Author: Ovid

Cited by

• James Joyce (2)
  • IN: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1915) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes
    FROM: Metamorphoses, VIII, 188, (8), Poem, Italy
  • IN: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1915) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
• Kate Atkinson (1)
  • IN: Not the End of the World (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora, di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen
    FROM: Metamorphoses Book 1, 1-4, (8), Poem, Italy
• Jo Walton (4)
  • IN: The Philosopher's King (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Quid me mihi detrahis?
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, NULL
  • IN: Necessity (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And now the work is done that cannot be erased by Jupiter's anger, fire and sword, nor the gnawing tooth of time. Let the day, that has power only over my body, end when it will my uncertain span of years. The best part of me will be bourne, immortal, beyond the distant stars.
    FROM: envoi to Metamorphoses, (8), NULL, Italy
  • IN: The Philosopher Kings (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Quid me mihi detrahis?
    FROM: Metamorphoses Book VI, (8), Poem, Italy
• Manuel A. Viray (1)
  • IN: Morning Song (1990) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Sors tua mortalis, non est mortale quod optas. (Men, though doomed to perish, aspire)
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
• Nuraliah Norasid (1)
  • IN: The Gatekeeper (2017) Fantasy, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: And to this day, Minerva, to dismay and terrify her foes, wears on her breast the very snakes that she herself had set - as punishment - upon Medusa's head.
    FROM: The Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
• Gish Jen (1)
  • IN: Mona in the Promised Land (None) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... all things change. The cosmos itself is flux and motion
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Melissa de la Cruz (1)
  • IN: Misguided Angel (2010) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All things change, nothing perishes.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Margaret Atwood (1)
  • IN: The Heart Goes Last (2015) Fiction, Dystopia, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ... with wonderful craftmanship he sculpted a gleaming white ivory statue.... It appeared to be a real living girl poised on the brink of motion but modestly holding back - so artfully did his artistry conceal itself.. he kissed her, convinced himself that she kissed him back, spoke to her, embraced her...
    FROM: Pygmalion and Galatea, Book X Metamorphoses, (8), Book, Italy
• Sarah McCarry (1)
  • IN: All Our Pretty Songs (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What, then, could she complain of, except that she had been loved?
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Book, Italy
• Chris F. Holm (1)
  • IN: The Killing Kind (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.
    FROM: Ars Amatoria, (2), Book, Italy
• John Connolly (1)
  • IN: The Wolf in Winter (2014) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: He fed in fear and reached the silent fields And howled his heart out, trying in vain to speak.
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
• Robert Coover (1)
  • IN: John's Wife (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Those two, with so much else in common, were models for me, masters, examples to follow, and now my justification.
    FROM: Tristia, Book II, (8), Poem, Italy
• Russell Banks (1)
  • IN: Lost Memory of Skin (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now I am ready to tell how bodies changed into different bodies.
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
• Rebecca Makkai (2)
  • IN: The Hundred-Year House (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing of her was left, except her shining loveliness.
    FROM: Metamorphoses, "The Transformation of Daphe", (8), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The Hundred-Year-House (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing of her was left, except her shining loveliness.
    FROM: Metamorphoses, The Transformation of Daphne, (8), Book, Italy
• Stephen Coonts (1)
  • IN: Flight of the Intruder (1986) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All the wide sky Was there to tempt him as he steered toward heaven, Meanwhile the heat of sun struck at his back And where his wings were joined, sweet-smelling, fluid Ran hot that once was wax.
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
• La Seur, Carrie (1)
  • IN: The Home Place (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]
    FROM: Epistulae ex Ponto, (-17), NULL, Italy
• Karl Schroeder (1)
  • IN: Permanence (2000) Speculative fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It is expedient that there be gods; therefore, let us believe in them.
    FROM: Ars Amatoria, (2), Book, Italy
• Charles Maturin (1)
  • IN: Women, Or, Pour Et Contre: A Tale (1818) Ficton, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Ut mea sit, Servata mea virtute, paciscor.
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
• Anne Zouroudi (3)
  • IN: The Taint of Midas (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The rich poor fool, confounded with surprise, Starving in all his various plenty lies: Sick of his wish, he now detests the pow'r, For which he ask'd so earnestly before; Amidst his gold with pinching famine curst; And justly tortur'd with an equal thirst. At last his shining arms to Heav'n he rears, And in distress, for refuge, flies to pray'rs. O father Bacchus, I have sinn'd, he cry'd, And foolishly thy gracious gift apply'd; Thy pity now, repenting, I implore; Oh! may I feel the golden plague no more. The hungry wretch, his folly thus confest, Touch'd the kind deity's good-natur'd breast; The gentle God annull'd his first decree, And from the cruel compact set him free.
