He continued writing poetry-a kindly man, leading a temperate life-and died in exile. He 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. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus with his Ars Amatoria ( Art of Love). 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. The digital Loeb Classical Library extends the founding mission of James Loeb with an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature.
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