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Title: The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes
and Explanations

Author: Publius Ovidius Naso

Translator: Henry Thomas Riley

Release Date: July 16, 2008 [EBook #26073]

Language: English

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This e-text covers the second half, Books VIII-XV, of Henry T. Riley's
1851 translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. The first half, Books I-VII,
is already available from Project Gutenberg as e-text 21765. Note that
this text, unlike the earlier one, is based solely on the 1893 George
Bell reprint.

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The

METAMORPHOSES

of

OVID.

Literally Translated into English Prose,
with Copious Notes and Explanations,

BY HENRY T. RILEY, B.A.
of Clare Hall, Cambridge.

LONDON:

GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN,
AND NEW YOR