I mean, he used elegiac couplets, but I don't think the "lyric/elegiac" distinction holds much water nowadays.
Ovid is better at one literary form (elegiac couplet) than perhaps any other person has ever been at any other form (sans Shakespeare in blank verse drama and sonnets). And the bulk of his non-epic work fits well within the range of what we would classify, broadly, as lyric poetry today.
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