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[Transcriber's Note:

This e-text covers the second half, Books VIII-XV, of Henry T. Riley's
1851 translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. The first half, Books I-VII,
is already available from Project Gutenberg as e-text 21765. Note that
this text, unlike the earlier one, is based solely on the 1893 George
Bell reprint.

This text is intended for users whose text readers cannot use the "real"
(unicode/utf-8) version of the file. The "oe" ligature has been unpacked
into separate letters; Greek has been transliterated and shown between
+marks+.

In the original text, words and phrases supplied by the translator
were printed in _italics_. In this e-text they are shown in braces {}.
Italics in the notes and commentary are shown conventionally with
_lines_. Square brackets [] in the body text are in the original.

Line numbers from the Latin poem--not its prose translation--were
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