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Born to a provincial family of wealth, status, and privilege (ca. 353) in Roman Gaul, Meropius Pontius Paulinus entered upon the career of a Roman officeholder to which this birth virtually entitled him. It was after he had returned from this Italian service to his ancestral est…
Epistulae ex Ponto, Book I
by Gaertner, Jan Felix, Ovidius Naso, Publius
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"In AD 8 Ovid - at that time indisputably the premier poet of Rome - was suddenly banished to Tomis on the Black Sea. Ovid's reaction to his situation in exile is expressed in the epistolary elegies of the Tristia and the Epistulae ex Ponto. The present edition of the first book…