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Which Roman poets did John Dryden translate in the 1680s and 1690s?

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Poet John Dryden — John Dryden John Dryden, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1693; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

During the 1680s and 1690s, John Dryden translated the works of several prominent Roman poets as part of his extensive late-career focus on classical translation. Specifically, he translated the works of:12

Juvenal12
Persius12
Virgil (his complete translation was published in 1697)12
Ovid (featured in his final work, Fables Ancient and Modern, published in 1700)1