Arts & Sciences
Amores: Epigram of the Poet Himself
Translated by Grant Showerman (1914) · From Amores (Loeb, 1914)
Arts & Sciences
We who erewhile were five booklets of Naso now are three; the poet has preferred to have his work thus rather than as before. Though even now you may take no joy of reading us, yet with two books taken away your pains will be lighter.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ovid. “Amores: Epigram of the Poet Himself.” Translated by Grant Showerman. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ovid/21/.
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Ovid. “Amores: Epigram of the Poet Himself.” Translated by Grant Showerman. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ovid/21/.
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