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The Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses : from the Thir-

teenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses

The Story of Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea, from

the Thirteenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses

Of the Pythagorean Philosophy; from the Fifteenth

Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses

Preface concerning Ovid's Epistles

Canace to Macareus. Epift. XI.

Helen to Paris. Epift. XVII.

Dido to Æneas. Epift. VII.

The First Book of Ovid's Art of Love

From Ovid's Amours. Book I. Eleg. 1.

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A Discourse concerning the original and progress of

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The Fourth Satire of Persius

The Fifth Satire of Perfius

The Fifth Satire. Inscribed to the Rev. Dr. Bulby

The Sixth Satire of Persius

The Sixth Satire. To Cæfus Bassus, a Lyric Poet

The First Book of Homer's Ilias

The last parting of Hector and Andromache : from

the Sixth Book of the Diad

The Art of Poetry. Canto I.

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THE

SPEECHES

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AJAX AND ULYSSES:

FROM THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF

OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.

THE chiefs were fet, the soldiers crown'd the

field :
To these the master of the sevenfold shield
Upstarted fierce : and kindled with disdain,
Eager to speak, unable to contain

• The Metamorphoses (as well as the Fafti of Ovid) have preserved, it must be owned, many curious particulars of ancient history, philofophy, and mythology. For Ovid was a great and learned antiquarian, which from the levity and sportiveness of some of his poems, one would not suspect. An old French translator of Ovid, Thomas Vallois, called the Metamorphoses, 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 historical and mythological illustrations.Benserade made a kind of travestie of Ovid in Rondeaux, printed in 4to. with beautiful sculptures. The Abbè Bellegarde translated at the fame time Ovid's Metamorphoses, and the pious Thomas à Kempis. Perhaps he was ordered by his confeffur to undertake the latter work as an a&t of penance; as Dryden was ordered by his confessor to write the Hind and Panther, as an expiation for having written the Spanish Friar.

Dr. JOSEPH Warton, VOL. IV,

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