THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
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142 P. OVIDII N ASONIS LIBER II<br />
Ore trahit, currusque suos candescere sentit.<br />
Et neque jam cineres, ejectatamque favillam<br />
Ferre potest; calidoque involvitur undique fumo ;<br />
Quoque eat, aut ubi sit, picea caligine tectus<br />
Ncscit; et arbitrio volucrum raptatur equorum.<br />
Sanguine turn credunt in corpora summa vocato,<br />
.^Ethiopum populos nigrum traxisse colorem:<br />
Turn facta est Libye, raptis humoribus sestu,<br />
Arida; turn nymphse passis fontesque lacusque,<br />
Deflevere comis : queritur Boeotia Dircen;<br />
Argos Amymonen, Ephyre Pyrenidas undas.<br />
Nee sortita loco distantes flumina ripas<br />
Tula manent: mediis Tana'is fumavit in undis,<br />
Peneosque senex, Theutranteusque Caicus,<br />
Et celer Ismenos, cum Phoca'ico Erymantho,<br />
Arsurusque iterum Xanthus, flavusque Lycormas,<br />
Quique rccurvatis ludit Meandros in undis.<br />
Mygdoniusque Melas, et Tsenarius Eurotas :<br />
Arsit et Euphrates Babylonius, arsit Orontes,<br />
78. Candescere.- to glow with a white<br />
heat.<br />
79. Favillam: the embers thrown up.<br />
82. Arbitrio: at the will of the swift<br />
horses.<br />
83. In summa corpora • to the surface of<br />
their bodies; to the skin.<br />
85. Libye. A very arid part of Africa<br />
occupying a part of Barca and of Tripoli.<br />
86. Nymplue passis : the nymphs with<br />
dishevelled hair.<br />
87. Deflevere. They lamented their<br />
fountains now dried up.<br />
87. Dircen. A fountain of Bceotia, into<br />
which Dtrce the wife of Lycus, king of<br />
Thebes, was changed.<br />
88. Argos. The principal city of Argo-<br />
lis, a district of Peloponnesus, the Morea.<br />
88. Amymonen. A fountain of Argos<br />
into which Amymone, the daughter of<br />
Danaus, was changed.<br />
88. Eplajre. An ancient name of Co<br />
rinth.<br />
88. Pyrenidas unias : the waters of Pi-<br />
reniua, a fountain at Corinth, sacred to the<br />
muses.<br />
89. Ncc sortita: nor do rivers having<br />
obtained by lot distant banks; a peri<br />
phrasis for wide rivers.<br />
90. Tanais. A river of Scythia, now of<br />
Eussia, separating Europe and Asia, and<br />
emptying into Palus Masptis. or Sea of<br />
Aftoph. Its present name is the Don.<br />
91. Pnicns. A river of Thcssaly, which<br />
rises in Mount Pindus, and waters Tempe.<br />
91. Caicus. A river of Mysia emptying<br />
into Mare JEgeenm, or Archipelago. It is<br />
called Theulranteus, from Thcutras, king<br />
of Mysia.<br />
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83. Crcdunt populos<br />
JEthiopura turn irax-<br />
iose nigrura colorem,<br />
sanguine vocato in<br />
sunnna corpora.<br />
89. Nee flumina sor<br />
tita ripas distantes lo<br />
co, manent tuta: Ta<br />
nais fumavit in mediis<br />
undis<br />
92. Ismenos. A river of Boeotia whicn<br />
falls into the Euripus, or Strait of Negro-<br />
pont. It was sacred to the muses, accord<br />
ing to Pliny.<br />
92. Erymantho. A river, town, and<br />
mountain of Arcadia. Upon this moun<br />
tain Hercules killed the noted wild boar.<br />
93. Xanihuf. A river of Troy, large<br />
and rapid, which rises in Mount Ida. It<br />
was called Xanthus by the gods, and Sca-<br />
mander by men. In the Trojan war Vul<br />
can set it on fire; hence the poet says<br />
arturusque iterum.<br />
93. Lycormas. A river of ./Etolia, with<br />
sands of a golden color; hence called fa-<br />
vua Lycormas.<br />
64. MoMndros. A river of Asia Minor<br />
which rises in Phrygia, and running west<br />
erly, receives many streams on both oanks,<br />
and empties into Mare JEgteum, the Archi<br />
pelago. It has six hundred windings, and<br />
is said to have suggested to Daedalus the<br />
idea of the Cretan Labyrinth. The word<br />
to meander is derived from this river.<br />
95. Melas. A river of Mygdonia, which<br />
is reputed to render the wool of sheep that<br />
drank it black. Hence its name jy three mouths.<br />
106. Padum. The Po. called by the<br />
Greeks Eridanus, is the chief river of Italy.<br />
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