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
Those acanthus scrolls and honeysuckle borders, in spite of their consummate finish, fail to arrest attention, leaving the soul as unstirred as the Ovidian cadences of Bembo.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
