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

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The Rest of the Tenth Fable.





















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THE ARGUMENT.

Pentheus is torn in Pieces by his Mother and the other Bacchants.

MOnte fere medio eft, cingentibus ultima A
Jihis, A
Turns ab arboribus, fpeBabilis undique cam-
pus.

Hie oculisiliumcernentemfacraprofanis yio
Prima videt, prima eft mfano concita motu,
Prima fuum mijfo violavit Penthea thyrfo
Mater: Id, geminae, clamavit, adefte fo-
rores.

Ilk aper, in noftris err at qui maximus agris,
Ilk mihi feriendus aper. ruit omnis in u-

num 7^5
*Turba furens. cunBae co'eunt, cunSfaeque fe-

quuntur

Jam trepidum, jam 'verba minus violent a
loquentem,

Jam fe damnantem ,jam fe peccajfe fatentem.
Saucius ilk tamen, Per opem, matertera ,
dixit ,

Auto-

Spacious Circuit on the Hill there flood,
Level and wide , and skirted round widi
Wood j

Here the rafh Pentheus , with unhallow'd Eyes,
The howling Dames and myftick Orgies fpies.
His Mother fternly view'd him where he ftood,
And kindled into Madnefs as fhe view'd :
Her leafy Javlin at her Son fhe caft,
And cries, ,,The Boar that lays our Country wafte I
The Boar, my Sifters! Aim the fatal Dart,
And ftrike the brindled Monfter to the Heart,
Pentheus aftonifli'd heard the difinal Sound,
And fees the yelling Matrons gath'ring round j
He fees, and weeps at his approaching Fate,
And begs for Mercy, and repents too late.

Help, help ! my Aunt Autonoe, he cry'd;
„ Remember, how your own Atfaon dy'd.

Deaf

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