talents connected with one of our public schools, that circumstance, added to the obvious utility of the plan itself: would be a sufficient introduction of them to our numerous academies. I am aware that no great literary celebrity could be expected from the humble labours which I have recommended. But I hope the consciousness and the reputation of having done so essential a service to the rising generation, would constitute a recompense every way as desirable as any fame which the promotion of science can deserve or obtain.”* This desirable object the publisher of this book has been endeavouring to accomplish during the last ten years, and has, by the assistance of competent editors, made considerable progress in the preparation of new editions of a number of the Roman classics which are usually read in schools and colleges. * Philadelphia, January 1811. Essay on Education by the Rev. W. Barrow. LL. D. and F. A. S. Late Master of the Academy, Soho-square, London. The reader is desired to correct the following errors, which have been committed through certain circumstances which neither the publisher nor the printer could prevent. There may be other errors, but none, it is hoped, which will embarrass the reader. DECERPTA EX OVIDII METAMORPHOSEON LIBRIS. LIBER I. IN Chaos, et Mundi Creatio. FAB. I. ANTE mare et tellus, et, quod tegit omnia, cœlum, Unus erat toto naturæ vultus in orbe, Quem dixêre Chaos; rudis indigestaque moles: |