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1. He exiled Ovid for his erotic writing
2. The only people with whom he maintained relations were the four friends, whom he had exchanged their tops and kites for books, and he set them to reading Seneca and Ovid while they were still in gram-mar school
3. to Ovid, was metamorphosed into the flower which bears
4. Ovid sees four major divisions (after a prologue depicting the creation and primordial events) to the metamorphoses:
5. Do you think these undead things have stopped manipulating all living humans when Ovid died? They are still doing it
6. Ovid was born just before Jesus, and outlived him by some years
7. In it… he described things that were even worse than Ovid did in his book… 1,200 years later… the 1st part of Ovid’s book was renamed ‘The Divine Comedy’
8. Is dead spirit of Ovid re-living his life hidden inside Dante’s body? Or is a dead filth even older than Ovid or Dante re-living their lives… over and over again through innocent unsuspecting living humans? The point is: what is seems to be inexplicable, can be explained and understood… if you include the hidden unseen presence of these dead filth re-living their unlived lives through us the living
9. Look at how much attention Dante pays to Ovid, and how important Dante considers Ovid to be
10. If you should have anything to do with robbers, I will give you the story of Cacus, for I have it by heart; if with loose women, there is the Bishop of Mondonedo, who will give you the loan of Lamia, Laida, and Flora, any reference to whom will bring you great credit; if with hard-hearted ones, Ovid will furnish you with Medea; if with witches or enchantresses, Homer has Calypso, and Virgil Circe; if with valiant captains, Julius Caesar himself will lend you himself in his own
11. The cousin was amazed as well at Sancho's boldness as at the patience of his master, and concluded that the good temper the latter displayed arose from the happiness he felt at having seen his lady Dulcinea, even enchanted as she was; because otherwise the words and language Sancho had addressed to him deserved a thrashing; for indeed he seemed to him to have been rather impudent to his master, to whom he now observed, "I, Senor Don Quixote of La Mancha, look upon the time I have spent in travelling with your worship as very well employed, for I have gained four things in the course of it; the first is that I have made your acquaintance, which I consider great good fortune; the second, that I have learned what the cave of Montesinos contains, together with the transformations of Guadiana and of the lakes of Ruidera; which will be of use to me for the Spanish Ovid that I have in hand; the third, to have discovered the antiquity of cards, that they were in use at least in the time of Charlemagne, as may be inferred from the words you say Durandarte uttered when, at the end of that long spell while Montesinos was talking to him, he woke up and said, 'Patience and shuffle
12. As in Ovid, Met
13. For this comparison see Ovid, Heroid
14. 'The idea of this long fragment,' Chénier says, 'has been supplied me by a fine piece of Propertius, book iv, elegy 3;' and he proceeds to state that he has not servilely copied it, but, 'according to his wont,' mixed in it passages from Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, and everything that came to his hand, and frequently, too, 'following only himself
15. Ovid was an exile at Tomi, in Scythia, whence he addressed much base flattery to the emperor, and where he wrote his Tristia
16. According to Ovid, 84 the pirates find the god on the shore of Chios, stupid with sleep and wine, and bring him on board their vessel
