Excerpt from Ovid''s Metamorphoses, Translated Into English Prose: With the Latin Text and Order of Construction on the Same Page, and Critical, Historical, Geographical, and Classical Notes in English
Delivered in the Royal Institution on successive Sea sons, and read subsequently at the Russell Institution.
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