    FROM: The Legend of King Midas, (8), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The Bull of Mithros (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
    FROM: Epistulae ex Ponto Book I, (9), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The Doctor of Hessaly (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...There within she saw that Envy was intent upon a meal of viper flesh, the meat that fed her vice... And when she saw the splendid goddess dressed in gleaming armour, Envy moaned: her face contracted as she sighed. That face is wan, that body shriveled; and her gaze is not direct; her teeth are filled with filth and rot; her breast is green with gall, and poison coasts her tongue. She never smiles except when some sad sight brings her delight; she is denied sweet sleep, for she is too preoccupied, forever vigilant; when men succeed, she is displeased -- success means her defeat. She gnaws at others and at her own self -- her never-ending, self-inflicted hell...
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
• Marcel Theroux (1)
  • IN: Strange Bodies (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora.
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
• Raymond Queneau (1)
  • IN: The Flight of Icarus (1968) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: "Icare," dixit, "ubi es? Qua te regione requiram?
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
• Javier Cercas (1)
  • IN: The Impostor (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Si se non nouerit
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), NULL, Italy
• Lope felix de vega carpio (1)
  • IN: Coleccion de las obras sueltas (1776) NULL, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ...Quod tentabam dicere versus erat.
    FROM: Trist. lib. IV. El. x. v. 26, (8), Poem, Italy
• Richard Graves (2)
  • IN: Euphyrosyne, or, Amusements on the Road of Life (1776) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Felicefque vocat pariter ftudiique locique
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
• John Shebbeare (1)
  • IN: The Marriage Act (1754) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: taedae quoque jure ooissent, Sed vetuere patres: quod non potuere vetano, Ex equo captis ardebant mentibus ambo,
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
• James Ridley (1)
  • IN: The History of James Lovegrove (Vol. 2) (1761) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Forme benum fragile est.
    FROM: Ars Amatoria, (2), Book, Italy
• Elizabeth & Griffith Griffith (1)
  • IN: The Delicate Distress (1769) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Hi narrata ferunt alio: mensurasque sicti Crescit; et auditis aliquid novus adjicit außtor.
    FROM: Met., (8), NULL, Italy
• d. frey lope felix de vega carpio (1)
  • IN: Coleccion de las obras sueltas, assi en prosa, coma en verso, , (1776) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Quod tentabam dicere versus erat.
    FROM: Trist. lib. IV. El. x. v. 26, (8), Book, Italy
• Jake Arnott (1)
  • IN: The House of Rumour (2012) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: At the middle of the world, between earth, sea and sky, a point where all three regions of the universe join, there is a place from which all that exists can be seen, no matter how distant, and every voice heard by listening ears. Here Rumour lives, in a high tower she has chosen for herself, with innumerable avenues and thousands of entrances that are never closed. Open night and day, her house is built of sounding bronze that hums and echoes, repeating all it hears. There is no rest within, no silence in any room, but no clamour either, only the murmur of voices, like the sea's waves heard from afar, or the last tremors of thunder after Jupiter has clashed storm-dark clouds together. Crowds occupy the hallways, a fickle throng that come and go with myriad rumours, circulating confused words, fiction mixed with truth. Some fill idle ears with gossip, others pass on stories, each consecutive narrator adding some new detail to the telling. This is the haunt of Credulity, rash Error, empty Joy and unreasoning Fear, impulsive Sedition and Whisperings of Doubtful Origin. Rumour herself spies everything that passes through the heavens, every occurrence on earth and at sea, her scrutiny ranges the universe.
    FROM: Metamorphoses, Book XIII: 39-63, (8), NULL, Italy
• Caroline Lee Hentz (1)
  • IN: The Planter's Northern Bride (1854) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Nothing shall assuage Your love hut marriage: for such is The tying of two in wedlock, as is The tuning of two lutes in one key: for Striking the strings of the one, straws will stir Upon the strings of the other; and in Two minds linked in love, one cannot be Delighted, but the other rejoiceth."
    FROM: Sappho and Phaon, (-16), Poem, Italy
• Gregg Hurwitz (1)
  • IN: Don't Look Back (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: … he must not turn his eyes behind him, until he emerged from the vale of Avernus, or the gift would be null and void.
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
• Samuel Cobb (1)
  • IN: Poems on several occasions. With imitations from Horace, Ovid, Martial, Theocritus, Bachilides, Anacreon, And Others. To which is prefix'd a discourse on criticism, and the liberty of writing, by way of letter to a friend. (1707) NULL, British
    EPIGRAPH: Non ego mendosos ausim defendere Versus.
    FROM: Amores, (-16), Poem, Italy
• Lawrence Norfolk (1)
  • IN: Lemprière's Dictionary (1991) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Barbarus hic ego sum, qui non intellegor ulli
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• P. A. O'Reilly (1)
  • IN: The Wonders (2015) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: The soul is still the same, the figure only lost; And as the soften'd wax new seals receives This face assumes, and that impression leaves; Now call'd by one, now by another name; The form is only chang'd, the wax is still the same...
