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Metamorphoses

Book 1, Line 1 by Henry T. Riley (English)

My design leads me to speak of forms changed into new bodies. Ye Gods, (for you it was who changed them,) favor my attempts, and bring down the lengthened narrative from the very beginning of the world, even to my own times.

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