![]() He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. ![]() Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. ![]() Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE–17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. ![]()
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