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| − | ==Anthologia Latina I 781.15==
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| − | Grant, I pray, your assistance and ease the pain of our fiery
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| − | ==Apuleius Metamorphoses 11.2==
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| − | O blessed Queen of Heaven, celestial Venus, who in the beginning of
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| − | the world did join all kinds of things with an engendered love, by an
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| − | eternal propagation of life, now worshipped within the Temple of the
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| − | Isle of Paphos; You who is worshipped in divers manners, and does
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| − | illuminate all the borders of the earth by Your feminine shape, You
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| − | which nourishes all the fruits of the world by Your vigor and force;
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| − | with whatsoever name or fashion it is lawful to call upon You, I pray
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| − | You end my great travail and misery, and deliver me from the wretched
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| − | fortune, which has for so long a time pursued me. Grant peace and
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| − | rest if it please You to reply to my entreaties, for I have endured
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| − | too much labor and peril.
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| − | ==Horcae Carmina 1.30.1-8==
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| − | Come to us Venus, O Queen of Cnidos and Paphos, leave Cyprus, though
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| − | the isle is dear to You, come instead to where the incense is thick
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| − | and Glycera sings to You, that you may transfer Your home to a new
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| − | shrine among us. Bring along for Your company desirous Cupid, loose-
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| − | girdled Graces and Nymphs, youthful Juventus and Mercury, who without
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| − | You are graceless.
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| − | ==Horcae Carmina 4.1.1-2==
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| − | After so long a time, do You once more disturb my peace of mind with
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| − | desires? Spare me, Venus, I pray, I beg of You!
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| − | ==Laevius FPR fr. 26==
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| − | Therefore adoring You as though You were nurturing Venus Herself,
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| − | whether You are female, or whether You are male, even so,
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| − | Illuminating the Night, You are a nurturing Moon.
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| − | ==Lucretius De Rerum Natura 1.1-9==
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| − | Venus Genetrix, charmer of gods and mankind, nurturing Mother,
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| − | beneath the starry signs that glide through the night, You enliven
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| − | the ship-bearing seas and the fruitful earth, since it is through You
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| − | that all things are conceived and animated into life to behold the
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| − | Light of Day. Goddess, for You the winds make way, the heavenly
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| − | clouds open at Your coming, the miraculous earth greets You with
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| − | sweet scented flowers, for You the surface of the seas laugh, and the
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| − | peaceful heavens glisten in luminescence.
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| − | ==Martial Epigrammata 9.90.13-18==
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| − | Restore our youth, Venus, restore our healthy glow, and the kalends
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| − | of March they will devote to the Paphian goddess. Gladly will the
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| − | procession wind to Your altar, in shining white robes they will bring
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| − | You sweet incense and pure wine, served with glistening morsels of
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| − | meat piled as delicate petit fors.
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| − | ==Nemesianus Eclogue 2.57-59==
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| − | Venus, Daughter of Dione, You who touches the lofty ridges of Eryx,
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| − | into whose care, throughout all the centuries, the unions of men and
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| − | their lovers have been placed, what, I pray, have I come to merit?
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| − | ==Ovid Ars Amore 1.30==
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| − | Restore our youth, Venus, restore our healthy glow, and the kalends
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| − | of March they will devote to the Paphian goddess. Gladly will the
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| − | procession wind to Your altar, in shining white robes they will bring
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| − | You sweet incense and pure wine, served with glistening morsels of
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| − | meat piled as delicate petit fors.
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| − | ==Ovid Ars Amore 2.14-15==
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| − | Now, if ever before, I required Your favor, Venus Cytherrea, and that
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| − | of Your son, and now, too, Erato, whose erotic name exudes Love.
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| − | ==Ovid Amores 1.3.1-6 ==
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| − | My prayer is just. May Venus hear all our many prayers. Take one
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| − | who would serve You through long years, accept one who knows how to
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| − | love with a pure heart.
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| − | ==Ovid Amores 3.2.55-7 ==
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| − | Winsome Venus, to You we pray, and to Your children with the mighty
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| − | bow Assent to my undertaking, and may You change my lady's mind, make
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| − | her open to love.
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| − | ==Ovid Heroides 15.57-58==
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| − | I am Yours, Venus Ericina, who also celebrates the Sicilian
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| − | mountains, O Goddess, look after your prophetic poet, you who has the
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| − | name of Love.
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| − | ==Ovid Fasti 4.1==
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| − | Nurturing Venus, Mother of the twin Loves, favour me.
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| − | ==Ovid Metamorphoses 10.640-41==
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| − | Venus of Cytherea, I pray that you come to our venture, and that she
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| − | gives herself to whom you help in passion.
