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Ovid Quotes
(full name: Publius Ovidius Naso)
Roman poet

(43 B.C. - c. 17 A.D.)



Lente currite noctis equi.
(Run slowly, horses of the night.)
-- Ovid, Amores

Procul omen abesto!
(Far be that fate from us!)
-- Ovid, Amores

Iam seges est ubi Troia fuit.
(Now there are cornfields where Troy once was.)
-- Ovid, Heroides

Medio tutissimus ibis.
(You will go most safely by the middle way.)
-- Ovid, Metamorphoses

Tempus edax rerum.
(Time the devourer of all.)
-- Ovid, Metamorphoses

Iupiter ex alto periuria ridet amantum.
(Jupiter from on high laughs at lovers' perjuries.)
-- Ovid, Ars amatoria

Expedit esse deos, et ut expedit, esse putemus.
(It is expedient that there should be gods, and as it is expedient, let us believe that they exist.)
-- Ovid, Ars amatoria










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