Liv Reads Ovid: The Metamorphoses, Book X
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
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Venus, Queen of Love
"I only wish Miss Chance had never let you see me," she writes. "If I had been more fortunate and not denied a happy marriage, I would not share my bed with any man, but you." The virgin Adalanta is so ignorant of what she does, she loves and does not know she is in love. A young hippomonies invoked me with his anxious voice. He said: 'O Venus, queen of love, be near and help my daring, smile upon the love you have inspired'
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