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
lying safety moderation
Safety lies in the middle course. [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]
lying eye panthers
The god we now behold with opened eyes, A herd of spotted panthers round him lies In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.
lying bye good-bye
Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]
money lying men
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.
love sports lying
Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.
death lying men
Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.
lying integrity laughing
The mind that's conscious of its rectitude, Laughs at the lies of rumor.
art lying wine
The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures.
lying fall house
When a house is tottering to its fall, The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part, One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads, And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.
art lying concealing
Art lies in concealing art.
lying differences steps
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
strong lying moving
Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move
art lying deception
Art lies by its own artifice.
lying home blow
The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's a home.