P. OVIDII NASONIS AMORUM.

LIBER SECUNDUS.

Elegia I.[233]

Quod pro gigantomachia amores scribere sit coactus.

I, Ovid, poet, of my[234] wantonness,

Born at Peligny, to write more address.

So Cupid wills. Far hence be the severe!

You are unapt my looser lines to hear.