Ovi 
and he drew up for the ufe of his noble pupil “ Arithmetice 
in numero et fpeciebus Inftitutio; que tum Logiftice, tum 
Analytice atque adeo totius Mathematice quafi Clavis eft,’’ 
which he publifhed in 1631. This work, ee was intended 
the mathematics, 
abroad. An 
filed, &c.”’ lt a through feveral ae and became 
a Randard work with tutors in the in ion of mathema- 
tical pupils at the univerfities, and fome parts of it were 
made the fubjeéts of the geometrical le€tures at Grefham 
college. Ina third edition of his Clavis, he added a trea- 
tile on the ufe of logarithms; a declaration of the tenth 
book of Euclid’s Elements ; ; a treatife of regular a and 
d in the books of Archimedes. He 
metry, abfolutely to confine the d 
limer parts of fcience, to the principles laid down in the Ele- 
ments. Onthe contrary, in his expofitions of the theorems 
of Archimedes on the {phere and cylinder, he condemns the 
se ftri€tnefs of that author, which obliged him to make 
cles having been depofe 
the day of hearing, 
hearing 
the vote which was paffed at Weltminfter for the reftoration 
of Charles IT. He has been charatterifed ‘as facetious in 
the {phere of all incaturets mufic, &c.; exact in his ftyle, as 
; handling his cube, and other inftruments 
at eighty, as fteadily as others at thirty; owing, he faid, to 
arts; advancin ngs but religion, 
which, 1 rder and decency, he maintained fecure in 
his privacy, prudence, and contentment.’’ 
jes, and moft of his Greek and Latin books contaned 
notes in his own hand writing, with a demonftration of the 
propofitions in the margin. ‘T’hefe books and manufcripts 
came into the poffeffion of Mr. William Jones, father of the 
late fir William Jones, and afterwards into the hands of fir 
Charles Scarborough, the phyfician, who carefully feleéted 
thofe that were fit for the prefs, and printed them in 1676, 
under the title “ Opufcula mathematica haétenus inedita,”” 
vo. Biog. 
OUGLY, in Cay. a town a peaches in the 
circar of Sanore; 75 miles W. of Sanore. 
OUG » a town of Port gal “in 
aes fix miles S. of 
38° 5 W. long. 6° 
a a town of S frica, in the territory of Tripoli. 
See Acur 
OVI Aiea 
the province of 
Ibuquerque, in Spain. N. lat. 
See ALBUMEN. 
arofe from the knowledge which the 
h 
OVI 
OVICULUM, in the Ancient Architedure, a little ovum, 
or egg. 
Some alfo ufe the word oviculum for ovolo. 
Baldus will have this to be the ee aftragal of Vitru- 
vius. Daviler 
OVID, Pustius Ovinius Naso, in Biography, a cele- 
brated Roman poet, was born at Sulmo, the prefent 
Abruzzo, in the confulate of Hirtius and Panfa, in the 
year 43 e was of an ancient equeftrian family, and 
was fent in his youth to i to be educated in liberal 
ftudies under the beft ma : he fhewed a propenfity to 
oetry at an early period oe i life, and it was not oo 
extreme difficulty, that his father could prevail‘ on him 
relinquifh the culture of the Mufes for the thriving a a 
of the law. ength, padeued he was prevailed on be 
fet down to bufinefs, and he ars to have made 
progrefs in forenfic eloquence ae judicial knowledge, “for 
he refers to fome caufes that he had pleaded with great fuc- 
cefs; and he afterwards fat as one of the triumvirs to whom 
criminal jurifdiction was committed. By the death of his 
brother he was probably o longer. obliged to follow the 
law as a gainful A deferted the courts, and gave 
himfelf up to pleafure and poetry. His talents and amiable 
qualities introduced him to the beft fociety in Rome. He 
was married three times; from the firft two wives he was 
divorced, but he {peaks of his third, Perilla, with great 
affetion, by whom he had a daughter, who adhered to him 
in all his fortunes, and who is thought to have furvived him. 
He feems to have lived at his eafe and in affluence, poffeffing 
a houfe near the capitol, and pleafant fe on the A 
villa in his native co Ali 
he incurred a fent ce of bani e 
) w incidents in claffical biography have more 
excited the difcuffion of the curious than this; itilla myftery 
hangs upon it which no elucidation can thoroughly clear. 
He has himfelf affigned two reafons for the anger of Au- 
guftus; one, and that the oftenfible caufe, though certainly 
not the true Te the a oe his juvenile poems ; 
the other, he fays, was an erro rime, ae of 
which his eyes hod been poly. nee Ts intenti 
“‘ Infcia quod crimen viderunt lumina plector, 
Peccatumque oculos eft habuiffle meum. 
And in another a he writes, 
« Perdiderunt cum me duo eri imina, carmen et error 
Alterius fai culpa filenda mihi elt.”’ 
It was fomething in which the emperor’s feelings were par- 
ticularly concerned ; fome attribute it to an amour of Ovid 
with Livia, the ak of Augaftus, while others fuppofe it 
poet, involuntarily, 
ad of the thocking inceft of the emperor with his daughter 
Julia. The place of Ovid’s exile was Tomi, a town in 
Scythia, near the Euxine fea, and not far from the mouths 
of the Danube. His elegiac epiftles from that place are 
full of complaints of the feverity of the climate, the wild- 
nefs of the fcenery, and the favage manners of the firround- 
long he lived in this condition is not cer- 
