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

LONDON:
REPRINTED FROM THE STEREOTYPE PLATES BY WM. CLOWES & SONS, LTD.,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

Fable descriptions are taken from the translator’s Synopses.

Introduction

Book VIII
Fable I: Minos and Scylla
Fable II: Theseus and the Minotaur
Fable III: Dædalus and Icarus
Fable IV: Meleager and the Calydonian Boar
Fable V: Acheloüs tells the five Naiads’ stories
Fable VI: Baucis and Philemon; the transformations of Proteus
Fable VII: Erisicthon’s hunger

Book IX
Fable I: Hercules defeats Acheloüs to win Deïanira
Fable II: Nessus and the death of Hercules
Fable III: Galanthis and the birth of Hercules
Fable IV: Lotis, Dryope and Iolaüs
Fable V: Caunus and Byblis
Fable VI: Iphis and Ianthe

Book X
Fable I: Orpheus and Eurydice
Fable II: Orpheus sings to the rocks and trees

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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 YORK.
1893.

LONDON:
REPRINTED FROM THE STEREOTYPE PLATES BY WM. CLOWES & SONS, LTD.,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

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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 YORK.1893.

LONDON:REPRINTED FROM THE STEREOTYPE PLATES BY WM. CLOWES & SONS, LTD.,STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

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LITERALLY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE,
WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS,

LONDON:
GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN,
AND NEW YORK.
1893.

LONDON:
REPRINTED FROM THE STEREOTYPE PLATES BY WM. CLOWES & SONS, LTD.,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.