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event had no effe& in producing his — for Tiberius was 
either hoftile or indifferent to him elt moft Handed 
this perpetual exclufion from cultivated life, and all the 
folations of friendfhip and domeftic affection, and ‘oar en 
affect a ftrength of mind which did not belong to his cha- 
racter. The Eufebian chronicle places his death in the 
fourth year of Tiberius, but the authority cannot be relied 
upon. The people of Tomi are faid to have mourned pub- 
licly for him, and to have ereGted a ftately monument tohis 
memory withont the walls of their city. Ovid was a co- 
pious writer, and the a erie part of . works has. come 
own to our times, which o{s are his “* He- 
roical Epiftles,”” vompoted i in the capes of ye hae 
lovers in the heroical ages 5 3 his pee entitled 
and books ‘Ar ’ his een becky. of 
written in imitation of a poem of Callimachus of the fame 
title, which is a fatyrical performance: there are alfo frag- 
ments of other poems, among thefe fome of a tragedy en- 
titled « Medea.” The lofs of half the « Fatty’ 1s to be 
fometimes really beautiful and ftriking, often deviating into 
trifling puerility. In his happieft moods, he defcribes with 
wonderful force and vivacity ; he is fometimes f{plendid and 
s fometimes, though rarely, fub- 
tine. oe bilan, Baie aoe! Senge and almoft always 
ot rank w very firft clafs of 
ports, a. is penal | one of ee aol agreeable.”? The 
editions of the whole, and of detached parts of his works, 
have been sabato numerous. The following have been 
mentioned as among the moft steer of the whole works; 
that of Heinfius, “Elaevir, 3 vols, 12mo0. 1629; Burman’s, 
ft. 4 vols. 4to 
3 a a oe 
Paris, 3 vols. 12mo. 1762; and Fifcher’ 8, Lipe 4 vols. 8vo. 
1773- 
Ovip, in Geography, a poft-town of New York, in Cayuga 
county, incorporated in 1794, and containing 2169 tnha- 
bitante. 
VIEDA, in Botany, received that name from Linnzus, 
in honour of Gonfalvo Ferdinando d’ Oviedo, alias de Valde, 
a Soani ivine, who in the reign of Ferdi V.w 
fuperintendant of the gold mines of South America, and 
refided at Santa Maria in Darien, ch he rector 
He wrote a hiftory of the Weft Indies, faa an ac 
count of many American plants ; whic be feen in: the 
irs of Voyages, publifhed by the Giant, at Venice, 
1556, and which is taken from the Spanifh edition: 
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printed at Toledo in 1526. OF this there are Englith, Ita 
han, and French tranflations. Plumier, who firft eftablithed 
the prefent ig called it Valdia, which Linneus ead 
correCted. — Gen. 325. satis 425. Willd. Sp. 
Pl. v. 3. 381. ‘Mart. ere Did. v. 3. Juff. arr Lamarck 
Tiluftr. t. 538. Gertn. t. 57. (Valdia Plum. n. Tie 
t.24.)—Clafs and yer Didynamia Angiofpermia. Nat. 
Ord. Perfonata, Linn. Up 
Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, bell- thaped, 
ereCt, in five fhort, broadifh, acute, sei fegments. 
Cor. of one petal, ringent 5 tube extremely long, narrow, 
nearly cylindrical ; limb fho 
ft; anthers roundith. 
Germen fuperior, globofe ; ttyle thread- alain a length 
of the ftamens; ftisma in two acute fe Per 
Berry nearly globofe, four-lobed, of one cell, Teparable i iene 
four parts, ftandimg upon the enlarged aly. Seeds four, 
tumid on one fide, angular on the other, of one cell. 
Calyx five-cleft. Corolla with a very long 
cylindrical tube ; limb five-cleft, nearly equal. Berry = 
bofe, with four feeds. 
1. O. fpin Spin Indian, Ovieda 
ofa. ous, or Weft 
Sp. Pl. 888. Swartz Obf. 248 Avate cardi folio, ea 
fubceruleo; Plum. Ic. 254. t. 256.)—Leaves elliptical, 
with fpinous teeth. guint of Hlfaniola Our {pecimen 
was gathered by Von Rohr in that ifland, near the town 
called aux Cayes, and communicated by fir Jofeph Banks. 
Linnzus had never feen this plant, which is one of the rareft 
productions of the Welt Indies. The fem is thrubby, with 
rough branches. Leaves oppofite, on fhort, round, down 
footfalks, elliptical or obovate, acute, rigid, four or five 
inches long and two broad; {mooth above ; reticulated with 
numerous ftrong veins beneath ; bordered with broad, unequal, 
aa teeth. Panicle terminal, erect, oe ofe, fome- 
eafy, its ftalks oppofite, three-cleft, d owny. ce 
owny, apparently white with a purple 
perhaps entirely purple when frefh, the limb in 
n May 
aft a Ca 
f 
numerous, 
three-forked, axillary and terminal, {mooth branches. Brac- 
teas lanceolate or linear, {mooth. Calyx fomewhat glutinous, 
fpecies, rather 
downy upwards ; 
equal se pclae ‘nteraly overlapping each other in the 
bud. ‘Thei r feems to be white or yellowifh, with 
ftains of me or purple. tt is sae tke that Burmann 
reprefents the corolla of this with only three fegments. 
Perhaps he faw but a bad dry fpecimen, and trufted to 
Plumier and Linnzus for the generic character. The /eaves 
are whorled in Linnzus’s own {pecimen, though he — 
them 
