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Amores by Ovid is in Ovid.
16BC. Amores is Ovid's first completed book of poetry, written in elegiac couplets. It was first published in 16 BC in five books, but Ovid, by his own account, later edited it down into the three-book edition that survives today.
Roman Books, Amores by Ovid, Amores Book 1
Roman Books, Amores by Ovid, Amores Book 1: Epigramma Ipsius
Omnia conductor solvit; mercede soluta
Non manet officio debitor ille tuo.
Parcite, formosae, pretium pro nocte pacisci;
Non habet eventus sordida praeda bonos.
The hired one pays for everything; with the reward paid,
He does not remain in debt to your duty.
Spare, beautiful ones, to bargain a price for the night;
A dirty booty does not bring good outcomes.
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Roman Books, Amores by Ovid, Amores Book 3
Roman Books, Amores by Ovid, Amores Book 3 Lines 39-40
It is the living that Envy feeds upon; after doom it stirs no more, when each man's fame guards him as he deserves.
Pascitur in vivis livor, post fata quiescit,
Tune suus ex merito quemquem tuetur honos.