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:“ Now he would confess his sorry love to her nurse, asking her not to be hard on him, by the hopes she had for her darling.

At other times he flattered each of her many attendants, with enticing words, seeking their favourable disposition.

Often he gave them messages to carry to her, in the form of fawning letters.

Sometimes he hung garlands on her doorpost wet with his tears, and lay with his soft flank on the hard threshold, complaining at the pitiless bolts barring the way .” According to Ovid, the statue was preserved at Salamis in Cyprus, in the temple of Venus Prospiciens.