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Ovid Literary Traveler |
 | | That city serves as the source of the origin of the wandering Gypsies, who refer to themselves as "Rom," and, as a complaining American couple at the local tourist office attest with their razor-slit pockets and purse, are locally active in their skillful larceny. |
 | | Aegypsos, for which Horia has Ovid employ the 2nd Century Greek traveler and geographer, Pausanias, as a Baedecker, lies at the top of the Danube delta, and may be the site of present-day Tulcea. |
 | | According to Horia at first Ovid pined for Rome and its women, orgies, banquets and other pleasures, and for a time plotted ways to regain the good graces of Augustus. |
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