Template:RQ:Ovid Sandys Metamorphosis/documentation
Usage
[edit]This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from the version of Ovid's work Metamorphoses translated by George Sandys entitled Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished by G. S. (1st complete edition, 1626). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at Google Books (archived at the Internet Archive).
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|chapter=– if quoting from one of the chapters indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:
| Parameter value | Result |
|---|---|
| *Argument | The Minde of the Frontispeece, and Argument of This Worke |
| Epistle Dedicatory | To the Most High and Mightie Prince Charles, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland |
| *Life | The Life of Ovid |
| *Ovid Defended | Ovid Defended |
| Quod olim | Quod olim faciebat votum germanico Ovidius, idem augustissimo Carolo interpretis sui nomine faciunt Ovidiani manes |
| *To the Reader | To the Reader |
- If quoting from one of the chapters above marked with an asterisk (*), as they are unpaginated, use
|1=or|page=to specify the "page number" assigned by Google Books to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL ishttps://books.google.com/books?id=-cpCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP13, specify|page=13.
|1=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:- Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this:
|pages=10–11. - You must also use
|pageref=to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
- Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this:
- You must specify this information to have the template determine the book number (I–XV) in the main part of the work quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
|2=,|text=, or|passage=– the passage to be quoted.|footer=– a comment on the passage quoted.|brackets=– use|brackets=onto surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.
Examples
[edit]- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Ovid Sandys Metamorphosis|page=136|passage=[M]en, if Fame ſay true, / Here at the firſt from ſhovver-rayſd '''muſhrumps''' grevv, {{...}}}}; or{{RQ:Ovid Sandys Metamorphosis|136|[M]en, if Fame ſay true, / Here at the firſt from ſhovver-rayſd '''muſhrumps''' grevv, {{...}}}}
- Result:
- 1626, Ovid, “The Seuenth Booke”, in George Sandys, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished […], London: […] William Stansby, →OCLC, page 136:
- [M]en, if Fame ſay true, / Here at the firſt from ſhovver-rayſd muſhrumps grevv, […]
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Ovid Sandys Metamorphosis|pages=199–200|pageref=200|passage=Novv, neither for his harp, nor quiuer, cares: / Him ſelfe debaſing, beares the corded ſnares; / Or leades the dogs, or '''clambers''' mountaines; led / By lordly Loue, and flames by cuſtome fed.}} - Result:
- 1626, Ovid, “The Tenth Booke”, in George Sandys, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished […], London: […] William Stansby, →OCLC, pages 199–200:
- Novv, neither for his harp, nor quiuer, cares: / Him ſelfe debaſing, beares the corded ſnares; / Or leades the dogs, or clambers mountaines; led / By lordly Loue, and flames by cuſtome fed.
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