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• Heav'd on Olympus tott'ring Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 387...
• It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.
  -- Ovid (43 BC) -- Metamorphoses, xiii...
• I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book iv, Chap. xxxviii...
• Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. -- Ovid (43 B.C. - 17 A.D.)
• Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. Ovid (43 BC - 18 AD)
• They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.
  -- Ovid (43 BC) -- The Art of Love, i, 99...
• A woman is always buying something. -- Ovid (43 B.C. - 18 A.D.)
• Ovid (43 BC -18 AD), _The Art of Love_, Book 1, 345