With little gesture make, whenever she may speak the odor in your armpit so that it does not go rancidĪnd your legs so they are not rough with hair. The thing which I was nearly going to say: Si niger aut ingens aut non erit ordine natus KEEPING UP APPEARANCES & PLAYING TO YOUR STRENGTHSĮxiguo signet gestu, quodcumque loquetur,Ĭui digiti pingues et scaber unguis erit.Ĭui grauis oris odor numquam ieiuna loquatur This (friendship)which has been the cultivator, a lover was made.Ĥ. With this entrance (friendship), I have seen the surrendering words of fierce women Let love appear disguised by the name of friendship It is necessary not to always be asking for the hope of love* Hoc aditu vidi tetricae data verba puellae: Nec semper veneris spes est profitenda roganti: Courtesty of WikiCommons & Public Domain.
RIGHT AT THE CLUB ALCOHOL & LOW LIGHTING ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS You must look with your eyes for a suitable girl.Ģ. YOU PROBABLY WON’T FIND MR./MS. This woman will not come having fallen to you through thin airs: While you are still permitted, and you are able to go anywhere because you are not tied down,Ĭhoose someone! and say to your chosen: ‘You alone are perfect (suitable) for me.’ Haec tibi non tenues veniet delapsa per auras: LOVE WON’T JUST HAPPEN YOU NEED TO GO OUT AND FIND IT!ĭum licet, et loris passim potes ire solutis, Here are ten crucial pieces that I believe Ovid would agree are essential for dating (for either sex):ġ. The fact that he equates dating/courting to war and his advice to weapons is one in which most people can understand. Ovid’s progressive attitude is both condemnable and humorous. Which remain I give to you, Penthesilea, and your crew. I have given weapons to the Greeks against the Amazons the weapons Quae tibi dem et turmae, Penthesilea, tuae. Amazon preparing for a battle (Queen Antiop or Armed Venus), by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert 1860 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) Courtesy of WikiCommons & Palbrattberg.Īrma dedi Danais in Amazonas arma supersunt,
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