"And only Minyas' daughters stay at home; they violate the holy day; the tasks Minerva sets are theirs: close to the loom, they give their housold women work to do." (Ovid 110)
Pyramus & Thisbe
"They had no confidant-- and so used signs: with these each lover read the other's mind: when covered, fire acquires still more force." (Ovid 111)
Mars, Venus, Vulcan, The Sun
"When Venus and her lover went--together--to bed, they both were soon entwined by that amazing trap and Vulcan's craft: the net had caught them in the act-- the pair had clapsed." (Ovid 116)
Athamas & Ino
"While fear held fast those two, the fury puored this brew int their brests and it infused their inmost hearts with madness." (Ovid 129)
Perseus & Atlas
"This Atlas, son of Iapetus, was Massive; no man could match his stature and no land lay further west than his domain--earths edge" (Ovid 134)
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