FOR C.BATHURST, J. BUCKLAND, W.STRAHAN, J. RIVING-
TON AND SONS, T. DAVIES, T.PAYNE, L. DAVIS, W. OWEN,
B. WHITE, S. CROWDER, T. CASLON, T. LONGMAN,

B. LAW, E. AND C. DILLY, J. DODSLEY, H. BALDWIN,
J.WILKIE, J. ROBSON, J. JOHNSON, T. LOWNDES,
T. BECKET, G. ROBINSON, T.CADELL, W. DAVIS,
J. NICHOLS, F. NEWBERY, T. EVANS, J. RID-
LEY, R. BALDWIN, G. NICOL, LEIGH AND
SOTHEBY, J. BEW, N. CONANT,

J. MURRAY, W. FOX, J.BOWEN,

MDCCLXXIX.

Out of the EIGHTH BOOK of

OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.

CONNECTION to the former STORY.

Ovid, having told how Thefeus had freed Athens from the tribute of children, which was imposed on them by Minos king of Creta, by killing the Minotaur, here makes a digreffion to the story of Meleager and Atalanta, vbich is one of the most inartificial connections in all the Metamorphofes : for he only fays, that Thefeus obtained fuch honour from that combat, that all Greece had recourfe to him in their neceffities; and, among others, Calydon; though the hero of that country, prince Meleager, was then living.

FROM him, the Caledonians fought relief;

Though valiant Meleagrus was their chief.
The cause, a boar, who ravag'd far and near :
Of Cynthia's wrath, th' avenging minifter.
For Oeneus, with autumnal plenty blefs'd,
In gifts to heaven his gratitude exprefs'd:
Cull'd fheaves, to Ceres; to Lyæus, wine;
To Pan, and Pales, offer'd sheep and kine
And fat of olives, to Minerva's fhrine.

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