Ovidius Naso, Publius; Banier, Antoine [Comm.]; Picart, Bernard [Ill.]: Ovid's Metamorphoses In Latin And English: [Two Volumes] (Band 2) (Amsterdam, 1732)

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P.OVIDII NASONIS

METAMORPHOSEON

LIBER UNDECIMUS.

Fab. I. & 11. Orpheus killed by the Bacchants.

THE ARGUMENT.

While Orpheus plays on Mount Rhodope, the Women of Thrace cele-
brate their Orgies. They take the Opportunity of that Ceremony to re-
venge his Indifference for their Sex; and, in the Fury that fuch Rites
infpire them with, they beat him to Death. His Head & Lyre are car-
ried down the Hebrus into the Sea, and thrown out on the Ifland Les-
bos. A Serpent going to fall on his Head juft newly come a shore, is
changed into a Stone , and the Bacchants who killed him are trans-
formed into Trees.

Armine dum tali fd-

<vas, animosque fe-

rarum
Thre'icius vates, &

fax a fequentiaducit;
Ecce nurus Ciconum,

teffae lymph at a feri-

nis

Ere, while the Thracian
Bard's enchantingStrain
SoothsBeafts, and Woods,
and all the lift'ningPlain,
The Female Bacchanals,

devoutly mad,
In fhaggy Skins, like fa-

vage Creatures clad,
Warbling in Air perceiv'd
his lovely Lay,

Pefiora wllmbus, tumuli de <vertice cernunt And from a rifing Ground beheld him play.

Orphea, wh«n