Ovid: Metamorphoses
List of errata and corrections to the first printing (December 2004)
Corrigenda/Addenda to the translation:
Page | Book/Line | Current reading | Correction |
12 | 1. 305 | …no use to the boar is his lightning strikes | …no use to the boar are his lightning strikes |
21 | 1. 605 | she looks about … | she looks around… |
30 | 2. 39 | and take away this error from our minds | and take away this error from our thoughts |
31 | 2. 94 | within your heart … | within my heart… |
38 | Note 82 | MAGNI | MAGNIS |
50 | Note 134 | See 11. 550 ff. | See 12. 549 ff. |
59 | Note 8 | See 2. 52 | See 3. 52 |
92 | Note 56 | Ixion, king of Thessaly…Centaurus, who became father of the Centaurs. | Add: His punishment was to be tied to an eternally revolving fiery wheel. |
98 | 4. 652 | …as he hesitates … | …as Perseus hesitates… |
113 | 5. 304 | …nine times to give birth. | …in giving birth nine times. |
139 | 6. 477 | …and for her sake and, against it too, … | …both for her sake and against it too, … |
166 | 7. 649-650 | …and there I seemed to behold The kind of men I saw in the image of the dream and see | … the kind of men I thought I’d seen in the image of the dream I see |
174 | Note 2 | The Megarians…(Pausanius 1. 39.6). | Delete |
175 | 8. 101 | … this authority | … this authority most just |
209 | 9. 331-332 | After losing her maidenhood and suffering the forces… | After she loses her maidenhood and suffers the forces… |
299 | 13. 207 | The first pitched done… | The first pitched battle done… |
333 | 14. 344 | and carrying in his left hands… | and carrying in his left hand… |
342 | 14. 628 | her right hand heavy not with the spear… | her right hand is heavy not with the spear… |
342 | Note 89 | Italic god of the woods and fields. | Add: Tarrant: Silenus. |
343 | 14. 688 | he’ll be the first to have, and hold | he’ll be the first to have and hold… |
365 | Note 74 | Aesculapius (Asclepius), son of Coronis and Apollo | Add: (cf. 2.626-48). |
Index and Glossary:
Due to an error in the indexing program, nonexistent lines have been referenced in the first printing. Delete all references to
Book 1. 780
Book 2. 876
Book 3. 734
Book 4. 804
Book 5. 679
Book 6. 722
Book 7. 866
Book 8. 885
Book 9. 798
Book 10. 740
Book 11. 796
Book 12. 629
Book 13. 969
Book 14. 852
Book 15. 880
Page | Subject | Current reading | Correction |
381 | Aesculapius | 2n. 122 | 2. 633, 642, 2n. 122 |
384 | Anthedon | or (town in Boeotia) | delete or |
392 | Chiron | (benificent Centaur… | (beneficent Centaur… |
399 | Erechtheus | 7. 431, 697 | 6. 677, 7. 431, 697 |
400 | Eumolpus | 11n. 15 | 11. 93, 11n. 15 |
406 | Idas | (ally of Cepheus and Persus) 8. 305, 14. 504 | …Perseus) 5. 90, (hunter at Calydon, son of Aphareus, brother of Lynceus) 8. 305, 14. 504 |
409 | Latinus | …king of Laurentium in Latinum) 14. 449, 611, … | 14. 49, (son of Silvius) 611, … |
409 | Lelegeian | 7. 443, 8. 6 | 8. 6, 9. 652 |
410 | Leleges | 7n. 64, 8n. 1, 2, 9. 645 | 7n. 64, 8n. 1, 2, (Carian tribe) 9. 645 |
410 | Lelex | (hunter at Calydon, guest of Acheloüs; narrates the story of Baucis and Philemon) 8. 312, 567, 617, 884, 8n. 1, 2 | (hunter at Calydon) 8. 312, (guest of Acheloüs, narrates…Baucis and Philemon) 567, 617, (founder of Megara) 8n. 1 |
413 | Megara | 7n. 63, 64, 65 | 7n. 63, 64, 65, 8n. 1 |
413 | Megarians | 8n. 1, 2 | 8n. 1 |
421 | Parthaon | 8. 542 | 8. 542, 9. 13 |
422 | Pausanius | 2n. 147, 8n. 1, 2, 15n. 22 | 2n. 147, 8n. 1, 15n. 22 |
423 | Perseus | … 248, 679. 5n. 8, 15, 16, 19, 21 | … 248, 5n. 8, 15, 16, 19, 21 |
427 | Prometheus | (son of Iapetus; creater of humanity… | (son of Iapetus, creator of humanity… |
429 | Samos | 2n. 43, 8. 221, 15. 61, 13. 712 | 2n. 43, 8. 221, 15. 61, (island near Ithaca) 13. 712 |
431 | Silenus | 11.90, 99, 796, 11n. 13 | 11. 90, 99, 796, 11n. 13, 14n. 89 |
438 | Zethus | 2n. 45, 6. 20, 34, 6n. 39 | 2n. 45, 6n. 20, 34, 39 |
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