[45] Ovid has a large place in every comprehensive history of Latin literature (e.g., in W. Y. Sellar’s volume on _Horace and the Elegiac Poets_ in his _Roman Poets of the Augustan Age_, Oxford, 1892), and is discussed at least briefly in the compends (e.g., C. T. Cruttwell’s _History of Roman Literature_, American edition, New York, 1890). The last edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica has an extensive appreciation by S. G. Owen, whose critical edition of _Tristia_ provides a bibliography of Ovidiana. Of English translations the most accessible are those in the Loeb Classical Library: of _Heroides_ and _Amores_ by Grant Showerman, of _Metamorphoses_ by F. J. Miller, both with introductions and bibliographical notes. [46] Sponte sua carmen numeros veniebat ad aptos, Et quod tentabam dicere versus erat. _Tristia_, IV. x. 25. is almost as familiar as “lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.” [47] Morsque minus pœnæ quam mora mortis habet. _Heroides_, x. 82. [48] Ilia, pone metus; tibi regia nostra patebit, Teque colent amnes. Ilia, pone metus. Tu centum plures inter dominabere nymphas; Nam centum aut plures flumina nostra tenent. _Amores_, iii. 6, 61. Rime in Latin elegiac poetry is well summarized by K. P. Harrington in his volume of edited selections, _The Roman Elegiac Poets_, New York, 1914, page 61. [49] E.g., at the close of _Heroides_, ix, Impia quid dubitas Deianira mori? in line 146 is repeated in lines 152, 158, 164, i.e., in every sixth line. [50] E.g., _Metam._ xi. 494. [51] _Metam._ vii. 826. [52] _Ars Amat._ i. 729. [53] _Metam._ i. 89, _Amores_, iii. 8, 35. [54] _Metam._ iv. 320. [55] _Amores_, i. 13. 3. [56] See, for example, Rudolph Schevill, _Ovid and the Renascence in Spain_, University of California Publications in Modern Philology, vol. 4, number 1 (November, 1913), pages 24 and 95. [57] _Troilus and Criseyde_, iii. 1415-1470. [58] _Romeo and Juliet_, III. v. [59] Owen in Encyclopedia Britannica speaks of Ovid as “the most brilliant representative of Roman Alexandrinism.” [60] A typical ἔκφρασις is “dira lues” in _Metam._ vii. 523. [61] E.g., Byblis in _Metam._ ix. 474, Myrrha in _Metam._ x. 320. [62] Discussed above in Chapter IV. II. Cruttwell says of the _Heroides_: “They are erotic suasoriæ, based on the declamations of the schools.” _History of Roman Literature_, 306; and Heinze, “die Gattung der poetischen _declamatio_ inaugurierte.” _Virgils epische Technik_, 434. Cf. Sellar, 331, 356; Carl Brück, _De Ovidio scholasticarum declamationum imitatore_, Munich, 1909. [63] _Metam._ ii. 33. [64] Iris, Tisiphone, Luctus, Pavor, Terror. _Metam._ iv. 480. The method seen more largely in Invidia (_Metam._ ii. 760), essentially a school exercise, passed through the _Roman de la Rose_ into medieval habit.