place
Sulmo
Ovid's birthplace in the Paelignian country (modern Sulmona), a well-watered town in the Abruzzo hills.
Reading notes
- The Loves §2.16 Sulmo
Ovid's well-watered birthplace in the Paelignian hills (modern Sulmona), the setting of this poem.
- Letters from the Black Sea §4.14 and Sulmo
Sulmo, Ovid's birthplace in the Paelignian country of central Italy; even it, he says, could be no kinder to him than Tomis has been.
- The Festivals §4.proem Sulmo
Ovid's cool Apennine birthplace (modern Sulmona), here lamented from his Black-Sea exile.
- Sorrows §4.10 Sulmo
Ovid's birthplace, a town of the Paeligni in the central Apennines, 'ninety miles distant from the City.'