Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Pluto has spotted Proserpina, who is picking flowers in the fields. Cupid’s arrow strikes Pluto in the
breast. He immediately falls in love with her and is overcome with a need to have her at whatever
cost.

dum Proserpina luco ludit et aut violas aut candida lilia carpit,
dumque studio calathosque implet et aequales certat superare legendo,
paene simul visa est dilectaque raptaque Diti: usque adeo est properatus amor.
Ovid, Met. V. 391-395.

dum (conj.) ‘while’

lucus, luci m. (2nd) ‘sacred grove’
ludo, ludere, lusi, lusus (3rd) ‘play’
aut…aut (conj.) ‘either…or…’
carpo, carpere, carpsi, carptus (3rd) ‘pluck’
viola, violae f. (1st) ‘violet’
candidus, -a, -um ‘innocent, pure’
lilium, lilii n. (2nd) ‘lily’
calathus, calathi m. (2nd) ‘flower basket’
impleo, implere, implevi, impletus (2nd) ‘fill’
aequalis, aequale (3rd) ‘equal’
certo, certare, certavi, certatus (1st) ‘strive’
supero, superare, superavi, superatus (1st) ‘conquer, overcome’
legendo (lego, legere, legi, lectus 3rd) lit. ‘with those being collected’
paene (adv.) ‘almost’
simul (adv.) ‘at the same time’
visa est (video, videre, vidi, visus 2nd) lit. ‘she was seen’
dilectus, dilecta, dilectum (adj.) ‘beloved’
rapta (rapio, rapere rapui, raptus 3rd) lit. ‘she was snatched’
Dis, Ditis m. (3rd) alternate form for ‘Pluto’
usque (adv.) ‘continuously, all the time’
adeo (adv.) ‘to such a degree’
est properatus lit. ‘was hurried’ [subj. amor ‘love was hurried’]