Ovid - Carter County Courthouse - Ardmore, OK
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N 34° 10.304 W 097° 07.828
14S E 672310 N 3782776
This etching is engraved over the south entrance to the courthouse.
Waymark Code: WMWM6C
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 09/17/2017
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The Carter County Courthouse is a beautiful building, constructed in 1910. The south entrance has double doors and a transom, surrounded by pink granite.
Above this south entrance is a block that is inscribed: "The punishment can be remitted the crime is everlasting. OVID" This means we may choose to lay aside or slacken the punishment for a deed, but it remains a crime nevertheless forever.
Ovid (43 B.C. - 17 A.D.) was a Roman poet. To read some of his other quotations, (
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Address:
101 1st Avenue SW
Ardmore, OK 73401
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