Who is Ovid?

[Ben Kenobi]

Settle a challenge by proving to me that not all polytubbies are ignorant. Google and wikipedia are of course ruled out.

[Naked Gents Rut]

I say Roman poet.

edit:

Spoiler:

Just checked on Wikipedia. Booyah.

edit 2: Please note that I said the correct answer before Ben put up the poll.

[Ben Kenobi]

Bonus if you can get all 4.

[Maniac]

It's OvidIUS. Learn some Latin. You are so ignorant.

[Ben Kenobi]

Sadly this is an English only site.

[Lefty Scaevola]

I have read Metamorphoses, in Latin, 37 years ago

[Q Classic]

"Transformations" is not the title I usually hear it by. Funny how you speak highly of teaching the ancient tongues, but don't seem to have the courage to refer to the works by their native titles.

[Ben Kenobi]

"Transformations" is not the title I usually hear it by. Funny how you speak highly of teaching the ancient tongues, but don't seem to have the courage to refer to the works by their native titles.

I thought you were saying Latin was a dead language.

[DaShi]

BK bet his intelligence on this thread and lost.

[Q Classic]

I thought you were saying Latin was a dead language.

It is. A dead language refers to languages that are no longer spoken as a primary, main language. Contrast this with an extinct language, which no longer has any speakers.

What I said was quite true. And, since it seems like you were too far up your ass to understand the nuances in what I said, I also said that Latin had its purpose, but in limited fields, and I did not think that it had as much relevance in modern, general education.

[Ben Kenobi]

How did I lose?

[Traianvs]

I believe you'll have to come up with something harder to find out whether or not polytubbies are ignorant

[Naked Gents Rut]

Nah. The econ threads are already proof enough.

[Q Classic]

What's the term for betting with something you don't have?

Short selling?

[Nikolai]

Not read the thread other than the OP, to answer the question without any knowledge of what has been said. So bear with me: Ovid was, as far as I know, a Roman author. He made a naughty book only grown ups could read, many monasteries had it, but it was a nono to read for most people, as they could get naughty thoughts and see naughty pictures.