THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
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108<br />
P. OVIDII <strong>NASO</strong>NIS<br />
Bos quoquc Formosa est. Specimen Saturnia vaccffi 45<br />
(Juanquam invita, probat: nee non et cujus, et unde<br />
Quove sit armento, veri quasi nescia, quasrit.<br />
Jupiter e terra gcnitam mentitur, ut auctor<br />
Desinat inquiri. Petit hanc Saturnia munus.<br />
Quid facial ? crudele, suos addicere amores : 60<br />
Non dare, suspcctum. Pudor est, qui suadeat illinc;<br />
Hinc dissuadet amor. Victus pudor esset amore:<br />
Sed leve si munus sociae generisque torique<br />
Vacca ncgaretur, poterat non vacca videri.<br />
Pellice donata, non protinus cxuit omnem<br />
Diva metum ; timuitquc Jovem, et fuit anxia furti<br />
Donee Aristoridac servandam tradidit Argo.<br />
Centum luminibus cinctum caput Argus habebat.<br />
Inde suis vicibus capiebant bina quietem ;<br />
Cffitera servabant, atque in statione mancbant.<br />
Constiterat quocunque modo, spectabat ad lo:<br />
Ante oculos lo, quamvis aversus, habebat.<br />
Luce sinit pasci: cum Sol tellure sub alta est,<br />
NOT/E.<br />
45. Salurnia. Juno, the daughter of<br />
Saturn.<br />
45. Specimen: the appearance ; the form.<br />
46. Quanyuam invita: though unwilling.<br />
Juno huied her because of her adultery,<br />
yet affected to be pleased with her appear<br />
ance, that she might get her into her power.<br />
4(3. Cujus: whose she was?<br />
4fi. Unde: from what place she came ?<br />
47. Q uasi mscia. As it" slie did not<br />
know her real character.<br />
48. Genilam: that she was sprung.<br />
48. Auclor: the owner; the creator.<br />
50. A dticeie: to deliver up.<br />
50. Suos amores: his love ; his mistress.<br />
The absiract amor is put for the concrete<br />
amata, viz. lo.<br />
51. Jlliac: from that; from refusing to<br />
give lo lo Juno.<br />
52. Ilinc: from this; from giving her up<br />
to Juno.<br />
5!i. Sociee: to the participant of his race<br />
and couch.<br />
54. Non potrrat. She could not appear<br />
to be a heifer, if Jupiter would refuse to<br />
give her 10 his wife.<br />
55. f cilice donula: when the harlot was<br />
given lo her.<br />
56. Tiuiitiique Jovem: she was qfraid of<br />
Jupiter. She was under apprehension that<br />
Jupiter would take some means to get the<br />
heifer out ot" her possession.<br />
56. Anxia furli: was solicitous about<br />
the adultery." She was fearful that Jupiier<br />
mightehangc her again into the human iorm,<br />
and again violate his marital obligations.<br />
57. Arittonlee: the son of Aristor.<br />
58. A rgo. The son of Aristor who<br />
married Ismene, the daughter of Asopus.<br />
He had an hundred eyes, only two of which<br />
55<br />
00<br />
LIBER I.<br />
vultus Inachidos in<br />
llitenlcm juvcncam.<br />
Bos quoque est for-<br />
mosn.<br />
48. Jupiter mentiiur<br />
iUam genitum esse e<br />
terra, ut auctor rlesi-<br />
nat miitiirt. Saturnia<br />
petit hanc mimiis.<br />
5t. Puilcr cdl. qui<br />
suadeat illinc; amor<br />
disauadet lime. Tudor<br />
esset victus nwve:<br />
Bed si vacca. leve mu<br />
nus, negiiretur sociffi<br />
genen^que torique,<br />
55. Diva, donat&<br />
pellice, non protinus<br />
exuit omnem mcmm;<br />
timuitque Jovem, et<br />
fuit anxia lurti; do<br />
nee tvadidit Ansto-<br />
ridae Ar^o servan-<br />
dam. Argus hahcbat<br />
caput cmcluin centum<br />
