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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

To future readers I would only say, in Ovidian phrase:— Si qua meo fuerint, ut erunt, vitiosa libello, Excusata, precor, Lector amicus, habe.

From Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by Walter, James Conway