[189] Aut ego non novi. "Either I mistake in judging to what a degree of rashness love will carry a man, &c.' This way of speaking may sometimes occasion a little obscurity; but the sense of the passage is plain enough. Leander had been complaining, that even in summer the sea was sometimes too rough to be passed without great danger;--What then, adds he, can I propose to myself when winter comes on? But either love is not so rash and headstrong as I am apt to fancy, or even then he will push me to hazard myself amidst storms and tempests.
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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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