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| − | ==Petronius Arbiter Satyricon 85==
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| − | Dear Venus, if I may kiss this boy without his knowing, a pair of
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| − | doves I'll give tomorrow.
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| − | ==Plautus Bacchides 892-95==
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| − | By Jupiter and all the gods and goddesses, Juno and Ceres, Minerva,
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| − | Latona, Hope, and Ops, Virtue, Venus, Castor and Pollux, Mars,
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| − | Mercurius, Hercules, Summanus, Sol and Saturnus, I swear she is not
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| − | lying with him, walking hand-in-hand with him, kissing him full upon
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| − | the lips, or in any other way, as they say, being familiar with him.
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| − | ==Plautus Miles Gloriosus 1228-30==
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| − | Venus, I offer You thanks, and I beg and entreat You that I may win
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| − | the man I love and long for, and that he may be gracious to me, and
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| − | not reject my desire for him.
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| − | ==Plautus Poenulus 125==
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| − | Venus, of the little I have to offer, I willingly give You a little.
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| − | ==Plautus Rodens 694-701==
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| − | Kind Venus, tearfully we plead to You, as we kneel and clasp this
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| − | your altar, receive us into Your safekeeping and watch over us. Take
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| − | vengeance on the wicked who have belittled your sanctuary, and in
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| − | Your goodness let us remain at this altar as a refuge from our
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| − | suffering... be not offended with us, nor hold us at fault, if there
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| − | be anything about us that to you is unclean.
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| − | ==Plautus Rodens 702-5 ==
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| − | Venus, I think that this is a fair request and that you should grant
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| − | it. Their fears have driven them to it. If you yourself, as they
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| − | say, came from a seashell, then you should not object to the soiled
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| − | shell of their garments.
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| − | ==Plautus Rudens 144-46 ==
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| − | May Venus, or better still Ceres see that no risk of danger befall
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| − | you as you travel from here to your home for lunch; Venus cares for
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| − | lovers, Ceres cares for wheat.
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| − | ==Plautus Rudens 1348-9 ==
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| − | Venus, I pray to You that all pimps may suffer.
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| − | ==Propertius Eligiae 2.16.13-14==
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| − | O Venus, come quickly now to give succor to our sorrows; may love
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| − | erupt in the hearts of those passionate limbs we continually desire.
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| − | ==Propertius Eligiae 3.4.19-22==
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| − | Preserve one of Your own sons, Venus, let it be in this lifetime, may
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| − | You perceive those remaining descendents of Aeneas. May there be
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| − | plunder enough in this for them, that honest rewards are piled up
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| − | from hard work. For me it shall be enough if able to dance along the
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| − | Sacred Way in praise of the Gods.
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| − | ==Statius Achilleis 1.143-44==
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| − | Lead on, O best of Mothers, I plead, lead on, and exhaust the Gods
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| − | with humble entreaties (on my behalf).
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| − | ==Tibullus 1.2.41-2; 56; 99-100==
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| − | "Venus born of blood and thought to be born of the ocean, too."
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| − | Three times sing, (I'm told), and three times spit upon the ground as
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| − | you say this charm.
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| − | "At the very least, Venus, preserve one who in his heart always
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| − | serves you. What offerings shall I set upon your altar to appease
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| − | your anger?"
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| − | ==Tibullus 3.3.33-8==
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| − | Come, Saturn's daughter, give favor to my prayer! Hear me, Cyprian
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| − | Venus, who was born along on a conch shell! Rather let my fate be
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| − | denied, than that my life should now be sorrowfully ended by those
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| − | sisters who spin the threads of everyone's future, and called down by
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| − | ghastly Orcus into the desolate swamps and sluggish streams of black
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| − | waters.
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| − | ==Tibullus 3.9.4==
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| − | May Venus keep him safe for me; may Amor preserve my love.
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| − | ==Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 2.611-12==
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| − | O Cretheian Virgin, borne on graceful and gentle waves, unfold the
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| − | way, Goddess, and show us what course to follow.
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| − | ==Virgil Catalepton 14==
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| − | If I am to further my undertaking, to traverse all the world, O
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| − | Venus, who dwells in Paphos and in Idalian groves, so that Trojan
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| − | Aeneas is thought worthy at last to sail with You in song through
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| − | Roman towns, not only with incense or painted tablet shall I adorn
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| − | Your temple, and with pure hands bring You garlands, but a humble
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| − | offering of a horned ram and a bull, the greatest sacrifice, their
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| − | blood a priest shall sprinkle into the fire of an altar erected in
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| − | Your honor, and a marble painted in a thousand colours for You, a
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| − | picture of Amor with His quiver. Come, O Goddess of Cythera, Your
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| − | own Caesar and an altar along Sorrento's shore beckon You from
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