Excerpt from Ten Epistles of Ovid: Translated Into English Verse, With the Latin and Notes; To Which Are Subjoined the Epistles of Hero to Leander, and Leander to Hero, by a Different Hand, That of Sappho to Phaon by Pope, and of Dido to Eneas by Dryden The Lite of Ovid being already written in our language, before the translation of his Meta morphoses, Iwill'not presume So far upon myself, to think I can add 'any thing to Mr. Sandys his undertaking. The English reader may there be satisfied, that he flourished in the reign of Augus tus Caesar that he was extracted from an ancient family of Roman Knights; that he was born to the inheritance of a splendid fortune; that he was designed to the study of the law, and had made considerable progress in it, befofe he quitted that profession for this of poetry, to which he was more naturally formed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.