THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

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P. OV1DII NASONIS
In mare perveniunt partim, campoque recepta
Libcrioris aquse, pro ripis littora pulsant. (
Jussit et extend! campos, subsidere valles,
Fronde tegi sylvas, lapidosos surgere monies.
Utqiie dua; dextra ccelum, totidemque sinistra
Parte secant Zonas, quinta est ardentior illis;
Sic onus inclusmn numero distinxit eodem
Cura Dei: totidemque plagas tellure premuntur :
Quarum quas media est, non est habitabilis sestu;
Nix tegit alia duas; totidem inter utramque locavi:
. NOT^E.
How many spacious counlries does the Rhine,
In windingbanlcf, and mazes serpentine
Traverse. BLACKMORE.
36. Sorbentur. Some rivers disappear,
and continue their course for a distance,
under the earth. Such are the Alpheus, in
Peloponnesus, the Anas, in Spain, the
Rhone, inFrance, the Lycus, the Erasmus,
and Mysua.
37. In mare perve?iiunt. Some ancient
philosophers regarded the earth as a great
animal, and the ocean as the great fountain
and receptacle of all the other waters. It
was thus the heart of the world.
The deep pulsations of his mighty heart,
That bids ihe blood-like fluid circulate
Through every fibre of tl)e earth, shnll cease.
SCRIPTURAL ANTHOLOGY.
The rivers run into the sea. CAREW.
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is
not full: into the place whence the rivers come,
thither they return again. ECCLESIASTES i. 7.
37. Campo; inaplainof freer water. The
Bea or ocean.
38. Liberioris aqiue. The expanse being
greater, the waters are lees confined.
38. Pro ripis lit lorn. A distinction is
made between banks and shores. The
former belong to rivers, the latter to the
eea.
39. Subsidere vallet. The plains to be
extended, the valleys to sink dawn.
So high as heaved Ihe tumid hills, so low
Down sunk a hollow bottom, broad and deep.
MILTON.
40. Fronde tegi: the woods to be clothed
with leaves.
Last,
Rose, as in dance, the stately trees, and Bpread
Their branches hung with copious fruit. MILTON.
40. Lapidosot monies; the stony moun
tains to rise.
She brought
The lofty mountains forth, the pleasant haunts
Of nymphs, who dwell midst thickets of the hills.
HZSIOD.
He gave being to time, and the divisions of
time, to the stars also, and to the planets, to
rivers, oceans, and mountains; to level plains
and uneven valleys. INSTITUTES OF MENU.
41. Dextra, sinistra. The northern por
tion was considered, by the Romans the
right, the southern the left.
LIBER 1.
liquifl ripis: quffi ^i-
versa locis partira
sorbentur ab terra
ipsa; partim perve-
niuut in mare, que
40 recepla campo liberi-
oris aqure pulsant
Utque dune zonal se
cant coalum dextrQ
parte, que totidem si-
nislra, quinla est ar-
dcnlior illis; sic cura
Pel dislinxit inclusum
45 onus eodem numero :
quelotidem plagaepre-
inunlur teliure.
42. Secant zmux. The noun zona is de
rived from the Greek 5