Scarce had the man this famous story told
- DMI number:
- 11519
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Scarce had the man this famous story told
- Last Line:
- Comes tumbling to the sea and Marsya is its name
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Extract / snippet from longer work, Narrative verse, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Music[Flute], Mythology[Marsyas; Apollo], Places[Marsya], Violence, and Virtue / vice[Pride]
- Translated from:
- Ovid
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Samuel Croxall
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- See note on person
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [N41874] [vol.1] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.181-182
- Poem Title:
- The Fate of Marsyas.
- Attribution:
- Translated by Mr. Croxall
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Croxall
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T108889]
- Page No(s):
- p.193
- Poem Title:
- The Fate of Marsyas.
- Attribution:
- Translated by Mr. Croxall
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Croxall
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T128848, Vol 1]
- Page No(s):
- pp.220-221
- Poem Title:
- The Fate of Marsyas.
- Attribution:
- Translated by Mr. Croxall
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Croxall
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T138611]
- Page No(s):
- p.193
- Poem Title:
- The Fate of Marsyas.
- Attribution:
- Translated by Mr. Croxall
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Croxall
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T169738, Vol.1]
- Page No(s):
- pp.220-221
- Poem Title:
- The Fate of Marsyas.
- Attribution:
- Translated by Mr. Croxall
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Croxall
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T175634] [vol.1]
- Page No(s):
- pp.220-221
- Poem Title:
- The Fate of Marsyas.
- Attribution:
- Translated by Mr. Croxall
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Croxall
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T99153] [Vol.1]
- Page No(s):
- pp.208-209
- Poem Title:
- The Fate of Marsyas.
- Attribution:
- Translated by Mr. Croxall
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Croxall
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T99262] [Vol. 1]
- Page No(s):
- pp.220-221
- Poem Title:
- The Fate of Marsyas.
- Attribution:
- Translated by Mr. Croxall
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Croxall
Poem Aliases
Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book VI.
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