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Ovid -43 - 18 (61)

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.


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Metamorphoses

“And now the measure of my song is done: The work has reached its end; the book is mine, None shall unwrite these words: nor angry Jove, Nor war, nor fire, nor flood, Nor venomous time that eats our lives away.

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), was a Roman poet, contemporary of Virgil and Horace. He is best known for the Metamorphoses, a 15-book continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic, and for collections of love poetry in elegiac couplets, especially theAmores ("Love Affairs") and Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love"). 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.