Ovid: The Love Poems Glossary

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propitious

to have a good chance of succeeding

interspersed

to scatter

reconnoiter

to make a military observation of an area

besiege

to conquer an area by surrounding it with armed forced

glowering

to have an angry expression

sentinels

a guard who keeps watch

notorious

to be widely famous for a bad deed

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