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“My Eyes” from Ovid in Sicily translated by Allen Mandelbaum, copyright 1986. Reprinted by permission of The Sheep Meadow Press.
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Ovid, 43 B.C.–17 or 18 A.D.
[Metamorphoses. English]
The metamorphoses of Ovid/a new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum.—1ST ed.
(A Harvest Book)
p. cm.
ISBN 0-15-170529-1
ISBN 0-15-600126-8
ISBN 978-0-15-600126-7
1. Metamorphoses—Mythology—Poetry. 2. Mythology, Classical—Poetry. I. Mandelbaum, Allen, 1926—II. Title.
PA6522.M2M36 1993
873'.01—dc20 93-8118
eISBN 978-1-328-78728-6
v1.1116