Metamorphoses
By Ovid.
Translated by John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Laurence Eusden, Arthur Maynwaring, Samuel Croxall, Nahum Tate, William Stonestreet, Thomas Vernon, John Gay, Alexander Pope, Stephen Harvey, William Congreve, John Ozell, Temple Stanyan, Alexander Stopford Catcott, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Garth, and Leonard Welsted.
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Book I
Creation of the World
The formation of the world from the confusion of Chaos by the wisdom and power of the Deity is here described, together with a delineation
