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. PHOSEON. Lib. I.
Pone metus, inquit, numquam tibi cauffa do-
Ions
Haec erit: & Stygias jubet hoc audire $ dudes.
Ut Unit a Dea ef, 'vultus capit ilia priores:
Pit que, quod ante fuit. fugiunt e corpore fetae:
Cornua decrefcmt :fit luminis artior orbis: 740
Contrahitur rittus: redeunt humerique ma-
nusque:
Ungulaque in quinos dilapfa abfumitur ungues.
De bove mlfuperef ,formae nifi candor, in ilia :
Offcioque pedum Njmphe content a duorum
Erigitur: metuitque loqui, ne more jwvencae
745
J\4ugiat: & timide 'verba intermijfa retentat.
Nunc Dea limgera colitur celeberrima turba.
Huic Epapbus magni gemtus de femine tan-
dem
Creditur ejfe Jovis:perque urbes junffa parenti
Templa tenet, fuit hmc animis aequalis st
annis 75®
Sole fatus Pha'ethon, quern quondam magna
loquentem,
JSfec fibi cedentem, Phoeboqueparente fuperbum,
JSlon tulit Inachides, Aiatrique, ait, omnia
demens
Credis > es tumidus genitoris imagine falfi.
Erubuit Phaethon, iramque pudore reprejfit:
755
Et tulit adClymenen Epaphi cowvicia matrem.
Quoque magis dole as, genetrix, ait: ille ego
liber,
Ille ferox tacui. pudet haec opprobria nobis
Et dici potuijfe, & non potuijfe referri.
At tu,fi mo do fum coelefi firpe ere at us ,j6o
Ede not am tanti generis: meque adfere coelo.
Dixit; £f implicuit materno brachia collo.
Per que fuum, Jderopisque caput, taedasque
fororum,
trader et, ora'vit, 'veri fibi figna parentis.
Ambiguum , Cljmene precibus Pha'ethontis,
an ira 765
Mot a maqis di&i fibi criminis; utraque coelo
Brachia porrexit: fpeffansque ad lumtna Solis,
Per jubar hoc, inquit, radits infigne corufcis,
Nate, tibi juro, quod nos audit que uidetque
Hoc te, quern fpeclas, hoc te, qui temper at
orb em, 77®
Sole fatum. fi fcta loquor, neget ipfe videndum
Se mihi; fit que oculis lux if a novifjima no-
ftris.
Nec longus labor eft patrios tibi noffe penates:
Undc
PHOSES. Book I. 39
She never more fliall caufe thy Grief or Fear,
His Vow he bids the Stygian Waters hear.
Appeas'd , the Nymph recover'd her Firft Look:
So Fair, fo Sweet 1 the Hair her Skin forfook:
Her Horns decreafe, the Sockets of her Eyes, ^
And her-wide Jaws, contract to lciTcr Size, C
Her Hands and Shoulders to their firft ProportionX
rife:
Her Hoofs to Nails diminiih j nothing now,
But that pure White retains flic of the Caw.
Then on her Feet her Body the erects,
Now born by Two. Herfelf flic yet fufpects,
Nor dares to fpeak aloud, left (he fliould hear
Herfelf to low j but foftly tries with Fear.
Now {he a Goddefi, is ador'd by Thofe
That Linnen wear, where {acred Nilus flows.
Hence fprung Jove's Epaphus, no lefs Divine,
Whofe Temples neareft to his Mother's join.
Equal to him in Spirit, and in Years, •
The Son of Phoebus, Phaeton appears j
Whom, while his Pride his Father's Race preferr'd,
The Son of Io with Reluctance heard,
Then Cays, fond Fool, believe thy Mother's Lies,
Proud of a fi&ious Father from the Skies.
He blufli'd,his Anger by his Shame's controul'd;
But fbon the Slander to his Mother told.
Ohl Clymene, he cries, to urge her more,
Ev'n I was dumb, who was fo brisk before;
Shame that this Scandal fliould disgrace my Name,
And no refuting Truth aflert my Fame.
But if I be defcended from Above,
Give me fome Proof, and this Reproach remove,
Then hangs about her Neck; by her own Head,
By Meropes, her Sifter's Nuptial Bed,
Then begs her to produce fome certain Sign
To prove his queftion'd Parentage Divine.
Mov'd with her Son's Intreaty, more inflam'd
With Indignation, to be fo defam'd,
Straight both her Arms flie ftretches to the Skies,
And looking on the Sun with ftedfaft Eyes,
To thee my Son, by that bright Orb I fwear,
By ev'ry Ray of all his beamy Hair,
Who fees us now, and hears whate'er we fay;
That very Sun whom now my Eyes furvcy,
Who temperates die Seafons with his Fire,
That very Sun is thy undoubted Sire.
If not, may he from me withdraw his Sight,
And be this View my laft, my lateft Light.
Nor fir from hence, thy Father's Palace ftands,
His Rife here borders on die neighbouring Lands.
