{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/ovid/lboo/lbool36.htm","path":"cla/ovid/lboo/lbool36.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid/lboo/lbool36.htm","text":"Quid iuvat inmunes belli cessare puellas,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0nec fera peltatas agmina velle sequi,\nsi sine Marte suis patiuntur vulnera telis,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0et caecas armant in sua fata manus?\nQuae prima instituit teneros convellere fetus,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0militia fuerat digna perire sua.\nscilicet, ut careat rugarum crimine venter,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sternetur pugnae tristis harena tuae? \nsi mos antiquis placuisset matribus idem,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0gens hominum vitio deperitura fuit,\nquique iterum iaceret generis primordia nostri\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in vacuo lapides orbe, parandus erat.\nquis Priami fregisset opes, si numen aquarum\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0iusta recusasset pondera ferre Thetis?\nIlia si tumido geminos in ventre necasset,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0casurus dominae conditor Urbis erat;\nsi Venus Aenean gravida temerasset in alvo,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Caesaribus tellus orba futura fuit.\ntu quoque, cum posses nasci formosa, perisses,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0temptasset, quod tu, si tua mater opus;\nipse ego, cum fuerim melius periturus amando,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0vidissem nullos matre negante dies.\nQuid plenam fraudas vitem crescentibus uvis,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pomaque crudeli vellis acerba manu?\nsponte fluant matura sua -- sine crescere nata;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0est pretium parvae non leve vita morae.\nvestra quid effoditis subiectis viscera telis,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0et nondum natis dira venena datis?\nColchida respersam puerorum sanguine culpant\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0aque sua caesum matre queruntur Ityn;\nutraque saeva parens, sed tristibus utraque causis\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 iactura socii sanguinis ulta virum.\ndicite, quis Tereus, quis vos inritet Iason\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0figere sollicita corpora vestra manu?\nhoc neque in Armeniis tigres fecere latebris,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0perdere nec fetus ausa leaena suos. \nat tenerae faciunt, sed non inpune, puellae;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0saepe, suos utero quae necat, ipsa perit.\nipsa perit, ferturque rogo resoluta capillos,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0et clamant 'merito!' qui modo cumque vident.\nIsta sed aetherias vanescant dicta per auras,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0et sint ominibus pondera nulla meis!\ndi faciles, peccasse semel concedite tuto,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0et satis est; poenam culpa secunda ferat!","title":"The Love Books of Ovid: ELEGY XIV: On Corinna's Recovery He Writes To Her Again Concerning Her Attempt At Abortion And Tells Her How Naughty She Has Been.","type":"page"}