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Andromeda

(Ovid’s Ars Amatoria version; Book I)

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Penelope hears rumours about Odysseus from the shores of Troy.

Love is a thing full of anxious fears. I imagined the Trojans’ violent attacks on you: often I grew pale at Hector’s name: if someone told of Antilochus defeated by Hector, Antilochus was the reason for my fears, if of Patroclus, dying in Achilles’s armour, I wept that tricks might fail of success.

– Penelope to Ulysses, Heroides by Ovid