Excerpt from Selections From Ovid: Edited for the Use of Students This is what we know of Ovid's life to his 5lst year, by which time his father and mother had both died at a very advanced age. In this year in the midst of his prosperity and literary success he was suddenly ordered by a rescript of Augustus to retire to Tomi, on the Black Sea, within a certain day'. There was no possibility of refusing to obey such an order; though to a Roman of Ovid's time to quit Rome and to live in such a remote province, was to lose ...
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Excerpt from Selections From Ovid: Edited for the Use of Students This is what we know of Ovid's life to his 5lst year, by which time his father and mother had both died at a very advanced age. In this year in the midst of his prosperity and literary success he was suddenly ordered by a rescript of Augustus to retire to Tomi, on the Black Sea, within a certain day'. There was no possibility of refusing to obey such an order; though to a Roman of Ovid's time to quit Rome and to live in such a remote province, was to lose all'that made life worth having: and you will see in the extracts from his letters or Tristia, ' in the third part of this book, what were the particular miseries he felt -in this forcible change of residence, and how violent his grief was at being compelled to make it. He lived for nearly ten years from the time he thus left Rome, dying in a.d. 18 at Tomi, from which place he was never allowed to depart. In Spite of his lamentable account of himself he appears to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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