    FROM: Metamorphoses, Book 15 tr. John Dryden et al. (1717), (8), Book, Italy
• Inglath Cooper (1)
  • IN: And Then You Loved Me (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Maria Mutch (1)
  • IN: When We Were Birds (2018) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "You will be sorry you did not give me it!" he cried, and flung himself over a high cliff. Everyone thought that he had fallen, but he was changed into a swan, and hovered in the air on snowy wings.
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Book, Italy
• William Congreve (2)
  • IN: The judgment of Paris: a masque. Written by Mr. Congreve. Set severally to musick, by Mr. John Eccles, Mr. Finger, Mr. Purcel, and Mr. Weldon. (1701) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Vincis utramque Venus
    FROM: De arte amandi/The Art of Love, (2), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The mourning bride. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's servants. (1703) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Neque enim lex qequior ulla, Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.
    FROM: De arte amandi/The Art of Love, (2), Poem, Italy
• George Farquhar (2)
  • IN: The constant couple, or, a trip to the Jubilee. A comedy. Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's servants. The third edition; with a new scene added to the part of Wildair; and a new prologue (1701) Play, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Sive favore tali, sive hane ego carmine famam jure tibi grates, candide lector, ago.
    FROM: Tristia, (8), Poem, Romania
  • IN: The inconstant: or, the way to win him. A comedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. By his Majesty's servants. (1702) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: In nova fert Animus Mutatas diocre formas Corpora
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
• H. J., Esq (1)
  • IN: The fatal union of France and Spain. A satyr. By H. J. Esq; (1701) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: -------- Discors concordia Featibus Apta est
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
• NULL (4)
  • IN: An historical poem upon his late Majesty King James II. (1701) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Gravis est jactura Sepulchri
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
  • IN: Anna in anno mirabili: or, the wonderful year of 1702. A rehearsal. (1701) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Ut desint Vires, tamen est laudanda Voluntas
    FROM: Epistulae Ex Ponto, (-17), Poem, Romania
  • IN: Ornatissimus joculator: or, the Compleat Jester. Containing, 1. celebrated jests, 2. merry jokes, 3. witty punns, 4. Notorious Bulls, 5. Pleasant Tales, And 6. Uncommon and Delightful Stories. Accurately collected, and plac'd under their Proper and Distinct Heads. To which is added, Wit's activity display'd: Instructing the meanest Capacity how to perform several Pieces of Art and Ingenuity to the Wonder and Admiration of the Spectators. (1703) NULL, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Semel in Anno rider Apollo
    FROM: Heroides, (-16), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The leaden-age. A poem. (1705) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: De duro est ultima Plumbo, Protenus erumpit venae Pejoris in Aevum Omne Nefas
    FROM: Metamorphorses, Book 1, (8), Poem, Italy
• Francis Manning (1)
  • IN: Poems upon several occasions and to several persons. Written by Mr. Manning. (1701) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Et Veniam pro Lande Peto, Laudatas abunde Non fastiditus Si Tibi, Lector, ero
    FROM: Tristia, Book I, (8), Poem, Romania
• William Pittis (2)
  • IN: Canterbury tales, rendred into familiar verse, viz. The Plain Proof. The Forreigner. The Choice. An Eagle and a Crow. The Qualification. The Politician. The Revolution. The Resignation. The Partition. The Republican. The Wind and Weather-Man. The Barister. Written by no body. (1701) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: ------- Non Fabula, rumor Ille fuit ------
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The true-Born Englishman: a satyr, answer'd, paragraph by paragraph. (1701) Non-fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Nescio, qua natale solum dulcedine cunitos Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui
    FROM: Epistulae Ex Ponto, (-17), Poem, Romania
• Nicholas Rowe (2)
  • IN: The ambitious step-mother. A tragedy. As 'twas acted at the New Theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields. By His Majesty's servants. (1701) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: ------ Decet haec dare dona noveream.
    FROM: Metamorphoses, Book 9, (8), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The ambitious step-mother. A tragedy. As it is acted at the New Theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields. By Her Majesties servants. (1702) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Decet hare dare dona noveream
    FROM: Metamorphoses, Book 9, (8), Poem, Italy
• John Dryden (1)
  • IN: The indian emperour: or, the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Being the sequel of The Indian queen. (1703) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Dum relego, scripsisse pudet, quia plurima cerno, Me quoque qui feci, judice, digna lini.
