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 />
In promptu regere est: vix me patiuntur, ut acres<br />
Incaluere aniini; cervixque repugnat habenis.<br />
At tu, funesti ne sim tibi muneris auctor :<br />
Nate, cave: dum resque sinit, tua corrige vota.<br />
Scilicet, ut nostro genitum te sanguine credas,<br />
Pignora certa petis: do pignora certa timendo;<br />
Et patrio pater esse metu probor. Aspice vultus<br />
Ecce meos: utinamque oculos in pectora posses<br />
Inserere ; et patrias intus deprendere curas !<br />
Denique quicquid habet dives, circumspice, mundus, 95<br />
Eque tot ac tantis cocli, terrasque, marisque,<br />
Posce bom's aliquid: nullam patiere repulsam.<br />
Deprecor hoc unum; quod vero nomine pcena,<br />
Non honor est: pocnam, Phaethon, pro munere poscis.<br />
Quid mea colla tenes blandis, ignare, lacertis ? 100<br />
Ne dubita ; dabitur (Stygias juravimus undas)<br />
Gluodcunque optaris: sed tu sapientius opta. *<br />
Finierat monitus: dictis tamen ille repugnat:<br />
Propositumque tenet: flagratque cupidine currfls.<br />
Ergo, qua licuit genitor cunctatus, ad altos<br />
Deducit juvenem, Vulcania munera, currus.<br />
Aureus axis erat, temo aureus, aurpa summoe<br />
Curvatura rota ; radiorum argenteus ordo.<br />
Per juga chrysolithi, positceque ex ordine gemma,<br />
Clara repercusso reddebant lumina Phcebo.<br />
86. In promptu: easy.<br />
86. Vix me: scarcely do they suffer me,<br />
who am a god, and am known to them.<br />
89. Dum resque sinit : whilst the thing<br />
permits; while you can.<br />
91. Pignora certa : sure pledges; infal<br />
lible tokens.<br />
92. Aspice vultus: behold my counte<br />
nance troubled with all the anxiety of a<br />
father.<br />
94. Et deprendere: and discover.<br />
98. Deprecor: I deprecate; I beg to be<br />
excused from.<br />
99. Pcenam poscis: you ask punishment<br />
for a present. We, ignorant of ourselves,<br />
Beg often our own harms, which the wise<br />
powers<br />
Deny us for our good—SHAXSPEABE.<br />
Quid tarn dexlro pede concipis, ut te<br />
Conatus tlou pccnileat, votiqup peracti?<br />
Kvertere domns totes optantibus ipsis<br />
Dii faciles.—JUVENAL. SAT. x.<br />
102. Optaris: for optaveris by syncope.<br />
103. Finierat monilus. Phoebus had<br />
ended his admonitions.<br />
103. Ille repugnat: he (Phat'thon) re<br />
sists.<br />
104. Proposilumqne tenet: and holds to<br />
his purpose.<br />
105. Qua licuit : as long as he could.<br />
This was dont) in hope that his son would<br />
NOT-flE.<br />
90<br />
105<br />
110<br />
LIBER II.<br />
88. At tu nnte cave,<br />
ne sim tibi nuctor fu-<br />
nesii muneris. corri-<br />
geque tua vota, dura<br />
res siiiii.<br />
92. Kcce, aspice me<br />
os vultus: utiimmque<br />
posses inserere oculoa<br />
in pectora, et depren-<br />
dcre curas patrias in<br />
tus.<br />
100. Quid ignare te<br />
nes mea colla b]undis<br />
lacertis? Ne dubim<br />
quodcunque optaris<br />
dabitur, (nam juravi-<br />
mus per Stygias un<br />
das) sed optatn sapi-<br />
enlius.<br />
105. Ergo genitor<br />
cunctatus qua licuit<br />
deducit juvenem ad<br />
altos currus, munera<br />
Vulcania.<br />
abandon his intention of attempting to<br />
guide the chariot.<br />
10G. Deducit: he leads him; an especial<br />
mark of honor.<br />
106. Vulcania munera: the gift of Vul<br />
can who had made it. For the Bake of<br />
comparison, we give a description of Juno's<br />
chariot from Ilomer:<br />
On the bright axle turns the bidden wheel<br />
Or sounding brass: the polished axle steel;<br />
Eight brazen spokes in radiant order flame,<br />
The circles gold ofuncorrnpted frame,<br />
Sucli as the Heavens produce; and round the<br />
gold<br />
Two bra?en rings of work divine were rolled.<br />
The bossy naves of sol id silver shone;<br />
Braces of gold suspend the moving throne:<br />
The car behind an arching figure bore,<br />
The bending concave formed an arch before.<br />
Silver the beam, the extended yoke was gold,<br />
And golden reins the immortal coursers hold.<br />
^ ILIAD v<br />
107. Temo aureus: the pole was of gold.<br />
The pole is the part to which the horses<br />
are harnessed, by some called the tongue.<br />
108. Curvalura: the orb ; the rim.<br />
108. Kadiorumordo: the range of spokes.<br />
109. Chrysolithi. P recious stones of n<br />
gold color, whence the name xpv°6s, gold,<br />
and Xi'Sof, a stone. The chrysolite is a<br />
ferriferous silicate of magnesia.<br />
109. Ex ordine: plnced in order.<br />
