Poem (elegiac laments) · 1851
The Tristia
Ovid's Lament from Exile, Books I–V, prose translation by Henry T. Riley
Translated by Henry T. Riley (1851)
Ovid's five books of elegies written after Augustus banished him to Tomi on the Black Sea, in Riley's prose: the voyage into exile, letters to his wife and friends, pleas for mercy, and the long autobiographical elegy of Book IV.
Contents · 5 parts