Tristia

The brass contains two Latin lines modelled on the lines of Ovid's "Tristia," and run:

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See

The five books of the "Tristia," and the "Epistles from Pontus," were the outpourings of his sorrowful heart during the gloomy evening of his days.

Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853

His "Tristia" were more admired by the Romans than his "Amores" or "Metamorphoses," -- probably from the doleful description of his exile, -- a fact which shows that contemporaries are not always the best judges of real merit.

The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852

Harvard classics professor Richard Thomas sent me his fascinating article "The Streets of Rome: The Classical Dylan," which documents Dylan's reliance on Virgil and on Ovid's "Tristia" and "Black Sea Letters" (!) in his songs.

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It's Tristia 4.10, where he says his brother was exactly 1 year older than he, and that they celebrated their birthday with two cakes on one day: una celebrata est per duo liba dies line 12.

HBO's Rome S2 Ep 6 2007

He was fifty-one, the age of the banished Ovid, to whom he often compared himself, and though the independent and haughty Burton bears no resemblance to the sycophantic and lachrymose yet seductive Sulmoan, nevertheless his letters from Trieste are a sort of Tristia — or as the flippant would put it — Triestia.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

Indeed, he read and re-read with an almost morbid interest both the Tristia and the Ex

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

Nevertheless, I would challenge Professor Kline's above quoted statement, for it implies that Brodsky's achievement to date can stand comparison with Akhmatova's by the time she published her Anno Domini MCMXXI (her third volume), with Pasternak in Sestra moia zhizn '(My Sister Life), with Tsvetayeva's Lebedinyi stan (Swans' Camp) and other poetry of the revolutionary years, and with Mandelstam's wonderful Tristia.

Brodsky's Poetry Struve, Gleb 1973

PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO left three books of _Amores_; one of _Heroides_; the _Ars Amatoria_; _Remedia Amoris_; the _Metamorphoses_ (fifteen books); the _Tristia_; and the _Fasti_.

Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell

It is evident, however, that biographers have committed a mistake with regard to the birth of this poet; for in the passage above cited of the Tristia, Ovid mentions Tibullus as a writer, who, though his contemporary, was much older than himself.

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus