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