{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/ovid/lboo/lbool32.htm","path":"cla/ovid/lboo/lbool32.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid/lboo/lbool32.htm","text":"Tu mihi, tu certe, memini, Graecine, negabas\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0uno posse aliquem tempore amare duas.\nper te ego decipior, per te deprensus inermis -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ecce, duas uno tempore turpis amo! \nutraque formosa est, operosae cultibus ambae;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0artibus in dubio est haec sit an illa prior.\npulchrior hac illa est, haec est quoque pulchrior illa;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0et magis haec nobis, et magis illa placet!\nerro, velut ventis discordibus acta phaselos,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dividuumque tenent alter et alter amor.\nquid geminas, Erycina, meos sine fine dolores?\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0non erat in curas una puella satis?\nquid folia arboribus, quid pleno sidera caelo,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in freta collectas alta quid addis aquas?\nSed tamen hoc melius, quam si sine amore iacerem -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hostibus eveniat vita severa meis!\nhostibus eveniat viduo dormire cubili\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0et medio laxe ponere membra toro!\nat mihi saevus amor somnos abrumpat inertes,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0simque mei lecti non ego solus onus!\nme mea disperdat nullo prohibente puella -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0si satis una potest, si minus una, duae!\nsufficiam -- graciles, non sunt sine viribus artus;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pondere, non nervis corpora nostra carent;\net lateri dabit in vires alimenta voluptas.\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0decepta est opera nulla puella mea;\nsaepe ego lascive consumpsi tempora noctis,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0utilis et forti corpore mane fui.\nfelix, quem Veneris certamina mutua perdunt!\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0di faciant, leti causa sit ista mei!\nInduat adversis contraria pectora telis\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0miles et aeternum sanguine nomen emat.\nquaerat avarus opes et, quae lassarit arando,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0aequora periuro naufragus ore bibat. \nat mihi contingat Veneris languescere motu,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cum moriar, medium solvar et inter opus;\natque aliquis nostro lacrimans in funere dicat:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0'conveniens vitae mors fuit ista tuae!'","title":"The Love Books of Ovid: ELEGY X: He Tells Gr\u00e6cinus How, Despite What He Says To The Contrary, It Is Possible To Be In Love With Two Women At The Same Time.","type":"page"}