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Excerpt from Selections From Ovid: Edited for the Use of Students
In the 17th extract of this book is contained most of what we know of the life of Ovid detailed by himself! He was born in the Consulship of Hirtius and Pansa, i.e. b.c. 43, at Sulmo (mod. Sulmona), about 90 miles from Rome, in the country of the Peligni, on the 20th of March. His full name was Publius Ovidius Naso. He always speaks of himself by his cognomen Naso. He tells us that he received from his earliest youth the best and most careful education, and in due time was sent to study rhetoric with the best teachers in Rome; and finally, though he does not mention it in the life of himself, he visited Athens for purposes of study. He had one brother exactly a year older than himself, and their father wished the two boys to study for the profession of Advocates, which was the best way of rising in public life.
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