...grim lioness follows the wolf, the wolf himself the she-goat, the lascivious she-goat the clover."1 Torva leaena lupum sequitur, lupus ipse capellam, Florentem cytisum sequitur lasciva capella. Ovid, in his essay on the Roman calendar, gives us this: "Mars sees her and seeing her, desires her,...

...tries to win over Alexis by praising the woods: quem fugis, a! demens? habitarunt di quoque siluas Dardaniusque Paris. Pallas quas condidit arces ipsa colat; nobis placeant ante omnia siluae. torua leaena lupum sequitur, lupus ipse capellam, florentem cytisum sequitur lasciua capella,...

...circling wave, and immediately the wave subsiding, we descend to the lowest depths (Virgil) torva lea:na lupum sequitur, lupus ipse capellam, florentem cytisum sequitur lasciva capella, te Corydon, O Alexi: trahit sua quemque voluptas: fierce lioness goes after wolf, that same wolf after a goat,...

...lament of a love-lorn shepherd for his inaccessible boyfriend, is another hothouse flower (2.63-5): torva leaena lupum sequitur, lupus ipse capellam,...florentem cytisum sequitur lasciva capella, te Corydon, o Alexi; trahit sua quemque voluptas. "The grim lioness pursues the wolf [a curiously perverse vision],...

...neatherd, passed me quickly by and gives no heed. with Ecl. 2.60-62: ... habitarunt di quoque silvas Dardaniusque Paris. Pallas quas condidit arces ipsa colat; nobis placeant ante omnia silvae even the gods have dwelt in the woods, and Dardan Paris. Let Pallas dwell by herself in the cities...