{"id":86502,"date":"2020-12-28T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?page_id=86502"},"modified":"2022-09-11T10:15:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T08:15:37","slug":"quotes-of-ovid","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/golden-thoughts-of-romans\/quotes-of-ovid\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes of Ovid"},"content":{"rendered":"    <div class=\"ramka_ze_zdjeciem float-right \"\n         style=\"\">\n\n        <div class=\"zdjecie\">\n            <img\n                class=\"ramka-ze-zdjeciem\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ovid-roman-poet-343x400.jpg\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ovid-roman-poet-343x400.jpg 343w, https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ovid-roman-poet-640x747.jpg 640w, https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ovid-roman-poet.jpg 1200w\"                alt=\"Ovid\"\n                width=\"200\"\n                height=\"234\"\n               \n               \n            \/>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ovid-roman-poet.jpg\"\n               rel=\"fancybox\"\n               title=\"Ovid\">\n                <div class=\"iover\">\n                    <div class=\"zicon\">\n                        <i class=\"fa fa-search-plus\"><\/i>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"opis\">\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/ovid\/\">Ovid<\/a>            <\/div>\n        \n        \n    <\/div>\n    \n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/owidiusz\/\">Ovid<\/a> (<em>Publius Ovidius Naso<\/em>) lived in the years 43 BCE &#8211; 17 or 18 CE. He was one of the greatest Roman elegists and poets of the Augustan era. The son of a <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/richest-men-and-wages-in-ancient-rome\/\">rich<\/a> equite, friend of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/horace\/\">Horace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"cyt\">\n<li>&#8220;Then the skin of Ethiopians took a swarthy hue, the hot blood tingling to the surface: then the heat dried up the land of Libya\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: <em>[Sanguine tum credunt in corpora summa vocato Aethiopum populos nigrum traxisse colorem; tum facta est Libye raptis umoribus aestu arida]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">opis<\/span>: Ovid refers here to the Greek myth according to which the steeds of the sun god Helios led by his son &#8211; Phaeton &#8211; strayed from their path and burned part of the earth. The malfunctioning of the chariot was to create the Sahara desert, and the Ethiopians&#8217; skin was to turn black.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Ovid, <em>Metamorphoses<\/em>, II.235-238<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Time, devourer of everything&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: <em>[Tempus edax rerum]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Ovid, <em>Metamorphoses<\/em>, 15.234-6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Times are changed, we also are changed with them&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: <em>[Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Ovid, <em>Fasti<\/em>, VI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You can learn from anyone even your enemy&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: <em>[Fas est et ab hoste doceri]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Ovid, <em>Metamorphoses<\/em>, IV.428<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;If you want to be loved, be lovable&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: <em>[Ut ameris, amabilis esto]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Ovid, <em>Art of Love<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The end crowns the work&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: <em>[Finis coronat opus]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">description<\/span>: the phrase appears literally in Herodian&#8217;s &#8220;Roman History&#8221; (2.85) &#8211; &#8220;Exitus acta probat&#8221;. Probably the &#8220;finis coronat opus&#8221; is a medieval version.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A water drop hollows a stone not by force, but by falling often&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: <em>[Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed saepe cadendo]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Ovid, <em>Epistulae ex Ponto<\/em>, IV, 10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Love is a kind of military service&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: <em>[Militiae species amor es]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Ovid, <em>Ars Amatoria<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Abundance makes me poor&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: <em>[Inopem me copia fecit]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Ovid, <em>Metamorphoses<\/em>, III, 466<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Forbidden fruit always tastes the best&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sooner would the birds be silent in spring, the grasshoppers in summer, sooner would the M\u00e6nalian <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/dog-in-ancient-rome\/\">dog<\/a> turn its back upon the hare, than the fair, attentively courted, would resist the youth&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: <em>[Vere prius volucres taceant, aestate cicadae, Maenalius lepori det sua terga canis, femina quam iuveni blande temptata repugnet]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Ovid, <em>Ars Amatoria<\/em>, I.745<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;True art is to conceal art&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: <em>[Ars est celare artem]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Ovid, <em>Ars Amatoria<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Here I am the barbarian, and I&#8217;m understood by no one, and the stupid Getae make fun of the Latin words which I speak&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: [<em>Barbarus hic ego sum, qui non intellegor ulli et vident stolidi verba latine Getae]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">description<\/span>: Ovid&#8217;s reflection in exile in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/ancient-city-tomis\/\">Tomis<\/a> on the Black Sea. In not entirely clear circumstances, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/augustus\/\">Augustus<\/a> sentenced the poet to a life-long compulsory stay in a town in the borderlands inhabited by the Getae.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Ovid, <em>Tristia<\/em>, V.10.37<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I see and approve of the better, but I follow the worse&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: [<em>Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Ovid, <em>Metamorphoses<\/em>, VII.20-1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Resist the beginnings (and consider the end)&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: <em>[Principiis obsta]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Ovid, <em>Remedia Amoris<\/em>, 91<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) lived in the years 43 BCE &#8211; 17 or 18 CE. He was one of the greatest Roman elegists and poets of the Augustan era. The son of a rich equite, friend of Horace. &#8220;Then the skin of Ethiopians took a swarthy hue, the hot blood tingling to the surface: then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":40742,"parent":70268,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86502","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86502\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}