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 PREFACE.

OVID's Metamorphoses are justly acknowledged

by the learned to be the most comple-te system of
Heathen mythology that has been handed down to us
by the ancients, and, as such, absolutely necessary
to be read
by all who would understand the classic
authors every attempt therefore to make Ovid plain
;

must be acceptable to the public, and this the trans-

lator endeavours to do, not only in his translation,
but in his notes, and in this short preface.
Prom poets yielding to the heat of their imagina-
tion arose the fertile source of fable, and the ap-

plause of posterity which they have gained, has

not a little contributed to have their works esteemed
invariable standards for poetry.
In their works wit often takes the place of truth,
and realities
give way to fancy for the amorous
;

temper and successful intrigues of a shepherd, turn

him into a satyr and the charms of a shepherdess
;

entice the poet to represent her a nymph or a naiad

bringing home some foreign fruit is swelled into a

A
iv PREFACE.

labour, as the carryingaway of golden apples that

were guarded by dragons and ships under sail must
:

rise into winged horses.

These, and several other causes, produced an

jniinity of fables, at first commemorated by feasts

and games, then admitted into funeral orations and

epithalamiums, and, at last, into history nay, the :

morality and religion of the heathens, were strongly

tinctured with fables, which furnished Hesiod with
materials for his Theooony, and Homer with orna-
ments for the splendid machinery of his Iliad and
Odyssey.
After them several other authors, both poets and
historians, esteemed it no unworthy employment to
write fables; viz., Nicander the Colophonian, He-
raclides of Pontus, Anticlides, Silenus of Chios,

Phylarchus, Theodorus, Barus, and Apollodorus.

"
Strabo has a fine passage to this purpose. Nor,"
" were alone addicted to the use of
says he, poets
fables critics and lawgivers did so long before
;

them, both for the utility and recreation of a ra-

tional creature. Man is willing to learn, and fable
opens to him the way. By this children begin to
listen to what is told them, as every fable is a new

story and nothing delights the understanding more

;

than what is new and strange, which is the reason

we love sciences so much. But if the wonderful
and marvellous be added to fable, they increase our
delight infinitely, and are the first inducements to
learn." highly proper to make use
It is, therefore,

of fable to draw the tender minds of children to

the love of knowledge.
 PREFACE. V

From ancient authors Ovid took the subjects of

his Metamorphoses, in which he is
universally allowed
to have surpassed all his instructors.

Instead of a dull, tasteless, dry narration, fresh

images, and an agreeable variety of new beauties,

rise to view ;
his poetryof spirit and vivacity,
is full

enriched with great sweetness and elegance of com-

position, charming the ear and captivating
the mind,
so that his fables seem totally to exhaust the subject

they are employed to embellish. But, what is most

remarkable, he has shewn greater art than any other
author, in leading the reader imperceptibly from
one fable to another, by incidents which, with a mas-
terly hand, he skilfully throws in. The texture of
his Metamorphoses is thence so curious that it may
be compared to the work of his own Arachne, where
the shade dies so gradually, and the light revives so

imperceptibly, that it is hard to say where the one

ends or the other begins in short, they seem to
:

make a chain from the Chaos to the death of Julius

Caesar, with which he concludes his work.
But as the veil with which Ovid has covered the
truths contained in his fables, has shed a mysterious

obscurity over them, I hope my readers will not

take it amiss, if I shew, as a specimen of the rest,
the lessons of morality that may be fairly drawn
from those I unravel. Who, for instance, can
help perceiving, that the story of Deucalion and
Pyrrha implies, that piety and innocence meet with
the Divine protection, and that the only loss which
is
irreparable, is that of our probity and justice.
vi PREFACE.

The story of Phaeton shews the rashness of an

inconsiderate youth, in presuming to engage in an

enterprise above his strength ; and that the too great

tenderness of the parent frequently proves a cruelty
to the child.
The Baucis and Philemon represents a
tale of

good old couple, so happy, and so satisfied with the

few things the gods had given them, that the only
thing they desired more was, that they might not
survive one another.
The Minos and Scylla teaches us what
fable of
an infamous thing it is to sell our country and that;

even they who love the treason, hate the traitor.

From Ariadne being deserted by Theseus, and
generously received by Bacchus, we learn, that as
there is nothing of which we can be sure, so there is

nothing of which we ought to despair.

The story of Tereus indicates, that one crime
lays the foundation for many. He who begins with
lustmay end with murder.
The fable of Midas insinuates that our own wishes
may prove more fatal to us than the calamities with
which we are threatened by the world.
The story of Proteus intimates, that statesmen
can put on any shape to hold their places and suc-
ceed in power.
But Ovid never excels so much as when he touches
on the' passion of love and while every reader seems
;

sensible of the same emotions, which the poet would

excite, the doctrines that he sets forth are to be read

with caution, lest forgetting the fable, the founda-
 PREFACE. vii

tions of our virtue might be endangered by the

blandishments of what is merely fiction.
Procris, jealous of Cephalus, is afraid her fears
are just, but hopes the contrary :

Speratque miserrima falli.

And again,
Sed cuncta timenius araantes.

Byblis, in love with Caunus, struggles between

her unlawful flame and her honour :

Incipit, et dubitat ; scribit, damnatque tabellas ;

Et notat et delet, mutat, culpatque, probatque.

She writes, then blots ;

writes on, and blots again ;

Likes it as fit, then razes it as vain.

In general it may be said of Ovid, that he had a

most extensive wit, a quick and lively fancy, and a
just conception, which appears by his tender, agree-

able, and sublime expressions. We find in him the

charming way of relating a story, by inserting in

their due places those little circumstances, so es-
sential to attract our attention. We may even ven-
ture to say, that he was a perfect master of his art
in all its branches ; so that we need not be
surprised
at the author's prophecy, as to the duration and suc-

cess of his work :

Jamque opus exegi, quod nee Jovis ira, nee ignes,

Nee poterit ferrum, nee edax abolere vetustas ;

Cilm volet ilia dies, quse nil nisi

corporis hujus
Jus habet, ineerti spatium mihi finiat cevi ;

Parte tamen meliore mei super alta perennis

Astra ferar :
nomenque erit indelebile nostrum.
viii PREFACE.

Quaqiie patet domitis Ronmna potentia terris,

Ore legar populi ;
perque omnia sjBcula fania
(Si quid habent veri vatnin prsesagia) vivam.

The work is finish'd, which nor dreads the race

Of tempests, fire, or war, or wasting age :

Come, soon or late, death's undetermin'd day.

This mortal being only can decay ;

My nobler part, my fame, shall reach the skies,

And to late times with blooming honours rise.

Where'er th' unbounded Roman power obeys.

All climes and nations shall record my praise :

If 'tis allo%y'd to poets to divine,

One-half of round eternity is mine.

This prediction has so far proved true, that this

poem has been ever since the magazine, which has
furnished the greatest part of the following ages
with traditions and allusions, and the most celebrated
painters with subjects and design; nor have his
poetical predecessors and cotemporaries paid less
regard to their own performances.
Virgil, in his third Georgic, says,

Tentanda via est qua me quoque possini

ToUere humo, victorque virftm volitare per ora.

Thus on the wings of fame my muse I '11 raise.

And thro' mankind acquire immortal bays.

And Horace, in his first Ode,

Me doctarum hederse prsemia frontiura

Diis raiscent superis :

The wreaths on learned brows bestow 'd

Lift me, MectEuas, to a God.
 PREFACE. ix

And also in Book III. Ode 30,

Exegi inonumentiim sere perennius,

Regalique pyramidum altius

situ ;

Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens

Possit diruere, aut innumerabilis
Annorum series, et fuga temporum.
Non omnis moriar :

Mine is a monument will far surpass

The age of those that stand in solid brass ;

That eminently towering to the skies,

In height, the royal pyramids outvies :

The force of boist'rous winds, and mould'ring rain,

Years after years, an everlasting train,
Shall ne'er destroy the glory of my name ;

Still shall I shine in verse, and live in fame.

In fine, so long as easy wit, nature, and delicacy

are valued, every person of good taste will allow
Ovid to be one of the most agreeable and instruc-
tive poets that ever wrote.
Ovid was born at Sulmo in the forty-third year be-
fore the Christian era and died in banishment at
;

Tomos, a city on the Pontus Euxinus, near the mouth

of the Danube, when he was
fifty years of age.
 p. OVIDII NASONIS

METAMORPHOSEON,
LIBER PRIMUS.

nova fert animus mulatas dicere formas AnUmf^Mi dicere

INCor})ora.^ Di, coeptis (nam vos mut^stis et f<>rma.muMasMnou:.
""'"""
port
Milt list is i-f illds foi-
illas)
adsjjliatc meis
_ _ _
nias-)

Adspirate meis; prim^ue ab origine mundi cirptis, que deducite

r.urmeii a
Ad mea perpetuum deducite tenipora carmen perpetuum
prim/l origine mundi
ad mea tenipora.

TRANSLATION.
my design speak of forms changed into new bodies. Favour,
is to
ITO ye gods, the attempt, (for by you were these changes produced),
and carry down the chain of my poem, from the beginning of the world
to my own times.

NOTES.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid r^iay be beginning of the world, to the ase
considered as a colltctioii of tlie chief ill vvliich lie wrote. Tlie first bock
of those fables vvi.ich epic and di-amatic bcL'ins with the unravelhng oftliechnos,
poe's had introduced into their works,
and distiiiKuisliingit into four elements,
in order to gain attentidn from tlieir to eacli of which are assigned proper in-

readers, aiul raise their admiration. habitants, and last of all man is created.
These fables arc for the most part Afer this follow the four aj^es of the
founded in history. How they came to world, the war of the giants against
be changed in their circumsiaiices, so heaven, and the universal degeneracy
remote fiom credibility, will be taken of men. Jupiter finding that the ex-
notice of in the remaiks upon each ample of Lycaon changed into a wolf
fable in the course of the work. It is was not sutficient to reclaim them,
sufficient to observe at present, that sends an universal delnsje, from which
poets, to pive their subjects a greatw only Deucalion and Pyrrha escape, who
air of dignity, affected to relate every repair the loss of their kind by tlirowing
thinii witii extraordinary circumstances, stones behind them. Apollo kills the
and make the gods interpose in all Python, falls in love witJi Daphne, who
that concerned their heroes. This is changed into a laurel. The other
humour of the poets, joined to the rivers assemble, uncertain whether to
notions of tho.'e times, coi gratulate, or condole with ier father
superstitious
Inachus alone is ab-
produced an infinite number of fables, upon this event.
which Ov;d has here connected to- sent, anxious tor his daughter, whom
gether in one continued poem, of which Jupiter had changed into an heifer.
the whole universe is the scene, and Mercury kills Argus, whom Jure had
(hat takes in all the times from the appointed her keeper, soon after whir li
B
 2 P. OVIDII ]NAS0N1S
r. An(f miirf, ft tcl-
liis.et caiui/i (junclti'git
I. Ante mare, et tellus, et, quod teglt omnia,
omnia, eiat iiniis vtil- coe lum
lux nuturtPiii totoorbc,
tjuem due re chaos; Unus erat toto naturas vultus in orbe.
moles rudis ifidiges-
tague ; Quern dixcre chaos ;
rudis indigestaque moles :

TRANSLATION.
In the begiiuiing, the sea, the earth, and the heaven, which co-
I.

vers was but one face of nature through the whole extent of the
all,
nniverse, Mhich they called chaos a rude and indigested mass nor any
; ;

NOTES.
lo, restored to her former sliape, bears has manageil his subject with that happy
a son to Jupiter named Epaplias, who addiess, as to slide from one circuin-
is woishipiieii .joiiitl\ with her hy the st.ince into another without violating it.
itgypfians. The poet then, by a very Tjie texture, as an excellent critic ob-
n.itural and easy transition, enters npoii serves, is so art'ul, tliat it may be com-
the story of Phiaton. par<'d to the work of his own Arachne,
1. In tmva fert.] Ovid follows here where the shade dies so gradually, and
tlie example of the epic poets, who tl.'e light revives so
imperceptibly, tliat
always begin by a proposition of their it is hard to tell wliere the one
ceases,
subject, and invoking the aid of the and the other begins. Deducite perpe^
muse. The rules laid down by the tuum carmen must therefore mean, tvjrry
critics for exordinms are here strictly down my cyclic poem {i. e., the chain,
observed, both with respect to simpli- the connexion of my poem) from the
city and brevity. begimiin^ of the world to the present time.
1. Mutatas dicere formas corpora.'] 5. Ante mare et tellus.] Ante is not
Some commentators make this an hy- here a preposition governing a case, as
pallage, instead of corpora mutata in according to some rea:li!!gs; ante mare
novas formas ; and tind a beauty in it, et terras ; but is to be taken adterbiidly,
that the proposition of a subject which fov primo, principio, ' at first in the be-
regards the changes and variations of ginning:' Mare, tellus, et cceluin erat
bodies sIk uld be frauied with a trans- unus vultus nuiurcE.
position of words. But it n)ay be ex- 7. Quem dl.rere Chaos.] The ancient
plained also without an hypallage, as philosophers, not beinu able to conceive
forma is otten used to signify the thing liow any tiling could be produced out
itself, thus formic deotum, tcrrurum, pro of nothing, laid it down as a principle,
ipsis diis feris. And our own poet, ex nihilo nihil jit, et in nihilum nil ]>osse
Trif.t. 1.7- reverti. Therefore in their accounts of
Carmina mutatas hominum diceniia for- the creation of the world, they always
tuas. suppose some pre-existing matter, out
4.
Perpetuum cavmen.] Perpetuum of which things were formed, and
carmen is the same witli what was al^o ranked in that orderly disposition in
known amonir the ancients by the name which they now appear. The system
of poema cyclicum. It was of several lieie followed is that of Hesiod, the
kinds as when a particular subject and
,
most ancient poet now extant, that
action were pitched open, of a reason- treats of the origin of things. Fortirst
able but to be included in a
lenjitli, he supposes a chaos or pre-existing
determined number of lines; or when a niHtter, out of which the world and four
poet gave the entire history of a prince. elements were formed and then de-
;

But the principal kind of cyclic poem manner in which these ele-
scribes the
was, when the poet carried his subject ments were disposed ; as that aether
fvora one fixed periorl of time lo an- possessed the highest place, air the
other, as from the beginning of the next, then water, and earth, on account
world to the Trojan war, and connected of its gravity, the lowest. This doc-
all the events together in a continued trine, monstrous as it appears, is no
train. It is in this last sense that Ovid other than a disfigured tradition of the
calls his metamorphoses pevpduum car- creation. Hesiod seems to have copied
men the parts being connected to-
; all from Sanchoniathon, who undoubtedly
gether by the most natural and easy drew his ideas from the writings of
transitions for a certain unity of story
:
Moses, since in some places he uses his
ie preserved through the whole, and he very expressions.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. I. 3

nee quicquam nisi iners

Neb quicquam nisi pondus iners ;
congestaque pondus ; seminaque dis
eodem cordia rerum non bene
junctarum, coiige/'tc
jSTon bene junctarum discordia semina rerum. eodem acervo. Adhuc
niilius Titan prabebat
Nullus adhuc mundo prsebebat lumina Titan ; 10 lumina mundo; me
Nee nova crescendo reparabat cornua Phcebe; Phcebe reparabat nova
cornua crescendo : nee
Neb circumfuso pendebat in acre tellus tellus libra/ u suis pon-
deribux pendebat in
Ponderibus librata snis ; nee brachia longo acre circumfuso ; nee
Amphil rite porrexerat
Margine terrarum porrexerat Amphitrite. brachia iu lonp.o mar-

Qu&.que fuit tellus, illic et pontus, et a'er 15 : gine terrarum. Quaque

Juit tellus, illic erat et
Sic erat instabilis tellus, innabilis unda, pontus,et acr: sic tillus
erat instabilis, unda in-
Lucis eoens aer nulli sua forma manebat.
:
nabilis, et atjr ege/ts lu-
cis: sua forma iiiatw-
Obstabatque aliis aliud quia corpoie in uno
:
hal nulli. Aliudquc o!>-
Fri^ida pugnabant calidis, humentia siccis, stabat aliis: quia in
lino eodeiiuiue corpore,
Moilia cum duris, sine pondere habentia pon- frigliia pugnabant ca-
humentia
dus. 20 lidis,
moilia cum
siccis,
duris, ha-
bi'iitia pondiis cum corporibiis iine pondere.

TRANSLATION.
thing but a lifeless lump, and the disagreeing seeds of jarring ele-
ments, confusedly jumbled together in the same heap. No sun as yet
gave light to the world, nor did the moon, in a course of regular*
'

changes, repair her pointed horns. The earth was not hung self-ba-
lanced in the surrounding air nor had the sea stretched out her arms to
;

embrace the distant coasts. For Avherever there was land, there too
was sea and air. Thus was the earth unstable, the sea uniiavigable,
and the air destitute of light nor did any thing appear in its real
;

form. For one constantly obstructed the course of the other because ;

in the same heap, cold struggled with hot, moist with dry, hard with
soft, and heavy bodies widi light. But God and kind nature put an

NOTES.
10. Titan.} The sun; so on
called qiiently must hold one another in a per-
account ofiiis supposed fatlier Hyperion, fect equilibrium or balance. This
who was one of tiie Titans. This Hy- power of gravitation is not only con-
jserion was tlie first who by his a-siduous stant and universal, but acts always in
observations discovered the course of proportion to the solid content of
the sun, moon, and other luminaries. bodies, and with a force which is in a
By tnem he regulated the times and direct simple proportion of the quantity
seasons, and transmitted that know- of the matter, and an inverse duplicate
ledge to others. No wonder then if lie proportion of the distance.
who was the father of astronomy, has 14. Amphitrite.'] The daughter of
l)een also feigned by the poets to be Oceanus and Doris, and wife to Nep-
th<5 father of the sun and moon. tune, god of the sea hencH she is here
:

n. Pliophe.'] The moon; so called made to stand for the sea itself. Some
because supposed to be the sister of take her to be no more than a poetical
Phoebus or tlie sun. personage, whose name, derived from
13. Pundi'vibus librata suis,} It is the Greek, signifies to surround. Ac-
plain from this that the poet had a very cording to this we may easily conceive
distinct notion of the gravitation of bo- how shi- cn;ne to be called the wife of
dies. Ail the parts of matter attract, Neptune, or of the sea, which encom-
and are mutually attracted, and coiiso passes the earth.
B 2
 p. OVIDIl NASONIS
T}nis tt wtUof nnlura Ilanc Deus, et melior litem natura diremit.
ttircmil kaiir. /item.
JV,iin terras
abstitlit Nam ccelo terras, et terris abscidit undas :

en III, et itniliix trnix,

(I xecreiit talnin li- Et liquidum spisso secrevit ab a'ere coelum.
i/iiiditin eih Sj/i.y.so tn're.
Qua', i<ostquctmctolt it,
Qiiajpostqiiam evolvit, ca^coque exemit acervo,
fxeinitiiie cant iicervo, Dissociata locis concordi pace ligavit 25 :

ligaiit ca dissociatu
locis
Vis
puce concordi. Ignea convexi vis et sine pondere coeli
is^nrii cccli coiire.ri
ft '•inr pondcre emir • it , Emicuit, summfique locum sibi legit in arce.
legitijue locum .>i6i in Proximus est aer illi levitate, locoque.
summri tirce. A\'r est
prorimui illi fevitd'e Densiov his tellus elementaque grandia traxit ;
;
ioccique. 'I'cUiks est
deninr hit, tni.iitinic Et est
pressa sui. Circumfluus hu-
gravitate
ct
gratidia etemnita,
est grarilnte
mor 30
pressci
sui Jiiiincr cir-
ipsiiis. Ultima possedit, solidumque coercuit orbem.
cumjiuiit po-isedit ul-
tima loca, cdcrcuitque IL Sic ubi dispositam, quisquis luit ille dec-
solii/itiii orltem.
II.Ubi illf,qnisqii)S rum,
sectamque in membra
f'jtt fJeorum, xciidt re-
congeriem sir dispos}- Congeriem secuit,
tam, redcgilqiie sic-
tam ill m'.mliru. degit :

TRANSLATION.
end to this intestine discord for he separated earth from air, and
;

water from earth, and distinguished between the grosser air and the
jethereal heaven. When he had thus unravelled the whole system
of things, and extricated them from their state of confusion, he as-
signed to each its proper place, and combined them in harmonious order.
The light fiery element of vaulted sethereal heaven shone out, and
mounted to tlie highest region. To this the air succeeds in lightness
and place. The earth, still heavier, drew along with it, the more pon-
derous elements, and was pressed together by its own weight. The
circling waters sunk to the lowest place, and begirt the solid orb.
II. When thus he, whoever he was of the
gods, had divided the
mass, and by that division formed it into distinct members first of all, ;

NOTES.
Deus et melior natiua.~\ Nature is
31. make earth the heaviest of the four ele-
a word often used witliont any deter- ments, and place it in the centre ray, :

mined signification, and in general we it were to contradict himself, seeing he

are apt to ascribe to it all th(;se appear- says circumfluus humor coercuit solidum
ances which wo find it hard to explain orbem. The waters possessing tiie lowest
upon established and known principles. phice, is therefore only meant in respect
]n its most proper acceptation it means to the earih whereon we tread, not of
tiie invisible agency of tlie Beity, in the ponderous central earth. For the
nphoUlina; the present frame of thiiigs. external surface of the earth rises con-
Et therefore here, as grammarians
IS siderably, and suffers the waters to fli.w
call an expositive particle, Deus et
it, round it in ho! low deep channels. This
natura; as if the pout had said, Deiis I lake to be the true meaning of the
site natura. passage. To say with some that Ovid
31. Ultima fossedit Sink to the .'] calls water the last of the elements be-
lowest place. This is not to be nnder- cause it surrounds and encompasses the
stood in a strict philosophical sense, for earth, is just nothing at all ; he might
that were to contradict the doctrine of for the same reason have done so of the
llesiod and all the ancient saj.;e,s, who air. Some explain ultima extimn.
 /

METAMORPHOSEON, Lin. 1. 5

Principio
^
terrain, ne non aequalis ab omni }>n>ictj>w gimmont
r • teiram ne iinii rsset
m
• • •
-rt 1
Parte loret, magni speciem giomeravit or- a-qnaUsahnmnifartc,
mngni mbis^
•
1 '" iji(cie)7i
Of-
DIS. OO Turn jussit f'retu (tif-

Turn freta difFundi, rapidisque tumescere ventis •('"'f/' ««'.7*<''«9"5

Jussit, et ambitse circumdare littora terra?. cumiiarc iniorourrA
\ -1
I- ^• , , n , , 1 (imbiltF. Addidlt (t
Aacliclit et lontes, iramensaque stagna, lacusque ; fontcs, stagvoqiie im-

Fluminaque obliquis cinxit declivia ripis 1"^^""""^'^^ :

Quae diversa locis partim sorbentur ab ipsa

^
"^'qins nj:,., ; que: m-
40 \n\n^
.
1 irsa li.cis, sar-
.
17 ;
lilt

in mare perveniunt partim, campoque recepta bentvr partim abi^Ksa

1 --I
• • • •
1-,, 1 i.
\(i\\mc: -pintim verve-
JLibenoris aquae, pro ripis littora pulsant. m,ts,t in mure, mej).

Jussit et extendi campos, subsidere valles,

*,^M""jZ^!i!rit
Fronde tora pronpis.
rj 11dextraAilapidosos
V tque duse
sureere
tecri

totidemque
•• svlvas,
coelura,
-1
inontes.
sinistra
AJr
4o
et Campos extendi, I c.l-
les subsidere, syivas
jussit

Parte secant Zonse, quinta est ardentior illis :

Tfpid!:Zl'sur^cTe".'Vt-
que diiiv so)ue secant
calum drxtrCi parte, totidemque zonse secant sinistra paiie, ot iit est etiam quinta zona
ardentior illis:

TRANSLATION.
that no inequality might be found on either side, he rolled up the earth
into the figure of a spacious globe. He then commauded the seas to
flow round, and swell with raging winds and to mark out shores upon ;

the encompassed earth. He added also springs, and immense standing-

pools and lakes, and bounded the running rivers by winding banks.
These, different in different places, are swallowed up by the earth itself;
others, carrying Iheir waters forward to the sea, are there received into
the plains of the ample ocean, and beat the shores instead of banks.
He commanded likewise the plains to be extended, the valleys to sink
down, the woods to be covered with leaves, and the rocky mountains
to rise. And as heaven is divided on the right by two zones, and by
a like number on the left, between which there is a fifth hotter than

NOTES.
40. Partim sorbejitur ah ipsfi.l This is 45. Utque dver clexlrit.'] Afstronomers
meant of those rivers that, at some (lis- take notice of five parallel circles in the
tance from their fountains, disappear, heavens. First, the equinoclial, which
and continue tiieir course under ground. liesexactly in the middle between the
Such Virgil tells us was tlie Alplieiis in poles of the «orld, and has obtained
Peloponnesus. Such still are the Anas its name from tiie equality of
days and
in Spjin, and Rhone in France. Yet nights over the earth, while ti.e sun
all

they are not so wholly swallowed up by is ni i!s

pi, me. On each side of it are
the earth, but tliat they appear again, the two tropics, at the distance of
and carry their waters forward to thesea. twenty-three degreesand thirty minutes,
Jussit et extendi eumpos.yriihjuftsit
'13. and describctlliy tha sun when in his
istiuely sublime, and serves admirably greatest declination north and south, or
well to express tlie ease wherewith an at tiie summer and winter solstices,

intiiiitely powerful Being accon-ipiishes 'ihat on the north side of the equinoc-
the nio^t ditiicnlt works. Let hnn but tial is called the tropic of Cancer, be-

speak the word and it is done. There cause tlie sun describes it when in that
is the same
beauty here that was long sign of the ecliptic and that on the :

.since remarked by one of the most cele- south side is for the same reason called
brated critics among the ancients, in the the Uopic of Capricorn. As;ain,atthe
jfiat of the Hebrew lawgiver.
distance of twenty -three degrees and
6 P. OVIDll NASONIS
sic ciira Dd Oisttnxit
Sic onus inclusum numero distinxlt eodem
inclusiim onus iixlcin
niiiiiiroZ^'Xtiriim: plii- Cura Dei :
totidemque plagse tellure premuntur.
g(egiie toti<hm prt miin-
tiir ti lliitf. Qiiariim Quarum quae media est, nou esthabitabilis aestu;
plagnriun illri (j/i/t est
miditi, nun i:\t Itublta.
Nix tegit alta duavS totidein inter utiamque lo-
:

bHis (csl II : nltii nix

locuiil tofi-
fi-
cavit, 50
gir dniis :

tli'itiinter ntramque,
Temperiemque dedit, mista cum frigore flammu.
(luli'que tcniperiun,
JlainmCi mixtti cum J'ligorc

TRANSLATION.
these in like manner did the care of God distinguish this enclosed mass
;

by the same number, and five corresponding tracts are impressed upon
the earth. That which possesses the middle place, cannot be inhabited
by reason of the immoderate heats. Two are perpetually involved in
deep snow between these he placed two more, and gave them a hap-
;

pier temper, partaking equally of heat and cold. Over these hangs

NOTES.
a half from the poles of the world, me torrid zone, except directly under the
two other parallels called the polar tropics ; and his greatest distance from
circles, either on account of theii neiy:h- their zenith, at noon, cannot exceed
bourhood to tlic poles, or rather be- fortj-seven degrees. Thus his rays be-
cause if we suppose whole frMme of
tlie ing often perpendicular, or nearly so,
the heavens to be turned round in the and never very oblique, must dart more
plane of tiie equinoctial, these circles forcibly, and in greater numbers, and
are marked out by tlie poles of the eclip- occasion intense heats in that tract.
tic. By means of these paralkls astro- The ancients believed it uninliabitable,
nomers have divided the heavens into being but little acquainted with the ex-
five zones or tracts. The whole spare tent and situation of the earth, course
between the two tropics is the middle of the winds, &c. But later discoveries
or torrid zone, whicli the equinoctial have not only found it stocked with in-
divides iuto two equal parts. On each habitants, but also a rich fertile soil,
side of this are the temperate zones, abounding in every thing needful for
which extend from the tropics to the the support and pleasure of life.
two polar circles. And lastly, the .50. Nix legit alfa dvas.} viz. The two
spaces enclosed by the polar circles polar or frigid zones. For as the sun
make up the frigid zones. as the Now never approaches nearer these than the
planes of these circles produced till they tropic on that side, and is, during one
reach tlie earth, willalso impress similar part of the year, removed by the ad-
parallels upon it.
and divide it in the ditional extent of the whole torrid zone,
same manner as tliey divide the heavens, his rays must be very oblique and faint,
hence astronomers also conceive ftve so as to leave them exposed to almost
zones upon the earth, corresponding to perpetual cold.
those in the heavens, and bounded by 51. Temperiemque dedit-l The tempe-
the same circles. rate zones lying between the torrid and
49. Quumm quce media est.] The un- frigid, partake of each, and are of a
derstandini; of tiiis depends upon know- middle temper between hot and cold.
sun. The ecliptic Here too the distinction of seasons is
ing the course of the
in which he moves, cutting tlie equator most manifest. For in either temperate
in two opposite points, at an angle of zone, when the sun is in that tropic,
twenty-three degrees and a half, runs which borders upon it, being nearly
obliquely from one tropic
to another, vertical, the heat must be very consi-
and returns again in a corresponding derable, and make its summer but :

direction. the sun, who in the

Hence when he has got to the other tropic, be-
space of a year performs the revolution ing now further removed from, the
of this circle, must in that time be zenith by an arch of forty-seven de-
twice vertical to every place in the grees, his rays will strike but faintly.
 METi^MORPHOSEON. Lib. \.

Imminet his aer, qui, quant6 est pondere terras, A'cr immiitft fii.f, ijui
est taiitoonerosior ic.ni,
Pondus aquse levis tanto est onerosior igni.
; qiiunto pondus aquce
est. levins pondere ter-
IIJjc et nebulas, illic consistere nubes ra. Jussit et nebulas
consistere illic, jussit
Jussit, et liumanos motura tonitrua mentes, 55 etiam nubes consistire
Et cum fulminibus facientes frigora ventos. illic,et tonitrua mo-
tura mentes humunas,
His quoque non passim mundi fabricator haben- et ventos facientes
fri-
gora, cum fulmifiii>us.
dum Fabricator quoque
Aera Vix nunc obsistitur ilUs, mundi, non perniixit
permisit. iicra liabendum passim
(Cum sua quisque regant diverse flamina tractu) his ventis nunc enini,
;

cum quisque regant

Quin lanient mundum Tarita est discordia fra-^ sua flamina direrso
:

trum : — 60 titur
tract u,lamei\ vij obsis-
illis quin liinient

Eurus ad Auroram, Nabathseaque regna recessit, mundum, discordia

fratrum est tanta.
Persidaque, et radiis juga subdita mantutinis. Eurus recessit ad Au-
roram, rcgnaque Na-
Vesper, et occiduo quae littora sole tepescunt, bathxEU. Persidaque
et juga subdita radiis
matutinis. Vesper, et littora qum tepescunt occiduo sole,

TRANSLATION.
the air, which is by so much heavier than fire, as the weight of wa-
ter falls below the weight of earth.) Here he ordered clouds aud
storms to engender, aud thunder that fills with terror the human
breast, lightning, and the winds that bring on winter colds. Nor did
the great contriver of the world leave these to take an uncontrolled
possession of the sky. Even liow (though each wind governs his own
blasts in the tract assigned him) they can scarce be hindered from rend-
ing the world to pieces so great is the rage and discord of the brothers.
;

Eurus took his way towards the rising of Aurora, the balmy Nabathean
regions, Persia, and the moimtains whose summits are visited by the
early rays of the sun. The evening star, and shores warmed by the

NOTES.
and occasion winter. The intermediate to have her habitation in the eastern
spaces, while he is moving from one quarter of the world, and often stands
tropic to tiie other, niake spring and in the lar.sruage of poetiy for the east.
aiitunm. To prevent mistakes we must 61. NaOatliceaqttcre^na.] The realms
observe, that Ovir], considering the of the east: for we learn from Josephiis,
torrid zone as tlie middle re<i!on of the that N a bath, the son of Ismael, with
world, calls the north side tiie ri;;ht side his eleven brothers, took possession
of heaven, and the south the left. of all the country from tiie liiiphrares
61, Eurus ad yfurnrum,^ The poet, to the Red sea, and called it Nabathaea.
after observing tiiat the air is the proper Natural History speaks of
I'liny in his
region of the \vnii!s, proceeds to take the Nahatiiei in Arabia Felix. Persia
notice that God, to prevent their mak- was a noted kingdoinof Asia, eastward
ing havoc of the wiiole creation, sub- of Italy.
jected them to paiticnlar laws, and as- 63. Vesper et occiduo.'] The evening
signed each tiie quarter froo! whence fo region and coasts where the sun setr.,
direct his blasts. Enruswassent tow^ird that is, the western part of the world,
Aurora, and the eastern regions. Enrus was assigned to the zephyrs, or west
is the e<ist-\viiid, so called
by a Greek winds, so called by a Greek derivation,
derivation, because it b!ov.s from the because they cherish and enliven nature.
east. And as Aurora, or the Morning, 64. Scythiamseptemqvetrionnn] Scy-
was always ushered in by the sun, who thia, a northern region of Asia. Sep-
rises eastward, hence she was supposed tentrio, the northern quarter of ijie
 p. OVIDII NASONIS
sunl proxima Zifhyro. Proxima sunt Zephyio :
Scythiam septemque
Horrifer Boreas inva-
sit Sc'iithiiim sepfciitri- trionem
Tell us con-
oiicniqiie:
triiria miitlesr'i! nh as- Horrifer invasit Boreas contraria tell us
: 65
iidiii^ niiijibii.s. plinio-
que iiusf.ro. Imposuit
Nubibus assiduis,plv\vioque madescitab Austro :

super hiic yEtliera li- Haec super imposuit liquidum et gravitate ca-
quidum et carentcm
graritale, 7/cc Itahen- reiitem
teui quicquam terren/v
fa CIS. -^thera, nee quicquam terrene fsecis habentem.
Vix (lisscpsenn
ea omnia certis limiti-
bus, cum sidera qua:
Vix ea limitibus dissepserat omnia certis :

pressa sub illtl massd Cum, quffi pressa diu niassa latuere sub ilia, 70
diu latuere, ca^pcriiut
(Jlcrtesccre toto cwlo. Sidera coeperunt toto effervescere
cceIo.
Neu ne) nlla regio orba
foret
(ct
orba suis ani- Neu regio foret ulla suis animantibus
:

mantibus: astra, for- Astra tenent cceleste solum, formseque Deo-

mcFque Deoruni, tenent
solum calcste : rum :

TRANSLATION.
setting sun, border upon the abode of the zephyrs. Boreas with his
dreadful blasts invaded Scylhia aud the northern quarter. The region
opposite to this is wet with continual clouds, and the rainy south wind.
Over these he placed the liquid firmament of heaven, a light aethereal
substance, void of gravity, and purged from all the gross dregs of earth.
Scarcely had he distinguished all these by their assigned limits, when
the stars that had hitherto lain hid under the lumpish mass of the
chaos, began to shine out, and enlighten the whole expanse of heaA'^en.
And that no region might be without its proper inhabitants, he fills the
empty tract of heaven w ith stars and the forms of gods. The wa-
NOTES.
world, so called from the Triones, a is not strictly true. But the error is so
constellation of seven stars, near tlip small as not to dei-erve not ice, since from
north pole, known by the name of Dr. Halley's discourse ©f the barometer
Ciiailes' Wain. Boreas was the son of it appears, that if nn the surface of tlie

Astrasus, or, according to others, of eartii, an inch of quicksilver in tlie tulie,

Strynion. His name is derived from a be equal to a cylinder of air of 300 foot,
Greek word, signifying an eddy, vortex : it will be, at a mili-'s height, equal to a
hence probably tiie poets use
so often it
cylinder of air of ^2,700,000 foot. And
for the north wind, wiiich, in its vio- therefore the air at so great a distance
lence, raiu'S som'-tinies to that decree, from the earth as the poet here supposes
as to occasion whirlwinds. his aether must be raretied to so great a
65. Conti'aria tellus.] That is, the degree, that tlie space it tills will bear
south quarter of the world, for the but a very small projiortion to that
south pole is directly opposite to the wiiich is entirely void of matter.
Dorth. The south wind is here called 73. Formeeque Deorum.^ It is not easy
rainy, because blowing upon Italy from to understand what the poet means by
ilie sea, it always brings witfi it clouds the forms of the gods. Some refer it to
and rain. The intermediate winds are the stars, as if he would be understood
omitted, as being only subdivisions of that they were images of the gods. But
tha four principal liere described. I aril rather apt to think t\mt formaqjie

67. H<ec super imposuit liquidum et Dcorvm is only a poetical expression

gravitate careniem Mthera.'] Here we for tlie gods Uiemselves; and that he
have the poet spreading a thin veil of assigns the heavens as tiie habitation of
a-ther over liis infant creation, which the gods and stars : these last, according
is agreeable enough to the late dis- to the notion of the Platonists, being a
coveiies in philosophy. His notion, in- kind of intelligent beings, or at least
deed, of its being entirely void of gravity guided and actuated by such.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. I. 9

Cesserunt nitidis liabitandEe piscibus undse ; nndts cesserunt halii-

tandtr piscibus nifiilis :
Terra feras cepit, volucres agitabilis a'er. 75 lerrii ce/'it Jcra.s :
agi-
tuliitis iicr cepit rolu-
Sanctius his animal, mentisque capacius altfE crcs. Scd animal sanc-
Deerat adhuc, et quod dominar i in csetera posset :
tius his, capaciusque
altff mentis, ft quiid
Natus homo est sive hunc diviiio semine fecit
: yosset (lominari in c<e-
tna auimalia adhuc
Illeopifex rerum, mundi melioris origo : da rat. Homo nafits
est. Site ille opifex
Sive recens teUus, seductaque nuper ab alto 80 rerum, ori.:o mcli'uris

JEiheve, cognati retinebat semina cceU : miaiili, fecit hunc

rino semine. ,Sif~e tel-
di-

Quam satus J'apeto mistam fluvialibus undis, las recens, nxperque

sedurtei al> alto jKthe-
Finxit in effioiem moderantum cuncta Deorum. re, retinebat semina
cus7iati callquam tel-
:

hirem, snfzis Japcto (Vromelhcm) Jin.rit mistam Jluvialibus undis in ej/igiem Deorum mode-
rantum cuncta.

TRANSLATION.
be the habitation of the smooth fishes the earth is peopled
ters fell to ;

with wild beasts, and the yielding air with birds.

But a more noble animal, aiid capable of still higher faculties,
formed for empire, and fit to rule over the rest, was yet m anting. Man
was designed whether the great Artificer of things, who created the
:

world in a better state, formed him at first of a divine principle or ;

the infant earth, newly divided from the high a;ther, still retaijied some
particles of its kindred heaven which the wise son of Japetus, temper-
;

ing with living streams, fashioned after the image of the gods who rule

NOTES.
78. Natus homo est."] We have I.ere and refusing to espouse Pandora, and
another proof that the ancient poets in only ol)serve that lie is fabled to have
their accounts of the creation of the formed man of tempered clay, whom
world, followed a tradition that had Mi.ierva, the goddess of sciences, ani-
been copied i'roni the writings of Moses. mated. There are two ways of ex-
The formation of man in Ovid, as well plaining this history. First, that the
as in Genesis, is the last work of the inhabitants of Scythia being at that
Creator. time exfFemely savage, and without
79. Munrli melioris origo.'] The au- laws, either v;ntten or traditional, Pro-
thor of a better world. So I h^ve trans- nietbeiis, a polite and knowing prnice,
lated it ; taUiiis; tlie meaning of the poet tanght iheni to lead a more humane life,
to be, that God created tiie woiid in a and instrncted them in agiicnltme,
bf'tter statethan that in which it now physic, and other sciences. This, in
appears. Man at first was perf ct and the hyperbolical language of the poets,
untiinted witli vice the earth, too,
: was called, his having formed a man
yielded every thing better, and in more whom the yoddess of sciences animated.
abundance, of her own accord. I am But there is still another explanation of
the more confirmed in this, because in this fable given by Lactantins. He
the account of the four ages of the takes it to have no other foundation,
world, which immediately follows, he bnt that Prometheus was the first who
speaks of man as gradually degenerat- tani'htthe art ofmaking statues of clay.
ing from a state of perfect simplicity This conjectuie is greatly strengthened
and innocence. by a fine monument stiii
extant, and
82. Quern satus Japeto.] The
story that seen in the first volume of
may be
of Hroiiietheiis will reqniie to be ex- Montfaiicon's Anticjitities. It repre-
plained somewbat largely. He was, sents Prometheus forming a man, and
according to the most received account, there you may see him working with a
the son of Japelns and Clymcne- 1 chisel a plain indication that the art
;

shall pass over that

part of his history of statuary is intended by it. This
which relates to his deceiving Jupiter, image, besides, is very singular; Mi-
10 p. OVIDIl NASONIS

Cumqiiccatrra amma-
lia pronii apcctiiit ter- Pronaque cilm spectent animalia caetera terram,
ram, ritdit homini Of Os homini sublime dedit, ccelumque tueri 85
siiblimc :Jii.txitgiic eiini
tiieri rcrliim, it follere Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.
rifltiis irecd't ad xi-
dcr<i- Sir tilliis qua Sic, modo quae f uerat rudis et sine imagine tellus,
modo fitrraf ritdis et
Induit ionotas hominum conversa tiguras.
sine imaiiiiif, convema,
hiriiiif igiiolas Jigurax III. Aurea prima sata est setas, quse vindice
tiominwii.
III. Aurea atas pri- nullo,
ma
Sponte sua sine lege fidem rectumque colebat. 90
Cit .\ata, qua nullo
lindice, sua S)io/itc cd-
hbatfidcm rectumque Poena metusque aberant; nee verba minacia fixe
sine lege. Paiiu me-
t usque aberant ; vec Mxe. legebantur nee supplex turba timebat
:

miliaria rerbn teti,ei>aii-

turfixoarc: luc turba supi'lex timebat ora sui judices

:

TRANSLATION.
over all. And animals bend their looks downwards to
\vhile other
earth, he gave to man a lofty countenance, commanded him to lift his
face to heaven, and behold with erected eyes the stars. Thus the earth,
lately rude and without form, was changed, and put
on the figure of
man, till then vmknown.
The golden age came first, which, without any avenger, or the
III.
constraint of law, of its own accord practised faith and justice. Fear
and punishment were yet unknown nor were threatening penalties
;

graved on tables of brass ;

nor did suppliant criminals tremble in the

NOTES.
nerva there appears, because, according tion. They had heard that the first
to Lucian, it was she that animated the man lived for some time in perfect in-
work of Prometheus. There yon Uke- nocence ; that the ground in the garden
wise see Psyche with her wings, riding of Eden yielded all kinds of fiuit, with-
in a chariot, becanse she was the sym- out beinj; cultivated ; and that the infe-
bol of the soul. It is plain that all this rior animals, submissive to his com-
was intended to siunify to ns, that the mands, paid him all due homage: but
statues of Prometheus were so perfect, that alter liis fail, all nature revolted
that they wanted nothing but a living against him. Hence this age of gold,
sonl to be self-moved. Without giving so celebrated by the poets, the inno-
into some such explication as this, how- cence of manners, the spontaneous pro-
shall we account for what the poet says duction of fruits, and the rivers of milk
here and afterwards, that man being not and honey. The ancients refer to Italy
as yet created, Prometheus mixed clay, and the reigns of Saturn and Janus,
and moulded him into his present figure, what the Scripture relates of Adam and
since he was a man himself, and an- the terrestrial paradise for antiquaries
:

tiquity gives us the history of his father seem now to be agreed, that Saturn
and ancestors. So far with respect to was Adam, and Janus, Noah. Would
the formation of man. Other particu- the short compass of these annotations
lars in the history of Prometheus will permit me to enter into a particular de-
come in more properly afterwards. tail, might, from a great number of
I

89. Aiirca prima sata est (Ftas.} After parallel circumstances, make the thing
the formation of man follow the four appear extremely probable. But I
ages of the world, which are denomi- shall content myself with referring
nated from four metals, in a succession those who have a curiosity to know
from better to worse, answering to the more of this, to the first book of Bo-
gradual degeneracy of mankind. The chart's Phaleg. Vossius' Treatise of
golden age comes first, and is a conti- Idolatry, and the first volume of Ba-
nuation of the same tradition we have nier's Mythology.
mentioned before. Truth in the poets 91. Verba mbmciafixo cere legebantur.]
is always disguised under a veil of fic- It was the custom among the ancients
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. I. 11

Judicis ora sui sed erant sine vindice tuti.

:
^^^ ermt tuti sme
'
_, , . vindice. Piniix ceesa
. .

J\ ondum csesa suis, ut viseret •""> mmnibus mndum

peregrinum orbem,
MontibuSjin liquidas pinus descenderat undas: 95 'ilquVJal^v't. iTsercfor.
mortales prseter sua littora, norant. pn-igrinum mor-
Nullaque f>>>
T.

ondum
1 . . .
•infossae tnlesquc norant nulla
IS
TVT . 1 T
prsecipites cino-ebant
,•
JNon tuba directi, non sens cornua ilexi,
•
oppida
n •
: I'lUora -prater sua
nondiimprtFcivites fos-
«<r vins,ebri;t
.-

oppida;
Non galeae, non ensis erant sine militis usu :
I'X't^mfcornua Jiexi
Mollia secure perao'ebant
i O otia mentes. 100 a="sg«i««o«,c»«snwj
erant : mentes secura
. .
.,.
Ipsa quoque immuius.rastroquemtacta.nec ullis peragtUant moiih otia
o •
•( 1 i i 11 1
• sine usu militis. Ipsa
feaucia vomeribus, per se clabat omnia tenus. quoque teUusimnumis

Contentique cibis nullo cogente creatis, tll^lSZn^^d,

Arbuteos """"« ver se
fcEtus, montanaque frao;a leo-ebant, t"^'^}

Cornaque,etinduris haerentiamora rubetis, 105 ciois creatis nuiio co-

Et quai deciderant patula Jovis arbore glandes iZTfatbits "fra"aqTe :

Ver erat aeternum ; placidique tepentibus auris :;!:;;',S.«.^:"fK

Muicebant Zephyri natos sine semine flores. rubetis; et gUmdes

M.- f n f
ox etiam iruges tellus inarata terebat:
, qu(E deciderant patula
•

arbore jovis. vererat

, 1 ,

Nee renovatus ager gravidis canebat aristis. 110 zcphlfrTmiucebaft^al

Flumina Jiam lactis, jam flumina nectaris ibant: natos
*", tepeutihus .jiores
sine semine. Mox
_-,, T n
• •
•!• 11 1

rlavaque de viridi stiUabant nice mella. etiam teiius inarata

ferebut fritges et nee
agere enovatus canebat aristis. Jatnjlumina lactis, jam flumina nectaris ibant, flavaque
mella stiUabant de viridi ilice.

TRANSLATION.
presence of their judge but all lived in perfect security, nor wanted the
;

authority of a ruler. The

pine, cut from tlie mountains,
had not yet
descended into the sea, to visit foreign coasts nor were men acquainted ;

with any shores beside their own. Towns were not as yet fenced round
with ivalls and deep ditches. Trumpets of straight, or clarions of
bended, brass, helmets, or swords, were not then known. Nations,
peaceable and secure, lived in soft tranquillity, without the help of
the soldier. The earth too of herself, untouched by the harrow,
nor wounded by plough-shares, plentifully furnished all kinds of fruit ;

and men, contented with the food which nature freely gave, gathered
the fruit of the strawberry-bush, and the wildings growing on the
mountains, and cornels, and black-berries sticking among the thorny
brambles, and the acorns that fell from the spreading oak of Jove.
There an eternal spring reigned, and gentle zephyrs, cherished by fos-
tering breezes the flowers that grew unsown in fields and meadows.
Soon too the earth, unploughed, yielded also crops of grain, and the
land, without being renewed, whitened with heavy ears of corn. Rivers
of milk and nectar ran through the plains, and yellow honey distilled
from the young oak.

NOTES.
to grave their laws on tables of brass, drawn with a masterly judgment, and
and fix them up in some conspicuous fuUof the finest strokes of poetry. See
places, that they might be open to the the fourth eclogue of the prose transla-
viewolall. This whole description is tion of Virgil.
V2 P. OVIDII NASONIS

IV. Postquam mun- IV. Postquam, Saturno tenebrosa in Tartara

dus crat xtib Jiive, Sa-
turno mhso in teiic-
misso,
broxa I'm turn, proles
av'cntea subiit, de/c- Sub Jove mundus erat; subiit argentea proles,
lior auro, pritiosior
Julio ffrc : Jupiter
Auro deterior, ftdvo pretiosior ?ere 1 15 :

rontraxit tempora an-

tiqui veris, exci-itquc
Jupiter antiqui contraxit tempora veris,
annum quatuor spa- Perque hyemes,gestusque etinaequales autumnos,
tiis, per ill/ernes, irstuf-
que, et autumnos iiie-
Et breve ver, spatiis exegit quatuor annum.
t/uulrs. et rer breie.
'J\tni priuniui acr ustus
Turn primum siccis aer fervoribus ustus
siceis fervor ibuf cwh
<iu:t ; et vtacies ad-
Canduit; et ventisglaciesadstrictapependit. 120
sfricta renti^pcpendit. Turn primum subiere domos : domus antra fu-
Turn primum lioiiiiiu'S
subiere domos; domus erunt,
fiicrunt autra,et dt nsi Et densi
fru>ires,ttiirgttvinettt
frutices, et vinctse cortice virgae.
cortice.
TRANSLATION.
IV. But when the world came to be under Jupiter, (Saturn being
driven into the dark realms of Tartarus,) the silver age succeeded, ex-
celled by gold, but more precious than that of brass. Jupiter shortened
the duration of the ancient spring, and divided the year by four sea-
sons, appointing summers, unsteady autumns, winters, and a short
spring, in constant succession.
Then first the parched air began to
glow with sultry heats, and ice and snow hung, bound up by the cold
winds. Then first men sought shelter in houses their houses were ;

caves, and thick shrubs, and twigs tied together with bark. Then
NOTES.
113. Salurno tenehrnsa in Tartara violent shock of a comet, was jolted
viissn.'\ The
fable of Jupiter's dethroning out of her natural position, and had her
his fatlier Saturn, is to be found at large poles driven at once to the distance
in all the writers of mytliolosy. The of twenty-three degrees and a half from
poets, who had placed tlie golden age the poles of the ecliptic. Whatever
under Saturn, refer tlie silver age to may be in that, according to our poet,
Jupiter. It was by him that the year after the age of gold comes one of sil-
was first divided into four seasons, for ver, then one of brass, and last of all
before there had been a constant spring. the iron age. All this, well understood,
This notion prevails universally among implies, that mankind did not at once
the poets, but probably had no other degenerate from their primitive inno-
foundation than tiieir fancying that this cence, but that it was by several steps
imaffe agreed perfectly to their ideas of and gnidations they arrived at that
those sweet and haiipy times. For how height of impiety, so pathetically la-
the ecliptic, if it had ever coincided mented by tiie ancient liistorians. We
with the equinoctial, should change its may observe, that this system in the
situation so mucli, as to to cut it now at poetical account is but ill put together.
an angle of twenty-three degrees and a For even in the age of Saturn, which,
half, is not easy to be conceived. Some according to them, was that of gold, we
modern astronomers indeed pretend to read of bloody wars, and dreadful
have discovered something of this kind ; crimes. Saturn, to mount the throne,
but beside that tlieir observations are drove his father fi om it Jupiter used
-.

very uncertain, supposing them even his father precisely as he had done
true, this declination of the ecliptic is Uranus, and established his empire in
so very inconsiderable, that many mil- the destruction of liis whole family.
lions of years must have passed before Jupiter enjoyed little more tranquillity,
it could change from a
perfect parallel- than had Saturn or Uranus; the com-
ism to its present degree of obliquity ; bination of the Titans and giants is a
unless we will suppose, with Mr. Whis- proof of it.
ton, that the earth, by the sudden and
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. I. 13

Semina turn primum lon^is «»»*'»«

_^,
'° Cerealia
.A
sulcis,
.
I'"'" ?'"»"»»
.
'
Cerealia sunt ooruta . \
Obruta sunt, pressique jugo gemuerejuvenci. longis suMs, juvena-
V. Tenia post illas successit ahenea proles, 125 T. v'''''^^^" s'"''"-
Saevior ingeniis, et ad homda promptior arraa, V. Proles ahenea suc-
cessit tertia post illus,
Non scelerata tamen. De duro est ultima ferro. seeiior ingeniis, et
promptior ad liorrida
Protinus irrumpit venee pejoris in sevum anna, tamen nec scele-
Omne nefas: fugere pudor, verumque, fidesque: rata. Ultima JEtas est
de duro ferro. Proti-
In quorum subiere locum fraudesque,dolique, 130 nus omne nefas irrum-
pit ill arum pejoris ve-
Insidigeque, et vis, et amor sceleratus habendi. na: pudor,veruinque,
fidesque fugere in lo- :

V^ela dabat ventis, nee adhuc bene noverat illos, cum quorum, fraudes-
que, dolique, insidite-
Navita, qua;que diu steterant in montibus altis, que, et vis, et scelera-
Fluctibus ignotis insultavere carinse. tus amor liabendi, subi-
ere. Naiita dabat vela

Communemq prius ceu lumina solis et auras, 135 ventis,necadiiuc nove-

;
rat illos bene carince-
Cautus humum lono;o
_ signavit
_ limite mensor :
:

que qua: diu steterant

in montibus altis, in-
Nec tantiim segetes alimentaque debita dives sultavi're ignotis fluc-
Poscebatur humus ; sed itum est in viscera terree : tibus. Cautusque min-
sor signavit loiigo li-
Quasq; recondiderat, Stygiisq; admoveratum- mite hum um prius com-
miinem, ceu auras, et
bris, lumineesolis. A'ec dives
EFFODltJNTlJR opes, irritamenta malorum. humus poscebatur tan-
tarn dare segetes, ali-
140 mentaque debita ; sed
itumest in viscera ter-
ra :
opesque irritamenta malorum qiias terra recondiderat, admoveratque umbris stt/giis
effodiuntur.

TRANSLATION.
were the seeds of Ceres first hiu-ied in long furrows, and oxen groaned
beneath the heavy yoke.
V. To these succeeded the third in order, a generation of brass, of
a fiercer make, and more prompt to horrid feats of war yet free ;

from impiety. The last was of hard and stubborn iron. Instantly all
kinds of wickedness broke out in tliis age, of a more degenerate turn :

modesty, truth, and honour, fled in place of which succeeded fraud,

;

deceit, treachery, violence, and an insatiable itch of amassing wealth.

The mariner spread his sails to the winds, as yet but rudely skilled in
their course and the trees which had long stood untouched in the
;

mountains, now hollowed into keels, boldly encountered the untried

waves. The ground, hitherto common as light or air, was now
marked out by the lengthened limits of the wary measurer. Nor was
it sufficient that the rich soil furnished corn, and an annual
supply of
food, but men penetrated into the very bowels of the earth and ;

riches, the great incentives to ill, which she had hid in deep caverns,
and deposited nigh the Stygian shades, are dug up. Then destructive

NOTES.
123. Semina Cerealia.'] Seeds of Ceres, 139. Stygiisque udmoverat umbris.]
i.e., corn; for Ceres, the dauchter That in deep caverns, and toward
is,
of Saturn and Ops, was the goddess of the centre, for Styx was feigned to
corn and tillage it being by her that
;
be a river of hell, where Pluto
men were first instructed in agricul- reigns over the infernal ghosts and
ture. mane?.
14 P. OVIDII NASONliS

jamqucnocensferrum, Jamquenoceiis feiTuni-ferroquenocentius aurum

ftrio proiiierat : jmu Prodierat :
prodit bellum, quodpugnatutroque;
pui'mit ufroqi'fe ; (em, Saiiguiiieaque manu crepitantia concutit arma.
vir!tt aiuo; concutit. VivituF cx rapto noil
r :
hospes abhospite
r tutus,'
que anna crepitantia ^
I .

sanguined manu. fivi- Non socei" a ^genei'o :

fratrum quoqiie
"^ x ± Q^ratia vara
qd
tur ex rapto; ho\pes "X AC.
non est tutus abhospite, €St» IriD

i::Z;"^:-:^:^,u^n
Imminetexitlo vir conjugis, ilia mariti :

est quoque cara. Vir Lui'ida terribiles miscent aconita novercae

tmniinet exUio conju- _-,.,. ,. ...
. .
:

t'«,j/;« conjiiximminet Jbilius anted 16111 patvios mqumt inannos.

ToZVc7ml'centZ''rida Victa jacet pietas : et virgo caede madentes
aconit,.:,fiiiu^inq><irit ccelestuiii teiTas iVstraea reliquit.
^*^'"^"- ^
\Jn\y^Q^ 150
tnpatnus annos, ante i ,

rfiV;«.
jucet
Picias
:

reliquit ultima
victa VI. Ncvc foi'et teiiis securioF ardiius 8stner I
et cirgo Astriea
caUs-
^ rr> ,
'•

Aficctasse teruut
r j.
coeleste gigantas
legnum
i^-i
terras madentes
fj'^^ ^it^que congcstos struxisse ad sidcra moiites.
VI. Note (et ne) ar-
duus etlnr foret securior tcrris,ferwit gigantas affectasse regnum coeleste, que struxisse
monies congestos ad alta sidera.

TRANSLATION.
iron appeared, and gold yet more destructive than iron war too was :

kindled, that fights with both, and brandishes in his bloody hand the
clattering arms. Men live by rapine the giiest is not safe from his ;

host, nor the father-in-law from the son-in-law peace and agreement :

too among brothers is become very rare. The husband watches for ihe
destruction of his wife, who again plots the death of her Inisband.
Cruel step-mothers mix the dismal wolf's-bane. The son, impatient,
inquires into his father's years. Piety lies vanquished and the virgin ;

Astrgea, last of all the heavenly deities, abandons the earth, drenched
in blood and slaughter.
VI. And that even the high mansions of aether might not be more
safe than this earth below, it is said that the giants affected the sove-
reignty of heaven, and piled up huge mountains one upon another, till

NOTES.
142. Quodpugnatutroque.'] The his- a disfigured tradition of the fall of the
tory of Philip of Macedou angels, and their rebellion against their
is well
known, who made more conquests hy Creator. But the more general opi-
bribes than by the sword, and was wont nion makes it a true history of some
to say, tliat he looked upon no fortress enterprise acainst Jupiter, who was a
as impregnable, where there was a gate powerful prince, beset wifh many for-
large enough to admit a camel loaded midable enemies. There were several
with gold. Hence Horace, Ode xvi. princes distinguished by the name of
Book 3, says, Jupiter, but the present falile is to be
understood of him who divided the em-
Diffidit urbicum pire with his two brothers, Neptune and
Partus vir Macedo, et subruit eemulos Pluto ; which by-tlie-by we may ob-
Reges muneribus, serve, was what gave occasion to the
famous partition of tiie government of
151. Nere/oref toris.] The history the universe, so celebrated by the
of the war of the giants against heaven, poets. Jupiter bad Phrygia, the isle of
is taken notice of by almost all the poets, Crete, and many other provinces. He
and is supposed by a great many to be built a palace on mount Olympus, which
 METAMOllPHOSEON, Lib. I. 15

Turn pater oranipotens misso perfreglt Olympum ^^^'^p^^^^j^AT.

et «(«*«?
Fulmine, et excussit subiecto Pelio Ossam. 155 oiympum,
_, ,
'
, J
Obruta mole sua cum corpora dira jacerent,
AN
Ossam Pelio su/>jecto.
lum cum corpora dira
• •
J.

Perfusam multo natorum sanguine terram ^ZteTfertT%rrum

Immaduisse ferunt, calidumque animasse cru- verjisam muUo sun.
Orem . animusscque ca-
(tuisse,
-i-», ^^ n ,•
•
„ lidiim cruorem, et ne
iit, ne nulla terse stirpis monumenta manerent, j. i.

nuua monumentajera:
In faciemvertissehominum: sed et illapropago tsf\.r}aei:^;f'^:^
\Q() num. Sed et Ma pro-
^^ . ^ •!• •
J- Pogofuit contemytrix
Contemptrix superum, ssevaeque avidissima csedis superum, aiidissima-
r\, r T c , \ •
,
•
J. <?Mf sai:a ccedh, et vio-
Jbt violenta tuit. >!icires e sanguine natos. Je^ta facile sdres eos
.•

f"isse«afo. c sanguine.
VII. Qua; pater
1 utsummaviditSaturniusarce,
/* ^ , . VII. Qud[, ut pater
Ingemit et racto nondum vulgata recenti
: saturmus vidit summa
Foeda Lycaoniae referens convivia mensae, 165 r7nt)aZZl<vi,Zmet
Jove concipit iras sa liivoom<b nonrtwm
Ineentes animo, et dignas
O

Ei O . .
r >
vulgafa, facto recenti, .
;
'

Concilmmnue vocat tenuit mora nulla vocatos. concipit animo h-asin-

:

',c . •
sentes, et dignas Jove ;
1
•
1

St Via sublimis, ccelo maniresta sereno locutque concilium ; .

Lactea nomen habet, candore notabilis ipso. «^/„^« '^^I^.v^riL","

mujiifesta sereno calo,
via lactea habet nomen, notabilis ipso candore.

TRANSLATION.
they reached the stars. Upon this, almighty Jove, darting his thunder,
broke through Olympus, and dismoimted Ossa, that had been thrown
upon Pelion. When these huge bodies of giants
were thus buried under
the ruins of the mountains they had themselves heaped together, it is
said, that the earth, impregnated with the blood of
her own sons, be-
came very moist, and animated the warm gore and that all monu- ;

ments of that daring race might not be wholly extinguished, shaped

them into the figure of men. But that generation too was a despiser
of the gods above, fond of cruelty and slaughter, and given to yiolence.
You might easily discern that their original was from blood.^
VII. "Which when the father of the gods beheld from his citadel of
heaven, he groaned and withal revolving in his mind the bloody ban-
:

but lately committed, Avas not

quet of Lycaon, a crime which, because
and called
yet publicly known, he kindled to a wrath becoming Jove,
an assembly of the gods, who all without delay obey the summons.
There is a in the exalted plain of heaven, easy to be seen in a
way

NOTES.
the poets regard as heaven ; the attempt of Thessaly, toward the Pelasgic gulf,
of his enemies to drive him from it, as Ossa, a mountain between Olympus
a war against heaven. Tlie heaping and Pelion. These the giants are said
mountains one upon another is a poet- to have heaped one upon another, in
ical fiction, the better to support the order to scale heaven,
idea of invading">5 the skies.
l68. Est via— Lactea nomen habet.J^
154. Perfregit Olympum.'] Olympus, The poet here gives a description of
a mountain in the confines of Thessaly the court of heaven, and supposing
and Macedonia. Pelion, a mountain what was called by the ancients the
 16 P. OVIDTl NASONIS

i/rtc via est itn-sitperis {jr^^, j^gj. ggj suDcris ad mao;ni tectaTonantis, 170
ad Ivcta tii<ii:ni tonaii- -r, , i i a , a i
tis,iiomumqiuregaUni, Kegalemque donmni, dextra, lisvaque deoiuui
*aTr?a\whu\"m'deon^^^^^ Atria iiobilium valvis celebrantur apertis.
V,uris!'%bs ZI^M P^ltibs habitat di versa locis a fronte potentes, :

divcrsuiocis;ufronte, CocIicoliE, clarique suos posucre Penates.

CwlUullC /pOtdlttS eld-
rifjuf, po-iierc suos
,T'l i •!•
-tn f
iiic locus est, queiii, SI verbis audacia GetuF, 175
l-T
qu'm'si'a^daciadctur Haud Timeam magni dixisse palatia cceli.
kaiid t'linam mamioreo
verbis, j^^cr^ ^bi superi sedere recessu :
cwi.:.Ergo ubi siiyeri Celsior ipsc loco, sceptroQue inuixus eburno,
sedere murmorco ri- rn -n j.- , •
,

cesstt, ipse jnpiierrtv- iemncam capitis concussit terque, quaterque

fc7ptrZ'bJ!wl'eo,ieus. CsRsarieiB, cum qua terram, mare, sidera movit. .,,

sit tcr<iiie iiiiatenjue Talibus iude modis,. ora indignantia

~ solvit: flSO
terrijieumCicsanemeit- ^ •,,/ .

pitis; cum qua moiit jNfon ego pro mundi regno magis anxius laa
terrain, mare, sidera. rn r '
'^ '
^

qua centum quisque parabant

i. i. a. i

inde sohit ora iiidig. lempestate lui,

^oMnu!^s'a!^.s Injicere anguipedum captivo brachia coslo.

pro rrg/.o mundi ilia Nam, Quanquam ferus hostis erat, tamen iliud
tempest;!e,quuqHisque
ab UHO 1 lOr
1 OO
atigui/edum parabuiit

^^ucavai^e2,;'^mm Coipore, ct ex una pendebat origine bellum.

quanquuiH hostis erat
ferus, tamen iiluU bellum pendebat ab uiio corpore, ct ex und origine.

TRANSLATION.
clear sky, and which, distinguishable by a remarkable whiteness, is
known by the name of the milky way. Along this the road lies open
to the palace of the great thunderer. On the right and left are the
com-ts of the nobler deities, Avith crowded gates. The gods of inferior
rank fix in different places, as they can. Facing the palace itself are
the houses of the more potent and illustrious inhabitants of heaven :

this is the place which, if boldness may be allowed to expressions, my

I would dare to call the grand court of heaven. When, therefore, the
heavenly powers were thus assembled, and all seated in chairs of
marble, he, the father, exalted on his throne, and leaning upon a
thrice his awful locks: earth, sea, and heaven,
sceptre of ivorjs shook
tremble at the almighty nod. At length, full of indignation, he thus
addressed the attentive powers :

" I was not then more concerned for the

empire of the universe,
" when each of the snake-footed monsters endeavoiu'ed with his hundred
" hands to embrace the
captive skies. For although that was a potent
" and fierce
enemy, yet the war was with but one race, and sprung
NOTES.
milky way to be the great road to the end of the book of the Iliad, that
first
statue of that god, i)ar-
Piiiilias, in his
palace of Jupiter, places the habitations
of the gods on each side of it, and ticularly admired for a certain awful
fronting the palace itself. majesty in its looks, is said to have
Cum quel terram,7nare, sidera mo-
180. taken the hint from that description.
vit.] This awful nod of Jupiter, the Virgil has the same idea. Mn. x.
sanction by which he confirms his de-
crees, is an idea taken from Homer, by Annuit, et totiim nutu tremefecit
whom it is so well painted toward the Oh/mpvm.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. 1. 1.7

^'""^ mortaie genus

Nuncmihi.quatotumNereuscircumtonatorbem.
^ '
n '
perdcmliiiii est
est
T, J
, .
,
•
mihi,
Perdendum mortaie genus: per tlumina J uro qua Aereus c,
circum-
orheni
Infera, sub terras Stygio labentia luco
;
; jTrf per'TiaJmi in-
««-
Cuncta priiisteiitata : sedimmedicahilevulmis 190 terra
'/'^^''"'>i>''titi.wb

brise recidendum ; tie pars sinceratraliatur. f»''''e pnus tentata ;

*^'^
•!,• C tmmedicabUe
•
-J T" •
lul-
Si.
unt mini oemidei, sunt rustica numma r auni,
.1. A.-
nus est recidenrium
Et Nymphae, Satyrique, et monticolffi Sylvani
Quos quoniam coeli nondum dignamur honore,
:
Vn^at^r""^:^
*"''.'*'''. stmtNym-piKF
S
yuas dedmius,certe terras habitare smamus. 195 «'.?"^' . ^"tynque, et

An 6 superi, tutos fore creditis illos,

satis, quos!quo7iiZ7nonmg-
Cilm mihi, qui fulmen, qui vos habeoque regoque, l""l,"f^ 'Tabnarfveril
Struxerit insidias notus feritate Lycaon ? terras qutn dedimus.

l^oniremuere omnes studusque ardentibus au-

: uios /are satis- tutos,
„,,^y.
cum Lycaon nut iisferi-
a Lllll
tate, struxerit insidias
manus impia saevit 200
Talia deposcunt. Sic, ciim »"/«.9'«'
'"'beo regoque

q"e vos/ omnes con-

feangumeCEBsareoKomanumextmguerenomen;
Attonitum tantze subito terrore ruinze 'q^ie'urZhtii!urs7ndiis
Humanum genus est, totusque perhorruit orbis. \"f^iZ "mplTminus
sfevit
extinguere JlRo-
munum nomen, 'san-
guine C/isareo; genus' humanum attoiiitum est subito terrore tantte ruina, totusque orbis
perhurruit.

TRANSLATION.
"
wholly from one original. Now the whole race of men must be cut
" off
Avherever the circling ocean
" I rages against the sounding coasts,
swear by the infernal waves, that
" glide under the earth, along the
Stygian grove, all methods have been already tried but an iucu- ;
" rable
wound must be lopt away, that the sound and nobler parts be
"
not tainted by it. There are demi-gods and nymphs, a race of ru-
" ral
deities. Fauns, Satyrs, and Sylvians, inhabitants of the moun-
I "
tains, who, though not yet worthy to be received into the
" heavenly
mansions, deserve at least an undisturbed possession of the earth,
" which have assigned them. But is it possible, heavenly
" to \ye powers,
imagine, that they can live in safety, when Lycaon, noted for his
"
cruelty, has dared to form a plot against even me, who brandish the
"
thunder, who rule the gods ?"
Upon this a general murmur ran through the assembly and with ;

ardent zeal they demanded vengeance on so

daring a criminal. Thus,
when an impious band of traitors sought to Roman
extinguish the
name, by shedding the blood of Cesar, mankind av as astonished at the
terror of so
mighty a ruin, and the whole earth trembled with horror

NOTES.

187. l^ereus.'] A
sea-god, the son and borrowed their names from Fauiiii.s,
of Oceanus and Tethys. Silvaiius, and Silenus, who were also
193. Faunlque, Satyrique, et monticola: rural deities,and reckoned the fathers
Sylvani.} Tliese were all rural deities, of those already mentioned.
C
 18 P. OVIDII NASONIS

nwnim'^"{»it' mhius
^^^
grata minus pietas, Auguste, tuorum,
^^^^
grafu tiin; quam iiifi lUa Jovi Qui Dostquam vocc uianuq 1
Quaui I'lut :

jovi; qui postquam iVlumiura compressitj teiiuerc sileiitia cuucti.205

Substitit ut clamor pressus gravitate regentis,
^^Z^'J«/w9w!"cS'/
/einiCrc sUentia. vt
ildiiior
Jupiter lioc iteriuii sermone silentia rumpit
i-
i. ... :
pressus s.ravi- ^
toic regentis sttbsiitit, llie
quiuem poenas (curam dimittite) solvit;
iuentZ'tw'VrmZ'e. Quocl tameii admissum, quse sit vindicta, do-
Jlle quidem (dimittite
curam) solvit pcenas;
cebo 210 •fc'-i-'-'
. „ . . .

lameii docebo vos quod

sit admissum, quit sit /^
Coiitigcrat nostras mfamia temporis aures :

^ , i i i r\^
vindicta. jiifamia tim- cupiens lalsam, summo delabor Ulympo,
Quam
^Zi\urfs':%"am''ct
^t deus hmnana lustro sub imagine terras.
piem esse faisum, dcia- Lon^a mora cst.q uantum noxag sit ubiq re pertum, :
tior summo Ulympo, f^_,~ .'l r n \ -n- • • •

deus lustro terra'; sub iLnumerare mmor luit 2iD

ipsa intamia vero.
:

Inimano
est
imajiiiie.
low'u
Mora
eiiumerare
u/r ix •

Maeiiala traiisieram latebris horrenda lerarum,

iii'i_ ^ r

Et cum Cylleno gelidi pineta Lyc^i.

'^!a-tu7\^que f\;:a
infumia j'uif minor Arcados liinc sedes et inhospita tecta tyranni
vero. 1 ransitrajn Ma-- t t i i i

naia, horrenda latebris Ingredioi', traherent cuiii sera crepuscula noc-

J'erarum, tt pineta ge- ,
lidi
^icin. /
-
Lyca-icum Cylleno.
Jlinc ingredior sedis Arcados, et tecta inhospita tyranni, cum sera crepuscula traherent
noctem.

TRANSLATION.
of the attempt. Nor was the affectionate concern of your subjects less
grateful to you, Augustus, than that of the gods was to Jupiter who ;

signifying to them, with his voice and hand, to suppress their mur-
murs, they were all silent. How soon the clamour ceased, checked by
the authority of their sovereign Jupiter resuming his
speech, thus
:

broke silence ;

"
He, indeed (cease your cares), has already suffered the punish-
" ment due to his
crime but it is fit that you know what was his guilt,
;

" and
what vengeance followed it,
" The
cry of iuiquity had reached my ears, which wishing to find
"
false, I descend from the top of Olympus, and, disguised in human
" It were endless to
shape, traverse the earth. repeat the aggra-
" vated
guilt that every where prevailed report had fallen far short :

" of the truth. I had now passed Msenalus, infamous for its caverns
" filled with beasts of
prey, Cyllene, and the piny shades of cold
" Hence I enter the Arcadian realms, and unhospitable
Lycseus.
" house of the
bloody tyrant, just as the late twilight drew on the night.

NOTES.
216. Mcenala traimeram.'] Maenalus, Arcadia, sacred to Pan, and covered
or Maenala plural, a famous mountain with groves of pine-trees.
of Arcadia; so called from Maenalaus, si 8. Arcados hinc sedes.} That is,
the son of Areas. It was full of dens the realms of Lycaon, king of Arcadia,
where wild beasts lurked. a country famous in poetical story. It
217. Cyllene.~\ Cyllenus, or Cylene, was a midland region in Peloponnesus,
a mountain of Arcadia, sacred to Mer- very good for pasture, and therefore
cury; called hence by the poets Cyl- celebrated for shepherds and shepherd-
lenius. Lycaeus was also a mountain of esses, musically inclined.
 METAMORPIIOSEON, Lib. I. 19

4lcum ve-
Sigrna dedivenissedeum; vulgusque precari 220 ^f^' ^'^'"' sqiie C(rpe-
irridet primo pia vota Lycaon,
: rut precart Lycaon
Cceperat .

Mox, ait, experiar, deus hie, discrimine aperto, 'ZZVtTetpe?lur%"r.

An sit raortalis nee erit dubitabile verum.
:
^"^ 1hm"aTm(^u,ii!^-
Nocte graven! somno, nee opina perdere morte "f ^ cnt'rcrtim dubua-
Me parat: haec illi placet experientia veri. 225 der'e mclraiem IZZ'o
Nee contentus eo, missi de gente Molossa e^J^ntiTtei^ Ua^
nn. auc
Obsidis unius iu2;ulum mucrone resolvit cotuenti/s eo, :

Atque ita semineces partim lerventibus artus iumunuif«bs>dism'iisi

Mollit aquis, partim subjecto torruit igni. iufl'arthumMii^^^^^

Quos simul imposuit mensis ; ego vindice flam- *eS«." p^aluL iZ-.
ma ,
230 ''"^^
Qiios
mhjecto ignl.
simul imposvit
I-,
n dommo
. .

dignos everti tecto, penates.

,• , A
mensis, ego riudice

Territus ipse fugit, nactusque silentia ruris 'pm7tes7,lnos%fm\iw.

tcnitus jugu ;
Exululat,' frustraque loqui conatur ab ipso :
-^^'^
.
T. T-
-T 1- nactiixqiie stlentia ru-
Colngit OS rabiem, solitzeque
' cupidme caedis ris, cxuiuiat, frustra-
TT '^
'lue cnniifitr loqui : os
-7^
Vertitur
.

m
•

peeudes; et nune quoque sangmne

1 .
•

eoiagu rabiem ab ipso.

o'5iiirlpt Q'^l^ vertitiirqucin peeudes
gctUUCL. 4/00 :
ciipidiiie iolitee.ctEdiJi
et gaudet nunc quoque sanguine.

TRANSLATION.
" I
gave the signal, that a god was come, and the people began to pay
*'

"
their adorations. Lycaon laughs at their credulity and prayers.
Presently, says he, I will know, by a plain proof, whether this be a
"
god or a mortal nor shall the truth remain long questionable. He
;

"
prepares therefore in the night to destroy me unexpectedly, when
" sunk in sleep. This dire experiment of the truth pleases him. Nor
"
wholly contented with that, he cuts the throat of a hostage that had
" been sent some time before by the nation of the Molossians, and
" softens part of the yet quivering limbs in boiling water the rest he ;

*'
roasted over the fire. These he ordered to be served up. No sooner
" were they set upon the table, than with avenging flames I overturned
" the house, and buried in its ruins the domestic gods, worthy of the
" same fate with their cruel master. Lycaon, terrified, takes to flight,
" and reaching the remote plains, fills them with savage howling, and,
" in His mouth foams with rage, and,
vain, endeavours to speak.
"
urged by a native thirst of slaughter, falls with redoubled fury upon

NOTES.
221. Irridet pia vota Lycaon.] The at the true liistoiy, we must observe,
fabulous history of this prince tells us, that the ancients distinguish two princes
that he was the sou of Pelasgus, and of of this name. The first was the son of
such shocking cruelty, that he murdered Phoroneus, and reigned in that part of
his guests, aud caused them to be served Greece which was afterward called
np at table. Jupiter hearing of it, went Arcadia, and to which he communicated
to his palace, and finding the tiie name Lycaonia, about 250 years
report
true, changed him into a wolf, and re- before Gecrops. The second, who is
duced his palace to ashes. But to come the subject of the present fable, suc-
C 2
20 P. OVIDII NASONIS

^c^uncn^'^^m In villos abeuiit vestes, in crura lacertl.

et scrvatvcsti-
Fit luDus,' et vetens servat vestigia
iifpu^. ~ formse.
pia letens fornxr. la- ^^ . - .'
,
-. . .

nUicscsteadrm.eadcm Uanities eaciem est, eadem violentia vultu:

\'idem'"'ocu\T^ hlcmt. Idem ociili lucent ; eadem feritatis imago.

''''vnrf/'r«S'!^.'
^m* Occidit una domus ;
sed non domus una
cidit ; sed von una
perire 240
r>a perire. Fera Erifi- -Uigna luit qua terra patet, tera regnat bnnnys.
:

^^ faciuus jurasse putes dent ocius omnes :

?erraJaM, t'uusto-
nn\iM juriisse in faci-
Quas meruerc pati (sic stat sententia) poenas.
jiiis. Umnes dent ocius

ptEnas qjtds meruire

-rv-.r- i <• n
Uicta J ovis pavs voceprobant,stimulosq; tremeuti
^

PikprobaniVoTcdMa Adjiciuut: alii

partes assensibus implent. 245
^??"' <;fJifi>i-"tque
stimulos illi/rementi;
Est tamen humani generis iactura dolori
>~. .,
•
i-i i
alii implent partes as- Omnibus ct, qua3 Sit terrae mortalibus orbae
:

tura humani generis rorma lutura, rogaut qms sit laturus inaras :

Vojn'f'qlr'forma'sil
Thura? ferisuc paret populandas tradere gentes?
futuraierr^orbemor- Talia ouzerentes (sibi
' ^
enim fore caetera curaj)250
taltbus ; sit la-
quts ,
-^^ ^ . ,
,
. .

turns tiiura in aras ? Kcx

superuiii trepidare vetat ; sobolemque priori
Paretnetraderescntes t\" 'i l
•
"ii'j. -a • "

populandas feris? Bex -Uissimilem populo promittit origme mira

superum vetat eos qu(P-
rentes talia trepidare,
cetera enim fore sibi citrer, i>roinitlitque soholem dissimilem priori populo ah origine mird,

TRANSLATION.
" the defenceless flocks and still delights in blood. His garments are
;

"
changed into hair, his arms into legs, he becomes a wolf, and still re-
" tains strong marks of Avhathe was. His hoariness is the same: the
" same rage and violence appear in his countenance; his eyes sparkle
" as
formerly, and he is still the same image of savage fierceness.
Vni. " Thus was one house overthrown, but not one only deserved
" to
perish wherever the earth extends, the Furies reign in all their
:

" horrors and men

; confederate in wickedness are sworn to crimes.
" Let all feel the
vengeance they so justly deserve, (so my unalterable
" resolution
stands.")
Some by words approve the purpose of Jupiter, and add spurs to his
indignation others by assent declare their concurrence yet the total
;
:

destruction of mankind is matter of grief to all. They inquire what

form the earth would assume, when no longer a habitation for men :

or who would burn incense upon their altars ? whether he intended to

give up the nations of the world a prey to wild beasts ? The sovereign of
the gods counsels them to cancel these unnecessary fears, and trust to his
care, promising to raise up a new generation different from the former,
and propagated by a miraculous power. Already he was preparing

NOTES.
ceeded him, and was a prince equally Arundel Marbles, by sacrificing human
polite and religious but by an inhu-;
victims.
luan-.ty which was but too common 24 K Fera regnat Erinnys-I Erinnys
in tliese rude was a name given to the Furies by the
ages, he polluted the
feasts of the as much as to say, £«»;
Lupercalia, whereof he Greeks ;
fS,
was the founder, according to tlie Contentio meniis.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. I. 21

Jamque erat in totas sparsurus fulmina terras ;

rvT%LZa:inmal
Sed timuit, ne forte sacer tot ab igjnibus sether «e
terras; sed hmuit
^ •
'a 1 J A
•
orrr forte tether sacer CO n-
Concipe ret nammas,longusq;araesceret axis. 265 ciperet jiummas n tot

Esse quoque infatis reminiscitur, afFore tempus, !f;S/;;!»SS-

Quo mare, quo
^
> tellus,
-. ',
correptaque reojia coeli
'
11
turquoqueesjemfatis,
tempus (ijfore, quo
Ardeat et mundi moles operosa laboret.
;
mare, qno teiius, regi-
Tela reponmitur manibus fabricata Cyclopum. i^lT, ardeat ;7t"moUs

Poenaplacetdiversa,-Genusmortalesubmidis260 J^gi^ur/^r^tS
manibus Cycinpum re-
Perdere, et ex omni nimbos dimittere ccelo. Ptrna di-
7r-ii--A Ti- i- poimtitur.
Frotinus /bonis Aqmlonem claudit m antris,
•
-r-. -1 1
versa placet 3o\\; per.

Et qusecunque fugant inductas flamina nubes tndiT,°tdimifterenim. :

Emittitque Notum. Madidis Notus evolatalis, ^ttnus l"'^^alf%uiit

Terribilem picea tectus caligine vultum 265 ««« «« ^oius antns, :

-r, 1
• •
1
•
j3 -i 1 -IT et qwecunnue Jiamina
JBarba gravis nimbis, cams tlmt unda capulis, fugant inductas nuhes:
Fronte sedentnebulse,rorantpenngeque sinusque. '^tus^'^^ilt(T*'madfdis
Utque
T.
manu lata ipendentia nubila pressit,
V '
"^'f-
tectus c^^^cA ad
vultum ttrribiUm, pi-
cea caligine. Barba
erat gravis nitnhis ; vnda Jiuit canis capillis: nebula sedent fronte ejus :
penneeiiue sitnuque
roraut. Utque pressit petideiitia nubila manu latii,

TRANSLATION.

to scatter his thunder, and

discharge it on seas and land ; but stopt,
fearing lest the sacred sether might catch the flame from so many sparks,
and the long axletree of heaven be set on fire. He remembers too,
that it was in the decrees of fate, that a time shoidd come, when sea,
earth, and the battlements of heaven, seized by the flames, should burn ;

and the curious frame of the universe perish, in a general conflagration.

This dire artillery, forged by the hands of the Cyclops, is therefore
laid aside, and he resolves upon another method of punishment to drown ;

mankind by an universal deluge, and pour down rain from all parts of
heaven. Immediately he shuts up the North-wind in the caves of jEoIus,
Avith all the cloud-dispelling blasts and then sends out the South-wind. ;

The South-wind abroad, scattering fogs from his moist wings his
flies :

countenance is covered with thick and horrid darkness his beard loaded ;

with showers and the water flow s in streams from his hoary locks
;
:

dark clouds gather round his forehead his wings, and the plaits of his ;

robe distil in drops. And still, as sweeping along, lie squeezed the hang-
ing clouds with his broad fist, a noise was heard, and redoubled showers

NOTES.

255. Longvsqueardesceretaxis.'] The Manibus fabricata Cyclopum,']

ijsg.
axis of the world, according to astro- The Cyclops, accordiim to Hesiod, were
noiuers, is an imaginary right
line pass- the suns of Coelus and Terra they had ;

iiig throughthe centre of the earth, but o:ie eye in tl.eir forehead, and were
and upon which the whole frame of the employed by Jupiter in forging Iiis
heavens was supposed to tuni round; thunderbolts.
though later discoveries tell us, that S62. JEoliis antris.'] The caves in
only the earth moves round its axis, and which the vviuils were confined were
causes that appearance of the heavens. under the jwriidiction of .MjIus.
22 P. OVIDII NASONIS
hinc chnsi
fragor ftt,
«o
Y\i fraoor, liinc densi fund untur ab aethere nimbi.
ntmbt juiiiliiiiliir t •
i i
• •
r>r-i •

<Fi/i,re. iria vuniia JNuntia J uHoms vanos luduta colores 2/1

./iiiionis hill Ilia larios /->, ••.t- t a fi rf a.

coiores.comipit (iqiias, Concipit Iris aquas, anmentaque nnbibus aiiert.

6fif^''ASM 'X: Sternuntur segetes, et deplorata coloni
nuntur, enota coloni Vota iacent,' lono;ique
(h']ilorata jacnit ; In- -.-^ •^, oi labor .i,perit irritus anni.
i-n
borqiie irritus lorigi JNec coelo contenta suo Jovis ii'a sea ilium :

uiiiii peril. Nee crat

ira Jovis cnntetita .suo Cseruleus frater juvat auxiliaribus undis. 275
coelo. scd J'rutcr carir-
li'ii.t jurat
Convocathic amnes qui postquam tecta tyranni :
(Ncptiinus)
ilium tmdis utixiimri- Intraveve sui, Non est hortamine longo
bux. Hie coniocat
amnes. Quiio.stquam Nunc, ait, utendum vires efFundite vestras ;
:

iiitravCre tecta .sui

tiiraniti, ait, nort est (Sic opus est) aperite domos, ac mole remota,
utendum nunc lojigo Fluminibus vestris totas immittite habenas. 280'
liortuminc : ejf'undite
restras tira. .Sic est Jusserat hi redeunt, ac fontibus ora relaxant,
:

OPUS. Averite domos : -ni. -i p i . ,

•

ac remota mole, im- ii't cletrsenato volvuntuf in eequora cursu.

Zi['lrltri%Zninibm. ^P^^ tridcute suo terram percussit at ilia :

ju.s.terat; 'hi redeunt,

ac relaxant ora Jonti- -ry
Intrcmuit, motuQue
^ siiius patefccit aquarum.
.• . ^ n •
i^QPi
bus: et voivuntur in
xiiXpatiata fuunt per apertosilumina ; campos 2oo
aqiiora cursu defra-
nato. Ipse percussit terramsuo tridente : at ilia intremuit, motuque petefecit sinus aquarum,
I'tumina expatiata ruunt per apertos compos ;

TRANSLATION.
came pouring from the sky. Iris, the messenger of Juno, clad in
colours of various dve, collects her waters, and feeds the clouds with
contniued supplies. Then corn is laid flat beneath the impetuous rains,
and the husbandman, defrauded of his hopes, laments to see the labour
of the long year perish. Nor cai) the floods poured down from heaven
satisfy the vengeance of Jove blue Neptune aids him with his auxiliary:

waves. He calls together the rivers who when assembled in the palace ;

of the watery tyrant " I have not now time (says he) for a long
:

" exhortation
pour out all your rage, so Jove requires open your
; ;

"
sources, bear down every obstacle, and with unbridled course hurry
" on waves."
your
He said: they return, and opening wide the mouths of their foun-
tains, roll on their streams with impetuous rage to the sea. The god
himself struck the earth with his trident she, with inward trembling, ;

opened her deep caverns, and poured out the gushing floods. The ex-
panded rivers, with spreading waves, rush into the open plains, and bear

NOTES.

271. Nuntia Junonis.'\ Iris, or the framed a genealogy for her too and ;

rainbow, was a divinity purely phy- we are told that she was the daughter
sical but Greek mythology, which
: of Thauinas, a poetical personage,
personified every thinjr, made lier a whose name is derived from a Greek
young woman, clothed in a ha;jit of word tliat signifies to admire ; which,
different colours, aiv.'ays seated by the after all, is proper enough to denote
throne of Juno, and ready to execute the (juality of the meteor they de-
lier orders. Hence she was feigned to signed to describe, there being no-
be the messenger of that goddess, as thing more admirable than that l)ow,
Mercury uas of Jupiter. 'Jhey have Mhich is lormtd by the diups of wa-
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. I. 23

arbusta
Cumque T^
satis arbusta simiil,' pecudesque,
-T T.^^> "
vi- »"!'?'"'«^9««
simul cum satis, pccit-
rOSque, desque, rirosque, tec-
m i „ i T •
taque, penetraliaqne •
J.
•

lectaque cumque suis rapiunt penetralia sacris. acm sufs sacris. si

Si qua domus mansit, potuitque resistere tanto
V/<i'tn\7"%dfj^^cta' ?-el
Indeiecta malo culmen tamen altior huius
TT i"^ ^ .
:
sjstere
tanto
tamen vnda
Unaa tegit, pressaeque labant sub gurgite tur- tegu cuimen altior,
-J
maio-,

hujus,
11.1 .

OQA tvrrfxqne presses sub

Ico. ZJ\J gurgite labant. Jam-

Jamque mare et tellus nullum discrimen habebant:

l"lebanrmui,tm^dis-
Omnia pontus erant, deerant quoq ;
littora ponto.
crimen. Omnia erant

Occupat hie collem; cymba sedet alter adunca deerant poittoV^'"Hic

Et ducit remos illic, ubi nup^r arfirat. Z^rl^r'ad^l!::;,
Hie supra segetes, aut mersee culmina villas 295 et ducit remos uiicvH
-»^.^,.® „,.. '
ararat nuper. I lie
iXavigat hic summa piscem deprendit m ulmo.
^ .
,
: navigat supra segetes,
"'
Figitur in viridi (si fors tulit) anchora prato : tuia hic"'deprendfe
Aut subjecta terunt curvse vineta carina.
TndwraclTZVtlm')
Et modo qua graciles
'^ gramen carpsere capellee: .fisitur in viridi prato:
-\r •!
•
1 /> , 1 c\r^A. '^"f curvcE Carina: le-

i\unciDiaeiormesponuntsuacorporapnocse.3(]9 runt subjecta vineta.

Mirantur sub aqua lucos, urbesque, domosque" f^JZ
S'ir" Jr"
1-'
Nereides sylvasque
T^
tenent delphines,
:
I '
et altis
ncursant ramis, agitataque robora pulsant,
.
"""> ''^formes piw-
c<E nwic pomrnt sua
.

corpora. Nereides mi-

Nat lupus inter oves fulvos vehit unda leones mllsquer'^XmosqZ'.
; ;
''''

sub aqud Delphines- :

que tenent sylvas, incursant altis ramis, pulsantque agitata robora. Lupus nat inter
et
oves; unda vehit fulvos leones j

TRANSLATION.
away the groves, with the standing corn, flocks, men, houses, and
temples vvith the sacred images and altars. If any house remained,
capable to withstand the violence of such a shock, yet the waves,
still
rising, overtopped it and the highest towers totter beneath the
;

rolling deep. And now earth and seas, jumbled together in one undis-
tinguished mass, were become a world of waters, and an ocean without
a coast.
One takes possession of a
hill, another sits in a hollow bark, and plies
his oars over the fieldshe had lately ploughed. Here they skim along
above the corn, or the tops of their houses buried under the waves.
There fishes are caught on the boughs of elm-trees. An anchor (if
chance so directs) is dropt upon a green meadow, or hollow keels crush
the tender vines : and
where of late the slender goats had cropt the
grass, ugly sea-calves now repose their enormous limbs. The Nereids
wonder to see groves, cities, and houses under the waves, dolphins
get into the woods, and run against the high boughs, and beat the tufted
oaks. The Avolf swims among the sheep the tawny lions and tigers ;

NOTES.
water in a c'.oud opposite to the suis rupiunt penetralia
ssy. Cumque
^^^^-
_ sucris.'\ Penetrale, the inmost recess or
Mille trahens varies adverso sole co- inmost part of any place, more particu-
iores.
larly of a temple.'
24 P. OVIDII NASONIS

vl^ fMml'i^JsuZ Unda vehit tigris nee vires fulmines apro ; 305
apro'.iiec crura vciocia Ci'ura nec ablato prosuiit velocia cervo.
prosiint ablato cerio. ^~. . t i ^
•
i
• •
i ,

Taga voiucris, lerris (^u^esitisque cliu tems, UDi sidere detur,

^w!7T'1an?iom''rfS^ I" mare lassatis voiucris vaga decidit alls.
in mare oih lassatis
Qbrucrat tuiiiulos immensa licentia ponti,
Imimnsaltcoitiapontt
ohrutrat tiimuios, vo.
-p, , ,
.
'^
„
'
.
mn
rhnie flnctns vulsa-
Fulsabaiitquenovimontanacacuminanuctus.olu
•
ia , •, -i i
-\ir
hunt mo/itana cam- Maxima pars uiicla rapitur: quibusundapepercit,
IIlos longa domant iiiopi jejunia victu.
S«rSTV?;^C
n?i(ia perncit, loitjia Scparat Aoiiios Acta^is Phocis ab arvis
inoyi victu. Phocis 1 crva lerax, duui terra luit sed tempore ID ulo :

I'ifa'rfi.i AcuisftirZ Pars maris, et latus subitarum campus aqua-

fcrox dnm tvr-
j.^^^^ 315
fujt
rii, scri III illo tciui'ore .

fiiit purs maris, et la- Moiis ibi verticibus petit arduus astra duobus,
tiis ciiminisstdnlarujn tvt •
-r> , ^

aquurum. Ibi mons JNomine ramassus, superatque cacumiiie uuoes.

'bm"'vn-t^bull''p!n--
Hie ubi Deucalion (nam esetera texerat sequor)
nassus mmine, siipe- CuHi confofte toii uai'va rate vectus adheesit,
*
ratqnc uuoes cacumi- --^,
.
, ,
. •
i
ne. cbiihucaiionrec-
Uorycidas nymphas, et numina montis adO'
tus purvu rate cum „ a.
"^OO
04,\J
consortc tori, utltitesit rant,
rat iZ7L7"adoruu't Fatidicamque Themin qua tunc orac' la tenebat, ;

nyiupiias coriicidas,et j^^on illo melior Quisquam, nec amantior sequi

iiuiniiia mantis. The- -^-r- c-mi , j ii . i i

ininque fatidicam qua \ IX luit, aut ilia nietucntior uUa deorum.

tunc tenebat oruculu.
Nun vir quisquam fuit melior illo, nec amantior erqui ; aut uUa i<s.mixa.metuentior deorum ilia.

TRANSLATION.
are borne up by the deep. The boar finds no safety in the resistless
force of his tusksnor the stag in the swiftness of his legs, noAv borne
;

away by the stream: and the A\andering bird, after having long
sought for land, whereon to rest, his wings at length failing, drops
into the sea. The unbridled fury of the sea had now overwhelmed
the highest hills, and the unvxsual w aves beat against the tops of the
mountains. The greater part are buried in the deep such as the ;

waters spared perish at length for want of food. / Phocis separates the
Boeotian from the Athenian lands a fruitful country while it was a ;

country, but now a part of the sea, and a w ide plain of suddenly col-
lected waters. Here a mountain, named Parnassus, advances with
two tops toward the stars, and, with his lofty front, rises above the
clouds. When here Deucalion (for the sea had covered all the rest),
carried in a little bark with the partner of his bed, first rested, they
adore the Corycyan nymphs, the deities of the mountains, and pro-
phesying Themis, who at that time gave oracles. He the most up-
right of men, and greatest lover of justice she, the most pious of ;

women, and the sincerest worshipper of the gods.

NOTES.
313. Sepa)'a^^onio*.] have here a We remarkable for having two summits,
description of mount Parnassus and its Aonia was a mountainous region of
situation : it was in Phocis, a region Hoeotia and Actaea au ancient name
;

between Breoli a and Attica, and was of Attica.

 METAMORPllOSEON, Lib. I. 25

Jupiter ut liquidis stagnare paludibus orbem, H^JZHi^llJ^fSl

Etsuperessevidetdetotmodomillibusunum,325 <ii'^us, et videt mmm
Et superesse videt de tot modo millibus unam ; ^^ '«T nS'rfmorfo'
Innocuos ambos, cultores numinis ambos ;
nlm""«Vr""e"rfe*"o^
Nubila disiecit : nimbisque Aquilone remotis, mumus modo, ambos
-,-,
Jcit
,

ccbIo terras
•^
Tiiii
ostendit, et aetnera terns.
J.
•
innocuos, ambos cid-
tores numinis ,- in^jedt
Nee maris ira mauet positoq tricuspide telo, 330; ; "nJus" 'a^llSZ It
Mulcet aquas rector pelagi ; supraque profundum iTifefa'ten-'ilfNecirl
Exstantem.atquehumeros innatomurice tectum »««»•" manet; rector-
?"£ pelagi tricuspide
r^ ^ rr\ , j 1
•

Cseruleum concneeque souaci

1 ritona vocat
teio posuo, vmUet

BT
;

Inspirarejubet: flucfcusque et flumina signo tViTrriSZaZm

Jam revocare dato. Cavabuccinasumiturilli 335 *"?"« pr'!fiindun,,at-
. , . ... Que tectum quoad hu~
,

Tortihs, in latum quse turbine crescit ab imo : meros mwrice innato ,

•• •
i. J. J. jubetnueinsvirarecon-
ucciiia, quae medio concepit ut aera ponto, cha- sonad, que revo-

Littora voce replet subutroque jacentiaPhcebo.

jumina''' s'^nf^'Ltl
ora del madida rorantia barba
Turn quoque ut ... Bucdna cna tonms
-^ .'.' sumilnr illi, • cres- n 0/ir> qU(F
Contigit, et cecinit jussos mnata receptus; o4(J
I
ctt m latum ab imo
Omnibus audita est telluris, et sequoris undis vt ^cZcepu"aerJ"m :

medio ponto, repiet

Et quibus est undis audita,' coercuit omnes.
i-
voce, littora jacentia
sub titroque Plicebo.
Turn quoque ut contigit ora dei rorantia madid<l barhd, et injlata cecinit receptus jussos,
audita est 07niiibus undis telluris et aquoris, coercuit omnes undas, quibus undis est audita.

TRANSLATION.

Jupiter beheld the world thus buried under a lake of \yaters ;

Then
and that of so many thousands lately, only one of either sex remain ;
both guiltless, both devout worshippers of the gods he dispersed the :

clouds, and driving away the rain by the north wind, discovered earth
to heaven, and heaven to the earth. The rage of the sea too abated ;

for the governor of the deep laying aside his three-forked spear, smooths
the furrowed waves, and calls upon Triton, who instantly mounts from
the bosom of the ocean, having liis shoulders adorned with the finest
purple shells. The god commands him to blow his sounding trumpet,
and give the rivers and billows the signal to retire he immediately takes :

up the hollow Avrithed shell, whose narrow mouth widens by degrees to

a large extent, and urging as he stood amid the Avaves the repeated
blasts, both regions of the sky with the spreading sound. Then too
fills

when touched the mouth of the god, dropping with his wet beard and
it ;

filled with his breath, sounded the bidden retreat, it was heard by all the
waters both of earth and sea: the waters, obedient to the call, retire

NOTES.

333. Ccendcum Tritona vocai.] The as here by Ovid, it tleiioted tliat one-
Tritons are repi eseuted by the poets as of the Tritons, who always preceded
monsters liavini; tlie lialf of their bodies Neptune, whose arrivaliie proclaimed
human, and tbe other half fish, with by the sound of his shell, and was Ihcrc-
shell trumpets in their hands, wliereby fore taken for that <;od. KeMod, v/lio
they make the sliore to resound. When has given his gcnealop'y, says he was the,
this name was used iu the singular. son of Neptune and Amphilrite.
26 P. OVIDII NASONIS
Mare jam habet littus; littus habet ; plcnos capit al veus amries :
jj^jj-^ Yi\z,xe
vcti
atnnes jtii'irina
.-ub- Jhlumina subsiclunt ; colles exire videntur.
sidunt; colles videntur
exire. Jliimiis surgit ; Surgit humus, crescunt loca decrescentibus un-
loca crixcutit uiidis
decrescoitibiif. Post-
dis. 345
que lon'ram diem, syiia' Postoue diem lonoam nudata cacumina sylvze
oatiiidiint iivdata ra- _^ t
i , r t, j i
cumiiia, teiiaitqiie u-
,
Ostenduiit, limumque tenent in iroiide rehctum.
d"'''uii'!fTr(ii''reridi- Redditus orbis erat: q uem postquam vidit inanem,
'ncicaiion ridu''"iv"a.
^^ dcsolatas agere alta silentia terras ;

7iem,et terras dcsoiat as Deucalioii lacrvmis

j
ita Pvrrham
j
afiatur obortis
agcre alta silentia, ita ^ ^^
affutnr Pyrrham la- 350
cri/mis obortis. Osoror,
8 conjux,6 sola foemina O soror, o conjux, 6 foemina sola superstes,
superstes, qtiam com- Quam commune mihi genus, et patruelis origo,
mune genus, it origo
patrueliSydtindc torus Deinde torus junxit nunc ipsa pericula jungunt
;
:

Junxit tnitii ; et quam

ipsa pericula jiunc Terrarum, quascunque vident occasus et ortus,
jungunt nos duo su-
:

mils tiirba terrarum, Nosduoturbasumus:posseditc£eterapontus.355

qnascunque occasus et
ertus vident. Poiitus
Nunc quoque adhuc vitae non est fiducia nostras

fosscdit catcra. Nunc Certa satis : terrent etiamnum nubilamentem.

quoquc, non est adhuc
satis certafiilucia nos- Quid sine me fatis erepta fuisses.
tibi, si
tra : nubita ctiam-

num
vita-
terrent meutnn.
Nunc animi, miseranda, foret? Quo sola timorem
Quid aninti 6 miser- Ferre modo posses? Quo consolante dolores? 360
anda/oret nunc tihi,
si erepta j'uisses futis
sine me ? Quo modo posses tu solaferre timorem ? Quo consolante posses ferre dolores ?

TRANSLATION.
within, their channels. The sea now begins to be boimded byshores,
and the rivers decreasins:, cease to overflow their banks. Hills are
seen to rise out of the flood. Earth rears her visage, and places seem
togrow out of the deep as the waters decrease. In longer time the
woods shew their naked tops, and shattered boughs disfigured with
mud.
At length the world was wholly restored to view, which Avhen Deuca-
lion beheld, covered with desolation, and a silent waste, he thus ad-
dresses Pyrrha (the tears starting from his eyes): " O wife, O sister,
" O the
best, and only remains of your kind, whom a kindred pedi-
"
gree, and descent from brothers, then the marriage-tie had united
" to me and whom now the common
;

" we two alone remain to

danger yet more strongly unites :

people the earth, wherever she is visited by

" the
rising and setting sun the rest are swallowed by the sea. Nor
;

" have we even now any settled assurance of life the thick clouds
;

u Had fate
every where scattered roimd, still greatly alarm me.
" rescued you alone from this destruction, nor granted me as a part-
" ner of your pain, what must have been your distress ? How could
"
you have supported such a weight of woe ? or who would have soothed
" and calmed your mind, beset with so many terrors ? For I, believe

NOTES.
352. Patruelis origo.'] Deucalion was the son of Prometheus, and Pyrrha the daugh-
ter of Epimetlieu?. Prometheus and
Epimetheus were brothers, the sons of Japetus.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. I. 27

Namque ego, (crede mihi) si te modo pontus ha-

^,^:^rmihi!si\2tZ
beret, modo huliet et te, se-

Te sequerer, conj ux et me quoq pontus haberet. ; ; IZ'^iaberTrme. *"o

O utinam possem populos reparare paternis fJ'TplplZ^patlZt
Artibus; atque animas formatae infundere terrae! "/tibus: atque infnn-
TVT 1 i i •
1 1,
•
Dan 1
°<'''p«'"'no« ferrff/or-
JNunc genusinnobis restatmortaleduobus; JDO
i.

mat<p! Nunc genus

(Sicvisumsuperis)hominumq; exemplanianemus, Zs duobm-^su- est"?-

Dixerat, et flebant placuit cceleste precari

:
VZ^ZlV'^f'T"^""'^'
jVumen ;
et auxiliumper sacras quserere sortes. nuerat; et amho,fie-
Nulla mora est adeunt pariter Cephisidas undas, caruaiestc mtmln^et
:

Ut nondum liquidas, sic jam vada nota secan- VJcrasZlet'N.fiZ

^gg_ 370 e^t Mora; adeunt pari-
_- i*Ti A T • ^^'' t'nd^s Cephisidas,
Inde ubi libatos irroravere liquores ut nondum uguidas,

Vestibus, et capiti flectunt vestigia sanctse; voJu'."'^/nde,"vbi Irrt

Ad delubra dea^ quorum fastigia turpi
:
"^Ztibul'^'ei" 'l^^"
Squallebant musco, stabantq : sine ie'nibus arte. Jiectunt vestigia udde'.

Uttempli tetigere gradus; procumbit uterq; 0/0 mm fastigia squaiie-

Pronus humi, gelidoq; pavens dedit oscula saxo :
'ar^q,,T7tilulT2ti
Atque ita, Si precibus, dixerunt, numina iustis
kmbus. ut tetigZre
,y.
^ 11 n •
^ gradu.i tempt/, uter-
Victa remollescunt, si nectitur n-a deorum
-A que procumbit pro-

™
;
•
1-1 niis fiumi,pavensque,
Drpi
inemi, qua generis damnum reparabilenostri
ic,
1 J

dedit uscuia gendo

Arte sit; etmersisferopem,mitissima,rebus. 380 |^%,-tSf'
jtistis precibus remol-
Itscnnt, si ira deorwn flectitur ; die, Themi, qnH arte, damnwn nostri generis sit repara-
bile ; et mitissima,fer opem mersis rebus.

TRANSLATION.
"
me, my mate, were you now buried iu the deep, would embrace a
" like Oh that I could re-
fate, and plunge into the same deep.
"
people the desolate earth by my father's arts, and infuse a soul
into
"the duly formed clay: now the whole human race survives in us
"
two, so it seemeth good to the gods, and we remain the patterns of
" human kind."
Here he ended, and both joined their tears. They agree to ad-
dress the heavenly poAvers in pious prayers, and seek relief from the
sacred oracles. They repair therefore, without delay, to the banks
of Cephisus, whose Maters,
though troubled, were yet gliding along
their wonted channel and, after besprinkling their head and gar-
;

ments with the consecrated stream, direct their steps towri.rd the
temple of the sacred goddess, whose roofs were defiled with moss,
and the desert As soon as they reached the
altars void of holy fire.
on the ground, and with trem-
steps of the temple, they fell prostrate
bling lips kissed the cold pavement then thus implored O righteous ;
:

Themis, if the gods are moved to pity by just prayers if heavenly ;

minds are capable to relent tell by what means the loss of our kind :

may be repaired, and deny not your assistance in this forlorn case.
The goddess was softened by their pious prayers, and tlutb graciously
 28 P. OVIDII NASONIS
£>ea est
sortetn,.!'dt%ditftim.
^ ¥ota d'eac est,
o ,sortemque dedit
- .
- . ^
: BiscefUte templo;
, >.» ^
pio ; it niate caput ; ±,t delate coDut ; cinctdsque resolvite vestes :
resolviteque cinctas /x l i . .- - • *
\_
vestes; juciaieqiie post Os
Ussaquepost tcrgimi magno^ jactttte parmtis.
parentis, "'obst^pufre pbstupuere (fiu rumpitque silentia voce :

recusal: 385
rum^t'ZiZZZ.cc. Pyrrha prior; jussisquedeaeparere
reciisafqiieparerejiis- Detque sibi veuiam, pavido roo;at ore: pavetque
sis detF ; roeatouepa-
Tirio ore nt det sibi
-.,• ti -," ,'*
Laedere jactatis maternas ossibus umbras.
^^
,

veniam ; pai>clqiie Ire-

dere umbras maternas
Interea repetunt caecis obscura latebris
jactatis ossibus. In-
terea repetunt secvm
Verba datae sortis secum, inter seque volutant.
verba data sortis, ob- Inde Promethides placidis Epimethida dictis 390
scura crccis latebris,
tolutantque ea inter ; et, Aut fallax, ait, est solertia nobis,
Mulcet
se. Jnde Promethides
mulcet Epimethida pia sunt, nullumque nefas oracula suadent.
xA.ut

jilacidis dictis et nit,

;
Magna
Aut solertia est fallax f\ - parens terra esti lapides
~
in corpore terrae
~t*- "
:

aut oracula Ussa reor dici jacere nos post terga jubeniur.
,

nobis, :

nuHum"«ij^!^"'7w^a Conjugis augurio quamquani titania mota

est magna parens
reor lapides in corpore
:
est 395
terra' did ossa ; jubc-
Spes tamen in dubio est: adeo ccelestibus ambo
mur jacere hos post
terga. Titania, qiium- Diffidunt monitis sed quid tentare nocebit ? !

guum est mota augurio Descendunt;

conjugis, tamen spes -^ .^ caput,
velantq; - tunicasq; recingunt;
.

"^^ "t/!"^'"'momtis
"'/'''' Et iussos lapides sua ipost vestiaia
o mittunt.
ambo d'Jjidunt
i -J

ccelestibus ; sed quod

nocebit tentare ? Descendunt, vilantque caput, recinguntque tunicas, et mittunt jussos
lapides post sua vestigia.

TRANSLATION.

answered Depart from the temple, veil your heads, and, loosening
:

your garments, throw behind you the bones of your mighty mother.
Long they stood amazed, till Pyrrha first breaks silence, and refuses
to obey the dire commands of the
goddess. Mlth trembling mouth
she implores forgiveness, and dreads to offend her mother's shade, by
throwing behind her these holy relics. In the mean time they revolve
again and again the words of the oracle involved in deep mystery,
and ponder them with themselves. At length the son of Prometheus
thus, with mild benevolence, addresses his spouse Either my discern- :

ment fails, or the oracles are just, and advise no sacrilege. Our
mighty mother is the earth, and the stones in the body of the earth are,
as I imagine, called her bones these we are commanded to throw be-
—
:

hind us. Pyrrha, though pleased with the solution of her spouse, yet
fluctuates between hope and fear so much do both distrust the com- :

mands of heaven but where is the harm to try ? They descend yrowi
:

the mount, veil their heads, and unbind their vests, and, as commanded,
throw stones behind them. The stones, (who could believe it, did not

NOTES.

382. Kt vcUile caput.'] It was the cus- 395. Tita7iia.] Pyrrha was of the race
tom anions; tlie ancients to cover their of the Titans ;
for Japetus, lier grand-
heads in sacrifice and other acts of wor- fatlier, was the son of Titan and
ship. Terra.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. 1. 29

Saxa (quis hoc credat, nisi sit pro teste vetus- Saxa (quis credat hoc,
nisi vetustas sit pro
400 teste) cajitre ponere
tas?)^ , .
duritiem, suumque ri-
Ponere duritiem coepere, suumque rigorem ; gorem, moraque mol-
MoUirique mora, mollitaque ducere formam. liri, mollitaque, ducere
J'ormum. Mox ubi cre-
Mox, ubi creverunt, naturaque mitior illis verunt, nuturaqne mi-
tior contigit illis, tit
Contigit; ut qusedam, sic non manifesta, videri quadam forma homi-
Forma potest hominis, sed uti de marmore coep- nis, quanquam adhuc
7ion sic manifesta
po-
to, 405 test videri sed uti de ;
ccepto marmore, uon
Non exacta satis, rudibusque simillima signis. satis exacta similli-
maque rudibus signis.
Qu£e tamen ex illis aliquo pars humida siicco, Tamen pars ex illis,
Et terrena fuit, versa est in corporis usum :
qu(B fuit humida ali-
quo succo, et terrena,
Quod solidum nequit, mutatur in
est flectilq est versa in itsuin cor-
;
poris. Quod est soli,
ossa: dum, nequitque Jiecti,
mutatur in ossa. Quod
Quod modo vena fuit, sub eodem nomine man- modo fuit vena, mansit
sit. 410 sub eodem nomine. In-
que spatio l>revi, saxa
Inque brevi spatio, superorum munere, saxa missa manibus viri mu-
7iere superorum, trax-
Missa viri manibus faciem traxere virilem ; ere faciem virilem ; et
Et de foemineo reparata est foemina jactu. f(xmina est reparata
de jactu famine o. Inde
Inde genus durum sumus,experiensqiie laborum: sumus gemis durum,
experiensque laborum :
Et documenta damus, qua simus origine nati. 415 et damus dociimenta

IX. Caetera diversis tellus animalia formis qua origine simus nati.
IX. Tellus suA sponte

Sponte sua peperit postquam vetus humor ab

;
peperit ccetera anima-
lia diversis formis ;

igne postquam vetus humor

percaluit ab igne solis;
Percaluit solis, coenumque, udaeque paludes canumque,udffque pa-
ludes intumuire astu :
Intumuere aestu ; fcecundaque semina rerum
seminaqueftecunda re
Vivaci nutrita solo, ceu matris in alvo, 420 rum nutrita vivaci
solo, creverunt ceu in
Creverunt, faciemque aliquam cepere morando. alvo matris, cepereque
morando aliquam faciem.

TRANSLATION.
antiquity bear witness to the tradition ?) began to lay aside their hard-
ness, and natural rigour, and softening by degrees, to assume a new
shape. Presently after, they are seen to swell, and partaking of a milder
nature, took upon them some appearance of human shape, though as
yet hut imperfect and confused, like rude images of marble just begun,
Avhere the chisel has not traced out the true likeness of features. The
moist and earthy parts were turned into flesh and juices for the use of
the body. What was solid and unyielding changes to bones, and what
was before a vein, still remains under the same name. Thus in a little
time, by the miraculous interposition of the gods, the stones thrown
by the man assumed the face and form of men, and those thrown by
the woman renewed the female race. Hence we are a hardy gene-
ration, patient of labour and fatigue, and give daily proofs of the
original whence we are sprung.
IX. The earth of her own accord produced other animals of different
forms, after that the native moisture was thoroughly digested by the
rays of the sun, and the mud and fens began to ferment with the heat ;
things thus nourished by the enlivening soil as in
for the fruitful seeds of
30 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Sic ubi
iseptemfluijf Sic ubi desevuit madidos
_ septemfluus
i agros
JVilus dcseruit 'iiarii- .
i- t,
.
i i
dos ugrox, ct reddidit Nilus, et antiquo sua numina reddidit alveo,
sua Jliimhia antiqun
alveo, limiisquc reccns jEthereoque recens exarsit sidere limus :

exarsit trlheno sidcrc;

cuJtores glebii rersis,
Plurima cultores versis animalia olebis 425
inveiiiuiil piiirima nni- Inveniunt ; et in his, qujedam modo coepta sub
muliii, et ill his q iitrdam
tnodo cffp/a, sub ipsum ipsum
7ent''!Puadanrmper-
Nascendi spatium quaedara imperfecta, snisque
;

fecta, truncuque suis

mcmbris : et scope in
Trunca videntliumeris et eodem in corpore saepe
;

eodem corpore, pars Altera pars vivit ; rudis est pars altera tellus. 430
altera vivit, pars al-
tera est rudis tellus. Quippe ubi temperiem sumsere humorque, ca-
Quippe ubi hamorque
culorque sumsCrc tem- lorque,
jieriem, coiiripiu'il et .•

Concipiunt : et ab his oriuntur cuncta duobus.

ciincta oriuiiliir ubliis
duobus. ('unique ignis
sit yiignax aqua, Im-
Ciimque sit ignis
aquae pugnax \ vapor humidus
tnidus vapor creat oranes
omiies ct disrors
res,
Concordia est ajita fa-
Res creat et discors concordia foetibus apta est.
;

tibus. Ergo ubi tellus

liitulenta rereuti di-
Ergo ubi diluvio tellus lutulenta recenti
luvio recunduit trthe- Solibus iethereis, altoque recanduit aestu 435 ;
reis solibus altO'iue
Edidit innumeras species
iEstu,ediditinnumeras
species;
_ ; partimque
_ _

Hi
figuras
_
pnrtimque Reddidit antiquas 1 partim nova monstra creavit.
reddidit antiquus fi- _,. .
t»
guras ; partim creavit ilia quidem iiollet ; sed tc quoque, maxime ry-
nova monstra. Ilia tel-
lus quidem nollet, sed
_

tlion,
"^^^^^
mTxime'p!/tho7l]'''lnl genuit ; popuhsque novis, incognita serpens,
serpens incognita, eras Terror cras tantumspatii
:
'
de monte tenebas. 440
terror novis populis:
tenebas tantum spatii de monte.

TRANSLATION,
a kindly womb swelled, and in time took on a regular shape. Thus
when seven -channelled Nile forsakes the oozy fields, and recalls his wa-
ters to their ancient bed, and the fresh mud is warmed by the sun's
Eethereal rays the labourers, in turning up the glebe, find innumerable
:

animals, among which are some just begun, and in the first rudiments
of organization some imperfect, and short of their limbs nay, it often
;
:

happens, that in the same body one part lives, the other is a lump of
earth. For when heat and moisture are mixed in due proportion, they
conceive, and all things arise from these two. For though fire and
water are repugnant to each other, yet a moist vapour gives birth to
things, and this friendly discord is the source of generation. When
therefore the earth, covered with mud by the late deluge, was thoroughly
heated by the glowing rays of the sun, she produced innumerable species
of creatures, and partly restored the former shapes, partly gave birth to
new and unknown monsters. Unwillingly indeed, yet she produced thee
also, enormous Python, a serpent of an unusual kind, and the great
terror of this new race of mortals so vast and mountain-like thy bulk.
;

NOTES.
422. Sicubideseruit.'] The river Nile, pen regularly every year, and overflow
famous for its seven nioiitlis, by which it the whole fountry of ^gypt. To this
empties itself into the sea, is also re- the uncommon fertility of that kingdom
markable for its inundations, which hap- IS chiefly for when the waters
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. I. 31

Hunc deus arcitenens, et nunquam talibus armis ^f^^^.Ti'^^^b.:'

Ante nisi in damis capreisque tugacibus usus, armis ante nisi in da-
,,' ,,• ,A \i .A 1 mis, fus'acibusque ca-
MiUe graveni telis, exhausta pene pharetra, j,,.^;,, pemdit hunc
Perdidit, effuso per vulnera nigra
veneno. |-Xi
^Il/fe.^
famam posset delere vetustas ; 445 '<? ^"'fo ''ffu'<o per
Neve
•^' operis
1
if- certamine 1 J nigra vulnera. Neve
•

vetustas possn deiere

Instituit sacros celebri ludos,
de domita; serpentis nomine dictos. {uZrZ7ros'"feieTri
Pythia,
Hisjuvenumquicunquemanu,pedibusve,rotave, ~^?:«:'pSr^e
Vicerat esculeze capiebat frondis honorem. 450 nomine
:
dmmte serpen-
\ \ '
J
1^

decentia cnne
''^-
1 ^nhis,quicunque J.-
•

Nondura laurus erat longoque : juvenum vicerat, ma.

Tempora cingebat de qualibet arbore Phoebus. T,pi^b1^tlmnorem'ls-

X. Primus'amor Phoebi Daphne Peneia quem :
';;'/j^^,7"/4"^ /"^ji^^f
j-jQj]^ husquc cingebat tem-
_, . IT, 1 /~\ ^•
• • vera decentia lonso
Fors ignara dedit; sed szeva Cupidinis ira. crine, de quaubet ar-

Debus hunc nuper victa serpente superbus ^"x." Daphne Peneia,

Viderat adducto flectentem cornua nervo 455 Mt primus amorPha' :

.
r -1
bi quern non ignara . . ;

Quidque tibi, lascive puer, cum lortibus armis r fors, sed s^va ira cu-
-r^.^,-. ,1 1 pidinis dedit. Delius
Dixerat: ista decent humeros gestamma nos- deus, superbus ser.
,
•

j..,-,„ pente nuper victS, vi-

^''-"') .
derat hunc Jiectentem
Qui
^' dare carta ferae,' dare vulnera possumus nosti; comua
I.
'
nervo adducto;
dixeratque, quid titn
lascive puer cum armis fort ibus? Ista gestamina decent nostras humeros ; qui possumus
dare certa vulnera fera-, qui possumus dare certa vulnera hosti ;

TRANSLATION.
Him the god of the silver bow, who had never before tried his shafts,
but against the deer and timorous goats, transfixed with a thousand
arrows, having nearly spent the store of his full quiver, ere the expiring
monster shed his poison through the black wounds. And that time
might not efface the fame of such a deed, he instituted solemn games
with all kinds of sports, and called them Pythian, from the name of the
serpent he had subdued. Here the noble youths who conquered in
running, boxing, or driving his chariot, received the honour of an oaken
crown. For as yet there was no laui'el and Phoebus adorned his ;

temples, and gracefully flowing locks, with garlands of any tree.

X. Daphne, the daughter of Peneus, was Apollo's first flame not ;

through any blind chance, but by the dire decree of angry Cupid.
The Delian god, proud of his late victory over the serpent, had ob-
served him bending his bow with strained nerve, and thus insulted him :

" Lascivious
boy, what have you to do with gallant arms ? These better
" become
my shoulders, whose shafts are launched with unerring aim
"
against savage beasts and enemies , who lately pierced with innurae-

NOTES.
subside, they leave behind them great probably because laurels grow in abund-
quantities of mud, which settling upou ance upon its banks,
the land, fatten it, and keep it in con- 454. Delius hunc nuper.'] Apollo is
stant repair. here called Delius, because born in
452. Daphne Peneia.'] Daphne was Delos, ani&hnd of the ^Egean sea.
feigned to be the daughter of Penens,

-«*^
32 P. OVIDII NASONIS

qui modo stravimus Qui mod6 pestifero totjugera ventre prementera

innumeris sagittis Pij-
thona tumidiim pre- Stravimus innumeris tumidum Pythona sagit-
tneiitcm tot jitgera
pestifero ventre. Esto
tis. 460
tu contcntus irrilare
nescio quos amoves tuii
Tu face, nescio quos, esto contentus amores
face: nee assere vos- Irritare tua nee laudes assere nostras.
:
'traa laudes. Films Ve-
neris ait huic : Plicebe, Filius huic veneris figat tuus omnia, Phoebe
; ;
tuus arcus figat omnia ;
mens arcus jiget te :
Te meus arcus, ait quantoque animaha cedunt
:

qunntoquecitiicta ani-
7nalia cediint tibi, tan- Cunctatibi, tanto minor est tua gloria nostra. 465
to ttia ginria est minor Dixit et eliso percussis aere pennis,
;
nostril. Dixit ; et acre
eliso percussi.i pennis,
Impiger umbrosa Parnassi constitit arce :

impiger constitit u}n-

brosa arce Parnassi; Eque sagittifera prompsit duo tela pharetra
promsitque e sagitti- Diversorum operum fugat hoc, facit illud amo-
:

/era pliaretrd duo tela

diversorum operiim. rem. 470
Hocfugat, illnd facit
amorem. Telum quod Quod facit, auratum est, et cuspide fulget acuta :

facit amorem est au-

ratitm, et fulget actitd
Quod fugat, obtusum est, et habet sub arundine
cuspide. Telum quod
fugat amorem est ob-
plumbum.
tusum, et habet plum- Hoc deus in nymphs, Peneide fixit at illo :

hum sub arundine.

JJeus fixit hoc in nym- Lsesit Apollineas trajecta per ossa medullas.
pha Peneide; at Jllo
Itesit medullas Apolli-
Protinus alter amat fugit altera nomen amantis
:

neas per ossa trujecta.

Protinus alter amat ; Sylvarum latebris, captivarumque ferarum 475
altera fugit nomen Exuviis gaudens, innuptaeque semula Phoebes ;
amantis, gaudens late- Vitta coercebat positos sine lege capillos.
bris sylvarum, exu-
viisque captivarum Multi illam petiere ilia aversata petentes,
;
ferarum amulaque in-
nuptd Phabes: J'itta Impatiens, expersque viri, nemorum avia lustrat :
cotrcebat capillos po-
sitos sine lege. Multi petiere illam ; ilia aversata petentes, impatiens expersque viri, lus-
trat ai'ia nemorum;

TRANSLATION.
" rable arrows the monster
Python, whose enormous bulk covered whole
" acres. Be
you contented to kindle I know not what flames in the
" breasts of
lovers, nor affect the praise which I alone can justly claim."
To him the son of Venus " Your arrows, Phoebus, are sure on all, but
:

" mine on thee and

by hoAv much all other animals fall short of
;

" He said, and cut-

you, so much greater is the glory of my victory."
ting the air with nimble wings, in a moment reached the shady top of
Parnassus then draws from his quiver two arrows of different virtue,
;

one to raise, and one to repel desire the first is of gold, whose burnished
;

point refulgent shines the other is blunt atid tipt with lead. This the
;

god lodged in the breast of the Peneian nymph, and with that wounded
Apollo in the marrow, through his bones. Presently the one burns with
allthe violence of love, the other hates the very name of a lover, de-
lighting only in pathless forests, and in the skins of beasts taken in hunt-
ing, and rivals Phoebe in her single life and rural joys. fillet binds A
her flowing locks, that were suffered to fall with graceful negligence
upon her shovdders. Many sued to her, but she, averse to the language
of courtship,
impatient, and unacquainted with man, frequents the
shady retreats of pathless woods, nor thinks of Hymen, love, or the
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. I. 33

Nee quid Hymen, quid amor, quid conuubia

sint 'r*" ''!''""' '<"''' (^/""'"
curat. 480 tmhia sint. Pater
serpe dixit: Fiiia, dibes
Ssepe pater dixit generum mihi, tilia, debes
: :
ge Item m 111 ilii : Pater
dixit debes mihi, nata, nepotes. iape iiixit: Nuta, ileliex
Sciepe pater
:
iieyntes iiiihi. Jllu
Ilia velut crimen taBdas exosa jugales, exusii jitgales tirdus,
vtli/t crimen, siiffun-
Pulchra verecundo sufFunditur ora rubore, ditiir inti jinlclira ve-
rerinidn rtibore ; htr-
Inque patris blandis hserens cervice lacertis, 485 ensque in ceriice pa-
Da mihi perpetua, genitor charissime, dixit, tris bliindix lacerlis,
dixit : durifsime geni-
Viroiaitate frui dedit hoc pater ante Dianse,
: tor, da viihi friii per-

llle quidem obsequitur: sedte decor iste, quod ter ante dedit hccma-
i.„ 7i(r. llle quidem iibse-
UUlao, qnitur, sed iste decor
vetat te ?sse quod op-
Esse vetat: votoque tuo tua forma repugnat. 489
ta.s, tuaqiie jornia re-
Phoebus amat: visaeque cupitconnubia Daphnes: pugnat tuo eoto. Pliee-
bus amat, pet itque con-
Quseque cupi t, sperat; suaq; ilium oracula fallunt. tiuhia ins(e Uapltnes .•

speralque qua cupit,

Utque leves stipulae demptis adolentur aristis, suaqne uracu lafallunt
Ut facibus sepes ardent, quas forte viator ilium. Utque levex
stipulff adolentur aris-
Vel nimis admovit, vel jam sub luce reliquit : tis demptis: utque se-
pes ardent facibus,
Sic deus in flammas abiit sic pectore toto 495
; quas forte viator vei
admovit tiimis, vel jam
Uritur, et sterilem sperando nutrit amorem. reliquit sub luce ; sic
Spectat inornatos colo pendere capillos : deus abiit in flammas:
sic uritur toto pectore,
Et, quid si comantur ? ait ; videt igne niicantes et Hutrit sterilem atno-
rem sperando. Spectat
Sideribus similes oculos videt oscula: quae non
:
capillos pendere inor-
Est vidisse satis laudat digitosque, manusq 500
:
;
natos coUo,et ait, quid-
si coma7itur? Videt
Brachiaque, et nudos media plus parte lacertos oculos niicantes igne
:

similes sideribus: vi-

Si qua latent, meliora putat. Fugit ocior aur^ det oscula, qua: 7ion est
satis tautum vidisse.
Laudat digitosque, manu^que, brachiaque, et lacertos 7iudos plus tnedicl parte. Si qua
latent, putat meliora.
TRANSLATION,
joys of the married state. Oft her father said, Daughter, yon owe me
a son-in-law often he said, Daughter, you owe me grandchildren.
;

She, abhorring the nuptial torch as a crime, has her lovely cheeks co-
vered with blushes, and hanging upon her father's neck with fawning
" Grant me
arms, (says she), dearest parent, to enjoy a perpetual vir-
"
ginity it is no more than what Diana's father granted before."
; Fe-
neus yields to her request but her beauty contradicts her wishes, and
;

the charms of her person are an obstacle to her desires. Phoebus loves,
and aspires to the marriage of Daphne. He vainly too hopes to enjoy
what he seeks, and is betrayed by his own oracles and as light stubble :

burns in the naked fields, or dry hedges set on fire by the traveller's
torch, if by chance held too near, or left now about day-break so the ;

god burns, and nmirishing in his breast the flames of love, feeds with
hope a fruitless fire. He views her neck, round which her hair waves in
careless ringlets. How
graceful, says he, must it appear were it combed !

He views her eyes, sparkling like the stars, and her lips, which it is
not enough barely to view. He praises her fingers, hands, and arms,
NOTES.
48t>.Nee quid Hymen.} Hymenaeus that ofHymenaeia to the festival tliat
was one of the gods invoked in mar- was celebrated in honour of the god
jiage: hence the name of Hymen was who presided over marriages.
given to the i^nion of two >poiise.s, and
34 P. OVIDII NASONIS

odor levi
Ilia fiigu,
neque ad hiKc revocantis verba resistit.
.
\\\^ jgyj
aura; neque re.ilxtiC ~^r ^ -r\

precor, Peneia, mane non insequor

lerba Apollinis
aii lifTc
revocantis ; iiymyha
Nympha, :

Peneia j precor i.iaiie ; hostis : 604

vti^nioii insequor hostix.
iXytuphii mane ; sic Nympha, mane: sic agnalupum, sic cervaleonem,
agnu h;pnm, sic
fngit Sic aquilam penna fugiunttrepidantecolumbtB :
ccrid fiigit leoiicni, sic
coiumba jugiuu't aqni- Hostes QUceq; suos: amoi' estmihi causa scQuendi.
lam crevidanle •
j'
Me j- •
'^ vennil, -ai\ i
i i
sic
•

queequefugmni suos miserum ne pi'ona cadas, indignave

! laBcli
Imstes; amor est causa
Crura secentsentes: et sim tibi causa doloris. 509
scqnendimihi. Heii wt
miseriim,ne cailas ]iio-
it(i neve seiites sceetit
Aspera,quaproperas,loca svmt: moderatius,oro,
crura indigna Itri/i, tt Curre,i"ugamqueinhibe:moderatiLisinsequaripse.
eoo sim causa doloris
tihi. Loca per qua Cui placeas, inquire tamen. Non incola montis,
properas sunt asyera. '^qh eoQ sum pastor: Hon hic armenta, orreo-esve
Orocurre moderatius,
iiihibeque fugam ; ip^e
.» I
'.
Horridus observo nescis, temeraria, nescis 514
:
_'o_o
insequor moderatius.
Tamen inquire cui Quern fugias:ideoquefugis rniihi Delphicatellus,
placeas. Ego non sum Et Claros, et Tenedos, Patareeaque regia servit.
incola montis, ego non
sum pastor: non hor-
ridus observo hic ar- Jupiter est genitor per me, quod eritque, fuitque,
:

menta gregesie
raria nescis, nescis
: teme-
Estque patet: per me concordant carminanervis.
quern fugias ; iileoque Certa quidem nostra est nostra tamen una sagitta
:

fugis. Delphicate/lus, 520

tt Claros, et Tenedos, Certior, in vacuo quse vulnerapectore fecit
regiaque Putartra ser-
vit mihi. Jupiter est
Inventummedicinameumest; opiferq; per orbem
genitor ! quod eritque, Dicor; et herbarum subjecta potentia nobis.
fuitque, estque, patet
per me : Carmina con- Hei mihi, quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis ;

cordant nervis per me.

Nostra sagitta quidem
Nee d
profunt omino, quae prosunt omnibus, artes!
est certa : tamen una
sagitta est certior nntrA, qucc fecit vii'nera in vacuo pectore. Medicina est meum inven-
tum ; dicorque opifer per orbem, et potentia herbarum est subjecta nohii. Hei mihi, quod
amor est medicabilis nullis herbis : nee artes qua prosunt omnibus, prosunt domino!
TRANSLATION.
almost bare and persuades himself, that the beauties yet unseen are
;

still more enchanting. She flies swifter than the wind. In vain he
endeavours to stop her by these alluring words :

"
Stay, Peneian nymph, I do not pursue you as an enemy lovely ;

"
nymph, stay it is thus that the lamb flies the wolf, the fearful doe
:

" the
lion, and doves, with trembling wings, the eagle thus each the ;

"
enemy he dreads. Love is the cause of my following. Ah, how I fear
" lest
you should fall, or the thorns pierce your feet, too tender to be
" The ways through which
hurt, and I be the cause of pain to you.
"
you hasten are rough and pointed: restrain, I pray, your flight run ;

" more
moderately, and I will pursue with less ardour yet think whom :

" it is
you please. I am no inhabitant of the mountains, or simple shep-
" herd here in mean You know
array, to watch the herds or flocks.
not, rash nymph, you know not whom you fly, and therefore fl}
" I .

" am adored at
Delphos, Tenedos, Claros, and Patara: Jupiter is my
" father.
By me things past, present, and to come, are revealed by ;

" me the words are fitted to the harmonious

lyre my arrow indeed is :

"
sure, but ah more deadly his, who made this cruel wound in abreast
" imtouched before. Medicine is
my invention I am honoured through ;

" the world as a

sovereign physician, and acquainted with all the powers
NOTES.
515. Delphicatellus.'] Delphos was a nassus, and famous for the oracle of
City of Plioris in Achaia, uear to
Pai- Apoi!:;, !!>;>.t was ti.'tre in great esteem.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. I. 35

Peneia timido cursu

Plura locuturum timido Peneia cursu 525
fiigit earn iocutm'um
Fugit; cumque ipso verba imperfecta reliquit. 'plu ra, reliq nil q tie ver-
ba cum
imperfecta
Turn quoque visadecens:nudabantcorpora venti, ipso. Tiiiii quoque est
li.uidecens. Venti nit-
Obviaque adversas vibrabant iiamina vestes, (iabant corpora, Jlu-
Etlsevis impexos retro dabat aura capillos. 529 mhiaquc ubriu vibra-
bant ad versus restcs ;
Auctaq; forma fuga est. Sed enim non.sustinet ff levis aura dubat
retro capillos iiii])exos;
ultra Forriiuque ejus est
aiicta Jugil. iSedenim
Perdere blanditias juvenis deus utque movebat :
juvcnts deus, non sus-
ultra perdere
Ipse amor, admisso sequitur vestigia passu.
tliiet
bUiuditiiis: utque ipse
~tJt canis in vacuo leporem ciam gallicus arvo amor inovehat, sequi
tur vestigia admisso
Vidit; ethicprsedam pedibus petit, ille salutem: passu. Ut canis gal
Alter inheesuro similis, jam jamque tenere 535 licus cum vidit lepon m
in vacuo arvo ; et hie
Sperat, et extento stringit vestigia rostro; jietit predaui pcdit/us,
ille petit salutem. Al-
Alter in ambiguo est, an sit deprensus, et ipsis ter similis irtiiasuro,
jam jamque sperat
tenere, et stringit vestigia extento rostro: alter est in ambiguo an s it depreusus, ct

TRANSLATION.
" of
simples. Alas ! that love is not to be cured by herbs, and those
" arts which master 1"
give relief to all, are unprofitable only to their
The daughter of Peneus nor regards him, as he thus conti-
still flies,
nued his complaints, and the imperfect accent dies on her ear then too :

she appeared lovely the winds exposed her body to view, the meeting
;

blasts tossed back he^r flowing robe, and the gentle gales spread her
careless locks behind thus her flight increased her beauty. But the
:

youthful god, too eager to lose his time in empty compliments, and
urged by love, pursues his steps with quickened pace. As when a
greyhound has spied a hare in the open plain, and with redoubled
speed pursues his prey, she with equal speed eludes his steps the one :

just ready to fasten, hopes every moment to secure his hold, and, with
extended jaws, presses upon her heels the other, in doubt whether ;

NOTES.
533. Ut canis in vacuo ^ The simile is The short compass of these notes wiil
here dravni with all the strengt!) and not allow me to illustrate similar pas-
colouringofpoetry,and admirably fitted sages by comparing tliein miuutely witli
to give us an idea of tlie eagerness each other, though perhaps nothing could
wherewith the god pursued on tlie one contribute more to form the taste, and
hand, and the an.xiety wherewith the give the mind a right tincture. I shall

nymph endeavoured to escape on the therefore sometimes, though not so often

other. Mr. Pope, in his Windsor-Forest, as I could wish, take that liberty. The
has imitated this passage, where he de- simile of the Greyhound in Ovid, and
nymph Lodona pursued by
scribes the of the Eagle in Mr. Pope, are both
Pan and transformed into a river. As finely imagined, and receive a consider-
the whole passage in the English poet able beauty from tlie repetitions. I
is
inexpressibly beautiful, and wrought mean the marking distinctly the eager-
up with all the interesting circumstances ness and swiftness wherewith the one
that can engage the attention of the pursues, and the other fiies: for by that
reader, I shall transcribe it here entire, means their mutual struggles are more
and compare it with Ovid. strongly represented to tlie fancy ; and
Not Iialf so 5nift tlie it would be hard to say which has suc-
trembling doves can fly,
When the fierce eagle cieaves tiie liquid sky ;
ceeded best. But in the descriptive
Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle movef,
When thro' the clo'uds he drives the trembling doves;
part, where the god gains upon the
As from the god she flew with furious pace.
Or aa the god more furious uv^'d the cha*e. nymph, and at last comes up with her ;
Now faintmj, sinkinf, pale, the nymph appears, the English poet has manifestly improv-
Now close behind his soundinj ste'ps she hears;
Aud now his shadow reached her as she run, ed upon the hint here given him. He
His shadow lengthened by the setting sun
And now his shorter breath v ith sultry air.
:
enters into a particular detail of cir-
Pants on her neck, anj fans her rartiMghair. cumstances, and with a liveliness of
D 2
36 P. OVIDII NASONIS

^Jit^'^it^t^om*^^^ Morsibuseripitur; tangentiaque ora relinquit:

Pit rieiis et Sic deus, et vireo est: hie spe celer, illatimore.
^.7///,/.
rhxo, l>'<^'

ciicris thnore.
.Sic
cell rspe ilia
Tanuii
t-\
•
-T,
Q ui taiiien iiiseqiutur, peiinis
j. -^
acljutus auioris,
•
r
540
An

%uf^u!s'ZA Ocior requiemque negat; tergoque fugaci

est,
c^t ocwr,m';,atquere- Imminet
_..
et crinem sparsum
:
'
i^
cervicibus afflat :
quiem;iinmtnct.queter- .,
. .

go/Kgaci ; et ajftat cri- Viiious absumptis expalluit ilia ; citeeque

b',,7. ^^mu'i7nbl7'ab. Victa labore fuga, spectans Peneidas undas, 544
tag7eMore'clu^^^^^^ opem,si flumina numen habetis,
^^^'> P^^ter, inquit,
spectans undus [Quanimiuni placui, tellus, aut hisce ; vel istani,
iy>i>i-

'o%m'7i"vosjfi"ni,iaka- Qu8e facit ut Isedai, mutando perde figuram.]

S«"S;S"S Vix prece finita, torpor gravis alligat artus:

hhce; vel ptrde iyam Mollia cinouiitur tenui libro
o praecordia
fgiiram qiiir factt ut 1

ladar, mutando cam. In troiidem crines,in ramos brachiacrescunt. 5oO

rm . .
:

ris torpor alligat

^es mocio taoi velox pigns radicibus haeret :

^^'^ cacumeii obit: remanet niter unus in ilia.

%-ffcordul^'lL-Z'utnr
°
temii lihro: crinex Hanc QUOQue Phsebus amat positaoue in :
stipitc
cresciiiit in fiondem, A t-
^^
brackia cresciiiit in uextra
7eZ',hIret rS^IZ
Sentit adhuc trepidare novo sub cortice pectus.
dicibus : cacumen ohit
Complexuso
r suis ramos, ut membra, lacertis, 555
:
ora: mlor u/iiis re-
tnanet in ilia, phcehns
^-.
^i^
n it
(Jscula dat liguo reiugit tameu oscula lignum.
:

antat banc qiioque : r^ j •

a ^ ? • •

positiique dextrd in
Cui QBUS Atconjuxquoniammeanonpotesesse
:
;
stipite, sentit pectus
adhuc trepidare sub novo cortice. Complext(sque ramos, ut membra, suis lacertis, dat os-
cula ligno lAgmim tamen:
refiigit oscula. Cui deus dixit : at quoniam non potes esse.

TRANSLATION.
already seized, escapes from his very bites, and starts from his mouth
as it touches her. Such was the god, and such the flying nymph he :

urged by hope, and she by fear. But the pursuer, wafted by the wings
of love, gains upon her, and denies her rest and now she hears his ;

steps close behind her now his breath fans her parting hair. The
;

nymph (her strength failing) grew pale, and spent with the labour "of so
long a flight, cast a mournful look upon the streams of Peneus Oh :

"
help me, father, in this extreme necessity, if you rivers are really
" deities. O earth, in which I have too much delighted, open to re-
" ceive me, or
change this form, the cause of all my sorrows."
Scarce had she ended her prayer, when a heavy numbness tied up her
joints
a filmy rind grows round her body her hairs sprout into leaves,
; ;

her arms into boughs and her feet, so swift of late, stick fast by dull
;

roots her head is covered by a shady top, and her beauty and neat-
:

ness alone remain. This too is the darling of Phoebus, who clapping
his hand upon the trunk, feels her bosom yet pant under the new bark.
Then entwining his arms in the boughs, heaps kisses upon the wood,
which seemed to start back, and decline his embraces to whom the :

"
god, Though you cannot be my wife, I yet espouse you for my tree.
NOTES.
imagination, that makes >is in a manner neck. Tiie reader is by this means ac-
spectators of the chase. The nympli quainted with the several successions of
first hears behind lier the sounding steps fear as they arise in the mind of tlie
of the deity she then perceives that
:
nympli, sees her danger still increas-
his shadow Iras readied her ; and last of ing, and is in pain for her every mo-
all, feels his breath panting upon her meiil.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. I. 37

Arbor eris, cert^-, dixit, :

semper habebuntmea »f^« ^X^) 'Z'l nil
<'« la^ro scmyer ua-
Te coma, te citharee, te nostrse, laure, pharetrse.
TuducibusLatiisaderis,cumlaetatrmmpnum5oU tra- habebunt te,' et
Vox caiiet et longae visent capitolia pompae.
:
Jlf habctZ' /^ rL"
Postibus Auo-ustis
o eadem fidissima custos ^
«''"'/ '/'t'"
tu?/i td'tii 'l^'I'^'fi'
vox cdtii'Ji in-
Ante fores stabis; mediamquetuebere quercum: umiihum; et ion«(c

Utque meiim mtonsis caput est juvemle capiUis, lu,. tu cadcm, nau-
Tu quoq perpetuos semper gere frondis honores. t:i,^;:;Za^f^
;

Finierat Paean factis modo laurea ramis:

566 fores; tuehenque que,-.
Annuit utque caput, visa est agitasse cacumen. meum cujn.t est juve-
:

\Tr TT „ ,^J 7iUe intonsis cavillis

•

XL -i-i
Est nemus Hzemoniag, pra^rupta quod un- ^^^ qnoque, semper ge-
> i. ,,-.^ ;

aique Ciauait jroiidu. Paun finie-

Svlva vocant Temper
:
I per quse Peneus ab imo
'.1
rat. Laurea amntit
ramii modo/acti^.est-
T^ry -!-> /. J. r-(->
EflUSUS PmdO SpumOSlS VOlvitur UndlS O/U
1
:
que visa agUassecucu-

Dejectuque gravi tenues agitantia fumos '"xi."iw'«"L« He-

Nubila conducit, summasque aspergine sylvas monia,quodi,reruyta
^ ^ .
9 '
. .1 •
sylvaclattdit urMique:
Impluit et sonitu plus quam vicma tatigat. vacant Tempe: per

HI 1

jecdomus,naiCsedes,na2Csuntpenetraliamagm
11
i.1' -»,„™-,-,4 J. qua Pefieus effiisus ab
i,,,^ pi„„„ 'ruhitur
Amnis:inhocresidensfactodecautibusantro,575 ^^;~ ^^^^- ^.»«-
Undis jura dabat, nymphisque colentibus undas. vi, wbua' ugHu^ntm
-^
-^
.
'11 n ^ 1
• • •
tenues fumos, implu-
L'Onvenuint illuc popularia tlumuia prmium ; uque s'ummas .^yivas-

Nescia gratentur, consolenturne parentem, pZ7qi"m vfchm'foca

Populifer Spercheos, et irrequietus Enipeus, muT'hff^sedeT ifa'c

sunt penetralia magni umnis : residens in hoc antra facto de cautibus, dabat jura vndis,
nescia graten-
viimphisqne colentibus undas. Popularia J/umhia primu?ii conieninnt illuc,
tur, console nt urnc pureiilem. Spercheos pvpulifer ; it Knipcus irrequietus,
TRANSLATION.
"
My hair, my harp, and quiver, shall be always adorned with branches
" of laurel. You shall attend
upon the Latian leaders, when the joyfid
" acclamations of the soldiers
proclaim a triumph, and pompous trains
" visit the You too shall stand before the gate of Augustus,
eapitol.
" the faithful
guardian of the oaken crown. And as my head is ever
" ho-
youthful Avith uncut locks, be you too adorned with the unfading
" nours of leaves." ended the laurel, with
green Apollo grateful :

nodding boughs, expressed its joy, and seemed to shake its shady top.
XL There is in Thessaly a valley called Tempe, enclosed on all sides
by a forest mounted on craggy rocks ; through this the river Peneus,
issuing from the bottom of rindus, rolls his foaming
waves. The river,
its mighty fall, raises thick mists, which scattering their drops in thin
by
vapours gently sprinkle the tops of the Avoods,
and spread the noise of
their fall to a great distance. This is the house, this the mansion,
this the retired sanctuary of the great river. Here, residing in a cave
formed by rocks, he gave laws to the Avaters. Hither all the neigh-
bowing streams first resort, uncertain whether to congratidate the
father, or lament his daughter's fate; Sphercheos, crowned with poplar,
restless Enipeus, aged Apidanus, gentle Amphrysus, and jEas then a :

NOTES.
574. HcEC domus, &:c.] The poets took their rise, the habitations of the
called the fountains, from whence rivers gods of these rivers.
38 P. OVIDII NASONIS

wVr^T'iwVitrr"^' Apiua nusq; senex, lenisq; Amphrysos, etiEas::>so

'et

Moxqin'riia'am-
.cfttf.t. Moxciuc aniiies alii: qui, qua tulit impetus illos,
nes, qui una hiivctus t ii n .

In marc ciediicnnt tessas erronbus undas.

-i i
fiiiif. iiius, (latuviint
in mare undtis fessas
erroribus. Jnacii us Inachus
unus abest imoque reconditus antro ;

unus best recondi- Fletibus miserrimus 16

II :

t usque imo antro, ait- auget aquas natamque

ut amissaiu nescit
-.-
•^-.,^p.
vitaue
^oc
ooo
;

get aquas ftetiims: que Lue,"et, iruatur,:

'"
miserrimus luaet no- * . •

tarn lo, ut uiiiisMim, An sitapud manes: sed,quamnonmvenitusquam,

i l -j.

Ne.scit fruatiiriie vitit,

an sit (ifiud ^naiu's Esseputat nusquam, atque animo pejora veretur.
:

patrio redeuntem Jupiter 16

scd piitat ill:im quam Viderat a
von invenit usqnum,
c\sc misqiitim ; (itqiie Flumine: et, 6
verctur prjorii aiiimo.
virgo Jove diona, tuoque beatum
Jupiter vidtriit lo re- Nescio quem factura toro, pete, dixerat, umbras,
denntem a putrin Jiii- Altorum nemorum
niine: riixeratqiif, O (et nemorum monstraverat
rirgt) di^iia Jove, fin- umbras) 591
turaqite nescio qiiein
beatiim tun toro, pcfe Dum calet, et medio sol est altissiraus orbe.
umbras altorum »e-
moriim et monstrdie- Quod si sola times latebras intrare ferarum ;
(

rat umlrns nemoriiin ) PrcKside tuta deo nemorum secreta subibis :

diim calit, et sol est
nlli.ssinuis, medio or be. Nee de plebe deo sed qui ccclestia magna 595
:

Quod .\i times iiitrare

sola (atehra^J'ertirutn; Sceptra manu teneo, sed qui vaga fulmina mitto.
subibis tutu
nemorum
secie/a
deo preside :
Ne fuge me (fugiebat enim) jam pascua Lerna?,
vev deo de plebe; sed
Cousitaque arboribus Lycsea reliquerat arva
ego, qui teneo calestia
sceptra mirgna manu J
^\ !•]
Cum deus mducta.ai,"^t- Z
latas caligme terras
:

fi^^na!"'^'fug^"^e, Occuluit, tenuitq ; fugam rapuitq; pudorem. 600

enim fugiebat'.- et janl Interea uiedios Juno despexit in agros,
reliquerat pasciinJjer- i o '

niF, arraque. Lyeea consita arboribus; cum deus occuluit latas terras caliginil inductti,
teituitque fugam ejus, rapuitquc pudorem,. Interea Juno despexit in medios agros,
TRANSLATION,
numerous throng of kindred brooks, who each, according to his cun-ent,
after infinite windings, pour their streams into the sea. Inachus alone
is absent, and shut
up in his retired cave, mourns the loss of his daugh-
ter lo, and augments the flood with his tears imcertain whether yet ;

she enjoyed life, or wandered in the regions of the dead but as he can ;

find her no where, concludes that she is no where, and fears the worst in
his mind. Jupiter had seen lo returning from her father's brook, and
" O
said virgin, worthy of Jove, and destined perhaps to make some
:

" mortal
happy, retire under the shade of these high trees (pointing
" withal at the shade he
meant) to avoid the scorching heat of the
"
sun, who now darts his rays from the middle of his orb. But if you
" are afraid to enter alone these
coverts, where lurk the savage kind,
"
yet you may safely pass through the retired shades, under the pro-
" tection of a
god nor a god of mean rank, but who sway v.dth power-
;

" ful hand the

sceptre of heaven, and temper the awful thunder. Oh
"
fly not" (for she fled). Already she had passed the pastures of
Lerna, and the Lycean plains planted with trees, when Jupiter co-
NOTES.
."jSa. Inachus.] A river of Arliaia
so ;
inPeloponnesus, near to the river Ina-
called from Inaclms, thefoundDr of the elms, famous for the serpent Hydra,
kingdoHi of Argos, who caused a chan- which harboured in it, and was slain by
nel to be dug for it. Hercules.
5^/. Pasaiu Leina:] Lerna was a lake
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. I. 39

Et noctis faciem nebulas fecisse volucres mhata yoiucrex

ne-

El
t'
,,,.., ,. n .

Sub nitido mirata die non tluminis illas

-11
• • biilas Jeofse facam
noi-th sub nimo die ;
;
,• i'iill 'ii' sent it illas ?ioit esse
sse, nee numenti sentit tellure remitti : nebulas j/umines, nee

Atque suus conjux, ubi sit, circumspicit? utquas Ti!^i^^^ atque^eirewt

Q,
Deprensi toties ^jam nosset furta maiiti.
uempostquamcoeiononreppent: autego tailor,
606 mcitvbi su svuseon-

Aut ego Icedor, ait. Delapsaq ab sethere summo

,jux ; lit vos-

;
•- i r- 11
set jurta

q7Jmnon
qua Jam
mnnti toties

repperit"ca.
Constitit in terris :
nebulasque
T recedere iussit.
J f'!,v"i!,'f"f
out ego ler(/or
'^','-^/'"'""'
. . . (Idapsa-
Con uo;is adventum praesenserat, mque nitentem <!"« "dsummo crtiiere
T 1,-J X -11 li.
Inacnidos vultus mutaverat ille juvencam. oil
mi A.
• eonstilil in terris; jus.
sitque nebulas rcce-
Bos quoque formosa est speciem Saturnia vacca?, ;
T(u'a(ifcntuZ''7ovju.
Quanquam
i invita,' probat:
r nee non et cuius,
J 7
et ^'^ywutaveraique
tus Inacl.ido^ mnilen-
v,a-

tern juvencam. lios est

Unde,
uove sit arinento, veri quasi nescia, qusent. turnia quanquam in-

Jupiter e terra genitam mentitur, ut auctor 615 vacc//'fee\wn%fuH

Desinat inquiri. Petit banc Saturnia munus. iiesdaveri, quaru et
r\ -J r /o /-I 11 •
IT ciijus s\l, et untie, el ^

l^uid taciat Crudele, suos addicere

'. amores ex quo sit armento. :

Nondare,suspectum. Pudor est,qui suadeatillinc; isZ'%,uam'l''lerTa,

Hinc dissuadet amor victus pudor esset amore ^it auctor eiesinet in-
: :
_, 1.
'
quiri. iSutti rata
petit
oedJ leve si munus socue ffenerisque torique 620
. '. .

hanc munus. Quiet /a-

ir Y , -1 ,
ciat? 'Er-Atcrudele ad-
Vacca negaretur, poterat non vacca viaeri. dicere suos amores :
non dare, erut suspec-
turn. Est pudor qui suadeat ilUnc ; amor dissuadet hinc: pudor esset victus amore; sed
si vacca, leve munus, negaretur sociee generisque torique ; poterat videri non vacca.

TRANSLATION,
vered the earth for a great way -with thick darkness, stopped her
flight, and enjo^yed, by force, the wished-for happiness.
Mean time Juno looked down from on high upon the Arcadian fields,
and wondering that the floating clouds should have the appearance of
night, under a bright day, was soon sensible that these were not ex-
haled from rivers, or marshy fens she therefore looks round every :

way husband, as being no stranger to his artifices, whom she

for her
had so often detected. Finding him not in heaven. Either, says she,
I am deceived, or injured and descending from the height of heaven,
;

alighted upon the earth, and commanded the clouds to withdraw.

Jupiter had foreseen the descent of his spouse, and had transformed
the daughter of Inachus into a lovely heifer who still, under that ;

shape, retains her former beauty. Juno, though v/ith reluctance, praises
the make and sleekness of the coav, and, as if ignorant of the truth, in-
quires whose she was, whence, and from what herd. Jupiter, to
prevent any more questions about the owner, feigns that she was
produced out of the earth. Tlie daughter of Saturn hegs her of
him. ^Vhat could he do ? It was cruel to give up his mistress, and sus-
picious to refuse her shame urges on the one baud, loves dissuades on
:

the other but shame would at last have yielded to love, had he not
;

feared that, by denying so slight a present to the partner of his race

NOTES.
6l'2. Saturnia.] Juno, the daughter 630. Socies generisque torique.} Juno
of Saturn. was botL the sister uiitl tlie wile of Jove.
40 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Peiiire iiouata, Diia

von protiniiscxuit oin-
Pellice donata, non protinus
r exuit omnem
. ^ . „ . . .

mm mcnnii; timuu- Diva iiietum 1 timuitq 1 Jovem, ct fuit anxia furti I

line Jiirvm, it. fiiit -r^
Doiiec
a-< -i
Aristoriclae servandam
i j tt>a
tradidit
aii.iiafiirthrionvctrn- Argo.
''ll^oTrhtorid^^T'Tr-
Centum luininibus cinctuni caput Argus habebat.
giis habehut caput I^^q guis vicibus capiebant bina quietem : 626
riiictiiin centum lumi- J^ ^ .'
nibus. j/icic
picbiint Quietcm
biita cu-
suis
_^
Cictera sci'vabant, atque
/-^
•
statione mane bant. m
.

i
.

iiiJT'
Constiterat quocunque modo ; spectabat ad lo
, . ,

Vic/bus: catcra .terra- :

t'suum'e. "%'mcuH. -^"tc oculos 16, quauivis aversus, habebat.

" " ' '
t/ue modo coiistiterut,
spectabat adloujuain-
Lucesinitpasci: ciimSoltelluresubaltaest; 630
vis aversus, habebat Claudit, et indigno circumdat vincula collo,
tauieii Jo ante vcutos.
tS'iiiit ciiii pasci luce, Frondibus arbuteis, et amara vescitur herba :

cum sol tf.vf sub ulta

tellurc, claudit earn ; Proque toro, terras non semper gramen habenti
et circumdat vincula Incubat infelix: limosaque flumina potat.
indigno coUo. Pusci-
tiir J'loitdibus arbute- Ilia etiam supplex Argo cum brachia vellet 635
et uinard herbd
is,
proque toro,
:

inj'elix
Tendere non habuit, qua; brachia tende ret Argo
: :

incubat non
terra,
scmjier habenti gra- Conatoque queri mugitus edidit ore.
men; pot atque Ihnosa
Ilia etiam
Pertimuitquesonos,propriaqueexterrita voce est.
jiumina.
cum rellrt
supplex
Venit et ad ripas, ubi ludere sgepe solebat,
tendere brachia Ar^o,
lion habuit bracliia
Inachidas ripas: novaque ut conspexit in unda 640
quw tenderrt
c.:if/itque m<i«itus
Argo:
ore
Cornua, pertimuit, seque externata refugit.
conato queri : pertimu- Naiades ignorant, ignorat et Inachus ipse.
itqae sonot, estque ex-
territu propria voce. Venit et ad ripas; ad ripas Inachidas, ubi sape solebat ludere; ut-
que conspexit nova cornua in unda,pertimuit, extcrnataquc refugit se.

TRANSLATION,
and bed, he would increase her suspicions, and make her imagine it
must be something moi*e than a cow. The goddess, possessed of her
rival, did not, however, immediately drop all suspicion : she distrusted
Jupiter, and
Avas apprehensive of treachery till at
length she : com-
mits her to the care of Argus, the son of Aristor.
Argus had a head compassed round with a hundred eyes, of which
two slept in their turns, the rest watched, and kept ahvays oh duty in
their station. In whatever Avay he stood, his looks were directed to lo:
lo was before his eyes, even when he turned from her. In the day-
time he suffers her to feed, hut when the sun retires under the earth,
he shuts her up, and ties a cord rovmd her neck, too delicate for such
rough usage. She feeds upon the leaves of the straAvherry-tree, and
bitter herbs. Instead of a bed, the unhappy lo sleeps upon the ground,
often too in places that were not covered with grass, and drinks of the
muddy rivers. ^^ hen she wanted to stretch out her suppliant arms to
Argus, she had no arms to stretch out to Argus, and endeavouring to
complain, her mouth was filled with lowings. She startled at the sounds,
and was terrified with the noise of her own voice she came too to the :

hanks where shev/as often wont to sport,thebanksof her father Inachus,

where, when she discovered her new horns in the stream, she started,
and would have fled from herself. The Naiads knew her not, even Inachus
NOTES.
624. Arintorkla: Argo.l Argus, (lie made the poets feign that he had a hun-
soii ot" Aristor: his extruuie vigilance dred eyes.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. I. 41

at ilia so- Na'iadcx ignwant, et

Quae sit :
patrem sequitur, sequiturq ;
ipse Itinclius ignorat
rores ; qure sit; at Ma
sc-
qtiitur patrem, seqvi-
Et patitur tangi, seque
admirantibus ofFert. turqiie sarores, et pa-
titur tangi, ojfertque
Decerptas senior porrexeratlnacliusherbas
645 ;
se illis admirantibus.

Ilia manus lambit, patriisque

- -
dat oscula palmis : Senior Inaclius por-
. ^. . ,
I
rexcrat decerptas her-
Necretiiietlaciymas:et, SI modo verba sequantur, bas;iiiaiambu manus
ejus,
''•''"•• dutque oscula
''"'^'"'
Oret opem nonienque suum, casusque loquatur.
; patriis palmis ; 7iec re-
tine t lacri/mus el si
Littera pro verbis, quam pes in pulvere ducit, niodo verba siquunlur,
,-

Corporis indicium mutati triste peregit.

650 oret opem; loquatur-
que suum nomeii,.\tios-
Me raiserum exclamat pater Inachus inque ge-
!
:
qtte casus. Littcra
quam pes ducit in pul-
nie ntis vere pro verbif!, pe-
regit triste indicim/i
Cornibus, etnivese pendens cervice juvencae, mutati corporis. Pa-
Me miserum! ingeminat: Tune es queesita per me ter Iiinehus exclamat:
miserum .'
pen-
omnes densque in cornibus et
ctrvicc juvencfF nivete
Nata mihi terras ? Tu non inventa reperta
gcmentis, ingeminat ;
Luctus eras levior i^i-etices nee mutua nostris 655 ;
ine miserum
iiata es quasita mihi
! Tunc

Dicta refers alto tantum suspiria prodis

; per omnes terras ? Tu
lion, inrenta eras luc-
Pectore quodq unum potes, ad niea verba re-
:
; tus levior repertc) ; re-
tices: nee refers dicta
mugis. mutua ?iostrii ; tan-
At tibi ego ignarus tlialamos teedasque parabam ;
tum prodis suspiria
alto pectore
quodque :

Spesq ;
mihi prima secunda nepotum utivni potes, remugis
fuit generi ;
:

ad
De grege nunc tibi vir, nunc de grege natus ha- ignarus parabamAt tibi
riiea verba. ego

bendus. 660 tlialamos, tadasque:

spcsquc gcneri j'uil
Nee linire licet tantos mihi niorte dolores prima mihi, spes ne- :

potum secunda.
Sed nocet esse deum preeclusaque janua lethi Nunc virJiiit
; est hubendus
tibi de grege, jitmc natus de grege. N^ec licet mihijinire tantos dolores morte; sed nucet mihi,
me esse Deum : Januaqiie lethi pracliisa,
TRANSLATION.
himself knows her not. She follows her father and sisters, suffers her-
self to be touched, and offers her neck to their stroking hands, as they
stood admiring her. Aged Inachus having pulled up some grass, holds
it out to her; she licks his hands, and gives kisses to her father's palms ;

nor does she restrain her tears, and could she make words follow,
would beg his help, and acquaint him with her name and misfortunes.
Instead of words, letters which she printed with her foot in the sand,
made a mournful discovery of the unhappy change.
" Ahwretched me cried the disconsolate father and hanging upon
! ;

" the neck and horns of the snow-white cow, again exclaims, wretched
" me Art thou then the daughter whom I have sought so long round
!

" the world? Alas! to lose you, was a yet less calamity than thus to
" find you. You are silent, nor answer me with mutual words deep :

" are drawn from out your breast, and deprived of speech, you
sighs
" But I, a stranger to all, was pre-
express yourself only in lowings.
" the bed and and fed myself with the empty hope
paring nuptial torch,
" of a son-in-law, and grandchildren. Now a husband must be given
" to the herd nor
you from the herd, now your progeny must belong
:

NOTES.
655. Luctus eras levior.] Because he her thus transformed into a cow, thau
accouuted it a greater misfortune to see to lose her altogether.
 42 P. OVIDII NASONIS

extendit nostros luctus iEternum nostros luctus extendit in ffivum.

in tTiiim (Tternnm.
StclldtKx Argui sub- Talia moerenti stellatus submovet
niovtt f.ini jiatri ince- ; Argus
renti tnlia, abstrahit- Ereptamque pascua natam 665
patri diversa in
que iiatam ereytam in Abstrahit. Ipse procul mentis sublime cacumen
pascua diversa. Ipse
occupat procul sub-
lime cacumen montis ; Occupat; unde sedens partes speculetur in om-
unde sedens, specule- nes.
tur in nmncs partes.
XII. A'ec rector su- XII. Nee superum rector mala tanta Phoro-
perilm potest ultra nidos ultra
ferre tanta mala Pho-
ronidos ; vocatque na- Ferre potest: natumq; vocat; quern lucida
tum, quern lucida partu
Plt'iasest enixa partu; Pleias enixa est; lethoque det,
ut det Ar-
imperat, Argum.
iniperatque
giim leto. Mora est Parva mora est, alas pedibus, virgamque potenti
parva sumpsisse alas Somniferam sumpsisse manu, tegimenque ca-
pedibus, virgamque
somniferam potenti pillis.
manu, tegimenque ca-
pillis. A'^atus Jove ubi
Hsec ubi disposuit, patria Jove natus ab arce
desposuit ha:c, desilit Desilit in terras illic
(lb patria arce in ter- tegimenque removit, 674
:

ras : illic removitque Et posuit pennas tantummodo virga retenta est.

;
tegimen, et posuit pin-
nas ; virga tantuniwo- Hac agit, ut pastor, per devia rura capellas,
HAc
do est retenta.
v'vcz'a ut past or agit ca-
Dum venit abductas et structis cantat avenis.
:

pellas chductas rtum Voce novae captus custos Junonius

renit,per deiia rura; artis,
et cantat avenis '•truc-
Quisquis es, hoc poteras mecum considere saxo,
jtis. Argus, custos Ju-

nonius, captus voce

noia
Argus ait :
neque enim pecori foecundior ullo 680
artis, ait, quis-
quis cs poteras consider e mecum hoc .ttn-o, ncque enim est in iillo

TRANSLATION.
" can I be relieved from these
mighty sorrows by death, hut it is a real
" misfortune that I am a
god, and the gate of death being shut against
•

"
me, extends my woes through endless ages."
While he thus lamented, starry Argus removes her from him, and
carries the daughter, thus cruelly torn from her father, into other
pas-
tures he himself retires to the
top of a hill at some distance, whence
:

he might with ease look rovmd on every side.

XII. But the sovereign of gods can no longer bear the sufferings to
which he sees the grandaughter of Phoroueus exposed. He therefore
calls his son, whom the bright Maia bore to him, and
charges him to put
Argus to death. But small delay was made in fastening his wings,
taking the soporiferons rod in his powerful hand, and the cap for his hair.
When all was ready, the son of Jove leaps down from his father's pa-
lace upon the earth. Here he dismissed his cap and wings, and only
retains the mysterious rod. With this, as a
shepherd, he drives some
she-goats through the pathless plains, taken up as he came along, and
plays upon a few oaten straws he had artfully joined together. Argus,
charmed with the voice of this new contrivance, Whosoever thou art.
NOTES.
670. Pleirt.s.] Maia, one of the seven 671- Viri;:amque potenti, somniferam
danghters of Atlas, wlio were afterward sumpsisse manu.] Mercury's rod is very
known under the name of the Pleiades, much celebrated in the writings of the
or seven stars. poets, and feigned to be of tireat vir-
671. Alas pedibus.'] Mrrcnry is almost tue. Virgil, in his fourth booic of the
always represented with wings at his ^neid, ver. 242, gives a fine descrip-
ancles, and in the [icsture of one tlying: tion of it. See the prose translation of
probably because he was supposed to Virgil.
be the messenger of the gods.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. I. 43

loco herba fmcuiidior

llerba loco est: aptamq; vides pastoribus um- pecori : videsque um-
bram. brum aptam jmstori-
bw. AtlanlUiiies settit
Sedit Atlantiades, et euntem multa loquendo et luquendo multa, dt-
tinuit euntem diem
Detinuit sermone diem junctisque canendo ; sermone: tetitutque
Vincere arundinibus servantia lumina tentat. vuicere serva?itia lu-
mina canendo Junctis
Ille tamen
pugnat molles evincere somnos 685 arundinibus. /lie ta- :
men pugnat evincere
Et quaravis sopor est oculorum parte receptus ; molles snmiios : et

Parte tamen vigilat queerit quoq (namq reperta

:
quamvis sopor est re-
; ;
ceptus parte oculo-
Fistula miper erat) qua sit ratione reperta. rum, tamen vigilat
parte: quarit quoque
XIII. Turn deus, Arcadiae gelidis in monti- qua ratione fistula sit
reperta, na7nquc erat
bus, inquit, nuper eperta. 1

XIII. Turn deus in-

Inter Hamadryadas celeberrima Nonacrinas 690 una Na'ia.i quit, fuit
Naias una fuit nymphai Syringa vocabant.
:
celeberrima inter Ka-
madryudas Nonacri-
Non semel et Satyros eluserat ilia sequentes, iias in gelidis monti-
bus Arcadia:. A'l/mphte
Et quoscunque deos umbrosave sylva, feraxve vocabant earn Syringa.
Rus habet Ortygiam studiis ipsaque colebat Ilia non semel eluserat
:
et sequentes Satyros,
V irginitate deam ritu quoque cmcta Uianse 095 et quoscunque vei

Fii,i T
:

alieret, et credi posset Latonia, si non

iTi* •
x 111 a umbrosa rusie
I

fer„x habet. coiebat

iteu.s

Corneus huic arcus, si non foret aureus illi. Ortygiam. deam stu-
diis, ipsaque virglni-
Sic quoque fallebat. Redeuntem colle Lyceo tate.
ritu
Cincta quoqne
Diunce, fulleret,
et posset credi Latonia, si non fore t huic arcus corneas, si non illi arciis aureus. Et quoque
sic fallebat.
TRANSLATION.
friend, says he, thou niayest sit down by me upon this stone ;
for neither
will you find a place more
and there is moreover here
fertile in grass,
a convenient shade for shepherds. The god sat down, and in various
discourses prolonged the flowing hours and by playing on his pipe;

of reeds, endeavours to conquer the watchful eyes cf the keeper. He

on the contrary struggles hard to shake off the soft fetters of sleep ;

and though part of his eyes were lulled in gentle slumbers, yet with the
other part he watches he inquires too how the pipe was first invented,
:

(for it was
then but a late discovery.)
XIII. To which the god In the cold mountains of Arcadia, there
:

was among the Hamadryads of Nonacris, a Naiad famous above the

rest, and by her fellow nymphs called Syrinx: she had often eluded the
swiftly pursuing Satyrs, and all the train of lustful deities that inhabit
the shady woods, or fertile plains. Devoted to the Ortygian goddess, she
rivalled her in her rural exercises, and unsullied virginity. Clad too like
Diana, she might have passed for the daughter of Latona, but that she
Avore a bow of corneil wood, and the goddess one of gold nay, even :

thus she deceived. Pan saw her returning from Lyceus, and having his

NOTES.
682. y^tlnntiades.'] Mercniy, t!ie son were nymphs supposed to reside in
cf Maia, who was the daughter of Atlas. particular trees, and live and die to
689. Turn dens, Arcadice, &c.J The witii them. Nonacris, the name of a
poei here introduces a new fal)Ie, under mountain and city of Arcadia.
pretence of satisfying Argus' curiosity, G94. Orttjgiam deam.} Diana, who
with respect to the inveutiou of the was boin in the island of Delos, called

shepherd's pipe. anciently Ortygia.

690. Ilaiiiadryadds Nonacrinas-'] Ha- 696. Latonia.] Diana was the daugh-
madryads, as we have already said. ter of Latona.
 44 P. OVIDII NASONIS

^'^^ videt hanc, pinuque caput priBcinctus acuta,

dcV/itcltco/u'lycco
pra-cinrfusque quoad Talia vcrba Tcfert restabat verba referre 700 : :

caput pinit iicuti), re- t-i. , ^- r •

^

jcrt talia verba. Res- tx preciDus spretis lugisse per avia nympham ;

irrla^^TrcftrlfvyZ
Douec areiiosi placiduiii Ladonis ad amnem
pham'preeibu.^ spretis Veuerit
_-
: liic ilH,i. cursum impedientibus
' undis, '
fugisse per ana; donee . .
^
'vencrit ad piucidum Ut sc uiutarent, iiquidas orasse sovores :

amnem arenosi Lado- -r\ \ a„ •\ c<

• •
, ,

nis: ethic or.tsse li- Fanaque, cuui prensaui siDi jam iSyriuga putarct.
TareTt Te^ undis iTp'e'- Corporepro nymphsB calamos tenuisse palustres,
dientibus'curstim iiii
Diuiique ibi suspirat, motos in arundine ventos
:

iqve cum puturet

Fanaqve j i-< rr- •
•^ ,
•

Si/riiiga jam prcmam rittecisse sonum tenuem, similemque querenti :

sib), tenuisse palustres

calamos pro torporc Arte nova vocisque deura dulcedine captum,
nymphtr: diimquc sus- Hocmihi concilium
pirat ibi, vcntos motos
tecum, dixisse,manebit: 710
m aruiidiiie, effecisse
Atque ita disparibus calamis compagine cera,
lentiem soiiiim, simi-
lejiique qucrinti: de- Inter se junctis nomen tenuisse pueilae.
um dipt urn arte iiovCi
Talia dicturus, vidit Cyllenius omnes
tlulcediiieque roci.i,
diaisse hoc concilium Succubuisse oculos, adopertaque lumina sornno.
juaticbit fiiiiti tecum :
alqite ita calamis dis- Supprimitextemplovocem;firmatq;soporem715
paribux junctis inter
se compazine cer<r, eos Languida permulcens medicata lumina virga.
teniiiiAe nomeii pueU(r
Ci/lieiiiiis riicturus ta
Nee mora: falcato nutantem vulnerat ense,
videt omnes ocvios cruentum
I ia,
A
Argi succubuisse, lu-
Qua
-y^
collo confine caput
•,
' saxoque
^ . ,
:

miiiaque adoperta sum- JJejicit ct maculat prseruptani sangume cautem,

;

wi« voeemfjirmaFqti'e Argc, j aces ; quodq in tot lumina lumen habebas,

,

soporem, permulcens
lumina languida medicatAvirgil. IVec erat mora: lulnerat cum nutantem/alcato ense, qua
caput est coiifiue eollo: dejicitque turn cruentum saxo ; et maculat preeruptam cautem
sanguine. Argejaces ; lumenquc quod hubebasin tot lumina.

TRANSLATION.
head adorned -with a crown of pine leaves, thvis addressed her it re- :

mained for Mercury to repeat the words, and how the nymph, de-
spising his address, fled through pathless ways, till she came to the
gentle stream of sandy Ladon and that here the current stopping her
;

flight, she prayed

to the watery sisters to
change her shape that Pan ;

imagining he had now caught Syrinx, instead of the body of the

nymph, laid hold on some marshy reeds. Here while he sighed,
the winds moving along the reeds, made a murmuring noise like
the voice of one complaining and that the god, pleased with this
;

new music and harmonious din, said This manner of converse :

between us shall always remain and that hence some unequal reeds :

joined together with wax, still retain the name of the ungrateful fair.
The Cyllenian god (1 say) was about to relate this, when he perceived
all the eyes of Argus sunk in sleep, and his eye-lids covered with drowsy
slumbers immediately he suppressed his song, and with his magic
:

rod, stroking his languid eyes, confirms their rest then drawing with- :

out delay his crooked falchion, Avounds him nodding, just where the
head joined to the neck, and threw him down bloody from the rock,
is

staining the craggy steep with his gore. Argus thou art no more, and
NOTES.
713. Cyllenius.'] Mercury, so called from Cylleue, a iiiouutain of Arcadia, where
Le was born.
 xMETAMORPHOSEON, Lib. I. 45

Extinctum est: centumq oculos nox occupat una. e.st exunetum: mxque
E- •. 1 o 1

xcipit nos, volucnsque suae baturnia pennis

"'*''
•

ocuios.
;
occupat centum
satumia ex-
J
• .

CoUocat et gemmis caudam stellantibus implet. S'»-«. .'I'S:^

;

XlV.Protinusexarsit,/ nee temporadistulitir£e gemmis stellantibus.

-,,.,,
<--<ntdam ejus
- '
•
'
^'"p'^^i^.
,. -^ . . .

Hornieramq; oculisanimoq; obiecitErmnyn 725

•
xiv. 3m\oprotinus
•
nee distulit
A !• i* exarsit, 1 J.
P„1T
ellicis
Argolicae, stimulosque in pectora cascos temj,ora ira- ; objecit-
Condidit, et profugam per totum terruit orbem. '0^^,, "ZutZi^u;
Ultimus immenso restabas, Nile, labori. Argoiico' reiucis, con-
y^ •
,• , •/•
1 , a/(htque cacos slimulos • • •

Uluem. siniul ac tetigit, positisque in margine ripee «« pectora, et termu

Procubuit genibus, resupinoque ardua collo, 730 m'um orbimfTa mfe
Quos potuit, solos tollens ad sidera vultus, '„^lf ^^,„tin:i^^:

CI
Et gemitu, et lacrymis, et luctisono muo;itu Quemsimui ac tetigit,
-In
procubuitque genibus
uni Jove Visa queri est, nnemq; oraremalorum. posuis m ?nargi»c
1

Coiijugis iUe suae complexus colla lacertis, 734 ZZuZf"ZZJ"ad

Finiat ut poenas tandem,' rooat:
~ inque
^ futurum "'i'^^" P'/'"^ sf"*
1
j-v
'

one metus, mquit, nunquam tibi

. . .
,
.
II-
causa doloris
^olos potuit ; est visa
Quert cum joie, et

Haec erit; et Stygiasjubet hoc audire paludes. iZgUufurtiZmll'rf-

Ut lenita dea est, vultus capit ilia priores ;
nirstm^L^^/ZcTr'.
^'^ coUasua coujugis,
Fitque quod ante fuit fugiunt e corpore setae
C'- n*, , 1
:

«J/^ rogat ut tandem fini-

1
ornua decrescunt nt luminis arctior orbis 740 at panas ejus <?«<e in.
:
.•!• :
:

Contrahitur rictus redeunt humeriq manusque Vi"rumTLTnZrq/am

; ;
:

Ungulaque in quinos dilapsa absumitur ungues. Z'^uber" auZs^ st'-

?jos audire hoc. Ut dea est lenita, Ula capit vultus priores, fitque quod fuit ante. Seta
Jugiunt e corpure: cornua decrescunt : orbis luminis fit arctior : rictus coiltrahitur: hume-
riqite manusque redeunt; ungulaque dilapsa in quinos ungues absumitur.

TRANSLATION.
the light taken in by so many eyes is extinguished one night has ;

seized them all these Saturnia takes, and spreads in the feathers of
:

her favourite bird, filling its tail with starry gems.

XIV. But burning with rage, and impatient to revenge the injury,
she presents a dreadful fury to the eyes and thoughts of her Grecian
rival, and hides invisible stings in her bosom, and drives her an exile
round the world. Nile remained the utmost boundary of her long wan-
dering where, as soon as she arrived, she fell with bended knees upon
;

the bordering bank then raising herself up with her neck aloof, and
;

casting to heaven those looks which then she only could, with sighs and
tears, and mournful lowings, she seemed to complain of Jupiter, and
beg an end of her misfortunes. The god throwing his arms round the
neck of his spouse, requested that she would at length end her punish-
ment. Henceforth, says he, cease your fears, she shall never more be
the cause of pain to you and calls to the Stygian waves to hear his
;

oath. How soon the goddess was pacified She recovers her former !

looks, and again appears what before she had been the hairs began to :

fall
away, her horns decrease, and the orb of her eye is contracted her :

NOTES.
7Q6. PelUcis Argoliccr.] The Greeks the father of lo settled with a colony
were called Aigoiici, from Argos, a of Egyptians,
city of Peloponnesus, where Inachus
46 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Nil de bore supaf.it j)g bovc iiil supevcst,' formoB nisi caudor, in ilia :
in ill<i ni.^i ca7idur Ji'r- „^ .
/ ^ ^ 1 ,

mir, nymfihtvqiie Oiiicioque peclum iiympnae contenta duoruni

con-

p"J"m'fr7iiUvrT'^""e- Eri^itur ;
metuito ; loqui ; nemorejuvencae 745
tuitqne lonui ; nc mil- ^xxg-[Q^i et timidc Verba interniissa retentat.
giat more jurencfr, " -
;
'^ , -, , . ,
^ ,
.
r,
.
,
.
,
timide rttcntat verba J\unc dea lini2;era colitur celebernma turba.

ceieberrima, colitur XV. Huic iLpaplius magni genitus dc seminc

iiniserA tiirbtt.
tonrl<:.n->
Ldliutlii
XW.Epaphns tandem
r.reditur esse genitns Creditur csse Jovis :
perquc urbes iuncta parciiti
liHic de semaie inagm ^ uit
. i-
^
huic ammis sequalis et aiinis,
, ^
"^

joiis
eiTipla tenet.
; teneique tanpiti 1 Jt*

juncta fareiiti per

nrbes. Phuiton stitiis Sole satus Phaeton quern quondam magna lo- :

sole ftiit aqiialis liiiic

aniiiiis ct annis :
guctu quentem,
Inackides noit tidit. Nee sibi cedentem, Phceboq ; parente superbum
loquen'em quondam ,y , t, i i i
•
i.
• •
j.
•
j
rrmgny, nee ontulit Inacliides iiiatrique, ait, Omnia deiiiens
cedentem 1\ :

Credis et es tumidus genitoris imagine falsi.

:
'JentrpZ^lZ''aUql7,
Semens, credis omnia Erubuit Phacton, iraiiique pudore repressit 755 :
main et es tiwndiis
; i >-~,i t-' i
• •

imnginc falsi genitoris. JLt tulitad Clymeneii rLpapiii convicia matrem.

pressitqvrVam pu- Quoquc magis doleas, genitrix, ait, Ille ego liber,
Bpaviu *'ad mutt'em
^^^^ fcrox, tacui pudet hsec opprobria nobis :

Clymenen. Aitquequo Et dici pOtuisSC, Ct llOn potuisse lefelli.

genitrix mugis doleus ;
ego ille liber, illeferox At tu, si modo sum coelesti stirpe creatus, 760
tacui. Pudet ct hiec
opprobria potuisse dici
Ede notam tanti generis :
meque assere ccelo.
nobis, et non potuisse Dixit et implicuit materno brachia collo
rejelli. At tu, si rnodo
; ;

sum ereaius
stirpe Perque suum, Meropisq caputtaedasq ;sororum,
cwlesti.edc notam tanti m i "j j !• •
-i
;
•

generis; que assere me 1 1'aderet, oravit, veri sibi signa parentis.

ca-lo. Dixit ; ct implicuit brachia collo materno. Oravitque per suum caput, perque caput
Meropis, tffdasque sororum, tit tradcret sibi signa r^ri parentis.

TRANSLATION.
mouth becomes and hands return, and her hoof vanish-
less, her arms
ing is parted nothing of the heifer now remains but
into five nails ;
the whiteness of her skin aud the nymph, conteuted with the service
;

of tM'o feet, raises herself upon them, yet fears to speak and mindful ;

of her former lowings, attempts, with trembling lips, the long inter-
rupted sounds. Now she is worshipped as a goddess by all the j9^gyp-
tian throng, and served by priests clad in white linen.
XV. To her at length Epaphus was bora, believed to be the son of
mighty Jove, and has temples jointly with his mother in ail the cities
of Egypt. To him Phaeton the son of Phoebus was equal in spirit and
years, whom once affecting great things, nor yielding to him, but boast-
ing of his sire the Sun, the grandson of Inachus could not bear, but
said, you are silly enough to believe your mother in every thing, and
swelled with the conceit of an imaginary father. Phaeton blushed, but
shame suppressed his rage he went to his mother Clymene, and told :

her of the insults of Epaphus " And,mother, (says he,) to grieve you the :

"
more, I, the boldand dauntless Phaeton, was silent at his reproaches.
NOTES.
751. PhaHton.'] The son of Apollo and Ihys. The poet tl'.ns introdiices his
the nymph Clymene, who is said to have story,which makes t!ie subject of the
been the dau;;htcr of Oceanus aud Te- followinK book.
 METAMORPHOSEON, LiB.I. 47

Ambiguum, Clymene precibus Phaethontis, an i':^'f^TZ%'.rJwu

765 precibns Phailthontis,
_,
Mota magis
ixQ.
\T. ••!••••
dicti sibi criminis ;
i.

utraque coelo
1 an
^,6*
iril
,-
criminis dicti
porrexit utraque
Brachia porrexit :
spectaiisque ad lumina
Solis, %Z'q^t 'ad'hn'nina
Per Jiubar,hoc,inquit, radiis iusigne coruscis, ?'""> inqnit Nate, ;
.'. T -J i 1 jurotibij)trliocjuuar
Nate, tibi juro, quod nos auditque videtque insigner'iduscoruscis. ;

Hoc te, quern spectas, hoc te, qui temperat or- VT-,Te'cllCsinfimTot
*"'*

Sole satum:
!-.„„,
"^^''-

si ficta
loquor.neget
° ipse
_
11770
videndum
^'^"^

tempemt orbem.
qvem spectas, te
Saturn hoc sole qui
a'»
-- .... ,.
i .' .' . .
loqiior Jicta, ipse neget
Se mull ; sitque oculis lux ista novissinia nostris. se videndum miia sh- -,

Nec longus patrios labor est tibi nosse penates :

f^/rl^oc^r^Z
Unde v^.ivvAi, terras domus est
v^iivjv. oritur,

Si modo fert animus

V- contermina nostras,
^

gradere et scitabere ab ;
:
-11 r
iahoriongus tibi n&sse
patrios pentites; do-
»«»* unde oritur est
tontermina nostra ter-
ryry
ipSO. //O ra. Si modo animus
Emicat exemplo laetus post talia matris tZU^lftpsJ. 'pit
'''<"« ^'^'"^ vost taUa
Dicta suae Phaethon, et concipit aethera mente '
:
dicto su<c matris extem-
^-, .
1
•
-1 T J
TXithlOpaSque SUOS, pOSltOSqUe sub IgnibUS IndOS plo emicat; et condpit
c 1
•
-i i J"i. i
• •
tethera metite. Traiir
bidereis, transit patnosque adit impiger ortus.
; sitque saas mhiopas,
Jndosque positos sub
ignibus sidercis; adilque impiger patrios ortus.

TRAiSrSLATION.
" I am ashamed that such it is not in
outrages can he offered us, while
" contradict them but if I am really heaven begotten,
"
my power to :

give some sure mark of this my race divine,

and assert me to the
" skies." He said and his arms romid his mother's neck,
throwing ;

he conjured her by her own and Merop's head, and the nuptial torches
of his sisters, that she would give some undoubted tokens of his true
father. It is hard to say whether Clymene was more moved by the
her: she
prayers of Phaeton, or resentment of the crime charged upon
stretched out both her arms to heaven, and fixing her eyes upon the
sun " I swear," says she, " by this beam which darts around its shining
:

"
rays, which both hears and sees us, that you
are descended of that
" Sun Avhom
you behold that Sun who regidates times and seasons.
;

" If I and
speak falsely, may he ever after deny himself to my sight,
"
now, for the last time, shine upon me with his rays nor will it be ;

"
any great trouble to visit your father's dwelling the place where he ;

" rises is
contiguous to our earth if you are so inclined go, and you
will ;

" learn it of himself."

Phaeton, transported with joy at these sayings
of his mother, prepares for the journey, and burns with desire to tra-
verse the ajthereal plains. Already he had passed his own realms of
J^thiopia, and India, exposed to the sun's most scorching rays, and
briskly pursued his way to the palace of his father.
48 P. OVIDII NASONIS

LIBER SECUNDUS.

ORDO. Soils erat sublimibus alta columnis,

Regia -solii erat
<tlta
Ills,
I.
sublimibus colum-
dura auro mi-
REGIA
Clara niicante auro, flammasque, imitante
cantt\ fiyro])n(/ue imi- pyropo:
Cuj us ebur nitiduni fastigia summa tegebat
tante Jta/intias : ctijits
:
J'astigitt ehiir iiitidiim
tegebat
ru(ii(tbant
; hi/ores vulife
Ivmine ar- Argenti bifores radiabant lumine valvae.
genti. Opus superabat Materiem superabat opus nam Mulciber illic 5:

materiem. Nam illic

Mulciber calarat a- iEquora coelarat medias cingentia terras,
qtiora cingeiitia medias
terras, orbemque ter- Terrarumq orbem, coelumq quod imminet orbi.
; ;

rarum,calumque quod Coeruleos habet unda deos Tritona canorum, ;

imminet orbi. Vnda
hnbet Deos carulcos, Proteaque ambiguunijbaleenarumque prementem
canorum Tritona, a>n~
biguumque Protea,

TRANSLATION.
I. rr^HEPalace of the sun was raised high on lofty columns, and
X
shone with burnished gold, and flaming carbimcles. Its top
was covered with polished ivory, and the folding gates diffused a silver
light. The workmanship exceeded the matter for there Vidcan had ;

graved the sea circling round the encompassed earth the earth itself, ;

and the heaven which hangs over this orb. The waves are graced by
the blue deities Triton with his sounding shell, changeable Proteus, and
;

j9i]geon embracing with his arms the immense bulk of whales Doris and ;

NOTES.
We
have seen, in the former book, submit. After giving him all necessary
that Phaeton had been insulted by Epa- instructions, the youth sets out but ;

phus, which occasioned iiis applying to not being able to command the horses,
his mother Clyniene, to know the cer- they forsake the beaten path, and hurry
tainty of his birth. After saying every him away through unknown tracts.
thing in her power to convince him, she Upon which Jupiter, to prevent an
at last advises him to repair to the pa- universal conflagration, hurls iiis thun-
lace of his father, and have it contirnied der against Phaeton, who, ttimbling
there. Tiiis book begins with a de- headlong from the chariot, falls lifeless
scription of the palace where Phaeton into the river Po.
is supposed to have arrived. Apollo 1. Regia &c.] Some think
soli s erat,
receives him kindly, and owns him for that the poet here had in his eye the
his son but he begging for some par-
:
temple and library built by Augustus,
ticular pledge, by which others also and consecrated to Apollo.
might be induced to believe it the god , 2. PiiropoJ] This is to be understood
swears by the river Styx, that he will of the carbuncle, which was of much
refuse him nothing: upon which he de- more considerable value than the
sires to conduct the chariot of tiie sun ruby.
for a day. Apollo endeavours in a long 9. Proteaque amhiginim.'] Proteus a
speech to dissuade him from so rash sea god, celebrated chiefly ainonj^ the
and hazardous a design but finding all ; poets for his power of assuming what
Jiis argument vain, is at last forced to shape he pleased.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. II. 49

jJSgaonaque prcnien-
jEo-seona suis immania terga lacertis 10 ; tern immania terga
et natas quarum pars nare videntur, balanarutii suis lacer-
Doridaque :

tis, Doridaque, et
na-
Pars in mole sedens virides siccare capillos ; tas : qnaritiii pars ri-
deiitur iiarc, pars se-
Pisce vehi qusedam facies non omnibus mia,
:
dens in mole videntur
siccare virides capil-
Nee diversa tamen; qualem decet esse sorormii. los; qttrrdam vehipisce.
Terra virosjurbesq; 15 Facies noii e^t una om-
gerit, sylvasque, ferasque tai/icn nee di-
nibus,
Fluminaq et
nymphas,
;
et caetera numina ruris. versa: liabolKiiit taleni
qualem facies sororum
Haec super imposita est coeli fulgentis imago ; decet e\sc. Terra gerit
sinis- viros, urbesque, syl-
Signaque sex foribus dextris, totidemque vasque, ferasque, /hi-
tris. minaque, et utimplias,
ctcater a numina ru-
Quo simul acclivo Clymenei'a limite proles ris. Imago fulgentis
cali est imposita super
Venit, et intravit dubitati tecta parentis ; 20 hffc : se.rque signa
Protinus ad patrios sua fert vestigia vultus ;
dextris foribus, tnti-
deriiqne sinistris. Quo
Consistitque procul :
neque enim propiora fere- simul ac proles Cli/-
meneia venit acclivo
bat limite,etintravit tecta
dubita tiparentisjpro-
Lumina. Purpurea velatus veste sedebat tinus fert sua vestigia
In solio Phoebus claris lucente smaragdis. ad patrios vultus: con-
st itit que procul: neque
A dextra,l6evaque, dies, etmensis,et annus, 25 enimferebat propiora
lumina. Phabus ve-
Saeculaque, et positae spatiis sequalibus horse : latus purpuretl veste
Verque novum stabat cinctum florente corona : sedebat in solio lu<:ente
Claris smaragdis. A
Stabat nuda jEstas, et spicea serta gerebat : dextrii l/evuque, dies,
et mensis, et anntis,
steculaquF, et hortr posit /r ttqiialibiis spatiis stah^nl ; vcrqtic ftovtnn stabat cinctum florente
coronA : ccstas nuda stabat, et gerebat spicea serta.

TRANSLATION.
her daughters, part of whom appear swimming in the figured main,
part sitting on a rock, divide their dropping locks, and some glide
through the waters on fishes. The features were not the same in all,
nor yet remarkably different a sister likeness might be observed in
;

every face. The earth is covered with men, cities, Avoods, wild beasts,
rivers, nymphs, and all the train of rural deities. Over these is placed
the image of refulgent heaven, where are represented the twelve signs
of the zodiac, six on either gate.
Whither when the son of Clymene had arrived by an ascending
path, and entered the habitation of his suspected sire, instantly he di-
rected his steps toward where he saw his father, and stood at some
distance, for he was not able to bear a nearer approach to the light.
Phoebus, arrayed in robes of purple, was seated on a throne that
sparkled with bright emeralds. On either hand were the days, months,
years, and ages, and the hours placed at equal distances here stood :

the Spring crowned witli a the Summer

chaplet of flowers: here

NOTES.
10. Mgceonaque.']
JEgdctou is spoken of sea iiymph, the daugjlitcr of Oceaniis
by Homer ou)y as a piant, and made and Tethys, and wife of Nerens.
the same withBriareus. But Ovid heie 18. Signaque se.v foribus.] The poet
follows the tradition of tliose who
say speaks here of the twelve signs of the
he was one of the sea cods. zodiac, six of which were engraven upon
n. Doridaque el nalas.^ Doris was a the right gate, and six upon the left.
50 P. OVlDII NASONIS

Auttimitii.i et (ctlaiii)
stabat sordlUiis calca-
Stabat et Autumnus calcatis sordidus uvis :

tis tills, et h'jema gla- Et glacialis Hyems canos

hirsuta capillos; 30
ciallt,hirsuta pcrcuwo.s
rayiUos. fiol inedius Inde loco niedius, rerum novitate paventem
loco, iiide vidit oculis
quibus aspicit omnia,
Sol oculis juvenem quibus aspicit omnia, vidit :
jiivenein paveiitem no-
vitatc rcrum. Aitqiie, Quaeque vise tibi causa? quid hac, ait, arce pe-
Phaithon ; progeniei tisti
hand inficiandaparen-
qua est causa vi<v
ti, Progenies, Phaethon, baud inficianda parenti ?
I lie refert, O lux immensi
hac 35
publica mundi
tibi.'Quid, petisti
arce.' lllc rej'ert : <)

'pater Pliabe, publica Phoebe pater, si das hujus mihi nominis usum.
lux immcnsi riitindi, si
das mild usiim hiijiis Nee falsa Clymene culpam sub imagine celat ;
nominis, ncv Vlymene
celut ciilpamsubj'alsa Pignora da, genitor; per quae tua vera propago
imagine; da geiiitnr
jilgnora, per quic ego
Credar; et hunc animis errorem detrahe nostris:
crcdar esse tua vera Dixerat. At genitor circum caput omne mi-
propago ; et. detrahe
huuc errorvin iiostrls cantes 40
animis. JJUtrtit: At
Deposuit radios; propriiisque accedere jussit :
gcnitor deposuit radios
ii'.icanles circum omnc
Amplexuque dato, nee tu meus
esse negari
caput ; jussitq lie ilium
accedcre proprius :
Dignuses et Clymene
; veros, ait, edidit ortus.
amplexuque data, ait
quodvis pete munus
:

iiec til es digniis tie- Quoque minus dubites ; ;

gar i esse me us ; et ut illud
Clymene edidit veros
ortus. Quoque duhites Me tribuente feraspromissis testis adesto
: 45
minus, pete qiiodris
miimis, utferas illiid, Dis juranda palus, oculis incognita nostris.
me tribiu'iite. Palus
juranda Wis,
Vix bene desierat currus rogat ille paternos,
:
incogni-
ta nasi ris oculis, ailesto
testis pramissis. riji Inque diem alipedum jus etmoderamenequorum.
bene desierat : die ro-
Pcenituitjurasse patrem qui terque quaterque
;
gat ctirras paternos,
J usque et mo'deramen a lipedum equorumin diem. Pcenituit patrem jurasse, qui

TRANSLATION.

naked, and adorned with garlands made of the ears of corn Autumn ;

too stood besmeared with the rich trodden

grapes and icy Winter, ;

rough with hoary hair. The Sun from the middle of his place beheld
with those eyes, wherewith he surveys all things, the young man sur-
prised, and struck Avith the unusual appearance of so many wonders :

"
What, (says he,) is the cause of your journey hither ? What wants
"
"
my son in this place ? For know, Phaeton, that you are my son, and
worthy to be owned such by your father."
" Public
light of this vast universe, replies the youth, father
"
Phoebus, if you permit me to call you by that name, and Clymene
" does not conceal a crime mider a false
pretence, give, father, some
" certain
token, by which it may be known that I am your son, and
*'
free my mind from this cruel uncertainty." He said when his :

father, putting off the rays that shone all around his head, commanded
him to advance, and embracing him " Yes, (says he,) you are my son
:
;
"
you deserve that name, nor has Clymene deceived you in the account
" of
your birth. To remove all further doubt, make what request you
"
please, that you may obtain it of me by a ready compliance. Wit-
•'
ness my promise, the lake by which the gods are wont to swear,
" that is
hid even from my pierciiig sight." Scarce hnd Pho?bus
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. H. 51

Gonctttiens illustre caput, Temeraria, dixit, 50 ^onti'[>(»'capvrMus-

Vox mea lacta tua est: utmam promissa liceret, tn^it: men vox est fac-

Non dare confiteor, solum hoc tibi, nate, ne-

! vtinmn"^ucertt 'mo«
crarpm dare •promissa Con- '.

gaiciu, fJcor nate, ncgarem

Dissuadere licet: non est tua tuta voluntas. ''vc solum tm. Licet

Magna petis, Phaethon, et quae nee viribus istis uonas mm est tuta.

Munera conveniant, nee tam puerilibus annis. 55 muTera!'\Y%!gV€c

Sors tua mortalis non est mortale quod optas.-^ avT"^?" I'linis
:
•
"'''
^/"'
tam • '
V V .
1 /•
Plus etiam quam quod supens contingere las puerilibus. /iors tua.
mortalis quod op- CvSt

sit. tas non est mortale.

nrscius af- Tu etium
Nescius affectas placeat sibi quisque licebit ; fccliis plus, quam
;

Non tamen ignifero quisquam consistere in axe gerequod sit fas contin-
supcris. Licebit
Me valet excepto: vastiquoque rector Olympi, 60 lit quisque flaceut sibi,
tumen non quisqtiam
Qui fera terribili jaculatur f'ulmina dextra, superiim me excepto,
valet consistere in ig-
Non agat hos currus Et quid Jove majus habe- nifero axe. Rector
mus ? qhoque lasti Olympi,
guijaculatur ferajul'
Ardua prima via est; et qua vix mane recentes mina terrihili dextri,
non agat hos ciirrus,
Enitantur equi medio est altissima coelo ;
; et quid habemus mu-

Unde mare, et terras ipsi mihi ssepe videre 65 jus Jove Prima via '!

est ardua, et qtiii re-

eentes eqtii vix enitantur mane : via est altissima in medio calo, unde strpc Jit timor tnihi
ipsi, videre mare et terras, et

TRANSLATION.
ended his speech when he asks his father's chariot, and to commar.d
and guide the wing-footed horses for a day.
The sire repented of the oath he had taken, and shaking tin-ice his
"
radiant head Alas, my son, the promise 1 made you is become rash
:

"
by your request I wish it were in my power to recall what I have
;

" said: I own this is the

only thing I am unwilling to grant. It is still
" me to dissuade you from so rash a design the demand you :
permitted
" make is hazardous and unsafe. The task. Phaeton, is too vast; and
" suited neither to thy strength nor thy years. Thy lot is mortal but ;

"
thy wishes launch beyond the bounds of mortality nay, you igno- :

"
rantly affect more than comes within the province even of the gods.
"
Every one, no doubt, glories in his own power yet none of all the ;

"
heavenly train dares to mount the burning axle-tree, but I yea :

" Jove himself, the sovereign rider of the sky, whose tremendous right-
" hand hurls the rapid thunder, cannot guide this chariot yet who so ;

"
strong and powerful as Jupiter ? The first ascent is steep, and which
" the steeds, though fresh in the morning, cannot climb but with pain.
" The middle firmament is exceeding high, from whence even I cannot,

NOTES.
63. Ardua prima via est-l This whole continues his course round the earth
description is to he consifteied only in night and day without interruption, or
a poetical light, in which (however in- rather the earth by its diurnal revohi-
consistent it may be with the principles tion, causes that apparent motion of the.
of true astronomy) it must yet appear sun. And as thismotion is performed
extremely beautiful. In fact, the snn in a circle, whereof the earth is the

E a
*52 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Fit timor, ct pavidfi

^nZHicl^f^t^na"^ trepidat formldine pectus,.
V.v/ pnuiu,rt egctn-rto Ultima proiia via est : et eget moderamine certov
vwdcraiiiDic. June rri ,• • • • •

quee me suDjectis excipit uiidis,

i
etiam Trthys ipsa, 1 unc etiam,

feTrJ^uHriis Ziei"i''e-
^^ ^"^J'^J^" ""^ prsecsps, Tethys solet ipsa vereri.
7/ps"'Ad!iv\uod7ce'- Afl^e, quod assiduarapiturvertigineccelum: 70
iiDii rapiiur assidita Sidei'aque
*
alta traliit.celerique
^
volumine torouet.
vcrtigitie, trahitque tvt-, • , .^ .. .
,

iNitor 111 aclversum: nec me,

<iitasider(t,torqiiriiiuc
releri olumine. JVitor
i
qm csetera, vmcit
in (nlversinn ; nec im- Impetus ; evehor orbi.
et rapido contrarius
qui. viiicit cate-
petus
ra, \inc'\t me: et evehor Finge datos cuirus quid agas ? poterisne rotatis
:

contrarius rapidoorbi Obvius ire polis, ne te citus auferat axis? 75

gtiiu%'ax7"potcri.">ie FoFsitaii et lucos illic, urbesque deorum
ire obvius
lit

ferut
jwijsyotatis,
cifus axis 7ir aii-
tv.' Forsuuuct
Coucipias
1 ....
aiiimo, delubraque^ „ ditia donis
Lsse ^per insidias iter est. formasque ferarum^
:

coticipiat animn esie

-^
•
-ry. .
i, .
,
iiik- lucos, inhcsque u tque viam teiieas, nulloque errore tratiaris,
^Z'2kis^'h^!^uer Per tamen adversi gradieris cornua Tauri, 80
est per insidias, for-
Hsemoniosque
^ arcus, ' violentique
^ ora Leonis, '
masque fer arum. Vt-
que (et qnainvis)/fwfff.«
rium,tralutrisquc nulla errore, tamen gradieris per cornua adversi Tauri, arcusque Hamo-
oraque liolenti Leonis,
tiios,

TRANSLATION.
without terror, behold the earth and ocean below, and my joints
shake with fear. The last stage is a mighty descent, and requires a
steady rein. Tethys herself, who receives me in her watery caves,
often fears that 1 should be tumbled headlong from above. Add,
moreover, that the heaven is carried round by a constant rotation, and
revolving with rapid force, hurries along in its course the high stars.
I steer against their motions nor does the impetuous current that
;

overcomes every thing else, master me but 1 am carried in a direc-;

tion contrary to that of the rolling orbs. Suppose then, that the chariot
was given you what can you do ? Are you able to stem the rapid
;

course of the poles, or resist the adverse whirls of heaven ? Perhaps^

you imagine in your mind, groves and cities inhabited by gods, and
temples enriched with gifts but know that yoiu- way is throiigli
:

snares, and the forms of starry monsters. And even though you keep
the direct way, nor are drawn aside by any wandering path, you must
yet pass between the horns of the threatening bull, oppose yourself to.
the Hcemonian bow, and brave the grinning visage of the fierce lion.

NOTES.
centre, there ean be nnthing of tliat as- fatigue of hisjouniey through the visible
cent or descent, or variation of dis- heavens. In like manner, because fron*
tance iVoin the earth which the poet here niornins; till noon he seems to the inha-
mentious. Th s, 1 say, is a strict philo- bitants of the earth to mount a continu-

.sophical account of the snu's

conrse. ed ascent, this has given rise to all the
But the appearances are different, and poetical notions relating to that pait of
as these suit better the genius of poetry, iiis course and so of tlie vcsf.
;

poets have adopted tiieiu in tiieir writ- 69. Tetlajs.'] The daughter of CorIus
ings. Thus wiien he descends below and Terra, and wife of Oceanns. She
onr horizon, and is no more visible to is often, as here, made to slant! for the

us, lit is supposed to rest after the ocean itself.

 METAMORrHOSEON, Lib. II. 53

brachia longo Scorpioiiqne curvtui-

Seevaque circuitu curvantem temseet a brachia longo
aliter curvantem brachia Can- lircuHu, alqiie Can-
Scorpion, atq ;
criim curimilem bra-
crum. chia aliter. Nee est
ti'/i in proip.jil a ri gere
Nee tibi qiiadrupedes animosos ignibus illis q iiadrupedcs, ii/iimosos

Quos in pectore habent, quos ore et naribus illis ignibus, quos ha-
bent ill.
pcclore, quos
^ efflant, Bo tjjtlaiit ore et naribus:
iix putiuntur mc, si-
In promptu regere est : vix me patiuntur, ut acres iniil ac acres uiiiini in-

caluere, cerriique re-

Incaluere animi ; cervixque repugnat habenis. pugnat hulniiis. At tit

At tu, funesti ne sim tibi muneris aiictor : note, cave, ne sim tibi
uuctor funesti mune-
Nate, cave dmii resque sinit, tua corrige vota.
: ris, coririgeque tua vo-
ta, dum res sinit. i'ci.
Scilicet, utnostro genitum te sanguine credas, 90 licet petis certa plg-
credas
Pignora certa petis do pignora certa timendo
iiora, lit te ge-
:
;
nHuninostro sanguine;
Et patrio pater esse metu prober. Aspice vultus do certa pignora ti-
mendo, et prohor esse
Ecce meos utinamque oculos in pectora posses
:
puter metu patrio.
Ecce, aspice meos vul-
Inserere ;
et patrias intus deprendere curas !
tus: ulinamque posses

quicquid habet dives, circumspice, mun-

inserere oculos in pec-
Deniq; tora, et deprendere
dus, curas patrias intus.
Denique, circumspice
Eque tot ac tantis coeli, terrseque, marisque, quicquid aires 7nun-
Posce bonis aliquid nullam patiere repulsam,
:
dushabef, posci que a li-
quid e tot ac til litis
Deprecor hoc unum quod vero nomine poena, ;
bonis, call terro'que,
marisque : patiere mil-
Non honor est poenam, Phaethon, pro munere
: lant repulsam : drpre-
cor hoc unum; quod
poscis. 99 rero nomine est pana
Quid mea colla tenes blandis, ignare lacertis ? Hon honor. J^hutthon,
poscis p,! nam qiru mu-
Ne dubita; dabitur (Stygias juravimus undas) nere. Quid ignare te-
nes mea colla blanais
Quodcunque optaris sed tu sapientiCis opta. : lacertis/ Ne dubita
quodcunque optOris
dabitur, (nam jural imus {>er Stygias undas) scd opta tu sapieiitiiis.

TRANSLATION.
The bends his claws into a wide extent, and the crab
scorpion too
with claws differently bent in lesser clasps, appears to oppose
your Nor will you find it easy to govern the mettled steeds,
course.

spiritedby those fires which glow in their breasts, and which they
breathe from their mouth and nostrils. Scarce can 1 restrain their
fury, when they are once heated, and their necks struggle with the
rein. But do you, my son, take care not to force from me a gift that

may l?e fatal to you and while it yet may be done, correct your rash
;

desires. You demand some sure pledge, by which to know that you
are my son. What surer pledges can you have than these my tears ?
Or better learn that I am your father, than by my fatherly care ?
Look on my or could your eyes penetrate into
face ; my heart, you
w^ould there find all the anxiety of a tender father. In fine, look
round through all the riches of lavish nature, and choose out a gift
from what is most valuable in earth, sea, or heaven, you shall
meet with no denial. I only plead against this one thing, which in
reality is a mischief not an honour Phaeton, you ask a mischief in-
:

stead of a gift. Why, mistaken youth, do you thus grasp my neck

v/ith faw
ning arms } Doubt not, whatever you wish for, shall be
granted, (I have sworn by the Stygian waves) but dp you make a
wiser choice."
64 P. OVIDII NASONIS
rhcebus ,finitiat mo- pinierat monitusdictis tamen ille repusrnat
nitus; tamen ilU rr- „ n .
i-
:

,
•
;

pugnnt dicti.i: tenet-

FroDOSitumque
*^
tenet: tlagratque
o i cupidine
i
cur-
qne proyo'iittim: Jin- a
gratanc ciipidinc ciir- TUS.

^nt:if'qnf'ikZt"'de- ^'^rgOj q^a Hcuit crenitor cunctatus, ad altos 105

ducH juvenem ad at- Deducit iuveneni, Vulcania munera, currus.
tos currui, munera .
^ ^ •

Vulcania. Axis erat Aureus axis ei'at, teiDO aurcus, aurea summEe
Vu7muirr7umlZ^'ro. Cuivatura rotsB radiorum argenteus ordo. ;

aurca ordo radio-

positseo ex ordine gemmee,
t<r
pgj. J»
i-
;
i^crg. chrvsolithi, :
rum erat argctitrus. J
xm tin \ \ ^ i

chrysoiifM, gcmnKv- Clara repei'cusso reddebaiit lumina PncEOO. 110

nue posit cc ex ordine • •
-r^ t>i ••j.i ^
per jwa, reddebant Jjumq; ea magnanimus rnaethonmiratur, opusq;
c;»^;k^t:"/.;;«r/:; Perspidt ; ecce vigH rutilo patefecit ab ortu
magnanimus PhnvtJinn Purpureas Aurora ' fores, et plena rosarum
tniratur ea, pcrspnir- . .^ , rr n, . .
, ,
• •
.

fii'e opus ; ecce rigii Atria diiiugiunt stellse quarum agmina cogit
:
;

pur"as fo'reTct^ utr^a Lucifer, et cceli statione novissimus exit. 115

uioorur'itVa'J'
^^ mundumque rubescere vidit,
pater, ut terras,
riif.
fugiunf ; quarum Lv- Comuaque
^ extremee velut evanescere Lunae ;
ciffr co"it aginina, et ^ rn- i -i ^ tt •

exit 7ioiiwmus sta-

Jungere equos litan velocibus imperat Moris.
Tilan Z%,m ta-'rZ Jussa dese celeres peragunt ignemque vomentes :

tnundumqvernbescere,
extremrr
AmbrosifB succo saturos praBsepibus altis 120
comuaque /-^ • -, -,
-, -, r
Luntr velut evanes-
Quadrupedesducunt adduntque sonantiairaena. :

cerc,impcrat veliiLihus
Horis jungerc eqiios: rictr celeres ferai^unt jtissa ejus: ducuntqne quadrupedes vomentes
ignem, saturos succo Anibrosicc ultis prasepibtis, adduntque frena sonantia.

TRANSLATION.
Here the fatlser ended his admonitions but Phaeton, regardless of :

what he said, still holds to his purpose, and burns with impatience to
moimt the chariot. Wherefore the father having delayed as long as he
could, brought at length the young man to the stately chariot, the gift of
Vulcan. The axle-tree was of gold, the pole also was of gold, and the
wheels were edged round with a golden rim. The range of spokes was
silver. The yoke was covered with rows of gems and precious stones, that
darted a clear light by reflecting the sun. And while magnanimous
Phaeton admires all these, and views with attention the elegance of the
work, lo, watchful Aurora opens the purple gates of the east, and her
courts strewed with roses. The stars disappear, Lucifer drives them
before him in troops, and moves himself the last from his station in the
heavens. Soon as the father saw the earth and sky covered with a
rosy blush, and the blunted horns of the moon just ready to vanish,
he commands the nimble hours to join the horses to the chariot. The
swift goddesses instantly obey, and lead from the high stalls the glow-
ing steeds, snorting fire, and satiated v,ith the juice of Ambrosia then ;

NOTES.
113. Plena roiarum atria.'\ Aurora is 190. Ambrosia succo saturos.] Am-
often painted by the poets as shrondcd brosia, wa«, according to llie poets,
in roses, nor is there any phrase more the food of the gods; in like man-
common in our own langnage, than the ner as nectar was feigned to be their
losy-colonred morn. drink, though we find them often con-
lip. DctPce/cres.JThehonrs are some- founded,
times described by the poets a« goddesses.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. II. 65

Turn pater ora sui sacro medicamine nati Turn pater contigit
ora sui nati sacro »«e.
Contigit, et rapidae fecit patientia flammee : dlcamine ; et fecit pa-
tientia rapidte flam-
Imposuitque comae radios ; prsesagaque luctns m(P ; imposuitque ra-
ilins coma':
Pectore sollicito repetens suspiria, dixit: 125 refctens-
que suspiria prcsaga
Si potes hie saltern monitis parere paternis tuctUs sollicito pec-
tore, dixit : Si lite sal-
Parce, puer, stimulis, et fortius utere loris. tern potes parere mo-
Spontesuaproperant: labor est inhiberevolentes. ^"rr/"'^M/"Tf
Nectibidirectos placeatvia quinque per arciis. utere ions fortius.
"Jere loris
Sectus in obliquum est lato curvarnine limes 130 labor est inh"bere"eoi
Zonarumque trium contentus fine polumque
" .--.-.
:
'qui,?que'ar^us directos
placeal tibi. Est limes
Effugit Australem, junctamq; Aquilonibus Arc- sectits in la- nbliquum
ton. to curvamiiie ; conten-
tiisque fine trium so-
Hac sit iter: manifesta rotae vestigia cernes. narum, effiigit pohim-
que avstralem. Arc-
Utque ferant aequos et ccelum et terra calores ; tonqiie junvtam Aqvi-
Nee preme, nee summum molire per aethera lonibus. Sit iter tibi
hac cernes mani-
via,
CUrrum. 135 festa vestigia rota
Utque et ctrlum, et
AltiCis egressus coelestia tecta cremabis ; terra ferant <rqicos ca-
lores, nee preme, nee
Inferius, terras Medio tutisdmus ibis.
:
molire curruin per
summum athera. Egressus altius, cremabis tecta coelestia, egressus inferius, cremabis terras :
Ibis tutissimus medio.
TRANSLATION.
add the sounding reins. Meantime Phoebus wet the face and temples
of his son with a celestial ointment, and made them proof against the
burning rays then fixing the beamy circle on his head, and fetching
;

from his anxious breast deep sighs, that were presages of his future
"
griefs, said
"
:
My son, if thou canst but follow this last advice of
your father, be sure to keep a stiff' rein, and spur them on but gently :

*'
they are apt of themselves to hasten too much, the great art lies in
" Nor must you drive the chariot on directly
restraining their speed.
" There is a tract that runs obliquely, form-
through the five circles.
"
ing a broad circle in the heavens, and which, confined within the
" limits of three zones, shuns the south pole, and the constellations
" that border upon the north winds, follow this path, where you will
" see plain prints of the wheels. And that heaven and earth may
" have their due proportion of heat, neitlier sink too low, nor drive the
" chariot
along the summit of the sky. By mounting too high you will
" set the
heavenly mansions on fire, and by falling too low, you will en-
"
danger the earth the middle way is the safest and best. Let not
;

NOTES.
129. Nee tilii directos placeat via quin- tlie two tropics, and the equinoctial.
gue per arcus.] Tliere is a considerable The equinoctial
runs exactly in the mid-
obscurity in this pnssage, arising from dle between the other circles so »hat :

tiie manner of expression. Piiabiis is Nee tibi directos placeat via qnirique
per
liere counselling Phaeton what tract to arcus must here understood to mean,
lie

follow, and tells liini that he is to pur- pursue not your way directly through
sue his w ay thronnh an oblique path, and that circle which is middlemost of the

not directly in the plane of ilie equator. five, but observe the tract that cuts its
This las' is what he calls the Via per obliqui ly.
quinqiie arcns dvectns. The (ive bows are 132. Junctamque Aquilomhus Arctnn.'\
here no other than the five parallel circles By Arctos, or the Bear, a constellation
by which astronomers distinguish the in the northern quarter of heaven, we
heavens. These are the two polar circles, are to understand the arntic jicTe.
 56 P. OVIDII NASONIS

^iZ^t^''tTu7orttm ^eu te dexterior tortum declinet in anguem ;

angucm, neie siiiistc- Neve sinisterior pressam rota ducat ad aram;
xamarum: tenc inter lutev utrumqiie tcHC : ioxivLVi?e c?eiex2ixm.\\diO, 140
]Tru%Vttuiallua'o]fto Q^^^ juvet, et melitis, quam tu tibi, consulat opto.
et melius
lit j II ret,
Diim loquor; Hesperio positas in Iittore metas
coit'iulnt, quam tucon-
K-aUxhii tibi. Deum lo- Humida nox tetigit: non est mora libera nobis.
qiior, uvx hvmida tc-
tigit inctas positas in Poscimur elfulget tenebris Aurora fugatis.
;
liesperio iittore. Mora
tioii est libera nobis. Corripe lora manu :
vel, si mutabile pectus 145
Poscimur ; Aurora, te- Est non curribus utere nostris
nebris fugutis e{j ulg( t tibi, consiliis, ;

Dum potes,
.

Cor ripe lor a maim: et solidis etiaranum sedibus adstas ;

eel, ii est tibi mutabile
jiectus. utere nostril Dumq male optatos nondum premis inscius
;

coH^iliis, lion ciirri-

btis: tlHin potes, et eli- axes;
amnum uiistas soUriis Quae tutus spectes, sine me dare lumina terris.
seiiihus, dumqiie nan-
eliim inscius
axes males
premis Occupat ille levem juvenili corpore currum 150 ;
optutos.
Si7ie me dure lamina Statq; super; manibusq; datas contingere habenas
terris, qiiic lumina tii
tutus spectes. Jlle oc- Gaudet; et invito grates agit inde parenti.
cupat lerem currum Interea volucres Pyroeis, et Eous, et _/Ethon,
Juienili corpore, stat-
que super gaudetque
Solis equi, quartusque Phlegon, hinnitibus auras
contingere datas ha- Flammiferis iraplent, pedibusque repagula pul-
benas manihus ; et agit
iiide grates invito pa- sant. 155
reitti. Interea rolucres r\ , rr\ ,i n ,
•
,
•

cqui solis, Pi/rocis et Quse postquam 1

cthys, latorum ignara nepotis,
tul'que^ filil7on,"im- RsppuHt ;
ct facta est immensi copia mundi ;

fiamm'Jeris, pulsant- ^^, i r-iii-

phnt auras hinnitibiis Corripucre viam, pedibusque per a'era motis
>

que repagula pedibiis. Ubstautcs iindunt nebulas, penmsque levati

igmra^'fatoriim ^mpo- Prsetercunt ortos iisdem de partibus Euros. 160

iis,reppulit ; et copia
immensi jnuiidi est facta ; corripntre viam, pedibusque mods per a'Jra, findunt nebulas ob-
stantes, leiutiqtte peimis, prtetereunt Euros ortos de iisdem partibus.

TRANSLATION.
" the right -wheel bear you off toward the Avreathed serpent, nor the
" the shining altar but keep a direct course between both.
left to I
;

" leave the rest to foi'tune, which I pray may direct you, and be more
" careful of you than you are of yourself. See while I speak, the shady
"
night has reached the limits of the western shore nor is it permitted ;

" me to make a longer stay. I am called Aurora having dispersed the ;

"
darkness, shines out. Haste, snatch the reins ; or if you have a mind
" that can be moved
by advice, take my counsel, not my chariot, while
" it is
yet in your power, and you stand securely on the earth. A^^hile
" I
say, you are not yet mounted upon the axle-tree so rashly wished
"
for, suffer me to give light to the world, which you may enjoy in full
"
security." In vain he spoke. Phaeton with youthful heat mounts the
nimble chariot, and rejoicing to handle the reins that had been given
him, gives thanks to his father, who receives them with reluctance.
Meanwhile the restless horses of the sun, Pyroeis, Eous, and ^thon,
and the fourth Phlegon, fill the air Avith neighiugs, and breathing out
fire, beat with their feet the barriers of heaven which after that Te- ;

thys, ignorant of the fate of her grandson, had removed, and all the
wide vvaste of heaven wsl^ laid open before them, they spring out, and
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. II. 57

Sed leve pondus erat ; nee *'* pondus erat leve

' quod
i
cosrnoscere
^ pos-
r nee quod eqiti soils pos-
,•

J-
Sent sent, cogiwscere ; ju-

Solis equi solitaque jugum gravitate carebat.

; fZ^^/^^^'utS::''!^
ves cjirva- sine justo
IJtque labant curvse iusto sine pondere naves,
1 ..i* ..^,1. . „ T'on(lere labniitjfertm-
Perque mare mstabiles nimia levitate leruntur turquc instabu'es per :

ic onere assueto vacuos dat in aera saltus, loo siccvrrus dat saitus

Succutiturque alte, similisque est currus inani. o""re7'«lc"M«f<^rrSe

^imuts
Quodsimulacsensere,ruunt,tritumq:relinquunt
' ^ ^ '
?^''''.
tntmi. <^-'X'^^''
Quod simul ac
P: . .
N •
1
•

Quadniucri spatium nee, quo prius ordine eur- : guadrijKgisenserejru-

,
. imt, relinq lilt ut que tri-
runt. turn spatium: nee cur-

Ipse pavet; nee qua eommissas flectat habenas, 7^Z'paveiZile!cn1t%

Nee seit qua sit iter: nee, si sciat, imperet illis. J/ectci itabenas com-
rr, \
lum primum rauiis^ •
1- ^ A m • mi.ssas iih\, nee qtiA sit
1
•

gelidi caluere 1 nones, Her, nee si seiat, im.

Et vetito frustra tentarunt a^quore tingi. '"tiirf/ '^"vrionl's Sf
Quaeque polo posita est glaciali proxima serpens, ^"^"^^7 ^Irustra'^tiT'i
Ti-,-.
Frigore pigra prius, nee formiclabilis ulli
r •^
IncaJuit sumsitque novas lervoribus iras.
;
1 ri r
vento aquore.

175 ta proxima poiogiad-

ser-
pensque, qua est posi-
:

Te quoque turbatum memorant fugisse, Boote tf'Sidda^li^niiC ;

Quamvis tardus ixca'iuit

eras, et te tua plaustra tenebant. novas iras sumsitque
.

^j y -J 1 fervorilnis.
lit vero summo 1

despexit ab
1
sethere terras niemorans te quoque
Infelix Plia'ethon penitus penitusque jacentes ; tHm^quamviscrcn^^
dus,et tua palustra te-
nebant te. Ut vero infelix Pha'cthon summo athere despexit terras penitus, petntusque ja-
centes.

TRANSLATION.
moving their feet swiftly through the air, cleave the opposing clouds,
and mounted upon their wings, outstrip the eastern wind arising from
the same parts. But the weight appeared small, and what the horses of
the sun could scarcely feel, nor was the chariot poised by its wonted
weight. And as hollow ships, when wanting due ballast, totter in the
deep, and are tossed to and fro, the unstable sport of winds and waves ;

in like manner the chariot, destitute of its usual weight, is tossed on

high, and bounding through the air, is hurried on like one empty which ;

when the eager steeds perceived, they rush on, and leave the beaten
tract, nor follow the stated course in which they ran before. The youth
trembles, nor knows which way to turn the reins, or how to pursue his
way nor had he known, Avere the horses under command. Then did
;

the cold Triones first feel Apollo's ray, and strove in vain to dip in the
forbidden sea. Then too the serpent that borders upon the frozen pole,
before stiff', and benumbed with cold, nor formidable to any, roused by
the new flames, began to rage with inward heat. It is said, moreover,
that you, Bootes, fled in a mighty alarm, though naturally slow, and
Avain. But when the
cumbered with thy unhappy Phaeton beheld from
the height of heaven, the earth spread out far, very far beneath him,

NOTES.
171. Triones.'] This is meant of the seven that seem larger and brighter than
Ursa Major, a constellation consisting of the rest, and very much resemble a
twenty-seven stars. Of these there are waggon with a yoke of oxen.
 58 P. OVIDII NASONIS

fattuit, et genua in-

tremtiere subito ti- Palluit, et subito genua intremuere timore; 180
more: tenebrtfque sunt
oborttt oculis per tan-
Suntque oculis tenebrae per tantum lumen
turn lumen. Et Jam obortse :

mallet ntinqitum teti-

gisse equos paternos, Etjam mallet equosnunquam tetigisse paternos :

jamque piget ujinovisse

genus et valuisxe ro- Jamque agnosse genus piget, et valuisse rogando :

gando :
jam cupiins Jam Meropis
dici cupiens. Ita fertur, ut acta
did filiui Mcropis ;
ita fertur ut pintis Prsecipiti pinus Borea, cui victa remisit 185
ZliZ^r^cllr^remi'-
Fi'^ena suus rector, quam Dis, votisque
reliquit.
sit victa fra:nii, quam
Quid faciat? multum cceli post terga relictum;
que reliquit diis lotis-
que. Quid facial / Ante oculos plus est animo metitur utrumque
; :

tnitltum cceli est relic-

tum post trrga : est Et modo, quos illi fato contingere non est,
adhac plus a7ite oculos;
metitur utrumque ani- Prospicitoccasus; interdumrespicitortus. IQO
mo. Et modd prospi-
cit occasus, quos non
Quidq ;agat ignarus, stupet et nee frsena re-
:

est illi cont ingere mittit,

'StlrtulTign^'rZq^ii'e
Nccretinerc valet; necnominanovit equorum.
quid agat, stupet : et
necremittitjreena, nee
Sparsa quoque in vario passim miracula ccelo,
valet retincre : ncc
tiovit vomina eqttorum.
Vastarumque videt trepidus simulacra ferarum.
Videt quoque trepidus Est locus, in geminos ubi brachia concavat arcus
miracula passim spar-
sa in vario calo simu- Scorpios, et cauda, flexisque utrinque lacertis
lacraque vasiarum fe-
rarum. Est locu^ ubi Porrigit in spatium signorum membra duorum.
Scorpios concavat bra- Hunc puer ut nigri madidum sudore veneni
chia in geminvs arcus,
et caudci lacertisque Vulnera curvata minitantem cuspide vidit ;
Jtexis utrinque, porri- Mentis inops gelidaformidine lora remisit 200
:

git membra in spatium

duorum signorinn. Quse postquam summum tetigere jacentia ter-
Puer ut vidit hunc
tnadidum sudore nigri £fum;
^
veneni, minitantem vulnera curvatO. cuspide; inops mentis, remisit lora gelidA formidine.
Qua: postquam jacetitia tetigere summum tergum ;
TRANSLATIOIV.
he grew pale, and his knees trembled with sudden fear, and his eyes
were darked by the too great light. And now could he wish that he
had never tried his father's steeds. He repents of having kuown his
race, or that he prevailed in his request and willing now to pass for
;

Merop's son, he is hurried along like a ship tossed by the stormy north
wind, when the despairing pilot has abandoned the helm, and puts all
his confidence in the gods and prayer. What could he do ? He had
already left a long tract of heaven behind him. If he looks forward a
still
longer path meets his eyes. He measures both in his mind and ;

sometimes casts an eye upon the forbidden Avest, sometimes looks back
towards the east and full of amazement, is uncertain what to resolve
;

upon for neither does he quit the reins, nor can he hold them right,
:

nor does he know the names of the horses. Now too, in his fright,
he sees all parts of the heavens filled with objects of horror, and the
monstrous forms of huge wild beasts. There is a place where Scorpio
bends his arms on each side in two wide ciu-ves, and with his tail and
limbs enclosing a vast circuit, stretches himself through the space of
two celestial signs. Soon as the youth beheld him s veat in streams of
black poison, and threatening wounds with his forked
tongue, bereft of
his wits at once, he dropped the reins in a cold
fright which, when:

the horses felt

lying loose upon their manes, they rush out, and fiudiiTg
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. II. 59

Expatiantur equi; nulloque inhibente, per auras ^t^'f^^lT':::^ eunt

Jo-notae regionis eunt ; quaque impetus egit, per auras ignotte re-
gionis ; quaqve impe-
Hac sine lege ruunt: altoque sub sethere fixis tus egit, riiunt hde
sine lege; inciirsant-
Incursant stellis, rapiuntque per avia currum. 205 stellis subque Ji.rls
alto atliere, niyiunt-
Et modo summapetunt, modoperdecliva,viasq; qiie currum per avia.
feruntur El niudo petiint svm-
Preecipites spatio terrse propiore ;
ma, modbferuntur per
Inferiusque suis fraternos currere
Luna declha, viasque pr<e-

ambustaque nubila fumant.

cipites,spatiop> opiore
Admiratur equos :
terrtr : lunaque admi-
tellus ratiir equos frater-
Corripitur fiammis, ut quseque altissima, ;
710S ctirrere inferiux

Fissaque agit rimas, et succis aret ademptis. suis : nnbiltique fim-

Pabula canescunt ; cum frondibus uritur arbos ;

q7^qn{"ZT%i^auu.
Materiamque sue preebet seges arida damno. iiiia, corripitur Jlum-
mis,fissaque, ugit ri-
Parva queror :
magnse pereunt cum moenibus mas, ei aret succis
adfmptis. Pahula ca-
urbes : nescunt ; arbos uritur
cum frondihus, seges
Cumque suis totas populis incendia gentes. 215 riumsuo
arida prabet mnte-
In cinerem vertunt: svlvse cum montibus ardent.
ror paria
damno. Que-
magna .•

et ImolusetLhte; urbcs pereunt cum

ArdetAthos.TaurusqueCilix,
T-, .
•\ii
i"i.'T_ •
TJ ma7iibiis: Incendiaqiie
Et nunc sicca, prius celeberrima tontibus, Ide ; vertunt totas gentes
Virgineusq; Helicon, et nondum (Eagrius Ha^- VlZr:^sl^'^^J^t
JY^Qg
• cum mnntibus. Athos
ardet jTaurusqueCUix,
ftTmolus, et CEte, et Ide, nunc sicca, prius celeberrima fontihus , virgineusque Helicon, et
H<emos, nondttm dictus (Eagrius.

TRANSLATION.
themselves without check or control, hurry on throug^h unknown re-
gions of air, and regardless of the way, run wherever their fury drives,
rush against the stars fixed in the high firmament of heaven, and drag
the chariot through pathless wilds. Sometimes they mount aloft, again
they descend, and precipitating their course, bring the chariot still nearer
to the earth.
The clouds vanish in smoke, and the Moon wonders to see her bro-
ther's steeds beneath her own. The land in every place as it rises
than the rest, is seized by the flames, and rending, breaks iu
higher
chasms, and is drained of its moisture by the scorching heat. The grass
is burnt
up, the trees are consumed
with their leaves, and the parched
corn furnishes fuel to the spreading conflagration. But I complain of
trivial ills. Great cities with their walls perish, and tlie flames turn
whole nations with their people into ashes. The mountains and forests
are set on fire, Athos burns, and Cilician Taurus, and Tmolus, and CEte.
Ide too, formerly famous for her fountains, lutnow dry in spight of all
her springs and Helicon, the darling retreat of the Muses, and Hsemus,
;

NOTES.
violence of
217. Ardet Athos.'] Phaeton no loneer tains that suffered by tiie

able to guide the chariot, leaves tlie the flames, viz. : Atlios of Macedonia,
horses to wander without control ; who Taurus of Asia, Tmolus of Plirygia,
forsaking the beaten tract, approach so and Oilte of Thessaly.
near the earth as to set the higher parts 218. Ide.] A mountain of Phrygia.
of it on fire. The poet here enumerates 219. Helicon.'] A mountain of Boeotia,
some of the more remarkable moun- sacred to the Muses.
60 P. OVIDII NASONIS

JEtna artfd in immen- Ardetin immensum geminatisignibus jEtna, 220

sum i«nihusgcminatis,
Parii'i-^t'Usque biceps,
et Eryx, et Ciinthus,
Parnassusque biceps, et Eryx, et Cynthus, et
et Othrys, et Rliodope Othrys,
taiidcm cariUira n'wi-
bus, Mimttsqui', Din- Et tandem Rhocl ope nivibuscaritura, Mimasque,
(tymaque, et Mycale ;
Citharoiique nutus ad Dindymaque, et Mycale, natusque ad sacra Cy-
sacra. JVfc sua fri- thajron.
gora prosuiU Siytfiio' :

Caucasus ardct. Os- NecprosuntScythise suafrigora: Caucasus ardet,

saque cumPindoOlym-
yusqne major aiiilni- Ossaq; cumPindo,majorqueambobus Olympus,
bus :
Alfesque ucriir,
A'eriffique Alpes,
et nubifer Apemiinus. 226
et Apenninus nubifer.
Tunc vero Pliuti/ioii Turn vero Pha'ethon cunctis e partibus orbem
aspicit orbcm accen-
sum h cnnctis parti- Aspicit accensum nee tantos sustinet sestus
;
:

hits ; tree sustinet tan-

tos astus ;
Ferventesque auras, velut e fornace profunda,
trahitqne
ore auras J'crventes
veiut c fornace pro-
Oretrahit,currusquesuoscandescere sentit. 230
funda, scntitque suos Et neque jam ceneres, ejectatamque favillam
curriis cundcficcre. Et
Ferre potest calidoque involvitur undique fumo ;
nfquejtim potest frre ;

civeres, favillamquc
Quoque eat, aut ubi sit, picea caligine tectus
eject at am, involvitur
undique callido fumo: Nescit; et arbitrio volucrum raptatur equorum.
tectusque pici H cali-
gine, nescit quo eat, aut ubi sit, et raptatur arbitrio volucrum equorum.
TRANSLATION,
not yet CEagrius. ^Etna rages with redoubled heat. Parnassus, with
its two summits, glows, and Eryx, and Cynthus, and Othrys, and

Rhodope now despoiled of its snows, and Mimas, and Dindyma, and
Mycale, and Citha^ron, famed for the sacred rites of Bacchus. Nor
does Scythia escape, tliough armed with her native frosts. Caucasus
flames, and Ossa with Pindus, and the high aspiring Olympus, the
lofty Alps, and the cloudy Apennine.
It was then that Phaeton, wherever he turned his eyes, beheld the
world around him in flames nor is he able to endure such mighty
;

heats, or the glov.ing air, Avhich he draws in as from a deep furnace ;

and he perceives too that the chariot under him is on fire. And now he
cannot longer bear the showers of ashes, and the glowing sparks that
break round him, and is on every side involved in thick clouds of smoke.
Nor, covered thus in darkness, could he distinguish whither he went, or
NOTES.
220. ^bni.'\ A celebrated mountain 224. Scythia.'] A region to the north
of Sicily, thdt vomits up fire and smoke of Asia. Caucasus was a mountain of
221. Parnassusque biceps.l A moun- Scythia, famous chiefly for the story
tain of Phocis vvitii two summits, well of Prometheus, who was feigned by
known by the fictions of the poets. the poets to be bound iiere, and to
Eryx, a mountain of Sicily, sacred to have his liver perpetually gnawed by
Venus, whence she is often called Ery- a vulture, because he had stolen fire
cena. Cynthus is in the isle of Delos, from heaven, to animate his image of
famed for the birtii of Apollo and Diana ; clay.
whence he has goX the name of Cyn- 225. Ossaque cum Phtdo.] Two very
thius, and slie of Cynthia. Othrys, a high mountams of Thessaly. Olympus,
mountain of I'hessaiy. another mountain in the confines of
222. Rhodnpe.] A mountain of Thrace Thessaly and jNIacedonia.
covered with perpetual snows. Mimas 226. Alpes.] Very bigli mountains
a mountain of Ionia. that divide Italy from Gaul. A|>en-
223. Dindyma.'] .A mountain of Troas, nines, a long ridge of mountains th.it
called Dindymcne. Mycale a moun- divide Italy into two parts.
tain of Caria.
 METAMOllPHOSEON, Lib. II. 61

Credunt Mthi.
Sanguine turn credunt in corpora sumnia vocato, op urn turn traxUse ni-
populos

^Ethiopum populos nigrum traxisse colorem grum colorem, san-

:

guine vocato in summa

Turn facta est Libye, raptis humoribus, a^,stu corpora. Tarn Libye
Arida turn nymphse passis fontesque lacusque, est facta arida, humu-
; rib'us raptis astu jtum
Deflevere comis queritur Bceotia Dircen
: ^lyniplitr passij: comis,
;
dtjicvere fontesque la-
Argos Amymonen, Ephyre Pyrenidas undas. 240 cusque. JJceotia que-
ritur Dircen, Argos
Nee sortita loco distantes flumina ripas Amymonen ; Ephyre
ttnrtas Pyretiidas esse
Tuta manent mediis Tana'is fumavit in undis
:
exsiccatas. Nee Jlu-
mina
Pen'eosque senex, Theutranteusque Caicus
sortita ripas dis-
tantes loco, manejit
Et celer Ismenos, cum Phocaico Erymantho, tuta: Tanais fumavit
in mediis undis Pe-
Arsurusque iterum Xanthus, flavusque Lycor-
,-

n'tosque senex, Cuicus-

mas. 245 que Theutranteus, et
Ismenos celer, cmn
Quique recurvatis ludit Meandros in undis, Erymantho Phocaico ;
Xanthusque arsurus
Mygdoniusque Melas, et Teenarius Eurotas eu ndrosqite
:
iterum, fianisquc Ly-
co> nius jM
Arsit et Euphrates Babylonius, arsit Orontes, , ,

qui ludit in undis

Mclasque
Thermodonq;citus,Gangesque,et Phasis,et Ister. recurtatis,
Mygdonius et Eurotas
jEstuat Alpheos, ripffi Sphercheides ardent : 250 Tanarius. Euphrates
Bahylonius et arsit,
Orontes arsit, citusque Thermodon, Gangesque, et Phasis, et Ister: Alpheos astuat, ripcs
Sphercheides ardent:
TRANSLATION.
where he was, but is hurried away at the pleasure of the winged horses.
It was then, they say, that the
^>thiopians first got their black hue, the
blood being drawn by the heat toward the outer parts of the body.
Then Libya, drained of its moistiu-e by the heat, became a barren
waste of sand. The nymphs too, with dishevelled hair, lament their
empty lakes and springs. Boeotia bewails the loss of Dirce, Argos
Amymone, Ephyre Nor are even the largest
the waters of Pyrene.
rivers secure within their distant banks. Tanais smoked in the midst
of his Avaters, and aged Peneus, and Theutrantean Caicus, and the
swift Ismenus, v, ith Erymanthus of Phocis, and Xanthus, fated to be
burnt again, and yellow Ljcormas, and Meander, that sports in mazy
wiurhngs, and Mygdonian Melas, and Ttenariau Eurotas. Babylonian
Euphrates too burns, Orontes burns, and swift Thermodon, and Ganges,
and Phasis, and Isther. Alpheus boils, and the banks of the Spher-
NOTES.
237. Libye.'] A dry and barren region windings and turnings, whirii are said to
of Africa. amount to no less than six hundred, and
239. Dircen.] Dirce, a celebrated some of tliem so considerable, that it
fountain of Roeotia. seems to be retnniiiig again to its source.
240. Amymonen.'] Amymone was the 247. AJelas.] A river of Mygdonia,
of Danansjking of tlie Argives.
daiiiihter which is said to have the power of
242. 7'annis.] A very considerable making cattle black.
river of Scytliia, that divides Enrope 248. F.ujjhrates.] A very noted river
from Asia. of Asia.
244. Is»ic7ios.] A
river of Beeotia, 249. Thermodon.] A river of Thrace.
that runs into tiie Euripus. Eryman- Ganges, the greatest and most noted
thus, a river of Phocis in Arcadia. ri\er of India. Ister, the greatest river
245. Xanthus.] A river of Troas. of Europe it is also known under the
:

Lycormas, a river of TEtolia. name of the Danube.

246. Meandros.] A river of Phrj-gia, 250. yllpheos.] A river of Arcadia in
remarkable for its great nmnber of Pi'loponnesns.
62 P. OVIDII NASONIS

aurumque quod Tagus Quodq I suoT'dffus amne vehit.fluit ignibus

aurum:
ignibits ; et Jiumitica:
Et, quae Moeonias celebrarant carmine ripas,
volucres, quee ceiebra-
rant ripas Mceonia^ Flumineae volucres medio caluere Caystro.
carmine, caluere me- Nilus in extremum fugit perterritus orbem,
dio Ciiifstro. Nil us
pertcrritus fugit in
extremiim orbem, oc Occuluitque caput,quod adhuc latet: ostia septem
cu'lui'tque caput, quod Pulveruleuta vacant septem sine flumine valles.
latet
i4huv.^jevtem
ostia pill p^^^ eadem IsHiarios Hebrum cum Strymone
cant seytem valles sine
siccat,
flumine. Eadem fors
siccat Hebrum cum Hesperiosq; amnes, Rhenum, E,hodanumque,
Strymone, fluvios 7*-
marios: Hesperiosque Padumque,
amnes, Rhenum, Rlio-
danumque, Padum- Cuique fuit rerum promissa potentia Tybrin. 259
que, Tybrinqite cui po- Dissilit omne solum penetratque in Tartara rimis
;
tentia rerum fuit pro- -, c
missa. Omne solum Lumcn, ct mtemum
. .

terret
,

cum conjuge regem :

netrat in' Tartara ^ri'- Et mare contrahitur ; siccajque

est campus arenae,
mis,et terret r,gcm
Quod
^^ modo Dontus
r erat:j quosque altum texerat
tnjernum cum coiiju- T. T.

g'e. Et mare contruhi- SeCIUOr,

yZiTus!iuT,nnpl'/s'ic- Exsistant montcs, et sparsas Cycladas augent.
^uoTIuuin wquorTx-
I^a petunt pisces nee se super aequora curvi 265
:

erat, ejsistant, et au- Tollere consuetas audcnt delphines in auras.

'
gent sparsas Cycladas.
Fisces petunt ima, nee curvi delphines audent tollere se super equora, in auras consuetas,

TRANSLATION.
cheus burn, and the gold, which the Tagus carries in its stream, is
melted by the flames. The swans, which have so often sung on the
banks of the Ma?onian rivers, in vain sought to avoid the heat in the
middle of Cayster. The frighted Nile fled to the extreme parts of
the earth, and hid his head, which yet lies concealed his seven dusty :

channels are now changed into seven valleys, destitute of water. The
same fate also pursues the Ismarian rivers. HebvUs with Strymon ;

and the western rivers, the Rhine, the Rhone, the Po, and Tyber, to
which the sovereignty of the universe had been promised.
The ground is deep cleft in all parts, and the light penetrating
through the chinks into the dire regions of Tartarus, startles the infer-
nal king and his spouse. The ocean contracts, and what lately was
sea, is now a naked plain of sand. The mountains, which had hitherto
been covered by the waves, now start up, and increase the number of
the scattered Cyclades. The fishes creep toward the bottom nor do ;

NOTES.
251. Tagus.'} A river of Spain, which feijnis tohave hid its head in this ge-
was said to bring down from the moun- neral conflagration.
tains great quantities of gold sand. 257. Hebrum, &c.] Hebrus and Stry-
These tliepoet, by an unusual hyperbole, mon, two rivers of Thrace, that run into
feigns to be now melted by the heal of the iEgean sea.
the sun, and iu that manner to be 259. Cuique fuit rerum promissa po-
Tybrin.] The Tiber is a
carried along by the current of the tentia river
river. famous in the writings of the poets. It
252. Mteonias.] Maeonia, so called runs through the midst of Rome, whence
from the river Ma?on, was the same the sovereignty of the universe, vvhicn
with Lydia. was promised to the Romans, is here po-
254. Nilus.} A very noted river of etically said to be promised to the
Tiber.
/Egypt, wliich, berause its source was 264. Cyclades.'] Tlie Cyclades are a
unknown to the ancients, the poet here cluster of islands in the iEgean sea.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. II. 63

Coroora phocarum summo resupina profundo (Corpora phocarum re-

Exanimata natant ipsum quoque IN erea tama est,

:
«'fta
summo profunda.
sub antris.
Doridaque, et natas, tepidis latuisse ^^''[xerearDohZ'.
Ter Neptunus aquis cum torvo brachia vultu 270 ff;„*^' ^^; ^^^l^%\
Exserere ausus erat: ter non tulit aeris sestus. Neptunus ter amu's
rniij_ i* Ji. i Ciserere brae Ida
^'""^
Alma tamen lellus, ut erat circumdata ponto, aqms cum torvo rui-
Inter aquas pelagi, contractosque undique fontes, ^^kTi\!lneTJima\ei.
Qui se condiderant in opacse viscera matris \l%fJo\"lnterTqta,
:

Sustulit omniferos coUo tenus arida vultus 275 peiagi, j'ontesque con-
:

„ .
r . tractos undique, qui

Opposuitque manum ironti ; magnoque tremore condiderant se ik lis-

i.

Omnia concutiens paulum subsedit ; et infra 2l'"uZu/1!uicu;V:L

tenus coUo.-
Ouamsoletesse.fuit: siccS,queitavocelocutaest. ^'feros
^^ '
. A
o tua
PI-
lulmma 1
ces-
opposuitque
fronU:
minum
Si placet hoc, meruique, quid
'
conctitien-que
omnia magno tremore,
Sant. subsedit paulum, et

Summedeum? liceat periturae viribus ignis, 280 ^^!'^^J'^!Zt^;'^ta

Icrne perire tuo: clademque auctore levare. sicca voce. SummeDe-
r ' 1
um, hoc placet libi,
-p.
Vix equidem fauces hsec ipsa m verba resolvo
.

:
si
meruique, o quid tua
(Presserat ora vapor) Tostos en aspice crines !
{;^af;ZiperitZ^^
Inaue
" oculis tantum,J tantum
">^" super ora favillee. r'*'" ignis, perire tuo
_ r , . igne, levureque cla-
Hosne mini fructus nunc lertilitatis honorem, aem auctore. Equidem
/-^rf . r
:

VII
vulnera aratri
•! J.
•
^'^ ref'Olvo fauces in
Officiique refers, quod adunci hac ipsa verba, (va

Rastrorumque fero, totoque exerceor anno ? ^."^^rr

tantum snnt in oc«/m favilliE tantum sunt super ora. Refersne mihi hos fructus,
"S 'Wstll
favilleeque
hunc honorem fertilitatis officiique ; quodferor vulnera adunci aratri rastrorumque, e.ier-
ceorquc toto anno f
TRANSLATION.
the crooked dolphins dare to rise above the surface of the deep, and
take in the wonted air. The huge bodies of sea-calves lie extended
and breathless upon the boiling waves. Nay, it is said, that Nereus
and Doris, M'ith their whole train of daughters, Avere pursued by the
heat into the deepest caverns of the main. Thrice Neptune, with a
stern countenance, ventured to thrust his arms out of the waters, and
thrice was unable to sustain the raging heat of the air.
At length the bountiful Earth, as she was surrounded by the sea ;

amidst her circling oceans and springs, which, now dried up on all
sides, were retired within the dark caverns of her hollow womb up- ;

lifts her all-bearing head, and, scorched by the sultry heats, covers
her face with her hand when shaking all nature with a sudden
;

trembling, she sunk down a little, and retired below her wonted seat ;

whence with awful voice she thus broke silence :

" If
you approve, and I have deserved the fate that threatens me,
" O
why, why, sovereign of the gods, do your thunders cease ? If I
" must from your
perish by the force of fire, let it be by fires darted
" hand nor let me suffer other than that of Ju-
right ;
by any power
" these words
piter. Scarce can I open my mouth to pronounce (for ;

" her face was now

wrapt in clouds of smoke.) Behold my singed
"
hair, my eyes hid in thick vapours, and the heaps of cinders that fly
"
round my temples. And is this the honour and recompense of my
" and service I am torn the crooked
fertility ;
that up by plough-
 64 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Quod mm^to ftoncies Quod pecoii frondes, ahmentaque mitia frug-es

peconjrugesque, all-
peco "^
f
Humano vj^,
.
••^?
' »

tneiita niiHa humaiio

generi, vobis quod thura mimstro f
gcmri quod ministro
tliiira vobU? Sed ftic Sedtamen exitium fac me meruisse: quid undse,
tt/mrn me meriiisxc exi-
tiiitn : quid tuida nic- Quid meruit frater ? cur illi tradita sorte 291
luere,
meruit
quid frater tuns
? Car aquora jEquora decrescunt,et ab athere longius absunt;
tradita
crc.iciint
illi sorte, dc-
et absuiit
Quod si nee fratris, nee te mea gratia tangit ;
;
lougius ab if there f At cceli miserere tui eircumspice utrumque,
:

Quod
trii',
si nee. gralia fra-
iiec iiica gratia
Fumat uterque polus; quos si vitiaverit ignis 295
tangit te, at miserere Atria vestra ruent. Atlas en ipse laborat !

tut call. Uterque pn-

lu.tfumat,circumspiee Vixque suis humeris candentem sustinet axem.
titrumqne, quos si ig- Si freta, si terrse
nis vitiaierit, vestra pereunt, si
regia cceli ;

atria rucnt. En ipse In chaos, antiquum confundimur. Eripe flammis

Atlas laborat, vixque
sustineicandentem ax- Si quid adhuc superest ; et rerum eonsule summse.
em suis hutueris. Si
freta, si terra, si re-
Dixerat hsec Tellus neque enim tolerare vaporem
:

gia cceli pcreun/, coii- Ulterius potuit, nee dicere plura; suumque 302
J'undimur in antiquum
chaos; si quid ad hue Rettulit OS in se, propioraque manibus antra.
jtuperest, eripe fiam-
mis, et eonsule sum- At pater omnipotens superos testatus, et
ipsum,
ma rerum. Tellus dix-
erat hac ; ntque enim Qui dederat currus, nisi opem ferat, omnia fato305
potuit idterius tole-,.
7'are I'aporcm, nee di-
Interitura »
:
'
o-ravi summam petit
i
arduus areem :
7

cere plura, rettulitque suum as in se, antraqne propiora manibus. At pater omnipo-
tens testatus superos, et ipsum Phoebura qui dederat currus filio, omnia interitura gravi
fato, nisi ferat opem ; arduus petit summam areem;

TRANSLATION.
"
share, and tortured with rakes and harroAvs all the year round ? That
" I furnish leaves for the flocks, corn and
pleasant food for man, and
" frankincense for the altars of the gods. But grant that I deserve
" thus to perish, how have the waters offended, or wherein is your bro-
"
"
ther guilty ? do the seas, whose sovereignty fell to his share,
Why
decrease, and shrink farther from heaven ? If you are moved by nei-
" ther a regard for your brother nor me, yet think of your own heaven.
" Look roiuid on all sides, the flames spread from pole to pole, and if
" these too are caught by the fires, your palaces must be involved in
" the general ruin. Lo Atlas becomes unequal to his task, and can
" scarce sustain upon his shoulders the glowing weight of heaven. If
" earth and seas perish, and the sumptuous palaces of heaven, we
" return again to the first chaos. Save from the flames, if ought yet
"
remains, nor suffer the universe to perish irrecoverably."
Here the Earth ended nor could she say more, choked by the
;
vapours
that surrounded her on all sides but drawing back her head within her-
;

self, retired to the caves that border upon the regions of the dead.
Then the almighty father having called all the powers above to witness,
and even him who had given the chariot to his son, that, without his
assistance, all must perish by a heavy fate ; mounts the lofty citadel of
NOTES.
296. Atlas.'] h mountain of Maurita- tobe transformed into tliis mountain,
nia, which, because of its great heijiht, ani was tiie first wlio had made any
was saiii to support the heavens. But considerable proficiency in the know-
Mytliologists derive this notion from At- ledge of astronomy.
las, a king of Mauritania, who was said
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. II. 65

Unde solet latis nubes inducere terris ; -^^ ^}^! tJ^rls-Z^.

iactat. dcwovet tonUrus, jac-
Unde
^ .K, fulmina
movet tonitrus, vibrataque ' >'
.
tatque ribriitu Jvimi-
Sed neque, quas posset terris maucere, nubes, ««. sea neqm tunc

Tunc habuit: nee, quos ccgIo dimitteret, imbres. '^^^''f,:':':^"^,^:]

Intonat, et dextra libratum fuhnen

ab aure iiec imbres, quox di-
mitteret ccelo. l»tonat
Misit in aurigam pariterque, animaque rotisque
:
a vdsit fium en lihra-
tra aure,
Expulit, et ssevis compescuit ignibus ignes. inaiirigam Phaethonta;
yariter ani-
Consternantur equi et saltu in contraria facto expulitquc
:
muque rutisque, et
lora relin- coinveicnit i«iies savis
Colla jugo excutiunt, abruptaq; ignihiix. Equi eanxter-
315 nanfur, et sall.ii facto
quunt. ill vontrariii, excuti-
lUic frsena jacent, illic temone revulsus vnt rollii ji'go, rtl'ni-
gnuntqiie liira abrwp-
Axis; in hac radii fractarum parte rotarum: ta. Illic Jra-iiri juceiit,
illic axis reiulstts ti-
Sparsaque sunt late laceri vestigia currus. mime ; in hac parte
At Pliaethon, rutilos flamnia populante capillos, radii rotanim frac-
tarum, vestiginqiie la-
Volvitur in prseceps, longoq per aera tractu 320
; ceri currvs sunt spar-
su late. At
Fertur; utinterdum de ccelo stella sereno,
F/ia'cthon,
Jiamma populante ru-
Etsinon cecidit, potuit cecidisse videri. iilos- capillos, lolvitur
in preeceps ; ferturque
Quein procul a patria diverse maximus orbe pera'cra longo tractu,
ut interduni Stella de
Excipit Eridanus, spumantiaque abluit ora. calo sere/io, qiise, etsi
non cecidit, potuit videri cecidisse. Quern Phaethonta maximus Eridanus excipit orOe prvciil
diierso a pat rid : abluilqite ora spumantia.

TRANSLATION,
heaven, whence he was Avont to spread over the spacious earth the ga-
the brandished
thering clouds whence he rolls his thunder, and darts
;

lightning. But then neither had he clouds to spread over the earth,
nor showers to pour down from the vault of heaven. He thunders, and
with lifted arm hurls against the charioteer the forky brand, driving him
at once from life, and his seat, and extinguishing the fires by fires still
more cruel. The horses affrighted start a\ ith a sudden bound, shake the
yoke from off their necks, and disengage themselves from the broken
harness. Here lie the reins, there the axle-tree, torn from the pole ;

on one side the spokes of the wheels dashed in pieces, and all around
the fragments of the shattered chariot. But Phaeton, his yellow hair
seized by the flames, tumbles headlong, and shoots through a long tract
of air, as when in a serene sky a star falls, or seems at least to fall.
Him the mighty Po receives, in a region of the world far distant from
his native home, and with rolling waves washes his glowing face.
NOT ES.
3a3. Quon pvncul « palrlA
— excipit is morever areal person ; Apollodorus

Eridanus.} 'the Eridanus, otherwise the liaspreserved his genealogy, and Euse-
Po, is a river of Italy, and of" conse- bius, after Africanus, makes use of it to
quence far leniovtd from Etliiopia, the fix the epoch of Cecro|>s. But not to
country of Pliaiitoii. enter too far into thisdisciission,we siiall
We have thus gone throu<;h the story be satisfied with observing tliat lie was
of Phaeton, and taken notice of what conmionly reputed to be the son of
seemed most necessary for the under- Pliabus and Clyniene. The fable be-
standing of the poet's expressi(>ns. It fore us in all probability relates to some
is thought
by some to represent the en- remarkable conflagiation that iiappened
terprise of a rash Ittad-strortg youth, in his time. Aristotle believed upon the
who hearkened ratlier to his ambition faith of some ancient writers that in the
and than the suggestions of
coiirajje, age of this prince, tire fell from heaven,
•wisdom and prudence. But Pliaeton and destroyed cities and kingdoms.
F
66 P. OVlDll NASONIS

Hesperian trifidu sumantia flam-

II. Ilespi riir Nii'uiJt.t II. Nai'des
duiit i-o)yi»a J'liiiunt-
tia trljiilii jlamiml t.u- ma 325
miilo : sigiianti/uc sux-
uinlioc carmine. Pfia'c- Corpora dant tumulo, signantque hoc carmine
ton tst situs liir, au-
ciirrics putfini,
saxuni :

rigii
quern ciirnim, si iio.i
tenuit tumen e.vciitit
Plimthon, currus auriga paterni ;
Jlic situs est
magiiis ausis. Nil in Quern si non tenuit, magnis tamen excidit ausis.
miseraiiilis patci' cuii-
iliderat i-ultus obduc- Nam pater obductos luctu miserabilis aegro
tos luctu agro : et, si
modo
Condiderat vultus et, si modo credimus, unum
:

crcdiinus,J'erunt
uiiHiii diem isse sine Isse diem sine sole ferunt incendia lumen :

sole.Jncendia preebe-
bant lumen ; aliquis- Preebebant aliquisque malo fuit usus in illo.
;

que usiis fuit in illo

malo. AtClymene post-
At Clymene postquam dixit, qusecunque fuerunt
quam dixit quae unque In tantis dicenda malis lugubris et aniens,
;
fuerunt diccnda in
tantis mails; luguhris, Et laniata sinus, totum percensuit orbem, 335
et aniens, et laniuta
sinus, percensuit to- Exanimesque artus primo, mox ossa requirens,
tum orbem : requi-
reiisqiie priino exam-
mes art us, mox ossa,
, i~.
_ir.. ossa tameii peres;rin& condita ripa
Reppcrit
Incubuitque loco nomenque in marmore lectum
:
,'^

tamen repperit ossa

condita ripA peregri- Perfudit lacrymis, et aperto pectore fovit.
nd. Incuhuitque loco : 340
perfuditque lacryinis,
Nee minus Heliades fletus, et inania morti
nomeii ledum in mar-
more, et fovit aperto
Munera, dant lacrymas, et cffisee pectora palmis
pectore. Nee minus Non auditurum miseras Pha'ethonta querelas
Heliades, dant niorli
ejus, jietus et lacry-
Nocte dieque vocant,adsternunturque sepulchro.
mas, munera inaniu : Luna quater junctis implerat cornibus orbem ;
et ccBstE pectora pal-
mis, vacant uocte die- Illtfi more suo (nam morem fecerat usus) 345
que Phaithoiita lion
auditurum miseras querelas: adsternuntitrque sepulchro. Luna implerat orbem quater
junctis cornibus: ilia: suo more (nam usus fecerat morem.)

TRANSLATION.
II. The Hesperian Naiads commit his body, smoking from the
thrice-forked flame, to a tomb, and inscribe these verses upon the tomb :

" Here lies Phaeton, who

attempted to drive his father's chariot, M'hich,
" if he could not
skilfully guide, he yet miscarried in a great attempt."
The mournful father hid his countenance, overspread M'ith dismal sor-
row and if we can but credit it, it is said, that the space of a whole
;

day passed without any sun the flames served to fiu-nish light, and
:

thus some benefit arose from this mighty disaster. But Clymene, after
saying whatever the grief arising from so cruel a cause could inspire,
mourning and distracted, and tearing her bosom, she ran over the whole
world and first seeking for the lifeless limbs of her son, then his bones,
;

found at length Iiis bones upon the banks of a foreign river. She hangs
over the place, and bathes in tears the name graven upon the marble,
and warms it with her naked breast. The daughters of the Sun are no
less overwhelmed with grief, and lament in tears (a fruitless tribute)
the death of their brother and beating their naked bosoms, lie round
;

the sepulchre, and call night and day upon Phaeton, who was not now
capable to hear their mournful complaints.
The moon had four times joined her horns in a full orb. They,
use had now made it habitual) uttered their
according to custom (for
lamentations when Phaethusa, the eldest of the sisters,
:
willing to lie
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. U. 67

dederant
Plangorem dederant, ^ quis Pliaethusa sororum
plangorem,
I quilms Phdtthusa,
Maxima, cum vellet terrse procumbere, questa est maxima sororum, cum
vellet procumbere ter-
Diriguisse pedes ad quam
conata venire
:
r<F, est questa pedes
diriguisse : ad quam
Candida Lampetie subita radice retenta est.
; caiidida Lampetie co-
Tertia cum crinem manibus laniare pararet 350 ;
nata venire: est
tenta subita radice.
re-

Avellit frondes hsec stipite crura teneri,

: Tertia cum pararet
laniare crinem mani-
Ilia dolet fieri longos sua brachia ramos. bus, avellit fronde.f.
Jfa-c dolet crura te-
Dumque ea mirantur ; complectitur inguina cor- neri stipile, ilia dolet
sua brac/iia fieri longos
tex; ramos. Dumque mi-
rantur ea, cortex com-
Perque gradus uterum, pectusque, humerosquej plectitur inguina ;per-
manusque. que gradus, ambit ute-
Ambit et exstabant tantum ora vocantiamatrem.
:
rum, pectusqne, hu-
merosque, manusqzte,
Quid faciat mater? nisi, quo trahat impetus illam, et ora tantum exta-
bant, vocantia matrtm.
Hue eat, atque illuc? et, dum licet, oscula jun- Quid mater faciat ?
nisi eathue atque il-
gat? luc,quo impetus tra-
Non satis est ;
truncis avellere corpora tentat, hat ilium? et jungat
oscula dum licet ? Non
Et teneros manibus ramos abrumpere at inde : est satis : tentat avel-
lere corpora truncis,
Sanguineze manant, tanquam de vulnere, guttffi. et abrumpere teneros
ramos manibus: at
Parce, precor, mater, qusecunque est saucia, cla- guttm sanguines ma-
nant inde tanquam de
mat, vulnere. Qucecunque
Parce, precor nostrum laniatur in arbore corpus.
: est saucia clamat, ma-
ter, precor parce, par-
Jamque vale cortex in verba novissima venit.
:
ce precor: nostrum
III.Inde fluunt lacrymae stillataque sole ri- corpus laniatur in ar-
;
bore. Jamque vale;
cortex venit in verba
gescunt novissima.
De ramis electra novis qua? lucidus amnis 365 ; III. Inde lacri/mo"
Jluunt : elect raque stil-
Excipit, et nuribus mittit gestanda Latinis. Vo
lata de novis
•'latude ramis ri-
gescunt sole: 5M<r clcctra amnis lucidus excipit, et mil tis gestanda nuribus Lathmis.

TRANSLATION.
down a little upon the ground, complained that her feet were on a sud-
den become stiff; to whom, as the fair Lampetie endeavoured to come,
she found herself kept back, and rooted to the ground. third, as in A
excess of grief she was going to rend her hair, tears away the leaves.
One grieves that her legs are held fast by a lumpish root, another that
her arms branch out into long boughs. And while they stand won-
dering at so unusual a prodigy, the bark closes upon their groins, and
by degrees encompasses their bellies, and breasts, and shoulders, and
hands their mouths now only remained uncovered, calling to their
:

mother What can the mother do, but run to and fro as
for aid.

frenzy guides, and kiss her sprouting daughters while yet she may.
That is not enough, she tries moreover to tear their bodies from the
trunks where they were enclosed, and strip the tender leaves from
their fingers but thence drops of blood flow, as from a wound.
:

Forbear, cries she who feels the smart, forbear, mistaken parent;
you tear a daughter's body in every tree and now farewell. Here :

the bark closing upon their faces, suppressed their farther words.
HI. Hence tears flow, which distilling in drops of amber from the
new-formed bouehs, harden in the sun, and received below by the
68 P. OVIDIl NASONIS
IV. Cycini.i, prole.t IV. Adfuit huic monstro, proles Stheneleia,
StheiieUia, nd/itit huic
monst.ro, qui quamvis
junctiis tibi <i malerno
Cycnus,
sanguine, tumen O Qui tibimaterno quamvis a sanguine junctus,
Pkai-'thou fuit propiar
tibi mentc. Ille relicto
Mente tanten, Phuethon, propior fuit. Ille relicto
(nam rexerat
impetio
popnjos Ligurum, et
(Nam Ligurum populos, et magnas rexerat urbes)
magnas urbaj imple- Imperio, ripas virides amnemque querelis
rat 1-ipas vir'ules, am-
nemque Erid mum, sil- Eridanum implerat, sylvamque sororibus auc-
vamque auctum soro- tam :
ribus quereUs: cum vox
esttenuata viro: ca- Ciam vox est tenuata viro
canaeque capillos ;

naque pluma: dissimu-

lant capMos'y coUum- Dissimulantplumse collumque a pectore longum
;
que longuin porrigitur
d pectore, juncturu- Porrigitur, digitosq ; ligatjuncturarubentes 375 :

que ligat Uigitos ru- Penna latus vestit, tenet os sine acumine ros-
bentes : penna vestit la-
tus : rostrum sine acu- trum :

mine tenet os : Cycnus

fit nova avisnee cre-
;
Fit nova Cycnus avis ; nee se cceloque Jovique
dit se calo Jovique, tit
memor ignis missi iii- Credit, ut injuste missi memor ignis ab illo ;
Justb ab iilo.
Stagna colit, patulosq ; lacus ; ignemque perosus;
Colit
stagna patulosque la-
cus : perosusq nc ignem, Quae colat, elegit contraria flumina flammis. 380
elegit Jlumina contra-
riajlammis, qurr colut.
V. Squalidus interea genitor Phaethontis, et
V. Jnterea genitor
Pka'cthontis sqnalidus, expers
et ipse expers sui de-
coris, qualis solet esse
Ipse sui decoris :
qualis, ciim deficit orbem,
cum deficit orbem : ipse Esse solet lucemque
; odit, seque ipse, diemque ;
edit lucemque, seque,
diemque ; dutque ani- Datque animum in luctus ; et luctibus adjicit
mum in luetics; et ad-
Jicit iramluctibus_:
iram;

TRANSLATION.
limpid stream, are thence sent to shine iu the dress of the Latian
dames.
lY. Cycnus, the son of Sthenelus, was present at this amazing pro-
digy, who, though nearly allied to you, Phaeton, on the mother's side,
was yet nearer in affection. He leaving his kingdom, (for he reigned
over the people, and mighty cities of the Ligurians) filled with his
complaints the verdant banks of the Po, and the woods now increased
by the sisters when he perceives his voice to lessen and become shrill
; ;

white feathers conceal his hair a long neck is stretched out from his
:

breast and a skinny film ties together his red toes.

;
His sides are
covered with wings, and his mouth shoots out into a blunted beak.
Cycnus becomes a new bird nor trust the heavens and Jupiter, as
;

mindfid of the fires by him unjustly darted at his friend. He fre-

quents the pools and spreading lakes ; and hating fire, delights in
rivers, as opposite to the flames.
V. Meantime the father of Phaeton, disfigured, and destitute of his
wonted comeliness, as when his orb is hid by an eclipse, hates the
light, himself, and the day, and gives up his mind to grief, and joins
resentment to his grief, and denies his service to the world. " lot, My
NOTES.
467. Cycnus.] The son of Sthenelus, .170. Ligurum.'] Liguria, apart of Ita-
and king of the Ligurians. ly between the rivers Varus and Macra.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. II. 69

Officiumque negat mundo. Satis, inquit, ab cevi 7o'°Tqlf,'iraZrs

Sors mea principiis fuit irrequieta, piaetque fui't satis irnquietaab
. *. f,* 11 -i'"!
principiis (Fvi: viget-
Actorum sine fine mini, sine nonore, laborum. que luborum acto?„m
Quilibet alter agat portantes luraina currus 'il^lHrthdl^ JiZ
:

Si nemo est,' omnesque dei non posse fatentur : "satcunusrortantes

lumiiia. Si nemo est.

1,, T
T^,

c
i i

Orbatura patres aliquando tulmma ponat.

1 1.
omnesque Ddfatentur
Ipse ao-at; ut saltem.dum nostras tentat nabenas, ^on
^ posse ipse Jnnifer
-i

asat m saiiem, dum

^
•
J.

J.

.•
:

Tunc sciet, ignipedum vires expertus equorum, lZ%o2Taaqnat'o

Non meruisse necem, qui
^ non bene rexerit illos. /"iminaorbatura pa-
„,. ,. -Ql
lana dicentem circumstant omnia feolem
,
.

vires
^"'" expertus
. .
^'*''-

ignipedum equo-
Numina neve tenebras inducere rebus 395 mer'mtse'\w^i "^i
;
velit

Supplice voce rogant: missos quoque Jupiter ignes S,S"„^m/JS;''^

Excusat, precibusque minas regaliter addit. dicentem stant soiem

[Colligit amentes;
et adhuc terrore paventes, pUce' vociTe Tem'm-
Phoebus equos: stimuloque domans, et verbere j%Z^er'qf,%lVlxcv.
_..' natumque
Sffivit
Saivit

enim,
•

,.
objectat, et imputat
. .,,._
illis.j
*"' missos ignes,
que regaliter minas
predbus. p/iabus coi-
tidriit-

»,
TTT .i- T•
J.
• •
ligit equos amentes, et
VI, At pater omnipotens ingentia moenia cceli paveuhs adhiic terro.

Circuit et, ne quid labefactum viribus ignis

; ^JV^XTSSm
Corruat.explorat:
T-,, .' r quee
T. postquam firma, suique
Koboris esse videt terras, nominumque labores
:
11. '1 savu, objectatquena-
turn, et imputat iiior-
tem ejus nus.

Perspicit. Arcadisetamenestimpensiorilli 405 potensdrcuu Ingentia

Cura suffi. Fontesque et nondum audentia labi
ITqlmfJbe/actumvi-
Flumina restituit; dat terrae oramina, frondes ribus ignis, corrmt .
"
qucE postquam videt
; perspicit terras, laboresque hominum tamen inipemior
esse firma suique roboris cura est illi :

sua Arcadice,restituitquefontes,etJluminanon4umaudentia labi. Dat graminaterra,frondes

TRANSLATION.
" birth of time and I
(says he,) has been enough restless since the first ;

" now begin to be weary of a labour without end or recompense. Let

"
any other drive the chariot that diffuses light to the universe or if ;

" none will dare, but all acknowledge themselves unequal to so mighty
" a task let Jove himself make trial, that at least while his hands are
;

"
employed in wielding our reins, he may for some time lay aside his
" thunder that deprives fathers of their children. Then perhaps will
" he own, after proving the mettle of the fire-breathing steeds, that
" he who was unable to govern them, deserved not so severe a fate."
All the Gods assembled round the Sun as he was uttering these com-
that he would not suffer the
plaints, and with humble voice entreat
universe to be lost in endless darkness. Jupiter too excuses the fires
thrown at his son, and assuming an air of majesty mixes prayers
and threats. Phoebus upon this calls together his raging steeds that
yet shook with horror, and urges them with whip
and spur for he is ;

full of rage, and reproaches them with his son, and charges his death

upon them.
VI. But the Almighty Father walks round the great m alls of heaven,
and diligently searches, lest any part weakened by the violence of the
fire, might be in when finding all firm and in full strength, he
danger :
70 P. OVIDII NASONIS

arboribus; jubetqite Arboribus Isesasque iubet revirescere svlvas.

silvas lirsax revives- t- r •• :
•
-a
cere, num it rcditque Uum redit, itouc ii'equens : in virp;ine
ivt
JN onacnna
j'rcguens, h(CsU in No- tt •, ,
a" i ^ l_ -i
•
am^
nacrind rirgine ; et rlffiSlt; Ct aCCCptl CalucrC Sub OSSlOUSlgnCS. 4J0
Non erat hujus opus lanam mollire trahendo;
P'cS^^tiisZ-
jus non erat mollire
lanam trifhe/iao ; nee
jvfgc
_..
positu
> ..
variai'e comas: sed fibula vestem,
Vitta coercuerat iieglectos alba capitlos,
variare comas positu,
in -n

Zdan'^atbavutacoer. Et iTiodo Icve uianu jaculum, modo sumpserat

ciieratncglectos capil-
los,etmodosii7iipscrat
nrmm
aiv^uui.
• •
,, . , r
leve jacuium., worio ar- Miles erat Phoebes nee Majnalon attigitulla 415
ciimmami. Erat miles --,,•
uUa lira. Gratiof hac
, m-- oi
ifivise. Sed
:

7/ i^-j ^
Phabes : nee iiutlapotentia longa est^
gUJ^^'au,nf%J'uui.
Ultcrius medlo spatium Sol altus liabebat;
lapotentia est longa. CuHi subitille nemus, Quod nullacecidcrataetas.,.
Altus sol habebat s]ia- .
,'i ,
tium ultcrius medio, Lxuitliic humero
pliaretram, lentosque retendit
cum ilia subit tie?nus « j. •
j.\ i. i
'u
•
i.

quod nulla Mas ceei- Arcus; mque solo, quod texerat lierba, jacebat :
t^harkramhlnfero!re.
Et pictam posita pharetiam cervice premebat.
tenditgmitntusarcus, Jupiter ut vidit fessam,
'
et custode vacantem :
jacebutque ill solo quod -.^
'^
^ „ . . .

herba texerut, et pre- Hoc certe conjux lurtum mea nesciet, inquit:
7amce?1^7plZ!'}u. Aut si rescient, sunt, 6 sunt
jurgia tanti !

Piter ut vidit iiianiyes- Protlnus induitur faciem cultumque Dianae : 425

(ode ; inquit, certe
mea conjux nesfiet hoc furtum : atit si rescierit , sunt , 8 sunt jurgia tanti. Protinus indui-
tur faciem cultumque jbiana ;

TRANSLATION.
next surveys the earth, and tlie works of men. But above the rest his
own Arcadia engaged his care. He restores her fountains, and rivers
not yet daring to glide. He clothes the earth with grass, and the trees
with leaves, and commands the desolate forests to recover their former
verdiu-e. While he thus often walks to and fro, he chanced to fix his
eyes upon an Arcadian virgin, and the fires received within his bones,
gathered fresh strength. Her employment was not to draw and soften
the wool, or vary her divided tresses but her gown was fastened with ;

a clasp, and a white fillet binds her unadorned hair. Now she bears
in her hand a slender spear, now is armed with a light bow. She was
a companion of Phoebe nor did any nymph frequent Msenalus, dearer
;

to the goddess than she. But favour lasts not long. The sun had now
passed his middle space in the high heavens, when, urged by the heat,
she entered a shady grove, which no art or age had formed here she :

put her quiver from off her shoulder, and unbraced her yielding bow,
and laying herself down upon the ground that was covered with grass,
gently reposed her neck upon the painted quiver. Jupiter, when he
saw her thus fatigued, and without a keeper, Sure, says he, my wife
will never know of this stolen embrace or if
by chance she should :

come to know of it, is her rage so terrible to make me forego a bliss

" Fair
like this. Straight he assumes the shape and habit of Diana.
nymph, (said he,) who make one of my train, over wha.t mountains
*'

NOTES.
409. /ni>irg-i/je2VoHamn9.]Sohecalls 415. Ma:nalon.'] A celebrated mouD-
Callisto, the daughter of Lycaon. tain of Arcadia.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. II. 71

ait, O comitum virgo pars

Atque una mearum,
':!Z,:fn;^,nZ^,
iugis ? De cespite virgo
In Quibus es venata *'° >» quihus jugis es ve-
-,v^ , , , -j'j'-i. nata? Virgo levat se
belevat; et, salve numen, mejudice, dixit, de cespUe, et dixit,

Audiat ipse lic^t, majus Jove ridet, et audit ; :

^J^:;: J„^:f:);,;rz.i:,
Et sibipraeferrisescaudet: et osculaiungit: 430 'v^e audiat. Jupiter
,_ 1, P V J J • • • audit, et rt(icf,et gau-
Nec moderata satis, nee sic a virgine danda. (let
seprtjtnisibijct

Qua venata foret sylva narrare parentem 'moJerTta" mrZVdaZ

Impedit amplexu : nee se sine crimine prodit.

t^^Itm^!';^.
quantum modo fcemina possit. foret
Ilia quidem contra, '«" ««»>«,? qua sUva
vemitn tiec yro-
^l.
h ^ •,-
mitior
l\ AOr
4oo dit se siw crimine.
:

(Aspiceres utinam, baturnia, esses!)

Ilia quidem pugnat: sed quse superare puella, q"antVm%minamodo
Quisve Jovem poterat ? Superum petit sethera Z7J^ cifp"c'ereT efsL
victor mitior .'J ilia quidem
T •
1 , 1
• •
pugnat sed quw vvcl-. ,
•
1 :

Jupiter: huic odio nemus est, et conscia sylva. ta, quisve poterat su-

Unde, pedem referens, psene est oblita pharetram ''',Ztor pcutZ'th^r'a^Z-

Tollere cumtelis.etquem suspenderat,atcum,440 pemm: nemus et con-
-J-, •, , ^ -r\-i li scia sill a est odio huic.
Eece, suo eomitata elioro Uictynna per altum unde rejerens pedem,
Msenalon ingrediens, et csede superba ferarum, %I'^etratic%ul''^teiu,
vocat elamata refugit: "»""" 9!'/"' •""- '''
Aspicit / visamque
banc, » :
K .
^ T. . penderat. hcce Bic-
. .
'

Et timuit primo, ne Jupiter esset in lUa. tynna eomitata suo

choro, ingrediens per
altum Mcenalon, et superba cade ferarum, aspicit hanc, vocatque earn visatn; ilia clamata
rej'ugit : et timuit prima ne Jupiter esset in illd.

TRANSLATION.
" have
you pursued the chase ?" The virgin starting from
the turf,
" Hail than Jove, were Jove himself
goddess, in my opinion greater
" He smiles, and hears, and is pleased with being
present to hear."
preferred before himself. He then embraces her, and with an eager-
ness not to be expected in a virgin. As she was about to tell him in
what wood she had been hunting, he stopped her by his caresses, and
discovered himself to her by his crime. She on the other hand, as
much as a woman could, (O daughter of Saturn, would you had seen
her, sure you would have been more gentle !) she, I say, strove M^ith
all her might but what maid or mortal can contend with Jove ? The
;

god, exulting in his success, returns to heaven. She detests the grove
and wood that were witnesses of her crime, and retreating from them
with precipitation, almost forgot her quiver, arrows, and bow which
she had hung upon one of the trees.
Meantime Diana with her virgin train appears upon mount Msenalus,
proud of the slaughter she had made of wild beasts, and how soon she
espies the nymph, calls her to her : she at first drew back, trembling,
lestJove might be also disguised in her. But when she saw her sur-
rounded with her n3'mphs, she knew there could be no deceit, and im-

NOTES.
441. Dictynna.] Diana, oi'Jro ruv have it, that she assumed this name
$iKT6^v from the nets or toils which the
of Bntomartis, her favourite
'" ho""""-
companion.
goddess used in hunting. Others will
72 P. OVIDir NASONIS

fin Z"n''"aJ?tcr'f,!
^^^ postquaiii paiiter nymphas incedere vidit:445
crricn ; seii.iit doioi Sensit abesse dolos: nuaierumque accessit ad
«6(v»r accessit.que ad
;

nximriim harum. lieu harum.

qutini est difficile rinn
prudere crimen ru/tit !
Heu quam difficile est, crimen
non prodere vultu f
Vix atfollit oculos Vix oculos attollit hUmo nee, ut ante solebat. :

hunin, ncc est juncta , ^.

, ,

lateri detr, ut ante so- Juncta Deze lateri, nec toto -est agmme prima - " "
:

lebat esse, nec est pri-

ma toto agmine. Sed Sed silet, et Isesi dat signa rubore pudoris, 450
silet ; et rubore diit
signa Icsi pudoris, et
Et (nisi quod virgo est) poterat sentire Diana
Diana mille notis po- Mille notis culpam Nymphse sensisse feruntur.
:

terat seiitire culpa/ii

Cnisi quod est firgo,) Orbe resurgebant lunaria cornua nono :

iiymph(F feru nt ur sen-

sisse. Cornua liinariu Cum Dea venatrix fraternis languida flammis,
resurgebant, WHO orbe,
cum dea venal rix Ian- Nacta nemus ffelidum
O de quo
^
cum murmure :

, , Arc
guida J'ralernis Jtam labens 455
mis, est nacta gelidum
vemus, dc quo rivus Ibat, et attritas versabat rivus arenas.
that labens cum mur-
mure, et rersubat at-
Ut localaudavit; summas pede contigit undas ;

tritas arenas. Lit lau- His quoque laudatis: Procul est,ait,arbiter omnis:
davit lova ; contigit
summns niidas pede. Nuda superfusis tingamus corpora lymphis.
His laudatis quoque,
ait, omnis arbiter est Parrhasiserubuit: cunctaevelaminaponunt: 460
procul, tiyigamns cor-
pom ntidti lymphis su-
Una moras quserit dubitanti vestisademptaest:
:

perfusi^.
erubuit.
Parrhasis
Cuncta po-
Qua posita nudo patuit cum corpora crimen.
nunt velainina. Cal-
listo una qunrit moras.
Attonitse, manibusque uterum celare volenti,

Vestis est adempta Illi procul hinc, dixit, nec sacros poUue fontes,
I
""^^
dubitanti. Quce positii, suo jussit secedere coetu. 465
crimen patuit cum Cynthia: deque
nudo corpore Cynthia dixit illi attonitoe, volentique celare uterum manibtis, J procul hinc,
nec pollue sacros fontes, jussitque secedere de suo cwtu.

TRANSLATION.
mediately joined them. Alas! how hard is it not to betray guilt by
our looks. She scarcely lifted her eyes from the ground, nor walked as
usual close by the side of the goddess, nor appeared the foremost of
the train but she was silent, and by her blushes gave plain signs of
;

her injured honour insomuch, that Diana (had she been aught but a
;

virgin) might by a thousand tokens have

discovered the crime. Her
nymphs, it is said, suspected it. The moon had now
nine times re-
newed her orb, when the hunting goddess, faint by her brother's beams,
entered a cool grove, whence a gentle stream flowed in soft murmurs,
along a smooth bed of shining gravel.
The goddess after praising the
place, touched the surface of
the waters with her foot pleased with :

them also, Here, says she, no spies are near, let us strip, and bathe
ourselves in the crystal stream: Callisto blushed, all the nymphs
she only forms delays. Her fellows
pleased with the motion, undress,
round her, and obliging her reluctant to comply, discover her
press
crime with her naked body. Confounded, and endeavouring to con-
" Be
ceal with her hands her pregnant womb gone, (cries the god- ;

" dess with nor dare to pollute the sacred stream." And
indignation,)
immediately banished her from her
train.

NOTES.
460. Parrhasis.'] Parrhasia was a re- 465. Cynthia.] Diana so called, from
gion of Arcadia. Cynthiis, a mountain of Delos, where
she was born.

"^
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. II. 73

Matrona magni tonan-

Senserat hoc olim magni matrona Tonantis :
senserat hoc olim: ti<i

in idonea tenipora pcenas distuleratque graves :

Distuleratque graves pcenas iti idonea teni-
Causa morse nulla est: et j am puer Areas (id ipsum pora. Est nulla cavsii
mora; et jam puer Ar-
Indoluit Juno) fuerat de pellice natus. eas (Juno indoluit id

Quo simul obvertit saevam cum lumine mentem ipsum) fuerat Jiatus
de pellice. Quo simul;

Scilicet hoc unum restabat, adultera, dixit, obvertit

vam cum
mentem stB-
lumine, dix-
Ut fcecunda fores fieretque injuria partu
: it Adultem, scilicet
:

hoc U7ium restubut, ut

Nota Jovisque mei testatum dedecus esset.
:
fores /cecuudu, i7ijuri-
Haud impune feres adiniam tibi nempe figuram
: ;
aquefieret nota partu,
dedecusquc mei Jovis
Qua tibi, quaq; marito. esset testatum. Haud
places nostro, importuna, feres impune ; ncmpe
Dixit : et arreptis adversa fronte capillis importuna, aaimam fi-

Stravit humi pronam. Tendebatbrachiasupplex: guram quuplaces tibi,

quaqne places nostro
marito. Dixit: et ca-
Brachia cceperunt nigris horrescere viUis,
pillis arrep'is il
ft onfe
Curvarique manus,et ad uncos crescere ungues,
in adversa, stravit illam
proniim humi.
pedum fungi: laudataq; quondam 480
Siip-
Officioque plex tendebat brachia:
brachia cceperunt hor-
Ora Jovi, lato fieri deformia rictu. rescere ,'.'/^rjf villia,
Neve preces animos, et verba superflua flectant; manusque curvari, et
crescere in ungues a-
Posse loqui eripitur vox iracunda, minaxque,
:
duncos, fungique offi-
cio pedum, oraque
Plenaque rauco de gutture fertur.
terroris
quondam laudafa Jo-
Mens antiquatamen facta quoque mansit in ursa. vi, Jieri defortnia lato
rictu. Neve preces et
Assiduoque suos gemitu testata dolores, verba superjiua flec-
tant animos, eripitur
Qualescunque manusad ccelum etsidera tollit; posse loqui; vox ira-
Ingratumque Jovem, nequeat cum
cunda,
minaxque, ple-
dicere, sentit. naque terroris,
fertur
(if rauco gutture. Tamen antiqua mens mansit quoque in \\ll facta ur.\(t. Test<itaque suos
dolores aiHdiio gcmitti, tollit qualescunque manus ad ccelum et side ra, cumque nequeat di-
cere Jovem iiigratum, tamen sentit euni esse ingratum.

TRANSLATION.
Thespouse of the great thunderer
had perceived this some time be-
fore, but deferred the punishment her vengeance prompted
her to take,
till a fit opportunity offered but now there is no farther reason for
;

of resentment to Juno) was

delay for young Areas (a fresh ground
:

born to her husband of Callisto. The goddess, regarding the child with
a stern look, cried " It is enough, base adulteress this one thing only
; ;

wanting, that a fruitful womb might proclaim

" was the injury you had
" done me, and the baseness of
my husband but you shall not escape
:

"
"
my vengeance ; I will destroy that beauty which rendered you so
lovely in the eyes of Jove." She said, and seizing her by the hair,
The out her
dragged her to the ground. suppliant nymph stretched
imploring hands. Her arms began
to grow rough with black shaggy
hairs her hands are bent, and shoot into pointed claws, and serve
;

her instead of feet her mouth, formerly admired by Jupiter, becomes

;

now deformed by a wide opening and, lest prayers or entreaties might

;

reach the ears of Jove, she was deprived of speech. A surly threat-
from her hoarse throat.
ening voice, savage and full of terror, issues
retained her former
But,"though thus changed into a bear, she still
and, her sorrow s by unceasing groans, raised
understanding, expressing
her new unwieldy paws to heaven and though she coxdd not call Jove
;

ungrateful, she thought him so. Ah, how oiten, not daring to remain
74 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Ah quoties non ansa ^]j quoties, solii iioti aiisa Quiescere svlva^
quiescere solA sylvd, .
^ , '
,
^ .
.•'.'., '
erriivit ante domum. Ante doiiium, quandamque suis crravit in agiis
s'taJ^ 'Ah'quotic's Vst Ah
quoties per saxa
! canum latratibus acta est.
I^ff^^on-ve^u^f^ Venatrixque metu venantum territa fugit!
que fugit territa metu Saepe fcris latuit visis: oblita quid esset:
venantum. Seepejoris _^ * -i
.
i
tnsis, latuit oblita quid Ursaque conspcctos in moutibus liorruit ursos :

7uit'nrZTcouspectos Pertiiuuitq; lupos, quamvis pater essetinillis. 493

in montibiis, perti?nti
VII. Ecce Lycaonise proles ignara parent!
itque Inpos, quamvis
pater esset in illi.i. Areas adest, ter quinque fere natalibus actis :

VII. Ecci Areas pro-

les Jjycaoni/E ignara Dumque feras sequitur ;
dum saltus eligit aptos^
adext parentifter qiiin-
que natalibus fere ac- Nexilibusque plagis sylvas Erymanthidas ambit;
tis. jDumqiie sequitur
Incidit in matrem, quae restitit Arcade viso 500
J'eras, dum eligit ap-
;

tos saltiis, amhitqtie Et cognoscenti similis fuit. Ille refugit :

sUi'as Eri/mantliidax
nexililfUf plagis ; inci- Immotosque oculos in se sine fine tenentem
dit in mutrem, qua:
Arcade riso restitit ; et
Nescius extimuit propriiisque accedere aventi
:

J'uit similis cognoscen- Vulnifico fuerat fixurus pectora telo :

ti. JUc rejKgit,
Jlle refiigit, vesci
neici- . •
,
•
, S
• •
r
usque extimuit iiiam Arcuit omnipotens ; pariterquc ipsosque, neias-
tenentcm oculos immo- nnp '^O'l
tos in se sine fine,fue- que 0\J0
^

ratqtte fixurus pecto. Sustulit et celeri raptos per inania vento

ra vulnifico telo, »lli _
:
." ..r r
r •

aventi accedere pro-

ImpOSUlt
x t
CCSlo, VlClliaqUe Sldcra leClt.
prius. Omnipotens ar- . •. ^ i il ^
• •

cuit: sustviitque pa- Intumuit Juno, postquam inter sidera pellex

eif"; 7tlmpoluZ'-^"ol Fulsit; etadcanamdescenditineequoraTethyn^
raptos per inania ceie- Oceanumq: ^^
scnem: quorum
^
reverentiamovit 610
ri leuto, Jecitquc coelo ^^ -j^ ^ Hi • •

ricinaiidera. junoin-
feaepe Ucos, causamquc Viae scitantibus, mnt,
tumuit postquam pel-
lex fulsit inter sidera : et descendit in
a-quora ad canam Tcthyn, senemque Oceanum; quo-
rum reverentia sa-pe movit Deos ; inftque scitantibus causatn tia.

