Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE)
“What’s ownership minus Possession?”
- From The Amores (3.7.49-50) by Ovid, translated by Peter Green in The Erotic Poems (Penguin Classics, 1982).
An Alternative translation is:
“Why have and not enjoy?
Why eager for wealth and not possess its power?”
- From A. S. Kline’s translation of Ovid’s Amores on Poetry in Translation
