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BOOK I--THE LOVES
ELEGY I: THE POET EXPLAINS HOW IT IS HE COMES TO SING OF LOVE INSTEAD OF BATTLES	3
ELEGY II: THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE	4
ELEGY III: HE COMMENDS HIMSELF TO HIS MISTRESS BY THE MERITS OF HIS POETRY, THE PURITY OF HIS MORALS, AND BY THE VOW OF HIS UNCHANGEABLE FIDELITY	6
ELEGY IV: OVID, HIS MISTRESS AND HER HUSBAND ARE ALL BIDDEN TO THE SAME SUPPER. HE GIVES HIS MISTRESS A CODE BY WHICH THEY CAN TESTIFY THEIR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER, BENEATH HER HUSBAND'S VERY EYES	7
ELEGY V: HIS DELIGHT AT HAVING OBTAINED CORINNA'S FAVOURS	9
ELEGY VI: HE CONJURES THE PORTER TO OPEN THE DOOR OF HIS MISTRESS'S HOUSE	10
ELEGY VII: HE CURSES HIMSELF FOR HAVING MALTREATED HIS MISTRESS	13
ELEGY VIII: HE CURSES A CERTAIN OLD WOMAN OF THE TOWN WHOM HE OVERHEARS INSTRUCTING HIS MISTRESS IN THE ARTS OF A COURTESAN	15
ELEGY IX: HE COMPARETH LOVE WITH WAR	19
ELEGY X: HE ENDEAVOURS TO DISSUADE HIS MISTRESS FROM BECOMING A COURTESAN	20
ELEGY XI: HE ASKS NAPE TO DELIVER A LOVE-LETTER TO HER MISTRESS	22
ELEGY XII: HE CALLS DOWN CURSES ON THE TABLETS WHICH BRING HIM WORD OF HIS MISTRESS'S REFUSAL	23
ELEGY XIII: HE ENTREATS THE DAWN TO HASTEN NOT HER COMING	24
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ELEGY XIV: TO HIS MISTRESS, WHO, CONTRARY TO HIS COUNSEL, DYED HER HAIR WITH NOXIOUS COMPOSITIONS, AND HAS NEARLY BECOME BALD	26
ELEGY XV: THE POETS ALONE ARE IMMORTAL	28
BOOK II
ELEGY I. HE TELLS WHEREFORE, INSTEAD OF THE WARS OF THE GIANTS, WHICH HE HAD COMMENCED, HE IS CONSTRAINED TO SING OF LOVE	33
ELEGY II. TO THE EUNUCH BAGOAS, BEGGING HIM TO GIVE HIM ACCESS TO THE FAIR ONE COMMITTED TO HIS CHARGE	34
ELEGY III: HE APPEALS ONCE MORE TO BAGOAS, WHO HAD PROVED INFLEXIBLE	37
ELEGY IV: HE CONFESSES HIS INCLINATION FOR LOVE AND HIS ADMIRATION FOR ALL MANNER OF WOMEN	37
ELEGY V: HE UPBRAIDS HIS MISTRESS WHOM HE HAS DETECTED ACTING FALSELY TOWARDS HIM	39
ELEGY VI: HE LAMENTS THE DEATH OF THE PARROT HE HAD GIVEN TO HIS MISTRESS	41
ELEGY VII. HE ASSURES CORINNA THAT HE HAS NEVER HAD ANY GUILTY COMMERCE WITH CYPASSIS, HER MAID	43
ELEGY VIII: HE ASKS CYPASSIS HOW IN THE WORLD CORINNA COULD HAVE FOUND THEM OUT	45
ELEGY IX. HE BESEECHES CUPID NOT TO DISCHARGE ALL HIS ARROWS AT HIM ALONE	46
ELEGY X: HE TELLS GRÆCINUS HOW, DESPITE WHAT HE SAYS TO THE CONTRARY, IT IS POSSIBLE TO BE IN LOVE WITH TWO WOMEN AT THE SAME TIME	48
ELEGY XI: HE SEEKS TO DISSUADE, CORINNA FROM GOING TO BALÆ	49
ELEGY XII: HE REJOICES AT HAVING AT LAST WON THE FAVOURS OF CORINNA	51
ELEGY XIII: HE BESEECHES ISIS TO COME TO THE AID OF CORINNA IN HER CONFINEMENT	52
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ELEGY XIV: ON CORINNA'S RECOVERY HE WRITES TO HER AGAIN CONCERNING HER ATTEMPT AT ABORTION, AND TELLS HER HOW NAUGHTY SHE HAS BEEN	53
ELEGY XV: TO THE RING WHICH HE IS SENDING TO HIS MISTRESS	55
ELEGY XVI: TO CORINNA, BESEECHING HER TO VISIT HIM IN HIS COUNTRY HOME AT SULMO	56
ELEGY XVII: HE COMPLAINS TO CORINNA THAT SHE IS TOO CONCEITED ABOUT HER GOOD LOOKS	57
ELEGY XVIII: TO MACER: TO WHOM HE EXCUSES HIMSELF FOR GIVING HIMSELF UP WHOLLY TO EROTIC VERSE	58
ELEGY XIX: TO A MAN WITH WHOSE WIFE HE WAS IN LOVE	60
BOOK III
ELEGY I: THE TRAGIC AND THE ELEGIAC MUSE STRIVE FOR THE POSSESSION OF OVID	65
ELEGY II: THE CIRCUS	67
ELEGY III: TO HIS MISTRESS, WHOM HE HAS FOUND TO BE FORSWORN	70
ELEGY IV: HE URGES A HUSBAND NOT TO KEEP SO STRICT A WATCH ON HIS WIFE	71
ELEGY V: A DREAM	73
ELEGY VI: TO A RIVER WHICH HAS OVERFLOWED ITS BANKS AND HINDERED THE PORT, WHO WAS HASTENING TO HIS MISTRESS	75
ELEGY VII: THE POET REPROACHES HIMSELF FOR HAVING FAILED IN HIS DUTY TOWARDS HIS MISTRESS	78
ELEGY VIII: TO HIS MISTRESS, COMPLAINING THAT SHE HAS GIVEN PREFERENCE TO A WEALTHIER RIVAL	81
ELEGY IX: ON THE DEATH OF TIBULLUS	83
ELEGY X: HE COMPLAINS TO CERES THAT, DURING HER FESTIVAL, HE IS NOT SUFFERED TO SHARE HIS MISTRESS' COUCH	85
ELEGY XI: WEARY AT LENGTH OF HIS MISTRESS' INFIDELITIES, HE SWEARS THAT HE WILL LOVE HER NO LONGER	87
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ELEGY XII: HE LAMENTS THAT HIS POEMS HAVE MADE HIS MISTRESS TOO WELL KNOWN	89
ELEGY XIII: THE FESTIVAL OF JUNO AT FALISCI	90
ELEGY XIV: TO HIS MISTRESS	92
ELEGY XV: HE BIDS FAREWELL TO HIS WANTON MUSE, TO COURT ONE MORE AUSTERE	93
THE ART OF LOVE
BOOK I	95
BOOK II	123
BOOK III	151
LOVE'S CURE	181
THE ART OF BEAUTY	211

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