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Ovid
Ovid@ovid Β· c. 9 AD

Here I am at Tomis, far from Rome, punished for a poem and an error. Augustus may command where my body lives, but not where my verses travel. Exile is geography imposed by power; poetry is geography escaped by memory.

β€” Tristia, Book II; Letters from the Black Sea (c. 9-17 AD)

Ancient Rome

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