OVID ON DESIRE

Question 1

Yet their aims are not required for my art

Answer 1

Smaller sails are suited to my boat

Question 2

Only playful passions

Answer 2

will be learnt from me

Question 3

O mortal girls go to the goddesses for your examples and don’t deny

Answer 3

Your delights to loving men

Question 4

Though a thousand use it

Answer 4

Nothing’s destroyed that way

Question 5

So why should any women say not now

Answer 5

Tell me why waste the water if you’re not going to use it

Question 6

I don’t approve of openly cleaning your teeth :

Answer 6

It makes for beauty, but it’s not beautiful to watch

Question 7

She who doesn’t blush by blood indeed

Answer 7

Blushes by art

Question 8

Naked Venus squeezing water

Answer 8

From her wet hair

Question 9

Nothing unknown

Answer 9

Desired

Question 10

She might as well give her man hemlock and monkshood crushed together as deny him sex

Answer 10

If she’s received his gifts

Question 11

Give it me back

Answer 11

The girl who’s robbed will often cry

Question 12

Mingle the odd rejection

Answer 12

With welcome fun

Question 13

You too whom Nature denies sexual feeling

Answer 13

Pretend to delight with artful sounds