Excerpt from The Eighth Book of the Metamorphoses of Ovid (Expurgated Edition): With Introduction and NotesLiber, attributed to this author, is of a later date, this may be due to the fact that we have only an abridgment of the original work, made doubt less at a late period. C. Julius Hyginus was a friend of Ovid's, was librarian of the Palatine Library and, according to Suetonius, was learned in Alexandrian literature.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.