THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
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248 P..OVIDII N ASONIS LIBER 1 11.<br />
Inque aditu obsisto. Furit audacissimus omni<br />
De rmmero Lycabas; qui Thiisca pulsus ab urbe,<br />
Exilium, dira pcrnam pro ca3de, luebat.<br />
Is mihi, dum resto, juvenili guttura pugno 50<br />
Rupit: et excussum misisset in squora; si non<br />
Hffisissem, quamvis amcns, in fune rctentus.<br />
Impia turba probat factum. Turn denique Bacchus,<br />
Bacchus enim fuerat, veluti clamore solutus<br />
Sit sopor; eque mero redeant in pectora sensus; 55<br />
Quid facitis? quis clamor, ait? qua, dicite, nautffi,<br />
Hue ope perveni ? qu6 me deferre paratis ?<br />
Pone metum, Prbreus, et quos contingere portus<br />
Ede velis, dixit: terra sistere petita.<br />
Naxon, ait Liber, cursus advertite vestros ; GO<br />
Ilia mihi domus est: vobis erit hospita tellus.<br />
Per mare, fallaces, perque omnia numina, jurant,<br />
Sic' fore: meque jubent pictiE dare vela cariniE.<br />
Dextra Naxos erat: dextra mihi lintea danti<br />
Quid facis, o demens: quis te furor, inquit, Aceete, 65<br />
Pro se quisque, tenet? losvam pete. Maximanutu<br />
Pars mihi significat; pars, quid velit, aure susurrat.<br />
Obstupui; capiatque alius moderamina, dixi:<br />
Meque ministerio scelerisque artisque removi.<br />
Increpor a cunctis; totumque immurmurat agmen. 70<br />
E quibue ^Ethalion, Te scilicet omnis in uno<br />
mace, kept time for the rowers, who struck<br />
with the precision of music.<br />
45. Pinum. The ship, by metonymy.<br />
46. Pars maxima juris : the principal<br />
right; the chief command.<br />
51. Si non hasissem: if I had not held<br />
on. 52. Quamvis omens: though senseless:<br />
though stunned by the blow.<br />
5J. Retentus in fune: holding on by a<br />
rope.<br />
54. Veluti. Here again we are led to<br />
believe that the Bleep of Bacchus was<br />
merely feigned.<br />
59. Sistere: you shall be set; you shall<br />
be landed.<br />
60. Naxon. Naxos is the largest of the<br />
Cyclades, a number of small islands lying<br />
in a circle, whence their nnmp, in the Mare<br />
-ffigseum, the Archipflngo. It was cele<br />
brated for its fertility, its wines, its mar<br />
ble, and for the agrecaMe diversity of<br />
scenery. It was celebrated also for the pre<br />
valence of the worship of Bacchus. Hence<br />
Virgil:<br />
Bacchatamcjue jnpis Naxon, viridemque Do-<br />
nysnm. .ENEID, Lib. iii. 125.<br />
60. loiter. Bacchus, according to Seneca,<br />
was called Liber, not on account of free<br />
dom of epcech. but because he frees the<br />
mind from cares, and renders it more con<br />
fident and daring. But as Bacchus was<br />
55. Proreus dixit<br />
pone metum, et ede<br />
quos portus velis con<br />
tingere, sistere terra<br />
petita.<br />
71. E quib<br />
lion ait: scilicet nos<br />
the same as Noah, which signifies " rest"<br />
or " comfort," it is better to consider the<br />
epithet of Liber, (in Greek, Awrras), applied<br />
to Bacchus, as intending the same thing.<br />
The propriety of this will appear from the<br />
following extracts :<br />
And he called his name Noah, saying. This<br />
same shall comfort us concerning our work, and<br />
toil of our hands. GENESIS V. ffi).<br />
vof .<br />
<strong>OF</strong>F. CYNBGBT.<br />
Earth to rear vines for toil-relrasing Bacchus.<br />
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