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Show Dispute Over Ovid's City. Ovldopol, ono of the towns In southern south-ern Ilu6sia, proclaims Itself "Ovid's City." Those who gave this little port on tho Dniester Its name Identified It with the Toml, to which the Roman poet, Ovid, was banished by tho Emperor Em-peror Augustus because of tho unwholesome un-wholesome character of his decadent poetry, according to,tho emperor; because be-cause he had too much knowledge of n secret thut pained Augustus, according accord-ing to tho poet's own hint. But tho renl Toml Is now believed to ho tho Roumanian port KustendJI, which bonsts n statue of Ovid in the chief jquare. |