TRANSLATION.
by herself in the solitary woods, did she approach toward her palace,
and haunt the fields and meadows once her own. How often was she
driven over the craggy steeps by the cry of her dogs, and thought her-
self a huntress, frighted by the pursuit of the hunters. Oft forgetting
what she was, she hid herself upon seeing her fellow-brutes and trem- ;

bled at the shaggy bear, though she too now was one nor dreaded less ;

the sight of rugged wolves, although her father was one of the number.
VII. Meantime Areas, who had now completed his fifteenth year,
being a stranger to the fate of his mother, while he is intent upon the
chase, while he chooses apt forests, and encloses the Erymanthian
woods with his plaited nets, chanced to rouse his mother, who stopped
upon seeing Areas, and looked at him like one who knew him. He
drew back, nor knowing what it meant, was frighted to observe her
eyes immovably fixed upon him, and as he perceived her about to ap-
proach, was going to pierce her breast with his wounding spear. The
almighty forbade it, and, carrying off both them, and the Avickedness
intended, snatched them in whirlwinds through the air, and placed them
illheaven, where they form two neighbouring constellations. Juno
swelled v/ith rage, when she saw her rival shine among the stars she ;

descends to the sea lo hoary Tethys and aged Ocean, both greatly
 METAMORPIIOSEON,*LiB. II. 75

An quarUis quare
Quseritis aethereis quare regina Deorum
ego
regina rieortim adsini
Sedibus hue adsini ? Pro me tenet altera ccelum. hue iFthereis sedibtis?
Altera teiiet calum
Mentiar, obscurum nisi nox ciim fecerit orbem, pro me. Mentiar, ni-
si, cum nox fecerit or-
Nuper honoratas sumrao mea vulnera coelo 515 bim- obscuriim, videri-

illic, ubi
Videritis stellas circulus axem tis xtclliis, mea vulne-
ra, mtper honoratas
Ultimus extremum spatioque brevissimus ambit. sumnio caln, illic ubi
circulvs vlfimns, bre-
Est vero, cur quis Junonem laedere noht, vissiimtsqne spatio, am-
bit extremum axem.
OfFensamque tremat, qua; prosim sola nocendo ? Kit vero ctir qvis no-

En ego quantiim egi quam vasta potentia nostra

!
lit Ittdcre
trematque
Jidwnem,
ofimsatn ;
est! 520 qva: sola
prusim iio-
cendo ! En qvaittum
Esse hominem vetui facta est Dea sic ego pcenas
;
:
ego egi! quavi vusta
Sontibus impono; sic est mea magna potestas. est nostra pottiitia.
Vetui illam esse Itomi.
Vindicet antiquam faciera, vultusque ferinos nem, est facta dea.
£go sic iinpono pasnas
Detrahat; Argolica quod in ante Phoronide fecit. soiitibtis: sic mea po-
test as est magna. fi7i-
Cur non et pulsa ducat Junone, meoque 525 dicet antiquamj'aciem,
Collocet in thalamo, socerumqueLycaonasumat? detraliatqueante rvltusj'e-
rinos, quod fecit
At vos si laesae contemptus tangit alumna?, inAriiiilica Phoronide.
Cur lion ft diicut, Jiv-
Gurgite cceruleo septem prohibete Triones none pulsd, collocet- ;

que in meo thalamo,

sumatqne Lycaona soccriim. At si contemptus lesa alumna tangit i os,prohibete septem Tri^
ones cteruli,o gurgite.

TRANSLATION.

revered among the gods ; when, to them asking the cause of her
coming, she thus begins :

" Would
youknow why I the queen of the gods am come hither from
" the fethereal seats ? Another
reigns in heaven in my stead give no :

" credit to
my words, if, when night covers the earth in darkness, you
" see not in the most
conspicuous part of heaven stars lately honoured,
" to
my great affliction roll in their orbs, where the last circle, and
" smallest in compass, surround the poles of the world. then Who
" will henceforth tremble to offend Juno, or dread her resentment,
" whose vengeance serves only to exalt those on whom it is poured ?
" What mighty things have I done how vast and extensive is my !

" I had deprived her of human shape, and she is made a god-
power !

" dess. thus that I punish the guilty ? Is it thus that I prove
Is it
" the greatness of my power ? Let him claim for her her former shape,
" and take away this savage form, as he once did in the case of Gre-
" does he not cast Juno off, that he may marry her,
"
cian lo. Why
place her in my bed, and have Lycaon for his father-in-law ? But
"
you, if the wrongs done to a goddess your foster-child, moves your
"
indignation, allow not the seven Triones to touch your hallowed

NOTES.

5l6. Circulus.'] The arctic circle, or pole, must become

less. These polar
that which surrouuds the north pole. circles therefore being, in respect of the
All parallel circles in the heavens, in poles, the last
of those by which tlie
proportion as they recede from the heaven is divided into zones, are at the
equinoctial, and approach toward either same time the least in compass.
 76 P. OVIDII NASONIS
sidera re-
fclliteqne
cejita hi rcclo mercede
Sideraque in coelo stupri mercede recepta
sttipri, ne pellex tin- Pellite ne puro tingatur in sequore pellex. 530
:

gatiir in puro tcquore.

VIII. J)ii maris an- VIII. Di maris annuerant: habili Saturnia curru
nuerant. Saturnia in-
greditur liquidum ac- Ingreditur liquidum pavonibus aera pictis :

ra curru habili pictis Tam nuper pictis cseso pavonibus Argo ;

pavonibus : pavonibus
tarn nuper pictis, Ar- Quam tu nuper eras, cum candidus ante fuisses,
go cecso ; quam tu cor-
ve loquax eras nuper Corveloquax, subito nigrantes versus in alas. 535
subito versus in ni-
grantes alas, cum ante
Nam
fuit hsec quondam niveis argentea pennis
Nam Alcs, ut eequarct totas sine labe columbas
j'iiissescajidi'dus. :

h(ec ales fuit quondam at ""t/^ ^• a. 'i.

argentea nivcii pen- JNCC SCrvatUHS Vlglil Capitolia VOCC

nis, ut (equaret coli/m
bas totas sine labe ; Cederet anseribus,
nee amanti flumina Cycno.
Lingua fuit damno lingua faciente loquaci, 540
nee cederet anseribus :
servaturis capitalia
vigili voce, nee Cyc- Qui color albus erat, nunc est contrarius albo.
no animanti Jiumina.
JAngua fuit ilU dam- IX. Pulchrior in totR quam Larisssea Coronis,
no: lingud loquaci fa-
ciente, ut color qui
Non fuit Haemonia. Placuit tibi, Delphice, certe,
erat albus, est 7iunc
contrarius albo.
Dum vel casta fuit, vel inobservata: sed ales
IX. Non fuit in totd SensitadulteriumPhcebeius ; utque latentem 545
Hamonia puella pul-
chrior quam Coronis Detegeret culpam non exorabilis index.
JLarissffa. Certe placu-
it tibi dum
Ad dominumtendebatiter; quem garrula motis
Delplme,
vel fuit casta, vel inob
sen ata. Sed ales P/tff-
Consequitur pennis, scitetur ut omnia, cornix :

beius sensit adulterium. Indexqtie non exorabilis, tendebat iter ad domiiium, detegeret la-
tentem culpam: qucm garrula cornix consequitur motis pennis, ut scitetur omnia.

TRANSLATION.
" waves but banish for ever from
:
your realms stars that have been
" received into heaven in reward of
adultery, that your pure streams
" not be defiled a base
may by strumpet."
VIII. The sea-deities consented the daughter of Saturn cuts the
;

liquid air in her elegant chariot drawn by painted peacocks peacocks :

lately painted killing of Argus, when at the same time the

upon the
raven, formerly white as snow, was for its babbling changed into a black
feathered bird for once the raven was silvered over with snowy plumes,
:

white as the fair and spotless dove, nor yielded to the sacred bird whose
watchful voice guarded the capitol, or soft swan that delights in rivers.
His tongue occasioned the disgrace, his prattling tongue, I say, was
the cause that his colour, formerly the purest white, is now directly
contrary to white.
IX. There was not in all Thessaly a more beautiful nymph than
Coronis of Larissa: the Delphic god loved her, while she yet continued
chaste, or while he thought her so. But his own bird discovered her in-
fidelity and an inexorable informer, winged his way to his lord to dis-
;

cover the hidden crime. Him the prattling jack-daw follows with nimble

NOTES.
530. Ne pure tingatur in (equore pel- spoils of some animal she had slain. Ju-
lex.l To come now to the explication piter, the second of that name, king of
of this fable, Ly<aon had a daughter Arcadia, as we learn from Cicero, fell
named Callisto, who was fond of hunt- in love with her this gave rise to the
;

ing, and, according; to the custom of whole fable, as we tind it here related
those times, went always clothed in the by Ovid.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. II. 77

Audit^que viae causa, Non utile carpis, Caus&quevia audita;

t \ •
1
-
mquit nan carjits, tier
Inquit, ;
ne sperne meae prajsagia linguae. 550
iter "t'ie; ne speme pra.

Quid fuerim, quid simque, vide, meritumque re- 7e%mT/ui'rimTqJid.

Quire '
^'"^ *""' requireque
.
T^ . nifritum, invenies fi-
Invemes nocuisse fidem. IN am tempore quodam
Nam qiiudam temvore
«'fm nocuisse mini.
-r-»ii7->-i,i 1
•
i •
i

Pallas Jinchtliomum, prolem sine matre creatam, Paiias ciauserat. e-

Clauserat Actseo texta de vimine cista ; c'et^«m""T«e ZatTe,
texta de Actao
Virginibusquetribuso;eminodeCecropenatis555
» T to r f"''?
vimuie :
^ dederatque
Hanc legem dederat, sua ne secreta viderent. a?«c legem tr/bm vir-

Abdita fronde levi densa speculabar ulmo, noCe'crope.deJidereni

Quid facerent. Commissa, duse sine fraude tu-
TuaJ-ZdVievflpect
entur ' labar quid facer entab
-P,
,
_y .• •
1
deiisa ulmo. Dace, Pan-
drosos atque iierse,
Fanarososatquerierse;timidasvocatunasorores
Aglauros, nodosque manu diducit, at intus 560 f^^Z 'vntZta^^
Infantemque vident, apporrectumque draconem. 'itmil^dM^f^ihZ
Acta deae refero ; pro quo mihi gratia talis ''?* manu;
at intus

Redditur, ut dicat tutela pulsa Minervse dmconemque" Z'ppm- :

Et ponar post noctis avem. Mea poena volucres ne!J';%r^'fuo Talis

Admonuisse potest:
. '.
At puto non ultro nee quicquam tale rogantem -IN
ne vocepericulaquajrant: gratia redditur miM
ut dicar pulsa tuteld
Minerva', et ponar post
Me petiit; ipse licet hoc a Pallade quseras "u"potest'admonufs'^e :

Quamvis irata est : non hoc irata negabit.

^S^' J«.T;:"o
dicis, 7ion petiit me ultro, nee rogantem quicquam tale: licet quaras hoc a Pallade ipsa:
quamvis est irata, tamen irata non negabit hoc.

TRANSLATION.

pinions, to learn from him the secret of his journey; and having heard
all, you are the bearer, says he, of an unwelcome message despise ;

not the presages of my tongue.

Consider what I was, and what now I am examine into my story, ;

and you will find that my honesty was my ruin. For upon a certain
time Pallas had shut up Erichthonius, sprung from the earth without
a mother, in a basket woven of Actsean twigs, and committed him to
the care of three virgins, the daughters of two- shaped Cecrops but ;

without letting them know what the chest contained nay, and ex- ;

pressly commanded them not to look into her secrets. I stood on a

thick elm, hid among the leaves, to observe how they behaved. Two,
Pandrosus and Herse, guard their trust without fraud the other, :

Aglauros, reproached her sisters with cowardice she unties the knots ;

with her hand within they behold a child, and a dragon laid along
;

by him. I acquainted the goddess with what had been done but ;

instead of a recompense I was banished her protection, and saw the

bird of night preferred to her favour.
punishment ought to warn My
birds not to tempt dangers by any indiscreet tongue. But perhaps
you will think that she never of herself desired my service, and that
I
importuned her to the choice. Ask of Pallas herself though angry, ;

yet her anger will not prompt her to deny me justice here. For
Coroneus, a prince famous in Phocis, (I speak of all things well
^8 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Nam Cornncus clarus

tell II re Pliocaicd (lo-
Nam me Phocaica clarus tellure Coroneus
qunr nota) ^^etiitit me, (Notaloquor) genuit fueramque ego regia virgo : '.

e'goque J'ueram renin

Virgo, petebarque (ne Divitibusque precis (ne me contemne) petebar.
contemne me) diviti-
bus procis. Forma iio-
Fdrma mihi nocuit nam diim per littora lentis ;

cuit mihi ; nam cltim

Passibus, ut soleo, summa spatiarer arena, 573
spatiarer per lUtora
summAarenii, ut soleo, Vidit, etincaluit pelagi Deus; utque precando
lentis puxsibns, deus
Pelagi viiiit et incalu- Tempora cum blandisabsumpsit inania verbis;
it,utqiieabs>imp.nftein- et sequitur: fugio,
pora inania cum blan- Vimparat, densumq; relinquo
dis verbis precando, moUi nequicquam lassor arena.
Littus, et in
par at vim,et. sequitur:
J'ugio, reliiiquoque den-
Inde Deos, hominesque voco nee contigit ullum :

sum littus, et lassor

nequicquam in mnlti
Vox mea mortalem mota est pro virgine virgo,
:

Auxiliumque tulit. Tendebam brachia ccelo 580

arena, hide voco Deos :

hominesque : nex vox

mea contigit ullum Brachia coeperunt levibus nigrescere pennis.
mortalem virgo est:

Tnota pro virgine, tu- Rejicere ex humeris vestem molibar at ilia :

litque uuxiliiim. Ten- Pluma cutem radices egerat imas.

debam bracliiu ccelo : erat; inq;
Plangere nuda meis conabar pectora palmis
brachia coeperiait ni-
;
grescere levibus pen-
nis. Molibar rejicere
Sednequejampalmas,necpectoranudagerebam.
ituTrat pZu%ge. Currebam nee, ut ante, pedes retinebat arena ;
:

ratqueimas radices
cutem. Conabar plan-
^t summa tollebar humo. Mox acta per auras
i>i

. , •
-f~, -xir- ^
gerenudapectorameis Jjivenor, et data sum comes mculpata Mmervae.
palmis: sedneoue jam r\
gerebam paimas, nee Q
j
uid
•
j.
tameu hoc prodcst, si du'O lacta voiucris i, ii-Tj?i i

Tam: ^ZkJ^Z Crimine, Nyctimene nostro successit honori ? 590

te retinebat pedes ; et toll-bar summa humo ; mox evelmr acta per auras, et sum data in-
culpata comes Minerva. Tamenquid hoc prodest, si Nycty mine facta voiucris diro crimine
Sitccessit nostro honori?

TRANSLATION.
known) begot me ;
I was a
virgin of royal birth, and courted (despise
me not) by rich wooers. My beauty was the cause of all my misfor-
tunes for, as I was walking, in my usual manner, with slow
;
steps,
along the shore, and lightly treading upon the top of the sand, Nep-
tune saw and fell in love with me. And as he found that he
only
lost time in soliciting me by fine
speeches, he resolves upon violence,
and accordingly pursues me I fly, and, leaving the firm shore, vainly
:

fatigvie myself among the sinking sand. I called

upon gods and men
to assist me but ray feeble voice reached no mortal ear.
;
Happily a
virgin goddess was moved by a virgin's prayers, and came to assist
me. For as I stretched out my arms to heaven, my arms began to
grow black with light feathers, I strove to throw back my garments
from off my shoulders, but they were now changed to feathers, and
had taken deep root in my skin. I tried to beat my naked breast
with my hands, but had now neither hands nor naked breast. I ran,
nor were my feet as before, retained by the sand. I Avas lifted up
from the ground, and still rising on my wings into the air, became
the faultless companion of Minerva. But what does this avail me, if
Nyctimene, changed into an owl for her horrid crime, has succeeded
to my honour ?
NOTES.
590. Nyctimene.l She was the daughter of Nycteus, king of Lesbos, an island
of the iEgean sea.
 METAMORPIIOSEON, Lib. H. 79

X. An res qute est

X. An, qu£B per totamres estnotissima Lesboii, iiolissima per tot ant
Non est Patrium temerasse cubile Lesbon, non est audita
_,.audita tibi
riA--ii
Avis lUa
'1
?

sea conscia
A
• tibi.' Nyc'.i7nenen te-
Nyctimenen ?
quidem ; ,nerasse patrium cu-
^'^^ ' '^'" quidem est
riiln?*'
CUipcCj ^ avis; sed conscia cul-

Conspectum lucemque fugit, tenebrisque pudo- ^^^^J^'sj^ ce7at''7l'"^

rem dorem tenehris, et ex-
CQ/r pellitur toto tttliere il
OJO
Celat; etacunctis expellitur sethere toto. ctmctis aribiis, Corvus
ait cornici diceiUi ta-
Talia dicenti, Tibi, ait, revocamina, corvus, lia, precor m
ista re-
Sint precor ista malo: nos vanum spernimus omen. vocamina
tibi ;
si„t mala
nos spernimits va-
Nee cceptum dimittit iter dominoque jacentem nam omen. Nee dimit-
:
tit captum iter: ?t/ir-
Cum juvene Haimonio vidisse Coronida narrat. ratque domino sc vi-
Coronida jacen-
Laurea delapsa est audito crimine amantis 600 disse
tem cum Jiivene Ha- :

Et pariter vultusque Deo, plectrumque, colorque monio. UiureaesVdi

T-, ^-T, TTi i.-jAr
•
li I,-'
Excidit. Utqueammustumida rervebat ab ira,
lapsa deo, crimine
amantis audito, et pa-
Arma^''assueta a cornibus arcum
'" rapit flexumque
; 7iZmq7e[^coiorq/e''7x.
"^ ' '

Tendit; et ilia suo to ties cum pectore juncta

' '

cidit, tttque animus

fervebat abtumidaira,
Indevitato trajecit pectora telo. 605 rapit arma assueta;
tenditque arcum Jtex-
Icta dedit gemitum, tractoque e vulnere ferro, %im a cornibus: et tra-
Candida puniceo perfudit membra cruore jecit indevitato telo,:
illapectura toties junc-
Et dixit, Potui pcenas tibi, Phoebe, dedisse ; ta cum suo pectore.
Coronis icta itedit ge-
Sed peperisse prius duo nunc moriemur in un^. mitum, ferroque tracto
:

(i
Hactenus vitam cum sanguine fudit. Candida
: et pariter vulnere, perfudit
membra pu-
niceo cruore; et dixit,
Corpus inane animee frigus lethale secutum est.
Pkabo potui dedi.tse
Poenitet heu sero pcenee crudelis amantem : tibi pwnas, sed
potui
peperisse prius : nunc
Seque, quod audierit, quod sic exarserit, odit ; duo moriemur in U7ia.
Hactenus locuta est et :

fudit vitam pariter cum satiguine. Frigus lethale secutum est corpus inane anima. Panitet
heu sero amantem crudelis pantr; oditque se quod audierit, quod sic exarserit :

TRANSLATION.
X. Can a story so well known over all Lesbos, have failed to reach
your ears that Nyctimene defiled her father's bed ? She is a bird in-
:

deed but conscious of her crime, shuns the light, and conceals her
shame in darkness, and is driven from the air by all the other birds.
While thus the daw is repeating her tale, the raven offended, replies,
May these boding presages light upon yourself; I despise the vain
omen. Nor does he drop his intended journey, but acquaints his master
that he saw Coronis in the arms of a Thessalian youth. The god upon
hearing his mistress's crime, drops the laurel crown. At once his
colour, harp, and gentle looks forsake him. Inflamed with rage, he
takes his wonted arms, and bending his bow from its extremities, trans-
fixed with an unerring shaft that breast which had been so often joined
to his own. The wounded
nymph gave a deep groan, and drawing the
arrow from the womid, her hands are stained with streams of purple
gore expiring, she said, Ah, cruel god, I have justly deserved punish-
;

ment, but should first have brought my child into the m orld now two ;

are destroyed in one. Thus far she spoke, and faint with loss of blood,
expired. A mortal coldness spread itself over her lifeless body.
The lover, alas, too late repents of his cruel revenge. He hates him-
self, that he had listened to the raven, and given way to the violence of
 80 P. OVIDII NASONIS

odit avem per quam Odit avem, per quam crimen, causamque dolendi
erat coactus scire cri-
men raiisamgne do- Scire coactus erat: nervumque, arcumque, ma-
le ndi: odit neriumque,
arcuiiique mt.nu sngit- numque, 616
tcmeraria tela.
Odit; cumque manu, temeraria tela, sagittas:
tux,
JPoiitque collapsam :

nit it u rq iie vincerefata

serd ope, et exercet in- Collapsamque fovet seraque ope vincere fata
;

aniter medicas artes. Nititur et medicas exercet inaniter artes.

:

Qu<c postquam xensit

tentata/riistra,rogvm- Quae postquam frustra tentata, rogumque parari
que parari, et artvs 620
arsuros siipremis igiii- Sensit, et arsuros supremis ignibus artus,
Ous ; turn nro euldit Turn vero gemitus (iieque enim coelestia tingi
S,einitus petitos de alto
pectore neqiie eiiim de- Ora decet lacrymis) alto de corde petitos
cet era caiextia tiiigi
Edidit haud aliter,quam cum spectante juvenca,
lacrymis) hand aliler
:

quum cum juiciica Lactentis vituli, dextra libratus ab aure,

speclante, malleus li-
liratus ab dixtra aure
itiscussit claru ictu ca-
Tempora discussit claro cava malleus ictu. 625
va tinipnra lacteiitis Ut tamen ingratos in pectora fudit odores :

Tanien Phcebus
vitiili.
Et dedit amplexus, injustaque justa peregit :
utj'mlit iiigrutos odores
in pectora ; et dedit Non tulit in cineres Iabi sua Phcebus eosdem
umplexus, peregitqiie
jiista iiijiista, nontulit Semina sed natum flammis uteroque parentis
:

sua semina iabi in fo?-

dem cineres : sed eri- Eripuit geminiq tulit Chironis in antrum. 630
:
;

Sperantemque sibi non falsse preemia linguae,

jmit /latum Jiammis,
uteroqtie parentis, tu-
litquc in antrum ge- Inter aves albas vetuit considere corvum.
mini Chironis ; vetuit-
que corvum sperantem sibi prccmia lingu<e non falsa: ; considere inter albas aves.

TRANSLATION.
his rage, and hates the bird that had revealed to him her crime, the
<;ause of his resentment. He hates the bow, and the hand which had
touched the string, and with his hand the rash arrows that had inflicted
the wound and cherishes her as she lay upon the ground, endeavour-
;

ing by late applications to revoke her severe doom,

and tries in vain
the whole compass of his art. But when he found all his endeavours
without success, saw ihe pile ready, and her body going to be
made
consumed by the funeral he then fetched groans from the bottom
fires,
of his soul (for it is not allowed to the gods to shed tears.) Just as
;

when an axe poised from the right ear of a butcher, dashes to pieces
with a clear stroke the hollow temples of a sucking calf, in sight of its
complaining dam. He then poured upon her breast the ungrateful per-
fumes, embraced her corpse, and solemnized the funeral rites hastened
by his unjust anger. Phoebus did not suffer his offspring to mix with
the same ashes, but delivered his son at once from the flames and his
mother's womb, and carried him into tlie cave of double-formed
Chiron. The raven, who expected a reward for his faithful discovery,
was forbid any more to associate with white birds.

NOTES.
630. Gemini Chironis in antrum.] Chi- narrations, regularly connected one
ron the Centaur was the son of Sa- with another, which it is no very liard
turn and Pliilyre, the daughter of Oce- matter to unfold. But sometimes we
anus. meet with pieies detaclied, to the uii-
63a. Inter atcs albas vetuit considere derstandini? of which, history affords no
corvum.'] In the metamorphose of Ovid, help. Such is the fable of Coronis,
we often meet with a train of historical changed into a jack-daw for her too
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. II. 81

XI. Interea semifer

XI. Semifer interea divinas stirpis alumno erat Itrtus alumno di-
Lsetus erat ; mistoque oneri gaudebat honore. ti/iff St irpis , gaudebat-

que honore misto one-

Ecce venit rutilis humeros protecta capillis G35 ri. Eccejilia ceritauri

Filia Centauri quam quondam nymphaChariclo, tilis

:
prnticta humeros ru-
capillis, venit .•

Fluminis in rapidi ripis enixa, vocavit qnnm filinm nympha

Charicli) guoiidatn e-
Ocyroen. Non haec artes contenta paternas 7ii.ia in ripis rapidi
Jliimiiiis, vijcavit Ocy-
Edidicisse fuit fatoruni arcana canebat.
: roen. Jlirc lion fuit
contenta cdiilicisse ar-
Ergo ubi mente furores, 640
fatidicos concepit tes palernus canebat
:

Incaluitque deo, quern clausum pectore habebat;

ctiam arcana falornm.
Ergo tibi concepit fa-
Aspicit infantem, Totique salutifer orbi tidicos furoi es mente,
incaluitque deo quejn
Cresce, puer, dixit : Tibi se mortalia ssepe hiibebat claitsum fee-

Corpora debebunt; animas tibi reddere ademptas

tore; aspicit infantem,
dixitque, cresce, puer
Fas erit idque semel dis indignantibus ausus.
; salutifer toti orbi: mor-
talia corpora stspe de-
Posse dare hoc iterum flamma prohibere avita ; belnint se tibi •.fas erit
tibi reddere animas
Eque deo corpus fies exsangue deusque, ;
ademptas. Aususqite
Qui modo corpus eras et his tua fata novabis.
;
id scmel Dts indignan-
tibus, prohibere pos-
se dare hoc iterum, avitd flammA Eque deo Jies corpus exsangue; deusque qui modi) eras
corpus, et novabis tua fata Ois.

TRANSLATION.
XI. Meantime the Centaur rejoiced in his pupil of celestial race,
and was proud of the honour joined to his trouble. His daughter too,
with yellow hair falling loose upon her shoulders, came to see the
child. The nymph Chariclo, who bore her to the Centaur upon the
banks of a rapid river, had named her Ocyrrhoe she, not contented :

with her father's arts alone, sung the secrets of the Fates. Once, as
her mind was filled with the prophetic transport, and she felt the god
kindled in her breast, surveying the infant, she cried " Grow, child, ;

" the To thee shall

sovereign restorer of health to the whole world.
" mortal
bodies often owe their continuance in being nay, your skill ;

" shall reach to the

reeallhig of souls from the empire of the dead. But
"
when, by once daring to give proof of this thy power, you have
" raised the
jealousy of the gods, disabled by your grandsire's bolts,
"
you shall no more confer this mighty benefit but from a god be ;

"
changed into a lifeless carcass, and again resuming the figure of a
" You too, beloved parent, not
god, shall twice renew your destiny.
" to and created under a law of nativity that pro-
subject mortality,

NOTES.
faithful report, and of the raven's co- were often the subject of poetical songs,
lour being changed from white to black, where the marvellous was not spared.
for the discovery he made to Apollo of On these principles it may be conjec-
his mistress's infidelity. Not to trouble tured, that the two fables under consi-
the reader with the moral lessons which deration include the history of two per-
mythologisls draw from them, I shall sons entirely unknown, but which, how-
content myself with observing, 1st, ever, probably refers to the times of
That often a bare resemblance of names the daughters of Cecrops, with whom it
has given rise to these fabulous meta- seems to have some connexion.
morphoses. 2dly, That the adventures 638.0cyr<ifM.]Oci/rrftof wasthedauf.i
which happened in the courts of princes ter of Chiron, and the nymph Clw"
G
82 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Tuqimuccarevater, fu quoQue,
ffT."!' cai'e pater, jam
J_
non mortalis etgevis
jam non mor talis:,
jam 1 '

ireatus lege nascendi Omnibus

ut maneas, nascendi lege creatus 650 ;
ut maneas omnibus cc-
vis ; turn cupies paste Posse mori cupies turn, ciim cruciabere dirse
mori, cum cruciabere
sanguine (tiro: serpen- Sanguine serpentis per saucia membra recepto :

Teque ex seterno patientem Numina mortis

tis recepto per saucia
membra. Numina que
efficient te ex erterno Efficient ; triplicesque deee tua fila resolvent.
patientem mortis: tri-
plicesque deir resolvent
Restabat fatis
aliquid ; suspirat ab imis 655
tua fata. Aliquid re-
stabat fatis: ilia sus- Pectoribus, lacrymseque genis labuntur obortfe :

pirat ab imis pectori-

bus, lacrt/mtjcquc obor-
Atque ita, Preevertunt, inquit, me fata; vetorque
ta labuntur gents : at- Plura loqui ; vocisque mese praecluditur usus.
que inquit ita; fata Non fuerant artes tanti, quie numinis iram
prcFvertunt me ; retor-
que loqui plura, usus- Contraxere mihi mallem nescisse futura. 660
;
que meee vocis preelu-
ditur. Artes qiia con- Jam mihi subduci facies humana videtur :

traxere iram nujninis

mihi non fuerant tan- Jam cibus herba placet; jam latis currere campis
ti; mallem tteseissefu-
tura. Jam facies hu- Impetus est; in equam, cognataque corpora ver-
mana videtur subduci tor.
mihi ; jam herba cibus
placet ; jam est impe- Tota tamen quare? Pater est mihi nempebiformis.
tus currere latis cam-
pis, vertor in equam,
Talia dicenti pars est extrema querelas 665
corporaque cognata.
Tamen quare vertor to-
Tntellecta parura confusaque
: verba fuere.
ta? Nempe est mihi Mox, nee verba quidem, nee equse sonus ille
pater biformis. Pars
extrema querela: est videtur ;
parum intellecta di-
centi talia: verbaque fuere confusa. Mox nee quidem verba, nee ille videtur sonus equa.

TRANSLATION.
"
longs your life through all ages, shall then wish to die when tor-
" tured with
anguish from the baneful poison of a serpent received
*'
within your veins. The gods in pity, from an immortal, shall
" change
you to a mortal being, and the three goddesses of Destiny cut thy
" thread
of life." The nymph had still more to add but oppressed ;

with deep sighs, and her face bathed in tears, she thus went on :

" The
Fates prevent me, and I am forbid to reveal farther the use ;
" of
speech, too, is taken from me. My arts were not so much to be
"
desired, that for their sake I should draw upon myself the anger of
" the Far better had it been that I had never known futurity.
gods.
" Alas a human
! form seems now to depart from me I now desire ;
"
grass for my food, I long to expatiate in the open plains. I am
"
changed into a mare, and assume a kindred shape yet, why trans- ;
" formed all
over my father retains in his upper
" a human form ?" Indouble-shaped parts
;

bemoaning thus her fate, the last part of her

complaint was but little understood, her words were become confused ;

and presently, not even words were heard nor was her voice
yet that
;

NOTES.
649. Tu quoque, &c.] In the war be- endeavoured to apply remedies, it
tween the Centaurs and Lapithje, Here 11- proved incurable, and occasioned such
lesaiming an arrow which had been dipt intolerable pain, that the gods in pity,
in theblood of the hydra of Lernns, at on tlie ninth day, translated him among
Elarus, it missed iiim, and wounded the stars, where he formed the constel-
Chiron in the knee. Hercules in vain lation Sagittarius.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Liu. II. SS

Sed simulantis equam: parvoque in tempore cer-

Z^urfr^^l' te"ZVe
tOS ctlidit certos hinmtus ;

Edidit hinmtus ;
et brachia niovit m nerbas. herbas. Tum digiti

Turn digiti coeunt, et quinos alligat ungues 670 '^^, ^j^ ^^l^^
Perpetuo cornu levis unoula: crescit et oris,' perpetuo comu.- spa~
i
,,.
o . tiutn it oris cl colli
, .
,,
Et spatuim; longae pars maxnna pallas
colli crescU: pars maxima
Cauda fit ; utque vagi crines per colla jacebant, u('q,fe^'i'agf{riul"'j'/-
In dextras abiere jubas ; pariterque novata est ^;f.g"f,f dcMrn"%has'.-
Et vox et facies nomenquoquenionstradedere. : pariterque a vox et

All. rlebat opemque tuam irustra Fhilyreius stra quoque dedere iiu
1 nmneu uovuiii.
nerOS, XII. PkUyreius he-

Delphice, poscebat sed nee rescindere magni :

^f^f/^^^e '?waw^"oS
Jussa Jovis poteras : nee, si rescindere posses, fmstra ;' .sea mc pote-
T^ J -ui- i\/r 11 ras rescindere jussa •

lune aderas hilm Messeniaque arvaeolebas. ; mag7ii jovis.- rec. ,«

D,
Iliud erat tempus, quo te pastoria pellis 680 l%TaircoiTbZ''EZ
Texit ; onusque fuit baeulum svlvestre sinistrse : armque Messenia. ii-
, ,
.
T-- . ""^
• temyus quo
f 1 • ^''"''^

Altenus, dispar septenis hstula cannis, pastoria peius tcxu

ij_ te; baculumque syl- J iiZ!ti
umqueamoresteuriE,dumtetuaiistulamuleet5 vestrejuu onus sims-
Ineustodit* Pylios memorantur in agros
%ar7^tenis daunts
Processisse boves videt has Atlantide Maia 685 *"'* on"^ aiterius ma-
:

»T , ,
.n"s- '^ amor est
1
•
1 , 1 , Dumque
iNatus ei arte sua sylvis oecultat abactas.
; curte tiw, dmntuajis.
tula mullet te ; incus-
todita boves memorantur proce.isisse in agros Pylios. Natus Maid Atlantide videt has; et
oecultat eas abactas sua. arte silfis.

TRANSLATION.
of a mare, but rather of one counterfeiting a mare. But soon she
neighed outright, and stretched her arms toward the grass. Her fin-
gers grow together, and a smooth hoof of one continued piece of horn
binds together her five nails. Her face and neck are lengthened, her
train becomes a tail, and the hairs that lay scattered upon her neck,

pass into a right side mane. Her voice and shape at once are finished,
and the new form gave her also a new name.
XII. The Philyreian hero wept and in vain implored the aid of ;

Apollo for neither was it in your power to reverse the decrees of al-
;

mighty Jove, nor had this been permitted wast thou present. Thou wast
then in Elis, and the Messenian fields. This was the time Avhen you
was covered with a shepherd's cloak, and wore a club of oak in your
right hand, and in your left a pipe of seven unequal reeds. And while
love is all yovir care, while you attend only to the music of your flute,
some cows are said to have strayed unobserved into the plains of Pylos.
The son of Maia perceived them, and driving them away, artfully con-
cealed them in the woods. This theft had been taken notice of by

NOTES.
679. Elin, &c.] Elis and Messene which bore the name of Pylos one in ;

were both cities of Peloponnesus. Elis, one in Messenia,

and a third the
684. Pylios.] Ancient geographers same here named, between the other
speak of three cities of Peloponnesus, two, where afterward Nestor reigned.
84 P. OVIDII NASONIS

JVemo senserat hoc fur- Senserat hoc furtum nemo, nisi notus in illo
tum, nisi si7ie.r notus
ill illo rure: tola vici- Rure senex Battum vicinia tota vocabant.
:

nia rocabiint eiim Bat-

tarn. Hic custos ser- Divitis hie saltus herbosaque pascua Nelei,
vabat saltus, herbost.-
que pascua, gregesque NobiHumque greges custos servabat equa-
nobiliuin equurum di- rum. 690
vitis Nelei. Mercuriiu
timuit ini/ic, seduxil- Hunc blandaque manu seduxit et, eja,
timuit, ;
que blanda manu, et
ait, eia hospes, quis- Quisquis es, hospes, ait, si forte armenta requiret
quis es, si forte aliquis Hasc aliquis, vidisse nega neu gratia facto :
requiret ha:c armenta,
nega vidisse; neu nul- Nulla rependatur, nitidam cape preemia vaccam ;
la gratia rependal ur
fiicto, cape niliriiini Et dedit. Accepta, voces has reddidit hospes;
vaccam prermia ; et de-
dit. Vacca nrccpti), Tutus eas lapis iste priias tua furta loquatur ;
;

hospes reddidit has i o- Et lapidem ostendit. Simulat Jove natus abire,

ces: eas tutus ; iste la-
pis prius loquatur tua Mox redit et, versa pariter cum voce figura,
:

furta, et osttndit lapi-

dem : natus Joie simu- Rustice, vidisti
si
quas hoc limite dixit,
iat abire, mox redit ;
et fignrii lersn pariter Ireboves;feropem: furtoque silentia deme 700 ;

cum loce dixit, rusti- Juncta suo pretium dabitur tibi foemina tauro.
ce, si vidisti quas ha-
ves ire hoc limite, fcr At senior, postquam merces geminata, sub illis
opem, et deme silentia
furto. Fcemina juncta Montibus, inquit, erunt et erant sub montibus ;
suo tauro dabitur pre- iUis.
tium tibi. At senior
postquum merces est Risit Atlantiades: et, Me mihi, perfide, prodis ?
geminata ,iiiquit erunt ,

sub illis nwhtibus, et Memihiprodis? ait:

perjuraq;pectoravertit 705
erant sub illis tnonti-
bus. Atlantiades ri-
In durum silicem ; qui nunc quoque dicitur Index :

sit: et nihil merito vetus est infamia saxo.

ait,
proais me mini, prodis
perfide. Inque
'

me mihi; vertitque pectora perjura in durum silicem; qui nunc dicitur quoque index, ve-
tusque iiifantia est in saxo merito nihil.

TRANSLATION.
nobody but an old man well known in that country, whom all the
neighbourhood called Battus. He kept the forests and flourishing pas-
tures, Avith some sets of fine mares belonging to one Neleus, a rich
Pylian lord him the god feared, and taking him aside, with a mild
:

air says " Whoever thou

:
art, stranger, if any should by chance in-
" after these herds, deny that you have seen them and that your
quire ;

" discretion
may not go without a recompense, take for a reward this
" beautiful heifer
;" and gave him one the stranger, as he received :

" Go
it, made this reply secure, that stone shall sooner speak of your
;

" The son of Jupiter feigns to

theft," and withal pointed to a stone.
withdraw himself, but straight returned and changing both his shape ;

and voice, " Shepherd (said he), if you saw any cows pass along this
"
way, help me to discover them, nor screen the theft in silence your ;

" reward shall be a heifer with her bullock." The old

man, when he
found the reward doubled " You will find them (says he) under these
;

"
mountains;" and indeed they were under the mountains. The grand-
son of Atlas smiled " And dost thou then, perfidious, betray me to
:

"
myself? Dost thou, I say, betray me to myself?" This said,
he turned his perjured breast into a hard stone, which is now called
the Touch-stone, and imprints his infamy the upon undeserving
stone.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. II. 85

XIII. Hinc se sustulerat paribus Caducifer sm.

, ^'"; Cadudfcr
allS : lius alls, volansque <ie-

Munychiosque volans agros, gratamque Minervae 7gros, humumque ^ra-

Despectabat humum, cultique arbusta Lyca?i. 7 1 u^,,f'Zm Lyc!rl
Ilia forte die castas de more *"« rf'*- '«*''^
puellae, '''"'ff
WT .• -. n .
•
T^ 11 1- fuella de more j)ort(i-
Vertice supposito, lestas in Falladis arces
•

bam ui jestas urres

Pura coronatis portabant sacra canistris. cam"tris,^^'l!!rolwtit,

Inde revertentes deus aspicit ales iterque 7 1 4 "^^'asvMt^^^vd :

Non ap;it in rectum,' sed in orbemcurvateundem.

-P ,.
testes indp, ag'tque
iter 7toH
wj . . .,. . .
rectum, \F(i . . 171
Ut VOluCriS, VISIS rapidlSSima milvms eXtlS, cnrvaf ineunflcm or-
Dum timet, et densi circumstant sacra ministri, cH^Vo/fJl^'/;"^^^^
Flectitur in e-vrum nee longius audet abire
:
visisdum timet, ct :

_,
oj ', t3 denstmmistri circutii-
_

Speraque suam motis avidus circumvoiat alis stant sacra, jiectitvr :

O" \ •!• r^ 11
J.
bic super Acteeas agilis Cyllenms arces
OOA in gym ; 7icc amulet
72U abi^e longius, atidu^.
711

Inclinat cursus ;
et easdem circinat auras.
TpenfZi7ira'iisT'7i^
Quanto splendidior, quani caetera sidera, fulp'et «5'^« ci/Umius i/icu-
-f
. r,
' „ y'*-- ,
^ .
-j^/ nat cursus super arces
Luciier; et quanto te, Lucirer, aurea rnoebe ; Actieas,etcircinateas-
Tanto virginibus prajstantior omnibus Herse 'Luci/eVji'igct^'^vien-
Ibat: eratque decus pompee, comitumq suarum. catera si.
; vjam
djdior

N\
Ubstupuit forma Jove\ natus: etsetnere pendens
•, \T»i
on secus exarsit, quam cum balearica plum bum
1

Fundajacit: volat illud, et incandescit eundo

•!
;
Phabe fuiget
dior tc, O Lucifer :
tanto Herse ibat pnr.

'„]^-,*i7, Talque
spiendi-

T-
cus pomptB, suarumque co77iitum. Natns Jove obstupuit forTnlX, et pcndc7is tethere, exarsit non
secus, quiXm cum Balearica J'unda jacit pliMibum ; illtird volat, et inca7idescit eundo;

TRANSLATION.
XIII. Hence the wand-bearing god wafts himself upon equal wings,
and as he flew looked down upon the plains of Munychia, and the land
grateful to Minerva, and the thick-planted groves of Lyceus by chance
:

on that day the Athenian virgins, according to custom, were carrying

upon their heads to the joyful citadel of Pallas, mystic presents to
the goddess, in baskets crowned with flowers. The winged god ob-
serves them as they are returning from the temple, nor shapes his
flight directly forward, but wheels
round and round in the same circle.
As the swift kite, who smells at distance the slaughtered victim ;

while yet she fears, and sees the priests stand thick around, wings
her flight in winding circles, and greedily hovers about her prey, not
daring to go far away so the active Cyllenian god bends his course
:

over the Actsean towers, and with wheeling flight circles round the
same air. As much as Lucifer exceeds in brightness the other stars :

and as much as the golden moon shines brighter than Lucifer, so

much did Herse surpass all the other virgins, and was an ornament
to the solemnity, and all the virgin train. The sou of Jupiter was
astonished at her beauty, and hovering in the air, he burns, noother-

NOTES.
727. Balearica.^ The Ealeares were They were called Baleares by a Greek
islands in the Mediterranean sea upon derivation, because the inliabilaiits were
the coast of Spain, the same that now very expert slingers.
go by the name of Majorca and Minorca.
 86 P. OVIDIl NASONIS
ft invenlt sub nubihus
igiics qvos noil kubuit. Et, quos non habuit, subnubibusinvenit, ignes.
i'crtit iter, catoqiie Vertit iter, coeloque petit diversa relicto 730 :
relirfo pe/it riireixa,
iiec di'isimuldt, se tan- Nee se dissimulat : Tarda est Jiducia
forma.
ta (St fid ttvhi forma :
qitir forma, quamqnam Quae quanquam justa est ;
cura taraen adjuvat
I'stjusta, taiiien adju- illam :
vat ilium ciirii : per-
fitulcetque comas, col-
Pemiulcetq ; comas, chlamydemque, ut pendeat
locutque chlamydem
itt peiideat apt't ; ut apte,
limb us tot unique au-
rum appareat, nt teres Collocat : ut limbus, totumque appareat aurum :

virga qua dticit ct ar- Ut teres in dextra, qua somnos ducitetarcet, 735
cet somnos sit in dex-
trA; ut talaria iiiteant
tersis Pars
Virga sit: ut tersis niteant talaria plantis.
planti<t.
secreta damns habnit Pars secreta domus ebore, et testudine cultos,
trcs thalamos cultos Tres liabuit thalamos
ebore et testudine, quo- quorum tu, Pandroso,
:

rum tu Pandroso pos-

dextrum,
sederasdcxtrum, Ag-
lauros possederdt le- Aglauros leevum, medium possederat Herse.
vum, Jferse medium.
Aglauros qiitp tenuit QuEBtenuitl3evum,venientem prima notavit 740
la-vum, prima notaiit Mercurium: nomenque dei scitarier ausa est,
Mercuriiimvenieutem:
ausuque est scitaricr Et causam adventus. Cui sic respondit Atlantis
nomen dei, et causam
adventus. Cut Nepos Pleionesque nepos :
Ego sum, qui jussa per auras
Atlantis Pleinnesque
Verba patris porto. Pater est mihi Jupiter ipse.
respnndit sic. Ego sum
qui porta jussa verba Nee fingam causas : tu tantiam fida sorori 745
piitris per auras : Ju-
piter ipse est pater Esse velis, prolisque mese matertera dici.
mihi ; nee fingam cau-
sas, tu tantum velis
Herse causa vise, faveas oramus amanti.
Adspicit hunc oculis isdem, quibus abdita nuper
esse fidd sorori, dici-
que matertera mete
prolis. Herse est cau- Viderat Aglauros flavae secreta Minervse :
sa vi(F, oramus ut J'a-
veas amanti. Aglauros adspicit hunc iisdem oculis, quibus nvper viderat abdita secreta fia-
v<c Minerve :

TRANSLATION.
wise then when a Balearic sling throws out a lead bullet it flies ;

along, and glows in the whirl, and gathers, in its passage through
the clouds, the fires v.'hich it had not in the beginning. He changes
his course, and leaving heaven, makes toward Athens nor does he ;

disguise his appearance, so great confidence he had in his beauty,

which though every way complete, he yet strives to better by art.
He smooths his hair, and adjusts his mantle, that it might hang aptly,
and set to shew the golden fringe that ran along its edge and carry- ;

ing with an air in his right hand the staff that procures and drives
away sleep, advances with the waving pinions tied to his feet. In
the more retired part of the palace Avere three contiguous rooms,
adorned with ivory and tortoise-shell Pandrosos possessed the right,
;

Aglauros the left, and Herse graced the middlemost. Aglauros first
descried the approach of Mercury, and ventured to ask the name of
the god, and the cause of his coming. To which the grandson of Atlas
and Pleione thus replied " I am he who bears the commands of my
:

^'
father through the air. Jupiter himself is my father. Nor will I
" invent
pretences be oidy faithful to your sister, and consent to be
;

" called the aunt of

my issue. Herse is the cause of my coming be ;

"
kind, therefore, and take a lover's part." Aglauros beholds him Avith
the same eyes wherewith she had lately dared to violate the hidden
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. II. 87

Proqiieministeriomaffnisibiponderisaurum 750 po^tuintqve s;u pro

I .
<7- 1 •
miiiisterioaiiriimmag-
Postulat: mterea tectis, excedere cogit. ni pmidn-ts, intcrca

Vertit ad banc torvi dea bellica luminis orbem, 71!!^ DcybHitl\%nH

Et tanto penitus traxit suspiria motu, TanT'lT^Mt'^ent-
Ut pariter pectus, positamque in pectore forti tus suspiria tantomo-
;ri 1 . - o 1 -i 1 !• /- "'ii'tconcuteretpari-
concuteret.
/fcigida feubit, lianc arcana proiana terpertu.t, jEgidaque
Detexisse manu turn, cum sine matre creatam ^ore""s,Mti"haHcdc-
Lemnicolae stirpem contra data fcedera vidit <"'«"« «;j"3 :
l"!*'^-, maim
1 r-
• projuna turn,
Et wratanique deo lore lam, oratamque sorori :
<"«'» contra oata
ja-
Et ditem sumpto, quod avara poposcerit, auro. Lemnicoice, creatam
sine matre, et Jamfore
Protinus Invidia; nigro squallentia tabo 760 gratamque Deo, gra-
Tecta petit. Domus est imis in vallibus antri tamqae sorori, et di-
tem, auro siimjHo gtiiid
Abdita, sole carens, non ulli pervia vento ; avara poposcerit. Pro-
tinus petit tecta inti-
Tristis, et ignaviplenissima frigoris ; et quae di(F squallentia nigra
tabo. Domus est ab-
Igne vacet semper, caligine semper abundet. dita in imis vallibus
Hue ubi pervenit belli metuenda virago ; 765 a?itri, carens sole, non
pervia ulli vento; tris-
Constitit ante domum, (neq enim succedere tec- ; tis,et plenissima ig-
navi frigoris et qua;
tis semper vacet igne, sem-
Fas habet) et postes extrema cuspide pulsat. per abundet caligine.
Ubi metuenda virago
Concussee patuere fores videl intus edentem : belli
pervenit Imc, con-
ante domittn (ne-
stitit
Vipereas carnes, victiorura alimenta suorum, que enim habet fas
succedere tectis) et
Invidiam; visaque oculos avertit. At ilia 770 piilsat postes extrema
Surgithumo pigra ; semesarumque relinquit cuspide. Fores con-
cussa patuere. Videt
Corpora serpentum ; passuque incedit inerti. invidiam intus eden-
tem carnes vipereas,
alimenta suorum titiorum vis&que avertit oculos. At ilia surgit pigra humo,rcUnquitque
:

corpora serpentum semesarum :

inceditquc passu inerti.

TRANSLATION.
secrets of Minerva. She demands a great weioht of gold as the re-
ward of the service, and in the meantime obliges him to leave the
palace. The upon her the orbs of her stern
Avarlike goddess turns

ejes, and expressed her inward rage in such big-swoln sighs, as at

once heaved her breast, and the ^gis wherewith it was covered. And
now remembering also, how with impious hand she had laid open her
secrets, when contrary to express injunctions she saw the son of
Vulcan, born without a mother reflecting, moreover, that by this ;

means she would gain the favour of Mercury and of her sister, and
be enriched with the gold which her avarice had prompted her to de-
mand the goddess therefore repairs immediately to the dark retreat
;

of Envy, hideous with black gore. Her house lies hid in the deep
recesses of a cave, where no ray of light, nor gale of wholesome
wind can enter dismal, and full of listless cold, ever without fire,
;

ever buried in darkness. Here, when the goddess, dreadful in war,

had arrived, she stood before the cave, (nor was it lawful for a god-
dess to enter these abodes), and raises the point of her spear against
the gates the doors fly open.
:
Envy appeared within, devouring the
flesh of vipers, the nourishment of her vices. Minerva, when she
saw her, turned away her eyes but she, the fiend, rises heavily from ;

the ground, and leaves the mangled bodies of the half-devoured ser-
88 P. OVIDir NASONIS

Vtqne vldlt deam de-

coram formdque armis- Utque deam vidit fomiaque armisque decoram ;

que, ingemuit, duxit- Ingemuit vultumque ima ad suspiria duxit.

:

que imu suspiria ud 775

vultum ejus. Pallor Pallor in ore sedet macies in corpore toto
: :

sedet in ore, macits in

toto corpore: acies nus- Nusquam recta acies livent rubigine
: dentes :

quam recta, dentes li-

vent rubigine, pectora
Pectora felle virent. Lingua est sufFusa veneno.
virent Jet le, lingua est Risus abest ; nisi quern visi movere dolores.
snffusa veneno. Risus
abest, nisi dolores visi
Nee fruitur somno, vigilacibus excita curis:
moiere quern. Nee
cita curis vigilacibus,
ex-
Sed videt ingratos, intabescitque videndo, 780
fruitur somno, sed vi- Successus hominum. Carpitque et carpitur una ;
det ingratos successus
hominum, intabescit- Suppliciumque suum est. Quamvis tamen oderat
que videndo. Carpit, illam
et una carpitur c.si- ,• ;

<}ue suum
supplieiuin. Talibus adfata est breviter Tritonia dictis :
Tritonia quamvis ode-
rat, tamen adfata est Infice tabe tua natarum Cecropis unam,
illam breviter talibus
dictt!''^iLMetlTtabl Sic opus est Aglauros ea est. Haud plura lo-
:

unam natarum Cecro-

cuta
pis, sic est opus : est
Aglauros, haud locuta
plura fugit, et rep-
Fugit et impressa tellurem reppulit hasta.
:

pulit teUarem impres- Ilia deam obliquo fugientem lumine, cernens ;

sd hastA. Ilia cer-
nrns deom fugientem Murmuraparvadedit: successurumque Minervse
obliquo lumine, dedit Indoluit: baculumque capit, quod spinea totuni
parva murmura indo-
luitque successurum Vincula cingebant adopertaq; nubibus atris,790
:

Minerva capitque ba-

culum; quod totum ingreditur, florentia proterit arva,
Quacunque
vincula cinge-
spijiea
et summa cacumina carpil :
bant udopertaque Exuritque herbas,
atris nubibus, quacun-
que ingreditur, pro- Afflatuque suo populos, urbesque, domosque
terit arva florentia, Polluit: et tandem Tritonida conspicit arcem,
exuritque herba.i, et
carpit summa cacumina, pollaitque populos, urbesque, domosque suo ufflatu: et tandem con-
spicit arcem Tritonida.
TRANSKITION.
pents, stalking forward with a sullen pace. she saAV the god- When
dess of surpassing beauty, and clad in bright armour, she fetched a
deep groan, nor could restrain the sighs at an appearance so serene.
Paleness sits upon her countenance, her body is wasted to a skeleton,
her eyes are turned awry in distorted glances, her teeth are black
with rust her breast overflows with gall, and poison hangs upon her
;

tongue. Smiles are ever banished from her, unless when caused by
the miseries of others nor, preyed upon by watchful cares, does she
;

taste the calm delights of sleep. She beholds with regret the successes
of ir.'^n, and pines away at the sight she torments, and is tormented,
;

and bears her punishment in her own breast.

The goddess, though she
extremely abhorred her sight, yet briefly addressed her in these words :

Taint with your poison one of the daughters of Cecrops for so it is ;

needful Aglauros is she.

;
She said no more, but flew off to heaven,
her the ground. She
pushing spear against regarding the goddess as she
fled with an oblique eye, uttered a few murmurs, and grieved at the
success of Minerva ; then takes her staff wreathed round with thorns,
and veiled in black clouds, blasts the flourishing fields over which she
dnects her baneful course, burns up the grass, defaces the fairest flowers,
and with her poisonous breath pollutes men, cities, and houses. At
length she descries the citadel of Athens, flourishing in wit, wealth, and
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. II. 89

virentem ingeniis,
Ingeniis opibusque,
et festS, pace virentem : 795 busque, et festa pave,
opi-

Vixq tenet lacrymas

:
; quia nil lacrymabile cer- vixque tenet lacrymas,
quia cernit nil lacry-
nit. mabile. Sed postquam
intravit Thalamos na-
Sed postquam thalamos intravit Cecrope natee ; ta Cecrope ; facit jus-

pectusque manu
sa : tangitque pectus
Jussa facit: ferrugine tincta manu tinctafcrrtigine,
Tangit et hamatis preecordia sentibus implet
: et implet prffcorUia
hamatis sentibus, in-
:

nocens virus piceumque per os-

:
Inspiratque spiratque nocens vi-
sa 800 rus, liissipatque
ceum venenum per
pi-
os-

Dissipat, et medio spargit pubnone, venenum. sa, et spargit medio

pulmone. Neve causa
Neve spatium causa; per latius errent;
raali mali errent per latius
spatium ; ponit ante
Germanam ante oculos, fortunatumque sororis oculos germanam, con-

Conjugium, pulchraque Deum sub imagine ponit,

jugiumque fortuna-
turn sororis, deumque

Cunctaque magna facit quibus irritata, do-: sub pulchrd imagine ;

facitque cuncta uiag-
lore 805 na: quibus Cecropis
irritata, mordetur oc-
Cecropis occulto mordetur et anxia nocte, :
culto dolore, et anxia
Anxia luce gemit ; lentaque miserrima tabe 7iocte, anxia luce, ge-
mit ; miserrijnaque li-
Liquitur, ut glacies incerto saucia sole ; quitur lenta tube, ut
glacies saucia incerto
Felicisque bonis non secius uritur Herses ; sole: tiriturque bonis
non
Quam cum spinosis ignis supponitur herbis; 810 felicis Herses,
cius quam cum
se-
ignis
Quas neq; dant flammas; leniq; tepore cremantur. supponitur spinosis
herbis ; qua: neque dant
Saepe mori voluit ne quicquam tale videret
;
:
flammas, cremantnr-
que leni tepore. Stepe
Ssepe velut crimen rigido narrare parenti. voluit mori, ne videret

Denique in adverso venientem limine sedit qtdcquam tale; sepe

narrare velut crimen
Exclusara Deum: cui blandimenta, preces- rigido parenti. De-
nique sedit in adver-
que 815 so limine, exclusara
Deum venientem, cui
Verbaque jactanti mitissima, Desine, dixit: jactanti blandimentu,
Hinc ego me non sum nisi te motura repulso. precesque, verbaque
mitissima, dixit define :

€go non sum motura me hinc nisi te repulso.

TRANSLATION.
joyful peace and scarce restrained the tears, because she saw nothing
;

that deserved a tear. But now she enters the apartment of the daugh-
ter of Cecrops, to execute the commands of the goddess, and strokes
her breast with a cankered hand, and conveys into her heart the jagged
thorns. She then inspires the subtle venom, and spreads the poison
through her bones, and lodges it in her bowels. And that these causes
of mischief might not wander through too wide a space, she places
her sister before her eyes, and the fortunate marriage she had in -view ;

the god too in a most amiable light and magnifies every thing to her
;

fancy. Aglauros, full of these thoughts, pines away in secret anguish,

and groans, anxious by night and by day, and dissolves by slow de-
grees, as ice feebly smitten by a distant sun. She burns at the good
fortune of her happy sister, just as when thorny weeds set on fire emit no
flames, but gradually waste away in smoke. Often she wished for
death, rather than be a witness of the happy marriage often resolved ,

to
represent all as a crime to her rigid father. At length she seated
herself upon the threshold, to deny the god admittance when he came.
Mercury endeavoured to soften her by caresses, prayers, and soothing
90 P. OVIDII NASONIS

pacto, velox Cyllenius, isto ;

rV/o.r Ci/llenitis ait,
sleinitf^ pacto i\to :
pa-
Stemus, ait,
tffecitqiic fores
'
cfcla-
Cselatasque fores virga patefecit. At illi
tai riri-ih At partes,
quascuiique Jlcctimur Surgere conanti partes, quascunque sedendo
820
nequcunt
Flectimur, ignava nequeunt gravitate moveri.
sctU'iulo,
mot'cri igjiaviX gravi-
tate illi conanti sur- Ilia quideni recto pugnat se attollere trunco:
gcrc. I/la qxiidem pug-
nat (ittolhrc se recto Sed genimmjunctura riget, frigusque per ungues
truiico: sed junctiira
genuitm riget, frigus- Labitur, et pallent amisso sanguine venae.
qiie luhilur per un-
Utque malum late solet immedicabile cancer 825
gues, et voire pallent
amisso sanguine. Vt-
Serpere, et illjesas vitiatis addere partes ;
que cancer immedica-
hile malum sulet ser- Sic lethalis hyems paulatim in pectora venit :

pere late, et addcre

partes illtesas vitiatis: Vitalesque vias, et respiramina clausit.
sic lelhalis hyems ve- Nee conata loqui est; nee, si conata fuisset,
tiit paulatim in pec-
tora, clausitqne res- Vocis haberet iter saxum jam colla tenebat ; 830
:

piramina et vias li-

tales. Nee est conala Oraque duruerant: signumqueexsanguesedebat.
loqui;
canata,
nee si fuisset
haberet iter
Nee lapis albus erat sua mens infecerat illam.
:

vocis. Jam saxum te- XIV. Has ubi verborum poenas mentisque
nebut colla, oraque
duruerunt, sedebatque profanae
signum exsorigtic. Ncc
Cepit Atlantiades dictas a. Pallade terras
lapis erat ulbus ; sua
;

mens infect rut ilium. et

ingreditur jactatis pennis. eethera 835
IV. Obi Allanliades Linquit,
cepit has panas ver- Se vocat hunc
genitor; nee causam
fassus amoris.
borum, mentisquc pro-
fan<r : linquit terras
Fide minister, ait, jussorum, nate, meorum,
dietos (i Fallude, et in-
greditur athera pennis
Pelle solitoque celer delabere cursu :
moram,
jactatis. Genitor se-
vocat hunc ; nee fass us causam amoris, ait, Nate, fide minister meorum jussorum, pelle mo-
ram,, celerqiie delabere solito cursu.

TRANSLATION.

Speeches, but
in vain. Cease, replied she, for I am determined not
to stir hence till you are repulsed. Let us, answered the god briskly,
stand to that agreement; and opened the door in touching it with his
rod. She strove to rise, but the parts which we bend in sitting were
become immovable by their imweildy weight ! still she attempts to
raise herself upright, but the joints of her knees are stiff, a coldness
runs through her nails, and her veins, destitute of blood, look pale.
And as an incurable cancer commonly spreads wide, and adds the
sound parts to the tainted ; so a deadly cold by degrees creeps along
her breast, stops up respiration, and all the passages of life. She
never attempted to speak, nor had she attempted it, was there any
conveyance for her voice. Her neck was now turned to stone, her face
become hard, and there she sat a bloodless statue. Nor did the figure
retain ought of whiteness for the envy that had tainted her mind, ap-
;

peared also in the newly-formed statue.

XIV. When the grandson of Atlas had thus taken vengeance for the
profane speech of this stubborn maid, he leaves the realms denomi-
nated from Pallas, and with moving pinions re-ascends the skies.
His father takes him aside, and without acquainting him with his
"
love My sou, (says he), the faithfid minister of my commands, ba-
" nish all
:

delay, and descend from heaven with your usual swiftness,

" and make for that
region which lies open to your mother from the
 METAMORPHOSEON. Lib. II. 91

peteque hanc tellnrem,

Quasque tuam matrem tellus parte sinistra
k
qutp tellus suspicit tn-
Suspicit,(indigen8e
Sidonida nomine dicnnt) 840 am matrem d parte si-
nisird ;
(iml'igena di-
Hanc pete ; quodque procul montano gvamine cvnt Sidonida nomim)
verteqne ad littora ar-
pasci mentum regale, quod
videx pasci procul mon-
Armentum regale vides ; ad littora verte. tu/io gramine. Dixit :

Dixit: et expulsijamdudum monte juvenci et juvenri jamdudum

expulsi monte, petunt
Littora jussa petunt ; ubi magni filia regis ju^sa littora: %ibi filia
wagni regis cojnitata
Ludere virginibus Tyriis comitata solebat. 845 Tyriis virginibus sole-
Non bene conveniunt, vec in una sede morantur, but ludire. Majestas
et amor non conve-
Majestas et amor. Sceptri gravitate relicta, niunt bene vec moran-
tur in und sede. /lie
Ille pater rectorque deum ;
cui dextra trisulcis pater 7-ecforque Deo-
rum cui dtxtra est
Ignibus armata est, qui nutti concutit orbem
;
armata trisulcis igni-
;

Induitur tauri faciem mistusque juvencis

;
850 bus, qui concutit or-
bem nutu, gravitate
Mugit, et in teneris formosus obambulat herbis: sceptri relictd, indui-
tur faciem tauri: mis-
Quippe color nivis est; quam nee vestigia duri tusque juvencis mugit,
Calcavere pedis, nee solvit aquatieus Auster. et formosus Taurus
obambulat in teneris
Colla toris exstant armis palearia pendent.
: herbis. Quippe color
ejus est color nivis,
Cornuaparvaquidem; sed quae contendere possis quam nee vestigia duri
Facta manu, pur&que magls perlueida gemma. pedis calvavere, nee
^„,,,,. ,„,.
^^„^,,.,^,
vit. Colla extant toris : palearia pendent armis. Cornua qtiidem sunt parva, sed qua possis
contendere esse facta manu, magisque perlueida purd gemmci.

TRANSLATION.
"
Sidonia) and drive to the shore a herd be-
left; (the natives call it
"
longing to the king, which you will there find feeding upon the
mountains." He said, and the bullocks driven from the mountains
already wander along the shore, where the daughter of the mighty
monarch was wont to amuse herself, accompanied by a train of Tyrian
virgins. Majesty and love but ill agree, nor can long continue in the
same abode. He therefore, the father and sovereign of the gods,
whose right hand is armed with the three-forked thunder, who with
a nod shakes the imiverse, laying aside the dignity of empire, puts on
the appearance of a bull, and mixing with the herd, lows, and frisks
about upon the tender grass. His colour is that of snow, unsullied
by the tread of feet, or the dissolving blasts of the watery south wind.
His neck rises in rolls of fat, and the double dewlaps hang from be-
tween his shoulders. His horns indeed are small, but such as you
might maintain were polished by a workman's hand, and more trans-
parent than the brightest gem. No threats appear in his forehead ; his

NOTES.
840. Sidonida.] Sidon was a cele- Europa, daughter of Agenor king of
brated and ancient city of Phoenicia. Tyre, equips a vessel to carry her off, on
845. Virginibus Tyriis.1 From Tj re, the prow of whicli was the figure of a
a famous island and city of Plicenicia, bull. Upon this foundation, the poets
not far from Sidon. who wrote the story, feigned that Ju-
850. Tauri faciem.] Astitius king of enamouied of Europa, forgetting
piter,
Crete, whose reign fell out about ]4i)0 liis
grandeur and majesty, assumed tlie
years before Christ, and more than 200 figure of a hull, to cirry olf his mistress.
years before the Trojan war. Tliis Sec the translation of Hoiacc, vol. I.
prince hearing much of the beauty of page [3i>3.]
92 P. OVIDII NASONIS
Nuiite mind innt in bullae in fronte minae nee formidabile lumen ;
;
front e; vec lumen est i, i i n/r- »
/ormi<iabiie,vuitjtsha- Facem vultus habet. Miratur Agenore nata,
bet pacem. Nata Age-
no7r miratur quod sit Quod tam
formosus, quod praelia nulla minetur.
tamformosus, quod mi-
netur nulla pralia. Sed, quamvis mitem, metuit contingere primo.
Sed jirimb metuit con-Mox adit: et flores ad Candida porrigit era.
tingere eiim quamvi.i >-> i i •,","'
.

mitem. Mox adit et (jraudet amans ; et, cium veniat sperata

, i ,

:
voiuptas,
cZ!d''ida.'^^AmanfgZ" Oscula dat manibus vix ah, vix ceetera differt. '.

det : et dat oscnlu ma- Et nunc

nibus, dttm sperata vo-
alludit, viridique exsultat in herba :

iuptas veniat : vix, ah Nunc latus in fulvis niveum deponit arenis : 665
vix differt ctrtera. Et
nunc alludit, exsultut- Paulatimque metu dempto, modo pectora prsebet
in viridi herbil ;
Virginea plaudenda manu modo cornua sertis
que
nunc deponit niveum
;

Impedienda novis. Ausa est quoque regia virgo,

latus in fulvis are-
nis. Metuque paulatim
dempto, nwdo pnrbet Nescia quem premeret, tergo considere tauri.
pectoraplaudenda rir-
gineH mamt, modo Cum Deus a terra, siccoque alittore, sensim 870
cornua impe- Falsa primis vestigia ponit in undis.
praebet
divnda novis sertis, pedum
Regia virgo nescia Inde abit mediique per aequora ponti
ulterius,
quern premeret, ausa -pi. i
est quoque considere fGYZ prSBQam Pavet hsec littusque ablata re- :

tergo tauri: ciim Deus lirfiim

llKyHliu
sensim ponit fal\a vex-
tigia pedum d. terra,
Resoicit
'
et dcxtr^ comu tenet altera dorso
:
;
aque in
sicca littore, -^
. , n .

primis undis. Jnde

alnt ulterius, fertque
Imposita cst: tremulae smuantur liamine ves-
ICS.
.
87
o/Ofi
prtFdam per tequora
medii ponti. Hcec pa-
vet : ablataque respicit litttis relictum: et dextra tenet cornu, altera est impoiita dorso :

tremula testes sinuantur Jiamine.

TRANSLATION.
eyes have nothing in them formidable, but every look expresses peace.
The daughter of Agenor admires his beauty, and wonders that he
threatens no battles. At first she is afraid to touch him, though so
gentle but soon adventures nearer, and holds out the flowers to his
;

Avhite mouth. The lover rejoices, and till he can enjoy the hoped-for
pleasure, kisses her hands scarce, ah scarce does he defer the rest.
;

And now he exults and wantons in the green meadows now rolls his ;

white body on the yellow sand and observing that her fears Avere gone, ;

sometimes offers his breast to be stroked by her virgin hand, some-

times stoops his horns to be dressed in flowery wreaths. And now
the royal maid, not knowing whom she pressed, boldly ventures upon
his back. The god by gentle steps advances from the land and dry
meadows toward the sea and first with deceitful steps dips his hoofs in
;
J
the Avaves. Thence stealing further, suddenly plunges in, and carries
his prize through the middle of the sea. The frighted nymph looks
back to the shore she had left behind. With her right hand she
grasps his horn, the other is placed upon his back. Her ruffling
garments swelled by the wind, hover in a train behind her.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lir. III. 93

LIBER TERTIUS.

Deus fallacis ORDO.

posita imagine tauri,
JAMQUE
Se confessus erat: Dictseaque rura tenebat.
I.
Jamqtie Deus ima-
gine fallacis tauri po-
sitd, confessus erat se;
Cum paler ignarus, Cadmo perquirere raptam tenebatque rura Dic-
ta:a. Cum pater igni-
Imperat: poenam, si non invenerit, addit,
et rus imperat Cadmo
Exilium, facto pius, et sceleratus eodem. 5 perquirere filiam rap-
tam: et addit exilium
Orbe pererrato (quis enim deprendere possit poenam, si non invene-
rit, pins et sceleratus
Furta Jovis ?) profugus patriamque iramq; pa- eodem facto. Orbe per-
errato (enim quis pos-
rentis sit deprendere furta
Vitat Agenorides ; Phoebique oracula supplex Jovis) Agenorides pro-
fugus, vitat patriam-
Consulit et, quae sit tellus habitanda, requirit.
:
que, iramqve paren-
tis ; supflexque consu-
Bos tibi, Phoebus ait, solis occurret in arvis, 10 lit oracula Phabi: et

Nullum passajugum, curvique immunis aratri. requirit qua: tellus sit

habitanda. „ Phoebus
ait, Bos passa nullum jugtim, immunisqite curvi aratri, occurret tibi solis arvis.

TRANSLATION.
A ND now the god having put off the image of the fallacious bull,
-^^ discovered
himself, and had reached the Dicttean shore when ;

the father of Europa, ignorant of her fate, commands Cadmus to go

in quest of his ravished
daughter, and threatens perpetual exile as
the punishment of not finding her thus pious and unnatural in the
;

same action. The son of Agenor having in vain wandered the world
around (for who can pretend to discover the stolen delights of Jove),
avoids by a voluntary banishment, his country and the resentment of
his father, and in suppliant manner consults the oracle of Apollo, to
know what land was allotted him to dwell in. A
heifer, returns the god,
shall meet you in the desert fields, that has never yet borne the yoke.

NOTES.
1 .
Jamque Deus, &c.] Europa being sends his companions to a fountain that
carried off by Jupiter in the manner re- had been consecrated to Mars, to draw
lated in the preceding book, Agenor some water for libations there they are
:

her father sent his sons in quest of her, devoured by the dragon that guarded
with strict charge not to return till they the fountain. Wondering at their long
had found her. Cilix, after long wan- stay, he goes himself; and seeing the
dering, settled at last in Cilicia, to which havoc made by the serpent, encounters
he gave his name. Cadmus too, finding and kills him. Afterwards, by the ad-
his inquiry vain, and abandoning all vice of Minerva, he sows the teeth of
thought of returning to his native coun- the dragon,whence spring troops of
try, consults the oracle of Apollo, where armed men, who falling into fight with
he should settle lie received for an-
; one another, five only are left alive, who
swer, that he should build a city where assist in the building of Thebes.
he observed a cow with such and such The more common explication of this
marks to stop, and that he should name fable is, that the dragon was a king of
the country Bceotia. Finding things the country named Draco, the son of
succeed according to the advice of the Mars, and that the mysterious teeth
oracle, and resolving to return thanks were his subjects, who rallied after his
to the gods
by a solemn sacrifice, he defeat-
 94 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Carpe rias hilc tluce

et flic condas mania
:
Hac duce carpe vias et, qua requieverit lierba,
:

herlxl qua rcquicicrit : McBnia fac condas Boeotiaque ilia vocato.

:

vocaloqiic ilia incciiia

Haotiii. Cadmus iLv Vix bene Castalio Cadmus descenderat antro :

bi/u- descenderat Cas-

talio untro, cum ridet Incustoditam lente videt juvencam, 15 ira
jnvencam incustndi- Nullum servitii signum cervice gerentem.
tam, gereiitem nullum
sjgnum scrvitii cervice, Subsequitur, pressoque legit vestigia gressu ;
ire lentt. Subsequitur,
legitque vestigia pres- Auctoremque via) Phcebum
taciturnus adorat.
so gressu, tuciturnux-
que, adorat Pficebum
Jam vada Cepliisi, Panopesque evaserat arva :

auctorem via:. Jam Bos stetit: spatiosam cornibus altis 20

ct, tolleus
evaserat vada Ccphi- . ,
^
, •j.-i i-, •

si, arvaque Putiopcs, Ad coelum trontem, mugitibus impulit auras.

^caiuTfroLlml'jZtio- Atque ita, respiciens comites sua terga sequentes,
samaiuscornibusim. latus submisit in herba.
pulit auras 7nugitilius.
Procubuit,'.teueraque
^
^^ ,
Atque ita rcspicieus Cadmus agit ogrates
— -o
I
peregriugeque
i o '
oscula terrsB
comites sequentes sua -

terga, procubuit, suh- -^

Figit: •
" »&,"> _
et
^^ ^^i^^^^^
ignotos
, .
montes agrosque salutat. 25
»^«»*~^kj i,j_i.
misitque latus in tene- Sacra Jovi facturus erat; jubet ire ministros,
rO. herbH. Cadmus agit
grates, figitque oscula Et petere e vivis libandas fontibus undas.
peregrina terra: et
salutat monies agros-
Sylva vetus stabat, nulla violata securi.
que ignotos. Eratjac-
turns sacra Jovi; ju- Est specus in medio virgis an vimine densus,
het ministros ire, et
EfRciens humilemlapidum compagibus arcum,30
petere t vivis fontibus
vndas libandas. Sylva Uberibus fcecundus aquis hoc conditus antro :

vetus stubat liolata

nulla securi. Specus Martius anguis erat, cristis prsesignis et auro;
est in medio, denszis
virgis ac vimine, effi- Igne micant oculi ; corpus tumet omne veneno ;
ciens humilem arcum
compagibus lupidvm, etfcecundus uberibus aquis. Anguis Martins, prasignis cristis eo au-
ra, erat conditus hoc antro; oculi micant igne, omne corpus tumet veneno:

TRANSLATION.

nor felt the weight of the crooked plough follow her steps, and in :

whatever pastures she first lays her down, there build your Avails, and
call it the Bo?otian city.
Scarce had Cadmus well got down from the Casfalian cave, when
he sees a heifer without a guide, walking a slow pace, and bearing
upon her neck no mark of servitude. He follows, and pursuing her
track with gentle steps, adores in silence the god whom he regarded
as his conductor in the way. And now he had passed the waters of
Cephisus, and traversed the fields of Panope,
when the cow stood still,
and raising to heaven her front, graceful with high horns, filled the
air with lowings, and looking back upon her companions that followed
behind, couched down, and reposed her side upon the tender grass.
Cadmus returns thanks, and imprints kisses upon the strange earth,
and salutes the unknown mountains and fields. He then prepared to
offer sacrifice to Jupiter, and commands his servants to bring some
water for libations from the running springs. Hard by there stood an
ancient grove, as yet not profaned by the axe, in the middle of which
was a cave, overrun with brambles and bushy sprigs, forming a low
arch by the shelvings of the rocks, and abounding Avith plenty of water.
Hid in this den was a dragon sacred to Mars, adorned with crests and
scales of gold : his eyes glare with fire, all his veins are turgid with
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. III. 95

stant ordine dentes. tres lingute vibrant :

Tresq; vibrant linguas: triplici dentes stant triplici

Queiu postquam Tyria lucum de gente profecti 35 ordine. Quern lucum
postquam profecti de
Infausto tetigere gradu ; demissaque in undas gente Tijria tetigtre
Urna dedit sonitum ; longo caput extuiit antro infausto gradu ; nr-
naque devUssa i?i un-
Coeruleus serpens ; horrendaque sibila misit. das dedit sonitum ;
coeruleus serpens ex-
Effluxere urnae manibus sanguisque reliquit
: tuiit caput longo an-
tro misitquc horrenaa
Corpus, et attonitos subitus tremor occupat sibila. Urnc ejHuxire
40 manibus, sanguisque
artus.
reliquit corpus, et su-
lUe volubilibus squamosos nexibus orbes hitiis tremor occupat
attonitos artus: Ille

Torquet, et immensos saltu sinuatur in arcus : torquet squamosos or-

bes volubilibus next-
Ac media plus parte leves erectus in auras bus, et saltu sinuatur
in immensos arcus, ac
Despicit omne nemus; tantoq; est corpore, erectus plus medici
parte in leves auras,
quanto despicit omne nemus:
Si totum spectes, geminas qui separat Arctos. 45 estque tanto corpore,
quanto si spectes to-
Nee mora Phoenicas,
:
(sive ille tela parabant, tum, serpens qui- se-
Sive fugam; sive ipse timor prohibebat utrumque) parat geminas Arctos.
JVec mora : occupat
Occupat; hos morsu, longis complexibus illos, Phcenieas ; (sive
parabant tela, sive fu-
Hit

Hos necat adflatos funesti tabe veneni. gam, sive ipse timor
Fecerat exiguas jam Sol altissimus umbras 50 :
prohibebat utmmque)
Twca/que hos morsu,
Ques mora sit sociis miratur Agenore natus, illos longis complexi-
bus ; hos afflatos tabe
Vestigatque viros. Tegimen direpta leoni funesti veneni. Jam
Sol altissimus fecerat
Pellis erat telum splendenti lancea ferro,
:
exiguas umbras, natus
Et jaculum: teloque animus prsestantior omni. Agenore miratur quce
sit ?nora sociis; vesti-
Ut neiiius intravit, lethataque corpora vidit, 55 gatque viros. Tegimen
erat direpta
pellis
Victoremque supra spatiosi corporis hostem leoni: telum, lancea
splendenti ferro, etja-
culum, animiisque prtEstantior omni telo. Ut intravit nemus, viditq ue lethata corpora, hos-
tcmqiie viciorem spatiosi corporis supra,
TRANSLATION.
poison, three tongues are brandished
from his mouth, and his teeth
stand dreadful in a triple row. When the men of Tyre with ill-fated
steps had reached the dismal grove,
and the urn let down for water
rebounded from side to side, the serpent roused, thrusts his head out of
the deep cave, and fills the air with dreadful hissings. The urns drop
from their hands, the blood forsakes their veins, and a sudden horror
seized their astonished limbs. He wreathes his scaly orbs in rolling
plaits,and by an immense leap is bent into a mighty fold, and up-
rearing more than half his body into the air, overlooks all the grove,
in
bulk enormous as the celestial dragon that separates the two bears. In
a moment he seizes the Phoenicians (whether they were preparing
;

with arras to defend themselves, or hoped to escape by flight, or that

fear deprived them of both these resources), some are crushed between
his jaws, others entangled in his winding folds, and, in fine, the rest
perish by the poisonous blasts of his pestilential breath.
And now
the sun at his highest had shortened every shade, when the son of
Agenor, wondering what detained his companions, goes in search of
them. His garment was a skin torn from a lion, his weapon a dart,
and a lance pointed with shining steel, and an undaunted soul, the
best of weapons. Soon as he entered the grove, and saw the lifeless
96 P. OVIDII NASONIS

lambentemtristiavui-
lin-
Tristia sanKuinea
'^
lambentem vulnera linfrua:
iicrn .••anguinea • , r ^ •

gu.i; iHquit,_ntiissima Aut ultor vcstra?, lidissima corpora, mortis,

corvorn.ero autultor,
aut comes vcstra- mar-
.,
Aut
•

comes, inquit, ero. Dixit dextraq molarem

•. TV-jji* :
;
^

Sustulit, et magnum magno conanime misit. 60

'

Imiwnm rf"^'"^'*^ e?
misit
conanime.
magnum, magna
Mamia ar-
HHus impulsu cuiii turribus ardua celsis
x
-» •
i r>
•
i
dua cum celsis turri- Moeniamotatorent; serpens sine vulnere mansit.
bill tnota im-
forent
pulsti alius. Serpens Loricreque modo squamis defensus, et atrae
nian\it sine vulncrc.
Duritia pellis, validos cute reppulit ictus.
JJifeiuusque. squamis
modo lorictF, et duri^ At non duritia jaculum quoque vincit eadem ;
65
tid atrip pellis, rep-
piilit valiilos ictus Quod medio lentse fixum curvamine spinse
cute. At lion liiicit
quoqiiejucuUnn ciiilfm Constitit; et toto descendit in ilia ferro.
ditritWi;quod constitit Ille dolore ferox caput in sua terga retorsit,
Jixxim medio curvu
mi7e\e'ntaZpiu'a:'Tet
descendit in ilia toto
Vulneraquc adspexit fixumque hastile momor- :

j-.
ferro. Ille ferox do- Qll.
lore retorsit caput in
sua terga, udsptxUque Idnue,ubi vi multapartemlabcfecitin
t. r '
.
omnem, 70 .
>

vulnera, momorditqtie Vix tcrgo enpuit: fcrrum tamcn ossibus hoeret.

fi.rnm hastile. Ubique m1 um vcro\ a ^• a -a t •

labejecit id in omnem postquam solitas acccssit ad iras

;

^J^puTt 'tergo: lamTn Plaga rcccns, plenis tumuerunt guttura venis :

jerrum haret
I um vera, postquam
ossibus.
Spumaque
i^ if pcstifcros circumfluit albida
..
rictus
, .
,
•
:

rtr
rccens piaga accessit
ad lerraq; rasasonatsquamis ;quique halitusexitvo
solitas iras, gut- /-\ Oi 'i* i n • •
-a^
tura tumuerunt plenis Ore nigcr tstygio, vitiatas mticit auras.
7a"circ^im}"uH^ pei'tt ^P^® modo immensum spiris facientibus orbem
feros rictus; terraque Cinffitur:
^ intcrdum lono;^ " trabe rectior exit:
rasa squamis sonatfiia-
litusque nigir qui exit '^tygio ore, injicit vitiatas auras. Ipse modo cingitur spiris facientibus
immensum orbem : iuterdum exit rectior lo7igd trabe.

TRANSLATION.
bodies, and the victorious enemy of hideous size stretched upon them,
licking with bloody tongue the baneful wounds Faithful companions, :

cries he, I will either

avenge your death, or share in your fate. He
said, and seizing in his right hand a millstone, sent the
ponderous mass
with an impetuous throw high walls and
lofty towers would have
:

yielded to the shock, yet the serpent remained unhurt, and fenced
with his scaly coat of mail, and the native hardness of his skin, he re-
pelled the mighty stroke with his plaited scales. But the same crusted
armour did not avail against his lance, which
deep-rooted in the mid-
dle joint of his yielding
spine, pierced with its pointed head into his
inmost bowels he, fierce with pain, writhes his head backwards, and
;

as he sees the wound, bites with rage the

wedged spear and after he ;

had worked it on every side with all his might, scarce wrenched it
from his back yet the point stuck fast in his But now this
;
spine.
fresh pain having increased his wonted
rage, his throat swells with
turgid veins, a white foam issues from his baneful mouth, the earth re-
sounds with his moving scales, and the poisonous steam that issues from
his infernal mouth infects the tainted air. Now he is enrolled in
spires
that rise in a maze of vast
rings sometimes he unfolds himself straight ;

NOTES.
72. Turn vera postquam.'] This whole inipossilile to read it witliout horror,
description of the dragon is wonder- and an uncommon concern for Cad-
fully sublime and poetical it is almost : mus.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. III. 97

Tnipetenunc vasto, ceu concitus imbribus amnis, ^'^f^'] IVumnuZfct

Fertur,etobstantesproturbatpectoresylvas. 80 t itrbat
fus imbribus, et pro-
silt'ux ub.stu ntes
Cedit Agenorides paulinn spolioque leonis
:
jiectori'. Agenorides
(edit paidum: siist.i
Sustinet incursus ; instantiaque ora retardat netque incursus spolio
Cuspide praetenta. Furit ille, et inania duro
leonis; rctardatque
insluntla ora cuspide
Vulnera dat ferro figitque in acumine dentes.
: prcFteiitA ille furit et :

dat inania i<ulntra

Jamque venenifero sanguis manare palato 85 duro Jerro : Jigitqiic
deiites ill acumine.
Coeperat ; et virides aspergine tinxerat heibas Jamque sanguis cape-
:

Sed leve vulnus erat quia se retrahebat

: ab ictu rat niaiiare vcueiiijero
;
paluto et tinxerat ;

Laesaque colla dabat retro plagamque sedere ;

virides licrbas asper-
gine. vulnus erat
Scil
Cedendo arcebat, nee longius ire sinebat. leie, quia rc/rahebat
se ab ictu, dabatquc
Donee Agenorides conjectum in gutture ferrum lasa colla retro, ccden-
Usque sequens pressit dum retro quercus eiinti
: (toque urctbut piagam

Obstitit et nxa est panter cum robore cervix.

:
longml-; douce Age?io-
rides tisque sequens
Pondere serpentis curvata est arbor, et imte pressit ferrum conjee-
tutu in gutture; dum
Parte flagellari geniuit sua robora cauda.
quercus obstitit eunti
Dum victor victiconsiderathostis; 95 retro, et cervix estfixa
IT
Vox
spatium
"i-iV Ti i/ ^ J.
subito audita est (neque erat cognoscere Arbor est curvata pon-
:
variter cum robore.

''"'^ serpentis, et ge-

promptum muitsua robiirajiaget-
Unde sed audita
:
est) Quid, Agenore nate, pe- lari parte imte caudee.
Dum victor considerat
remptum sputiuni vieti hostis,
subito vox est audita :
Serpentem spectas? et tu spectabere serpens. (nequi erat pvomptum
Illediu pavidus, pariter cum mente colorem cognoscere unde, sed
est audita) Quid, nate

Perdiderat; gelidoque comee terrore rigebant, 1 00 Agenore, spectas ser-

pentem percmptum?
Et tu spectabere serpens. Ille din pavidus, perdiderat colorem pariter cum ntente ; com-
aque rigebant gelido terrore.
TRANSLATION.
as a long beam. Now with a vast impulse, as a torrent swelled by
rains, he rushes forward, ar.d bears down the opposing forests with his
breast. The son of Ageiior i;,ave back, and sustained the shock on his
lion's spoil, and with the point of his lance pushes back his mouth
as he urged it forward. He rages, and in vain champs the stubborn
steel, and fixes his teeth upon its
point and now the blood began to
:

flow from his venomous throat, and tinged the green herbs with
sprinkling drops. But the wound was slight because he recoiled
;

from the stroke, and drew back his wounded neck, and shrinking from
the wound, disappoints the blow, nor would suffer it to sink deep. At
in his throat, presses
length Cadmus, still pursuing, his spear lodged
forward, till a knotted oak retards his retreating foe, and the spear,
passing through his neck, pins him to the body
of the tree the tree :

bends under the weight of the serpent, and lashed by the extremity
of his huge tail, groans. ;

While the victorious hero surveys the enormous size of his vanquished
foe, a sudden voice was heard (nor could he at all guess
whence it pro-
ceeded, yet was it distinctly heard), Why, son ofAgenor, do you thus
contemplate the serpent you have slain?
Even you too shall be seen under
the form of a serpent. He, long astonished, lost his colour, and at the
same time, his courage an icy coldness ran through his veins, and
;

H
 98 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Jtcc* Ptillas, fautrix Ecce viri fautrix superas delapsa per auras
viri, adest, dtla'psa
fer stiff t as auras ; Pallas adest: motajque jubet supponere terra;
jnbetque suppnnere
dentes vipereos, incre- Vipereos dentes populi incrementa futuri.
menta populi futuri,
motff terrtr. Parct :
Paret et ut presso fulcum pate fecit aratro, 'fi-dcwi^i
:

Spargithumijussos,mortaliasemiiia, dentes: 105

et ut patefecitfulcjim
prcssn aratro, spargit
Jussos dcnte.'', inorla-
majus) gleba; coepere moveri
Inde (fide :

dc cmajTs' fi\i7"gi(0ff Pi'iniaque de sulcis acies apparuit hastse.

caipCre vioieri, acies-
i/ue liasttc prima ap- Tegmina mox capitum picto nutantia cono :

paruit de sulcis. Mox Mox humeri

trgmiiia capitum, nu-
pectusque, onerataque brachia telis
tuiitiapictocono. Mox Existunt, crescitque seges clypeata virorum. 110
/Lumeri,pectusqtte,bra-
^liaque oncrata telis Sic ubi tolluntur festis aulsea theatris,
Surgere signa solent; primumq; ostendere vul-
exist unt: segesque cly-
peata virornm cres-
cit. Sic ubi aultra tol- tum :

lu7itur festi': ttieatris.

signa Solent surgere Csetera paulatim placidoque educta tenore
:

^J- primwnque oJ(ciidcre Tota patent imoque pedes in margine ponunt.

rultum, panlutim ca- ;

tera: totaque educta Territusliostenovo Cadmus caperearmaparabat.'

^
placido tenure patent; -.-r^ , , /
pununtqnc pedes in JN 6
cape, de populo, quem terra creaverat, unus
7^ruZ^'nlvf"h^Z Exclamat ; nee te civilibus infere bellis.
par aba t caper e arma :
unus depopulo quem terra creaverat, exclamat ne cape ; nee infere te bellis civilibus;

TRANSLATION.
his hair rose in bristles. When
lo, Pallas, the guardian of the hero,
Kwift gliding through the air, stood before him, aud bids him scatter
the dragon's teeth luider the furrowed earth, assuring him they were
the seeds of a future people. The chief obeys, and as he opened a
trench with the rmniing plough, scatters, according to command, the
teeth, whence was to spring a new race of men. Some time after,
(who almost can believe it !) the clods began to move, and first the
points of spears rise from the furrows in rows then helmets nodding ;

with painted crests, soon shoulders, and breasts, and arms loaded w ith
spears start up, and a crop of men armed with shields grows from the
earth. Thus when the curtains are drawn up in the joyful theatres,
first their countenances appear, and by de-
figures are wont to rise ;

grees the rest, till drawn up by an even tenor, they strike the eyes in
full proportion, and set their feet upon the extreme parts of the stage.

Cadmus, terrified at the sight of this new enemy, was preparing to

take arms when one of the people whom the earth had produced,
;

NOTES.
111. Aul(ea.'\ The curtain that, con- down upon the theatre ; and wlien the
cealed the theatre from the spectators, play was over, cr between the acts, they
till the actors appeared. To understand drew it up, whereas wo let it fall. The
perfectly the expression in the original, first they called premere aulera, the other
tolhmtur aulaa, it will be necessary to tollere aulaa. In drawing up the curtain

remark, that the metliod followed on therefore, upon the Roman stage, it was
the Roman stage was the very reverse gradually displayed and unfolded, until
of that in use with us ; for instead of the several figures that were painted
drawing up the curtatn to discover the upon it, appeared distinct and in full pro-
stage and actors, according to the pre- portion.
sent practice, the Romans let it fall
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. Til. 99

Atqiie ita terrigenis rigido de fratribus nnum

atqiieita cominuxferit
rigido ense uniim
de
Cominus ense ferit: jacul^ cadit eminus ipse. fratribus terrigenis :
miiso
ipse cadit jaculo
Hi c quoque, qui leto dederat, non longius illo 1 20 emiiiu.^. IJic quoquc
qui dederat earn letho,
Vivit^ et exspirat, modo quas acceperat, auras : no)i vivit longius illo,
et erxpirat auras qucs
Exemploque pari furit omnis turba suoque ;
modo acceperat ; om-
Marte cadunt subiti per mutua vulnera fratres. nisque turba fvrit pari
exemjilo ; fratresquc
Jamque brevis spatium vitse sortita juventus subiti cadunt suo.Mar-
ie per miftua vulnera.
Sanguineam trepido plangebant pectore matrem ;
Jamque ji/rentus sor-
tita spniiiim brevis
Quinque superstitibus quorum fuitunus Echion:
:
vittE, plangehant sari-
Is sua jecithumi, monitu Tritonidis, arma; guincaiii matrem tre-
pido pcctore ; quinque
Fratern^eque tidem pacis petiitque deditque. superstitib^n: quorum
Echioii J'uH units. Is
Hos operis comites habuit Sidonius hospes :
monifuTrifonidisjecif
Ciam posuit jussam Phaebeis sortibus urbem. 130 sua arma hiimi, dedit-
que. petiitquc Jidem
II. Jam stabant Thebae poteras jam, Cadme,:
JraterntF pacis, Hos-
videri pcs Sidonius habuit
kits comites operis,cutn

posuit urbem jussam P/iaehtis sortibus. II. Jam 'rheb(e stabant: jam Cadme, potcras videri
,

TRANSLATION.
cries out Forbear, nor blindly engage in civil wars. Then engaging
:

hand to hand with one of his earth-born brothers, he smites him with
his sword, while he himself falls by a dart thrown by a distant hand.
He too who slew him did not long survive, and breathes out the air
which he had so lately received. The dire example runs through the
whole crowd, and these sudden born brothers fall in fight with one
another by mutual wounds. And now the youth, fated to enjoy but a
short term of life, heat with throbbing breasts their bloody
mother ;

five only remained, of whom was Echion. He, admonished by Pallas,

threw his arras upon the ground, and both asked and gave the promise
of a brotherly peace. The Sidonian stranger had these for his as-
sociates in the Avork, when he laid the foundations of the city com-
manded by the oracle of Apollo.
II. And now Thebes was become a flouri ihing city ; now, Cadmus,

NOTES.
13). Jamstnhant Thehce.'] Diana fa- more early heroes, it was common to
tiijned wilh hunting:, had retired to the mix with it that of the gods, it was pre-
valley of Gargaphie, to bathe there in a tended that Juno, jealous of Europa,
fountain. Actscon, the sou of Aristaeiis had extended her Tengeance to her bro-
and Autonoe, having pnt off the exer- ther Cadmus and all his race. Ovid fur-
cise of hunting till next day, because of nishes lis with several examples of this
the heat, as was wandering in the
lie vengeance the first is the story of Ac-
:

woods with uncertain steps, chanced to taeon he was the grandson of Cadmus
:

come into the same place, where he saw by his daughter Autonoe, and that fam-
Diana and her whole chorus of nymphs ous Aristaeus, who, for having taught
naked. The goddess, full of confusion men the culture of olives, and other
at this accident, and resolving that he useful art?, merited to be ranked with
should never be able to divulge or boast the gods. As to the foundation of this
of it, changed him into a .stag : his dogs that Actaeon was
story, some pretend
soon after espying him pursue him as their his dogs, which were
really devoured by
proper prey, and tear him to pieces. become ravenous ; others, tliat having
The family of Cadmus after settling ruined himself by the expense he was at
in Greece,
proved extremely unhappy ; in keepin.': doffs, it was given out that he
and as in writing the history of those was (IcAOiiicd by them.
H 2
 100 p. OVIDII NASONIS

^xilio foelix. Soceri tibi Marsque Venusque

'^Fmls(uTeoS?"ni
soceri tibi: adde hue huc adclc de coniuee tanta,
Conti2,'f:rant
i-genus
:

gcnusriftantacoiijuse, rri . j_ ^ ^
tot ?tatos, natasquc, ct iot natos, iiatasque, pignora cara nepotes ; et

"IZS^o^IVliiJurl
Hos quoq jam juvenes. Sed scilicet Vltima
;

jie.i ierf scilicet ulti-

:

ma dies est semper ex- semper

pcctanda homini: nemo- Expectonda dies homini : dicique ~
beatus
que debet did beatus i ~± i
•
,. l j l j."

anteo'>itiim,suprema-
"'
Ante ooitum 116)710, suprcmaque
' .. juneru
~ debet.
' . .
que finiera P^nia nepos inter tot res tibi, Cadme,secundas
cornuiique alienana^ad-
dita fronti, I'osqiic ca- Causa fait luctus, alienaque cornua fronti
?ies ^atiattr sanguine
herili,/uit Gidme, pri- Addita,vosque canes satiatse sanguine herili. 140
ma causa Ivctus tibi
inter tot res senindas. At bene si
quaeras Fortunes crimen in illo,
:

At si qutrias bene, in-

veniescrimen Fort una"
Non scelus invenies: quod enim scelus error
non sceliis in illo, enim habebat ?
quod sect Its ermr lui-
oebat? Eriit mons in- Mons erat, infectus variarum csede ferarum :

fectus cade variunnn rerum medias contraxerat umbras

dies
feraruin ; jamque dies Jamque ;

contruxerat medius Et sol ex eequo meta distabat utr&,que 145 ;

vmhras reriim, et sol
distabtit e.v irqiio utrii- Cum juvenis placido per devia lustra vagantes
que mrtd, cumjuienis
Hyanlius compellat Participes operum compellat Hyantius ore :

ptirticlpes operirm v(i- Lina madent, comites, ferrumq ; cruore fera-

ga/itrs per detiu lus-
tra, placido ore : Co- rum :

mites, Una mndent,

ferrumque cruure ferarttm ,

TRANSLATION.
might you have been esteemed happy in your exile, and could boast of
having Mars and Venus for your father and mother-in-law add more- ;

over, a numerous issue by your heaven-born spouse, so many sons and

daughters, and grand-children, dear pledges of love these too now ;

grown up. But we find the last day of life is to be waited for by man,
and that no one ought to be called happy before his death and funeral,
the last scene of mortality. In this train of prosperity, Cadmus, the
first cause of grief, was your grandson, and horns not his own, branch-

ing from his forehead, and you dogs, glutted Avith your master's blood.
And yet if you consider well, you will find in him only a crime of for-
tune, no real fault for how can ignorance be deemed a crime ? There
;

was a mountain stained with the blood of many wild beasts and now ;

the sun had shortened the mid-day shades, and was equally distant from
both extremities of heaven, when the Hyanthian youth thus with mild
accent addressed the companions of his sports, as they were ranging the
pathless haunts of the wild beasts:
'•
Our nets, companions, and spears
" are wet m ith the of wild beasts and the day hath yielded us
slaughter ;

NOTES.
13i2. Soceri tibi Marsque Venuaque.] ed so potent and firmly settled on liis
For Cadmus married Harnionia, or as throne, that there was no danger of an
others will rather have it, Hermione, interruption. Bnt falling aftei ward into
llie (laughter of Mars and Venus. tliehands of Cyrus, and bein^' condemn-
135. Sed scilicet ultima semper.] This ed to be burnt alive, he recollected this
is the famous senleuceof Solon lo Crcc- memorable saying of the wise man, and
sus, when he was master of the rich and by that means saved his life, as the story
lioftrishing kingdom of Lydia,and seem- is related at
large by Herodotus.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Ljb. III. 101

Fortunasque dies habuit Altera lucem satis. dies habuit satis fo-r-
tunct, cutn altera Au-
Cum Aurora reducet; 150
croceis invecta rotis rora invecta erociis
rotis reducet Inct m,
Propositutn repetamus opus: nunc Phcebus repetainiis propositvm
opus. i\0/«<: P/ioebus
utraq ; distiit idem utraque
Distat idem terra; finditque vaporibus arva. terra :
finditque ana
vujioribus : sistite pro -
Sistite opus prajsens nodosaque toUite Una
: : sens opus,
tolliteque
nodosa Una. Viri fa-
Jussa viri faciunt; intermittuntque laborem. ciunt jussa, intermit-
Vallis erat piceis et acuta densa cupressu ; 155 tuntquelahorein. Erat
vallis densa
piceis, et
Nomine Gargaphie, succinctae sacra Dianas : acuta cupres\u, no-
mine Gargupliie, sacra
Cujus in extremo est antrum nemorale recessu, succinetfF IJiantr ; in
Arte laboratuni nulla; simulaverat artem cujus exiremu recessu
est aitfrum nemorale
Ingenio natura suo. Nam pumice vivo
laboratuni nulla arte :
nattira suo ingenio si-
Et levibus tophis nativum duxerat arcum. 160 mulaverat artem ; nam
duxerat 7iutivum ar-
Pons sonat a dextra tenui perlucidus unda, cum vivo pumice, et li-
vibus tophis. Fons per-
Margine gramineo patulos incinctus hiatus.
lucidus sonat a dextra
Hie dea sylvarum venatu fessa solebat tenui undo, incinctus
patulos hiatus grami-
Virgineos artus liquid o perfundere rore. neo margine. Hie dea

Quo postquam subiit ; Nympharum tradidit uni

?u[JJiZ/pnfurTd'ere
artus
Armigerse jaculum, pharetramque, arcusque re- ^•'rsiuevs
rore. Quo
Uqiiiiio
antro post-
tentos. qitam subiit, tradidit
jaculum, pharetram-
Altera depositae subjecit brachia pallse. que arcusque retmtos
uni
Vincla duas pedibus demunt. Nam doctiorillis Nympharum ar-
migeree. Altera sub-
Ismenis Crocale, sparsos per coUa capillos jecit brachia pullte de-
posit te. /Ju(F dtmunt
Colligit in nodum quamvis erat ipsa solutis. 170
;
vincla pedibus; nam
Ismenis Crocale dvc-
tior illis, colligit in nodum capillos sparsos per colla; quamvis ipsa erat capillis solutis.

TRANSLATION.
"
when another morning, mounted on saffron wheels,
sufficient sport ;

" back the day, we will resume our wonted diversion. Now
shall bring
" the sun is at equal distance from both quarters of the world, and
" cleaves the fiekls M-ith his heat. Cease then your present toils, and
"
gather up the knotted nets." They all consent, and remit their la-
bour. There was a valley thick set with pine-trees, and the sharp-
pointed cypress, by name Gargaphie, sacred to active Diana in the :

extreme recess hereof was a grotto, thick-shaded by

surrounding trees,
which, though not formed by art, was yet finished with that ingenuity,
that nature in every place seemed to vie with art for she had drawn ;

an arch with the pumice and light sand-stones. On the right-hand a

fountain murmurs along, transparent by its limpid stream, which by
degrees swelling into a lake, is edged round Avith a border of grass.
Here tlie goddess of the woods, weary with hunting, was went to
bathe her virgin limbs in the silver stream. When she had entered this
cool retreat, she gave to one of the nymphs, her armour-bearer, her
dart, her quiver too, and unstrung bow; another put her arms under
her cloak as it was let down tAvo loosed her sandals from her feet
; :

for Crocale the daughter of Israenus, more handy than the rest,
ga-
NOTES.
i6g. Ismenis Crocale.] Crocale was the daughter of Ismenu?, a river in BoeoHao
 102- P. OVIDII NASONIS

Nepheieque.HyaieqHe, Excipiuflt
•
laticeiii Ncpheleque,
* i ' Hvaleque,
i •/
Rha- ^
Hhanisqite, et r'srcas, .

ft Phiale, excipiuiit niSqUC.

ScaWS" D«^^ Et Psecas, et Phiale; funduntque capacibus urnis.
pcriuitur
qve'Titaniu
ibisKlUa iumpha, ecce Dumquc ibi peiluitur solita Titania Ivmph^:
\ kj-ri^^
*
^ ^ ^
''

Tiepos cadmi. parte

borem dilutd, {errans
la- Ji,cce JN epos Caumi cliiata parte laborem
non cert is passibus per [Per nemus ignotum non certis passibus errans]
ignotum ncmus)perre- Pervenit in lucum sic ilium fata ferebant.
:
nit ill lucum ; sic fata
J'erehant ilium. Qui si-
mul intravit antra ro- Qui simul intravit rorantia fontibus antra ;
rantia fontibus ; nym- Sicut erant, viso, nudae sua pectora Nymphge
phs sicut erant mi-
dee, visa tiro, percus- Percussere, viro :
subitisque ululatibus omne
sere sua pectora: im-
pleverequc omne ne- Implevere nemus: circumfusaeque Dianam 180
Corporibus texere suis. Tamen altior illis
mus subitis ululati-
bus : circumfu.sa:que,
texere Diaiiani suis Ipsa dea est, Colloque tenus supereminet omnes.
corporibus ; tiimen dea
ipsa est altior illis, su- Qui color infectis adversi Solis ab ictu
pereminetque omnes te-
nus colio. Qui color
Nubibus esse solet, aut purpureas Aurorje ;

solet esse nubibus in- Is fuit in vultu visae sine veste Dianae. 185
fectis ab ictu adversi
solis, aut purpurete Quae quanquam comitum turba stipata suarum,
Aurora ; is color fuit
In latus obliquum tamen adstitit oraque retro :
in vultu Dianit iis<B
sitie veste : qua quam- Flexit et ut vellet promptas habuisse sagittas ;
:

quam stipata turba

suarum comitum, ta- Quas habuit, sic hausit aquas vultumque virilem:

men adstitit in obli-

quum latus ; flcxitque Perfudit: spargensque comas
ultricibus undis,190
or a retro; et ut vel-
let habuisse sagittas
Addidit hsec cladis praenuntia verba futurse :
promptas; sic hausit tibi Nunc
posito me
visam velamine narres ;
aquas qiias habuit:
perfuditque vultum vi- Si poteris narrare, licet. plura minata, Nee
rilem ; spargensgue co-
mas ultricibus undis, addidit htec verba prmnuntia future cladis. Nunc si poteris narrare.
licet narres me visum tibi posito velamine: nee minata plura :

TRANSLATION.
thers her hair which lay scattered upon her neck, into a knot, while her
own hung loose. Nephele, and Hyale, and Rhanis, and Psecas, and
Phiale, fetch up Avater, and pour it from their large urns. While the
Titanian goddess here bathes in the wonted stream, lo, the grandson
of Cadmus, who defeiTed the finishing of his sport till next day, wan-
dering with uncertain steps through the unknown grove, came into this
retired grotto so his fate directed him. How soon he entered the cave
;

whence the springs distilled on every side, the nymphs as they were
naked, upon seeing a man, smote their breasts, and filled all the grove
Avith sudden shriekings and pressing round Diana, covered her with
;

their bodies hut the goddess considerably taller than they, surpasses
;

them all by the head. The colour that is wont to be observed in clouds,
when struck by the rays of the opposite sun, or that of purple Aurora,
appeared in the countenance of Diana, seen without her raiment who ;

though surrounded Avith the crowd of her attendants, she yet shrunk
backwards, and viewed him from aside. How did she wish her arrows
had been at hand but wanting these, she took some of the water in
;

which she stood, and dashed it in his face and besprinkling his hair ;

with the avenging stream, added these words, the presages of his ap-
"
proaching woe Now, if it is in your power, boast of having seen me
:

"
without my raiment," Nor threatening more, she claps on his
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. TiU 103

Dat sparso
r capiti vivacis cornua cervi ;
'
'^"^
'f^«''. ^p"'''? cj>'-
.
1 . jiua iivacis cervi, dat
Datspatiumcollo: summasnuecacuminataures: -^patium coiio cacu-
Cum pedibusq manus, cum longis brachia mutat res. Mutat ma,mscvm
;

Ci-uribus, et velat maculoso vellere corpus. To^'Ss'cMus^ ^

Additus et pavor
r est. Fugit Autoneius heros,' '"^^ '<"7"" macutoso
o. vellere. Paior est et . .

Et se tam celerem cursu miratur in ipso. adduus. Autoneius

vero solitis sua cornua vidit in undis,] 200 iri^^'Twr^K'TJ^^cwe

[Ut
Me miserum dicturus erat vox nulla secuta est. ImtZuLTornuLl'Z
!
;

Inffemuit:
& vox ilia fuit: lacrymaeque per ora
'
''*"; "«<^'y. dicturus
erat me miscrum ; nul-
i i\/r A ^-^ •4-- *.
INonsuanuxerunt. IVlenstantumpristinamansit. la vox est simta. in
Quid faciat'' Tlepetatne domum, regalia tecta? fac,yLalueji"uL7uiit
An lateat sylvis r Timor hoc, pudor impedit iUud. ^IJ^^JZnlZ:^ ZZ
Dunidubitat: videre canes primusqiMelampus. su. Quidfadat? Re-
:

_, ,, i>j.' 11 petatne domum, tecta

Ichnobatesque sagax latratu signa dedere regaua? Auiateatsyi ;

Gnossius Ichnobates, Spartana gente Melampus, l^lpi^o^uiuTDum

Inde ruunt alii rapida velociijs aura, dubuat, cams videre
1
/^ * 1
^'^^ primusque Me- -1 '

^ ~
Pampnagus, et Dorceus, et Oribasus Arcades lampns, ichnobatesque ;
OTA
/lU siigdx dedere .sigiia la-
Omnes; tratuJclimlxitisGnos-

Nebrophonosque valens, et trux cum Lalape ^i4arS!'/Je

Xlieron ' ruunt velocms ra- ''''*

_-, Ti -I-, 1 , •^ .•^• * pida aura. Pum-pha-

Et pedibus Pterelas, et naribus utilis Agre, gus, et Dcrceus, et
TT 1 /' ~1 « Oribasus, omncs Ar-
Hylaeusque lero nuper percussus ab apro, cades . Ncbrophonct-
que valens, et trux
'J'heruncum L/rlape, et Pterelas utilis pedibus, et Agre utilis naribws, Hi/lausque nuper per-
cussus ah apru J'ero,

TRANSLATION.
his neck, and
sprinkled forehead the horns of a lively stag, lengthens
his hands are changed to feet, his arms
sharpens the tops of his ears :

to long legs, and his body is covered with a spotted skin. Fear also is
added away flies the Autoneian hero, and wonders that he should be
;

so swift in running but when he saw his face and horns in the stream,
:

he was going to say, wretched Acteon: but no voice followed; he

groaned, that was all his voice,
and the tears trickled down a face not
his own. His former understanding only continued. What should
he do? Should he return home, and to the royal palace, or lie hid in
the woods fear hinders one, and shame the other.
;
While he is de-
bating with himself, the dogs espied him and first Black -foot, and the ;

the rest by a full cry. Tracer

good-nosed Tracer, gave the signal to
was a Cretan dog, and Black-foot of the Spartan breed. Upon this
the rest rush in swifter than the rapid wind. Glutton, Quick-sight, and
R,anger, all Arcadian dogs and able Kill-buck,
and fierce Hunter,
;

with Tempest and swift-footed Wing, and Catcher of quick scent, and

NOTES.
2o6. Primusque
Melampus.] Tlie have in the version, instead of the Latin
names here given to the dogs are all of names, given the original signification,
Greek derivation ;
thus Melampus is Pe- which may serve as a short explication
Black-foot, &€. To prevent
fiifius ?n"g-€r, of each,
therefore a tedious process of notes, I
104 P. OVIDU NASONIS
Napcquc concepta dc Deo uG lupo coHcepta Nape,
r pecudesque secuta
lu.vo,Pamc)/isq)iesrcu- 1 r .
i 1
oir '
. ,
*
,

ta pccudes,,t Haryvia Poemenis, et iiatis coinitata Harpyia cluobus, zio

eri;l:^l:rS:f;l' Et substncta gerens Sicyonius ilia Ladon :

reus ilia substrktu

Dromas, et Canace, Sticteque, et Tigris, et
:

et Dramas, et Cunacc,
Et
Stictegue, et Tigris, et Alee,
Alee, et Leucoii niveis,
et Asboliis atrls tillis, Et niveis Leucon, et villis Asbolus atris,
prffialtdiisque Lucmi, et cursu fortis Aello,
et Aillo for/is cursi{, Prffivalidusque Lacon,
et Tiious, et velox i,;/-
cicse cum J'ratre Cy-
Et Thous, et Cyprio velox cum fratre Lycisce :
jirio, et llarvalos dis- Et medio frontem distinctus ab albo
nigram
tinctiis quoad nigrum
J'rontcm ub ulbo medio, Harpalos et Melaneus, hirsutaq corpore I^chne: ;

et Mtlaneas, Lachiic-
qtte hirsuta cnrj'ore ;
Et patre Dictseo, sed matre Laconide nati,
Labros et AsTiodos, et acutse vocis rly lactor 224
et Labros, ct Agridos, ;
nati Dictao patre, si'd
__ „~ ,T-<ii J' 1

Quosq;referre moraest. Eaturbacupidmepraeas

Laconide matre, et
carentia saxa,
^on!^Z"mora'rl Per rupes, scopulosque, adituque
^rnntur fu fui'me^rl'- Q^^ ^^^ difficilis, quaquc cst Via nulla, feruntur.
secutus.
dd, per rapes scopu- 1]\q fugit, per quae fuerat loca saepe
t'u^7riitutgVarial'si Heu famulos fugit ipse
suos clamare libebat, !

difflcilis,
nulla via.
qunque
lllc j
']^iTfugH [Actaeon ego sum : dominum cognoscite ves-
per loca per qua sa-pe trum :]
secutus J'ucrat. Htii
ipse fugit suos famit- Verba animo desunt resonat latratibus aether.
:

los : libebat clamarc

ego sum Action, cog- Prima Melanchzetes in tergo vulnera fecit, 232
noscile vestrum domi-
num; verba desunt Proxima Theridamas Oresitrophus haesit in ;

animo: irther resonat

-
, -„
-
r- , anno,
latratibus.Melancha- rn t\ •
i , J' a"
tesficit prima vuine- 1 ardius cxicraut scd pet compendia montis
;

mas%lZlmaV'ores7- Anticipata via est

dominum retinentibus illis
:

trophushffsit'hiarvio. Qgetera turba coit,' confertque in corpore dentes.

Exierant tardius ; sed 1 '

via est anticipata per compendia montis. Ctetcra tvrba coit Mis retinentibus dominum: con-
fertque dentes in corpore.

TRANSLATION.
Woodger wounded by a boar, and Forester beoot by a wolf,
lately
and Shepherdess that had been a keeper of cattle, and Ravener with
her two whelps, and Harrier a Sicynian dog of slender make. And
Runner, and Barker, and Spot, and Tiger, and Strong, and White
with his snowy hair, and Soot with black hair, and able-bodied
Lacon and Storm good at running, and Swift, and speedy Wolf
;

Mdth her Cyprian brother; and Snap with his spotted face, and
Black-coat, and Stickle, a rough-bodied bitch and Worrier, and ;

White-tooth, bred of a Cretan dog and a Laconian bitch, and Babble

of a shrill note, and others which it were tedious to repeat. This
pack, fond of their prey, pursue him over rocks, and mountains, and
inaccessible steeps, and through difficult and pathless ways. He now
flies through places where he had often pursued. Alas, he flies his own
servants, and fain would have cried, I am Actseon, know your master;
but words are wanting to his desires. The air resounds with the bark-
ing of dogs and first Black-hair wounded him in the back Kilham next;
; ;

Rover fastened upon his shoulder. They had come out later, but sprung
before the rest by a short cut through the mountains these hung fast :

upon their master, till all the pack come up and fix their teeth in his
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. III. 105

Gemit ille, sonum- Jam loca clesuiit vtit-

Jam loca vulneribus desunt. iierihus. Ille gemit, et
hiibet sonuni ctsi non
hotnini-:, tnmen qiiem
Etsinon hominis, quern non tamen eaere possit cervui nonpoiwit edere.-
nota que- repletque nota juga
Cervus, habet mcEstisq replet juga
:
; mcesiis querelis: et sup-
plex geribus pronis,
relis, iimilisque rogauti, cir-
Et genibus supplex pronis, similisque roganti 240 cumfert tacitos vultus
tanqnam sua brachia.
Circumfert tacitos, tanquam suabrachia, vultus. At comites ignuri in-
stigant rapidum ugmin
At comites rapidum solitis latratibus agmen solitis latratibus,
qua-
Actajona quEeiunt ; runtqiie Actaoiia ocu-
Ignari instigant, oculisque Us, et clamant certa-
Et velut absentem certatim Actaiona clamant. tim Actaona telut ab-

Ad nomen ille refert; ut abesse queruntur,

caput 'caiuT'ad i"«c.'^'"l
Nee capere oblatee segnem spectacula prsedae. «;;~™" «,^;;;''-

Vellet abesse quidem: sed adest velletque videre,

' ;
spe'ctacuiaobiata pre-
relict
^^ .T.. r_ _ /•_ -j._ _._ '''*'• quidem
Non etiam sentire, canum fera facta suorum. uhesse, sed adest : n l-
lelquc videre, non
in corpore ros-
Undique circumstant: mersisque etiain sentire J'er a fac-
ta SKorum cuinim.
tris
Circumstant vndique ;
Dilacerant falsi dominum sub imagine cervi. 250 rostrisqne mersis in
corpore, dilacerant do-
[Nee, nisi finita per plurima vulnera vita, minum sub imagine
falsi cervi. Nee ira
Ira pharetratse fertur satiata Dianse.] pharci rata IXtanecfer-
Ill Rumor in ambiguo est; aliis violentior aequo tnr 'atiata, >ii\i ritil
.

finitu per plurima t ul-

Visa dea est; alii iaudant, dignamque severa nera.
III. Rumor est in
Virginitate vocant pars
invenit utraque causas.
:
(imbiguo: dea est visa
aliis violentior tequo :
Sola Jovis conjux non tarn culpetne pvobetne alii lavdant cam, no-

Eloquitur; quam clade domus ab Agenore

ductae cantque dignam sere-
rd virginitate- Utra-
Gaudet et a Tyria collectum pellice transfert,
: qiie purs invenit can-
sas. Sola conjuxJovis
non tarn eloquifur culpetne prohetne ; quavi gaudet elude domusducta:abAgenore: ettram-
fert odium collectum a TyriA pellice,
TR.VNSLATION.
body. Now all over covered with wounds, he groans, and complains,
if not in (the tone of a man, yet in such as could not come from a stag ;

and fills the well-known mountains with his dismal moans. Then sup-
pliant upon his bended knees, and
in the posture of one begging his
life, turns about his silent countenance instead of arms. But his com-
panions, ignorant of what had chanced, encourage the eager pack with
the usual cries, and every where look for Actteon, and call without
ceasing on Actseon, as imagining him absent. He turns his head at
the name, while they complain that he is absent, and through indo-
lence misses his share of the sport. He wished indeed he had been
absent, and that he had only seen, and not felt, the cruel bites of his
doc^s. They gather round him on all sides, and burying their jaws
in his body, tear in pieces their master, under the figure of a deceitful
stag. Nor was
the rage of the quiver-bearing goddess appeased, till
he had ended his life by an infinity of wounds.
HI. The rumour of this vengeance was differently received to ;

some the goddess seemed more cruel than was just others commend ;

her as worthy of the strict virginity she professed both sides pro- :

duce reasons for what they think. The wife of Jove alone does not so
much own, whether she blames or appro\es, as she rejoicas at the
calamity of a family sprung from Agenor, and transfers the hatred
106 P. OVIDll NASONIS
in socios generis, t'cce
recens causa subit pri-
In generis socios odium. Subit ecce priori
ori ; rioletque Semelem Causa recens ; gravidamque dolet de semine
esse gravidam de se-
miiie mngiii Jovis: turn
soliit linguam adjtcr-
magni
gia. Quid enim, dixit, EsseJovisSemelen. Turn linguamadjurgia solvit.
profeci toties perjiir- Profeci quid enim toties per jurgia? dixit.
giaf Ipsa .Semele est
petenda mihi. Si rife mihi est: ipsam, si maxima Juno
vocor mnxima Juno, Ipsa petenda
perdam ipscim; si decet Rite vocor, perdam si me
me tenere gemmaiitia
gemmantia dextra ;

tenere decet; si sum regina, Jovisque 265

sceptra dextrH ; si sum Sceptra
regina, Jovisquc rt Et soror, et
soror, ct coiijux: certc.
conjux, certe soror. At puto furto
sum soror ejus. At pit- Contentam; et thalami brevis est injuria nostri.
to Semelen esse co/i-
tentamfurto et in- Concipit; id deerat: manifestaque crimina pleno
:

juria jwstri thalami Pert utero: et

est brevis. Coiicipit ; mater, quod vix mihi contigit uni,
id tantiim deerat J'crt- De Jove vult fieri,
: Tanta est fiducia formse 270 .

qiie ma/ii/'iwta crimina

pleno iitiro: et iiiit Fallat eam faxo nee sim Saturnia si non
:
;

Jieri mater de Jove,

quod rix coiitigit iiiilii
Ab Jove raersa suo Styoias penetrarit in undas.
uni fidinia f'urmfr e\t
;
ab his solio, fulvaque recondita nube
tanta. Fax'o ut/tillut Surgit
earn ; nee sim Satnr- Limen adit Semeles nee nubes ante removit, :

nia, si non. jn'netrarit

in .S'tygias tittdtis mersa Quam simulavitanum: posuitq; adtemporacanos:
ah Jove sua. Ah his
surgit solio, reeonditu- Sulcavitque cutem rugis: et curva trementi
que J'uifi} nube, adit
limeti ilcinvles; iiec re-
Membra tulit passu vocem quoque fecit anilem.
;

movit
siinulavit
iiiibes atitequam
amim:
Ipsaque fit Bero'e, Semeles Epidauria nutrix.
potii-
it que caiios capillos od Ergo ubi, captato sermone, diuque loquendo,
temporu ; siilcavitque
Cittern rugis : et tulit curva membra trementi ptissn ; fecit vocem quoque anilem ; Jit que
ipsa Beroc, Epidatiria nutrix Semeles. Ergb ubi sermone captato, loquendo diu.

TRANSLATION,
she had conceived against the Tyrian harlot, to all the partners of
her race. When lo, a fresh occasion of discontent succeeds to the
former, and she grieves that Semele is with child by the blood of
"
great Jupiter. She then gave a loose to her rage What, (says she,) :

" have I hitherto

gained by these transports of resentment My rival .^

destroy, if I am rightly en-

" herself nuist be attacked her will I ;

*'
titled the great Juno if it becomes me to hold the sparkling scep-
;

" tre in if I am the queen of heaven, the wife and

my right-han-d ;

" sister of Jove at least it must be o^vned I am his sister. But

; per-
"
haps she is content with a stolen embrace, and the violation
of my
" bed is but short. She is pregnant, (that only was wanting) and
" and boasts that she is a mother
proclaims her crime by a big belly,
" an honour I can hardly claim so great a confidence she
by Jove, ;

" has in her

beauty. But it shall deceive her nor let me be esteem- ;

*'
ed of the race of Saturn, if she descend not to the Stygian waves,
" sunk
by her beloved Jove." Saying this, she rises from
her throne,
and hid in a yellow cloud, approaches the threshold of Semele. Nor
did she disperse the clouds that surrounded her, till she had put on the
her temples,
appearance of an old woman, and planted grey hairs upon
and fmrowed her skin with wrinkles, and moved her feeble limbs
with tottering pace. She learns too to tattle in the tone of age, and
becomes Beroe herself, the nurse of Semele. ^^^hen there-
Epidaurean
fore, in discourse designedly introduced, after lono; talking they came to
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. III. 107

nomen venere Jovis suspirat; et Opteni 280 iriiPread nomen Jot'is;

x\d ;
suspirat : et ait,optem
Jupiter, ut
metuo tamen omnia. Multi
sit ait ;
ut sit Jupiter ; tamen.
metuo omnia : multi
Nomine divorum thalamos iniere pudicos. riominc Deoruin iniere
thalamos pudicos. Ta-
Nee tamen esse Jovem satis est: detpignusamo- men nee est satis eum
ris esse Jovem. Is, si mo-
;
da e>,t
lerus, (let pig-
Si modo verus is est quantusque : et qualis ab alta niis amorisquantus-
:

que et qualis excipitur

Junone excipitur; tantus, talisque rogato 285 ab alia Junone, rogato
uttantus taUsque det
Det tibi complexus suaque ante insignia sumat.
:
complexus tibi; sumat-
Talibus ignaram Juno Cadmedia dictis que ante sua insignia.
Juno talilius dictis for -

Foraiarat. Rogat ilia Jovem sine nomine munus : maverat ignaram i'ad-
me'ida. Ilia rogat Jo-
Cui deus, Elige, ait: nullam patiere repulsam. vem munus sine nomi-
ne. Cui deus ait, elige,
Quoq; magis credas Stygii quoque conscia sunto
;
patiere nullam repul.
Numina ton-entis: timor, et deus ille deorum. sum. Quoque credos
magis, numina torren-
Lffitamalo, nimiiimq; potens, perituraq; amantis tis •Stygii snnlo quoque
coW'Cia: ille timor et
Obsequio Semele, Qualem Saturnia dixit, deus deorum. Semele
Te solet amplecti, Veneris cum foedus initis, lata malo, nimiumque
poteiis,pcriluraque ob-
Da mihi te talem. Voluit deus ora loquentis 295 sequio amantis, dixit :
da tc talem mihi, qua-
Opprimere. Exieratjam voxproperata sub auras. lem Saturnia solet am-
cum
Ingemuit neque enim non heec optasse, neque ille
:
plecti te, initis
j'wrius Veneris. Deus
Non jurasse potest. Ergo moestissiraus altum voluit opprimere ora
loquentis :jani voxpro-
^thera conscendit; nutuque sequentia traxit perata exierot sub au-
ras. Itigcmuit : neque
Nubila: quisnimbos, immistaque fulgura ventis enim \\\i. pott St non op-
Addidit, et tonitrus, et inevitabile fulmen. tasse hac, neque ille
non jurasse: ergo mce-
Ktissimus conscendit altum athera: traxit que nubila sequentia niilu queis addidit nimbos.
fiUguraque immista ventis, et toiUtrus, et inevitabile fulmen.

TRANSLATION.
the name of Jupiter, she sighs " I wish (said she) it may be Jupiter
;

"
indeed, but I am apt to fear every thing for many under the feigned
;

" name of have defiled chaste beds. Nor is it that he is

gods enough
"
really Jove let him, if indeed he be the true one, give some pledge
;

" of his love and what and how

; great he is received by the immortal
" Juno such and so
:
great let him descend to your embraces, encom-
"
passed with all the ensigns of majesty." With words like these did
Juno ensnare the unsuspecting grand-daughter of Cadmus she asks :

a nameless gift of Jupiter. To whom the god says " Choose what- ;
" ever
you will, and ask, without fear of a repulse and to confirm :

"
you yet the more, let t!ie majesty of the Stygian torrent witness this
"
promise he who is the terror and sovereign of the gods themselves."
;

Semele rejoicing in her misfortune, and but too prevalent, as now

doomed to perish by the complaisance of her lover " Descend to me ;

" such
(said she) as the daughter of Saturn is wont to embrace you,
" when
you celebrate the sacred rites of Venus." Fain would the god
have stopped her as she spoke but the hasty choice had now passed
;

her lips. He groaned for neither is it possible for her not to have
;

wished, or liim not to have promised oppressed with grief, he mounts

:

the height of heaven, and

by a nod drew along the attending clouds ;.

lo which he added ra,iu, and

lightning mixed with winds, and thunder,
 108 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Tamententat demere Q^^ tameii usque potcst, vires sibi demere tentat.
vires.<tibi quausquepo- J~ l I '
. .

test; nee nunc

eo ignc
armatur
quo dejecerat
JN
ec, quo centimaiium dejecerat igne lyphoea
centimaiium Tyylicea : Nunc arrnatur eo nimiilm feritatis in illo
: :

eratnimiuin feritatis in
illo.Est aliud fulmen Est aliud le vius fulmen cui dextra Cyclopiim 305
;

levins, cui dextra Cy-

clopum addidit minus flammaeque
Saevitiaj, " minus, minus addiditirae;
^n i i -a -it t
seviti<Fjiammcrque,mi- secunda vocant supen capitilla; domumq;
1 cla :

TmuteiasecunZ'ca- lutrat Ageuoream, Corpus mortale tumultus

pit ilia, intratqiic do-
mum Agenoream mor-
Non
tulit sethereos ; donisque jugalibus arsit.
tale corpus non tulit
tumult us (elhertos,ar- Imperfectus adhuc infans genitricis ab alvo 310
sitqiic donis Jugalibus. Eripitur, patrioque tener (si credere dignum)
IIIfans adhtic imper-
Insuitur femori: maternaque tempora complet.
fecius eripitur ah alto
genitricis; tencrqiiein- Furtim ilium
suitur (si est dignum primis Ino matertera cunis
in patrioj'c- Educat. Inde datum
credere )

more completqve tt m-
:
Nymphte Nyseides antris
pora materna. "ji'lo Occuluere suis lactisque alimenta dedcre. 315
;

Zmflfr'ttn 'fn%,nt
^^ DumquB ca per terras fatali lege geruntur;
'

cunis; inde nymrhte Tutaoue bis ffeniti sunt incuuabula Bacchi:

Nyseides occulufre
* il-
^
lum datum sibi suis antris; dedereque alimenta lactis.
IV. Dum ea lege fatali geruntur per terras, incunabulaque Bacchi bis geniti sunt tuta;

TRANSLATION.
and the inevitable bolt. And yet as mvich as possible he abates of
his force, nor arms himself with the fires wherewith he had overthrown
the hundred-handed Typhseus these appeared too terrible. There is
:

a thunder of a lesser mould, to which the right-hand of the Cyclops

has added less violence and flame, and pointed it with less fury the :

gods call it thunder of a second rate. This he takes, and enters, sur-
rounded with majesty, into the palace of Semele but her mortal ;

frame could not sustain the shock of ethereal majesty, and she pe-
rished amid the glories she had desired. The infant, yet unfinished,
is taken from the womb of his mother and if we can credit ancient ;

story, enclosed abortive in his father's thigh, and there completes the
time wanting to his birth. Ino, his aunt, nursed him' privately in his
first cradle afterward the Nyseian nymphs hid him in their dark
;

caves, and nourished him with milk.

IV. While things are thus managed on earth according to the order
of fate, and the tender age of Bacchus twice born is seciu"ed, they tell
lis, that Jupiter having drowned his more weighty cares in nectar,

NOTES.
303. Ti/phcea.] Typhoeus, a siant of name of IMeros, a word that in Greek
enormous size, and author of the war sijinifies the Tkiah. At the foot of this
which the Titans marie against Jupiter. mountain is the city f^ysa. As Bac-
313. Ino jnatertera.'] Ino was the therefore, according to the testi-
ciius
daughter of Cadmus, and sister to Se- mony of all antiquity, was educated on
inele : she received Bacchus from Ju- this mountain, which was sacred to Ju-
piter, and bred hira up privately un- piter, we may hence account, in some
known to Juno. measure, for the fabulous relation of the
314. Nyxeidcs.'] Pliny makes mention birth of Bacchus, given by the Greeks,
of Nysa, a moinitain of India, which viz., That he was so long carried in Ju-
Strabo and ^lian speak of under the piter's thigh.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. III. 109

Fort^ Jovem memorant difFusum nectare curas

''^ffummneTJ^/!Iil
Seposuisse graves,' vacuaque
D. i agitasse
cj remissos -s^Jwe graves curas,
„i^ r ,\ aeitasieque remissos
Cum Junone jocos :
et, major vestra proiecto est,
,

jocos cum vacua Juno.

Quam quae contingit maribus, dixisse, voliiptas. ZltvfvoSi<^^a-

Illenegat. Placuit qua; sit sententia docti .7or,g«awvoiuptas5M«
C) .
"1 .
contingit maribus. II-
Quaerere liresiae. Venus huic erat utraque nota. la negat piacmt uhs .

JNam duo magnorum viridi coeuntia sylva tentia docti Tiresiee.

Corpora serpentum baculi violaverat ictu 325 '^:t^c^^mZ^. :

reratictu bacuii duo

Deque T-
viro factus (mirabile)
^ ' foemina,' septem
i corpora magnorum ser-
^.
Egerat autumnos. Octavo, rursus eosdem pentum coeuntia viri-
Vidit, et, Est vestree si tanta potentia plagee, cmZaTiiej /ac'tts'/w.
Dixit, ut auctoris sortem in contraria mutet :^ 7iZ'mnor"oct'avoZ.
Nunc quoq; ^'
vos feriam. Percussis anguibus is- tamno,vidit rursus eos.
^j QOA rff »i
OOU u, «,serpentes
et dix- :

dem, potentia vestrce

Forma prior rediit genitivaque venit imago.
; t?sVruiTucCi7l\
Arbiter hie igitur sumptus de lite iocosa, contraria; nunc guo-
r y
. A \ ri que feriam vos tisdetii
• • :

Dicta Jovis lirmat. Gravms baturma justo, anguibus percussis.

"
Nee pro materia fertur doluisse
suique :
^magoque^genitlva /-

Judicis ajterna damnavit lumina nocte. 335

''Jlif^^jJ'meTofoZ*,
At enim licet irrita jirmat dicta jovis. sa-
pater
r omnipotens
J^
(neque
^ A
.
turniajertur doluisse
CUiquam, graviusjusto, nee pro
Facta dei fecisse deo) pro lumine adempto 'i^S^ s^'j^I^h^Z
Scire futura dedit prenamque levavit honore.
:
^^^«t«lSe«. fLlue
enim licet cuiqu am deo fecisse facta dei irrita) pro lumine adempto, dedit scire futura, leva-
vit que panam honore.

TRANSLATION.

engaged in free conversation with Juno, who was also disposed to

" sure (says he) the sense of pleasure which
share his mirth.
"
Why
you enjoy in the embraces of love, is far more quick and sprightly
" than what falls to the share of the males." She denies it they ;

ao;ree to ask the opinion of experienced Tiresias, who had tried the
pleasure of each sex. For seeing once in a shady wood the bodies of
two large snakes twisted in conjunction, he had profaned them with
a stroke of his club, and of a man (strange to relate) became a woman,
and so continued for seven autumns in the eighth he again saw the
;

same serpents, and said " If such is the virtue of a stroke given you,
;

" as to vir-
change the sex of the giver into the contrary, I'll try the
" tue of a second stroke."
Again he struck the same snakes, when
his native sex returned, and he recovered his original form. He
therefore chosen
being judge of the
merry contest, declares in favour
of J upiter. Juno resenting it more than was fit, nor according to
what so trivial a debate required, condemned her judge to languish in
eternal night. But the omnipotent father (for it is not in the power
of any one god to cancel the acts of another), in recompense for the
loss of his sight, gave him the knowledge of things to come, and
softened his punishment by the honour that followed it.
 110 p. OVIDll NASONIS
V. /«c ceichernmtis V. Die per Aoiiias fama celeberrimus urbes
^
famd per Aonias ur- , i i i ,,- nAn ,

bes, dabnt irreprehen- lireprehensa clabat populo responsa potenti. o4U

puio. ccertiia Liriope Frima iiaei, vocisque ratae tentamma sumpsit
Caerula Liriope quam quondam fiumine curvo
:
mlZfikn^Zlsqml^.
trr: qti'im i-iriopcn Cc-
Implicilit: clausseoue siiis Cephisos in undis,
pliisos quondam impli- fr-
cuit curvo jjuminc; \\vl\ tiilit.
tt-<- ii
J^nixa est utero pulchernma pleno
ji •
i

^'InZisZi^fu^- Infantem, Nyn)phis jam tunc qui posset amari ;

ope puicherrima C7uxa NarcissumQue vocat. De quo consultus, an esset

ro, qui jam turn posset Teuipora maturse visurus lon^a senectse :

amari nymphis, vocat- -r^ . K- C" ,'j -j.

que Narcissian. jJc batidicus vates, ^i se nofi novent, inquit.

?"A«~f/wc«'- ^a^^a ^^^ ^''^^ ^^^ ^'^^ auguris. Exitus illam,
pora mature
Resque probat, letiq; genus, novitasq;furoris. 350
sene.cta::
fatidlcus vates inquit
si non noverit se. fox
Jamque ter ad quinos unum Cephisius annum
auguris dm est visa
vana. Exitus, resque Addiderat poteratque puer, juvenisque videri
: :

•probat illam; gemis- Multi ilium juvenes, multse cupiere puellse :

que leti, novilasque
furoris. Jamque Cephi- Sed fuit in teuera tam dira superbia forma;
sius addiderat niium ,,. .,,
-.-r .
ii i- n nrr ^^ /^

annum ad ter quinos : JN ulll liium JUVenCS, nullse tctlgere puelise. OOD
poteratque videri pu-
er, juvenisque.Multi juvenes, multa puellee cupiere ilium. Sed tam dira superbia fuit in
tener&formA; nulli juvenes, nulla puellce tetigtre ilium.
TRANSLATION.
V. He, greatly famed through the Aonian cities, gave unerring an-
swers to all that consulted him. The blue-eyed
Liriope made the
first essay and experiment of his infallible voice whom formerly ;

Cephisus folded in his winding stream, and by force enjoyed her,

shut in by his circumfused waves. The beauteous nymph disclosed from
her full Avomb a boy, who even then might have been the darling of
the fair, and calls him Narcissus. The sage prophet being consulted,
whether he should see the lengthened period of mature old age/
answers If he never knows himself. Long did the voice of the
;

prophet appear vain and frivolous: but the event, the thing it-
self, the manner of his death, and the novelty of his madness,
confirms all. For the son of Cephisus had now added one to three
times five years, just turned off boy, and entering upon the
stage
of man. Many blooming youths and love-sick maids caressed him ;

but there was so stubborn a pride in his resistless beauty, that no

youths
NOTES.
339. Ille per Aonius fa7na celeberri- a stone, and nothing of her remains but
mus-^ The nymph Liriope consults Ti- her voice.
resias as to the fate of Narcissus, her In explaining this fable we must sup-
.son, by the
river Cephisus, and receives pose that the poets, who animate every
for answer, That all should succeed thing, have invented this fable to ex-
well with him, if he never came to the plain the phenomenon after an ingenious
knowledge of his ovn beauty. When manner for among the poets, as Boi-
:

he was grown up. Echo falls in love leau has admirably well expressed it in
with him, and watching the opportu- his art of "
" a poetry, Every thing assumes
nity of his speaking, that she might re- body, a soul, a look, a manner:
sound his last words, an ingenious dia-
"
every virtue becomes a divinity j Mi-
" nerva is
logue is made to pass between them by Venus Beauty,
the poet. " Echo is noPrudence,
more a mere voice that
Echo, however, unable to
" resounds
compass her desires, wastes away in in the air, but a nymph in
" fear for
langnishings, her body is changed into the cruelty of Narcissus."
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. 111. Ill

in retia cervos, Resmiabilis Echo, nym-

Aspicit liunc trepidos agitantem pha: vocalis : qua nee
Vocalis Nymphee ; quae nee reticere loquenti, didicit reticere loquen-
ti, nee ipsa loqui prior,
Nee prior ipsa loqui didicit, resonabilis Echo. aspicit hunc agitantem
trepidos cervos in re-
Corpus adhue Eeho,non vox erat et tamen usum :
tia. Echo erat adhuc
Garrula non alium, quam nunc habet, oris ha- corpus, 7ion tantum
vox ; et tamen garrula
bebat; 360 7tOH hubchiit alium
usum oris, quam habet
Reddere de multis ut verba novissima posset. nunc; ut posset red-
dere verba novisnma
Fecerathoc Juno. Quia, ciam deprendere posset de multis. Juno fece-
Sub Jove saepe suo Nymphas in monte jacentes, rathoc: quia cum pos-
set siEpe deprendere
Ilia deam longo prudens sermone tenebat, nymphas jaccntes sub
suo Jove in monte ; ilia
Dum fugerent Nymphas. Postquam Saturnia prudens tenebat Deam
365 longo sermone dum
sensit; nympha: fugerent , Sa-
Hujus, ait, lingua,qua sum delusa, potestas turnia postquam sen-
sit hoc, ait; potestas
Parva tibi dabitur,vocisqixe brevissimus usus. parva hujus lingute
sum delusa dabi-
Reque minas firmat. Tamen haec in fine loquendi qua
tur bre- tibi, ususque
vissimus vocis. Fir-
Ingeminat voces: auditaque verba reportat. mat que minas re. Ta-
Ergo ubi Narcissum per devia lustra vagan- men hac in fine lo-
quendi ingeminat vo-
tem 370 ces: reportatque ver-
ba audita. Ergo ubi
Vidit, et incaluit: sequitur vestigia furtim vidit Narcissum va-

Quoque rnagis sequitur; flamma propiore ca- gantem per devia lus-
tra, et incaluit amore
lescit. ejus ; sequitur furtitn
Quoque se-
Non aliter, quam cum summis circumlita tsedis vestigia.
quitur magis, culescit
Admotam rapiunt vivacia sulfura flammam. propiore Jiamma : non
aliter quam cilm sul-
O quoties voluit blandis accedere dictis, 375 fura
lita
vivacia circum-
summis ttrdis, ra-
Et molles adhibere preces ! natura repugnat, piunt admotam Jiam-
mam. O qtioties voluit
accedere blandis dictis, et adhibere molles preces ! At natura ejus repugnat,

TRANSLATION.

or maid could touch his savage heart. The noisy nymph, who cannot
be silent -when another speaks, nor has learned first to speak herself, re-
sounding Echo, chanced lo spy him as he was driving
the timorous deer
into his nets. Echo was then a body, not a bare voice and yet the :

babbler had no other use of speech than what she now enjoys, to repeat
the last words out of many. Juno had done this to punish her because, ;

when she might often in her mountains have siu-prised the nymphs in the
embraces of her Jupiter, she slily engaged the goddess in a long dis-
course, that tlie nymphs might escape which, when the daughter of
;

Saturn discovered But small exercise, says she, shall be allowed this
;

use of
tongue wherewith 1 have been so often deluded, and a very short
voice. And she confirms her threats the execution in the
thy by yet :

end of speaking she redoubles the voice, and returns the words she hears.
When therefore she saw Narcissus wandering through the pathless fo-
rests, warmed by the lovely youth, she privately follows
his steps, and
the more she follows him, burns with fiercer flames just as when :

flame from the

sulphur spread upon the tops of torches, catches the
touch of a taper. How often did she desire to address him in soft ac-
cents, and a
employ voice
suppliant
But nature resists the impulse,
!
 112 P. OVIDII NASONIS

ttec sinit lit

Sed
i7icipiat. Nec sinit incipiat ;
sed quod sinit, ilia parata est
ilia, (quod tautuin
sinir) purata ex-
e.tt

pectare sonos, ad quo\-

Expectare sonos, ad quos sua verba remittat.
remiltat sua verba. Fort6 puer, comitum seductus ab agmine fido,
Forte puer seduvUi.t
ab fidn agmine co7>ii- Dixerat, Ecquis adest? Et, Adest, responderat
tum; dixerat : ecqiiis Echo. 380
(idest? Et Echo re-
spondrrat adest. Hie Hie stupet utque aciem partes divisit in omnes ;
:

stupet; utque divisil

aciem in omnes parte.\ ^
Voce, Veni, clamat magna vocat ilia vocantem. :

clamat mag ml voce et nullo rursus veniente. Quid, inquit,

reni ilia tocat Nm' Respicit,
:

cissum vocantem. Res-

vicit, et
Me, fugis? Et totidem, quot dixit verba, recepit.
rursus nullo -r».r,i, j .
• • •
onr
veniente, inquit: Quid Fcrstat ct altemee
; deceptus mtiagme vocis : 385
^^mZverUql^'^- Huc cocamus, ait nullique libentiias unquam
:

Perjlat ; it decep-
Responsura sono, Coeamus rettulit Echo.
it.
tus imagine allernee
vocis, aft: coiamus hue; Et verbis favet ipsa suis ; egressaque sylvis
Echoque respotisura
itulli unquam sono li- Ibat, ut injiceret sperato brachia collo.
fugit fugiensque, Manus complexibus aufer:
bentius, rettulit, coia- Ille :
mus. Et ipsa favet snis
verbis, egressaque sil-
vis, ibat ut injiceret
Ante, ait, emoriar, quam sit tibi
copia nostri :

brachia sperato collo. Rettulit ilia nihil, nisi. Sit tibi copia nostri :

Ille fugit, fugiensque

ait ; aufer mantis com- Spreta latet sylvis pudibundaque frondibus ora
:

piexibtls emoriar ante-

quam sit ttbi copia nos- Protegit et solis cx illo vivit in antris.
:

c~t^ ^
tri. jiia rettulit nihil JSed tamcn hserct amor; crescitque '
dolore re-
nisi, sit tibi copia nos- 1
tri. IWa. spreta, latet pUlSSe.
S&S%S:':" Attenuant vigiles corpus miserabile cura:
ex
tt vivit
tempore
tn soUs antris.
illo
Sed Adducitquc
.1 cutem
... niacics et in aera succus :
'
^^ -rj ^
tamen amor hteret ;
dolore re-
Corpons omnis abit. Voxtantum, atque ossa
crescitque c +
pulsa;. Vigiles cures SUperSUnt.
attenuant miserabile
corpus maciesque adducic cutem; et omnis succus corporis abit in atra: tantum vox atque
:

ossa supersiint.

TRANSLATION.
nor suffers her to begin. What is in her power she is ready for, to
watch his voice, and re-echo to the sound. By chance the youth, sepa-
rated from the trusty train of his attendants, cries out, Is any one here?
And Echo answered, here : He is amazed, and casting his eyes on every
side, calls with a loud voice. Come. She calls the youth who called
her. He looks hack, and as he could still see nobody, says, Why do
you shun me ? And has as many words returned as he had spoken. He
persists,
and deceived by the appearance of an alternate voice, says,
Let us come together here. Echo, to whom no sounds could be more
agreeable, returned, Let us come together;
and immediately favouring
her own words, rushed from the woods, impatient to throw her arms
round his much-desired neck. He flies, and flying calls out. Cease
with your hands thus to embrace me, I will sooner die than bear that
thou mayest enjoy me. She answered nothing, but Thou mayest
me. The nymph despised, lurks in the woods, and hides her
enjoy
blushing face with leaves, and
from that time lives in solitary caves.
Yet her love still remains, and grows from the mortification of a re-
fusal anxious cares waste her miserable body, and leanness shrivels
;

her skin all the juice of her body flies off in air, her voice and bones
;
 METAMORFHOSEON, Lib. III. 113

Vox manet. Ossa ferunt lapidis

' traxLsse fio-u-
o
^^"^ manct.
traxisse
Ferunt
os.sa fguram
ram. lapldls. Inile latet

[Inde latet sylvis :

nulloque in monte videtur ; 400 ^ilo i>^-2!^i'!i-
Omnibus auditur. Sonusest, qui vivit in ilia.] "^I'lunhi^^'^''*^^*
VI. Sic banc, sic alias undisautmontibusortas. vi. mc sic luserat .

T . -nT
1
•
i 1 haiic, sic Inserat alias
•
I
^ •!
Luserat hic JNymphas; sic ccetus ante vniles. nymphas ortas undis
Inde manusal'iquis despectus ad a^tbera toUens, V!lZ"l^tus '^mel
Sic amet iste beet, sic non potiatur amato. 405 {>>f/"i>g"'>'(fespectits,
loiiens mantis ad at-

F. "Di
'. • •
•!
Dixerat. Assensit nrecbus Khamnusia justis. 'Afw, dixcrat ucet :

-ii- •
•/'-!• r iste amct sic,sic noHvo-
J.

ons erat dlimis, nitidis argenteus unciis, tiatur amato. Pham-

Quem neque pastores, neque pastffi monte capella^ '^^C^Fous ilumu

Contio-erant, aliud ve pecus quem nulla volucris, '''"j; "rgenteus nitidis
:

j>ecteraturbarat,nec lapsus abarbore ramus. 410 pastores, ^leqnr capei-

Gramen erat circa, quod proxiinus bumor alebat :
jfdve"plntl'','''colitfgc-
Svlvaque,
1 '
sole lacum passura tepescere nullo. T""^.- *"'^'"
""'''* *"'-
/era, nee
' I tiec
T 1
liicris,
ramus lapsus ab
HiC puer, et studio Venandl JaSSUS et astU, ar-
T->i-,r- C
Frocubuit; taciemque loci, tontemque
^
•
i.
secutus.
i. bore, turbarat.Gra-
^nenerat circa, quod
humor proximus ale-
bat ; sylvanue yassura locum tepescere nvlln sole. Puer lassus et studio lenundi, et astu
procuhuit hie, secutus faciemque ivci,J'ontcmqyc.
TRANSLATION.
are only left. Her voice is still heard her bones are said to have ;

received the form of a stone. Since then she lies hid in the woods,
and is never to be seen on mountains, yet is to be heard by all sound ;

alone is what lives in her.

VI. Thus had he deceived her, thus other nymphs sprung from the
waters or mountains, thus the whole body of youths. Upon which
some one of those who had been despised by him, lifting up his hands
" So let him love, nor
to heaven, said :
enjoy the object beloved."
Rhamnusia granted There was a silver spring, clear
this just prayer.
-with unsullied streams, which neither shepherds, nor goats fed upon
the mountains, nor other cattle had touched which no bird nor wild ;

beast, nor branch falliug from a tree had disturbed it was surrounded ;

with grass nourished by the neighbouring stream, and a wood that de-
fended the lake from the heat of the sun. Here the youth, fatigued
with heat and the labour of hunting, laid himself down, charmed with
NOTES.
409. Sic hanc sic alias.'] Narcissus by ourselves with too flattering a complai-
tiis cruelty reuderiiiw lijmself odious to sance, that our good qualities ought to
the nymphs, Nemesis gives ear to their he hid from us, nor we be tlie first to
prayers. Wherefore chancing to see his admire, much less to publish them. We
own image in a fonut;iin, he falls in love may say too that the hitle reality which
with If. in which vain passion he Ian- we for the most part find in those plea-
guishes witliout hopes of rehef, and is at sures we so eagerly grasp at, resemble
length changed into a flower of his own this vain phantom wherewith tlie youth
Dame. fell in love, and which threw him at la.st
The best manner of explaining tiiis into a languishing illness that occasion-
fable is to consider it as a useful lesson ed his death.
that unfolds to us the hurtful effects of 406. Rhamnusia.] The goddess Ne-
an immodciate self-love. The reflec- mesis, so called from Rhanmus, a town
tions Uiat may be drawn from it are in- of Attica, where she had a temple, and
! UBmerabh* Uiat we are not to regard
-.
was worshipped.
 114 P. OVIDII NASdNIS

sitiiii sctlare sitis altera crevit.415

HHTlulralitucr*- ^^u^^^que
'
cupit ;
vu. Ditmque bibit, Dumque bibit, visa correptus imagine formae,
correptus imagine li
sa forma, amat rem Rem sine corpore amat corpus
putat esse, quod
;
iinc corpore ; pi/taf-
que esse corpus, quod
umbra est.
Ipse od-
vultuque immotus eodem
est umbrn.
stiipit sibi, hirretquc
Adstupet ipse sibi :

immotiis eodcm itiltii, Haeret, ut e Pario formatum marmore signum.

ut signumj'ormatum e
par/0 marmore. Pofi- Spectat humi positus geminum, sua lumina sidus,
his humi, spectat sua ^t dio;nos et Apolline "^""'-'J
t> Baccho, dignos
o ' crines :
>
luminn, gemtnitm si- u
du s, crines dignos
et
ImpubesQue genas, et eburnea colla, decusque
Buiccho.dignoset Apol- /-\-.-- '

Uris, et m niveo mistum candore ruborem

j i ,

line, genasque impu- ;

bes, et colla eburnea,
decusque oris, et rubo- Cunctaque miratur quibus est mirabilis ipse.
;

rem mixtum in nitio Se cupit imprudens. Et, qui probat,ipse probatur.

candore; miratvrque
cuncta quibus ipse est Dumque petit, petitur; pariterque incendit et ar-
mirabilis : ipse impru-
dens cupit se ; et ille Irrita fallaci quoties dedit oscula fonti !
[det.
^^ mediis quotics visum captantia collum
Vum\t"!e\ii'^vetitl'r'-
pariterque^ 'ineendit, Bracliia mersit aquis ; nee se deprendit in illis !

It ardet. Quoties de
dil irrita oscula fal Quid videat nescit; sed, quod videt, uritur illo: 430
laci fonti ! Quoties
mersit brachia cap- Atque oculos idem, qui decipit, incitat error.
tantia visum colltim,
in mtdiis aquis; nee
Credule, quid frustra simulacra fugacia captas ?

deprendit se in illis
Nescit quid videat, sed
.'
Quod petis, est nusquam :
quod amas avertere,
uritur illo quod videt : perdes.
atque idem error qui
decipit oculos, incitat
Ista repercussse, quam cernis, imaginis umbra est.
eos. creduie, quid Nilhabetistasui. Tccum
venitouemanetque
•
435
frustra captas simu-
'•

lacra fugacia ? Quod petis, nusquam est : avertere, et perdes quod amas. Ista forma quam,
cernis, est umbra repurcussa imaginis. Ista Itabet nil sui vetiitqtie manetque tecum
•

TRANSLATION.

the fountain, and the appearance of the place. And while he en-
deavours to quiet his thirst, another thirst grows and while he drinks, ;

pleased with the picture of himself exhibited in the waters, he falls in

love with the fantastic image, and vainly fancied that a body, which
was only a mere shadow. He is astonished at himself, and continues
unmoved with the same countenance, like a statue formed of Parian
marble. Laid along upon the brink he beheld his own eyes sparkling
like two stars, his fingers that might adorn Bacchus, and hair that

might flow round the temples of Apollo, his youthful cheeks, ivory
neck, comely mouth, and complexion mixed of red, and a snowy
whiteness, and admires every thing for which he himself is to be ad-
mired. He foolishly admires himself, and he who approves is also
approved and while
;
he seeks he is sought, and equally raises the
flame, and suffers under it. How often did he give vain kisses to the
deceitful spring, how often thrust his arms into the Avaters to catch
the neck he saw, nor found what he fancied he embraced. He knows
not what it is he sees but what he sees raises the flame.
; And the
same error that deceives his eyes, provokes them. Why, fond youth,
do you thus vainly catch the flying image ? What you seek is no
'-^re what you loVe, turn but away and it is gone. \^^hat you see
;

.
-ily the shadow
of a reflected image, nor has any real existence :
 METAMOKPIIOSEON, Lib. III. lis

Tecum discedet ; si tu discedere possis. discedet tecum ; si tu

possis discedere. A'oa
IVon ilium Cereris, non ilium cura quietis cura Cereris ilium,
no7i cura quietis potest
Abstrahere inde potest. Sed opaca fusus in herba abstruhereillum inde :

Spectat inexpleto mendacem lumine formam

sed jK.sus ill opaca.
:
herba, spectat menda
tern formam inexpleto
Perqueoculosperitipsesuos.Paulumquelevatus, lumine ; ipseque perit
Ad circumstantes tendens sua brachia sylvas : per stios ociilos, leva-
tusque pallium, et ten-
Ecquis lo sylvae, crudelius, inquit, amavit? dens siia brachia ad
Scitis enim, et multis latebra opportuna fuistis. circumstantes sylvas:
16 sylva- inquit,
ecquis
Ecquem, cum vestrse tot agantur secula vitae. amavit crudelius? Set'
tis enim, et fuistis
op-
Qui sic tabuerit, longo meministis in sevo ? 445 portune! latebra mul-
tis. Cutn tot secula
Et placet, et video sed quod videoque, placetque,
; te.strie rita
agantur,
Nontameninvenio. Tantus tenet error amantem. meministis ecquem in
longoavo qui tabuerit
Quodque magis doleam nee nos mare separat ;
sic' Et placet, et video,
sed tamen non invenio
ingens, quod videoque, placet-
Nee via, nee montes, nee clausis moenia portis :
que: tant us error te7iet
amantem. Quodque
Exiguaprohibemuraqua. Cupitipseteneri: 450 magis doleam, nee in-
gens mare separat nos,
Namquoties liquidis porreximus osculalymphis ;
nee via, iiec montes,
nee mania clausis por-
Hie toties ad me resupino nititur ore. tis. Prohibemur e.xi-
Posse putestangi. Minimum est quod amantibus gua aqua. Ipse cupit
teneri, nam quoties
obstat. porreximus oscula li-

quidis lymphis, hie to-

Quisquis es, hue exi. Quid me,puer uniee, fallis ; ties nititur ad me re-
ore. Putes
Quove petitus abis? Certe nee forma, nee setas
supino
posse tangi ; est mini-
Est mea, et amarunt me quoque mum quod obstat
quam fugias :
amantibus. Quisquis
Nymphse. es, e.xi hue puer :

unice, quid fallis me ?

Quove ahis petitus? Ccrte nee forma mea, nee atas, est quam fiigia s, et A't/mpho' quoqne
amarunt me.

TRANSLATION.

it came and remains with you, and will disappear, if you but remove.
Neither a regard to food nor rest can draw him thence but laid
upon ;

the shady grass he gazes at the fallacious

image with unsatiated eyes,
and is imdone by his own sight. When raising himself a little, and
" Was
stretching out his hands toward the surrounding woods, ever,
" O
ye woods, any one more cruelly in love than I ?
(for you know,
" and have been
convenient coverts for many.) You who have run
"
through so many ages of life, do you remember in that long period
" of time any one who pined away in this manner ? It
" and I see it pleases me,
what I see, and pleases me, 1 cannot find
:
so :

"
strangely is the lover deceived. And to add to my grief, we are
" not
separated by a great sea, or a long way, nor mountains, nor
" walls with
gates shut against us a shallow water hinders our
:

"
embraces. He himself wants to be clasped in my arms for as ;

" often as I offer

kisses to the limpid stream, so often does he fondly
" bend
his mouth to mine. You would think he might be touched,
" so
small a matter hinders the meeting of lovers. Whoever you are,
"
come up hither. Why, dearest of your sex, do you deceive me ?
*'
Where do you retire when pursued ? Sure neither my form nor age
"
ought to create aversion for even nymphs have been touched by
;

I s
11/) p. OVIDII NASONIS

Promittis nescio qnam

sprmniihinmico vit/tii, Spem mihi nescio quam vultu promittis amico t

cttmquc ego porrexi

rata brachia Ubi, por-
Cumque ego porrexi tibi brachia, porrigis ultro ;

r'Cii tua tiiihi uUrn. Ciini arrides.

Lacrymas quoque saepe notavi,
risi,
Cum rlsi, nrridc.t. No- Me lacrymante, tuas. Nutu quoque signa re-
tavi quoqiie fape tua>:
lacri/maf, mc lucrij- mi ttis : 460
mante ; reinitlh quo-
qu( s.igna nutii : et Et, quantum motu formosi suspicor oris,
quant inn suspicor mo-
tii t'ornio.ii. orh, re- Verba refers aures non pervenientia nostras.
fffs rerba non perre-
nostras
In te ego sum, sensi nee me mea fallit imago.
:

nlciitia ad
aiirrs. Ego sum in te, Uror amore mei flammas moveoque feroque.
:

sen.si : nee mca imngo

fallit 7ne. Uror iimore Quid faciam? Roger, anne rogem ? quid deinde
mei. Moreoque ftio-
quc Jianinias. Quid rogabo ?
faviam? Roger, mine
rngem ? Quid deiiide
Quod cupio, mecum est iuopem me copia fecit. ;

rogaho ? Quod cupio est O utinam nostro secedere corpore possem !

mrrum, copiii fceit me

tnopetn. O utinam pns- Votum in amante novum veliem, quod amamus, ;

sem seccderc nostro

abesset,
corpore ! Vellcm, iit
quod am/iiniis ubes-^et,
votiim novum ntnan- in Jamque dolor vires adimit nee tempora vitse :

te Jiimque dolor udi-

mit
.'

ner loiiga
Longa meeie superant primoque extinguor in :

tires,
tempora ntea' vita su-
ajvo. 470
perant : extiuguorque
Nee
Nee mihi mors gravis posituro moiie dolores.
est
in prima gro.
mors est gravis tnilii Hie, qui diligitur, veliem diuturnior esset.
positurodolores inorte.
Veliem hie qui diligi- Nunc duo Concordes anima moriemur in una.
tur esset diiitiirnior.
Nunc duo ronrordcs Dixit, et ad faeiem rediit male sanus eandem ;
moriemur in una aiii-
ma. Dixit : et male Etlacrymisturbavitaqaas: obscuraquemoto 475
sanv-s, rediit ad ean- Reddita forma laeu est quam cum vidisset abire ;:

dem faeiem, et tvrba-

vit aquas lacrymi' :
,fo rmitquc est reddita obscura moto laeu :
quam cum vidisset abire.

TRANSLATION.
"
my charms. You encourage, I do not know how, my hopes by
" that
friendly look, and when 1 stretch out my arms to embrace you,
"
you too stretch out yours. When I smile, you return it and when I ;

"
weep, I have observed the tears distil also from your eyes. You an-
" swer all nods and as far as I can from the motion of that
my judge
;

"
pretty mouth, you utter words that reach not my ears. It is myself,
" now I
begin to perceive, nor does the image any longer deceive me.
" I burn with the love of
myself, and both raise and suffer under
" the flames. What shall I do ? Shall I
address, or be addressed ?
" What then shall I ask ?
Already I possess what I desire, too
" much has made me
plenty O that I could from
poor. depart my
" own body ! A new wish indeed
a lover, to wish the absence of in
" what he loves. And now grief wears out m}' strength, and the
"
period of life that remains
is but short I
perish in bloom of youth, ;

" nor is death to me a misfortune, but the end of all mj' sorrows.
" I wish that he I love could survive but alas, his fate is insepara- ;

" ble from mine." He said and still deluded by the fatal passion,
;

returned to the same visionary face. His tears disturbed the sur-
face of the well, and his image is defaced by the motion of the
"
spring which when he saw begin to disappear
; Whither," cried he ;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. III. 117

Quo fugis ? Oro mane uec me, ; crudelis, aman- clamavit, quo fugis 1
Oro mane, nee crudelis
tem desere me amantem.
Liceat adspicere, qtiod
Desere, clamavit. Liceat, quod tangere non est, von est tangere; et
prabere alimenta mi-
Adspicere, et misero preebere alimenta furori. sero furori. Dumime
Dumque dolet, summa vestem deduxit ab dnlet,
ub
deduxit restem
summa ora, percus-
ora, 480 sitque nuda pectora
marinoreis pa/mis.
Nudaque marmoreis percussit pectora palmis. Pectora percussa trax-
erunt tenuem rubo-
Pectora traxerunt tenuem percussa ruborem, rem non aliter quam ;

Non aliter,quam poma solent quae Candida parte, pomrt

;
dida
solent, ijua: Can-
rubent
'

parte,
Parte rubent. Aut ut variis solet uva racemis parte; aut ut nvu in
variis racemis, nondum
Ducere purpureum, nondum matura, colorem. mutura, solet ducere
Quse simul aspexit liquefacta rursus in unda purpureum colorem.
simul in ;
Qua udsyexit
Non tulit ulterius :
sed, ut intabescere flav* unda rursus
non tulit
liquefac-
Cii, ull.cinis;
Igne matutineeve pruinse
levi cerae, sed ut Jiav(e cercc so-
lent intabescere levi
Sole tepente solent, sic attenuatus amore igue, matutinaveprui-
nic tepente sole, sic at-
Liquitur; et coeco paulatim carpitur igni. 490 tenuatus amore liqui-
Et neque jam color est misto candore rubori ;
tur; et caipitnr pau-
latim ctreo igni. Et
Nee vigor, et vires, et quse modo visa placebant, Jam neque color est ru-
bori mil to candore;
Nee corpus remanet, quondam quod amaverat nee vigor et vires, et
Echo. qua visa modo, place-
bant, tiec corpus quod
Quse tamen ut vidit, quamvis irata memorque Echo quondam amave-
Indoluit quotiesque puer miserabilis, Eheu, 495
:
rat, rcmanvt. Qua ut
Echo lidit, quamtis
iratumeniorqtie,tamcn.
Dixerat; lisec resonis iterabat vocibus, Eheu, indoluit: qiioliesqu<.
Cumque suos manibus percusserat ille lacertos, puer miserabilis di.xc-
rut eheu, hac itera-
Hsec quoque reddebat sonitum plangoris unn- bat eheu resonis voci-
bus. Cumque itlc per-
dem. cusserat sitos laccrtoi
maitibus, hac quiiqiic reddebat cundem sonUum plai/^uris.
TRANSLATION.
" do
you fly ? Stay, I conjure you, nor cruelly abandon your fond lover.
" Let me still see what it
is not
granted rae to touch let me still feed ;

" the
self-destroyiii"; flame." Amid his oTJef he rends his garment
from the upper border, and beats his naked breast Avith
palms white as
marble. His breast reddened a little with the blow, as when
apples ap-
pear of a lively red mixed with shining white or a grape not yet ripe, ;

puts on a purple blush in the pvarti -coloured clusters which when he be- ;

held iu the refining spring, he could no

longer support the redoubled
passion, but as yellow wax dissolves with a gentle heat, and the morn-
ing dcAv is dissipated by the early rays of the sun, so wasted by love,
he decays, and slowly languishes under the hidden fire. He has now
no more that bright complexion of white and red that
vigour, strength, ;

and air of youth and beauty, which so lately charmed'; nor does his
gi-aceful body remain, which formerly Echo had so much loved which :

when she saw, although offended, and mindful of his late usuage, she
grieved, and as oft the unhappy youth cried alas! she, with re-
echoing sound returned alas and when he struck his arms with
!

his hands, she answered in a resembling noise of blows. His

last words, still
keeping his eyes Hxed on the wonted stream, were:
"Ah youth, beloved in vain." And the place returned
jubt the same
118 P. OVIDII NASONIS
Ultima vox spectantis
in solitam undam fiiil
Ultima vox solitam fuit hasc
spectantis in undam,
hicc: Hen piier dilecte Heu frustra dilecte puer!
Totidemque remi-
friistra !
Lacusque re-
misit totidem verba ; sit 500
valequc dicto, Echo et
iiiquit vale. Ille ivb-
Verbalocus dictoque Vale, Vale inquit et Echo.
:

tnisit fcssiim caput m

viridi lierba. Noxclan-
Ille
caput viridi fessum submisit in herba:
dit liimina wiraiitia Lumina nox claudit domini mirantia formam.
formam doniini. Turn
qiioqiie, foslquam est, Turn quoque se, postquam est inferna sede re-
rcceptiis iiifernH sedc,
spectabat se in Sti/gia ceptus,
aqua. A'a'ides sorores In Stygia spectabat aqua. Planxcre sorores 505
ptanxere, et pnsuere
sictos capiUos J'ratri. Nai'des et sectos fratri posuere capillos.
:

Dryades et planxcre.
Echo adsonat plangeii- Planxcre et Dryades,Plangentibus assonatEcho.
tibus. Jamque 'para-
bant rogiim, quassas- Jamque rogum, quassasquefaces, feretrumque
que faces, ferctrum-
gue. Corpus erat nus-
parabant :

qtiam. Inveniunt pro

corporc croceum Jio-
Nusquam corpus erat: Croceum pro corpora
rem, albis foli'is cingen- florem
tibus eum medium.
VII. Haec res cogni- Inveniunt, foliis medium cingentibus albis. 510
ta, attulerat merilam VII. vati per Achaidas
Cognita res meritam
famam vatiper Achai-
das urbes: tiomenque urbes
augurh erat ingens. Attulerat famam nomenque erat auguris ingens.
Tamen Pentheus Echi- :

Spernit Echionides tamen hunc, ex omnibus unus

onides contempt or su.
pcrum, viius ex omni-
bus speriiit hunc ; ri-
ContemptorSuperima Pentheus: praesagaque ri-
dctque pra-snga verba
senis, objicitque tene- det
bras, et clariem ademp- Verba senis:tenebrasque et cladem lucis ademptse
t(E lucis. Ille maveris
tempore albentia canis. Objicit. Ille movens albentia tempora canis,

TRANSLATION,
number of words. " Farewell," said he, and scarce had ended, when
Echo replied, farewell. He gently falling, lays his head upon the
tender grass, and night closes for ever those self-admiring eyes.
Then too, after being received into the infernal habitations, he beheld
himself in the Stygian waves. The Naiads mourned his fate, and cut-
ting off their hair, laid it on their brother's tomb. The Dryads too
mourn Echo resounds to their lamentations. And now they were
:

preparing a funeral pile, and torches, and a bier but his body was no
;

where to be found, instead thereof they see a yellow flower, surrounded

on every side with white leaves.
VII. This thing, when known, brought deserved fame to the prophet
through all the cities of Greece, and the name of the soothsayer was
great. But Penlheus, the sou of Echion, a contemner of the gods, alone
of all derides him, and laughs at the presaging words of the old man,
and reproaches him with his darkness and the loss of his sight. He,
" How
shaking his temples white with hoary locks, says happy were :

NOTES.
507. Plangenlibus assonut Echo.] This met with, to banish quite the remem-
ciicuiiistance is happily introduced by brance of her dear Narcissus, and what
the poet, and sjliewsat once tiie justness was only a natural consequence of the
and fcriility of his imagination. Echo loud complaints of the Naiads, is here
is represented
by this as unable, not- improved into a new scene of lamentation
withstanding all the ill usage she had for the death of that unfortunate youth.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. III. U$
ait :
quam
quoque luminis hujus
tu esses,
felijc
Quam felix esses, si situ quoqve fieres or-
Orbus, ait, fieres ne Bacchia sacra videres
;
!
bus htijiis luminis, ve
rideres Bucchia sacra!
Jamque dies aderit, jamque haud procul auguror Jamque dies
augurorque esse jam
aderit,

esse; hdud procul, qua tiovus

Semeleia
Qua novus hue veniat proles Semeleia Liber. 520 liber, proles
leniat hue. Quern nisi
Quern templorum fueris dignatus lionore
nisi : J'uerisdignatus honore
iemploriun; lacer spar-
Mille lacer locis et sanguine sylvas
spargere :
gere mi/lc locis; et fa-
dabis syltas sanguine,
Fcfidabis,matremque tuam, matrisque sorores. tuainque mutrcm, so-
Evenient. Neque enim dignabere numen honore : roresque malris. Eve-
iiient. Enim nequi dig-
Meque sub his tenebris niniium vidisse que- nabere numen honore j
quereriique me tidisse
reris. 525 iiimium sub hi'i tene-
bris. Natus
Talia dicentem proturbat Echione natus :
Ecfiione
proturbat vutemdicen-
Dicta fides sequitur; responsaque vatis aguntur. tem talia. Fides sc-
quitur dicta, respon-
Liber adest: festisque freraunt ukdatibus agri. saque vatis aguntur.
Liher adest agriqne
Turba ruunt mistaeque viris matresque nurusque,
:
fremunt J'estis tdnla-
:

Turba ruunt
Vulgusq; proceresque, ignota ad sacra ferun-
tibus. :

matresque, nuruyque,
tur. 530 niintfF viris, vulgusqtie,
proceresque, ferunlur
Quis feror,Anguigenee, proles Mavortia, vestras ad ignota sacra. Quis
furor (ait Pentheus)
Attonuit mentes ? Pentheus ait, serane tantum
anguigeiKT, proles ma-
JEre repulsa valent? etadunco tibia cornu? vortia, atlo7iuit res-
tras tne7ites.' err ane re-
Etmagicie fraudes? ut quos non belliger ensis, pulsa are valent tan-
tum? Et tibia adu7ico
JVon tuba terruerint, non strictis aomina telis :
Et fraudes ma-
cor7iu?
Foeminse voces, et mota insania vino, gic(E?Vt fosmi/KT vo-
ces, et i-isania mota
Obscoenique greges, etinania tympana vincant? vino,gregesque ubscani ,
et i/iaitia lj/7npuna,
lincant cos qiios noii belliger ciisis, 71011 tuba non agmina strictis telis terruerint .'

TRANSLATION.
" that you might not bp-
it for you, if
3'ou too were deprived of sight,
" hold the sacred rites of Bacchus for (he dav will come, and I now
:

" divine that it is not far

distant, Avhen a new deity, the sou of Semele,
" shall
appear, whom unless you honour with a temple, you shall be
"
scattered, torn in pieces through a thousand places, and defile the
" woods with
your blood, your mother too, and your mother's sisters.
" These
things will happen nor will you grant to the god the honour
;

" that is
(Tue, but complain that I saw loo much under this darkness."
The son of Echion drives him from his presence, as he was uttering these
prophecies but a confirmation follows his words, and the predictions of
:

the sage are fulfilled. Bacchus comes, and the fields ring with festival
bowlings. The crowd runs out mothers and daughters-in-law, hus-
:

bands, rabble and nobles, all hasten in confused multitudes to the ce-
lebration of these till then imknown rites. " What madness (says Pen-
"
theus) has possessed your minds, O ye warlike race, sprung
from the
" teeth of the
dragon ? Can brass resounding to the strokes of brass,
" or the flute with the thus intoxicate
bending horn, ar.d magic fravids
"
you ? that the yells of women, and madness raised by wine, and a
" of effeminate wretches, and the hollow noise of drums, shall
" troop
prevail over you, whom neither the warlike sword nor trumpet could
" ? Shall I be left to won-
affright, nor batt^ilions with brandished spears
120 V. OVIUII NASONIS
Mirente ros scjitu /
Qui vecti per loitga
Vosne, senes, mirer qui longa per iequora-vecti
;

teguora, posuistis lure Hac Tyron, hac profugos posuistis sede Penates ;
sedc Tyrun, liDc pro-
fiigos penatis: Nunc Nuncsinitis sine Marte capi ? Vosne, acrior setas,
shiitis eain capi iinc
marte ? Mirirne t:os, Ojuvenes, propiorque mea3 quos arma tenere, ;

Ojuvenes, a-tax acrior,

propiorqne iiica ; qtios
Non Thyrsos ;galeaque tegi, uunfronde decebat?
deccbat ttnere anna,
non Thyrsos, legi ga-
EsLe, precor, memores, qua, sitis stirpe creati:
lea, no/ifrotide! Pre- Illiusque animos, qui
multos perdidit unus,
cor este memores quA
Sumite serpentis. Pro fontibus ille lacuque 545
stirpe sifts creati: su-
tniteque aminos illius vos pro fama vincite vestra.
Interiit: at
serpentis, qui tiuus,
perdidit multos. Ille Ille vos pellite molles,
dedit leto fortes :

intcriit pro J'ontibus

Iticiique : at vos tin- Et patrium revocate decus. Si fata vetabant
cite pro vestraj'ama. Stare diu Thebas; utinam tormenta virique
Ille dedit fortes Letho:
vos pi I lite moltes ct Mcenia diruerent ferrumque, ignisque sonarent
: !

revocate patriutii de-

als. Hi fata letabaiit Essemusmiseri sine crimine: sorsque querenda,
TheOas stare div ; iiti-
7tam toimenta tirique Non celanda foret lacrymzeque pudore carerent.
:

diruerent mania : fer- At nunc a puero Thebffi capientur inermi:

ritniqtte ignisque sona-
rent. JSssemtis mixcri Quem neque bella juvant, nee tela, nee usus e-
sine criinme : sorsquc
forct giierenda, iiou quorum ;
celanda : lacrymitqtte
carerent pudore. At
Sed madidus myrrha crinis, mollesq;coron£e, 555
nunc Tlieba capienttir
d puero inervii; quern Purpuraque, et pictis intextum vestibus aurum.
neqite bella juvatit, Quem quid em ego actutiim (modo vos absistite)
nee tela nee tisus eqtto-
,

rum ,- sed crinis tnadi- cogam

dus tnyrrhii, inollesque
corontB, pnrpiiraqtie, et aurum intextum pectis vestibus. Quetn quidcin igo (modi> vos nh-
sistitej uctutum cogum.

TRANSLATION.
der at you our sires, who ci'ossiug long seas, fixed in these seats Tyre
and your exiled gods But now suffer yourselves to be vanquished
;

without a stroke ? And you, O young men of a more vigorous age, and
nearer to my own, whom it becomes to be graced with arms, not fan-
tastic rods, who ought to be covered M'ith crested helmets, not gar-
n lands of flowers Be miridful, for heaven's sake, of what race you
.'

ti
are sprung, and assume the courage of that serpent, who though but
one, destroyed many. He died for his lake and springs do you con-
ii
;

quer for your own fame. He fought the strong, do you vajiquish
the
li
feeble foe, and regain your country's honour. If fate has doomed
that Thebes uuist soon fall, O may warlike engines, and troops of
(.i

ti
brave men beat down our walls, and fire and sword sound in our ears.
We
should then be wretched without infamy, and fall by a fate to be
lamented, not concealed: nor need we be ashamed of our tears. But
now Thebes will be taken by an unarmed child, whom neither wars
delight, nor darts, nor
the prancing steed, but hair perfumed with
myrrh, and chaplets of flowers, and purple, and gold interwoven
with flower garments. Whom
indeed I will speedily (do you but

NOTES.
54i.'. A'on Thyrsos.'] The whole fi-iintic with Thyrsuscs. The Tliyrstis was a
crowd thiit celel)rate(lthe rites of Bac- small arrow wrapped about with vine and
fhiis, both men and women, >vne ;u lued ivy branches, which covered its point.
 METAMORPllOSEON, Lib. III. 121

fateri patremque as-

Assumptumquepatremcommentaque sacra fateri. ..umptiim, sairnque
An satis Acrisio est animi, contemnere vanum comiiienlci. An .\alis a-
tthiucitAirsioiontein-
Numen,et Argolicas venienti claudere portas 560 ; nere tanum mimi'v,
Penthea terrebit cum totis advena Thebis ? et claudcre Argolicas
partus veiiicnti ; et ad-
hoc imperat) ite, ducemque
Ite citi, (famulis reiia teirebif Penthta
rumtot isThebis?lte citi
Attrahite hue vinctum.Jussis mora segnisabesto. (imperut hoc Jainulis )
ite, titt.rakitcque du-
Hunc avus, huuc Athamas, hunc caetera turba cemiiiutumhnc. Seg-
nis mora abestojussis.
suorum Avus hunc, Athamas
Corripiuntdictisjfrustraq; mhiberelaborant. 565
hunc cetera turba suo-
rum curripiunt hune
Acrior admonitu est; irritaturque retenta dlctis ; laboranlquein-
hibere frusira. Acrior
Ei crescit rabies ; remoraminaque ipsa nocebant. est admonitu, rnbics-
Sic ego torrentem, qua nil obstabat eunti, que rttentu iiritatur
et crescit: ipsaque re-
Lenius, et medico strepitu decurrere vidi morumina noc muit.
:

Sic ego vidi torrentem,

At,quacunque trabes obstructaque saxa tenebant, qua nit obstabat eun-
ti, decurrere lenius et
Spuraeus, et fervens, qt ab objice soevior ibat. modico strepitu. At
Ecce cruentati redeunt: et Bacchus ubi esset, quucunque trahes, sax-
uqite ob>'tructa tene-
Quaerenti domino, Bacchum vidisse negarunt. bant, ibat spumevs, et
tamen comitem, famulumque fervens, et sanior ab
Hunc, dixere, sa- objice. Ecce famuli re-
crorum deunt cruentati, et ne-
grrrirnt domino qutE-
Cepimus et tradunt manibus
: renti ubi Bacchvs es-
post terga hgatis, Bac-
set, se vidisse
[Sacra dei quondam Tyrrhena gente secutum.] chum. Dixere tamen,
ceprmus hunc comitem
famulumque sacroruin, quondam secutum sacra del geiite Ti/j-rliemt et tradunt eum mani-
bus ligatispost tcrg/i.

TRANSLATION.
" stand
aside) force to own his fictitious father, and counterfeit rites.
" Had
Acrisius courage enough to despise the vain deity, and shut the
"
gates of Argos against him, and shall this strariger terrify Pentheus
" and all Thebes
go quickly, (this command he gave to his servants)
;

"
go, and bring hither the leader of the rout hound; nor let dull de-
"
lay retard the execution of my commands." His grandfather Cad-
mus, Athamas, and the whole company of his friends, chide him se-
verely, and in vain endeavour to restrain him. He is made fiercer by
their admonitions, and his
rage by being curbed increases, and is but
irritated the more, and their
struggles to hinder him, hasten on his ruin.
Thus I have seen a torrent, where no obstruction impeded its course, run
smooth, and with a gentle noise hut where beams or stones stopped up
;

its channel, it run

foaming and raging, and gathered new rapidity from
the obstacles in its way. Lo his servants return all bloody, and deny
to their master,
asking after Bacchus, that they had seen Bacchus.
The felloAv, however, say they, we have taken, his attendant, and the
minister of his holy rites, and then deliver him to Pentheus with his
hands bound behind him a stranger, and one that had quitted Tus-
;

cany, his native country, to attend on Bacchus aad his rites.

NOTES.
559. Acrliio,'] Acrisius was the son Bacchus or his rites, shut the gates of
of Abas king oftlie Argives, and fathir Argos against them.
^sfDanae. He rcfitsinsr lo admit lilhrr
122 P. OVIDII NASONIS

VIII. et IX. Pen- VIII. et IX. Adspicit hunc oculis Pentlieus,

iheiis adspicit hunc
oculis quos irafecerat
quos ira tremendos
*qHam"vix 'diffcrt^iem-
Fccerat et, quanquaui poenae vix tempora diflert,
:

^o'p'^^uufc^ daH^^^^^
O periture tuaque aliis documenta dature
;

documenta aliis uiii Mortc, ait cdc tuuiii nomeii, nomeiiq; pai'entuiTi,
;
morte, ede tuiim no-
men, nomenque parcn- Et patriam morisque novi cur sacra frequentes.
;
tum, et putriam, ctir-
que frtquentcs sacra
Ille metu vacuus, Nomen mihi, dixit, Acoetes ;

novimoris. Ille vacuus Patria Moeonia est hurnili de plebe parentes. :

metn, dixit: Acoetes est
nomen mihi; Moeonia, Non mihi, quse duri colerent pater arva juvenci,
patria; parentes sunt
de humid plebe. Pa- Lanigerosvegreges,nonullaarmentareliquit.585
ter non reliquit milii
art a, qvte duri Jut en- Pauper et ipse fuit linoque solebat et hamis :

Decipere, et calamo salientes ducere pisces.

ei colerent, lamgeros-
ve greges, non reliquit
iilla armenta. Ipse et Ars illi sua census erat. Ciim traderet artem ;
fuit pauper solebat-
que decipere salientes Accipe, quas habeo, studii successor et hacres.
pisces lino et hamo, et mihi nihil ille reliquit. 590
ducere calamo. Ars Dixit, opes:
- moriensq;
-
sua erat census illi. Prsetcr aouas. Unum hoc possum appellare pa-
a
Cum traderet artem ' i i
dixit : accipe successor temum. ^^

luariabeT'nori'enl
Mox cgo, uc scopuhs hffirerem semper in isdem,
que ille reliquit nihil
7nihi
Addidici regimen,
'^
dextra moderante, carinae
prater aquas. /-.i i i n • •
i
•

Possum appellare hoc riectcre : et (Jlenise sidus pluviale capellse,

iinumpaternnm. Mox m > TT i ^^ \ Z
ego, ne semper ha-re-
rem in iisdem scopu-
iaygetcnque, liyaciasque ocuus Arctonque na-
favi
Ld-Vl
lis, addidici fleeter e
regimen carina, dex-
tra moderante, et no-
Veutorumque domos,
^ ^
tavi oculis sidus, pluviale Olcniff capdltt, Taygetemque, Hyadasque, Arctonque, domosque
ct portus puppibus
iii i'
aptos,

tentoriim, et portus apt us puppibus.

TRANSLATION.

VIII. and IX. Pentheus beheld him with eyes, which the rage he
was in had rendered terrible, and although he could scarce bear to de-
fer the time of his "
O wretclr (says he), soon to perish,
punishment :

" and by your death serve as an example to others, tell your name,
" and that of your parents, and your country, and why you frequent
" these solemnities of new invention." He, devoid of fear, answered ;

"
"
My name is Acoetes, my country Moeonia, and my parents of the
humble vulgar. My father left me no lands to be ploughed up by
" the laborious ox, nor wool bearing flocks, nor herds. He was him-
" self poor, and wont with a line, hooks, and a bending reed, to de-
" ceive and draw out the skipping fishes his art was his whole estate. ;

" When he bequeathed me his art Take, said he, successor and heir :

"
"
ofmy employment, all the riches that I possess, and, dying, left me
no other patrimony but the waters. This alone I could call my pa-
" ternal inheritance. But soon, that I might not always be confined
" to the same rocks, I learnt to guide the helm with a skilful right
"
hand, and made my observations on the watery constellation of the
" Olenian goat, and Taygete, and the Hyades, and the Bear, and the
"
quarters of the wind, and the harbours fit for ships. By chance, as
" I was
making for Delos, I came upon the coast of Chios, and reached
' the shore by plying our right-side oars, and I gave the nimble jump,
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. III. 123

Forte petens Delon, Diae oras telluris ad vetem Deim,

r T •11 •
^"''^J:
apflicor ad oras Dire
i\pplicor, et dextns adducor littora remis : teiiuris, et aaaucor
-r-v 1 li 1 i.i
• •
littora dextris remis ;
Doque leves saitus udaeque immittor arense.
:
aoyne leves saUus,im-
Nox ubi consumpta est; Aurora rubescere primxim mimoV'lt'colisTmpZ'
et aurora primum ca-
Coeperat exsurgo, laticesque inferre recentes
:

perat rubescere ex- :

Admoneo monstroque viam quae ducatad undas. surgo, a dmotieoque in-

;
ferre recentes latices,
Ipse, quid aura mihi tumulo promittat ab alto, monstroque viam qn<B
ducat ad undas. Ipse
Prospicio: coraitesque voco,repetoque carinam. prospieio ab alto tu-
Adsumus en, inquit socioruni primus Opheltes mulo quid aura pro-
mittat mihi: vocoque
:

Utque putat, prsedam deserto nactus in agro, comites, repetoque ca-

rinam. Opheltes pri-
Virginea puerum ducit per littora forma. mus socioruni inquit
en adiumus ; nact us-
mero somnoque gravis, titubare videtur;
Ille
que pradam ut putat
in deserto agro, ducit
Vixque sequi specto cultum, faciemque gra-
;
puerum virginea for-
dumque : ma per littora. J lie
Nil ibi, quod possetcredi mortale, videbam. 610
I'iZZrlZbareTvil^.
Et sensi, et dixi sociis. Quod numen in isto ?"« •*«?»".• •'>'pecto cui-

Corpore sit dubito sed corpore numen in isto

;
est. diwi'que"Tkiib'ai>fM

Quisquis 6 faveas,nostrisquelaboribusadsis.
es, morVaif. ^EtllnX'^'el
''^xisocus
His quoque des veniam. Pro nobis mitte precari. dubUoquod

O.
JJicty s ait q uo non alius conscendere
:

cyor antennas, prensoque rudente relabi.

Hoc Libys, hoc flavus prorse tutela Melanthus,
Till* suramaso 1 5

J^J^
re,sed numen est in isto
corpore. Quisoms es,
o faveas, adsisquenos.
JfS;„ f
"
Mitte precari pro nobis, ait Dictys, quo non alius fuit ocior conscendere summas antennas,
relabique prenso rudente. Libys hoc, Jlavus Melanthus tutela prora: hoc.

TRANSLATION.

and set foot upon the wet sand. AVhen tlie night was spent, and
Aurora first began to appear, I rise, and order my men to take in
fresh water, at the same time pointing out the way which led to it.
I then mounted myself on a high hill, and looked round what the
air promised, and call my companions, and return to the vessel. Lo,
answered Opheltes, my chief mate, we are here, and having found, as
he thought, a prize in the desert fields, lead along the shore a boy of
virgin beauty. He, heavy with wine and sleep, seems to stagger, and
scarce can follow. I examine his dress, and looks, and gait, nor can
discover any thing in them, that spoke him a mortal. I immediately
suspected it, and said to my companions, I know not what divinity
inhabits that body but a divinity certainly inhabits it. Whoever
;

you are, favour us, and be propitious to our labours, and forgive the
rashness of my companions. Cease praying for us, said Dictys, than
whom none was nimbler to mount the main- top yards, or slide down
by catching hold of a rope. This Libys, and Melanlhus the pilot,
and Alchimedon, and Epopeus, who overlooked the oars, and timed

NOTES.

097. Delon, Chios.] Islamls of llic JEgam sea.

 124 P. OVIDII IVASOJVIS
Alcimedon prohat hoc :
et Epoyeus hortator
Hoc probat Alcimedon :
et, qui requiemque mo-
animiiru}ii,qui race tiu-
but requiemque mo- dumque
d'-mi/ue rcmis: Alii Voce dabatrciiiis, animorum hortator Epopeus:
ont'ies probant hoc: Cu-
pido I'raria turn caca
Hoc omnes alii Pradcc tarn caca cupido est. 620
:

ixt. Dixi tamen, non Non tamen banc sacro violari pondere pinum
perpetiar fiaiic pinum
violiiri sacro ponoere ;
muiimu parsjuris hic, Perpetiar, dixi pars hic niihi maxima juris.
;

est mihi: Obsistoque in Inque aditu obsisto. Furit audacissimus omni

aditu, Lycabax auda- De numero Lycabas qui Thusca pulsus ab urbe,
cissimitf de omni nu- ;

mere furit: qui pulsus

ab Thusca vrbe, lue- Kxilium, dira poenam pro caede, luebat. 625
bat txilium pee nam pro Is mihi, dum resto, juvenili guttura
dira cade. Js dum re^-
pugno
tn, rupit guttura mihi Rupit et excussura misisset in sequora si nou
:
;

juvenili pv^no, et mi-

sisset excussum in a-
Heesissem, quamvis amens, in fune retentus.
quoru,
tnen^,
si, quumiis ti-
non ha^'issem re- Impia tarba probat foctum. Tum denique Bac-
tentus in June. Jm- chus,
pia turbu probimt fac-
tum : t urn deniq ue Bac- (Bacchus enimfuerat) veluti clamoresolutus 630
chus (cnim fuerat
BeicchusJ veluti sojior
Sit sopor;
eque mero redeant in pectora sensus;
Jit solutui clamore, Quid facitis? quis clamor, ait? qua, dicite, nautae,
se7itusque redeant in
pectora li mere, ait:
Hue ope perveni? quo medeferre paratis?
quid facitis f Quis cla- Pone metum, Proreus^ et quos contingere por-
mor? Dicite nauta,
quit ope perveni hue ? tus
Quo i>arati.s d'J'erre
trie Proreus dixit po-
'! Ede velis, dixit. Terra sistere petit&, 635
ne metum, et ede quos
portu^'i (I lis contin- Naxon, ait Liber, cursus advertite vestros.
gere, sistere terra pe- Ilia mihi domus est: vobis erit hospita tellus.
tita. Liber ait adver-
tite vestros curstis A'axon, ilia est domus mihi, et erit hospita tellus vobis.

TRANSLATION.
the stroke with approve of; in a word, the whole crew, so
liis voice,
much were they blinded by a desire of the prize. Yet, said I, will
I not suffer the
ship to be profaned by so sacred a load I have the ;

greatest share of right here, and stood up to oppose their entrance.

Lycabas, the most daring of all the crew, storms a wretch who, ;

driven from Tuscany, suffered exile as the punishment of a cruel

murder. He seized me by the throat, and with the blow had tum-
bled me overboard, but that in falling I grasped a cord, and,
though
stunned, stuck fast by the rope. The impious crew applaud him.
At length Bacchus (for it was no other than he), as if roused from
his sleep by the clamour and noise, and restored to his senses, which
had been drowned in wine \^'hat is this you are doing, what noise ?
;

says he. Tell me, mariners, by what means I came hither ? Or

where you intend to carry me ? Banish fear, said Proreus, and tell
what ha.rbour you would be carried to, and you shall stop at the
wished-for land. Direct yoiu- course then, said Bacchus, to Naxos, that
is my home, and shall be a
hospitable land for you. The perfidious

NOTES.
t)36. A«.Ton nit Liber.] Naxos an island of the .Ea:ean i^ra, tijeniost noted of all
the CvcIacUs.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IH. 125

Per mare fallaces, perque omnia numina jurant, ^l'^^;fr>/Z7LZ-

Sic fore :
meque iubent pictae dare vela caririEe. mma,joresic;jubent-
-^ TvT . 1 , A •^
•
\- J. J L- i^Ar\ que me dare vela pic-
Dextra jNaxos erat dextra mini lintea danti 540
: ?«• carina:, mxoserat
Quid facis, 6 demens: quis te fnror,inquit, Accete, ^•;^,l;";,,,/,^;';„fr;,?i
Prose quisque,tenet'n8evara pete. Maximanutu p/". sc iyiquu ; quid

Pars mini pars,quid velit,auresusiirrat. fnror

siffiiincat: temt te Acate?
r\t ^• J •
J",' Petelavam. Maxima •

sig^ijicat mm
. .

alius raoderaraina, aixi purs :

Gbstupui capiatque:

Increnor
1
i\ cunctis; totumque immurmurat ao'-

nien .
'1
Meque ministerio scelerisque artisque removi 645 1^lfJ'/Jt Zrl' ^ol
^ st'ipui,dir!,i„c,rapiac
alius moderuminn ;re-
mov>que vie minl.'.tfrio
E quibus ^thalion, Te scilicet omnis in uno VtcrVporu cuncus"tl'.
Nostra salus positaest?ait. Etsubitipse meumq; :
tnmqueao,„eHi,i,mur-
t.Eiiuihus^lltlia-
petit di versa relicta.
lion ait : scilicet nostra
Explet opus Naxoque :
oniiii\ sains est posita
Tumdeus illudens, tanquam modo denique frau- ill te unu? ct iyse su-
explctque miu?n
dem 650 bit,
que diversu
oi> IIS, petit ,

Turn
pontum prospectat aduncd.
A'a.i I) relicta.
Senserit, e puppi dens illudens, tan-
Et flenti similis, Non hac mihi litlora, nautse, quam iiindo dtniquc
senserit frn iidein, pro.
Promisistis, ait: non hasc mihi terra rooata est. spi'ctat pvtitinn e pup.
pi udunca. Et similis
Quo merui poenam facto ?
quse gloria vestra est ; : Xuntir, non
flenti, ail
multi fallitis unum?
•t^^,t^-ILacrymas
Si pueruin juvenes,
Jamdudurn liebam.
si 655
manus impia
• •
prumisistis hac Httora
mini; terra
mihi; iirra h/ec
est rogata
m
nnc -imii
miiu. q uo
f'licto nienii pretnim ?
nostras Qiiic est I estra
gloria,
si Juvenes fallitis
Ridet: et impellit properantibus aiquora remis. pue-
ruin, si multi U71UUI .'

Per tibi nunc ipsum (nee enim preesentior illo Jaiiidudum Jlebain.
Manus impia ridet
Estdeus) adjuro, tam me tibi vera referre. nostras lacrymas, et
impi Hit (Tqunra pro-
perantibus remis. Adjuro nunc tibi per ipsum (nee enim dcus ullus est prascntiur illo) me
tam referre vera tibi ;

TRANSLATION,
" wretches swear
by the sea, and by all the gods, that it shall be so,
" and bid me Naxos was on our right-
give sail to the painted ship.
"
hand, and as I was accoidingly setting sail for the right, What are
"
you a doing, madman, what fury possesses you ?
says every one for
"
himself; stand to the left: the greater part signify their desire by
" I stood amazed, and said, let
nods, some whisper it in my ear.
" some other take the helm, and refused to have a hand in their crime
" or treachery I am insulted by them all, and the whole crew murmur
;

"
against me Of whom Jilthalion, as if, indeed, our whole security
:

"
depended on you, and himself, succeeds, and taking the helm, leaves
"
Naxos, and steers a different way. Then the god deriding them, as
" if he had now first perceived the fraud, looks from the crooked ship
" into the sea, and seemed to weep these, mariners, are not the shores :

" to which you promised to bear me, this is not the land I wished to
" see. have I done to merit this treatment ? What honour for
What
" I had now been
men a child, for many to deceive one
to insnare r

"
"
weeping for some time, the impious crowd laugh at my tears, and
beat the sea with labouring oars. Now I swear to you by Bacchus
"
himself, (nor is there any god more powerful than he) that what I
" relate
to you is no less true, than it is in appearance beyond belief:
126 P. OVIDII NASONIS

quam majorefide veri.

JPuppis stetit in Quamverimajorafide. Stetitsequorepuppis 660
irqiiore, haud aliter
siccum 7tnvale
Haud aliter, quam si siccum navale teneret.
quam si
teneret earn. Illi ad- Illi adtnirantes remorum in verbere
perstant :

tnirantes, perstant in
verbere remorum, de- Velaque deducunt ; geminaque ope currere ten-
ducuntque vela ten- tant.
taique currere gemina
ope. Hcderie impedi-
unt rcmos,serpuntque Impediuiit hederse remos, nexuque recurvo
recurvo nexu, et dis- Serpunt, et gravidis distringunt vela corym-
tringtmt vela gravidis
Corymbis. Ipse cir-
bis. 665
cumdatus quoad fron-
tem racemiferis uiis, Ipse, racemiferis frontem circumdatus uvis,
figitat hastam velatam Pampineis agitat velatam frondibus hastam.
pampineis fro7idibus.
Circa queni tigres, si- Quein circa tigres, simulacraque inania lyncum,
tnulachraquc inania
J.yncum, fcraque cor- Pictarumque jacent fera corpora pantherarum.
pora piciarum pan- Exiluere viri sive hoc insania fecit,
: 670
therarum Jacent. Viri
exiluere, sive insania Sive timor: primusqueMedonnigrescerepinnis,
fecit hoc, sive timor :

Medonque primus in- Corpore depresso, et spinae curvamine flecti

Incipit. Huic Lycabas.
cipit nigrescere pinnis
corpore depresso, et Inquse miracula, dixit,
Jlecti quoad curvaini- Verteris ? et lati rictus, et panda loquenti
na spintr. JIuic J^y-
cabas dixit in qv(r Naris erat, squammamque cutis duratatrahebat.
:

miracula verteris f Et
rictus erant liifi, et
At Libys, obstantes dum vult obvertere renios,
spatium resilire manus breve vidit ; et illas
varis erat panda lo- In
fjuenti, cutisquc du-
rata trahebat squam- Jam non esse manus; jam pinnas posse vocari.
inani. At Libys, dum
Tult obvertere obstan- Alter ad intortos cupiens dare brachia funes,
tes remos, vidit manus
resilire in 'breve spa-
Brachia non habuit ; truncoque repandus in undas
tium; et illas
esse manus, jam posse
jam non Corpore desiluit. Falcata novissima cauda est,
rocari pinnas. Alter Qualia dividuse sinuantur cornua Lunse.
cupiens dare brachia
ad intortos funes, non halniit brachia, repatiriv.ique desiluit. in vtidas trtinco corpore. Cauda
7iovissima est falcata, (jtialia curnva dividufc Iti/itr sinuantur.

TRANSLATION.
the ship stood motionless in the sea, no otherwise than if laid
up in
a dry dock. They, wondering, persist in
plying their oars, and lower
the sails, and with redoubled strokes Branches
urge their course.
of ivy hinder the oars, and creep around them in
twining mazes, and
clusters of berries hang from the sails. The god himself having his
head encircled with bunches of grapes, brandishes his
spear covered
with sprouting vine-leaves round him are seen
tigers, and visionary
:

forms of lynxes, and dreadful images of spotted The ma-

panthers.
riners, Avhether urged by madness or fear, leaped over-board. And
first Midon began
to blacken with fins, and his
body flattening on
both sides, have his spine bent in a curve.
to Into what prodigy,
said Lycabas, are you changed ? And as he
spoke, his mouth grew
wider, his nose crooked, and his hardened skin was covered with
scales. But Libys still struggling with the stubborn oars, sees his
hand shrink into a short space, and that now they Avere not hands,
hut might rather be called fins. Another reaching his arms to lay
hold on the twisted ropes, found he had no arms, and his body
changing to a bended trunk, he leaped into the sea and the end of ;

his tail became hooked, like the horns of the new moon.
The}' floimce
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IU. 127

Undique dant saltus multaque aspero-iue rorant :

• ^"'^^ *"''"•» «"'^'9«e,
„ '
•. .
1 i. 1 rorant qiie multa as-
Emerguntque iterum: redeuntque sub sequora pergine;emerguntque
rnr«;n«; • iterum, redeuntque
lui&uo .
rur^us sub aquora ;
^ ^

in .spedeni,
Inque chori ludunt speciem
»• r :
lascivaque
1
iac- ("'ti'i'tQue
!-,(-,_ chori, jactantque las-
tailt boo ciixi corpora ; et efflant

Corpora et acceptu m patulis mare naribus efflant «""' ^mrilVs"'^ ^soiZ's

:

De modo viginti (tot enim ratis ilia ferebat) TodflZm%ia'tlt

Restabam solus. Pavidum o;elidumque trementi ferehat tot,) dens jir-
^ .
J
meum nrmat deus, /2 J T-i i T '""( "le puvidum, ee-
Corpore, vixque Jhixcute, di- udmnque trementi cor
^""'' "'"""'
pore, vixqiie meum, di-
cens, ceiis, exciite. metum
Corde metum, diamque tene. Delatus in illam690 corde, teneqite Uiatn :
Delatus in ilUim insD-
Accensis aris Bacclieia sacra frequento. 1am freqnctito Sac-
chela sdcra accensis
Prsebuimus longis Pentheus ambagibus aures, (iris. Pentlicus
inquit,
prabiiiimis aiirex lon-
Inquit ut ira mora vires absumere posset.
:
gis ambag,ibus, nt irii
Prsecipitem famuli rapitehunc: cruciataque diris posset absitmere mres
t^ i. q5 J- -i-i-i
i.- X- ^nc „
Corpora tormentis fetygiee dnmttite nocti. 595 imnc pradpitem, de
mord. Famuli rapite

mittlteqiie corpora
Protinus abstractus solidis Tyrrhenus Acoetes cruciutci diris tor-
Clauditur in tectis et dum crudelia jussae :
mentis, Styf^ice
Protlnus Tiirrhenus
nodi.

Instrumenta necis ferrumque ignisque parantur Accetes ahstracttis, ;

clauditiir in snlidis
Sponte sua patuisse fores lapsasque lacertis tectis el dum crtide-
lia iiutrumenta jiissm
:

sua fama est, nuUo solvente, catenas. 700 necis,

Sponte
-' - ' ferrumque, ig-
X. Perstat Echionides nee Jjam iubetire,' sed ma
nlsque' parantur.- /,
est /ores patuisse •)

sua sponte ; cateuas-

ipse
Vadit. ubi electus facienda ad sacra Cythseron, Ve%{s'l[Zlpout7,mdio
solvente eas.
X. Echionides perstat : nee jam jubet {amnios ire, sed ipse vadit xihi Citharon electus ad
sacrafacienda.
TRANSLATION.
" about in the waves, and bedew the ship with sprinkling dropn, some-
" times emerge, and again plunge into the deep, tossing about their
" nimble bodies, and wantoning in a variety of figures like a chorus of
" Of
dancers, and spurt up the waters from their Avide nostrils.
"
twenty sailors (for so many did the ship carry), I only remain in my
"
proper shape the god, when he beheld me cold, affrighted, my
;

"
joints trembling, and scarcely myself, encouraged me by saying,
" Banish fear from your breast, and make for Chios. Arriving there,
" I
frequent the sacred rites of Bacchus at the lighted altars."
" We
have lent our ears, (says Pentheus), to a tedious far-fetched
"
tale, framed to prevail over our just anger by its delay. Servants,
"
drag him hence headlong, and overwhelm him, expiring in cruel
" Tuscan Acoetes is immediately hur-
tortures, with endless night."
ried away, and shut up in a strong But while the dire instru-
prison.
ments of torture, racks and flames are prepared, Fame tells us, that
the gates flew open of themselves, and that the chains fell from his
hands, loosening of their own accord.
X. The son of Echion still persists, nor does he now command others,
NOTES.
692. Prahuimus longis Pentheus.'] monies of the Orgies, was discovered
Pausanias says, that Pentheus having by the Bacchantes, who punished his cu-
mouuted a tree, to see the secret cere- riosity in tiie manner related by our poet.
 128 P. OVIDII NASONIS

sonabat cirntihits, ft Cantibus et clara Baccliantum voce sonabat.

clara voce linccUiin-
turn. Vt equusiicer Ut fremit acer equus, cum bellicus eere canoro
freniit, asxumitqiie a-
moii m I'li^iitv, cum hel- Signa cledit tubicen, pugna^que assumit amorem:
liiiis lubiren deilit \i^-
na ciiiiiiro are : xic
Penihea sic ictus longis uhdatibus aether
ather ictux vlu-
loitsit Movit: et auclito clangore recanduit ira.
latibitxmnvit Peiithrti;
€t ira ricaiiduit clan- Monte fere medio est, cingentibus ultima sylvis,
gore auiiilo. J'\re me-
dio niO'itf, tin-
sylvU
Purus ab arboribus, spectabilis undique campus.
gentihtis ultimii, est Mic oculis ilium cernentem sacra profanis 710
campus, jiurw- ub ai-
boribus, et svectabilix Prima videt, prima est insano concita motu,
undiqiir. Hie mater
prinui videt ilium vir- Prima suum misso violavit Penthea thyrso
iientem snrra projitnis
ocnllf, prima (si. coii-
Mater: 16 geminse, clamavit, adeste sorores.
cita iiisiiiio motn, pri- Ille aper, in nostris errat qui maximus agris,
ma violnvit siium Pe7i-
thca miisi) 'J'.ii/rso, ct Tlleinihi feriendus aper, Ruitomnisinunum 715
clfimarit 16, tide^tege-
»«/«<r .«on>rt.v. It/e uper Turba furens : cunctae coeunt, cunctseque se-
qui erriit i)iadimii\ in
iiostris ii<:ris ; ifle aper quuntur,
cstfeneiiilus mihi. Om- Jam trepidum,jam verba minus violentalocutum
nu turbii fiirvns ruil
in unit 111. Cuiicta: coc- Jam se damnantem, jam se peccasse fatentem.
uiit, cuncttrque sc-
Saucius ille tamen, Fer
qu utit iir V.Uwn jam tre- opem, matertera, dixit,
pidum,jum loquentcni
verba minus violmta,
Autonoe moveant animos Actaeonis umbr3e,720
:

jam diimiantem (e, Ilia

quid Actseon nescit: dextramque precanti
jam fatentein se pi r-
cussc. Jlle tomen sau- Abstulit; Inoo lacerata est altera raptu.
ciw, dirit, jVr opcm
mntertera Autondc: uiiibrir Arltrnjiis moveant animos. Ilia nescit quid Act transit ; abstu-
lit que di.rtrinn prtC'iii li. Alttra est lacerata Inoo raptu.

TRANSLATION.
but goes himself to where Cithferon, chosen for the celebration of these
sacred rites, resounded with the songs and loud voices of the Bacchantes.
As the mettled steed rages when the warlike trumpeter gives the alarm
with sounding brass, and burns with impatience for the fight, so the
sky struck with continued bowlings, transported Pentheus, and
his rage flames at hearing the distant shouts. There is near the
middle of the mountain a plain, skirted round with woods, itself
clear of trees, and visible on all sides. Here first his mother sees
him regarding the sacred mysteries with unhallowed eyes here ;

she first kindled into madness here she first darted at her own
;

Pentheus her leafy javelin, and cries, " O, my sisters, come quickly ;

" that frightful boar that ravages our fields, that boar I must strike."
The raging crowd rush upon him at once, all meet together, and
gather round him now trembling,
now uttering less violent words,
;

now blaming and acknowledging that lie was in fault. Find-

himself,
"
ing himself wounded, Help, help, (he cries,) my aunt Autonoe,
" let the manes of Actseon work
upon your mind." She remem-
bers not Actseon, hut frantic in her rage, lops off his right arm as he
begged for pity, the other is torn off by the fury of
Ino. Unhappy
NOTES.
Autonoe.] Tlie sister of Agave,
7'JO. more meekness. But the iinaccount-
and mother of Acta-on, svlioni Pen- able rage she was then seized with,
theus imagined the resenibhng fate deprived iier l)Oth of reason and ine-
of her son would liave inclined to niorv.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. III. 129

Non habet, infelix quae matri brachia tendat Pfntheus non

: {"-(«'j*
,„ 1 J- i-
•
1
hahet brachia qua
1 runca sea ostendens disjectis corporamembris ;
tendat matri, sea os-

Adspice, mater, ait. Visis ululavit

Agave ; l"'^!^jc7tTZmhVis,
CoUaque jactavit, mo vitque per aera crmem. taJ^J'Xu)
Avulsumque caput digitis complexa cruentis jactavuque coiia, mo-
^, T/. , •, i1
•
J
•
vitquecrinemperacra,
Clamat, lo comites, opus hsec victoria nostrum compiexaque caput
avulsum cruentis di-
L.
"Sl. git is, clamat : lo co-
Non citius frondes autumno frigore
o tactas,' 730 nostrum
"''f^^'l"''
'''"'"'' **'
opus. Non
Jamque male haerentes alta rapit arbore ventus ventus rapu emus ab
;

Qs'^
-.
.
, -vj- c ^ """ arbore, frondes
,

uamsuntmembravirimanibusdireptaneiandis. tactas autumno fri-

Talibus exemplis monitse nova sacra frequentant, ^maii^,^qllm ^mVmbra
Thuraque dant,sanctasque colunt Ismenid es aras ^ j^' ^nefandiT^}^"f' .

4es monita talibus exemplis frequentant nova sacra, dantqiie thura, coiuntque sanctas aras.

TRANSLATION.
Pentheus has now no arms to reach out to his mother but
shewing his ;

mutilated body, destitute of its limbs, Mother, says he, behold. Agave
howled at the sight, and tossed her neck, and brandished her locks in
air ;
and tearing off his head, grasped it in her bloody fingers, crying
" Not more suddenly
out, Lo, companions, this victory is my work."
does the wind bear off from a high tree the leaves loosened by autumn
,colds, than the mangled limbs of Pentheus are scattered by bloody
hands. The Theban matrons, awed by so tragical an example, fre-
quent the new mysteries, offer incense, and attend at the sacred altars.

NOTES.
734. Ismenides.'\ The Theban matrons, so called from Ismenns, a river of BcEOtia,
 130 P. OVJDII NASONIS

LIBER QUARTUS.
ORRO. I. A T non Alcitho'e Minye'ias Orgia eenset
r. At AMthdi Mi-
nj/<'i:-'s non cen\et Oi-
^ia dti accipienda, set/
XJL Accipienda dei sed adhuc temeraria,
:

temiraria, ailhuc 7ic- Bacchum

gat Barchiim i.s.se pro-
geniitm .Jot in, kabcf- Progeniem negat esse Jovis sociasque sorores
:

que sororis ioc/as im-

Impietatis habet. Festum celebrare sacerdos,
pietati.i. Sdcerdoxjiis-
serat dominax, f'arnu-
lasque, imnuiiics sito-
Immunesque operum doniinas famulasque suo-
ruin operum, ce/ebrare rum.
feituniftegi quoad pec-
tor a pelle, solvere cri-
Pectora pelle tegi, crinales solvere vittas,
tiales vittas, sumeie Serta coma, manibus frondentes sumere thyrsos,
serta comCi,thyrsosque
fronacutes maitibus ; Jusserat et sa^vam laesi fore numinis iram,
:

et vaticlnatics erat
iram lecsi ntanhiisfore
Vaticinatus erat. Parent matresque, nurusque,
saviim.Muiresquenu-
rusquc parent :
TRANSLATION.
Alcitlioe, the daughter of Minyas, is not yet brought to think
BUT that the mysterious rites of the god ought to be received but rash- ;

ly persists in denying, that Bacchus was the progeny of Jove, and has
her sisters her associates in the impiety. The priest had commanded
to celebrate the feast, and that both mistresses and slaves shoidd cease
from all manner of work, cover their breasts with skins, untie the
fillets that bound up their locks, adorn their hair with garlands, and
bear in their hands the leafy Thyrsus ;
denouncing the heavy indig-

NOTES.
I.At non Jlcitho'e.'] All the Theban these pretended prodigies are what we
ladies, awed by this fatal example of may now endeavour to explain. One
Pentiieus, resorted to the sacred cere- thing we may remark, that however
monies. But Alcithoe, daii^liter of little truth there is in them, the
pre-
Minyas, and her sisters, still coiitiuucd tended chastisements of Pentheus, the
obstinate, and while others were en- mariners, the daughter of Minyas, and
gaged at the festival, they and their Lycurfius, made Bacchus pass for a very
maids are busy with their usual woi k at revengeful divinity, and the priests did
home. To make the time pass on more not lad to improve the stories, to make
agreeably, one of them proposes, tliat his worship more venerable.

they should tell each a story in their 1

Minye'ius.'] Alcithoe was the daugh-
.

turn. The motion is readily agreed to, ter of Mmyas, the son of Orchomenus.
and she who tirst mentioned it, is en- 1. Orgia.'\ This was a general name
treated to begin. After revolvinj; some given by the Greeks to all religious
time within herself what was most likely rites, but more particularly those of
19 amuse, she tixes upon the story of Bacchus.
Pyrainus and Thisbe, 6. Pectora pelle tegi.] Four
things
From what Ovid says in the last and were required of the women concerned
this book, it evidently appears, that the in the celebration of this festival : to
establishment of the worship of Bacchus cover themselves with the skins of wild
in Greece, met with great opposition, beasts, to have tlieir hair hanging loose,
and that the partisans of it, in order to to adorn their heads with crowns of
make it be received, spread about a vine leaves, and to carry Thyrsuses in
n.ultitnde of marvetlons fictions. And their hands.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IV. 131

Telasq;calathosq;infectaq;pensareponunt: 10 ZZ'qlZ'eVsi^^eTn.
Thuraque dant: Bacchumque vocant, Bromium- fecta, dantque thura,
•r
vocantque BaccMim,
que, IjyffiUniqUe, Jiro7niumqice,Z,yaum-
bi-
Ignigenamque, satumque iterum, solumqiie VZlqT:teTZ^,^Xt
niatreiU. ^"'^blmatrem. Nyseus
.
, , .
1 '-IVT
•
1 . Til additur his, Tliyoneus-
Additur nis JNyseus, indetonsusque Inyoneus, queindetoinus.etcon-
Et cum Lenaeo genialis consitor uvse, ^Lelio''NylMiZsqw
Nycteliusq ; Eleleusq parens, et lacchus, et ^^^^STc^Xr; i ;

Evan :
* 15 plurtma nomina pree-
-,-, /~i •
1
•
A. terea, qua tu. Liber,
tA quae prseterea per Cjraias plurima gentes habes per Graias gen-

Nomina, Liber, habes. Tibi eniminconsumpta ^ventaf'Ticofmimpta.

^'" co/wi^ctm puer
iuventaS,
Tu
C- puer seternus, tu
,•!
onspiceris cceIo
formosissimus alto
•
-L J
mus aUo cobUk mt-
gineum caput est tibi,
•

tibi, cum sine cornibus adstas, %um adst/s sine comu

1
:

Virgineum caput est Oriens tibi victus, ad usque ^J^*- J^'^uTque^qua^de-

:
•
i.

Decolor extreme qua cin^itur India Gano-e. <:oior Jndia dnsitur

r\ .^ 11- T extremo Gauge. Tu ve-
renthea tu, venerande, bipenniierumq ; Lycur- aerande mactas Pe-n-
•
[•

ttiea, bipennifcrumque
S*-''*^ Lycurgum sucrilegos ;
Sacrileo-os
o mactas Tvrrhenaque mittis in 'oequor
:
..'... mitisqiieTyr>henacor-
-^ n-1 1
• •
^ .' porainaquor. Tu pre-
Corpora, lu biiugum pictis msignia irsenis miscoiiabijvgumLyn-
r^ ^^
Colla premis lyncura
i
:
n
Bacchae,
Oa- i
se-
cum, itisignia pictis
jjuccIkf, sa.
featyriq ; /,e«L-.-
nnnntnr
4 '? *'' Q.^
" tyrique sequimtur,se-
. 7iexqueebrius,quisus-
titubantes artns
Quique senex ferula titubantes ebrius artus
SI n n
ustmet, et pando non lortiter heeret asello.
,
•
1
tjnet
ferula, et haret jton
jortiter pando aseiiu.

TRANSLATION,
nation of the god against all who continued obstinate. Matrons and
younger wives obey, and quit their webs, and work-baskets, and un-
finished tasks, and offer incense, and call him Bacchus, and Bromius,
and Lyaeus, and Fire-begotten, and Doubly-born, and the only god
that can boast of having two mothers. To these they add Nyseus,
Thyoneus, Lenseus, and the parent of the genial grape, and Nyctelius,
and father Eleleus, and Jacchus, and Evan, and all the other names
under vvhich you, Bacchus, are honoured in the several states of Greece :

for you
enjoy a never-fading yrmth, you are eternally a blooming boy ;

in heaven
you shine the most amiable of the gods, and Avhen you ap-
pear without yoiu" horns you have a virgin's face. By thee the east
has been subdued, to where swarthy India is bounded by the remote
Ganges, Pentheus, and ax-bearing Lycurgus, impious men, fell by
thy vengeance, O venerable god by thee were the Tyrrhene sailors ;

plunged into the sea. Thou controllest with painted reins the necks
and
of the harnessed
lynxes that draw thy chariot. Crowds of BacchsB
Satyrs follow thee, and old Silenus drunk, who supports his tottering
limbs with a staff, and sits but insecurely upon his crooked ass.
Wherever you go, youthful clamours accompany you, and female cries.
NOTES.
II.
Bacchumque vocant that the cups out of which men
We have here a catalogue Bromiumque.]
us,
of the names diank,wereniadeof the horns of beasts;
by which Bacchus was invoked. otlieis will have it, that he was the first
19. Cornibus.] Myihologists are di- who yoked oxen together to plough the
vided as to the reason of the ancients ground, alluding to the notions of
his

ascribing horns to Bacchus. Some tell being the same with Egyptiaa Osiris.
132 P. OVlDIf NASONIS
Quarunque ingrederU, una
clamor juvenilis, et Quacunque ingrederis; clamor juvenilis, et
una famincie voces, Foeminese voces, impulsaque tympana palmis,
tympamtque itnpiilsa
polinii, eraque ron-
caru, biixuxque limgo
Concavaque tera sonant, longocjue foramina
foriimine, stniaiit. Js- buxus.
menldes rogant lit ad-
sis iiiieis
Pacatus mitisque, rogant Ismenides, adsis :

jiacatusque,
coluittqufjussa sacra.
Sola Minyfides i?itus,
Jnssaque sacra colunt. Sola^. PvJinyeides intus,
turbuntcs festa intem- Jntempestiva turbantes festa Minerva,
pi'Mira M'inerva, aut
di'fiirit lanas, aut ver-
Autducunt lanas, aut stamina pollice versant,
tuvt stamina pollice,
aut hcerent tela, ur-
Aut hferenttel8e,famulasquelaboribus urgent. 35
gent que famulus laho- E cjuibus una levi deducens pollice filum :

ribus. E qnibiis una

dtducens filuni levi Dum cessantaliee, commentaque sacra frequen-
poUice, inquit ; dum
alite cessaiit,
frcquen-
tant,
tantqne iomnicnta sa- Nos quoque, quas Pallas meiior Dea detinet,
cra, nos, quoquc, quus
Pallas meiior dea de- inquit.
opus manuum vario sermone levemus.
tinet, letemiis utile
opus mauunm vurio
Utile
sermone ; perque vices
re/eramns in medium Perque vices aliquid,quodtemporalongavideri40
ad vacuus uures uli- Non sinat, in medium vacuas referamus ad aures.
quid, quod non -simit
tempota videri longa. Dicta probant,primamquejubent narrare sorores.
'S'orores probunt dicta,
jubentque eaiii pri- Ilia,quid e multis referat (nam plurima norat)
marn narrare. Ilia
cogitat quid rfj'erat c
Cogitat et dubia est, de te, Babylonia, narret,
:

mulfix, (niim iiorat Derceti, quam versa squamis velantibus artus 45

phirima;) et est diibia,
narretne de te Baby- Staana Palsestini credunt celebrasse figura :

lonia Derceti,
Palastini credunt ce.
quam An magis ut sumptis illius filia
pennis.
lebrasse stagna versS figurA, squatnis velantibus artus: an magis utfilia illius pennis sumptis.
TRANSLATION.
Drums beat with hands, and hollow cymbals resound, and the boxen
pipe tuney its note. The Ismenian matrons celebrate your sacred
rites, and be^ you would come among them mild and propitious. The
daughters of Minyas alone keep within doors, and disturbing the fes-
tival by their unseasonable work, either comb the wool, or twirl the
thread with nimble fingers, or hasten on the web, and keep their maids
close at work. Of whom, one drawing out the nice thread with skil-
ful thumb, while others, says she, are idle, and frequent these fan-
ciful solemnities, let us, whom Pallas abetter deity detains, endeavour
to sweeten the useful toil by various discourse, and relate by turns some

amusing tale to entertain our disengaged ears, and hinder the time
from appearing long. Her sisters are pleased v.ith the proposal, and
bid her tell the first story. She considers with herself which to choose,
perplexed by the great variety she knew, and is in doubt whether she
should tell of thee, Babylonian Dercetis, whom the Palest ines believed
to inhabit the lakes, with thy form changed, and thy limbs covered
with scales, or rather how her daughter, taking the wings of a dove, spent
NOTES.
33. Intempcstiva Minerva.'] That is, by that have no relation among themselves,
tliose arts of frugality and intliistry here introduces the dau(rhter of Minyas re-
described, which are said to have been counting several fables, that could not
invented by Minerva, but
first ill agreed have been well introduced in any other
with festivals of Bacchus. ninnner.
44. De te Babylonia narret Derceti ] 47. Su.nptis illius flia pemtis.] Lucian
spfi.k.n^of Otrceto.says: I have seen
in
Ovid, who h:is bfyond any other founil
t?je art of ceanecting stories together. Piianicia an image of tliis goddess, of a
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IV. 13J

Extremes
altis iii turribus
egerit annos. fgerit extremos aiiMOi
in altis turribus. An
Nai'san ut cantu, nimi unique potentibuf, herbis nt Nu'is cunfu, lier-
bisquc iiimium poteiiti-
Verterit in tacitos jutenilia corpora pieces :
bus, terterit juvenilia
Donee idem passa est. An,quce poma alba ferebat, corpora in tacitos pis-
ces, doiiec passa est
Ut nunc nigra ferat contactu sanguinis arbor. idiin. An vt arbor
qi'wferebat alba poma,
Haec placet: hanc,quoniam vulgaris fabulanon est, nunc Jcrat nigra con-
tactu sanguinis. Utec
Talibus orsa modis, lana sua fila sequente. fabula placet,
orsaqne
II. est hanc quoniam non
Pyramus etThisbe,juvenumpulcherrimus est
vulgarisfoinila, ta-
alter, 55 libus modis, lana, se-
quente siiafila.
Altera, quas Oriens habuit, preelata puellis, II. Pyramus et This-
be, alter pvlclterri7nus
Contiguas tenuere domos ubi dicitur altam :
juvemim.altera prirla-
Coctilibus muris cinxisse Semiramis urbem. tapuellisquasoriens ha-
buit, tenuere contiguas
Notitiam primosque gradus vicinia fecit. domos, ubi Semiramis
dicitur cinxisse altam
urbem coctilibus muris, Vicinia fecit notiliam primosque gradus:

TRANSLATION.
her last years in the high towers of Babylon or how Na'is, by her ;

spells and potent herbs, turned the bodies of the youths she had en-
joyed into mute fishes, until at length she suffered herself the same
fate or how the tree, which formerly bore white fruit, has now its
;

berries of purple hue, from being stained with gore. This pleases her
best this, because a story less known, she began in this manner,
;

lengthening out the while her thread.

II. Pyramus and Thisbe, the one the most
accomplished youth, the
other the most amiable of all the eastern nymphs, lived in houses con-
tiguous to each other, where Semiramis is said to have surrounded a
NOTES.
very extraordinary kind. It represents hands of Pyramus, who upon tliat, be-
her from the middle upward a AVunian, hevii.igshe had been devoured, kills him-
but below she terminates in a fish. The self in regret. Thisbe returning, and
statue of lier, which is shewn at Hiera- judging, from what she saw, of what had
polis, represents her wholly a woni in. passed stabs herself also. This story is
He further says, that tlie temple of this to be met with only in Ovid and Hygi-
last city is thought by some to have been niis nor is it necessary to know any
;

biiiit by Semiramis, who consecrated it thing farther about it. The parti-
not to Juno, as is j^emialK believed, but cular circumstances wherewith it is
to lier mother Derceto. From all which recounted, are only the embellishments
it
appears, tint tlie young princess of a poetical imagination. The story,
whom Uerceto exposed, was the famed however, contains an excellent moral,
Semiramis lier daughter. and may serve as a lesson both to
49. Nuis.] A nymph of the island parents and children to children,
:

of the Sun, called also Nosola, between that they be not too rash in entering
Taprobana and Carimania. into enL'agements, especially where the
55. Pijramus et Tliisbe.] Pyramus and dif!erent interests of families may form
Tliisbe vfere two youni£ lovers, who lived any considerable obstacles and to pa- :

in adjoining houses at Babylon. Having rents, not to be always governed by re-

no opportunity of seeing one another, be- sentment or interest but to make some
;

cause their parents opposed the growing allowances for inclinations, that become
passion, they contrived to steal by night criminal only by their obstinacy.
from home, and meet under a midberry- 57. Ubi dicitttr altam, &c.] The mag-
tiee without the city. Tliisbe came first, nificence and greatness of Babylon is
and bemg obliged to tiy to a cave to taken notice of by almost all ancient
avoid a lioness, dropped her veil m the writers. Its walls are said to have been
fright :
this, had been torn in
after it 60 miles in compass, 87 feet in thickness,
pieces by the bloody teeth of that sa- and in height 330 feet.

vage animal, chanced to fall into the

m V. OVIDII NASONIS

VTiLiit"quoquT^jure Tempore crevitamor. Tedaequoquejurecoissent

teda;sed parentes re- Sed vctuerc patrcs, Quod non potucre vetare.
tnCrc quod non potu- -j^ \- >-i i i , -l
.'re vetare. Ambo ar- Jix sequo captis arciebant ni«ntibus ambo.

fiw%ZTo,nniZot Conscius omnis abest. Nutu signisque loquuntur.

!,ciiis abest, loquuntur Quisque
^ ma^is
* tcQ-itur, tectus mams (S&tnat imis,
*
nutu sigmsque ; igms- t,. V X .
i- £?r ^ .

que tectus, quo magis t issus erat teiiui I'lma, quam duxerat olim, bo
pfrteWpmmunis ut"ri- Cum fiei'et, pavies domui communis utrique.
I^ vitium nulli per seculalonga notatum;
unJ'rM'quii'i^
duxerat, cum fleret. (Quidnonsentitamorl) primi sensistis amantes.
Quid anior non sensil? -rt. n ,••
a
•
, •iii i
tit voci tccistis iter ;
\os amantes vrimi sen- tutgeque per illud
Murmure minimo transire solebant. 7a
blanditife
^^i^m^
secuia:
loTa
et fecistis iter
Ssene utconstiteraiit, hinc Thisbe, Pyramus illinc:
I'oct; blandttttrque so- -^
i-
„ .
'
it •

lebant transire tuta

Inque vicem lucrat captatus anhelitus oris;
per illud minimo mur- f-j i- i .-i .-i •
i i ,

mure. Sape ut consti- Invide, dicebaiit, parics, quid amantibus obstas t

terant, hmc.
PyramusThisbe^
illinc, ...ut sinei'es nos toto corpore
Quantum crat, - jungi -
!

litusque oris fuerat Aut.hocsinimium.velad osculadandapateres! 75

captatus III! icem; di- -»t •
. nri
•
i V •
i
cebant: Invide paries, JN cc simus 1 ibi nos deuere latemur.
ingrati.
quid obstas amanti
bus? Quantum erat ut Quod datus est verbis ad arnicas transitus aures.
sineres nos jungi toto Talia diversa
corpore! Aut si hoc es- nequicquam sede locuti ;

set nimium,pateres vel Sub noctem dixere Vale :

partique dedere
ad danda oscula! nee
simus ingrati. Fate-
mur
Oscula quisque suae, non pervenientia contra. 80
nos debere
quod transitus ad
tibi,
a-
Postera nocturnos Aurora removerat ignes,
micas aures est datus
nostris verbis. Locuti Solque pruinosas radiis siccaverat herbas :
talianequicquam diversS, seile, dix&re vale sub noctem; dedereque quisque oscula sute parti;
non pervenientia contra. Postera Aurora removerat nocturnos ignes, solque siccaverat ra-
diis pruinosas herbas,
TRANSLATION.
stately city, with walls of brick. A neighboiu-hood so close brought on
acquaintance, and the first advances of affection in time this ripened ;

into love they would have also been united by the

;
marriage-tie, but
their parents opposed it and what was not in their
vainly forbid ; it

power to hinder. Both burned with minds

equally captivated. No one
ISintrusted with this secret: they speak by nods and signs, and the
more the flame is covered, the more it rages and spreads. The wall com-
mon to both houses was cleft by a small chink, which it had
got at the
time when it was first built. This flaw, observed by none for many
ages,
(what can escape the notice of love !) you fond lovers first espied, and
made it serve as a passage for your voice, through which the soft ac-
cents of love were Avont to be safely conveyed in gentlest mm-murs.
Often as they stood, Thisbe on one side, and Pyramus on the other, and
had each by turns caught the other's breath " Envious wall (would ;

they say), why do you thus oppose the bliss of lovers ? What great
" matter would it be to suffer us to unite with our whole
persons or ;

" if this is tooi

much, that at least we might be permitted to share mu-
" tual embraces ? Nor are we
ungrateful we confess we owe it to you, ;

" that our words find a

passage to each other's ears." After uttering
these vain complaints on either side, at night they say farewell, and
imprint kisses on their own part, which yet cannot reach to the other.
The following morn had extinguished the lesser fires of the nighf , and
the sun with his rays dried the dewy herbs, when our lovers meet
again
 METAMORPHOSEOK Lib. IV. 135

Ad solitum coiere locum. Turn murmure parvo Colore lid solitum

cum. Turn pritts ques-
ig.

Multa prius quaesti, statuunt, ut nocte silenti

ti fnulta parvo mur-
niitre ; statuunt ut ten-
Fallere custodes, foribusque excedere tentent 85 :
tent silenti 7tocte fal-

Cumque domo exierint, urbis quoque claustra re-

lere custodes, e.xcede-
requeforibus. Cumque
exierint domo, ut re-
linquant :

linquant q uoque claus-

Neve sit errandum lato spatiantibus arvo ;
tra urbis. Neve sit
errandum
Con veniant ad busta Nini lateantque sub umbra :
illis spati-
antibus lato ario, ut
cnnve/iiant ad busta
Arboris. Arbor ibi niveis uberrima pomis Ni7ii, lateantque sub
Ardua morus erat, gelido contermina fonti. 90 umbra arboris. Ibi ar-
bor, uberrima niveis
Pacta placent: et lux tarde discedere visa pomis, morui indua,
erat contermina geli-
Prsecipitatur aquis, etaquisnox surgit ab isdem. do fonti. Pacta pla-
Callida per tenebras, versato cardine, Thisbe, cent: et lux lisa dis-
cedere tarde, pracipi-
Egreditur, fallitque suos adopertaque vultum : tatur aquis, et nox
surgit ab iisdcin aquis.
Pervenit ad tumulum ; dictaque sub arbore sedit. Callida Tliisbe, cardine
Aiidacem faciebat amor. Venit ecce recenti 96 versato, egr edit ur, fal-
litque suos per te-
Coeda lesena bourn spumantes oblita rictus, nebras: adopertaque
quod art vultum, per-
Depositura sitim vicmi fontis in unda. venit ad tumulum, se-
ditque sub dictd ar-
Quam procul ad Lunae radios Babylonia Thisbe bore. Amor faciebat
Vidit et obscurum timido pede fugit in antrum.
:
audacem. Ecce lea no:
oblitaspumantes ric-
Dumque fugit; tergo velamina lapsa relinquit. tuse cade recenti bo-
urn, venit depositura
Ut lea saeva sitim multa compescuit unda, sitim in unda ricini
Dum redit in sylvas, inventos forte sine ipsa fontis. Quam Babylo-
nia Thisbe lidit pro-
Ore cruentato tenues laniavit amictus. cul ad radios lun(e , et
fugit trepido pede in
obscurum antrum. fugit, relinquit velamina lapsa tergo. Ut lea
Dumque i sa:va compescuit
sitim multd unda, dum redit in syivas, luniaiit cruentato ore tenues amictui, inventos J'orte
fine ipsa Thisbe.
TRANSLATION,
at the usual
place. complaining much in soft murmurs of their
Then first

hardfate, they agree to try, if in the silence of the night they can deceive
their keepers, and steal out of doors and having once got from their
;

houses, to leave also the city and lest, perhaps, they might wander
;

long in the open fields, to meet at the tomb of Ninus, and conceal them-
selves under the shade of a tree. For there, by the edge of a cool
spring, stood a tall mulberry- tree, bending under a load of snow-white
fruit the contrivance
:
pleases them, and the light seeming to depart
slowly, plunges at last into the sea, and night rises from the same sea.
Artful Thisbe, turning the hinge gently, gets out in the dark, and de-
ceives her domestics then covering her face with a veil, arrives at the
;

tomb, and sits down under the tree agreed upon. Love made her bold:
when, lo, a lioness, her frothing jaws besmeared with the fresh slaughter
of oxen, comes to quench her thirst in the waters of the adjoining
spring which, when Thisbe espied at some distance by the rays
;
of the
moon, she fled with trembling pace into a dark cave, and as she fled,
leaves her veil, which dropped from her back. The savage lioness hav-
into the
ing appeased her thirst with large draughts, as she returns
woods, tears with bloody mouth the thin veil, which she chanced to
NOTES.
88. Ad busta Nini.'] The sepulchre of nine in depth ; it had the appearance of
Ninus, according to the report of Dio- a strong citadel, at some distance fram
dorus, was ten stadia in breadth, and the city.
 136 P. OVIDII NASONJS
" SeriCis egressus
Sr^ nr^^t vestigia vidit in alto 105
vere rert.a vestigia fe- Pulverc cei'ta terse, totOQue expalluit ore
r<r, e.rpalluitque toto -p. i. v •

ut vera reperit
ore.
ryramusrutverovestemquoquesanguine tmctam
ZZtnlf^X^ Una duos nox, inquit, perdet amantes
verdet duos aman-
iiox
Repperit;
^~" n/..^
E quibus ilia
' a,.
fuit long^
.. ..
tes, cqvibus ilia fuit dignissima vita :

dignissima longd vitd ; Nostra nocens anima est. Ego te, miseranda,
nostra anima est iio-
cens. Ego peremi te peremi, ^
llO
miseranda, qui jussi In loca plen^ metiis qui jussi nocte venires
vt venires node in lo- :

ta plena metus, nee

reni hue priiis. O qui-
Nee prior hue veni. Nostrum divellite corpus,
cunqne leones habita- Et scelerata fero consumite viscera morsu,
tis sub hCLc rupe, di-
vellite tiostrum cor- O quicunque sub hac habitatis rupe, leones !

pus, et consumite see- Sed ^miWies^ op^ffrg ;jecem. VelaminaThisbes 115

lerata viscera fcro
morsu. sed est timi'di et ad pgctffi secum fert arboris umbram.
opt are necem. Tollit
miamiiia Titisbes, et
TolHt,
tt, jTi^i it
utque declit notsB lacrymas, dedit osculavesti:
fert secum ad umbram Xr^r-ina -mir-i^ in^-.^^^- -^^,^4-^' „ • •

pactte arboris. Utque accipe nunc, mquit, nostri quoque sangmnis

dedit lacrymns, ut de-
dit oscula iiottE vesti,
haustus.
inquit, accipe nunc
haustus nostri quoque
Quoque erat accinctus, dimittit in ilia ferrum.
sanguinis, deinittitque
Nee mora ferventi moriens e vulnere traxit. 120
;

ferrum quo erat ac- Ut jacuit resupinus humi cruor emicat alte.
cinctics in ilia; nee ;

mora; moriens traxit Non aliter, quam

ciam vitiato fistula
plumbo,
ferventi vulnere. Ut
i:

jacuit resupinus hu- Scinditur, et, tenues stridente foramine

mi, cruor emicat alte,
longe
non aliter quam dim Ejaculatur aquas ; atque ictibus aera rumpit.
Jiitula scinditur vitia- Arborei foetus aspergme csedis in atram
to plumbo, el tjacula- 125
tur longe tenues aquas Vertuntur faciem madefactaque
stridente foramine, at-
:
sanguine radix
que rumpit a'l'ra icti- Poeniceo tingit pendentia mora colore.
bus. Fcetus arborei
vertuntur in atram faciem aspergina cadis; radixque
mora pwniceo colore. tor
madefactd sanguine, limit pendentia

TRANSLATION.
find by itself in the fields.
Pyramus coming out later, sees the plain
prints of a wild beast in the deep dust, and a sudden paleness spreads
over all his face but when he found also the veil stained with blood
;
:
" One
night (says he) shall witness the death of two lovers she, in- ;
"
deed, was worthy of a longer life, but my soul is guiltv it is I that :

" have destroyed you, much to be lamented fair, who

" persuaded you to
come by night into places full of terror, and came not first
" myself.
O, whatever lions lurk under this rock, tear in pieces my body, and
" devour my wicked bowels with
" of a coward to wish for unrelenting jaws. But it is the part
death." He
takes'up Thisbe's veil, and car-
ries it with him to the shade of the
appointed tree and after letting ;

fall a torrent of tears, and

imprinting kisses upon the well-known gar-
ment ; " Receive now also (says he) a draught of
my blood," and
plunges the sword wherewith he was begirt, into his bowels then, ;

without delay, as he was dying, drew it from the warm woimd, and
lay
extended supine upon the ground. The blood
springs high, just as when
a pipe bursting, where the lead is decayed, throws out the waters from
the hissing flaw, and, spouting, breaks the air w ith its strokes. The
fruitof the tree, by the sprinkling of the
blood, puts on a dark
complexion, and the root, fattened by the flowing gore, tinges
the hanging midberries with a But now Thishe,
purple\olour.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IV. 1:^7

Ecce ilia, metu non-

Ecce metu nondum posito, ne fallat amantem, dum fiosito, redit, ne
Ilia redit: juvenemque oculis, animoque requirit: fallat amantem; re-
quiritquejuvenem octi-
Quantaque vitarit narrare pericula gestit. 130 lis animoque gest que
narrare quanta peri-
,
it

Utque locum et versam cognovit in arbore for- cula vit'irit utque ;

mam ;
cognovit lucem et ver-
sam formam in arbore,
incertam pomi color) hasret an baec sit.
(Sic facit har'et act hac sit, color
pom/ facit cam sic in-
Dum dubitat,tremebunda videtpulsare cruentuni certam. Dum il'ibital,
videt tremebunda mcnv-
Membra solum retroque pedem tulit oraque
;
:
bra piilsare criientum
buxo solum, tulitque pedem
retrb gereitsque ora
.-

Pallidiora gerens, exborruit aequoris instar, 135 pallidiora buxo, ex-

horruit instar a-quoris,
Quod fremit,exigua cum summum stringitur aura. quod tremit cum sum-
mutn stringitur exignU
Sed postquam remorata suos cognovit amores, aura. Sed postquam
Percutit indignos claro plangore lacertos : remorata cognovit suus
amores, percxitit in-
Et laniata
comas, amplexaque corpus amatum, dignos lacertos claro
Vulnera supplevitlacrymis fletumque cruori 140 plangore, et laniala
; comas, amplexaque cor-
Miscuit et gelidis in vultibus oscula figens,
: pus amat am, supplevit
vulnera lacrymis, mis-
Pyrame, clamavit, quis te mihi casus ademit ? cuitqve Jletum cruori,
et figens oscula in ge-
Pyrame, responde. Tua te, charissime Thisbe lidis vultibus clamavit

Nominat. Exaudi vultusque attolle jacentes.

:
Pyrame, quis casus
ademit te mihi; Py-
rame responde, tua
AdnomenThisbesoculosjammortegravatosl45 Thisbe 7iominat te cha-
Py ramus erexit, visaque recondidit ilia. rissime ; exaudi, uttol-
leque vultus jacentes.
QuiBepostquam vestemquesuam cognovit, et ense Ad nomen Thisbes Py-
Vidit ebur vacuum Tua te ramus erexit oculos
5 manus, inquit, Jam gravatos morte,
amorque illclque vitiJt, recondi-
dit. Qua postquam cog-
Perdidit, infelix. Est et mihi fortis in unum novit vestemque suatit,
et vidit ebur vacuum
Hoc manus : est et amor. Dabit hie in vulnera ense, inquit, Tua ma-
vires. 150 nus, amorque pcrdidit
te infelix: est et mihi
manui fortis in hoc unum; est et amor, hie dabit vires in vulnera.
TRANSLATION.
having not yet quite banished her fear, anxious lest she might
seem to have deceived her lover, returns to the place, seeks for
the 3'outh with ardent eyes and an ardent mind, and is
impatient
to tellhim of the great danger she had escaped when, coming to the ;

place, and observing the appearance of the tree altered, she doubts if
she is right, so greatly was she surprised at the colour of the fruit. In
this uncertainty she sees
trembling limbs beat the bloody ground, and
starting back with a face pale as ashes, thrills with horror as the sea,
whose siu'face trembles when brushed by a gentle breeze. But when,
after staying a little, she found it to be her lover, she smites her arms,
worthy of gentle usage, with echoing blows, and tearing her hair, em-
braced the beloved body, and washed his wounds with her tears, mix*
ing these watery tokens of her sorrow with his blood then applying her ;

''
lips to his cold face,
"
Pyramus, (she cried,) what cruel disaster has
thus torn you from me ? Pyramus, answer it is your own dearest ;
"
Thisbe that calls hear, and raise your sinking countenance." At
:

the name of Thisbe,

Pyramus lifting up his eyes, now heavy with
death, and after seeing her, closed them again. Thisbe, when she
perceived her own veil, and saw the ivory sheath without the sword ;

"
Alas, (she cried.) ill-fated youth, your own hand and love have c\e-
 138 P. OVIDII NASOINlS

^^^r'^^Zi Persequar extinctum: letique miserrima dicaf

causa comes et tut leti, Causa comesQue tui. Quiquc^ a me morte
*^
^» revplli
» tin •-V' i^;-
tuque qui poteras hetc -rj ,^ ,

reveiiidmesoiAmorte, rleu sola poteras, poteiis nec moFte revelli.

TarX" rZmenJ'o'ia. Hoc tameii amborum verbis estote
rogati
"^"Itum miseri mens 155
r«t'XJS. ^/oTi
hoc verbis am-
J^ illiusque parentes,
rogati Ut, quoscertus amor, quos horanovissimaiurtxit '
borum ; ut nou invi- r^ •
a. ^ ••!,• -^

deatis COS quos certus Compoiii tumulo noii invideatis eodem.

~',Sr-r,t^ At tu, quae ramis arbor miserabile corpus
eodem At tutitmtilu.
nunc
Nuncmox es tectura duorum
tegis unius, ;
arbor, qua: tegis
miserabile corpns uni- tene
us, mox es tectura cor-
Signa csedis:pullosque,etluctibusaptos, 160
pora duoruin ; tene sig- Semper
habe foetus gemini monumenta cruoris.
na cadis, semperque Dixit et
hube foetus ptitlos, et aptato pectus mucrone sub imum
:

aptos iuctibus, monu- Incubuit terra ; quod adhuc a ca^de

menta gemini cruoris. tepebat.
Dixit, et mucrone ap- Vota tamen tetigere Deos, tetigere parentes.
tato sub imuni pectus,
incubuit ferro, quod Nam color in pomo est, ubi permaturuit, ater ;
adhuc tepebut d cade. una requiescit in urna.
Vota tamen tetigere
Quodque rogis superest,
III. Desinerat:
deos, tetigerepurentes:
nam ater color est in Mediumque fuit breve tempus ;

porno, ubi
permaturuit et orsa est
quodqite super est re-
gis, requiescit in unci,
Dicere Leuconoe: Vocem tenuere sorores.
urnH..
III. Desinerat .-Tetnpusque medium fuit breve; et Leuconot est orsa dicere : /iorores tenuire
vocem.
TRANSLATION.
'*
stroyed you, I have also a hand bold enough for this one purpose ;
" I have love too this Avill
give me resolution for the wound.
; I will
" follow
you even in death, and be called the unhappy cause and com-
"
panion of your untimely fate and you, whom death only could tear
;

*'
from me, shall not even by death be torn from me. And you, O
" much to be
pitied parents of mine and his, be entreated this one thing
" in the words of us
both, that you would not envy those, whom con-
' stant love and the last moments have
joined, the happiness of being
•'
buried in the same tomb. And you, O tree, who now with
" your
boughs shade the mournful body of one, and are fated soon to cover
" those of
two, retain some token of this our death, and bear always
*'
fruit black, and suited to mourning, as monuments of the blood of
" both." She said and
fixing the point under the bottom of her breast,
;

she fell upon the sword, as yet reeking from the slaughter of her lover.
Her dying prayers reached the ears of both god and parents for the ;

colour of the fruit when it ripens, is a dark

purple, and what remained
of them after the funeral rites, rests in the same urn.
III. Here she ended and after a short interval Leuconoe began to
;

NOTES.
167. Desinerat.'] The story that comes in history, yet it must be owned, that
next in order, is that of Leucothoe they sometimes regard only morality
changed into a shoot of frankincense ; and physics : such seems to be the story
but before the nymph enters upon it, now before us. Leucothoe passed for the
she explains tiie fable of Mars caught by daughter of Orchamus, king of Persia,
Vulcan in bed with Venus. These two because that prince was the first who
fables seem not to include in them any planted in that realm the tree which
thing historical, at least I have been b«ars incense, and which was called
able to find nothing satisfying on this Leucothoe. They add, that the prin-
subject. And indeed, though for the cess was in love with Apollo, because
most part fables have their foundatiou incense is an aromatic drug very much
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IV. \39

Hunc quoque, siderea qui temperat omnia luce,

^^/^^w^J quUemTe-
Cepit amor Solem Solis referemus amores. 170 rat omnia kdereaiuce:
:

-_..r II,' TT TV/Ii. i^

•
referemus amores So-
Primus adultenum Veneris cum iVlarte putatur wL hic dem putatur
Hie vidisse deus videt hie deus omnia primus.
:
>:[^7* ^^wV c««
Indoluit facto Junoniseneeque
: marito Marte nic deuspri-
t? T. tnus videt omnia. Jn-
„ .
, .

rurtatori, lurtique locum monstravit: at illi doiuu/ucto.-mojistra-

Et mens, et quod opus fabrilis dextra tenebat, 175 l]tl"}unTtorCiocum-
Excidit. Extempl6 graciles ex aere catenas, Vt'/puTquid '/aZut^
Retiaque, et laqueos, quse lumina fallere possint, ^ff'.^r« te,,ebat, exd-
Elimat. JN on lUud opus tenUlSSima Vmcant mat ex are gracUes

Stamina, non summo quae pendet aranea tigno. TetZ^"gnJ^p'o7s''hif/ai.

Utque leves tactus,

txiTj
momentaque parva sequan- ^ZJZ'^Zi^ulT
1 80 cofit ilhid opus ;
^
non

Efficit: et lecto circumdata collocat apte. VumTo tfgno. Efficft-

Ut ventre torura conjux et adulter in unum rcttTarvZe^ml ;

Arte viri,' vinclisque nova ratione paratis, menta, et coiiocat ca

T /^• 1-1 apte. Circumdata lecto.
1
In medns ambo deprensi amplexibus neerent. vt conjux et adulter
Lemnius extemplo valvas patefecit eburnas 185 ru'm,\mbo tarent »» :

Admisitque deos illi jacuere ligati;

^;f,f^* "T^/I^v'iri: ^t't
Turpiter.
* Atque
' aliquis de dis non tristibus vhtcus paratis 'nova
*•
ratione. Extemplb
Optet JLemnius patefecit e-

Sic fieri
turpis. Superi risgre diuque :
X-' S^^riuft-
Haec fuit in toto notissima fabula coelo
-J- ''i^rTnu
non tristibus optat fieri sic turpis. Superi ristre; heecqiie fabula fuit din notissima in toto
calo.

TRANSLATION.
speak, her sisters sitting round her in silent attention. Love hath cap-
tivated also this Sun, who moderates all things by his ethereal light.
Let us relate the amours of the Sun this god is thought to have first
:

discovered the adultery of Venus with Mars this god sees every thing ;

first. He was grieved at what had been done and betrayed to the ;

husband born of Juno, both the stolen embrace, and the place where
it was committed. He, amazed, and as if deprived of his senses,
dropped the work which he held in his skilful right-hand forthwith ;

he files out slender chains of brass, and nets, whose subtle meshes,
might deceive the most prying eye the finest threads could not ex-
;

ceed this work, nor those delicate fibrils, by which the spider hangs
from the top of a beam. He contrives it too to yield to the gentlest
touch and smallest movements, and draws it with the nicest artifice
round the bed. When the wife and adulterer came into the same bed,
caught both by the artifice of the husband, and his chains, which he
had prepared after a new manner, they stick locked fast in each other's
embraces. The Lemnian deity immediately threw open the ivory
folding-doors, and admitted the gods. They lay shamefully coupled
together ;
yet some of the gods (not the gravest, you may suppose)

NOTES.
nsed medicine, wh<'reof Apollo was
ho tiiralists, the heliotrope is a plant that
the inventor. The jealousy of Cly te is kills the incense-tree,
brought in, because, according to na-
 140 P. OVIDII NASONIS

cythereui
nam memorem
exisu pee-
indtcit. o.
Exiffit indicii memorem Cvtheria
•'...JDCenam 190 :

inq,ietkcs,i(cditrari Inquc vices ulum, tectos qui Izesit amores,

umorc, ilium, qui lasif. -f
'^,.
r^ J TJ
•
i
•

tectos anions. Quid Laeclit ainore pan. Quid nunc, Hypenone nate,

forlm Ta?on/ucrirm/' Forma, calorque tibi, radiataque umina prosunt? 1

'paquerfiriiataprosunt JVempc tuis oiniies qui terras icinibus

^ uris,
tioi.' Aempe tu, qui .- y . f
iz-vr-
.
i »
uris omnes terras tuis Ureris igiie novo quiq omnia cernere debes, 195
:
;

Leucotliocii spcctas : et virghie figis in una,

fg"e"qlnqueZelesa'r-
nere omnia, spertas
Quq., mundo debes, oculos. Modo surgis Ebo
oculos quos debes miin-
Temporius cceIo Hiodo serius nacidis undis : :
do, in vnil virgixe. t r-,
'
a i i 1
• •

Mmib.surgistewporius Spectandique mora brumales porngis horas,

in lumina mentis 200
feriiMs".%Zaqul Dcficis interdum vitiumq :
;

spectandiporrigisbru- Transit: et obscurus mortalia pectora terras.

males horas. Inter- '. sit'. • . .

rinm deficis; ritium-

jNfec, tibi quod LunaB tems propioris imago
Vnnina"%^7bTcuru's Obstiterit, palles. Facit huiic amor istecolorem.
<t""if;;?^r;^" DiUgis
banc unam : nee te Clymeneque, Rho-
imago lu'ia: propioris doSQUC
iste'amo'r facit hu7t'c Ncc tenet Mdd'cB genetrix pulcherrima Circes. 205
ZlZnT' nex'%mene- Quseque tuos Clytie, quamvis despecta, petebat
que, modosve tenet, Coucubitus ipsoque illo ffrave vubius habebas
1
nee pulcherritna r 1 ' f-i
te, ^ _ . . .

genitrix Maa Circes, Tempore. Leucothoc multarum oWivia tecit ;

'
Clytitque, qua quam-
t;is despecta, peiebut tuos concubitus ; illoque ipso tempore habebat grave vulnus. Leucothot
fecit oblivia multarum:
TRANSLATION.
could have liked being surprised in that scandalous posture. The gods
noted story in all heaven.
laughed, and for a long time this was the most
The Cythereian goddess demands satisfaction of the Sun in memory
of this discovery, and in revenge inflames him with the like passion,
who had betrayed her secret amours. What now, son of Hyperion,
does thy beauty, brightness, and radiant light avail thee ? Since you,
who scatter your burning rays over all tJie earth, are consumed by a new
flame, nor regarding as you ought all things alike, your looks are intent
only on Leucothoe, and those eyes which are due to the universe, fixed
on her alone. Sometimes you rise earlier in the eastern heaven, some-
times sink later in the western waves, and through a fondness of gazing
at her, lengthen out the winter hours. Sometimes your light forsakes
you, and the trouble of your mind passes into your countenance,
and
the darkness which covers you, fills with terror the minds of men.
Nor art thou pale, because the moon, which is nigher the earth, in-
tervenes it is love only that occasions this colour.
;
You love her
alone; nor does Clymene, or Rhodos, or the beautiful mother of
thoughts, nor even Clytie, who though
M^.-Aw Circe, de-
employ your
spised, sought your embraces,
even at the time when you was deeply
smitten by another. Leucothoe alone banishes the remembrance of all
NOTES.
204. Rhodos.] A girl of Rhodes, tlie Circe, who is here called Mx^, from
dau<;hter of Neptune and Veuus, ereatly i^isea,a city and peninsula of Colclios.
beloved by Apollo, to whom she bore 2o6. Cb/le.} a sea-nympli, in love
seven children. with Apollo, who afterwards neglected
205. JEeeee genetrix.'] Persa, the her, as we shall see below,
daughter of Oceanus, and mother »f
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IV. 141

Gentts odoriferjE quam formosissima partu quam Eurynome for-

- " mosisshna
_,
.
,
oriorijeree ji- ' •

Eurynome, sea
Edidit Eiirynorae, se('
postquamniiacrevit, 210 gfitis ediat partu:
Quam mater cunctas, tarn matrem filia vmcit.

urbes pater Orchamus:isque "'"f^*"*- p^^^^ ^'"-

S "SrZt:^
Rexit Acha^menias ui chamus rexit urbes
a
Septimus TT prisci
"
numeratur origine Beli Acliamenias ; isque nu-
.
-
1 o T • nieralur sevtimus ab
,

Axe sub liespeno sunt pascua bolis equonmi ; origine prisci Ben.
Ambrosiam pro gramine habent. Ea fessa diur- fZTXTiiesperfJ.
215 Hobent ambrosiam pro
....
Tijg

Membra mmisterns
.
1 1
-^ gramine; ea initrit
membra jessa diumis
reparatque labori.
D.,.
umque ibi
i. .
1

quadrupedes
nutrit,
1

ibi ca
^i,--'-
coelestia
11
pabula car-
ministeriis,repuratque
labori. numquadru-
pedes carpunt
pabula ; noiqur iestia

Noxque vicem peragit ; thalamos Deus intrat a- peragU viccm ; deux

versus in faciem Etiry-
matos nomes genctricis, iit-
trut amatos
Versus in Eurynomes faciem genitricis ; et inter et cernlt udthulamos,
limina
inter his
Bis sex Leucotho'en famulas ad limina cernit 220 Leucothdtn, ducentem
sex/amulas,
Leevia versato ducentem stamina fuso. lavia stumina versato
fuso. Ergo ubi ceit ma-
Ergo ubi, ceu mater, carse dedit oscula natae ; ter, dedit oscula cara
nata ; ait Res est ar- :

Res, ait, arcana est famula^-, discedite neve :

cana, disceditc fatnu-
:

1<E, neve udripite arbi-

Arripite arbitrium matri secreta loquenti. ^ trium matri loqnenti
Paru'erunt thalamoq Deus sine teste relicto,225 secreta. "paruhunt.
:
;
thalamoqtie relictosinc
Hie ego sum, dixit, qui longum metior annum. teste, deus dixit: Ego
Omnia qui video ^ per quem videt omnia tellus sum ille qui metiur vi-
:
longumaimum, qui
dco omnia, per qiictii tellus videt omnia ;

TRANSLATION,
charming fair, born of Eurynome, the most beautiful of all
others, that
the nymphs of spicy Arabia. But when the daughter grew up, as much
as the mother excelled all other nymphs, so much did the daughter ex-
cel the mother. Her father Orchamus reigned over the cities of Per-
sia, andreckoned the seventh in descent from ancient Belus. The
is

pastures for the horses of the Sun are under the western quarter of
heaven there they are nourished with ambrosia instead of grass this
; ;

refreshes after the fatigue of their diurnal course, and supplies

them
new vigour for their returning toils while there the coursers eat of :

their heavenly food, and Night performs her revolution, the god enters
the of his darling fair, disguised in the shape of her mother
apartment
Eurynome, and sees Leucothoe close by a lamp, environed with twice
six maids, lengthening out the smooth threads Avith her twirling spin-
dle. Then, after giving her some kisses, with the moderation of a
mother to her dear daughter " I have, (says she,) a secret to impart :

" to
you, servants withdraw, nor take from a mother the privilege of
"
speaking with her daughter in private." They obeyed, and the god,
now left in her chamber without any witness " I, (says he,) am he ;

" who measures the

long year, who see all things, by whom the world
" believe me, nymph, thy
sees all things, the eye of the universe :

" She trembles, and through fear

charms have had power to please."
NOTES.
Tlie daughter of
210. Eurynome.'] 213. Septimus a prisci, &c.] The
Orennus and Tethjs, and wife of Or- order of descent is thus reckoned :
chamus. from Belus ; Abas, Acrisius, Danafi,
21 a. ^ch<Bmenias.~\ Persian, so called Perseus, Bachsemou, Achsemcncs, Or-
from Acaeraerses, one of their king.s. chamus.
 14i P. OVIDII NASONIS

eculos mundi: crede, Mundi oculus mihi, crede, places pavet ilia
: :
:
places mihi. Ilia pavet:
metuque, ct coins, et raetuque,
fusus cecidh-e digitis
remiisis. Ipse timor Et colus, et fusus digitis cecidere remissis.
decxtit : nee ille mora-
tus longius, rediit in Ipse timor decuit nee longius ille moratus 230
:

vcram faciem, solitum- In veram rediit faciem, solitumque nitorem.

que nitorem. At virgo,
guamvis territa ino- At virgo quaravis, inopino territa visu,
•pino visu, tamen victa
nitore dei, yassa est Victa nitore dei, posita vim passa quaerela est.
vim, querela posita. Invidit Clytie, (neque enim moderatus in illS,
Clytie invidit, neque
enim amor Solis fuerat Solis amor fuerat) stimulataque pellicis ira 235
moderatus in ilia ; sti-
mutataque ira pellicis, Vulgat adulterium difFamatmnque parenti :

vulgat adulterium, in- Indicat. lUe ferox immansuetusque precantem,

dicatque diffamattim
par en ti Ille ferox im
.

tnansuetusqtie, crudus
Tendentemque manus ad lumina Solis, et, ille
defodit in alta hnmo Vim tulit invitse, dicentem, defodit alta
illam precantem, ten-
dentemque munus ad
Crudus humo :
tumulumque super gravis addit
lumina Solis, et dicen- arense. 240
tem. ille tulit vim milii
invita; addit qtte super
tumulum gravis are- Dissipat hunc radiis Hyperione natus iterque :

na. Natus Hyperione Dat tibi, quo possis defossos promere vultus.
hunc radiis
dissipat
datque iter tibi quo
;
Nee tu jam poteras enectum pondere terrae
poisis promere dtfossos
t'ultus. Nee tu 711/ m- Tollere, Nympha, caput: corpusque exsangue
pha poteras jam tol-
jacebas.
lere caput enectum
pondere terrie; jace-
Nil fertur volucrum moderator equorum 245
illo
bayque corpus ejsa/i- Post Phaethonteos vidisse dolentivis ignes.
gue. Moderator volu-
crum equorum fertur
vidisse nil dolentius
Ille
quidera gelidos radiorum viribus artus,
ille post Pha'ttkonteos vivum tentat revocare calorem.
Si queat, in
ignes. Illo quidem ten-
tat si viribus radiorum Sed, quoniam tantis fatum conatibus obstat.
queat revocare gelidos artua in vivum colorem, Sed quoniam fatum obstat tantis co?iatibus.

TRANSLATION.
drops the spindle afld distaff from her slackened fingers. Her very
fear became her nor did he longer delay to return to his true
;
shape
and wonted brightness but the virgin, though startled at the unex-
;

pected sight, yet charmed with the beauty of the god, gave herself up
silent to his embraces.

Clytie envies, (for neither had the Sun loved her with a common love)
and urged by a rival's resentment, publishes the intrigue, and after
spreading it by the voice of fame, discovers it to her father he, fierce :

and unrelenting, although she stretched out her arms to the Sun, and
protested that he offered violence, yet deaf to all her prayers, cruelly
buried her alive in the deep earth, and ordered a heap of heavy sand
to be thrown over her. The son of Hyperion disperses this with his
rays, and opens a way for you through which to force thy en-
tombed countenance but neither covddst thou now, fairest nymph,
;

raise thy head, oppressed by the load of earth, and thou layest a blood-
less carcass. It is said that the governor of the winged steeds met
with nothing more afflicting than this, since the lightnings in which
Phaeton expired. He
endeavours, if possible, by the force of his rays,
to recall the vital heat into her frozen limbs ; but because Fate opjwsed
an attempt so great, he sprinkles the body and place with fragrant
nectar and after complaining much, yet, says he, I am resolved you
;

shall reach the sky. Soon the body anointed with heavenly nectar
 METAMOKPHOSEON, Lib. IV. 143

Nectare odorato spargit corpusque locumque 250 f^^^^^f^^lrat'o'Jec-

Multaq;pr«questus,Tangestamensethera, dixit, tare; pra-questusque
r^ ^- \ ^
PrOtinuS imbutUm CCSlestl nectare corpus
1? mult a, dixit: Tangvs
A.

tamen athera. Pro-

Delicuit, terramque suo madefecit odore *c^t^stTnZare''dZ
:

Virffaque per elebas sensim radicibus actis cuit,ma(ie/ecitqueter-

rp,,
'^ P' '
,-i i>-r fum suo odore, lirga-
•

Ihurea surrexit;tumulumq;cacumine rupit ZOO que thwea surrexit,

IV. At Clytien, (quamvis amor excusare do- Zf'perlwZTrult
JnrPTTi 9"^ tmnulum cacu-
luiciii,
^ viine.
Indiciumoue dolor poterat) non amplius auctor iv- J^t auctor lucis
non amplius adit Cly-
Lucis adit: Venerisque raodura sibi recit m ilia. tien,qucimihamorpo-
T T,^ 17
.
J r -i -HA I
• •

Tabuit ex illo dementer amoribus usa, r,''^^ dohrqZ'indici.

Nympharum impatiens: et sub Jove nocte die- umj/ecuque sm mo.

J tr r '
veneris tn xlla.
rtr-r\
que 2DU JSx illo tempore tabuit,
Sedit humo nuda nudis incompta capillis, "g" "iwpat.iens'^^nym.

Perque novem luces expers undseque cibique it^tTir'enudUc'apTi.

Rore mero, lacrymisque suis ieiunia pavit: u<:,seditkumosuhjove,
TVT A.^ h^ i.^ ^ix
JNeC se mOVlt humo. iantum Spectabat euntlS
X- nocteque, dieque: ex-
persqueunda:, cUnque
Ora Dei vultusque suos flectebat ad ilium. 265
:

Membra ferunt hassisse solo: partemque coloris

^Z^Z^SL
qneiacrymis. Nec7iw.
^ . . 1 vU se humo. Spectahat
Luridus exsangues pallor convertit m herbas.
. .
,, 1,
tantumoraeuntisdei:
17 •„
i. u , II'
Jbst in parte rubor vioiseque simiUimus ora
:
1 Jiectebatque suos vul-
tus ad nium. Ferunt
Flos tegit. Ilia suum, quamvis radice tenetur,
palt-quJT.rldu/con:
Vertiturad Solem: mutataq^ ; servat amorp.m270 '
"e^^'^ partem coioru
in exsa/ignes herlias.
Rubor est in parte: flosqne simillimw! violte tegic ora. Jlla, quamvis tencttir radice, vertitur
ad suum Solem mutataque servat amorem.
:

TRANSLATION.
dissoh'ed away, and moistened the
earth, with its odour and a shoot ;

of frankincense gradually taking root in the earth, sprung up, and

broke through the turf with its top.
IV. But the god of light (however love might excuse her grief, and
excess of grief urge her on to the discovery) resolves no more to visit
Clytie, and from that time renounced all commerce with her. As she
loved him to distraction, his neglect threw her into a
languishing ill-
ness she loaths the conversation of the
:
nymphs, and night and day
sits upon the bare ground, with hair dishevelled, and for nine
days to-
gether taking neither food nor water, she supported herself merely by
her tears, and the dew of heaven. Nor did she rise from off the
ground ;

she only kept her eye fixed upon the god as he moved
along, and turned
her face toward him. It is said that her limbs stuck fast in the
ground,
and that a livid paleness changed her partly into bloodless herbs ;
some streaks of purple are here and there retained, and a flov, er very
like to that of a violet covers her face. She, though held fast by a
root, still turns toward her beloved Sun, and though changed in
shape, yet retains her love.
NOTES.
251. Tanges tamen cethera dixit.] That Achaemenia and Arabia are often cele-
is, you shall spring from the earth an in- brated by the poets for their great fer-
cense-beariug tree, whose gums burnt in tility in frankincense, and all other avo-
the sacred solemnities of the matic plants,
gods, the
odour thereof shall ascend to htaven. '
-
144 P. OVJDU NASONIS
V. Dixerat : et /ac- V. Dixerat: et factum mirabile ceperat aures.
tum mirabile ceperat
aiirci. Pars negant Pars fieri potuisse negant pars omnia veros;
potuisse Jieri ; pars
memorant veros deos Posse deosmemorant: sed nonet Bacchus in illis.
posse omnia, sed non
Bacchus est tl in illis. Poscitur, Alcithoe, postquam siliiere sorores :

Alcit hoc poscitur, post-

QiiHi radio stands pt'rcurrens stamina telae, 275
quam sorores siliure:
qua percurrens sta-
mina stantis tela: ra- Vulgatos taceo, dixit, pastoris amores
dio, dixit: Daphnidis Ideei, quem Nymphe pellicis ira
Taceo vul-
gatos atnores Dap'ini- Contulit in saxum. Tantos dolor urit amantes.
dis pastoris Ido'i, quem
Nymphe ira pellicis Nee loquor, ut quondam naturae jure novato
contulit in saxum.
Tantus dolor urit a- Ambiguus fuerit, modo vir, modo foemina Scy-
mantes. Nee loquor nt
quondam jure nuturtc
thon. 280
novato, ambiguus Sci/-
thon fuerit modo vir,
Te quoque, nunc adamas, quondam fidissime
modhjitmina. Taceo ie parvo
quoque Celmi, quon-
dam fidissime. Jovi par- Celmi Jovi, largoque satos Curetas ab imbri ;

vo mine adama.s. Cu-

Et Crocon in parvos versum cum Smilace floras,
retasque satos ad im-
bri largo. Pratereu Prsetereo ; dulcique animos novitate tenebo.
et Crocon, versum cum
Smilace in parvos fi ore-.?, teiiehoqiie animos ditlci novitate.

TRANSLATION.
V. She ended and the wondrous fact charmed their ears some
;
:

deny that it was now possible, others maintain that all things are in
the power of true gods, but will not grant Bacchus to be of the num-
ber. When all the sisters were silent, Alcithoe is requested to take
her turn, who swiftly throwing her shuttle through the hanging web ;
I speak not, said she, of the well-known amours of Daphnis the Ideau

shepherd, whom an enamoured nymph, through fear of a rival, trans-

formed into a stone, so strange the madness that rages in a jealous
breast nor do I relate how Scython, contrary to the common course
;

of nature, was first a man, and became afterward a woman. I pass by

yon too, Celmius, now an adamant, formerly the faithful guardian of
Jove, when a child, and the Curetes sprung from a boimteous shower
of rain, and Crocus and Smilax changed both into flowers. I Avill
endeavour rather to fix your attention by grateful novelty. Learn how
Salmacis became infamous, why it enervates with its enfeebling
NOTES.
277. Daphnidis Idai.] This may be moderation ; one upon whom passion
interpreted either Cretan or Phrygian and prejudice had no influence, and
Daphnis, for both in Crete and Phrygia was for this reason changed by tlie poets
there was a mountain named Ida. into adamant.
280. Ambiguus fuerit modo vir, modo 282. Largoque satos Curetas ab imbri.']
foemina Scython.] Banier tells us, that The Curetes, according to Dionysius of
this story of Scython's having changed Halicarnassus, were the ancient inhabi-
his sex, had no other foundation, than tants of Crete. As to the fable of tlieir
that Thrace, which took the name of a springing from the earth after a great
famous sorceress, called Tlnacia, had shower of rain, it seems to have no
formerly been named Scython. Thus, other foundation, than their being of
as it lost a name whose pronunciation the race of the Titans that is, they
;

was masculine, and took one of the fe- were descended of Ouranus and Tita,
minine gender, some very wise head- whose names import heaven and
piece feigned that S^cython had changed earth.
his sex. 283. Et Crocon, &c.] As to the fable
281. Te quoque nunc adamas.'] As to of Crocus and Smilax, we are told, that
what regards the metamorphosis of Cel- that constant and happy couple were
mius, we learn from Pliny, that he was changed into flowers, for having led a
a young man of remarkable wisdom and chaste aind innocent life.
 METAMORPHOJ^EON, Lib. IV. 145

Unde sit infamis : quare malc^ fortibus undis 285 ^'^"^^ '">"'<' •^aimftris
r-. ,
•
II- sit irifami.s, quuic iner-
J , 1 , ,

Salmacis enervet, tactosque remoJliat artus; vetremoinaiqiie tacini

Discite causa latet; vis est notissiiaa fontis.
:
luuT c>l^salllu/rrt
Mercurio puerum diva Cythereide natum /^J'^.'i
est iwtis'sima.

C, r 1
• riatdcs eimtriiSre sub • /- 1
•

JNaides Idseis enutrivere sub antris. '''«« untns, puerum

Mcnurio '""turn
ujus erat lacies,
P •

m qua materque paterque nnn.

•
A
290 cythereuu;^jus fucks
, , dirO.

Cognosci possent nomen quoque traxit ab illis. :

^!^^!4«?''j'ov""u'"^4',l'
Is tria cum primiim fecit quinquennia
^
^
montes ; "osci.TraxHnonKnquu.
que ab Hlis. A, cum
-r. . -
T i-N 1^ •
T .-
JDeseruit patrios Idaque altnce relicta, : vrimumjecHtriaquin-
T . 1 -J • •
i. quennia, dcurult pa-
Ignotis errare locis, ignota videre triosmontes, Jiiaqueai-

Fluminagaudebat; studio minuente lahqrem. 295

%-rL-e^Smh^^^^^^
Illeetiam Lvcias urbes, Lyciseque propinquos videre lojuua ^ftumbm
^. T. 1 / 1 1^
•
1 '^ • Studio mmucnte loln)-
Caras adit ; videt hic stagnum lucentis ad nmum
J
rem. luc ndu ctuim

Usque solum lymphffi non illic canna palustris,

:
c
yntlhlgVos^jJ^cZ"''n^^^
Nee steriles ulvse,'
.
nee acuta cuspide
^ iunci.
. •'. .
vidct Hognum lympiun
lucentis usque ad rmum
.

Perspicuus hquor est, Stagni tamen ultuna vivo '•oium. cunua jxiiustris

C-,
espite cmguntur, semperquevirentibus herbis.
, i-i 1 1
• """ ""St lUic, nee ulra-
siernes,necjuuci acuta
cusjiide. Liquor est jier-
spicuus: tamen ultima stagni cinguntur viio cespite, herbisque semper lirentibus.
TRANSLATION,
streams, and softens the limbs that are bathed in it: the cause is se-
cret, but the power of the fountain is well known. The Naiads nursed
in Idsean caves a child born to Mercury by the
Cytherean goddess his :

face was such wherein you might easily trace the features both of
father and mother he also had his name from both. He, when he was;

arrived at his fifteenth year, forsook his native mountains, and leaving
Ida, where he had been nursed, rejoiced to wander over unknown re-
gions, and visit unknown rivers curiosity lessening the fatigue. He ;

went to the Lycian cities, and the Carians that border upon the Ly-
cians here he saw a fountain, whose waters were clear and trans-
;

parent to the very bottom no fenny reeds, nor barren sedges, nor ;

pointed rushes deformed its banks the water is bright, yet the brink :

of the lake is edged round with a border of verdant turf, and a

nymph
NOTES.
285. Unde sit hifamis.} Hermaphio- As to what may liave givoii rise to tliis
ditug,ainostlovely and beautiful youth, fable, take the folio win,!,' arcount from
was the son of Mercury and V'enus; lie Banicr: " there was in Caria, near to
was educated by the Naiads in Ida, a tiie city of Haiicaniassiis, as we leani
mountain of Phrygia. Leavin;j; these from Vitnivius, a fountain whicli served
seats, lie came into Caria, and highly to humanize some barbarians, who liav-
pieased with the sight of a fountain, ing Ik'Cu driven out by the colony which
whose waters wereclearandtiansparenl, the Argivesestaidished in that city, v^ere
he went into it to bathe ; Salmacis, the obliged to come thither to draw water,
nymph of the fountain, struck with his Their commerce witli tlie Greeks not
amiable appearance, leapt in after him, only rendered them more polite, but
and holding him closely in her embraces, made them give also into the luxury of
prays heaven that they may be united that voluptuous people and this cir- ;

into one. Hermaphroditns finding him- cumstance was what gave to that foun-
self now to tain the reputation of changing the
partake of the nature of both
sexes, implores his parents, that the sex.
waters of that fountain .'miiiht have the '296. Lvcias.] Lycia was a province
same effect upon all that afterward en- of Asia Minor; Caria another province,
te red into them. adjoining to Lycia.
L
 146 P. OVIDII NASONIS

^d"!^cc%ia{€naZus Nympha colit sed nee venatibus apta, nee arcus

:

nee qtitn soieat jiectcre Flectere quec soleat, nee qu?e eontendere eursu :
arcus, nee qua: soleat
contendere cwsu; sola-
qii at"J iT\-
i
i\aiaaiim celeri non nota iJianee.
oolaquc
illi fama est dixisse sorores 305
?;r.Stir«r//; S^epe suas :

suas dix-
forores stepe Salmaei, vel jaculum, vel pietas siime pharetras .i :
tsse lUi:
SaimactySume -f~,, "j. ..,' .

Cit tua cum Quris venatiDus otia misee.

,

veijacidnm, vel pietas

^oti7cZTM%7?,l1t Nee jaculum sumit, nee pietas ilia pharetras :

bus Ilia nee sumit ja-

]\fec gy^ euHi duris venatibus otia raiseet.
tras,7iecmiseetsHa otia Sed modo fontc suo fomiosos pcrluit artus 310 :
eum duris venatibus. o /i-i." Jj'i. i-
Sed rnodb periuit for- oaepe Citoriaeo deducit peetme crmes :

Tape d''e7i"cit7rh{e"%'.^^ ^^"^ ^^ deeeat, speetatas eonsulit undas.

toriaeo pectine, et eon- Nune perlueenti cireumdata corpus amictu,
suiit speetatas undas -^i^ n-i ^ c ^•• iti , i i
•
, i •

quid deeeat se. Nime iVloUibus aut lolus, aut moliiDus uicubat herbis.
t^::n:^n^!^:Z^ Sa^pe legit flores. Et tune quoque forte legebat,
"moiiibtl'^h(^{is^''''s7''l Cumpuerumvidit: visumque optavithabere.316
lezH flares, et legebat Nec tamen ante adiit, etsi properabat adire,
fortt tune quonue,eum, r\ v •,
•
• •
j

vidit puerum, optavit. Quam sc composuit, quamcircumspexitamictus,

^altetnec ^amte^s'i ^t finxit vultum ;
et meruit formosa videri.
properabat adire, ante- Tuuc
sic orsa loqui : puer 6 dio;nissime eredi 320
quameompostiif se,ante- ._-,_- VI r-i •

Ueus
-i

quain circumspexit a- JjiSsc seu tu JUeus es, potes csse Cupido :

mietus, et jixit vultum, o-
et meruit videri forma- "^ive es
;
j.i'
mortaiis :
qui te
_*x_
'^i.j."
genuere beati,
2 : '^T«r ^,^:iS
Et frater felix, et fortunata profect6
credi esse deus, seu tu Si tibi soror est, et quae dedit ubera nutrix.
es deus potes esse Cu-
qua
^ '

pido J sive es mortalii, qui genuSre te sunt beati, et frater est felix, et profectb soror,' si qua
est iibi, est fortunata, et nutrix qutr dedit ubera.

TRANSLATION.
ever dwells in the green grass but neither fit for hunting, nor skilled
;

to bend the bow, nor practised in the chase, and the only one of all
the Naiads not known to swift Diana. We
learn from Fame, that her
sisters often urged her Salmacis, take a dart or painted quiver, and
;

mix your ease with the hardy toils of hunting but she neither takes :

a dart, nor painted quiver, nor mixes her ease with the hardy toils of
hunting, but sometimes bathes her comely limbs in her own spring,
and often smooths her locks with a comb of box wood, and surveying
herself in the stream, consults what may best become her. Now
covering her body
with a transparent garment, she reposes on the soft
leaves, or the soft grass. Often she employs herself in gathering
flowers, and then by chance was gathering some, when she saw the
boy, and wished to enjoy
whom she saw. But although she hastened
to address the youth, yet she did not advance till she had adjusted her
mien, looked round that her robe sat well, settled her looks with nicest
care, and merited to be thought beautiful then thus began to speak :
:

O youth, worthy to be believed

a god If you are a god, undoubtedly
:

the god of love if a mortal, happy they who begot you, happy your
;

brother, and happy indeed your sister, if any such you have, and the
NOTES.
311. CUoriaco pectine.'] That is, a torum, a moiinfain of Galatia, abound-
comb of box-wood, so called from Ci- iug in tJiis kind of wood.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IV. 147

Sed lonoe cunctis lonoeque potentior illis,' 325 **? *i «'"'* *?"""*
"*
„ .
.~,
.
T , '''". ** dtgnabere quam
>
•
1 ,v

hi qua tibi sponsa est; si quam dignabere taeda. tcedd.e-Aest iotige,ionge-

Hgec tibi sive aliqua est ; mea sit furtiva voluptas 'i^'^M^^'!^; :

Seu nulla est,' ego

O sim: thalamumque T.
ineamus Jurtiva, voiuptas sit
Af":'"*^"seu nulla est
:
eundem. egosmjneatnusque eun-
Nais ab his tacuit. Pueri rubor ora notavit tacuu 'ablTflTiiborno-
Nescia quid sit amor sed et erubuisse decebat. [Im Z"o/X!'sedetde.
:

Hie color aprica peudentibus cebat erubimse. hicco-

arbore pomis,
r
- , r i
.
> lor est pomis pendenti- ,

Aut ebon tmcto est, aut sub candore rubenti, bus aprica arbore, aut
r \
C\um trustra resonant aera auxiiiaria, Lunae.
, tiricto ebori,autlun(c ru-
.

benti sub candore cum

-T-T
Poscenti Nymphae sine fine sororia saltem 334 fJ^S.'"^^?
Oscula,'-Aiamque manus ad eburnea colla ferenti,?"'f'^«^'*"«''^M'^ ".«««;«
iS
D. .
p •,
•
1-
'saltern sororia, jamque
.

esmiS an lUglO, teCUmque, ait, IStarelinqUO '.ferenti manus ad ebur-

'.
•
,

Salmacis extimuit ; locaque hsec tibi libera tv^do, fugto^^et'^itiquo'ist'a.

Hospesait: simulatque gradu discedere verso. g°'=4f^f^^^/,^;^^/''^^if
Turn qiioque
* respiciens, fruticumque
^
recondita ?f*. trade hac loca
A libera tibi, simulatque
I
SylVa discedere verso gradu.
Delituit: flexumque genu submisit: at ille, 340
^rS^rS"/".':
Ut puer,' et vacuis ut inobservatus in lierbis ^!f
"">
^eiituit,
submi.
sitqiieflexum genu. At
HA
C„
uc it ; et nine illuc et
J .1
1, 1 .,
alludentibus undis
T
: m
.

•
uie utpuer, et ut imb-
servatus ill vacuis her-
oumma pedum, i- j' -J
taloque tenus vestigia tingit.
.

bis,it huc,ethinciiiuc.
Nee mora; temperie blandamm captus aquarum, tsi^que'^^i^tZ.
Mollia de tenero velamina corpore ponit. ^" aiiudcntibus
345 Nec mora undis.
rr\ ^ captus tem- :

lum veroX obstupuit:

,
, n . •

nudeeque cupidine lormee perie biandarum aqua-

Salmacis exarsit: flagrant quoque luminaNym- mtllaurtel/erlrorporT.
dies • Turn verb Salmucis ub-
]j
CO .
stupuit, cxarsitque cu-
pidine nuda/ormte; lumina Nymphes quoque flagrant.
TRANSLATION,
nurse who gave you her but happy, far more happy than all
breasts ;

these, is she, if you call any one your

bride, or design to grant to any
the honour of the nuptial torch. If already you have a spouse, in-
dulge me a stolen embrace if not, accept of me, and let us enter the ;

same bedchamber. The Naiad, after this, was silent the boy's face ;

was marked with blushes he was a stranger to love, but his blushes ;

greatly became him, his colour resembled that of apples hanging on

a tree open to the sun, of stained ivory, or the moon colouring under
her brightness, when the auxiliary brass resounds in vain. The nymph
desiring without ceasing such kisses at least as he might give to a
sister,and now raising her hands to his ivory neck Will you desist, ;

says he, or must I fly, and abandon both these places

and you ? Sal-
macis was afraid, and said, Stranger, I freely give up those places to
you, and pretends to move off with a retreating pace then also look- :

ing back, and hid under a covert of shrubs, she lay there concealed,
and put down her bended knees to the
ground. He, but a boy, and
thinking himself unobserved upon the silent green, trips round and
round the fountain, and
dipsfirst the soles of his feet, and then as far
as the ankles in the to the shore.) Nor
sporting stream, {Waters playing
is there
any delay but pleased with the refreshing coolness of the in-
;

viting waters, he strips the airy garments from off his delicate limbs.
L 2
148 P. OVIDII NASONIS

JVon aliKr quam cum Non cilm puro nitidissimus orbe

P/iuhiis iiitidh.timiis aliter, quam
puro orbe, re/iritur Opposita speculi referitur imagine Phoebus.
opposUd imagine spe-
vUque patitur
cttli ; Vixque nioram patitur ;
vixjam sua gaudia dif-
moram, ii.r jam differt fert 350
sua gaudia. Jam cupit :

amplecti cum, jam a-

7iieiis male continet sc.
Jam cupit amplecti jam ;
se male continet amens.
Jlle corpore, applauso Illecavis velox applauso corpore palmis,
cavis desilit
t'elux
paii.-iis,
in latices, du- Desilit in latices: alternaque brachia ducens
censque brachia alter- In liquidis tianslucet aquis ut eburnea si quis
:
11a translucet in li-
quidis aquis, ut si quis
Signa tegat claro, vel Candida lilia, vitro. 355
tegat eburnea signa,
vel Candida liliu cluro Vicimus, en mens est, exclamat Nais et omni :

vitro. Na'is exclamat

vicimus; en est metis,
Veste procul jacta, mediis immittitur undis :

et omni vesteJacta vro- tenet: luctantiaque oscula carpit:

cul, immittitur mediis
Pugnacemque
Subjectatque manus, invitaque pectora tangit
:
undis, tetutqne pugna.
cem, carpit qne luc-
tantia oscula ; subjec- Et nunc hac juveni, circumtunditur iliac.
Denique nitentem contra, elabique volentem
tatque iniinus, tangit-
que invila yectora, et
regia sustinet ales
circu mfu ndilur juve-
ni, nunc hac, nunc il-
Implicat, ut serpens, quam ;

iac. Denique implicat

nitentem contra, volen-
Sublimemquerapit; pendens caputilla,pedesque
tejnque elabi, vt ser- Alligat; et cauda spatiantes implicat alas.
pens quam regiii ales
sustinet, rapilquesul)-
Utvesolenthederaelongos intexere truncos: 365
limem. Ilia pendens
alligat caput pedesque
Utque sub sequoribusdeprensum Polypus hostem
avis et implicat spati- Continet, ex omni demissis parte flagellis.
antes alas caudd; ut-
ve hedercB solent in- PerstatAtlantiades; sperataque gaudiaNymphse.
texere longos truncos, utquc polypus continet hostem deprensum svb (rquoribus,flagellis de-
missis ex omni parte. Atlantiades perstat, denegatque nymplia sperata guvdia.

TRANSLATION.
Then was Salmacis astonished, and inflamed with the desire of his
naked body the eyes too of the nymph burn, as when the sun shining
;

with a clear orb is reflected from the opposite image in a glass scarce :

can she bear delay, scarce defer the wished-for joy already she de- ;

sires to embrace him, already distracted with love, she hardly contains
herself. He, clapping his body with his hollow palms, swiftly leaps
into the water, and throwing out his arms in alternate strokes, shines
in the limpid stream, as if any one should shut images of ivory, or
white lilies within a crystal case. I have prevailed, cries the Naiad;
he is mine and throwing all her clothes to some distance, jumps into
;

the middle of the stream, and holds him, struggling to get loose, and
snatches reluctant kisses, and puts down her hands, and touches his
unwilling breast, and Avrithes herself round him, now one way, now
another. In fine, as he is striving to get from her, and endeavours, if
possible, to escape, she folds herself about him like a serpent, when
borne aloft by the regal bird she, as she hangs in the air, ties up
:

his head and feet, and with her tail entangles his spreading wings ;

and as ivy uses to creep round the tall trunks of trees, or the poly-
NOTES.
366. Polypus-'] A kind of fish, so the great grandson of Atlas ;
for Atlas
called from the great number of its feet, was the Maia the mo-
father of Rlaia,
wiierevviih it entangles its prey. ther of Mercury, and Mercury begot
368. AthQitindes. ] Hermaphroditus, Hermaphroditns.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IV. 149

Denegat: ilia premit; commissaque corporetoto inhJlbat^' cJmmuZ

toto corpore, dixit: jm
SicutinhaerebatjPuojnes licet, improbe, dixit, 370
probe, licet pugnes, ta-
Non tamen eiiugies. Ita Ui jubeatis, et istum mcn noil efivgies, Dii
jubeatis ita, et vulla
Nulla dies a me, nee me seducat ab isto. dies sedncut istum d
Vota suos habuere Deos nam mista duorum : me, nee vie ab isto. Vota
habiiSre .s!(ov rfeo.t; nam
Corpora junguntur faciesque inducitur illis
: corpora mixta littorum
jungvntur, faciesqve
Una: velut si quis conducta cortice ramos, 375 una induitiir illis, ve-
Crescendo jungi, pariterque adolescere cernat. llit siquh ceriiut ra-
mos condiicla cortice,
Sic ubi complexu coiervmt membra tenaci, jiingi crescendo, ado-

Nee duo sunt, et forma duplex, nee foemina dici,

— uk membra coie'rvnt
tenaci complexu, nee
Nec puer ut possint :
neutrumque, et utrumque sunt duo, et forma eht
videntur. duplex, nt pos.sint di-
ci necjamlna, nee pu-

Ergo ubi se liquidas, quo vir descenderat, un- er ; videnturque neu-

trum et utrumque. Er-
das 380 go nbi lidet liquidui
widas quo descenderat
Semimarem fecisse videt, mollitaque in illis iir,fecisse se semima-
Membra manus tendens, sed jam non voce virili
;
rem, membraque esse
mollita in illis, Her-
Hermaphroditus ait, Nato date munera vestro, maphroditus tendeiis
manus, ait; sed nmt
Et pater et genitrix, amborum nomen habenti :
jam virili voce : O et
pater, et date
Quisquis in hosfontes vir venerit, exeat inde 385 munera genitrix,
vestro tiato
nomen ambo-
Semivir; et tactis subito mollescat in undis. habenti
rvm, ut quisquis vene-
Motus uterque parens nati rata vota biformis rit I'ir in lios J'ontes,
exeat inde scmiiir ; et
Fecit, et incerto fontem medicamine tinxit. mollescat siibitoin tac-
tis undis. fJterque parens motus, fecit vota biformis 7iatirata,et tinfit fontem iticerto medi-
camine.

