Latin quotes by Ovid

Ovid (43 BC-17 AD), Roman Poet

Publius Ovidius Naso

His works include Amores (2), Arms Amatoria (2), Heroides (2), Fasti, and Metamorphoses (2) (3)

1. Abeunt studia in mores - Practices passionately pursued become habits (Ovid - Heroides Libri XV)
2. Ars Amandi / Ars amatoria - The Art of Love (Book by Ovid)
3. Ars moriendi - The art of dying (Title of two Christian books from around 1415 and 1450, which provide guidance for a good death)
4. Auferat hora duos eadem - Let the same hour take us both (Ovid - Metamorphoses, VIII)
5. Aurea aetas - Golden age (Ovid - Metamorphoses I, 89)
6. Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intellegor ulli - Here I am a foreigner because no one understands me (Ovid - Tristia V - The poet Ovid expressed a sense of alienation since he was not understood in his own land)
7. Cura fugit multo diluiturque mero - Worry flees and is dissolved in much wine (Ovid Ars Amatoria I, 237)
8. Da populo, da verba mihi - Tell it to the people, tell it to me (Publius Ovidius Naso Amores)
9. Diania turba - The troop of Diana (Ovid, Fasti)
10. Dominus Providebit - God will provide (Motto on the Swiss 5-franc coin)
11. Donec aliter provideatur - Until something else is provided (Legal term)
12. Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos: Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris - As long as you are fortunate, you will have many friends: if clouds appear, you will be alone (Ovid Tristia)
13. Dulce puella malum est - So sweet a plague is woman (Ovid)
14. Dum loquor, hora fugit - While I speak, the time flies (Ovid)
15. Equi dentes inspicere donati - Do not examine the teeth of a gift horse (Do not look a gift horse at the mouth - The teeth provide a good indication of the horse's age and health - Accept gifts as they are)
16. Furor arma ministrat - Rage provides arms (Virgil - Aeneid I, 150)
17. Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo - The drop hollows out the stone by frequent dropping, not by force (Ovid)
18. Hoc caverat mens provida reguli - The sighted Regulus had taken this into account (Horace - Odes - It is now used as a "Monday morning quarterback" - Someone who is right after the fact)
19. Homo Hominis in Servitio Perficitur - The man only becomes a man when provides service (Motto of the University of Monterrey, Mexico)
20. Inde ferunt, totidem qui vivere debeat annos, corpore de patrio parvum phoenica renasci - A baby phoenix is born from the ashes of its father, destined to live for the same period of time (Ovid, Metamorphoses)

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