THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
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96 P. OVIDII N ASONIS<br />
Dixerat: ista decent humeros gestamina nostros,<br />
Q,ui dare certa ferae, dare vulnera possumus hosti;<br />
Q,ui modo, pestifero lot jugera ventre prementem,<br />
Stravimus innumeris tumidum Pythona sagittis.<br />
Tu face nescio quos esto contentus amores<br />
tmtare tua; nee laudes assere nostras.<br />
Filius huic Veneris ; Figat tuus omnia, Phoebe;<br />
Te meus arcus, ait: quantoque animalia cedunt<br />
Cuncta tibi, tanto minor est tua gloria nostra.<br />
Dixit, et eliso percussis ae're pennis,<br />
Impiger umbrosa Parnassi constitit arce;<br />
Eque sagittifera promsit duo tela pharetra<br />
Diversorum operum. Fugat hoc, facit illud amorem;<br />
Quod facit, auratum est, et cuspide fulget acuta:<br />
Quod fugat, obtusum est, et habet sub arundine plumbum<br />
Hoc Dcus in nympha Penei'de fixit; at illo 21 0 1<br />
Lossit Apollineas trajecta per ossa medullas.<br />
5. Quidquetibi? what have you to do?<br />
Supply est.<br />
5. Fortiltus armis : with gallant arms;<br />
viz. with the bow and arrows.<br />
Winged was the boy, and nrms he wore,<br />
Behind him shafts, a bow before. ANACRBON.<br />
6. Ista gestamina: these burdens; the<br />
bow and arrows.<br />
6. Decent humeroi: become our shoul<br />
ders.<br />
Vos Tempe totidem tollite landibus;<br />
Na'.alemque. mares, Delon Apolliius,<br />
Iiisignemque pharetra<br />
Frnternaque humerum lyra. HORACE.<br />
1. Qui. The relative qui agrees with<br />
the primitive nos, in the possessive nostros.<br />
See Grammar, Rule VI., n. 5.<br />
7. Certa: unerring wounds. Supply<br />
vulnera.<br />
9. Stravimus: prostrated; slew.<br />
9. Tumidum Pythona: swelling Python.<br />
Poisonous serpents generally, when ex<br />
cited, increase greatly in size.<br />
The snake on herds and flocks that poison<br />
spreads;<br />
Now, while he threats, and swells liis hissing<br />
crest,<br />
Crush with huge stones and clubs tli* enven<br />
omed pest. VmGiL, Georgic iii.<br />
10. Eslo contenlus: be satisfied.<br />
10. Face irrilare: to excite ; to kindle by<br />
thy torch. As fire is the most penetrating<br />
of all things, Cupid is represented with a<br />
torch, to inflame the human breast.<br />
Through cottage-door, or paluce-porch,<br />
Love enters free as spicy winds,<br />
"With purple wings and lighted torch,<br />
With tripping feet and silvery tongue,<br />
And bow and darts behind him slung.<br />
G. P. MOBMS.<br />
10. Nescio quos: the love which I know<br />
not; the passion to which I am a stranger.<br />
This is haughtily spoken, as if love was a<br />
thing too effeminate for the conqueror of<br />
NOTVE.<br />
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LIBER 1.<br />
6. Dixerat que 1ns-<br />
civc puer, quid tibi<br />
cum fortibus armisT<br />
ista gestamina decent<br />
nostros humeros; qui<br />
possumus dare certa<br />
vulnera fertp, qui<br />
10. Qui modo stra-<br />
vimus Pythona pre-<br />
meiitem tot jugera<br />
pestifero ventre, tu<br />
midum innumeris aa-<br />
gmis. Esto tu con-<br />
tcntus irritare nescio<br />
qnos amores tuft face;<br />
nee assere nostras<br />
laudes. Filius Vene<br />
ris ait huic; Phcebe,<br />
tuus arcus ngat om<br />
nia ; meus arcus te :<br />
18. Hoc fugat, illud<br />
facit amorem. Quod<br />
.facit est auratum, et<br />
