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How to use Ovid in a sentence

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And I think out of that, in Ovid, Shakespeare gets something of the wondrousness, the marvellousness of the human personality.
As you must be a rather cultivated person to be reading this section of the paper, you probably have your own idea of Ovid and his Metamorphoses.
Likewise, in the Metamorphoses Ovid subverts the epic, the literary genre best suited to Augustus's program of cultural classicism.
As the son of an old equestrian family, Ovid was sent to Rome for his education.
What makes Ovid so special and powerful in comparison with the many inventors and retailers of stories competing for attention?
He knew little about the myths versified by Ovid and depicted by the flighty polychromatic cloud-scapers of Versailles.
He was more likely to be a close reader of one of the several French translations of Ovid which were available to him.
The sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare.
Mr. Ovid L. Jackson: Mr. Speaker, I am not aware that the government has any such document.
Each time the trail would prove false, and this shameful halfheartedness brought Ovid to mind.
Mr. Ovid Jackson: What about children who are born to a parent who not only smokes during pregnancy but are also raised in that environment?
Cultural sovereigns in their own right, Ovid and Dante, despite official exile from their native home, had made their poetic stand against tyranny and despotism.
Mr. Ovid Jackson: We were just trying to keep the numbers to the 104,000 or 102,000, because that's what we're trying to look at there.
Sleeplessly, he reads a book by Ovid that does finally knock him out and inspires the dream that he then relates.
Though no subsequent comedy has transformation woven so fully into its texture as this, Ovid was of continued importance in Shakespeare's later work in the genre.
I was like David Malouf's imagining of Ovid in his banishment — infantilized by exile.
Later, he was taught to turn English verse into alcaics and sapphics in Horatian style, as well as imitating Virgil, Ovid and the Greek tragedians.
Their images decorated Greek vases a thousand years later and they are mentioned in the poetry of Virgil and Ovid.
Philomela, by British composer James Dillon, inspired by Ovid and Sophocles, is his first scenic work.
It was essentially two Roman poets, Ovid and Virgil, who gave us this tragic and terrible story.
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His first work was a translation from Ovid, followed by commendatory verses prefixed to certain plays of Jonson.
I figured him even now hearing Ovid rep., the same passage in the same room.
Not all poets were as strict as Ovid in using the subjunctive in indirect questions.
Ovid never would have said that, if he had smoked a cigar or chewed tobacco.
Ovid begins the poem by asking his detractor why he criticizes Ovid's verse.
You may trace most of the Metamorphoses of Ovid on the walls of the cathedrals.
Nay, this use was not unknown to the Latins, as may be proved from Virgil and Ovid.
In the first four lines Ovid apologizes for not having written to him earlier.
Bishop Grostete refused a presentee whom he described as a boy still in his Ovid.
He returned with these high honors, and was esteemed in grammar a Priscian, in poetry an Ovid, and in physic equal to Galen.
Ovid was not a greater master of Metamorphoses than thy friend.
On the subject of Picus one may consult Ovid, Metamorph, xiv.
Lucian Horace Ovid Virgil, too, did have seeing of that earthworm.
Ovid however had no intention that young women should lacker themselves.
This is the story of syrinx, the reed, as Ovid has told it to us.
His translation of the of Aristides is mentioned by Ovid, tr.
Ovid does not use this sense of res elsewhere in his poetry.
Horace applies the epithet 'Altus,' Ovid that of 'animosus' to Accius.
In Ovid, didn't Pyrrha sow stones, the bones of the great mother, to repeople a drowned world?
There is no counterpart to this opening scene in Golding's Ovid.
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