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Title: The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Vol. I, Books I-VII

Author: Publius Ovidius Naso

Translator: Henry Thomas Riley

Release Date: June 8, 2007 [EBook #21765]

Language: English

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THE
METAMORPHOSES OF OVID

Vol. I--Books I-VII

LITERALLY TRANSLATED WITH NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS

by
HENRY T. RILEY, M.A.

With an Introduction by
EDWARD BROOKS, JR.

Copyright, 1899, By David McKay

Press Of
Sherman & Co., Philadelphia

INTRODUCTION.

[From Bell edition.]

The Metamorphoses of Ovid are a compendium of the Mythological
narratives of ancient Greece and Rome, so ingenio