Quotations: Ovid

Question 1

Rident stolidi verba Latina

Answer 1

Ovid - Fools laugh at the Latin language

Question 2

Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit

Answer 2

Ovid - He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow

Question 3

Ars est celare artem

Answer 3

Ovid - It is art to conceal art

Question 4

Amor tussisque non celantur

Answer 4

Ovid - Love and a cough are not concealed

Question 5

Leve fit, quod bene fertur onus

Answer 5

Ovid - A burden which is done well becomes light

Question 6

Auctor opus laudat

Answer 6

Ovid - An author praises his own work

Question 7

Carmen et error

Answer 7

Ovid - A poem and a mistake (the reason he says he was exiled)

Question 8

Credula res amor est

Answer 8

Ovid - Love is a believable thing

Question 9

Fas est et ab hoste doceri

Answer 9

Ovid - It is right even to be taught by an enemy

Question 10

Finis coronat opus

Answer 10

Ovid - The end crowns the work

Question 11

Medio tutissimus ibis

Answer 11

Ovid - You will go most safely in the middle

Question 12

Omnia mutantur nihil interit

Answer 12

Ovid - All things change, nothing perishes

Question 13

Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis

Answer 13

Ovid - Times change and we change are changed in them

Question 14

Tempus edax rerum

Answer 14

Ovid - Time, the devourer of things

Question 15

Tristis eris si solus eris

Answer 15

Ovid - You will be sad if you are alone

Question 16

Vergilium vidi tantum

Answer 16

Ovid - I had but a glimpse of Vergil