OVID LESSONS,

BEING EASY PASSAGES SELECTED FROM

THE ELEGIAC POEMS OF

OVID AND TIBULLUS,

WITH

EXPLANATORY NOTES BY

HENRY GILBERT WINTLE, M.A.,
Assistant Master at Eton College.

BIELIOTHECH

JUN 1878

ETON: WILLIAMS AND SON;

LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO.

1878.

297. f. 34.

PREFACE.

The object of this work is to provide a Lesson Book suitable for boys who have been taught the Public School Latin Primer, and have had some, but not much, experience in translating Latin into English. In the hope that they may be encouraged to take an intelligent interest in their work the separate lessons have been made complete in themselves. To avoid the necessity of using a number of books at once, information usually sought in Dictionaries of Biography, Geography, and Antiquities has been supplied in the Notes.

The author's best thanks are due to his Colleague, the Rev. E. D. Stone, for much kind advice and help in the selection of the Extracts.

ETON,

Jan., 1878.

INDEX.

I. Ceres, goddess of Husbandry

II. Proserpine, daughter of Ceres, is carried off by her
Uncle, Pluto

III. Ceres, seeking Proserpine, comes to Eleusis in Attica,
where she meets Celeus

IV. Triptolemus, the sick child of Celeus, is cured by Ceres
V. Osiris

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VI. Ariadne, deserted by Theseus, becomes the wife of
Bacchus

VII. Ariadne is changed into a Constellation

VIII. Silenus, whilst looking for the honey of Bacchus, finds
a hornet's nest

IX. Dædalus determines to fly away from Crete and makes
wings for himself and his son, Icarus

X. Dædalus and his son start on their journey

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XI. Icarus falls and gives his name to the Icarian sea
XII. As Achilles obeyed Chiron so will Love obey Ovid
XIII. The death of Chiron
XIV. Proteus tells Aristaus how to renew his stock of bees
XV. Circe had power over the bodies of others, but not
over the affections of her own heart

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XVI. The power of poetry

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XVII. Calypso tries to persuade Ulysses not to leave her

XXI. Evander and his mother Carmentis reach Italy

XXII. The prophecy of Carmentis

XXIII. Evander settles in Italy and there entertains Her-

XXVII. After the death of Dido the Numidians attack the
Carthaginians. Anna, Dido's sister, is obliged to
fly the country

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