Ovide livre Les Amours
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Les Amours
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Acrius inuitos multoque ferocius urget,
Quam qui seruitium ferre fatentur, Amor.
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Ovide livre L'Art d'aimer
Siquis in hoc artem populo non nouit amandi,
Hoc legat et lecto carmine doctus amet.
Arte citae ueloque rates remoque mouentur,
Arte levis currus. Arte regendus amor.
Curribus Automedon lentisque erat aptus habenis ;
Tiphys in Haemonia puppe magister erat ;
Me Venus artificem tenero praefecit Amori ;
Tiphys et Automedon dicar Amoris ego.
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Début du premier livre. Automédon est le cocher d'Achille dans l'Iliade. Tiphys était le pilote du navire Argo, construit en Thessalie (anciennement l'Hémonie), pour la quête de la Toison d'or.
L'Art d'aimer
Source: Note de l'édition citée, p. 2 note 1.
Ovide livre Les Amours
Arma graui numero uiolentaque bella parabam
Edere, materia conueniente modis.
Par erat inferior uersus ; risisse Cupido
Dicitur atque unum surripuisse pedem.
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Début du premier poème du premier livre. Catulle y justifie son emploi du distique élégiaque (type de vers faisant alterner un hexamètre dactylique et un pentamètre iambique plus court, par distinction avec l'épopée qui utilisait uniquement l' Hexamètre dactylique ), en se mettant en scène victime d'une farce de Cupidon.
Les Amours
“Déjà la moisson grandit aux lieux où fut Troie.”
Iam seges est, ubi Troia fuit.
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Lettre d'Hélène à Ulysse.
Les Héroïdes
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Invocation aux dieux aux premiers vers du premier livre.
Les Métamorphoses
Ovide livre Les Amours
EPIGRAMMA IPSIVS
Qui modo Nasonis fueramus quinque libelli,
Tres sumus ; hoc illi praetulit auctor opus ;
Vt iam nulla tibi nos sit legisse uoluptas,
At leuior demptis poena duobus erit.
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Épigramme liminaire aux Amours, avant le premier poème.
Les Amours
“Voulez-vous ne pas rester oisifs? Aimez.”
Ovide livre Les Amours
Qui nolet fieri desidiosus, amet !
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Ovide: Citations en anglais
“The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.”
Causa latet, vis est notissima
Ovid Metamorphoses
Variant translation: The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
Book IV, 287
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
Variante: The cause is hidden, but the result is well known.
“Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.”
Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus
Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit.
Ovid livre Héroïdes
Book III, line 425
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Source: Heroides
Contexte: Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
“So I can't live either without you or with you.”
Sic ego nec sine te nec tecum vivere possum.
Ovid livre Les Amours
Variant translation: Thus, I can neither live without you nor with you.
Book III; xib, 39
Compare: Nec possum tecum vivere nec sine te ("I cannot live with you nor without you"), Martial, Epigrams XII, 46
Amores (Love Affairs)
“Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).”
Ovid Metamorphoses
Variante: All things change; nothing perishes.
Source: Metamorphoses
Ovid Metamorphoses
Source: Metamorphoses
“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”
Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim.
“Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.”
Ovid Metamorphoses
Source: Metamorphoses
Source: The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
“We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”
Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.
Ovid livre Les Amours
Variant translation: We hunt for things unlawful with swift feet, / As if forbidden joys were only sweet.
Book III; iv, 17
Amores (Love Affairs)
“It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.”
Source: The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
“If you would be loved, be lovable”
Ut ameris, amabilis esto.
Ovid livre L'Art d'aimer
Variant translation: To be loved, be lovable.
Book II, line 107
Compare: Si vis amari, ama. ("If you wish to be loved, love"), attributed to Hecato by Seneca the Younger in Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Epistle IX
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Variante: If you want to be loved, be lovable.
“Nothing is stronger than habit.”
Nil adsuetudine maius.
Ovid livre L'Art d'aimer
Variant translation: Nothing is more powerful than custom.
Book II, line 345
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
“Every lover is a soldier.”
Militat omnis amans
Ovid livre Les Amours
Book I; ix, line 1
Source: Amores (Love Affairs)
