THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
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P. OVIDII <strong>NASO</strong>NIS<br />
Virginitate Deam : ritu quoque cincta Dianas<br />
Falleret, et credi posset Latonia, si non<br />
Corneus huic arcus, si non foret aureus illi.<br />
Sic quoque fallebat. Redeuntem colic Lyceo<br />
Pan vidct hanc, pinuque caput praecinctus acuta,<br />
Talia verba refert. Rcstabat plura referre :<br />
Et precibus spretis fugisse per avia Nympham;<br />
Donee arenosi placitum Ladonis ad amnem<br />
Venerit: hie, illi cursum impedicntibus undis,<br />
Ut se mutarent, liquidas orasse sorores:<br />
Panaque, cum prensam sibi jam Syringa putaret,<br />
Corpore pro Nymphce calamos tenuisse palustres.<br />
Dumque ibi suspirat, motos in arundinc ventos<br />
Effecisse sonum tenuem, similemque querenti:<br />
Arte nova vocisque Deum dulccdine captum,<br />
Hoc mihi concilium tecum, dixisse, mancbit:<br />
Atque ita disparibus calamis compagine cerae<br />
Inter se junctis nomen tenuisse puellEe.<br />
NOTJE.<br />
LlUEE 1.<br />
0. Colebat Ortygiarn<br />
Deam sludlLS, ipsaque<br />
virginitnte. Quoque<br />
cincta ritu Dianx. fnl-<br />
lerel, et posset credi<br />
10 Latonia, si corneus<br />
arcus non foret huic,<br />
11. Fan videt hanc<br />
redeuntein Lyceocol-<br />
le, priEcinctus caput<br />
acutft pinu refert tulia<br />
verbn. Restnbnt re<br />
ferre plurn: et Nym-<br />
15 pliam fugisse per avia,<br />
spretis precibus; do<br />
nee venerlt ad placi<br />
tum amuem arenosi<br />
Ladonis: liic, undis<br />
impedientibus eursum<br />
illi, orasse liquidas<br />
19. Uumque suspi-<br />
20 rat ibi, veiitos motos<br />
in arundine, eflecisse<br />
tenuem sonuln, simi-<br />
lernque querenti. Que<br />
Deum, captum nov&<br />
arte que dulcedine<br />
VOCLS dixisse, Hoc<br />
concilium lecum<br />
8. Falleret: she would deceive you. Still her bosom rose fair still her cheeks smiled<br />
You would take her to be Diana.<br />
the same,<br />
While her sea-beauties gracefully curled round<br />
8. Latonia.' Diana, who was the daugh the frame;<br />
ter of Latona.<br />
And her hair, shedding tear-drops from all its<br />
9. Hnic. To Syrinx.<br />
bright rings,<br />
11. Pan. The god of shepherds, and of Fell over her white arms, to moke the gold<br />
the inhabitants of the country in general. strings.<br />
His parentage is uncertain. Some make Hence it came that this soft harp so long hath<br />
him son of Jupiter and Callisto; some of been known.<br />
To mingle love's langnaga with sorrow's «ad<br />
Jupiter and Thymbris; while oihcrs make tone;<br />
him the son of Mercury and Dryope, or Till thou didst divide them, and teach the fond<br />
Penelope. He had on his head horns, his lay<br />
nose was flat, and his t.highs, legs, feet and To be love when I'm near thee, and grief when<br />
away. MOOEE'S MELODIES.<br />
tail were those of a goat. The Egyptians<br />
worshipped Nature under the name of Pan.<br />
19. In arundine ventos. Lucretius says,<br />
11. Pinu. The pine was sacred to Pan.<br />
that it was the sighing of the wind among<br />
12. Vvrba rrfert: he addresses her. the reeds which suggested the invention<br />
14. Ladonis. The Ladon is a gentle of the Pandffian pipes:<br />
river of Arcadia, and a branch of the AI-<br />
Thus birds instructed man<br />
And taught them songs, hefore their art began:<br />
pheus.<br />
And while soft evening gales blew o'er the plains,<br />
15. Hie: here, viz., at the river Ladon. And shook the sounding reeds, they taught the<br />
16. Liquidas sorores: the nymphs of the swains:<br />
river Ladon.<br />
And thus the pipe was framed, and tuneful reed;<br />
18. Corpore pro Flympha: instead of the And whilst the tender Mocks securely feed,<br />
The harmless shepherds tuned their pipes to<br />
body of the nymph, who wos now changed love. CEEECII'S LUCRETIUS.<br />
into the reeds. Moore, the lyric poet,<br />
speaks in like manner of the transforma 20. Effecisse sonum: made a faint sound.<br />
tion of a syren into a harp.<br />
Thus Anacrcon:<br />
The pod pursued, with winged desire,<br />
Tis believed that this harp which I now wake And when his hopes were nil on fire.<br />
for thee<br />
