Example sentences for: ovid

How can you use “ovid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • According to Ovid, "When she could not find him in the sky, 'Unless I am mistaken,' she said, 'he is doing me some wrong.

  • According to Ovid, when Zeus first saw this nymph, he said, "Maiden, you are fit for [Zeus] himself to love, and will make someone divinely happy when you share his couch."

  • As Ovid wrote in Metamorphoses in the first century, Hera says of herself, "Great indeed are my achievements, and mighty my strength."

  • (Ovid does not say if the couch was in Zeus' private study.)

  • New York 's David Denby raves about Hercules: "[p]retty much a hash, an amalgam of Ovid and everything else ...


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