Inininibns. hide bina<br />
capichaut quiutcm su-<br />
ia vicilms ; conera<br />
servalimit,<br />
63. Smilpasciluce"<br />
slept in succession. Some mythologists<br />
state that one-half of his eyes slept at the<br />
same time. By Argus is meant heaven,<br />
and his eyes are the sfnrs. The two that<br />
were fabled to watch lo, or the upper hemi<br />
sphere, were the sun and moon. By Mer<br />
eury killing Argus, Macrobius and Ponta-<br />
mts understand Apollo; but I have shown<br />
that the horizon is meant by Mercury.<br />
Macrobius considers Argeiphomes to he the<br />
sun, at whose rising the hundred eyes of Argu<<br />
are put Out. WILKINSON.<br />
Argus is heaven: ethereal fires his eyes,<br />
Tliul wake liy turns; and stars tliat set nnd riee<br />
These sparkle on the brow of shady ui.^ht;<br />
But when Apollo rears his glorious Iijilit,<br />
They, vanquished by so great a splendor, die.<br />
1'ONTANVS.<br />
Close behind,<br />
In wrathful mood, walked Argus, earthborn<br />
herdsman,<br />
With all hie eyes observant of my slrps.<br />
jCBCllYLUS<br />
59. Inde: thence; of them.<br />
59. .Suis vicibus: in their turns.<br />
59. Bina: two at a time.<br />
60. Servalant: watched.<br />
60. In slatioiic: in station; upon guard<br />
like soldiers. Hence Cicero:<br />
Oculi tnnquam speculalorcs in arcc collocati.<br />
DE NATUOA UEOKUM.<br />
61. Quocunque modo: in whaicver way<br />
he stood.<br />
62. Quamvis aversus : though turned<br />
away from her; though she was behind his<br />
back; for his head was encircled wi'li eye8<br />
63. Luce: during the light; by d:iy.<br />
63. Cum sol tellure: when the sun is be-<br />
ncaih the deep earth.<br />
Where ihe searching eye of heaven is hid<br />
Behind the globe, and ''glits the lower world<br />
SHAKBPEAKI<br />
FABULA XIII. METAMORPHOSED N.<br />
Claudit, et indipno circumdat vincula collo.<br />
Frcndibus arbuteis, et amara pascitur herba: 65<br />
Prcque toro, terra non semper gramen habenti<br />
Incubat infelix: limosaque flumina potat.<br />
Ilia etiam supplex, Argo cum brachia vellet<br />
Tenderc ; non habuit quffi brachia tenderet Argo:<br />
Conatoque queri, mugitus edidit ore: 70<br />
Pertimuitque sonos : propriaque exterrita voce est.<br />
Venit et ad ripas, ubi fudere stepe solebat,<br />
Inachidas ripas, novaque ut conspexit in unda<br />
Cornua, pcrtimuit, seque externata refugit.<br />
Nai'des ignorant, ignorat et Inachus ipse 75<br />
duffi sit. At ilia patrem sequitur, sequiturque sorores;<br />
Et patitur tangi, seque admirantibus ofierl.<br />
Decerptas senior porrexerat Inachus herbas ;<br />
Ilia manus lambit, patriisque dat oscula palmis;<br />
Ncc retinet lacrymas ; et, si mod6 verba sequantur, 80<br />
Orel opem, nomenque suum, casusque loquatur.<br />
Littera pro verbis, quam pes in pulvere ducit,<br />
Corporis indicium mutati triste peregit.<br />
Me miserum! exclamat pater Inachus; inque gementis<br />
Cornibus, et nivea; pendens cervice juvenca?, 85<br />
Me miserum.! ingeminat: tune es quajsita per omnes,<br />
NOT^E.<br />
64. Claudit: he shuts her up, viz. in a<br />
stable.<br />
64. Indigno collo: her neck unworthy<br />
undeserving of chains. So line 56, Lib. I.<br />
Fab. XII.<br />
66. fro toro. Instead of the soft and<br />
downy couch which she was wont to press,<br />
she is forced to lie upon the ground, which<br />
was often without a covering of grass, hard<br />
and siony.<br />
69. Non liabuil. Supply trnchia. Hod<br />
