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  • Conquerar an taceam? ponam sine nomine crimen, an notum qui sis omnibus esse uelim? nomine non utar, ne commendere querela, quaeraturque tibi carmine fama meo. dum mea puppis erat ualida fundata carina, 5 qui mecum uelles currere primus eras; nunc, quia contraxit uultum Fortuna, recedis, auxilio postquam scis opus esse tuo. dissimulas etiam, nec me uis nosse uideri, quisque sit audito nomine Naso rogas.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • For _uultum ... ducis_ see at i 5 _trahis uultus_ (p 149).

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Nulla dies adeo est australibus umida nimbis non intermissis ut fluat imber aquis, nec sterilis locus ullus ita est ut non sit in illo mixta fere duris utilis herba rubis; nil adeo Fortuna grauis miserabile fecit 5 ut minuant nulla gaudia parte malum. ecce domo patriaque carens oculisque meorum, naufragus in Getici litoris actus aquas, qua tamen inueni uultum diffundere causam possim fortunae nec meminisse meae.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • II ii 33 'bene uir traxit uultum rugasque coegit', and _Met_ II 774

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • = 'Frown' -- compare iii 7 'contraxit uultum Fortuna', viii 13-14 'ei mihi, si lectis uultum tu uersibus istis/ducis', _Am_

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Finis erat: tenera matris ceruice pependit blandus et admotis tepefecit pectora pennis. illa refert uultum non aspernata rogantis: 105

    The Marriage of Stella and Violentilla 1912

  • Graeci quoque has personas [Greek: prosopa] uocant ab eo quod ponantur in facie atque ante oculos obtegant uultum: [Greek: para tou pros tous opas tithesthai.]

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Licet anno terrae uultum nunc floribus frugibusque redimire, nunc nimbis frigoribusque confundere.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • His ille chorus increpitus deiecit humi maestior uultum confessusque rubore uerecundiam limen tristis excessit.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Tum illa propius accedens in extrema lectuli mei parte consedit meumque intuens uultum luctu grauem atque in humum maerore deiectum his uersibus de nostrae mentis perturbatione conquesta est.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

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