try her intention, test the road out first. When Bacchus’s gifts are set before you then, pray to the father of feasts and nocturnal rites. like the gambler who goes on losing, lest he’s finally lost. in time the horse learns to suffer the bridle: the curved plough’s lost to the endless furrow. Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3, 133- 152: what hair dress fits a woman best. If you flee, to win, Parthia, what’s left for you in defeat? he held her clasped high to his loving heart. Where’s that force now? There’s chance in it: even if it favours the idea. That’s my aim, that’s the ground my chariot will cover: that’s the post my thundering wheels will scrape. one small black mark set between his horns: it the sole blemish, the rest was milky-white. They many times ask for gifts, they never give in return: you lose, and you’ll get no thanks for your loss. woman’s role would be to take the part of the asker. he knows what valleys hide the angry boar: the wild-fowler knows the woods: the fisherman. Her mind will be fit for love when she luxuriates. … Who, but a mindless fool, declaims to his sweet friend? It’s not always safe to capture tender girls: If her birthday’s here, or the April Kalends. Shamefully, though he gave way to a mother’s prayer. But let your powers be hidden, don’t display your eloquence: let irksome words vanish from your speech. Ovid, Tristia 4.10.33 8. and shafts the enemy hurl from flying horses. Who takes a kiss, and doesn’t take the rest. let fingers brush her thigh, and foot touch foot. Once steadfast you’ll conquer Penelope herself in time: you’ll see Troy captive, though it’s captured late. where you might choose your love, where to set your nets. Unfortunately my barbershop has no Donald Ducks to read, so I take a book with me in case I have to wait. nor a nod of the head to tell you she accepts: You can sit by your lady: nothing’s forbidden. But hurry, lest the sails fall and the breeze dies: anger melts away, with time, like fragile ice. When hearts are glad, and nothing sad constrains them. the dimness of twilight. so your girl can read them herself on the table: and gaze in her eyes with eyes confessing fire: you should often have silent words and speaking face. one who’s a heifer, the other borne by the bull. Now find your reason for friendly conversation. as the rascal urges the mount on with his staff. Marlowe's translation; Wikisource translation of Amores, David Drake's translation In one case, fresh from bed, she’ll get busy, in another be tardy. It’s a safe well-trodden path to deceive in a friend’s name. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, Wikidata item. like a Maenad roused by the Boeotian god, they say. Match. They come to see, they come to be seen as well: These shows were first made troublesome by Romulus. that you go on: do it, and you’ll soon get what you wish. by what arts she’s caught, itself a work of highest art. that the waters of tiny sea-borne Dia showed. While talking, touching hands, checking the programme. She called, and wept as well, but both became her. can scarcely save the wreckage of his mangled boat. Ovid Translation. 1965); F. W. Lenz’s two Paravia editions (Ars: Turin, 1969; Rem. Your and your country’s father endowed you with arms: the enemy stole his kingship from an unwilling parent: You hold a pious shaft, he a wicked arrow: Justice and piety stick to your standard. as Methymna’s grapes, as fishes in the sea. Award-winning poet Len Krisak captures the music of Ovid's richly textured Latin meters through rhyming couplets that render the verse as playful and agile as it was meant to be. Meanwhile, if she’s being carried, reclining on her bed. a woman’s skill, to strip wealth from an ardent lover. By chance a royal virgin shared the room: through her rape she learned he was a man. the Sun would not have veered from his course mid-way. All these things were driven by woman’s lust: it’s more fierce than ours, and more frenzied. and many made even fear itself look fitting. It’s a mistake to think that only farmers working the fields. and add her oar to the work of your sails. A loose-robed pedlar comes to your lady: she likes to buy: and explains his prices while you’re sitting there. This is the work, the labour, to have her without giving first: and she’ll go on giving, lest she lose what she’s freely given. Simplicity: all art dispelled by the god. And if she, among them, asks the name of a king. Only, take care her lips aren’t bruised by snatching. Ars amatoria, (Latin: “Art of Love”) poem by Ovid, published about 1 bce. knows the waters where the most fish spawn: You too, who search for the essence of lasting love. The Court of Love, a tale from Chaucer. The daughter who savaged Nisus’s purple lock. How much short of your wish are you after that kiss? Though you call it force: it’s force that pleases girls: what delights. so much the fitter am I to avenge the wounds. and a neighbour’s herd always has richer milk. They sprang up straightaway, showing their intent by shouting. Don’t think it’s hard: each think’s herself desired: the very worst take’s pleasure in her looks. 