




Can you work out these two lines from Ovid’s Heroides?
excussere metum violenti iussa parentis; erigor et capio tela tremente manu.
Ovid (Heroides, 14)

The commands of my violent father shook off my fear: /
I rise up and take weapons in my trembling hand.
The whole poem: Ovid (43 BC–17) – The Heroides: VIII to XV