Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology, in which he says that the month of May is named for the maiores, Latin for " elders ," and that the following month ( June ) is named for the iuniores, or " young people " ( Fasti VI. 88 ).

Much later, during the early Imperial era, Ovid describes these goddesses as " partners in labour "; Ceres provides the " cause " for the growth of crops, while Tellus provides them a place to grow.

Ovid in his Fasti ( 3. 523f ) provides a vivid description of the revelry and licentiousness of her outdoor festival where tents were pitched or bowers built from branches, where lad lay beside lass, and people asked that Anna bestow as many more years to them as they could drink cups of wine at the festival.

The poet Ovid, working a generation later, provides an epitaph:

The flamen recited a prayer that Ovid quotes at length in the Fasti, his six-book calendar poem on Roman holidays which provides the most extended, though problematic, description of the day.

Тhe myth of Narcissus has inspired artists for at least two thousand years, even before the Roman poet Ovid featured a version in book III of his Metamorphoses.

The two gods ( with a charm ) evoked Jupiter, who was forced to come down to earth at the Aventine ( hence named Iuppiter Elicius, according to Ovid ).

On these two sources depend other ancient authorities, such as Ovid, Servius, Aulus Gellius, Macrobius, patristic texts, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Plutarch.

Livia plays an important role in two Marcus Corvinus mysteries by David Wishart, Ovid ( 1995 ) and Germanicus ( 1997 ).

Ovid tells in Book two of his Metamorphoses that Erichthonius was born without a mother.

In two late Roman sources, Hyginus and Ovid, Pan is substituted for the satyr Marsyas in the theme of a musical competition ( agon ), and the punishment by flaying is omitted.

After serving the two guests food and wine ( which Ovid depicts with pleasure in the details ), Baucis noticed that, although she had refilled her guest's beechwood cups many times, the pitcher was still full.

Ovid uses this opportunity to inform his audience that heat and water are the sources of all life – “ because when heat and moisture blend in due balance, they conceive: these two, these are the origin of everything.

Parthenius of Nicaea cites two versions of Byblis ' story, one of which is generally the same as that recounted by Ovid, but ends with Byblis hanging herself with her girdle.

She responded to his sweet-talk ( verbis mollibus ) by attempting the same ruse ; however, as Ovid points out in a characteristic moment of comedy and cruelty colliding, the two faces of Janus allow him to see what goes on behind, and Cranaë was unable to elude him.

Latin versions were made by none other than Cicero ( mostly extant ), Ovid ( only two short fragments remain ), the member of the imperial Julio-Claudian dynasty Germanicus ( extant, with scholia ), and the less-famous Avienus ( extant ).

Ovid and nearby Elsie are served by the Ovid-Elsie Area Schools, which operates two elementary schools, one middle school, one high school, and a community center which houses pre-school and alternative high school programs.

The reciprocity of the two gods ' situations is subsumed under the role of opener and closer played by Janus as Ovid states: " Why are you hidden in peace, and open when the arms have been moved?

They can be identified from the inventory as more Mazo copies of paintings from the Rubens Ovid series, though only two of the subjects can be seen.

In Las Hilanderas, probably painted the year after Las Meninas, two different scenes from Ovid are shown: one in contemporary dress in the foreground, and the other partly in antique dress, played before a tapestry on the back wall of a room behind the first.

" With Horace and Tibullus he was on intimate terms, and Ovid expresses his gratitude to him as the first to notice and encourage his work .’ The two panegyrics by unknown authors ( one printed among the poems of Tibullus as iv.

Ovid is a village in and one of the two county seats of Seneca County, New York, United States.

* Sementivae, a festival of sowing honoring Tellus and Ceres, placed on January 24 – 26 by Ovid, who regards these feriae as the same as Paganalia ; Varro may indicate that the two were separate festivals.

In book two, Ovid shows how to keep her.

Although Ovid protests Siqua fides arti, quam longo fecimus usu, / Credite: praestabunt carmina nostra fidem (" If you trust art's promise that I've long employed / my songs will offer you their promise "), and his erotic advice indicates a supposed broad understanding of female psychology, in part he is following a literary tradition, especially the two previous exponents of the Latin love-elegy, Propertius and Tibullus, and the ( mostly lost ) erotic poetry of the Greek Hellenistic period.

