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Episode CXII - The Book of Love

Emperors of Rome

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Is There No Cremen, No Crime in Carmine?

In each of the three books, ovid tries to make it clear that the poem is not addressed to married women. He actually invokes the law and shows that he is aware of the law i am talking about. Book one, 31, aid my enterprise. That means respectable married women, roman matrons are hereby warned off. Legitimate leaisons will be my theme. This poem breaks no taboos. The latin for that is that he says that there is no cremen, no crime in carmine. Carmen is latin for song or poem. There's no cremen in carmine, which makes for a great jingle. But one way of looking at

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