{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/ovid/lboo/lbool57.htm","path":"cla/ovid/lboo/lbool57.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid/lboo/lbool57.htm","text":"Quaere novum vatem, tenerorum mater Amorum!\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0raditur hic elegis ultima meta meis;\nquos ego conposui, Paeligni ruris alumnus -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0nec me deliciae dedecuere meae -- \nsiquid id est, usque a proavis vetus ordinis heres,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0non modo militiae turbine factus eques.\nMantua Vergilio, gaudet Verona Catullo;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Paelignae dicar gloria gentis ego, \nquam sua libertas ad honesta coegerat arma,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cum timuit socias anxia Roma manus.\natque aliquis spectans hospes Sulmonis aquosi\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0moenia, quae campi iugera pauca tenent,\n'Quae tantum' dicat 'potuistis ferre poetam,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0quantulacumque estis, vos ego magna voco.'\nCulte puer puerique parens Amathusia culti.\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0aurea de campo vellite signa meo!\ncorniger increpuit thyrso graviore Lyaeus:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pulsanda est magnis area maior equis.\ninbelles elegi, genialis Musa, valete,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0post mea mansurum fata superstes opus.","title":"The Love Books of Ovid: ELEGY XV: He Bids Farewell To His Wanton Muse, To Court One, More Austere.","type":"page"}