III. Riches are Useless
IV. A Dream from Phoebus
V. To Friends at the Baths
VI. A Fare-Well Toast

BOOK IV

XIII. A Lover's Oath

_Ovid's Lament for Tibullus' Death_







BOOK I




ELEGY THE FIRST

THE SIMPLE LIFE


Give, if thou wilt, for gold a life of toil!
Let endless acres claim thy care!
While sounds of war thy fearful slumbers spoil,