* Ovid completes Ibis ( single poem ).

Latin poet Ovid refers to the birthday of him and his brother with party and cake in his first book of exile, Tristia.

Ovid, Tristia, 4. 2. 13f, Epist. Ex Ponto 4. 13. 29f ).

Ovid produced three collections of verse epistles, composed in elegiac couplets: the Heroides, letters written in the person of legendary women to their absent lovers ; and the Tristia and Ex Ponto, written in first person during the poet's exile.

The Tristia (" Sorrows " or " Lamentations ") is a collection of letters written in elegiac couplets by the Augustan poet Ovid during his exile from Rome.

In addition to the Tristia, Ovid wrote another collection of elegiac epistles on his exile, the Epistulae ex Ponto.

Ovid included him in his list of celebrated erotic poets and writers ( Tristia 2. 435 ).

Gallus enjoyed a high reputation among his contemporaries as a man of intellect, and Ovid ( Tristia, IV ) considered him the first of the elegiac poets of Rome.

Ovid in his Tristia is more specific, putting the sport in the same category with horsemanship, javelin throwing and weapon practice: Usus equi nunc est, levibus nunc luditur armis, Nunc pila, nunc celeri volvitur orbe trochus.

Bob Dylan used Green's translations of Ovid, found in The Erotic Poems ( 1982 ) and The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters ( 1994 ) as song lyrics on the albums " Love and Theft " ( 2001 ) and Modern Times ( 2006 ).

He is usually represented as a merman, having the upper body of a human and the tail of a fish, " sea-hued ", according to Ovid " his shoulders barnacled with sea-shells ".

Latin borealis is from Greek boreas " north wind, north ", in mythology ( according to Ovid ) personified as the son of the river-god Strymon, and father of Calais and Zetes ; septentrionalis is from septentriones, " the seven plow oxen ", a name of Ursa Maior.

* " Phaëton ", the second movement from Six Metamorphoses after Ovid by English composer Benjamin Britten

An etiological myth of their origins, expanding upon their etymology — the name in Classical Greek was interpreted as " ant-people ", from μυρμηδών ( murmedon ) " ant's nest " and that from μύρμηξ ( murmex ) " ant " — was first mentioned by Ovid, in Metamorphoses: in Ovid's telling, King Aeacus of Aegina, father of Peleus, pleaded with Zeus to populate his country after a terrible plague.

Ovid refers to him as " Eurytus ", and by his Latinized Greek name " Eurytion ".

Their names were Alcathoe ( or Alcithoe ), Leucippe and Arsippe ( although instead of " Arsippe ", Claudius Aelianus calls the latter " Aristippa ", and Plutarch " Arsinoë "; Ovid uses " Leuconoe " instead of " Leucippe ").

The word " moneta " is where we get the words " money ", or " monetize ", used by writers such as Ovid, Martial, Juvenal, and Cicero.

Both the genus and specific epithet, cǐcōnia, are the Latin word for " stork ", originally recorded in the works of Horace and Ovid.

" Countless others who were also exposed gained a wide variety of mutations and abilities, and Static spends much of his time dealing with these " Bang Babies ", many of whom use their abilities in selfish, harmful, and even criminal ways. Virgil is named after the first African-American to go to law school ( who was himself named for the Roman poets Virgil and Ovid ).

" Carpe is the second-person singular present active imperative of the Latin verb carpō, which literally means " I pick, pluck, pluck off, cull, crop, gather, to eat food, to serve, to want ", but Ovid used the word in the sense of, " enjoy, seize, use, make use of ".

The Letters of a Portuguese Nun were written in the same style as " The Heroides ", a collection of fifteen epistolary poems composed by Ovid, and " Lettres d ' Héloise à Abélard ", a medieval story of passion and Christian renunciation.

Inspirare meant originally " to blow into ", as for example in the sentence of the Roman poet Ovid: " conchae [...] sonanti inspirare iubet " (" he orders to blow into the resonant [...] shell ").

According to Ovid, after seeing the Propoetides prostituting themselves ( more accurately, they denied the divinity of Venus and she thus " reduced " them to prostitution ), he was " not interested in women ", but his statue was so fair and realistic that he fell in love with it.

The later writers Ovid ( Heroides 16. 71ff, 149 – 152 and 5. 35f ), Lucian ( Dialogues of the Gods 20 ), The Bibliotheca ( Epitome E. 3. 2 ) and Hyginus ( Fabulae 92 ), retell the story with skeptical, ironic or popularizing agendas.

Horace ( Ode, i. 5 ) and Ovid describes her as red haired.

* The story of Ixion is also told by Pseudo-Apollodorus Epitome of the Bibliotheca, 1. 20 ; Diodorus Siculus, 4. 69. 3 -. 5 ; Hyginus, Fabulae 33 ( mention ) and 62 ; Virgil in Georgics 4 and Aeneid 6, and by Ovid in Metamorphoses 12.

5, 15-20, and Ovid, Ars.

* Symphony No. 5 after Ovid ’ s “ Metamorphoses ” (" The Transformation of the Lycian Peasants into Frogs ")

At Cayuga Street, NY 414 turns south, crossing the water body that is the canal and the Seneca River and becoming Ovid Street while NY 5 and US 20 turns north onto Cayuga, following the street around the small Van Cleef Lake, through the Finger Lakes Railway grade crossing, and exiting the hamlet.

Miller won the Conservative Party nomination for Bruce — Grey — Owen Sound in 2004, and defeated three-term Liberal Member of Parliament Ovid Jackson by almost 5, 000 votes in that year's federal election.

It was first published in 16 BC in 5 books, but Ovid by his own account later edited it down into the 3-book edition that has come down to us.

* After completing Metamorphoses, Ovid begins the Fasti ( Festivals ), 6 books that detail the first 6 months of the year and provide valuable insights into the Roman Calendar.

Ovid tells the end of the story a bit differently in the third of his books on The Art of Love.

Metamorphoses ( from the Greek, " transformations ") is a Latin narrative poem in fifteen books by the Roman poet Ovid, describing the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.

Amongst the books he collected are early editions in Greek and Latin of the poets and playwrights Aeschylus, Aristotle, Homer, Livy, Ovid, Pindar, Sophocles and Virgil.

In 1567 Golding completed all fifteen books of Ovid ’ s poem.

During this same time Golding was working on the first four books of Ovid ’ s Metamorphosis, which he finished in December 1564 and were published in 1565.

The Ars amatoria () is an instructional book series elegy in three books by Ancient Roman poet Ovid.

He enjoyed spending time alone and was an avid reader of books by Edgar Allan Poe and Ovid.

Drawing on the encyclopedic store of knowledge he demonstrated in the Metamorphoses and his other work — from memory, as he had few books with him in exile — Ovid threatens his enemy with a veritable catalogue of " gruesome and mutually incompatible fates " that befell various figures from myth and history, including a Thyestean banquet of human flesh.

Epistulae ex Ponto ( Letters from the Black Sea ) is a work of Ovid, in four books.