Ovid
noun
Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 b.c.–a.d. 17?, Roman poet.
Ovidian
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a word derived from
Ovid.
Example Sentences
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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
The first of these belongs to the class of Ovidian myths already noticed in such works as Lorenzo's Ambra.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Walter W. Greg
