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

m P.OVIDII METAMOR- P.OVID'S METAMOR-

Dumque manu tent at trahere ex it labile te- Whence ftriving to remove the painful Dart,

lum , Another ftruck him in a nobler Part >

Altera per jugukm pennis tenuf atfa fagitta Deep in his Neck the feadier'd Arrow lay,

€ft' m 'Till by his milling Blood't was forc'd away :

Expulit banc fan mis: feque eiaculatus in tlp fl„j-j,n j *• i ,1 , P

*■ J & J L J l lie raggl d Wound discharg d a purple Stream}

r Crr> i , * r1. a jr As if againft the God from whom it came.

Fmicat, K3 iomje terebrata profdtt aura. 2u0 T a f , _

,r/ ■ »/• r at j Lalt ot me Train llioneus prepares

XJltimus llioneus non proje crura precando r r

Brachia fufiulerat : Dique o communiter HlS llftcd Hands' and mailing Pray'rs.

omneS) ° aI1 Ye Gods; hc cry'd^ and all confefs'd,

Dixerat, (tgnarus non omnes effe rogandos) (Unknowing all were not to be addrefs'd)

Farcite. mot us erat, cum jam revocabile te- O pity me! the God had ftopt his Fall,

lum But could not now the fatal Shaft recall j

Non fuit j arcitenens. minimo tamen occi- Yet was he ftill with leffen'd Fury (lain,

dit llle 265 Touch'd on the Heart, and kill'd with flighted Pain.

Vulnere; non alte percufo corde fagitta. Fame,and her People's Gnef,and Houihold'sTcars,

Fam a malt, pcpultque dolor, lacnmaeque Soon bnng thc slaughtcr tQ ^ ^ . *

fuorum ^ Who wonders how the Gods fuchPow'r could ihow

Tarn tubitae matrem cert am fecere ruinae, . 111.1 r

. „ J . r J 1 r And rasjes that they dard to uie it to:

Jvlirantem potuijje ,• irajcentemque ,quod auji 0

tt rr r 1 ' // F°r now Amphioris Sword had oiere'd his Breift

Floe ejfent Super 1, quod tan turn juris babe- r ^ 111:1 draicj

rmt 270 And ^rom nis SorroWs nad his Soul releas'd.

Nam pater Ampbion, ferroper petfus adaffo, Alas! how chang'd, and how unlike the fame,

Finierat moriens pariter cum luce dolorem. This Niobe to that imperious Dame >

Heu quantum baec Niobe Niobe dijlabat ab Who lately all Latonas Pow'r defied,

ilia , Who trod the Streets with a majeftick Pride-,

Quae modo Lato'is populum fubmo<verat aris, Envy'd by All in ev'ry ftately Show,

Et mediam tulerat grejfus refupwa per ur- Now to Dc pit.y'd by her meaneft Foe.

^em •> ^7") She falls on ev'ry Corfe, and frentick runs

Inwdiofafuis; at nunc mijerandavel bofi; ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ aU ^ w

Corporibus zelidis incumvit ,• & or dine nullo . . . ,

7*7^' ,. * r r Then Itretching out her Arms, toHcavnfhecries,

O cula dtspen at natos juprema per omnes. 3

A qui bus ad coelum Itventia bracbia tendens, Cmel Latona> feaft thec on mY Sl8hs •

crudelis, nofiro, Latona, <tor<f; 280 Fcaft' fcaft» and a11 thy furl0us Paffion cIoY>

Fafcere, ait ifatiaque meo tua pcBora luBu: Swe11 °'er mY SoiTOWS» ^ mY Gricfs enJoy:

[Corqueferum fatia, dixit: perfunera feptem\ Victorious Foe, go triumph at thy Will;

Efferor: exulta^icirixque inimicatriumpba. Vidorious, fiid I? I deny it ftill.

Cur autem vi&rix ? miferae mibi plura fu- Thus wretched I, boaft more than happy you,

perfunt, And, after fuch a Scene of Death, fubdue.

Quam tibifelici. pojl tot quo que funeral This faidj the Bow_ftnng twangs. a fuaaen Fear

c0' 28^ Chills all the Hearts of the Spectators near;

Dixerat, infonuit contento nervus ab arcu: AH ^ ^ who proU(jly ^ ^

fraeter Nidbcn unam , ^rr^ Bold in her Griefs, and fcornful of her Fate.

. The Sifters in long mourning Robes array'd,

///* ^»^. ^iMlT w//^ Around thcir Hcrfcs ftood with Fear dlfraay.d.

^ /^.^ enne forores. 0^ ^m afl Arrow from hcr Brother's flde>

£ , Ww/w mfctre And ftoops tQ ^ him f and in klffing dy>d.

tela, 2C)0 A gecond ftrives t'afswage her Mother's Woes

ktrpofeto fratri, monbunda relangmt ore. wkh foothmg Words when ftraight flie fpeechlefs
Altera, folan miferam con at a parent em, , grows -

Conticmt fubito i duplicataque vulnere caeco And by a mortai Wound oblig'd to fall,

eft. Her fault'ring Lips their injur'd Mother call-

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