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Perfer et obdura! Dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Ov. Amores 3,11,7)
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Suffer and endure! One day this grief will be useful to you.
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"Amores" (Loves), Ovid
Libertas, -atis, f - freedom, liberty
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Quid est enim libertas?
Potestas vivendi, ut velis. (Cic. Par. 5, 1, 34)
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What, then, is freedom?
Ability to live as you wish.
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"Paradoxa Stoicorum" ("Stoic Paradoxes"), M. T. Cicero
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Carmen, -inis, n - a song, poem
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Per me concordant carmina nervis. (Ov. Met. 1, 517)
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Through me, songs harmonize on strings.
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"Metamorphoses" (from the story on Apollo and Daphnis), Ovid
Uror - to burn up, to be enamored: passive form of uro, 3, ussi, ustum - burn, be inflamed, destroy by fire
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Uror, ut inducto ceratae sulpure taedae
Ut pia fumosis addita tura focis. (Ov. H. 7, 23-24)
I am all ablaze with love, like torches of wax tipped with sulphur,
like pious incense placed on smoking altar-fires.
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"Heroides" (The Heroines, Dido's letter to Aeneas), Ovid
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Stupefacio, 3, stupefeci, stupefactum - to make stupid or senseless, to benumb, deaden, stupefy
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Priuatos deinde luctus stupefecit publicus pavor, postquam hostes adesse nuntiatum est. (Liv. 5, 39, 5)
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Then the public terror benumbed personal sorrow, when it was announced that the enemy was at hand.
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"Ab Urbe Condita" (The History Of Rome - On the battle of the Allia), Livy