{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/ovid/lboo/lbool18.htm","path":"cla/ovid/lboo/lbool18.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid/lboo/lbool18.htm","text":"Flete meos casus--tristes rediere tabellae\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0infelix hodie littera posse negat.\nomina sunt aliquid; modo cum discedere vellet,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ad limen digitos restitit icta Nape.\n5 missa foras iterum limen transire memento\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cautius atque alte sobria ferre pedem!\nIte hinc, difficiles, funebria ligna, tabellae,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0tuque, negaturis cera referta notis!--\nquam, puto, de longae collectam flore cicutae\n10 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0melle sub infami Corsica misit apis.\nat tamquam minio penitus medicata rubebas--\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ille color vere sanguinolentus erat.\nproiectae triviis iaceatis, inutile lignum,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0vosque rotae frangat praetereuntis onus!\n15 illum etiam, qui vos ex arbore vertit in usum,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0convincam puras non habuisse manus.\npraebuit illa arbor misero suspendia collo,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0carnifici diras praebuit illa cruces;\nilla dedit turpes raucis bubonibus umbras,\n20 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0vulturis in ramis et strigis ova tulit.\nhis ego commisi nostros insanus amores\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0molliaque ad dominam verba ferenda dedi?\naptius hae capiant vadimonia garrula cerae,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0quas aliquis duro cognitor ore legat;\n25 inter ephemeridas melius tabulasque iacerent,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in quibus absumptas fleret avarus opes. \nErgo ego vos rebus duplices pro nomine sensi.\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0auspicii numerus non erat ipse boni.\nquid precer iratus, nisi vos cariosa senectus\n30 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rodat, et inmundo cera sit alba situ?","title":"The Love Books of Ovid: ELEGY XII: He Calls Down Curses On The Tablets Which Bring Him Word Of His Mistress's Refusal.","type":"page"}