On this page you'll find 7 example sentences with Tristia. Discover how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Using Tristia
- In the example corpus, tristia often appears in combinations such as: the tristia.
Context around Tristia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tristia
- In this selection, "tristia" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, especially, elegiac and communicate stand out and add context to how "tristia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include cf tristia by ovid and in the tristia they are. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tristia" sits close to words such as aad, aadhar and aaro, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tristia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Cf. Tristia by Ovid – high drama and hoax. (8 words)
The final book of the Tristia with 14 poems focuses on his wife and friends. (15 words)
Information about his biography is drawn primarily from his poetry, especially Tristia 4.10, which gives a long autobiographical account of his life. (23 words)
Ovid for example probably borrowed from Horace's Epistle 1.20 the image of a poetry book as a slave boy eager to leave home, adapting it to the opening poems of Tristia 1 and 3 (R. (37 words)
In the Epistulae he claims friendship with the natives of Tomis (in the Tristia they are frightening barbarians) and to have written a poem in their language (Ex P. 4.13.19–20). (33 words)
The five books of the elegiac Tristia, a series of poems expressing the poet's despair in exile and advocating his return to Rome, are dated to AD 9–12. (30 words)
The first two lines of the Tristia communicate his misery:Parve – nec invideo – sine me, liber, ibis in urbem; ei mihi, quod domino non licet ire tuo! (27 words)
Example sentences (7)
Cf. Tristia by Ovid – high drama and hoax.
Information about his biography is drawn primarily from his poetry, especially Tristia 4.10, which gives a long autobiographical account of his life.
In the Epistulae he claims friendship with the natives of Tomis (in the Tristia they are frightening barbarians) and to have written a poem in their language (Ex P. 4.13.19–20).
Ovid for example probably borrowed from Horace's Epistle 1.20 the image of a poetry book as a slave boy eager to leave home, adapting it to the opening poems of Tristia 1 and 3 (R.
The final book of the Tristia with 14 poems focuses on his wife and friends.
The first two lines of the Tristia communicate his misery:Parve – nec invideo – sine me, liber, ibis in urbem; ei mihi, quod domino non licet ire tuo!
The five books of the elegiac Tristia, a series of poems expressing the poet's despair in exile and advocating his return to Rome, are dated to AD 9–12.
Common combinations with tristia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: