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Perfer et obdura! Dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Ov. Amores 3,11,7)
Suffer and endure! One day this grief will be useful to you.
"Amores" (Loves), Ovid
Libertas, -atis, f - freedom, liberty
Quid est enim libertas?
Potestas vivendi, ut velis. (Cic. Par. 5, 1, 34)
What, then, is freedom?
Ability to live as you wish.
"Paradoxa Stoicorum" ("Stoic Paradoxes"), M. T. Cicero
Carmen, -inis, n - a song, poem
Per me concordant carmina nervis. (Ov. Met. 1, 517)
Through me, songs harmonize on strings.
"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
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.
"Heroides" (The Heroines, Dido's letter to Aeneas), Ovid
Stupefacio, 3, stupefeci, stupefactum - to make stupid or senseless, to benumb, deaden, stupefy
Priuatos deinde luctus stupefecit publicus pavor, postquam hostes adesse nuntiatum est. (Liv. 5, 39, 5)
Then the public terror benumbed personal sorrow, when it was announced that the enemy was at hand.
"Ab Urbe Condita" (The History Of Rome - On the battle of the Allia), Livy