* 21. Deus fixit hoc in<br />
Pene'ide nymphft. at<br />
lllo IcGsit Apollineas<br />
the Python. He finds the passion some<br />
thing more serious than he had imagined it.<br />
lie jests at scars that never felt a wound.<br />
ROMEO AND JULIET<br />
11. Nee assere: nor assert; nor arrogate<br />
to thyself.<br />
12. Huic: to him ; Apollo.<br />
13. Te meus arcus. Supply fgat.<br />
13. Cedunt tibi: are inferior to you.<br />
14. Tanto minor: by so much is your<br />
glory less than mine. In proportion as the<br />
animals subdued by Apollo are inferior to<br />
that god, so is Apollo, wounded by Cupid,<br />
inferior to Cupid.<br />
15. Eliso acre: the air being cut; bring<br />
parted.<br />
15. Percussis pennis : with his shakea<br />
wings; by his flapping wings.<br />
16. Umbrosa arce: the shady peak.<br />
17. Eque. This word is a compound of<br />
the preposition e and the enclitic one.<br />
18. Diversorum operum: of different ef<br />
fects.<br />
18. Fugat hoc: this repels love.<br />
19. Quod facit: the arrow which causes<br />
love.<br />
19. Auratum est: is gilded. In an age<br />
where the dowry is often an object of<br />
greater care than the bride, it might be<br />
wittily said, that love's arrows, when<br />
pointed with gold, are sure to wound.<br />
20. Ottusum: blunt; without a point.<br />
20. Sub arundine : at the point of the<br />
reed. _ .<br />
21. Hoc: with this; the latter; the blunt<br />
one.<br />
21. Illo: with that; the former one; the<br />
arrow with the sharp point.<br />
22. jfrajecta per ossa . through th»<br />
pierced bones.<br />
Quick then his deadly bow he drew,<br />
And pierced my liver through and through.<br />
AKACREOIC<br />
FABULAXH. M ET AM O RPHOSEO N.<br />
Protinus alter amat; fugit altcra nomen amantis,<br />
Silvarum latebris, captivarumque ferarum<br />
Exuviis gaudcns, innuptEeque scmula Phccbes. 25<br />
Vitta ccercebat positos sine lege capillos.<br />
Multi illain petiorc : ilia aversata petentes,<br />
Impatiens, expersque viri, nemorum avia lustrat:<br />
Nee quid Hymen, quid amor, quid sint c-rnubic/curat.<br />
Sospe pater dixit: Generum mihi filia debes : 30<br />
gape pater dixit: Debes mihi nata nepotes.<br />
Ilia velut crimen, tasdas exosa jugales,<br />
Pulchra verecundo suffunditur ora rubore,<br />
Inque patris blandis haerens cervice lacertis,<br />
Da mihi perpctua, genitor charissime, dixit, 35<br />
Virgmitute frui: dedit hoc pater antfc Diana.<br />
Ille quidem obsequitur: sed te decor iste, quod optas,<br />
Esse vetat: votoque tuo tua forma repugnat.<br />
Phoebus amat; visaeque cupit connubia Daphnes:<br />
22. Medullas. The marrow is some<br />
times described as the seat of love; though<br />
the liver is more generally said to be.<br />
Kit mollis flurnma medullas<br />
Iiitereu, et taciturn vivit sub pectore vulnus.<br />
VIRGIL, Georgic iv.<br />
Continuoque nvidus ubi subdita flamma m<br />
dullis,<br />
Vere magis, quia vere calor redit ossibus.<br />
VIKGIL, Georgic. iii.<br />
24. Ferarum exuviis: the spoils of wild<br />
Nbeasts. Exuvias is derived from exuo, to<br />
put off. It relates to whatever is put off:<br />
thus of men, clothes, arms, &e.; ot beasts,<br />
the skins.<br />
25. JEmula P/uebes: the rival of Diana.<br />
2(j. Villa: n fillet; a headband.<br />
A belt licr waist, a Jilltt binds her hair. POPE.<br />
26. Positos sine lege: lying without or-<br />
, der; carelessly.<br />
