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
daring unsafe
Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
obscurity wells
He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.
cures feels one-thing
To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
jewels simplicity found
Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.
cracked
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.