Ovid Circus Translation

non ego nobilium sedeo studiosus equorum; cui tamen ipsa faves, vincat ut ille, precor.

I am not sitting here keen on the excellent horses; yet the one that you yourself support, I pray that he might win.

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ut loquerer tecum veni, tecumque sederem, ne tibi non notus, quem facis, esset amor.

I have come here to speak with you, and to sit with you, in case the love that you make me feel is not known to you.

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tu cursus spectas, ego te; spectemus uterque quod iuvat, atque oculos pascat uterque suos.

You watch the race, I watch you; let us each watch what pleases us, and each feast their eyes.

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O, cuicumque faves, felix agitator equorum! ergo illi curae contigit esse tuae?

O happy charioteer, whoever you support! Therefore has he had the good luck to be dear to you?

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hoc mihi contingat, sacro de carcere missis insistam forti mente vehendus equis,

Let me have the good luck, after the horses have been sent from the sacred starting gate I shall stand firm being carried with a brave mind

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et modo lora dabo, modo verbere terga notabo, nunc stringam metas interiore rota.

and at one moment I shall give rein, at another I shall mark thei

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I have come here to speak with you, and to sit with you, in case the love that you make me feel is not known to you.

ut loquerer tecum veni, tecumque sederem, ne tibi non notus, quem facis, esset amor.

You watch the race, I watch you; let us each watch what pleases us, and each feast their eyes.

O happy charioteer, whoever you support! Therefore has he had the good luck to be dear to you?

Let me have the good luck, after the horses have been sent from the sacred starting gate I shall stand firm being carried with a brave mind

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