1To James Madison from Mathew Carey, 1 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
“The workmanship was more beautiful than the material” (Ovid, Metamorphoses, trans. Frank Justus...
2Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 16 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
...approve it, but I follow the worse”) closely follows Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7.20–1 (