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Ovid, Ars Amatoria, 1.101-1.134


Primus sollicitos fecisti, Romule, ludosSoon may'st thou find a mistress in the rout


rend=For length of time or for a single bout.


Tunc neque marmoreo pendebant vela theatroThe Theatres are berries for the fair;


rend=Like ants or mole-hills thither they repair;


Illic quas tulerant nemorosa Palatia, frondesLike bees to hives so numerously they throng


rend=It may be said they to that place belong:


In gradibus sedit populus de caespite factisThither they swarm who have the public voice;


rend=There choose, if plenty not distracts thy choice.


Respiciunt, oculisque notant sibi quisque puellamTo see, and to be seen, in heaps they run;


rend=Some to undo, and some to be undone.


Dumque, rudem praebente modum tibicine TuscoFrom Romulus the rise of plays began


rend=To his new subjects a commodious man;


In medio plausu (plausus tunc arte carebant)Who, his unmarried soldiers to supply


rend=Took care the commonwealth should multiply;


Protinus exiliunt, animum clamore fatentesProviding Sabine women for his braves


rend=Like a true king, to get a race of slaves.


Ut fugiunt aquilas, timidissima turba, columbaeHis playhouse, not of Parian marble made


rend=Nor was it spread with purple sails for shade;


Sic illae timuere viros sine more ruentes;The stage with rushes or with leaves they strew'd; This idea of the Roman theatres in their infancy, may put us in mind of our own which we read of in the old poets, in Black-friars, the Bull-and-mouth, and Barbican, not much better than the strollers at a country-fair. Yet this must be said for them: that the audience were much better treated; their fare was good, though the house was homely. Which cannot be said of the Roman infant-stage, their wit and their theatres were alike rude; and the Shakspeares and Jonsons of Rome did not appear till the stage was pompous, and the scene magnificent.


rend=No scenes in prospect, no machining god.


Nam timor unus erat, facies non una timoris:On rows of homely turf they sat to see


rend=Crown'd with the wreaths of ev'ry common tree.


Altera maesta silet, frustra vocat altera matrem:There, while they sit in rustic majesty


rend= fugit;Each lover had his mistress in his eye;


Ducuntur raptae, genialis praeda, puellaeAnd whom he saw most suiting to his mind


rend=For joys of matrimonial rape design'd.


Siqua repugnarat nimium comitemque negabatScarce could they wait the plaudit in their haste;


rend=But ere the dances and the song were past


Atque ita 'quid teneros lacrimis corrumpis ocellos?The monarch gave the signal from his throne, At which the soldiers were to fall on the women. The poet and his translators make an agreeable description of this rape. Some say there were thirty of these Sabines ravished: others, as Valerius Antius, make the number to be four hundred and twenty-seven: and Jubas, as Plutarch writes in the life of Romulus , swells it to six hundred.


rend=And rising, bade his merry men fall on.


Romule, militibus scisti dare commoda solus:The martial crew, like soldiers, ready press'd


rend=Just at the word (the word too was the best)


Scilicet ex illo sollemnia more theatraWith joyful cries each other animate;


rend=Some choose, and some at hazard seize their mate.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Cicero, Republic, 2.14 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2.14. Post interitum autem Tatii cum ad eum dominatus omnis reccidisset, quamquam cum Tatio in regium consilium delegerat principes (qui appellati sunt propter caritatem patres) populumque et suo et Tatii nomine et Lucumonis, qui Romuli socius in Sabino proelio occiderat, in tribus tris curiasque triginta discripserat (quas curias earum nominibus nuncupavit, quae ex Sabinis virgines raptae postea fuerant oratrices pacis et foederis)—sed quamquam ea Tatio sic erant discripta vivo, tamen eo interfecto multo etiam magis Romulus patrum auctoritate consilioque regnavit.
2. Ovid, Ars Amatoria, 1.67-1.100, 1.102-1.170, 1.203-1.205, 1.217-1.228 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
adulescens (of comedy) Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 89
agrippa Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 172, 173
audiences,popular Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 174
augustus/octavian,as author and builder Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 173
augustus/octavian,as performer of a public image Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 174
augustus/octavian,relation with caesar Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 173
authority,poetic Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 174
cicero Welch (2015), Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth. 78
cincius alimentus Welch (2015), Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth. 78
coinage Welch (2015), Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth. 78
cosmopolis Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 172, 173, 174
elegy Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 172
empire,as territorial expanse Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 172, 173, 174, 175
exemplum/exemplarity Clay and Vergados (2022), Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, 272
fictionality Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 174
foreigners Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 175
illustration Clay and Vergados (2022), Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, 272
indeterminacy,historical narratives Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 174
indeterminacy,horace Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 174
indeterminacy,strategies Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 174
james,s.l. Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 89
livia Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 173
livy Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 89; Welch (2015), Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth. 78
love Clay and Vergados (2022), Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, 272
lucretius Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 89
maps and mapping Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 172, 173, 174, 175
marcellus Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 173
mars Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 175
masculinity Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 175
militarism Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 172, 174, 175
monuments Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 172, 173, 174, 175
nature Clay and Vergados (2022), Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, 272
naumachia Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 172, 174, 175
octavia Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 173
ovid,ars amatoria Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 89
ovid,praeceptor amoris Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 89
ovid Welch (2015), Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth. 78
pasiphae Clay and Vergados (2022), Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, 272
performance Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 174
plautus,epidicus Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 89
plautus Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 89
plutarch Welch (2015), Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth. 78
poets,rivalry with the princeps Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 172, 173
propertius Welch (2015), Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth. 78
puella Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 89
rape,of the sabine women Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 89
rape Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 89; Welch (2015), Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth. 78
rape of sabine women Clay and Vergados (2022), Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, 272
relation with reality Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 174
revisionary Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 175
rhetoric Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 172
roman cityscape Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 172, 173, 174, 175
romanitas Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 172, 173, 174
rome ara pacis,tarpeian rock Welch (2015), Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth. 78
rome ara pacis,tarpeian tomb/grave Welch (2015), Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth. 78
romulus/quirinus Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 174
romulus Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 89
romulus and camillus,romulus cycle Welch (2015), Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth. 78
silence Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 175
simylus Welch (2015), Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth. 78
spoils Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 175
status Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 89
tarpeia as amazon,and sabine women Welch (2015), Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth. 78
tarpeia as amazon,worship of Welch (2015), Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth. 78
temple Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 172, 173
terence,eunuchus Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 89
theater Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 172, 173, 174
tiberius Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 173
venus Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 173, 174, 175
vision and viewership Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 173
women' Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 175