“Pure chance holds sway everywhere; keep your hook in the water, for a fish will appear where you least expect it.”
About Publius Ovidius Naso
20 March 43 BC–c. 17
Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was born on 20 March 43 BC at Sulmo, a prosperous town in the Apennine country east of Rome, now Sulmona in the Abruzzo region of Italy. He died in exile at Tomis on the western shore of the Black Sea, probably in AD 17 or 18. Few ancient poets have left so vivid a…