Complete Poetical Works, Volume 2: Forest Poems

The chaste person loves the forests. We escape the fires of Venus The Roman goddess of love and physical desire., and we drive out one nail with another original: "Clavumque clavo pellimus." A common proverb meaning to cure one passion or habit by replacing it with another; here, the poet suggests replacing lust with the physical exertion of hunting..
We prefer Delos and Mount Cynthus Locations sacred to Diana, the virgin goddess of the hunt. over Mount Eryx and Mount Ida Mount Eryx was sacred to Venus, and Mount Ida was the site of the Judgement of Paris, which led to the Trojan War..
We prefer the clear sky to the vaulted ceiling of the brothel.
All of Germany was once of our mind, accustomed to living on what was caught in the hunt.
Our hero is Hippolytus In Greek mythology, Hippolytus was a dedicated hunter who remained celibate and devoted to Diana, rejecting the advances of his stepmother, Phaedra. who, so that Venus might not burn him, avoided the bow of Cupid with his own hunting bow.
The countryside is innocent. Cupid commits more sins in the City; he is a boy more harmful than any wild beast.

ANTITHESIS

But who would find the condition or life of hunters always happy or pure!
"The chaste person loves the forests." But more than one adulterer and wicked pimp have loved them too.
Perdix the hunter defiled the grove with the same fire of lust that King Oedipus brought to Thebes.
Under a thick oak tree (it is said he showed the spot to the girl), Jupiter corrupted you, Io A priestess whom Jupiter seduced, later transforming her into a cow to hide his infidelity from his wife, Juno..
"The chaste person loves the forests." But not everything hidden by the green woodland is a "forest" in the virtuous sense.
Often under the trees, the Trojan Aeneas, the refugee hero from Troy. and the guilty Dido hide through the trickery of hostile Juno.
It is not recorded that the Queen lost her modesty within the walls of the city of Carthage.
She had scarcely left its gates: when love, a cave, and terrible hail persuaded her to forget Sychaeus Dido's deceased husband, to whom she had sworn eternal faithfulness. entirely.
She burned with mad passion for the embraces of the Trojan exile, breaking her sacred oaths to the spirits of the dead.
From this came bitter tears, a mad desire for death, and blood flowed from her breast.
What good does it do to flee the city, if you carry the city's wicked torches and crimes with you?
While chasing stags outdoors, she herself was running, like a doe gravely wounded by an arrow.
The Phoenician woman Dido, the founder and queen of Carthage, who originated from Phoenicia. was caught in the very nets in which she intended to trap her own prey.