TRANSLATION.
pus holds fast his enemy catched under the waves, by letting down
his claws on all sides. The descendant of Atlas still persists, and
denies the the hoped-for joy she presses hard, and clinging to
nymph ;

him by every limb, Though you thus struggle, says she, perverse youth,
yet shall you not escape so may the gods ordain, and let no day sepa-
;

rate him from me, or sever me from him. Her prayers were heard by
the gods for the bodies of both were united in one, and the same face
;

is
spread over them as if any one should see branches under a com-
;

mon rind unite in growing, and shoot up together. Thus, m hen their
bodies met together in a strict embrace, they are no more two, but a
single body under a double form such as could not be called either
;

woman or boy, it seems neither, and yet is both. When, therefore,

de-
Hermaphroditus perceived that the waters, into which he had
scended a man, had partly changed his sex, and that his limbs were
softened in them, stretching out his hands, he said, but not now with
the voice of a man O
father and mother, grant this request to yom*
;

son, who bears the name of both Mhoever enters into this fountain a
:

man, let him come out but half a man, and suddenly grow effeminate
in the waters he touches. Both
parents, moved,
confirmed the request
of their and the founlain witli an ambiguous
two-shaped son, tinged
medicine.
 150 P. OVIDII NASONIS

VI. Finis erut die- VI. Finis erat dictis et adhuc Minyeia proles
:
tis, ct adlinc proles
Minye'ia ttrget opus,
spernitque deum, pro-
Urget opus, spernitque Deum, festuraque pro-
Janutquc festnm ; cum fanat: 390
subitb tympana noil
apparetitia obstrepv- Tympana cum subito non apparentia raucis
Cre raucis sonis; et ti- et adunco tibia cornu,
bia adunco cor/iu, Obstrepuere sonis :

raquetinnuia'sonant; Tinnulaquc 3era souant redolent myrrhaeque^ :

myrrhdque crocique •

redolent: resque ma- crocique :

jor fide, tela ccepi're vi-

rescere, vestisque pen- Resque fide major, ccepere virescere telae,
deiisfrondescere in fa-
ciem hedero'. Pars Inque hederse faciem pendens frondescere vestis-
abit in vitcs: et qua: Pars abit in vites et quae modo fila fuerunt, 396
:

modb fueruntfila mu-

tantur palmiie: pam-
,
Palmite mutantur: de stamine pampinus exit :

pinus exit de stamine.

Purpura fulgorem pictis accommodat vavis.
Purpura accommodtit
fulgorem pictis avis.
Jamque dies exactus erat, tempusque subibat,
Jamque dies erat ex-
actus, tempusque su- Quod tu nee tenebras, nee posses dicere lucem ;

bihat, quod tu possis

dicere nee tenebras,
tenebras.
^^d cum lucc tamen dubias confinia noctis. 401
nee lucem, sed confinia Tecta repente quati, pinguesque ardere videntur
tamen dubue noctis _ -^ •!• ii •
-i i
cum luce. Tecta re-
Lampades, ct rutilis coliucere ignibus aedes :

^nluesque^Ta^^fde's Falsaquc ssBvarum simulacra

ululare ferarum.

Zrr'nfius%t!ibm,
Fumida j
amdudum latitant per tecta sorores ; 405
faisaque simniachru Diversseque
'
locis igncs
° ac lumina vitant.
savaramferarum ulu-
tare. Sorores jamdudum latitant perfumida tecta, diversaque locis, vitant ignes et lumina.

TRANSLATION.
VI. There was now an end of their stories but the daughters of ;

Minyas still urge tasks, and despise the gods, and profane his festival ;

when on a sudden unseen timbrels alarmed them with their hoarse

sounds the flute too, with the crooked horn and tinkling brass, resound
; ;

saffron and myrrh shed their fragrant odours and an accident almost :

beyond belief their webs began to look green, and the hanging cloth
;

to sprout out in leaves resembling those of ivy part is changed into ;

vines, and what before were threads, have now the appearance of soft
tendrils. Vine branches spring from the looms, and the purple lends
its splendour to the painted grapes. And now the day was ended,
and the time come on, which can neither be called darkness nor light,
but the dubious confines of night and day suddenly the house seems :

to shake, and blazing torches burn, and the whole fabric shines with

bright fires, and deceitful forms of savage wild beasts howl. Already
the sisters hide themselves in the smoking house, and all, running dif-
ferent ways, endeavour to avoid the light and fires but while they :

thus seek to lurk, a thin membrane overspreads their tender limbs, and
their arms nor does the darkness suffer them to
light pinions enclose ;

know by what means they lost their former shape. They were not borne
NOTES.
399. Finis erut dictis.'] Tlie daughters fable is, that these sisters, after whom
of Mim/as, Alcithoe, Arsino'e, and Leiico- an exact search was made, having pri-
tho'e, still persisting in their obstinacy, vately left the city the Thebans, to con-
;

and refusing to in the worship of ciliate greater veneration for the god,
join
Bacchus, are transformed into bats. published the story of their being trans*
All that niythologists say upon this formed in this manner.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IV. 1 51

Dumquc petunt latebras ; parvos membrana per ""'^''^ntSrana irrl-

artUS giltir per 'parvos arttis ,

Porrigitur, tenuique inducit brachia penna. "mtpmnL ^""mcVm-

Nec, qua perdiderint veterem ratione figuram, %'^iotepeLide7intvt-
tercm jiguram. piu-
Sciresinunttenebrae.Nonillasplumalevavit. 410 ma non levavit illas,
A ,M T
S,-
ustinuere
1.

tamen se perlucentibus alis, tamen sustmutre se

pc/'W^entibus aiis, co-
Conatseque loqui, minimam pro corpore vocem nataqice loqui, emil-
tujit minimam vocem
Emittunt peraguntque leves stridore querelas,
;
pro corpore ; pera-
Tectaque, non sylvas, celebrant: lucemque pe- guntque querelas levi
stridore. Celebrant-
rosge qiie tecta, non sylvas,

Nocte volant. Seroque trahunt a vespere nomen. perosaque lucem, vo-

lant node; trahunt -
VII. TumverdtotisBacchimemorabileThebis que nomen dsero ves-
pere.
Nuraen erat: magnasque novi matertera vires VII. Turn verb nu-
meu Baccki erat me-
Narrat ubique Dei de totque sororibus expers
:
morabile totis Thebis,
Una doloris erat, nisi quem fecere so^ores. materteraque ubique
narrat mugnas vires
tiovi dei, unaque erat de tot sororibus expers doloris, nisi quem sorores fecere.

TRANSLATION,
up by feathers, and yet they supported themselves by pellucid wings.
Endeavouring to speak, they utter a voice vv^eak and feeble, proportioned
to their small bodies, and
express their low complaints in a squeaking
sound. They frequent houses, not woods, and, hating the day, fly abroad
in the night,and derive their name from the late evening star.
VII. The deity of Bacchus was now acknowledged over all Thebes :

and his aunt Ino every where relates the power of the new god of so :

many sisters, she alone was exempt from grief, unless what was occa-
sioned by her sisters. Juno beheld her with a soul elevated and vain,
NOTES.
4i6. Turn vera &o.] This fable
totis, hisgovernor what was contriving against
is founded on
history, and we have no- him, causes a vessel to be privately
thing to retrench but the marvellous. equipped, and having put on board his
Athamas, the son of Mollis, having father's treasures, embarked with his
espoused, after the death of his first sister Helle, and arrived at Colchos,
wife, Ino, the daughter of Cadmus, soon where he was well received. His sister
after divorced her for the sake of Ne- Helle chanced to fall overboard and
phele, by whom he had Pliryxus and was drowned, whence these straights
Helle. But that princess, being also got the name of Hellespont. Mean-
divorced in her turn, he took back Ino, time Alhanias, coming to discover the
and by her had Learchus and Melicerta. intrigues of his wife, suft'ered himself to
Ino could not bear the children of be so far carried away by his rage, that
Nephele, because, being first-born, he slew Learchus, whom Ino loved ten-
they had the right of succeeding to the derly, and wanted to sacrifice her also
crown ; and therefore sought, by all to his vengeance : that unhappy prin-
manner of ways, to destroy them. As cess, to avoid the king's fury, fled from
the city of Thebes was at tiiat time af- the palace with her other son Melicerta,
flicted with a cruel famine, which, it is and seeing herself pursued, ascended a
said, she occasioned, by poisoning the rock, whence she precipitated herself
grain before it was sown, she made the into the sea. It was given out, to com-
oracle of Apollo to be consulted upon fort the rest of that unfortunate family,
the subject ; and having gained the that the gods had changed Ino and Me-
priests to her interest, it was answered, licerta into sea-deities, under the names
that, to appease the angry gods, the of Leucothoe and Palemon. Divine ho-
Thebans must sacrifice the children of nonrs were paid them, and their wor-
Nephele :
Pliryxus, understanding from ship passed into several countries.
 152 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Ju}io aspicit haiic ha-

licntcm a/iimo.i svbli- Aspicit hanc natis, thalamoque Athamantis ha-:
*ne.<t iiafis, thalainoque bentem 420
At ha mantis, et numine
alum no, ncc tulit, ct Sublimes animos, et alumno numine Juno.
axtsccum: Nut us de
pi nice potuit vert ere
Nee tulit et secum, Potuit de pellice natus
:

Aftronios nautas, im- Vertere Maeonios, pelagoque immergere nautas,

mergereque pelugo, et
dare viscera nuti la- Et laceranda suae nati dare viscera matri,
cerando su(e matri, et
operire triplices Mi-
Et triplices operire novis Minyeidas alis ? 425
nyeidas novis alts ; Ju- Nil poterit Juno, nisi inultos flere dolores ?
no poterit nil nisijfe-
re dolores inultos ! Id-
que est satis milii?
Idquemihi satis est ?H8ecunapotentianostra est?
Htcc potentia tma est Ipse docet quid agam? Fas est et ah hoste doceri.
nostra.' Ipse docet
quid ugam(fas est do- Quidque furor valeat, Penthea csede satisque
ceri et ub hostej osteii- Ac super ostendit. Curnonstimuletur,eatque430
ditque satis «c super
Penthed cade, quid Per cognata suis exempla furoribus Ino ?
furor vnleat. Cur noii
et Ino stiimilctur suis Est via declivis funesta nubila taxo :

Juroribus, eafque per

? Est
Ducit ad infernas per muta silentia sedes.
cognata exemplu
"Via declii'is,
nestii taxo :
nubUafu-
ducit per Styx nebulas exhalat iners umbraeque recentes ;

muta silentia ad infer. Descendunt iliac, simulacraquefunctasepulchris.

nas sedes. Styx iners
exhalat nebulas; iim Pallor hyemsque tenentlatelocasenta: novique
hra;querece?ites,'simti. Qua fit iter,' manes Stve-iam quod
'
ducit ad urbem
lachraque functa sc- ^ ,
. .
•'.'^^ .
t\- .

j>uichris
iliac.
descendunt
Pallor hyems-
Iguoraut ubi Sit nign lera regia Ditis.
:

T\T-n J"j. ^•
que late tenent loca MiUe capax a.

aditus, ct apertas undique portas,

a j_

'^^antqZ'^rquol
^rbs habct utquo frctum de tota flumina terra,
ducit ad 6'tygiam urbem sit, aut ubi /era regia tiigri ditis sit. Urbs capax habet mille aditus,
et portas undique apertas, utque J'retum accipit flumina de told terrd,

TRANSLATION.
in her offspring, in her consort Athamas, and in the foster god she :

could not bear it, but said within herself, Could one born of an adul-
tress transform the Mseonian sailors, and overwhelm them in the sea,

give the bowels of a son to be torn in pieces by his own mother, and
cover the three daughters of Minyas with new wings ? And can Juno
do nothing but lament the griefs unrevenged ? Is that enough for me ?
Is this my Himself teaches me what am I to do. It is
only power?
by the lessons of an enemy and as to what mad-
right to profit even ;

made it appear, and more than so, by the slaughter

ness can do, he has
of Pentheus. Why should not Ino likewise be fired with rage, and go
through examples a-kin to those of her sisters ? There is a steep de-
clining way, shaded with dismal yew, that, through labyrinths of silence
and horror, leads to the infernal abodes here languid Styx forms con- ;

tinual clouds; along this path the ghosts of those newly deceased,
to whom funeral honours have been j)aid, descend. Paleness and winter
every where infest those dreary regions, and the ghosts newly arrived
know not the Avay that leads to the Stygian city, or where to find the pa-
lace of grim Pluto. This spacious city has a thousand avenues leading to
it, and a thousand gates ever open on and as the sea I'cceives
all sides ;

NOTES.
435. Siniulacraqne functa sepulclms.'] burial, were not ailowecUo pass the river
For such as liaii not received the ritesof Styx, qs welearn tVoni Homerand others.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IV. 153

Sic omnes animas locus accipit ille ; nee uUi tJe"mZZ Z'^eft
uin popuio.
Exio-uus populo est, turbamve accedere sentit. exiguus

Errant exsangues sine corpore et ossi bus umbree : dere. umbra: exsan-

Parsque forum celebrant, pars ima tecta ty ranni ; |^^^ !ro"Hbu1"%lZ'.

Pars alias artes antiquae imitamina vitai 445
^-^ t^^^^mt^Zl
Exercent: aliam partem sua pcena coercet. ni, pars exercent alias
artes imitamina anti-
Sustinet ire illuc ccelesti sede relicta, que vitee: sua pana
coercet aliam partem.
odiis dabat) Saturnia Juno.
(Tantum ireeque Saturnia Juno sede
ccelesti
a
Quo simul intravit, sacroque corpore pressum net ire relicta, susti-
illuc; (dabat
tria Cerberus extulit ora: tantum odiis irtrquej
Ingemuit limen; quo simul intravit, li-
Et tres latratus simul edidit. Ilia sorores 450 menque pressum sa- tl

cro corpore ingemuit ;

NoctevocatgenitaSjgraveet implacabilenumen. Cerberus extulit tria _
Carceris ante fores clausas adamante sedebant ;
•
ora, et edidu 'tres la-
tratiis Simul. Jllavo-
. •! 1 ,

Deque suis atros pectebant crmibus angues. cat sorores genitas

node, numen grave et
Quam simul agnorunt inter caliginis umbras, implacabile. Sedebant
ante fores carceris
Surrexere Deae. Sedes scelerata vocatur. 455 clausas adamante,pec-
Viscera praebebat Tityus lanianda; novemque tebantque atros angues
de suis crinibus. Quam
simul dem agiibruiit inter umbras caliginis, surrexere, Sedes vocatur scelerata. Tityus
^rabebat viscera lanianda,
TRANSLATION.
rivers from all the earth, so does this place receive the souls of all tlie
deceased nor is it little for any multitude of people, nor feels its streets
;

filled with the crowd. The bloodless ghosts wander without body or
bones some frequent the forum, others the palace of the infernal king
: ;

some exercise employments in imitation of their former life, others are

confined by the punishments imposed by the Fates. Saturnian Juno,
to go thither, so much was
leaving her celestial habitation, submits
she swayed by anger and resentment whither, as soon as she entered,
;

and the threshold groaned under the sacred load, Cerberus up-reared
his mouth, and barked thrice from his triple throat she calls to
triple ;

her the Night, cruel and inexorable divinities they

sisters begotten of :

sat before the gates of the prison, barred with adamant, combing from
their tresses the baleful snakes. The goddesses, how soon they knew
Juno amid the thick shades of darkness that surrounded her, rose up ;

the place which they guard, is called the place of woe here Tityus, ;

stretched through a space of nuie acres, gave his bowels to be torn by

NOTES.
Nec ulli exiguus, &c.] That is,
441. Acheron and Night. They were three
whatever number of ghosts arrive there, in number, Tisiphone, and 3Ie-
Alecto,
it easily receives all, nor is sensible of gcera; the avengers of wickedness
and
the increase of number, either because crimes.
the place itself is of vast extent, or be- 456. Tityus.l The son of Jupiter and
cause souls take up po space. Elara, whom, because of his uncommon
449. Cerberus-I A dog which the poets bulk, the poets fabled to
be the sou of the
ravish Latona,
feigned to be the keeper of Pluto's pa- earth he, attempting to
:

lace in hell he is said to have had three

: was slainby the arrows of Apollo, and
heads, and as many necks. Horace precipitated to hell,
where he was con-
calls him Belltia centiceps. demned to have a vulture constantly
450. Sorores Jiocte vocat genitas.'] The his liver, which was still
preying npon
Furies, feigned to be the daughters of renewed to perpetuate his toriueut.
 154 P. OVIDll NASONIS

cratquc distentus no-

vem jugeribus. A'uUa: Jugeribus distentus erat. Tibi, Tantale, nulla?
aqua; deprenduntur ti-
bi Tantale ; arbosque Deprenduntur aquaj, quseque imminet, eftugit
qtttF imminet, effugil. arbos.
Tu Sisi/phe, aut petis,
aut urges saxttm rui- Aut aut urges ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.
petis,
turum. Jxion volvitur, Volvitur Ixion: etsesequiturque,
et sequitur fvgitque
se. Beiidesque ansa;
•««,.. ., ^ fuo;itque.
Moliiique suis letum patruelibus aUSSB,
^ 460
ti*^
moliri letum suis pa- a'j Jj.t>ti
j i. i
AssiclueE repetuiit, quas perdaiit, iseiides, undas.
trueiibus, assiduie re-

pfr'ri'unt.'%Ms omTes Quos omues acic postquam Saturnia torva

postquam saturnia li.
Vidit, ct ante ouines Ixiona rursus ab illo :
dit torvA acie, et ante ^s,. •', n .
m .
Ar>r- i
•
/• j
•

cmnes Ixiona, rursus !Msypnonaspiciens,curnic Q ratribus,inquit,4o5

'lyphon^^ifquitT Cur Pcrpetuas patitur poenas Athamanta superbum :

pe^r^{[uls'''anasi'tdi. ^^E^^ dives tiabct: qui me cum conjuge semper

res regia habet super-
exponit causas odiique viajque:
Sprevit? et ,.'
bum Athamanta ;
semper sprevit me cttm
qui /-> .
, i,
Q uidque velit quod vellet, ,^ '
erat ne regia Cadmi
:
-, .
^ ,

'
conjuge Y et exponit
causas viteque, odiique ; quidqtie velit: Quod veUet,erat, ne regia Cadmi
TRANSLATION,
vultures. You, Tantalus, can never reach the water that flows round
your and the tree that hangs over you starts backward from your
lips,
grasp. Sisj^hus either runs after, or rolls up the stone, which will
soon tumble again from the summit. Ixion is whirled round, and both
follows and flies from himself. The daughters of Belus, who dared to
contrive the destruction of their husbands, are continually taking up
the water which they lose from their leaky vessels. All whom, the
daughter of Saturn beholding with a stern air, especially Ixion, and
again after him Sisyphus Why, says she, does this alone of the bro-
;

thers, languish under perpetual torments ? While a lofty palace re-

ceives haughty Athamus, who with his wife always despised me. She
then opens to the furies the cause of her hatred and jom-ney, and what
she wanted of them it was her will, that the race of Cadmus be ut-
:

NOTES.
457. Tantale.'] Tantalus was the son piter formed a cloud in her shape, on
of Jupiter ; his crime is differently told which he begot the Centaurs. He was
by the poets. Some will have it that he afterward cast into Hell, and made fast
betrayed the secrets of the gods iutrust- to a wheel that incessantly turns round.
ed to him others, that at an entertain-
; 462. Belides.] The grand-daughters
ment he gave the gods, he caused his son of Belus ;
for Belus had two sons, Da-
Pelops to be served up. His punish- naus and jEgyptus the first had fifty :

ment of suffering the greatest extremity daughters, and the other as many sons.
of hunger and thirst, amid provisions of These latter demanded the fifty daugh-
all kinds within his reach, is universally ters in marriage but Danaus having ;

known. learnt from an oracle of Apollo, that

459. Sisyphe.] Sisyphus was the son he should be some time or other slain by
of jEolus, infamous for his robberies, one of the sons of jEgyptus, gave it in
wherewith he greatly infested Attica: charge to his daughters, that they should
he was at length slain by Theseus, and each the first night murder her husband.
was in hell condemned to the punish- They all (the youngest, Hypermuestra,
ment of rolling up a great stone to the excepted) complied with the command
top of a mountain, which he had no of their father. Lyncaeus, who alone of
sooner done, than it tumbled down all the fifty
escaped, afterward slew Da-
again, and renewed his labour. naus. They were in hell condemned to the
460. Ixion.] Who being advanced by punishment of drawing water in sieves,
Jupiter to heaven, had the presumption which, as they are unable to hold it for
to make an
attempt upon Juno Ju- ; any time, constantly renews their labour.
 METAMORPIIOSEON, Lib. IV. 155

Staret, et in facinus traherent Athamanta sorores. '^Zhlrent MiaZntZ

Imperium, promissa, preces, confundit in ununi, in /acinus. Coufundu
Sollicitatque Deas. feic naec Junone Jocuta, preces, i?^ unum sout-

Tisiphone canos, ut erat turbata, capillos tcurj^.Tki'^rui.

Movit: et obstantes reiecit ab ore.,colubras. phone ut erat turhata,
A^ir .
•* , •
ci. >n"vit canos capiUos et
Atqilta.JNonlonP'lS OpUSestambaglbUSjintlt, 476 rejecU aboreoustantes
-w-i . -1 , •! „ cohibras. Ataue infit •
1
Facta puta, qusecunque jubes inamabile regnum uu; n«n opus est lon- :

Desere teque refer cceli melioris ad auras.

:

%^':^S'p>e^J^-
^«- Aesere inamabue
Laetva redit Juno: quam coelum intrare parantem
T-, .
,rm T •
re;^niim,rejerquetead
•
J.-
•

Koratis lustravit aquis Ihaumantias Iris. miras meUoris can.

Nee mora Tisiphone madefactam sanguine su- ^aZntem ^nware"^.

;

Y(v\i 480 ^"*

''""> Thaumantias
lustravit roratis
n •
1 1
Importuna facem nuidoque cruore rubentem aims. : Nee mora; n-
-I i
Induitur pallam
, 11 ,, • •
•, sivhone importuna, sii-

tortoque incingitur angue ;

:
mit/acem made/actatn
Egrediturque domo. Luctus comitantur euntem, lZfam%ubfntTm.
Et Pavor,' et Terror,' trepidoque Insania vultu. ^i" cruore; indngitur-
. n A or
Limine constiterat; posies treniuisseieruntur4oo
/.^ •
, fjne torto angue, egre-
diturque domo. luc-
^olii ; pallorque fores infecit acernas ; r'or, ^LfaniuquTtrl^-
Solque locum fugit monstris exterrita conjux, :
^^X""' Omsuterat
Territusest Athamas: tectoque exireparabant. umine, pastes jeoiu
f^i .,•.•/•!• T, Til-" 1
•
feruntur tremuisse,
Ubstitit intelix, aditumque obsedit iLrinnys :
paiiorque in/cdt /ores

Nexaque vipereis distendens brachia nodis,490 ToZT'co^n&tlx-

Cffisariem excussit motse sonuere colubrze. :
territamonstris.Atha-
est territus, pa- mas
rdbantque exire tecfo. Infelix Erimiys obstitit, obseditque aditum, distendensque brachia
nex^ipereis nodis, excussit casariem, motee colubrte sonutre,

TRANSLATION.
terly extirpated, sisters might involve Athamas in some
and that the
dreadful crime ; she joins promises, commands, and entreaties together,
and solicits the goddesses. Juno having ended, Tisiphone, stung with
rage, shakes her hoary tresses, and threw back from her mouth the
snakes creeping round it, and thus began There is no need of long :

formal speeches imagine your commands already executed, abandon

:

this hateful kingdom, and return to breathe the air of a better region.
Juno returns joyful, Avhom, as she entered heaven. Iris, the daughter
of Thaumas, purified by springling upon her celestial dew. Nor was
there any delay the cruel Tisiphone catches a torch soaked in blood,
;

and covers herself with a cloak red with fluid gore then begirt with a ;

twisted snake, she leaves the dark realms Grief and Fear, and Terror :

and Madness, with a trembling countenance, attend her she stopped ;

at the house of Athamas, the iEolian door-posts shook, a paleness

spread itself OA'er the maple gates, and the sun shrunk from his place :

his wife is terrified by these prodigies, Athamas too is terrified, and

both prepare to leave the house the baneful fury stood in the way, and ;

beset the passage then extending her arms twisted round with folds of
;

vipers, shook her locks the snakes thus tossed, are beard to dash ;

against each other; some lie scattered upon her shoulders, others
NOTES.
479, Thaumantias Jtis.'] Iris was the daughter of Thaumas and Electra, and the
messenger of Juno.
156 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Parsqve jaccM hu-

tnerh ; pars lapse cir- Parsque jacens humeris; pars circum tempora
ctim tcmpora, dant lapsae
sibila, vomuntque sa-
nietn, coruscantque vomunt, linguasque co-
Sibila dant, saniemque
linguas. Inde abrum- ruscant :
pit duos ungues mediis
crinibus, immisitque Inde duos mediis abrumpit crinibus angues ;
raptos, pestiferd ma
nT^t uTpeZ-Zu Pestiferaque manu raptos immisit. At illi 495
^J:''%^!:ZSe Inbosque sinus Atharaanteosque pererrant
graves animas, necfc- Insnirantq : p-raves animas ; necvulneramembris;
runt uUa vuliiera ^-.,, r „ .^ti/T T ^-^-x
membris. Mens est, Ulla ferunt.
^
Mem
est, qu(C airos sentiat ictus,
tuf. Er"nnyl aultrat Attulerat secum liquidi quoque
monstra veneni,
quoqueseciimmoftstra Q ^•'•=
j ^erbefei
v^<-i>-'^ spuoias, et virus Echidnse 500 :

liquidi vencri spumas 1 >

it- •

cerbereioris,et virus Erroresque vasos, caecaequc oblivia mentis,

&hidn., erroresque
vagos, obliviaqve cacat ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ kcrymas, rabiemque
et cadis amo-
mentis, et scelus, et
lacrymas, rabiemque, rem;
et amorem cerdis, om- Omnia trita simul: quse sanguine mista recenti
nia trita simul: qua
mixta recenti san- Coxerat sere cavo, viridi versata cicuta.
T^dTcicuUrcoxfrttca. Dumque pavent illi ;
vertit furiale venenum 505
Pcctus in amborum
prfficordiaque intima
: movit.
ylvftu^'; v^rtilfnriaie
venenum in pectus am-
borum, movitque inti-
Tum face
-. .
cundem ssepius orbem,
jactat'd
«'
i ,
per
'^
i
•
i
• •

ma prtecordia: turn
Consequitur uiotos velociter igmbus ignes,
^peVeundfmorScon- Sic victrix, jussique potcus, ad inania magni
r.rifoT..:&"'r«t RegnareditDltis: sumptumque recingitur an-
victrix, potensque jus- S'Uem. 510
«a \mg,ii dms"rLui'- Protiuus ^olides media furibundus in aula
|"r "^SSX- Clamat 16 comites, his retia pandite sylvis :

des inrne-
furibundus
dia aula, clamat: loco-
Hj^ modo cum gemina
o visa est mihi prole
i
lesena.
mites, pandite retia his sylvis ; hie letena est modb visa mihi cum gemind prole.
TRANSLATION,
sliding round her temples, utter dreadful hissings, and vomit gore, and
dart their forky tongues she immediately, with pestiferous hand, tear-
;

ing two snakes from her middle locks, throws them at Ino and Atha-
mas they creep round, and cling to their bosoms, and fire their souls
;

with frantic rage, nor are their bodies affected with any wounds, the
mind alone feels the dire contagion. She had also brought with her
a monstrous composition of liquid poison some foam of the mouth of ;

Cerberus, and venom of the hydra, and wandering errors, and the for-
getfulness of a blind mind, and villany, and tears, and rage, and the
love of murder, all pounded together, which mixing with fresh blood,
she boiled in a brazen kettle, and stirred about with a stalk of green
hemlock and while they stand trembling, she throws the furious
;

poison into both their breasts, and disturbs their inmost bowels then :

often tossing her torch in the same round, still urges the agitated fires,
and adds flame to flame. Thus triumphant, and discharged of the
commands of the goddess, she returns to the shady realms of Pluto,
and lays aside the snakes wherewith she had been wrapt round.
Immediately the son of -Slolus, filled with rage and madness, cries out
in the middle of his
palace. Ho, companions, spread your nets in these
woods, for here I just now saw a lioness Avith her two young and iiantie, ;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IV. 157

aincnsque sequitur ves-

Utque ferae, sequitur vestigia conjugis, amens: tigia coHJugis ut /era:;
Deq;sinumatrisridentemetparvaLearchura515 rapitquede sinu ma-
._',.,tendentem -, n . . 1 J. tris Leurchum riden-
Bracnia rapit, et bis terque per auras tem, tendentemque
More rotat fundae rigidoque infantia saxo pan a bruchia,et rot at
eum bis qaaterque per
:

Discutit ossa ferox. Turn denique concita mater, auras more fuiida:, J'e-
roxque discntit infan-
(Seu dolor fecit, seu sparsi causa veneni ;)
tia OSS a rigido saxo.
Turn dcnlque mater
Exululat passisque fugit male sana capillis 520
;
concita ,( scu dolor feeit
hoc, sett causa sparsi
Teque ferens parvum nudis, Melicerta, lacertis, venetii) exululaf,maU-
Evoe Bacche Bacchi sub nomine Juno
sonat. quc Sana, fiigit passix
capillts. Fcremque te
Risit: et, Hos usus prsestet tibi, dixit, alumnus. parvum Mclicerta nu-
dis lacertis,sunat Evoe
Imminet a^quoribus scopulus pars ima cavatur :
Baccke. Juno risit sub
7iotniiie Bacchi, et dix-
FIuctibus,et tectas defendit ab imbribus undas :
^^„„j„,„ pya.stet
.
Aiuii

lo
-^

/r-
'
Summa ris;et,
~ fontemque
^ *
in apertum
^ porri^it tibi/wsusus.- scopuius
imminet aquoribus:
86
qUOr. ima pars ca vat ur fluc-
~
tibus,'et defendit tac-
Occupat hunc (vires insania fecerat) luo t as undas ab imbribux. :

nullo tardata timore, Summa riget, porri-

Seque
__.- super
.
- pontum,
-
gitqtie apertum 1
•
1 f'roit-

Mittit, onusque suum percussa recanduit unda. tem in tequor. I'no oc-
:

At Venus immeritae neptis miserata labores, 530 sama JecerarTire")

Sic patruo blandita suo est :0 numen aquarum,

M.
Proxima cui ccelo cessit, Neptune, potestas
T
agna quidem posco
,

Jactari quos cernis m lonio mimenso

.
•
J..
.
lnolitmLeTont%ue
"""» ^''K'- pontum.
unde percnssa recan-
:
1
sed tu miserere meorum, duit. At renus mise-
rata labores ivimerita
. .

neptis, sic est biandna

,

:
;

Et Dis adde tuis. Aliqua et mihi gratia ponto est :

tZn7nZlu,,^Z*"ciH
Si tamen in dio quondam
^ concreta ^profundo 536 potest ts proxtma caio
cessit ; posco quidem
magna, sed tu miserere meorum, quos ceniis jactari in ivimenso lonio, et adde eos tuis diis.
Est et mihi gratia aliqua ponto : si tamen fax quondavi spuma concreta in dio profundo.

TRANSLATION,
follows the footsteps of his wife as of a wild beast then snatching :

Learchus from the bosom of his mother, smiling, and holding out his
littlearms, twice or thrice whirls him round in the air, in the manner
of a sling, and dashes, outrageous, his infant bones
against the hard
stone then at length his mother roused, (whether through occasion
:

of her grief, or the fatal

poison spread over her) howls, and now quite
distracted, flies with her hair dishevelled, and carrying little Melicerta
in her naked arms, cries, Evoe Bacchus. At the name of Bacchus Juno

laughed, and said, May the god you have nursed, do you this only
service. There is a rock that hangs over the sea, whose lower part is
hollowed by the waves, and defends the waters sheltered under it from
rain the summit is steep and
pointed, and stretches out a front over
:

the wide sea this Ino mounts, for madness had

;
given her strength,
and awed by no fear, casts herself and her little child into the sea.
The billows, broken by her fall, are white with foam. But Venus
pitying the misfortunes of her guiltless grand-daughter, thus in sooth-
ing words addressed her uncle Neptune, god of the waters, Avho ;
O
art possessed of a power next to that which rules the heavens, I indeed

request great things ; but shew some compassion to a kindred race, whom
you see tossed about upon the vast Ionian sea, nor disdain to receive
them into the number of your gods I sure, ought to have some in- :

terest with the

god of the sea, if indeed I once was foam concreted in
158 P. OVIDII NASONfS
et nomen Graiutn ma-
net mihi ab it Id. Nep- Spuma fui, Graiumque manet mihi nomen ab ilia.
tunus annuit oranti, Annuit oranti Neptunus et abstulit illis ;
et abslulit illis quod
fuit mortale, imposuit- Quod mortale fuit; majestatemque verendam
quc majestiitcm veren-
dam ;nuvavitqne simitl Imposuit: nonienque simul, faciemque novavit :

nomai faciemque, dix-

itque dcum Palamona, Leucothoeque,deum,cum matre Palsemona dixit,
cum matre Leucothoe. VIII. Sidonisecomites, quantum valuere,seciitat
VIII. Comites Sido-
niff, secuta signa pe-
dum quantum valucre,
Signa pedum, primo videre novissima saxo :

videre novissima primo Nee dubium de morte ratse, Cadmeida palmis

saxo, ra<ffque wi'f esse
dubium de morte, scis- Deplanxere domum scisse cum veste capillos 545
S(Pquoad capillos cum Utque parum justse, nimiumque in pellice ssevse
veste, deplanxere do-
mum Cadmeida palmis. Invidiam fecere Deae : convicia Juno
invidiam
Feccrequc
detc, ut parum just(F,
Non tulit :
et, Faciam vos ipsas maxima, dixit,
iiimitimque strva
Juno non
in
tulit
Ssevitiae monumenta mere. Res dicta secuta est.
pellice.
convicia : et dixit Fa-
: Nam quae priaecipue fuerat pia, Persequar, inquit,
ciam vos ipsas maxima
monumenta mete savi- Infreta reginam: saltumque datura, moveri551
tite. Res est secuta
Haud usqaam potuit scopuloque afRxa cohsesit.
dicta. Nam quefuerat
:

pr«cipui pia, inquit ; Altera, dum solito tentat

plangore ferire
Persequar reginam, in
freta; datura saltum, Pectora, tentatos sentit riguisse lacertos.
haud potuit usquam
tnoveri, coheesitque ad- Ilia,
manus ut forte tetenderatin maris undas, 555
Jixa scopulo. Altera, Saxea facta
dum, tentat ferire pce- manus, in easdem porrigit undas.
tora solito plangore ;
Hujus, ut arreptum laniabat vertice crinem,
sentit lacertos tentatos
riguisse. Ilia, utfortk Duratos subito digitos in crine videres.
tetenderat manus in
undas maris, facta Quo
quseque in gestu deprenditur, haesit in illo.
saxea, porrigit matins
in easdem undas. Videres digitos hvjus, uf laniabat crimen
arreptum vertice, stibitb duratos
in crine. Qumque hasit in illo gestu in quo deprenditur.

TRANSLATION.
the middle of the deep, and thence derive
my Grecian name. Nep-
tune yielded to her request and taking from them all that was mortal,
;

changed their names, and gave them the form and majesty of gods.
Ino took the name of Leucothoe, and Melicerta was the
god Palemon.
VIII. Her Sidonian attendants tracing as far as they could the
prints of her feet, saw the last upon the very brink of the lock nor ;

longer doubting of her fate, they tore their hair and garments, and
bitterly lamented the house of Cadmus they threw the odium of all
:

upon Juno, and accused her of injustice, and a too barbarous revenge
of her rival. Juno could not bear their reproaches, but said, I will
make you also eternal monuments of my cruelty. Her threats were
immediately accomplished for she who had bore her the truest affec-
;

tion, cried, I will follow my queen even into the sea, and striving to
jump, stuck fast to the rock, nor could be moved from the place where
she stood. Another, while she endeavours to
repeat the blows upon
her breast, as is usual in sorrow, perceived her arms to become stiff.
This, as she stretches out her hands over the waters of the sea, con-
verted into a stone, continues to reach out her hands over the same
waters. In another, you might see her fingers suddenly hardened in
her hair, as she tore her locks, which she had seized
by the roots in ;

fine, every one remained in that posture in which she had been found
.it the
beginning of her change. Some transformed into birds fly
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IV. 159

Pars volucres factee nunc quoque

1 guro-ite
o » in ^^^'^ '""*
/'*?'*
^o'"-
.,, 1.
cres, qrice Ismenides
lilO 560 w«f quoque in illo
"^

iEquora distringunt sumptis Ismenides alis. f «ofa !»S«S*-

nes-
IX. Nescit Aoenorides
o natani parvumque
L ^ ne-
^ V^- /^s''"orides
cit nafaiii parvumque
poteni nepotem esse deos a-
Ti-i x\
•
T i 1 quorit. Conditor, vie- •

Aquons esse Deos. Luctu seneque malorum tusii,ctu,scriiquema-

Victus et ostentis, qua plurima viderat, exit %V?atViurhna, V^t
Conditor urbe sua: tanqiiamfortunalocorum 565 *"'* "'''«• t"nquam
erratibus actus *"« foituna premeret
JNonsuasepreraeret: longisque
^ C
C.- -, Til c •

ontigit lUyricos protuga cum conjuge tines.

'^ctusque lim"is er-
runims, conti^u niy.
•''''

Jamque malis annisque graves, dum prima re- lTcm>juge!"'jamque

tractant ^J-a,,, ^ maUs annisque,
T^ ,A 1 111 t/iimntractant prima
,

rata domus, releguntque suos sermone labores fata domus, reUgunt- ;

Numsacerilleme^trajectuscuspideserpens, 570 mLI,''°cadmus'' ^au:

Cadmus ait, fuerit turn, cum Sidone profectus
•
;^y" !"^ ^T^'" med
Jiens, trajeclus
*";
per humum nova semnia dentes ? enspide, tum, cum pro.
1 1

Vipereos sparsi
'
/->^
^
iA •
,A'T.--.
Quem SI cura deum tarn certa vindicat ira,
J'ectus Sidone, sparsi
,

vipereos dentes, nova

Ipse precor serpens in longam porrigar alvum ; }^^;;'/' ^^.tf, 'ho""m I

Dixit;' et,' ut serpens,' in longam

® tenditur alvum : ^."'L'" *' '^'"'^ '^^^"''
--^ .1
-_>. vmdicat tarn certa ir a,
. .

Duratseque cuti squamas increscere sentit, 57d vrecor ut ipse porri-

Tvy 1 „ ij.*
•
gar serpens in Ion catn
•

J\igraque caeruleis variari corpora guttis: %ivum. mat, etten-

In pectusque cadit pronus commissaque in unum :
io%^ani^aivum''^sentt't-
Paulatim tereti sinuantur acumine crura. 9«e squamas incres-
-p,!-- ,.1 ,, aurat(E cuti, ni- 1-iTv '•'^''^

rJrachiajam restant: quae restant bracnia tendit; grague corpora varia-

Etlacrymisperadhuchumanafluentibus ora, 581 Mtq^iL^prmuTln 'pec-
tus, cruraque commissa in utium paulatim sinuantur tereti acumine. Brachiajam restant ;
tendit brachia qua restatiC : et lucrymis Jluentibus per ora adhuc humana,
TRANSLATION.
along the same deep, and skim the surface of the waves with their
wingjs.
IX. The son of Agenor knows not that his daughter and little grand-
son were changed into sea gods. Compelled by sorrow, and the series of
his misfortunes, and those amazing prodigies which he had seen in
great number, he flies from the city whereof he was the founder, per-
suaded, that the fortune of the place, and not his own adverse fate, pur-
sued him; and, after long wanderiug, arri\edat last, with his exiled
wife, upon the coast of Illyricum and now loaden with years and ca- ;

lamities, while they trace back the first sad disasters of their family,
and run over in discourse their past misfortimes. Whether, says Cad-
mus, was that serpent sacred to any deity, which I pierced with my
spear, when, having left Sidon, I scattered along the grouud the vi-
per's teeth, a kind of seed till then imknown: if for this crime the
avenging gods pursue me with so steady a hate, may I also be changed
to a
serpent, and sweep the ground with a long train. He said and, ;

changed to a serpent, sweeps the ground with a long train, and per-
ceives scales to crust over his hardened skin, and his black body va-
ried with
green spots he falls prone upon his breast, and his legs,
:

joined into one, by degrees shoot out into a spiry tail his arms still ;

>'emain, these he stretches out ;

and the tears running down his face, vet
160 P. OVIDII NASONTS

Accede, & miser-

fiixif
Accede, 6 conjux, accede, miserrima, dixit;
:

rima conjux accede,

taugeqiic
qiiiii
mc dum ali-
de me siiperesf, Dumque aliquid superest de me; me tange: ma-
acclpeque manum dum numque
Accipe, dum maiius est dum non totum
estmiinuSydum tiiiguii occu-
non ocriipat totum. Il- ;

le quidem vult loqui

sed lin«ua est
'jilurii,
pat anguis.
repente fissa itt duas Ille quidem vult pkira loqui sed lingua repente :

partes, nee verba suf-

ficiunt volenti, quoti-
In partes est fissa duas. Nee verba volenti 586
esque parat edere ali- Sufficiunt: quotiesque aliquos parat edere ques-
quot quasflis, sihilut.
Natura rdiuquit hanc Sibilat. Hanc illi vocem Natura relinquit. [tus ;
vocem illi. Coujux fe-
riens tuida pectora Nuda manu feriens exclamat pectora conjux,
tnanu, exclamat : dad-
me mane, exucque to Cadme, mane teque his, infelix, exue monstris
: :

infelix monstris.
his
Cadme, quid lioc? nhi
Cadme, quid hoc ? ubi pes ? ubi sunt humerique
pes? ubi sunt liumcri- manusque? 591
quemannsque ! Et co- Et
lor, et ficies, et dum color, et facies, et, dum loquor omnia ? Cur non
omnia? Cur
loquor
calestes, non vertitis
Me quoque,coelestes,in eundem vertitis anguem?
me quoque in eundem Dixerat ;
ille sua3 lambebat conjugis ora :

anguemf dixerat. Ille

lambebat ora sua: con- Inque sinus caros, veluti cognosceret, ibat: 595
jugis, ibatque in euros Et dabat amplexus; assuetaque colla petebat.
sinus veluti cognosce-
ret ; et dabot amplex-
us, putcbutque assue-
Quisquis adest(aderantcomites) terretur: at illos
ta colla. Quisquis u- Lubrica permulcent cristati colla dracones,
dest (enim comites ade-
rant)terretur,ut rira- Et subito duo sunt; junctoque volumine serpunt;

MHca'^coiia'' pefnmt Douec

in oppositi uemoris subiere latebras. 600
cent illos, et subitb Nuuc QuoQue ucc
fu2;imit liomiuem, nec vulnerc
sunt duo, serpuntquc l J i.

juncto volumine, donee laJUUnt :

p'lTtlVemlfil'l^^iuw Quidqueprius fuennt,placidi meminere dracones.

quoque, nee fugiunt
hominem, nee ladunt vultiere, placidique dracones meminere qiiid fnerint priiis.

TRANSLATION.
that of a man, Draw near, said he, O wife, draw near, unhappy wife,
and while yet any thing of me remains, touch me take my hand while ;

yet it is a hand, before the serpent wholly possess me. He wanted to

say more, hut his tongue suddenly divides into two parts nor, when he ;

aims to speak, has he words at command but as often as he prepares ;

to express complaints, he does it in hissings this was all the voice ;

that nature had left him. His wife, beating her naked breast with her
hand, cries. Stay, Cadmus, unhappy Cadmus, stay, nor glide away in
such a monstrous shape Cadmus, what means all this ? Where is your
:

foot ? Where
your shoulders and hands ? your colour, your face, and,
while I speak, every limb? Why, heavenly powers, do you not trans-
form me also into the same kind of serpent ? She said he licked his ;

wife's face, and crept into her dear bosom, as of one he knew, and
almost stifles her with embraces, and Avinds round her well-known neck.
Every one present (for they had attendants with them) is terrified ;

they suddenly become two, and

the crested snakes, T-aising their heads,
brandish their smooth necks in air then, joining fold in fold, creep ami-
,

cably along till they come within the covert of an adjacent grove.
Nor
do they now shun the sight of men, or hurt Avith poisonous wound hut, ;

though serpents, still gentle ; they remember what they were before.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IV \CA

X. Sed taraen ambobus versae solatia forma; X. Scd ftimen vepos,

qnem India debellata
Magna nepos fuerat, quem debellata colebat colebat ; quem Achaia
celehraiiut positis tem-
India,quenipositiscelebrabatAcha'iatemplis.605 plis :
fuerat magna so-
iiiita verstF formce am-
Solus, Abantiades, ab origine cretus eadem, bobus. Acrisius Aban-
Acrisius superest, qui mcenibus arceat urbis tiades cretiis ab eiidem
origine, solus superest,
Argolicse ; contraque Deum ferat arma ; genusq ; qui arceut devm mos-
nibus Argclicte urbis,
Non putet esse Jovis. Neque enim Jo vis esse pu-
feratque ariiia coutra
tabat eum,putelque nones^e
genvs Joris ; neque
Persea :
quem pluvio Dana'e conceperatauro. 610 enim pvtahut Persea,
quaru, Daiuii cnnccpe-
Mox tamen Acrisium, (tanta est prsesentia veri) rat pluiio uuro, esse
Tarn violasse Deum, quamnonagnossenepotem, genus Jovi<i. Tamen
(tanta C't prasentia
Pcenitet: impositusjam ccelo est alter: at alter veri) mox paenitet A-
crisium, tarn ii(li}^se
Viperei referens spolium memorabile monstri, deum, qaiim non agiio-
neputem. Alter
visse
est jam imposifus ccelo ; et alter referens memorabile spoliiun viperei monstri.

TRANSLATfON.
X. Yet was a mighty consolation to both under this change of
it

shape, tliat they had a grandson, whom India subdued, acknowledged

as a god, and all Achaia honoured with temples. Acrisius alone, the
son of Abas, descended of the same race, remains, who forbids him the
walls of Argos, and bears arms against the god, nor will allow him to
be the offspring of Jove neither indeed did he own Perseus to be the
:

son of Jove, whom Danae had conceived by a shower of gold. But

soon Acrisius (so great is the power of truth) repented both of having
NOTES.
606. Solus Abantiades.'] Acrisius, the 6 14. Viperei referens spolium memora-
son of Abas, king of the Argives, and bile monstri.'] This refers to the killing
father of Danae, on whom Jupiter begot of Medusa, called here vipereum mon-
Perseus. strum, because her hair was partly ser-
610. Quem pluvio Danae coneeperat pents. As Banier has taken a great deal
OHIO.] Jupiter falling in love witli tlie of pains to illustrate this fable, I shall
fair Danae, the daughter of Acrisius, liere transcribe what he has said upon
king of Argos, converted himself into a the subject.
shower of gold, that he might get into Itwotdd be tedious to bring together
tiie tower of brass in which herfatlier had all the fictions that the poets have in-
shut her up. This fable took its rise vented to set oif this history. Let us,
hence, that Acrisius, terrified by the however, endeavour to explain the most
prediction of an oracle, which foretold considerable circumstances of this fable,
that he should be one day slain by his and here to begin with the horse Pegasus,
own grandson, born of Banae, had and hero Chrysaor, who are said to have
caused her to be shut up in a tower with sprung from Medusa's blood. It in pro-
gates of brass this precaution, however,
: bable tiiey were no more than two ships
was without effect. Proetus the king's with sails, which lay in some harbour of
brother, falling in love with his niece, the isle where Medusa reigned, and
found means to bribe the guards, and wliich Perseus made use of after killing
was admitted all this was concealed
: that princess. These two ships had per-
from Acrisius but Danaij being deli-
; haps upon their stern, the figme of two
vered of Perseus, her father ordered winged horses, and this gave rise to the
both her and the child to ])e exposed fable. And by the figurative expression*,
upon the sea in a pitiful bark, which that the Clorgous had hair wreathed with
lauded in the island of Striphus, '.vliere serpents, the leelh of a wild boar, w ings
Polydectus was king. This prince re- of an extraordinary claws of brass,
size,
ceived them favourably, and took care and their whole body covered
with
of the education of
young Perseus but ; scales, we are to understand that they
afterward falling in love with Danae, went out themselves to war, armed
that he remove Perseus out of the with darts and javelins adorned with
might
way,heendeavoiued to inspire him with brass, and that their ships were extreme
a desire of Canio, and
put him upon the good sailers.
expedition a;;ainst tlic Gorjjons.
M
162 P. OVIDTI NASONIS

carpehat tenerumo^ra ^era cai'pebat

r teiierum stridentlbus alis. 615
stridenttbiis alls. Cum- j -

que tutor pcHiterctsu- Cuuique super Libycas Victor penderet arenas ;

J««<f crxiavta^Gorgo- Gorgonei capitis guttffi cecidere cruentae :

gtis'^rxceptas'humus Qu^s humus exccptas varios animavit in angues.

animavH varios an- Unde cst infcstaquc terra colubris.
sues,
est
i7i
unde ilia terra
frequens, infesta-
xi\
freouens
•

Inde per unmensum ventis discordibus actus, d2U

ilia
j-tti ^ cc\r\

tu! Msc^b^'t>^s Nunc hue, nunc illuc, exemplo nubis aquosae

immensum atra, Fcrtur et ex alto seductas sethere
j>er
nutic hue, nunc illiic,
: longe
i i i
fertur exemplo aquosa Despectat terras; totumque supervolat orbem.
auJ'' :kfrTlerrZ Ter gelidas Arctos, ter Cancri brachia vidit:
sub occasus ; ssepe est ablatus in ortus. 625
iZitqueZlTmorian. Ssepe
Ter viriit gelidas Arc- Jamque cadcnte die veritus se credere nocti
tos, ter brachia Con-
^ xt
sape ablatus est Constitit Hesperio regnis Atlantis m orbe
•
_, •
, a ji
•
.i- i, • •

<•!» ;

lfturZ,tqJe7uca- Exiguamque requiem; dum Lucifer ignes

petit
dente, iiic veritus ere- Evocet AuroraB currus Aurora, diurnos. 1
dere sc voctt, cunstitit '
,^„ , .

in Hesperio orbe, res- Hic hominuHi cunctos ingenti

o corporc
* praes-
His Atlantis, petitque ,
fiQfk
OOv/
exiguam requiem, dum tails

t";^";etX;o,-if:^- Japetionides Atlas fuit. Ultima tellus

rus diurnos. Hie At- Reffc sub lioc ct Dontus crat, Qui Solis anhelis
las Japetiomdes Jutt 7r-i® it, r •
,
•
l.

pr<£stans cunctos ho- /hquora subciit equis, et lessos excipit axes.

^Z^Ss'T^:': Mille greges
illi, totidemque
armenta per herbas
Errabant ethumum vicinianuUapremebant. 635
!
anhHilequis'^wu^rel
excipitfessos axes, erat
sub hoc rege. Mille greges, totidemque armenta errabant illi per herbas, et nulla vicinia
pretnebant hvmum.
TRANSLATION.
violated the god, and that he had not owned
his grandson the one :

already is placed in heaven, the other bearing the memorable spoils of

the hideous Gorgon, cuts the yielding air with hissing wings and as ;

the conqueror hung over the Lybian sands, bloody drops of the Gor-
into various
gon's head fell down, which the ground receiving, animated
snakes, whence these regions are filled and much infested with serpents.
Thence driven by jarring winds through the boundless expanse of
heaven, he is tossed on every side like a stormy cloud, and from the
summit of the sky surveys the far-distant earth, and flies over the whole
world. Thrice he saw the cold Bear-stars, and thrice the bending aims
of the Crab. Oft-times he is hurried to the west, often toward the
east ;
and now day declining, the hero, afraid of trusting
to his wings

during the darkness of night, stopt in the western part of the world,
in the kingdom of Atlas there he wanted to take a little rest, till the
:

morning-star had ushered in the bright Aurora, and Aurora the Chariot
of the Day. Here Atlas, the son of Japetus, reigned, in vastness of
body surpassing all men. The utmost boundaries of the world was
under this king, and the sea, whose waters are under the panting horses
of the sun, and receive nightly the burning axle. thousand flocks, A
NOTES.
turned
620. Jndc per immensum.] After tiie producing the Medusa's head,
defeat of the Gorj^'ons, Perseus passed him into a stone; that is, slew him in

through Mauritania, where the famous the mountains which bear his name ;
Atlas reigned. Tliat prince, warned by and carried off the golden apples from
an oracle to be on his guard against a son the gardens of the Hesperides, which
of Jupiter, denied him the common was kept by a dragon given them from
rights of hospitality, upon which Perseus Juno.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Liu. IV . 163

Arhorcce froiides, vi-

Arborese frondes auro radian te nitentes rentcs raiiiiinte tiuro,
Ex auro ramos, ex auro poma tegebant, tegebfoit ramos ex uii-
ja, et pnma ex auto.
Hospes, ait Perseus illi, seu glona tangil Perseus ait Uli : hos-
pes, sen glnriii iiiag?ti
Te generis magni generis mihi Jupiter auctor : :
generis tangit te ; Ju-
Sive es mirator rerum mirabere nostras. 640 ;
piter est a lie tor getie-
ris milii, site t's mira-

Hospitium requiemque peto. Memorille vetustse tor reritm, mirabere,

nostras. Peto ho'pi-
Sortis erat: (Themis banc dederat Parnassia sor- tiiim rfiiuu'tiique. llle
I rat wemor vttii.stte
tem) sortis; (PiirnassiaThe-
Tempus, Atla, veniet, tua quo spobabitur auro mis deilerat hane sor-

Arbor: et nunc praedae titulum Jove natus iia- Atia, v"" tua aiimr
KtiKi f spoliabitur a urn, et na-
ueulL. f^fg Juie liabebit liiinc

Id metuens, sobdis pomaria clauserat . Atlas 645

'
titiuumpradtc. Atim
1 . metuens id, clauserat
Moenibus, et vasto dederat servanda draconi :
pomaria snudts mani.
f, 1 , ii M •
i bus, et dedcriit ea ser.
Arcebatque suis externos nnibus oranes. ,„,;,/„ lasto druconi;
Huic quoque, Vadeprocu],nelonge gloria rerum, Z^ul^^s'iZj^l^s. Mt
Ouas mentiris, ait, lonoe tibi Jupiter absit. guoqiienaic,vadepro-
-ir- jj-1 p ^ •
n
•
i.rt:r\ ^"l> uc gloria rerum
Vimque mmis addit: lonbusq; expellere tentat doU
J. J.

qnas mnituis ioiige,ne

long't absit ti-
Cunctantem, et placidis miscentem fortia dictis. Jupiter
bi. Additqiie rim mi-
Viribus inferior, (Quis par enim esset Atlanti nis; tentatque expel-
lere foribus ilium ciiiic-
Viribus?) At quoniam parvi tibi gratia nostra tiitdcm, ct miscentem
fortia cum placidis die-
est; 'tis : inferior
viribus

ait laevaque k parte Medusaj (enim quis csset pur

Accipe munus, :
Atlanti viribus :') ait:
Ipse retroversus squallentia prodidit ora. 655 at quoniamnostra gra-
tia estparvi tibi, ac-
Quantus erat, mons factus Atlas jam barba, co- :
cipe hoc viunus, ip<.e'
que retroversus, pro.
maeque did it a. lava parte
In sylvas abeunt juga sunt humerique manusque
:
*^""'*^'^^" /''" fj^^^,"^
erat, est factus mons. Jam barba eomeque abeunt in sylvas ; manus, humerique sunt juga ;
TRANSLATION,
and as many herds, wander over the grassy plains. No neighbouring
states disturb his leaves of trees shining with radiant gold
realms ;

cover golden boughs and golden apples. Illustrious stranger, said

Perseus, addressing him, if the glory of a noble race can move you, Ju-
piteris the author of my race or if you are an admirer of great ex- ;

ploits,
admire mine I beg for rest and a hospitable reception. He was
;

mindful of an ancient oracle, formerly given by Parnassian Themis :

Atlas, a time will come, when your tree will be spoiled of its gold, and a
son of Jupiter have the honour of the prize. Fearing this. Atlas had
secured his gardens by strong walls, and given them to be kept by a
watchful dragon, and would suffer no strangers to enter his kingdom.
To our hero likewise he said Far hence, be gone, or the fame of your ;

preterided exploits,
and your relation to Jupiter, are like to avail you
but little. He adds violence too to his threats, and endeavours to force
him away reluctant, and addressing him sometimes in a resolute tone,
sometimes with all the ai'ts of persuasion. Finding himself unequal in
strength for who could pretend to be a match for the great Atlas ?
;

Since then, says he, you slight the offer of my friendship, accept this
gift when, turning his head the other way, he exposes from the left
;

the portentous countenance of Medusa: the great Atlas was immedi-

ately converted into a mountain his beard and hair change into ;

woods his arms and shoulders become precipices and what was fot
; ;
 164 P. OVIDII NASONIS
ft quod fuit caput
ante, est cacumen in
Quod caput ante fuit, summo est in monte ca-
summo monte. Ossa cumen.
fiuiit lapis. Turn auc-
tus in omnes partes, Ossa lapis fiunt: turn partes auctus in omnes
crevit in i7nmensum,
(sicDii voluiitis) et Crevit in immensuni, (sic Di statuistis et omne
omne ccelum cum tot
sideribus reqitievil in
Cum tot sideribus caelum requievit in illo.
illo.
Xr. Ilippotadesclan-
XI.CIauseratHippotades^eternocarcereventos:
serat ventos irterno Admonitorque operum coelo clavissimus alto
carcere, Luciferqve Pennis ligat ille resumptis
udmonitor operum enit Lucifer ortus erat-
ortus clarissimus alto Parte ab utraq;pedes; teloq ; accingitur unco 665 :
ccclo. J He ligat pedes
ab vtriique parte, re- Et liquiduni motis talaribus a'era findit.
su7nplis pennis, accin-
giturque unco telo, et
Gentibus innumeris circumque infraque relictis,
findit liquidum a'ira
miitis talaribus. Gen- ^thiopum populos, Cepheia conspicit arva.
tibus itinumeris relit- Illic immeritam maternoe pendere linguae
tis circumqtie infra-
que; conspicit populos Andromedam poenas injustus jusserat Ani-
^thiopum, area Ce- mon. 670
pheia. iii,c immms
Ammon jusserat Andromedam immerilam pendere poenas maternic lingus.
TRANSLATION,
merly his head, is now the summit of the mountain. His bones grow
into solid rock, and increasing on every side, he shoots out to an im-
mense size, (so the gods decreed), affording a support to heaven with
its whole host of stars.
XI. The grandson of Hippotes had shut up the winds in their eter-
nal caves and the Morning star that ushers in the labours of the day
;

now appeared with all his splendour in the high arch o/ heaven. He
binds to either foot the wonted wings, and arming himself with a
bearded dart, cuts the yielding air with his waving ancles. Leav-
ing nations without number below and around him, he at last
reaches the people of ^Ethiopia, and the realms of Cepheus. There
Ammon had unjustly doomed Andromeda to suffer punish-
guiltless
ment for her mother's crime ; whom, when the hero of the race of
NOTES.
662. Clauserat Hippotadcs.] After the 66-2. Ilippotades.'] ;5Zahis, the son of
adventure of Atlas, Perseus penetrated Jupiter and Acesta, and the grandson
as far as iEtliiopia, where lie rescued of Hippotes. Tliis prince, by an exact
Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus observation of the course of the winds,
and Cassiope, from the monster to the rising and setting of the stars, the
which she was exposed, married her, stated seasons of the year, the sitiiation
and brought her with him into Greece ; of countries, and the flux and reflux of
her mother having preferred her beauty the sea, arrived at such a knowledge of
to that of the Nereids, the oracle of the weather, that he could with great
Ammon pronounced, that her daughter exactness foretell the approach and du-
nuist be exposed upon a rock to a sea- ration of a storm.' Upon this the poets
monster. It is easy to see, that Ovid founded ilie notion of his being the god
<»rounds this narration of his upon his- of tile winds.
tory ; but that
he borrows the help of 6/0. AmmoJi.'] Jupiter Ammon, who
fiction by way of oruament to it. Cle- had a tem|»le in the deserts of Libya,
ravd Vossius, who attempted to trace and was vi'orshipped under the form
out the mysterious meaning, says, An- of a ram he being consulted in re-
:

dromeda had been promised to an in- gard to the sea-mouster, wiiich Nep-
.solent, inhuman pirate, who, by liis in- tune at the request of the Nereids had
cursions, infested the coasts of jEtlii- sent against tlie Ethiopians, had an-
opia, on condition that he would give no swered, that Andromeda must be ex-
molestation to commerce Perseus, who
; posed to it which the poet here, not
;

arrived at that time at Cepheus' court without reason, calls an unjust com-
with his small fleet, gave chase to the pi- mand.
rate, slew him and married Andromeda.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IV. 165

Quam simul Abaiilia-

simul ad duias religatam brachia cautes dis
Quam vidit religatam
adduras
Vidit Abantiades.' nisi quod levis aura capillos qwnAimuhia
:
cautes .rat us rssct earn
T ^ n ^
•
J.

Moverat; et trepido manabant luniina tletu opus marmoreum, iiisi

:

levis aura move-

Marmoreum ratus esset opus. Trahit inscius quad rat capillos, et liuiiiiiu
manabant trefido Jle-
ignes tu. Inscius truldt ig-
Et stupet: et visae correptus imagine formee, 675 nes, et stufct ; tt cor-
reptus imagine visa
Pene suas quatere est oblitus in aere pennas. formce, pcne oblilus est
quatere siias j>enna.s
Ut stetit, O, dixit, non istis digna catenis, in dire. Ut stetit, dix-

Sed quibus inter se cupidi junguntur amantes :

it : O
noil rf/g»« istis
catenis, sed qiiibns cu-
Pande requirenti nomen terraeque tuumque ; pidi amuntes jinigan-
tur inter se. h'ande
Et cur vincla geras. Primo silet ilia nee au- :
mihi requirenti numeii-

det 680 qnetuum, temrque.el

cur geras vincla. Ilia
Appellare virum virgo manibusque
: modestos primd silet, nee virgo
audet appellare virum
Celasset vultus si non religata fuisset.
; celassetque modestos
vultus manibns, si non
Lumina, quod potuit, laerymis implevit obortis. fuisset religata. Quod
implevit lu-
Saepius instanti, sua ne delicta fateri
potiiit ;
mina obortis laerymis.
Nolle videretur, nomen terraeque suumque, 685 Tandem, ne videretur
nollefaterisua delicta,
Quantaque maternse fuerit fiducia formee, indicat illi sapius in-
nondum memoratis omnibus, unda stanti, nomen suum-
Indicat, et, que,terra'qtie, quanta-
Insonuit :
veniensque immenso
bellua ponto que Jiducia mcitern<e
et om-
Eminet: et latum sub pectore possidet sequor. forma
:
fuerit
nibus nondum memo-
Conclamat Virgo genitor lugubris, etamens 690 ];:^;::^::ZTU
:

Mater adest ambo miseri, sed justius ilia

:
net immemo ponto et
•!• IT a\;
possidet (cquor latum
—
JNec secumauxilium,
-
sed dignos tempore iletus,
le au-
i-p -ir]
-
sub pcctore. nrgo
conclamat: genitor Iti-
Plangoremque ferunt ; vinctoque in corpora gi,ijris,ct mater amens,
adest J ambo iniseri ;
haerent. sed ilia justius. A'ec
fernnt auiilium secum, sed pta?igor€m, Jfctu.tqnc riigjios tempoi-e ; adharentquein vincto
corpore.
TRANSLATION.
Abas saw, with her arms bound to the hard rocks but that the gentle ;

gales moved her waving tresses, and melting tears flowed down
her
cheeks, he would have taken her for a statue of marble. He stands
amazed, and without knowing it, nourishes the subtle flame and ;

struck with the appearance of her amiable form, almost forgot to wave
his wings in the air ; when he lighted, O
virgin, said he, worthy to
wear no such chains, but those only by which fond lovers are linked
together in soft embraces, tell me at my request your name, your
country, and why you are thus loaden with chains. She at first is
silent nor dares, as being a virgin, to speak to a man, and would with
;

her hands have hid her rising blushes, but that she Avas bound. Her
eyes (this was now her full extent of power) were bathed in tears.
Upon his often urging her for a reply, fearing lest she might seem to
conceal some crimes of her own, she discovers her name and country,
and her mother's guilty confidence of her beauty. She had not yet
ended her story, when the billows roared, and the monster with his
head high above the waves, is seen traversing the vast sea with his
breast spread wide over the
deep the virgin screams the mournful
; ;

father and indiscreet mother are but she more

present, both miserable,
justly so nor do they bring her aid, but tears and lamentations, as
;

cling round her body bound to the rock. When

the case required, and
166 P. OVIDII NASONIS
sfciim.sttf
jiunsorrm, Qum SIC liosnes
I
ait : Lacrymarum long-a manere
Jlefiisq; dignos tern-
.' •
i i /•
j>orc; adhiFrcntyue. leiiipora vos Doterunt ; acl opem brevis horaie-
Cian hospes ait sic • i . ^n r
lo/iga tempora lacry- renuam est. 095
7,Trl7osThZTad7e. ^^^nc ego petercm, Perseus Jove natus et ilia
si
rtndamopem
ris. M
est
€50 Perseus
lire-
Quam
„ clausam implevit foecundo Jupiter auro,
.
t) •
x v 1.
natus Jove, et ilia (jrorgonis anguicomsB rerseus superator, et ahs
WipTcvit7<^cTiiiom'tro,
-^thcveas ausus jactatis ire per auras :

Perseus siiyerator an.

Praeferrer cuiictiscerte geiier. Adderetantis 700
guicmna: Gargonis, et
aiisics ire per athercas Dotibusetmeritum(faveantmod6numina)tento.
auras jactatis ulis,pr-
terein haiic, certti pra- Ut mea sit, servata meS. virtute, paciscor.
Jerrer geiicr cunctis.
Tcnto et addcrc mcri- Accipiunt legem, (quis enim dubitaret ?) et orant,
tum ta?itis dotibns,
(modi) numiyiafavcaiit)
Proniittuntque super regnum dotale, parentes.
et paciscor ui servata Ecce velut navis
prasfixo concita rostro
! 705
mea virtute, sit mea.
Parevtes accipiunt Ic- Sulcat aquas, juvenum sudantibus acta lacertis :

^^^ ^^^^ dimotis impulsu pectoris undis

ilT?\'^ltoraltv"om^^^^
tuntque super regnum Tantiimaberat scopulis, quantum Balearicatorto
dotale. Ecce lelut — - .i.''-...
naiis concita, acta su- Funda
dantibus lacertis ju-
potest plumbo medii transmittere cceU :

venum, sulcat aquas

Cum subitojuvenis pedibus tellure repuls^ 710
pro'fixo rostro ; sic
Arduus in nubes abiit : ut in sequore summo
terra, undis dimotis
impulsu pectoris, tan- Umbra viri visa est, visam fera saevit in umbram.
turn aherat SCl'putlS,
quantum
scnpulis,
Baicarica
tTj T
ftque Jovis prapes, vacuo
N
cum 'J'i.
vidit m arvo
*

^ZurcTnedLXlor- Pra^bentem Phoebo liventia terga draconem,

to plumbo. Cum su- Occupat aversum ueu ssevarctorqueat ora, 715 :

bitbjuvenis, tellure re- ^

^ ^ . -i . .
,
. •

puisd pedibus, abiit fequamigens avidos tigit cerviciDus ungues :

arduus in nuhes. Ut
umbra viri est visa in summo
eqiiore, fera in umbram visam. Utque pro'pes Jovis,
stevit
cum vidit draconem in vacuo arvo, preebentem liventia terga Phabo, occupat aversum,figit-
que avidos ungues squamigeris cervicibus neu retorqueat strva ora.

TRANSLATION.
thus the stranger, You may have time enough for tears and grief, but
the season for relief is extremely short ? Were I to demand her for
my Avife I, Perseus the son of Jove, and her whom shut up in a
;

tower, Jupiter impregnated in a shower of fruitful gold Perseus the ;

vanquisher of the snaky-haired Gorgon, who has dared to move

through the ethereal sky on waving wings I should, doubtless, as ;

your son-in-law, be preferred to all but I endeavour, with the aid of :

heaven, to add merit too to so many titles. I request that she may be

mine, if by my valour I redeem her from death. Her parents em-

brace the proposal, (for who in such a case would hesitate), and re-
quest him to undertake her defence, and promise moreover their king-
dom as a dowry when lo, as a ship ploughs the waves with her sharp
;

beak, urged by the sweating arms of vigorous youth, so the monster,

dividing the waves with his breast, was now distant
from the rocks the
space through which a leaden bullet, whirled from a Balearian fling,
Avould fly when suddenly the young hero bounding upwards, hovered
;

in the clouds on light pinions, and as his shadow appeared upon the
surface of the deep, the monster leaped in wild rage at the floating
shadow as when the bird of Jove spies in the silent plain a serpent
;

he
turning his livid back to the sun, he seizes him behind, and lest
should turn upon him his poisonous mouth, fixes his greedy talons in
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IV. lb/

Sic celeri fissum praepes per inane volatu *'? ^f"""^*^**

vracepn
- .r ,r ^ « celeri volatu per fis- .

Terga lerze pressit ; dextroque irementis in armo •r«"» i?>ane,j>ressit ur-

Inachides ferrum curvo tenus abdidit hamo. %-{Zn 'ten,is"^cu^fo
Vulnere Isesagravi, raodo se sublimisin auras 720 "iTsa frcmiJtis^^^m
Attollit: modo subditaquis: modo more ferocis «'""' tu^nere, modh
tT ,
•
,1 •
i , attollit se siiblimis
modd suhdu
in
Versatapri,quemturbacanumcircumsonaterret. auras,
Ille avidos morsus velocibus efFugit more/erwisaprl^queL
alis :

Quaque patent, nunc terga cavis super obsita nMn"ter%T'''iue^effu-

COnchis,' S't avidos morsus velo-
•T , . V J
.
cibus alis.verbcratque
J.
• •

JN unc laterura costas, nunc tenuissima cauda jaicato ensc, nunc ter-
qua
Desinit in piscem, falcato vulnerat ense. 726 ^J^^^ gZ"paTent,
Bellua puniceo
r mistos cum sanauine
O fluctus ""'"^ '^"^'"^ lutcruw.
ttitnc qua Cauda tc-
^- ^ . .

Ure vomit; maduere graves aspergme pennie. nuissimadesinitinjns-

Nec bibulis ultra Perseus talaribus ausus jtuctus^ muto"" cum
Credere conspexit scopulum: qui vertice summo ^''i^'Jtriarfwgrrfl"-

,•
;

Stantibus exstat aquis operitur ab aequore moto. pfghw. Nee Perseus

«T. .

JNixus 60, rupisque tenens juga prima sinistra

:
••,^
ausus credere ultra
bWuUs taiaribus, con-
Ter quater exegit repetita per ilia ferrum. Ti^'' su::i^ura^
Littora cum plausu clamor superasque Deorum ^u""novertice,se^oiie-
r , , '^
, 1
rttur ab aquore moto.
lmpieveredomos:gaudent,generumquesaiutaiit, m^us eo, tetmisque
Auxilium domus servatoremque fatentur 736 nilTrdf'exegu''J"rt,m
Cassiope, Cepheusque pater. Resoluta catenis %aia^%l"„T'cnm
Incedit virgo ^pretiumque et causa laboris. j>iausu impuvire lu-
1 '=>
tora, domo.sque supe-
ras deorum. Cassiope Cepheusque pater gaudent, salutantque gencruin, fatentur que auxi-
lium, servatoremque domus. Vh-go, pretiumque et causa laboris, incedit resoluta catenis.

TRANSLATION.
his scaly neck thus the winged hero precipitating his course with
:

rapid flight through the cleaving sky, stoops full on his back, and buries
the crooked sabre up to the hilt in the right shoulder of the raging
monster tortured by the cruel wound, sometimes he bounds aloft in
;

air, then sinks again under the waves sometimes turns quick upon his ;

foe, like a savage boar when chased with the mingled cries of sur-
rounding hounds. He on swift pinions avoids his eager bites, and
wherever it is most exposed, wounds with his crooked sword his back
covered with scaly armour sometimes passes it between his ribs, and
;

again where his tail lessening by degrees, ends in a fish the monster :

vomits up floods of water dyed with streaming blood the hero's pinions ;

wet with its sprinkling, bear him heavily, nor daring to trust any longer
to his dropping wings, he above
spies a rock whose summit a])pears
the smooth waves, but is covered by a troubled sea leaning upon this, ;

and holding its upper ridge with his left hand, he with repeated strokes
pierced the bowels of the savage monster. Shouts and loud applauses
fill the shore, and
ring in redoubled peals through tlie air. Cassiope
and her father Cepheus rejoice, and salute him, their son-in-law, and
own him the support and preserver of their house. The virgin, the
cause and reward of his labour, now loosed from her chains, walks

NOTES.
719' lnachidcs.'\ Perseus, so called Aigi vex, over whom A crisius, the grand-
fiom loacbusj the ancient king of the lather of our hero reigned.
 168 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Ipse abluit
trices
7>iatius
haiistd uiidu,
i U--
Ipse manus hausta victrices abluit unda :

mollitqne huiniim fo-

liis, lie ladat tiiigui/e-
Anguiferumque caput nuda ne Isedat arena, 740
rum caput mieia are- Mollithumumfoliis natasque sub sequore virgas :

na ; sternitqne virgas
7Hita.i sub trquore, rt Sternit, et imponit Pliorcynidos ora Medusae.
imjmnlt oru JMcdusrc
Fhorcynklos. lirga Virga recens, bibulaque etiamnum viva medulla
recinx, ttiairmuinque Vim rapuit monstri, tactuque induruit hujus :

riva, rajniit vim mon-

stri bibula medulla. Percepitque novum ramiset fronde rigorem. 745
imturnitquenutu In,-
^^ factum mirabile tentant
JUS, percepitque no- Nvmphee
i_o_J.r,
pelagi
rum rigorem ratiiis tt Pluribus 111 vu'p'is : et idem contmeere gandent.
J'ronde. At Nymjilta:
jiclagi tentant mini-
bile factum in pluri-
Semmaque ex ilhs iterant jactata per undas.
bus rirgi-1, et gaudnit Nunc quoque curaliis eadem natura remansit,
idem contiiigerc; ite- Duritiem tacto capiant ut ab a'ere quodque 750 ;
rantque ex illis aeinina
jactata per vudus. Vimen in sequore erat, fiat super sequora saxum.
A'uiic quoque eadem
nutura remansit cura- XII. Dis tribus ille focos totidem de cespite
liis, lit capiant duri-
tiem ab acre tartn, ponit ;

qnodque erat I'imen in Laivum Mercuric, dextrum tibi, bellica virgo ;

itqnore,Jiat saxum su-
per o'quora. Ara Jovis media est: mactatur vacca Minervit; ;
XII. Jtle p07iit tri-
bus diis totidem foros Alipedi vitulus taurus tibi, summe deorum. 755
;
de cespite; iceimmMer-
curio dextrum ttbibel-
Protluus Audromedan ettanti premia •^
facti
.
.

lica Virgo; ara Jovis Indotata rapit tsedas Hymeiigeus Amorque

:
est media. Vacca muc- -r» ,• , ^i M •
< 'j.

tatur Minervte. Vitu- Fercutiuiit largis satiautur ocloribus ignes

: :

mi, IZmJ /rr Sertaque dependent tectis Lotique lyraeque :

Frotiuus rapit And7;o-

Tibiaoue, et caiitus, animi fffilicia Iseti 7G0
medan, et prtrmia in- x -n i • •

dotatatavtifacti;ta-
das Hymenaus Amor-
Argumeuta, sonant. Keseratis aurea valvis
que ignes sutiantur largis odoribus ; sertaque dependent lectin : lotique, lyr<rq)ie, tibiaqw,
et cantus,/elicia argumentu lali aiiimi, sonant : atria aurea, patent tola, valvis rescralis,

TRANSLATION.
along the shore ; he purges his hands, smeared tuith the monster s blood,
in water taken from the sea; and lest the hard sand might by its

roughness injure the snake-bearing head, he softens it by strowing cf

leaves, and some green twigs that grew in the sea, and thereon lays
the face of Medusa, the daughter of Phorcys. These fresh twigs, yet
soft and full of sap, imbibed the poison of the monster, and hardened
at its touch and perceived a new hardness spread through their
branches and leaves. The nymphs of the sea, surprised at the un-
common prodigy, attempt the same in other twigs, and find it happen
according to their wish and still renewing these petrifying seeds,
;

propagate the wonder through the deep such even at this day is the ;

nature of coral, that it gathers hardness upon being exposed to the

air, and what under the waves was no more than a tender spray, above
the waves changes to a stone.
XII. He raises to three gods as many altars of turf; one on the
left to Mercury, another on the right to the warlike maid the altar ;

of Jove stood in the middle. A

cow is sacrificed to Minerva, a calf
to winged-footed Hermes, and a bull to the sovereign of the gods :

then seized Andromeda, the prize of his victorious fight, nor once de-
manded the dowry kingdom. Hymen and Love walk before them
shaking their torches, and the altars burn with rich perfumes gar- ;

lands hang from the roofs flageolets, and harps, and flutes, and songs,
;

the happy tokens of a joyful mind, join in an agreeable concert.

 METAMORPHOSEON, Liu. IV. 1G9

Atria tota patent, piilchroque instructa paratu, f;;,%7Xuiri?^,S!

rCepheni proceresn ineunt conviviareiris.l instruct,! pnuhropt/-
L^I T I
.•
munere -rt
Bacchi
rata. PtwtiUianKr^int ^

Postquam epulis tuiicti, generosi fancu evuas,<ii£aAere

DifFudere animos cultusque habitusque locorum "S^ccAiT'^JX-
:

Ouaerit Abantiades Quserenti protinus unus :

''"?;"'
luarit cuitin
Prothms unus Lyn-
K^ -IT
rNarratLyncides,tnoresque,habitiisquevivorum.J
•< AT ^ r i'
Quse simuledocuit, JNunc o tortissime, dixit,
J' 'i tides nurratqiicvrenti,
moresque, hloitu^que
Fare precor, Perseu, quanta virtute, quibusque e^w^a^/'f^r/,
^
Artibus abstuleris crinita draconibus ora 770 jortmime Perseu,
.- ,. lAi •
precorJare,qaantclvir-
Narrat Abantiades selido sub Atlante lacentem tute quibusque arti-
i i • • • •
bus, abstuleris oni cri-
Esse locum, SOlldse tutum mUUimme mollS ;
-r-i 1 1 1 1
nUa draconibus. Aban.
Cujus in introitu geminas liabitasse sorores cu,1i%7enfem 'sul gt
Phorcvdas, unius partitas luminis usum : ndoAtianie,tutumimi.
_- ^ I- ^ i^ Ti r-r^ r
i i
nimine solidcE moHs in ,

Id se solerti, lurtim duni traditur astu, /7o imroitu cujus sorores

Supposita cepisse manu perque abdita longe,

:
^^^^a^^!^
unius i,imims;semaiut
T.' et svlvis horrentia saxa frao'osis
Deviaque. .J,.
~
. supposita, cepissc, id
Gorp'oneastetio-issedomos-.passimqueperap'ros,
^
furtim soierti astu,
T^'=' .f?.
r dam traditur; teti-
•
\

Perque viasvidisse nominum Simulacra lerarum- gi^seq; oorgoneas do-

1

„ per loca longi ab-

...visa conversa Medusa 7iios,
q*^^
In silicem ex
111- ipsis
Se tamen horrendaB clypei quod
Ti-i r
11
leeva gerebat,
i\/r 1
:

1
._
780
dila, dcri(iquc,et saxa
horrentia jrwxosissyi-
"*•' I'ldisseqiie 2>assi}n
per agros, perque vias,
simulacra liominum,
Mxe repercusso, tormam aspexisse iVledustr. :
jcrarumque, conversa
ex ipsis in silicem, visa AfedusUl; se tamen adspexisse formam hurrejidts Mtdusa', repercusio
*re clypei, quod gerebat lava;
TRANSLATION,
The doors are thrown wide open, and the gilded halls displayed ; the
nobles of Cepheus' court sit down to a feast furnished out by the king
in the richest manner. When the banquet was ended, and their minds
cheered Avith the gifts of generous Bacchus, the grandson of Abas began
to inquire concerning the customs and manners of the country. When

Lyncides had satisfied him in every thing he had to ask on this sub-
like freedom addressed the gallant hero, and begged to
ject, he with
know by what bold adventure or successful arts he had cut off the head
of Medusa, bristling with snakes. The grandson of Abas tells him,
that beneath the cold Atlas there lies a vale, fenced on all sides with
solid walls, the entrance to which was guarded by the two sisters,

daughters of Phorcys, who had but one eye between them, whicli they
used by turns that he cunningly slipping in his hand, while it Avas
;

given from the one to the other, carried it off, and then through dark
recesses, and devious wilds, and rocks covered with trackless woods,
arrived at the habitations of the Gorgons,and saw in all the plains and
ways as he passed, images of men and wild beasts converted into stone
NOTES.
tunity of seeing Medusa ; that
782. A^re repercusso.] Tliis looking- afterward
glass or reflecting shield our hero is said Perseus seizing her by the liair with his
to have received of Minerva, and by left liand, and keeping his eye tixed
virtue of it could see without being seen. upon the image in the shield, took hi«
Lucian tells us, that Minerva herself falchion in his right, and cut off her
held this reflecting shield before him, head and then flew off before the other
;

and by that means gave him the oppor- sisters knew any thing of it.
170 P. OVIDIl NASONIS

rripiiissrq tie caput col-

Dumque gravis somnus colubrasque ipsamque
gravis somnus
to, (turn
tenebat i}>samque, co- tenebat,
lubrasque ; PegasoTi-
que fugacem jicnnis, Eripuisse caput collo pennisque fugacem
:

«t fratrem fuissc natos

<fc sanguine matris. Pegason et fratrem matris de sanguine natos,
Addidit cljain pericula Addidit etlongi non falsa pericula cursus: 786
nonfalsUylongi cursus:
qua freta, quas terras Quae freta, quas terras sub se vidisset ab alto :

vidisset sub se ah alto;

et qua sidera tetigisset Et quae jactatis tetigisset sidera pennis.
Jactatis pennis. Tamen Ante expectatum tacuit tamen, excipit unus
tacuit ante expecta-
tum. Unus i numero Ex numero procerum, quaerens, cur sola sororum
jtrocerum czcipit,qutr-
rens cur Medusa sola Gesserit alternis immistos crinibus angues.
sororum, gesserit uti- scitaris
gues immistos alternis Hospes ait, quoniam digna relatu,
crinibus. Hospes ait :
Accipe
quaesiti
causam.
forma, Clarissinia
quoniam scilarii digna
relatu, accipe causajn Multorumque fuit spes invidiosa procorum
qutesiti. JUafuit cla- 795
rissima formit,spesque Ilia, nee in tota conspectior
ulla capillis
invidiosa multorum Pars fuit se vidisse referrent.
; inveni, qui
procorum ; nee ulla
pars in ea tota, fuit Hanc pelagi rector templo vitiasse Minervae
conspectior capillis.
Jnveiii iiniim, qui re- Dicitur aversa :
est, et castos aegide vultus
ferret se vidisse cam. Nata Jovis
texit. Neve hoc impune fuisset ;
Hector pelagi dicitur
vitiasse hanc in templo
Minerva. Nata Jovis Gorgoneumturpes crinemmutavitin hydros. 800
aversa est, et texit Nunc quoque ut attonitos formidine terreat
castos vultus (Pgide.
Neve hoc fuisset im- hostes,
pune, mutavit Gorgo- Pectore in adverso, quos fecit, sustinet angues.
neumcrinem in turpes
hydros. Nunc quoque, ut terreat hostes attonitos formidine sustinet in adverso pectore, an-
gues quos fecit.
TRANSLATION.
from the sight of Medusa but that he, by the reflection of the polished
;

shield which he bore in his left hand, beheld unhurt the figure of Me-
dusa and while sleep held both her and her snakes entranced, severed
;

her head from her neck the blood that flowed from the wound, gave
:

birth to winged Pegasus and his brother. To these he added all the
other dangers he had encountered in a long course of wandering; what
seas, and what lands he had seen under him from on high, and what
stars he had touched in tossing his wings yet he ended sooner than :

was expected ; upon which one of the nobles again begged to know,
why only one of the sisters had snakes alternately mixed with her hair.
Stranger, replied Perseus, since you require a history worthy to be re-
lated to this noble assembly, hear what you want to know she was :

greatly surpassing in beauty, and had raised hope in the breast of a

crowd of envious lovers nor was any part of her more celebrated than
;

her comely locks for I have met with those who had seen her. It is
;

her in the temple of Mi-

said, that the sovereign of the sea ravished
nerva. The daughter of Jove turned away her eyes, and covered her
face with her shield and that his daring impiety might not escape
;

unpunished, changed the Gorgon's head into hideous snakes. And now
too the same goddess, to strike the greater terror into her enemies,
bears upon her breast the hissing snakes of the Gorgon.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. V. m

LIBER QUINTUS.

ORDO.
I. inVUMQUE ea Cephenum medio Dana- I. Dumqve heros Da-
JL/ eius heros nae'lus commemorat ea
medio agmine CephC'
Agmine commemorat fremida regalia turba
;
niim ; regalia atria
complentur fremitu
Atria complentur nee conjugalia festa
:
turba ; nee clamor est
Qui canat, est clamor sed qui fera nunciet arma. qui canat conjugalia
;
festa ; sed qui nunciet
Inque repentinos convivia versa tumultus 5 fera arma. Possisque
u.isimulare convivia
Assimilare freto possis quod saeva quietum: versa j;j repentinos tu-
Ventorum rabies motis exasperat undis. multus, freto, quod
quietum, stcva rabies
Primus in his Phineus, belli temerarius auctor ventorum exasperat
motis ttndis. Phineus
Fraxineam quatiens aratse cuspidis hastam ; primus in his, et teme-
rarius auctor belli,
En, ait, en adsum prsereptae conjugis ultor 10 quatiens fraxineam
Nee mihi te pennae, nee falsura versus in aurum hastatn eerata: cuspi-
dis, ait: En, en adsum,
Jupiter, eripient. Conanti mittere Cepheus, ultor prarcptte con-
jugis. Nee penn<B,nec
Jupiterlversus in falsuni aurum eripient te mihi. Cepheus rcclamat illi couaiUi mittere ^a-
culum :

TRANSLATION.
I. A ND
while the hero Perseus, in the midst of Cepheus' assembly,
jLjL recounts these things, the royal courts are filled with a raging
multitude nor is the clamour such as proclaims a nuptial feast, but
;

such as denounces dreadful war and you might compare the enter-
:

tainment, thus converted into sudden disorder, to the sea, which, when
smooth, an impetuous storm of winds exasperates by the commotion of
the waves. Phineus the chief among them, and rash contriver of the
insurrection, brandishing an ashen, brazen-pointed spear Behold, ;

(says he,) behold, I am here, the revenger of my wife ravished from

me neither your wings, nor Jupiter under the deceitful form of gold,
:

shall rescue thee from me.

Cepheuscries out to him, as he is attempt-
" What are
ing to dart his lance
" ous resolution
; you about to do ? What outrage-
prompts you, brother, to this criminal design ? Is this
NOTES.
1. ea Cephenum.'] Phineus,
Dumque lowers into statues. A bold meta-
brother to Cepheus the father of Andro- phor, to express that the valour of that
meda, jealous because his rival had car- prince, who had vanquished the Gor-
ried off his mistress and niece, resolves
gons, struck so great a terror into the
to disturb the solemnity of the
nuptials. enemy, that they durst not face him, but
He therefore assembles his friends, contented themselves with laying am-
breaks into the hall where the feast was bushes for him at a distance. Ovid, who
kept, and spreads terror and slaughter never enters upon a subject without ex-
on all sides ; Perseus and his
compa- hausting it, describes the combat of
nions after a hard Phineus against Perseus with such par-
struggle get the bet-
ter, and to do the more honour to his ticular ciicumstances, as would make
victory,it was
given out, that Medusa's the reader imagine he had been an eye-
head had converted Phineus and his fol- witnetis of all that passed.
 172 V. OVIDIT NASONLS

Quid fails, germane, Quidfacis? exclamat: qu3ete,germane,furentem

mens tv^il tr /'«-
qiiff
renlem in faciinis ! Mens agitin facinus? meritisnehiiec gratia tantis
Iltrcjic grutiii rcilditur
tantis meritis:' repen- Redditur? hac vitam servatie dote rependis? 15
dis vitiim servatte lute
data ? quam, si f/iitTris Quam tibi non Perseus, verum si qua!ris,ademit:
icriim,' mm Perseus ged STavc Nereidum nuuien, sed cornioer Ani-
ademit tiiii ; sedgrare '-' o '

niimen Nereidum, sed lllOnj

'iXrq^""vaM Sed quee visceribus veniebat bellua ponti
jmnto exsaturinida Exsaturanda mels. lllo tibi tempore rapta est,
ineisci'iceribus. lltijita „ . .
_y. . .
j i- •
i •
-,

est tibi iiiotemjwreiiiw Quo peritura luit. i>isi SI, crudelis, id ipsmn'20
ilrudeTife'igis "id' ip- Exigis, ut percat luctuque levabere nostro.
:

sum, ut pereat, lera- Scilicet haud satis est, quod te spectante revincta
l^ereque nostro luctu.
ha ud est satis,
•Scilicet, est :
quod rtriucta est te
Et nullam quod opem patruus sponsusve tulisti
spectante, et quod tu
patruus sponstcsi'e tu-
listi nullam opem
dolebis insuper quod
••..__
Insuper a quoquam quod sit servata dolebis
Prsemiaq ? Quae, si tibi magna videntur :
1' eripies :
^
;
:

ittservala a quoquam,
eripiesque pramia /
i-
uDi
Jj,x illis
i

craut aiiixa, petisses

n/'
2o
-
^ j_r-
:
scopulis,
qiter, si videntur rnag/ia
tihi, pctisses ex Nunc sine, qui petiit, per quem non orba senectus,
ill/s
scopiilis ubi erant nf-
Ji.ra. Aiinc sine eum Ferre, quod et meritis et voce est pactus eumq :
;

qui petiil, per quern Non

nica senectus voii est tibi, sed certae praelatum intellige morti.
orba J'erre quod pac- Ille nihil contra: sed ethunc, et Persea vultuSO
:

tus est, et meritis, et

Toce ; inteltigeque cum Alterno spectans ; petat hunc ignorat, an ilium ;
praiatum nontihi,sed
cert(c mortt. Ille
re-
Cunctatusquc brevi, coutortam viribus hastam,
spomiit nihil contra,
i

Quautas u'a dabat,

sed spectans et ltHHc,et fj.
i -n
Persea misit. nequicquam
•

m
• • •

,-, •^^ . , j / j t) • •
i.

Persea, alter no vuitu, tJt stetit ilia toro ; stratis denique Perseus, tum
ignorat petatne hunc
«n ilium. Cunct tnsque brevi, misit hastam contortam viribus, quantas ira dabat, in
Perscum, nequicquam. Vt ilia stetit toro, tumdenique Peneus exsiluit stratis,

TRANSLATION.
" the
*'
acknoAvledgment returned for such great services do you recom- !

pense with this reward the life of Andromeda preserved, whom not
"
Perseus, if you require the truth, but the otfended power of the Ne-
"
reids, but Jupiter Animon, and that monster of the sea which came
" to be satiated with
my bowels, took from you. She was lost to you
" from that moment in which she was to have
perished but you, it ;

" would
seem, barbarous man, desire that ^very thing, that she may
"
perish, and want to be eased by my affliction. It is not therefore
"
enough, that she was bound in your very presence, and that you her
" uncle and Do you moreover grieve,
spouse offered no assistance.
" that she was
preserved by another and will you grasp at his re- ;

" wards ?
Which, if they appear great in your eyes, you should have
*'
boldly sought them on those rocks to which they were affixed. Suffer
" him who hath
gained them, by whom my old age is not childless,
" to bear
away the prize due to his merits, and contracted for by a
" solemn
promise and be persuaded, that not to you he was preferred,
;

" but to inevitable death."

Phineus returned no answer but looking alternately on him ;

and on Perseus, is uncertain whether he should first attack the

one or the other. After a short pause, he threw his unavail-
ing lance at Perseus, darted with all the force that age could
Avedged in the seat, when Perseus leaping fiercely
inspii'e. It stood
 METAMORPllOSEON, Lib. V 173

oc feroxqne rupisset ini-

Exsiluit, teloque ferox
inimica remisso mica jiectnra reniisso
tela i vi(i Phmeus is-
Pectora ;
nisi post altaria Phineus
rupisset set j'Ost altaria, et in-
ara.
Isset : et (indignum) scelerato profuit (iigniiiii!
scclertifo.
lira
Tamen
profuit
cus-
Fronte tamen Rhoeti non cuspis adh^sit: irrita
pis tiuii irrita, adhesit
fronte Hhteti ;quipost-
Qui postquam cecidit, ferrumque ex osse revul qiK/m cccidit, ferruni-
sum est, que est revidsvm ex

Palpitat, etpositas aspergit sanguine

~ •
mensas. 4U
Turn vero indoraitas ardescit vulgus in iras
-• • ••
• osxe, palpitat
pernd
sanguine.
yositas
:

Turn verh
et as-
mensas

milgns urdescit iiido-

dicant mitos hi /?«.«, coiijici-
Telaque conjiciunt, et sunt, qui Cephea njitqiie tela: ct sunt
Cum genero debere mori. Sed limine tecti qai dictnit
cum gcnern deberc mo-
C'cphea

Exierat Cepheus, testatus jusque, fidemque, ri: iSVrf Cepheiis exie-

tecti, testa- rat limine
se prohibente moveri. 45 tits
Hospitiique deos, ea jusqiie fdemque,
Bellica Pallas adest; et protegit a^gide
fratrem deosqiie hospitii, ea :

moveri, se prohibevte.
animos. Erat Indus Athis, quern tiu- BelUca Pallas adest,
Datque et protegit fratrem <f-
mine Gange gide, datqne animos.
Athis erat Indus ifuem
Edita Limnate vitreis peperisse sub antris
Liinnute, editajluvii-
Creditur, egregius forma: quam divite cultu
nc Gangc, peperisse,
sub riti-fis antris, e-
annis 50
Augebat, bis adhuc octonis integer ; gregiiis farma, quam
uvgibat divite cvltu,
Indutus chlamydem, Tyriam,quam limbus obibat adliuc integer, annis
indutvs
Aureus: ornabant aurata mouilia colium ;
bis octoiiis;
chlamydem Tyriam,
Et madidos myrrha curvum crinale capillos. quam limbiis aureus
obibut : mimilia aura-
lUe quidem jaculo quam vis distantia misso ta ornabat colium, et
ciiriiim rrinale copil-
arcus. 55
Figere doctus erat ; sed tendere doctior l:ismadidos myrrhH.
nle quidem erat doc-
Tumquoq;
-, .
T^ .
T lentamanuflectentemcornuaPerseus
,.^ . .
J, 1 J.
'^ tus figcreqiiamvis dui-
fetipite, qui media positus tumabat
in ara, tautia jacuio misso ;
sed- doctior tendere ar-
cus. Perseus pevculit stipite, qui positus fumabat in media aru;e\xm turn quoque Jiecten-
tem lenta cornua ma?iu creditur ;
TRANSLATION,
from the couch, would have plunged the retorted weapon in his enemy's
breast, had not Phineus fled behind the altar and, O shocking; the ;
!

altar afforded shelter to the miscreant. The spear, however, not thrown
in vain, stuck in the forehead of Rhsetus, who, after he had fallen, and
that the lance was extracted from his scull, he spurned, and with his
blood besmeared the tables that stood near. But then the wild rabble,
inflamed with ungovernable rage, jointly hurl their weapons and ;

there some who cry out, that Cepheus, M'ith his son-in-law, ought
ai-e
to perish. But Cepheus was gone out from the entrance of the palace,
of hospitality to witness, that
calling Right and Faith, and the gods
this tumult was raised in spite of all his endeavours to suppress it. The
warlike Pallas interposes, and with her shield protects her brother,
and inspires bim with fortitude. There was an Indian, one Athis,
(whom Limnate, sprung from the river Ganges, is supposed to have
eminent for his
brought forth beneath these transparent streams)
which he set off by the richness of his habit, and as yet but
beauty,
sixteen years of age dressed in a purple tunic bordered with a golden
;

his neck, and a curved bodkin his hair,

fringe a golden collar graced
;

imbued with myrrh. He had, indeed, been instructed to throw the

lance, and hit things though very distant but
he was yet more expert ;

he Mas bending with his hand

in
drawing the bow. Perseus, just as
174 P. OVIDIl NASONIS

etcnnfuaitorainfrac- Perculit I et fractis confudit in ossibus ora.

tis ossibuf- LibiAssy- I'l i -
•
li.
. ,
• •

rius Lyrahas vidit Huiic uDi laudatos jactantemin sanguine vultus

da"^ ''rnii'^^ut sati Assyrius vidit Lycabas junctissimus illi 60 ;

^"Js'imw iiiT"e/"non
Et comes, ct vcri non dissimulator amoris ;
liissimuiator'verinmn.
Postquam exlialantem sub acerbo vulnere vitam
lavit^'A'thhi"cih>7an-
Deploravit Athin quos ille tetenderat, arcus
;

Arripit: Et, Mecum

tibi sint certamina, dixit
1X147 «"ri/"r«r- :

cii.i

rat;
quos ille
et dixit :
tetende-
Cert a-
j^g^ longc^m
& nueri
^r
:
quo plus 65
fato laetabere 't.
.i
mina siiit tibi mecum ; Haec omnianondum
Invidise, quam lauQis, haoes.
Dixerat: emicuit nervo penetrabile telum:
fatoptrriuo'hiZI
Sir'SwK'"ir«< Vitatumque, tamen sinuosa veste pependit.
omnia hac, cim telum Vertit in huuc harpen spectatara csede Medusae
penetrabile emicuit ...-i
i-
nervo; vitatumque, ta- Aciisioniades, adigitque in pectus
i.-ii
at ille
i^A
7U •,.
•
j.
:

Ser^TcrL/ScI Jam moriens, oculis sub nocte natantibus atra,

vertit in hunc harpen
Circumspexit
^ Athin seque acclinavit in ilium : :
spectatam carie Ale- -r^ ,. , .
-"^

-i
•

dus(F,adigitqueinpec- Et tulit ad manes junctaj solatia mortis.

rl^m, cnmptxuAt'hiii Eccc Sycnites genitus Methione Phorbas,

TrfZftefacciina. Et Libys Amphimedon, avidi committere pug-

tiitqwe se in ilium et nam ' 75
tulit ad manes solatia
;
.
ni,\
l,i jrix
juncttB mortis. Ecce
iSanguine, quo tellus late madeiacta tepebat,
ni'lZ%mone,Z' it Conciderant lapsi surgentibus obstitit ensis, :

Alterius costis, jugulo Phorbantis adactus.

^lci"II!H::^i.:^n,
conciderant lapsi san- At uou Actoiiden
Erithon, cui lata bipennis
madt/acta tepebat :1n. Telum erat, admoto Perseus petit ense sed altis :

sis obstitit surgenti-

bits, adactus costis alterius,jugulo Phorbantis.
et At Perseus non petit hamato ense Eri-
thon Actoridcn, cui lata bipennis erat telum; sed
TRANSLATION,
the pliant extremities of the yielding horn, struck him with a brand
which he had taken from the midst of the altar, and crushed his face
against the splintered bones. When Assyrian Lycabas
saw him tossing
his shattered face in blood, being united to him in the strictest friend-
ship, his companion, and no dissembler of
the real affection he bore
him after bemoaning Athis breathing out his life under a cruel wound,
;

he snatches the bow Avhich he had bent, and said Let the contest be :

now with me you shall not long rejoice in the youth's untimely fate,
;

whence more envy than honour accrues. Scarce had he ended, when
the piercing arrow sprang whizzing from the string, and, though avoided,
yet hung in the plaits of his robe. The grandson of Acrisius turns
in the slaughter of Medusa,
against him his falchion, already proved
and plunged it in his breast but he now expiring, with eyes swimming in
;

to the
darkness, looked round for Athis, and sinking upon him, carried
shades below the consolation of dying with his friend. When lo, Phor-
bas of Syene, the son of Methion, and Lybian Amphimedon, eager for
the fight, are tripped by the pavement made slippery with warm gore ;

the sword of Perseus prevents their rise, thrust between the ribs of
the and into the throat of Phorbas. But the hero did not attack
one,
with his sword Erythus, the son of Actor, whose weapon was a large
NOTES.
74. Si/enites.] Syene was a city of vflgypt upon the Nile.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. V. \16

Exstantem signis, multseque in pondere massae, tollit duabus manibus

ingetitem cratera, ex-
Ingentem manibus tollit cratera duabus ;
stantein aids signis,
muUfFque masste in
Infligitque viro. Rutilum vomit ille cruorem :
ponder e,mjligit que vi-
Et resupinus humum moribund© vertice pulsat, ro. Ille vomit rutilum
crtiorem, et resupimis,
Inde Semiramio Polydsemona sanguine cretum, pulsat humum mori-
bundo vcrtice. Inde
sternit
Caucasiumque Abarin, Sperchionidemq; Lyce- Polydtrn'.oiia
cretumSemiramio san-
tum, 86 guine, Caitcasivmque
Abarim, Spkerchioiii-
Intonsumque comas Elycen, Phlegyanque, Cly- demque I.yrctum, Ely-
tumque cenque intoiisum co-
mas, Phlegiamque.Clii-
V_Sternit: etexstructos morientum calcat acervos. tumquc, ct calcat e.i-
strttctos acervos mo-
Nee Phineus ausus concurrere cominus hosti, rientum. A'fc Phineiis
ausus concurrere co-
Intorquetjaculum quod detulit error in Idan, 90
:
minus hosti, inlorquet
Expertem frustra belli, et neutra arma secutum. jacnlum, quod error
detulit in Idan, friis-
Ille tuens oculis immitem Phinea torvis, tra expcrtem
[Phineu, belli, et

Quandoquidem in partes, ait, abstrahor, accipe, secutum

Jlle
Tieutra arma.
tueni immilem
Pi'ineu torvis otuiu,
Quemfecistihostem:pensaq:hocvulnerevulnus.
w / .
\ 1r\r- ^ '^'(- Quandoquidem,
Jamqueremissurustractumdecorporetelum 95 Phmeu, attrahor in

Sanguine defectos cecidit collapsus in artus. ^ql'em%ciHWpen''saque

*«'"'« '^c vuinere.
HicquoqueCephenumpostreeemprimusOdites
T _^ r Jamqne remtssurus te-
_-, T^.
T-» •
!• TT
Jinseiacetdymeni: ProtenoraperculitHypseus: i"m tractum de cor-
IT T Tf L •
1 -IT•
, 1 •
pore, collapsus cecidit
llypsea Lyncides. ruitet grandee vusmillis in artus defectos san-

Emathion,8equicultor,timidusqueDeorum: 100 fil^^JIZ^^^L

Quem
-p, ii'-
quoniam prohibent anni bellare, loquendo p';^^
1 1
regem jacet ense
Clymcm; Hypseus per-
rugnat; et mcessit, scelerataque devovet arma. cunt Protenora, Lyn- cides Ilypsea. Gran-
davus Emathion fuit et in illls, cullor eequi, timidusque deorum : quetn, quoniam anni prohi-
bent bellare, pugnat loquendo, etincessit devovetqiie scelerata arma.

TRANSLATION,
battle-axe, but seizes with both his hands a huge cup, high embossed,
and tosses the massy goblet at his head he vomits up red blood, and;

falling backward beats the ground with his dying head. He then slew
Folymedon sprung from the blood of Semiramis, and Abaris from near
^ount Caucasus, and Lycetus the son of Spherchius, and Elyces with
unshorn and Phlegias, and Clytus, and treads upon the heaps of
locks,
dying men he had piled up. Nor durst Phineus venture to engage hand
to hand with his
enemy, but darts his javelin, which, missing its aim, hit
Idas, who had in vain declined the war, and joined with either party :

he beholding phineus with a stern look. Since, says he, I am forced

to declare, take now the
enemy you have drawn upon yourself, and
requite the wound that you have given me by the wound that now
threatens you; and now was he just going to return the dart drawn
from his side, when he fell, sinking upon his limbs unable to support
him through want of blood. Here too Odytes, next in rank to the king
in the court of
by the sword of Clymenus Hy])seus killed
Cepheus, fell :

Protenor, and Lyncides Hypseus. Among them was also aged Emathion,
an observer of equity, and one who
respected the gods who, because ;

his years
permitted him not to engage in the war, fights only with his
tongue, and walking to and fro among the troops, endeavours to ap-
NOTES.
86. The son of Sphercheus, a river of Thessaly.
Spherchioiiidem.']
 176 P. OVIDII NASONIS
Chromis demctit caput Huic Chrcmis, amyjlexo tremulis altaria palmis,
erne huir, amptcxo al-
taria treimilis palmis :
Deraetit ense caput quod protinus incidit aras ; :
Quod pfotinus hicidit
ara ; atque ibi edidit
execruntia verba semi-
Atque ibi semiauimi verba execrantia lingua 105
animi lingua ; ct exspU Edidit, et medios aniniam exspiravit in ignes.
ravit animum in me-
dics Hinc
Hinc gemini fratres, Broteasque et csestibus Ani-
ignes. ge-
minifraCres, Broteas- Invicti, vinci si possent csestibus enses, [nion
gue ct Ammon, invicti
castibits, si enses pos- Phinea cecidere manu Cererisque sacerdos
:

sent litici ceestibus,

cecidere Pliinca ma- Ampycus, albenti velatus tempora vitta. 110
nu ; Ampi/ciisqiie sa-
cerdos Cereris, velatus
Tu quoque,Japetide,non hos adhibendusinusus ;

quod ad tempnra al- Sed qui pacis opus citharam cum voce moveres ;
oenti vitta. Tti quo-
que Japetide, non ad- Jussus eras celebrare dapes, festumque canendo.
hibendtis in hos usus,
sed qui moveres cilha-
Cui procul astanti, plectrumque imbelle tenenti,
ram cum voce, opus Petalus, I, ridens, Stygiis cane C3etera, dixit, 1 15
pads eras jvssus cele-
Orare dopes, festum- Manibus : et Isevo mucronem tempore figit.
que, canendo. 'Cui ad-
stanti procul, tenenti- Concidit ct digitis morientibus ille retentat
que imbeUe plectrum Fila IvrsB casuQue canit miserabile carmen.
Petalus ridens dixit, _- •'.
^ „.
:
- ... .

/, cane ctrtera Stygiis J\on sinithuncimpune lerox cecidisse Lycormas :

7rmleZ''i(evo tempore. Raptaquc de dextro robusta repagula posti 120

u:^:7^1^l:^M Ossibus nUdit mediae cervicis. At ille
inisriiguis,casuqueca-
ftifmiserabile carmen.
Procubuit tcrrae, mactati ^
iuvenci. more
Ferox Lycormas non sinithiinc cecidisse impunc ; repagulaqne robusta rapta de dextro posti
illidil ossibus midicE cervicis ; at ille procubuit terra more mactati Juvenci.

TRANSLATION.
pease the impious tumult him Chromis pursues, and as with trembling
;

hands he embraced the altar, cuts off his head, which falling imme-
diately upon the altar, seemed there with faltering tongue to utter
M ords condemning their Avicked broils, and breathed out his soul amid
the sacred fires. Upon this two brothers, Broteas and Ammon, in-
vincible in combats of the cestus, (if the cestus was a match for
swords) fell by the hand of Phineus, and Ampycus the priest of Ceres
having his temples bound with a white fillet. You too, Japetides, not
fit for services like these, but who tuned
your voice in concert with the
peaceful lyre, and had been commanded to crown the entertainment
and nuptial feast with music to whom, standing at a distance, and
;

holding in his hand the unwarlike plectrum, Petalus scoffing said.

Go, sing the rest to the Stygian ghosts, and with a mortal blow
pierced his left temple he falls, and touches again the strings of
:

his lyre with his dying fingers, and as chance directed,

played a
mournful air. Fierce Lycormas suffers him not to fall unrevenged,
but tearing a massy bar from tlie door, dashes it against the
middle bones of his neck but he, stunned by the blow, falls to the
:

gromid after the manner of a slaughtered bullock. Pelates the

NOTES.
103. Amplexo tremulis altaria palmis.] blow ; or, according to others, a kind
In cases of great danger it was usual to of whirlbats, or bludgeons of wood, witli
fiy to some temple, and there take re- lead at one end. Tliis exercise is most
fuge bciiind the altar orstatiie of the god. admirably described by Virgil, in the
103. Vinci si possmt ctestibtis fjfst's.] combat of Dares and Entellus. See the
The cestus were either a sort of leathern translation of Virgil, JEn. V.
guards for tlic hands, composed of J] 4. Pleclrum.] The instinnient
thongs, and conininnly filled with lead wherewith tliey struck the harp in
or iron, to add force and weight to;r •
plajing.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lm. V. 177

Beniere tentabat lavi quoque robora postis Cinyphius Pelates ten-

tabat ijuoque demere
tentanti dextera fixa est Dex-
Cinyphius Pelates, roboraltBvipostis.
tera est fixii tentanti
Cuspide Marmaridae Corythi lignoque cohasit. ;
ciispide Marmarida:
Ha^renti latus hausit Abas nee corruit ille 126 :
;
Cori/llii,coli(exctqtie llg-
710. Abas huvsit latus
Sed retinente manum moriens e poste pependit. hareiiti, nee ille cor-
ruit,, scd mo7'it'ns pe-
Sternitur et Melaneus Perseia castra secutus, j'endit tposte retinente
manum. Melaneiis et
Et Nasamoniaci Dorylas ditissimus agrj ;
steriilfur,seeiilus cas-
tra Perseiu, ct i)ury
Dives ao-ri Dorvlas: quo non possederat alter 130
™.,.;,.-.: -...: ,....,.
Latms, aut totidem toUebat tarns acervos. monUicl agri ; Dorylas
dives agri; quo o liter
in missmii stetit inguine ferrum lion possederat lalius,
Hujus obliquo
ant toUebat tutidcm
:

Letifer ille locus, quern postquam vulneris auctor aecrt'os farris. Fer-
missum .sf.etit in
Sino'ultantem
* aniraam, et versantem lumina vidit riim
_-, TT
.
1 TT 'j obliquo iiiguinc
vuiiquv hvjus.
•
ciiguiiie I'ujus.
1
Bactrms Haicyoneus. -Hoc quod premis, mquit, nie locus est let'ifer
line Quern postquam
hcl-iP+n
lldUcLij T^fi
iKifj trius Halcj/nueus auc-
tor muneris vidit siu-
De tot aa'ris
t>
terrae l~i exsang;ue
corpusque :
& reliquit.
i
gultantem ammum, et
Torquet in nunc hastam cahdo de vulnere raptam versuntem liimina, in-
quit : habcto hoc ter-
Ultor Abantiades media quai nare recepta
: rip quod fireinis de tot
agris; reliquitqiie cor-
Cervice exacta est, in partesque eminet ambas. pus exsaiigue. Aba/i-

Dumque manum fortunajuvat; Clytiumque, Cla-

tiades ultor, torquet
in liunc hastam rap-
ninque, 140 tam decalido vulnere,
qua recepta media nu-
Matre satos una, diverso vulnere fudit. re, est exacln ccrvicc,
in ambas
Nam Clytii per utrumque, gravi librata lacerto, eiiiinetque
Dumque For-
Fraxinus acta femur iaculum Clanis ore momor-
;
''
riit Clytiumqiie Cla-
j.
dlt. ninque satos una ma-
tre, diverso vulnere.
Namfraxinuis librata gravi lacerto, est acta per utrii>nque femur Clytii.

TRANSLATION.
African endeavours too to snatch a bar from the left side of the door,
hut Coryphus the son of Marmanis pierced his right hand in the attempt,
and rivetted it to the wood. Abas, with his spear transfixed his side,
nor did he fall, but hung dying by the door-post to which his hand was
wedged. Melaneus is also slain, who had followed the camp of Perseus,
and Dorylas, rich in Nasamoniac land. Dorylas, rich in land, than whom
none possessed fields of greater extent, or gathered from them so many
heaps of grain. The missive steel stood fixed obliquely in his groin, a
mortal part; whom, when Bactrian Haicyoneus, the author of the wound,
saw breathing out in sobs his soul, and rolling his convulsive eyes, he
of so many acres formerly thine, and
taunting said, Take this only spot
left his bloodless carcass. The great grandson of Abas, impatient to
whirls against him the spear drawn from the warm
aA'enge his friend,
wound, which, entering by the ridge of his nose, pierced his neck, and
struck out from either side and, fortune directing his hand, he killed
;

Clytius and Clanis, born

of the same mother, but falling by difterent
wounds : for an ashen spear, poised by a strong arm, transfixes both the
thighs of Clytius : Clanis bites a dart in his mouth. Celadon also the
NOTES.
124. Cinyphius PcJatcs.'] So called from 135. Bactriu.i tialcyoneus.'] From Bac-
a region of Asia, bor<lerin<; upon India.
Cinyphus, a river of Africa. tria,

129. Nusamoniaci.'] The Nasanioiies 138. Alantiudes.] Pcrst,-iis tiie great-

were a people of Libya, near the two grandson of Ab.is, for Acrisius, fhe father
Svrtes. of Dan.ie, was the son of Abas.

N
178 P. OVIDII NASONIS
Clanlt momnrdit jam-
Occidit et Celadon Mendesius
lum ore. Celadon Men- occidit Astreus,
Matre Palaestina, dubio
de.Hvset pccidit : As- dubi p-eiiitore creatus. 145
trei/s occidtt, creatus
Tp'i.i
•
P
Paicstina mairc, sed/Cithionque sagax quonclam Ventura videre ;
iZ%r'sTgaV i^ere ^""0 ave deceptus falsa regisque Thoactes :

et cseso genitore infamis

ZTJ^Te^'puir/ahi ^™iger, Agyrtes.
ave Thnactesq; ar- Plus tamen exliausto supercst
:
namoue omnibus :

miger et
regis, Agyr-
tes infamis caso ge- Uimm
,i«„rv. 1ZlQ
i.^o

"fxhlusto '^"Tupefel't: Opprimcre est animus. Conjurata undique pugnant

Namque animus est Affmiua pi'o causa mcritum impugnante fidemque.
omnibus opj/rimere xy i r \ • •

nnum. Conjurata ag- Hac pro parte socer irustra pius, et nova conjux,
i .

dique pro"causa 7i^

Cum geuetrice, favcnt :
ululatuque atria complent.
-pugnante meritum. fi- Sed souus armorum superat, 2;emitusque cadentum:
demque. Pro hac par- f^ -.,
f ^^ ,
t-i r -r, -t r-
te socer frustra pius,
Jrollutosque scmel multo Joellona Fcnatcs 155
et nova conjux, cum
genetrice, fave7it com-
o 'fj'j.
feaugume periunclit ;
^
reuovataque prselia miscet.
^•
•
l

fJ!'%7 soTm Ir'mo-

Circumcunt unum Phineus, et mille secuti
rum, gemit usque ca- Phinca. Tela volaut plurahybcma grandine
dent urn superat. Bel-
lonaqne perfundit Pe-
nates semel poUutos,
PraeterutrumquelatuSjprzeterqueet lumen etaures.
multo sanguine, 7nis- Applicat hinc humeros ad magnee saxa columnse :
cetque renovata prte-
lia. Phineus, et ?nille Tutaque terga gerens, adversaque in agmina versus,
secuti Phinea, cir- Sustinet instantes. Instabant parte sinistra 162
cumeunt unum. Tela,
plura hiberna gran- Chaonius Molpeus dextra Nabathseus Ethemon :

volant propter
ditie,
utrumque latus, prce- Tigris ut, auditis diversa valle duorum
terque et lumen et au- Extimulata fame, mugitibus armentorum : 165
res. Hac adplicat hu-
'oMros^ad saxa"mag7ia Nescit utro
potius Tuat ; et ruere ardet utroque :
columnar, gerensque
terga luta, versusque in adversa agmina, sustinet instantes. Chaonius Molpeus, et Nabatheus
£themon instabant, primus sinistrci parte, alter dextra, : Ut tigris extimulata fume, mugitibus
duorum armentorum auditis diversO, valle, nescit utro potius ruat,et ardet mere utroque :
TRANSLATION.
Mendesian fell, born of a Palestine mother, but of an un-
Astrseiis fell,
certain father. And Athlon sagacious at foreseeing things to come, hut
noAv deceived by a false prognostic and Thoactes the king's squire, and
;

Agyrtes infamous for killing his father.

Great havoc was now made, and yet more still remained to be done,
for all join in an endeavoiu- to oppress one. The conspiring troops fight
on every side in a cause that attacked merit and faith. The father-in-
law pious in vain, the new bride, and her mother favour oiu" hero, and fill
the halls with doleful shrieks. But the rattling of armour, and the groans
of those who fell in fight prevail. Bellona too stains the polluted house-
hold gods with much blood, and kindles renewed fights. Phineus, and a
thousand the followers of Phineus, surround one. Darts fly thicker than
winter hail, by both his sides, before his eyes, and round his ears. He
leans with his shoulders upon a great pillar, and having thus secured his
back, faces the adverse troops, and withstands their charge. Chaonian
the left side, and Nabatheon Ethemon on the right.
Molpeus urges him on
As a tiger
on by hunger, when she hears the lowings of two herds
pushed
NOTES.
144. Mendesius Celadon.] So called be- derived his original from the Chaonian.<5,
cause he was a native of Mendes in the a neighbouring people to Arabia, accord-
Lower yE^'ypt, or rather of the city of ing to Pliny.
Myndcs in Syria. Ibid. Ethemon Nabalhceus.] Because
163. Chaonius Molpeus.'] Molpeus has come from Nabathaea a region of Arabia
here the epithet of Chaonius, because he Felix.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. V. 179

Sic dubius Perseus, clextra laevane feratur,

^„f,:X^.SLr;:
Molpea trajecti submovit viunere cruris ; submovu Moipea vni.
.TN c1 " i "M „„„;^^J„<.i.
enim aat
««»« trajecti cruris,
Contentusque tuga est. iMeque tempus atque contentus fuga .•

TTtliomnn
Xiiueuiun • Neque enim Etiiemon
, ^Q^ temptcs, sedfurit ;
Sed furit et,' cupiens
r alto dare vulnera collo,' 170
:
«« cupiens ,iarevuine-
. . ra alto collo, jregtt
JNon circumspectis exactum viribus ensem ensemexacuimvirtbus
'
Fregit et extrema percussse parte columns
: ZlinaZTsFauu el
Lamina dissiluit ; dominique in gutture fixa est. SXT^tSr^^
Non tamen ad letum causas satis ilia valentes sutturedomim.Tamen
TM ii-m-i -r» ,• c "'*" plaga non deUit •
1.

Plaga dedit. Trepidum Perseus, et inermia trustra caums satis vaientes

Brachia tendentem Cyllenide confodit harpe. 176 ^^^^^i:!^.
Verum ubi virtutem turbae succumbere vidit, f ™ trepidum, et/rus'-
bracida. verum
Auxilium, Perseus, quomam *
sic cogitis ipsi, »«>
hi §^^if* c **•
1 "if Ki^'if 't tiff 7 1'7'i*

Dixit, ab hoste petam vultus avertite vestros, tutem succumbere tur.

:

Si quis amicus adest: et Gorgonis extulit ora. 180

^^,J^i^; ^.^'^
moveant miracula, dixit
™
Quaere alium,' tua quem
,
•

:
r>,i
Ihescelus utque manu jaculum latale parabat
'^.""»

guis
.,«''

amicus
'»"*";.
tite vestros vultus, st
adest
"'er-

, et
1 j_

Mittere, in hoc hsesit signum de marmore gestu.

Proximus huic Ampyx animi plenissima magni
ThescliZ'diSt%'!er'e
'^iT^IZJ^-
185 parabat miuerefataie
^
Dy.
Pectora Lvncidae sladio
~
/
petit: inque petendo
s . .
^I
extera diriguit, nee citra mota nee ultra.
At Nileus, qui se genitum septemplice Nilo
jaculum manu, /ktsU
.

m hoc gestu signum de

,

ZITZpyx ^u'gi^
Ementitus erat, clypeo quoque flumina septem
Jfj;,tr«^^;r^'T:
Argento partim, partim cselaverat auro, mi; inque petendo,
° * '^
deilera diriguit, mota
nee citra, nee ultra. At Nileiis, qui erat ementitus se genitum septemplice Nilo, et celaverat quo-
que Clypeo septem Jiumina, partim auro, partim argento, ait :
TRANSLATION.
to rush out, and is eager to
valleys, knows not on which side
in different

prey on both so Perseus, doubtful whether to charge on the right or left,

;

repulses by a wound in the leg, and is satisfied with his flight

Molpeus :

for Ethemon gives but attacks him fiercely, and

him no time to pursue,

aiming a blow fuJl at his neck, broke his sword, wielded with incautious
in splinters, and the
strength, against the pillar, which immediately flew
point rebounding, stuck in its master's throat. But, as that Avound Avas
too slight to effect his death, Perseus stabs him with his Cyllenian fal-
chion, trembling, and in vain extending his feeble arms for mercy. But
the hero, when he saw his valour like to be overpowered by the multitude
of his enemies, Since you yourselves, says he, force me to it, I will seek
assistance even from an avert whatever friends are
enemy ; your sight
present and he produced the Gorgon's head. Seek another, said Thesce-
;

lus, whom thy prodigies may move, and as he prepared to dart the fatal
weapon, stuck in that posture a marble statue. Ampyx, who stood next
him, heaves his sword at the breast of Lyncidas full of a daring spirit,
nor could be moved
presses on, his right hand became stiff,
but as he thus
to one side or another. But Nileus, who falsely boasted that he was the
son of seven-mouthed Nile, and who had inlaid in his shield its seven
streams, partly in silver, and partly in gold liehold, says he, Perseus, ;

the origin of
my race, and carry to the silent shades of death this mighty
NOTES.
176. Cyllenide coiifodit harpe.'] That is, from Mercury, born on Cyllene, :i moim-
with his falchion, which he had received tain of Arcadia.
N 2
 180 P. OVIDII NASONIS
adspice Persru pri-
mordia nostra: gentis, Aspice, ait,Perseu, nostras primordia gentis : 190
feres magna solatia tacitas solatia mortis ad umbras,
mortis ud tucitas um- Magna feres
bras, cecidisse tanto
viro. Ultima pars vo-
A tanto cecidisse viro. Pars ultima vocis
cis est suppressa in
In medio suppressa sono est: adapertaque velle
medio sono : Credasqtie
adaperta ora vclle lo-
Ora loqui credas ; nee sunt ea pervia verbis.
qui, necea sunt pervia
verbis.Eryx increpat Increpat hos, vitioque animi, non crinibus, inquit,
hos,inquitque; torpe-
tis vitioa7iimi,non cri-
Gorgoneis torpetis, Eryx, incurrite mecum 196
nibus Gorgoneis ; iti- Et prosternite humi juvenem magica arma mo-
currite mectim, et pros-
ternitehumi juvencm
ventem.
moventem magica ur- Incursurus erat ;
tenuit vestigia tellus :
ma. Erat incnrsurus,
tellus tenuit vestigia ; Immotusque siliex armataque mansit imago.
mansitque immotus si- Hi tamen ex merito poenas subiere. Sed unus 200
lex,armataque imago.
Hi tamen subiere pa- Miles erat Persei, pro quo dum pugnat, Aconteus,
nam
•«u/«ex mtriio
t,t merito ; sea
sed /-^( .a
^
-,1^
erat unus Aconteus,
CjOrgOne COUSpecta SaXO COUCrCVlt ObortO.
Tumpi^giwi, 'aorione Qucm ratus Astyages etiamnum vivere, longo
cmicrevito- Ense ferit sonuit tinnitibus ensis acutis.
fnsvccta,
bortosaxo: Quern As-
:
•
-r^ * e\r\r i
tyages rat us etiamnum lium stupet Astvagcs uaturam traxit eandem 205
I :

vivere, ferit lomo e«- i\/r

se Enses sonuit tinni-
^.
Marmoreoque manet vultus mirantis
.-
m i
ore.
• •

tibus acutis. Dun Nomina

Astyages stupet, trax- longa mora est media de plebe virorum
it eandem naturam
Dicere. Bis centum restabant corpora pugnse
:
:
Vultusque mirantis
manet in marmoreo
ore. Mora est longa
Gorgone bis centum riguerunt corpora visa.
dicere nomina de tne- Poenitet injusti nunc denique Phinea belli: 210
^^^ ^ simulacra videt diversa figuris
feifum%lrporTrefta. ^"\*^ ^o^* ;

bant pugna:. Bis cen-

Agnoscitque suos et uominc quemque vocatos
turn corpora riguerunt
Gorgone visa. Ptenitet
-rt •.'
JTOscit :
,
:

opem credensque parum, sibi

-i-'i
proximatangit
-i

nunc denique Phinea

injusti belli, Sed quid agat? Videt simulachra diversa fguris, agnoscitque suos; et poscit quem-
que opem vocatos nomine ; credensque parum, tangit corpora proxima sibi :
TRANSLATION.
consolation, that you fell so great a man. The last part
by the hands of
of his speech was
suppressed in the middle of the sound, and you would
imagine that his open mouth aimed to speak, but that it is not passable
for words. Eryx chides them in an insulting tone You are benumbed, :

says he, by the cowardice of your minds, not by any power of the Gorgon ;

rush on with me, and level with the ground a youth who deals in magic
arms. He was going to rush on, when his feet stuck to the earth, and he
stood an immovable rock and armed statue. These all underwent the
fate they deserved but there was one Aconteus, a soldier of Perseus, in
;

whose cause, while he fights, looking by chance at the Gorgon's head, he

was suddenly converted into a stone. Astyages, thinking him still alive,
strikes him with his long sword the sword rung with a shrill tinkling.
:

While Astyages wonders, he took on the same nature, and the look of one
admiring continues in his marble face.
It were tedious to rehearse the names of men from among the vulgar.
Two hundred bodies yet remained for the fight two hundred bodies be- ;

came stiff upon seeing the Gorgon.

Phineus at last repents of the unjust war: but what can he do ? He
sees statues of different forms, and knows them to be his own men, and
demands help, calling each of them by name nor yet persuaded of the ;

truth, touches the bodies that stood next him they were all marble. He :

turns away his eyes, and Mith suppliant hands and arms extended, in
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. V. 181

Erant marmor
Corpora marmor erant, avertitur atque ita supplex, titur, atque supplex,
: ; aver-
;

Confessasque manus, obliquaque brachia tendens, tendeiisque conj'essas

7>iaiius, obliquaque
Vincis, ait, Perseu remove fera monstra
:
tuaeque brachia, ait ita, Per-
;
seu, vincis: Remove
Saxificos vultus, qucecunque ea, telle Medusae.
fera monstra, tolleque
ToUe, precor, non nos odium regnive cupido saxificos vultus tuee
Medusa quacunqiieea.
Compulit ad bellum pro conjuge movimus arma. est. Precor, tolle, non
:

Causa fuit meritas melior tua, tempore nostra. 220 odium, cupidove reg-
ni, compulit nos ad bel-
lum
Non cessisse piget, nihil, 6 fortissime, prseter Movimtis arma
pro conjuge. Tua causa
;

Hanc animam concede mihi tua czetera sunto. : fuit melior meritis,
nostril tempore.
Piget
Talia dicenti, neque eum, quem voce rogabat, non cessisse. O fortis-
sime, concede tiihil
Respicere audenti, Quod ait, timidissime Phineu, mihi pra:ter hanc ani-
Et possum tribuisse, et magnum munus inerti est, mam:
tua.
Cetera sunto
Persens ait ilU
(Pone metum) tribuam nullo violabere ferro. 226 audenti
: dicenti talia, 7ieque
respicere eum
Quin etiam mansura dabo monumenta per sevum : quem rogabat voce ;
timidissime
Inque domo soceri semper spectabere nostri
Phineu,
:
tribuam et quod pos-
Ut mea se sponsi soletur imagine conjux. sum tribuisse, et quod
est magnum munus
Dixit : et in
partem Phorcynida transtulit illam, inerti ; pone metum,
violabere nullo ferro.
Ad quam se trepido Phineus obverterat ore. 231 Quin etiam dabo mo-
Tum quoque conanti sua flectere lumina cervix. numenta mansura per
avum; setnperque spec-
Diriguit, saxoque oculorum induruit humor.
tabere in domo nostri
soceri, ut mea conjux
Sed tamen os timidum, vultusque in marmore soletur se imagine
sponsi. Dixit : ct
supplex, transtulit Phorcynida
in illam partem, ad
Submissoeque manus, faciesque obnoxiamansit. 235 quam Phineus obver-
II. Victor Abantiades
patrios cum conjuge muros terat
se trepido ore.
Cervix diriguit conanti
turn quoque flectere sua lumina, hum-orqne oculorum induniit saxo. Sed tamen, os timidum,
vultusque supplex, manusqtie submissee, faciesque obnoxia mansit in marmore. II. Victor
Abantiades

TRANSLATION.

acknowledgment of his fault You have conquered Perseus, remove the

:

cruel monster: and hence with that stone-making face of Medusa what-
ever she be hence with it, I entreat you.
;
Not hatred, nor the desire of
a kingdom urged me to war I took up arms for my wife. You had the
:

juster claim to her in point of merit. 1 in point of time. I am not

however sorry to yield. Grant me, greatest of heroes, only my life, all
else I resign to you. As he thus spoke, for he durst not turn his looks
toward him whom in suppliant words he addressed. What is in my
power to grant cowardly Phineus (returned Perseus), and what indeed is
a great gift to an abject wretch like thee, fear not, I will grant it no ;

vengeful sword shall hurt you. Nay, I will even give a monument to
continue through ages, you shall he ever beheld in the house of my father-
in-law, that my wife may solace herself with the image of her betrothed
spouse. He said, and transferred the daughter of Phorcys to that side,
toward which Phineus had turned himself with a trembling countenance.
Then too, as he was endeavouring to turn away his eyes, his neck grew
stiff, and the moisture of his eyes hardened into stone but his timorous;

look, suppliant posture, extended arms and guilty countenance, appeared

still in the statue.
II. Perseus, thus victorious, enters with his wife the walls of his native
182 P. OVIDII NASONIS

intrat cum conjuge Intrat : vindex ultorque parentis

et immeritce
jmtrios muros ; ct i in-
dex ultorque immeritce
Aggreclitur Prcetum. Nam fratre perarma fugato
yarentis, aggreditur
Proetum. 'Nam fratre Acrisioneas Proetus possederat arces. 239
J'ugato'iperarmd, Proe- Sed nee ope armorum, nee, quam male ceperat, arce
tus possederat Acri-
sioneas arces. Sed su- Torva colubriferi superavit Imnina monstri.
peravit torva lamina
colubriferi monstri, III. Te tamen, 6 parvae rector Polydecta Seriphi,
nee ope armorum, nee
arce, quam male cepe-
Nee juvenis virtus per tot spectata labores,
rat.
III. Tamen, O Poly-
Nee mala mollierant sed inexorabile durus
:

decta, rector parvte Exerees odium nee iniqua finis in ira est.
: 245
Seriphi, nee virtus ju-
venis spectata per tot Detrectas etiam laudes fictamque Medusse
:

labores, nee mala mol-

Arguis esse neeem. Dabimus tibi pignora
veri ;
liera7it te, sed durus
exerees inexorabile Parcite luminibus, Perseus ait: oraque regis
odium, nee finis est in
iniqua ird. Detrectas Ore Meduszeo silicem sine sanguine fecit. 249
etiam laudes ejus ar-
IV. Haetenus aurigense comitem Tritonia fratri
;

guisque necem Medusa

Perseus
essejictam.
ait, dabimus pignora
Se dedit. Inde cava cireumdata nube, Seriphon
veri tibi, parcite lu- Deserit a dextra Cythno Gyaroque relictis.
;
minibus, fecitque ora
regis silicem sine stin- Quaque super pontum via visa brevissima, Thebas,
gui?ie ore Mediisao. monte posita
IV. Haetenus Tri- Virgineumque Helieona petit ; quo
tonia dedit se comitem
a de.r-
Aurigenff fratri. Inde circtividdta cava nubc, deserit Seriphon, Cythno Gyaroque relictis
tera, Quaque via est visa brevissima super pontum, petit Thelias, virgineumque Helieona, posita

TRANSLATION.
city and as the avenger and protector of his innocent mother attacks
;

Proetus. For Proetus, having expelled his brother by force of arms, had
taken possession of the citadel of Argos. But neither by the help of
arras, nor the citadel which he had unjustly seized, was he able to pre-
'

vail against the stern eyes of the snake-bearing monster.

III. But as for you, O
Polydectes, governor of the little island of Seri-
phus, neither the bravery of the youth signalized in so many gallant en-
terprises, nor the dangers to which he had been exposed, could soften
you ; but you obstinately exercise an invincible hatred, nor set any bounds
to your unjust resentment. You also detract from his praise, and pre-
tend that the death of Medusa is a mere fiction. We
will give you an
undoubted proof of the truth, says Perseus ; turn away, my friends, your
eyes then exposing the head of Medusa to the king, he changed his
:

face into a bloodless stone.

IV. Hitherto Tritonia had given herself as a companion to her brother
Perseus, begotten in a shower of gold. But now hid iu a hollow cloud,
she abandons Seriphus, leaving Cynthus and Gyarus on her right, and
when the way seemed shortest over the sea, makes for Thebes, and Heli-
con frequented by the muses which mountain when she had reached, she
;

stood, and thus addressed the learned sisters The fame of a new foun-
:

NOTES.
250. Tritonia.'] Pallas so called from Seriphus in respect of Minerva, who was
Triton, tbe name of a lake and
river in directing her course westward toward
Africa, where she first appeared, and was Bwotia.
educated. 254. Virgineumque Helieona petit.] He-
252. Cythno Gyaroque relictis.'] Islands licon was a mountain of Baotia ; the
of the number of the Cyclades in the cpitliet Virgineus is here given it, because
vEgean sea they were to the right of
: it was sacred to the Virgin Muses.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. V. 183

Constitit: et doctas sic est afFata sorores. 255 «'"" rnonte consutu i
T-i p •
i
,
•
1 ,
• et SIC est uffata doctas
raraa novi tontis nostras pervemt ad aures ;
xorores. Fama novi

Dura Medusaei quern praepetis ungula rupit. fuifmlTZifrapf^u;

Is mihi causa vise. Volui mirabile monstrum rupit, pervenit ad nos-
-^ T • • ^'""* O'V'Tes. Is est • •

Cernere vidi ipsum

: materno sanguine nasci. <^«'"« *•«« mihi, voim

xcipit Uranie qusecunque est causa videndi 260 strum: vidi ipsum
:

Has tibi, Diva, domos, animo gratissima nostro es ^Xl uranLlxcipu.-

Vera tamen fama est et Pegasus huius origo qi'a-cunQue causa est
:

^ ,. et,11,- 1 1 r» 11 1
acl latices deducit Pallada sacros ;
tibi, diva, vtdendi has
-i^
domo^, et gratissima
rontis,
Quae mirata diu factas pedis ictibus undas, fmnaes"mra, J""pe-
Silvarum lucos circumspicit antiquarum ; 265 j^Zis, "t d^duat'pai-
'•"^'^ ad sacros laHces.
Antraque, et innumeris distinctas floribus herbas
T-,,.^
vocat
.^ .!•• !•
loci
, QurF due m/rata U7idas
ictibus pedis,
:

relicesque pariter studiique que factas

Mnemonidas, quam sic afFata est una sororum :

f^qTJrum"\umrum,
et herbas
O,' opera ad maiora
nisi te virtus
jv^
v^ tulisset,
»-v*
^^^^j Jr
antraque,
distinctas mnumeris
J
In partem ventura cliori Tritonia nostri, 270 floribus. Vocatque
Mnemonidas felices
pariter studiique locique : quam una sororum adfata est sic. O Tritonia, ventura in partem
nostri chori, nisi virtus tulisset te ad majora opera,
TRANSLATION,
tain, which the piercing hoof of the winged horse sprung from the head
of Medusa first broke open, has reached m_y ears this is the cause of :

I wanted to see the

ray journey. amazing prodigy I saw himself spring ;

from the blood of his mother. Urania replies whatever goddess, is the :

cause of your visiting these our mansions, we account ourselves happy in

so bright a guest. But the fame is true, and Me owe this our spring to
Pegasus and then she leads Pallas to the sacred stream who admiring
; ;

long the waters produced by the stroke of a horse's hoof, looks round upon
the groves of the ancient wood, and the caves, and the grass distinguished
by innumerable flowers, and praises the happiness of the muses, both in
their studies and retreats
upon which one of the sisters thus replies,
:

O Tritonia, who, had not your valour and native greatness inclined you
to nobler deeds, woidd
undoubtedly have made one of our company you ;

NOTES.
255. Doctas sic est affuta sorores.^ There terpe so called because she delij;hts, has a
is no part of mythology more controverted mask in her left hand, and a clnb in her
than what regards the mnses. pre- Some right. She was the inventress of tragedy,
tend that they were nine numi)er, in whi(;h is implied in the mask she bears.
others confine them ;
but the to three She holds commonly Hercules' club, pro-
most commonly received notion is, that bably because tragedy is a representation
they were nine in number, the daughters of the manners of heroes, among whom
of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. This is the Hercules was the most illustrious. Thalia,
tradition thai Ovid follows, whom we or the flourishing, who invented comedy,
afterward find in 268, calling them
v. holds also a mask in her right hand.
Mnemonidas. As ancient authors and Medals a
represent her leaning upon
monuments confound often the names of pillar. Melpomene, or the alluring, is
the muses, and tlie symbols by which they distinguished by the Barbiton, or harp,
are represented, it is worth while to ob- Terpsichore, or the diverting, is repre-
serve here the most common manner of sented with a flute in her hand, both on
describing them. Clio, the first of the medals and other monuments. Crato, or
muses, who derives her name from glory the amiable, is not easily distinguished,
or renown, holds in one hand a
guitar, and Polyhymnia, so called from singing many
in the other a
plectrum. She was sup- hymns, and not from the strength of her
posed to have invented the guitar. Eu- memory, as some authors pretend, is
 184 P. OVIDII NASONIS

'Zr««/''wr«r-
^^^'^ refers ; meritoque probas artesque lociimqiie :
'ii^ll^y
tesquc, ct habcmux Et oTatam soitem, tuta? modo simus, habemus.
Mmnstnta. scri (adeo J^ed (vetitum est adeo scelen nihil) omnia terrent
/li/iil est vetitum see
teri) omnia terrent Virgineas mentes dirusque ante ora Pyreneus :

Tirgineas mevtes ; di- Vertitur et nondum me tota mente recepi.

: 275
I'usque Fyreneus ver-
titur ante ora, et non- Daulia Threi'cio Phoceaque milite rura
diim recepi me totd
mente. lllc ferox ce- Ceperat ille ferox, injustaque regna tenebat.
perat Dauna piwcea-
que rura Thrncio mi-
petebamus Parnassia, vidit euntes
Teiiipla :

p n • •

Nostraque lallaci veiieratus numma cultu

-.-r
litefenebatqwinjusta ;
regna. fetebamits
tcmpla Pariiassiu : vi- Mnemonides, (cognorat enim) consistite, dixit: 280
dit eiintes, vencratus-
que nostra ninninafal-
Nee dubitate, precor, tecto grave sidus, et imbrem
erat) vitare meo
laei cnltii, dixit : Mne- subiere minores
inonides (enim cng/w- (Imber :

verat ;) con.tistitc, nee

Ssepe casas Superi. Dictis et tempore motee,
dubitate precor vitare
grave sidiis et imbrcm Annuimusque viro, primasque intravimus tedes.
(erat imber) meoteeto : Desierant imbres
Siiperi stepe subiere victoque Aquilonibus Austro,
;

minores casus. Motte Fusca rcDurgato fugiebant nubila ccelo. 286

dictis et tempore an- f t^ r •
,-r«
j iTj ,

nuimusqueviro, intra- Impetus ire luit, claudit sua tccta Pyreneus,

7Z^r7s'l^kTaZ'!^aus- Vimque parat quam nos sumptis effugimus alis.
:

troque victo aquUoui- jpgg secuturo similis stetit arduus arce :

bus, fusca nubila fu- ^ ^ , •
.,.,.. ^, .
^nrv
Via est voDis, erit et milii, dixit, eadem. 290
.

giebant
cmlo.
repurgato
Impetus f'uit
Quaquc
o • •
n i
•
,
•

ire. Pyreneus claudit Jsequc jacit vecors e summse culmme turns :

vim, quam
^t cadit in vultus, discussique ossibus oris
nos'effugt
mus sumptis alis. Ipse Tundit humuiii morieus scelerato sanguine ~ tinctam.
similis secuturo, stetit
arduus arce, dixit que ; qua via est vobis erit et mihi eadem, vecorsquejacit se e culmine summe tur-
ris,et cadit in vultus, moriensque tundit humum tinctam scelerato sanguine ossibus discussi oris.

TRANSLATION,
say right, and justly approve our profession and retreats and, if we are ;

but safe, our lot is happy. But (so daring is villany) every thing alarms
virgin minds, and fierce Pyreneus is still before our eyes nor am 1 yet ;

wholly recovered from the fright. That bold usurper had seized, with
Thracian arms, Daulis and Phocis, where he unjustly held the govern-
ment. We
were making for the temple of Parnassus he saw us on our ;

way, and adoring us by a fallacious worship, Muses, said he, (for he knew
us) stop nor scruple to shun, under my roof, the scorching sun, and heavy
;

rain, (for it rained apace), the gods have often before now entered an
humble cottage. Moved by his kind invitation, and the pouring rains,
we accept of his offer, and enter his hall. The rain was over, and the
south wind being now mastered by the north, the black clouds Avere
dispersed, and had left the heavens serene we then wanted to be gone. :

Bill P_) reneus shuts his palace, and

prepares to offer violence, which we
avoided by assuming wings. He stood upon the highest tower of the
palace, as if designing to follow us, and said Wherever there is a way :

for you, the same is open to me and madly throws himself from the :

summit of the palace and falling upon his face, his bones are dashed
;

in pieces, and
dying, he beats the ground stained with his guilty blood.
NOTES.
painted a harp, as tlie inventress of
witli her voice, holds a vohime in her hand,
harmony. Urania, tiie lieavenly, invented as the inventress of tlie heroic poem,
astronomy, and has in iier hand a globe. See tlie translation of Horace, vol. 1-,
(,"alliype, so calkd fron) tiic sweetness of pajj;e J.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. V. 185

V. Musa loquebatur. Pennse sonuere V. Muxa loquebatur

per auras :
peunw sonuere per au -
Voxque salutantum ramis veniebat ab altis. 295 ras, voxque saUitan-
tum veniebat ub altis
Suspicit et linguae quserit tam certaloquentes
; ramis : nata Jove sus-
Uncle sonent picit, et qutrrit unde
hominemque putat Jove nata locu-
:

lingua, loquentes tam

tum. cert a, sonent: putat-
qne kominem locuttim.
Ales erant; numeroque no vera sua fata Erant ales, picaque
querentes mimero novem, imitan-
Institerant ramis imitantes omnia
picse. tes omnia, institerant
Miranti sic orsa deee dea Nuper et istee ramis querentes sua
: 300 fata. Dea sic est orsa
Auxerunt volucrem victae certamine turbam deie miranti. Nuper
et ist(E, victtg certa-
Pieros has genuit Pellaeis dives in arvis. mine, auxerunt volu-
Pseonis Evippe mater fuit. crem turbam. Pieros
Ilia
potentem dives in Pellais arvis
Lucinara novies, novies paritura, vocavit. geiiuit has. P(ronis
Evippe fuit mater illis.
lutumuit numero stolidarum turba sororum 305 : Ilia novies paritura,
novies vocavit poten-
Perque tot Hajmonias, et per tot Achaidas urbes tem Lucinam. Turba
Hue venit et tali committunt prffilia voce :
stolidarum sororum in-
tiimuit numeru, venit-
Desinite indoctum vana dulcedine que hue, per tot Ha-
valgus monias, et per tot
Fallere. Nobiscum, si est fiducia vobis, Achaidas urbes; et
qua
commiltuntprcclia tali
Thespiades certate dese, nee voce, nee arte 310 voce. Desinite fallere
Vincemur totidemque sumus. Vel cedite victae
;
indoclu7n vulgus vaml
dulcedine ; certato
Fonte Medusseo, et Hyantea Aganippe: Thespiades dcce nobis-
cum, si est qua fiducia
Vel nos Emathiis ad Pteonas
usque nivosos vocis vobis, vincemur
Cedamus campis. Dirimant certamina Nymphse. nee voce, nee arte, su-
musque totidem. Vel
victa cedite font e Me-
Turpe quidem contendere erat; sed cedere vi- dusffo,et HyunteaAga-
sum 315 nifipe ; vel nos ceda-
mus Emathiis campis,
usque ad nivosos Pwonas. Nymphm dirimant certamina Turpe quidem erat contendere, sed est
visum turpius cedere.
TRANSLATION.
V. The muse yet spoke, when a noise of wings was heard in the air,
and a voice seemed to salute them from the high boughs. The daughter
of Jove looks up, and demands whence tongues that spoke so distinctly
were heard, for it seemed to her to be a human voice. Yet it was only
a bird's, and magpies nine in number, skilful to repeat whatever they hear,
Avere perched upon the boughs, bemoaning their fate. When the Muse
Urania thus addressed the wondering; goddess. It is but of late that these,
overcome in a dispute with us, have increased the number of the birds.
Pierus, rich in lands of Pelle, begot them, Evippe of Pseonia was their
mother. She, completing nine labours, nine times invoked powerful Lu-
cina. The foolish sisters, proud of their number, traversed all iEmonia,
and a great part of Greece, to come hither, and challenge us in such words
as these. Cease imposing upon the ignorant vulgar by a vain pretence to
harmony but if indeed you have any confidence of your art, contend with
:

us, ye Thespian goddesses. We

are alike in number, and will not be
out-done in voice or skill. Do you, if overcome, yield to us Medusa's well,
NOTES.
302. Pellceis dives in arvis.^ Pella was 310. Thespiades.l The muses, so called
a city of Macedonia, in the region of from Thespias, a of Boeotia near He-
city
Eniathia, famous for the birth of Philip licon, sacred to them.
and Alexander the Great. 312. Hyantea ylganippe.] Boeotian A<;a-
303. PcEoiiis JSvippe.] Evippe the wife nippe, so called from the Boeotians, «ho
of Pierus,' and niotlicr of tlie Pierides. anciently were known by the name of
Paeonia was a mouulaiuous region of Ma- Hyantes.
cedonia.
 186 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Nympha(ieci(rjurant ElectsG jurant per fluiiiina Nvmphae;

perjlumina,preisere-
Turpius.
r .J^l J t J

que sediiia facta de

vivo cespite. Tunc sine
sorte, qua prior pro-
rri-Xi-
ractaoue dc VIVO presscre sedilia saxo.
Sine soi'te prioi' qusB SB certaie proressa est,
1 uiic,
, r ,

fessa est se certare, Bella canit Superum falsoque in honore gigan-

:
canit bella superum,
poiiitque gigantas in tas 319
/also honore, et cxf.e-
nuat facta magnorum
deorum ; Typhceaque
Ponit, et extenuat magnorum facta deorum :

emissum decimd sede Emissumque ima de sede Typhoea terrse

terra, fecisse metimi
C(elUibit.s ;
Ccelitibus fecissemetum cunctosque dedisse
;
ctmctosqiie
dcdisxe ttrga Jugir, do-
Terga fugse donee
: fessos jEgyptia tellus
nee JEgyptia teliii^, et
Nilus di.icrettis in Ceperit, et septem discretus in ostia Nilus.
septem
J'essos.
ostia, ceperit
Nai-rat terri-
Hue quoque terrigenam venisse Typhoea narrat,
genam Typlioea venisse Et se mentitis Superos celasse figuris 326 :

hiicquoque; etsuperos
celAsse se mentiti.i Ji-
Duxque gregis, dixit, sit Jupiter; unde recurvis
gur/s. Dixitque, Jupi-
ter Jit du.r grcgis,u7ide Nunc quoque formatus Libys est cum cornibus
laibys Amnion nunc Amnion.
qxioq ; est formatus
cum recurvis cornibus. Delius in corvo,
Deiiiis latuit in
proles Semeleia capro,
corvo,
proles Semele'ia in ca- Fele soror Phoebi, nivea Saturnia vacca, 330
Pisce Venus latuit, Cyllenius Ibidis alis.
Sa;';^''«fSS.
Venus pisce, Cyllenius Hactenus ad citharam vocalia moverat ora :
alts Ibidis. Hactenus -pv .

niovcrat ora vocalia ad Foscmiur Aouides.

c* a-i
^ r ,•
feed torsitan otia non smt;
,
•
i.

'^cimnrT''' ierforsftan ^^c nostris prsebere vacet tibi cantibus aurem.

otia nonsint, nee vacet
]\fe dubita,' vcstrumque mihi refer ordine carmen,
tm prabere aurem -j^ ,,
nostris cantibus. Ne Fallas ait:
.

nemoi'isquc
'
.^,.
,.. ^ .-,„,,
levi consedit in umbra, ooo
^

dubita, Pallas ait, re-

f erque vestrum carmen mihi ordine, conseditque in levi umbra nemoris.
TRANSLATION,
and Boeotian Aganippe; or we, if vanquished, will resign the ^mathian
plains, as far as the snowy Paonians let the nymphs decide the contest.
:

It was indeed shameful to

engage, but it appeared yet more shameful to
yield. The nymphs chosen to decide swear by the rivers, and sit upon
seats cut out of the living stone. Then, without casting lots, she of the
daughters of Pierus, who had first declared for the contest, sings the wars
of the gods, and places the giants in a false point of honour, and exte-
nuates the actions of the great gods. She tells how Typhoeus sent from the
deep womb of the earth, struck terror into his heavenly foes and how ;

they all sought safety in flight, till they arrived in j^gypt, and upon the
borders of the Nile that divides itself into seven channels. She relates
how earth-born Typhosus came hither also, and that the gods concealed
themselves by changing their shapes. Jupiter, she said, became a ram ;

whence Lybian Ammon is now figured with crooked horns. The Delian
god took on the appearance of a crow Bacchus, the son of Semele, that
;

of a he-goat. The sister of Phoebus appears a cat, Saturnian Juno a

snow-white cow, and Venus a fish Mercury assumes the wings of an Ibis.
:

Thus far she had joined her noisy voice in concert with the harp, and then
demanded our song. But perhaps you are not at leisure, nor have time
to attend to our song. Doubt not, (said Pallas,) but recite to me in order

NOTES.
331. Ih'uUs.'] The
Ibis is an ^Egyptian 333. Aonides.'] The muses, so called
bird, not unlike a stoik. It is high, from Aonia, a mountainous region of
has btifl legs aiui a long liilj, and eats up Boeotia.
the serpents that inilst the country.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. V. 187

Musa refert: Dedimus summam certaminis uni. ''^^"*" '^-^"^-

mus snmmam certami-
^<^^^-
ti .. .
• .
1 1 A 11 i •!,
feurgit, immissos heciera collecta capillos
et ms uni. cainope sur-
Calliope querulas praetentat pollice chordas immUsosTedVafilZ :

Atque baec percussis subjungit carmina nervis. 340 *iasmiii!fe-^at\ie'^Zb

VI. Prima Ceres unco glebam dimovit aratro j^ngit hue carmina :
¥-»• iT.r>
rrima dedit T ,• A
•
1
•
pi7-cussis nervis.
luges, aiimentaque mitia terns : vi. ceres prima ai-
Prima dedit leges. Cereris suraus omnia munus. ^r^fy^rtmu'^Zufrt
Ilia canenda mihi est. Utinam modo dicere possem aiimenta
^ .

i-/armma digna deee certe dea carrame digna est.

. .,.A ff*'f
icges.
"'"'"•*'
terns: prima
omnia simtmu-
dedit
!
nus Cereris. Ilia est
Vasta giganteis ingesta est insula membris 346 canenda milii. Utinam
modh possem dicere
Trinacris ; et magnis subjectum molibus urget carmina digna dete,
-(Ethereas ausum certe dea est dlgna
sperare Typho'ea sedes. carrnine. Vasta insula
Nititur ille
quidem, pugnatque resurgere ssepe : Trinacris est ingesta
giganteis membris, et
Dextra sed Ausonio manus est subjecta Peloro.350
Lzeva.

que
Pachyne, tibi Lilybseo crura premuntur
Degravat ^Etna caput: sub qua resupinus arenas
9erpe resurgere: scd dextra
premuntur Lilybeo.
111 :

manus est subjecta

TRANSLATION,
Ausonio Peloro, lava
:
iirget Tyyhcea aiisum
sperare (Ethereas se-
dcs, subjectuiji mag-
nis molibus. Jlle qui-
dem nititur,
dgfn nititur. pitgnat
tibi, Pachyne, crura

your song ;
and then The muse re-
seats herself under a chequered shade.
lates, we gave the management of the
dispute to one. Calliope rises, and
having her hair tied with a sprig of ivy, tunes with her thumb the sounding
strings and then sings these lines in concert with the harmonious lyre.
;

VI. Ceres first taught to tear up the earth with crooked plough-shares ;
she first provided corn, and wholesome food for men she first enacted ;

laws. All good things are the gifts of Ceres, she is to be the subject of
my song Oh that my verse were only worthy of the goddess, for cer-
: !

tainly the goddess is worthy of verse. The vast island of Trinacria was
hiu-led on the
gigantic limbs of Typhoeus, and bears down under its un-
wieldy mass one who dared to aspire at the empire of heaven. He indeed
struggles, and attempts often to rise but his right hand is borne down ;

by Pelorus, fronting Italy, his left by Cape Pachynus, and Lilybaum

presses down his legs. iEtna weighs down his head under which, ex- ;

NOTES.
341. Prima Ceres unco.'] Natural his- pierce him with a chosen arrow; upon
tory very often conveyed to us under
is which the god, falling in love with his
tlie veil of fiction. ^Etua is seen often niece Proserpine, carried her off. Most
to vomit up flames. Instead of search- mythologists look upon this rape to be
ing for the source of this phaenomenon, only an allegory, which has an obvious re-
in the sulphur and bitumen wherewith lation to agriculture. Thus, according to
the caverns of this mountain are filled, lliem, the division which Jupiter makes
we are told that the jijiant Typhoeus, or of the time that this goddess was to stay
Enceladus, vanquished by the gods, was with her husband and her mother, means
buried under it, and that his struggles no more, but that the grain, after having
to throw off the load are the cause of the
lodged six months in the earth, appears
eruptions and earthquakes. One fable upon its surface, grows up, and ripens.
leads to another. It is feigned, that Pluto And as Sanchoniathon informs us that
fearing lest these violent shocks might Proserpine, Saturn's daughter, died very
lay open the foundations of the earth, and young, so the fable may be allegorized
pour in light upon his realms, came into by saying, she was ravished by Pluto,
Sicily to examine the condition of the isle. only because the name of that god
They add, that after finding all in good among the Phoenicians is Muth, which
order, he was seen by Venus who, piqued ; signifies deatii.
that tiie god was insensible to 347. Trinacris-I Sicily, so called by a
love, and
desirous to have flic lord of an Greek derivation, from its three promon-
empire,
which made a third part of flic miivcrsc, tories which are named immediately af-
subject to her, emratied her sou Cuoid to terward by the Doet.
 188 P. OVIDII NASONIS

^/«ad^^r«rfl<c«yK<; Ejectat, flammaiTique fero vomit ore Typhoeus.

fjectat arenax, vomit-
Ssepe remoliri luctatur pondera terrse; 354
quc Jlammamfero ore.
Sape luctatiir remo-
liri
Oppidaque, et magnos evolvere corpore montes.
pondcra terra, Inde trerait tellus et Rex
evolvereque oppida, et
:
pavet ipse silentum,
magnos montes cor- Ne pateat, latoque solum retegatur hiatu ;
pore. Inde tellus tre-
mit, et ipse Rex
tum pavet, ne solum
silen-
Immissusque dies trepidantes terreat umbras.
patent, retegaturque Hanc metuens cladem tenebrosa sede tyrannus
lato hiatu, diesqiie im-
mLisus terreat trepi-
Exierat curruque atrorum vectus equorum
: 360
fiantes umbras. Ty- Ambibat Siculae cautus fundamina terrse.
rannus metnens hanc
cladctn exierat tcne- Postquam exploratum satis est, loca nulla labare ;
brosA sede, vectiisque
curru a/.rorum equo- Depositique metus: videt hunc Erycina vagantem
riim, ambibat cauttis Monte suo residens, natumque amplexa volucrem ;
fundaviina sictilte ter-
ra. "poTtquanr satis
exploratum est nulla
Anna,
xii
manusque meae, mea,
-i
nate, potentia, dixit,
^ ^ r\ •
^

metmque iHa, quiDus superas omnes, cape tela, Cupido,

loca labare,

TelmT!uomZeTi. Inquc del pectus celeres molire sagittas,

dit hunc vagantem,
amplcxaqite volucrem
nation, dixit: note,
mo-
Cui tripUcis cessit fortuna novissima regni.
t rtnn
lu feupcros, ipsumque Jovem, tu numma ponti doy
,
•
j.-

mc7poTeZia?c'apec?.
pido ilia tela qtiibus
superas omiies, molire-
que ccieres sagittas in
pectus Dei cui vovissi-
ma fortuna tripiicis
Victa domas, ipsumque, regit qui numina ponti.
Tartara quid

-r-i,
Jcit
.
• .

tamen
cessant? cur non matrisque tuumque
n n
Imperium proiers ? agitur pars tertia mundi.
•

m ccBio, (qu3e jam patientia nostra est

•
^ r ,•
•

,•
T , i i\
!)

?H^peroslpsumque'j7- Spemimur acmecum : vires minuuntur Amoris.

vem, tu domas victa Pallada noune vides, iaculatrTcemque 375 Dianam
numma pontt, ipsum- . .
-i • rj
.
At^ ^ — n^• '

que qui regit numina Abscessisso mihi Cercris quoque iilia Virgo,
.'

ponti. Quid Tartara

cessant? cur non, profers tuum imperium matrisque ; tertia pars mundi agitur. Et tameti
(qua jam est nostra patientia!) spernimur in coelo: ac vires amoris minuutitur mecum. Nonne
vides Pallada, Dianamque jaculatricem abscessisse mihi? filia quoque

TRANSLATION.
tended on his broad back, he vomits clouds of ashes, and flames issue from
his dreadful mouth. Oft he strives to throw off the ponderous mass of
earth, and overturn the cities and mighty mountains that bear down his
body. Hence the earth shakes, and the king of the silent ghosts dreads
lest it should open, and the ground be parted by a wide chasm, and light

pouring in fright his trembling ghosts. To prevent this disaster, the Sty-
gian tyrant had quitted his dreary abode, and riding in a chariot drawn
by black horses, went round, viewing with attention, the foundations of the
Sicilian isle. But when, after a careful search, he found all places firm,
and that there was no ground of fear Venus, as she sate on her flowery hill,
;

chanced to see him thus wandering and embracing her winged son My ; ;

Cupid, (said she,) my arms, my hands, and my power, take those darts
with which you conquer all, and wedge thy swift arroAVS in the breast of
the god, to whom the last division of the triple kingdom fell. You hold in
bondage the gods above, nay even Jove himself: the baffled deities of the
sea, and he too who rules the deities of the sea, confess thy power. are Why
the realms of Tartarus exempted ? do not you extend the limits of your
Why
mother's empire and your own ? A
third part of the universe is now at
stake, and yet how great is our patience we are slighted in oiu" native skies,
:

and the empire of love is greatly weakened. Do not you see how Pallas
and the far-darting goddess defy my power ? the daughter of Ceres too will
NOTES.
3(53. Erycina.'] Venus, so called from Eiyx a mountain of Sicily, where she had a
temple.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. V. 189

Si patiemur, erit nam spes afFectat easdem.

:
Cereris egit virgo? si
patiemitr nam ajf'ectat
At tu, pro socio si qua
est mea gratia easdeinspes. Attn, pro
regno,
socioregnOySi mea gra-
Jiihge Deam p'atrud. Dixit Venus. Ille
pharetram tia est quQ-Jutige deam,

Solvit : et arbitrio matris de mille sagittis 380 patruo. Venus dixit,

ille solvit pharetram ;
Unam seposuit. Sed qua nee acutior ulla, et seposiiit unum de
mille sagittis arbitrio
Nee minus incerta est, nee quae magis audiat arcum. matris ; sed qua nee
ulla est acutior, nee
(JJDpositoquegenu curvavit flexile cornu ; minus incerta, nee qua:
hamata 384 magis audiat arcum
cor percussit arundine Ditem.
;
Inque curvaiitquejiexile cor-
Haud procul Hennseis lacus est a mcenibus altse. nu opposito genu, per-
cussitque liitem in
Nomine Fergus, aquse. Non illo plura Caystros cor, kamutd arundine.
Haud procul d mani-
Carmina cygnorum labentibus audit in undis. bus Henn(cis,est lacus
Silva coronat aquas, cingens tatus omne ; suisque altte aqua, Fergus no-
mine,Caystros in undis
Frondibus, ut velo, Plioebeos submovet igne'g, labentibiis, non audit
plura cygno- carmiua
Frigora daiit rami, Tyrios humus humida flbres. ru7n illo. Silva cin-
Perpetuum
r ver est. Quo dum Proserpina'
luco 391 ^"f o;««c iatus,coro.
nat aquas, submovet-
. . . . .

Ludit, et aut violas, aut Candida lilia earpit ; que Plioebeos ignes suis
frondiliui ut veto. Ra-
Dumque puellari studio ealathosque sinumque mi dantfrigorajiumus
humida Jiores. Ver
Implet, et sequales certat superare legend o ;
perpetuumest ibi. Quo
Pene simul visa est, dileetaque, raptaque Diti 395 loco dum Proserpina
ludit, et carpit aut
Usque adeo properatur amor. Dea territa, moesto violas aut Candida li-
Ua, dumque implct ca-
Et matrehi, et comites", sed matrem ssepius, ore lathosque sinumque
puellari studio, et certat superare (Equates legendo, simul pene est visa, dileetaque, raptaque
Diti. Amor nsque adeo properatur. Dea territa clamat ma:sto ore et matrem et comites, sed
septus matrem:
TRANSLATION,
be a virgin unless we prevent it, for she affects the same hopes. If, there-
fore, I have any interest with you for the promoting of our joint kingdom,
join the goddess to her uncle. Venus ended. He opens his quiver; and
singles out one of a thousand arrows by the direction of his mother, but
than which there was not another of keener point, or surer aim, or more
obedient to the bow. Then bending against his knee with full force the
yielding horn, he pierced the heart of the god with a bearded arrow.
There is a lake of deep water, by name Fergus, not far from the walls
of Henna not Cayster, in his gliding waves, hears more or sweeter songs
:

of swans. A wood crowns the lake, surrounding it on every side, and

bears off with its tufted fences, as with a veil, the scorching rays of
Fha?bus. The boughs yield a refreshing shade, and the moist ground
is enamelled with flowers. The whole year is here a perpetual spring.
In which grove, while Proserpine amuses herself in plucking the violets
and white lilies, and while with the fondness of a girl, she fills her
baskets and bosom, and strives to out-do her companions of the same age
in gathering j^o?t;e/s ; she is, almost in the same instant, seen and loved,
and seized by the infernal god so violent and sudden was his flame.
;

The goddess frighted calls with a mournful voice upon her mother and
NOTES.
379. Junge deam patinio-] Proserpine was carried off by Pluto. Cayster was a
was the daughter of Jupiter, Pluto's bro- river of Ionia, fimions for the great quan-
tity of swans that frequented it banlcs.
ther.
386. Fergus.] A lake in the neighbour- 395. Diti.] Ditis was a name given to
hood of Henna, on whose borders Pro- Pluto, because he was esteemed the god
serpine was gathering flowers when she of the earth, whence riches are dng up.
 190 P. OVIDII NASONIS

:«w7itSSl Clamat: et, ut summa vestem laniamt ab or^,

jiores cecidcre timicis Collecti flores tunicis cecidcre remissis.
Timpmtas Taiitaque simplicitas puerilibus adfuit annis
adfuit'^yu- 400 :

S^w^Sit^^- Hsec qubque virgineum movit jactura dolorem.

curi'us et nomine
tH'aX^'rr^, ^Tx- I^^ptor agit quemque vocatos :

hortatur eqiios vocatos Exlioi'tatur

cquos. Quorum per colla iabasque
Voiia%fbZT;%ior^^^^^ Excutit obscura tinctas ferrugineiiabenas.
lacus altos, et olentia
'^:!i:LJ:^1^^!::e. Jerque sulplmre fertur 405
Ffrturque per altos Stagna Palicoruin lupta ferventia terra •
'
lacu.t, et stagna Fall- t<. \ -o i,- j uL <• ~ y-M •
•
. .

sni- tjt qua Isacchiadse DTmari

coriim olentia
gens orta Conntho
^teZtferqZfB'c^M-
I^^er insequales posuerunt moenia
portus.
udcegens orta bimari Est mediuHi Cvanes, et Pisaese Arethusae
Conntho, fosuerimt ^-^
, •'-.,'- . iji.»v^«-ii.u.oM;,
moenia irttermaqualcs QuOd COlt angUStlS incluSUm COmibuS SeoUOr. 410
Porttis.Est aqiior me- i _
nic cluit, a cujus stagnum
tt'^ ^ 'i.
•
!• '
•

dium cyanes et Pisace quoque nomine dictum est,

Inter Sicelidas Cyane celeberrima Nymphas
^^/i^:«,Si;.w: ;
nibus. Hie Cyane, d
Gurgite qu£e medio summa tenus exstitit alvo.
CUJUS nomnie stagnum \ •. r\ .v., ... '

quoque est dietMm,fuit Agnovitquc Ueum

nec iongius ibitis, inqmt. :
i

Veml7vTnphas7qn^
^o" po^es InvitsB Cereris
gener esse. Roganda,415
fuit. Quod si
u'^nssJ::^af::>?:^ JJ^^ raplenda componere magnis
novitque Demn, et in- Parva iiiihi fas est; et me dilexit Anapis.
quit, necibitis Iongius. -i-i .
^ , .1 . ..
A'o« poles esse gener -tiXorata externta nupsi. tamcu, uec, ut liaec,
Dixit et/iu partes diversas brachia tendens,
roganLZnr^pienfl
Quod si fas est milii componere parva magnis, Aiiapis et dilexit me; tamen nupsi exorata, nec
exterrita, ut hac. Dixit : et tendens brachia in diversas partes,
TRANSLATION.
her companions, but oftener upon her mother and as she had torn her ;

garment from the upper edge, the flowers she had gathered fell from the
loosened robe, and so much had she of childish innocence and
simplicity,
that this loss also raised the virgin's grief. The ravisher drives his cha-
riot, and calling each of the horses by name, encourages their speed, and
over their necks and manes shakes the reins discoloured with dark rust.
He urges his way through deep lakes, and the Palici, whose boiling
waters exhale sulphurous fumes and where the Bacchiadje, a race
sprung
;

from renowned Corinth, built a city between unequal havens. In the

middle, betAveen Cyane and Arethusa, is a sea confined to a narrow space
by crooked rocks. Cyane, the brightest of the Sicilian nymphs, dwelt
here in a lake, to Avhich she gave her name who, raising her beauteous ;

head from the waves as far as the navel, kncAv the god, and said, Thou
shalt go no farther, nor canst thou be the son-in-law of Ceres
against
her will the virgin should have been asked of her mother, not seized by
:

violence for, if I may be allowed to compare small things with great,

:

Anapis also loved me yet was I courted, not frighted into marriage.
:

She said, and stretching out her arms on both sides, opposed his way.
The son of Saturn no longer smothered his rage, but encouraging his
NOTES.
407. BacchiadcB.] A
people of Corinth, on the istlimus, has the Ionian sea on one
in which number was Bacchias, v»ho be- side, and the ^Egean on the other,
ing expelled thence came into Sicily, and 40S. Incequales Partus.] Syracuse has
there built Syracuse. Corinth, situated two harbours, a greater and a less.
 METAMORPIIOSEON, Lib. V. 191

Saturnius
Obstitit. Haud
ultra tenuit Saturnius iram : 420 obstitit.
hand ultra tenuit
in gurgitis ima iram, hortatusque ter-
Terribilesque hortatus equos, ribiles equos, condidit
Contortum valido sceptrum regale laceito .sceftrum rcgule con-
tortum valido lacerto,
Condidit. Icta viam tellus in Tartara fecit, inima gurgitis. Tellus
icta fecit viam in Tar-
Et pronos currus medio cratere recepit.
tara, et recepit pronos
At Cyane, raptamque Deam, contemptaque fontis currus medio cratere.
At Cyane ma^reiis rap-
Jura sui moerens, inconsolabile vulnus 426 tamque Detimjuraque
sui fontis coiitempta,
Mente gerittacita ; lacrymisque absumitur omnis :
gerit inconsolabile vul-
Et, quarum fuerat magnum modo numen, in illas nus tacita, mente ; ab-
sumittirque oinnis la-
Extenuatur aquas. Molliri membra videres :
crymis; ct extenuatur
in illas aquas, quarum
Ossa pati flexus: ungues posuisse rigorem, 430 fuerat modo magnum
de tota tenuissima ttiimen. Videres mem-
Primaque quseque liquescunt ; bra molliri, ossa pati
Caerulei crines, digitique, et crura, pedesque : Jiexus, ungues posuisse
rigorem : tenuissima-
Nam brevis in gelidas membris exilibus undas que qutrque de totH
prima liquescunt, cri-
Transitus est. Post hsec tergumque, humerique, nes carvlei digitique,
et crura pedesque ;
latusque, nam transitus est bre-

Pectoraque abeunt evanida rivos.

in tenues 435 ? is exilibus membris in
gelidas undas. Post
Denique pro vivo vitiatas sanguine
_ venas hccc, tergumque, hu-
Lympha subit restatque nihil, quod prendere
:
"oX'^»«'^«6eXT'ew^-
iiida in tenues rivos.
possis
-rxTT 't , 1" • •
i2T J.
•
Denique lympha subit
Vii. Interea pavidse nequicquam iilia matri vitiatas venas pro vivo

Omnibus est terris, omni qusesita profundo. sanguine; nihilque res-

tat quod possis pren-
lUam non rutulis venie\is Aurora capillis _ 440 dere.
VII. Intereafilia est
Cessantem vidit, non Hesperus. Ilia duabus nequicquam quiFsila
pavidce mutri omnibus
Flammifera pinus manibus succendit ab ^tna ; terris, omni profundo.
Non Aurora reniens
Perque pruinosas tulit irrequieta tenebras. non Hes-
rutilis comis,
Rursus ubi alma dies hebetarat sidera, natam perus cessantem.
vidit ,

Illasuccendit pinus ab
JEtnH flammifera duabus manibus, irrequietaque tulit per pruinosas tenebras. Rursus at alma
dies hebetarat sidera, qucrrebut natam
TRANSLATION.
tremendous steeds, drives his royal sceptre, whirled with a strong arm,
to the bottom of the lake the earth struck, opened a passage into hell,
:

and received the descending chariot in the widening gap. But Cyane
lamenting the ravished goddess, and the slighted privileges of her injured
spring, hears about in her silent mind an inconsolable wound,
and is
wholly wasted away in tears, dissolving into those waters of which she
had so late been the great guardian goddess. You might have seen her
members melt to a fluid her pliant bones bend into various meanders,
;

and her nails lay aside their hardness. The more slender parts first dis-
solve away her sea-green locks, her fingers, legs and feet
: for the ;

change of these smaller members is easy to a cold stream. After these

her back, shoulders and sides, and her swelling breasts glide away in
flowing currents. In fine, instead of life-giving blood, Avater now circu-
lates in her varied veins and nothing now remains that can fill your
;

grasp.
VII. Mean time Proserpine is sought by her frighted mother, in every
land and every sea. Neither Aurora rising with her ruddy hair, nor the
bright evening star saw her take any repose. She with both her hands
lights pines at flaming Mina.^ and restless bears them through the frosty

..
192 P. OVIDII NASONIS
occa-
ah ortu soHx aif
Lahore
Solis ad occasus, Solis quferebat ab ortu. 445
siis xitli". Fi'.isa
coUegeriit siti/n, nulti- Fessa labore oraque nulli
sitini collegerat ;
que coUiierant
foiites
ora,c inn forte viditca- Colluerant fontes cum tectam stramine vidit
:

sam tectum straminc, Forte casam, parvasque fores pulsavit at inde :

par I'af fo-
j)iilsiii'itqiie
res, at aims prodit Prodit anus, Divamque videt; lymphamque ro-
i/ide, vUletque Divam,
deditq ; foscent.i lytn- ganti,
^^eka",^av^e^. -Dulce dedit, tosta quod coxerat ante polenta 450
Dum ilia hihit datum, Duui bibit ilia datum duri puer oris et audax :
mierdtiriorisi'tauda.v, ^-, .. .
-pv
•
-n
constitit ante deam ; Uoustitit ante
Hsitque, avidamque vocavit, Ueam ;
-j.

avidlm.' DiiTes?"}- OfFeusa est neque adhuc epota parte loquentem

:

^"°^ liquido mista perfudit Diva polenta 454

•^'rc%Sf'f''/''"w''/"-
''-'-"'-'
quentem polentH mix- Combibit OS maculas; et, quamodo brachiagessit,
ta cum liquido. Os
combibit maculas, et Crura gerit: cauda est mutatis addita membris :

qua modo gessit bra-

chia, gerit crura : Cau- Inque brevem formam, ne sit vis magna nocendi,
da est addita mutatis Contrahitur: parvaque minor mensura lacerta est.
membris, contrahitur-
que in brevem formam, Mirantem,flentemque,ettangeremonstraparantem
ne vis nocendi sit mag-
na, mensvruque"^7st Fugit anum latebramquc petit aptumque colori;
:

F^LZZmMm, Nomen
Jlentemque, et paran
habet, variis stellatus corpora guttis.
'

VIII. Quas Dea per terras, et quas erraverit

461

tern tangere monatra ;

petitque latebram, ha- undas,

betque nomen aptum Dicere
colori, stellatus quoad longa mora est: qugerenti defuit orbis.
corpora variis guttis.
VIII. Mora est longa
Sicaniam repetit. Dumque omnia lustrat eundo ;
dicere per quas terras, Venit et ad
Cyanen ea, niinutata fuisset, 465 :

et quas undas Dea er-

raverit, orbis defuit Omnia narrasset. Sed et os et lingua volenti
qiiterenti. Repetit Si-
caniam, dumque lustrat omvia eundo, -venit et ad Cyanen: ea,ni fuisset mutata,7iarrasset om-
nia. Sed et OS et lingua non aderant volenti

TRANSLATION.
darkness. Again, when the approach of day had extinguished the stars,
she ran in quest of her daughter from the rising to the setting sun. Spent
with toil she had contracted a thirst, nor had any springs washed her
mouth when, by chance, she perceived a cottage covered with straw,
;

and knocked at the little door an old woman came out and saw the god-
:

dess, and gave her, as she was asking some water, a pleasant drink
drawn from parched barley. While she drinks, a youth of a hardened
look and daring impudence stood before the goddess, and laughed, and
called her greedy. She was offended, and part being not yet drank, the
goddess, as
he spoke, flung the liquor mixed with barley in his face. His
countenance is speckled by the drops, his arms are shaped into legs, a
to this change of form, and that his power of
long tail is jnoreover added
doing mischief may be the less, he is contracted into a diminutive frame,
nor does his size equal that of a small lizard. He flies from the old
woman, wondering and weeping, and wanting to touch him, and seeks a
crevice, and has a name suited to his colour, his body being painted with
various spots.
VIII. It were tedious to relate through what lands and seas the goddess
wandered the world was too little for her in the search. She returns to
:

Sicily, and as in her progress she views all places

with care, she came
also to Cyane she, but for her change of form, would have discovered
:
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. V 193

Dicere non aderant nee, quo loqueretur, habebat.

:
dicere. Nee habebot
quo loqueretur. Tamen
Signa tamen manifesta dedit notamque parent! : dedit manifestu signa ,
ostenditqne in sumniti
loco delapsam gurgite sacro
Illo forte undis zonam Perse-
phones notam porei'ti,
Persephones zonam summis ostenditin undis. 470 et forte delapsam illo
Quam simul agnovit, tanquam turn denique raptam Quam
loco sacro
siinul
gurgite
Diva ug-
:

Scisset, inornatos laniavit Diva capillos : novit, tanquam turn

£t repetita suis percussit pectora palmis. denique sctsset nat;iin
raptam, laniavit inor-
Nee scit adhuc ubi sit terras tamen increpat omnes
:
;
natos capillos, et ptr-
ciissit pectora repetita

Ingratasque vocat, nee frugum munere dignas ; 475

suis palmis. Nee scit
adhuc ubi sit, tamen
Trinaeriam ante alias, in qua vestigia damni incripat omnes terras,
vocotque in^rafas,nec
Reperit. Ergo illic saeva vertentia glebas digtias munere fru-
Fregit aratra manu parilique irata eolonos
: gum; Trinaeriam ante
alias, in qua reperit
Ruricolasque boves leto dedit arvaque jussit rcstigia damni. Ergo
:

illic fregit sa-va manu.

Fallere depositum ; vitiataque semina fecit. 480 aratra vertentia gle-
deait
latum vulgata per orbem
Fertilitas terrse bas, irataque
pnrili letho eolonos ru-
Cassa jacet primis segetes moriuntur in herbis
: : ricolasque boves, jus-
sit que area fallere de-
Et modo sol nimius, nimius modo corripit imber. positum, fecitque se-
mina vitiata. Ferti-
Sideraque, ventique nocent avidifique volueres :
litas terra' vutgaUi per
latum orbem, Jacet
Seminajactalegunt: lolium,tribuliquefatigant 485 cassa ; segetes mori-
Triticeas messes, et untur in primis herbis,
inexpugnabile gramen.^ et modo nimius sol,
Cum caput Eleis Alphelas extulit undis : modo nimius imber
Rorantesque comas a fronte removit ad aures
corripit; sideraque-
:
ventique nocent: avi-
Atque ait : O toto quaesit^ virginis orbe, dceque volueres legunt
jacta semina, lolium-
Et frugum genitrix, immensos siste labores : 490 que tribuUque et in-
expugnabile gramen
fali^ant triticeas messfx. Cum Alphelas extulit caput Eleis unifis, remov itque rorantes comas a
fronte ad aures, atque ait : O genitrix virginis quasita toto orbe, et frugum siste immensos labores,
TRANSLATION.
all but she had neither mouth nor tongue to second her desires, nor was
;

speech at her command. Yet she gave manifest signs, and discovered on
the surface of her waters Persephone's girdle well known to her mother,
which had by chance dropt from her in that place, as she passed through
the sacred lake which when the goddess beheld, as if then only her
:

daughter had been ravished from her, she tore her neglected hair, and
beat her breast with repeated strokes. Nor as yet knows she where she
is, but exclaims against all lands alike and calls them ungrateful, and;

unworthy of her gifts Trinacria above the rest, in which she found the
:

tokens of her loss. For this the goddess, with vengeful hand, broke the
ploughs wherewith they turned up the earth in her rage the ox and ;

labourer were doomed to the same death. She commands the ground to
deny a return of what was thrown into it, and corrupts the seed as soon
as it is sown. The fertility of the soil, famed over ail the world, is now
no more the corn, as it springs, shrivels in the blade
: sometimes it is :

burnt up by excessive heats, sometimes disowned by inundations of rain.

Inauspicious stars or noxious winds destroy the fields, and greedy birds
devour the seed as soon as sown. Darnel, thistles and unconquerable
weeds choak the rising crops. Then Arethusa raised her head from the
Elean waves, and flings back her dropping hairs from her forehead
toward her ears, and says O
mother of the virgin, sought in all parts of
:

the world, and of corn cease at length your immense toils, nor be thus
;
194 P. OVIDII NASONIS

neve violenln irascere Neve tibi fidse violenta irascere terrae.

terra /ill a tihi. Terra
meruit nihil, patult- Terra nihil meruitpatuitque invita rapinae.
:
Nee
queiitvitarapiiia.
sum swpplex pro Nee sura pro patria supplex h^c hospita veni.
:
^
pii-
hue hospita.
triii, veiii
Pisa est patria jiiihi, Pisa mihi patria est et ab Ehde ducimus ortum.
:

et ducimus ortutn ub Sicaniam peregrina colo sed gratior omni : 495

Elide. Colo Sicaniiiin
peregrina,sc(i hac ter- Hsec milii terra solo est. H os nunc Arethusa penates,
ra est gratior mihi
omni solo. Ego Aretha- Hanc habeo sedem; quam tu, mitissima, serva.
sa habeo nunc hospena-
tes, hanc sedetn, qtiam
Mota loco cur sim, tantique per aequoris undas
tu mitissima serta. Advehar Ortygiam, veniet narratibus hora
Hora tempcstiva veni-
et meisnarratibus, cur Tempestiva meis, cum 500
tu curisque levata,
simmota loco,adithar-
Et vultus melioris eris. Mihi pervia tellus
que Urtygiam per vn-
subterque imas ablata cavernas
das taiiti aquoris,cum Prsebet iter :

tu eris levuta ctiris et

vult&s melioris. Ti l- Hie caput attollo desuetaque sidera cerno.
:

lus peri'ia prabet iter

mihi, ablataque subter Ergo, dum Stygio sub terris gurgite labor,
imas cavernas attollo 505
Visa tua est oculis illic Proserpina nostris.
caput hie, cernoque
desuetu sidcra. Ergo Ilia quidem tristis, nee adhuc interrita vultu;
dum labor sub tcrris
Stygiogurgite,illic tua Sed regina tamen, sed opaci maxima mundi ;
Proserpina est visa
nostrisoculis. Ilia qui- Sed tamen inferni pollens matrona tyranni.
dem est tristis, nee nd- Mater ad auditas stupuit, ceu saxea, voces :
huc iiiterritu vultu,
sed tamen regina, std
Attonitseque diu similis fuit: utque dolore 510
maxima opuci mundi,
sed tamen pollens ma- Pulsa gravi gravis est amentia, curribus auras
troiui inferni tyranni.
Mater ad auditas lo- Exit in sethereas ibi toto nubila vultu
:

ccs stvpuit ceu saxea, Ante Jovem passis stetit invidiosa capillis.
J'uitque diu similis at-
tonita : vtque gravis
amentia est
Proque meo veni supplex tibi, Jupiter, inquit, 514
pulsa
gravi dolore, exitciir- Sanguine, proque
tuo. Si nulla est gratia matris,
ribus ill atherea's au-
ras. Ihi nubila loto
Nata
patrem moveat
: neu sit tibi cura precamur
vultu, stetit iniidiosa ante Jovem passis capillis. Jnqiiitque, ve/ii tibi Jupiter supplex pro meo
sanguine, proque tuo. Si gratia matris est nulla, nata moveat patrem neu cura precamtir
illius sit
TRANSLATION.
violently offended with a land faithful to you. Sicily has deserved
nothing, and opened against its will to the ravisher nor am I now a :

suppliant for my native country I am but a stranger here

;
Pisa is my ;

country, and Elis gave me birth. I inhabit Sicily as a foreigner, yet is

this isle to me far more grateful than any other clime. I, Arethusa, possess
now these springs this is my seat, which do you, most gentle goddess,
;

I am removed from
Why
preserve. my native seats, and have crossed
such spacious seas to reach Ortygia, I will relate at a more seasonable
time, when you shall be eased of your present cares, and Avear an aspect
of more content. The pervious earth affords me a passage, and conveyed
under its lowest caverns, I here lift up my head, and behold new con-
stellations of stars. As therefore I lightly glided under the earth, along
thejStygian waves, I there beheld your Proserpine: she looked dejected,
nor was fear yet banished her countenance. She is however a queen,
revered in the gloomy realms, and the powerful wife of the infernal ty-
rant. Upon hearing these words, tlie goddess, stupid with grief, stood
motionless like a statue, and had long the air of one lost in amazement.
But after that her cruel distraction had vented itself in a flood of sorrow,
she mounts the ^ethereal air in her chariot there with dishevelled hair,
:

and her countenance hid in clouds, she stands before the throne of Jove.
Jupiter, says she, I cornea suppliant to you in behalf of my blood and
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. V. 195

rllior tibi, quod est

Vilior quod nostro est edita partu.
iliius, eclitii no.\tro partu. Eit
En quaesita diu tandem mihi nata reperta est nuta diu quesita, est :
tandem refcrta mihi,
Si reperire vocas, amittere certius: aut si 519 si vocas amittere cer-
Scire ubi sit, reperire vocas. Quod rapta,feremus, this reperire, aut si
iiiciis scire ubi sil re-

Dummodoreddateam. Nequeenimprajdonemarito ]>e>'re. Ferermts qzwd

rilia digna tua est, si jam mea iilia digna est. do reddut earn. Ne-
que eiiiin txta /ilia est
Jupiter excepit commune est pignus, onusque
:
digna jircrdoiie ma-
est
Nata mihi tecum sed, si modo nomina rebus
:
rito, si
j(nn
rtica Jilia
dignu. Jupiter
Addere vera placet, non hoc injuria factum, 525 excepit : nuta est cmn-
mune pignus onusque
Verum amor est nobis gener ille pudori. mild tecum. Sed si
:
neque erit
modo placet addere
Tumodo,Diva, velis. Utdesintcsetera, Quantum est rera iiomina rebus.
Esse Jovis fratrem! quid hoc /actum 7wn est in-
. K,.
n
quod nee ca;tera desunt, jiiria
"^ verum amor;
^ •

Nec cedit nisi sorte mihi r sed tanta cupido neque ille gener erit
pudori nobis, modo tu
Si tibi dissidii ; repetat Proserpina coelum 530 diva velis. Ut catera :

dennt ; quantum est

Lege tamen certS, si nuUos contigit illic ; esse fratrem Jovis f
Ore cibos. Nam sic Parcarum foedere cautum est. quid, quod nee catera.
desunt, nee cedit mihi
Dixerat. At Cereri certura est educere natam. nisi sorte: sed si est
tanta ciipido tibi dis-
Non ita fata sinunt. Quoniam jejunia virgo sidii, Proserpina re-

Solverat, et cultis dum simplex errat in hortis, 535 ^frtaTilZ'tiuTJiiit

Puniceum curva decerpserat arbore pomum :
cibos illic ore ; nam est
sic caut zim feedere Par-
Sumptaque pallenti septem de cortice grana carum. Dixerat : at
est certum Cereri edu-
Presserat ore suo. Solusque ex omnibus illud cere nntam. Fata non
Viderat Ascalaphus; quem quondam dicitur Orphne, ila sinunt, quoniam
T, . ,-, T. -.. ,T-
-
, rAr\ Virgo solverat jejunia,
inter Avernales haud ignotissmia Nymphas, dum simplex errat o4U ct

E.i />• .
li-
X Acneronte suoturvis pepensse sub
•
incultis hortis,decerv-
antris.
serat puniceum po-
mum. curvii arbore,
presseratque suo ore septem grana sumpta de pallenti cortice. Ascalaphusque solus ex omnibus
viderat illud, quem Orphne haud ignotissima inter avernales nymphas, dicitur quondam peperisse
ex suo Acheronte sub Jnrvis antris,
TRANSLATION,
thine. If you have no regard for the mother, at least let the daughter
move the heart of her father nor value her the less, I pray you, that she
:

is born of me. At length 1 have found my daughter so long sought after

in vain, if it can be called finding her to lose her more certainly ; or if
you call it finding her to learn where she is. I forgive that he carried
her away by force, let him only restore her for whatever it may be ;

thought my daughter deserves, the daughter of Jupiter ought not to have

a ravisher for her husband. Jupiter replies Your daughter is a common :

pledge and care to both but if we will distinguish things by proper

;

names, this rape is not an injury but love nor need we be ashamed of ;

our son-in-law, let but Ceres give her consent. Were other things want-
ing, yet is it not enough that he is the brother of Jove ?
But why do I
suppose that any thing is wanting, nor does he yield to me
in worth it ;

was by lot that hell fell to his share ? but if so great is your desire to
separate them, let Proserpine return to heaven, yet on this unalterable
condition, if as yet she hath touched no food for so it is provided by ;

the irrevocable decree of fate.

He said but Ceres persists in her resolution to bring away her daugh-
:

ter ;
not so the Fates for the virgin had broke her fast, and as she wan-
:

dered about in a finely-cultivated garden, had plucked a pomegranate

from a bending tree, and chewed seven seeds, taken from the pellucid
rind. Ascalaphus alone had seen this, whom formerly Orphne, famed
 19f) P. OVIDII NASONIS
Vldit : et cr Udells ade-

mit rertltinn indicia.

Vidit : et indicio reditum cmdelis ademit.
Ilegiiia J'.icbi i?igemuit,
feciti/iir te.stcm profa-
Ingemuit regina Erebi, testemque profanani
nam nvvm ; renitque Fecit avem: sparsumq; caput Phlegethontide lym-
caput sparsum Plilcge-
thu/itUlc lymplia in ruf- pha
trum, et plumus, et In rostrum, et plumas, et grandia lumina vertit.
grandia lamina. Ille
ablutus sihi, amicitur Ille sibi ablatus fulvis amicitur ab alis ;
546
ab ulis j'ulcis, eracit-
que in caput, rrjiecti- Inque caput crescit ; longosque reflectitur ungues;
vixqut iZiTt "S/y Vixque movet natas per inertia brachia pennas :

nuia.i per inertia bra- fit volucris, vcuturi nuncia luctus.

chia ijitque J'aita vo- Fcedaqne
lucrix, nu7icia venturi Ignavus bubo, dirum mortalibus omen. 550
luctus,ignavus bubo,di-
rum umen mortatibus. IX. Hie tamen indicio poenam linguaque videri
IX. Ilictamenpotcst
vidi ri comineruisse pa-
Commeruisse potest. Vobis, Acheloides, unde
/iatnin(Hi-io,/ingU(}//uc.
Sed uiidc pluma pcilcs-
Pluma, pedesque avium, cum virginis ora geratis ?
ijuc avium stint lobi.v An quia cum legeret vernos Proserpina flores,
Achcioidis, cum
tis ora lirginis. An
gera- In comitum numero mistee, Sirenes, eratis ? 555
quia, cum froserpina Quam Dostquam toto fVustra qusesistis in orbe :
iegcrct verrius Jtore.f, -r» • •

vos Sirene^ erati.t Protmus ut vestram sentirent sequora curam.

mixtir in numero cotni-
turn ! Quam, postquam Posse super fluctus alarum insistere remis
frustra qua-si.stis in
toto orbe, prutinus, ut Optastis facilesque Deos habuistis, et artus
:

tequora sentirent ves- Vidistis vestros subitis flavescere pennis. 560

train curam, opta.sti.s
jpo.ise insistere super Ne tamen ille canor mulcendas natus ad aures,
Jtuctusremis alarum ;
hitbuislisque deos faci- Tantaque dos oris linguae deperderet usum :

lex, el vidiatis ve.stros

art us flavescere siibi- Virginei vultus et vox humana remansit.
tis Tauun, ne
pennis. X. At medius fratrisque sui, mcestseque sororis
ille canor natuf ad
mulcendax aures, tan- Jupiter ex aequo volventem dividit annum. 565
taque dns oris perde-
ret nsum
usum vir
lingua; vir-
lingua',
^^^0 dea rcgnorum uumeu commune duorum
ginei vultus, et vox hiunana remansit. X. At Jupiter medius fratrisque sui mastsqtie sororis, di-
vidit volventem annum ex rrquu. Nunc dea, numen commune duoium regnortim,
TRANSLATION.
among avernal maids, brought forth to Acheron within a shady cave he :

saw her and by a cruel discovery prevented her return.

:

The queen of gloomy Erebus groaned, and changed the base informer
to a bird and sprinkling his head with the waters of black Phlegethon,
;

formed it anew with feathers, a crooked beak, and large eyes. Thus no
longer himself, he is clad in yellow pinions his head becomes larger, :

his nails bending inward are turned to claws, and scarce can he move
the wings that spring from his sluggish arms. In fine, he becomes a
hateful bird the messenger of approaching grief, the screeching owl, a
;

direful omen to mortals.

IX. But he, by his discovery and indiscreet tongue, may seem to have
suffered deserved punishment. But whence, daughters of Achelous, have
you the feathers and feet of birds, Avheu you retain still the faces of
virgins because while Proserpine was gathering vernal flowers,
? Is it

you Sirens were of the number of her attendants ? And that, after having
in vain searched for her in all parts of the earth, to
give the waters also
a proof of your friendly care, you wished to hover over the waves sup-
ported by wings and found the gods propitious, and saw your limbs clad
;

in golden pinions ? But lest the sweetness of your voice formed to cap-
tivate the ear, and such harmony of sound should no more enjoy the use
of a tongue, your virgin beauty and human voice still remain.
X, But Jupiter, alike favouring his brother and disconsolate sister, di-
 METAMORPIIOSEON, Lib. V. 197

dem cum conjuge totidemmcnses cum

Cum matre est totidem, toti ext
matre, totiilem cuvh
menses. coitjiige. Facies et
mentis, et oris, extem-
Vertitur extemplo facies et mentis et oris :
plb vertittir: mini
frnns De(e qua modn
IS'am, modo quae poterat Ditiquoquemoestavideri, poterat videri mcestn
Lffita Dese frons est ut Sol, qui tectus aquosis
: 570 qunqite Dili, est Iffla,
vt snl qui fuit antr
IVubibus ante fuit, victiXs ubi nubibus exit. tectus aquosis uubilm.s,
uhi exit victisnnbibus.
Exigit alma Ceres, nata secura recepta, Alma Ceres, secura
natH, recepta,
Quae tibi causa vise cur sis, Arethusa, sacer fons ?
:
exigit
quie erat causa vi(r
Conticuere undne quarum
I
Dea sustulit alto
:
tibi Arethusa, cur sis
_, . .
, ^^ en- f^ocer finis ? tnida cnn-
•

.bonte caput: vindesquemanusiccatacapiUos, o/o ticiiere.- quarum den

J.

sustulit caput alto

rlummis blei veteres narravit amores. fonte, siccutaque. vi-
rides capillos manu,
Pars ego Nyrapharum, quae sunt in Acha'ide, dixit, ?iarravit veteres amo-
Una fui nee me studiosius altera saltus
:
res Eleijliiminis. Ego
fui, dixit, una. pars
Legit, nee posuit studiosius altera casses. nympharum quee sunt
Acliaide nee altera,
Sed quamvis formse nunquam mihi fama petita est in Ifgit saltus studiosius
:
:

Quamvis fortis eram, formosae nomen habebam me, nee altera posuit
casses studiosius. Sed.
:

Nee mea me facies nimiiim laudata juvabat. 582 quamvis fama forma
nunquam est petita
Quaque aliae gaudere solent, ego rustica dote milii,quamvis erumfor-
t is, habeba/n nomen for-
Corporis erubui crimenque placere putavi.
; mnsw. Nee mea fades
Lassa revertebar (niemini) Stymphalide silva: 585 nimium laudata juva-
bat me J egoque rustica
iEstus erat: magnumque labor geminaverataestum. erubui dote corporis,
qua alire solent gau-
Invenio sine vortice aquas, sine murraure euntes, dere, putaviqtie crimen,
Memini, re-
Perspicuas imo per quas numerabilis alte placere.
; vertebar lassa silvrl
Calculus omnis erat quas tu vix ire putares. : Stymphalide. Erat <f.r-

tns: laliorque gemina-

verat magnum testum. Invenio aquas euntes sine vortice, et sine murmure per quas
: ointiis cal-
culus erat numerabilis alte, quas tu vix putares ire.
TRANSLATION.
vides the revolving year eqvially between tbeni. For the goddess, a divi-
nity now common to both kingdoms, passes the same number of months
with her mother as with her husband. Upon this both the mind and
aspect of the goddess are changed for her countenance, which before ;

appeared mournful even to Pluto himself, has now an air of joy, like the
sun who, after being hid awhile in watery clouds, disperses the va-
;

pours, and shines in full splendour. Ceres, now easy because she had
re-
covered her daughter, inquires of Arethusa the cause of her wandering,
and how she became a sacred spring. The waters were silent, when the
goddess raised her head from the smooth surface and, with her
hand ;

wiping off the drops from her green tresses, thus began to relate the
loves of Alpheus.
I was, said she, formerly an Achaian nymph ; nor was any one more
studious to explore the forest, or pitch the toils. But although I never
affected the reputation of beauty, although 1 was rather of a masculine
habit, I yet was accounted fair. But I little regarded the praises given my
face, 1 was even simple enough to blush at those personal charms which
others are so fond of, and thought it a crime to please. Once, I remem-
ber, as tired with the chase, I was returning from the forest of Stym-
phalus, the weather was hot, and through the violent exercise appeared
now so.
doubly on, I found a silent current gliding in gentle
Walking
murmurs, and cleac as crystal to the very ground. Every pebble might
NOTES.
5?fi. Flutnlnis P.ieiA AInlipiis. whn watprpil Elis. a niovince of Pclononnestlf.
198 P. OVIDII NASONIS

TuTnlfrua^lTX'-
^^"^ salicta dabant, niitritaqiie populus unda 690
nntas
baiit
sua
umbras,
spoilt e aecltrtbus
Spontc
.'
suR
. .
iiatas I'ipis
^
'
declivibus
,. ....
umbras.
XI
ripis.Accessi.primum-Acccssi, primiuTique peclis vestigia tin :

?/"^,r/e"1em«^'iSe' Pop^ite
deindc tenus. Neque eo contenta, recingor ;

jyequecontentaeo.re- Molliaque impoiio salici velamina curvae :

ua^veiamhtacurvasa-
nuriaotie merger
lici ; nuriaqtie
aquis : quas dumjerio-
JVuuaque mergoF aquis.
hoque
i_
ox
Quas dum ferioque tra-
*_„«
59o
que, truhoque, labe?is Mille modis labens, excussac^ue brachia jacto
millc vtodis, jactoque ;

cxcuf:sa brachia, sensi Nescio quod medio sensi sub gurgite murmur :
7ieicio, quod murmur
sub medio gurgite, ter-
Territaque insisto propioris margine ripse.
ritaque insisto mar-
gine propioris ripce. Quo properas, Arethusa? suis Alpheus ab undis,
Quo properas Arcthu- Quo properas iterum rauco mihi dixerat ore. 600
?
sii, Alpheus suis
dixerat
ab undis? quoproperas Sicut eram fugio sinc vcstibus. Altera vestes
tie rum dixeriit mihi -rt- rr\
^
:

^ ^ li . ••,,!_
ruucoore?fugio sicut Kipa mcas habuit. ianto magis mstat, et ardet:
eram, sine vestibus. Et quia nuda fui, sum visa paratior illi.
Altera ripa habuit
tneas vestes. Inst at Sic ego currebam sic me ferus ille premebat ;
:
tanto magis, et ardet :
et quia fui nuda, sum Ut fugere accipitrem penna trepidante columbse,
visa paratior illi. Ego
s if curreb(im,ille ferus
Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas. 606
sicpremebat me, ut
columns Solent fugere Usque sub Orchomenon, Psophidaque, Cylle-
accipitrem trepidante
jienitd, ut accipiter so-
nenque,
let agitare trepidas co-
lumbas. tSustinui cur-
Msenaliosque sinus, gelidumqueErimanthon,etElin
rere usque sub Orcho- Currere sustinui. Nee me velocior ille,
menon, r Psophidaque, gg(j tolerare diu cursus viribus impar 610
Cyllenenq^.
jue,, siniisqiie
eao
53
.-
^..„ -n
-ii
,
. .
i i
•

Manaiios, geiidumque J\ ou poteram lougi patieiis erat ille laboris.

:

Erimavtho7i, et Elin; " er xtamen eti

-r» , ^ i.

iiev ille erat velocior campos, per opertos arbore monies,

TwusTnonfourZIiil
^axa quoque et rupes, et qua via nulla, cucurri.
tolerare cursus ; ille erat patieiis longi laboris. Tamen cucurri per campos, et per monies oper-
tos arbore, saxa quoque, et rupes, et qua erat nulla via.

TRANSLATION.
be distinguished by the eye, and its motion so gentle as scarce to be per-
ceived. The hoai'y willows and poplars, nourished by the stream, fur-
nished a spontaneous shade along the shelving banks. I advanced, and
first dipt my feet, then waded to the ham nor content with that, I stript ;

and threw my thin garment upon a bending osier, and plunged naked into
the waters which, while I strike and draw in, winding my body a thou-
;

sand ways, and tossing out my springy arms, I heard I don't know what
murmur under the mid-stream, and frighted get to the margin of the
nearer bank. Whither dost thou hasten, Arethusa, cried Alpheus, from
the bottom of his brook ? Whither dost thou hasten, said he again, in a
hollow tone ? I run naked as I was, for my clothes were upon the other
bank he pushes harder, and is but the more inflamed and, as he saw
; ;

me naked, I appeared the readier for his embraces. So I ran, so he

fiercely pursued as doves are wont with trembling wings to fly from the
;

hawk, or as the hawk wont to drive through the clouds the trembling
is
doves. chase as far as Orchomenos, and Psophis, and
I sustained his

Cyllene, and the valleys of Msenalaus, and cold Erymanthus, and Elis.
Nor was he swifter but, unequal in strength, I was not able to sustain a
;

longer flight, he was able to undergo greater toil. Yet I run through the
plains, and over mountains covered with woods, rocks also and cliffs, and
where there was no path to direct me. The sun shone behind me, I saw
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. V. 199

Sol crut a tergn. Vidi

Sol erat a tergo vidi prsecedere longam :

longfim umbram pre-

Ante pedes umbram nisi si timor ilia videbat. 615 : cedere ante pedes, nisi
si timar vinebdt. ilia.
Sed certe sonituque pedum terrebar et ingens ; Ned eerie terrebur so-
Crinales vittas afflabat anhelitus oris. nituque pedum, et in-
gtns anhelitus oris af-
Fessalaborefuo£e:Feropem, deprendimur.inquam, j^"i"'t rrinaiesvntds
A -Tk- i J. J J- i- Ftssa labore fugee,in
Armigerse, Dictynna, tuse ; cui ssepe dedisti qiuim Diclyima de-
prendimur, Jer opem
Ferre tuos arcus, inclusaque tela pharetra. 620 t ua arnnger'a,cui sape
Mota Dea est ; spissisque ferens e nubibus unam dedisti ferre tvos ar-
cus, ttlaqne incluia
Me super injecit. Lustrat caligine tectam phuretra. Dca est mv-
2tnam
ta, ftreiisque e
Amnis ; et ignarus circum cava nubila quaerit. sjjissis 7iubibiis, injecit
earn super me. A/mis
Bisque locum, quo me
dea texerat, inscius ambit :
lustrut me tectum cali-
Et bis, lo Arethusa, lo Arethusa, vocavit. 625 gine, et ignarusqvtrrit
cireiim cava nubila.
Quid mihi tunc animi miseree fuit? anne quod Iii-.que inscius ambit
locum qvn Deatexerat
agnse est, me ; et bis, vocavit lo
Si qua lupos audit circum stabula alta frementes ? Arethusa. Qitidanimi
tune fuit mihi miser<s?
Aut lepori, qui vepre latens hostilia cernit antie quod est agiid, si
qua audit lupos fre-
Ora canum, nuUosque audet dare corpore motus? 7/icritLS circum alta
stabulu ? aut lepori,
Non tamen abscedit: neque enim vestigia cernit 630 qui latcns vepre cernit
hostilia ora
LongiusuUa pedum. Servat nubemque, locumque. detque dare ca>ium,au-
nullos mo-
Occupat obsessos sudor mihi frigidus artus tamen '
tus corpore :
lion abscedit, neque
Coerulea;que cadunt toto de corpore guttae. eiiim ceriiit vestigia
pedum ire lotigiiis.A'er-
Quaque pedem movi, jnanat lacus eque capillis :
lut niibemque, locum-
Ros cadit : et citiiis, quam nunc tibi fata renarro, qiie. Sudor frigidus oc-
cupat artus obsessos
In laticem mutor. Sed enim cognoscit amatas 636 mihi, ccervlirque gutta
,„^„ •• J "j. cadunt de toto corpore.
mnis aquas,
A.,-^_'
positoque viri,.,quod sumpserat, ore, Quaque movipedem.ia-
2.

''^ • • • , . .
P^^^ mannt, rosque ca-
Vertitur in proprias, ut se mihi misceat, undas. dit e capillis; et mutor
Delia rumpit humum. Csecis ego .-^
'^ mersa
*i*^ikj.-» cavernis
^^.v,»»*..^ in laticem citiiis qita^n,
7IU1IC renarro facta ti-
bi. Sed enim, amiiis cognoscit amatas aquas, oreqne viri quod sumpserat posito, vertitur in pro-
prias undus, ut misceat se mihi. Delia rvmpit hutnum, ego mersa ceecis cavernis
TRANSLATION.
a long shadow advance before my feet, if it was not perhaps my fear that
saw it but I certainly heard the sound of his steps close behind me, and
;

his shorter breath fanned

my parting hair. Spent with the labour of my
flight, Help, I cried, O Diana, or I am caught help a forlorn nymph, ;

who has often carried your bow, and quiver stocked with arrows. The
goddess was moved, and taking a thick cloud, threw it round me. The
river looks about for me now hid in darkness, and not
knowing where I
was, searches round the hollow cloud and twice unable to find me, he ;

came to the place where the goddess had concealed me, and twice called
out, O What do you think was then the condition of my mind ?
Arethusa.
The same that of the lamb, when she hears the wolves howling round
as is
the high folds or the hare, when hid in a bush she sees the hostile
;

mouths of the dogs, and dares not stir from her Yet does he not
place.
depart, for he saw not the prints of my feet to reach any farther: he
therefore watches the cloud and the
place. chilly sweat spreads upon A
my limbs thus besieged, and blue distil from my whole body, and drops
wherever I move my feet a lake flows drops of dew fall from my hair. ;

In fine, in less time than I now

acquaint you with my fate, I was changed
mto a fountain. But
Alpheus knew the beloved waters and putting off ;

the hurnan
shape, resumes his fluid form, that he might mix his streams
with mine but the Delian I, sinking, run
goddess cleaves the ground,
:
 200 r. OVIDII NASONIS
advchor Ortygiam
qua grata inilii cog/io-
:
Advehor Ortygiam qua; me cognomine Divse 640 :

mine dir/r, prima et/K.i- Grata meae superas eduxit prima sub auras.
it me sub mperas au-
ras.
Xr. Hactemis Are-
XL Hac Arethusa tenus. Geminos Dea fertilis

thjisa, dea fertilis ad- ano-ues

Curribus admovit ; frtsnisque coercuit ora :
7r'!rHbf,7:7ol'rSue
oruJ'rce.nii,et recta est Et medium cceli, terraeque per a'era vecta est :
per a'cra mediuiii cali-
que terr<tqtie
misrt levem
atqite
;
curium in
Atque levem currum Tritonida misit in arcem 645
arcem Trltonida Trip- Triptolemo partimque rudi data semina jussit
;

tolenio, jussit que spur-

geredatusemina humo Spargere humo, partim post temporalongarecultae.
'purtiui rudi, parihn Jam super Europen sublimis et Asida terras
reculta post toiito tern- -tr . x „• o •
il. J •
a-'jI

pora.jamjuieniserat Vectus eratjuvcms: iscythicas advertitur oras,

lectus sublimis super
terras Europen et Asi- Rex ibi Lyncus erat. Regis subit ille penates 650
da; adierlUiirque Sc;/-
thicas oros. Iiyncus
Qua veniat, causamque viae, nomenque rogatus,
erat rex ihi. Jile subit Et patriam : Patria estclaraemihi, dixit, Athenae,
penates regis. Jioga-
lusque qua v£>iiat,cuu- Tiiptolemus nomen. Veni nee puppe per undas,
samque ice, n omen que,
i
Nee pede per terras patuit mihi pervius aether. :
et patrium ; dixit:
dare Atl::n(B est pu- Dona fero Cereris latos quae sparsa per agros 655
:

tria mihi,iiumeii Triy-

tolemus. Feninecpup- Frugiferas messes, alimentaque mitia reddant.
pc per u)idus,nec pede
per ttrras ; pertius
Barbarus invidit tantique ut muneris auctor
:

lather vatnitmihi.Fero
dona Cereris, qute spur- jpsg
S sit,
-,
hospitio reeipit
S y-~,
somnoque
:
^ gravatum
~
/>
sa per latos u'ros.rcd.
Aggreditur lerro. Conantem ligere pectus
duntfrueiferas messes, t /'i r 'i.
•• '
'j. acts
mitiaque aiimenta. -Lynca Ceres tecit
rursusque per aera misit : obU
^re^p«'"fit!rjcfir<fl/t Mopsopiura juvenem sacros agitareju gales. .

tim7iniri<, reeipit hospitio, aggredifurque eum gravatum somno, ferro. Ceres fecit regem conan-
temjigere pectus, lyuca, tnisitqueMupsopiumjuve/iem, riirsus ugitare sacros jugules per dcra.
TRANSLATION.
through dark caverns till I arrive at Ortygia, which, dear to me from the
surname of the goddess, first granted me to review the welcome day.
XI. Thus far Arethusa. The fertile goddess yokes two snakes to her
golden car, and guiding them with a just rein, is carried along mid-
heaven, and cuts the yielding skies then descending, halts at Athens,
;

and resigns her chariot to Triptolemus, and teaches him to sow the seed,
as well in fallow fields, as in those Avhich, after a long intermission, have
been cultivated with care.
The youth driviug the chariot over Europe and Asia, turns at last
toward the coasts of Scythia, where Lyncus was king, and enters the
royal palace. Being asked whence he came,
the cause of his journey, his
name and country Athens, says he, is my native city, and Triptolemus
;

my name I came neither in a ship through the waves, nor travelled over
:

land, hut cut my way through the yielding sky. I bring with me the gifts
of Ceres, which, scattered over the wide fields, will give rich harvests,
and pleasant food. The barbarian envied him ; and that he himself might
be esteemed the author of so great a good, receives him hospitably, and,
when sleep had sealed his eyes, attempts his breast with his sword but ;

just as he aimed the piercing stroke,

Ceres transformed him to a lynx, and
ordered the Athenian to drive her
youth again through the air. dragons
NOTES.
642. Geminos Dea fertilis ungues.'] As that this goddess had taught him the art
the famous Tripiolemus, the son of Ce- of agriculture, and sent him in lier cha-
leiis and Nura, was one of those who riot, drawn by winged dragon?, to propa-
j;a\e Ceres the best entertainment when gate through all the world an aitsoue-
sli€ ai rived in Atlica, lience thev fabled cessary to mankind.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. V. 201

Xil. Fini^rat dictos h nobis maxima cantus. .^H^^^Ii'l^ll^J.Z

At nympnae vicisse Deas Helicona coleiites '»-«• Atnymphadixere

Concordi dixere sono. Convicia victa; lentesHfUconavidss,:

cam jacerent; quoniam, dixit, certamine vobis 665 !;"'"v4'.'J»o;5^«'«X-
•

Additis, et
.

non
"...
Supplicium meruisse parum est, maledictaque culpui
^

est patientia libera nobis;

''- p'o-mu'est vubts »«-
VJtiSSP » SltJiVt It'lUlll
ta?nh:c,Hri(iif}<qp.ema-
C^f'

Ibmius \n poenas; et, qua vocat ira, sequemuv. tientia mm elt iwem

Rident Emathides, spernuntque

X '
minacia verba :
\-
'lft'li'i!""''"JT''-!:\
^ S 01(0 •• x.
i£iH: ill 11 1 It ft
^,,^

Conataeque
^ loqui,
'
et magno
'" clamore protervas
*
670 '"'•"^ F.„wthides ri.
dent, sper/nintqiie mi-
I,
.
^
ntentare manus, pennas exire per ungues nadu verba; conate-

Aspexere suos, operiri brachia plumis, pro/f,^i'a.s mam"'mal

"" ''^'"'""T- "^pM-'re
Alteraque
1 o " concrescere rostro
alterius rigido
pennas rxtre pi r suos

D-i
.

Ora vident, volucresque novas accedere silvis. ungues, ctonrckia ope-

, 1
•
1 1 •
,1
mota
, riri plumis, altcrtitjue
unique volunt plangi, per brachia levatae, ruient ora aite/'tux
Aere pendebant, nemorum convicia, picifi. 676 fro^o^^^^^'clolwrej
Nunc quoque
' '
in alitibus facundia prisca
.'
remansit,
z>«m-
cce'edere suiis.
•T) ,. T , ,• que voliint. piangi ; le-
Kaucaque garruiitas,studiumque unmane loquendi. vatoepermota brachia,
pendebant at're pica,
convicia vemnrum. Nutic quoque prisca facundia remansit in alitibus, ^arrulitasque rauca,
studiumqiie immane loquendi.
TRANSLATION.
XII. The chosen muse had here ended her learned song. The nymphs
unanimous decree the victory to the Heliconian goddesses. When the
vanquished had begun to rail because, (resumed Calliope,) you think it not
:

enough to have rendered yourselves obnoxious by a presumptuous contest,

but add also outrages to your crime, and by fresh insults provoke our in-
dignation, we will proceed to vengeance, and take the course
which our
resentment dictates, the Emathiau sisters smile, and despise our threats :

but as they attempt to speak, and with a scolding noise shake their threat-
ening hands, they saw feathers spring from under their nails, and pinions
spread upon their arms. They see each other's mouths shoot out in
horny beaks, and a neAV race of birds added to the woods. And Avheu
they thought to beat their breasts, raised by the motion of their arms,
they hang in the air a sisterhood of magpies, the scandal of the groves.
Yet still, though changed to birds they retain their prattling humour, full
of noisy clamour and incessant chattering.

NOTES.
66i. Mopsopiumjuvcnem.'] That is, the name sometimes given to Attica, from
Athenian youth, for Mopsopia was a Mopsopus, one of its kings.
202 P. OVIDII NASONIS

LIBER SEXTUS.
ORDO. dictis Tritonia talibus
T. Tritonia prffhue- aurem;
rat aiirem talihus dic-
tis: proliaveratque lar-
PRiEBUERAT
Carminaque Aonidum, justamque probaverat
mina Aonidum, jus- iram.
tatnque iram : turn ait Turn secum, laudare parum est laudemur et ipsae:
secnm, purum est Imi- ;

dare ; ct ipsa lande- Nuraina nee sperni sine pcena nostra sinamus.
inur nee Jinunms nos-
tra niiminaspcrni sine Maeoniseque animum Fatis intendit Arachnes 5 :

pcend intenditque ani-

mum
;
/at is Alceoitite Quam sibi lanificse non cedere laudibus artis
Arachnes, quavi audi-
erat Tion cedcre sibi
Audierat. Non ilia loco, nee origine gentis
laiidibiis la»ifica' artis.
Ilia non /nit clara
Clara, sed arte, fuit. Pater huic Colophonius Id-
loco, nee origine gen- mon
scd arte : Colopho-
tingebat murice lanas.
tis,
nius Idmon pater liuic,
Phocai'co bibulas
tingebat bibulas lanas Phocaico murice ;

TRANSLATION.
I. had
while attended to these recitals, and ap-
all this
"|\ /|"INERVA
---S- proved the song of the Muses, and their
just resentment. Then
thus reflects " It is not
: that we
enough commend,
let also be commend-
us
ed, nor suffer our divinity to he insulted with impunity." Then bends
her mind on the fate of Moeonian Arachne, whom she had heard refused
to yield to her in the praises of the wool-working art. She was renowned
neither for her family nor place of birth, but for her art alone. Idmon
of Colophon, who tinged the spungy wool with Phocsean purple, was her
father her mother was dead but she too was from among the vulgar, and
: :

of the same rank with her husband. Yet she, though but meanly born.

NOTES.
This book begins witli the fable of for the trial. All (his is no more tlian
Minerva and Arachne, which the poet an ingenious fiction to describe the great
has connected in a very easy natural expertness of Arachne at working in
manner with relation to the Muses. That wool and silk. PJiny tells us, that she
goddess, from hearing the story of tiieir was the first who found out the art of
revenge, is led to reflect on her own spinning, and weaving cloths, an inven-
wrongs, and the boasts of Arachne, who tion wiiich is attributed also to Minerva.

pretended to rival her in the wool-work- 1. Pallas, so called from

Tritonia.']
ing art. This Arachne was of Lydia, the Triton, a river of Boeoria.
daughter of Idmon, a dyer her mother ; 5. Maonice.] Lydia : either from the
too was of mean birth, and had trained river Mceon, or a king of the same name.
her up to working in wool, in which she 8. Colophonius Idmon.] Colophon was

acquired the fame of excelling all her a city of Lydia, famous for an oracle of
cotemporaries. But, not satisfied with Apollo.
that, she would pretend to equal even 9. Murice.] Murex: properly a fish,
Minerva herself The goddess, provoked whose blood served for making the finest
at tliis insolence, comes to her in the purple. Hence the word is often used
disguise of an old woman to dissuade by the poets for the colour itself. Phocaa
her from giving way to so ridiculous a was a city of i^olia, famous for pro-
vanity, but finding her still persist, she ducing the best purples.
accepts the challenge, and each prepares
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VI. 203

Occideratmater:sedeth8Bcdeplebe,suoque 10 ^'JiZ f:'^^'^^^

/Rniia viro fuerat. Lydas
'
tamen ilia per urbes a-quaque suoviro; uia
'^-^n .„ ,. Vl • tamen studio quasie-
Quaesierat studio nomen memorabile quamvis ; rat memorah,ie nomen

Orta domo habitabat Kypsepis.

parva, parvis ^,':aJf7rta 'paZl
admirabile sape
Hujus ut aspicerent opus '!^:'^i,i^%J^
Deseruere sui Nymphse vineta iymoli: 15 ut a.tpuercnt opus ad-
Deseruere suas Nymphse Pactolides undas. deseJ^ere 'vbi,'ta"'I,d

Nee factas soldm vestes spectare juvabat ; JW; -.St: ^r.

"nd„s. mc solum ju-
Turn
X iiixi quoque,
v^iiv^^j^iAv.,
cumfierent tantus decor afFuit arti rabat
:
,
:

spectare testes
Sive rudem pnmos lanam glomerabat m orbes:
•
^ 1 , 1

/oc<«,9, if juvabat <«»» rf

Seu digitis subigebat opus, repetitaque longo 20 «^XJ 'll^./'al"ai

Vellera mollibat nebulas a^quantia tractu ? V^deJ^i'T^^tt
Sive Ipvi teretem versabat poUice fusum : mos orbes, seu subige-
bat opus dis.itis,moUi.
.
, N "D 11 1 1
.

Sen pino-ebat acu; scires a r allacle cioctam.

i.

batqutviUerarepetita

Quod tamen ipsa negat tantaque offensa magistr^ : 1,?",:.;;^;^:,;:^;'^^;,^:

:

Certet, ait, mecum,

v^v.1 ^^^l/, 14.*.., * v.v^ ,
nihil est quod
-^
victa recusem. 25 bat uretem fusum levi
^
poliite, seu pitigebat
Pallas anum simulat: falsosque in tempora canos acu; .?c;>t.v iiiam fuissc
,,,..,.infirmos /I I
1
baculo
i.'i.„.j.„
sustinet aitus.
doctam ii Palladc.
Addit, et quoque q^ga tamen ipsa ne-
Tum sic orsa loqui : Non omnia grandior aetas, ^Zli'tfC<n^" cfnu
Oliib funiamus, habet. Seris venit usus ab annis: mccum ; est nUiu quod
r;
&...
'
rrri •
i OA rccusem ticta (si siin
Consilium ne sperne meum. iibiiama petatur oU
i:- i.

-victa.) paiiassimuiat

Inter mortales faciendae maxima lanae. ""/,"" "tnlanporal^Vt

sustinet quoque infir-
mos art us baculn. Turn orsa est loqui sic. Grandior (etas non habet omnia qua fugiamus. Usus
ve?ut ah seris annis. Ne sperne mewn consilium : maxima famafaciendce lance inter mortales pe-
latur tibi.
TRANSLATION.
and inhabiting the little village of Hypsepge, had by her ingenuity ac-
quired a memorable name through all the cities
of Lydia. Oft did the
nymphs quit the vineyards of Tymolus, to admire the niceness of her art,
and the Naiads of Pactolus forsook their streams. Nor were they de-
but then too when
lighted only to view her Avork when she
finished ;

wrought, so much grace there was in her manner. For whether she
rolled up the shapeless wool into its first balls, or unravelled it with her
fingers, and by repeated
endeavours softened the fleeces equalling the
clouds in variously stretching tracts, or turned the smooth spindle with
her
nimble thumb, or flowered with her needle, you might perceive that she
had been instructed by Pallas which yet she denies, and disdaining so
:

great a mistress Let her, (says she,) come to a trial with me there is
:
;

nothing I will not submit to if overcome. Pallas puts on the appearance

of an old woman, and adds false grey hairs to her temples, and supports
" Old
her tottering limbs with a staff. Then thus began to speak age :

" is not in to be shunned comes from

every thing experience riper years
: :

"
despise not therefore my advice. Aspire to the highest fame among mor-
"
tals, for the arts of working in wool, but yield to the goddess, and
" with humble
voice, ask pardon for your rash presumption, the goddess
NOTES.
13. Hypa'pis-'] f/j/p«p<E was an incon- l6 Pactolides undas.'] Pactolns was the
town of Lydia, upon the descent
siderable name of a river in Lydia, famous for its
of mount Tymolus, near the banks of the golden sands.
Cayster.
 204 P. OVIDII NASONIS
Cede dete; temeraria-
que, roga veniam sitp-
Cede Deae: veniamque tuis temeraria dictis
flice voce, tuts dictis :
ilia dabit veniam tibi
Supplice voce roga. Veniam dabit ilia roganti.
roganti, Arachne as- Aspicit banc torvis, inceptaque fila relinquit;
ficit tori'is ocults, re-
iinqiiitque inceptajilii; Vixque manum retinens, confessaque vultibus
rixquc relinens ma-
niim, confessaque irum
iram, 35
vultibits, resecutu est Talibus obscuram resecuta est Pallada dictis :
eb\curam Falluda ta-
lUnis dictU. Vents, Mentis inops, longaque venis confecta senecta :

inops mentis, con/ret a - Et nimium vixisse diu nocet. Audiat istas,

que ioiigcl senectci, et
nocct vixisse nimium Si tibi nurus est tibi
diu: si qua mtrus est qua est, si qua filia, voces.
tibi, si qua est
filia Consilii satis est in me mihi : Neve monendo 40
tibi,aiidiat istas voces.
Satis consilii est 7/ii/ti Profecisse putes; eadem sententia nobis.
in me ; neve putes
Cur non ipsa venit; cur heec certamina vitat?
pro/ccisse moiiendn, ea-
dem seiitenlia est no- Turn Dea, Venit ait; forraamque removit anilem;
bis. Cur ipsa non ve-
nit cur vitat htec cer-
?
Palladaque exhibuit. Venerantur numina Nym-
tamina? turn dca ait,
venit : removitqne J'or- phee, 44
tnam anslem, exkibuit-
que PaUada : Nym- Mygdonidesque nurus. Sola est non territa virgo.
Jihte }iurusque Mygdo- Sed tamen erubuit, subitusque invita notavit
nides, venerantur nu-
mina. Sola virgo non Ora rubor, rursusque evanuit. Ut solet aer
est territa : sed tamen
erubuit,; subitusqiie Purpureus fieri, ciim primum Aurora movetur ;

rubor notavit invita Et breve post tempus candescere Solis ab ictu.

ora ; evanuitque rur-
stis. Vt a'cr solet fieri Perstat in incepto, stolidaeque cupidine palmae 50
purpureus, ctim au- In sua fata ruit. Neque enim Jove nata recusat
rora primiim movetur, :

et post breve tempus,

caiidescere ab ictu soils, Perstat in incepto, ruitqite in sua fata cupidine stolida palms :
negue
eniin nata Jove recusal

TRANSLATION. ,

" will The nymph beholds her with stern

forgive at your submission."
eyes, and leaves the threads she had begun; when scarce restraining her
hand, and with a countenance that spoke her indignation, she in these
words replied to Pallas in disguise " You come here void of understand-
:

"
ing, and doting under the weight of age, and it is your misfortune to
" have lived so If you have any daughter, or
long.
" serve for them these daughter-in-law, re-
sage reproofs. I am sufficient for my own conduct,
" nor stand in need of
advice, and to make you sensible how little yom*
" admonitions know that I am still of mind does the same
" not the
prevail, ;
why
goddess come she decline the contest?" Then
herself, why does
the goddess " Lo! she comes ;" and casting off the
disguise of age, exhi-
:

bited Pallas. The nymphs and Mygdonian matrons adore the goddess. The
virgin alone is not daunted yet she blushed, and a sudden redness marked
;

her reluctant cheeks hut in a moment vanished again. As the air seems
;

streaked with purple when Aurora first approaches and soon after brightens
by the silver rays of the sun. She still persists in her design, and blinded by a
vain desire of conquest, rushes upon her own fate nor indeed does the daugh-:

NOTES.
45. Mygdonidesque nurus.'] Mygdonia the poet tells ns, were present when the
was a region of Phrygia, a country bor- goddess discovered herself; and all pro-
dering upon Lydia. As Arachne was fa- fess their respectand veneration. Arachne
mous in her way, and her works exquisite, alone remains unmoved. It is thus Ovid
many came from thence, and all the heightens the guilt of her obstinacy, and
neighbouring regions, to view them and makes her appear the more deserving of
admire their beauty. Many of these, her fate.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VI. 205

Nee monet ulterius nee jam certaniina difFert.

:
ncc monet ulterius: nee
jam differt certamina.
Haud mora constituunt diversis partibus ambse,
;
Hand est viora : ambce
C07istituunt diversis
Et geminas intendunt stamine telas.
gracili partibus, et intendunt
geminas telas gracili
Telajugo vinctaest: stamen seeernit arundo: 55 stamiiie. Tela est vinc-
Inseritur medium radiis subtemen acutis ; ta jugo ; arimdo cecer-
iiit stamen. Subtemen,
Quod expediunt, atque inter stamina ductum
digiti viediu?n inseritur actt-
tis radiis ;
Percusso feriunt insecti pectine dentes, quod digiti
e^pediunt, atque dentes
Utraque
— festinant cinctsque
>{ue - cinctaeque
T ad_r
peetora vestes
: i'jsccti pemisso pec
_ _ _ tmr, ftriunt ductum
Brachia docta movent, studio fallente laborem 60 inter statnina. Utra-
que festinant; restes-
lllic et
Tyrium quaB purpura sensit ahenum que sunt cincta- ad pee-
tora, et movent ducta
Texitur, et tenues parvi discriminis umbrae :
brachia, studio fal-
lente laborem. lllic et
Qualis ab imbre solet percussis solibus arcus
purpura qux sensit
Infieere ingenti longum curvamine ccelum : Tyrium ahenum texi-
tur, et umbra tenues
In quo diversi niteant cum mille eolores, 65 parvi diicrindnis.qua-
lis arcus solet infieere
Transitus ipse tamen spectantia lumina fallit :
longum ccelum ingenti
Usque adeo quod tangit idem est; tamen ultima cur ra/nine, solibus per-
cussis ab imbre ; in quo
distant. cum mille diversi co-
lores niteant, tamen
lUie et lentum filis immittitur aurum, transitus fallit
ipse
Et vetus in tela deducitur aro-umentum. spectantia lumina,

nr\Cecropia
.
n r
•'> 11
ralJas seopulum Mavortis in
T\/r t.-
•
quod tangit est usque
arce adcoidem.- tamen ui-
Tj; .,•
-i ji 'Ti. nomnie ni tima distant. lllic et
Jringit, et antiquam de terree litem. 71 untum aurum immit-
titurflis, et vetus argumentum deducitur in tela.
II. Pallas pingit seopulum Mavortis in arce Cecropia,ct antiquam litem de 7iomine terra.
TRANSLATION,
ter of
Jupiter refuse, or admonish her any further, or think now of waving
the challenge. Straight they repair both to their different posts, and stretch
out two webs of the finest threads. The web is tied round the beam the ;

slay separates the threads. The wool is inserted between by sliding shut-
tles, which their fingers drive along and when thus drawn within the
;

warp, the teeth, cut in the moving slay, strike. Both hasten on the work ;
and with mantles buttoned to their breasts, moA'e their pliant arms their ;

keenness preventing all sense of fatigue. The purple dyed in Tyrian ket-
tles is there Avoven, and fine shades of small difference just as the rain- ;

bow is wont to display a mighty arch along the heavens, when the rays
of the sun are reflected by the small drops of rain, where, though a thou-
sand different colours shine, yet the transition from one to another eludes
the most prying eye so insensibly do the touching colours blend, and yet
;

the extreme parts differ. Here too the pliant gold is interwoven with
their threads, and ancient fables are represented on their webs.
II. Pallas describes the rock of Mars in the citadel of Athens, and the
old dispute concerning the name of the countrj . Twice six-celestials, Jove
NOTES.
70. Cecropia Pallas, Sfc] This history ever produced a thing of most use to the
of the contest between Pallas and Arachue city, shoulil
have the naming of it. Nep-
gives Ovid room to introduce several tune, by a stroke of his trident, made a
other fables, which he feigns were repre- horse spring from the earth ; Minerva
sented in their pieces of tapestry. The produced an olive-tree, which procured
most considf rable is that of the quarrel her the victory.
between Neptune and Minerva, about Ibid. Cea-opia arce.'] The citadel of
giving a name to the city Athens. The Athens, from Cecrops, king of the Athe-
twelve great gods were chosen umpires of nians, who is said to have tirst built their
the dilTerence ; and
agreed, that which- city.
206 P. OVIDII NASONIS

^^s s^^ coelestes, medio Jove, sedibus altis

f!u!"f.nfi1V,^nfa
gravitate, Jove medio. AufTustu gravitate sedciit. Sua quemque Deorum
Sua jacie.s inscribit i -i c t •
,
i
•
i-- •

quemque deorum: ima- liiscriDit taciBs: Jovis est regalis

imago.
%eir%euL ''peiagi
Stare Deuiii pelagi, longoque ferire tridente 75
itarejerirequeaspera
saxa lo/igo tridente,
AsDcra
r saxa facit,' Hiedioque ^ vulnere ""'»»
.T
saxi
__, .
t •

ferumque exsiiuisxe e Lxsiluisse ferum pigiiorc viiidicet urbeni.

; quo
quo pignore^lindicet At sibi dat clypeum, dat acutae cuspidis hastam :

v^sibffda"L!^n Dat galeam capiti defenditur agide pectus.

:

acut<e cuspidis; dat sua siiHulat de cuspide terram, 80

Percussamque
galeam capiti ; pectus -.^ ^
, c -i- , •
.

defenditur tegide. Si- Frodcre cuiTi Daccis loetum canentis olivae :

S':^r".i;::i7"S Miradque Deos. Operi victoria finis.

'tifofiW'cum baciZ'
^^ tameu exemplis intelligat aemula laudis,
deosque mirari. prctium speret pro tam furialibus ausis,
Vic'
Vt
Quod
toria est finis operi. /
g-. .
'^

it. *;
.
,

tamen amuia C^uatuor in partes certamina quatuor addit

luutiis 85
quod%itiuv77peret
Clara colore suo, brevibus distincta sigillis.
pro misis- tarn furiaii-
bus, addit quatuor cer-
ThreiciamRhodopenhabetangulusunus.etHffimon;
-»t i- ii-
tamina in quatuor !N uoc gelidos inontes, mortalia corpora ciuondam :
'^
partes, clara sua ro- -\j
•
r -r\ -i • •

JN omiua summorum sibi

j. •^
lore, et distiiuta bre- qui tnbuere Deorum.
7^::?-
Altera Pygmaeae fatum miserabile matris 90
"^^ui^rli^M
ciam Rhotiopen,et iia- Pars habet. Hauc Juno victam certamine iussit
mon, quondam mor- -^ ,. .... in
taiia corpora ; 7iunc Jisse gruem populisque : suis indicere bellum.
gelidos monies : qui tri-
buere sibi itoinina summorum deorum.
Altera pars habet miserabile fatum Pigmaa matris. Juno jussit hanc victam certamine, es^e
gruem; indicereque bellum suis populis.
TRANSLATION,
in the midst, sit with august
gravity on lofty thrones. Each god is dis-
tinguished by his proper likeness. An air of majesty proclaims Jupiter
the moriarch of the universe. She makes the god of the sea too to stand
there, and strike the rugged rock with his long trident, and a horse to leap
forth from the
opening in the middle of the rock by Avhich pledge of his ;

favour, he claims giving the name to the city. But to herself she gives
a shield, and a sharp-pointed spear a helmet adorns her head, and her ;

breast is defended by the -/Egis. She also represents the earth, when
struck by her spear, producing a pale olive-shoot loaded Avith berries, and
the gods wondering at the prodigy. Victory crowns her labour. But that
the rival of her praise may learn from examples what reward she may ex-
pect for her daring challenge, she adds at the four corners four contests,
lively in the colouring, and distinctly marked by little images. One corner
has Thracian Rhodope and Hamus once human bodies, but now trans- ;

formed to mountains; who assumed to themselves the titles of the sove-

reign gods. Another part represents the mournful fate of the Pygmaean
mother. Juno victorious in a dispute with her, commanded her to become
a crane, and make war on her own people. She described also Antigone,
NOTES.
go. Altera PygmeEce,'] The next story enemy of the Pygmips. As to the Pyg-
isthat cf the transformation of the Pyg- mies themselves, they were, according to
maean qncen. According to jEIian her fabulous tradition, a species ofdwarfs in-
name was Gerane ; others call her Pygas. habiting the mountainous parts of India,
She was worshipped by her people as a not exceeding a cubit in height. The bare
goddess ; which raised her to that heijiiit name of Gerane, the Greek word for a
of pride, that she contemned the other crane, wliich she bore, according to ^lian,
deities, especially Juno and Diana, whose gave rise to the fable other being transt
indignation she provoked so far, that tliey formed into that fowl.
ciianged her to a crane : the implacable
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VI. 207

ausam contendere quondam Pingit et Anlignnem

Pingit et Antigonen ausam quondam con-
Cum magni consorte Jovis ; quam regia Juno tendere cum consorte
magni Jovis, quam re-
In volucrem vertit; nee profuit Ilion illi, 95 gia Juno vertit in vo-
lucrem: nee Ilion, Pa-
Laomedonve pater, sumptis quin Candida pennis terre Laomedon pro-

crepitante ciconia rostro.

fuit illi, quin sumptis
Ipsa sibi plaudat pemiis, ipsa Candida
Qui superest solus Cinyran habet angulus orbam: ciconia plaudat sibi,
crepif(ntte rostro.
Isque gradus templi natarum membra suarum Angulus solus qui
superest, habet Ciny-
Amplectens, saxoquejacens, lacrymare videtur. ran orbum filiabus is- ;

Circuit extremas oleis pacalibus oras. 101 que amplectens gradus

templi, et membra sua-
Is modus est, operique sua facit arbore finem. rum natarum, jacens-
qiie saxo, videtur la-
XX. Maeonis elusara designat imagine tauri crymare. Circuit ex- :

tremas oras pacalibus

Europen verum taurum,
: freta vera putares. oleis. Is est
modus, fa-
eitquejinem operi sticl arbore.
XX. Maonis designat Kuropen elunam imagine tauri ; putares taurum verum, tt freta vera.

TRANSLATION.
who dared to vie for beauty with the consort of mighty Jove. Nor did
Ilium or her sire Laomedon avail her, but, transformed to a noisy stork,
she cuts the air with her Avhitened pinions. The corner, which now alone
remains, represents childless Cinyras he clasping the steps of the tem-
;

ple, the bodies of his own daughters and, stretched upon the stone, seems
;

to weep. She edges round the work with wreaths of peaceful olive this ;

was the border of the piece, which she finished with her own tree.
The Mseonian nymph delineates Europa seduced by Jupiter under the
figm-e of a bull you would have taken the bull and the waves to be real.
:

NOTES.
93. Pingit et Jntigonen.'] Antigone was positions. If they demanded a princess
the daughter of Laomedon, king of Troy, in marriage, and were refused ; the cus-
and remarkable for her fine flowing hair, tom was, lo raise an army, and carry her
which she was so vain of, as to boast that oft"by force. The military engines, or
slie resembled Juno. The eoddess of- ships, were distinguished by some figures,
fended at her presumption, changed her according to the fancy of the master:
Imir into snakes. The gods afterward in these were either animals or birds, or some
compiission transformed lier to a stork. monster of fantastic form. This obser-
98. Cinyun orbam.] Cinyras was a vation is from hence rendered credible,
king of the Assyrians, who had several that v,e still meet with these representa-
daugiiters remarkable for their beauty. tions upon ancient moninnents, medals,
They growing insolent upon it, and pre- and coins. The poets, who described
tending to surpass even Juno iierseif, pro- these expeditions, instead of saying that
voked the goddess so far, that she trans- such a prince carried off by force a prin-
formed them into the steps of a temple, cess whom he had fallen in love with,
and changed the father too to a stone, as feigned that he transformed himself to a
lie was embracing these steps ; all that bull, a lion, or an eagle. If to this we
now remained of liis dauL'hters. add, that these kings often bore the name
J 03. Maonis elu.^am designat imagine of Jupiter, Apollo, or Neptime, and that
fauri Eunipcn.] Arachne, on her side, the priests ot these gods succeeded fre-
traced on her web the amours and meta- quently in their love adventures, by as-
morphoses of the gods. As there is nothing suming the name rif the deities whom
new or particular ni tliein, we shall satisfy they served we shall be at no loss to im-
;

ourselves with exjdaining tliem by one ge- derstand what the poets mean by these
Jveral reinaik ; which may serve also to metamorphoses of the gods, and ascribing
Jmravel a thousand other lictions of the to them so many different children. There
like natare. is another conjecture too offered to un-
In the first ages, men, and even kings ravel these chauircs. They tell us that the
themselves, were very rude and unpo- figures of ditferent animals were graved
lished. The want of education; and still upon ancient coins, and the money thus
more of a consistent system of moral stamped being used by lovers to sednce
principles, rendered them equally gross their mistresses, gave rise to the fictions
in their manners, and savage in their dis- of their assuming their different figures.
 208 P. OVIDll NASONIS

Ipsa videbatur spec jpgg^ videbatui' terras spectare relictas,

tare terras rcUctas, et
ciamare suas coinites,
^
i^t
.

comitcs claiiiare suas, tactumoue vereri

I '
,

•
vereriquetucluinaqua: a -i- i.* a- i- 1 J l

essiiieiith, reducere- Assilieiitis aquai; tuniuasque reducere plantas.

^ecu'el't^L^lK^'.
Fecit et Asterien aquila luctante teneri :
riem teiieri luctante Fccit olorinis LedaiTi recubare sub alis :
aqmlii; fecit Ledum ^ , t- -, ii r-, -i. • •
i-in
W
recubare sub ads oio- Addidit, ut hsatyn cclatus imagine pulchram 1

^r'r c.1«f«fi;f^ Jupiter implerit geiiiino Nycteida foetu:

i"h/am NSida^"e- Amphitryon fuerit,
cum te Tyrinthia cepit;
mino fatu: ut fuerit Aureus ut Daiiaeu,
Amphitryon cum cepit -»/r
Asopida luserit
t\ -j
iffneus,
.
•

teTirynthia^ut aureus Mnemosyiien pastor, varius Ueoida serpens-

neZMfp^dt^ut'pas.
Tc quoque mutatum torvo, Neptune, juvenco 115
tor Miiemosynen: nt
Vii'jrine
» in iEolia Dosuit Tu visus Eaipeus, :
vurius serpens JJeoiiia. ^^. . . , ••
i
' •
•¥->• i^' i r ii-
Posuit te
Gigiiis Aloidas; arics liisaltida lallis.
quoque Mep-

juTenoiVi^Vgiiw.Eo. Et te, flava comas, frugum mitissima mater,

Seusit equuiii ; te sensitavem crinita colubris
g^nilAii/fJas^Tariei
faiiismsduida. Et Matcr coui volucris seusit Dclphina Melantlio. 120
:
mater mitissiinu fru- t^ ••> ^ r •
V i

gum,jiava quod art cu- Umiiibus liis

laciemque suam taciemque locorum
«r^-"";L'/rD'""^"i
Reddidit. Est iUic agrestis imagine Phoebus ;

crinata co/ubris sen-

(Jtque modo accipitris pennas, modo terga leonis
sit te
sensit
avem: Melaiitho
te
T- .
ut "ii -t
Gesserit ut pastor Macareida luserit Issen.
Deipinna. :
Reddidit his omnihii.t t-, jT7- •. ^
Liber ut Engoiien talsa decepent uva:
inc
\ZO
riAj
suamqtie faciem, faci-

Tullml7h,T%f'e'stis
Ut Saturnus equo geminum Chirona crearit.
; vtque modo gesserit pennas accipitris, modo terga leonis : ut pastor litserit Issen Ma-
est illic
careida. Ut Liber (Bacchus) deceperit Urigonenfalsd uvd: ut Saturnus mutatus eqao crearit
geminum Chirona-
TRANSLATION.
She seemed to look land she had just left, and call out to her
back to the

companions and to draw up her trembling feet, as if afraid to touch the

;

rising waves. She drew also Asterie struggling with an eagle that had
supine under the snowy pinions of a swan. She
seized her, and Leda laid
added too, how Jupiter, disguised under the form of a satyr, filled the fair
Antiope with a twin offspring how, as Amphitryon, he enjoyed Alcmena
:
;

how, changed to a shower of gold, Danae and how the daughter of ;

Asopus felt him in a lambent flame. To Mnemosyne he appeared a shep-

herd, and to Deois a speckled snake. She represented also Neptune,
transformed to a bull, in his adventure with the daughter of iEolus how, :

in the form of Enipeus, he

begot the Aloidae, and, appearing a ram, de-
ceived Theophane. Ceres, the bountiful mother of corn, conspicuous for
her golden locks, tried j'our vigovir in a steed and the snake-haired mo- ;

ther of the winged horse, in a bird; and Melantho, in the form of a dolphin.
To all these she gave their true feathers and likeness, and added
too the real appearance of the places where they happened. There
Phoebus roves like a country swain one Avhile he appears with the Avings ;

of a hawk, again with a lion's skin and, as a shepherd, deceives Isse, :

the daughter of Macareus. There too you might see how Bacchus, ima-
ged like the clustering grape, deceived Erigone and how Saturn, in :

the form of a horse, begot double-shaped Chiron. The extreme parts

NOTES.
108. Astcrieii.] The
slaughter of Ccjw, Leda, Castor, Pollux ami Helen, is well
whom Juptter enjoyed inider the form of known.
an eagle she was the wife of Perses, and
; Gemino Nycfeidafatu.] Antiope,
ill.
motlier of Herate. the of Nyctaeus, seduced by Ju-
danj:''^^''
109. Ledum.} The story of Jupiter piterinthe .«hape of a satyr, bore him two
changed into a swan, and having by sons Aiuphion and Zetlius,
;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VI. 209

Ultima pars telse, tenui circumdata limbo, Pars ultima tela, cir-
cumdata tenui limbo,
Nexilibus flores liederis habet intertextos. hubet Jtnres intertex-
•
tos nexilibus hederis.
III. Non illiid Pallas, nonillud carpere Livor III. JVotiPallas, 7ion
successu flava virago: 130 Livor posiit carpere
Possit opus. Doluit illud opus. Flava vi-
Et rupit pictas coelestia crimina vestes, rago doluit successu,
et riipit pictas vestes
Utque Cytoriaco radium de monte tenebat ; exhibentes celestia cri-
mina.
Ter quater Idmonise frontem percussit Arachnes. Litque tenebat
radium de monte Cy-
Non tulit infelix laqueoque animosa ligavit
!
toriaco, percussit
quater frontem Idmo-
ter

Guttura. Pendentem Pallas miserata levavit 135 : iti<E Arachnes.

Infelix
Virgo non tulit, ani-
Atque ita, Vive quidem, pende tamen, improba, mosaque ligavit gut-
tura laqueo. Pallas
dixit:
miserata, levavit pen-
Lexque eadem pcenae, ne sis secura futuri,
dentem, atque dixit
ita.- Vive quidem im-
Dicta tuo generi, serisque nepotibus esto. proba, tamen pende,
Post ea discedens succis Hecateidos herbae eademquc lex pcena, ne
sis secura futuri, esto

medicamine dicta tuo generi, seris-

Spargit. Et extemplo tristi tactse 140
que nepotibus. Post
Defluxere comae cumque
: his et naris et auris
ea discedens, spargit
:

earn succis herba He-

Fitque caput minimumtotoquoque corpore parvae : cateidos, et extemplb
In latere exiles digiti pro cruribus hserent. coma tacta tristi me-
^.^^^.^^ .ejiuxtre;
cumque his et naris, auris. Caputque Jit minimum Uli parv<B quoque toto corpore. Exites digits
harent in latere pro cruribus.
TRANSLATION.
of the Av^eb, edged round with a fine border, are composed of flowers in-
terwoven with twists of ivy.
III. Not Pdllas nor Envy itself could blame that work the yellow ;

haired goddess grieved at her success, and as she held in her hand a
shuttle from mount Cytorura, she three or four times struck the forehead
of Idmonian Arachne. The unhappy maid could not bear it but being ;

of a high spirit, tied up her throat in a halter. Pallas pitying her, bore
her up as she hung, and thus said "
Live, vile wretch, yet still hang
:
;
"
and, that you may ever live in suspense, I doom the same law of pu-
" nishment to all Then going off, she
yoiu* race, and latest posterity."
sprinkles her with the juice of an Hecateian herb and immediately her ;

hair, touched by the poisonous drug, fell off; and with them her nose and
ears. The head too becomes very little to her greatly lessened in her
NOTES.
i^g. Non illud Pallas.] Ovid, after this 136. Vive quidem, fende tamen.'] Pliny
elegant description of their several pieces tells us, in the history which he gives of
of woi kmanship, proceeds to inform us of Arachne, that she hanged herself; but
the hard fate of Arachne. Pallas appears mentions not the reason of her despair. It
in no very advantageous light. The work is evident by that, however, that she had
is faultless:even Envy itself can find no- some secret cause of discontent.
thing to blame and the goddess acts not
;
The conformity of her name and pro-
so much from a principle of equity and fession with that of the spider, and above
justice, as an impatience to see lierself ri- all, the resemblance of the Hebrew word
valled. The truth is, emulation and re- Arach, which signifies to spin, and which
venge often prevail among our poet's the Scripture sometimes uses in speaking
gods, which is not so much the fault of of spiders and their webs, gave rise to
Ovid as of the times for all the poets,
: this fable.
both Greek and Latin without exception, 139. Hecateidos herbce.] Aconite or
agree in representing the gods with a wolfsbane, from Hecate the same who,
:

mixture of human frailties. according to Diodorus, was the mother of

132. Cytoriaco radium de monte.l A Medea. She is said to be the first who

shuttle made of box- wood, which and taught the use of poi-
grew in songlit after,
great abundance in Cytorus, a mountain sonous herbs.
ef Paphlagonia.
 210 P. OVIDII NASONIS
Veitterhalet ctetera:de
qvo ilia tamen remit-
Caetera venter habet. De quo tamen ilia remittit
titstamen; et iirunca
Stamen; et antiquas exercet aranea telas. 145
exercct aiitiquns telns.
IV. Tot a L,ydiafre- IV. Lydia tota frerait. Phrygiseque per oppida
mit, rumorque fae) i it
per oppida
facti
J'/iri,'g/cr,
et occtipat maguum
orhem sermonibiis. ]\'i
Rumor it, et magnum sermonibus occupat orbem. ^

obe eognoierat-iiium Ante suos NJobe thalamos, cognoverat illam,

ante suox iluilnmos,
ttnn cum virgo co,Te'bai
Turn cum Moeoniam virgo Sipylumque colebat.
M(fOiiiam,
que.
Sipyliim
Tamen ncc est Nee tamen admonita est pojna popvilaris Arachnes
admonitu pcena A rach- Cedere ccclitibus, verbisque minoribus uti: 151
ne.t popularis, cedere
calitibiis, ittiqiie verbis: Multa dabant animos. Sed enim nee conjugis artes,
mhiorihus. Miilla da-
bant animos: sed enini Nee genus amborum, magnique potentia regni,
nee artes eonjiigis, nee
Sic placuere illi, quamvis ea cuncta placebant,
genjis umborum, po-
tentiuque mogiii regni, Ut sua progenies: et felicissima matrum 155
sic placuere illi, quam-
vis cuticia ea place- Dicta foret Niobe, si non sibi visa fuisset.

'^"NloiTfoi'ef'dlaa
^am
sata Tiresia, venturi prascia Manto,
feiicissi}namatnm,si Per
non. visa fuisset sibi. -xt .•
mcdias fuerat, divino concita motu,
t •
-i n,
• •
, .
Nam Manto sata Tu Vaticmata vias ismcnides, ite irequentes, :

^/emJiladi'vVomoZl
Et date Latonae, Latonigenisque duobus, 160
'^medialvia^-%''m"nid7s
^^^ prcce tliura pia; lauroque innectite crinem:
itefreguentes;€t date Ore meo Latoua iubct. Parctur et omnes :

IjatoncF,duobusqueLa- rtM. i
••
i • •
, r ^•l ±
ionigenis thura cum 1nebaides jussis sua tcHipora iroudibus omaut :

fw cHnem laiwo.^jfa- Thuraquedaut Sanctis, et verba precantia, flammis.

tonajubet hoc meo ore. Paretur . et omnes Thebaides ornanf sua tempera jussis frondibus : dant-
que thura et precantia verba Sanctis flammis.
'^ TRANSLATION.
V 'lole
body. Her slender fingers cleave to her sides for legs. All the
rest of her seems nothing but belly, from which she
yet gives a thread ;

and now converted into a spider, works at the web as formerly.

IV. All Lydia is in an uproar: the noise of the fact spreads through
the towns of Phrygia, and fills the wide Avorld with discourse. Niobe
had known her, before her marriage, when yet a virgin she inhabited
I Mseor.ia and Sipvus yet was she not warned by the punishment of her
;

country-woman Arachne, to yield to the heavenly gods, and use less

presumptuous Mords. Many things conspired to augment her pride.
But indeed neither her husband's fame, their descent, nor the sovereignty
of a mighty kingdom pleased her so much (although all these too had
their weight) as her own
progeny and Niobe might have been called ;

the happiest of mothers, if she had not seemed so to herself. For Manto,
the daughter of Tiresias a prophetess, urged by a divine impulse, had
"
proclaimed through the streets Haste, all ye Theban dames, and offer :

"
pious incense with prayers to Latona, and the two childi'en of Latona,
" and bind
3'our hair with laurel ; the goddess commands by my
it

NOTES.
146 Lydia totnfremit.'} The poet, after yet Arachne's fate, which was soon spread
the story of Arachne, introduces by a na- abroad every where, would sink deeper
tural and easy connexion that of Niobe. in her mind, as it recalled the image of
This Niobe was the daughter of Tantalus, a former companion. It was therefore
king of Lydia ; and before she left her fa- natural to think, that it would more parti-
ther'skingdom, was intimately acquainted cularly serve as a warning to her, to avoid
with Arachne, and a great admirer of her any competition that might draw upon her
ingenuity. Although she was now passed a like vengeance. This is t!:e foundation
into another country, and lived at Thebes; for bringing in her story.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VI. 2U
Ecce venit comitum Niobe celeberrima turba, 165 f^J^^i'tJi^fco^
intexto Phrvffiis auro ?«'". ^peptabuis
auro
Vestibus
'^"^ jto_
spectabilis
r intexto Phrygils vesti-
:

Et, quantum ira sinit, rormosa: movensque decoro bus ; et formosa quan-

Cum capite imraissos humerum per utrumque ca- ^qZ^lapluil'immisZl

per utrumque hume-
pillos. rum cum decoro ca-
Constitit : utque oculos circumtulit alta superbos : pite, constitit: utque
alta circumtulit su-
Quis furor auditos, inquit, praeponere visis, 170 perbos oculos, inquit :
Quis furor prtrponere
Coelestes ? aut cur colitur Latona per aras ?
auditos coelestes lisis?
Numen adhuc sine thure meum est mihi Tantalus per aut cur Latona colitur
!

aras, dum meum

auctor :
numen est adjiuc sine
thure? Tantalus cui
Cui Superorum tangere niensas:
licuit soli soli licuit tangere men-
sas est
supcrorum
Pleiadum soror est genitrix mihi maximus Atlas :
auctor ("paler) mihi.
Est avus, aethereum qui fert cervicibus axem : 1 75 Soror Pleiadum est
genitrix mihi. Maxi-
Jupiter alter avus. Socero quoque glorior illo. mus Atlas, qui fert
(Ethereum axem cervi-
Me gentes metuunt Phrygiai me regia Cadmi :
cibus est mens avus.
est alter avus.
Sub domina est; fidibusque mei commissa mariti Jupiter
Gtorior quoqtie illo so-
Mcenia cum populis a meque viroque reguntur. cero. Gentes Phrygia
metuunt me.- regia
In quamcunque domus adverto lumina partem, 180 Cadmi est sub me do-
mino : lilcetiiaque com-
Immensse spectantur opes. Accedit eodem missa fidibus mei ina-
cum populis, reg-
Digna Dea facies. Hue natas adjice septem,
riti
nuntiir a meque viro-
Et totidem juvenes et mox generosque nurusque.
; que. In quamcungue
partem domUs adverto
Quaerite nunc, habeat quam nostra superbia cau- lumina immensiF opes
sam spectantur fades dig- :

:
na Ded accedit eodem:
Nescio quoque audete satam Titanida Cao
adjice hue septem na-185
tas, et tot idem juvencs,
Latonam praeferre mihi; cui maxima quondam et mox generosque ?fu-r
rusque. Nunc quarite
Exiguam sedem paritura^ terra negavit. quam causam nostra
superbia habeat ; audeteque prtrferre mihi Latonam Titanida satam nescio quo C<bo ;
cui quon..
dam paritiirtt, maxima terra negavit exiguam sedem.
TRANSLATION.
" mouth." Obedience is
paid and all the Theban matrons
;
adorn their
temples with leaves of laurel as commanded, and offer incense,
accom-
panied with humble prayers in the sacred flames. When, lo, Niobe
comes, surrounded with a crowd of attendants, shining with gold em-
broidered in her Phrygian robes, and beautiful as far as anger would
allow when tossing her hair that flowed down from her graceful head
;

on either shoulder, she stood still and with a haughty air casting around
;

her proud eyes, " What madness says she, to prefer celestial deities,
!

" known Or why is La-

only by report, to those whom you have seen !

" tona of my
worshipped at the altars, and no incense burnt in honour
" ? Tantalus is to whom alone it was granted to sit
godhead
" at the table of the
my sire ;

of the Pleiads
gods I have for my mother a sister
:
:

" the Atlas is my grandfather whose shoulders bear up the

mighty ;

*'
axletree of heaven Jupiter is my other grandfather I boast of him
: ;

" too for

"
my father-in-law. The Phrygian nations tremble at my
and the walls
power the
;
palace of Cadmus owns me for its sovereign ;

" raised husband's lyre, with the people inhabiting within them,
" are
by my
subject to me and my spouse. To whatever part of the place I
" turn are seen to this is joined a face not
my eyes, immense treasures :

" and as many

unworthy of a goddess. Add morever seven daughters
"
sons, and by-and-by sons-in-law and daughters-in-law. Inquire now
" what
ground I have for my pride and dare to prefer to me Latona,
;

;p 2
342 P. OVIDII NASONIS

nee iTio" Vile 'hTio,

^^^ nec humo, nee aquis Dea vestra re-
cotlo,
nec itqiiis, trat exul Cepta CSt.
tnundi ; donee insula t? i t j i
•
, ,

Deios miscrata lagaTu iixul erat muncli Qonec miserata vagantem, ;

S<a'?aV/rW™ Hospita tu terris, erras, ego, dixit in undis, 190

in
cum
nnriis, ,hduq,icio-
in.ittibilcm. ilia
Instabilemque locum Delos ,dedit. lUa duobus
*^
_, . .

e-t facta parens duo- Tacta parens utei'i pars est hsec septima nostri.
:

"ephma'^parl ^nmtTi Sum felix. Quis enim neget hoc? felixque manebo.

"^l^Jgeth^fimnc.
^^^ quoquc quis dubitet? tutam me copia fecit.
boque felix; qui.i du-
Major sum, quam cui possit fortuna nocere. 195
p?a fecit '^nw'uitam. Multaquc ut eripiat multo mihi plura relinquet, ;

fortulmilUtl'iZer^^^^^
Excessere metum mea jam bona. Fingite demi
'vtqite eripiat miiita, Huic aliquid populo natorum posse meormia;
taineii rclinqmt mi/n _^ t t i i
multo plura. Mea bo- JN OH tamcn ad numerum
redigar spoliata duorura
t^!""i^tfa!i^fd Latonge Turba quo quanti^m distat ab orb^ 220
: !

^^^ sacris, properate sacris, laurumque capillis

meorem%iaioriim^"ta-
tnen spoliata m'l re- Ponite. Depouunt: infectaquc sacra relinquunt:
digar ad numerum du- /-.t t ^ , j -j
orum Latona;; quo Quodquc licet, tacito vcncrantur murmure numen.
lTt"urZ.'''iu* "Lt, Indignata Dea est: summoque in vertice Cynthi
Talibus cst dictis ~
properate sacrii',poni- geminS,. cum .iprole locuta: 205
teque laurum capillis. .

Deponunt, relinquunt- Ln ego vestra parens, vobis animosa creatis,

que sacra infecta:
quodque licet, vene-
-r-y.
•
-r
l
-C't nisi Junoni, nulli cessura dearum,
"IT
murmurT^Deaesttt ^^^ ^^^ ^™? dubitor: perquc Omnia ssecula cultis
dignata.-iocutaqueest Arceor,' o nati,' nisi vos succuritis, aris.
cum getnina prole ta-
libus dictis, in summo vertice Cynthi. En ego vestra parens, animosa vobis ereatis, et cessura
nulli dearum nisi Junoni, dubitor an sim dea, arceorque aris cultis per omnia sacula, nisi vos &
nati succuritis.
TRANSLATION.
" the Titaness, born of, I know not what, Cseus to whom, formerly ;

" when in travel, the spacious earth refused a small retreat, neither
"
earth, nor seas, nor heaven would receive your goddess she was ba- :

" nished the universe, till Delos pitying the wanderer, said You roam :

" about a stranger on land, I float in the waves ; and gave her an un-
" stable place of rest. She became a mother to two this is but the se- ;

" I am
venth part of my issue. happy for who can deny this ? And I ;

" shall continue happy for who can doubt of this either ? Plenty hath
:

" made me secure. I am greater than to be within the reach of For-

" tune's strokes for should she take many things from me, she will still
;

" leave me much more behind. many blessings have now raised me My
" above fear. Suppose I should be deprived of some part of this nu-
" merous progeny yet, thus stript, I shall not be reduced to two, the
;

" number of Latona by which, how far is she removed from one that is
;

" Go from the solemnity, hasten from the solemnity,

quite childless.
" and put off your wreaths of laurel." They put them otf, and leave the
sacred rites unfinished and what alone they durst venture to do, adore
;

the goddess in gentle murmurs.

Latona, highly enraged at this abuse, thus addressed her twin
" Behold I
offspring on the top of mount Cynthus. your mother,
"
proud of having given you birth, who yield to Juno alone of all
" the
heavenly goddesses, have now my deity called in question and, ;

" without
your aid, am, for all ages to come, driven from altars,
" that have been ever saered to Nor is this my only
ray worship.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VI. 213

Nec dolor hie solus. Diro convicia facto 210 Ate hie soMs dolor,
'i'antalis adjecit con-
Tantalis adjecit vosque est postpouere natis
: vicia diro facto, aitsa-
est
Ausa suis et me (quod in ipsara recidat) orbam
:
qiie
silts
postponcre lOi
iiatis : tt {quod
et exhibuit linguam scelerata paternam. recidat in ipsam) dixit
Dixit ;
me esse or bam ; et see-
Adjectura preces erat his Latona relatis 214 : lerata exhibuit tin-
gnajti paternam. La-
Desine, Phoebus ait(pcen8e moralonga) querelas. tona erat adject ura
preces his relatis.
Dixit idem Phoebe. Celerique per a'era lapsu, Phiebus ait ; desine
Contigerant tecti Cadmeida nubibus arcem.
querelas (mora pans
est tonga.) Pha:be dix-
Planus erat lateque patens prope moenia campus, it idem :
tectique nubi-
bus,contigerant arcem
Assiduis pulsatus equis ;
ubi turba rotarum, Cadmeida celeri lapsu
per a'tra. Campus erat
Duraque mollierant subjectas ungula glebas. 220 prope mopnia planus,
Pars ibi de septem genitis Amphione fortes patensque late, pul-
satiis ussiduis equis ;
Conscendunt in equos, Tyrioque rubentia fuco ubi turba rotarum,
duruque ungula mol-
Tergapremunt;auroque graves moderanturhabenas. lierant subjectas gle-
E quibus Ismenos, qui matri sareina quondam bas. Ibi pars de sep-
tcm genitis Amphione
Prima suae fuerat, dum certum flectit in orbem 225 conscendunt in fortes
equos,premuntque ter-
Quadrupedum cursus, spumantiaque ora coercet ; ga rubentia Tyriofuco,
Hei mihi conclamat medioque in pectore fixus, moderanturque habc-
!
; nas graves aura. E
Tela gerit frsenisque manu moriente remissis
;
quibus Jsmenos qui
fiiernt qvonduju prima
In latus a dextro paulatim defluit anno. sareina sute matri,
dum ftcctit cursus
quadrupedum in certum orbem, coercetque ora spumantia, conclu>nat hei mihi ! fixusqiie in medio
pectore, gerit tela,frenisque remissis manu moriente, defluit paulatim in latus d dextro urmo.
TRANSLATION.
"
grief: the daughter of Tantalus has added slighting reproaches to
" the horrid
fact, and dared to postpone you to her own breed, and (a
" curse which
may it fall upon herself) called me childless discovering ;

*'
a tongue, sacrilegious as was that of her father." Latona was going
to second this her relation with entreaties Cease, returned Phoebus, :
yoiir
complaints every moment is lost that defers our vengeance. Diana said
;

the same and .both hid in clouds, by a swift descent through the air,
;

reach the citadel of Cadmus.

Near the walls of the town was a plain widely extended, levelled by
the daily trampling of horses; Avhere crowds of chariot-wheels, and the
hoofs of the hardy steed had softened the earth below them. There part
of the seven sons of Amphion movmt their mettled coursers, and sit
upon
bright trappings of Tyrian dye wielding the reins heavy with solid gold.
;

Of whom Ismenus, who formerly had been the first grateful load to his
pregnant mother, while he guides his horse's steps in a winding ring, and
curbs his foaming mouth, cries out, alas and piercing through the middle
!

of his breast, bears therein the dart and dropping the reins from his
;

dying hand, sinks by degrees on one side over his horse's right shoulder.
NOTES.
224. E quibus Ismenos.'] Here Latona cause contagions distempers used to ba
engages Apollo and Diana to destroy all attributed to the immoderate heat of the
the children of Niobe. A fiction, that sun, hence they give out that Apollo and
has its foundation in truth, hands down to Diana had slain them with their darts for :

us, though obscured with fable, a very Eustathius upon Homer observes, that the
tragical piece of ancient history. In the poets, who ascribe to those divinities sud<-
time of Amphion and Niobe, a heavy pes- den deaths, and such as were owing to
tilence afflicted Tiiebes; and the pestilence, always imputed those of
spread its
desolation so far, as to leave not one of the men to Apollo, and those ef the women
thechfldrenof Niobe remaining; and be- to Diana.
214 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Sipytits fro.iimtis, so-

nitu phaittr<F audito Proximus, audito sonitu per inane pharetr*, 230
per inane, dabat ftte- Frtena dabat Sipylus veluti c^m praescius imbris
na: reliiti cum rector ;

prtrscius imbris, nube Nuba fugit visa, pendentiaque undique rector

tisil, fugit, dedticitqne
carbasa pendentia un- Carbasa deducit, ne qua levis efHuat aura.
dique, ne qua aura Fraena dabat. Bantem non evitabile telum 294
levis effliiat: dabat
fresna.
evitabile
Telum
cdtueqvitiir
non
Consequitur summaque tremens cervice sagitfa
;

dantem: sagittaquc Haesit ;

et exstabat nuaum de gutture ferrum.
tremens hasit summa
cervice, etferrtim nu- Ille,ut erat pronus, per coUa adraissa, jubasque
dum extabat de gut- Volvitur et calido tellurem sanguine foedat.
:
ture. Ille ut eralpro-
ttiis, volvitur per rolla Phasdimus infelix, et aviti nominis haeres
admissa jubusque, et
fadat tellurem callido Tantalus ut solito, finem imposuere labori, 240
sangtiine. Infelix Fh(e- Transierant ad opus nitidee juvenile palaestrae :
dimtis, et Tantalus
hares aviti 7iomini.i, ut Et jam contulerant arcto luctantia nexu
-
ifnposuefe finem solito -m -, \ ^ -a.
Pectora pectonbus cum tento concita cornu,
, , j.

labori, transierant ad '.

'^S.:%<:m^:- Sicut erant juncti, trajecit utrumque sagitt^.

tuierant pectora luc- Inoemucre simul simul ittcurvata dolore : 245
tantiaareto nexu, pec-
roribus; cum sagittu
^.'^ ,
Membra
, ^ .-, '

solo posuere : simul suprema ]acentes

concita tento ctirnu - .*,,*, a
trajecit utrumque si- Lumina versarunt ; animam simul exhalS,runt.
Cut erantjuncti. Inge-
muere simul; posuere Aspicit, Alplienor, laniataque pectora plangens
sitliul solo membra
curvata dolore :jaceii-
in-
Advolat, ut gelidos complexibus allevet artus :
tes simul versarunt
Inque pio cadit officio. Nam Delius illi 250
suprema lumina ; ex-
halArunt simul ani- Intima fatifero rumpit praecordia ferro.
mam. Alphettor aspi- simul eductum, pars est pulffionis in hamis
t.it plangensque la- Quod
niata pectora advelat,
iit allevet selidos artus
Eruta cumque anima cruor est efFusus in auras.
:

complexibus: caditque At non iutonsum simplex Damasjchtbona vulnus

in pio officio : nam
JJe-
litis ferro fatifero rumpit intima prtecordia illi. Quod simul ac erat eductum, pars pulmonis est
eruta in /lumis ; cruorque est effusus in auras cum anitna. At non simplex vulnus officii inton-
sum Damasichthona :
TRANSLATION.
his horse
Sipylus, the next, hearing the sound of a quiver in the air, gave
the reins as a skilful pilot, when from blackening clouds he descries a
:

gathering storm, flies and lets down on every side the hanging sails,
;

that not a single blast of wind may escape. He gave, I say, the reins ;
but the dart overtook him, and stuck quivering in his neck be-
imerring
hind and the bare point stood out from his throat he, as his posture was
;
:

prone tumbled over his horse's neek and mane aud stained the ground ;

with his warm blood. Unhappy Phaedimus, and Tantalus, the heir of his
of riding, were
grandfather's name, having ended the wanted exercise
gone to try the youthful sport of wrestling. And now had they joined
breast to breast, struggling in a close grapple, when an arrow starting
from a full-stretched bow, went through both as they were thus joined
their
together. They groaned together together laid upon the ground ;

limbs, writhed with pain together as they lay, rolled for the last
;
time
their languid eye-balls and together breathed away their soul. Alphe-
;

nor beholds this, and, beating his torn breast, flies to bear up- their cold
limbs in his embraces, but falls in the pious office for the Delian god ;

pierced his midriff with a fatal arrow, which,

when drawn out, tore away
part of the lungs with its jagged points and his soul and blood issue ;

through the wound. But not a single wound oidy prostrates beardless
Damasichthon he was struck where the leg begins, and where the
:
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VI. 215

erat ictus qua crus iit-

Afficit. Ictus erat, qua crus esse incipit, et qua ci'pit esse, et qua ner-
MoUia nervosus facit internodia poples. 256 vosus poples facit mol-
Via internodia. Dum-
Dumque manu tentat trahere exitiabile telum, que tentat trahere
manu telum exitiabile,
Altera per jugulum pennis tenus acta sagitta est. altera sagitta est acta
in altum perjugulum tenus pen-
Expulit hanc sanguis seque ejaculatus
:
nis. Sanguis expulit
Emicat, et longe terebrata prosilit aura. 260 hanc ; ejaculatusque
se, emieat in altum, et
Ultimus Ilioneus non profectura precando prosilit longe. aurh te-
rehrata. Ilioneus ul-
Brachia sustulerat Dique 6 communiter omnes,
; timus sustulerat bra-
Dixerat, (ignarus non omnes esse rogandos) chia non profectura
precando ; dixerat-
Parcite. Motus erat, cum jam revocabile telum que ; 8 dii omnes com-
mufiiter ; (ignarus am-
Non fuit, Arcitenens. Minimo tamen occidit ille nes non esse rogandos)
266 Arcitenens
Vulnere non alta percusso corde sagitta.
;
parcite.
erat motus, cum telum
Fama mali, populique dolor, lacrymseque suorum fuit jam non revoca-
bile : tamen ille occi-
Tam subitse matrem certam fecere ruinse, dit minimo vulnere ;
corde percusso sagitlil
Mirantem potuisse irascentemque quod ausi
; non nltA. Fama mali,
Hoc essent Superi, quod tantum juris haberent. dolorq ; populi, lacry-
maq ; suorum fecere
Nam pater Amphion, ferro per pectus adacto, 27 1 matrem certam mine
tam subita, mirantem
Finierat moriens pariter cum luce dolorem. potuisse ; irascentemq;
Heu quantum haec Niobe, Niobe distabat ab quod superi ausi essent
ilia, hoc, haberent
quod
tantum juris. Nam
Quae modo Latois populum submoverat aris :

pater Amphion ferro

Et mediam tulerat gressus resupina per urbem, 275 adacto per pectus, mo-
riens finierat dolorem
Invidiosa suis : at nunc miseranda vel hosti !
cum luce. Heu
pariter
quantum hac Niobe
Corporibus gelidis incumbit et ordine nullo
; distabat ab illd Niobe,
Oscula dispensat natos suprema per omnes. que modo submoverat
populum Latonis aris,
A quibus ad ccelum liventia brachia tendens, et resupina tulerat
280 gressus per mediam
Pascere, crudelis, nostro, Latona, dolore ;
urbem, invidiosa suis ;
Pascere, ait: satiaque meo tua pectora luctu :
ac nunc miseranda vel
^ .. , ,.. ,.^.

corforihus, et (iisp(?iuit suprema oscula yer omnes natos nullo ordine, a quibus tendens
brachia
Uveatht ad caluin ait : crudelis Latona pascere nostro dolore; pascere; satiaque tua pectora meo
luctu :

TRANSLATION.
nervous ham makes a yielding joint and while with his hand he en-
:

deavours to draw out the fatal weapon, another arrow pierced his throat
up to the wing. The blood forced it out and, darting on high, springs
;

the air to a great distance.

up, and spouted along, piercing Ilioneus,
the last, had lifted up his luiavailing arms in prayer, and begged for pro-
tection of all the gods in common (not knowing that all in common
were not to he addressed) the god of the silver bow was moved when it
was now too late, and the arrow could not be recalled yet he fell by a ;

gentle wound, nor was his heart deep

struck by the dart.
The rumour of this misfortune, the grief of the people, and the tears of
her relations, soon made the mother acquainted with this sudden destruc-
tion, wondering that it could happen and provoked at the daring bold-
;

ness of the gods, and that they had such an extent of power ; for their
father Amphion sheathing a dagger in his breast, had put an end at once
to his life and griefs. Alas how much did this Niobe differ from that
!

Niobe, who had so lately driven away the people from the altars of Latona ;

and, with an air of majesty walked through the middle of the city, envied
by her own people, but now to be pitied even by an enemy she falls !

upon the cold bodies, and dispenses luidistinguished her last kisses among
216 P. OVIDII NASONIS

(dixitqyie, aalla corfc-

rum per septem J'u- [Corque per funera septem]
fenaiii satia, dixit :

vera) effiror : eviilla, EfFeror :

victrixque inimica triumpha.
exulta ;
inhnicdq ; ticlrix tri-
umpha. Cur aiitem Cur autem victrix? miserae mihi plura supersunt,
victrix.' pliira super-
sunt mihimi.scra',qtiam Quam tibi felici. Post tot quoque funera vinco.
tibi felici ; vinco quo-
Dixerat insonuit contento nervus ab arcu ;
: 286
qite post tot funera.
JOixerat ; nervns in-
Qui, prreter Nioben unam, conterruit oranes.
sonitit ab area coiiten-
to, qui conterruit om- Ilia malo est audax. Stabant cum vestibus atris
nes Nioben
unam.
pr<Bter
Ilia est audax Ante tor OS fratrum demisso crine sorores.
maio. Sorores stabant
cum atris vestibus et
£
t
quibus una, tralieus hgerentia viscere tella,
/> .
•
-i i i
•
i.
290
luiposito fratri moriDunda rclanguit
demisso crine ante to- ore.
ros fratrum ; una c
qiiibus trahens tela Altera, solari miseram conata parentem,
hitrentia viscere, mo-
ribunda rclaiiguit ore
Conticuit subito ; duplicataque vulnere caeco est.
imposito J'ratri. Al-
tera condta solari mi- [Oraque non
pressit, nisi postquam spiritus exit.]
seramparentem suhito Hciec frustra fugiens collabitur ; ilia sorori 295
conticuit, estque dii- Immoritur latet htec illam videres.
plicata caco vulnere ; trepidare :

(nonqite pressit or a,
nisi Sexque datis leto, diversaque vulnera passis.
postqiiam spirit us
exit. J Hac frusira fu- Ultima restabat quam toto corpore mater, :

giens, colldbitur ; ilia

immoritnrsorori : hac Tota veste tegens, unam, minimamque, relinque,
latet ; videres illam
trepidare. Sexque da
De multis minimam posco, clamavit, et unam. 300
tis Icto, passisqne diversa vulnera, ultima restabat : quam mater tegens toto corpore, clamavit
.

relinque uttam minimamque, posco minimam de multis et unam.

TRANSLATION.
all then raising her pale arms to heaven " Feed yourself, she
her sons :
;

" and satiate your

cries, feed yourself, cruel Latona, with my sorrow ;

" heart with

my anguish satiate, said she, your vengeful soul by seven
:

" funerals. I sink under the weight of my misfortunes: exult and

" But why victorious ? I have still more
triumph, my victorious enemy.
" left in all than can boast of, who think yourself so happy
my misery you
:

*'
even after so many funerals I am superior." She said when the twang- ;

ing of the string, from a bow violently strained, v^^as heard, which
dealt
terror to all but Niobe alone she was become bold by her misfortunes.
:

The sisters stood round the biers of their brothers, in habits of mourn-
ing, and Avith their hair dishevelled one of whom drawing out the ;

arrow, sticking in her bowels, fell dying upon the pale corpse of her
brother. Another endeavouring to comfort her dejected mother, was
silent of a sudden, and doubled together
by an invisible wound nor ;

shut her mouth until she had breathed her last. One attempting in vain
to fly, sinks down another dies her sister one seeks by hiding her-
;
upon ;

self to avoid the fatal stroke

another you might see stand trembling.:

Six now were dead of different wounds, and only the last remained whom ;

the mother guarding with her body and spreading robe, Grant me, she
cries, this one and the youngest it is but one of
many, and the youngest ;

NOTES.
De muUis minimam posco clamavit.] tiie Thc-
300. merous offspring. She addresses
It to the poet, not to ob-
were an injury bans in high strains of vanity, and boasts
serve here the great judgment and art iie of her advautages over Latona. All these
has shewn in this whole description. He are on purpose contrived to make her fall
begins by the character of Niobe, as na- appear the greater; nor does the poet
turally haughty and proud. This is heigli- himself suffer us to overlook a circum-
tened by an honourable marriage, the do- stance of so great weight.
minion over a mighty kingdom, and a nu-
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VI. 217

Diimque rogat fiMa pro

t)umque rogat; pro quii i-ogat,occiclit. Orbaresedit
,

qua rogat, occidit. Or-

ha rcscdit inter exa-
Exanimes inter natos, natasque, virumque :

nimfs natos, natasqice,

Diriguitque malis. NuUos movet aura capillos. virumque, diriguitque
malis. Ajtra movet 71 al-
In vultu color est sine sanguine lumina mcEStis ; ios capillos. Color sine

Stant immota genis nihil est in imagine vivi. 305

: sanguine est in vultu:
lumina stant immota
Ipsa quoque interius cum
duro lingua palato ma-stis genis : nihil
vivi est imagine : ipsa

Congelat; et venae desistunt posse moveri. quoque lingua conge-

lat interius cum duro
Nee flecti cervix, nee brachia reddere gestus, palato, et vena" desist-
Nee pes ire potest. Intra quoque viscera saxum est. unt posse moveri. Nee
cervix potest Jiecti,nec
Flet tamen, et validi circumdata
-- -
turbme venti oiU
•
braciua reddere ges-
tiis,
- -
nee pei ir/c. Vis-
In patriam rapta est. Ibi fixa cacumine mentis cera quoque intus est
saxum. Tamen Jlct,
Liquitur, et lacrymas etiamnuni
marmora manant. et circumdata turbine
V. Turn vero cuncti manifestam numinis iram validi venti, est rajHa
in patriam ihifixa ca- :

Foemina virque timent: cultuque impensiiis omnes cumine mantis liqui-

tur,ct marmora etiani-
Magna gemelliparse venerantur numinaDivse. 315 num ttia7iafit lacry- mas.
Utque a facto propiore priora renarrant.
fit
V. Turn vera cuncti,
E quibus unus ait Lycise quoque fertilis agris
: virfreminaque timent
manifestam irdm nu-
Haud impune Deam veteres sprevere coloni. minis omne.sque im-
:

pensius venerantur cultu magna numina gemelUpara diva-. Utque saepe sit, a
facto propiore, re-
narrant facta priora, unus e quibus ait: veteres quoque coloni agris fertilis Lycite sprevere deam
haud impune.
TRANSLATION.
too that I demand. But Avhile she begs, the virgin, for whom she begs,
Childless now, she sat down among her dead sons and daughters
expires.
and husband, hardened into a statue by her woes. Her hair is not moved
by the wind a mortal paleness is seen in her countenance her eyes lan-
;
;

of life in the image

guid and without motion nor is there any appearance
:
;

her tongue also stands congealed within her mouth, and hardens to her
palate and the blood stagnates in her veins.
;
Her neck can no more be
bent her arms and feet refuse their usual offices her bowels within her
; ;

turn to solid stone. Yet still she weeps and enclosed by a hurricane of ;

her native country.

impetuous wind, is borne through the air
to There,
fixed on a mountain's top, she melts away ;
and the marble even yet distils
in tears.
V. Then indeed all, both men and women, dread the manifest anger of
the deity, and with more zeal than ever adore the majesty of the twin-
run back from this late ac-
bearing goddess and, as commonly happens,
;

cident, to what passed of old. Of whoi;i one thus began his tale: Some
swains of old too, in the lands of fertile Lycia, despised the goddess not ;

with impunity. The thing indeed is but little known, because of the ob-
NOTES.
Heu quantum haec Niobe, Niobe distabat ab ilia lifelessbodies of her sons, all fall before
Quae modo l.atms popuUini submoverat aris :

Et mediam tulerat gressus resupina per urbem, her eyes and she is reduced at last to
;

beg, in the humblest strain, one, and the

Invidiosa suis ; at nuuc miseranda vel hosti !

This is Ovid's reflection after the death youngest too, out of all that number ;

of her sons. But he still goes on to heighten nor is even that request granted. Is it
the description. Niobe retains her former possible to represent
a more complete
pride and stateliness, nor will yield to the scene of misery and woe ? What richness
goddess, notwithstanding the late misfor- and luxuriance of imagination must a
tune : she is therefore made to encounter poet possess, who could bring together
a new and more alarming disaster. Her such a crowd of the most distressing cir-
daiighters, who stood round her, and cumstances .'

joined with her in lamenting over tiie

218 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Hesquidemcstobscura Res obscura quidem est ignobilitate

o virorum,' 319
ignobilitatf virorum, ^^. 4^.
tamen mira : prasens iVliratamen. Vidi pi'SBsens stagnuiiique lacumque,
V^mqul"nolTmprodi. Prodigio notum. Nam me jam grandior sevo,
^*randtor ^a-vo'"iJipa- Ii^patiensque vioB genitor deducere lectos
Heusque via:, jitsxerat
trie deducirt- inde lee-

tosboves; ipse dederat

ti
Jussciat indc bovBs genitisQue illius eunti
r^ \
Ipse Qucem dederat Cum quo dum pascua lustro,
t -x t -x a.
:

:
,

S^^T'cL^'^ToS Ecce lacus medio sacrorum nigra favill^ 325

lustro pascua, ecceve- Ara vetus
tus ara tugra lavilla t,
stabat, tremulis circumdata cannis.
.
-ri .
-i t •
i
• •

sacrorum, tt circum- Kestitit, et pavido, Taveas mini, murmure dixit,

Itabut'^medYo lacus'. -Dux meus et simili, Faveas, ego murmure

: dixi.

Naiadum, Faunine foret tamen ara rogabam,

d^t ^ZJml^^mure,
faveas mihi. Tumeii ro- Iiidigenseue Dei ciim talia reddidit hospes 330 ; :

gabam J'oretne ara, i a a •

montauum numen in araa est.

• •
tvt , i

Nuiadum,Fau,iiiie,de. JN Oil liac, o

juvcnis,
in a suam vocathanc, cui quondam regia Juno
'h^e^'Sm tailT:
montanum
ojuvcnis,
numcn non est in hue
Qrbe iuterdixit quam
'
vix erratica Delos
.
:
• •
^-^ i i i
ara. liia cui regia Urautem acccpit, tum, cum levis insula nabat.
Juno quondam inter- tii* •
v Ti 11 j" o«»r
illic, iiicumbens cum ralladis arbore palrnse,
i. i
dixit orbe: quam oran- 3o5
ii1iJ!7'fJ^.!'^.t''L",'f Edidit in vita oeminos
o Latona noverca.
accepit, turn cum levis
insula vocat Hinc quoque Junoneiii fugisse puerpera fertur
hanc
nabat,
arara suam.
j^atona incumbent pal-
Illic -r

luque
'
suo
'
,^ P
portasse sinu duo numma natos.
.
^.^^ :

d)^,Td?du^gZihfofno- Jamque
Chimaeriferae, sol gravis ureret arva, cum
vercd invfta. Puer- Finibus in 340
pera fertur J ugisseju-
Lvciae,
J s dea fessa labore,'
' longo

iionem hinc quoque, portasseqve in suo sinu duo numina natos.

Jamqtie cum sol gravis tireret
arva in finibus Chimerifere Lydte, dea fessa longo labore,
TRANSLATION,
scurity of the men
concerned, but yet it is wonderfid I myself have seen :

upon the spot, the lake and pool noted for this prodigy. For my father
now advanced in years, and impatient of the fatigues of travel, had or-
dered me to drive thence some choice oxen, and
given me, when I went,
a guide of that nation with whom as I traversed the
;
pastures, lo, an altar,
black with the ashes of sacrifice, and surrounded with
trembling reeds,
stood in the middle of a lake. My
guide stopped, and, in a low trembling
voice, said, Favour me : I too, in a like accent, begged for favour. How-
ever, I inquired if this altar was sacred to the Naiads or Faunus, or some
native god of the country when the
stranger answered in these words
; :

O young man, no deity of the mountains claims this altar. She calls it
hers, whom formerly royal Juno banished the world whom wandering ;

Delos, when it swam a light island, hardly received upon her entreaties.
There Latona leaning upon a palm-tree, and the olive of Pallas, brought
forth twins in spite of her step-mother. The
newly-delivered goddess is
said hence to have fled from Juno, and to have carried in her bosom the
two deities her children. And now when the intense sun scorched the
plains in the regions of monster-breeding Lycia, the goddess weary with
long fatigue, and parched with the heat of the season, had contracted a
NOTES.
339. ChimarifercB Lycice,'] The Chi- eruptions of dame. The top of it was
luaera, according to the poets,was a inon- infested with lions, the middle afforded
ster, having the head of a lion, the body pasture for goats, and toward the bottom
of a goat, and the tail of a dragon but ;
it was
rocky, and full of dens, where ser-
in reality was no more than a mountain pents harboured,
of Lycia, whence there were sometimes
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VI. 219

Siderio siccata sitim collegit ab costu ; ^^"foI'Slf.f.

Uberaque ebiberant avidi lactantia nati. nvm^ ^''ubZ-T* fln'e
Forte lacum melioris aquee prospexit in imis p'ruspexit lanlm men-

Vallibus agrestes illic fruticosa legebant

: ^.'^^.f'^'Vc 'S^e^?/.
Vimina cum juncis, gratamque paludibus ulvam. ^,X«''1/7S?«K
Accessit, ~1»genu Titania terram
positoque 346 lamque ^rutam paiu-
_^ .'i^ dibiis. Titama ucces-
Pressit;
ut haunret gelidos potura liquores. su, poturaque premt
Rustica turba vetant. Dea sic affata vetantes :
r;:;^.'/"^;^!;^' t
Quid prohibetis aquis ? usus communis aquarum. Q^^r^^ ^^neaVctll'a/-
Nee solem proprium natura, nee aera fecit, 350 fata eoi vetantes. quid
T._
'^
* 1 !• 1 1
•
prohibetis me uqiiis?
Nec tenues undas. Ad publica muneravem, v>~u<! aquarum f^ticom-
Quse tamen ut detis supplex peto. Non ego nostros Zl'^'^oie^'^ul
Abluere hie artus, lassataque membra parabam :
"^aas^'yaT aT'lV.
Sed relevare sitim. Caret os humore loquentis ;
uca munera. Quata-
Et fauces arent; vixque est via vocis in illis. 355 a!"is^'^%o'nJ'n''para.
Haustus aquee mihi nectar erit :
vitamque fatebor ^^fl/^Jj^^tq TmlZ
Accepisse simul. Vitam dederitis in unda. bra hie, sed reieyare
-__.J^ sitim. Os loquentis cu-
,
.

