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Ovid

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In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.


— Ovid


#easy #eloquent #matter

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.


— Ovid


#leisure #our #people #reveal

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.


— Ovid


#convenient #gods #let us #us

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.


— Ovid


#ever #flock #his #man #poor

Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.


— Ovid


#jupiter #lovers #smiles

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.


— Ovid


#acquainted #affliction #am #better #does

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.


— Ovid


#ancient #ancient times #born #glad #i

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.


— Ovid


#habitual #more #trouble #will #you

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.


— Ovid


#cast #expect #fish #hook #least

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.


— Ovid


#away #fragile #ice #like #passes






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Did you know about Ovid?

The chronology of these early works is not secure; tentative dates however have been establiOvidd by scholars. 19–20). 4.

Ovid was also the author of several smaller pieces the Remedia Amoris the Medicamina Faciei Femineae and the long curse-poem Ibis. He is considered a master of the elegiac couplet and is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. He is also well known for the Fasti about the Roman calendar and the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto two collections of poems written in exile on the Black Sea.

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