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
prone
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
promise rich
Anyone can be rich in promises.
giver acceptable
Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. [Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]
facts fiction speak
I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.
nymphs echoes babbling
That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.
venus and-love kind
Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.
departed no-friends barns
Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]
brave favour and-love
Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]
trifles
Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]
melancholy solitary ifs
You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.
punishment suffering minus
It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]
brave bravery favors
God himself favors the brave.
short-love love-is care
Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
famous-love fighting love-is
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.