The Art of Love [Audiobook] by Ovid, translated by Rolfe Humphries
English | November 1, 2013 | ASIN: B00GDGM4CW | M4B@64 kbps | 7 hrs 30 mins | 204 MB
Narrator: Tim Lundeen
English | November 1, 2013 | ASIN: B00GDGM4CW | M4B@64 kbps | 7 hrs 30 mins | 204 MB
Narrator: Tim Lundeen
Humphries has rendered (Ovid's) love poetry with conspicuous success into English which is neither obtrusively colloquial nor awkwardly antique.
Should any one of the people not know the art of loving, let him read me; and taught by me, on reading my lines, let him love. By art the ships are onward sped by sails and oars; by art are the light chariots, by art is Love, to be guided. In the chariot and in the flowing reins was Automedon skilled: in the Hæmonian ship of Jason Tiphys was the pilot. Me, too, skilled in my craft, has Venus made the guardian of Love. Of Cupid the Tiphys and the Automedon shall I be styled. Unruly indeed he is, and one who oft rebels against me; but he is a child; his age is tender and easy to be governed.