Hi quoque vos moveant, qui nostro bracnia tenaunt ret humore, ct fauces
,1,1-j.Ja
Parva sinu; et casu tendebant brachia nati. 359 ^^^Vu^' "^^Jtl^s
non blanda Deee verba movere ? aqua erit nectar mm.
Quern potuissent

KIT
Hi tamen orantem perstant prohibere:
^ mmasque, simuivitam.Deiieruis
i,*-
procul abscedat, conviciaque uisuper acidunt.
I
• •

5,^^ qui tendunt parva

Nec satis hoc. Ipsos etiam pedibusque, manuque ^-^j«^ ^t^t fZ

•
lj„i vitam in unda. Hi quo-

Turbavere lacus imoqueT-

e '^
gurgite
^ moUem
:
nati tendebant bra-
1- r>RT^ chia.Quemblundaver-
Huc illuc hmum saltu movere maligno. ooo 6a dea non potuissent
,^

movere f hi tamen per-

stant prohibere illam orantem ; addutitque minas, ni abscedat procul, ^lAAwrAqw insuper con-
vicia. Nec hoc erat satis : turbavere etiam ipsos lacus pedibusque manuque : saltuque maUgno
movere mollem limum hue illuc e gurgite imo.
TRANSLATION.
thirst and the hungry babes had drained her suckling breast. By chance
;

she discovered a lake of fine water in the bottom of a valley, where some
swains were gathering the bushy osier, and bulrushes, and sedge natural
to fens. The Titaness approached, and bending one knee to the earth,
that she might with greater ease drink of the refreshing stream, the rustic
crowd forbid it when the goddess thus addressed them as they withheld
;

her. "
Why
do restrain me from water ? The use of water is com-
you
" mon. Nature hath made neither sun nor air, nor the current
liquid
" one I come of her which yet
proper to any to partake; public bounty,
" I and
"
humbly beg of you to grant. I came not here to bathe my joints
while I speak to
aching limbs, but to quench my thirst. My mouth,
*'
scarce allows a pas-
you, is'without moisture my throat is parched, and ;

" will be to me nectar I shall

sage to my voice. draught of water A ;

"
own, that together with it, I have received life from you you will give :

" me life in the water. Let these too move you who hold out their little
"
arms in my bosom :" and by chance her children held out their arms.
Whom woidd not these soft persuasions of the goddess have moved to
compassion ? Yet they persist in hindering her, notwithstanding her en-
treaties and add threats unless she departs, nay and insults too.
: Nor
was this enough they disturb the lake itself with their feet and hands,
:

and jumping maliciously to and fro, raise the soft mud from the marshy
bottom. Rage soon dispelled her thirst ; nor does the daughter of Coe us
 220 p. OVIDII NASONIS
Ira distulit sitim, ne-
que ciiini filia Ccrijam
Distulit ira sitim. Neque enim jam filia Coei
supplicat iiidignis, nee nee dicere sustinet ultra
Supplicat indigiiis ;
ultra sustinet dicere
verba minora deii : tol- Verba minora Dea tollensque ad sidera palmas, :

lensqite palmas ad si-

Sternum
dixit vivatis stagno, dixit, vivatis in isto.
dera,

__,-^,
:

aternum in isto stag- Eveniunt

710. Optata dew event- optata Deee. Juvat isse sub undas, 370
nnt. Juvat ifse sub Jit modo tota cava
submergere membra palude ;
iii
merge're %ta°membra Nuuc proferre caput;
summo modo gurgite nare :
/^rtC'SX" Sa^pe super ripam stagni considere ; sape
summo sapegurgite. ; In o-elidos resilire lacus. Et nunc quoque turpes
eonsidere super ripam t •
l ^•
•
i i j orrr •

stagni; sffpereniire in
,

Litibus exercent Imguas puisoque pudore, 375 :

%wfwi%rcentturpes Quamvis
siutsub aqua, sub aquamalediceretentant.
iinguasiitibu.s,pudure. Yox quoque iam rauca est, inflataque coUa tumes-
que puCso, quamvis suit T. T^ J ' T.
sub aqua, tentant ma- CUnt
ledlcere sub aqua. Vox
quoque est jam rauca, Ipsaque ddatant patulos convicia rictus.
coll/iq ; injiata tunics- colla intercepta videntur
convicia Terga caput tangunt ;
:
cunt :
ifsaque
dilatant yatulos ric-
tus. Spina viret: venter, pars maxima
corporis, albet ;
Caput tangunt
terga ; colla videntur Limosoque novse saliunt in gurgite ranae 381
intercepta: spina vi-
ret ; venter maxima VI. Sic ubi nescio quis Lycia de gente virorum
pars corporis, albet ; Rettulit exitium ; Satyri reminiscitur alter,
novteque rana: saliunt
in limoso gurgite.
VI. Ubi nescio quis
Quern Tritonica Latois arundine victum
rcttulit sic exitiu77i vi- Affecit pcena. Quid me mihi detrahis ? inquit.
rorum de gente Lycia ;
alter rcminiscitur Sa- Ah piget ah non est, clamabat, tibia tanti!
: 386
tyri, quern victum Tri-
tonica arundine, La-
Clamanti cutis est summos derepta per artus.
tois affecit posna. Quid Nee quicquam, nisi vulnus, erat. Cruor undique
iuquit detrahis me mi-
hi ? ah piget : ah cla- manat ;
mabut tibia non est
tanti. Clitic est dercpta per sutnmos artus illi clamanti : nee erat quicquam nisi vulnus. Cruor
manet uiidique,
TRANSLATION.
any longer deignto address in humble accents these base wretches, or
utter wordsbelow the majesty of a goddess but lifting up her hands to ;

heaven, May ye live for ever, says she, in that lake. The wishes of the
'

goddess come to pass they delight to dive imder water,

;
and sometimes
to plunge their bodies wholly in the hollow pool again, to raise their ;

heads, and top of the lake oft to sit upon the bank, and
swim upon the ;

again leap back into the cold marsh even yet they exercise their
wretched :

tongues in strife, and void of shame, though compelled to live

under the
water, they still attempt to scream and quarrel under the water. Now
too their voice is hoarse, and their bloated necks swell and noisy brang- ;

ling dilates their stretching jaws.

Their backs seemed joined to their
heads without a neck their spine is green their belly, by far the
; ;

greatest part of their body,

white and transformed to new frogs, they ;

skip about in the muddy brook.

VI. When thus one, it is uncertain who, had related the story of the
vengeance taken on the men of the Lycian nation another
remem- ;

bers the story of the satyr, whom, overcome in a challenge with the
Tritonian reed, the son of Latona punished for his presumption.
Why, says he, do you tear me from myself? Alas, I repent:
Sure, cried he, the pipe is not of so great moment: as he cries,
the skin is torn from off his limbs, and he is all over one continued wound.
The blood flows down on every side, the naked nerves appear, and
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VI. 221

Detectique patent nervi trepidzeque sine ulla : nervique detecti pa-

T~.
,, f •
o T i- „^^ •
r- . tent : trepidaque vents
Pelle micant venae, fealientia viscera possis. 390 micantisuie uua peiie .
Et pellucentes numerare in pectore fibras. ^ntluvlscera^t/b'ras
Ilium ruricolse,' silvarum numina, Fauni, perimentes in pectore.
^ „ .

Et featyn fratres, et tunc quoque clarus Olympus,

1/-V Ruricola Fauni, nv-
"i^"" sUvarum, et Sa-

Et nymphae montibus illis 394 pus tunc ^quoquelTa-

flerunt : et quisquis

Lanigerosque greges, armentaque bucera pavit. mum :T'$i,fuZ7a-

Fertilis immaduit,' madefactaque
T-
terra caducas l'^
lanigerosque gre-
^^ . . ges, armentaque bu-
.
, .,
. . .

cera m uus montibtis.

Loncepit iacrymas, ac venis perbibit imis,
QV- r •/
uas ubi lecit aquam, vacuas emisit ni auras.
Inde petens rapidum ripis declivibus sequor,
Terra ferf His imma-
duu, made/actaque
399 ^I^^I^'^J^Si^Z
J.

Marsya nomen habet, Phrygije liquidissimus amnis.

*'"""^-
Qfafuhifecit
VII. Talibus extemplo redit ad prsesentia dictis cuas auras. indeMar-

Vulgus; et extinctum cum stirpe Amphionalugent tfi^ ^pJ"ygi2T"pete>'i's

Mater in invidia est. Tamen banc quoque dicitur

Z^lf^Z^'^tbet'm-
UnUS men.
T^iA T> 1 1 J .
,
VII. Tulgus extetn-
rlesse Pelops: humeroque suas ad pectora post- pih redit taiibus dictis
miam ad prasentia ; et hi-
quclin gent A/nphiona extinc-
Deduxit vestes, ebur ostendisse sinistro. 405 tum cum stirpe. Mater
est in tnviiliu. Tamen
r~\ ^^ •
T-i 1
Concolor hic humerus, nascendi tempore, dextro, PeUps unus didtur
Corporeusque fuit. Manibus mox csesa paternis ostendissequeVbnV'li.
Membra ferunt junxisse Deos. Aliisque repertis, ^t^m dednxi" %ual
z-estes ad pectora. hic
Qui locus estiuR'uli
J medius,' summique
i '-J
lacerti,' humerus nas- tempore
cendi fuit concolor dextro, corporeusque. Ferunt deos mox junxisse membra casa manibus pa-
ternis: aliisque repertis, locus qui est 7nedius juguli summique lacerti defuisse.

TRANSLATION.
the trembling veins beat without any covering of skin. You might have
numbered his rising bowels, and the pellucid fibres on his breast. The
nymphs and sylvan gods, Fauns and his brother Satyrs, and Olympus
too, at that time renowned, lamented his fate ; and every swain that upon
those mountains fed the wool-bearing flocks, and horned herds. The
fertile earth was moistened, and being moist, received the
falling tears,
and drunk them up in her lowest veins which when she had joined into ;

one stream, changed to limpid water, they sprung from the ground ;

whence running in a steep channel to the rapid sea, they bear thetname
•of
Marsya, the clearest river of Phrygia.
VII. From these relations the crowd return again to the present dis-
asters, and mouni Araphion and his race extinct. The odium of all is
cast upon the mother yet it is said, the Pelops alone bewailed also her
;

fate and that having tore his garment, and gathered his robe upon his
;

breast, he discovered the ivory in his left shoulder. This shoulder at the
time of his birth, was of the same colour with the other, and formed of
flesh. But they tell us, that soon after the youth being slain by his father,
when the gods rejoined his mangled limbs, all but that which joins the
neck to the upper part of the arm were found. A piece of ivory was

NOTES.
393. Et tunc quoque clarus Olymfus.'] syas, who, even in Jiis master's life-time,
Olympus here is not to be taken for the had acquired considerable fame for his
mountain of that name, bsit for a disciple ; skill in playing on the flute,

according to others, the brother of Mar-

222 P. OVIDII NASONIS

^Z?ar"'rno?iTom-
I^efuit. Impositum estnon comparentis in usum
parvtitis: Peiopsqiie Partis ebui" factoque Pelops fuit integer illo. 410
:

Jiiit intes,er illo facto. -frtTT 1^- -i.-

• ••
V ,

Mil. Procerexfini- Vlll. Jbinitimi procercs cocuiit urbesque pro- :

timi cotunt :
urbesque ninnii-T'
j)ro]>inq}iie, Argosque, piilLJUcC
(^
syarte, Myce7iaque ad solatia reges.
Oraverc suos ivc
Felopeiades, et Caly- .
-r» • ^ -nx i i
don nondiim invUa ct Isparte,
Argosque,
relopeiadesque Mycenae,
orZmeZ::'^^lZ Et nondum torvffi Calydon invisa Dianae, 415
leTeq7e'ferox7pJfrT. Orchomenosque ferox, et nobilis sere Corinthus,
que, Ctlontpque humi- Messeneque ferax, Patraeque, humilesque Cleonae,
left, et Pylos Nelea, et t^.-xti t-» i ii -n- ,t rrt ,

TrmMn, neque adhuc tX JNeleaFylos, neque adhuc rittheia ircezen.

bel^'qul' "cuuduntur QusequB urbes alisebimari clauduntur ab Isthmo,
ab bimari Isthmo, ur-
besquc qute sua exte- y-^,^ *• sitffi bimari spectantur ab Isthmo. 420
Exteiiusque
-ii •»!
rius spectantur ab Credcre quis possit solsB cessatis Athenae.
.'

bimari Isthmo ; ora-

vere suos rcges ire ad Obstitit officio bellum ;
subvectaque ponto
vot!u Il^deTe'? ^ou Barbara Mopsopios terrebant agmina muros.
Athene cessatis. Bel- Threicius Tereus haec auxiliaribus armis
lujn obstitit officio,
barbaraque agmina Fuderat: et clarum vincendo nomen habebat. 425
subvecta ponto, terre-
bant Mopsopios muros. Quern sibi Pandion opibusque virisque potentem,
Thrcicius Tereusfude-
rat htFc, et hubebat nv-
Et
genus a magno ducentem forte Gradivo,
tnen.clarum vincendo. Connubio Procnes
junxit. Non
pronuba Juno,
Quern potentem opi-
busque virisque et du- NonHymenaeus adest, illi non
gratia lecto.
cenlein forte genus a
magna Gradivo, Pan-
Eumenides tenuere faces de funere raptas : 430
dionjunxit sibi connubio filia Procnes. Pronuba Juno noti adest, Hymeneus non adest gratia non
adest illi ievto. Eumenides ttnuere faces raptas defu7iere :

TRANSLATION.
therefore inserted to supply the part wanting, and by that means was
Pelops restored entire to life.
VIII. All the neighbouring princes meet together, and the several
bordering cities engaged their kings to go in person to the consolation of
Thebes. Argos and Sparle, and Pelopean Mycenae, and Calydon not yet
odious to stern Diana: and bold Orchomenos, and Corinth famed for
brass, and fertile Messene, and Patree, and low Cleonae, and Pylas
ruled by Neleus, and Troszen not yet named from Pittheus and all ;

other cities within the isthmus, encompassed by double seas, and those
too without that are seen from this narrow isthmus. can believe Who
it ? Athens alone forbore to send. A
bloody war prevented this act
of humanity, and a fleet of barbarian ships blocking them up by sea,
alarmed the Mopsopian walls. Tereus of Thrace, with his auxiliary
forces, had routed these, and by his victories acquired an illustrious
name. Whomrenowned for wealth and power, and, as it happened,
deriving his pedigree from the great Mars, Pandion united to himself
by the marriage of his daughter Procne. Neither Juno who presides in
marriage, nor Hymen, nor the Graces attend these nuptials but the ;

Furies held torches snatched from a funeral the Furies prepared the ;

NOTES.
415. TorvcB Calydoninvisa DiancB.'] Ca- city of Peloponnesus Patra; of Acliaia
; ;

lydon was a city of JEtoUa, so called from Cleone of Arcadia.

Calydon the son of Endyinion. 427. Gradivo.'] Tereus was the son of
417. Messeneque, ^c.^ Messene was a Mars.
 METAMORPH'OSEON, Lm.Vl. 223

Eumenides stravere torura tectoque profanus :

Eumenides stravtre to-
rum : bitboque profa-
Incubuit bubo, thalamique in culmine sedit. nus incubuit tecto, se-
ditque in culmine tka-
Hac ave conjunct! Procne Tereusque ; parentes lami. Procne Tereus-
Hac ave sunt facti. Gratulata est scilicet illis que sunt conjuncti hdc
ave; Procne Tereusque
Thracia Disque ipsi grates egere diemque, 435
:
sunt facti parentes hue
:
ave. Thracia scilicet
Quaque data est claro Pandione nata tyranno, est gratulata illis ip- :

sique e^^ere grates dts:

Quaque erat ortus Itys, festam jussere vocari. Jussereque diem qua-
que nata Pandione est
Usque adeo latet utilitas. Jam tempora Titan data claro tyranno,
Quinque per autumnos repetiti duxerat anni quoqne Itys erat ortus. :
Utilitas usque adeo la-
Cum blandita viro Procne, si gratia, dixit, 440 let. Titan jam dux-
erat tempora repetiti
Ulla mea est, vel me visendte mitte sorori; anni per quinqtie au-
Vel soror hue veniat. Redituram tempore parvo tumnos cum Procne :

blandita viro, dixit: si

Promittes socero. Magni mihi numinis instar mea gratia ulla apud
te, vel mitte me visen-
Germanam vidisse dabis, Jubet ille carinas da sorori, vet soror ve-
niat hue. Promittet
In freta deduci :
veloque et remige portus 445 socero filiam redituram
parvO tempore. Dabis
Cecropios intrat :
Piraeaque littora tangit. mihi in.star jnagni nu-
Ut priraum soceri data copia, dextraque dextrse minis, si dabis vidisse
germanam. Ille jubet
Jungitur; infausto committitur omine sermo. carinas deduci in fre-

_. 5rat, adventus causam, mandata referre

Coeperat,
1-.' _ -' .
A
450
an
*">
f *"''"''/
Po^t"^ '''f'^g'^ veloque;
<^ecr6pios

Conjugis ; spondere recursus

et celeres missai tangitque Pira:a litto-
ra. Ut primum copia
Ecce venit magno dives Philomela paratu ; soceri est data, dextra-

Divitior forma quales audire solemus

:
que jungitur dextrte,
serrno committitur in-
Naidas et Dryadas mediis incedere silvis: fausto omine. Caperat
referre causam adven-
Si modo des illis cultus, similesque paratus. tus, et mandata conju-
gis ; et spondere celeres
recursus missa filias ecce Philomela venit, dives magno paratu, divitior forma : quales sole7nus
:

audire Na'idas et Dryadas incedere mediis silvis: si modo des similes cultus paratusque illis.

TRANSLATION.
bed, and the boding owl hovered over the palace, and settled on the roof
of the bed-chamber. With these threatening omens were Tereus and
Procne joined with these were they made parents. Thrace indeed con-
;

gratulated them, and themselves returned thanks to the gods and or- ;

dered the day, on which the daughter of Pandion was given to their re-
nowned prince, and that on which Itys was born,
to be kept as festivals :

so far does the true happiness of concealed from them

men lie !

Titan had now led the times of the revolving year through five au-
" If
tumns, when Procne thus in gentle accents addressed her spouse.
" I have
any influence with you, either send me to Athens to see my
"
sister, or let my sister come hither. You may promise to your
father-
"
in-law, that she shall make a quick return for to me you will be as ;

" some
propitious deity, if you procure me a visit from my
sister." He
orders his ships to be launched and with sail and oars entering the Ce-
:

cropian harbour, lands upon the Pirsean shore. When first he was ad-
mitted to his father-in-law, and they had mutually given their ri^ht hands,
with fatal omen their discoursebegins. He had begun to relate the cause
of his coming, the commands of his wif, and promise his sister's speedy
return, if sent. Lo, Philomela comes, richly adorned in fine apparel, but
far richer in beauty. Such are we wont to hear the Naiads and Dryads
described, when they wander in the forests and groves, were they but to
appear with the same ornaments and dress. As when fire is put under
224 P. OVimi NASONIS
Tereus exarsit virgine Non secus exarsit conspectn virgine Tereus, 455
cumpcclii, non secus
qua?ii si quis supponat Quam si quis canis igneni supponat aristis :

ignem cants aristisj

aut cremet frondem Aut frondem, positasque cremet foenilibus herbas.
Digna quidem facies, sed et hunc innata libido
licrbasque positas /«•-
ndibus. Facies quidem
crat digna: sed et in- Exstimulat pronumque genus regionibus illis
:

nata liiido exstimulat

hunc, gfiiusgtie illis In Venerem est. Flagrat vitio gentisque, suoque.
regionibus, est pronum comitum corrurapere curam, 461
in Venerem; Flagrat Impetus est illi,
vitioque suo, vitioque
Nutricisque fidem nee non ingentibus ipsam
:

gentis. Impetus est illi

corrumpere curam co- Sollicitare datis totumque impendere regnum
; ;
mitum, Jidemque nu-
tricis: nee non solli- Aut rapere, et sffivo raptam defendere bello.
citare ipsam ingenti-
bus datis; impenderc- Et nihil est, quod non efFrseno captus amore 465
que totum regnum: aut
rapere, et defendere
Ausit; nee capiunt inclusas pectora flammas.
illam
bello.
raptam
El est niliil quod
servo
Jamque moras male fert eupidoque revertitur ore ;

captus effretno amore

Ad mandata Procnes et agit sua vota sub illis. ;

non ausit : nee pectora Facundum faciebat amor.

capiunt inclusas flam-
Quotiesque rogabat
mas. Jamque male fert Ulterius justo, Proenen ita velle ferebat. 470
7noras, revertiturque
ad mandata
cupido ore Addidit et laerymas, tanquam mandasset et illas.
Procnes, et agit sua
vota sub illis. Amor Pro superi, quantum mortalia peetora ceecse
ipso sceleris molimine Tereus
faciebat facundum, Noctis habent !

quotiesque rogabat ul-

terius justo; ferebat Creditur esse
Proenen velle ita: ad-
pius laudemque A erimine sumit. :

didit et laerymas, tan- Quid quod idem Philomela cupit ? patriosque la-
qttam et mandasset il- eertis 475
las. Pro superi, quan-
tum caca noctis mor- Blanda tenens humeros, ut ea visura sororem.
talia pectora habent!
Tereus creditur esse Perque suam, eontraque suam, petit usque salutem.
pius ipso molimine sce-
leris sumitque laudem a erimine.
: Quid quod Philomela cupit idem? blandaque tenens patriot
humeros lacertis, usque petit perque suam eontraque suam salutem, ut ea visura sororem-

TRANSLATION,
leaves
ripened ears of corn, or the catching flame spreads among the light
and hay laid up in stacks thus was Tereus inflaijied upon seeing the
;

virgin. Her beauty might indeed kindle love in any breast hut he is :

pushed on by an inbred lust and in those regions too the men are na-
;

turally prone to lewdness he burns by his own native desire, and those
:

of his climate together. Sometimes he is bent upon corrupting the care

of her attendants, and the fidelity of her nurse sometimes he thinks to :

solicit her with mighty presents, and expend his whole kingdom in the
with
attempt or again, to bear her away by force, and defend the rape
:

open war. And there is nothing so daring that he would not hazard,
thus
breast contain the
possessed by an unbounded passion; nor can his
struggling flames. And now he is impatient of delays,
and returns with
his own wishes
eager mouth to urge the commands of Procne, and pleads
under them. Love made him eloquent and, as often as he seemed to ;

carry his earnestness too far, pretended that Procne

had so enjoined him :

he added tears too, as if she had also commanded them. Great gods What !

clouds of thick darkness blind the human mind Tereus, by the very at- !

tempt of wickedness, passes for dutiful

and derives praise for his crime. ;

What shall we think, that Philomela also joins in the request and, fondly ;

clasping her ai-ms round her father's neck, conjures

him by his regard to
her peace, to grant, what was utterly to ruin her peace, that she might
on
go and see her sister. Tereus surveys her, and feeds before-hand
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VI, 225

Tereus iper/at earn,

Spectateam Tereus; prsecontrectatque videndo :
pi-aronlrectatque vi-
Osculaque, circumdata brachia cernens,
et collo dendo lerneiixque os- ;
cula, (t brachia cir-
Omnia pro stimulis, facibusque, ciboque furoris 480 cumduta lollo, accipit
omnia proat'niuilisjj'a-
Accipit. Et quoties aniplectitur ilia parentem, cihiisgnc, ciboque fn-
Esse parens vellet neque enim minus
; impius esset. rnrix it ijiuitie.s ilia :

ampUititurpurentem,
Vincitur ambarum genitor prece. Gaudet, agit- velUt esse parens ejus:
neqiie eiiiin esset vii-
que 1IUS impliis. Genitar
vinritiir prece aiiiba-
Ilia patri grates et successisse duabus
; rum sororum. Ilia Phi-
Id putat infelix, quod erit lugvibre duabus. 485 lomela gaudet, agit
grates patri, (t infeliji;
Jam labor exiguus Phffibo restabat; equique piitat id siiccfssisse
diiuhus, quod erit lu-
Pulsabant pedibus spatium declivis Olympi :
giibre diiubas. Jam.
exiguus labor restabat
Regales epulte mensis, et Bacchus in auro Phwbo equique solis ;

Ponitur. Hiuc placido dantur sua corpora somno pnlsubant pedibus spu- :

tium declivis
At rex Odrysius, quamvis successit, in ilia 490 Regales epul<e Oli/inpi.
pomin-
et Bacehiis
^stuat: etrepetens faciem, motusque, manusque, J,";„-?^,;t'««r<,. mnc
Qualia vult fingit, quae nondum vidit et ignes :
sua corpora dantur
placido somno. At rex
Ipse suos nutrit, cura removente soporem. Odrysiiis,guamv>ssces-
sit o'stuat in ilia et
Lux erat: et generi dextram complexus euntis494 repetens faciem, mo-
:

Pandion, comitem lacrymis commendat obortis: tusque, manusque, fin-

git qua: nondum \vidit '

Hanc ego, care gener, quoniam pia causa co'egit, quiiliu rult : et ipse
nutrit suos ignes, ciira
[Et voluere ambas, voluisti tu quoque, Tereu.] removente soporem.
Do tibi perque fidem, cognataque pectora supplex. Erat
:
lux et Pandion
coniplexus dextram ge-
:

Per Superos oro, patrio tuearis amore: 7ieri evntis, commen-

dat cnmitem lacrymis
Et mihi soUicitEe lenimen dulce senectee 500 obortis. Cane gener,
quoniam pia causa coe-
Quamprimum (omnis erit nobis mora longa) re- amhiF sorores
git (et
Tereu, quo-
volitere, tii
mittas.
ego do
que loluisti)
hanc tibi : suppltxque oro per fidem, perque cognata pectora, per sicperos, ut tttearis patrio
amore : et remittas mihi quamprimum dulce lenimen sollicitcB senecta (enim omnis mora erit
longa nobis.)
TRANSLATION.
the hoped-for joy. And as he beheld her kisses, and arras thrown round
her father's neck, he receives all as incentives and fuel, and the food of
furious passion and, as often as she embraces her father, wishes he had
;

been her father, nor indeed would that have checked his impiety. The
father yields at last to the desire of his two daughters she rejoices, and ;

return thanks to her father and, ill-fated nymph, calls that success which
;

was doomed to be fatal to both. To Phoebus now but little of his toil re-
mained, and his fiery steeds beat with their hoofs the descending tract of
heaven. A
royal banquet graces the tables, and wine is served up in
goblets of gold. Then all retire to taste the sweets of sleep. But the
Thracian king, though now withdrawn, yet still burns for her and re- ;

calling her face, and motions, and hands, fancy suggests what he had not
seen and he nourishes his own fires, restless care preventing sleep.
; It
was day; and Pandion grasping the right hand of his son-in-law, taking
his last farewell, with tears recommends his companion to Jiis care. I
commit, dear son, daughter to you, since a dutiful affection com-
this my
pels me to it for both have earnestly desired it (and you also, Tereus,
;

seem to desire it) and adjure by your honour, by your breast allied to. us,
and by all the gods above, that you guard and defend her with the fond-
ness of a father and send back to me as r^oon as possible (for every de-
;

Q
226 P. OyiDII NASONIS

I'i\Tt'"iib\ uui'^ietal
^^ quoqiie quampi'iniiim (satis est procul esse sc-
arf Me, reditu qiiam- roreui.)
r.-nm 'esse jirocni,) Si pietas uUa est, ad me Philomela, redito.
,^«''ri«i«^o.5c??r'w!J: Mandabat; pariterque suaj dabat oscula natse:
nat(v, et. mites lacry. Et Iftcrvmaj mites inter mandata cadebant. 505
»is cadeaant inter tt v^ i • •
i
mandata: pnposdt(jjie
dc.vtras utriusqiie «" T f
IWter ,
i~.
Utquc fidei pis^iius, dcxtras utnusque poposcit;
pigmn fidei, Junxitqiic SBQUe
que datasjunxit; natamque nepotem,
eas (tuias inter se ;ju-
bet que ut saliiteiit pro
Absentes memori pro se jubet ore salutent:
seinemori ore; natam-
que nefotemqiie ab-
Supremumque vale, pleno singultibus ore,
sentes : vixque dixit Vix dixit: timuitque suae presagia mentis, 510
supremnm rate ore
pieno si'^^ultibits : tl At simul imposita est pictae Philomela carinse;
muitqueprasagiamiB Admotumque fretuHi lemis, tellusque repulsa est ;
mentis. At stmul Phi- _^. t^ '
.
/»
lomcla est imposita
Vicimus, exclamat mecum mea vota leruntur. :

picta carina: ; freturn-

que est admotum re- Exsultatque, et vix anirao sua gaudia difFert
mrbarZr^xXlm^^^^
Barbarus et nusquam lumen detorquet ab ilia. 515 :

vicimus, mea vota je- ]Nfon aliter, Quam cum pedibus praedator obuncis

tatque, et lix differt Deposuit nido leporem Jovis ales in alto :

'ZSI^m^^ih^- Nulla fuga est capto spectat sua prsemia raptor. :

men ab ilia. Non aii- iter efFectum: iamque in sua littora fessis
ter quam cum ales Jo- Jamque
-^^ 1., \ t-> t ran .

vis predator pedibus

Puppibus exierant cum rex Pandione natam 520 :
obuncis deposuit icpo- t r ^. ^ •^ i
i i i"
i ,
•
,
•

reminaitonido. Nulla ui stabula alta trahit, silvis obscura vetustis :

pallentem, trepidamque, et cuncta

ibi ti-
^mctal'Ta"pV7mta. Atque
Jamque iter eiat effec-
turn ; jamque exierant
fessis puppibus in sua
-^ .
mcntem
hX jam cum lacrymis, ubi
-'.,.. sit germana, rogantem,
,

hitZ"ta??ip'a}!dimeiH Includit : fassusque nefas, et virginem, et unam

ti/fa stahula, obscura
vetustis silvis : atque includit ibi illam pallentem, trepidamque, et timentem cuncta, et rogantem
jam cum lacrymis ubi germana sit : J'ussusque 7ie/as superat vi et virginem, et unam;
TRANSLATION,
lay will appear tedious) this sweet solace of my anxious old age. And you
too, Philomela, if you retain any sense of the duty you owe to me, return

speedily (it is enough that your sister is far removed from me).
These
were his commands at the same time he kissed his darling child, and
;

the gentle tears fell from him as he spoke to her. He then demanded both
their right hands, as a pledge of their fidelity, and, as he held tliem, joined
them together and desires, that with mindful mouth, they salute for him
;

his absent daughter and grandson and was scarce; able to pronounce the ;

last farewell, in a voice interrupted with sighs and dreaded the presages ;

of his own mind. No sooner was Philomela put on board the painted ship,
and the sea urged by the oar, the land seeming to recede ; are victorious, We
he cries 1 bear my wishes along with me. The barbarian exults, and with
:

pain forbears the expected joy nor turns his eyes any where
from her. As ;

when the rapacious bird of Jove has with crooked talons snatched a hare,
and carried her to his loffy nest tliere is no escape for the captive, the ra- ;

visher keeps his eye constantly upon his prey. And now the voyage was
ended, and they had gone out from the wearied ships upon the shore when ;

the king conveys the daughter of Pandion to a stately lodge, enclosed by an-
cient woods and there shuts her up pale and trembling, and dreading every
;

tiling, and now with tears inquiring after her sister

and openly avowing his ;

baseness, masters by force, her,avirgin,andbutone; whilein vain she often

 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VI. 227

Vi superat ; frustm clamato ssepe parente, 525 parente sape clamato

frustra, soroi-c sua.
Seepe sorore sua, magnis super omnia Divis. sitpe, magnis Divis
clamatis super omnia.
Ilia tremit, velut agna pavens, quae saucia cani Ilia tremit velut pa-
Ore excussa lupi, nondum sibi tuta videtur :
vens agna, qtuc ercus-
sa saucia ore cani lupi,
Utque columba, suo madefactis sanguine plumis, nondum videtttr tuta
sibi:
Horret adliuc, avidosque timet, quibus utque columba,
liiEserat, un- plumis madefactis suo
sanguine, adh uc horret
gues. timetq uc a vidos ungues
Mox ubi mensrediit passes laniata capillos,
;
ubi 7IIC71S rediit
quibus htrserat. Mox
la- :

Lugenti similis, csesis plangore lacertis, niata passos cupillos

(sitnilis lugenti, lacer-
Intendens palmas, pro diris, Barbare, factis, tis casis
plaiigore,) in-
Pro crudelis, ait nee te mandata parentis tendens palmas, ait :
!
Pro Barbare, pro cru-
Cum lacrymis m^overe piis, nee cura sororis, 535 mandata
delis diris faetis nee :

parentis cum
Nee mea virginitas, nee conjugialia jura? lacrymis j>iis, nee cura
sororis, nee mea vir-
Omnia turbasti. Pellex ego facta sorori :
ginitas, nee jura con-
Tu geminis conjux, Non hsec mihi debita poena. jugalia 7noi>ere
turbasti omnia:
te ?
ego
Quin animam banc (ne quid facinus tibi, perfide, sum facta jiellex soro-
ris, tu conjux geiiiinis.
restet) {H<£cpana non erat de-

Eripis? atque utinam fecisses ante nefandos 540 bita miliij. (Quin cm-
non) eripis hanc ani-
Concubitus vacuas habuissem
! criminis umbras. mam T (nc
quid faci-
nus restet tibi d per-
!Si tamen hsec
Superi cernunt ;
si numina Divum fide.) Ati/Jtc utinam
fecisses ante nefandos,
Sunt aliquid ;
si non perierunt omnia mecum ; concubitus .' habuis-
sem 7imbras vacuas
Quandocunque mihi poenas dabis. Ipsa pudore criminis. Tamen si

Projecto tua facta loquar. Si copia detur, 545 Superi cernunt hac :
si numina Vivilm su7it

lupopulos veniam si silvis clausa tenebor, :

aliquid ; si otnnia non
perierunt mecum : da-
Implebo silvas, et conscia saxa movebo. bis quandoc7inque pig-
n.as mihi. Ipsa pudore projecto loqiior tua facta. Si copia detur, veniam in popnilus : si tenebor
clausa in movebo conscia saxa.
silvis, et

TRANSLATION,
calls upon her father, often her sister, and above all, the mighty powers of
heaven. She trembles, like a timorous lamb, that snatched wounded from
the mouth of a hoary wolf, does not yet think itself secure or as the ;

dove when it beholds its plumes besmeared with gore, trembles still, and
dreads the cruel talons wherein she had lately stuck. But soon, when
tJiought returned, tearing her dishevelled hair, and like one plunged in
excess of grief, beating her arms, and stretching out her hands " Cruel :

"
barbarian, (she cries), savage and inhuman wretch, have neither the
" strict commands of a father uttered with
pious tears, nor a regard for
"
my sister, nor my virgin innocence, nor all the ties of the nuptial vow been
" able to move
you ? You have confounded all I am become my sister's:

"
rival, and you a husband to us both sure I never deserved so cruel a
:

" fate.
Why, perfidious wretch, do you not take away also my life, that
" no kind of O had you but
villany may be left unperpetrated by you.
" done it
before the criminal embrace, my ghost had been guiltless and
"
unstained. Yet, if the heavenly powers see these things if the ma- ;

"
jesty of the gods is not a mere fiction if with me all things are not
;
" come
to ruin one time or other vengeance will overtake thee. I my-
;

" If at
self, casting off all restraint of shame, will proclaim thy crimes.
"
liberty, I will come abroad, and publish them among the people ;
'
if
kept imprisoned in woods, I will fill the woods with my complaints,
" and move
the conscious rork^. Let heaven, and every god that inhabits
Q 2
228 P. OVIDII NASONIS

etsi est nUus Audiat hsec deus uUus in illo est.

^lUr, aether, ct si
htec. Postquam
;/tamu fst
ira
com-
1 aliDus ira fieri
postquam commota tyranni ;

inota talibus dictis, wcc j^g^j j^jj^qj. j^^j, jj-,gtus est : causa stimulatus utr^-
metii.t est minor hac,
stimulatus que i50
utraqiie
causa liberat ensem ensem
quo fuit accinctus va-
Quo
.
fuit accinctus,
, An-
vagina liberat , , i
:

•
gina, cogitque iiiam
Arreptamque coma, nexis post terga lacertis,
tlffelTs "pZ \Tga, Vincla pati cogit. Jugulum Philomela parabat ;

Spemque suffi mortis viso conceperat ense.

ZfLptrZtjug^ui'i
conccperatque
S1ICF morti.i eiise visa.
spem Illeindignanti, et nomen patris usque vocanti, 555
Hie abstnlit ense fero Luctantique loqui comprensam forcipe Iinguam
iinguam compreiham Abstulit ense fero. Radix micat ultima lingu<£.
forcipe, illi indignanti,
Ipsa jacet, terraeque tremens immurmurat
et usque vocauti tio- atrae.
men patris, liictmiti-
que loqiti. Ultima ra-
Utque cauda colubrse,
salire solet mutilatae
dix lingua mlcat. Ipsa
jacet, tremensquc im Palpitat et moriens dominse vestigia quserit. 560
:

pZpftaTLc'ui'cfnda
^°^ quoque post facinus (vix ausim credere) fertur
coiubrtEmiiiiiata: solet
Ssepe su'd lacerum repetisse libidine corpus.
salirc.et moriens, qua- o.- j-r« . ^ii-r^i
bustmet ad Procncu post talia facta reverti
,.•
rit vestigia domino', :

quffi viso queerit: at

ille
h7c%linTs7vZ ausim Conjuge germauam
crederejrepetisse
serpe^
Dat gemitus fictos, commeutaque funera narrat.
libidine. Post talia Et lacrymsB feccre fidcm. Velamina Procne 566
^afprwneTfqiiaZn- Deripit ex humeris auro fulgentia lato :

^Zinam'f at'^uie ^dat Induiturque atras vestes : et inane

sepulchrum
fictos gemitus, narrat- Coustituit :
falsisQue piacula manibus infert :

que funera cornmenta. -r-,. , ,

•
t ^ o ^
•
unn.
Et lacryma: fecere tit
luget non SIC iugendsB lata sororis. O/U
Jidem. Procne deripit
ex humeris velamina fulgentia lato auro, induiturque atras vestes: et constituit inane sepul-
chrum: infertque piacula falsis ma7iibus ; et luget fata sororis non sic lugetidte.
TRANSLATION.
*'
there, here these When by these and such reproaches she
my vows."
had roused the passion of the furious tyrant, nor was he less disturbed by
fear urged alike by both, he unsheaths the sword wherewith he was girt
;

round, and seizing her by the hair, after forcing her arms behind her, he
compelled her to submit to chains. Philomela prepared her throat for the
mortal blow, and had conceived hopes of death upon seeing the sword.
But he haviug seized her tongue with pincers, cut it off with the cruel
sword, as she was raving with indignation, and calling constantly on the
name of her father, and struggling hard to speak. The quivering root
still remains, but the tongue itself is thrown to the ground, and faintly
murmurs as it lies trembling on the stained earth. And as a snake when
wounded writhes and tosses his tail, it leaps about and dying, seeks the ;

feet of its mistress. It is said too, (though I dare scarce believe it) that
even after so black a deed, he frequently indulged his lustful flame on
her mangled body.
Yet after all this baseness, he had the confidence to present himself to
Procne, who, when she saw her husband, inquires immediately after her
sister but he utters feigned groans, and tells an artful story of her death.
:

And procures credit from his 1?ears. Procne tears from her shoulder her
robe embroidered with copious flowers of gold, and is clad in sable weeds,
and raises in vain sepulchres, and offers expiations to the fictitious ghost,
and mourns the fate of her sister, which known must have a
inspired
passion very different from grief
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VI. 229

Deus bis sex acto lustraverat anno. ^««* lustra^

Sio-na yha^hM
Quid facial Philomela lugam custodia claudit '. :
f" anno. Quia PhUo-
C-, , 1-1•
i.11 , niela faciat ? custodia
Structa rioent solido stabuiorum mcenia saxo ; ciandit fugom.- mama

Os mutum facti caret indice. Grande dolori

St"r,/^.t?o"
Inffenium est: miserisque venit solertia rebus. 575 '»«'«»» caret uidtce
r-,~. , -A I Ti irjiiA
btamina barbarica suspendit callicla tela
facti.Ingeniumgraiide
est doioH: soiemaque :

notas filis intexuit albis,

Purpureasque Sfrf/m'^c^df^j^a-
Indicium sceleris perfectaque tradidit uni: :

notas fiu.i aibis . mdi-

H^n^S^urpl^^
Utque dominse gestu rogat. Ilia rogata
ferat
Pertulitad Procnen nee scit quidtradat in illis 580 i«5Mc"opu" tradidu
;

Evolvit vestes ssevi matrona tyranni f^kl'''dZnr''^l^ :

Germanaeque suse legit carmen miserabile :

/vo"«",, neitft qtM

Et (mirum potuisse !) silet. Dolor era repressit: tradat tn uns. Ma-

Verbaque quserenti satis indignantia linguae e7o'ivit irVtL- leguque

Defuerunt: nee flere vacat. Sed fasque nefasque lTman^'et%^uZl
Confusura ruit poeneeque in imagine tota est.
:
'»«"«?) siut. Doior re-
t "
pre.int ora : verbaque
rf^ n^ ••. T> 1* ^ .
•

lempus erat, quo sacra solent inetenca rJaccln satis indignantia defv-

Sithoniae celebrare nurus. Nox conscia sacris :

ea"'ec 7acat ^^re^rsed
Nocte sonat Rhodope
1
tinnitibus seris acuti :
ZfiZf''lZnf^7„T.
"ejusqut tuque luia
.
. ,
rrvA
JNocte sua est egressa domo regma: oyU in imagine pceno'. Tem-
." „.,.
. ~.. JJeique
^
pus erut quo SithonitB
itlbuS instruitur, lUriahaque aCCipit arma.
R.., nm-us solent celebrare
Vite caput tegitur lateri cervina sinistro :
cTi!" Noxlmscif^a'-
crts Nocte Rhodope
Yellera dependent
V humero levis incubat hasta.
:
sonat tinmtilius acuti
aris nocte regina est egressa sua. domo ;
; instruiturque ritibus del : accipitqiie juriulia arma.
Caput tegitur vite : vellera cervina dependent sinistro latere : levis hasta incubat humero.

TRANSLATION.
of day had completed the year by a progress through the
The god
twelve signs of the Zodiac. What can Philomela do ? Watchful keepers
prevent her escape the walls of the lodge are built high of solid stone
:
:

ner speechless mouth can make no discovery of the crime. But urgent
grief quickens ingenuity, and in distress expedients readily
offer. She
fixed to a loom with perfect skill a web of the barbarian fashion, and by
notes interwoven in white thread, traced the bloody crime. This
purple
when and sig-
finished, she gave to one of the slaves that attended her,
nified by gestures that he must carry it to his mistress. He carried it as
desired to Procne, nor once suspected what was conveyed it. Ine m
matron of the savage tyrant unfolds the web, and reads the mournful
Excess of
story of her sister and, strange that she could,
: is silent.

checked her nor could her eager tongue find words to ex-
grief speech,
press her indignation there is no room for tears. :
But rushes impetu-
ous, determined to confound and
right wrong,and is wholly taken up in
the contrivance of revenge.
It was now the time when the Thracian matrons are wont to celebrate
to these rites.
the triennial feast of Bacchus. Night alone is conscious
By night Rhodope resounds with the shrill tinkling of brass. By night
the queen left the palace, arrayed according to the rites of the god, and
all the of that frantic solemnity. AVreaths of vine
carrying badges
leaves adorn her head, a deer's skin covers her left side, and a smooth
spear presses her shoulder. The terrible Procne thus hurries through
230 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Procne coiicila per Concita per turba comitante suarum,

tiirha suarum silvas,
s/lvas,
comiltaite terriOUis, Terribilis Procne, furiisque agitata doloris. 595
agilataque fiiriis dolo-
rif, siinulat tuas Bac- Bacche,tuas simulat. Venit ad stabula avia tandem :

clu : tandem rcnit ad

II via stabula: exiilu- Exululatque, Evoeque sonat, portasque refringit :

latquc, sonatq ; Evoe. Germanamoue

- ' ' 4-
rapit : raptseque
'-
insio-nia Bacchi
...^ .-.
refringitque port as : - - -

rapitque germanam : Induit et vultus hederarum frondibus abdit

: :

iiidiiitque insignia
Bacchi rapta : etabdit Attonitamque trahens intra sua limina ducit. 600
viiltus froiidibus hede-
rariim :
Ut sensit tetigisse domum Philomela nefandam,
trahensque,
illicit attonitam intra Horruit infelix totoque expalluit ore.
;
sua limina. Ut infelix
Philomela seiisit se te- Nacta locum Procne, sacrorum pignora demit,
tigisse domum nej'an-
dam, horruit : eocyal- Oraque develat miserae pudibunda sororis :

luitque toto ore. Proc-

?ie nacla locum, demit Amplexuque petit. Sed non attollere contra 605
pignora sacrorum, dc- pellex sibi visa sororis
Sustinet hsec oeulos ; :

vclat pudibunda ora

misera sororis ; pctit- Dejectoque in humum vultu, jurare volenti,
qtie amplexu. Sed hec
contra nun suxtinet at- Testrique Deos, per vim sibi dedecus illud
toUere oculof; visa sibi
Illatum, pro voce manus fuit. Ardet et iram
pellex sororis; vnltzi-
que dejecta in humum, Non capit ipsa suam Procne, flectumque sororis 610
tnauus fait pro voce
illi volenti jurare, tes- Corripiens, Non est lacrymis hie, inquit, agendum,
tarique deo.%, illud de- Sed ferro ; sed si
decus illatum sibi per quid habes, quod vincere ferrum
vim. Procne ardet, et Possit. In omne nefas ego me, germana! paravi.
ipsa non capit suam
iram :
corripiensque Aut ego, cum facibus regalia tecta cremaro,
flectum sororis,inquit:
non est hie
Artificem mediis immittam Terea flammis 615 :
agendum
lacrymis, sedferro,sed Aut linguam, aut oeulos, aut quae tibi membra pu-
CO, si habes quid quod
possit vincere ferrum. dorem
Germana, ego paravi
me in omne nefas. Ego out cremaro regalia tccta cum facibtis, et immUtam artificem Terea mt-
dtis Jlammis : aut rupiam J'erro linguam, aut oeulos, aut membra, qua: abstulcrunt pudorem tibi :

TRANSLATION.
the woods, followed by a crowd of attendants, and agitated by the tumults
of indignation, pretends them such as Bacchus mspired. At length she
arrives at the solitary dome, and howls, and cries Evoe, and breaks open
the gates, and seizes her sister, and clothes her in the ensigns of the
god, and hides her face with leaves of ivy, and drawing her along,
full
of amazement, leads her within the limits of the court.
,As soon as the unhappy Philomela perceived that she had touched the
cold seizes her, and paleness spreads over all
guilty house, a shivering
her face. Procne having now found a fit retirement, removes the sacred
symbols of the deity, and unveils the blushing face of her wretched sister,
and fondly holds her in her embraces. But she, on the contrary, as one
that had stained her sister's bed, cannot bear to lift up her eyes but ;

with a dejected countenance, and willing to swear, and call the gods to
witness, that violence had brought the infamy her, her hand served
upon
instead of a voice, and proclaimed in signals her innocence. Procne
burns with passion, nor can she any longer contain her rage ; but check-
of her sister " It is not to tears
ing the unseasonable grief (says she)
:

" that we must now have recourse, but to the sword but to whatever else ;

" have hardened niy-

you contrive more vengeful than the sword, I, sister,
" self to after haviug set on fire with torches
every crime I will either,
:

" the author of your wrougs into the

royal palace, plunge the inhuman
" middle of the flames, or I will out with direful steel his tongue, or
dig
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VI. 231

aut per vulnera mille .wntan

Abstulerunt, ferro rapiam : ""( fxpeiiam
_., .' r,, i»/r
(inimum per mule vnl-
oontem animam expellam. Magnum
^ quodcunq ' > ;
nera. Qundcunquc pa-
ravi est mir^num, du-
paravi : jj^o udknc quid sit

Quid sit, adhuc dubito. Peragit dum talia Procne, l^l^^ ^lUsZiidma^
Ad matrem veniebat Itys. Quid possit, ab illo 620 matrem. Admomtacst
. -,
T ''.., ••i-1 AT abillo quid poss'it : til-
Admonita est: oculisque tuens immitibus, Ah quam
,

ensque ovuUs immm-

Es similis patri dixit. Nee plura locut^, !
'^u^pJi^tf ZTiZ
Triste parat facinus ; tacitaque exaestuat ira. cuta piura,parattris-

Vt tamen accessit natus, matnque salutem i^'etadtairn. Tamcn

« 1-
. ,
11
. •, .
11 1 -• • ut natus acresiit, at-
Attulit, et parvis adduxit colla lacertis, tuutque saiutem ma-

Mistaque blanditiis puerilibus oscula j

anxit :
';l\.^t^l^;^!j:::^.
Mota
-..T^quidem Ti
est eenitrix, infractaque
Invitique oculi lacrymis
-lA
maduere
constitit ira
coactis.
•
: i^^e osmia mhta pue-
riliuus blanditus : iie-
tutrix quidem est mo-

Sed simul ex nimia matrem pietate labare *uilraTinimque^^^^^^

Sensit; ab hociterumestadvultus versa sororis '; 630 TTiis,
"Tf'T^clw
Aea si/iiul ^.li^X
seiistt
, ^ ^

Inque vicem spectans ambos, Cur admovet, inquit, matrem labure ex ni-
AU 11
Alter j-i-
blanditias
i^
silet altera
T Ao -1 i. 11.
mid pietate : versa est
uerum at iwc, ad mu-
; rapta Imgua f

Quam vocat hie matrem, eur non vocat ilia sororem ? ^"^ amZfinmcemjn-
Cui sis nupta vide, Pandione nata, marito. admo-
9"iV; ^"'•.f^ifer altera
-r\ o
fecelusest
mlereo. o3or 1 • • •
r'i^
'"^^
blandttias,
sHet rapta ungua?
Degeneras.
Tvr J. -Lrj- ii*/~i i"
pietasmconiuge cur non ilia vocat so-
i\ ec mora ; traxit Ityn veluti (jangetica cervse
: rorem quam mc vocat
Lactantem
Utque domus '•J- foetum per silvas tigris opaeas.
altse partem tenuere remotam
reo est scelus. Nee est mora ; traxit Ityn : veluti Gangetica tigris
:
'

trahit
Z^';Z'c^^a^:t!s
nupta. Degeneras
pietas zn conjuge Je-
lactantem fat urn cervce
.-

per silvas opaeas. Utque tenuere remotam partem altte domtis ;

TRANSLATION.
"
eyes, or the parts that injured yoiu* honour, or expel his guilty soul by
" a thousand wounds. What to fix
upon, I have not yet resolved, but
" determined I am to do
something great."
While Procne thus discourses to her sister, Itys ran up to his mother :

by him she is admonished of what she might do and looking at him ;

with stern eyes, ah, said she, how like you are to your father She said !

no more, but prepares in her mind the bloody deed, and burns with silent
rage. But as her son drew near, and saluted his mother, and folded his
little arms round her neck, and
joined kisses mixt with childish prattle,
the mother was softened to pity, her anger abated, and tears forced them-
selves from her unwilling eyes. But when she found that the natural
fondness of a parent disarmed her resentment, again she turned her eyes
to her sister, and looking by turns at both "
Why, (says she,) does one
" accost me with fond caresses the other stand silent bereft of her
:

"
tongue ? Why, as he calls me mother, does not she call me sister ? O
"
daughter of Pandion, think to what a husband thou art married. You
"
degenerate, conjugal duty in the wife of Tereus, would become a
" crime." No more she
wavers, but seizes Itys, as when a tigress on
the banks of the Ganges, drags through gloomy groves the tender suckling
of a hind. When they were come to a remote part of the lofty dome,
Procne plunges the sword into his bosom, now aware of his fate, and
NOTES.
636. Gangetica.] Indicafrom the Ganges, one of the greatest rivers in India.
232 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Procneferjt nj<e,
,

pectus iiit/Krrit Interi:

qua
.1
Tendentemoue manus, 'J
et jam sua feta videntem,

tja, et jaiii, matei*, clamantem, et coUa petentem

tiiiiim /ni(initti,iqur

7f'm''s/n%ut'a,' e'/ fn'm Eiise fcrit Pi'ocne, latcri qua pectus adhseret ; 641
'^'rl^"!,i"n,1^ia-ncc
^ec vultum avertit. Satis illi ad fata vel unum
avertit viiitvtn. lei Vuluus evat I iusTulum feiTO Philomela resolvit,
vmim vulnus crat sa- _,.. ,,'•'". i- i .• >• \
ti.t illi ad
fata. fhiio- Vivaq adhuc, anunseq; aliquidretinentia membra,
;

^'^^'ouanii'l^'ll^^Z Dilaniant. Pars inde cavis exsultat athenis 645 :

hra,idhucihmqne,re- Pars verubus stridet manant penetralia tabo. :

thievtiaquc illiquid
tinima-: inde pars exul- His adhibet conjux ignarum Terea mensis :

tat cavis athenis: pars

stridet verubus : pene- Et patrii moris sacrum mentita, quod uni
tralia manant tiiho.
Fas adire viro, comites, famulosque removit.
sit
Conjux adhibet igna-
rum Terea mrnsis :
Iris
sedens solio Tereus sublimis avito G50
et mentita sacrum pa- Ipse
trii maris, quod sit fas Vescitur inque suam sua viscera congerit alvum.
:

uni viro adire, removit

comites famulosque Tantaque nox animi est, Ityn hue arcessite, dixit.
ihnl^oUoVi'i1'"ve"X Dissimularc nequit crudelia gaudia Procne :

tur : congeritque sua

viscera in suam alt urn: Jamque suse cupiens existere nuncia cladis,
noxque animi est tun- Intushabes, quod poscis, ait. Circumspicitille, 655
ta,dixit: arcessite Ityn
hue. Procne nequit Atque ubi sit, quaerit. Quserenti, iterumque vocanti,
dissimnlare crudelia Sicut erat sparsis furiali csede capilhs,
gaudia : jamque cu-
piens exsistere nuncia Prosilit, Ityosque
' caput
'
Philomela cruentum
-xtf •,
'

sua- cladis, ait : hnbes l'i.11

intus quodposcis. iiie Misit m ',

ora patris nee tempore maluit ullo

•

:
.

Possc loqui, ct meritis testari gaudia dictis. 660

'quTrH^nu'sit. "Thi-
lomeia sicut erat ca- Thracius ingenti mensas clamore repellit,
pUlis sparsis furiali __. o i ii • •

ca;de, prosilit illi qua- Vipereasque ciet t^tygia de valle sorores :

renti, vocanlifue ite-

rum: misitqve caput cruentum Ityos in ora patris. nee ullo tempore maluit posse loqui, et tes-
tari gaudia meritis dictis. Thracius repellit inensas ingenti clamore, cietqne vipereas sorores de
tallestygia :

TRANSLATION.
stretching out his hands, and calling her his dearest mother, and strug-
gling to throw his arms round her neck nor did she so much as turn ;

away her eyes. One stroke was sufficient to complete his fate. Philo-
mela lays open his throat with a sword his limbs still quivering, and re- :

taining somewhat of life, they tear in pieces. Part of them are boiled
in kettles, part roasted on spits ;
the floors run in streams of gore. The
unsuspecting Tereus to this inhuman feast, and falsely
wife invites the
pretending a mystic sacrifice in the manner of her country, at which it
was lawful for the husband only to be present, removed his attendants
and servants. Tereus himself, exalted on the throne of his ancestors,
feeds on the offered banquet, and greedily devours his own bowels and :

so great is the blindness of his mind, that he desires Itys may be called
to him. Procne can no longer dissemble her cruel joy, but impatient
to be herself the discoverer of her
bloody crime. You have within you,
says she, what you call He looks round him, and still inquires
for.
where he can As he
thus inquires, and again calls for his son,
be.
Philomela springs out, her hair dishevelled and stained with the infernal
murder, and throws the bloody head of Itys in his father's face nor at ;

any time did she more earnestly wish for speech, and to be able to
testify her joy in words suited to her wrongs. The tyrant pushes the
table from him with a hideous
cry, and calls the snaky furies from their
Stygian dens. Sometimes he resolves, by teai'ing open his breast, to dis-
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VI. 233

Et modb, si
possit, reserato pectore, diras f TiserafJ! pttore
Esferere inde dapes, semesaque viscera gestit. cgerere inde'diras da-
r~,P 1 i 1 1-1 , •
pes, semesaque viscera:
Flet modo, seque vocat bustum raiserabile nati
J.

: modo flet, locatque se

Nunc sequitur nudo genitas Pandione ferro. Qm Tt^;^^!^!^r^
nuuo
'"'«« Pandione
Corpore
r Cecropiduni
-
i pennis pendere
J" ^
. }putares
., . ,
;
'
ferro.Putares corjxyra
Pendebant pennis. yuarum petit altera silvas 'cecmpidum pendere :

Altera tecta siibit. Neque adhuc de pectore ceedis pl777s'quai^'ianaitera

Excessere notee; signataque sanguine pluma est. Ift'Lcti' '']', fuenot'te
Ille dolore suo, poenaeque
^ ^ cupidine
^ velox, 671 '"'T'?" art'/mc exiessere
^T . . , . • • de pectore, plumaque
vertitur in volucrem; cm stant in vertice cristse
. . .

: est signata sanguine.

Prominet immodicum pro longa cuspide rostrum. i%dh!c^„fpmtfffver-

Nomen Epops
r r volucri
facies armata videtur.
"
;
_
''^"r i"}'"i"<:>em,
erista stant m
vertice:
ciu

Hie dolor ante diemlongseq extrema senectaao/o immodicum rostrum

m rPi T>j- J
;
•
J. 1 prominet prolonga CHS-
lempora, lartareas randiona misit ad umbras. pide. £pops est u omen
VIII. Sceptra loci, rerumque capit moderamen l°^mZa\'^nicm%^mi.
ErechtbeUS ;'
sitPandionaadTarta-
reas umbras ante diem,
extremaque tempora longa senectir. VIII. Erechtheut capit sceptra loci, moderamenque rerum.

TRANSLATION,
charge the direful repast, and half-eaten bowels anon he weeps, and ;

calls himself the wretched tomb of his own son now he pursues the :

daughters of Pandion with his naked sword. You would imagine that
the bodies of the Cecropian nymphs were supported by wings they were ;

indeed supported by wings. One wanders in the woods, the other shelters
herself under roofs. The marks of her cruelty may be yet seen on her
breast, and her feathers are stained with blood. He too, made swift by
his resentment and impatience of revenge, is changed to a bird, that bears
on his head crested plumes a long beak stands out in form of a spear,
;

and thus armed in his looks, is distinguished by the name of Lapwing.

This mournful disaster hurried Pandion Tartarean shades before to the
his day, and the a long old age.
late period of
VIII. Erechtheus succeeded next to the Athenian sceptre, and govern-
ment of the state it is hard to say, whether he was more jjowerful by his
:

NOTES.
667. Corpore Cecropidum.'] come We A verse of Aristophanes, in the first act of
now to the fabulous part of this story; hiscomedy of the birds, where Tereiis, to
that which the poets have devised to serve abate the astonishment of Eulpis, siir-
their purposes, which is thus explained prised to see that prince under so hideous
by Banier. As it was common in ancient afigure,^ivesussufficiently to understand,
times, to mix the supernatural with all these ancientfictions were often invented,
events of moment, and account for them or at least improved by the tragic poets,
by the intervention of the gods so it was ;
and especially this one, since Tereus says:
given out, that Procne had been trans- Sophocles has thoujzht fit to put me into
formed into a swallow, Philomela into a this disguise. The nightingale, that hides
nightingale, Itys into a pheasant, and itself in woods and tliickets, seems as it
Tereus into a lapwing. The mytliologists were industrious to cover Philomela's
find reasons corresponding to these me- shame and misfortunes ; and the swallow
tamorphoses they will have it, that these
: that frequents houses, sets forth the dis-
symbolical transformations were designed quietude of Procne, who in vain seeks
to figure the characters of these several after her son, whom slie inhumanly mur-
persons. As the lapwing is a bird that dered,
delights in they will have this to be
filth, 677. Sceptra loci, Sfc] From the fate of
an emblem of Tereus' impure morals ; Tereus, the poet passes to the story of
because the flight of that bird is very slow, Calais and Zethes. They were the sons
it signifies at the same time, that he was of Boreas, king of Thrace, by Orythia
not able to overtake the princesses, his the daughter of Erectheus,kingof Athens;
ship not being so good a sailer as theirs. wiiom that prince had carried oflT.
 234 P. OVIDII NASONIS

•tquc ditiium est, fue- Justitia dubiuiii, validisiie potentior armis.

rttne potenttor just.t-
<;«, an vaiuus armis.
,-.,.„ ^
-i
(^uatuor ille quidem juvenes, totidemque crearat
.

qnluwTjuvenZTtoti- Foeminese sortis ; sed erat par forma duarum. 680

S:J AlraAl E quibus bolides Cephalus, te conjuge felix,
crafpar.EqmbusCe- Procri, fuit BoresB Tereus, Thracesque nocebant:
• ^
:

iihaliis yEolides Jmt t-.-i .a t •- t-v /-^ -.i

felix le Procri conjuge: JJilectaque diu caruit Ueus Urithyia,

Telilnt litrea^lZgue I^um rogat, ct precibus mavult quam viribus uti:

diu caruit diiectaori-
Ast ubi blaiiditiis agitur nihil, horridus ira,' 685
•^^'-'
thi/iu, dum rogat, et ^^ ., •% ,
• .

maimit uti precibiM Quae solita cst, illi nimiumque domestica vento ;
quam viribus. At ubi t-\, •
,\ j- , -j •
j i i- •

nihil agitur bia,iditiis, nierito, dixit: quid enim mea tela reliqui,
-t^t

1oiita"n/^u,^^ do. Saevitiam, et vires, iramque, minaces, animosque

mestica illi vento; dix- Admovioue 'preces quarum me dedecet usus? :
tl: et mertto,quideuim . .,'^.
-xt- n r->i^n • •
i -i
reliqui wea tela, saii- Apta mihi VIS est: Vi tristia nuDila pello 690 :

mZ'fclsq7e''7nimos';
^i freta coiicutio, Hodosaque robora verto,
"'^"''"umsdldTctfrni'^ Induroque nives, et terras grandine pulso.
VIS est apta mihi: vi Idem Bgo cum fratres cceIo sum nactus aperto,
yello tristia nubila: /tvt -i* ,w i- > •
, .
•

vi concutiofreta, rer- (i\am milii campus IS est) taiito mohmine luctor,

T,uZoqlTlivet''''"i
Ut medius nostris concursibus intonet ather 695 :

pulso terras gra>idinc. ExiUantque cavis elisi nubibus ignes.

hiio idem cum sum uac- • ...
,, ^ /. •

tusfratrescaio aperto. Idem ego, cum subu couvexa loramiiia terrse,

(nam isest camvus
mi- O „ •
I"
•
j

hi) luctor tanto moii- ^upposuique lerox imis mea terga caverms ;
t^^a^ls^^. SoUicito manes, totumquetremoribus orbem.
sibus, ignesque elisi ca-
VIS nubibus exiliant.
Hac Ope debueram thalamos petiisse socerque 700 :

-vr j ^ r i-"
±.1,1 •
^
i> on orandus
Egoidemcumsubiicon- erat, sed VI laciendus, brechtheus.
vexa foramina terree,
feroxgue seposui mea terga imis cavernis, sollicito manes, totumque orhem tremoribus. HAc ope
debueram petiisse thalamos : Erechtheusque Jion erat orandus,
sedfaciendus socer vi.

TRANSLATION.
love of justice, or his
mighty armies. To him were born four sons, and
as many of the female lot but two excelled, and were alike in
;
beauty.
Cephalus, the grandson of GEolus, Avas blessed in having Procris for his
wife but Tereus and the Thracians Avere a
;
great obstacle to Boreas, and
the god languished long without his dear
Orithyia, while he begs, and
prefers suppliant prayers to force. But when blandishments availed
nothing, swelling with rage, and those rougher arts, so usual and native
wind " am
to this :
Deservedly, (says he,) I now rejected ; for why did
" I relinquish and violence, and fierceness, and
"
my proper weapons, rage,
threatening blasts, and apply in humble prayers to my dishonour Vio-
" lence is
my proper talent by violence I drive the stormy clouds, and
" shake with
;

foaming billows the deep by violence I overturn the knotted ;

'•
oaks, harden snow, and heat the earth with hail. The same when en-
"
countering my brothers in the open air (for this is peculiarly my field)
" I
struggle with such mighty efibrts, that heaven from pole to pole re-
" echoes the dreadful
shock, and fierce lightnings, struck from hollow
clouds, play around. The same when pent within hollow subterraneous
*'

*'
caves, and opposing my back to earth's lowest caverns, I shake the
" infernal
regions and whole globe with earthquakes, it is thus I ought
" to have
pursued my bride nor courted Erechtheus to become my father-
;

"
in-law, but by force compelled him."
In these or such like blustering words Boreas, and shook his dreadful
wings by whose tossings the whole earth was fanned, and the wide sea
:
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lin. VI. 235

Haec Boreas^ aut his non inferiora locutus. Barea.<:locutash(ec,aiit

Jion inferiora his, ex
Excussit peunas quarum jactatibus omnis
;
cu.isit peniias ; jacta

latumque perhorruit aequor. 704 uuusVTaffl'ata'!7a-

Afflata est tellus ;

Pulvereamque trahens per siimma cacumina pallam, ll"',''"tuX'eZqw pZi-

Verrit humum, pavidamque metu caligine tectus veream jtalldm per
summa cavtimi/ia, ver-
Orithyian amans, fulvis amplectitur alis. rit hiimum tec/usque :

caligine^ avians am-

Dum volat, arserunt agitati fortius ignes. plectitur fulvis alis

Nee prius aerii cursCis suppressit habenas Oritliyianpavidamme-

tu. Dum volat ; ignes
Quam Ciconum tenuit populos, et mcenia, raptor. agitali
tius,
urserimt for-
m'c raptor sup-
Illic et gelidi coujux Actaea tyranni, 711 pressit habenas a'trii
cursus, in-iusquam te-
Et genitrix facta est partus enixa gemellos ;
:
nuit populos et mcenia
Caetera qui matris, pennas genitoris haberent. Ciconum. Illic Actaa
Orithyia et est facia
Non tamen has una memorant cum corpore natas co)i,jux gelidi tyranni,

Barbaque
~ '
dum
_
rutilis aberat submissa capillis, 715 meJZ"partns^77uiha-
- .. _ ^ .
herent pennas genito-
Implumes Calaisque puer, Zethesque fuerunt. ris, cetera matris. Ta-
Mox pariter ritu pennse coepere volucrum men memorant has
pennas non natas una
Cingere utrumque latus pariter flavescere malae.
;
ctim corpore,
barba submissa rutilis
dumque
Ergo, ubi concessit tempus puerile juventse, capillis aberat, puer
Vellera cum Minyis nitido radiantia villo. 720 Calaisque Zethesque
fuerunt implumes. Mox
Per mare non motum prima petiere carina. pennce ritu volucrum,
ccepere cingere pariter
utrumque latus : mala: coepcie pariter flavescere. Ergo ubi tempus puerile concessit juventtB ;
petiere primh, cari/td cum Minyis per mare non motum vellera radia?itia nitido villo.
TRANSLATION.
trembled. When the lover drawing his
dusky mantle over the mountain's
tops, sweeps the ground, and wrapt in darkness, emhraees with his yel-
low wings, Orithyia, aghast with fear. As he flies, the agitated flames
of love burn fiercer; nor did the ravisher check the reins of his aerial
course, till he reached the people and walls of the Ciconians. There
Actsean Orithyia was espoused to the cold tyrant, and became a mother,
being delivered of twins, who retained the wings of their father, but in
other things resembled their mother. Yet they tell us, these wings were
wanting at the time of their birth and that, until a beard of dusky hair
,

began to grow, the boys, Calais and Zethes remained unfledged. But
soon after, wings, like those of birds, began to enclose their sides, and at
once their cheeks were covered with yellow down. When therefore the
childish season of life gave way to that of youth and manhood, they em-
barked with the Argonauts, whose ship first essayed the hostile waves ;

and with them attempted the famed prize of the fleece, shining Avith ra-
diant gold.
NOTES.
710. Ciconum populos.'] A
people of a people of Thessaly, so called from
Thrace, inhabiting near mount Ismarns, Minyeus, one of its rivers; known after-
and the Bisconian lake. ward by the name of Orchomenos.
720. Cum Minyis.} The Minya were
236 P. OVIDII NASONIS

LIBER SEPTIMUS.

I.
ORDO.
Jamque Minya se-
I. TAMQUE fretum Minyae Pegasae^
puppe se-
cabant fretum Pega- tJ cabant,
stFil puppe, Phiiieiis-

que trahens inopem se- Perpetuaque trahens inopem sub nocte senectam
nectam sub perpetud
nocte
TRANSLATION.
I. A ND now
the Argonauts ploughed the sea in the Pegassean
ship, and
Jl\. had seen Phineus dragging on a needy old age in perpetual night the :

NOTES.
This book begins with the famed ex- When these things were known in Greece,
pedition of the Argonauts. Ovid having such of the youths as were most passion-
in tlie course of his narration come to Ca- ately fond of fame, began to form a de-
lais and Zethcs, and traced them to the sign of demanding back the treasures of
time when they embarked in this voyage, Athamas, and revenging the death of
is naturally led to give the particulars of Phryxus. Pelias, uncle to Jason, having
an event, so renowned in story. As it is driven his brother Eson fiom the throne
of importance to be well acquainted with of Joleos, and waiting to remove Jason,
this fable, I shall trace things from Iheir who might take it into his head to re-es-
source, and endeavour to explain all tiie tablish liis father Eson, would not lose so
fictions that are any way connected with favourable an opportunity and urged
;

it. Athamas, the son of jEolus, grandson liim to engage in a voyage, from which he
of Helen, and great grandson of Deuca- Blight reap so much glory and renown.
lion, marrying Ino, the daughter of Cad- As this expedition had been published
mus, soon after divorced her, to make over all Greece, many young princes were
way for Nephele, by whom he had Phryxus assembled at the court of Joleos ; who
and Helle. But disgusted with her, he having conferred the chief command on
took back Ino, who borne him two sons, Jason, embarked in the ship Argo, whence
Learclius and Melicerta. Ino, wiio now this was called the expedition of the Ar-
had greatly the ascendant of her husband, gonauti. Various are the conjectures as
hated the children of Nephele, who, as to this name some derive it from Argus,
;

eldest, had a right to succeed so that she

; who proposed the plan of the vessel ;

sought all means to destroy them.

Phryx- others from its swiftness, as Argos in
us, apprized of her design by his gOTernor, Greek signifies swift. One thing not to
had a vessel privately equipped, and be omitted is, that in the construction of
taking with him part of his father's trea- this ship, an oak of the forest of Dodona
sures, embarked with his sister Helle, to was employed, which was put in the
seek a secure retreat at the court of prow, and hence undoubtedly came the
jEetes, liis kinsman, who reigned in Col- tradition, that this ship delivered oracles,
chis. The young Helle, oppressed with as may be seen in ApoUodorus, ApoUo-
the hardships of the voyage, died by the nius, Lycophron, &c. As navigation was
way ; or, as we learn from Diodorus, hav-
ing got up to the ship's deck, fell into the
sea, and was drowned. She is thought to
then but
may be
in its infancy,

naturally supposed,
the Argonauts, as

veral adventures in their voyage, the

met with
most
se- I
have derived her name to that part of the memorable of which are here recounted
Archipelago, which, from that adventure by the poet and as to the fictions, he
;

has been called the Hellespont, or the sea has intermixed with them, they shall be
of Helle. Upon his arrival in Colchis, explained in the course of the notes.
^etes gave him a kind reception, and 1.
Pegasaa puppe.] In the ship Argo,
some time after bestowed upon him his so called from Pegasus, the name of the
daughter Calciope in marriage ; but after- city and promontory of Thessaly, near to
ward coveting the treasures of his son-in- which this ship was built.
law, he pnt him to death, and seized them.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VII. 237

erat visus ; juvenes-

Phineus visus erat juvenesque Aquilone creati
;
que creati aquilone
senis ore fugarant
Virgineas volucres miseri ;
jiigaverant virgineas
volucres ore miseri se-
Multaque perpessi claro sub lasone, tandem 5 nis, perpessique multa
sub claro Jusone, tan-
Contigerant rapidas limosi Phasidos undas. dem contigerant rapi-
das undas limosi Pha-
Dumque adeunt regem, Phryxeaque vellera pos- sidos. Dumque ade-
unt rcgem, po.scuiitque
cunt;
Phrijxea vellera, lex-
Lexque datur numeris magnorum horrenda labo- que horrenda numeris
rum: magnorum laborum
datur ; Metias interea
Concipit interea validos ^etias ignes, concipit validos ignes,
et luctata diu,
Et luctata diu, postquam ratione furorem 10 quam non poteratpost-
vin-
cere furorem ratione;
Vincere non poterat Frustra, Medea, repugnas,
:
ait: Medea, frustra

Nescio quis deus obstat, ait. Mirumque, nisi hoc deus

repugnas ; nescio quis
obstat, mirumque
nisi est hoc, aut certe
est, simile
aliquid huic,
Aut aliquid certe simile huic, quod amare vocatur. quod vocatur amare.
Nam cur jussa paths nimium mihi dura videntur? ^tdZiTurmmJZnn
Sunt quoque dura nimis. Cur, quern modo de- <*« ra ? sunt quoque ni-
mis dura. Curdenique
nique vidi, 15 timeo, ne ille quern mo-
do vidi, pereat? qua
Ne pereat, timeo ? qua; tanti causa timoris ? est causa tanti timo-
ris 7 6 itifelix; excute
Excute virgineo conceptas pectore flammas. si pates, flinnmas con-
Si potes infelix. Si possem, sanior essem. ceptas virgineo pec-
tore. Si possem, essem
Sed nova vis; aliudque Cupido,
trahit invitam sanior. A'ed vis nova
trahit me invitam, cu-
Mens aliud suadet. Video meliora, proboque ; 20 pidoque suadet aliud,
Deteriora sequor. Quid in hospite, regia virgo, mens aliud video meli-
ora proboque, sequor
Ureris? et thalamos alieni concipis orbis? deteriora. Quid virgo
regia ureris inhospite;
et concipis thalamos alieni orbis?
TRANSLATION,
young sons of Boreas had driven the virgin- faced harpies from the table
of the distressed old monarch, and after many adventures under the re-
nowned Jason, had reached the rapid waves of slimy Phasis.
Mean time, while they repair to the king, and demand the golden
fleece, and conditions are offered dreadful for the number of mighty la-
bours to be overcome ; the daughter of -ffietes conceives a violent flame ;

and after struggling long, when by reason she cannot conquer her frenzy :

" In vain
(says she), Medea, do you resist I know not what powerful god
;

"
opposes, and it is a wonder but this, or something sure extremely like it,
" is what For why else do the commands of my father
they call love.
"
appear to me too hard ? yea, and indeed they are too hard. Why
" these
my fears, lest he whom I saw so lately should perish ? What
" can be the cause of this
mighty fear ? Banish, unhappy nymph, if thou
"
canst, the flames that harbour in thy virgin breast. If indeed I could,
" I should act the wiser part. But a power, till now uufelt, urges me
" in spite of myself. Passion persuades one thing, and reason another.
" I see and approve the right, yet knowingly pursue the Avrong.
"
Why,
royal maid, do you burn for a stranger ? covet a husband from a
Why
NOTES.
3. Phineus visus erat.l The first re- river of Colchis that flows into the Euxine
markable incident in tliis expedition was sea.
the rescuing Phineus from the persecu- 7. Phryxeaque vellera poscmit.] The
tion of the harpies. golden fleece, so called from Phryxus,
6. Limosi Phasidos.] That is, they ar- who, as, we have seen, carried it to
rived at Colchis ; for tlic Phasis is a Chochos.
238 P. OVIDll NASONIS

ha-c tend Hebc Quoque

potest quo terra r quod ames,7 dare. Vi-
potcst,^1
1 1
times.
qiie (Ifirc quod
£st in iliis an vat, an llle
illc vi-

Ihat" ucetqu'e preca- Occidat, in diis est. Vivat tamen idque precari ;

0«trf efdmjlsmclm-
^^ ^^^'^ amore licet. Quid enim commisit lason ?
misU; quam tiisi cru- Quam nisi crudclem non tangat lasonis setas,
Uclem, (ctas, ct genii.':, _ ^-iO ^ ^ ^ ,

et virtus, jasonisnon Jbt geuus, ct virtus quam non, ut csetera desuit,

.'

iTrtleliTtlZnfotTs't Forma movcre potest ? cert^ mea pectora movit.

forma ejus movere / ^^^ ' ^jg^ opeHi tulcro, tauroruHi afflabitur ore
certc movet mea pec- „ r .- i.
tora. At
Coiicurretquc su3e segeti, tellure creatis
nisi tuicro 30
TaZormn^ concurrlt- Hostibus: aut avido dabitur fera prseda draconi.
Vl^cZtilteliuJ^^t Hoc ego
si
patiar, turn me de tigride natam,
dabitur fera prirda Tum ferruHi et
avido draconi.
patiar hoc, turn fate-
At ego
scopulos gestare in corde fatebor.
^~
Cur nou oculosque viciendo
et specto
'^

pereuntcm
iOi '.
'ii
gHd^'tuf ffTehor me Couscelero? cur non tauros exhortor in ilium, 35

^^nios\I"cVrde
*^
ci^r Tcrrigenasquc feras, insopitumque
draconem ?
non et specto ilium Di meliora velint.
Quanquam"
non ista precanda,
vereuntem^ conscele- r^ r i -i t->
^ • •
i

ro-que ocuios videudof bed tacienda mini. Jrrodamne ego regna parentis,
cur non exhortor tau-
ros, terrigenasque fe- Atque ope
nescio quis servabitur advena nostra,
me sospes, sine me det lintea ventis, 40
ros, insopitumque dra-
conem in Ut,
ilium?
dii per
velint meliora : quaii- Virque ; pcenai Medea relinquar?
sit alterius

Vu'lIdal^VeTfmimda Si facere hoc, aliamve potest praeponere nobis.

miht. Egone prodam, Occidat
regna parentis, atque ingratus.
_ .
Sed non is vultus in illo.
.

nescio quis advena ser- ]Nfon ca nobilitas auimo cst, ea gratia formee,
vabitur nostra, ope, ut tt, ,• r i •,• i i-
•
j_

sospes per me, det lin- Ut timeam iraudem, meritique oblivia nostri 46 .

tea ventis sine me, sit-

que vir alterius ; egoquc Medea relinquar pcente? si potest facere hoc, prtcponerequc uliam no-
bis, ingratus occidat. Sed is vultus non est in illo, ea nobilitas non est in animo, nun ea est
gratia formiB ejus,ut timeam fraudem obliviaque nostri meriti.

TRANSLATION.
remote part of the world ? Thy native land can furnish objects worthy
of thy love. Whether he lives or dies is in the disposal of the gods.
Yet may he live and thus far 1 am allowed to wish, even without the
;

impulse of love. For what crime has Jason committed ? Or what breast
((
so savage, as not to be touched with his youth, valour, and noble race ?
Yea, and were these wanting, whom might not his beauty captivate ?
Sure he has captivated my heart. But without my aid he must be scorched
by the glowing breath of the bulls and encounter with hosts of earth-born
((
;

foes, a harvest raised from his own seed or fall a savage prey to the ;

devouring dragon. If indeed I can suffer this, sure a tigress must have
given me birth, and my heart within me is of rock and iron. Why
do
I not behold him to expire and profane my eyes with the bloody
;

scene why do I not animate the bidls against him, and the fierce sons
!

of earth, and the ever-wakeful dragon. The gods award better things.
<(
But in vain do I confide in empty prayers action and art are here ;

required.Shall I then betray my father's kingdom, and combine to

save a wandering -tranger, who, victorious by my aid, may perhaps set
II.
sail without me, and become the husband of another; abandoning
Medea to punishment ? If he is capable of this, or can prefer another
love to mine, let the ungrateful man perish. But such are his looks,
such his nobleness of soid, and graceful inim, that I fear no treacher}' ;

ii
nor dread his forgetting ol" my merit. He shall beside first plight his
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VII. 239

Et dabit ante fidem cogamque in fcedera testes :

g'J^'^l^^ ^^^^el^l
Esse Deos. Quid tuta times? accinsfere et omnem : tes in fcedera ejus, sic
r" , , rn-i J u-4. T"
•
1 tuta, quid times? ac-
Pelle moram. libi se semper debebit iason, cmgere.ctpeiie omnem
---
Te face solenni junget sibi perque Pelasgas ; .S- ST.
Servatrix
KJ^.,l n.,i urbes matrum celebrabere turba 50 ^e tibi soiemni /ace.-
ceiebrabereqiie scrva-
Ersro effo germanam.iratremque, patremque, JJeos- trix per Peiasgas ur-

que Ergo ego ablata ventis

Et natale solum ventis ablata relinquam ? /rlE;'".r™e^

Nempe
_,Arpater
Prater adhuc mians
/>,,
nempe
seevus, mea
mecum : stant
est barbara tellus,
i
vota sororis.
•
que,dcosqite,etnataie
solum? nempe pater
est savus: nempe mea

Maximus intra me Deus est. Non magna relin-

\TaIime''cst"Z}{ns':
vota sororis stant me-
nil am
qucllii
•

, • • cum. Deus maximus

1 A 1
titulum servatse pubis Achivae, est intra me.- non re-
Mairna
V sequar:
'
-T .
T 1 -1 •
. linquam magna, sc-
Notitiamque loci meiioris, et oppida, quorum quar magna tuuium .•

Hie quoque fama viget, cultusque, artesque vi-

Ztui^wZ^i^^s
rorum *
^'"^^' ^^ opptda quorum
.J , .
fama viget quoque hie,

Quemq; ego cum rebus, quas totus possidet orbis, cuitusque, artesque
^sonidem mutasse velim: quo conjuge felix 60 lw"quem^ego'"ve*ihn
Et Dis cara ferar, et vertice sidera tangam. ^r^r/. Jn/ZJoS
Quid, quod nescio qui mediis concurrere in undis det.- quo coyijugc ferar
-P^.
l ' ... J^
., ^-^-i y J. Jelix, et cara (lis, et
Dicuutur montes, ratibusque inimica L-narybais tangam. sidera vertice.
Nunc sorbere fretum; nunc reddere; cinctaque, fJo^/Jaicuufur"SH-
SfPvis cnrrcrc mediis imdis,
ftorvis
^
f ^ ri an Charibdisque inimica
Scvlla rapax canibus Siculo latrare profundo
*
: do ratibus, mine sorbere
•/ i-
?iunc reddere fretujii;
Scyllaque rapax cincta savis canibus latrare siculo profundo?
TRANSLATION.
"
faith, and gods to witness our agreement. What, there-
I will call the
" canst thou fear ? Haste, then, and banish all
thou
fore, safe as art,
" Jason shall owe his whole remaining life to thee, and unite
delays.
" thee to him by the solemn nuptial torch. The crowd of mothers too
" shall celebrate thee through all the Grecian cities, as the preserver of
" their youth. Shall I then, wafted hence by the winds, abandon my
"
"
sister, my brother, my father, my gods, and native soil } not ? Why
"
My father is cruel, my country barbarous, my brother is but a child,
and sister concurs Avith my wishes.
my Love, the most powerful of
" the gods, urges me by an inward call. Nor are the things I relinquish
" the glory of preserving the Grecian youth,
great, but those I piu-sue :

" the knowledge of a better country, and towns, whose fame even here is
"
great, where reign politeness and the fine arts Jason too, whom
alone :

" I beyond all that the whole world can yield with whom for my
prize ;

" husband I shall be head

happy, and dear to the gods, and with my
" touch the stars. What if I am that mountains rush amid
told, together
" the waves, and that Charibdis, so fatal to ships, now draws in the roaring
"
sea, anon with violence throws it up or that devouring Scylla, begirt ;

"
with ravenous sea-dogs, howls in the Sicilian deep ? Yet holding Avhat
" I love, and the long seas:
leaning on Jason's breast, 1 shall safely pass
NOTES.
62. Nvscio qui mediis concurrere in tin- the Cyair.r, two clusters of rocks at lliu

dis, dicun/ur monies.] This U meant of mouth of tlie Euxiue.

240 P. OVIDII NASONIS

m Nempe tcnens quod

nempe teiiens quoii
r ^ amo,' gremioqT. ': in J'asonis
O
amo, htrrouque
gretnio Jasonis ferar IiaerenS,

yfeiT'fpsum^Verebor
Per frcta longa feral". Nihil ilium amplexa verebor:
di'^'confuge iolof^vu- ^^^^ metuam, metuam de conjuge solo.
^^^f ^^
casne conjugium. Me- Coniugiumne vocas, SDCciosaque nomina culpae
dea, imponisqne spc- T-i\/ri
cioaa nomina tu<e cut- Impouis, Medea, tusB
h
quui aspice quantum
rir\
70
i.
.'
•
i

?«,»SrSrr"; Aggrediare nefas: et, dum licet, effuge crimen.

et ejffvge crimen dum
Dixit et ante oculos rectum, pietasque, pudorque
:

tum',pietasque,yudor- Constiterant ; et victa dabat jam terga Cupido.

VctiTsrli^V'upfdo''vic- Ibat ad autiquas

Hecates Perseidos aras,
%it"ad tntt^valZfu's Q^as uemus umbrosum, secretaq; silva tegebant. 75
Hecates Perseidos, Et jam fortis erat, pulsusque resederat ardor.
qiias umbrosum nemus, r^ , yr} -j ^- n
secretaque silva tege- Cum .

videt ifciSonideii ; cxtmctaque

j.
namma •,
revixit.

forns. <^JqZ %a- Erubuere gense ; totoque recanduit ore.

sus residerat, cum I'i- Ut solet a veutis aliuicnta assumere, quaeque
dit jEsoniden flam-
:

tnaque extincta revix-

h i-i ••iir-iiA
Parva sub luducta latuit scmtiila laviila,
-x
•
cir\
oO
it. Gencc erubuere.re-
candaitque toto ore.
/-»
Crescerc, et
.

m
•
,

vcteres agitata resurgere vires

'
i. i.
:

Sic jam lentus amor, jam quem languere putares,

qL U^suh'Sk
sold assu- Ut vidit iuveneiii, sDCcie prsBseiitis inarsit.
inriuctu,
mere ulinienta
tis; crescereque;
a veil-
et
-r-,, T, p-ti-i
tit casu, soiito tormosior ibsone natus

liti^'lvt^rZTsfcamir IHa luce fuit. Posses iguoscere amanti.

Jam lentiii, quem putares jam, languere, ut vidit juvenem, inarsit specie prcesentis. Et casu, na-
tus JEsojic JuitJ'ormosior soiito illd luce posses ignoscere Medea: amanti.
:

TRANSLATION.
"
nought will embracing him or if I fear, it will be for my hus-
I fear, ;

" band alone. Do you call it a marriage then, Medea, and shelter under
" venerable names your crime ? Bethink yourself rather of your mighty
" in your mind, and avoid while it is yet in your
iniquity you harbour
"
power, the horrid guilt."
She said and now a sense of virtue, and the duty she owed her father,
:

and shame presented themselves to her and Cupid vanquished was about ;

to fly. Straight she repairs to the venerable altars

of Perseian Hecate,
sheltered in a shady grove and the remote recesses of a wood. And now
she was resolved, and the ardour of her passion, by being checked, had
considerably abated when she sees the son of .^son, and the extinguished
;

flame was kindled anew her cheeks were covered with blushes, and her
;

whole face was in a glow. As a spark is wont to derive nourishment

from the winds, and what was but small, while hid under a heap of ashes,
yet if blown and roused, grows, and rises to its former strength: so
her love
now languid, which you would have imagined now cold and declining, on
the son
seeing the youth, was rekindled by his presence. By chance, too,
of jEsou appeared that day more lovely than usual. His charms might even
plead for her passion. She gazes, and holds her eyes continually fixed
NOTES.
74. Hecates Perseidos.'] MyUiologists with the moon and Proserpine ;
hence too
are divided in their sentiments about this the epithets of Triceps and Trifoimis,
Hecate. Ovid seems to follow the tra- given her so often by the poets, because
dition, which makes her the daughter of the moon sometimes shines full, some-
Perses; who, according to Diodorus, was times disappears quite, and often shews
the son of Phoebus, and brother to i5ietes. but part other face.
She is generally taken to be the same
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VII. 241

Speclat ; et in vultu, veluti nunc denique viso, Spectat ; ct

minafixa in vuUu, re-
tenet lu-

Lumina fixa tenet nee se mortalia demens

: lut nunc denique viso:
nee demens put at se
Ora videre putat ; nee se deelinat ab illo. >
videre ora mortalia ;
Ut vero ecepitque loqui, dextramque prehendit ; iiec declinat se ab illo.
Vt vera hospes coepit
Hospes et auxilium submissa voce rogavit, 90 luqiti, prehetiditque
dextram, et rogavit
Promisitque torum lacrymis ait ilia profusis,
; auxilium submissA vo-
Quid faciam video nee me ignorantia veri
:
ce, promisitque torum;
ilia profusis
lacrymis
Deeipiet, sed amor. Servabere munere nostro :
ait : Video
quid faciam:
nee ignoranlia veri de-
Servatus promissa dato. Per sacra triformis cipiet me, sed amor.
Servabere ?iostro mu-
llleDese, lucoque foret quod numen in illo, 95 nere; tn servatus data
promissa. llle jurat
Perque patrem soeeri cernentem cuncta futuri, per sacra trijormis
Eventusque sues, per tanta pericula jurat. detc,
foret
nvmenqtie quod
ill illo luco,
per-
Creditus, accepit cantatas protin-us herbas, qve patremfaturi so-
cericernentem cuncta,
Edidicitque usum ; Isetusque
in tecta recessit.
per eventus sues, per-
Postera depulerat stellas Aurora micantes que tanta pericula.
100 llle :
creditus, protinus
Conveniunt populi sacrum Mavortis in arvum ; accepit cantatas her-
bas, edidicitque iisiim ;
Consistuntque jugis. Medio Rex ipse resedit latusqtte recessit iit
tecta. Postera aurora,
Agmine purpureus, sceptroque insignis eburno. depulerat micantes
Ecce adamanteis Vulcanum naribus efflant steiias-. popuu conve-
niunt in arvum sacmtn
Mavortis, consist U7it que jugis. Ipse rex purpureus, insignisqiie sceptro ebur7io, resedit medio
agmitte. Ecce esrivedes tauri efflant Vulcanum adamanteis naribus ;
TRANSLATION,
on him, as if she had now
first seen him nor, (blinded as she was by
:

her passion) can be persuaded that she regards a merely mortal face, nor
turns away from beholding him. But when the stranger began to speak,
and seized her right hand, and with submissive voice begged her aid, and
" I see what I
promised her his bed she replies with a flood of tears
;
:

" to do nor will of the but love blind me. You

ought ;
ignorance truth,
" shall be
preserved by my gifts, but remember, when preserved, your
"
engagements." He swears by the sacred rites of the threefold god-
dess, and the deity Avhich was revered in that grove by Phcebus, the ;

father of his future who " sees all

father-in-law, his own things ;" by
adventures, and the great dangers to which he was exposed. He is be-
lieved, and received immediately some enchanted herbs, and learnt their
use and retired joyful to his lodgings.
;

Next day, soon as Aurora had dispersed the sparkling stars, the people
meet together in the sacred field of Mars, and range themselves along the
hills. The king himself in a robe of purple, and distinguished by an
ivory sceptre, takes his seat in the midst of the assembly. When, lo, the
NOTES.
96. Patrem soeeri cernentem cuncta fu- armed men were to spring up, who must
turi.'\yEctes, the father of Medea, whom be all exterminated; and lastly, to slay
he now considers as his future father-in- (lie wakeful monster that guarded the
law, was the son of Phoebus, the god who treasure. All this Jason, aided by Me-
sees and makes all things visible toothers. dea, performs, and carries off the prize.
104. Ecce adamanteis Vulcanum, «Scc.} This, in fact, may be no more, than that
We come now to the miraculous part of Medea, whom Jason had promised to mar-
the story. Jason has conditions pro- ry, and carry along with
him to Greece,
pounded to him ; first, to put under the at the solicitation of Calciope her sister,
yoke two bulls a present from Vnlcan ; Phryxus' widow, who saw her children a
whose feet and horns were of brass, and prey to a cruel tyrant, assisted her lover
that vomited clouds of fire. With these to rob her father's treasures, either by
he was to plough giving him a false key, or in some other
up a field sacred to
Mars, that had never been cultivated ;
manner, and set sail with him.
sow in it the teeth of a dragon, whence
R
242 P. OVIDII NASONIS

herbieque tacta vapo- ^npedes taun tactaeque vaponbus hevbae

;
105
ribiisardent. Utque . ^'^ . tt. i -^ i
•
•„;
punicaminisoietitre- Ardent. Utque solent pleni resonare camini,
sonare, aut. ubi iilices
soluti terrena fornuce Aut ubi terrena. silices fornace soluti
concipiunt igiiem as-
Concipiunt ignem liquidarum aspergine aquarum
:
pergine liquidarum
aquarum : sic Pectora sic intus clausas volventia flammas,
pecto-
ra volventia flammas
clausas intus, ustaque Gutturaque usta sonant. Taraen illis iEsone natus
guttura sonant. Tamen Obvius it. Vertere truces renientis ad ora 1 1 1
natus y^sonc it obvius
illis. Taiii'i truces ver-
Terribiles vultus, prsefixaque cornua ferro ;
tere terribiles vultus,
cortuiaqtiepr/r/ixafer-
ro ad ora venientis Ja-
Pulvereumque solum pede pulsavere bisulco ;
sonis, pulsavereque Fumificisque locum mugitibus implevere.
pulvereum solum nee ignes 115
Diriguere metu Minyae. Subit ille;
bi-
sulco pede, implevere-
quc locum fumificis Sentit anhelatos tantum medicamina possunt.
:

mugitibus. Minyte di-

riguere metu : ille su-
biit: nee sentit anhe-
Pendulaque audaci mulcet palearia dextra :

aratri
latos ignes, medicamina Suppositosque jugo pondus grave cogit
possunt tantum. Mul
Ducere, ea insuetum ferro proscindere campum.
7rk!aulaci dextrT,co- Miiantur Colchi Minyse clamoribus implent, 120;

fiV'Leere Vl-ZepoZ Adjiciuutque auimos. Gaka tum sumit ahena

in agros.
iere"7muiLCcam. Vipeveos dentes ; et aratos spargit
pnm ferro. Colchi mi- Semiua moUit liumus valido prsetincta veneno :
rantur ; Min;/te im-
j)lent clamoribus, ad- Et crescunt, fiuntque sati nova corpora
dentes.
jiciutitqtie animos.Tum in alvo, 125
sumit dentes Utque hominis speciem materna sumit
vipereos
galea, ahend; et spar-
git eos in aratos agros.
Perque suos intus numeros componitur infans,
Humus mollit semina Nee nisi maturus communes exit in auras :

pratincta valido vene-

no, et sati dentes cres- Sic ubi visceribus gravidse telluris imago
cunt, fiuntque nova Effecta est hominis foe to
corpora. Ulqueinfans consurgit in arvo :
sumit speciem hominis in materna alvo,' componiturque int\is per suos numeros, nee exit in com
munes auras nisi maturus : sic ubi imago hominis est effecta visceribus gravidte telluris, con-
surgit in arvofceto;
TRANSLATION.
brazen-footed bulls advance, breathing fire from their adamantine nos-
trils and the s^rass touched by the issuing vapours, withers and dies.
;
As
flints dissolved
forges filled vfith fire send forth a rumbling noise, or as
in a furnace, by the sprinkling of water, glow with redoubled fury so ;

their breasts rolling out the enclosed flames, and their scorched throats
resound. Yet the son of ^son holdhj advances to the encounter. They,
as he approaches, sternly turn upon him with threatening looks, and aim
their horns pointed with steel ; with cloven hoofs they spurn the dusty
ground, and lowing fill the air with clouds of smoke The Ajgonauts stand
congealed with fear he comes up, nor feels the flames breathed upon
: him ;

so great is the force of enchantments. With a daring right-hand he

strokes their hanging dewlaps, and subjects them to the yoke and compels ;

them to draw the ponderous load of the plough, and tear up the unaccus-
tomed plain with the share. The Colchians wonder his companions fill ;

the air with shouts, and him with fresh courage. He then takes
inspire
the dragon's teeth in a brazen helmet, and strews them over the ploughed-
up field. The ground, before impregnated with a strong poison, softens
the seed and the teeth, that had been sown, grow, and form themselves
;

into new bodies. And as an infant assumes the human form in its mo-
ther's womb, and is there nor till arrived at
completed in all its parts,
maturity issues into the common air; in like manner when the figure
• of
man is ripened in the bowels of the pregnant earth, it lises in the fertile
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VIL 243

Quodque magis mirum, simiil edita concutit arma. quodque est magis mi-
nim, concutit arma si-
Quos ubi viderunt prseacutae cuspidis hastas 131 mul edita. Quos ubi
Pelasgi viderunt pa-
111
caput Haemonii juvenis torquere parantes ; rantes torquere has-
Demisere metu vultumque, animumque Pelasgi. tasprctacuta cuspidis,
in caput Hamouii ju-
Ipsa quoque extimuit, quee tutum fecerat ilium : venis, demisere vul-
tumque, animu7nque
Utque peti vidit juvenem tot ab hostibus unura, metu. Ipsa quoque qu<e
fecerat ilium tutuin,
Palluit et subito sine sedit. 136
;
sanguine frigida extimuit, ufque vidit
JVeve parum valeant a se data carmen unum juvenem peti ab
gramina, tot
lios/ibus,palluit,et
Auxiliare canit secretasque advocat artes.
; subitoseditfrigida sine
sanguine. Keve gra-
llle, graven! medios silicem jaculatus in hostes, mina data a se valiant
A se depnlsum Martem convertit in
ipsos. 140 parum, canit auxiliare
carmen, advocatqui se-
Terrigenae pereunt per mutua vulnera fratres;
cretas artes. llle ja.
culatus gravem silieem
Civilique cadunt acie. Gratantur Achivi in medios hostes, con-
:

vertit in ipsos Mar fern

Victoremque tenent; avidisque aniplexibus hserent. depulsum d se. Tcrri-
Tu quoque victorem complecti, barbara, velles ; genec fratres pereunt
per mutua vulnera,
Obstitit incepto pudor at complexa fuisses
: 145 caduntque civili acie.
:

Achivi, gratantur, te-

Sed ne faceres, tenuit reverentia famae.
te, 7i.entque victorem, h<p-

Quod licet, afFectu tacito Isetaris agisque rentquc avidis ample.r-

:
ibtis. Tu quoque, bar-
Carminibus grates, et Dis auctoribus horum. bara, velles complecti
victorem ; pudor obsti-
Pervigilem superest herbis sopire draconem, tit incepto; at
fuisses,
complexa: seil reve-
Qui crista linguisque tribus prsesignis, et uncis 150 rentia famcr tenuit te
Dentibus horrendus, custos erat arietis aurei. ne faceres. Quod licet ;
ItKtaris tacito affectu:
Hunc postquam sparsit Lethaei gramine succi ; agisque grates carmi-
nibus, disquc auctori-
Verbaque ter dixit placidos facientia somnos, bus hor%i.m. Superest
soptrc herl)is pervigi-
lemdracon€m,quipr(Fsignis crista, linguuque tribus, ct hoi'rcndus uncis dentibtis, crat custos
aurei arietis. Postquam sparsit hunc gramine Lethai succi, dixitque ter verba facientia pla-
cidos somnos,
TRANSLATION,
plain and what is yet more wonderful, brandishes its arms produced fit
;

the same time whom when the Pelasgians saw, preparing to hurl their
:

sharp-pointed spears at the head of the Heemonian youth, they stood with
downcast eyes, and hearts sunk through fear. She too, to whom he owed
his safety, trembled and when she saw him singly attacked by such a
;

host of foes, suddenly the blood forsook her cheeks, and a paleness spreads
over all her looks. And lest the enchanted herbs she had given him should
not avail, she sings the never-failing auxiliary song, and calls in her re-
serve of secret arts. He, throAving a huge stone amid his foes, turns their
hostile rage thus averted
upon themselves. The earth-born brothers pe-
rish by mutual wounds, and fall in civil fight. The Greeks congratulate
him, caress the conqueror, and hold him fast locked in their embraces.
You too, barbarian maid, would have embraced him modesty opposed ;

the design, yet fain you would have embraced him but the awe of re- :

putation restrained you. In secret, however, what no one can oppose,

you rejoice, and give thanks to your charms, and the gods who favour and
promote them.
It now
only remains to lull asleep by potent herbs the wakeful dragoU;
who distinguished by his shining crest, and three-forked tongue, and with
hooked teeth tremendous, guarded the Golden Fleece. Yet after sprink-
ling him with the juice of Lethpean herbs, and thrice muttering over him
words of powerful virtue, occasion sleep, that would have even calmed the
troubled sea, and stopped the course of rapid rivers sleep insensibly ;

R 2
244 P. OVIDIl NASONIS

qu(B sutant tvrbatum

aiia' sistant cuii-
mare, qua'
cita flumina, sommis
Q^J3g
J^
Somnus
jjjj^j.g
..turbatuiii,'1,
in ignotos oculos subrepit: et auro
,..
quee concita flumina sistent;
^
155
-, ,.

svbriyit in ociilos ig-

hcros jjixotiiiis
itotos,ct Ileros iEsonius potitur :
spolioque superbus,
potitur aiiro : siipir- Muneris auctorem secura spolia altera portans,
biisque spolio, pnrtuns
etiam scviim auctiirnii Victor lolciacos tetigit cum conjuge portus.
muneris, altera sjiidia,
victor tetiiit pnrtu.t II. Hujmoniffi matres pro gnatis dona receptis,
lolciacos cum cuiijuge.
II. H(cmonia matrc.i. Grandffivique ferunt patres congestaque flamma ;

grand<cviq„e patres,
ferunt dona pro gnatis
Thura liquefiuut,
1 Inductaque comibus aurum 161
i- o i 7r>
i -i
rec(yHs,tiiiiraquecon- Victima vota cadit. Scd abest gratantibus /hson,
gesta Uquescunt flam
mH, volaque tirtima in- Jam propior leto, fessusque senilibus
annis.
liticfa qnod ad auritm
cortiibiis, cadit : icd
Cum sic iEsonides : O cui debere salutem
JEsonjam propior Icto,
fessiisque senilibiif an-
quanquam mihi cuncta dedisti,
Confiteor, conjux,
Excessitque fidem meritorum summa tuorum ; 166
7tis, abest gratfi?ifibiis.
Cum jUsonidcs .sic : <)
conJiix,cui coiijiteor me Si
tamen hoc possunt quid enim non carmina pos- ;
debere salutem quun-
dcdisti ciincta
;
sunt?
qiiam
milii, siimmaqtie ttio-
rum meritorem exres-
Deme meis annis; et demptos adde parenti.
sitfidem ; tu7ncn si ciir- Nee Mota est pietate rogantis
tenuit lacrymas. :

mina possunt hoc q iiid

Dissimilemque animum subiit iElsta relictus. 170
:

enim carmina /ton pos-

sunt ? dcme meis annis,
et adde annos dewptos
Non tamen afFectus tales confessa. Quod, inquit,
parenti. Nee tetivit Excidit ore pio, conjux, scelus? ergo ego cuiquam
lacrymas: Medea est
mot a pietaterogantis ; Posse tuae videar spatium transcribere vitae ?
f S"'dtS.*'^ Nee sinat hoc Hecate ; nee tu petis aequa ; sed isto,
Tamen non confessa Quod
^ pctis.experiar maius darc munus, Jason, 175
tales affect us, i.' i J
mquit ,•

O quod scelus excidit pio ore ? an ego ergo videar posse transcribere spatiam tuee vita
C07IJUX, cui-
q%iam? Hecate non sinat hoc : ncc tu petis aqua : sed Jason, experiar dare majus tnuiius isto
quod petis.
TRANSLATION,
steals upon those eyes, that were strangers to it before, and the ^sonian
hero possesses the golden prize. Proud of the mighty spoil, and carrying
with him the author of the present, a no less glorious spoil, he reached
Aictorious with his wife the port of Jolcos.
II. The Hsemouian matrons and
aged sires carry gifts to the temples
for their son's safe return piles of frankincense dissolve upon the altai's,
;

and the devoted victim, with gilded horns, falls in sacrifice. J2son alone
isabsent on this occasion of joy, now on the verge of fate, and bending
under a weight of years. T^'hen thus the son of ^son addressed Medea.
" O have
spouse, to Avhora I owe my life and safety, although already you
"
granted every request, and the sum of your favours exceed belief; yet
" if take from
spells can do this, and what is it that spells cannot do ?
" the number of
my years, and add those you take to my father :" Nor
coidd he check the risi7ig teai-s. She was touched with the piety of the
request, and calling to mind her fatlier .^etes, whom she had abandoned,
ashamed of her own different spirit, yet striving to smother her remorse :

" What an from your

request, husband, (says she J, has dropped
unjust
" other
pious mouth Can you expect my consent to transfer to any
! any
"
part of your life? May Hecate never allow of this, nor is it a fair de-
"
mand I will yet endeavour, Jason, to grant you even more than you
:

"
ask.
My art shall essay to prolong your father's life, without retrench-
NOTES.
59. H(cmoni(t matres.^ The next fiible tliat
1 comes in the course of the narration, is

the 1 pstorution of /L'son to

youth.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VII. 245

Arte mea soceri lono;um tentabimus aivum, Tentabimus revocare

__ .
® iiT i\ T»* . •
r> longnm ffvum soceri
JNon annis revocare tuis. IViocio Uiva tniormis arte mc'i, nontuu an-

Adjuvet : et praesens ingentibus annuat ausis. Va aJijlmVetfrasenl

Tres aberant noctes, ut cornua tota coirent, TiT%-efZ^cte''ab^^^
orbem. Postquara plenissima fulsit, rant ut tota comuaiw-
Efficerentque
.
vjA^terras
Ac solida spectavit imagine Luna ;
10 i-i--T
ncE coirent, eJiccrc?U-
181 que orbem postquam
1

,•

Egreditur tectis vestes induta recinctas, ^''^ctl^lri^ras

Nuda pedem,
r >
niidos humeris infusa capillos
i f°ff'w /""'f "^'' ^•''^'^
eg,redUur tectis, mdu-
;

_, .- . .

tertque vagos medifE per muta silentia noctis ta vestes ncinctas,

T •
, , c-{ TT-
ntida quonA pedem, in-
iiicomitata gradus. Homines, volucresque, lerasque fma nudos cafMos im-
1

Solverat alta quies nullo cum murmure sepes, 186 "^';f.«g"/S'«"*p" r

:

Immotseque silent frondes silet humidus aer. "*"'? siiauia mediae :

iioctis. Alta quies sol-
(-,.-, \ Ai . •

bidera sola micant. Ad quee sua brachia tendens

1 -I 1
verat homines, voiu-
rp •, n , cresque, ferasqiie sc-
, J.-
• •
:

ler se convertit ter sumptis tlumine crinem pes,frondesqtie immn-

;

Jrroravit aquis ; ternis ululatibus era 190 iZJlnurl ;''aTr Zmt

Solvit: et, in dura submisso poplite dus sHet. siderasoia
-»T . , -.
11 terra,'.
. . micant: ad qua ten-
i\ ox, ait, arcanis
iidissima, qugeque ciiurnis dens sua bracMa, con-
Aurea cum Luna succeditis ignibus astra, VIralir,^rUiemZqui's
^ Hecate, quee coeptis conscia nostris
-sumptis Aejinminesni-
Tuque
n ,•
triceps .
J- '^ ft ora terms ululati-
Adiutnxque venis, cantusque, artesque magarum, bus: et popntc sub.
r\ mil 11,'1-i-T- misso in dura terri},
iellus, pollentibus instruis ner- ait,ono.i,jidissimaar.
l^uaeque magas,
canis
\\\a .
IQ^
lofJ lucis, astraqve
5 aiircu, qua cam liina
succeditis diurnis ignibus, tuque triceps Hecate, qua venis conscia adjiitri.ique nostris capiii ;

\osque o cantus, artesque magariim, tellusque, qua instruis magas pallentibus herbis ;
TRANSLATION.
"
ing the number of your years. If the threefold goddess do but concur,
" and Three nights were wanting
propitious aid the mighty design."
that the horns of the moon might meet, and form a perfect orb. When
she shone full, and with a complete disc surveyed the earth, Medea leaves
the palace her garments flowing loose, her foot bare, and her hair float-
;

ing careless on her shoulders thus solitary and vmattended, she directs :

her wandering steps through the dreary silence of midnight. Men, beasts
and birds lay now dissolved in soft repose no murmurs rustle through ;

the hedges, no whispering winds shake the trees, the very leaves are
hush, and through all the air dread silence reigns. The stars alone
twinkle to these she rears her arms, and thrice turning round, thrice
:

sprinkling her Avith water from the running brook, opened her mouth in
three yells then with her knee bended on the hard ground " O
; night, :

"
(says she) faithful confidant of these my secrets, and ye golden stars
" that with the
moon succeed to the fires of the day and thou too three- ;

" fold
Hecate, the friend and abettor of my design ye charms, and ;

"
magic arts, and earth, to wliom the sorceress owes her magazine of
"
potent herbs air, Avinds, mountains, rivers, lakes, and all the gods of
;

NOTES,
183. Nudnpedem.] It is
worthy of re- wlien resolved on death slie ajjpnals to (lie
mark, that lliere is a peculiar enipliasis in gods, stand by the altars witii one foot
iiuda pedem,
nienlators
which therefore some com-
woidd ill cliange for pedes, it
being a part of these magical ri ics to ap-
bare.

^"'"" ""''^
,,•,.
i'"^'"" """^^'•'' '"
'"^^Z''"-
pear with only one foot bare. ^ irs^il, in
thefourtli book of
ihciEneid, makes Dido, Wliich manifestly alludes to this custom.
!246 P. OVIDII NASONIS

aurffqvr, ct leiiti.mon- ^ amnesque,

ti'sqra, timiiaqur, la- ^ ' et vc'iiti,' montesque,
AurtEQue,
-,^^1
' lacusque,
,
' ' "•
.

ciis'inc diiqiieDiQiie oiimes neiTiorum, Dique omnes noctis acleste:

omnes

ITZ'ctiladeVtaqno- Quoruiii ope, cuni volui, ripis mirantibus

amnes
:n:ne:^^rirs::k in fontes rediere suos ; concussaque sisto,
200
fontes ripis miranti- Stantia coiicutio caiitu frctai nubUa pello ;
bus; cantuqui: siito __ ., , , . , -i
•

concussa fiet.i concu-

Nubilaque iiiduco ventos abigoque, vocoque
: :

verbis et carmine fauces

'iX^JuaXdl^'i Vipereas rumpo ^
:

nubiia abigoque voco- Vivaoue saxa, siiii convulsaquc robora terra,

:

his ct carmine vipereas Et silvas moveo jubeoque tremiscere montes z\Jo; ;

^fal'af rZZ'qVe con- Et miigire solum, manesque

exire sepulchris.
Te Temesaea labores
V:^tj::Lo^;:o^es quoque, Luna, traho, quamvis
tremiscere, et solum j^y^ t^QS minuaut. Currus quoque carmine nostro
mugire, manesque ex- .^ ,, ,, * . , ,
•

ire sepulchris. Traho Pallet avi pallet nostris Aurora venems.

;

VisTrrTemeVaZu Vos milii taurorum flammas hebet^stis ; et unca

Haud oneris collum pressistis aratro. 211
ZtTVo^'^M^^aUeTno! patieus
tro carmine; Aurora Vos serpentigeuis
° in sc fera bella dedistis ;
pallet nostris vewnis. /^ „'^„i:„ ^<. «,,•„. -.w^
i
•

Custodcmque rudem somm sopistis et aurum

, i
ros hebetastis mihi :

214
•^s:^u!Vm:::::i^Z Vindice decepta Graias
misistis in urbes,
patiens oneris nnco Jifunc oDus cst succis : per quos rcnovata senectus
aratro: vos dedistis in \^• l i
serpeniigenis fera bei- In florem redeat, prmiosquc recoUigat annos.
•

ilstodemUtdemlimni: Et dabitis ueque enim micuerunt sidera frustra;

:

^Lt'atr««fi&?Ji ^ec frustra volucrum tractus cervice draconum

vrbes. A'unc opus succis; per quos senectus renovata redeat in Jlorem,recolligatque primos
est
0711109. Et dabitis : neqtte enim sidera micuerunt frustra nee currus tractus eervice volucruin
:

draconum adest frzistra :

TRANSLATION.
" the groves, and all the gods of night, attend here. By your aid when
" 1 please, I roll back rivers to their springs, while the banks stand won-
"
"
dering. By your aid my incantations avail, to rouse the still, or calm
the troubled sea to gather or disperse the clouds to raise or allay
; ;

" the winds. By words and spells I break the serpent's jaws shake ;

^'
solid rocks, and tear up oaks and whole groves by the roots. At my
" nod the mountains tremble, earth
groans, and the pale ghosts start
" from their The moon too I compel to descend from heaven,
graves.
" flam-
though the Temessean brass aids her in her struggles even the ;

" of and Aiuora are rendered the

ing chariot my father, ruddy pale by
" force of enchantments. You ray charms blunted the keen edge of
" the
my
flames, issuing from the brazen-footed bulls and loaded with the ;

" crooked those necks that never before bore the yoke. You
plough
" turned the cruel war of the lulled
serpent breed upon themselves you ;

" to rest the ever-wakeful con-

dragon, and thus deceiving the keeper,
" the treasure into the Grecian towns. Now there is need
veyed golden
" of old age restored may return to youthful
juices, "by which
"
bloom, and resume the early years of life. And you will give
them
" too for neither did the stars
just now sparkle in vain,
nor is the chariot
;
" drawn :" For a chariot had just then
by winged dragons here in vain
NOTES.
Tcmcfiaalahorcs, cent tuos inhiuunt.] The epithet Tciucsaca is here added to
'J07.
brass ; probably from Temcbaea, a city ot Cyprus.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VII. 247

ab
CuiTus adest. Aderat demissus ab sethere currus. currus
atliere aderut. Quo si-
dtiiiiisus

Quo simul ascendit; fraenataq colla draconum 220 vml asceinlit, permiil-
;
s/tque fttF/iuta colla
Permulsit, manibusque leves agitavit habenas, draconum, ngilavitque
leves huheiias muni-
Sublimis rapitur subjectaque Thessala Tempe
:
bus ; rnpitur .lublhnls:
TJiessala
Despicit, et Creteis regionibus applicat angues despicitquc
Tempe suhjecta, et ap-
:

Et quas Ossa tulit, quas altus Pelion herbas, plicat aiigues Creteis
regionibus ; et perspi-
Othrysque, Pindusque, et Pindo major Olym cit herbas quas Ossa,
quas altus Pelion,
pus, 225 Othrysque, Pindusque,
el Olyvipu.\ major Pin-
Perspicit: etplacita partim radiee revellit: do, tulit ; et rcvcllit
Partim succidit curvamine falcis alienee. partim placitil radiee,
partim succidit cur-
Multa quoque Apidani placuerunt gramina ripis, ramine ahente falcis.
Multa jquoque Amphrysi: neque eras immunis, Multa quoque grami-
na cresceutia ripis Api-
dani, multa quoque
Enipeu :

crescentiaiipis.4/Hj)/i)y-
Nee non Penese, nee non Spercheides undae 230 si placuerunt : tieque
Enipeu, eras in immu-
Contribuere, aliquid, juncosaque littora Boebes. nis :nee non under Pc-
nee non undse
Carpit et Euboica vivax Anthedone gramen, }>etF,
Spercheidcs contri-
Nondum mutato vulgatum corpore Glauci. buere aliquid, junco-
saque littora Babes.
Et jam nona dies curru, pennisque draconum, Carpit et vivax gra-
men Euboicd Ant he -
Nonaque nox omnes lustrantem viderat agros 235 ;
done, nondum vnlga-
Cum rediit: neque erant pasti, nisi odore, dra-
tum corpore Glauvi
mutate. El j 0711 nona
cones; dies, nonaque nox vi-
derat Medeani histran-
Et tamen annosse pellem posuere senectae. tem omnes agros curru.
Constitit adveniens citra limenque, foresque; pennisqne draconutn :
cum rediit: nequedra-
Et tantiim ccbIo tegitur refugitque viriles
: cones erant pusti nisi
odore ; et tamtn po-
Contactus ; statuitque aras e cespite binas, 240 suere ptllem annos<e
senectte, Adveniens
constitit citra limenque, foresque ; et tegitur tantum ccclo : refugrtque cen tact us viriles: statuit-
quehijias aras e cespite,
TRANSLATION.
descended from above. This she mounts, and strokes with her hand the
harnessed necks of the dragons, and throws up the light reins. Instantly
she is borne aloft, and surveys from her airy height the valleys of Tempe,
and guides her snakes toward those chalky regions. Straight she marks
the herbs that grow on Ossa and lofty Pelion, Othrys, Pindus, and the
proud summits of Olympus. Part she tears up by their potent roots ;

part she cuts by the bending sickle's arch. Many plants she culls from
the banks of Apidanus, many from the banks of Amphrysus nor did ;

Enipeus escape her searching hand. Peneus too and Sperchius contri-
buted some, and the rushy shores of Bsebe. She crops also living herbs
along Euboic Anthedon, not yet rendered famous by the transformation
of Glaucus and now for nine days and nine nights had she been visit-
;

ing every soil, in her chariot drawn by winged dragons at length she re- :

turns, and her dragons, though fed only with the odours exhaled from her
•plants, had yet At her return, she
cast the skin of wringled old age.
and gates of the palace, with heaven oidy for
stood without the threshold
her canopy, and avoided the embraces of her husband, and raised two
NOTES.
223. Creteis rcgmiibus.'] i. e., Crcta 233. Dliilalo vulgatum corpore Gluuci-I
uhundantibus. Such was the countiy of He was a fisher, and changed into a
Tliessaly, where she now ahglited- The sea god. See his story, book .\iii, ver&e
jjanies of mountains, cities and rivers that 904.
follow, are all in
Thesr,aly or Bceotia.
 1248 P. OVIDII NASONIS

ffal*'SK?te"« Dexteriore Hecates, at laeva parte Juventfe.

pane statnit aram Ju- Quas ubi verbenis, silvaque incinxit agresti,
venttr. Quas ubi in-
ciiixit verbenis, silva- Haud procul egesta scrobibus tellure duabus
que ; agresti, tellure Sacra
egesta haud procul,
facit: cultrosque in guttura velleris atri
facit sacra duabus 245
scrobibus : conjicitque Conjicit, et patulas perfundit sanguine fossas.
cultros inguttura atri Turn super invergens liquidi carchesia Bacchi,
velleris ; et perfundit
patulas fossas san- -lEneaque invergens tepidi carchesia lactis,
Turn super in-
gui7ie.
vergCTis carchesia li-
Verba simul fundit, terrenaque numina poscit :

quidi Bacchi, invcr-

gensque anea carche-
Umbrarumque rogat rapta cum conjuge regem,
sia tepidi lactis ; fun- Ne properent artus anima fraudare seniles. 250
dit simul verba, pos-
citque terrena numi- Quos ubi placavit precibusque, et murmure longo ;
na : rogatque regem ^sonis effcetum proferri corpus ad aras
ttmbrarum ctim rapta
conjuge, ne properent Jussit: et in plenos resolutum carmine somnos
fraudare seniles artus — ...'-.
animH ; quos ubi pla- Exanimi similem stratis porrexit in herbis.
cavit precibusque et
longo murimtre, jussit
Hinc procul ^soniden, procul hinc jubet ire mi-
effcetum corpus yEso-
nis prnferri ad aras ;
nistros : 255
et vorrexit illud reso- Et monet arcanis oculos removere profanes.
lutum carmine in ple-
nos somnos, similem- DifFugiunt jussi. Passis Medea capillis
que exanimi in stratis Bacchantum ritu flagrantes circuit aras :
herbis. Jubet jEsoni-
den ire procul hinc, faces in fossa sanguinis atra
jahet ministros ire pro-
Multifidasque
r-p- •. •- . .
• .
" t, • • •

cui hinc: et mmiet eos

luigit; et uitmctas gemmis accendit in aris. 260
removere profatios ocu
los arcaiiis. lUi jussi Terque senem flamma, ter aqua, ter sulphure lus-
diffugiunt. Medea ca- trat.
jnllis passis circuit
flagrantes aras ritu Intcrea vahdum posito medicamen aheno
que faces ^Zitifidafin Eervct, ct cxsultat ; spumisque tumentibus albet
Illic Hsemonia radices valle resectas,
.Tli"f.^/SS
xngemims aris. Lus- Seminaquc,' ct flores, et succos incoquit acres. 265
T. 7 T.
tratque senem ter
flammH, ter aquQ., ter sulphure. Jnterea validum medicamen ferret et exultat aheno posito su-
per ignem; albetque tumentibus spumis. Illic incoquit radices resectas Hcemonia valle, semi-
naque,Jloresque, et acres succos.
TRANSLATION.
altars of turf,
on the right hand one to Hecate, and on the left to
youth :

which after
encompassing with vervain and forest boughs, she digs two
trenches hard by for the sacrifice, and thrusts a knife into the throat of
a black ram, and Then
besprinkles the wide ditches with blood. pouring
into them
goblets of liquid wine, and warm milk from brazen howls she ;

mutters at the same time her

spells, and invokes the earthly deities. Next
she requests the king of Shades, and his ravished
wife, that they would
not too hastily
deprive ^son's aged limbs of life, When by repeated
prayers and tedious mutterings they had been rendered propitious, she
ordered the feeble body of Mson to be
brought out to the altars. Then
casting him into a deep sleep, she extends his body, now like a lifeless
corse, upon the herbs she had strewed. She orders Jason and his at-
tending friends to retire, and warns them not to profane with unhallowed
eyes her mysterious rites they retire, as ordered. Medea, with her hair
:

dishevelled, like a priestess of Bacchus, runs frantic round the blazing

altars and tinges her torches split manifold in a ditch of black blood,
;

then lights them at the two altars and thrice lustrates the :
aged sire
^ ^^^?' *^i"ice with water, and thrice with
M sulphur.
Mean time the powerful medicine boils and bounces in a
large caldron,
and whitens with
swelling froth. There she infuses roots gathered in the
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VII. 249

Adjlcit
extreme lapides oriente petitos, Adjicit lapides petitos
extremo oriente, et are-
Et, quas oceani refluum mare lavit, arenas,
nas quas refluum mare
oceani lavit. Addit et
Addit et exceptas Luna per nocte pruinas, pruinas exceptas lunii
Et strigis infames, ipsis cum carnibus, alas ;
per nocte, et infames
alas strigis, cum ipsis

Inque virum vultus mutare ferinos

soliti carnibus, prosectaque
ambigui lupi, soliti mu-
Ambigui prosecta lupi. Nee defuit illic, tare ferinos vulttis in
virum : nee tenuis
Squamea Cinyphii tenuis membrana Chelydri, squamea membrana
Cinyphii chelydri de-
Vivacisque jecur cervi: quibus insuper addit fuit illic, jecurque vi-
Ora caputque novem cornicis saecula passse. vacis Cervi qiiilius in-
.-

super addit ora caput-

His et mille aliis
postquam sine nomine rebus 275 que cornicis passa no-
vem secula. Postquam
Propositum instruxit mortali barbara munus ; barbara instruxit mu-
Arenti ramo jampridem mitis olivae nus propositum mor-
tali his et mille aliis
Omnia confudit ; summisque immiscuit ima. rebus sine nomine ;
confundit omnia ramo
Ecce vetus calido versatus stipes aheno mitis olivce jampridem ,

Fit viridis primo nee longo tempore frondem 280 arenti

:
; imndscuitque
ima summis. Ecce ve-
Induit et subito gravidis oneratur olivis.
•
tus stipes vers at ca-
lido aheno primo fit
At quacunque cavo spumas ejecit aheno virides ; nee longo tem-
pore induit frmidem,
Ignis, et in terram guttse cecidere calentes ; et subito oneratur gra-
Vernat humus floresque et molHa pabula surgunt.
:
vidis olivis. At qua-
cunque ignis ejecit
Quod simul ac vidit, stricto Medea recludit, 285 spumas cavo aheno, et
calertes gutta cecidere
Ense senis jugulum: veteremque exire cruorem in terram ; humus ver-
nat,floresque et mollia
Passa, replet succis. Quos postquam combibit pabula surgunt. Quod
jEson simul ac Medea vidit,
recludit jugulum senis
Aut ore acceptos, aut vulnere, barba, comaeque stricto ense ; passaque
reterem cruorem exire,
Canitie posita nigrum rapuere colorem. replet ciira succis: quos
Pulsa fugit macies abeunt pallorque, situsque 290
:
postquam jEson com-
;
bibit acceptos aut ore,
aut
Adjectoque cavse supplentur sanguine vense; comaque
vulnere; barbte
canitie posi-
tS., rapuere nigrum colorem. Macies pulsa fugit, pallorque, situsque abeunt; ven(Bque cava
supplentur adjecto sanguine,
TRANSLATION.
gems brought from the remote eastern coasts, and sand washed by the
ocean's refluent tide frost too gathered during night by the light of the
:

moon, and the flesh and ill-boding wings of a screech-owl and the en- ;

trails of an ambiguous wolf, wont to transform his savage aspect to that

of a man. Nor was there wanting the thin scaly slough of the Cyni-
phian water-snake, and liver of a long-lived stag to which she moreover;

adds the head and bill of a crow, that had sustained a life of nine ages.
When with these, and a thousand other nameless ingredients, she had
completed the medicine intended for the exhausted body of Mson, she
stirs and blends them the peace-
together with an old withered branch of
ful olive, when lo, the thus turned round in the boiling
decayed stock,
first begins to look Avith leaves,
caldron, green, soon clothes itself
and isloaded with a sudden crop of ripe olives. Wherever too the fire
throws the foam over the brink of the hollow caldron, and the warm
drops fall upon the earth, the ground blooms and flowers and soft herbs
;

spontaneous rise. Which soon as Medea perceived, with a draAvn

sword she opens the throat of the
aged prince and letting the ;
old blood
flow out, Soon as these are taken
replenishes his veins with neiv juices.
in, both by the mouth and
opening wound, his hoary beard and hair are
changed to a glossy black. Leanness flies, his pal? and ghastly looks are
gone, his hollow arteries beat with fresh supplies of blood, and his limbs
 250 P. OVIDII NASONIS

tncmbraq lie luxuriant. Membiaque luxuriaiit. vEson mlratur,' et olini

JEson mmittir, ct re- l . . .

miniscitur .ie oiim Aiitc fjuatcr deiios hunc 86 remmiscitur annos.

*"" ^' ""
nosa'Jiosf III. Viderat ex alto tanti miracula monstri
aill^' ^u'lZnu'^taMi Liber; etadmonitusjuvenes nutricibus annos 295
monstri, ct tidmonitus Posse siiis reddi, petit hoc iEetide munus.
jitveiiex annos posse __^ it j-
1 V J\ Bve doli cessent ; OQium cum
j.
reddi svis nutricibus,
petit yEetide hoc mil-
.
conjuge talsuni
pj^^gj^g assimulat: Peligeque ad limina supplex

Ju] ^:^i^1lsu^^. Confugit. Atque illam (quoniam gravis ipse se-

lat falsiim odium cum necta)
c7i§'uficad^uminaV'7- Excipiunt natsB. Quas tempore callida parvo 300
Colchis amicitisB mendacis imagine cepit.
quLfarfpsTLZtfra'-
vis seneeta, excipiunt
Dumque refert, inter meritorum maxima,' demptos
r
illam, quas parvo tern-
3)ore caiida Colchis ce-
7^-1
/bsonis esse
• •

atque hac
situs, parte moratur,
^
1
m•

a'LcuiI!'^Dumquere- Spes cst virginibus Pelia subjecta creatis,

'^rftlrum^su^m'^^Esonts
Arte suum parili revirescere posse parentem, 305
esse demptos, atque Jdque petunt pretiumoue iubent sine fine pacisci.
:

spes est subjecta rir- Ilia brevi spatio silet ;

et dubitare videtur :

pafentenrsTum^posse Suspenditquc animos, ficta gravitate, rogantes.

PetZTZ^d'^^jLtlnt'.
^^^ ^^^ poUicita est, Quo sit fiducia major
que earn sine [fine pa- Muncris hujus, ait qui vestras maximus sevo est
cisci pretium. Ilia
brevi spatio silet; et
-r^ .»'./
Dux gregis inter
*
:
,.

oves, agnus medicamme iiet. oil

•pjoii
paidZiue^'^'^Z^iantl's
Protinus inniimeris efFoetus laniger annis,
tinimos fictu. gravitate.
Mox itbi est pollicita, ait : quo fiducia hvjiis muneris sit major, dux gregis qui est maximus <evo
inter vestras oves,fiet agnus hoc medicaminc. Protinus laniger, effatus innumeris atmis,
TRANSLATION.
luxuriant resume the bloom of youth, ^son wonders, and calls to mind
that such was his constitution forty years ago.
III. Bacchus from high Olympus beheld the wonders of this amazing

prodigy and, admonished, that to the nymphs who nursed him, the years
;

of youth might be restored, requests this favour of Medea.

IV. Moreover that her arts might not cease, she safely feigns a quarrel
with her husband, and flies suppliant to Pelias' gate where (as he him- ;

self was listless through age) his daughters receive her, whom the cunning
Colchian soon ensnares by a fallacious show of friendship. And while
she repeats, as the most mighty of her services, that she had chased
away from ^son wrinkles and old age, and dwells long on this
part of her stonj, a hope naturally arises to the virgin daughters of
Pelias, that by the like art their father may be restored to youth.
This accordingly they request of her, and importunately urge her to
name her price. She for some time is silent, and seems to doubt her
own power., and by an affected gravity holds their eager minds in sus-
the
pense but soon after, having granted her promise that you may
: ;

more confide, says she, in this my art, the leader of the flock, the
most advanced in age, shall by this preparation become a lamb. Imme-
diately a ram, exhausted
with years innumerable, is brought, his horns
NOTES.
•296. Pctil hoc Mdide This is
mvnus.'i Bacciiiis apply to Tctliys, to liave the
tiie reading given
by Biuman, whereas in aue of the nymphs, who niiiseJ him, re-
most of the eihtinns before him, we have newed, when he had just beheld Medea
jielit hoc. (I Tcthcin munus. But, as Baniei- do it ill favour of i1i)sou.
well observes, to what purpose should
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VU. 251

Attrnhitur,' flexo circum cava tempora cornu

Cujus ut Hsemonio marcentia guttura cultro
. .A :
attrahuur,cor7m/icxo
circum cava temiiora :
cyjus utjodu marcen-

Fodit, et exiguo maciilavit sanguine ferrum ; 315 cuUn"Tt\iacuiTv'ii

Membra simul pecudis, validosque venefica succos
'guh^venejicame^u
Mereit
~ in sere cavo. Minuuntur corporis artus nmnimembrapecucHs,
tn
:

y~^ .
^., validosque succos,
Cornuaque exuitur, nee non cum cormbus annos cava trre. Artus cor- :

Et tener auditur medio balatus aheno. unr^ue^lnTld'cZ'-

Nec mora, balatum mirantibus exerit agnus 320 S/'/,mTorX« ef :

Lascivitque fusra lactantiaque ubera quserit.

:
temr laiatus avdiiur
* medio ahcno. Nee mo-
/-Yi .
T V. ^ i 1
• •

Ubstupuere satas Felia promissaque postquam : ra.-agnus exerit iius

Exhibuere fidem, turn ver5 impensius instant. Z^ft^cfS^-
Ter iuffa Phoebus equis in Ibero gurcfite mersis lactmitia ube-
'^'('i"f.

JDempserat, etquartaradiantia nocte micabant o2o puerc.- tumque vera,

O'j \ 1 r u 'm-'j.- •
postquampromissa ex- • •

bidera; cum rapido tallax /hetias igni hibuerejidem, instant

Imponit purum laticem, et sine viribus herbas. tfrTemp%rat^uga'e-

Jamque neci similis, resoluto corpore, regem, ««'^ mersis in ibero
-r-i.
*

h,t cum SUO

,
CUStodeS SOmnUS habebat,
'
gvrs;ite ; et sidera ra-
dlau tla micabant quar-
iiij
rege
Quem dederant cantus, magicseque potentia linguse. %TasimponUpur\"m
Intrarant iussee cum Colchide limina natse laticem, et herbas sine
.,.^J torum
i^-i
Quid nunc
^ ^
dubitatis inertes
•
:
•
1 ^''^ibus, rapido
Jamque somnus simi-
igni.
Ambierantq
Oi'-i -iiT ;
:

t 1 -i
:
lis neci, quem cantus

btrmgite, ait, gladios :

veteremque haurite cruorem, potentiaque magicee.
Ut repleam vacuas juvenili sanguine venas. teHa re^eZ'^'corpote
resoluto, et custodes cum suo rege. Natte jusste intrclrant limina citm Colchide ; ambierantque
torum :
quid dubitatis nunc
ait, Inertes, ? stringite gladios, hanriteque veterem cruorem s ut
repleam vacuas venas juvenili sanguine.

TRANSLATION.
winding round his hollow temples. When having opened his withered
throat with a Hsemonian knife, and stained with scanty blood thepiercing
steel, the sorceress plunges at once the limbs of the ram and her potent
juices into a hollow caldron. His limbs grow less, his horns are cast,
and with his horns his years shrink away, and tender bleatings are heard
from the middle of the caldron. Instantly, while they yet wonder at
the bleatings, a lamb springs out, and wantonly frisks about, and seeks
the suckling dugs. The daughters of Pelias are filled with amazement,
and as her promises were now confirmed by an experimental proof, more
importunately than ever urge their request. Thrice Phoebus had un-
yoked his steeds, plunged in the Iberian waves, and the sparkling stars
shone on the fourth night, when deceitful Medea set over a strong fire
pure water and herbs of no virtue. And now sleep, strong as death, pro-
cured by enchantment and the force of the magic tongue, relaxing the
bodies of the king and his guards, held them fast locked in his embraces.
His daughters as commanded, had,Avith the Colchian, entered his cham-
"
ber, and surrounded the bed.
" Whence this indolence ?
Why now (says she) do you hesitate ?
Unsheath your swords, and drain from his
"
body the aged juices, that I may fill his empty veins with youthful blood.

NOTES.
o;34. In Ibero gurgile jnersis.] That is, which the Ibenis, a river of Spain, called
in the Western or Atlantic Ocean, into thence Iberia, discharges itself.
 262 P. OVIDII NASONIS

eslti^vMZnibul maiiibus vestris vita est, astasque parentis. 335

^^^
Si pietas uUa est, nee spes ag-itatis inanes,
Si uUapictas est vobis,
itec agitatis inanesr\ai i./
•
^'^ a.
•
i. ,

spes, prastate ojiciumUrticiiim pi'aestate patri ; telisque senectam

l^am'f^"Te,Se Exigite ; et saniem conjecto emittite ferro.
nl'^iZ^ai^s^^'qu^.
^^^' "^ qugeque pia est, hortatibus impia prima est,
que est pia, est prima Et nc scit scelerata, facit scelus. Hand tamen ictus

*Zuifiwit'lctfus"tt Ulla suos spectare potest

oculosque reflectunt ; :

Tp7cttrfsu!,l''iaiT; Caecaque dant ssevis aversse vulnera dextris.

reflectuntque ocuios Hie cruore flucns, cubito tamen allevat artus
';
:
aversffoue, dant crrca o -i ^ ^ i j

vulnera sccvis deitris. bemilacerque toro tentat consurgere et inter :

iwlfaaImt7rtuJ ct Tot medius gladios pallentia brachia tendens ;

345
bito' semiiacerqne ten-
QxixA facitis, gnatae ? Quid vos in fata parentis
tat consurgeretoro
et medius inter tot
; ^ ait
o
cecidei'e
•
i/^ -it • •

Armat, animique, manusque.

.' illis
sladios tendens pal-
'lentia brachia, ait :
-pvi i ,i/-^ii-
^
Jrlura locuturo cum verbis guttura Colchis
^
•

et calidis laniatum mersit ahenis.

^:^1.r^£'^^ta Abstulit,
parentis? animique V. VI. Quod nisi pennatis
'^ serpentibus
'
isset in
matiusque cectdere -^,-n
illis. Colchis ahstuiit auras ;
350
fo"tut%'pilVa!^tVer-
Non exeiiipta foret poenee, fugit alta superque
sit eum laniatum cali-
dis ahenis. V. VI. Quod nisi issil in auras pennatis serpentibus, non foret excmpta pana :fvgit
alta superque
TRANSLATION.
" The life and age of your father are
in your power. If you have any
^'filial piety, nor cherish vain hopes, perform now your duty to a father,
" banish
by your weapons his old age, and urging the steel, discharge his
" On these exhortations every one, in proportion to her
putrid gore."
filial piety, hastens to be impious and that she may not seem wicked,;

commits wickedness yet none can bear to behold their own strokes, but
;

turn away their eyes, and backward deal chance blows with cruel
right-
hands. He, covered with blood, yet raises his body upon his elbow, and
half mangled as he was, strives to rise from the bed and amid so
many ;

swords stretched out his pale arms. \^liat are you about (says
he) my
daughters, w hat arms you to the destruction of your father ? Then courage
and hands failed them. As he was about to have spoken more, Medea
tore away his throat with the words, and
plunged him thus mangled into
the boiling caldron.
V. VI. And had she not instantly moimted into the air with winged
dragons, she had not escaped veiigeance. She flies high, over shady
NOTES.
350. Quod nisi pennatis serpent ihux issct may serve as a key to these ancient fic-
in uuras.'\ Medea, after thus discharging tions.
lier revenge on Pelias, fearing tliedani;er \Vh' n any one escaped an evident and
that might ensue to licrsclf, speeds her it was given out that
threatening danger,
flight to Athens. The poet deserihing her he was changed into a bud or if, to es- ;

journey, mentions the several places she cape pursuit, he took refuge in a cave, he
passed over, or had a view of, in her airy nmst be a serpent. When sorrow save
vehicle ; and thence takes occasion to cause for many tears, the person dissolved
touch on many fables, which are now for into a fountain or if a virgin was lost in
;

the most part unknown. It were of no a wood, she became a nymph or dryad.
advantage to enlarge on subjects so little A resemblance of names too oft gave oc-
intereslinsr, and which history has passed casion to these fictions thus Cycnus was -,

over in silence. All I shall do, is to said to be transformed to a swan, and no

establish some general principles, which of many others.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VII. 253

umbrosum vmbrosum Pelion tecta

Pelion Philyreia tecta, superque Philyreia, superque
Othryn eventu veteris loca nota Cerambi.
et Othryn, et loca nota
eventu veteris Ceram-
Hie ope Nympharum sublatus in aera pennis, bi. Hie sublattis pen-
nis in aire ope
nympha-
Cum gravis infuso tellus foret obruta ponto, 355 rum, cum gravis tel-
Deucalioneas efFugit inobrutus undas. lus foret obruta ponto
infuso, inobrutus effu-
VII. _/Eolian Pitanen a leva parte relinquit, git Deucalioneas un-
das.
Factaque de saxo longi simulacra draconis
:
VII. Relinquit ka-
lian Pitanett U lavd.
Idseumque nemus, quo raptum ferta j uvencum parte, simulacraque
Occuluit Liber falsi sub imagine cervi. 360 longi draconis facta de
saxo; nemusque Id<E-
VIII. Quaque pater Corythi parv^ tumulatur um, quo Liber occu-
luit sub imagine falsi
arena. cervi, juvencum,ferta
nati.
IX. Et quos
.
Msera novo latratu terruit agros.
- Yin. Quaque pater
^
X. Eurypylique
J ^ urbem, qua Cose cornua matres corytM tumuiatur
J i- ,. . _^ ,.^"^
parva arend.
cum discederet Herculis agmen.
Gesserunt, turn IX. Et agros quos
Mara terruit novo
XI.PhcEbeamqueRhodon,etralysiosTelchinas, latratu.
X. Urbemque Eury-
Quorum oculos ipso vitiantes omnia visu pyli, qxia Co<b matres
Jupiter exosus, fraternis subdidit undis. gesserunt cornua, turn
cum agmen Herculis
XII. Transit et antiquse Cartheia mcenia Cese, discederet.
Xl.Phoebeamque Rho-
Qua pater Alcidamas placidam de corpore natae don, et lalysios Telchi-
Miraturus erat nasci potuisse columbam. 370 nas, quorum oculos vi-
tiantes omnia ipso vi-
XII. Transit et Cartheia mania antique
su, Jupiter exosiis, subdidit fraternis undis. Cees, qua
pater Alcidamas erat miraturus placidam columbam potuisse nasci de corpore natte.

TRANSLATION.
Pelion the habitation of the son of Philyre, and over Othrys, and the
places noted for the fate of old Cerambus,
who mounted into the air
on wings by the aid of the nymphs, when the ponderous globe was covered
with a deluge of waters, was not overwhelmed in the flood of Deucalion.
VII. She leaves on her left ^olian Pitane, and the image of the long
dragon made of stone, and the Idean grove, where Bacchus, imder the
image of a stag, concealed the steer stolen by his son.
deceitful
VIII. And where the father of Corythus lies buried under a scanty
mountain of sand.
IX. And the fields, which Mseris alarmed with unusual howling.
X. And the city of Eurypylus, Avhere the Coan mati'ons appeared with
horns, when the herd of Hercules departed thence.
XI. And Phfebean Rhodes, and the lalysian Telchines, whose eyes
thrust under his
corrupting every thing they beheld, Jupiter abhorring,
brother's waves.
XII. She passes too over the Cartheian walls of ancient Cea, where,
in after-times, Alcidamas wondered to see a meek dove arise from the

body of his daughter.

NOTES.
352. Philyreia tecta-l So called, because ple of the same island ;
whose eyes, we
tLese mountains of Thessaly vpcre inha- are told, destroyed every thing they be-
bited by Chiron, the son of Saturn, and held. Strabo supposes they were excel-
the nymph
Philyra. lent artists, and envied by others of the
365. lahjsios Telchinas.'] lalysus was a same employment, who feigned this story
city of Rhodes, and the Telchines a peo- to discredit them.
254 P. OVIDII NASONfS
XIII. Inde ridet la- XIII. Indelacus Hyries videt,etCycn'eiaTempe,
ciisHyries, et Cycncia
qiKr subitus subitus celebravit olor Nam Phyllius illuc
Nam QucE
Tempc, :

olor celebravit.
ilitc Phyllius imperio Imperio pueri volucresque, ferumque leonem
pueri Cycni, tradide- Tradiderat domitos taurum quoque vincere jussiis
:
rat volucresqueferum-
que leonem domitos : Vicerat ;
et spreto toties iratus aniore, 375
jussus quoque vincere
taurum, vicerat eum ; Prsemia poscenti taurum suprema negabat.
ct,irat us amores toties
spreto, negabat tau-
lUe indignatus, Cupies dare, dixit et alto ;
rum poscenti ea su-
illi
Desiluit saxo. Cuncti cecidisse putabant:
prema prtemia. Illc
indignatus dixit, cu- Factus olor niveis pendebat in aere pennis.
pies dare : et desiluit
alto saxo. Cuncti pti- XIV. Atgenitrix Hyrie servati nescia, flendo 380
tabant eum cecidisse ;
stA factus olor pende- Delicuit ; stagnumque suo de nomine fecit.
bat in acre niveis pen-
nis.
XV. XVI. Adjacet his Pleuron : in qua trepi-
XIV. At genitrix dantibus alis
Hyrie, nescia filii ser-
Opliias efFugit natorum vulnera Combe.
vati, delicuit flendo :
fecit que stagnum de XVII. XVIII. Inde Calaureae Latoidos aspicit
suo nomine.
XV. XVI. Pleuron arva,
adjacethis ; in quil
Ophias Combe effugit In volucrem versi cum conjuge conscia regis. 385
trepidantibus alis vul- Dextera Cyllene est ; in qua cum matre Menephron
nera 7mtorum.
XVII. XVIII. Inde Concubiturus erat, ssevarum more ferarum.
adspicit arva Calau-
rem Latoidos, conscia XIX. Cephison procul hinc deflentem fata ne-
regis versi in volucrem
cum conjtige. Cyllene potis,
est dextera, in qua Me-
nephron erat concubi- Respicit, in tumidam Phocen ab Apolline versi ;

turus cummatre, more

savarum ferarum. Eumelique domum lugentis in aere
natam. 390
XIX. Procul hinc XX. Tandem vipereis Ephyren Pirenida pennis
respicit Cephison de-
flentem fata nepotis, versi ab Apolline in ttimidam Phocen : domumque Eumeli lugentis natam in
dire. XX. Tandem contigit vipereis pennis Ephyren Pirenida.

TRANSLATION.
XIII. Thence she surveys the lakes of Hyrie and Cycneian Tempe, ;

frequented by Cycnus, changed suddenly into a swan for there Phyllius, ;

at the request of the boy, had made him a present of some birds, and a
fierce lion tamed, being frequented to, to subdue a bull, he had subdued
him but enraged
;
to find his love so often slighted, denies the prize of the
bull,though begged as the last reward. The boy, indignant, replies, you
shall wish you had given it me, and leaps down from the high rock. All
imagined he had fallen into the sea, but transformed into a swan, he
hangs in air on snow-white wings.
XIV. But his mother Hyrie, not knowing that he was preserved, dis-
solved in tears, and formed a lake called by her own name.
XV. XVI. Hard by is Pleuron, where Combe the daughter of
Ophias escaped with trembling wings the wounds of her sons.
XVII. XVIII. Thence she beholds the fields of Calaurea sacred to
Latona, conscious of the transformation of their king with his wife into
birds. Cyllene is on the right, where Menephron, after the manner of
savage beasts, was to lie with his mother.
XIX. Far hence she saw also Cephisus bemoaning the fate of his
grandson, changed by Apollo to a bloated sea-calf and the palace of ;

Eumelus lamenting his daughter suspended with wings in air.

XX. At length borne on the wings of her dragons, she reached
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VII. 255

Contia"it. Hie sevo veteres mortaha primo Veteres vuigamnt

edita fungis. thpthnoZlTe^piu-
Corpora vulgarunt pluvialibus
XXI. Sedpostquam Colchis arsis nova nupta "''fxLsTJfostguam
noi'a nupta arsit vene-
venenis. nis Colchis, que utrum-

Flagrantemque domum regis mare vidit

utrumque. que mare vidit doinum
regis flagrantis ; impi-
Sanguine natorum perfunditur impius ensis ; 396 us ensis per/unditur
se male lasonis effugit arma. sangiiine natorum, ma-
Ultaque mater, terque ulta se male,
Hinc Titaniacis ablata draconibus, intrat effugit anna, ,/asonis.
Ablala liinc Titaniacis
Pelladias arces ; quae te,justissime Phineu, dracombiis,intrat Pal'
ladias arccs, qua vi-
Teque, senex Peripha, pariter videre volantes, 400 dere tejiistissime Phi-
neu, tegue seiiex Pe-
Innixamquenovis neptem Polypemonis alis. ripha, volantes pari-
XXII. ExCipit
'
hanc iliigeUS, lactO damnandUS ter;neptemquePolype-
monis innixam novis
in uno : alis.
XXll. j^gcus excipit
Nee satis hospitium est, thalami quoq; fcedere
hanc, damiiandus in
uno facto, nee hospi-
jungit. tium est satis, jungit
Jamque aderat Theseus, proles ignara parenti cam sibifwdere quoque
thalami. Jumquc llie-
Qui virtute sua bimarem pacaverat Isthmon. 405 sens aderat, proles ig-
in exitium miscet Medea quod olim nara parenti ; qui sua
Hujus virtute pacaverat bi-
Attulerat secum Seythieis aconiton ab oris, marem Jsthmon. Me-
dea miscet in cxitium
lUud Echidnese memorant e dentibus ortum hvjus aconiton, quod
olim attulerat secum
Esse canis. Speeus est tenebroso csecus hiatu : ab oris scytinds : me-
morant illud esse ortum e dentibus Echidnece canis. Est emeus speeus tenebrosvs hiatu :
TRANSLATION.
Pyrenian Ephyre. Here the writers of old pretend, that in the first ages
human bodies were produced from mushrooms raised by rain.
XXI. But after the new bride had perished by the Colchian poisons,
and both seas beheld the royal palace in flames, the impious sword is
stained with the blood of her own children, and the mother who had taken
this barbarous revenge, escapes the sword of her husband Jason. Hence
carried by her Titanian dragons, she enters the city of Pallas, which
saw thee, Phineus, the most upright of men, and thee, aged Periphas,
flying together through the air, and the grand-daughter of Polypemon
resting upon new wings.
XXII, Here ^geus receives her, blameahle in this alone nor is ;

hospitality enough, he also joins her to him by the sacred tie of marriage.
And now was Theseus his son arrived, unknown to his father, who by his
valour had established peace in the Isthmus between two seas. Medea
bent on his destruction, prepares a draught of aconite, which she had for-
merly brought with her from the Scythian coasts. This they tell us
sprung from the baneful teeth of the Echidnean monster. There is a
gloomy cave with a dark entrance, where may be seen a descending path,
NOTES.
398. Titaniacis draconibus.'] Either be- half of whose body was that of a lovely
cause sprung from the blood of the Titans, nymph, the other half a serpent, ugly and
as Piudar has it ; or because, terrilile.
according
to the Greek tradition, the chariot and 409. Speeus est.] There are many con-
winged dragons had been sent down to this descent
jectures offered to explain
her by Titan, i. e., the sun. The fables of of Hercules into hell. The most proba-
Phineus, Periphas, and the grand-daughter ble that which refers it to his slaying a
is
of Polypemon are famous serpent, that had its den in the
wholly unknown.
408. EchidnecB
canis-i Cerberus, who cave of Taenarus, which was reckoned
was born of the monster i^chidna; one the mouth of hell.
 266 P. OVIDIl NASONIS

^st via declivis, per quam TIrynthius heros 410

TeA^'n^rtuMus
herosahHraxitcutenis Restaiiteni, conttaque diem, radiosque micantes
restantem, obit-
Ubliquaiitem oculos, nexis adaiuante catenis,
guantemque^jcuios^
iontra diem radiosque Cerberon abstraxit rubida qui concitus
Cei'beron concitusira
:ira
ui concitus
micantes: qui
paoter
Implevit .-..- ternis latratibus auras,
rubidd irS,, implevit
tra, iinplevii _,-
_, l-
.'^ .
-iiii
.
^
•
-i

sparsit vindes spuiiiis albeiitibus agros. 415

aitras ternis latrati- JCit

agros afbenit
viHder^agr'of Has concrcsse putant
nactasque alimenta feracis
;

bus spumis. Putant

has concrevisse ; nac- Foecundique soli, vires cepisse nocendi.
tasque alitnenta fera-
cis fcecuridique soil, ce-
Quae, quia nascuntur dura, vivacia, caute,
pisse vires nocendi. Agrestes aconita vocant. Ea conjugis astu
Qua, quia nascuntiir 420
vivacia, dura caute a Ipse parens iEgeus nato porrexit, ut hosti.
grestes'vocant aconita. SuuiDserat ignara Theseus data pocula dextr^ ;
Ipse parens jEgeus
astu conjugis porrexit
,-^y
Cum
' ." it- ,

pater ui capulo gladii cognovit eburno

-i
eanatout hosti. The- o- •
r •
"i t.
seus sumpserat data oigna sui generis ; laciuusque excussit ab ore.
Vxtm'^p^^er"^cogmvit Effugit ilia neceui, nebulis per carmina motis.
signa sui generis in ca- XXIII. At °
genitor, quanquam
i i
Isetatur sospite
jmlo eburno gladn ; ex-
•»

acic
cussitque /acinus ab natO ^ 4JO
l7dita"nfb'uHs''moHs Attonitus tantuHiletl discrimine parvo
per carmina Committi potuisse nefas, fovet ignibus aras,
XXIII. At genitor
quanquam latatur na-
to sospite, attamen at- Muneribusque deos implet ; feriuntque secures
tonitus tantum nefas Colla torosa boum vinctorum cornua vittis.
potuisse committi par- 430
vo discrimine leti, fo- Nullus Erechthidis fertur celebratior illo
vet aras ignibus, im-
pletque deos muneri-
Illuxisse dies. Agitant convivia patres,
bus : securesque feri- Et medium vulgus nee non et carmina, vino
:

unt torosa colla boum,

vinctorum quoad cor-
nua
Ingenium faciente, canunt. Te, maxime Theseu,
vittis. Niillusdies
fertur illuxisse Erechthidis celebratior illo. Patres, et medium vulgus agitant convivia, nee
non et canunt carmina, vino faciente ingenium. O maxime Theseu,
TRANSLATION.
along which the Tirynthian hero dragged in chains of adamant, Cerberus,
restive, and turning his eyes aside from day, and the sun's dazzling rays,
who now outrageous and compelled to yield, filled with triple yells the
air, and sprinkled the; verdant fields with whitening foam. This, con-
gealed and nourished by a fruitful fattening soil, derived he7ice. they say,
a noxious power which because tenacious of its growth, it springs even
;

from hard rocks, the swains call aconite, .^geus himself, by the con-
trivance of his wife, presents this deadly potion to his son, as to an
enemy. Theseus had taken in his right hand the given cup, ignorant of
its baneful contents, when his father
spied on the ivory hilt of his sword,
the tokens of his race and struck the guilty draught from his mouth.
;

She escaped her fate snatched up in clouds raised by her enchantment.

XXIII. But the father though overjoyed that his son was safe, yet re-
flecting with amazement on his near approach to so great a crime, lights
fires upon the altars, and accosts the gods with offerings. Axes strike
the fat necks of bulls whose horns were bound with fillets. No day, it
is said, ever shone more Senators
joyful upon the Athenians than this.
and people celebrate the festival, and enlivened by the sprightly juice of
"
the grape,
join in songs of praise. Thee, great Theseus, Marathon ad-
NOTES.
410. Tirynthiut hero!.]
Hercules, so called from Tiryus, a city of Peloponnesus.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VII. 257

Mirata est Marathon Cretaei sanguine tauri u''r^^^ZmZ^guin,

:

cretai tauri.- tuum-

rx.^ suis securus arat Croniyona colonus, 436
Ouodque
i j.rruT'j-^
<**
ellus
que
Qi'f Vitinus opus-
Munus, opusque tuura est. 1
bpiaauna per te que quod colonus se-
curus suis arat Cro-
Clavigeram vidit Vulcani occumbere prolem: myona. Tellus Epi-
immitem Cephesias ora Procrusten dauria vidit clavige-
Vidit :
ram prolem Vulca?ii
Cercyonis letum vidit Cerealis Eleusis,
occumbere per te, et
ora Cephesias vidlt im-
Occidit ille Sinis, magnis mal^ viribus usus ; 440 mitem Prncrusten oc-
cumbere per te Cerea-
Qui poterat curvare trabes; et agebat ab alto
:

lis Eleusis vidit letum

Ad terram late sparsurus corpora pinus. Cercyonis. Ille Sinis

male usuf magvis vi-
Tutus ad Alcatboen Lelegeia mcenia limes ribus occidit, qui po-
terat cur care trabes ;
Composito Scirone patet sparsique latronis ; et agebat ab alto ad

Terra negat sedem, sedem negat ossibus unda: 445 terram pinus late
sparsurtis corpora.
duresse vetustas Ijimes ad
Quae jactata diu fertur AlcathdCn,
et Lelegeia mafiia pa-
In scopulos. Scopulis nomen Scironis inhaeret. tet tutus, Scirone com-
posito: terraque nrgat
Si titulos, annosque tuos numerare velimus, sedem ossibus sparsi
Facta premant annos. Pro te, fortissirae, vota 449 \%''°''[';trstasiertur
Publica suscipimvis
^
Bacchi tibi sumimus haustus. durasse in scopuios.
:

^-^ , T •! i?„A^»„ Nonicn Scironis inha-

Consonat assensu populi, precibusque tayentum ^gt scopuns. si veU-

nee toti tristis locus uUus in urbe est.

Regia ; r/:/:rr;,L:>.'a
XXIV. Nee tamen (usque ^ T-
ade6 nuUi sincera premant annos pro te :

fortisswie susciptmus
VOluptaS ; publica rota : tibi su-

Sollicitique aliquid Isetis intervenit) ^geus R7gtJ conso"at ndsen-

Gaudia percepit nato secura recepto. 455
}^,^,S/^f,f 'X*
t'Txstis locus est if I totOi iivbc*
XXIV. Nee tamen (usque adeo voluptas est sincera rvHlli i allquidque solUciti intervenit latU
rebus) jEgeus percepit secura gaudia nato recepto.
TRANSLATION.
"
mired, what time thou stairCdst its plains with the blood of the Cretan
" bull and that now the swain tills Cromyon secure, nor dreads the
;

"
bristly monster, is a happiness wholly derived from
thee. Epidaurus
" saw the club-bearing son of Vulcan fall by thy hands. The banks of
" and Eleusis, sacred
Cephisus belield the death of merciless Procrustes ;

" to Sinis too fell, that monster who

Ceres, witnessed Cercyon subdued.
" so
barbarously used his mighty strength who could
bend huge beams, ;

" and strain the to strew all around

topmost boughs of pines to the earth,
" with Lelez
mangled human limbs. The road to Alcathoe, the city of
" is now earth nor sea
open, and secure by the death of Scyron. Neither
*'
afford a reception to the scattered bones of the robber, which long
tossed, are said to have been at length by time hardened into rocks,
•'

*'
and the name of Scyron still adheres to the rocks. Were we to re-
" count
thy years and glorious acts, thy acts woidd exceed thy years.
" For the flow-
thee, great hero, we offer public vows in honour of thee ;

" of the people, and

ing bowls go round." With the assenting shouts
acclamations of the favouring multitude, the palace rings nor is any ;

place, in the whole city, sad.

:^XIV. And yet (so true it is that pleasure always has an alloy, and
NOTES.
439. Cercyonis letum, &c.] In passiug a wrestling match, and when he had over-
through Eleusis, he met with Cercyon, a come them, put them to death. Theseus
famous Arcadian robber j who provoked accepted his challenge, vanquished and
all the travellers that came in his way to slew him.
 258 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Bella parat MinoB qui quanquam milite,•

f:ZPn't&' V:l quanquam

hf,quumqvamciasse: Classe valct, pati'ia tamcii est firmissimus ira:
ttimcn est firmissimus » ^
•
j- i • •

Androgeique neccm justis ulciscitur arniis.

yatriaira) niciscitur-

jZisZrmis.^'ramln ^iite tamcn bellum vires acquirit arnicas : 459

Z!L^s'l!Z\pfrTrral potens habjtus, volucri freta classe pererrat.
^^^V
volucri Hinc
qtte freta Aiiaphen sibi jungit, ct Astypaleia reo"na :
lra7poten^.''HhSn. Promissis Anaphen, regna Astypaleia bello :

^^^c humilem Myconon, cretosaque rura Cimoli,

fl%^fAsfypaieta%w.
pheii promissis, regna Floreiitenique Cytlinon, Scvron, planamque Se-
Asti/paleia bello. Hinc .'U aoa
Jungit hvtnilem Myco- I'lpilOn, 454
aLi""7o/en7emqZ Mamioreamq ; Paron, quaq; impia prodidit arcem
vythnon, scyron, pia-
namqtieSertphon,mar-
Sitlioiiis
--_ accepto, rr
.'''quod avara poposcerat,?_•
auro.
moreamqve Paroti ; Mutata cst 111
aveiii, qusB nunc quoQue
a •• diligit
o au-
quaque impia Sithonis rnm •
frodidit arcem, accep- rUUl ^

r<>pTc:ra?^utZTt Nigra pedem, nigris velata monedula pennis.

in avem, qua nunc XXV. AtHon OUaros, Didymseque,
J
et Teno8,t '
quoque diltgit uurum ; i. '
\ A i.

monedula, tiigra quoad Ct AnurOS,

"*'''" "'^''"
Ifn^l Et Gyaros, nitidaque ferax Peparethos olivee, 470
XXV. At OUaros, Gnossiacas iuvere rates ; latere inde sinistro
Dtdymaque, et Tenos, __, •
tvV- • •
tt-i •
i
et Andros, et Gyaros,
ui,nopiam Minos petit /tLacideia regna.
Peparethosque ferax rr? l ii i •

nitida oiiva, non ju. Lhnopiam vetercs appellavere ; sed ipse

\Zl^sMstZ^' latere, -^acus ^ginam nomine dixit.
genitricis
mms petit (Enopitim Turba tantseque virum
ruit, cognoscere famse 475
teres appellavere (E- Expetit. Occurrunt illi Tclamonque, minorque
c2*'dTxit^%gintnfno- Quam Tekmon, Peleus, et proles tertia Phocus.
mine genitricis. Turba
ruit, expetitque cognoscere virum tants fama. Telamonque, Feleusque minor quam Telamon,
et Phocus, tertia proles, occurrunt illi.

TRANSLATION.
some solicitude is ever interrupting our joy) ^geus enjoys not long, un-
disturbed, the happiness of having found his son Minos prepared for war;
who, though powerful in troops and a numerous fleet, is still more for-
midable for a fatherly resentment, and revenges the death of Androgeos
with just arms. But before entering upon war, he secures auxiliary
forces, and with a swift fleet, in which he was accounted strong, scours
the seas. And first he brings over to him Anaphe, and the realms of
Astypale Anaphe by treaty, the Astypalean realms by conquest then low
; ;

Mycone, and the chalky plains of Cimolus, and fertile Cythnos and Scy-
ros, and level Seriphos, and Paros rich in marble, and where the treache-
rous Sithonian betrayed the citadel, upon receiving the gold she had co-
vetously demanded. She was changed into a bird which still retains a
passion for gold the daw, black-footed, and covered with black feathers.
;

XXV. But neither Oliaros, Didyme, Tenos, Andros, Gyaros, nor Pe-
parethos abounding in olives, joined the Gnossian fleet. Minos there-
fore tacking to the left, makes for CEnopia, the kingdom of iEacus.
CEnopia was its ancient name, but ^acus himself called it .^gina after
his mother. The people rush out, impatient to behold a hero of such re-
NOTES.
456. Bella parat Minos."] Minos was the son of Lycastus, king of Crete, and very
powerful by soa.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VII. 259

Ipse quoque egreditur tardus gravitate senili

Ipse quoque Abacus,
tardus seiiili gravitate
^acus ; et, quae sit veniendi causa, requirit. egreditur; it requint
qu(E sit causa vinitii-
Admonitus patrii luctus suspirat,
et illi 480 (ii. Rector centum po-
centum pulorum admonitus
Dicta refert rector populorura talia :
patrii luctus siixpirat,
Arma juves oro pro gnato sunipta; pieeque ct re/crt illi talia dic-
ta: hro ut juves arma
Pars sis militise. Tumulo solatia posco. suwptaprognatouXqve
sis pars pia militia:
Huic Asopiades, Petis irrita, dixit, et urbi posco solatia pro tu-
mulo. Asoyiudcs dixit
Hand facienda mese neque enim conjunctior uUa huic, petis iirita, it
:

mm
Cecropidis hffic est tellus Ea fcedera nobis. 486 bi: facioida
: mea nr-
neque e/iim- ullit
Tristis abit Stabuntque tibi tua fcedera magno,
: tellus est coiijiitictior
Cecropldis hue, sunt
Dixit ; et utilius bellum putat esse minari, nobis focdera ea. Hie

Quam gerere, atque suas ibi prseconsumere vires. abit tristis, dixit que,
tua fcedera itiibunt ti-
Classis ab (Enopiis etiamnum Lyctia muris 490 bimagno: ctputut esse
utilius minari bcllam
Spectari poterat; cum pleno concita velo quam gerere, atque
praconsumere ibi suas
Attica puppis adest, in portusque intrat amicos vires. Classis Lyctia
:

Quae Cephalum, patriseque simul mandata ferebat. ctiumttumpoterat spec- tart ab (Enupiis ?nuris;
^acidae longo juvenes post tempore visum cum Attica piippis con-
cita plena lelo adest,
Agnovere tamen Cephalum, dextrasque dedere, intratque in partus
Inque patris duxere domum. Spectabilis heros 496 C'ephalum,qua:simulaquc
amicos, fcrebat

Et veteris retinens etiamnum pignora formae, mandata patriie. JEa-

cida juvencs ag/iovere
Ingreditur: ramumque tenens popularis olivse tamen Ccphalum, vi-

A dextra, levaque duos setate minores sutn longo tempore

post ; dedercqne dex-

-r\ .
'J
Major habet, Clvton et Buten, Pallante creatos. 500
. .
'
1 J 1 ,
'^''"^' ditxereque in da.
"""'* patris. Jleros
Fostquam congressus primi sua verba tulerunt, spectaoms, etiamnum

Cecropidum Cephalus peragit mandata, rogatque ns^^t^mrfnlrantu,',

tenensquc ramum po-
pularis olivee, ipse major setate habet a dextrH lavdque duos minores ertate, Cli/tou, et Buten
creatos Pallante. Postquam primi congressus tulerunt sua verba, Cephalus peragit mandata
Cecropidum, rogatque
TRANSLATION.
nown. Telamon, and Peleus younger than Telamon, and Phocus the ki7ig's
third son, go to meet him. ^acus himself, too, though bending under
the weight of years, goes out, and inquires the cause of his coming. The
ruler of hundred cities, reminded of his fatherly sorrow, sighs, and thus
" Assist
replies :

" a share in a
my arms taken up for a murdered son, nor refuse to becir
pious war. I ask satisfaction to the manes of injured
" " Your
Androgeos." To him the grandson of Asopus replied request :

" is
vain, nor can the city in which I reign comply, for no land is more
"
strictly allied to Athens than this, and mutual leagues subsist between
" us." Minos
departs sorrowfiU, and told him, as he withdrew, that his
confederacy should cost him dear yet thinks it better rather to threaten
;

war, than actually engage in it, and waste his strength there, in previous
trials. The Cretan fleet might yet be beheld from the O^nopian walls,
when an Athenian ship driving witli full sails appears, and enters the
hospitable port. In it came Cephalus, charged with the commands of
his
country. The young sons of iEacus, though it was now long since
they had seen him, yet knew Cephalus again and gave him their right
hands, and conducted him into their father's house. The gracefid hero who
beauty, enters, bearing in his hand
still retained the traces of his former
a branch of his Himself the eldest, is attended on each
country's olive.
side by two of inferior
age, Clytos and Butes
the son of Pallas. After the
usual compliments on the first were over, Cephalus lays before
meeting
260 P. OVIDII NASONIS
anxiiium: rtfert fa- AuxiHuiii
dux et )ura parentum,
:
' foedusque
71
lefert, et jura parentum:
. .
. j 1 •• i i
•

additquc impcrium to- ImperiumQue peti totitus Acliaidos addit.

sicnbifacundiajuvit Sic uDi mandataui
juvit tacuiidia causam; oUo
yEacus sinl^fni- ^^cus
in capulo sceptri nitente sinistra,
tente in capulo seep- '^q
petite auxiUuni,' sed sumite, dixit, Athenae.
v.
tri, dixit : Atfiena-, ne .._»,,. , 1

petite, sed sumite aux- JNec duDic vires, quas nffic Iiabet insula, vestras
11, ,

bi"!^'irel%^as"hac''i'n- Ducite,
et omnis eat rerum status iste mearum.
suia habet esse ves-
non dcsunt mihi miles, et
et oi/i7ns isle
jRoboia : Superest
r
trus, .
ri A
status rerum mearum hostl. 510
7unt, niiies superest Gratia Dis; felix et inexcusabile tempiis.
Tt'dts! wnp'us%''^fe-
Immo ita sit, Cephalus, crescat tua civibus opto
lix et inexcusabile. Im-
mo Res,' ait. Adveniens equidem modo gaudia cepi ;
ait Cephalus ila ^^ , ,

Cum tam pulchra mini, tam per aetate .*•

-i . - .

tit opto MX res tua ores- juventus

mldffdvlniens"ilpi Obvia processit. Multos tamen inde require, 515
gaudia, cum Juventus
tam pulchra tam par
tttate procesiit obvia
Quqs
^^ quondaiii
T
^acus mo;emuit:
. I ...
vidi vestra prius urbe receptus.
^
ita voce locutus:
,

mihi; tamen requiro i-i

-i-ii
P.. tnstiquB
^ r j^ ^
multos inde quosquon- rlebiie principiuni melior tortuna sequetur.
tuT \a\^e7tra'^u>Z'. Hauc utinam vobis memorare! sine ullo
possem
j£acus ingemuit, ita- Qrdine nunc repetam.
r Neu longa
o ambaae
id
rnorer
que est locutus tristt roA
voce : melior fortuna VOS ^
02U
c%l'um.^ mtnam^^pos- Ossa ciiiisque jacent, meraori quos mente requiris,
bfs1Z'p7tamluncsine ^^' quota pars illi rerum periere mearum !

ullo ordine, neu mora vos longd ambage. Illi, quos requiris memori mente, jacent ossa, cinis-
que, et illi, quota pars rerum mearum, periere.
TRANSLATION,
them the particulars of the Athenian embassy, begs succours, recounts the
mutual treaties and alliances of their ancestors, and adds, that Minos
aspired after the dominion of all Greece. When he had thus delivered
the charge of his fellow-citizens, strengthened with all the force of elo-
quence, .^acus, leaning with his left hand upon his sceptre, thus replied :

*'
Ask not, O Athenians, but take the assistance you want, nor doubt that
" all the
strength of this island is at your command I offer the whole, ;

" the whole

forces of my kingdom to accompany you. Troops are not
"
wanting I have soldiers enough for my own defence, and to oppose
:

" the
enemy. Thank heaven it is a favourable season, and admits of no
" colour for a refusal." "
"
Nay, may it always be so, returns Cephalus,
may you ever increase in power and in number of citizens. Indeed as
" I came
along, it gave me mighty joy to meet so comely a troop of
"
youths, and all too of the same age, yet I miss many from among them,
" whom I remember to have
seen, when formerly 1 was entertained at
"
your court." jEacus fetched a groan, and thus spoke with a mournful
" Attend to a in the
voice. history deplorable in its beginning, but joyful
" end. I wish 1 could At
repeat it to you with all its circumstances.
" I shall a without order, or de-
present give you only summary account,
"
taining you with a long preamble.
" after whom
They are now bones and ashes
you so mindfully inquire, and in their fall how much was my
NOTES.
518. Flebile principiuni.] This fable of his kingdom; whence tliey suddenly ap-
ants transformed into men is generally was
peared a^ain, after the contagion
supposed to arise from the retreat of over and, at a time too, when ^gens
;

^geus' subjects into woods and cavefns, had despaiied of ever seeing them again,
tiuring a severe pestilence that ravaged
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VU. 261

ir^ populis Junonis iniquse Dlra lues incidit po-

Dira lues Ju-
pulis irti, iniqiia
Tncidit exosae dictas a pellice terras. no/iis eaosct terras dic-
tas d, Dum
Dum visum mortale malum, tantseque latebat 525 malum pellicF.
est visum iiior-

Causa nocens cladis pugnatum est arte medendi. tale, caiifoque nocens
; tatita cladis luiebat,
Exitium superabat opem: quae victa jacebat. pugiiatum arte me- €<:(
denili. Exitiiim super-
Principio coelum spiss&. caligine terras abat opem ; qua j are-
bat vfcta. Priiicipio
Pressit et ignavos inclusit nubibus sestus
;
:
ccelum pressit terras

Dumque quater junctis implevit cornibus orbem 530 ^£^^^^ '^fnal'os %tus
mMbus. pumque lu-
Luna, quater plenum tenuata retexuit orbem,
Letiferis calidi spirarunt flatibus Austri. bimymtltu'^cor'nitZs,
Constat et in fontes vitium venisse, lacusque ;
fexii''%num'"orbew,
incultos serpentum multa per agros caUdi austri spirt,'.
Milliaque
-^
^ -n-
Jirrasse; atque suis rluvios temerasse venenis.
•
m:-
boo
*""' lettjertsjiatibus.
constat vitium et r,.
cii A I• •
nisse in fontes iacus-
btrage canum prima volucrumque, ovmmque, que, muitaque miiua
serpentum errusse per
boumque, incultos agros, atque
temerasse Jtuvios suis
Inque feris subiti deprensa potentia morbi. ve?ienis. Potentia su-
Concidere infelix validos miratur arator biti morbi est deprensa
prima strage canum,
Inter opus tauros medioque recumbere sulco.
; volucrumque, oiium-

Lanigeris gregibus balatus dantibus aegros 540 que, boumque inque fe-
ris. Infelix arator mi-
Sponte sua lanaeque cadunt, et corpora tabent. ratur validos tauros
concidere inter opus,
Acer equus quondam, magnseque in pulvere famae, recumbereque medio
svlco. ljun(£ suit sponte
Degenerat palmas veterunique oblitus honorum,
:
cadaiit lanigeris gre-
Ad prasepe gemit, morbo moriturus inerti. gilms dantibus tegros
balatus, et coryora ta-
Non aper irasci meminit non fidere cursu ;
545 bent, Equus quondam
acer, magna ip'efumte
Cerva; nee armentis incurrere fortibus ursi. in pulvere, degenerat
ad palmas ; oblitusque
veterum honorum, gemit ad prascpc, moriturus inerti icto. Non aper meminit irasci, nee cerva
fidere cursu; nee iirsi ineurrcre J'urtibus armentis :

TRANSLATION.
kingdom impaired a cruel plague raged among my subjects, occasioned
!

by the unjust resentment of Juno, who hated a land called by her ri-
val's name. \^^hile the calamity seemed natural, and the baneful
cause of a destruction so extensive lay concealed, we had recourse to
the medicinal arts but the spreading malady prevailed against all re-
;

medies, and our attempts were baffled. At first heaven encompassed

the earth with thick oppressive darkness, and enclosed within its clouds
an unactive suffocating heat. And while the moon four times uniting
her horns completed, and four times decreasing unravelled her full orb,
the hot south winds breathed their deadly blasts. It is known that
even the lakes and fountains were poisoned by the infection, and that
many thousands of serpents wandered over the neglected fields, and
tainted the rivers with their poison. The violence of this sudden dis-
temper was first discovered by the havoc it made of dogs, birds, sheep,
oxen, and wild beasts. The unhappy ploughman wonders to see his
sturdy steers sink vnider the yoke, and down in the middle of the
drop
furrow. The w ool-bearing flockscomplain in sickly bleatings their ;

fleecesspontaneously fall off, and their bodies pine away. The once
sprightly steed, and of great renown in the race, degenerates, and re-
gardless of the prize and his wonted honours, groans at the crib, doomed
to
perish by an inglorious fate. The boar forgets his rage, the stag
his fleetness, and the bears to rush among the stronger herds. A ge-
 262 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Innguor habet omnia. Omnia languor habet;

Corpora fada jucenf,
silvisque, agrisque viisque
si/visqite, liisqtie,
Auric vitian-
a-
Corpora foeda jacent. Vitiantur odoribus aurse.
grisi/iie.
tur odoribus. Loquor Mira loquor. Non ilia canes, avidseque volucres,
mira, non canes, ati- 550
dirqiie volucres, non Non cani tetigere lupi dilapsa liquescunt, :

cani lnpi\tetigere ilia: nocent et agunt contagia late,

ililapsa liquescunt, no-
Afflatuque ;

centque adjtatn, et Pervenit ad miseros damno graviore colonos

agunt contagia lati".
Pestis pervenit ad mi- Pestis, et in raagnse dominatur moenibus urbis.
ieros cotonos graviore : flammseque latentis
Viscera torrentur primo
(tamno, et dominatur r ,'
Indicium rubor est, et ductus
i^i- \rceoot>
- anhelitiis segre
in manibus magnir tir- :

&??. Primo viscera tor-

-

reiiiur, ct rubor, ft
anhelitiis dint us trgrk
Aspera lingua tumet trepidisque arentia
;
venis
est indicium latentis
Ora patent; aurseque graves captantur hiatu.
Jtamma lingnu aspc-
:
Non stratum, non uUa pati velamina possunt;
raiumet; oraqiie arcn-
tia venis trepidis pa- Dura sed in terrS, ponunt praecordia nee fit :

SJtur'^Z"^ Corpus humo gelidum, sed humus de corpore fer-

possunt pati stratum, vet 560
7ion ulla velamina, sed , . .
i ,

ponunt pra:cordia in Jfec modcrator adcst :

inque ipsos sseva medentes
fiTgciZZ)'"fiomo,^s"d Erumpit clades; obsuntque auctoribus artes.
'pZl"^fe' moderator Quo propior quisque est, servitque fidelius segro,
adest.-sievaqiie clades lyy
partem leti citi^s venit. Utque salutis
565
dentes; arttsqueob- Spcs abiit,- fiuemque vidcut in fuuere morbi ;

^Jul!quf7^t''"propt'r Indulgent animis : et nulla, quid utile, cura est :

utile enim nihil est. Passim positoque pudore,

^lllV^Jti:^:^:^
leti. Utque spes sa-
Foutlbus, et fluvus, puteisquc capacibus hserent :

liit.is abut, videntque -,.r .x ,•

, •,•' v •,
, i_"i,_J«
jincmmorbiinjimere; Ncc prms est extmcta sitis, quam vita, bibenao,
indulgens animis; et
est nulla cura quid sit utile, enim nihil est utile: pudoreque posito, harent passim fontibus et
jluviis puteisquc capacibus: nee sitis est extinctm bibendo priusquam vita est exlincta.

TRANSLATION.
neral faintness seizes all: the woods, fields and highways are strewed
(1
with loathsome carcases the air is infected with the smell, and, strange
;

((
to relate, neither dogs nor ravenous birds, nor hoary wolves, would
((
touch the dead bodies, they rot and fall away, and emitting noxious
((
exhalations, spread the contagion far and wide. The infection now
((
falls with collected rage on the wretched swains, and riots within the
((
walls of our great cities. It begins with scorching the bowels flush- ;

of breathing are the first indications of the latent

ings and a difficulty
((

ci
flame. The tongue grows rough and swells. Their mouths inflamed
the
by the strong beating of the veins, open Avide and greedily receive
((

a tainted air. Beds and coverings are loathed; they

large indraughts of
a rest their breasts
upon the hard ground, nor can they thence
derive any
coolness, but the heat is communicated to the ground from
It their bodies.
((
Nor is there any physician to attend them the cruel calamity breaks :

((
out even them who administer remedies, and the authors suffer
upon
The more nearly and faithfully any one
exercising their own arts.
(I
by
((
the sooner he falls a victim to his cares. And when now all hope
attends,
of recovery is gone, and they see that the disease must end in death, they
C( nor regard the means of relief;
indulge themselves in all their desires,
for indeed nothing brings relief. And banishing all sense of shame
they lie promiscuously about the fountains, rivers,
and capacious wells,
nor is Iheir thirst extinguished but with life itself. Here numbers
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VII. 263

^^"''' eraves.
Inde graves multi nequeunt consurcrere, et ipsis 570 neque-

Immonuntur aquis ; aliquis tamen haunt et illas. et immoriuntur ipsis

Tantaque sunt miseris invisi tsedia lecti ; ^i^ e/^rS

Prosiliunt :
aut, si
prohibent consistere vires, iafuTmLerif,' pZ%
Corpora devolvunt in humum fu^iuntque penates ('«»' ««'« vires pro- •

r^ -^ J i"i.-ji nibcnt consistere, de-

•
;

Quisque suos sua cuique domus lunesta videtur. voivmtt corpora in hu

:

mum, que quisquefu-

Et quia causa latet, locus est in crimine notus. 576 giunt suos penates :
sua domus videtur
Semianimes errare viis, dum stare valebant, cuique Et J'unesta.
flentes alios, terrasque jacentes quia causa latet, lo-
Aspiceres ; ;
cus est in crimine. Ad-
Lassaque versantes supremo lumina motu. spiceres semianimes
dum valebant stare,
[Membraq pendentis tendunt ad sidera ccsli, 580
; errare viis notis; alios

Hie, ubi mors deprenderat exhalantes.]

illic flentes,
terrtB ;
jacentesque
versantesque
Quid mihi tunc animi fuit ? an, quod debuit esse, motu.
lassa lumina supremo

Ut vitam odissem, et cuperem pars esse morum ? membra adTendtintque

sidera pen-
dentis cceli, exhalantes
Quo se cunque acies oculorum flexerat, illic animam hie, illic, ubi
Vulgus erat stratum. Veluti cum putria motis 585 Quid deprenderat
mors eo».
animi tunc fuit
Poma cadunt ramis, agitataque ilice glandes. mihi. An quod debuit
esse, ut odissem vitam,
Templa vides contra gradibus sublimia longis : et cuperem esse pars
meorum, ?
Jupiter ilia Quis non altaribus illis
tenet. acies oculorum fiexe-
quocunque
Irrita thura tulit quoties pro conjuge conjux,
: ratse, illic vulgus erat
stratum veluti cum
Pro gnato genitor, dum verba precantia dicit, 590 ptitria poma cadunt
motis ramis, glandes-
Non exoratis animam finivit in aris ?
que agitata ilice. Vi-
Inque manu
des i contra templa,
thuris pars inconsumptareperta est !
sublitnia longis gradi-
Admoti quoties templis, dum
vota sacerdos bus; Jupiter tenet ilia.
Quis non tulit irrita
thura illis altaribus? quoties conjux dum dicit verba precantia pro eonju'ge, genitor pro gnato,
Jinivit animatn in aris non exoratis, parsgue thuris est reperta inconsumpta in manu? quoties
tauri admoti templis dum sacerdos concipit vota,

TRANSLATION.
oppressed with the disease, and unable to rise, die amid the waters,
which are yet still greedily drunk up. And so impatient the hapless
wretches grow of their hated beds, that they leap from them, and if
they want strength to stand, roll their bodies on the ground. All fly
their dwellings, all regard their houses as fatal and because the source
;

of the disaster is unknown, the crime is charged upon the

place.
You might have seen them while yet they were able to stand, stalking
pale and almost lifeless along the streets, others lying weeping upon the
ground, and rolling with languid motion their expiring eyes (and ;

stretch their /eeiZe limbs to the pendant stars of heaven, breathing their
last promiscuously, as death chances to overtake them.) How melan-
choly was then the situation of my mind ? Could I do other than hate
life, and wish to share the fate of my people ? Wherever I turn my

eyes, there I see my

people lying in heaps, like mellow apples falling
from the boughs, or acorns from the shaken oak. You see over-against
you a temple raised high on lofty steps. It is sacred to Jupiter. How
many offered up incense in vain at these altars 1 often did the How
husband while offering up vows for his wife, and the father for the son,
finish their lives at the inexorable shrine ;
while part of the incense
was yet unconsumed in their hands ? How often did the bulls when

brought to the temples, while y^t the priest was pronouncing the \ows,
 264 P. OVIDII NASONIS

fn{er'^ciZ?JrceciT. Conciplt, ct fuiidit puium inter cornua vinum,

runt tuinere'haudex.
fectato. Ego ipse, cum
Haud
cxpectato
> _
ceciderunt vulnere tauri 596
*'"'
... !

face rem sacra joi'i pro

f
Ipse cffo sacia Jovi pro me, patriaque, tribusque
me, patriclque, tribits- /^ r i- -^
Hue natis, Uctima edi- <^um lacerem natis, mugitus victima diros
*
.

•
,
•
T
m^ZCa^ ^^!^^*-
et subit6 collapsa sine ictibus ullis
uuis ictibus, tinxit Exiffuo tinxit subiectos
sanguine cultros. 599
subjectos cultros exi- 17-1° tn .
• •

guo sanguine. Fibra .riDra quoquc SBgra notas vei'i, momtusquc DeoTum

Vat^ZTve,^%tt. Perdiderat. Tristes penetrant ad viscera morbi.

cadavera postes :
\TsZrbf;Zira,uad ^"^^^ ^^^^^^ ""'^f projecta
vidi cada- Ante
ipsas, quo Hiors foret invidiosior, aras,
viscera,

era's ^pastes f ante 7p.

P^rs animam laqueo claudunt ; mortisque timoretn
retZttkVsZr'pIrs Morte fugant: ultroque vocantvenientiafata. 605
ctauduHt animam la-
queo, fugantq ; timo-
Corpora missa neci nuUis de more feruntur
x> x^ i. x r • •
j.
re jn mortis morte, vo. runeriDus
neque enim capiebant lunera portse.
:

-^-Ut inhumata
'tfafita. rlrporamZ'. premunt terras aut dantur in altos :

^n^otata rogos. Et jam reverentia nulla est 609 :

%mrdZ7elLre!ne.
que enim ports capie- Deque Togis pugnant : alienisQue imibus ardent.
bant/unera. Aut in- rs. ^-i
®
1 j i j i3 x •

humata premunt ter- vui lacryment, desunt indetleteeque vagantur ;

Vat'aVi^aitmrogol'flt Natorumque virumque animae, juvenumque se-

jam est 7iulla reve- numOUe. '
rentia, pugnant que de
rogis, ardcntque aire-
nis ignibus. Desufit
-»t
JN ec
a i^
i
locus
"i
m tumulos,
•

a
.

i
1
nec suiiicit arbor in ignes.
•
j
/n
i
•- i • •

qui lacrijment am- Attomtus tanto miserarum turbme rerum,

:

si te non falsa 615

TrZTquljZZm'^ue J^pi^er 6, dixi, loquuntur
senutnque, vagantur Dicta sub amplexus .ZEffinsB Asopidos isse :

indejletitiNec locus i o r
tumulos, nec arbor in ignes. Ego attonitus tanto turbine miserarum rerum, dixi,
sufficit in O
Jupiter, si/alsadicta non loquuntur te Isse sub amplexus ^gin<e Asopidos,

TRANSLATION.
" and
pouring the sacred wine between the horns, fall without waiting
*'
for the wound ? While even I was oifering sacrifice to Jupiter for my-
"
self, for my country, and my three sons, the victim uttered dismal low-
"
ings, and falling suddenly down, before it received any strokes, tinged
" the knives The diseased entrails too
applied to it with scanty gore.
" had lost all marks of
truth, and presages of the will of the gods the :

" baneful
distemper penetrates to the inmost bowels. These eyes have
" seen the carcases
lying in heaps before the gates of the temples nay, ;

" to throw a Some

greater odium on the gods, before the very altars.
strangle themselves, and banish by an immediate death the continual
*'

apprehension of it, and voluntarily invite approaching fate. The dead

*'

" bodies are

not, according to custom, accompanied with funeral rites,
for the city gates cannot receive the multitude; but they either lie un-
*'

•*
buried on the ground, or are thrown upon piles without the customary
" honours. And now all reverence and distinction ceases
they fight for ;

" the funeral and burn the bodies in funeral fires not their own.
piles,
" Friends are
wanting to mourn, and the souls of virgins and matrons,
" stroll about unlamented. sufficient cannot be
young and old, Space
found for graves, nor trees to feed the fires.
tempestuous flood of miseries O Jupiter, said
" Astonished at such a ;

"
I, if fame does not falsely report, that you went into the embraces of
" if you are not ashamed to own your-
jdEgina, the daughter of Asopus ;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VII. 265

nee magnepater pudet

Nee te,'i-ii
ma2;ne pater, nostri pudet esse parentem
i
;
^ te esse parentein nos-
Aut mini redae meos aut me quoque conde se-
1
: tri; aut redde meoi
mihi,aut conde inequo-
pulchro. que seyulchro. Ille
dedit notam fulgore,
Ills notam fulgore dedit, tonitruque secundo. tonitruque secundo.
Accipio, sintque ista precor felicia mentis 620 Dili, accipio, precor-
que ut ista sint felicia

Signa tuse, dixi quod das mihi, pigneror, omen.

: signa tua mentis: pig-
neror omen quod das
Forte fuit juxta patulis rarissima ramis mihi. Forte fuit jux-
ta quercus de semin*
Sacra Jovi quercus de semine Dodonseo. Dodon leo rarissima pa-
Hie nos frugilegas aspeximus agmine longo tulis foliis, et sacra
Juvi. Hie )ws aspexi-
Grande onus exiguo formicas ore gerentes, 625 mus formicas frugile-
gas longo agmine, ge-
Rugosoque suum servantes cortiee callem. rentes grande onus
Dumnumerum miror, Totidem, pater optime, dixi, exiguo ore, servantes-
que suum callem ru-
Tu mihi da cives et inania moenia reple.
: goso cortiee. Dum
miror numerum, dixi,
Intremuit, ramisque sonura sine flamine motis optime pater da tu mi-
hi totidetn cives, et re-
Alta dedit quereus. Pavido mihi membra timor©
ple inania mania. Al-
Horruerant, stabantque comse. Tamen oscula ta quercus intremuit,
deditque sonum ramis
terrae, 631 motis sine flamine.
Membra horruerant
Roboribusque dedi nee me sperare fatebar : ; mihi pavido timore, co-
Sperabam tamen:/ atque T^
animo mea vota fovebam.
„„
maque stabant.-
"e<i' oscula terra ro-
tamen
-.f , r.
.
A

j\ ox subit: etcuris exercita

corpora
'-
somnus - do4 boribusque nee fate-
'
bar me sperare, tamen
Occupat. Ante oculos eadem mihi quercus adesse, sperabam : atque fove-
bam mea vota animo.
Et ramos totidem, totidemque animaUa ramis Nox sub'it, et somnus
Ferre suis visa est ; parilique tremiscere motu occupat corpora exer- :
cita cur is. Eariem
in arvis. quercus visa est mihi
Graniferumque agmen
subjectis spargere adesse ante ocutos, et
Crescere quod subito, et majus maj usque videri, ferre totidem ramos.
Ac se tollere ^ ' adsistere trunco : 640 'totidem, que ammaii^
humo ;
' reetoque
^ suis ramis, tremiscere-
que pariWrnotu : spargereque agmen graniferuin in subjectis arvis : quod visum est subito cres-
cere, et videri majus nwjusque, ac tollere se humo, adsistereque recto trunco ;

TRANSLATION.
selfmy father, either restore my lost subjects, or bury me too in the same
grave. He gave a signal by lightning and auspicious
thunder. I expected
the omen, and said May this be a happy presage of your returning fa-
;

vour ; 1 now give as a propitious pledge. Hard by

take the signal you
there chanced to be an oak sacred to Jove, of the race of Dtxlona, whose
boughs spread but thinly from the trunk. Here we beheld the frugal
ants in a long train, bearing mighty loads in their little mouths, and
pursuing their track in the wrinkled bark. While I stand Avondering
at their number. Almighty and kindest father, said I, give me subjects
numerous as these, and new furnish with citizens my desolate walls.
The towering oak trembled, and its tops, though shook by no winds,
rustled. Shivering horror shook my limbs my hair stood an end ; ;

I avowed not
I
yet gave kisses to the earth and the oak, and though
wishes in my
openly my hope, still I did hope, and cherished aspiring
mind. Mean time night comes on, and sleep creeps upon my limbs
weighed down with anxiety. The same oak seemed present before my
eyes, and to spread out its boughs covered with the same numerous
swarms of animals to tremble with a like motion, and scatter on the
;

fieldsunderneath, the grain-gathering troop; which suddenly were

seen to grow, and increase more and more in bulk and raise them- ;

selves from the ground, and stand with trunk erect and throw off their ;
 266 P. OVIDII NASONIS

^t maclem numerumque pedum,

'J.r.Z7ue7cfuTn:ni. nigrumque co-
grumquc colorem ; et lorem
inducere humanam -p) , . .
, „
formammembris. som- Jronerc ;
et numanam membris ,
in ducere lormam.
damno^mea vZfqtZ Somiius abit. Damiio vigilaiis mea
visa ; querorq ;
rorq^uc esse nihil opis In SuDcris opis cssc nihil. At in aedibus ino-ens 644
tn oupcriSf at erat in- -^x i
•

gens murmur in adi- Murmur voccsq hominum exaudire videbar,

eiat :
;
us, 1.1 e
dire voces
'*^9«^J^'^J^ Jamraihidesuetas. Dumsuspicorhasquoq; somni,
jam desuetas mihi.
Dum suspicor has quo- Ecce venit Telamon properus :
foribusq ; reclusis,
que sotnni, ecce Tela-
mon venit properus
Speque, fideque pater, dixit, majora videbis.
foribusque reclusis, Egredere. Egredior qualesque in imagine somni
:

dixit, pater egredere,

videbis majora speque
Visus eram vidisse viros, ex ordine tales 650
fideque. Egredior, qua-
lesque viros eram vi-
Aspico, agnoscoque. Adeunt; regemq ; salutant.
sus vidisse in imagine Vota Jovi solvo, populisque recentibus urbem
coqne tales ex ordine : Jraitior, et vacuos priscis cultonbus agros,

mrr'egcmf''xoiVo\fo'ta Myrmidonasque voco; nee origine nomina fraud o.

jon,partiorque urbem Corpora vidisti. Mores,' Quos ante ~
gcrebant,' 655
recentibus pvpults, et ' '
f^ , , .

agros vacuos priscis vi uuc

'"'""'" ;
culloribus """ " quoqiie habeut, parcumque genus, patiens-
vocoque
Alyrmidonas, neefr un- que laborum,
do nomina origine. Vi-
disti corpora, hahent Quaesitique tenax, et qui quaesita reservent.
nunc quoque mores Hi te ad bella pares annis, animisque sequentur,
quos gerebant ante
•uut enim genus par- Cum primum, qui te feliciter attulit, Eurus,
:

qui
Z'rZ',teni7q,TqLt
m, (Eurus enim attulerat) fuerit mutatus in Austros.
siti, et qui reservent
Hi
XXVI. Talibus atque aliis longumsermonibusilli
qu/rsita. pares an-
nis a7iimisqiie sequen-
tur te ad bella, cum
Implevere diem. Lucis pars ultima mensse
primum Eurus quifeli- Est data, nox somnis. Jubar aureus extulerat Sol :

citer attulite(enimEu-
rus
Flabat adhuc Eurus ; redituraque vela tenebat.
attulerat) fuerit
mutatus i}t Austros.
XXVI. IIU implevere longum diem talibus atque aliis sermonibus. Pars ultima lucis est data
mema, nox somnis. Aureus Sol extulerat jubar : Eurus adhuc Jiubat,tenebatque vela reditura.
TRANSLATION.
"
leanness, number of feet, and sable hue, and clothe their limbs in
" human form. Sleep withdraws waking, I condemn the vain vision, ;

" and complain that there is no relief in the gods. Still I heard an in
"
creasing murmm* in the palace, and human voices, to Avhich I Avas now
" in a manner become a stranger, assail my ears. While I suspect these
" and
too, an impression left by my dream, lo, Telamon enters in haste ;

"
throwing open the doors, Father, (says he), come forward you will ;

" see a wonder beyond hope or belief. I follow and see and know those
"
very men, whom I had beheld in the vision of my sleep. They
ad-
"
vance, and salute me king. I offer
up vows to Jove, and divide the
" and call them
city, and depopulated lands among my new subjects,
a name original. You
*'
myrmidons, that preserves the memory of their
" saw their of their ancient
persons, and they still retain the manners
" race a frugal generation, and patient of toil, eager to increase their
;

"
store, and who husband their acquisitions with care. These, alike in
"
years and courage, will follow you to the w ar, soon as the east wind,
" which
happily brought you hither, (for an east wind had brought them),
" shall to the south."
change
XXVI. In discourses, such as these they passed theday; the evening was
allotted to feasting,and night to sleep. The golden sun had now shed his
beams but still the east wind blew, nor would permit the sails to return. The
;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VII. 267

Ad Cephalum Pallante sati, cui grandior aetas : 665 ^,^^i XXtum'cni

Ad regem Cephalus, simul et Pallante creati atas erat grandior :
Cephalus et simul cre-
Conveniunt. Sed adhuc regem sopor altus habebat. ati Pallante conveni-
unt ad regem, sed alt us
Excipit jEacides illos in limine
Phocus :
sopor adhuc habebat
Phocus jEa-
Nam Telamon fraterque viros ad bella legebant. regem.
cides excipit illos in
Phocus in interius spatium pulchrosq; recessus 670 limine, nam Telamon
fraterque legebant vi-
Cecropidas ducit. Cum queis simul ipse resedit, vos ad bella. Phocus
ducit Cecropidas in in-
Aspicit ^oliden ignota ex arbore
factum terius spatium, pul-
manu jaculum, chrosque recessus: cum
Ferre cujus fuit aurea cuspis. queissimul ip^e resedit,
Pauca prius mediis sermonibus ille locutus, aspicit jEiilideu ferre
manu jaculum factum
Sum nemorum studiosus, ait, csedisque f erinse : 675 ex ignot (I arbore , cujus
cuspis fuit aurea. Ille
Qua tamen e silva teneas hastile recisum,
prius locutus pauca
Jamdudum dubito certe, si fraxinus esset,
:
mediis sermonibus ait,
sum studiosius Tiemo-
Fulva colore foret :
cornus, nodus inesset.
si rum, ca:disque ferincp ,
tamen jamdudum dubi-
Unde sit
ignoro : sed non formosius isto to e quel silviX teneas
Viderunt oculi telum jaculabile nostri. 680 hastile recisum, Certh
si essct fraxinus, foret

Excipit Actaeis e fratribus alter et usum : fulva colore, si cornus,

?wdus inesset, ignoro
Majorem specie mirabere, dixit, in isto. unde sit, sed nostri

Consequiturquodcunq; petit: fortunaque missum ^O^^^Srt ormo-

Non regit ;
cruentum.
et revolat nullo referente Alter
sius isto. e fra-
tribus Act (Bis excipit,
Turn vero juvenis Nereius omnia quaerit 685 et dixit; mirabere in
isto usum majorem spe-
Cur sit, et unde datum quis tanti muneris auctor.
; cie. Consequitur qiiod-
narrare pudori est. cuiique petit, fortuna-
Quae petit, ille refert; sed, quae que non regit missum,
et revolat cruentum nullo referente. Turn verb juvenis Nereius quarit omnia ; cur sit datum,
et unde, quis aucti tatiti muneris. Ille refert qua: petit, sed silet quee est pudori referre,
TRANSLATION.
in years, and Cephalus
sons of Pallas repair to Cephalus who was most
accompanied them to the king. But as the king was not yet arisen from
for Telamon and
sleep, Phocus, his son, receives them at the palace gate ;

his brother were mustering forces for the war. Phocus conducts the
Athenians to the inner recesses of the palace, finely adorned and being ;

set down with them, observed that the grandson of jEolus had in his
hand a dart made of wood to him unknown, and pointed with gold after :

some promiscuous conversation, " I am, (says he,) addicted to groves, and
" the hunter's for some time been in doubt from what tree
sport, yet have
" that is cut. Sure were it of ash, it must be of a brown colour,
javelin
" if of I cannot guess whence it is, but my
dog-tree it would be knotted.
" than this."
eyes have not seen a more beautiful weapon of its kind
One of the Athenian brothers rejoins " you will admire in this dart its
:

" Fortune guides not its aim, it

usefulness, still greater than its beauty.
" hits the and drenched in blood, returns spontaneous into
always game,
" the hand that threw it." The Nereian to know
youth is then impatient
all ;
he inquires whence and on what account it was given, and who Avas
the author of a present so valuable. Cephalus replies to all but touched ;

with conscious shame, conceals the occasion of his receiving it and re- ;

flecting with sorrow on the sad fate of his wife,

thus delivers himself with
NOTES.
672. Aspicit Moliden.] Cephalus is said 685. Juvenis Nerdus.'] Phocus, the son
to have been the grandson of^ohis, and of iliacus by the nymph Psaniathe, the
the son of Deionius, king of Phocis. daughter of Nereiis.
268 P. OVIDII NASONIS
fulerit :
quO. merceile QuR tulerit mercede, silet tactusque dolore :

tactiisquc dolore amis-

sa conjugis, ita
obortis.
fatur
Nate Conjugis amissse, lacrymis ita fatur obortis :

lacrymis
Dea, hoc.
telum, quis Hoc me, nate Dea, (quis possit credere ?) telum 690
possit credere T fucit Flere facit, facietque diu si vivere nobis
me jierejac'ictque diu, ;

si fata dederint 7iobis Fata diu dederint. Hoc me cum conjuge cara
vivere diu. Hoc per-
didit me cum card con- Perdidit. Hoc utinam caruissem munere semper !

j«gc, utinam semper

caruissem hoc munere. Procris erat (si forte magis pervenit ad aures
Procris erat sorer rap-
to: Orithyia (si forte Orithyia tuas) raptae soror Orythise. 695
Orithyia mcigis perve- Si faciem moresque velis conferre duarum,
vit ad tiias aures.J Si
relix conferre faciem Dignior ipsa rapi. Pater hanc mihi junxit Erech-
moresque duarnm, ip- theus :
sa crat dignior ra-
pi. Pater Ercchthens Hanc mihi junxit Amor. Felix dicebar, eramque :
junxit hanc mihi: dice-
bar, eramquefelix: non
ita tnstim est dis ac
(Non ita Dis visum est) ac nunc quoque forsitan
nunc quoque forsitan essem.
essem beiitus. Alter
menxis ugcbatur post
Alter agebatur post pacta jugalia mensis :

sacra jugalia, cum lu- Cum me

tea Aurora tenebris cornigeris tendentem retia cervis
pulsis viriit me mane Vertice de summo semper florentis Hymetti
tcndentem retia cor-
nisieris ceriis de sum-
Lutea mane videt pulsis Aurora tenebris
mo lertice Hymetti InvituniQuc
I
Liccat mihi vera referre,'
or norentis.ravtt- .^ -^
rapit.
^
- ....
semperJlorentis, rapit- y^ ^-^
j -f-^ -i-
, .
i
que iniitum. Liceat racc -
Ucse quou -
Sit TOSCO
- spectauuis orc,
;
mihi referre vera pare - -

dete, quod sit spectabi- Quod teneat lucis, teneat confinia noctis:
roscn ore, quod te-
lis
7teat confinia lucis, te-
Nectareis quod alatur aquis ; ego Procrin amabam :

neat coujinia noctis, Pectore Procris erat, Procris mihi semper in ore.
quod alatur Nertareis
aquis,ego amabumPro- Sacra tori, coi'tusque novos thalamosque^recentes,
cris.]Procri.s erat pec-
tore, Procris erat sem- Primaque deserti referebam foedera lecti a 710
per mihi in ore. Re- Mota Deaet, est
tuas, ingrate, querelas,
: Siste
ferebam sacra turi,coi-
tusque tiovos,thalamosque recentes,primaqtce fadera deserti lecti Dea est mota, et dixit, In-
grate, sistc tuas querelas,
TRANSLATION.
a flood of tears. "This dart, goddess born, (can you believe it), this dart
" is the cause of
my grief, and will long continue so, if the Fates have
assigned me a long period of life.
*'
This dart destroyed me, and my
' dearest wife. Would to heaven I had never enjoyed this fatal present.
" Procris was the sister of Orithyia, ravished by a god (as peradventure
" the greater fame of Orithyia may rather have reached your
ears.)
"
Though if you compare the faces and manners of the two, she seemed
" the more deserving of a rape. Her father Erechtheus joined her to me
" in marriage we Avere united too all the strictest ties of love. I
;
by
" was accounted happy, and was so iudeed and had
seemed good to
it
;

" the gods, might have been so still. It was now the second month after
" the nuptial contract, when saffron-coloured Aurora, dispelling the
" darkness of the morning, saw me as I was planting nets for the horned
"
stags, upon the high tops of ever-flourishing Hymettus and carried ;

" me off, against my will. Let me relate the truth, without offence to the
"
goddess ; amiable as she is with her rosy mouth, though she possesses
" the confines of light and darkness, and is fed Avith the juice of nectar,
" Procris alone was in my thoughts, Procris
yet I loved my Procris.
" ever in my mouth, 1 alleged the sacred ties of marriage, our late
"
union, the nuptial chambers, and my first and solemn engagements to
" the
forsaken fair. The goddess was provoked cease, says she, your ;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VII. 269

Procrin habe, dixit. Quod si mea provida mens est, ^f/,S'^,5l'/r""f4

Non habuisse voles.
Zl ,
Meque illi iratai remisit.
XT~v i
votes nonhabuisse.ira.
taque remuit me Hit.
Dum
n redeo, mecumque Ueas memorata
•. T ,•„
retracto,
1 n i
vtcm redco, retrac-
tonne; mcciim memo-
,

Esse metus ccepit, ne )vira jugalia conjux 715 rata dea, met as capu
Non bene servasset. Faciesque, aetasque jubebant Z^'sZ^'^eUuraju:
Credere adulterium: prohibebant credere mores. gaua. Faciesque, atas.

Sed tamen abfueram sed et haec erat, unde redibam, aduiierium;morespro.

:

Criminis exemplum: sed cuncta timemus amantes. fXT^lfr'am. fd

Quaerere, quo doleam, studeo donisq pudicam 720 liJ't''^^,Z%mM.
; ;

Sollicitare fidera. Favet huic Aurora timori nis,sed amantes tijne- :

- -,
\ n
• ""* mncta. Studeo
Immutatque meam (videor sensisse) riguram. quarere quo doieam,
Palladias ineo non cognoscendus Athenas :
fidem'Tr^^^'tiZl
Insfrediorque
"'o"-'-""'T. Ill-
domum. Culpa domus ipsa carebat
Castaq; signa dabat: dommoqueerat anxia rapto.
•
;
/«'«' hutc timori im..

mtitatqueCvideor sen-
sissej meamfiguram.
Vix aditu per mille dolos ad Erechthida facto 72C ; paUadLTl'tlfnas/n-
Ut vidi, obstupui meditataque :
poen^ reliqui ',ZfrplTciTelTtf:i.
Tentamenta fide male me, quin vera faterer, ra daimtque casta sig-
—, . ,s .
i.i-i:
•
li? ""' erat que anxia do-
Continui; male qum, ut oportuit, oscula lerrem. mine rapto. Aduuad
Tristis erat: sed nulla tamen formosior ilia, 730 S'^j'^f/, J^^.^Z
Esse potest
r tristi: desiderioque calebat *'«f obstupuj
pen'eque
. •
m
lu II- 1-
-
-iiA reliqui medUiita ten-
tamenta mate
COlllge quallS in
ConuiglS abreptl.
T-.,"^^i /••,
Fhoce, decor tuerit ; quam sic
-11- -Li
dolor ipse decebat.
ilia,
J
fidel.-
continui vie, quin fa-
te>e.r vera, mate, qitin

Quid referam, quoties tentamina nostra pudici {Z7.'"EmftrhtiZ"ed

Reppulerint mores? quoties. Ego, dixerit, uni 735 5^","'^pXr"l«a'"rL"f
calebatque desidcrio abrepti conjugis ; tu Phoce eollige quails decor fuerit in ilia quam ipse
dolor sic decebat. Quid referam quoties pudici mores reppuleritU nostra tentamina ? quoties dix-
erit ego servor uni.

TRANSLATION.
' mind di-
complaints, ungrateful youth; go to your Procris: but if my
" vines
aright, sore will you repent your unhappy love and thus
in anger :

" sent me back. While I

return, and revolve within myself the words
" of the
goddess a jealousy began to arise, lest my wife might have
;

" violated the Her beauty and age alarm my fears, but
nuptial voav.
" her But I had been absent,
spotless morals forbid every suspicion.
" and
she, whom I had just left, was an example of a guilty flame, but
" love is
always full of fears and jealousies. I grow impatient to explore
" what must her
prove matter of grief to myself, and to solicit with gifts
" blameless Aurora cherishes these fears, and changes my
chastity.
" of Pallas,
shape, as I seemed then to perceive. I enter Athens, the city
" in a form
unknown, and go to mine own house. The house itself was
" without
flame, and carried all the marks of chastity full of concern ;

" for the absence of its master. AVhen after a thousand artifices I had
" at of Erech-
length with great difficulty found access to the daughter
"
theus, as soon as I saw her I stood amazed, and well nigh quitted
" the from owning
projected trial of her fidelity scarce could I refrain :

" the she was dejected

truth, scarce refrain from the wished embrace : ;

"
yet even in her grief beautiful beyond compare, and languished in sor-
" row
for the loss of her husband. Judge, young prince, what her beauty
" must What need I to
be, when even in tears she looked thus lovely.
" how often How often she
repeat her chastity
baffled all ?
my attempts
270 P. OYIDII NASONIS

uhicunque est, servo Servor, ubicunoue est : uni mea gaudia servo?
mea gaudiauni. Cut . •
j . r< ^• i.-
•

sarto noil Ufa expert- Cui iion nue

ista satis experieiitrd sano

mal"itrfnon'sum^con- Magna foFct? nou svim contentus et in mea pugno ;

tentus,et pugnoinmea Vulnera duHi census dare me pro nocte paciscor,

:

me dare
nocte,atigen
census
oquemu-
pro Muneraque augendo tandem dubitare coegi. 740
g^-^jg^j-^^Q ^r^\^ tectus ego en, male
pactus adulter
.
ncra, tandem co'tgi earn
dubitare. Exclamo en
ego male tectus, male
Verus eram conjux me, perfida, teste teneris.
:

pactus adttlter, eram Ilia nihil tacito tantummodo victa pudore

:
verus conjux, perfida
teneris me teste. Ilia Insidiosa malo cum conjuge limina fugit :

respondit nihil,tantu m-
modo victa tacito pu- OfFensaque mei, genus omne perosa virorum 745
dore, fugit insidiosa li-
mina cum malo con-
Montibus errabat studiis operata Diana.
juge, perosaque omne Turn mihi deserto violentior ignis ad ossa
genus virorum offensa
mei, errabat montiOtis, Pervenit orabam veniam pecc^sse fatebar,
:
;

operata studiis Diunir.

Tttm violentior ignis Et potuisse datis simili succumbere culpee
pervenit ad ossa mihi
deserto: orabam veni.
Me quoque muneribus si munera tanta darentur. ;

am, et fatebar me pcc- Hoc mihi confesso, Isesum priiis ulta pudorem, 751
casse, el me quoque po-
tuisse succumbere si- Redditur, et dulces concorditer exigit annos.
mili culpa datis mu-
neribus; si tanta mu-
Dat mihi prseterea, tanquam se parva dedisset
nera darentur. Bed-
ditur mihi confesso hoc,
Dona, canem munus quem cmn sua traderet illi:

prius nlta lasum pu- Cynthia, currendo superabit, dixerat, omnes.

755
dorem, et exigit con-
corditer dulces annos. Dat simul et jaculura; manibus quod (cernis) ha-
Praterea, tanquam, bemus.
dedisset se parva rio?ia,
dat mihi canem munus: XXVII.
Muneris alterius quae sit fortunarequiris?
quem cum sua Cynthia
traderat illi, dixerat Accipe. Mirandi novitate movebere facti.
superabit omnes currendo. Dat simul et jaculicm, quad (cernis )hal>cmtis manibus.
XXVII. Requiris qu(B sit fortuna alterius muneris ? accipe. Movebere novitate mirandi facti.

TRANSLATION.
told me am reserved for one wherever he is; I keep my joys for him
I
((
alone ? Who in his senses might not have been satisfied with this trial
of fidelity ? But it contents not me I strive to wound myself, while I
;

promise vast sums for one night, and by increasing the bribe, bring her
at last to waver. Alas, cried I lo, I, the unhappy concealed, the un-
:

happy contracting lover, am

your real husband perfidious wretch, I :

<(
am myself a Avitness of your infidelity. She made no reply, but over-
whelmed with silent shame, flies the treacherous house, and her en-
snaring husband, and for my offence, hating the whole race of men,
ranges the mountains, devoted to the exercises of Diana. Deserted
thus, the fire of love more violent than ever raged in my bones
(I I ;

begged forgiveness, and owned myself in fault, and that even I might
have yielded to the force of presents, had presents of so great value
t(
been offered. This confession restored her to my embraces, having
but too severely revenged hy absence the assault upon her modesty and ;

(C
we passed our years in the sweetest harmony. Besides, as if it was
((
but a small gift that she had given me herself, she presented me with
a dog, which her own Diana had given her, and promised that he
should surpass all others in running. She gave me a dart too, the same
that you see now in hands.
my
XXVII. " Would you know the fortune of the other present, the dog ?

hear then :
you will be surprised at the novelty of the wonderful fact.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VII. 271

non intellecta priorum Ldiadt% solverat car-

Carmina Lai'ades
mina non intellecta in-
Solverat ingeniis : et prsecipitata jacebat 760 geniis priorum,et vates
ubscura jacebat praci-
Immemor ambagum vates obscura suarum. pitata, immemor sua-
rum ambagum. 'Scilicet
Scilicet alma Themis non talia linquit inulta.
alma Themis non lin-
Protinus Abniis immittitur altera Thebis quit talia inulta. Pro-
tinus altera pestis im-
Pestis ; et exitio multi pecorumque, suoque mittitur Aoniis The-
bis ; et multi rurigens
Rurigenee pavere feram. Vicina juventus 765 suoque exitio, et exitio
Venimus et latos indagine cinximus agios. pecorum,pave refer am.
; Vicina juventus veni-
Ilia levi velox superabat retia saltu : mus, et cinximus latos
agros indagine. Ilia
Summaque transibat positarum lina plagarum. velox superabat retia
levi saltu, transibat-
Copula detrahitur canibus, quos ilia sequentes gue summa Una posi-
EfFugit, et volucri non secius alite ludit. 770 tarumdetrahitur
plagarum. Co-
pula cani-
Poscor et ipse meum consensu Laelapa magno ; bus, quas sequentes il-
ia effugit, et ludit non
Muneris hoc nomen. Jamdudum vincula pugnat segnius volucri alite.
JEt ipse magno con-
Exuere ipse sibi, colloque morantia tendit. sen.^u poscor meum
Vix bene missus erat nee jam poteramus, ubi esset, ^ff^«po' Hoc erat no-
;
men mutteris. Jamdu-
ocire pedum calidus vestigia pulvis habebat: 775 dum ipse pugnat exu.
;
ere vincla sibi, tendit-
Ipse oculis ereptus erat. Non ocior illo que collo ea morantia.
Fix
ix bene erat missus,
Hasta, nee excussae contorto verbere glandes. nee jam poteramus
Nee Gortyniaco calamus ab arcu. levis exit scire utn esset. Calidus
pulvis habebat vestigia
Collis apex medii subjectis imminet arvis :
pedmn, ipse erat erep-
tus oculis. No7i hasta
Tollor eo, capioque novi spectacula cursus 780 :
exit ocior illo, nee
Qua modo deprendi, modo se subducere ab ipso glandes excussw con-
torto verbere, nee levis
Vulnere visa fera est. Nee limite callida recto, calamus ab arcu Gor-
tyniaco. Apex medii
In spatiumque fugit; sed decipit ora sequentis : collis imminet subjec-
*'s arvis tollor eo, capioque spectacula novi cursus, quo /era visa est modo deprendi, modo sub-
:

ducere se ab ipso vulnere ; nee callida /era fugit recto limite, vel in spatium, sed decipit ora se-
quentis :

TRANSLATION.
" Theson of Laias had unfolded the mysterious lines, impenetrable to
the understandings of all who essayed it before ; and the dark songster,
precipitated from a rock, lay mindless
of her riddle. But impartial
Themis suffers not crimes like these to escape due vengeance. Instantly
another savage ravages the Theban plains and flocks and swains fall
;

a prey to the rage of the devouring monster. The neighbouring youth

convene, and beset the ample fields with toils. But with active bomid
she eluded the snare, and nimbly overleaped the high barriers of the
spreading net. We
then let loose our dogs but she baffles their pur-
;

suit, and outflies them, swift as a winged bird. I am then importuned

by all to slip my Lelaps, for that was the name of my wife's present.
From the very first he struggles to break the hampering bonds, and
violently strains them with his neck. Scarce was he freed from the
his feet are
chain, when in a moment he appears no more the prints of ;

seen in the dust but himself is snatched from our eyes.

;
No spear
flies swifter than he, nor bullets tossed from the whirling sling, or light
arrow whizzing from a Cretan how. A hill, with towering top, surveys
txhe
plains around. Thither I mount, to have a view of the unusual
chase. Noav he seems to hold his prey, now the monster starts from
his very bites nor holds an even direct course, but eludes the mouth
;

of her pursuer, and winds away in rings, to break the force of his
 272 P. OVIDII NASONIS

J«:rfAf^"TiJ'
Et redit in gyrum, ne sit suus impetus hosti.
Hicimnmiet,sequitur- Imminetliic, sequituique parem similisnue tenenti
quepurem, similtsque -.j .. ^ ••/> *
ncie-
:

tenenti, non tenet, et i\ On tenet, et vacuos cxcrcet in aera morsus.

.

7oo
trd^rV"7"rtZ7ad Ad jaculi veitebar opera quod dextera librat :

opemjacuii.quoddum Dum mea, dum di2:itos amentis indere tento,

mea dextera librat, t i \a
• •

dum tendo indere dip- Lumma denexi levocataque rursus eodem

-i

tos amentis, deftexi lit-

tnina, retuleratnque Rettuleram, medio (minnn) duo marmora campo
rurxus revocata eodem.
(Mirum!) adspicio duo Adspicio ; fugere hoc, illud latrare putares. 791
marmora tnedio cam- Scilicet invictos ambos certamine cursus
po ; putares hoc fti-
ger e,iUud latrare. Sci- Esse Deus voluit si quis Deus adfuit illis.
;
licet (leus, si quis dens
adjfuit illis, voluit am-
XXVIII. Hactenus et tacuit. Jaculo quod : cri-
bos esse invictos cer-
tam ne cursus.
men in ipso ?
XXI. Hactenus et ta- Phocus ait. Jaculi sic criraina reddidit ille. 795
tuit.Phocus ait, quod
crimen est in ip.sS ja- Gaudia principium nostri sint, Phoce, doloris.
crimiJI%cun^^rfw1-e.
^^^^ prius referam. Juvat 6 meminisse beati
sint gaudia principium
Tcmporis, iEacida, Quos primos rite per annos
nostri doloris, rrferam /-,.' o {• r •^^
ilia prius. o jEacida, Conjuge eram telix; lerax erat ilia marito.
'^So^s"quoper^ Mutua cura duos, et amor socialis habebat. 800
mos annos eram rite
^ec Jovis ilk meo thalamos prse ferret amori :
felix coi'jugc; illacrat r^ . . .

feiix marito. Mutua Nec me quse caperet, non si Venus ipsa veniret,
cttra et socialiamor
habebat duos. Nee ilia Ulla erat. ^quales urebant pectora flammse.
prteferret thalamosjo- Sole fer^ radiis feriente cacumina primis,
vis meo ami>ri,nec erat
ulla qiite caperet me,
nan. si ipsa Venus ve
Venatum in silvas iuveniliter ire solebam : 805
niret: irguaies flam- JNec mecum lamulos, nec equos, nec naribus acres
miB urebant pectora. t t j i.
• •

Soleferiente cacumina Ifs caues, nec uua sequi nodosa sinebam.

montium primis fere radiis, solebam ire juveniliter in sili'os, venatum. Nec sinebam famnios,
nec equos, nec canes acres naribus ire mecum, nec nodosa Una sequi.

TRANSLATION.
" career. He
darts upon her, and closely urges his rival ; at every stretch
" he his prey, hut still is baffled, and vainly chops the air. I theii
hopes
"
prepare to launch my javelin but while I brandish it for the throAv,
;

•'
and turn my eyes to fit my fingers to its thongs; looking back, with
" amazement I behold two marble statues in the middle of the
plain :

*'
one seems to fly, the other with barking to pursue. Some god un-
"
doubtedly (if you can suppose that any god here interposed) thus
"
changed them, that both might remain unconquered in the race."
XXXIII. Here he stopped. But, says Phocus, what is the crime you
" Let me
charge upon the dart ? When Cephalus thus resumed his tale.
"
begin this mournful recital with past joys these, Phocus, will I first ;

•'
rehearse, O son of ^acus, how I am pleased to reflect upon the happy
" time, those first years of marriage when I was so completely blessed in
;

" a wife, nor she less blessed in a husband. Mutual tenderness and en-
"
dearing love linked us both. Not Jove himself had been preferred to
"
"
my embrace nor could any nymph, not Venus in all her charms have
;

captivated my heart. Our breasts glowed with an equal flame. It was

"
"
my custom, soon as the sun's early beams gilded the mountain tops,
with youthful fondness to repair to the groves to hunt. Nor took I any
" servants with me, nor horses, nor quick-scented hounds, nor Avas I pro-
" vided with knotted nets. My dart was instead of all but when satiated with ;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lie. VII. 273

Eram tutus jaculo,

Tutus eram jaculo. Sed cum satiata ferinse 'Sed cum dextera erut

Dextera csedis erat; repetebam frigus, et umbras, satiata ferinas cadis ;

repetebam frigus, et
de gelidis halabat vallibus, auram. 810 umbras, et aurumqum
Et, qu£e halabat de gelidis val-
Aura petebatur medio mihi lenis in sestu libus. Aura lenis pe-
:

tebatur mihi in medio

Auram expectabam; requies erat ilia labori. (Bstu : expectabam au-
Aura (recorder enim) venias, cantare solebam ; ram, ilia erat requies
labori. Solebam can-

Meque juves, intresque sinus, gratissima, nostros ; tare (enim recorder J

aura gratissima ve-
Utq ; facis, relevare velis, quibus urimur, oestus. 815 nias, Juvesque 'me, in-
Forsitan addideram (sic me mea fata trahebant) tresqtte sinus nostras ;
ut que facis, velis rele-
Blanditias plures ; et, Tu mihi magna voluptas, vare (Estus quibus uri-
mur. Forsitan, (sic
Dicere sim solitus, tu me reficisque, fovesque :
mea fata trahebant
me) addideram plures
Tu facis, ut silvas, ut amem loca sola meoque ;
blanditias : et'sim soli-

semper captatur ab ore.

Spiritus iste tuus
820 tus dicere, tues magna
voluptas mihi, tu refi-
Vocibus ambiguis deceptam praabuit aurem cisque fovesque me ; tu
facis ut amem silras,
Nescio quis nomenque aurae tarn seepe vocatum
; ut amem loca sola, is-
Esse putans Nymphse, Nympham mihi credit amari. teque tuus spiritus
semper captatur ab
Criminis extemplo ficti temerarius index ore meo. Nescio quis
prahuit deceptam au-
Procrin adit linguaque refert audita susurru. 825
; rem ambiguis vocibus,
putansque nomen au-
Credula res amor est. Subito collapsa dolore, ra tarn s<epe vocatum
~Ut esse nomen nympha:,
sibi narratur, cecidit; longoque refecta credit nympham ama-
Tempore, se miseram, se fati dixit iniqui : ri milii. Extemplo te-
merarius auctor ficti
Deque fide questa est. Et crimine concita vano, criminis adit Procrin,
audita, lin-
Quod nihil est, metuit metuit sine corpore no- refertque
;
gua suiurra. Amorest
mep : 830 res credula. Ut nar-
ratur sibi, collapsa su-
Et dolet infelix veluti de pellice vera. bito dolore cecidit, re-
fect aque longo tem-
Ssepe tamen dubitat, speratque miserrima falli ; pore, dixit se miseram.
dixit sefati iniqui, questaque est dejide, et coiictta vcnio crimine, metuit quod est niliil, metuit
nomen sine corpore, et infelix dolet, veluti de verd pellice. Tamen miserrima, sepe dubitat, spe-
ratque falli ;
TRANSLATION.
" that
slau2;hter I repaired to the cool shades, and refreshing breeze,
" breathed from the Fond I was of the cool in the
deep valleys. gale
" noon-tide
heats, I expected it with impatience, it was a relief after my
" well I remember
fatigue. Come, gentle gale, was I wont to sing (for
" the come to enter
fatal words), my relief; and, grateful, my panting
" bosom under which I faint.
allay, as you are wont, those sultry heats
;

" It chanced that I added

(so my fate pushed me on) soothing blandish-
" ments and
; come, Avould I say, myjo7j, my pleasure you cherish and ;

" refresh
me, you make me delight iu woods and pathless haunts tliat ;

"
bahmj breath of yours is ever catched with eagerness by my mouth.
" So)?ie
one, I know not who, overheard and, misled by the ambiguous
;

"
words, fancying the name (Aura) so often invoked, to Jie that of a
" the
nymph, imagined some nymph had captivated my heart.^nstantly
" rash informer of this fictitious crime to her
goes to Procris, and repeats
" the Love is easy of belief soon as she
sounds he had overheard. ;

"
hears it she faints away, and after a long interval reviving, complains
" of
her misfortune, and cruel fate, and charges me with breach of faith :

" thus
distracted by the appearance of a groundless crime, she dreads
" what
indeed is nothing, the empty shadow of a name and grieves as ;

" for a real

rival. Yet she often wavers in her belief, and inconsolable,

hopes she may he deceived nor will credit the information. or charge
;
 274 P. OVIDII NASONIS

vegatqiie JIdfm inflicio,

et, nisi ipsa viderit, nan Indicioque fidem negat ; et,
nisi viderit
ipsa,
est danmatura delicta Damnatura sui non est delicta mariti.
sui mariti. Postera
lumina aurorte depu- Postera depulerant Aurorse lumina iioctem ; 835
lerant noctem : egre-
dior, petoque si Iras ? Egredior, silvasque peto victorque per herbas, :

victorque per herbas Aura veni, dixi, nostroque medere labori.

aura veni, mede-
dixi,
reque nostra labori; Et subito gemitus inter mea verba videbar
et subito videbar au-
disse tiescio quos gemi- Nescio quos audisse. Veni, tamen, optima, dixi.
tus inter mea verba,
tamen dixi optima ve- Fronde levem rursus strepitum faciente caduca, 840
ni. Fronde caduca rur-
Sum ratus esse feram ; telumque volatile misi.
susfaciente levem strC'
pitiim, sum ratus esse Procris erat; medioque tenens in pectore vulnus,
feram, misique telum
volatile. Erat Procris, Hei mihi conclamat. Vox est ubi cognita fidse
!

tenensque vulnus in vocem

medio pectore, con- Conjugis, ad prseceps amensque cucurri.
clamat hei milii ! ubi et sparsas foedantem sanguine ves-
vox fid<B conjvgis est Semianimem,
cognita, cuctirri pra- tes, _
845
ceps amensque ad vo- Et sua (me miserum !) de vulnere dona trahentem
cem. Me miserum ! 171-
venio semittnimem et Invenio corpusque meo mihi charius ulnis
;
foedantem testes spar-
sas sanguine, et tra- Sontibus attoUo, scissaque a pectore veste
hentem sua dona de
vulnere :attolloque ul- Vulnera sseva ligo ; conorque inhibere cruorem :

nis sontibus corpus

carius mihi meo, ves-
Neu me morte su& sceleratum deserat, oro. 850
teqiie scissa ct pectore, Viribus ilia carens, et jam moribunda, co'egit
ligo sava vulnera, co-
norque inhibere cruo- Hsec se pauca loqui per nostri fcedera lecti,
:

rem, oroque neu such

inorte deserat me sce- Perque Deos supplex oro, superosque, meosque ;
leratum. Ilia carens Per si quid merui de te bene perque manentem
mori- ;
viribus, et jam
hunda, co'egit se loqui Nunc quoque cum pereo, causam mihi mortis,
h(Ec pauca : oro sup-
plex per fadera nostri amorem : 855
lecti, perque deos su-
perosque meosque, per,
Ne
thalamis Auram
patiare innubere nostris.
si merui quid bene de te, perque amorem, causam mortis mihi, manentem nunc quoque cum pe-
reo, tie patiare Auram innubere nostris thalamis.

TRANSLATION.
her hand witli a crime, unless she witnesses
it herself.
Returning
Aurora had chased away the darkness of the night I sally out, make :

for the woods, and victorious in the field Come gentle gale, (said I), :

and relieve my pain and suddenly, while I yet speak, mournful groans
;

strike my ear. Yet again I say. Come, delightful gale. The falling
leaves again making a rustling noise, 1 fancied it some wild beast, and
launched my flying spear. It was Procris, and hearing the wound
in the middle of her breast, Ah me (she cried). When know- !

ing it to be the voice of my faithful wife, headlong and distracted

I run to the place. I find her expiring, staining her clothes with

streaming blood, and (Oh woe unutterable !) attempting to draw from

the wound ber own fatal gift I raise her body in my guilty arms, and
:

tearing the breast of my robe, bind up the cruel wound, and endeavour
to stop the blood, and beg her to live, nor leave me thus under the
stain of her death. But strength failing her, and now just expiring,
she could only force out with faltering accent these few words By :

all the sacred ties of the nuptial bed I conjure you, by all the gods,
both of heaven and earth, by whatever made me once appear deserv-
ing, and by that love I bear you,
the cause of my death, which even now
cleaves to me in my last moments, suffer not Aura to share with you the
nuptial bed. She said then at last I perceived, and made her sensible
;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VII. 275

Dixit; et errorem turn denique nominis esse Dixit, et turn denique

ct sensi et docui esse
Et sensi, et docui. Sed quid docuisse juvabat? errorem nominis, sed
quid juvahat docuissef
Labitur; et parvse fugiunt cum sanguine vires. labitur, et parva ti-

Dumque aliquid spectare potest, me spectat ; et in res fugiunt cum san-

guine. Diimqtte potest
me 860 spectare aliquid, spec-
tat me, et exhalat in-
Infelicem animam nostroque exhalat in ore. fcllcem animam in me,
Sed vultu meliore mori secura videtur. nostroqiie in ore. Sed
videtur viori secura
Flentibus hsec lacrymans heros memorabat et ecce ineliore vultu. Herbs
lacrymans memorabat
^acus ingreditur duplicicum prole, novoque 864 hac illis Jieiitibus : et
ecce JEacus ingreditur
Milite ; quern Cephalus cum fortibus accipit armis. cum duplici prole, no-
voque milite, quern Cephalus accipit cum fortibus armis.

TRANSLATION.
" that it was
merely the error of a name. But what did it avail me to
" convince her
of the mistake? She sinks down, and her little remaining
" Yet her expiring eyes are
strength vanishes with her loss o/ blood.
"
immovably fixed on me and, eased of her fears, she seems to die
;

" with a contented

air, and sighed her soul into my breast." The weep-

ing hero, by this moving relation, had melted them all into tears when, ;

lo, JEsLCus enters with his two sons, and new-levied soldiers, whom, well

equipped with gallant arms, he puts under the command of Cephalus.

NOTES.
862. Secura.'] That is, free from anx- to his affections. Hence he adds vultu
iety, and the uneasiness that must arise meliore, that she discovered her satisfac-
from the apprehension of a rival's sur- tion and tranquillity in her looks.
viving her, and succeeding undisturbed

T 2
 276 P. OVIDII NASONIS

LIBER OCTAVUS.

1.
ORBO.
Lucifer jam re-
I. XAM nitidum retegente diem, noctisque fu-
tegente nitidum diem, fj gante
fuganteqne temfora
noctix, JEurits cadit ; Tempora Lucifero, cadit Eurus; et humida sur-
et humida nubila sur-
gunt. Placidi austri gunt
dant cursum Caddis Nubila. Dant cursum redeuntibus Austri
Cephaloque redeiinti-
placidi
bus, quibus austris illi iEacidis,Cephaloque quibus feliciter acti
;

feliciter acti, tcnuerc

petitos partus ante ex-
Ante expectatum portus tenuere petitos. 5
pectutum tempus. In- Interea Minos Lelegeia littora vastat,
terea Minos vastat
Lelegeia littora, pric-
tentatque vires sui
Prsetentatque sui vires Mavortis, in urbe
Mavortis in urbe Al- Alcatho'e, quam Nisus habet ; cui splendidus ostro
cot/wc, quam Nisus Inter honoratos medio de vertice canos
habet; cui crinis splen-
didtis ostro, Jiducia Crinis inhaerebat, magni fiducia regni. 10
magni regni, ijilKere-
hat de mt:dio vertice, Sexta resurgebant orientis cornua Phoebes ;
inter honoratoi capil-
los canos. Sexta cor- Et pendebat adhuc belli Fortuna diuque ;
nua orietitis Phcebes Inter
resurgeba7it, et for- utrumque volat dubiis Victoria pennis.
tuna belli adhuc pen-
debat ; victoriaque diu Regia turris erat vocalibus addita muris ;

volat inter utrumque d ubiis pennis. Turris regia erat addita, vocalibus muris,
TRANSLATION.
I. A ND now
the morning star ushering in the bright day, and dis-
-^-*-
pelling the sable shades of night, the east wind falls, and humid
clouds arise. The kindly south winds favour the return of Cephalus,
and the sons of ^acus, and, urging their course, bear them sooner than
expected to the intended port. Mean time Minos lays waste the Lele-
gian coasts and previously tries the strength of his arras against the
;

city of Alcathous, where Nisus reigns among whose honoured hoary

;

hairs a purple lock hangs down from the middle of his head, the strength
and fortune of his kingdom.
Revolving Phoebe was now the sixth time filling her silver horns, and
still the fortune of the war was in suspense victory, doubtful which side
;

to take, long hovers between both with expanded wings. There was a
lofty tower rising from the vocal walls, on which the son of Latona is
said to have laid his golden harp, whose sound was thence communicated
to the stones. The daughter of Nisus was frequently wont in times of
NOTES.
Ovid, from the sto»y of Cephalus, gallant. This adventure is partly true ;
asses to that of Nisus and Sylla. For for, according to Pausanias, that princess
Slinos, finding that he could obtain no held correspondence with Minos during
succours from JEacns, proceeds directly the siege, gave him intelligence of the
against Athens, and beginning with the most secret resolutions of the council,
adjoining cities, lays first siege to Megara and at last gave him admission into the
or Nisa, of which Nisus was king. We town by the keys, which she took while
are told, that prince's destiny depend- her father was asleep, and which Ovid
ed on a red hair he had on his head ; and probably intended by the symbol of the
that Sylla, being in love with Minos, cut fatal hair.
it out, and made a present of it to her
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VIII. 277

In quibus auratam proles Latoia fertur in quibus proles Jm-

triia fertur deposuisse

Deposuisse lyram saxo sonus:

ejus inha?sit. auratamlyram sonus :

illuc solita est ascendere filia Nisi, ejus inita-.sit saxo. Fi-
Saepe lia Alfii est srrpe soli
Et peteie exiguo resonantia saxa lapillo; ta ascendere illuc, et
petere resonuntia saxa
Tuni cum pax esset. Bellum quoque seepe solebat exiguo lapillo,tum cwn,
esset pax. Bello quo
Spectare, eque ilia rigidi certamina Martis. 20 qtce, solebat stepe spec-
tare ex ilia certamina
Jamque mora belli procerum quoque nomina norat, rigidi Martis. Jamque,
mora norat quo-
Armaque, equosque,habitusque, Cydoneasque pha- belli,
que nomina procerum,
retras. armaqtte,cquosque, ha-
usque, Cydoneasque bit
Noverat ante faciem duels Europaei;
alios
pharetras. Norerat
Pliis etiam,
quam nosse sat est. Hac judice, Minos,
ante alios faciem Ew-
ropa:i ducts, etiamplus
Seu caput abdiderat cristata casside pennis, 25 quam est sat nosse.
Hac judice, Minos, seu
In galea formosus erat; seu sumpserat auro abdiderat caput cas-
side cristata pennis,
Fulgentem clypeum, clypeum sumpsisse decebat. erutformosus ingaled;
Torserat adductis hastilia lenta lacertis seu sumpserat cli/pe-
vm fulgentem auro, ;

Laudabat virgo junctam cum viribus artem. decebat sumjisissc cly

Seu torsrrat
Imposito patulos calamo sinuaverat arcus 30 pemn.
lenta hastilia adduc- :

Sic Phcebum sumptis jurabat stare sagittis. tis lucertis, virgo lau-
dabat artem junctam
Ciam vero faciem dempto nudaverat aere, cum viribus. Seu sinu-
averat patulos arcus
Purpureusque albi stratis insignia pictis calamo imposito, Jura-
bat Phwbum stare sic
Terga premebat equi, spumantiaque ora regebat: sumptis sagittis. Cum
Vix sua, vix sanse virgo Nisei'a compos 35 vero nudaveratfaciem
dempto ffre ; purpure-
Mentis erat. Felix jaculum, quod tangeret ille, usque premebat terga
albi equi insignia pic-
Quseque manu premeret, felicia frsena vocabat. tis stratis,
regebatque
spumantia ora ; Nescia virgo vix erat .sua, vix erat compos same mentis, V^ocabat jaculum quod
ille tangeret feliXjfrccnaque qua munu tangeret felicia.
TRANSLATION.
peace to mount
thither, and with a small pebble strike the resounding
walls. In war
too she was often wont to behold thence the contests of
rigid Mars. And now by the long continuance of the war, she was be-
come acquainted with the names of the chiefs, their arms, horses, ivar-
like dresses, and the Cydonean quivers. But, above all the rest, she
marked the face and mien of the son of Europa, even more than Avas
consistent with her repose. In her judgment, Minos, whether he co-
vered his head with a helmet crested with waving plumes, looked grace-
ful in a helmet or if he bore on his arm a shield gleaming with bur-
:

nished gold, he was still amiable with the shield. Did he with nervous
arm launch the trembling dart, the admiring nymph commended his
strength and skill. If applying an arrow, he bends the circling bow, she
fancies that thus Phoebus must look, Avhen armed with his pointed reeds.
But when putting off the brazen helmet, he discovers his lovely face,
and arrayed in purple mounts a snow-white steed richly caparisoned in
flowers of gold, and guides with steady rein his foaming mouth, then in-
deed the Niseian maid is no longer mistress of herself, nor can control
her frantic mind, Happy, says she, is the dart which he touches, liappy
the reins w hich are his hand. She is strongly impelled (were
pressed by
the hostile battalions, or
possible) to direct her virgin steps through
it

launch her
body from the of the tower into the Gnossian camp, to
top
open the brazen gates to the enemy, or to do whatever else Minos might

\
NOTES.
23. Ewovai ducts. 1 Miuos, the sou of Jupiter and Eiuoua.
278 P. OVIDII NASONIS

£st est illi, (liceat modo) ferre per agmen

imvctHx^Mionodo
liceat ) fii te vngineos
Impetus
i .
i_ { i •
-i
gradus'ver hostile iig- Virgmeos tiostile gvaclus est impetus illi,
:
men: est impetus illi
tnittere corpus e sum- Turribus e summis in Gnossia niittere corpus 40
mis turribus in Gnos-
sia castra : vel reclu-
Castra ;
vel seratas hosti recludere
portas :
dere aratas portas Vel si Quid Minos aliud velit. Utoue sedebat
nosti, vel SI Minos ve- ^-v t i -r-v . •
'-
.

lit quid aliud, facere Candida DictsBi spectans tentoria regis :

id.utquc sedebat spec

tans Candida tentoria Lgg^-gj, ^j|-^ doleamnc
geri lacrymabile bellum,
Dictai regis ait, est
:
In dubio est. Doleo quod Minos hostis amanti
in dubio, later dole-
amne brllum lacryma- est 45
bile geri. Doleo quod
Minos est hostis aman- Sed nisi bella forent, numquid mihi cognitus esset;
Sed nisi bella fo-
ti.

rent, numquid esset

Me tamen accept^ poterat deponere bellum
cognitus mihi ? tamen Obside me comitem, me pacis pignus habere.
;
poterat deponere bel-
lum, me acceptA ob- Si,quse te peperit, talis, pulcherrime rerum,
side : foter At habere 7ne
comitem, me pignus Qualis es ipse, fuit, merito Deus arsit in ilia. 50
yacis. Si, o pulcherri-
me rerum, qua genuit O ter felix, si pennis lapsa per auras
ego
te fait talis qualis ip- Gnossiaci possem castris insistere regis :
se es ; deus merito ar
sit in ilia, o ter felix rassaquc me, nammasque meas, qua dote, roga-
ego, si lapsa per auras rpm
yetmis, possum itisis- IcUl,
tere castris Gnossiaci Vellet emi ! tantum patrias ne posceret arces.
regis : fassaqtie me, me-
asque flammas, roga-
rem quA dote vellet
Nam pereant potius sperata cubilia, quam sim 55
emi ! tanlttm neposce- Proditione potens. Quamvis ssepe utile vinci
ret patrias arces. Nam Victoris fecit dementia multis.
sperata cubilia potius placidi
pereant, quam sim po- Justa gerit certe pro nato bella perempto :
tens p^'oditione. Quam-
vis clejnentia placidi In causaque valet, causamque tuentibus armis.
victoris, sape fecit
utile multis vinci. Cer- Ut puto, vincemur. Qui si manet exitus urbem.
te facit justa bella pro
nato perempto: valet -
Cur suus haec illi reserabit mcenia Mavors, 61
que in causCi, armis- Et non noster amor? meliias sine csede, moraque,
que tuentibus causam.
Ot puto, vincemur : qui exitus si manet urbem,cur suits Mavors reserabit illi hac mania, et non
noster amor ? poterit tnelius
superare sine cade mordqiie,

TRANSLATION.
require. And
as she sat with her eyes fixed on the snowy tents of the
Dictean king, " I am uncertain,
" lament for this (says she), whether I ought to joy or
mournful war carried on against my country. I lament
" that Minos is an
to her that loves him and
enemy but for this war, ;
yet
" should have ever known him. Perhaps if I am offered as a hostage
I
" he may cease hostilities, and receive me as a
" companion and the pledge
of peace. If she who bare thee, loveliest of men, was
" charming as
god O thrice happy
thou art, what wonder that she fired the soul of a :

"
I, if gliding through the air on
" wings, I could rest in the tent of the
Gnossian king, and owning my quality and flame, ask with what dowry
" he might be won if only he asked me not to
betray my father's towers.
!

" For perish all the hoped-for joys, and nuptial bed, e'er I seek to prevail by
" a base attempt of treason. Though often the
" clemency of a mild con-
queror has made it a blessing to many, to fall under his sway. Hecertain-
"
ly prosecutes a just war, for the murder of his son, and is powerful in a
"
"
righteous cause, and in arms to defend his cause. We
shall be vanquished,
I doubt not. Which
fate, if it avails the city, why should his arms lay open
" to him these
walls, and not my love ? Better will it be that he conquer
"
siege, and expense of blood. O Minos,
without slaughter, a tedious how
" I tremble Mith anxious
fear, lest some hand should Avound thy
unwary
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VIII. 279

impensaque
Impensaque sui potetit superare cruoris. '"^^^^""^
Quam metuo certe, ne quis tua pectora, Minos, JH'nos ve qvuimpru-
iTi ,• J !• ,-. dens luli/eret tua per-
Vulneret imprudens quis emra tarn dims, ut in te toraf quisenime^tLm
I
!
• •
.

Dirigere immitem, nisi nescius, audeat hastam ? 66 ^uuat^^Mger^tai

Coepta placent, et stat sententia tradere mecum '<"" immitem in te.
-r\ . \ , c 1 11 Coepta placent, et sen
Dotalem patriam nnemque imponere bello. ;
te/itia stat tradere

Verurn velle parum est. Aditus custodia servat ; ^u^l'^imponfreque'^fi-

Claustraque portarum genitor tenet. Hunc ego T^ZilTveiJ^^Tlto-

SOluni 70 '^"^servat aditus, ge-
T r T J- 1 , 1 7iitorque tenet clatts-
Intelix timeo solus mea vota moratur. ; traportnrum: ego in.
Di facerent, sine patre forem! sibi quisq; profect6 •^nwVoiTs"moraiZ^mL\
dh facerent fo-
Fit Deus. Ignavis
o precibus
1
Fortuna repuo;nat.
^^
'"'''•
rem sine pro- •
\-
IS patre !
Altera
-r«j
jamdudum succensa
ji
J
Cupidme ^ L
taiito
i 'rrcr
fecto quisque fit dens
sibi. Fortuna reptisnat
ferdere 75
gauderet, quodcunque obstaret amori. ignavis precibus. ai-
Et cur uila foret me fortior? ire per ignes,
^In^gTr'^refjam-
Vex crladios ausim. Neq in hoc tamen ionibus ullis, dHdu7n perdere qund- ;
T- amort.
Aut gladiis opus est: opus est niihi crme paterno. cunqueobstaret
A • •
T -1
Et mr uiia joret jor-
Illa mihi est auro
pretiosior, ilia beatam per ignis, pVr^g/!adioT:
Purpura me, votique mei factura potentem. 80 l'lt7us''''uuis'i m^
Talia dicenti, curarum maxima nutrix, ant giadns. Opus est
TIT -
.
•
J , 1
•
1
•
-J mihi paterno crine. Jl-
JNox intervenit; tenebrisque audacia crevit la est pretiosior mihi :

Prima quies aderat, qua curis fessa diurnis faaura"niTTeltMn,

Pectora somnushabet. Thalamostaciturnapaternos potentemque mei voh.
-w n r T T or J^ox, maxima nutri.r I

Intrat; et (heu racmus !) latali nata parenteni o5 curarum intenemt ii

li dicenti talia ; auda-

ciaqne crevit tenebrii. Prima quies aderat ; qua somnus habet pectora fessa curis diurnis.
Taciturna intrat paternos thalamos ; (et heu facinus !) nata sp>oliat
TRANSLATION.
" breast ! for what
soul so hardened, as knowingly to raise the merciless
" I like the design, and noAv am fixed in
"
spear against thee. pur- my
pose to give up country with myself as a dowry, and to put an end
my
" to the war. But the bare resolving upon this will do little. All the
"
approaches are defended by guards. The gates are secured, and my
" father has the keys. Alas I fear only him he alone obstructs my ! :

" wishes. O ye gods, were I without a father! but why do I address

" the gods ? Every one that nobly dares, is a god to himself. Fortune is
" an enemy to weak unavailing prayers. Another, inflamed by a pas-
" sion like mine, would long e'er now with joy have borne down every
" obstacle that opposed her love. And why should any one be more
" and
daring than myself? I could boldly force my way through flames
" armed hosts. Yet here I have neither flames nor armed hosts to en-
" counter. All Iwant is my father's lock. That purple lock is to me
" more precious than gold that will make me happy, and mistress of ;

"
my wish." While yet is
revolving these things in her mind, night,she
the great nurse of care, draws on apace, and boldness grows upon her in
the dark. It was now the hour when the first sleep steals in downy
slumbers upon the breasts of mortals, overcharged with the fatigues of
the day. She enters softly her father's chamber and (oh theft ac- :

cursed !) the daughter robs her parent of his fatal lock and, possessed of ;

NOTKS.
S5 Fatali cnne.'\ The fatal hair ; i.
e., the lock upon which the fate of the city de-
pended.
280 P. OVIDII nAsonis

ZIZr^outTjf^!^. Crine suum spoliat; prffidaque potita nefanda

J'andii p}(cila,J'crt spo
Hum icclcrix sccitm :
Fert secum spolium sceleris; progressaque porta
frogre.ssuque poit.ii, Per medios hostes (meriti§ fiducia tanta est)
perienU per mrdios
Itosles ad rt'getn, lauta Pervenit ad regem, quern sic afFata paventein.
Jiducia est Mtyilis 90
quern regem pftceiiWrn,
Suasit amor facinus.
:
Proles ego regia IMisi,
(iff(It a est sic. Amer Scylla, tibi trado patriosque meosque Penates:
suusit /acinus. E>io
snm Sa/Ua regia prntcs PrBsmia iiulla pcto, Disi te. Cape pignus amoris,
'os'q]%mZ'fqft%ei"Jtcs. Purpureum crinem. Nee me nunc tradere crinem,
J'eto nulla pramia Hi-
•S2 le
Sed patrium crede caput. Scelerataque dextra
'^
tibi
.
(Jape purpii- -.i^ tit- o , r>r- ,

reum crinem piguiis Munera IVlmos porrecta reiugit:

porrexit.
vo
avians :uec crtde mc
nunc tradere tantum
crinem
Turbatusque novi respondit imagine facti :
sed
tibi,
wn caput, pntri- Di te submoveant, 6 nostri infamia ssecli,
porrcxitque
scelcraia nunicra dex-
tra. Illijios
Orbe suo tellusque tibi pontusque negentur.
:

refII git por-

recta munera; turba- Certe ego non patiar Jovis incunabula Creten,
tusque imagine novi
facti, respoudct : Oii Quae mens est orbis, tantum contingere mon-
submoveant te orbe suo, strum. 100
o infamia nostri ._
sircli, . .

tellusque pontusque DlXlt et, ut leges captis justissimus

auctor
?duit)%o'nnnp(a'iar Hostibus imposuit, classis rctiuacula solvi
S« 'S','r'^«r,t
7iabuia Jovis, qua: est
Jussit; et seratas impelli remige puppes,
ScvUa,' frcto ^postouam deductas nare carinas,
mens orbis. Et a net or
Justissimus, ut impo-
-.y-^
JN
^
.
,- -^
-,
•j-j.iAC
cc prffistare ducem sceleris sibi prsemia vidit, lUo
Tus,%tsu"retinacuia Consumptis prccibus violentam transit in iram:
classis solvi, etaratas
puppestmpelh remige. ^v^.^
Intendcnsque manus,
,
^ . furibunda
' passis
x
capillis,
t^a
.Sciiiiapostquamvidet
carinas deductas nave {\
Quo tugis, exclauiat, mentorum auctore relicta.
j.- o

freto, mc
ducem pra- U i , i

patriae prselatc meae, praelate parenti

.

:
/

stare sibi prcemia sceleris, preeibus consumptis, transit in violentam iram : infendensque manus,
furibwida sparsis capillis, cxclamat : Qui> fugis, o prelate mee patriff, prelate parenti, auctore
tantorum mcrilorum relicta ?
TRANSLATION.
the sacrilegious prize, carries off with her the spoil of her impiety and ;

issuing out by one of the gates, advances through the heart of the enemy
(such is her confidence in the merit of her deed),
to the monarch's tent
whom, full of amazement, she thus addresses " Love urged me to the :

" deed I
am, Scylla, the royal issue of Nisus I surrender into your
; :

" hands
my country and my father's palace, nor ask any reward but your-
" self. Take this
purple lock as a pledge of my love nor imagine that ;

"
you receive only a lock of hair, but my father's head." She then
made him an offer of the impious present, but Minos refused her gift,
and shocked at the thought of so uncommon a crime, " Wretch (says he) !

" thou scandal and

reproach of the age, may the gods banish thee the uni-
" Sure
verse, may neither earth nor water afford thee a place of rest.
" I will never suffer such a monster once to set foot in Crete, the birth-
"
place of Jove, and my kingdom." Having then, like a just conqueror,
to be
imposed easy conditions on the vanquished, he ordered the cables
loosed, and the fleet to be urged on by the oars. When she saw the
launched ships skim the main, and that the prince gave her not the
expected reward of her baseness, havhig in vain essayed the force of
prayers, she falls into a violent rage. And wringing her hands, her
hair dishevelled, wild and furious with despair " Whither dost thou fly ;

"
(cries she), leaving behind thee the author of thy success, thou Avhom
I
" have father ? Whither dost thou
"
preferred to my country, preferred my
to
barbarous man ? whose
fly, is both crime and merit. Can
victory my
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VIII. 281

immitis? cujus victoria nostrum immitis ? CU'

Quo fugis, 110 quo fugis
JUS victoria est 7ios'
Et scelus et meritum est. Nee te data munera, trmn et xcelus, et me-
ritum. Nee data mu-
nee te nera movere te, nee
amor moi'lt te,
Noster movit amor nee quod spes omnis in unum vosler
; nee quod omnis 7nea
Te mea congesta est ? nam qu6 deserta revertar ? spes est congesta in te
nnmn? nam deserta,
In patriam? superata jacet. Sed finge manere quo revertar? in pa- :

triam? Jucet siiperata.

Proditione mea clausa est mihi. Patris ad ora ? 1 15 Sed fiiige earn manere :
clausa est niihi, med
Quge tibi donavi. Gives odere merentem: proditione. Ad ora pa-
Finitimi exemplum metuunt. Obstruximus orbem tris ? qticE donavi tibi.
Gives odrre me meren-
Terrarum nobis, ut Crete sola pateret. tem odium eorum. i^j-
iiitimimetuunt exetn-
Hac quoque sic prohibes ? sic nos, ingrate, relin-
plutn. Obstruximus or-
119 bem terrarum, ut Cre-
quis? te sola pateret iiobis.
Non genitrix Europa tibi, sed inhospita Syrtis, Si prohibes me hiLc
qitoque, si ingrate re-
Armeniseve tigres, Austrove agitata Charybdis. linquis nos, Europa
tion erat ge?iitrix tibi,
Nee Jove tu natus nee mater imagine tauri
:
scd inhospita Syrtis,
Ducta tua est. Generis falsa est ea fabula vestri, Armenimve tigres, Cha-
rybdisve, agitata aus-
Et ferus, et captus nuliius amore juvencse, tro. Ncc tu es natus
Jove : nee mater
ttta
Qui te progenuit, taurus fuit. Exige psenas, 125 est ducta imagine tau-

Gaudete malis modo prodita nostris ri. Ea fabiUa vestri

Nise, pater. generis est falsa. Tau-
Moenia nam fateor, merui et sum digna perire.
:
;
rus qui progeniiit te,
et fcrusfuit, et captus
Me tamen ex ilHs aliquis, quos impia Isesi, amore nullius jiiven-
Pater Nise, exi-
Me perimat. Cur, qui vicisti crimine nostro, ccE.

ge poenas; mania modo

n 1patriq 130
Insequeris crimen? scelus hocpatriffiq : prorata, gaudete nos-
_ — 4-_ . - r .
;
i- '
tris malls : nam Jateor
Officium tibi sit. Te vere conjuge digna est. merui, et sum digna
perire. Tamen aliquis
Quae torvum ligno decepit adultera taurum ; ex illis qnos ego impia
lesi perimat me. Cur
tu qiti'vicisti nostrocrimine insequeris illud crimen? hoc scehis pairieeque patrique, sit officiimi
tibi. Jlla adultcra est vere digna te conjugc, qua: decepit torvum taurum ligno,

TRANSLATION.
neither my present, nor and hopes fixed on thee alone,
my ardent love,
move thee to compassion For whither, thus abandoned, shall I repair ?
?

To my country ? It is subdued, and rendered desolate by the calami-

ti
ties of war. But grant it remained: my treason has shut its gates
against me. Shall I return to my father, whom I have basely betrayed
it

to you ? My native citizens deservedly hate me. Neighbouring nations

dread the example. I have shut up against me all other regions of the
earth, that Crete alone might be open to receive me. And do you for-
II.

bid me this too ? Do you thus abandon me, ungrateful man ? Sure
Europa never gave thee birth, but inhospitable Syrtis, some ravenous
11,

tigress, or Charybdis agitated by the violent south winds. Thou art no

<(
son of Jupiter, nor was thy mother deceived by the assuined figure of a
bull. That story of thy birth is false. A
wild outrageous bull, charmed
with the love of a heifer, begot thee. Behold, O father Nisus, ven-
geance overtake me. And, ye bulwarks, lately betrayed, exult and tri-
umph in my woes It is, I own, the fate I deserve, I merit to perish.
:

But let me rather fall by some one of those whom 1 have so cruelly in-
jured. Why shouldest thou pursue a crime to which thou owest thy
success ?
Though treason to my father and country, it was the highest
merit to you. Sire indeed deserved such a husband, who within a wooden
heifer courted a lowering bidl, and bore in lier womb an unshapely
birth. Do these my complaints reach thy ears, or do the winds bear
 282 P. OVIDII NASONIS
dissor-
tiiiuquefatum Dissortemque utero foetum Ecquid ad aures tulit.
dicta perveniunt ad Jf crveniunt mea
an mania venti
Qicta tuas (
tttas auresT an venti
J'erunt inania verba ;
Verba ferunt, idemque tuas, ingrate, carinas? 135
idcmque feit tuas cari- non est mirabile taurum
nas itigrate/ jatn Jam Jam jam Pasiplia'en
non est mlrabile Pa- tibi tu plus feritatis liabebas.
sipha'cn prceposuisse
Praeposuisse :

taurnm tibi: tu habe- Me miseram properare juvat

! :
divulsaque remis
bas plus feritatis. Me
mlseram ! jtivat pro-
Unda sonat. Mecum simul, ah mea terra recedit. !

perare: undaque di- Nil agis, 6 frustra meritorum oblite meorum. 140
vulsa remis sonat. Ah
me terra re
mecum.
recedit simul
Insequar invitum puppimque amplexa recurvam
:

frustra
.i:frJ^L\.l
ohlite meorum Ppr fvpta lonoa
_
trahar. Vix dixerat.
dixerat, insilit undas :

ZtZT'amX'aqZ Consequituique rates, faciente Cupidine vires.

recurvampuppim,tra- GnossiacsB hssret comes invidiosa carinse.
har per longa freta. ^~. ^-j-j./ , ^ ^
•
,
•

vixdixerat;insiiitun. Quam pater ut viQit (nam jam pendebat in auras,

iaies, "Zp^imfTct
Et modo factus erat fulvis Halyaetos alis) 146
ente 'vires haretque ut heereiitem rostro laniaret adunco.
comes mvidtosa Gnos- D^^Lt,'
_,, ......
siaca: carinas. Quam Ula mctu puppim dimittit at aura cadentem :
ut pater vidit, (nam
jam pendebat in auras, Sustinuisse levis, ne tangeret sequora, visa est.
et erat tnodo factus
Halya'itos fulvis alis.)
Pluma Plumis in avem mutata vocatm' 150
fuit.
Ibat, tit laniaret adun- Ciris a tonso est hoc nomen adepta capillo.
: et
co rostro illara haren-
tem. Ilia dimittit pup- II. Vota Jovi Minos taurorum corpora centum
pim metu : at aura le-
vis visa est sustinuisse Solvit, ut egressus
_
ratibus Curetida terram
cadentem, ne tangeret decoi'ata est reda
a-qiiora. Fuit pluma: & ' ct spoliis
Contipit, 1 . •
r i
fixis.
mutata plumis in a- Crcverat opprobrium generis fcedumque patebat
vem, vacatur Ciris, et
' ^ '
:
'-

adepta est hoc nomen a tonso capillo.

II. Minos, tit e«ressus ratibus contigit terram' Curetida, solvit corpora centum taurortim vota
Jovi ; et regia est decorata spoliis fixis. Opprobrium generis crevcrat : fadumque adulterium
matris patebat
TRANSLATION.
"
away my unavailing words, and alike urge forward thy fleet, un-
" I M'onder not now, I wonder not that
grateful monster. Pasiphae pre-
" ferred a hull to thee, thou art of a nature still more savage. Wretch
" that I am, he speeds his course with joy, and the waves lashed by the
"
"
oars resound. My country, alas together with myself, retire from
!

him. In vain thou flyest, migrateful man. I will follow Ihee in spite,
" and grasping the crooked stern, shall be dragged through a length of
" seas." She said, and leaped into the waves, and love supplying her
with strength, at last reached the fleet, and hung, an unwelcome compa-
nion, by Minos' ship. Whom, when her father saw (for he, now a sea-
eagle, was suspended in air on tawny wings) he stooped from above to
tear with his crooked bill. She quits her hold through fear hut the light ;

air sustained her as she fell, nor touched she the surface of the sea. Wings
bore her up by these changed to a bird, she is called Ciris, a name de-
;

rived from the ravished lock.

II. Minos, soon as he landed on the Cretan shore, offered up to Jupiter
the bodies of an hundred hulls in performance of a vow, and adorned his
palace with the spoils won in war. The re])roach of his family was now
NOTES.
155. Creverat opprobrium generis.'] The of a clue he received from Ariadne, un-
next story we meet with, is that of the ravelled the puzzling mazes of that intri-
Minotaur and Labyrinth, the particulars cate building, and thus freed his country
of which are well known to all. Theseus from the heavy tribute that had been im-
at last slew the monster, and, by the help posed upon them-
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VIII. 283

Matris adulterium inonstri novitate biformis. 156 novUate hi/ormis mm-

_^ .
Tx/r- , 1 1
•
1
*^'"^' JiJmos destinat
Destinat nunc iVlnios tnaiamis removere pudorem: removere kunc pudo-

Multiplicique domo ; csesisque includere tectis. dereque multipllci do-

Dffidalus ingenio fabrse celeberrimus artis mo, casisque tectis.
Dadaliis celeberrimus
Ponit opus turbatque notas, et lumina flexum 160
: ingeniofabre artis po-
nit opus : turbatque
Ducit in errorem variarum ambage viarum. jtotas, et ducit lumina
in errorem flexum am-
Non secus ac liquidus Phrygiis Meandros in arvis bage variarum via-
rum. Non secus ac
Ludit, et ambiguo lapsu refluitque, fluitque :
liquidus M(eandrus
Occurrensque venturas aspicit undas
sibi :
ludit in Phrygiis ar-
vis ; et fluitque re-
Et nunc ad nunc in mare versus aper-
fontes, fluitque ambiguo lap-
su, occurrensque sibi
turn. 165 adspicit ventiiras U7i-
Incertas exercet aquas. Ita Deedalus implet das: et nunc versus
ad fontes, nunc in
Innumeras errore vias :
vixque ipse reverti apertum mare, exercet
incertas aquas. Ita
Ad limen potuit ;
tanta est fallacia tecti. Dcrdalus implet innu-
tneras vias errore: vix-
Quo postquam tauri geminam juvenisque figuram que ipse potuit reverti
Clausit, et Actseo bis pastuni sanguine monstrum
ad limen, fallacia tec-
ti est tanla. Quo post-
Tertia sors annis domuit repetita novenis ; 171 quam clausit ge?ninatn
figuram tauri juvenis-
Utque ope virginea nullis iterata priorum quc, et tertia sors re-
Janua difficilis filo est inventa relecto ; petita novenis aniiis
domuit monstrum bis
Protinus ^Egides, rapta Minoide, Dian pastum Actceo sati-

Veladedit: comitemque suam crudelis in illo 175 ijn"a junVa^ dffficiiil

Littore deseruit. Desertse, et multa querenti, S'^lSi^rlK!-
Amplexus et opem Liber tulit. Utque perenni protinus jEgides, mi-
cf- -x o 1 IP noide rapta, dcdit ve-
feidere clara loret,
sumptam de tronte coronam la Dian. crudeUsque .

Immisit ccelo. Tenues volat ilia per auras, tem^iniao"ifeTvre!'Tf-

ber amplexus est, et tulit opem deserta et quarenti multa, utque forct clara perenni sidere im-
misit ccelo coronam sumptam de fronte. Ilia volat per tenues auras.

TRANSLATION.
grown up, and the shameful adultery of the mother notorious, from the
unnatural appearance of the doubled-formed monster. Minos therefore
resolves to remove from the palace this scandal of his house, and enclose
it in the numerous chambers of a
mazy labyrinth. Daedalus, highly famed
for his skill in architecture,
plans out the work, confounds all marks of
distinction, and leads the eyes into wild meanders, by a mazy train of
various paths. As limpid Meander strays in the Phrygian plains, and
rolls backward and forward its various stream, often with wonder survey-

ing its former banks now it points upward to its source, now glides
:

downward to the sea, and fatigues in various toil its wandering current.
Just so Daedalus forms innumerable
paths into endless Avindings, inso-
much that he himself can scarce find the way to the entrance, so mani-
fold and intricate are the
turnings. Here when he had shut in the
doubled-formed monster, partly of human shape, partly resembling a
bull when tAvice fed with Attic blood, the third nonennial lot had at
:

length subdued this devouring plague; and when, by aid of the virgin
princess, the puzzling entrance, hitherto gained by no former adventurer,
had been explored by a of ^Egeus, car-
guiding thread, instantly the son
rying with him the daughter of Minos, sails for Dia, and aftenuard bar-
barously abandoned the companion of his flight on that shore. Thus soli-
tary, and complaining bitterly of her hard fate, Bacchus aided and cherished
her, and, resolving to perpetuate her by a lasting star, snatches the croAvu
from off her head, and darts it to heaven. It mounts the yielding air, ami
284 P. OVIDII NASONIS

icl"tuT(nr^m i^Jbuos Dumque volat, gemmae subitos vertiintur in ig-

ignis, consist untqtic
1168, 180
loco, specie corona re- r^ •
i^ l i
•
, r^
manente, qui est me- L/Oiisistuiitque
~ '
loco, specie remaneiite Coronae,
(tins nixiqtie genu, te-
nentisqiie anguem. Qui medius nixique genu est, anguemque tenentis.
III. Interea Dada- III. Dffidalus interea Creten,
lus pcrosusCreteti,lon- longumque pe-
giimqtie exilitwi, trac- rosus
tusque amove natalis
soli; erat clausus pe- Exilium, tactusque soli natalis amore,
lago. Inqutt, licet Mi- Clausus erat pelago. Terras licet, inquit, et un-
nos ohstrtiat terras et
undas, at certc calum das 185
patet. Ibimns iliac. ^
Minos possideat omnia, Obstruat, at coelum certe patet. Ibimus iliac.
nonpossidet acra. Dix- Omnia possideat; non possidet aera Minos.
it: et demittit animum
in ignotas artes: no- Dixit et ignotas animum dimittit in artes
: :
vatque nuturam. Nam
ponit in ordinepeniias, Naturamque novat. Nam ponit in ordine pennas,
captas d minirnd, bre-
viore seqttenti longam; A minima coeptas, longam breviore sequenti: 190
^^ ^^^^^ crcvisse putes. Sic rustica quondam
Tif"qZnda'm%ti7a
rustica, snrgit pauia- Fistula dispaiibus paulatim surgit avenis.
tim dis2>aribus avenis.
Tum alligat medias Tum lino medias, et ceris alligat imas.
pennas lino, et imas
ceris: atque flectit ens Atque ita compositas parvo curvamine flectit ;
ita compositas parvo
curvamine : ut imiten-
Ut veras imitentur aves. Puer Icarus una 195
tur veras aves. Puer
Icarus stabat•t una r\
U7ta':: et
Stabat:
•
jv
et, ignarus sua se tractare pericla,
igiiarus se tractare ^Jre renidenti,
ignarus
i IT'

^
modo quas vaga ^ raoverat aura,
i

sua pertcla, ore renidenti modo captabat plumas, qtias^vaga auramoverat :

TRANSLATION.
in flight the jewels change to sparkling fires, and settle in the place
its

assigned (still retaining the form of a crown), between the constellation

resting on his knee, and that which holds the snake.
III. Dtedalus, mean time, hating Crete and his long exile, and
impa-
tient to revisit his native soil, is shut " If Minos
up by the sea. (says he)
" beset land and
" will I
sea, yet still the fields of air are open. Through them
Aving my flight. His dominion, it is true, extends over all beside,
" but these own not his
sway." He said, and turns his thoughts to arts
hitherto unknown, and
attempts to vary the course of nature for he :

ranges feathers in order, beginning with the least, and rising by degrees ;
a long succeeding the shorter, as if they grew on the ascending cliff.
Thus often the rustic pipe gradually rises with unequal reeds. The middle
pinions he binds together with thread, and secures the bottom steins with
wax. Thus ranged, he forms them by a gentle bending into tlie figiu-e of
real wings. His sou Icarus stood by him, and
smiling, sometimes catched
the feathers as they floated in the moving air, not aware of the danger

NOTES.
183. DcBdalus intei-ea.'] Dsedalus was an with Athens, received him favourably.
Athenian, of the race of Eiechtheus, dis- Here he gave many proofs of his art, but
tinguished by his great skill in the nio- after some time, being suspected of fa-
clianic arts. A mean jealousy puslicd him vouring tJie queen's gallantries, he was
on a crime that was tiie soin'ce of all his imprisoned by Minos ; biU he soon found
misfortunes. He had undertaken the means to escape, and embarking, to speed
education of his sister's son, a youth of a I)is flight, contrived the use of sails. This

promising genius. Daedalus, fearing lie gave rise to the story of liis flying from
might prove a dangerous rival, secretly Crete on artificial wings. Icarus his son
murdered liim. This being discovered, perished in the voyage, and gave his name
he fled to Minos, who being then at war to the Icarian sea.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VIII. 285

flavam modb poUice ceram modo mollibat flavam

Captabat plumas :
ceram pullice, iiisuqne
MoUibat ; lusuque suo mirabile patris suo impediebat mira-
bile patris. Post-
Impediebat opus.rl^ostquam
manus ultima coep- quamopus
ultima manus
est imposita captis :
tis 200 ipse ojiifex libravit su-
in alas um corpus in geminas
Imposita est; geminas opifex libravit alas: pependitque in
Ipsesuum :
motaque pependit in aur^.
corpus motaaurH. Instruit et
nutum: aitque, Icare,
Instruit et natuni :
Medioque ut limite curras, moneo ut cur r as me-
dio limite ; ue, si ibis
Icare, ait, moneo. Ne, si demissior ibis,
demissiiir, unda gra-
Unda gravet pennas si celsior, ignis adurat. 205 ignispennas;
vet si celsior,
;
adurat cas. Vula
Inter utrumque vola nee te spectare Booten,
: inter utrumque: nee
jubio te spectare Boo-
Aut Helicen jubeo, strictumque Orionis ensem. ten, aut Helicen,.t/ric-
Me duce carpe viam. Pariter prsecepta volandi tumve ensem Ori«7iis. Carpe viam, me duce;
Tradit ;
et ignotas humeris accommodat alas. pariter fradit prrrcep-
ta volandi, et accom-
Inter opus monitusque genae maduere seniles: 210 modat ignotas alas hu-
meris. Gen<B seniles
Et patriae tremuere manus.
J Dedit oscula nato maduere : inter opus
Non iterum repetenda suo pennisque levatus : monitusque: et pat rice
majius tremuere. De-
Ante volat comitique timet, velut ales, ab alto
;
dit oscula suo nato,
non iterum repetenda :
QufE teneram prolem produxit in aera nido. levatusque pcnnis vo-
lat ante ; timetq2ie co-
Hortaturque sequi damnosasque erudit artes 215
;
:
miti. Velut ales qute
Et movet ipse suas, et nati respicit alas. producil teneram pro-
lem ab alto nido' in
Hos aliquis, dum captat arundine pisces, aera, Hortaturque se-
tremula
qui, eruditque damno-
Aut pastor baculo, stivave innixus arator, sas artes : et ipse mo-
vet suas alas, et respi-
Vidit, et obstupuit, quique jethera carpere possent, cit alas nati,
Aliquis,
Credidit esse Deos. _, Et jam Junonia Iseva 220 dum captat pisces tre-
mula aritndine, aut
Parte Samos fuerant, Delosque, Parosque relictse :
pastor innixus baculo,
aratorve innixus sti-
va, vidit hos, et obstupuit.' crediditque eos esse deos, qui possent carpere (Ethera. Etjam Juno-
nia Samos, Delosque, Parosque, fuerant relicta: lasvil parte.

TRANSLATION.
from them impending sometimes softened with his thumb the pliant wax,
;

and with his childish play retarded the wonderful work of his father.
When HOW the last hand was put to the design, the ingenious contriver
poised his body on equal wings, and hung suspended in the beaten air.
He then instructs his son " Remember, Icarus, to keep the middle
:

" tract
lest, flying low, the waves should clog thy wings, or, soaring
;

" Nor
high, the fiery rays of Phoebus burn them fly between both. :

" mark
yovce course by Bootes, or Helice, or Orion's naked sword, but
" follow me as
your guide." At the same time he gave him precepts for
flying, and fits the untried wings to his shoulders. While thus engaged,
and amid his admonitions, his aged cheeks are W<^t with tears^ and the
hands of the^father tremblecpl He gave kisses to his son, never again to
be repeated and, poTse^^ his pinions, flies before, anxious for his com-
;

panion like a parent-bird, when first from the towering nest she leads
;

forth her tender young to tempt the airy way. Thus he cheers him on,
and instructs him in the fatal art, nimbly moving his own wings, and
with attentive regard eyeing those of his son. These the angler, as with
his
trembling reed he ensnares the finny prey, or shepherd leaning on his
crook, or peasant guiding the plough, descries, and with amazement views ;

imagining they raust_be -gods,- who thus through the ethereal skies cut
the liquid wa^,— And now
they had passed Samos sacred to Jimo, and
Delos and Pares on their left on the right Avas Lebynthos, and Calymno
:
 286 P. OVIDII NASONIS

^extra Lebynthos erat, foecundaque melle Ca-

q'«e^ar»'^XST'r.'
.

rant a dexlra. Cum

lymne.
purr cwpit gimdcrc
auriuci lolatu, dcseru- Ciim puer audaci ccepit gaudere volatu ;
ditrcm; tract us-
Deseruitque ducem ccelique cupidine tactus
it<[iir
:
qi/r cupidine call, egit
altius iltr, Vicinia ra- Altius egit iter.
pidi solis mollit odora-
Rapidi vicinia Solis 225
tas ceras, vincula pen- Mollit odoratas pennarum vincula ceras.
narum. Cero! tabue-
rant, ille quatit iindos Tabuerant cerae niidos quatit ille lacertos
: :

lacertos ;
Remigioque carens non ullas percipit auras.
carcusqnc
remigio alarum, non
pcrcepit vllas auras.
Oraqnc rlnniantia pa-
Oraque coerulea patrium clamantia nomen
trium 7iomen, excipi-
nntur cmrulca aqua
Excipinntur aqua: quee nomen traxit ab illo. 230
quiB traxit nomt'n ab
;
At pater infelix, nee jam pater, iriare, dixit,
illo. At infelix pater,
7iec jam pater, dixit rcareT^ixit, ubi es ? qua te regione requiram,
Ivare, Icare dixit, ubi Icare, dicebat? Pennas aspexit in undis;
es'f quit regione requi-
Devovitque suas artes corpusque sepulchre
»
ram te ? Icare, di-
cebat : adspexit pcn-
iias in, undis, devovit-
Condidit ;
et tellus a nomine dicta sepulti-^ 235
que suas artes ; condi- Hunc miseri tumulo ponentem corpora nati
rtitque corpus sepul-
chro, et tellus est dic- Garrula ramosa prospexit ab ilice perdix :

ta (i nomine sepulti
pueri. Garrula perdix Et plausit pennis testataque gaudia cantu est ;
:

prospexit ab ramoscl Unica tunc volucris ; nee visa prioribus annis ;

ilice, /umc ponentetri
corpora miseri nati tu- Factaque nuper avis, longum tibi, Daedale, cri-
mulo : et plausit pen-
nis : testataque est men. 240
gaudia cantu ; tunc
fatorum ignara, docendam
unica volucris; nee Namque huic tradiderat,
visa prioribus
factaque avis nuper,
ajinis,
Progeniem germana suam, natalibus actis
longum crimen tibi Bis puerum senis, animi ad preecepta rapacis.
Deedale. Namque ger- Ille etiam medio
mana ejus ignara fa- spinas in pisce notatas
torum, tradiderat huic 245
suam progeniem doce?i- Traxit in exemplum :
ferroque incidit acuto
dam, puerum animi Perpetuos
^
dentes ; et serrae repperit
' ^
usum.
capacis ad pro'cepta,
bis senis natalibus actis, Ille etiam traxit spinas notatas in medio pisce in exemplum: incidit-
que perpetuos dentes, ferro acuta, et reperit usum serrtB.

TRANSLATION.
abounding in honey. When the youth began to aspire at a more daring
flight, forsook his guide, and fond to trace the skies, soars aloft in air. The
rapid sun, now nearer, softened the fragrant wax that held together his
pinions it melts away he shakes his naked arms, and, stripped of his
:
;

oary wings, feels no resistance from the air. Then, calling his father,
i
plunges in the sea-green waves, which from him derived their name.
unhappy father, now no more a father, calls upon his Icarus.
*« But the
"
Where, where art thou, O
Icarus ? In what region of the world shall I
" search for thee ?" When he beheld his
pinions in the deep, and cursed
his own pernicious art. He next reposited the body in a tomb, and called
the country by the name of the youth interred/" partridge,
from a A
branching oak, beheld him paying these last duties to the body
of his ill-
fated son and, with fluttering wings and chirping notes, testified her
;

joy. A
single bird then, not known to former times,
for but late it was
transformed, a heavy crime against thee, Deedalus. For his sister, igno-
rant of the fates, had to him committed her son for instruction, a youth of
twice six years, and of a genius for the finest arts. He, from the spiny
bone observed in the backs of fishes, took the hint of a noble invention,
cut a continued of teeth inrange iron, and found out the use of the
edged
saw. He too was the first, who bound two branches of iron to one hinge,
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VIII. 287

Primus et ex uno duo ferrea brachia nodo

fe^felTachla^ei tZ
Vinxit: ut, aequali spatio distantibus illis, noiio; ut iiiiidhtrnt-
,, 1. J ,

Altera pars staret, pars altera duceret orbem.

, tihus aquali spatio.
altera pars staret,ai-
,1
Da^dalus invidit; sacraque ex arce Minervae 250 S/^^^LtS^^^;
Prsecipitem mittit, lapsum
A
mentitus. At ilium, mutuque aim prcapj-
^^ f .
-rj n . . ^f"* ^^ sacrS, arce Mi-
•
.

Quce lavet ingemis, excepit Fallas ; avemque nn-vtr, mentuus esse

Reddidit et medio velavit in aere pennis.

:
gZ'faret ingejSx-
Sed vigor ingenii, quondam velocis, in alas, 254
lZt!%"''veS^!Z
Inque pedes abiit Nomen quod et ante, remansit. pen7iL
: tmdio dire. in.

TVT, i,\ 1 AlVi.

JN on tamen htec alte voiucris sua corpora tollit,
Sell vigor ingenii quon-
1
dam yeiods, auu in
•

Nee facit in ramis altoque cacumine nidos "j;^; "qlZ^ef^rat^iiu ;

Propter
i
humum volitat ponitque
.
r 1
in sepibus ova onte remansit.
:
men litre volucns
Ta-
, .
A^
;
'
non
Antiquique memor metuit sublimia casus.
tnint stca corpora ai-

IV. Jamque fatioatum tellus ^Etneea tenebat 260 rdnTs'' AZquT'^cacu-

Daedalon et sumptis pro supplice Cocalus armis, TZ^J^'i^XlToZ
:

Mitis habebatur. Jam lamentabile Athense «" sepibus viemorque .-

^ ,
n^^ a j .
r.

Pendere desierant Inesea lauae tributum.

-i, , antiqui casus metuit
siMimia.
i i. i

Templa coronantur bellatricemque Minervam :

tefL's^Sbat^zlada-
Cum Jove Disque vocant aliis, quos sanguine voto, ^''„",{"/'f "^f/" sJi^Z
Muneribusquedatis, etacerristhurisadorant. 266 pro JnppUce, hai>ci>a-
tur tiiitis jam At/ie-
r^ * T, f-i 1 :

feparserat Argolicas nomen vaga i'ama per urbes no-, r/ieseA laude, de-

Theseos et populi, quos dives Acha'ia cepit,

:
i7ZlurMZtrln.
Huius opem mag-nis imploravere periclis Tempia coronantur :
.•

J r y^^i ii/r 1. 1 locantqite Minervam •

1 i.

Huius opem Calydon, quamvis Meieagron naberet, bciiatricem, cum jove

c< IT -yA ,-A, r^ 1 A J" 0'7 1 aliisque diis quos a- :

bollicita suppiex petut prece. Uausa petenai Zi dorant voto sanguine, \

datisque munerU>us,et
acceris, thuris. Vagafama sparserat nomen Tlieseos per Argolicas urbes : et populi quos dives
Achaia cepit, implo7-avere opem liujus magnis pertclis. Calydon suppiex petiit opem liujus sol-
licita prece, quamvis haberet Meieagron. Causa petendi
TRANSLATION.
that extending with ease, while one part stood fixed, the other might de-
scribe an equi-distant orb all around. Dsedalus, jealous of his superior
talents, precipitated him from the sacred tower of Minerva, pretending it
Avas an accidental fall. But Pallas, the patroness of ingenious men, bore
him up, and changed him to a bird, that through mid-air with pinions
winged his way. But the vigour of his genius, once so penetrating, passed
into his feet and wings his name too remained the same as before. Yet
;

this bird raises not his body high, nor builds his nest in boughs, or tower-

ing tops of trees, but with low flight sweeps the ground, shelters its eggs
in hedges, and, mindful of its former fall, dreads to soar aloft in air.

IV. And now the iEtneau land receives Daedalus fatigued with his long
flight ; and Cocalus taking up arms for his suppliant guest, was com-
mended by all for his mildness and humanity. Athens had now ceased to
pay her mournful tribute by the gallant behaviour of Theseus. The
with Jupiter and
temples are crowned, and they invoke warlike Minerva,
all the other
gods, whom they adore with the blood of victims, vowed
fame had now spread
offerings, and censers of frankincense. Winged
rich
the renown of Theseus through all the Grecian cities, and the nations of
populous Achaia applied to him in threatening dangers. Calydon too,
though guarded by Meleager, in suppliant terms implored his aid. The
cause of this request was a boar, the avenging minister of Diana's wrath.
 288 P. OVIDII NASONIS

erat sus,fa»niius vm- gyg gr^t,' iiifestee faiiiulus, vindexQue DiaiiEe.

dexquelnfesttp Diauff. n , ^
•
-i.
Namqiicjeriini (Enca,Ui,nea naiiique terunt, pleni successibus anni
^Zi'!ubaZtfrLui"s, Primitias frugum Cereri, sua vina Lyaeo,
jrugnmcererj,.suavi. PaHadios flavffi latices libassc Minervse. 275
Coeptus ab aoTicolis kSuperos pervenit ad omnes
luticesflavamneria.
Jlonos invidio^us cap-
tits ah agricoiis, per-
t-T i
Invidiosus hoiios solas siiie
L^ ^ l
tliure relictas
:
i*
Pr^terlteB cessasse ferunt Latoidos aras.
Zfpu7:2f::i':;
Latoidas praterita;
sine thure,
Xanpfit
t>
et ira Dcos. At noH impune feremus :
relictas .
j\-
•
li. oor»
cessasse. Ira et tangit
"""' " Quteque inhonoratffi, non et dicemur inultfe, zoO
deos. At '"^""' """
J'eremns hoc impniic Tnquit : et (Eneos ultorem spreta per agros
gurrqiie siimus iiiliono-
Misit aprum: quanto majores herbida taiiros
ratff, noil ct duTmur
imiltce : et -tpreta mi-
iit. upriimulloretn per
Non habet Epiros sed habent Sicula arva minores.
:

(Eiieos agrns qniinlo Sanguine etigne micant oculi, riget horrida cervix :
:

Epirus herbida iion ha- 285

bet taurosmajores,sed Et setse densis
similes hastilibus horrent,
Sicula arva /labent velut velut alta hastilia setae.
minores. Uculimicant Stantque vallum,
sanguine ct igne, ar Fervida cum rauco latos stridore per armos
tTsUniieTdmdshatti Spuma fluit dentes aequantur dentibus Indi^.
:
..,*
tibus horrent seta-que
stajit vehit
Puijnen ab ore venit: frondes aJSlatibus ardent.
vallum,
veiiit alta
Fervida spuma fluit
hastilia.
Ismodo crescenti segetes proculcat in herba 290 :

per latos armos cum Nee matura metit fleturi vota coloni.
rauco stridor e : denies
eequatttur Jndis denti- Et Cererem in spicis intercipit. Area frustra,
bus. Fulmen venit ab
ore .-
frondes ardent
Et frustra expectant promissas horrea messes.
afflati'bus. "ismodopro-
culcat segetes in cres-
Stemuntur °
.^
° cumr palmite foetus,
gravidi longo
t
.
one: i j.-

centi herba, nunc me- Baccaque cum ramis semper trondentis olivss 295

nZXltTnte^St Sffivitetinpecudes. Non has pastoresve, canesve,

Cererem inspicis, A- , , ,
rea frustra, et horrea frustra, expectant promissas messes. Fatus gravidi cum longo palmite
stemuntur. Baccaque cum ramis oUvcb semper frondentis. Smvit et in pecudes ; non pastoresve
canesve,
TRANSLATION.
For, they tell us, that GEneus, in gratitude for the blessings of a plenteous
of his grain to Ceres, of
year, had made an offering of the first fruits
wine to Bacchus, and the Palladian juice of olives to yellow-haired Mi-
nerva. This honour, beginning with the rural gods, was continued to all
the heavenly divinities, only, they tell us, that Diana's altars were invi-
diously neglected, and no incense offered at
her shrine. Wrath touches
even the goddess. " This daring insult (says she) shall not escape with
" I shall not he all unrevenged."
impunity unhonoured though am, least
;
I at
The neglected goddess soon sent an avenging boar into the lands of
CEneus no hulls of larger size feed in the fertile plains of Epirus, nor
;

do any so large crop the Sicilian meads. His eyes glare with blood and
fire, his neck is rough with pointed thorns,
and his hack shoots up in
horrid spikes, that stand like an impenetrable rampart, guarded with
rows of spears. The foam in waves flies round his sounding flanks, his
tusks rival the Indian elephant thunder guards his horrid jaws, and
;

the fields are scorched with the steams issuing from his mouth. Now
he tramples down the growing blade of corn, or crops the yet luiripe
and intercepts
hopes of the disconsolate swain devours the ripening ears,
;

the labour of the year. In vain the threshing-floor, in vain the barns expect
the promised harvests. The grapes in clusters strew the fields, and loaden
boughs of the ever-oreen olive. He rages too amid the folds, neitlier dogs
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VIII. 289

Non armenta truces possunt defendere tauri. possunt defendere has ;

710)1 truces tauri pos-

Dift'ugiunt populi: nee se, nisi moenibus urbis, sunt defendere armen-
ta. Populi dijfiugiunt,
Esseputant tutos donee Meleagros, et una,
:
iiec futant se esse tu-
nisi manibus ur-
Lecta manus juvenum coiere cupidine laudis. 300 tos,
bis: donee Meieagros,
et una, lecta munus
Tyndaridai gemini, speetatus cestibus alter, juvemim coiire cupi-
Alter equo ; primaeque ratis molitor I'ason, dine laudis. Geini?ii

Et cum Pirithoo felix concordia Theseus, Tyndaridce, alter spec

tatus ceestibus, alter
Et duo Thestiadae, prolesque Aphareia, Lynceus, equo, lusonque molitor
prime- rii/is, et T/iese-
Et velox Idas; et jam non fcemina, Caineus, 305 us,J'elix concordiO. cum
Piruthoo, et duo Thes-
Leueippusque f'erox, jaculoque insignis Acastus, tiadce,LynceusqueprO'
Ifs Aphare'ia, et velox
Hippothoosque, Dryasque, et cretus Amyntore Idas : et Cteneus jam
nun faviina, feroique
Phoenix, Leucippus, Acastus-
Aetoridteque pares, et missus ab Elide Phyleus : que insignis juculo,
Hippothoosque, Dry us-
Nee Telamon aberat, magnique creator Achillis :
que, et Plianix cretus

Cumque Pheretiade, et Hyanteo lolao 310 Amyntore, paresque

Actoridee, et Phyleus
missus ab Elide. Nee
Impiger Eurytion, et cursu invictus Echion, Telamon aberat, crea-
Naryciusque Lelex, Panopeusque, Hyleusque, fe- torque magni Achiliif :
cumque Pheretiade, et
roxque Hyanteo lolao, impi-
ger Eurytion, et Echion
Hippasus, et primis etiamnum Nestor in annis. iniictus cursu, Nary-
Et quos Hippocoon antiquis misit Amyclis; ciusqve Lelex, Pano-
peusque, Hyleusque,
Penelopesque soeer, cum Parrhasio Ancsso, 315 J'eruxque Hippasus, et
Nestor etiamnum i?t
Ampycidesque sagax, et adhuc a conjuge tutus primis annis ; et quos
Q^clides, nemorisque decus Tegesea Lycaei. Hippocoon misit anti-
quit Amyclis, soeerqne
Pftielopes, cum ParrhasioA/icao, AmyclUesque sagax, et CEclides adh uc tutus ti conjuge, Te-
eiaa<2ue decus Lyca:i nemuris,
TRANSLATION.
nor shepherds can defend them even the stern bulls are unable to guard
;

the herds. The people fly, nor think themselves secure but when shut up
within their walls until Meleager and a chosen band of youths draw
:

together from thirst of fame. The two sons of Tyndarus, one renowned
at the rigid gauntlet, the other for managing the horse Jason the first ;

who built a ship, and Theseus happy in his friendship for Pirithous, and
the two sons of Thestius, and Lynceus, the son of Aphareus, and swift
Idas, and Caeneus now no more a woman, brave Leucippus, and Acastus
famed at the dart, Hippothoos, Dryas, and Phoenix, the son of Amyntor,
and the twin sons of Actor, and Phyleus sent from Elis. Telamon too
Avas there, and the father of the great Achilles and the son of Pheres,
;

and Hyantian lolaus, with gallant Eurition, and Echion invincible in the
race ;
Narycian Lelex, Panopeus, bold Hyleus, Hippasus, and Nestor
then in his first years. And those whom Hippocoon sent from ancient
Amyclse the father-in-law too of Penelope, and Parrhasian Ancseus,
;

Mopsus, the sage son of Ampycus, and Amphiaraus of Obelus' line, as yet
unsold by his wife and Tegsean Atalanta, the glory of the Lycsean
;

NOTES.
304. Duo Thestiada.] Toxensand Plex- 3l6. Ampycidesque sagax.'] Mopsus, the
sons of Thestius, brothers to
ippiis, tlie son of Anipyciis, tlierefore called sagax,
Althea, the mother to Meleager. because he had the gift of foresight.
308. Actoridesque pares.'] Eurytus and Ibid. Et adhuc a coiyuge tutus CEcli-
Creatns, two brothers, the sons of Actor des.]Ampliiams, the sonof (Ecleiis. He
of Elis. They were afterward slain by was one greatly renowned for his pro
Hercules. phetic gifts. It is related of him, that
U
290 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Uuicrasiiisjibuiamor- Rasilis liuic summam mordebat fibula vestem;

critiis erat simplex Crinis ciat Simplex nodum collectus m unum;
colli'ctus in unuvi no-
dum. Eburnea custo.9 Ex humero pendens resonabat eburnea leevo 320
telorum, pendens ex Telorum custos: arcum quoque Iseva tenebat.
lavo humero, resona-
bat : lava quoque te- Talis erat cultus facies, quam dicere vere
:

nebat arcum. Cultus

erat talis ; facies eiat, Virgineam in puero, puerilem in virgine posses.
quam possis vert di-
cere virgineam in pit-
Hanc Calydonius heros
pariter vidit, pariter
era, puerilem in vir-
Optavit renuente Deo flammasque latentes 325
:

gine. Calydonius he-

ros pariter vidit, pari-
f erque optavit hanc.dco
Hausit, et, O felix, si quem dignabitur, inquit,
renuente : hausitque Ista virum! nee plura sinunt tempusque pudorque
latentes Jiammas, et
si ista Dicere ; majus opus magni certaminis urget.
inquit, & felix,
dignabitur qucm vi- Silva frequens trabibus, quam nulla ceciderat aetas,
rum! nee tempusqtie,
pudorq; sinunt dicere; Incipit a pianodevexaque prospicit arva.
: 330
plwramujus opus mag-
ni certaminis urg<-t. Quo postquam venere viri pars retia tendunt ; ;

Silva frequens trabi- Vincula pars adimunt canibus pars pressa se- :
bus, quam nulla atas
a,
ceciderat, incipit
vlano.vrospicitQuear- ^. quuntur
* , . • ^ i

cupmntque suum repenre penclum.

