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Roman Books, Remedia Amoris by Ovid

Remedia Amoris by Ovid is in Ovid.

Remedia Amoris (Love’s Remedy or The Cure for Love) is a 814 line poem in Latin by the Roman poet Ovid written around 5 BC. The aim of the poem is to teach young men how they can avoid idealizing the women they love and to give assistance if love brings despair and misfortune.

Roman Books, Remedia Amoris by Ovid, Remedia Amoris Lines 369-370

Summa petit livor; perflant altissima venti:

Summa petunt dextra fulmina missa Iovis.


Envy seeks the summits: wind blows across the heights:

the lightning seeks the summits, flung from Jove’s right hand.