The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses - With a Literal Interlinear Translation, and Illustrative Notes #270733

Ovid's Metamorphoses are put into the hands of children just loosed from their leading-strings, as a mere amusement of the passing hour. Thi8\ series of stories is deserving of a higher rank in literature, than that which is assigned to the familiar illustration of a particular moral, by means of sensible or natural objects and is well worthy the attention of every student desirous to be ao quainted with the origin of ancient superstitions.