Lente currite noctis equi. (Run slowly, horses of the night.) -- Ovid, Amores Procul omen abesto! (Far be that fate from us!) -- Ovid, Amores Iam seges est ubi Troia fuit. (Now there are cornfields where Troy once was.) -- Ovid, Heroides Medio tutissimus ibis. (You will go most safely by the middle way.) -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Tempus edax rerum. (Time the devourer of all.) -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Iupiter ex alto periuria ridet amantum. (Jupiter from on high laughs at lovers' perjuries.) -- Ovid, Ars amatoria Expedit esse deos, et ut expedit, esse putemus. (It is expedient that there should be gods, and as it is expedient, let us believe that they exist.) -- Ovid, Ars amatoria

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