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Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) 14 0 Browse Search
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 14 0 Browse Search
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.) 4 0 Browse Search
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 4 0 Browse Search
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) 4 0 Browse Search
Sextus Propertius, Elegies (ed. Vincent Katz) 4 0 Browse Search
Polybius, Histories 4 0 Browse Search
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding) 4 0 Browse Search
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Odes (ed. John Conington) 2 0 Browse Search
P. Vergilius Maro, Georgics (ed. J. B. Greenough) 2 0 Browse Search
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Sextus Propertius, Elegies (ed. Vincent Katz), Book 1, Addressed to Roman society (search)
Addressed to Roman society HYPANISthe Bug, flowing into Black Sea at Odessa. PROMETHEAN . . . HERBSreference to Colchian sorcery below Caucasus, where Prometheus is chained. Why don't you stop fabricating the crime of apathy for me, which you say, all you eyes of Rome, is the cause of our delay? She is separated as many miles from my bed as is the Hypanis from the Venetian Po. Cynthia doesn't nurture my usual affections with her embrace, nor sounds sweet in my ear. Once I pleased her: no one then could claim to love with such intensity We were victims of envy: didn't some god eclipse me? Well, what herbs from Promethean heights divided my bed? I am no longer what I was: a long road changes girls. In a scrap of time, love has flown so far! Now, for the first time, I am forced to know long nights alone and hate the sound of my own voice. He's happy who cried for a girl who was actually there. Love delights in being sprinkled with tears. Or if the despised lover can change his pas
Sextus Propertius, Elegies (ed. Vincent Katz), Book 1, Addressed to Tullus (search)
6, and 22. LESBIAN WINEsweet, not strong. MENTORfamous silversmith in early 4th c. B.C. PACTOLUSthe gold-bearing river in Lydia; see poem 6. RUBERliterally “Red Sea,” but refers to modern Persian gulf. ALCINOUS' GIFTSto Odysseus. You are free to drink Lesbian wine from Mentor's cup, sullen and effeminate on Tiber's wave. Now you marvel at the speed of the skiffs, now at how slowly the rafts with their cables go; a grove sends up planted woods from every peak, as many trees as crowd the Caucasus. But none of these can compare to my affair: great wealth has no effect on Love. When she prolongs our hotly desired rendezvous or drives our whole day in lingering sex, then the Pactolus' waters flow under my roof, and a pearl is plucked from the Ruber! Then my joys promise kings will yield to me! May they remain till the fates command my death! Who enjoys wealth when their love is down? Prizes ain't worth shit with Venus angry! She can break the great powers of heroes, she can confuse t