Ovid
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- proper noun
- /ˈoʊvɪd/
- Literature
- Did you ever read the Latin poet Ovid on The Art of Love?
- Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Ovid's stories of love
- Ovid's style
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Watch on YouTubeIt all happened so quickly that, as Ovid tells us in Metamorphoses, Apollo could feel Daphne's heart still beating beneath the bark.
- It all happened so quickly that, as Ovid tells us in Metamorphoses, Apollo could feel Daphne's heart still beating beneath the bark.
- He became like, it says he, he turned to the love of boys and he became like a oh, that's, that's this is Ovid's metamorphosis, not me.
Examples
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Like Ovid's tales, her story involves a metamorphosis, but here there is nothing transformative.
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It all happened so quickly that, as Ovid tells us in Metamorphoses, Apollo could feel Daphne's heart still beating beneath the bark.
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Have you ever read Ovid?
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Well, your verses would be worthy of Ovid, of Virgil, even of Homer.
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We suggested as possible models the sixteenth-century illustrations of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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Or all those stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- girls turning into trees or some god wants to fuck you and you run away and turn into a stag.
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And in the accounts, specifically in Ovid's Metamorphosis, there is this, there's this moment in which Icarus falls out of the sky.
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Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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The dark tone of Heinric's version may well derive from the elegiac mood in Ovid's tale.
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Have you ever read Ovid, the Roman poet known for his works on love?
Synonyms
A Roman poet who wrote poems about love and myths
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ovid comes from the Roman family name Ovidius, and one idea is that this name comes from the Latin ovis 'sheep'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine the Roman poet Ovid telling myth stories to a small flock, and so Ovid is the famous Roman poet who wrote works like 'Metamorphoses'.