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. His father kill'd, an Argive ship he fraught,
  2. And to this coast the royal treasure brought.
  3. Much peril had he past, much labour known,
  4. O'er lands and seas, before he reach'd our own,
  5. And landing built, with happy hand, the town,
  6. Where first he did this festival revive,
  7. And its Greek rules to the Phaliscans give;
  8. The rites and sacrifices first he show'd,
  9. As practis'd now within this ancient wood.
  10. Ah, may these rites to all propitious be,