The  adtumn  Aed  tw  fnitts ;  KiV.thrda^  every  season
of  the  tear,  wintrv  winds  blew  with  prodigioua  vto<
Itnct  C^rUtiM,  S,  10,  17),  and  lashed  the  waves  of  the
boisteroua  Eoxine  on  ita  desert  shore.    {Trutia,  4,

4,  fi7.)  The  only  aniinatcd  object  was  the  wild  Sar-
■utiag  driving  his  ear,  yoked  with  oxen,  across  the
snows,  or  the  froten  depths  of  the  Euxinc  (  TrUtia,  3,
m,  clad  in  his  fur  cloak,  his  countenance  alooe
aneovered,  his  beaid  glistoning  and  sparitling  with  the
liMr-AiHl  end  flakea  of  aoow.  (Tru/M,  3,  10,  SI.)
— Soeb  was  the  spot  for  which  Ovid  was  compelled
to  rt£faao(e  the  theatres,  the  baths,  the  porticoes,  and
ganlena  of  Kome,  the  court  of  Augustus,  the  banks  of
lite  Tiher,  and  ihe  aun  and  soil  of  luly. — While  thus
driving  him  to  the  most  remote  and  savage  extremity
it  bis  empim.  AugustusKoftened  the  sentence  he  had
yroManced  on  OvU  with  some  alleviating  qualifica-
iono.  Ife  did  not  preeuVe  his  condemnation  by  a  de-
9ee  of  the  aenate,  hot  iesned  his  own  mandate,  in
wbtcb  he  employed  the  word  "relegation**  {rdegatio),
snd  not  '*  banishment**  {extilmm),  leaving  him,  by  thia
«faoire  of  terms,  the  enjoyment  of  his  paternal  fortune
ind  some  other  privtlegisa  of  a  Romaii  citizen.  ( Tria-
te.  fi,  11, 31.— iiW..  4, 9.)  Nor  wen  other  ciicam-


itiiwes  vntbg  In  \m  lata  whiift  might  have  eoii-
triboied  to  impart  consolstion.  His  third  wife,  fo
whom  be  wss  tenderly  stteehed,  though  not  permitted

to  accompany  him  o«  the  voyage  toS^thia,  continued
faithful  to  her  busbaitd  during  tiis  long  exile,  and  pro-
tected hia  property  from  the  rapacity  of  hia  enemies,
(TVwfta,  !,  6.)  Many  of  his  friends  remained  unsha-
ken by  hia  misfortunes,  sod  from  time  to  lime  he  re-
ceived letters  from  them,  giving  him  hopes  of  recall.
