Selections from the Public and Private Law of the Romans. James J. Robinson, Yale University. $1.25.
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
SELECTIONS FROM
THE WORKS OF OVID
Edited by FRANK J. MILLER, Ph.D. (Yale),
Professor of Latin, University of Chicago
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These selections are fairly representative, and are edited in such a way as to illustrate the style and subject-matter of each poem, and at the same time to show the exact relation of every part to the complete work.
¶ The book includes over 3,800 lines from the Metamorphoses, thus more than meeting the requirements in Ovid of the College Entrance Examination Board, and in addition the following: Selections from Heroides, Amores, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, Fasti, Tristia, and Epistulae ex Ponto; Life of Ovid, Poetic Forms of Ovid’s Works; with notes on the selections, and vocabulary.
¶ The notes have been prepared with special reference to the needs of both the school and the college student. They include: General assistance in the translation of difficult and obscure passages; judicious references on points of syntax to all the modern school grammars in common use; notes and comments upon points of antiquarian interest; and suggestions and illustrations of the relations of Ovid’s stories to their earlier sources, and especially of their effect upon English literature.
¶ The vocabulary, which has been prepared especially for this volume, gives the literal meaning of each word, and also all of the typical meanings which occur in the text. Generous assistance in word derivation is offered as well.