Ad faciendos versus molestum est:
It is a bore to make verses.
This being a self-evident proposition, we shall not enlarge upon it.
The supine in um signifies actively, and follows a verb expressing
motion to a place, as
Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsæ:
They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen.
So said, or sung the poet Ovid. Was there an opera at Rome in his time?