(43 BCE - 17 CE / Rome / Italy)

poet Ovid
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  • Saiom Shriver (4/11/2012 7:31:00 PM)

    Ovid with his Metamorphoses convinced countless numbers through the millenia to follow the vegetarian diet of
    Pythagoras, himself, DaVinci, Van Gogh, Rodin, Ramanujan, Buddha, and according to many Biblical researchers Jesus

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Elegy V

In summer's heat and mid-time of the day
To rest my limbs upon a bed I lay,
One window shut, the other open stood,
Which gave such light, as twinkles in a wood,
Like twilight glimpse at setting of the sun,
Or night being past, and yet not day begun.
Such light to shamefast maidens must be shown,
Where they must sport, and seem to be unknown.
Then came Corinna in a long loose gown,

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