"Cum rapiunt mala fata bonos—ignoscite fasso!— Sollicitor nullos esse putare deos. Vive pius—moriere; pius cole sacra—colentem Mors gravis a templis in cava busta trahet; Carminibus confide bonis—iacet, ecce, Tibullus: Vix manet e toto, parva quod urna capit!"
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Amores (Ovid)
Amores ('Love Affairs') is Ovid's first completed book of poetry, written in elegiac couplets. It was first published in 16 BC in five books, but Ovid, by his own account, later edited it down into the three-book edition that survives today. The book follows the popular model of the erotic elegy, as made famous by figures such as Tibullus or Propertius, but is often subversive and humorous with these tropes, exaggerating common motifs and devices to the point of absurdity.
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