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
writing giving dumb
This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]
argument
Agreeing to differ. [Lat., Discors concordia.]
anger hands ira
Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]
cry pleasure certain
There is a certain pleasure in weeping.
keeping-promises broken-promises kept-promises
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
helping fallen
It is a kingly act to help the fallen.
sick mind suffering
The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]
laughing mind conscious
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]
sick mind bears
The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]
law
The gods have their own laws. [Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.]
years feet age
While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]
habit pursuit
Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]
god sublime danger
Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]
god blood offering
As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum, Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]