110. fleddebant lumina : gave back the<br />
light.<br />
j"'/BUI.A I. METAMORPHOSEON.<br />
Dumque ea magnammus Phaethon miratur, opusque<br />
Perspicit; ecce vigil rutilo patefecit ab ortu<br />
Purpureas Aurora fores, et plena rosarum<br />
Atria: difl'ugiunt stclkc ; quarum agmina cogit<br />
Lucifer, et cceli stationc novissimus exit.<br />
At pater, ut terras, mundumque rubescere vidit,<br />
Cornuaque extremse velut evanescere Lunaa;<br />
Jungere cquos Titan vclocibus imperat Iloris.<br />
Jussa deaa celeres peragunt: ignemque vomentes-<br />
Ambrosia succo saturos przesepibus altis<br />
duadrupedes ducunt; adduntque sonantia frasna.<br />
Tum pater era sui sacro medicamine nati<br />
Con tig-it, et rapidas fecit patientia flammaa:<br />
Imposuitque comas radios ; pra?sagaque luctfls<br />
Pectore sollicito repetens susptria, dixit:<br />
Si potes hie saltern monitis parere paternis,<br />
Parce, puer, stimuli's, ct fortius utere loris.<br />
Sponte sua properant: labor est inhibere vclentes.<br />
Nee tibi directos placeat via quinque per arcus.<br />
Sectus in obliquum est lato curvainine limes<br />
NOT-ffi.<br />
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120<br />
125<br />
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133<br />
111. Dumque mag-<br />
naninius ThaBlhon<br />
miratur ea, perspicit-<br />
queopus; ecce vigil<br />
Aurora pnlefccit pur-<br />
pureas lores, et atria<br />
plena rosarum, ab ru<br />
tilo ortu.<br />
122. Tum pawr con-<br />
ligit ora sui nati sacr*<br />
meilicamine; et fecit<br />
patienlia rapida) flam-<br />
map.<br />
129. Nee via per<br />
quinque arcus direc<br />
tos placeat tibi. Kst<br />
110. Kepercusso Phwbo: from the re 118. Velocibns Horis: the swift hours.<br />
flected sun.<br />
These are said to be the servants of the<br />
111. Opusque perspicit: and examines sun, because they depend on his motions.<br />
the work.<br />
120. Ambrosias succo; with the juice of<br />
112. Ecce vigil Aurora ! Lo, the watch ambrosia. This is the fancied food of the<br />
ful Aurora; the goddess of the morning. gods.<br />
But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Axe sub Heapcrio sunt pascna soils eqnorurn:<br />
Walks o'er the dew or yon high eastern lull. Ambrosiam pro gramine habt-nt; sed fessa di.<br />
SlIAKSPEARK. urnis<br />
112. Eutiloalt ortu: from the reddening Membra ministeriis nutrit, reparatque lahori.<br />
sun-rise.<br />
METAM. Lib. iv.<br />
113. 'Plena rosarum: full of roses. The 121. Adduntque sonantia: and put on<br />
heavens in the morning are lit up with the jingling bridles.<br />
rosy light, hence the above fiction.<br />
122. Sacro medicamine: with a sacred<br />
114. Agmina cogit: collects the bands; ointment, that he may resist the heat of<br />
this is a military expression.<br />
the sun.<br />
115. Lucifer. The planet Venus, the 123. Patientia jlamnur: patient of the<br />
second in the solar system, is called Luci rapid flame ; able to endure it.<br />
fer when if precedes the sun in the morn- 124^ Imfosuitque coma:: and put the<br />
'ing, and Hesperus when it follows the sun rays on his head ; the crown which Apollo<br />
in the evening.<br />
wore, emitting rays in every direction.<br />
Nunlius Noctis. modo lotus, nnflis<br />
O diadem, thou centre of ambition,<br />
Hesperus, pulsjs iterum tenebris<br />
"Where all its different lines are reconciled<br />
Lucifer idem.—SENEC. in Hn'i'OL.<br />
As if thou wert the bnrning-gluss of glory '.<br />
DRYDES.<br />
115. Slat tone cceli: from his station in 124. Prcfsaga: presages; forebodings.<br />
heaven. When the morning star, Lucifer 127. Parce stimulis: spare the whip.<br />
is tho last to disappear. It is spoken of as 129. Nee tibi. He directs him not to go<br />
set fur a watch in heaven. Modern poets in a line parallel with the five circles that<br />
have employed the same thought.<br />
mark the zones; the Arctic, the Antarctic,<br />
The sentinel stars set their watch in the sky. the Tropic of Cancer, thf Tropic of Capri<br />
CAMPBELL. corn, and the Equinoctial: hut to go<br />
117. Cornua Lunce: the horns of the through the zodiac.<br />
moon, the extremities of the crescent 130. Sectus in obliquam. He speaks of<br />
moon.<br />
the zodiac, which extends eiglil degrees<br />
117. Etanescere: to grow dim. As the on each side of the ecliptic.<br />
tips of the moon reflect the light less 130. Lalo curvawtine: oi broad<br />
wrongly, they begin to disappear first. ture.<br />
M