Ovid
Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations.
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
The fittest for my Wound;
Who best the gentle Passions knows to move;
Ovid, the soft Philosopher of Love:
His Love Epistles for my Friends I chose;
For there I found the Kindred of my Woes.
Iuppiter ex alto periuria ridet amantum.
Intret amicitiae nomine tectus amor.
Qui finem quaeris amoris/Cedit amor rebus; res age, tutus eris.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Resist beginnings; the prescription comes too late when the disease has gained strength by long delays.
They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.
The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.