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
victory ruins
This victory will be your I ruin.
donors regard acceptable
Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.
guests
To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.
giving manners polish
To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.
loss gains prove
Trivial losses often prove great gains.
past remembrance doe
Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.
violence break cracked
Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.
hate battle hawks
We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.
powerful united
Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.
evil habit results
These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.
mind suffering body
The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.
men
The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.
rose found nettles
The rose is often found near the nettle.
running youth spirit
The spirits run riot in youth.