person
Ovid
also: Ovidius, Publius Ovidius Naso
Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC – 17/18 AD), Roman poet best known for the Metamorphoses and the Ars Amatoria (Art of Love); to know Ovid 'only from practice' is a ribald joke meaning the man knows love from experience rather than from reading the Latin text.
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- Only a Joke §2 Ovid only from practice
Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC – 17 AD), Roman poet best known for the Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love); to know Ovid 'only from practice' is a ribald joke — the man knows love from experience, not from reading the Latin text.