Ovid

[ ov-id ]

noun

1. Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 b.c.–a.d. 17?, Roman poet.

Ovid

/ ɒˈvɪdɪən; ˈɒvɪd /

noun

1. Ovid43 bc?17 adMRomanWRITING: poet Latin name Publius Ovidius Naso. 43 bc –?17 ad , Roman poet. His verse includes poems on love, Ars Amatoria, on myths, Metamorphoses, and on his sufferings in exile, Tristia

Ovid

1. An ancient Roman poet; author of the and The Art of Love .

Derived Forms

• Ovidian, adjective

Other Words From

• O·vid·i·an [oh-, vid, -ee-, uh, n], adjective

Example Sentences

The notion expanded to denote a personal spirit and protector by the time Horace and Ovid wrote in the first century BC.

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It was essentially two Roman poets, Ovid and Virgil, who gave us this tragic and terrible story.

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Poets, from Virgil and Ovid to Mallarme and Rilke, have written his story.

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In his case it was Ovid, Colorado, with a population that hovers around 300.

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Roman poets such as Catullus and Ovid celebrated the kiss and members of the populace were avid mouth-to-mouth practitioners.

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But the fact is that we have further evidence; Chaucer himself, elsewhere, plainly names Ovid as his authority.

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Ainsworth gives authority for "hospes" meaning host as well as guest, and quotes Ovid's Metamorphoses in support of it.

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Jupiter is mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses immediately after the description of the golden, silver, brazen, and iron ages.

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He was regarding, speculatively, the back of young Ovid Nixon, the assistant cashier.

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Ovid looked a bit doubtful, but Scattergood's voice was so interested, so bland, that any suspicion of irony was allayed.

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