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Updated: May 21, 2025
She knew how false was the phrase that old Ovid uttered but could not comfort even himself with, "The mind conscious of rectitude laughs at the lies of gossip." No woman can afford such security.
But she concealed it, and crossing her arms she said resolutely and with dignity: "Go your way through life with your Ovid, and your gods of love, but do not attempt to crush innocence under the wheels of your chariot." "Balbilla do you mean," asked the praetor with a loud laugh. "She knows how to take care of herself and has too much spirit to let herself get entangled in erotics.
"It is a first edition in black letter of Arthur Golding's Ovid!" "But you don't look! Why don't you look? Have you no eyes for that faded ink just under the title?" "Why! What's this? Gul. Shaksper! Is it possible!" "You find it hard to believe your eyes, and well you may! There, Tuke! I told you you didn't know what you were doing!" "I always examine the title-page of a book," answered Richard.
It is a pity they are not extant. From Lucian or from Juvenal, with his bitter picture of a Roman levee, much may be learnt; from the staid pages of Xenophon and Aristophanes' dear farces. But best of all is that fine book of the Ars Amatoria that Ovid has set aside for the consideration of dyes, perfumes, and pomades.
By what course of reasoning he was led in his later work to suppress this large and elastic treatment, and approximate more and more closely to the fine but somewhat limited and metallic rhythm which has been perpetuated by the usage of Ovid, we cannot guess.
How idly I talk; 'tis because the story pleases me none in Ovid so much. I remember I cried when I read it. Methought they were the perfectest characters of a contented marriage, where piety and love were all their wealth, and in their poverty feasted the gods when rich men shut them out. I am called away, farewell! Your faithful. Letter 49.
Ovid even warns a lover to allow fallow seasons to intervene in his courtship. While one can find instruction in their practice even today, one can benefit even more from their agricultural philosophy, for the characteristic of the American farmer is that he is in too much of a hurry. The ancient literature of farm management was voluminous.
Add to these results of Ovid's contemplated marriage the loss of a thousand a year, secured to the guardian by the Will, while the ward remained under her care and the statement of disaster would be complete. "We must leave this house, and submit to be Lady Northlake's poor relations there is the price I pay for it, if Ovid and Carmina become man and wife."
Sentences of death or banishment fell thick among the leaders of that gay and profligate society; to later historians it seemed that all the result of the imperial policy had been to add hypocrisy to profligacy, and incidentally to cripple and silence literature. Of this later Augustan period Ovid is the representative poet.
In Latin literature allusions to angling are rather more numerous than in Greek, but on the whole they are unimportant. Part of a poem by Ovid, the Halieuticon, composed during the poet's exile at Tomi after A.D. 9, still survives. In other Roman writers the subject is only treated by way of allusion or illustration.
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