And Rosta scripsit:
> > ObScure: Ovid wasn't too happy during his sojourn among your countrymen,
> > as I recall, but he made some good poetry of it....
>
> Wherabouts did he sojourn among them?
The city of Tomi on the Black Sea (I don't know exactly where). He
was shipped there in the year 8, for indefinite political offences,
and died disappointed in 17.
> 1. Could one also do puns about eggs, or is _Ovid_ susceptible only to sheep
> puns? (I'm vaguely reminded also of "I'm like the Tiberius of a tragic Capri",
> in a free translation of Baudelaire's "Je suis comme le roi d'un pays
> pluvieux".)
I'll leave this one to Raimundus (or Rhaifun in Brithenig).
> 2.
> Me: What did your brother give you for your birthday?
> Spouse: A video.
> Me: Of what?
> Spouse: Huh???
> Me: What did he give you a video of?
> Spouse: Che cretino! He gave me the works of OVIDIO!
Publius Ovidius the Nose, that's him.
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