Ovid
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Ovid. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO, a Roman poet of the Augustan age, of the equestrian order; born in Sulmo, 43 b. c. He studied the law, but his decided predilection for polite literature, and particularly poetry, led him to neglect severer studies and on succeeding to the paternal estate, he quitted the bar for poetry and pleasure. Horace and Propertius were his friends, and Augustus was a liberal patron to him; but he at length fell under the displeasure of the emperor, who, for some cause never explained, banished him from Rome, and sent him to live among the Getæ, or Goths, on the Euxine. His chief works are "The Loves," "The Art of Loving," and the "Metamorphoses." He in vain solicited his recall to Rome, and died in Tomi A. D. 18. Ovid possessed high poetical genius. His judgment and taste, however, are sometimes at fault, but no poet, either ancient or modern, has expressed beautiful thought in more appropriate language.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
ov'id (43 B. C.-18 A. D), a Roman poet. A study of Ovid's life exhibits him as a leader in a gay and profligate company, not unlike that which flourished in France at one time and at the English court after the Restoration. His Art of Love, an extensive work, pictures the society in which he moved. Ovid is remembered, however, for his Metamorphoses, much read in school as a text book of classical mythology. It consists of poetical narratives of all the transformations described in legend and tradition up to the time of the death of Julius Caesar. Milton's Paradise Lost is said to owe much to Ovid. For some unknown offense, possibly slight, Ovid was banished by the Emperor Augustus. He petitioned humbly to return, but he was refused. He lived ten years in grief and died an exile.