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Quotation from Heroides by Ovid

“Alas, wretched me, that love may not be healed by herbs!”

Ovid (spoken by Oenone)

Heroides, Letter V (Oenone to Paris), trans. Grant Showerman (1914)

Oenone, taught healing by Apollo, owns every herb and root in the world, yet cannot cure her own love.

Citation: "Alas, wretched me, that love may not be healed by herbs!" — Ovid, Heroides, Letter V (Oenone to Paris), trans. Grant Showerman (1914). (id ovid-heroides-q3)

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