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By Law and Gilbert, St. John's-Square, Clerkenwell.

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
Upftarted fierce and kindled with difdain,
Eager to fpeak, unable to contain

* The Metamorphofes (as well as the Fasti 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 tranflator 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 published a magnificent edition in 4to. 4 vols. 1767, with hiftorical and mythological illustrations.Benferade made a kind of traveftie of Ovid in Rondeaux, printed in 4to. with beautiful sculptures. The Abbè Bellegarde tranflated 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 au expiation for having written the Spanish Friar.

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Dr. JOSEPH WARTON,

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