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

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Arma ego femineis, animum motura viri-
lem, 165
\Mercibus inferui.neque adhuc projecerat heros
Virgineos habitus, cum parmamhaftamque te-
nenti,

Nate Dea, dixit tibi fe per it ura refers ant
Pergama. quid dubitas ingentem evert ere
Trojam ?

Injecique manum i fortemque ad fortia mi-

fu 170
Ergo opera illius mea funt. ego Telephon hafta
Pugnantem domui: vittum orantemque refeci.
Quod Thebae cecidere, meum eji. me credite
Lesbon,

jMe Tenedon, Chryfenque, & Cjllan, Apol-
Imis urbes,

Et Syr on cepijfe. mea concuffa put ate IJ $
Procubuijfe fob Ljrnefia moenia dextra.
Utque alias taceamt quijaevum perdere poffet
HeBora, nempe dedi. per me jacet incljtus
Hector.

lilts haec armis, quibus eft inventus Achilles.}
Arma peto. vivo dederam , pofi fata re-

pofco. l8o
lit dolor unius Danaos pervenit ad omnes,
Aulidaque Eubdicam complerunt mille carinae
ExJpecJata diu, nulla, aut contraria clajji,
Elamina funt: duraequejubent Agamemnona

fortes

Jmmeritam faevae natam mabtare E>ia-
nae. 185
Denegat hoc genitor: Divisque irafcitur ipfis:
At que in rege tamen pater eft': ego miteparentis
Ingenium verbis ad public a commoda verti.
Nunc equidemfateor,fajfoque ignofcat Atrides,'
Difficilem tenuifub iniquojudice cauffam. 190
Hunc tamen utilitaspopuli ,fratrisque, datique
Summa movet fceptrii laudem ut cum fan-

guine penfet.
Mittor & ad matrem: quae non hortanda ,
fed aftu

Decipienda fuit. quo ft Telamonius ijfet,
Orb a fuis ejfent etiamnum lintea mentis. 19 J
JSdittor & Iliac as audax orator ad arces:
Vifaque & intrata eft altae mihi curiaErojae.
Plenaque adhuc erat tlla viris. interritus egi,
Quam mihi mandarat communis Graecia,
cauffam:

Accufoque Par in: praedamque} Heknamque
repofco: 200

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All Eyes were cozen'd by the borrow'd Veft,
And Ajax ( never wifer than the reft )
Found no P'elides there : At length I came
With prorTer'd Wares to this pretended Dame
She , not difcover'd by her Mein , or Voice,
Betray'd her Manhood by her manly Choice -y
And while on Female Toys her Fellows look,
Grarp'd in her Warlike Hand , a Javelin fhook; >
Whom, by this Act reveal'd, I thus befpoke:^

0 Goddefs-born ! refill not Heav'n's Decree,
The Fall of Ilium is referv'd for Thee j
Then feiz'd him, and produc'd in open Light,
Sent blufhing to the Field the fatal Knight.
Mine then are all his Actions of the War;
Great Telepbus was conquer'd by my Spear,
And after cur'd: To me the Thehans owe,
Lesbos, and Tenedos, their overthrow;

Syros and Cylla: Not on all to dwell,
By me Lyrnefus, and ftrong Chryfa fell:
And fince I lent the Man who Bettor flew >
To me the noble Bettor's Death is due:
Thofe Arms I put into his living Hand,
Thofe Arms, Velides dead, I now demand.
When Greece was injur'd in the Sfart an Prince,
And met at Aulis to avenge th' Offence,
'Twas a dead Calm,or adverfe Blafts,that reign'd,
And in the Port the Wind-bound Fleet detain'd:
Bad figns were feen, and Oracles fevere,
Were daily thunder'd in our Gen'ral's Ear:
That by his Daughter's Blood we muft appeafe
Dianas kindled Wrath, and free the Seas.
Affection, Int'reft, Fame, his Heart aflail'd;
But fbon the Father o'er the King prevail'd:
Bold, on himfelf he took the pious Crime,
As angry with the Gods, as they with him.
No Subject cou'd fuftain their Sov'reign's
Look,

Till this hard Enterprize I undertook:

1 only durft th' Imperial Pow'r controul,
And undermin'd the Parent in his Soul 5
Forc'd him t'exert the King for common Good,
And pay our Ranfbm with his Daughter's

Blood.

Never was Caufe more difficult to plead,
Than where the Judge againft himfelf decreed:
Yet this I won by dint of Argument; ~
The Wrongs his injur'd Brother underwent, >
And his own Office, lham'd him to content.-^
„ 'Twas harder yet to move the Mother's Mind,
And to this heavy Task was I defign'd:
Reafons againft her Love I knew were vain:
I circumvented whom I could not gain:
Had Ajax been employ'd, our flacken'd Sails
Had ftill at Aulis waited happy Gales.
,, Arriv'd at Troy, your Choice was fix'd on me,
A fearleis Envoy, fit for a bold Embafly :
Secure, I enter'd through the hoftile Court,
Glitt'ring with Steel, and crowded withRefort:
There, in the midft of Arms, I plead our Caufe,
Urge the foul Rape, and violated Laws;
Accufe the Foes, as Authors of the Strife,
Reproach the Raviftier, demand the Wife.

„ Priam,