Crossword-Solution: TRISTIA
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| TRISTIA | anagram | ISITART |
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| OVID, work of | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
VEIIND
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with TRISTIA (5)
Though these poems (The Tristia and Letters from Pontus) have no other topic than the poet's sorrows, his exquisite taste and fruitful invention have redeemed them from the charge of being tedious, and they are read with pleasure and even with sympathy.
The Tristia were composed in his exile, in which, though his vivacity forsook him, he still retained a genius prolific in versification.
His "Tristia" were more admired by the Romans than his "Amores" or "Metamorphoses,"--probably from the doleful description of his exile,--a fact which shows that contemporaries are not always the best judges of real merit.
Italy has only one spectre, Cæsar, and then where did he appear to Brutus? At Philippi, in Macedonia and in Thessaly, the Denmark of Greece, the Scotland of the Orient; where the fog made Ovid so melancholy he named the odes he wrote there Tristia.
The palliations he alleges in the second book of the _Tristia_, which is the best authority for his life, are in point of fact, unanswerable.