THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
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IMU<br />
106<br />
P. OVIDII <strong>NASO</strong>NIS<br />
Hasc domus, hre sedes, hzec sunt penetralia magni<br />
Amnis : in hoc residens facto de cautibus antro,<br />
Undis jura dabat, Nymphisque colentibus undas.<br />
Conveniunt illuc popularia flumma primum,<br />
Nescia gratentur, consolenturne parentem,<br />
Populifer Spercheos, et irrequietus Enipeus,<br />
Apidanusque senex, lenisque Amphrysos, et Aous.<br />
Moxque amnes alii: qui, qua tulit impetus illos,<br />
In mare deducunt fessas erroribus undas.<br />
Inachus unus abest, imoque reconditus antro<br />
Fletibus auget aquas, natamque miserrimus lo<br />
Luget, ut amissam. Nescit vitane fruatur,<br />
An sit apud manes. Sed, quam non invenit usquam,<br />
Esse putat nusquam ; atque animo pejora veretur. 20<br />
Viderat a patrio redeuntem Jupiter lo<br />
Flumine : et, O virgo Jove digna, tuoque beatum<br />
Nescio quern factura toro, pete, dixerat, umbras<br />
Altorum nemorum (et nemorum monstraverat umbras)<br />
NOTJE.<br />
7. Penetralia: the inmost recesses.<br />
7. Domus: the habitation. The foun<br />
tain of the river was thus called.<br />
9. Numphis: to the nymphs; the Naiada<br />
who inhabit the streams.<br />
10. Conveniunt illuc: nssemble thither.<br />
The poet here employs a beautiful circum<br />
stance in the geography of Greece for a<br />
highly poetic fiction. At the foot of Zygo,<br />
an elevation of Mount Pindus, the largest<br />
rivers of Greece take their rise, and di<br />
verge thence to nil the shores by which<br />
the country is bounded. Hence the rivers<br />
are said to have met for the purpose of<br />
consoling or congratulating Pene'us.<br />
Ah me 1 vvhnl draws thee liither ? art thou come<br />
Speclator of my toils? Mow liast tliou ventured<br />
To leave the ocenn waves, from thee so called.<br />
Thyrock-roofedgrottoesarchedhyNature'shand;<br />
Comcst thou to visit and bewail my ills ?<br />
JEsCHYLUS.<br />
11. Nescia gratentur: not knowing whe<br />
ther to congratulate or console her parent.<br />
Though his daughter was lost to him, it<br />
was an honor and a happiness for her to<br />
be loved by n god.<br />
12. Spercheos. A rapid river of Thessaly<br />
which empties into the Maltac gulf. Its<br />
banks were covered with poplars.<br />
12. Enipeus. A river of Thessaly which<br />
rises near Mount Othrys, and joins the<br />
Apidanus before it empties into the Pcneus.<br />
13. Apidanus. A river of Thessaly<br />
which empties into the Pene'us; it has the<br />
epithet of old, probably from the slowness<br />
of its flowing.<br />
13. Amphrysos. A river of Thessaly<br />
which runs by Mount Othrys, through the<br />
Crocian plain, and empties into the Pelas-<br />
gic gult. Apollo, when banished Irom<br />
heaven for lulling the Cyclops, fed the<br />
flocks of Admetus upon its banks.<br />
10<br />
15<br />
LIBER 1<br />
7. HBBC domus, ha<br />
sedcs, hffic sum pene<br />
tralia magni amnis:<br />
residens in hfic anlro<br />
facto de caulibus, da-<br />
bat jura undis, Nym<br />
phisque colentibusuu-<br />
d&s. Popularia ilum-<br />
ina coveniunl illuc<br />
primum,<br />
14. Moxque alii am<br />
nes : qui deducuntun<br />
das fessas erroribus<br />
in mare, qua impetus<br />
lulit illos. Iiiachua<br />
unus abest, que recon-<br />
ditus imo antro auget<br />
aquas fletibus, que<br />
miserrimus luget<br />
19. Sed tilam quara<br />
