The Loeb Classical Library: Metamorphoses, Volume II : Books 9–15

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The Loeb Classical Library: Metamorphoses, Volume II : Books 9–15Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCAD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man,

in all its excesses and chaos

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a manual for public speakers

and from the most important archaeological discoveries

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in every way

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Written grammar and vocabulary exercises

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The passages are linked by summaries of the continuing plot

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