Do you only saunter at your leisure in the shade of Pompey's Portico, [706] when the sun approaches the back of the Lion of Hercules; [707] or where the mother [708] has added her own gifts to those of her son, a work rich in its foreign marble. And let not the Portico of Livia [709] be shunned by you, which, here and there adorned with ancient paintings, bears the name of its founder. Where, too, are the grand-daughters of Be-lus, [710] who dared to plot death for their wretched cousins, and where their enraged father stands with his drawn sword. Nor let Adonis, bewailed by Venus, [711] escape you; and the seventh holy-day observed by the Jew of Syria. [712] Nor fly from the Memphian temples of Isis the linen-wearing heifer; she has made many a woman [713] that which she was herself to Jove. Even the Courts, (who would have believed it?) are favourable to Love; and oft in the noisy Forum has the flame been found. Where the erection [714] of Appius, [715] adjoining the temple of Venus, built of marble, beats the air with its shooting stream; [716] in that spot full oft is the pleader seized by Love; and he that has defended others, the same does not defend himself. Oft in that spot are their words found wanting to the eloquent man; and new cares arise, and his own cause has to be pleaded. From her temple, which is adjoining, [717] Venus laughs at him. He who so lately was a patron, now wishes to become a client. But especially at the curving Theatres do you hunt for prey: these places are even yet more fruitful for your desires. There you will find what you may love, what you may trifle with, both what you may once touch, and what you may wish to keep. As the numberless ants come and go in lengthened train, when they are carrying their wonted food in the mouth that bears the grains; or as the bees, when they have found both their own pastures and the balmy meads, hover around the flowers and the tops of the thyme; so rush the best-dressed women to the thronged spectacles; a multitude that oft has kept my judgment in suspense. They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen; to modest chastity these spots are detrimental.