1–3 correct: You’re a Novice Office Ovid! Be the first to snatch the cup that touched her lips. Title: Ars Amatoria, or The Art Of Love Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes Author: Ovid Translator: Henry T. Riley Release Date: December 16, 2014 [EBook #47677] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ARS AMATORIA, OR THE ART OF LOVE *** Produced by David Widger … P. OVIDI NASONIS LIBER PRIMVS ARTIS AMATORIAE Siquis in hoc artem populo non novit amandi, Hoc legat et lecto carmine doctus amet. the throng will give you access to her and room. while herding the flocks, Ascra, in your valleys: Experience prompts this work: listen to the expert poet: Far away from here, you badges of modesty. and said: ‘Now, how can she please my lord? Conditions and Exceptions apply. About; News; Contact; Search; Shop Now; About; News; Contact; Ovid: The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) Home; Download; Buy This Book; Venus and Adonis - Josse de Pape (Belgian, 1615 - 1646) The Rijksmuseum. is pleased, and finds wickedness is a tribute. IF there be anyone among you who is ignorant of the art of loving, let him read this poem and, having read it and acquired the knowledge it contains, let him address himself to Love. Small things please light minds: it’s very helpful. Author: Ovid: Original title: Ars amatoria: Country: Roman Empire: Language: Latin A girl suitable for your eyes is to be searched for. She swears that she’ll be happy with it, for years. but she needs it now, now the price is right. Nor will I falsely say you gave me the art, Apollo. Let your mistress’s birthday be one of great terror to you: that’s a black day when anything has to be given. press your thigh to hers, as you can do, all the time: and it’s good the rows force you close, even if you don’t like it. See if she’s close to her mistress’s thoughts. Though he’s below you or beside you, let him always be served first: don’t hesitate to second whatever he says. Ah, how many were tortured by an alien love! The first complete Chinese translation of Ovid’s poem was Dai Wangshu’s (1905–50) 1929 Ai jing (Ars amatoria). now be a tree, now a lion, now a bristling boar. echoed to the sound of cymbals and frenzied drums. her elegant fingers, and her slender feet. Venus appointed me as guide to gentle Love: I’ll be known as Love’s Tiphys, and Automedon. To be honest, I am not interested at all. and Trojan Paris snatched his girl from Greece. for that husband of hers: Minos was ousted by a bull. The more he pierces me, the more violently he burns me. The generals will go before you, necks weighed down with chains. as your father to your mother, I’ll be to you.’. Jupiter went as a suppliant to the heroines of old: If you find she disdains the advent of your prayerful sighs. and are pleased too when trouble comes to others. as the new-born lamb runs from the hostile wolf: so they fled in panic from the lawless men. The queen left her marriage bed for woods and fields. Make earnest enquiry whose those horses are: and rush to back her favourite, whatever it is. Phaedra loved Hippolytus: he was unsophisticated: Adonis was dear to the goddess, and fit for the woods. And you who seek the athlete’s crown, you too. Behold! Why enumerate every female meeting place fit for the hunter? There you’ll find one to love, or one you can play with. are confused by all? She spoke, and straightaway had her led from the vast herd. The cow lows to the bull in gentle pastures: the mare whinnies to the hoofed stallion. and set a hollow stool beneath her tender feet. While you’re still free, and can roam on a loose rein, pick one to whom you could say: ‘You alone please me.’. Jupiter on high laughs at lovers’ perjuries. However much you avoid it, she’ll still win: it’s. It’s no help if the bird escapes when its wings are limed: it’s no good if the boar gets free from a loosened net. Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur, “Ars Amatoria” (“The Art of Love”) is a collection of 57 didactic poems (or, perhaps more accurately, a burlesque satire on didactic poetry) in three books by the Roman lyric poet Ovid, written in elegiac couplets and completed and published in 1 CE. Dai, as translator-cum-publisher, produced a serious translation with thorough footnotes and a scholarly preface (later added). I make those Armenians, that’s Persia’s Danaan crown: that was a town in the hills of Achaemenia. what’s left of earth: now the far East will be ours. Learn. External links. I don’t demand you set your sails, and search. flowed with the blood poured from Roman wounds, or when the Sabbath day returns, the holy day. Venus Genetrix - Joseph Adolf Schmetterling (Dutch, 1751 - 1828) Race-horses between races on the testing course. by A .S. would be ashamed if all your body was white. Ah me, it’s not safe to praise your love to a friend: if he believes your praise, he’ll steal her himself. Dwight, 4.03–04 9. for a note of hand – and you’re sorry you learnt to write. Behold, now Caesar’s planning to add to our rule. Test. and to avoid offering your words to odious ears. Da reditum puero, senis est si gratia vilis: 30 Si non vis puero parcere, parce seni.” Dixerat haec; sed et haec et multo plura licebat Dicere: regressus non dabat ille viro. Both your fathers, Mars and Caesar, grant you power: Through you one is a god, and one will be. Tunc neque marmoreo pendebant vela theatro, Nec fuerant liquido pulpita rubra croco; 105 Illic quas tulerant nemorosa Palatia, frondes Simpliciter positae, scena sine arte fuit; In gradibus sedit populus de caespite factis, Qualibet hirsutas fronde tegente comas. So far, riding her unequal wheels, the Muse has taught you. Jupiter used to swear by the Styx, falsely, to Juno: now he looks favourably on his own example. don’t be ashamed to slip amongst the columns. So Troy was defended with sorrowful conflict: in joy, the Horse, pregnant with soldiers, was received. What’s this, Aeacides? gives people many wounds, has many to give. the innocent thing dragged under the arching yoke. There Venus, from her neighbouring temples, laughs: he, who was once the counsel, now wants to be the client. Let your speech be credible, use ordinary words. From that I suppose came the theatres’ usual customs: now too they remain a snare for the beautiful. When I am waiting at the barbershop, I see many magazines about hair fashion. Ovid - The Art of Love - Bk I - A new complete freely downloadable English translation. That punishment will return on your own head. You’ll be forced to be unsure of your desires: if you delight greatly in older wiser years. golden, will go by, drawn by four snowy horses. The number of times she killed rivals to please the gods, and said, holding the entrails: ‘Go, and please him for me!’. What shuns them, they desire the more: they hate what’s there: The hoped-for love should not always be declared: introduce desire hidden in the name of friendship. and the sacred Sabbath rites of the Syrian Jews. If you’ve a voice, sing: if your limbs are supple, dance: and please, with whatever you do that’s pleasing. lift it, and raise it carefully from the dusty earth: Straightaway, the prize for service, if she allows it. PLAY. Then laughter comes, the poor man dons the horns. Cowards, don’t count the birthdays of the gods: a Caesar’s courage flowers before its time. and trembled like a light reed in a marshy pool. no youth will be caught out being lead by me. and a new case starts, his own cause is the brief. And Love will yield to me, though with his bow. Just walk slowly under Pompey’s shady colonnade. Book II. And when wine has soaked Cupid’s drunken wings. The quarry that I was hot upon hath fallen into my toils. Phoebe was taken by force: force was offered her sister: and both, when raped, were pleased with those who raped them. deserves to lose all that were granted too. Buy on Amazon $11.95 Translation Sheets (with Macrons) Click on the link above for a PDF with translation sheets for book 1 of the Ars Amatoria… and heavy harrow, underneath the heavens. What wise man doesn’t mingle tears with kisses? So go on, and send your letter’s flattering words. that imaginary gem that fell from her pierced ear? carried off Ariadne, without a single pin in his hair. They say in Egypt the life-giving waters failed. Make promises: what harm can a promise do? he wounds my heart, shakes at me his burning torch. Let the joyous lover set the laurel crown upon my brow and raise me to a loftier pinnacle than Hesiod of Ascra or the blind old bard of Mæonia. to command the wine to bring your head no harm. That hand that Hector was destined to