,

va devexa. Quo post- Sigua pedum :

tenZnl'relli'-'parl
Concava vallis erat: qua se demittere rivi
adimunt vincia cani- Assueraut pluvialis aqua3. Tenet ima lacunae 335
bus; pars sequimtur ^• ^ ^ • •
i -

pressa signapedum: Lenta salix, ulvseque levcs, juncique paiustres,

suumpeHtttium.Erla Viminaquc, et longa parvse sub arundine cannse.
r^ivrTiuvkUh' aqu^ Hiuc aper excitus
medios violentus in hostes
assuer ant demittere se. fertur,' ut excussis elisi nubibus i2;nes.
"
Lenta salix tenet ima
lacuna, ulvaque leves, jimcique paiustres, viminaquc, et parva canna sub longA arundine.
Mine per violentus exciCus,fertur in medios hostes, tit ignes elisi excussis nuHbus.
TRANSLATION.
groves A
polished buckle bound her robe, and her hair was tied up in
a simple knot. An ivory quiver rattled on her left shoulder, and in her
left hand she held a bow such was her dress. Her face, what in a hoy,
:

you might truly say, was that of a blushing maid, in a maid, that of a
lovely boy. The Calydonian chief at once beheld, and at once wished
for the dame, with gods averse, and drew in the latent fire. happy, O
says he, the man by fate reserved for her embraces. Time and glory
suffer not more a mightier work of mighty praise rouses his soul.
;

Awood thick of trees, which no age had cut down, rises from a plain,
and overlooks the shaded fields below. When here the heroes Avere ar-
rived, some spread around the toils, some unbind and set on the dogs,
while part explore the monster's steps, and are impatient to trace their
own danger. There Avas a hollow valley whither rivulets of rain-water
were wont to roll in its marshy bottom sprung up the limber willow,
:

smooth sedges, and slimy rushes, with osiers, and lengthened stalks of
trembling reeds. Hence the boar roused, rushes violent amid his foes,
like lightning darted from the bursting clouds. In his career he levels
the grove, and bears down the wood with a crashing noise. The youths
NOTES.
foreseeing if he went to the Theban war over by Adrastus, who presented her with
he should never return, to avoid being a fine necklace, she betrayed her bus-
compelled to it, he kept ont of the way. band. He was therefore obliged to ac-
Hi» wife Eriphyle was the only person company the other leaders to the Theban
intrusted with the secret, as he believed war, and, we are told, was swallowed up
her fidelity impregnable. But being won with his chariot by the earth.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VIII. 291

Sternitur incursu nemus.'; et r

propulsa
r & "- 340
fragorem 'V'f«"« sternitur in.
_, *^ cursu, et silva pro-
Silva ciat. forti p^^^a. dat fragorem.
rixclamantjuvenes; prsetentaque
Tela tenent dextra, lato vibrantia ferro. UMntqueMavibran-
Ille ruit spargitque canes, ut quisque ruenti
; *ta
fontZxira.'^^iae
Obstat et obliquo latrantes dissipat ictu.
: run, spargitque cams,

Cuspis liiChionio contorta lacerto o45 enn, at dissipat la-

pnmum
Vana fuit, truncoque dedit ieve vulnus acerno. cuspu primum 'lln'-
Proxima, si nimiis mittentis viribus usa j.^^J" fana'"'deTit''ll
Non foret, in tergo visa est hsesura petito ;
^^^e vuin'us
acerno.
trunco
f -s -l J. J. -i- -n !•• Proxima, si
Longius it auctor teli regaseus lason.
: non usa foret jiimnsm.
Phoebe ait Ampycides, si te coluique coloque ; 350 elt^LsfrTpeuio "te"
Da quod petitur, certo contingere telo.
mihi, .> ' '
.& s"- tt^ '•onsius, Pe.
gaseus Jason etntauc-
_^^ -T
i-ii
Quapotuit,1^precibus Ueus annuit. Ictus ab lUo, torteu.Ampycidesait,
S, '••
|-x-
ed sine vulnere aper lerrum Diana volanti
,.
:
f. 1 Phcebe, si coluique.cO'
loque ie, da miM con-
Abstulerat j aculo lignum sine acumine venit. ; ce7t7Mo'!'''^Dftfs''a,'^.
Ira fed mota est nee fulmine leniiis arsit: 355 : ""/^ precibus qua po-
T •
f , n •
J \ J
tutt: aper est tctus ab
Lux micat ex oculis, spiratque e pectore namma. nio, sea sine vuinere .•

Utque volat moles adducto concita nervo, fum\"otantl^^ja/uio.

Cum petit aut muros, aut plenas milite turres ; ^mi^TYrTfltTsfmo'.
In iuvenes certo sic impete vulnificus sus
r< .
,T-ii T»i
ta, nee arsit icntus
fulmine, lux micat ex
rertur; et Jiupalamon, relagonaque dextra tu- ocuiis,jiammaquespi.
liA
prifpc rate rjfiO pectore. Utque
ciii/co <j\j\j moles C07icita adducto
Cornua prosternit. Socii rapuere iacentes. '^e^"
«"''«^ cumpent
At non letiferos efiugit Ensesimus ictus pienas mmte .-
sic vui.

Hippocoonte satus. Trepidantem, et terga parantem juvVnes^vLto^impete,

Vertere, succiso liquerunt poplite nervi. lr/S-??1«;
entes dextra cornua. Socii rapuSre jacmtes.TAt Enasimus satus Hippocvonte non effugit Uti-
feros ictus : nervi, poplite succiso liquerunt cum trepidantem, et parantem vertere terga.

TRANSLATION.
shout, and presenting their spears with nervous arm, brandish the broad-
pointed steel. He rushes impetuous, and disperses the dogs that oppose
him, repelling with slanting wounds the clamorous crew. The first spear,
launched by Echion with unavailing aim, slightly wounded a maple-tree
trunk. The next seemed to threaten the monster's back, but, darting with
aimed the
too much force, it went
beyond the mark Pegasean Jason :

have
Phoebus, (says the son of Ampycus), if I adore, and ever
''
stroke.
" adored
thee, grant me with aim to reach the mark." The
unerring
without
god consented, as far as fate allowed he struck the savage but ;

a wound Diana disarmed the flying javelin, which whizzed along a point-
;

less shaft. At this the monster's rage redoubles, quick as the winged
lightning fire flashes from his eye-balls, and flames expire from his
;

breast. As a stone, launched from an engine against walls or guarded

the destroy-
towers, flies with rapid force; just so with outrageous pace
and
ing boar rushes on the youthful band, and beats down Eupalamos
who the their raised and borq
Pelagon guarded right wing companions :

tliem off as
they lay. But Enasimus, the son of Hippocoon, escaped not
a mortal wound, for his nerves give way, nor sus-
pierced in the ham,
Perhaps the Pylian chief
tain him too
trembling and preparing to fly.
had here perished before the war, but that with violent effort aided
Trojan
292 P. OVIDII NASONIS

S'Afrfi";:;,ra Forsitan et Pylius citra Trojana pensset 365

Troja'm.-sedcmxrmiiie Temporal scd sumpto v)osita conamine ab hasta,
sinnptoabnaslaposita, » i
• •
-i
•
i i
• •

i„.yiuuf ramis urborh Arboi'is insuiut, quoi stabat proxima, ramis :

tufiJquc'iocordespe^ Despcxitque
loco tutus, quern fugerat, hostem
it ho.\tcm
qiieni Jtcge- Dentibus ille ferox in
rut. IClc ferox deiitilms querno stipite tiitis
t ritis in querno
stijiite, Imniinet exitio, sidensque recentibus armis 370
imminet exitio, s/deiis-
(/ue recentibus armis, Othriadte magni rostro femur hausit adunco
haiisit femur magni
Othriada: rostro advn-
At gemini, nondum ccelestia sidera, fratres,
CO. At gemini fratres,
nondum ccelestia side-
Ambo couspicui iiive candidoribus alba
,
'
•
-.j •, -,

V ectabautur equis ambo vibrata per auras

,

ra, eiant umbo consyi- ;

cui,ambovectabuutnr
equis candidioribus tii-
Hastarum trcmulo quatiebant spicula motu, 375
te, ambo quatiebant Vuliiera fecisseiit : nisi setiger inter opacas
per auras sptcula has- -f.j , . .1.,
/^ i
•

JNec laculis isset, nec couo loca pervia silvas.

tarum vibrata trcmu-
loviotu. Fcciisent vul-
nera,nisisetizertsset
T>-.mi
1
crscquitur
Tj-
lelamon; stuQioque mcautus eundi^
•
. j-

^^r^Zfjacni^, P^'onus ab arborea cecidit radice retentus ;

neceqno.Teiumonpcr-
seqtiitur, incaut%isque
Dum
levat huHC Pcleus, celereni Tep-eaea
-. ,.
.
~ sagittam
" ooi
studio eundi, cecidit
Imposuit nervo, smuatoque cxpulit arcu. ool
Vrboreh radur!'^^Dum Fixa sub aurc feri suramum distrinxit arundo
Peieui levat hunc,Tc. et exiouo
Corpus
r rubefecit sanguine setas.
:
gcfa tmposuit celerem ^ .°
*3 '
„, , ^ . .

xagitiam nervo, expu- JNec tamen ilia sui successu Isetior ictus,

An"ido''fi''lfsub "anr'e Q
utim Meleagros erat. Primus vidisse putatur ; 385
CTMOT corpus'Tet rube- ^t priiuus sociis visuui osteudissc cruorem :

fecit sctascxiguosaa- J^fmeiitum, dixisse, feres virtutis honorem.

ta erat icttior succcs- Erubuere viri seque exhortantur, et addunt ;

TieimgroT'^' Primus
Cum clamorc animos jaciuiitque sine ordine tela. ;

niufostendisfe v^si'im
Turba nocet jactis, et, quos petit, impedit ictus. 390
cruorem sociis, et dixi'ise feres nieri/um honnreni virtutis. Viri cruhuerc, exhortantur que se, et
addunt anitnos cum clumore ; jaciuntque tela sine ordine. Turha nocet jactis, et impedit ictus
quos jtetit.

TRANSLATION.
by his spear, he vaulted on a tree that stood by him, and secure by his
situation, looked down on the foe he had escaped. He whetting his tusks
on an oaken trunk, stands ready for destruction ;
and trusting to his

newly-pointed weapons, with crooked jaws ranched the thigh of the great
Othryades. But the two brothers, not yet celestial constellations, rode
distinguished from the rest, on horses Avhiter than the driven snow. Both
with trembling motion brandished in air their pointed spears, and both
had wounded the bristly monster, but that he rushed into the shady woods,
impenetrable to horses or the winged steel, Telamon presses on, and
heedless in the eager pursuit, is stopped by the branching root of a tree,
and tumbles on the groiind. While Peleus raises him up, the Tegean
maid fits an arrow to the string, and drives it from the straightened bow.
The shaft grazing under the ear, pierced the skin, and dyed the bristles
around with scanty blood nor did she herself rejoice more at the suc-
:

cessful stroke than Meleager, He first observed the wound, and first
pointed it out to his companions nor, added he, shall thy valour want its ;

due reward. The heroes blush through a noble emulation they en- ;

courage and animate each other by joint acclamations, and pour in volleys
their multitude impede the aim, and mu-
undistinguished darts but their :

tually baffle the commissioned strokes. When lo, Arcadian Ancaeus with
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lir. VIII. 2&3

Ecce furens contra sua fata bipennifer Areas, Ecce Arcasbipennifer,

furens contra sua fa-
Discite foemineis quam tela virilia praestent. 'ta, dixit, O
juvenes,
O juvenes, operiquemeo concedite, dixit.
di'.cite quid virilia la-
ta jir(tst(7it foemineis,
conccditeque meo ope-
Ipsa suis licet hunc Latonia protegat armis ; ri. IJcet ipsa Lata-
Hunc tamen invita perimet mea dextra Diana. 395 Ilia protesat hunc in-
vita DiiniA. Illo tu-
Talia magniloquo tumidus memoraverat ore ; tnirius memoraverat
taliii magniliiqiio ore,
Ancipitemque manvi tollens utraqiie securim, tolhnsque ancipitem
secui im utrAque ma-
Institerat digitis prinios suspensus in artus;
7IU, institerat digitis,

Occnpat audacem, quvjqiie est via proxima leto, suspensus in primos

artus. Ferus occupat
Summaferus "eminos direxit in inguina dentes.400 uudace?n, direxit que
geniinos denies in sum-
Concidit Ancaeus; glomerataque sanguine multo ma inguina, qua est
Viscera lapsa fluunt ; madefactaque terra cruore est. proxima via letho. An-
ctcus concidit ; visce-
Ibat in adversum proles Ixionis hostem roque glomernta Jiu-
unt lapsa multo san-
Pirithoiis, valida quatiens venabula dextra. guine, terraqne est
Cui procul iEgides, O me mihi carior, inquit, 405 Pi-
nS^^'roto /rilonis
Pars animaB consiste meae licet eminus esse
;
ibat in adversum hos-
tem, quatiens vena-
Fortibus Ancseo nocuit temeraria virtus.
: bula valida dextril.
Cui ACsides procul, in-
Dixit et aerata torsit grave cuspide cornum
; quit, () carior mihi me,
:

Quo bene 3 pars mctc anima con-

librato, votique potente future, siste ; licet nobis esse
Obstitit esculea frondosus ab arbore ramus. 410 fortibus eminus, teme-
raria virtus nocuit
Misit et jEsonides jaculum; quod casus ab illo Ancao. Dixit, et tor-
sit cornum grave ara-
Vertit in immeriti fatum latrantis, et inter iil cwipide. quo berie
Ilia
conjectum, tellure per ilia fixum est. libriito, futuroqne po-
tente voii, ramus fron-
At manus CEnidse variat ; missisque duabus, dosus ab urbore e.scu-
leA obstitit. ^soni-
Hasta prior terra, medio stetit altera tergo. 415 des et misit jaculum,
quod casus ab
Nee mora; dum sa^vit, dum corpora versatinorbem, .^^^ .^^
vertit
^.^^^^^^ .„,^^^^^.
latrantis, et conjecticm inter ilia, fixum eat m tellure per ilia. At manus (Enidtp variat, dua-
busque missis, hasta prior stetit terr A, altera viedio tergo. Nee mora, (turn sievit, dum lersat
corpora in orbem,
TRANSLATION,
his battle-axe rusliing forward to his fate
"
Mark, noble youths,
: O
" and that sent by a
(says he), the difference between a manly weapon,
" female
hand, and give way to my assault. Did Diana herself protect
" this stern he fall by my right
savage, yet, even in spite of Dia)ia, shall
" hand." These fierce boasts he uttered with a vain-confident air, and
stretched on his tip-
raising with both hands the double-edged axe, stood
toes. But the boar prevents him, and aiming at a speedy death, tears
open his groin with both his tusks. Down falls Anca^us, and
his bowels

gathering in a knot, rush out in torrents of blood, and

drench the earth
with gore. Pirithous, the son of Ixion, advances next against the foe,
the son of
brandishing his spear Avith strong arm to Avhom from far;

" b dearer to me than of my soid, stay

iEgeus, myself, thou belter part ;

" we to his rash

"
may shew bravery at a distance. Ancseus fell a victim
courage." He said, and hurled his cornet spear, ponderous with massy
brass which well poised, and urging its unerring way, was checked by
;

the arm of a branching oak. Jason too launched his spear, which fortune
averting from the boar, lodged in the
bowels of a harmless dog, and
piercing them, it stuck fast in the ground.
But the son of CEneus ainas
with various event, for discharging two javelins, the one stood fixed in
the ground, the other the middle of his back.
pierced Instantly, while
294 P. OVIDII NASONIS

'^Jirfdentfm cwnVtZ Stridentcmque novo spumam cum sanguine fundit,

sanguine; auitorvut- Vulneiis auctoF adest, hostemque irritat ad iram ;
neris adest, irritat- ciiti i it ^• ^ ,

que kostem ad iram, oplendidaque adveisos venabula condidit in armos.

ITrnZTinl^dve^os Gaudia testantur socii clamore secundo ; 420
dextrae conjungere dextram ;
tur'"''aitdia'' secundo Victricemque petunt
clamore, petuntqtte Immanemque ferum multa tellure jacentem

7e'xt'ram'^Lx'dextr^. Mirantes spcctant ; neque adhuc contingere tutum

^manemyerum!"jl
Essc putaut sed tela tamen sua quisque cruentant.
:

centern multa tellure. 425

pede imposito caput exitiabile pressit
Ipse '^ ;
iieque adhuc putant / ., ci i- -\t • • •

esse tutum contingere;

Atque ita, oume mei spolium, JNonacria, juris :

^cruentanT suV"teia. Dixit; et in partem veniat mihi gloria tecum.

Ipse pressit exitiabile
Protiuus cxuvias rigidis horrentia setis
caput pede imposito, P .. . . .
-,

atque dixit ita: No- dat, ct maguis insignia dentibus ora.

Terga
iiacria, sume spoliumtit i x-i- ^ •
AOf\
H" JsetitiSB cst cuiTi munere, muneris auctor
mei juris, et gloria ve-
j.
: 4oU
fefum":%ZiftuPdat Invidgrc alii ; totoque erat agmine murmur.
m exuvias tergahor- E
rentta quibus ingenti tendentes brachia voce,
'^
rigtdts setis, et -f^ ,•, i •
,
•
c i
ora insignia Jroue, agc, ncc titulos mtercipc loemma nostros,
mugnis

neris,VummunereTest ThcstiadaB clamaut: ncu tc fiducia formse

^ccipiat; longcquc tuo sit captus amore 435
d%re!murmurquefrJi
toto'agmine. Eqtii- AuctoF ;
ct liuic adimunt munus, jus muncris illi.
denies brachia, cu- Noii tuHt, et tumida frendcns Mavortius ira,
PoZ'/Sarnecln'. Discitc raptorcs alieni, dixit, honoris,
tercipe7iostros titulos, Facta minis
quantum distent. Hausitque
^ nefando
necjiducia forma de- _. _. , A .
^, , . . „ .
.^
cipiat te, auctorque rcctora Flcxippi,
i i '
nil tals timeutia, lerro. 440
captus tuo amore sit
longe; et adimunt huicmunus, illijus muneris. Heros Mavortius nontulit,et frendcns tumida
ira, dixit : discite raptores alieni honoris, quantum facta distent minis. Hausitque pectora
Flexippi, timentia nil tale nefando ferro.

TRANSLATION.
yet he rages, and wheels his body round disgorging blood and foam, the
author of the wound advances, and provokes his adversary anew, and
buries his shining spear in his opposed shoulders. His companions in
applauding shouts testify their joy, and hasten in congratulation to seize
his victorious right hand. They behold with wonder the huge monster
extended on a breadth of earth, and scarce yet think it safe to touch him ;
yet all tinge their weapons in his blood. Meleager, with his foot im-
"
pressed on the monster's baleful head, said Take, Nonacriau nymph, :

" these
spoils by conquest mine, and share in my glory." Immediately
he gives her the skin rough with horrid bristles, and head distinguished
by the huge tusks. She joyfully receives the gift, nor is less pleased with
the giver. The rest envied her, and a murmur ran through the whole
company. Above all, the sons of Thestus, stretching out their arms, ex-
claim with loud noise " Lay down these spoils, nor think, a weak woman
:

•'
as thou art, to intercept the honours due to us. Let not a vain con-
" fidence in
thy beauty deceive thee, nor hope for protection from the
"
giver infatuated by thy charms." They said, and snatch from her the
spoil, and from him the right of disposing of it. The hero could not
bear it, but swelling with martial rage, " Learn, (said he), ye ravishers
" of another's
praise, how much deeds differ from threats," and pierced
with his cruel sword the breast of Plexippus, dreading no sucli fate.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VIII. 295

Toxea, quid facial, dubium, pariterque volentem Haud patilur Toxea.

(dubium quid fuciat,
Ulcisci fratrem, fraternaque fata timentem, pariterque vokntcm
ulcisci fratrem, timcn-
Haud patitur dubitare diu ; calidumque priori temquefraternafataj
Caede recalfecit consorti sanguine telum. dubitare diu: recalfe-
citque telum calidum.
Dona Deum templis nato victore ferebat ; 445 priori ceede, saiiguine
consorti. Althaa fere-
Cum videt extinctos fratres Althsea referri. bat dona templis dcfim
pro ttato victore, cum
Quae plangore dato, moestis ululatibus urbem videt fratres extinctos

Implet; et auratis mutavit vestibus atras. referri. Qua-, plan-

gore dato, implet ur-
At simul est auctor necis editus ; excidit omnis bem mcestis ululalibus,
et mutavit auratas
Luctus et a lachrymis in poense versus amorem est.
:
vcstes vestibus atris.
At simul auctor
Stipes erat, quem, cum partus enixa jaceret
necis
451 est editus, omnis luc-

Thestias, in flammam
triplices posuere sorores ;
tus excidit, et est ver-
sus a lachrymis in amo-
Staminaque impresso fatalia pollice nentes, rempana. Erat stipes,
quem cum Thestias ja-
Tempora, dixerunt, eadeni lignoque, tibique, ceret enixa partus, tri-
O modo nate, damus. Quo postquam carmine dicto V^K^" ""'"''^^ pfxere
injiammam,nciitesque
-^ _^' n
Jixcessere Deee ; rlagrantem mater ab igne 466 /"taiia stamina im-
presso pollice, dixe-
Eripuit torrem sparsitque liquentibus undis,
:
runt, O modb nate, da-
mus eadem tempora ti-
llle diu fuerat penetralibus abditus imis ; bique lignoque. Quo
carmine dicto, post-
Servatusque tuos, juvenis, servaverat annos.
P, ,. ,-
.
•",•.! r 9"0'n deee excessere,
•

rotunt nunc genitrix, tsedasque in iragmma pom mater eripuufagran-

• •

Imperat; et positis inimicos admovet ignes. 461 lpar.S^7hquinmui

Tum conata quater flammis imponere ramum "'Idftus ^Inrnpenltfa-

p,, j-.T
Coepta quater tenuit. Pupnant materque, sororque,
^1
Jbit diversa trahunt unum duo nomma
,

pectus.
^
Mus, servatusque, ser-
vaverat
'^
tuos annos, o
,

juvenis. Genitrix pro-

Seepe metu sceleris pallebant ora futuri 465 Slf/o^/'^f/^'S

:

na, et admovet inimi-

cos ignes positis. Tum quater conata imponere ramum flammis, quater tenuit ccepta. Mater-
que sororque piignant, et duo nomina, trahunt umim pectus in diversa. Sape ora pallebant
metu futuri sceleris ;

TRANSLATION.
Nor he Toxeus, who seemed fo waver between the fear of a like
suffers
fate, and a desire to avenge his brother's death, long to deliberate but ;

again died in kindred blood his sword, yet warm with the late slaughter.
Althaea was bearing offerings to the temples of the gods for her son's
victory, when she sees her brothers brought off dead yVom thejield. Fetch-
ing a mournful groan, she fills the city with her lamentations, and changes
her embroidered robes to the sable weeds of sorrow. But when she heard
the author of their death, her grief vanished at once, and from tears her
soul is bent upon revenge. There was a billet, Avhieh, as the daughter of
Thestius lay labouring in the throes of birth, the triple sisterhood cast
upon the fire and spinning with thumbs impressed the fatal thread
; ;

" To thee
(they said), O new-born babe, and this brand we give the same
" Thus sung, the three goddesses departed. The mother
destiny."
snatched from the fire the flaming wood, and sprinkled it with water.
Long it had been kept in her most retired apartment, and thus preserved,
had preserved too the life of the young hero. This the mother now brought
out, and ordered a pile of split torches to be raised, and applies to it, when
raised, the hostile flames. Then four times essaying to cast the branch
upon the flaming pile, and four times repressed her hand. The mother
and sister struggle long within her, and these different titles draw dif-
ferent ways one and the same breast. Often her looks were pale from an
296 P. OVIDII NASONIS

sgpefervens ira dahat ggepe ira ruborem.

suuHi feivens oculis dabat ,,
3uum ruborem oculU. --.r .,..,. .

Mt morio
yuif.v.i
erat Et modo iiescio QuiQ similis crudcie minanti
similis mmanfi nescw
quid crndcle, morio erat Y\x\i\xs, erat ; modo quern misereii credere posses.
gttcm posses credere
misereri. Cutiignc fe- Cdmque ferus lachrymas animi siccaverat ardor ;
rns ardor animi sic-
ca rerat lachryynas, tit-
Inveniebantur lachrymse tamen. Utque carina, 470
men lachryj/iip irivenie- Quam ventus, ventoque rapit contrarius sestus,
bantur. Vtque cari.
TM, quam, reiitus, tes- V^im geminam sentit, paretque incerta duobus :

tusque contrarius ven- Thestias baud aliter dubiis afFectibus errat,

tu, rapit, sentit gcmi-
nam rim, incertaque vices ponit, positamque resuscitat iram.
Inque
- -
•!•.•
- •

lluer rZstias ernft Incipit esse "tameii

melior germana parente 475
dubiis affectibiis, po- —
ut sanguine leniat umbras,
nitque, resuscitatque Et, consanguineas
Impietate pia est. Nam postquam pestifer ignis
po\itam irnm in rices.
Tamen germava inci-
pit esse melior pa- Convaluit: Rogus iste cremet mea viscera, dixit.
rente, et ut leniat con-
sanguineas tnnbras Utque manu dira lignum fatale tenebat ;
sanguine est pia im-
Nam Ante sepulchrales infelix adstitit aras. 480
jnetate. po.\t-
quam
convaltiit,
pest ifer
dixit,
ignis
iste Poenarumque Dese triplices furialibus inquit,
rogus cremet mea ris- Eumenides, sacris vultus advertite vestros.
cera. Vtque tenebat
fatule lignum dird ma- Ulciscor, facioque nefas. Mors morte pianda est;
nii, infelix adstitit ante In scelus addendum scelus est, in funera funus :

fepulchrales aras, in.

quitque Ettmenides,tri- Per coacervatos pereat domus impia luctus. 485
plices dece poenaruw,
advertite vtscros vvl- An felix OEneus nato victore fruetur ;
tus furialibus sacris.
Vlciscor, facioque ne-
Thestius orbus erit? melius lugebitis ambo.
fas. Mors est pinnda Vos modo, fraterni manes animseque recentes,
morte, scelus est ad-
dendum in scelus, fu- Officium sentite meum magnoque
; paratas
jiits in fitnera. Domus
Accipite inferias, uteri mala pignora
nostri. 490
impia pereat per coa-
cervatos luctus. An Hei mihi quo rapior? fratres ignoscite matri.
!
(Eneus felix fruetur
nato victore, TItestius erit orbtts higebilis melius.
? Vos modofratcrno manes, animtrque
ambo
recentes, sentite meum afficium, accipiteque inferiiis paratas magna pretio, mala pignora
nostri
uteri. Hei mihi! quo raptor? fratres ignoscite matri.

TRANSLATION.
in her eyes, inflamed
apprehension of the future crime, often rage glowing
her countenance. Now her looks threatened some cruel purpose, now they
wore an air of compassion and when the fierce passionate ardour of her
;

soul had dried up her tears, still fresh tears would trickle down. And as
a ship tossed by tlie wind and contrary tide, sustains a double assault, and
fluctuates between both just so the daughter of Thestius wavers between
;

her
repugnant affections, and sometimes banishes, sometimes rouses
banished wrath. Yet the sister begins to prevail over the mother and, ;

to appease her kindred ghosts by blood, she aims at being pious by an act
of impiety. For when the pernicious flames began to rise. Let that pile,
said she, consume my bowels. And holding in her hand the fatal branch,
" Sister
as she stood before the sepvdchral altars goddesses (said she), ;

" avert your look from these baleful rites I avenge :

ye avenging furies,
•'
and commit a crime death is to be expiated by death, crime heaped
;

"
upon crime, and funeral upon funerals. Let the impious race perish by
" accumulated calamities. Shall CEneus be
happy in his victorious son,
" and Thestius be of his ? It is better that both mourn. Do you
spoiled
" recent shades, regard this my last duty, and
only, my brother's ghosts, ye
*' that cost me so dear, the guilty
accept kindly these funeral sacrifices
" of womb. Alas whither am I hurried ? Pardon,
pledge my unhappy !
 METAMORPHOSEON, tiB. VIII. 297

Mantis ad
Deficiunt ad ccEpta manus. Meruisse fatemur deficiunt
ccepta:
fatemur ilium
Ilium, cur pereat mortis mihi
:
displicet auctor. meruisse cur pereat ;
avctor mortis displicet
Ergo impun^ feret ; vivusque, et victor, et ipso mihi. Ergo fi ret im-
; vivtisqve,et vic-
Successu tumidus regnum Calydonis habebit? 495 pune tor, et tumirius ipso
Vos cinis exiguus, gelidaeque jacebitis umbrae? successv, hubebit rrg-
ninii Cahjdonis? Vos
Haud equidem patiar. Pereat sceleratus et ille jtuebitis exigiius cinis,
;
gellritrquc vtnbrtF. E-
Spemque patris, regnique trahat, patriaeq ruinam. quidcm hand jmtiur.
;

Mens ubi materna est ubi sunt pia jura parentum ? Sceleratvs
;
pereat
Me traliut %ec\\m,spem-
et ;

Et, quos sustinui, bis mensum quinq ue labores ? 500 ?"« p«iris,rimiamqne
_'T^. .. .. -^ . .
I'eg'ii, patritrque. Ubi
O utinam primis arsisses ignibus infans est mens viuternal ubi
;
7iu)ic pia vota paren-
Idque ego passa forem vixisti munere nostro !
tum? et labores bis :

Nunc merito moriere tuo. Cape praemia facti ; qtiinqne mensium quos
sustinui? outinum ar-
Bisque datam, primCun partu, mox stipite rapto,
sisses iiifans primis ig-
nibus, egoque forem
Redde animani vel me fraternis adde sepulchris.
; passu id! vixisli nos-
tra munere, nunc nio-
Et cupio, et nequeo. Quid agam? niodo vulnera riere tuo merito. Cupe
fratrum 506 pramia fucti ; rcdde-
qne aiiimam hit da-
Ante oculos mihi sunt, et tantae cadis imago ; tum, primum pnrtu,
mux stipite, vel
Nunc animum pietas, niaternaque nomina frangunt. adne ruptome frattrnis se-
Me miseram male vincetis, sed vincite, fratres
!
pnlchris. Et cupin, et
neqneo, quid agam ?
:

Dummodo, quse dedero vobis solatia, vosque 510 mudo inilnera fratrum
sunt ante oculos mihi,
Ipsa sequar, dixit dextraque aversa trementi
: et imago tanta caidis ;
nunc pietus, materva-
Funereum torrem medios conjecit in ignes. qtie iiomiua frangunt
Aut dedit, aut visus gemitus est ille dedisse, animuni. Me misera7n!
mate incetis of' aires, i

Stipes ; et invitis correptus ab ignibus arsit. sed tincite ; dummodo

ipsa sequar vos, sola-
Inscius atque absens flamma Meleagros ab ilia 515 tiaque qtiie dedero vo-
bis. Dixit avfrsaque :
Uritur ; et csecis torreri viscera sentit tor- coiijecit J'unereum
rent in medios ignes trementi dextrcl. Jlle stipes, aut dedit, aut visus est dfdisse get/lit us et cor-
in iUdJlammd, et sentit
reptus ab invitis ignibus, arsit. Meleagros inscius atque absens uritiir
viscera torreri cacis
TRANSLATION.
"
brothers, the feelings of a mother.
" I own he deserves to
My hands fail me in the attempt.
perish, but he ought
not to perish by a mother's
" hands. Shall he then and elated with
escape shall he alive, victorious
;

" while you are reduced to

success, possess the kingdom of Calydon ;

" mere
ashes, and cold lifeless shades ? I cannot bear it let the wretch ;

" his country, and his

perish, and involve in his fall his father's hopes,
" But where mother? Where the of pa-
kingdom. is the pious affections
rents, and all the pangs I for twice five months sustained 1 O that you
"
" had
perished in the flames when yet an infant, nor opposed your
I fate.
" You was die by your own
preserved by ray indulgence, but now must
"
guilt. Resign to me your life, mine by
a double title given you first ;

" at and then from the flames or add me too to the

your birth, preserved :

" funerals of
my brothers. I would, but cannot what shall I do ? Now :

" wounds stand before and the idea of the horrid

"
my brothers' my eyes,
murder now piety and a mother's name disarm my soul. Wretch that
:

" I am It ! is an unnatural conquest, yet conquer my brothers, if so be ;

" that I
follow you, and that son whom I sacrifice to appease your injured
" ashes." tossed the fatal brand into
She said and averting ;
her
eyes,
the midst of the flames. It gave, or at least seemed to give, a groan and, ;

catched by the reluctant fire, was gradually consumed. Meleager, absent

and unsuspecting, wastes in that flame, and feels the contagion rage iu
 298 P. OVIDII NASONIS

at magnos superat virtute dolores.

^it'skoi^LlZ'utl Ignibus:
Tiimen maret quod ca-
ditt leto isnavo et sine
Quod tamen * iffnavor cadat, et sine sanguine leto,
P
sanguine, et dicct mil- M 06161
f., ,

;
.
•

61 AncsBi lelicia vulnera dicit.

^• •
i ^• •
f\
619
n.

rocatqiTfuprlmo^ore Grandsevumq patrem, fratremque, piasq sorores

; ;
cum gemitu, grandee. DuHi oo;emitu, sociamque tori vocat ore supremo
vum patrem jratrem- _, .
t 7 r _ _
;
»

que, pias sorores, so- Jtorsitan ct iiiatrem.Lrescunt ignisque, dolorque;

Vt^'lnatremP ignZlTe Languescuntquc iteium. Simul est extinctus uter-
dolorque crescunt, ite- oue
4 '
rumque languescunt. ^^ .

uterque est simul ex- Inoue leves abiit paulatim spintus auras: 524
tinctus, spiritusque
abiit paulatim in leves
»i,- ,/^ii t •
''
Altajacct Calydon. Lugent juvenesque sencsquc,
jaZl juvem'sque'!te. Vulgusque, proceresque gemunt scissceque capillos :

nesque lugent, vulgtis

que proceresque ge- Planguntur matres Calydonides Eveninse.
munt : matresqite Ca- Pulvere canitiem genitor, vultusque seniles
lydonides Eveniri(B
scissee quoad capillos, Foedat humi fusus spatiosumque increpat sevum. ;

planguntur. Genitor
fusus humi, fcedat ca-
Nam de matre manus diri sibi conscia facti 530
nitiem vultusque se-
niles pulvere; incre-
Exegit pcenas, acto per viscera ferro.
patque spationim <e- Non mihi si centum Deus ora sonantia Unguis,
vum. Nam manus con-
scia sibi diri facti exe- Ingeniumque capax, totumque Helicona dedisset ;
git panas de matre, Tristia perscQuerer miserarum dicta sororum
ferro acto per viscera. _ ^ 1- .. . .

Si deus dedisset mihi Immemores decoris liventia pectora tundunt 535 :

ora sonantia centum

Unguis, inge?iiumque Dumq; manet corpus, corpus refoventq ; foventque :

capux totumque Heli- Oscula dant ipsi, posito dant oscula lecto.
cona non persequerer
tristia dicta misera-
rum sororum. Imme-
Post
. ,„ cinerem, cineres haustos ad pectora
.
-
versant
,
.
:

mores decoris, tundunt

Aiiusseque jacent tumulo signataque saxo :

qm^cTrpuftnmet^'fo- Nomiua complexag, laclirymas in nomina fundunt :

ZrplT:' dalToscuTa Quas, Parthaoniffi tandem Latonia clade 541

ipsi, dant oscula lecto Exsatiata domus,' prseter Gorsrenque nurumque
posito. Post cinerem * d i a

versant haustos cineres ad pectora, jacentque affusa tumulo : complexaque saxo signata nomine,
fundunt laclirymas in nomina. Quas (prater Gorgenque, nurumque nobilis AlcmenaJ Lato'ia,
tandem exsatiatH clade Parthaonia domus,
TRANSLATION,
his bowels, and with heroic patience supports the mighty pains. Yet he
grieves to fall by an inglorious death, without a wound, and thinks Ancaeus
happy in his hasty fate. And now expiring with a sigh, he calls upon his
aged father, his brothers, his pious sisters, and the partner of his bed ;

perhaps too his mother. The flames and his pain increase, and again
langviish both are extinguished together, and his breath by degrees
;

blends with the thin air. Lofty Calydou is now sunk in sorrow young ;

and old, nobles and people mourn the Calydonian matrons, with hair ;

dishevelled, lament his fate. His wretched father, prostrate on the ground,
defiles his silver locks and aged face with dust, and chides his lingering
years. For the mother, conscious of her direful deed, with her own
hand
exacted punishment, and thrust a sword through her bowels. Had 1 a
mouth sounding with a hundred tongues, an imagination the most en-
larged, and all the that Helicon inspires, I coidd not yet describe the
gifts
mournful complaints of his wretched sisters. Regardless of decency, they
beat their breasts till they turn livid and while the body remains, che- ;

rish, and cherish it again cling to it in embraces, and even to the couch
;

on which it Avas laid. And when reduced to ashes, pressed the ashes en-
closed in an urn to their breasts, and lie prostrate roimd the tomb, and
kiss his name graved upon the stone, bedewing it with tears. Whom at
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VIII. 299

Nobilis Alcmenae, natis m

corpore pennis, pennis allevat
corpore; et pvrrigit
natis in

Allevat et
:
longas per brachia porrigit alas, longas alas per bra-
chia, facitque ora cor-
ora versasque per aera mittit. 545 nea, mittit que eas ver-
Corneaque f'acit,
sos per (iira.
v. Interea Theseus sociati parte laboris V. Interea Theseus,

Functus, Erechtheas Tritonidos ibat ad arces. functus parte sociati

laboris, ibat ad Erech-
Clausit iter, moras Achelous eunti,
fecitque
theas arces Tritonidos.
Achelous tumens im-
Imbre tumens. Succede meis, ait, inclyte, tectis, bre clausit iter, fecit-
undis. 650 que moras eunti. In-
Cecropida nee te comraitte rapacibus
; clyte Cecropida ait,
succede meis tectis ;
Ferre trabes solidas, obliquaque volvere magno nee committe te rapa-
Murmure saxa solent. Vidi contermina ripae cibus undis. Solent fer-
re solidas trabes, vol-
Cum gregibus stabula alta trahi nee fortibus illic vere q%ie obliqua
:
saxa
magno murmure. Vidi
Profuit armentis, nee equis velocibus esse. alta stabula conter-
Multa quoque hie torrens, nivibus de monte solutis, mina rips, trahi cunt
gregibus: nee illic pro-
Corpora turbineo juveniha vortiee mersit. fuit armentis esse for-
tibus, nee equis esse
Tutior est requies ; solito dum flumina currant velocibus. Hie quoque
Limite ; dura tenues capiat suus alveus undas. torrens, nivibus solu-
tis de monte, mersit
Annuit ^gides utarque, Acheloe, domoque,
: multa juvenilia cor-
pora turbineo vortiee.
Consihoque tuo, respondit et usus utroque est.
:
Requies est tutior,
dum flumina currant
Pumice multicavo, nee Isevibus atria tophis 561 solito limite ; dum suus
Strueta subit. Molli tellus erat humida musco, alveas capiat tenues
undas. annuit, ^gides
Summa lacunabant alterno muriee conchas. responditque, Acheloe,
utar domoque, tuoque
Jamque duas lucis partes Hyperione menso, consilio, et est usus

Discubuere toris Theseus comitesque laborum : utroque. Subit atria

strueta multicavo pu-
Hae Ixionides, ilia Troezenius heros 566 mice, et tophis nee la-
vibus. Tellus erat hu-
Parte Lelex, raris jam sparsus tempora canis : midamolli musco. Con-
chee lacunabant summa alterno muriee. Jamque Hi/perione menso duas partes lucis, Theseus
comitesque laborum rtiscubuere toris : hdc parte Ixionides, illd Lelex Trazenius heros, jam spar-
sus tempora raris canis:
TRANSLATION,
with the miseries of Par-
length the daughter of Latona, now satiated
thaon's house, bore up on wings, all except Gorge, and the daughter-in-
law of noble Alcraena, covers their arms with long pinions, furnishes them
with horny beaks, and sends them thus transformed to fleet in air.
"V. Mean while Theseus, having discharged his part of this confederate

labour, repaired to the Erechlhean towers of Pallas. But Achelous,

swelled with rains, opposed his journey, and stopped him on his way.
" Illustrious
Cecropian (says he), come vmder my roof, nor trust
the rapid
" floods.
They sometimes with roaring noise bear down huge beams, and
" roll I have seen them sweep away the high
along ponderous rocks.
" folds and with all the herds and cattle nor did his
contiguous hanks,
:

" the prancing steed.

strength avail the bulky steer, or his swiftness
Often, when swelled with melted snows- from the mountains, it swal-
•'

" lows in It is better

its whirling eddies the bodies of strongest youths.
" to and glides
repose here, till the river returns to its wonted track, " I em-
" its own channel." The son of assented :
iEgeus
" smoothly along and the offer of your
brace (says he), Achelous, your counsel, accept
"
house ;" and he accordingly accepted both. He enters the grot formed
rough sand-stone the floor was
of pumice-stone, and :
of soft moss, the
roof arched, and
chequered with various shells.
And now the^ declining
sun had measured two-thirds of his course, Theseus and his companions
took each their place on couches. Here the son of Ixion, there Lelex the
Troeaenian hero, his temples now thinly covered with the silver locks of
300 P. OVlflll NASONIS
alios amnis
quosque
Acarnanum, Iretissi- Quosque alios parili fuerat dignatus honore
mus tatifo hospite, fu- Amnis Acarnanum, laetissimus hospite tanto.
fwnore. Prntiimsnym- Frotinus appositas nuQse vcstigia JNymphfe 570
i'^'li^xCrTlvpfst
Instruxere epulis mensas dapibusque remotis
:
^gta
mensas epulis ; da- Jn p;emma posucre nieriim. Turn maximus heros
ia^
jnbusque renwtis po- 7^-,° '^.. • , .
/^
sittre merum in gem-
/tiquora prospiciens oculis suDjccta, Quis, iiiquit,
7os'pro7picie'nsTquo'ra
I^e locus ? digitoque osteiidit, et, Insula nomen
Q^ds'^uiriwu^^^^^
Quod gerat ilia, doce. Quanquam non una videtur.
tendit digitoj et doce Amnis ad hsec, NoH est, inquit, quod cernimus,
quod nomen ilia insula
gerat, quanquum non unum. 576
videtur una. Ad line
amnis inquit, Non est Quinque jacent terrse spatii discrimine fallunt.
:

unum quod cernimus.

Quinque terra jacent :
Quoque minus spretee factum mirere Dianae ;

discrimine spatii fal- Naiades hee fuerant quae, cum bis quinque juvencos
:

lunt. Quoque minus

mirere factum spreta Mactassent,rurisque Deos ad sacra vocassent, 580
Diance, ha fuerant Immemores nostri festas duxere choreas.
Naiades: qua cum
macttissejit bis quin- Inturaui
que juvencos, vocHs-
quantusq: feror, ciam plurimus, unquam
:

senlque deos ruris ad Tantus eram pariterq anirais immanis et undis,

:
;
sacra dux£re fc^tas
choreas immemoresnos- A silvis silvas, et ab arvis arva revelli.
Intumui: erum-
tri.
que tu?itvs quantus Cumque loco Nymphas, memores turn denique nos-
cum unquam fi ror plu- tri, 585
rimus; immanisquepa-
riter ar>i7nis et undis, In freta provolvi. Fluctus nosterque, niarisque
revelli silvas u. silris,
et arva ab arris ; pro-
Continuam diduxit humum ; partesque resolvit
volviquP in freta nym- In totidem, mediis quot cernis Echinadas undis.
phas, lum ricniqnc me-
mores nostri, cum loco. VI. Ut tamen ipse vides, procul, en procul una
Fluctus nosterque ma- ,

risque aidu.rit conti- recessit.

nuam hunium; resnl- Insula orata mihi. Perimelen navita dicit. 590
litque in. totiilem par-
tes, quot cernis Echi- Huic
effo virgineum dilectze ademi. nomen
nadas iu mediis undir.
VI. It tamen ipse vides, procul, en una insula grata mihi, recessit procul. Navita dicit Pe-
rimelen. Ego ademi huic dilecta nomen virgineum.

TRANSLATION.
age aud the rest -whom the Acarnanian river, proud of so renowned a
;

guest, had graced with the like honour. Nymphs bare-footed served up
in order the several courses, and when the tables were removed, poured
wine into a, bowl adorned with gems. Then the great hero surveying the
sea subjected to his eyes, " What place (says he) is that ? and points
" to it with his
finger inform me what name that island bears and yet
: :

" methinks it seems not one." To this the River " It is not in-
replies ;

" deed but five distinct islands we see their distance deceives the
one, ;

" And cease wondering at the late instance of in-

that you
sight. may
"
jured Diana's vengeance, these were once Naiads who offering a sa- ;

" criiice of twice five bullocks, and inviting all the rural gods to the so-
"
lemnity, celebrated tlie rural dance, regardless of me. I swelled, and
" with redoubled rage, as when my stream rises highest, poured along
" with a torrent mighty as my resentment, and tore woods from woods,
" and fields from fields and the nymphs (then at last mindful of me)
;

"
"
with the place of their festival, I hurried headlong to the sea. waves, My
with those of the main, rent the land before continued, and divided it
" into as many the isles Echidnides amid the waves."
parts, as you see
YI. " Yet, as you see, one is removed far, far from the rest, an island
"
gi'ateful to me mariners call it Perimele. From this beloved nymph
:
 METAMOPiPllOSEON, Lib. VIII. 301

^r,ri
Quod pater Hippodamas
lundum
seffie
o tulit:
ir
inque pro- Q'«><i pater Wppoda-
mus tulit agre, pro-
pulii(fue corpora pa-
ritura nuts c scopulo
Pi'opulit e scopulo pariturae corpora natae. in profiiiidum. Ex-

Excepi ; nantemque ferens, proxima cceloO ccpi ; fcrcu'ique nan-

tem, dixi, a tridenti-
Regna vaga^, dixi, sortite, tridentifer, undae, 595 fer, sortite regna vugte
under prviiniii ccelo, in
In quo desinimus, quo sacri currinuis amnes, quo nn^ sacri amnes
desinimus, quo cicrri-
Hue ades, atq ; audi placidus, Neptune, precantem. mus (Neptune, hue
Huic ego, quam porto, nocui. Si mittis, et aequus. ades
audi
alque placidus
nn;
precantem),
Si pater Hippodamas, aut si minus impius esset ; £go nocui huic quam
porto: si pater Hippo-
Debuit illius misereri ; ignoscere nobis. 600 damas cs\et mitis et
O'quus, aut si esset
AfFer opemmersseque precor feritate paterna
; minus impius, debuit
euni misereri illius-, et
JDa, Neptune, locum vel, sit locus ipsa, licebit.
:
ignoscere nobis. Affer
Hanc quoque complectar. Movit caput aequoreus opem.- frecovque^'mp.
tune da locum il!i mer-
vier-
rex scF paterncL feritate ;
vel licebit ut ipsa
Concussitque suis omnes assensibus undas 604 sit locus. Complectar
Extimuit Nymphe, nabat tamen. Ipse natantis hanc quoque. Rex
tequoreus movit caput;
Pectora tangebam trepido salientia raotu :
concussitque ojnnes
undas suis assensibus,
Dumque ea contrecto, totum durescere sensi Nymphe extimuit, ta-
men nabut ipse tan-
Corpus et inducta condi prsecordia terra.
:
:
gebum pectora natan-
umloquor: amplexa est artus nova terra natantes, ns salientia trepido
Et gravis increvit mutatis insula membris. 610 u'ect'o ea,"l'emi toTum

VII. Amnis ab his tacuit. Factum mirabile corpus durcscere, et

pracordia condi in-
cunctos duced terrd. Dum lo-
quor nova terra est
Moverat. Irridet credentes, utque Deorura amplexa artus nutau-
tes, et gravis insula
Spretor erat, mentisque ferox Ixione natus, incrcvit vmtatis mem-
bris:
Ficta refers,
nimiumque putas, Acbeloe, potentes VII. Amnis tacuit
Esse Deos, dixit, si dant, adimuntque figuras. 615 abhis. Factum mira-
*^
bile moverat cunctos.
Natus Ixione irridet credentes : utque erat spretor Dear urn, feroxque inentis, dixit ; Acheloi re-
fers ficta, putasque Deos esse nimium potentes, si dant adimuntque figuras.
TRANSLATION.
" I took the nameof a virgin, which her father Hippodamas bore with
"
impatience, and pushed the body of his pregnant daughter from a rock
" into the sea. I received her, and bearing up her swimming weight O
;

"
Neptune, said I, who wields the trident, to whom belongs the kingdom
"
"
of the waters
encompassing the earth, in whom we sacred rivers end,
and whither we direct our streams, attend, and propitious hear my
" whom Had her father
prayer. It is I that have injured her I bear.
" been more mild and just, or less unnatural, he ought to have pitied her,
" and been reconciled to me. Aid us, O Neptune, and grant this unhappy
"
nymph, plunged into the sea by her father's cruelty, some place in thy
"
realms, or change her to a place. Her even thus I shall embrace. The
" ruler of the sea bent his head, and shook all his waters with his assent.
" The nymph was afraid, yet still swam I bore her up, and felt her
:

•'
heart leap trembling in her breast and as I felt it, perceived her Avhole
;
"
body to grow hard, and her chest to be crusted over with earth. While
" I
speak, new earth enclosed her swimming limbs, and a bulky island
"
grew upon her transformed members."
VII. Here the River was silent. The wonderful story made an im-
pression on them all only the son of Ixion, a contemner of the gods, and
:

of a mind untamed, " These are mere fictions

" laughs at their credulity.
(said he), Achelous, you attribute too much to the power of the gods, in
 302 P. OVIDII NASONIS

^rXr««ffiiK; ObstupucFe omnes, nee talia dicta probarunt :

ante
Leiexque omnes, Ante omnesQue Lelex, animo maturus et sevo,
matvrtisanimoet (ttio, c- -i t s o •
>•
ait sic : Potentia caii oic ait : Immcnsa est, nnemque
,

potentia coeli
habe7"Mem.Tq^t Non liabet : et quicquid Superi voluere, peractum
quid stiperi voluere, pcf fSlQ
^
est peractum. Qub. ^°^'. . , , .,,
^ . .

que minus dub!tes,est Quoque mmus dubites

contermina quercus ;
tiliae

qliercus' "contermfna Collibus est Phrygiis, modico circumdata muro.

'^"o'murrXse Z'i Ip^e locum vidi nam me Pelopeia Pittheus :

locum .-nam Pittheus Misitin arva, suo quondam regnata parenti.

arva, quondam regna- Haud procul hinc stagnum ; tellus habitabilis olim ;
%ocuiVin7fst"Tdg. Nunc
celebres mergis, fulicisq; palustribus undse.
biubiiu'"^Jnn^und%' Jupiter huc, specie mortali, cumque parente
626
celebres 'mergis, full- Venit Atlantiades
positis caducifer alis.
cisque palustribus. -ht-ii i ta i
•
, j

Jupiter MiUe domos

venit hue adiere, locum,
requiemque petentes :

7u7%ZZ"Ahanm. Mille domos clausgre sera. Tamen una recepit ;

des caducifer positis Parva Quidem, stipulis et canna tecta palustri 630 :
alls. Adiire mille do- o it« -i- •
t-»i -i
mos, petentes locum oed pia Baucis anus, parilique setate Philemon,
requiemque ; serm tiia ,,
•
-i-i • •
-ha
cidusire mille domos. Iliasuut annis juucti juvenuiDus, lUa
yarva '^"ddem^tecta-
Cousenuere casa paupertatemque fatendo :

que stipulis el cannit EfFeccre levem, nee iniqua mente ferendam.

pia anus, Phi/emoTiqite Ncc rcfert, domiiios iUic, famulosve requiras 635 ;

junlti iiil'annis juvL Tota domus duo suiit : idem parentque, jubentque.
u'''casii°''fatend!u'e ^^g*^
^^ Coelicolze
parvos tetigere penates;
paupertatetn, effecire levem, eX ferendam nee iniqnd mente. Nee refert utrum requiras illic do-
tninos famulosve, tota domus sunt duo: idem parent que, jubentque. Ergo ubi calicoloe tetigtre
parvos penates ;
TRANSLATION.
"
thinking they can alter at pleasure the forms of things." All were
amazed, nor approved his rash expressions especially Lelex, ripe in age ;

and understanding. " The power of heaven (says he) is immense and
" And to leave
boundless, nor can any thing resist the will of the gods.
" no
ground of doubt, among the mountains of Phrygia is an oak conti-
"
guous to a lime-tree, enclosed with a low wall. I myself have seen the
"
place for Pittheus sent me into the Phrygian realms, formerly subject
:

" to his father

Pelops. Near this is a lake, formerly habitable land, but
" now a collection of
waters, the resort of cormorants, and coots, that
"
delight in fens. Hither came Jove in human shape. Mercury too, the
"
grandson of Atlas, the bearer of the mystic rod, putting off his wings,
"
accompanied his father. They went to thousands of houses, begging
" admittance and
shelter, but found all the thousands locked against
" them. Yet one received
them, small indeed, and thatched with straw
" and reeds in this dAvelt Baucis and
marshy yet :
homely cottage pious
"
Philemon, both in years. Here had -they been united in their younger
" and by owning their poverty
days, here had they grown old together ;

" made it all the same to

easy, and bore it with contented minds. It was
" call the whole family were but two, both
for master or servant here ;

"
command, and both obey. When therefore the heavenly guests were
NOTES.
626. Jupiter hiic, specie mortali.'\ The how acceptable liospitalUy is to heaven,
fable of Philemon and
Baucis, which our and how sure of a recompense from the
poet here recounts in a strain so elegant gods.
and natural, is one of those that teach us
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VIII. 303

intraruntque humiles
Submissoque humiles intrarunt vertice postes ;
postes submisso ver-
Membra senex posito jussit relevare sedili: tice, senex jussit eos
relevare membra posi-
Quo superinjecit textum rude sedula Baucis. 640 to sedili, quo sedula
lude foco tepidum cinerem dimovit: et ignes Baucis super injecit
rude textum. Inde di-
Suscitat hesternos ; foliisque et cortice sicco movit tepidum cinerem
foco, et suscitat hester-
Nutrit : et ad flamraas anima producit anili : nos ignes, nutritque
foliis et sicco cortice,
Multifidasque faces, ramaliaque arida tecto et producit ad flam-
mas ani/nd anili ; de-
Detulit, et minuit, parvoque admovit aheno. 645
tulitque tecto multi-
Quod que suus conjux riguo collegerat horto, fidas faces, aridaque
ranialia et tninuit, ad-
Truncat olus foliis. Furca levat ille bicorni movitqtie parvo aheno:
Sordida terga suis, nigro pendentia tigno :
truncatque olus quod
suus conjux collegerat
Servatoque diu resecat de tergore partem riguo horto. foliis. Ille
levat sordida terga
Exiguam ; sectamque domat ferventibus undis : suis, pendentia nigro
tigno, bicorni furcd. ;
Interea medias fallunt sermonibus horas: 651 resecatque exiguam
Sentirique moram prohibent. Erat alveus illic partem de tergore diu
servato, domatque sec-
tam undis ferventibus.
Fagineus, curva clavo suspensus ab ansa :
Interea fallunt medi-
Is tepidis
impletur aquis artusque fovendos
; as horas sermonibus,
moram
Accipit. In medio torus est de mollibus ulvis 655 ^entiri"*^Ahveus fagi-
neus erat illic, sus-
Impositus lecto, sponda pedibusque salignis. pensus clavo ab ansH
Vestibus hunc velant, quas non nisi tempore festo curvd. Is impletur te-
pidis aquis ; accipit-
Sternere consuerant sed et hsec vilisque vetusque
:
que artus fovendos.
Vestis erat, lecto non indignanda saligno in medio est torus de
:
mollibus ulvis imposi-
Accubuere Dei. Mensam succmcta tremensq^': 660 tus lecto, sponda, pe
p)-, Tj^ 1 .

Fomtanus. Mensae sed erat pes tertms impar

.
dibusque salignis. Ve-
.

unt hunc vestibus, :

quas non consuerant

Tecta parem fecit. Quse postquam subdita clivum sternere nisi festo
tempore ; sed et hac
Sustulit, sequatam mentae tersere virentes. vestis erat vilisque,
vetusque non indignanda lecto saligno, Dei occubuere. Anus suceincta tremensque ponit men-
sam: sed pes tertius mensa erat impar. Tecta fecit parem. Qu<e postquam subdita sustulit
clivum; virentes menta tersire aquatam.
TRANSLATION.
come homely habitation, and, stooping, entered through the little
to this
door, the old man begged them to rest their limbs upon a bench, over
which officious Baucis threw a coarse covering then spreads the ashes
;

upon the hearth, and rouses the fire they had had the day before, and
nourishes it with leaves and dry bark, and with her aged breath blows
it into a flame then bringing split fagots and dry chips, breaks them,
;

and puts them under a small kettle. She next strips the leaves from
some plants, which her husband had gathered in his well-watered gar-
den. Philemon with a two-grained fork took down a rusty chine of
bacon, which hung on a sooty beam, and cut a slice from it, and plunges
itinto boiling water. Mean time they pass the hours in various dis-
course, and by pleasing chat shorten the delay. There was a beechen
pail that hung by its crooked handle on a peg that is filled
with warm
;

water, and offered to the guests, in which they might bathe their feet.
In the middle of the room was a bed, the feet and borders of sallow :

on this a heap of sedges were laid and covered with garments used only
on festival occasions. These too were coarse and old, yet might serve
for a Avillow bed. The tucked up, and
gods lie down. Baucis, her gown
one of its
trembling through age, sets before them a table. .Unhappily
feet was too short, which she remedied by thrusting under it a shell.
The unevenness thus removed, she wiped the level table with green
 504 P. OVIDII NASONIS
stcoior bacca stncera Pomtur hic bicolov sinceraB bacca Mmervae,
Minerva; jwiiitiir kic, ^,. .,..,^ ^ i- r
coriiaqtif uiituninalla
conditaiitliquuldfffce,
Conditaque in liquida corna autumnaiia leece, 665
intiibaqiit', it radix, et Intubaque, et radix, et lactis massa coactl ;
miiisa voacti lact.is,
ovtiq; lei'iter virsatu Ovaque, non acri leviter versata favilla ;

J'avilCa non ticri: otii-

iiia Jictilihus. Post
Omnia tictilibus. Post ha.^c cselatus eadem
hue calatus crater ex Sistitur argilla crater
; fabricataque fago 669
eudem ar^iUu sistltur,
jiocultig ; Pocula, qua cava sunt, flaventibus iliita ceris.
j'ubriiutii/a-
go,quacuia sunt iliita Parva mora est
Jtaventibusieris. Mora epulasque foci mi&ere calentes
;
:

est parva foci miscrc

: Nee lono-se rursus referuntur vina senectse :

que nee iimgee ^enectcr Jjantque locum mensis paulum seducta secundis.

"ZZi^i^uMmJ^M Hic nux, hic mista est rugosis carica palmis, |

locumsecumiis mensis. Prunao ct in patulis redolcntia mala canistrls, 675 1
Hic estnux, h'lccirrica
mixta rugosis palmis,
-r->i
h,i
:

de piu'pureis
-ii ••!
coUectse vitiDus uva.
I

prunaq ; et inula rido-

lentia in patuti\ cants- Candidus in medio favus est. Super omnia vultus
et uvfT colli cf a
tris,
de purpureis vitibus. Accessere boni nee inei's pauperque voluntas.
:

Interea, quoties haustum cratera repleri

Cundidus favus est in
medio. Boni vultus
accessere super omnia,
Sponte sua, per seque vident succrescere vina, 680
voluntasque nee iners,
nee pauper. Interea Attoniti novitate pavent, manibusque supinis
quotksvkenfhaustujn
cratera replcrt sua Coucipiunt BaucisQue preces.timidusque Philemon:
_, i.
-i n-
i -i
sponte, vinaq; suc-
sue- Et vcniam dapibus, nuUisque paratibus orattt.
crescere per se atto-
niti novitate pa>ent, Unicus anser erat, minimae custodia villee :

Baucisque, timidusq
Quern Dis hospitibus domini mactare parabant
;
:
Philemon concipiunt '
preces manibus supi- 686
nis, et urant leniam
penna tardos setate fatigat
Ille celer ;

dapibus, nuUisquc pa-

ratibus. Erat unicus
Eluditque diu tandemque est visus ad ipsos
:

anser, custodia jnini- Confuaisse Deos. Supeii vetuere necari ;

m<c villte, quern domini
parabant mactare Dis Dique sumus ; meritasque luet vicinia poenas.
hospitibus. lUe celer penna, fatigat ekiditq ; diu tardos delate ; tandemq ; est visus confugi^se
ad ipsos Deos. Superi vetuere eum necari, dixeriintque, sumus dii; inipiaque vicinia luet meritas
panas.
TRANSLATION.
mint. On this she placed the double-coloured berries of chaste Minerva,
and autumnal cherries preserved in pickle, and endive, and radishes,
and curds and cream, with eggs gently roasted at a slow fire, all in
earthen-ware. Then a bowl of the same materials adorned with figures,
and cups made of beech, whose inside was varnished with yellow wax.
The fire soon sent up the warm repast the wine, almost new, is with- ;

drawn, and gives place to the second course. This was of nuts and dried
figs with
wrinkled dates, and plums and fragrant apples in wide bas-
kets, and grapes gathered from the pm-ple vines. In the midst was
placed a milk-white honey-comb but above all, you might discern
;

welcome looks, and a cheerful willing mind. Mean time Baucis and
Philemon perceiving the bowl, as often as drunk off, to fill of its own
accord, and that the Avine grew up of itself, astonished at the strange
address the
appearance, they fall a trembling, and with uplifted hands
in and beg pardon for their entertainment and homely
gods prayers,
fare. There was but one goose, the guardian of the little cottage,
which the owners were preparing to kill for the gods, their guests. She,
aided by her wings, wearied them tardy through age, and long eluded
their pursuit, and at last seemed to fly for shelter to the gods them-
selves.
They interposed, and owning themselves to be gods, threatened
the impious neighbourhood with deserved punishment. Ye shall be
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. Vlfl. 30i

Impia, dixemnt. Vobis immunibus hujus 690 Dahitur vobis esse im~
munibus hvjus mali ;
Esse mali dabitur mod6 vestra relinquite tecta ;
: modo relinquite vestra
tecta, ac comitate nos-
Ac nostros comitate gradus ; et in ardua mentis tras gradus, et ite si-
mul in ardua montis.
Ite simul. Parent ambo, baculisque levati Ambo parent, levati-
Nituntur longo vestigia ponere clivo. que haculis, nilunttir
ponere longo
Tantum aberant summo, quantum semel ire sa- clivo. vestigiaTantum abe-
rant summo, quantutn
gitta 695 missa sagitta potest
ire semel Jiexere ocu-
Missa potest flexere oculos, et mersa palude
:
:

los, et prospiciunt ca-

Csetera prospiciunt, tantum sua tecta manere. tera mersa pahtde ; et
sua tecta tantum ma-
VIII. IX. Dumque ea mirantur; dum deflent nere.
VIII. IX. Dumque
fata suorum :
mirantur ea, dum de-
Ilia vetus dominis etiam casa flent fata suorum, ilia
parva duobus, vetus casa ,etiamparva
Vertitur in templum furcas subiere columnae 700
: : duobus dominis, verti-
tur in templum. Co-
Stramina flavescunt adopertaque marmore tellus
; lumns subitre furcas,
flavescunt, stramina
Coelataeque fores, aurataque tecta videntur. tellitsque adoperta
Talia cum placido Saturnius edidit ore marmm-e, ccelataque
:

fores, aurataque tecta

Dicite, juste senex, et foemina conjuge justo 704 videntur. Cum Satur-
nius edidit talia pla-
Digna, quid optetis. Cum Baucide pauca locutus, cido ore. Dicitejuste
Consilium superis aperit commune Philemon senex, etfcemina digna
:
justo conjuge, quid op-
Esse sacerdotes, delubraque vestra tueri tetis. Philemon locu-
tus pauca cum Bau-
Poscimus et quoniam Concordes egimus annos;
:
cide, aperit commune
consilium superis.-Pos-
Auferat hora duos eadem: nee conjugis unquam cimus esse sacerdotes
Busta meae videam neu sim tumulandus ab ilia. tuerique vestra delu-
;
bra; et quoniam egi-
Vota fides sequitur. Templi tutela fuere, 711 mus annos Concordes,
eadem hora auferat
Donee vita data est. Annis, levoque soluti duos; nee unquam vi-
Ante gradus sacros cilm starent forte, locique deam busta meee corv-
jugisnctisim tumulan-
Narrarent casus frondere Philemona Baucis : dus ab ilia. Fides se-
;
quitur vota : fuere tu-
tela templi, donee vita est data. Soluti annis
avoque, cum forte starent ante sacros gradus^
narrarentque casus loci ; Baucis coaspexit P/iilemona frondere,
TRANSLATION.
exempted from this calamity, only leave your habitation, follow our
steps, and retire together to the summit of the mountain. They
both obey, aud aiding their
steps with clubs, struggle to gain the top
of the tardy
ridge. They, get now about the distance of an arrow-shot
from the summit, when,
turnmg their eyes, they see all the country
round sunk in a morass, and their own house alone left.
VIII, IX. " "N^Tiile they stand wondering at the miraculous event,
and mourn the fate of their
unhappy country, that old cottage of theirs,
before scarce large
enough for two, is changed into a temple. The
crotches rise in columns, the roof seems covered with
yellow tiles, the
ground paved with marble, the gates adorned with sculpture, and gilded
ceilings grace the dome. When thus the son of Saturn with mild ac-
cent began Say, most upright of men, and you worthy of so upright a
:

spouse, what is your desire. Philemon, after a short conference with

Baucis, thus unfolds their joint petition to the gods We desire to be
:

your priests, to have the care of your temple, and as we have lived toge-
ther in
perfect harmony, we beg the same hour of death. May I never
behold the tomb of
my wife, nor live to be buried after her. A grant
attends their wishes,
they are guardians of the temple while they lived,
and when, at
length, enervated with vears, as by chance they stood be^
X
306 P. OVIDII NASONIS

fpf^rlamidajyZ.
Baucida conspexit senior frondere Philemon. 715
dere. jamque cacu- crescente cacumine vultus,
mine crescente super Jamque supcF geminos
geminos vultus, dum Mutua, dura licuit, reddebant dicta; Valeque,
mu-
licuit reddel}aiit
tua d':cto, ilixereijue O conjux, dixere simul simul abdita texit :

simui;Ocn»ju.i,iaie,
frutix simul tent ora
niidiia. Tynm-ru^ in-
Qra
t
frutex.
, ,
...
Ostendit adhuc Tyane'ius illic
Incola QB gemiuo vicinos corpore truncos. 720
cola utlhuc osleiidit il- tt -i /•
c ii ^ \
•
i. ^^^
lie vicinos truncos de iigec mihi non vaui (neque erat cur rallere veilent;)

iZ"'vonr"Zrrfle^ Narraverc senes. Equidem pendentia vidi

h(€c mihi, neque erat Serta suDCF ramos :
ponensQue recentia, dixi,
cur vellent falUre. ^-^ -r^r. , ^ •
k r- i ,

Equidem vidi serta Cura pu Dis sunt, et qui coiuere, coluntur.

lZinsqt%'"^'iJcJnUa X. Dcsierat: cunctosque et res et moverat auctor;
dixi: PU sunt curadiis, Thesea prBBcipue quem facta audire volentem
et qui coluere eos, co-
xa a
^ /-^
•
:

i •
^ -i

luntur. Mira Deum, nixus cubito Calydomus aranis

X. DesiSrat ; et res- rr\ i-i n •, o > a ^ i- •

que; et auctor move- 1 aliDus ailoquitur :

feuut, o lortissimc, quorum
^rLl'iaf'^lLnn'^mk\^^
Forma semel mota est, et in hoc renovamine raansit.
tern audire mira facta 730
aeorum, Calydomus
Sunt, quibus in plurcs ius cst transirc figuras
• • • •
:
-ty -l i x-» i
amnis nixus cubito,ai- Ut tibi, complcxi tcrram mans incola, Froteu :

^uHt,Y/ofti'^'nie''!qm. Nam modo te juvenem, modo te videre leonem

rum forma est semel
Nunc violentus aper, nunc, quern tetigisse timerent,
mota, mansit in hoc
et
renovamine. Sunt, qui-
bus est jus translre in
Ano;uis eras modo te faciebant cornua taurum.
:

pluresjiguras, ut libi, Ssepe lapis poteras, arbor quoque seepe videri. 735
Proteu, incola maris
comylexi terrani. Nam Interdum, faciem liquidarum imitatus aqviarum,
modo videre te juvenem, Flumen eras: interdum undis contrarius ignis.
tnodo vi<lere tc leonem.
Nunc eras violentus aper, nunc anguis quem timerent tetigisse; modo cornua faciebant te tau-
rum. Sepe poteras videri lapis, sirpe quoque arbor. Interdum imitut us faciem liquidarum aqua-
riim, eras Jlumen : interdum ignis contrarius undis.
TRANSLATION.
" fore the sacred
steps relating these past adventures, each beheld the
" other
sprout with verdant leaves. And now their heads shooting up
in
"
boughs, while yet they could, they mutually exchanged discourse, and, at
"
once, said, Faithful spouse, farewell at once the hark closed upon their ;

" The inhabitants of Tyana still shew the contiguous trees formed
lips.
" of their bodies. This I learned of some old men, no vain pretenders,
" nor had
they any motive to deceive me. I, myself, indeed, saw the gar-
" lands
hanging from the boughs, and, adding fresh ones to them, said:
" The
good are the peculiar care of the gods, and they who honoured
JiJthem are now themselves honoured."
X. Here he ended, and both the story itself and the author of it made
an impression upon all present, especially Theseus, whom, desirous to
hear the wonderful acts of the gods, the Calydonian river leaning on his
" There
elbow, thus addresses are, iliustrious hero, beings whose form
:

" have been once

changed, and continued under that alteration. Others
" have the wliose
privilege of assuming various shapes, as thou, Proteus,
" abode is in the For sometimes you have
sea, encompassing the earth.
" been seen a
young man, anon a lion, now a raging boar, again a snake
" dreadful to the
touch, or, assuming horns, you appeared a bull. Often
" have
you passed for a stone, often for a tree. Sometimes personating
"
gliding water, you flowed a river sometimes taking a contrary nature, :

"
aspired in flame."
NOTES.
731. Ut complexi terrain maris incola, Proteu.]
tibi, Tiie dift'ereut fictions of the
poets, in regard to Proteus, are well known.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VIII. 307

XI. Nee minils Autolyci conjux Erisichthone XI. Ncc conjux Au-
tolyci, 7iata Erisich-
nata thone, habet minus ju-
ris. Pater hvjuserat,
Juris habet. Pater hujus erat, qui numina Divum qui sperneret nvmina,
adoleret honores. divum,et adoleret nui-
Sperneret; et nullos aris 740 Ins honores oris. Ille
Ille etiam Cereale nemus violasse securi dicitiir ctiarn violasse
Cercale lumics securi;
Dicitur; et lucos ferro temerasse vetustos. et timerdsse vetustos
lucosfirro. In his in-
Stabat in his ingens annoso robore quercus ; gens quercus annoso
Una nemus : vittse mediam, memoresque tabellse,
robore stahat, una ne-
mus: Vittec, memores-

Sertaque cingebant voti argumenta potentis. 745 que tabella, sertaque,

argumenta potentis
Ssepe sub hac Dryades festas duxere choreas : voti,d>igebtint mediam.
ScEpe -Dryudcs duxere
Ssepe etiam, mambus nexis ex ordine, trunci festas choreas sub hdc.
Circuiere modum :
mensuraque roboris ulnas Sape etiam, maiiibus
nexis ex ordine, circvi-
Quinque ter implebat. Nee non et csetera tanto ere modum trunci :
mensnraque rohoris im-
Silva sub hac, silva quanto jaeet herba sub omni. plebat ter qulnque ul-
nas ; nee nonet ca-tera
Non tamen idcireo ferrum Triopeias ilia 751 silva tantb jacet sub

Abstinuit; famulosque jubet suecidere sacrum hdc,quiintd herba jacet

subomni silfd. Tamen
Robur: et ut jussos cunctari vidit, ab uno Triope'ius non idcirca
abstinuit ferrwn ilia,
Edidit hffic rapta seeleratus verba securi :
jubctque famulos suc-
Non dilecta Dese solum, sed et ipsa licebit cidere sacritm robur :
755 et wt scelcratus vidit
Sit Dea, jam tanget frondente cacumine terram. jussos cunctiiri, securi
rapta ab iino, edidit
Dixit et, obliquos dum telum librat in ictus,
: hcec verba licebit 7ion :

solum sit dilecta de(c,

Contremuit, gemitumque dedit Deoia quercus :
sed et ipsa sit dea,jam
Et pariter frondes, pariter pallescere glandes tanget terrain Jron-
dente cacumine. Dixit
Coepere ac longi sudore madeseere rami.
: 760 et dum lihrat telum in
obliquos ictus, Deu'ia
quercus contremuit, deditque gemitum, et pariter frondes, pariter glandes ccepcre pallescere, ac
longi rami madeseere sudore.
TRANSLATION.
XI. " Nor the wife of Autolyeus, the daughter of Erisichthon, pos-
is
" sessed of less power. She had a father who despised the majesty of the
"
gods, awd neglected the honours due to their altars. He is even said to
" have violated with the axe a sacred wood of Ceres, and to have profaned
" with steel her ancient groves. In these was a huge oak, of aged trunk,
" itselfa wood. Its sliaft was encompassed with tillets, and monumental
" and garlands, arguments of prosperous vows. Often the dryads
tablets,
" under it led up the festival dance often with hands linked in order,
;

"
they compassed round its trunk, whose measure was fifteen yards com-
"
plete. In height it surpassed the rest of thp wood, as that aspired above
" the humbler grass. Yet did not the son of Triopa restrain the piercing
"
axe, but ordered his servants to cut down the hallowed tree, and oh-
"
serving them hesitate, snatching from one of them a hatchet, with
" wicked purpose, uttered these words Were it not only the favourite of
:

" a goddess, but a goddess itself, it shall now touch the ground with its
"
leafy top. He said and while he wields his weapon for a side stroke,
:

" the Deoian oak trembled, and fetched a groan, and, at once, its leaves
" and acorns began to look pale, and its long boughs to moisten Avith
"
sweat. But no sooner had he with impious hand wounded its trunk,
NOTES.
738. Nee miniisylutolyci conjux,] After tion but "ilie anxiety and care of that
the metamorphoses of dutiful child to support her father, who
Proteus, Ovid in-
troduces those of the daughter of Eresich- had ruined himself by his debauche-
thon ; a story which has no other founda- lies.
X2
308 P. OVIDII NASONIS
In cujuf tritnco ut
jria mantis fecit lul-
iin-
Cujus ut manus impia vulnus^
in trunco fecit
Hus, sanguis hand all- Haud discussa cortice sanguis,
aliter fluxit
terjiuxit disnissd cor-
tice, quam criior pro- Quam solet, ante aras ingens ubi victima taurus
J'usus cervice abrnpta
solet fliieie, uhi ingens Concidit, abrupta cruor e cervice profusus. 764
taunts viclimu coiici-
dit ante aras. Omiies Obstupuere onines aliquisque ex omnibus
: audet
oi>siupuere,a'uquisque Detervere nefas, saevamque inhibere bipennem.
ex omnibus audet de
terrere nefas, inhibe- Aspicit hunc, Mentisque pise cape praemia, dixit
reque savam bipen- Thessalus inque virum convertitab arbore ferrum:
:
nem. Tlifssalus aspi-
cit hunc,dixitque,cape
prtemia pia mentis,
Detruncatque caput; repetitaque robora csedit;
convertitquc ferrum Editus e medio sonus est cum robore talis 770 :

ab arbore in virum,de-
truncatque caput, ca- Nympha
sub hoc ego sum, Cereri gratissima, ligno :

cum talis sonus est edi- Quae tibi factorum poenas instare tuorum
ditque repetita robora,

tus h medio robore. Vaticinor moriens nostri solatia leti.

Ego nympha gratissi-
ma Cereri, sum sub hoc Persequitur scelus ille suum labefactaque tandem
:

ligiio qua moriens va-

ticinor pcenas tuorum
Ictibus innumeris, adductaque funibus arbor 775
factorum, solatia nos-
tri Itti, instare tibi. Corruit, et multam prostravit pondere silvam.
Ille persequitur suum Attonitae Dryades damno nemorisque suoque,
scelus: arborque, tan-
dem lahefacta innume- Omnes germanae Cererem cum vestibus atris
rjs
ictibus, adductaque Mcereutcs adcunt, poenamque
^ Erisichthonis orant.
funibus, corruit, et •
i • .n . .' .
rrorv
Anuuit capitisquc sui pulchemma motu
his 7oO
prostrai.it multam su- :

vam pondere. Dryades

omnes germana, atto- Concussit gravidis oneratos messibus agros :
nitte damno suoque, ne-
morisque, mcerentes, Moliturque genus poenae miserabile, si non
adeunt Cererem cum Ille suis essetnuUi miserabilis actis,
vestibus atris, orant-
que posnam Erisich- Pestifera lacerare Fame. Quae quatenus ipsi [que
thonis. Pulcherrima
Ceres annuit his; mo- Non adeunda Dea, (neque enim Ceremque Famem-
tuque sui capitis con-
cussit agros oneratos
Fata coire sinunt) montani numinis unam 786
gravidis mrssibt's ; mo Talibus ae;restem
^ compellat
*
Oreada dictis :

liturque miserabile ae-

nus poena, si ille suis actis esset non mistrahilis, nulli lacerare eum pestifera fame. Qua qua-
tenus non adeunda ipsi Dea,
neque enim fata sinunt Cereremquefamemque coire, compellat agres-
tem Ureada,unam montani numinis his dictis. Est locus

TRANSLATION,
than the blood flowed from the severed bark, as when
spouting it gushes
from the mangled neck of a
huge victim slain at the altar. All stand
amazed, and one of Ihera ventures to check the daring impiety, and re-
eyes him sternly, and says, Take
strain the cruel axe. The Thessalian
the reward of thy pious care, and,
leaving the tree, turns the axe against
him, lops off his head, and then again attacks the oak with redoubled
strokes. When the of
following words were sent forth from the middle
the trunk I, a
nymph, grateful to Ceres, reside in this tree and now
:
;

dying, foretel, that the vengeance due to thy impiety, the solace of ray
death, is at hand. He pursues his wicked purpose, and the oak, weak-
ened at length by innumerable blows, and bent by the force of ropes,
tumbles down, and with its weight levelled a great part of the wood.
All the sister dryads grieve for their own loss, as well as that of the
wood disconsolate they repair in mournful habit to Ceres, and request
;

the punishment of Erisichthon. The beauteous

goddess assented, and,
nodding, shook the fields crowned with heavy harvests. She contrives
a punishment which
might create pity, had not his actions shut up all
access to pity to torment him with persecuting famine. Who, because
:

not to be
approached by the goddess (for the Fates permit not Ceres and
Famine to tome together), she thus addresses rustic Oreas, one of the
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VIII. 309

Est locus extremis Scythise glacialis in oris, 788

'^l^.'^^tymT!' lout
Triste solum, sterilis, sine fruge, sine arbore, tellus ; triste, ieiius'steriiis.
iners illic habitant Pallorque, Tremorque, tmcltfrsjyfgus "pai-
—
Frigus
- .-~ .
:
•.• ^
torque habirant, tre-
Et jejuna Fames ea se in praecordia condat
:
et morqve, jejuna fa-
Sacrilegi scelerata jube copia rerum: Nee jube (fames)
coiidat se in scclerata
mes : ut ea

Vincat earn ; superetque meas certamine vires. pracordia sacrilegi ;

nee copia rerum vin-
Neve vise spatium te terreat ; accipe currus cat earn, siiperetqite :

meas lires certamine.

Accipe, quos frsenis alte nioderere, dracones. 795 Neve spatium vi<E ter-
Et dedit. Ilia dato subvecta per a'era curru rent te ; accipe currus,
accipe dracoiies, quos
Devenit in Scythiam :
rigidique cacumine mentis modcrere tilth J'ranis ;
ct dealt. Jllaiubvecta
(Caucason appellant) serpentum colla levavit :
per acra riuto ciirru,

Quaesitaraque Famen
lapidoso vidit in agro,
devenit in Scythlam,
levavitque colla ser-
Unguibus et raras vellentem dentibus herbas 800 peiitum cacumiiie ri-
gidi mimtis, appellant
Hirtus erat crinis, cava lumina, pallor in ore, Caucason: vtdi/que
Labra incana situ, scabrse rubigine fauces :
qinrsitam Famem in a-
gro lapldo.so, vcllcntem
Dura cutis, per quam spectari viscera possent, rurti.s licrbus wigiiihtis
et deiitibus. Crinis
Ossa sub incurvis exstabant arida lumbis 804 : erat hirtvs; lumina
lata; pallor in t>re ;
Ventris erat pro ventre locus. Pendere putares lubra eiant incana si-
tu: ftitices scdbra ru-
Pectus, et a spinse tantummodo crate teneri. bigine: cutis dura, per
Auxerat articulos macies, genuumque rigebat quam liscera possent
ossh arida
808 spectari
:

Orbis, et immodico prodibant tubera tali. ejrstiibant sub incitrvis

lumbis. Locus ventris
Hanc proculut vidit, (neque enim estaccederejuxta crat pro ventre. Pu-
Ausa) refert mandata Deee, pauliimque morata, tares pectus pevdere;
et tantummodo teneri

Quanquam aberat longe, quanquam modo venerat a crate spime. Mades

•11 auxertit articulos. or-
lllUC, bisque geniiiim rigebat,
Visatamen sensisse Famem: retroque dracones ett,,iiprotiibant.immo

Egit in Hsemoniam versis sublimis habenis. hanc procvi, (neque

cnim iiusaest accedere
juxta) refert mandata morataque paulwn, quanquam
decs ; aberat longe, quanquam modh le-
ncrat illiic, tamen visa est sensisse fametn : sublimisque, egit dracones retro in Hcemoniam habenis
versis.
TRANSLATION.
" mountain
deities There is a place in the extreme coasts of icy Scythia,
:

a dreary soil, desolate and waste without corn, without trees where
; ;

pinching cold, paleness, trembling frights, and meagre famine dwell :

bid her lodge herself in the breast of this sacrilegious wretch; let no
plenty overcome her, but let her be superior to me in the contest. And
that the length of way may not alarm you, take my chariot, take my
dragons, whom you may guide aloft in air with reins. And she gave her
them. She, wafted through the air in the granted chariot, arrives in
Scythia, and on the top of a steep mountain (they call it Caucasus) un-
yoked the harnessed dragons. There she saw the fiend she wanted in
a stony field, tearing up the thinly-strewed herbs with her nails and
feet. Rough was her hair, her eyes hollow, paleness sat on her cheeks,
her were foul with scurf, and her
lips jaws furred with rust. Her skin
was hard and discovered her bowels within. Her bones, dry and parched,
stood out under her crooked loins and for a belly, there was the place
;

of a belly. Her breast seemed to hang and be supported only by her;

spine. Leanness had increased her joints her knee-balls

were become ;

stiff, and her ancles bunched out to a monstrous size. How soon the
nymph saw her at a distance (for she durst not venture to come near)
she delivers the commands of the goddess, and though her stay
310 P. OVIDII NASONIS
XII. Fames peragic XII. Dicta Fames Cereris, (quamvis contraria
dicta Ccreris, (quam-
quam eft semper co?i-
traria operi iliiusj tie-
semper
lataque est reiito per Illius est operi) peragit perque aera vento
;
815
ad jussam do-
fltra,
mum et protinus in-
Ad jussam delata domum est et protinus intrat :

thalamos sdcri-
altoque sopore solutum
trat
iegi ; amplcct'turg tie
Sacrilegi Thalamos ;

geminis alii enin solii^ (Noctis erat tempus) geminis amplectitur alis :

turn alto sopore (erat

enim teinpus jioctli) Seque viro inspirat, faucesque, et pectus, et ora
inspiratque se tiro af- Afflat et in vacuis spargit jejunia venis. 820
Jlatque fauces et pec ;

'tus'^c't ora ; et spargit Functaoue maudato, foscundum deserit orbem ;

Functaqtte manduto,
deserit Jacurtdiim or
Inque domos mopes, assucta revertitur arva.
Item, revertittlrqtie in
Lenis adhuc somnus placidis Erisichthona pennis
dojnos inopes, assucta
arva. JLe/iis somnus
Mulcebat Petite ille dapes sub imagine somni
: ;

adhuc mulcebat Eri

sichthnna placidis peu-
Oraque vana movet, dentemque in dente fatigat ;

nis "lue^pcut'dupes Excrcetque cibo delusum guttur inani ; 826

Sub imagine somni, mo- auras.
retque tana ora,fati- Proque epulis tenues nequicquam devorat
gatque dentem in den- Ut vero est expulsa quies ; furit ardor edendi :
te, gutturque exercet
deltisum inani cibo ;
Perque avidas fauces, immensaque viscera regnat.
proque epulis, neqitic-
juam devorat tenues Nee mora quod :
pontus, quod terra, quod educat
auras. Ut verb quies 830
est ardor aer,
expulsa,
edendi
:dendijurit,regnutque Poscit, et ..a
appositis
r queritur
i jeiuma mensis ;
ner
pe avidas fauces im- ^ -, /\ j 1,'U
'nensaqnei'lscera. Ntc Inque cpulis cpuias quserit. i^uodque urbiDui US esse.
h":,S:^tl?r:f^Z Quodque satls^opulo poterat, non sufficit uni ;

acreducat,ct queritur
Plvisque cupit, QUO plura suam demittit in alvum.
r7T.r
^ejuma appositis onen- ^
>-
^ .
ooc
ooo
^
sis: inqxte epulis qua- Utquc iretum rccipit de totu
tlumma terra,
^poterat "urbibus esll Nec satiatur aquis, peregrinosque ebibit amnes,

Zi'cTu^uTpiVqTe Utque rapax ignis

non unquam alimenta recusat,
cupit, quo plura de- InnumerasQuc trabes cremat, et quo copia major
mittit iti suam alvum. -r^i / ia .

Utque fretum recipit Est data, plura petit, turbaque voracior ipsa est ;
'••a.
frct'.!«'%'SJ"r«: Sic epulas omnes Erisichthonis ora profani
840
bitque peregrinos amnes : utque rapax ignis non unqnamrecusat alimenta, crematque innumeras
Eri-
faces, et quo major copia est data petit plura, estque voracior ipsa turba. Sic ora profani
sichthonis
TRANSLATION.
" was
short, though she kept a great Avay off, and was but just come, yet
" she seemed to feel famine
and, turnuig the reins, guided her dragons
;

" aloft back into Hsemonia,"

XII. " Famine (though constant in her opposition to Ceres) obeys the
" commands of the
goddess, and, borne through the air by the winds,
" reaches the
assigned mansion, and enters the ruffian's bed-chamber.
" It was The fiend embraces
night, aud he lay dissolved in deep sleep.
" him with both her his
wings, inspires her whole self, and breathes upon
" and keen his
jaws, his breast, face, scattering hunger through empty
" veins. Her task thus and
despatched, she flies these plenteous regions,
" returns to the barren habitation of her wonted caves. Gentle sleep still
" soothed Erisiehthon Avith his
downy wiugs. He, in dreams, hunts
after
" and de-
food, exercises his mouth in vain, tires his grinding teeth,
" ludes his
throat with imaginary meat, vainly feasting on empty air.
" But and reign laiu-
sleep once expelled, the pangs of hunger redouble,
" less in
his craving jaws and insatiable bowels. Straight he requires
" whatever
the sea, the earth, or air produce, complains of hunger at full
" What might have sufficed
tables, and starves in the midst of plenty.
" whole cities and he
nations, is not enough for him alone and the more ;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. VIII. 311

simul. Cibus oranis in illo

Accipiunt, poscuntque Ltpt*"P-S:
Causa cibi est : semperque locus fit inanis edendo. om>,is dbus in uio, est
, ^ ,^. • •
. causa pctendi ci'a; ^o-
Jamque tame patrias, altique voragine ventris, cusqne s,mper fit m-
Attenuarat opes sed inattenuata manebat :844 yUli^S^l^n^u^'^i
Turn quoque dira fames; implacataeque vigebat Ztl'o"cT'sid'\!fdira
Flamraa guise. Tandem, demisso in vicera censu, fames t'um quoque
TTi- ,-11 T1 i i manebas huitteiiKala,
bihdi restabat, non illo digna parente. jiammuque impiacata
Hanc quoque vendit inops. Dominum generosa ^^^^^tniiL ^^tT"
reCUSat ; '^^^"',. •"'''«, restabat,
non
_, . .
, I digna illo parinte.
Et vicuia suas tendens super sequora palmas, inops vnidu hanc quo-

Eripe me domino, qui raptae prsemia nobis 850 VutatdonlZm^^et'ten-

Virginitatis habes, ait. Hesc Neptunus habebat.
%7JZl^qtiZaTt': _

Qui piece non spreta, quamvis modo visa sequenti tu qui habes prlrmia
-r-1,1 r i li. --I-^ virgmitatis rapta: m-
Esset hero, lormamque novat, vultumque virilem 6/.*, eripe me domino.

S-
Induit, et cultus piscem capientibus aptos.
Hanc dominus spectans,
_,

ic

Credulus,
A

mare compositum,
'

/hra cibo celas, moderator arunduiis, mquit,

•, ,!

Quffi modo cum vili turbatis veste capillis

-I •., -1hoc m 1-,,
„JA
unaa
S"$«t, prece^'^Z
O qui pendentia parvo 855 ^vret!^,, quamvis modo
esset vi^a kero sequen-
ti, novatque jormum,
mduitqiic vultum vi-
.

sic sit tibi piscis in

et nullos, nisi fixus, sentiat hamos

,
859
-j-s aruiidinis, qui celas
, . ,
•
11, ...1.

,
•

,
•

•
•

:
rUcm,ct cuitus aptos

l7Jufsp7cIanT'haf>c,
«»?«''' o moderator
••

Littore steterat, (nam stantem in littore vidi) pendentia ara parvo

Die ubi sit neque enim vestigia longius exstant.
; po!itnm!""^'j^Ji^t
Ilia Dei munus bene cedere sentit et a se undasicereduius tm,
;
'
., .
et nisi fixus, sentiat
fee quseri gaudens, his est resecuta rogantem : muios hamos; die ubi

Q--"- 11

uisquis es, ignoscas, in nullam lumina partem

•

turbatis: (nam vidi earn stantem in littore) neque vestigia exstant lon.p;ius.
rili veste, capillis
1
•
>„ qucr modo ste-
ilia*/?
temtiuhocuttorecum
Ilia sentit munus Dei cedere bene ; et gaiidens se quceri d se, resecuta est regentcm his dictis.
Quisquis es, ignoscas ; Jlexi lumina in nullam partem.
TRANSLATION.
" desires. And as
swallows, the more he the sea receives rivers from still
"
every shore, and insatiate drinks up the distant streams as devouring ;

" fire never refuses nourishment, burns innumerable beams, and the more
" that is thrown upon it, still craves the more, raging by its quantity of
"
prey thus impious Erisichthon devours all that comes in his way, and
:

" still demands more. All that he eats

provokes his appetite anew, and
" there is still a void that craves a fresh supply. And now hunger and
" the ravenous demands of an
importunate stomach had much diminished
" his
paternal wealth but cruel hunger unrelenting remained, and the ;

"
vengeful flame of famine preyed upon him with unabating ardour. At
"
length, having eat up his whole estate, his daughter only remained, de-
"
serving of a more worthy father. Her, too, compelled by want, he sold.
"
She, with generous disdain, scorned a master, and stretching forth her
" hands
over the adjoining sea Snatch me, says she, from bondage, thou :

" who
enjoyest the treasure of my ravished divinity. Neptune had de-
" and now, regardful of her prayer, though but just
flowered the maid ;
"
then seen iii known figure by her master, who pursued her, yet she
her
"
instantly assumed a new form, put on a manly look, and took the habit
"
of a fisher. Her her master addresses thou who managest Avilh ;
O
"
steady hand the trembling rod, and concealest with treacherous bait the
"
" hanging wire so may the sea he smooth from storms, so may the fish
;

credulous throng around the steel, nor feel till hooked the latent snare;
" tell me where she is, who but
just now stood upon the shore with homely
312 P. OVIDII NASONIS

ab hocgureite ; opera- Gufffite ab hoc flexi, studioQue operatus inhaesi. 865

tusQue inha.ti studio. r\ \
\ •
j -^ xx • •

Quoque mmus
i i i.

Quoqne dubites minus, cluDites, SIC Jias Deus ffiquoris artes

Ztrj:^^:S^ Adjuvet, ut nemo jamdudum littore in isto,
dudum niia
nemo, iiec
(Me tamen exccpto) nee foemina constitit ulla.
famtna, (tamen me ex- >, ,. , . ,
"^
•
,
ceptoj constitit inisto Uredidit, et verso dommus pede pressit arenam ;

de^versl* jn^s^rire- ElususquB abiit. Illi sua leddita forma est. 870
-^^^ ^^^ habere suam transformia corpora sentit,
sVa'/onnaVsl reddita
iui.
tit
Ast uhi pater sen-
suam tiliain habere
Saepe pater dominis Triopeida vendit. At ilia
tvt i i\ i i\ i -i x
corpora JNmicequa,nuncales,moao bos,moaocervusaDiDat:
transformia,

7ZJiu'!Vuu'ltt Praebebatque avido non justaalimentaparenti. 874

hat nunc equa, nunc

alimenta
vido parenti.
a-
nonjusta
Vis tamen ilia mali postquam consumpserat omnem
ales ; mode bos, modo -.-..

-r
ii
cervus, prabcbatque Materiam, dederatque gravi nova pabula morbo ;

Tamen Ipse suos artus lacero clivellere morsu

ii-
i i i
•
n
i

ct infclix minuendo corpus alebat.

^if!o^umpstrat Zi- Ccepit ;
nem materiam, dede- Quid moror extcmis ? etiam mihi ssepe novandi
ratque nova pabula g-^ , c .
\ oon.
. •

gravi morbo, ipse capit CorpoHS, o juvenes, numero iimta potestas. ooU i^ i^

'^'Z^^t:;feSi Nam
mod6, nunc sum, videor ;
mod5 flector
quod
alebat corpus minuen- \n ano'Uem
O
'
'
do. Quid moror exter-
nis? est etiam mihi 6 Armenti modo dux
. .

vircs m
.

comua sumo.
^numerlfmLndtZpe Comua, dum potui. Nuuc pars caret altera telo
'v7dToVq\^d''s':Zm:nc: Frontis, ipse ut vides. Gemitus sunt verba secuti.
jnodb fleeter in anguem : modo dux armenti sumo vires in comua ; in comua inqnam ium potui ;
nunc ut ipse vides, altera pars frontis caret telo. Gemitus sunt secuti sua verba.
TRANSLATION,
" weeds and dishevelled hair
(for I saw her standing upon the beach) ;

" nor can she have

yet gone far. She perceiving that the privilege granted
" her
by the god succeeded, and pleased herself to be inquired after, thus
"
replied Whoever you are, forgive me
; I have no where turned my ;
"
eyes from the waves, but been intent upon my diversion and to satisfy :

"
you still more, so may the god of the ocean assist my art, as I have seen
" neither
man nor woman upon this shore, myself excepted. Her master
"
believing, turned from her, and, tracing his way back over the sand,
" withdrew
deluded she again resumed her ancient form. But when her
:

" father saw

her possessed of a body capable of so many changes, he often
" sold this
grand-daughter of Triopa to other masters but she under va- ;
" rious
shapes deceived her watchful keepers sometimes a mare, some- :

" times a
bird, now a steer, again a stag and thus provided a dishonest ;
"
support for her craving parent. But when the violence of hunger had
" consumed all she could
furnish, and was daily adding fresh fuel to the
" dire
disease, he began to tear his own limbs with mangling bites,
" and feed his
' instances ?
body by lessening it. But why do I dwell thus on foreign
Even I, illustrious youths, have a bounded power of vary-
"
ing my form. For often I appear as now in my natural shape some- ;

" times a
snake, wind up my rolling spires again the leader of a herd, ;
" call all
" my strength into my horns I say, while yet, I could boast of :

these, but now, as you see, one part of my forehead wants its goring
"
weapon." His words were followed with a groan.
NOTES.
S72. Triopeida:] Metra, who was the Us.'] This refers to the horn which Ache-
grand-daughter of Triopa for Metra was ;
Ions had lost in the contest with Hercules,
the daughter of Eresichthon, the son of as will appear ip the beginning of the
Triopa. next book.
883. Nunc pars caret altera telo, fron-
 METAMORPHOSEO^, Lib. IX. 313

LIBER NONUS.

1.
/^UiE gemitiis trunceeque Deo Neptunius j jvi^t,I^,ui heros
^C^^
__^ herOS rogat (^utEfXt causa Dea
rogat<]iu(Esilcau:

Causa rogat frontis ;

cum sic Calydonius amnis frmttsl' cJm'cudyrio.

Coepit, inornatos redimitus arundine crines :

lZrn''!tol'crinfs'urun-
Triste petis
r munus. Quis enim sua praelia, victus <i'nf,sic capu.- Petis
^ T *
^^ ,

Commemorare velit reteram tamen oraine,nectam

n
f
n J ,
trt^te mtnufs. Quis
entm victus veut com-

Turpe fuit vinci,quam contendisse decorum est: 6 7amZ''rej^raZ^^niu

Mao-naque
O ^ dat nobis tantus solatia victor. ',""
^f,!*''/
•'"''
^"'l
.
^ . - . turpe vincx, quant est
Nomme si qua suo tandem pervenit ad aures
^
deayrum

D"
^ • .

eianira tuas, quondam pulchernma virgo,

1 IT- •
victorque
magna
contendisse,
tantus dat
solatia nobiu

Multorumque fuit spes invidiosa procomm. 10 ferpefr'iTt'ZJZ'-

Cum quibus
T-
ut soceri domus est intrata petiti ; ""/'«
«'' ^"«-5
""r^^,
. .
T -r. •
1 /"'' quondam virgo
Accipe me generum, rarthaone nate.
dixi, puic/urrima, imidio-
Dixit et Alcides : Alii cessere duobus, prlcorumf 7'um"'q7i.
bus ut domus soceri petiti est intrata; dixi, nate Parthaone, accipe me generum ; et Alcides dixit
idem. Alii cessere duobus.

TRANSLATION.
1. ri^HE Neptunian hero asks him the cause of these groans, and his
JL mutilated front, when the Calydonian river, having his careless
" You
tresses encircled with twining reeds, thus began impose a hard :

" task me
upon for who that
;
has been vanquished, can bear to rehearse
" the mournful war ? Yet will I trace the sad
story of my woes, nor was
" it so shameful to be
conquered, as glorious to dispute the prize so re- ;

" nowned a If peradventure the name

conqueror softens the disgrace.
" of was
Dejanira has reached your ears, she formerly a celebrated
"
beauty, and the envied hope of many lovers. With these I joined, and
"
entering the house of him I desired for my father-in-law, Receive,
" said
1, son of Parthaon, me for your daughter's husband. Alcides, too,
" said the same. All the rest He
resign their pretensions to us two.
NOTES.
We have seen in the end of the last book, panions, fenced it with moles, and made
that Achelous concludes his relation with the course of the river so uniform, that it
lamenting his maimed forehead, and the pave no further trouble to those people,
lossof his horn, which very naturally ex- Those who wrote this event, related it in
cites a curiosity in Theseus to inquire the a quite fabulous manner. Hercules, said
of that river.
cause of that misfortune. This book they, fought with the god
accordingly begins with that recital. The who had tirst transformed himself into a
river Achelous, which runs between Acar- serpent, whereby
was denoted
winding its

nania and jEtolia, often ravaged by its course ; and then into a bull, which sets
inundations the neighbouring country, and forth the swelling and impetuosity of the
confounding the boundaries of the two river, and the desolation it made in the
people, engaged them in frequent wars. fields.

Hercules, with the assistance of his com-

314 P. OViDlI NASONIS

me refcrehat se dare \\\q Jovem socerum dare se, fiimamque laborum,

Jovcmsoccrum,famam- r t
•
ir
que inboriim, ct jnssa Jit supeiata siiJB reierebat jussa novcrcse. 15
sua novcrciesvpcratfi. r^ ,\ /, j ^ ^ i
•

(turpe deum mortali cedere duxi

i

Ego contra (naim dim Contia cgo :

;

VwVial7^ui7ZZdZ/i Nondumdeus) regem me cernis aquaram

erat ille
crat rieusjiViKi rcriiis Cui'sibus obliouis inter tua repiia fluentem :
me nsem aqudrum, -.y / ^..'^ .
,
.
,

fluentem inter tuareg- JNec geiier extemis hospcs tiDi missus ab oris,

jVfctgo gewj'^^rolol-
^^d populaiis rerum pars una tuarum, 20
ero, et
fesmisstis tibi ah ex-
terms oris, sed popu-
Tantum
,.
ne noceat,' quod
^ .
me nee..
repia
o Juno . ,
^-^ ,
iaris,ct
rum rcrum.
unapars luti-
Tuntiiin
Odit, et omuis abest ]ussorum poena laborum.
ne noceat quod nee rc- Nam quod te jactas Alcmena matre creatum ;
Juno odit me, ct
Jupiter aut falsus pater est, aut crimine verus.
gia
omnis pana jiissornm
laborum abest. Nam Matris adulterio patrem petis. Elige, fictum 25
quod Jactas te creatum
matre Alcmena, Jupi- Esse Jovem malis, an te per dedecus ortum.
ter est aut falsus pa-
ter, aut verus crimine.
Talia dicentem jamdudum lumine torvo
Pctis p/itran adulte- et accensse non fortiter irse
rio jnatris. Elige an Spectat :
imperat :

mails Jovem esse. ^Ac-

Verbaque Melior mihi dextera lingua ;
tot reddit:
tum, an tc orlum per
dedecus. Hercules j«/«- Dummodo pugnando superem; tu vince loquendo.
dudum spectat torro
lumine. nie dicentem Congrediturque ferox. Puduit modo magna lo-
talia; et 7wn fortiter cutum 31
imperat accensa tree,
redditque tot verba : Cedere. Rejeci viridem de corpore vestem ;
dextera est melior mi-
ld Hngttd. JJuiiimodo Brachiaque opposui tenuique a pectore varas
;

superem pugnando,
vince tu loquenno ; fc-
In statione manus et pugnse membra paravi.
;

roxqiie coiigreditur. Ille cavis hausto spargit me pulvere palmis ; 35

Puduit me modo locu-
tum magna, cedere. Inque vicem fulvse jactu flavescit arense.
Rejeci viridem vestem
de corpore, opposuiqne brachia ; tenuique « pectore in statione raras manus ; et paravi membra
pugna. Ille spargit 2ne pulvcre hausto cavis palmis, invicemque Jlavescit jactufulvce areniB.

TRANSLATION.
pleaded the fame of labour, the commands of his step-mother success-
fully executed, and the merit of giving the lady Jupiter for her father-
in-law. I again
(for I thought it dishonourable that a god should yield
to a mortal he was not yet enrolled among the gods) represented that
;

I was a
king of the waters. You see too (added I) that through your
realms I take my mazy way. I, who court your alliance, am no
stranger
from foreign lands, hut a native of your own kingdom, and
part of your
state. If I am neither hated
by royal Juno, nor bear the punishment of
enjoined labours, that ought not to prejudice my suit for as you boast ;

of having Alcmena for your mother,

Jupiter is then but your pretended
father, or, if your real sire, he is so by a crime. You claim a father
from your mother's guilt. Say then which is thy choice own that Ju- :

piter is only thy pretended father, or that thou art descended from him
in a way of infamy and dishonour. All the time I spoke he eyed me
with stern regard, and, scarce able to check his rising rage, thus re-
plied My right hand is better than my tongue while I carry off the
:
;

prize in fight, do you vanquish in words and boldly assaults me. I :

was ashamed, after a speech so haughty and commanding, to yield ;

and, therefore, flinging my sea-green to the grovmd, 1 opposed my arms

to his, and,
holding my hands open from my breast, posted them upon
guard, and prepared my limbs for the combat. He pours ujwn me a
cloud of dust gathered in his hollow
palms, and in his turn is covered
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IX. 315

Et modo capiat cervi-

Et modo cervicem, modo crura micantia capiat :
cem, modo micantia
Aut captare putes omnique a parte lacessit.
;
crura, aut putes cap-
tare, lacessitque ab
Me mea defendit gravitas ; frustraque petebar. omni parte: mea gra-
Haud secus ac moles, quam magno '
murmure fluc- vitas defendit 7ne,pete-
barqve frustra. Haud
tus 40 secus ac moles quam
fluctns oppugnant
Oppugnant ;
manet ilia suoque est pondere tuta. magno murmure ; ilia
manet, estquc tutasuo
Digredimur paulum ; rursumque ad bella coimus ; pondere. Digredimur
paulinn : rursumque
Inque gradu stetimus, certi non cedere eratque ; coimus ad hellri, steti-
Cum pedepesjunctus to toque egopectore pronus
: musque in gradu, certi
non cedere ; pesque e-
Et digitos digitis, et frontem fronte premebam. 45 rat junctus cum pede
egoqtiepronus toio pec-
Non aliter fortes vidi concurrere tauros, tore, et premebam di-
gitos digitis, et frontem
Ciim pretium pugnte tota nitidissima saltu fronte. Non aliter vi-
Expetitur conjux. Spectant armenta paventque ; difortes tauros concur-
rere, cum conjux 7iiti-
Nescia quem maneat tanti victoria regni. dissima toto saltu ex-
petitur pretium pvg-
Ter sine profectu voluit nitentia contra 50 na. Armenta spec-
Rejicere Alcides a se mea pectora quarto ;
quem victoria tanti
tant, pa vent que, nescia

Excutit amplexus, adductaque bracbia solvit ; regni maneat. Ter Al-

cides sine profectu vo-
Impulsumque manu (certum mihi vera fateri) luit rejicere d se mea
pectora nitentia con-
Protinus avertit ; tergoque onerosus inhcesit. tra quarto, excutit :

Si qua fides, (neque enim ficta mihi gloria voce 55 amplexus, solvitque
brarliia adducta: pro-
Quseritur, imposito pressus mihi monte videbar. tinusque avertit me
impuisum manu f cer-
Vix tamen exserui sudore fluentia multo tum tsl mihi fateri ve-
vix solvi duros a nexus. ra) inha-sitque onero-
Brachia; corpore sus Si tirgo. qua fides,
Instat anhelanti ; prohibetque resumere vires, (neque enim gloria
qunrilur mihi ficta
Et cervice mea potitur. Turn denique tellus 60 voce) ideharmilii pres- I

sus imposito monte.

Pressa genu nostro est ; et arenas ore momordi. Tamen vix exserui
hrachia fluentia multo svdore ; vix solvi duros nexus a corpore. Instat anhelanti, prohibetque
resumere vires : et potitur nee cervice. Turn denique tellus est pressa nostro genu ; et tnomoi-di
arenas ore.
TRANSLATION.
with heaps of yellow sand. Oft he assails neck and shifting^ legs
my :

he seems even to grasp them, and attacks me

on every side. I stand
protected by my bulk, and am assailed
in vain: as when a mole is in-
vaded Avith loud murmurs by the waves, it remains unshaken, and by
its own stability sustains the shock. We
retire a little, and again rush

together in fight and, with foot joined to foot, maintain each our
;

ground, determined not to yield. When bending forward with my

whole
breast, I to fingers, and forehead to forehead. Thus have
press fingers
I seentwo furious bulls encounter, when the fairest heifer in the grove
is contended for as the prize of victory the herds behold and tremble,
:

uncertain for whom this so mighty conquest is reserved. Thrice Alcides

at the
essayed in vain to disengage himself from my reluctant grasp ;

fourth attempt he broke from my hold, and untied my hampering arms ;

and with a push of his hand (I aim not to diguise the truth) turned me
if any credit is due
quite round, and clung a mighty load to my back,
to me to augment my praise), I
(nor do I study by feigned narration
seemed pressed down as with a mountain's weight. Yet, with much
struggle,I unlocked arms covered with a deluge of sweat, and freed
my
myself from his firm grasp. He again assails me as I am still
panting
for breath, nor suffers me to recover strength, and seizes
my neck. my
Then at length knee pressed the ground, and I bit the sand with
my
316 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Inferior vh-tute, di- Inferior virtute meas divertor ad artes,

vertor ad meas artes ;
formatusque in
elabor
lon- Elaborque viro longum formatus in anguem,
gum anguem
viro. Qui, postquam Qui postquam flexos sinuavi corpus in orbes,
sinuavi corpus in flex- 65
os orbe\,movique bisul- Cumque fero movi linguam stridore bisulcam.
cam lluguam cum firo Risit, et illudens nostras Tirynthius artes ;
stridore, Tirynthius ri-
sit, etilludens nostras Cunarum labor est angues superare mearum,
artes, dixit : superare
est labor mea-
Dixit et ut vincas alios, Acheloe dracones,
:
angues
rum cutiarum, et ut Pars quota Lernsese serpens eris unus Echidnse :

Acheloe vincas dra-

cones, quota pars tu Vulneribus foecunda suis erat ilia nee ullum 70
:

nmis serpens eris Ler-

na<B Echidtia ! Ilia De centum numero caput est impune recisum :

erat facunda suis vul-

neribus, nee ullum ca-
Quin gemino cervix haerede valentior esset.
put de numero ccntiiM Hanc ego ramosam natis e csede colubris,
est recisum impune,
quin cervix esset va- Crescentemque malo, domui doniitamque peremi.
lentior gemino htrrede.
JE^o domui banc ramo- Quid fore te credas, falsum qui versus in anguem,
sam
cade
colubris natis c Arma aliena moves, quern forma precaria celat ?
crescentemque
malo, per emique domi-
tam. Quirt forte cre-
Dixerat; et summo digitorum vincula collo
das te facturuin, qiii Injicit.Angebar, seu guttura forcipe pressus :

versus in falsum an-

guem moves ulicna ar- PoUicibusque meas pugnabam evellere fauces.
ma, quern precaria Sic quoque devicto restabat tertia tauri 80
forma celat f dixerat,
et injicit viticla digi- Forma trucis tauro mutatus membra rebello.
:

torum summo collo ;

Induitille toris a laeva parte lacertos
angebar, seu pressus ;

guttura forcipe ; pug-

nabamque evellere me- Admissumque trahens sequitur deprensaquedura:

as fauces pollicibus. Cornua figit humo meque alta sternit arena.

;
Tertia forma trucis
tauri restabat mihi de- Nee satis id fuerat rigidum fera dextera cornu 85
:

licto sic quoque:

tatus
mu-
membra tauro
Dum tenet, infregit ; truncaque a fronte revellit.
rebello.Hie induit lacertos toris a lava parte, trahcnsque seqtiitur admissum ; Jigitque de-
prensa cornua dura humo; steriiHque me allA arenH. Necid fuerat satis: dum tenet rigidum
cornxijera dextra, infregit, revellitque a truncQ. fronte.

TRANSLATION.

my mouth, inferior thus in strength, I have recourse to my art and, ;

changed into a long snake, elude his hold. When bending my body into
winding rings, and brandishing, with dreadful hissings, my forky tongue,
the TjTinthian hero laughed, and despising my unavailing arts To ;

vanquish serpents, said he, was the labour of my cradle and grant, ;

Achelous, you are more terrible than other serpents, yet what art thou
compared with the hydra of Lernus ? She gathered strength and vigour
from her wounds, nor was any of her hundred heads cut off, but a dread-
ful pair sprung up from the same neck. Yet I subdued this monster
stronger by its own disasters, and branching with new snakes
from
every wound, and stretched her dead upon the plain. What canst thou
do, who, changed to a false snake, trustest to terrors not thy own whom ;

a precarious form conceals ? He said, and straining his fingers round

my neck, tortured me as if grasped with pincers. I struggled hard to
free my jaws from his griping thumbs. Thus vanquished too, a third
form still remained, that of a furious bull. Changed, therefore to a bull,
I renew the fight. He throws his nervous arms on the left side of my
brawny neck, and, dragging, follows me as I press forward then, seiz- ;

ing my horns, he stuck them fast in the ground, and felled my bulk
along the deep sand. Nor did he stop there but, as with an hostile right
;

hand, he grasps my stubborn horn he broke it, and tore it from my

;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IX. 317

Naiades hoc, pomis et odoro flore repletum, ^eliftuTpZnLZ'oZ

Sacrarunt
•^"•^ ;
' divesque
T-
meo bona copia cornu
Dixerat at nympne ritu succmcta Dianse
:
.
-TV est. rojiore, bonaqve copra
*"*' dives meo cornu.
mxerat: at nymphe
Una ministrarum, lusis utnnque capillis, yu „„„ mbustrarum, ca-

Incessit, totumque tulit preEdivite cornu

^:!^^st'tr^^'^
Autumnum, et mensas felicia poma secundas. tum autumnum pra-
'
. .
p •
.
•
1 divite cornu, et feltcta
lux subit, et, pnmo leriente cacumina sole poma secundas mensas.
Discedunt juvenes. Neque enim dum fluraina fol%?iente cLSmZ
nnppm
pcicciii,
monimmjuvenes
dunt.
disce-
Neqtieenimop-
Et placidos habeant lapsus, motaeque perumtur dumjiumi. residant, \)b
.^ r . TT 1, A !•• L na habeant pacetn et
1

Oppenuntur aquse. Vultus Achelous agrestes piaddos lapsus, mo.

Et lacerum cornu mediis caput abdidit undis. %Zto:'.:mIua!res.
Hunc tamen ablati domuit jactura decoris ^ Z::^*Z:M'"Zdu. ;

Csetera sospes erat. Capitis quoque fronde saligna, Tamen jactura ahia-
Aut super imposita celatur arundine damnum. 100 ^atZlpesqu^^Aca-
II. At te, l^^esse ferox, ejusdem virginis ardor
Perdiderat volucri traiectum terga fronde saiigna, aut
T\^rce&
T-T
J .
^ sagitta.
^ arundme super tmpo-
^ .

Namque, nova repetens patrios cum conjuge muros sUa.

Venerat Eveni rapidas Jove natus ad undas, ardor ejlsdeinvirginil
Uberius solito nimbis hyemalibus auctus, 105 fJ^'''Z^l
t%Tvitt
Vorticibusque
' frequens
^ erat,atque impervius amnis. cri saguta. Namque
natus Jote repetens
t , -, \ i.„ •

Intrepidum pro se, curam de conjuge agentem putHos muros cum ?io.
vH conjuge, venerat ad rapidas undas Event. Amnis erat auctus uberius solito hyemalibus U7idis,
eratque frequens vorticibus, atque impervius. Aessus adit eum intrepidum prose, agentem
cu-
ram pro conjuge,
TRANSLATION.
" mutilated front. This,
heaped with fruits and odoriferous flowers, the
" Naiads have consecrated, and
auspicious plenty is enriched by my horn."
He said, and a menial nymph, girt like Diana's train, with her hair flow-
ing loose on either side, advanced,
and bore in the copious horn the whole
store of autumn, with mellow apples for the second board. Mean time
comes on and the sun striking with his rays the tops of
light apace, rising
the mountains, the youths depart nor stay they till the troubled stream
;

subsides, and glides smoothly along its channel with peaceful current.
Achelous plunged his rustic face and head, dismantled of its horn, into
the midst of the stream. Yet the loss of this honour was his only grief,
for he had received no other wound and even this loss was concealed by;

a garland of willow leaves, and verdant reeds that shaded his forehead.
11. But a passion for this same virgin proved fatal to thee, Nessus !

pierced through the back with a winged arrow.

For the son of Jove, re-
turning with his new bride to his native walls, was come
to the rapid

streams of Evenus. The river, unusually sw ollen with winter rains, was
full of eddies, and impassable regardless of himself, but full of concern
:

for his Nessus approaches him who, as he was strong-limbed,

spouse, ;

NOTES.
88. Divesque meo bona copia cornu est.'] had nursed Jupiter, which the nymphs,
Hercules, by reducing the two arms wf are told, gave Achelous, in exchange
of the river into one, introduced plenty foi that torn from him.
into the country, so that this horn became 104. Evcni.] A river of i^tolia, for-
a Cornucopia thongli by the Cornucopia
; merly the Lycormas.
is often understood that of
Amalthea, who
318 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Nessus vaicnsque mem- Nessus

salt usque vaao- „ „ adit,' meiiibrisnue valens,
.
scitusque
.'.... . T vadoruni;
. 1. '
bi-is,
rum; aitque, Aicide, Officioque 11160 lipa sistctui" in ilia
in'i/i7°rij!^iTtuute're HsBC, alt, Alcide tu viribus utere nando.
: 110
virihu.i iiando. Aonlus
ttadidit Tsesso yavi- Pallentemque metu, fluviumque ipsumque timeiitem
dam Calydonida, pal- Tradidit Aonius pavidam Calydonida Nesso.
lentemque met u, time >t-
temqiie Jlnviuiii fipsum- Mox, ut erat, pharetraque gravis, spolioque leonis,
qtie. Mox lit erat gra-
risque pharetra, spoli- [Nam clavam, et curvos trans ripam miserat arcus]
oque leonis (uam mise-
rat clavam et curvos Quandoquidem coepi, superentur flumina, dixit.
arcus trans ripam) Nee dubitat nee qua sit clementissimus amnis,
;
dixit : quandoqtiidem
coepi,flumina super en- Quaerit obsequio deferri spernit aquarum.
: et
tur. Nee dubitat : nee
quarU qutl amiiis sit Jamque tenens ripam, missos cum tolleret arcus,
ciementlssimus:etsper. Couiuo-is agiiovit vocem NessoQue parante
nit deferri obsequio a-
quarum. Jamque te-
T?iij-i
rallerc ctepositum.
r\ ^ £.J
Quo te iiducia, clamat gU
a
:

a. l i.

neiis ripam, cum tol-

leret missos tirciis, ii«- Vana pedum, violente, rapit ? tibi, Nesse biformis,
novit vocem conjiigis:
Dicimus. Exaudi nee res intercipe nostras.:
Nessoque pa ru n tcj'u I-
lere deposit u.>ii,clamut. Si te nulla mei reverentia movit at orbes ;
Quo vuna fiducia pe-
dum rapit te videiite? Concubitus vetitos poterant inhibere paterni. 124
dicimus liOi Nesse
formis, exaudi, nee iii-
hi-
Haud tamen efFugies, quamvis ope fidis equina.
tercipe res nostras. Si
nulla reverentia met Vulnere, non pedibus te consequar. Ultima dicta
niovit te; at orbc.t ya- Re probat : et missS, fugientia terga sagitta
terni poterant iitkibere
vetitos concubitus. Ta- Ti'ajicit. Exstabat feiTum de pectore aduncum.
lnMmv^is''%is^c'nuhiA
Q^^^^ simul evulsuiii est, sanguis per utrumque fo-
ope. Consequar te vtil- railieil
nere.nonpedibiis. Pro- -tk • •
,
•
, t •
, ^
•
lorv
hat ultima dicta re,et Emicuit, mistus Lcmsei tabc veneui. IdO
trajicit fugientia terga mi.isa sagitta. Ferrum aduncum
exstabat de pectore. Quod simul est
evulsum, satiguis emicuit per utrumque foramen, mistus tube Lernmi veneni.
TRANSLATION.
and well acquainted with the shallows, offered to convey his wife to the
other bank, while he
might use his strength in swimming. The Aonian
hero committed to Nessus his Calydonian spouse, pale with fear, and
equally dreading the river and the centaur. Immediately, armed as he
was Avith his quiver, and the lion's spoils (for he had tossed his club and
crooked bow across the
stream). Since I have begun, says he, the stream
must be passed. Nor does he hesitate, or seek where the river glides
with smoothest current, and disdains to be indebted to the compliant
stream. And now having reached the bank, as he took up his bow, which
he had thrown over before him, he heard his bride's known voice. And
as Nessus was preparing to rob him of what he had intrusted to his care ;
"
Whither, (cries the hero), vile ravisher, does thy vain confidence in
"
flight hurry thee. To you I speak, double-shaped monster hear, nor ;

"
presume to invade my right. If you are swayed by no regard for me,
"
yet your father's racking vrheel might restrain you from lawless lust.
" Think
not, perfidious wretch, to escape, though winged with horse's
"
speed I Avill pursue thee with a Avound, not with my feet." His threats
;

were soon confirmed deeds; and by an arrow, he pierced the letting fly
monster's back as he fled. The barbed weapon stood out from his breast,
which, when torn away in anguish, the blood, mixed with Lernsean ve-
nom, gushed forth from both wounds. This Nessus took nor shall my :

death, said he, to himself, go unrevenged and gives his garment dyed ;

in the warm blood as a of love.

present, to rouse the passion
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IX. 319

Excipit hunc Nessus: neque enim moriemurinulti, ^essus exdpit hunc.

c^
'
Ti •
,^ L I^nim (ait secu7n) ite- •
I.-
becum ait et calido velamina tmcta cruore
:
g^e mnricmur inuin.-
Dat luunus rap tee, velut irritamen amoris. ^ia^>mUnctlZ/l
III. Longa fuit medii mora temporis '"^' :
actaqtie ^uivun7morif^'^
maff ni in. Mura medii tern-
TT I'"!'" J.J. J" tnr- ports fiiit lotiga: acta-
Herculis in5;)lorant terras, odiumque novercve. 135 que im,gni hercuiii,
Victor ab (Echalia Censeo sacra parabat pi^anrterra''" ml
Vota Jovi, cum fama loqviax praecessit ad am'es,
'
rediens ^i^tor ah
chalia parabat sacra
<e-
-1^ .. .
1 f 1 •
1

JJeiamra, tuas, (quse veris adclere lalsa vota cena-o jon, cum

Gaudet, et e minima sua mendacia crescit) AH^dierTjaYsai^rfs,

Amphitryoniaden loles amore teneri. HO ^^^^aacS^l^cei
Credit amans fama
Venerisque novEe perterrita *'^ od tuas aures dci-
T11-, -Nil 11
:

a •
1 anira, Amphitryonia-
Indulsit prmio lachrymis tlendoque dolorem ,•
den teneriardore loies.
Diffudit miseranda suum: mox deinde, Quid autem rl'taqueyinua notZ%'.

_^ -1
Flemus, ait? pellex lachrymis Isetabitur istis
Quae quomam adventat, properandum,
^
1-
aliquidque
1 .
'^
:
•
1

T A c
'f^'f'' y""".
lachrymis; mtserauda-
quediffudu suumdo-
lorcm flendo :
««f'«'«*

tiio.i de-
novandum est, 145 inde ait, Quid autem
Dum licet et nondum thalamos
;
tenet altera nos-
^ur"tkri^cnnmi^^^^
trOS. 5Kff quoniam adventat
y-« M 1 J /-I 1 1 o properandum est, ali-
Conquerar, an sileam frepetamCal^^dona, morerne :
quidque notandum,
Excedam tectis an, si nihil amplms, obstem ?
; i'Zh'mVnet "ostros
Quid me, Meleao;re, tuam memor esse sororem, thaiamos. conquerar
A.
si,
\ ...i>
•
•nrv"'* sileam? repitam
rorte paro facnius: quantumque mjuriapossit, 150 cuivdomi, moreme?
T-i 11- 1 jA 11- , . o f^' dain tectis? an si

roemuieusque dolor jugulata pelnce testor :

jadam niitu ampnus.
In cursus animus varios abit. Omnibus illi t1i7agli'Xte'sTtu.
Praetulit imbutam Nesseo san2:uine
~ vestem am sororem, parojortc
Jacmus ; tcstorqueju-
gulatA pellice, quantum fcemineus dolor ivjuriaque possit? animns habet varies incursus. Prs-
tiUit omtiibas mitlere illi vestem imbutam A'^esseo sanguine;

TRANSLATION.
III. A
long interval of time succeeded, and the actions of the great
Hercules, and his step-dame's hate, had filled the earth. Returning
victorious from Qi]chalia, he was, in consequence of a vow, preparing a
sacrifice toCenean Jove when buzzing Fame, which delights in adding
;

fiction to truth,and from small beginnings swells to a great bulk with

growing lies, hastily assailed thy ears, Dejanira; that the son of Amphi-
tryon burned with a passion for lole. Her love believes it, and, alarmed
at the report of this new rival,
gives way to tears, diffusing her load of
grief in heavy lamentation. But soon recovering herself, " Why, (says
"
"
slie), do I
weep? My
rival will rejoice in these tears; who, as she is

already on the way, I must be speedy, and resolve on something while

"
yet there is time, while yet she has not taken possession of ni}' bed.
" Shall I
complain or be silent ? Shall I seek Calydon, or remain here
" shall I leave
.?

the palace, or, if that be all my power, oppose their en-

" trance >
What, Meleager, if mindful that I am your sister, I resolve on
"
some desperate deed, and, by murdering my rival, give the world a
"
proof to what height revenge and a v, oman's rage may rise ?" Her
mind wavers amid various resolves, but at last prefers that of sending him
the garment in the blood of Nessus, to re-animate his decayed love.
dyed
Herself, not knowing what she gave, commits to unsuspecting Lichas
 320 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Mittere ; quae vires defectoreddatamori.

}:fto7,no,tNTs"aque
quidtradat, ipsa tra- lojnaroque LichaB, quid tradat nescia, luctus 155
dit suos luctus ignaro -w^ x i-^ i t i i
• • •

Licha, miserrimaque Ipsa suos tradit: blandisque misemma vcrbis

Ttfi^'^:t^ I>ona det iUo viro, mandat. Capit inscius heros,
jnscitis heros capit e^,
numeris Tnduiturque humcris Lernaeae virus Echidnae.
tndutlurque , ^ ^
. . . .
^p,, ,
virus Lernaa Echid- Ihura dabat pnuiis, ct Verba precantia namrais,
fr'ecantia*verba\rt Vinaque marmoreas'patera fundebat in aras 160 I

Incaluit vis ilk mali ; resolutaque flammis

ZUue'vu!^i>a{e"atn
marmoreas aras. jiia Hcrculeos abiit late diflPusa per artus.
vismali incaluit ; re- -t-\ . •. i-iA •• •
j i •,
soiutaque flammis, a- gemitum virtute reprcssit.
Dxxvo. potuit, solita

^arLl^rcKToZ ^icta malis postquam patientia, reppulit ar?8 ;

potuit repressit gemi- Implevitque suis nemorosum vocibus CEten 165 :

turn solitd, vtrtute. -^y
'^

JNec mora,
^ t
letiteram conatur scindere vestem
•
i
Postquam patientia :

puiit'lrasT"'mpievit Qua trahitur, trahit ilia cutem :

fcedumque relatu,
Tuts Zc"ZT'%eTmo. ^ut tiaerct membris
frustra tentata revelli,
ra; conatur scindere
letiferam vestem: ilia
qua trahitur, trahit
Aut
,-
laceros artus, ct ffraudia detegitossa
ti
Ipse cruor, gelido ceu quondam lamina candens
ii- :

i
169

liM.tu^aut^frustraten-
Tiucta lacu, stridit coquiturque ardente veneno ;
:

membriV'aut dlte^it
^^^ modus est sorbent avidae praecordia flammae
: :

Coeruleusque fluit toto de corpore sudor:

laceros artus, et gran-
dia ossa. Ipse cruor ai^-
^
stridit, ceu qwndam Ambustique sonant nervi
a iit •

coecaque meduUis :

gell^r/a'^fcT,LS
Tabe liquefactis, tendens ad sidera palmas, 175
queagente veneno. Nee Cladibus,' exclamat,' Satumia, pascere nostris :
est modus : avidaflam- y^
mte sorbent pracordia: rascere : et hanc
. '^
pestem specta, crudehs, ab alto :
itii
ccerulensque sudor
fluit de toto corpore : ambustique nervi sonant : meduUisque liquefactis ctecA tabe, tendens pal-
mas ad sidera, exclamat; Satumia, pascere nostris cladibus pascere; et crudelis specta hanc
pestem ab alto.
TRANSLATION.
her future woes, and begs him, in softest terms, safely to convey these
presents to her husband. The unwitting hero takes the gift, and throws
over his shoulders the poison of the Lernsean hydra. He was strewing
with incense the rising flames, and, after offering up his vows, was pour-
ing wine from a goblet upon the marble altars. Sraight the poison be-
gan to rage, and, dissolved by the flame, spread itself wide over all the
hero's limbs. While he could, he suppressed his groans with his wonted
fortitude but when his patience was unable longer to sustain the cruel
;

anguish, he pushed away the altars, and filled the forests of CEte with
his cries. Instantly he endeavours to tear from his body the pestilential
garment, but wherever he plucks, the skin too follows and, shocking to ;

relate, either sticks to his body, all attempts to tear it off being vain,
it

or bares his mangled limbs and huge bones. His blood hisses, like red-
hot iron plunged in cold water, and ferments with the raging venom.
His misery is Avithout bounds the preying flames devour his entrails,
;

and livid sweat flows down all his body his scorched nerves burst and ; ;

now his whole marrow wasted by the lurking poison lifting up his ;

hands to heaven, he cries " Satiate thyself, daughter of Saturn, with

;

"
"
my misery satiate thyself, and, cruel as thou art, look down from
;

hig;^i heaven on my anguish, and glut thy savage heart. Or, if I

NOTES.
l65. CEtsn.] A mouH'tain of Tljessaly.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IX. 321

satiaque feritm cor.

Corque ferum satia, Vel si miserandus et hosti, Vel si sum tniseraiictiis
(Hostis enim tibi sum) diris cruciatibus ffigram,
et hosti; (enim sum
hostis tibi) aufer aiii-
Invisamq animam, natamq laboribus, aufer. 180 mam crgram diris cru-
; ;

Mors mihi munus erit. Decet hsec dare dona nover- ciatibus, invisamque,
natamque laboribus.
cam. Mors erit munus mihi :

decet novercam dare

Ergo ego foedantem peregrin o templa cruore hac doiia. Ergo ego
domui Busirin, jadan-
Busirin domui ? seevoque alimenta parentis tem templa peregrino
Anteeo eripui? nee me pastoris Iberi cruore? er/puique
meiita parentis secvo
ali-

Forma triplex,
~~ ^
nee forma triplex tua, Cerbere
-.-. ..
>-
movit? Auiao!' ^lec forma m
. .
plcx pastoris Iberi me-
Vosne manus validi pressistis cornua tauri ? rit me, nee tua triplex
> vosne
Vestrum opus Elis habet, vestrum Stymphalides forma, Cerbere
nianus nicx pressistis
cornua valldi tauri ?
undee, Elis habet vestrum o-
Partheniumque nemus ? vestra virtute relatus pics? Slymphalides un-
dte, Partheniumque
Thermodontiaco caelatus balteus auro, nemus habent vestrum
opus/ balteiisne cala-
Pomaq ab insomni male custodita dracone ? 190
; tus Thermodimtiaco
Nee mihi Centauri potuere resistere, nee mi auroest relatus vestrd
lirtute, pumaque 77ialc
Arcadiee vastator aper? nee profuit Hydras custodita ab i?isomni
dravone ? nee centauri
Crescere per damnum, geminasq ; resumere vires ?
poluere resistere mihif
Quid ? cum Thracas equos humano sanguine pingues, nee aper vastator Ar-
cadia' potuit resistere.

Plenaque corporibus laeeris prajsepia vidi, 195 mihi ! nee profait Hy-
drir crtseere per dam-
?
Visaque dejeci, dominumque ipsosque peremi num, resumereqiie ge-
minas viresf quid/ cum
His elisa jacet moles Nemesea lacertis ? vidi Thracus equos
Hac coelum d^fessa jubendo est
cervice tuli ? pingues hvmajio suti-
guiitcprascpiaque ple-
Sseva Jovis conjux ego sum indefessus agendo.
: na laeeris eorporibus,
dejecique visa, pererni-
Sed nova pestis adest cui nee virtute resisti,
: 200 que dominum,ipso.^qite/
moles Nemea-ajacet elisa his lacertis? tuli caelum hac cervice? saevu conjux Jovis est defessaju
beiido : ego sum indefessus agendo, tied nova pestis adest: cui nee potest resisti virtute,

TRANSLATION.
deserve pity even from an enemy (for a professed enemy I am to thee),
take away a life insupportable under this load of torments, hateiul to
thee, and destined to trouble. Death will be to me a welcome gift such ;

a gift it becomes a step-mother to bestow. Was it for this I subdued

Busiris, profaning the temples of the gods with the blood of straugers i
For this did fierce Antseus, up-borne from the ground, lose the fresh sup-
plies of vigour he constantly received from his mother ? Did neither the
triple form of the Iberian shepherd, nor thine, huge Cerberus, startle
me ? Did these hands control the horns of the mighty bull ? Does not
Elis speak of thy toils, the Stymphalian lakes, and Parthenian grove ?
Was it thy valour won the belt inlaid with gold of Thermodon, and
apples guarded in vain by the wakeful dragon? Could neither the Cen-
taurs resist me, nor the boar that laid waste Arcadia ? What availed it
the hydra to grow by his wounds, and shoot up with double strength ?
Why should I speak of the Thracian horses, fat with human blood, and
the mangers full of torn bodies ? These I saw and overthrew, with their
barbarous lord. Did not these hands crush the huge Nemean lion ? x\nd
this neck sustain the
canopy of heaven ? The unrelenting wile of Jove,
fatigued at length, suspended her commands, but no fatigue could con-
quer my resolution in executing. But here a new calamity pursues me,
against which neither valour, arms, nor dai-ts can avail. A preying flume
322 P. OVIDII NASONIS

'!^i^cria'[rM^j^.
Nec telis, amiisve potest. Pulmonibus errat
Tn'm>n:cs KirutT'^\^t ^S^^^ ^dax imis, perque omnes pascitur artus.
h'liri/Mheui valet ? et At Valet Eurysthcus. Et sunt, qui credere possint
(tcrc esse (ieos ?'Dixit : Essc dcos, dixit ?
Perque altum sauciiis GEten
;'r «;rrWX"l';;,';
Haud allter graditur, quilm si venabula tigris 205
(diter qiium si Tigris
Cornore fixa ^ ^erat,' factique refucrerit
^ auctor.
gtrat venabula fua c< -n , \ „ .

carporc, auctorque fea3pe ilium geniitus cdentem, saepe trementem,

iTiumfffpccdentemgc- Sffipe retentaiitem totas infringere vestes,
SrSSm'tj-' Sternentemque trabes, irascentemque videres 209
totas
jrhigere vestes, Moiitibus, aut patfio teiidentem brachia coelo
itcriientemqxie trades ;
irascentemque monti-
t-i
Ecce
t-i xii-xj. x-i i.^
Liciian trepiduiii, et latitantem rupe cavata
:

hTa'chu^patTio'aiZ'. Adspicit; utque dolor rabiem collegerat omnem;

Ecce udspicit Livhun
Tuiie, Licha, dixit, feralia dona tulisti ?
trepidum, et latUuii-
tern rupe cavata : ut-
m
1 une Hieje nccis auctor ens
r> -n
tremit ille,
• • •

.'
pavetq ;

Vmite7nr(M€m;%'xit, PalUdus ;
ct tiinide Verba excusantia dicit. 215
na^^lfaVuine'eit I^icentem, genibusque manus adhibere parantem,
auctor meanecis? Ille
cullidus trcvnt pavet-
Corripit Alcides : et teroue quaterque rotatum
-^n ,.)_ -p' c n J i
••
a. i. i.-
que settimid'c dicit ejc- Mittit in xLUDOicas, tomiento lortius, undas.

'clrripitlZy"dki'iae^^^^
We psr aerias pendens induruit auras.
'

219
^lT,','/f ""*•$" "''''/''",''
manus geriibus ; Utque ferunt imbres ogelidis concrescere ventis :
'
et nut- _ tl . . . . .

tit terqne quaterque Indc uives fieri: nivibus quoque molle rotatis
rotutum
memo
fortius tor- \ -i ,
•
. -at •
t
in Eubdicas un-
Aclstringi, et spissa gloiiierari grancline, corpus ;

liVruit'plr^'^^Mas au-
^ic illuHi validis actum per inane lacertis,
ras. vtquejtrunt im-
Ores co7icrescere geli- Exsauguemque metu, nee quicquam
T. T.
humoris ha- '
i
dis ventis, nives Jieri
benteui,
7utUis"moiie 'airpus In rigidos versum silices prior edidit setas. 225
: sic prior atas edidit ilium actum per inane validis
astringi, et glomerari spissa grandine la-
certis, exsanguemque metu, nee habentem quidquam humeris, vcrsu?ii in rigidos silices.

TRANSLATION.
"
strays through my entrails, and feeds upon my lungs and shrivelled
"
joints. Yet still Eurystheus lives. And are there any, said he, who after
" this can believe
there are gods ?" He said, and, stung with pain, ranges
the lofty hills of CEte as w hen a wounded tiger scours the grove, hearing
;

in his body the

piercing steel, and seeks the flying author of his pain.
Oft might you have seen him
uttering groans, and raging in loud laments ;

oft
striving to tear the clinging garments from his body, levelling huge
trees, or venting his fury against rocks, and stretching out his hands to
his paternal sky. When, lo he beheld Lichas and lurking in
!
trembling,
a liollow rock ;
and as the anguish he felt had summoned together all his
" Was
rage ; it
you (said he), Lichas, who brought that fatal gift ? Shall
" I then
owe my fate to thee V He
trembles, and, pale with shivering
fear, utterssome words of excuse with faltering tongvie. While he yet
speaks, and strove with his hands to clasp his knees, Alcides seizes him,
and, whirling him several times round, tosses him into the Euboean waves
more forcibly than from an engine. He, as he hung aloft in air hardened ;

and, as they tell us, that showers coagvdate by freezing winds, and that
thence snow is formed that snow by its rotation congeals in soft balls,
;

hardens by degrees, and is rolled up in solid hail thus we learn, from :

ancient tradition, that Lichas, hurled through air by the hero's nervous
arms, his veins bereft of blood with fear, and his whole body drained of
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IX. 323

Nunc quoque inEuboico scopulus brevis emicat altc Nunc quoi/ue brcris
scopuliis emicat alii: in
Gurgite, et huraantB servat vestigia formee. Eubdicn gitrgite ; cl .

servat vesiiiiia hvma-

Quem, quasi sensurum, nautse culcare verentur- nwformiT. Quern nau-
Appellantque Lichan. At tu, Jovis inclyta vercntur calcare
t(B
proles, quasi sensuriim,appel-
Arboribus quas ardua gesserat OEte,
csesis, 230 lanlque hichiin. At
tu inclyta proles
Jovis,
loque pyram structis, arcus,pliaretramque capacem, (irOorihus quas ardua
CEte gesserat arsis.
Regnaque visuras iterum Troiana saarittas,
n ^
,/r,„./r
ry -1 -n
"^
stntittsque in pyram,
rerre jubes rceante satum: quo namma mmistro *"'""' Pa^i^^ite
-J-"'"^*
Subdita. Dumque avidis tramqtcV cap'aJm%a.
comprenditur ignibus
ao-o-pr- gittusque iterum visa-
.o&^\> ras rtgna Trojajia :

Congeriem silvas Nemeseo vellere summam 235 quo ministro fiamma

est subdita.
Uumqve
Sternis : et imposita clavoe cervice agger comprenditur a-
recumbis, vidis ignibus, sternis
Haud alio vultu
quam si con viva
jaceres sjimmam congeriem sil-
Inter plena meri redimitus va A''emcfeo "vcUerc : et
pocula sertis. cervice impositH clacer
I V. recumbis huud alio
Jamque valens, et in omne latus diffusa sonabat, vultu qiiam si jaceres
Securosq ; artus, contemptoremq petebat
; 240 conviva, redimitus ser-
tis inter plena pocula
Fiamma suum. Tirauere Dei pro vindice terrte. meri.
IV. Jamque jlamma
Quos ita (sensit enim) Igeto Saturnius ore

Oj
Jupiter alloquitur: Nostra .1
1^
est timor iste voluntas,
.

supen totoque libens mdii pectore grator

:
' '
fm>>eia(ussonaba(,pe-
tebatqite
.
'-- ,seciiros ar-
tus,suumquecontemp-
,

tnrem. Dei timaerepro

Quod memoris populi dicor rectorq ; paterq; 245 vindice terrte; quos Sa-
valens, et
,„,,„,^ ^, d/j/usa

'
in
,,,^^,„,^ ,.,^

Et mea progenies vestro turniits Jupiter (sen-

quoq ; tuta favore est. sit
Nam quanquam ipsius datur hoc immanibus actis ; la:toeuimj
ita alloquitur
ore. Isle timor &
superi, est nostra vo-
Obligor ipse tamen. Sed enim, nee pectora vano luptas, liliensque gra-
tor mihi toto pectore,
quod dicor rectorque paterqite tnemoris pnpuli ; et quod mea progenies est tuta vestj-o quoque
Jai'ore. Nam quanquam hoc datur immanibus actis ipsius, ipse tamen obligor. Sed enim nepec-
torafida paveanl vano
TRANSLATION,
itsmoisture, was transformed into a rigid stone. Even yet a small rock ^

rears its front, high over the Euboean sea, and retains the traces of human
form which mariners are afraid to tread upon, as still retaining sensi-
;

bility, and call it by the name of Lichas. But thou illustrious

offspring
of Jove, felling the trees which lofty CEte bore, and raising them into a
pile, gavest to the son of Pcean, thy bow, and capacious quiver, and ar-
rows, destined again to visit the Trojan realms. He set fire to the
pile ; and while the greedy flames climb round the structure, thou cover-
pile with the skin of the Nemijean lion, and resting thy
edst the woody
neck upon the knotty club, wert stretched at ease with a serene counte-
nance, as if, crowned with garlands, thou satest a guest amid cheerful
bowls of sparkling wine.
IV. And now his flames prevailing, and spreading on every side,
crackle round the undismayed limbs, and approach the hero, who mocked
their rage. The
gods were alarmed for this great defender of the earth ;

whom Saturnian Jove (for he perceived it) thus with joyful voice addresses :

"
The concern you now express, O immortal poAvers, gives me great plea-
"
sure, and I readily congratulate myself, tliat I am the governor and
"
father of a grateful people, and that my progeny can boast the protec-
" tion
too of your favour. For although this regard be justly paid to his
"
immortal deeds, yet you oblige me also in it. But now, to ease your
"
breasts of this vain fear, know that you ought to despise these CEtian
Y 2
324 P. OVIDII NASONIS
met u. spcniite aueens
Jiaiiiimiii.
iiiiuiiu,
i/iioi
WWqHt
vlnvtt
crrnUis nee .scn-
vicit.

igncs
.^
Omnia
.
•.•
Fida metu paveant, Oetaas spernite flammas.
qui vicit, vincet, quos cermtis, ignes : 250
Nee nisi materna Vulcanum parte potentem
i.-
•
OCA
tiit yolentcm f'tilcti-
iiiim nixi viatrriul
Sentiet. internum est, a me quod traxit, et expers
jmrte. Quod traxit a
tiir <\v<

jiir.s
irterniim, ct ex-
(que immune iie-
(I
Atque immune necis, nullaque domabile flamma.
ci.t, nuUtl
doinabi/e(jiie Idque ego defunctum terra coelestibus oris
Accipiam, cunctisq meum Isetabile factum
jiammli. /^fioijue acci- 255
;
piam rwlciiihiix oris id
deianctiim tcrrii, con- Dis fore confido. Si quis tamen Hercule, si quis
Jidoque meiim factum
fore Ifftabile cunctis Forte Deo doliturus erit, data prsemia nolet ;
dif. Tamen si quis erit
forte dolit urns Hercule
Sed meruisse dari sciet ; invitusque probabit.
nolet pra-
deo,
mia data
si qiiis
; sed sciet
Assensere Dei. Conjux quoque regia visa est
turn ?nerinssc ca dari ; Cietera non duro, duro tamen ultima vultu, 260
Jill itusque 'prnhahit.
JJei assensere. Voijiix Dicta tulisse Jovis; seque indoluisse notatam.
quoque regia est visa
ttdisse ctrtera non du- Interea, quodcunque fuit populabile flammee
ro, tumen ultima dicta Mulciber abstulerat ; nee cognoscenda remansit
,/oifls duro vultu, indo-

luisseque se esse nola- Herculis effigies ; nee quidquam ab imagine ductum

tnm. Interea Mulci-
ber abstulerat quod- Matris habet; tantiimq; Jovis vestigia servat. 265
^-I'nquc erat popuia-
Pile JtanuniF, ncc ejji- _i. novus .1
XJtciue posita cum
Serpens,'r_ .'
_ipelle senecta.
gies herculis remansit Luxuriare solet, nitere recenti
squammaque :

iOgnosceuda,nec habet
quidquam ductum ab Sic, ubi mortales Tirynthius exuit artus,
vrigine matris, servat- Parte sui meliore
gae vestigia tantum viget; majorque videri
Joiis. litque novus
Coepit, et augusta fieri gravitate verendus. 270
serpens, senecta posita
turn pel/e solet luxuri- Quem
pater omnipotens inter cava nubila raptum,
are, virereqae recenti
squammd J sic ubi Ti- Quadrijugo eurru radiantibus intulit astris.
rynthius txuit mortales artus ; viget meliore parte sui; capltqne videri major, et fieri verendus
augustd gravitate. Quem rujitum inter cavujiubila pater omnipotens intulit quadrijugo curru
radiantibus astris.
TRANSLATION.
" flames : the hero, who has vanquished
all things, shall vanquish even
" them too. That
part alone, which he derived from his mother, shall feel
" tlie
rage of Vuleau; Avhat he drew from me, is immortal, exempt from
" This when disengaged
death, and not to be conquered by any flames.
" from
earth, will I receive into these celestial mansions, nor doubt but
" all the
powers will approve the righteous act. Yet if any one, if any
"
one, I say, should peradventure grieve at seeing Hercules a god, and
"
repine at the honour conferred upon him still they must own he nie-
;

" rited it,

and, in spite of themselves, approve the deed." The gods as-
sented. The queen of heaven too bore the rest of Jupiter's speech with a
contented air, and seemed displeased only with his last words, which so
plainly pointed at her. Mean time, wliatcAcr was in the power of flame
was now consumed, nor was the form of Hercides any more to be known ;

nor did aught he had derived from his mother remain,- he retains only
the traces of immortal Jove. As a serj)eut, renewed by casting off old
age with his Avriukled skin, gathers fresh strength, and glitters in recent
scales; thus theTyrinthian hero, when divested of mortal limbs, flourishes
in his better part, looks more majestic, and becomes venerable by an aAv-
ful
gravity. Him the almighty father, snatcliing up in hollow clouds,
bore aloft in a four-horsed chariot, and lodged among the shining stars.
NOTES.
263. Miilciher.'] Vulraii, so csMeA a mulccndo ferro. As he was the god of fire, he
is ofteu put for fire itself.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib, IX. 32:

V. Sensit Atlas ponchis. Neque adhuc Sthe- y . Atias samt pon-

^ ^
,
.. . Hus. Neque Stlieix-
neleiUS iraS lelus Eurystheux ail-

Solverat Eurystheus ; odiumque in prole paterniim 'iZvq",^re7eU'Xit 'odi-

Exercebat atrox. At londs & anxia curis., 275 At
u'np,ur,,uimi,,prvic.
AUtiH'iie .
Argolt.s- ,
Ai'o'olis Alcmene, questus ubi ponat amies, «/uw iongis ciiris,ha-
I-
ui reierat nati testatos
C''-'
, j_- . . , 111
orbe labores,
bet. loleii ubi j'miat
inrues qmstvs, cnin-
Cuive suos casus, lolen habet. Herculis illam ^tal^s^"'i!^nJ^^i^
Imperils thalamoque animoque receperat Hvllus : ^uoscasii^. iinUusim-

Impleratq; uterum 2;eaeroso germine. Cui sic 280 jieru't uium timiamo-

Incipit Alcmene Faveant tibi numina saltern : :

VerJq"!"id"'inn'"^^^^^^^^

Corripiantque moras, turn cum matura vocabis mZeVic'hu-) ^>i't" Ivu'-

Praepositam timidis parientibus llithyiam: wina/uveaiu t:bi,ior-

-1
Q uam mini T •
i- r -^
uimcilem Jimonis gratia tecit.
/-)-• -IT •
rivMii.tqnc tii(tras,tunh
saitcm mm matura

Namque laboriferi cum jam natalis adesset 285 ;:^;t;;i/Sr^w:

decimum premeretur sidere signum,
mil
Herculis, et
lendebat gravitas uterum mini: qiioclq; terebam
-1 1 p 1
ciitihu.-,;;

mHiL
qiK/m^rutia
Jioioiiisltctt rtijjicdim
'Xamqnv nun.
-

rp . . , , I- , • Uotn tdhori/ei i
1IU talis
lantum erat, iit
posses aiictorem dicere tecti HcnuUsjam aarsset,
Ponderis esse Jovem. Nee Jam tolerare labores 'suierT^
^'^„,^7;;';;;.'"

-r-. P 111,
Ulterius poteram: quin nunc quoq; frigidus artus,
,* ••
Dmii loquor, horror habet; parsque est memimsse
gravitus tcmirhnt me-
rirm inilii : qiKii/quc /'(:'-
rebammi/. lantmiwit

Septem
_,i
T
UU11U1C3.
effo
r^

•
per
I
1
J
•

9Q1
~yj

noctes, totidem cruciata diebus,

ressa mans, teiidensque ad ccelumbrachia, magno
-ivT-
Lucmam JNixosque pares clamore vocabam.
'.. 1

/ri,^uiax iwrmr kaiwt

1
i.
yo.vev
g^f.g
(iiccrc
tnirloierii
j>o,,deris:i,cci,oirram
jam altn-iit^ tolerare
laimics.
qiinqttc
Quin nunc
././m/«
tecti

(liiiii loqiiur,

artus ; estque pars rinloi is i/i^iiii/iissc. Eifo criiciatu per sejitem nodes, lotiiiem dii biis,j'tssa ma-
ils, tendemque brackia ad calum, locaham Lucmam, Nixosqae pares magno clamore:

TRANSLATION.
V. Atlas felt the additional load ;
nor had Eurystheus, the son of Sthe-
nelus, as yet forgot his resentment but, uurelentiug, vented the hatred ;

he had borne the father against his offspring. But Argolic Alcmena, op-
pressed with a continued load of cares, is still happy in lole to whom she ;

may unbosom the complaints of her old age, to whom relate the labours
of her son, attested now by all the world, and her own misfortunes.
Hyllus, at the desire of Hercules, had received her into his bed and heart,
and swelled her womb with a noble birth. To her Alcmena thus begins :

"
"
May the gods be propitious, and shorten the hours of suffering then
invoke
chiefly, when, having accomplished thy months, thou shalt
" whom the
Ilithya, who presides over women in those dreaded hours ;

" influence of Juno rendered cruel and inexorable to me. For when now
" the natal hour of
Hercules, destined to so many toils, was at hand, and
" the tenth
sign had received the sun, a mighty load extended my womb,
" and the burden itself of the latent
readily proclaimed Jove the father
" Nor could I longer support the miutterable pangs even now,
growth. ;

" while I
speak, cold horror seizes my limbs, and remembrance
in part
"
rencAvs my grief. Tormented for seven nights together, and as many
"
days fatigued with ills and extending my hands to heaven, I, with a ;

NOTES.
The next fiible is the hirtli of Her-
274. tlie birth. As for Galanthis, Ahnie-
ciiIps, which the poet (leseiibps very fir- iia's slave, -whom Ovid makes to have
ciimstautially. As Alcmena had a diffi- been transformed into a weasel, this is
cult labour, hence it was feigned, that an episode indented to set the resentment
Juno prevailed upon Lucina to obstruct of Juno in a <;tionger hght.
3-20 P. OVIDII NASONIS
Jl/a quidim venit, se.d
j-racorruiilfi, i/ku c/ne
Ilia qiiidem venit, sod prfrcorriipta, meumqiie
villit donurc ineum Qiuu donare caput Jimoni vellet iniqua; : 296
lupiil iniqita Jtinoni.
I audit meos ge-
f^ttc Utque meos audit gemitus, subsedit in ilia
mitus, subsidit ante
fores itt ilia ar!},pres-
Ante fores arti; dextroque a poplite Isevum
siiqiie quod ad icniim Pressa genu, digitis inter se pectine junctis,
genu a dcitro poplite,
digitis jiuict is inter se Sustinuit partus: tacita quoque carmina voce 300
]fctine, sustiiniit nix-
n\. Pi lit q Hoq ne car- Dixit; et inceptos tenuerunt carmina partus.
mina tacitd voce, et
carmina tenuerunt in- Nitor, et ingrato facio convicia demens
ceptos partus. Al/or,
el demen.t facia vana
Vana Jovi; cupioque mori, moturaque duras
ennricia ingrato Jovi, Verba queror silices. Matres Cadmeides adsunt,
riipioque mori, qtteror-
i/ite verba mot urn du- Votaque suscipiunt, exbortanturque dolentem. 305
ras silices.
'ad me ides
Matres Una ministrarum media de plebe Galanthis,
( adsunt, sus-
vipiuntqne rata ; cx- Flava comas, aderat, faciendis strenua jussis ;
liortanturque dolen-
tem. Caliinthis vtia Officiis dilecta suis. Ea sensit iniqua
ministrarum dc tnediA
Nescio quid Junone geri dumque exit, et intrat ;
plebe, JJiiva quod ad ro-
?nus aderat, strenua
Saepe fores, Divam residentem vidit in ar^; 310
faciemdis justis, et di-
lecta siiis qfliciis: Ea
Brachiaque in genibus digitis connexa tenentem :

sensit nescio quid geri

iniquit Junone: dum-
Et qusecunq es, ait, dominoe gratare ; levata est
;

que sicpe exit ct intrat

/ores, tidit divam rest- Argolis Alcmene; potiturque puerpera voto.
tientcm in ara, tenen-
Exsiluit, junctasque manus pavefacta remisit
lemque brachia con-
nexa digitis in genibus: Diva potens uteri. Vinclis levor ipsa remissis. 315
et ail, quircunque es,
gratare domino-, Argo-
VI. Numine decepto risisse Galantliida fama est-
lis Alcmene
puerperaqvc, potiiur
est levata,
Ridentem, prensamque ipsis Dea sseva capillis
voto. Jiivupotens uteri
corpus relevare volentem
Ti-axit, et e terra
exsiluit, pavefactaque
remisit June t as manus. Arcuit inqne pedes rnutavit brachia primos.
;

Ipsa levor vinclis remi.ssix, VI. Ext fama Galaiithida risisse decepto numine. Sava dra to'axit
ridt nteni, prensamque ipsis capillis,' et arcuit volentem relevare corpses c terra. mtttavitqne bra-
•

cilia in primos pedes.

TRANSLATION.
loud voice, invoked Lucina and the two Nixi. She came indeed, but
with a liostile mind, and determined to give my life a sacrifice to vengeful
Juno. When she hoard my groans, she took her seat on that altar be-
fore the gate, and pressing her left knee with her right hand, her fingers
joined in form of a comb, she stayed my delivery, and muttered charms
in a low voice. Her charms delayed the imfinished birth. I struggle
hard, and, distracted with pain, vainly reproach Jove's ingratitude, M'ish
for death, arid complain in words that might have moved the hardest
rocks. The Theban matrons are present, offer up vows, and encourage
me to support my pains. Among the rest was Galanthis, one of my maids
of the vidgar throng, but graced with golden locks, active in executing
my commands, and beloved for her ready service. She perceived that
these woes proceeded from the persisting liate of Juno, and, as she often
passed and repassed, observed the goddess sitting xipon the altar, and
holding her hands linked by her fingers upon her knees.
\Mioever you
are, says she, congratidate my mistress she is released from her pains,
;

and Alcmena, now a mother, enjoys her wish. The goddess, who presides
over the womb, sprung from her seat, and, struck with sudden surprise,
unlocked her hands. These bonds thus loosed, I was instantly relieved.
VI. " It is said, that Galanthis, after deceiving the goddess, laughed.
The goddess, seizing her by the hair as she laughed, dragged her along,
nor suiFered her to raise her struggling body from the ground, but
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IX. 327

Strenuitas antiqua manet nee terga colorem 320 :

^!'!^tfnecZ^a'm"l
Amisere suum forma est di versa priori.
: ''ere mum coiorrm.-
j-^
•
1
•
forma est diverna vrl-
• •
,

Quse, quia mendaci parientem juverat ore, oru Qua;quiajuvtrat

Oreparit; nostrasq domes, ut'et ante, frequentat. ^^^arelJe^ucM
;

VII. Dixit : et adraonitu veteris commota mi- «"« nostras <iomos, ut

et ante.
nistraB, VII. Dixit ; et cnm-
tnota admoiiitu veteris
Ingemuit. Quam sic nurus est affata dolentem 325 utiiiistrcp, ingemuit :
:

Te tamen, o genitrix, quum geme/item, minis

Raptata
_
movet facies.
aliense sanguine vestro
Quid si tibi
.

mira sororis
.....
est lidfata sic: Tamen
tgenitrixjadesrapia
.

— ' - - - uliiucB a vestro san- - -

Fata mete referam? quanquam lachrymaique do- guine movet te. Quid
si rcferitm tibi fata
lorque mea sororis ? quan-
Fuit unica matri. qvam^laciirymceqne do-
Impediunt
-,_- prohibentque
-
-.^ -. loqui. „ ^ i->n/-v
-.. ^'"'9"fi impediunt pro-

—(Me pater
-i-. -
.

(Echalidum
ex_-
alia ~
genuit) notissima lorma
... 330 hibentque loqui. vry-
ope fnit mi ica fiiiA ma-
Dryope quam virginitate carentem : tri CP"fer genuit me
ex aliilj forma no-
Vimque Dei passam, Delphos Delonque tenentis, tissima (Ecliiilidum:

Excipit Andrsemon; et Iiabetur conjuge felix. quam carentem virgi-

nitale, passamque lim
Est lacus, devexo raargine formam
acclivi riei teiientis Delphos,
Dclonque, Andramon
Littoris efficiens summum myrteta coronant. 335
; excipit, et luihetiir J'e-
lix conjuge. Est lacus
Venerat hue Drj'ope, fatorum nescia; quoque
ejjicie)is Jermam uccli-
latura coronas. ri littoris dei cxo mar-

1-
Indignere magis,
nque sinu
- -
—
.
Nymphis
- .- ,
gine mijrteta coro-
puerum, qui noncium impleverat annum, nantn.escia
-
ope
summum. Dm-
fulorum vc-
.

_
.

_ _ _
:

Dulce ferebat onus ; tepidique ope lactis alebat. nerat hue ; quoquema-
Haud procul a stagno, Tyrios imitata colores, 340 gis indignere, lutitra
coronas nymplds. Fe-
In spem baccarum florebat aquatica lotos rchafqnc in sinu piie- :

rum, diilce onus, qui

Carpserat bine Dryope, quos oblectamina nato, noudum implii erat an-
num: alehatqne ope tepidi lacti'. Jlaud procul a stagno, aquatica lotos, imitata Tiirios colores,
Jiorebat in spi m baccarum. Dryope car pstr at hinc Jiorcs quos porrigeret oblectamina nato,

TRANSLATION.
"
changed herarm.s into fore-feet. Her former activity remains, nor did
" her back lose its wonted colour, hut her form is wholly lost. Who, as
" she had aided her lady in child-bed by a lying; mouth, brings forth by
" the mouth, and still haunts the houses she loved before."
VII. She said and, moved by this remembrance of an old faithful
;

servant, sighed whom, sighing, her daughter-in-law thus addressed

;
:

"
You, mother, are moved at the loss of form, in one who was a stranger
" to
your blood. What were I to relate to you the surprising fate of my
" sister ?
Although tears and grief check me, and tie up my speech.
"
Dryope, the most beauteous of the (Echalian nymphs, was her mother's
"
only hope (for I was my father's offspring by a second bride). Her,
" defloAvered and ravished
by the god, whose power is acknowledged at
"
Delphi and Delos, Andra^mon espoused, and he was accounted happy
" in a wife. There is a
lake, whose shelving border makes the appear-
" ance of a Hither
sloping shore groves of myrtle crown its summits.
:

" was raise

Dryope come, unknowing of her fates and, to your indigna- ;

" tion for the nymphs.

yet more, was preparing an offering of garlands
" In
her bosom she bore her son, a grateful load, who had not yet com -
"
pleted his first year, and whom she nursed whh warm milk. Not far
" from
the lake flourished a watery Lotos, w'liose glowing blossoms vied
" Avith
the Tyrian dye, and promised a rich crop of fruits. Dryope had
"
plucked some of these flowers to please her infant son, and I, who was
328 P. OVIDII NASONIS

(t vMchar factura flores et idem foctura videbar

Porrio;eret,
' ; ;
i,lcm, iiamquc fn/iram. to
-tT- -i- \ a
Vidi gut las
f,(
tr licit as
JNamque aderam. Vicli guttas c rloie cruentas
»«()« "''''f'y^^^,,'^^ Decidere, et tremulo ramos horrore moveri. 345
't"'rdi^%r^stes^^nuli SciUcet, ut referunt tardi nunc denique agrestes,
,iiHiqi/cr,feni>it,tii/m-
jihc Loth /iniiens ob-
.vcff«« i-'riii])/, omitu-
,^ ,
^I'o
Lotis in lianc Nvmphe, fugiens obsceena Priapi,
Contulei'at versos, servato nomine, vuJtus.
i ' ,

h^^nl'nm^i^i^r'IIrrui!^
VIIL Nescierat sorof hoc ; quae cum perterrita
Vlil. Soror iiescic-
retl'O
rat lioc ; quit rum prr- .
n . t i ivt i •
<~trr\
icrrHavcUetireu'trb, Ire et adoratis vellet discedere JNymphis; ooO
%ii'raiif,%KdTfZcsc- Hseserunt radice pedes. Convellere pugnat:
^ec quicquam, nisi summa, movet. Succrescit ab
conLiklr^'iJ'luora
q tildquam nisi summa. imO
f.ent us cortex succrcs- __ 'ij-ij -i* l •

cit ab imo, puuiutim-

Totaque paulatim lentus premit mguma cortex,
'!:^^m"vfmTSa Ut vidit; conata manu laniare capdlos,
iirmarecapiiiosmiiuu, Prondc manum implevit frondes caput omne t.e- :
implevit iniinum Jrun- r i '

<le: frondes teuebant

O c r
OOO
ncbaut,
TmphTs7oT(namaviL At puer Auiphissos (namque hoc avus Eurytus illi

^miwnlm'seutH «w. Addiderat nomen)

materna rigescere sentit
tenia ubrra rigescrre: Ubera nec seoultur ducentem lacteus humor.
1
7iec lacteus humor _ .sf- - '
,.
. , *^
orr» . ,

qtiitiir ducentem. Ade- Spectatnx aderam tati crudelis opemque ooy ;

'li'^fatiTuS'^e^op-
Non poteram quantumque va-
tibi ferre, soror :

ram ferre opem tibi lebam '

soror: quantumque iHi- . .
lebam. morabar am.. Cresceutem truucum rauiosq amplexa, morabar ;
:

pleiacre.scentemtrun- -r^. ,i> i- . j ,• i- i

Et (lateor) volui suD eodem cortice concli.
,

cum ramosque. Et
[lT°'Jodem''^coH'ice. Ecce vir Andraemon, genitorque miserrimus, ad-
Eece vir Andramou, SUUt !

genitorque miserrimus _, V-v -r\ i'l -it

'^adsunt,et quierunt Et quserunt Drvopen Dryopctt ; quffireutiDus illis

,7.S'^^r;^"S'C- Ostendi loton. Tepido dant oscula hgno ; 365

i>pe7i. Dant oscula tepido ligno ;

TRANSLATION.
" also
present, had done the same but, lo I observed bloody drops to
;
!

" fall from the violated

blossoms, and the boughs to shake with tremulous
" horror.
For, as the swains, now at length too late, say, the nymph
"
Lotis, flying the laivless lust of Priapus, lodged her changing form in
" this
plant, which still preserves her name.
VIII. " This my sister knew nothing of, who, as astonished, she en-
" deavoured to
retire, and leave the place, having first adored the nymphs ;

" her feet stuck fast

by a root. She strives to tear them up, but can
"
only move above: the encroaching bark grows from below, and,
"
by slow degrees, covers all her groin. Surprised, and raising her
" hand to rend her
hair, her hand is filled with leaves, for now her
" whole head was encircled with leaves. The child Amphisus (for
"
by this name his grand-father Eurytus had called him) perceived his
" mother's breasts to
harden, nor does the milky moisture follow upon
" his
sucking. I was a spectator of thy
cruel destiny, nor could I, sister,
"
bring thee aid, but clung to the growing trunk and boughs,
if
possible,
" to Behold
delay the rising bark nay, even wished to share her fate.
;

" her husband

Andrsemon, and her unhappy sire, appear, and inquire for
"
Dryope. I shewed them the springing lotos for Dryope: they print kisses
" on tlie warm
rind, and cleave in close embrace to the roots of the tree.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IX. 329

arboris hserent. harentque adfitsi ra-

AfFusique suae radicibus (licilnis sine arboris.

Nil nisi jam faciem, quod non foret arbor, habebas, ( 'lira soror
nil visi
Jam hnbe-
iiiix facievt
Cara soror. Lachrymie verso de corpora factis quod 11011 J'oret arbor.
lAichrymiE irrorant,
ac, dum licet, oraque praestant
fo-
Irrorant foliis ; liis (le viisero
factis
370 ac dum
iter, tales efFundit in aera questus
Vocis : corpore : licet,
oraque prirstiiut iter
Si fides niiseris, hoc me, per numina juro, rods, cjfuiidit tales
qua questus in ai'ra. .Vi
Non meruisse Patior sine crimine poenam est qua fules miseris,
nefas. :

juro per numina me

Viximus innocuse mentior, arida perdam,
: si
tto?inieruissc hoc nefas.
Pa ior panam si ne cri-
Quas habeo, frondes ; et cffisa securibus urar. mine: viximus innoruic:
t,

Hunc tamen infantem maternis demite ramis, 375 si mentior, arida per-
damfronihs quos ha-
Et date nutrici nostraque sub arbore saepe
:
beo ; et ctB^a securil/us,
Lac facitote bibat; nostraque sub arbore ludat; war Tiimeu, demite :

huiic mater- infaiitrm

Cumque loqui poterit, matrem facitote salutet ;
nis rumis, et dale nu-
trici ; facitoteque ut
Et Latet hoc sub stipite mater
tristis dicat, !
Sffpi; bibiit lac sub nos-
tril arbore; nlque lu-
Stagna tamen timeat, nee carpat ab arbore flores ;
dat sub nnstra arbore,
Et i'rutices oranes corpus putet esse Dearum. 381 Cumque poterit loqui,
facitote ut sulutitma-
Care, vale, conjux, et tu germana, paterque ; trem ; et tristis diiat,
jiiafir latet sub hoc
Queis si qua est pietas, ab acutee vulnere falcis, stipite. Tamen timeat
A pecoris morsu frondes defendite nostras.
stagna,
Jiores
carpat
ah arbore; et
iiec

Et quoniam mihi fas ad vos incumbere non est ; putet omncs frutices
esse corpus dciirntn.
Erigite hue artus, et ad oscula nostra venite,
386 Care conjux valv,et tu
Dum tangi possunt, parvumque attoUite natum.
gerinaiiu,
qiitis si est qua pietas.
paterque

Plura loqui
„,, i nequeo.
i.
Nam jam per Candida mollis
'' *-
T
.
\i^fen<iHe
ml«Lrasjro,i.
oc? lib vulnere acutce
Colla liber serpit ; summoque cacumine condor. J\ilrh,d iiwnu pecoris.
Et qnnniam mm est
Ex oculis removete manus. Sine munere vestro fas mi incumbere ad III

391 OS, erigite artus hncy

Conteo;at inductus morientia lumina cortex. I

et venite ad nostra os-

Nequeo loqui p''ura, nam jam mollis
J,^
cula, attolliteque parvum natum dum possum tangi.
liber serpit perCandida eolla : condorque summo cacumine. Removete manus ex oculis. Cortex
inductus contegut morientia lumina sine vestro munere.

TRANSLATION. '

And now, dear sister, yoixr face only retained its human form. Tears
u distil
upon the leaves that spring from your changed body and, while ;

yet she may, while her mouth allows a passage for the voice, she pours
forth her complaints in such accents as these If any credit is due to
:

the wretched, I swear by all the gods, I merited not this cruel ven-
If
geance. I suffer for no wilful crime, my life has ever been iunocent.
(I

I speak false, may these green leaves drop from my withered trunk, may
ii.
axes fell me to the ground, and crackling flames consume me. Take,
u
however, this infant from his mother's arms, and give it to some kind
((
nurse: yet let him oft be fed with milk under my tree, and sport in my
shade and, as soon as he can speak, teach him to hail his mother, and
;

this plant.
to say, with weeping eyes. My
parent lies concealed Avithin
But let him dread the lakes, nor crop the blossoms from trees, but sus-
(( dear spouse, and
pect a goddess shrined in every shrub. Farewell, my
and still retain any love for me, guard
ii.

you, my sister, my sire. If you

n from the wounds of the piercing bill, and the persecuting
my boughs
ii.
bites of cattle. since it is not allowed me to bend down to you, ad-
And
mine, and come to my embraces, while yet I may be
ii
vance your lips to
touched, and reach me my infant son. I can say no more, for now the
((

soft rind creeps along my white neck, and closes over my head. Re-
move your hands the invading bark will soon, without your aid, seal
;
330 P. OVIDII NASONIS

orasimuidesierantio- Desierant simul ora loqiii, simul esse: diuque^

simul esse: rutin-
inii, ^, a . .

tjiie recentes dm Corporc mutato rami caiuers recentes.

ca-

^''ix"ihlm<^ur]7ie7e- IX. Duraq; refert lijle fatum miserabile, dumq ;

admoto pollice siccat 395
•^jUT'dumqvrMc. Eurytidos lachrymas
me/ic siccat lachrymas
Alcmene, flet et ipsa tamen, compescuit omnem
Kurytirtos admoto pol- ~-^ ,•,•.• tvt r i-j.-^
•
li.
lice, et ipsa tamen jtet: Kes nova ti'istitiam. JNam limine constitit alto
ZnemYrist'iZm^Nam PoBiie puer, dubiaque tegens languine malas
joiaus con-
pa^ne fuer
alto limine, te-
Qj.^ reformatus prhiios lolaus in annos.
stittt ^^ ^^ .„. , ^ . t • •
t-
gensque malas duhill X. Hoc illi dederat Junonia muneris Hebe, 400
lanvgine, reformatus
ora in primes annos. Victa viri precibus. Quas cum jurare pararet
X. Junonia Hehe
victa precibus viri dc- Dona tributuram posthac se talia nulli,
derat hoc muneris illi: Non est passa Themis. Nam jam discordia Theboe
qua ctim pararet jura-
res e tribnturam post- Bella movent, dixit :
Capaneusq ;
nisi ab Jove vinci
hac talia dona nuili,
Hand
poterit: ibuntq; pares in vulnera fratres;
Themis non esse passu.

bw"momk/'d&mdt SeductaquB suos manes tellure videbit ; 406

beiia. capaneusque Vivet adhuc vates : ultusoue parente parentem
haud poterit vinci nisi -«t .
•
a n i
•
i i ^ i
ab Jove; fratresque JNatus erit tacto pius ct sccleratus eodem:
?S«r«dL7S'; Attonitusque malis, exul mentisque domusque,
videbit .mos manes se- Vultibus Eumenidum, matrisq ; agitabitur umbris ;
aucta tellure: natus- n ^ T^'-. <ii
•

que nitus parentem Jjonec Bum couiux aurum, 4 latale poposcerit 1 1

parente, erit pius et r^ , -m i i •, ,
••

sceieratus eodem fa c- Cognatumquo latus rliegeius nauserit ensis.

%.eiuiZiena'<qte'do.
Tuni deiiiiam magno petet hos Acheloia supplex
miisque,agitabitHrvut.
tibus Eumeiudnm, um-
Ab JovB Callirrlioe natis infantibus annos.
brisque matris ; donee conjux poposcerit eum fataleawntm, ensisqtie Phege'ius hanserit cogtiatum
latus. Turn demum Achelo'ia Callirrhoc supplex vetet ab Jove magno hos annos natis infantibus.

TRANSLATION.
" those
dying eyes. Her mouth ceased at once to speak, and to be and ;

"
though the nymph v/as now wholly changed, yet long the boughs re-
" tained a human heat."
IX. And while lole thus relates the amazing fate of her sister, and
Alcmene with pitying haud dries up her tears, grief streaming the whila
from her own eyes a nev/ and unexpected event hushed all their sorrow.
;

For lolaus, changed to years of early youth, stood before the threshold ;

a boy he stood, having his cheeks covered with imperceptible down.

X. Hehe, the daughter of Juno, yielding to the solicitations of her hus-
band, had bestowed this grace and now siie was about to swear, that no
;

mortal should henceforward taste of this gift but Themis interposed ;

:

" For soon

(said she) shall Thebes engage in civil Avar, nor is Capaneiis
" to be The guilty brothers shall
conquered, but by the hands of Jove.
" rush into mutual
wounds, and earth dividing, the bard shall, alive, be-
" hold his destined shades. His son
shall, by a parent's death, avenge a
"
parent's fate and, in the same action, be both unjust and good.
;

" Haunted
by the sentence of his crime, and persecuted by the fm-ies and
" his mother's
ghost, he shall wander, deprived of reason and home, till
" his wife demand the fatal
bracelet, and the Phegeian sword pierce his
" kindred side. Then shall
Callirrhoe, the daughter of Achelous, suppliant
NOTES.
399. lolaus.] Accoidin<r to Soliini.=, the Canirrhoe nfdis infmitihiis ««?«>-.]
414.
son of IpliiHus, the bvotlier of Hercules. The poet goes on to recount how Callir-
Anivinsr to a great age, he was at the en- rhoe obtained the same favour for her
treaty of Heicnles, restored to vouth by childroi.
Hebe.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IX. 331

415 Jupiter motus his prte-

Jupiter his motus, privignas dona, nurusque cipiet dona privigniK
viros impubibus annis. jiiir usque,faciet que vi-
Pi'cKcipiet; facietque rus impubihus aniiis.
XI. Hebc ubi faticano venturi praescia dixit XI. Vbi Themis prees-
cia futuri dixit hac
Ore Themis, vario superi sermone fremebant: falicano ore, sitperi
Et, cur non aliis eadem dare dona liceret, fremebant vario ser-
inone. Et erat mur-
Murmur erat. Queritur veteres Pallantias annos mur cur non llceret
421 Palliintiaseadem
aliis dare dona.
Conjugis esse sui ; quaeritur canescere mitis queritur
lasonia Ceres; repetitum Mulciber aevum annos conjugis sui esse
veteres: 7iutis Ceres
Poscit Erichthonio. Venerem quoq cura futuri queritur liisonia ca-
;
iiesccre Miilciber pos- ;

Tangit, et Anchisse renovare paciscitur annos. cit repetitum avum

Erichl h oiiio. Cura fu-
Cui stvideat, Deus omnis habet; crescitq; favore turi lavgit quoque Ve-
Tnrbida seditio, donee sua Jupiter ora 426' '"f^f"'> ct paciscitur
renoiare annos Auchi-
Solvit :
et, O nostri si qua est reverentia, dixit, sa. Omnis Deus liubet
cut studeat, seditioque
Quo ruitis ? tantumne sibi quis posse videtur, tiirbida crescitfaiore,
donee Jupiter solvit
Fata quoque ut superet ? fatis lolaus in annos, sua ora : et dixit : ()
Quos Fatis juvenescere debent
egit, reddiit : 430 si est qua revercntia
7iostri, quo ruitist
non ambitione, nee armis.
Callirrho'e geniti ; quisne videtur sibi se
pos\e tantu?n, nt su-
Vos etiam, quoque hoc animo meliore feratis, peret quoque fata ? J'a-
Me quoque fata regunt quae si mutare valerem,
:
tis lolaus rediit in an-
nos quos egit :fulisge-
Nee nostrum seri curvarent iEacon anni ;
niti Callirr/ioc, debent
rcvirescere, non am-
Perpetuumque cevi florem Rhadamanthus haberet bitione, nee armis.
Fata
Cum Mino'e meo qui propter amara senectse 436
:
regiint vos etiam,
quoque fcratis hoc me -
liore animo, regunt me quoque : qurc si valerem mutare, nee seri anni curvarent nostrum Aiacum,
Rhadumanthusque haberet perpetuumjiorem ttvi cum 7neo Minoc, qui nunc despicitur propter

TRANSLATION.
"
request of Jupiter those years of youth for her infant sons. Jupiter,
" moved
by her tears, shall order for them this advance of years, the [)e-
" culiar and bid their
gift of his step-daughter and daughter-in-law,
"
unripe bosoms glow with manly heat,"
XI. When prophetic Themis had thus spoke with prescient voice, the
gods broke out in various murmurs and comj)laints arose, that others had
;

not also a power of dispensing the same gifts. Aurora grieves for her
aged spouse, and gentle Ceres laments the freezing years of lason.
Vulcan requests a new life for Erichthonius Venus too is concerned for ;

her future race, and would fain restore the blooming age of Anchises.
Each god has a different care, and their various interests increase their
" Is
jars till
;
Jupiter rising, addressed them thus aught of the re- :

" verence due to me left this discord ? Does

"
among you ? then Why
any one fancy himself powerful enough to resist fate ? By fate lolaus
" resumed his
youthful years. By the appointment of fate the sons of
" Callirrhoe shall
spring forward to manhood, not by ambition or arms.
" And that
you may submit to this with more contentment of mind, know,
" that I also am ruled
by fate. Could 1 revoke its decrees, you should
" not behold .^acus bending under a load of years. Rhadamanthus
my
" should flourish in
perpetual youth and my son Minos too, who now is
;

NOTES.
415. PringncB dona nurusque. Hebe '\
/i^d- Pallantias.'] Aurora, the dauj;Ii-
was the daughter of Jiuio without the ter of Hyperion, and cousin-german by
participation of her husband, and hence the father's side to Pallas the giant.
she was Jupiter's step-daugher Privigna : 422. lasonia.^ Jasiones was the son of
she was his daughter-iu-iaw too, as being Jupiter and Electra, and beloved by
married to his son Hercules. Ceres.
332 P. OVIDII NASONIS

amara fondera srnec-

Pondera despicitur; noc, quo prills, ordine regnat.
t(E nrv regnat oritiiir
;

quoprius. Dicta Joi is Dicta Jovis movere Decs. Nee sustinet uUus
morire Ocos: nee nllns
(cum vitteant Hliada- (Ciim videantfessosRhadamanthonet^acon annis,
tnanthon, el j^ucoit, et
Minna fessos annisj JEt Minoa) queri; qui, dum fuit integer sevi, 440
suslinet queri. Qui Terruerat magnas ipso quoque nomine gentes.
Minos dum fait integer
at'i, terruerat magnas Tunc erat invalidus Deionidemque juventae
:

f;entes ijtso qanqiie no-

mini. Tunc erat in- Robore Miletum, Plioeboque parente superbura,
validus, jiertiniuiiquc
MiletumDeionidem su-
Pertimuit ; credensque suis insurgere regnis.
perbiim rnhore Jnrcn- Hand tamen est patriis arcere penatibus ausus. 445
tee, Phahnque /larente;
crcilensque tiiiii insur- Sponte fugis, Milete, tua, celerique carina
gere suis regnis, tamen
hand est ausus arcere iEgeeas metiris aquas; et in Aside terra
jiulriis penatibus. Tu
Milete fugis tiul sjnin-
Moenia constituis, positoris habentia nomen.
te, mctirisqiie eeleri Hie dum sequitur patriae curvamina ripae,
tibi,
carina A'geas aquas,
et constituis in. terra FiliaMseandri toties redeuntis eodem, 450
Aside mietiia habentia
nmnen positoris. Jlic Cognita Cyanee, praestanti corpora forma,
filia Mtcundri
Byblida cum Cauno prolem est enixa gemellam.
redeun-
tis toties eodem
Cyanee,
Byblis in exemplo est, ut ament concessa puellse
:
precstanii forma quod
ad corpora, coguitu,
dum sequitur curea- Byblis Apollinei correpta cupidine fratris,
tnina patri/r ripa, est
enixa tibi gemellam
Non soror ut fratrem, nee qua debebat, amavit.
prolim, liyldiila cum Ilia
quidem primo nullos intelligit ignes ;
456
dauno. Jii/blis est in
exemplo ut puelltc a- Nee peccare putat, quod siepiils oscula jungat;
ment concessa.
correjila cupidine Apol-
Jl/iblis
Quod sua fraterno circumdet brachia coUo :

linei fralris, amavit

Mendacique diu pietatis fallitur umbra.
fratrem. non. ut soror,
nee qui) debebat. Jlla quidem primo intelligit nullos ignes ncc futat se feccare quod srefiux
jungat oscula, quodque circumd^C sua brachia fraterno collo ; diuque j'allitur mendaci timbrd
pietatis.
TRANSLATION.
" nor reigns with his
despised, because of the heavy load of old age,
" wonted These words of Jove silenced the gods. None now
dignity."
presume to urge their complaints, when they see Rhadamanthus, and
iEacus, and Minos, broken Avith years. Minos, when in the bloom of
life, had by the fame of his name, been the terror of poAverful nations ;

but now enfeebled with age, he dreaded Miletus, the son of De'ioue ;

whom elated with youth, and vain of his father Phosbus, he durst not
drive from his native coast, though he suspected Iiim of aiming at his
kingdom. You, Miletus, left the island by choice, and ploughed the
jKgean waves in thy swift vessel, and built on the Asiatic coast a city
bearing the name of its founder. Here, as she traces the windings of
her father's bank, Cyanee, the daughter of Meander, whose channel
glides so often backward to its source, a nymph of surpassing beauty, yield-
ing to thy embraces, brought forth a double offspring, Cauiuis
and Byblis.
forbidden
Byblis serves as an example to ^imrdiinthinkiug maids against
love for Byblis, seized with a passion for her brother, the grand-son
;

of Apollo, loved him more than became a sister, and burnt in unlawful
flames. At first indeed she apprehended no guilty fire she saw no ;

crime in him giving kisses, in throwing her arms round her

frequent
NOTES.
442. Deionidem Milehim.'] Miletus, ac- Crete, but deterred by admonitions from
cordins to Ovid, was tlie sou of Apollo Jove, lie sailed for .Asi.i, where lie built
and Dei'one, Uiouj;h others give him Ilia Miletus, a celebrated city of Caria.
for his mother. He designed to invade
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IX. 333

Paulatim declinat amor visuraque fratrem:

Aninr patilniim decli-
460 nat
; venitque culta
Culta venit; nimiumque cupit formosa videri visiira fratrem nimi- : ;

umque cuyit viilcri for-

Et, si qua est illic formosior, invidet illi. mosa, et si qua formo-
Sed nondum manifesta sibi est nullumque sub illo illi. iS'ed tiondum est
sior est illic, invidet
;

Igne facit votum; veruntamen sestuat inttis. tnaiiifcsta sibi; fucit-

que nullum votuui sub
Jam dominum appellat; jam nomina sanguinis illo igne; veruntamen
ecstuiit iiitus. ap- Jam
odit: 4G5 ]'ell(it domi)nim ; Jam
odit nomiiia sanguinis ;
Byblida jam mavult, quam se vocet ille sororem. jam mavult ut ille vo-
Spes tamen obscgenas animo demittere non est ce t se Byblida quum
sororem. Tamen iion
Ausa suo vigilans. Placida resoluta quiete ausa est vigilans de-
tnittere obscanas spes
Ssepe videt, quod amat. Visa est quoque jungere suo animo resoluta :

fratri placida quiete, sapc

videt quod amat, visa
Corpus; et erubuit, quamvis sopita jacebat. 470 estqvoquejttngere cor-
Somnus abit : silet ilia diu ; repetitque quietis pus frut ri, et erubuil,
quamvis jacebat so-
pita. Somnus abit : il-
Ipsa suae speciem; dubiaque ita mente profatur: ia silet diu ; ipsaqtie
Me miseram tacitae quid vult sibi noctis imago
! ? repetit speciem sua:
quietis, profalurque
Quam nolim rata sit. Cur htec ego somnia vidi
? ita dubiii mente. Me
tniseram! quid vult si-
Illequidem quamvis formosus iniquis
est oculis bi imago tacita: noctisT
:

Et placet, et possum, si non sit frater, amare 476 quum ?iolim sit rata, ;
cur ego vidi htFc som-
Et me dignus erat, verum nocet esse sororem. nia. Ille quidem est
fiirmosus oculis quam-
Dummodo tale nihil vigilans committere tentem, vis iniqiiis, et placet,
et possum amare, si
Ssepe licet simili redeat sub imagine somnus. non sitfrater et crat ;
Testis abest somno ; nee abest imitata voluptas. digitus me, verum no-
cet me esse sororem.
Proh Venus, et tenera volucer cum matre Cupido, Dummodo vigilans ten-
tcm committere nihil
Gaudia quanta tuli :
quam me manifesta libido somnus sape
tale, licet
ut jacui totis resoluta medullis redeat sub simili ima-
Contigit ! !

gine. Testis abest som-

710, 7trc imitata voluptas abeit. Proh, Venus, et Cnpido volucer cum tenera jnatre, quanta gau-
dia tuli! quum mamfesta libido contigit me! tit Jacui resoluta totis medullis !

TRANSLATION.
brother's neck, and
long deceived by the fallacious image of piety.
is
But this pious love insensibly decliues she comes drest to visit her
;

brother, is too anxious to appear beautiful, and envies every nymph,

whose charms surpass her own. But she is yet a stranger to herself,
nor harbours any wishes under her flame, and only fluctuates with inward
care. Now she calls him lord, now she hates her kindred name, now
she would rather be called her Byblis than sister. Yet, waking, she
suffered no criminal hopes to assault her breast but when dissolved in ;

the soft embraces of sleep, the pleasing vision oft accosts her mind. She
even seems linked with her brother in a close embrace, and blushed as
she lay asleep on the conscious bed. Sleep goes off; she continues long
silent, and ruminates upon the appearance of her dream then thus, with ;

" Ah me what means this

wavering mind, exclaims : !
image of the silent
"
night ? How far I am from wishing it real ? this incestuous Why
"
dream ? He, it is true, must appear beautiful, even to envious eyes ;
" he
charms my soul, he is every way worthy of me, and were he not a
"
brother I could love him but it is my misfortune to be his sister. If,
;
"
awake, I carefully avoid every crime where is the harm, though sleep
;
" often
" of brings back the same image ? No witness disturbs these scenes
sleep, nor is pleasure wanting in so near a resemblance. Venus, O
" and
"
winged Cupid, the offspring of that soft goddess how great was !

my joy how nearly real my transport how was I dissolved in the

! !
33^ P. OVIDII NASONIS

Ut meminisse juvat! quamvis brevis ilia voluptas,

%,J:r!^Hu:!::u!X
J ait />rcM.<i,no.rqiie pra
ceps, et invii/a nostris
Noxque fuit prccceps, etceptis invidianostris. 485
cceptis. Osiliccatjungi O ego, si liceat mutato nomine jungi,
Tiomine mutiito, qiiam
benefgo,Caiuicpoteram Quam bene, Caune, tuo poteram nurus esse pa-
esse minis titoparenti! rent! !

qitam bene, Caunc,po-

tcras esse gener meo
pareuti ! tlii facerent
Quam bene, Caune, meo poteras gener esse parenti !

omnia essent commu- Omnia, Di facerent, essent communia nobis,

iiia nobis prater avos,
Velletn tu cues gene-
Proeter avos. Tu me vellem generosior esses. 490
rosior me. Igitur ptil- Nescio facies igitur, pulcherrime, matrem
quam :

cherrime, fades nescio

quam mairem: at eris At mihi, quee male sum, quos tu, sortita parentes,
nil nisi frater mihi,
qua sum male sortita Nil nisi frater eris. Quod obest,id habebimus unum.
parentes quos, tu es
sortitus. Habebimus id Quid mihi, significant ergo meavisa? quod autem
unum quod obest "Quid Somuia -iDondus liabent ? an habent et somnia apon-
ergo mea visa signiji- _ .

cant mihi? somnia au- dus ? 495

tem quod pondus lia-
bent.' an et somnia
Di melius Di nempe suas habuere sorores.
!

habent pondus ? dii Sic Saturnus Opini junctam sibi sanguine duxit,
tnclius! dii nciiipe lui-
buere siias sorores. Oceanus Tethyn, Junonem rector Olympi.
Sic Saturnus duxit
Opim junctam sibi Sunt Superis sua jura. Quid ad ccelestia ritus
sanguitie, Oceanus Te- 500
thyn, rector Olympi Exigere humanos, diversaque fcedera tento?
Junonem. Sua jura
sunt superis.
Aut nostro vetitus de corde fuaabitur ardor -
:

Quin « . i •
, ,

tento exigere ad ritus Aut, hoc SI nequco, pcream prccor ante toroque ;

lesuTdivers'fque. Aut
Mortua compouar positeeque det oscula frater.
:

veticus ardor jugabi- gt tamen arbitrium quserit

^ res ista duorum.
tur de nostro corde, . .
^^• rr\r •
i i •

aut sinequeohoc,pre-
rmge placere mihi scelus esse videbitur lUi. 505
cor peream ante, mor-
tuaqiie cmiiponar toro.
AiTriTi ^ii j_* '^

At Hon /Loudae thalamos timuere sororum.

:

fraterque det oscula posita. Et tamen ista res qutsrit arbitrium duorum. Finge placere mihi ;
videbitur illi esse scelus. At nori JEolidie timuere thalamos sororum.

TRANSLATION,
rapturous embrace how pleasing is the remembrance, though the en-
!

joyment was but short, night headlong, and envious of my bliss ! O

were but the hated name of sister away Could I, without a crime, !

become thy spouse, what joy must I find, Caunus, in being a daughter-
in-law to thy father ? With what pleasure should 1 hear thee salute
my parent by the kindred name ? Would to heaven all things were
common to us, but our parents that you were of a race more illustri-
;

ous than mine thou art therefore destined, amiable man to bless
! !

some unknown stranger with a mother's joys. To me, who is, by an

unhappy lot, born of the same parents, thou wilt be only a brother. We
claim that only tie, which destroys all our hopes. What then do my
dreams avail ? What can I flatter myself from these visions of sleep ?
Have such vain phantoms any weight or reality ? Better the heavenly
powers they have often married their own sisters. Thus Saturn es-
!

poused Ops, joined to him by the strictest ties of blood thus the ocean, ;

Tethys and the ruler of Olympus, Juno. But the gods have their
;

peculiar prerogatives. Why do I attempt to measure human love by

the standard of celestial laws ? Either this forbidden flame shall be
banished my breast, or if that is a task beyond my strength, sooner
may I perish, and stretched on my bed a breathless corse, there receive
my brother's last embrace. But should I yield to gratify this pas-
sion, love requires the consent of both and what so much pleases me, ;

may seem criminal to him. The son of Jiolus was not afraid of a
 METAMORPHOSEON, Liu. IX. 335

Nc
Undc sed hos novi? cur haoc
... exempla paravi
Qiioieror? obsc'cGnseprocul nmc clisceaite nammai. '/«" /''"'
r i
ec, nisi qua tas est germause, trater ametur.
Si tamen ipse mei captus prior esset amore,
Forsitan illius possem
_,
i
indulgere
~ furori.
p
j_

510
obscaiue
flamma discedUc jtro-
cui idnc, ncc jrater

^^rm<^l sltaJi^i
tpsecsset prior captus
.
T T
i.
n
?
sedun<iemvihos?cur
paravi liac exempla?

amore mei, Jorsitan

Ergo, ego, quern lueram non rejectura petentem, possem induigere fu-

Ipsapetam? poterisne loqui? poterisne fateri ? lpZpi'tank\\^m%u^^

Coget amor; potero. Vel, si pudor ora tenebit, pZ^{'tZrmlf%1,t"
Litera celatos arcana fatebitur ignes. 515 risneioqui/ poterisne
Hffic placet, haec dubiam vincit sententia mentem. potl7o. vl'iZi ''pidor
In latus erigitur ; cubitoque innixa sinistro, Trl%t7murTeTatt
_..' 'T.'
Viderit: insanos, inquit, fateamur amores.
... '^"f- Hacpiacet,hac
senteiitia viiicit du-
Hei mini! QUO labor! quemmensmeaconcipitignem! biarn mentem. Erigi-
T?. T, ^ ^ Tvrv tur in latus, innixaque
•
i_ !.•
tit meditata manu
J.

componit verba trementi. o20 cubitosinistro,vidtrit,

Dextra tenet ferrum, vacuam tenet altera ceram. ^JanofaJMiTn7i'mi-
Incipit, et dubitat scribit, damnatque tabellas
: : ^"' qvoiaim-? qwm
Ti.'-
Et
-. .
^
1, 1 ignem metis mea con-
notat, et delet mutat, culpatque probatque
: : dpiti et componit me-

Inque vicem sumptas ponit, positasque resumit. nlanu. ^%extraYemt

Quid velit, ignorat quicquid factura videtur, 525
:
^j^^_
-{fJJ^f^^^; ^^^.f,''^^

Displicet. In vultu est audacia mista pudori. pit,et dubitat ;scribitj

CI , /^ ^11 ,
•
damnatque tabellas :

ocnpta soror luerat visum est delere sororem, : et notat, etdeiet,- mu-

Verbaque correctis incidere talia ceris :

ifthSSuesum^.
tas ubcn^sresumitque
nisi tu dederis, non
Quam,'.,... est habitura salutem,
Jz '
1 , ,, 1 positas mvicem. Igno-
Jdanctibi mittit amans : pudet ah !
pudet edere no- rat quid vciu: qmc-
videtur factura
.
PSir\ 9"^'^
men I OOU dtspUcet. Audacia est
mixta pudori in vultu. Soror fuerat scripta : visum est delere sororem, incidereque talia verba
correctis ceris. Amans mittit tibi hanc salutem, quam non est hubituru ipsa, nisi tu dederis.
Pudet ! ah ! pudet edere riomen !
TRANSLATION.
" sister's embrace. But how come I to know of him ? am I fur-
" nished with these
Why
examples ? Whither does my passion hurry me ?
" Hence be I will harbour no love, but such as a
gone, ye guilty flames ;

" brother claim. And yet, had he been first touched with a love for
"
may
me, I might perhaps have consented to ease his pain. May I uot then
"
myself address the man, whose addresses 1 should have listened to with
"
pleasure ? Canst thou not resolve to speak and avow thy flame 1 I can.
" Love will or if shame restrains my speech, a private
inspire boldness ;

" letter shall reveal the latent fire." This

thought pleases her most,
this fixes her wavering mind. She is raised upon her side, and leaning
on her left elbow, " He shall know my passion, (says she) I am de- ;

" termined to avow this frantic love. Alas in what

misery do I plunge !

"
myself What flame is this that rages in my breast 1" Then, with a
!

trembling hand, and weighing her words with care,

she writes. Her
right hand holds a her left a fair waxen scroll. She begins, and
pencil,
doubts, writes, and razes what is written marks down, then blots, cor- ;

rects, likes and dislikes by turns lays down, by turns takes up the
;

scroll. She knows not what she would be at, nor can think of any thing
to please her shame and assurance appear in her countenance.
;
The
word sister was written, but soon she effaced sister, and marked these
words in the corrected scroll. " Thy lover wishes thee that health,
*'
which she cannot herself enjoy, but as thy gift. I blush ah I blush ! !
336 P. OVIDII NASONIS
Et
ptam;
si qufffis quid
vellem
can-sa posset ugi sine
cti-
mea
gf
7T..r
Posset
gj ovLid
cupiam,'T
mea causa meo
affi
quaeris ;
'
sine nomine vellem
nee coffnita rJyblis
:
--niT
mi'O nomine: nee Bi/0
lit J'orem eognitu, an- Ante torem, quam spes votorum certa luisset.
tcqiiiim spe.t votortim Esse quidem l-^esi poterant tibi pectoris index,
fiiisxet eertu. Multa
quidt'iH poterant c.sje
Et color, et macies, et vultus, et humida saepe 535
tibiindex icesi peciorii;
et eoior, ec mucies, et
lirmina seepe
Lumina, nee causfi, suspiria mota patenti ;
vultt(.i,et
liumida, svspiriaque
Et crebri amplexus et quae, si forte notasti, ;
Mota nee patenti eau- Oscula sentiri non esse sororia possent.
sil, et crebri amplexus;
ei'oseiiia, qua: si forte Ipse tanien, quamvis animo grave vulnus habebam,
notasti,
tiri
pusscnt
non esse sororia.
sen- ^
Quamvis
•

mtus
'
n •
. p ,

erat luror igneus, omnia leci,

r Ar\
540
•

" ' ~ ' "

Ipsa tumen, qiiumtis mihi Di ut tandem sanior essem
habebam grave tulniis [Sunt testes] :

animo, quumris igiieus

furor erat intus,feci Pugnavique diu violenta Cupidinis arma
omnia (dii sunt testes
EfFugere infelix et plus, quam ferre puellam
:

mild) ut cssem tandem

sanior, diuqne pii^na- Posse putes, ego dura tuli. Superata fateri
vi infelix ejfugere rio-
lenta armu cupidiiiis ; Cogor, opemq ; tuam timidis exposcere votis 545
et ego dura tali plus, Tu servare potes, tu perdere solus amantem.
quam putes puellum
posse f\ rre. Superata Elio-e utrum facias. Non hoc inimica precatur :

q^eojU^mtuamtM^s Sed
ciam tibi sit jmictissima, junctior esse
quffi,
votis. Tu solus potes ct vinclo tecum propiore ligari.
Expetit
r :
' ^
scrvare, tti perdere a-
mantcm. Eiige utrum Jura senes normt
/>-, -ii-^, r rrn.
et quid liceatque, neiasq; 550 :
,

facias : own
inimica
precatur hoc, sed quce Fasque sit, inquirant legumq examina servent. ; ;
cum sit junctissima
tibi expetit esse junc-
Conveniens Venus est annis temeraria nostris.
tecum
tior; et ligari
vinclo propiore. .Senes
Quid liceat, nescimus adhuc et cuncta licere :

n&rint jura, et inqui- Credimus: et sequimur magnorum exempla Deorum.

rant quid liceat, quid-
que sit fasque nefas-
Nee nos aut durus pater, autreverentiafama?, 555
que ; serventque exatnina legum. Venus temeraria est conveniens nostris annis. Nescimus ad-
huc quid liceat : et credimus cuncta licere : et sequimur exempla magnorum Deorum, Nee aut
durus pater, aut reverentiafumce,
TRANSLATION,
to discover my name !
my wishes known to you, without
I would have
a name :
hopes, would I have Byblis suspected
nor until secure of my
as your lover. But doubtless you must have already discovered the wound
in my breast. My
pale complexion, leanness, disconsolate looks,
and
eyes, often wet with tears my sighs, fetched without
; any seeming cause ;

my frequent caresses and kisses (if by chance you minded), too ardent
for a sister, were but too plain indications of my frailty. Yet, though
deeply wounded in my soul, though raging fires prey upon my inmost
vitals, the gods can witness how 1 have struggled to oppose this
frantic
and the cruel dart of I have firmly re-
passion, escape luierring Cupid ;

sisted, even beyond what you could have expected from a tender
maid.
But, vanquished at length, I am forced to own my flame, and, with
timorous prayers, beg your compassion. It is in your power to preserve
or destroy one that loves you choose which you will do. Only con-
:

sider, that it is not an who now addresses you, but one who,
enemy,
and
though already strictly united to you, aims at a yet closer union,
would be linked to you by the nearest ties. Leave it to age to study
the laws, to debate upon right and wrong, and establish the forms of
decency. Bolder flights of love are suited to our sprightly years.
We kiiow not as yet the proper bounds of vice we run on with- ;

out check, and follow the example of the great gods. have We
neither the terror of a severe father, nor the awe of fame, nor fear of any
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IX. 337

Aut aut timor impedient

timor, impedient; tanliun absit causa timendi. nos : absit tani um cau-
Dulcia fraterno sub nomine furta teo'eiims. sa timendi. Tegemus
dulcia furta sub fra-
Est mihi libertas tecum secreta loquendi; terno liomiur. Est mihi
librrtas ioquendi se-
Et damns amplexus; et jungimus oscula coram. creta tecuiii; et damns
Quantum est, quod desit! miserere fatentis araorem, amplexus, et jungimus
oscula coram. Quan-
Et non fassurtE, nisi cogeret ultimus ardor: 561 tum est quod desit !
miserere Jatentis amo-
Neve merere meo subscribi causa sepulchre. rem, et nnn fassurte
nisi ultijnus ardor co-
Talia nequicquam perarantem plena reliquit geret : neve merere
Cer manum, summusque in margine versus adhaisit. subscribi men scpul-
cliro causa mortis mece.
Protinus impressa signat sua crimina gemma 565 Plena cera rtliquit
manum peruruntcm
Quam tinxit lachrymis linguam def'ecerat humor. talia neq%ticquam:sum-
:

Deque suis unum famulis pudibunda vocavit :

musque versus
sit in mnrsiine.
odha:-
Pro-
Et pavidum blandita, Fer has, fidissime, nostro. tinus signal sua cri-
mina impress A gcmniA;
Dixit, et adjecit post longo tempore, fratri. quam tiuiit lachry-
Cum mis ; hiitnor defccerat
daret, elapsae manibus cedidere tabellee. 570 linguam. Pudiijunda-
Online turbata est misit tamen. Apta minister que vjcavit unum de
:
suis fiimulis et bVin-
Tempora nactus adit ; traditcjue latentia verba. dita pavidum,f(r, dix-
it,fidi\ \ime,has nosi ro,
Attonitus subita juvenis Mieandrius ira, et Oiijecit longo fern-
Projicit acceptas, lecta sibi parte, tabellas 574 pore
diiret
post,friitri. Cu?n
:
tabeiicp elapsts :

Vixque manus retinens trepidantis ab ore manibus cecittere. Tur-

ministri, bata est
amine, tamen
Dum beet, 6 vetilBs scelerate libidinis auctor, misit. Minister nac-
tus apta tempora adit
EfFuge, ait: qui, si nostrum tua fata pudorem eiun; trudii que laten-
Non traherent secum, posnas mihi morte dedisses. tia verba. Maandrius
jurenis att<-nitus su-
Ille fugit
pavidus; dominaeque ferocia Cauni bitil iril, projecis ac-
ceptas tabvlas, parte
Dicta refert. Palles audita Bybli, repulsa ; 580lectd sibi : vixque re-
tinens manus ah ore
Et pavet obsessum ^lacialia frigore pectus. trep'dantis mi.iistri,
Mens tamen ut rediit, pariter
'
rediere furores : ait, Ejfvge
„ _ dum licet.
8 sctlerdte auctnr ve-
tittF libidinis : qui si tiia fata ?ion trahere7it secum no'itrum piidorem, dedisses mihipan'is morte.
J He fugit patidus, reftrtque ferocia dicta Cauni domijKr. Fulies B'jbli, repulsil audita ; it pec-
tus obsesszim glaciali frigore pavet : tamen ~,it mens reditt, furores pariter rediere,
TRANSLATION.
" kind to control us. Let us not therefore be alarmed with vain phan-
" toms our kindred name will cover the sweet thefts.
;
have the li- We
"
berty of conversing together in private, we caress each other openly
" without censure. How little is wanting to complete our bliss Pity a !

"
sister, who owns her passion for you, nor would thus own it, unless
" love. be inscribed upon my tomb
Merit not to
compelled by outrageous
" the cause of Thus she writes in vain
my death." and, having filled ;

the waxen page, inserts her last words in the margin. She next sealed
her criminal letter with a gem, which she wet with her tears, fur the
moisture had deserted her tongue. Then, blushing, she called a page ;

and soothing him with a faltering voice, " Bear this, (she said), thou
" faithful
boy, to my (and, after a long pause, added) brother." As she
gave it, the letter, slipping, fell from her hands the omen shocked her, yet
:

she sent it. The boy, to her brother,

Avatching a favourable season, goes
and delivers the secret writing. The Msandrian youth, seized with
sudden rage, after reading threvv^ it from him,
part of the letter, hastily
and, hardly restraining his hands from the face of the trembling page ;
" Thou
impious pander (says he) to her guilty lust, fly hence, while you
*'
may. Instant death should be thy punishment, were I not afraid of
*'
drawing down infamy upon our family." He flies, trembling, and
z
338 r. uvlUll i\ASUiM^

Liiiguaquc vix talcs icto dedit acre voces

linsuaqne vix dedit ;

EtZe'rii"! 'Sid'e'rL Et merito :

quid enim temeraria vulneris hujus
temcraria feil iiiclUi 585
vm hiijus vuliuris ? Indicium feci ? quid, quse celanda fuerunt,
quid tarn citi> commlsi Tarn cito comraisi properatis verba tabeliis ?
j>roperat.is tabellix ver-
ba quaj'iierunt celan- Ante erat ambiguis animi sententia dictis
da ' setitcntia eiiiimi
erat ante protetitatida Praetentanda mihi. Ne non sequeretur euntem.
mihi ambignis dictis,
Dcbuerujn notare al't-
Parte aliqua veli, qualis foret aura, notare
qtiut parte veli, qualis Debueram ; tutoq ; mari decurrere quse nunc 590 :

aura J'oret ne nun sc-

queretiir euntem; de- Non exploratis implevi
lintea ventis.
currereq lie, tuto mari: toto
qua: nunc implevi lin-
Auferor in scopulos igitur, submersaque
'tis non exjdo-
tea ventis Qbruor Occano neque habent mea vela recursus.
:
luns.
ratis Jgitur av/eror .^., \i. ••! i-ii
Quid quod ct omuiibus certis prohibebar amon
,•
inscnpiiios,obruorqiie

r4;:.';Ta'e"'L''/;X;;; Indulgere meo, tum cum mihi ferre jubenti

595
Exddit, et fecit spes nostras ceracaducas?
^mebJ:::rt^:^
amort
nibns indulgere Nounc vel ilia dies fucrat, vcl tota voluntas
meo, turn cum cera ex
cidit Willi jubenti Sed potius mutanda dies ? Deus ipse monebat ;
ferre, et fecit nostras
Signaque certa dabat: si non male sana
fuissem.
spes cad'ucas. ISonne
vel ilia dies, vel tota Et tamen ipsa loqui, nee me committere cerse 600
voluntas, scd poUus
dies faerat mutanda ? Debueram ; prsesensque meos aperire furores.
ipse Deus monebat,
(iabatquc certa signa ; Vidisset lachrymas ; vultus vidisset amantis.
si non fuissrm male
Sana. Kt ta7ncn ipsa
Plura loqui poteram, quam quse cepere tabellse.
debueram loqui, prte- Invito potui circumdare brachia coUo :

sensque aperire meos

furores, nee C07nmil- Amplectique pedes afFusaque poscere vitam
: : 605
tere me cerce. Vidisset
lachrymas : vidisset Et, rejicerer, potui moritura videri,
si
vultum amantis. Po-
, ,
Omnia fecissem. Quorum
^^ si singula duram
terain loqin plura •
w /r
quam qua taheUa: cepere. Potui circmndare brachia invito collo : amplectique pedes : ajfusa-
que poscere vitam ; et si rejicerer, potui videri moritura. Fecissem omnia, quorum si singula non
poterant
TRANSLATION.
carries to his mistress the threatening answer of Caurius. Byblis grew
beset with an
pale at hearing the sad repulse, and her alarmed breast was
icy cold. But, with life, her raging passion too returns, and
her tongue
" It is did I rashly
faintly uttered these complaining words just for why : :

" discover this latent wound did I so hastily commit to writing,

" what
'i
Why
ought to have been hid in endless night ? I ought to
have before-
" hand him by ambiguous
tried Apprehensive of this refusal,
speeches.
" I should, with but a part of have examined the rising blasts :

"
my sail,
hut now, trusting to the unfaithful seas, I am driven along with full ex-
" tended sails, and tossed on the rolling billows It is thus that I am :

"
urged on threatening rocks, and, overwhelmed by the mighty ocean,
" find no means of retreat. Nay, was not the rash discovery of my love
" checked by manifest omens when, giving charge to the servant, the
;

" letter dropt from my hand, and bore my hopes to the ground ? Should
" At
changed the day, or indeed my whole piu-pose
I not then have 1
" least I ought to have chosen another day. Heaven pointed out my com-se
'*
by undoubted signs, had not infatuation wholly blinded me.
And yet it
" had been better to bear the avow the
message myself, and personally
"
flame, so indiscreetly committed to writing. He had then seen my tears,
" he had seen a
my passionate looks and I might have said more than
;

^' letter
could contain. I might have thrown my arms round his reluctant
"
neck, and, had he repulsed me, fallen, as dying at his feet, and em-
" braced his and
knees, I might have begged for life with a flood of tears,
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IX. 339

Fleclere non poterant, potuissem omnia, mentem.' duram men-

/?''''«''«
f~, .
, ^i 1 ..'. • •
, omnia potvissint.
tern,
rorsitan et missi sit quaedam culpa ministri. ForsUan, et su qua-
Non adiit apt^ : non legit idonea, credo, ^Z±l?l ^li^a^^.
Tempora : nee petiit horamque animumque vacan- ZmVI-T-
te?npor ^nec ^''Ttnt
tern. horamque animiitnque
vacantem. Hac no-
Hsec nocuere mihi. IS^eque enim de tigride natus ; cuere mihi ; ncque
enim est ille natus de
Nee rigidas silices, solidumve in pectore ferrum, tigride, nee gerit rigi-
Aut adamanta gerit: nee lac bibit ille lesenae, das silices, solidumve
ferrum, aut adamanta
Vincetur. Repetendus erit. Nee teedia ccepti 615 in.
pectore, nee bibit
Itic vincetur.
leana;,
Ulla mei capiara ;
diim spiritus iste manebit. Erit repetendus : nee
Nam primura (si fata mihi revocare liceret) capiam ulla ta:dia mei
C(Fpti,dum iste spiritus
Non coepisse ccepta expugnare secundum est.
fiiit :
manebit. Namprimnm
Csi liceret mihi re-
Quippe nee potest (ut jam niea vota relinquam)
ille vocare facta)
non ccepisse: secundum
fait
Non tamen ausorum semper memor esse meorum est expugnare ccepta.

621 Quippe (ut jam relin-

Et, quia desierim, leviter voluisse videbor :
quam mea vota) ncc
Aut etiam tentasse ilium, insidiisque petisse. potest ille 7iou esse ta-
men semper memor
Vel certe non hoc, qui plurimus urit et ussit meorum ausorum. Et
Pectora nostra, Deo, sed victa libidine credar. quia despritn, videbor
voluisse leviter; aut
commisisse nefandum. 625 nil etiam tentasse petisse-
Deniq; jam nequeo que ilium insidiis. Vel
Et, scripsi, et petii temerata est nostra voluntas. : certe credar victa non
hoc Deo, qui plurimus
Ut nihil adjiciara, non possum innoxia dici. [vum. tirit et ussit nostra
Quod superest, raultum est in vota, in crimina par- pectora, sed libidine.
Dc7iique, jam nequeo
Dixit: et (incertae tanta est discordia mentis) commisisse nil nefan-
dum. Et scripsi, et
Cam pigeat tentasse, libet tentare : modumq ; 630 petit: nostra voluntas
est temerata, ut adji-
Exit, et infelix committit saepe repelli. ciam, nil non possum
Mox ubi finis abest,
patriam fugit ille, nefasque
dici innoxia. Quod su-
perest, est multum in
:

Inque peregrina ponit nova moenia terr^. vota, parvum in cri-

miria. Dixit : et (dis-
cordia incertte mentis est tanta) cum pigeat tentasse, libet tentare, exitque modum, et infelix
committit srrpe repelli. Mox ubi finis abest ; ille fugit palriam nefasque, ponitque nova moenia
in peregrinU terrd.
TRANSLATION.
" assailed him with
every tender moving consideration. If, singly, these
" could not
avail, yet, all united, they must have shaken his mind. Per-
"
haps the careless messenger was in fault. He interrupted him unsea-
"
sonably he chose not a proper time, or an hour when his mind was
;

"
disenffaged. This has doubtless undone me; for sure he was not born of
" a he has not a heart fenced with or solid or
tigress ; flinty rocks, iron,
((
adamant, nor has he drank the milk of a lioness he will comply at last. :

((
I must repeat the trial nor, while life remains, will I, discouraged,
;

" abandon the design. For (could I recall the past transactions of fate)
" it had been better never to make the
attempt but now, what is at- ;

"
tempted, I must urge to its accomplishment. For were I now to relin-
*'
quish my hopes, yet can he never forget my frailty and, because I de- ;

(C
sist, it will seem as if I had but slightly loved him, or, even meant to
ensnare and circumvent him or, I shall be thought not actuated by :

((
that god, w ho has so wholly possessed my soul, but a slave to infamous
" lust. Besides, I cannot now revoke the guilty deed I have wrote to him, ;

" I have Avooed Iiim, in vain do I flatter myself; my will is

guilty, and
" should am
I stop here, I what remains will
not therefore innocent ;

"
complete my happiness, and cannot render me more criminal." She
said and such is the unsteadiness of her wavering mind, that though she
;

Z2
340 P. OVIDII NASONIS
Turn lerb/irunt Mile- Turn vero mjestam Miletida mente
tota,
tida mnsf'iin defecisse
tot(imcnte. Tiim virti Defecisse feiunt. Turn vero a pectore vestem 635
diripuit vesffm t> pec
tore; furibundaquc Diripuit :
planxitqxie suos furibunda lacertos.
lacntos.
palani est demens ; inconcessamque fatetur
•pliiiiiit'siws
Jamque est ptilam de- Jamque
mens, fiiteturque in-
Spem Veneris. Sine qua patriam,invisosque penates
coniessam spem Vene-
ris ; si7ie qtiil deserit Deserit ; et profugi seqnitur vestigia fratris.
pat riain in visosqiie pe-
640
nates ; et sequitirr tes- Utque tuo mota?, proles Semeleia, thyrso
tigia profugi fratris. Ismarise celebrant repetita triennia Bacchse ;
Vtqiie Jiaccha: Isma-
ria moUe tuo ifiyrso,
proles Scmeleiiijcele-
Byblida non aliter latos ululasse per agros
brant repetita trien- Bubasides videre nurus quibus ilia relictis ;

nia; non aliter Buba-

sides'mirus videre Byb- Caras, et armiferos Lelegas^, Lyciaraque pererrat.
lida ululasse per Intos Jam Cragon, et Lymiren, Xanthique reliquerat
agros: quibus relictis
ilia pererrat Caras, et undas, 645
ar infer OS Lelegas, Ly-
ciamque. Jamque re- Quoque Chimsera jugo mediis in partibus ignem,
liquerat Crcgon, et Pectus et ora lea?, caudam serpentis habebat.
Ijywireti, vudasque
Xant/ii,}ngumque, quo Deficiunt silvse cum tu lassata sequendo:

jugo Chimara habebat

ignem in mediis parti- Procidis ; et, dura positis tellure capillis,
cairimseVjlTtls^su- ^J^^^) taccs froudesq tuo premis ore caducas. 650
:
;

va deficinni, cum tu ulnis

lassala sequendo pro-
Saepe etiaui
rn ii
Nvmphai
i
-i
teneris Lelegeides
o
cidis Bybii, et capiiiis
—loUere couantur :
sa^pe, ut moderetur amori,
positis in durd terrH,
•

taces.premisque cadu- Prascipiunt; surdceque adhibent solatia menti.

cas frondes ore tuo.
Scepe etiain Lelege'ides
Muta jacet; viridesq suis terit unguibus herbas654 ;

nympha conantur tol-

Byblis humectat lachrymarum gramine rivo.
: et
lere teneris ulnis, sape
prcecipiunt ut mode- Na'idas his venam, quse nunquam arescere posset,
ret ar iimori ; udhibent-
que solatia surda men- Supposuisseferunt. Quid enimdaremajushabebant?
ti. Byblisjficft muta leritque virides licrbas suis unguibus ; et humectat gramina rivo lachry-
marum. Ferunt Na'idas supposuitse his venam, qua: nunquam posset arescere: enim quid habe-
bant tnajus dare?
TRANSLATION.
regrets her vain attempt, she yet determines to persist and, breaking ;

through all hounds of decency, exposes herself to he often repulsed. But,

when he finds there is no end, he flies at once his country and the crime,
and builds a new city in a foreign land. Then, they tell us, that the
daughter of Miletus, unable longer to support her sorrows, fainted away :

then she tore the robe from her breast, and, in furious transport, beat her
arms. And now
she openly raves, and proclaims to all her unlawful hopes ;

which seeing frustrated, she abandons her country and hated gods, and
follows the steps of her flying brother. And, as the Ismarian Bacchantes,
roused by thy Thyrsus, O
son of Semele, celebrate thy orgies at their
triennial returns such did the Buhasian matrons behold Byblis howling
;

in the ample fields leaving which, she traverses Caria, the plains of the
;

warlike Lelegae, and Lycia. And now she had passed Cragos, and Ly-
mire, and the floods of Xanthus, and the mountain where the Chimera
appears, with his middle begirt witli flames, having the face and breast of
a lion, and the tail of a dragon. The woods at length fail her when, ;

wearied with following him, she falls down and, laying her head upon ;

the hard ground, is silent, and presses with her face the fallen leaves.
The Lelegian nymphs too often endeavour to raise her up with their ten-
der arms, often
request her to moderate her love, and apply consolations
NOTES.
634. Miletida-I Byblis, the daii2;hter 640. Proles Semeleia.] Baccliiis, so
^
of Miletus. called from his mother Semele.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Li5, IX> 341

Protinus ut gutttc ma-

Protinus, ut secto piceae de cortice guttae, Hiint de secto cortice

Utve tenax gravida manat tellure bitumen ;

picca, utve tenax
bitumen manat de gra-
Utve sub aventum spirantis lene Favoni 660 vidA tellure; utve un-
da qiKF constitit fri-
Sole remollescit, quae frigore constitit unda, gore, remo/lescit sole
Mih adicntum Favont
Sic lachrymis consumpta suis Phcebeia Byblis
spiruntit Uiie: sicPha-
Vertitur in fontem, qui nunc quoque vallibus illis beia Bijblis consmnpta
suis l/ic/trymi,9, verti-
Nomen habet dominse nigraque sub ilice manat.
;
tur in fontem, qui
mine qui^que hiibct no-
XIL Fama novi centum Cretaeas forsitan urbes men domino: illis viilU-

Implesset monstri si non miracula nuper

;
666 bus ; manatqite sub ni-
gvA ilice.\
Iphide mutata Crete propiora tulisset. XII. Famanovimon-
stri forsitan
Proxima Gnossiaco nam quondam Phaestia regno centum vrbesimplesset
Crctteas,
Ai Crete non
nuper tu-
Progenuit tellus, ignoto nomine Ligdum, lisset propiora mira-

Ingenua de plebe virum. Nee census in illo 670 Aam iphide

cula mutata.
quonda/n I'hirs-
Nobilitate sua major sed vita fidesque
: tia tellus proxima
Gtiossifico regno pro-
Inculpata fuit. Gravidae qui conjugis aures genuit Ligdum ignoto
Vocibus his movit ; cum jam prope partus adesset: nomine, virumNee de in-
cen-
genua plebe.
Quae voveam duo sunt: minime ut relevere labore; sus
sui)
171 illo erat
major
nobilitate : sed vi-
Utque marem parias. Onerosior altera fors est 675 !
ta Jidesque fuit incul-
Et vires natura negat. Quod abominor, ergo pata. Qui 7riovit his
vncihus aures gravida-
Edita forte tuo fuerit si foemina partu ;
conjugis, cum partus
prope jam adesset.
[Invitus mando
pietas ignosce] necetur.
: Sunt duo qua voveam ;
ut relevere minimo la-
Dixerat et lachrymis vultum lavere profasis,
:
bore, utque parias ma-
Tam qui mandabat, quam cui mandata dabantur. rem. Altera sors est
onerosior, et fortuna
Sed tamen usque suum vanis Telethusa maritum negat vires. Ergo, si
forte famina fuerit
SoUicitat precibus, ne spem sibi ponat in arcto. triita tuo partu, quod
abominor, necetur
Certa sua est Ligdo sententia. Jamque ferendo (mando invitus, pietas
Vix erat ilia
gravem maturo pondere ventrem : ignosce. ) Di.rerat : et
turn qui mandabat.
guam cui mandata dabantur, lavere vultum profusis lachrymis. Sed tamcn Ttielhma usque sol-
licitat suum maritum vanis precibus; ne ponat spem sibi in arcto. Sententia sua est certa
Ligdo, Jamque ilia vix erat a^ta ferendo ve?itrem graiem maturo pondere s

TRANSLATION.
to a mind, insensible to all they can say. Byblis is silent, and tears the
verdant sjrass with her nails, and waters the ground with a flood of tears.
They tell us, that the Naiads converted them into a stream, m hich never
dries for what greater gift had they to bestow ? Immediately, as drops
;

distil from the cut bark of the

pitch-tree, or binding bitumen
from im-
pregnated earth, or as water, congealed in frost, yields to the sun, when
the gentle breathing zephyrs begin to blow, thus the Phoeheian maid, dis-
solved in tears, changes to a fountain, which still, in those valleys, bears
its mistress's name, and flows under a
gloomy oak.
XII. The fame of this new prodigy would, perhaps, have filled all the
hundred cities of Crete, had not Crete lately produced a nearer wonder of
her own in the change of Iphis. For of old, in the country near Phoestus,
which borders on the Gnossian kingdom, was born one Ligdus, of obscure
name, and, in rank, not above the vulgar nor was his estate beyond his
:

quality, but his life and reputation were without reproach. Observing his
wife big with cliild, and that the tim.e of her lying in was at hand, he thus
addressed her " There are two things I wish for that you may have an
: ;

"
easy delivery, and be the mother of a male child. The other lot is more
"
burdensome, and fortune denies ability for bringmg her up. If there-
" fore
you chance to be delivered of a daughter (it is indeed m hat I abo-
312 P. OVIDll NASONIS
«uw medio spatio noc- ^^ni iiiedio noctis spatio sub imao-ine somni 685
/J.V sub imagine somnt, , ,
.
*
^ •

judc'iis out stctit,uiu Inachis ante torum, pompa comitata suoriim,

^iorum,^com\tata pom- Aut stetit, aut visa est. Inerant lunaria fronti
?t«r;r^.f;rS Comua, cum spicis nitido flaventibus aiiro,
cumspicisjiavtiitibus ~
£(; fesfale decus I cum qua latrator xA.nubis,
nithlo auro, ct regale _ t->i,- •
i-i »• rrin
dents, eum qua Anubis Sauctaquc Bubastis, vaiiusque coloribus Apis; oyu
BubusZs, iS^va. Quique premit vocem, digitoque silentia suadet;
'

nunquamque satis quaesitus Osiris.

""TemUwcem suadX Sistraque erant,
que silentia digit o :
Plenaque somnifeii serpens peregrina veneni.
ViTqw"nuvqHam sath Cum velut oxcussam somno, et manifesta videntem
^^l^nk ^TZ^ Sic affata Dea est: Pars 6 Telethusa, mearum, 695
m/cri veneni. Cum Via Pone ffraves curas : mandataque falle mariti :
SIC est ajjata earn ve- i i
•
t i '- "j.
ec duDita, cum te partu Lucma levant,
>,

lut cxcussam somno : jN

^i^n%mT'glZ^rcu- Tollere quicquid erit. Dea sum auxiliaris, opemque

Zarln^'NeVcum^^^^ Exorata feio. Nee te coluisse quereris 699
cina levarit te partu,
Ino;ratum Humen. Monuit thalamoque recessit.
duhita tollere gnic- t , i i l .
•
,
•

quiderat. Sum aux- Laeta toro suigit, purasque act siclera supplex

flro'l^eZ^'Z^TuVrl Cressa manus tollens, rata sint sua visa precatur.

ris te coluisse ingra- in auras
jj^ dolor iucrevit,7 seque ipsum pondus
r
turn numen. Monuit, t. l .

recessitque thaiamo.
Expulit, et nata est ipuaro loemma patri,
Cressa surgit Ista to- t \-
•
.-.. £j „ r/AK .

ro suppiexque tollens Jussit all mater, puerum mentita; ticiemque /Uo

^^^s habuit erat facti nisi conscia nutrix.
rarprecttar "ut 1f« ueque :

visa sint rata, ut do- Vota

lor imrevit,ipsumque
pater
^ solvit,' nomeuque imponit avitura. '•'
nata ignaro patri ; mater jussit earn mentita esse
pondus expulit se in aUras, etjamina est ali,
jjuerum; resque habuit fidem, neque erat quisqaam nisi nutrix conscia facti. Pater solvit vota
imponit que nomen avitum.
TRANSLATION.
"
minate, and command with reluctance ; forgive me, nature,) let it be
" slain." He said and bathed their faces with a of tears he,
;
profusion ;

who commanded, and given. Yet

she, to Tele- whom the command was
thusa never ceases to solicit her husband, with fruitless prayers, that he
would not confine his hopes to such narrow bounds. But fixed is the pur-
pose of Ligdus. And now scarce could she bear the ripened burden of her
womb, when, in midnight dream, the daughter of Inachus, attended by
her whole retinue of votaries, stood, or seemed to stand, before her bed.
On her head she wore a crescent, with a of yellow ears of corn, garland
and the royal diadem. In her train were barking Anubis, and sacred Bu-
bastis, with party-coloured Apis and he, too, v.ho suppresses his voice, ;

and, by his finger laid upon his lip, advises to silence. There were the tim-
brels too and Osiris never enough
;
explored, and a foreign serpent, fraught
with soporiferous poison. When, as roused from sleep, and now seeing
" O Telethusa,
all
distinctly, she Avas thus addressed
by the goddess my :

" banish and husband's commands;

votary, your heavy cares, evade your
" nor doubt, when Lucina eases you by a happy birth, to bring up the child,
" whatever it is, I am a helping goddess, and always give assistance when
" invoked nor shall you have cause to complain that you have worshipped
;
" an
ungrateful Thus she admonished, and retired from her cham-
deity."
ber. The Cretan matronsprings joyful from her bed, and, suppliant,
raising her pure hands to heaven, prays for the confirmation of her vision
:

NOTES.
691. Quique premit vocem.'] Harpocrates, the god of secrecy and silence. He was
r^preseutcd with Lis finger laid upon Lis moulL.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IX. 343

Gavisa est nomine mater, Arui- fuerat

Iphis avus fuerat. Iphis.
Mater est gavisa no-
Quod commune nee quenquam falleret illo
foret, mine quod J'oret com- :

mune, nee falleret

Impercepta pia mendacia fraude latebant. 710 quenquam illo men- ;

dacia latebant imper-

Cultus erat pueri facies, quam sive puellee,
:
cepta piil fraude. Cul-
Sive dares puero, fieret formosus uterque. tus erat pucri: facies
quam sive dares pic-
Tertius interea decimo successerat annus ellte sive ptiero, uter-
:

C^m pater, Iphi, tibi flavam despondet lanthen que fieret formosus.
Interea tertius annus :

Inter Phoestiadas quae laudatissima formae successerat

715 decimo,
cum pater Iphi, des-
Dote fuit virgo Dictao nata Teleste.
: pondet tibifiuvam I'dn-
virgo t/ien ; qua: nata
Par par forma fuit primasque magistris
setas, : Victao Teleste fuit
laudatissima inter
Accepere artes elementa tetatis ab isdem. I'/iwitiadas dote for-
Hinc amor ambarum tetigit rude pectus et sequum ma. ^'«.9ambarnni/M-
it par ^forma
:

fuit pur:
Vulnus utrique tulit: Sed erat fiducia dispar. 720 accepereque primas
urtes, elementa atutis
Conjugii pactaeque expectat tempora taadae, ah i isdem mugislris.
Hinc amor tetigit rude
Quamq virum putat esse, suum fore credit lanthe,
;
pectus ambarum: et
tulit aquum vulnus
Iphis amat, qua posse frui desperat, et auget
utrique. Sed fiducia
Hoc ipsum flammas ardetque in virgine virgo.
;
erat dispar. Icinthe
expectat tempora con-
Vixque tenens lachrymas, Quis me manet exitus jugii pactaque tced<r,
725 crcditque qvam putat
inquit, esse virum, fore suum.
Cognita quam nuUi, quam
prodigiosa, novseque Iphis amat puel'am qtia
desperat se posse frui,
Cura tenet Veneris ? si Di mihi parcere vellent, et hoc ipsum augct
Jlammas, virgoquc ar-
[Perdere debuerant; si non et perdere vellent;] det in virgine. Vix-
Naturale malum saltern, et de more dedissent, que tenens lachrymas,
Qziis, inquit, exitus
JSTec vaccam vaccse, nee equas amor urit equarum. manet me, quam cura
cognita iruUi, quam
Urit oves aries; sequitur sua fcEmina cervum, 731
cura prodigiosa, novcr-
que Veneris tenet? si
Dii vellent parcere mihi (dehuerant perdere : si non et vellent perdere) dedissent saltem malum
naturale, et de more. Nee amor vaccce urit vaccam, nee amor equarum equas. Aries urit oves.
sua/emina sequitur cervum.
TRANSLATION.
when her pains increased, and her burden forced itself into the light, and
a girl was born to the unsuspecting father, the mother ordered it to be
brought up, pretending it was a boy, and the thing gained belief, nor was
any one, but the nurse, conscious of the fact. The father paid vows, as
for a son, and gave him his grandfather's name his grandfather had been ;

called Iphis. The mother rejoiced in the name, as it was common to both
sexes, and would deceive none. Her feigned pretences lay concealed and
hid, under this pious fraud. The habit was that of a boy, and the face
such, that whether you gave it to a boy or a girl, must appear beautiful
in either. The third year had now succeeded the tenth, when thy father,
Iphis, contracted thee to the yellow-haired lanthe, a virgin the most ad-
mired of all the women of Phoestus for the excellency of her beauty, and
the daughter of Cretan Telestes. They were equal in age and beauty, and
had received their first instructions, elements suited to their age, from the
same masters. Hence love touched the rude hearts of both, and gave each
an equal wound but their hopes were different. lanthe waits with impa-
;

tience for the time of her marriage, and the stipulated torch and be- ;

lieved, that whom she thought a man would soon be her husband. Iphis
loves, but despairs of enjoying the beloved object, and this very circum-
stance increases his flame a virgin burns for a virgin. And scarce sup-
;

" What issue of

pressing the tears,
" whom a new
my love (says she) remains for me,
sort of passion, unknown to any before, unnatural and
344 P. OVIDII NASONIS
Sic et. aves ciicunt ; in-
Sic et aves coeunt, interque animalia cuncta,
terqite titncta uubna-
iia. . iilia J'amtH'i ett Foemina fcaminea correpta cupidine nulla est.
corrrjila J'ainineil < «-
j>ifii:ic. Villcm forcm Vellem nulla forem. Ne non tamen omnia Crete
nulla. NetamcnVnte
lion Jerat omnia mon Monstra ferat, taurum dilexit filia solis. 735
sira; fiiia Soils <ni exit
FcEmina nempc mareni. Mens est furiosi or illo,
tuurumjiianpef omnia ^. a
m •

mareni. Mcnsamorest C51 veruHi

o proutemur, amor. Tamen ilia secuta est
furiosior illo, si vro- ir •
'ii t
^ i
•

^pem Veneris tamen ilJa uolis et miagnie vaccae

.

fiiemnrvcrum, Tnmcn :

^vmcrL ;^7amL^^'iiui P^ssa bovem est; et erat, qui deciperetur, adulter,

estpassa bovem dUit
et
H^c
-
licet e toto solcrtia confluat orbe,'
- -_ 740 _
imagine vaccir, et - _

eiat aituiter qui dcci-

Ipse licet revolet ceratis Dsedalus alis,
peretiir. JJcel solrr-
tia confluat hue e tutu Quid faciet? niim me puerum de virgine doctis
orbe; licet i]ise Verda- Artibus efficiet? niim te mutabit lanthe?
lusrevoletcerutit ulis,
quid facie! tnini
ciet me ptierum
'/
Quin animum firmas, teque ipsa recolligis, Iphi ;
ijU-
de
virginedovtisurtibtis? Consiliique
_ inopes et stultos excutis ignes
^ ? 745
tfiTf quin'%nus ««t Q^id
sis nata vide (nisi te
quoque decipis ipsam :)
ncoi- Et
m,i,n,
luis te
ipfaqne
exciitis-
pete quod fas est : et ama, quod foemina debes.
Iplti, ro i.
•

que ignes stattos, et

[opes est qu8e Capiat, spes est quee pascat amorem.j
'quMsis7iata':'iiisi de-
Hauc tibi res adimit non te custodia caro, :

-^^^^^ ^^ amplexu, nee cauti cura mariti 750

%%\Tl7od'esu"':,
et ama quod tafamitia Non patris aspcritas, non se negat ipsa roganti.
clpil't, est Ip'es gas Nec tamen est potiunda tibi nee, ut omnia fiant, :

«S h^wu!>lj non
cuuodia arcet te ah Nuiic
Esse potes
ut Dique, hominesque laborent.
felix ;

quoque votorum pars nulla cst vana mcorum :

caro amplexu, nee cii- p^„
ra cauti mariti, non
-j ^^^ i i ^ r^ r r
Uiquc mini taciles, quicquid valuere, dederunt. 755
•
i

asperitas patris, tio/i

ipsa negat sc tibi roganti. Tamen nee est potinnda tihi :nec nt omnia fiant, itt dii hominesque
laborent, potes esse felix. Aunc quoque nulla pars meorum votorum est vana, diique/acilcs dc-
derant m>hi quicquid luluere.
TRANSLATION.
<(
prodigious, has thus taken hold of? had I deserved the care of the gods
a
(better sure it had been to destroy me, or if they had resolved not to
II
destroy me), they would doubtless have sent some natural evil, and com-
t(
mon to the human race for neither cows burn for cows, nor mares for
:

ii.
fellow-mares a ram inflames the ewes, and his proper female a stag.
;

li.

couple, and, in the whole animal race, we find

It is thus too that birds
u no female
inspired with a passion for a female. Would I were nothing !
u but that Crete
might not be without examples of monsters in every kind,
it.
the daughter of the Sun loved a bull. Yet even here a female loved a
((
male. My passion, to own the truth, is of a more
((
extravagant kind. She
pursued an attainable enjoyment she, by artful contrivance, and under
;
((
the figufe of a cow, possessed her beloved bull. He was one who might
(1
be thus drawn in. But here, should the wit of all the world conspire,
((
should Daedalus himself fly back with his waxen winos, what could he
iC
,do ? Could he, by hir, arts, change me from a girl to a boy or could he ;

transform thee, lanthe 1 Why do you not then, Iphis, recollect your
(<
reason, and, armed with proper resolution, strive to shake off this flame,
a.
foolish as it is, and void of counsel ? consider of what sex thou art
it
(un-
less thou deceivest also
thyself), pursue pleasures suited to thy nature,
a and
love, as a maiden ought: it is hope that first begets, it is hope that
a fans
the fire of love here there is no room for hope. Andyet no guards,
:

u no watchful
husband's care hinders thee from the dear embrace: you
bave no father's scAcrity to combat, nor is she herself averse to thy
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. IX. 345

Quodque ego, vult g-enitor, vult ipsa, socernue

'
Q^odque ego voio ge-
nitor vult, ipsa vult.
f
lUtUrUS f. .
C
socerque fiitiirus: at
At non vult Natura, potentior omnibus istis
; ^ZrJl^':!^.:^,
-

Quae mihi sola nocet. Venit ecce optabile temnus V.^'^' *"''' I'-l"^ • '"'''*'•
Z^ T .
T--
1 ^ ' -^'''^ optabile tempus f> 1

Luxque jugalis adest, ut jam mea riat lanthe. venu, luxque jngaUs
Nee mihi continget. Mediis sitiemus in undis. 760 fJuMa%iTcmiti!'^t
Pronuba quid Juno, quid ad hac, Hymensee, venitis
'di!suJdu''^!dd'Mi^
Sacra: quibus qui ducat abest, ubi nubimus ambge ? v^onuba> quia iiyme-
"D •ill-
rressit ab nis vocem.
TVT \
JNec lenius altera virgo
nae,vetuti<i ad hac sa-
1
•
1
•

era, quibus abest qui

-Slstuat ; utque celer venias, Hymenase, precatur. v,Z"/'pres."utfeema^
Quod petit haec, Telethusa tiraens, modo tempora ''^'l,,at%"h,7"' %7a.
difFert, 765 ti^rque Hym'cnao ut
c r\ • venias celer. Telethu-
-vf
IN unc iicto
1. 1

languore moram j^ ^
tranit.
-i.
Umma ssepe, \
sa nmens quod ikfc
Visaque causatur. Sed jam cousumpserat omnem Sa;Z^;c'fS'L'^:
Materiam ficti dilataque tempora
A
taedffi
:
»«"' fi'^^" i"»gTore,
-f
. ,\ stepeqtif catisatiir visa
institerant; unusque dies restabat: at ilia otniiia. sed jam con-
Crinalein capiti vittam nateeque sibique 770 Tc'^vVZir'tempZ.
Detrahit: et passis aram complexa capillis,
'i^ani'^''Hmn"Ie"Tie's

QT
Isi, Parsetonium, Mareoticaque arva, Pharonque:
uae cons, et septem

Per, precor, inquit,

T .

digestum
-»T-i
.

cornua JNilum;
,

opem nostroque medere

;
m
•

timori.
restabat ; at uiadetra-
hit crinnlim tittamsi-
bi, eapuique nata, et

^S^sl^n"!h!":^^
Te Dea,
^^
'^quondam,
te
.'>'
tuaq hsec ; insionia vidi: 775
^
coasParato)uum,M(c-
reoticaque arva, Pha-
mium
Ounctaque cognovi; comitesque, lacesque, sonum- ronque, et
ill septem cor-
du
gestum
que nua, precor ft r opem,
mcdereque nostra timori. TeDea, te quondam vidi, hcrcque tua insignia, cog?wvique cuncta ; comi-
tesque, facesque, sonumque.
TRANSLATION.
" wishes. But thou canst never enjoy the fair did all things conspire
still !

" to promote thy

hopes, were men and gods to join in the attempt, they
" can never make thee happy. Even now, all things correspond to my
"
wishes, and the easy gods have granted whatever was in their power.
"
"
My father, lanthe herself, and my destined father-in-law, consent to
"
my desires but nature, more powerful than them all, refuses her aid ;
;

she alone puts an insurmountable obstacle in my way. Lo the desirable !

" time is at hand, the nuptial torch is ready, that lanthe may now be
" mine yet will she never fall to my lot. 1 thirst in the midst of waters.
;

"
"
Why, Juno, whopresidest over marriage why, Hymen, dost thou come ;

barren solemnity v/here there is no husband where

to assist at this ; ;

" two females are to be joined in wedlock ?" Here she ended her
complaints. Nor does the other virgin burn with less desire, and prays
that Hymen may quickly come. But Telethusa, dreading what she de-
sires, now puts off the time of wedding, now raises delays by a pretended
sickness, oft feigns dreams and omens but had now exhausted her whole ;

stock of fiction. The time, so often protracted, was now at hand, and only
one day remained; when Telethusa, taking off from her own head, and
that of her daughter, the fillet that bound their hair, and, with dishevelled
" O
locks, embracing the altar of Isis,
" goddess (says she), who inhabitest
Parsetonium, and the Mareotick plains, and Pharos, and the Nile, di-
" vided
into seven horns, aid me, I pray you, and ease me of my fears.
"
Thee, thee, goddess, I once beheld, with all thy awful marks of ma-
"
J6sty. I knew thee by thy peculiar symbols ;
the glorious train that at-
346 P. OVIDII NASONIS

sutroriim, mtavique memonque ammo tua lussa notavi.

Sistrorum: ••
tua jnssa memort ant-
mo. Quod hac videt
^v,i'i
videt
Quod
,^ vi
lucem, quocl non cgopumor ipsa
lizec
**

non'i>mu(>r\esf tuum Consilium, monitumque tuum est miserere duarum, :

suiit Verba secuttfi. 780

Z"s1re'r7iuaXm^jn. AuxiHoq ; juva. Lachrymse
vaqueauxiiio. Luchry. Visa Dea est movisse suas (et moverat) aras :
ma sunt seciita verba, -r-,, ,., a r t-jj t
Dea est visa tnovisse Lt templi tremucre tores. Imitataque Lunam
,

Vt%7eT'temvT7re- Comua fulserunt, crepuitque sonabile sistrum.

muej'e corniwqtieimi-
tata lunam Jul.serunt;
sistrimque sonabile
'^Qxi
Mater
i-io
secura Quidcm, tausto tameii omine Iseta, 784
abit templo,
ti-•

oeqmtur comes Ipnis emitem,

Z7Jem secura%,Ten Quam solita est, majore gradu : nee candor in ore
ump{r'%ds"lomel
Pcrmanct ; ;
et acrior ipse est
et vires augentur
ma-
sequitur eitntem, Vultus et incomptis brevior mensura capiUis.
:

Jore gradu quam est -^. i i • . .

si? •

Plusq ; vigoris adest,nabmt quam toemma. Jam quze

i . i

solita ;iiec candor per-

augmtTr Xet'iysovul Fcemina nuper eras, puer

es. Date munera templis :

tiis est acrior, etbre-

vior men-sura incomy-
timidaffaudetefide.
]Nfec
o Dantmuneratemplis. 791 •
i i i i i
tis capiiiis. piusqne Adduut et titulum : titulus brcvo carmen habebat,
vieorisadestquamja- -r^ , .
c •
ill,"
minahtibmt. Jam qua Dono. puer solvit, qusB icemma voverat, Ipliis.
pZV'"%urmZ'eZ Postera lux radiis latum patefecerat orbem
794 ;

templis: gaudete nee Ciim Vcnus.et Juuo, sociosquc Hvmenseus ad igucs

timidajide. Dant mu-
nera templis. Addunt Conveniuut
T; .
•^Ti-T"ii
sua puer Ipnis
'

lantne.
.
'

et titulum: titulus ha-

potiturque
^ l ;
t. .

bebat breve carmen. Iphis puer solvit dona qua: J'amina voverat. Postera lux patefecerat la-
tum orbem radiis ; cum Venus, et Juno, Hymenausque conveniunt ad socios ignes ; Ip/iisque puer
jiotitur sud lanthe.
TRANSLATION.
" tended thee, the torches, and the sound of the sacred timbrels, and
*'
noted thy commands with mindful care. That Iphis now beholds the
" I myself am free from pmiishment and shame, is wholly
light, that
" to counsel and admonition pity both, nor withhold thy aid
owing your ;

" from us." Tears

accompanied her words. The goddess seemed to move
the doors of the temple shook horns,
(and indeed did move) her altars
:
;

resembling those of the moon, shone and the noisy timbrel resounded. ;

Telethusa leaves the temple, not indeed wholly secure, but pleased with
follows her steps, with a
the auspicious omen. Iphis, her companion,
larger stride than usual, nor does
her fairness of complexion remain her ;

strength is increased, and her countenance

assumes a sterner air. The
measure of her scattered locks is shortened she feels a new vigour in ;

art become a youth.

every limb and now, Iphis, so lately a maid, thou
;

Bring offerings to the temples, and i-ejoicewith an assured faith. They

bring their offerings temple, and add an inscription. The inscrip-
to the
tion made up a Iphis, a youth, offers
short verse. the presents she had
vowed when a maid. Returning Phoebus had, with his rays, laid open to
sight the wide-extended globe,
when Venus, and Juno, and Hymseneus,
Iphis, now a youth, enjoys
to the social fires and his beloved
repair ;

lanthe.
NOTES.
772. Pareetonhim.'] A city where Isis was worshiiiped with peculiar regard. Pharos,
an island opposite to Alexandria.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. X. 347

LIBER DECIMUS.

L TNDE per immensum, croceo velatus amictu, ORPO.

Jmle Hymenaus,
i A'era dio'reditur, ad vdatcs a-occo amutw
" Ciconumque
1 Hymeneeus
J
digreditur iperimmeii-
oras sumacrtijteitdUqueitd
vo- oras Cicoiium ; et
Tendit et Orphea nequicquam voce vocatur.
; ciitur Orphea voce ne-
Adfuit ille quidem sed nee solennia verba, quicquiim. Hie qni-
; dcm udfuit sed nee :

Nee leetos vultus, nee felix attulit omen. attulit solemnla verba,
nee latos vidtus, nee
rax quoq~ qnam
;
--
tenuit, lacniymoso
. .- .
stndula lumo, /eiix omen. Fax quo
.

^^^g quam tenuit J'uit

Usque fuit, nullas invenit motibus ignes. usque stridiilo lachry-
Exitus auspicio gravior nam nupta, per herbas
:
tnoso J'utno, iiivtnitqae
niillvs ignes motibus.
Dum nova Naiadum turba comitata vagatur, £xitHS erat gravior
nam dum no-
Occidit, in talum serpentis dente recepto, 10 auspicio:
va nupta, eoinitata
Quam satis ad superas postquara Rhodopeius auras \"[^l,^l^erba"'['^^^^^
Deflevit vates ; ne non tentaret et umbras, ^ente serpentis recep-
to in talum. Quam
postquam vates Rhodopeius satis deflevit ad superas auras; tie non tentaret et umbras,

TRANSLATION.
I. r
I
iHENCE Hymenaeus, clad in a saifron-eoloured robe, cuts the un-
JL measured space of air, and directs his flight to the regions of the
Ciconians, where he is, in vain, invoked by the voice of Orpheus. He was
present indeed, but brought neither the auspicious form of words, nor
pleasing looks, nor a joyous omen. The torch too, which he held in his hand,
Avept in hissing smoke, nor can its flame be roused by any, the most rapid,
motion. The issue was still more disastrous than the omens for while the :

new bride, attended by a troop of Naiads, ran sporting on the grassy

plain, suddenly she fell, having received a poisonous bite in her ancle from
a serpent. W^hom, when the Rhodopeian bard had long deplored in these
upper realms of light, he had the courage to solicit also the infernal
NOTES.
The next fable that Ovid takes occa- ble. As a solace to his misfortune, he
sion to introduce, is that of Orpheus, one took a journey to Thesprotia, where they
of the most celebrated names of antiquity. were said to call up the souls of tlie dead
As music and poetry were but in their in- by enchantments. This was what gave rise
fancy in Greece at that time, and he ex- to Orpheus' pretended journey to iicU. He
celled greatly in both, he was therefore is even said to have described this journey
feigned to be the son of Apollo and Cal- under that idea in his poem of the Argo-
liope. Tliey added, too, that he could nauts. The poets who followed him have
tame tigers avid lions, and render even given loose reins to their imagination on
the trees sensible to the harmony of his this head, and added many circumstances

lyre : Hyperboles, that served to denote, of their own invention. Tzetzes tells us,
as well tlie sweetness of his eloquence, that Orpheus cured his wife of the bite
which he made use of to cultivate and of a serpent ; but that slie having died
soften the minds of a people as yet rude soon after, perhaps by her own fault,
as the beauty of his poetry, wliich, ac- hence it was said, that he had brought
cording to Diodorus and Horace, gave her up from tlie infernal regions, but that
rise to the fable. He married Eurydiee, she had fallen back thither again.
who dying soon after, he was inconsola-
 348 P. OVIDII NASONIS

"Tv/ "Ll^iwi"f!7 -^d Stysra

adStygaTanariapor- J_o
Taenaria est ausus descendere porta,
i r • •

ta. perque icves po- f erq ; leves populos

i i i i

simulachraq ; luncta sepulchris

pulo simulachraqite
j'uncta sepulchris, a- Persephonen inamoenaq regna tenentem, 15
adiit, ;
diit Persephonen, do-
minumque umbrarum
Umbrarum dominum; pulsisq; ad carminanervis,
tenentem inamaiia Sic ait O positi sub terra numina mundi,
;
regna: nervi.tque pul-
sis ad carmina, ait sic : In quern recidimus, quicquid mortale creamur ;
O numina mundi po-
siti subterrA,in quernSi licet, et falsi positis ambagibus oris,

morVfieVcc1ctZZ'"7i
^^^^ ^^l^^
^^'^^^ ' ^^^'^ ^^^' ^^ opaca viderem 20
licet, et ambi/gibus Tarlara, descendi ; nee uti villosa colubris
falsi orispositis, Jini-
tis loqui vera ; non de- Terna Medussei vincirem guttura monstri :

scendi hue ut viderem

opaca turtara ; nec
Causa viee conjux in quam calcata venenum
:

uti vincirem terna gut-

tura Meduscei monstri Vipera diffudit; crescentesque abstulit annos.
miiosa colubris. Con- i^ossc pati volui nec me tentasse negabo.
: 25
jux est causa via, in
quam vipera culcuta
Vicit amor. Supera Deus hie bene notus in ora est :

difftidit
stulitque
venenum, ub-
crescentes
An sit et hie, dubito sed et hictamen auguror esse
;
:

annos. Volui posse pa-

ti, nec negabo me ten- Famaque si veteris non est mentita rapinse,
tasse. Amur vicit. Hie Vos quoque junxit amor. Per ego hsec loca plena
Deus est bene notus
in supera ora. JJu- timoris,
bito.ansitnotmethic-
sea
eum
tameiiauguror x^ -i-
Per chaos
l_
notum et hie. Jburydices oro properata retexite fila
esse
O'
lioc in2;ens, vastique silentia regni,
o' 30
Sique fania non e^frw"' i i i
•

mentita veterem rapi- Vjmnia debemur VOblS pauliimque morati,

nam, amor junxit vos Seriiis aut citius sedem
quoque. Ego oro per properamus ad unam.
hac loca plena timoris Tendimushucomnes. Haec est domus ultima; vosque
per hoe ingens chaos,
silentinque vasti reg- Hurnani
generis longissima regna tenetis. 35
ni, retexite properata
Jila Eurydices. Debemur omnia vobis : moratiqiiepaulum, seriiis aut citius properamus ad tinam
sedem. Omnes teudimus hue: here est nllima domus, vosque tenetis
longissima regna hurnani
generis.

TRANSLATION.
shades, and, by the Tanarian gate, to descend to dreary Styx here, :

through deserts peopled by phantoms, and the gliding spectres of the in-
terred, he passes on to Persephone, and the lord of the shades, who rules
these unpleasing realms and, tuning his strings to his voice, thus ad-
;

dresses them " O

ye :
sovereigns of those regions, that lie extended under
"
earth, into which every thing mortal must one day descend if I may ;
" be
allowed, if it is granted me here, laying aside the artfid guises of a
" deceitful
tongue, to speak the truth I caine not here, out of vain cu-
:

"
riosity, to see the dark retreats of Tartarus, or bind in chains the triple
" neck of the Medussean
monster, bristling with snakes but to recover ;
"
my wife, into whom a viper, she chanced to tread upon, shed its poison,
*'
and cut short her growing years. I was willing to bear vwith courage my
"
grief, and deny not that I strove with all ray might but love prevailed ; ;
" this
god is well known in the regions above. I do not know whether he
" is so here
too, but I am apt to imagine he is and, if what fame says ;
" of an ancient
rape be true, love joined also you together. I beg there-
" fore
*'
by these places full of horror, by this huge chaos, and the silence
that reigns
" of through your vast realms, re-weave the quick-spun thread
"
Eurydice's life. We
all belong to you, and, after some short
stay,
must, sooner or later, hasten to one habitation. Hither we all tend;
" this
is our last home to you belongs the most
:
lasting doniinion over the
 METAMORPIIOSEON, Lib. X. 349

Usee quoque, ciim justos matura peregerit annos, Hac quoque, cicm ma-
tura peregerit justos
Juris erit vestii. Pro munere poscimus usum. annos, erit vestri ju-
ris. Poscimus tisum
Quod si fata negaiit veniam pro conjuge, certum est ejus pro munere. Quod
Nolle redire mihi. Leto gaudete duorum. si Jala negant veniam
pro conjuge, est cer-
Talia dicentem, nervosq; ad verba moventem, 40 tum milii nolle redire :

gaudete leto duorum.

Exsanguesflebantanirase. Nee Tantalus undam Attimd exsangues fle-
Ixionis orbis bant ilium dicentem ta-
Captavit refugam ; stupuitque ;
lia, move7itemque ner-
Nee carpsere jecur volucres ; urnisque vacarunt vos ad verba, nee Tan-
talus captavit refu-
Belides inque tuo sedisti, Sisyphe, saxo.
:
gain undam, orbisqne
Ixionis slupuil: ntc
Turn primum lachrymis victarum carmine fama est volucres
carpsere je-
Eumenidum maduisse genas nee regia conjux :
cur Tytii Btlidesque
vacarunt urnis, taque,
:

Sustinet oranti, nee qui regit ima, negare ; Sispphe, sedisti in tuo
saxo. Fama est, turn
Eurydicenque vocant Umbras : erat ilia recentes primum genas Eume-
nidum victarum car-
Inter; et incessit passu de vvdnere tardo. maduisse mine, lachry-
Hanc simul,et legem Rhodopeius accipit heros. 50 mis : nee regia conjux,
nee qui regit ima, sus-
Ne donee Avernas
flectat retro sua lumina, tinet negare illi oranti,

Exierat valles dona futura.

aut irrita vocantque Eurydicen.
; Ilia erat inter recen-

Carpitur acclivas per muta silentia trames,

tes umbras, et incessit
tardo passu de vul-
Arduus, obscurus, caligine densus opaca. nere. Rhodope'ius he-
ros accipit hanc, et si-
Nee procul abfuerant telluris margine summae. 55 mitl legem, ne flectat
sua lumina retro, do-
Hie, ne deficeret, metuens, avidusque videndi, nee exierat Avernas
Flexit amans oculos ;
et protinus ilia relapsa est ;
valles,aut donafutura
irrita. Trames accli-
Brachiaque intendens,prendique etprendere certans vus, arduus, obscurus,
detisus opucd caligine,
Nil nisi cedentes infelix arripit auras,
carpitur per muta si-
lentia ; nee ahfuerinit yrocul margine siimmrB telluris. Hie amans, metuens ne deficeret, avi-
dusque videndi, flexit oculot, et protinus ilia est relapsa. Intendensque brachia, certansque
prendi et prendere infelix arripit nil nisi cedentes auras.

TRANSLATION.
" human race. She
too, when ripe for the grave, she shall have accom-
"
plished her full term of life, will again return under your sway. I beg
" the use of her as a
grant. But, if the cruel destinies reject my prayer,
" I am determined never more to return
triumph in the death of both."
;

Thus he complained, and touched the strings in concert with his voice.
The pale ghosts Avept, nor did Tantalus catch at the refluent stream, and
Ixion's orb stood, as in amaze. The vultures ceased to prey upon the liver
of Tityus, no more the daughters of Belus fill the fallacious urns, and
Sisyphus sat listening on his stone. It is said, that then first the cheeks
of the furies, softened by his song, were bedewed with tears nor is the ;

royal spouse, or he, who deep recesses of Tartarus, able to deny

rules the
his request. They call for Eurydice, who was among a troop of shades
lately arrived, and advanced with a slow pace, by reason of her wound.
Her the Pthodopeian hero receives, and, at the same time, this law, that
he turn not back his eyes until he has passed the Avernian vales, or the
grant woukll become vain. They mount in silence the ascending path,
steep, obscure, and surrounded with thick darkness and now they ap-
;

proaehedjihe verge of light, when fond enamoured Orpheus, fearing lest

her steps might stray, and, impatient to see her, turned his eyes and in- ;

stantly she is hurried back. When, stretching out her arms, striving to
grasp or be grasped, she catches, in vain at the fleeting air. And now,
doomed to a second death, she yet complains, not of her husband, for why
 350 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Jamqiie morien.f ite-

rum, lion est questa Jamq iterum moriens non est de conjuge quicquam
;

quicqnam tie stio coii-

Questa suo quid enim sese quereretur amatam ?
:

jiige, eiiim quid qiicre-

rctiir sese amatam ? Supremumque Vale, quod jam vix auribus ille
dixit que si/premmn
rale, quod illejam vix Acciperat, dixit revolutaque rursus eodem est.
;

accipcret (nirihiisj at-

que revoluta
riir.sns
Non stupuit geminS. nece conjugis Orpheus,
aliter
eodcm. Orjiheus tioii
aliter stupuit gemitid
Quam tria qui timidus, medio portante catenas, 65
iicce conjugis, quam Colla canis vidit ; quem non pavor ante reliquit,
qui timidus vidit tria
colla canis Ccrbeii, me- Quam natura prior, saxo per corpus aborto :
dio purtunts cateiiax,
Quique in se crimen traxit, voluitque videri
quern favor non reli-
quit antcquam prior Olenos esse nocens tuque, 6 confisa figure,
:

iiatura, saxo aborto

per corpus. Oleuos- Infelix Lethsea, tuae
; junctissima quondam 70
que, qui traxit crimen
in se, voluitque videri Pectora, nunc lapides, quos liumida sustinet Ide.
esse nocens, tuque. &
Urantem, trustraque iterum transire volentem,
infelix Lelk(ea, con- -o ,-, o i j.-n i- i i

jiM tuff figure: quon- 1 ortitor arcuerat. feeptem tamen ille diebus
in ripa Cereris sine munere sedit.
tZf'mlnfZpi:^";, Squallidus
Ide sitsti- '
qtwjinnniin Cura, doloroi' auimi,' lachrymtsq
Port itorareuerut -f^ J
: alimenta fuere.
^'.
net. _^
'-r>.

oraiitemfrustraqueyo- l^ssc Ueos lireDi crudeles questus,

,
altam 76 m
ru7,i!"mL "tamen scdu Se rccipit Rhodopen, pulsumq aquilonibus Heemon
;

Tertius sequoreis inclusum Piscibus annum

fquaUdusfetsh'Jmu-
were Cereris. Finicrat Titan ; omnemque refugerat
Cura,
dolorque aninii ' Orpheus. 79
••'
chrymaque, fuere ali- Foemineam Venerem ; seu quod male cesserat ilH ;
menta. Questus Deos
Erebi esse crudeles, Sive fidem dederat. Multas tamen ardor habebat
se in altam
recipit
Rhodopeu, Hamonque Jungere se vati, multae doluere repulses.
Ille etiam Thracum
pul^um aquilonibus.
Tertius Titan finierat populis fuit auctor, aniorem
annum inclusum aquo In teneros transferre mares citraque juventam ;

S'^-?Sw«?TS«.'
^^atis breve ver, et primos carpere flores. 85
J enerem; seu quod cesserat male illi, sive dederat
famincum fidem. Tamen ardor habebat mul-
tas jungere se vati; multee repulses doluere. Ille etiam fuit auctor populi Thracum,
transferre
amorem in teneros tnares: carpereque breve ver, et primos fiores tetatis citra juventam.
TRANSLATION.
should she complain of being too much loved ? hut spoke a last farewell,
which scarce reached his ears, and is suddenly hurried back to whence
.shfiiiad come/ Orpheus stood amazed
at this second death of his wife, like
as when the shepherd, trembling, beheld the
triple neck of Cerberus,
whom Hercules dragged in chains, and whom fear forsook, not but with
his former nature, stone gathering over his body. Or, like as when Olenos,
deriving upon himself another's crime, was willing to appear guilty and ;

you, unhappy Leth8ea,too, too confident of thy beauty, once breasts strictly
united, now contiguous rocks on Ida's hill. Again he prays, and wants to
pass the infernal lake, but Charon, averse, denies his suit. Seven days he
wandered without sustenance, and in a sordid robe along the Stygian
banks care, grief of mind, and tears, were his food. When, in vain,
:

complaining that the gods of Erebus were cruel, he repairs to lofty Rho-
dope, and Hsemus buffeted by
the north winds. Thrice the sun had com-
pleled the year, bounded by
the watery fish and Orpheus had avoided
;

all female embraces, either because it had succeeded ill with him, or that
he had given his promise. Yet many were desirous to be joined to the
poet, and many lamented their repidse. He it was, that first taught the
Thracians to transfer their love to tender boys, and to crop the first
floAvers, and short spring of life, within the verge of youth.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. X. 351

II. Erat collis, su-

II. CoUis erat,coUemq ; super planissima Campi perque collcin planis-
Area; quam viridem faciebaut graminis herbae. sima area campi, quam,
hcrbce graminis facie-
Umbra Qua postquam parte resedit hant viridem. Um-
loco deerat.
bra deerat loco ; qnct
Dis genitus vates, et fila sonantia movit ; parte, postquam vates
Umbra loco venit. Non Chaonis abfuit arbos, 90 genitus Diis resedit, et movit sonantia fila,
Non nemus Heliadum, non frond ibus esculus altis, umbra venit loco: ar-
bos Chaonis non ab-
IVec tilise moUes, nee fagus, et innuba laurus ; fuit, non nemus He-
Et coryli fragiles, et fraxinus utilis hastis, liadum, non esculus
altis frondibus: nee
mollcs tiiitE, nee fagus,
Enodisque abies, curvataque glandibus ilex, «- et innuba laurus: et
Et platanus genialis, acerque coloribus impar, yo fragiles coryli, et frax-
inus utilis hastis, abi-
Amnicolaeque simul salices, et aquatica lotos, esque enodis, ilexque
curvata glatidibus, et
Perpetuoque virens buxus, tenuesque myricae, genialis platanus,
Et bicolor myrtus, et baccis cserula tinus acerque impar colori-
:

bus, simulque [salices

Vos quoque flexipedes hederze venistis, et una amnicoliF, et aquatica
lotos, bitxusque virens
Parapinese vites, et amictse vitibus ulmi 100 perpctub,:
tenuesque
et onerata rubenti myrica:,et bicolor myr-
Ornique, picese, pomoque tus, et tinus ca:rula
Arbutus, et lentae victoris prsemia palmee : baccis ; vos quoque
flexipedes hederte ve-
Et succincta comas, hirsutaque vertice pinus ; nistis, et una pant-

Grata Deum matri. Siquidem Cybeleius Attis pinetB vites, et ulmi

amictts vitibus, orni-
Exuit hac hominem, truncoque ^
induruit illo. 105 que, et picca, arbutus-
que onerata rubenti
porno, et lenta pulma, pramia victoris, et pinus succincta comas, hirsutaque vertice, grata ma-
tri Deum, siquidem Cybeleius Attis exuit hominem hiic, et induruit illo trunco.

TRANSLATION.
There was a hill, and upon the hill a plain covered with verdant
II.

grass hut no trees shaded the place. Here, when the heaven-born poet
;

reposed himself, and struck the sounding strings, a shade covered the
place. Here were Chaonian oaks, and groves of poplars, and the esculus
Avith its lofty boughs, and lime-trees, the beech, and virgin laurel, and
brittle hazels, and the ash commodious for spears, and firs with knotless
trunks, and the oak bending under its acorns, and the genial plane-tree,
and the party-coloured maple and sallows that grow by the streams, and
the watery lotos, and the ever-green box, and slender tamarisks, and the
two-coloured myrtle, and the tine with its azure berries. Hither too re-
paired the ivy with its creeping tendrils, and with them the leafy vines,
and elms clothed with \ines, and wild ashes, and pitch-trees, and the ar-
bute, loaden with its blushing fruit, and bending palms, the victor's
prize. And the pine with its tufted locks, and bristly top, grateful to the
mother of the gods, because for this Cybeleian Attis put off his human
form, and hardened in that trunk.
NOTES.
104. Cyhele'ius Attis,'] The story of fearing the consequenres, put nim to
Attis is ditferently recounted by the an- death. Theprincess, in despair, fled from
cients. I i^hall confine myself to the tra- her father's palace, accompanied by Mar-
dition of Diodorus Sicnlus. Cybele falling syas. Apollo, pitying her misfortunes,
in love with a young shepherd, named conducted her into the country of the
Attis, Meon, king of Phrygia, her father, Hyperboreans, where she died.
352 P. OVIDII NASONIS
III. Ciipressns, imi-
tata mcta.iarifiiitliuic
III. Adfuithuic turbee metas imitata cupressus,
turbtr,iinitc iirbor, an- Nuncarbor, puer ante, Deo dilectus ab illo,
te pater, riilectus ab
illo l)co,qiii tvir.jierat Qui citharam nervis, et nervis temperat arcus.
citharam nervis, rt
arcus nervis ; nam- Naraque sacer Nymphis Carthaea tenentibus arva
que trot ingois cer-
vus sacer iiymjiliis te- Ingens cervus erat lateque patentibus altas 110
:

nentibus Ciirtliaa ar-

va ; ipseque prtibebat Ipse suo capiti prcebebat cornibus umbras :

altas umbras suo ca- Cornua fulgebant auro demissaque in armos

:

piti, cornibus lute pa-

tentibus : cornua ful-
Pendebant tereti g'emmata monilia collo.
gebant auro, lunn'iliu- Bulla super frontem parvis argentea loris
que gcmmata, demis^a
in armos pe7idebant te- Vincta movebatur: parilique ex sere nitebant 115
reti collo. Bulla ar-
gentea vincta parvis
Auribus in geminis circum cava tempora baccae.
loris movebatur super
IsQue metu vacuus, naturalique pavore
Jrontem :bacC(Fquc pa- .^T^ .. ,, ', ','-,
riles ex are in geminis
auribus, nitebuni cir-
Deposito, celebrare domos, mulcendaque colla
cum cava tempora. Is- Quamlibet ignotis manibus preebere solebat,
que vacuus metu, pa- Sed taraen ante alios, Cea pulcherrime gentis, 120
voreque naturali de-
posito, solihat cele- Gratus
brare domos, prtrliere- erat, Cyparisse, tibi. Tu pabula cervuni
que colla niu/ceiula Ad nova, tu liquidi ducebas fontis ad undam:
quamlibet man'hus ig-
notis. Sed tamen erat Tu modo texebas varios per cornua flores :

gratus, ante alio': tibi in tergo residens, hue latus et illuc

Cyparisse, pulcher- Nunc, eques
rime Ceer, gentis. 7V Mollia 125
ducebas cervuni ad purpureis freenabas ora canistris.
nova pabula, tu duce- iEstus erat, mediusque dies,
bas ad undam liquidi
Solisque vapore
fontis: Tu modb texe-
Concava littorei fervebant brachia Cancri
bas varios /lores per cornua: nunc eques residens in tergo, latus hue et illuc,
fra:nabas 7nollia
ora purpureis capistris. Erat astus,
mediusque dies, brachiaque concava littorei caiierijerve-
bant vapore Soils-
TRANSLATION.
III. Amid throng stood the cypress with tapering top, now a tree,
this
once a youth, beloved by that god, who fashions the harp, and arms the
bow with strings. For there was a huge stag, sacred to the nymphs, that
reside in the Carthean fields, Avhose lofty
spreading horns afforded to his
head an ample shade. His horns shone with gold, and a collar, studded
with gems, hung doM'n
upon his shoulders from his smooth neck. A silver
boss, tied with small thongs, played upon his forehead, and from either
ear brazen pendants, of
equal size, glittered round his hollow temples.
He, void of fear, and laying aside his natural timorousness, used to fre-
quent houses, and give his neck to be stroked by any hands, though un-
known. But, above all others, he was grateful to thee, C}^arissus, the
fairest of theCean youths. Thou often leadest him to fresh pastures, and the
inviting streams of acrystal spring. Sometimes thou crownest his horns with
garlands of various flowers again,mounted on his back,bounding now here,
;

now there, thou rulest his tender mouth Avith reins. It was the hottest
purple
season, and the middle of the day, and the bending arms of the crab
that loves the shores glowed Avith the heat of the sun. The stag, fatigued,
NOTES.
106. Cupressus.l Cypavissuswasayuuth viction to the misfortune, had appointed
who had excellent t;<lciits for poetry and that the cypress should be the symbol of
the fine arts, wliicli made him pass for a sadness, because it was used at funerals,
favourite of Apollo. His traTisforniation and planted round tombs; circumstances
into a cypress is founded upon the resem- founded on the nature of the tree itself,
blance of names, that tree bfino; called, whose bousihs, stripped of the leaves,
in Greek, Cyparissns. They have added look very sad and mournful.
to the fable, that
Apollo, by way of alle-
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. X. QP.Q
to

Ccrmis fpssws,
Fessus in herbosa posuit sua corpora terra sua corpora in
jtofuif
/it rim-

Cervus, et arbored ducebat frigus ab umbra.

sa terra ; et riitcebnf
frigus III) urboreii vm-
Hunc puer impruclens jaculo Cyparissus acuta 130 hrtl. Jivjirudens puer
morientem vulnere vidit, Cyparissus fixit hunc
Fixit: et, ut ssevo acuta jiiculn, et lit li-
Velle mori statuit. Quge non solatia Phoebus flit vioririitfin
vulnere, statuit telle
sffvn

Dixit? et ut leviter, pro materiaque doleret, mori. Qu<r solatia jrmi

dixit PUcebus: et iid-
Admonuit. Gemit ille tamen: munusque suprc- iiioimit lit doleret le-
viler, proque materiii.
mum. . Ille tiimcii g,cniit,petit-

_r
Hoc petit a Superis,
r ut tempore
i lugeat omni. 135
'
n
Jamque, per emensos egesto sangmne iletus,
•
•
qnehocsvpremumwu-
'"" « svperis, ut iu-
geat omm temple.
In viridem verti cseperunt membra colorem; iop^^,^en^T^X^^
Et mod5, qui nivefi pendebant fronte capilli, l^vll^^rZlZ:::^
Horrida caDsaries
„., .,•
fieri

Sidereum gracdi spectare cacumme coelum.

:

,
sumptoque rigore •! l/(A
capim, qui wod„
debavt
140 cpemnt
iiiveli

fieri
froute,
Lrrida
pe,i-

Ingemuit, tristisque Deus, lugeljere nobi_s, _ :^:;:Z"W^r"r

rt'im ceeium grarni
o _ _T^, alios,' aderisque
Luo-ebisque T dolentibus, inquit.
c cacumme. Dens ins.e-
, ,
•

IV. Tale nemus vates attraxerat mque terarum mnit^trisusqueinquit, :

Concilio medius, turba volucrumque sedebat. ^but!^'raiZ^,aderfsq'^

Ut satis impulsas tentayit poUice chordas ; 145 '^''/v! rtto ««r«,mY/*
Et sensit varios, quamvis diversa sonarent,
','-,
taie vemm, sedebat-
^^ - que meriius in concilio • •
,

Concordare modos ; hoc vocem carmine movit /erarum, twbaque vo- ;

Ab Jove, Musa parens (cedunt Jovis omnia regno,) ^rck.^::rZ;"t

Carmina nostra move. Jovis est mihi ssepe potestas l"',.ill"'li^,f^J'^f^JI^^^
Dicta prius.
r^
Cecini plectro graviore gigantas, darc,quamvis sonarent
c^ r •
•„ .„;„ 1C1
•
i
• •
1 diversa rripit iioeem
victricia tulmma campis. lol ^oc carmine. Musa
SparsaquePhlegraiis ab
jmrens move tio^tra omnia
carmina Jove, ccdant, regno Jovis, potestas Jovis est strpe dicta
miki yrius. Cecini gigantas graviore plectra, fulminaquc victricia sparsa Phlcgra-ls camj)ls.
TRANSLATION.
rested his body on a grassy plot, and enjoyed tlie cool retreat of a shading
tree. Him, the youth Cyparissus, unknowing, pierced with a pointed dart,
and when he saw him expiring of the cruel wound, he took a resolution
of dying also. What consolations did not Phoebus apply, admonishing
him to o-rieve slightly, as such a loss required. He still laments, and asks
this as his last request of the gods that he may mourn for ever. And
:

now, his blood being quite exhausted by incessant weeping, his limbs be-
the soft locks which lately hung from
gan to assume a green colour, and
his snow-white forehead, become a horrid bush, which, stiiFening hy de-
grees, points to the starry
heaven with a tapering top. The gofl, discon-
solate, sighed Thou shalt (says he) be ever
;
mourned by me thou shalt, ;

too, mourn for others, and preside at funeral rites.

IV. Such a erove had the poet drawn roinid him, and sat encircled by
an assembly of listening savages and birds when, after sufficiently trying :

the strings, struck with his thumb, and finding, that though they sounded
differently, yet their
various modulations produced a real harmony, he tuned
his voice to the following song: Begin, parent muse, with Jove to Jove's ;

dominion all things are subject the power of Jove has oft beon sung l)y
;

me. Before have I sung in lofty strains, of the giants, and tlie victorious
thunder-bolts scattered in the Phlegrean ])lains. Now have I need of a
softer lyre let us sing of youths, the favourites of the gods, and of maids
:

who, seized with unlawful Uames, have drawn down iqion themselvefi de-
•2 A
354 P. OVlDll NASONIS

Ntmcest opus leviore

est leviore canamus
lyra, cuiinmnsque pu-
]NJunc opus
i . .
Ivra.
J
: puerosque
.1
1

eros ddectos superls, Dilectos Superis incoucessisque puellas :

putllasque Hitoiiitas
iuconcessis ignilm.s,mc-
Ignibus attouitas meiuisse liVjidine pceiiam. 154
riii'^se jiatium libidhie.
Rex .superilm qitoiidam Rex Superum Phrygii quondam Ganymedis amore
arsit umore Plir;/gii
Arsit et inventum est aliquid, quod Jupiter esse,
:
Gaiiymedis, ct illiquid
est iiiventum qnoU Ju-
Quam quod erat, mallet. Nulla tamen alite verti
piter mullet esse, quum
quod erut lameii dig- Dignatur ; nisi qua3 possit
:
sua fulmina ferre.
natur verti milla alite,
nisi qv(E possit ferre
Nee mora percusso mendacibus
: a'ere pennis
suajubnina. Nee mu- Abripit Iliaden. Qui nunc quoque pocula miscet,
rardcre vercussomeii/- ,.v t-
t , i c-\ ••ii
dacitnts pennis, abripit
Invitaque Jovi nectar Junone mmistrat. lol
S:t;cr;=fr v. Te quoque, Amyclide, posuisset in ^there
nectar Jove
nistratque PllCebuS
Junone invita. ,^... .' >• o it
V. Pkabus posuisset spatium ponendi lata dedissent.
1 ristia SI

Jthere^ti tristia fuTa Qua licct, ffitemus tamen es quotiesque repellit :

Srr</X«iit<cr- Vei' hiemem, Piscique Aries succedit aquoso, 165

nusqua licet, quoties- Tu toties oreris, viridioue in cespite flores.
que ver repellit hie- „ -i-
meus ante
• vi-^iU-
mem, Ariesqtie succe- 16 aiios genitor diiexit, et orbis
teriTZ'tteV,'7io're.^ue
^^ medio positi caruerunt prseside Delphi,
*%'«or rf1/flJffV^««"e
^^^^ i^e^s Eurotan, immunitamque frequentat
uiios;etDeipiiipositiiii
medio orbe caruerunt Sparten nee citharee, nee sunt in honore sagittae.
;

prtFSide, dum DeusJ're- Immemor ipse sui non retia ferre recusat ; 171
quentat Eurotan, im- Non tenuisse canes; non per juga montis iniqui
munitamque Sparten.
Neccitharee, ntc sa«it Isse comes longaque alit assuetudine flammas.
,. liouore. f
t(c sunt m ,
'^ '
:
Ipse
immemor sai, non recusat ferre retia, tioii tenuisse canes, non isse comes per juga itiiqui montis,
alitque flamma-s longd ad'suetudinc.
TRANSLATION,
served punishment. The
sovereign of the gods was once enamoured of
Phrygian Ganymede, nor disdained to assume a shape different from his
own. Yet he scorned to Avear that of any bird, but what might bear his
thunder. Instantly beating the air with fictitious wings, he carries off the
Ilian youth, who now mixes his
cup, and, in spite of Juno's opposition,
serves Jupiter with nectar.
Phffibus had given thee also, son of Amyclus, a place in heaven, had
the stern Fates given him time to
place thee there. Yet, as far as is pos-
sible, thou art immortal and as often as spring drives away the winter,
:

and Aries succeeds the watery fish, so often dost thou rise, and flourish on
the green turf. Thee my father loved beyond all others, and the Del-
phians, situate in the middle of the world, were without their guardian
deity, while that god frequents Eurotas, and the plains of unfortified
Sparta. The harp and bow are neglected, while, unmindful of his dig-
nity, he disdains not to carry the toils, or hold the dogs. He attends him
as his companion over the rugged cliffs, and
by long intimacy augments
NOTES.
\5S- Phrygii quondam Ganymedis.I'Vhe of the Trojan king's designs, considered
Story of Ganymede is thus explained by his messengers as spies, and made young
mythologists. Tros, king of Troy, having Ganymede be arrested and thrown into
obtained many victories over the neigh- prison. This gave rise to the fiction of the
bouring nations, sent his son Ganymede, rape of Ganymede by Jupiter in the form
with several great lords of his court, into of an eagle, because he was apprehended
Lydia, to otter sacrifice in a temple con- in the temple of Jupiter, by order of a
secrated to Jupiter. Tantalus, ignorant prince who bore an eagle on his ensigns.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. X. 355

Jamque medius Titan venientis et actoe

feri^ Jumqve Titan ernt p.
rh tncd'nts rciiicntls ct
Noctis spatioque pari distabat utrimque ; 1 75 acttr iiDCtis, di^lalxit-
erat,
que pari spatio utrim-
Corpora veste levant, et succo pinguis olivi fjiie: lcia7it corptira
fcsU', rt splmihscunt
Splendescunt, latique ineunt certamina disci, MHTii phigtfis iilii'i, iiir
Quem prius a'erias libratum Phoebus in auras eu)it(jiie certutvinu
ti disci; quern Phahms
la-

Misit, et oppositas disjecit pondere nubes. pritis misit libratv/a

ct d/x-
Recidit in solidam longo post tempore terram 180 in ii'criiis anras,
jecit Of post tax n ubcs
PonduS, et exhibuit junctam cum viribus artem. ponder e. Po/idus liiiigo
tempore post, rccidit in
Protiu^s imprudens, actusque cupidine ludi, solidum lerrmn, ct cx-
hibuit artem juiirta^n
Tollere Tsenarides orbem properabat at ilium : cum viribus. Froti-
Dura repercussum mts Tanarides iniprir-
subjecit in a'era tellus deiis, actiisque ciipi-
In vultus, Hyacinthe, tuos. Expalluit seque, 185 diiie htrii, propcriibat
tollere orbem at tel- :

Ac puer, ipse Deus collapsosque excipit artus

;
liis dura subjccit il-
:

ium itb repcrcusio

Et modo te refovet, modo tristia vulnera siccat :
aire, in tt(os vultus
Nunc animam admotis fugientem sustinetherbis. Hyacinthc. Ipse Deus ac
teque expuKuit
Nil prosunt artes. Erat immedicabile vulnus. puer excipitque col- :

lapses urtus, et modo

Ut quis violas, riguove papaver in horto,
si 190 rejoret te, 7nodo siccat
tristia vulnera ; nunc
Liliaque infringat, fulvis harentia virgis ; sust e/ictfvgientem uni-
Marcida demittant subito caput ilia gravatum ; mam admotis herOis.
A rlis prosunl nil. Vul-
Nee se sustineant ; spectentque cacumine terram. nus crat immcdicnbile.
XJt si quis itifringat
Sic vultus moriens jacet; et defecta vigore violas, pa.paverve in
rigno horto, liliaque
Ipsa sibi est oneri cervix ; humeroque recumbit. herentiafvlvis virgis :
Laberis, (Ebalide, prima fraudate juventa, 196 ilia suliito iiiarcida,de-
mittunt gruvutum ca-
Phoebus ait : videoque tuum mea crimina vulnus. jnit, nee sustinea7it se;
spectentque terram cacumine. Sic moriens vultus jacet, et cervia defecta ligore, est ipm sibi
oneri, recumbitqiie humcro. Laberis, Phccbus ait, CEbalide, fraudate prima juventa videoque
tuum vulnus ?neu crimina.
TRANSLATION.
his flame. And now Titan had reachedthe middle space between past and
approachiijg night, and was at equal distance from both they strip, and;

shine with the juice of the fat olive, and begin a game at quoits. Phoe-
bus first tossed a well-poised disk into the air, and cleft the opposing
clouds with its weight. The
ponderous mass, after a long time, fell to the
ground, and spoke an equal share of skill and strength. Immediately the
Tenarian youth, thoughtless, and urged on by an eagerness for the sport,
hastened to take up the
rolling orb, which, rebounding
from the solid
earth with violent recoil, struck
against thy face, ill-fated Hyacinthus.
The god himself appears no less pale than the youth, and bears up his
sinking limbs. Sometimes he cherishes him in his bosom, sometimes wipes
the fatal wound, and strives to
stop the fleeting life by applying potent
herbs his arts avail nothing, the wound was incurable. As if, in a -well-
:

watered garden, when one breaks a violet, poppy, or lilies hanging by

their yellow stalks,
they suddenly droop, and bend to earth their languid
heads, nor can support themselves, but sink with their tops to the ground.
Thus sinks his countenance and his neck, destitute of strength, is
dying ;

a burden and, declining, rests upon his shoulder.

to itself, Thou fallest,
unhappy Hyacinth, cried Apollo, in the pride of youth, and the wound by
which thou fallest was
given by this guilty hand.
You are the object of
my grief, and my crime. This right hand is chargeable with thy death.
I am the
unhappy author of thy hasty fixte. But how is it a crime in me ?
'i A2
356 P. OVIDII NASONIS

lmqm^}ach,li"'''mca
'^^ ^°^°^ ^^>
facinusquB mcum. Mea dextera leto
tii.itcia est
boula uo Icto. Ego " m ^
t
hiscri-
.«
Etio
-~
sum tibi funevis
Inscvibencla tuo est.
-
auctor
aiirtor funeris tibi. Quae mea tamen? nisi si lusisse, vocari 200
Tiimen qu<r fxt mea
culpa
culpa? nisi si Ivsisse Culpa potest:
nisi culpa potest, et amasse vocari.
potest vocuri culpa utinam pro te vitam, tecumve liceret
:

Jiisi et aniasse po- Atque

test vocari culpa. Reddere sed quoniam fatali lege tenemur ! ;

Atqite utinam liccret

rrddere vitam pro te, Semper eris mecum, memorique haerebis in ore.
tecamve. Scd qnotiiam
teiumur futali
Te lyra pulsa manu, te carmina nostra sona-
lege, c-
rissemper tnecum,h(r- bunt. 206
rehisque in memori ore.
I.iira pulsa maim so- Flosque novus scripto gemitus imitabere nostros.
iiabit te, nostra cur-
minu sonabtutt te: Flos- Tempus et illud erit, quo se fortissimus heros
que iiovus imitaliere
iios/ros
Addat hunc florem: folioque
in ~ legatur eodem.
gemitus scrip- rr\ -i- ^ a if- 2
•

to. Kt tempns it/i,d vcro memorantur Apollinis orc,

—1 alia 011111 . - _ -

erit, quo fortisnmus

heros addat scin kunc Ecce cruor, qui fusus humi signaverat herbam 210
florem, legaturque eo-
dem. folio. Dum talia Desinit esse cruor: Tyrioque nitentior ostro
memoraiUur vera ore Flos
oritur; formamque capit, quam lilia, si non
Apvliiiiis, ecce crnor
qui fusus humi signa-
verut herham, desiiiit
Purpureus color huic, argenteus esset in illis.
esse criior; Jiosqne vi- Non satis hoc Phcebo est is enim fuit auctor ho- :

tetitior Tyriooitro ori- noris.

tur ; eapitque fornuim
quam lilia hiibont, si Ipse suos gemitus foliis iuscribit: et ai, ai, 215
noil purpi/rei's color
esset huic, argeiileus in Flos habet inscriptum fimestaque litera ducta est. :

Hits. IJocvon est satis

Phoibo (enirn is juit
Nee genuisse pudet Sparten Hyacinthon; honorque
auctor iioiinris) ipse Durat in hoc sevi :
celebrandaque more priorum
iuscribit suos geniitus
foliis, etj/os fiabct at, Annua prselata redeunt Hyacinthia pompa.
ai,iii.scriptum, fune.staquc litera est ducta. Nee pudrt Sparten getiuisse Hyacititlwii
i
; honor-
que durat hi hoc uvi, Hyucinthiaque redeunt annua, celebranda prcclatapompd, more priorum.

TRANSLATION.
unless to sport and play may be called a crime unless to have loved
you, ;

may be called a crime. O, could I surrender up my life for thee, or but

with thee but as I am bound
:
by the powerful laws of fate, thou shalt be
ever with me, Ihou shalt ever dwell
upon my mindful tongue. Thee my
lyre, thee my songs, shall ever celebrate, and, changed to a new flower,
thou shalt bear an The time too
inscription expressive of my groans.
shall come, when a
mighty hero shall be changed into this flower, and his
name read upon thy leaves. While these things are uttered by Apollo's
prophetic mouth, lo, the blood, which falling upon the ground had stained
the grass, ceases to be blood, and a flower, more
bright than Tyrian
purple, springs up, assuming the same form with the lily, hut that in the
first is a
purple colour, in the other that of silver. But this is not enough
to Phoebus, for he was the author of the honour now bestowed. He marks
his own groans
upon the leaves, and the flower has Ai, Ai, drawn upon it
in funeral characters. Nor is Sparta ashamed to have given birth to
Hyacinthus his honour remains to this day, and the Hyacinthian fes-
:

tivalyearly returns, to be celebrated with solemn state, according to the

ancient custom.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. X. 357

VI. At si fort^ roges foecundam Amatlumta me- ^l^^.t^l^'XI

talli, 220 >"^'ciii, "" '«•''< ah-
ge-
. •
i-,-r» i'l 1 'j \ 7ti/i.ssc /'rorxetidas,
Au geumsse velit rropoetidas abnuit seque,
; tmu aque n/quc vcue

Atque illos, gemino quondam quibus aspera cornu J^n^aJ't^ndamas-

Frons erat: unde etiam nonien traxere Cerastaj. v'f semmo comu;
iiui/e etiam, Ccrastw
n \ (^ T 1
•
1
• •

Ante tores horum stabat Jo vis hospitis ara, traxere vomen. Ara
T „ 1
•
1
•
L Joi'is hospitis stabat • • • '

I.-

Lugubris scelens quam si quis sanguine tinctam mue jorcs iwrmn lu-
:

Advena vidisset, mactatos crederet illic 226 ffJS^ ^S^^^j^ iX^^?

Lactantes vitulos, Amathusiacasve bidentes: tiiutamsuiigmne;cre-
wf o r T neret lactantes vitulos
•
!••-•

riospes erat cajsus. tiacris oiiensa netandis, mactatn,- huc, Ama-

Ipsa suas urbes, Ophiusiaque arva parabat Ho^peT^^at'^'^ca-lui.

^'""' J'eims opensa
Deserere alma Venus. Sed quid loca grata, o ' quid
I ncjuiiais sacris, ipsa J.

urbes 230 V"raliat drsircre snas

j-j n 1 T-,-'ii-i
reccavere meaj f quod crimen, dixit
urbes, Ovliiii-yiiiijiie ar-
•

m
illis r va. sed quid loca
Exilio pcEnam potius gens impia pendat, ^^I^Jref '^wdl'rl
Vel nece vel medium mortisque fugaque. ™t"« <<'"/, est inniis'
; si quid
'^
y, .'. . .
o r> iinpia gens jiotnis jifn-
Idque quid esse potest, msi versa? poena tigiuffi dat pknam e.i/iio, vei .'

Dum dubitat, quo mutet eos ad cornua vultum 235 medium mortiTqjic%. ;

Flexit : et admonita est hsec illis posse relinqui iV-id\fr''''u\d'^''wul\

:

Grandiaqueintorvostransformatmembraiuvencos. e^e, mi vo-"" 'crsa-

iTTTCiiv tT -r. i-1 1 Ji'^UTir? . Dum dubilat
VII. feunt tamen obscoense Venerem Fropoetides quo muut cos, juxit
vultum ud cornua, et
aUSoS admonita est hac posse.
Esse nepareDeam pro quo sua numinis ira reunqui mis; tram-
4-\ n
Corpora cum forma prima?
iA
vuigasse
f
leruntur,
A- :
CiAr\ J"'>''"<-'tq^uc
240 membra in tonos jn-
grandta
^ ^ vencos.
VII. Tamen obsco!n<r Prnpatides aus(c sunt negate Venerem esse Deam pro»
quo prima ferun-
tur vulgasie sua corpora cumformH, ira numinis.
TRANSLATION.
VI. But in me-
perhaps you should ask of Amathus, abounding
yet, if
tals, Avhether she counts it an honour to have given birth to the Propoi-
tides, she would reject them with the same indignation as those who.se
faces were of old deformed with crooked horns, whence they got the uame
of CcrastcB. Before their gates stood an altar sacred to Jupiter, the hos-
pitable god a scene of tragical horror. Had a stranger beheld this altar
;

stained with blood, he must have concluded that sucking calves, or Ama-
thusian sheep, two years old, were there sacrificed. But soon they were
undeceived for they slaughtered their guests. Gentle Venus, abhorring
:

these barbarous sacrifices, was preparing to abandon her once loved citiey,
and the Ophiusian lands. But how (says she) have these beloved places,
how have the cities offended? what crime can they be charged with ? let
rather this impious race suffer the punishment of exile or death, or if there
is
any middle punishment between banishment and death and what ;

can that be but a change of form ? While she is pondering with herself
what shape to give them, she cast an eye upon their horns, and thus ad-
monished, that "these might still be left them, she transforms their huge
limbs into those of stern bulls.
VII. And yet the blasphemous Propoetides presumed to deny that
NOTES.
The Cerastic, a people
223. Cerasta.'] nianiiers, in slaiiiiiis tlicir altars with the.
of the of Cyprus, were lablcd by the
isle blooil ofotrangers, whom
thej sacrificed
poets to have been ciianged info bulls, to to their gods,
mark the rusticity aud barbarity of their
358 P. OVIDII NASONIS

^l?igL^nf\Z'ruil Utquepudor cessit, sanguisque induruit oris,

oris, panodhrrimhw \i^ rioidum puvvo siUcem discrimiiie versa.
stmt versa; tn rigtaum \Tjrr r\ rt i- •

siikrm. VI 11. Quas Quia rya;nialion aevum per crimen

miiliDn rii/criit agtnlis a^ciitcs
Crimea p,T arum, of.
Vidcrat, ofFcnsus vitiis, quffi plurima menti
tiirtidedit plurima fie- 1^06111111686 JN atura dealt, Sine conjuge COG lebs 245
ccciebs sine conjuge ; Vivebat thalaiiiique Qiu consortc carebat.
1^^:tk^::::tint^^a Intereri nlveum mira felicit^r arte
f>:/ici(er .ycuipit
nm ebur nura arte; -.-rSculpsit ebur forniamque dedit, oua foemina nasci
iiire- :

„ • • •

deditque formam,qua J\ ulla potest Dperisque sui concepit aiiioreui.

:

n'L^,concTpitqi^e'amo. Virginis
est versB facies quani vivere credas 250 : :

^^ ^"^^^^ obstct revereiitia, velle nioveri

VsU'era^vir^hlifqua^^^ ^^f
:

credas vive°e, ei xi re- Ars adeo latet arte sua.

verentia non obstct, -r-*, t-» t -i,- ••haurit
Miratur, et
velle moveri. A.rs adeo rectore Fygmalion siniulati corporis ignes.
mi^iLn''^mirainrf^^et Stepc iiianus operi tentantes admovet, an sit
haurit pectore igncs
simulati corporis. iSape Corpus,
'
an illud cbur nee eburtamen essefatetur. ;
^-^ , -,
, -,•
admovet manus Osciila dat, reddique putat; loquiturque, tenetque
operi,
tentantes an illud sit t--. ^^ ,• t -, ,
i
, i • • •

corpus, an ebur: nee i'-^t Credit tactis

digitos msidere membris,
Tb'ur? Daffscida^pu-
^^ nietuit, pressos veniat ne livor in artus.

\ur"u 7''''''
^^ modo blanditias adhibet niodo grata puellis
/"*"'"
:

creait digitos insidere Munera

fert illi conchas, teretesque lapillos, 260
tactis membris ; et me- "c. i n -n l .

tuit ne livor veniat in J^t parvas volucres, et flores mille colorum.

pressos artus. Et modo adhibet blanditias, modo fert illo munera grata puellis, conchas, terc-
tesque lapillos, et parvas volucres, etjtores mille colorum^

TRANSLATION.
Venus was a goddess for which, pursued by the resentment of that power
;

they had slighted, they are said to have been the first who prostituted their
persons and beauty. As shame was therefore fled, and the blood
in their
faces hardened, they were, by small transition, changed into rigid stones.
VIII. Whom
Pygmalion finding thus to pass their whole lives in a con-
tinued series of crimes, shocked at the vices which nature has so largely
implanted in female minds, he lived single, without a wife, and long
wanted a partner of his bed. Mean time he happily carves a statue of
snow-Avhite ivory, with Avonderful art, and giving it a beauty and comeli-
ness beyond what nature ever bestows on any woman at her birth, became
enamoured of his own workmanship. Her appearance was that of a real
virgin, which you would fancy alive, and restrained from moving only by
modesty so much does art lie concealed under art. Pygmalion admires,
;

and harbours in his breast a warm passion for this fictitious beauty. Oft
he applies his hands to the work, as if to know whether it was a real
body or ivory nor will he yet own it to be ivory. He heaps kisses upon
;

it and thinks
they are returned speaks to it, hugs it, and imagines his
;

fingers leave an impression upon the parts they touch, and

fears lest his
rude grasp should leave a livid mark. Sometimes he accosts her in a
strain of flattery, anon assaults her with presents fit to captivate a female

NOTES.
^i^. PifgmaVon.'] This fable is thus ex- served nntaintetl with the corrupt man-
plained: That Pygmalion having taken ners of the island, afterward married her,
great pains to form the mind of a young and had a son by her named Paphus.
girl, whom a careful education had pre-
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. X. 359

Liliaque, pictasque pilas, et ab arbore lapsas JMiaque,victasquepi-

tTT i-t -i *~»
^
"^
L -1 '"*> et lachryinus He-
Heliadumlacnrymas. Urnat quoque vestibus artus :
nadum lapsas ab ar-
Dat digitis gemmas dat longa monilia collo. ; 'artus wstiLs!^''d!ft
Aure leves baccae, redimiculapectore pendent. 265 ff«'"/e'/o,f'|'co'/J"i"
Cuncta decent; nee nuda minus formosa videtur. '«* *««•« pincieni,
/^n .1 • .
lAO'i 'Ji- i-
Oollocat nanc stratis concha feidonide tinctis ;
aure, redimicula pen-
dent pecton-. cuncta

Appellatque tori sociam ; acclinataque colla t"i:^t^}o^a:^i.

Mollibus in plumis, tanquam hone stratis
^ sensura; reponit.
' '"'""f.
tmctis •iK/nmde con-
J-, ,. f A •
/,r.rt1 1 •
/-^|
Jbesta dies Veneri, tota celebernma Cypro, 270 c/'a, appcUatque so-

Venerat ; et pandis inductae cornibus aurum couL '"accii7Jt"a"'um-

Conciderant icta nivea cervice juvencae ; f^'; 7E.'" nt;
Thuraque fumabant cilm munere functus ad aras : A'*^*^ ceiehcr-
reneri,

Constitit, et tiniide, Si Di dare cuncta potestis : rut ; et juvlnccc mvea

•
i cm r 1
•
ccrvicc inductee, au-
S'iit
conjux opto, non ausus, eburnea virgo, 275 rum pandis comibns,
""*'
Dicere Pvsmalion, similis mea, dixit,
' eburneae. ^Sf.Z,'i"P"''7'"\'':
^ .
^ P .
' '
. ruquejnmaoant cum
Sensit, ut ipsa suis aderat Venus aurea festis, Pygmalion functus
munere constitit uli
\T ^ ^^ t • •

Vota quid ilia velmt ; et amici nummis omen

, , ,

aras; ct timuitdixU:
Flamma accensa est, apicemque per aera duxit
ter
cuncta,^opto'nt '^itla
Ut rediit simulachra sua? petit ille puellae 280 :
<j<i>m'^'c^>on
dwere
est ausus
eburnea virgo)
y , T -IT- 1 1

Incumbensque toro dedit oscula. Visa tepere est. .ntsimiusumccburnefc

Admovetositerum; manibus quoque pectoratentat: nt ipsa aderat suis

Tentatum mollescit ebur, positoque rigore '^vota^'veiiutl Vt'fq»o'\
Subsidit dio;itis,
a ceditque,
' i
ut Hvmettia
J '
sole "?^ <""<" amici'numi-
ms, flamma est ter ac-
censa: duxitque apicem per a'cra. Ille ut rediit petit simulachra sutc puellw, incutnbensquc te-
rn, dedit oscula. Est visa tepere: admovet os iterum : tentat quoque pectora manibus. Ebur
tentatum mollescit, rigoreque posito ; subsidit digitis, ceditque, ut Hymettia cera remollescit sole,
TRANSLATION.
mind ; shells, smooth sparkling; stones, little birds, and flowers of a thou-
sand colovirs ; lilies, painted balls, and the tears of the Heliades dropping
from their tree. He
decks her limbs too with rich robes, adorns her fin-
gers with rings, and her neck with a string of pearls. Pendants hang
from her ears, a solitaire from her breast all things become her, nor ;

naked does she seem less beautiful. He lays on coverings of rich Sido-
nian purple, and calls her the partner of his bed, and rests her reclined
neck, as if sensible, upon soft feathers. festival of Venus, celebrated A
Avith great
pomp throughout all Cyprus, was now come and heifers with ;

snow-white necks, their spreading horns richly gilt, fell by the stroke of
an axe. Incense smoked. Pygmalion stood before the altars with his offer-
ing, and with a voice If, O ye gods, all things are in
faltering prayed:
your power, wife (not daring to say this ivory maid) resemble this
let my
ivory statue. Golden Venus, who was herself present at her own fes-
tival, understood the full meaning of his prayer ; and (an omen of a pro-
pitious deity) thrice the flame kindled, and shot with a tapering point
into the air. Soon as he returned, he to the image of his darling
repairs
fair, and throwing himself on the bed, loads her m ith kisses. Slie seemed
to be warm. He again applies his mouth to hers, and feels her breasts
with his hands. The ivory feels soft to the touch, and, divested of its
hardness, yields and gives way to the pressure of his fingers. As Hyme-
thian wax softens by tlie sun and, when wrought by the hand, may be ;

framed into various shapes, and becomes pliant by continued use. While
3G0 P. OVIDII NASONIS

tractadiquc polliicjhc Cera remoUescit, tractataque poUice multas 285

titur in mullti.\ Joins,
Jitqiii: iitilis ipso
iixii, Flectitui- in lacies, ipsoqiie fit utilis usu.
J)ii»t stiifct el tiniiOh
gatiriet yvcrct urtjttt fnl-
Diim stupet, et tiinide gaudet, fallique veretur ;
li, umiins nirstis rar-
su.iquc rctructut •'Ua
Rursus amans, rursiisque manu sua vota retractat.
lota munu. Eruc cnr-
j'lis ; vciui te/itatic po-
Corpus erat saliimt tentatvE pollice vena3.
:

lircsaliuiit. Turn I'cru Tilm vero Paphius plenissima concipit heros 290
Pujiliiiis Acjo? conci-
jiitplv/tissi)na vtrha ; Verba ; quibus Veneri grates agat ; oraque tandem
i/uibus agat, gratis Ve- Ore suo non falsa premit dataque oscula virgo ;
itcri ; tuiidcmqiicpre-
mil or a nmifalsii suo
ore ; virgoqnc sciisit
Sensit, et erubuit timidumque ad limina lumen
;

data osvitla,et eruhuit, AttoUens, pariter cum ccelo vidit amantem. 294
(ittotleiisque timidnm
lumen ad lumina ; li- Conjugio, quod fecit, adest Dea. Jamque coactis
<!>t amunlem pariter Cornibus in plenum novis lunaribus orbem,
ftim calo. JJea adest
cofijiigio quod fecit : Ilia Paphon genuit de quo tenet insula nomen.
;
jiimque lunaribus cor-
/libiis coaetls noiies in IX. Editus hoc ille est, qui, si sine prole fuisset,
plenvm orbem ; ilia
genuit Paphon, rte quo
Inter felices Cinyras potuisset haberi. 299
insula tenet notnen. Dira canam. Proculhincnatag, procul esteparentes :
IX. Jlle Clnyras est
editus illCi, qui sij'uis- Aut, mea, si vestras mulcebunt carmina mentes
set sine prole, poluis-
set haberi inter/dices.
Desit in hac mihi parte fides nee credite factum ;
:

Canam dira. Nuntm

c?te hiric.
Vel, si credetis, facti qvioque credite poenam.
procul pa-
rentes este procul. An t si mea carmina mulcebunt vestras mentes, fides desit mihi in h&c parte,
ncc ciedilejactum: vel ii credetis, credite quoque pctnam facti.

TRANSLATION.
he wonders, and joys with a mixture of fear, and trembles lest he should
be deceived, the fond lover again and again touches the statue, to confirm
his hopes. It was a real body, and he feels the veins beat under his
thumb. Then, indeed, the Paphian hero conceives in his mind the warm-
est expressions of thanks and gratitude to Venus, and
presses, at length,
her now real mouth to his. The maid was conscious of the embrace, and
blushed, and lifting up her timorous eyes to the light, saw at once her
lover and the heavens. The
goddess graced with her presence the match
she had made. And now the horns of the moon nine times meeting in a
full orb, she
brought forth Paphos, of whom the island has its name.
IX. Of her too was born that Cinyras, who, had he been without
issue, might have been numbered among the happy princes. I sing
scenes of horror be far hence parents, be far hence
;
daughters, or if my
verse shall happen to charm your minds let me meet with no credit ;

here, believe them not or if you will believe them, with the sin believe
;

also the puuishment. If nature however allows us to believe, that such

a crime may have been committed 1
congratulate the Ismarian nations,
;

NOTES.
299. Cinyras.'\ The fable of Myrrha, Iiim of what happened, which so provoked
and her son Adonis, is tiuis explained by him, that he procured liim, that he poured
Le Clerc, after Stephanus, Lncian, Phur- out imprecations on his daughter-in-law,
nutus, and others of tlie ancients. Ciny- and his grandson. It is more than pro-
ras, the grandfather of Adonis, having bable, that this whole fable took its rise
drank one day to excess, fell asleep in an from what the Phoenicians had learnt
indecent posture. Myrrha, his daughter- from tradition of the history of Noah,
in-law, Amnion's wife, accompanied with whose descendants they were by that
her son Adonis, having seen him in this very son, who, by a like offence with that
posiuro, apprized her husband of it. He, in the falile, had drawn upon himself the
after Cinyras was become sober, informed malediction of his father.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. X. 361

81 tamen admissum sinit hoc natura videri, f^fSf^SlT:

Gentibus Ismariis, et nostro gratulor orbi, .305 gratuior gcntibus js-

Gratulor huic terra3, quod abest regionibus illis, 'gratuior "Zc "terra]

Qu«e tantum genu&re nefks. Sit dives amomo, J^^ ^^^^^f^^^S:

suam, sudataque hgno *< >"««-
Oinnamaque,
A ' costumque
'
«««?. «<:/;«/•
„ ,. T> 1 i 11 cnuia teUus dives amo-
••

Ihura lerat, tloresque alios Fancnaia teilus, nw,ferat diuiamaque,

Dum ferat et Myrrham. Tanti nova non fuit Z^'^'sn^atT'il^o,
«r}in<s
'*"^^* 310 Jioresqiie alios, dum
.
/~i 1 Jcrat
1 Myrrham. No-
• et.

sua tela va arbor non JuittanU.

Ipse
ti't in
neo'at nOCUlSSe tlbl
•• CupidO,
•ri:^*^ V
Myrrna, lacesque suas a crimuie vuidicat isto. tela nocuhse tm, o
Ipse Ciiyido negat sua

adflavit Echidnis
Stipite te Stygio tumidisque ^f^ces^t^^f^^^^t
E tribus una soror. Scelus est odisse parentem f
j"e. unasororetri- :

TT r .
1 Olf: bus, q/f/avit te .Stijgio
Hic amor est odiomaj us scelus. Undique lecti olo stivue twmdisque e-
4.-

Te cupiunt proceres, totoque Oriente juventus Idisse^'yarenteniT mc

Ad thalami certamen adest. Ex omnibus unum ITJ'IfcirprlleTes^un-
Eliece, Myrrlia, tibi, dum ne sit in omnibus unus. dique,cuvm>,ttejuvcn-
»,, "'.-•' r ^ , tiisque toto Oriente i_

ilia quidem sentit: tcedoque repugnat amori adest ad certamen :

Etsecum, quo mente feror? quid molior? inquit, XJ^'Zlmt^^

Di, precor, et pietas, sacrataque jura parentum, ^I?''^^'";,^"™ """/««
Hoc prohibete nefas ; scelerique resistite tanto quidem sentu, repug- :

Si tamen lioc scelus est. Sed enim damnare ne- InlluImimTqvo/l

o'Q+nr ''"^ mente? quid mo-
5^''^^ . •
T n ^''"' -'-'^' ^' pietas,
Hanc venerem pietas: coeuntque ammalia nullo sacrataque jura pa-
_, ,,
Csetera delectu.
^-ivTii.. or»r rejitum, prohibete pre-
JNec habetur turpejuvencse 6Z0 cor hoc nefas, resisti-
•

Ferre patrem tergo : fit equo sua filia conjux ; TaZTiwc" esflceiut
Sed enim pietas ncgatur damnare hanc venerem, cetceraque animalia co'iunt nulla delectu ; nee
habetur turpe juvenca ferre patrem tergo ; sua filia Jit conjuf equo:

TRANSLATION,
and our division of the globe I congratulate in particular this land, that
:

it is so far removed from those regions, which produced so monstrous an

enormity. Let the plains of Panchaia abound in cinnamon and amo-

mum ;
let them produce their zedoary and frankincense, sweating fronj
the trees, and aromatic flowers of various kinds, while they produce also
myrrh. The new a small recompense for the crime to which
tree is but
from
it owes its Cupid himself, Myrrha, denies the wound to be
birth.
his dart, or that his torches were concerned in so criminal a flame. Sure
one of the three sisters darted at thee an infernal firebrand, and shot
It is a crime, I own, to hate a
through thy veins the poison of vipers.
but this unnatural love is still a greater crime. Neighbouring
parent ;

princes, from all parts, desire thee in marriage,

and the whole band of
eastern youths are ambitious of thy bed. Choose for thyself, Myrrha,
one out of all these, if of all that number, but one is excepted. She is in-
deed conscious of her crime, and struggles against her infamous passion,
and thus argues with herself. Whither do my wishes tend ? What is
my aim ? Ye gods, ye sacred parental ties, forbid this guilt, defend me
from a crime so great, if indeed it be a crime. But nature, it is said,
condemns not this tenderness other animals consort without distinction.
;

father's caress, and a horse

It is no
reproach to a heifer to yield to her
is often wedded to his own
daughter. A goat impregnates cattle of his
3C2 P. OVIDII NASONIS

''luffn'eadt^- ^aiZqm QuasquG cFcavit, init pecudes, caper ipsaque cujus :

coiiripit ex uio, cujus

semine ipsa est cou-
SeiiiiiiecoHcepta est, ex illo concipit avis.
t-it -i t- ,ii . i-
ccpta. Felices, quibiis l^elices, quibus ista licent numana malignas !

ista lice II t ! Inmiima

cura tledit jnalignas Cura dedit leges : et quod Natura remittit, 330
leges, et ini'ida JuraInvida jura negant. Gentes tamen esse feruntur,
negant quod natura
remittit.
emittit Tujnengcutes In quiDus et nato genitrix, et nata parenti
feruntur esse, in qui-
• •
ft -r , , •.. .
....\- •J'-,
hits et genctrix Juiigi- Jungitur; et pietas gemmato crescit amore.
•

tiir natu, et nata jia-

rciili, et jiictas crescit
Me niiseram, quod non nasci mihi contigit illic,
geminato amorc. Hcu Fortunaque loci leedor quid in ista revolvor? 335 !

me misertim, quod twn

conligit mihi ntisci il- Spes Dignus amari
interdictse discedite.
lic, Itriloriji/e fortund sed ut pater, est.
loci! quid revolvor in Ille, Ergo si filia magni
ista?
jpes
discedite.
interdict a^,
lile est dig-
Non csscm Cinvrae
^ Cinyra concumbere possem.
1
:
' ./
^^ . _

nils amari, sed ut pa- JNunc quia tam meus est, non est nieus ipsaque ;
icr. Ergo si non essem A
filia magni Cinyra-, pos- uaninO-^

ra! A^'^'qui'tsuZ ^st milii proximitas. Aliena, potentior essem. 340

mens, non est meus ; Ire libet procijl hiiic, patriosque relinquere fines,
ipsaque proximitas est
milii damno. Aliena, Dum scelus efFugiam. Retinet malus error aman-
essem potiHtior. L,ibet
ire procul liinc, re- tem;
Unquercque patrios fi- Ut prsesens spectem Cinyram tangamque loquarq
nes, dum ejjugiam see-
\

lus. Mains error re- conceditur ultra.

tinet me amantem, ut
Osculaque admoveam, si nil

prtrsens spectem C'iny- Ultra autem sperare aliquid potes, impia virgo ? 345
ram, tangamque, lo-
quarque,adnioveamque Nee, quot confundas et jura et nomina, sentis?
uscvla, nil ultra con- Tune eris et matris pellex, et adultera patris ?
ceditar. A utcm impia
Virgo, potes sperare Tune soror gnati, genitrixque vocabere fratris :

(/liquid ultra? necsen-

tis quot et jura, et no- Nee metues atro crinitas angue sorores,
tnina confundas ? tune
eris et pellex matris,
Quas facibus ssevis oculos atque ora petentes, 350
et adultera patris? tune vocabeYe soror gnati, genet rixque fratris ? nee metties sororos trinitas
atro angue, quas noxia corda vident petentes, ,

TRANSLATION.
own breed, and birds conceive
by them of whose seed they were con-
ceived. they to whom this is permitted.
Happy But the over care of
man has given barbarous restraints and what nature allows, malignant!

laws forbid. Yet we hear of some nations where a mother is allowed to

wed her son, and a daughter her father, and piety is strengthened by
this double tie. Wretch, that it was not my fortune to be born in such
a clime, here I am cheeked by the customs of the place. But why do I
ruminate on these things ? Be gone, ye guilty hopes, he indeed is worthy
to be beloved, but to be beloved as a father. Were I not therefore the
daughter of the great Cinyras, I might be wedded to Cinyras. But now
such is my fate, he is not mine, because he is already mine too much our ;

nearness of blood is my misfortune were I a stranger, I might succeed

;

better. Fain would I travel into distant climes, and abandon my native
home, might but escape the crime that threatens me. But a fatal
so I
delusion retains me, enslaved by love, that, present, I may gaze at Ciny-
ras, touch him, talk with him, and give him kisses, if nothing more is
allowed. Canst thou then, impious maid, hope for ought beyond this, nor
reflectest how many names and sacred laAvs thou wouldest confound ?
Think that thou wilt become thy mother's rival, and father's harlot that ,

thou wilt be a sister to thy son, and a mother to thy brother. Dreadest
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. X. 363

Noxia corda vident? at tu, dum corpore non es ocuios atqueora sains
Jactbusf At tu dam
„ . .
i
.

Passa, neras ammo concipe : neve potentis non es passu nefas cor-

Concubitu vetito Nature pollue fcedus. ^Z\^ poiiilT%d,is"jw\

Velle puta res ipsa vetat. Pius ille, memorque
:
%fcubitT.'''pit7J'['e
Juris Et 6 vellem similis furor esset in illo. 355
: '''"'"» 'p>" res vetat.
-f^. ^ J T /-^- Jllevf-l vius memorque •

Uixerat at Cmyras, quem copia digna procorum, juris: et a veiiem «-

:

Quid faciat, dubitare facit, scitatur ab ips-^, dS?'«f'c/S!^

Nominibus dictis,' cuius velit esse mariti. 9"'™
-,,,.- .
^ •'. . , .
,
, corumdi<;.nacoyinvro-
litctt dubitare
ilia silet pnmo :
patrnsque ni vultubus hasrens, qxM faciat, scuatur
iEstuat et tepido suffundit lumina rore.
: 360 "\x\nTictuTc'ouTma-
Virginei Cinyras hsec credens esse timoris, '^nw^L't^XeJ^ _ _

Flere vetat; siccatque genas; atque osculajungit.

l''J7/'''""^'?'''']^'^''

Myrrha datis nimiiim gaudet consul taque qualem mimi tepido rurc. ci- :

Optet habere virum, similera tibi dixit. At ille sfgnT vl'-gtlel^lori^^^

Non intellectam vocem coUaudat ; et, Esto 365 fjeirlTJ^ZtquS''n
Tam pia semper, ait. Pietatis nomine dicto.
. • • • •
si( 'osctUa. Myrrha
niminm gaudet datis,
1,
D."-
emiSlt VultUS, SCelenS SlOl COnSCia, Vn'gO.
1 -1

consuUaque gualem
Noctis erat medium, curasque, etpectora somnus ^u'lTLberl^mxinms^^^
Solverat.
J-.
.
At virp-o
~ Cinyreia pervieril i<rni
. -.
r\nr\ . r, .
'' • oo miiemtibi. At luecoi-
'(^"""t locem non m-
Carpitur mdomito luriosaque vota retractat. 370 : teiiectam ; et ait esto

Et modo desperat, modo vult tentare pudetque, ^Sr pf "tans' dicto, ;

Et cupit; et, quod agat, non invenit utque securi t^^'^i^^i^t. ;

Saucia trabs ino-ens, Erat medium iwctis,

^ ' ^ novissima restat,'
ubi plasfa i-
samnusquf solverat cti-
ras At virgo Cinyreia pcrvigil, carpititr indomlto igni, refractatque furiosa vota. Et
et corpora.
modo desperat, modo vult tentare, pudetque, ct cupit, et non inve7iit quod agat, utque trabs in-
gens, saucia securi, ubi novissima ptaga restat,
TRANSLATION.
thou not the avenging fury of the sisters, whose heads are armed with
snakes, whom guilty souls behold threatening their eyes and faces with
infernal brands ? As yet therefore thy body is unstained, form not any
criminal purpose in thy mind, nor violate the laws of powerful nature by
a forbidden embrace. But were I to resolve it, the attempt must be vain.
He is pious, and regards what is just. O, w^ere he but seized with the
same madness Thus she but Cinyras, whom the crowd of noble suitors
! :

makes uncertain Avhere to fix his choice, inquires of herself, after repeat-

ing their names, whom she would prefer. She at first stood silent, and
steadily regarding her father, with an air that betrayed great disturb-
ance and confusion, the lukewarm tears ran trickling down her cheeks.
Cinyras, ascribing all this to be a virgin modesty, forbids her to weep,
and wipes her face, and joins pious kisses. Myrrha is but too much de-
lighted with his caresses, and when asked what sort of husband she would
choose? One, she replied, like you. He praised her answer; which he
did not comprehend, and said My daughter, be thus always pious. The :

virgin, upon this mention of piety, conscious of her gviilt, fixed her eyes
upon the ground. It was midnight, and sleep had dispelled the cares, and
eased the minds of mortals. Not so the Cinyieian maid she, still awake, :

is
preyed upon by an unconquerable flame. Again, and again, she rumi-
nates on her as ild desires. Now she
despairs, now resolves to try, she is
ashamed, yet would fain begin and cannot contrive what to resolve upon. ;

And as a huge tree, wounded by the axe when now the last stroke only re-
364 P. OVIDII NASONIS

caclat, in dubio est; omnique a parte timetur;

est in duhio
(iiiitlurqiic <tl>
quo cadat,
ojniii
Quo
'parte : sic animus la- Sic animus vario labetactus vulnere nutat 375
vario vul-
licj'iictus
mre ; vutat hue
Ict'is,
Hue levis, atque illuc momenta sumit utroque.
; ;

utquc illuc,
momenta utroque. fi/cc
sumitque Nee modus autrequies, nisi mors, reperitur amoris.
modus (lilt requies Mors placet. Erigitur; laqueoque innectere fauces
amoris rcjieritur, nisi
mors. Mors plactt. Destinat ;
et zona summo de poste revincta,
Erigitur: destinat in-
nectere fauces laqueo, Care, vale, Cinyra, causaraque intellige mortis.
et zona revincta de
Dixit; et aptabat pallenti vincula collo. 381
summoposte, dixit, vale,
cure Cinyra, intelli- Murmura verborum fidas nutricis ad aures
gequc causam mortis ;
et (iptabat vincula pa- Pervenisse ferunt, limen servantis alumnee.
lenli collo. Fet%int
murmura. 'verborum Surgit anus, reseratque fores mortisque paratae
:

pervenisse ad fidas au- Instrumenta videns, spatio conclamat eodem, 385

res nutricis, servantis
limen alumnte. Atius Seque ferit, scinditque sinus, ereptaque collo
surgit, reseratque fo-
res ; vidensque instru Vincula dilaniat. Turn denique flere vacavit ;
nienia farita mortis, Tum dare complexus, laqueiquc requirere causam.
ftritque.ie, scinditque Muta silct vu'go, tcrramquc immota tuetur ;

lTiall4pZ^clu,KTnm Et dcprcnsa dolet conamina mortis.

tardse 390
denique vacavit Jiere, Instat anus et inania nudans
tum vacavit dare com- canosque suos,
;

plexus, requirereque
causam laquei. Virgo libera, per cunas alimentaque prima precatur,
muta silet, immotuque Ut sibi committat, quicquid dolet. Ilia roganteni
tuetur terrain, et dolet
conamina tarda mor- Adversata gemit. Certa est exquirere nutrix ;
tis tme deprensa. Anus
instat : 7iudansque su-
Nee
solam spondere fidera. Die, inquit ; opemque
os ctmos, et inania Me
sine ferre tibi. est Non mea
pigra senectus,
ubera, precatur per
cunas, pritnaque ali- Seu
furor est habeo quse carmine sanet, et herbis :
menta, ut coinmitlat
sibi quicquid jlolet. Ilia adversata rogantem gemit. Nutrix est certa exquirere, ncc spondere
solam fidem. Die, inquit, sineque me ferre opem tibi. Mea senectus non est pigra, seu est furor,
habeo qua: sanet carmine et herbis.

TRANSLATION.
mains, seems as if uncertain where to fall, and threatens on every side ;
passions, inclines now
so Myrrha's mind, unstable, and shaken by various
this way, now that, and is
impelled on either side. No repose, no remedy
can be found for her passion, but death. The thoughts of dying please
her she rises up, resolved to wrap a cord round her neck, and fastening
:

her girdle to the top of a beam Farewell, dear Cinyras (she cries), and
;

know that my love for you is the cause of my death and then fitted the ;

rope to her pale neck. It is said, that the broken murmurs of her voice
reached the ears of her faithful nurse, who lay without. Starting from
her bed, she unlocks the door, and seeing the ready instruments of death,
screams out, and beats her breast, and snatching the girdle from her neck,
tears it in pieces. Then at last she found leisure for her tears then :

catching her in her arms, she inquired the cause of her despair. The \'ir-
gin, mute with grief, keeps her eyes immoveably fixed upon the ground,
and laments that the remedy she sought in death was by her slowness
thus prevented. The nurse still urges her, and, exposing her grey hairs
and withered breasts, begs her, by her cradle and first noiu-ishment, to
intrust her with the secret of her grief. She, turning from her, sighs.
The nurse is determined to search it out and not contented with barely
;

promising fidelity : tell me

(says she), and permit me to offer you my aid.
Though old, I am not unactive. If powerful love assaults you, I ha>e
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. X. 365

Sive aliquis nocuit, magico lustrabere rltii.

fuMe^l'lafTJ'rC
Sive est ira Deiim, sacris placabilis ira. tu.tuve estira dc

Quid rear ulteriiis? certe fortuna, domusque 400 "sacrYs'.'' quidrcarui

Sospes, etin cursu est: vivunt genitrixque, paterque. 'tIn7LmullnTes/Zs.
duxit ab imo «« cursu: geni
Myrrha,' patre
-^ A audito,
.' suspiria -.
f^^'^^ '^
trixque paterque vi-
_^ ^^ . . .

Fectore. JNec nutrix etiamnum concipit ulium vunt, Myrrha, patre

Mj n T i"i. audilo.Xdv.lit suspiria
.

ente netas ; aliquemq ; tamen prccsentit amorem. ab imo pectore ; nee

Propositiq;tenax,quodcimq; sit,orat,utipsi 405 ^^J^^^^^i^lJ:;:'::^^.
Indicet: et gremio lachrymantem tollit anili ; f*^' vrasentitque ta-
. .' ^,
.•'„. 11
Atque ita complecteus innrmis colla lacertis,
1
• '"f'*
Tenaxque
aliquem amorem.
propositi,

Sensimus,inquit, amas etin hoc mea(pone timorem) ; '^uodcunqnf'^fit T^e't

Sedulitas erit apta tibi; nee sentiet unquam 409 ^allu grZio^atynef^^^^
Hoc ^pater. Exsiluit 2;remio furibunda torumque '^
cumptectens coiiu m-
^^ Ts.- -i
•
1
•
firmis lacertis, inquit
Ure premens, iJiscede, precor miseroque pudori ;
scnsimus ; amas : et in

Parce, Instanti, Discede, aut desine, dixit,

ait. ^ea ieiuutas7ruap
Queerere
Jr quid doleam scelus est, q uod scire laboras. *" *^^^'sentiet
: ''f? /f
'"' "''
T-
1 quam hoc. Ilia •

Horret anus tremulasq ; manus annisque metuque furibunda

: exHuu gre-
f. 1, 1 , i-ji
It endit; et ante pedes supplex procumbit alumnze.
mio.premensquetoriivt
era, ait, preeor discede,
Et modoblanditur; modo, si nonconsciafiat, 416 ^t^DixttZa^ii,
Terret et indicium laquei, cceptaeque minatur
; discede, aut destvc
'
^if .
n-> • •
1
•
quarere quid doleam.
Mortis, et omcium commisso spondet anion. £st sceius quod labo-
Extulit ilia
caput, laclirymisque implevit obortis Venduque /«"«!«"«•
Pectora nutricis conataque saepe fateri,;
420 ^^f^f'^r'^^S^^'Tr"-
Ssepe tenet vocem: pudibundaque vestibus ora cumut ante pedes a-
^ > * ^
lumna. Et modoblan-
ditur, modo terret si nonfiat cojiscia, mlnaturque indicium laquei, et capta: mortis, et spondet
officium commisso amori. Ilia extulit caput, implevitque pectora fiutricis abortis lachrymis, co-
nataque sape fateri, sape tenet vocem, texitque ora pudibunda vestibus
TRANSLATION.
plants and chairas to cure the wound ; if spells have hurt you, there are
still more
prevalent in reserve to free you from their power. Or dread
you the anger of the cjods ? That may be averted by sacrifice. What can
I suppose more than these ? yoiu* fortune and family flourish, and pro-
mise to continue so your father and mother live, and are
:
happy. Myrrha,
upon hearing her father's name, fetched a sigh from the bottom of her
breast nor does the nurse as yet apprehend any unlawful passion, but
;

suspected, however, that love was the cause of her sorrow. Tenacious,
therefore, of her purpose, she begs her to make a discovery of the secret,
whatever it was, and lulls the mourning maid in her lap, and clasping
her in her feeble arms Daughter (says and in this
she), I know you love,
;

my assiduity may be of use to you fear not, your father shall never ;

know it. At this she sprung furious from her lap, and throwing herself
prostrate on the bed Depart, 1 beg (says she), and spare the shame of
;

an unhappy wretch. But, as she still urged. Depart (says she again),
or cease to inquire the cause of
my grief; it is impious even to name
what you desire to know. At this the aged nurse, struck with horror, holds
out her hands,
trembling with age and fear, and falls a suppliant at her
feet. Sometimes she sooths her, sometimes would
frighten her into a dis-
covery of the secret now threatens to expose her design of hanging her-
;

self, and anon She

promises her service, if intrusted with the amour.
raised her head, and filled her nurse's bosom with a flood of tears and, ;

striving to own her flame, often checks her voice, and hid her blushing
36G P. OVIDIl NASONIS

O mnf rem fe- Texit matrem

dixit, felicem conjiige
et dixit:
licem ciiiijiigc! hacte-
:
et, O, !

nus, <t gem III t : Tre- Hactenus; et Gelidos nutricis in artus,

gemuit.
mor penetrat in geli-
dos iirtiis, ossaque nu- Ossaque (sensit enim) penetrat tremor; albaque
tricis (enim sensit )ul-
toto
baqne canities stetit
hirta rigidis capillis Vertice canities rigidis stetit hirta capillis 425
tola vertice : ndrtidit-
i/iw riiulta, ut si posset,
excuteret diros amo-
Multaque, ut excuteret diros, si posset, amores,
res. At virgo scit se Addidit. At virgo scit se non falsa moneri,
vioneri non julsu, ta- Certa mori tamen est; si non potiatur amato.
men est certa mori, si
non potiatur amato. Vive, ait hiec ; potiere tuo, non ansa, parente,
IffEcait, rive ; potiere
tuo, et non. ansa di- Dicere, conticuit, promissaque nnmine firmat.
cere, parente, conticu-
it: Ji rmatque promis^a
Festa pise Cereris celebrabant annua matres 431
nitmine. Matres cele- nivea velatse veste
brabant ilia annua Ilia, quibus corpora
festa pie: Cereris, qui- Primitias frugum dant spicea serta suarum :

bus veUitcB qiioiid cor-

pora niced veste, dtnit Perque nomen noctes Venerem, tactusque viriles
spicea scrta, primitias
suarum frugum, nu-
In vetitis numerant. Turba Cenchreis in ilia 435
merantque Regis adest conjux; arcanaque sacra frequentat.
Venerem,
tactusque viriles in,
vetitis per novem noc-
tes.
Ergo legitima vacuus tium conjuge lectus,
Coiclir'tis conjux
regis, abest in Hid tur-
Nacta gravem vino Cinyram male sedula nutrix,
bcl,frcnue.ntatque sa- Nomine mentito, veros
cra arcana. Ergo dum exponit amores ;
lectus est vacuus legi- Et faciem laudat. Quaesitis virginis annis, 440
timil conjuge, tnale se-
dula nutrix nacta Ci- Par, ait, est Myrrhse. Quam postquam adducere
nyram gravem vino,
exponit veros amores, jussa est,
mentito; et lau-
'jioniinc
dat faciem. Annis vir- Utque domum rediit, Gaude, mea, dixit, alumna:
ginis quasitis, uit, est Vicimus. toto corpore sentit
Infelix non
par Mi/rrli/e quam, Lsetitiam 444
virgo ; prsesagaq ; pectora mcerent.
;

jiostquam jussa est ad-

ducere, utque rediit Sed tamen et
gaudet. Tanta est discordia mentis.
domum, dixit : Gaude,
tnea alumna, vicimus. Iiifelix virgo von sentit latitiam toto corpore ; pectoraque preBsaga mee-
rent. Sed tamen et gau<det, discordia mentis est tanta.

TRANSLATION,
face Avith her veil, and said : O
mother, happy in a husband. She ceased,
and groaned. Horror shoots through the nurse's bones and stiffening joints
(for she now understood her flame), and the hair rose in bristles all over
her hoary head. Much she said to drive from her breast a passion so cri-
minal and base. Myrrha, sensible that her remonstrances were just, is
yet determined to possess or die. Live, rejoined the nurse, and enjoy thy,
but not daring to add sire, she checked her tongue, and confirms her pro-
mise by an oath. The pious matrons were celebrating the annual festival
of Ceres, Avhere, robed in white, they offer garlands made of the ears of
corn, as the first fruits of their harvest, and for nine nights avoid the joys
of love, and a husband's embrace. Cenchreis, the king's wife, was absent
on this occasion, and attended the mysterious rites. While, therefore,
Cin\Tas is deprived of the lawful partner of his bed, the wickedly officious
nurse, finding him overcome with wine, discloses to him a real passion, but
conceals the name, and praises the virgin's form. The prince inquiring her
age. It is the same (she replies) with Myrrha's. When desired
to conduct her
to him, she hastens home. Rejoice, my child (she said), we have prevailed.
The unhappy maid feels not a sincere joy, her boding breast is alarmed, yet
still she
rejoices ; such is the discord of
her mind. It was now the time when
universal silence reigns and Bootes, wheeling obliquely, had driven his
;

wane half round the heaven. She hastens to the horrid crime. The golden
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. X. 367

Tempus erat quo cuncta silent; interque Triones Erattempus,quocunc.

Flexerat obliquo plaustrum temone ijootes. j/exerat piau.'^tricm ob-

A J r •
'i 'll^ D '4. liquo toiione inter Tri-
Ad facinus veuit ilia suum, J^ugit aurea cceIo
.

oms. uiu venit ad

1

Luna: tegunt nigrse latitantia sidera nubes; 449 ZZ'rStTwto-7i'<^Z

Non caret igne suo. Primes tegis, Icare, vultus ; ""^^'^
•
tegunt latuan-
tia sideru nox cuiict :
t~t , ,

Erigoneque pio sacrata parentis amore, svoigrie; icare, tegis

Ter pedis ofFensi signo est revocata; ter omen 'EHgZcZ^rltavlo^^^
Funereus
_
bubo letali carmine fecit. .
»""'« partnUs. Tercst
revocata signo ojjensi
^
It tamen et tenebree minuunt, noxque atra, pudo- pedis; ter/unereasbu.
bofecit omen letali car-
rem. mine. Tumen it, et te-

Nutricisque manum Iseva tenet ;

altera motu 455 7uunipuZZuTenct
Csecum
f
iter explorat,
p
^ '.
thalami
., 1 •,
jam limina
•
N
tano-it
, -ii-
f e mumm nntrids
;
leva; altera explorat
Jamque tores aperit; jam ducitur mtus: at illi ca cum iter motu. jam

Poplite succiduo genua intremuere; fugitque jam^ueZpTrtit"j^^\',

Et color, et sanguis: animusque relinquit euntem.
feZcTinZemuerViut
Quociue suo propior sceleri, magis horret, et ausi popnte sucdduo; et
Ti •
j.iii
J. 1. -i i- M^A ?"« color, et sanguis
roenitet; et velietnon cogmta posse reverti. 461 jugu; a7dmusqiie re-
Cunctantem longeeva manu deducit : et alto
J^f^^^^.t ''X7or^"»o
Admotam lecto cum traderet, Accipe, dixit, sceieri, horret magis,
T , .

Ista tua est,

>-w. -r^
'^
••. et poenitct ausi,et vel-
let posse reverti nan.
Cinyra: Devotaque corpora junxit.
Accipit obscoeno genitor sua viscera lecto: 465 7idfcimdZte,nma'-
Virgineosque metus levat, hortaturque timentem. ZaL!tmT"(Uto"fertn
Forsitan a^tatis quoque nomine, filia, dicat: Acdpe, dixit, I'nnjra',
D, icat et pater sceleri ne nomma desint.
.
--It

lila,
,

:
1
• •
^
•
1^
**^" c**
que
tua; JKiixit-
devota corpora.
Plena patris thalamis excedit ; et impia diro «;foTX'ffiS-'
Semina
mentem.
fert utero,' conceptaq : crimina portat. r IT 470 ^'atque virgiMos 'me.
tus ; hortaturque ti-
Forsitan dicat quoque filia, nomine (ctatis, et ilia dicat, pater, ne nominu desint sceleri.
/ixccdit plena thalamis patris, eifcrt Impia scmlna diro utero, portatque coucepta crimina.

TRANSLATION.
moon forsakes the sky, black clouds cover the lurking stars, and all the
lamps of night are extinguished. Icarus hides his face, and Erigone ad-
vanced to heaven for her pious regard of her father. Thrice was she re-
called by the threatening
presage of a stumbling foot thrice the funeral ;

owl disturbed her by a dismal scream. Yet she proceeds darkness and ;

sable night hide her shame. With her left she holds the nurse's hand ;
the other by
groping explores the secret path. Now she is come to her
father's chamber, now she
opens the door, now she is led in. Her knees
tremble under her sinking hams. Her blood and colour vanish, and her
courage fails her as she moves along. The nearer she is to the commis-
sion of the crime, the more it
appears in all its horrors she repents of :

the daring attempt, and could wish to retire unknown. The aged nurse
leads her, thus lingering, by the hand, and,
conveying her to the lofty
bed, said; Receive, Cinyras, thy own, and joined their devoted bodies.
The father receives his own bowels into the polluted bed, and strives to
allay her virgin fears, and remove her vain alarms. Perhaps too he might
call her
daughter, because the title suited with her years she again might ;

whisper him, father, that proper names might not be wanting to the sin.
She leaves the
guilty bed, full of her father, and bears in her incestuous
womb the impious seed, and carries about the crime she had conceived.
The following night repeats the horrid guilt nor does it end there until ;
:

at length know the fair he had so oft embraced,

Cinyras, impatient to
368 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Postera rtnx g«minat Posfera iiox facinus "p-emliiat: Nee finis in ill^ est.
Jtiri/iics,7ucest fiHism ^v , ^. .,
ip7M. Cum
tatidemCi- Cum ^
tandem Cniyras, avians cognoscere amantem
miras, avi us cognos-
cere (imantcm post tot p^^^. ^^^ concubitus, illato lumine vidit
concithitus, lumiiie il- Et scelus, et natam. Verbisque dolore retentis,
lato, viilet ct crimen,
et natam. Verbisquc Pendenti nitidum vagina deripit ensem :
ret cut is dolorc,dcripif.
iiitidiiin ensawpenden- Myrrha fugit, tenebris et csecae munere noctis
ti vai^inii. Myrrha fu-
gif,intvrcepta neci te- Intercepta neci ; latosque vagata per agros,
nehris,et munere ca-- Palmiferos Arabas, Pancheeaoue rurarelinquit :

per uicos agros, re/in-

Ferquc nomen erravit redeuntis cornua Lnnse,
IIIf,pfnwTl%uer lira. Cum tandem terrfi requievit fessa Sabsea,
cormi^Z7e^^nH7Z Vixque utcri portabat onus. Turn nescia voti,
na,cum fessa, tandem Atoue inter mortisQue mstus, et toedia vitze,
requievitterra Sabaa. -n/.i d^ •
n
vixqiie portabat onus Jist tales
i

complexa preces : U si
qua tavetis

Vt^qufinTer'^metuTque
Numina coufessis; merui, nee triste recuso 484
7st^^'''com lexa'^ui^s ^upplicium. Sed, ne violem vivosque superstes,
preces. o si qua nit-
Mortuaquc extiiictos, anibobus pellite regnis;
mina favetis cotifcssis;
merui, nee recuso tris- Mutateeque mihi vitamque, neeemque negate.
te snpplicium ; sed ne
siiperstes violem vivos-
Numen confessis aliquod favet. Ultima certe
que, morluaque ex- Vota suos habuere Deos nam erura loquentis
:
iinctos, pellite me am-
bobtts regnis, negate. Terra supervenit ; ruptosque obliqua per ungues
Mihi mutatcB vitam-
qtie, neeemque. Numen Porrigitur radix longi firmamina trunci 49 1 :

aliquod favet confes-

sis. C'ertc ultima vo- Ossaque robur agunt mediaque manente medulla
:

ta habtccre suos Deos ; in succos; in magnos bracbia ramos;

nam terra supervenit Sanguis it
crura loquentis ; radix In parvos digiti : duratur cortice pellis.
que obliqua porrigitur
per rvptos urigues,fir- Jamque gravem crescens uterum perstrinxerat
mamina longi trutici: arbor: ^Q*"'
495
ossaque agunt robur ;
media medulla ma-
nente, sanguis it in
Peetoraque obruerat, collumque operire parabat ;
succos: brachia in magnos ramos ; digiti in parvos: pellis duratnr cortice. Jamque crescens
arbor perstrinxerat gravon uterum; obrueratque pcctora ; parabatque operire coUum.

TRANSLATION.
brought in a light, and saw at once his daughter and his crime. Grief
and amazement checked his words he draws from the sheath, that hung;

by, the shining sword. Myrrha fled, snatched from death by the darkness
and protection of an obscure night and,
traversing the v.ide-spreading
;

fields, left the coasts of the Arabians, fertile in palms, and the Pancha^an
plains, and wandered, till nine times the moon had renewed her waning
horns when, at length fatigued, she rested in the Sabaan country, and
;

scarce was able to sustain the load of her womb. Then, not knowing what
to wish,
loathing life, and yet afraid of death, she thus, in prayer, ad-
dressed the gods O, if any deities attend to the vows of
: I have
penitents,
deserved nor refuse to submit to the severest
punishment but that living ;

I may not
pollute the living, ordead the dead, banish me from both realms ;

change my form, nor suffer me to join either the living or the dead. Tliere
is
always some god who regards the penitent at least her last prayers ;

were favourably heard for earth gathered round her legs as she spoke,
;

and a root shoots out obliquely from her

bursting nails, the stable support
of a long trunk. Her bones became solid Avood, and the marrow retaining
place, her blood changes to sap, her arms to large
still its middle

boughs, her fingers to little ones and her tender skin is hardened into rind.
;

And now the rising tree had invested her heavy womb, covered her breasts,
and began to invade her neck. She was
impatient of delay, smik down
to
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. X. 369

Jlln non
Kon tulit ilia moram: venientique obvia ligno
tiil'it tnoram,
sithsedilqiie nhriu ' c/ii-
Subsedit; mersitque suos in cortice vultus.
enti ligito: mcr.sitqiie
snos viiltu.s in coi tice.

Quee, quanquam amisitveteres cumcorpore sensus, Qu(r,qiiiir(qiuimamisU

cum
VI teres s</i.mis
Flet tamen ; et tepidse manant ex arbore guttse. 500 corpnre, tatneii fiet, et
mc/nniit
Est honor et lachryrais; stillataque cortice Myrrlia '''^"''f =""'i
IIiiii!>r eMt

Nomen herile tenet, nullique tacebitur eevo. et. lachr;/»iis ; mi/rrltu-

qiie xtUldta c.iriice,
X. At male conceptus sub robore creverat infans ; tenet /terite iirmen,tu-
cebitiirque niilli cei o.
Quserebatque viam qua se, genitrice relicta,
; X. At i)ifans male,
Exsereret. Media gravidus tumet arbore venter. 505 concept us -.'reveratsiib
robore ; qiitrrnbatqiie
Tendit onus matrem; nee habent sua veiba dolores : v'iani,qiii'i gi nit rice re-
lictd, e.i.strcret se.
Nee Lucina potest parientis voce vocari. Grav'dux I'tn/crtiimtt
metUii. arbore. Onn.v
Nitenti tamen est similis curvataque crebros ; „^^ ^^
,,.„^.^ „,,,^,.^„,
Dat ffemitus arbor laclirymisque cadentibus humet.
:
'"'«» hahent suu verba,
Liicma
/~\ >•-•. 1 -i- T J A CIA
510
•
1
^lec piite.'it vo.
Constitit ad ramos mitis Lucmadolentes; cari v.ice parientis.
Tamen est .siinilis iu.
Admovitque manus, et verba puerpera dixit. teiili; arburqne cnr-
Arbor agit rimas et fissa cortice vivum
;
vata, dat cnhrit^ gc-
mitus ; hunictquc ca-
Reddit onus; vagitquepuer quern mollibus herbis : drntibut lack rijmi<:.
Mills Ijucliia coii-str-
Naiades impositum lachrymis unxere parentis tit ad dokn/e.'' r.nnns ;

Laudaret faciem livor quoque Qualia namq 515 :

ai/motitqne miinns et ;

; dixit verba puerpera.

Arbor agit rimas ; it
Corpora nudorum tabula pinguntur amorum,
riddit vii am onw fix-
Talis erat. Sed, ne faciat discrimina cultus, sa cortice ; piierqne ra-
git, quern impositum
Authuic adde leves, autillis deme pharetras. mollibus herbis. Nai-
ades unrere la hry-
Labitur occulte, fallitque volatilis setas 7nis parentis.
:
Livor
Et nihil est annis velocius. lUe sorore 520 quoque laudaret fa-
ciem. Kamque erat
Natus avoque suo, qui conditus arbore nuper, talis, qualia corpora
jiudorum mn 'rum pin-
guntJir tabula. Sed 7ie cult us faciat discrimina, ant adde hulc, avt deme illis leves phantnis.
I'olatills atas labitur occulte, fallitque, et nihil est velocius annis. Ille natus sorore suoque avo,
out nuper erat conditus arbore,
TRANSLATION.
meet the approaching wood, and hid her face in the closing bark. She,
though with her outward shape she lost also her sense, yet still weeps,
and warm drops distil from the tree. There is a value even in her tears,
and myrrh issuing from the bark retains her name, nor shall cease to be
I'cnowned in every age.
X. But the incestuous infant grew under the wood, and struggled to
leave its mother, and push itself into light. Her heavy womb distends the
swelling tree. The mother feels all the pangs of labour,, yet has
no voice
iu that hour of anguish.
to express her
pains, or invoke the aid of Lucina
She seems, however, one struggling to be delivered, and tlie tree,
like
bending, utters frequent groans, and is moistened with falling tears.
Gentle Lucina stood by the groaning boughs, reached her hands to for-
ward the birth, and pronounced the powerful spells that promote delivery.
The tree gapes in chinks, and through the cleft bark discharges the living
load. The child cries, and the Naiads receiving him, lay him upon soft
leaves, and anoint him with his mother's tears. Envy itself would have
commended his beauty for such was his form, as wlien naked cupids are
:

represented in a piece of painting but that dress may occasion

no ditTer-
;

ence, add to him, or take from them the polished quivers. Winged time
glides away insensibly and unperceived, nor is aught more fleeting than
years. The child, the offspring of his own sister and grandfather, so lately
enclosed in a tree, so lately born soon becomes a beauteous infant, soon
;
370 P. OVIDII NASONIS

nupcr sen) tux: moiib NuDf^r erat geiiitus modo formosissimus infans,
iiifans Jormonxsniiits,
est jam jurciiKi, Jam
i . .o. .'.
:
..
Jam juvenis, jam vir, jam se lormosior ipso est:
J

Vpsnf"jam'viuc€t ft Jam placet et Veneri, matrisque ulciscitur ignes.

Imesnuult^'^ya^^^^^^^ Namque pharetratus dum dat puer oscula matri,
dum pharetratus yic.r Inscius exstanti destrinxit arundine pectus. 526
dat o.scuiu matri, in-
scius destrinxit pectus Lsesa manu natum Dea repulit. Altiiis actum
ejus ejLStanli arniidinc.
Lasa Vcti repulit /la- Vulnus erat specie primoque fefellerat ipsam.
;
tum mauti: vuluus e-
rat actum ultius spc- Capta viri forma non jam Cythereia curat 529
cie,prim(ique fefellerat Littora non alto repetit Paphon sequore ciuctam,
;

7iri''no,,^Jam curat Piscosamque Cnidon, gravidamve Amathunta me-

Cytliere'ia littora ; non
talli.
repetit Paplion c/wc-
tu?n alto (Tqiwre, Vni- Abstinet et coelo ; ccelo prsefertur Adonis.
donq ue piscosam, A ?/ia-
t/iunlaque gravidam Hunc tenet; huic comes est; assuetaque semper in
mctalli. Abxlinet et
calo. Adonis prafer- umbra
tur Toiet /tunc :
ccslo.
est comes huic: udsuc- Indulgere sibi, formamque augere colendo.
taqne indulgere sibi Per juga, per silvas, dumosaque saxa vagatur 535
semper in. umbra, a^i-
gercque furiiiam co- Nuda genu, vestem ritu succincta Dianae;
iendo, vagal nr per Jii-
ga, per silvas, saxa- Hortaturque canes, tuteeque animalia prasdae,
gue dumosa, mida ge- Aut pronos lepores, aut celsum in cornua cervum,
nu, succincta quoad
vestem ritu Diance, Aut agitat damas ; a fortibus abstinet apris,
hortaturquc canes ; a-
gitatque ajiimaliii tu- Raptoresque lupos, armatosque unguibus ursos
Vitat, ct armeuti saturatos csede leones 541
TepVres,'''auf cZl'lZ
ciisum'in cornua, aut Tc
— quoquc
' '
ut lios timeas(si
^ — quid
^ prodesse
'
monendo
daman. Abstinet a for- - - -

iibus apris, vitaique Possit) Adoni, monet. Fortisque fugacibus esto,

raptores lupos, ursos-
que armatos unguibus, Inquit ; in audaces non est audacia tuta.
meo, juvenis, temerarius esse periclo: 545
et leonei satitratos Parce
cade armenti. Monet
te qiwque Adoni, ut Neve
feras, quibus arma dedit natura, lacesse ;
timetis hos (si possit
prodesse quid monendo.) Jnquitque estofortis fugacibus : audaciatton est tuta in audaces. Parce
juvenis esse temerarius meo periclo; neve latesse feras, quibus natura dedit arma.
TRANSLATION.
a youth, soon a man, and excels even himself" in beauty. Now he appears
charming even to the queen of love, and with her pain revenges his mo-
ther's unnatural fires. For while the
quivered boy was kissing his mother,
he razed her breast with a heedless arrow. The goddess, wounded, pushed
away her son with her hand hut the stroke was deeper than appeared,
;

and even Venus herself was at first deceived. Captivated with the charms
of a mortal, she no longer regards the Cytherean shores nor revisits Pa- ;

phos surrounded by a deep sea, or Cuidos abounding in fish, and Ama-

thus rich in metals. She abandons heaven itself Adonis is preferred to ;

heaven. Him she constantly attends, and follows as his companion and ;

though ever accustomed to indulge in the shade, and improve her beauty
with the most anxious care now wanders among precipices, woods, and
;

bushy rocks, her feet bare, and the robe tucked up in the manner of
Diana and cheers the hounds pursuing animals of the less dangerous
;

kind, as fleet hares, the stag exulting in his lofty horns, and timorous does :

but avoids fierce boars, and ravenous wolves, and bears armed with claws,
and lions glutted with the slaughter of the herds. She counsels thee too,
Adonis (would counsel avail), to beware of these. Follow (says she), and
shew your courage against such as fly it is not safe boldly to encounter
;

the bold. Forbear, lovely youth, to be rash at

my hazard, nor provoke
beasts whom nature has furnished with arms for their own defence lest :
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. X. o-l
o/

Stet mihi ne magno tua gloria. Non movet setas, in mugiw.

f^'lJgZ^\^i'n "^,
Nee nee quae Venerem movere, leones,
facies,
nee fades, nee qii/E
77ioverc Vfnerem, nw-
Setigerosque sues, oeulosque, aniraosque ferarum. vct leonc-1, setigeros-
que sues, oculusquc,
Fulmen habent aeres in aduncis dentibus apri 550 ; u7iimosqiie ferarmn.
Acres apri hubcnt. J'ul-
Impetus est fulvis et vasta leonibus ira :
meu in aduncis denli-
Invisumque mihi genus est. Quae causa, roganti, bns, est impetus, et
viista ira fuliis lenni-
Dicam, ait; et veteris monstrum mirabere culpze. b«s, genusqite est in-
Sed labor insolitus jam me lassavit; et eece listim niihi. Ait ilU
roga/iti, qvts essct can-

Opportuna sua blanditur populus umbra ; 555 sa : dicam ; et mira-

I'ere nwnstrvm ve/eris
Datq torum eespes. Libet hac requiescere tecum,
-~-
;
• •
cwVjxf. sed insontus
labor jam lassavit me:
Et requievit, humo pressitque et gramen, et ipsum.
: et eece ojipnrtniia po-
pulus blanditur sud
Inque sinu juvenis posita cervice renidens umbvii ; cespcsqice dat
Sic ait, ac mediis interserit oscula verbis 559 torum. Liibet. requi-
escere tecum hue hu-
XI. Forsitan audieris aliquam certamine cursus mo, et requievit : pres-
sitque et grume?!, et
Veloces superasse viros. Non fabula rumor ipsum. Cervicequc po-
lUe fuit ; superabat enim. Nee dicere posses, sitA in sinu juvenis,
ait sic renidens, ac in-
Laude pedum, formaene bono preestantior esset. terserit osetcla tnediis
verbis.
Scitanti Deus huic de conjuge, conjuge, dixit. XI. Forsitan audi-
eris aliquam super-
Nil opus est, Atalanta, tibi. Fuge conjugis usum; asse veloces viros cer-
Nee tamen effugies ; teque ipsa viva carebis. 566 tamine cursus.
mor
Ru-
ille non fuit fabu-
Territa sorte Dei per opacas innuba silvas la: enim superabat,
nee posses dicere es-
Vivit ; et instantem turbam violenta procorum setne prirstratior lau-
de pedum, an bonofor-
Conditione fugat: nee sura potiunda, nisi, inquit, ni(T. Dcits dixit huic
Victa priiis cursu. Pedibus contendite mecum. scitanti de conjuge,n/l
opus est conjuge tibi,
Atalanta. Fuge ttsum conjugis. Tamen effugies ; 'vivaque carebis te ipsa. Territa soi tc Dei,
vivit innuba per opacas silvas; et violent a fugat instaiitem turbam procorum conditione ; et in-
quit, nee sum potiunda, nisi priiis victa cttrstt. Contendite pedibus mecum.
TRANSLATION.
your thirst of renown may cost me dear. Your age, beauty, and tliose
charms that have made so strong an impression on Venus, will but little
avail against lions, bristly boars, and the eyes and rage of furious beasts.
Fierce boars carry thunder in their crooked tusks rage and fury prevail to
:

a great degree in tawny lions, and the whole race is beside odious to me.
As he asked, what might be the cause ? I will tell
you|(rejoined she), and you
will wonder at the prodigy which rose from crimes of old. But this toil,
I to which I am so little accustomed, has fatigued me, and lo! a grateful

poplar courts us by its shade, and the turf beneath offers a verdant couch.
I am desirous to repose a little on this spot, and she laid her down,
and pressed at once the grass and her Adonis, and leaning her neck on
the youth's bosom, smiling, thus began and sometimes interrupted her
;

story with kisses.

XI. Perhaps you may have heard of a nymph, who, in running, was
an overmatch for the swiftest men. That was no vain rumour, for she
really excelled nor could you say whether she was more distinguished
:

by the fame of her swiftness, or the praise of her beauty. Consulting the
oracle about a husband, the god replied Think not, Atalanta, of a hus-
:

band, avoid that dangerous commerce yet it will he impossible to shim

;

it, and Atalanta, living, shall be lost to herself. Terrified with this re-
NOTES.
560. Forsitan audicris.'\ Atalanta was a native of Arcadia, and the daughter of
Schnenens.
2 B 2
372 p. OVIDII NASONIS

f'-onjiix thalamique da- Prfemia veloci conjux thalamique dabuntur ; 571

pni inia icloci;
Iniiitar
mors dab/tar pretium Mors pvetium tardis. Ea lex certaminis esto.
tardis. Esto ea lex
Ilia quidem immitis sed (tanta
(
certaminis. lllu qui- potentia formffi est :)
:

dem est immitis; sed

(poteutia Jnrma est
Venit ad banc legem temeraria turba procorum.
tanta) temeraria tur-
ha procorum venit ad
Sederat Hippomenes cursus spectator iniqui 575 ;

hauc. Hippomenes se- Et, Petitur cuiquam per tanta pericula conjux?
derat .spectator iniqui
cursus ; et dixerat; Dixerat: ac nimios juvenum damnarat amores.
conjux petitur cui- Ut
quam per tanta peri- faciem, et posito corpus velamine vidit.
cula? uc damnarat ni-
mios umores jmeii um.
Quale meum, vel quale tuum, si fcemina fias,
Ut vero vidit faciem,
et corptis velamine po-
Obstupuit: tollensq; manus, Ignoscite, dixit, 580
sito, tale, quale est me- Quos modo culpavi : nondum mihi praemia nota,
v.m,vci quale tinim si QusB peteretis, erant. Laudando concipit iffnem ;
toii't„.<:quema>i,is,dii- Et, ne quis juvenum currat velocius, optat;
it: vos quos iiiodu cut- t •T'^ oj j.' j.
feed cur certammis nujus
j.
' '
i
'

j)avi,i.g,ioscite,pra;ina Invidiaque timet,

er!^nMhL"LaZ Intentata mihi fortuna reliuquitur ? inquit. 585
dandn co/icipit igncm, Audentes Deus ipse iuvat. Dum talia secum
et optat lie qiits juve- tt- -r' . ^ ^^ a.
num currat velocius.
Exigit Hippomenes passu volat ante virgo,
inviriiil. Sed
:

timetqiie
inquit: cur fort una Quae quanquam Scythica
non secius ire sagitta
hiijus certaminis re- Aonio visa est tamen ille decoram
linquitnr intcntatcc juveni;
mihi / ipse Deus jurat Miratur
magis et cursus facit ipse decoram.
: 590
audentes. Dum Hip-
pomenes exigit talia Aura refert oblata citis talaria plantis :

secum ; Virgo volat a-

lite passu. Qum quan- Tergaque jactantur crines per eburnea, quseque
quam est visa Aonio Poplitibus suberant picto genualia limbo :

juveni ire nbn secius

Scythica sagitta, ta-
men ille magis mira- Inque puellari corpus candore ruborem
tur decorum: et ipse Traxerat. Haud aliter, quam cum super atria velum
XiraUia/^ r!fert"ta'- Candida purpurcum simuktas inficit umbras. 596
laria citis plantis, crinesque jactantur per eburnea terga, genualiaque picto limbo,\quit suberant
poplitibus : corpiisq ue traxerat ruborem in puellari candore ; haud aliter quam cum purpureum
velum super Candida atria, inficit simulatas umbras,
TRANSLATION.
sponse of the god, she lives a virgin in the shady woods, and repulses an
importunate crowd of lovers by the hard condition she proposes I am :

not to be obtained (says she) unless first conquered in the race. Contend
with me in running a wife and Atalanta shall be the reward of the swift,
:

but death the punishment of the slow. Be that the law of the contest.
This proposal was indeed inhuman, but so great is the power of her beauty,
that a rash crowd of wooers submitted to this rigorous law. Hippomenes
sat a spectator of this extravagant combat: Is it possible (said he)
that any one, for a wife, will expose himself to such apparent danger?
and blamed, in his own mind, the indiscreet passion of the youths. But
when he beheld her face and naked limbs, exquisitely turned as mine, or
as thine, wert thou to become a woman, he stood amazed, and lifting up
his hands: Forgive me, ye youths (said he), whom I have so lately
wronged the value of the prize you contend for, was but little known to
;

me. By thus praising her, he kindles a flame in his own breast, and wishes
that none of the youths may equal her in swiftness, and through envy fears
it. But
why (says he) is my fate untied in this combat ? heaven assists the
daring. While Hippomenes ponders these things with himself, the virgin
flieswith winged pace, who, though she seemed to the Aonian youth to
glide swifter than a Scythian arrow, yet he more admires her beauty,
find even the race itself conspires to exalt her charms. The wind bears
back the pinions that adorn herninvble feet, her hair flows back upon her
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. X. 373

Dum
.
notat ligechospes; decursa novissima
r A A 1 • •
^"^ Dimhospesnotathffc,
" meta nonssiina meta est rie- •

tit tegitur testa victrixAtalanta corona [est cvrsa;etAtaiantavU: :

trix tegitur festa co-

Dant gemitum victi; penduntq ex fcedere poenas. ; ro?iil. y'ictidant ge-
Non tamen eventu juvenum deterritus horura mitum, pendiintque
panas ex fcedere. Tit-
Constitit in medio vnltuque in virgine fixo, 601 men non deterritus
;
eveiitu horiun jtiie-
Quid facilem titulum superando quaeris inertes? num, cnnstitit in me-
dio ; vnltuque fixo in
Mecum confer, ait. Sen me fortuna potentem virgine, ait, quid qua-
Fecerit a tanto non indignabere vinci, 604 risjdcihm titulum su-
;
perando inertes; con-
Namque mihi genitor Megareus, Onchestius illi; fer tnecu7n seufortuna
me potentem,
Est Neptunus avus; pronepos ego regis aquarum: fecerit
noil indignabere rinci
a tanto. Namque Mc-
Nee virtus citra genus est. Seu vincar, habebis gurens Onchestius est
Hippomene victo magnum et memorabile nomen. genitor
7nihi ; Neptu-
nus est avus illi; ego
Talia dicentem molli Schoeneia vultu pronepos regis aqua-
rum. Nee virtus est
Aspicit: et dubitat, superari an vincere malit. 610 citra genus. Seu vin-
habebis nomen
Atque ita Quis Deus hunc formosis,inquit, iniquus magnum et memorafiile
car,
;

Perdere vult? charseque jubet discrimine vitse Hippomene victo. Schoe-

neia aspicit illmn di-
Conjugium petere hoc? Non sum me judice tanti. centem talia, molli vul-
t dubitat an miiHt
Nee forma tangor. Poteram tamen hac quoque tu,! vincere an superari.
Atqueinqtdtita: Quis
tangi. Deus iniqVHS fornio-
Sed quod adhuc puer est ;
non me movet ipse, sed
sis vult perdere hnncT
jubctque petere hoc
aetas. 615 conjugium discrimine
carte vina ? non sum
Quid, quod inest virtus, et mens interrita leti ? tanti me judice. Nee
Quid, quod ab sequorea numeratur originequartus? tangor forniu : tamen
poteram tangi hoc quo-
Quid, quod amat, tantiq; putat connubia nostra, que. Quid.' quod est
adhuc pxter! non ipse,
Ut pereat; si me sors ilh dura negarit? sed alas niovet me.
Quid? quod virtus, et mens interrita leti inest? Quid? quod numeratus quarttis ab aquoreH ori-
gine? Quid? quod amat, put at que nostra connubia tanti, ut pereat si dura sors negarit meiltif

TRANSLATION.
ivory neck, and the embroidered ribands that tie up her buskins wave be-
hind. Her virgin skin was dyed with a glowing red, as when crimson
hangings, in a white gallery, lend a blushing shade to the polished marble.
While the stranger stands thus admiring her charms, the last course is
run, and victorious Atalanta is adorned with a festival crown. The van-
qviished sigh, and suffer punishment according to the law of the contest.
Yet Hippomenes, no ways awed by the unfortunate end of these youths,
stood full in view and Why
fixing his eyes upon Atalanta
;
(says he) do :

you aim at the glory of an easy victory, by contending with unactive

souls like these enter the lists with me.
;
If fortune grants me the vic-
tory, it will be no dishonour to be vanquished by one of my name and
figure. Megareus is my father, who boasts of Onchestius for his, and
Neptune for his grandfather I am therefore the great grandson of the
:

king of the waters nor does my virtue sink beneath my race. Or if I

;

am overcome, you will gain a great and memorable name by vanquishing

Hippomenes. As -he thus spoke, the daughter of Schoeneus beheld him
with a mild air, and a doubt arises in her breast, whether it is happier to
vanquish or be overcome. Then thus she begins What god, a foe to :

beauty, means to destroy this youth ? and prompts him thus to seek mar-
riage by endangering his dear life } the prize, even in my own judgment,
is not so
great. Nor am I moved by his beauty, though even this 1 ac-
knowledge might Avell move. What when 1 consider that he is yet a !

mere youth, not his charm.s, but pity for his age touch my breast. What !
374 P. OVIDIl NASONIS
Al/i dtitn licet,
reli/ii/
liojies,
m
q tie crucntos
Diun hospes, abi ; thalamosque relinque cru-
licet,
thalainos. Meinn con-
entos 620
jugiiim Cil crudilc ;
nulla nolct nithrre ti-
I'i, el po!e.t optoi a
Conjugium crudele meum est. Tibi nubere nulla
sapicnte pucUd. Ta- Nolet : et optari potes a.
sapiente puella.
men. cur cura Ini est
Cur tamen est mihi cura tui, tot jam ant^ peremptis ?
mi/ii,fofpcremplisjam
anil/ y'tdcrit: intc- Viderit: intereat: quoiiiam totcsede procorum
rcal: qiiouiavmon est
udmonitus cade tut x'\draonitus non est agiturque intsedia vits
;
625
j>rccofitm ; n^ititrqne
in ttrdia vitcc. Igiticr
Occidet hie igitur, voluit quia vivere mecum ?
Itic quia vo-
Iridignamque necem, pretium patietur amoris
occldet, :
iiiit v'u'cre mccum ?
jiatieturque indigiitim Non erit invidiaj victoria nostra ferendse.
necem pretium amo-
ris f Nostra victoria Sed non culpa mea est. Utinam desistere velles !

lion erit fcniida in-

i>idi(B. iSed culpa twn Aut, quoniam es demens, utinam velocior esses ?
est mea. Utiniim rel- At quara virgineus puerili vultus in ore est 631 !
ies desistere; ant quo-
niuin es devieiis, iiti- Ah, miser Hipponiene, nollem tibi visa fuissem !

iiam esses vclocior. At

quam virgiiicus ritltiis
Vivere dignus eras. Quod si felicior essem ;
est in pneriii ore
miser JJippomene, nvl-
! uh, Nee mihi conjugium fata importuna negarent ;
lemfuissem visa tihi ! Unus eras, cum quo sociare cubilia possem 635
eras digu7is i>ivere.
Dixerat; utque rudis, primoque Cupidine tacta,
Quod si essem fclicior:
oiec
facit ignorans, amat, et non sentit amorem.
xir'^^nJ'jtdium Quit!
iiegarcii
ini eras uims "cum Jam solitos
poseunt cursus populusque, paterque ;
..'

yo'^icm sociarc cubilia

JJixerut, utquc rudis, me solicita proles Neptunia voce
Ciim 639
tactaque primo Ciipi-
dine, ignorans qnidfa-InvocatHippomenes: Cythereia compreeor, ausis
cif, amiU; et noti sen-
tit umorein. Jam pc Adsit, ait nostris et quos dedit, adjuvet ignes. ;

j»uusque paterque Detulit aura preces ad me non invida blandas :

poseunt solitos cur- -mr r .
jT-i x ^

sus, cum Hippomenes, Motaque, sum,iateor; nee opis mora longadabatur.

Mr^'^cliavo^. Est ager, indigense Tamasenum nomine dicunt ;

Ait, compreeor ut Cv- Tclluris

CvpriaB
i pars
r optima:
r quem
^ mihi prisci
J
645
thereia adsit tmstris ./

ausis ; et adjuvet igiie-^ quosdedit. Auranon invida detulit blandas preces ad me. Sum mola,
fateor ; ncc longa mora opts dahatur. Est ager, indigene dicunt Tamasenum nomine ; pars op-
tima C'l/pria telluris; quetn prisci
TRANSLATION.
can I remain insensible to his heroic courage, and soul superior to the
fear of death ? What ! Is it nothing that he is numbered the fourth in
descent from the father of the floods that he loves me, and so highly ;

values my nuptials that he is willing to perish, if cruel fortnne denies him

that happiness ? Begone, stranger, while yet you may, nor covet a bloody
alliance the attempt is cruel and hazardous.
; No one will refuse thy
liand and thou mayest be the desire of some more prudent maid. But
:

why am I, who havfe already destroyed so many, so tender of thee ? Let him
perish, it is his own fault since not awed by the fate of so many wooers,
;

he behaves like one weary of life. Shall he then die, because desirous to
live with me ? and suffer an unmerited death as the reward of his love ?
A victory so odious will only serve to blast my fame. But it is no fault of
mine. I wish you woidd forbear, or, since thus infatuated, I wish you
were swifter What a virgin bloom appears in his youthful countenance
! !

Ah wretched Hippomenes, would you had never seen me Thy life was
! !

worthy of a longer date. Had my fortune been more propitious did not ;

cruel fate deny me the comforts of a v.edded state thou alone art he with ;

whom I could have gladly shared my bed. She said and as one unexpe- :

rienced, and then pierced with Cupid's dart, not knowing Avhat she
first

does, she loves, and is not aware of the flame. Now the people, and her
father, demand the exnected race, ^\hen Hinj)omenes. the descendant of
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. X. 375

Sacravere senes ; templisque accedere dotem senes sacravere milii,

Jiissenquc lianc dolciii
lianc jussere meis. Medio nitet arbor in arvo ; accedere mcis teniplis.
Arbor iiltet in medio
Fulva comam, fulvo ramis crepitantibus auro. arvo,fulra quod ad co-
Hinc tria forte mea veniens decerpla ferebam main, ramis crepitan-
tibus fiiluo attro. Ve-
niens hinc forte fere-
Aureapornamanu; nulliquevidenda,nisiipsi: 650 bam tria aurca poma
Hippomenen adii; docuiqiie, quis usus in illis. decerpta mea 77ianu,

cum carcere pronus uterque adiique Hippomenen,

Signa tubas dederant ; ridenda niilli, itisi ip-
Emicat, etsummani celeri pede libatarenam. si, doculque quis usiis
esset in 'illis. Tuba
Posse putes illos sicco freta radere passu, dedcrant slgnii, cvin
uterque emicat pronus
Et segetis canae stantes percurrere aristas. 655 carcere, et libaf sum-
mam arcnum celeri
Adjiciuntanimosjuveni clamorque, favorque, pcde. Putes illos posse
radere freta sirco pas-
Verbaque dicentum, Niinc, nimcincumbere tempus, su, et percurrere stliu-
Hippomene: propera. Nunc viribus utere totis. tes aristus cana sege-
tis.Clamorque, favor-
Pelle moram: vinces. Dubium Maoareius heros que, adjiciunt animos
di-
Gaudeat, an virgo magis his Schoeneia dictis, 660 verbaque
jui'cni,
centian,nunc Hippo-
O quoties, ciimjam posset transire, morata est: mene, nunc est tempus
incumbere, propera,
Spectatosque diil vultus invita relinquit! nunc utere
hus. Pelle
totis viri-
vin-
Aridus e lasso veniebat anhelitus ore: moram,
ces. DHbium keros.ie

Metaque erat longe. Turn denique de tribus unum Megareius, an virgo

Schmneia magis gau-
Foetibus arboreis proles Neptunia misit. 665 deat his dictis. O quo-
ties est morata, cum
Obstupuit virgo ; nitidique cupidine pomi jam posset transire,
Declinat cursus ; aurumque volubile tollit. invitaque reliquit vul-
tus diu spectatos! ari-
dus anhtiitus veniebat
Hippomenes. Resonant spectacula plausu.
Praeterit
c lasso ore, metaque
Ilia moram
celeri, cessataque tempora cursu 669 eriit longt. Turn de-
nique Neptunia pro-
Corrigit atque iterilm juvenem post terga relinquit.
: les misit unum de tri-
hus arboreis fretihus. Virgo obstwpuit ; cicpidineque nitidi pomi, declinat cursus, tollit que volu-
bile aurum. Hippomenes praterit: spectacula resonant plaustt. Ilia corrigit moram cessata
que; tempora, celeri cursu; atque iterum relinquit juvenejn post tergum.
TRANSLATION.
Neptune, thus invokes me vvith anxious voice. Favour, Cytherea, my
aspiring hopes, and aid the flames you have yourself kindled in m^' breast.
A soft unenvious wind wafted to me this tender prayer. Pity, I own, soon
gained the ascendant, nor did I long delay the assistance he implored.
There is apiece of ground, which the natives call the Tamasenian field,
the richest spot of the Cyprian isle, which of old the elders consecrated
to rae, and
appointed as an endowment for my temple. In the middle of
the field a tree flourishes, with yellow locks, and boughs rattling with
yellow gold. It chanced that coming hence I bore in my hand three golden
apples pulled from the tree and advancing to Hippomenes, visible to
;

none but him, taught him what use to make of them. The trumpets had
now given the signal, when both start from the lists, and with nimble
feet glide
along the topmost sand. You would have thought they might
skim along the seas -with vmmoistened pace, and fly over the unbending
ears of ripened corn. The shouts and favour of the spectators add courage
to the
youth. Now, now (cried they), Hippomenes, is the time to shoot
boldly forward make haste strain every nerve banish delay, you shall
: : ;

reach the goal. It is hard to say whether the Megareian hero, or daughter
joyed most in these shouts. How oft, when she might have
of Schoeneus
])assed him, did she check her course, and with unwilling speed leave his
face, after gazing on it loiig. A dry panting issued from his faint moath,
and the goal was
yet a great way oii'. Then, at length, the hero of Nep-
tune's race threw one of the three apples pulled from the golden tree
376 P. OVIDII NASONIS
Et rursiis remorata
jactu sccmidi pom),
Et rursi^s pomi jactu remorata secundi,
coitseq iiitur
Consequitur, transitque virum. Pars ultima cursus
t rti nsit -
que virum. Lltinta
pars cursus restabat : Restabat. Nunc, inquit acles, Dea, muneris auctor :
Jiu/ic inquit
ades, O
W(«, aurtor mumris, Inque latus canipi, quo tardiiis ilia rediret,
jfcitque jHrntilitcr u':-
tiitum aurum ab obli-
Jecit ab obliquo nitidum juveniliter aurum. 675
<luo ill latus caiupi, An peteret, virgo visa est dubitave coegi :

guo ilia re dire t tur-

ilius.
Tollere; et adjeci sublato pondera malo:
Virgo vi^a est
(tiibitare an, j.etcret :

Impediique oneris pariter gravitate, moraque.

coeii tollerr, et ailjcci
pundera sublato malo: Neve mens sermo cursu sit tardior illo
;
impediique pariter
grarltiite moraque one- PriEterita est virgo ;
duxit sua preemia victor. 680
ris. Nrrr nuns sermo
sit tardior illo
cursu, Dignane,
_ cui grates
_ ageret,
_ cui thuris honorem
So»- "fLxif'ZTprV Ferret, Adoni, fui? nee grates immemor egit:
mia. D'gnarefuiAdo. Nec milii tliura dedit. Subitam converter in iram
ni, cm ageret grates,
cui
tliuris?
ferret
lUe
hanorem
immemor
Contemnique dolens, ne sim spernenda futuris,
iiec egitgrates, nee Exemplo caveo meque ipsara exhortor in ambos.
:

dedit tliura mihi. Cun-

vertor in subitam Templa Deiim Matri, quse quondam clarus Echion
irom; dolensque con- Fecerat ex voto, nemorosis abdita silvis, 687
tcmnl, caveo exemplo
ne sim spernenda fu- Transibant et iter longum requiescere suasit.
:

turis; exhortorque
in amboy.
Illic concubitiis intempestiva cupido
ineipsam.
Transibant templa ab- a numine concita nostro.
dita nemorosis silris, Occupat
"
f - Hippomenen,
.- -.„ ^ .
,
quie clarus Ecuion Lumuus
~ - _ .-. luerat propc
cxigui . , templa rcccssus,,691
/
quondam fecerat ma-
tri Dei'im ex voto et .•
Speluncae similis, nativo pumice tectus ;
longum iter suasit eos
requiescere. Illlc in- Religione sacer prisca: quo multa sacerdos
tcmpcllva cupido con-
cubitus, concita d nos-
Lignea contulerat veterum simulacra Deorum:
tro niimine, ociuput Hunc init; et vetito temerat sacraria probro. 695
Hippomenim. Tteees-
stis exigui lumiiiisfue-
Sacra retorserunt oculos turritaque Mater, ;

rat prope templa, similis spelunc<E, et tectus nativo pumice, sacer priscA religione : qiio sacer-
dos contulerat multa lignea simulacra veterum Deorum; Init hunc; et temerat sacraria vetito-
probro. Sacra retorserunt oculos ; maferque trrrita
TRANSLATION.
The virgin stood amazed, and charmed Avith the beauty of the shining^
fruit, turns from her course, and takes up the rolling gold. Hippomenes
passes her the theatre rings with applauses.
;
She atones for the delay
and time by her redoubled speed, and again leaves the youth behind
lost,
her. Again stopped by the allurement of a second apple, again she over-
takes and passes him. The last part of the race only remained now ;

(says he), goddess, the bestower of this gift, aid me and then to retard ;

her the more, with youthful might, tossed the last apple across the
still

plain. The
virgin seemed to doubt whether she should fetch it I com- :

pelled her to take it up, and added weight to it, and hindered her both by
the weight of the load, and the delay of reaching it. And that my story
may not be more tedious than the race, he passed the virgin, and victo-
rious obtained the prize.
Did I not merit, think you, Adonis, to have a return of thanks, and
incense burnt on my altar ? But he, ungrateful, neither returned me
thanks, nor offered incense. I am
a sudden rage, and pro- thrown into
voked at contempt of future
this neglect, resolve to provide against the
lovers, by a memorable example and animate myself against both. They
;

were passing by a temple in the secret recesses of a wood, which of old,

renowned Echion had built to the mother of the gods, in consequence of
a vow and the length of the way invited them to repose a little. There
;

raised by my power, an unseasonable desire of caressing his wife, seizes

 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. X. 377

An Stygia fontes, dubitavit, niergevet unda. g'iT'^^jrS!

j-'oena levis visa est. Erofo modo Isevia fulvee ^'"'« visa e.-.i levis.-

,,,,., , ^ 1- -.-^ ,

m ungues
•
ergo 7nodi fulv(F jtibm
Collajubee velant: diQiti curvantur : reinntia-tiavoiia: di-

Ex humeris armi tiunr: in pectora totum 700 ^!/cs:'"Zi'%!M T^

lunneris: lotum pon-
Pondus summa? cauda verruntur arenas.
abit: (lu.s (lint in pt^ctont :
Iram vultus nabet pro verbis murmura reddunt smnma' arentr vermn.
: ;

Pro thalamis clebrant silvas: alnsque timendi bet iram.- pro verbis

Dente premunt domito Cybeleia frfsna leones. 704 ^^f^./rc™:,:;

Hos tu, care mihi.curaque his genus omne
Q' leonesqve ti-
feiarum, "'f'«;.-
"^e>i(lt
n T 1 i. nlns, premi/nt
use non terga luo'se, sed pugnae pectora praebent, jrecnaCykcieia domito
-r^rc
Eiiuge ne
: vn'tus
-iT-,!
tua sit damnosa duobus.
JU
dente. Tu care miki,
ejin^e hos, emnqve hu

XII, XIII. Ilia quidem monuit; junctisque per ^.^^^^T^^wT;!

aera cvacnis ?«./'".?«, f((i pectora
^^ . . w •'
.
piigiKT
. lie tua virtus
. . :

Carpit Iter sed stat monitis contraria virtus.

: sit damnosfi dvnhus.

Forte suem latebris vestigia certa secuti -710 dcm mlmvit,'carpitqne

Excivere canes; silvisque exire parantem c"Jif'^ie(iTiru""lt!,l
Fixerat obliquo ivivenis Cinyreius ictu. contrariaimmiHs.For-
T\ ,- \ •, 1 11
Protinus excussit pando venabula rostro,
i t^ ctnies, secuti certa
vestigia, excivere su-

Sanguine tincta suo trepidumque et tuta petentem ^",e'"v^,y7^^^^^^

:

Trux aper insequitur totosque sub inguine dentes obiiqiw

:
utu iiiiim 7?n!-
1
/.I A •! 1 A n a »"'"''f"' erire silvis.
•

Abdidit: et rulva moribundum stravit arena. 71o Pmtinus excvssu ve-

I

nabulii tiiictd suo san-

guine panda rostro, triixqne apcr 7>i<.equitur trepidum, et petentem tuta, ubdiditque tolos dentes
itib iiiguine, et stravit moribundum fulvO, arend.
TRANSLATION.
Hippomenes. Near the temple was a gloomy recess like a cave, covered
with native pumice-stone, a place sacred from ancient religious observ-
ance, whither the priest of the temple had conveyed many wooden images
of ancient gods. This he enters, and defiles the sacred sanctuary by a
forbidden crime. The sacred images turned away tJieir eyes and the ;

mother of the gods, whose head is crowned with turrets, revolved within
herself whether she should plunge the guilty wretches in the Stygian flood.
But this punishment seemed too mild. Therefore tawny manes were im-
claw s,
mediately seen to cover their smooth necks their nails are bent into ;

their arms become legs, and their whole strength rushes into their breast !

With their tails they sweep the surface of the sand, their looks are full
of rage, their voice is changed into a roaring noise, and, instead of palaces,
with
they frequent the woods hence now become real lions, they champ
;

and with
foaming jaws the reins of Cybele. These, my dear Adonis, avoid
:

them all such beasts of as turn not their backs to but offer their
prey flight,
to us both.
breasts to the fight thy rash courage should prove fatal
;
lest
XII. XIII. She indeed gave this advice, and with her harnessed swans
him not to
winged her through the air but his sprightly courage suffers
;

hearken to her admonitions. By chance his hounds, led by the tainted

hero had
tract, roused a boar from his thick covert; and the Cinyrean
wounded him obliquely, as he endeavoured to get out of the wood. The
dart with his crooked
savage instantly turning, wrenched out the gory
NOTES,
709. Sell Stat monitis contraria virtus] but several Icainetl men have since ob-
Many of the anrieiits were of opinion, s(rved, that there was a ditierence both
tliat Adonis was the same with Osiris, and inthe worship and festivals instituted in
tliat tlie affliction of Venus represents honour of those two princes.
that of Isis for the death other spouse ;
I
378 P. OVIDIl NASONIS

i'Hthcrea vecta prr me- Vecta levi curru medias Cytherea per auras
(Hiisauras let I lurru,
iKvidum pcrvencrat Cypron olorinis nondiim pervenerat alls.
(i/jiron ol'jrhii.s tills,

Agnoiit longi-gemitiim Agnovit longe gemitum morientis; et albas

vwrie litis ; I'tfle.rit til-
bits aves illiic ; iitqne
Flexit aves illuc. Utque sethere vidit ab alto 720
ah alto a'tkcre
r'ldlt
ilhim cxanlmi'm, Juc-
Exanimem, inque suo jactantem sanguine corpus ;
tantemque corpus in Desiluit pariterque sinus, pariterque capillos
:

sua sanguine, de'ilidt ;

rupif que par iter simis, Rupit; et indigni.s percussit pectora palmis.
Questaque cum fatis. At non tamen omnia vestri
pariterque cupillus, ct
percussit pcctora in-
(iignis palmis. Qnes- Juris erunt, inquit, Luctiis monumenta manebunt
taqiie ciim falis, at/a-
men inquit, omnia mm Semper, Adoni, mei: repetitaque mortis imago 726
erunt vestri juris ; ?no-
numenta mei litct&s,
Annua plangoris peraget simulamina nostri.
() Adoni,se»i])er mune- At cruor in florem mutabitur. An tibi quondam
bunt, imagoque mortis
annua repetita, pcra- Fcemineos artus in olentes vertere Menthas,
get simvlumina iiostri
plangoris. At criior Persephone licuit? nobis Cinyreius heros 730
mutabitur in JInrem.
An Invidigs mutatus erit? Sic fata, cruorem
Persephone liciiit
quondam tibi verfere Nectare odorato spargit qui tactus ab illo
:

famitieos artiis in olen-

tcs Metithas ? Cinyrei- Intumuit; sic, ut pluvio perlucida coelo
u<i lieros mutatits erit
7iohis iiividia ? sic fata, Surgere bulla solet. Nee plena longior hora
sparglt cruortm odo- Facta mora est, cum flos e sanguine concolor ortus.
ruto Hectare, qui tac-
tus ah illo, intumuif,
sicut perliicida bulla
Qualem, quae lento celant sub cortice granum, 736
solet surgere pliivio Punica ferre solent brevis est tamen usus in illo.
:

coslo ; nee mora lovgior

plena hora est facia, Namque male hserentem, et niniia levitate caducum
cum concolor flos est Excutiunt idem, qui prsestant nomina, venti.
ortus e sanguine. Qua-
lem punica mala solent ferre, qua celant granum sub lento cortice: tamen usus in illo est brer'is.
Namque iidem venti qui jyrastant nomina, exctitiunt mule hcerentem, et caducum nimid levitate,
TRANSLATION,
snout, and fiercely pursues him, trembling, and seeking a safe retreat.
But alas, too late ! for the boar impetuous drove his tusks into his groin,
and stretched him expii'ing upon the yellow sand. The Cytherean god-
dess, borne in her light chariot through the mid regions of air, had not
yet reached Cyprus with her v/iuged swans. She knew, at distance, the
groans of the expiring youth, and thither directed her snowy swans.
But when, from the lofty sky, she beheld him in the
agonies of death,
and weltering iu his blood, down she plunged, and tore at once her gar-
ments and her hair, and beat her guiltless breast with her
palms, com-
plaining of fate. Yet (says she) shall not all be subjected to your power;
the monuments of my sorrow, dear Adonis, shall ever remain and a ;

representation of thy death, annually repeated, shall exhibit an imita-

tion of my
mourning. Thy blood shall be changed into a flower. Was
you, Persephone, indulged the power of changing Menthe into a fragrant
herb ? And may not Venus, without envy, do the same for the Cinyreian
hero ? Having thus spoke, she sprinkles his blood with sweet nectar ;
which thence swelled, as little bubbles are wont to rise, and fly about in
a lowering sky nor did above an hour intervene, when a purple flower
:

sprung up from the scented blood. Such is the blossom of the punic apple,
whose seeds lie concealed luider the filmy rind. Its duration, however,
is but short for the flower, which has but a slender hold of its stalk,
:

and because of its lightness, those winds to

easily falls, is shaken by
which it owes its name.
 ^lETAMOKPHOSEON, Lib. XI. 379

LIBER UNDECIMUS.

I . #~^ ARMINE dum tali silvas, aniniosque ferarum, I.

ORDO.
Dum ThnirUi.t
Vy Threicius vates, et saxa sequentia ducit ;
votes (ali curmhie du-
cit iUitix,
Ecce nurus Ciconum tectae
lymphata ferinis unimnsqtie
Jir/iri/in, et sequentia
saxa. Ecee tnirus Ci-
Pectora velleribus, tumuli de vertice cernunt
conum, tect(C quoad
Orphea percussis sociantem carmina nervis. 5 hjm-phata pet tura /<-
riiiis relleribus, cer-
E quibus una, levem jactato crine per auram, nunt de vert ire tumuU
Orpltea, sucicntem car-
En, ait, en hie est nostri contemptor: et hastam mina percussis nereis.
Vatis Apollinei vocalia misit in ora. E quibus vna, crine
jactato per leiem au-
Quae foliis praesuta notam sine vulnere fecit. ram, ait, en, en hie est
coHtenip/or et
Alterius telum lapis est qui missus, in ipso
: 10 jnisit kaslani nostri,
in vocalia
vra Apollinei vatis
Acre concentu victus vocisque, lyreeque est; qufT yrasut a foliis fe-
;

Ac velati supplex pro tam furialibus ausis. cit notam sine vninere.
Telum alterius est la-
Ante pedes jacuit. Sed enim temeraria crescunt pis ; qui missus, victus
est in ipso acre con-
itutu vocisque lyreeque, ac jacuit veluti supplex ante pedes, pro ausis tamfurialibus. Sed enim
temeraria
TRANSLATION.
1. TTTHILE with songs, like these, the Thracian poet assembled round
¥ V him the woods, and savage beasts, and listening rocks lo the ;
!

Ciconian matrons, whose raving breasts were clad with shaggy skins,
tiom the summit of a rising ground espy Orpheus, fitting his voice to the
strokes of his lyre. When one of them, tossing her streaming locks in
air, Here, lo, here (she cried), is that contemner of our sex and hurled ;

her spear at the melodious mouth of the Apollinean bard but its point, ;

twisted roimd with wreaths of ivy, made a slight mark, without any
woimd. Another snatches up a stone, which, darted at him, was subdued
i-'i its
airy course by the melody of his voice and lyre, and fell suppliant
at his feet, as if
imploring pardon for so daring an attempt. But soon
I'lis frantic tumult increases, all the boundaries of moderation are broken,

and dire fury reigns. Yet all their weapons had been subdued by the
NO TES.
Ovid, after luiving made Oipheus en- a vile insect, who sought to nourisii him-
tertain us so Irini; and well in the last self with the blood of tirat poet, and
book, here recounts tlie story of iiis death. whose stupidity they meant to represent,
The most remarkable circumstances in by saying that he was clianged into a
this relation are, tliat of a serpent changed stone. As to what regards the metamor-
into a stone, and the transformation of phosis of the Thracian matrons, who
the Bacchantes into trees. The first is were changed into trees for having so
probably no more than a poetical fiction cruelly put Orpheus to death ; it is an
added to embellish the history. Yet se- emblem expressive of their liaving been
veral mythologists pretend, that the an- punished for the bloody attempt, or to
cients, under this fable, have given us the inform us, tliat they perished in the ca-
history of an inhabitant of Lesbos, who verns, vviiithcr they retired to hide them-
was punished for attacking the reputation selves from the puuishment they so justly
of Orpheus. They regarded the critic as deserved.
380 P. OVIDII NASONIS

hfiia rretcunf, modus- Bella

nue abut, insanaque
modusQue
,r.
abiit insanaque regnat Erinnys.
ii-,i- :

ir
•• -
ICritDiys regnal ; citnc-
- tela lorent cantu mollita sed ingens 15
Cunctaque :

tiiqiie lelii foreiit niol-

lita caiitii! xid inseiis Clamor, et inflate
Berecynthia tibia cornu,
clamor, Jic-
tili'iuqiif et Bacchei ululatus
ruyiith'ia ivjialo cor- Tympanaque, plaususque,
nil, tyiiipaiHKiue, plctt-
Obstrepuere sono cithartB. Turn denique saxa
stt.iqi'e, it itlitlulus
Jintchei, obstrrput re Non exauditi riibuerunt sanguine vatis.
soiio citli'trtr. Tiiiii
niqiie s/i.vii rnhutrnnt
tie-
Ac primum attonitas etiamnum voce canentis 20
sa'niiiiinv lutis noii.er- Innumepas volucres.anguesQue, ao-menqueferarum,
nudes rapuere iiinn- Maenades Orphei titulum rapuere theatri:
mcrtis vnlitcres utlo-
nitas etiamnum tore Inde cruentatis vertuntur in Orphea dextris :

cunintis, angiiesque,
agmenque fcrariini ti- ,
Et coeunt, ut aves si quando luce vagantem.
;

tulum Urpliei tiieutri ; Noctis avem cernunt; structoque utrinque theatre

inde vertuntur in Or-
jiliea crurntatis dex- Ceu matutina cervus periturus arena, 26
tris; et ciKunt lit ares,
si quando cernunt a-
Prseda canum est vatemque petunt et fronde vi-
:
;

vem niwtis vagantem

renti
luce. Ceuque cervits
periturus matutinil
Conjiciunt
- thyrsos, non hsec in munera factos.
arenil theatre stracto tx i i •,<- t . i „
vtrinque, est prada Hse glebas, lUsB dircptos
arbore ramos,
Zm^cSuhlntlhilt^
Pars torquent silices. Neu desint tela furori, 30
SOS vircnti fronde, /'ion Fortc boves
factos in luce munera. -.-r mi\prcsso subio;ebant
vomere terram
Htr torquent glebas, JNecprocul hinc multo iructum sudore parantes
a to, i
:

frtore',"'i"'rs '^'sMcel
Dura lacertosi fodiebant arva coloni :

roTte'boviTl'nJ'\i^a^^^^ Agoiinc qui viso fugiunt, operisque relinqnunt

Arma sui vacuosque jacent dispersa per agros 35
'terram presso vomere.
Nee vrocul hinc lacer-
tost coloni, parantes
o i
:

,
•

fearculaquc, rastnque graves, longique ligones.

i-i"
'fo7iebaVt''\im^^^^
Q"^ postquam rapuere ferse, cornuque minaci
qui fiigivnt agmine Divellcre boves, ad vatis fata recurrunt :
t'(v(), relinqiiutitqiie
arma sui operis ;ru^trique graves, longique ligones, sarculaqve,jncent dispersa per vacuos agros.
QutF postquam feree rapuere, divellcreque bores minaei cornu; recurrunt ad fata vatis ;
TRANSLATION,
charms of his music but that the hideous clamour, the Berecynthian
;

flute, and squeakins; horn, drums, clapping of hands, and Bacchanalian

yelUngs, deafened the sound of his moving lyre. Then at length the stones
were stained with the blood of the poet, who could no longer be heard.
And first this female crew drive away a numberless throng of birds listen-
ing to the poet's song, and snakes, and troops of wild beasts, which ga-
thered round the lyrist, formed a Then with bloody
glorious theatre.
right hands they attack Orpheus himself, and flock together like birds,
when they espy the boding fowl of night strolling about by day or, when ;

in a crowded amphitheatre, as the of dogs

stag is doomed to fall the prey
in the morning sand. They assail the poet, and dart at his head their
'

javelins entwined with leafy greens, and destined for a more sacred use.
Some hin-1 clods of earth, some flints, and branches torn from trees and ;

that arms may not be wanting to their rage, it chanced that some oxen
were breaking open a field with the piercing share, and hard by the
brawny peasants providing food with laborious toil, Avere digging up the
reluctant earth who seeing this frantic troop, take to flight, and leave
:

their implements of labour behind. Harrows, and

heavy rakes, and long
spades, lie scattered over the forsaken fields. Which seized by this en-
raged crew, who tore in pieces the oxen with threatening horns, they re-
turn to the poet's fate,
sacrilegiously butcher him, stretching out his sup-
pliant hands and then for the first time straining his voice, nor able to
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lic.XI. 381

r-,T.
lendentemq manus, atq; tempore primura
;

Irnta diceiitem, nee quicquam voce moventem,40

•
illo
, A r\
sacriiefttqnfpcrhniint
illain tendcni.em ma-
«,/., et in uin temfore

Perq os (proh Jupiter !)

Sacrilega; periiuui.t. ;
illud, ffriSl^T,;:;':
Audituni saxis, intellectumque ferarum 9'""» '"cc- animuque.
., -I
-
•, ,
.
1 1 i (vroli Jupiter!) ex/ia-
feensibus: in ventos anima exrialata recessit. I'ata imentos.reossit
Te moestffi volucres, Orpheu, te turbe ferarum, "^Ztm^i^^S!:
Te rioidi
t? silices,' tua carmina sjepc seculiie, 45 ^'^
f "«<>"v7c'-« '•'"« '»/««-
volucres flvvcrunt
. .
p 1
•
I 1

rleverunt suvae: positis te irondibus arbos tc, orpheu^'turba jc-

lonsa comam luxit: lachrymis quoque tlumma di- snues, suva-que sa-pe
stciito' tua ctirmliia,
„,,„*
t.UUL
^
ttewrant tc. Arbos ton-
Increvisse suis: obscuraque carbasa puUo sticotmim.positisfnm.
--T• 1 . T\ 1 1 1 A -n dtbus, Itixttte: dicunt
jN'
aides, et Dryades, passosque habuere capiilos. fluminu quoque hurc-
Membra jacent diversa locis. Caput, Hebre, ly- ^Nidadclqle %Vl)nfa'.
fQinniio 'lO habuere carbiisa
'^fi-*

lamque t iv , , .
obsctira pullo. capH.
Excipis : et (mirum) medio dum labitur amne, losquepassos. Membra
T->i 1 -1
•
•! •, 1 n •! T 1 juccnt diversa locis.
Jblebile nescio quid queritur lyra, ilebile lingua tu, Hebre exdpis ca.
Murmurat exanimis respondent flebile ripse. :
Vliriy^a^^MUuT
amne queritur
Jamq mare invecttc flumen populare relinquiint:
-t^
t.t
-xi
;
-y

MethymnEese potiuntur
i-Ti-
Lesbi.
•

littore
rr
65
'"f'^'."
nescio quid flebile, Im-
gua eximims nmrmu-
Hic ferus expositum peregrinis anguis arenis poideu/J'ebUe'.'^ JaZ-
Os petit, et sparsos stillanti rore capiilos. ?;:;;;Z7i"^X;<;if;
landem Phoebus adest: morsusque inferre paran-* •"•
men, et putiimtur lu-
tore MethymncecB Les-
tem bi. Hie ferus anguis

Arcet; et in lapidem rictus serpentis apertos 59 ^egUilTreSTt 11'.

Cone-elat: et patulos,' (ut
j-o \ 5r
erant)' indurat hiatus,'
Umbra subit terras et, quse loca viderat ante,
^
pitios
sparjos
Auiauti
rore. Tandem Phahns
adest, arcctque Mum

C, r\ •
,
:

parantem inferre mor-

uncta recognoscit. Quzerensque per arva piorum sus, et congeiat aper-
tos rictus serpentis in lapidem, et indurat putulos Uiattts (ut erant.) Umbra subit terras, et
recognoscit cuiicta loca qu<E viderat ante, qua-rensque per ana piorum,
TRANSLATION.
soften them by the powerful accents of his tongue. And his soul, blend-
ing with (ah gods) through that mouth, which had so often
air, issued !

tamed the fiercest of the savage breed, and forced attention even from in-
sensate rocks. Thee, Orpheus, the disconsolate birds, thee, the savage
crowd, the rigid flints, and groves oft charmed by thy sti'ains, bewailed.
Thee, the drooping trees, stript of their leafy glories, mourned. They tell
us, that even the rivers swelled with their own tears and that the Naiads ;

and Dryads appeared in sable scarfs, and with dishevelled hair. His
limbs lie scattered in different parts. His head and harp are plunged in
Hebrus' stream and (Avondrous to relate) while they roll down its middle
,

current, the lyre sounds, I know not what mournful strain the lifeless ;

tongue murmurs in deadly notes, and the banks re-echo the moving sound.
And now borne downward to the sea, they leave their native stream, and
reach the shore of the Lesbos. Here a venoined snake at- Methymnean
tempts the head, landed on a foreign soil, and locks imbrued with clotted
gore. But Phoebus comes to his aid, and checks the monster, ready for
the devouring grasp whose
expanded jaws, transformed to stone, stand
;

hardened in the ghastly grin. His ghost flies downward to the Stygian
shades, and knows again the places it had seen before, and searching in
the regions of the and clasps her in his eager
pious, finds his Eurydice,
arms. Here sometimes they walk unmolested, side by side now he fol* ;
 382 P. QVIDII NASONIS
invciiif Eurydice»,<im- Invenit Euiydicen, cupidisque amplectitur ulnis.
p{i'ctituri/ue ciipidis
uliiix. Hie modo ant- Hie modo conjunctis spatiantur passibus ambo :

bo spatiantur (oiiju?ic-
tispassibus, nunc se- Nunc praecedentem sequitur, nunc pravius anteit :

Eurydicenque suam jam tuto respicit Orpheus. 66

quitur pra-cederitem,
nunc anteit pravins,
Orpheusque jam liitti
II. Non impunc tamen scelus hoc sinit esse
respicit suam Eurydi-
ce7i.
ll.Tamcn Lya-us non
Lyseus ;

Amissoque dolens sacrorum vate suorum,

•

sinit hoc scelus esse

impune,dolevsqitc vate Protinus in silvis, matres Edonidas omnes,
stiorum sacrorum a-
misso, protinus ligarit Quag fecere nefas, torta radice Hgavit. 70
ill silvis torta riikice ;
omnes matres Edoni- Quippe pedum digitos, in quantum quaeque se-
das quiB J'ecHre nefas.
cuta est,
Quippe in quantum
quaeque est secuta Traxit: et in solidam detrusit acumine terram.
traxit digit OS
pedum,
et detrusit acumine in
solidam terram. I (que
Utque suum laqueis, quos caUidus abdidit auceps,
t'olucris, ubi commisit
Cms ubi commisit volucris, sensitque teneri,
suum eras laqueis,
quos caUidus auceps Plangitur ; ac trepidans abstringit vincula motu 75 :

abdidit, sensitque se Sic, ut quceque solo defixa cohseserat harum,

teneri ; plangitur ; ac
trepidans, abstringit Exsternata fugam frustra tentabat at illam :

vincula motu. AVc ut

quaque harum defixa
Lenta tenet radix, exsultantemque coercet.
solo cohfFscrat, exster-
nata tentabat fugam Dvimque ubi sint digiti, dum pes ubi quairit, et
frustra: et lenta ra- ungues,
dix tenet illam, coer-
cetque exsalta7item. Aspicit in teretes Hgnum succedere suras, 80
Dumque qiia:Tit ubi
Et conata femur moerenti plangere dextra ;
est pes et ungues, as-
picit lignum succedere
in teretes suras, et co-
Robora percussit, pectus quoque robora fiunt:
nata plangere femur Robora sunt humeri. Porrectaque brachia veros
tHoerenti dextra, per-
cussit rohora, pectus
Esse putes ramos et non fallare putandp.
:

quoque fiunt robora : III. Nee satis hoe Baccho est. Ipsos quoque de-
humeri su7it robora,
futesque porrecta bra- serit
agros : 85
chia esse veros ramos,
etnon fallare putando. choro meliore, sui vineta
Cumque Tymoh,
III. Nee est hoc satis Baccho; deserit
quoque ipsos agros, cumque meliore choro petit vineta

TRANSLATION.
lows her with unanxious pace, now securely walks before, and now without
danger looks back upon his Eurydice.
II. Yet Bacchus suifers not this crime to
go unpunished, and concerned
for the loss of a poet, who was the
guardian of his mysteries, instantly
bound down in the woods, by a twisted root, all the Edonian matrons, ac-
complices of the guilt. For just as they stood, he lengthened out the toes
of their feet, and thrust them into the solid earth by a sharp point. And
as a bird, when she has entangled her leg in a snare, artfully hid by the
subtle fowler, finding herself fast, beats her
wings, and, fluttering, draws
the noose still closer by her struggles so as any one of these found her-
;

self rooted to the ground, startled, she in vain endeavours to get loose ;
for the pliant twig toughly keeps its hold, and proves strong enough to
baffle all her efforts. And while she looks to find her toes, feet, and nails,
she sees the rind rising round her shapely leg and attempting to smite ;

her thigh with her mournful right hand, she smites solid oak: her breast
too and shoulders are transformed to oak. You would think her extended
arms real houghs, nor would you be deceived in so thinking.
III. Nor does this suffice Bacchus he even resolves to quit the hated
;

plains, and with a better choir repairs to his favourite vineyards of Ty-
molus, and Pactolus not yet enriched with golden ore, nor to be envied
:
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XL 38§

Pactolonque petit quamvis non aureus illo

:
sui Tymoli, Pactolon-
que^ quamvis nonerat
Tempore, nee oaris erat invidiosus arenis. aureus illo terrrpore,
7iec invidiosus carts
Hunc assueta cohors Satyri, Bacchgeque frequen- arenis. Satyri Bac-
tant :
chaque,assueta cohors,
J'requentant hunc, et
At Silenus abest. Titubantem annisq ; meroq ; 90 Silenus abest. Ruri-
colce Phryges cepere
Ruricolse cepere Phryges; vinctumque coronis titubantem annisque
Ad regem traxere Midan cui Thracius Orpheus viiictum coronis ad re-
:
meroq ; traxcreque

gem Midan ; cui Thra-

Orgia tradiderat cum Cecropio Eumolpo. cius Orphetis cum Ce-
Qui simul agnovit socium comitemque sacrorum, cropio Eu7nolpo, tra-
diderat Orgia. Qui .v/-
Hospitis adventu festum genialiter egit 95 mvlugnovit socium co-
Per bis quinque dies, et junctas ordine noctes. mitemque sacrorum,
egit festum genialiter
Et jam stellarum sublime coegerat agmen adventu hospitis, per
his quinque dies, et
Lucifer undecimus, Lydos cum Izetus in agros noctes junctas ordine.

Rex venit; et juveni Silenum reddit alumno. Etjam Lucifer unde-

cimus coegerat sub-
Huic Deus optandi gratum, sed inutile, fecit 100 lime agmen stellarum,
cum rex venit lostus in
Muneris arbitrium, gaudens altore recepto. agros Lydos, et reddit
Silenum juveni alum-
Ille male usurus donis, ait, Effice no. Deus gaudens al-
quicquid
tore recepto, fecit huic
Corpore contigero, fulvum vertatur in aurum. arbitrium muneris op-
Annuit optatis nocituraque munera solvit tandi, gratum sed
: in-
utile. Ille male usu-
Liber; et indoluit, quod non meliora petisset. 105 rus donis, ait, effice, tit
quicquid contigero,
Laetus abit; gaudetque malo Berecynthius heros corpore, vertatur in-
:

fulvum aurinn. Liber annuit optatis, solvitque twcitura munera, et indoluit quod tton petisset
meiiora. Berecynthius heros abit latus, gaudetque malo :

TRANSLATION.
for its precious sand. Him his
usual throng of satyrs and nymphs sur-
round but Silenus is absent the Phrygian swains had seized him stag-
;
:

gering with age and wine, and dragged him, bound with garlands, to their
king Midas whom Thracian Orpheus, and Eumolpus of Athens, had
;

before instructed in the mysterious rites of Bacchus. He, knowing imme-

diately this venerable associate and companion of the sacred pomp, or-
dained in honour of his guest a festival of ten days, and as many succes-
sive nights. And now had the eleventh morning star chased from the fir-
mament the lofty host of stars when the king joyfully repairs to the Lydian
;

plains, and restores Silenus to the young god, his foster-child. The god,
pleased at having recovered his nursing-father, gave the king a power to
name his wish an offer grateful indeed and flattering, but which in the
;

end proved useless for he indiscreetly using the grant ; Give me (said
;

he) that whatever I touch with my body, may be converted into yellow
gold. Bacchus consented to his wish, and bestowed the hurtful present,
but grieved that he had not made a wiser demand. The Berecynthian
hero departs joyfid, and rejoices in his misfortune, and makes trial of the

NOTES.
90. At Silenus abest.'] All the ancients death, and several other points of mo-
agree in telling u.s, that Silenus had the rality, make it evident that
he must iiave
care of Bacchus' education, and we al- been a very extraordinary man. See the
ways find him eitlier with that god or the Prose Translation of Virgil, vol. I.
Bacchantes. It is a great mistake to 92. flJidan.] Midas was the son of Gor-
fancy this god an old battered debaHchee, dius and Cybele, and reigned, according
since he is often described as a to Strabo, in the greater Phiygia. As he
philoso-
pher, and great captain. The discovirse was extremely rich, and a good econo-
which Virgil puts into his mouth, and mist, it was given out that he couvorted
those ascribed to him whatever he touched into gold.
by Phitarch upon
 384 P. OVIDII NASONIS

tenuitqiie poHuuam PolUcitamque fidcm tan2;endo sing-ula tentat ;

la. Vixque creiicns Vixque sibi credens, non alta fronde virentem
.sj-

bi, (letrajcit tiiiu alia

aiice virgam viiiiitem Ilice detraxit
virgam virga aurea facta est, :

friiiide; virga t.\t fdcta

Jhlllt siixtim Tollit humo saxum
aurta. saxum quoque palluit auro. :

hiinio, saxiiM giioque contactu gleba potenti 111

jxiUiiit atiru. Coiiti- Contigit et glebam :

git it gteham ; g/eba Massa fit. Arentes Cereris decerpsit aristas :

Jit massa auri po/enti

coiitactu. Decirpsit Aurea messis erat. Demptura tenet arbore pomum:
arentes aristas Cere-
ris: mes.sis erut aurea Hesperidas donasse putes. Si postibus altis
Ttnetromumdemytiim Admovit DOstes
di2"itos
o
i _
radiare videntur.
:
'
_ . . _
11 o
arbore, putes Hespe-
ridas donasse : si ad- Ille etiam liquidis palmas ubi laverat undis,
Movet digitos altis pos-
tibus; postes videntur
Unda fluens palmis Danaen eludere posset.
radiare. Eliani ubi
ille laverat puhnas It.
Vix spes ipse suas animo capit, aurea fingens
unda Omnia. Gaudenti mensas posuere ministri,
quidis iiiiiiis,
fiuens ynbnis posset
eiudere DuHULH. Ipse
t'./J-i
lixstructas dapibus, nec
c
irugis egentes
i.
tostae
L j.
120
vix cupit suas spes ani-
mo, Jiiige/is omnia au-
Tiim vero, sive ille sua Cerealia dextra
rea. Ministri posuere Muuera contio-crat, Cerealia dona rio-ebant.
lUi gaudenti mensas o-ni -i ii i li
exstructas dapibus, dapes aviQo conveUere dente parabat.
feivc

gfi! '^Tumverfshinie Lamina fulva dapes admoto dente nitebant.

cereniia 12 o
configerat
tnuntra sua
Miscuerat Duris auctoreui niuneris undis,'
dextra; r. .

Cerealia dona rige- Fusile per rictus aurum fluitare videres.

bant. Sive parabat con- a,, } , t ^ .

Attonitus novitate mall, divesque, miserque

veiieque dapes avido
dente, dapes dente ad-
tnoto, nittbant lamina EfFugere optat opes ; et, quae
modo vovei'at, odit.
fulva. Miscuerutuuc-
toreni muneris pnris Copia nulla famem relevat sitis arida guttur :

undis : videres fnsi'c Urit, et iuviso meritus torquetur ab auro. 130

aurum JIuitare
rictus. Attonitii Ad ccelumque manus,et splendida brachia tollens,
vitate mail, divesque miserque, optat ejfugere opes: et odit, qua: modo voverat. T\uUa copia re-
levat famem: arida sitis urit guttur, el torquetur meritus ab inviso auro. Tollcnsque manus et
splendida bruchia ad cwlum,
TRANSLATION.
god's fidelity by touching the several objects that offered to him. For
scarce crediting the possibility of so singular a grant, he pulls from a
lowly oak a verdant twig ; the twig instantly became gold. He takes up a
stone from the ground the stone too, changed to gold, appeared of a pale
;

yellow. He touched a clod too, and by the potent touch it becomes a mass
of gold. He plucked some dry ears of corn, and they shone a golden har-
vest. He holds in his hand an
apple pulled from a tree you would have ;

believed brought from the garden of the Hesperides. If he lays his

it

fingers on lofty door-posts, they seem to blaze Avith burnished gold. When
he washes his hands in the liquid stream, the water dropping from his
hands might have deceived even Danae. Scarce can he now contain his
own hopes, imagining every thing gold. His slaves set before their happy
lord a table spread with rich dainties, nor ill provided of bread. But
then whether he reached out his hand to touch the gifts of Ceres, imme-
diately they hardened into gold or if he attempts with hungry jaws
;

to devour the tempting morsels, the morsels, when touched by his teeth,
shone out plates of yellow gold. He had mixed some of his patron's
juice with pure water; you might have seen the fluid gold trickle
from his jaws. Amazed at the novelty of his misfortune rich, and at ;

the same time miserable, he desires to be delivered from this fatal

opulence, and repents of hisindiscreet wish. In the midst of plenty he
is cursed with famine
scorching thirst dries up his throat,
;
and he is
deservedly tormented by the now odious gold. When raising to heaven
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lir. XI. 385

t)a veniam, Lensee pater ; peccavimus, inquit :

n^epatl^l^^f^,
Sed miserere, precor, speciosque eripe damno. sed prccor misere,eri-

Mite Deum numen Bacchus peccasse latentem BaccUns, mue numen

Restituit, pactamque fidem, data munera solvit. fcmpeccaife%u^tq'ue
fdem, data
Neve
j.,,^,v. male
mt.jv. optato
^^ maneas circumlitus auro,
^
136 ^
'
P'x-tom
munera. Neve maneas
Vade, ait, ad maffnis vicinum Sardibus amnem; cireumutus mack op-
T-. •
.• i-i, T 1 ("to auro, vade, ait,
1 1
•

Perquejugimi montis labentibus obvms undis «,/ amnem vicinum

viam donee venias ortus.
Carpe ;
ad^flmiiinis ^S^r^^n'^oXjf::.
Spumiferoque tumn fonti,' qua plurimus exit, 140 glim
^'^ labentibus per ju-
r i A montis, dvnic le-
Subde caput: corpusque simul, smiul elue crimen, niasadortusjivminis;
,,,•• 'Ml •

T» •
1-i suhde •
i.'„'i. caput tuwnspu-
Rex jussae succedit aquae: vis aurea tinxit miferojonti, qua exit

Flumen, humano de corpore cessit in amnem.

et
^u"e'ZrpusJlZurt
Nunc quoque iam veteris percepto semine venae »'««• ^ex succedu
. > ^
Arva rigent, auro madidis
''
!!•
pallentia glebis.
TTiii*
1 A
145
J'issaaqua.J'isaurea
nnxit jiumen, et «*.
e-

IV. Ille perosus opes, silvas et rura colebat, fn aL'ZTZ^uZ

Panaque montanis habitantem semper in antris. ^ lu%is''Zadidif'7ulo,

Pingue sed ingenium mansit nocituraque, ut ante, ngent, semtne vena
-r\ \ !•! ,!• T
Rursus erant domino stolidse praecordia mentis.
:

!_• jo-fn,veteris percepto.

lY.iiie perosus opes,
Nam freta prospiciens late riget arduus alto 150 Sitf^/^/'^J/JS
Tmolus in adscensu clivoque extentus utroque,
:
semper in mmtanis
^
. . .
\y antris, sed mgemum
.
11 •

bardibus nine, illinc parvis iinitur nypsepis.

matisit pingue, pre-
-r-»
Pan -i-i
ibi dum1
teneris jactat
••ij. „ t,' cordiaque stolidameti-
sua carmina nympnis,
tis, erant rursus no-
citura dominant a7ite. Nam
Tmolus prospiciens freta late, riget ardmis in alto adscensu, ex-
tentusque utroque cllvo,finitur liinc Sardibus, illinc parvis Uypapis, Ibi dum Pan jactat sua
carmina teneris nymphis.
TRANSLATION.
his hands and shining arms, Forgive, father Bacchus (said he), forgive ;

I own my error, but compassionate my sufferings, and deliver me from

this specious calamity. The gentle deity was moved by his confession,
annulled the cruel grant, and restored him to his former condition. And
that you may not always remain beset with this indiscreetly wished-for
gold, repair to the stream
that waters the neighbourhood of mighty Sar-
dis then trace thy way to the rising of the river, and meet it issuing
;

from the mountain's brow. Here, where it bursts forth a mighty stream,
plunge thy head into the bubbling spring,
and purge at once thy body
and thy crime. The king plunges into the water as instructed the golden ;

charm tinctured the stream, and passed from his body to the river. And
eveu now the neighbouring plains, enriched with veins of gold, nourish
the hard ore, and the yellow glebe imbibes the precious stream.
IV. He, now hating wealth, delighted only in the woods and rural re-
treats, and resorted with Pan to the mossy caves and mountains. But his
stupidity still remained
and the folly which had invested his soul was
;

doomed to be again fatal to its owner. For Tmolus, rising steep with lofty
ascent, surveys far and wide the sea below and stretching in his descent ;

on either side, is here bounded by Sardis, and there by the small confines
NOTES.
149. Stolida prcBCordia mentis.'] Midas denote his stupidity, had condemned him
was remarkable for his diilness and stu- to carry ass's ears. Tmolus, whom the
pidity; hence arose the fiction of his poet tells us was the judge pitched upon
passingjudgment in favour of Pan against on this occasion, was the son of Mars,
Apollo; and they add, that this last, to and had been king of Lydia.
386 P. OVIDII NASONIS

et modulator leve car- Et leve ceratvl modulator arundine carmen

men ceratd arvndiiie,
;

aiixus contemnere A- Ausus Apollineos prae se contemnere cantus, 155

poUincMs cantus jir/e
se, veiiit ad impar cer- Judice sub Tmolo certamen venit ad impar.
tamen sub Tmolo jn-
(iice. Senior judex con-
Monte suo senior judex consedit; et aures
sedit suo monte, et li-
beral aure^ arboribus.
Liberat arboribus.
.
Quercu coma coerula tantura. , T
_^. ,
Tantum coma coerula
Cingitur et pendent cu'cum cava tempora gianaes.
;

gTa^!d'e' penduZ' ci^r. Isque Deum pecOHS spectaus, in judicc, dixit, 160
cum cava tempora.
deum Nulla mora est, Calamis agrestibus insonat ille ;
Isque spectans
pecoris, dixit, Est nul- Midan (aderat nam forte canenti)
la mora in judice. Barbaricoque
Jlle insimat agrestibus Carmine delinit. Post hunc sacer ora retorsit
calamis :
delinitque
Midan, (nam Jorl't Tmolus
ad os Phsebi vultum sua silva secuta est. :

aderat canenti) bar- Ille

caput flavum lauro Parnasside vinctus 165
baricn carmine. Post
hunc sacer Tmolus re- Verrit saturata murice palla
humum, Tyrio :

torsit ora ados P/icebi;

sua silva
vultum.
Instructamque
est secuta
Ille vinctus
fidem gemmis et dentibus Indis
ad Sustinet a laevS.: tenuit manus altera plectrum.
quod caput Jluium
Parnasside la uro,ver. Artificis status ipse fuit.
rit humum valid sa- ,-. ,,.
Tum stamiua docto
,,. ., ,* t i i -inn ,

turata Tyrio murice; Pollice sollicitat dulceduie quorum captus

: 1/U
sustinetque d leieji
dem instructam gem- Pana jubet Tmolus citharee submittere cannas.
mis, et dentibus Indis: Judicium
altera tnanui tenuit sanctique placet sententia montis
plectrum. Status ip- Omnibus. Arguitur tamen, atque injusta vocatur
se fuit artificis, tum
sollicitat stamina doc- Unius serraone Midse. Nee Delius aures
to pollice: quorum dul-
cedine Tmolus Humanam stolidas patitur retinere figuram
captus,
175 ;

jubet Pana submittere Sed trahit in spatium, villisque albentibus implet;

cannas cithura. Ju-
dicium sententiaque
saneti montis placet
Instabilesque imo facit et dat posse moveri. :

omnibus : tamen argui Csetera sunt hominis partem damnatur in : unum :

'ulL"'sfrnZ'ifl'^uus Induiturquc
aures lente gradientis aselli.
Midre, nee Delius patitur stolidas aures retinere humanam figuram. Sed trahit cas in spa-
tium, impletque albentibus villis,facitque instabiles imo, et dat posse moveri. Cteterasunt ho-
minii. Vam/iatur in unam partem ; induiturque aures aselli gradientis lente.
TRANSLATION.
of Hypgepee. There, while Pan vaunts his strains to the tender nymphs,
and warbles an airy song on reeds jointed with wax, presuming to rank
this music even above Apollo's lays, he challenged him to an unequal
trial, under the decision of Tmolus. The aged judge seats himself upon
his own mountain, and frees his ears from the encumbering trees. His head
is hound with an oaken wreath, and the acorns dangle round his hollow

temples. Then casting a look at the guardian god of flocks, There is no

delay (says he) in me, your judge. He sounds his rustic reed, and with
his rural song delights Midas, who, by chance, was present. The sacred
sire turned next to Phopbus and, as he turned, the whole forest followed
;

the motion of his venerable brow. The god, having his golden tresses
bound with a wreath of Parnassian laurel, sweeps the ground with a long
mantle of rich Tyrian dye and with his left hand supports his lyre,
;

adorned with gems and Indian teeth his other hand held the quill, and
:

his easy posture spoke a consummate artist. He then touches the strings
with a masterly hand whose soft music enchanting Tmolus, he adjudges
;

Pan to submit the reed to the lyre. This judgment and decision of the
sacred mountain is approved by all IMidas alone murmurs, and calls it
;

unjust. Nor does the Delian god suffer his untuned ears to wear a human
form, but lengthens them out, and covers them with grey hairs, and makes
them unstable, and moveable in their lower parts. The rest of his body
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XL 387

V. Ille quidem celat, turpique onerata pudore

feli^iXvHaVpvr!
Tempora purpureis tentat velare tiaris. 181 pureisnaris tempora
o 1 tj 1 c •\^ onerata turpi pudore.
C!»ed, solitus longos ferro resecare capillos, sedfamuhilsoutmre-
Viderat hoc famulus. Qui, cum nee prodere visum }erro!J"d"efat i"oc:"ui
Dedecus efferre sub auras, «"» nee auderet pro-
__ audevet,' cupiens
1 dere visum dedecus,
T
.
1
JNec posset reticere tamen, secedit; numumque cupiens efferre sub au-
EfFodit et, doraini quales aspexerit aures,
: 1 86
7euclTefse"cedi/feffo-
Voce refert parva; terrceque mimurmurat haustee. jlTparvZZe qnaYel
Indiciumque suae vocis tellure reg'esta, ««'« domud uspex-
1
j-^, .
,., .
,. J-, .' erit, immurmuratque
UbrUlt; etSCroblbuS taCltUS dlSCeait OpertlS. hausta terra. ObruU
Creber arundinibus tremulis ibi surgere lucus 190
Tupi"egesTa^eu''JcHus
Coepit et, ut primilm pleno maturuit anno,
:
mZ^f' ilfi^i^LTrt
Prodidit agricolam. Leni nam motus ab austro ber iremuUs arundi-
j-\t .
^ n 1 i , nlbus cccpit sureere ;
• • •

Ubruta verba retert; dommique coarguit aures. et, ut pAmum matv-

VI. Ultus abit Tmolo; liquidumque per aera

^iK/^XoS^'i^;-
VectUS motus ab le7ii austro
A \
s •
TVT • TT 11 inc re/ert obruta verba,
. 1 1 1

Angustum citra pontum JNepneleidos Helles lyo coarguuque aures do-

Laomedonteis Latoiius adstitit arvis. '"vi. Latdiu.i nitus
Dextera Sig^i, aUtTmoio, vectusque
o ' Rhoetaei laiva profundi
i
,_ . per Itquidum acra, aa-
Ara Panomphseo vetus est sacrata Tonanti. stmt Laotnedonteis
Yi\ '•v ... .„,
Inde nova? primum moliri mcenia Irojse
.
arvis, circa angustum
pont^an Nepheieidos
Laomedonta videt susceptaque magna labore 200
:
fej^/r'a '''sigat, "i^Ta
Crescere
^-.
difficili ;
.' r.l.
nee opes exposcere parvas.
I'j-
profumn nuatm,
crata Pattomphao to-
sa.

Cumque tndentigero tumidi o

gemtore proiundi
1
nanti. inde primum
tidet Ijaomedo7ita vto-
liri mcenia novte Trqjd, susceptaque magna crescere difficili labore ; exjioscereque nee parvas
epes. Jnduiturque mwtalem formam cum, triclentigero
TRANSLATION.
retains the form of man, for he is
punished in one part only, and puts on
the ears of a slow-moving ass.
V. He, indeed, conceals his misfortune, and endeavours to hide the dis-
honour of his temples, by wrapping them round with a purple turban.
But a servant, employed to cut his hair, when long, saw the deformity ;

who, not daring to discover his master's reproach, impatient as he was to

publish it, and yet unable to keep the secret, retired to a proper place,
dug up the ground, and repeats, in alow voice, what kind of ears he had
beheld on his master, whispering it to the hollow earth and, by re- ;

placing the mould, buries this discovery of his voice, and, silent, leaves
the covered trench. Here a thick grove of trembling reeds began to rise,
which ripening with the revolving year, betrayed the tiller for, moved ;

by a gentle south wind, it repeats the words that had been there buried,
and reveals the secret of Midas's ears.
VL
The son of Latona, having thus satisfied his revenge, leaves
Tmolus and, wafted through the liquid skies, rests in the plains of Lao-
;

medon, near the narrow sea of Nepheleian Helle. To the right of Si-
gaeum, and left of the far-projecting Rhoetsean promontory, stands an
ancient altar, sacred to the thunderer. Thence he first spies
Panomphsean
NOTES.
200. Laomedonta videt. 1 Laomedon was took tbat {jreat work, and succeeded so
king of Troy. As the city was not as yet well, that he is said to have been assisted
sarrounded with walls, this prince under- in it by Apollo.
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388 P. OVIDII NASONIS

f:::!^ SS<.</;«.
Mortalemindmtur formam; Phrygioque tyranno
mnrus Phri/gw tyran- iEdificaut muios, pacto pi'o mcEnibus aiiro.
no, aiiro pitcto pro ci
, > , n •
^• •
^ ^ arxr:
mwnibu.s.opusst.abut:
"
otabat opus pretium rcx mticiatur; et addit
: 2Uo
rex
um 'e'tl!ddit'^pe7%ria
,
PerfidiaB cmimlum falsis perjm'ia verbis.
ctimulum perjidia- fill-
sis verbis. Jlector iiui-
Non impune feres, rector maris inquit: et omnes
ris inquit, Non feres Inclinavit aquas ad avarse littora Trojze.
impune : et incliiiavit
omnes aquas ad litto- Inque freti formam terras convertit ; opesque
rtiavartc Troja:. Con-
vert itque terras in Abstulit agricolis; et fluctibus obruit arva. 210
formam freti, abstu- Pcena neque hsec satis est: regis quoque filia
litque opes agricolis ;
et obriiit arva Jlucti- monstro
bus. Neque heec poena
est satis :
Jilia regis
Poscitur sequoreo. Quam dura ad saxa revinctam
poscitur quoqiie teijuo-
reo monstro : quam re-
Vindicat Alcides ; promissaque munera dictos
vinctam ad dura saxa, Poscit equos tantique operis mercede negata,
:

Alcides vindicut ; pos-

citque dictos eqnos, Bis perjuria capit superatae mcenia Trojan, 215
fromissa munera,mer- Nee Telamon sine honore recessit
cedeque tanti operis pars militise :

negata, cayit bis per-

jura mania superatte Hesioneque data potitur. Nam conjuge Peleus
Troja. Nee Telamon, Clarus erat Diva.
avi magis ille superbit Nee
pars 7nilitieB recessit
sine honore,potittirque Nomine quam
Siquidem Jovis esse nepoti soceri.
Jlesione datd. Nam
Contigit baud uni conjux Dea contigit uni. 220
Peleus, erat clarus di-
:

va conjuge nee ille : VII. Namque senex Thetidi Proteus, Dea, dix-
superbit magis nomine
avi, quam soceri. Si- erat, undae,
quidem contigit hand
uni taiitum esse tiepoti Concipe; mater eris juveni, qui fortibus actis
Jovis: Dea conjux Acta patris vincet; majorque vocabitur illo.
contigit uni.
Vlf. Namque senex Proteus dixerat Thetidi, Dea unda concipe ; eris mater juveni, quifortibus
actis, vincet acta patris ; vocubiturque major illo.

TRANSLATION.
Laomedon raising the walls of new Troy and that the mighty design was
;

carried on with great difficulty, and at a vast expense. He, therefore, in

concert with the trident-bearing father of the swelling deep, assumes a
mortal form and having settled the price of the work, they jointly build
;

the walls for the Phrygian king. The work was finished the king re- ;

fuses the promised reward, and accumulates his crime, by adding perjury
to falsehood. You shall not escape
unpunished, says the ruler of the deep,
and drove waves to the walls of covetous Troy. The earth has now
all his
the appearance of a sea, the
copious harvests are swept from the plains,
and all the fields ravaged by the billows. Nor does this punishment atone
for his crime a huge sea-monster demands the king's daughter for his
;

prey whom, bound to a rock, Alcides delivers, and demands the breed of
;

horses, his promised reward and, finding the recompense of so important

;

a service denied him, storms the twice perjured walls of conquered Troy.
Nor did Telamon, one of his companions in this war, come off without
honour, but enjoys Hesione, as his share of the spoils for Peleus was ;

distinguished by a goddess-bride. Nor is he more proud of his grand-

father than of his father-in-law, as many could boast of their being grand-
sons to Jove, but he alone had enjoyed a goddess.
VII. For aged Proteus had said to virgin Thetis, Fair goddess of the
NOTES.
221. Namque senex
Thetidi Proteus-] siroiis to avoid the marriage of Peleus,
Thetis was tlie (laughter of Nereiis, a,sea- hut that this last, by the counsels of a
eod. As she was extremely beautiful, her jirudent friend, found means to remove
fable is thus explained: That Thetis, all ohslacles-
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XI. 389

Ergo ne quicquam mundus Jove majus haberet, Ergo, tie mundu.i ha-
beret qtiicqunm majvs
Quamvis haud tepidos sub pectore senserat ignes ;
Jove, quamvii Jupiter
seiiserat lunid tejfido.i
Jupiter aequorese Thetidis connubia vitat 226 :
ignes iiih pec/ure,i'ilat
Columbia irquoreaTlie-
Inque sua ^aciden succedere vota nepotem tidix: jiissitqiie JEa-
viden nepotem iucce-
Jussit; et amplexus in virginis ire marinee. derr in sua vofa, et ire
Est sinus Harmonise curvos falcatus in arcus : in amplfxii.s marina;
rirgini\. Jisf aitius
Brachia procurrunt ubi si foret altior unda, 230
; Hamoni(F falcatus in
curios areas: brachia
Portus erat summis inductum est sequor arenis.
:
si
prociirrviit, vbi,
Littus habet soUdum, quod nee vestigia servet, unda Joint altior, erat
port us : aquor est in-
Nee remoretur iter nee opertum pendeat alga.
;
diictvm snminis are-
nis. Habet littus soli-
Myrtea silva subest bicoloribus obsita baccis. dum, qitod nee servet
Est specus in medio natura factus, an arte, 235 vestigia, nee remore-
; tur iter; nee pendeat
Ambiguum magis ;
arte tamen quo sa^pe venire : opertum alga. Silva
ntyrtea suliest, obsita
Frsenato delphine sedens, Theti, nuda solebas. bicoloribus baccis. Est
specns in medio, am-
Peleus, ut somno vineta jaeebas,
Illic te
bigiimn, unj'actus na-
tura, an arte ; tamen
Occupat: et quoniam precibus tentata repugnas ;
magis arte : quo Theti
Vim parat, innectens ambobus colla lacertis. 240 sape solebas vetiire
nuda, sedens frenato
Quod nisi venisses variatis ssepe figuris delpldne. Illic Peleus
Ad solitas artes ; auso foret illi potitus. occupat te, ut jaeebas
vineta sotnno: et qun-
Sed modo tu volucris (volucrem tamenille tenebat ;) niatn tentata preeVms
repugnas: parat vim,
Nunc gravis arbor eras: hgerebat in arbore Peleus. innectens colla ambo-
bus lacertis. Quod nisi
Tertia forma fuit maculosse tio'ridis: ilia 245 venisses ad sotitas ar-
Territus^acides a corpore brachia solvit. tes, Jiguris sa:pe, vari-
atis, ille foret potitus
Inde Deos pelagi, vino super aequora fuso, auso. Sed modb tu
eras volucris: (tamen
Et pecoris fibris et fumo thuris adorat. ille tenebat volucrem)
nunc eras gravis ar-
bor : PelcHS hffreliat i-1 arhore. Tertia forma fuit maculoste tigridis : JEaeides territus ilia,
solvit brachia a corpore. Inde adorat Dcos pelugi vinoj'uso super a:qtn}ra, et Jibris pecoris, et
f'umo thuris.
TRANSLATION.
Waves, conceive; thou shall be the mother of a youth, who, by his gal-
lant deeds, shall surpass even his father's fame, and gain a renown greater
than his. That the world,
therefore, might not behold any thing superior
though he felt in his breast a powerful flame, yet avoids
to Jove, that god,
the embraces of this goddess of the waters, yields all his pretensions
to his grandson Peleus, and permits him to go into the embraces
of this beloved sea-nymph. There is on the coast of Hsemonia a
bay, wrought into a bending arch, whose arras project, and which,
did the waves rise higher, would form a harbour but the sea scarce co-
;

vers the surface of the sand. The beach is firm, but neither retains the
impression of feet, nor refuses the traveller's steps, nor is covered with
sea- weed. Hard by is a myrtle grove, planted with party-coloured ber-
ries, and in the middle of the grove a grot, uncertain whether formed by
nature or art, but more likely by art. Hither Thetis was often wont to
resort, naked, borne on her harnessed dolphin. Here Peleus seized you,
Avhile you lay fast bound in
sleep and, because you was deaf to all his
;

solicitations, resolves upon violence, throwing both his arms round yoiu"
neck. And had you not had recourse to your wonted art, by assuming a
variety of shapes, the youth had succeeded in his attempt. But sometimes
you appeared a bird, yet still he detained the bird sometimes a mighty ;

tree, Peleus clung to the tree. The third form you assumed was that of a
spotted tiger: at this the sou of ^acns, affrighted, quitted his hold. He
 390 P. OVIDll JNASONIS

i^r'iaf'riitVj;-. Donee Carpathius medio de gurgite vates,

gite;jEacide, potiere thalaniis potiere petitis. 260
"^^
petitts thalamis. Tu
^acide, dixit,
rp jv ^ i-
• • •

modb innecte earn ie- lu moQO, cum gelido sopita Quiescet in antfo,
i

naram laoueis.vinclo- T i
•
i •
.
•

que tenaci, cum gui- Ignamm laqucis vincloque innecte tenaci.

^^0 te decipiat centum mentita
figuras:
antro'Nii''de'cifilul
metitita cetitum jigii-
ras ; sed prome, quic-
Sed pi'eme quicQuid erit: dum quod fuit ante,
r 4.

quid erit ; dum refor- reiOriTiet.

Dixerat hsec Proteus et condidit sequore vultuni; :
Trot^'^'lidlfatTJc,
et condidit vuitum a'
Admisitque suos in verba novissima fluctus. 256
quore,admisitquesuos tj ^ m-i t •
i
juctus in novissima Fronus erat litan, inclinatoque tenebat

nus^'tVJe^atqiie let Hesperium

temons fretum cum pulchra relicto :

^ereis ingreditur consueta cubilia ponto.

IZtlTeJane'^Turtpui:
chra Nereis, po7ito re- Vix bene
virgincos Peleus invaserat artus : 260
licto, ingreditur con- tii i x" i i ,
•

suetacuhiiia. Peleus Hia novat lormas ; doncc sua membra teneri

S»eor«rr~m^^' Sentit: et in partes diversas brachia tendi.

Tiovat jormas do7icc Tum demiuii
sentit sua membra te-
ittgemuit:
& . T ' ait,> sine Numine
Neque, .
^
neri; et brachia tendi VinciS '.

Tumdemlmi7igemuii: Exhibita estque Thetis. Confessam amplectitur

Neque vincis, ait, sine hprO<i
numine : Thetisque est _, . .

exhibita. Heros am- Et

potitur votis iugentique iraplet Achille. 265:

plectiturcotijessam.et T"!-
"trTTT i ^ ^i-
viii. relix ct nato, lelix et
t-*! -
•

potitur votis, impiet- conjuge Peleus;

'^"vi&liv'^rat".^ Et cui, si demas jugulati crimina Phoci,
^eiix nato, etfeiix con- Omnia contigerant. Fraterno sancfuine sontem.
juge: et cui SI demas -pi, °i -r. rw^ i •
i-i
crimina jugulati Pho-
ci, omnia bona contige-
riXpulsumque domo patria Irachinia tellus
rant. Tellus Trachinia accipit eum sontem fraterno sanguine, expulsumque patrid domo.
TRANSLATION.
entrails of cattle, and the smoke of incense until, at length, the Carpa- ;

thian sage said, from amid the waves Fear not, son of iEacus, you shall ;

enjoy the wished-for prize only, while she lies slumbering iu her cool
;

grot, bind the unwary nymph with cords and hampering bonds. Nor let
her deceive you, by assuming a hundred various forms, but hold fast,
whatever it is, until she returns to her first shape. Thus the prophet then ;

sunk beneath the flood, and the waves covered him as he uttered the last
words. Titan was now in his descending course, and, with his pole bent
downward, taking possession of the western main ; when the fair Nereid,
retiring from the sea, enters his wonted cave. Scarce had Peleus seized
her virgin limbs, when she throws herself into various shapes, till she
found herself held fast, and her arms extended different ways. Then she
sighed, and says,
You overcome not, Peleus, but with the aid of a god and ;

resumed her real form. The hero embraces the goddess thus revealed, en-
joys his much-desired bride, and fills her with the great Achilles.
VIII. Peleus was now happy in his son, and happy in his spouse, and
had enjoyed every desirable blessing without allay, but for the unhappy
accident of killing Phocus. Him, stained with the blood of his brother,
and banished his native country, the Trachinian land receives. Here
NOTES.
267. Jugulati crimina Phoci.'\ iEacus Tradition ascribes the blow to Telamon,
had three sons, Peleus, Telamon, and but Ovid has given it to Peleus, who,
Phocus. As the young princes were play- obliged ui)on this accident to leave his
^ one day, Phocus received so rude a
ntr with the nnoit. thiit he ilied of it.
father's court, withdrew to Ceyx.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XI. 391

Accipit. Hie regnum sine vi, sine caede tenebat, Ciyx, satus geiiilore
Luciferofereiisque ore
Lucifero genitore satus, patriumque nitorem 271 patrium nitorem, teiie-
bat regnumhic sine vi,
Ore ferens Ceyx; illo qui tempore moestus, .sine cade; quimoestus
illo tempore, dhsimi-
Dissimilisque sui, fratrem lugebat ademptum. lisque sui, liigehutfra-
Quo p'^stquam ^Eacides fessus curaque, viaque tremadeinpt.um. Quo
po^tquam yEaiides ve-
Venit; et intravit paucis comitantibus urbem; iiitjle'-sw. curdyiie vid-
que ; et in t nil it urbem
Quosque greges pecorum, quae secum avmenta jiaiicis comitantibiis ;

trahebat, 276 relinquitque liaiidpro-

filla murissub opacH
Haiid procul a muris sub opaca valle relinquit; mile, grrges pecorum
quos, urmeiitaqiic quis
Copia ciira facta est adeundi prima tyranni, truhebat secum. Chtm
prima copia ext
Velamenta manu praetendens, supplice, qui sit, adeundi
facta
t!jraniii,prtE-

Quoque satus memorat. Tantum sua crimina celat,

teiidens velainenta
supplice manti, memo-
Mentitusque fugse causam, petit, urbe vel agro 281 rat qui sit, quoqite sa-
tus, celat tantitm sua
Se juvet. Hunc contra placido Trachinius ore crimina. Mentifiisque
Talibus alloquitur Mediae quoque commoda plebi
:
%ZVse^urhevei%rl
Nostra patent, Peleu nee inhospita regna tenemus. Trachinius contra pia.
;
cido ore alloqxitur
Adjicis huie animo momenta potentia clarum /nine talibiis. JS'ostra

Nomen, avumque Jovem. Nee tempora perde commoda, tent

Peleu, pa-
quoque medice
precando: 286 plebi tiec tenemies in- :

hospita regno. Arijicis

Quod petis omne feres. Tuaque haec pro parte videto, potentiamomenta hutc

Qualiacunque vides.
'
Utinam raeliora videres: To\7mqueavutn.''"Nec
Et flebat. Moveat quae tantos causa dolores,
Z%'re7"omne'''qaod
Peleusque, comitesque rooant. Quibus ille pro- pfn'^, ndetoque hac
T.
i. o '
qualiacunque vides,
latur : tuH proparte. Utiuam
Forsitan banc voluerem, rapto quae vivit, et omnes Xau%^tutque^lmti
Terret aves,' semper pennas
r habuisse putetis.
r
tesquerogantqutEcau-
I su moveat tantos do-
lores :
quibus ille profatur : Forsitan putetis hanc voluerem qua vivit rapto,et terret otnnes aves,
semper habuisse penna'i.
TRANSLATION.
Ceyx, a son of Lucifer, in whose countenance Avas exhibited all the mild
brightness of his father, held the reins of government, without violence
or bloodshed but, at that time disconsolate, and unlike himself, he
;

mourned a brother's loss. Whither, after the son of iEacus was arrived,
fatigued with care and the length of the way, and had entered the city
with a few attendants, leaving his flocks of cattle and herds in a shady
vale near the walls when liberty was first granted him of approaching
:

the prince,
bearing before him in his suppliant hand the symbols of
peace : he informs him who he was, and of whom descended and only ;

conceals his involuntary crime feigning, therefore, a plausible pretence

;

for his
flight, he requests to be admitted into his city,
or kingdom. The
Trachinian prince, in return, thus addresses him, Avith mild aspect: Our
bounties are open to the meanest of the people, nor rule we here an uu-
hospitable kingdom you add to this, my natural bent, by the powerful
;

incitements you bring a name every where renowned, and a descent

;

from Jove supreme waste not, therefore, the time in entreaties, you shall
:

obtain all you ask regard whatever you behold as, in part, your own ;
:

would (said he) they were better, and wept. Peleus and his companions
beg to know what can be the occasion of such mighty grief To whom the
king replies: Perhaps you may think that this bird, which lives by ra-
pine, and is the terror of other birds, was always covered thus with
plumes it was once a man, and still retains a vigour of mind equal to
;
392 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Vir fuit, et tanta est animi constantia, quantiim

^f»t'//aX'/;««t
tumDadaiionnomine, Acer crat, belloQue fcrox, ad vimque paratus,
erat acer, feroxque at •
A i- i
i\ omine JDaeclalion
-n
T^ 1
295
•
'

ad
genitore creatus
hello ; paratiisque illo ;
vim, creatus illu geiii-
tore qui vocut Auro- Qui vocat Auroram, coeloque novissimus exit.
ram, exit que novissi- Culta mihi pax est pacis mihi cura tenendae,
mus calo. Fax est ;

culta milii: citra

fuit; fratri fera bella
tr-
neiidte pads conjugii.
Conjugiique placebant ;
que mill!: fera Illius et virtus reges,
fitit
belld placehantfr'atri.
gentesque subegit,
Virtzis illius,qu(e nunc Quie nunc Thisbeas agitat mutata columbas. 300
mtituta ogit.at This- Nata erat huic Chione quae dotatissima forma,
:
beas columhas, sttbegit
reges genfesque. Chi- Mille procis placuit, bis septem nubilis annis.
one erat nata huic :
quee dotatissima for- Forte revertentes Phoebus, Maiaque creatus,
ma, nubilis his septem
atinis, placuit mille
Ille suis Delphis, hie vertice Cyllenseo,
procis. Forte P/icebus, Videre hanc pariter, pariter traxere calorem: 305
creatusque Maia, re-
vertentes, ilie suis Del-
phis, hie vertice Cylte-
Spem Veneris differt in tempora noctis Apollo ;

noco, pariter videre

Non tulit ille moras: virgaque movente soporem
hanc, pariter traxere Tactu jacet
calorem. Apollo dif- Virginis os tangit. ilia potenti :

fert spem Veneris in

tempora 7ioctis. Ille
Vimque Dei patitur. Nox ccelum sparserat astris ;

non tuiit moras, tan- Phoebus anum simulat; praeceptaque gaudia sumit.
gitque OS virginis vir- Ut sua maturus complevit tempora venter;
gil movente soporem: 311
illajacet tact a poten-
ti,putiturque vim Dei.
Alipedis de stirpe Dei versuta propago
Nox sparserat calutn T^ascitur Autolycus, furtum ingeniosus ad omne :
astris; Phaibiis simit-
lat anum; sumu'que Q"i facere assuerat, patriae non degener artis,
matu7us iZer''cJ^- Candida dc nigris, et de candentibus atra. 3 15
piemt sua tempora; Nascitur ^ Phoebo (naniQue est enixa pemellos)
Autolycus versuta ri i- -^i a t-h -i
propago,h,gemosus ad Uarmme vocau i

clarus, citharaque rhilammon.

omnefurtum, nascitur
de stirpe alipedis Dei : qui non
degener patria artis assuerat facere Candida de nigris, et atra
de candentibus. Philammon clarus vocali
carmine, citharilque, nascitur c Phabo, (namque
enixa est gemellos.J
TRANSLATION,
the activity,
bravery, and inclination to violence, remarkable in that hero,
by name Dsedalion, whose descent was from the bright luminary who
wakes Aurora, and retires the last from his station in heaven. Peace was
my delight, and to promote peace and conjugal happiness my constant
care but my brother
;
delighted in cruel wars his bravery brought kings :

and nations under subjection, and still, under the

present change, is the
dread of the Thisbean doves. He had a
daughter, Chione, who, at the
age of fourteen, just marriageable, of surpassing beauty, was courted by
a thousand rivals. By chance, Phoebus and the son of Maia were
(as they
returning, he from his favourite abode Delphi, the other from the top of
Cyllene) together espied her, and together were warmed with the amo-
rous fire. Apollo defers his
hope of enjoyment until night, but Mercury,
impatient of delay, touched the mouth of the virgin with his soporiferous
rod. She is entranced
by the potent touch, and subjected to the violence
of the god.
Night had bespangled the heaven with stars Phoebus per- :

sonates an old woman, and, in this

disguise, obtains the bliss he had be-
fancy. When now her mature womb had completed the
fore enjoyed in
destined time, Autolycus is born of the stock of the
winged god, a subtle
soul, and ingenious at all manner of theft who
being a perfect master of
;

all his father's

artifice, was wont to make black appear white, and white
vplack. To Phoebus was born (for she was delivered of twins) Philammon,
N^owned for song and the harp. But what does it avail her to have been
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XL 393

Quid peperisse duos, et Diis placuisse duobus ; ,t!^^J,l"',i"'/„T.!:

Et forti senitove,
'^
et progenitore Tonanti isseduobmdns,etesse
_, ,1 i 1 1,- o 1 1
•
satamfortigen!tore,et
Esse satam prodest an obest quoque gloria multis ; ( Tonanti progemtore?
Obtuit huic certe. Qua^ se prseferre Dianas 321
Z^If'^^^''$!u
Dese culpavit: at illi sustinuit i"^
Sustinuit:' faciemque
Ira ferox
T.

mota est: factisque

.
II-
/adem
• •
*'""'.•
prer/crie se Diana;
piacebimus inqmt. ciu'pavuque
TIT •, „'i.j. „ DetF. At ira ferox est
JVec mora; curvavit cornu; nervoque sagittam ,„ota uu; inquuque,

Impulit et meritani trajecit arundine linguam. 325 ^f^^t^X/^^:;^

;

Lino-ua tacet nee vox tentataque verba sequuntur impuutque sagutam

^& cum
:
^.
.
T'i. verio et trojecU me-
ruam
.
:

Q,
Conantemque Aloqui i\ sangunie
•
vita reliquit.
•
J„1^
,

uem (miserao pietas !) ego turn patruoqueaolorem

Corde tuli,
^.„

fratrique pio solatia dixi.

dine.
unguam
.
anm-
L,insuu tacet:
J

^ec vox verbaque ten-

5-^«rrS«fr1:
Quae pater haiadaliter,quamcautes murmura ponti, ijquit iiiam con„utem
loom. Qiicm
X ' '
11 OO loqui. dolorptn
OiiCJii doloretn
1 I

Accipit: et natam delamentatur ademptam. 661 (o 7nisera pietas) ego

tum tuli putruoque
Ut vero ardentem vidit ; quater impetus illi corde, diaique solatia
In medics fuit ire rogos: quater inde^ repulsus pio fratri! qxia pater
acciplt haud aliter,
Concita membra fugse mandat: similisque juvenco quam cautes accipiunt
nnirmura et de-
Spicula crabonum pressa cervice gerenti, 335 lamentaturponti:
natam a-
Ut vero vidit
Qua via nulla, ruit. Jam tum mihi currere visus demptam.
ardentem, fuit quater
Plus liomine est alasque pedes sumpsisse putares. impetus
:
illi ire in me-
dios rogos: repulsus
EfFugit ergo omnes ; veloxque cupidine leti quater inde, mandat
concita membra fugos :
Vertice Parnassi potitur. Miseratus Apollo, similisque Juvenco ge-
Cum se Dsedalion saxo misisset ab alto. 340 renti spicula crabo-
num pressd cervice,
Fecit avem, et subitis pendentem sustulit alis ruit qua est nulla via. ;
Jam tum est visus mi-
hi currere plus homine : ptitaresque pedes sumpsisse alas. Ergo effugit omnes, veloxque cupi-
dine leti, potitur vertice Parnassi. Cum Dadalion misisset se ab alto saxo Apollo miser at us, fecit
avem, et sustulit pendentem subitis alis.
TRANSLATION.
the mother of twins, and the favourite of two of the gods to be descended ;

of a gallant father, and to boast of the thunderer as her grandfather ? Is

even glory thus prejudicial to many ? It was, at least, to her, who had
the presumption to prefer herself to Diana, and decry the charms of the
goddess. Her fierce resentment swells to rage Let us try, however, ;

(said she) whether by actions we can please nor deferred she longer
her :

revenge but, bending her bow, and impelling an arrow with the string,
;

she, with the reed, transfixed her guilty tongue. Her tongue is silent, nor
do words or sounds follow her essay to speak, but at once the blood and
lifeforsook her in the vain attempt. Oh, hapless piety what anguish did !

I, her uncle, then feel what consolations did I offer to my pious bro-
!

ther but the father regards them no more than rocks the murmurs of the
!

sea and laments, without ceasing, the loss of his daughter but when he
;
:

saw her on the flaming pile, four times he essayed to rush into the middle
of the flames but four times thence repulsed, he, with rapid feet, betakes
;

himself to flight, and, like a bullock, who feels on his neck the galling
is no path to guide he
sting of wasps, bounds along, even where there
:

even then seemed to run with more than human swiftness, and you would
have fancied that he had got wings to his feet. He, therefore, easily
escaped our pursuit, and, made swift by his impatience for death, he gains
the top of Parnassus. But Apollo pitying Dgedalion, when he precipitated
himself from the summit of the rock, changed him into a bird, and sup-
394 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Veditque adunca ora, Qraque aduHca dedit, curves dedit unouibus hamos,
guibus, antiquam i4r- Vii'tutem antiquam, maiores corpore vires.
tutem, et virex ma-
jores corpore. EtJiunc
-i-t. \
tjt niinc
-f •

accipitev, nulli satis eEquus,

ii- ^v
m omnes
doleudi. 345
Sffivit aves; aliisque dolens fit causa
Sf'S't-'fi^X?
aves, doltnsqve, Jit IX. Quae dum Lucifero genitus rairacula narrat
causa dolendi aids.
IX. Qua miraiula, De consorte suo cursu festinus anhelo ;
dum genitus LuciJ'cro,
7iarrat de suocotisorte, Advolat arraenti custos Phoceus Antenor.
rhoccusAntcnor.cus- jjg^ Peleu, Pelcu, masiiee tibi nuncius adsum 349
festinus anhelo cursu. Cladis, ait quodcunquc lerat, jubet edere releus
!
:

Heu Peleu, Pelew,ait,

adsum nuncius
tibi Pendet, et ipse melu trepidat Trachinius heros.
magna cladis! Peleus Ille refertfessos ad littora curva juvencos
:
jubet edere, quodcun-
que ferat: ipse Tra- Appuleram medio ciim Sol altissimus orbe
chinius heros pendet,
et trepidat mctu. Ille 1 autum rcspicerct, quautum superesse videret.
refert : Ajipulerani
fessos juvencos ad cur- Parsque bolim fulvis genua inclinarat arenis, 355
va littora, cum sol al-
tissimus medio orbe, Latarumque jacens campos spectabat aquarum :

respiceret taut urn cnr- Pars gradibus tardis illiic errabat et illuc:
sns, quantum videret
.mperesse ; Parsque Nant alii, celsoque exstant super sequora coUo.
bourn inclinarat ge-
tiua fulris arenis, ja- Templa mari subsunt, nee marmore clara, nee auro ;

ccnsque syectahat
latarum
Sed trabibus densis, lucoque umbrosa vetusto. 360
campum a-
quarum. Pars crruhnt illuc et illiic tardis zrariibus. Alii nant, extantque super tequora
cclso collo. '/ewjila subsunt mari, clara nee miirmore, nee auro; sed densis trabibus umbrosa-
que luco vett!sto.
TRANSLATION.
ported
him hanging; in the air upon sudden wings. He gave him a crooked
beak and hooked talons, his wonted bravery, and strength beyond his
bulk. And now, become a hawk, regarding none, he rages equally against
all birds, and. grieving himself, is the cause of grief to others.
IX, Which wonders, while the son of Lucifer relates of his brother,
Phocean Antenor, keeper of the herd, flies in all haste to our hero and, ;

cries Alas Peleus Peleus I am come the messenger of a

: ! ! !
panting,
heavy calamity Peleus commands him to declare it, whatever it was and
! ;

even the Trachinian hero is alarmed, and trembles through fear. Ante-
nor thus relates his tale I had driven the weary herd to the winding
:

shore, what time the sun, at the highest in the middle of his orb, looks
back on as much of his course, already passed, as yet remained for him
to run part of the oxen, resting their knees upon the yellow sand, viewed
:

as they lay, the extended watery plains part wandered up and down ;

with tardy steps others swim, and with their tall necks appear above the
;

waves. Not far from the sea stands a temple, adorned with neither marble
nor gold, but raised of solid beams, and shaded by an ancient grove, the
NOTES.
348. Armenti custos Phoceus Antenor.'^ country, earned off great droves of cattle,
The foundation of this new fiction is his- &c., and among the rest those of Peleus.
torical. iEacus had two wives, Egina and Solicitations and entreaties were em-
Psamathe. By the first he had Peleus ployed to pacify Lycomedes the general
;

and Telamon, and by the second Phocus. was recalled, and, to embellish the nar-
Lycomeds, king of Seyros, brother to ration, it was pretended, tiiat he had been
Psamantlie, determined to revenge the metamorphosed into a rock. A lively
death of his nephew, declared war against figure to express how the current of that
Ceyx, for receivin<r Peleus into his king- commander's victories, who, like a fierce
dom. The general who commanded in beast of prey, had ravaged all the coun-
that expedition, after laying waste the try, was stopped on the sudden.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XI. 395

Nereides, Nereusque tenent. Hos navita, templi '^^'i!tWa^^!:7Z

Edidit esse Deos, dum retia littore siccat.
,,. 1-i-
Juncta palus nuic est densis obsessa salictis,
j-L ^'c^"'
edidit
eempu.
't''« uttore,
hos esse Deos
Paius est,

Quam restagnantis fecit maris unda paludem. -^ZZu saiMu fquaZ

Inde frasfore p-ravi strepitans loca proxima terret paiudem unda maris
b o I. •! c-incy restagnantis 1 fecit.
Bellua vasta, lupus, suvisque ' palustnbus exit, ooo imte iiipus,vasta bet.
Ilia, strevilaris gravi
^- • •
,-,, ,., , , .

OblltUS et SpumiS, et SpiSSO sanguine rictus frogore, terret loca

Fulmineos ; rubr^ suffbsus lumina flamma. ^1^1:^3"%^^:
jnimineos rictus tus
"r^lciuanquam
Qui,
^,.
ssevit pariter rabieque, fameque,
TVT ..^. ,^ o^A *^ spumts, et spisso
•

Acrior est rabie. JNeque enimjejunia curat o/U sanguine, et sujgusus

Csede bolim, diramque famem satiare, sed onine ("lul'^quanquamTa^ii
Vulnerat armentum, sternitque hostiliter omne. J;;'/^^^^ e?t''acrior it
bii- Nequeenim curat
Pars quoque de nobis funesto saucia morsu,
TA If i i 1 o . Tii satiare jejuiiiadiram-
1
•

Duni deiensamus, leto est data, i^sanguine littus, que famem cade boum,

Undaque prima rubent, demugitseque paludes. 375 ZtZm'^'ViTrnHtue

<""»« itostiuter. Pars
Sed
j1
mora damnosa est,' nee res dubitare remittit
. , quoque de nobis, dum
. ..
:

,.
Dvim superest aliquid, cuncti coeamus, et arma, de/ensamus,sauciafii-
.
' '
ill- •
7iesto morsu, est data
.

Arma capessamus, conjunctaque tela leramus. leto. Littus, undaque

Dixerat agrestis. Nee Pelea damna niovebant ;

p;;;«^^_ ''rubentJJn-
Sed memor admissi Nereida colligit orbam 380 ^«'«f- 'sed mora est
Damna sui inferias extincto mittere Phoco. mutit dubitare. Bum
Induere arma viros, violentaque sumere tela ^amuTtnncfCet' Z-
Rex jubet GEseus; cum quels simul ipse parabat, %'XZ'squrXfunc'.
Ire. Sed Halcyone coniux excita tumultu tate/a. Agrestis dix.
_, ... y
''
^•'
1 .,1 ooc erat nee damna mo- ^ ;

PrOSlllt, et, nondum

,

tOtOS Ornata CapillOS,

^

OfSi) lebant Pelea: sedme-

Disjicithos ipsos: colloque infusa mariti, "N7re"ta"\trbamfmit.

tere damna, inferias, sua Phoco extincto. Rex (Etaus jubet viros induere arma, sumereque
violenta tela ; cum queis ipse simul parabat ire : sed conjux Halcyone excita tumultu prosilit,
et nondum ornata totos capillos, disjicit hos ipsos, infasaque collo mariti,
TRANSLATION,
habitation of Nereus and the Nereids. sailor, while busy in drying his A
nets upon the shore, told us, that these were the gods of the temple. Ad-
joining to this is a marsh, enclosed
with thick willows, made by the stag-
with vast
nating waves of the sea. Thence a huge monstrous wolf, rushing
noise, alarms the neighbouring parts, and sallies from the fenny woods,
having his thundering jaws besmeared with foam and clotted blood,
and
his eyes overspread with red flame: who, though at once urged by hunger
and rage, yet hearkens more to the fierce dictates of his rage for he does ;

not think of appeasing his hunger, and dire thirst of blood, by the slaugh-
ter of oxen, but wounds the whole herd, and assaults them with hostile
fury. Some of us too, while we endeavour to defend
the herd, fall a prey
to his rage and baleful bites. The shore and nearest waves, and echoing
lakes, are stained with blood. But delay may be fatal nor does
the thing ;

admit of hesitation before all is destroyed, let us take arms arms, and
: ;

march in a body, equipped with darts. Thus the swain but Peleus is not :

moved at the loss, and calling to mind his crime, concludes, that Psamathe,
as an offering to the
grieving for the death of her son, sent this calamity
shade of murdered Phocus. The CEtean king commands his men to put on
their armour, and provide themselves with hostile darts he, himself, too, :

was preparing to accompany them but his wife Halcyone, roused by the ;

tumult, runs out, and, throwing her half-plaited hair behind her, hangs
round her husband's neck, entreating now with words, now with pleading
 396 P. OVlDll NASONIS

Mittat ut auxilium sine se, verbique precatur,

ZthrlmuT^^^tut
aiixMum sine se, nt- Et lachivmis animasque duas ut servet in una.
:
otte servet duns ani- 71-'
•
i -it i i
mas in uiui. Macides itiacicles lUi, pulchros, regma, piosque
fuichros^vfosvJZ.
Ponemetus: plena est proraissi gratia vestri. 390
tus : gratia vestri pro
missi est plena. Non
Non placet arma mihi contra nova monstia mo veri.
placet milii arma mo- Numen adorandum pelagi est. Erat ardua turris ;
veri contra nova mon-
stra. Numen pelagi Arce focus summa fessis loca grata carinis. ;
estadorandum. Erat
ardua turris, et focus Adscendunt illuc, stratosque in littore tauros
. . .

in summ<i arce; loca

is\is carinis
carinis.
Cum
/^
pfemitu aspicumt,
,P ^
vastatoremoue cruento 395
-n
grata fessis -, r^ .
•

Adscendunt illuc, as- Ore ferum, longos infectum sanguine villos.

piciuntque cum gemi- Inde manus tendens in aperti littora ponti,
tu, tauros stratos in
littore, vastatoremque Ceeruleani Peleus Psamathen, ut finiat iram,
ferum cruento ore, et
ijifectum quod ad lon-
Orat; opemque ferat. Nee vocibus ilia rogantis
gos villos
sanguine.
Inde Peleus tendens Flectitur ^acidae. Thetis banc pro conjuge sup-
manus ad littora
aperti ponti, orat ca- plex 400
Accepit veniam. Sed enim irrevocatus ab acri
ruleam Psamuthen,ut
Jiniat iram ; ferat que
opein: nee ilia flecti- Ceede lupus perstat, dulcedine sanguinis asper;
tur vocibus JEacida
rogantis. Thetis sup-
Donee inhserentem laceree cervice juvencae
plex accepit hanc vc- Marmore mutavit. Corpus, prseterque colorem
niam pro conjuge- Sed
enim lupus irretova- Omnia servavit lapidis color indicat ilium 405 :

tus ah acri Cffde per-

stat, a<:per dulcedine Jam non esse lupum, jam non debere timeri.
sanguinis, donee mu- Nee tamen hac profugum consistere Pelea terra
tavit marmore iiiha^-
rentem cervice lacera Fata sinunt: Magnetes adit vagus
"• " exsul, et illic
juvenca. Servavit cor- ci tt
•
i t *
pus, omniaque prater feumit ao Hsemonio purgamma caedis Acasto.
ZdZl7uiitZw7essl X. Interea fratrisque sui, fratremque secutis 410
''be^e ^am'nme'rr m'c
^uxia prodigiis, turbatus pectora Ceyx,
tamen fata sinunt profugum Pelea consistere hUc terrii: exul vagus adit Magnetes, et illic su-
purgamina cadis ab Hamonin Acasto. X. Interea Ceyx turbatus quoad pectora anxia fra-
nlit
trisque sui, prodigiisque secutis fratrem,

TRANSLATION.
tears, that he would only send his men, and, by staying behind himself,
save two lives in one. To her the son of jEacus O queen, lay aside your :

just and dutiful tears the offer you make is too much to my advantage
;
:

I choose to employ no arms against this new monster, but appease the

sea-nymph with humble prayer. There was a high tower, and upon the
top of it a fire a place grateful to weary ships. Thither they mount, and
;

behold with grief the slaughtered bulls strewed along the shore, the cruel
monster ravaging with bloody jaws, and having his long hairs stained
with gore. Upon this, Peleus, extending his hands toward the margin of
the watery plains, deprecates the anger of injured Psamathe, and begs
her aid nor is she moved by the entreaties of the suppliant son of iEacus,
:

until Thetis, interceding, obtained this favour for her spouse. Yet still
the wolf persists, unrecalled from the furious slaughter, keenly urged by
his native thirst of blood, until, fastening upon the neck of a mangled
heifer, he is changed by the nymph into marble. His body retains
all its

ibrmer marks but the colour the colour of the stone shews that he is now
:

no longer a wolf, and ought now no more to be an object of fear. Yet

neither do the fates allow unhappy Peleus to settle in this land the wan- :

dering exile visits the Magnesian shore, and there receives

the expiation
of his crime from Hsemonian Acastus.
X. Mean while Ceyx, anxious and disturbed in his mind at the fate of
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XT. 397

Coiisulat ut sacras,
Ad
ft T /-^,
hominum
i--r\
Clarium parat ire Ueuni nam templa profanus eras sortes, oiuertami- :
oblectaniina, sortes,
i 1^ f"^"*-*'"* "'' ff^rwrn

L)eum,ut coiuulat sa-

Invia cum Phlegyis faciebat Delphica Phorbas. ;Lt"";^;:;4::rS;

0.1
Consilii tamen ante sui, fidissima, certam
le
-T
ssa receperunt ; buxoque similimus ora
415 t'^e^yis. /.wiebant
tacit, Halcyone, cui protmus intima tri^us

Pallor obit lachrymisque gense maduere profusis.

:
nu. rumen mite, javu
te, fidissima Halcyone,
«»•/!«,« 5»j cunsuii,cul

TeceperwT ^flfgZ^,
•

Qi
Ter conata loqui, ter fletibus ora rigavit:
CI
•
1

J' 'i
"
feingultuque pias interrumpente querelas,
use mea culpa tuam, dixit, carissime, mentem
i
paiiurqw simuitmus
420

Vertit ? ubi est, quae cura mei prius esse solebat?

Jam potes Halcyone securus abesse relicta.
•

.
• •
1 Anf\ "'"", oout i>ra,geiia-
?«f mudnere profusis
laclirvMis. Conuia ter
ir.qui,ter rigavit ora

•^Interrumpenu^^
querelas, dixit, Caris-
w ' y T ,., . .
sime, qua mea culpa
Jam via longa placet. Jam sum tibi
-,

carior absens.
^ 1
vertit tuam mentem?
At (puto) per terras iter est, tantumque dolebo 425 ; 5,*^ 'clraloullt Tsll
Non etiam metuam: curseque timore carebunt. ' T^
prius;jam potes abesse
securus, Halcyone re-
_-, . . . .

me terrent, et ponti tristis imago. Hctd. jam longa via

zTiquora
^Jll^•ii
mllaceras nuper tabulas m littore vidi;
•!• placet. Jam sum, cu-
rior tibi absens. At
Et ssepe in tumulis sine corpore nomina legi. V^doilloq^JtZtum,
Neve tuum fallax animum fiducia tano;at,
° 430 ""« etiam nutuam;
r\ ^ TT- 1 -I-- .
n . curteque carebunt tt-
Viuod socer Hippotades tibi sit; qui carcere lortes more. jEqwra terrent
Contineat ventos; et, cum velit, sequora placet. pm'iti,Wnuper vmfa-
*
Ciim semel emissi tenuerunt sequora venti, ll'if J'^f ''Z /!''
'*'"
-

O.
_ . tore, et siepe legi no- .
11 1
JNil lUis vetitum est, mcommendataque tellus »««a ««& corpore in
n /-IT !•! i tumulis. Neve fallax
,

mnis, etomnetretum. Cceliquoquenubilavexant; jiduda tangat tuum

Excutiuntque feris rutilos concursibus ignes. 436 ^tl^T.'^r.^JS"i
contineat fortes ventos carcere, et placet aquora cum velit. Cum semel emissi venti tenuerunt
aquora,nil est vetitum illis,tcliusque est omnis in commeudata, et omne fretum. Vexant quoque
nubila cceli, excutiuntque rutilos ignes feris concursibus.

TRANSLATION.
his brother, and the prodigies that followed
it, resolves to visit the Clarian

god, and consult his sacred oracles, that consolation of men: for profane
Phorbas, with his Thessalian crew, had rendered the temple at Delphi
inaccessible. But first he imparts his design to his faithful Halcyone. A
sudden coldness shoots through all her bones, a paleness like box covers
her face, and her cheeks are wet with flowing tears. Thrice essaying to
speak, thrice she watered her face with her tears, and sobs interrupting
her pious complaints What fault of mine (said she) my dearest lord, has
:

thus changed your mind ? where is that concern for me, hitherto so re-
markable in you ? Can you then depart with an easy mind, and leave
your Halcyone behind you ? Now you seem fond to undertake a long
journey now am I more agreeable when at a distance but, perhaps your
;
:

journey is over land, and I shall have only cause of grief, but not of fear,
and my concern shall be without any apprehensions for your safety. But
the waves, and
image of the stormy sea, affright me for late I saw broken ;

planks upon the shore, and have often read names upon empty tombs. Nor
let a false confidence lull
you into security, because you have for your
father-in-law jEoIus, the son of Hippotas, v/ho confines the strong winds
in caves, and can, w hen he the tumult of the sea not :
pleases, appease
so for, when once let
;
loose, they have got possession of the deep, nothing
checks their course, but on they sweep, and insult land and sea without
distinction
they even drive before them the clouds of heaven, and, meet-
;

ing in fierce uproar, strike the sky with rapid lightning. The more I
 398 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Quo mag is Q"^ magis hos novi (nam novi, et saepe paterna
(nam voii, ITiarZ
stFpe yaternii do-
villi Parva domo vidi) magis hoc reor esse tiniendos.
mo) hoc magii rear esse
timenrios. Quoclsi,care Qu6d tua si flecti precibus sententia nullis, 439
conjtix, tua sententia
jtotestjlecti nullis pre- Care, potest, conjux; nimiiimque es certus eundi ;

cibus, exque nimium

certus eundi, tolle me
Me quoque toUe simiil. Certe jactabimur una :

quogiie iiZu'i'r certe

"• nisi qusB
Nec, ' patiar,
^
metuam pariterque
* >
feremus
:

Jactabimur una, nee . . . . .

metuam nisi qua pa- Quicquid erit: pariter super sequora lata feremur.
tiar: fercmusque pa-
riter quicquid erit, et
Talibus ^olidos dictis, lachrymisque movetur
feremur pariter stiper Sidereus conjux neque enim minor ignis in ipso est.
:

lata aquoru. Sidereus

conjux movetur tali- Sed neque propositos pelagi dimittere cursus, 446
bus dictis, lachrymis-
gue bolides; neqne
Nee vult Halcyonen in partem adhibere pericli:
enim minor ignes est in
ipso. Sed neque rult Multaque respondit timidum solantia pectus :

rli mitt ere

propositos Nee tamen idcirco causam probat. Addidit illis
cursus pelagi, nee ad-
hibere Halcyonen in Hoc quoque lenimen, quo solo flexit amantem 450 :

partem res-
Longa quidem nobis omnis mora
pertcli: sed tibi
ponditq ue multa solun-
:
juro
tia timidum pectus, Per patrios ignes me mod5 fata remittant)
nee t amen idcirco pro-
batcausam. Addidit
.\ - (si
\t
Ante reversurum, quam Luna bis impleat orbem.
^
• •
i i

'
ilHs hoc quoque leni — • - - -

men, quo solo Jiexit His ubi promissis spes est admota recursiis ;
amantem. Mora omnis Protiniis eductam navalibus sequore tingi, 455
est quidem longa nobis:
sed juro tibi per pa-
trios ignes ('*i tnodn Aptarique suis pinum jubet armamentis.
fata remittant me J me Qua rursias visa, veluti preesaga futuri,
reversurum antequum
luna bis implent or- Horruit Halcyone lachrymasque emisit obortas
: :

bem. Ubi spes recur-

sus est admol a his pro- Amplexusque dedit: tristique miserrima tandem
missis, protinus jiibet Ore, Vale, dixit collapsaque corpore tota est. 460
:

pinum eductam nava-

libus tijigi (pquore, ap Ast juvenes, quajrente moras Ceyce, reducunt
tarique suis arma- Ordinibus geminis ad fortia pectora remos :

mentis. Qu& rursus

visa, Halcyone veluti prdsaga futuri, horruit : rmisitque lachrymas obortas : deditque amplexus;
miserrimaque, dixit, tandem tristi ore, Vii/e ; estque tota collapsa corpore. Ast juvenes geminis
ordinibus, Ceyce qudretite tnoras, reducunt remos ad fortia pectora.
TRANSLATION,
know this, (for well I know and have often, when a child, seen it in
it,

my father's palace) the am alarmed with terrors. But if your

more I

purpose, dear spouse ! can be changed by no prayers or entreaties, and

you are unalterably determined to sail, take me along with you, that 1
may share your danger. I will then fear no more, than what I feel we ;

will be alike exposed to every chance, and together encounter the terrors
of the main. These words and tears of the daughter of iEolus make a
great impression on her husband, the offspring of the morning star for ;

neither does the fire of love flame less violent in him. But neither will
he be dissuaded from his intended voyage, nor admit Halcyone to share
the danger with him and seeks, by many arguments to allay her boding
:

fears. But yet he cannot bring her to approve his cause at length, he :

added to this prevailing motive, which alone induced his loving spouse to
comply I swear by the holy flame of my father, that (if heaven allows
;

me life) I will return before the moon hath twice completed her orb. When
by these promises he had given her hopes of his speedy return, he forth-
with orders a ship to be hauled from the dock, and rigged for service with
vail expedition. When Halcyone
again beheld, as if her mind presaged
the

broaching woe, she trembled in every limb, and shed a torrent of tears,

embracing him, she said, with a mournful air. Farewell

and im- ;

|tely swooned away. But the youthful band, (while Ceyx is seeking
.<ces for delav") ranged in double rows, draw their oars to their
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XI. 39S)

TEqualique ictu scindunt

freta. Sustulit ilia '^^^f/t'r -^ff.^t
^
Humentes oculos stantemque in puppe recurva, fiiu humetitcs oauos,
^ .
manu dantera
!•• ;
-i 1,^/>/- primaque vidit mari-
sibi signa mantum 4do «m»« i<an«e;/t in recur-
Concussaque
Prima videt: redditque notas. Ubi terra recessit Sr^J^nc^^X!
Longius, atque oculi nequeunt cognoscere vultus : ««i
''fgrra^'^recesVii
Dum
TT
licet,insequitur fugientem lumine pinum.
>i\i 1 i "J* ii J.'
longms, atque ocuiine-
queu)itcos.noscerevul-
Hsec quoque ut liaud poterat spatio submota videri ; tus, dumucetimequi.
Velo tamen spectat summo fluitantia malo: 470
X^^r'^/^^^^^Z
Ut nee vela videt; vacuum petit anxia lectum «« •'"'^""<«
^p"^'?
AcMd poterat tndert,
:

-r> i•
1 1

Seque toro ponit. Kenovat lectusque, locusque tamen spectat veia,

Halcyones lachrymas et quae pars admonet absit. uV^VeT^ST'^eia'.

:

Portubus exierant et moverat aura rudentes ; ^^Zn,^t^:::':T^

-Alii
;

Obvertit lateri pendentes navita remos 475 ro. Lectusque, locus- :

_^ ii. 1 que renovat lachrymas

Cornuaque ni summa locat arbore ; totaque malo naicyones.et admonet
Carbasa deducit, venientesque excipit auras. IZt^por tubus) ftTu-
Aut miniis, aut certe medium non amplius aequor ^j^g^ll'^Zhvertulfmoi
Puppe secabatur; longeque erat utraque tellus pendentes luteri, lo-
um mare sub noctem i-Tii
;
'
^ , „*i. AOr\ catque cornua in sum-
C\'- tumidis albescere coepit 4oU ,„& arbore, dcdudtque
Fluctibus; et pra^ceps spirare valentiCis Eurus.
^,:;^:::iZ^^
Aut minus, aut
Ardua,'Jiamdudi^m, demittite cornua, rector ras.
certc medttttn eequor
i-i '.
I 1
Clamat et antennis totum subnectite velum.
;
mn ampnus, secaba-
Hic jubet, impediunt adversse jussa procellse ; uZaqurtraf^longt,
Nee sinit audiri vocem fragor asquoris ullam. 485
^^^ltZb!scl%Zm!Z
Sponte tamen properant alii subducere remos
--.' . ,
"^ "^
• -i
: jiuctibus, et praceps
Eurns spirare valen-
Pars munire latus; pars ventis vela negare. nus. Rector jamdu-
in aequor:
Egerit hie fluctus, a^quorque refundit '^ZtaT^^sub-
totum velum antennis. Hie jubet : advers<p proceUa impediunt jussa, nee fragor aquo-
nectife
ris uliam torem audiri. Tamen alii sponte properant subducere remos ; pars munire la-
siiiit
tus pars negare vela ventii. Hie egerit Jiuctus, refunditque aqtior in erquor.
;

TRANSLATION.
breasts, and with equal strokes cut the sea. She reared her humid eyes,
and first espied her husband on the crooked stern, making signs with his
hand. She returns the signs and when the land receding farther, still
;

ijicreases the distance, that she can now no longer distinguish the much-
loved face, she yet pursues the flying ship M'ith her eyes. When that
too, borne forward in its course, withdraws from view, she keeps her eyes
fixed on the sails, waving from the top of the mast. When these too dis-
appear, full of anxious grief, she retires to her solitary chamber, and
throws herself upon the bed. The bed and place renew Halcyone's tears,
and put her in mind of her absent lord. They were now got from the
the hanging oars
port, and a rising gale tossed the ropes the rowers urge ;

towards the sides of the fix the sail-yards on the top of the mast, and
ship,
spread the canvass full, to catch the coming breeze. The galley
had now
run part, at most the half of her course, and the land, on each side, was
at a great distance; when, toward night, the sea began to whiten with
with greater violence.
swelling waves, and the stormy east wind to blow
bind the main-sheet
Presently the master cries. Lower your top-sails, and
to the yard. He orders, but the adverse storms hinder the execution nor ;

does the noise of the sea suffer his voice to be heard. Yet of themselves
they hasten, some to draw in the oars, others to stop the leaky sides,
and part to bind up the sails from the winds, one pumps up the waves, and
400 P. OVIDII NASONIS

rapit antennas. Quai dum sine lege geruntur ;

hie ai!t€7mas.
rapit Hie
Qua- rium geruiittir
Aspei'a crescit hyems \ omnique e parte feroces 490
sine
iijc,asfcrah>jcms
crescit II n
races ex oimii '?«^^-^^''^
Bella gerunt venti fretaque indignantia miscent.
;
geru„t beita, «uicem-
tieindignantia freta. j^gg ^'^^^^ ^^^^ g^^ q^^- g-£ status,lpse fatetur
h^pse rector nayis pa- Scire latis rectov : nec quid
> Jiuveatve,'
'
vetetve
-
vet, ipseqtic Jatetur . - . .

1 anta mall moles,

se nec scire qui sit
totaque potentior arte est.
beatVe'vet%t^^' mole's Quippe sonant clamore viri, stridore rudentes, 495

"iargue *Tou' ^arte Undarum incursu gravis unda, tonitribus sether.

Quippe viri sonant cia- Fluctibus erigitur, ccelumque aequare videtur
more, rtidentes stri-
dore, gravis unda in- Pontus; et inductas aspergine tingere nubes.
ciirsu undarum, ather
tonitribus. Pontus eri- Et modo, cum fulvas ex imo vertit arenas,
gitur Jiuctibus, vide- Concolor est illis Stygia raodo nigrior unda
;
: 500
turqiie square calvm.
'et Sternitur interdum, spumisque sonantibus albet.
"^tingere 'inductas
nubes aspergine. Et
niodb cu7n vertit ful- Ipsa quoque his agitur vicibus Trachinia puppis :
vas arenas ex inw, est
concolor illis ; tnodb
Et modo sublimis veluti de vertice montis
Despicere in valles, imumque Acheronta videtur :
est nigrior Stygia un-
dd : interdum stertii-
tur, albetque sotianti-Niinc ubi demissam curvum circumstetit aequor,
bus spumis. Ipsa quo-
que Trachinia puppis Suspicere inferno summum de gurgite coelum. 506
agitur his vicibns: et dat ingentem fluctu latus icta fragorem :
modb sublimis, videtur Saepe
despicere in valles, Nec levivjs pulsata sonat, quam ferreus olim
imumque Acheronta,
veluti de vertice man- Cum laceras aries baUstave concutit arces,
tis. Nunc ubi cur-
vum aquar circum.ste- Utque Solent, sumptis in cursu viribus, ire 510
tit demissam puppim Pectore in arma feri, praetentaque tela leones ;
viAeXur susptcere sum- o-i- ^ i
•••• •

mum caiumde inferno !bic uDi sc ventis aclmiserat uncla coortis,

ict7X'ctH,'7,a iifcT Ibat in arma ratis; multoque
erat altior illis :
tenifragorem, 7tec, pul-
sata, sonat lerius, quam olim ferreus aries halistave cum concutit laceras arces. Utque feri le-
ones viribus sumptis in cursu, solent ire pectorein arma prtrtentaque tela ; sic ubi unda udmise-
rat se ventis coortis, ibat in arma ratis, crutque multo altior illis,
TRANSLATION.
throws back the sea into the sea, another takes off the yards. While
thus every thing is done in confusion, the rage of the storm increases, and
the fierce winds, combining from every quarter, augment the tumult of the
main. The master himself now betrays fear, and owns he is at a loss
to comprehend their present condition, or what to order or forbid so ;

mighty is the calamity, so much it baffles all his skill for the air re- :

sounds with the mingled cries of the sailors, the rattling of cordage, the
waves dashing one against another, and the redoubled peals of thunder.
The sea ascends in waves, and seems equal to heaven, and sprinkles with
briny dew the surrounding clouds and sometimes tossing from below the
;

yellow sands, it appears of a colour with them again blacker than the ;

Stygian waves sometimes it is levelled, and whitens with noisy foam.

:

The Trachinian galley too feels these various changes and, one while ;

raised on high, seems, as from the top of a mountain, to look down on the
valleys below, and deep mansions of Acheron again, subsiding
with the ;

waves, enclosed by the surrounding sea, she, from the infernal waves,
surveys the height of heaven. Oft the waves, beating against the
sides, make a loud report, and rebound with noisy din as when the ;

iron ram, or balista, shake the battered forts. And as undaunted

lions, still more courageous as they advance, are often wont to rush
upon arms and extended spears in like manner, the waves, now
;

driven by a hurricane of winds, advance against the sides of the ship, and
 METAxMORPHOSEON, Lib. XI. 401

labant cuuei, spollataque tegmine cerse Jamque cicnel lnhnnt,

Jamque rimaque spoliata teg-
Rimapatet; prsebetque viam lethalibus undis. 515 mine cere, jtatet pra-
lietque vimn letfialibiis
Ecce cadunt largi resolutis nubibus imbres : undis. Eive largi im-

|ue fretum credas totum descendere ccelum

Inque :
t7/jibHf"c!rd7J/i!eti*
Inque plagas cceU tumefactum adscendere pontum. turn crelum d: sceiidere
ill
fret II 111, pontiniique
Vela madent nimbis: et cum ccelestibus undis 519 tumeflic tu III asi em/ere
lorese miscentur
^quorese aquae. Caret ignibus tether, mfdent'!umli'<;et(iqiim
miscentur
Ceecaque nox premitur tenebris hyemisque, suisque cum cali'stibiis undis.
tTqiiorrtF
;

Discutiunt tamen has, prsebentque micantia lumen JEttier caret ignibus,

circnque 7ii>x I'rcmitnr
Fulmina fulmineis ardescunt ignibus undae.
: tenebris suisque, hye-
misque. Tiimen mican-
Dat quoque jam saltus intra cava texta carinfB tia fulmina discutiunt
Fluctus et, ut miles numero przestantior omni,
:
/ins,
men:
prrp/ientquc lu-
unitee iirdcs-
Cum saepe assiluit defensse mcenibus urbis, o26 ctint fulmineis ignibus.
Fluctus quoque jnm
Spe potitur tandem laudisque accensus amore diit sultui, intra cava
;
terta carina-: et ut
Inter mille viros, murum tamen occupat unus :
tniles pra.sttintior omni
Sic ubi puls&.runt acres latera ardua fluctus, numero, cum sape as-
siluit mccnihus dtfen-
Vastius insurgens decimee ruit impetus undse 530 sct urbis, tandem po- :

titur spe; uccenstis-

Nee prius absistit fessam oppugnare carinam, quc amorc laudis inter
mille viros, ttiius ta-
Quam velut in captae descendat mcenia navis. men occupat murum.

P~
Pars igitur tentabat adhuc invadere pinum,
ars mans mtus
nes
• •
.\ ,
Sic ubi acres Jiuctus

erat.
m •! i^^"J
irepidant naud segnms
-v
om-
coj_
piilsarunt
tera, impetus
unda insurgens vus
ardua
deam^
la-

tins ruit, ncc absislit

Quam solet urbs, aliis murum
fodientibus extra, oppugnare fessam ca-
rinam, priusquam des-
Atque ahis murum, trepidare, tenentibus intijs. cendat in mosiiia velut
C(i pice navis. Pars igi-
Deficit ars; animique cadunt: totidemq; videntur, tur maris
atiliuc ten-
taliat invadrri' pinum,
pars erat intus. Oinnes trepidant haud segnius quam urbs solet trepidare, aliis fodientilms mu-
rum extra, atquc aliis tenentibus murum inlus. .irs deficit, animique cadunt: totidrinque moi-
tes videntur,
TRANSLATION.
tower over the hatches. And now the pins that hold the boards together,
give way the seams, robbed of their stc])page of wax, lay open, and af-
;

ford a passage to the hostile wa^es. Lo the clouds dissolve, and fall in !

copious showers and, you v/ould imagine, the whole sky poured down in
;

sheets of rain the sea too, swelled, seems to mount into the regions of
;

the sky. The sails are wet with tlie rain, and the waters of the sea are
mixed with the waters of heaven the firmament is without its fires, and
:

the horrors of the night are doubled by its own darkness, and that of the
storm together. Yet even these are dispersed by frequent flashes of light-
ning that afford a sudden gleam the sea seems all on fire with these ;

blazes breaking from the sky. And now the waves jump about within the
hollow texture of the ship; and as a soldier, distinguished by his valour
from all the rest, after often assaulting the walls of a defended city, en-
joys his hopes at length and, influenced with adesiie of praise, tlicugh
;

but one among a thousand, possesses himself of the walls sj Avhile the ;

invading billows batter the sides of the ship, the fury of the tenth wave,
rising above the rest, advances witJi impetuous sway nor ceases ti; as- ;

sault the vessel's battered ribs, until it, as it were, descends within tha
walls of the yielding Part therefore of the waves still attempt tc
ship.
get into the ship part had already seized the prize. The whole crew arj
;

now in confusion: as when in a city assaidtcd on every '

siilf\ some ar?
-2 JU
402 P. OVIDII NASONIS
ruere iitque irrum-
pere, quot jtuctux ce- Quot venlunt fluctus, ruere atq ; irvumpere mortes.
nUiiil. Hie non tenet
latluymas ; liic stupct; Nontenethiclachrymas:stupethic:vocatillebeatos,
illc lociit cos bealos Funera quos maneant hie votis noraen adorat.
:

quos funera maneant;

hie adorat nume?i lo- Brachiaq; ad ccelum, quod non videt, irrita tollens
til, tollensque irrita
biiichia ad coelum quod
Poscit opem subeunt illi fratresque, parensque ;
:

/ton lidct , poscit opem: Huic cum pignoribus domus, et quod cuique relic-
JriiCrcsque parejisque
sulh'unt illi, douiiis turn est.
cum 'jiignoribHs huic,
It quod relictum est Halcyone Ceyca movet Ceycis in ore : 544
cuique. Halcyone mo-
vet Ceyca: nulla niii
Nulla nisi Halcyone est: et cum desideret unam,
.Halcyone est in ore Gaudet abesse tamen. Patriae quoque vellet ad oras
Ceycis; et cum desi-
dei et unam, tmnen Respicere, inque domum supremos vertere vultus.
earn abesse.
gauilet
f'ellet quoque respi-
Verum ubi sit nescit. Tanta vertigine pontus
cere ad oras potrirr, Fervet: et inducta piceis e nubibus umbra 549
verlereque supremos
tiultus in dvmum. t'e- Omne latet coelum duplicataque noctis imago est.
:

rum Jiescit ubi sit.

Ponfus fervet tunld Frangitur incursu nimbosi turbinis arbos :

verligi/ie ; et omne cce-

lu77i tattt umbra in- Frangitur et regimen spoliisq; animosa superstans
:

ducta e pictis nubibus:

Unda, velut victrix, sinuatas despicit undas ;
imagoque noctis est
diiplicuta. Arbos fran- levius,Nee si
quis Athon, Pindumve revulsos
quam
gitur incursu nimbosi Sede sua totos in 555
turbinis: regimen et apertum everterit eequor,
frangitur unSaque ani-
Praecipitata ruit : pariterque, et pondere, et ictu
mosa spoliis, superstans
velut victrix, despicit
si?iuatas undas ; nee
Mergit in ima ratem. Cum qua pars magna virorum
prtBcipitata ruit le- Gurgite pressa gravi, neque in a'era reddita, fato
vius, qtiam si quis ever-
terit Athon Pindumve
Functa suo est. Alii partes et membra carinaj
revulsos totos suH. Truncatenent. Tenet ipse manu,qua sceptrasolebal,
sede, in apertum <e-
ndereet
quor : pariterque et pondere ima. Cum quamagna pars viroritm pressa
et ictu, mergit ratem in ima
gravi gurgil.e,iicque reddita in acre, est functa suo fato. Alii tenent partes et trunca membra
carina. Ipse Ceyx tenet fragmina narigii matui
TRANSLATION.
undermining the walls without, others have got possession of them within,
art fails their courage sinks, and death seems to rush upon them in as
;

many different shapes as are the waves that come pouring in on every
side. One cannot refrain from tears, another is quite stupified with grief,
a third counts those happy whom funeral honours await. This man ad-
dresses the gods in prayer, and, stretching forth his hands toward heaven,
which he cannot see, in vain begs relief. One calls to mind his brothers
and parents, another his family and children, and every dear pledge left
behind him. Ceyx thinks only of his Halcyone no name, but that of ;

Halcyone, is in his mouth and though he wishes for her alone, yet is he
;

glad that she is absent. He would have fain too looked back on his na-
tive coasts, and turned his last views toward his home, but he knows not
where they are so mighty a hurricane embroils the sea, and the whole
;

face of heaven lies hid under a dark shade of pitchy clouds, doubling the
gloomy of night. The mast is broke down by the violence of the
image
storm, the rudder too is borne away, and the insulting surge, standing
over the spoil, looks down with an air of triumph on the waves below ;
and, tumbling, rushes with no less violence, than if Athos and Pindus,
torn from their foundations, were precipitated into the sea; and, by the
\veight and stroke together, sinks
the ship to the bottom. With her a great
part of the crew plunged into the deep, nor rising again, paid the debt of
fate. Others
grasp the beams and broken fragments of the ship. Even
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lin. XI. 403

qua solvbat tenere

Frao;mina navigii Ceyx: socerumque, patremque scepfra inrocatquc so-
Invocat (lieu !) frustra. Sed plurima nantis in ore cerum patrcmquejieu!
TT 1 ¥11 •
r fruslra. Ned Halcy-
Haley
Halcyone lUam
one conjux. llJam meminitque, refertque;
refertque ;
1. .

one conjux ctpU'rima

in ore nantis. Mtini-
Ilius ante oculos ut agant sua corpora fluctus,
nitque rr/er'qve H-
et exanimis manibus tumuletur amicis, 565 lam: optat vt flucttis
Optat;
_. - . . . , . _ agant sua corpora an-
Uum natat: ,
absentem, quoties sinit mscere rluctus, teocuios uuus, et ut
cxammm tumuletur
JNomniat Halcyonen, ipsisque immurmurat unclis. amicis manibus. Vnm
Ecce super medios fluctus niger arcus aquarum natat, qin.ths Jhtctm
!.init lii^ccre, iioniiiiat

Frangitur et rupta mersum caput obruit unda.

:
absenttm J{alcyone>i,
immurmitratqirc ipsis
Lucifer obscurus, nee quem cognoscere posses, 570 undis. Eccc jiiger ar-
cus afjuariim Jruii-
Ilia nocte fuit
quoniamque excedere Olyrapo
:
liKur iiiper midios
Non licuit, densis texit sua nubibus ora. jiuctus, it obruit mer-
sum caput riipla un-
i^olis interea tantorum ionara malorura da. Lucifer fuit oh-
scurus, nee qiicm pos-
Dinumerat noctes: et jam, quas induat ille, set cognoscere ilia noc-
te : quoniamque itou
Festinat vestes;jam quas, ubi venerit ille, 575 licuit excetlere Olym-
po, texit sua ora den-
Ipsa gerat reditusque sibi promittit inanes.
:
sis nubibus. Jnterea
Omnibus ilia quidem Superis pia thura ferebat JEolis ignara tanto-
rum malorum,dinume-
Ante tamen cunctos Junonis templa colebat rat h octcs, et Jam festi- :

nat testes quas ille in-

Proque viro, qui nullus erat, veniebat ad aras. duat'; jam festiuat ves-
Utque foret sospes conjux, suus utque rediret 580 tes ipsa gerat, ubi (;fHff,?
ille venerit : promlt-
Optabat, nullamque sibi praeferret. At illi tilque sibi inanes n-
ditus. Ilia quidf 111 fe-
Hoc de tot votis poterat contingere solum. rebat pia thura omni-
At Dea non ultra pro functo morte rogari bus superis, tamen cole-
bat templa Junonis
Sustinet ; utque manus funestas arceat aris ;
ante cunctos, venielial-
que ad aras pro viro,
Iri,mese, dixit, fidissima nuncia vocis, 585 qui erat viillus. Opta-
bat que ut sum conjux
Vise soporiferam Somni velociter aulam :
foret sospc!, utque re-
diret pro /'erretqne
,

nullam sibi.. At de tot votis hoc solum poterat contingere illi. At Dea non sustinet ultra ro-
gari pro functo moi te ; utque arceut funestas mantis avis dixit; Irifjidissiata nuncia mea vocis.
;

vise velociter soporiferam aulam Somni,

TRANSLATION.
Ceyx himself, with that hand which lately swayed a sceptre, now seizes a
broken plank, and in vain, alas invokes his father and father-in-law but
!
:

her name
chiefly, as he swims, he calls upon Halcyone her he remembers, ;

he repeats, and wishes that his dead body, wafted to shore by the waves,
may meet her searching eyes, and be buried by her friendly hands.
While he swims, as often as the raves permit him to open his mouth, he
calls upon Halcjone, and murmurs her dear name even under the deep.
When, lo! a bending arch of water breaks over the mid-waves, and
whelms his head beneath the foaming surge. Lucifer, obscure that night,
and such that you could not know him, because he was not permitted to
leave his station in heaven, hid his face under thick clouds. Mean time
the daughter of jEoIus, ignorant of this mighty disaster, computes the
for Iiim to wear,
nights, and hastens, against the promised time, a robe
hastens a garment for herself too, and flatters herself with the vain hope
of his retiu-n. She indeed offered to all the heavenly jwwers,
pious incense
but, above all, paid her adorations at the temple of Juno, and came to
the altars to intercede for her husband, who was now no more. She
offered up vows for his and return, and that no rival might possess
safety
his heart but this last
:
of all the requests she made, was granted
alone,
her. And now the goddess, tired of these vain devotions for the dead, that
404 P. OVIDII NASONIS

ut mittat ad
juheque Extiiictique iubc Cevcis imagine mittat
Hiilciionemimagineex- •
i tt i
ti'icilceycis, somnia boiiinia aci HalcyoneHi veros narrantia casus.
narrantia veros casus.
Dijcerat. Irisinduitiir Dixerat. Induitur velamina mille colorum
telamiiia mille colo-
ium,et sigiKins calitm Iris, et arquato ccelum curvamine signans, 590
arqnato ciirvamine, Tecta petit iussi sub rupe latentia regis.
petit tectajussi regis.
latenHasuhrupe. Est iLst prope Cimmerios longo spelunca recessu,

K«
mons
"^S'l-^X.
domus
Mons cavus, ignavi domus et penetralia Somni •

cavus, et
penetralia ignavi Som-
Quo nunquam radiis oriens, mediusve, eadensve
ni :
quo Plicebtis oritns, Phcebus adii e potest. Nebulae caligine mistae 595
mediiisve, eadensve,
nuiiquum potest ciriirc Exhalantur humo dubiseque crepuscula lucis.
;
Ne/mlte jiiixta
rai/iis.
culigine cihaldntur Non vigil
ales ibi cristati cantibus oris
hiimo, crcpuscnlaquc Evocat Auroram nee voce silentia rumpunt
:
dubite liicis. Jbi vigil
ales noil evocat euro- canibusve sagacior anser.
Sollicitive canes, 599
ram caiitihus cristati
oris : t/ec sollicitive Non fera, non pecudes, non moti flamine rami,
canes, anservc saga- Humaneeve sonum reddunt convicia linguae:
cinr ranibus, riimpunt
silenlia voce. Nonfera,
non non rami
Muta quies habitat. Saxo tamen exit ab imo
Rivus aquse Lethes per quem cum murmure labens
peciides,
inoti Jiiimine, cotivici- :

ave Immante lingua:

reddiint sonum. Muta
Invitat somnos crepitantibus unda lapillis.
quies habitat: tame?i Ante forcs autri foecuuda papavera florent, 605
rivus aqua Lethes ex-
it ab imo saxo, per
, ii
herbae : quarum de lacte soporem
iij.
Innuuierjeque
ZZ:::':^rZ'sZ Noxlegit, et spargit per opacas humida terras.
nos crepitantibus la- cardine reddat,
Janua, QUSB verso stridoreui
pulls. Ante tores an- -.-,,,' ,T^ ....
^
trifacunda papavera, Nulla domo tota : custos
t, limine nullus. m it'*„x^ .-.

innumeraque
florent,
herba: .,
de quarum At uiedio torus cst cbeuo sublimis
.

atra, 610
>
m
ilpoTem, ''T%a%% Plumcus, atricolor, pullo velamine tectus :

per opacas
Nulla janua
terras.
est \\\to-
Qu^ cubat ipse
^ Dcus,' mcmbris languore
° solutis.
til domo, quiE reddat stridorem verso cardine ; nullus custos in limine. At medio est torus sub-
limis, in atra el>eno,plumeus, atricolor, tectus pullo velamine: quo ipse JJeus cubat, membris
so'.utis languore.
TRANSLATION.
she might repel her polluted hands from the altars Go (said she), Iris, ;

thou faithful messenger of my commands, hasten to the soporiferous court

of Sleep, and bid him prepare, in the form of Ceyx deceased, a dream,
that shall inform Halcyone of her real misfortvme. She said when Iris, ;

clad in a robe of a Ihousand colours, and marking the heavens with a

bending arch, repairs as ordered to the palace of the king, deep under a
hollow rock. There is, near the abode of the Cimmerians, a cave in a long
recess, formed of a hollow mountain, the palace and habitation of the
drowsy god whither Phoebus, whether rising, in his mid course, or set-
;

are
ting, can never penetrate with his rays. Fogs, mixed with darkness,
exhaled from the ground, and the twilight of a doubtful sky. Here no
watchful
crowing cock calls up the morning with his horny bill nor do ;

voice the
dogs, or geese still more wakeful than dogs, disturb with their
silence of the place. Nor wild beasts, nor cattle, nor boughs bending to
tlie Avind, nor the clamours of a human likeness of
tongue, produce any
sound, but mute Rest has here her abode and a branch of the river Lethe,
;

in-
issuing from the bottom of the rock, and creeping over the pebbles,
vites to sleep by its gentle murmurs. At the mouth of the cave poppies
grow in crowds, and innumerable herbs from whose juice humid night ;

gathers her sleepy power, and scatters it over the darkened earth. In
 S,
Hunc
.-J
omnia vana jacent totidera,
METAMORPHOSEON,
circa passim varias imitantia formas
quot messis aristas,
Silva gerit frondes, ejectas littus arenas.
Quo simul intravit, manibusque obstantia viroo
Sj. ,• r •
,
omnia dimovit; vestis rulgore reiuxit •,
°
.
'^"'^^ '"""^ '""'« *'^'-
nia imitantia varias
Muras passimjaccnt,
615 i'eru'"ariJtus, "'ttili
f>oiutes, uttus ejectas
annas. Quo .simul vir-
^

gointravit,dimoiUgue
,

1
. .
Lib. Xf. 405

Sacra domus :
tard-Aque Deus gravitate jacentes "l^^f"J^u"t,Zs
Vix oculos tollens ; iterumque iterumque relabens,
'^eTsqi{'1ir%7ueZ
Summaque percutiens nutanti pectora mento,' 620 "''"'''* Jacetues tarda

E-i tandem
xcussit
, ^1 -1
sibi se
cubitoque levatus,
•

:
1 •', 1 , graiUale, iterumque
iterumque rciubcns.
Quid veniat (cognarat enim) scitatur. At ilia :
K'/i'^S/Ji^r,
quies rerum, placidissime Somne Deorum.>
"c«v.v?7 ^e
Somne,.1. vi.

-p) r
1 ax animi, quem cura lugit, qui corda diurnis
o/i
IT ff "^«"
01; leratiisqve cnbU.o
scitatur quia vodat
T? ••/••
l^essa mmistenis mulces,
^^^
625
1 11. (enim co"norat eani. J
reparasque labori ;
^^ i^^« respotuut : .sw
Somnia, qua veras sequent imitamine formas, 'ne%ac-Mme '^mo.
Herculea Trachine iube, sub imag-ine reois,
HI J .•^•11
alcyonen adeant simulachraq; nauiraganngant:
;
°r^^ *'""' vax a?iimi,
cura Jugit; qui mulces
cordafes.saciiurnismi-
quem

Imperat hoc Juno. Postquam mandata peregit t\>o&bllu2f,t^.

Iris, abit. Neque enim ulterius tolerare vaporis 630
ll'rasfoZaT^ I^TeZi
Vim poterat. Labique ut Somnum sensit in artus : Haicyonen hcrcutea
'T7£C ^'d. ^ IV I racliine, sub imagine
remeat per quos mode venerat arcus.
J. J

ii.ttugit et regis; jingantque si-

At pater h populo natorum miUe suorum .

7:^mper:ti:6!^jf^.
Excitat artificem, simulatoreraque fio-urae '

po^iquamperegit man-
TX/r I, AT -n -v 1 •
1 /-.«,- data, abit. Aeque enim
Morphea. iNon illo ussos solertius alter 635 poferut uitirius tou-
rare vim vuyoris. i:t-
?,,,,„ -i."
I^xprimitincessus, li J 1 T
vultumque,modumqueloquendi, que sensit Somnnm
Adjicit et vestes, et consuetissima cuique ifULVt^'j^'frcus
per quos modovenerat. At pater, k populo suorum mille natorum, excitat Morphea artijivem, si-
mulatoremque figura. ISun alter exprimit jussos ineessus solertius illo,
ViUtumque vtodumuue
loqueudi; adjicit et vestes, et verba consuetissima

TRANSLATION,
the whole palace was no door, that, in
turning on hinges, might occasion
a noise no porter was stationed to
;
guard the entrance. But in the middle
of the hall is a bed, raised
high on black ebony, stuffed with blacli fea-
thers, and covered with a black quilt, on which the god himself lies his ;

limbs dissolved in sloth. Around his head fantastic visions in various fly
torms, numerous as ears of corn in harvest, leaves in the woods, or sand
on the sea-shore. Whither, as soon as the
virgin entered, and witli her
liand repelled the
opposing dreams, the sacred dome shone with the splen-
dour of her robes and the
god, scarce able to raise his eyes, sunk in lan-
;

guid sloth; and again and again relapsing, and knocking the top of his
breast with his chin, at
length shook otF himself; and, leaning on his
elbow, asked her (for he knew her) the cause of her coming. But she :

Sleep, thou rest of all things Sleep, thou gentlest of the gods ; thou
;

peace of the mind, before whom care flies who refreshest the body, ;

spent with the toils of the day, and repairest its decays command a :

I
dream, equalling in the resemblance real forms, and bearing the image
of the
king, to hasten to Halcyone in Herculean Trachis, and let it as-
sume the appearance of one who has been shipwrecked so Juno com- ;

mands.
having thus delivered her message, retired for she could no
Iris, :

I
longer support the violence of the vapour; but, finding that sleep stole
upon her limbs, she fled, and swiftly ascended the bow by which she
came. But father Sleep^ from the crowd of his thousand sons, selects
406 P. OViDll NASONIS

Verba. Sed hie solos homines imitatur: at alter

Fit fera, fit vohicris, fitlongo corpore serpens.
Hunc Icelon Superi, mortaie Phobetora vulgus
Nominat. Est etiam diversffi tertius artis 641
Phantasos. Ille in humum, saxumque, undamque,
trabemque,
QuEcque vacant nnima feliciter omnia transit.
Regibus hi, ducibusque suos ostendere vultus
Noctesolent: populos alii, plebemq; pererrant 645
Praeterit hos senior cunctisque e fratribus unum
:
I
Morphea, qui peragat Thamnantidos edita, Somniis
Elioit et rursits moUi languore solutum
:

Deposuitque caput, stratoque recondidit alto.

Ille volat, nullos strepitus facientibus alis 650
Tknumantidos, et rur- Per tenebras intraque mora breve tempus in urbem
ius solutum main :

languore, deposuitque Pervenit Haemoniam positisque e corpore pennis

:

caput, reconiiiditque
strata alto. Ille volat In faciem Ceycis abit formaque sub ilia :

per tenebras alis fa- 654

cU'ntilms nullos stre- Luridus, exangui similis, sine vestibus ullis,
Conjugis ante torum miserse stetit. Uda videtur
pitus, intraque breve
tempus mora:, pervenit
Barba viri, madidisque gravis fluere unda capillis.
in urbetn Haemoniam :
pcmiisque posllis e cor-
pore, abit in fiiciem Tim lecto incumbens, fletu super ora refuso,
Ceycis, subque Ma for-
Heec
ma, luridus, similis ex-
ait: agnoscis Ceyca, miserrima conjux?
ajigui,sine niLis vesti-
bus, stetit ante torum
^^ mca mutata est facies.' nece ? respice
i
nosces ;
. . . .
, ncr\
miserte conjugis. Bar-
Inveniesq; tuo pro cottjuge conjugisumbram. ooU
undalle^l'rlvilfluere Nil opis, Halcyoue, nobis tua vota tulerunt.

Tctmbem^lftl\fleZ
Occidimus. FalssB tibi me permittere noli.
refuso super ora, ait Iktc: Miserrima conjux, agnoscis Ceyca? an mea facies est mutata nece T
Resjiice ; nosces; inrrniesque umhrum conjugis pro tuo conjnge. Tua iota, Halcyone, tulerunt
nil opis nobis. Occidijnus. Noli promittere me tibi falsa.

TRANSLATION.
Morpheus, a skilful artist, belie the human form.
and one who could best
Thau him could none of the brothers better express the gait, countenance,
and manner of speaking he could assume too the habit, and one's most
;

familiar words. He indeed imitates men only another becomes a wild :

beast, a bird, or serpent with lengthened train him the gods above call :

Icelos, but the race of mortals Phobetor. There is a third too. Phantasy.,
an artist of a different kind. He happily passes into earth or stone, a
wave or beam, and every form destitute of life. These three are Avout to
display themselves in the night to kings and mighty chiefs the rest at- ;

tend the people and ignoble crowd. The

aged god passes by these, and,
of all the brothers, chooses only
Mojphfius to execute the commands of
the daughter of Thaumas then again
dropt down his head, dissolved in
;

sleep, and shrunk within the bed. He flies through the dark with wings
that make no noise, and, in a very little time, arrived in the Ha;monian
city ; when, divesting himself of his wings, he assumes the shape of Ceyx;
and, in that form, pale, bloodless, and naked, stood before the bed of his
wretched spouse. His beard seemed wet, and the drops to fall thick from
his humid locks. Then leaning on the bed, and with his face bathed in
tears ;
My
most wretched wife (says he), dost thou know thy Ceyx ? or,
are my looks changed by death ? Observe me well,
you will know me,
and find, instead of your husband, your husband's shade. Thv prayers,
 METAMORPIIOSEON, Lib. XI. 407

^o-eo deprendit in sequore navim

Nu1:>ilus Nabuus mister de-

Auster, et ingenti jactatam tlamine solvit geo aquorc. >t .wivu :

Oiaque nostra tuum frustra clamantia nomen 665 tiXTJS'c it

ductus. nostra om
Non hcec tibi.. nunciat auctor piermlt clamantia
Implerunt tu-
. ^, .
,. Jrtistra
. .

Ambiguus non ista vagis rumoribus

: audis. um nomen. noh am-

Ipse ego fata tibi prajsens mea naufragus edo. hic"ibhlwZ'^dismi

Surge, age: dalachrymas;lugubriaqueindue:necme ip^^^ltaT/ru']'^^' n^"-
Indeploratum sub inania Tartara mitte. 670 •'/"•s
e</o mea/aia tm.
AT'-,i- lyif 1
•
••11 ^Se, surge, da larliry-
Adjicit his vocem Morpheus, quam conjugis ilia mas, iniiue<i„.c lugn-
Crederet esse sui. Fletus quoque fundere veros ^ZraT;m '"f//7/w«/a
Visus erat o-estumque manus Ceycis habebant.
, •
11 TT
:

1 1
'^"/.^"l'^- J^forpiicus
adjictt vucemhis,qiiam
Ingemit lialcyone lachrynians, motatque lacertos aia crederet es.se vo-
ii*i "^
cem sui con jvsis. Visus
^er somnum, corpusque petens amplectitur aiu'as: erat qvoq^c fniniere.
1->
,

Exclamatq; Mane. Quo te rapis? ibimus una. 676 Mbei^t^'^n,^^^-

Voce sua,' specieque
'
viri turbata soporem «*• Haicyoneiachry.
> mans
-fy
. .
^' . . . .
.,,y nigemit, motat-
JCiXCUtlt : et pnmo si sit
CirCUmspiClt lihC, que laccrtos per som-
Qui mod6 visus erat. Nam moti voce ministri '^'S'!:iu^7!Z
Intulerant lumen. Postquam non invenit usquam :
ciamatiw, Mane: quo
. .1 ^
1
rapis te? tOwius v>ni.
Percutit ora manu laniatq ; a pectore vestes: 681 Turbata: voce spcde-

P, p T\T •
que sui viri, exciitit
•

ectoraque ipsa ferit. JN ec cnnem solvere curat ; soporem, et prima dr-

,
•
1 .

Scindit et altrici, quaj luctus causa, roganti,

:
~^i-1«/' "^ m^.
Nulla est Haley one, nulla est, ait occidit una -^«"f mimstrinwn vo- :

,, ^~ A 11- 1 nar ^nluUruiit lumen.

^ *•'*''

(..'Um Ceyce SUO. bolantia tolhte verba. OOO Postquam non invenit
AT c i "-i "17* T •
„ _ i\\nmnsqvum,vere7itit
JNautragus interut. Vidi, agnovique; manusque ora n-Jnu; laniutquc
Ad discedentem, cupiens retinere tetendi. lne%,L^'pfcZrafnlc
curat solvere crinem, scindit, et ait altrici roganti qutv sit causa luctus, Halcyone nulla est,
occidit una cum suo Ceyce : tollite solantia verba. Naufragus intcriit: vidi, agnoviiiue cupicns-
que retinere, tetendi manus ad discedentem.

TRANSLATION.
Halcyone, have nought availed, I have yielded to fate ;
flatter not thy-
self, therefore, with the vain hope of my return. The cloudy south-wind
overtook our galley in the ^gean sea, and, tossing Iier with its dreadful
hurricane, at length dashed her to pieces, and the billows stopped my
!>reath, callhig in vain upon your name. No uncertain author brings this
mournful news, nor hearest thou it from the flying breath of fame I :

myself in person am present before you, <and tell the story of my own
wreck. Rise, rise, shed tears, and put on mourning nor send me unla- ;

mented to the dreary realms of Tartarus. To all this Morpheus joined a

voice, such as she might take for that of her husband he seemed also to ;

shed real tears, and the gesture of his hands spoke him to be Ceyx. Hal-
cyone, all in tears, groans within herself, and moves her arms about in her
!jleep and, catching at the body, grasps the air, and calls out. Stay; whi-
;

ther so fast ? I will go along Avith you. Disturbed thus by the voice and
appearance of her husband, she disengages herself from sleep, and first
looks round, if he, whom she so lately saw, be near for her servants, ;

waked by the noise, had brought in a light, ^^^hen she finds him no-
Avhere, she beats her face Avith her hand, and tears the robe from her
breast, and smites her breast itself. Nor does she Ihink of unbinding her
hair, but tears it and says to her nurse, avIio inquired the cause of her
;

grief: Halcyone, Halcyone is no more; she is perished Avilh her dear

Ceyx cease to comfort me, he is destroyed by shipwreck. I saw and knew
:
408 P. OVIDII NASONIS
Umbra fugit, sed et
Umbra fugit : sed et umbra tamen manifesta, virique
tamen muiiifesta vera,
giie umbra met riri.
Jlla quiricm si qiitrris,
Vera mei. Non
quidem, si quseris, habebat
ilia
unit /laOcbat assiic/os nee quo prius ore nitebat.
Assuetos vultiis : 690
vuttiis; life vi/f'liat
quo 01 c 1-rius. Infelix Pallentem, nuduraque, et, adbuc humente capillo
rii/i palleiitein, nudum
ct
Infelix vidi. Stetit hoc miserabilis ipso
que capillo ari/iuc
humeiitr. Miserabilis Ecce loco et quserit vestigia, si qua supersint.
:
stetit. cccc hoc ipso lo-
co; et quarit si qua Hoc hoc animo quod divinante timebam;
erat,
vestigia
Hoc, hoc erat qnnd
su])crsi7it.
Et ne, me fugiens, vento sequerere, rogabam. 695
tinieham diviiwntc ani- At certe vellem, quoniam periturus abibas,
mo, el rogabam ne fu-
gi'^ns nie, sequerere Me quoque duxisses. Tecum fuit utile, tecum
rentos ? At certe, quo-
iiiatii abibas periturus, Ire mihi. Neque enim de vitse tempore quicquam
vcllciu dux isscs me Non simijl egissem nee mors discreta fuisset. 699
:
quoque. Fail utile tiii-
hi ire tecum, tecum ne- Nunc absens pereo, jactor nunc fluctibus absens :

qtie cuijn /ton egissem

quicqttam de tempore me, pontus habet. Crudelior ipso
Et, sine
vita simul, uec mors
fuisset discreta. Inline
mens pelago, si vitam ducere nitar
Sit mihi
absens perco,nunc ab- et tanto pugnem superesse dolori.
sens jactor fluctibus, Longius ;
et pontus habet me Sed
sine me. Mens sit cru-
neque pugnabo nee te, miserande, relinquam? :

delior mihi ipso pela- Et tibi nunc saltem veniam comes. Inqiie sepul-
go, si iritiir
.,
ducere vi-
chro,' 705
lam lo?ig!us ; ct^ pug-
,

nem superesse tanto Si nou uma, tamen iunget nos littera: si non
dolori.
nabo, 7iec miserande, Ossibus ossa meis, at nomen nomine tangam.
rclinqiiam te et mine
saltem ve?iiiim co?!ies Plura dolor prohibet verboque intervenit omni
;

tibi ; sique tion nrna, et attonito gemitus e corde trahuntur.

tamen littera junget Plangor ;

nos in sepulchro: si Mane erat: eg-reditur tectis ad litt.us: et ilium 710

non tangam tna ossa
meis ossibus, at tdng,\m Moesta locum repetit, de quo spectarat euntem,
tuum nomen nieo no- moratus ibi; diimque hic retinacula solvit,
Tnine. Dolor prohibet Dumq;
yhira ; plangorqnc intervenit omni verbo, et gemitus trahuhtur e corde attonito, Erat mane,
egrcditur tectis ad littus, et ma-sta repetit ilium locum, de quo spcctaverat euntem, dicitque,
Vitm est moratus ibi, dunique discedens solvit retinacula hlc,
TRANSLATION.
him, and, desirous to detain him, extended my arms to him as he seemed
to depart. His ghost fled yet was it the manifest and real ghost of my
;

husband. He had not indeed his wonted countenance, nor were his looks
enlivened with their usual lustre. Hapless I saw him pale, naked, and !

with hair still wet. Lo ill-fated man here he stood, in this very place
! ! :

and she looks if as yet the prints of his feet might still remain. This it
was it was this I feared in my foreboding mind and begged that you
; ;

might not forsake rae and follow the winds. But I, however, could have
wished, since thou didst go never to return again, thou hadst also carried
me along with thee with thee to have gone had for me happy been for
;
:

than I had not passed any of my time without thee, nor had my death
disjoined been
from thee. Now, absent from thee, I die; and, absent, by
the waves I am tossed the sea has thee without me.
;
My heart more
cruel were than sea itself, should I endeavour life to lengthen, and struggle
to survive so great a grief: but neither will I struggle, nor wretched thee
at least, I will come and in the grave,
relinquish. Thy companion, now, ;

if not the urn, yet the inscription shall us join and if I touch not bones ;

with bones, yet name with name I shall. More grief forbids, and wail-
ings come between each word,
and sighs are fetched from her astonished
heart. It was morning she goes out to the shore, and, mournful, sought
;

the spot, whence she had seen him go, and says While here he lingered, :
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XI. 409

Hoc mihi discedens dedit oscula littore, dicit :

m%e°.'''mmqui ''re-

Dumque notata oculis reminiscitur acta, fretumque miniscUur acta nota-

Prospicit; in liquida spatio distante tuetur 715 jretum, tuetur sp,jtio

Nescio quid, quasi corpus, aqua primoque, quid '^nl!l"ctrj!^i!^i<^aM ;

lllud uijitLi ; jii imoqiie erat

,^ 11- -r> IV T 1
tlubium (juid i/liid es-
J

Esset, erat dubium. rostquampaulo appulitunda; stt, se<\ pu.stqiwmun-

Et quamvis aberat, corpus tamen esse liquebat; quamVhl'ibcriu^iumm
Qui foretjignorans, quia naufragus, omine mota est ; •"^/,'^/^"f^ "'jfj ''"2"t't'
Et, tanquam ionoto lachrymam daret. Heu miser, g'lianmifrogirse.stmo'.
•
-. tuomhie, et, tanquam
dartt lachrijmum ig-
inqUlt,
Quisquis es, et si
qua est coujux tibi ! fluctibus actum ""';."•
q!a"q!ds"t%TH
Fit propius corpus. Quod quo co„jux'
1.1 r., T^ magis ilia tuetur,' "_ «:f '/"«
Corpus actum Jlucti-
tm;
Hoc minus, et minus est amens sua. Jamque pro- husjit propms, quod
quo ilia magis tuetur,

OJ pinqU36 amens est hoc minus

Admotum terree, jam quod cognoscere posset, 724 %rnu'iZ"otiim"pZ.
Cernit: erat coniux. llle est, exclamat : et una pinqua: terra, jam
, i i J , . 1'""^ posset cognos-
comas, vestem lacerat:
ra, tendensque trementes cere.- erat covjux. Ex-
\ J r\ o A • • • •
clamat. Est ille! et
Ad Ceyca manus. vbic o carissime conjux, vnaUiceratora,comus.
Sic ad me, miserande, redis ? ait. '«'«»• tendensque
'
Adjacetundis
J >
, . trementes vianus ad

F-
tacta manu moles: qua?
,
' primas eequoris iras 729
^
.

rangit; et incursus quse prsedelassat aquarum.

1 1 i
f'pz/<«. ait: .y«,- redis
<td me, o carissime, o
miserande conjux r

Insilit hue, potuisse ; volabat

mirumque fuit :
fafeVlTdi,, !!',""])"».
Percutiensque
1
levem modo natis aera pennis,
1 '
s{t vrimas
iras eeqno.
^ , ... . ris.et qufP prtcdelas-
Strmgebat summas ales miserabilis undas. sat incursus aqua.

Diimque volat, moesto similem, plenumque querelae ^gnTmlrum 'potuisse':

Ora dedere sonum tenui crepitantia rostro. 735 ^nuc\%anacZ^venni^
Ut vero tetigit
^ rautum et sine sanguine
o corpus: ?
modon,nis,miserui)iiis
ales, stringebat sum-
i.

mas undas. Dumque volat, ora crepitantia tenui rostro dedere sonum similem mtcsto, plenum-
que querela. Ut vero tetigit corpus mutum et sine sanguine ;

TRANSLATION.
and while here he loosed his cables, at parting he me kisses gave upon
this shore and, while she, with her eyes the place does mark, she recol-
:

lects what passed, and throws a broad look on the sea. At distance, on
the liquid wave, she espies, I know not what, that seemed a corse. At
first, it was uncertain what it might be but, after that the water had ;

something nearer wafted it, though still at distance, plainly it appeared

to be acorse. Ignorant who it might be, yet, because
shipwrecked, she is
at the omen moved, and would, as for a stranger, shed a tear. Alas poor
—
!

wretch (she says) whoever thou be, and if thou hast ever a wife
! The !

corse, still wafted by the waves, does nearer come which the more she !

views, the less she is herself. And now she sees it brought quite to the
land, and what she now could well distinguish, it was her husband It is !

he, she cries and, at the instant, tears her face, her hair, her vest, and
;

stretching out her trembling hands to Ceyx Thus, O, dearest husband! ;

aloud she cries, thus wretched to me dost thou now return Upon the sea !

adjoins an artificial mole, which breaks the waves' first fury, and water's
shock does weaken on that she leaps, and it was surprising that she
;

could she flew and, with

wings new made, now striking the light air,
:
;

she skims, a wretched bird, the

topmost waves and, while she flies, her ;

creaking slender bill gives forth a sound, mournful and plaintful. But,
as she touched the dumb and bloodless corse,
embracing the dear limbs
410 P. OVIDII NASONIS

rSXf'«L^S Dilectos artus amplexa recentibus alis,

vequicquam Frigida neouicquam duro dedit oscula rostro.
fri-^idu
oxciila duro rosf.ro. o'j.i_/^
bensei'it hoc Ceyx, an vultum motibus undss
Popiiiits ditbitaiuit ati
i

'st^%i^::rM're'rZ ToUere fit visus, populus dubitabat at ille 740 :

Senserat. Et tandem, Superis miserantibus, ambo

mcJ"usrZ''"t''l'4l
ris tandem miseianti- Alite Diutantur. Fatis obnoxius isdem
bus, amho mittaiitiir rrw •. tit i • •
,
alite. Tunc qiinque a- 1 unc
quoquB mansit aniOF. JN ec conjugiale solutum
Fcedus in alitibus: coeunt, fiuntque parentes :
IZcmpknl'^f^d!^
canjniiaie\r?it ,oi<,.
Perouc dics placidos hibemo tempore septera 745
fiuntque parentes; Incubat Jdalcyone penaentibus jequore mdis.
pTJidos IdiwrL tern- Tiuii via tuta maris ventos custodit, et arcet
:

?:;"^««/f
(cqmre. Turn
&"S via ma-
^ol"s egressu: praestatque nepotibus aquor.
XI. Hos aliquis scnior circum freta lata volantcs
custodit ten/OS, et ar-Spectat et ad finem servatos laudat amores. 750
:

%e%Zn^n^vi7ibiT Proximus, aut idem, si fors tulit, Hie quoque dixit,

i»^<(// /wv"%»ww Quem
mare carpentem substrictaq ; crura gerentem
circum lata freta, et
laudat anwres servatos
Aspicis (ostendens spatiosum guttura mergum)
"
t> • •
t', •
i i i •

ad finem. PrMimtis, Kegia progenies. Jbit, si descendere ad ipsum

Ordine perpetuo quseris, sunt hujus origo 755
dixitT"Nic''"uX«i',
quem aspicis carpen- Hus, et Assaracus, raptusQue Jovi Ganvmedes,
ternmare gcrentcmqne t j t-> m • • • •

crura substricta,(os.
Laomeclonque senex, Fnamusque novissnna Irojae
*mcrgwn sutturaT'eTt Tempora sortitus. Frater fuit Hectoris iste :

regia progenies, et. si

quarts descendere ad ipsum perpetuo ordine, Ilus et Assaracus, Ganymedesque raptus 'Jovi.
Laomedonque senex, Priamusque sortitus novisshna tempora Trojce, sunt origo hvjus. Iste fuit
frater Hectoris ;
TRANSLATION.
in her new wings, hardened bill cold kisses gave
in vain she with her
The vulgar were whether Ceyx felt all this, or seemed to raise
in doubt
his head, moved by the wave. But he had felt and, at length, the gods ;

them pitying, they both are changed to birds. Then, too, remained their
love, obnoxious to the self-same fate nor is dissolved, when birds, their
;

union conjugal: they couple, and they parents do become: and, in win-
ter time, for seven calm days,
Halcyone sits brooding on her nest, hang-
ing on the sea it is then sea-faring safe does prove.
; iEolus keeps and
restrains the winds from sallying out, and does secure a smooth sea from
his grand-children.
XI. These, some old man observes, flying about the wide-extended
seas, and does commend their loves, kept to the last. His neighbour, or
he the same, if chance so order, said This, too (shewing a cormorant ;

with wide throat), whom you espy cutting the sea, and having slender
legs, is royal progeny and, if you want, in one continued series, doAvn to
:

him to come, Ilus and Assaracus, and Ganymede snatched by Jupiter,

and aged Laomedon, and Priam allotted the last times of Tro}-, are his
NOTES.
758. Frater fuit Hectoris iste.] Ovid his father made him marry Sterope, who
and Apollodorus agree, that ^sacus was having died very young, he was so af-
the son of Priam, and that he was trans- flicted therewith, that he tinng himself
formed into a didapper ; but they differ into the sea. His tratiformation into a
as to the other circumstance of this his- didapper is one of those episodes, that
toiy. For the latter tells us, that /Bsacns was invented to console the parents; a
was the son of Priaui and Arisba, the key which ought often to serve as a prin-
daughter of Merope, his firsfe vife ; that ciple for explaining these sorts of events.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XI. 411

Qui, nisi sensisset prim^ nava fata juvent^, qui, nisi sensisset no-
vaftita primdjuventA,
Forsitan inferius non Hectore nomen haberet forsitan haberet no-
men non inferius Hec-
Quamvis est ilium proles enixa Dyniantis. 761 tore ; quamvis proles
iEsacon umbrosa furtira peperisse sub Ida Dymanti'i est enixa il-
ium. AUxirrhw, nata
Fertur Alexirrho'e Granico nata bicoini. hicorni Granico, fer-
tur piptrisse jEsacon
Oclerat hie urbes nitidaque remotus ab
: aul*^ fiirlim sub iimhrosti,
Idi't. Hie oderat urbes,
Secretos montes, et inarabitiosa colebat 765 remofiiM/i/e ab nitidd
Rura nee: Iliacos ecetus, nisi rarus, adibat. anld, colebat secretos
mottles, it iiiamhitlusa
Non agreste tamen, nee inexpugnabile Amori rura, nee adibtit Ilia-
cos ccetns, nisi rarus.
Pectus habens, silvas captatam saepe per omnes Habeiis tameti pectus
non aiiresle, mc inex-
Aspieit Hesperien patria Cebrenida rip^, piignahilc umuri aspi-
Injectos humeris siecantem sole capillos. 770 eit Hesper.en Cebre-
nida sape captatam
Visa fugit Nymphe veluti pertei'rita fulvura
: per omnes pu-
silvas,
trid siecantem
ripd,
Cerva lupum, longeque laeu deprensa relicto sole capiUns injectos
humeris. Nymphe visa
Accipitrem fluvialis anas. Quam Troius heros fugit, velati cerva per-
Insequitur eeleremque metu eeler urget amore.
: territa fugit fulvum
lupum, fiitvialisque
Ecce latens herba eoluber fugientis aduneo 775 anas deprensa lunge
liicu relicto, fugit ac-
Dente pedem stringit: virusque in eorpore linquit. cipitrem. Quam Troius
Cum vita suppressa fuga est. Amplectitur amens heros i7isequitur; ce-
amore
lirque urget
Exanimem clamatque, piget, piget esse seeutum
: : cdercm metu. Ecce
coluber latens herba,
Sed non hoe timui nee erat mihi vincere tanti.
:
stringit pedim fugien-
tis aduneo dente: lin-
Perdidimus miseram nos te duo. Vulnus ab angue,
qiiitque virus in eor-
A me causa data est. Ego sim seeleratior illo, 781 pore. Fuga est sup-
pressa cum vita. Amens
Ni tibi morte mea mortis solatia mittam. amplectitur exani-
mem ; clamatque, Pi-
Dixit et e scopulo, quem rauca subederat unda,
:
get, piget me esse se-
Se dedit in pontum. Tethys miserata cadentem cul.nm te\: sed non ti-
mui hoc, 7iec vincere
erat tanti mihi. Nos duo perdidimus te miseram, vulnus est datum ah aJigiu ciivsa est data A
,

7ne : ego sim seeleratior illo, ni med morte mittam solatia mortis tibi. Dixit et dedit se in pontum
e scopulo, quem rauca unda subederat. Tethys miserata,

TRANSLATION.
ancestors. He was Hector's brother and who, had he not a strange fate
;

undergone in dawn of youth, would have had a name, perhaps, to Hector

not inferior ; though Dymas' daughter bore this last Alexirrhoe, the
daughter of the two-horned Granicus, is said to have brought forth ^sa-
cus by stealth under the shady Ida. He loathed the cities, and, distant
from the splendid court, did frequent the lonely mountains and imam-
bitious country, nor went but rarely to the Trojan meetings yet, having ;

not a breast, or clownish, or impregnable to love, he Hesperie espies,

Cebrenus' daughter, often surprised in every wood, drying in the sun, upon
her father's bank, her hair, thrown on her shoulders. The nymph, when
seen, flies as does the frightened doe, the tawny wolf; and as the water-
;

duck, the hawk, siu-prised at distance from her wonted lake whom the ;

Trojan hero does pursue, and, swift with love, does iu*ge her, winged with
fear. When, lo a snake, lurking in the grass, wounds with its crooked
!

tooth her flying foot, and leaves its venom in her body. Her flight is with
her life repressed. Frantic, he grasps her, breathless and cries aloud, I ;

grieve! I grieve to have pursued thus But this I never feared nor did
! !

I so much rate the

conquest. We
two have wretched thee destroyed the :

wound was given by the serpent, but by me the cause. More guilty should
I be than he, did I not send thee comforts of death in mine. He spoke ;
412 P. OVIDII NASONIS

molliter excepit ca-

Molliter excepit nantemque per sequora pennis
:
dentem tcxitque fen-
nis nail t em jier (tquo-Texit et optatae non est data copia mortis.
: 786
ra, it copia optuta
mortis noil est data. Indignatur amans invitum vivere cogi ;
Amans indigiwtiir se
invitum cogi vivere, Obstarique animee misera de sede volenti
obstarique anima vo- Exire.
lenti exire de miscrd, Utque novas humeris eissumpserat alas,
sede, utque ussumpse- Subvolat:
rat novas alas hume-
atque iterum corpus super sequoramittit.
ris subvolat, atque ite- Pluma levat casus. Furit iEsacus inque profun- :

rum mittit corpus su- dum 791

per aquora. Pluma
Icvat casus, ^sacus Pronus abit, letique viam sine fine retentat.
J'urit,abitque promts
in proj'undum, reten- Fecitamor maciem longa internodia crurum,
:

tatque viam leli sine

fine. Amor fecit ma- Longa manet cervix: caput est a corpore longe.
ciem.Internodia cru-
rum sunt longa, cervix ^quor amat: nomenque manet, quia mergitur
manet longa ; caput illi. 795
est longe a corpore.
Amat eequor, tenetque nomen, quia mergitur illi.

TRANSLATION.
and from a rock, which the hoarse wave had undermined, jumped into
the sea. Tethys, in pity, softly received him, falling, clothed him with
feathers, as he swam the sea, denying him the power of wished-for death.
The lover raves to be obliged to live, and that his soul, willing to quit its
wretched seat, is baulked. And, as he had took new wings to his shoul-
ders, he upward flies then throws his body on the sea his feathers
;
:

break the fall. Jisacus storms, and, prone, he plunges deep, incessant
tries the way of death. Love caused his leanness. Long are his legs ;

his neck continues long his head is distant from his body
; he loves the :

sea, and has a name, because he plunges in it.

 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XII. 413

LIBER DUODECIMUS.

I. "IVTESCIUS assumptisPriamus pater ^sacon ORDO.

I. Pritimus pater
neschis jEsacon vivere
.1.^ alls
assvmj)tii alls, luge-
Vivere, lugebat tumulo quoque nomen habenti
: bat: Hector quoque
cumfratrUtus riederat
Inferias dederat cum fratribus Hector inanes. itianes injerias tumulo
habenti nimien
Defuit officio Paridis praesentia tristi :
Prascntia Paridis de-
ejus.

..->.>
Postmodo qui lonafum
P cum conius;e
raptS. JO bellum 5 /"it tnsti officio, qui
postmodo attulit Ion-
Attulit in patriam: conjurataeque sequuntur gum bellum in patriam
cum rapt a: conjuge :
Mille rates, gentisque simul commune Pelasgse rates
milleque C07iju-
Nee dilata foret vindicta ; nisi aequora saevi ratce seqiiuulvr,.nmul-
qiie commtme Pelas-
Invia fecissent ventiBoeotaque tellus : gte gentis. Nee vin-
dicta foret dilata,nisi
Aulide piscosa puppes tenuisset ituras. 10 savi venti fecissent
Hie patrio de more Jovi cum sacra par^ssent; aquora iiivia ; Bteota-
qite tellus tenuhset
Ut vetus accensis incanduit ignibus ara ; tturas puppes in pis-
cosa Aiilide. Hie cum
Serpere cseruleura Dana'i videre draconem IJuna'i de more patrio
par&sseiit sacra Jovi
In platanum cceptis quae stabat proxima sacris
:
ut vetus ara incandu-
it accensis ignibus, videre caruleum draconem serpere in platanum, qua stubat proxima captis
sacvis
TRANSLATION.
I. TTIS father Priam, ignorant that jEsacus, assuming feathers, lived,
XjIL mourned for him. Hector also, with his brothers, made fruit-
less offerings at the tomb bearing his name. Paris' presence was want-
with a ra-
ing at this mournful office Avho soon after brought, together
;

vished wife, a tedious war home to his native country. A thousand ships
of the Pelasgian nation, pursue him
conspiring, with the whole body
:

nor had the vengeance been delayed, did not fierce winds make seas un-
their ships about
passable and the Boeotian laud detain in filthy Aulis
;

to sail. Here, as they had prepared a sacrifice for Jupiter, according to

their country fashion and as the aged altars glowed with kindled fires,
;

the Greeks observe a green snake creep into a plane-tree, which stood
next the sacrifice begun. Upon the top of this tree was a nest of twice
four birds which, together with the dam, fluttering round her care, the
:

NOTES.
When
the Greek captains, who had en- dame, changed This cir-
into a stone.
cumstance might, perhaps, no other
liave
gaged in the expedition against Troy,
were assembled in order to embark, the foundation than the superstition of the
his desire of dis-
two adventures here related by our poet high-priest, or rather
retarded their departure for some time. suading the Greeks from an enterprise
Calchas, who was high-priest in the Gre- that appeared to him exceeding danger-
cian army, foretold, as we also learn from ous. There is room too for conjecture,

Homer, that they would not be able to that this prediction was made in concert
make themselves masters of the city, un- with some of the Greek generals, who, not
til often years. To support
after a siege daring to refuse their troops to Agamem-
this prediction he gave out, that he had non, would yet have been glad of a pre-
seen a serpent mount a tree, and, after tence to disengage themselves from that
devouring eight young birds and the troublesome expedition.
414 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Summa arbnre crnt ni-

Nidus erat volucrum bis quatuor arbore summa, 1 5
bis qnatuor volu-
i/iis
crum, quas serpens Quas simul, et matrem circum sua damna volantem,
ron-ipuU,it umid ma-
trem volanlcm cirriim Corripuit serpens; avidaque recondidit alvo.
sun damiui, recondi-
aviilit alio. Obstupuere omnes. At veri pvovidus augur,
dltqite
DiiDifS ohstupucre : at
Thestorides, Vincemus ait, gaudete, Pelasgi.
augurThestorides,pro-
vidiis veri, ait, Vince- Troja cadet, sed erit nostri mora longa laboris. 20
mus: Pelasgi, gaudete. annos.
J roja cadet, sid mora ^^^^g
-t»-i-4"c
novem volucrcs
inj»v-i" ,^^^^ in belli digerit
^
nostri
loiiga,
laim-it erit
\Wq ^t erat,' virides amplexus
atque digerit .„.
' ^
.
arbore ramos,
,
,

,-
•
m
• i

Mvem voiucres in an- Fit lapis et scrvat serpentis nuagme saxum.

:

ZXus-'vl^i^lrru: 11. Permanet Aoniis Nereus violentus in undis :

mus in arbor e, fii uon transfert: et sunt,/ qui

et serial saxum una-
i,ij>is:
Velaoue
>-iu.'-i"'- t parcere Troiffi
i _
.'

2o
gine serpentis.
Neptuuum credaut, quia mo3nia lecerat urbi,
vilie^ZlnAZilisZ!. At non Thestorides. Nee enim nescitve, tacetve
iram
1^J'-:^Z,uquf^^ Sanguine virgineo placandam virginis
dant Neptnnum par- j^sse Dete, Postouam causa,
cere Triijie, qiiiajece- i.
pietateui
^ publica
^
. -,

rat mania iirbi. At

Rexque patreui vicit ; castumque datura cruorem
'Zl'i^^^ia^ Flentibus ante aram stetit Iphigenia ministris; 31
ti^aS'^^Z Victa Dea est: nubemque oculis objecit, et inter
sanguine. Postqnnm Officium turbamoue sacri, vocesque precantum,
publica causa vicit ^ r •
, tit/\ -j , j '\
'^

ISupposita tertur mutasse Myceniaa

pietatem, rexque pa- cerva.
35
l^r^'/i'^'^f," orr.t.: Ergo, ubi, qua decuit, lenita est ceede Diana ;

stetit ante arum mi-

vo-
; objecitque mibcm ocnlis ; et inter officium turhamque sacri,
nistris Jientibns, Dea est victa
cesque precantum, fertwr inutasse Mycenida supposita cervH. Ergo ubi Diana est lenita ctrde
qua decuit ;
TRANSLATION.
his greedy maw. All stood amazed.
serpent snatches up, and buries in
But Chalcas, son of Thestor, an augur provident of truth, says, have We
but the continuance of
conquered: rejoice, Pelasgians Troy shall fall, ;

our toil shall hold out long ; and he the nine birds does allot to nine years
of the war. He, as he grasped the green boughs in the tree, becomes a
stone, and, under the figure of a snake, retains the stone.
II. Nereus continues boisterous in the Aonian seas, and the sails trans-

port not and some there are, who fancied Neptune favoured Troy, be-
;

cause he built that Avails. Not so Chalcas, Thestor's son.

city's
For nei-
ther he ignorant, nor does conceal a virgin goddess' wrath must be ap-
is

peased with virgin blood. But, after that the public cause
had prevailed
over natural affection, and the king over the father and Iphigenia, ready ;

to offer up her chaste blood, stood before the altar, the ministers, attend-
ant, weeping the goddess was appeased, and cast a mist before their
;

eyes and, amid the service and hurry of the sacrifice, and voices of the
;

for a
supplicants, is said to have changed Iphigenia, the Mycenian maid,
NOTES.
Permanet Aoniis Nereus.l The sa-
24. tions of those who cordially espoused the
crifice of Iphigenia is the second thing cause of Menelai/s, he, at length, con-
mentioned by the poet, as a hinderaiice to sented. All tilings were disposed in order
the departure of the coiifederate fleet. for the sacrifice ; but Diana, appeased by
It was, perhaps, a stroke of tlie same po- this act of submission, substituted, in the

licy mentioned in the former note. For place of Iphigenia, a doe, which was sa-
Agamemnon, stiirtled at a project which crificed to her, and transported the piin-
affected liim so nearly, was ready to aban- cess to Tauris, there to serve her for a
don the enterprise. But afterward, find- priestess.
ing himself liard pressed by the solicita-
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XII. 415

Et pariter Phcebes, pariter maris ira recessit

<"' i'-avmhr Phabe^
I. . V
'^^
-1, .
:
'
jiarUir mam recessit ;

Accipiunt ventos a tergo mule carinas, muu carintr aaiphint

"A .• "r»u A ventos d te>"o, j'trpes-
M-,}
ultaque perpessse rhrygia potmntur arena. saque ,muta, pothm-
J.

Orbe locus medio est inter terrasque fretumque, ^^i i^l'usfn'^meZo''^'-

Coelestesque plagas, triplicis confinia mundi : 40 ^*^ ""''' terrasque,
p-r-ix ^
T . \ •
-I !• jretvjiique, plagasque
Uncie, quod estusquam, quamvis regionibus absit, caieues, amfiiiia tn.

Inspicitur; penetratque cavas vox omnis ad aures. qmXu/quam'e'tJuam-

Fama tenet, summaque domum sibi legit in arce: i^is<ii">it
regiou!hiis,hi.

Innumerosque aditus, ad mille foramina tectis penetratau caiasau-

Addidit, et nullis inclusit limina portis. 45 giiqae "Jonuim'sibl in

Nocte, dieque patent. Tota est ex ore sonanti, "^'""ucZ^'i,!^^
Tota
__ fremit,'. vocesque refert, iteratque quod
T-
audit, "('.'t"''' "': '"Uiefora.
,, y
T-
,.^
.
'., .
*•
inina, (t mciiiMt Itim-
JNuUa quies intus, nuUaque silentia parte. na luuus porns. Pa-
AT J. i-i J •
feiit nocfe dieque: at
JNec tamen est clamor, sea parvoe murmura vocis. t,>ta w oresonanti,io.
Qualia de pelagi, si quis procul audiat, undis 50 Z<S'»a-a^',IZ
I.
Esse Solent: qualemve
^ sonum,/ cum Jupiter atras
-.\
ncrepuit nubes, extrema tonitrua reddunt.
,

Atria turba tenent: veniunt leve vulgus, euntque ;

«"'^''- ^'*'

i<i parte.
wdinquics
inlns,siiniitiaqi(( iivl-
Tamen

rllvtVlTiZVTq'iil'iia
nee.

Mistaque
_ _
cum veris passim commenta vagantur
r
Mulia rumorum; confusaque verba volutant.
V^iogi, SI qui.t atidiat
55 prmni; qiuUemve so-
11 soient es.se de nndis

E-i 1 •!
•

quibus ni vacuas implent sermonibus aures:

niim extrema tonitrua
•

reddimt, cumjupiter
1 '^,

Hi narrata ferunt alio ; mensuraque ficti tu'TIJ^^u 'S*.

Crescit et auditis aliquid novus adiicit auctor.
: ruignsqneieieveninnt
Tiiv /-I 1 T -iiv •
-n cuiitqi-e. Mnliaque
lllic Credulitas, ilhc temerarius Error, eommmta rvmnrum

Vanaque Lsetitia est, consternatique Timores, 60 gTJu/po'^si'iy.'rerba'-

qiir co'ifusa uliiti'iit. i

E quibus hi implent vacuas aures sermonibus hi ferunt narrata alio; mensuraque Jicti crescit,
:

et novus auctor odjicit aliquid auditis. lllic eredulitas est, illic temerarius error, vunaque lor-

titia, consternatique timores,

TRANSLATION.
substituted doe. When, therefore, thus Diana was appeased with a death
more once the rage of Phoebe and the sea was over the thou-
fitting, at :

sand ships receive the Avinds a-stern, and having suffered much, at length
do gain the Phrygian shore. A place there is, in the middle of the world,
between the land and sea and heavenly regions, the confines of the three-
fold world from whence is seen whatever is any where, though regions
;

distant and every voice does pierce the hollow ears. Fame holds it, and
;

chooses for herself a seat on the topmost tower has added avenues num- ;

berless, and a thousand openings to her house, and not shut up the entries
with any doors night and day they open stand. It is all of sounding
:

brass, all murmuring reflects the voices, and repeats all that it hears.
;

No rest within, in no part silence and yet it is not a shouting but the ; ;

murmurs of a soft voice ; such as are wont to come from the sea's winds,
if any one stands listening at a distance or, such a sound as dying tliun- ;

ders give, when Jupiter had chid the pitchy clouds. crowd does fill the A
hall the fickle ATjlgar come and go and a thousand rumours devised,
; ;

mixed with true, roam up ar\d down, and throw out words confused. Of
which some fill the empty ears with speeches, some what is told convey
elsewhere the measure of the fiction groAvs, and each new author adds
;

something still to what himself has heard. There stands Credulity, there
rash Mistake, and empty Joy ; astonished fears, creeping sedition, and
 416 P. OVIDIl NASONIS

^s^fiTlT dahh'''anc- Scdltioque repens, dubioque auctore Susurri :

tore, jp.sa ridel quid Ipsa quid ill ccelo rerum, 'pelaffoque
~ .• geratur,
reriim ceruttir ealo,
ill -A^ .11 i , , ,
. . .'-'

'pelagoqne, et tellure, ~ totumque inquint in orbem.

lit tellure, videt;
inquiritque in totum Ill Fecerat haec notum, Graias cum milite forti
orbem.
III. E(tc fecerat no- Adventare rates iieque inexpectatus in armis 65
:
tum Grains rales ad-
venture cum forti mi- Hostis adest. Proliibent aditu, littusque tuentur
lite; neqi-e hostis in-
expectatus adest in Troes, et Hectorea primus fataliter hasta,
armis. Trocspro/iibeiit
aditu, tiicnturque lit- Protesilae, cadis commissaque pra^lia magno
:

tus, el, Protesilai, ca- Stant Danais, fortesque animtB, neque cognitus
dis primus fataliter
Hectorea hastil: com- Hector. 69
missaque pro'/if/, ne-
que Hector cognitus
Nee Phryges exiguo, quid Achaia dextera posset,
fortasque anim<r, stunt
magno Danais. Kec Sanguine senserunt. Et jam Sigaea rubebant
Phri/ges senserunt ex- Littora: jam leto proles Neptunia Cygnus
iguo sanguine quid A-
chaia dextera posset Mille viros dederat. Jam curra instabat Achilles.
Jit jam
rubebant^jamCirnus TroaquG Peliacse sternebat cuspidis ictu
Niptunia proles, de
derat mille viros leto: Agmina: perque acies aut Cygnum aut Hectora
jam Achilles instabat
queerens, 75
currti, slernebutque
Troa a'imiua ictu Pe- Congreditur Cygno: decimum dilatus in annum
ladtB cuspides; qutr-
acies aut
Hector
erat. Turn collo jugo candentia presses
reifique per
Cyguiim aut Hectora, Exliortatus equos, currum dii'exit in hostem :

congreditur Cjigno :
Hector erat dilatus in Concutiensque suis vibrantia tela lacertis,
decimum annum. Turn
exliortatus equos, pres- Quisquis es, 6 juvenis, solatia mortis habeto, 80
tos f^^^oA M\ candentia Haemonio
ab H'demonio sis iu2;ulatus Achi
collujug«,dircxit cur- ^^
Dixit,
'
ti-i
quod
Vr jugulatus
-
i
Achilla.
•

rum in hostem, concu- Hactenus iEacides. Vocem gravis hasta secuta est.
.

tiensque vilirnntia tela cj i'^ lir'i.

suis lacertis, dixit, o '^sd quauquam certa nullus luit error
"li.^
hasta: m
'^b^'s^^Zortu, Niltamenemissiprofecitacumineferri: _ _
84
quod jugulatus ab
sis Utoue
*
liebcti pcctus
^
tautummodo contudit ictu;
UiemonioAchille. Hac-
tenus JEacides ; gratis hasta est secuta rorem. Sed quanquam null/is error luit in certd hastil,
tamen profecit nil acumine ferri emissi. Vtque tantummodo contudit pectus kebeti ictu ;

TRANSLATION.
whispers of authors doubtful. Herself observes what is done in heaven,
and and earth, and pries into all the world.
seas,
III. She had made known the Grecian ships arrivino; with stout sol-
diers nor does the enemy in arms unlooked-for come. The Trojans set
;

themselves to oppose their landing, and defend the shore and thou, Pro- ;

tesilaus, fatally tallest first by Hector's spear and fights begun, brave :

Trojan souls, and Hector, then not known, stand the Greeks in much.
Neither did Phrygians feel, at small expense of blood, what Grecian arms
could do. And now Sigeian shores \vere dyed with blood now Cygnus, ;

Neptune's son, gave thousands death now was Achilles in his chariot :

reared, and levelling Avhole Trojan hosts with blows of his Peleian spear ;

and through the lines, or Cygnus, or Hector singling out, encounters Cyg-
nus Hector was reserved for the tenth year. Then, cheering his steeds,
:

their snowy necks pressed with the yoke, directs his chariot on the foe ;

and with his brawny arms, shaking his quivering spear, said Whoever ;

you be, O youth have in thy death this comfort that thou art slain by
!
;

Achilles, theHa»monian. Thus far Achilles. His heavy spear pursued his
voice but though no error was in directing
; it, yet, by the sharpness of
its
discharged steel, it
nothing did avail ; and, as it only bruised the breast
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XII. 417

Kate Dea (nam te fama prcenovimiis) inciuit

^'"'*' ^^''' ^"'?"'' ''^'''
Til -iv !• 1
• •
1 \ (nam jn<riioiiiims tc
llle,quid a nobis vulnus; miraris abesse? fama) quid mtraris
(Mirabatur enim.) Non ha3c, quam cernis, equinis ^"nlmM^ur^^n
Fulva jubis cassis, neque onus cava parma sinistree ^"''
f,?*"'
^^^^'.^ P'J'"^'' rqtll-
'

Auxilio mihi sunt decor est qusesitus ab istis. 90 nii, iicqiie cava paniia,
:

onus siiiistrtr, sunt

Mars quoque ob hoc capere arma solet. Remo- (iiixilio mild: (tccur est
vebitur omne qvasitus lib istis.Mui'S
qiioque solet cajicre
arma
Tegminis officium: tamen indestrictus abibo.
oh hoc. (Jnuic
ojficium tcgi/iuils rr-
Est aliquid, non esse satuni Nereide, sed qui moiebitur, loincii aOi-
ho i/idest rictus. Est
Nereaque, et natas, et totum temperet a^quor. illiquid 110)1 esse sutmii
Dixit: et hjesuruni clypei curvamine telum Acrvidc, seel vo qui
95 temper it Nereaque, cf
Misit in Madden: quod et a3S, etproxima rupit }/atas,et iolum. irqiior.
Dixit : et misil in JEu-
erga novena bourn: decirao tamen orbe moratum aden tciumhccsurum
curiami)ie eliipci ;
Excutit hoc heros rursiisque trementia forti
:
quod rupit el as, et
Tela manu torsit rursus sine vuhiere
:
pro-iima novena terga
corpus, bu'um heros tamen ex- ;

Sincerumque fuit, nee tertia cuspis apertum, 100 cutit hoc moratum de- cimo orbe, rursusque
Et se prsebentem valuit
destringere Cygnum, torsit trementia tela
Hand seciis exarsit, quam Circo taurus forti manu : rursus
aperto, corpus fuit sine vul-
Ciim sua terribih petit irritamina cornu nere, sincerumque, nee
tertia cuspis valuit de-
Poeniceas vestes, elusaque vuhiera seiitit. 104 stringere Cygnum a-
Num tamen exciderit ferrum considerat hastffi. pertum,
se.
et pra:bentem
Exarsit huvd se-
Ilterebat ligno. Manus est mea debiUs ergo ; cusi quam tuuriis cir-
co aperto, cum pi /it
Paniceas sua
Quasque, ait, ante habuit vires efFuditin uno. vestes,
tcrribili
Nam certe valuit, vel cum Lyrnesia primus
irritamina,
cornu, seittitque vul-
Moenia disjeci vel cum Tenedonque, suoque nera elusa. Tamen
:
considerat num fer-
Eetioneas implevi
'
sanouine
~ Tliebas. 110 rum
„ hasta exciderit. ,.
Harebat ,

ligiio. Er>:o,
ante. Nam certe valuit, vel cum
(lit, mea mamis est debilis ,effvditqtte in uno vires quas habuit
primus disjeci Lyrnesia mania, vel cum implevi Tenedonque, Thebusque Eetioneas suo sanguine :
TRANSLATION.
with a blunt stroke, goddess-born, he cries (for fame has taught us who
you are). Why dost thou wonder, I remain untouched ? For he did won-
der. Not this helmet which
you see, tawny with horse's mane, nor hollow
shield the load of my left arm, do me assist these only are for orna-
;

ment for this cause, too, Mars uses to take arms. All their service of de-
:

fence shall be removed, and yet shall I come off unhurt. It is something
not to be descended of a Nereid, but of one, who
sways both over Ncreus
and his daughter, and thcAvhole sea's extent. He spoke: and at Achilles
hurled his spear, that soon was to stick in the shield's boss and which ;

broke both through the brass and the next nine folds of bull-hide yet, ;

sticking in the tenth orb of the hide, the hero shook it off, and hurled again
the
quivering spear with his strong arm. Again his body was untouched,
uidiurt nor could the third
;
spear pierce through Cygnus, though stand-
ing open and exposed. Achilles raged, not otherwise than does a bull
amid the open circus, when with his dreadful horn he huts the scarlet
Vi>sts, provocatives, and feels eluded wounds. Yet here Achilles tries, whe-
ther the steel had fallen from off ihe it fast. My hand is
spear he found:

therefore weak (says he), and what of before, it has

strength it boasted
now spent on one. For, doubtless, it had .strength ; or when I first over-
llirew Lyrnesian walls or when Teuedos I filled and Ectionean Thebes
;

'vith their own blood or when

; Caycus, purple, flowed with native slaugh-
2 B
418 P. OVIDII NASONIS

vel cum Caycvs Jluxit Vol ciim purpureus populari crede Caycus
jjiirpiirciis popiitdri
cicdc :Tckjihusqiiehis
sciisil. opits meir liaslic.
Fluxit; opusquc meic bis sensit Telepnus hastae.
Hie qiioque mea dex- Hic quoque tot cassis, quorum per littus acervo3
tera vtiluit, valetque
tnt casts quorum et Et feci, et video, valuit mea dextra, valetque.
feci vt video actrvos Dixit: et, ante actis veiuti male crederet, hastam
pur littus. Dixit :ct,
veiuti wale crcderct Misit in adversum Lycia de plebe Menoeten 116 :

flute iictis, misit has- -r •

^ i i
•
j. i •
i

tarn ill MeiuTtcii de Loricamquc simul, subjectaque pectora rupit.

rufr/t'q^Je'''^^fmur7o
^^^^ plangeutc graveui moribundo vertice terram,
cam, subjectaque pec- Extraliit illud idem calido de vulnere telum :
tora. Quo plangcnte
gravem terram mori-
bundo vertice, extra-
Atque ait Haec manus est, hsec, qua niod5 vici-
;

hitidem Mud telum de raus, liasta. 120

calido vulnere, atque
ait: Hac est maims,
Utar in hunc iisdem sit in hoc precor exitus idem. :

h(ic hast a, quS, modo Sic fatus, Cygnumque petit, nee fraxinus errat :

vicimus, utar iisdem in

huiic: precor idem cx- Tnque liumero sonuit non evitata sinistro.
itus sit ill hoc. Nirque
Cygniim,
Inde velut muro, solidave a caute, repulsa est.
fafus, petit
iiccfraxinus errut :
nonquc evitata,somtit
Qua tamen
ictus erat, signatum sanguine Cygnum
in huincro sinislro. Iii-
Viderat, et frustra fuerat gavisus, Achilles. 126
dc est repulsa, velut a
miiro, soitdtive caule.
Vulnus erat nullum: sanguis fuit ille Mencetse.
Tamcii Achilles \vidc- Turn vero prasceps curru fremebundus ab alto
rat Cjignum signutum
sanguine, qua erat ic- Desilit, et nitido securum comings hostem
tus, et Juerat gavisiis
frustra. Nullum vul- Ense petens, parmam gladio, galeamq; cavari 130
nus erat : ille erat
sanguis Turn
ATcna:tiv. Cernit, et in duro l?edi quoque corpore ferrum.
vero, frcmcbundus,
desilit pricceps ah alto
Haud tulit ulterius
clypeoque adversa reducto :

curru, et petcns secu- Ter quater ora viri, capulo cava tempora pulsat.
riim hostem cominus
nitido eii'^c, cernit par- Cedentiq; sequens instat; turbatque, ruitque, 13'^
'giadh!^et'ferrZ^^i2 Attouitoq negat requiem. Pavor occupat ilium ; j
;

que ladi'in duro cor- Ante oculosqiic uatant tenebrae; retroque ferenti
jiore. Haud tulit ul- * '
terius, pulsat que adversa ora viri ter quater reducto clypeo, et cava tempora capulo: seqtiensqui
instiit cedeiiti: turbatque, ruitque, negatqtte requiem attonito. Pavor occupat ilium, tenebr<Ei
que natant ante oculos, lapisque medio
TRANSLATION.
ter and Telephus twice
; felt the virtue of my spear. My arm has here toe
been of power, and still whose heaps I made, and see
is ; so many slain,
along the shore. He said; and, as ill trusting to his former feats, he
hurled his spear at adverse Menoetes, one of the Lyeian throng and in- ;

stant broke quite through his mail and breast subjacent. Who heatinj^
with his head in death the heavy earth, he draws that very spear oul
of the reeking wound, and says This is the hand, this is the spearj ;

with which I conquered but now the same I will use at this I only wis!; :

the event may be the same in him. Thus he said, and lets it fly at Cyg-
nus nor does the trusty ash mistake, and, not avoided, sounded on his"
:

left shoulder thence repelled, as from a wall, or solid rock. Yet, where
;

it hit, Achilles had observed

Cygnus distained with blood, and boasted,
but in vain no wound there was it was Menoetes' blood. Then, raging,
:
;

he leaps headlong down from off his lofty chariot and, in close fight, at- ;

tacking thus his fearless foe with shining sword, observes his shield and
helmet pierced, but the weapon blunted upon his callous body. No longer
could he bear; and, drawing back his shield, with it he pelts the hero's
adverse face thrice and four times, and with tlie hilt his hollow temples ;

and, pursiun D' urges the pursued stirs and drives him on, and him con- ;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lin. XII. 419

Q~
Aversos passus medio lapis
1
uem super impulsiim
•
~
obstitit arvo.

resupino pectore Cyo-num

Vi multa vertit, terraeque adfixit Achilles.
""
•

139
.

t'H^LuT'' :^:;Z
^v,
arvo, obslilit iWiferen-
ti aversos passus re-
t>/>. snper quem a-

Turn, clypeo genibusque premens prfscordia duris,

}f:^uque'ZfL%lt
Vincia trahit galeae ; quae presso subdita mento prcmejis pracordia
clypeo, genibusque du-
Elidunt fauces ; et respiramen, ris, tralilt viucla ga-
iterque
lea, qua subdita pres-
Eripiunt animse. Victum spoliare parabat so clidtint :
meiito, fau-
Arma relicta videt.
Corpus Deus -.Kquoris albam ces, el cripiutit respi-
rattie:/ iterque anima.
Contulit in volucrem; cujus modo nomen habebat. Parabat spoliare vie-
turn: vidit arma re-
IV. V. Hie labor, hasc requiem multorum
pug- licta. Veils (cquoris
na dierum 146 vontulit Corfu's
bum volitcriiii,
in al-
cujus
Attulit : et positis pars substitit armis. noinen 7iwdo kabebai.
utraque IV. V. Hie labor,
Dumque vigil Phrygios servat custodia muros ;
hffc ptigna uttulit re-
Et quiem multoruin die-
Argolicas servat custodia fossas:
vigil rum; (t utraque purs
Festa dies aderat ; qua 150 annis posi-
Cygni victor Achilles siibslitit,
tis. Dumque vigil cus-
Pallada vittatai placabat sanguine vaccEc. todia servat Phrygios
muros, et vigil custo-
Cujus ut imposuit profecta calentibus aris; dia servat Argolicas
Et Dis acceptus penetravit in cethera nidor :
fossas: festa dies ade-
rat, qua Achilles, %<ic-
Sacra tulere suam pars est data ceetera mensis.
: tor Vygni, ylucabat
Pallada sanguine vit-
Discubuere toris proceres ; et corpora tosta 155 tatcE VacetF. Cujus pro-
fecta lit imposuit ca-
Carne replent vinoque levant curasque, sitimque.
:
Icntibus oris ; ct nidor
Non illos citharte, non illos carmina vocum, acceptus Diispenetra-
vit in athera; sacra

Longave multifori delectat tibia buxi : tulere suain partem :

catera pars est data
Sed noctem sermone trahunt: virtusque loquendi mensis. Proccres dis-
Materia est. Pugnam referunt hostisque, suamque, cubuere toris, cttostil re-
plent corpora
Inque vices adita atque exhausta pericula
- saepe
-
161 came, Icvantque cu-
rasque, sitimquc vino,
Non cilharte dclectaiit illos, non carmina vociim, tibiave longa multifori buxi delectat illos, std
trahunt nocte7n sermone, virtusque est materia loquendi, referunt pugnamque suam, liostisque,
jut'aique scepe commemorare in vices adita atque
TRANSLATION.
founding, grants no respite. Horror seizes on him mists float before his ;

eyes and, drawing back his steps averse, a stone, amid the plain, with-
;

stood over which Achilles, with much violence, turned

:
Cygnus, impelled
w ith breast turned upward, and dashed him to the earth then with his :

shield and sturdy knees, he,

pressing down his breast, pulls tight his hel-
lying under his pinched chin, squeeze close his
niet's straps ; which,
throat, and take away his wind, and all the passage of his breath. He
strip his vanquished foe ; observes his armour left. The god
Avas ahout to
of sea his body turned to a white bird, whose name he
lately bore.
IV. V. This brought on, of many days, a respite ; and
toil, this f ght
both sides, laying down
their arms, were quiet. And while watchful
guard keeps Phrygian walls, and watchful guard keeps Grecian trenches ;
a festal day was come, on wh ich Achilles, the
conqueror of Cygnus,
meant to appease, Avith blood of heifer filleted, the goddess Pallas. On
whose glowing altars as he laid the entrails, and the smell, acceptable to
gcds, pierced through the ether, the sacrifice had its own share the ;

rest is for the table. The chiels sat down on couches, and with roasted
ilesh sated their bodies, and baiiished cares and thirst Avith wine. Not
harps, nor melody of voices, nor the long pipe of perforated box, delight
them but in discourse they
;
pass the night, and virtue is the subject ;
2 E 2
420 P. OVIDII NASONIS

exhamta pcricula.
Quid culm Achillis lu-
Conimemorare juvat. Quid enim loqueretur A-
qiierclin? uiit quid chilles ?
j/o/iiis loqiicre/iliir u-
j)ndm(ie,niimAchitlcm.' Aut quid apud magnum potiils loquerentur Acliil-
ynuiiiia praciptii vic- lem?
toria (lomito Ciis,nnfuit
ill sennoiic. Visum est Proxima praecipue domito victoria Cygno
tnirainlc cunclis, quod
erat juvoii corpus pe- In sevmone fuit. Visum miraLile cunctis ; 165
nctrabile nullo tela,
ini'ictumque ad vul- Quod juveni corpus nullo penetrabile telo,
ncrra, quod^yw terebat ad vuluera erat, ferrumque terebat
Hoc ipsum Invictumque
:

fer
,K.rr%im, 1 . / \ i ^
•

hoc Aciiivi Hoc

j-Eacidcs, ipsuui ilicacides, lioc mu'abantur Acnivi.
tor ait sic ; Cygnus ves-
tro tEVO fuit uiiicus 170
cnnteiiiptor Jerri Jvra- Contemptor ferri, nulloque forabilis ictu
bilisquc nullo ictu. At Cyonus. At ipse olim patientem vulnera mille
olim
tfiim ipse Perrhie-
ocuc j
ly^t; vidi ki i itu- ^
y-^'' 1/^ 1*
-r-^ -t t *

bum ca lieu
niiiie
patientem
vulnera corpore
Corpore nou IsBso rerrlijebum Ca3nea vicli :

rpor
noil Urso: Pcrrhclium (..^^^^ Perrhffibum qui factis iuclytus Othryn
;

Utrnea, qui inclytus

Incoluit. Quoque id mirum magis esset in illo ;
factis incoluit Othryn:
quoque id esset magis Fccmina natus erat. Monstri novitate moventur,
mirum in illo,rrat na-
Quos inter
tus famiiia. Quisquis
adeit moventur novi-
Quisquis adest: narretque rogant.
tate monstri, rogant- Achilles, 176
que ut narret : inter Die age (nam cunctis eadem est audire voluntas)
quos Achilles ait: age
ilir fiiam est eadem vo-
luntas cunctis audirej
O facunde senex, tevi prudentia nostri ;
li
facnnde senex, pru- Quis fuerit Cjeneus, cur in contraria versus ;
dentia nostri tcvi,quis 180
Co: lie us fuerit, cur ver- Qua cujus certamine pugnse
tibi militia,
sus in contraria ; qua a sit si victus ab uUo est.
militia, certamine cu-
Cognitus; quo victus,
jus pugncE sit cognitus Tiim senior Quamvis obstet mihi tarda vetustas ;
:

tibi ; a quo sit victus,

si est victus ab ullo. Multaque me fugiant primis spectata sub annis ;
Twill senior : Quamvis
tarda
...,«« vetustas uu„^^
„c^»^<.«^ obstet
Plura tamen memini: nee, quse magis liffireat ilia,
mihi,muitaqiiefugiaiit Pcctore rcs nostro est, inter bellique, domique 1 85
me, tamen memini phi. a a •
l •
l- ^4-
Ac
, . , i_

ra spectata sub primis Acta tot. potuit spatiosa seucctus

SI
qucm
actaUlIque'lf^iel^e, Spectatorcm opcruui multorum reddere, vixi
est res qutp hiereat nostro pectore magis ilia. At si spatiosa senectus potuit reddere quern spcc-
tatorem muitoriim operum, li.ii

TRANSLATION.
and relate their own and
enemy's fights and often they take pleasure to :

rehearse, in turns, the dangers both encountered and surmounted.

For
what should else Achilles speak ? or they relate before the great Achilles ?
The late victory, Cygnus
vanquished, was chiefly in discourse. To all
itseemed amazing, that the youth's body was to no weapon jjenetrable,
and to woimds unconquerable, and battered steel itself. This vei-y thing
Achilles, and this the Greeks admired. When Nestor thus began ;

Cygnus has, in your time, been of steel the alone despiser, and perfora-
ble by no blow but, formerly, myself saw Cseneus, the Perrhseban, bear
:

a thousand strokes, his body unhurt CEeneus the Perrha?ban, who, ;

famous for his feats, dwelt in his Othrys and this in him might be more :

wonderful as he was born a woman. All present startle at the newness

of the prodigy, and beg he would relate it. Among whom Achilles Pray :

go on to tell (for we have all the same desire to hear) O eloquent old
man, the prudence of our age, who this Caineus was, why turned to the
opposite sex, in what warfare, in what fight's strife, was he known to you ;

by whom conquered, if by any conquered ? Then the sire Though slow :

age makes much against me, and much, observed by me in prime of years,
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XII. 421

Annos bis centum: niinc tertia vivitur atas. bis'centum annos

tia trtas nunc
: ter-
vivitur.
Clara decore fuit proles Elateia Casnis, Canis Elale'ia proles
fuit claru decore, et
Thessalidum virgo pulcherrima perque propinquas, :
pulcherrima virnoTkcs-
Perque tuas urbes (tibi enim popularis, Achilie,) salidum, oplataque
fruslra votis multo-
Multorum frustra votis optata procorum. 192 rum procorum, per
propinquas, perque
Tentasset Peleus thalamos quoque forsitan illos ; tuas urbes ('erat cnim
Sed jam aut contigerant illi comiubia matris, 194 popularis tihi,Ac/iill£. J
Forsitan Peleus quo-
Aut fuerant promissa, tuse. Nee Caenis in ullos que tentasset illos tha-
lamos : sed counubia
Denupsit thalamos secretaque littora carpens
: tua matris jam aut
contigerant illi, aut
iEquorei vim passa Dei est. Ita fama ferebat, futrunt promissa ; tiec
Canis denupsit in ullos
Utque novse Veneris Neptimus gaudia cepit :
thalamos, caryensque
Sint tua vota licet, dixit, secura repulse :
secreta littora, passa
est vim
aquorci Dei :
Elige quid voveas. Eademhoc quoque Fama ferebat. ita fama ferebat. Ut-
que Neptunus cepit
Magnum, Csenis ait, facit hsec injuria votum, 201 gaudia nova I'cneris,
Tale pati nil posse mihi. Da foemina ne sim :
dixit : Licet ut tua vo-
ta siiit secura rcpulsa-,
Omnia praestiteris. Graviore novissima dixit elige quod voveas. Ea-
dem fama ferebat hoc
Verba sono :
poteratque viri vox ilia videri quoque. Jfo'c injuria,
:

Sicut erat. Nam jam ait

voto Deus sequoris alti 205 numCanis, facit mag-
votum, mihi posse
Annuerat :
dederatque super ; ne saucius uUis pati nil tale: da nestm
famina, prtrstitcris om-
Vulneribus fieri, ferrove occumbere posset. nla. Dixit novissima ver-
ba graviore sono, illa-
Munere Isetus abit: studiisque virilibus sevum que vox potcrat vidcre
viri, sicut erat. ]\'am
Exigit Atracides, Pene'iaque arva pererrat. jam Deus alti (cquoris
Duxerat Hippodamen audaci Ixione natus : 210 annuerat voto, dede-
ratque super, ne posset
Nubigenasque feros, positis ex ordine mensis, fieri saucius ullis vul-
neribus, occumbere ve
Arboribus tecto discumbere jusserat antro. ferro. Atracidcs abit
Hsemonii proceres
r aderant ;
7
aderamus et ipsi,
1 ^
la:tus tnunere, exigit-
avum studiis ' '

que (cvum stuatts viri

libtix,pererratque arva Peneia. Natus audaci Ixmie duxerat Hippodamen: meusisque positis
ex ordine, jusserat nubigcnas feros discumbere antra tecto arboribus. Uamonii proceres
aderant,
it ipsi aderamus,
TRANSLATION.
escapes me now, yet more
I still remember nor is there any
thing, ;

among so war and peace, sticks closer to my breast than

many acts of
this and if extensive age could make any one spectator of many deeds,
:

I have lived twice a hundred

years, and in my third I live. Caenis, the
tiaughter of Elatus, famous for her beauty, and fairest of Thessalian
maids, was longed for, in vain, by voavs of many suitors, through all the
neighbouring, and thy, cities. O Achilles (for she was thy country-woman)
perhaps had Peleus tried that marriage-bed, but, or now the marriage
of thy mother had befallen, or had been
promised him nor did Cajuis :

marry into any bed but, tripping over the lonely shore, suffered the vio-
;

lence of the god of the sea. So fame related and as Neptune this new:

amour enjoyed Avith gust. Be thy vows, he said, of all repulse secure ;

choose what you wish. Fame has this too related. This injury,
says
Csenis, makes great my wish that no such thing I may hereafter suffer
; :

grant I be no longer woman, and you will grant me all. With a hoarser
tone these last words she
spoke and the voice might seem to be a man's,
;

as indeed it was. For now the god of the deep sea had nodded to her
wish and, over gave, that he might not be pierced by any wounds, or
;

fall Thus Cseneus, the Atracian, exulting in his gift, de-

by any steel.
parts, and spends his time in manly exercises, and roams the Pcneian
plains. PiritJwus, bold Ixion's tion, had married Hippodame, and ordered
ihe cloud-born mousters to sit down at tables
ranged in order, in a cave
 422 P. OVIDII NASONIS

{SS«S/r~e Festaque confusa resonabat i;egla

turba. 214
canuii't nymenmm, et Ecce caiiunt Hymeiia^oii : et io;nibus atria fumant :
atria ttimant ignibus : r^- , , ,
•
, j /
cintaque virgo prce Ciiictaq ;
adest viFgo, matruiii nuruuiiique caterva,
signis facie attest ca
tcrva matrum nttrit- Praesignis facie. Felicem diximus ilia
Diximus Piri-
Conjuge Pirithoum: quod pene fefellimus omen.
iimqiie.
thouinfclicem illA con-
juge ; quod omen pene
Nam Eu-
Nam tibi, saevorum ssevissime Centaurorum
J'efeliimus.
ryte, savissime savo- Euryte, quam vino pectus, tam virgine visa 220
Tum Ccntaurorum, Ardet et ebrietas geminata libidine regnat.
:
yectiis ardet tibi, tarn
virgine visd quam vino, Protinus eversse turbant convivia mensse :
et ebrietas gemiiiatd
libidiiie,
tinus
regnat. Pro-
evers<e mcnste
Raptaturque comis per vim nova nupta prehensis.
iurbajit convivia, no- Eurytus Hippodamen, alii quam quisque probarant.
vaque nupta raptatur
per vim comis prehen-
sis. Earytnsrzpit Hip-
podainen, alii rapiunt
1.
i^
^y^\^ poteraut, rapiuut: captasQue erat urbis imago.
i r\ -^
FoGmmeo clamore sonat domus. Ocuis omnes 226
n^c
quam qnisque proba-
Tttnt ant polerant,
Surgimus et primus, Quce te vecordia, Theseus,
:

eratqiie imago captie Euryte, pulsat, ait: qui me vivente lacessas

urbis. JJomus soiiat
Pirithoum, violesque duos ignarus in uno ? 229
fcpmiiieo clamore. Om-
ncs surgimus ocius; et Neve ea frustra memoraverit heros ;
Tliesetis primus ait,
magnanimus
qu(B vccordia pulsat
Submovet instantes ; raptamque furentibus aufert.
te, Eurytc ; qui me vi-
vente lacessas Piri-
Ille nihil contra
neque enim defendere verbis
:

ilioiim, ignarusque vio- Talia facta

les duos in uno.' neve potest : sed vindicis ora protervis
magnanimus heros Insequitur mauibus,
gcnerosaque pectora pulsat.
^ZubloTertZZus, Fortfe fuit juxta signis extantibus asper 235
aufertque raptamfu-
rentibus. Ille respon-
Antiouus Crater,' qucm
^ , vastum vastior
... ipse^
_^
ditjiihii contra, neque
_, t^,
. - .

bustuut itigides ; adversaquc misit ora. m

^^iia^^c'ta vf/bi"s%d Sanguinis ille
globos pariter, cerebrumque, merum-
insequitur ora vindicis niip
>
yrotervis manibus, i.
. ^ .
/^
Q)uisatque genero.sa Vulnere et Ore vomens, resupmus
'
madida
arena
pectora. Fortt Juit
juxta antiquus crater asper signis extantibus, quern vastum, ipse JEgides vastior sustulit, misit-
que in adversa ora. Ille vomens pariter vulnere et ore, globos sanguinis, cerebrumque, merum-
que, resupinus madidH arenH
TRANSLATION.
shaded with trees. The Hajmonian chiefs were present and we our- ;

selves were present and tlie festal palace with confused rout resounded
; :

lo ! they sing Hymenseus, and the halls smoke with fires of altars. The

virgin, famed for beauty, comes, surrounded with a train of matrons and
young maids. We
all pronounced Pirithous
happy in that spouse which ;

omen we well nigh had falsified for, Eurytus, fiercest of fierce cen-
: O
taurs, thy breast bums, as with the virgin seen, so with the fumes of
wine and drunkenness, doubled by lust, bears sway. On the sudden,
;

tables overturned, disturb the feast and the new-married wife is dragged
;

away by the caught hair. Eurytus snatches at Hippodame others at :

those they most approved, or could it was the image of a city taken. :

The house resounds with cries of women we quickly all start up ; and :

first, Theseus says ; What madness, Eurytus, thus drives thee on ; who,

living I, provokest Pirithous, and ignorantly violatest two in one ? And,

that the valiant hero might not say these w^ords in vain, he pushes off
the pressing centaurs, and snatches from their fury the ^a^'ished maid.
He nothing said against, nor could indeed defend, such deeds by words ;
but falls upon the avenger's face with boisterous hands, and thumps his
i];enerous breast. By chance stood near an antique goblet, rough with
bulging figiires ; which, vast and huge, more vast himself the son of
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XII. 423

Calcitrat. Ardescunt germana ceecle bimembres calcitrat. Bimembres :

ardescunt germana
Certatimque omnes uno ore, Arma, arma, lo- cffdff, omncsque cer-
tatim uno ore loquun-
quuntur. 241 tur, Arma, arma. Vina,
Vina dabant animos et prima pocula pugna
: dabant amnios, et pri-
ma pvgna missa po-
Missa volant, fragilesque cadi, curvique lebetes cula volaiit, fragiles-:

Res epulis quondam, nunc bello et ca^dibus, apt* que cadi, curvique le-
betes ; res quondam
Primus Ophionides Amycus penetralia donis 245 apt (E epulis, nunc bello
et cadibus. Amycus
Haiad tiniuit spoliare suis ; et primus ab aede Opiiimiides primus,
liaud timiiit spoliare
Lampadibus densum rapuit funale coruscis ;
penetralia suis donis ;
et primus rapuit ab
Elatumque alte, veluti qui Candida tauri a:rie funale densu7n
Rumpere sacrifica molitur colla securi ;
corrnseis lampadibus,
illisitque elatum altc
Illisit fronti Lapithse Celadontis : et ossa 250 fronti Lapitlm Cela-
do)itis, veluti qui mo-
Non agnoscendo confusa reliquit in ore. litur rtimpere Candida
colla tauri sacrifica
Exsiluere oculi ; disjectisque ossibus oris. securi, et reliquit ossa
Acta retro naris, medioque infixa palato est. cotifusa in ore non ag-
7iosccndo. Ociili exsi-
Hunc pede convulso mensse PellfEus acernse 254 luere, ossibusque oris
disjectis,naris est acta
Stravit humi
Belates, dejecto in pectora mento: retro, infixaque medio
'

Cumque atro mistos sputantem sanguine dentes, palato. Pcllffus Be-

lates pede co?ivulso
Vulnere Tartareas geminato mittit ad umbras. mensm acernx stravit
hunc humi, mento de-
Proximus ut steterat, spectans altaria vultu jecto in pectora, mit-
Fumida Cur non, ait, utimur istis?
terribili,
tit que sputantem den-
tes mistos cum atro

Cumque suis Gryneus immanem sustulit aram 260 sunguine,ad Tartareas

umbras geminato vul-
Ignibus, et medium Lapitharum jecit in agmen : nere. Gryneus, ut ste-
terat proximus, spec-
Depressitque duos, Brotean, et Orion. Orio tans fumida altaria
Mater erat Mycale quam deduxisse canendo,
:
terribili
Cur non utimur
vultu, ait.
istis?
Ssepe reluctanti constabat cornua Lunee, sustulitque
aram cum suis ignibus,
immanem
Non impune feres, teli modocopia detur, 265
et jecit in medium as-
men Lapitharum, depressitque duos, Brotean, et Orion. Mycale erat mater Orio quam constabat
canendo, scepe deduxisse cornua reluctanti Luna. Exadiusdixerat, Non feres impune, modo co-
pia teli detur,
TRANSLATION.
^geus took up, and hurled at his adverse face. He, vomiting at once
goblets of blood, and brains, and wine, out at his mouth and wound, lies
sprawling on the moistened sand. The centaurs, double-limbed, do, at
their brother's death, take fire and, vying with one mouth, Arms, arms !
;

they all cry out. Wine gave them spirits and in the first encounter,
;

cups, hurled, and shattered casks, and hollow kettles things before
fly, ;

fit for a feast, but now for war and First Amycus, the son of
slaughter.
Ophion, scruples not to strip the shrine of all its ornaments and first
out of the Sacristy snatched up a branch, thick set with blazing lamps, and
dashed it, high raised, at Celadon, the Lapithse's forehead as who at- :

tempts with sacrificing ax to break a bullock's snowy neck and left the ;

bones confounded in his undistinguished face. His eyes start out the ;

bones of his face disjected his nose falls back, fixed in the middle of
;

his palate. HimBelates, the Pellsean, with wrenched foot of maple-

table, laid fiat to the ground, his chin sunk down quite to his breast ;
and with redoubled wound sends him down to the shades of Tartarus,
sputtering out his teeth, mixed with black gore. As Gryneus stood next,
viewing the smoking altars with a stern look, he cries Why do we not ;

use these? and Gryneus the huge altar snatching with all its fires, hurled
it
among the Lajjithte, and hiid twf), Broteas and Orios, flat Ori(js's :

mother was Mycale, who, by her charms, was often known to draw down
424 P. OVIDU NASONIS
hahttqiic hntnr
vvtivi
tcii Dlxerat Exadius. Telique habet instar, in alta
coriiitii cerri, /->. o ,
•
,
• •

qiur finrtiiu in aUti Qupc

— luerant
- - pmu, yotivi cornua cervi.
-._-.._. . .
Ori/nciis/igifiir
Figitur huic duplici Gryneus in lumina ramo
jiiini.
:
ill tiimino hiiic Uuj/lici
riivio, eriiiturqnc ocu-
los, i/iiorumpars lueret Eruiturque oculos Quorum pars cornibus hseret : :

romibus, parsfluit in Pars fluit in barbam concretaque sanguine pendet. ;

hiirhum.pendetquecoit'
crchi saiii<nine. Ecce Ecce rapit mediis flagrantem Rhoetus ab aris 271
Jihatu.s rwpit pi'imi-
tiiim torrem JJagrun-
Primitium torrem dextraque a parte Charaxi :

te>n, ah mediis oris, fulvo protecta capillo.

jur/iiiigitqiie <i dcx-
Tempora perfringit
ira parte tcmpnraCha-
Correpti rapida, veluti seges arida,
flamma
raxi,
capUlo.
protecfa fiilvo
Crines cor Arserunt crines et vulnere sanguis
_ inustus 275:

o-cpti rapid,! jiavima,

tirsirimt vehili arida
Terribilem stridore sonum dedit: ut dare ferrum
t i i i i p • i^

sege^, et satiguis inus-

tus vtUncre, dedit tcr-
J
gne rubens plerumque solet, quod lorcipe curva
fibilcm sonum stri- Cum faber eduxit, lacubus demittit. Atillud
dore, lit Jcrnim ru- Stridet et in trepida submersum sibilat unda.
:
hens igiic j>lerumque
xolrt dare, quod J'uber Saucius hirsutis avidum de crinibus ignem 280
cum cdiixit cvrvA foi'-
cipc, demittit lacubus, Excutit inque humeros limen tellui'e revulsum
:

at illiid stridet, et
submersum sibilat in Tollit, onus plaustri, quod ne permittat in hostem,
Ipsa facit gravitas. Socium quoque saxea moles
frepidil u7idd. Saucius
excutit avidum ignem
hirsutis crinibus, tol-
litque in humeros li-
Oppressit spatio stantem propiore Cometem :

men revulsum tellnre, Gaudia nee retinet Rhcetus Sic comprecor, inquit. :

%lsa gralifas'faeu'ne
Cetera sit fortis castrorum turba tuorum ; 286
permittat in' hostem. Semicremooue novat repetitum stipite vuhius:
Aaxea moles oppressit rnv •• jv i i*-*i
qiioquc Cometem, so- lerque, quaterque gravijuncturas verticis ictu
t'^iT'%Tc^R,ZZ Rupit et in liquido sederunt ossa cerebro.
:

retinet gaudia, ct in-

quit, Cotnprecor ut cce-
tera turba tuorum cas-
Victor ad Evagruui,
^ ' Corvthumque, Dryantaque
tran Sit,
i .
•' T.'J
oiomtqiK ^repetitum quibus, utE tectus lanugine malas prima
vulnus semicremo stipite, rupitque ter quaterque juncturas verticis gravi ictu, ct ossa sederunt
in liquido cerebro. Victor transit ad
Evagrum, Corythumque, Dryantaque. quibus ut Cory- E
thus tectus quoad malas
TRANSLATION.
the horns of the
labouring moon. Exadius cried, Unpunished thou shalt
not go, so I a
weapon get and for a weapon has the horns of a votive
:

stag, which on a tall pine hung. This double branch is fixed into his
eyes, his eyes scooped out part whereof sticks to the horns, part runs
;

down his beard, and with blood hangs clotted. Lo Rhostus snatches up !

from amid an altar a chief

flaming brand and, on the right side, breaks ;

through Charaxus' temples, covered with yellow hair his hair caught by :

the rapid flame, burnt like

parched corn and the blood, burnt up within ;

the wound, gave a dreadful noise with with

hissing as iron, glowing hot :

lire, is most part wont to do which when the smith has drawn out with
;

drops into the trough but, sunk it whizzes, and

Lis crooked tongs, he ;

in the water hisses, Woimded, he shakes the greedy fire

trembling
from off Jiis shaggy locks and on his shoulders lifts the threshold,
;

wrenched from the earth a wagon-load which that he hurls not quite to ;

the foe, its very weight is cause. The

stony mass overwhelms Cometes,
a companion, standing nigher nor Rhoetus then his joy contains. Thus :

lie says, I of the

gocls do ask, may all the others of thy side
be brave ;

and then renews the wound, and

repeated with the stake half-burnt ;

thrice and four times broke the

junctures of his head with grievous
blows, aud in his liquid brains the bones are sunk. The victor passes
on to Evagrus, and Corythus, and Dryas of whom, when Corythus, ;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XII. 425

Procubuit Corytlius Puero qiise gloria fuso

:
'^^Iha -'^'"'^f^ ^^'''
Parta tibi est? Evagrus ait. Nee dicere Rhoctus Q,"f gioria'ek pana
Plura sinit rutilasque ferox in aperta loquentis 294 ^RL^uTLurcnn^dt
:

Condidit ora viri, perque os in pectora, flammas.

V^amTrut^JuZ
Te quoque, sseve Drya, circum caput io;ne rotato ""'^ "' "virta ora vh-t

nsequitur sed non la te quoque constitit idem

:
2>ectora. inscquuurte
Exitus. Assiduse successu csedis ovantem, TgTroiotolircumla'.
Qua iuncta est humero cervix,' sude figis
~ obusta Vf= ^^'^ non idem ex. :
y
•'
. -,
IT, .
nnn *'"* COllStltlt til te
Ingemuit, duroque sudem vix osse revellit oOO ?««?«e figu sude .•

KhcEtus ; et ipse suo madeiactus sanguine tugit. cessu assidua: ctrdix,

Fugit et Orneus, Lycabasque, et saucius armo VZieZ^'^^RiLuTlt

Dexteriore Medon, et cum Pisenore Thaumas
'
gemmt, vixque revciiu :
^~.
. . y .sudetn diiro
. osse ; et
Quique pedum nuper certamme vicerat omnes ipse madefactns suo

Mermerus; accept© nunc vulnere tardiiis ibat: 305 t^l''ir/uj"f%cil7s'.

Et Pholus, et Melaneus, et Abas praedator aprorum :
^^l^; txurt-'e armo,
suis frustra belkim dissuaserat augur «* Tha%imas cum pite'-
Quique
Astylos. Ille etiam raetuenti vulnera Nesso,
qm nuper vicerat'^om-
Ne fuge ; ad Herculeos, inquit, servaberis, arcus : Ztnc7b%7^diufvui-
At non Eurynomus,Lycidasque,et
'
'^ ^ Areos, et Imbreus "'*' accepto-
'^'"''^ et p/w-
^^ Melaneus, et
-rin- A 1
-^
T% .• OT1 .

iinugere necem: quos omnes dextra jJryantis oil Abas pradator apro-
Perculit ad versos. Adversum tu quoque, quamvis l^ur' qtufrustta dts-
Terga fugee dederas, vulnus, Crenaee, tulisti. X.Ti*«?:"ivX
Nam grave respiciens inter duo lumina ferrum, metuenti munera. Ne
Qua naris fronti committitur, accipis, imaj. 315 «««' Herculeos. At
In tanto fremitu, ductis sine fine jacebat Z%ue7~reoffe^t
Sopitus vinis, et inexperrectus Aphidas ; can?iuofoZ7s 7d-
versos dextra Dryantis perculit. Tu quoque, Crenae, tulisti adversum vulnus, quamvis dcde-
ris terga fugec. Natn resjnciens, accipis grave ferrum inter duo lumina, quil naris committitur
im<B fronti. In tanto fremitu Aphidas jacebat sopitus vinis ductis sine fine, et inexperrectus i

TRANSLATION.
his temples clad with their first down, had fallen, Evagrus cries,
What glory hast thou gained ? A
boy laid prostrate Nor Rhoetus suf- !

fers to say more but fiercely plunges in the speaker's mouth, thence
;

down his throat, the ruddy flames. Thee too, fierce Dryas, he pursues,
whirling around his head the fiery brand but not the same event awaited
;

thee. Him, vaunting at success of

slaughter imcontrolled, thou wound-
est, where the neck joins to the shoulder, Avith a stake point-burnt, Rhos-
tus groaned, and with difficulty, out of the hard bone
pulled the stake ;
and, wet with his own blood, he flies. Flies too Orneus, and Lycabas,
and Medon wounded in the right shoulder-blade, and Thaumas, Avith Pi-
senor, and Mermeros, who had lately conquered at speed of foot, but now
walked slower for the wound received and Pholus, and Melaneus, and
;

Abas hunter of boars, and Astylus the augur, who had, in vain, his friends
from fight dissuaded. He too to Nessus, fearing wounds, thus speaks ;

Fly not, for thou shalt be reserved for Hercules' bow but not Euryno- :

mus, and Lycidas, and Areos, and Imbreus death escaped whom all, ad- ;

right hand struck through. Thou too, Crenseus, though to

verse Dryas'
flight thou hadst given up thy back, an adverse wound receivedst for, ;

looking back, thou tookest the fatal steel between thy eyes, where to the
lowest forehead joins the nose. Amid all this uoise, Aphidas lay dosed
426 P. OVIDII NASONIS

fHsmquc in viiiosis
Langucntique manu carchesia mista tenebat,
Unebat mista carehe- bMSXXS, IXi UsSaSffi VlUoSlS pelllDUS UrSSB.
sia lansiiienti manu. /-v ^li-j-^riV
Quem prociu lit viQit irustru niiUa arma moventem,
ii i
Quern ut Phorbas vi-

nLiTafrna^'jiZlll
Inscrit amento digitos, Miscendaque, dixit,
inserit digitos amento,
aixitque, Btbas vma
Cum bibas, Phorbas. Nee plura moratus
,• Stvge vina -j-i r i n .

miscenda cum siyge: Jnjuvenem torsit jaculum : lerrataque collo

T^sit^'^^facuium^'^in Fraxinus, ut casu jacuit resupinus, adacta est.

juvenem ferrataque Mois caruit
^^ seusu :', plcnoQue a gutture fluxit 325
fraxtnus est adacta 1 T. tj
^^^•^ _ , .

collo, uf casu jacuit Inque toros, inque ipsa mger carchesia sanguis.
resupinus. Mors
ruitsensu,mnguisque
ca- it- i- t»j.
Vidi cgo Fetraeum conantem evellere terra
a n x'
^uttur^^nqut tiros,
Glandiferam quercum: quam dum complexibus
inque ipsa carchesia. ambit *

nantem evellere terra Et quatit hiic iUuc, labcfactaquc robora jactat,

^qZm^ZTaZuZn. Lancea Pirithoi costis immissa Petrai, 330
quatit hue Pectora cum duro luctantia robore fixit.
:^iexibus,ef
tlluc, jactat que labe-
facta robora; lancea
-,-...,.. -t -r

Pirithoi virtutc Lvcum cccidisse lerebaut

ri :
Pirithoi immissa costis -n- • . •
o-,• • •

feed uterque mmorem

,, *^/-ni i •

Petrai, fixit luctantia Firithoi cecidisse Chromiii.

^ '"" ^
pectora cum duro ro-
bore. Ferebant Lycum quam Dictys, Helopsque dederunt.
Victor! titulum,
cecidisse virtute Piri-
thoi ; Vhromin etiam
Fixus Helops jaculo quod pervia tempera fecit 335 : ;

cecidisse virtute Piri- Et missum a dextra lasvam penetravit in aurem.

thoi: sed vterque de-
derunt minorem titu- Dictys ab ancipiti delapsus acumine mantis,
lum victori, quam Dic-
tys Helopsque. Helops
Dum fugit
_ instantem trepidans Ixione natum,
fixus est jaculo, quod Decidit iu prseccDS et pondere corporis ornum :
fecit tempora pervia, ^ / •- j •. -v r a o/in
o4U
•

et missum a. dextrd
Ingentem iregit suaque induitina iractffi. :

^JuremT'^MylTdlm Ultor adcst Aphareus saxumque e monte revulsum :

trepidans fugit natiim Ixione instantem, delapsus ab ancipiti acumine mantis, decidit inprffceps,
et pondere corporis fregit ingentem ornum, induitque sua ilia fracta, Aphareus adcst ultur,
coTtaturque mittere saxum revulsum e monte,

TRANSLATION,
along, with wine incessant gulped, and unawaked, and in his languid
hand held the mixed bowl, laid at his length upon the shaggy skin of an
Ossaean bear ; whom, at a distance, Phorbas saw, moving but bootless
arms, applies his fingers to his lance's strap, and said Now drink thy :

wine soon to be mixed with Styx. Nor staying more, he hurled his jave-
lin at the youth ; and the steel-shod ash was forced through his neck, as
he by chance lay on his back death wanted sense and the black gore
:
;

flowed from his gorged throat, and on the couch, and in the bowl itself.
I saw Petraeus hard struggling to root up an acorn-bearing oak out of the
earth which, while he grasps in his embrace, and shakes this way and
;

that, and agitates the loosened oak, Pirithous' lance let fly into Petrseus'
ribs, and fixed his struggling breast to the hard oak. It was said, that

Lycus, by Pirithous' prowess, fell; and, by Pirithous' valour, Chromis:

but by each of these, the conqueror gained less title far, than by Dictys
and Helops. Helops was with a javelin fixed, that made his temples
pervious, and sent from the right quite to the left ear pierced. Dictys,
tumbling down a hill's steep brow while trembling, he flies the urging
Ixion's son, headlong falls down ; and, with his body's weight, crushes a
huge ash-tree, and spits, upon its broken boughs, his bowels. Avenging
Aphareus next comes on, and strives to throw a rock, tore from the moun-
taiu's side: the son of .^geus, with his oaken club, prevents him, striviug^.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XII. 427

Mittere conatur. Conantem stipite querno Mgides stijnte quemo

,^ , 1 -i--rr^ , r
-I
• • occupat conmntem,
Occupat cubitique mgentia irangit
itigicles ; jranguqwe ingentia
Ossa: nee ulteriiis dare corpus inutile leto wcatllut*curat darl
Aut vacat, aut curat: terooque Bianoris alti 345 corpus uto ui-
^"-^tue
. .
o 1
^' . .
v^ xv^
terms :iHsUitquetergo
insiht, haud solito quenquam portare, nisi ipsum :
«'" Bianoris, hand so-

Upposuitque genu costis: prensamque sinistra msi ipsum, opjwsuit-

Cajsariem retinens, vultum, minitantiaque ora &jfg«e ''"catarUm
Robore nodoso, praeduraque tempora fregit. prensam sinistra, /re.
,-,
,
TVT 1 T orrt &^f ^'^''^'"nt, minitanti-
•

-Aii
1
Kobore JNedymnum, jaculatoremque Lycotan ooO aqueora,praduraque
a, •, ,
•
lA tempora,7iodoso robore. . 1

bternit, at immissa protectum pectora barba stemit robore Nedym-

Hippason, et summis exstantem Riphea silvis ; ^^Ztoremf^'er^i^i^'

Tereaque, Hsemoniis qui prensos montibus ursos va^onquc protcctnm
Y-i '-, 1- 11,
rerre doraum vivos, indignantesque solebat.
quoad pectora immissa
•

iarba, et Riphea ex-

Haiid tulit utentem pugnee successibus ultra 355 Termqlf^ll^ui's^iebai
Thesea Demoleon solidoque revellere dumo
^llgna^'eslue """i^
:

Annosam pinum prensosHfEmonHs mon-

.V molimine
magno tentat.
Qi * •

uocl quia non potuit,

f
prsetractam misit in
Sed procul c^ telo Theseus veniente recessit,
1
nostem.
tibus. Demoleon haud
ultra tuut Theseus
,
• •
,
•
,

llSZentTquem^l
Pallados admonitu. Credi sic ipse volebat. 360 ^'' '«<'^''»"?e reveiiere
-«y T ,
. annosam pmum solido
•
,/~i •
1 •

i\ on tamen arbor mers cecidit nam Crantoris alti rf««'«o. Quod quia non :

Absciditjugulo pectusque, humerumque sinistrum. ^am inlt^t^.sed

Armiger ille tui tuerat genitoris, AchiUe :
V'^:^e:;!^^::^:l
Quem Dolopum rector Amvntor nituPaitados: sic ipse
2C-J 11^
bello superatus
"^'OKbat credi. Arbor
n ^ ^nr • •

dederat, pacis pignusque, tidemque. ooo

-oiaciase tamen non ceddu in-
Hunc prociil ut foedo disjectum vulnere Peleus \'u^q^^erhv^mrumque
Vidit. At inferiasjuvenumgratissime Grantor.
trantoZ^'iiujucr!^^
armiger tui genitoris, Achille: quem Amyntor, rector Dolopum, superatus bello, dederat jEaci-
d(F, pignusque fidemque pacis. Vt Peleus procul vidit hunc disjectum foedo vulnere; At, ait,
Crantor, gratissime juvenum,
TRANSLATION.
and breaks massy cubit bones nor has or leisure, or takes care fur-
his :

ther to give his useless body death and leaps on tall Bianor's back, not ;

used to bear other than himself alone, and clapped his knees to his ribs ;

and pulling back his hair, caught in his left, battered his face, and threat-
ening mouth, and temples, hard with knotty oak. And with his oak he
also levels to the ground Nedymnus, and the darter, Lycotas and Hip- ;

pasos, whose breast was shaded with his length of beard and Ripheus, ;

who towered above the topmost woods and Tereus, wont to carry home ;

indignant and alive bears, caught on the Hsemonian hills. Demoleon

could no longer hold, nor bear Theseus' success in fight and, with huge ;

tugging, tries to pull from out the thick-set wood an aged pine which, as ;

he could not, broken short, he threw at his antagonist. But Theseus re-
tired to distance from the coming blow, by Pallas warned he had a mind :

it should be
thought so. Yet the tree bootless fell not, for from the throat of
the tall Crantor tore the breast and the left shoulder. He had been, Achilles,
thy father's armour-bearer ; whom the Dolopian ruler, Amyntor, van-
quished in war, had given to Peleus, son ol' ^acus, as pledge and faith of
peace. Him as Peleus at a distance saw, thus mangled with foul wound ;
but Crantor, Best beloved of youth, accept, he says, an offering and witlt ;

a sturdy arm, and great etfort of mind, sent at Demoleon his asheu spear,
4'28 P. OVIDII NASONIS

accipe iTiferUis : misit-

Acciiie, ait. Validonue in Demoleonta lacerto
wribu.t<iuo(jHc. mentis, iranineam misit, mentis quoque viribus, nastam :

^L"f,udcmta'!%lTper- Quae latcrum cratem perrupit et ossibus hserens 370 :

Vt^hl-Zm'Zlibmti. Intremuit. Trahit ille manu sine cuspide lignum:

tremuit.

•pide: id
JUe trahit
manu licnum sine cus- tii
Mquoque vix sequitm*. Cuspispulmone
IpsB doloi viies animo daoat. /higer
quoque vixse-
\•

hostem
rctenta cst.
•
^ i tii'
m
•
i j.

iefZaptimonei'ipsc Efigitur pedibusquB

virum proculcat equiuis
:

aoior dahat vires ant-

tno: (cger erigitur ^n
Excipit
y
ills ictus galea,
^ clvpeoque sonantes. 375
, , i_- i
hostem: procuicatque
Dcfensatque humcros praetentaque sustmet arma : :

/Jr:S"foSli Perque armos uno duo pectora perforat ictu.

%fenia^q^ueSeV^T:
Ante tameii leto dederat Phlegrseon, et Hylen
sustinetquearmapra- Eminus
tenta: perforatquc duo Hipliinoum collato Mai'te, Claninque.
:

j>ectora per armos uno Additur his Dorylas: qui tempora tecta gerebat
ictu. Ante tamen de-
derat Phlegrieou et Pelle iupi, ssevique vicem pra;stantia teli, 381
Hylen leto eminus: Cornua vasta boiim multo rubefacta cruore.
Hiphinoum Claninque
collato Marte. Dory- Huic ego, nam vires animus dabat, Aspice, dixi.
las additur his: qui
gerebat tempora tecta Quantum concedant nostro tua cornua ferro :

^f/«tt JS/S Et jaculum torsi ; quod cijm vitare nequiret, 385

multo cruore, pra:stan-
tia vicem stevi teli. Opposuit dextram passurse vulnera fronti :

JSgo dixi huic, nam Affixa est cum clamor: at ilium

fronte manus : fit
animus dabat vires,
Aspice qua7itum tua Haerentem Peleus, et acerbo vulnere victum
cornua concedant nos-
tro ferro, et torsi ja- (Stabat enim propior) mediam ferit ense sub alvum.
culum, quod cum iie-
Prosiluit, terraque ferox sua viscera traxit; 390
quiret vitare, opposuit
dextram fronti passu-
ra vulnera. Manus
Tractaque calcavit calcataque rupit et illis : :

est affixa cum fronte Crura quoque impedit et inani concidit alvo. :

Clamor Jit : at''Peleus, cnim stabat propior, ferit eiisc sub mediam alvum illmn harentem., ct
•victum acerbo vulnere. Prosiluit, feroxque traxit sua viscera terrd, calcavitque tracta ; ru-
pitque calcata, et impedit quoque crura illis, et concidit inani alvo,
TRANSLATION.
which broke through his side's grate, and quivered sticking in the bones.
He pulls out with his hand the shaft without the point, which follows not
with ease the point stuck in the lungs. Even pain itself gave vigour to
:

his resolution. Wounded, he rears against the foe, and tramples on the
hero with his horse's feet he on his helmet and his shield receives the
:

Bounding blows, defends his shoulders, and holds out his long-protended
lance and, at a blow, pierces through the shoulder-blades two breasts. Yet
;

he had before, from far, consigned to death Phlegraos and Hyles; in closer
fight, Hiphhious
and Clanis to these is joined Dorylas, who bore his
:

temples covered with a wolf's skin, and wide-stretched horns of an ox,

red with much blood doing the office of a mortal weapon. To him I
:

said (for courage gave me strength) Behold how much thy horns yield ;

to my steel. I whirled the dart which when he could not ward, holds up
;

his right hand to his forehead, like to be the part to suffer by the wound :

his hand is pinned to his brow. A shout is made but Peleus (for he now :

stood nearer) him vanquished and confounded by the fatal wound, strikes
with his sword about the middle belly. He jumped forth, and fiercely
dragged his bowels on the ground and, dragged, trod and, trodden, biu-st
; ;

them and his legs entangled in them, and down he with an empty belly
;

drops. Nor, Cyllarus, did thee thy beauty fighting save, if we at least
njay beauty grant to that thy monstrous uatiue. His beard was just be-
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XII. 429

Ncc Ncc tit a

pugnantem tua, Cyllare, forma redemit,
te
I are, rcdcmit
forma,
le
C'yl
pvg-
8imodo natiireB formam concedimus illi. 394 nantcvi, si modo con-
cedhmts formam illi
Barba erat incipiens barbee color aureus, aureaque
:
iiatura. Barba erat
barba
Ex humeris medios coma dependebat in armos. iiiclpieiis, color
c\a.t aureus; aureaque

Gratus in ore vigor: cervix, humeri que, manusque, coma dcpendebat ex

humeris in tncdios ar-
Pectoraque artificum laudatis proxima signis; mos. Gratus vigor erat
in ore: cervix, hume-
Et qu^ parte viri est nee equi mendosa sub ilia :
riqne, manusque, pec-

Deteriorque viro facies da colla, caputque ; 400 :

toraque, et qua parte
forma viri est, erant
Castore dignus erit. Sic tergum sessile, sic stant proxima laudalis sig-
nis artificum. Nee fa-
Pectora celsa toris totus pice nigrior atrii.
: des equi sub ilia formd
est mendosa, deter ior
Candida cauda tamen color est quoque cruribus :
que viro. Da colla ca-
albus. putque ei, et crit dig-
nus Castore. Tergum
Multoe ilium petiere sua de gente ; sed una est sic sessile, pectora
sic stunt cclsu torts :
Abstulit Hylonome qua nulla decentior inter
:
est totus nigrior a(r<t
Cauda tamen est
Semiferos altis habitavit foemina silvis. 406 pice.
Candida, albas color
lla^c et blanditiis, et amando, et amare fatendo est quoque cruribus.
MultiE de sui). gcute
Cyllaron una tenet. Cultus quoque quantus in illis pcticre ilium, sed Hy-
lonome una abstulit,
Esse potest membris, ut sit coma pectine lajvis :
qua nulla fcemina de-
Ut modo rore maris, modo se violave, rosave 410 centior liabitavit inter
scmifcros altis silvis.
Jmplicet; interdiim candentia lilia gestet: Htcc una tenet Cylla-
roil, blandiliis, et
Bisque die lapsis Pagassero vertice silvse amaiido, et fatcndo se
amare. Cullus quoque
Fontibus ora lavet bis flumine corpora tingat.
:
est tantus, quantus po-
test esse in illis mem-
Nee, nisi qua? deceant electarumque ferarum, bris, ut coma sit levis
Aut humero aut lateri prsetenaat vellera Isevo, 41o pectine; ut modo im-
Par amor est illis, errant in montibus una :
mldo ZiaZ' Zsave,
Antra simul subeunt et turn Lapitheia tecta mterdnm gestet can-
^ .^
intrarant pariter; pariter ~
1
tera bella gerebant.
:

-vpiii dent la Mia: bisque die

lavet ora fontibus lap-
^ ^ sis vertice Pagasa-tE
silva ; corpora fiumine : nee pratendat aut humero aut lateri Iccvo, vellera nisi que
his tingat
deceant electarumque ferarum. Amor est par illis: errant una in montibus; subeunt antra
simul, et turn pariter intrdratit Lapitheia tecta ; pariter gerehant fera bella.
TRANSLATION.
ginning the colour of his beard was gold, and golden hair descended
;

from his shoulders to his mid shoulder-blades. Grateful vigour now was
in his face his neck and shoulders, hands and breast, were not unlike
;

applauded artist's statues, where he is a man ; nor is the horse's shape

beueath faulty and worse than of the man's give him but neck and head, ;

and he will be worthy Castor his back so fit is to be sat, so high stands
:

his brawny chest and all over blacker than black pitch self; yet his
;

tail white the colour of his legs white too.

; Many females of his kind
longed for him but Hylonome gained him alone, than whom no female
;

in the lofty woods among the double race more decent lived. She alone
possesses Cyllarus, both by her blandishments, and by her loving and
confessing love. Her neatness too is much, as well can be in limbs like
these, so that her hair is smoothed with a comb now she decks herself :

with rosemary, again with violets or roses sometimes wears white lilies ; ;

and Avashes twice a day her face in springs trickling down from the top
of the Pagasffian wood, and twice she dips her body in the stream. Nor
over her shoulder or her side throws furs, but what become, and are of
chosen beasts. Equal is their love, they together roam the mountains,
together enter caves and there too they together had entered the Lapi-
;
 430 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Auctor in incerto est:

jaculum de parte
f^tLf^uTtl
nistra et
sinlstr-t
parte, fixit Vciiit ;
et iiiferiils, quam collo pectora subsunt,
quam pectora .siibsunt
pavvo cor vulnere Isesum
i^yliarc, te tixit 421 ;

'rjiinerZ r'^y'ixit7u7i Corpore cuni toto posttela educta refrixit.

P^otinils Hylonome morientes
Ma7pMusHt excipit artus :

lomme morien-
excipit Impositaque manu vulnus fovet: oraque ad ora 424
tcsartus.fovctquevvl- » j ,^ .
•
o •
.• ^
Admovet atquB anmiffi tugienti obsistere tentat
.

nusimpositamanu.ad. I

ItS^uJat <:i:!iJ^c Ut videt extinctum dictis, quse clamor ad aures :

fiigicnti anim(E. ut Ai'cuit ire meas, telo, quod inhseserat illi,

videt extinctum ; (lictis -r i
• •
-,
.

qvic clamor arcuit ire IncuDuit morieiisque suuiii coHiplexa marit'ivn ps^t
I

ad meas aures, incu

butt tela quod inlnrse- Ante oculos stat et ille raeos qui sena leonum :

rat illi; morieiisque,

Vinxerat inter se connexis vellera nodis 430
est complexasnum ma-
ritvm. Ille stat ante Phseocomes ; hominemque simnl protectus equum-
oculos meos, qui vinx-
erat sciia vellera leo- que.
num nodis connexis in- Codice qui misso, quern vix juga bina moverent
ter se, Phieocomes, pro-
tectus siviul hominem-
que eqxmmque. (-lui fre-
Juncta, Phonoleniden a summo vertice fregit.
git Phonoleniden misso Fracta volubilitas capitis latissima :
perque os,
codice, quern vix bina
Jugajuncta moverent. Perque cavas nares, oculosque, auresque cerebrum
J^aiissima volubilitas
Molle fluit. Veluti concretum vimine querno 436
capitis est fracta, mol-
irque cerebrum'fltiit Lac solet utve liquor rari sub pondere
"
: cribri
-per OS, perque cavas Ti/r , ,
• ^- .
i />
nares, ocniosque, au- iviauat ct cxprimitur
per deusa loramma spissus^
;
resque : veluti lac con- Ast ego, dum parat hunc armis nudare
cretum solet fluere jacentem,
querno vimine ; utve (Scit tuus hoc genitor) gladium spoliantis in ima
liquor manat sub pon-
dere rari cribri, et Ilia dimisi. Chthonius quoque Teleboasque 441
spiss us,exprimi turper
densa foramina. As't Ense jacent nostro. Ramum prior ille bifurcum
dum parat nudare Gcsserat hic jaculum.
hunc jacentem armis, ; Jaculo milii vulncra fectt. ,

ego (tuus genitor scit adhuc

hoc) dimisi gladium in
Signa vides: apparet vetus ecce cicatrix.
ima ilia spoliantis. Chthonius quoque, Teleboasque jacent nostro ense. Ille prior gesserat bi-
furcum ramum, hie, jaculum. Fecit vulnera mihi jaculo. Vides signa: ecce vetus cicatrix ap-
paret adhuc.
TRANSLATION.
thean roofs, and waged fierce war. The author is uncertain hut from ;

the left a javelin came, and pierced thee, Cyllarus, lower than where the
breast does stand below the neck. The heart thus with a small wound
hurt, together did with the whole body, after out the dart, grow drawing
cold. Instant, Hylonome and cherishes the
receives his dying limbs,
wound, by laying on her hand, and claps her mouth to his, and strives to
stop the fleeting soul. As she saw him dead, having uttered what the
shouting hindered from coming to my ears, she fell upon the weapon
which had stuck in him in death embraced her husband. He also, who
;

had bound six lions' skins together with connected knots, Phseocomes,
does stand before my eyes, both horse and man covered all over who, a ;

trunk discharging, Mhich scarce two yoke of oxen

joined could draw, bat-
tered the son of Phonolenes on the topmost head with which the vast ex- :

tensive roundness of his head is shattered and through his mouth, and ;

through his hollow nostrils, and eyes, and ears, the tender brain escapes :

as curdled milk is wont through oaken

twigs or as a liquor runs beneath ;

the weight of a wide

pierced sieve, and is pressed out thick through the
nmnerous holes. But I, while he prepares to strip him, lying, of his arms
(thy sire knows this), plunged my sword into his lower belly, spoiling the
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XII. 431

Tunc ego debueram capienda ad Pergama mitti

Tunc poteram masni, si non superare, morari 446
:
S«&£
eama. Time poteram
p^"
meis armis non supe-
si
Hectons armameis. lllo sea tempore nullus, rare, morari arma
magni Hectoris sed
Aut puer, Hector erat. Nunc me mea deficit aetas. illo
:

tempore, Hector
victorem aut nullus erat, aut
Quid tibi gemini Periphanta Pyreti ?
puer: nunc mea ectas
Ampyca quid referam? qui quadruped an tis O'ecli deficit me. Quid refe-
ram tibi Periphanta
Fixit in adverso cornum sine cuspide vultu. 451 victorem gemini Py-
reti; quid Ampyca T
Vecte Pelethronium Macareus in pectus adacto qui fixit cornum sine
StravitErigdupum. Memini et venabula condi cuspide in adverso vul-
tu quadrupedantis O'e-

Inguine, Nesseis manibus conjecta, Cymeli. cli. Macareus stravit

Pelethronium Erigdu-
Nee tu credideris tantum cecinisse futura 455 pu?n vecte adacto in
pectus ; et mctnini ve-
Ampyciden Mopsum Mopso jaculante biformis
:
nabula conjecta Nes-
Occubuit, frustraque loqui tentavit Odites, seis ma7iibus condi in-
guine Cymeli. Nee tu
Ad mentum lingua, mentoque ad guttura fixo. erediderisMopsumAm-
pyciden cecinisse tan-
Quinque neci Cseneus dederat, Stiphelumque, Bro- tum futura: Mopso ja-
culante, biformis Odi-
mumque, tes \occubuit, tentavit-
Antimachumq ue, Helimumque, securiferumque Py- qunoqurjruslra"iin-
guii fixaad mentum
racmon . tOU
Af:(\
mentoque Jixo ad gut
tura. Caneus dederat
Vulnera non memini numerum, nomenque
;
notavi.
quinque neci, Stiphe-
Provolat Emathii spoliis armatus Halesi, lumque, Bromumque,
Antimachumquc, Heli-
Quern dederat leto membris et corpore Latreus mumque, secxiriferum-
que Pyracmon. Non
Maximus. (Huic aetas inter juvenemque, senemque memini vulnera, nota-
Vis juvenilis erat: variabant tempora cani) 465 vi numerum, nomen-
Latreus maxi- que.
Qui clypeo, galeaque, Macedoniaque sarissa 7nus membrisque et
corpore provolat ar-
Conspicuus, faciemque obversus in agnem utrum- matus spoliis Emathci
Halesi, quern dederat

Armaque T-
q^ie, _

concussit,' certumque
1 equitavitni
i
....
orbem:
leto. yiltas inter ju-
-venemque
sea VIS juvenilis erat
senemqu0,

huic. Cani variabant tempora. Qui conspicuus clypeo, galeAque, Macedoniaque sarissA, obver-
susquc faciem iti utrumque ; agmen, concussitque arma, equitavitque in cerium orbem;
TRANSLATION.
slain, Chthonius too, and Teleboas, fell by my SAvord the former bore :

a two-forked bough the other a dart, with which he gave me wounds

;
:

You see the marks lo, here do still appear the former scars and I, at
;
:

that time, was to have been sent to the taking of Troy city. Then I could,
if not have overcome, yet stayed great Hector's arms by mine but at :

that time Hector was not, or but a boy and now my age does fail me.
;

What should 1 to you recount Feriphas, the victor of the double-formed

Pyretus ? What, Ampyx who, in the adverse face of the four-footed
;

CEclus, stuck a pointless spear of cornel-tree ? Macareus laid Erigdupus,

the Pelethroniau, flat, by banging of a lever at his breast. I, too, remem-
ber, that a hunting-spear, thrown by the hands of Nessus, had lodged in
Cymelus' groin. Nor imagine thou, that Mopsus, son of Ampycus, only
divined for Mopsus darting, a two-formed monster fell, and Odites in
;

vain attempts to speak, his tongue being pinned to his chin, and chin to
his throat. Cseneus gave five to death, Stiphelus, and Bromus, and Anti-
macus, and Helimus, and ax-bearing Pyracmos the wounds I remem- :

ber not, their number and their names I marked. Latreus, the hugest
both in limbs and body, sallies forth, armed with spoils of Emathean Ha-
lesus, whom he to death consigned. His age was between young and old,
his vigour juvenile ; grey hairs his temples variegated. Conspicuous by
spear, he, with face turned
his buckler, hehuet, and Macedonian to either
432 P. OVIDII NASONIS

VclfriTiifmnral VerbaquG tot fudit vacuas animosus

in aura?; :

reram et te, C(cnij Et tc, Cscni, fcram ? nam tu mihi foemina

semper,
famiiianiihl'tulempcl Tu milii Csenis eris. Nee te natalis origo 470
na]a%'"origo"co>mni-
Comminuit? mentcmque subit, quo pra^mia facto,
itnitte? subitquemcn- niercede pararis ?
Quaoue viri falsam spBciem
'
tern qvo facto paraTis -wfi^.i •!• • . i i

jwfrmia, qu,% merceds Vel qmd nata Vide, vel qma sis passa: columquc,
I> cape cum calathis
'vidT'vei^quTshna. et stamina pollice torque
;
:

Jactanti talia C-cEiieus 476

i.Vr'^fcXn^",; Bella relinque
viris.
calathis, et torque sta- Extentum cuFsu missk latus emit hasta,
mina pollice: relinque /-.*• -n l ^-\ •
^ ^ •
•

hciia liris. cceneus Qua vir cquo comiiiissus erat. h urit ille doiore,
7!n^J^^m'^u,^;, Nudaque Phyllei juvenis ferit ora sariss^.
iWiJactanti talia, qua Non secus lia;c
resilit^j quani tecti a culmine grando
:
vir erat commissus
eqno. Illc furit do- Aut si
quis parvo feriat cava tympana saxo. 481
lorCfferitquc nuda ora
Phijllci juvemx saris- Cominias aggreditur: laterique recondere duro
sd. Ilac rcsllit non
secus, qiicim grantlo d,
Luctatur gladium. Gladio loca pervia non sunt.
culmine tccti : aut si
Haud tamen efFugies: medio jugulaberis ense,
quis feriat cava tem-
pera parve stixn.
greditiir cominiis, luc-
Ag- Quandoquidem mucro est hebes, inquit; et in

tatiirqve recondcre latus ensem 485

gladimn duro lateri.
Lioca non sunt pcrvia Obliquat longaque amplectitur ilia dextra.
;

gladio. Hand tamcn,

inquit, cffvgies ; jugu-
Plaga facit gemitus, ceu corpore marmoris icti :

lubcris medio eiise, Fractaque dissiluit percusso lamina collo.

mucro
quaiidoquidcm
est hebes; et obliquat
Ut satis illsesos miranti pra^buit artus : 489
ensem in latus, amplcc-.
,
Nunc age, '
tua corpora
» ait Ceeneus, nostro..... i '
ferro
titnrque tha longH _, ,
dcxtrn. Plaga facit lentcmus; capuloque tenus dimisit in armos
1ciTmarnwris,fract7- Eusem fatiferum, coecamque in viscera movit,
'^^trcmsfcoihf^msa- Versavitque manum vulnusque in vulnere fecit.:

artus mira7iti. Age, nunc, ait Ccrneus, tentemus tua corpora nostro ferro,
tis prccbuit illcrsos
tenus capulo, movitque versavitque ctccum nianwn in viscera, fecitque vulnus in vulnere.
TRANSLATION.
side, vaunting, shook his arms, and rode a certain round, and spirilfui
poured out the following words into the empty air And shall I bear :

thee, Cjenis ? for I shall always reckon thee a woman, always Ca;nis ;

and neither hath thy natal origin broke something of thy spirit and re- :

memherest not by what foul deed thou gottest thy rcAvard, or by what ser-
vice thou procuredst man's false appearance Or what thou wast consi- ;

der, or what thou since hast suffered and go take thy distaff with thy
;

baskets, and spin thee threads leave wars to men. To him, thus vaunt-
:

ing, Caucus, with his missive spear, opened his side, extended in the
course, where the man joined the horse. He raves with pain, and with
his lance strikes at the naked face of the Phyllean youth. No otherwise
does it rebound than hail from top of roof, or one should beat with a small
stone the hollow drum. He then encounters in close fight, and strives to
lodge in his hard side his sword but all the parts are to his sword im-
;

pervious: yet, he cries. Thou shalt not thus escape, thou shalt be slain
by the sword's middle edge, seeing the point is blunt and slants the ,

sword against his side, and with his long right arm he grasps his
belly. The blow produced a groan, as on a body of marble banged,
and the shivered blade flew different Avays from off his neck struck
at. As now he had enough exposed his limbs unhurt to him amazed ;

Now come (says Caiiieus), let us with our steel thy body try and ;

up to the hilt he plunged the fatal sword into his shoulder-blades,

 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XII. 433

Ecce ruunt vasto rabidi de more bimembres :

Ecce rabidi biinemhros
ruunt vasto de more,
Telaque in hunc omnes unum mitUmtque, fe- omnesque mittunt Jc-
hunc
riintque tela in
runtque. 495 imum. Tela retusa
Tela retusa cadunt. Manet imperfossus ab omni cadunt. Caucus Ela-
teius manet imperfos-
Inque
"
cruentatiis Caeneus Elateius, ictu. sus, incruentat usque
-ni ,. •, TT 1 1
•
•
ab omniictii. Nova res
recerat attonitos nova res. rleu dedecus mgens! /ccerat attomtos. Heu
ingens dedecus ! Many-
Monychus exclamat populus superamur lh nno :
ch us exulamat : popu
lus superamur ab nno,
Vixqne viro. Quanquam ille vir est nos segnibus ;
ii.iquc viro. Quan-
actis, 500 quam ille est vir, et nos
scgiiibus avtis sumus
Quod fuit ille, sumus Quid membra immania quod ille fuit. Quid
immania membra pro-
prosunt ? sunt? quid gemiiKB vi-
rerum res? quid, quod du-
Quid geininse vires ?
quid, quod fortissima
plex natura junxit in
In nobis natura duplex animalia junxit : nobis animalia J'ortis-
sima rerum? Nee reor
Nee nos matre Dea, nee nos Ixione natos nos esse nalos matre
Esse reor, qui tantus erat, Junonis ut altee 505 DeH ; ncc noserut
esse natos
tan-
Ixione, qui
Spem caperet. Nos semimari superamur ab hoste. tu.9 ut capere spem
ulta Juuotiis; nos su-
Saxa, trabesque super, totosque involvite montes
;
:
peramur ab semimari
hoste. luvolvite super
Vivacemque animam missis elidite silvis. euvi suxa, truOesqiie,
Silva premat fauces et erit pro vulnere pondus : totosque montes, elidi-
tcqiie viraccm animutn
Dixit et insani dejectam viribus Austri
: olO Silva pre-
tuississili is.
mat fauces, et pondns
Forte trabem nactus, validum conjecit in hostem. erit pro vulacre. Dixit:
nactus trabem
et forte
Exemplumque fuit :
parvoque in tempore nudus dejectum viribus in-
Arboris Othrys eras ; nee habebat Pelion umbras. satn Austri, conjecit
171 validum liostem;
Obrutus immani cumulo, sub pondere Cseneus fuitque exemphim, in-
qtce parvo tempore
/Estuat arboreo congestaque robora duris
;
515 Othrys crat jnrdus ar-
Pert humeris. Sed enim postquam super ora caputq; boris, ncc Pelion hu-
Caneus
bebat umliras.
revit onus obnuus immanicumu
pvr;-,-.!neq habet, quas ducat, spn'itus
,\auras;
:
;
i\ n lo,astuut sub arboreo
••
JJeiicit mterdum modo se super aera irustra
:
pondere, fertque con-
gesta robora duris humeris. Sed enim postquam onus crcvit super ora caputque iieque spiritus
habet auras quas ducat ; interdum deficit, modo frustrd

TRANSLATION.
and moved and writhed his hand unseen into his bowels, and in
a wound made wounds. When, lo the double-limbed, enraged, rush in !

the vast impetuous manner and all do send and throw at him alone their
;

darts the darts repulsed fall unstabled, unbloody by each blow, Cjeneus
:
;

the Elateian stands. This new thing them astonished. Ah huge dis- !

grace, cries Monychus, a people we vanquished by one, and scarce a man ;

though now indeed he is a man, and we, by dastard actions, are what he
was: what do huge limbs avail? What boots our double strengih ?
What, that our two-fold nature hath in us united the stoutest animals in
being Nor can I think us born of goddess mother, nor of Ixion who
? ;

was so great a man, that he conceived hopes of lofty Juno's self but we ;

are baffled by a half male foe whelm rocks, and beams and mountains :

whole upon him and quash out all his spiteful soul by heaping woods
;

upon him let a whole wood press on his jaws, and weight shall be for
:

wound. He said, and snatched by chance a beam blown down by force

of raging wind, and threw it at his sturdy foe and he the example was; :

and in a little time, Othrys was bare of trees nor Pelion had its shade. ;

Caeneus, overwhelmed by this huge heap, lies sweltering beneath the

woody load and on his brawny shoulders bears the piled oaks. Hnt,
;

2 I'
434 P. OVIDll NASONIS
conatur se toiiere su- Tolleie conatur,' JiactasQue evolvere silvas :
per acra, eiolveregue p- .

jactas silvas. Inter-

Iiiterdumque movct. Veluti,.•iquam cermmus ecce,
dumque movet, veluti .i •, .-,
urdua Me, quam eccc Ardua SI terrse quatiatur motibus Ide.
tj col
oZv
Exitus in dubio est. Alii sub inania corpus
Zm!^'ter^pZ
est in dubio; alii fere-
Tai'tara detrusuui silvarum mole ferebant.
bant corpus detrusum . , t . • c ^ -,
'

sub inania Tartara Abnuit

Ampycides medioque ex aggere lulvis ;

pycidefabm'it'; rfjil Vidit avem peiinis liquidas

exire sub auras 525 ;

VxirTtu/uuida^au Q^* '^^^^^ *^^^^ primiAm,

tunc est conspecta supre-
ras ex medio aggere miim.
;

qua: tunc primuni, est

vompectu mihi, tunc Hanc ubi lustrantem leni sua castra volatu
supremum. Mopsus sonantem
ubi aspexit hanc lus- Mopsus, et ingenti circum clangore
trantem sua castra le- oculis secutus ;
nt volatu, et sonantem Aspexit, pariterque ammoque
circum ingenti clan- O salve, dixit, Lapitha^ee gloria gentis
530
gore, secutus pariter
oculi^que, anh/ioque, Maxime vir quondam, sed nunc avis unica, Caeneu.
dixit. Salve, 3 gloria
Lapith([(F gentis, Ca-
Credita res auctore suo est Dolor addidit iram; :

neu, quondam vir max-

—
Oppressumque segre
- tulimus tot abhostibusunum.
ime, sed nunc unica -.y > i" .
,
• •
r-
avis. Res est credita JN 60
prius abstitmius icrrum exercere cruore ;
suoauctore. Dolor ad-
didit. iram ; trgreque q^v^ j^^^ ^^^^ j^^^^ partem fuga, noxque diremit.
tulimus unum oppres- VI. Haec inter Lapithas, et semihomines Cen-
sum ab tot hostibiis.
Nee abslitinuis i.ier- tauros, 536
cere ferriim cruure ;

priusquam pars ext Prselia, Tlepolemus Pylio referente dolorem

data leto, el J'uga nox-
Praeteriti Alcidae tacito non pertulit ore :
qiie removit partem.
VI. Pylio' referente
licec prcclia inter Ijo-
Atque ait; HerculesB mirum est oblivia laudis
k •\ • •
/-i n -i- v e C/tA
pithus, et sejnihomines Acta Certe mihi ssepe reierre
tiDi, seuior.
04U
Centuuros, Tlepolemus
7ion pertulit tacito ore Nubigenas domitos a se pater ipse s'olebat.
dolorem Alcida jirtrte-
riti: at que ait; Mi-
Tristis ad haec Pylius Quid meminisse malorum :

rum
Cogis ; et obductos annis rescindere luctus
est, senior, obli- ?
via HerculeiB laudis
esse acta tibi : cirte pater ipse solebat sape reftrre mihi iiubigenas fuisse domitos a se. Pylius
tristis rcspondit ad /ucc : Quid cogis me tneminisse malorum ; et rescindere luctus obdui tcs annis t

TRANSLATION.
after that, the load increased above his face and head nor has he breath ;

the air to draw he sometimes faints anon he strives, but all in vain,
:
;

to lift himself into the air, and heave from off him the piled woods.

Sometimes he heaves, like that high Ida, which, lo here we see, if !

shook by earthquakes. The event is doubtful. Some gave out, his body
hurled to empty Tartarus by the huge mass of woods. Mopsus, the son
of Ampycus, denied it and saw escape into the liquid air, from amid the
;

pile, a bird with dusky wings Avhich then was seen by me, both for the ;

first and last time. Him when Mopsus saw with gentle flight survey his
with
camp, and with huge clanking sounding round, pursued him equally
eyes and soul All hail (he cried), Cseneus, thou glory of the Lapithean
:

race the greatest once of men, but now the only bird.
;
The thing was
from its author credited. Our grief resentment added with disgust wej ;

bore, that one was by so many foes overpowered nor did we cease toj :

use the sword to blood, before part was to death consigned, and rout andj
night had part discomfited.
VI. The Pylian sage these fights relating between the Lapithse andj
half men Centaurs, Tlepolemus did not in silence bear the grief con-
ceived at Hercules unmentioned and says It is wonder, sire, the praise ; ;

of Hercules should be forgot the

for, sure, my father often used to tell,
;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XU. 435

Inque tuum genitoreiTi odium, ofFensasque fateri? ^^arlirfnul^Z^'^^iUo-

Ille quidem niajora fide (Di) gessit: et orbem 645 rem? mcqindcm{du!)
X 1 •,•
mentis:
•, 11]
mallem posse negari
sessit miijora fide; et •

Implevit quod impieiu orbem meri- :

ted neq Deiphobum, nee Polydamanta, nee ipsum "^l^l^llTl^^Zt

;

Hectora laudamus. Quis enim laudaveiit hostem ? '^'"«'" Deiphobum,nec

_,, ^ .
T,
.
Polydamanta, iiec ip-
. ,

Ille tuus genitor Messenia mcenia quondam sum Hectora. Quis

Stravit; et immeritas urbes Elinque, Pylonque 550 teZ'^/ m^jaZ%iiior,
Diruit: inque meos ferrum, flaramaraque penates InTms'^eniaTt'diTuu
Impulit. Utque alios taceam, quos ille peremit; Eiinque,p<jioi}que,nr-
T^.* -NT TIP-
Bis sex JNelidEe tuimus, conspecta juventus:
^f ^ immeritas ,

utque jcrmm jiam-

imjpv- Z :

Bis sex Herculeis ceciderunt, me minus uno, nater\rt'qiw7aceam

ferendum est. 555 "J'F-' 9"»! "'«

STi
Viribus. AtqT alios vinci potuisse
r :
'
bis sex
J'^fr"'/^'
. .
fuitnus Nelida,
Mira Penclymeni mors est cui posse tiguras : conspecta jurentns.
\ . . Bis sex iniiiusme niio
umere quas vellet, rursusque repon^re sumptas ceddemnt iicrcuieis

Neptunus dederat, Nelei sanguinis auctor. ^'J^*';^^ ^f^'p^ui"l

Hie, ubi nequicquam est formas variatus in omnes, «"«cf- Mors p^riciy-
Vertitur in faciem volucris: qu?e fulmina curvis Neptunils, auetorNe-
Ferre solet pedibus, divum gratissima Regi. 561 ^iL'rTl^^^ %l7al
Viribus usus avis, pennis, rostroque redunco, 7of/enswn7t7s"'^ nir
viri laniaverat unguibus ora. vbi est ncquu-quatn
Hamatisque
mlendit
T. m- variatus ill onuies fur-
m -v
• • •
ii
nunc mmuun certos liryntnius areas
1 /

mas, i;rt.intr m fa- :

Atque inter nubes sublimia membra ferentera, 565 nyX««'r3rf^S'^t

let ferre juimma l-ur-
Pendentemque ferit, lateri qua iungitur ala.
bus huJHs oris, laniaverat ora viri pennis, rostroque redunco, hvmntisqne unguibus. Tirinthius
tendit in hunc nimium certos arcus; atque ferit ferentem membra sublimia, pendentemque ititer
nubes, qud ala jungitur lateri.
TRANSLATION.
cloud-born monsters were conquered by him. At this the Pylian sad :

What forcest thou me misfortunes to remember, and rip up sorrows

!

covered over with years, and to confess my hatred and disgust toward
your father ? He indeed, ye gods performed things beyond all belief, !

and the world with his great services

filled which, I could wish, might ;

be denied. But neither praise we Deiphobus, nor Polydamas, nor Hec-

tor's self: for who could praise a foe ? He, thy father, once overthrew
Messene's walls, demolished guiltless towns, Elis and Pylos, and carried
fire and sword into my very house. Not to mention others whom he de-

stroyed, we in all were twice six sons of Neleus, conspicuous youths

and :

these twice six did fall, but me alone, by Hercules' force. That others
might be might be bore but then the death of Periclymemis
conquered ;

is wonderful, to whom the author of the Nelean blood, Neptune, had

given, that he could take what forms he would and, taken, lay them ;

down again. He, after having been in vain varied to all his other forms,
is turned to the bird's shape, which, most acceptable to the great king of

gods, is wont to bear thunder in his crooked claws using

that bird's :

great strength, he, with the wings, and crooked beak,

and hooked pounces,
tore the hero's face. At him Hercules does aim his too un-
Tirynthian
NOTES.
556. Mira Periclymeni mors
est.'\ Ve- ciorus, and otliers. He was the youngest
riclynieues was the son of Neleus, and the of twelve brothers, distinguished for liis
beantiful Chloris, the daughter of Am- valour, and liad been in the expedition of
phion, as we learn from Homer, Apollo-
the Argonauts.
436 P. OVIDII NASONIS
Nee vulnus erat grave: Nec grave vulnus erat sed rupti vulnere nervi
:
scfl 7iervi rtiyli vul-

Deficiunt, motumque negant viresque volandi.

ncre dejiciunt, negvnt-
qiie motum, viresqiie
volandi, decidit in ter- Decidit in terram, non concipientibus auras
rain, infirmis peunls 570
non coiiclpientibus au- Infirmis pennis et qua levis haeserat alte,
:

ras ; et h'vis sagittu,

qua haserat al<B, est Corporis affixi pressa est gravitate sagitta ;
prcssa gravitate of- Perque latus summum jugulo est exacta sinistro.

1^:"lZsti^X^o Non videor debere tui preeconia rebus

per summum iatus.
Herculis,' 6 Rliodiae ductor pulcherrime ckssis ?
vtneor,o pulcker-
!

\ o -ii ri-^r
r-
•

ulterius, quam fortia lacta silenclo, o/o

rime duel or lUiodia: Ne tauicn
<i

classis, debere preco-

ma rebus tui Hercu- Ulciscar fratres, solida est mihi gratia tecum.
lis? islet amen ulciscur
ulterius Haec dulci Nele'ius edidit ore ;
postquam
fratrcs quam
silendo ejas fort iu fac-
ta, est mi/ii solida gra-
A sermone senis repetito munere Bacchi,
tia tecum. Postquam Surrexere toris. Nox est data csetera somno.
Nele'ius edidit hac
dvlci ore, munere liac- VII. At Deus, sequoreas qui cuspide temperat
chi repetito a sermnne
undas, 580
senis, surrexere torts:
cetera nox ek "data In volucrem corpus nati Stheneleida versum
VII.' At Deus, qui Meutc dolet patria: seevumque perosus Achillem,
temperat (rquoreasun-
das cuspide, dolet paria mente corpus nati versum in volucrem Stheneleida; perosusque scevum
Achillem.
TRANSLATION.
erring bow, and hits him, wafting along his limbs among the clouds, and
Jiovering, where the wing joins to the side. Light was the woimd but, ;

by the wound, the sinews, cut, do fail, and do refuse their motion and
their strength in flying. Down to the earth he falls, his weakened pi-
nions not conceiving air and the light arrow, where to the wing it stuck,
;

is
by the weight of the affixed body pressed, and through the upmost side
sticks out at the left neck. And do I seem to owe encomiums to thy
Hercules' feats, O
leader fairest of the Rhodian fleet ? Yet, brothers, to
avenge no further than by omitting his brave deeds in arms, I with your-
self maintain a solid
friendship. After the Nelean sire had these things
uttered from his flowing tongue, the gift of Bacchus being resumed upon the
sire's discourse, they rose from table the
remaining night to sleep assign.
:

VII. But the god, who with his trident moderates tlie sea- waves, does
NOTES.
580. At Deus aqucrcas, &o.] Ovid here observino; that he was still very ranch in
passes by tlie otheradvtntures of Aciiilles, love with his daughter, agreed to give
and hastens to the account of his deatli. her ill inariia<re ; wlien ou the day ap-
As it is an event of great importance, I pointed for the solemnity, which was to
sliall mentioti some of the most material he celebrated hi the temple of Apollo,
circumstances left by the ancients upon Paris couceaUug himself behind the altar
it. Achilles having seen Polyxena, the of that, while Deiphobus pretended to
daughter of standing by Cassan-
I'riaiii, embrace him, wounded hiui in the heel,
dra, as she was a sacrifice to
offering the only place wherein he was vulnerable ;
Apollo, fell desperately in love with her, which I'nay be explained without receding
and demaniied her in marriage. Hector from tradition, by saying, that he actually
would consent to it on no other condition wounded him in that place and it was
;

but that of his betraying 'he Greeks. The guen out that Apollo had directed the
yoinig hero, provoked at a demand so in- blow as if a god had been actually ne-
;

jurious to his honour, enctiuntered tlie cessary to take away that hero's life, and
Trojan in tight, slew him, and dragged a mortal could not pretend to tiie power
his body til rice round the walls of Troy. of kiliint:; him, as we are told by So-
The same Dictys Creteusis further adds, phocles in his tragedy of Philoctetes. But
that when Priam went to demand the without haviug recourse to these suiier-
body of his son, lie carried Polyxena with natural ciicumstanccs, which were only
him to soften Achilles. The aged monarch, invented to make the death of that hero
 METAMOIIPOOSEON, Lib. XII. 437

(jercct mcmores Irax

Exercet mernores, plus quam civiliter, iras. civUUer.
pltis qiiuiii
Jaaique fere tracto duo per quinquennia bello, Jumque hello traclii
Jcre r duo r/uinqiieii- j>i
Talibus intonsum conipellat Sminthea dictis 050 Si iiia, cnmpcllat iiiton-
O mihi de fratris longe gratissime natis, Mtni Sminthea talibus
dictis: O longe gratis-

posuisti mcEnia Troja

Irrita qui mecuiii mihi de natis J'ra- siijti'
;
trit, qui posuisti me-
Ecquid, ul has jam jam casuras aspicis arces, cum irritit mania Tro-
ij
jce ; Ecquid ingemis, vt
Ingemis ? aut ecquid tot defendentia muros aspivis has arces Jam
Millia csesa doles? ecquid (ne persequar omnes) jam casnras? aut ec-
quid dole.'' tot millia
Hectoris umbra subit circum sua Pergama tracti? c(esa defendentia mu-
ros ? ecquid (ne perse-
Cum taraen illeferox, belloque cruentior ipso, quar omnes) umbra.
Hictoris tracti cir-
Vivit adhuc operis nostri populator Achilles. cum sua Pergama su-
Det mihi se bit.'' Cum tame It iile
o,-,.,
oentiat.
:
faxo, triplici
- .
quid
* cuspide possim,
"•^u*--Ar
concurrere cominus hostioyo
J frox Achilles,
poptila.
Atquomam tor nostri operis, cru-
^'' ^
Non datur; occulta nee opinum perde sagitta.
""^"-
viiit adhuc. Del se
'^*'^- "'

mihi: faxo ut srntiat

Annuit atque animo pariter patruoque, suoque,
:
quid possim triplici
Delius indulo;ens, nebula velatus in a2;men cuspide. At quoniam
non datur concurrere
Pervenit Iliacum ; mediaque in cfede virorum cominus liosti, perde
nee opinum occult cl so-
Rara per ignotos spargentem cernit Achivos 600 Delius annuit ;
gittCi.
Tela Parin fassusque Deum, Quid spicula perdis
:
atque indulgens pari-
ter animoque, putriio-

Sanguine plebis? ait. Siqua est tibi cura tuorum ; que .<M0, velatus nebu-
lil.pereenit in Iliacum
Vertere in jEaciden, cffisosque ulciscere fratres. ugmen, inque media
cade virorum, cernit
Dixit et ostendens sternentem Troia ferro
:
Parin spargentem ra-
ra tela per ignotos Achivos: fassusque Deum, ait. Quid perdis spicula sanguine plebis? Si est tibi
qua cura tuorum, verter.e in yEaciden, ulciscereque cecsos fratres. Dixit ; et ostendens Peliden
sternentem Troia
TRANSLATION,
with a father's heart lament the body of his son, changed to the Sthene-
leian bird and hating heartily the fell Achilles, retains more than be-
;

camelastingresentment. And now the war being spun through almost twice
five years, he thus the unshorn Smintheus addresses: O most acceptable
to me by far of all
my brother's sons, and who with me didst lay the boot-
less walls of Troy
aught grievest thou, as thou seest these towers just
;

tottering to their fall ? Draught lamentest thou so many thousands slain,

these walls defending? Or aught reflectest thou (others not to mention)
on the shade of Hector, dragged round his own Pergamus ? Though still
that stern Achilles, and bloodier far than war itself, lives the destroyer of
our toil. Let him only dare but me approach, and I shall make him feel
what I can with my trident do but since I am not allowed to encounter
:

in close fight, do thou with secret shaft

despatch him off
his guard. He
nodded his assent and then the Delian
:
god, indulging both his
own and
uncle's passion, veiled in a cloud, comes to the Trojan camp and amid ;

the slaughter of the men, sees Paris, but at times dealing his arrows
among the ignoble Greeks and, confest a god, he cries,
; spendest Why
NOTES.
more signal the blow whicli Paris gave
;
time of Homer, since that poet plainly
him cut the tendon of the heel, the wound enough insinuates, that he died fighting
whereof is mortal, unless there be able for his country; that the Greeks fought
hands to vake particular care of it and to ;
a bloody battle about his body, which
confirm what is here advanced, that ten- lasted a whole day he adds, that though
;

don has since gone under the name of wounded, he avenged his death upon all
Achilles' tendon. This
tradition, however, who came ui his way, and, before he ex-
about the death of Achilles, and Al-
though now pired, slew Oritheus, Hipponus,
ccmimonly roceived, was not known in the cithous.
438 P. OVIDII NASONIS

corpoTnfcrro,obi,ertit
areas in ilium, direx- Corpoia
„ f Peliden, arcus obvertit in lUum 605 :

i.T T 1 J'^
^ -j.
•
i /^

itt/ueccrta spicuia le- Certaoue letiteia direxit spicula dextra.

tlf'erildexfra. Horfuit r\ • rt i
•
iTTx
rriamus gaudcre seiiex post Hectora posset,
i
jiropier qnod.senexPri- UiuoQ

jZ'dTtZi.^%figt
Hoc fuit. Ille
igitur tantorum victor Achille,
tur Ac/iii(e,iUe victor Vinceiis a timido Graise raptore maritae?
tantorum vmceris
timido raptore Graja
A.,.„ ^ .
..i-ixli
At SI loemmeo lucrat tiDi Marte cadendum
i ^ r^^ f\
blU
;

'cad^fdLftibidmineo Thermodontiaca malles cecidisse bipenni.

Marte,maiies'cecidisse Jam timoF ille Phrvgum, dccus et tutela Pelasffi
Inertn donftdcuhipen-
in. Jam ille yUacide'.;
.._,,., •'~ .

Nomiiiis iEacides, caput insuperabile bello,

i-iiu
timor Phrygnm, decns
et tulcla Pelu.sgi no- Arserat; armarat Deus idem, idemque cremarat.
vmnis, caput iniwper-
abile hello, nrserut : Jam cinis est; et de tam magno restat Achille 615
idem Deus armilrat, Nescio quid,parvam quod non bene compleat m'nam,
idemque crcmcirat.
Jam est cinis ; et nescio At vivit, totum quse gloria compleat orbem.
quid, quod non bene
compleat paroam vr- Heec illi mensura viro respondet et hac est :

uum, reslat de magna Pars sibi Pelides nee inania Tartara sentit.
:
At gloria, quce
Acliille.
compleat totum orbem, ut cuius fuerit cognoscere possis, 620
vivit. Hac mensura Ipse etiam,
respondet illi tiro: et Jiella movet clypeus deque armis arma teruntur.
:

MeX^tlTLJ^i ^on ea Tydides, non audit

Oileos_ Ajax,
Tartara. Ipse etiam Non niinor Atridcs, non bello maior et sevo
clypeus,ut possis cog- ^ vi-rrii
noscere cujiis fiicrit, Posccre, non aiii soil 1 elamone creato
:

/eruntur "rie^^armu. Laert^quc fuit tantse fiducia laudis. 625

ceTe'^ea^tZrAjai^ai.
^ ^® Tantalides onus, invidiamque removit:
leos, non minor Atri- Argolicosquc duccs uiediis coufidere castris
des, no?l Agamemnon r •. ^i-i- ^ ,• ,
• •
,
•

major bello et a VI,,, ton Jussit: et arbitrium iitis trajecit in omnes.

alii: fiducia taritrr lau-
dis Juit soli creato Telamone
Lairtaque. Tantalides removit onus invidiamque d se,jussitque
Argolicos duces conjidere mediis castris, et trajecit arbitrium litis in omnes.

TRANSLATION.
thus thy shafts on vulgar blood ? If
any care of thine possess thee, turn
on Achilles, and avenge thy slaughtered brothers. He said and shewing ;

Peleus' son, mowing whole

Trojans with his steel, at him he bends his
bow and with unerring hand the deathful shafts directed. This was a
;

thing at which the aged Priam might, after Hector's loss, rejoice. Thou
then, Achilles, the conqueror of such heroes, art thou thyself conquered
by the dastard ravisher of a Grecian spouse ? But wert thou by a woman's
hand to fall, thou wouldest have rather fallen by Penthesilea's Thermo-
dontic axe. Now had Achilles, that terror of the
Phrygians, that grace
and bulwark of the Pelasgian name, a head impregnable in war, flamed
in the Pyre the same god that had armed, the same consumed him.
;

Now he is a few ashes and of Achilles, a man so great, I know not what
;

remains what cannot well fill up a little urn but

;
yet his fame, which :

may all earth fill up, does live. This measure answers to the hero, and
in this alone Achilles is
equal to himself, nor feels an empty Tartarus.
His very shield, to shew who owned it, causes new wars, and arms are
bore for arms. Not Dionied, not Ajax son of Oileus, not the lesser son of
Atreus, not the greater both in war and age, not others, dare to claim
them the hope of so much glory moved Telamon and Laertes' sons
:

alone. Agamemnon the load and odivmi of decision from himself diverted,
and, ordering Grecian chiefs to sit amid the camp, on all transferred the
judgment of the case.
 METAMORPHOSEON', Lib. XIII. 439

LIBER TERTIUS DECIMUS.

I. /^ONSEDERE duces :
et, vulgi stante co- Duces
OUDO.
conseilere
\y rona, et
I.

conmii vulgi stante ;

Ajax, dominus septem-
;

Surgit ad has clypei dominus septemplicis Ajax. plicis clypei, siirgit ad

erat irapatiens irre, Sigeia torvo hos. Vtque erut im-
Utque patiens ir/r, respexit
Littora respexit, classeuique in littore vultu: 4 Sigeia littora, clas-
semquc iitlitture, tor-
Intendensque manus, Agimus, pro Jupiter! inquit vo vultu: intendensque
manus, inquit, Proh
Jupiter! agimus
TRANSLATION.
chiefs were set and a ring of vulgar standing round to these
I.
npHE
Jl
;

lord of the sevenfold shield and as he was

;

Ajax upstarts, :
impa-
tient in hiswrath, he with a stern look viewed the Sigean shores, and on
the shore the fleet and, stretching out his hands, he cries Do we, O
;
:

heavens plead here before these ships our cause and does Ulysses vie
!
;

NOTES.
The dispute between Ajax and Ulysses father exhorted him to depend upon the
about the armour of Achilles, with which gods for victory, replied, the most arrant
this book is introduced, is undoubtedly the cowards may be victorious with such as-
master-piece of our poet. In the speech sistance, but that, for his pait, he was
of Ajax, we see the blunt freedom of a sure of victory without it. After his dis-
plain soldier, forward, impetuous, and pute with Ulysses, the preference given
i'nll of fire in that of Ulysses, a sweet
;
to his competitor turned him delirious.
flowing eloquence, artificial and insinu- He fell upon some flocks, thinking to have
ating. But, what is yet more material, slain his enemies atid, finding his mis-
;

the poet here decides a question of the take, killed himself in the angsiish of his
greatest importance whether wisdom or
; soul, in the last year of the siege of Troy.
valour ought to carry the prize. Cicero But in this, as in every other article, we
has discussed this point with all tlie force find great diversity of opinions among the
and delicacy of a great orator but, in : ancients. For Suidas, after Dictys, says,
my opinion, Ovid is inimitable on this these two heroes disputed not for the arms
head, particularly for his ingenious man- of Achilles, but for the palladium. These
ner of deciding the dispute. The poet authors add, that Agamemnon having ad-
has perfectly described his two heroes, judged it to Ulysses, Ajax vowed revenge ;

and given us their real characters. But I and that Agamemnon, in concert with the
shall wave tliese refiections, to come to other captains, who were afraid of him,
the fable itself, which makes the subject assassinated him in his tent ;
that Ulysses,
of these two speeches after first ob-
;
who was suspected of being the author,
serving, that, to enter into all their beau- was obliged to set out incognito, and the
ties, we must be perfectly acquainted army retained a high resentment against
with what Homer says of these two Agamemnon. Ajax, says Ovid, was trans-
princes. formed into a flower after his death. The
It is generally known, that there were two first letters of his name, as also the
at the siege of Troy two who bore the complaints of Hyacintlius, ai were marked
name of Ajax ; the one, the son of Oileus, upon this flower. This fable has seemingly
king of the Locrians ; the other, the son no other fouudatiou but the flattery of a
of 'I'elamon, and grandson of /Eacus ; wit, who invented this circumstance in
which last is the Ajax here concerned. the funeral oration on that hero. For fur-
He was the most valiant of the Greeks ther satisfaction, the reader may consult
next to Achilles, and, like him, stern, the note upon Hyariuthus in a former
brutal, and outrageous. Sophocles repre- book.
sents him as an atheist, when his who,
 440 P. OVIDII NASONIS

ml^ZTonfiHutXtl
Ante rates causam, et mecum confertur Ulysses !

cum! Atrwnriubitavit At noii Hectoieis dubitavit cedere flammis:

cedcre Hccloreis fam- ^-.
. .
i a \ i n
mis:, quas ego susfinui; (^uas cgo sustinui quas liac E classe lugavi.
;

ThZcf''^'!t'igHvr'fu.
Tutius est fictis igitur contendere verbis,

vcmsrgfam%SJre Quam pugnare manu. Sed nee mihi dicere promp-

maim. A'cit nee est tum 10
;

necistifacereVqimn. Nec facerc cst isti, quantumque ego Marte feroci,

mrrVe''qfZfZ^'acie, Quantum acie valeo, tantum valet iste loquendo.
tantiim iste
Nee rear
valet lo- Nec memoranda tamen vobis mea facta, Pelasgi,
quenrlo. ta
men Pclofgi, men facta Esse reor: vidistis enim. Sua narret Ulysses; 14
esse mewortinda vobis ;
enim vidistis. Uli/sscs Quae sine teste gerit, quorum nox conscia sola est.
narret sua, qiite gerit
sine este, qunrnin nox
Pra^mia magna peti fateor sed demit honorem :

sola esteonscia.Futeur ^mulus Ajaci. Non est tenuisse superbum,

magna pririnia peti,
sed a-mnlus Ajaci de- Sic licet hoc ingens, quicquid speravit Ulysses.
mit honorem. Licet
hoc sit ingens, non est Iste tulit pretium
jam nunc certaminis hujus ;
stiperbum tenuisse,
quicquid Ulysses spe-
Quo cum victus erit, mecum certasse feretur 20
ravit.
tulit
Iste' jam nunc
pretium hujus
Atque ego, si virtus in me dubitabilis esset,
certaminis, quo cvm Nobilitate potens essem, Telamone creatus :

erit victus,feretur cer-

tdsse mecum.
Moenia qui
Trojana sub Hercule cepit
forti :
Atque
si virtus esset dubita-
bilis in me, ego essem Littoraque intravit Pegassea Colcha carina.
potens nobilitate, ere- iEacus huic pater est: qui jura silentibus illic 25
fit Trojana mania siti, Reddit, ubi ^oliden saxum grave Sisyphon urget,
-^^^on aguoscit summus, prolemque fatetur
^vitquf%oicha %fora
Pcgasaa carina. jEu- cssc suaui. Sic ab Jove tertius Ajax.
cus est pater huic, qui Jupiter
reddit jura silentibus Nee tamen haec series in causa
prosit, Achivi;
illic, ubi grave saxum
Si mihi cum masfno
_ non est communis Achille 30
urget Sisyphon ^oli-
de7i. Summus Jupiter
Fratcr crat fraterna peto.
r ^
Quid
: sanouine
o cretus
agnoscit Macnn, fnte-
turque esse prolem suam : sic Ajax est tertius ah Jove. Nee tamen, Achivi, ha series prosit in
causd, si non est communis mihi cum i.iagno Achille. Eratfratcr: peto fraterna. Quid homo
TRANSLATION,
with me But yet he scrupled not to yield to Hector's flames, which I
!

sustained, and Irom this fleet repelled. It is safer, then, to vie in artful
words than deeds of arms hut neither is my talent speaking, nor his to
:

act and how much I in the fierce war can do, and in the field, so much
;

can he in speaking. Neither, Pelasgians, do I think my feats need he to

you related you were eye-witnesses to them let Ulysses his recount,
; ;

which without witness he performed of which the night alone was con- ;

scious. I own the prize demanded to be but Ajax's rival takes

great ;

from the honour of it. It is no wise brave to have gained, though vast,
the prize whatever Ulysses might have hoped for he has already got
; :

all the reward he might expect from this contention, in which, when
overcome, he shall be said with me to have contended. And I, were in
the least my prowess to be questioned, woidd sure by birth prevail, beiug
son of Telamou, who under valiant Hercules took Troy walls, and in Pe-
gasa?an ship entered the Colchic shores his father, iEacus, who to the :

silent there gives laws,where a huge rock incessant urgeth Sisyphus, the
son of ^olus Jupiter supreme owns .fl^acus, and him confesses for his
:

offspring thus Ajax stands the third from Jupiter.

;
Nor yet let this de-
scent avail me in the cause, ye €> reeks, if common not to me vvith great
Achilles. He was my cousin I only ask what was my cousin's. To what
:
 jVIETAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIII. 441

cretus Sisiiphio san-

Sisyphio, furtisque, et fraude simillimus illi, guine, .shnillimusque
Inserit ^acidis alienaj nomina gentis ? illi fur t Is et
fraiide,
An quod in arma prior, nulloque sub indice veni, gentis
inserit 7ioriiiia aUen<E
jEacidis ? An ar-
Arma neganda mini ? potiorque videbitur ille 35 ma inal negantia mihi,
quod venl prior in ar-
Ultima qui cepit detrectavitque furore
; ma, subque nullo iii-
dice.'iileque videbitur
Militiam ficto ; donee sollertior isto, potior, qui crpit ulti-
Sed sibi ma arma, detrcctavit-
inutiiior timidi commenta retexit que militiam ficto fu-
rore ; donee A'aupli-
Naupliiades animi, vitataque traxit in arma ? ades, sollt rlior ist<i,.<icd
Opttima nunc sumat, qui suraere noluit ulla. 40 inutiiior .sibi, retail
commenta timidi ani-
Nos inhonorati, et donis patruelibus orbi, mi,traai'que in litata
Obtulimus qui nos ad prima pericula, siraus. arma? siimat nunc op-
tima,qtii noiiiit sumere
uUti. Nus, qui obtuli-
Atque utinara aut verus furor ille, aut creditus, es tnus nos ad prima pe-
set; ricula, .simux i/ifiono-
Nee comes hie Phrygias unquam venisset ad arces
rniv//,,r''!iS«^i'/i:
Hortator scelerum! non te,' Poeantia proles, m^ furor esset
•J-, y .
r /
45 .
"T verus,
'*"' aut credt-
JbiXpositum Leranos nostro cum cnmme naberet. ^"•^. nee hortator sce-

Qui nunc (ut memorant) silvestribus abditus antris sZTomlT/dcadpTry.

Saxa moves gemitu Laertiadaque precaris, gias arces. Non Lem-
:
Poeantia proles, 710.1,

Qu8e meruit: quae Di, Di dent non vana preceris. haberet te expositum
cum nostro crimine :
Et nunc ille eadem nobis juratus in arma, 50 qui nunCyUt memora^it,
abditus silvestribus
(Heu !) pars una ducum, quo suecessore sagittse, antris. moves saxa ge-
Herculis utuntur, fractus morboque fameque, mitu, precarisque La-
ilrtiada; qua ?ncruit :

quccprecerisnon rana,
Velaturque, aliturque avibus; volucresq; petendo dent Dii, Dii. Et tumc
Debita Trojanis exercet spicula fatis. ille juratus nobis in
eadcm arma, (heu
Ille tamen vivit,
quia non comitavit Ulyssen 55 una pars ducuni, quo .'J
:

Mallet et infelix Palamedes esse relictus sagUta: Hcrculis utun-

:
ttir suecessore,
frac-
Viveret ; aut certe letum sine crimine haberet. tusmorboqiiefameque,
vclaturquc, aliturgue
avibus, exercetque spicula debita Trojanis fatis petendo rolucres. Tamen illoyivit, quia non
comitavit Vlysseii, Infelix Palamedes et mallet esse reliclus; vivcrct, at cert e haberet let um
sine crimine.
TRANSLATION.
end then does he, that sprung from Sisyphian blood, and iikest him in
thefts and fraud, graft names of foreign race on the ^acidai ? Am I, be-
cause first come in arms, and under no informer, to be denied these
arms ? And shall one preferable seem, who arms took last, and by pre-
tended madness the war declined till Palamedes, Nauplius' son, more
;

shrewd than he, but more unhappy for himself, disclosed the deep devices
of his dastard soid, and dragged him forth to arras avoided ? No let him .

take the best, Mho would have taken none. Let us unhonoured be, and
stripped of our cousin's gifts who, unreserved, on the first dangers offered
:

ourselves for you. And I could wish his madness were, or true, or so be-
lieved nor had this counsellor of ills then ever us accompanied to the
:

Phrygian towers. Nor, sonof Poean, had Lemnos thee, through our great
guilt exposed, ever possessed who now, as said, in silvan caves con-
;

cealed, movest rocks with groans, and wishest Laertes' son what he de-
served which, grant the gods, the gods thou mayest not wish in vain
; ! !

Now he, alas! one of our chiefs, sworn arms with us,
to the self-same
whom successor Herculean arrows claim, broken and by disease and fa-
mine, is clothed and fed by birds and in shooting these employs the
;

shafts due to the Trojan fates yet still he lives, because not in Ulysses*
:

company. x\nd the unhappy Palamedes, too, might wish he had been left
442 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Qvemiste,nimiumme- Quem mal^ convictl nimium memor iste furoris

mor male convictt Ju- ^ , r
Frodere rem Uanaam iinxit:
n -w-^ i . i •,
riyris, prodere
finxit
rem Danaam, proba- ~
ncturaque probavit
vitque Jictum crimen;
p„™p„ Et ostendit, quod jam prsefoderat aurum.
et oslendit aurum
quod jam prafoderat. Ergo aut exilio vires subduxit Achivis, 61
JEreo subduxit viief Aut Sic pugnat, sic est metuendus Ulysses.
nece.
Achivis, tait exilio, aut
nece ; sic Ulysses pug- Qui, eloquio fidum quoque Nestora vincat ;
licet
nat, sic e^t metuen-
dus. Qui licet eloquio Haud tamen efficiet, desertmn ut Nestora crimen
vincat quoque fidum Esse rear nullum. Qui, cum imploraret Ulyssen
Nestora, tamen haud
efiiciet ut tear Nes- Vulnere tardus equi, fessusque senilibus annis, 66
tora desert um es.'.c

nullum crimen. Qui Proditus a socio est. Non hsec mihi crimina fingi
cum tardus vuliicre Scit bene nomine ssepe vocatum
equi, fessusque senili- Tydides
. qui
_
_
:
.

bus annis, imploraret

Compuit
.^
:
trepidoquc lugam exprobavit amico.
Ulyssen, est proditus . ,• o .
^•
•
j.-
a socio. Tydides bene
AspiClUUt OCUllS bupcri mortaiia JUStlS. 70 j.

.S^'^^ri^co"r^ En eget auxilio, qui non tulit: utque reliquit,

euiii vocatum
puit
S(rpe nomine, eiproba-
Sic linquendus erat. Legem sibi dixerat ipse.
vitque fiigam trepido Conclamat socios. Adsum, videoque trementem,
amtco. Superi aspi-
ciunt mortaiia oculis Pallentemque metu,et trepidantem morte futura.

Opposui molem clypei; texique jacentem;

Ell. ipse
justis. eget 75
auxilio, qui fion tulit ;
uti/ue rdiquit : sic
erat linqucndui. Ipse Servavique animam (minimum est hoc laudis) in-
di.rerat legem sibi. ertem.
Ooiiclainal socios. Ail-
sum; videoque tremen locum redeamus in ilium
Si perstas certare, :

tan, pallentemque me- Reddc hostem, vulnusQuc tuum, solituniQue timo-

t. ' t. '
t7i, et trcjiidaiitemju-
turil morte. Opposui rem.
jaceu%nf^T'''rvTi^ique
'
Post clypeumquc late : et mecum contende sub illo.

nimmZaudih.''siper.
^^ postquaui cripui ;
cui standi vulnera vires 80
stascerturc,redeamus on dederant, nullo tardatus vulnere fugit.
in ilium locum redde
hostem, tuumque vui-
:
]Sl
tt. i, t^
Hector adest secumque Deos in przelia ducit
: ;
•
ti-x
nus, solilumqiie timo-
rem; latcque post clypeum, ct contende mecum sub illo. At postquam eripui cum ille, cui vul-
nera noH dederant veres standi, fugit tardatus nullo vulnire. Hector adest : ducitque Deos
sccum in prielia;
TRANSLATION.
behind he then had been still living, or, at least, obtained a guiltless
;

death. Whom he, too mindful of his ill-discovered madness, feigned to

betray the Grecian interest, and proved his feigned charge and shews ;

the gold himself had hidden in his tent before therefore, or by bariish- :

ment or death, he has drained the Greeks of their best strength. Thus
fights Ulysses, thus to be dreaded is he who, though in eloquence ex- :

celling faithful Nestor too, yet never will he make me think that the
for-

saking Nestor was no crime who, slow through his steed's wound, and
;

spent with age, imploring Ulysses, his companion's aid, was by him
base
betrayed. The son of Tydeus knows well this charge to be no fiction ;

who chid him, often called by name, and did reproach flight to his trem-
of men.
bling friend. The gods above do with just eyes survey the affairs
Lo he, who did not bring, wants aid himself; and, as he left, so was he
!

doomed to be left such law he had made for himself. He calls out his
:

companions. I come I see him trembling, and pale with fear,

;
and shud-
dering at the future death and I, my shield's biiRi opposiug, screened
;

him as he lay, and saved (and here the least is of my praise) that dastard
soul. Persistest thou to vie ? Let us again to the same spot return : re-
store the foe, thy wound and wonted fear, and sculk behind my shield,
and there contend with me. But after him I snatched, whom then his
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIII. 443

ruit, non tu
Quaque ruit, non tu tantilm terreris, Ulysse
quAque
; tantum terreris, Ulys-
Sed fortes etiam tantum trahit ille timoris.
: se, sect ctiam Jnrle^ :
ille traliit tantum ti-
Hunc ego sanguinese successu caedis ovantem 85 moris. Ego cominus
fundi huiic i-esupiniim
Cominus ingenti resupinum pondere fudi. ingenti pondere, ovan-
Hunc ego poscentem, cum quo concurreret, unus tem succe.isu sangtii-
ne<E cadis. Ego mms
Sustinui sorteraque meam vovistis, Achivi:
: sustinui Uiinc posceiu
tern cum quo conctir-
Et vestrse valuere preces. Si quseritis hujus reret : votque, Acliivi
vovistin mcam sortem,
Fortunam pugnee ; non sum superatus ab illo. 90 et le.stra: preces vtt-
Ecce ferunt Troes ferrumque, ionemque, J ovemque, lucre, si quaruisfor
-r T-^ 1
In Danaas classes. Ubi nunc facundus Ulysses?
xTi-n ir-n
non sum .superatus alt
r% tunam livjus piigna,

illo. Ecce. Troes fe-

Nempe ego mille meo protexi pectore puppes, runt ferrumque ig-
Joiemque, in
Spem vestri reditus. Date tot pro navibus arma. Danaas classes.
tte.mque,
Vbifa-
Quod si vera licet mihi dicere qua?ritur istis, 95 cundiis Viy.sses
;
nunc?
Nempe ego prute.ii
Quam mihi, major honos conjunctaque gloria nos- meo :
pectore, millc

tra est. puppes, spcm vestri

reditAs. Date arma
Atque Ajax armis non Ajaci arma petuntur. pro tot nuvibus. Quod
si licet mild dicere ve-
Conferat his Ithacus Rhesum, imbellemq Dolona, ra, major hoitos quee- ;
ritur i.stis qtium mihi;
Priamidenque Helenum rapta cum Pallade captum. nostraque gloria est
Luce nihil o-estum,
o nihil est Diomede remoto': 100 coujuncta:atqueAjax
non ar-
' T)6titur armts f

Si semel ista datis mentis tarn vnibus arma ma petuntur Ajaci. ;

Conferat Itliacus his
Dividite : et major pars fit Diomedis in illis. Bhesum, imhellemque
Dolona, Helenumque
Quo tamen hsec Ithaco ?
qui clam, qui semper in- Priamiden, cuptum
ermis cum rapid Pallude.
Nihil est gestum luce,
Rem gerit ;
et furtis incautum decipit hostem ? nihil Diomede remote.
Si semel datis ista ar-
ab auro 105 ma
Ipse nitor galeae claro radiantis tarn vilil/us meri-
dividite : et pars
Insidias prodet, manifestabitque latentem. ti.i,
Diomedis Jit major in
Sed neque Dulichius sub AchiUis casside vertex illis. Quo tamen hac
Ithaca? qui clam, qui
Ip-^e nitor galea-, ruriiauiis
incavtum hostem furtis «f>
inermis semper gerit rem ; et decipit ?

claro auro, prodct Insidias, manifestabitque latentem. Sed neque Dulichius vertex sub casside
AchilUs,
TRANSLATION.
wounds gave no strength to stand retarded by no wound he flies. Hector
;

comes on, and brings the gods along to fight and Avhere he rushes on, ;

not thou, Ulysses, only art afraid, but even the brave such terror does :

he bring. Him, flushed with the success of bloody slaughter, I in close

fight laid flat with a huge
load of rock. And only I stood him, demand-
ing whom to fight and, Greeks, ye vowed my lot, and even your vow
;

if you inquire the issue of this fight, I was not worsted by

prevailed :

him. But, lo the Trojans bring, and fire, and sword, and Jove, against
!

the Grecian fleet. Where.now is eloquent Ulysses ? I then covered with

my breast a thousand ships, the hopes of your return grant for so many :

ships the arms at least. And, if 1 may speak the truth, the greater ho-
nour far is sought for them than me, and both our glory is conjoined ;
and Ajax sought for the arms, and not the arms for Ajax. With these
let Ithacus his Rhesus and his feeble Dolon, and Helenas, the
compare
son of Priam, made captive, with the ravished Pallas. Nothing was done
by day, nothing when Dioraed was wanting if once these arms you give :

to such mean services, divide them, and let Diomed's be the larger share.
Yet why for Ithacus these arms ? Who, underhand, who ever acts un-
armed, and does deceive the unwary foe by stealth ? The very splendour
of the helmet, radiant with flashing gold, will all his schemes betray, and
 444 P. OVIDII NASONIS

ferat tanta pondera; Pondera tanta ferat: nee non onerosa gravisque
ncc felias hasta po-
test esse non onerosa Peiias esse potest imbellibus hasta lacertis.
graiisque imbellibus
lacertis: nee clypeus, Nee clypeus vasti coelatus imagine mundi 110
calatus imagine vasti
mundi, conveniet sinis-
Conveniet timidse, natceque ad furta sinistra^.
tra timidec, nataque Debilitaturuni quid te petis, improbe, niunus?
ad furtu. Improbe,
quid petis munus dc-
bilitutiirum te? quod
Quod tibi si populi donaverit error Achivi ;

si error popnli Achivi Cur spolieris, erit; non, cur metuaris ab hoste.
donaverit tibi, erit cur
Et fuga (qua sola cunctos, timidissime, vincis) 115
spolieris, non cur me-
tuaris ah hoste. Et Tarda futura tibi est gestamina tanta trahenti.
fiiga (qua iolCl, timi- aii vi-i^ v x t
dhsime, rincix cunc- Adde, quod iste tuus, tani raro prselia passus,
mi ?/i:«r 'Zal Integer est clypeus. Nostro, qui tela ferendo
gcstamma. Adde quod Mille patet plao;is, novus est successor habendus.
tstetuws cli/peiis, tarn -r\ i
•
i o •

rard passus pra-iia,

JJenique, quiQ verbis opus est spectemur agendo. ;

slccesso%l't'habe"d}tl Arma viri fortis medios niittantur in hostes. 121

I^de jubete peti: et referentem ornate relatis.
pZZs'%endo "tela.
Denique, quid opus Finierat Telamone satus vulgique secutum ;
est verbis? spectemur
agendo. Arma fortis Ultima murmur erat donee Laertius heros :

viri mittantur i}t me-

dios hostes: jubete en Adstitit: atque oculos paulum tellure moratos 125
peti inde ; et ornate Sustulit ad proceres
refereutem, relcitis. exspectatoque resolvit;

Sat us Te lam one fi.- Ora sono: neque abest facundis gratia dictis.
nierat ; inurmurqve
vitlgi erat seciitum ul-
Si mea cum vestris valuissent vota, Pelasgi,
tima verba donee La-
:

ertius heros adstitit ;

Non foret ambiguus tanti certaminis hseres :
atque sustulit oculos
Tuque tuis armis, nos
te potiremur, Achille. 130
moratos patilum tel-
lure, ad proceres,
ora expec-
re- Quem quoniam non aequamihi, vobisque negarunt
solvitqiie
tato sono; neque gra- Fata (manuque simul veluti lachrymantia tersit
tia abest fecundis dic-
tis. Lumina) quis magno meliijs succedat Achilli ;
Simea vota,Pelasgi,
cum ve<itrisvuluissent,
Quam per quem magnus
i. o i
Dana'is successit Achilles ?
hares tanti certaminis non foret ambiguus, tuque, Achille, potirere t7iis armis, nos potiremur te.
Quem qtioniam fata non aqua iirgarunt mihi vobisque ( simulque tersit lumina veluti lachry-
mantia manuj quis melius succedat tnagno Achilli, quam ille per quem magnus Achilles suc-
cessit Dana'is?
TRANSLATION.
latent him disclose. But neither
will Dulichian head be able, under
Achilles' helmet, to bear so great a weight nor also can the Pelian ;

spear but burdensome and heavy to be for arms so weak nor will the ;

shield, embossed with the extensive image of the world, beseem a dastard
hand, and born to stealth. Why, caitiff, then beggest thou a gift, that
would but weaken thee ? which should the error of the Greeks on thee
bestow, there will be cause m hy thou mayest spoiled be, not by the enemy
feared and flight (in which alone thou, chief of dastards, doest all men
:

excel), would to thee be slow, dragging so great a load. Add, that thy
shield, so rarely battles tried, is quite entire whereas to ours, which in :

a thousand places gapes, by bearing shafts, a new successor must be had.

In fine, what need of words let us in actions tried be let the brave
: :

hero's arms amid the foe be thrown thence order to be fetched, audAvith ;

them, won, adorn the winner. The son of Telamou had ended and a ;

murmur of the multitude his last words ensued. Till the Lacrtian hero
did up-stand, and then his eyes, some little time fixed on the ground, raise
to the chiefs,
opened his mouth in sounds expected nor grace is wanting ;

to his eloquence. Did, Greeks, my vows with ^onrs prevail, the heir to
such a prize would not be doubtful and thou tliy arms, Achilles, and we
;

thee, enjoyed. Whom since the imequal fates denied to you and me (he
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIII. 445

Huic modo ne prosit,

^ 'i.'
quod, ut est,/ hebes esse vi- ^'°'^'^"* prosit huic,
lor 5*""^ videtur esse he-
d,
etur ^
;
] 3o ^f-*'. wt est,- neve no-
Neve mihi noceat, quod vobis semper, Achivi,
'n^n1^^"'fr^
Profuit ingenium meaque hsec facundia, si qua est, T''" /^'''';*. '»«?2«'«
:
•

uag nunc pro domino, pro vobis saepe locuta est, ?««. ?"« «""c loguu
I„"T'^ ii. ,1 nr\ t'ur pro dnmitio, save
nvidia careat bona nee sua quisque recuset. 139 est locuta
:
•

pro vobis.
Nam genus, et proavos, et qua non fecimus ipsi, '^^Sce "recl^Jt Zl
\ ix ea nostro voco. Sed enim, quia rettulit Aiax '""*'*• ^'"" ^"^o

ET
*""^'
^ '
•
^
.et et . .
''
genus, proavos,
sse J
ovispronepos,nostriquoque sanguinis auctor ea qita ipsi non fed-
Jupiter est, totidemque gradus distamus ab illo. "^nialfaT^MMttsse
Nam mihi
,. .. Laertes pater est, Arcesius illi, I^'iT* "^"^'"

Jupiter huic: neque in his quisquam

,'
damnatus
i.,.'.
fcr wr auctor
"^"Z'"'
quoque
nostri sanguinis; dis-

eXSUl.
i'- ^
et '-

145 dusabillo. Nam La-

-I A r- tomusqiie totiiiem gra-

Est quoque per matrem Cyllenius, addita nobis llZsi^ S^^^J^^

Altera nobihtas. Deus est in utroque parente. ^'""'•' ''^^'"^ ^^' 5mw-

c, J \ quam damnatus et ex-

1
•
'-
.
*-

feed neque materno sim «'^ «« his. ci/iiemm

quod generosior ortu,
Nee mihi quod pater est fraterni sanguinis insons, tas,^^si "addrn'^noti's
Proposita arma peto meritis expendite causam. :
^nutroqne ?armil
Dummodo quod *
fratres Telamon, Peleasque fue- ^'^ ««^e"e peto pro-
,
1 c 1
Posita arma, quod sum
runt, 151 generosior materno or-
Ajacis meritum non sit nee sanguinis ordo, :
patl7i?Ztfra"erni
Sed virtulis honos spoliis quseratur
>
in istis. sanguinis:
causam mentis ; dum-
expendite
. . . . r. . .

Aut proximitas, pnmusque requiritur hseres ;

SI '""do jwn sit meritum

Est genitor Peleus, est Pyrrhus fihus ilh. 155 ^l^t'/r' fil^u
Quis locus Ajaci Phthian Scyronve /erantur,
!
{S^r/ ZtVZ-
Nee minus Teucer patruehs Achilli.
est isto tutisquaraturinistis
Num petit ille tamen! num sperat, ut auferat arma? imitas, ppmusqwiiff-
Ergo operum quoniam nudum certamen habetur; 7st ^genZ^'^Pyrrhll
est Jilius illi. Quis loans est Ajaci? Jerantur Phthian Scyronve. Nee est Teucer minus isto
pa-
truelis Achilli. Num ille tamen petit num sperat tit auferat arma ? ergo quoniam nudum cer-
tamen operum habetur :
TRANSLATION.
instant with his hand who better can succeed
his eyes, as crying,
wiped),
the brave Achilles, than he by whom the brave Achilles
joined the
Greeks ? Him only let not avail, that, as he is, he stupid seems to be nor :

me prejudge, that, Greeks, my talents ever you availed and let this elo- ;

quence of mine, if any, which now pleads for its lord, and often has for
you, stand clear of envy and let none dare to disown his talents.
;
For
descent and ancestors, and what we have not done ourselves, I scarce call
these our own but since Ajax boasts that he the
:
great grandson is of
Jupiter Jove too is founder of our blood, and by so many steps we are
;

distant from him. For Laertes is my father Arcesius his Jupiter his ; ; ;

nor any of them ever was condemned or banished. By the mother too,
Cyllenian Mercury, another ornament is added to our race. god is in A
each parent. But neither that I am more noble by my mother's side, nor
that my sire is
guiltless of fraternal blood, do I the arms in question
claim. By merits
weigh the cause so it not Ajax's merit be, that Tela- :

mon and Peleus brothers were ; nor rank of blood, but virtue's honour be
regarded in these spoils. Or, if proximity and the next heir be sought,
his father Peleus is,
Pyrrhus is his son. What room for Ajax then ? Let
them to Phthia and Scyros be conveyed. Nor is Teucer less related to
Achilles yet, does he claim ? does he expect
:
to bear away the arms ?
446 P. OVIDU NASONIS
guidem feci piura
qitumquasitinpromp-
tu mm comprendere
t-

In proinptu mini Sit.

'.11
pjura quidem feci, quum quse comprenderer
Kcrum tamen ordine ducar,
dictis

dictis: tameii ducar t> l "i tvt

• •
i /^r» t i.-
ordine rerum. Geni- Prescia ventiu'i genitrix JNereia leti 152
ventunTeu, dL7mu.
Dissimulat cultu natum. Deceperat omnes,
iatnatum cultu. Ful- [^ quibus Aiacem, sumptse fallacia vestis.
lacia sumpta vestis ^
,„'>.'. .^ ... - _-.

deceperat omnes, in Amia cgo icemineis animum motura virilem loo

SrLf'^iirLfJrTi Mercibus insevui. Neque adhuc projecerat heros

ma, motura animum

virilem; neque heros jNate Dea, dixi
&..'. ,.i.
mercibusfoemineis ar- Virffineoshabitus, cumparmam.hastamqueteiienti,
'

tiDi se peritura reservant

;
i '

ginZs ^haiftZf cmn Pcrgaiiia. Quid dubitasingeiitem evertere Trojam?

1!:^lflJa1nlue'jNa'te Injccique
manum ; fortemque ad fortia misi. 170
Dea, Pergamaperitu- Ero-Q Opera illius mea sunt. Eo;o Telephon hasta
ra reservant se tibi ."T-ki j --i i c •

quid dubitas erertcre Fugnantciii Qomui ;victum, orantemquc reieci.

iiigentem
Q"«d Xhebse ceddSre, meum est. Me credite
'.

m
jSrJ;;'r:''J^-
'jecique
que fort em adfortia,
Ergo opera illius sunt Lesbon,
mci. Ego doviui Te- Me
Tenedon, Chrysenque, et Cyllan Apollinis urbes,
lethon yugnantem lias-
tii, et ref'eci victum,
Et Scyron cepisse. Me^ concussa putate 175
oraittenique. Est 7?ie-
um quod Theba ceci- Procubuisse solo Lyrnessia mcenia dextra.
dere: credite me ce- alias taceam qui stevum perdere posset
pisse Lesbon, me Teue Utque ;

don, chrysenque, et
Hectora, nempecleai per mejacetmclytus Hector.
:

^Isl'et scyron. Putate

lUis hsec amiis, quibus est inventus x4chilles
Lyrnessia mcenia concussa meii de.rtrd, procuMnsse solo. Utque taceam alias ; nrmpe dedi, qui
posset perdere savum Hectora: inclytus Hector jacet per me. Peto hac arma. Hits armis, qui-
bus Achilles est inventus,
TRANSLATION.
Since then the pure dispute is merit, I have, indeed, achieved more than
I can easily in words comprise yet by the series of the actions shall be
;

led. Thetis, the Nere'ian mother, prescient of coming death, her son dis-

guises. The assumed dress fallacy had all deceived, Ajax among the rest.
I with women's toys mixed arms to move his manly soul nor had the :

hero yet thrown off his virgin dress, when, goddess-born, I said, as he
the shield and spear did hold, Troy reserves itself to fall by thee why, :

then, delayest thou to overcome the mighty Troy ? I hands laid on him,
and to brave deeds sent forth the brave his feats are, therefore, mine. I
:

vanquished Telephus, fighting with the spear, Aanquished, and begging

life, recovered him that Thebes did fall, is mine. Be too persuaded, that
:

I took Lesbos, Tenedos, and Scyros, and Chryse, and Cylla, towns of

Apollo, Think, too, that the Lyrnessian walls fell to the ground, shaken
by my right hand and, not to mention other things I gave, who should the
:

cruel Hector slay? By me the illustrious Hector lies. By those arms, by

Avhich Achilles was found out, these arms I ask living, I gave them him, :

and, dead, demand them. After the grief of one had reached all our
NOTES.
162. Prescia venturi genitrix Nereia, sought for with care. And, as a report
&c.] Thetis being apprized by an oracle prevailed that he was at the court of Ly-
that the war of Troy should prove fatal to comedes, Ulysses had the good luck to
her son, sent him privately to Lycomedes, discover him, by means of the stratagem
her brother, who reigned in the isle of here mentioned. This story, however,
Scyros ; where, for his better conceal- seems to be of later invention, it not
ment, they disguised liim in women's ap- being known to Homer, who gives a dif-
parel. Mean time, as it had been fore- ferent account of the manner of Achilles
told that Troy could not be taken, unless being brought to the siege of Troy.
Achilles was present at the siege, he was
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIII. 447

Dederam vit)o, reposco

Arma Vivo dederam, post fata reposco. 180
peto. post fata. Ut dolor
Ut Danaos pervenit ad omnes;
dolor unius unius pervenit ad om-
nes Danaos ; milleque
Aulidaque Euboicam complerunt mille carinse ; carintB compltrunt
Eubo'icam Aulida,Jla-
Exspectata diu, nulla, aut contraria classi, mina diu expectata,
aut sunt nulla, aut
Flaminasunt: dureequejubent Agamemnona sortes contraria classi; du-
Immeritam sgevse natam mactare Dianse. 185 raque sortes jubent
Agamemnona mactare
Denegat hoc genitor divisqiie irascitur ipsis
: :
itnmeritam natam ste-
va Diana:. Genitor de-
Atque in rege tamen pater est. Ego mite parentis negat hoc, irascitur-
Ingenium verbis ad publica commoda verti. que ipsis aivis; atque
pater est tamen in
Nunc equidem fateor, fassoque ignoscat Atrides; rege. Ego meis verbis
verti mite ingenium
Difficilem tenui sub iniquo judice causam. 190 parentis ad publica
cmnmoda. Nunc equi-
Hunc tamen utilitas populi, fraterque, datique dem fateor, ignoscat-
Summa movet sceptri ; laudem ut cum sanguine que Atrides fasso, te- nui liijjficilem causam
sub iniquo judice. Ta-
penset. men utilitas populi,
Mittor et ad matrem :
quse non hortanda, sed astu fratrisqne, summaque
dati movet
Decipienda fuit. Quo si Telamonius isset, sceptri
hunc, ut penset lau-
Orba suis essent etiamnum lintea ventis. 195 dem cum sanguine.
Mittor at ad matrem,
Mittor et Iliacas audax orator ad arces :
qnce nnn fuit hortan-
da, sed decipienda as-
Visaque et intrata est altse mihi curia Trojae, tu; quo si Telam(mius
Plenaque adhuc erat ilia viris. Interritus egi, isset, lintea essent eti-
amnum orba suis ven-
Quam mihi mandarat communis Grsecia, causam : tis. Mittor et audax
orator ad Iliacas ar-
Accusoq; Parin, praedamq; Helenamque reposco ; ces; curiaque alta
Trojte est visa et in-
Et moveo Priamum,Priamoque Antenora junctum :
trata mihi ; illaque
At Paris, et fratres, et qui rapuere sub illo, 202 erat adhuc plena vi-
ris : egi interritus cau-
Vix tenuere manus (scis hoc, Menelae) nefandas ; sam, quam, communis
Gracia mandarat mi-
Primaque lux nostri tecum fuit ilia pericli. hi; accusoque Parin,

O referre mora est, quae manuque

Lono-a consilioque reposcoqtie pr,rdam,
T^ 1 J-
et moveo
Helenamque
Priamum, Antenoraque junctum Priamo at Paris, et fratres, et qui sub illo rapuere Helenam
:

vix tenuere nefandas manus ; (scis hoc, Menelae), illaquefuit prima lux nostri periculi tecum.
Mora est longa referre qua feci utiliter consilioque manuque
TRANSLATION.
Greeks, and now a thousand ships had filled the Euboic Aulis, winds, long
expected, are either none or contrary and
the fell oracles bid Agamem-
;

non sacrifice his guiltless daughter to the fierce Diana. This the sire de-
nies, and raves against the gods themselves and in the king the father
;

is. I, to the public good, the gentle disposition of the father swayed by

my fair words I now make this confession, and let Atrides forgive me,
:

as I do. Before a partial judge a hard cause I gained yet the advantage :

of the people, and his brother, and the chief command conferred on him,
move him to balance praise with blood. I am also to the mother sent,
not to be gained, but soothed whither had Ajax gone, until now our
;

sails had been without their winds. I am also sent a dauntless orator to

Trojan towers I both saw and entered the senate-house of lofty Troy
: ;

and full Undauntedly I plead the cause, which Greece in

of heroes yet.
common had to me intrusted and Paris I accuse, demand the plunder
;

back, and Helen. Priam I move, and Antenor too joined to Priam but :

Paris and his brothers, and who under him had ravished, scarce held
their wicked hands (this, Menelaus, thou knovvest) and that the first day :

of our danger was with thee. It would be long to enumerate what by my

counsel and my valour I usefully performed during all the tedious war.
448 P. OVIDII NASONIS

tempore spatiosi belli. Utiliter feci spatiosi

tempore belli. 206
Post primas acies,
hastes continuere se Post acies primas, urbis se moenibus hostes
dill moenibus urbis, nee
fuit ulla copia aperti
Continuere cliu; nee aperti copia Martis
Mortis: ptignavimus
demritn dtcimo anno.
Ulla fuit. Decimo demum pugnavimus anno.
Quid facts interea, qui Quid facis interea, qui nil nisi prajlia nosti ? 210
ndsti nil nisi pr(clia T
quis erat tuiis usiisf Quis tuus usus erat nam si mea facta requiris,
;
nam si requiras mea fossas muuimiue cingo.
Hostibus iusidior,'-
facia, msidior hosti-
bus, ciTigo fossas mu-
.

Cousolor socios, ut lougi tsedia belli

.
tiit
ciZTit ffTant^^tcFdia Meutc feraut placidS,: doceo, quo simus alendi
m'efte: 'doclo, quo'^mt Armandiquc modo mittor, quo postulat usus.
:

do simus alendi, ar- Eccc Jovis mouitu deceptus imagine somni 216
mandique : mittor, quo
usus postulat. Ecce Rex jubet incoepti curam dimittere belli.
rex, deceptus imagine
somni, motiitu Jovis,
lUe potest auctore suam defendere causam.
jubet nos dimittere cu-
ram incepti belli, llle Non sinat hoc Ajax: delendaque Pergama poscat :

potest defendere suam QuodqUC pOteSt, pUgUCt.

i c CuF HOD lemoratur
'
causam auctore. Ajax v
ItUrOS 9
, c)(\r\
Z\J\}
non sinat hoc, poscat- I

que Pergama deienda, Q^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^p- ^ 7 ^^^^^

pugnetque, quod po- q^^^j ^^ga turba sequatur ?
test. (Jur noti remo-
ratur ituros? cur non
Non erat hoc nimiiim, nunquam nisi magna lo-
capit arma? datque

u^flZiulZrf X Cum Quid qu6d

quenti.
et ipse fugis? vidi, puduitque videre,
tu tcrga dares, inhonestaque vela parares.
Zlqual tquZi"^
si magna. Quid, quod Nee mora. Quid facitis, quae vos dementia, dixi,
et ipse fugis? yidi,
puduitque videre, cum Concitat, 6 socii, captam dimittere Trojam? 226
tu dares terga, para
resque vela ijihoncsta Quidve domum fertis decimo, nisi dedecus, anno?
Nee mora:
facitis ?
concitat vos,
dixi,

6
Quid
qua: dementia
socii,
Talibus atouc
.^
fecerat,
T^

avcrsos
paiii-
aliis, in qu8B dolor ipse disertum

proiuga de classe reduxi.

jam?*qnirivefortiIdo- Couvocat Atrides socios terrore paventes 230 :

mum decimo anno, nisi dedecus? talibus atque aliis verbis, in qua ipse dolor fecerat disertum,
reduxi aversos de profugA classe. Atrides convocat socios paventes terrore.
TRANSLATION.
After the encounters, the enemy kept long within the walls, nor was
first
there any opportunity of open fight at length we, in the tenth year,
:

fought. What doest thou the while, who nothing knowest but battles ?
What was thy service then ? For shouldest thou into my deeds inquire ;
I lie in ambush for the
enemy, I fortify the trenches I our allies cheer ;

with calmness, the fatigues of a long war to bear I shew how we may :

be supported, and how armed sent I am where nature requires. Lo ! by

;

Jove's advice, the king, deceived by dream, bids lay aside care of the
war begmi. His part he could defend by the author of it. Would Ajax
disallow and demand that Troy be razed and would he fight, the
it, ;

only thing he can. Why stops he not their flight ? why take not arms ?
and suggests not what the imsteady may pursue ? This had not
vulgar
been too much for one that never speaks, but big. What, that thou didst
fly? I saw, and ashamed I was to see, when thou didst give thy back,
and didst prepare dishonourable sails. Instant I said, Whai are you all
about ? What madness, friends, thus moves you to quit Troy, already
ours ? What do you carry home on the tenth year, but shame ? With
these and the like words, to w hich grief itself had made me eloquent, I
from the flying fleet reduced the Greeks averse. The son of Atreus calls
his friends
together, alarmed with terror nor still dares Ajax aught to
:
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIII. 449

nunc liiscere quicquam Nee Telamoniades eti-

Nec_ Telamoniades etiam
. i . . „^
am „,,„, ausit
nu?ic „„,,, liiscere
,,,,,,,,
Ausit At ausus erat reges incessere dictis qiucquam. At r/ier-
rrii •. .•
:

Inersites, etiara per me naucl impune, protervis.

11- \ , • sites, nana
sues, hand impune
impime eci-
eti-
a7n per me, ausus erat

Erigor: et trepidos cives exhortor in hostem: 'tTriZZiciil^^^&fgZ',

Amissamque mea virtu tern voce reposco,
'^ A
235 .'
*^'.
"'f'^,"'- trepidos
cives in hostem ; re-
rf, P
I t 1 .
, .

lempore ab hoc quodcunque potest lecisse videri poscvqac amissam vir-

Fortiter iste,meum est quem dantem terga retraxi. : hoc Tempore ^qmdcun-

Denique de Danais quis te laudatve, petitve ?

IJIlJf;^^^!^^-
At sua Tydides mecum communicat acta: um,guem retraxi dan-
Me probat; et socio semper confidit Ulysse, 240 gais de" jjanais lau-
Est aliquid, de tot Graiorum millibus, unum Tyduier^'commiLime
A
,, .
Diomede leoi.
& Nee me .
sors ire Jiubebat:
,
snu acta mecum, pro-
oat me, et semper con
oic tamen et spreto noctisque, hostisque periclo, M^ uiysse Est socio.
\
Ausum eadera, 1
^
-r>S •« 1 ,T\i
Uolona
me uniim
aliqiiid, Icfii

quae nos, Pnrygia de gente d oiomededetot muu-

Interimo: non ante tamen, quam cuncta coegi '!strs j^iZbat'me ir^-'et

--. .' et edidici,

Prodere, ^
Umma cognoram
quid perfida
'T^ r Troia pararet. 246
nee, quod specularer,
1111
habebam
tamen sic spretofen.
noctisque hostis-
*^"^*'

que, interimo uoUma

m- „ -A >•
jam praemissa poteram cum laude reverti.
:

, 11 :

de PhrygiA eente, aii-

sum eadem qua: \ws:
Haud contentus eR, petii tentoria Rhesi: To'egi"t\L''''proTeZ
Inque suis ipsum
^
eastris comitesque peremi. 250 cuncta, et edididqmd
» ,' . ,. .
.
*
,. ,. , per/ida Troja pararet.
ita
Atque eaptlVO victor VOtlSque potltUS Coinora?n omnia, nee

Ingredior curru Itetos imitante triumphos. ^arerfet pZramjTni,

secern
Cujus equos pretium pro nocte poposcerat hostis, cumj^r^missa
Arma negate mihi fueritque benignior Ajax. tus e'a, petu tentoria
:

Quid Lyeii referam Sarpedonis agmina ferro, 255 sumlonMetquTbt slSl

Devastata meo ? cum multo sanguine fudi
pofitu%ui%lt!!lng7e'.
dior captivo curru imitante latos triumphos. Negate mihi arma Iioniinis, cvjus equos hostis po-
poscerat pretium pro node: Ajaxque fuerit benignior. Quid referam agmina Sarpedonis Lycii
devastata meo ferro? Fudi cum multo sanguine
TRANSLATION.
speak. Yet Thersites dared with saucy language to attack the kings,
though not by me unpunished. I rouse and exhort my trembling country-
men against the foe, and by my voice reclaim their courage lost. From
that time forth, whatever he may seem to have acted bravely, is justly
mine whom, giving way, from flight I drew. In fine, who of the Greeks
;

or praiseth, or who sues to thee ? But Diomed with me shares all his deeds :

me he approves, always confides Ulysses, his companion it is something, ;

:

of so many thousand Greeks, to be by Diomed singled out alone. Nor

did the lot order my going forth yet thus, slighting the dangers,
and of :

the night, and foe, Dolon, of the Phrygian race, I slay, daring the same
attempt we dared yet not before I forced him to discover all, and
;
learned
what treacherous Troy designed. All I had known; nor had I further
what to spy and now I might return with my promised praise. But, not
:

content with this, 1 sought the tents of Rhesus, and in his very camp slew
him and his companions. And thus being victor, and my vows obtained,
I enter in the
captive chariot, in manner of a joyful triumph
whose steeds ;

the foe demanded, as the price for one night's service. Deny me then
his arms ; and Ajax deemed be more generous in his services than I.
What need I relate the
troops of Lycian Sarpedon, mowed down by my
sword ? With much blood, I Coeranos, son of Iphitus, slew, and Alastor,
2 G
450 P. OVIDII NASONIS

M^uwa ^^ctromkml Coeranon, Iphitiden, Alastoraque, Chromiumque,

que, Aicandrumque, Alcandrumque,
' Haliumque,
' No'emonaque, Pry-
Haliumque, Ndimona- ,

qtie, Prytaninque ; de- tanilique.

Sk'SJ;S
charopeu, Emiomoii.
Exitioque dedi cum Chersidamante Tho5na, 259
gt Charopen, fatisQue immitibus Ennomon actum,
que actum immitibus ^-.
'.
I ,, ,a . m -t- i

jati.t, aiiosque quinquc Qumque mmus ceieores, nostra, submoembus urbis

blf4submZibus7r. Procubuere manu. Sunt et mihi vulnera, cives,
bisnostramanu. Sunt loco. Nec vanis credite verbis.
et mihi, cives, vulnera
jpg^
't"^-' pulclira
^"^•^''•^'^ .
^
puichra ipso loco; nee Aspicite cu I vestemquc manu deducit; ethaec sunt
credite vanis verbis, -rs u o/?r •
. i
•
-j.

£«, ait, aspicite; tie-

,

Pectora semper, ait, vestris exercita rebus. zob

su^^TecZra At nihil
^!Tc exercita impcudit per tot Telamonius annos
semper vcs- et habet sine vulnere corpus.
Sanguinis in socios :
tris rebus. At lela- _..^ ^ ,
t>1'^ . .
monius impendit nihil Quid tamen lioc reiert ; SI se
pro classe r eiasga
tof^anlwsT IT'lklbe't Amia tulissc refert contra Troasque, Jovemque ?
qS'tamen Zc'Tel Confitcorque, tuHt neque enim benefacta maligne ;

/ert, si refert se tu- Detrectare meum est sed nee communia solus 27 1 ;
lisse arma pro classe ^^ ,. ,. jjaI
Peiasgd contra Troas- Uccupet; atque aliqucm vobis quoque redaat no-
que, Jovemque? tulit- •nr>ro-m
ave, confiteor ncque ;
norcm.
Achillis
^Z jieS: 6^^ Reppulit Actorides, sub imagine tutus
facta; sed nee solus Troas ab arsui'is, cuni defensore cannis. 274
occupet communia, at- . tt •
l\/r t" i

que rcddat quoque aii- Ausum ctiaui Hcctoreo solum concurrere Marti
, ,

TcToridZ%Zur'sub Se putat, oblitus regisque, ducumque, meique ;

imagine Achillis, rep- Nouus in officio, et praelatus munere sortis.

pulit Troas cum de- ^ '
r^ , „ . .

fensore ab carinis ar- bed tamcn eventus vesti'se, iortissime, pugnae

Toiuin ausum'^concur- Quis fuit ? Hector abit violatus vulnei'e nuUo.
vere,
oblitus
MVeZ!que,''du-
^^ miscrum quanto cogor meminisse dolore 280
!

cumqtque, meique! eiat

nanus
us in jllo officio et
Temporis
^ ilUus,' QUO
^
Graium murus, Achilles
^
pralatus munere sortis. Sed tamen, fortissimc, quis fuit eventus vestrie pugnm ? Hector abit
violatus nulla vuhiere. Ale miserum! quanta dolore cogor meminisse illius temporis, quo
Achilles, murus Grdium,
TRANSLATION.
and Chromius, and Aleander, and Halius, and Noemon, and Prytanis and ;

to destruction gave Thoon, and Chersidamas,

andCharopes, and Enuomos,
pushed on by his relentless fates five of less renown fell by our hand ;

under the city walls. Countrymen, I too have wounds, honourable by their
place: believe not empty words here see; and with his hand pulls down ;

his vest and these, he says, are breasts ever in your affairs employed.
;

But Ajax has not for his friends, in all these years, spent one single drop
of blood and has a body without ever a wound. Yet what availeth this,
;

if you he he took up ai-ms for the Pelasgian fleet against both Jove
tells
and Trojans. And, 1 confess; he did nor is it mine with malice to de- ;

tract from brave exploits of others but let him not alone lay claim to :

common feats, but too restore to you some share of honour. Patrodus,
Actor's descendant, safe under the appearance of Achilles, repelled the
Trojans from the ships, just ready to be burnt, with their defender.
He too, unmindful of the king, and chiefs, and me, imagines he alone in
single combat dare encounter Hector he was the ninth in duty, and pre- :

ferred by favour of the lot. But yet, O bravest chief, what issue had your
combat 1 Hector comes off unAvounded. Ah wretched me with how much ! !

gf ief am I compelled to recollect that time, in which Achilles, the Grecian

 METAMOllPHOSEON, Lib. XIII. 451

Procubuit? nee me lachrymse, luctusve, timorve procvhiiH nee lachry- .'

ma, Ivctit.we, timorve,

Tardarunt, quin corpus humo sublime referrem tardarinit me, qniii :

His humeris, his, inquam, humeris referrem corpvs sub-

ego corpus lime Innno. His hu-
Achillis 284 meris, his, inquam, hti-
_
meris, ego tiili corpus
Et simul arma tuii quae nunc quoque ferre laboro.
;
AcltiLles et simul ar-
mii, qua nunc quoque
Sunt niihi, quae valeant in talia pondera, vires :
liihoroj'trrc. flu7it mi-
Est animus vestros certe sensurus honores. hi I'ires qiice valeant in
tulia pondera: est a-
Scilicet idcirco pro gnato cserula mater vimus certe sensurus
vestros honores. Sci-
Ambitiosa suo fuit, ut ccelestia dona, licet Cfcrnla mater Jitit
idcirco amhitiosa pro
Artis opus tantee, rudis et sine
pectore miles 290 suo gnato, ut tniles ru-
dis et sine pectore in-
Indueret ? neque enim clypei coelamina norit,
dueret catlestia dona,
Oceanum, et terras, cumque alto sidera coelo.
"D1 "1 TT 1
''
•
'
•
opus tunf(e artis ? enim
neque norit calajnina
rieiadasque, Hyadasque, immunemque sequons cbjpei, oceanum,
terras, sideraque cum
et

Arcton, alto caio, Pleiadas-

que, Hyadasque, Arc-
Diversasque urbes, nitidumque Orionis ensem. tonque immunem (c-
Postulat ut capiat, quae non intelligit, arma. 295 quoris,diversusque iir-
nitidumque ensem,
Quid ? quod me dun fugientem munera belli Orionis. Postulat ut
bes,

capiat arma, qua: non

Arguit incoepto serum accessisse labori ? inteUigit. Quid? quod
]S"ec se arguit me fugicntem
magnanimo maledicere sentit Achilli ? muncra duri belli, se-
Si simulasse vocat crimen simulavimus ambo. rum accessisse incapto
;
labori! 7iec sent it se
Si mora pro
culpa est; ego sum maturior illo. 300 maltdiceremagnanimo
Me pia detinuit conjux pia mater Achillem Achilli ? Si vocat cri-
:
men simulassc, ambo :

Primaque sunt illis data tempora, caetera vobis. simulavimus. Si mora

est pro culpa, ego sum
Haud timeo, si jam nequeo defendere crimen. maturiorillo. Piacon-
Cum tanto commune viro. Deprensus Ulyssis
jnx detinuit 7iie ; pia
mater Achillem: pri-
Ingenio tamen ille ;
at non Ajacis Ulysses. 305 inaqtie tempora sunt
data illis, catera vo-
Neve in me stolidae convicia fundere lino;use his. Hand timco, si
Admn-emur eum vobis quoque digna pudore, riequeo jam defendere
:
crimen commune cum
tanto tiro. Ille tamen est deprenstts ingetiio Ulyssis ; at non Ulysses ingenio Ajacis. Neve ad'
iniremur eum, fundere in me convicia stolida: lingua; dijicit vobis quoque digna pudore,
TRANSLATION.
bulwark, fell ! Nor me from bearing aloft
tears, or grief, or fear, stayed
his body from the ground on these my shoulders, these my very shoul-
:

ders, I bore off Achilles' body with his arms which now 1 strive to Avin. ;

1 have the nerves v.'hich

may suffice for such a weight, and certainly the
soul that shall resent your honours. Was then, forsooth, his mother, the
green Thetis, ambitious for her son, that the celestial gift, the work of so
much art, a stupid soldier, without genius, should put on ? Nor can he un-
derstand the engravings of the shield; the ocean, and the earth, and
stars, with the high heaven, and Pleiades, and Hyades, and the bear un-
dipt in the sea, and the two differing towns, and Orion's glittering sword ;

arms he insists to have, he does not understand. What, that he charges

me the service of the toilsome war declining, and to have joined late the
toil
begun ? And does he not perceive, that he in this the brave Achilles does
defame ? If then to have dissembled, this he call a crime, we both dis-
sembled if delay stand for a fault, I earlier was than he. Me a foud
:

wife detained, Achilles a fond mother to them were the first times, to :

you the rest assigned. I am under no concern, if now I cannot ward that
charge, common to me with him, a man so great yet he was by Ulysses' :

wit found out Ulysses not;

by And, that we may not wonder at
Ajax's.
•iG -i
452 P. OVIDII NASONIS
An est tiirpr mifii ac- An falso Palameden crimine turpe
riif/isse Palameden Objicit.
/also crimine, et de- Accusasse mihi, vobis damnasse decorum est ?
corum vohis damnilsse
pum'! sed iteque Nau- Sed neque Naupliades facinus defendere tantum,
pUade.t valuit dcj'en-
dere /acinus t^eiiium, Tamque patens valuit: nee vos audistis in illo 311
taiiKi'e 'patent; nee
vos audistii solum crl- Crimina; vidistis pretioque objecta patebant.
:

mina in illo, sed vi- Nee Pceantiaden quod habet Vuleania Leranos,
dis/.is ; objictuque pt-
tebant pretio. Nee Esse reus merui. Factum defendite vestrum:
meriti esse reus quod
Fulcanla Leninos ha- Consensistis enim. Nee me suasisse negabo; 315
bet Pecantiarien. De- Ut
se subtraheret bellique, viseque labori,
/endite vestrum /ac-
tum; enim consciisis- Tentaretque feros requie lenire dolores
tis. Nee negaho me
.luasi.ise, ut subtra- Paruit ; et vivit. Non haec sententia tantiim
hcret se labori bclli-
sed et felix ; cum sit satis, esse fidelem :
que, viteque tentarct- Fida,
que lenire/eros dolor es Quem quoniam vates delenda ad Pergama poseunt ;
requie. Pariiit, et vi-
vit. Htcc sentcntiaiion Ne mandate mihi. Melius Telamonius ibit ; 321
erut tant^un/idn, sed
et /elix, cum sit satis Eloquioque virum morbis iraque furentem
esse ftdelem. Qitem Molliet aut aliqua producet callidus arte.
:

qtioninm rates poscuiit

ad deleiida Pergama, Ante retro Simois fluet, et sine frondibus Ide
ne mandate hoc miki.
Telamonius ibit meii- Stabit, et auxilium promittet Aehaia Trojae ; 325
%runffurentem''t>wr- Q^-^^i^j cessaute meo pro vcstris pectore rebus,
Ajacis stolidi Dauai's solertia prosit.
bis iraque; a%it colli-
dus producet aliqua
arte. Simois fine t re- Sis licet infestus sociis, regique, mihique
tro et Ide stabit sine
/rondibui, et Aehaia
Dure Philoctete ; licet exsecrere, meumque
promittet atixiUum Devoveas sine fine caput 330
T-roj<B, antequam meo ; cupiasque dolenti
pectore cessaute pro
vestris rebus, soller-
Me nostrumque haurire cruorem
tibi forte dari, :

tia stolidi Ajacis pro- Utque tui mihi, sic fiat tibi copia nostri :

dtrrpiiTioctete ^ishi-
Te tf^men aggrediar mecumque reducere nitar.
;

festus sociis, regique, mihique, licet exsecrere, devoveasque mcu7n caput sine fine, capiasque me
J'orte dari tibi dolenti, haurireque nostrum cruorem; (utque copia tui fiat mihi, sic copia tiostri
fiat tibij tamen aggrediar ie, nitarque reducere mecum.
TRANSLATION.
his pouring oi.t on me
the foul reproaches of his silly tongue, he too ob-
jects to you shame-worthy things. It is base for me with a false crime to
have charged Palamedes, honourable for you to have condemned him ?

But neither could Palamedes^ Nauplius'son, so great, so evident, a crime

defend nor did you hear, but see the crimes in him and by the bribe
:
;

the charge was manifest. Neither have I deserved to bear the guilt, that
the Vulcanian Lemnos holds
Philoctetes, Poean's son Greeks, your own :

act defend you consented: nor that I advised, shall I deny, him to
;
for
withdraw from the toil, and of the war, and voyage, and try to assuage by
rest his cruel pains. He obeyed, and liveth still. This advice not only
faithful was, but fortunate also though it sufficeth to be faithfid. Whom
;

since our prophets, Pergamus to raze, demand, charge not me therewith.

The son of Telamon will better go, and soften by his eloquence the hero,
mad with distemper and resentment or shrewdly b}' some wile will draw
;

him thence: sooner will Simois backward flow, and Ida stand without its
leaves, and Greece to Troy assistance promise, than my breast ceasing for
your interest, the wit of stupid Ajax can the Greeks avail. Though thou,
dire Philoctetes, be incensed against the aUies, and king, and me though ;

thou curse and devote my head incessant, and desire I might in thy an-
guish chance to meet thee, and to draw ray blood and as I might have :
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIII. 453

Tamque tuis potiar (faveat Fortuna) sagittis 334 ; Tamquc potior tiiis sa-
gitt:s (J'aveatJ'ortuiiu)
Quam sum Dardanio, quern cepi, vate potitus ; quam sum potitus vote
DurduJiio, qiicm cepi ;
Quam responsa Deum, Trojanaque fata retexi ;
qviim retell responsa
Quam rapui Phrygiae signum penetrale Minervae
Deum, Trojanaque fa-
ta, qitiim rapiiite e me-
Hostibus e mediis. Et se mihi comparat Ajax ? dils hostibus penetrate
signiim P/iri/gia Mi-
fata sine
Nempe capi Trojam prohibebant illo. nerva-. El Ajux com-
Fortis ubi est Ajax 1 ubi sunt ingentia magni 340 jiurat se mihif nempe
fata prohiljchant Tro-
Verba viri ? cur hie metuis ; cur audet Ulysses jam capi sine illis.
Uhi est fiirtis Ajax '!

Ire per excubias, et se committere nocti? vbi sunt iiigcntia ver-

ba mrigni viriX curme-
Perque feros enses, non tantum moenia Trolim, tuis lac' cur Ulysses
Veriim etiam summas arces intrare :
suaque
uudct ire per cxcubias,
et commit t ere se nocti?

Eripere sede Deam raptamq; eiierre per hostes

: imrarequc; per feros :

Quaj nisi fecissem, frustra Telamone creatus 346 'r5vS:™X"

am siimmas arces, eri-
Gestasset Iseva taurorum tergora septem.
perequeDeani sua ade:
Ilia nocte mihi victoria parta est efferreque ruptam per
Trojse ;
hostesf qiiff nisifecis-
Pergama turn vici, cum vinci posse coegi. sem, frvstra creatas
Desine Tydiden vultuque et murmure nobis 350 Telamone gestdsset
••eptem tergora tauro-
Ostentare meum. Pars est sua laudis in illis. rum lata. Victorid,
TroJcB parta est milU
Nee tu, cum socia clypeum pro classe tenebas, ilia noctc, turn vici
Pergama, cum coegi ea
Solus eras ;
tibi turba comes, mihi contigit unus ; posse vinci. Desine os-
tentare nobis meum
Qui, nisi pugnacem sciret sapiente minorem Tydiden vultuquc et
Esse, nee indomitee deberi prsemia dextrse, 355 murmure. Est sua
pars laudis in illis.
A-ec tu, eras soius,
Ipse quoquehsecpeteret ; peteretmoderatior Ajax, ciim '""'
"'"" tenebas
clypeum
Eurypilusque ferox, claroque Andremone
natus :
pro soeid classe turba :

Nee minus tdomeneus, patriaque creatus eadem cotitigit

unus
comes tibi,
mihi; qui nisi
Meriones :
peteret majoris frater Atridge. pugnacem esse seiret
minorem sapiente, jiec
Quippe manu fortes (nee sunt tibi Marte secundi) pramiu deberi indonii-
tie dextrff, ipse qnoqiie prteret hac : Ajax moderaHor peteret Eurypilasque ferox, natusque claro
Andremone: nee minus Idamtneus, Merionesquc creatus eddem putrid, fraterque majoris Atridm
peteret. Quippe fortes m^inu (nee sunt iecimdi tibi marte)
TRANSLATION.
thee in my power, have me in thine yet I will attempt thee, and
so thou ;

endeavour to bring thee back with me. And so. Fortune favour, be master
of thy arrows, as of the Trojan prophet, whom I took and as the an- ;

swers of the gods discovered, and the fate of Troy, and as I carried off
the secret statue of the Phrygian Pallas from amid the foe. And does
Ajax then liimself compare with me ? The fates, it seems, forbid the
? Where are the mighty
taking Troy without where is the valiant Ajax
:

man's big words ? why art thou here afraid ? dares Ulysses ven-
Why
ture through the guards, and trust himself to-night ? and through fell
swords to enter Trojan walls not only, but even their highest citadel, and
snatch the goddess from her shrine, and, snatched, convey her off amid
the foe ? Which had not I performed, in vain, on his left arm, had Ajax
bore the hides of seven bulls. That night Troy's conquest was my pur-
chase 1 Pergamus then conquered, when I forced it to be conquerable.
:

Cease, by thy looks and muttering, to shew me Tydeus' son. He has his
share of glory. Nor wast thou alone, when for the allied fleet thou heldest
out the shield thou hadst a multitude, I but one alone who, did he not
;
;

well know a fighting man less valuable than a wise, nor such reward due
to bare force unfamed, would himself sue for them too the more mode- ;
^454 P. OVIDII NASONrS
cpstere nieis cohsUU.'.:
E^t tibl (iextcra utUis Consiliis cessere meis. Tibi dextera bello 361
ext higeninm, nostri.
l/i'tlo,
Utilis; ingeniumest, quod egetmoderamine
quod eget muihramhie
Hostri. Ta geris vires Tu vires sine mente mihi cura futuri est.
sine meute: cura fu-
gens,
turi est mihi. Tupotes Tu pugnare potes pugnandi tempora mecum
:

Eligit Atrides. Tu tantum corpore prodes ;

pitgnare, Atrldes eli- 365
git tcmpora pugnandi
meciim. Ti/proilestan- Nosauimo. Quantoque ratem cjui temperat, anteit
tiim corpore nos ani-
7110:
quantcqae qui Kemigis ofFicium quanto dux milite major
; ;
tcmpcrat ratem anteit
oficiiDii remigis; quun-
Tanto ego te supero. Nee non in corpore nostro
to dux est major mi-
lite ; fiiiito ego super
Pectora sunt potiora manu. Vigor omnis in illis.
tc. Ncc noil ill nostro At
vos, 6 Proceres, vigili date praemia vestro ;
corpore, pectora sunt
2>otiora manu; vmni Proque tot annorum cura, quos anxius egi, 371
vigor est in illis. At Hunc titulum meritis
Tos, 6 Proceres, date pensandum reddite nostris.
jiramia vcstro ligili. Jam labor in fine est. Obstantia fata removi :

Proque curis tot umuo-

rum, quus egi anaius, Altaque, posse capi faciendo, Pergama cepi.
reddite /nine tituliim
jiensandum nostris me-
Per spes nunc socias, casuraque moenia Trbum,
Labor 376
Perque Deos oro, quos hosti nuper ademi
rit is. est Jam
;
ill fine ; remoii obstaii^
tin ftita si
; ccpique alta, Per, quid superest, quod sit sapienter agendum
Perguma, j'aciciido ea
posse capi. Oro nunc Si quid adhuc audax, ex prsecipitique petendum :

per socias spcs, cusu- Si Trojae fatis aliquid restare putatis 379
raque mania Tr'oum, ;

perqiie Dcos quos 7.u- Este mei memores: aut si mihi non datis arnia;
per udenii hosti; per
si quid superest quod Huic Et ostendit signum fatale Minervze.
date.
sit ugciidutii sapienter,
si quid audax
exque
Mota manus procerum est ; et, quid facundia
pracipiti sit adhuc pe-
tciiduin ; siputatis ati- posset.
quidrestarefatis Tro- Re patuit: fortisque viri tulit arma disertus.
jie, este memores mei ;
aut nou datis urma mihi, date huic; et ostendit fatale signum Minerva.
si
Manns procerum est mota;et quidfacundia posset putuit re; diserlusque tvlit armafortis viri.

TRANSLATION.
rate Ajax would, and fierce Eurypilus, and famed Andremon's son nor :

less, Idomeneus, and Merion, from the same country sprung the brother ;

of the elder Atrides would too

put in his claim. Though all in action
brave (nor second to thee in war,) they to my wisdom yielded. A hand
thou hast of use in war, but head that wanteth our direction brawn :

"without brain thou hast mine the care is of futurity. Thou canst
;
fight, it
is true but with me the son of Atreus the times of fighting chooses. Thou
;

only dost avail in body I in mind and by how much the man who steers
;
:

the ship excels the rower's part, and by how much the general is greater
than the common soldier, so much I thee excel there also in my body :

lodges a soul, better far than hands in it is all my vigour. But now, you
;

chiefs, reward your trusty watchman and, for the care of years so many, ;

which I have anxious spent, grant now this honour, balanced by our de-
serts. Our toil is now in its close I have the withstanding fates removed,
:

and taken lofty Troy, by being made liable to conquest. Now, by our
common hopes and falling walls of Troy, and by the gods, 1 lately from
the enemy took by what, if any thing remains by wisdom to be done, if
;

any thing adventurous still and hazardous if you can think of any thing ;

still
wanting to the fates of Troy, I ask, remember me or if to me the ;

arms you give not, give them at least to this and shews Minerva's ;

fatal statue.
The chiefs were moved all to a man, and then in fact appeared, m hat
eloquence could do and thus the eloquent the arms of the brave did win.
;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIII. 455

Hectora qui solus, qui ferrum, ignemque, Jovemq; Qui siiiHS siiatinuit
Hectora, qui toties sns-
Sustinuit toties unam non sustinet iram
: 385 tinuit:ferrwm, igncm-
que,Jovenique,von sus-
Invictumque virum vincit dolor. Arripit ensem tiiiet unam tram: do-
:

lor que lincit invictiim

Et meus hie certe est. An et hunc sibi I'irum. Arripit tn-
poscet
? Stm, et ait hie certb
Ulysses est mens. An Ulysses
Hoc, ait, utendum est in rae milii quique cruore :
poscet et himc sihi.
Hoc est vt.cndwn mild
Saepe Phrygiim maduit, domini nunc caede madebit me, guique stepe ma-
: ill

Ne quisquam Ajacem possit superare, nisi Ajax. ituit cruore Phnjgvrii,

mudcbit mine carie do-
Dixit et in pectus turn denique vulnera passum,
: mini; lie qtiisqiuim
nisi Ajux possit supe-
Qua patuit ferro, letalem condidit ensem rare Ajactm. Dixit
: :

et condidit letalem e7i-

NeC valuere marms infixum educere telum, sem in pectus, turn dc-
Expulit ipse cruor. Rubefactaque sanguine tellus ft[tit7iZ^''Zc
' ""'^^a'"^
" '

Purpureum viridi genuit de cespite florem, 395 manus valuere edu-

cere injixujn telum.
Qui prius Oebalio fuerat de vulnere natus. Ipse cruor expulit;
" tahefacta
Litera communis mediis pueroque, viroque tellusque
sanguine, genuit pur-
est foliis hsec ilia pureum Jiorem de vi-
Inscripta nominis, :
querelse. ridi cespite, qui prius
II. Victor ad natus de vul-
Hypsipilespatrem,clariqueTlioantis, fuerat
nere (Ebalio. Litera
Et veterum terras infames csede virorum 400 communis pueroque li-
est
Vela dat ; ut referat, Tirynthia tela, sagittas. roque, inscripta
mediis foliis: hrrc no-
Quee postquam ad Graios domino comitante revexit ; minis, ilia querela:
II. Victor dat vela
Imposita est sero tandem manus ultima bello. ad patriamHypsipiles ,
clarique TItoantis, et
Troja simul Priamusque cadunt Priameia conjux:
terras infames corrie
vt
Perdidit infelix hominis post omnia formam, 405 veterum virorum, Ti-
referat sagittas,
Externasque novo latratu terruit auras. rynthia tela.
postquam revexit
Qua
ad
Longus in angustum qua clauditur Hellespontus, Graios, domino conii-
tante, ultima manus est tandem imposita sero bello. Troja Priamusque simul cadunt. Pri-
ame'iaque conjux infelix, post omnia, perdidit formam hominis, terruitque externui auras novo
latrata. Qua loiigus Hellesp07itus clauditur in angustum fretum,

TRANSLATION.
And he, who Hector, sword, and fire, and Jove, had stood so often, and
alone, can now not his own wrath alone sustain and grief overcomes the
;

imconquerable man. His sword he snatches and sure this is mine or

: !

will Ulysses claim this also for himself? This I must on myself employ ;

and what has often moistened been with blood of Phrygians, shall now
be moistened with its owner's blood that none but Ajax's self may Ajax
;

conquer. He spoke and plunged the fatal sword into his breast, then for
;

the first time wounded, where it lay open to the sword nor could his :

hands pull back the sword infixed the blood itself did push it out. And
:

now the earth, made red with blood, produced from the green turf a
purple flower, which formerly had sprung from the Qibalian
wound ;

and letters, common to the boy and hero, are on the leaves inscribed ;
this, name that, of the grief.
of the ;

II. The conqueror set sail for Hypsipyle, and famous Thoas' country,
the land distained with blood of former husbands thence to bring the
;

arrows, the Tirynthian weapons which after he, their lord attending too,
;

had brought back to the Greeks, the last hand now is put at length to the
late war at once fall Troy and Priam. Priam's wife, unhappy she lost,
:
!

after all, her woman's form, and foreign air affrighted with unusual bark-
ings. Where the long Hellespont runs narrowing, Troy
was all on flames ;

nor had the flames yet ceased. And now Jove's altar had drank up the
456 P. OVIDII NASONIS

S "wituc coniaie-
5'ii-;./'"';!*"^ •"''"'"
l^io" ardcbat
Exi^uumque
neque adhuc consederat ignis
senis Priami
;

Jovis ara cruorem

:

combiberat
cruorem sefiis
exigmim
rriami.
^-t^i-i^.m ••-r.ii-
ComDiDerat: li'actata comis antistita Phoebi
•
a
410
1 1*

tata colis,'"tmdebat ^011 pi'ofecturas tendebat ad gethera

palmas.
I>ardanidas matres, patriorum signa Deorum
frofecZra^^vMoZ
Graii trahunt Darda- Duiii licct amplexas, succensaque templa tenentes,
nidas matres, amplex-
OS, ditm licet, signa
t-j- ^i.-^
r^
InviQiosa trahunt victorcs prsemia (jiaii.
•

f.S?"'^^'"',f/a Mittitur Astyanax iUis te turribus, unde 415

templa inmdiosapra. Pugnantem pro SB proavitaquc reo;na tuentem
mta. Astvanoj; imttt-
tur de iiiis turribus,
ci-i •? ii
fesepe videre patrem, monstratum a matre, solebat.
derepatrem mtnttra- Jamque viam suadct Borcas ; flatuque secundo
Tem pr7seTcil"int7m Carbasa mota sonant jubet uti navita ventis. :

proavifa regno. Jam- Troja, vale :

rapimur.clamant dantqueosculaterrae :
'
que Boreas suadet vi- \
rri"^j ,. , .. ,
'^

am, nwtaque carbasa roades ct patriffi suHiantia tccta relinquunt.

1 :

7aTa 72"f°utven. Ultima conscendit classem (miserabile visu)

clamant. In mcdiis Hecube natorum inventa
w.^'i^""'"'*''
vale Iroja, rupimur ;
sepulchris.
-y. r- i i
dantqwe osctiiu terra, Prensantem tumulos, atque^
ossibus oscula dantem
et relinquunt xuma7i- tvvv.'j. a
-Uulichiae traxcie manus
Anr .
• , ^
tia tectapatria. He- tamen umus nausit, 425 :

invlua'7n"mdus^s'e^. I^^ue sinu cinercs secum tulit Hectoris haustos.

puichris 7iatorum, ui- Hectoris in tumulo canum de vertice crinem,
ttma conscendit clas- -r r • •
i i t •

sem. DiUichits Inierias inopes, crinem,

mamii
lacnrymasque relinquit.
tlmuios, ItqllT^dan- Est, ubi Troja fuit, Phrygise contraria tellus,
tcm oscula ossibus. Tomcn hausit cincres unius Hectoris, tulitqiie haustos cineres secum in sinu.
Relinquit in tmnulo HectorUs canum crimen de vertice, crinem lachryinasque, inopes inferias. Est
contraria Phrygke, ubi Troja fuit tellus,

TRANSLATION.
littleblood still left in aged Priam's veins. Apollo's
priestess dragged by
the hair, stretched her unavailing hands to heaven. The victor Greeks do
drag along Dardanian matrons, their invidious prey, embracing, while
they can, the statues of their country gods, and keeping in the temples,
though on fire. Down from those towers Astyanax is thrown, whence he
was often wont to see his father, by his mother shewn,
fighting for him-
self, and bravely defending his paternal kingdom. Now Boreas calls to
sea, and sails, waved with the prosperous resound the sailor bids gale, ;

them use the wind. Dear Troy, adieu

the Trojan women cry we now !
;

are hurried off: then they kiss the earth, and

quit the smoking houses of
their country last goes abroad the fleet a
:
He-
melancholy sight ; !

cuba, found amid her children's sepulchres, Dulichian "hands dragged

away, grasping their tombs, and giving kisses to their mouldering bones :

yet one's, her Hector's, ashes she took out and, taken, carried in her bo- ;

som with her. On Hector's tomb she leaves the grey hairs from her
head poor ofFering this her hairs and tears. There is,
; ;
opposed to Phry-
gia, where Troy had stood, a land inhabited by Bistonian men. There
the rich palace was of Polymnestor, to whom
thy father, Polydorus, com-
mitted thee to be in privacy brought up, and far removed from
Phrygian
NOTES.
42g. Est ubi Troja fuit Phrijgia;, &c.] and touches here upon the misfortunes
Ovid in tliis fable, and those which fol- of Priam's family, in a manner that
low, recounts some of the adventures agrees pretty much with the truth of
which happened after the taking of Troy ; history.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIII. 457

hubitata Bisianns vi-

Bistoniis habitata viris. Polymnestoris illic 430 ris. Dives regia Po-
Regia dives erat, cui te commisit alendum lymnestoris erat illic,
cui pater tuus Poly-
Clam, Polydore, pater, Phrygiisque removit ab dore clam commisit te
armis. aletidum, removitque
ab armis Phrygiis. Sa-
Consilium sapiens sceleris nisi prjemia magnas
: piens consilium, nisi
adjecisset magnas opes
Adjecisset opes, animi irritamen avari. 434 pramia sceleris, et ir-
Ut cecidit Fortuna Phrygum, capit impius ensem ritamen avari animi.
Ut fortuna Phrygum
rex
Rex Thracum, juguloque sui defigit alumni cecidit, impius
Tliracum capit ensem,
:

Et, tanquam tolli cum corpore crimina possent, dejigitque jugulo sui
alumni; et tanquam
Exanimem e scopulo subjectas misit in undas. crimina possent tolli
cum corpore, misit ex-
Littore Threicio classem religarat Atrides, 439 animem h scopulo in

Dum mare pacatum, dum ventus amicior esset. subjectas undas.

trides
A-
religarat clas-
Hie subito, quantus, cilm viveret, esse solebat. sem Threicio littore,
dum mare esset paca-
Exit humo late rupta ; similisque minaci tum, dum ventus ami-
cior: htc subito Achil-
Temporis illius vultum referebat Achilles, les, quantus solebat
esse cum viveret, exit
Quo ferus injusto petiit Agamemnona ferro :
humo rapta, late, si-

Immemoresque mei disceditis, inquit, Achivi ? 445 milisque minaci, refe-

rebat vultum illius
Obrutaque est mecum virtutis gratia nostrze ? temporis, quo ferus pe-
Ne facite. Utque meum non sit sine honore sepul- tiit Agamemnona
justo ferro. Inquit-
in-

chrum, que, Achivi, disceditis

immemores mei ? Est-
Placet Achilleos mactata Polyxena Manes. que gratia nostra- vir-
tutis ohruta mecum?
Dixit ; et, immiti sociis parentibus umbrse, Ne facite, utque meum
sepulchru?n non sit
Rapta sinu matris, quam jam prope sola fovebat, sine honore,Polyxena
Fortis, et infelix, at plusquam foemina, virgo 451 mactata placet manes
Achilleos. Dixit : et
Ducitur ad tumultum diroque fit hostia busto.
; sociis parentibus im-
miti umbrte, virgo for-
Quee memor ipsa sui, postquam crudelibus aris tis, et infelix, et plus-
Admota est ; sensitque sibi fera sacra parari ; quam
sinu
fijemina, rapta
matris, quatn
jir ope sola jam fovebat, ducitur ad tumulum, fitque hostia diro busto. QucB ipsa memor sui.
postquam est admota credelibus aris; sensitque fera sacra parari sibi;

TRANSLATION.
arms a wise precaution
: this had he not too great riches added the
!
;

prize of wickedness, the incentive of a covetous mind, as Phrygian for-

tune fell, the wicked king of Thracians takes the SAvord, and plunges in
his Foster's throat and, as if crimes could with the body be removed, he
;

threw it from a rock into the subject waters. On Thracian shore

lifeless
Atrides moored his fleet, until seas were calm, until winds more friendly
proved. Here, on a sudden, Achilles, great as when alive, bursts forth
from the wide-broken ground and, like one threatening, revived the
;

sternness of that time, iu,which he wildly Agamemnon did with his law-
less sword attack. And, Greeks, said he, do you depart unmindful thus
of me? and is the grateful memory of my virtue buried with my-
self? Do not so. And, that my sepulchre may not without its honour
be, let Polyxena slain, appease Achilles' ghost. He said and his con- ;

federate friends his savage ghost obeying, the gallant and unhappy maid,
and more than woman, snatched from her mother's bosom, whom she,
now almost forlorn, did cherish, is led to the tomb, and made a sacrifice
at his dire bust. Who, mindful of herself, after being brought to the fell
altars, and perceiving the cruel rites prepared, and viewing Neoptolemus
standing before her, holding the knife, and fixing his eyes upon her coun-
458 P. OVIDII NASONIS
vidit Nepotoie-
utque
mum stantem, teiien-
Utque
i Neoptolemum
^-^ c
stantem, ferrumqite tenentem,
'•
•
^. a-A i
•
,-

temqtie ferrum,_figen- liique suo viQit hgentem Jumiiia vultu 455 ;

teinque Iwnina in suo ttj. •
j j j' "a
vultu: dixit: mere Utere jamdudum generoso sanguine dixit.
rS«rM.?r"S NuHamora est. Aut tu jugulo, vel pectore telum
est, at tu conde telum Coiide mco jup'ulumque simul pectusque retexit.
meojugulo vt
I pectore,
o-t^ -ii-
:

-T)! c Ann
460
simidque retexit jKgu-
lum pectusque. Sci-
Scilicet aut ulli scrvire Folyxena lerrem ;

licet aut Polyxetiafer- Aut per tale sacrum numen placabitur ullum
rem scrvire ulli, aut Mors tantum vellem matrem mea fallere posset.
ullum ?tumen placabi-
tur per tale sacrum.
Vellem tantutn mea
Materobest;minuitquenecismihi gaudia. Quamvis
Non mea mors illi, verum sua
mors posset fallere ma- vita gemenda est.
trem. Mater
minuitque gaudia ne-
obest;
Vos modo, ne Stygios adeam non libera Manes,
cis mihi, quamvis non
Esteprocul; sijustapeto: lactuque viriles 466
mea mors, verum sua
vita sit gemenda illi
Virgineo removete manus. Acceptior illi,
^r, estfprocui!''Jj'a. Quisquis is cst, quem ccede mea placare paratis,
deam non libera Sty-
Li^gr sanffuis.
eiit >jvv Si quos tameii ultima nostri
.^
gios manes ; removete- Zl g,
t\ at- Anf\
• • •

que matins viriles vir- Vota movent oris ; Priami vos nlia regis, 470
gineotactu. Liber San- -rx ,. ; • • • •
j.

guis erit acceptior illi captiva, Togat, geniti'ici corpus inemptum

JN Oil

l^atl^ X^e'^mZ R-cddite~ -- -

: neve auroredimat jus triste sepulchri,
ccede. Si tamcn ultima
vota nostri oris mo-
Sed Tunc, ciim
lachrymis. et auro.
poterat,redimebat
vent quos, Jilia regis Dixerat. At populus lachrymas, quas ille tenebat,
Priami, non captiva
rogat vos : reddite cor- Non tenet. Ipse etiam flens invitusque sacerdos
pus inemptum gene- Preebita conjecto rupit prsecordia ferro. 476
trici, neve redimat
Ilia, super terram defecto poplite labens,
triste jus sepulchri
atiro, sed lachrymis,
tunc cum poterat, re- Pertulit intrepidos ad fata novissima vultus.
dimebat et auro. IJix-
erat : At populus non Tunc quoque cura fuit partes velare tegendas,
tenet lachrymas, quas ilia tenebat. Ipse etiam sacerdos flens, invitusque rupit prabita jiracor-
dia conjecto ferro. Ilia labens super terram defecto poplite, pertulit intrepidos vultus ad no-
vissima fata. Tunc quoque, fuit cura illi cum caderet, velare partes tegendas, ^

TRANSLATION.
teiiance, said ; Use quick generous blood ; in me is no delay plunge
my ;

thy knife or in throat or breast, and at the instant she laid bare her
my
throat and breast. As if or I, Polyxena, could bear being slave to any,
or any deity shall be by such a sacrifice appeased, I could only wish my
death might escape the notice of my mother it is my mother does im- ;

pede, and it is she lessens the joys of my death though not my death, :

but her own life should be lamented by her. Only stand you aloof, that
I may to the Stygian ghosts go free if I demand what is just, restrain
:

the hands of man from virgin touch more acceptable to him, whoever he
;

is, whom you design to appease by killing me, will free blood be. Yet,
if any one the last vows of our lips do move (the daughter of king Priam,
not a captive, sues), return the corse unransomed to my mother nor let ;

her with gold, but tears, redeem the melancholy privilege of a grave :

then, when she could, she did with gold redeem. She spoke but the :

tears, from which herself refrained, the crowd did not: the priest him-
self too weeping, and unwilling, burst her offered breast by plunging in
his steel. She, sinking on the earth, her hams now failing her, bore to
the very last a countenance undaunted then too her care was, parts to be :

veiled, to veil, when she should fall and to keep up the grace of her
;

chaste modesty. The Trojan matrons the corse receive, and reckon up the
unhappy Priam's children, and what expense of blood one house had
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIII. 459

Cum caderet; castiquedecus servare pudoris

^ 480 ^frvarequedecuscasu
Troades ex-
rri 1 1 J
• •
, 1jmduris.
Iroades excipmnt, depioralosque recensent dpiunt: reccnsentnue
Priamidas et quid dederit domus una cruoris ;
:
1^'S°^^Tt:a
Teq gemunt, virgo ; teq ; o mod5 regia conjux
;
:^S;/',f,if.- „, f;. ;

Kegia dicta parens, Asise norentis imago ; 484 e"« ° "f"*^" ''^'c^« re-
Nunc etiam preedee mala sors quam victor Ulysses rem^'imaio 'jforetftis :

Esse suam nollet, nisi quod tamen Hectorapartu ff'LVJTr'rdf'/quam

Edideras. Dominum matri vix repperit Hector .
^ . .
^'^'''^"''

esse suam;
^^ lyases
nisi quod
noiiet
^-. , \.
i^uae corpus complexa animse tam lortis inane, tjimen edinems Hecto-
Quas toties patriae dederat, natisque, viroque. r'^vverltLmumZ ma.
Huicquoque dat lachrymas ; lachrymas in vulnera ^-oTpuTiamjbrti's ',^f;.

fundit. 490 '""'««'. <^«< /i^ic qm- que lachrymas quasto-

/\ 1 1 -^ . , , .,

Usculaque ore legit consuetaque pectora plangit ties dederat

vatria, :

Canitiemque suam concreto in sanguine verrens, dTSryma^li^^^^^^^^^

Plura quidem, sed et ha;c, laniato pectore dixit: '""'^"
-»T * /,. Oil "Z"'Vlangttque
1'^'%"" con- 1 • . '"^*^' ;

ATi'-i
iNatatuae (quid enim superest :) dolor ultniie matri sueta pectora, verrens-
^ l^e suam canitiem in
iNata,jaces: videoque tuum, niea vulnera, vumus. concreto savguine.dix-
1 1

En, ne perdiderim quenquam sine caede meorum, % '^f^c"\mJaZ 'pec-

Tuquoquevulnushabes. At te, quia fcemina, rebar '"'" 'o'-e-^uta.uitimedo-
A„^ J-^
lerro tutam
,.•, r r
cecidisti et icemina lerro
:
Cenim quid supcr-
est) tua; matri, nata
•

Totque tuos idem fratres, te perdidit idem, ^nUMsymmmibl'era

ExitiumTrojaenostriqueorbator, Achilles. 500 ^W«,:^^^'''^^f,i
At postquam cecidit Paridis, Phoebique, saffittis, ""c vuinere, tu quo.
N^ i ,.
, .
A
unc certe, dixi, non est metuendus AcniUes.
-n que habes vulnus. At
^

reOarte tutam u/erro.

,
1

Nunc quoq mi metuendus erat. Cinis ipse sepulti /"nrimi^ceitdi^lferro.

;

In O Achuies ex-
genus hoc saevit turaulo quoq
IT.' sensimus hostem. It^''""'i'^^
:
turn Troja', orbator-
:

que nostri, qui perdidit tot tuos fratres, perdidit etiam te : At postquam cecidit sugittis Paridis
Phoebique, dixi; nunc certe Achilles tion est metuendus. Nunc quoque erat metuendus mihi.
Ipse cinis sepulti seevit in hoc genus : sensimus hostetu quoque tumulo:
TRANSLATION.
made and ; O
virgin, they lament
thee, and thee, Hecitha, lately called ;

a royal consort, a royal parent, of flourishing Asia the resemblance, but

now a sorry lot of plunder which the conqueror Ulysses would refuse for
;

his, but that thou hadst brought Hector forth and scarce did Hector for ;

his mother find a master who, embracing the body, stript of a soul so
:

brave, gives this too tears, which she had before so often given to her
country, children, and husband aud pours her tears into her daughter's ;

wounds, and kisses her, and beats her now accustomed breast and, trail- ;

ing her grey hairs in clotted blood, more words she uttered but these also,
tearing her breast O daughter (for what else remains), thou last af-
;

fliction to thy mother daughter, thou art laid in dealh

! I already see ;

thy wound my wound to be lo lest I should any of ray children without

: !

slaughter lose, thou too doest bleed. But thee, because a woman, I
thought secure from steel thou too, a woman, fallest by the sword the
; ;

same Achilles, the ruin of Troy and my bereaver, has destroyed thy
many brothers, and thee too. But after that he had by Paris' and Apol-
lo's arrows fallen. Now sure, said I, Achilles is no
longer to be feared ;

3'et now too was to be feared by me the very ashes of him, buried, still :

rage against this our family, and we have found him even in the tomb of
ti foe. For Achilles it was I have a fruitful mother been. Great llion lies
460 P. OVIDII NASONIS

fui/acunda ASacida :
JEacidae foBCunda fui. Jacet Illon ingjens : 605
ingensllumjacet, cla- _, n -j ^ it it
desque jiubiica est fi- liiVentuque gravi iinita est pubiica clades ;
7am€nfinUa.^"'pergd- Si fiuita tamen. Soli mihi Pergama restant :

"^ei^sqlTdoior'^esfiii
^'^
cursuquc mcus dolor est. Modo maxima rerum,
cursu. Modo maxima Tot
rerum, pote?is tot ge-
generis, natisq; potens, nuribusque, vivoque,
neris, natisq lie, nuri- Nunc trahor exul, inops, tumulis avulsa meorum.
Penelopae munus. Quae me data pensa trahentem
busque, viroque, tiuiic
exul, inops, avulsa tu-
mulis meorum, trahor Matribus ostendens Ithacis, Hsec Hectoris ilia est
munus Peiielopa : qua
ostendens me trahen- Clara parens hsec est, dicet, Priameia conjux.
:
tem data pensa Itha-
cis matribus, dicet :
h(BC est ilia clara pa-
Postque tot amissos tu nunc, quae sola levabas
rens Hectoris ; hac Maternos luctus, hostilia busta piasti. 515
est Priameia conjux.
Postq; tot amissos, tu
Inferias hosti peperi. Quo ferrea resto ?

qttm sola levabas ma- Quidve moror ? quo me servas, damnosa senectus
ternos luctus, nunc
piasti hostilia busta. Quid, Di crudeles, nisi quo nova funera cernam,
Peperi inferias hosti :
quo restoferrea? qwd-
Vivacem difFertis anura 1 quis posse putaret
ve moror ? quo servas Felicem Priamum post diruta Pergama dici ? 520
7ne, damnosa setiectm?
quid Dt crudeles, dif- Felix raorte sua nee te, mea nata, peremptam
fertis vivacem anuin,
nisi quo cernam. nova Aspicit ; et vitam pariter regnumque reliquit.
funera? quis putaret
Priamum posse dici
At (puto) funeribus dotabere, regia virgo ;
felicem post diruta Condeturque tuum monumentis corpus avitis :

Pergama ? felix suil

morte, nee aspicit te Non hsec est fortuna domus. Tibi munera matris
haustus arenae.
Tt^reiiTuu^parUer"vi- Contingent fletus, peregrinffique
tarn regnumque. At Omnia perdidimus : superest, cur vivere tempus
puto regia virgo, do- r ,•
i i- i
•
.
•

tabere funeribus, tu- In breve sustmeam, proles gratissiraa matri,

TurakZZlZltL Nunc solus, quoudamminimus de stirpe virili,

H<Bc non est fortunadomus. Fletus, munera matris, haustusque peregrins arenee contingent
tibi. Perdidimus omnia. Superest cur sustineam vivere in breve tempus, proles gr at issima ma-
tri. Polydorus, nunc solus, quondam minimus de virili stirpe,
TRANSLATION.
in ruins and the public calamity is finished, if finished yet, by a grievous
;

issue, Pergamus for me alone remains my sorrow still is in its course:

;

I, but lately the greatest woman, powerful in so many sons-in-law, and

sons and daughters, and a husband, am now an exile, dragged, forlorn,
and forced from the tombs of all my friends, a present for Penelope who, :

shewing me, my given task performing, to dames of Ithaca, shall say,

This is that famous mother of Hector, this Priam's consort. And now
thou, who, so many children lost, didst alone relieve thy mother's sor-
rows, hast soothed this hostile ghost I ofFerings for the enemy bore. For
:

what do hardy I remain ? or why delay ? Pernicious age, for what re-
servest thou me ? Why, ye cruel gods, unless new funerals to see, do you
reprieve a long-lived aged wretch ? Who
could have thought that Priam
happy might be called after Troy's fall ? Happy in his death nor sees ;

thee now, daughter slain at once his kingdom and his life
my ;
he quit.
But (I imagine) thou, a royal maid, will with a funeral be graced, and
thy body buried in the monument of thy ancestors but this is not the :

fortune of our family tears of a mother, her last gifts, thou alone shalt
;

have, and draughts of foreign sand. We

all have lost there now alone :

survives, why I should bear to live a little longer time, Polydorus, his
mother's dearest child, the youngest formerly of my male issue, sent to
these coasts to the Ismariau king. Why do I delay the while to wash h*
 METAMORPHOSEON, Liii. XIII. 461

Has datus Ismario regi Polydorus in oras. 530

Quid moror interea crudelia vulnera lymphis
Abluere, et sparsos iramiti sanguine vultus ?
Dixit ; et ad littus passu processit anili,
Albentes laniata comas. Date, Troades, urnam,
Dixerat infelix, liquidas hauriret ut undas 535 :

Aspicit ejectum Polydori in littore corpus,

Factaque Threiciis ingentia vulnera telis,
Troades exclamant obmutuit ilia dolore
:
;

Et paz'iter vocem, lachry masque introrsus obortas

Devorat ipse dolor ; duroque simillima saxo 540
Torpet et adversa figit modo lumina terra ;
:

Interdum torvos sustollit ad sethera vultus :

Nunc positi spectat vultum, nunc vulnera, nati ;

Vulnera prgecipue seque armat et instruit ira.

:

Qua simul exarsit, tanquam regina maneret, 545

Ulcisci statuit in
poenaque
; imagine tota est.
Utque furit catulo lactente orbata lesena ;

Signaque nacta pedum, sequitur, quern non videt,

hostem :

Sic Hecube, postquam cum luctu miscuit iram,

Non animorum, annorum oblita suorum,
oblita
Vadit ad artilicem dirae Polymnestora caedis? 551
CoUoquiumque petit; nam semonstrare relictum
Velle latens illi, quod nato redderet, aurum.
Credidit Odrysius preedaeque assuetus amore
:

TRANSLATION,
cruel wounds with water, and her face besmeared with dismal blood ? She
said and to the shore with
;
aged steps proceeds her snowy locks torn and
;

dishevelled. Give me, the wretch had said, ye Trojan dames, an urn,
therein to draw the
liquid water she sees the body of Polydorus thrown
:

out upon the shore, and the

big wounds made by the Thracian weapons.
The Trojan dames cry out aloud she with grief was quite struck dumb,
;

and very grief stops up at once her voice and inward rising tears and, ;

likest a hard rock, is numbed and now her

eyes she fixes on
: the adverse
ground, sometimes throws up her stern looks to the sky now views the ;

visage,now the wounds of her son as he lays, his wounds especially and ;

arms and furnishes herself with passion with which how soon she is in-
;

flamed, as if she still a queen remained, resolves to be revenged and ;

wholly is employed in devising a fit punishment and rages like a lioness

:

bereaved of her sucking whelp and, having found the tracks, pursues the
;

foe she does not see. Thus Hecuba, after mixing rage with grief, nor
foregoing her great spirit, but her years forgetting, to Polymnestor goes,
the author of this direful murder, and desires with him a conference for ;

that she wanted some latent

gold to shew, left for him to give her son.
Her the Odrysiaudid believe and, accustomed to the love of prey, comes
;

with her to a secret

place, when, crafty, with a soothing mouth, he said.
462 P. OVIDII NASONIS
tienU in secreta ; cum
callidus dixit blando
In secreta venit. Cum blando callidus ore,
ore. Hecube, tolle 7110- Tolle moras, Hecube, dixit da munera nato. :
ras, da munera nato.
Juro per superos, omne Omne fore illius quod das, quod et ante dedisti,
quod das, et quod de-
disti ante, fore illitis :
Per superos juro. Spectat truculenta loquentem,
Toqucntem' uranfem FalsaquB jurantem ; tumidaque exaestuat ira
quefalsa, exastitutque
tumida ira ; atque ag- Atque ita correptum captivarum agmine matrum
mine captivarvm nia- Involat, et digitos in perfida lumina condit, 561
truin, involat ilium ita
correptum, et condit Exspoliatque genas oculis (facit ira potentem)
d/gitos in perfida lu-
Immergitque manus :
fcedataque sanguine sonti
mina, exspoliatque
iiuiiu, txsjiviiaique ge-
ge- -»t i
•
.1 i i
• •

nas oculis (ira facit

JNonIumen,nequeemm superest,localumnns haurit.
Vl'manus-fTZafu'e
Glade sui Thracum, gens'irritata tyranni 665
Troada telomm lapidumque incessere jactu
::;fLri:ir5'c«:'^
svperest, sed loca lu-
Ccepit. At hsec missum rauco cum murmure saxum
viinis. Gens Thracum
irritata clade sui Ty- Morsibus insequitur :
rictuque in verba parato
ranni, ccepit incessere
Troada jactu telorum Latravit, conata loqui. Locus exstat, et ex re
lapidttmque : at fiac
insequitur missum sax-
Nomen habet. Veterumque diu memor ilia malorum,
um inorsibtts cum rau-
co murmure: conata-
Tum quoque Sithonios ululavit mcesta per agros.
que loqui rictu parato Illius, Troasque suos, hostesque Pelasgos,
in verba, latravit. Lo-
cus exstat, et liabet Illius Fortuna Deos quoque moverat omnes :

noiHcn ex re: illaque Sic omnes, x\t et ipsa Jovis

diu memor veterum t-, tt i
" conjuxque, ^^
•
sororque
" ^
rnr
•
,

— Hecubam
,

malorum, tu7n quoque JjiVentus

"
meruissc negaverit illos.
- -
o7o .
mnesta, ululavit per
'Sithomos agros. For- III. Non
vacat Auroree, quanquam isdem faverat
tuna illius moverat
armis.
Troasque suos, hostes- ^, ,., m tt i
que Pelasgos, Fortuna Cladibus et casu Iroiseque, tlecubseque moveri.
•

illius moverat quoque

omnes Dcos : sic movers' omnes, ut ipsa conjuxque sororqiie Jovis, 7tegaverit Heeubnm meruisse
illos eventus. III. No7i vacat Aurora, quatiquatn faverat iisdem armis, moveri cladibus et casu
Trqjieque, Hecubffque,

TRANSLATION.
Hecuba, away with all delays, and 2;ive the present to thy son all that :

thou givest, and what already thou hast given, I by the gods do swear,
shall be his alone. Stem, she views him, speaking, and swearing false,
and boils with heaving rage and thus flies at him, seized by a company
;

of captive matrons, and thrusts her fingers into his perfidious eyes, and
of their eyes the cheeks she spoils (passion makes her strong), and plunges
her hands into the sockets and, with his guilty blood distained, tears out,
;

not the eyes, for none there was, but the places of the eyes. The race of
Thracians, provoked at the calamity of their tyrant, began with throw-
ing darts and stones to attack tlie Trojan queen but she the stone sent :

at her does pursue with a hoarse grumbling and Avith bitings and, at- ;

to her for the Avords, she barked.

tempting speak out, jaws just ready
The place does still remain, and from the thing its name it hath and she, :

long mindful of her former ills, then too she, mournful, howled through
the Sithonian plains. Her fortune had the Trojans moved, and her foes,
the Greeks, and all the gods also so much all, that even Jove's wife,
:

and sister self denied Hecuba, had those fates she had deserved.
III. Yet Aurora, though she had favoured the self-same arms, has now
not leisure to be moved at Troy, and Hecuba's calamities and fall. A
nearer care, the domestic grief of her lost Memnon, afHicts the goddess ;

whom the rosy mother saw perishing by Achilles' point upon the Phry-
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIII. 463

M-
Cura Deam propior, luctusque
T\i
emnonis amissi.
•
domesticus angit
rhrygus quem
1
iutea
Vidit Achillea pereuntem cuspide mater.
Vidit : et ille
•

campis

color,
580
cura proprior,inctm-
one domesticus, amissi
Memnom.i,quemiutea

quo matutina rubescunt

,
.

7i^^''^Z^l.
cmiea
Veam.
cuspide, avgu
/ Vidit et
iatuitque m nubiuus sether.
r^K 11 1 i
•
1 •! 1
: ille

lempora, palluerat : color, matutina tem.

At non impositos siipremis ignibus artus ^Zral!^''^the'rque'ia'
Sustinuit spectare parens sed crine soluto, 584 :
Zn'sutiimfu
'jl'Jf.J'^'
Sicut erat, magni srenibus procurabere non est
•r\T ,T-ii
JJedignata lacnrymisque has addere voces
J ovis,
•
1 11
:
spectare artus impo.
sitos siiprcmis isnibns:
scd crine soiuto, sicut
Omnibus quas sustinet aureus sether,
inferior, ut'prZTml^efemlus
(Nam mihi sunt totum rarissima templa per orbem) '""sf •^'"^'**' aidere-
\^.
iJiva tamen venio
.

ut delubra, diesque
: non
Till- ^"c has voces lachry-
Ego inferior om.
»»»•*•

Des 590 ther'slsUnetT^cnam

mihi sacrificos, caliturasque ignibus aras.
Si tamen aspicias, quantum tibi fcemina preestem, *Sper7olZZteT)
Turn ciira luce nova noctis confinia servo tamen diva,ve,no: mn :

Praemiadandaputes. Sed non ea cura neque hie est diesque sacrifices, a. :

Nunc status Aurorte, meritos ut poscat honores. VusVsitumen^aspmas

Memnonis orba mei venio qui fortia frustra 595 :
ITJ^Ztth^tlnrcum
Pro patruo tulit
; primisque
arma suo
sub annis ^'ova luce servo con-
r\ tj. \ •
r- i- , A/ -n •
finia noctis, putesprce-
1
•
,
•
1
UcCldlt a VOS VOlUlStls) Achllle.
lOrtl (sic mia dandu. Sed ea
Da, precor, huic ahquem solatia mortis honorem, Tunc^'Mc'^"taiuT'Au-
Summe
T
Deilm rector: maternaque vulnera leni. rora;, ut poscat mentos
honores. Venio orba
.
\ -nx 1 1
•

Jupiter annuerat ;
cum Memnonis arduus alto mei Memnonis, qui
/^ -, •
r nf\^ frustra tulit fortia
•
^
•

Corruit igne rogus nigrique volumma lumi oUl arma pro sua patruo-
:

occiditque ; s%ib primis annis (sic vos voluistis) dforti Achille. Summe rector Deum, precor da
huic aliquem honorem solatia mortis; leniquc inaterna vulnera. Jupiter annuerat; cum ar-
duus rogus Memnonis corruit alto igne; voluminaque nigrifumi,
TRANSLATION,
gian plains. She saw and that colour, with which the morning times
;

turn ruddy, had changed pale, and in clouds lay hid the ether. But the
mother could not bear to see his limbs laid on the pile's last flames but, ;

with loose hair, just as she was, disdained not to fall down at great Jove's
knees, and these words add to her tears Inferior to all, whom golden ether :

does sustain throughout all the world, my temples are the fewest),
(for,
yet I, a goddess, come not that thou wouldest give temples, and festi-
;

vals, and altars with fire to heat yet, shouldest thou reflect how much I, ;

a woman, may for you, then, when I keep the bounds of night Avith the
new-rising liglit, thou mayest think rewards ought to be given but that ;

is not
my care, nor that Aurora's state now to ask deserved honours, I
come, bereaved of my Memnon, Avho brave arms in vain bore for his uncle,
and in his prime of years (so you would have it) fell by the brave Achilles.
Give him, I crave, rector of the gods, some honour, solace in death
great ;

a)id ease a mother's wounds. Jove had nodded ;

when Memnon's lofty
pile down tumbles with the towering fire, and volumes of black smoke
distained the day as when the streams exhale
: their rising fogs, nor is
the sun below admitted. The black embers fly, and, rolled into a body,
NOTES.
578. Luctusque domesticus angit, Mem- kinsman, Priam, witli a considerable
nonis amissi, &c.] All agree that Memnon body of forces and that be was slain by
;

was tbe son of Aniora and Titbonus ; Acliilies.

tbat be came to tbo assistance of bis
 464 P. OVIDII NASONIS

infecere diem; veluti Infecere diem. Veluti ciim flumina natas

cttmfltimina exhaiant
natas nebulas, nee sol Exhaiant nebulas, nee sol admittitur inM.
admittitur iitfra. Atra
fu villa volat, glomc- Atra favilla volat glomerataque corpus in unum
:

rataqiie in unmn cor-

pus, (tensatur ; capit- Densatur, faciemque capit sumitq ; calorem 605 ;

qite faciem, sumitque

calorem utqne animam Atque animam ex igni. Levitas sua prsebuit alas.
ex igni. Sua levitas Et primo similis volucri, mox vera volucris,
prabuit alas. pri- Et
mo similis volncrl, mox Insonuit pennis. Pariter sonuere sorores
vera volucris, insonuit InnumersB :
' ouibus est cadem natalis origo.
P
penms. liinumerfe so-
rores sonuere pariter,
i-

Terque rogum lustrant et consonus exit auras : m

.

taiL"orig!. '^I'usTrani- Tcr clangor. Quarto seducuut castia volatu. 611

que rogum ier ; et con- Turn duo diversa populi de parte feroces
S071US clangor exit ter
in auras. Quarto vo- Bella gerunt rostrique, et aduncis unguibus iras
:
lutu seductmt castra.
Turn duo feroces po- Exercent; alasque, adversaque pectora lassant.
puli de diversll parte, 615
gerunt bella, exercent- Inferiseque cadunt cineri cognata sepulto
seque viro forti meminere creatas.
que iras rostris, et
aduncis unguibus, las- Corpora :

santque alas, adversa-

gue pectora cognata- .-
Prsepetibus subitis nomen facit auctor ab illo ;

que corpora cadunt in- Memnonides dictse, ciam sol duodena peregit
sepulto cineri;
Signa, parentali periturae Marte rebellant.
feri(B
meminereque se crea-
tas J'orti viro. Auctor
Ergo aliis latrasse Dymantida, flebile visum : 620
facit nomen subitis
prapetibus;dictccMem- Luctibus est Aurora suis intenta piasque :

nonides ab illo, cum

sol peregit duodera Nunc quoque dat lachrymas, et toto rorat in orbe.
sig7ia, rebellant peri-
tura parentali marte
IV. Nee tamen eversam Troise cum moenibus esse
Ergo visum est aliis
Jlebile Dymantida la-
Spem QuoQue
'^ ' "
fata smunt. Sacra, et sacra altera
trasse ; Aurora est in- patrem,
heros.
rfX«/«« J"S«e Ferthumeris, venerabile onus, Cythereius
rat m toto
IV.
orhe.
Nee tamen fata
:

a .r
pias lachrymas et ro- J)q tantis opibus prsedam pius eligit illam, 626
Ascamumque suum proiugaque per sequora classe
:
o /y i

sinunt spem Trojte esse

quoque eversam cum moenibus. Cythereitis heros fert hutneris venerabile onus, sacra, et pa-
trem altera sacra. Pins heros eligit illam pradam, snumque Ascaniutn, de tantis opibus; fer-
turque ab Antaiidro per
TRANSLATION.
thicken, and take a form and from the fire assume a heat and life. Their
;

lightness gave them wings and first, like to a bird, then soon a real bird,
:

sound witii their wings at once innumerable sisters fomuled, of the same
:

natal origin. Thrice round the pile they move, and thrice their consort
their camp.
clang break out into the sky in their fourth flight they separate
:

Then two fierce people from diverse sides make war and with their beaks ;

and crooked claws exert their rage, and tire their wings and adverse
breasts and down fall a sacrifice their kindred bodies to the buried ashes,
:

and remember they were formed from that brave man. Their author
makes a name for these his sudden birds, from him being called Mem-
nonides. Whenever the sun has finished the twelve signs, they war
To others, therefore, it seemed
again, to perish in this parental fight.
lamentable, thatDymas' daughter barked Aurora was engaged in griefs :

her own and now too sheds her pious tears, and sprinkles them all over
;

the world in dew.

IV. Yet neither do the Fates allow the hope of Troy too to be ruined
with its walls. The Cytherean hero on his shoulders bears the sacred
a venerable load, he,
things and his own father, the other sacred thing,
;

pious, chose from so much wealth that prize, and his own Ascanius and ;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIII. 465

Fertur ab Antandro; scelerataque limina Thracum

^eTZqZfq'uf fcfie-
Et Polydoreo manantem sanguine tenam rata limina T/iracum,
et terrain mananteyn
Linquit et utilibus
:
ventis, sestuque secundo 630 Polydorco sa/iguiiie
ct utilibus ventis, se
Intrat ApoUineam sociis comitantibus urbem.
cuniloQ^ie testu, iiitrat
Hunc ApoUineam urbem so-
Anius, quo rege homines, antistite Phoebus ciis comitantibui. A/ii-
Rite colebantur, temploque, domoque recepit : iis, quo rege homines,
quo antistite Phabus
Urbemque ostendit, delubraque vota, duasque rite cnlebantur, recc-
huiic temploqwe
pit
Latona quondam stirpes pariente retentas. 635 domoque, ostenditqiie
Thure dato flanimis, vinoque in thura profuso, urban, oelnbraque ra-
ta, duusqiie stirpes re-
Csesorumque boiim fibris de more crematis, tent as quondam La-
to/iil pariente. Thiirc
Regia tecta petunt :
positique tapetibus altis, datojiammis, vinoque
Munera cum hquido capiunt Cereaha Baccho. profuse in thura, fi-
lirisque ctesorum bourn
Tum pius Anchises O Phoebi ^lecte sacerdos, 640
:
crematis de more, pe-
tunt regia tecta, posi-
T-i_ii o _ \, , 1 •_ _:j: •

Fallor ? an et natum, ciim primum hac racEnia vidi, tique altis tapetibus,
capiunt munera Ce-
Bisque duas natas, quantum reminiscor, habebas ? realia cum liquido
Huic Anius niveis circuradata terapora vittis Bacclio. Turn pius An-
chises ait O lecte sa-
:

Concutiens, et tristis, ait : Non falleris, heros cerdos Phoebi, fallor ?

An cum primum vidi
Maxime natorum vidisti quinque parentem, 645
: kac mcenia, habebasne
qua?itum reminiscor,
Quern nunc (tanta homines rerum inconstantia et natum, bisque duas
natas f Anius concu-
versat) tiens tempora circum-
Psen^ vides orbum. Quid enim mihi filius absens data iiiveis vittis, et
tristis, ait huic: max-
Auxilii? quem dicta suo de nomine tellus ime heros, nonj'alleris :
vidisti me parentetn
Andros habet, pro patre locuraque et regna tenen- quinque natorum,
tem. quem vidcs 7iunc peene
orJium (tanta incon-
stantia rerum versat homines) quid enim auxilii atMert /ilius absens mihi.' Quen.t tellus Andros
dicta de suo nomine, habet tenentem loctimque et regna pro patre.
TRANSLATION,
from Antandros throusfh the seas sails with his flying fleet, and leaves
the cursed abodes of Thracians, and the land flowing with Polydorus'
blood and, with good winds and favouring tide, enters with his attending
;

friends Apollo's city. Him Anius, who king and priest (men and Apollo
have their due regard) received into his temple and his house and shews ;

the city, and the vowed temples, and the two shrubs once by Latona in
her labour held. Incense being given to the flames, and wine poured on
the incense, and burnt the entrails of oxen duly slain, they sought the
royal palace and, placed upon high beds, they take along with liquid
;

wine the gifts of Ceres. Then thus the pious Anchises chosen priest : O
of Phoebus, am I deceived hadst thou not both a son, when I first saw
;

this city, and twice two daughters, as I remember ? To him Anius,

shaking his temples wreathed with snowy fillets, and sad, replies You, :

O greatest hero, are by no means deceived you saw me father of five :

children, whom now (so great inconstancy of things affects mankind) thou
seest almost bereft of all for what assistance is my absent son to me ?
:

whom Andros, a land called from his name, possesses for his father now ;

NOTES.
632. Hunc Ariius.] Anius, king of De- ofTioy, sent Palamedes to ask provisions
los,and also high-priest of Apollo, was of from Anius, and obliged hini even to give
the family of Cadmus. By his wife Do- his daughters hostages. These princesses,
ripe, he had three daughters extremely however, foimd a way to make their
frugal, and who laid up great store of escape ;
which gave occasion to say
offerings that were brought to the temple that Bacchus had transformed them to
of Apollo. The Greeks, during the siege pigeons.
2 H
 466 P. OVIDU NASONIS
DeHus<MitangurUtm D^Uus augurium dedit huic dedit altera Liber :

munera, majora voto Foeminese sorti voto majora sideque 651

fideque.foeminem sorti: -n/r ^ i
namtactumearumva- Muiiera nam tactu nataruiii cuncta mearum
:
, ,

fZmabJifur%r^^^
I^^
segetcm, laticemque meri, baccamque Minervas
tern, laticemque meri, Transformabantur :
divesque erat vasus in iliis.
baccamque Mmervir ;
ysmqiic dives erat in
^^
HoC ,.
ubl COgnOVlt 1 rOJSB populator AtrideS, 000 •'t«- li. ax-j c^
^Tui'ato'i-'^Tj^Pa'^cosnt (Ne non cx aliqua vestram sensisse procellam
vu hoc (tie putes uos armorum viribus
]NfQg quoQue parte putes)
quoque non senstsse
vestram procellam ex
T.^1. '^ _
usns,' . . .

Abstrahit invitas gremio eenitoris alantque :

aliquQ parte) usus vi- t a t , I i i

•

ribus armorum, ah- Imperat Argolicam ccelesti munere classem.

S^r£t:^?:?S Effiigiunt quo quseque potest. Eubcea duabus
ut aiant Afgoiicam Et totideiii natis Andros fraterna petita est. 661
classem ccelesti mu-
7iere. Effugiunt quo
,,., ,

Miles adest et, ni, dedantur, bella minatur. :

•-it in
Vst^'etuTdiiabusTct Victu metu pietas consortia pectora poense
^^^dit et ut timido possis ignoscere fratri ;
:
^^nans^ime!a^^,
et minatur bella ni ]S^on hic
jEneas, nou, qui defenderet Andron, 665
dedantur. Pietas vie- tti . i- ia^--m
to. metu, dedit consor- Hector erat per quos decimum durastis ;
annum.
lit posIu%noscere tl Jauique parabautur captivis vincla lacertis.
mido fratri, non jEiie-
as erat hic, non- Hec-
\\\^ tolleutes etiamuum libera ccelo
-r-, , •
-r-, , « .
,v
tor qui defenderet An-
Brachia, Bacche pater,
^
fer opem, dixere tulitque :

droit, per quos duras- -u/r

•
o- i /^i-/-\
.

tis in decimum atmum. Muneris auctor opem. bi mu'o perdere morc o/O
tmturctpral uZ'r-
^^rre vocatur opem. Nee qua ratione figuram
scire, aut nunc dicere possim.
tis: alia toiie?>tes cojIo
hrachia etiamnum li- c^
Perdideriut, potui
' ^
(. i., ^
bera, dixere; Bacche feumma mall nota est. Fennas sumpsere ; tuseque
torque ^mme?is turn Coujugis
in volucrem, niveas abiere columbas.
opem: siperdcre miro more vocatur fer re opem. Nee potui scire qui ratione perdiderint figuram,
aut nunc possim dicere. Summa mali est nota : sumpsere pennas ; abiereque in niveas columbas,
volucrem tuce conjugis.
TRANSLATION.
that place and kingdom holding. The Delian god gave him the skill of
augurj : Bacchus on the female lot other presents, greater than wish and
faith, conferred ;
for by my daughter's touch were all things changed to
corn, of wine the liquor, and to Minerva's berry and in these there rich ;

advantage was. When Atreus' son, theruiner of Troy, this understood

(that you may not imagine we did not, in some measure, feel your storm)
using force of arms, drags them unwilling from their father's bosom ;

and them commands to feed with their celestial presents the Argolic fleet :

each, as they can, escape. Eubgea was by two, and by as many their
brother's island, Andros, sought. The soldier comes, and threatens war,
unless delivered up. Piety, overcome by fear, gave up to punishment these
kindred breasts and, that you may forgive a timorous brother, here no
;

^neas was, no Hector, Andros to defend by whom you to the tenth year ;

held it out. Now chains were for their captive arms provided lifting up ;

to heaven their arms, still free, they said Father Bacchus, aid and the ;
:

author of their gift did bring them aid, if the destroying them in a sur-
prising manner be called the bringing aid nor by what means they lost :

their figure could I learn, nor now can tell the w hole of their calamity :

is known.
Wings they assumed, and changed to thy consort's birds, the
snow v doves.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIII. 467

V. Talibus atque y- Posiqvamimpie-

aliis postquam
^ convivia
'^
^ ^ ^
•" dictis
runt CDnttvia tiilibus
^ i^ .^
Iniplerunt mensa somnum petiere remota. : 676 atiiw auis ,uctu;

unique die suvgunt adeuntque oracula Phcebi ; : so,„>,um .

surguntque
Qui petere antiquam matrem, cognataque jussit Zalifia' pttlT^d
Prosequitur rex, et dat munus ituris ; pete/e anu-
Littova.
.,. ,'•
Anchisae sceptrum, cnlamyaem pnaretramque ne-
111 li •'"•'*^' ^'^^
qucrm viatrem, cogna-
taqneuttora.Rexpro-

pot') QoU ituris; sceptrinnAn-

-Cratera iEneee; quern quondam miserat illi chua-,chiamydcmpha-
TT A •• •• rm ? T • • retramque ncpoti,cra-
tiospes ab Aonns Inerses Ismemus oris. i-eta jEnece; quem
Miserat hunc illi Therses, fabricaverat Alcori pe\' Imiid^mmfserat

Myleus et longo cselaverat argumento.

; ^t.^^, ^t"!^:. T^^c"
Urbs erat et septem ostendere portas. 685 ^icon Myieus /a-
^ posses
^ : i^i',
oricavcrat, tt calavc-
j-T ^ -11 .
1 1
xlse pro nomine erant; et, quee toretilla, docebant. rat longo argvmento.
X1 !•
• • •
Erat urbs: et posses
A„i.nte urbem exequias, tumulique, ignesque, rogique ostendere septem por-

EfFusaeque comas et apertae pectora matres nomineflt ^XeS

Significant luctum. Nvmphffi quoq:flere videntur; qu^u'ia/oret. Ante
0-, f
feiccatosque queri lontes.
cr<-
feme trondibus arbos
urbemexsequi<E,tuviu-
•

uqiie, ignesque, rogi-

"! nTi 1

Nuda riget rodunt arentia saxa capellae. :691 f^^laTeraleftfplt

Ecce mediis natas Orione Thebis,
facit '"*«' luc
'^p^'J^cant
turn. NympiKB
^-. p , . , qiwquc
Hanc noil foemineum iugulo dare pectus aperto, videntur jtere, queri-
Tii 1 o A- ^
•
eyc\A J 1 9'^e fontes siccatos.
lUam demisso per rortia vulnera telo Dy4 Arbos nuda, et sine
Pro populo cecidisse suo ; pulchrisque per urbem ^^MfrM^Vcma
Funeribus ferri, celebrique in parte cremari : *«^''- na-
.^«e fucu
rr\ 1
^ ..•'. .
-r-iiA tas Ortone mtdiis The-
ium de virgmea geminos exire
Ms, hanc dare pectus tavilla,
non Jamineum aperto
jugnlo ; illam cecidisse pro populo suo, telo demisso perfortia vulnera ;ferriqile per urbem pul-
chr is funeribus, cremarique in celebri parte. Turn, ne genus intereat, geminos juvenes, quos
Jama
TRANSLATION.
V. With this, and other such discourse, after filling up the time of

feasting, the table being removed, they went to sleep and rise with the ;

day, and go to Phoebus' oracle who bids them seek their ancient mother ;

and their kindred shores. The king attends, and gives them gifts at part-
ing a sceptre to Anchises, a vest and quiver to his grandson, a boAvl to
;

^neas, which formerly Therses, his Israenian guest, had sent him from
the Aonian coasts. This Therses to him had sent Alcon, the Mylean, ;

made, and carved thereon this ample argument. A town there was, and
you might its seven gates have shewn these were instead of name, and ;

taught what city it was before the city was a funeral, and tombs, and :

fires, and piles, and matrons with dishevelled hair and bared breasts do
shew their grief. The nymphs too seem to weep, and mourn their springs
dried up without leaves the naked tree is stiff the goats do gnaw the
: :

bare dry stones. Lo he exhibits Orion's daughters in the middle of !

Thebes this to give her breast more than woman's, with her bared
;

throat that plunging a sword through gallant wounds, to fall for her
;

oAvn people, and be carried out in

pompous funeral through the city, and
burnt in a conspicuous part thereof then from the virgin embers, lest the :

NOTES.
692. Ecce facit mediis
Orione natrts whicb Ovid has contrived arlfully to in-
Thebis.'\ The fable of the daughters of terweave with his narration.
Orion is one of Uiose detached pieces
2H2
468 P. OVIDII NASONIS
Hominat Ne genus intereat, juvenes, quos fama Coronas
Oor«7ia.f,e.iire
tirghieafavilld, et (lit-
cere pompam mutcrno
cineri.
Nominat, et cineri materno ducere pompam.
VI. VII. Hactemis VI.VII.Hactenus antique signis fulgentibus aere;
signis fulgentibus an-
tiquo cere, summus Summus inaurato crater erat asper acantho.
crater erat asper in-
aurat.o acantho. Nee
Nee leviora dona remittunt:
datis Trojani
Trojatii remittitnt do-
na leviora datis ; davt- Dantque sacerdoti custodem thuris acerram ;

qne sacerdoti acerram Dant pateram, claram que auro gemmisq; coronam.
custodem thuris ; dant
pateram, coronamqne
Inde recordati Teucros a sanguine Teucri 705
claram auro gemmis- Ducere principium, Creten tenuere locique ;
qiie. Inde rccordati
Teucros ducere prin- Ferre diu nequiere Jovem centumque relictis :

cipium a sanguineTeu-
cri, tetmere Creten, Urbibus, Ausonios optant contingere portus.
vequiereqve diu ferre viros
Jovem loci: ceiitum-
gggvit hvems,
J Jiactatquc
^ ' Strophadumque
r i
:

que urbibus relictis op- receptos,

tant contingere Auso-
nios portus. Hyems Portubus infidis, exterruit ales Aello, 710
stevit, jactatque viros,
alesque Acllo exter-
Et jam Dulichios portus, Ithacamque, Samenque,
ruit e09 receptos infi-
dis portubus Stropha- Neritiasque domos, regnum fallacis Ulyssei
dtim. Et jam prater Praeter erant vecti : certatam lite Deorum
recti erant Dulichios
portus Ithacamque, Ambraciam, versique vident sub imagine saxum
Neritias-
Judicis, Actiaco quae nunc ab Apolline nota est,
Sameitque,
que domos, regnum
fallacis Ulyssei : vi-
dent Ambraciam. cer- Vocalemque sua terram Dodonida quercu, 716
tatam liteDeorum,qu(E Chaoniosque sinus ubi nati rege Molosso
:

est nunc nota ab Ac-

tiaco Apolline, saxuin- incendia pennis.
Irrita subjectis fugere
que sub imagine versi VII. Proxima Phaeaciim felicibus obsita pomis
terramque Do-
judicis,
donida, vocatem suit Rura petunt. Epiros ab his, regnataque vati 720
quercu, sinusque Vhao-
nios ; ubi nati Molosso Buthrotos Phrygio, simulataque Troja tenentur.
rege, fitgire irrita i?i- Inde futurorum certi, quee cuncta fideli
eendia subjectis pen-
fjis. VIII. Petunt proxima rura Phaacum, obsita fe/icibus pomis. Ab his Epiros, Buthrotos-
que regnata Fhrygio lati, Trojaque simulata, tenentur. Inde certi futurorum, qua cuticta
Priamides
TRANSLATION.
race should fail, twin-youths do arise, whom Fame Coronse calls and ;

lead the funeral pomp to their own mother's ashes.

VI. VII. Thus far the figures, shining in ancient brass the toj^most ;

howl was rough with gilt acanthus. Nor did the Trojans gifts return
meaner than those given them and to the priest they give a censer to
:

hold frankincense they give a bowl, and crown, brilliant with gold and
;

jewels. Then, recollecting that the Trojans their origin derive from Teu-
cer's blood, they Crete did make, and long could not endure the air of
that place and, leaving then its hundred cities, wish to reach Ausonian
;

harbours. A
storm does rage, and toss the men about and winged Acllo ;

frights thera, received into the faithless harbours of the Strophades. And
now they passed were Dulichian havens, and Ithaca, and Same, and Ne-
ritian houses, the kingdom of the sly Ulysses Ambracia, contended for ;

in a dispute of gods. And now they see a stone under the image of a
changed judge, which now for Actian Phoebus is renowned and the Do- ;

donian land vocal b}^ its oaks and the Chaonian bays, where king
; ;

Molossus' sons escaped the empty flames with subject wings.

VIII. They seek the next Phseacean plains, beset with happy fruits.
Then Epiros, and Buthrotos, ruled by the Phrygian prophet and a fic-
titious Troy, are by them reached from thence, certain of futurity (all
:
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIII. 469

Priamides Helenus raonitu praedixerat, intrant Helenus pradixerat

fideli monilu, intrant
Sicaniam. Tribus haec excurrit in sequora linguis, Sicaniam. Hac excur-
rit (cquora tribus
E quibus imbriferos obversa Pachynos ad Austros :
ill

Unguis; e quibus Pa-

Mollibus expositum Zephyris Lilybseon: at Arcton chynos est obversa ad
iinhrij'erns Austros, Li-
lyhaoH expositum mol-
jEquoris expertem spectat Boreanque Peloros. libus Zephyris : at Pe-
Hac subeunt Teucri remisque, sestuque secundo,
: lorus spectat Arcton
expertem aquoris, Bo-
Sub noctem potitvir Zanclaea classis arena. 729 reanque. Teucri su-
bfuiit hac; classisque
Scylla latus dextrum, laevum irrequieta Charybdis remis, icstuque secun-
Infestant. Vorat hsec raptas, removitque carinas : potitur sub noctem
(Jo,
Zanclaa arentl.Scyllu,
Ilia feris atram canibus succingitur alvum ; infestut dextrum la-
tus, irrequieta Cha-
Virginis ora gerens et (si non omnia vates
:
rybdis lav um: hac vo-
Ficta reliquerunt) alio quoque tempore virgo. rat, removitque rap-
tas carinas. Ilia ge-
Hanc multi petiere proci quibus ilia repulsis
: 735 rens ora virginis, suc-
cingitur quoad atram
Ad pelagi nymphas, pelagi gratissima nymphis, alvum feris canibus :
Ibat et elusos juvenum narrabat amores.
:
et, (si vates nou reli-
querunt omnia fictaj
Quam, duni pectendos, pr^ebet Galatea capillos,
ertit quoque virgo ali-
quo tempore. Multi
Talibus alloquitur repetens suspiria dictis 739 : proci petitre haiic:
quibus repulsis, ilia
Te tamen, 6 virgo, genus baud immite virorum gratissima nymphis
pelagi, ihat ad nym-
Expetit utque facis, potes his impune negare.
:
phas peliigi; et nar-
At mihi, cui pater est Nereus, quam ca^rula Doris rabat elusos
amores
juvenum. Quam Ga-
Enixa est qua sum turba quoque tuta sororum,
; latea, dum prabet illi
capillos pectendns, repetens suspiria, {illoqiiitur talibus dictis. Tameii o virgo, genus hand im-
mite virorum expetit te: pntesque negare te his impune, lU facis. At non licuit mihi, cui Nereus
est pater, quam cartila Doris est enixa; qu<s sum quoque tuta turbil sororum,

TRANSLATION,
which Helenus, the son of Priam, had in his faithful instructions to them
foretold) Sicania they enter. This with three points runs in the sea of ;

which Pachynus is obverted to the showery south Lilybaeon exposed to ;

the soft zephyrs but Peloros looks to the North and Bear, free of the
;

sea. Under this the

Trojans come and the fleet with oars and favouring
;

tide does about nightmakethe Zanclean sand Scylla the right, the left-side
:

restless Charybdis does infest. This swallows and throAvs up again ships,
taken down that has her black womb with fierce dogs surrounded, having
;

a virgin's face, and (if the poets have not left all things a fiction) she too
some time a virgin was. Her many lovers courted whom repulsed, she, ;

most acceptable to the sea-nymphs, went to the nymphs of the sea, and
told the youth's eluded loves. To whom, while Galatea
gives her hair to
comb, fetching some sighs, speaks thus: Yet thee, O virgin, no ungentle
race ofmen does woo and, as you do, you may deny them safely but I,
;
:

whose sire, is Nereus, whom the green Doris bore, who guarded too am
by a crowd of sisters, could not, but by the waves, escape the Cyclops'
NOTES.
738. Dum pectendos,prepbet Galatea ca- upon his history. Our poet tells us, that
pillosl The historj- of the Cyclops is em- he was deeply enamoured of the nymph
bellished with innumerable fictions : Po- Galatea, and had Acis for his rival; that
lyphemus was the most celebrated among this hideous giant buried that young
them, and lived in the time of Ulysses. prince uuder a rock which he phicked up
Ovid here, and Theocritus before him, by tlie root and tliat the gods trans-
;

describe at length an adventure of his, formed him into a river, or rather into a
which is Bot so much as mentioned by river-god.
Homer, who otherwise enlarges much
470 P. OVIDII NASONIS

effngert amorem Cy- Non nisi per fluctus licuit Cyclopis amorem
clopis, nisi fer ftuc-

EiFugere: et lachrymae vocem impediere loquentis.

tus: et lachrymce im-
pedicre rocem loqrten-
tis: qiias ubi virgo dc- Quas ubi marmoreo detersit pollice virgo ; 746
tersit 7narinoreo pol-
lice, et est solataDeajn,
Et solata Deam est Refer, 6 carissima, dixit ;
:

dixit: O caritsima, re- Neve tui causam tege (sum tibi fida) doloris.
fer, neve tcge caiisam
tui doloris fnam sum Nereis his contra resecuta Crataeida natam :

fida tibi.) Nereis re-

secuta est contra na- Acis erat Fauno, Nymphaque Symeethide cretus,
tam Cratccida his dic-
tis. Acis erat crettis Magna quidem patrisque sui, matrisque voluptas,
Fanno, Nymphaque Nostra tamcn major. Nam me sibi iunxerat uni
SyiiKPthide : magna
quidem voluptas pa- Pulcher ; et, octonis iterum nataiibus actis, Ibo
trisqne stti, matris-
que ; nostra tameii vo Signarat dubi^ teneras lanugine malas.
iiiptas major -.nam ille
Jjunc cgo, me Cy clops uullo cum fine petebat.
sibi uni, et octonis na-
talibtis iterum act is,
Nec, si Quaesicris odmm Cyclopis, amorne 7ot)
r
sion&rat teneras ma-
a \-
•

Acidis m
•
'i ^
•
J
noDis luerit prseseutior, edam.
j."

% plfebam tTcfc,"
clops petebat me cum
Par utriquo
Est,
fuit, Proh quanta potentia regni
Vcuus alma, tui ucmpe ille immitis, et ! ipsis
nnllofine. Necsiqua- tt i •^ •
,
•
i i -^ n ncr\
sieris odiunmc Cycio- Horrcndus silvis, ct visus ao liospite nuiio /OU
S prTsentior'utno- Impuuc, ct magui cum Dis contemptor Olympi
^^^^ ^it amor scutit nostrique cupidine captus,
;

ut'rique!' pfdtahm
:

Venus, qiianta est po- Uritur oblitus pecorum autrorumque suorum.

;
tentia tuiregni! nem-
pe ille itninittif, et Jamque tibi formae, jamque est tibi cura placendi :

horrendus ipsis silvis,

et visits ab nulla lios- Jam rigidos pectis rastris, Polypheme, capillos
:

pite impuni, .,„et con- Jam libethirsutam tibi falce recidere barbam. 766
.

temptor magniOlympt -^
cumDiis, scntit \uid Et spcctarc leros m aqua, et componere vuitus.
r a •
-i,

'tupidine'nosMrvri- Cadis amor, feritasque, sitisque immensa

cruoris
tur; oblittis stiorum
pecorum antrornmquei, Jamque est tibi cura forma', jamque est tibi cnra placendi: jamque Po-
lypheme pectis rigidos capillos rastris : jam libet tibi recidere hirsutam barbam falce : et spec-
tare, et componereferos lultus i?i aquS,. Amor cadis, feritasque immensaque sitis cruoris

TRANSLATION.
love ;
and tears here choked her voice thus speaking : which when the
virgin with her marble finger wiped, and comforted the goddess,
dearest O
(said she), come tell me, nor from me conceal (for I am to thee faithful)
this cause of thy grief. Upon Cratseis' daughter thus the Nereid re-
{jlied Acis, born of Faunus and the nymph Symsethis, was indeed the
:

great delight and of his father and his mother yet still the greater mine
:
;

for the charming youth had joined me to himself alone and, having ;

past twice eight birth-days, had marked his tender cheeks with doubtful
down. I him pursued, incessant me the Cyclops. Nor can I, should you
ask, declare, whether the Cyclops' hatred, or the love of Acis, was the
stronger passion both equal were. Ah gentle Venus,
;
hoAv great is the !

power of thy reign. Now, that savage, and terror of the woods themselves,
and who with impimity is by no stranger seen, the despiser of the gods
and great Olympus, feels what love is and smit with desire for me, he ;

burns, forgetting and his cattle and his caves. Now, Polj'phemus, thou
regardest dress and the art of pleasing now combest thy rigid hair with :

rakes now with a sickle thou art pleased to cut thy shaggy beard, and
;

in the water view and compose thy grisly looks Thy love of slaughter :

and thy fierceness, and thirst immense of blood are ceased and ships ;

with safety come now and go. Telemus, mean while arriving at Sicilian
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIII. 471

cessant et carina" ve-

Cessant : et tutse veniunt
abeuntque carinaB.
;

niuiitquc abeuntque
Telernus interea Siculam delatus ad ^tnen, 770 tntir, Interea Sicv-
Tele-
mus delatus ad
Telemus Eurymides, quem nulla fefellerat ales, Inm jEtnen, Telemus
Earymides ,qiicm nulla
Terribileni Polyphemonadit; lumenquequodunum ales fefellerat ,udH ter-
Fronte geris media, rapiet tibi, dixit, Ulysses.
ribil'.ni Polyphetnon,
dixitque, Viysses ru^
Risit, et, O vatum
stolidissime, falleris inquit piet tibi unum lu-
men quod geris tnediii
:

Altera jam rapuit. Sic frustra vera monentem fronte. Risit, et in-
quit, O stolidissime va-
Spernit et aut gradiens ingenti littora passu 776 tum, falleris altera
:
:

Degravat ; aut fessus sub opaca revertitur antra. rapuit jam sic sper- :

nit monentem vera

Prominet in pontum cuneatus acumine longo frustra; et
diens, degravat littora
out gra-
Collis :
utrumque latus circumfluit ajquoris unda. ingent i pus S'u ovt fes-
sus revertitur sub opa-
Hue ferus ascendit Cyclops ; mediusque resedit. ca. antra. Collis cu-

Lanigeree pecudes nuUo ducente secuta3. 781 neatus prominet in

pontum longo uctimine:
Cui postquam pinus, baculi quee prsebuit usum, unda (Tquitris circtim-
Ante pedes posita est; antennis apta3 ferendis Jluit utrumque latus.
; Ferus Cyclops ascen-
Sumptaque arundinibus compacta estfistulacentum: re-seduq uemc-
ci
'
--im' •

feenserunt toti pastoria sibila montes

tier
7oo :
'J'if Z'"'^;.
''"•^-lMmg,cr(c
anigerao pecu-
des secutir sunt nullo
ducente. Cui postquam
Senserunt undffi. Latitans ego rupe, meique pinus, qirtc prabuit
usum baculi, apta fe-
Acidis in gremio residens, procul auribus hausi rendi'ian tenuis, est po-
Talia dicta meis, auditaque mente notavi. sita ante pedes ;fistu-
laque, compacta cen-
Candidior nivei folio, Galatea, ligustri, tum arundinibus, est
sumptu ; toti montes
Floridior pratis longa procerior alno
; ;
790 senserunt pastoria si-
bila ; utida senserunt.
Splendidior vitro tenero lascivior ht^do
; ;
Ego latitans rupe, re-
LiEvior assiduo detritis sequore concliis ; sidens que in gremio
met Acidis, hausi pro-
Solibus hibernis, testiva gratior umbra ; cul auribus meis talia
dicta, notaviquc audi-
Nobilior pomis platano conspectior alta
; ; ta mente, Galatea,
candidior folio nivciligustrl^Jtoridior pratis ; procerior lons^a alno ; splendidior vitro, lascivior
tenero luEdn, levior concliis detritis assiduo aqiiore, gratior soliOiis hiber7tis \e\ (vstivA umbru,
nobilior pomis, conspectior alt A platano.

TRANSLATION.
Etna, Telemus Eurymus' son, whom no bird had ever deceived, accosts
the dreadful Polyphemus, and thus said That single eye thou bearest in
:

thy middle forehead, Ulysses shall from thee snatch. He smiled, and
says, Vainest of prophets, thou art mistaken another hath already :

snatched it. Thus he slights him warning true in vain and or stalking ;

loads the shore with mighty strides, or weary does return into his dusky
cave. A
wedge-like hill runs out with a long point into the sea each ;

side the water of the main flows round. Thither the fierce Cyclops does
ascend, and sat in the middle down. His woolly flocks without a guide
did follow. And after placing before his feet the pine, which did the bu-
siness of a staif, and fit to bear sail-yards, and taking up his pipe framed
of a hundred reeds, the mountains all did feel the whistling of the shep-
herd the waters felt.
; I, lying hid within a rock, and i*esting on the
bosom of my Acis, did at a distance draw in at my ears such words as
these; and being heard I marked them in my mind. Galatea, fairer O
than the leaf of snowy privet gayer than the meads taller than the
; ;

long alder brighter than glass more wanton than the tender kid ;
; ;

smoother than the shells worn by continual floods more grateful than ;

the winter suns, or summer's shade than apples nobler conspicuous

; ;

raore than goodly plane than ice more shining ; sweeter than the rael'
,
472 P. OVlDll NASONIS
lucidior glacie; dul- Lucidior glacie matur^ dulcior uva ;
: 795
cior matura uvd; mol-
Mollior et cygni plumis, et lacte coacto ;
lior et jilumis cygni, ct
coacto lacte; et, ii
non fugias, formosior Et, si, non fugias, riguo formosior horto.
riguo horto. Sed eadem Seevior indomitis
Galatea est saiior in- eadem, Galatea, juvencis,
domitis juvencis, du- Durior annosa fallacior undis ;
rior annosil quercu ; quercu;
fallacior undis len- Lentior
;
et salicis virgis, et vitibus albis,
800
tior
et 'uifZJI^b!^;'l^!^ His immobilior scopulis,
violentior amne ;
bilior his scopulis, vio Laudato pavone superbior ; acrior igni ;
lentior am,ne, super-
bior laudato pavone,
acrior igni, asperior
Asperior tribulis; fcBta truculentior ursa ;
tributis, truculentior Surdior sequoribus; calcato immitior hydro :

fa:ta ursa, surdior a-

quoribus, immitior ca- Et, quod preecipue vellem tibi demere possem,
iicato hydro; et, quod Non tantum cervo claris latratibus acto, 806
pracipu'c vellem pos-
sem demere tihi, non Verum etiam ventis, volucrique fugacior aura.
tantivm fugacior cervo
acto Claris latratibus, At, bene si noris, pigeat fugisse morasque :

Ipsa tuas damnes, et me retinere labores.

ierum etiam ventis,
volucrique aurd. At
si bene noris, pigeat fu- Sunt mihi pars montis vivo pendentia saxo 810
gisse, ipsaque damnes
tuas moras : et labores Antra ; quibus nee sol medio sentitur in sestu,
retinere me. Sunt mihi
antra pendentia vivo
Nee sentitur hyems sunt poma gravantia ramos
: :

saxo, pars montis ; qui- Sunt auro similes longis in vitibus uvse :
bus nee sol sentitur in
medio astu, ncc hyems Sunt et pui"purese tibi has servamus, et illas.
:

sentitur: sunt poma

gravantia ramos: sunt Ipsa tuis manibus silvestri nata sub umbra 815
uv(E similes auro in
longis vitibus : sunt et
Mollia fraga leges ipsa autumnalia eorna,
:

purpurea ; servamus
et has et illas tibi.
Prunaque, non solum nigro liventia sueeo,
Ipsa leges tuis jnani- Verum etiam generosa, novasque imitantia ceras.
bus, mollia fraga nata Nee tibi eastanese, me conjuge, nee tibi deerunt
sub silvestri umbrd:
ipia leges aut umnalia Arbutei foetus. Omnis tibi serviet arbos. 820 .

coma, prunaque non

solum liventia 7iigro succo, verum etiam generosa, imitantiaqtie novas ceras. Nee castanee de-
erunt tibi ncc/atus arbutei tibi, me conjuge. Omnis arbos serviet tibi.

TRANSLATION.
low grape than the down of swan and curdled milk and, if thou
; softer ;

didst not fly me, fairer than watered garden. Yet, Galatea, thou, the
same, art wilder than untamed bullocks harder than the aged oak de- ; ;

ceitful more than waters be tougher than these sallow twigs, and than
;

white vines more immoveable thou than these very rocks more violent
; ;

than the torrent prouder than the praised peacock fiercer than the fire
; ; ;

rougher than thistles far and more outrageous than a mother bear than
; ;

seas more deaf, and than a trodden snake more fierce and, what I could ;

chiefly wish I could deprive you of, fleeter, not only than the deer, by
load barkings urged, but even than the winds and fleeting air. But,
didst thou know me well, thou wouldest repine to have fled, and thou
thyself wouldest blame thy own delays, and labour to retain me. My
caves, part of a mountain, are pendent, formed of living rock where nor ;

sun is felt in mid-summer heat, nor in winter cold my apples load the :

boughs my grapes resemble gold upon the lengthening vines, and some
;

are purple too for thee and these I keep and those.
; Thyself shall with
thy hands pick off the soft strawberries, growing underneath a silvan
shade thyself the autumnal camels, and the plums, not only livid with
;

black juice, but geuerous too, and new wax emulating. Nor, I thy hus-
band, shult thou chestnuts lack, nor arbute Iruits; every tree shall serve
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIII. 473

Hoc pecus omne meum est. Omne hoc pecv.s est

Multre quoque val- meuni
; multa: quoqtie
libus errant : errant vullihns ; silva
icgit inultas ; finiltee
Multas silva tegit: multae stabulantur in antris. stabuluntiirin antris;
si forte nee, si forte roges, pas-
Nee, roges, possim tibi dicere, quot sint. sim dicere tibi quot
Pauperis est numerare pecus. De laudibus harum lint. Est jiuuyeris nu-
merare pecus credi- :

Nil mi hi credideris: praesens potes ipsa videre, 825 Tierh\diZmdeiau'di

Ut vix sustineat distentum cruribus uber: lZJpotef'vidTre^,''ut
sustiiieant cruri-
Sunt,' foetura minor,' tepidis
^ ... in ovilibus ao;ni f^
ous distentum uber.
:

^ ,^
bunt quoque par eetas ahis
T -1
•
.,.,
ovilibus haedi.
-r> 1 1 •!
J T•
Suntm.

mihi ugni, minor

faturu, in tepidis ovi- •
1
JLac mini semper adest niveum: Pars inde bibenda nbus :.sunt quoque ha--
di, par cctas, in aliis
Servatur: partem liquefacta coagula durant 830 ovilibus. J^ac niveum
Nee tibi delicije faciles, vulgataque tantum semper
Purs
adest
servatiir inde bi-
milii.

Munera contingent, damse, leporesque, caprseque, benda ; liquej'actacoa-

gula durant partem.
Parve columbarum, demptusve cacumine nidus: Nee delicuB fuciles,
vulgataque tnnnera
Inveni geminos, qui tecum ludere possint, tantum contingent ti-
Inter se similes, vix ut dignoscere possis 835 bi, sed danite, lepores-
que, capr deque, parve
Villosse catulos in summis montibus ursse : columbartim, nidusve
Inveni et dixi, Dominae servabimus istos. demptus cacumine. In-
:
veni in summis mond-
Jam modo coeruleo nitidum caput exsere ponto :
bus geminos
villoma: similes
caculos
ursce,
Jam, Galatea, veni: nee munera despice nostra. inter se, ut vix possis
dignoscere, quipossint
Certe ego me novi, liquidseq ; in imagine vidi 840 ludere tecum. Invent:
et dixi, serrabimus is-
Nuper aquse placuitque mihi mea forma videnti,
:
tos domiutr. Jam modd

Adspice, sim quantus. Non est hoc corpore

. maior "-^e^-e mtidum caput
.' / , •*
ca:ruleo ponto: jam
y
Jupiter m,T^
coelo nam vos narrare : soletis Gaiatea,veni:necdes-
Nescio quern regnare Jovem. Coma plurima torvos '^ccrte^'eg^'^notTmeTvi'-
Prominet in vultus humerosque,T- '
ut lucus obum-
:
di<iue nuper inima'gine
a A r "?w"^'^ aqtta: : Jorma-
brant. quemea placnit mihi 845
videnti. Aspice quan
tus sim : non Jupiter in ccelo est major hoc corpore ; nam vos soletis narrare nescio quern Jovem
regnare. Coma plurima prominet in torvos vultus, obumbratque humeros ut lucus.

TRANSLATION.
thee. Mine is allmany too do roam the valleys many the
this cattle ; ;

wood conceals many more are penned in my caves nor, should you
;
:

ask me, could 1 tell how many to tell his cattle is the poor man's busi-
:

ness. For their praise trust not me at all present, thyself mayest see, ;

how scarcely on their legs they hold distended dugs. Lambs, a smaller
breed, I in warm folds do keep kids also, an equal age, in other folds.
;

I always stored am
with snowy milk part of it kept to drink part liquid : ;

rennet hardens. Nor shall easy dainties and vulgar presents only be thy
lot, as does, and hares, and goats, or a pair of pigeons, or nest, taken
from the tree's top I on the mountain tops have found the twin cubs of
;

a shaggy bear to play with you, so like each other, that you can scarce
distinguish them I found and said these we will for our mistress keep.
:
;

Do now but raise thy beauteous head from out the green sea: now, Ga-
latea, come nor scorn my presents.
;
I surely know myself, and lately
saw in the pure water's image and me my form pleased, seeing. See,;

how huge 1 am not Jove in heaven is greater than this body for, you
;
:

use to say, what Jupiter, I know not, reigns. Much hair hangs over my
grisly face, and like a grove, overshades my shoulders nor think un- :

comely, that my thick-set body bridles with stiff hairs. Uncomely seems
474 P. OVIDII NASONIS
Tvvr
(jitod
7r«<tf <Krpfl w/AJ,
corpora Imrrent ^^ t.
'',„..„,.,
j-^^jj^j quod liffidis hoiTent dciisissima setis
jN^g^

puta. Turpi s sine frondibus arbos

densissimci rigidis sr-
ti.\: Arf>i>s est tttrpls
Corpora, turpe :

sine fronrlibiis equii.i Turpis eqvius, nisi colla jubae flaventia velent.
:

est turpis, nisi juba

vclent flaveiitia colla. Pluma tegit volucres ovibus sua lana decori est:
:

jPlitma ttgit volucres Barba viros, hirtseque decent in corpore setaj, 850
:

sua lana est decori

oi'ibiis. Barba, settc- Unum est in medio lumen mihi fronte, sed instar
)/ue hirtte in corpora,
ttecent riros. Vnum Ingentis clypei. Quid, non ha^c omnia magno
lumen est mihi in me- Sol Soli tamen unicus orbis.
dia sed instar
vidit e coelo?
fronte
ingent.is clypei. Quid?
nan magniis sol lidet Adde, quod in vestro genitor meus sequore regnat.
h(rc omnia i ccelo T ta- Hunc tibi do socerum. Tantum miserere, precesque
mcn est nnicus orbis
soli. Adde quod mens Supplicis exaudi. Tibi enim succumbimus uni. 856
genilnr regnut in ves-
tro aquore. Do hunc Quique Jovem, et coelum sperno, et penetrabile ful-
socerum tibi. Tantum men,
miserere exaudique
preces suppUcis ; enim Nerei, te vereor : tua fulmine ssevior ira est.
Sliccumbimus tibi uni ;
ei^oque qui spcrno Jo- Atque ego contemptus essem patientior hujus;
vem, et ccelum, et pe- Si fugeres omnes. Sed cur, Cyclope repulso, 860
netrabile fulmen, re-
reor te, Nerci; tua ira Acin amas, prsefersque meis amplexibus Acin?
est savior fulmine.
Ille tamen
Atque ego essem pati- placeatque sibi, placeatque licebit.
nollem, Galatea, tibi; modo copia detur,
entior hi'jns contemp-
tus, sifitgeres onines:
Quod
.sed cur, Cyclope re- Sentiet esse mihi tanto pro corpore vires. 864
pulso, a/nas Acin, prer-
fersqae Acin meis am- Viscera viva traham divulsaque membra per agros^j
:

jili.viOust Ille tamen

tuas spargam (sic se tibi misceat) undas.
'placentque sibi, quod- Perque
que nollem,licebit pla- Uror enim
ceat tibi, Galatea, m.o- l3esusque exsestuat acriiis ignis
: :

(lYcopiTdeturlTentiet Cumque suis videor translatam viribus iEtnara

Tint ocorpore'^Tra ham Pcctorc fcrre : nec meo
tu, Galatea, moveris.
viva viscera ; spargam-
que divuisa metiiOra per agros, perque tuas iindas, (sic misceat se tibi) enim uror, Iffsusq; ignis
exffstuat acrius ; videorq ; Jerre meo pectore jXUnam translatam cum suis viribus, nec tu move-
ris Galatea,

TRANSLATION.
without its leaves the tree ;
the horse uncomely, unless the mane do vail
his yelloAv neck ; feathers do birds adorn their wool does deck the sheep
; ;

their beard does man beseem, and the stiff bristles in their body. One
eye I have in my mid forehead, but like a shield of huge extent it is.
What Does not from great heaven the sun survey all things here below
? ?

Yet the sun has but one ball. Add too, that in your sea my does
sire

reign him I give you for a father-in-law.

:
Only take pity on, and hear
thy suppliant's prayer for to thee alone we yield. And
; I, who Jove,
and heaven, and piercing thunder, slight, dread thee. O Nereid thy ;

wrath to me is more than thunder fierce. And I more patient of this

slight should be, did you all men avoid. But why, repulsed the Cyclops,
lovest thou Acis ? Acis to my embrace preferrest ? Yet let him please
himself; and Galatea, let him please you too, which yet I would not:
let but the occasion offer, and he shall find that I have strength pro-

portioned to such body. I will tear out his

panting bowels, and strew
his mangled limbs over the fields, and on thy waters, (so may he unite
with thee.) For 1 burn, and my passion thus slighted rages more furiously,
and I seem to bear in my breast ^tna torn from its seat with all its
fires, nor do you, Galatea, regard my passion. After pouring out these
'Vain complaints (for I saw all) he rises and like an enraged bull when
;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIIL 475

Talia nequicquam questus, (nam cuncta videbam) Questus talia nequic-

quam, (nam virtebat
Surgit: etiittaurus vacca furibundus adempta 871 cuncta J surgit : et ut
taurus Jurihandus a-
Stare nequit, silvaque et notis saltibus errat. deniptil vaccd, nequit
Cum ferus ignaros, nee quicquam tale timentes, stare, erratque silva
et notis saltibus. Cunt
Me videt atque Acin videoque, exclamat; et ista
: ferus videt me atque
Acin, ignaros, nee ti-
Ultima sit, faciam, Veneri concordia vestra;. 875 mentes quicquam tale:
excluinatquc. Video, et
Tantaque vox, quantam Cyclops iratus habere faciam ut ista sit ul-
tima concordia veslriv
Debuit, ilia fuit. Clamore perhorruit ^tne. feneri. Illaque vox
Ast ego vicino pavefacta sub tequore mergor. fuit tanta, quantant
iratus Cyclo-ps debuit
Terga fugse dederat con versa Symssthius heros : habere y£tne perhor-
ruit clamore. Ast ego
Et, Fer opem, Galatea, precor, mihi ferte parentes ; :
pavefacta, mergor sub
Dixerat: et vestris periturum admittite regnis. 881 vicino eequore. Hyma-
thius heros dederat
Insequitur Cyclops: partemq; e monte revulsam terga conversa j'uga:,
et dixerut, Galatea,
Mittit ; et extremus quamvis pervenit ad ilium precor fer o^pem mihi,
parentes ferte, et ad-
Angulus e saxo, totum tamen obruit Acin. mittite me peril itrum
At nos, quod fieri solum per fata licebat, 885 I'estris regnis. Cyclops
imequitur ; miltitque
Fecimus, ut vires adsumeret Ads avitas. partem revulsam
et
c
monte, quamvis
Puniceus de mole cruor manabat et intra :
extremus angulus
e saxo pervenit ad
Temporis exiguum rubor evanescere coepit: ilium, tamen obruit
Fitque color primo turbati fluminis imbre : totum Acin. At nos
fecimus quod solnm li-
Purgaturque morji. Tum moles jacta dehiscit ; cebat fieri per fata ;
vt Acis adiumeret avi-
Vivaque per rimas, proceraque surgit arundo: 891 tas vires : puniceus
cruor manabdt
Osque cavum saxi sonat exsultantibus undis.
de
mole,et intra exiguum
Miraque res subito media tenus extitit alvo
;
temporis rubor crept f
evanescere : primhque
Incinctus juvenis flexis nova cornua cannis. fit color fluminis
turbati imbre ; purgaturq ; morA. Tiimjucta moles dchiscif,urundoq ; viva, proceraque surgit
per rimas ; osque cavum saxi sonat undis exsultantibus. Resqite mira ; juvenis incinctus quod
ad nova cornna Jlexis cannis, subitb extitit tenus media alvo:

TRANSLATION.
his heifer is still, hut wanders through
taken from him, he cannot stand
the Avoods and well-known forests when the savage monster espies me
;

and Acis, not dreaming of his approach, nor apprehending any danger;
and thus exclaims I see you, and shall take care that this be the last
:

agreement for your mutual loves. He said, and with a voice loud as
that of an angry Cyclops, ^tna trembled at the noise. I, struck with

amazement, plunge into the adjoining sea. The Symethian hero had
turned his back and fled, and said Help me, O Galatea, help me, ye
;

her parents, and receive me, in danger of perishing, into your realms.
The Cyclops pursue, and tosses after him a fragment torn from a moun-
tain ;
and though the extreme angle of the rock only reached him, yet it
entirely crushed Acis. What the Fates allowed, 1 gave, that he should
?issume his grandsire's strength. A purple stream of blood issued from
the stone hut soon the purple began to vanish, and a colour succeeded,
;

at first resembling that of a torrent disturbed by rain, which in time

works itself clear. The mass that had been thrown upon him opens,
and through the chinks a tall and shapely reed springs up, and from the
hollow mouth of the stone issues a sounding stream. "VYhen, wondrous
,to behold the youth suddenly rises from the middle of the flood, having
!

Jiis temples graced with new horns, entwined with wreaths of native reed ;
who but for his largeness of stature, and aziu'e complexion, seemed to be
 476 P. OVlDll NASONIS

qui nisi qubd est 7na-

jor, mil qubil est cceru-
Qui, nisi qubd major, qu5d toto coenilus ore est, 895
las toto ore, erat Acis. Acis erat. Sed sicquoque erat tamen Acis in amnem
'Sed tunica sic quoque
erat Acis versus in Versus et antiquum tenuerunt flumina nomen,
:

amnem, el Jlumina te-

IX. Desierat Galatea loqui ccEtuque soluto
nuerunt antiquum no- :

men. Discedunt: placidisque natant Nereides undis.

IX. Galatea desierat
loqui: ccetuque soluto,
J\ere'ides
Scylla redit (neque enim medio se credere ponto
disccduat,
ii.utantqne placidis un- Audet) et aut bibula sine vestibus errat arena 901
dis. Scylla redit ; fneq;
enim audet credere se
Aut ibi lassata est, seductos nacta recessus
Gurgitis, inclusa sua membra refrigerat unda.
medio ponto,) et aut
errat sine vestibus bi-
buld arend, aut ubi Ecce fretum findens alti novus incola ponti,
est lassuta, nacta se-
ductos recessus gur- Nuper in Euboica versis Anthedone membris, 905
refrigerat sua
gitis, Glaucus adest visaeque cupidine virginis haeret
: :
membra inclusa undA.
JEcce Glaucus, novus
Et, qusecunque putat fugientem posse morari,
incola alti ponti, mem-
brii nuper versis in Verba refert: fugit ilia tamen: veloxque timore
Euboica Anthedone, Pervenit in summum
adestfindens fretum ; positi prope littora montis.
haretq ; cupidine vises Ante fretum est ingens apicem collectus in unum,9 1
virginis, et refert qua--
cunque verba
7norari fugien-
putat Longa sine arboribus convexus ad jequora vertex.
posse
tem: tamen fugit,
ilia Constitit hie et tuta loco, monstrumne, Deusne
:

teloxq ; timore, perve- Ille sit

nit in summum mon- ignorans, admiraturque colorem,
tis positiprope littora.
Ante fretum est ingens Caesariemq; humeros, subjectaq; terga tenentem,
vertex, convexus ad Ultimaq; excipiat quod tortilis inguina piscis. 915
longa aquora, sine ar- Sentit et innitens, qu<e stabat proxima, moli,
:
boribus, et collect tts in
tinum apicem.
stitit hie, et
Con-
tuta loco,
Non ego prodigium, non sum fera bellua, virgo ;
ignorans illene sit mon- Sum Deus, inquit, aquae nee majus in' sequora Pro-
:

struw, Detisne : admi-

raturq ; colorem, ca-
teus
sariemque tegentein Jus habet, et Triton, Athamantiadesq ;
Palsemon.
humeros, subjectaq ;
terga, qitobque tortilis piscis excipiat ultima i?iguina : tentit ; et innitens mnli qua- stabat, prox-
ima, inquit ego, virgo, non sum prodigium, nonjera bellua, sum Deus aqu<r ; nee Proteus, et Tri-
ton, Athumantiadesqtie Pala-mon, habet majus jus in trquora.

TRANSLATION.
Acis himself; and, indeed, Acis it was,
yet changed into a river, which
still retains its ancient name.
IX. Here Galatea ceased and the company breaking up, they de-
:

part the sea-green Nereids skim along the surface of the still deep.
:

Scylla, not daring to trust herself to the wide-spread main, returns to the
shore, and either wanders naked along the thirsty sand, or when tired,
searching for some winding recess of the flood, bathes her limbs in the
enclosed waters. When, lo Glaucus, a new inhabitant of the deep, lately
!

tranformed at Anthedon, a town of Euboea, comes cutting the waves ;

and languishes with desire he sees, and utters whatever

after the virgin
words he thinks may hinder her flight, or remove her fears. She still
flies, and adding to her speed, she reaches the top of a mountain situate

nigh the shore. Fronting the sea is a huge ridge, bare of woods, and
which bending a long way over the waves, terminates at last in a steep
summit. Here, secured by the place, she stopt and uncertain whether he ;

was a god, or a monster, admires his colour, and flowiug hair that covered
his shoulders and back, and that below he ends in a fish's Avreathy tail.
He understood the cause of her surprise, and leaning on a rock that stood
hard by, says Fear not, beauteous maid, I am no fish, nor savage mon-
:

ster of the main, but a

watery god nor does Proteus, or Triton, or Pa-
;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIII. 477

Anth tamen mortalis eram sed scilicet altis Tamen ante, eram mor-
:
920 talis; sed icilicet de-

Deditus aequoribus, jam turn exercebar in illis. ditus altis (cquoribus.

Jam turn exercebar in
Nam mode ducebam ducentia retia pisces : illis. Nam modo dic-
cel/am retia ducentia
Nunc in mole sedens moderabar arundine linuni: pisces : nunc sedens in
Sunt viridi prato confinia littora, quorum mole, moderabar limtm
arundtnc. Sunt lit-
Altera pars undis, pars altera cingitur herbis 925 : tora confinia viridi
prato, quorum altera
Quas neque cornigerae morsu laesere juvencse: pars cingitur iindis,
Nee pars altera herbis,
placidae carpsistis oves, hirtaeve capellae, gttas neque corni-
Non apis inde tulit collectos sedula flores : gerce juvenca: liesere
morsu, nee vo3 pluci-
Non data sunt capiti genialia serta nee unquara : da oves hirttrie cayel-
Ite
curpsistix. Sedula
Falciferse secuere manus. Ego primus in illo 930 apis non tulit inde col-

Cespite consedi, dum lina madentia sicco. lectos Jtores : geniu lia
serta non sunt data
Utque recenserem captivos ordine pisces ; capiti, nee falcij'ere
manus nnqtiam secu-
Insuper exposui, quos aut in retia casus, ere. Ego primus con-
sedi i?i illo cespite,
Aut sua credulitas in ad uncos egeret haraos. dum sicco madentia
Res simijis fictae: (sed quid mihi fingere prodest?) rem
lina. Utque recense-
captivos pisces or-
Gramine contacto coepit mea preeda moveri, 936 dine, insuper exposui
aut quos casus egerat
Et mutare latus: terraque ut in aequore, niti. in retia, aut sua cre-

Dumque moror, mirorque simul, fugit omnis m dulitas in aduncos ha-

mos. Res est similis
undas (sed quid pro-
_fictte :
dest mihi Jingere.)
Turba suas :
dominumque novum, littusque relin- Gramine contacto mea
prada ceepit moveri, et
quunt. mutare Latus, vitiq ;
Obstupui dubiusq; diu, quae causa, requiro
: 940 terrd ut in tequori.
:

Num Deus hoc aliquis, num succus fecerit lierbae. Dumque

moror, si-
mulque miror, omnis
turba fugit in suas un-
Quae tamen has, inquam, vires habet herba? ma- das ; relinquuntque
novum domi/ium, lit-
nuque tusqiie. Obstupuijrii-
Pabula decerpsi, decerptaque dente momordi. uquc dubius, requiro
qua: esset causa, num
aliquis Deus, num, succus herbtc fecerit hoc. Tamen inqtiam, qua herba habet has vires?
decerpsique pabula manu, momordique decerpta dente.
TRANSLATION.
Isemon, the son of Athamas, reign more uncontrolled over the deep. Be-
fore, indeed, I was but a mortal, yet even then fond of the watery ele-
ment, the seas employed all my hours and care. For sometimes I drew
in my
fish-ensnaring nets, at other times, sitting on a rock, I managed
my fishing-line with the rod. Adjacent to the shore there lies a verdant
mead, enclosed half with waters, and half with grass where neither ;

horned heifers crop the rising blade, nor harmless sheep, or shaggy goats
browse. Hence no industrious bees bear the collected flowers, no festi-
val garlands thence adorn the head, the mower's hand cuts down the ten-
der grass. On this grassy plot I, sure, the first of mortals sat, till I
should dry my dropping nets, and number in order my captive prey.
Here I exposed upon the bank such as either chance had driven into my
nets, or who through a too easy credulity had trusted to the crooked hook.
What 1 relate has the air of a fiction (but what does it avail me to lie),
my captives on touching the grass began to move, and shift from side to
side, and skip along the ground as in their native main. And while I
pause full of wonder and amazement, the whole tribe fly toward the sea,
and leave their new master and the shore. I stood astonished, and long
perplexed with doubt, considering what the cause, whether some god, or
the juice of some powerful herb, had wrought the miracle. Yet what
herb, said I within myself, can be thus potent. Then with mv hand
478 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Guttvra vix bene com- Vix bene combiberant ignotos guttura succos:
biberant ignoto^ suc-
cos, ct'im subitd .sfnxi Cum siibito trepidare intus preecordia sensi ; 945
pracordia trcpirtare
inttis, pectusq ; riipi Alteriusque rapi naturee pectus amore.
amore altei'nis tiatii-
Nee potui restare loco Repeteudaque nunquam :
r<E. N'ec potui restore

Terra, vale, dixi corpusque sub sequora mersi.

loco: (iixiqiic, Vale :

terra, nuuquam repe-

tenda, mersiq ; corpus Di maris exceptum socio dignantur honore :

sub Dt mitris
Utq; mihi, qu^cunq; feram, mortalia demant, 950
(cqiiora.
dignaiitiir me excep-
tum socio honore, ro- lustror ab
gantqite Oceamim Te Oceanum, Tethonq rogant. Ego ;
illis :

thyriquc,
mm
ut demant
purgante nctas novies mini carmine clicto
±Lt

9«T"^?;/«-«^'; Pectora fluminibus jubeor supponere

mortalia. centum.
ab illis, et carmine
purgante nefas novies Nee mora diversis lapsi de fontibus
:
amnes,
Totaq; vertuntur supra caput sequora nostrum. 955
die to mihi, jubeor sup-
ponere pectora cen-
tum fluminibus. Nee Hactenus acta tibi possum memoranda referre :

mora amnes lapsi de

Hactenus et memini nee mens mea czetera sensit
:
:
diversis fontibus, to-
taq; (Pquora vertun-
tur supra iiostrum ca Qu9e postquam rediit ; alium me corpore toto,
put."' ^Hactenus pos-
sum referre tibi acta
memoranda ; et hade-
tt ^'n
Ac fucram nupcr, nee eundem mente recepi 959
••!
Hanc cgo tum primum viridcm r •„ l,„,^
terrugme bar bam,
T

"^'uriensit ''lltera. Csesariemq ; meam, quam longa per aquora yerro,

Qua, postquam rediit, ~
Ino'entesque humcros,' et coerula brachia vidi,
recepti me ahum toto
^ . . . .

corpore, acfueramnu. Ci'uraque, pinnigero curvata novissima pisce.

per,ncceundemmente.
£go tunc primum vidi q^-^ ^^^^^^ j^^^ SpCcicS, quid Bls plaCuisSC ma-
hanc barbam viridetn
rims.
ferrugine, meam, cce-
sariem, qnatn verro Quid juvat esse Deum, si tu nontangerisistis? 965
per longa tequora, in-
gentesqite humero.s, et Talia dicenteni, dicturum plura reliquit
coerula brachia, cru-
Scilla Deum. Furit ille, irritatusque repulsS.
raque novissima cur-
vata pinnigero pisce.
Quid tamen htrc spe Prodigiosa petit Titanidos atria Circes.
cies juva/(, quid placuisse Diif marinis, quid esse Deum, si tunon tnngeris istis? Scyll
Scylla reliquit
icentcm talia, dicturumq; plura. lite furit, irritatusq; repulsa petit prodig.iosa atria
Deum dicentcm
Titanidos Circes.
TRANSLATION.
I chewed it with my my Scarce had
pulling up some grass,
teeth.
throat drunk the unknown juices, when sudden convulsions shook my in-
ward breast, and I felt my raiiid borne away with a set of new passions
and inclinations. Farewell, I said, farewell land, never to be revisited
more, and straight plunged into the deep. The gods of the sea welcome
me, and invite me to share with them the honour of godhead, and beg of
Tethys and Oceanus, to purge away whatever about
me was earthy and
them I was and a charm that washes away every
mortal. By purified ;

mortal stain, being nine times repeated over me, I am commanded to

bathe my breast beneath a hundred streams. Instantly rivers issuing
from various springs, and whole seas are turned over my head. Thus
far I am able to relate the particulars of this memorable change. Thus
my memory reaches but here consciousness forsook me. Whichfrom
far ;
re-
turnino- again, I perceived myself different both in body and mind,
what I had lately been. It was then I first observed this sea-green
beard, these flowing locks wherewith I sweep the sea,
broad shoulders, my
azure arms, and legs bent in form of a scaly fish. But what does this
form avail me ? What
can it give to have pleased the deities of the
joy
sea, nay, that I am become a god myself, if these things affect
not you ?
Thus far the god, and was about to have added more, when Scylla flew
from his is filled with
presence. He
and at the repulse,
rage, provoked
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIV. 479

LIBER QUARTUS DECIMUS.

AMQUE Giganteis injectam faucibus .^t- j„2^%,„,,,,

'J Ijgjl
,_
cultor tuiiiidariim a-

Arvaque Cyclopum, quid rastra, quid usus aratn, ncn injectam cigau-

Nescia, nee quicquam junctis debentia bobus. §c-z5L^?««cr,7'"rf

rastra
Liquerat Eubo'icus tumidarum cultor aquarum :
sint,
qyjd
i,.ms

Liquerat at Zanclen, adversaq ; mcEnia Kneffi, 5 quicquam junctis i,o-

»T p •
Pi J Tii •
bus. Liquerat et Za7i-
jNaviiragumque Iretum, gemiiio quod littore pres-
_.,.„
cien,m(iniaque adver-
sa R/iegi, fretumque
°
_ navifragumjqiiodpres-
AusonisB Siculseque tenet confinia terrse. ««"« gcmi»o uttore,
_ , 1 tenet conjima terra ,
^ _, ^

inde, manu magna lyrrnena per sequora lapsus, Ausnnia; sicuiaque.

Herbiferos adiit colles, atque atria Glaucus 7iiagn!i mmiTplrTyr-
Sole satae Circes, variarum plena ferarum 10 :

t^we^^u^lj^!^
Quam
_. •
simul adspexit: dicta acceptaque salute,
Tx • •
11
atria circes sutm sou
flena variarum fera-
Uiva, iJei miserere, precor: nam sola levare ntm. Quamsumtiad-
Tu potes hunc, dixit, (videar mod5 dignus) amorem. Z^^^^X^f^
preco>- miserere Dei:
Quanta
J^.
sit herbarum, Titani, potentia
.-. ..' ^ nulli,
'.^y
.
'
• r na7ntu sola potes (mo-
^ ^ 1

Quam mini cognitius; qui sum mutatus ab illis. lo db videar diguusj le-
TVT •
i i-1 "i c •
vare hunc amorem. •

JNeve mei non nota tlbl sit causa lUroriS quanta potentia her- :

barum sit, Titani, est

cognitius nulli quam mihi, qui sum mwtatus ab illis. Neve causa meifuroris sit non nota tibi.

TRANSLATION.
time the Euboic inhabitant of the swelling deep had passed
this
BY^tua thrown upon the enormous limbs of the giant, and the plains
of the Cyclopes, untouched by the harrow, or plough, nor owing aught of
fruitfulness to the joint labour of oxen. He had passed Zancle too,
and the opposite walls of Rhegium, and the sea remarkable for ship-
wrecks, which, hemmed in on either side by the shore, makes the bomi-
dary of the Ausonian and Sicilian land. Thence gliding swiftly through
the Tuscan sea, he reaches the baneful hills and palace of Circe, the
daughter of the sun, crowded with various monsters. Whom soon as he
beheld, after mutual salutations Goddess (says he), have compassion on
;

a god, for you alone can soften these pains of love, if I seem but worthy
to receive this favour at your hand the power of herbs, O Titaness is
: !

better known to none than me, who by their virtue have been changed
into a god. And that you may not remain ignorant of the cause of my
the walls
passion, I have seen Scylla upon the Italian coast, over-against
NOTES.
1. Jamipie Gigante"s.'\ We learn here in order to be revensed on Scylla, her
from our poet, that Glaucus, provoked rival,composed a subtle poison, which
at the insensibility of Scylla, who shewed she threw into a fountain where that
no regard to his passion, applied to Circe nymph was wont to bathe and by which ;

for relief; who, falling herself in love she was transformed iiUo a hideous mou-
witii the god, and meeting with no return, ster.
480 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Scylla est visa mihi in Littore in Italico Messenia moenia contra

Itnlico littare, contra
JHesseriia m<ntia. Pu-
Scyllaraihi visa est. Pudor est promissa, precesque
nier est mihi referre
mva. proinis^a, preces- Blanditiasque meas, contemptaque verba referre.
<jue, meaxqne blaniii- At tu, sive aliquid regni est in carmine ; carmen 20
tias, contemptuq ; ver-
ba. At tu, sive est ali- Ore move sacro: sive expugnacior herba est;
qnid regni in carmine,
move carmen sacro ore; Utere tentatis operosae viribus herbaa.
sive herba ct expi/g-
natior, utcre te?itatisNee medeare mihi, sanesque haec vulnera, mando :

viribus operosa-herbec.
I\ec mandoat medeare
FineQue nil opus
i
est. Partem ferat ilia caloris,
t^
n ^ l- ii nr •
^ ^
mihi,sanesq; hrpc vui- At Circe (ttcque enim nammis habetaptms ulla 25
IZViUatratpartem Talibus ingenium, seu causa est hujus in ips^;
".et;»f &.^L" Seu Venus indiciofacithoc ofFensa paterno)
ingenium aptivs tali- falia Verba refert Melius sequerere volentem, :

busjiammis;seu can- _. i -i- t ^ •

sa hiijus est in ipsa,

Optantemque eadem, parilique cupidnie captam.
%'^opaurnifacuuc) Diguus eras
ultro poteras certeque rogari
;
30 :

refert taiia verba se- gt si spem dederis, mihi crede, rogaberis ultro.
querere melius volen-
tern, optantemque ea-
:

K -, •
/> r
j\ eu dubites, absitve tuffi iiducia lormae
^
•
i
•

:
I
riii' cu^dine'!'"' Eta's Eu Bgo, ciim Dea sim, nitidi cCimfilia Solis,
feVLTuitrl'rolari/'ei
Carmine cum tantum, tantum ciam gramine possim ;

si dederisspem, crede
xjt tua sim, voveo. Spernentcm sperne sequent! 35 :

mthi, rogaberis ultro.

Neu
-^ t t
Kedde viccs uuoque
.
"-j i-^ r
duas ulciscere lacto.
j.

dubites, jidwcia-
que tu<B J'ormtF ubsit ;
— :
_ - .

en ego, ciim sim Dea, Talia tentanti, Priiis, inquit, in aequore frondes,
cum simjilia nitidi so-
ils, cum possim tan- Glaiicus, et in summis nascentur montibus algae ;

tiim carmine, c^m tan-

tum gratnine voveo vt Sospite quam Scylla nostri mutentur amores.
~
sim tua. Sperne sper- Indignata Dea est et Isedere quatenus ipsum 40
nentem, redde vices
sequenti, vlciscereque duas uno facto. Glaucus inquit illi tentati talia, frondes prius
nascentur
in (pquore,et alga' in summis mantibus, quam Scylla sospite, nostri am'ores mutentur. Dea est
indignata, et quatenus non poterat ladere ipsum,

TRANSLATION.
of Messene. I am ashamed
to repeat the promises I made, my prayers,

soothing requests, and slighted vows. But do you (if in charms there is
aught of power) pronounce charms with your sacred mouth or if herbs ;

avail more, exert the known power of wonder-working herbs. I ask you J
not to cure me, or heal the painful wound I want not to have my passion ;

extinguished, let her only burn with an equal flame. But Circe (who of all
her sex had a temper the most susceptible of this passion, whether the
cause springs from herself, or that Venus, otfended at the discovery
made by her father, inflicted this punishment in revenge) thus replies :

Pursue rather a willing maid, whose wishes correspond with your own,
and who is smitten with a like passion. You was worthy of a better fate,
and might justly claim to have been first sued to by her; nay, give but
hopes of your compliance, and you shall be sued to in your
turn doubt ;

not of success, but boldly confide in your beauty. Lo [, a goddess, the

the
!
1
daughter of the bright sun, powerful by magic charms, powerful by
juice of herbs, covet to be yours. Despise one that slignts you, make a
due return to the passion of one that loves you, and by this act avenge us
both. Glaucus thus replies, to her soliciting him in this manner: Sooner
shall verdant leaves grow on the surface of the deep, and sea-weed repair
to the tops of the mountains, than any passion for Scylla di an ge. The god-
dess was provoked, and as she could not, nor was, indeed, inclined to take
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIV. 481

Non A.,
poterat, nee vellet amans:
.'
irascitur
„ illi.'
necamansveikt.iras.
citurille qu(p est pr(P-
^~. ', .
17- , A
Qua sibi prselata Venensque oftensa repulsa, est : '««« sm, offensuque
T),' I ^• c T_i
Protinus horrendis infamia pabula succis
• •
repulsa Veneris, pro-
tiHus content pabula
Conterit Hecateia carmina miscet,
et tritis iiifamia horrendis siic-
;
cis, et miscet Hecateia
induitur carmina tritis ; indui-
CcErulaque velamina; perque ferarum 45
turq; cariUa velami-
Agmen adulantum media procedit ab aula : na, proceditqite ab me-
did,aiitd, per agmen
Oppositumque petens contra Zancleia saxa adulantUm /errarum,
Rhegion,ingreditur ferventes sestibus undas :
petensqtie Rliegion op-
positam contra Zan-
In quibus, ut solida, ponit vestigia, ripa ; cleia saxa, iiigrcditur
undas ferventes asti-
Summaq decurrit pedibus super sequora siccis. 50
; l)%is, in quibus ponit

vestigia ut in solida
Parvus erat gurges curvos sinuatus in areas. ripd ; decurritq ; sti-

Grata quies Scyllse quae se referebat ab aestu :

per summa aquora sic-
cis pedihus. Erat par-
Et maris et cceli, medio ciim plurimus orbe mis gurges, siniiatus
in curvos iircus, qiiies
Sol erat, et minimas a vertice fecerat umbras : grata Scyllcr, qii/l re-
Hunc Dea prsevitiat, portentiferisque venenis 55 J'ereOat se ab astu, et
maris, et ccsli, cum sol
Inquinat. Huic fusos latices radice nocenti erat plurimus medio
o - • .
, T
, , orbe, et J'cccrat nm-
rgit et obscurum verborum ambage novorum
bpargit: : bras minimasid ver-
tice. Dea previtiat
Ter novies carmen magico demurmurat ore. hunc ; i7iquinutque
portentiferis veneiiis.
Scylla venit, mediaque tenus descenderat alvo ; Spargit kuic latices
Cum sua foedari latrantibus inguina monstris 60 fusos nocenti radice,
* -,
•
.V — -11 et demurmurat ter 720- •

:it
Aspicit ac pnmo
primo non credens
:
corporis illas ?,« magico ore carmen
obscurum ambage 7io-
Esse sui partes,
refugitque, abigitque, timetque voru7n verborum. Seyl-
Ora proterva canum. Sed quos fusrit, attrahit una.
^^ ^««'*. (tescendeT-ai-
-p,
'^
1 que terius 7nedia alvo ;
x!itcorpusqvi8erensiemorum,crurumque,pedumque, cumaspidt sua i7igui.

Cerbereos rictus pro partibus invenit illis. 65 ^momtrts] '^ac'"primo

non credens illas esse partes sui corporis refugitque abigitque, timetq ; proterva ora canum; sed
attrahit uiid quosfugit. Et quareTis corpus femorwn, crurumq ; pedumque, inveiiit Cerbereos
rictus pro illis partibus.

TRANSLATION.

revenge on him she loved she resolves to wreak her vengeance on her
;

happier rival. Offended, therefore, at her late repulse, she pounds some
herbs, infamous for their fell juices, and repeats over them infernal
charms. Then, clad in an azure mantle, she advances from the middle of her
palace, surrounded by a troop of fawning monsters and directing her ;

course for Rhegium, which lies over against the rocks of Zancle, she
walks over the boiling waves as on a solid bank, and skims along the sur-
face of the sea with unwet feet. There was a bay, winding in form of a
bow, a favourite retreat of Scylla. Here she often sheltered herself from
the inclemency of the sea and sky, when the sun raged in the violence of
his mid course, and shortened the shadows of things. This the goddess
taints beforehand, and infects with her monster-breeding poison. Upon
this she sprinkles
juices extracted from noxious roots
and thrice nine ;

times mutters over, with magical accent, a charm darkened by a tedious

round of barbarous sounds. Scylla comes, and had waded waist-high in
the polluted stream when she observes her groin beset with barking mon-
;

sters, and, at first not believing them to be parts of her own body, she
flies, and wards off, and dreads the hostile moviths of the dogs but bears ;

along with her those whom she endeavours to avoid, and searching for her
thighs, legs, and feet, finds these parts changed into Cerberean monsters.
„ 2 1
482 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Rabiesq;<;anumstat; gtatque caiiuni Table s subjectaque terga ferarum :

rum coherent truncis tiuncis uteroque exstante cotiEerent.

"''""'" Inguinibus
2r«;!.tr' II.FlevitainansGlaucus;nimiilmquehostiliterusaB
"^^"^^^ herbarum fugit connubia Circes.
jiI^kXM^^'^'^- ^
bia Circes nimium im- ScvUa loco mansiti est data copia primum,
tiliterusa viribus her- _ •'_,. ,.
cumq;
•• . tj-, rtt -,•

bariim. Scyiia man- In Cifces odmm socus spoliavit Ulysseii. 71

% [^tpriZlTdaTa.
in odium Circes, spo-
Mox eadem Teucras fuerat mersura carinas ;
Qui nunc quoque
Uavit Vlysscn sociis.
]\^j prius in scopulum,'T
,^i_ r T-i saxeus exstat, •-•-.
Mox eadem fveratmer- Transfomiata loret. Scopuluni quoq navita ;
vitat.

^';;:;S;>%/7;-r: m. Hanc ubi Trojans remis, avidamque Cha-

formata in scoyitlum,
rvbdiu
'j'^^
75
qui nu?ic quoque ex- _
^
stttt saxnis. Navita
litat quouue scnvu-
Eviccre rates littus adessent
1 cum iamprope
. .
7 t± -i r 1
lum. Ausonmm Libycas vento reteruntur ad oras.
:

fel^h^ce^'J^^^aX Excipit ^nean iUic animoque, domoque,

damq; ckaryMin re- ]Nfo^ hene discidium Phrvoii latura mariti,
7nis, cum ju prope c^•
III
y
•
r \^ r- i Qf\
adessent Ausoninm lit- bidoms
mquc pyra sacFi :suD imagine lacta oLi
tus refer uittur vetito r t-iP x i „, „ „ „^
deceptaque decipii omnes.
i

ad Lybicas oras. Sido- IncuDuit f erro :

2LVr,/X,l^r- ^ursus arenosse fugiens nova moenia terrse,

riti, excipit .^iieanii-
lie animoque, domoque,
Ad sedemque Ervcis, fidumque relatus Acesten '
c^ n •
i
• •
i. \ 4-

incuintitq; ferro in feacnticat ; tumulumque sui genitoris nonorat.

fhL^ {^cri; 'fecepTa- Quasque rates Iris Junonia pene cremarat, 85
que, decipii omnes. Rursus fugiens nova mcenki arenosa; terrte, relatusqiie ad sedem Erycis, fi-
dumque Acesten, sacrificat ; lioiiorutqtie tumulum sui genitoris. Holvitque rates quas Iris Ju-
nonia pene cremAr at,
TRANSLATION.
The rage of the dogs continues, and their backs grow out from her
shorned groin, and jutting womb.
II. Glaucus his lover mourns, and shuns the embraces of Circe, who
had thus cruelly exerted the power of herbs against her rival. Scylla
remained in the same place, and when first an opportunity offered, robbed
the
Ulysses of his companions. Soon after she had contrived too to sink
Trojan fleet, but that she was first transformed into a rock, which is

still seen rising above the water in cliffs. The mariners shun with care
the rock likewise.
III. When the Trojan fleet had passed this, and craving Charybdis,
when they were now within sight of the Ausonian shore, a strong wind
drove them back to the coast of Lybia. There Sidonian Dido, whom the
Fates had doomed soon to mourn the departure of her Phrygian spouse,
receives .^neas into her palace, and shares with him her affection and
realm and raising a pile, under pretence of a sacrifice, fell upon the
:

sword, his fatal present ; and, having deceived herself, deceived all her
and
subjects. But jEneas, leaving the new walls of this sandy region,
at the seat of and his friend Acestes, offers
arriving again Fryx, trusty
sacrifice,and pays funeral honours at his father's tomb and setting sad :

with his fleet, which Iris, the minister of Juno, had almost consumed in
NOTES.
si. Incubuit ferro.] Ovid, continuing follows Virgil, by whom the story of the
the relation of the adventures of jEneas, loves of Dido and ^neas was first feigned,
passes liastily to his shipwreck on the to do honour to Rome at the expense of
coast of Africa, and mentions but slightly Carthage, in the persons of tlieir respec-
the death of Dido. It will be sufficient tive founders. See the translation ot
to observe here, that Ovid in this account Virgil into prose.
Vol. I. p. 8.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIV. 483

Solvit et Hippotadae regnum, terrasque calenti

: «' reiuiquu: regmm
Cir
Culture
n Ai.i'j > !• Hivpotadff, terrasque •

fumantes, Acneloiadumque relmquit fumantes caienti tui-

Sirenum scopulos. Orbataque praeside pinus ^^^i^lL^pi.
Inarimen, Prochytenque legit, sterilique locatas misqueorbatapraside,
Colle Pithecusas, habitantum nomine dictas. 90 chytenque, puhecu-
Quippe Deiim genitor fraudem, et perjuria quondam ToiiJ aictls' nomhtc
Cercopum exosus, gentisque admissa dolosae ; l"Mlor^'Dkm^''^uon.
In deforme viros animal mutavit ut idem '^'"^ exosus jraudcm :
-J-^•
•
•! 1 •!
•
1
• et perjuria Cercopum,
• •

Uissimiles nommi possent, similesque videri.

,

admissaquedoiosagen-

Membraq; contraxit: naresq; a fronte resimas 95 %or',T"anhS ut

rp in-
Contudit, et rusjis peraravit anilibus ora.
-11
lotaque velatos naventi corpora villo
Misit in has sedes. Nee non priiis abstulit usum
'f"^"!
possent videri
at.ssiimles stmilesque
homim; contraxitq;
naresreMmTs&frmie
Verborum, et natse dira in perjuria linguae. Z^V::^:;%ui'^:^'L
Posse queri tantiim rauco stridore relinquit. 100 '"t^: sedes, veiatosunoA
TT •• ^^ *"'"'corpora, Jla-
Tf-r
IV. Has ubi
1
•

Parthenopeia dextra
prffiteriit,
' J
et
T-» 1
vuio; ?iec non
•• 1 A
wm
Moenia deseruit laeva de parte canori :
vlrlormn \t ilngum

^olidffi
tumulum, et loca foeta palustribus ulvis r^if.L^t^^Sote
T,,,.
Littora Cumarum, vivacisque antra Sibvllse
1 ^^
Intrat: et, ut manes adeat per Averna paternos,
gueri rauco stridere.
ly. Ubi pra-teriit has,
.

et deseruit mania Par-

•'
.

Orat. At ilia diu vultus tellure moratos 106 ^IZl^aTL^

Erexit: tandemque Deo furibunda recepto, iumcanori^oiida;et
.„.
__ ^.K . littora Cumarum, lo- .^^.'
Magna petis,fdixit, vir factis maxime, cujus cafcetauivispaiustri-
D. i
extera per ferrum, pietas spectata per ignes.
bus, intratque antrum
•
j_ .

vivkcisSibyiia;,etorat,
ut adeat manes paternos per Averna. At ilia erexit vulttis diu moratos tellure, tandemque fu-
'•

ribunda Deo recepto, dixit: Vir maxitn'c factis, citjus dexteraiwtspectata j>er ferrum, pietas per
ignes, petis magna.
TRANSLATION,
flames, he coasts along the kingdom of ^olus, and the lands smoking
with sulphur, and the rocks of the Sirens, and the daughters of Achelous ;

and his ships, now destitute of a pilot, make Inarime, and Prochyte, and
Pithecusaj, so called from the name of its inhabitants situate on a barren
hill. For of old the father of the gods, detesting the fraud and perjuries
of the Cercopians, and the crimes of that fraudulent nation, changed the
inhabitants into a deformed animal, that differing widely from the hu-
man make, yet bears some resemblance of it. He contracted their limbs,
and flattened their noses with their foreheads, and furrowed their faces
with the wrinkles of old age, and covering their bodies thick with yellow
hair, settled them in these habitations but first deprived them of the ;

power of speech, and restrained their tongues, which they had abused by
hideous perjuries. He left them only a power of complaining with a
harsh disagreeable noise.
IV. Passing these, and leaving the walls of Parthenope on his right,
and on his left the tomb of Milenus, the son of Jilolus, skilled in the brazen
trumpet he makes the coasts of Cumse, thick set with marshy fens, and
;

enters the venerable cave of the sibyl and begs that he may be per- ;

mitted to pass through Avernus, and visit the ghost of his sire. The sibyl,
at length, raised her eyes, which she had kept long fixed upon the ground ;

and, filled with the inspiring god, said O hero, whose actions render you :

great, whose right hand has been tried by the sword, whose piety the
flames proclaim, the request you make is great yet, Trojan, lay aside ;

2 12
484 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Tameti, Trojane,pone Pone metum

metum,potierepetttis:
cogMscesqve me duce,
_,, .
tameii,I Trojaiie, "^

regna novissima muncli 111

Qomos, ct
.
:
•
Tii-i
potiere petitvs :

Jjilysiasquc
J::lt/.iias domos, et vo-
vissima regna miindi, Me duce cognosces, simulachraque cara parentis. '

caraq ; simiilachra pa- Invia virtuti nulla est via. Dixit et auro :
rentis. Nulla via est

Fulgentera ramum silva Junonis Avernse

invia virtuti. Dixit:
et 7nnnstravit r avium
Julgeiitcm auro silvH Monstravit: jussitque suo divellere tr unco.
115
Averiiff Juiwnis, jus-
sitqtie divellere eum
Paruit jEneas et formidabilis Orci
sua trtinco. jJitieas
Vidit opes, atavosque suos, umbramque senilem
paruit: ft viilit opes
J'ormidabiUs Orel, su-
'osque et aivs, um- Magnanimi Anchisee: didicitquoquejuralocorum;
brtimq ; sciiiloii maf- Quaeque novis essent adeunda pericula beliis.
nanimi Aiiclii'^rc: (li-
120
dicit quogue jura lo-
Inde ferens lassos averse tramite passus.
corum periciilaq
esse lit adeuniia
} quic
ii<>i<is
Cum duce Cumsea fallit sermone laborem.
beliis, Inde
lassos passus ai'erso
ferciis Dunique iter horrendum per opaca crepuscula carpit j
ti amitc,f(iUit liihorcm
Seu Dea tu proesens, seu Dis gratissima, dixit ;

sermoiie cnm duee Cu- Numinis instar eris semper mihi meque fatebor :
niirA. Dumquecarpit
iter linrroidum per Muneris esse tui quae me loca mortis adire,
;
125
opuca crt jmsciila, dix-
it : Sen tu es Deapra- Quae loca me visae voluisti evadere mortis.
seu grtttissi?iifi
sens,
Diis ; eris semper mild
Pro quibus a'erias meritis evectus ad auras
instar iniminis, j'ate-
borq ; me e.tse tui m.u-
Templa tibi statuam tribuam tibi thuris honorem.
;

neris ; qua voliiisti me Respicit hunc vates, et suspiratibus haustis,

adire lota mortis, que
voluisti me evadere lo- Nee Dea sum, dixit nee sacri thuris honore 130
;

cu vita mortis. Pro

quibus meritis, ego
Humanum dignare caput. Neu nescius erres ;

evectus ad dirias au- Lux seterna mihi, carituraque fine dabatur,

ras, statuam templa o- • •
Tti. u •
^ ^ i-
•

oi mea virgmitas FhcBDO patuisset amanti.

j.

tibi; trihuam honorein

thuris Vates respicit hunc; et suspiratibus haustis, dixit: Nee sum Dea, nee dignare
tibi.
humanuin caput honore sacri thuris. Neu erres nescius, lux ceterna, carituraq ; fine dabatur
mihi, si mea virginitas patuisset Peabo amanti.

TRANSLATION,
fear, you shall accomplish your desire and, with me for your guide, shall ;

visit the Elysiau abodes, those remotest regions of the universe, and the
dear image of your father: Nothing is denied to nrtue, she said, and
shewed him the branch of shining gold, in the wood of Avernian Juno,
and commanded him to tear it from the trunk. jEneas obeyed and saw ;

the formidable realms of Oreus, his own ancestors, and the aged ghost of
magnanimous Anchises he learned too the laws and customs of the place,
:

and what dangers he was to vmdergo in a new train of wars. Thence re-
treating with weary steps, he diverts the fatigue of the journey by hold-
ing discourse with the Cumsean sibyl, his guide and, while he pursues ;

his dreadful way through dreary

twilight, thus addresses
her O thou, :

whether some present propitious deity, or one most acceptable to the

powers above, by me you shall always be respected as a deity and I will ;

own my life to he your gift, Avho hast granted me to visit the realms of
death, and escape in safety from these dreary abodes. In return of which
services, when I reach the regions of light, I will build a temple to your
honour, and worship you with offerings of incense. The prophetess looked
back upon him, and, fetching a sigh, Neither am I (said she) a goddess,
nor is it becoming to honour a mortal with offerings of incense and, that ;

you not through ignorance err, light eternal, and Avithout end, was
may
offered me, would I but have yielded to Phoehus's
passion. Yet
while he
hopes for this, while he endeavours to corrupt my innocence with pre-
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lie. XIV 48 a

Dum tamen hancsperat, dumpraecorrumpere donis ^""»'" f**"" ^pcrat

hanc, (ivm cupit prte
Me cupit; Elege, ait virgo Cumsea, quid optes: corrHmpcre me ddnis,
ait : f-irgo Cumira, e-
Optatis potiere tuis. Ego pulveris hausti 136 1
J_ quid
lige ,'. Off csypotiere
Ostendens cumulum, quodT-
haberet corpora nulvis ".
''''«
fiti.i optntis. '^so, os
V*^"'^^-
e )i dc tin cumulum
rp , .,
. . , V •'
jf^i-ii'jio,
. teiidcns
t cum; hau-
1 otmini natales contmgere vana rogavi, stis pulverisj va?ia ru-
favi tot natules cou-
Excidit optarem juvenes quoque protinus annos. tiugvre 7nihi, quot cor-
Hoc tamen ille mihi dabat, seternamque juventam, pora
£xi:i4it
pulvis halicret.
tit
quoqne pro-
Si venerem
Contempt© munere Phoebi
tiniis optitrenijuienes
paterer. entios. Illf; tamen. da-
Innuba permaneo. Sed jam felicior aetas but lios mihi, trternam-
ii pa-
Terga dedit, tremuloq; gradu venit segra senectus ; TcZr"rem.
em. Mii-
Quajpatiendadiu est. Nam jam mihi saecula septem pZm^uZ%S"'%d
Acta vides superest, numeros ut pulveris aequem,
: fcik-ior atus jam de-

lercentum messes, tercentum musta videre. 14o agm, qna; est diu pa.

Tempus erit, cum me de tanto corpore parvam ^".' 'noI %'Tzl

Longa
. 1°.
dies faciat consumptaque
. T^
membra senecta
:
i^ f" septem scvuia ac.
ta mihi. Sapcrest VI-
Admmmium rediganturonus.
,.
J\ec amata videbor,
.

dere tercentmn »»«.

Nee placuisse Deo. Phoebus quoque forsitan ipse utlequemlmimrlTpui
veris. Tempus erit
Vel non agnoscet, vel dilexisse negabit. 151 cum longa dies J'aciat
me parvam, de tunto
Usque adeo mutata ferer nuUique videnda, :
corpore; memhraque
Voce tamen noscar. Vocem mihi fata relinquent. consicmpta senectd, re-
digantur ad minimum,
onus : nee videbor amata, nee placuisse Deo. Forsitan ipse quoque Phoebus, vel non agnoscet,
vel negabit dilexisse. Usque adeoferar mutata, videndaque nulli, tamen noscar voce, fata re-
linquent vocem mihi.
TRANSLATION.
sents, Choose, says he, Cumsean maid, what you most passionately long
for you shall enjoy your wish, I, pointing to a heap of dust that
;
lay on
the ground, vainly asked, that I might see so many natal days as there
were grains of dust in that heap but forgot at the same time to wish,
;

that these years might be accompanied with all the vigour of youth. Yet
these he offered me, and eternal youth, would I but submit to his lawless
love. But I, rejecting the offer of Phoebus, continue mimarried. But now
the happier stage of life is fled, and crazy old age advances with
trembling
steps, which I must long endure. Already seven ages are past and, to ;

equal the number of grains in the heap, I must yet behold three hundred
harvests, and three hundred vintages. The time will come, in a long suc-
cession of years, that this body of mine, great as it is, shall be reduced
to a small size, and my members,
impaired by old age, shall shrink al-
most to nothing nor shall I seem to have been beloved by, or to have
;

pleased, a god. Perhaps, too, Phoebus himself will either forget me, or
disown that he ever loved me. So greatly shall I be changed yet, though :

visible to none, I shall still be known by my voice the Fates have de- ;

creed to leave me that.

NOTES.
142. Sed jam felicior alas terga dedit.'} thing but ingratitude, and was punished
The next remarkable story is that of the in the enjoyment of her vain desire for ;

amours of the Sibyl and Apollo. That god, having forgot to ask that her youthful vi-
say.s our poet, falling in love with her, she gour niisht be continued through that
promised to receive his addresses, if he length of years, she lived till she became
would grant her to live as many years as a burden to her.'elf ; oppressed with old
there were grains of sand in a heap she age, and so emaciated, that she had no-
poiiiled to. But, after she had obtained tliing left but the voice.
her request, she repaid tiie god with no-
486 P. OVIDII NASONIS
V. Sibylla memor an- y. Talia convexum per iter memorante
.. Sibylla
tc talia per convexum _,,., _,,., _,*.. icc
ifer, Troius jEncas e- SediDus EuDoicain Stygiis emeiffit in urbem ioo
in. Euboicam urbem: Troius Ancas sacrisque
: c Hiore litatis,

•r;S". ««ori".<,i Littora adit nondum nutricis habentia nomen.

ditm habentia nomen
nutricis. Htc quoque
quoQue substitcrat post tsedia longa laborum
-^
JJic
™«- -»t tti • •

Neritius Nentius Macareus, comes experientis Ulyssei,

Macareus

Zd^TaborZ! cZfe^s Desertum quond^m mediis qui lupibus ^tnae 160

^"^u Aci^n^i. Noscit Achaemeniden: improvisoque repertum
miratus, Qui tc casusve, Deusve
den quondam deser- ViveFB
ttim mediis ruplbus
j^ttKF, miratusq ; Servat, Achgemenide ? Cur, inquit, barbara
il-
Graium
ium reperf.um impro-
Prora vehit ? vestrae quae terra carinae ?
viso vivere,inquit Qui : petitur
165
casusve, Deusve, ser- Talia
vat te, Acliccmcnide ? jam non hirsutus amictu,
quserenti,
cur bnrbara prora
hit Graimn qua. terra
ve- Jam suus, et spinis conserto tegmine nullis,
pctitur vestrcE carina? Fatur Achaemenides : Iterum Polypliemon,
etillos
Achameiiidex jam non
hirsutus amictu, jam Aspiciam fluidos humano
sanguine rictus ;
SIMS, et „.tegmine
- con-
,
.

serto nuUis spinis, fa-

. Hac
mihi si potior
'
domus
Ithaceque '
carina ;
tur illi quarcnti talia: iteriim aspiciam Polyphemon, et illos rictus Jluidos humano sanguine ; si
domus, Ithaceq; est potior mihi hdc carina;

TRANSLATION.
V. Thesibyl, thus relating her adventures as they mounted
the rising
wa}'^, .^neas, at length, rises from the Stygian realms,
and reaches the
Euboic city of Cumge. Here, sacrificing according to custom, he sails ;
and arrives on the coast, not as yet distinguished by his nurse's name.
Here too, after a tedious rovmd of wandering, Neritian Macareus, one of
the companions of sage Ulysses, had stopt who kncAv again the son of
;

Achsemenes, formerly abandoned, amid the rocks of ^tna, and wonder-

ing to see him, thus unexpectedly found, alive, What chance or god
has
preserved thee (says he), son of Achsemenes ? does a barbarian Why
ship carry a Greek ? What region do you make for ? The son
of Achse-
menes, now not rough in his apparel, now himself again, his garments
no more tacked together with thorns, thus replies May I be again doomed :

in human gore,
to visit Polyphemus, and those
rapacious jaws drenched
if Ithaca, or even
my home, is to me more dear than this ship if I respect ;

NOTES.
l6l. Noscit Ach(Pmeniden.'] The various nour, as well as of his companions, they
of
adventures that arc here related of Ulys- plunged themselves into the pleasures
ses, by Macareus and his companion, can- a voluptuous court ; which gave rise to
not be fully explained in the short com- the fiction of their having been trans-
pass of these notes ; and, therefore, I shall formed into swine: and what is added of
only mark some of the chief circumstances. Mercury's giving that prince an herb,
Ulysses was ill-treated in Sicily by the named Moly, whereby he had evaded
Cyclopes, whom, as they were a brutal, sa- Circe s charms, is to teach us, that having,

vage race, the poets represent as real at length, recovered himself from his re-
his com-
maueaters ; and, instead of saying they missness, he had given counsel to
had slain some of Ulysses' companions panions to quit so dangerous an abode.
who were wandering in the island, assert This plant, so difficult to be found, is the
that they had eat them up. Circe also prudence which Ulysses exerted to extri-
lived much about the time of the Trojan cate his soldiers from the seat of volup-
war, and therefore there is no improba- tnousness ;
it may be supposed, that
and,
bihty in supposing, with the poets, that all the transformations which Homer,
Ulysses in liis wanderings arrived at her Ovid, and the other poets, say this priu-
palace. The charms of this princess hav- cess wrought, were more the effects of
ing made him neglectful of his own ho- her charms and beauty, than of her magic.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIV. 487

Si minils ^nean
veneror genitore nee unquam si veneror ^nean : tiii-

Mils genitore, nee un-

Esse satis potero,
prgestem licet omnia gratiis. 171 quaiti potero esse satis
gratus, licet prttstem
Quod loquor, et spiro ; ccelumque, et sidera Solis omnia. Ille dec/it quod

Respicio (Possimne ingratus, et immemor esse?) loquor et spiro, respi-

cioque cceliim, et sidera
Ille dedit ;
quod non anima hsec Cyclopia in ora solis ( Possimne esse in-
gratus et immemor?)
Venit : et ut lumen jam nunc vitale relinquam ; quod h(rc anima. non
Aut tumulo, aut certe non ilia condarin alvo. 176 tenit in ora Ct/clopis ;
et lit jam nunc relin-
Quid mihi tunc animi (nisi si timor abstulit omnem quamhimen vitale, aut
cnndar tumulo, aut
Sensum, animumque) fuit; cum vos petere alta re- certe non in illi alro.
Quid animi fuit tunc
lictus Willi, (nisi si timor ab-
*«"•«"»
— 1 uora prospexi
^quora_ r r ? volui inclamare sed bosti
hosti •"'"/'^ "'""^'f*
iin'niuinque) cum re-
;
'

Prodere me timui vestrae quoque clamor Ulyssis lict us prospexi vos pe-
:
tere alta tequora? vo-
Penerati nocuit. Vidi, cum monte revulso 181 lui inclamare sed ti- :
mui prodere me hasti:
Immanem scopulum medias permisit in undas. clamor Ulyssis pene
Vidi iterum, veluti tormenti viribus acta, nocuit vcstrie quoque
rati. Vidi, cum monte
Vasta giganteo jaculantem saxa lacerto. revulso, permisit im-
manem scopulum'i in
Et, ne deprimeret fluctusve, lapisve carinam 185 medias undas. Vidi ite-
Pertimui ; jam me non esse oblitus in ilia. rumjaculantem gigan-
teo lacerto vasta saxa,
Ut ver5 fuga vos ab acerba morte removit; veluti acta viribus tor-
Tii ",
1 r , i IT? 1 menti. Et pertimui ne
1 1 1 1 J.
Ille
quidem totam iremebundus obambulat/Citnam, fuctusve, inpjsve, de-
- - -
primeret carinam; ob-
Prsetentatque manu silvas et luminis orbus litus me Jam non esse
;

190 in ilia. Ut vero fuga

Rupibus incursat foedataque brachia tabo
:
rtmovit vos ab aceibi
In mare protendens, gentem exsecratur Achivam. morte ille quidem fre- ;
mebuudus obambulat
Atque ait O si quis referat mihi casus Ulyssen,
: totam j-Etnum,priEten-

quem mea
Aut aliquem e sociis, in sseviat ira, tatque silvas manu,et
or bus luminis incursat
rapibus ; protendensque brachia fadata tabo in mare, exsecratur Achivam gentem. At que ait:
O si quis casus referat Ulyssen mihi, aut aliquem h sociis, in quem. meaira saviut,

TRANSLATION.
^neas less than my own
nor, when I have done all in my power,
father ;

can I shew myself sufficiently grateful. That I speak and breathe, and
behold the heavens, and the splendour of the sun, (is it possible to be un-
grateful, or unmindful ?) I owe all to him: that this life of mine was not
the prey of the Cyclop, and that, when I resign my mortal breath, I shall be
buried in a tomb, or, at least, not in the enormous belly of that monster.
What were then, do you imagine, my thoughts (unless fear took away all
thought and reflection) when I, abandoned, beheld your fleet launched
into the main. I woulil have called to you, but dreaded betraying myself
to my enemy the shouts of Ulysses had well nigh proved fatal to your
;

ship. I saw him, when tearing away the fragment of a mountain, he

whirled the immense mass into the middle of the sea. I saw him too,
with his gigantic arm, tossing huge stones, as if driven by the force of a
warlike engine and trembled lest the stones, or waves, shoidd sink the
;

ship, forgetting that I was now no longer concerned in her fate. But,
when a happy escape had secured you from a cruel death, he, foaming with
rage, traverses iEtna, and with his hand gropes out the woods and, being ;

deprived of sight, runs against the rocks and, stretching out his arms, ;

defiled with gore, over the sea, pours execrations upon the nation of the
Greeks and says
;
: O
would but some accident bring back this Ulysses,
or any of his companions, on whom to vent my rage whose bowels I !
488 P. OVIDII NASONIS
cujus viscera edam
cujus viventia iTiernbrd
Viscera cujus edam, cujus viventia dextra
ianiemmeadei'tra,cu. Membra mea laniem, cuius mihi sanguis inundet
.JUS sanguis inundet /->,,. -!•• -i ii -i "'
iri/»
suttnr mm, ef eiisi vjruttur, ct elisi trepiclent sub dentibus artus ; lyo
arttis trepident sub
ftentibus: qiiam nul- Quam nullum, aut leve sit damnum mihi lucis
lum aut leve damtivm
lucis adeptcB sit mihif ademptae !

Hsec, et plura ferox. Me luridus occupat horror,

Ferox (Usit/i<re etplu-
ra. Luridus horror
fepectantem vultus etiamuum ceede madentes,
occupat me spectantein
et inanem luminis orbem, 200
7enusl'>^Z'c"ifs. Crudelcsq ; manus,
manus, et orbem Membraci1' humano concretam sanouinebarbam.
<{ue
manem Ivmiins,
braque,etbarbam\con-
mem- __
Mors
: et
erat autc oculos;
, ..,^»
.„
minimum tauieu lUa maio-
,

cretam humano san-

guine. Mors erat ante rum.
mdunummZrum^Et ^t jam preusurum, jamjam mea viscera rebar
jam rebar cum prensu- In sua mersurum
ritm, Jamjam mersu- mentique hserebat imago :

rum mea viscera in Temporis illius, quo vidi bina meorum 205
sua. Jmagoq illius
;

temporis harebatmen-
Ter quater affligi sociorum corpora terrse.
ti, quo vidi bina cor-
pora meorum sociorum,
Quae super ipse jacens, hirsuti more leonis,
iiffigi ter quatcrterra:
super qutE ip-^e jacens,
Visceraque, et carnes, oblisisque ossa medullis,
more hirsuti leonis, Semanimesque artus avidam condebat in alvum.
condebat in
altum
avidam
visceraque, et
Me tremor invasit. Stabam sine sanguine moestus
ca7-nes, ossaq ; oblliis
medullis, semianimesq;
Mandentemq; videns, ejectantemq ; cruentas 211
artus. Tremor invasit Ore Gapes, mero glomerata vomentem
et irustra :
me : stabam mcestus
sine sanguine; vidensa; lalianngebam misero mihi rata parari.
mandentem, ejectan-
temq ; cruentas dopes Perq ; dies multos latitans ; omnemque tremiscens
ore, et vomcntemj'rus-
tra glomerata' mero>;
Ad strepitum, mortemque timens, cupidusque mo-
Jingebam taliafata pa- riri. 215
rari misero mihi: lali-
tansq; per multos dies,
Glande famem pellens, et mista frondibus herba :

tremiscensque ad om-
7i€in, stvcpituiii ti-
Haud
'I'l^'
Solus, iuops, exspes, leto pceneeoue
i i relictus,
navim
',

me7isq; mortem,'cupi- procul aspexi lougo post tempore :

dusque moriri, pellens

famem glande, et herba mixta frondibus, solus, inops, exspes, relictus leto panaque, longo tem-
pore post, aspexi navim haud procul :
TRANSLATION.
might devour, whose quivering limbs I might tear asunder with my right
hand, whose blood might drench my throat, and his crushed limbs quiver
under my teeth how would I account the loss of my sight as inconsider-
:

able, or nothing This, and more, he said, burning with rage. Pale hor-
I

ror shook my joints, as I beheld his countenance, still besmeared with

blood, his cruel hands, his forehead without an eye, his huge members,
and beard clotted with human gore. Death was full in my view but that ;

appeared the least of evils. And now I expected that he would seize me,
now to be swallowed up and had before my eyes a remembrance of the
;

time, when I saw him snatch two of my companions, and dash them
against the ground and, standing over them like a shaggy lion, buried in
;

his voracious paunch their bowels, and flesh, and bones with Avhite mar-
row, and quivering limbs. A trembling seized me I stood pale and de- ;

jected, and, seeing him grinding

and disgorging the bloody morsels, and
undigested lumps of flesh, rolled in wine, fancied that I must
in my turn
submit to a like fate. And, concealing myself for many days, trembling
at every noise, dreading death, and yet wishing for it appeasing my hun- :

ger with acorns, and herbs mixed with leaves solitary, destitute, hope- ;

less, abandoned to death and vengeance, after many days I espied a ship
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIV. 489

Oravique fusram o;estu, ad littusque cucurri ; oraviquefugamgestu,-

I-,, r^ •
\- rv •
/^^/-> concurrique ad llctH!<,
• •

hit movi, (jraiumque ratis Irojana

recepit. 220 et movi, ratisque Tro-
Tu quoque pande tuos, comitum gratissime casus, T^qJogVirl^ZTime
Et ducis, et turbee, qua tecum credita ponto conntum pande tuos
ii.v^ COL.
est.
t'-J casus, etducis.ettur-
7C -111 c i.%
/tiOlon lUe rerert lusco regnare proiundo ; ^'^. ?"«' est credita

jEolon Hippotaden, cohibentem carcere ventos ^"lue '^refort Moion :

Quos bovis inclusos tergo, memorabile munus, Vo^^ZnWppoZden^

Dulicbium sumpsisse^ ducem, flatuque
T-
secundo226 'cohibentem. ventos car-
cere J quos rcfcrt dti-
T •-! r. . .

liucibus isse novem, et terrain aspexisse petitam <-<»» DuUchmm sump. :

T) •
A ,
i s'isse inclusos fersn bo-
Jrroxima post nonam cum sese Aurora moveret, rismumis,mrmo,ubn,;
Invidia socios prsedeeque cupidine ductos,
l7c,m%/%7u ^'et^'^at
Esse ratos aurum, dempsisse ligamina ventis 230 J'W"*^ petuam ter-
C., ,\^
um quibus Aisse retro, ^iv ram Tcfert at cum au-
per quas modo venerat undas. rora proxima post m-
,
:

1
:

^oliique ratem portus reperisse tyranni. 'ci^' ductZtivuiZ' ct

Inde Lami veterem in urbem

M^ Leestry^onis, inquit,
Venimus. Antiphates terra regnabat
^
" in ilia.
-I
'^'^:^t:4:^
iiga7ni?ia ventis, tum
quibus (refert) ratem
issus ad nunc ego sum, numero comitante duo- isse retro, per undas,
„„„,
1 Uill
,
.
, ^

0'^P\
4i,00
per quas modd venerat,
reperlsseque partus
Vixque fug;^ quaesita salus.. .^.'.mihique.
comitique, ^oiutyramii. inde,
f^ \ ^o^T- T- mquit, venimus in ur-
lertlUS e nobis LsestrygOniS impia tinXlt bemveterem Lami Lie.

Ora cruore suo :

fugientibus instat et agmen regiabat'in ma'terri.
Concitat Antiphates. Coeunt, et saxa trabesque fZc:Zm::^oT.oru^
OT.
Continuant:' mers;untque viros,' merffuntque ca- i,ix
comitante; saiusque
erat OT. quirsita JugA,
nnas : 240 mihique, comitique.
Una tamen, quse nos, ipsumque vehebat Ulyssen, l,Zj'alr^a'L^ltrygonis
suo cruore. Antiphates
instat fugientibus, et concitat agmen. Co'iunt et continuant saxa trabesque, merguntque viros,
merguntque carinas. Tamen una qii<c vehebat nos, ipsumque Ulyssen,
TRANSLATION.
at some little ;
and running
to the shore, by gestures
distance signified
my desire to escape. I prevailed and, though a Greek, was received on
;

board a Trojan ship. Do you too, most beloved of all my companions, re-
late, in your turn, your adventures, and those of your commander, and of
the crew that, with you, were exposed to the dangers of the main.
He relates that ^olus reigns over the islands of the Tuscan sea ^olus, ;

the son of Hippotas, who confines the winds in caves which, shut up in ;

a bull's hide, he gave to the Dulichian general a remarkable present ;

!

Favoured thus, Ulysses for nine days steered his course with favourable
gales, and saw at lest the wished-for land but that, upon the appear- ;

ance of the tenth morning, his companions, partly prompted by envy,

partly by a desire of spoil, fancying the enclosed winds to be gold, untied
the ligaments that confined them which, driving them back through the ;

seas they had lately crossed, again forced the ship into the port of the
^olian king. Thence we arrived at the ancient city of Lamus, the Lses-
trygonian Antiphates reigned at that time in those parts. I was imme-

diately despatched to him, accompanied by two of our crew and, with ;

much ado, escaped by flight with one of my companions the third tinged :

with his blood the mouth of the impious Lsestrygonian. Antiphates raises
a body of men, and pursues us as we fled. They flock together, and toss
after us stones and beams without ceasing, sinking both men and ships ;
490 P. OVIDII NASONIS

effugit. Parte soclo-

Amissa sociorum
ru7n amissa, dolentea, EfFugit. parte, dolentes,
conquestique miUla,
allahimiir illis tcrris
Multaque conquesti terris allabimur illis,
qiias cernis prucul Quas procul hinc cernis. Procul hinc tibi (cerne)
hinc. Cerite, proctil
hinc insula est videii- videnda est
da, visa mihi. Tuque,
8 justis.iitne Trodm,
Insula, visa mihi. Tuque, 6 justissime Troum,
note DcA (neqne eiiim, Nate Dea (neque enim finito Marte vocandus 246
yEnea, marte finito, cs
vocandtui hostis)mon€0, Hostis es, ^nea) moneo, fuge littora Circes.
lit tor a Circes.
fuge
Piiiu religata in Cir-
Nos quoque Circseo religata in littore pinu
ciro lHtore,iios
memores
quoque
Antipliata:,
Antiphatse memores, immansuetique Cyclopis,
immansuctiqtie Cyclo- Ire negabamus ; et tecta ignota subire. 250
pis, negahamiis ire, et
subire ignota tacta, Sorte sumus lecti. Sors me, fidumque Polyten,
Sumiis lecti sorte. Sors
misit ad Circtca mania Eurylochumque simul nimiique Elpenora vini.
me, fidumque Pol;/te?i, Bisque novem socios Circsea ad mcenia misit.
simulquc Eurylnchum,
£lpeiioraque iiimii vi- Qute simul attigimus, stetimusque in limine tecti ;
lli, bisque novcni so-
Mille lupi, mistaeque Iupis ursaeque, leseque 255
cios. Qua; simul atti-
gimus, stetinmsque in Occursu fecere metum ; sed nulla timenda,
limine tecti ; mille lu-
pi, ur sir que, leaque
mis'tc iupis fecere nie-
Nullaque erat nostro factura in corpore vulnus.
tum occursu: sed milla Quinetiam blandas movere per aera caudas,
<trat ii,nendu,mtUaqite
erat factura vulnus "* Nostraque «adukutcs comitant vcstiffia
"^
donee :

i-, . . .
nan
Excipiunt lamulee, perque atria marmora tecta ioU
•,

nostra corpore. Quin-

etiam movere per dilra
blandas caudas, adu- Ad dominam ducunt. Pulchro sedit ilia recessu,
lante.sque comitant
nostra vestigia ; donee Sublimi solio ; pallamque induta nitentem,
famnlte accipiuiit nos,
diicunlque ad do?ni- Insuper aurato circumvelatur amictii.
n'am'peT atria 'tecta
Ncreides, Nympli^eq ; simul, quae vellera motis 264
^ulchr7'recfssu!^fub. Nulla trahunt digitis ; nee fila sequentia ducunt,
Crramiua dispouunt ; sparsosquc sine ordine flores
paHam''nite'nt^em"'ctr-
cnmvelatur i?isupcr aurato am'/ctii. Nere'ides, simulqiie nympha-, qua" trahvnt tmlla vellera
7notis digitis, nee ducunt sequentia Jila, dispoimnt gramina, secernuntqiie calat his flores sparsos
si)ie ordine
TRANSLATION.
yet oue, in which we, and Ulysses himself, sailed, escaped. Having thus
lost part of our crew, grieved, and complaining heavily, we arrive at length

upon yonder coast Avhich you see hence afar off. Look far hence is to ;

be seen an island, these eyes of mine have seen it and do you, goddess- ;

horn, you, JEneas, the most upright of the Trojans (for now that the war
is at an end, you are no hjnger to he accounted an enemy), regard my

advice, and shun the dangerous shores of Circe. We

too, having anchored

upon Circe's coast, mindful of Antiphates and the inhuman Cyclop, de-
clined a message to her court or hazarding ourselves under an unknown
;

roof. At last weThe lot fell upon me, and trusty Polytes
cast lots. :

Enrylochus and Elpenor, a lover of wine, with eighteen more of our

also,
crew, were destined by the same lots to repair to the palace of Circe.
This we had no sooner reached, and advanced to the front of the court,
than a thousand wolves, with mingled bears and lionesses, making up to
us, struck us with terror. But none of them were to be feared, none offered
to hurt us nay, they advance fa^vning, wave their tails, and attend our
;

steps, until
the maids receive us, and conduct us to their mistress, through
a hall roofed with marble. She sits exalted on a throne in a fine recess,
and clad in a shining robe, over which she had thrown a mantle embroi-
dered with gold. The nymphs and nereids attending, tease not with nimble
fingers the fleecy wool, nor
draw out the lengthening threads, but range
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIV. 491

Secernunt calathis, variasque coloribus herbas. herhasque varias colo-

ribus. Ipsa exegit opus

Ipsa quod hse faciunt, opus exigit ipsa, quid usus : quod hafaciunt: ipsa
rtovit quis usus sit in
Quoque sit in folio, quae sit concordia mistis, quoque Julio, qnee Con-
mistis
cordia sit et
Novit; et advertens pensas examinat herbas. 270
;

adierleits, examinat
Haec ubi nos vidit, dicta acceptaque salute, pensas herbas. Vbi
hac vidit nos, salute
DifFudit vultus, et reddidit omnia votis. dicta, acceptaque, dif-
fiidit vultus, et reddi-
Nee mora; misceri tosti jubet hordea grani, dit omnia votis. Ncc
mora : jubct
Mellaque, vinique meri, cum lacte coagula passo,
horriea
tosti grarii, mellaque
Quique sub hac lateant furtim dulcedine, succos misceri, vimqiie meri,
et roagula cum passo
Adjicit. Accipimus sacra data pocula dextra. 276 lactc: adjicitqite sue-
cos, qiiij'urtim latea?it
Quse simul arenti sitientes hausimus ore, sub kdc dulcedine Ac- .

virga Dea dira capillos ;

summos
Et cipimus data pocula
tetigit sacrd dextnt. Quee
(Et pudet, et referam) setis horrescere ccepi, simul'.siticntes havsi-
mus are/iti ore, et Dea
Nee jam posse loqui ; pro verbis edere raucum 280 dira tegitur summos
capillos virgH (et jm-
Murmur; et in terram toto procumbere vultu: det, et referam) capi

Osque meum sensi pando occallescere rostro;

horrescere setts, nee
Jam posse loqui, edere
Colla tumere toris et qua modo pocula parte
: raucum murmur pro
verbis, et procumbere
Sumpta mihi fuerant, ilia vestigia feci. in terram toto vtiltu,

Cumque eadem passis (tantiim medicamina possunt) l^lVcere'^prndT roZ

Claudor hara solumque suis caruisse figura
: tro,colla tumere toris;
et feci vestigia illSL
Vidimus Eurylochum: solus data pocula fugit. parte, qua modb pocu-
la fuerant sumpta mi-
Quse nisi vitasset, pecoris pars una maneret hi. Claiidorque hard,
Nunc quoque setigeri. Nee tantse cladis ab illo cum passis eadem (tan-
turn medicamina pos-
Certior ad Circen ultor venisset Ulysses 290 sunt:) vidimusque Eu-
rylochttm solum carti-
Pacifer huic dederat florem Cyllenius album. isse figura suis: solus
fugitdatapocnla.Qux
nisi vitasset, nunc quoque maneret una pars seiigeri pecoris:nec Ulysses cert tor tantce ciudis ab
ilia, venisset ultor ad Circen. Pacifer Cyllenius dederat hutc album Jlorem,

TRANSLATION.
in order the flowers, and dispose in baskets the scattered herbs of various
dye. She prescribes the task, and examines how it is done she knows the :

virtue of every plant, their combinations and powers when mixed toge-
ther. When she saw us, after mutual salutations, she cleared up her
countenance, and granted every thing to our wishes. Instantly she orders
dried barley, with honey, strong wine, curds, and pressed milk, to be
mixed together, and adds juices which she hopes may lie unperceived
in the sweetness of the mixture. We
take the cnp presented by
her sacred right hand which, parched with thirst, we had no
;

sooner drank up, and the goddess touched the tops of our heads with
her fatal rod (I am ashamed, yet will relate it), than I began to
grow rough with bristly hairs, to lose the power of speech, and, instead
of words, to utter a hoarse murmuring noise and with my face to bend
;

toward the earth. I felt my mouth harden in a round snout my neck swell ;

with rising muscles and my hands, that had lately served to receive the
;

cup, now mark footsteps upon the ground and (so powerful are her bane-
;

draughts) I am shut up in a hog-sty with

ful the rest, who had undergone
the same change. We
saAv that only Eurylochus did not suffer this change ;

he alone refused the cup when offered him. And, had he not refused it,
he too had even until now continued one of the bristly herd nor Avould ;

Ulysses, informed by him of our dreadful misfortime, come to Circe as an

avenger. The peaceful Cyllenian god had given him a white flower, which
492 P. OVlDll NASOiSlS

tupcri vacant Moiy ; Molv vocantNiffra radice tenetur.

tenet ur nigrd radice.
Tutus eo.simuique mo-
superi.
.•
rry . ii-i
utus 60, monitisque simul coelestiDus intrat
1
-i •,-
in^t'rim^imcirce^ ^e domum Circcs
et ad insidiosa vocatus :

ctvocatusadiiisidiosa
Pocula,' conantem viroa
co- " mulcere capillos
^ 295 ,
jwcula, reppnlit .^ . . , .

uantem mulcere capii- Keppulit ; pavidam Qeterruit

ct stricto ense.
pavullm, Itrictt^ense. I^de fides, dextrsequc datee thalamoque receptus :

dMa:'^"^'^^rece*!:us^m Coiijugii dotcm sociorum corpora poscit.

thaiu'mo,poscit corpo- VI. Spavgimur iiinocutE succis melioribus herbse ;
ra soviorum dotem con
Jug'i. Percutimurque caput conversse verbere virgse 300 :

VI. Sparsimiir sitc-

ci.imelioribus innociKB Verbaque dicuntur dictis contraria verbis.
herbte, 'percutimurque
caput lerbere conversee
Quo magis ilia canit, magis hoc tellure levati
virgtr, verbaqtie dicun-
iur contraria dictis Erigimur: setaeque cadunt, bifidosque relinquit
verbis. Quo magU ilia Rima pedes. Redeunt humeri subjecta lacertis :

canit, magis hoc levu-

ti tellure eriginiur ;
Brachia sunt. Flentem flentes amplectimur ilium,
setaque caduiit, rima Haeremusque
^
ducis collo nee verba locuti 306 :

que relinquit bifidos _,.,, .

i j_ ^
•
^

jiedes, humeri rcdhmt, Ulla priora sunius, quam nos testantia gratos.
'lucertL^'^Fienu^^^^^^ Annua nos illic tenuit mora: multa que prsesens
pkctimur iiiitmjien- Tempore tam longo vidi, multa auribus hausi.
tem,h(Eremusque collo
ducis, necsumus locuti
1
&,.' iiv -i-
Hoc quoquc cum multis, quod clam mihi rettulit
Vila verba, priora
quam testantia 7ios una olO
gratos. Annua mora
temiit nos ilUe ; prte- Quatuor e famuhs, ad talia sacra paratis.
sensque
turn longo
vidi mult a
tempore,
Cum duce namque meo Circe dum sola moratur.
haiisi multa auribus. Ilia mihi niveo factum de marmore signum
Hoc quoque cum miil-
tis, quod una e qua
Ostendit juvenile, gerens in vertice Picum,
^aTtili^^lacrr'ifam
-^dc sacra positum, multisquc iusiguc coronis. 315
retulit mihi. Namque dumCirce moratur sola ctitn meo duce, ilia ostendit mihi juvenile signum
factum de niveo m,arnwre, gerens Picum in vertice, positum <ede sacrd, insigneque multis coronis

TRANSLATION.
the heavenly inhabitants call Moly, and which is hound to the earth by a
black root. Secured by this, and the admonitions of the god, he enters the
palace of Circe and, being invited to drink of the insidious cup, pushed
;

her away as she endeavoured to touch his head with her rod, and checked
her with his drawn sword. A
mutual confidence succeeding, and mutual
salutations passing between them, he is entertained by the queen in pri-
vate and demands, as a dowry, his transfigured friends.
;

VI. We
are sprinkled with the kinder juice of a harmless plant, and
our heads are stroked with the rod inverted and, to defeat what had been ;

already done, repeats the incantation backward. The more she repeats,
the more we rise to uprightness of shape the bristles fall off, and our ;

parted feet unite our shoulders resume their proper form, and arms aud
;

hands stretch from them. With tears we embrace our Aveeping general ;

liang on his neck and, by the first words we uttered, testified a grateful
;

sense of our deliverance. Our stay at this court was protracted a whole
year and, by tarrying so long, I Avas myself a witness to many surprising
;

changes and from others learned still more. This too, among many
;

others, which one of the four maids, appointed for these services, privately
told me. For, while Circe is entertained in private by our leader, she
shews me a youthful state of snowy marble, bearing on its head a wood-
pecker, deposited in a sacred recess, and adorned with a multitude of gar-
lands. As I
inquired and seemed impatient to know who it was, why
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIV. 493

AH mihi quarenti, et
Quis foret, et quare sacra coleretur in sede, violenti scire quis Jo-
Cur hanc ferret avem, quarenti, et scire volenti, ret, et quare coleretur
in, sacra adc, cur fer-
Accipe,ait, Macareu: dominseq; potentia quae sit ret hanc avein, Acvipe,;
Macareu ;
Hinc quoq ; disce, mese. Tu dictis adjice mentem. h'mc disceque
quoqtie qua yit
VII. Picus in Ausoniis, proles Saturnia, terris jwteiititi mete donmitc :

til adjice mentem dic-

Rex fuit, utilium bello studiosus equorum. 321 tu.

