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Ovid (Ovidius)

Ovid wrote the Metamorphoses, a hexameter poem of transformations, and love poetry in elegiac couplets. He is lighter in tone than Vergil.

Grades 6–8. Authors and genres.

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Hexameter and elegiac couplet are the two meters to hang on his name.

Latin words that go with this card: carmen, amor.

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