Ovid Book Fifteen

Myscelus

“Be up, you are to seek the distant Aesar, gravel-laden stream.’ To this he added many fearful threats”

Pythagoras

“He was the first to speak against the use of animals as human food, a practice he denounced with learned but unheeded lips.”

Numa

“he ruled the Latin state. There with the nymph Egeria, the wife he’d wedded happily,”

Egeria & Hippolytus

“But others’ anguish did not help assuage the sorrow of Egeria. She lay prostrate, along a mountian’s base and wept,”

Cipus

“For I would rather end my days in exile than be crowned king upon the Capitol.”

Ovid Book Fourteen

Glaucus, Circe, Scylla

“You are the only one who can (if I am worthy of your care) give me the remedy for loves despair.”

The Sibyl

“I scorned him and I am a virgin still. But now life’s time of joy is in retreat;”

Achaemenides

“I hurried to the beach, and they took pity on me; that Trojan ship received a Greek.”

Aeolus, Ulysses, Circe

“we flung ourselves around the neck of our dear Chief; the first words that we spoke were words of gratitude”

Picus & Canens

“But you will pay! You won’t return to Canens anymore!"

Ovid Book Thirteen

Ajax & Achilles' Armor
"But why do we need words at all? Let deeds decide."

Ulysses  & Achilles' Armor
"While your worth lies in nothing but your bulk, mine lies in mind."

Ajax
"The undefeated one contends with that alone which can defeat him: his own wrath"

Polymestor & Polydorus
"Into the sea he cast the lifeless body--as if to hide the corpse could hide the sin"

Polyxena
"How could you think that I Polyxena, would ever want to live as someone's slave?"

Ovid Book Twelve

Iphigenia
"kingship overcomes a father's love; Iphigenia stands before the alter, among the attendants all in tears."

Rumor
"the false reports--in thousands--babble,wandering about"

Achilles & Cycnus
"the Trojan was not wounded yet, although he took no steps to shield his flesh"

Caenis/Caenus
"a thing that will prevent my ever suffering such injury again. If you but grant that i'll not be a woman anymore,"

Cyllarus
"she cast herself upon the very shaft that had pierced him; and as she died, she clasped her husband in close embrace."

Ovid Book Eleven

Orpheus

“The poet was like a stag who, in a spectacle, is doomed to die by morning light, when dogs surround him in the bounds of the arena.”

The Bacchantes

“the god at once bound fast with twisting roots all those who’d shared in such a crime.”

Midas

“But Midas’ wits are what they always were—not sharp; his mind, as it had done before, seeks stupid things that are to do him harm.”

Troy

“And again a task was left unrecompensed.”

Peleus & Thetis

“You never could have won, had you not had a god as your ally.”

Ovid Book Ten

Orpheus & Eurydice
"I'll not deny that I have tried: I wish that I had the power to resist."

Cyparissus
"Cyparissus--pierced the stag; the wound was fierce, the stag was dying: and at that, the boy was set on dying, too."

Orpheus' Prologue
"I sing of boys the gods have loved, and girls incited by unlawful lust and passions, who paid the penalty for their transgressions."

Ganymede
"he still fulfills his role: the page of Jove, the boy prepares Joves nectarl, fill his cups."

Hyacinthus
"The Spartan boy is reckless: risking all for sport, he runs to pick the discus up."

Ovid Book Nine

Achelous & Hercules

“My brawn is better than my tongue. You win in speech, but I can beat you with my blows.”

Hercules, Deianira, Nessus

“And Hercules entrusted to the centaur the fair Deianira; she was trembling, pale, afraid of the Evenus and of Nessus.”

Hercules & Deianira

“I must find some scheme, some plan—with speed, while there’s still time—before this stranger has usurped my bed.”

Alcmena

“She came indeed—but had already schemed with cruel Juno: they were both in league against me,”

Iolaus

“The words of Jove persuaded them: no god could now complain; for the exhaustion of old age was plain in Rhadamanthus, Aeacus, and Minos.”

Ovid Book Eight

Scylla, Nisus, Minos 

“I grieve that Minos, he who has my love, must be my enemy!

Daedalus & Icarus

“I still can take the sky—there lies my path”

Daedalus & Perdix

“And Daedalus, in envy, threw him headlong down from Minerva’s sacred citadel and—lying—said he’d fallen.”

The Calydonian Hunt

“So, into Oeneus’ land, the goddess sent a boat—so massive he could even match the bulls of green Epirus:”

Althaea &Meleager

“she left behind her tears and mourned no more; her heart was bent on vengeance.”

Ovid Book Seven

Medea & Jason
"Medea, you are doomed to fail: the force you face must be some diety."

Medea & Aeson
"Now I have need of juices to renew the life of an old man, so that he can regain his youth, the years that he first knew."

Medea & Pelias

"Spurred by the witch's words, each girl was keen to be most pious through impiety-- most pure by rushing to impurity."

The Flight of Medea

"And it was here, in Corinth, that Medea now took atrocious vengeance, killing Jason's new wife: the sorceress burned her with poison,"

Theseus & Aegeus

"Now Aegeus, whom Medea had decieved, was just about to have his own son drink this brew, as if he were an enemy."