THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
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156 P. OVIDII <strong>NASO</strong>NIS<br />
Nee positu variare comas : sed fibula vestem,<br />
Vitta coercuerat neglectos alba capillos,<br />
Et modo leve manu jaculum, modo sumpserat arcum.<br />
Miles erat Phrebes : nee Meenalon attigit ulla 15<br />
Gratior hac Trivite. Sed nulla potentia longa est.<br />
Ulterius medio spatium Sol altus habebat;<br />
Cum subit ille nemus, quod nulla ceciderat solas.<br />
E\uit luc humero pharetram, lentosque retendit<br />
Arcus ; inque solo, quod texerat herba, jacebat: 20<br />
Et pictam posita pharetram cervice premebat.<br />
Jupiter ut vidit fessam, et custode vacantem:<br />
Hoc certe conjux furtum mea nesciet, inquit:<br />
Aut si rescierit, sunt, 6 sunt jurgia tanti!<br />
Protinus induitur faciem cultumque Diana;: 25<br />
Atque ait, O comitum virgo pars una mearum,<br />
In quibus es venata jugis ? De cespite virgo<br />
Se levat; et, salve numen, me judice, dixit,<br />
Audiat ipse licet, majus Jove : ridet, et audit;<br />
Et sibi prffiferri se gaudct: et oscula jungit: 30<br />
Nee moderata satis, nee sic a virgine danda.<br />
Qua venata foret sylva narrare parantem<br />
Impedit amplexu : nee se sine crirnine prodit.<br />
Ilia quldem pugnat; superum petit cethera victor<br />
Jupiter: huic odio nemus est, et conscia sylva. 35<br />
12. Positu: by arrangement.<br />
12. Variare: to adorn.<br />
12. I/it. When she had prepared her<br />
self b« girding up her dress with a clasp,<br />
and l.er loose hair with a Jlltet, she was<br />
ready for the chase, and became an attend<br />
ant of Diana.<br />
13. Neglectos capillos: her unadorned hair.<br />
15. Miles: a soldier; an attendant.<br />
15. Phcsbea. Diana, the sister of Apollo.<br />
15. 3fosnalon. Mrenalns was a moun<br />
tain of Arcadia where Diana was accus<br />
tomed, to hunt.<br />
15. Trivite. Diana was called Trivia,<br />
either because of her threefold course un<br />
der the zodiac, or because she was wor<br />
shipped in the trivia, or highways, where<br />
three roads met, and where statues were<br />
set up with three heads, that of a horse, a<br />
doar, and a dog. representing her threefold<br />
character, as Luna, Diana, and Proser<br />
pine. The following lines most briefly<br />
and beautifully describe her triple nature<br />
and functions:<br />
Terret, lustrol, agit. Proserpina. Luna, Diana;<br />
Jinn, suprema, feras, sceptro, fulgore, sagitta<br />
ENMUS.<br />
16. Nulla potentia : no power is lasting.<br />
The instability of all terrestrial things pro<br />
claims their vanity.<br />
17. Ullerius media. The sun had passed<br />
his meridian j it was the afternoon.<br />
NOTJE.<br />
LIBER II.<br />
11. Opus hujus non<br />
erat mollire lanam<br />
trahendo; nee variare<br />
comas positu.<br />
15. Erat miles FhcB-<br />
Des; nee ulla gratior<br />
Tnviae ha>', attigit<br />
Mximlon: sed nulla<br />
polentia est longa.<br />
22. Jupiter, ut vidit<br />
iUam fesstim el vacan<br />
tern custoile; inquit,<br />
certe mea coiijux nes<br />
ciet hoc furtum: aut<br />
si rescierit, suul, A<br />
sunt jurgia tanti.<br />
27. Virgo levat Bo<br />
de cespile, et dixit,<br />
salve nurnen, me ju-<br />
rtice, tnajus Jove, licet<br />
ipse audiat.<br />
32. Trnpedit amplexu<br />
illam piLrinlem nar<br />
rare qua sylv& fbret<br />
venuta.<br />
18. Nulla tetas: no age, by metonymv<br />
for the men of no age.<br />
19. Eetendit arms : unstrung her bow.<br />
If they be not relaxed occasionally they<br />
become weak.<br />
22. Cuslode vacantem: without a pro<br />
lector.<br />
25. Protinus: immediately. It is wor<br />
thy of remark, that the poet, in doscribing<br />
the transformation of mortals, always re<br />
presents it as a gradual thing; but when<br />
speaking of the metamorphosis of the gods,<br />
describes it as instantaneous and invi<br />
sible.<br />
27. De cespile: from the turf. Cespet<br />
signifies earth covered with grass. Tnis<br />
agrees with what is said above:<br />
Im/tte soln, quod texerat herba.<br />
28. Me judice: in my judgmeut; I be<br />
ing judpe.<br />
31. Moderata satis: moderate enough.<br />
Thy cheek, thine eyes, thy lips to kiss,<br />
Ijike this and this no more thhn tins;<br />
For. Alia! sure thy lips are flame:<br />
Whnt fever ill thy veins is flushing?<br />
My own have neurly caught the sami ;<br />
At least, I feel my cheek too blus i ng<br />
BHIDE op ABYDOS.<br />
33. Imped.il amplexu: Le prevents by an<br />
embrace.<br />
35. Conscia sylva: the conscious wood ;<br />
conscious of the violence committed by<br />
