THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

P. OVID1I NASONIS
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Sanctius his animal, mentisque capacius altffi,
Deerat adhuc, et quod dominari in camera posset.
Natus homo est. Sive hunc divino semme fecit
Ille opifex rerum, mundi melioris origo;
Sive recens tellus, seductaque nuper ab alto
JElhete, cognati retinebat si-mina co.li;
Quam satus lapeto, mistam, fluviahbus undis,
LIBER I.
K ent cceleste solum:
uiida; cesserunt hobi-
tandte nitidis pisci-
bus: Terra cepit
7. Homo est natu».
Sive ille opifex re-
Tum, origo melioril
mundi, fecit hmic di-
ift vino semine ; «ive re-
eens tellus, que se-
ducta nuper ab alto
NOT^E.
Though *i.~up.. but __ an - atom aiom in 111 immensity, iiiinitiKr.ij,
Gold frets lo dust.—yet there ye are ; Still lam something fashioned by thy hand!
Time row the diamond.—there yc roll
1 hold a middle rank ranfc 'twixt ....-*.. heaven ._.. and - earth,
In primal light, as if eac-h star
On the last verge of mortal being stand,
Enshrined an everlasting soul!
Upon the realms where angels have their birth.
And does it not since your bright tlirongs Close to the boundaries of tbe spirit-land !
nuseu One all-enlightening mere »j pure, Spirit aiu^.^u. own, «.-0 -, The chain of being it* complete in me,
Praised Eternal, there glorious, lr> pure, blest, sidere alone ? REPOSITORY. In me ia matter's last gradation lost,
I And the next step is spirit Deity_
These are the stars,
'ie lightning, and am dust!
But raise thy thought from sense, nor think to find
a slave ; a worm, a god!
Such figures as upon globes arc designed. CRBECH.
5. Mentis
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capactus:
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more capable
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V. tornuzaeorum: me _u, .,, , ...-, , found understanding. The opinions of the
not mere images, but the gods themselves. nncicntg aereed in many raspects with the.
The heavens are the .Lord's, but the earth hath account of Moses:
he given to the children of men. PSALMS. And breathed into hie nostrils the breath of
2. Solum. That which sustains any
life, and he became a living soul. GENESIS.
thing, applied equally to heaven, the earth, To this the Hebrews agree, when they say,
""-"to/ -t-r"
1 "' ~ —-'— that God d gave to 10 mail man a a =-,„ soul by