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(Face Cosmetics)
de Medicamine faciei or Medicamina faciei Feminae.
-only 100 lines left, the rest being lost.
-deals with the female use of cosemetics.
it is earlier than the Ana Amatoria.
Nux - a poem about a nut tree. Its
authenticity has frequently been challenged.

Part I - 2a heroides.
44a extracts from Suidas, etc. on Sapphio, followed by [?rescaipto?] Ulixis
ad Penelopen etc.
48b amous. 75a de arte amandi, 99b de remedio amoris.
108a Ibis. 115a fasti. 167a de tristibus. 205a de Ponto.
240a de pulice etc. 244b conadetio ad biuiam.

One of the 3 major poets of Latin tradition. Ovid made
his primary contribution to Western literature in the
Metamorphoses, a cleverly assembled verse sythesis
of the myth of transformation. In most of the tales
a human being is changed into a nonhuman form
befitting his action and personality. The transformation
theme which permeates so much medieval and Renaissance
literature is derived from the Metamophoses.
Medicamina - celebrates beauty, love and the kind of sophistication
which improves on nature. The introduction is a lecture
on the theme culta placent (11.3-50) the appeal of culture
in the broadest sense of the word, including bodily care.