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P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) 26 0 Browse Search
T. Maccius Plautus, Rudens, or The Fisherman's Rope (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) 12 0 Browse Search
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding) 12 0 Browse Search
Epictetus, Works (ed. George Long) 6 0 Browse Search
Titus Livius (Livy), History of Rome, books 1-10 (ed. Rev. Canon Roberts) 6 0 Browse Search
Epictetus, Works (ed. Thomas Wentworth Higginson) 4 0 Browse Search
Phaedrus, The Fables of Phaedrus (ed. Christopher Smart, Christopher Smart, A. M.) 2 0 Browse Search
P. Ovidius Naso, Art of Love, Remedy of Love, Art of Beauty, Court of Love, History of Love, Amours (ed. various) 2 0 Browse Search
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, The Lives of the Caesars (ed. Alexander Thomson) 2 0 Browse Search
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Odes (ed. John Conington) 2 0 Browse Search
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P. Ovidius Naso, Art of Love, Remedy of Love, Art of Beauty, Court of Love, History of Love, Amours (ed. various), Elegy VI: To a River, as he was going to his mistress. By Rhymer. (search)
r, let me find thy courtesy, Keep within bounds, and mayst thou ne'er be dry. Thou canst not think it such a mighty boast, A torrent has a gentle lover cross'd. Rivers should rather take the lover's side, Rivers themselves love's wondrous power have tried. 'Twas on this score Inachus, pale and wan, Sickly and green, into the ocean ran ; Long before Troy the ten-years siege did fear, Thou, Xanthus, thou Neaera's chains didst wear; Ask Achelous who his horns did drub, Straight he complains of Hercules's club. For Calydon, for all Aetolia Was then contested such outrageous fray! It neither was for gold, nor yet for fee; Dejanira, it was all for thee. E'en Nile so rich, that rolls thro' sev'n wide doors, And uppish over all his country scours, For Asop's daughter did such flame contract, As not by all that stock of water slack'd. I might a hundred goodly rivers name, But must not pass by thee, immortal Thame; Ere thou couldst Isis to thy bosom take. How didst thou wind and wander for her s