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Ovid

Publius Ovidius Nasso, Roman poet (43 B.C.E.-17 C.E.). Related: Ovidian.

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Ovid, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado
Population (2000): 330
Housing Units (2000): 178
Land area (2000): 0.159400 sq. miles (0.412845 sq. km)
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Total area (2000): 0.159400 sq. miles (0.412845 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56475
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 40.959919 N, 102.388851 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 80744
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Ovid, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 612
Housing Units (2000): 280
Land area (2000): 0.418922 sq. miles (1.085004 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.418922 sq. miles (1.085004 sq. km)
FIPS code: 55816
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.677513 N, 76.824311 W
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Ovid, MI -- U.S. village in Michigan
Population (2000): 1514
Housing Units (2000): 604
Land area (2000): 0.926065 sq. miles (2.398497 sq. km)
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Total area (2000): 0.926065 sq. miles (2.398497 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61860
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 43.005943 N, 84.372649 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 48866
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Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso (; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but, in one of the mysteries of literary history, he was sent by Augustus into exile in a remote province on the Black Sea, where he remained until his death. Ovid himself attributes his exile to carmen et error, "a poem and a mistake", but his discretion in discussing the causes has resulted in much speculation among scholars.

The first major Roman poet to begin his career during the reign of Augustus, Ovid is today best known for the Metamorphoses, a 15-book continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic, and for collections of love poetry in elegiac couplets, especially the Amores ("Love Affairs") and Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love"). His poetry was much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western art and literature. The Metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology.

Ovid (disambiguation)

Ovid or Ovidius (43 BC–17 AD) was a Roman poet. His name is used as a male first name, especially in Romance languages, often in variations such as Ovidi, Ovídio, Ovidio, or Ouvidu, and in some recent usage shortened to Ovi. It may refer to:

Ovid (crater)

Ovid is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 44 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976. Ovid is named for the Roman poet Ovid, who lived from 43 BCE to 17 CE.

Usage examples of "ovid".

Blifil drew near, with a very dejected aspect, and having applied his handkerchief to his eye, either to wipe away his tears, or to do as Ovid somewhere expresses himself on another occasion, Si nullus erit, tamen excute nullum, If there be none, then wipe away that none, he communicated to his uncle what the reader hath been just before acquainted with.

Polyeidus reminds him that Polyeidus never pretended authorship: Polyeidus is the story, more or less, in any case its marks and spaces: the author could be Antoninus Liberalis, for example, Hesiod, Homer, Hyginus, Ovid, Pindar, Plutarch, the Scholiast on the Iliad, Tzetzes, Robert Graves, Edith Hamilton, Lord Raglan, Joseph Campbell, the author of the Perseid, someone imitating that author -- anyone, in short, who has ever written or will write about the myth of Bellerophon and Chimera.

Ovid tells us, in his 'Fasti,' how statues sometimes surprised people by speaking more frankly and to the purpose even than Miss Brandon, and straight were cold chiselled marble again.

Ovid, amonges other thinges smale* *small Saith, Midas had, under his longe hairs, Growing upon his head two ass's ears.

It was difficult to fake the mathematics, but we spent many hours in the late afternoons cribbing up our translations of Ovid from a couple of books in Grandfather’s library—old translations by eminent Victorians, with small print and complicated vocabularies.

The following morning, Ovid Ross turned in His story and pictures on the bust-beauty contest and gave notice.

He begins with Adonis as a grown man, says nothing of his origins, and concerns himself only with the final stage of the myth, following a version given by Ovid.

This was the poet Ovid, the author of the Metamorphoses, and dozens of other earthy, hilarious and bawdy works.

To continue, Ovid had fallen out of favor with Augustus, and he had been banned, but men like my Father were not about to burn their copies of the Metamorphoses, or any other of Ovid's work, and the only reason they didn’t plead for Ovid's pardon was fear.

Down the centuries, many civilized writers like Ovid, Firdausi, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Spenser, and James Stephens have collected these tales, edited or rewritten them, and composed pastiches based upon them.

Ovid was therefore exiled to the Black Sea town of Tomi (the present-day port of Constanta in Romania).

The flicker of sheet lighting, far off, and an occasional distant grumble of thunder created in me the postcoital depression that Ovid attributed to all animals.