In the third article of my studies which are devoted chiefly to the investigation of classical influence on the works of Cervantes, my purpose was to demonstrate the extensive indebtedness of Spain's golden century of letters to the poet Virgil. Upon turning my attention to Ovid, it soon became evident to me that I should have to cover far more ground than was the original plan of my studies, if I desired to present his relation to the whole. Renascence as fully as lay in my power, and that the vast extent of his influence would be more apparent, if its origin and continuity could be presented together. As regards the mediaeval epoch, something has been done, as may be seen from the bibliography below, but even for that period the full importance of the works of Ovid can hardly be appreciated until the influence of all the chief Latin poets upon the literatures of mediaeval Europe has been more conclusively investigated. To the study of this period, however, I have added but little, as it antedates my subject; and though my review of the early centuries, notably in Spain, presents some material not examined hitherto, my efforts have been devoted chiefly to the age which has been treated least. This extends from the dawn of the Renascence in Italy through the siglo de oro of Spanish literature, that is, through the first third of the seventeenth century. Here, too, it soon became a hopeless task to deal with the whole subject exhaustively, and if only a very small portion of what could be done has been accomplished, the result may at least serve two purposes: to throw more light on the nature of Ovid's pronounced influence in specific epochs, and to demonstrate the continuity of his prestige and authority from age to age by following the ramification of a distinct Ovidian tradition through various periods and forms of literary activity. Owing to the vast extent of this field typical examples of Ovid's influence and selections of citations and parallels have