If
Pone metus, inquit, numquam tibi cauffa do-
Ions
Haec erit: & Stygias jubet hoc audire $ dudes.
Ut Unit a Dea ef, 'vultus capit ilia priores:
Pit que, quod ante fuit. fugiunt e corpore fetae:
Cornua decrefcmt :fit luminis artior orbis: 740
Contrahitur rittus: redeunt humerique ma-
nusque:
Ungulaque in quinos dilapfa abfumitur ungues.
De bove mlfuperef ,formae nifi candor, in ilia :
Offcioque pedum Njmphe content a duorum
Erigitur: metuitque loqui, ne more jwvencae
745
J\4ugiat: & timide 'verba intermijfa retentat.
Nunc Dea limgera colitur celeberrima turba.
Huic Epapbus magni gemtus de femine tan-
dem
Creditur ejfe Jovis:perque urbes junffa parenti
Templa tenet, fuit hmc animis aequalis st
annis 75®
Sole fatus Pha'ethon, quern quondam magna
loquentem,
JSfec fibi cedentem, Phoeboqueparente fuperbum,
JSlon tulit Inachides, Aiatrique, ait, omnia
demens
Credis > es tumidus genitoris imagine falfi.
Erubuit Phaethon, iramque pudore reprejfit:
755
Et tulit adClymenen Epaphi cowvicia matrem.
Quoque magis dole as, genetrix, ait: ille ego
liber,
Ille ferox tacui. pudet haec opprobria nobis
Et dici potuijfe, & non potuijfe referri.
At tu,fi mo do fum coelefi firpe ere at us ,j6o
Ede not am tanti generis: meque adfere coelo.
Dixit; £f implicuit materno brachia collo.
Per que fuum, Jderopisque caput, taedasque
fororum,
trader et, ora'vit, 'veri fibi figna parentis.
Ambiguum , Cljmene precibus Pha'ethontis,
an ira 765
Mot a maqis di&i fibi criminis; utraque coelo
Brachia porrexit: fpeffansque ad lumtna Solis,
Per jubar hoc, inquit, radits infigne corufcis,
Nate, tibi juro, quod nos audit que uidetque
Hoc te, quern fpeclas, hoc te, qui temper at
orb em, 77®
Sole fatum. fi fcta loquor, neget ipfe videndum
Se mihi; fit que oculis lux if a novifjima no-
ftris.
Nec longus labor eft patrios tibi noffe penates:
Undc
PHOSES. Book I. 39
She never more fliall caufe thy Grief or Fear,
His Vow he bids the Stygian Waters hear.
Appeas'd , the Nymph recover'd her Firft Look:
So Fair, fo Sweet 1 the Hair her Skin forfook:
Her Horns decreafe, the Sockets of her Eyes, ^
And her-wide Jaws, contract to lciTcr Size, C
Her Hands and Shoulders to their firft ProportionX
rife:
Her Hoofs to Nails diminiih j nothing now,
But that pure White retains flic of the Caw.
Then on her Feet her Body the erects,
Now born by Two. Herfelf flic yet fufpects,
Nor dares to fpeak aloud, left (he fliould hear
Herfelf to low j but foftly tries with Fear.
Now {he a Goddefi, is ador'd by Thofe
That Linnen wear, where {acred Nilus flows.
Hence fprung Jove's Epaphus, no lefs Divine,
Whofe Temples neareft to his Mother's join.
Equal to him in Spirit, and in Years, •
The Son of Phoebus, Phaeton appears j
Whom, while his Pride his Father's Race preferr'd,
The Son of Io with Reluctance heard,
Then Cays, fond Fool, believe thy Mother's Lies,
Proud of a fi&ious Father from the Skies.
He blufli'd,his Anger by his Shame's controul'd;
But fbon the Slander to his Mother told.
Ohl Clymene, he cries, to urge her more,
Ev'n I was dumb, who was fo brisk before;
Shame that this Scandal fliould disgrace my Name,
And no refuting Truth aflert my Fame.
But if I be defcended from Above,
Give me fome Proof, and this Reproach remove,
Then hangs about her Neck; by her own Head,
By Meropes, her Sifter's Nuptial Bed,
Then begs her to produce fome certain Sign
To prove his queftion'd Parentage Divine.
Mov'd with her Son's Intreaty, more inflam'd
With Indignation, to be fo defam'd,
Straight both her Arms flie ftretches to the Skies,
And looking on the Sun with ftedfaft Eyes,
To thee my Son, by that bright Orb I fwear,
By ev'ry Ray of all his beamy Hair,
Who fees us now, and hears whate'er we fay;
That very Sun whom now my Eyes furvcy,
Who temperates die Seafons with his Fire,
That very Sun is thy undoubted Sire.
If not, may he from me withdraw his Sight,
And be this View my laft, my lateft Light.
Nor fir from hence, thy Father's Palace ftands,
His Rife here borders on die neighbouring Lands.
If