Amores

Ovid

Ovid. Ovid's Art of Love (in three Books), the Remedy of Love, the Art of Beauty, the Court of Love, the History of Love, and Amours. Dryden, John, et al., translator. New York: Calvin Blanchard, 1855.

  1. Or had the vestal whom fierce Mars enjoy'd,
  2. Stifled the twins within her pergnant womb,
  3. What founder would have then been born to Rome?
  4. Had Venus, when she with Aeneas teem'd,
  5. To death, ere born, Anchises' son condemn'd,
  6. The world had of the Caesars been depriv'd;
  7. Augustus ne'er had reign'd, nor Julius liv'd.
  8. And thou, whose beauty is the boast of fame,