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Ovid: Selections from Ars Amatoria Remedia Amoris (Latin Edition)

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Let me just say that if you can read Latin, this is the essential way to read the fantastic works of Ovid. These selections from the Ars Amatoria and the Remedia Amoris are very fun to translate, as well as applicable to our modern society. The great thing about this book, though, is that there are vocabulary definitions ON THE SAME PAGE as the text itself, thereby eliminating the boredom of shuffling through a Latin dictionary, not to mention his notes on difficult to translate sections. There is also a pull out small dictionary at the back of the book, which contains every word that appears more than 10 times in the work. Therefore, this is the only book you'll need to translate, as opposed to a Latin dictionary. This takes the fun out and leaves only the pleasures of reading Latin literature.