Filled with truisms, they were for centuries read and quoted more than those of any other ancient writer.
OVID (43 B.C.-18 A.D.), a native of Sulmo, is far inferior to Virgil and Horace as a poet, but ranks high on account of his great gift for narration.
"Of the Latin poets he stands perhaps nearest to modern civilization, partly on account of his fresh and vivid sense of the beauties of nature, and partly because his subject is love.

His representations of this passion are graceful, and strikingly true.

He also excelled other poets in the perfect elegance of his form, especially in the character and rhythm of his verses." He spent his last days in exile, banished by Augustus for some reason now unknown.

Some of his most pleasing verses were written during this period.
One of the most noted men of the Augustan age was MAECENAS, the warm friend and adviser of Augustus.

He was a constant patron of the literature and art of his generation.