OVID's
METAMORPHOSES.
BOOK XII.
Translated by Mr. Dryden.
The Trojan War.
RIAM, to whom the Story was unknown, As dead, deplor'd his Metamorphos'd Son: A Cenotaph his Name, and Title kept, And Hector round the Tomb, with all his Brothers wept. This pious Office Paris did not share, Absent alone; and Author of the War,