not arms, which arms she could extend to<br />
Argus.<br />
70. Mugitus edidit. When she attempt<br />
ed to complain, instead of being able to<br />
speak, she could only low after the manner<br />
of a heifer.<br />
71. fropria voce. Was affrighted at the<br />
sounds which her own voice uttered.<br />
72. Ubi Itulcre. Where she was often<br />
accustomed to play. This is a pathetic<br />
cireumsiance that appeals to the heart with<br />
all the freshness and leeling oi early recol<br />
lections.<br />
73. Ut conspexit. When she saw her<br />
horns in the water she was frightened.<br />
Aetteon, in like manner, when changed<br />
into a stag, is horrified at the sight of his<br />
horns.<br />
Ut verb solitis sua cornua vidit in undis,<br />
Me niiserum ! dicturus erat.<br />
n. Lib. iii.<br />
75. Naidfs. The goddesses of fountains<br />
and rivers ; here they were the attendants<br />
and daughters of Inachus.<br />
109<br />
cum Sol est sub altfl<br />
tellure, clnudit. et cir-<br />
cumdat vincula mdig-<br />
no collo Pascitur ar<br />
buteis frondibus et<br />
amaru. hcrba: que<br />
infelix inenbat terras<br />
68. Ilia enum sup<br />
plex, cum Vtllet ten-<br />
dere brachia Argo:<br />
no« habuit brlicTiia<br />
qua? teuderci Arpo:<br />
quae edidit mugitus<br />
ore, conato queri:<br />
perlimuitqne BOIIOS :<br />
que exterrita est pro-<br />
pria voce. Kt venit<br />
ad ripas. nbi saipe<br />
75. Naides igno<br />
rant, et Inaehus ipse<br />
ignorat quo; sit. At<br />
ilia scquitnr patrem,<br />
sequiturque sorores:<br />
et pallliir tangi, que<br />
ofifertse ndmirantibus.<br />
Senior Inachus<br />
fcO. Nee retinet la<br />
crymas; et si mod6<br />
verba sequantar, oret<br />
opem, que loquatur<br />
suum nomen, casus<br />
que. Littera pro ver<br />
bis, quam pes ducit<br />
in pulvere, peregit<br />
iriste indicium niututi<br />
86. Tune es nata,<br />
qucesita mihi per om-<br />
75. Ignorat et Inachus. What a melan<br />
eholy change! The sister Naiads, her<br />
very father, does not know her.<br />
He hath put my brethren far from me, and<br />
mine acquaintance are verily estranged from<br />
me. My kinsfolk have failed", and my familiar<br />
friends have forgotten me. JOB xix.<br />
80. Nee Tctinel lacrymas: nor restrains<br />
her tears.<br />
80. Si modo. If she only had the power<br />
of speech.<br />
82. Littera. Retaining the use of her<br />
reason, although her body had suffered<br />
transformation, lo wrote her name in the<br />
sand, and the history of her misfortunes.<br />
The impression of the cow's foot is that of<br />
an I inside of the letter O ; but this mere<br />
impression, of itself, could have detailed<br />
nothing to her father, unless it is fabled,<br />
that only since the days of IO, the feet of<br />
cows have had the peculiar impression to<br />
which we have referred.<br />
82. Fes ducit: her foot traces In the<br />
dust.<br />
83. Indicium pengit: gave the discovery.<br />
85. Pendens cervice: hanging upon the<br />
neck. This recumbent attitude is the true<br />
one of overwhelming sorrow.<br />
86. Ingeminat: he repeats again. The<br />
repetition of short, broken sentences is the<br />
very language of true grief. Thus David<br />
over Absalom:<br />
O. my son Absalom, my son, my son Absa<br />
lom! would God I hud died for thee, O Absa<br />
lom, my son, my son! 2 SAMUEL xvni.<br />
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