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

424 P.OVIDII METAMOR-

XJt fe fubtraheret bellique <viaeque labori,
Tentaretque feros requie lenire dolores.
Pamiti& vivit* non haec fententia tantum
Fida, fed & felix cum fit fatis, ejfe fidelem.
Quern quoniam njates delenda ad Pergama

pofcunt; 320
Isfe mandate mihi. melius Telamonius ibit;
Eloquioque virum morbis iraque furentem
Jldolliet: aut aliqua producet callidus arte.
Ante retro Simois fluet, & fine frondibus Ide
St obit y & aux ilium promittet Achdia Tro-

jaei ^ 325

Quam ,cejfante meo pro vefiris pettore rebus,
Ajacis fiolidi Danais foHertia profit.
Sis licet infefius fociis, regique, mihique,
Dure PhiloBete; licet exfecrere, meumque
Devoveas fine fine caput ,• cupiasque dolenti 330
Jlde tibi forte dari nofirumque haurire cruo-

rem,

[Utque tui mihi, fie fiat tibi copia noflri;]
Ttf tamen aggrediar. mecumque reducere ni-
tar.~\

cTamque tuts potiar (faveatFortuna ) fagittis,
Quam fum Dardanio, quern cepi, njate po-

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Quam refponfa Deum, Trojanaque fata , re-

texi:

Quam rapui Phrygiae fignum penetrate Mi-

ner<vae

Hojlibus e mediis. & fe mihi comparet Ajax ?
TSlempe capi Trojam prohibebant fatafine illis,
Fortis ubi efi Ajax ? ubi funt ingentia ma-

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Verba 'viri ? cur htc metuis ? cur audet XJlixes
Ire per excubias, & fe committere noBi ?
Perque feros enfes , non tantum moenia
Troum,

Verum etiam fummas arces intrare: fuaque
Eripere aede Deam: raptamque efferre per
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Quae nififecijfem ,• frufira 'Telamone creatus
Gefiajfet Leva taurorum tergora feptem.
Ilia notfe mihi Trojae ■vifforia part a efi:
Pergama turn vici, cum vinci pdffe co 'egi.
Define Tydiden vultuque & murmure no-
bis 3 <jo
Ofientare meum. pars efi fua laudis in illis.
Nec tu ,cum foci a clypeum pro clajfe tembas,
Solus eras \ tibi turba comes, mihi contigit unus,
}ui, nifipugnacem fciret fapiente minor em

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P.OVID'S METAMOR-

„ That Ph'ihUetes is on Lemnos left,
Wounded , forlorn, of human Aid bereft,
Is not my Crime, or not my Crime alone j
Defend your Juftice, for the Fad's your own :
Tis true th' Advice was mine; that ftaying there")
He might his weary Limbs with Rett repair
From a long Voyage free, and from a longerf
War. )
He took the Counfel, and he lives at leafi;;
Th' Event declares I counfell'd for the beft :
Though Faith is all in Minifters of State;
For who can promhe to be fortunate ?
Now fince his Arrows are the Fate of Troy >
Do not my Wit, or weak Addrels, employ ;
Send Ajax there, with his perfuafive Senlea
To mollifie the Man, and draw him thence:
But Xanthus lhall run backward; Ida Hand
A leaflefs Mountain; and the Grecian Band
Shall fight for Troy ; if, when my Councils fail,
The Wit of heavy Ajax can prevail.
„ Hard Philotfetes, exercife thy Spleen
Againil thy Fellows, and the King of Men ^
Curfe my devoted Head, above the reft,
And wifli in Arms to meet me Breafi: to Bread:
Yet I the dang'rous Task will undertake,
And either die my felf, or bring thee back.
„ Nor doubt the fame Succefs, as when before
The Phrygian Prophet to thefe Tents I bore,
Surpriz'd by Night, and fore'd him to declare
In what was plac'd the Fortune of the War,
Heav'ns dark Decrees, and Anfwers to dilplay,
And how to take the Town, and where the
Secret lay :

Yet this I compafs'd, and from Troy convey\\
The fatal Image of their Guardian-Maid 5
ThatWork was mine;forP<a//rf.r, though ourFriend,
Yet while lhe was in Troy, did Troy defend.
Now what has Ajax done, or what defign'd?
A noifie Nothing, and an empty Wind.
If he be what he promifes in Show,
Why was I fent, and why fear'd he to go ?
Our boafting Champion thought the Task not
light

To pals the Guards, commit himfelf to Night;
Not only through a hoftile Town to pafs,
But fcale, with fteep Afcent, the ficred Place;
With wand'ring Steps to learch the Cittadel,
And from the Priefts their Patronefs to fteal:
Then through furrounding Foes to force my way,
And bear in Triumph home the heav'nly Prey;
Which had I not, Ajax in vain had held,
Before that monft'rous Bulk, his lev'nrold Shield.
That Night to conquer Troy I might be (aid,
When Troy was liable to Conqueft made,
j, Why point'ft thou to my Partner of the War ?
Tydides had indeed a worthy Share
In all my Toil, and Praife; but when thy Might
Our Ships ptotected, did'ft thou fingly fight?
All join'd, and thou of many wert but one;
I ask'd no Friend, nor had, but him alone:
Who, had he not been well affur'd, that Art,
And Conduit were of War the better part,

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