PHOSEON Lib. VII.

Qua pater Alcidamas placidam de corport
natae

Miraturus erat nafci potuiffe colum-
ham. 37°
Inde lacus Hyries videt, & Cycneia Tempe,
Quae fubitus celebravit olor. nam Phjllius
illic

Imperio pueri volucresque ferumque leonem
Tradiderat domitos: taurum quoque sincere
jufus

Vicerat > & ,fpreto toties iratus amore, 375
Praemia pofcenti taurum fuprema negarat.
Ille indignatus , Cupies dare, dixit: & alto
Defduit faxo. cuntfi cecidijfe putabant:
PaBus olor niveis pendebat in air a pennis.
At genetnx Hjrie , fervati nefcia , fen-

do 580
Delimit: ftagnumque fuo de nomine fecit.
Adjacet his Pleuron: in qua trepidantibus alis
Ophias effugit natorum vulnera Combe,
Inde Calaureae Letoidos adfpicit arvd,
In volucrem verfi cum conjuge confcia re-

gis. ^ 385

Dexter a Cyllene ejl: in qua cum matre J\de-

nephron

Concubiturus erat , faevarum more fera-
rum.

Cephifon procul hinc dejlentem fata nepotis
Refpicit in tumidam Phocen ab Apolline
verfi:

Eumelique domum lugentis in aire na-

tam. 39°

Tandem vipereis Ephjren Pirenida pennis
Contigit. hw aevo veteres mortalia primo
Corpora vulgarunt plwvialibus edit a fungis.
Sed pojlquam Colchis arfit nova nupta ve-
neris ,

Plagrantemque domum regis mare vidit
utrumque i

Sanguine natorum perfunditur impius enfis:
\Ultaque fe male mater 3 Idfonis effugit ar-
ma. ]

Hinc Titaniacis ablata draconibus, intrat
Palladias arces: quae te, jufifjime Phineu,
Teque i fenex Peripha , pariter videre vo-

lantes, 400
Innixamque novis neptem Polypemonis alis,
Excipit hanc Aegeus, facto damnandus in

uno:

Nec fat is hofpitium ejl, thalami quoque foe-
dere jungit.

Tom. I.

PHOSES Book VII. 2251

his

Alcidamas , whofe kind preventing Fate.
Had turn'd to Stone, and thus abridg'
Date;

Left with Surprize his Daughter he fhould fee
Chang'd to a Dove ; her future Deftiny.
She Eyries Lake, and Tempes Field o'cr-ran,
Fam a for the Boy who there became a Swan;
For there inamour'd PhyUius, like a Slave,
Perform'd what Tasks his Paramour would crave.-
For Prefents he had Mountain-Vultures caught,
And from the Defirt a tame Lion brought
Then a wild Bull commanded to fubdue,
The conquer'd Savage by the Horns he drew j
But3 mock'd Co oft, the Treatment he difdains *
And from the craving Boy this Prize detains.
Then thus in Choler the refenting Lad;
Won't you deliver him ? —You'll wifh you had*
Nor fooner {aid, but, in a peevifli Mood,
Leapt from the Precipice on which he ftood:
The Standers-by were ftruck with frelh Sur-

prize,

Inftead of falling , to behold him rife, f
A fhowy Swan, and {baring to the Skies J

But dearly the raih Prank his Mother coft >
Who ignorantly gave her Son for loft:
For his Misfortune wept, till fhe became
A Lake, and ftill renown'd with Hyries Name.

Thence to Latona's Ifle, where once were feen,
Transform'd to Birds, a Monarch and his
Queen.

Far off ihe {aw how old Cephifus mourn'd
His Son, into a Seale by Phoebus turn'd;
And where, aftonifh'd at a ftranger Sight,
Eumelus gaz'd on his wing'd Daughter's Flight.
Her Courfe fhe next diredls o'er Pleurons State,
Where flie's furpris'd with Opkian Combe's Fate:
Their Mother's Death her cruel Sons eftay,
But fudden Plumes the Matron bore away.
Next o'er Cyllene, on her Right, fhe drove; ^
There Menephron his brutal Paflions move >
T5 abufe his Mother with inceftuous Love. J
To Corinth next her harnefs'd Dragons flew,
Where, if what old Tradition tells, be true, £
In former Ages Men from Mufhrooms grew. *

Here when Medea finds her Bed fupply'd,
During her Abfence, by another Bride ;
Straight 'gainft her Rival fhe her Fury turns j
In rolling Flames the hated Palace burns:
Nor could her Rival's Doom her Wrath aftwage *
Nor ftopt at Creon's Family her Rage;
She murders her own Infants, in Defpight
To fiithlefs Jafon, and in Jafons Sight;
Yet e'er his Sword could reach her, up fhe
{brings,

Securely mounted on her Dragons Wines.

From thence to Athens fhe directs her Flight,
Where Phineus, lb renown'd for doing Right;
Where Periphas, and Polypemons Neece,
Soaring with fudden Plumes, amaz'd the Towns
of Greece.

Here ALgeus Co ingaging fhe addreft,
That fir ft he treats her like a Royal Gueft;
Then takes the Sorc'refs for his wedded Wife;
The only Blemilh of his prudent Life.

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