1My mind moves me to tell of forms changed into new bodies; 2gods, breathe favour on my undertaking (for you changed those too), and from the very first origin of the world draw down my continuous song to my own times.
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Ovid · Metamorphoses I
Metamorphoses 1.1–4
Prologue: bodies changed to new forms
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Ovid, Metamorphoses I. Latin text: H. Magnus, Die Metamorphosen des P. Ovidius Naso (Gotha, 1892), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.