Ver novum, ver jam canorurn, vere natus orbis est; Vere concordant amores, vere nubunt alites, Et nemus comam resolvit de maritis imbribus.

His "Tristia" were more highly praised than his "Amores" or his "Metamorphoses," a fact which shows that contemporaries are not always the best judges of real merit.

Ecce deus, (modo sit deus ille, renixum Qui vocet in scelus, et iuratos perdat amores)

Quaeque placent oculis, formas, spectacula, amores, Quaeque placent ori, quaeque auribus, omnia temnis.

Gabriel, quamuis comitatus araicis Innumeris, geniûmque choro stipatus amaeno, Immerito tamen vnum absentem saepe requiret; Optabitque, Utinam meus hic Edmundus adesset, Qui noua scripsisset, nee amores conticuisset, Ipse suos; et saepe animo verbisque benignis Fausta precaretur, Deus illum aliqaundo reducat.

" The river Alpheus was in love with Arethusa, as she tells the tale herself, "viridesque manu siccata capillos, Fluminis Alphei veteres recitavit amores; Pars ego Nympharum," &c. When our Thame and Isis meet "Oscula mille sonant, connexu brachia pallent, Mutuaque explicitis connectunt colla lacertis.

"O blandos oculos, et o facetos, Et quadam propria nota loquaces Illic est Venus, et leves amores, Atque ipsa in medio sedet voluptas.

'Tis the next way their parents think to get them husbands, they are compelled to learn, and by that means, Incoestos amores de tenero meditantur ungue; 'tis a great allurement as it is often used, and many are undone by it.

Leo Afer, lib. 3, saith, 'tis an ordinary practice at Fez in Africa, Praestigiatores ibi plures, qui cogunt amores et concubitus: as skilful all out as that hyperborean magician, of whom Cleodemus, in Lucian, tells so many fine feats performed in this kind.

" All these passions are well expressed by that heroical poet in the person of Dido: "At non infelix animi Phaenissa, nec unquam Solvitur in somnos, oculisque ac pectore amores Accipit; ingeminant curae, rursusque resurgens Saevit amor," &c. "Unhappy Dido could not sleep at all, But lies awake, and takes no rest:

" "Nec mihi vespere Surgente decedunt amores, Nec rapidum fugiente solem.

Finiet illa meos moriens morientis amores.

in Amores, Espencaeus, and those three books of Pet.

If they be sober, wise, honest, as the poet infers, "Si commodos nanciscantur amores, Nullum iis abest voluptatis genus.

I protest, I swear, I weep, "odioque rependit amores, Irrisu lachrymas" "She neglects me for all this, she derides me," contemns me, she hates me, "Phillida flouts me:" Caute, feris, quercu durior Eurydice, stiff, churlish, rocky still.

See Lucian, Imag., iv; Amores, xv, xvi.

Historia de los amores de Bayad y Riyad.

Amelia Nyers (A); 26Dec68; R451662. NYKL, ALOIS RICHARD. Historia de los amores de Bayad y Riyad.

Amelia Nyers (A); 26Dec68; R451662. NYKL, ALOIS RICHARD. Historia de los amores de Bayad y Riyad.

'Motus doceri gaudet Ionicos Matura Virgo, et fingitur artubus Jam nunc, et incestos amores De Tenero meditatur Ungui.' Hor.

Formam quidem ipsam, Marce fili, et tanquam faciem Honesti vides: quæ si oculis cerneretur, mirabiles amores (ut ait Plato) excitaret Sapientiæ.

Ille meos, primos qui me sibi junxit, amores Abstulit: ille habeat secum, servetque sepulchro.' Virg.

Friday, November 26, 1714. 'amores A tenero meditatur Ungui' Hor.

So Aeneas Sylvius, in his De Remedio Amoris, after a particularly virulent tirade against women, explained: 'De his loquor mulieribus quae turpes admittunt amores.'

(Met. x. 28, &c.) Cf. Amores, II. xii, ll. 1, 2, 5, and 16.