Ovid Quotes
For those things which were done either by our fathers or ancestors, and in which we ourselves had no share, I can scarcely call our own.
Yet so many nations and cultures carry the baggage of historical deeds or misdeeds do their detriment, while others take great pride in accomplishments which they themselves have had nothing to do with. The middle ground is to understand and appreciate (or condemn if warranted) the historical contibution to the present of ancenstors and avvoid hubris for others actions and avoid the need to be defensive and justify or deny other ancensoral behavior.
Ovid, Quoted in Nigel Cawthorne, Public Executions, Arcturus Publishing, September 28, 2006
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Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid (/ˈɒvɪd/) in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but, in one of the mysteries of literary history, he was sent by Augustus into exile in a remote province on the Black Sea, where he remained until his death. Ovid himself attributes his exile to carmen et error, "a poem and a mistake", but his discretion in discussing the causes has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
