THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

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P. OVIDII NASONIS
Arcebatque suis externos finibus omnes.
Huic qucKjue, Vade procul, ne longe gloria rerum,
Gluas mentiris, ait, longfe tibi Jupiter absit.
Vimque minis addit; foribusque expellere tentat
Cunctantem, ct placidis miscentem fortia dictis.
Viribus inferior, Q,uis erjim par esset Atlanti 50
Viribus ? At quoniam parvi tibi gratia nostra est;
Accipe munus, ait: loevaque a parte Medusas
Ipse retroversus squallentia prodidit ora.
Quantus erat, mons factus Atlas : jam barba, comseque
In silvas abeunt; juga sunt humerique manusque ; 55
Quod caput ante fuit, suinino est in monte cacumen.
Ossa lapis fiunt: turn partes auctus in omnes
Crevit in immensum, sic di statuistis; et omne
Cum tot sideribus cesium requievit in illo.
On llie huge dragon, terror of the world,
Thai round the Hesperian iree enormous curled;
With eye electric, watching man and brule,
Guarded with jealous care Uie golden fruit.
47. Longe Jupiter absit: lest Jupiter be
far from protecting you.
53. Ipse retroversus. Perseus turned his
lace away that he might not himself be
turned to stone.
57. Lapis Jiunt; become stone. A
Christian poet has described with much
vigor the transformation of a giant to stone,
by a power superior to the Gorgon's, that
of Omnipotence:
|[ For he is God" nl that most awful name,
A spasm ofliovror wiihered up his frame,
Even as lie stood and looked; he looks, he
fllands
With heaven-defying front, and clenched hands,
And lips half-opened, eager from his breasl
To boll the Iila pliemy by force represt;
For not in fe gned abstraction as before,
He practised foul d ceil by damned lore;
A frost was on his nerves, und in his veins
A fire, consuming with infernal pains;
.Vho now alone rejects Bacchus ?
Who was Acrisius ?
Who was Perseus ?
Who was DanaB ? Why was she con
fined by Acrisius ?
In what form did Jupiter obtain access
to her?
Who was Polydectes ?
Why did he wish to engage Perseus in
NOT^E.
QU^ESTIONES.
LIBER IV.
45 dederal ea servands
vaslo draconi: arce
batque omnes exler
nus suis finibus
Conscious, though motionless, his limbs were
grown,
Alive to suffering, but alive in stone.
MONTGOMERY'S WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD
59. Cum tot sideribus : with so many
stars.
59. Ccclum: heaven; the celestial sphere
Thy brother's fale, llie unhappy Alias,
Afflicts me : on thy weslern shore he slouds
Supporting on his shoulders the vasl pillar
Of Heaven and Earth. ^SCUYLUS'S PROME
THEUS CHAINED.
59. Requievit in illo: rested upon him
Atlas, enforced by stern necessity,
Props the broad heaven; on earth's far borders,
where
Full opposite th' Hesperian virgins sing
With shrill sweet voice, he rears his head and
hands
Aye unfatigable. HKSIOD'S THEOGOHT.
Tilanian Atlas I beheld;
His giant strength condemned to hear
The solid, vast, and ponderous sphere
's PROMETHEUS CHAINED
an enterprise that would endanger his
life? What did Perseus promise to obtain
for him ?
How was he equipped by the gods for
the enterprise ?
Did he succeed in his attempt ?
On his reiurn, whosu kingdom did he
pass bv ?
FAEULA VI. METAMORPHOSEON. 295
What gardens had Atlas? How were
they guarded ? .
What probably gave nse to the Btory of
the garden with the golden apples ?
Of what is the dragon a tradition ?
To what circumstances of the Tempta
tion, Fall of Man, and prqmisa of a Sa
viour, does Eratosthenes evidently allude ?
What does Lucretius describe ?
What request does Perseus make of
Atlas ?
Does Atlas grant his request ?
Why did Atlas refuse him ?
Who was Themis ?
What does Perseus do to him ?
How are we to regard Perseus ?
What is the explanation of Atlas ?
Why is he said to support the heavens?