Poem (elegiac verse letters) · 1851

The Pontic Epistles

Ovid's Letters from the Black Sea, Books I–IV, prose translation by Henry T. Riley

by Ovid

Translated by Henry T. Riley (1851)

Ovid's four books of verse epistles from exile, each addressed by name to a friend or patron in Rome, pleading for help and describing life among the Getae, in Riley's prose.


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