P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, Book 1, line 1 P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses Hugo Magnus, Ed. ("Agamemnon", "Hom. Od. 9.1", "denarius") All Search Options [view abbreviations] Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position: book: book 1book 2book 3book 4book 5book 6book 7book 8book 9book 10book 11book 12book 13book 14book 15 card: lines 1-4lines 5-88lines 89-162lines 163-252lines 253-347lines 348-415lines 416-451lines 452-524lines 525-566lines 567-649lines 650-711lines 712-745lines 746ff. 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Current location in this text. Enter a Perseus citation to go to another section or work. Full search options are on the right side and top of the page. Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics Invocatio. Invocation In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora; di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen. Ovid. Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. 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