know. an Arcadian hound turn his back on a hare. Pasiphae joyed in adultery with the bull: she hated the handsome heifers with jealousy. and sailors, need to keep an eye on the season: Seed can’t always be trusted to the furrow. Who did not find one he might love in that crowd? just for the cake, and how often it is her birthday, if she’s in need? Ars Amatoria Commentary Click on the link above for a PDF copy of the commentary, or on the image below to purchase a paperback copy on Amazon. as birds in the hidden branches, stars in the sky: If you’d catch them very young and not yet grown. Take the heavens for dowry: be seen as heavenly stars: and guide the anxious sailor often to your Cretan Crown.’, He spoke, and leapt from the chariot, lest she feared. was held out, at his master’s orders, to be flogged. The Rijksmuseum. he wanted, and trembled greatly in his silent heart. no voice from a heavenly bird gives me advice, I never caught sight of Clio or Clio’s sisters. Award-winning poet Len Krisak captures the music of Ovid's richly textured Latin meters through rhyming couplets that render the verse as playful and agile as it was meant to be. Agamemnon who escaped Mars on land, Neptune at sea. Nec fuge linigerae Memphitica templa iuvencae: Multas illa facit, quod fuit ipsa lovi. These fish are speared, those caught on a hook: others trawled in billowing nets with straining ropes. 1930 translation Book I; Book II; Book III This work is a translation and has a separate copyright status to the applicable copyright protections of the original content. But to get to know your desired-one’s maid. One soil doesn’t bear all crops: vines here. It’s not their rivals that lovers fear: flee those you think are friends, and you’ll be safe. Hercules was a child when he crushed two serpents. the poor things will straightaway mistrust themselves. If she wants to read, she’ll want to answer what she’s read: such things proceed by number and by measure. Let it be your wish besides to please the girl’s husband: it’ll be more useful to you to make friends. Spinning’s not your work: your search for fame’s through Pallas’s other arts. is to find out who you might wish to love. If her skirt is trailing too near the ground. as clear water undermines the hanging bank. curbing his team of tigers, with golden reins: the girl’s voice and colour and Theseus all lost: three times she tried to run, three times fear held her back. She won’t come falling for you out of thin air: the right girl has to be searched for: use your eyes. and eagerly took possession of the women. then the tender Kid is merged with the ocean wave: it’s best to hold off then: then he who trusts the deep. As ants return home often in long processions. Leave that to those who celebrate Cybele the Mother, Male beauty’s better for neglect: Theseus. there was a white bull, glory of the herd. There are as many manners of heart as kinds of face: and like Proteus now, melt into the smooth waters. This work may be freely reproduced, stored and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose. But hide it well: if the informer’s well hidden. And the law-courts (who’d believe it?) though it’s a safe well-trodden path, it’s a crime. and you’ll know whatever your lady’s done, and said. Dwight, 5.8. not just to defend some trembling client: like the crowd, the grave judge, the elected senate. and the hour makes whichever girl you like beautiful. real child-brides will come before your eyes: if it’s young girls you want, thousands will please you. Whoever showed too much fight, and denied her lover. when the sun’s in Leo, on the back of Hercules’s lion: or where Octavia added to her dead son Marcellus’s gifts, Don’t miss the Portico that takes its name. Whether they give or not, they’re delighted to be asked: And even if you fail, you’ll escape unharmed. Behold the suburban woodland temple of Diana. hearts: a thousand minds require a thousand methods. It’s alright here to speak many secret things. if her body pleases you as much as her zeal. will be saddened, though her face pretends delight. Him and him, they’re generals: and say what names they have. and tempered his wild spirits through peaceful art. read this, and learn by reading how to love. We use cookies for essential site functions and for social media integration. Ars amatoria comprises three books of mock-didactic elegiacs on the art of seduction and intrigue. All delight in what’s shameful: care only for their pleasures. Open Book Publishers. Neatness pleases, a body tanned from exercise: no stiff shoe-thongs, your buckles free of