THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO

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