Ovid 3 Flashcards
sed tu praecipue curvis venare theatris:
But you, go hunting especially in the curved theatres:
haec loca sunt voto fertiliora tuo.
These places are more fertile for your prayer.
illic invenies quod ames, quod ludere possis,
There you will find what you may love, what you may be able to play with,
quodque semel tangas, quodque tenere velis.
And what you may touch once and what you may wish to keep.
ut redit itque frequens longum formica per agmen,
Just as an ant returns and goes in large numbers along a long line,
granifero solitum cum vehit ore cibum,
When it carries its accustomed food in its grain bearing mouth,
aut ut apes saltusque suos et olentia nactae
pascua per flores et thyme summa Volant,
Or like bees, who have reached both their glades and fragrant pastures, fly among the flowers and the tops of the thyme,
sic ruit ad celebres cultissima femina ludos:
So a woman rushes most elegant to the famous games:
copia iudicium saepe morata meum est.
The abundance has often delayed my judgement.
spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae:
To watch they come, they come so that they themselves are watched:
ille locus casti damna pudoris habet.
That place has losses of chaste modesty.