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A08628 Ovid de Ponto Containing foure books of elegies. Written by him in Tomos, a citie of Pontus, in the foure last yeares of his life, and so dyed there in the seaventh yeare of his banishment from Rome. Translated by W.S.; Epistulae ex Ponto. English Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Saltonstall, Wye, fl. 1630-1640. 1640 (1640) STC 18939; ESTC S113742 65,593 138

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