Ovid (43 b.c.-a.d.17) was born at Sulmo. He also knew Horace. He was banished by Augustus to Tomis (on the Black Sea), for unspecified transgressions. The Heroides are "letters from legendary women to absent husbands or lovers." He also composed the Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love"), "a didactic poem in three books on the arts of seduction and intrigue."

(The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd ed., pp. 763-765).