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