non iuvenit usquam,<br />
putat esse nusquam;<br />
atque veretur fiejora<br />
ammo. Jupiier vide-<br />
rat 16 redcuutem a<br />
patrio flumine: et dix<br />
erat, O virgo digna<br />
Jove,que factura nes-<br />
cio qucm beatum tuo<br />
13. Aous. A river of Epirus which<br />
rises from the earth, and flows eastwardly<br />
into the Ionian sea. It has its name most<br />
probably from its course; Sous being the<br />
Doric form of Zwj, the east.<br />
15. Fessas erroribus: wearied by their<br />
wanderings.<br />
1G. Inachus. A river of Argolis in the<br />
Peloponnesus, which falls into the Argolic<br />
gulf.<br />
17. Fletibus auget: augments the waters<br />
by his tears.<br />
In JL few months we find the heautifnl and<br />
tender partner of his bosom, whom he lately<br />
tk permitted not the winds of summer to visit too<br />
roughly," we find lier shivering at midnight, on<br />
the winter banks of the Ohio, und minuting her<br />
lean with the torrents that froze as they fell.<br />
WM. WIRT.<br />
17. lo. This is a Greek noun of the<br />
third declension in the accusative case.<br />
By lo sonic understand the moon, and the<br />
fable as relating to her motions,<br />
lo, in the language of the Argives is the moon.<br />
EUSTATHIUS.<br />
The phonetic name Aah, or loh, signifying the<br />
moon, is often found on the monuments of Kgypt.<br />
WlLKlNSOS.<br />
19. Amid manes: with -the ghosts; is<br />
dead. The manes were nlso considered as<br />
infernal deities, and were supposed to pre<br />
side over burial places, and the monuments<br />
of Ihe dead.<br />
20. Fejora veretur: fears the worst in<br />
his mind.<br />
OED. Duhia pro veris sclent timere reges.<br />
Cfi. Qui pavcl vanos metus \ eroB fatetur.<br />
SENBCA.<br />
21. Patrio flumine : from ?ier paternal<br />
river; from the Inachus. Tne river al<br />
ways bore the name of the god that pro<br />
sided over it.<br />
FAEULA XIII. METAMORPHOSE ON.<br />
Dum calet, et medio Sol est altissimus orbe.<br />
Quod si sola times latebras intrare ferarum,<br />
Prseside tuta Dec, nemorum secreta subibis:<br />
Nee de plebe Dec, sed qui coslestia magna<br />
Sceptra manu teneo, sed qui vaga fulmina mitto.<br />
Ne fuge me. Fugiebat enim. Jam pascua Lernze,<br />
Consitaque arboribus Lyrczea reliquerat arva:<br />
Cum Deus inducta latas caligine terras<br />
Occuluit, tenuitque fugam, rapuitque pudorem.<br />
Interea medics Juno despexit in agros:<br />
Et noctis faciem nebulas fecisse volucres<br />
Sub nitido mirata die, non fluminis illas<br />
Esse, nee humenti sentit tellure remitti:<br />
Atque suus conjux, ubi sit, circumspicit: ut quze<br />
DeprGnsi toties jam nosset furta mariti.<br />
Quern postquam coslo non rcpperit: Aut ego fallor<br />
Aut ego Iffidor, ait. Delapsaque ab aHhere sunimo<br />
Constitit in terris; nebulasque recedere jussit.<br />
Conjugis adventum przesenserat, inque nitentem<br />
Inachidos vultus mutaverat ille juvencam.<br />
27. Prceside Deo: a god your protector.<br />
Supply existente here.<br />
28. Sed qui. The god expresses briefly,<br />
but forcibly, the majesty of Jupiter's cha<br />
racter.<br />
Jove, in counsel wise;<br />
Father of gods and men; whose thunder-peal<br />
Kocks the wide earth in elemental war.<br />
ELTON'S HESIOD.<br />
29. Vaga fulmina: the wandering, ex<br />
cursive thunderbolts. This is not to be<br />
referred to inability in Jupiter to strike any<br />
desired object, for with him the bolt is un<br />