27. Multi petiere: many courted her.<br />
27. Aversala petentes: hating thote court<br />
ing her,- hating her suitors.<br />
28. Jmpalieas expersque: unable to en<br />
dure, ana unacquainted with man.<br />
28. Avia lustrat: rambles over the path<br />
less parts.<br />
29. Hymen. - Hymen was the son of<br />
Bacchus and Venus, or of Apollo and one<br />
of the Muses. He was the god of mar<br />
riage, wore a crown of roses on his head,<br />
and held a loreh in one hand, and n purple<br />
vest in the other.<br />
31. Safe dixit. This line and the pre<br />
ceding form the figure called anaphora, a<br />
graceful repetition.<br />
32. Ttrdns jupalA•' marriage torches;<br />
here put, by metonymy, for marriage it<br />
self. It \vas the custom, in ancient times,<br />
for the bridegroom to lead his bride home<br />
at night by torchlight. Sometimes lamps<br />
were used.<br />
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NOTjE.<br />
97<br />
medullas, trajecta per<br />
ossa. 1'rotmus alter<br />
ainot; altera fugit no-<br />
men nmantis, que<br />
gaudens lutcbris<br />
88. Vittn coercebat<br />
co,iillos positos sine<br />
lege Multi petiere<br />
llliim: ilia avcrsuta<br />
petentes, impatien*<br />
e? persque viri, *<br />
30. Pater dixit scope;<br />
Film debes mihi ge-<br />
nerum. Pater dixit<br />
sicpe, Nnia debes mi<br />
hi nepotes. Ilia exosa<br />
Jugales tiedns velut<br />
crimcn, suftunditur<br />
pulchra ora verecun<br />
do ruliorc.que luurens<br />
blaudis laocrtis in<br />
cervice polris, dixit,<br />
37. Illc quidem ob<br />
sequitur ; sed iste de<br />
cor vetat te essequod<br />
optas tat: tuaque for<br />
ma repugnat tuo veto.<br />
Mopse, novas incide faces; tibi ducitur uzqr.<br />
VJECFL, Kclog. viii.<br />
And at midnight there was a cry made. Be<br />
hold tlie bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet<br />
him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed<br />
their lamps. MAT<strong>THE</strong>W xxv. 0, 7.<br />
33. Pulchra suffunditur ora: is suffused<br />
as to her beautiful countenance.<br />
I have marked<br />
A thousand blushing apparitions start<br />
Into her face ; a thousand innocent shames<br />
In angel whiteness, bear uwny those blushes.<br />
SUAKSFEAKE.<br />
33. Verfcundo rubore: with a modest<br />
blush. There is a blush of shame, as well<br />
as of modesty.<br />
Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty.<br />
SHAKSFEABE.<br />
34. Ilia liarens: she clinging to her fa<br />
ther's neck. This attitude of entreaty is<br />
like that of Phceton, when making e re<br />
quest, in Fable I., Lib. II.<br />
Quid mea colla tenes blandis, ignare, lacertis ?<br />
OVID.<br />
35. Da mihi perpctua: grant me to enjoy<br />
perpetual chastity. She endeavours to in<br />
fluenee him by the example of Diana, who<br />
implored and received this boon from Ju<br />
piter.<br />
Adg fidi irapScvirjv aiuvtov, a iriru, ^nXdtrircM'.<br />
CALLTMACIIUB.<br />
36. Pater: her father; Jupiter.-<br />
37. Ille obsequitur: he (Pencus) com<br />
plies.<br />
37. Sfd decor isle: but that beauty of<br />
thine. The poet himself speaks herp, and,<br />
by apostrophe, addresses the damsel in a<br />
irery complimentary mnnner.<br />
38. Vetat esse: forbids you to be what<br />
you wish; to remain a damsel.<br />
38. Sepugnut rolo: resists thy desire.<br />
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