THE END.
London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited,
Stamford Street and Charing Cross.
[ More about the text]
Ovid’s Metamorphoses, translated by Henry Thomas Riley (1816-1878, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1859), was originally published in 1851 as part of Bohn’s Classical Library. This e-text, covering Books VIII-XV, is based on the 1893 George Bell reprint (London, 1893, one volume). The edition describes itself as “reprinted from the stereotype plates”. These may have been the original 1851 plates; the Classical Library was sold to Bell & Daldy, later George Bell.
[ Line Numbers]
Line numbers from the Latin poem—not its prose translation—were printed as headnotes on each page. In this e-text, line numbers appear in the left margin, across from the page numbers. Line numbers used in footnotes are retained from the original text; these, too, refer to the Latin poem and are independent of line divisions in the translation.
[ Errors and Inconsistencies]
Typographical errors have been marked with mouse-hover popups, with a few exceptions:
Hyphenization is inconsistent—for example, the forms “sea monster” and “sea-monster” both occur—and is not marked unless one form is clearly anomalous. Errors and omissions in Greek diacritical marks have been silently corrected.
[ Variant Names]
This is not intended to be a complete list.
Dieresis is unpredictable; forms such as “Alcathöe” and “Pirithöus” are common, and have been silently corrected. Since the ligatures “æ” and “œ” are used consistently, dieresis in “oe” and “ae” can be assumed even when not explicitly indicated.
Treatment of names in Ia- (pronounced as two syllables) is inconsistent. Iäsion and Iänthe are regularly written with dieresis, while Iarbas, Iapyx, Iapygia are written without.
The forms “Lapithean” and “Lapithæan” both occur.
The “Lilybœus” of Books I-VII is now correctly written “Lilybæus”, but Erysichthon (with y or upsilon) is written “Erisicthon”.
As in Books I-VII, spellings in “-cth-” (Erisicthon, Erectheus) are used consistently in place of “-chth-” (-χθ-). Similarly, Phaëthon is written “Phaëton”.
[ Footnote Numbering]
Numbers begin from 1 in each Book. Almost all Books had duplications in the sequence, usually in the form “17*”; some had omissions. In this e-text, footnotes have been renumbered consecutively within each Book, without duplication. Simple printing errors, such as missing or incorrect tags, have been marked where they occur in the text, and are not listed here.
| Book | Note | |
|---|---|---|
| VIII | 39-79 | printed as 38*, 39-78 |
| 80-101 | printed as 78*, 79-99 | |
| IX | 49-80 | printed as 48*, 49-79 |
| X | 50-65 | 50 omitted, printed as 51-66 |
| 66 | 67 omitted, printed as 68 | |
| XI | 36-63 | printed as 35*, 36-62 |
| XII | 49-55 | 49 omitted, printed as 50-56 |
| XIII | 31-41 | 31 omitted, printed as 32-42 |
| 42-51 | printed as 42*, 43-51 | |
| 52-78 | 52 omitted, printed as 53-79 | |
| XIV | 19 | footnote and tag misprinted as 17 |
| 20-27 | printed as 18-25 | |
| 28-32 | 26 omitted, printed as 27-31 | |
| 33-41 | 32 omitted, printed as 33-41 | |
| 42-63 | 42 omitted, printed as 43-64 | |
| XV | 9-11 | 9 omitted, printed as 10-12 |
| 12-33 | 13 omitted, printed as 14-35 | |
| 34-63 | printed as 35*, 36-64 | |
| 64-84 | printed as 64*, 65-84 | |
| 85-93 | 85 omitted, printed as 86-94 |