[B.] The line-endings of this footnote are missing, apparently through printing error. Reconstructed text, bracketed in the main footote, is here shown in red; the preceding line is included to show line length. The word given as “then” might be “also” or any word of similar length:
The remainder of the footnote, beginning “hands being...”, is on the following page.
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.
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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.