Excerpt from Ovid's Fasti: With Introduction, Notes, and Excursus The present edition is a totally different book. Indeed, though called a second edition, it is as different as if it had been done by another person. For in the interval of time which lies between them I have written my Histories of Greece and Rome, prepared the second enlarged and improved edition of my classic Mythology, resided for some time in Italy, and finally commented on the more difficult poems of Virgil and Horace. Meantime the only really critical edition of the poem, the learned and elaborate work of Merkel, had appeared, and I have thus been enabled to give a better text. When to this is added that I have had abundant leisure for preparing it, I am surely justified in hoping that it may be the means of causing this most pleasing and valuable poem to be more generally read and studied than is the case at present. I have sought to give all necessary aid to the student, but I would not encourage idleness by giving mythic and historic narratives in the notes; I have always, however, referred to accessible works where they may be found, and that I deem to be all that could be justly required. 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.