Home Play Saved Settings

Home PlaySaved Settings

The Love Books of Ovid · Sacred Texts

The Love Books of Ovid

Translated by J. Lewis May · [1930]

64 entries

Start Reading Introduction: I Introduction: II Introduction: III Introduction: IV Contents,List of Illustrations The Loves: Book I Elegy I: The Poet Explains How It Is He Comes To Sing Of Love Instead Of Battles Elegy II: The Triumph Of Love.Elegy III: He Commends Himself To His Mistress By The Merits Of His Poetry, The Purity Of His Morals, And By The Vow Of His Unchangeable Fidelity.Elegy IV: Ovid, His Mistress And Her Husband Are All Bidden To The Same Supper. He Gives His Mistress A Code By Which They Can Testify Their Love For Each Other, Beneath Her Husband's Very Eyes.Elegy V: His Delight At Having Obtained Corinna's Favours Elegy VI: He Conjures The Porter To Open The Door Of His Mistress's House.Elegy VII: He Curses Himself For Having Maltreated His Mistress.Elegy VIII: He Curses A Certain Old Woman Of The Town Whom He Overhears Instructing His Mistress In The Arts Of A Courtesan.Elegy IX: He Compareth Love With War.Elegy X: He Endeavours To Dissuade His Mistress From Becoming A Courtesan.Elegy XI: He Asks Nape To Deliver A Love-letter To Her Mistress.Elegy XII: He Calls Down Curses On The Tablets Which Bring Him Word Of His Mistress's Refusal.Elegy XIII: He Entreats The Dawn To Hasten Not Her Coming.Elegy XIV: To His Mistress, Who, Contrary To His Counsel, Dyed Her Hair With Noxious Compositions, And Has Nearly Become Bald.Elegy XV: The Poets Alone Are Immortal.The Loves: Book II Elegy I: He Tells Wherefore, Instead Of The Wars Of The Giants, Which He Had Commenced, He Is Constrained To Sing Of Love.Elegy II: To The Eunuch Bagoas, Begging Him To Give Him Access To The Fair One Committed To His Charge.Elegy III: He Appeals Once More To Bagoas, Who Had Proved Inflexible.Elegy IV: He Confesses His Inclination For Love And His Admiration For All Manner Of Women.Elegy V: He Upbraids His Mistress Whom He His Detected Acting Falsely Towards Him.Elegy VI: He Laments The Death Of The Parrot He Had Given To His Mistress.Elegy VII: He Assures Corinna That He Has Never Had Any Guilty Commerce With Cypassis, Her Maid.Elegy VIII: He Asks Cypassis How In The World Corinna Could Have Found Them Out.Elegy IX: He Beseeches Cupid Not To Discharge All His Arrows At Him Alone.Elegy X: He Tells Græcinus How, Despite What He Says To The Contrary, It Is Possible To Be In Love With Two Women At The Same Time.Elegy XI: He Seeks To Dissuade Corinna From Going To Baiæ.Elegy XII: He Rejoices At Having At Last Won The Favours Of Corinna.Elegy XIII: He Beseeches Isis To Come To The Aid Of Corinna In Her Confinement.Elegy XIV: On Corinna's Recovery He Writes To Her Again Concerning Her Attempt At Abortion And Tells Her How Naughty She Has Been.Elegy XV: To The Ring Which He Is Sending To His Mistress.Elegy XVI: To Corinna, Beseeching Her To Visit Him In His Country Home At Sulmo.Elegy XVII: He Complains To Corinna That She Is Too Conceited About Her Good Looks.Elegy XVIII: To Macer: To Whom He Excuses Himself For Giving Himself Up Wholly To Erotic Verse.Elegy XIX: To A Man With Whose Wife He Was In Love.The Loves: Book III Elegy I: The Tragic And The Elegiac Muse Strive For The Possession Of Ovid.Elegy II: The Circus.Elegy III: To His Mistress, Whom He Has Found To Be Forsworn.Elegy IV: He Urges A Husband Not To Keep So Strict A Watch On His Wife.Elegy V: A Dream.Elegy VI: To A River Which Has Overflowed Its Banks And Hindered The Poet, Who Was Hastening To His Mistress.Elegy VII: The Poet Reproaches Himself For Having Failed In His Duty Towards His Mistress.Elegy VIII: To His Mistress, Complaining That She His Given Preference To A Wealthier Rival.Elegy IX: On The Death Of Tibullus.Elegy X: He Complains To Ceres That, During Her Festival, He Is Not Suffered To Share His Mistress' Couch.Elegy XI: Weary At Length Of His Mistress' Infidelities, He Swears That He Will Love Her No Longer.Elegy XII: He Laments That His Poems Have Made His Mistress Too Well Known.Elegy XIII: The Festival Of Juno At Falisci.Elegy XIV: To His Mistress.Elegy XV: He Bids Farewell To His Wanton Muse, To Court One, More Austere.The Art of Love: Book I The Art of Love: Book II The Art of Love: Book III Love's Cure The Art Of Beauty