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The slippage isn’t always this Ovidian, but names circulate in ways that can frustrate a strict accounting of the dramatis personae.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2021

In an interview, she has said that she likes “the way that the death of one thing is the beginning of something else,” an Ovidian mind-set equally fit for the gardener and the translator.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 5, 2016

It makes a curious counterpoint to the two Ovidian panels devoted to Prometheus, his fashioning of man, theft of inspiriting fire and subsequent punishment.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2015

The program’s final work, “Diana and Actaeon,” is, at Ms. Mason’s request, a narrative piece that recounts the Ovidian myth.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2012

His guesswork was on a par with that of the schoolboys who introduce 'Stirlingia' or 'Liverpolia' into their Ovidian elegiacs.

From Science in Arcady by Allen, Grant