Ovid — "Quod licet ingratum est, quod non licet acrius urit."
Quod licet ingratum est, quod non licet acrius urit.
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"If you want to be a good old man, be a good young man."
"There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a man who has an excellent wife, but does not know how to enjoy her."
"What is love? It is a thing that is not, and yet it is."
"There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change."
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About Ovid (43 BCE - 17/18 CE)
Roman poet whose Metamorphoses (8 CE) is the longest surviving Latin poem and Western literature's main pagan-mythology source. Closely associated with Virgil (the Aeneid poet and other Augustan poetic giant) and Horace (third Augustan-era major poet). For an intellectual contrast, see Augustus, Roman emperor (27 BCE – 14 CE) — Augustus exiled Ovid to Tomis on the Black Sea in 8 CE, reasons tied to his erotic poetry (Ars Amatoria) and possible knowledge of imperial-family scandal — Augustus represented Roman moral-restoration politics that Ovid's witty erotic verse was structurally against.