Ovid quotes

43 BC–AD 17 · Roman poet

Ovid wrote the Metamorphoses and witty poems on love, then was exiled by Augustus to the Black Sea, where he wrote letters home.

2 real · 0 not theirs

2 quotes traced to Ovid's own work or a reliable witness.

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Dripping water hollows out stone.

Source: Epistulae ex Ponto IV.10.5 ("Gutta cavat lapidem")

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Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Source: Amores III.11.7 ("Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim")