Ovid — "The gods applaud the bold."
The gods applaud the bold.
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"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."
"Fas est et ab hoste doceri."
"Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name."
"Adde quod in magnis et laudem et lucra futuri."
"Every lover is a soldier."
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.