We will be celebrating someone's 2050th birthday... :D
Here's a little story about our birthday boy (I'm not sure wether boy is the correct word though...) Ovidius
So, happy birthday to you, Ovidius, you are not forgotten!
Roman poet, noted especially for his ARS AMATORIA and METAMORPHOSES. Ovid was the first major writer to grow up under the empire. He died far from home, in a desolate town by the Black Sea. During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Ovidian stories were highly popular among artists, poets and in courts. In England the Metamorphoses was one of Chaucer's favorite books.
I'm sorry for any fool who rates sleep a prime blessing
And enjoys it from dusk till dawn
Night in, night out. What's sleep but cold death's
reflection?
(from 'Elegy 9b' trans. by Peter Green)So, happy birthday to you, Ovidius, you are not forgotten!
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