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Ovid
[ ov-id ]
noun
- Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 b.c.–a.d. 17?, Roman poet.
Ovid
/ ˈɒvɪd; ɒˈvɪdɪən /
noun
- 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
- An ancient Roman poet; author of the Metamorphosesand The Art of Love .
Derived Forms
- Ovidian, adjective
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- °¿Â·±¹¾±»å·¾±Â·²¹²Ô [oh-, vid, -ee-, uh, n], adjective
Example Sentences
Ovid isn’t merely for doc-heads, however; the service has also grown its library of narrative films, primarily from the worlds of independent and international cinema.
Scattered references in Greek and Roman works by Hesiod, Apollodorus and Ovid described her death at the hands of the hero Perseus, but also hinted at a fuller life.
Cesar quotes “Hamlet,†as well as Emerson, Marcus Aurelius and Ovid.
The painting in question, entitled Diana and Actaeon, dates from the Renaissance era and portrays a mythical scene from the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses.
In one essay, Lahiri draws apt parallels between the translator’s seemingly subservient and often undervalued art, and the myth of Echo and Narcissus from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.â€
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