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Quotation from Heroides by Ovid
“This missive your Penelope sends to you, O Ulysses, slow of return that you are – yet write nothing back to me; yourself come!”
Heroides, Letter I (Penelope to Ulysses), trans. Grant Showerman (1914)
The opening of the first letter: Penelope asks not for a reply but for her husband himself.
Citation: "This missive your Penelope sends to you, O Ulysses, slow of return that you are – yet write nothing back to me; yourself come!" — Ovid, Heroides, Letter I (Penelope to Ulysses), trans. Grant Showerman (1914). (id ovid-heroides-q1)
