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Two independent editiones principes of Ovid were published contem poraneously in 1471, one at Rome, printed by Sweynheym and Pan nartz, and one at Bologna by Balthasar Azoguidius: these present entirely different texts. See Owen's Tristium libri, v. p. lv. ff. The fol lowing are the most important editions: those marked with an asterisk have explanatory notes. Of the whole works: *Heinsius-Burmann (1727) ; *Amar-Lemaire (182o-24) ; Merkel-Ehwald (1874-88) ; Riese (5871-89) ; Postgate's Corpus poetarum Latinorum, by various editors (1894), reprinted separately (1898). Of separate works: Amores, *Nemethy (1907) ; Heroides, Sedlmayer (critical) (1886) ; *Palmer (5898) ; Epistula Sapphus (separately), *De Vries (1888) ; Ars ama toria, *P. Brandt (1902) ; formae (critical) , Kunz (1881) ; Metamorphoses, *J. C. Jahn (1821) ; *Loers (1843) ; Korn (critical) (188o) ; *Haupt-Ehwald (5898-1903) ; Magnus (1914) ; *R. S. Lang (Oxford, 1927) ; Fasti, *Gierig (1812) ; Merkel (1841) (critical, with learned prolegomena on the sources, the Roman calendar, etc.) ; *Keightley (1848) ; *Paley (1854) ; *Peter (1889) ; *Cyril Bailey (Oxford 1921) ; Tristia, *Loers (1839) ; S. G. Owen (1889) (critical) ; with notes and translation (1924) ; *Bk. i. (1885), *Bk. iii. (1889) ; *Cocchia (5900) ; Epistulae ex Ponto, Korn (1868) (critical), Bk. i. *Ellis (1881) ; *Nemethy (1915) ; Halieutica, *Birt, De Halieuticis Ovidio poetae fells° adscriptis (1878). There is a free verse-translation of the Amores by Marlowe (c. i600), and Dryden, with other hands under his supervision, published translation of various works between 1683 and 1717.

The special treatises on matters connected with Ovid are very numer ous; a fairly complete list up to the time of publication is given in Owen's Tristia (critical edition), p. cviii. ff.; in Teuffel's History of Roman Literature (trans. by Warr) and in Schanz's Geschichte der romischen Litteratur; and by Ehwald in the Jahresbericht fiber die Fortschritte der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, xxxi. (1884) pp.

157 ff., lxxx. (1894) pp. 1 ff., cix. (1902) pp. 157 ff. The following deserve special mention. On the history of the text: Ehwald, Ad his torian carminum Ovidianorum symbolae (1889) ; Kritische Beitrage zu Ovids Epistulae ex Ponto (1896) ; Sedlmayer, Prolegomena ad Heroidas (1878) ; Gruppe, Minos, pp. 441 ff. (on interpolations). On style: Ovid's diction in connection with other writers,—A. Zingerle, Ovidius und sem Verhaltnis zu den Vorglingern (1869-71) ; Martial's Ovid Studien (1877) ; W. Zingerle, Untersuchungen zur Echtheitsfrage der Heroiden Ovids (1878) ; W. Vollgraff, Nikander und Ovid (Groningen, 1909 foll.). Peculiarities of Ovid's style: van Iddekinge, De Ovidii Romani iuris peritia (1811) ; Washietl, De similitudinibus imaginibus que Ovidianis (1883) ; M'Crea, On Ovid's Use of Colour and Colour Terms (Classical studies in honour of H. Drisler) (1894). Metre: the structure of the Ovidian pentameter examined in relation to the textual criticism,—Hilberg, Gesetze der Wortstellung im Pentameter des Ovid (1894) (fully reviewed by Ellis, Classical Review, ix. 157). Literary appreciation: Sellar, Roman Poets of the Augustan Age; Lafaye, Les Metamorphoses d'Ovid et leurs modeles grecs. Ovid's rela tion to works of art: Wunderer, Ovids Werke in ihrem Verhatnis zur antikeu Kunst (189o-91) ; Engelmann, Bilder-Atlas zu Ovid's Metamorphosen (189o). Cause of exile: the most interesting discussion is by Boissier in his L'Opposition sous les Cesars. See also Nageotte, Ovide. sa vie, ses oeuvres (1872) ; Huber, Die Ursachen der Verban ming des Ovid (1888). Influence of Ovid upon Shakespeare: T. S. Baynes, Shakespeare Studies (1894), pp. 195 ff.; Constable, Shake speare's "Venus und Adonis" in Verhdltnis zu Ovid's Metamorphosen (189o). See also S. G. Owen, Ovid and Romance (1912).

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