PRINTED FOR г. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; T. PAYNE; J. NUNN; R. LEA} By Law and Gilbert, St. John's-Square, Clerkenwell. CONTENTS то The Speeches of Ajax and Ulyffes: from the Thir- teenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphofes The Story of Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea, from the Thirteenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphofes PAGE, THE SPEECHES OF AJAX AND ULYSSES: FROM THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES*. THE chiefs were fet, the foldiers crown'd the field: To thefe the mafter of the fevenfold fhield *The Metamorphofes (as well as the Fafti of Ovid) have preferved, it must be owned, many curious particulars of ancient hiftory, philofophy, and mythology. For Ovid was a great and learned antiquarian, which from the levity and fportivenefs of fome of his poems, one would not fufpect. An old French tranf lator of Ovid, Thomas Vallois, called the Metamorphofes, the Bible of the poets; his work was printed at Paris, in black letter, 1523. The Abbè Banier publifhed a magnificent edition in 4to. 4 vols. 1767, with hiftorical and mythological illuftrations.Benferade made a kind of traveftie of Ovid in Rondeaux, printed in 4to. with beautiful sculptures. The Abbè Bellegarde translated at the fame time Ovid's Metamorphofes, and the pious Thomas à Kempis. Perhaps he was ordered by his confeffor to undertake the latter work as an act of penance; as Dryden was ordered by his confeffor to write the Hind and Panther, as all expiation for having written the Spanish Friar. Dr. JOSEPH WARTON. |