person
Publius Ovidius Naso
Ovid
Augustan poet (43 BC–AD 17), author of the Metamorphoses; the divine senate jokes that Claudius's transformation should be appended to that poem.
Reading notes
- On Benefits §4.14.1 Ovid
The Augustan poet (43 BC – AD 17); the quoted half-line — 'She who did not give because it was not allowed, gave' — is from his Amores (3.4.4).
- On the Firmness of the Wise Man §17.1 Ovidius Naso
Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC–AD 17), the poet of the Metamorphoses; named here only as the father-in-law of Fidus Cornelius.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §19.110.1 Ovid
P. Ovidius Naso (43 BC – AD 17), the elegiac and epic poet; 'gods of the commons' (de plebe deos) is his phrase from the Metamorphoses (1.595).
- Natural Questions §3.1.1 as Ovid says
P. Ovidius Naso (43 BC-AD 17), the Augustan poet; the line quoted ('a clear spring, silvery with shining waters') is from the Narcissus episode of the Metamorphoses.
- Natural Questions §3.20.3 Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC–AD 17), Augustan poet; quoted here and in the flood passage from the Metamorphoses.
- Natural Questions §4.pr.19 Ovid
Augustan poet, quoted on the reign of the Fury over a crime-sworn world.