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Translation, Translator's Note, Glossary, and Index of names
© A. D. Melville 1986

Introduction, Historical Sketch, and Explanatory Notes
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First published 1986 by Oxford University Press

First issued as a World's Classic paperback 1987

Reissued as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 1998

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Metamorphoses.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.

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