PUBLII OVIDII NASONIS ELEGIAE TRISTIUM
CUM P.JACOBI PONTANI.. COMENTARIO..
Tyrnavia, 1769
704 pp.
Size 4 1/2 by 6 3/4"
Last leaf (of index) neatly repaired at the edge.
Handsome contemporary gold decorated morocco, rebacked, with original backstrip laid down. Renewed endpapers.

Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC – 17/18 AD), known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.
He was the first major Roman poet to begin his career during Augustus' reign. Ovid was a contemporary of the older poets Virgil and Horace. Collectively, this trio are considered one of three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian described Ovid as the last of the Latin love elegists. He enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime. Regardless, the emperor Augustus banished him to 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"). His reluctance in disclosing specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
Today, Ovid is most famous for the Metamorphoses, a continuous mythological narrative in fifteen books written in the meter of epic. He is also known for works in elegiac couplets such as Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love") and Fasti. His poetry was much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western art and literature. The Metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology.



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