Ovid

[ ov-id ]

/ ˈɒv ɪd /

noun

Publius Ovidius Naso,43 b.c.–a.d. 17?, Roman poet.

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O·vid·i·an

[oh-vid-ee-uh n] /oʊˈvɪd i ən/, adjective

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We have lived to see beauty in the form of a cow—a natural, modern, milch cow, and no descendant from any Ovidian metamorphosis.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 |Various
Except for some Ovidian Epistles, which he is said to have published as early as 1620, Malleville's own poems were posthumous.

Aspects and Impressions |Edmund Gosse
The first of these belongs to the class of Ovidian myths already noticed in such works as Lorenzo's Ambra.

Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama |Walter W. Greg
They are not, however, a perpetual and uniform tissue of Ovidian phraseology.

Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2 |Henry Hallam

The nursery has never before or since been celebrated with such exuberance of fancy—and in the purest Ovidian elegiacs!

Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature |John Addington Symonds

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Ovid

/ (ˈɒvɪd) /

noun

Latin name Publius Ovidius Naso. 43 bc –?17 ad, Roman poet. His verse includes poems on love, Ars Amatoria, on myths, Metamorphoses, and on his sufferings in exile, Tristia

Derived forms of Ovid

Ovidian (ɒˈvɪdɪən), adjective

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Ovid

[ (ov-id) ]

An ancient Roman poet; author of the Metamorphoses and The Art of Love.

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