The Metamorphoses

The greatest of Roman poets, later offended a Grand Poo-Bah in Rome and "banished to the Balkans" ("a poem and a mistake": guess we'll never know), sent to modern-day Romania.

See also < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses >.

Form would not accept "A.D." and this leaves me wondering about, say, ancient religious writings. Negative numbers?