Ars Amatoria; or, The Art Of Love

[ Best years.—Ver. 666. Even in those days, it was considered ungallant to make too scrutinizing enquiries into the years of ladies of 'a certain age.']

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[ Kind of warfare.—Ver. 674. See the Amores, Book i. El. ix. 1. 1.]

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[ Besides in these.—Ver. 675. In reference to females of a more advanced age.]

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[ Seven times five years.—Ver. 694. He probably means, in this passage, a lustrum of five years. Burmann justly observes, that 'cito,' 'quickly,' or 'soon,' can hardly be the proper reading, as it seems to contradict the meaning of the context. He suggests 'nisi,' meaning 'but,' or 'only.' See the Fasti, Book iii. 1. 166, and the Note. Also the Tristia, Book iv. El. xvi. 1. 78.]

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[ Stored up in the times.—Ver. 696. He uses this metaphorical expression to signify that he admires females when of a ripe and mature age See the Amores, Book ii. El. v. 1. 54, and the Note.]

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[ The shooting grass.—Ver. 698. In Nisard's translation, the words 'prata novella' are rendered 'l'herbe nouvellement coupée,' 'the grass newly cut.' This is not the meaning of the passage. He intends to say that the grass just shooting up is apt to cut or prick the naked foot.]

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[ Hermione.—Ver. 699. She was the daughter of Helen and Menelaus.]

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[ Gorge.—Ver. 700. She was the daughter of Altnea, and sister of Meleager. She married Andræmon.]

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[ Podalirius.—Ver. 735. The brother of Machaon. See the Tristia Book v. El. xiii. 1. 32.]

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[ Calchas.—Ver. 737. See the Metamorphoses.]

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[ Automeden.—Ver. 738. The son of Diores. He was the charioted of Achilles.]

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[ Upon his spoil—Ver. 744. It was the custom to write inscriptions on the spoil. See the Notes to the Fasti, Book ii. 1. 663.]

FOOTNOTES OF BOOK THE THIRD

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[ Penthesilea.'—Ver. 2. See the 21st Epistle, 1.118, and the Note.]

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[ Dione.—Ver. 3. See the Fasti, Book ii. 1. 461, and the Note.]

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[ Son of Atreus.—Ver. 11. 'Helen was unfaithful to Menelaus, while Clytemnestra killed Agamemnon.]

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[ Son of Oeclus.—Ver. 13. See the Metamorphoses, Book viii. 1. 317, ind the Note.]

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[ From Phylace.—Ver. 17. See the Epistle of Laodamia to Protesilaius.]

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[ Son of Pheres.—Ver. 19. See the Pontic Epistles, Book iii. El. i. L 106, and the Note.]

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[ And in place of—Ver. 20. See the 111th line of the same Elegy, and the Note. Also the Tristia, Book v. El. xiv. 1. 38.]

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[ My skiff.—Ver. 26. 'Cymba.' See the Amores, Book iii. El. vi. 1. 4, and the Note.]

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[ Another bride.—Ver. 34. Jason deserted Medea for Creusa.]

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[ Nine journies.—Ver. 37. See the Epistle of Phyllis to Demophoon.]

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[ Two treatises.—Ver. 47. His former books on the Art of Love.]

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[ Who before had uttered.—Ver. 49. He alludes to the Poet Stesichorus, on whose lips a nightingale was said to have perched and sung, when he was a child. Pliny relates that he wrote a poem, inveighing bitterly against Helen, in which he called her the firebrand of Troy, on which he was visited with blindness by her brothers, Castor and Pollux, and did not recover his sight till he had recanted in his Palinodia, which he composed in her praise. Suidas says, that Stesichorus composed thirty, six books of Poems. Helen was born at Therapnæ, a town of Laconia.]

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[ Your own privileges.—Ver. 58. 'Sua' seems to mean the privileges sanctioned and conceded by the law, probably to those females who were in the number of the 'professae.']