Ovidius Naso, Publius; Banier, Antoine [Comm.]; Picart, Bernard [Ill.]: Ovid's Metamorphoses In Latin And English: [Two Volumes] (Band 1) (Amsterdam, 1732)

48 P.OVIDII METAMOR-

Jncurfant fiellis , rapiuntque per avia cur-
rum. 205

Et modo fumma petunt, modo per decliva,
viasque

Praecipites fpatio terrae propiore feruntur.
Inferiusque fuis fraternos currere Luna
Admiratur equos: ambuflaque nubila fumant.
Corripitur flammis , ut quaeque altiffima,

tellus; 2IO
Tijfaque agit rimas , & fuccis aret ademtis.
Pabula canefcunt, cum frondibus uritur arbos:
Materiamque fuo praebet feges arida damno.
Parva queror ; magnae pereunt cum moeni-

bus urbes:

Cumque fuis tot as populis incendia gentes 215
In cinerem cuertunt. fhae cum montibus
ardent.

Ardet Athos, Taurusque Cilix, & Tmolus,
& Oete;

Et nuncfcca,prius celeberrima fontibus, Ida
Virgineusque Helicon, & nondum Oeagrius
Haemos.

Ardet in immenfum geminatis ignibus Aet-

ne,

220

Parnafusque biceps, & Erjx} & Cynthus,
& Othrys,

Et tandem Rhodope nivibus caritura, Mi-
masque j

Dindymaque, & Mycale, natusque ad fa-

cra Cithaeron.
JSlec profunt Scythiae fua frigora : Caucasus

ardet,

OJfaque cum Pin do , major que ambobus
Olympus: 22%
Aeriaeque Alpes, & nubifer Apenninus.
Tunc -vero Pha'ethon cunclis e partibus orbem
Adpicit accenfum: nec tantos fuflinet aejlus:
Per'ventesque auras, 'velut e fornace profunda.
Ore trahit, currusque fuos candefcere fen-
tit. 230
Et neque jam cineres ejeBatamque favillam
Ferre potefi : calidoque invofoitur undique

fumo. <
Quoque eat, aut ubi fit, pice a caligine teftus
hlejcit ; & arbitrio <volucrum rapt atur

eauorum.

?q.

Sanguine turn credunt in corpora fumma <vo-
cato, 235
Aethiopum populos nigrum traxijfe colorem.
Turn facta ejl Libye ,raptis humoribus aeftu,
Arida, turn Nymphae paffis fontesque lacusque

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P.OVID'S METAMOR-

Rufti'd on the Stars, and through a pathlefs Way
Of unknown Regions hurry'd on the Day.
And now above, and now below they flew,
And near the Earth the burning Chariot drew.
The Clouds disperfe in Fumes, the wond'ring
Moon

Beholds her Brother's Steeds beneath her own;
The Highlands finoak, cleft by the piercing Rays*
Or, clad with Woods, in their own Fewel blaze.
Next o'er the Plains, where ripen'd Harvefts grotf >
The running Conflagration fpreads Below.
But thefe are trivial Ills: whole Cities burn,
And peopled Kingdoms into Aflies turn.

The Mountains kindle as the Car draws near >
Athos and Tmolus red with Fires appear j
Oeagrian Hamus (then a fingle Name)
And Virgin Helicon increafe the Flame -y
Taurus and Oete glare amid the Sky,
And Ida, {pight of all her Fountains, Dry.
Eryx, and Othrys, and Citharon, glow,
And Rhodope, no longer cloath'd in Snow-,
High Vhdus, Mimas, and Pamafus, fweat,
And /Etna rages with redoubled Heat.
Ev'n Scythia, through her hoary Regions warm'd*
In vain with all her native Froft was arm'd.
Cover'd with Flames, the tow'ring Appennine,
And Caucafus, and proud Olympus, fhine;
And, where the long-extended Alpes afpire,
Now ftands a huge continu'd Range of Fire.

Th' aftonilht Youth, where-e'er his Eyes cou'd
turn,

Beheld the Univerfe around him burn:
The World was in a Blaze; nor cou'd he bear
The fultry Vapours and the fcorching Air,
Which from below, as from a Furnace, flow'dj
And now the Axle-tree beneath him glow'd:
Loft in the whirling Clouds,that round him broke;
And white with Allies, hov'ring in the Smoke,
He flew where-e'er the Horfes drove, nor kneW
Whither the Horfes drove, or where he flew.

'Twas then,they {ay, the (warthy Moor begun
To change his Hue, and Blacken in the Sun.
Then Libya firft, of all her Moifture drain'd,
Became a barren Wafte, a Wild of Sand.
The Water-Nymphs lament their empty Urns j
Bceotia, robb'd of Silver Dirce, mourns,