[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. The text includes characters that will only display in UTF-8 (Unicode) text readers, including many single words of Greek in the Notes: œ, Œ (oe ligature) κείρω, ἀκονιτὶ If any of these characters do not display properly, or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the latin-1 version of the file instead. 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 printed as headnotes on each page. For this e-text, only the line numbers of each complete “Fable” are given. 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. In Transcriber’s Notes, references to Clarke are from the third edition (1752).] The METAMORPHOSES of OVID. Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations, BY HENRY T. RILEY, B.A. of Clare Hall, Cambridge. LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN, AND NEW YORK. 1893. LONDON: Reprinted from the Stereotype Plates by Wm. Clowes & Sons, Ltd., Stamford Street and Charing Cross. [The Introduction is included here for completeness, omitting the Synopses of Books I-VII.] INTRODUCTION. The Metamorphoses of Ovid are a compendium of the Mythological narratives of ancient Greece and Rome, so ingeniously framed, as to embrace a large amount of information upon almost every subject connected with the learning, traditions, manners, and customs of antiquity, and have afforded a fertile field of investigation to the learned of the civilized world. To present to the public a faithful translation of a work, universally esteemed, not only for its varied information, but as being the masterpiece of one of the greatest Poets of ancient Rome, is the object of the present volume.