Prayer to Apollo

Strictly speaking this is not a prayer but an exclamation: the poet announces the god's arrival.

Phoebus adest is the ritual formula of epiphany, the very cry that opens a rite. Ovid drops it in as a punctuation mark in a poem about getting over a woman, and recognises the god "by his own signs": the lyres have sounded, the quivers have sounded. That is, by two instruments at once — song and arrow, exactly the double competence he invoked at line 75.

The card's English does not correspond to this Latin at all. It reads "Come, health-bearing Apollo, come favouring my undertaking" — a request that the god come; in the Latin the god is already here. The translation is left unchanged; the Russian follows the original.