THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
160<br />
P. OVIDII <strong>NASO</strong>NIS<br />
I procul hinc, dixit, nee sacros pollue fontes,<br />
Cynthia: deque suo jussit secedere coetu.<br />
Senserat hoc olim magni matrona Tonantis ;<br />
Distuleratque graves in idonea tempora pocnas:<br />
Causa morjE nulla est: et jam puer Areas (id ipsum<br />
Indoluit Juno) fuerat de pellice natus.<br />
Q.UO simul obvertit sievam cum lumine mentem;<br />
Scilicet hoc umun restabat, adultera, dixit.<br />
Haud impunfc feres: adimam tibi nempe figuram;<br />
Qua tibi, quaque places nostro, importuna, marito.<br />
Dixit; et arreptis adversa fronte capillis<br />
Stravit humi pronam. Tendebat brachia supplex:<br />
Brachia cocperunt nigris horrescere villis,<br />
Curvarique manus, et aduncos crescere in ungues,<br />
OfRcioque pedum fungi: laudataque quondam<br />
Ora Jovi, lato fieri deformia rictu.<br />
Neve preces animos, et verba superflua flectant;<br />
Posse loqui eripitur: vox iracunda, minaxque,<br />
Plenaque terroris rauco de gutture fertur.<br />
Mens antiqua tamen facta quoque mansit in ursa;<br />
Assiduoque suos gemitu testata dolores,<br />
Qualescunque manus ad coelum et sidera tollit;<br />
Ingratumque Jovem, nequeat cum dicere, sentit.<br />
Ah quoties, sola non ausa quiescere sylva<br />
N07VE.<br />
11. Sacrof fontes: the sacred fountains.<br />
They were sacred, because used by the<br />
goddess nnd her nymphs; or probably be<br />
cause all running streams were supposed<br />
to have a divinity residing in them.<br />
12. Cynthia. Diana, so called from Cyn-<br />
thus, a mountain of Delos, where Apollo<br />
and Diana were born.<br />
13. Senserat lioc: had perceived this<br />
the infidelity of Jupiter.<br />
15. Id ipsum: that very thing, viz. the<br />
birth of a son, by which Jupiter's dis<br />
grace was rendered public.<br />
17. Quo: whither; to whom, viz. Cal<br />
listo.<br />
18. Scilicet: forsooth. There is great<br />
anger implied in the use of this word.<br />
19. Haud impune: you shall not bear<br />
this with impunity.<br />
20. Importuna: wanton.<br />
21. Adversa a fronte: from the fore<br />
head.<br />
22. Humi pronam: prone on the ground;<br />
with her face to the earth.<br />
Prime to the dw«f. afflicted Waldgrave hid<br />
His lace ou earth. CAMPBELL.<br />
23. BracJiia cceptrunt. The transforma<br />
tion of the maid into a bear began to take<br />
place.<br />
23. Horrescere : to. become rough and<br />
shaggy with hair.<br />
15<br />
20<br />
25<br />
LIBER II.<br />
11. I procul hinc,<br />
nee pollue sacros fon-<br />
tes, jussitque cam se-<br />
cedere de suo ccetn<br />
17. Qu& Bimul ob<br />
vertit mentem sa:vam<br />
cum lumine, dixit.<br />
SI. Dixit: et capil<br />
lis nrreptis a fronte<br />
adverse, stravit Wan<br />
pronam humi. Sup<br />
plex tendebat brachia.<br />
27. Neve preces et<br />
verba superflua flec<br />
tant animos, eripitur<br />
posse loqui: vox ira<br />
cunda, minnxque, ple-<br />
30 naque terroris, fertul1<br />
de rauco gutture.<br />
34. Ah quoties non<br />
ausa est quiescere solft<br />
The same hour was the tiling fulfilled upon<br />
Nebuchadnezzar, and he was driven from men,<br />
and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was<br />
wet with the dew of henvcn, till his hairs were<br />
grown like eagle's feathers, and his nails like<br />
bird's claws. -DANIEL, chap. iv.<br />
25. Laudaia Jovi. Praised by Jupiter<br />
on account of its delicate beauty.<br />
26. Lato rictu: with wide jaws.<br />
27. Verbo. superflua: superfluous words;<br />
many entreaties.<br />
28. Posse loqui: to be able to speak;<br />
the faculty of speech.<br />
29. Fertur: is brought: issues.<br />
30. Mens antiqua: her former mind.<br />
Her reason remains unimpaired. On the<br />
contrary, when Nebuchadnezzar is driven<br />
from men, his body is not changed, but he<br />
has the spirit of a beast.<br />
Let his heart be changed from man's, nnd let<br />
a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven<br />
tunes pass over liim. DAXIEL, chap. iv.<br />
32. Qualescunqi*e manus: her hands<br />
such ns they were. They were hands<br />
formerly, but are now the fore-feet of a<br />
beast. The bear often walks on its hind-<br />
feet, and holds up its paws; and hence<br />
she is here said to lift up her hands in en<br />
treaty.<br />
33. Nequeat dicere: she cannot call him<br />
ungrateful. The loss of her voice pre<br />
vented.<br />
FABULAV. MET AMD RPHOSEO N.<br />
Ante domum, quondamque suis erravit in agris!<br />
Ah! quoties per saxa canum latratibus acta est;<br />
Venatrixque metu venantum territa fugit!<br />
Sjepe feris latuit visis; oblita quid esset:<br />
Ursaque conspectos in montibus horruit ursos:<br />
Pertimuitque lupos, quainvis pater esset in illis.<br />
35. Quondam suis. There is something<br />
mournful in this hovering of Callisto around<br />
the house which she formerly inhabited.<br />
Virgil, in like manner, represents Philo<br />
mela, after her metamorphosis, flying over<br />
her former residence:<br />
Quo cursu deserta petiverit, et quibus antd<br />
Jnfclix sun tecta supervolitaverit alis?<br />
ECLOOA vi.<br />
37. Venatrix: a huntress who had<br />
been a huntress.<br />
Why was Callisto driven from the re<br />
tinue of Diana 1<br />
What became of her afterwards?<br />
Why was the name Callisto probably<br />
given to her ?<br />
What were the Callisteia?<br />
Where were they celebrated ?<br />
In the temple of what goddess were the<br />
prizes given ?<br />
r liri—-:- ••<br />
Why is the name Parrhasis applied<br />
Callisto Inlliatn i ? •<br />
to<br />
Where was Parrhasia ?<br />
NOTvE.<br />
QU^STIONES.<br />
161<br />
35 sy'va. erravitque ante<br />
domum, in agris quon<br />
dam suis<br />
40<br />
38. OUila. Having forgotten that she<br />
is now a beast herselfT<br />
40. Pater. Her father Lycaon, who had<br />
been transformed into a wolf, as related In<br />
Fable VIII., of Book I. As all animals<br />
subsequent to that period were destroyed<br />
by the flnod, it is an error in the poet to re<br />
present Lycaon as then among the wolves.<br />
41. Ignara: ignorant; unacquainted with<br />
the fact that his mother had been changed<br />
into a bear.<br />
Was any change made in the mind of<br />
Callisto ?<br />
Was she fearful of the bears ?<br />
Why was her father said to be among<br />
the wolves ?<br />
Who was her father ?<br />
Why was he changed to a wolf?<br />
How will you interpret the metamor<br />
phosis of Csllisto ?<br />
Was there a Lycasan prince named Ju<br />
piter?<br />
Where did he hold his court ?<br />
o2