Ovid
4 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC to AD 17), the Roman poet celebrated for his elegiac verses on love and his epic work the Metamorphoses.
“Ovid's Metamorphoses has influenced Western art and literature for more than two thousand years.”
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ov·id
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