Ovid Quotes
If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.
Ovid. Tristia. Translated by Arthur Leslie Wheeler, Harvard University Press, 1924, p. 57.
In contemporary American terms this notion is usually couched in terms of all consumers paying higher prices because of credit card frauds, or all airline travelers must submit to searches because of the terrorists.
Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid (/ˈɒvɪd/) in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but, in one of the mysteries of literary history, he was sent by Augustus into exile in a remote province on the Black Sea, where he remained until his death. Ovid himself attributes his exile to carmen et error, "a poem and a mistake", but his discretion in discussing the causes has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
