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Eugene Ionesco

ROMANIA (Country) BALKANS
1912 - 1994

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Ovidius Naso, Publius, his exile at Tomi

TOMI (Ancient city) ROMANIA
   He had almost completed his best known work, the Metamorphoses, when suddenly, in A.D. 8, he was banished for life by Augustus to Tomi (Kustindje), on the Black Sea, near the mouths of the Danube.

This extract is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks

Perseus: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Per...