    FROM: Epistulae Ex Ponto, (-17), Poem, Romania
• Jerónimo Fernández (1)
  • IN: The honour of chivalry: or, the famous and delectable history of Don Bellianis of Greece. Containing The Valiant Exploits of that Magnanimous and Heroick Prince; Son unto the Emperor Don Bellaneo of Greece. Wherein are described, the Strange and Dangerous Adventures that befell him: With his Love towards the Princess Florisbella, Daughter to the Soldan of Babylon. Translated out of Italian. (1703) Book, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Sed tamen est tristissima janua nostrae, Et labor est unus tempora prima pati.
    FROM: Remedia Amoris, (2), Poem, Italy
• Thomas Otway (1)
  • IN: The history and fall of Caius Marius. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal. By Thomas Otway. (1703) NULL, British
    EPIGRAPH: Qui color Albus erat nunc est contrarius Albo.
    FROM: Metamorphoses, Book 2, (8), Poem, Italy
• Mary Pix (1)
  • IN: The different widows: or, intrigue all-a-mode. A comedy. As it is acted at the New Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields. By Her Majesty's servants. (1703) NULL, British
    EPIGRAPH: Vade, sed incultus qualem decet Exudis esse.
    FROM: Tristia, (8), Poem, Romania
• Charles Hopkins (2)
  • IN: The art of love: in two books dedicated to the ladies. A poem. The second edition enlarged. By Mr. Charles Hopkins. Author of a Tragedy called Boadicea Queen, of Brittain. (1704) Poetry, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Quo me finocit Amor, quo me violentius ussit; Hoc melior facti vulneris ultor ero
    FROM: De arte amandi/The Art of Love, (2), Poem, Italy
• Joseph Trapp (1)
  • IN: Abra-Mule: or, love and empire. A tragedy. As it is acted at the New Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by Her Majesty's Servants. (1704) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Non bene conveniunt, nec in und sede morantur Majestas, & Amor
    FROM: Metamorphorses, Book 2, (8), Poem, Italy
• Thomas Uvedale (1)
  • IN: The remedy of love, in imitation of Ovid. A poem. By Mr. Tho. Uvedale. (1704) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Utile propositum est Savae extinguere flammas Nec Servum vitiis pectus habere tuum:
    FROM: Remedia Amoris, (2), Poem, Italy
• Martin Bladen (1)
  • IN: Solon: or, philosophy no defence against love. A tragi-comedy. With the masque of Orpheus and Euridice. (1705) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Parve nec invidio fine une Liber Ibis in Urbem.
    FROM: Tristia, (8), Poem, Romania
• A. Chaves (1)
  • IN: The cares of love, or, a night's adventure. A comedy. As it is now acted at the Theatre-Royal in Little Lincolns-Inn Fields, by Her Majesty's servants. (1705) Play, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Hei mihi! quod nullis Amor est medicabilis Herbis.
    FROM: Metamorphorses, (8), Poem, Italy
• William Forbes (1)
  • IN: A pil for pork-eaters: or, a Scots lancet for an English swelling. (1705) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Cuncta prius tentanda, fed Immedicabile Vulnus Enfe Recidendum.
    FROM: Metamorphorses, Book 1, (8), Poem, Italy
• Alexander Fyfe (1)
  • IN: The royal martyr, K. Charles I. An opera. (1705) Play, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Caefaris arma canant alii, nos Caesaris Aras, Et quoscunque Sacris addidit ille dies.
    FROM: Fasti, (8), Poem, Italy
• Edmund Waller (1)
  • IN: Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons: by Edmond Waller, Esq; (1705) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Non ego mordaci distrinxi carmine quenquam, Nulla venenato litera Mista joco est.
    FROM: Tristia, Book 2, (8), Poem, Romania
• Stephen Clay (1)
  • IN: An epistle from the Elector of Bavaria to the French King: after the battel of Ramillies. (1706) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Triste petis munus: quis enim sua praelia victus Commenmor velit? referam tamen ordine, nec tam Turpe fuit vinci, quam contendisse decorum; Magnaque dat nobis Tantus solatia victor.
    FROM: Metamorphoses, Book 9, (8), Poem, Italy
• Joseph Browne (1)
  • IN: The patriots of Great Britain: a congratulatory poem to those truly noble and illustrious peers who happily united the two kingdoms of England and Scotland, under the auspicious government of Her most Sacred Majesty Queen Anne, &c. (1707) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: An melius per te virtutum exempla petemus.
    FROM: Consolatio ad Liviam, (None), Poem, Italy
• George Buchanan (1)
  • IN: The very learned Scotsman, Mr. George Buchanan's fratres fraterrimi, three books of epigrams, and book of miscellanies, in English verse; with the illustration of the proper names, and mythologies therein mentioned: by Robert Monteith. (1708) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Ante, Deos Homini quod conciliare valeret. Far erat, & puri lucida mica Salis.
    FROM: Fasti, (8), Poem, Italy