Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Ovid

Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE)

“Water belongs to everyone.
Nature never intended the sun or the air or the flowing
streams to be private. I’m simply here for my common right.”

  • From the poem, Metamorphoses, by Ovid (Book 6, approximately between lines 345-355). Translated by David Raeburn. Penguin Classics; Revised Edition, 2004.

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