Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Roman poet known for his explorations of love, especially the Art of Love (c. 1 BC) and Metamorphoses (c. AD 8).
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- proper noun A 1st century BC
Roman poet . - proper noun A male
given name of mainlyhistoric use.
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- noun Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17)
Etymologies
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Database provider OVID is providing free access to the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals during the month of April: "Each month, Ovid provides you with the opportunity to 'test drive' a sampling of our content, tools and services - FREE of charge - through our Resource of the Month program."
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Available For Free in April Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2008
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Database provider OVID is providing free access to the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals during the month of April: "Each month, Ovid provides you with the opportunity to 'test drive' a sampling of our content, tools and services - FREE of charge - through our Resource of the Month program."
Archive 2008-04-01 Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2008
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I can only think that somewhere, somehow, Ovid is applauding. p.s. I am sure wordpress is about to screw up the formatting of the quote.
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Niobe was Queen of Thebes, as related in Ovid, whose children die as the gods 'punishment for her shameful boasting, while she turns to stone.
Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio Fiona Maddocks 2010
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Today, Ovid is laughing his head off in my library, free for ever from all Caesars, including the Caesar of
The End Of The Cycle 2006
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In "Baptizing," from Lives of Girls and Women (1971), Munro wrote eloquently of two young lovers, one of whom has almost drowned the other (men and water again: in Ovid water fuses a couple's sexuality; in Munro it distinguishes and separates).
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In "Baptizing," from Lives of Girls and Women (1971), Munro wrote eloquently of two young lovers, one of whom has almost drowned the other (men and water again: in Ovid water fuses a couple's sexuality; in Munro it distinguishes and separates).
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The shape: in Ovid's phrase, a poem is an imago vocis, an image of the voice.
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How idly I talk; 'tis because the story pleases me – none in Ovid so much.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888
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The story of Baucis and Philemon is in Ovid's Metamorphoses, viii.,
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888
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