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Ovid
(Ovid)
Pronunciation:
/ˈɒvɪd/
(
43
bc
-
circa
17
ad
)
, Roman poet; full name Publius Ovidius Naso. He is particularly known for his elegiac love poems (such as the
Amores
and the
Ars Amatoria
) and for the
Metamorphoses
, a hexametric epic which retells Greek and Roman myths.
Derivatives
Ovidian
adjective
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