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Pacific Jewel Cruise 2010
Pacific Jewel Cruise 2010
"We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequor.]" ~Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) on Navigation
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"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace." ~Ovid
“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.” ~Ovid
"All things change, nothing is extinguished.... There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement." ~Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
"According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind. [Lat., Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo.]" ~Ovid
"Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you." ~Ovid
"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times." ~Ovid
"Fortune and love favor the brave." ~Ovid
"Have patience and endure: this unhappiness will one day be beneficial." ~Ovid
"If you count the sunny and cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates." ~Ovid
"Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish." ~Ovid
"Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name." ~Ovid
"Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses." ~Ovid
“Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).” ~Ovid, Metamorphoses
“Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]” ~Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) on Habit
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." ~Ovid
"The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often." ~Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
"The least strength suffices to break what is bruised. [Lat., Minimae vires frangere quassa valent.]" ~Ovid
"The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains. [Lat., Factum abiit; monumenta manent.]" ~Ovid
"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the soul." ~Ovid
"What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. [Lat., Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est, Quae venit indigne poena dolenda venit.]" ~Ovid
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Verse
“I grabbed a pile of dust,
And holding it up,
Foolishly asked for as many birthdays
As the grains of sand.
I forgot to
Ask that they be years
Of youth. ” ~Ovid
Ovid’s famous mock epic—a treasury of myth and magic that is one of the greatest literary works of classical antiquity—is rendered into fluidly poetic English by world-renowned translator Allen Mandelbaum. Roman poet Ovid’s dazzling cycle of tales begins with the creation of the world and ends with the deification of Caesar Augustus. In between is a glorious panoply of the most famous myths and legends of the ancient Greek and Roman world—from Echo’s passion for Narcissus to Pygmalion’s living statue, from Perseus’s defeat of Medusa to the fall of Troy. Retold with Ovid’s irreverent flair, these tales are united by the theme of metamorphosis, as men and women are rendered alien to themselves, turned variously to flowers, trees, animals, and stones. The closest thing to a central character is love itself—a confounding, transforming, irrational force that makes fools of gods and mortals alike. The poem’s playful verses, both sensually earthy and wittily sophisticated, have reverberated through the centuries, inspiring countless artists and writers from Shakespeare to the present. Frequently translated, imitated, and adapted, The Metamorphoses has lost none of its power to provoke and entertain. (Everyman's Library)
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Biography
Ovid was born in Sulmo (modern Sulmona), in an Apennine valley east of Rome, to an important equestrian family, on this day in 43 BC.
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