For the modern reader, it should prove a surprisingly relatable work on intimacy from an author of the ancient world. Divided into three books, Ars Amatoria or, The Art of Love was immensely popular-if a little controversial-in its time, and has survived numerous charges of indecency over the centuries. For at about seven or eight years of age I would steal away from any other pleasure to read them, inasmuch as this language was my mother tongue, and it was the easiest book I knew and the best suited by its content to my tender age.' -Michel de Montaigne Ars Amatoria or, The Art of Love (2 AD) is an instructional poem by Ovid.

This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, 'some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell') rather than an actual use of it (for example, 'we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset'), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.'The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid.

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|section= – Charles Hopkins' poem 'The History of Love' is divided into sections.

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The template takes the following parameters: The template can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books. This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from translations of Ovid's works Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, and Medicamina Faciei Femineae by John Dryden, Thomas Yalden, William Congreve, and Nathum Tate entitled Ovid's Art of Love (1st edition, 1709) also included are other works on the theme of love by A.

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