Ovid
Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso, 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...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
soil forget sweetness
Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.
pain believe belief
Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
women shopping creatures
A woman is a creature that's always shopping.
soldier lovers
Every lover is a soldier.
magic omen
There is something in omens.
enemy rivals bears
Bear patiently with a rival.
yield understanding conquer
Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.
laughter latin laughing
Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina
jealousy wind envy
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
short-love love-is care
Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
men long affliction
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.
punishment bitterness delay
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
guilt looks betrayed
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
friendship long lucky
As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris