THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

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P. OVIDII NASONIS
Majestas ct amor. Sccptri gravitate relicta,
Ille pater rectorque deum; cui dextra trisulcis
lirnibus annata est, qui nutu concutit orbem ;
luduitur tauri faciem ; mist usque juvencis
Mu^il, et in teneris ftirmosus obainbulat herbis,
U,uippe color nivis est; quam nee vestigia duri
Calcavere pedis, ncc solvit aquaticus Auster:
Colla toris extant: annis palearia pendent:
I'ornua parva quidem; sed qiue contcndere possis
Facta manu, puraque ma^Ls perlucida gemma.
Nullae in fronte mina?; nee formidabile lumen ;
L >accm vnltus habet. Miratur Agenore nala,
Q,u?>d tam fonnosus, quod prcelia nulla minetur.
.Sed, quamvis mitem, inctuit contingere primo.
Mox adit; ct flores ad Candida porrigit ora:
Gaudet amans nunc oscula dat vnanibusque puettse. 30
Et nunc alludit, viridique exsultat in herba:
Nunc latus in fulvis niveum deponit arenis :
NOTjE.
16. Trisulcis ignihua. This epithet; tri-
SH/CI'S, is applied to thunderbolts, because
they blast, cleave, and burn.
Consider the threefold effect of Jupiter's fri-
sulc. to burn, discuss, and terehrate. BROWN.
Within the grasp
Of thy un conquer ah le hand is held
Thy minister, the ever-living bolt.
Hvv*
17. Conculil orbem: shakes the world.
Tli> car red thunders shake the blest abodes,
The shining regions of the immorial gods;
Thy power divine the flaming lightning shrouds
With dark investiture in fluid clouds.
rris thine to brandish thunders strong and dire,
To scatter siorrns ami drendfnl darts ot fire:
-- :~..„!.,;„„ n|| jiTOUllll.
And bolts oi timnuur *-i » ,,...... ._
Rapid, ethereal holt, descending fire
The earth, all-parent, trembles at thy ire;
The sen, nil-shining;, mid each hcasi, that hears
The sound terrific, \\iih dreail horror fears.
HYMH OP ORPHEUS TO JUPITER.
18. Tauri faciem: t he form of a bull.
To show the rape
Of llcra. ami ihe virgin's* mind engage,
To draw her ejes. uiul her tilteiniun claim,
He hid his godkeud, and uhull became.
MOSCHUS.
19. JUu£/f: he Iowa.
SoftU he lowed ; no lowinjr of a liruie
It iM'trned, hut inurinur of Mjgdonian flute.
MoeCHUs.
CO. Color n'vis : t he color of snow.
Moschus, on ihe contrary, describes IHB
color as yellow:
Hi* Imdy mil a \dlow hue did own.
lint a white circle in his lureliead slione.
IDTL ii.
3d. 3frc wlvit. When enow becins to
melt it takes a leaden color.
Hut beautiful and loir as unowned snow.
Ax OK.
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est color nivi»,