Metamorphoses — Ovid
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title : The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV Author : Ovid Translator : Henry T. Riley Release date : July 16, 2008 [eBook #26073] Most recently updated: October 28, 2023 Language : English Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26073 Credits : Louise Hope, Ted Garvin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team *** START OF 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. The text includes characters that will only display in UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding, including Greek words in the Notes: œ, Œ (oe ligature) κείρω, ἀκονιτὶ If any of these characters do not display properly, or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure that the browser’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change your browser’s default font. All Greek words have mouse-hover transliterations: Δηοῦς κόρη . More information on the text , including line numbering , errors and variations , and details of footnote numbering , are given at the end of this file. References to Clarke in Transcriber’s Notes are from the third edition (1752). THE METAMORPHOSES OF OVI D. 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; the transformation of Attis Fable III : Cyparissus Fable IV : Jupiter and Ganymede Fable V : Apollo accidentally kills Hyacinthus Fable VI : the Cerastæ and the Propœtides Fable VII : Pygmalion’s statue Fable VIII : Cinyras, Myrrha and the birth of Adonis Fable IX : Venus and Adonis; Hippomenes and Atalanta Fable X : the death of Adonis Book XI Fable I : the Thracian women kill Orpheus Fable II : Midas’s golden touch Fable III : the contest of Pan and Apollo; Midas’s ears Fable IV : the walls of Troy Fables V and VI : Peleus and Thetis; assorted transformations Fable VII : the shipwreck of Ceyx Fable VIII : Hesperia and Æsacus Book XII Fables I and II : the Greeks sail for Troy; the sacrifice of Iphigenia Fables III and IV : Cænis becomes Cæneus; the battle of the Lapithæ and Centaurs Fables V and VI : Periclymenus; the death of Achilles Book XIII Fable I : Ajax and Ulysses fight for Achilles’s armor; the fall of Troy Fables III and IV : the sacrifice of Polyxena; the funeral of Memnon Fables V and VI : Æneas leaves Troy; the daughters of Anius and Orion Fable VII : Polyphemus kills Acis Fable VIII : Glaucus Book XIV Fable I : Circe, Glaucus and Scylla Fable II : Dido and Æneas; the Cercopes Fable III : Apollo and the Sibyl Fable IV : Ulysses receives Æolus’s bag of winds Fable V : Circe turns Ulysses’s men into swine Fable VI : Circe, Pictus and Canens Fables VII and VIII : the followers of Diomedes; the Apulian shepherd Fables IX and X : the fleet of Æneas; the death of Turnus Fable XI : Vertumnus and Pomona Fables XII and XIII : Anaxarete; Romulus builds Rome Book XV Fable I : Myscelos builds Crotona Fables II and III : Pythagoras teaches Numa Fables IV, V and VI : the transformations of Egeria, Hippolytus and others Fable VII : Æsculapius comes to Rome Fable VIII : the assassination of Julius Cæsar The Introduction is included here for completeness. The Synopses of Books I-VII have been omitted. INTRODUCTION. The Metamorphoses of Ovid are a compendium of the Mythological narratives of ancient Greece and Rome, so ingeniously framed, as to embrace a large amount of information upon almost every subject connected with the learning, traditions, manners, and customs of antiquity, and have afforded a fertile field of investigation to the learned of the civilized world. To present to the public a faithful translation of a work, universally esteemed, not only for its varied information, but as being the masterpiece of one of the greatest Poets of ancient Rome, is the object of the present volume. To render the work, which, from its nature and design, must, of necessity, be replete with matter of obscure meaning, more inviting to the scholar, and more intelligible to those who are unversed in Classical literature, the translation is accompanied with Notes and Explanations, which, it is believed, will be found to throw considerable light upon the origin and meaning of some of the traditions of heathen Mythology. In the translation, the text of the Delphin edition has been generally adopted; and no deviation has been made from it, except in a few instances, where the reason for such a step is stated in the notes; at the same time, the texts of Burmann and Gierig have throughout been carefully consulted. The several editions vary materially in