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PHOSEON Lib. VL
God overcomes him and then flays
Tears that are fhed for his Death
Name.
Sic ubi nefcio quis Lycia de gente mforum
Ketulit exitium; Satjri reminifcitur alter:
Quern Tritomaca Lato'us arundme 'viBum
Adfecit poena. Quid me mihi detrahis ? in-
quit. 385
Ah piget: ah non ejl, clam ab at, tibia tanti!
Clamanti cutis ejl Jummos derepta per artus:
Nee quidquam3 nifi vulnus erat. cruor un-
dique manat :
DeteBique patent nervi: trepidaeque fine ulla
Telle micant venae.falientia vifcera pofjis>3 90
Et perlucentes numerare in peBore Jibras.
Ilium ruricolae3 flu arum numina, Vaunt,
Et Satjri fratres 3 & tunc quoque clams
Olympus3
Et Nymphae prunt: & quisquis montibus
illis
Lanigerosque greges, armentaque bucera pa-
<vit. 395
Fertilis immaduit 3 madefaBaque terra ca-
ducas
Concepit lacrimas, ac venis perbibit imis.
Quas ubi fecit aquam3 vacuas emifit in auras.
Inde pet ens rapidum ripis decli'vibus aequor 3
Aiarfya nomen habet , Phrygiae Uquidijfmus
amnis. 400
Talibus extemplo redit ad praefentia diBis
Vulgusi & extinBum cum firpe Amphiona
lugent.
Mater in in'vidia ef. tamen hanc quoque
dicitur unus
Fleffe Pelops: humeroque fuas ad peBora pof-
quum
Deduxit vefes , ebur ofendife finifro. 405
Concolor hie humerus , najcendi tempore 3
dextro,
Corporeusque fuit. manibus mox caefapaternis
J[dembraferuntjunxijfe Deos, aliifque repertis.
Qui locus ef juguli medius 3fummique lacerti 3
Defuit. impoftum ef non comparentis in u-*
fum 4IC>
Partis ebur ifaBoque Pelops fuit integer illo.
PHOSES Book VI. 195
him alive for his Preemption : The
produce the River which bears his
SCarce had the Man this famous Story told,
Of Vengeance on the Lycims fhown of old*
When ftraight Another pidures to their View
The Satyrs Fate, whom angry Phoebus Pew;
Who, rais'd with high Conceit, and pufT'd with
Pride,
At his own Pipe the skilful God defy'd.
Phoebus reveng'd it: torturd Marly as cries j
Ah; cruel God, is this the bloody Prize !
This! for a worthlefs Pipe ? he fcreaming (aid
While from his trembling Limbs the Skin was
flay'd:
All bare, and raw, all one continu'd Wound,
With Streams of Gore his Body bath'd the Ground.
The bluifh Veins their trembling Pulfe difclos'd,
The ftringy Nerves lay naked, and expos'd j
Diftorted Fibres on his heaving Breaft,
And panting Entrails all his Pains exprefsYh
The Fauns, and Silvans, with the Nymphs
that rove
Among the Satyrs in the fhady Grove;
Olympus, known of old, and ev'ry Swain
That fed, or Flock, or Herd upon the Plain,
Bewail'd the Lois j and With their Tears that flow'd*
A kindly Moifture on the Earth beftow'd -y
Thofe plenteous Show'rs the fruitful Earth retain'd,
'Till in her inmoft Veins the Flood was ftrain'd,
Then from her watry Chambers flie difcharg'd,
A flowing Stream, from num'rous Springs enlarg'd;
Down to the Sea the River rolls along
His rapid Current, rugged Rocks among;
Then, gently gliding o'er the Phrygian Plains,
The vanquilh'd Satyr's Name he ftill retains.
From theie Relations ftrait the People turn
To prefent Truths, and loft Amphion mourn :
The Mother mod was blam'd,yet fome relate
That Pelops pity'd, and bewail'd her Fate,
And ftript his Cloaths and laid his Shoulder bare,
And made the Iv'ry Miracle appear.
This Shoulder, from the firit, was form'd of
Flefli3
As lively as the other, and as frefli 5
But, when the Youth was by his Father flain,
The Gods reftor'd his mangled Limbs again -y
Only that Place which joins the Neck, and Arm,
The reft untouch'd, was found to fufter Harm:
The Lofs of which an Iv'ry Piece fuftain'd;
And thus the Youth his Limbs, and Life regain'd.
EXPLICATION OF THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH FABLES,
MArfyas was the fon of that Hyagnis (1) who
was the Inventor of a fort of Flute and of
the Phrygian Meafure ; and of whom there is
mention made in the tenth Epoch of the Tarian Mar-
( 1) Hygin fays that he was the [on Son of Oeagr'ms; and Apollodoriis
Lib. 1. calls him the Son of Olympus.
Tom. I.
blcs. Alexander, an ancient Author of a Hiftory
of 'Phrygia fpeaks alfo of the fame Hyagnis, but he
who gives us the beft Light into this Subjed is Apu-
leus: Here is what he fays of it; Hyagnts fuit, ut
fando accepimus , Marfya tibicints pater & magtfi.
ter, rudibus adhuc mitjica fecutis , folus ante altos
Bb 1
God overcomes him and then flays
Tears that are fhed for his Death
Name.
