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

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F A B. XL Lyncus changed into a Lynx.

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THE ARGUMENT.

Ceres gives her Chariot to Triptolemus, with Orders to goe every
where and cultivate the Earth: The Prince obeys her, and arrives, at
laft, in Scythia where Lyncus, defigning to kill him, is changed into
a Lynx. The Mufe finishes the Song with the Metamorphofis of the
Pierides into Magpies.

HAc Arethufa tenus, geminos Dea fer-
tilis angues
Curribus admovit frenisque coercuit or a:
Et medium coeli terrdeque per a'era vetta eft:
Atque lenjem currum cIritonida mifit in ar-
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'Triptolemo > partimque rudi data femina

Spargere humo > partim poft tempora longa
recultae.

Jam fuper Eur open fublimis,& Afida, terras
Vectus erat JuymisjScythicas advertitur or as.

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HEre Arethufa ftopt ■> then Ceres takes
Her golden Carr , and yokes her fiery-
Snakes -y

With a jufb Rein, along Mid-Heaven die flies
O'er Earth, and Seas, and cuts the yielding
Skies.

She halts at Athens, dropping like a Star,
And to Triptolemus refigns Tier Carr.
Parent of Seed, ilie gave him fruitful Grain ,
And bid him teach to till and plough the
Plain >

The Seed to fow, as well in fallow Fields,
As where the Soil, manur'd, a richer Harveft
yields.

The Youth o'er Afta, and o'er Europe drives,
'Till at the Court of Lyncus he arrives.

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