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The scythe now reaps the corn where Ilion stood, — Heroides

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"The scythe now reaps the corn where Ilion stood, And fields that fatten on the Trojans’ blood."
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The Heroides, or Epistulae Heroidum, is a collection of fifteen epistolary poems composed by Ovid in Latin elegiac couplets and presented as though written by a selection of aggrieved heroines of Greek and Roman mythology in address to their heroic lovers who have in some way mistreated, neglected, or abandoned them. A further set of six poems, widely known as the Double Heroides and numbered 16 t