Jupiter.<br />
TABULA IV. METAlttORPHOSEON.<br />
Unde, pedcm referens, prone est oblita pharetram<br />
ToJlere cum telis, et quern suspenderat, arcum.<br />
Ecce, sue comitata chore Dictynna per ahum<br />
Mtenalon ingrediens, et ctede superba ferarum,<br />
Aspicit hanc, visamque vocat: clamata refugit; 40<br />
Et timuit primb, ne Jupiter esset in ilia.<br />
Sed postquam pariter nymphas incedere vidit:<br />
Sensit abesse doles: numerumque accessit ad harum.<br />
Heu quam difficile est, crimen non prodere vultu !<br />
Vix oculos attollit humo: nee, ut ante solebat, 45<br />
Juncta Dote lateri, nee toto est aginine prima:<br />
Sed silet, et loesi dat signa rubore pudoris,<br />
Et (nisi quod virgo est) poterat sentire Diana<br />
Mille notis culpam : Nympha? sensisse feruntur.<br />
NOTJE.<br />
157<br />
38. Ecce Dictynna<br />
comitata suo clioro,<br />
ingrediens per altum<br />
Mcenalon, et superba<br />
c:ede ferarum, aspicit<br />
hune, vocntque earn<br />
visam: ilia clamala<br />
retugit: et timuit pri-<br />
mfi ne Jupiter esset in<br />
ilia.<br />
44. Heu quam est<br />
difficile non prodere<br />
crimen vultu!<br />
36. Pedem referens : withdrawing her to betray conscious gui!;, except in tne<br />
footsteps; departing.<br />
case of the most inveterate and hopeless<br />
38. Ecce. As she fled from the grove, depravity. This disposition of our nature,<br />
suddenly Diana passed along.<br />
in the case of murder, has been portrayed<br />
38. . Dictynna. . A name of Diana from om by Webster in the most powerful munncr:<br />
nim:, a net, because she employs nets in<br />
hunting wild beasts.<br />
Meantime the guilty soul cannot keep its own<br />
secret. It is false to itself; or rather it feels an<br />
41. fie Jupiter. She was afraid that it irresistible impulse of conscience to he true to<br />
was Jupiter again under the form of Diana. itself. It labours under its guilty possession,<br />
43. Abesse dolos: that there is no deceit. and knows not what to do with it. The human<br />
44. Crimen prodere: to betray guilt. heart was not made for the residence of such<br />
an inhabitant. It finds itself preyed on by a<br />
>15. Vix oculos. In the confusion con torment, which it does not acknowledge to Cod<br />
sequent upon guilt, the eyes are cast upon nor man. A vulture is devouring it, and it can<br />
the ground.<br />
ask no sympathy or assistance, either from hea<br />
All silent and unheeding now<br />
ven or earth. The secret which the murderer<br />
With downcast eyes. BYRON.<br />
possesses soon comes to possess him; mid, like<br />
the evil spirits of which we read, it overcomes,<br />
46. Juncta detp. In the days of her pu him, and leads him whithersoever it will. He<br />
feels it beating at his heart, rising to his throat,<br />
rity, she was always by the side of the and demanding disclosure. lie thinks the whole<br />
goddess ; but it was different after her world sees it in liis face, reads it in his eyes,<br />
Fall. Sin causes separation from God. and almost hears its workings in the yery si<br />
46. Ncc est prima. The light foot and lence of his thoughts. It has become his mas<br />
the light heart of innocence were her's no ter. It betrays his discretion, it. breaks down<br />
longer.<br />
his courage, it conquers his prudence. When<br />
suspicions from without begin to embarrass<br />
47. Sed silet : but she is silent. Her him, and the net of circumstances to entangle<br />
cheerfulness had departed from her. him the fatu] secret struggles with still greater<br />
49. Mille nolis: by a thousand marks ; violence to burst forth. It must be confessed,<br />
a finite number put for an infinite. It is it will be confess d, there is no refuge, from<br />
natural for the countenance and manners confession but suicide, and suicide is confes<br />
sion. SPEECH ON <strong>THE</strong> TRIAL <strong>OF</strong> J. F. KNAPP<br />
What journey did Jupiter mate ?<br />
For what purpose ?<br />
Why was Arcadia peculiarly dear to him ?<br />
Where was Nonacris ?<br />
With whom did he meet there ?<br />
What was her name ?<br />
What were the employments of this vir<br />
gin ?<br />
How did he find her?<br />
What form did Jupiter assume ?<br />
What did the virgin say to him ?<br />
QUJESTIONES.<br />
What explanation do you give of the<br />
story?<br />
Who passed along shortly after the in<br />
jury done to Callisto ?<br />
Was she afraid of Diana ? Why ?<br />
What confirmed her that it was Diana<br />
who appeared ?<br />
Did she betray her guilt by her counte<br />
nance and manner ?<br />
Did Diana notice the change in her ?<br />
Did the nymphs notice it ?<br />
O