Ovid in the library

7 works in the library quote Ovid — 12 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through Ovid 6 citations · Metamorphoses 4 citations · Amores 1 citation · Fasti 1 citation

Hugo Grotius 5 citations · Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 3 citations · Gaius 2 citations · Samuel Rawson Gardiner (ed.) 1 citation · Tertullian 1 citation

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Ovid is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 2 authority · 1 neutral 3 citations

   ch. 9 · ch. 12 · chapter xi.: on promises.

   Explicitly cited by title as the source of the fragment on animal instinct.

   In a fragment of Ovid’s, called the Art of Fishery, it is remarked, that all animals know their enemy and his means of defence, and the strength and measure of their own weapons.

2. Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations

   de adoptionibvs. (2) · ch. 116

   Ovid's Amores is quoted to illustrate a legal term's meaning.

   That this was one of the many meanings of the word appears from Ovid, who uses the following terms to express a want of self-control:

3. The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) Hugo Grotius 2 authority 2 citations · 8 passages

   ch. 23 2 passages anchored here · letter ii 6 passages anchored here

   Named directly and quoted across two passages.

   The second is, that all that which has been so constituted by nature that although serving some one person it still suffices for the common use of all other persons, is today and ought in perpetuity to remain in the same condition as when it was first created by nature.

4. Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 2 neutral 2 citations

   letter 79 · letter 110

   Ovid is cited only to supply a name for a category of deity, reported neutrally

   Set aside for the present the view that pleases certain people, that to each of us a god is given as a tutor, not indeed of the regular order, but one of a lower rank, of the number of those whom Ovid calls "the gods of the commons.

5. The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660 Samuel Rawson Gardiner (ed.) 1 refuted 1 citation

   ch. 14

   The work is explicitly named as 'Ovid's Fits of Love' and condemned as lascivious literature contributing to vice.

   as namely, Ovid’s ‘Fits of Love,’ ‘The Parliament of Women,’ which came out at the dissolving of the last Parliament;

6. On Benefits Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 authority 1 citation

   book 4

   Ovid is explicitly named as the author of the cited line used to support Seneca's point about motive

   1 These things, my Liberalis, had to be inserted, because to give a benefit, of which we now treat, belongs to virtue, and it is most base to give it for the sake of any other thing than that it may have been given.

7. Adversus Valentinianos Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation

   adversus valentinianos

   Named work explicitly invoked for satirical comparison

   They are all refounded into Nuses, into Anthropoi, into Theleti—the females equally into Siges, into Zoes, into Ecclesias, into Fortunatas—so that Ovid would have deleted his own Metamorphoses, had he known a greater one today.