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readingis Siehelis hein preferre in one o tW instancea. have endeavore in exhibit a sar a possibi Withinisu limita the variet of Ovid' a te an genius, and speciali in preserve themore interestingitographical hinis os the mores and the nis M. The greater portio of the oo is howeve made P, necessarily, Dom the Mesamors/ es, os,hic me have ais ahout a third. By hel of the Argument, hic is give in suli, - aim not merelyto hoW the connectionis the tales and the ingenuit os the transitions - necessar in Comprehen the poema a Whole, hut toput hesore the reade fomething like a complete picture of the Gree mytholora; at least os hos narratives hic have heldthei permanent place in the modern min and have entere moreo leas into every modern literature. The grammatica reserenoes armis Alle an Greenough' and Gilderfleeve's Latin Grammara.
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the present collection. iis mos of the literar me of me, he a nodia native of that ci dieinibor at Sulmo, in the counu of the Peligni, a ut o miles Dominome. The ear of his birth, B C. 43, as that o Cicero' death. His father, a manis respectabie fortune, remove to Romet ove his , hos a cit education. Here thea n poetmas trained in me usual co se of rhetori an oratory Whichhe practised Min fala success, Min sociar acto hol somes ordinate political ossices. His fathe was quite earnes tochech his destre foris literar careeri ut the deat of hiseide brotherclest him it fortune en rario independence, an followin his omnistron bent vi hecam mon oneos the favoriis muri poets of the rilliant era of Augustus. Aster a career of great prosperi , he a suddenly, at theage of set, anished is omi, a omnis me hore of the Blachraea in the present Bulgaria. The cause of hisianis, ment caninlyae messed Dom his allusion to the ange of
Virgil vas amassim o Mantua, Horaee o Venusia Caranu es Verona Proper ao Umbria, vid of Sulmo Cicero es Arvinum, Sallus es Amiternum, ira o Pata vium in eminent riter es thia age, ovi Caesar Lueretiva, an Tibullua mere horn in me. But then Rome a ianna vel a potitica , eoati sed the holmolataly.
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the emperor at ome e ness, folini fauit, hic he sayshecis notrire t teli Some have thought he was indiscreet enouo is mine love to Iulia, the rilliant, Witty, and erraticdaurater of the emperor, Wis of the grave Agrippa others that he unsortunatelyane. to much of som couri scandat, probabi connecte Wit Iulia or her ill-fame an ill4aleddaurater; thera that Augustus, a public patron os morias,took offence at the omeWhat cynica indecorum es certaino his poems. At an rate, the empero mas ardenedagainst ali his flaueries an prayers, an after an exile ofabout tenaearche die a Tomi A. D. 18. Besides the poem represente in his volume, vi Wasthe auctor of the Ars Amasoria and the Remedium Amoris
to hic reference hascius been made , and of numerous 'Eletes,' includin fou book of letters ritis in exile Ex Pomo Libri iv.). M a mei, his fame is far below that of Virgil an Horace, deservedly, since his loos and easyVerse bear no comparison Mith the elaborate finis of theim. For anc an sine poetic feeling, hoWeVer many of the Elegies both in the Tristia and the morer- shoma veino a good quali in either of his rivals while in absolute eas of handi ing the artificia structureia Latin verse it maybe oubted hester he has me had an equat. His chias
merit, however, is as an excellent Stor telier, ramooth,
facile fluent, ometimes, it must e confessed inordinatelydiffuse A the mos celebrate existin collectionis themost famous fabies of the ancient Worid the meam Moses, in particular, malis the est os introductions to the obter an more difficuli verse of Virgil.