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66 P. OVIDII <strong>NASO</strong>NIS Enumerare : minor fuit ipsa infamia vero. Moenala transieram latebris horronda ferarum, Et cum Cylleno gelidi pineta Lyccei. Arcades hinc sedes et inhospita tecta tyranni Ingredior, traherent cum sera crcpuscula noctem. Signa dedi venisse Deum ; vulgusnue precari Cceperat. Irridet prime pia vota Lycaon. Mox, ait, Experiar, Deus hie, discrimine aperto, An sit morialis ; nee erit dubitabile verum. Nocte gravem somno ncc opina perdere morte Me parat. Hiec Uli placet experientia veri. Nee contentus eo, missi de gtnte Molossa- Obsidis unius jugulum inucrone resolvit; Atque ita semineces partim ferventibus artus NOTÊ. And God saw Hint the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and tlmt every imagina tion of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. GENESIS vi. 5. They are gone aside, they are all together be come filthy: there is none that Uoeth good, no not one. PSALM xiv. 5. Minor fait vero: wag less than the reality. The report of the wickedness of mankind fell short of the actual truth. C. Mcenala. A mountain and city in Ar cadia, Greece, named from Maenalus, son of Areas; masculine in the singular, and neuter in the plural. See Grammar, p. 19. 6. Latebris horrenda: terrible on account of the dens of wild beasts. 7. Cylleno. A mountain in Arcadia, where Mercury was born, whence he is called Cyllenius. 7. Pinela Lycasi: the pine-groves of Ly- cffius. Derivative nouns ending in ttmn, denote the place where their primitives aboujid, as pmvs, a pine ; pinetum, a pine- grove. Lycffius is a mountain of Arcadia, sacred to Pan. Hence he is named LycEpus. 8. A rcados: Arcadian, a Greek adjec tive in the genitive case, agreeing with tyranni. Lycaon, who is here meant, is railed Areas, by anticipation, for it was his grandson after whom the counlry was called Arcadia. Before his time, it was called Parrhasia. 8. luliospita tecla.- the inhospitable house; the part being put for ihe whole. As Jupiter was the doit v who presided over hosptialily, how expressive the opilhet ap plied to tfdn. The arts that transpired, of impiety, perfidy, niurder,.and inhospitably, show it was very appropriaie. 9. Sera crepasritla : late twilight. In the decline of day, when there is a sabbmh- hke stillness upon the air, the soul natu- i rally aspires to heavrn. What time more | appropriate for the Deity to manifest himself to man ? It was in the coolness of evening that God visited his erring chil dren in Paradise. i LIBER I, K 5. Tpfla infamia fmt minor vero Tronsie- ram Manilla horrenda liUehr'S ferarain, et pineta gelidi S. Hinc mirredior sedes et inhospltn ter- ta Arcades tjranm, 10 cum sera crepusculi traherent noclem. Dedi signa Deum ii-- niBse; vulgus*jnc eo?- < peral prccnri l'rim& Lycaon irndet ]>ia vota. Mox ait. Kx- periar, discrimine 15 aperto, an hie Dcus sit mortaliso. Atone itapartirnmollit semi neces arms fervena- bus aquis. partirn torruit eabjecto igni And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. GENESIS iii. & 10. Signa dedi venisse Deum : I gave a sign that a god had come ; Borne manifest ation of divinity. 10. Vulgusque precari cceperat : the com mon m people had begun to worship. . The simple in heart are more willing to 5 ield to God' s will, and pay him adoration. Hence : Not many \vise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called : but God hath chosen the foolish things of tlic world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to conlemid thetlungi which are mighty. 1 COHINTHJAXS i. 20, 27. 11. Irridet pia vota : dendcs their pious prayers. It is sinful enough to be irreli gious, but infinitely worse to make light of piety in others, and endeavor to obstruct their devotion. But whoso shall ofiend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better lor him thnt a millstone \i ere hanged about his neek, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea MATT, xviii. 0. Ps e'er let the mystic Bacrinc.es move Deriding scorn ; but dread indignant Jove. HESIOD 12. Experiar. He would try whether he was a god or not, by an attempt upon his life. Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God. ST. MATIIIKV. 13. Nee erit verum .- nor shall the truth be doubtful. If a god, he could not bo slain ; if a mortal, he would be destroyed. 1 1. Nee opina morte : by an unexpected death. 1C. Nee contentus eo. Not content with having attempted to kill him, he offers hu man food to him. 17. Jiiifiiliim resolvit : he cuts the throat. 18. Sunineces artiis; the half-dead, qui vering limbs. With what a spring his furious soul broke loose, And leu the limbs still (jHicering oil the ground. AnmsoK FABULA VIII. METAMO'RPHOSEON. Mollit aquis, partim subjecto torruit igni. Q.UOS simul imposuit mensis, ego vindice flamma In domino dignos everti tecta Penates. Territus ille fugit, nactusque silentia ruris Exululat, frustraque loqui conatur: ab ipso Colligit os rabiem, solitseque cupidine coedis VertitlK in pecudus: et nunc quoque sanguine gaudet. In villos abeunt vestes, in crura lacerti, Fit lupus, et veteris servat vesiigia forma;. Canities eadem est, eadem violentia vultu: Idem oculi lucent: eadem feritatis imago. 19. Subjecto igni.- with fire placed be neath; over the" fire. 20. Imposuit menfis : get upon the table ; served up to be eaten. » 20. Vindice famma: with avenging flames; with lightning. Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people; for he \vill avenge the blood of* his servants. DEUT. xxii. 43. Vengeance is mine; I will repay, Baith the Lord. ROMANS xii. 10. Oar God is a consuming fire. HEB. xii. £9. 21. Domino; the master; the owner. 21. Tecta. The roof of the house is here put, by metonymy, forthc house itself. 22. Territus : affrighted he fled. The wicked flee from the presence of God ; thus Adam fled from the presence of Je hovah ; thus Cain fled after the slaughter of his brother. 23. Silentia ruris : the silence of the country; the lonely parts of the country. Silentia is here used, poetically, for the singular. 23. Exululat : he howls. He is already a wolf in propensities. What is the subject of this Fable 1 What induced' Jupiter to visit the earth 1 Under what form did he appear 1 In what state did he find the morals of men? What reception did Lycaon give him ? What attempt did he make against his life? What indignity did he offer him after wards ? What did Jupiter do to his palace ? How did he treat Lycaon himself? Where was Mount Lycseus situated ? What gave the mountain its name ? Was Lycaon the nomcn or cognomen of the king of Arcadia ? What were f he Lycaea ? To what dif ferent gods offered ? What were the Lupcrcalia? What is the etymology of the word ? NOTÊ. QU^STIONES. 67 Quos simul imporait raensls' ego vindice flamma everti tecta in Penates dignos do mino. - 22. Ille territus fu git, qtie nactua ai- Fentia ruris exululat, que frustra conatur loQ"i : os eolligit ro, biemah ipso. quc SO. Vestes abeunt in villos, lacerti in crura. Fit lupus, et servat vestigia ve- teriB formoe. Canities eet eadem, violentia 23. Ab ipso: ilself; from his own rave nous disposition. 24. Rabiem : rage; foam. 24. Cupidine cadis : wilh the desire ol wonted slaughter. 25. Vertitur- he is turned; he turns. VertUur has the force of a verb in the mid dle voice. 26. In villos abeunt: pass; are changed into hair. 27. Fit lupus .- he becomes a wolf. The foolish stories told among the northern na tions, of men changed to wolves, have had their origin from a disease called lycan- thropy, a species of madness, which causes men to rage and foam at the mouth, and cry like wolves. 27. Vestigia forma : traces of his former appearance; his hoariness and fierceness of countenance. 28. Canili's. The hoariness of the wolf, and the brightness of his eyes, are noted by all naturalists, from Pliny to the present time. .28. Eadem. The repetition in the two last lines of the fable, by means of the figure, anaphora, is beautiful and forcible. See Grammar, p. 209. Who is said to have founded the Luper- calia ? Under what circumstances may the Ly csea, in Arcadia, have become the Luper calia. and been offered to Pan ? What ie the first interpretation of tho change of Lycaon into a wolf? What is the second interpretation ? What makes it possible that reference if had to Nimrod ? Why may the fable have reference to tho history of Cain ? Repeat the points of resemblance between the history of Cain and the story of Lycaon ? What figure is used in the concluding lines of the fable ? What is anaphora ? *
