"To my fancy, the first poet of all antiquity."
— Ovid
January 1, 1970
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Sources
Gilbert Wakefield, letter to Charles James Fox (20 September 1799), in Correspondence of the Late Gilbert Wakefield with the Late Right Honourable Charles James Fox (1813), p. 83; quoted in E. J. Kenney's introduction to Ovid's Metamorphoses, trans. A. D. Melville (Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 19.
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Gilbert Wakefield, letter to Charles James Fox (20 September 1799), in Correspondence of the Late Gilbert Wakefield with the Late Right Honourable Charles James Fox (1813), p. 83; quoted in E. J. Kenney's introduction to Ovid's Metamorphoses, trans. A. D. Melville (Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 19.