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