Thesauros Literature didactic Ars Amatoria

Ars Amatoria

Ars Amatoria Ovid 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D

Kitap 1

 
But when the crowds permit, go side by side.
 
Nor in the playhouse let her sit alone,
 
For she's the playhouse and the play in one;
 
There thou may'st ogle, or by signs advance 560
 
Thy hand, and seem to touch her hand by chance.
 
Admire the dancer who her liking gains,
 
And pity in the play the lover's pails ;
 
For her sweet sake the loss of time despise,
 
Sit while she sits, and when she rises rise. 565
 
But dress not like a fop, nor curl your hair,
 
Nor with a pumice make your body bare;
 
Leave those effeminate and useless toys
 
To eunuchs, who can give no solid joys.
 
Neglect becomes a man-this Theseus found; 570
 
Uncurl'd, uncomb'd, the nymphs his wishes crowned.
 
The rough Hippolytus was Phaedra's care,
 
And Venus thought the rude Adonis fair.
 
Be not too finical, but yet be clean,
 
And wear well fashioned clothes, like other men; 575
 
Let not your teeth be yellow or be foul,
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