THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

if', 284 P. OVIDII N ASONIS LIBIA I V
Sic patruo blandita suo est: O numen aquarum,
Proxima cui coslo cessit, Neptune, potestas;
Magna quidem posco: sed tu miserere meorum,
Jactari quos cernis in Ionic immense:
Et dis adde tuis. Aliqua et mihi gratia ponto est;
Si tamen in dio quondam concreta profundo
Spuma fui, Graiurnque inanet mihi nomen ab ilia.
Annuit oranti Neptunus; el abstulit illis
Quod mortale fuit; majestatemque verendam
Imposuit; nomenque simul, faciemque novavit:
Leucothoeque, deum, cum matre Palasmona dixit.
Sidonias comites, quantum valuere, secuta
Signa pedum, prime videre novissima saxo:
Nee dubium de morte ratas, Cadmeida palmis
Deplanxere domum, scissse cum veste capillos.
Utque parum justas, nimiumque in pellice ssevas,
Invidiam fecere deas. Convicia Juno
Non tulit: et, Faciam vos ipsas maxima, dixit,
Sasvitise monumenta mere. Res dicta secuta est.
Nam quas pracipue fuerat pia, Persequar, inquit,
In freta reginam; saltumque datura, moveri
Haud usquam potuit; scopuloque affixa cohassit.
Altera, dum solito tentat plangore ferire
52. Palruo: her uncle. Venus was the
daughter of Jupiter, who was the brother
of Neptune.
55. lomo. The Ionian Sea was that
part of the Mediterranean Sea which
washed the western coast of Greece, and
extended to the Mare Hadriaticum.
57. Concrete spuma. Venus was said
to have sprung from the foam of the sea,
and, hence, was called Aphrodite, from
fyp6!, foam. Thus Hesiod:
Till now, swift-circling, a white foam arose
From that immortal substance, and a maid
Was nourished in the midsr. The wuninjr waves
First bore her to Cythera's heaven-blessed
coast;
Then reached she Cyprus, pin with flowing
seas,
And forth emerged a goddess, heautiful
Tn modesiy. Green herbage sprung around
Beneath her slender feet. Her gods and men
Name Aphrodite, goddess of the foam,
Since in the eea-fbam nourished, and again
Wreathed Cytlierea, for lh.it first she touched
Cythera's coast; and Cypris, for she rose
On Cyprus, 'midst the multitude of waves.
TlIEOGONY.
61. Nomen novavit: changed the name.
Ino was called Leucotlioii, or Leucothea,
by the Greeks, and Matuta by the Ro
mans. Thus Cicero:
Ino, the daughter of Cadmus, is she not called
Leucothea by the Greeks, and Matuta by us ?
TUSCUL. DISP. Lib. i.
I call Leucothea, of great Cadmus born,
d Bacchus' nurse, whom ivy leaves udom.
NOT^E.
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69. Faciam vos ip-
_,~ eaa maxima mpnu-
TU menla meoe BSQvitire.
Hear, powerful goddess, in the mighty deep
Vast-bosomed, destined thy domain to_ keep:
In waves rejoicing guardi-in of mankind;
For ships from thee alone deliverance find,
Amidst the fury of th' unstable main,
When art no more avails, and strength is vain
When rushing billows with tempestuous ire
Overwhelm the mariner in ruin dire.
Thou hear'st, with pity touched, his suppliant
prayer,
Resolved his life to succor and to spare.
OnPimus's HYMN TO LKUCOTIIEA.
Her name and attributes are the same as
those of Venus Aphrodite.
62. Paltemona. Mclicerta was called
PaUemon.
Ponti regna tenet nitidi matertera Bacchi,
Nereidumque clioris Cadmeia cingaur Ino.
Jus habel in fluctus magni puer advena pomi
Cognatus Bacchi, numen 11011 vile Palsrnon.
SENEC. tErar
Oh nursed with Uionysius, doomed to keep
Thy dwelling in ihe widely-swelling deep ;
WTith joyful aspect to my prayer incline.
Propitious come, and bless the rites divine;
Thy mystics through the earth and sea attend,
And from old Ocean's stormy waves defend:
For sliips tueir safety ever owe to thee,
\Vlio wanderest with them through the raging
sea.
Come, guardian power, whom mortal tribes de
sire,
And far avert the deep's destructive ire.
ORPJIEUS'S HYMN TO PAL^EMON.
63. Sidomte. The Theban women are
here called Sidonian, because they were
originally from Sidon.
FABULA IV. METAMORPHOSE ON. 285
Pectora, tentatos sentit riguisse lacertos. 75
Ilia, manus ut forte tetenderat in maris undas,
Saxea facta, manus in easdem porrigit undas.
Hujus, ut arreplum laniabat vertice crinem,
Duratos subito digitos in crine videres.
Quo quffique in gestu deprenditur, hassit in illo. 80
Pars volucres facias, quas nunc quoque gurgite in illo
^Equora distringunt sumptis Ismenides alis.
65. Caameida. Ino, the daughter of
Cadmus.
67. In pellice: in the case of the harlot,
yiz. Semele, for whom Juno had cherished
Whither does Tisiphone go?
Who are her companions 1
What was the effect of the appearance
of Tisiphone upon Athamas?
What docs the Fury do to him and Ino ?
Do the serpents wound their bodies 1
What injury do the serpents do to them ?
What poison had Tisiphone brought with
ner? Who was Echidna?
Where does the Fury throw the poison ?
How is Athamas effected?
What does he take Ino and her two sons
to be?
What does he do to Learchus ?
How is Ino affected ?
What does he do with Melicerta?
NOTJE.
QUjESTIONES.
implacable hatred against the house of
Cadmus.
82. Ismenides. Thebans, so called from
the river Ismenus.
Who intercedes with Neptune for Ino
and Melicerta ?
Why was Venus called Aphrodite ?
What did Ino become? Under what
name?
What did Melicerta become? What
was his name ?
What part of Noachic history does Ino,
by metathesis Ion, appear to adumbrate ?
How could the Dove be said to be the
nurse of Bacchus ?
Whom does Ino in her new name and
character of Leucothoe, or Leacothea, ap
pear to be ?
Of whom is Palaemon a type ?
What is the etymology of Palsemon?
How doea the Moon typify the Ark?