Excerpt from A Term of Ovid: Ten Stories From the Metamorphoses for Boys and Girls The present volume is designed to fit the needs of several classes of schools. For those which have not hitherto included Ovid in their curricula it offers a Short and convenient book of representative selections. For courses which take up Ovid before Vergil it forms an intermediate step between prose and verse by the adop tion, to a limited extent, of features which the editor has found useful in previous books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.