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• The country mouse, and the city mouse. Or a merry morrall fable enlarged out of Horace. Serm. lib. 2. Sat. 6. (London : Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Michael Sparke Iunior, and are to be sold at the blue Bible in Greene Arbour, 1637), by Wye Saltonstall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A schole of wise conceytes vvherin as euery conceyte hath wit, so the most haue much mirth, set forth in common places by order of the alphabet. Translated out of diuers Greke and Latine wryters, by Thomas Blage student of the Queenes Colledge in Cambridge. (Printed at London : By Henrie Binneman, dwelling in Knight rider streate, at the signe of the Marmayd, [Anno Domini. 1569]), by Thomas Blague (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The fable of the sun and frogs in elegant Latin verse, applyed to the present state of affairs between the French and Dutch. With three several translations in English, by three several hands. The first nearer the Latin; the other two allowing themselves a greater liberty of phansie. (London : printed for William Gilbert bookseller, at the half Moon in Pauls Church-yard, 1672) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Metamorphoses d'Ovide : tradvites en françois, avec des remarques et des explications historiques (Nyon pere, Didot, Huart, Quillau, Nyon fils, 1738), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Antoine Humblot, Gerard Jean-Baptiste Scotin, Michael Faulte, Pierre Firens, Isaac Briot, Jean Matheus, and M. l'abbé Banier (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Fables of Phaedrus, Books I and II (in Latin, with English notes and vocabulary; Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1902), by Phaedrus, ed. by J. H. Flather
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• Phaedri Fabulae, or Phaedrus's Fables, With the Following Improvements, in a Method Entirely New (in Latin, with English commentary; 14th edition; London: G. G. and J. Robinson, et al., 1800), by Phaedrus, ed. by John Stirling
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• Fabulae ab illyricis adagiis desumptae (A. Trevisan, 1794), by Đuro Ferić (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from Ovid, chiefly the Metamorphoses (Ginn & company, 1890), by Ovid, Joseph Henry Allen, Harold North Fowler, J. B. Greenough, and William Francis Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Excerpta ex scriptis Publii Ovidii Nasonis. Accedunt notulae anglicae et questiones. In usum scholae bostoniensis. Cura B.A. Gould, A.M. (B.B. Mussey, 1843), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid and Benjamin A. Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phaedri Aug. liberti Fabvlarvm Aesopicarvm libri V, cum indice verborum locupletissimo. (Typis I. Brindley, 1750), by Phaedrus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alois (ex officina Galeatiana, 1871), by Luigi Crisostomo Ferrucci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur lateinischen erzählungsliteratur des mittelalters. I. Der Novus Aesopus des Baldo. II. Eine lateinische übersetzung der griechischen version des Kalila-buchs. (Weidmannsche buchhandlung, 1928), by Alfons Hilka, fabulist Baldo, Metaphrastes Symeon, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, and Abtei Heiligenkreuz. Bibliothek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le favole d'Aviano tradotte in versi volgari, e le favole di Gabria tradotte in versi Latini e in volgari (appresso Francesco Pitteri, 1735), by Avianus and Babrius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Excerpta ex scriptis Publii Ovidii Nasonis : accedunt notulæ anglicæ et questiones : in usum scholæ Bostoniensis. (Hilliard, Gray, et Soc., 1835), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid and Benjamin A. Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fabulae Aesopiae (Groningae, 1897), by Phaedrus and J. S. Speyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• P. Ovidius Naso ex Rudolphi Merkelii recognitione (In aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1903), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Rudolf Ehwald, and Rudolf Merkel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aviani fabvlae XXXXII ad Theodosivm (in aedibvs B.G. Tevbneri, 1862), by Avianus and Wilhelm Froehner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les fables de Phèdre, affranchi d'Auguste, traduites en françois, augmentées de huit fables qui ne sont pas dans les éditions précédentes, expliquées d'une manière très-facile. Avec des remarques ... (Frères Barbou, 1796), by Phaedrus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fabularum libri quinque, cum fabellis novis (Hachette, 1865), by Phaedrus, Florian, Jean de La Fontaine, and E. Talbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque (Ex officinâ Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1713), by Phaedrus, Avianus, Michael Maittaire, and Marquard Gude (page images at HathiTrust)
• Codex Perottinus ms. Regiae Bibliothecae Neapolitanae, duas et triginta Phaedri fabulas iam notas, totidem novas, sex et trigita Aviani vulgatas, et ipsius Perotti carmina inedita continens. (ex regia typographia, 1809), by Cataldo Jannelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tierfabeln des klassischen Altertums (A. Schroll, 1919), by Victor Fleischer and Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera omnia. (Prostant apud Waesbergios, Boom, & Goethals, 1702), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Borchardus Cnippingius, Nicolaas Heinsius, and Officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Codex Perottinvs ms. Regiae bibliothecae neapolitanae; duas et triginta Phaedri fabulas ... (1809), by Niccolò Perotti (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso (A. S. Barnes & co.;, 1857), by Ovid and N. C. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso (Grigg, Elliot, & co., 1849), by Ovid and N. C. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from Ovid, chiefly the Metamorphoses (Ginn & company, 1901), by Ovid, Harold North Fowler, J. B. Greenough, William Francis Allen, and Joseph Henry Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• A term of Ovid, stories from Metamorphoses for study and sight reading (American book company, 1922), by Ovid and Clarence W. Gleason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decerpta ex P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon libris (Oliver & Boyd; [etc., etc.], 1865), by Ovid and George Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A term of Ovid, stories from the Metamorphoses for study and sight reading (American Book Co., 1920), by Ovid and Clarence W. Gleason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses (Macmillan and co., 1893), by Ovid, Wilfred P. Mustard, Arthur Sumner Walpole, and John Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fabulae xxxxii ad Theodosium, ex recensione et cum instrumento critico Guilelmi Froehner. (Lipsiae, 1862), by Avianus and Wilhelm Froehner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first and second books of Ovid's Metamorphoses : with Ovid's autobiography (Ginn & Company, 1900), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid and William T. Peck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from Ovid, chiefly the Metamorphoses (Ginn & company, 1904), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, J. B. Greenough, William Francis Allen, Joseph Henry Allen, and Harold North Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aesop's fables : as romanized by Phaedrus : with a literal interlinear translation, accompanied by illustrative notes on the plan recommended by Mr. Locke. (Printed for Taylor and Walton, 1845), by Phaedrus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the poems of Ovid (D. Appleton and Company, 1882), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid and John L. Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phaedri Fabulae (Paris : Ancienne Librairie Poussielgue, 1912., 1912), by Phaedrus and J. Lejard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fables of Avianus, edited, with prolegomena, critical apparatus, commentary, excursus and index (Clarendon Press, 1887), by Avianus and Robinson Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cvlex carmen Vergilio ascriptvm (Weidmann, 1891), by Virgil and Friedrich Leo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phaedri Augusti liberti Fabulae (Typis Josephi Barbou, 1754), by Phaedrus, Dominique Sornique, and Etienne Fessard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fables of Avianus (at the Clarendon Press, 1887), by Avianus and Robinson Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phaedri, Augusti Liberti, Fabularum Aesopiarum : libri quinque (In aedibus Academicis, excudebat Andreas F. Ulis, 1783), by Phaedrus, Syrus Publilius, Joseph Juste Scaglier, and Pieter Burman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Schole of wise conceytes wherein as euery conceyte hath wit, so the most haue much mirth : set forth in common places by order of the alphabet / translated out of diuers Greeke and Latine wryters by Thomas Blage ... (Printed at London : By Henrie Binneman, 1572), by Thomas Blague (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Ovid's Causes: Cosmogony and Aetiology in the Metamorphoses (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by K. Sara Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Komposition und Quellenbenutzung in Ovids Metamorphosen (Gedruckt bei Lütcke & Wulff, 1905), by Johannes Dietze and Germany) Gelehrtenschule (Hamburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la fable dans l'antiquité classique. (E. Thorin, 1883), by Jacques François Denis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moral outlook as seen in Roman fable, proverb and maxim (1920), by Angie Aleta Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Phaedri fabulis commentatio (Van Doesburgh, 1890), by J. J. Hartman (page images at HathiTrust)
• De ratione inter Senecam et antiquas fabulas romanas intercedente. (typis Caroli Boldtii, 1887), by Friedrich Strauss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fabulae ... accedunt variae lectiones in Ovidii Remedium amoris, Theoduli Eclogam, et Catonis Disticha (Apud P. den Hengst, 1787), by Flavius Avianus and Johann Adam Nodell (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Metamorphoses: A Complete English Translation and Mythological Index (c2000), by Ovid, trans. by A. S. Kline, illust. by Hendrik Goltzius (illustrated HTML at poetryintranslation.com)
• The Fables of Phaedrus (prose and verse translations, from an edition that also included the Comedies of Terence; 1887), by Phaedrus, trans. by Henry T. Riley and Christopher Smart (Gutenberg text)
• Metamorphoses, by Ovid, ed. by Samuel Garth, trans. by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, and William Congreve (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Metamorphoses (London: William Seres, 1567), by Ovid, trans. by Arthur Golding (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
• Metamorphoses (with glossary), by Ovid, ed. by Barboura Flues, trans. by Arthur Golding (PDF at sourcetext.com)
• Metamorphoses, by Ovid, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• The Metamorphoses of Ovid (English prose translation, 2 volumes), by Ovid, trans. by Henry T. Riley, contrib. by Edward Brooks
  • Volume I (Books I-VII): Gutenberg text
  • Volume II (Books VIII-XV): Gutenberg text
• The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso, Elucidated by an Analysis and Explanation of the Fables (fifth edition; New York: A. S. Barnes and Burr, 1860), by Ovid, ed. by N. C. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English Blank Verse (2 volumes; London: Printed for the author, 1807), by Ovid, trans. by J. J. Howard, illust. by Richard Westall (both volumes together: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Ovid (A. J. Valpy, 1833), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Joseph Addison, William Congreve, Alexander Pope, and John Dryden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fables of Aesop, and others. (Printed by E. Walker for T. Bewick and son. Sold by them, Longman and Co. London, and all booksellers., 1818), by Thomas Bewick and Aesop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables of Phædrus. (Henry G. Bohn, 1853), by Terence, Christopher Smart, Henry T. Riley, and Phaedrus (page images at HathiTrust)
• P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon libri x (Printed by William Spotswood, 1790), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, John Clarke, and James Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fable of Phaeton (Printed by J. B. Nichols, 1828), by Ovid and Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ovid's Metamorphoses; the original text reduced to the natural English order ... (city, 1895), by Ovid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, mythologiz'd, and represented in figures. (Kessinger Pub., 2005), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Virgil, and George Sandys (page images at HathiTrust)

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