TABULA IX. DILUVIUM. Having res'.ved to dejtroy Uis race of men by a delude, Jupiter sends the rain in totcntc. Ai .1 all Ci» Luarens. The s a as Jt.. with its auxiliai waters ; the inur ial. n c- rrar! j, r.r.d the Wv,rl:j of men perish, till the wbole surface of the earl .1 it .,u:i.i:; i an- every living thing ia destroyed, ex cept Deucalion ar'I Pyrrha. EXFLICATIO. The ancients gu e accounts of several floods that happened, some of which have been confounded u ith the great Noachic deluge. The flood described as that of Deucalion, lock place in Tlicssaly, according t) the Arundelian marbles, B. C. 1503, and was occasioned by the choking up cf the channels of the Pencils ami ether rivers, and the bursting of the sen through the Cyanean Straits and the Hellespont. The flood of Ogygcs, another king of Thessaly, is described as still more ancient, and sub merged all Greece But as Deucalion was the son of Prometheus, who is said to have created the first man, and as Ogyges was the son of Terra, or the Earth, it is very easy to perceive that Noah is the personage represented by these different princes, and that accounts of partial inun dations of the Grecian territory have been blended with the great diluvian catastrophe of the \\ orld. The name Ogygian, as applied to the deluge, would indicate Noah's flood, for it means the ancient. It is thus used by Hesiod in his Theogony, when speaking of the Ogygian water of the Styx, which is believed to be the waters of the internal abyss that assisted in the destruction of the world, " when the fountains of th«' great deep were broken up." But it is expressly stated by the Greeks themselves, that the names of Barbarians were rendered in their language and in others, so ns to pre serve their original meaning, and that Noah was the original of the names Noach, Sisithrus, Xisithrus, Ogygcs, and Deucalion. Besides this, there are so many striking coincidences between the description of Noah's flood, as given by Moses, and the different heathen accounts of a general inundation, that no doubt can exist that they all relate to the same occur rence. In the first place, it was designed as a punishment of the world for its wickedness, and was general. The waters of heaven, of the sea, and of the internal abyss, united to effect its destruction. The only man preserved, with his family, was noted for justice, and had been warned by Saturn (Jehovah) to prepare an ark for the preservation of himself, and the beasts, and birds, and creeping things. He entered the ark with these, and was borne in safety over the waters, and in time sent forth dif ferent birds, and at length the dove, to ascertain if the waters were dried up from the face of the earth. He learned, by these, that the flood had abated. He was carried to a mountain, disembarked in safety, and wor shipped the gods. These different heathen accounts, which, in illustra tion of the te\t of the poet, I have given with the Biblical parallelisms, will show they all relate to a common catastrophe, and are the traditions of the great Flood that occurred in the days of Noah. 68 ^ CCID1T una domus ; sed non domus una penre 1 _ Digna fuit: qua terra patct, fera regnat Erinnys. In (acinus jurasse pirtes. Dent ociiis omnes, ' ns?ent ' 7 lllls' m J«vena., works, there in none ll.ut iloetli goort. PSALM vi., trnincs imjilet numfrog, performs xiv. 1 all her parts. The poet evidently makes 3. In facivns jurasse : that they hud { reference to the Roman senate, in which sworn to comniit sin. Jnrasse is put, by thc principal senators, those elected by the eyncope, for juravisse. censor or other magistrate, had the privi 4. Sic slat snifrntia : so stand: Is my .. , reso- lege of speaking and of voting, while the lution. My determination is unalterably Pcdnrii, or those occupying seats by right fixed. of former offices among the people, after 5. Pars wee: a part with voice applaud tre senators of the majorum gi-nlmm had 69 L I
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