All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses, I'm an… - Ovid

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All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses,
I'm an easy victim. Why, by now
Your arrows practically know their own way to the target
And feel less at home in their quiver than in me.

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Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – 17 AD) was a Roman poet, commonly known to the English-speaking world as Ovid. Along with Virgil and Horace, Ovid is one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature, generally considered the greatest master of the elegiac couplet.

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Native Name: Publius Ovidius Naso

Alternative Names: P. Ovidius Naso

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Horace Dante Alighieri Torquato Tasso Cicero Juvenal

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Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae.

Time gliding by without our knowledge cheats us, and nothing can be swifter than the years.

Donec eris sospes, multos numerabis amicos:
tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris.

All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses, I'm an easy victim. Why, by now Your arrows practically know their own way to the target And fee… - Ovid

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