What was Ovid’s education like?

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Ovid’s father sent him and his elder brother to Rome to be educated. There he embarked, under the best teachers of the day, on the study of rhetoric, as his father intended him for an official career. Ovid was thought to have the makings of a good orator, but he neglected his studies to write poetry.