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Et Venus è tota. To understand this rightly, we must look back to the story of Venus and Mars. They were caught together in a net by Vulcan, Venus husband, who had been informed of their intereaurse by Phoebus. Venus, incensed at the injurious disclosure, kindled among the whole race of Apollo a fire of love, which raged so fiercely, that not a woman descended from him was able to keep her chastity. Thus Seneca, in his Hippolytus, says,
“Stirpem perosa Solis invisi genus,
Per nos catenas vindicat Martis sui,
Suasque; probris omne Phoebeum genus
Oneral nefandis. Nulla Minois levi
Defuncta amore est.
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P. Ovidius Naso. The Epistles of Ovid, translated into English prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the Latin and English languages will allow; with the Latin text and order of construction on the same page; and critical, historical, geographical, and classical notes in English, from the very best commentators both ancient and modern; beside a very great number of notes entirely new. Anne Mahoney. edited for Perseus. London. J. Nunn, Great-Queen-Street; R. Priestly, 143, High-Holborn; R. Lea, Greek-Street, Soho; and J. Rodwell, New-Bond-Street. 1813.
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