Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso (; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life.

Roman senator, consul and governor during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius

Roman Senator and consul who was a friend of the Roman emperors Augustus and Tiberius

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humanist, poet laureate, Classical philologist, Ovidian impersonator, and putative rogue.