Sic ubi nefcio quis Lycia de gente mforum
Ketulit exitium; Satjri reminifcitur alter:
Quern Tritomaca Lato'us arundme 'viBum
Adfecit poena. Quid me mihi detrahis ? in-
quit. 385
Ah piget: ah non ejl, clam ab at, tibia tanti!
Clamanti cutis ejl Jummos derepta per artus:
Nee quidquam3 nifi vulnus erat. cruor un-
dique manat :
DeteBique patent nervi: trepidaeque fine ulla
Telle micant venae.falientia vifcera pofjis>3 90
Et perlucentes numerare in peBore Jibras.
Ilium ruricolae3 flu arum numina, Vaunt,
Et Satjri fratres 3 & tunc quoque clams
Olympus3
Et Nymphae prunt: & quisquis montibus
illis
Lanigerosque greges, armentaque bucera pa-
<vit. 395
Fertilis immaduit 3 madefaBaque terra ca-
ducas
Concepit lacrimas, ac venis perbibit imis.
Quas ubi fecit aquam3 vacuas emifit in auras.
Inde pet ens rapidum ripis decli'vibus aequor 3
Aiarfya nomen habet , Phrygiae Uquidijfmus
amnis. 400
Talibus extemplo redit ad praefentia diBis
Vulgusi & extinBum cum firpe Amphiona
lugent.
Mater in in'vidia ef. tamen hanc quoque
dicitur unus
Fleffe Pelops: humeroque fuas ad peBora pof-
quum
Deduxit vefes , ebur ofendife finifro. 405
Concolor hie humerus , najcendi tempore 3
dextro,
Corporeusque fuit. manibus mox caefapaternis
J[dembraferuntjunxijfe Deos, aliifque repertis.
Qui locus ef juguli medius 3fummique lacerti 3
Defuit. impoftum ef non comparentis in u-*
fum 4IC>
Partis ebur ifaBoque Pelops fuit integer illo.
PHOSES Book VI. 195
him alive for his Preemption : The
produce the River which bears his
SCarce had the Man this famous Story told,
Of Vengeance on the Lycims fhown of old*
When ftraight Another pidures to their View
The Satyrs Fate, whom angry Phoebus Pew;
Who, rais'd with high Conceit, and pufT'd with
Pride,
At his own Pipe the skilful God defy'd.
Phoebus reveng'd it: torturd Marly as cries j
Ah; cruel God, is this the bloody Prize !
This! for a worthlefs Pipe ? he fcreaming (aid
While from his trembling Limbs the Skin was
flay'd:
All bare, and raw, all one continu'd Wound,
With Streams of Gore his Body bath'd the Ground.
The bluifh Veins their trembling Pulfe difclos'd,
The ftringy Nerves lay naked, and expos'd j
Diftorted Fibres on his heaving Breaft,
And panting Entrails all his Pains exprefsYh
The Fauns, and Silvans, with the Nymphs
that rove
Among the Satyrs in the fhady Grove;
Olympus, known of old, and ev'ry Swain
That fed, or Flock, or Herd upon the Plain,
Bewail'd the Lois j and With their Tears that flow'd*
A kindly Moifture on the Earth beftow'd -y
Thofe plenteous Show'rs the fruitful Earth retain'd,
'Till in her inmoft Veins the Flood was ftrain'd,
Then from her watry Chambers flie difcharg'd,
A flowing Stream, from num'rous Springs enlarg'd;
Down to the Sea the River rolls along
His rapid Current, rugged Rocks among;
Then, gently gliding o'er the Phrygian Plains,
The vanquilh'd Satyr's Name he ftill retains.
From theie Relations ftrait the People turn
To prefent Truths, and loft Amphion mourn :
The Mother mod was blam'd,yet fome relate
That Pelops pity'd, and bewail'd her Fate,
And ftript his Cloaths and laid his Shoulder bare,
And made the Iv'ry Miracle appear.
This Shoulder, from the firit, was form'd of
Flefli3
As lively as the other, and as frefli 5
But, when the Youth was by his Father flain,
The Gods reftor'd his mangled Limbs again -y
Only that Place which joins the Neck, and Arm,
The reft untouch'd, was found to fufter Harm:
The Lofs of which an Iv'ry Piece fuftain'd;
And thus the Youth his Limbs, and Life regain'd.
EXPLICATION OF THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH FABLES,
MArfyas was the fon of that Hyagnis (1) who
was the Inventor of a fort of Flute and of
the Phrygian Meafure ; and of whom there is
mention made in the tenth Epoch of the Tarian Mar-
( 1) Hygin fays that he was the [on Son of Oeagr'ms; and Apollodoriis
Lib. 1. calls him the Son of Olympus.
Tom. I.
blcs. Alexander, an ancient Author of a Hiftory
of 'Phrygia fpeaks alfo of the fame Hyagnis, but he
who gives us the beft Light into this Subjed is Apu-
leus: Here is what he fays of it; Hyagnts fuit, ut
fando accepimus , Marfya tibicints pater & magtfi.
ter, rudibus adhuc mitjica fecutis , folus ante altos
Bb 1