Forma viro, quam cernis, erat. Licet ipse decorum satm'nia.'fuu rex tn
Aspicias, fictaque probes ab imagine veram. uTfqMr'^im'vmum
Par animus formse. Nee adhuc spectasse per annos mio. Forma quam cer
nis eriit. viro. Licet
Qumquennem poterat Graui quater l^ilide
pugnam ipse tis'picids decorum,
proliesquc veram ima-
Ille suos
Dryadas Latiis in montibus ortas 326 gi?ie?ii alt ficta ima-
Verterat in vultus ilium fontana petebant
:
gine. Animus erat

QA
Numina Naiades, quas Albula, quasque Numici,
•

;
A 1
par forma ; tiec ad/iiic
ptraniiospoterut qua-
ter spectasse
• •
spectdsse
uasque Amenis aquae, cursuq brevissmius Almo, quennempugnamGra-
1 quin-

Narque tulit preeceps, et amoenffi Farfarus umbrae ; ^j^,^'^^^^ ^onaslnLa-

Quffiquecolunt Scvthicje regnum nemorale Dianae,' tus montibus, in sms
I J a vultiis. Nuinma fon-
tana. Naiades, quas Albula quasque aqua Numici, quasque aqua Amenis, Almoque brevissimus
cursu, Narque praceps tulit, et Farfarus amcena umbra: ; quaque colunt nemoraie regnum Say-
thicte Diane,
TRANSLATION.
placed in this sacred repository, and why it bore on its head a wood-
pecker, Attend, Macareus, (replied the nymph,)
and hence too learn, how
is my mistress' Be attentive, 1 say, to what is related.
great power.
VII. Picus, of the race of Saturn, reigned in the country of the Aiiso-
nians one who took a pleasvue in breeding up horses for war. His form
;

was such as you see view it yourself, and, from the representation, judge
;

of his real comeliness. His soul was equal to his form, and his age did not
as yet permit him to have been four times a spectator of the Quinquen-
nial games of the Greeks his beauty had captivated all the dryads in-
:

habiting the Latian mountains. He was the darling too of the fountain
Naiads those of Albula, Numicus, and Anio, and of Almo, short in its
:

course, the rapid Nar, and Farfarus with its shady banks. Even the
nymphs, inhabiting the woody regions of Scythian Diana, and adjacent
lakes, courted him. Yet, disdaining all others, he affects the nymph alone,

NOTES.
320. Picun in Ausoniis, &c.] PicHS was was overgrown with feathers, and he dis-

an accomplished prince of distinsuished appeared. The fable, Serviiis alleges,

talents. Ovid here gives a charming de- has no otiier foundation but that Picus,
scription of him, and of his lovely wife
who valued himself upon his prophetic
Canens. Having died in the chase he- gift, made use of a wood-pecker
which he
fore he came to an advanced age, and had tamed. We may add, that the iden-
his body not being found, they fabled, tity of the
name of this prince, and that
that he was transformed into a wood- ot the wood-pecker, contributed not a
little to the fable of the transformation.
pecker, a bird whose name in Latin is tlie
same with his and, to give some credibi-
;
Be that as ^ will, Picus was worshipped
lity to the fable, it was added, that this
after his death, and taken into the nnnibcr
transformation was brought about by of the gods, Indigetes. Canens, forlorn
Circe. She met him, says our poet, in a for the loss of a husband whom she ten-
wood, whither she had come to gather derly loved, retired into a desert, where
herbs for her magical operations: in a she did not long survive him ; and, by
trice she was fired with love of the boy ;
reason of her name, was given out to be
and, finding him insensible, she struck transformed into a voice.
him with Iier wand, and instantly liis body
 494 P. OVIDIl NASONIS

fimtunosque lacus, pe- Fmitimosque lacus. Spi'etis tamen omnibus unam

tebant ilium, rameti
omnibus spretis. Hie
,,, f. .tit ,
lUe lovet JNymphen, quam quondam
jv
colle ralati m
•
11 T» i x'^

{Zf/Sirrf"S Dicitur lonio peperisse Venilia Jano.

I'iojano ^i7conrJa. ^zec,
ubi Dobilibus primiim maturuit annis, 335
latt. Hff'cubi primum
Praeposito cunctis Laureuti tradita Pico est,
maturuit tiubilibiis ail- -r, a i r •
J i ^•
•

ms, tradita est Pico Kara quidem lacie, sed rarior arte canendi ;

^S'a^^i^e^"^'^ Unde Canens dicta est. Silvas et saxa movere,

facie, sed rarior arte ^^ mulceie feras, et fluniina longa morari

ta canens. Soiebut suo Ore suo, volucresque vagas retinere solebat. 340
TalaTtZMicere feral Q^a? dum fceminea modulatur carmina voce,
et morari longa Jiu
mina, retinereque vo-
Exierat tecto Laurentes Picus in agros,
lucres vagas. Qua
dum modulatur car- Indigenas fixurus apros tergumque premebat
:

mina fannineA voce, Acris equi; leevaque hastilia bina ferebat

Picus exierat tecto in
L,aurentes agros, fixu- Poeniceam fulvo chlamydem contractus ab auro.
rus indigenas apros, Venerat in silvas et filia solis easdem 346 :
premebatque tergum
acris equi, ferebutque
Utque novas legeret foecundis collibus herbas,
hina hastilia lavd, con-
tractus quod ad panti- Nomine dicta suo Circaea reliquerat arva.
ceam clUamydem ab
fulvo auro. Filia so- Quae simul ac juvenem virgultis abdita vidit ;
et venerat in eas-
Obstupuit. Cecidere sinu, quas legerat herbee
lis
dem silvas, relique-
ratque arva Circaa, Flammaque
•^~ per totas visa est errare medullas 351
dicta suo nomine, ut TTi ~tj mentem ii'^i,
^1 primum valido j. j

legeret novas herbas collegit ab aestu :

fifcundis collibus. Qutt Quid cuperet, fassura fuit. Nee posset adire
abdita virgultis, simul
ac vidit juvenem, ob- Cursus equi fecit, circumfususque satelles.
stupuit : herbce quas
legerat cecidere sinu, Non tamen efFugies, vento rapiare licebit. 355
flammaque est visa er- Si mod5 me novi si non evanuit omnis
rare per totas medul- ;

las. Ut primum col- Herbarum virtus, et me mea carmina fallunt.

legit mentem ab va-
lido ctstii, fuit fassuraquid cuperet. Cursus equi, saiellesque circiimfustis, fecit ne posset
adire. Tamen non effugies, licebit rapiare vento, si modo novi me, si non omnis virtus herbarum
evamiit ; et mea carmina fallant me.

TRANSLATION,
whom said to have of old borne to Ionian Janus, upon the Pa-
Venilia is
latine hill. She, when of years
ripe for marriage, was wedded to Lauren-
tian Picus, preferred to ail her other suitors. She was indeed of distin-
guished beauty, but still more distinguished by her voice whence she ;

was called Canens. Her music would move the woods and rocks, soften
the fury of the savage race, stop the current of rivers, and retard the flight
of winged birds. While she tunes her female voice to the softest airs,
Picus went a hunting into the Laurentine fields, to kill the native boars.
He was mounted on a generous steed, and bore in his left hand two po-
lished spears, having his scarlet cloak clasped with a buckle of gold. The
daughter of the sun chanced to be in the same woods and had left Cir- ;

csean lands, called after her oavu name, that she might gather new herbs
on these fruitful hills. Who, beholding the youth from among the bushes,
whither she had retired to conceal herself, stood amazed. The herbs she
had gathered dropped from her bosom, and a flame seemed to wander
through all her marrow. But, recovering her mind from the violent shock,
she was about to avow her flame, had not the speed of his horse, and the
guards that surrounded him, prevented her approach. You shall not,
however, said she within herself, escape, not if borne away on the Avings
of the Avind, if I rightly know myself; if all the poAver of herbs is not
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIV. 495

Dixit et effigiem nullo cum corpore falsi

:
Dixit: et finxit effi-
giem falsi apri cum
Finxit apri prseterque oculos transcurrere
: tiuUe corpore, Jussit-
regis que trciiisciirrere pra-
Jussit, et in densum trabibus nemus ire videri ; 360 ter oculos regis, et vi-
deri ire in iiemus den-
Plurima qua silva est, et equo loca pervia non sunt. stun trabibus, qua plu-
Haud mora ; continue prsedae petit inscius umr am rima silva est, et lora
non sunt pervia equo.
Picus, equique celer fumantia terga relinquit Haud mora: contiuui)
Piciis iiisclus prctdip,
Spemque sequens vanam, silva pedes errat in alta petit umbram, celer-

Concipit preces, et verba venelica dicit;

ilia 365 que relinqiiitfumantia
tcrga equi ; sequens-
Ignotosque Deos ignoto carmine adorat, que spem vunam,errat
pedes in alta silia. Il-
Quo solet et niveae vultum confundere Lunse, ia concipit preces, et
dicit verba
Et patrio capiti bibulas subtexere nubes.
veneji-
ca, adcratqite ignotos
Turn quoque cantato densatur carmine coelum Deos ignoto carmine,
quo soUt, et con/uit-
Et nebulas exhalat humus; csecisq; vagantur 370 derc vultum niveee tu-
na, et subtexere bi-
Limitibus comites ;
et abest custodia regi. bulas nithes patrio
Nacta locum, tempusque, Per 6 tua lumina, dixit. capiti. Turn quoque
ceelum dcn-satur can-
Quae mea ceperunt, perque hanc, pulcherrime, for- tata carmine, et humus
exhalat nebulas, comi-
mam. tesque vagantur cacis
limitibus, et custodia
Quae facitut supplextibi sim Dea, consule nostris abest regi. Nacta io-
cvm tempusque dixit
Ignibus ; et socerum, qui pervidet omnia Solem
:
:
O, per tua lumina,
Accipe: nee durus Titanida despice Circen. 376 qua ceperunt mea,
perque hanc formam.
Dixerat. Ille ferox ipsamque, precesque repellit; puic/ierrime,qiiafacii
Et, qusecunque es, ait, non sum tuus altera captum plexmi'^lonsiTe 'nos'-
:

Me tenet et teneat per longum comprecor aevum ^'^ k'ubus, et accipe

;
:

Nee Venere externa socialia foedera Izedam ; 380 omnia.et socerum,nec

durus despiceTitanida
Circen. Dixerat. Ille ferox repellit ipsamque, precesque ; et ait, Qutecunque es, non sum tuus:
altera tenet me captum, et comprecor ut teneat per longum avum. Nee ladam socialia fcedera
externa venere;
TRANSLATION.
vanished at once, and my charms deceive me not, she said and formed a :

phantom of a hoar, and ordered him to cross the way in sight of the king,
and seem to run into a grove, thick set with trees, where there was a
large wood, and inaccessible to a horse. Instantly Picus, not suspecting
this visionary prey, makes for the covert, and nimbly dismounts from his

smoking courser and, in pursuit of an empty phantom, wanders a-foot

;

through the thickest of the wood. She now repeats her charms and noxious
spells, and invokes unknown gods in an unknown strain Avherewith she ;

Avas wont to veil the face of the snow-white moon, or shade Avith darken-

ing clouds the lustre of her sire. Then too she overspreads the face of
heaven with a thick fog, exhaling clouds from the ground by her incanta-
tions. His attendants wander, unknowing where they stray; and the king
is left without a guard. Having thus a proper time and place, By those
eyes of thine (says she), beauteous youth, which have captivated mine ;

by that irresistible form, which makes me, though a goddess, address you
in this suppliant strain, favour my passion and receive for your father-
;

in-law the sun, that bright luminary, to whose view all nature is open ;

nor be so hard-hearted as to reject Titauian Circe. She said. He sternly

rejects her and her supplications. Whosoever thou art (says he), I am
none of thine another holds me enthralled, and long may she keep pos-
;

session of heart nor Avill I violate the conjugal tie by another amour,
my ;

while the fates preserve my Canens, the daughter of Janus, Circe renew-
 496 P. OVIDIl NASONIS

^^"^ "^^^^ Janigenam servabunt fata Canentem.

muHja!dgen!mc!m,l
Precibus strpe Diecibus Titania frustra.
tern.
Ssepe leteiitatis
retentatis J'rustra,Ti- -w
IN OH
•
\ r ii/^y^ /•
tania ait: No7i feres impune tercs, iieque enim reddere Canenti :
impune, ncque enim
reddere Canenti, dis- Leesaque quid faciat, quid amans, quid fcemina,
ccsque rebus, quid lasa, disces 384
quid amans, quid fa-
minaj'uciat : sed Circe
et
Rebus, ait sed amans, et lassa, et foemina, Circe.
amans, et Ciisa, etfcc-
mina. Turn bis comer- Turn bis ad occasum, bis se convertit ad ortum:
ad occasum, bis
tit se
Ter juvenem baculo tetigit tria carmina dixit.
:
ad ortum : ter tetigit
juvenem baculo: dixit solito velocius ipse
tria carmina.
Ille
fugit, sese
Illefu-
git ipse miratus sese Currere miratus, pennas in corpore vidit :

currere rclociiis solUo,

vidit pennas cor- in Seque novam subito Latiis accedere silvis 390
pore, indignatusque se
stibitb accedere noram Indignatus avem, duro fera robora rostro
avem Latiis siiris,Jigit et iratus longis dat vulnera ramis.
Figit ;
/era robora duro ros-
tro; et iratuSjdat rut-
nera
Purpureum chlamydis pennge traxere colorem.
ratnis.
longis
Peiine chlamydis trax- Fibula quod fuerat, vestemq; momorderat aurum,
ere ptirpureum colo-
rem. Aurum quod/u-
Pluma fit et fulvo cervix prsecingitur auro
: 395 :

erat fibula, momorde- Nee quicquam antiqui Pico, nisi nomina, restat.
ratque vtstem,fitplu-
ma, et cervix pracin- VIII. Interea comites clamato sffipe per agios
giturj'ulvo auro. jVec
quicquam antiqui res- Nequicquam Pico, nuUaque in parte reperto,
tat Pico, nisi iiomina. Inveniunt Circen (nam jam tenuaverat auras,
VIII. Interea Pico
sccpe clamuto nequic- Passaque erat nebulas ventis ac sole resolvi) 400
quani per ogros, reper-
toque in nidlA parte, Criminibusque premunt veris, regemque reposcunt,
cojnites vnveniunt Cir- ferunt
cenfnamjam tenuave- Vimque ; ssevisque parant incessere telis.
rat auras, passaque Ilianocens spargit virus, succosque veneni :
erat nebulas resolvi
veiitis ac sole) pre- Et Noctem, Noctisque Deos, Ereboque, Chaoq;
muntque veris crimi-
jiibus, reposcuntque Convocat, et magicis Hecaten ululatibus orat. 405
regent, feruntqiie vim parantque incessere sttvis telis. Ilia spargit noccns virus, succosque re-
neni: et coniocat A'octcm, Deosque Noctis, Ercboquc, Chaoque, ct oral Hecaten magicis ulula-
tibus.

TRANSLATION.
ing often her entreaties in vain. It shall not (says she) go unpunished,
nor shall you be any more restored to your Caucus but learn by expe- ;

rience what a woman, when injured, and a lover, can do know too, that :

Circe is the woman, the lover you have injured. Then, turning twice to
the west, and twice to the east, thrice she waves her wand, and thrice
repeats a charm. He flies; and, wondering himself at his unusual speed,
perceives that he is borne upon w ings and, enraged at being added thus
;

a new bird to the Latiau woods, pierces the rugged oak with his hard
bill, and wounds in his passion the long boughs. His wings drink in the
scarlet dye of his cloak. The gold, which, lately a buckle, had clasped
his flowing robe, now glows round his neck in yellow plumes nor does ;

aught of Picus remain but the name.

VHI. Mean time his attendants, having oft in vain called upon
Picus all over the fields, and finding him no where, light at last upon
Circe (for she had by this time purged the air, and suffered the clouds
to be dissipated by the winds and sun), and
charge her with real crimes ;

and demand their king, and threaten violence, and prepare to assault her
with cruel weapons. She scatters her tainted juices and noxious poison ;

and convokes, from CJhaos and Erebus, Night and the gods of Night,
and addresses Hecate in magic bowlings. When, wonderful to relate !
 METAMOHPHOSEON, Lib. XIV. 497

ExsiluGre loco (clictu mirabile !) silvae Silva { mirabile !) dic-

406 :
ta exsiluerc loco; su-
Ingemuitque solum, vicinaque palluit arbos : luHique iiigcmuit, ar-
bosqve lit ina jxilluit,
iSparsaque sanguineis maduerunt pabula guttis ; pabuluqvc .s'jnirsa san-
Et lapides visi mugitus edere raucos ; guineis guttis, madue-
runt ; et lapides sunt
Etlatrare canes ; et humus serpentibus atris 410 risi edere raucos tiiu-
gittis, etcanes lalrare:
Squallere, et tenues animse volitare silentum. et humus squallere
atris serpeiitibus, et
Attonitum monstris viilgus pavet. Ilia paventum tenues u7iim(c viden-
Ora venenata tetigit mirantia virga. tur volitare. Vulgus
attonitum monstris pa-
Cujus ab attactu variarum monstra ferarum vet. Ilia tetigit
rantia ora paventdni
mi-

In juvenes veniunt. Nulli suamansit imago. 415 venenata virgd. Ab

attactu cujus, mon-
IX. Presserat occiduus Tartessia littora Phoebus ? stra variarum J'cra-
Et frustr^ coniux ocuUs, animoque Canentis rujn veniunt in ju-
n. , .
''
, -r< !• 1
vefies. Sua imago muii
-biXpectatus erat. ramuli, populusque per omnes sit num.
Discurrunt silvas, atque obvia lumina portant. bZ\resTeraTT(n-tes.
Nee satis est Nymphae flere, et lacerare capillos,
l'rat%Is"trfeT"il'a.
Et dare plangorem fecit hsec tamen omnia sese
: :
*"* «<•«'« animoque
Canentis. Famuli pa-
Froripit, ac Latios errat vesana per agros. pulusque discurrunt
Sex illam noctes, totidera redeuntia solis per omties silvas, at-
que portant obria lu-
Lumina tnina. Nee est satis
inopem somnique, cibique,
viderunt, nymphcBjtere, et luce-
Per juga, per qui fors ducebat, euntem.
valles, rare capillos, dare
et
plangorem ; tamen fa-
Ultimus aspexit fessam luctuque, viaque 426 cit omnia hac ; prori-
pit sese ; ac vesana er-
Tibris, et in gelida ponentem corpora ripa. rat per Latios agros.
Illic cum Sex noctes, tot idem
lachrymis ipsos modulata dolores, redeuntia lumina so-
Verba sono tenui mcerens ftindebat ut olim ; lis, viderunt illam in-
opem somnique, cibi-
Carminajammoriens canit exequialia cygnus. 430 que, euntem, per juga.
per valles, qua fors ducebat. Tibris, ultimus aspexit iWAxn fessam luctuque, vi&que, et ponentem
corpora in gelida ripd. Illic mar ens tenui sono,fundebat ctun lachrymis verba modulata ipso
dolore ; vt olim cygnus jam moriens, canit cxsequialia carmina.

TRANSLATION.
the forests are tossed from their places, earth groaned, and
every tree
looked pale the plants, from every pore, sweat drops of blood; the stones
;

seem to murmur in hoarse complaints, dogs to howl, the tainted ground

to be covered with black serpents, and pale
spectres to glide throuo-h the
air. The crowd, struck with so
many wonders, stand amazed. She with
her magic rod touches the wondering faces of the trembling crew, from
which potent touch, mousters of various forms succeed in place of the
young men each loses his proper shape.
:

IX. Setting Phoebus now bore down upon the Tartessian shore, and in
vain did Canens wish and long for her husband. Her servants and
people
rim through every wood, and carry out lights to meet him. Nor is it
enough for the nymph to weep, and tear her hair, and beat her breast in
lamentation, yet she does all nay, more she flings out of the palace,
; ;

and wanders like one distracted over the Latian fields. Six tedious nights,
and as many returning suns, beheld her wandering, where chance di-
rected, over mountains and valleys, without either food or sleep. The Ty-
ber was the last that saw her, fatigued with grief and the length of the
way, and reposing her limbs upon his shady bank. There, with tears, she .

tuned her voice to strains

expressive of her grief, and in dying accents
poured out the anguish of her soul thus the dying swan, it is said, sings,
:

as she
droops, her own elegy. At last, grief wasting her scanty marrow,
2 &
 498 P. OVIDU NASONIS

^TTIchuTrtdut Luctibus extremum tenues liquefacta medullas

las luciibns, tabuit Tabuit iiique levcs pauktlm evanuit auras.
; :
j>auiattmquceva»uitw -pi ,
•
.
i
•
\ r^
tames auras. Tamcn raniatameii signata loco est: quern rite Canentem
''qwm "JteresCamanJ Noniine de Nympliae veteres dixere Camcenae.
de^ ^n^e ^^imphl ^^^^^ in^\i^ mihi loiigum narrata per annum
Taiia muita sunt nar. sunt resides et desuetudins tardi 436
Visaquc
rata, vi.vaque mihi per
t» i i • •
:

/> .
•
t
Kursus mii'c irctum, lursus dare vela jubemur.
longum annum. He-

"«^7«e5£L/r:r: Ancipitesque vias, et iter Titania vastum

siis inirejretum rur- Dixcrat, et sffivi restare pericula ponti. 439
sus dare vela. Tilani- t-» .
• •
r . . i i- , ii
aqiic dixerat vias esse Fertimui, lateor ; nactusquc hoc littus adhsBsi.
VumrlTpericula la vi X. Fiuierat Macareus urnaque iEne'ia nutrix :

^o^^dita marmorea, tumulo breve carmen habebat :

p7rHmui^^nact1tsqvc
hoc littus adhccsi. Hic me Caieten notse pietatis alumnus
X. Macareus finie- -r^ » t. ii-,-
rat; jEneiaqtie' nu- -breptam Argolico, quo debuit igne, cremavit.
rl «rS" ZZZt Solvitur herboso religatus ab aggere funis : 445
^^ pi'ocul iusidias, infamatffique relinquunt
^iuLnZ"'notw''''kta
tis, cremavit htc igne Tecta DesB ; lucosque petunt, ubi nubilus umbra
quo debuit, me Caieten T,, -^ n •±.'^^•^ a /^ •

creftam Argolico igne. ^^ mare cum ilava prorumpit libris arena,

fosflSf,ZtitJr\ Faunigenseque domo potitur nataque Latini ;

449
et relinquunt procul Non siuc Marte tameu.
•msiriias tectaque in- ,a
Bellum cum a'ente feroci
c;
• •
p
.
rn • •

famatiB dece, petunt- ouscipitur; pactaque lurit pro conjugB lurnus.

Zi^%::^^^ ConcurritLatioTyrrheniatota: diuque

Z?!'' arenr" p^^.
^rdua sollicitis victoria
quaeritur armis.
tiirqtie domo, nata-
Auget uterque suas externo robore vires :
que Faunigenx Lati-
ni; tamen 7ion sine marte. Bellum suscipitur cum feroci gente, Turnusquefurit pro paclH. coti-
juge. Tola Tyrrhenia concurrit Latio; arduaque victoria diu quaritur soUicit is armis. Uter-
que auget suas vires externo robore :
TRANSLATION,
she pined away and, by degrees, vanished in empty air. Yet the fame
;

of the thing still distinguishes the place, which the ancient muses still
call Canens, from the name of the
nymph. Many such prodigies were re-
lated to me, or seen, in the course of a
long year at the end of which, ;

enervated, and rendered indolent through inaction, we are again ordered

to sea, again unfurl our sails. Circe foretold a hazardous
voyage and vast
length of way, and that we had still to encounter the doubtful dangers of
the main. I was alarmed by her threats, I own
and, arriving on this ;

shore, declined the rest of the voyage.

X. Here Macareus ended and jEneas' nurse dying, her ashes were
;

deposited in a marble urn, and a short epitaph inscribed upon her tomb.
Here my foster-son, of known piety, having rescued me from Grecian
flames, honowed my remains with a funeral pyre. The cable, which
fastened them to the grassy bank, is untied, and they steer at a distance
from the faithless coast and fatal palace of the ensnaring goddess, and
make for the groves where Tyber, confined by shady banks, breaks into
the sea with his yellow sand where iEneas obtains the kingdom and
;

daughter of Latinus, the son of Faunus yet not till after a bloody war. ;

A war is begun with a fierce nation and Turnus, in arras, demands his ;

betrothed spouse. All Tuscany confederates with Latium, and doubtful

victory is long pursued with ardent arms. Each increase their strength
by foreign alliances, and many nations join the Trojans, many the
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lin. XIV. 499

Et multi Rutulos, multi Troj^na tuentur multi tucntitr Ru-

455 rt
tulos, multi Trojana
Castra. Neque iEneas Evandri ad limina frustia caUra neque jEneas :
;

venerat frustra ad li-

At Venulus magnam profugi Diomedis ad urbem mina Evundrl, at Ve-
nulus frustia venerat
Venerat. Ille quidem sub
lapyge maxima Dauno ad magnam urhmi pro-
Moenia condiderat, dotaliaque arva tenebat. fugi JJioincdis. Jllc qui-
dem condiderat maxi-
Sed Venulus Turni postquam mandata peregit, ma mainia sub lapyge
Uuuno, tenebat que ar-
Auxiliumque petit vires iEtolius heros
; 461 va dotalia. Sed post-
Excusat. Nee
se soceri committere pugnce quam Venulus peregit
mandata Turiii, peiit-
Velle sui populos, nee, quos e gente suorum que auxilium Aito-
;
lius heros excusat vi-
Armet, habere viros. Neve hsee commenta putetis ; res; nee se velle com-
tnittere populos soceri
(Admonitu quanquam luctus renovantur amaro) suipv^tifF, 7iec habere
Perpetiar memorare tamen. Postquam alta cre-
viros e gente suorum,
quos ar7nct. Neve pu-
mata est 466 tetis hac commenta ;
(quanquam luctus rc-
Ilion, et Danaas paverunt Pergaraa flammas ; novantur amaro ad-
monitu) tamen perpe-
Naryeiusque heros, a virgine, virgine rapta, tiar memorare. Post-
Quam meruit solus poenam, digessit in omnes ;
quam alta urbs Jlion
est cremata; et Per-
Spargimur et ventis inimica per aequora rapti,
: gama paverunt Da-
naas flammas: Nary-
Fulmina, noctem, imbres, iram coelique, marisque eiusque heros, virgine
rapta, digessit in om-
Perpetimur Danai, cumulumque Capharea cladis. nes pcenam, quam so-
Neve merer referens tristes ex ordine easus ; lus meruit a virgine :
noi Danai spargimur,
Graecia turn potuit Priamo quoque flenda videri. et rapti ventis per in-

Me tamen armiferae servatum cura Minervoe 475 imica aquora, perpe-

timur fulmina, noc-
Fluetibus eripuit. Patriis sed rursus ab Argis tem, imbres, iram coe-
lique marisque, Ca-
Pellor et antique memeres de vulnere posnas
: phareaque cumulu?n
cladis. Neve jnorer
Exigit alma Venus tantesque per alta laberes
:
referens tristes casus.
ex ordine; Gracia potuit turn videri Jlenda quoque Priamo. Tamen cura armifera Minervts
eripuit ?ne servatum Jiuctibus. Sed rursus pellor ab patriis agris ; et alma Venus exigit pcenas
memoras de antiquo vulnere; sustinuiqtte tantos labores per alta

TRANSLATION.
Rutilians ; nor was ^neas
unsuccessful in applying to Evander, though
Venulus, in vain, solicited aid of exiled Diomedes who had encompassed
;

with walls a large city, near lapygian Daunus', and reigned over a dotal
kingdom. But after Venulus had executed the commands of Turnus, and
in his name
requested aid, the ^tolian hero pleads his want of strength
as an excuse that he could not pretend to engage the subjects of his fa-
;

ther-in-law in war, nor had a sufficient number of his own followers to

arm for battle. And, that you may not imagine these are mere pretences,
though the bitter remembrance renews my grief, I will yet submit to the
pain of a recital. After stately Ilium was i-educed to ashes, and the
towers of Troy had fed the Grecian flames ; when the Narycian hero, by
ravishing the virgin, had drawn down, upon the whole body of the Greeks,
that punishment, which he only deserved, we are dispersed and, stormy ;

winds driving us into dangerous seas, Ave encounter thunder, darkness,

rain, and all the rage of a tempestuous ocean and sky and, to complete ;

our misery, are shipwrecked on the coast of Euboea. But, not to tire you
with too minute a detail of our cruel woes, Greece might have then ex-
torted pity even from Priam himself: yet, by the indulgence of Minerva,
the
arms-bearing goddess, I was preserved and rescued from the waves,
but am again banished
my native home for Venus, mindfid of the wound
;

I
gave, pursues me >vith punishment and so many hardships did 1 suf-
;
2K2
500 P. OVIDII NASONIS

tFqitora tantos terre.^-

triOus uri/us ; lit itll iEquora sustiimi, tantos terrestribus annis ;

sill/ s<rpe vocati feli- Ut mihi lelices sint illi saepe vocati, 480
ces mihi, quos ronnnit-
iiis hyems Caphareus- Quos communis hyems, importunisq Caphareus ;

que import u>nf,mersit Mersit aquis vellemque horum pars una fuissem.
:
aquis : vellcmquefuis-
xem una pars fiorum. Ultima jam passi comites belloque, fretoque,
Comitcs passi ultima
belloque J'retoque, ja?n. Deficiunt ; finemque rogant erroris. At Agmon
rogantque
deficiunt,
finern erroris. At Ag Fervidus ingenio, tum vero et cladibus asper, 485
mon vestra recuset
/""'^"J^'^^*'^*^^' Quid superest, quod jam patientia
titbits, riixit: quid jam Ferrc, viri? dixit. Quid habet Cytherea, quod ultra
irr'^ahllui^aTf'cuset (Vclle puta) faciat ? nam dum pejora timentur ;
tZZa '^cpnI'a'"veuTj
Est in vota locus sors autem ubi pessima rerum, :

quod faciat ultra?

na7n dian pejora ti-
Sub Tpedibus timor est.securaque summa malorum :
. , \.
\ r ^ i
•
i
• •
i
Audiat ipsa, licct licet, ut tacit, oderit omnes
, , j i

meutiir, est locus in ;

lTum"T^s."ma'7i. Sub Diomede viros odium tamen illius omnes :

inor est sub pedibus,

summaque
secura. Licet
malorum
ipsa
Spemimus,
i...
et magno stat magna potentia nobis.
_J5
. '.

Talibus mvitam Venerem Pleuromus Agmon

._^, -a
audiat ; licet oderit
,• t i- -t , ,• ACf •
,

Instimulat verDis ; vetereuique rcsuscitat iram. 4yo

,

omnes viros sub Dio-

Zt\'%i7nlLLZdl Dicta placent paucis. Numeri majoris amici

nm illius, et magna Agmona corripimus cui respondere paranti
yotentta stat
mag?io.
nobis _-0 .
i
p/euronius VOX parjter, vocisque Via cst teuuata I comteque
J-
.
:
.1
Agmon instimulat in- x i^ u „i. n i i i
•

vitam Venerem talibus In plumas abeuut: pluuiis nova colla teguntur,

Vetere'm ^iranu'^DiJta Psctoraque,

et tergum majores brachia pennas :

placent paucis amici Accipiuut : cubitiquc Icves siuuantur in alas. 501

it-,
:

majoris numeri corn- «»-

pimus Agmona: cui pa- Magna peduui digitos pars occupat, oraque cornu
riter voxfvuf(%t'vocis ludurata rigcut ; finemque in acumine ponunt.
est tenuata: com/ique abeunt in plumas : nova colla, pectora que et tergum tegiintur plumi.i :
brachia accipiiDit majores peniias ; levesque cubiti siiiuantur in alas. Alagna pars pedum oc-
cupat digitos : oraque indurata cor nu^rigentfponuntqucjincm, in acumine.
TRANSLATION,
fer on the swelling main, so many in a land war, that I often pronounced
them happy whom a common storm, and the merciless rocks of Capha-
reus, had shattered in the waves I even envied and coveted their fate. ;

My companions, thus assaidted by the most cruel sufferings both on land

and sea, can bear it no longer, and beg a period to their wandering. But
Agmon, naturally of an impetuous temper, and then too exasperated by
his sufferings, What remains, companions, that our patience can now re-
fuse to undergo ? What greater hardships can Cytherea now inflict upon
us, were she even
so disposed ? For, while there is reason to apprehend
stillseverer trials, supplications may avail but, where Fortune has done ;

her worst, fear is banished, and misery, once become desperate has no
farther care. Let her overhear these defiances, let her persist in her hatred
to all that serveunder Diomed, we yet despise her hatred and, driven ;

as we are to the utmost verge of misery, have dearly bought this despe-
rate presumption. By these irritating speeches Agmon provoked, anew,
Venus, now better disposed, and roused her former resentment. But few
approve of his words the greater number of his friends check him. As
;

he is preparing to answer, his voice fails, his throat contracts, and his
hair converts to feathers. His neck, breast, and back, transformed, are
covered with a fleece of plumes, which enclose also his arms, and, length-
ening, bend into light wings. A great part of his feet stretches into toes;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIV. 601

Hunc Lvcus, hunc Idas,' et• cum Rhetenoro Nycteus Lycus, rdas, Nyaem
•''.- cumRhetenore,etAbas
•'-

Hiuic mirantur Abas ; et dum mirantur, eandem mirantur hunt:; et

dum mirantur, acci-
Accipiunt faciem numerusque ex agniiiie major
:
piunt eandem j'aciem,
Subvolat. Et remos plausis circumsonat alls. majorque iiumerzis cj:
agminc subvolat„ et
Si volucrum quaj sit subitarum forma requiris ; circumsonat remos
plausis alis. Si requi-
Ut non cygnorum, sic albis proxima cygnis. forma su-
ris qute sit
bitarum volucrum ut
Vix equidem has sedes, et lapygis arida Damii 5 10 non cygnorum, sic erat
Arva gener teneo minima cum parte meorum. proxima a/his ci/gnis.
Equidem gener vix te-
XI. Hactenus Oenides. Venulus Calydonia neo has sedes, et arida
arva lapygis Dati7ii,
regna cum minimd parte me-
orum.
Peucetiosque sinus, Messapiaque arva relinquit XI. Hactenus (Eni-
In quibus antra videt ; quas multa nubila silva, des. Venulus relinquit
Calydonia regna, si-
Et levibus stagnis manantia, semicaper Pan 515 nusque Peucetios, ar-
vaque Messapia. In
Nunc tenet: at quodamtenuerunt tempore Nymphje. qnibus videt antra,
qua: iiubiia mult a sil
Appulus has ilia pastor regione fugatas vd, et manantia levi
Terruit; et primo .subita formidine movit: bus guttis, semicaper
Pan nunc tenet; at
Mox, ubi mens rediit, et contempsere sequentem. quodatn tempore nym-
Ad numerum motis pedibus duxere choreas. 520 pha: tenuertmt. Ap-
pulus pastor terruit
Improbat has pastor saltuque imitatus agresti,
:
has ftigatas illA regi-
onc; et prima moi.it
Addidit obscoenis convicia rustica dictis. suhitAfor?niditte. Mox,
ubi mens rediit, et con-
Nee quam guttura condidit arbor.
priijs obticuit ; tempstre sequentetn,
Arbore enim succoque licet cognoscere mores. duxere choreas pedi-
bus motis ad nume-
Quippe notam lingute baccis oleaster amaris 525 rum. Pastor improbut
has ; imitatusqne sal-
Exhibet. Asperitas verborum cessit in illas. tu agresti, addidit rus-
tica convicia obscmnis dictis. Nee obticuit, priusquam arbor condidit gttttura: licet enim cog-
noscere mores arbore succoque. Quippe oleaster amaris baccis exhibet notam lingua. Asperi-
tas verborum cessit in Mas,
TRANSLATION,
his face, extending, warps into horn, and terminates in a beak. Lycus,
Idas, Nycteus, with Rhetenor, and Abas, wonder at the change and, as ;

they stand wondering, take the same shape. The greater number of my
company fly off, and flutter round the oars with waving wings. If you
want to know the form of this sudden race of birds, as it was not that of
swans, so was it the next in resemblance so that hardly, with these then
;

remains of my native subjects, am Table to maintain myself in this settle-

ment, and the parched realms of lapygian Daunus, my father-in-law.
XI. Thus far the grandson of (Eneus. Venulus withdraws from tlie
Calydonian kingdom, Feucetian bays, and Messapian territories, wherein
he sees a cave, shaded by a thick wood, and from which a clear crystal
stream distilled.The goat -footed Pan now frequents the place, but for-
merly was
it a habitation for the nymphs. Appulus, a shepherd, first
alarmed them, and drove them from these places but soon recovering :

themselves, and despising his vain pursuit, they move their feet in con-
cert, and change their flight to a dance. The shepherd reproaches, and
mimics them with rustic airs, adding obscene gestures to his abuseful lan-
guage. Nor was he silent, until an enclosing bark buried his throat, and
its sap are an emblem of his man-
tied up his
tongue. The tree itself and
ners. For a wild olive, with its bitter fruit, speaks the infamy of his.
tongue ; the coarseness of the clown passed into them.
 502 P. OVIDII NASONIS

rf/^"' fJnd^fJreJtcl ^^^' ^\nc ubi Icgati rediere, negata ferentes

arma jEtoia neguta Amia
iEtola sibi, Rutuli sinc viribusillis
siM; Riituli, sine Mis -r> n •
i a i
viribus, geritnt oeiia JDella instructa gcFuiit
tnstriicta,multnmquc,
multumquc ab utraque :

cruoris Uatur ub u- cruoris

trCique parte. Ecce Parte clatur. Pert ecce avidas in pinea Turnus 530
Turnus J'ert avidas
faces ill pinea texta : Tecta faces ignesque timent, quibus unda pepercit.
:

nnvesqiie quibus unda

pepercit, timent ignes. Jamq picem, et ceras, alimentaq ; csetera flammge
;

Jamque Mulciber ure- Mulciber urebat, perque altum ad carbasa malum

bat picem, et ceras,
cateraque aUmenta Ibat : et incurvse fumabant transtra carinse :
ftamm(p, ibatque per
altum malum ad car- Cum memor has pinus
Ideeo vertice caesas 535
basa; et transtra in-
curve carinrp fuma- Sancta Deum genitrix,
tinnitibus aera pulsi
bant, cum sanita ge-
nitrix Deum, menior iEris,
et inflati complevit murmure buxi.
has jnnus fuisse ca-sas
Perque leves domitis invecta leonibus auras,
Idico vcrtice, complei'it
aVra tinnitibus pulsi Irrita
sacrilegfi jactas incendia dextra :539
et murmure in-
ii'cris,
Jfati buxi. Invcctaquc Turne, ait, eripiam ; nee me patiente cremabit
per leves auras domi-
tis leouibus, ait: Turne,
Ignis edax nemorum partes et membra meorum.
jactas irrila incendia Intonuit dicente Dea tonitrumque secuti :

sacrilega dextrd; cri-

piam, ncc me patiente, Cum
saliente graves ceciderunt grandine nimbi :
ignis edax cremabit
Aeraque, et subitis tumidum concursibus aquor
partes ct membra me-
orum ncmorum. Dea Astrsei turban 545
dicente intunuit t, et eunt in fratres.
praelia,
vesque, nimbi secuii to E quibus alma parens unius viribus usa,
nitrtim, ceciderunt
cum saliente grandinc. Stupea prserumpit Phrygiee retinacula classis :

Astrmquc I'ratres tur-

bu?it acra, et eequor Fertque rates pronas, imoque sub sequore mergit
tumidum subitis con- Kobore mollito, lignoque in corpora verso.
cursibus, et eunt i?t
priclia. E quibus al- In capitum faciem puppes mutantur aduncae. 550
ma parens usa viribus
In digitos abeunt, et crura natantia, remi :
uiiitis, prffrutnpit stu-
pea retinacula PhrygitB fertque rates pronas, mergitque sub imo aquore. Rohore mol-
classis :

lifo, ligiioque verso in corpora, puppes adunctr mtitantur in faciem \capitnm. Kemi abcunt in
riigitos, et nutantia crura,
TRANSLATION.
XII. Upon the return of the deputies, and their report, that the iEto-
lians had refused to join the Rutilians, though disappointed of these al-
;

lies, yet prepare for war and much blood is shed on both sides. Lo
;
!

Turnus assaults the Trojan fleet, and besets with devouring torches their
frames of pine and those ships thatjiad escaped the waves, dread the
;

flames. And now Vulcan had invaded the pitch, rosin, and other aliments
of flame, and was mounting along the tall masts to the sails, while clouds
of smoke ascend from the bending keels. When the awful mother of the
gods, calling to mind, that these pines had been cut on Ida's sacred fOp,
notes of
filled the air with the tinkling of
sounding brass, and the softer
the flute and, riding through the sky in a chariot, drawn by harnessed
;

lions. In vain, Turnus (says she), do you toss with sacrilegious hand these
to prey
flaming brands, I will interpose nor suffer the wasteful torches ;

upon the parts of a grove sacred to me. While yet the goddess spoke, it
thundered loud and heavy showers of rain followed the thunder, accom-
;

panied with rattling hail and the Astreean brothers meet in fierce war,
;

and shake the air and swelling sea with their encounters. The bounteous
parent of the gods, aided by one of these, breaks the hempen bonds
that
secured the Trojan fleet and, bearing the ships downward, plunges ihem
;

to the bottom. The oak, softening, and assuming the nature of flesh,
the crooked sterns ai-e changed into human faces tlie oars shoot into fin- ;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIV. 503

Quodque prius fuerat, latus est

fuerat
jVii-*-..- T." carina
mediisque ^"' •
n^odque vf'U!'
latui, est latus ; carl-
:
.

fcubditanavigiis, spinae mutatur in usum. naqne suudua mcdUs

Lina comae molles, antennae brachia fiunt. mZi'^pin^fThia %
Ccerulus, ut fuerat, color est: Quasque ante time- IttaqtTbrZhtit'-
Tii
bant.
... 555 erat
lorestcosrulHS,ntfu-
Ndiadesque a-
, 1 •! 1 :
lllas
virgmeis exercent lusibus undas quorea exerceut vir-
Naides ^quoreae durisque in montibus ortae
:
Sf^ Jr^Si^l Z-
Molle fretum celebrant; nee eas sua tangit oriEro. ^^' imiuris
•KT ,,-i.
JNon tamen oblitae, quam multa pericula saevo
'^ jnequecelebrant
montibus,
moiie fretum: nee sua
, .,"
Pertulerint pelago, jactatis saepe carinis 660 ZlniwnMui','quam
Supposuere manus nisi si qua vehebat Achivos,
:
]7rhu'^7lt'f''pcIc!go,
XIII. Clad is adhuc Phrvsfice
~ memores odere ^^pe supposuere ma'
j-v I
71US carims .'
jactatis ;

relaSgOS : msi si qua vehebat

NeritiEeque fatis viderunt fragmina laetis xiil' Memores ad-

Vultibus. Et laetae videre rigescere puppini oZre'peiLg^sri^de-
Cautibus Alcinoi; saxumque increscere lisi;no.565 runtque letts vnitibus
VTirci
Al i-TVT ,r.^ 1 •
fragmina Neritite ra-
V bpes erat, in.
JNympnas animata classe ma- tis.et latw videre pup-
rinnts ^"" rigescere cautlbus
lllldb, Alcino'i ; saxumque in-
Posse metu monstri Rutulum desistere bello. crescereiigno.

Irerstat; nabetque
*
J)eos pars
rum
^ utraque; quiq Deo- 111' ;
animata in marinas
vymphas, RutuLu^n
posse mctu monstri de-
Instar, habent animos. Nee jam dotalia regna, ;^%^L''«tS:f t:
Nee sceptrum • •
soceri, nee te, Lavinia virgo, 570 oet veos.^Mceiquequi
habent animos mstar
cf 1 1 !• 1
feed vicisse petunt deponendique pudore : ncomm. Necjampe-
Bellsi gerunt. Tandemque Venus victricia nati 'n"c sceitium "^ch,
Arma videt: Turnusq \.
: cadit:' cadit Ardea Turno, '
««? K' P^so Lavinia',
sed vicisse, geruntquc
bella pudore deponendi; tandemque Venus videt victricia arma nati- Turmis cadit; Ardea
cadit,
TRANSLATION.
gers and legs ;
side remains so still, and the keel, that
what was before a
a
supports the middle structure of the vessel, changes to spine,
the cordage
flows in hair ; the sail-yards become arms the colour as before is green ; ;

and, transformed to sea-nereids, they exercise, in virgin sports, the

waves they dreaded before and though sprung from rugged mountains,
;

they yet frequent the restless sea, nor are affected with the remembrance
of their original. Yet, not forgetting the many hazards they had run on
the unrelenting waves, they often befriend ships struggling with a storm,
unless of Achaian make.
XIII. For, still mindful of the calamities brought upon the Phrygians,
they hate the Greeks and beheld with joyful looks the wreck
;
of Ulysses'
a rock, and the
ship pleased too, they saw that of Alcinous harden into
;

wood cased with stone.

XIV. There was reason to hope that, upon seeing the fleet thus ani-
mated into sea-nymphs, the Rutilians, awed by a prodigy so strange,
would desist from the war but they still push it on, and each side is sup-
:

ported by its gods, and by heroes, in valour not inferior to gods.

Nor is a
dotal kingdom, of the sceptre of a father-in-law, or virgin bride, now the
aim of their ambition, but victory and conquest and they continue the ;

war, through shame of being the first to yield. At length Venus beholds
the arras of her son victorious. Turnus falls and Ardea too, a powerful ;
 504 P. OVIDll NASONIS
dicta
sospite ^'^^QuatJpl'sl Sospite dicta potens. Quara postquam barbarus
qtuim harbarus ignis
Ignis
tuerunt'tepidafaviua; Abstulit, et tcpida latuei'uiit tccta favilla, 575
^uiui sMatfm'e. Congerie e media turn primum cognita praepes
did congerie; et ever-
Subvolat: ct cineres plausis everberat alis :

Et somis, et ma- Et sonus, et macies, et

pallor, et omnia, captam
alis.

nuil i\ml%m'deccant QusB

~ "
dcccant urbem, nomen quoque mansit in ill&
captum urbem ; nomcn Urbis et ipsa suis deplangitur Ardea peunis. 580
:
vrbis mansit quoque in
iSld ; et ipsa a rdea de- XV. Jamq; Deos omnes,ipsamq; iEneia virtus
ylan^itur suis peiinis.
XV. Janiqtie y^iit'ia Junonem veteres finire coegerat iras :

^i7JsUp°wnque T"no- Cum, bene fundatis opibus^crescentis lUli,

ne>n J; nire veteres iras:
TempBstivus
*
erat coelo Cvthereius heros ';
Cllttl 0\}ll)llS CJ*CSC€ litis •'

jiui bene fundatis, Cy-

Ambieratque Venus Superos: coUoq parentis 585 ;
thereitis heros erat tern- r^- r at•
u' j- ii j.

-pcstivus caio; Venus. Circumtusa sui. JNunquam mini, dixerat, uilo

Virc'i^ulllue^Toiii> Tempore dure pater, nunc sis mitissimus ore ;
sui parentis, dixerat:
Pater, nunguam dure
iEneseque
ti •.
^ ^ te de sanp;uine
meo,' qui ", .
nostro
mihi iiUo tempore, oro tecxt avum, quaiiivis parvum, des, optime, numen ;
'defqvTmeo''yBnea^qui
Dummodo des aliquod. Satis est inamabile reg-
fecit te ai'um de nos- num 590
tro sanguine, tiumen, .
m ci •

quamvis,parvum,dum- Aspexissc
' semel, Stvgios
•'°.
semcl issc per amnes.
modo des aliquod. Est a r t\-' ,/ .

satis aspexisse [semel Assenscre Uii nec coiijux regia vultus

:

«rr"ct'So7a'^! Immotos tenuit ; placatoque annuit ore.

nes. Dii assensere Turn pater, Estis, ait coelesti munere digni,
:

nec conjux regia tenuit

vultus immotos: annuitque placato ore. Turn pater ait: Estis digni catesti munere,
TRANSLATION,
city whileTurnus lived to defend it. But, after it had been destroyed by
barbarian flames, and that the houses lay buried under heaps of ashes,
a new bird was then first seen to rise from amid the ruins, and beat the
wreck with disastrous wings. Its voice, withered limbs, paleness, and
Avhole appearance, speak the fate of the city whence it
spruug the name
;

of the place too is stamped upon it, and Ardea is bewailed by the
mournful clapping of own wings. its
XV. And now the bravery and merit of jEneas had extinguished in
all the gods, and even in Juno herself, their old resentment and the ;

power of rising lulus being well established, the Cytherean hero was be-
come ripe for his kindred mansion of the stars. Venus had solicited all
the gods above and, hanging on her father's neck,
;
Indulgent sire (said
she), who never yet sternly rejected my suit, now, more than ever, be
gracious and raise my .^neas, who by his descent from me boasts of
;

you as his grandfather, to the rank of a god, though of the lowest class.
It is enough that he has once beheld the
unlovely realms of Pluto, enough
that he has once crossed the Stygian lake. The
gods gave each a nod of
assent nor did even the empress of the skies listen to the request with a
;

forbidding air, but signified her compliance by a gracious smile. Then the
sire of gods You are both worthy of the heavenly grant you that prefer
:
;

NOTES.
576. Congerie e medid tiim primwn.'] fleetsbeing set on fire, were resolved to
We arc to form the same jiidgjiient ot tliis do the .same by Ardea, the capital of the
fable, as of the preceding. The soldiers Rutilians.
of ^Eiieas, to revenge the affront of their
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIV. 505

Inque qtiff petis, iWcqiie

Qu32q ; petis, pro quoq ; petis. Cape, nata, quod pro quo petis gnata,
;

595 cape quod optas. Fatus

optas. erat : Ilia gaudet,
Fatus erat.
Gaudet, gratesque agit ilia parenti :
ugitq ; grates parenti,
invectaq; junctis co-
Perque leves auras junctis invecta columbis lumhis per leves au-
Littus adit Laurens, ubi tectus arundine serpit ras, adit littus Lau-
rens, ubi Numicius
In freta flumineis vicina Numicius undis. tectus arundine, ser-
pit ill vicina fretajfu-
Hunc jubet iEneae, qusecunq; obnoxia morti, 600 mhieis it7idis. Jubet
hunc abluere yEncce,
Abluere et tacito deferre sub aequora cursu.
; quncunquc obnoxia

Corniger exsequitur Veneris mandata suisque :

morti ; et deferre sub
o'quora tacito cursu.
Quicquid Mneo. fuerat mortale, repurgat,
in Corniger exsequitur
mandata Veneris ; rc-
Et respergit aquis. Pars optima restitit illi. purgatque, et resper-
Lustratum genetrix divino corpus odore 605 git stiis aquis, quic-
quid fuerat mortale in
Unxit, et ambrosia cum dulci nectare mista ^ned. Pars optima
restitit illi. Genetrix
Contigit OS ; fecitq ; Deum quera turba Quirini: unxit corpus lustra-
tum divino odore, et
Nuncupat Indigetem, temploque, arisq ; recepit. contigit OS ambrosia
XVI. Inde sub Ascanii ditione binominis Alba mixta cum dulci nec-
tare, fecitque Deitm:
Resque Latina fuit. Succedit Silvius illi ; 610 quern turba Quirini
nuncupat Indigetem,
Quo satus, antique tenuit repetita Latinus recepit que templo aris-
Nomina cum sceptro clarum subit Alba Latinum qiie.
:
XVI. Inde Alba, res-
:

Epitos ex illo est. Post hunc Capetusque, Capys- que Latina, fuit
sub
ditione binominis As-
canii. Silvius succedit
illi. Quo Latinus sa-
Sed Capys ante fuit. Regnum Tiberinus ab lUis tus, tenuit repetita no-
615 mina, cum
Cepit; et in Tusci demersus fluminis undis
antiquo
sceptro: Alba subit
Nomina fecit aquae. De
quo Remulusque, feroxq ; clarum Latinum. Epi-
tos est ex illo, Cwpct us-
Acrota sunt geniti Remulus, maturior annis,
:
que Capysq;post hunc;
sed Capys fuit ante,
Fulmineo periit, imitator fulminis, ictu. Tiberinus cepit reg-
fium ab illis ; et detnersus in undis Tusci Jiuminis, fecit nomina aqiitr. De quo Remulusque fe-
roxque Acrota sunt geniti: Remulus maturior annis, imitator fulminis, periit fulmineo ictu.
TRANSLATION.
the suit, and he for whom it is
preferred ; receive, therefore, the favour
you request. He said she rejoices, and returns thanks to her sire and,
: ;

borne through the light air in a chariot drawn by harnessed doves, flies
to the shore of Laurentura, where Numicius, shaded with reeds, creeps

along his channel to the adjoining sea. She orders him to purge ^neas
of whatever about him is mortal, and bear it to the sea in his still waters.
The horned god obeys the mandate of Venus and, sprinkling ^neas ;

with his waters, purges away whatever is mortal in his frame, and suffers
only his better part to remain. His mother anoints the body, thus puri-
fied, with gums of fragrant scent, and breathes on his features ambrosial
dews and changes him to a god, whom the Romans style Indiges, and
;

honour with a temple and altars.

XVI. After j^-neas, the sovereignty of Alba and the Latian sceptre
descended to Ascanius, who was succeeded by Sylvius. His son Latinus,
in whom the name of the race was renewed, swayed also the ancient
sceptre of his family. Alba reigned after the renewed Latinus, and left
the kingdom toEpiros. After him came Capetas and Capys; but Capys
first. From them Tiberinus received the sceptre who, being drowned in ;

crossing the Tuscan river, gave his name to the stream. From him sj^rung
Remulus, and the fierce Acrota. Remulus, who was the elder, aspiring
to imitate thunder, fell by the stroke of thunder. Acrota, less presump-
506 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Acrota,moderatiorsuo Fratre suo sceptrum moderatior Acrota forti

fratre, traait seep-
trum forti Aventino :
mi..
Irauit Aveiitino
.
' .
eodem
,
. „„
620
g uijacet positus eodem
qui quo regnarat,
:

tnonte quo regnarat ; Monte jacet positus ; tribuitque vocabula Hionti.

vocabula
Jamque Palatinae summam Procas gentis habebat.
tribuitque
ttionti. Jamque procas
habebat summam Pa-
latini gentis, Pomona Rege sub hoc Pomona fuit : qua nulla Latinas
fuit suo hoc rege; quA, Inter Hamadryadas coluit solertivis hortos,
n.ulla inter Hamadry-
adas Latinas coluit Nee fuit arborei studiosior altera foetus ; 625
hortos sollertius, nee
fuit altera studiosior
Unde tenet nomen. Non silvas ilia, nee amnes ;
r i- •

4zrborei fa:tus; unde Rus

-- amat,' et rauios felioia poma
' -
ferentes
tetiet norncn. Ilia non - - -

waaXsilvas,nec amnes, Nee jaeulo gravis est, sed adunca dextera falce :
amat rus, et ramos
ferentes felicia poma. Qua modo luxuriem premit, et spatiantia passim
Nee dextera est gra- Brachia compeseit: fissa modb eortice virgam 630
vis jaculo sed aduncA
falce; quit modb pre- Inserit ; et suecos alieno prasstat alumno.
mit luxuriem, et com-
pescit brachia spati- Nee patitur sentire sitim bibul8eque recurvas :

antia passim ; modu

inserit
Radicis fibras labentibus irrigat undis.
virgam Jissu,
eortice: et prastat suc-
cos alteno alumno. Nee
Hie amor, hoe studium: Veneris quoque nulla cu-
patitur sentire sitim ; pido.
irrigatque recurras
Jibras bibultp radicis Vim tamen agrestem metuens, pomaria claudit
labent.ibus undis. Hie Intus et accessus prohibet, refugitq ; viriles.
: 636
amor, hoc studium,
erat illi : nulla quoque Quid non et satyri saltatibus apta juventus
cupido Veneris. Tomen
meluens vimagrestcm. Fecere, et pinu prsecineti cornua Panes,
eSf^TrSSi Silvanusque suis semper juvenilior annis,
viriles accessits.
Quid
turn et Satyri Jectre,
^ i I Deus fures vel falce vel ineuine
Quio '
o terret,' 640
juve7itus apta saltatibus, et paiies pracincti qnod ad cornua pinu, Silvanusque, semper juveni-
lior suis annis, Deusque qui terret fures, vel falce, vel inguine;

TRANSLATION.
tuous than his brother, left the sceptre to gallant Aventinus, who lies
buried in the same mountain on which he reigned and gave his name to ;

the mountain. And now Procas held the government of the Palatine na-
tion. Under this prince flourished Pomona ;
than whom none, among
the Latian Hamadryads, applied more to the
cultivating of gardens, or
attended with equal care to the breed of fruit-trees ; whence she has her
name. She discovers no fondness for woods or streams, hut loves the
country, and boughs bending under a load of fruit. Nor is her right-hand
armed with a dart, but with a crooked pruning knife, wherewith she some-
times checks the luxuriance of the
boughs, and lops off on every side the
straggling shoots at other times she inserts scions in the cleft bark, and
;

foreign breed. Nor does she suffer her

ministers copious supplies of sap to a
rising nursery to feel the rage of thirst, but waters the crooked fibres of
the soaking root with gliding streams. This is her study, this her delight ;
no chains of love held her enthralled. But,
fearing the violence of the
neighbouring swains, she surrounds her orchard with a wall, and thus
avoids and guards against all approach of men. What did not the satyrs,
a youthful race, fond of wanton mirth, essay ? and the Pans, crowned
with garlands of pine, and Silvanus, who,
though old, has still a youthful
soul the god too, who with his hook drives thieves. What,
;
pruning away
NOTES.
623. Rege sub hoc Pomona fuit.'] Po-
_ „ beautiful nympli to wliom all the rural
mona, if wc may believe tlie ^o'M, whs a gods paid tlieir addresses.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIV. 507

Ut poterentur ea ? sed enim superabat amando ut poterentur ea

enim Vertumnus su-
1 sed

Hos qiioque Vertumnus: neque erat felicior illis. perabat quoque hos
amando; neque erat
quoties habitu duri messoris aristas felicior illis. O quoties
hiibitu duri messirris
Corbe tulit ; verique fuit messoris
imago !
tulit ai'istas corbe ;
ferens fceno ^45 soris
J"'tl"eimugovrri mes-
Tempora saepe religata recenti, Sape gerens tem- .'

Desectum poterat gramen versasse videri. pora religata recenti

fano, poterat videri
Ssepe manu stimulos rigida portabat ; ut ilium versasse desectum gru-
Jurares fessos modo disjunxisse juvencos. me7i. Srrpe portabat
stimulos rigidii manu ;
Falce data froudator erat, vitisque putator. ut jurares ilium modo
disjunxisse fessos ju-
Induerat scalas, lecturum poma putares. 650 vencos. Falce data,
erat frondator, puta-
Miles erat gladio, piscator arundine sumpta. tor qtie litis. Indue-
rat scalas, putares
Denique per multas aditum ubi saepe figuras eiim lecturum poma.
Repperit, ut caperet spectatae gaudia formse. ICrat miles gladio, pis-
cator arundine
Ille etiam
picta redimitus tempora mitr&, 655 tii. Denique persump-
mul-
tas figuras stepc rep-
Innitens baculo, positis ad tempora canis,
perit aditum sibi, ut
Assimilavit anum cultosque intravit in hortos,
: caperet gaudia spec-
tata:form(B. Illeetiam,
Pomaq; miratus. Tanto potentior, inquit: redimiltts tempora
picta mitrH, innitens
Paucaque laudatis dedit oscula, qualia nunquam baculo, cants positis
Vera dedisset anus glebaque incurv^ resedit,
:
ad tempora, assimila-
vit anum intravitqtie ;

Suspiciens pandos Autumni pondere ramos. 660 in cult OS hortos; mi-

ratus Tanto poten- :

Ulmus erat contra spaciosa tumentibus uvis : tior, inquit :Paucaqtie

laudatis inquitque, O
Quam socia postquam pariter cum vite probavit ; Tirgo, tanto potentior.
At si staret, ait, ccelebs sine palmite truncus, Deditque pauca oscula
lauduta, qualia vera
Nil pra;ter frondes, quare peteretur, haberet. anus nunquam dedis-
set; ztuurvaqiie re-
sedit gicha, suspiciens ramos pandos pondere autumni. Erat contra ulmus spatiosa tumentibus
uvis ; postquam. probavit pariter cum sociil vite, ait
quam : At si truncus staret ccelebs si/ie
pal-
mite, haberet nil quare peteretur prater frondes.
TRANSLATION.
1 say, did they not essay to obtain her. But Vertumnus far exceeded
them all in his love, nor was yet more successful. oft, in the habit How
of a rough hind, did he carry corn in a basket ; and was indeed the very
picture of a hind. Oft, having his temples bound round about with new
hay, he seemed as if just come from turning the grass he had cut down.
Sometimes he bore in his hand a goad, that you would swear he had but
just unyoked his sweating steers. Did he take in his hand a pruning-
knife, he was a very vine-dresser or, if loaded with a ladder, he seemed
;

as if going to gather fruit. Armed with a sword, he seemed a soldier or, ;

with a fishing-rod, an angler. In fine, by assuming great variety of

shapes, he at last found admittance, to taste the joy of beholding his
charming fair. Moreover, wrapping his head in a painted mitre, and lean-
ing on a staff, with grey hairs flowing from his temples, he personated an
old woman and, entering her finely-cidtivated orchard, seemed to ad-
;

mire the fruit. This (says he, within himself) adds still greater influence
to your charms. Then, after commending her much, he kindly saluted
her, but with an ardour beyond what coiUd have been expected from a
real old woman and, affecting to stoop with age, seated himself on a
;

turf, looking up at the boughs bending under the weight of autumn. Over-

against him stood an elm, branching wide, and laden with clusters of
svvelling grapes Avhich after commending nuich with its associate vine,
;

But, did it stand single (says he), not embranched by the foldings ol" the
508 P. OVIDII NASONIS

H<rc quoque vuis qufc jjjgj, quoQue, qusB luncta

ulmo, vitis requiescit in

uimo,sinonforetnup- nupta fei noii ooo

loret, teiTse acclinata jaceret.
IVr/J^^TltTmcnnTn Tu tamen exemplo non tangeris arboris hujus ;
necte conjungere curas
TbirtfuXT'coZ Concubitusque fugis; :

cubitus meccurascotv-
Atque utinaiii velles! Helene non pluribus esset
nam velles. Helene Sollicitata procris: nec quas Lapitneia movit b/U
y1"n6«f yrocrt"«ec Prselia, ncc conjux timidis
audacis Ulyssei.
^rff«a""^^Lc'"^.w^i/a•
^unc quoque, cum fugias averserisque petentes,
uiysse'i audacis timi- Mille proci cupiunt ;
et semideique, Deique,
dis. Nunc quoque, cum -r,
'^ '. .aiu a
•

Et quEBcunque tcnent Albanos numuia montes.

_

fugias, averserisque

tu, si sapias, si te bene jungere, anumque

675
Sl'/'te.Tf^S? Sed
que Deique, et qua-
cunque numina tenent
Aibaiios nwntes. Sed
.
^•^•l
Hauc auditc volcs (qusB te pliis omnibus illis,
••^j
Plus quam ci'edis, amo,) vuigares rejice taedas ;

^benr/u^eri W^au- Vertumnumque tori socium tibi selige pro quo :

cqurLJ'tl'piuTiuu
Me quoque pignus habe. Neque enim sibi notior
omnibus, phis quam \W.& CSt,
credis) rejice vuigares ^-.s •i-ivTij •
j.* u
t(Edas; seiigcq;
Vertum7ium socium to-
tibi Quam
mihi, - JVcc "toto passim vagus crrat in oFDe.
~^ -

ri. Pro quo habe me Haec loca sola colit. Nec uti pars magna proco-
quoque pignus 7ieque :

rum, 681
enim ille est notior si-
bi quam nec er-
mihi
rat vagus passim in
; Quam modo amat.vidit, Tu primus et ultimus illi

toto orbe. Colli htec Ardor eris; solique suos tibi devovet annos.
sola lo»a; Vjec amat
quam vidit modo, uti Adde, quod est juvenis; quod naturale decoris
magna pars procorum.
Tu eris primus et ul-
Munus habet
formasque apte fingetur in omnes;
;

timus ardor illi: de- Et, quod erit jussus (jubeas licet omnia) fiet. 686
vovet suos annos tibi
soli. Adde quod est Quid, quod amatis idem ? quod, quss tibi poma co-
juvenis: quod habet
naturale munus deco- luntur,
ris ; fingeturque aptt in omnesformas, etjiet quod erit jussus, licet jubeas omnia. Quid f quod
amatis idem? quod primus haliet poma, qua coluntur tibi,
TRANSLATION.
vine, would shoot forth only leaves, nor bear any thing to invite the
it
hand. The vine too, which rests upon the supporting elm, unless thus
united, would creep a neglected shrub upon the ground. Yet you seem not
to he moved by so instructive an example, but shun the conjugal em-
brace, nor care to be united in the bonds of wedlock and, indeed, 1 wish ;

it were otherwise. Helen was never attended by a more numerous train

of suitors than would flock round you nor she, who roused the LapithiB
;

to arms nor the wife of Ulysses, bold

;
against cowards. Even now, though
you shun and avoid their addresses, yet you are the darling of a thousand
wooers of gods and demi-gods, and all the deities inhabiting the Alban
;

mountains. But do you, if you are wise if you would be happy in wed- ;

lock, and will listen to the advice of an old -woman, who loves you more
than them all more than you easily believe reject vulgar followers, and
; ;

accept Vertumnus as the companion of your days, for whom I offer also
my assurance for scarce is the god better known to himself. Nor is he
;

one who wanders at large over all the earth, but frequents these places
alone and, far from resembling the common herd of wooers, who are
;

passionately fond of every new face, you are his first and only flame to ;

you alone he devotes all his years. Add, that he is young, that he has a
natural comeliness of person, that he can put on any shape with ease, and
will become whatever you command him: and you may command
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIV. 509

Primus habet; Isetaque

* -
tenet tua munera dextrii '' tenetque tua mujiera
- -
l(Cta dextra? Med ne-
Sed neque jam foetus desiderat arbore que jam desiderat foe-
demptos, tus demptos a7'bore,}iec
Nee quas hortus alit cum succis mitibus herbas ; herhas quas hortits
Nee quicquam, uisi te. Miserere ardentis et ipsum :
alit cum succis miti-
bus, nee quicquam,
Qui petit, ore meo
praesentem crede precari 692 nisi te. etMiserere ar-
:

dentis, crede ipsum

Ultoresque Deos, et pectora dura perosam qui petit te,pr<Esentein
precari meo ore: time-
Idalien, memoremque time Rhamnusidis iram. que Deos ultores, et
Idalien perosam dura
Quoq ; magis timeas (etenim mihi multa vetustas pectora, memoremque
Scire dediit) referam tot^ notissima 696 iram llhamnusidis.
Cypro Quoque ti?neas
Facta ; quibus flecti facile et mitescere possis. mugis
(etenimvetustas dedit
Viderat a veteris generosam sanguine Teucri mihi scire multa) re-
feram facta notissima
Ipbis Anaxareten humili de stirpe creatus. tola Vypro; quibus pos-
sis facile Jlecti et mi-
Viderat et totis perceperat ossibus sestum
:
700 tescere. Iphis creatus
de humili stirpe, vide-
Luctatusque diu, postquam ratione furorem rat Anaxereten gene-
Vincere non potuit, supplex ad limina venit. rosam a sanguine ve-
teris Teucri. Viderat:
Et modo nutrici miserum confessus araorem, et perceperat testum
totis ossibus. 'Lucta-
Ne sibi dura foret, per spes oravit alumnae, tusque diu, postquam
Et modo de multis bland itus cuique ministris, 705 TnLTliiiLTh}%
?5ollicita
petiit propensum voce favorem. supplex ad limina. Et
modd co?ifessus mise-
Saepe ferenda dedit blandis sua verba tabellis : rum amorem nutrici,
oravit per spes alum-
Interdiim madidas lachrymarum rore coronas nfc ncforet dura sibi.
Postibus intendit ; posuitque in limine duro Et modd blanditus cui-
que de multis minis-
Molle latus, tristique serae convicia fecit. 710 tris, petiit propensum-
favorem sollicitd voce.
Surdior ilia freto surgente cadentibus hcEdis, S<Fpe dedit sua verba
blandis tabellis, feren-
da ei: inferdum intendit postibus coronas madidas rore lachrymarum ; posvitque jnolle latus in
duro limine ; fecitque convicia tristi sera. Ilia surdior freto surgente, hadis cadentibus,
TRANSLATION,
every thing. Consider, too, that yoiu' likings and aversions are the same ;

that he first produces your

darling fruit, and holds them out as presents
for you in his
joyful right hand. But now he neither covets the fruit
plucked from trees, nor garden-plants of mildest juice, nor aught but
thee alone. Regard his ardent
passion, and imagine, that the god himself,
wlio courts your alliance, is here
present, and requests this by my mouth.
Dread the avenging gods, and Idalie, who hates unrelenting breasts, and
goddess. And, to make you yet
the permanent anger of the Rhamnusian
more sensible of the danger (for age has brought many things to my
knowledge), attend to a tale well known through all Cyprus, and which
may teach you to compassionate and relent. Iphis, come of an obscure
race, had seen Anaxerete, ennobled by the blood of ancient Teucer. He
had seen her, and felt the ardent flame of love shoot through all his bones.
And, having long struggled with his passion, when he found that he could
not, by his reason, conquer the infatuation, he came a suppliant to her
gate. Andsometimes, avowing his unhappy flame to her nurse, begged,
by hopes of her darling care, that she will not cruelly reject his suit.
Sometimes, addressing himself to one of her numerous train of servants,
he begged their assistance and Oft com-
friendship with anxious voice.
mitting the language of his heart to writing, he contrived to have it sent
her. Sometimes he hung up by the gate garlands, wet with the dew of
his tears and,
;
resting his tender side upon the hard threshold, loaded
with reproaches the cruel bolts. But she more
unrelenting than the aea,
510 P. OVIDIl NASONIS
etdurior ffrrn, quod DurioF ct fcrro, Quod Noricus excoquit is:his,
ct saxo, quod adhuc Quod
adliuc vivuHi radice tenetur;
Jbt siixo,
teneliir vivd radices o -i. Z. a r j.- •^i •
i i-i
j.

spernit et irridet ; fe bpernit, et irridet; laotisque immitibus addit

roxque, addit superba Verba ferox et fraudat aman-
verba immitibus
fact is, superba :
spe quoq ;
et fraudat amautcm tem. 715
quuque spe. Iphis im-
jiatiens Imigi dolvris, Non
longi tormenta doloris
tulit impatieiis
non tulit tortncnta ; et
dixit htec novissima Iphis ; et ante fores hsec verba novissima dixit:
fjerbaafite fores. Vin-
cis, Anaxarete ; ncque Vincis, Anaxarete neq ; erunt tibi tsedia tandem :

tandem nlla tffdia mei UUa ferenda mei. Laetos molire triumphos,
eruntferenda tibi. Mo-
lire icetos triumphos, Et Paeana voca, nitidaque incingere lauro 720 :

et voca Paana, incin-

Vincis enim, moriorq ; libens age, ferrea, gaude. :
gercque nitidH lauro :
enim vincis, morior que Certe laudare mei co^eris,
libens a^e'
ferrea
aliquid
— —
. .
eritque
— .

gaude.' cerie cogeris Quo tibi sim gratus ; meritumq ; fatebere nostrum.

eVit/'rqimnm'graZs Non tamen ante tui curam cessisse memento,

'truL'^welftum.' Me- Quam
vitam ; geminaque simul mihi luce carendum.
tnento tamen curam ]Nfec tibi fama mci ventura est nuncia leti :
tm non cessisse ante- f i i •, i i i
•

quam vitam ; caren- ipse ego, ne dubites, adero: prsesensque videbor,

dumq ; est mihi gemiiul
luce simul. Nee fama Corpore ut exanimi crudelia lumina pascas.
est Ventura tibi nun-
cia met leti: ne
Si tamen, 6 superi, mortalia fata videtis,
dubites,
ego ipse adero; vide- Este mei memores
; nihil ultra lingua precari
730
borque prtesens, ut
Sustinet ; et longo iacite ut memoremur in aevo ;
pascas crudelia lumi-
na exanimi corpore.
Et quae dempsistis vitse, date tempora famte.
Si tamen, 3 superi, vi-
detis mortalia fata,Dixit : et ad postes ornatos saepe coronis
este memores mei ; lin
gua sustinet precarinumentcs oculos ct pallida brachia tendens,
ZffiiA^memoredur'in Cum foribus laquei religaret vincula summi ;

'Z'Lmllra'qn^Vmp-
H^Bc tibi scrta pkccnt, crudelis et impia, dixit. 736
sistis vita. Dixit et tendens humentes oculos, et pallida brachia ad postes
; sape ornatos coro-
nis, cum religaret viticula summi laqueiforibus ; dixit: here serta placent tibi impia et crudelis?
TRANSLATION,
•when roused by the setting of the kids harder than iron, tempered in ;

the Noric forge or the rock which, fast bound by its root, retains all its
;

native stubbornness despises and insults him ; and adds moreover to her
;

barbarous behaviour haughty words, and deprives the unhappy lover even
of hope. Iphis, impatient, could not bear the torment of his endless grief,
and poured out these his last words before the gate You conquer Anaxa- :

rete nor shall j^ou be any more compelled to endure my irksome solicita-
;

tions. Prepare a joyful triumph, invoke the god Psean, and bind your
temples with a garland of trimmed laurel for you conquer, and I wil- ;

lingly resign life do then, hard-hearted fair, rejoice. Something in me,

:

at least, you shall be compelled to commend in something I will render ;

myself agreeable, and force you to own my merit. Yet remember, that
my regard for you ceased not, but with life both lights must be extin- ;

guished together. Nor shall Fame come to you the first messenger of ray
death I myself will come, doubt it not, and stand before you, that you
;

may feed your cruel eyes with the sight of my lifeless corse. If yet, O
heavenly powers, the fate of mortals is your care, have some respect to
mine my tongue can ask nothing farther let my name be known to dis-
;
:

tant ages and may I enjoy in fame that life, of which I am now so early
;

deprived. He said and raising his swinnning eyes, and extending his
:

pale arms to the door-posts he had often adorned with garlands, as he

 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIV. 611

Inseruitq; caput; sed turn quoq ; versus ad illam :

j^^^^f^^^
Atque onus infelix elisa fauce pependit. aduiam; atque in/e.
T, 1 ,. -ji^ J. li J. lix onus vevendit elisil
Ictapedum motutiepidanturn, ut multa gementem fauce. januaictamo-
Visa dedisse sonum est, adapertaque janua factum ',^,^'17 J/'S^
Prodidit:' exclamant famuli frustraque levatum sonum ut gementem
^-.T- ., ,. ,• I,
:

.IT- multa, adapertaque,

(Nam pater occiderat) reterunt ad limina matris. prodidu /actum; fa-

Accipit ilia sinu, complexaque frigida nati ^ 'fermalue'^''tvatlm

Membra sui,postquam miserorum verba parentum ^{^^'^^mm^'^ate^i^^ci
Edidit, et matrum raiserarum facta peregit; 745 derat. iiiaaccipusu
1-1 iii T
Jbunera ducebat mediam lachrymosa per urbem,
1 iL
""it, complexaque fri-
gida membra sui nati,

Luridaque arsuro portabat membra feretro. ff^r^a^'X^"

Forte «* peregu facta mise.
viae vicina domus, qua flebilis ibat
._ 1 /. •
1 1
rarum matrum, duce- -

Pompa, luit duraeque sonus

:
plangoris ad aures bat lachrymosafunera

Venit Anaxeretes quam jam Deus ultor agebat.:

'^pZ-tabatque ^Lrida
Mota tamen, Videamus, ait, miserable funus: 751 Z^J^F^rtedomZlnZ'.
Et patulis iniit tectum sublime fenestris. aretes fuu vidna via,
XT- 1 •, 1, •
jTI-* 1'ua Jlebihs pompa
Vixque bene mipositum lecto prospexerat Jpnm; ibat; sotmsque plan-

Diriguere oculi calidusque e corpore sanguis

:
dZrl rquL^'uitorvl
Inducto pallore fugit. Conataque retro 755 '^J'Z,(a^fu'yiZa-
Ferre pedes, haesit conata avertere vultus, :
mus miserabn'e funus,
TT i* •
1 1. 1.
^t i7iiit tectum sub-
Hoc quoq non potuit paulatimq
;
, ,

occupat artus, iime patuUs fenestris.

:
;

Quod fuit in duro jam pridem pectore, saxura. .^^^r/^&^S^

Neve eaficta putes, dominae sub imagine signum iecto;cjim ocuu aiH-
~ 1, oT 1 •
XT • •
guere : calidusque san-
Servat adhuc Salamis : Veneris quoq ;
nomme tem- ,

guis fugu i.
corpore,
1 P'^^^"'"'^ '^^'^'"'^to ; cona-
pium taque ferre pedes re-
/ UU
'7f\C\

tro, hasit : conata avertere vultus\ non potuit quoque hoc: saxumque, quod fuit jampridem in
duro pectore, paulatim occupat artus. Neve putes ca ficta, Salamis adhuc servat signum sub
imagine domino:. Habet quoque templum
TRANSLATION,
fastened the end of the cord to the gate Do these garlands then, cruel, in- :

human fair (said he), please you ? And, still careful that he might be turned
toward her, thrust his head into the noose, and hung by his squeezed
thro&,t, a hapless load The gate, struck by the convulsive motions of his
!

feet, seems to complain in heavy groans and, upon being opened, disco- ;

vered what had been done. The servants raise an outcry ; and, taking
him down in vain, carry the body to the house of his mother (for his fa-
ther had been some time dead). She cherishes him in her bosom and ;

embracing the cold lifeless limbs of her son, after venting her grief in
complaints suited to her unhappy fate, and bemoaning her son in a man-
ner that testified her grief and despair, she led his mournful funeral
through the middle of the city, and bore his livid limbs on a bier to the
fatal pyre. Adjoining to the street, through which the mournful pomp
passed, was the house of the cruel fair ; and the echo of the lamentations
reached the ears of Anaxarete, whom now the avenging gods pursued.
Moved, however, by the laments she heard. Let us see (said she) this
mournful funeral and went into an upper room, where the windows were
;

large and open. Scarce had she beheld Iphis, who was carried on a bier,
when her eyes stiffened and, a paleness spreading all over her body,
;

the warm blood forsook her veins. Endeavouring to retire, she foimd that
she stuck fast; and Avhen she wanted to turn away her face, neither was
that in her power. And the stone, which had long lurked in her unrelent-
ing, breast, bv degrees crept over all her ioiuts. And, that vou may not
512 P. OVIDII NASONIS

fiomine

mor
Veneris pro-
spicientis. Quorum me-
6 mea nymphe,
pone Iciif OS fast us pre-
Prospicientis
1
liabet.

Poiie, pi'ecor, lastus, et amanti iuno-ere, Nymphe.

o- .-i •
i- p i ^
Quorum
^^ memor, o mea,
••^ti lentos

cor;,etjungere aman- oic tiDi iiec veriium nasceiitia ingus adurat

"^,«f^rfJra. Poma, nee excutianfc rapidi floreiitia venti.
r/c"" 764
tiapoma tibi; HaBC ubi nequicquam formas Deus aptus in omnes
necra-
yiai venti excutiant
-r^ i- ,• j'/^a, m-
• •
j_ i
,florentia. Jbdidit in juvcnem Tedut et aniiia demit
Ubi Deus ;
:

Xl'nTqurqZm^edi Instrumcnta sibi. Talisque apparuit illi,

dit h(cc; rediit injii-
Qyalis ubi oppositas nitidissima Solis imago
venem, et demit sibt
histrumenta
^
tvicit
.
i^'-ha
.
i-
Obstante rcluxit /oy
i nnn.
aniiia; nubcs, nuUaque :

apparuitque talis illi, -it- i i ^ c ^ • •

sed vi non est opus, inque tigura

quaiis uhi nitidissima Vimquc parat :

*2f nuU"reS: Capta Dei Nymphe est, et mutua vulnera sentit.

que nulla, 'obstante; XVII. Proximus Ausoiiias iniusti miles Amuli
paratq ; vim : sea non t» •, -kt i •
i
•

oj>7,s est vi; nymphe- Kexit opes JNumitorque senex amissa nepotum
:

'^ei'lfZ^tn^ Munere regna capit :

festisque Palilibus urbis
^"xyn' uTiics injusti
Mcenia conduntur. Tatiusque, patresque Sabini
Amuli, proximus rexit Bella gerunt arcisque via Tarpeia reclusa: 776
Ausouias opes: Numi- -r\- a •
i-
torque senex capit JUigna animam poena congestis exuit armis.
mS'^cm-^'Zt'c^nia^ul
I^de sati Cuiibus, tacitorum more luporum,
nrbis conduntur fesHs
paliUbus;Tatiusq:Sa-
binique patres ge-
rS,
Qrc prcmunt voces
Invadunt :
et corpora victa sopore
\,
:

portasque petunt: quas obiceiirma 7oU

, v-^A^orw
^q^!l\ia,arcisreauTa,
Clauscrat Iliades. Unam tamen ipsa recludit,

plfaJrmhTongestis.
^^c strepitum vcrso Saturnia cardine fecit.
Inde sati Curibus, prefuunt voces ore, more tacitorum luporum ; et invadunt corpora victa so-
pore; petuntqueportas, quas Iliades clauserat firmCi ohice ; tamen ipsa Saturnia recludit unam,
nee fecit strepitum verso cardine.
TRANSLATION,
imagine this a fiction, the statue itself which represents the lady, is still
to be seen at Salamis, and stands in a temple, inscribed to Venus, look-

ing out. Warned by this, O beloved nymph, disdain no longer to be

joined to one that loves you so may neither the vernal colds nip your
:

growing fruit, nor the rude winds of autumn shake them in the bud.
When the god, capable of every form, had in vain urged these powerful
motives, he put on again his wonted youthful bloom, and dismisses alt the
emblems of old age. Such, and so bright, did he appear in her eyes, as
when the sun's splendid image has dispersed the opposing clouds, and
shines out without interruption. He prepares to obtain his desires by
force ; but force was now become unnecessary, for the nymph was smit
with the captivating form of the god, and feels a mutual flame.
XVII. Amulius next, by violence and injustice, ruled the Ausonian
state ; and Numitor, in his old age, recovers, by the valour of his grand-
sons, the kingdom he had lost and the walls of Rome are built during;

the joyous festival of Pales. Tatius and the Sabine fathers engage in
war and Tarpeia, admitting the enemy into the citadel, expired under
;

the weight of their shields, thrown upon her ; a death which was the just
recompense of her treachery. Upon this the Sabines, natives of cures,
suppressing their voices, after the manner of silent wolves, attack the
Romans overpowered with sleep, and beset the gates, which Romulus
had secured by strong bolts. But Saturnia herself opened one, and turned
NOTES.
772. Proximus Ausonias.] In what fol- the manner of relating them, that may na-
lowsof this book, Ovid traces someof tlie turally be expected between an historian
most remarkable occurrences of the Ko- and a poet.
 MLiTAMORPllOSEON, Lib. XIV. 513

Venus sola sensit re-

Sola Venus portae cecidisse repagula sensit ;
pagula pnrta: cecidisse,
Et clausura et fuit clausura ; nisi
; quod rescindere nunquam
fuit nisi
quod nunquam licet
Dis licet acta Deiim. Jano loca juncta tenebant dis rescindere acta De-
Hm. AusoHicB Na'idcs
Naides Ausonise gelido rorantia fonte 786 tenebant loca juncfa :

Has rogat auxilium, nee Ts^ymphze justa petentem ^'^^'J^/ ^^""at'hofaifx

Sustinuere Deam : venasque et flumina fontis ilium, nee nympha sus-
tinuere Deam peten-
Elicuere sui. Nonduni tamen invia Jani tem just a ; elicuereq ;
venas et flumina sui
Ora patentis erant, neque iter praecluserat unda fontis. Tamen ora pa-
Lurida supponunt fcecundo sulfura fonti, 791 tentis Jani iiondiim
erant invia ncqice un-
Incenduntque cavas fumante bitumine venas. da praclustrat iter.
S'upponunt lurida sul-
Viribus his aliisque, vapor penetravit ad ima Jura Jrecundofonti, in-
caias ve-
Fontis: et Alpino modo
quae certare rigori vas fumaute bitiimine.
cenduntq ;

Audebatis aquae, non ceditis ignibus ipsis. 795 His ulii.sque virihus,
vapor penetravit ad
Flammifera gemini fumant aspergine postes ima fontis ; et vos a- :

quee, quw modo aude-

Portaque, nequicquam rigidis permissa Sabinis, batis certare Alpino
iwn
Fonte fuit praestructa novo ;
dum Martius arma rigori,
sis ignibus.
ceditis ip-
Gemini
Induerat miles. Quae postquam Romulus ultro pastes fumant Jiammi-
fercL aspergine, porta-
Obtulit ; et strata est tellus Romana Sabinis, 800 que nequicquam per-
missa rigidis Sabinis,
Corporibus, strataque suis ; generique cruorem fuit prtestructa novo
fonte, dum martius mi-
Sanguine cum soceri permiscuit impius ensis :
les indnerat arma;
Pace tamen sisti bellum, nee in ultima ferro qum postquum Romu-
lus ultro obtulit, et
Decertare, placet Tatiumque accedere regno.
: tellus Romana est stra-
XVIIL Occiderat Tatius, populisque aequata ^^-SJ-XXlS
duobus 805 piusque ensis permis-
T- ,. dabas
\ , ./\
cum casside
-JIVT
Mavors
c"'*
cum sanauine
cruorem eeTieri
Romule, jura :
posita soceri;

Talibus affatur Divumq ; horainumq ; parentem :

S'pXZJ':!^^
tare ferro in ultima, Tatiumq ; accedere regno.
XVI II. Tatius occiderat, tuq ; Romvle, dabas ecquata jura duobus populis : cum Mavors, cas-
side posits, affatur parentem divumque Iwmtnumque talibus verbis.
TRANSLATION.
the hinges without noise. Venus alone perceived that the brazen fences
of the gate were removed and would have shut it, but that it is not per-
;

mitted any god to annul the acts of the other gods. The Ausonian Naiads
preside over the parts adjoining to the temple of Janus, which
were wa-
tered with a cold spring. She requests their aid nor could the nymphs ;

withstand the goddess in a suit so reasonable, but open every vein, and
unlock their springs yet the front of the open temple was still accessible,
;

nor had the water quue stopt up the way. They then mixed livid sulphur
with the fertile springs, and fire the hollow veins with smoking pitch.
By these and other violent means, the vapour penetrates to the bottom of
the spring and those waters, which so late might have vied for cold with
;

the Alps, yield not in heat to fire itself The posts, on each side the gate,
smoke from the hot exhalations of the stream and the gate, in vain, ;

thrown open to the warlike Sabines, was guarded by a new kind of spring ;

until the gallant Romans had put on their armour. After Romulus had
advanced with these, and that the Latian plains were covered with Sa-
bine and even Roman the merciless sword mingled the blood of
bodies,
the son-in-law with that of the father-in-law, it was at last agreed to
conclude the war by a peace, and not proceed with the sword to the last
extremity but admit Tatius to share the royal power.
:

XVIII. Tatius was slain, and Romulus dispensed equal laws to both
2 L
614 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Gemtor.tcmpusaiicst,
(quoiHum res Komami
valet magna funda-
Tempus
__X_ adcst oenitor
Res Romana
o. (quoniam
vi .,
fundamine mas;no
P
nee prseside pendet ab uno)
,,
valet,
mine, nee pendet ab
tino pi-aside) solvere Prsemia, quae promissa mihi, dignoq; nepoti, 810
sunt pro-
pramia, quce
Solvere, et ablatum terris imponere coelo.
mlssa milii digiwque
nepoti;
earn
to.
et
ablatum
Til
imponere
terris ca-
dixisti mihi
_

'.'...
Xu mihi concilio ciuondam preeseiite Deorum
(Nam memoro, memorique animo pia verba notavi)
quondamprtrscntc con- Unus tu tolles in coerula cceli
Deorum, (nam me-
silio erit, quem ;

moro, notavique pia Dixisti. Rata sit verborum summa tuorum. 815
verba memori animoj
er/t unus, quem tu et nubibus aera csecis
Annuit omnipotens,
tollcs in ccernla cceli.
Summa ttiorum Occuluit, tonitruque et fulgure terruit urbem.
verbo-
rum sit rata. Omni-
sibi promissse sensit data signa rapinse,
pot ens annuit, et occu- Quee
liiit a'ira ctecis nubi-
urbem Innixusque hastse, presses temone cruento
bus, terruitque
et ictu 820
tonitru et fulgure. Impavidus conscenditequos Gradivus,
^t aera lapsus
ZlaZitl'^sibi Verberis increpuit: pronumque per
promissa rapina, in- Coustitit in summo nemorosi colle Palati :

mxusque hast a, con- , . /-\ •j.-

. . . •

scendit impavidtis
Reddeutemque suo ]am regia jura t^uiriti
temlnfr'ef%ncr"p!dt Abstulit Iliaden. Corpus mortale per auras
tenues: ceu lata plumbea funda 825
"S^ ^prliviii^^, Dilapsum
constitit in summo Missa solet medio sflans intabescere coelo.
colle nemorosi Falati, t-« , r
, ^ ^. ^A.•
•
, i
•

Iliaden Pulchra suDit lacies, et

abstuiitque pulvmariDus altis
qui^uijam^suoycor- Dignior, et qualis trabeati forma Quirini.
pus mortale est map- p^ebat, ut amissum coniux cum regia Juno
sum per tenues auras :
ceu gians plumbea mis-
-.'-t -t '^iT- i
ad Hersiliam descendere limite curvo
\x\x\,
;
ooa
ooU
sa lata fundO,,solet ^ , ^
.
j ^ /•
i7itabescere medio cwio.
Fades pulchra subit,
Impeiat: ct vacusB sua SIC mandata reierre.
et dignior altis pulvinaribus, et forma qualis trabeati Quirini. Conjuxflebat eura ut amissum,
cum regia Juno imperat Irin descendere ad Hersiliam curvo limite, et sic referre sua mandata
vacua.
TRANSLATION.
people when Mars, putting on his helmet, thus addresses the Father of
:

Gods and Men. The time is come, father, (now that the Roman state
stands on a firm basis, nor depends upon a single governor,) to confer
him
upon your renowned grandson the promised honours and, removing ;

from earth, to admit him to the skies. Formerly you said, in an assembly
of the gods, (for well I remember it, and treasured up the gracious pro-
mise with mindful care,) he shall be one, whom, in time, you shall ad-
vance to the azure regions of heaven. Confirm now the kind decree. The
almighty sire gave a nod of assent and, darkening the air in thick clouds,
;

alarmed the city with thunder and lightning : which Mars knowing to be
the signals of his son's assumption, leaning on his lance, he undaunted
vaults into the chariot, lashes his horses on, and, gliding through the
downward air, alighted on the top of Mount Palatine, capped with woods,
and carried off Romulus as he was dispensing royal laws to his people.
His mortal body dispersed in thin air as when a leaden bullet, let fly ;

from the whirling sling, liquefies in the middle of the sky. comely A
aspect succeeds, suited to the lofty mansions of the gods,
and a form like
that of Quirinus in triumphal robes. His wife lamented him as lost ;

when imperial Juno orders Iris to descend to Hersilia along the arched
vault of heaven, and thus carry her commands to the disconsolate queen.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XIV. 515

XlX. O et de Latia, 6 et de gente Sabina XIX. O matrona,

preecipuiim decus, et
l^raecipuum matrona decus dignissima tanti ; de Latina, et de Sa-
bind gente ; dignissi-
Ante fuisse viri, conjux nunc esse Quirini ; ma fuisse conjux tanti
viri ante, nunc esse
Siste tuos fletus :
et, si tibi cura videndi 835 conjux Quirini; siste
Conjugis est, duce me, lucura pete,
Quirino colle tuos Jletu.i ; et si est
tibi cura videndi con-
Qui viret, et templum Romani regis obumbrat. jugis pete me duce lu-
Paret: et in terrani pictos delapsa per arcus, cum, qui viret colle
Quirino, et obumbrat
Hersiliam jussis compellat vocibus Iris. templum Ramani re-
gis. Iris paret, et de-
Ilia verecundo vix toll ens lumina vultu, 840 lapsa in terrain per
O Dea (namque mihi, nee quae sis dicere promp- pictos arcus, compel-
lat Hersiliam jussis
Ilia vix tol-
tum est ;
vocibus.
Icns lumina verecundo
Et liquet esse Deam) due, 6 due, inquit et offer : vultu, inquit : O JJea,
(namque ntc est promp.
Conjugis ora mihi. Quae si modci posse videre turn milii dicere qua!
sis, et liquet te esse
Fata semel dederint ; eoeluni aspeetasse fatebor. Deam) due, t> due ; et
Nee mora Romuleos eum virgine Thaumantea offer ora conjugis mihi;
qute si fata modo de-
;

Ingreditur eoUes. Ibi sidus ab sethere lapsum 846 derint me posse videre
semel, fatebor acce-
Deeidit in terras a cujus lumine flagrans
:
pisse ccclum. IVec mo-
ra, ingreditur Romu-
Hersiliae crinis cum sidere cessit in auras. leos colles cum virgine
Hanc manibus notis Romance conditor urbis Tliaumanted.
dus lapsum ab
ll>i si-
eethere,
Exeipit: etpriseum pariter eum eorpore nomen deeidit in terras, a cu-
jus lumine crinis Her-
Mutat; Oramque vocat. Quae nunc Deajuneta iuia'^ag^raL, cessit,
851
OOL '^"'" sidere, in auras'.
Uirmo est.
Qiiirinn p«;f
Conr/Uor Romana ur-
bis exeipit ha}ic notis manibus ; el mutat priscum nomen pariter cum eorpore ; vocatque Oram ;
qua nunc estDeajuncta Quirino,
TRANSLATION.
XIX. O matron, the distinguished glory both of Latian and
illustrious
Sabine state, worthy before to have been the spouse of a king, and now
worthy your alliance with the god, dry up these tears and, if you are im- ;

to behold your spouse, repair, under my care, to the grove that

patient
blooms on the hill Quirinus, and shades the temple of the Roman king.
Iris obeys, and gliding down to earth along her painted bow, addresses
Hersilia in the manner she had been commanded. The queen, lifting up
her eyes with modest regard, O goddess, (says she, for to me your name
and rank are unknown, yet it is plain you are a goddess) lead, O lead
me and let me behold my husband's face which, if the Fates but grant
;
:

me once more to see, I shall own myself exalted to the skies. Imme-
diately she repairs with the virgin daughter of Thaumas to the
hill Qui-
rinus. There a star glides from heaven to earth, and, with its trail of
flame setting fire to Hersilia's hair, they both together mount into the
skies. Her the founder of the Roman state receives with open arras ;

and changes, along with her body, her name also, calling her Ora a god- ;

dess now joined to Quirinus.

3 La
516 P. OVIDII NASONIS

LIBER QUINTUS DECIMUS.

ORDO. U.ER1TUR
I.Interea successor
quaritur qui sustineat

qTei?qle''"'luci"dere
I.

Q
Sustincat, tantoq
molis
;
interea, qui

queat succedere
tantae

regi.
pondera

mrndri^vfrSr Destinat imperio clarum prsenuncia veri

ciarmnNumam impe- Fama NumaiTi. Noii illc satis cogiiosse Sabinse
no. Ille non habet
satis cognosse ritus Sa- Gentis habet ritus animo majora capaci
: 5
bintp, gentis, concipit
tnajora capaci animo, Concipit ; et quae sit rerum natura requiiit.
et requirit qua natu-
ra rerum sit. Amor Hujus amor curae, patria, Curibusque relictis,
hvjus curtp, fecit ut Fecit, ut Herculei penetraret ad hospitis urbem.
patria Curibusque re-
lictis, penetraret ad Graia quis Italicis auctor posuisset ia oris
urbem hospitis Her- 10
.

culei. Atque tihus c

Moenia quaerenti, sic e senioribus unus
senioribus indigenis,Rettulit indigenis, veteris uon inscius aevi ;
non inscius veteris tsvi,
sic rettulit illi quee- Dives ab oceano bobus Jove natus Iberis
reiiti, quis auctor po-
suisset Grain mania Littora felici tenuisse Lacinia cursu
in I/alicis oris. No-
tice Jove di
Fertur: et, armento teneras erranteper herbas,
(Hercules)
ves bobus Iberis ab oceano, fertur tenuisse Lacinia littora felici cursu i et armento errant e per
teneras herbas,
TRANSLATION.
sought after, able to sustain so weighty a charge,
one is

MEANTIMEand worthy to fill the throne after so great a king. Fame, the har-
binger of Truth, destines illustrious Numa to
the command. He thinks
it not enough to know the rites of the Sabine nation his capacious mind ;

aims higher, and searches into the nature of things. Urged by this care,
and leaving his native country of fures, he travelled to the city of the en-
tertainer of Hercules and as he was inquisitive to know what founder
;

had raised these Grecian walls upon the Italian coast, one of the older
natives, no stranger to the transactions of past ages, thus replies It is :

said, that the son of Jupiter, enriched with the Iberian spoils, reached,
a
by prosperous voyage, the Lacinian shore and, leaving his herd to ;

wander in the fertile meads, entered himself the hospitable dwelling of

NOTES.
g. Graia quis auctor posuisset.]
Italicis ithimself of the Egyptian priests. Ovid,
Oiir poet, after running through all the the better to support the high idea which
Metamorphoses which ancient history the Romans had of the wisdom of their
furnished him with, enters into the natu- second king, NumaPompilius, feigns that,
ral changes of the universe and as Py- ;
before his advancement to the throne, he
thagoras had dived deepest into these had gone to Crotona to hear the lessons
of this celebrated master ; although it is
mysteries, he is here brought upon
the
certain that Pythagoras flourished many
stage ; and, as it was at Crotona that he
taught liis philosophy, the poet runs back years after Numa, that is, according to
to the foundation of that city. The phi- Livy, in the reign of Servius Tullus, the
sixth king of Rome, 137 years after the
losophy of Pythagoras was at that time
little known in Europe he had learned
;
time here referred to.
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XV. 517

Ipse domura magni nee inhospita tecta Crotonis ip^e/erturintrAsseda-

T.A
lutiasse et
-1 , 1, ,„ 1A mum, nee inhospita
requie longum relevasse laborem ; 16
; tecta magni Crotonis;
et relevasse lotigum
Atque ita discedens, M\o, dixisse nepotum laborem requie, atque
Hie locus urbis erit; promissaqne vera fuerunt. disciriens, dixisse ita :

Hie, ccvo nepotum crit

Nam
" fuit Argolieo " generatus Alemone quidam
^
locus urbis; promissa-
-\X 1„ "ll" "r»" i"
• •
,->/-> quefuerimtiera.Num,
Ascelos, lUms
Myscelos, illius Uis
Dis acceptissmius
acceptissimus sevi. 20 quidam Mysceios fuit
Hunc super incumbens pressura gravitate soporis generatus
Alemoui',
Argolieo
acceptissi-
mus diis illius
Claviger alloquitur Patrias, age, desere sedes :
a:vi.
:
Claviger i/ictimbens
I, pete diversi lapidosas ^saris undas. super hnnc pressum
gravitate soporis, allo-
Et, nisi paruerit, multa ae metuenda minatur. quitur: Age, desere
Post ea, diseedunt pariter sonmusque Deusque 25 :
patrias sedes: I, pete
diversas undas lapi-
Surgit Alemonides; taeitaque recentia mente
riosi yEsaris : et mina-
tur multa ac tnetueti-
Visa refert; pugnatque diii sententia seeum. da, nisi paruerit. Post
ea, sonmusque, Deus-
Numen abire jubet; prohibent discedere leges: qtie pariter diseedunt.
Alemonides surgit, re-
Poenaque mors posita est patriam mutare volenti. fertque recentia visa
Candidus Oceano nitidum caput abdiderat Sol, 30 tacitd mente senten- :

tiaq diu pugnat se-

;
Et caput extulerat densissima sidereum nox: eum. Numen jubet
abire ; leges prohibent
Visus adesse idem Deus est, eademque monere :
discedere ; morsque
est posita pa:na volenti
Et, nisi parueret, plura et graviora minari, mutare patriam. Can-
Pertimuit: patriumque simul transferre parabat didus sol abdiderat ni-
tidum caput oceano,
In sedes penetrale novas ; fit murmur in urbe 35 : et densissima nox ex-
tulerat sidereum ca-
Spretarumq agitur legum reus. Utq peracta est
; ;
put : idem Deus est
Caussa prior, crimenq patet sine teste probatum,
" ;
visus adesse, admo-
o !!• o 1" 11 1 i nereque eadem, et mi-
lidus ad buperos tollens reus ora, jumpiuraet graviora
Isquallidus
~ " -. Superos - manusque,
- . . . -

O cui jus cceli bis sex fecere labores,

^j^^,,-
yaruerit, Perti-
muit, simulque parii-
but transferre patri-
um penetrale in novas sedes ; murmur Jit in urbe, agiturque reus sprotarum legum; atque causa
est prior peracta, crimen, probatum sine teste, patet. Reus squalidus, tollens ora nianusque ad
superos, inquit : Hercules, cui bis sex labores fecere jus cceli,
TRANSLATION.
Croton, and there reposed after his long fatigue. At his departure, he
said :On this spot shall a city stand in succeeding times and his words ;

have been fulfilled for there was one Myscelos, the son of Alemon, born
:

at Argos, who was the most acceptable to the gods of all the men of that
age. Him the club-armed hero overshadowed in a dream, and thus ad-
dressed Go, abandon your native seats, and hasten to the stony-paved
:

channel of distant ^sar threatening many and terrible calamities imless

;

he obeyed. Soon after sleep and the god at once forsook him. The son of
Alemon rises, and in his silent mind reflects upon the late vision and his ;

thoughts for a long time waver a god commands the laws forbid him to :
;

depart and death is the punishment inflicted upon such as offer to aban-
;

don their country. The bright sun had hid his shining head in the ocean,
and gloomy night upreared hers, adorned with stars when the same ;

god again appeared, and counselled him as before and threatened still ;

more cruel and heavy calamities if he disobeyed He was alarmed by :

these menaces, and prepares to carry over his whole family at once to
these new mansions. A
rumour of his departure runs through the city,
and he is indicted for contempt of the laws. When his cause came to be
tried, and that the crime appeared, without witness, by his own confes-
sion, the unhappy sufferer, lifting his hands and eyes to heaven, Hercules O
(says he), whose twice six labours advanced you to the heavenly abodes,
518 P. OVIDII NASONIS
T'TCCor, jer opcm; nam nam tu mihi criminis
tu es auctor criminis Fer, precor, inquit, opem :

mihi. Erat antiquus auctor. 40

mos decernere niveis,
atrisque lapillis; his, Mos erat antiquus, niveis atrisque lapillis,
damnare reos, illis, ab-
solvere culpa: Nunc His damnare reos, illis absolvere culpae.
auoque sententia tris-
tis est lata sic ; et om-
Nunc quoq ; sic lata est sententia tristis : et omnis
nis calcuhts demitti- Calculus immitem demittitur ater in urnam.
tur ater in 'jmmitem
urnam. Qua simul ac Quae simul efFudit numerandos versa lapillos ;
45
versa, effudit lapillos
Omnibus e nigro color est mutatus in album :
numerandos, color est
Candidaque Herculeo sententia munere facta
mutatus omnibus i ni-
gro in album senten-
.-

tiaque facta Candida Solvit Alemoniden. Grates agit ille

parenti
Herculeo munere, sol-
vit^ Alemonidem. Ille Amphitryoniadae ventisque faventibus sequor
:

agit grates parenti Am-

fhitryoniadee, vavi- Navigat Ionium ; Lacedaemoniumque Tarentum
gatqj Ionium equor Preeterit, et Sybarin, Salentinumq; Nesethum, 51
faventibus ventis ;pra-
teritque f^acedamoni-
um Thurinosq; sinus, Temesenq; et lapygis arva.
Tarentum, et Sy- littora terris,
barin, Salentinujnque Vixque pererratis quae spectant
Ne<rthum,siHusq; Thu- Invenit ^sarei fatalia fluminis ora.
rinos, Temescxqiie, et
(irva lapygis. Terris- Nee procul hinc tumulum, sub quo sacrataCrotonis
que qum spectant lit-
tora lix pererratis, in- Ossa tegebat humus. Jussaque ibi moenia terra
venit fatalia ora JEsa-
reifluminis. Nee pro-
Condidit et nomen tumulati traxit in urbem. 57
;
cul hinc invenit tumu- Talia constabat cert^ primordia fam^
lum, sub quo humus
tegebat sacrafa ossa Esse positeeque Italis in finibus urbis.
loci,
Crotonis. Ibiq ; condi-
dit mania jussa. II. Vir hie ortu Samius; sed fugerat una 60
fuit
terrS.,
et traxit nomen tumu-
lati in urbem. Consta-
Et Samon et dominos ; odioq ; tyrannidis exul
bat erat.
certa famd, pri-
mordia loci, urbisque
Sponte Isque, licet cceli regione remotos,
posit (E in Italis finibus. Mente Deos adiit et, quae natura negabat
:

esse talia.
'.II. Vir fuit hie ortu, Samius ; sed fugerat und ft Samon et dnminos, eratque sponte exul, odio
tyrannidis. Isq ; adiit merite Deos, licet remotos regione cceli ; et
TRANSLATION.
aid me present distress ; for it was you that urged me to this crime.
in my
It was the custom of old to decide in criminal causes with black and
white stones. The first condemned the accused, the other declared him
innocent. According to this form was the heavy sentence now too passed,
and only black stones were thrown into the merciless urn ; which as soon
as it poured them out, that their number might be re-counted, the colour
of each was changed from black to white, and his sentence, by the favour
of Hercules, turned into an absolution, acquitted the son of Alemon. He
returns thanks to the parent god, and steers along the Ionian sea with a
favouring gale and passes Lacedemonian Tarentum, and Sybaris, and
;

Salentinum, and Nesethus, and the bay of Thurium, and Temese, and
the lapygian plains, and having with infinite toil wandered from coast to
coast, found, at length, the mouth of the ^sar, destined by fate for his
settlement. Hard, by was a tomb, under which were buried the sacred
bones of Croton. There he built his walls upon the destined spot, and
transferred to the city the name of him who lay buried there. It is cer-

tain, from unquestionable tradition, that such was the origin of the place,
and of the city built here on the Italian coast.
II. Here lived a man, by birth a Samian but he had fled from Samos ;

and the tyrants together and, from a hatred of slavery, was become a
;

voluntary exile. He, by strength of mind, could penetrate to the man-

sions of the gods, though far remote in the wide expanse of heaven and, ;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XV. 519

Visibus humanis, oculis ea pectoris hausit. 64 ""'^'^ pectoris hausu

umque ammo, et vigili perspexerat omnia cura ; ^" humanis visibus.

b^t
In medium discenda dabat Ciimque persprxercif,
ccetumque silentum, :
omnia amnio ct ligi/i
citru, dabat ea in me-
Dictaque mirantum, magni primordia mundi, (timn diaccnda ; doce-
Et rerum causas, et quid natura, docebat : batq ; ccefiim silentiim,
mirantumg ; dicta, pri-
Quid Deus: unde nives quae fuiminis esset orin-o: mordia ?n(ig)ii mundi,
:

et quid nalura, quid

Jupiter, an venti, discussa nube tonarent 70 Deux, unde nivex, qua: :

Quid quateret terras, qua sidera lege mearent ;

es.iet origo fuiminis, au
an renti to-
Jujiiter,
Et quodcunque latet. Primusq animalia mensis ;
narcnt nuhe discussil;
quid quateret terras,
Arcuit imponi primus quoque talibus ora
:
quel lege sidera mea-
Docta quidem solvit, sed non et credita verbis. rent,
latct.
et quodcunquc
Primusq ; ar-
Parcite, mortales, dapibus temerare nefandis 75 cuit animalia imponi
mensis: primus quo-
Corpora. Sunt, fruges sunt deducentia ramos :
que solvit ora, docta
Pondere poma suo, tumidseque in vitibus uvae; quidem, sed non et cre-
dita, talibus verbis.
Sunt herbse dulces; sunt, quee mitescere flamma, Parcite, mortales, te-
ener are corpora nefan-
Mollirique queant. Nee vobis lacteus humor dis dapibus. Suntfru-
ges : sunt poma dedu-
Eripitur, nee mella thymi redolentia florem. 80 ccntia ramos stio pon-
dere, tumidaque uvm
Prodiga divitias alimentaque mitia tellus _ ^^^^ ; ^^
in vitibus ^ ^^
su7it herbw
sine caede et sanguine przebet. duices sunt hcrb<e
Suggerit
^^ o atq : epulas
:
^ '^ ' A <="
-,

/-( . . . .
qua' queant mitescere
<-^arne terse sedant
jejuma; nee tamen omnes :
mouriquejiamma. Nee
Quippe equus, et pecudes, armentaque gramine [Vis"necZeUafedo-
^^"t'^ Jlorem thymi.
84
...,.*. vivunt.
At quibus mgemum est
.

immansuetumq
- ,

; lerumq;
Prodiga tellus stigge-
ritdiviiias,aiimentaq;
Armeniantigres, iracundique leones, "epulis sim%Ide^ft

Cumque lupis ursi dapibus cum sanguine gaudent. 7aTlfjunia^%7rne^

Heu quantum
^
scelus est, in viscera viscera condi, tamen nee omnes.
Quippe equus, et pe-
cudes, armentaq ; vivunt gramine. At quibus est ingenium immansuetumque,feru7nque,Arme-
niceqne tigres, leonesque iracundi, ursique, cum lupis, gaudent dapibus cum sanguine, Heu
quantum est scelus! viscera condi in viscera,
TRANSLATION.
by the eye of hidden mazes which lay without
his reason, traced those
the reach of ken. And when by a piercing sagacity, and indefa-
human
tigable study, he had unfolded the springs of nature, he communicated
his discoveries to his followers and taught his silent and admiring hear-
;

ers, the origin of this mighty world, the causes of things, and the course
of nature. He explained also the perfections of deity whence snow, and ;

thiuider's tremendous sound ; whether Jupiter, or the winds, thundered

upon the bursting of a cloud what shook the solid earth by what laws
:
;

the planets wandered round the sun and all the mysteries of nature, hid ;

from vulgar eyes. He first forbid animal food to be served up at the tables
of men he first opened his mouth, learned, indeed, but not duly re-
;

garded, in such words as these Forbear, mortals, to taint your bodies :

with food profane we have corn the boughs bend under a load of fruit,
:
;

and our vines abound in swelling grapes. Our fields are covered with
wholesome herbs and those of a cruder kind may be softened and mel-
;

lowed by fire. Nor is milk denied us, or honey smelling of fragrant thyme.
Earth is lavish of her riches and kindly store, and, without slaughter or
bloodshed, provides for luxury. The savage kind, indeed, allay their hun-
ger with flesh, and yet not all for the horse, and flocks, and herds, feed
;

upon grass they only of a fierce and ravenous nature, bears, wolves,
:

Armenian tigers, and the angry brood of lions, delight in food reeking
 /

620 P. OVIDII NASONIS

corputque avldum piii-
guescere congestn ror- Congestoque avidum pinguescere coqjore corpus;
tinlmantemque
Alteriusque animantem animantis vivere leto 90
j)ore, !
vUere leto alteriits aid-
mantis. Scilicet,
tantU opibris quas ter-
in Scilicet in tantis opibus, quas optima matrura
ra optima matriim pa- Terra parit, nil te nisi tristia mandere saevo
rity juvat te mandere
nil nisi tristia vulnera
Vulnera dente juvat, ritusque referre Cyclopum?
stevo dente.referreque
Ncc,' nisi perdideris aliam, placare voracis
ritus Cyclopum! nee -r-,,
^
•,

J^t male morati

.
-

95
• • • •
.1
poteris placare jeju-
nia vorucis et male
potens jejunia ventris !

moral.i ventris, nisi

At vetus ilia aetas, cui fecimus Aurea nomen,
perdideris alium ? At Fcetibus arboreis, et quas humus
ilia vetus atas, cuij'e- educat, herbis
cimus nomen aurca, Fortunata fait: nee
polluit ora cruore.
fuit fortunata arbo-
reis jcetibus, et herbis III. Tunc et aves tutee movere per aera
pennas
r^cUiuliZa'^uol^.
Et lepus impavidus mediis erravit in agris; 100
VA. Tunc et aves tit- Nec sua crcdulitas piscem suspenderat hamo.
ttr, movere pennas per
atra, et lepus impavi- Cuncta sine insidiis, nullamque timentia fraudem,
dus erravit in mediis
agris ; 7iec sua crertu- Plenaque pacis erant. Postquam non utilis auctor
litas suspentierat pis-
cem hanio. Victibus invidit (quisquis fuit ille virorum)
Cnnctci
erant sine insidiis ;
timentiaqtie milium Corporeasque dapes avidani demersit in alvum ;
fraudjm, plenuqitepa-
Fecit iter sceleri prim^q e caede ferarum
:
;
:

cis
non
...« vmi!'q^i"qTis''m-
I^caluisse putem maculatum sanguine ferrum :

rorum ml- juit, invidit

Idque satis fuerat :
nostrumque petentia letum
vtctibus, drmersitq ; ^ ^ . •
i a •
f>
corporefis dopes in avi- L/Orpora missa ncci salva pietate latemur ;
dam alvum ; fecit iter
sceleri: piitemq ; fer- Sed quam danda neci tam non epulanda fuerunt.
rum maculatiim san- inde nefas abiit et prima putatur 111
guine, incaiuisse prima Longius
:

cede ferarum. Jdq ; Hostia sus meruisse mori ; quia semina pando
juerai salts:
fuerat satis .-/atemiir-
jaiejniir- t? t
•
. •. •
,

que corpora petentia -tiiruerit rostro, spemque mterceperit anni.

nostrum letum,missaneci pietate salvH.-sed non fuerunt tam epulanda, quam danda neci. Inde
nefas abiit longius, susque putatur meruisse mori prima vivtima ; quia eruerit semina pando
rostro, interceperit spem anni,
TRANSLATION,
with the purple tide of life. Oh impious custom to bury bowels in
! !

bowels to fatten a craving body by cramming it with the fat of its fellow,
;

and maintain the life of one creature, by the death and murder of ano-
ther. Is it possible then, amid the abundance which earth, the best of

parents, so bounteously supplies, that nothing can delight, but with inhu-
man teeth to champ cruel wounds, and renew the barbarous Cyclopean
feasts ? Can you not allay the cravings of a ravenous and ungodly maw,
but by destroying the life of another. But the times of old, which we justly
term the goldeu age, was happy in the fruit of trees, and the herbs which
the earth produces nor stained their mouths with blood.
;

III. Then might the birds in

safety wing their flight through the air,
and the hare undaunted wander over the heaths and fields nor had the ;

fish, by their easy credulity, swallowed the guileful hook. Snares and
deceit were as yet unknown no dread of fraud alarmed the mind, but all
;

things flourished in peace until some impious contriver of another insti-

;

tution (whoever he was first envied us this simple food) by gorging his
craving paunch with animal food, opened a door for cruelty. I am apt to
believe, that the blood-polluted sword was first stained by the slaughter
of the ravenous kind, and that had been enough for, to destroy what ;

seeks to deprive us of life, may be justified by the law of nature but ;

they were not to be made our food, as well as destroyed. From these be-
ginnings impiety soon spread and the sow is believed, by a deserved
;

death, to have fallen the first sacrifice, because with her broad snout she
 V

METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XV. 521

Vite caper mors^ Bacchi mactandus ad aras caper, vite morsd, du-
citur, mactandus ad
Ducitur ultoris. Nocuit sua culpa duobus 115 aras Bacchi ultoris.
:

Sua nocuit duo-

Quid meruistis, oves, placidum pecus, inq; tuendos bus. culpa
Vos oves, quid me-
Natum homines, pleno quae fertis in ubere nectar? ruistis (pecus in placi-
tu-
dum, nntumqne
MoUia quae nobis vestras velamina lanas endos homines J qutefer-
tis nectar in pleno
Praebetis; vitaque magis, quam morte
juvatis. ubere? qua prtebetis
Quid meruere boves, animal sine fraude, dolisque, nobis vestras lanas,
mollia velamina juva- ;

Innocuum, simplex, natum tolerare labores? 121 tisque mages vitd quam
morte. Quid boves me-
Immemor est demum, nee frugum munere dignus, ruere ? animal sine
fraude dolisque, intio-
Qui potuit, curvi dempto modo pondere aratri, cuum, simplex, natum
Ruricolam mactare suum qui trita labore :
tolerare labores. De-
mum est immemor, nee
lUa, quibus toties durum renovaverat arvum, 125 d'gnus munerefrugum ,
qui potuit mactare S7t-
Tot dederat messes, percussit colla securi. um ruricolam, pondere
curvi aratri modh
Nee satis est, quod tale nefas committitur: ipsos dempto; qui percus\it
Inscripsere Deos sceleri numenque supernum
securi ilia colla, trita
;
labore, quibus toties
Caede laboriferi credunt gaudere juvenci. renovaverat durum ar-
vum, quibus dederat
Victima labe carens, et preestantissima formS,, 130 tot messes. Nee est sa-
tis quod talencfas com-
(Nam placuisse nocet) vittis praesignis et auro, mittitur ; inscripsere
Sistitur ante aras auditque ignara precantem
: ipsos Deos sceleri; cre-
:

duntque supemmnnti.
Imponique suae videt inter cornua fronti, men gaudere cade la-
Vic-
boriferi juvenci.
Quas coluit fruges ; percussaque sanguine cultros tima carens labe, et
Inficit in liquida praBvisos forsitan unda 135 pr{estafitissi)na formii
(nam nocet placuisse)
Protinus ereptas viventi pectore fibras prasignis vittis et au-
ro, sistitur ante aras ;
Inspiciunt; mentesque Deum scrutantur in illis. ignaraque audit pre-
ca7item ; videtque fru-
Unde fames homini vetitorum tanta ciborum ; ^^^ ^^^^^ coluit, imponi
inter cornua ; percussaque, inficit satiguine cultros forsitan pra visas in liquidtl n'ndu.
Slice fronti
Protinus inspiciunt Jibrus ereptas viventi pectore, scrutanturque mtntes dcorum in illis. Unda
tanta fames vetitorum ciborum homini?

TRANSLATION.
roots up the incrusted seed, and intercepts the hope of the year. The
goat too, who had cropt the shooting vines, is led to be butchered at the
altar of avenging Bacchus. These two suffered for the mischief they did ;
but what did the sheep deserve ? a harmless inoffensive race, born for
the support of men whose fleeces clothe them, whose milk supplies them
;

with food, and who avail us more by their life, than death. What has
the ox deserved ? a creature without fraud or guile, innocent, simple, and
made for toil. He is unmindful of past services indeed, and unworthy
of the gifts of Ceres, who could harden himself to butcher his labouring
hind, whom he had just eased of the load of the crooked plough and ;

smite with an axe that neck, worn with toil, which had so often renewed
his else ungrateful fields, and yielded so many fertile crops. Nor do we
rest satisfied in committing crimes we ascribe these impious acts to the
;

gods themselves, and pretend, that the heavenly powers must be ap-
peased with the blood of the laborious steer. A victim, without blemish,
and of surpassing beauty (for to excel proves its ruin) adorned with
fillets, and his horns tipt with gold, is placed before the altar he hears :

the prayer of the priest not knowing what it means and sees the corn, ;

he helped to produce, laid between his horns upon his forehead and, ;

struck with an axe, stains with his blood the knives, which he had before
perhaps beheld in the transparent waters. Straight they inspect the en-
trails, torn from his panting breasts and search to know the mind of the
;
522 P. OVIDII NASONIS ^5

tifl^ZTllfirTt Audetis vesci, genus 6 mortale ?

quod, oro,
Jacite ;et advertife am-
inos nostris monitis,
Ne facite; et monitis animos advertite nostris. 140
cumque dabitis
bra ctEsorum bourn pa-
mem- Cumque boum dabitis caesorum membra palato ;

lato, scite et sentite vos Mandere vos vestros scite et sentite colonos.
mandere vestros colo- Et quoniam Deus ora movet sequar ora moventem
nos. JSt qiioniam Deus ;

Deum
movet ora ; sequar rite
JJeum move7item ora:
reciudamque meos Del-
Rite
Tn.i
ifcithera ;
et
.
:
Delphoso.
:
i^
meos, ipsumq recludara
i*^ ,• i at
augustae rescrabo oracula mentis. 145
:

fa% ^rZ"^^. Magna, nee ingeniis evestigata priorum,

la a
august mentis. Co- diu latucre, cauam. Juvat ii'e per alta
nam magna, QufBQue
i. .'.
nee eves- ^ -. . , .
'-

tigata ingeniis prio- Astra juvat, tems et merti sede relictis,

;

dil'^!'juvaiTreperTitl Nube vehi validique humeris insistere Atlantis;

;

inlrti'sederlik^li^^e- Palantesq animos passim, ac rationis egentes. 150

;

hi nube; insister'eque Despectare procul, trepidosQ obitumoue timentes :

tis, procuique despec- Sic exliortari seriemque evolvere fati.

:

I V O geuus attonitum
ra»<e"f r'cfe«t7 ta- .
gelidze formidine mortis,
l%''\%ptlfj'nm!-fues-
Q"^'^ Styga, quid tenebras, quid nomina vana ti-
que obitumj evolvere- metlS,
^^iv^o^geims' attoni- Matericm vatum, falsique piacula mundi? 155
aZi^''"^ f^l^s Corpora sive rogus flamma, seutabe vetustas
atygu, quid tcmbras, mala .>posse pati non ulla putetis.
quid vana nomma, ma-
Abstulerit,
__
IVlorte careut
'
>

animse
.1
ta
ttrii:m vatum, piacula-
semperque, priore reiicta :

rogi/s"abstuier'it corpo- Sede, novis domibus habitant, vivuntque receptee.

Zfe'^'^Zn'pLmfs'Ta ^P^^ ^»<^ ("^™ memiui) Trojani tempore belli 160
posse pati ulla mala. Panthoides Euphorbuseram cui pectore quondam :

sedeque priore reiicta, Sedit in adverso gravis hasta minoris Atridse.

semper habitant vi-
vantque receptee novis domibus. Ipse ego (nam memini) eram Euphorbus Panthoides tempore
Trojani belli; cui gravis hasta miiioris Atrida, sedit quondam in adverso pectore.
TRANSLATION.
p;ods from them. Whence have men this thirst after forbidden food ;

Dare you then to eat it, O ye of mortal race ? be prevailed on to abstain,

and listen with attention to my precepts and, when you sit down to feast
on the well-deserving steer, think and reflect, that you devour the la-
bourer of your IS elds. And, since a god inspires me, I will yield to the
impulse of the inspiring god unfold mysteries, open the skies, and un-
;

veil the dark oracles of the august mind. I will sing of mighty
truths, long concealed from human eyes which the wits of former ages ;

have not been able to explore. How am I pleased to travel along the
sphere of stars and, leaving earth, and this listless habitation of mor-
;

tals, to mount upon a cloud, and scale the height of towering Atlas :

thence at distance, to survey the wandering souls of mistaken mortals ;

to encourage them, anxious and fearful for the state of future things, and
lay open the whole series of fate.
IV. Oh feeble race why thus alarmed by the vain fear of death ?
! !

Whence this dread of Styx, and darkness, and empty names, the fictions
of poets, and dreams of an imaginary world ? Whether the body is con-
sumed by the flame of the funeral pile, or crumbles into dust, the prey
of time, think not that in this you can suffer any real harm. Our souls
are not subject to death but, leaving their former seats, are received
;

into different habitations, and renew life in other forms. Even I (for
I remember it well) who declare these truths, was, in the time of the
Troian war, Euphorbus, the son of Panthous ; and bore in my opposed
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XV. 523

laevse Cognovi nuper clype-

Cognovi clypeum gestamina nostrae, um, gestamina nostrm
Niiper Abanteis templo Junonis in Argis. 164 leva, in templo Juno-
nis Abanteis Argis. Om-
Omnia mutantur: nihil interit. Errat, et illinc nia mutantur, nihil
Hiic venit, hinc illuc, et quoslibet occupat artus interit. Spiritus er-
rat, et venit illinc

Spiritus: e que feris humana in corpora transit, hue, hinc illuc et

occupat quoslibet ar-
Inque feras noster ;
nee tempore deperit uUo. tus ; transitquec feris
in corpora humana,
Utque novis fragilis signatur cera figuris, nosterque vicissim in
Nee manet ut fuerat, nee formas serva^ easdem ;
feras ; ncc deperit
tillo tempore. Utque
Sed tamen ipsa eadem est: animamsie semper ean- fragilis cera signatur
novis figuris, ntc ma-
dem 171 net ut fuerat, nee ser-
vut easdem formas, sed
Esse, sed in varias doceo migrare figuras. est tamen ipsa eadem,
sic doceo animam esse
Ergo, ne pietas sit victa cupidine ventris, -.„ ^ semper eandcm, sed
Pareite (vatieinor) cognatas esede nefanda 1 74 migrare in varias figu-

Exturbare animas : nee sanguine sanguis alatur. 7ii'vic^a^cupm,fe've"n-

Et quoniam magno feror sequore, plenaque ventis
'^"^j e^J^ul^harecoent
Vela dedi: nihil est toto quod perstet in orbe. ««* animas nefanda
/-^ n ,
J n • ctede ; nee sanguis ala- •

i^uneta iluunt ; ommsque vagans lormatur miago. tur sanguine. Etquo-

Ipsa quoque assiduo labuntur tempera motu 'quoref^d^di^^e^pUna
Non seeus ac flumen, Neque enim consistere flu- v_eia
ventis ; estnihu
"* ^"'^ "'""^ quod per-
1 cr\
men, loU stet. Cuncta fluunt ;

Nee
"'
hora potest: sed ut unda impellitur unda,
levis
- - - .
°tur^lfglm."fj!'I^uo-
^^g tcmpora labuntur
Urgeturque prior venienti, urgetque priorem, assiduo motu, non se-
eus acjiumen. Enim
Tempora sic fugiunt pariter, pariterque sequuntur :

neque flumen potest

Et nova sunt semper. Nam quod fuit ante, relic- consistere, nee levis
hora ; sed ut unda im-
tum est ; pellitur undd, prior-

Fitque, quod haud fuerat: momentaque cuncta urgetque priorem, sic

que urgetur veniente,

novantur, 185 tempora pariter ftigi-

unt, puriterque se-
Cernis et emersas in lucem tendere noctes quuntur; et sunt sem-
:

per nova: nam quod fuit ante est relictum; quodque haud fuerat, fit ; cunctaque tnomenta
novantur. Cernis et noctes emersas tendere in lucem;
TRANSLATION.
breast the heavy spear of the younger son of Atreus. I lately recollected
the buckler, which I wore upon my left arm, as I saw it hanging in the
temple of Juno at Argos, where Abas formerly reigned. All things are
thus but altered nothing dies. The soul wanders from place to place,
;

and seizes any body in its way. The souls of beasts pass often into
human bodies, while ours actuate the limbs of beasts and, without ;

perishing, change only their forms and as the pliant wax receives new
:

figures, changes its form, nor retains the wonted impression, and yet is
itself still the same, in like manner know that the soul continues un-

changed, and only assumes a variety of different shapes. That piety

therefore may not be sacrificed to appetite, forbear by impious murder to
expel kindred souls, nor nourish life by destroying the life of another.
And, since I am borne along in an ample sea, and have given my sails
without reserve to the winds, know, that nothing in nature continues in
the same state all things are in perpetual flux and every form is fleet-
; ;

ing, and decays. Time itself runs on in a continued flood like a river ;

rolling from its fountain. For neither can a river, or the flying hours
stop but, as wave is impelled by wave, and that before is urged by that
;

behind, and urges at the same time its predecessor wave, thus the minutes
fly and thus pursue in successive course, still changing, ever renewed.
;
624 P. OVIDII NASONIS

et hoc nitidnm jubar

succedere mgr<E noctt.
^^ jubar hoc nitidum nigrse succedere nocti.
**
-»y •, \ .
, i i
Nee color est idemcce- J\eC COlOF CSt idem CCelo, CUID laSSa QUlCte
lo, cum cuncta jacent r~\ i •
x ta v 11 t •!• 'x
lassa media, quiete, Cuiicta jaceut media, cumque aiDO Luciier exit
c'l^iTaiboT^uc- rur-
Ckrus equo rursumque alius, cum praevia luci :

sumque, color est alius,

cum Pallantias pro'-
Tradeudum Phoebo Pallantias inficit orbem, 191
^ t\ i ^ \ itx •
a
Ipse Dei ciypcus, teiTa dim tollitur ima,
i. j.
via luce, iiificit orbem

\TifypeZ^DTi%'ui^et Mauc Fubet terr^ue rubet, cum conditur ima. :

mane cum tollitur itna. in summo est:' melior natura quod

terra, riibetque, cum Candidus i
illic
r\ r .
-i

conditur ima terra in jEtheiis

:
est, tcrrseque procul coiitaffia vitat. 195
summo cnelo est can- -.t ^ o t\- , ,

didus; quod natura Wec par, aut eadcm, nocturnse lorma JJianse

prZli^tvtfat^onta.
Esse potcst unquam semperq; hodierna sequente : :

gia terra: mc forma minoi Bst major, si contrahit orbem.

Si ci'escit, I
nocturna: Diana po- ^^ , „ . . .
i
test esse unqiiam par Quid f
quatuor annum
non in specics succcdere
stcrescit! 'hodTe?imest Aspicis perageutem imitamina nostras ? 200
setatis

"rahu'^Trbem' nlffo7. ^^^ teuei", et lactcus, puerique simillimus

aevo
Quidr non aspicis an- Vei'e iiovo est. Tuncherba uitens, et roboris expers
num peragentem imi- ™ ^ i-i ii.- •
, , j.
lamina ]iostr<e atatis, 1
urget, insolida cst; ct spc delectat egrestem.
^^S7LmX"'"re Omnia tum florent; florumque coloribus almus
anDus est tener, et lac-
tens, stmdlimusque re-
Ridet affer nequc
H T adhuc virtus in frondibus uUa est.
.
:

vo pueri: tunc herba 1 raiisit in

iEstatem, post Ver, robustior annus
nitens, etexpers Tf
rubo- i .

ritc[\ valens juveiiis,

risturget, ct estinso-
a
JNeq; enim robustior eetas
•ht •
li-
:

7W» 'Lmia'%-mt', UUa, nec uberior ; nee, quae magis 8estuent,ullaest.

agerque almus ridet Excipit Autumnus, posito fervore iuventae,' 209

coloribus Jioriim : ne- ^ ' ^ j
que ulla virtus est adhuc in frondibus. Post ver, annus robustior, transit in testatem,fitque va-
lens juvenis. Enim neque ulla irtas est robustior, 7i£c, uberior, nec, qua astuent magis. Fervore
juventa posito, autumnus excipit,
TRANSLATION.
For those that were vanished, new ones succeed and the fleeting mo- ;

ments are ever on the wing. see that darkness, by kind of natural We
impulse, emerges into light, and that the shining rays of Phoebus take
place of the sable shade of night nor is the face of heaven the same, :

when Avearied animals slumber in midnight ease and the morning star ;

rises bright on his shining steed and again, a different face succeeds, :

when Aurora, daughter of Pallas, ushering in the morn, spreads over the
firmament the splendour of day. Even the orb of Phoebus, when first he
rises from the ocean, or downward bends his chariot to the earth, is co-
vered with red but high in his meridian course, he shines serene, as
;

there the firmament is of etherial make, and far removed from the in-
fection of the world below. Nor is the appearance of nocturnal Diana
ever alike or the same for her face to-day, if she advances to her full,
:

is less than that of the

succeeding night but greater when she con- ;

tracts her orb. Do you

not behold the year revolve in four successive
seasons, and act a resemblance of human life for the beginning spring, :

helpless, infirm, and fed with milky juice, copies the tender age of in-
fancy. Then the stem is shining and green, but weak, and void of
strength swells, and glads the husbandman with hopes. Then all things
;

flourish, and the bounteous fields look gay in the attire of their flowers ,

but still the leaves are unsolid, nor have drank in substantial nourishment.
The year, advancing from the spring, gathers strength and, ripening ;

into summer, flourishes in all the bloom and

vigour of youth for, than ;

this, is not any season more robust, more prolific, or more replete with
heat and moisture. The fire of
youth overpast, autumn succeeds, mature,
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XV. 525

Maturus, mitisque inter''iuvenemque, senemaue

tx\ j.T- ,^ .^' : fnaturus,mituque,me-
ittvs
temper le inter Jur.
lemperie meciius, sparsis per tempora cams. venemque senemque,
Inde senilis Hyems tremulo venit horrida I7a. '"'MeVylllZ.
passu ;

Aut spoliata suos, aut, quos habet, alba capillos. Z^a^t'^LmloTa^su;

Nostra quoq requieq ; sine ulla ««^ spoUata quod ad
r\ 11ipsoruni semper,tuimusve,
i^orpora vertuntur: nee
;
1 r •
:
suos, aut alba quod ad
quod sumusve, capuios, quos habet.
Cras erimus. Fuit ilia dies, qua semina tantiim, Sr^l'^Xe'rC/r"
Spesq hominum primse materna habitavimus alvo,
;
*""*«'"' ^i>mue uiia
\ .•o -\r A. 1 • • requie : nee erimus
Artirices JN atura manus admovit eras quodfutmusve su-
etangi ;

Corpora visceribus distentje condita matris ^ua" habit atimtVma-

Noluit ? eque domo vacuas emisitin auras. 220

Mj
Editus in lucem iacuit sine viribus infans:
T
OX quadrupes, rituque tulit
"'
. .

sua membra terarum

, , 1 f>
:
lnL?l"primlTut'"spTs
hominum. Natu'raad-
movit artifices manus ;
et noiuit corpora con-

Paulatimque tremens,
Constitit,
Y Jy
rp •,
-
' adjutis aliquo
,
.^.'^
L•>
conamine
poplite firmo
nervis.
...
et nondum
fJlmtZ!''angf?'l2i.
«f ^"f.L'*"TJ''
^^ auras. ln)ans
Inde valens veloxque fuit: spatiumq : iuventae 225 *"* ^» lucem, jacuit
,..'!
iransit: et ementis medn quoque temporis anms,
sine viribus
"'"'J''
edi-

; mox erat ,
• •

quadrupes, tuutque
Labitur occiduee per iter declivse senecf*.
S^L^^elT^rn";
et nondum firmo pop-
Submit haec aevi, demoliturque prioris
T)i n, n/TM \ "^^' constitit, nervis
•
A .
•

ixoDora: netque Miion senior, cum spectat manes adjutis aUquo cona-
lUos, qui fuerant solidorum mole tororum 230 TeZxque,^ '^trlnMqw
Herculeis similes, fluidos pendere lacertos.
"^rrS'^'^^l
Flet ut in speculo temporis emeritis, la-
m 1^quoque,
^ '
•
^ rug-as aspexit aniles,
•, 1 V,
bit ur per declive iter
•
,
•

lyndans et secum, cur sit bis rapta, requirit.

: ocddua: senecta. Hac
subruit demoliturque
robora prioris avi ; Milonque senior flet, cum spec I at illos lacertos inanes pendere fluidos, qui
fuerant similes Herculeis mole solidorum tororum. Tyndaris quoque flet, ut aspexit aniles ru-
gas in speculo; et requirit secum cur sit bis rapta.
TRANSLATION,
mild, and of a middle temperature, between the heat of youth, and the
chillness of age having his temples strewed with grey hairs. Last of all,
;

tardy winter creeps along with tottering pace, quite stript, or but thinly
covered, with silver locks. Our bodies too are themselves in a perpetual
course of change, without interruption, nor to-morrow shall we be the
same that we have been, or are now. There was a time when, confined
to our mother's womb, we were but the seminal
principles, and growing
hopes of manhood. Nature lent her ripening hands, nor would suffer our
bodies, lodged in the bowels of our distended mother, to be longer con-
fined in that narrow prison, but pushed us from our scanty habitation into
the freer regions of air. The infant thus brought to light, lay motionless,
and without strength soon he creeps upon four, and moves his limbs in
;

imitation of the brute kind. By degrees he stands upright, yet tottering

and with unsteady hams, supporting his nerves by some convenient prop.
Thence he becomes fleet and strong, and passes the stage of youth and, ;

having measured also the mid years of life, glides through the downward
path of sinking old age. This last weakens and undermines the strength
of the past term of life and Milo, when old, laments to see those arms,
;

which once in well-strung nerves, and brawny muscles, rivalled those of

Hercules, now feeble, and without strength. The daughter of Tyndarus
loo laments, when in her faithful
glass she beholds the wrinkles of old
age and wonders with herself how she came to be twice carried away.
;
526 P. OVIDIl NASONIS

Tu, tempus cdax re- Teiiipus edax lerum, tuque invidiosa vetustas,
rum, tuque tuvidiosa K 1
^-^ , . . '. .
i -i •
nn -
titustas. destriiitis Omnia destruitis
vitiataque : dentibus aev) 2oa
omnia; cojisumitisque
lenta
-^^^,•^.^
Faulatim lenta consumitis omnia morte.
•.• •
.

pauiatim morte,

7vi!'HaTquoqiK,t^a:
^aec quoque non perstant, quse nos elementavoca-
nos vocamus eiementa, IHUS.
Tion perstant ; docebo- ,-. .* , , •
ii-i,\i i
qtte (adhibete animosj Quasque vices peragant (animOs adhibete) docebo.
~ ,. *-
.
quas vices peragant.
Mundus (cternus con- Quatuor seternus genitalia corpora mundus
tinet quatuor
jenita-
Ita corpora. Ar tUis
Continct Ex illis duo sunt
Continet : suiit onerosa, suoque 240
duo, telius at que un- Pondere in inferius, telius atque unda, feruntur :

do, sunt oncrosa, fe-

runturque sua pon- Et totidem gravitate carent nulloque premente ;
der e in in/erius ; et to-
tidem, acr, atque ignis
Alta petunt, aer, atque aere purior ignis.
purior
gravitate,
acre, carevt
nulloque
Quae quanquam spatio distant tamen omnia fiunt ;

premente petunt alta. Ex ipsis, et in ipsa cadunt: Resolutaque telius 245

Qua: qiianquam dis-
tant spatio ; tamen In liquidas rorescit aquas tenuatus in auras :

omnia jiunt
et cadunt in ipsa
."^^i^^^s
: Aeraq; humor abit: dempto quoq; pondere rursus
lusque resoiuta, ro- In emicat ignes.
rescit in liquidas o-yi" superos aer tenuissimus
^ i'Z i J •

qitas, humor que tenu- Indc retro redeuut; idemque retexitur ordo.
%Zqi^%onder7q7o'- IgHis eiiim densum spissatus in aera transit ;
250
que dempto, aer tenu- Hic aquas: tellus glomerata
in cositur unda:
tsstmus rursus emicat - - T- ' o
.
» .

in superos ignes. jnde ^SBc specics sua cuique maiict reruuiq novatrix :
;
redeunt retrd,idemgue th !•• t , tit j n
ordo retexitur. Ignis alus alias reparat JNatura nguras.
-ejX

t^ZST^^,ZZ Nee perit in tanto quicquam (raihi credite) mundo,

in telius
aquas,
tvr glomerata unda.
cogi- ged variat,' faciemque novat nasciq : vocatur, 255
:
^ .
t i -i r •
\ •

Nee sua species manet Incipere csse aliud, quam quod luit ante ; morique,

nTvVtrix r^umjrepa- Desinere illud idem. Cum sint hue forsitan ilia,
"^"r- ^''^./^IZ^^J^ Hsec translata illiic summa tamen omnia constant. :

(credite mihi) perit in tanto mundo, sed variat novatque faciem ; incipereque esse aliud quam
quod fuit ante vocatur nasci ; illudque idem desinere, vocatur mori : cum forsitan ilia sint
translata hue, h<ec illuc. Tamen summA omnia constant.
TRANSLATION.
'Devouring Time and envious Age make all things their prey ; and, ex-
ercising their rage against them, with sharpened teeth, consume hy them
slow degrees. Even the elements themselves abide not in the same state :

attend, and I will teach you what vicissitudes they undergo. This unpe-
rishing world contains four bodies, elemental, and productive of the rest.
Of these, two, earth and water, are heavy and, by their proper weight, ;

tend downward to the centre. The other two, air and fire, still purer than
air, as they are void of weight, and pressed down by no incumbent force,
mount aloft into the skies which though separated, and distant
upper ;

from each other in place, yet all

things are compounded of these,
and
are all resolved into these agaui. Thus earth, dissolved, rarefies into wa-
ter ; and water, expanded, changes to air the air, subtile, and purged ;

of its weight, refines to the pure element of flame. Thence they return
in a contrary course, and untwist, with restless toil, the curious web. For
fire, condensed, changes to gross air air to water and water warps, ; ;

and rolls itself into a mass of earth. Thus nothing abides in its projjer
form but Nature, shifting continually, raises up one shape after ano-
;

ther. Nor does any thing, in this mighty world, perish or fall to nothing,
to be
but only alters and
changes its appearance. To be born, is to begin
what formerly we were not and to die, is to cease to appear what we
:

seemed heretofore when perhaps the same elements are but variously
;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XV. 527

Nil equidem durare diu sub imagine eadem IW'^^Zarriiu'lTh

Ciediderim. Sic ad ferrum venistis ab auro, 260 ecid«« imagine, sic
,- ,^ .
T".
1 4. sacula venistis ab au-
bffiCula. iblC tOtieS versa eS, rortuna lOCOrum. road ferrum; stc/or-
Vidi ego, quod fuerat quondam solidissima tellus, lZl[""Eeo'"vfJi*guZ
sou-
Esse fretum. Vidi factas ex aequore terras : /"«™* qxmidam
dissima esse
^ . . tellus,
Et procul a pelago conchaB jacuere marinee; 264 fretum; vidi terras

Et vetus inventa est in montibus anchora summis. -^ca^hJvMrl^jat^u-

Quodque fuit campus, vallem decursus aquarum %'Z7fand2aZU
eluvie mons est deductus in aequor: inventainsummistmn-
_, ',,^..,humus aret arenis
Fecit; et
Eque paludosa siccis
.'•
;
tibus ; decursusquc a-
quurumfccufuitcam-

Quseq sitim tulerant, stagnata paludibus hument.

; V't'dedacZViifaqZl
Hie fontes Natura novos emisit, ac ilk^c 270
'^.^^T^c^
Clausit: et antiquis concussa tremoribus orbis arenis. Locaqucqua:
-n?, .
^• J. J.
•
J.
tulerant sitim, hu-
riumma prosinunt; aut excsecata residunt. ment stagnata paiu-
Sic ubi terreno Lycus est epotus hiatu, t^su nZl fonZ'^ at
renascitur ore. *"«
^4»i.u..i./ ^v-v^^,
Existit procul hinc, alioque
^ '^^'"'f/
'^"»; .<"*
quam mult a Jiumina
Sic mode combibitur; tecto mode gurgite°. ^ lapsus
' prosUiimt antiquis tre-
T T T moribus orbis ; aut ex-
.
Tt A -r< • •
rtriCi
Redditur Argolicis mgens Erasmus in arvis. 27o
,

cacata residunt. sic

Et Mysum capitisque sui, ripseque prioris urr^ZZatu, llT^
Poenituisse ferunt,' alia nunc ire,' Caicum. ^nc existu, renasci-
turque alio ore. Sic
ingens Erasinus modo combibitur, modo lapsus tecto gurgite, redditur in Argolicis arvis. E£
referunt Mysum pcenituisse stiique capitis, ripaque prioris, et
nunc ire Caicum alid ripa.
TRANSLATION,
united and combined and, in other respects, continue what they were
;
:

nothint^, I am apt to believe,

continues long under the same form. Thus
have the various ages of the world declined from gold to iron thus has ;

the fortune of places so often been changed. I have seen what once was
solid earth, transformed to sea, and the ocean, in its turn, become solid
land shells of fishes often lie far distant from the sea, and rusty anchors
:

are found on the tops of mountains. What was formerly a plain, has
been changed by a current of waters into a valley and mountains, by a ;

flood, have been levelled to a plain. Marshes are often changed to dry
sandy deserts parched heaths sometimes stagnate with standing waters.
;

Here nature has opened new fountains, there shuts them up and rivers, ;

roused by earthquakes, break out, or vanish and subside. So Lycus, swal-

lowed up by a chasm in the earth, rises again at a great distance, and
flows a new river, in another region of the world thus the great Era- :

sinus dives and, pouring along with his latent stream, digs a second
;

channel for himself in the plains of Argos. They tell us too, that Mysus,
flows in a different bed,
disdaining his former spring and winding bank,
and takes the name of Caicus. Amenanus too, rolling in his stream
NOTES.
261. Sic fortuna loco-
toties versa es, drink tliem ; of fountaius that kindle
rum.'] The second part of the Pythagoric wood, or change the hair to a golden co-
philosophy consists in unravelling and ex- lour, and such like. Of this nature too are

plaining the causes of the changes that those fictions, which a more reasonable
happen in the universe ; and indeed many philosophy, and repeated observations,
of the facts, which the poet here relates, have since discovered to be without foun-
are in themselves true, but others are dation. As that bees spring from the
founded on mistakes or false represeuta- battered bowels of a bull, that serpents
tions. Such is the fable of the river in arise from human marrow, and that the
is produced from her own ashes.
Thrace, whose waters petrify those that phoenix
528 P. OVIDII NASONIS

JV(?c »»(»» Amenanus

volvens Sicanias are-
Nee non Sicanias volvens Amenanus arenas
nas, nunc Jluit : in- Nunc fluit interdum suppressis fontibus aret 280
;
terdum aret fontibus
suppressis. Aquae an-
Ante bibebatur nunc quas contingere nolis
;

bibebantvr ; nunc
te
Fundit Anigros aquas postquam (nisi vatibus om-
:

Anigros fundit aquas

quas nolis contingere ; nis
postquam (nisi omnis
fides est eripienda va-
bimembres la-
Eripienda fides illic lavere bimembres
tibus)
vere illic vulnera, qua: Vulnera, clavigeri quae fecerat Herculis arcus.
arcus clavigeri Her-
culis fecerat. Quid ?
Quid? non et Scythicis Hypanis de montibus ortus,
non et Hypanis ortus Qui fuerat dulcis, salibus vitiatur amaris ?
de montibus Scythicis,
qui fuerat dulcis, nunc Fluctibus ambitas fuerant Antissa, Pharosque,
vitiatur amaris sali-
bus? Antissa, Pharos- Et Phcenissa Tyros quarum nunc insula nulla est.
;

que, et Phanissa Ty- Leucada continuam veteres habuere coloni ;

ros, quurum nulla est
nunc insula, fuerant Nunc freta circueunt. Zancle quoq; juncta fuisse
ambita jluctibiis. Ve-
teres coloni habuere Dicitur Italize; donee confinia pontus 291
Leucada contimiain :
nunc freta circueunt. Abstulit, et media tellurem reppulit unda.
Zancle quoque dicitur Si quseras Helicen et Burin, Achaidas urbes,
fuisse juncta Jtali(F,
donee pontus abstulit Invenies sub aquis et adhue ostendere nautae
:

confinia, et reppulit
tellurem mediil undc}.
Inclinata solent cum moenibus oppida mersis. 295
Si qucsras Helicen et Est prope Pittheam tumulus Troezena, sine uUis
Burin,urbes Achaidas,
invenies sub aquis et .- Arduus arboribus, quondam planissima campi
nauta: adhuc solent os-
tendere oppida incli- Area, nunc tumulus (res horrenda relatu)
:

nata, cum moenibus Vis fera ventorum, cseeis inclusa cavernis,

mersis. Est prope Pit-
theam Trazena tumu-
Exspirare aliqua cupiens, luctataque frustra 300
lus, arduus, sine ullis
arboribus, quondam Liberiore frui ccelo, cum carcere rima
planissima area cam- Nulla foret
pi, nunc tumulus. Nam toto, nee pervia flatibus esset ;
relatu.'J Exteutam tumefecit humum ceu spiritus oris :
c/esiiorrenda ^ '
/era vis ventorum, tn-
clusa coecis cavernis, cupiens exsyirare aliqua, luctataque frustra frui liberiore calo (cum
nulla rima fait tolo carcere, nee esset pervia Jlatibus) tumefecit extentam humum; ceu spiritus
oris
TRANSLATION.
Sicilian sand, sometimes flows sometimes, his springs being dried up,
;

appears no more. Anigros was once swallowed up but now (if any faith ;

is due to the relations of the

poets) pours out waters, poisonous to the
touch, ever since the centaurs washed in his current the wounds made by
the arrows of the invincible club-bearer. And are not the once so sweet
waters of Hypanis, who rises in the mountains of Scythia, now vitiated
with bitter salts ? Antissa, Pharos, and Phoenician Tyre were formerly
surrounded with waves but now no footsteps of their islands remain. The
;

ancient inhabitants tilled Leucas, annexed to the continent ; now seas

circle round it. have been joined to Italy, till the
Sicily is also said to
sea destroyed the ancient boundaries, and pushed away the earth by its
intervening waves. If you look for Helice and Buris, heretofore cities of
Achaia, you will find them buried under water and mariners are still ;

wont to shew where these cities, swallowed up with their walls, lie
whelmed in the deep. There is, near Pitthean Troezen, a hill, tall, and
bare of trees, formerly a level plot of ground, but now a mount. Here
a violent effort of vapours, confined in the dark caverns below, and
struggling in vain for vent (that they might enjoy a freer air as in the ;

whole scanty prison there was no chink, to render it pervious to their

blast), heaved up, strange to relate, the enlarged conclave as the breath ;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XV. 529

Tendere vesicam solet, aut derepta bicorni 'alf tl7j!rirfvt''al!c. _

Teroa capro. Tumor ille loco permansit, et alti c»rni capro. iiu tu

Collis habet speciem,- longoq induruit eevo. oUo et iwbet specicm ait;
;

Plurima cum subeant, audita aut cognita vobis, Znil'a'vo!"tZn'piu-

Pauca super referam. Quid? nonet lymphafiguras '"«« ^"'>eant, audita
""' cognita vobis, re-
1. ^• \
r,
•

Datq capitq;
novas medio
; tua, cormger Ammon,
: /eram tantum pnuca

Unda die gelida est ortuq obituq calescit 310 f^mpL daique^'^'c^pH-
; ; ;
:

Admotis Athamanis aquis accendere lignum ^^ Crco^^ger'Zl

Narratur; minimos ciam Luna recessit in orbes. "'<>», eh giMa mediu
T-i, ,,r^.
1 jj"j. die orliifiue,omlu(juc
1 , ;
Jh lumen habent Cicones,
quod potum saxea reddit caic.u-u. Atuamams
Viscera; quod tactis inducit marmora rebus. %Z"mZdmotTaquU,
Crathis, et huic Sybaris nostris conterminus arvis, '^llli,l^'^^'"J^^l'%iZ
Electro similes faciunt auroque capillos.
r^ \ •
xx^ .
316 «m uaiicnt fumen,
quod votiim reddit vis-
Quodquemagismu'um, sunt qui non corpora tantum, cera saxea; quad ui-
-,

Verum animos etiam valeant mutare, iiquores. u!cns!"c^M^, l!'^

Cui non audita estobsccenae Salmacis unda? 319 barisconterminnshihc
, , •. nnstris arvts, jaciunt
. r.

/fcithiopesquelacus quos si quis laucibus nausit,

: capuios similes ciec-
Aut aut miruni patitur gravitate soporem.
furit, ^„; ^ ,^ „;„„,, mn-vm,
Clitorio quicunque sitim de fbnte levvlrit, j-^, l:;^;Z^,^utZ
undis tum corpora, verum
^ .0'.~o;audetque meris abstemius
Vina fusfit:
X ATI on A etinm aiiimns. Cut
• •
:

beu VIS est in aqua calido contrana vino oz'i saimaru obsea-vte un- :

Sive, quod indigence memorant, Amithaone natus, clsqul'jm'wpeiUuo^

Prcetidas attonitas postquam per carmen et herbas 'liji"^^^
'f!JI-ulJupa-
mentis in illas tit%lr gravitate minim
Eripuit
^ furiis :
' purgamina
1 o soporem. Quicunque
levnrit sitim de fonte Clitorio, fugit vina, abstemiusque gaudet meris undis. Seu vis est in aqna
cnntraria calido vino: sire, quod indigene 7nemorant, tiatus Amithaone postquam per carmen et
herbas eripuit attonitas Pratidas furiis, misit purgamina mentis in Mas

TRANSLATION.
of one's mouth is Avont to distend a bladder, or skin, stript from a two-

horned goat. The swelling continued, and has the appearance of a tall
mountain^ and, in time, hardened into a solid mass of earth. Though
many things thus occur to my mind, both of my oavu knowledge and that
I have heard from others, yet I will mention only a few. What Are not !

endued with various ? do

they not give and take new ap-
springs qualities
at morn and
pearances ? Thy waters, horned Ammon, are, at noon cold,
are
evening warm. Athamanis, it is said, will kindle wood, if his waters
when the moon shrinks into her least orb. The
sprinkled upon it, waning
Ciconians have a river, whose waters, if drank, convert the bowels into
stone, and spread a crust of marble over whatever they touch. Crathis and
Sybaris, adjoining to it in our own country, change the
hair to the colour
of gold, or amber and, what is still more surprising, there are streams
:

capable, not only of transforming the body, but also

the mind. has Who
not heard of Salmacis, whose obscene waters soften men into women t
Or the iEthiopiau lakes, which, if drank, either turn the brain, or confine
in the chains of heavy sleep ? Whoever allays his thirst from the Clito-
rian spring, avoids wine and, abstemious, delights in pure water alone.
;

Whether the qualities of this fountain are opposite to those of wine, or

that (as the natives give out) Melampus, the son of Amithon, when by
herbs and spells he cured the daughters of Proetus of their madness, threw
, i M
530 P. OVIDll NASONIS

aquas, ciViimquc meii

jHrmaitsit in vinlix,
Misit aquas :
odiumque meri permansit in undis
A^nnisLi/ncesUnsftnit Huic fluit effectu dispai*
^
Lviicestius aiiinis, 329
(lispar huic etfectu, ^-^ j ^ ^.i. j. i

quern quiciinguitrax- Quem quicuiique pai'um moderato gutture traxit,

it jm III III modern to Haud aliter titubat, qiiam si mera vina bibisset.
giiltiirc, tiliibul hand
aliter, qiiiim si hibismt Est locus Arcadiai
mera liiia. Est locus (Pheneon dixere priores)
Arcadifp ( prior cs dix-
ere Phcneoii) siispcc-
Ambiguis suspectus aquis quas nocte timeto ; :

tiis anitiigiiis aqiiis ;

Nocte nocent pot?e Sine noxa luce bibuntur ::

qiias limcto node: po Sic alias aliasque lacus et fiumina vires 335
tre nocte noreiit: bi
himiiir luce sine noxL navit in
AVc lacus et Jlumina -»t
Concipiuut. TciTipusq rrr ; fuit,
•.
quo -i•
undis,
a
/~v i > i.

concipiuut alias, aii- jVunc sedct Urtygie. Innuit concursibus Argo

asquc vires: fuit teni-
jnis, quo Ortjigie naiit
Undarum sparsas Symplegadas elisarum ;
in vndis, mine
Argo timitit Siimple-
scdet.
QucG nunc immotse perstant, ventisqui3 resistunt.
gddds sparsas coiiciir-
sibiis eiisariim uuda-
Nee, qu£e sulfureis ardet fornacibus, Mine 340
riim ; qua- nunc per- Ignea semper erit neque enim fuit ignea semper.
:

stant iinmotcr, re.'</s-

tiintque vent is. A'cc
Nam sive est animal tellus, et vivit, habetque
yE/.ne, qua; ardet srit-
fitreis J'ornucibiis, erit
Spiramenta locus flammam exhalantia multis :

scmjnr ignca ; cnim Spirandi mutare vias, quotiesque movetur,

ncqiie fait semper ig-
nea. Nam sire tellus Has finire potest, illas aperire cavernas : 345
est animal, ct vivit, Sive leves imis venti cohibentur in antris ;
habetque spiramenta
exhalantia Jlummain
miiltis locis ; potest
Saxaque cum saxis, et habentem semina flammce
mutare vias spirandi, Materiem jactant, ea concipit ictibus ignem;
guoticsqrie movettir,
finire has, aperire U-
Antra relinquentur sedatis frigida ventis :

las cavernas.' siveie- Sivc bitumineas rapiunt inccudia vircs, 350

imis antris, jactant- Luteavc exiguis arcscunt sulfura fumis ;

maitricV^habcnt^'m'se. Neuipcubi terra cibos alimentaq ; pinguia flammse

minajiammir, ea concipit ignem, ictibus. Antra relinqiietitur frigida ventis sedatis. Sive vires
bitumineec rapiunt incendia luteave sulfura arcscunt exiguis fumis. Nempe ubi terra n07i da-
;,

bit cibos, pingtiiaque alimetUa JlanimcE ;

TRANSLATION.
his purifying simples into this sober spring; which thence derived its re-
pugnance to wine. The river Lyncestis has a contrary effect for whoever ;

drinks immoderately of this stream, reels and totters as if intoxicated with

wine. There is a place in Arcadia, called of old Pheneos, remarkable for
its waters of
ambiguous quality dread them by night by night they are
:
;

dangerous, but may be drank by day without harm. Thus rivers and
lakes have some one quality, some another. There was a time when
Ortygia floated on the Avaves now it is fixed into a stable island. The
;

shi]) of the Argonauts dreaded the Symplegades, tossed ahoiit by the as-
saults of the invading waves now they stand immovable, and sustain
;

unshaken the attacks of the fiercest winds. Nor will ^tna, Avho boils in
his sulphurous caverns, always vomit up flame nor indeed has he always ;

done it. For whether earth be an animal that lives, and repairs her lungs
by fresh supplies of air, dischargingher tainted fiery vapours by many pores
and outlets, she may change her passages of respiration and, shaken by ;

conndsive assaxdts, shut up the old, and open new caverns or, if the :

fleeting winds, pent up in hollow caves, toss flints against flints, and other
bodies that hide the seeds of flame, they by a mutual collision take fire.
When the fuel is spent, and the fierce winds abate, the caves will be left
cold. Or, if we suppose, that nitrous particles take fire, and that livid

sulphur, kindled by the issuing vapour, feeds the flame yet, when earth ;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lir. XV. 531

Non absumptis per lono-um viribus a5vuni,

dabit, T''^^'^
aimmptis per

JN'aturaeque suum nutnraen deent edaci : i^e nutrhnen deerit

eduri nature; ilia noid
r J
on lereti ilia
N„„ /•
•!! i. 1 .

tamen desertaque, deseret ; ignes. jeret jamen; dcscrta-

Esse vivos, fama est, in Hyperborea Pallene, 356 ^na'est'esse^'^roft
Qui soleant levibus velaii corpora plumis :' Hypcr/jorci Poiiene,
rn •. • •
1 -A *, , qui soleattt velai I qwoA
uni
C,\ Iritoniacam novies subiere paludem. ad corpora icvUms
Haud equidem credo sparsse quoque membra :
ic!'e"Trilm^!^a'^
lu<lcm. Eiuidcm hauii
VenenO scd
credo; Sci/i hides

Sn
j^

Nonne
qua
1
o
Jixercere artes Scythides
J
tides rebus
,

tamen
1 1

adnibenda probatis ;
vides, qu<ecunque mora, fluidove calore,
est
memorantur easdem. 360
,11-1 • 1
1

1
g"t>i«e, sparse: quoad
membra veiieno memo-
rantur cxercere eas-

"gZ 7d»csladdend'a
animalia verti ? probatis rebus, nonm
Corpora tabuerint,' in parva
I' J
i
-,

quoque, delectos mactatos obruetauros:

X nrr •
-

•
vidcs quacuiiquc cor-
pora tabuerint mora,
J/uidoic calore, verti
C^^„;4„
ognita res usu; de putri viscere passim 365 1« parva a,umai}a/ i
Florilegae nascuntur apes. Qute more parentiim

P,
Rura colunt; operiq
ressus
oncavo
C,~>,-.^..>,r^
numo 111
bellator equus
"J
^^i.l.
littoreo si
; favent, in

demas !_bracnia cancro, 1

••laborant.
crabroms
spemq
1

•
;

origo est.
ta27s'^!aetaiil^:}rfs
f* cogmta vsu)flori-
"i'^ apes nascunttir
passim de putn
cere, qua colunt
more parentum
vis-
rura.
fa-
Csetera supponas terra de parte sepulta ;
370 -!^^ ^^J,^_ ^';^
bcorpius exibit, caudaque minabitur unca. ^"^or equus prcssus
/-\ ,. r •
f^• \ , humo, est origo crabro-
vuaeque Solent cams irondes intexere nlis »«.?. si devias concava

Agrestes tineee (res observata colonis) 5?--S" "^^.-^

Feralimutant cum papilione fiouram.
»
terra: scorpiuscxibitde
^ .
,. ,,l.i.
oemina limus nabetvirides generantiaranas; o/o
„^_ , . sepulta parte, wuiabi-
tarque mica canda.

generat truncas pedibus mox apta natando :

soimtinteierefrondes
Crura dat utque eadem sint longis saltibus apta,
; -^1^ cl't£''L",t'^f
Jiguram cum ferali papilione. Limus liabct semhta geucrantla vlrides ratios,- et generat ota
truncas pedibus ; mox dat crura apta natando; utque eadem sint apta lotigis saltibus,
TRANSLATION,
shall no longer supply this unctuous fuel, aud the aliments that feed her
fires, her strength, by length of time, being wasted, and nourishment
shall be Avanting to the devouring conflagration, famished for want of
fuel, her flames must expire. We
are told, that in Hyperborean Pallene
are men, who, after nine times bathing in the Tritonian lake, are wont
to have their bodies fenced with a
covering of feathers. It is pretended
too (incredible as it may
appear) that the women of Scythia, smearing
their bodies with a magic oil, can take on the same appearance, and wing
their flight through the air. Yet, if we are to credit facts, and undoubted
experiments, is it not known that bodies, dissolved by time aud a fer-
menting heat, are changed into little insects ? Go, butcher some chosen
steer, and cover him up, the thing is known from manifold trials swarms :

of active bees spring from his putrid bowels, who, like their parents,
haunt the fields, delight in toil, and labour in hope of enjoying the
hoarded store. The warlike steed, buried in the ground, gives birth to
wasps and hornets. If from a crab i'oinid on the sea-shore, you take its
bending claws, and cover the rest under ground, from the part buried a
scorpion will glide, and threaten with its circling tail. And rural moths,
filmy threads on the leaves (an observation common
that stretch their
in the
country), change their shape to that of
a venomous butterfly, In
mud lies concealed the latent seed of frogs, which it produces at first short
2 M 2
532 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Postei'ior pai'tcs superat mensura priores.

T>•«77^i"r^^'^'^wr/f"'
Ncccutiiiiix,qiicm ur- Nec
cnlulus partu, queui reddidit uisa recenti,
stcrcddiilit mentipiir-
til, est aiinuid scdcaro
oi i\- i i i a
bed iiialc viva caro est : Lambendo mater artus
,

m a.

lu%Z7t]'Aal!Jje»"o, Fingit; et in formam, quantilm capit ipsa, reducit.

It redurit informam Noiiue vidcs,' Quoscera tetimt sexangula, fcetus
qttantum ipsa capit. ^ . . ~,. o'
Nonne videsjwtusmei- Melliierarum
liferariim apium, quo.
apium sine membns corpora nasci,
sexuiis,iila ccra teti- Et serosque pedes, serasque assumere pennas ?
git, nasci corpora sine
mcmhris, ct aisximere
Junonis volucrem, quae cauda sidera portat, 385
serosque pedes, seras-
que pennas/ Qtiis pu- Armigerumque Jovis, Cythereiadasque columbas,
taret volucrem Juno- Et genus omne avium, mediis e partibus ovi,
nis, quee portat sidera
raudd, armigerumque M sciret fieri, fieri quis posse putaret?
jovh,cniumbasque cy. gu^t g^i cum clauso putrefacta est spina sepulchro,
tkereiada.<:,et omnegc- t,t •
i i 11 onrv i
nus avium, posse fieri Mutari credaut humanas angue meduUas. o\)\)
e. mediis partibusund,
ni sciret fieri? sunt
tt
Heec
i
tamen ex
t-j
ahis
l j' r.
rebus
•

ducuntprimordia ;

trl^aci^us/ll^ Una quae reparet, seque ipsa reseminet, ales

est,
:

chroj credant luima- Assvrii Phceuica vocant.

nas medullas viutari -,,-',.,,
Non fruge,
^ ' neqi ; herbis,
. . .

angiie. Tamen hac dti- feed thuris lachrymis, et succo vivit amomi.

mf reimJ'!'^Tst^'^una Hsec ubi quinque suae complevit secula vitse 395

^^^cis in ramis, tremulaeve cacumine palmse,
"reseininttq^'e Ic^^'aI
syrii vocant Phanica
Vivit, non fruge, ne-
Unguibus et pando nidum sibi construit ore.
que herbis, sed lachry- Quo simul ac casias, et nardi lenis aristas,
mis thuris, et succo
amomi. Htvc, ubi com- Quassaque cum fulva substravit cinnama niyrrh^ :
plevit quinque secula Se
sua: vita-, construit ni- super imponit, finitque in odoribus aevum. 400
dum sibi ungitibiis aut Inde ferunt, totidem qui vivere debeat annos,
pando ore inramis Ili-
cis,cacumi?ieve tremu Corpore de patrio parvum Phoenica renasci.
iffprimtE. Quo simul ac substravit casias, et aristas lenis nardi, cinnamaque quassa cum fulva
myrrha, imponit se stiper ; finitque a:vum in odoribus. Inde ferunt parvum Phoenica renasci
de patrio corpore, qui debeat vivere totidem annos.
TRANSLATION,
of their feet : but soon itthem with legs for swimming and,
furnishes ;

that they also for long leaps, they are formed with a remark-
may be 3fit

able length of feet behind. The bear's cub, at the time of its birth, is a
mere lump of but ill-animated flesh the mother licks into shape, and
:

gives it, form which she herself received. Are not the off-
at last, the

spring of the honey-creating tribe, while yet confined to their hexangular

waxen cells, mere bodies without limbs and that they are late of being ;

provided with feet and waving wings. Were it not a thing universally
known, who would believe, that Juno's bird, whose tail sparkles with
gems and stars, Jupiter's armour-bearer, and the snow-white pigeons of
the queen of love, nay the feathered race, have their origin from the
middle parts of an egg. There are some who think, that when the spine
rots in the hollow tomb, its included marrow is changed to a snake yet :

these all have their birth from other things. Bnt there is one bird self-
born, and self-begotten the Assyrians call it the Phoenix. He sustains
,

not life by grain or herbs, but the tears of frankincense, and the juice of
amomum. When he has completed the five centuries of his life, with his
claws and crooked bill he builds for himself a nest, upon the boughs of
an oak, or top of a trembling palm where having strewed cassia, and the
;

aromatic stalks of spikenard, with broken cinnamon, and yellow myrrh,

he lays himself upon it, and expires in his bed of perfumes. Hence, as
we are told, an infant Phoeni.x is again produced from his father's body,
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XV. 533

Cum dedit hiiic actes vires, onerique ferendo est ; T"-" '^'"i'
*''''''
/'^T
I'ouderiDus nidi ramos levat arboris altae : rendo onen, laat ra-
pi .
•
,
•
, , mos alia- arhoris pon-
rertquepiuscunasq; suas, patriumq sepulchrum: ; (jeribm mui, jmisqne

Perque leves auras Hyperionis urbe potitus. 406 {w/,;,;;^"';"/^',^;

Ante fores sacras Hyperionis sede reponit. potiusque nrhe nype-
,. yJ .* . . . . . . per leves auras,
rioiiis
S- tamen est aliquicl nurse novitatis mistis
1
; rcponu a-de Hyperw-

Ml
Alternare vices, et quae modo foeraina tergo rLieT InTst'dSid
Passa marem est, nunc esse raarem miremur hyre- Z'lZZr^X'^iwm^aii
nam 410 temare rices, et f/nee
.. ... .
, , ^ modojamiiia est piissa
quoque, quod ventis animal nutntur et aura, maremtergu,essenujw
Protinus assimulat tactu quoscunque colores. Z7m;
ZZtgnid
Victa racemifero Ivncas
J
dedit India Baccho :
*«"''* ft aura, protu
-J-,
., . .
-,
. . . nils assimulat quos-
quibus, ut memorant, quicquid•• vesica remisit,
sL, cunque adores tactu.
iir Victa India dedit lyn-
-\T
Vertitur
^
i.'-1 I. i L
m
•
± i
lapides, et congelat acre tacto. 415
\

ras.racer,iifero Baccho.
Sic et curalium, quo primum contigit auras
LUlfqii/^^aa'c'^ca
durescit: mollis fuit herba sub undis. remisu, vertitur in la-
Tempore
T\ T 11 -r»i 1 11 .
•
pules, et covgelat acre
JJeseret ante dies, et in aito rhcebus anhelos tacto. sic et curaH-

iEquore tinget equos ; quam consequar omnia ZZ7JTo/uigit'''^aunil,

dictis durescit; sub undis,
-r . , • ^"^'^ iiioltis herba.
l-^• Ar\r\
In species translata novas. Sic tempore verti 420 '-c^c? dcM-ret, et pua-
/-^ ,, 1 , . bus tinget anhelos e
L/ernimus, atque iilas assumere robora gentes ; qnos in aito aqume
Concidere has. Sic magna fuit censuq; virisque, 'SoZia'!:^ZZ
"'
Perque decern potuit tantumdare sano;uinis annos, "?'<'* species.
Sic

Nunc humilis veteres tantummodo Troja ruinas, tempore, atque nias

Et pro divitiis tumulos ostendit avorum. 425 Vons'id7rl.^"iic"Tn^a
[Clara fuit
magnee viguere Mycenaj Sparte : :
^^[sqw"" potuuqui
Nee non Cecropife,
"
nee non Amphionis
'
arces. dare tantum sanguinis
per decern annos, nunc
humilis, ostendit tantummodo veteres ruinas, etpro
tumulos avorum. Sparte fuit dura, divitiis,
magnas Mycence viguere, nee non arces Cccropia, nee non arces Amphionis,
TRANSLATION.
appointed to renew the same lease of life. When age supplies him with
strength, and fits him for the intended burden, he lightens the boughs of
the tall tree of the load of the nest, and piously carries his own cradle and
father's sepulchre and, winging his way through the light air, till he
;

reaches the city of Hyperion, he lays down his load in the temple of the
sun, before the sacred porch. But, if there appears any thing wonderful
in all this, let us wonder still more, that the
hyiena alternately changes
its sex and one year a male begets, the next a female bears and that
; :

the camelion, nourished by the winds and air, changes to the colour of
whatever he touches. Conquered India furnished Bacchus, the god of the
vine, with lynxes whose urine, they tell us, as discharged from the
;

bladder, congeals in air, and hardens into gems. Thus too coral hardens
as soon as it feels the air,
though under water it was a soft j)lant. Day
would sooner fail, and Phoebus plunge his panting steeds in the sea, than
I be able to recite the
many objects in nature subject to new changes
Even nations and empires undergo their vicissitudes. Some we see to
flourish and gather strength others to sink and decay. Thus wfis Troy ;

once potent in wealth and numerous armies, and for ten long years able
to bear so
great an expense of blood now, humble, she can only boast :

of her ancient ruins nor

possesses any other riches than the memorable
;

tombs of her heroes. Sparta was once famous Mycenic flourished in :

534 P. OVIDII NASONIS

Vile solum Spuite est: altffi cecidere Mycenjej

'IriMyfenlVd!:^!-.
iEiiipodionia: (Edipodioiiiee ouid sunt nisi fabula Thebse H
Thchtr,
4/ II id smit nisi fubit-
/-^ -r^ t .••
•
i' ., -^^ •

la? PandioniaMiiena- QwiQ ranclionise lestaiit nisi nomeii Athenee r

mcn?Ztnic%wq7ieT^^
l^func quoque Dardaniam fama est consurgere Ro-
Jama, Dardaniam Jlo- 431
mam consurgtrc, qua: raam;
j»oxima undis Ajipen- Appenninigense quai proxima Tibridis undis
Qiinigenm Tyhridls, po-
ttit fuiida7nina rcrum Mole sub ingenti rerum fundamina ponit.
^^c, igitur fomiam cvescendo rautat et olira ;
fgUur^7nlVat^%rmum
crescendo ; et dim erit Immensi caput oibis ei'it. Sic dicere vates 435
caput immensi orbis, -r-i... c ^i. ^n i
sic fcrunt vates va- lei'mit soites
raticniasque ; quantumque recorder,
lifeTquLtumque re- Priamides Helenus fienti, dubioque salutis,
cordor, Helenus Pri- Dixerat Mweve, cuin res Troiana labaret:
amides, dixerat Mnc(E -«y v -p,. /.
.
.^rt
"^
.

j]e7iti,
dubioque^
suiu- JNate Ueu, si Hota satis prgesagia nostrse 439
laborer: Nate dea',"si Mentis habes non tota cadet, ;
te sospite, Troja.

o^SiI^!l^!wtafit Flamma tibi ferrumque dabuntiter. Ibis, et una

ta Troja iwn cadet, te donee Troiseque
sospite. Hummajer-
Pergama rapta
' '->
.
feres :
. y
.
' tibique
'
-j-^
r unique dabuiit iter Jbxternum patrio contingat amicius arvum.
Flrgamarapta,dZiec Urbcui ct jam cemo Phrygios debere nepotes;
Tiufpatrir''JolH^^^^^
^
Quanta nee est, nee erit, nee visa prioribus annis.
Trojaque tibique. Et Hanc alii proceres per sacula lono-a
'^'ipotentem, 446
pam cemo Phrygios oij
feecl Qommam rerum es
•
t"t
nepotes debere urbcm, sangunie natus lull
Vi^uXec'^Jsaa^ Efficiet: quo, cum telius erit usa, fruentur
yrioribus. Alii proce- J^^tliereas sedes
erit exitus ilii.
^€S ClllClCllt iKl'llC 1)0- coelumque
*
:
'

tentem per ivnga sa- Haec Heleiium cecinisse Penatigero JEjXiex, 450
cula,sert natvs desun- c i
•

iVlente memor reiero cognataque moema lastor

-rv/r / i j.

guiiie iiiii ejjiciet do- :

miiiam rerum. Quo ciim telius erit usa, sedcs (Bthcria: fruentur ; calumque erit exitus illi.
Metnor refer omente Helenum cecinisse hac penatigero jt^netc, latorque cog?tata mania

TRANSLATION.
wealth and grandeur too, and the towers of Amphion, sound high
: Athens
in the mouth of ancient fame. Sparta is now a despicable spot lofty :

Mycense are fallen Thebes and CEdipus live now only in fable and
:
;

nothing of ancient Athens remains but the name, Rome too, if the voice
of fame be true, is, at this very time, rising out of the ruins of Troy and ;

lays the foundation of a mighty empire on the banks of the Tiber, who
rolls his waters from the summit of the
Apennines. She therefore changes
by a continual increase of power, and will, in time, become the mistress
of the world for so the prophets of old, and the fate-predicting oracles,
;

declare. This too, if I remember right, Helenus, the son of Priam, fore-
told, to iEneas, perplexed, and doubtful of his future fate, when Ilium
was sinking in ruins. O goddess-born, if you truly comprehend the pre-
sages of my mind, Troy can never be entirely lost while you survive; a
way shall be opened for you through fire and sword. You shall escape,
and carry Troy and her gods along with you, till a foreign land receives
you, more favourable both to Troy and yourself, than your native soil.
Even now I see that the Phrygian race owe the world a city such as ;

neither is, nor ever shall be known, in any former age. Her a succession of
different heroes shall render powerful for many ages, till a prince, sprung
from the blood of lulus, raise her to be the mistress of the world. He,
after a long and happy reign, shall ascend late into heaven, and take his
place among the gods. I remember well, that these were the predictions
of Helenus to iEueas, when he bore away from the Greeks, the guardian
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XV. 535

crescrc ; et Pda.tgos
_;re; Phrygibus vicisse Pelasgos:
et utiliter
vicisse ntUitcr Pkry-
Ne ad metam tendere longe
taineii oblitis [est, gil)us. 'rumen ne ex-

Exspatiemiir eqiiis, coelum, et quodcimque sub illo /X/Zwi'L/m-^afA"'*

turn; caliim et qitod-
Iinmutat formas, tellusque, et quicquid in ilia est.
cunque at snii illo;
Nos quoque pars mundi (quoniam nou corpora tellusque, et quicquid
est in nil), inimulat
solum formas. Nos quoque
inundi
Verum etiam volucres animce sumus, inque ferinas pars (quoniam
non sumus solum cor-
''" •um etiam vo-
Possumus ire domos, pecudumq : in
pectora condi") ?""""'
-,,
* .
'
lucres a
.
II-
auimn-, jiossii' V

Corpora, quae possuit animas habuisse parentum, musquedonot,

ire in fcrinus
in
conrtiqiic
Aut fratrum, aut aliquo junctoruni foedere nobis, pectora pecudum) m-
na.inis corpora,
Aut honiinum, certe, tuta esse et honesta sinamus, possiiit habuisse qugi ani-
Neve Thyesteis cumulemur viscera mensis. mas parentuw, aut
J'rutrum, avt ju7ic/o-
Quani male consuescit, quam se parat ille cruori rum ntibis aliquo f'rr-
dere, aut eerie liomi-
Impius liumano vituli qui guttura cultro
; iivm, esse tuta ct Iw-
nesta, ncie cumule-
Rumpit, et immotas prsebet mugitibus aures !
mur liscera jytyesfcis
Aut qui vagitus similes puerilibus hcedura 466 nicnsis. (Jtiam mule
illc consuescit, quam
Edentera jugulare potest ;
aut alite vesci, impius parat se lut-
muno cruori ; qui rum-
Cui dedit ipse cibos! quantum est, quod desit in pit guttura vituli cul-
istis tro, et prtrbet immotas
aures inugilibus ; aut
Ad plenum facinus !
quo transitus inde paratur ! qui potest Jugulnrc
liaduin erientem. vagi-
Bos aret; aut mortem
senioribus imputet annis tus similes puerilibus ; :

aut vesci alite, cui

Horriferum contra Borean ovis arma ministret. ipse dedit cibos. Quan- >

Ubera dent saturae manibus pressanda capellae 472 tum est, quod desit in
istis ad plenum faci-
Retia cum pedicis, laqueosque, artesque dolosas nus! quo transit us pa-
ratur inde. Bos arct,
ToUite; nee volucrem viscata fallite virga: aut imputet mortem
annis senioribus. Oiis ministret arma contra IwrriJ'erum Borean. .faturte c((%Kllee eh nt ubera
pressanda manihits. ToUite rctia cum pedicis, laqueosque, artesque dolosas, nee fallite volu-
crem liscati, rirsil,
TRANSLATION.
gods of his country and I rejoice to see my kindred walls flourish, and
;

the Phrygians so much gainers by the conquest of the Greeks. But, that
I may not expatiate too far, forgetting to wheel my horses toward the
goal. Heaven, and all that its canopy enfolds, earth, and whatever is
contained therein all things, I say, are subject to changes. And let us
;

too, who are parts of this universe (as being not mere bodies alone, but
also fleeting soids, that may take up an abode in wild beasts, or be lodged
in the breasts of cattle), suffer bodies to remain seciu'e and imviolafed,
that are animated, perhaps, by a parent, a brother, or some near relation,
for certain by one of our own species and let us not load our boAvels with
;

Thyestean meals. What an impious habit does he acquire, Avbat advances

does he make toward the shedding of human blood, who can harden him-
self to cut the throat of a calf, and, unmoved, hear its mournful plaints ;

who can slaughter a kid, in vain uttering moans like those of children ;

or eat the birds which, with his own hands, he has fed. How little is
here wanting to the perfection of wickedness what impiety does it not !

threaten ? Sufler the ox to plough and impute his death to age, or a

;

decay of nature. Let the sheep continue to shelter us from the rude as-
saults of Boreas, and the goats give their loaded udders to supply us with
food. Banish from among you springs, nets, snares, and every artifice to
delude con;^pire not against the leathered tribe with insidious bird-
:

lime nor scare the affrighted deer with dreaded plumes nor hide the
; ;
 536 P. OVIDII NASONIS
ncc iiictudile ccrvos
J'ltrmidutis pinnis, jiec
Nec formidatis cervos eludite pinnis ; 475
cilate uncos /lai/ws Nee celate cibis uncos fallacibus hamos.
fallacihns cibls. Si
qua aniiiialia nocent, Peidite, si
qua nocent: Varum ha;c quoque perdite
pcrdite c;i vcrtim quo-
:

que taiUiim pcrdite tantum.

hitc. Ora vacent epu- Ora vacent epulis, alimentaque congrua carpant.
lis, ciirpuntque ali-
vttnta coiigrua. Fc- Talibus atque aliis instructo pectore dictis
runt Nunuim remeasse
ill patriam
pcctore in
In patriam remeasse ferunt; ultroque petitum 480
aau^cntZtfo'^ut Accepisse Numam populi Latialis habenas.
petitum, accepisse ha- Coniuo;e QUI fcllx Nymplia, ducibusque CamoBnis,
lietias latialis populi. o -r-i -^-^ \ r

S
Quijeiix ni/mpha con-

cri/icns,
feacrificos docuit ntus ; geutemque leroci
Zm'rHus t'- Assuetam bello pacistraduxit ad artes.
traduxitque Quem, Dostquam scnior reo-numque aevumque pe-
^-'r.T. O 1 ^i
genlem
'
" assuetam fero-
'
ci bello, ad artes pa
I'egit,
465
cis. Quem, Numam
j>ostquam senior pere- Extinctum Latiseque nurus, populusque, patresq ;
git regmimque eevum-
que, Ziatiirque nurus,
Deflevere Numam. Nam conjux, urbe relicta,
j'opulutique, patrexque Vallis aricinee densis latet abdita silvis :
dejievere extinctum.
Nam coiijux urbe re- Sacraque Orestes gemitu questuque Dianse
lictcL, latet abdita den-
sis silvis vallis Ari- Impedit. Ah quoties Nymphae nemorisque lacus-
cina, getnituque, ques-
tuque, impedit sacra que, 490
orcsteee Diance. Ab Nc facerct, uionuere ;
et consolantia verba
quoties nymphce nemo- -r\- r ,
• .• n ,• mi i

risque lacusque mo- JJixere ! ah quotics ilenti ihesems heros,

21"^jJer*/cSa«- ^iste modum, dixit! neque enim fortuna querenda

tia! Ah quoties The- Sola tua est: similcs aliorum respice casus :
seii/s heros dixit Jlenti,-,._. .^ « tt .
i i i Ar\r •

siste modum; neque iVlitms ista lercs. U tmamq excmpla clolentem 495 ;
emm tua
solaquereiin
J^J'^^^^^^.^^*^
]\f qu mea te
possent relevare ; sed et mea possunt
similes casus aliorum, et feres ista mitiiis, Utinamque mea exivipla non possent relevare te do^
lentem ! sed et mea possunt,
TRANSLATION.
crooked hook under fallacious bait. Kill noxious creatures, and them
only. Let us abstain from the blood of animals, and nourish life with ve-
getable food. Numa, we are told, returned into his native country with a
mind furnished with these, and such-like, instructions nor accepted the ;

Latian sceptre but with much importunity. Who, happy in a goddess for
his spouse,and the muses for his guides, taught the rites of religion and
sacrifice and brought over to the soft arts of peace a nation fond of war,
;

and inured to the exercise of arms. Whom, when advanced in years he

concluded his life and reign, the matrons, people, and senators, all jointly
bewailed his loss for his Avife, abandoning the city, lies hid in the thick
;

groves of the valley of Aricia and, by her groans and lamentation, dis-
;

turbs the sacred rites of Orestean Cynthia. How oft did the nymphs of
the grove and lake check her grief, and address her in comforting strains.
How oft did the son of Theseus counsel her to set bounds to her sorrow ;

For not your fate alone (says he) is to be bewailed consider the like ca- :

lamities have befallen others, and you will bear your sufferings with great
moderation. Would that my woes were not so lively an example to as-
suage your grief; yet even mine may be sufficient. I make no doubt but
NOTES.
432. Conjuge qui fcUx Nymphfi, duci- tended to have -conference with in tlie
husqae Camcenis.'] The poet, after finish- forestof Aricia, touching the laws he gave
in<; tlie eulogium of Numa, speaks of the to the Romans,
nymph Egeiia, whom that piiuce pre-
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XV. 537

Fando aliquem Hippolytum vestras (puto) contigit

^Z'^%X ai%ZZ
JJipj>ol;/tum occiibii-
aures. is.ic iieci, crcdi(litiite
Credulitate patris, sceleratae fraude novercffi jiatri.s,fraudeiiuc .s<e-
lerata noverc(c. Ml-
Occubuisse neci. Mirabere, vixque probabo :
rabere, vixqiie proba-
Sed tamen ille eg-o sum. Me Pasiphaea quondam he, ; seriumen ^o .sum
" '^^ "

Tentatum frustra, patrium temerasse cubile, 50i dam (me tune magis in-
dicii, ojiensane rcpul-
Quod voluit, finxit voluisse et crimine:
verso, strj jfinxif. nie voluisse
quuil vi}iuit,et crimine
(Indiciine metu magis, offensane repulsze) tcii- verso, firguit mc,
tatum frustra, teme-
Arguit. Immeritumque pater projecit ab urbe; rasse patrium cubile :

Hostilique caput prece detestatur euiitis. 505 pater que projecit me

immeritinn ab urbe;
Pitthean prof ugo curru Troezena petebam :
detestaturque caput
euntis hostili prece.
Jamque Corinthiaci carpebam li,ttora ponti Petebam Pitthram
;

Cum mare surrexit ; cumulusq immanis aquarum

;
Tiazena projiign cur-
ru ; jamque carpebam
In mentis speciem curvari, et crescere visus, littora Corinthiaci
cum mare sur-
Et dare mugitus, summoque cacumine findi. 510 potiti,
rexit, cumulusque im-
manis aquarum est vi-
Corniger hinc taurus ruptis expellitur undis ; sas crescere et cur-

Pectoribusque tenus moUes erectus in auras,

vari in speciein montis,
et dare mugitus, findi-
Naribus et patulo partem maris evomit ore. que summo cacumine.
Corniger taurus ei-
Cordapaventcomitum. Mihimens interrita mansit, pellitur hinc undis
Cum coUa feroces
Exiliis contenta suis. 515 ruptis, erectusque in
molles auras tenus
Ad freta convertunt, arrectisque auribus horrent pectoribus, -evomit par-
tem maris 7wribus et
Quadrupedes monstrique metu turbantur,
et altis
; patulo ore. Cordo co-
ducere vana mitum patent. Mens
Praecipitant currum scopulis. Ego mansit interrita mihi
Frsena manu, spumis albentibus oblita, luctor ;
contenta suis exiliis ;
cum feroces quadru-
Et retro lentas tendo resupinus habenas. 520 pedes convertunt colla
Nee vires tamen has rabies superasset equorum; li{ms\X7c7is!tur.
banturque metu monstri; et prtn-ipitant currum allls scopulis. Ego vanu manu luctor ducere
Jrana oblita albentibus spumis, et resupinus tendo lentas habenas retro. AVc tamen rabies
equorum superasset has vires,
TRANSLATION.
you have heard of one Hippolytus, who
fell a sacrifice to the
cruelty of
his father, and the treacliery of a wicked step-mother. You will wonder,
able to convince you of it yet I am he.
I know nay, scarce shall I be
;
;

For, in former times, the daughter of Pasipha^ having, in vain, solicited

me to defile my father's bed, whether through dread of a discovery, or
the charge ; i.nd accused me of her own base
resenting the affront, turned
desires. father banished me, innocent as I was, from the city, and
My
I was driving toward
pours heavy imprecations on my guiltless
head.
Pitthjean Trcezen in my flying chariot, and had now reached the strand
that borders on Corinth, when the sea swelled, and an enormous mass of
waters, heaving from the level surface for the deep, rose to
a mountain's
height, and, bellowing, burst. horned Abull starts up from the parted

waves, and, rearing his ample chest in air, expires from his nostrils and
wide mouth the briny waves. attendmts are seized with horror I
My :

alone remained undaunted, full as I Avas (f the thoughts of my banish-

ment when my mettled coursers, directhg their looks toward the sea,
;

the si>ht of the dreadful monster,

prick up their ears, and, scared by
I, in viin, struggle to curb the reins
hurry the chariot over steep rocks.
bedewed with frothy foam ; and, bending backward, pull with all my
strength the pliant bridle. Doubtless, I slould at length have checked
538 P. OVIDII NASONIS

"^"rf/^lC"ffl''*^o/cwv«
-^^ rota,perpetuum quri circum vertitur axem,
itipi/is, qua c ircinn-
Stipitisoccursu fi'acta ac disjecta fuisset.
vcrtitur peipc
a.tcm. KiciUiiir ciir- Excutior curru lorisque tenentibus artus,
:

ru icneiiti-
:
lorisqiie
biisartus, vidcres viva
Viscera viva trahi, nervos in stirpe teneri, 525
viscera trahi, ncrvos
tcjicrl in itirpe, mcm-
Membra rapi partim, partim reprehensa rehqui,
In-a, parlim rapi, par- Ossa gravem dare fracta sonum, fessamque videres
tlin relinqui reprclicii-
sa, ossa fracta dare Exhalari animam :
nullasque in corpore partes,
ani-
gravein solium,
fiiamqite fessam exha
Noscere quas posses unmnq ; erat omnia vuhms.
:

luri, nullasque paries

in corpore quas posses
Num
_-i-potes, aut audes cladi componere
'_.,. -^ nostras, 530
nosccre, tiniimque vul- Nympha tiiam? quoque luce carentia regna:
vicli
ntis erat omnia. Niivi
poles aut audes, 7i;/m.
Et lacerum unda
fovi Phlegetliontide corpus in
ji/ut, compo7ierc tuam
clarlem nostra: cladi? Nee, nisi Apollinese valido medicamine prolis,
Vidi quoque regna ca- Reddita vita foret. Quam postquam fortibus herbis
rentia luce, ct fovi la-
cerum corpus in unda Atque ope Paeonia, Dite indignante, recipi 535 ;
Nee
Phlegethoiitirie.
viva foret reddita, 7iisi Turn mihi, ne praisens augerem muneris hujus
validn tnedicumine densas objecit Cynthia nubes;
Invidiam, _ - - ,
ApolU.netrprolis.Qua?n ^^ ^ . . .

postquam recepi, Dite

iiidisnante, fortibus
herbis, utque Ptrouin.
Utque lorem
\ j\- ^•l ,
tutus posscmquc impune videri
,

Addidit ffitatem, nee cognoscenda reliquit

jt -a.
;

ope; turn ne prrrseiis Ora mihi. Cretenq diu dubitavit habendam 540
augerem invidiam hu- ;

jus tnuneris, Cynthia Traderet, an Delon. Delo Cretaque rehctis

objecit densas nubes
luihi; addiditque ata- Hie posuit nomenq simul, quod possit equormn
; ;
tern, tit forem tutus,
possemqtic videri impune, nee reliquit mihi ora cognoscenda ; diuquc dubitavit tradcrctne CrcUit
kabendam, an Delon. Dclo cretaque relictis, posuit me hie: simulque jubet deponere nomcn,
quod possit
TRANSLATION.
their headstrong rage, had not the wheel, where it rolls roimd the axle,
been broken, and splintered by the shock of a stump. I am tossed from
my seat and, as I was entangled by the harness, you might have seen
;

my reeking bowels torn in pieces my nerves wound round the stump

; ;

my limbs partly dragged away, and partly sticking behind till, amid my ;

breaking bones and crackling joints, I breathed out my wearied soul.

No part of my body could be knoAvn it was all over one continued ;

wound. Say then, disconsolate nymph, can you, or dare you, in justice,
compare your disaster with mitie ? I saw too the dark realms of Pluto,
and bathed my mangled body ill the waters of Phlegethon. Nor had life
been restored, but by the powefful medicines of the son of Apollo which, ;

after I had again recovered, elen in spite of Pluto, by potent herbs, and
the Pseonian art, Cynthia, that I might not by my presence increase the
envy of so uncommon a gift, threw a misty cloud around and, to prevent ;

the hazard and danger that threatened me from being seen or known, she
stamped upon me the wrinkles of age, and gave me a new set of features ;

and Avas long in doubt, whetlifir she should send me to dwell in Crete or
I
NOTES.
524. Excutior curru : lorisque ifjienti- sliippcd this young prince as a god, did
bus artus.] The story ot'Hippolytii, as it iiot allow that the death of Hippolytiis
is here related by Ovid, is extfemely was owing liis being dragged along by
to
moving. The true account of the (natter his horses on the contrary, they would
;

probably is, that this prince, in hii great have it believed, that the gods had carried
distress and agony of mind, not: giving him up into heaveu among the constella-
heed to the management of his hor^s, was tions, where he forms that which is nanieil
unhappily overturned in his cliari^. The the charioteer.
TrcKzeuiaiis, however, whoafltrwiid wor-
 iUETAMORPHOSEON, Lin. XV. 539

admonuisse cquorum;
Admonuisse, iubet deponere: Quique fuisti
llippolytus, dixit, nunc idem Virbms esto. mppoiyius,tiunciriem
oc neraus inde colo de Uisque minoribus unus ; /,ncnemus,mms<iiie,ie
Numine sub dominse lateo, atque accenseor illi.

D,
Non tamen ~
Esferise
T •!
amna valent; montisque jacens radicibus
Liquitur in lachvymas ; donee pietate dolentis
luctus aliena levare
imis
. . • •
^^f nu^!e"lm!!^,
"^i'"^
lumen
acce?iseor
alietia
««« vaient icvarc inc-

Ina/^^^uJ^mM.
damna
uu.

Mota, soror Phoebi gelidum de corpove fontem550 imiturinicwhrymas;

_,
' o 1
*v,v^iii >-.^v^
donee soror Pnoeln,mo-
m
. . .

recit, et aeternas artus tenuavit undas. ta pietate doientis.je-

A A • • f^it fontem gelldum de
At TVT i_
, j_ y i i

JNymphas tetigit nova res et Amazone natus

.

:
cori>ore, temtavu ar.
Haud aliter stupuit, qu^un cum Tyrrhenus arator '// t"fr« 'm^

SI
Fatalem o-lebam mediis aspexit
,^

Siponte sua
umere mox
i
'^,
in arvis,'
.

primum,
••,
^
nuUoque
norainis, terrseq ; amittere lormam,
Oraque Venturis aperire recentia fatis.
Indisjenas dixere Tagen, qui primus Etruscam
554
.,

],exu jataiem gkbam

'^^^[^^ S?;"- a^
*'"'*^' inmedus arvis,
.

ao'itante,
•..
moveri
c
.

;
"".y^vhas,

stupuit,
et natus
Amrizone hand altter
quam
Tyrrhenu!! iirator as-
cum

ri -I
•
.

XlidOCUlt gentem casus aperire lUturOS,

~^.^P
tnox sumere toiinam
hominis, amittereque
Utve Palatinis haerentem collibus olim 560 re^,Vrccentui'or'aZn.
Cilm subito vidit frondescere Romulus hastam, ]nvel{Ta%n'-'^'vf"t
Quae radice nova, non ferro stabat adacto : »»"« edoctat ktmscum
TH. •
.1 11 1 gentem aperire fi/tu- i----
Jcit
jam non telum, sed lenti viminis arbor, res casus, utvc cvm
Non expectatas dabat admirantibus umbras. hZTa!rha:rent^m^'pa.
latinis collibus suhieo frondescere ; qu(F sttibat radice nimii, non adacto Jerro. Etjamtion tclum,
sed arbor le?iti vimiiiis, dabat umbras non expectatas admirantibus.

TRANSLATION.
Delos. At length, quitting the thoughts both of Delos and Crete, she
placed me here and commanded me, at the same time, to drop a name
;

that might remind me of my woes Let him (said she), who was once
Hip- :

polytus, be now Virbius. From that time I frequent this grove and, being ;

now one of the inferior race of gods, am screened by the power of my pa-
troness, and accounted one of her train. Yet no misfortunes of others can
avail to alleviate the grief of Egeria but, throwing herself down at the ;

foot of a mountain, she dissolves in incessant tears until the sister of ;

Phoebus, moved at the piety of this inconsolable nymph, changed her body
into a cold spring, and thawed her limbs to streams that ever floAv. But
the nymphs, and Virbius, the son of the Amazon, are filled with wonder at
the new miracle, as when the Tyrrhenean swain beheld, in the middle
of the field, the turf pregnant with fate, untouched, to swell and move of
itself; and, losing the appearance of earth, to assume a human form, and
open its sudden mouth to disclose the future fates. The natives called
him Tages he first taught the Tuscan race the art of foretelling things
;

to come. As when of old, Romulus saw his lance, fixed in the Palatine
hill, suddenly to shoot out green leaves and which, standing now no ;

longer by its point, but anew root, no longer a dart, but a tree of limber
boughs, afforded to the admiring spectators an unlooked-for shade. Or as
when Cipus saw his horns in the watery mirror (for he saw them) and ;

NOTES.
553. 7nrf«5en«dJ.re/'eTa§-cn.] This fable tive of the country Autoclitlion ; for it
to import, either that Tages was
is thoiijrht was tiiose people, they commonly gave out
of au obsciue birth, or that he was a iia- to be sprung from the earth.
540 P. OVIDII NASONIS
Aut cum cipus rum cum 665
sua cor
^^.ut sua fluminea Cipus in unda vidit
miiunri,i(cniin vidit) Comua (videt enim) falsamq in imasjnie credens :

digitis ad irontera seepe relatis,

•

imigiiie esse falsam, liiSse ndem,

tetigit qii<B vidit digi-
tis strpe relatis ad Quee vidit, tetigit. Nee jam sua lumina damnans
Neejam dam-
J'rontcm.
nans sua lumina, res- Restitit, ut victor domito remeabat ab hoste.
titit ut remeabat vic- Ad ccelumq; oculos, et eodem brachia tollens, 570
tor ab hoste domito.
Tollciisque ociilns ad Quicquid, ait, Superi, monstro portenditur isto.
caelum, et brachia eo- Sen Isetum est, patriae leetum, populoq Quirini ; ;
dem, ait, () superi,
quicquid portenditur Sive minax, mihi sit. Viridique e cespite factas^
isto monstro, sen est
Itetum, sit Iff.tutn pa- Placat odoratis herbosas ignibus aras,
trice, populoque Qui-
rini; sive minax, sit Vinaque dat pateris mactatarumque bidentum.
;

minax 7nihi plucat-.•

que herbosas arasfac-

Quid sibi significent, trepidantia consulit exta.576
tos e viridi cespite, o- QuaB simul inspexit Tyrrhenae gentis haruspex,
duratis ignibus; dat-
que vina pateris. C'on- Magna quidem rerum molimina vidit in illis ;
sulitq7ie quid trepi-
dantia exta mactata-
Non manifesta tamen. Ci^m vero sustulit acre
rum
ficent
bidentiiin,
sibi. Qu(F simul
signi- A pecudis fibris ad Cipi cornua lumen 580 ;

haruspex Tyrrhenre Rex, ait, 6 salve tibi enim, tibi, Cipe, tuisque
:

ge?Uis inspexit, vidit

quidem magna moli- Hie locus et Latise parebunt cornibus arces.
mina rerum in illis, Tu niodo rumpc moram, portasque iutrare patcntes
tamen no7i 7nanijesta ; n -\j tti
•
^
verum cum sustulit
Appropera: SIC fata iubent, Namq. Urbe receptus
aire lumen it fibris pe- -r>
•
, ,• •
rce-
cudum ad cornua Cipi, Kex CTis, ct
j_ i_ i_

sceptro tutus potierc pcrenni. ooo

ait, Bex, d salve : enim
hie locus, Latiaqiie arccs, parebunt tibi, Cipe, tuisque convibus. Tu modo rumpe moram, ap-
properaque intrare patentes partus ; fata sic jubcnt ; 7iamque receptus urbe eris rex, et tutus
votiere perenni sceptro.
TRANSLATION.
believing that the image r^^flected a false shadow, raising his hands often
to his forehead, touched what he saw nor longer doubting the testimony ;

of his eyes, stood, as he returned victorious from the foe, he had subdued :

and, raising his hands and eyes to heaven, O ye gods (says he), what-
ever is portended by this miraculous appearance if prosperity, be it to ;

my country if otherwise, may it light upon myself. He said and raises

; ;

a grassy altar of green turf, burning upon it rich perfumes, and offering
libations of wine. He then consults the panting entrails of slaughtered
sheep, to learn from them the will of the gods. These soon as the Tuscan
augur had inspected, he beheld in them the mighty beginnings of great
attempts, yet not plain. But Avhen he raised the piercing eye, from the
boding fibres to the horny honours of Cipus, Hail, monarch (says he),
for to thee, Cipus to thee, and these thy horns, shall this realm and the
;

Latian towers be subject. Banish therefore delay haste to enter the ;

gates wide open to your approach so the fates command. ;For, as soon
as 3'ou are received into the city, you shall be made king and enjoy, the ;

end of your life, an unmolested sceptre. He started back and, turning ;

NOTES.
565. Cil7}ivklil Cipus in undA cornua.'] Rome,lie would be declared king thereof;
The next adventure is tbat celebrated one and, as he knew the aversion the Romans
of Genucius Cipus, the Roman przetor, had to bear the name king, he chose ra-
on whose forehead liorns appeared, upon ther to go into voluntary exile. The Ro-
bis return from a conquest, or at bis going mans, charmed with so generous a beha-
out of Rome, according to Valerius Max- viour, set up a head in bronze, with horns,
innis upon which oc<;asion, the sooth-
; upon the gate tiiro\igh which he bad
sayers and augurs, whom he consulted, passed, and it was called Rauduscu-
uiianiu)ously predicted, that, if he entered lana.
 METAMORPIIOSEON, Lie. XV. 541

rettiiUt
pedem torvamq; a moenibus Urbis
llettulit ille Ille pedcm,
;
avertennjue torvam
Avertens faciem, Procul, ah procul omnia, dixit, faciem a niaitibus ur-
bis, dix'U, L>U pcllunt
Talia Di pellant multoque ego justius £evum
:
talia omnia jjrocul,
Exul agam, quam me videant Capitolia regem. (ill proctil
multo justius ugam
.'
igoque

Dixit: et extemplo populumque

tura
1 ^ '''
gravemque
i
Sena-
rr,r\
Oy'J gem.
o'vumeliu, quam^ca-
P'f<^^''^ videunt
BUit:
me
et
re-
ex-
templo cu/ivucat popu-
Convocat. Ante tamen pacali cornua lauro lumque, gravemque se-
natum. Ante tamen
Velat, et aggeribus factis a milite forti lelat cornua pacali
Insistit priscoque Deos e more precatus,
: lauro, et insist it ag-
geribus factis A forti
En, ait, hie onus, quem vos ni peUitis urbe, 594 milite ; precat usq ue
Deos
Rex erit. Is qui sit, signo, non nomine dicam. ait.
h
En hie
priico
more,
uiius, quern
Cornua fronte Quem vobis indicat augur,
gerit.
111 vos pcllitis urbe,
erit rex. Dicam qui
Si Romam famularia jura daturum.
intrarit, is sit sig)to,non nomine.
Ger/t euriiiia froute:
Ille quidem potuit portas irrumpere apertas,
quern augur iiidicat
Sed nos obstitimus; quamvis conjunctior illo daturum jurafamulu-
ria vobis, si intrariC
Nemo mihi est. Vos Urbe vir.um prohibete, Qui- Homam. Ille quidcm,
potuit irrtimpcre aper-
rites : 600 tas partus, sed nos ob-
stiiimus, quamvis 7ie-
Vel, si
dignus erit, gravibus vincite catenis, }no est conjunctior mi-
Aut finite metum
morte tyranni. fatalis hi illo. Vos Quirites,
prohibete rirum urbe,
Qualia succinctis, ubi, trux insibilat Eurus, vcl si erit dignus, vin-
citegravibus catenis,
Murmura pinetis fiunt; aut qualia fluctus aut finite metum fa-
talis
-iEquorei faciunt, si
quis procul audiat illos ;
605 tyranni morte.
Qualia murmurafiunt
Tale sonat populus. Sed per confusa frementis iuccinctis piiietis, ubi
trux Eurus insibilat,
Verba tamen vulgi vox eminet una, Quis ille ? aut qualia equorei
Et spectant frontes prsedictaque cornua quserunt,
:
fluctusfaciunt, si qui^
audiat illns procul,
Rursus ad hos Cipus, quem poscitis, inquit, habetis: tale populus sonat :
sed tamen per confusa
verba frementis vulgi, una vox eminet : Quis ille? Et spectant frontes, qutBruntque prmdicta
•
cornua. Cipus rursus inquit ad has, Habelis quern poscitis
TRANSLATION,
his stern countenance city, Far hence, far hence
from the walls of the
(says he), may the gods banish all such threatening calamities better !

that I pass my life in exile hated, than that the capitol should behold me
its lord. He said and immediately convenes an assembly of the people,
:

and aged senators but first veils his horns "with the peaceful laurel, and
:

stands upon a mount raised by his brave soldiers. Then, having ad-
dressed the gods, according to ancient usage, Lo (says he) there is !

one among you, whom, unless you expel the city, he Avill rise to be
king ;
I name him not, but learn who he is by this sign that his temples ;

are crowned with horns, the prophet foretels, that if he once enter the
city as a sovereign, he will prescribe laws to liis enslaved subjects. He
this arm withheld
might, indeed, have rushed in at your open gates, but
him though none is more strictly united to him by ties of blood than I.
:

Do you, Romans, forbid him your city or, if he appears worthy of it,
;

load him with heavy chains or put an end to all your fears at once, by
:

the death of this tyrant, destined you by fate. Such as are the murmurs
of the blustering east wind, when he howls among the tufted pines or ;

those of the beating billows, when, from afar, they are heard to lash the
sounding shore alike was the uproar of the multitude. And yet, amid
;

the confused tumult of the enraged populace, one cry was distinctly heard ;

Who is he And they examine one another's foreheads, and look for the
^'t

iiorns they had been told of Again Cipus Here behold the wretch you ;
542 P. OVIDII NASONIS

et coronfi. dcwpt.i ca- Et demptCi capiti, popiilo prohibente, corona 610

j)lti,voji'doprchihente,
e.r/iiouif tempora prtr- Exhibuit gemino priBsignia teinpora cornu.
sif:[>na geniinn cornit.
dmiics lionise re cen- Demisere oculos omnes, gemitumque dedere ;

gemi-
tos,
tum :
dcthreqiie
iitqve (quis pos- Atque illud meritis clarum (quis credere possit?)
sit credere? J inviti vi- Tnviti videre capvit nee honore carere
;
ftere Ulutt caput cla-
ritm merit is ; nee pas- Ulterius passi festam imposuere coronam. 615
si idterliis carcre ho-
iiore,imposi(crcfestam
At proceres, quoniam muros intrare vetaris,
coroiiam. At qttotiiam, Ruris honorati tantum
Cipe, vercris inlrarc
Cipe, dedere, tibi,
muros, procercs dedere
tibi tantiim hoiiorati
Quantum depresso subjectis bubus aratro
riiris. Quofitum ab Complecti posses, ad linem Solis ab ortu.
ortu soils ad finem
Cornuaque ceratis miram referentia formam 620
posses complecti ara-
tro depresso siibjectis Postibus insculpunt, longum mansura per sevum.
bvbiis ; insculpuntqiie
O'rntis postlbus cornva Pandite nunc, Musae, praesentia numina vatum,
referentia viiram for-
tnam, el mansitru per (Scitis enim, nee vos fallit spatiosa vetustas)
longum tevum. Nunc, Unde Coroniden circumflua Tibridis alveo
muste, prasentia nu-
tnina vatnm ( enlin sci- Insula Romuleee sacris adsciverit urbis.
tls, nee spatlosa re-
tustus fallit vosj paii- Dira lues quondam Latias vitiaverit auras,
4lite, ilnde Insula cir-
cumjlua alveo Tyhri- Pallidaque exsangui squall ebant corpora tabo.
dls udsciverit C'oroui- Funeribus fessi postquam mortalia cernunt
den sacris BomuleiE
vrbis. Dira hies quon- Tentamenta nihil artes posse medentum
dam vitiaverat Latias
auras, corporaqiicpal-
Auxilium cceleste petunt mediamque tenentes 630
:

iida squullehant ex- Orbis humum, Delphos adeunt, oracula Phcebi;

sangui tabo. Fessifu-
neribus,postquam, cer-
nunt mortatia tcnta- Utque salutifera miseris succurrere rebus
menta posse viliil, ar- Sorte velit, tantaeque urbis mala finiat, orant.
tesmedentum posse iiiltil, petunt cceleste auxilium; adeuntque Delphos tenentes'medlam humum
orbis, ubi oracula Phccbl eiant; orantque ut velit succurrere miseris rebus salutiferd, sorte ; fi-
niat que mala taut a urbis.
TRANSLATION.
want and, taking (though forbid by the people) the garland from his
;

head, discovered his temples adorned with two horns. The people all cast
their eyes upon the ground ; and sad in thought, (who can believe it ?)
beheld with reluctance that renowned head, so illustrious for its merits ;

nor did they long suffer it to remain without its honours, hut bind it again
with the festival garland. But the nobles, because you are forbid to enter
Cipus, by way of honour, as much land as, with a
the walls, gave thee,
plough drawn by two yoked steers, thou couldest enclose from the rising
to the setting of the sun and they grave upon the brazen posts horns,
;

representing thy wonderful form, to contiime from age to age. And now,
O Muses, ye guardian goddesses of the poets, relate (for ye know, nor
does the most remote antiquity hide aught from your view), whence an
island, surrounded by the chanuel of the Tiber, associated ^sculapius,
the son of Coronis, with the gods of the city. A dire contagion infected
formerly the Latian air, and the pale bodies of the natives were deformed
by a ghastly look. Discouraged by the number of fvmerals, when they find
all human remedies vain, and that the art of
physic nothing avails, they
apply to heaven for aid; and visit the oracle of Phoebus, at Delphos,
which stands in the centre of the world of him they beg, that he will
;

relieve them from their distress by his salutary power, and end the woes
of a great afflicted city. The place, the laurel of the god, and the quivers
NOTES.
€22. Pandite nunc, musa.l What Ovid ^sculapius at Rome, is taken from t!ie

of introducing the worship of

Itere relates history of that peoj^le.
 METAMORPHOSEON, L115. XV. 543

Et locus, etlaurus, et quas habet ilia, pharetrse, E'J loms, ct imirus,et

X , ;; /• •
II- I-/- 1 /^or vharetrir, qiias Ilia
liitremuere simul: cortinaque reddidit imo bob habet, infremuCre «-
Hanc adyto vocem, pavefactaque pectora movit :
7unuuu/c'v7^^^^^^^^

Quod petis hinc, propioreloco.

i-T
'A Romane, petisses ,
-.-J. A 11- 1 •
: ?'''/'"•
flic t (I
^'">iii<i«e
jiectora:
pave-
Ilo-

Q.i.
Et pene nunc, propiore Apolhne vobis,
ui minuat lucius, opus est; sea Apolhne nato.
Ite bonis avibus, prolenique arcessite nostram. 640
loca, JNec
i. JAiT ,
muncr^nssvsjnopim-e
loco, a 110(1 pet is hinc :
et pete nunc propwre

Qi
ui^'ApluiZlqutm^^^^
Jussa Dei pvudens postquam accepere Senatus <>* inctus,' sea nato
\
nam colat, ,'-.' i^,- •
1
..
,
;
ApoUine. Ite bonis a-
explorant, juvenis rnoebeius urbem; vibux, arcessueque

Quique petant ventis Epidauria littora mittunt. '"q'l'',riVi!'d!Z' f^«a"

p:
simul incurva missi tetio-ere carina,
Qua3 ...
r~i i-A •

Ooncilium, uraiosque patres adiere darentq o4o

fAr
:
1, ;
tusacdp^rc jussa Dei.
f^'Ptorant
i>eni
quam
Phabcius juvems
ur-

r\ -r\ r j.- colat, mittunt que le-

Uravere Deum, qui prsesens luneva gentis gates, qui petant von-
Finiat Ausoni^. Certas ita dicere sortes. Si!^'it«t7"ac'S]
Dissidet,' et variat sententia parsque nefrandum tetisere incurva cari.
-.J .,. ,. ^ A " :

n AC\ '*"> (ult'^l'*^ consilium

JNon putat auxilium; multi renuere ; suamq ; 549 Gruiosque patres, ora-
Non emittere opem, nee numina tradere suadent. nZ%'uipr!ruiis%f^a't
Dum dubitant ;
seram pepulere crepuscula lucem, {]"'"'%oft'es''certaf7f-
Umbraque tenebras induxerat orbi :
telluris cere Ha. sententia dis-
T\ n -A •
sidet et variat, pars- •

C\uui JDeus in somnis opiier consistere visus que putat auxiuum

Ante tuum, Romane, torum: sed qualis in cede
ltmZiT'y""deZ\^^^^^^
Esse solet;' baculumq : tenens ao-reste sinistra, 655 «"« emittere suam o-
^^ .

Caesariem longse dextra deducere bavbsD:

1A11 pern, nee tradere nu-
mina. Dum dubitant i
11
Et placido tales emittere pectore voces 7ei^avTiucem^^7imbra- :

qne telluris induxerat tenebras orbi ; cum Deus opifer jisus est in somni<: Consistere ante tuunt
torutn, Romaiie ; sed qnnlis .solet esse in ade : tenensque agrcste baculum sinistra, deducere
casaricm longce barba dextra, et emittere tales voces placido pectore.\_
TRANSLATION.
wherewith adorned, shook together, and the tripod, from the sacred
it is

recess of the temple, thus replied, while thrilling- horrors ran through
every breast What you ask here, Romans, you might have asked in a
:

place less remote from your own city and ask it still
in this place less ;

remote. Nor is it to Apollo that you must apply for relief from your mi-
sery, but to the son of Apollo go with happy auspices, and conduct my
:

son into your city. When the prudent senate unclerstood the commands
of the god, they explore in what city the Phoebeian youth resided, and
appoint deputies to sail for Epidaurus, with the first favourable wind :
who, soon as they reached the place in their crooked bark, waited on the
senate and Grecian elders, and begged they would let them have the heal-
ing god, who, by his presence, might put an end to the mortality, that
of fate had di-
reigned in the Ausonian state for so the unerring oracles ;

rected. They are divided, and vary in their opinions some plead, that :

the appointed aid ought not to be denied them many oppose this, and ;

are against delivering up the god, the guardian protector of their city.
While the time is thus spent in deliberation, night succeeds to the fading
light of day, and the shadow of the earth
had spread an universal dark-
ness over the face of nature when, in sleep, the healing god seemed to
;

stand before the bed of the Roman deputy but such as he is usually :

seen in his temple, holding in his left hand a rustic club, and with his
right smoothing the hair of his long beard.
When thus, with calm aspect
he addressed them Dismiss your fears I will come, and leave the shrine
; ;

and temple of this city. Observe only this serpent, who twines himself
544 P. OVIDII NASONIS
Pone met 111 ; veniam, Pone metus veniam, simulachraque nostra relin-
riiniqitamqiic nostra ;

siniulacrii. Modo per-

spice hunc serpentem quam.
qui ambit buculum Hunc modo serpentem, baculum qui nexibus am-
nexibus, et nota uiquc
visa, ut possis cognos- bit, 659
cere. Vertar in Ininr,
sed ero Perspice et usque notavisu, ut cognoscerepossis:
major, vide-
:

in Vertar in hunc: sed

borque tantus,
qnantnm cwtestia cor-
major ero ; tantusq; videbor,
pora debent verti. Ex- In quantum verti coelestia corpora debent.
templo Deus abit cum cum voce Deus, cum voce Deoque
voce, et somnw cum Extemplo
voce Deoque ; luxque Somnus
alma est secuta fugam abit; somnique fugam lux alma secuta est.
somni. Postera auro- Postera sidereos Aurora 665
ra fugaverat sidereos
fugaverat ignes :

ignes. Proceres in- Incerti quid agant proceres ad templa petiti

certi qiiid agant, con-
veniunt ad operosa
Conveniunt operosa Dei quaque ipse morari
:

templa petiti Dei, o- Sede velit, sicrnis coelestibus indicet, orant.

rantque ul indicet cff-
lestibus sigiiis, qnd Vix bene desierant, cum cristis aureus altis
sede ipse velit morari.
Vix bene desierant,
In serpente Deus prajnuntia sibila misit 670 ;

cum Deus aureus

Adventuque suo signumque, arasque, foresque,
in
serpente altis cristis,
misit prannntia sibi-
ad vent u
Marmoreumque solum, fastigiaque aurea movit :

la; suoque
mo tit signumque, a- Pectoribusque tenus media sublimis in sede
rasque, foresque, mtir-
moreunique soln7n,fas- Constitit, atque oculos circumtulit igne micantes.
tigiaque aurea, con- Territa turba pavet. Cognovit numina castos 675
stititque sjih/imis in
media ade, tenus pec- Evinctus vitta crines albente sacerdos :

toribus, atque eircum-

tulit oculos micantes Et Deus en, Deus en linguisq animisq favete,
; ; ;
Turba territa
igne.
pavet ; sacerdosquc e- Quisquis ades, dixit. Sis, 6 pulcherrime, visus
vinetiis quod ad castas
crines albente vittii,
Utiliter populosque juves tua sacra colentes. 679
:

cognovit numina. Et Quisquis adest,jussumvenerantur numen;et omnes

dixit Dens en, en De-
us ;
:
Verba sacerdotis referunt geminata: piumque
favete quisquis
ades, linguisqwe, aiii- iEneadae pra^stant et mente et voce favorem.
misque. O pulcher-
rime, sis visits utiliter, jtivesque populos colentes tna sdera. Quixquis adest venerantur jussnm
numen, omnes et refe runt geminata verba sacerdotis ; yEneadaquc prastant et mente et voce
pium favorem.
TRANSLATION.
in folds round club and mark him well, that you may he able to
my ;

know him agaiu. Into his figure will I change myself; but of size en-
larged, and great as ought the form of celestial bodies, when changed, to
be. With these words the god, and with the god and his words, sleep,
departed and cheering light succeeded the flight of sleep returning
;
:

Aurora had extinguished the lesser lights of heaven. The chiefs, per-
plexed, and full of doubtful care, repair to the sumptuous temple of the
god and implore him to express, by celestial
; in what land he signs,
chooses to reside. Scarce were their prayers ended when the bright god,
in form of a serpent, adorned with scales of
gold, and rearing high
his

lofty crest, by forerunning hissings, gave notice of his approach

and ;

shook the statue, the altars, the doors, the marble pavement, and gilded
roofs, and raised himself breast high in the middle of the temple and ;

rolled around his eyes, that darted flames of fire. The crowd was struck
with terror and amazement. The priest, having his sacred locks adorned
with a white fillet, knew the god. The god, lo the god (he cries) adore ! ;

him in silence all that are present. Be seen, O divine power, for our
good, and, propitious, hear the prayers of thy votaries. All that are pre-
sent adore the god, as commanded, all
repeat the words of the priest ;

and the descendants of Apneas too join in this holy worship, with silent
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XV. 545

Annuit his motisque Deus rata pignora ciistis,

:
Deus amiuil /Us ; cri/^-
tisqtic moth, dcilH vi-
Ter rcpetita dedit vibrata sibila lingua. bratdUnguH, sibiln ter
repelita, rata pignora.
Turn gradibus nitidis elabitur; oraque retro 685 Turn dclabitur nitidis
gradibus; Jiectitqiie
Flectit, et antiquas abiturus respicit avas, ura retro et alnturKS
Antiquasque domos liabitataque templa salutat. respicit antiipias aras,
salutatqne niitiqnas
Inde per injectis adopertara floribus ingens d-omos,hribitatquc tem-
humum pla. Inde iif^ins ser-
Serpit ; flectitque sinus :
mediamque per pit per humum ado-
urbem pertam injectis Jtori-
bus ; Jtectitque sinus :
Tendit ad incurvo munitos aggere portus. 690 tenditque per mediam
iirbem ad port is mii-
Restitit hie :
agmenque suum, turbseque sequentis iiitos incurvu aggere.
Rest it it hie; vis usque
Officium, placido visas dimittere vultu ; dimittere suum ag men,
Corpus in Ausonia posuit rate. Numinis ilia ojficiumque sequentis
turbfc placido vultu,
Sensit onus pressaque Dei gravitate carina
:
posuit corpus in A uso-
7>id rate, /lie sensit
jEneadce gaudent caesoque in littore tauro : 695 onus numinis. yX?iea-
Torta coronatse solvunt retinacula puppis. daque gaudent carinSi
pressd gravitate Dei .-

Impulerat
"
levis aura ratem. Deus eminet altc : tauroquc ctrso in lit-
T -iA •
tore, solvunt torta re-
)Ositaque premens puppum cervice recurvam,
Impositaque tinacuiacoronattcpup-
pis. Levis aura impu-
Coeruleas despectat aquas modicisque per ajquor :
lerat ratem. Deus emi-
Ionium Zephyris sexto Pallantidos ortu 700 nct alte, /premensque
recurvam pupping im-
Italian! tenuit ;
prseterque Lacinia templo positO,
tat
cervice despec-
camleas aquas
Nobilitata Deae, Scylaceaque littora fertur. navigansque per Ioni-
um (iquor ?nodicis ze-
Linquit lapygiam, levisque Amphissia remis phyris, tunuit Italiam
Saxa dextra praevupta Ceraunia parte,
fugit :
sexto ortu Pallanti-
dos, fertur qxie prater
Romechiumque legit, Caulonaque, Nariciamque,
Deer Ju-
Lacinia
tata tempto
littora, nob/li-

Evincitque fretum, Siculique angusta Pelori, 706 nonis, piaeteri/j/e Ncy-

Hippotadaeque domos regis, Themesesque metalla;

laeca littora. lAnquit
lapygiam, Jugitque le-
vis remis Amphissia saxa; dextrdque parte legit prerrupta Ceraunia, Romechiumque, Caulona-
que, Naryciamque, evincitque fretum, angustaque Siculi Pelori, domosque regis Hippotuda, me-
tallaque Themeses ;
TRANSLATION.
awe, and purity of mind. The god consents ; and, nodding his crest, thrice
hisses, and thrice vibrates his forked tongue, in token of favour. He then
glides along the smooth steps ; and, bending back his head, looks
with kind concern upon his ancient altars and, departing, salutes his ;

Minted habitation, and the temple where he had so long resided. Thence
iic
sweeps his bulk along the ground, strewed with flowers bends in folds, ;

and marches through the middle of the city, to the port, fenced by a
winding mole. Here he stood and, seeming with a gracious aspect to
;

<lismiss his train, and the pious zeal of the crowd that followed him, he
;iscended the Latian ship. It felt the weight of the god and the Romans ;

?
joice to see the vessel bending under the precious load. They sacrifice
a bull on the strand, and loose the twisted cables of the ship, adorned
'>vith
garlands a gentle gale pushed her on.
: The god, raised high, and
leaning with his neck on the crooked stern, surveys from above the azure
d'cp and, wafted over the smooth Ionian sea by gentle zephyrs, reaches
;

the coast of Italy on the sixth morn. He passes Lacinia, ennobled by a

temple of the goddess Juno, and the Scylacean shore. He next leaves
iapygia; and, steering along, keeps the dangerous Amphissian rocks at
distance, on his left. Then, doubling the Ceraunian promontory on his
light, coasts along Romechium, Caulon, and Narycian and passes tiie ;

narrow strahs of Sicilian Pelorus, and the isles where -<Eohis, the srion of
2 N
AG P. OVIDU NASONIS
Leucosiam, rosaria Psesti.
j,eHtque
rosaiiaqtic lepini J'<rs-
Leucosiamque petit,
*^ ' tcpidique
' ^
•.«•
-^ , , .
P: •

ti. inde legit capreus, Inde

Caprcas, promontoriumque JVlinervae,
Ifigit
wr"'<r" el"coUefgenl- Et Surreiitino geiierosos palmite colles, 710
urbem, Stabiasque et in otia natam
n'w, urb%%iT'Hcr- Herculeaiiique
,:uieam,stabiusqm,ct Parthenopen, et ab hac Cumsese templa Sibyllse.
Partlienoyen nat,am ^_. -,-, ^ i ,•• o ,' , >

in oiia, et ab hac tern- Hinc calicii lontes, lentisci terumquB tenentur

y/LcS>/S''«^ Linternum, multamque trahens sub gurgite arenam

tisei ferumqve ijiiter.
Vultumus, niveisQi' frequeiis
i
Sinuessa colubris 7 15 : :
7ium tenentur, y ultur- '
^
.

misque trahens mui- Mintumaeque graves, et quam tumulavit alumnus,

*«iTe,''l^nuess7qurtye'- Antiphatseque domus, Trachasque

obsessa palude,
^t tellus Circeea, et spissi littoris Antium.
|;'r4^:^'^,5^":S:^
el Cajeta quatnalum- jjij^ y^i veliferam nautsB advcrtcre carinam;
domus-
7n(S tumulavit,
que Antiphattc, Tra-
,\r\ . .

enim jam pontus evat) Deus explicat oroes :

Til,
( Aspei

'itdlTet teUuTcircra, Perque sinus crebros et magna volumina labens,

r\s^'ubilZtaVd"r- Templa parentis init, flavum tangentia littus.
tere
nam ; hue
veliferam cari-
_^quore pacato patrias Epidaurius aras
(enijn pon- t- \ •>• •. /• ,
•
-i
• • •

tus erat jam usper)

Veils cxplicat orbes,
Luiquit et hospitio juncti siDi nunimis usus
:

labcnsque per crebus

Littoream tractu squamse crepitantis arenam 725
sinus, et magna volii-
Sulcat : innixus moderamine navis, in alta
et,
7nma, init templa pa-
rentis, tangeniia Jla-
vum littus. j^qtiore
Puppe caput posuit: donee Castrumque, sacrasque
pacalo,Ei)iduurius I'm Lavini sedes, Tiberinaque ad ostia venit.
usus To^piiio Vtuminis
^uc omues popuH passim, matrumque patrumque,
juncti sibi, sulcat lit- Obvia turba ruit : quseque io-nes, Troica servant,
toream arenam tractu ^r x-v ij. nol
squama: Vesta, tuos: Iffitoque Deum ciamore salutant. / o 1
i , i , , i.

crepitantis

vavi^m'^^Z Quaque per adversas navis cita ducitur undas,

alta puppe, dome venit ad Castrum, sacrasque sedes Lavini, Tiberinaque ostia. Hue omnes po-
puli passim, turba([He patrum matrumque, ruit obvia ,\\\g\nQ^que, que servant tuos igties Troica
Vesta, suiutantque Dctim lata clamore. Quaque cita navis ducitur per adversas undas,

TRANSLATION.
Hippotas, reigned, and the mines of Temese
and makes for the Leuco- ;

sian shore, and the rose-beds of warm Pjestus. Thence he reaches Ca-
preffi, and
the promontory of Minerva, and the hill famed for the Surren-
tine grape, and the city of Hercules, ar.d Stabiffi, and Parthenope formed
for a life of ease and retirement, and the temple of the Cumsean sibyl.
Hence the tepid bath of Baice, and the green retreats of Linternum offer
to their sight and Vultnrims, rolling in his current great quantities of
;

sand, and Sinuessa, abounding in Avhite snakes, and the marshy fens of
Minturnse, and where -flilneas iDuried his nurse, and the habitation of An-
tiphates, and
Trachas beset with fens, and the plains of Circe, and rocky
coast of Antium. As here the mariners anchored the vessel (for the sea
was now rough and stormy), the god imfolds his spires and gliding along ;

in laro-e and numerous rings, enters the temple of his father, that stood
upon the yellow strand. Sea being now calm, the Epidaurian god
leaves
his father's altars and, quitting the hospitable temple of Apollo, furrows
;

the sands the coast with his rattling scales and, leaning on the
along ;

helm, placed his head on the lofty stern, until he reached Castrum, and
the sacred plains of Lavinium, by the mouth of the Tiber. Here the
in mingled crowds, run out to meet him
people from all parts,
fathers, ;

mothers, and the virgins appointed to guard Vesta's flame aud with joy- ;

ful cries salute the god. And, where the nimble vessel cuts the opposing
 METAMORPIIOSEON, Lib. XV. 547

Thura super t Intra xonant supet

ripas, aris ex ordine factis, ripas^ ab utruiiiie
Parte ab utraque sonant: et odorant acra fumis: parte, oris factls ex
or (line, el odoniut iivra
Ictaque conjectos incalfacit hostia cultros. 735 J'u>iii\, ktuqiie lioslia,

Jamque caput reruni, Romanam intra verat urbem;

iiiiull'aeit conjtctos
ciiltrif. Jamqtie navii*
hitrarerat Ilnmaiiam
Erigitur serpens; summoqne acclinia malo nrhcm, caput reriim.
Colla movet sedesque sibi circumspicit aptas.
: Serpens cr>i;ifii.r; mo-
vetque colla acctiiiki
Scinditur in geminas partes circumtluus amnis :
sniiinii) muln, circiim-

Insula nomen habet laterumque a parte duorum

:
syicHqiie sciles (iptas
sibi. Anu/is circinn-

Porrigit agquales media tellure lacertos. 741 fluns sc'mditiir in ge-

miiias partes: i/isiiifi
Hue se de Latia pinu Phcebeius anguis hahct iiomeii.: porri-
gUqi/e ceqiKilis laccrtos
Contulit et finem, specie coeleste resumpta,
:
li
parte ituvruiii late-
Luctibus imposuit rum, telLure
venitque salutifer Urbi.
meiliil.
; Pha:bc'ius anguts eoii-
Hie tamen accessit delubris advena nostris 745 : tullt se hue (ie Latia
piiiu ; et calcstc syccir,
Cfesar in urbe sua Deus est quern Marte togaque:
rcsH?iipta, i7uposu!t /i-
ncm Itictibiis,
Prfficipuum, non bella raagis iinita triumphis,
rcniiq;
salut'ifer urbi.
Hie tanicn Dens ac-
Resque domi gestae, properataque gloria rerum cessit adveuu noslrls
In sidus vertere novum, stellamque comantem ;
dclubris ; Ctrsar est.
• •' -
Deus In wrbe:suil
prtFcipuvm marte togaque, non hellafinita triumphis, resque
qiietii gestee domi, properataque
gloria rerum, vertere magis in novum sidus, stellamque ccmantem.
TRANSLATION,
stream, incense crackles on either side, upon altars raised along the
hanks, and perfumes the air with its smoke and victims, struck, warm,
;

"vvith
streaming blood, the knives. And now Rome, the mistress of the
world, had received him when, rising up, and waving his neck, which
;

rested on the top of the mast, he looks round for some proper habitation.
The flowing stream is divided into two parts by a piece of land which, ;

seated in the middle between the arms of the river, that stretch them-
selves on each side, is called the island. Hither the serpent, son of Phoe-
bus, gliding from the Latian pine, repaired and, resuming his celestial
;

shape, put a period to their w oes, and came a restorer of health to the city.
Rut he was admitted a stranger into our temples CiBsar is adored as ;

a god in his own city whom, though alike renowned both in arms and
:

arts, not Mars ended by triumphs, his prudent administration at home, or

the rapid glory of his conquests, contribu.-ed more to fix among the stars,
NOTES.
"/iO. CiPSfir inuihe sito Dais est.'} Ovid him. Hewas bat eii;lit-and-tnenty, ar-
thcn, we see, has been as good as his word. cordinij to Appiiiii, when lie was ranked
He lias conducted tliis painful work from in the nundjer of the tutelar L'ods, in all
the bei;ini)ing' of tiie world to the a^e in the cities of the empire. The Romans,
which lie wrote nor could it, indeed,
;
who referred their original to /Eneas, were
iiave been more happily terniiiiated. The pleased to have it believed, that Venus
a[)otheosis of Jidins Caesar gave him a fine interested herself in the fate of one of the
opportniiity of making his court to Aujius- descendants of her own son and to her ;

tiis ; and that

prince, who had j)revai!ed was referred the -whole honour of the apo-
to have his predecessor enrolled among theosis, the liistory whereof is this: Cae-
the gods, n)iglit hope one day to receive sar having been assassinated in the middle
liimself the same honour, as Ovid here of the senate, Augustus s(>me time after
prouiises. But, as if to sojourn upon established solemn games to his honour.
earrh were preferable to his being re- As about this time, according to Sueto-
ceived into heaven, he promises it not nius, a new star, or rather con»et. ap-
imtil after a long life. But the divine ho- peared ;
it was given out to be the soul of
nours paid to Augustus wert; not delayed this great man, which had taken its place
until his death ;they were paid him even niiiong the stars; and it was added, liiaf
during his life, and allars were raised to Venus herself had taken rave to assigi
2 N 2
548 P. OVIDII NASONIS
quam sua progenirs.
Xci/ue enhii iitiiim o- Quam sua progenies. Neque enim de Csesaris actis
(le actis (!<r saris
J>i(.i
est ma jus,
Ullum majus opus, quam quod pater exstitit hujus
qitam quod
fxstit.lt pater hi/jiis. Scilicet a^quoreos plus est domuisseBritannos, 752
•Scilicet, est plus do-
miiisse Perque papyriferi septemflua flumina Nili
{equoreos Bri-
tamios, egisseque vic-
Victrices egisse rates Numidasque rebelles, :
t rices rates
per sep-
Cinypliiumque Jubam, Mithridateisque tumentera
leinflua Jliimina papy-
rifeii Alii; arijecisse-
Nominibus Pontum, populo adjecisse Quirini;756
qiie rcbclles Ntimidas,

'pl^!v':^u:!^Xi^
Et multos meruisse,aliquos egisse triumphos;
Mi ridateis nnmini-
bits
til

popnlo
Quam tantum genuisse virum, quo praeside rerum
Qiiiriiii, et
mcritisse mnllos eixisse Humano, generi, Superi, cavistis abunde.
uliqnos, triumplios ;
quam genuisse tantum Ne 760
fovet hie io-itur mortali semine cretus ;
rirum, quo praside
rerum, vos, siiperi,
IlleDeus faciendus erat. Quod ut aurea vidit
abunde cavistis huma-
no generi.
^iea3 genitrix vidit quoque triste parari
; ^

Igitiir ne
hie J'oret cretvs inor- Pontifici letum; et conjurata arma mover! ;

^e^llTlieiH^qZ Palluit: et cunctis, ut cuique erat obvia, Divis,

Mt aurea geiiitrix jE- 765
ne<B vidit, I'ldtt quoque Aspico,
r diccbat, quant^
T. '
mihi mole parentur
r J

triste letum parari pontifici^et arma conjurata moveri. Palluit : et dicebat cunctis divis, ut
erat obvia cuique ; Aspice quanta mole.

TRANSLATION,
than his own progeny. For of all Caisar's acts, none redounds more to
his honour than that he is the father of Aii2;ustus. Is it a greater glory
to have subdued the Britons, environed
by the sea, and urged your victo-
rious fleet along the soA^en channels of the Nile to have added the rebel- ;

lious Numidians, Cinyphian Juba, and Pontus, proud of the name of

Mithridates, to the empire of Quirinus to have merited many, and cele-
;

brated some triumphs, than to have been the father of so great a man ;

by decreeing to whom the sovereign rule, heaven has lavished her bounty
on the human race. That this prince, therefore, might not be a descend-
ant of mere mortals, his father must reach the skies. Which when the
beauteous mother of JSneas foresaw, and foresaw too the bloody death
that was preparing for the high-priest, and the combined arms of the con-
spirators, she turned pale and said to every god she met, Behold
;
what a
NOTES.
him that station. It had been even re- him. Some called him the puppet-maker;
marked, that, for a whole year after Cae- others said, he took cave to fill up the va-
sar's death, the sun appeared pale ; and cancies in heaven, which had received no
they failed not to attribute to tlie grief of new colony for a loni; while. But Au-
not
Apollo, what was the mere effect of some gustus made a jest of those scoffs,
spots, that this year appeared upon the doubting but he himself should one day
suns disc. Many other prodigies were receive the same honours for the great
:

spoken of, as happening about the same affair is, once to establish a new fashion.

time, which it were tedious here to men- Indeed the deifying spirit soon after raged
tion. Augustus, however, took the ad- to such a degree, that they gave a place
most
vantage of this superstition, to have Cae- among the gods, not only to the
sar declared a god. He built a temple to wicked emperors, as Tiberius, but also to
it must
him, established priests to take care of his tlie most stupid, as Claudius. But

worship, and had a statue of him carved, be owned these new gods and their ora-
and set up witli a star over its head. But, cles did not rise to great vogue, whatever
to say the truth, tliis deification came pai-.is were taken
to advance their credit.
somewhat too late: the times were not Tlie eyes of the people came, at length,
now so fertile in divinities as of old. to be opened, as to an usage equally im-
Whatever veneration was paid to the pious and ridiculous and we find
; no new
grand nephew of Augustus, this deifica- divinities since that time.
tion did not fail to provoke some to rally
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lin. XV. )49

quantaque caput cum fraude petatur,

InsldifT parcnlnr mllii,
Iiisidiae :
qiitinlaquiciit/i/ruitdr
Quod de Dardanio solum milii restat liilo. caput pctaiur, ijuvit
solum rii/'it mi hi ttc
Solane semper ero justis exercita curis? = Dardanio I'ulo. E'^o ne
sola ero semper excr-
Quam modS Tydidse Calydonia vulneret hasta, citu just is ciirisf q am it

Nunc male confundantmoeniaTrojai. 770 j^^tdSM^S'"^

del'ensse
Qua3 videam natum longis erroribus actum, mcetiia Trijtr malt' de-
fense conjundunt.(^u(e
Jactarique freto, sedesque intrare silentura ; videam natum fictum
longis erroribus, jac-
Bellaque cum Turno gerere ; aut, si vera fatemur, tarique freto, irftrare-
Cum Junone magis. Quid nunc antiqua recordor que sedes silentum, gc-
rereque bella cum Tur-
Damna mei generis? timor hie merainisse priorum no, uut si fatemur ve-
ra, magis cumJunoue.
Non sinit. In me acui sceleratos cernitis enses. 776 Sed quid nunc recor-
der antiqua damna
Quos prohibite, precor ; facinusque repellite
: neve mei generis? hie timor
Czede sacerdotis fiammas extinguite Vestae. •
',.;
non sinit mememinisse
"^ priorum. Cernitis sce-
Talia nequicquam to to Venus anxia coelo ^':
-

\
•>
leratos ctises acui in
me; qiws precor pro-
Verba jacit: Superosque movet:
Qui rumpere hibete, repellitequefa-
780 cinus, neve extinguite
quanquam Jlammas Vestm cade
Ferrea non possunt veterum decreta sororum ;
sacerdotis.
Venus anxia, nequic-
Signa taraen luctus dant baud incerta futuri. quam jacit talia i-i r,ba
toto calo movetque
Arma ferunt inter nigras crepitantia nubes,
:

superoi ; qui quan-

non possunt
Terribilesque tubas, auditaque cornua
ccelo quam.
rumpere ferrea decre-
Praemonuisse nefas. Phoebi quoque tristis imago ta veterum sororum,
tamen dant hand in-
786
Lurida prajbebat lumina
sollicitis terris. certa signa futuri luc-
tus. Ferunt arma cre-
Saepe faces visas mediis ardere sub astris
:

pitantia inter nigras

nubes tubasque
Sffipe inter nimbos guttse cecidere
cruentee. tcrri-
biles, cornuaqiic audi-
Coerulus et vultum ferrugine Lucifer atra ta cielo, pramonuissc
790 ?trfus. Imago quoque
Sparsus erat: sparsi Lunares sanguine currus. Phab i tristis,p ra be bat
lurida lumina Faces seppe sunt ardere siih mediis u!>tris crueida
sollicitis terris. visrc
atrd ferrugine : ctir- pUla
sape cecidere inter 7iimbos, et lucifcr carulus quod ad vultum, erat sparsus
rus lunares erant sparsi sanguine.
TRANSLATION,
with what deep and subtle
weight of treachery is prepared against me ;

arts^they assault the only remaining

branch of Dardaniau liilus. Shall I
alone be ever harassed with endless cares now Avounded by the Calydo- :

nian spear of Tydeus' son now mourning the hard fate of Troy's ili-
;

I have seen my son, wandering an exile from coast

to
defended walls ?
and the regions of the
coast, tossed by stormy seas, traversing gloomy
to speak
dead. I have seen him engaged in war Avith Turnus, or rather,
without reserve, with implacable Juno. But whyflo I now revolve the
ancient calamities of my race, since present fear defaces the meniory
ot

I)ast ills See you not the impious swords sharpened agamst me ? lorbid,
!

sacred fire by the

gods repel the direful blow nor extinguish Vesta's
! !

blood of the high-priest.

In vain does Venus, full of anxiety, disclose the complamts all over
cannot break
heaven, and invoke the aid of the gods who, though they ;

no obscure hmts ot
through the iron decrees of the fatal sisters, give yet
amid a dark
the approaching disaster. They tell us, that arms, rattlmg
host of dreadful sound, and the alarm of the trumpet,
clouds, the clarion's
heard in the sky, gave warning of the hideous crime. The troubled image
of Phoebus too gave but a faint light, and torches were seen to blaze amid
the stars. Drops of blood fell from heaven in showers, and the mornmg-
^tar was oversnread with a dusky hue : the chariot of the moon was also
650 P. OVIDII NASONIS
hiihudiiHl tr'm-
•Stt/giit\
tia ominu viUlc locis.
Tiistia mille locis Stygius dedit omina bubo ;
Jj^btir lachriimavit ir.U- Mille locis lachrymavit ebur : cantusque feruntui
le locis; caiitu.sfjtufc-
runtiir auiliti, et vir- Auditi, Sanctis et verba minacia lucis.
haminncia audita Sanc-
tis lacis. j\(illa lit-
Victima nulla litat :
magnosque instaie tuniultus
tiinii lUat ; fibraqac Fibra monet; caesumque caput reperitur in extis.
vionvl tnii'inot! tiimiil-
tus i/is/arc, cajntttjuc
ca.ium rcj)critur inct-
Inq foro, circumq ; domos,et teniplaDeoruui 796
;

tis. Fcru7itquc 7I0C- Nocturnos ululasse canes; umbrasque silentum

turnos canes iiiulusse
in foro, circiimquc ilo-
Erravisse ferunt; motamque tremoribus urbem,
Tiiiis et templu J)cornm,

silvHtiwt
Non tamen insidias venturaque vincere fata
iiinhrasqtic
erravissc, xirbemquc Pra^monitus potuere Deum strictiq feruntur 800
:
;

fuissc ?nottari tre7nori-

Inis. Tiimeii fncmoni-
In templum gladii Neq ; enim locus ullus in Urbe
:

tnsDeum nonpotncrc ^(-j facinus, diramquc placet, nisi Curia, cEedem.

vmrere tnsidius, ten- \ /-i i
•

turaque fata, strict! lura vero Cytherea inanu percussit utraque

que gladii fera7itur in
templum; enim neque Pectus ; et ^Eneaden molitur condere nube;
ullus locus in vrbe,
nisi curia, placet ad Qua prills infesto Paris est ereptus Atridse 805 :

facinus dirumque cit-

dem. Turn vero Ci/-
Et Diomedeos iEneas fugerat enses,
therea percussit pec- Talibus banc genitor Sola insuperabile fatum,
:

tus utraque manii, ct

molittir condere oiim Nata, movere paras? intres licet ipsa sororum
atlieria 7iubc, qua Pa-
ris est prills ereptus
Tecta trium ; illic molimine vasto
cernes
infesto Atridff, et JK- Ex lere, et rerum tabularia ferro
solido 810 :
neas fugerat Dioine-
deos eases. Sed geni- Quae neque concursum coeli, neque fulminis iram;
tor alloqiiitur kaJic ta-
libus verbis. Nata,
Nee metuunt ullas tuta atque seterna ruinas.
tuae sola paras 7itoiere Invenies illic incisa adamante perenni
insuperabile fatum?
Licet ut ipsa intres Fata tui generis. Legi ipse; animoque notavi :

tecta trium sororum.

Cernes illic tabularia Et referam ne sis etiamnuni ignara futuri.
: 815
rer?<7« facta ex acre et solido ferro vasto jnolimine: qua: tutu atqiie teterna, neque metuunt con-
cursum cceU, 7ieque iram fulminis ; 7icc ullas ruinas. Illic invenies fata tui generis inclusa per-
enni adama7ite; ipse legi, notavique ea animo, et referam ; ne sis etianmum ignara Juturil

TRANSLATION,
dyed with blood. In every place the infernal cwl gave fatal omens in ;

every place the ivory statues wept and awful music and threatening
:

sounds were heard in the sacred groves. No victims can allay the anger
of the gods the fibres foretel that great commotions are at hand, and a
;

wounded head was found in the entrails. In the forum, and round the
domes of the gods, night-hoAvling dogs alarm the wandering ghosts for- ;

sake their seats, and the city is shaken with earthquakes. Yet these pre-
monitions of the gods cannot avert the treachery, or prevent Ciesar's ap-
proaching doom. The swords of the conspirators are drawn in the temple ;

for no place in the city pleases so much, for

perpetrating the crime and
horrid murder, as the senate-house. It was now that the Cytherean god-
dess, in anguish, smote her breast, and tried to hide her hero in the
ethereal cloud, that had before screened Paris from the
vengeance of Me-
nelaus, and rescued Jjlneas from the pursuing sword of Diomed. When
thus her sire Do you alone, daughter, hope to control the miconquered
:

sway of fate ? Enter yoiu'self the habitation of the three sisters. There
will see the records of
you things, graved deep in brass and lasting iron ;

which, eternal and secure, fear neither the concussion of heaven, nor the
rage of thunder nor any shock of ruin. There you will find the various
;

fortunes of your race, designed in

perennial adamant. I have myself read
them, and marked them well in my mind and Avill now repeat them, that ;

vnii mav ii.it anvlnno-pr nintinnA ion.^i-nii* .-if n-lmf it- ii\ /^^iMr> T-Io Pv-
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XV r ^
1

llic sua complevit (pro quo, Cytherea, laboras) Jlii: ('pn^iio /(thorns,
(.'i/thirt'(f'^ touijihi'it
Tempora, perfectis, quos terras debuit, annis. ilia tempora, uiiiiis,
qitoi (leOuit terra' per-
Ut Deus accedat coelo, templisque colatur, fect is tu, suusqiie iia- ;

Tu facies natusque suus, qui iiomuiis htcres, tus, qjii htrres nominh
;
feret onus urbis inipn-
linpositum feret Urbis onus cffisique parentis 820 «<"'» **ibi; uhorque
i.y '.,,, r ,• •

IN OS in bella suos lortissmius ultor nabebit.

:

liiii-
for tissimus cast parol-
'tis,habeMt nossuos in
be/la, fades, nt acce-
Illius auspiciis obsessse moenia pacem dat Deus cnlo,eolatur-
Victa petent Mutina Pharsalia sentiet ilium,
:
que templis. Sub au-
spiciis illius moenia ub-

iEmathiaque iterum madefacti caede Philippi

sesstp Mvtinte victa,:

pacem. Phar-
Et magnum Siculis nomen superabitur undis 825 peletit
salia sentiet ilium,:

Philippii/ve, iterum
Romanique ducis conjux jEgyptia tsedae madefacti Ai^mut/iiii
Non bene fisa cadet frustraque erat ilia minata men
:
Cirdc ; ct jnugtium no-
superabitur -Siev-
Servitura suo Capitolia nostra Canopo. lis undis: jE^yptiuquc
conjux lioniuni ducis,
Quid tibi Barbariem, gentes ab utroque jacentes fisa lion bene Itidcr, ca-
det illaque erit J'rns-
Oceano numerem? quodcunque habitabile tellus ;
tra minata nostra Ca-
sun
Sustinet, hujus erit. Pontus quoque servietilli. 831 pitolia servilnra
Canupo. Quid nume-
Pace data terris, animum ad civilia vertet rem tibi Barbariem,
gentes jnceiites ab v-
Jura suum, legesque feret justissimus auctor :
troque oceano? quod-
cunque habitabile tel-
Exemploque suo mores reget inque futuri :
lus sustinet, erit hu-

Temporis aetatem venturorumque nepotum 835 jus. J'ontiis quoque

seriiet illi. Pace data,
Prospiciens, prolem sancta de conjuge natam terris, vertet sawn a-
nimum ad civilia ju-
Ferre simul nomeiique suum curasque jubebit. ra; auctorque justis-
Nee, nisi cum senior similes sequaverit annos,
simus feret le^es, re-
get que mores suo e.r-
^thereas sedes cognataque siclera tanget. emplo, prospiciensq ue
Hanc animam interea ceeso de corpora raptam 840 poris,tatem futuri tem-
ill II

iiepotumquc ven^
turorum,
jube/iit pro-
lem natam de sancta conjuge, ferre suumque nomen, curasque. Nee nisi cum senior irquaierit
Pylios aniiDS tanget letherias sedes, cognataque sidera. Interea fac hanc animum, raptam de
case corporc,
TRANSLATION.
iherea, for whom you are now completed his term of life,
so anxious, has
and passed through the years he owed To you it is sjranted,
to earth.
that he be received as a god in heaven, and have homapje paid to him in
temples ;
and that his son, who, as the heir of his name and greatness,
shall sustain the whole weight of the public administration, nudertaking
a noble revenge of his lather's murder, find us, the gods, propitious to
him in his wars. The walls of Mutina, invested under his conduct, shall,
vanquished, sue for peace Pharsalia shall know him, and Philippi again
;

be drenched in gore. A mighty name shall be subdued in Sicilia's flood ;

and the Egyptian spouse of a Roman leader, trusting to the unavailijig

nuptial tie, shall fall and, in vahi, flatter herself with subjecting the
;

capitol to her Canopus. Why name I Africa, or the nations lying on both
sides the ocean ? Whatever the habitable earth sustains shall be his :

even the sea shall submit to his sway. Having established peace, he shall
turn his mind to civil cares and enact just and equitable laws, and re-
;

gulate the manners of his subjects by his own example and, regarding :

ages to come, and the happiness of his future race, will appoint a son,
born of his chaste spouse, to succeed, as heir of his name and rule nor, :

until advanced in years, he reaches the ex}>erience of the Pylian sage,

shall he enter the ethereal habitations, or be placed among his kindred
stars. Mean time, snatch the hero's spirit from his wounded body, and
652 P. OVIDII NASONIS
1
'^^^,^ipcc^"nol
Fac jubar, ut seinper Capitolia nostra Forumque
tra Cajiitoliu forum- Divus ab excelsa prospectet Julius aBcle.
que ab cxielsa a-de.
Vix fatus cral ea, Vix ea fatus erat media cum sede Senatus
;
cum alma Venus con-
stitit cenifnda milli Constitit alma Venus nulli cernenda suique :

TntriiH.scdc senatus,
Caesaris eripuit membris, nee in aera solvi 845
eripuitqne rece7item
animam membris sui Passa recentem animam, coelestibus intulit astris.
Cffsaris, nee ]>assa earn
sohiitia'cra, intulit ea--
lestibvs astris. Dum-
Dumque tulit lumen capere, atque ignescere sen-
;

sit :
que ttUit, sensit cam
capere lumen, atque
ignescere, emisitque si- Emisitque sinu. Luna volat altius ilia :

nu. Ilia volat altius Flammi ferumque trahens spatioso limite crinem
Jjttna, trahensque
Jiammi feruin crinen Stella micat; natique videns benefacta, fatetur 850
spatioso limite, micat Esse suis majora; et vinci gaudet ab illo.
Stella, videusque be?ic
facta nati, fatetur Hie sua prseferri quanquam vetat aeta paternis :
esse majora suis; et
gaudet vinci ab illis. Libera fama lamen, nullisque obnoxia jussis,
(Juanquatn hie vetat Invitum prsefert ; unS,que in parte repugnat.
sua acta praferri pa-
ternis, tamcnfa?na li- Sic magni cedit titulis Agamemnonis Atreus 855 :

bera, olmoxiaq tie jiullis

jussis pripfert euin in-
vitum, repugnutque il-
^Egea sic Theseus, sic Pelea vineit Achilles.
li 2M hac unH parte. Sic Denique, ut exemplis ipsos sequantibus utar,
Atreus cedit titulis
Sic et Saturnus minor est Jove. Jupiter arees
viugni Agamemnonis; !)

sic Theseus vineit ^'-

Temperat asthereas, et mundi regna triformis :
gea; sic Achilles vineit
Pelea. Denique, tit Terra sub Augusto. Pater est et rector uterque.
utar exemplis o'quan-
tibus ipsos, sic et \a- Di, precor, JEne-ee comites, quibus ensis et ignis
turnus est minor Jove.
Jupiter temperat a-
Cesserunt, Diique Indigetes, genitorque, Quirine,
thereas arces, et regna
Urbis, et invicti genitor, Gradive, Quirini, 863
triformis mundi. Ter-
ra sub -iugusto. 17-
est
Vestaque Caesareos inter sacrata Penates ;
ierqtic est pater et
rector. Precor vos, 6 Dii comites jEnea, quibus ensis et ignis cesserunt, Diique Indigetes, Quirine-
que, genitor urbis, et te, Gradive, genitor Quirini, Vestaque sacrata inter Casareos petiates,

TRANSLATION,
change it to a beaming train of light that the deified Julius may ever, ;

from his heavenly throne, smile upon the Roman capitol and forum.
Scarce had he done speaking, Avhen bounteous Venus stood invisible in
the middle of the senate-house and, snatching the fleeting soul of her
:

Cffisar from his mangled limbs, suffered

it not to dissolve in air, hut

placed it among the stars of heaven. And, as she bore it, she perceived
it to
give light, and glow with new-born fires. Upward it sprung from
her bosom and, mounting above the lunar sphere, shot behind it a long
;

trail of light. Now he shines a star and,

beholding the glorious deeds of
;

his son, owns them to surpass his own and joys to be thus out-done. ;

And, though the prince himself allows not of this preference given to his
acts, yet fame, uncontrolled, and subject to no restraint, compels him,
reluctant, to receive the homage due and, in this instance, only, thwarts
;

his desires. So Atreus yields to the

mighty fame of Agamemnon thus ;

Theseus surpassed his father ^Egeus and x4.chilles eclipsed the renown
;

of Peleus. In fine, to make use of examples suited to the names con-

cerned, thus does Saturn himself fall short of the fame of Jove. Jupiter
rules the realms above, and sways the triple sceptre of the universe the :

earth is subjected to Augustus. Each is a father and governor. Grant, ye

gods, attendants of ^ueas, to whom fire and sword, submissive, gave
way and ye native gods of Italy, and father Quirinus, and Mars, the
;
 METAMORPHOSEON, Lib. XV. 553

Et cum Caesarea tu, Phoebe domestice, Vesta, 865 et tu, Phtthe domes-
tice, cum Cecsarea,
Quique tenes altiis Tarpeias Jupiter arces, Vesta ;Jupiterquf,qui
altiis tene.i Tarpeias
Quosque alios vati fas appellare piumque, arces, quosque alios
Tarda sit ilia dies, et nostro serior eevo. Ueos fit Jas piintique
rati appellare : ilia
Qua caput augustum, quem temperat orbe relicto,
tarda ct scrior
(lies .lit
7iostroavo,qjia augus-
Accedat coelo :
faveatque precantibus absens. 870 turn caput, orbe quern
dat calo temperat relicto,acce-
; absensque faveat precantibus,

PERORATIO. PERORATIO.
Jamque exegi opus,
Jamque opus exegi quod nee Jovis ira, nee ignes,
:
quod nee ira Jovis,7iec
Nee poterit ferrum, nee edax abolere vetustas. igiies, nee ferrtnn, nee
edax vet list as poterit
Cum volet ilia dies,
quae nil nisi corporis hujus abolere. Ilia dies, qum
habet nil jus, nisi hu-
Jus habet, incerti
spatium mihi finiat aevi :
jus corporis, finiat mi-
Parte tamen mehore mei hi spatium incerti trvi
super alta perennis 875 cum rolct tamen per- ;
Astra ferar nomenque erit indelebile nostrum.
: ennis meliore parte
tnei, ferar super alta
Quaque patet domitis Romana potentia terris. ast ra ; nostrumque no-
Ore legar populi: perque omnia saecula fama, men erit indclebile :
legarque ore pupuli,
(Si quid habent veri vatum praesagia) vivam. qua Homana potentia
patet domitis terris ;
sique prasagia vatum habent quid veri, vivam famd per omnia sacula,

TRANSLATION.
common father of the city, and Quirinus and you, Vesta, held sacred
;

among the household gods of Csesar and you, domestic Phoebus, to

;

whom a like homage is paid and thou, mighty Jupiter, who, high en-
;

throned, presidest over the Tarpeian towers and whatever other gods it
;

may be lawful for a poet to invoke ; slowly may the day advance, and
later than the term of my life when this
august prince, abandoning the
;

world, which he ruled so well, shall be enrolled among the gods and, ;

propitious, hear the prayers of his disconsolate subjects.

PERORATION.
And now have finished a work, which neither the anger of Jove, nor
I
fire nor steel, nor the consuming teeth of time, shall be able to destroy.
Come when it will, the day which has no power but over my body and ;

let it finish the doubtful term of life. Yet, in my better part, immortal,
I shall soar above the lofty mansions of the stars nor shall my name ;

ever cease to be in honour. Wherever Rome shall spread her dominion

over the conquered world, my works will be read by the nations and ;

(if the presages of poets have aught of truth) I shall live

in fame through
all succeeding ages.
 INDEX.

Ants transformed into men 266, fable of them ex-

plained 260.
Apollo, his rash vow
to Phatton, his son 51, dis-
AbARIS killed by Perseus 175.
Ins combat
suades him from attempting the chariot of the
Acliclous entertains Theseus 2!)9, sun ib., directs him in his course 55, where born,
Sib.
with Alciilt'S 315, assumes various shapes and whence named Cynthius 60, mourns the
Achcmenes's son discovered by Macareus 48C, death of Phaeton 66, 68, resumes his chariot al
his adventures, i6. tl\e desire of the gods 69, ravishes Leucothe 142,
kills amour with the
Achilles's birth 392, conquers Cy^nus 420, despises Clytia's love 143, his
armour
Hector 436, is killed by Paris ib., bis sibyl 485.
demands Polyseua into awild
contended lor 439, his ghost Appulus, a shepherd, transformed olive-
to be sacrificed 457, kills Memnon
403. tree 501.
into a
Acis killed by the Cyclop 475, transformed Arachne, her contest with Minerva 202, her curi-
river 476. ous workmanship 208, transformed into a spider
256.
Aconite, wliat, and how produced 210.
Action transformed into a stag 103, killed by his Areas, son of Jupiter and Callista 73, transformed
into a constellation 74.
killed
by
Ado"ms's birth 369, captivates Venus 370, Arethusa transformed into a river 199.
into a
a wild boar 377, his blood transformed Argonautic expedition, an
account of it, 236.
flower 37S. .
Argus, why feigned to
have a hundred eyes 40,
201.
/Eraathian sisters transformed into magpies has lo committed to his care ib., lulled asleep
and son 464,
A:neas leaves Troy with his father and killed by Slercury 44.
into hell 4s4, various
his travels 482, descent Ariadne helps Theseus out of the labyrinth 282.
a god 5Uj,
adventures 486, is transformed into Ascalaphus metamorphosed
into an owl 196.
and successors ib. in form
his offspring
213. Asopus, his daughter enjoyed by Jupiter
jEsacus transformed into a didapper of a name 20S.
his worship how introduced
at Kome Asteria enjoyed by Jupiter in form of an eagle
iEsculapius,
542. 208.
248.
JEsou, his age renewed by MedeS, Atalanta, her story 372.
iEther, described, S. Athamas and his wife poisoned by Tisiphone 156,
of the horses of the sun, terrible eltects 157.
jEthon, one pb. its
in Sicily, described
^tna, a burning mountain Athis killed by Perseus 174.
Atlas, a king of Mauritania, transformed
into a

Agenor, his daughter carried of by Jupiter 92. mountain 04, 162.

sends in quest of her 93. Attis, her story 351.
10. and
Ages, four, of the world, described Autolycus, his birth qualities 392.
at the desire of
Aulaurus poisoned with envy .Axis of the world, what, 21.
90.
Minerva 89, transformed into a stone
Agmon and -his companions transformed into
geese 500. , , B
for the armour of
Ajax contends with Ulysses himself 4jj,
Achilles 439, being refused, kills its grandeur and magnificence 133.
a flower springs from his blood ib. BABYLON,
Bacchus, son of Jupiter and Scinele, his remark,
Alcides conquers Achelous 316.
Am- able birth 108, bred up by Ino ib., being de.
Alcmena enjoyed by Jupiter in the shape of 325. ceived by some mariners, transforms them into
birth ofjHercules
phitryon 208, her painful 198. fishes 126, the establishment of
his worship in
love and pursuit of Arethusa
Aipheus's Greece much opposed 130, his various names
Amnion, river, its quality 252. 131, horns, why ascribed to him, ib., deceived
289, swallowed
AmpluiU-aus, a renowned prophet Eri'gene in the form
of grapes 208, revenges the
the earth 290.
up, with his chariot, by death of Orpheus 382.
killed by Perseus 174.
Amphimedon for the sea 3. Battus transformed into a tonch-stone 84.
Amphitrite, Neptune's wife, put trans- Baucis entertains the gods 303, transformed into
Anaxerte rejects the suit of Iphis 510, is a tree 306.
formed into a statue 511. .. „ ,

165. Bees how produced, according to Pythagoras 531.

Andromeda rescued by Perseus hell in
529. Belus's grand-daughters, their punishment
Anigros river, its poisonous quality 154.
AuiuB, his daughters transformed into pigeons 400. ,^ ^ ,
flame for her brother 332,
transformed into snakes Biblis, her unlawful
Ansigona, her fine hair to him 330, soliloquy on being
passionate letter
207, she into a stork ib. behaviour on his leaving
form of a satyr, Tepulsed 338, frantic
Antiopc seduced by Jupiter ia her 340, transformed into a fountain ib
208.
 556 INDEX.
Boar sent to ravage the lands of Oeneus 288
Cyclop described 21, 277, his courtship of Gala-
killed, after murdering many heroes 294. tea 471, kills Acis 475.
Boreas married to Oritliyia 235.
Cygnus transformed into a swan 6S.
Brass, a^e of, described 13. Cygnus conquered by Achilles 417, transformed
Butterflies produced from moths 531. into a swan ib.
Cyparissus, by mistake kills his favourite stag 353,
IS transformed into a ib.
cypress-tree

D
CADMUS sent in quest of Europa 93, kills a
monstrous serpent 90, founds Thebes 99, his DjEDALION transformed into a hawk 3»4.
grandson and daughter transformed into sea- Diedahis, his flight, 285.
gods 158, and he and his wife into serpents 160. Daiiae impregnated
by Jupiter in a shower of gold
Ca?neus, a woman, metamorphosed into a man 161, 208.
421, rendered invulnerable id. Daphne, why said to be the daughter of Peneus
Calchas foretels the ten years siege of 31, her aversion to marriage 32,~ flies the court-
Troy 414.
Calliope, one of the muses, whence named 184, ship ot Phujbus 33, transformed into a laurel 37.
how represented ib. Daphnis transformed into a stone 144.
Caliislo, ravished by Jupiter 71, discarded by Dart of Cephalus, its
extraordinary qualities, 268.
Diana 72, transformed into a bear 73, made a Decrcto, a goddess, her extraordinary image, 133.
constellation 74, Origin of the fable 76. Dejanira contended for by Hercules 313, becomes
Calydonian river's speech to Theseus 300, 306. jealous of him 319, sends him a poisoned shirt
Camelion, its extraordinary qualities, 533. 320.
Canens married to Picus 494, her Delphoi, a city of Phocis, famou* for its oracle
enchanting
voice ib., transformed into air 498. 34.
Caunus resents her sister's milawful passion 337, Deluge, account of it, 21.
tlies from her 339. Decis, enjoyed by Jupiter in form of a snake 208.
Celmius transformed into an adamant 144. Deucalion saved from the
delnge 24, speech to
Cephalus, his history 260. Pyrrha his wife 26, explains themis's dubious
Cerastae, a people of the isle of Cyprus 357, why answer 28, the earth how re-peopled by him 29.
said to have been transformed into bulls ib. Diana, where born, and whence called Cynthia
Cerberus, Pluto'sdog in hell 153. 60, surprised by Acteon while bathing 102,tran8-
Ccrcopians transformed into monkeys 483. forms him into a stag 103.
Cercyon, a famous robber, killed by Theseus 257. Dido bestows her aflj^ections and
kingdom on j^neas
Ceres, the goddess of corn and tillage 13, her di- 482, kills herself ib.
ligent search for her daughter Proserpine 191, Dircen, a celebrated fountain of Bototia 60.
complains to Jupiter 194, recovers her 190, Dragon, that guarded the golden fleece, lulled
teaches Triptolemus husbandry 200, saves his asleep by Jason's enchantment 243.
life 200. Dragons' teeth sown produce men 98, 242.
Cests described 176. Dryope transformed into the tree lotos 3-Z8.
Ceyx goes to sea in quest of his brother 398, is
shipwrecked 403, transformed into a bird 410.
Chaos described 2.
E
Chimaera described 218, explained ib.
EARTH, how formed 5, drowned by a
Chione enjoyed by Apollo and Mercury 392, bears
how rc-peopled and replenished 29, deluge 21,
complaint
Autolycus and Philammon ib., struck dumb
393. against Phai;ton 63.

Oinyras, king of the Assyrians, transformed into

Echo, why transformed into a shadow by
' Juno
111.
a stone 207, his daughters into the
steps of a Egeria transformed into a spring 539.
temple ib., ignorantly enjoys his own daughter Elements, four, Pytbagoras's account of, 526.
367, his resentment 368. Emathion killed by Chronis 176.
Cipus, his history, 540.
Circe in love with Glaucns480, revenge on Scvlla, Empires, their various revolutions, 534.
her rival, 481, her court described 490, trans- Envy, person and cave of, described 87, accosted
forms the companions of Ulyssesinto swine 491, by Minerva 88.
lier various enchantments
Eons, one of the horses of the sun 56.
492, 497, her love to
Picus rejected 495, transforms him into a wood- Epaphus upbraids Phaeton with bis origin 47.
Erato, one of the muses 183.
pecker 496.
Circles in the heavens described 5. Erinnys, the furies, whence so called 20.
Erisichthon, his impious contempt of the gods 307,
CJio, one of the muses, whence named 183, how
punished by a terrible famine 310.
represented ib.
Erycina, Venus, whence so called 188.
Clymene, mother of Phaeton, refers him to his
father for a proof of his origin 47, grief for his Erythus killed by Perseus 174.
tleath 66, her daughters transformed into trees Eryx, a mountain of Sicily sacred to Venus BO.
67. Evippe, wife of Pierus and mother of thePieridci
185.
Clitie, her love of Apollo, and envy of her sister
Europa ravished by Jnpiter 92.
142, being neglected by him, istransformed into
a flower 143. Eurus, the east-wind, why so called 7.
Eurydice killed by the bite of a serpent 347,
Coral, its nature and origin 168
sought by Orpheus in hell 348, restored to him,
Cornucopia, what meant by it 317. but hurried back on his looking behind 349.
Coronis transformed into a jackdaw 78, killed by
79.
Euterpe, one of the muses, how represented 183.
Neptune
Crocale, daughter of Ismenus, a river in Bseotia
101.
Crocus, why transformed into a flower 144.
Crotona, by whom built 518. FAME, temple of, described 415, her attendants
Curetes produced by a shower of rain 144. ib.
Cyane upbraids Pluto for the rape of Proserpine Famine described 309, sent to punish Erisichthon
190, is transformed intowater 191. 310, its drea<llnl eft'ocis ib.
Cyclades, a cluster of islands in the ^gcan sea Flesh, eating of, forbidden, by Pythagoras 519, 535.
62, 182. Forms of the gods, the meaning of, 8.
Cyclic poem, what, 2. Frogs, how produced, 531.
 INDEX. 557

G Ino, daughter of Cadmus, and

109, transformed into a sea-goddess 158.
sister of Semele

CALATEA refuses llie solicitations of the lo, daughter of Inaehus, ravished by Jupiter 39,
Cyclops
475. transformed into a cow ib., committed by Juno
to the care of
Galanthis imposes on the goddess Lucina 326, is Argus 40, recovers her shape, and
transformed into a weasel 327. becomes an Egyptian goddess 46.
lolaus. Ilia youth restored by Hebe, 330.
Ganymede ravished by Jupiter in form of an
eagle 354, the fable explained ib. Iphigenia, when about to be sacrificed, has a doe
substituted in her place 414.
Gems, how formed, 533.
Gerane, queen of the Pygmies, transformed into a Iphis, a girl, her passion for lanthe 343, is trans-
crane 206, origin of the fable ib. formed into a boy, and enjoys her 346, hangs
Giants, their war against the gods, 14.
himself for love of Anaxarte 511.
Glauciis transformed into a Iris, her genealogy and history, 22.
sea-god 476, his vain Iron age described 13.
pursuit of Scylla ib., 478, has recourse to Circe
Ister, the Danube, the greatest river of Europe 61.
479, declines her solicitations 480.
Golden age described 10. Itys killed by his mother 232, transformed into a
(^.olden Fleece carried off by Jason 244. pheasant 233, fable explained ib.
Julius Caesar, his
Gorgon, two hundred persons transformed into apotheosis, 547.
stone at the sight of it, 180. Juno, her resentment against lo 40, against Cal-
listo 73,
Gravitation of bodies, known by Ovid, 3. complaint to the sea-gods 75, imposes
Greeks embark for the siege of Troy 413, their on Semele 107, her resentment
against the off-
landing opposed by th« Trojans 416, take and spring of Cadmus 152, 158.
burn Troy 462. Jupiter dethrones his father Saturn 12, silver age
in his time ib.,
speech to the gods 16, 18, ra-
vishes lo, and transforms her into a cow 39, ra-
H vishes Callisto 71, transformed into a bull 91,
207, carries off Europa 92, kills Semele 108,
transformed into a shower of gold 161, begets
HjEMUS, why transformed into a mountain 206.
Perseus upon Danae ib., origin of this fable ib.,
Halcyonc dissuades Ceyx from going to sea, or transformed into an eagle, a swan, and a satyr
pleads to accompany him 397, is informed of
208, into Amphitryon ib., a lambent flame, a
his death in a dream 407, her grief for him ib.
transformed into a bird 409. shepherd, and a snake ib., his speech concern-
ing renewing age 331.
Harpocrates, God of Secrecy and Silence 342,
how Ixion, his punishment in hell 154.
represented ib.
Heaven, court of, described, 16.
Hebe restores youth to lolaus 330, how the step-
daughter and daughter-in-law of Jupiter 331.
Hecate, the first who found out poisonous herbs LAMPETIE, transformed into a tree 67, Laome-
209, who she was 240. don is assisted by Apollo and Neptune in build-
Hector killed by Achilles at the siege of Troy 436, ing the walls of Troy 387, his ingratitude pu-
his body dragged thrice round its walls ib. nished 388.
Hecuba bewails her daughter Polyxena 457, made Latona despised by Niobe 211, her history 218.
captive at the siege of Troy 459, laments her Leda enjoyed by Jupiter in the form of a swan
son Polydorus 461, resentment of his murder 208.
402, transformed into a bitcli ib. Leucothoe ravished by Apollo 142, transformed
Helenus,his predictions to iEneas 534. into a shoot of frankincense 143.
Hercules fences the river Achelous 313, tortured Lichas carries the envenomed shirt to Herculea
with the envenomed shirt 320, his labours re- 320, is turned into stone 322.
cited 321, destroys Lichas 322, makes and sets Life, human, its various stages described 525.
fire to his funeral pile 323, made a god, and Lucina opposes the birth of Hercules by a charm
carried to heaven 324, account of his painful 326, is deceived by Galanthis i6., transforms her
birth 325, his feats before Troy 435. into a weasel 327.
Hermapbroditus, the story of him and Salmacis Lycabas killed by Perseus 174.
144, origin ib.
its Lycaon, his history 19.
Hcrse captivates Mercury 85. Lycians, how punished by Latona 220.
Hersilia made a goddess and joined to Romulus Lygdus and Telethusa, their history 341.
^
515. Lyncestis, river, its intoxicating quality 530.
Hippolitns, his history, 537. Lyncus attempts to kill Triptolemus 200, is trans-
Hippomenes conquers Atalanta by means of three formed into a lynx ib.
golden apples 376, turned into a lion 377.
Horn of Plenty, whence, 317.
Hornets, how produced according to Pythagoras
M
531.
Hyacinthus killed 355, transformed into a /lower MACAREUS transformed by Circe into a sow
356. 491, his shape restored 492.
Hyena changes its sex yearly 533. Man, how formed 9. /

Hymen, whence derived, 33. Mars caught in the embraces of Venus, becomes
Protenor 175, is killed by Lyncides the sport of the gods 139.
Hypseus kills
ib. Marsya, a river of Phrygia, its origin, 122.
Meandros, a river of Phrygia, remarkable for its
many windings 61.
I Medea, her passion for Jason 237, gives him some
enchanting herbs 241, her various enchantments
lANTHE, her history, 343. 246, renews jEson's age 248, causes Pelias to be
lapetidcs killed by Pctalus, 176. killed by his own daughters 251, her journey
Jason demands the golden fleece 237, swears through the air 253.
fidelity to Medea 241, his several exploits 242. Medusa, her story 161, 169, origin of the (nb\eib.
Ibis, an Egyptian bird, described, 186. Melas, a river of Migdonia, its peculiar quality
loams, attempting to fly, is drowned in the sea 61.
286. Meleager, his history 295.
luachus, a river of Achaia, wkeuce named, 38. Melicerta transfonned into the god Falemon 181. .
558 INDEX.
Melpomene, one of the muses, how represented Paphos, his birth 300.
183. Paris kills Achillea 436.
Mpmnon killed by Acliilks 403. Peacocks, their tails, on what occasion painted
Mciniioniflcs, birds formed of the ashes of Mem- 45, 70.
non 4fi4, their balltc ib. Peleus ravishes Thelis, and begets Achilles 390,
Mercury, why represented with wings at his"an- kills Phocusi/;., his
punishment .395.
cles 42, lulls Argns and kills him Pellas killed by his own daughters 251.
asleep 45,
whence called Cyllenc ib. Pclops killed by his father 221, restored to life ib.
Metamorphoses of Ovid, the design of itl. Penlhens derides Tiresias 118, chides the Baccha-
Meira had a power to assume what nals 119, torn in pieces, for
shape she prying into the ce-
pleased 312. remonies of the orgies 129.
Midas, his foolish wish granted 383, punished 384, Periinelc, transformed into an island 300.
revoked 3S5, why punished with ass's cars 38(J, Perseus, his origin 101, expedition against the
how discovered 387. Gorgons ib., kills Atlas and carries off the
Milky way described 15. golden apples 102, rescues Andromeda 164,
Minerva, her contest with Arachnc 202, gets the marries her 108, conquers Phineas and his com-
better of NeptuneaoS.her unjust envy to Arachne pany 181.
202, transforms her into a spider 210. Phaethusa transformed into a tree 67.
Minos, in besieging Alcathous, captivates Sylla Phaeton, son of Apollo and ("lymene, insulted by
277, rejects her treasonable oliVr 282. Epaphiis 40, complains to his mother ib., ac-
Minyas, his three daughters transformed in bats costs his father for a proof of his origin 50. asks
151. to guide the chariot of the sun for on<; A
-y 51,
Mnemosyne enjoyed by Jupiter in form of a shep- persisting in his request, receives his father's
herd 2U8. instructions 55, loses his way, anil sets the
Moly, an enchanting herb given to Ulysses 492. earth on fire 59, falls headlong into the Po 05,
Morpheus, a complete mimic 405, informs Haley- whether a real person ib., funeral and epitaph
one in a dream of her husband's shipwreck 400. 66.
Mulberries, their purple colour, wlience 130. Pheneus, the remarkable quality of its waters 530.
Murex, a fish whose blood produced the best pur- Philemon and Baucis, their happy poverty sm,
ple 202. entertain the gods 303, transformed into trees
Muses, an account of them 183. 300.
Mutat.us (licere formas, this phrase whether an Philomela, r.avishcd by Tereus 220, cruelly used
hypallage 2, by him 227, makes an artful discovery of it to
Myrrha, her incestuous passion 301, prevented by her sister 229, bloody revenge 232, transformed
her nurse from hanging herself 304, l)y her into a nightingale 233, fable explained ib.
means enjoys her own father 307, is transformed Phineus, his coiiliiet with Perseus 172, overcome,
into a tree 368. and transformed into a statue 181, rescued from
the harpies 237.
N Phlegon, one of the horses of the sun 56.
Phoebe, the moon, why so called 3.
Phcebus wounded by Cupid 32, his violent love
NABATH, son of Ismaei, his possessions 7.
to, and pursuit of, Daphne 34, his regard con-
Narcissus, son of Cepliisus and Leriope 110, shuns tinued to her in tlic laurel 37. See Apollo.
the embraces of Eclio 112, incurs tlie odium of
Phcenix, its remarkable history 532.
the nymphs by his coyness 113, becomes en-
Phorbas, killed by Perseus 174.
amoured of his own shadow 114, transformed Picus married to tjauens 494, captivates Circe ib.,
into a (lower 118, the moral of this fable 113.
rejects her suit 4<I5, transformed by her into a
Neptune transformed into a bull 208, enjoys the woodpecker 490, his companions into various
daughter of yEolus in that shape ib., begets the monsters 497.
Aloida; in the torm of Euipeus ib., (leccives
Pipe, music of, charms Argus 4.3, its origin 44.
Theophane in the shape of a ram ib. Plague described 201.
Nereus, a sea-god, son of Oceanus and Tethys 17. Plectrum, what, 170.
Nessus, attempting to carry otf Dejanira, is killed
Polydeclus transformed into a stone 132.
by Hercules 318, the terrible effect ot his blood
320. Polydorus murdered by Polyrancstor 457. Be-
wailed by his mother Hecuba 401, his death
Nile river described 30, 61.
revenged 402.
Ninus, his grand sepulchre described 335.
Polyhymnia, one of the muses, how represented
Niobe, her extravagant pride 211, severely pu- 1S3.
nislied 214, turned into a marble statue 217.
Nisus robbed by his daughter of a hick of his hair Polymedon killed by Perseus 175.
in which his strength Polynuiestor nuirders Polydorus 457, his eyes put
lay 27'J, transformed into out by Hecuba 402.
a sea-eagle 282.
Polyxena sacrificed to the ghost of Achilles 453.
Poinona courted by the rural gods 500, after v.v
o rious attempts is gained by 'VenunMuis 512.
Priam, his death 450, the misfortunes of his fa-
OCYRRHOE, dauahter of Chiron and Charicio mily ib.
81, transformed into a mare 83. Procnc, her unhappy marriage with Pandion 222,
Odytes killed by Clymcnus 175. sends for her sister Philomela 223, is informed
Olympus a mountain, giants buried under 15. of her abuse 229, bloody reven-e
232, trans-
Orion's daughters, fable of, 407. formed into a swallow 233, fable explained ib.
Orpheus, the origin of the fables concerning him Procris, her groundless jealousy 273, killed by
347, his descent into hell, in quest of Euijdice mistake, by her husband 274.
348, loses her a second time, by looking behind Prometheus, history and fable of him 9,(iO.
him 349, his grief for her 350, his I'rop-.etides, said to have been the first prostitutes
song 353, is
killed by the Thracian matrons 357, turned into stone 358.
381, fable ex-
plained 379. Proserpine raviihed by Pluto 187, 190, fable ex-
plained 187.
Proteus, a sea-god, assumed what shape he pleased
49, 306.
Pygmalion falls in love with a statue of his own
PANDTON, marries Procnc, his daughter 222,
carving 359, the stalue transformed into a wo-
threatened with ill omens ib.
man 300, fable explained 300.
 INDEX. 559

Pygmies, who and where situated

206. Tereue, his violent passion for Philomela 223, ra-
vishes her 226, uses her barbarously 228, cruelly
Pjramus and Thisbe, their story 113, nwral of it

ib. revenged 232, turned into a lapwing 233, fable

Pyreneiis offers violence to the
muses 184, is explained ib.
dashed in pieces ib. Terpsichore, one of the muses, how represented
one of the horses of the sun 56. 183.
Pyroeis,
Pyrrha, wife of Deucalion 26. Thalia, another of them, her representation ib.
Thebes, by whom built 99.
Themis, goddess, her answer to Deucalion and
R Pyrrha 2S.
Theseus kills the minotaur 282, his feats before
KAM, age of, renewed by Medea 251. Troy 427.
Raven, colour of, why changed from white to Thespiades, the muses, why so called 185.
black 7(!. Thetis', fable of, explained 388, assumes various
Rha^tns, killed by Phinens 173. shapes to avoid the embraces of Peleus 389, is
Rhodope, a mountain of Thrace, constantly co- ravished by him 390.
vered with snow 60, why transformed 200. Thisbe, her story 133.
Rhodes, daughter of Neptune and Venus, bore Thracian matrons transformed into trees 382.
seven children to Apollo 140. Tiphaens, a giant, buried under mount jEtna 188.
River in Thrace, its petrifying quality 331. Tiresias, why struck blind by Juno 109, endowed
Rome, its grandeur predicted 534. with the spirit of prophecy by Jupiter ib., his
Romulus transported to heaven 514, is united to prediction concerning Narcissus 110.
his wife Hersilia 515. Tisiphone poisons Athamas and his wife 156.
Tityus, his punishment in hell 153.
Timolus gives judgment in favour of Apollo
against Pan 386.
Transmigration, doctrine of, taught by Pytha-
SALMACIS captivated by Hermaphroditns 145, goras, 523.
becomes united to him 149. Trinacris, Sicily, whence so called 187.
Salmacis river, extraordinary quality 529.
its Triptolemus taught agriculture by Ceres 200.
Sardis river, how tinged with gold 386. Tritonia goes in quest of a remarkable fountain,
Saturn the same with Adam 10, dethroned by 183.
Jupiter 12, in the form of a horse begets Chiron Trojan fleet rescued from the flames by Juno 502,
208. transformed into Nereids 503.
Scorpions, how produced according to Pythagoras Troy, achievements at the siege of, 416, burnt 462.
533. Turnus, his attempt to burn the Trojan fleet 502.
Scylla shuns the courtship of Glaucns 473, is Typhaius, an enormous giant, author of tlio war
transformed into a hideous monster by Circe 108.
481, afterward into a rock 482.
Seasons of the year described 524.
Semele deceived by Juno 107, is killed by Jupiter
u
108.
of VENUS, whence called Erycina 60, her love to
Septentrio, the north quarter the world,
whence so called 8. Adonis 371, assists Hippomenes to conquer Ata-
lanta 375.
Serpent transformed into a stone 414. Vcrtumnus courts Pomona in various shapes 507,
Shipwreck described 403. obtains her at last 512.
Sibyl, her foolish wish granted 485, ingratitude
to Apollo, how punished ib. Ulysses contends with Ajax for the armour of
Silver age described 12. Achilles 444, conquers with his eloquence 455,
his achievements 487, fable of, explained 486,
Sisyphus, a noted robber, his punishment in hell
154. his entertainment at Circe's court 492.

Sleep, cave of, described 404. Urania, one of the muses, how represented 183.
Smilax, why transformed into a flower 144.
Snake transformed into a stone 381.
Spinning, by whom invented 202.
w
Storm described 399.
at sea
course
WASPS, how produced according to Pythagoras
Sun, palace of, described 48, chariot of, its
531.
delineated 51. Wolf transformed into a rock 396.
Styx, a river in hell 13. World, its various changes 527.
Sylla captivated by Minos 277, her treason against
her father 279, her offers to Minos rejected 280,
her rage on that account 281, transformed into
a bird 282.
Syrinx transformed into reeds 45. YEAR, by whom divided into four seasons 12.

TAGES, his extraordinary origin 539, ZEPHYR, the wind why so called 7.

Tantalus, his pvnishment in hell 154. Zonej, torrid and frigid, described 6.

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