Roman poets placed them on some small islands called Sirenum scopuli.
Ovid talks more about his own life than most other Roman poets.
It is a collection of mostly short poems, many in imitation of classic Roman poets.
All this was lost to me along with my Greek and Roman poets and historians.
Roman poets, particularly Ovid, adopted the same form in Latin many years later.
Like some decadent Roman poet reciting his autobiography as he opened a vein in the bath.
In support of this, Virgil and two other Roman poets are quoted.
It is a line from Juvenal, a Roman satirical poet who wrote in the second century.
As a great Roman poet might have said, 'let us build a collective monument more lasting than bronze'.
He is the earliest Roman poet whose name is known.