The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. Publius Ovidius Naso (Classical Latin: 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known as Ovid (/ˈɒvɪd/) in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. Some more detailed footnotes have been taken from Riley's translation of the Metamorphoses and these are marked with a "-c" after the footnote number. I have also included a very limited number of my own notes, but only what I feel might be required for a basic understanding of the story and the grammar. Each subsequent section provides a little less inline than the previous and a little more that can be accessed through links from individual words. The first section provides the fullest possible information inline, including word-numbering, parsing and literal word-for-word translation. A full, and fairly literal, translation of the sentence is provided above.
The footnote at the end of each sentence, marked in the same way, provides an arrangement of the words in that sentence in an order closer to that of English, as well as parsing and translation of each word. The footnote at the beginning of each line, marked ^, provides scansion. The text is arranged in a number of differing formats, as indicated in the contents page. The intention of these books is to make Ovid's works accessible, and a literal, rather than literary, translation is offered.
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