And when he thought to hear tlio sigh<br />
Was a syren, of old, who Bung under the sea, "With wliich ennmored virgins die,<br />
And who often at eve, througli the bright billow lie only heard the pensive air<br />
roved,<br />
^Tiispering amid her leafy hair! ODE Ix.<br />
To meet on the green shore a youth whom she<br />
loved.<br />
22. Concilium: reconciliation.<br />
But she loved him in vnin, for he left her to weep, Conciliis et dissidiis excrcila crebris.<br />
And in tears, all the night her gold ringlets to<br />
LVCRHTIDS<br />
steep.<br />
23. Disparibus calamis: reeds of unequal<br />
Till heav'n looked, with pity, on true-love so length.<br />
warm,<br />
And changed to this soft harp the sea-mmden'8 24. Nomen paella: the name of the girl.<br />
form!<br />
Syrinx signifies a pipe.<br />
FABUIA XIV. MET AMORPHOSEO N.<br />
Talia dicturus vidit Cyllenius omnes<br />
Succubuisse oculos, adopertaque lumina somno<br />
Supprimit extemplo vocem; firmatque soporem",<br />
Languida permulcens medicata lumina virga.<br />
Nee mora ; falcato nutantem vulnerat ense,<br />
Qua collo confine caput: saxoque cruentum<br />
Dejicit: et maculat prEeruptarn sanguine cautem.<br />
Arge, jaces : quodque in tot lumina lumen habebas,<br />
Exstinctum est: centumque oculos nox occupat una.<br />
Excipit hos, volucrisque sure Saturnia pennis<br />
Collocat, et gemmis caudam stellantibus implet.<br />
Telling us how fair trembling Syrinx fled<br />
Arcadian Pan, with such a fearful dread.<br />
Poor nymph, poor Pan, how he did weep to<br />
find<br />
Naught but a lovely sighing of the wind<br />
Along the reedy stream; a~half-heard strain,<br />
Full of sweet desolation balmy pain. KEAZS.<br />
25. Cyllenius: the Cyllenian. Mercury<br />
is thus called, from Cyllene, a mountain in<br />
Arcadia, where he was born.<br />
26. Succubuisse oculos: that his eyes<br />
had yielded; were overcome with sleep.<br />
28. Medicata virga: with his magic<br />
wand.<br />
29. Nutantem: as he nods.<br />
29. Falcato ense; with his crooked sword,<br />
shaped like a sickle.<br />
Where is Arcadia, and for what cele<br />
brated ?<br />
Who was Syrinx ?<br />
Who were the Hamadryads ?<br />
Who were the Satyrs? Faune? Sylvans?<br />
Why was Diana called the Ortygian ?<br />
Why was she called Latonia?<br />
Whom did Syrinx imitate in her actions ?<br />
Who was Pan ?<br />
With whom did he fall in love ?<br />
Did she favor his suit ?<br />
When about to be taken, what request<br />
did she make of her sister nymphs ?<br />
NOT^E.<br />
QILESTIONES.<br />
117<br />
25 E5- Cyllenius dictu<br />
rus talia, vidit omnes<br />
oculos succubuisse,<br />
luminaque eilonrrta<br />
KMeomno. Extemplo<br />
supprimit vocem. fir-<br />
matque soporem.<br />
89. Vulnerat ilium<br />
30 nutantem, falcato en<br />
se, ex ea partc qua ca<br />
put est confine collo;<br />
dejicitque ilium cru<br />
entum snxo, et macu<br />
lat prEeruptarn cautem<br />
sanguine.<br />
34. Saturnia excipit<br />
OOO<br />
EOS, que collocat pen<br />
nis sum volucris,<br />
33. Nox una: a common night; the<br />
darkness of death.<br />
34. Volucris tuts : of her bird; ' of the<br />
peacock which was sacred to Juno, and<br />
drew her chariot. As the lower nir or at<br />
mosphere, mythologically called Juno, is<br />
ihe medium through which light is trans<br />
mitted, the peacock covered over with<br />
eyes, in being sacred to Juno, is designed<br />
to emblematize the fact.<br />
35. Gemmis stellantibus: with starry<br />
gems.<br />
The crested cock whose clarion sounds<br />
The silent hours, and the other whose gay trail<br />
Adorns him, colored with the florid hue<br />
Of rainbows and starry eyes. MILTON.<br />
What transformation took place ?<br />
What did Pan do with the reeds ?<br />
What is the meaning of Syrinx ?<br />
Why was she said to be the daughter ot<br />
the river Ladon ?<br />
How does Lucretius say the invention of<br />
the pipe was suggested ?<br />
When the relation of the story had lulled<br />
Argus to sleep, what did Mercury do to<br />
him?<br />
What did Juno do with his eye* ?<br />
Mythologicnlly, how do we account tot<br />
the peacock being sacred to Juno ?<br />
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