rust. D. Robathan "Ovid in the Middle Ages" in Binns, Ovid (London 1973) L.P Wilkinson, Ovid Recalled (Duckworth 1955) William Turpin (2016). Who hopes for that, hopes for apple-bearing tamarisks. Divine genius grows faster than its years. The frantic Cretan girl wandered the unknown sands. Let Parthia’s cause be lost: and their armies: let my leader add Eastern wealth to Latium. Still, while she’s giving and taking messages. and calls the dice back endlessly into his eager hand. And the Circus brings assistance to new love. and Venus was in the vine, flame in the fire. Now I’ll undertake to tell you what pleases her. But hunt for them, especially, at the tiered theatre: that place is the most fruitful for your needs. from Livia its creator, full of old masters: or where the daring Danaids prepare to murder their poor husbands. The hunter knows where to spread nets for the stag. by a wooden cow, and their offspring betrayed its breeding. 9.1", "denarius") All ... Editions/Translations; Author Group; View text chunked by: text: book: line; Table of Contents: Introduction Ovid's Art of Love Book I Book II Book III Ovid 's Remedy of Love Ovid's Art of Beauty. © Copyright 2000-2020 A. S. Kline, All Rights Reserved. don’t let her sit all beautiful in the theatre row without you: what you’ll look at is the way she holds her arms. Perhaps she’ll struggle, and then say ‘you’re wicked’: struggling she still wants, herself, to be conquered. and you’ll be greatly celebrated on my lips. and there’ll be nothing sinful in my song. Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris1 - Volume 12. Book II Now Io Paean sing! and as you take it, touch hers with your hand. and looks for honey in the middle of the stream. here too, believe me, there’s an even greater crowd. Old Silenus, barely astride his swaybacked mule. she called, for cruel Theseus, to the unhearing waves. Friendship and loyalty empty words. New translations by A. S. Kline Amores, Ars Amatoria, Epistulae ex Ponto, Fasti, Heroides, Ibis, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Metamorphoses, Remedia Amoris, Tristia with enhanced browsing facility, downloadable in HTML, PDF, or MS Word DOC formats. Automedon was skilled with Achilles’s chariot reins. A strong letter often causes her displeasure. If she’s wandering at leisure in the spacious Colonnade. Perhaps at first a cool letter comes to you. Ovid - The Amores Book I - in a new freely downloadable translation Book I Part XI: Don’t Forget Her Birthday! And don’t forget the shrine of Adonis, Venus wept for. Why continually smooth your hair, you foolish woman? than that the murderous maker should perish by his art. What she asks, she fears: what she doesn’t ask, she wants. One mode won’t suit you for every age-group: the older hinds spot a trap from further off. when conquered India trembled to your rod? and whose droplets take their name from the girl. If tears (they don’t always come at the right time). in fertility, like the crop on some rich soil. among their pastures and fragrant chosen meadows. fresh leaves and tenderest grasses for the bull. Should anyone here not know the art of love. one to be with just once, or one you might wish to keep. If the simple find you cunning, and the modest crude. Editions/Translations; Author Group; View text chunked by: text: book: line; Table of Contents: Introduction Ovid's Art of Love Book I Book II Book III Ovid 's Remedy of Love Ovid's Art of Beauty. The standard text of Ars and Rem. Birds will sooner be silent in the Spring, cicadas in summer. Despite the actions against the work, it continues to be studied in college courses on Latin literature. Orion wandered pale, for Side, in the woods. © Copyright 2000-2020 A. S. Kline, All Rights Reserved. for her brother, and bravely punished herself with the noose? and asking, having bet, which one will win. fly far from here: Chance and Venus help the daring. Ah me, that was boorishness stopped you not modesty. you’ll always secretly know your mistress’s mind. No need here for fingers to give secret messages. Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) The Art of Love, Ars Amatoria, was written in 2AD as a series of elegies purporting to teach young men and women how to succeed in the game of lovemaking. If you’d please Minos, don’t seek out adulterers: If you want to cheat your husband, cheat with a man! or as the bees buzz through the flowers and thyme. The spear from Pelion’s to be brandished by this hand. Often at that time girls captivated men’s wits. now prince of the young, but one day prince of the old: Your brothers are with you, avenge your brothers’ wounds: your father is with you, keep your father’s laws. don’t smooth your legs with sharp pumice stone. You ask perhaps if one should take the maid herself? He, who so terrified his enemies and friends. If you’ve given, you can quite reasonably be forgotten: she carried it off, and now she’s nothing to lose. It’s true he quickly shakes out his damp feathers: though still the heart that’s sprinkled by love is hurt. IV. Ovid, Amores (Book 1). She’ll not give you away, sharing the guilt for the crime. Ars Amatoria: The Art of Love by Ovid, translated by J. Lewis May Book II. Yet often the imitator begins to love in truth. The grains of sand give way before the number. and their fierce father stands, with out-stretched sword. She who is taken in love’s sudden onslaught. But Patroclus never disgraced Achilles’s bed: and how modest Phaedra was with Pirithous. Your lover can appreciate none of your wealth. Then no awnings hung from the marble theatre. you join here there also, lingering, as a friend: now make as if to lead the way, now drop behind. in both his hands, already worthy of Jupiter in his cradle. Od. flattering though, speak as if you were present. and swear you’re dying, crazed with love. leave off what you’ve begun, retrace your steps. (and isn’t it hard to forego even one man?). now wreaths prepare! Wine rouses courage and is fit for passion: care flies, and deep drinking dilutes it. If Cretan Aerope had spurned Thyestes’s love. How old were you, Bacchus, who are still a boy. Your Rome’s as many girls as Gargara’s sheaves. Try wax to pave the way, pour it out on scraped tablets: Bring her your flattering words and play the lover: and, whoever you are, add a humble prayer. Often rosy Love has clasped Bacchus’s horns. Why - she weeps doesn’t she, mournfully, for a sham loss. presses rabid dogs down with her thighs and groin. it will be thought excessive wine’s to blame. in the brazen bull: the unhappy creator was first to fill his work. and to speak with gestures and with glances. Don’t be shy of promising: promises entice girls: add any gods you like as witness to what you swear. and he who guides others, fails to guide himself: in that place of eloquence often his words desert him. And though drunkenness is harmful, it’s useful to pretend: make your sly tongue stammer with lisping sounds. so it’s pleasant to have what someone else has started. Here one returning, his heart wounded, said: ‘That water’s not as healthy as they claim.’. I don’t pick my way over sharp peaks and precipices. She, who is virgin, who hates Cupid’s darts. Ovid, Tristia 4.10.57 10. in one case you’re a prize for her mistress, in the other herself. and, sighing to herself in a low murmur, say: ‘But I doubt that you’ll be able to make her pay.’. if by chance a speck of dust falls in the girl’s lap. The next task is to make sure that she likes you: the third, to see to it that the love will last. And ten mouths with as many tongues wouldn’t be enough. While, to the measure of the homely Etruscan flute. and where she drank from, that is where you drink: and whatever food her fingers touch, take that. Book I In … the stage wasn’t stained with saffron perfumes: Then what the shady Palatine provided, leaves. But believe the mirror that denies you’re a heifer. might be propitiated by shedding a stranger’s blood. than a woman refuse a young man’s flattering words: Even she you might think dislikes it, will like it. THE ART OF LOVE BOOK I. In time stubborn oxen come to the plough. Why do you restrain. She shook, like a slender stalk of wheat stirred by the wind. Not from my rules your eloquence will come: desire her enough, you’ll be fluent yourself. by art the chariot’s swift: love’s ruled by art. Though the tale’s known, it’s still worth repeating. See, I augur your triumph: I’ll reply with a votive song. Why put on your finest clothes, Pasiphae? is that of E. J. Kenney (Oxford, 1961, corr. She fainted in terror, her next words were stifled: no sign of blood in her almost lifeless body. To win her, ask her: she only wants to be asked: give her the cause and the beginning of your longing. a woman will give her hand, won by eloquence. the king gave the watched-for signal for the rape. often, what was once imagined comes to be. English translation of poem below / Versio Anglica infra P. Ovidii Nasonis ARS AMATORIA / THE ART OF LOVE by Publius Ovid Naso L. Amadeus Ranierius recitat / recited by Luke Amadeus Ranieri Book III→ 1930 translation — SING, and sing again Io Pæan! 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