In 1966 and 1967 the New Frontier had secret ownership interests by Anthony Joseph Zerilli and Michael Polizzi, " two high-ranking members of the Detroit Mafia family " according to The Boardwalk Jungle by Ovid Demaris, along with Emprise Corporation ( now called Delaware North Companies.

Ovid mentioned two of the Pallantidae, the young Butes and Clytus, as companions of Cephalus.

His publications include Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination ( 1986 ), Shakespearean Constitutions ( 1989 ), Shakespeare and Ovid ( 1993 ), the Arden edition of Titus Andronicus ( 1995 ), The Genius of Shakespeare ( 1997 ), two influential works of ecocriticism, Romantic Ecology ( 1991 ) and The Song of the Earth ( 2000 ), and a novel based indirectly on the life of William Hazlitt, The Cure for Love.

The relationship between Ovid and the boy, at first one of protector and protected, becomes an alliance between two people in a foreign land.

The texts for his course include the Bible, translations of Ovid, Hamlet, Don Quixote, Montaigne's essays, Pepys's diary, Richardson's Pamela, and Franklin's autobiography.

The original text is found on the preface Blake printed for inclusion with Milton, a Poem, following the lines beginning " The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid: of Plato & Cicero, which all Men ought to contemn: ..."

This official " air-brushing from history " may imply punitive internal exile to a remote location, similar to that inflicted on the contemporary poet, Ovid, who in AD 8, for an unknown offence, was ordered by Augustus to spend the rest of his life in Tomis ( Constanţa ) on the Black Sea.

611, 37 ; Pollux 9, 83 ); by Ted Hughes in Tales from Ovid ; by Carol Ann Duffy in " Mrs. Midas " from The World's Wife ; and by Nathaniel Hawthorne in " The Golden Touch " from A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys.

Diversions for the educated included discussing the Bible and its practical applications as well as reading the classics such as Cicero, Virgil, and Ovid.

Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets including Virgil and Ovid.

Though the early literary presentations of Medea are lost, Apollonius of Rhodes, in a redefinition of epic formulas, and Euripides, in a dramatic version for a specifically Athenian audience, each employed the figure of Medea ; Seneca offered yet another tragic Medea, of witchcraft and potions, and Ovid rendered her portrait three times for a sophisticated and sceptical audience in Imperial Rome.

The pursuit of law had little attraction for him ; he enjoyed more the reading of the ancient classics, especially Ovid, Catullus, and Tibullus.

The Siren, by John William Waterhouse ( circa 1900 ), depicted as a fish-chimera. According to Ovid ( Metamorphoses V, 551 ), the Sirens were the companions of young Persephone and were given wings by Demeter to search for Persephone when she was abducted.

In classical poetry the Tagus was famous for its gold-bearing sands ( Catullus 29. 19, Ovid, Amores, 1. 15. 34, Juvenal, Satires, 3. 55, etc.

The 1870 census for Rich County, Utah Territory enumerates a total of 1, 672 residents in the eight Idaho communities of Bennington, Bloomington, Fish Haven, Liberty, Montpelier, Ovid, Paris and St. Charles.

After this song is sung, Ovid shows how moving it was by noting that Sisyphus, emotionally affected, for just a moment, stops his eternal task and sits on his rock, the Latin wording being inque tuo sedisti, Sisyphe, saxo (" you sat upon your rock, Sisyphus ").

Ovid in his Metamorphoses provided a descriptive interlude when Theseus is the guest of Achelous, waiting for the river's raging flood to subside: " He entered the dark building, made of spongy pumice, and rough tuff.

Some authors, such as Ovid in his Metamorphoses and Ars amatoria, wrote a different end for Herse and Aglauros.

Ovid and Hyginus both also recount the metamorphosis of the pair in and after Ceyx's loss in a terrible storm, though they both omit Ceyx and Alcyone calling each other Zeus and Hera ( and Zeus's resulting anger ) as a reason for it.

Ovid and Hyginus both also make the metamorphosis the origin of the etymology for " halcyon days ," the seven days in winter when storms never occur.