As it began, gods and men seem united in a common pleasure: hominum diuumque uoluptas, alma Venus (‘pleasure of gods and men, nurturing Venus’, 1.1—2). As it nears its close, gods and men are separated: Calliope can give the gods uoluptas (‘pleasure’), but men she can only afford requies (‘repose’).
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