Tristia

Tristia ('Sorrows') is a work of poetry, in five books, written by the Roman poet Ovid at some time after he was banished from Rome in AD 8. It uses the elegiac couplet, a meter suitable for lamenting the misery of exile on the bleak edge of the Euxine, and holds out the poet's hopes for alleviation of his punishment.

Related Topics:
Ovid - Rome - 8 - Elegiac couplet - Meter - Euxine

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It begins:

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:Parue -- nec inuideo -- sine me, liber, ibis in urbem:

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:ei mihi, quod domino non licet ire tuo!

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Translation:

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:You will go, my little book, without me to the city, but I don't envy you.

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:Go on - go to the city forbidden to me - forbidden to your master.

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(from ForumRomanum.org)

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