“Farewel! I cry'd,--and plung'd below the waves. “Worthy the ocean deities me deem'd “To join their social troop, and anxious pray'd “To Tethys, and old Ocean, Tethys' spouse, “To purge whate'er of mortal I retain'd. “By them lustrated, and the potent song “Nine times repeated, earthly taints to cleanse, “They bade me 'neath an hundred gushing streams “To place my bosom. No delay I seek; “The floods from numerous fountains pour'd, the main “O'erwhelm'd my head. Thus far what deeds were done “My memory helps me to relate; thus far “Alone can I remember; all the rest “Dark to my memory seems. My sense restor'd, “I found my body chang'd in every part; “Nor was my mind the same. Then first I saw “This beard of dingy green, and these long locks “Which through the seas I sweep; these shoulders huge; “Those azure arms and thighs in fish-like form “Furnish'd with fins. But what avails this shape? “What that by all the deities marine “I dear am held? a deity myself? “If all these honors cannot touch thy breast.” These words he spoke, and more to speak prepar'd, When Scylla left the god. Repuls'd, he griev'd And sought Titanian Circé's monstrous court. *The Fourteenth Book.* Scylla transformed to a monster by Circé through jealousy; and ultimately to a rock. Continuation of Æneas' voyage. Dido. Cercopians changed to apes. Descent of Æneas to hell. The Cumæan Sybil. Adventures of Achæmenides with Polyphemus: and of Macareus amongst the Lestrigonians. Enchantments of Circé. Story of the transformation of Picus to a woodpecker; and of the nymph Canens to air. The Latian wars. Misfortunes of Diomede. Agmon and others changed to herons. Appulus to a wild olive. The Trojan ships changed to sea-nymphs. The city Ardea to a bird. Deification of Æneas. Latin kings. Vertumnus and Pomona. Story of Iphis and Anaxareté. Wars with the Sabines. Apotheösis of Romulus; and of his wife Hersilia. THE *Fourteenth Book* OF THE METAMORPHOSES OF OVID.