erring, and falls ^ herev r he listeth, but to<br />
the zigzag coui wh h he lightning takes<br />
in its passage th u^h the air.<br />
30. Lernce. A grove and lake of Argo<br />
lis in Greece where the Hydra lived that<br />
was slain by Hercules.<br />
31. Lyrccea arva : the Lyrcffin fields;<br />
the fields around Lyrceus, which was a<br />
nountain in Argolis in which the river<br />
Inachus took its rise.<br />
31. Jicliouerat. lo, fleeing from Jupiier,<br />
had passed by.<br />
33. Tenuitque fugam: repressed her<br />
flight.<br />
35. Noctis faciem: the appearance of<br />
night; darkness.<br />
35. Nebulas volucres: the floating clouds.<br />
36. Sub nitido die: in the bright day;<br />
during bright daylight.<br />
36. Nee Jluminis. C louds are caused by<br />
exhalations from rivers, or by vapors as-<br />
cendinp from the earth.<br />
39. Qua: ni'xset : w ho knew ; was ac<br />
quaint ed with. Nosset is by syncope for<br />
noitisstt.<br />
39. Furtt.: the adulteries.<br />
NOTjE.<br />
107<br />
25 toro, pete umbras al-<br />
torum nemorum<br />
26. Quod si times<br />
sola intrare latebras<br />
fcrarum, subibis se<br />
creta nemorum tuta<br />
DRO, preside: nee de<br />
plebe Deo. sed qui<br />
30 teneo coclestiasceptra<br />
ningnfr manu, sed qui<br />
miuo fulmina.<br />
35<br />
40<br />
34. Interea Juno<br />
despexit in medics<br />
agroB; et mirata vo<br />
lucres nebulas fecisse<br />
faciem noctis sub ni<br />
tido die, sentit illas<br />
non esse nuniilns, neo<br />
remitti humenti tel<br />
lure: atque circum-<br />
Bpicit, ubi suus conjux<br />
sit. 41. Delapsaqne ab<br />
mmo aethere ilia<br />
con itit in terris;<br />
ju tque nehulas re<br />
cedere. Ille prffisen-<br />
serat adventum con-<br />
jugis mut&veratque<br />
40. Ego fallor: I am deceived ; I err in<br />
my conjectures.<br />
41. hgo Icedor: I am injured. Her hus<br />
band was guilty of violating his faith to<br />
her.<br />
41. Delapsaque: gliding down; descend<br />
ing.<br />
43. Nitentemjuvencam: a beautiful hei<br />
fer. Several reasons arc assigned for the<br />
worship of the goddess Isis (lo) in Egypt<br />
under the form of a cow; some would un<br />
derstand by it agriculture, of which the<br />
cow was a type, and which in time came<br />
to be worshipped; while others think the<br />
animal was made sacred so that it could<br />
not be eaten; and thus agriculture would<br />
be promoted by the rearing of cattle for<br />
the plough.<br />
The utility of cattle, and the smallnes* of their<br />
herds, led the Kgyptians to prohibit the slaughtei<br />
of cows j theretore, though they killed oxen for<br />
the ultar and table; they abstained from the fe-<br />
m&les with a view to their preservation; and<br />
the law deemed it a sacrilege to eat their meat.<br />
1'ORPHYBT<br />
The Egyptians offer clean bulls and calves,<br />
but they are not allowed to immolate heifers,<br />
bec&use they are sacred to Isis, -who is repre<br />
sented in her statues under the form of a wo<br />
man with horns, as the Greeks figure lo.<br />
HERODOTUS<br />
44. Inachidos. Of lo, the daughter of<br />
Inachus.<br />
Straight was my sense disordered, my fuir form<br />
Changed, us you see. disfigured with these liorns;<br />
And tortured with the bryze'B horrid sting,<br />
Wiltl with my pain, with frantic speed 1 hurried<br />
To Cenchrea's vale with silver-windingslrenms<br />
Irriguous, and the fount whence Lerna spreads<br />
Its wide exp&nse of-waters.<br />
JEJCIIYLUS'8 I'KOHETEIL'S