Love shall be tamed under my hand, Though his arrows riddle me, though his flaming brand Is waved in my face. Achilles was the apt Pupil of Chiron, Love is mine- Wild boys both, and both born of divine Mothers yet the heavy plough will make Even the bull's neck docile, and the friskiest colt will take The bit in his teeth. Scit bene venator, cervis ubi retia tendat,45 Scit bene, qua frendens valle moretur aper Aucupibus noti frutices qui sustinet hamos, Novit quae multo pisce natentur aquae: At his schoolmaster's bidding. Hic modus, haec nostro signabitur area curru: Haec erit admissa meta terenda rota.40 Dum licet, et loris passim potes ire solutis, Elige cui dicas "tu mihi sola places." Haec tibi non tenues veniet delapsa per auras: Quaerenda est oculis apta puella tuis. Proximus huic labor est placitam exorare puellam: Tertius, ut longo tempore duret amor. Principio, quod amare velis, reperire labora,35 Qui nova nunc primum miles in arma venis. Nos venerem tutam concessaque furta canemus, Inque meo nullum carmine crimen erit. Quo me fixit Amor, quo me violentius ussit, Hoc melior facti vulneris ultor ero: Non ego, Phoebe, datas a te mihi mentiar artes,25 Nec nos aƫriae voce monemur avis, Nec mihi sunt visae Clio Cliusque sorores Servanti pecudes vallibus, Ascra, tuis: Usus opus movet hoc: vati parete perito Vera canam: coeptis, mater Amoris, ades!30 Este procul, vittae tenues, insigne pudoris, Quaeque tegis medios, instita longa, pedes. Sed tamen et tauri cervix oneratur aratro, Frenaque magnanimi dente teruntur equi 20 Et mihi cedet Amor, quamvis mea vulneret arcu Pectora, iactatas excutiatque faces. Chiron made Achilles expert with the lyre, His cool tuition quenched youth's primitive fire, So that the boy who later became A terror to friends and foes alike stood tame In front of his aged teacher, so they say, And the hand that Hector would feel one day Was held out meekly to be rapped Aeacidae Chiron, ego sum praeceptor Amoris: Saevus uterque puer, natus uterque dea. Love often fights against me, for he's wild, Yet he's also controllable, for he's still a child. As Automedon was Achilles' charioteer And Tiphys earned the right to steer The Argo on Jason's expedition, So I am appointed by Venus as the technician Of her art-my name will live on As Love's Tiphys, Love's Automedon. Ships and chariots with sails, oars, wheels, reins, Speed through technique and control, and the same obtains For love. Book One If any Roman knows nothing about love-making, please Read this poem and graduate in expertise. Quas Hector sensurus erat, poscente magistro15 Verberibus iussas praebuit ille manus. Qui totiens socios, totiens exterruit hostes, Creditur annosum pertimuisse senem. Ille quidem ferus est et qui mihi saepe repugnet: Sed puer est, aetas mollis et apta regi.10 Phillyrides puerum cithara perfecit Achillem, Atque animos placida contudit arte feros. Curribus Automedon lentisque erat aptus habenis,5 Tiphys in Haemonia puppe magister erat: Me Venus artificem tenero praefecit Amori Tiphys et Automedon dicar Amoris ego. Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur, Arte leves currus: arte regendus amor. The Art of Love Liber Primus Siquis in hoc artem populo non novit amandi, Hoc legat et lecto carmine doctus amet.
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