn’t 4748 IBIS| Cretan honey choke your windpipe, like one~who had the same 4749 Ind| sea-horses, Royal Library, Windsor: See the Neptune Fountain 4750 Ind| of Bacchus as lord of the wine-press. The reference is obscure.~ ~ 4751 T-III| frothing must fills the deep wine-vats.~This land’s denied fruit, 4752 Ind| called Lenaeus, ‘of the winepress’.~Book TI.VII:1-40 The ivy-crowned 4753 Ind| Medusa, whose evil eye is the winking star Algol. It contains 4754 IBIS| in one swift step, from winner to sacrifice.~And lest Limon 4755 Ind| is flat and marshy. The winters are severe with below zero 4756 ExI| studies you employed more wisely than I did,~and, as is proper, 4757 IBIS| with ease,~but be unable to withdraw your captive hand.~May you 4758 Ind| lasting youth, dooming her to wither away until she was merely 4759 T-III| evergreen, without a single withered leaf to gather?~~ Book TIII. 4760 IBIS| I pray, may all help be withheld from you.~May such night 4761 ExIII| virtuous wife before many witnesses.~Believe me, whenever you’ 4762 T-I| praising, they were still witty.~So, I think, though my 4763 Ind| mythical craftsmen and wizards living on Ceos, angered 4764 ExII| I was a humble member.~Woe is me if you’re offended 4765 Ind| of Proserpina, turned to woman-headed birds, or women with the 4766 IBIS| from his mother’s foul ~womb, his vile body lay on Cinyphian 4767 ExIV| up to the gods, try and woo those powers ~with prayer, 4768 ExII| yearns to return to her woodlands.~Bulls seek the pastures 4769 Ind| a she-wolf and fed by a woodpecker, creatures sacred to Mars. 4770 T-III| the noisy battles of the wordy forum.~Now they ride horses, 4771 T-IV| release in weeping,~grief is worked through, and relieved by 4772 ExII| No one doubts Ulysses’ worldly wisdom, but even he prayed~ 4773 ExII| a shelved book feeds the worm’s mouth,~so my heart feels 4774 ExIV| me.~I’ve avoided my usual worries, by writing this,~and no 4775 T-V| yet I long to, make some worthwhile verse:~therefore my effort’ 4776 T-V| not got the date wrong,~wreathing scented garlands round their 4777 Ind| Elder, Tyrant of Syracuse wrenched off the gold. (‘On the Nature 4778 Ind| Ibis:365-412 A brigand who wrestled with travellers and crushed 4779 Ind| him off the ground in a wrestling match. He gained strength 4780 ExIV| about me.~That’s why, in my wretchedness, the Tomitae are kind~and 4781 ExI| javelins with a flick of the wrist,~and guide the flight of 4782 T-IV| mercy been quenched by my wrongdoings,~yet my life has not been 4783 Ind| of Nauplius whom Ulysses’ wrongfully had stoned to death, after 4784 T-III| who did not avenge his wrongs with the sword.~But as he’ 4785 Ind| Cynthus. (Pausanias VIII xlvii, mentions the sacred palm-tree, 4786 Ind| Crathis. Pausanias says (VIII xvii), that Hesiod (Theogony 4787 Ind| Pliny and Homer – Odyssey XX – and he describes it as 4788 Ind| coastline. Pausanias II xxxiv says that Cape Skyllaion ( 4789 Ind| were sacred. Pausanias I xxxix says that Kar founded Megara, 4790 Ind| Ceres) there, Pausanias I xxxx. His tumulus was decorated 4791 Ind| of an oracle, Pausanias I xxxxiii. The rock dove no doubt 4792 Ind| The Rape of Deianira – Yale University Art Gallery) 4793 T-III| to harm us.~The lowered yard escapes the winter storm,~ 4794 Ind| it is less than a hundred yards from the mainland.~Book 4795 T-I| abysses sink beneath the yawning flood!~Now, now you think 4796 T-V| not so good for me that I yearn for glory:~if it were possible 4797 T-III| his foolish son, hadn’t yearned for Achilles’ horses.~Merops 4798 ExII| EI.III:1-48 To Rufinus: Yearning For Rome~ ~Rufinus, your 4799 ExII| fine, shut in her cage,~she yearns to return to her woodlands.~ 4800 ExIV| recite my work to here, but yellow-haired~Coralli, and the other tribes 4801 ExIV| local terrors!~Scylla may yelp, fierce with monsters, from 4802 | yes 4803 Ind| walls of Troy. His body was yielded to Priam for burial, and 4804 T-V| They fear no law: justice yields to force,~and right is overturned 4805 ExIII| and, as before, follow the yoked horses.~Bring out the purple, 4806 | yourselves 4807 Ind| whirlpool Zanclean, from Zancle the ancient name for the 4808 ExIII| if it is that my friends’ zeal has waned,~than that petitions 4809 T-III| defend your exiled friend zealously,~easing the pain that can 4810 Ind| The Thebans were at their zenith 371-362BC, when they defeated 4811 Ind| winters are severe with below zero temperatures (-20 to -30 4812 Ind| 1-54 The spring wind.~ ~Zerynthia~The Zerynthian cave of Hecate 4813 Ind| by her sons Amphion and Zethus who tied Dirce to the horns 4814 Ind| Juventa~The daughter of Zeus-Jupiter and Hera-Juno, born without 4815 Ind| Valerius Cato. His epyllion Zmyrna described the incest between