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

PHOSEON Lib. XIV.

Vimqueferunt; faevisque par ant inceffere telis.
Ilia nocens fpargit virus 3 fuccosque <veneni:
Et noBem} No&isque Deos Ereboque Chaoque
Convocat & longis Hecaten ululatibus

orat. 4°5
Exfluere loco ( dittu mirabile ) fhae:
Ingemuitque folum, vicinaque palluit arbos >•
Sparfaque fanguineis maduerunt pabulaguttiss
Et lapides <vifi mugitus edere raucos;
Et latrare canens; (f humus ferpentibus

atris 410
Squalere, & tenues animae volitare videntur.
Attonitum monfris vulgus pavet.illa paruen-

tum

Ora 'venenata tetigit mirantia virga.
Cujus ab attaffu variarum monjlra ferarum
In juvenes <veniunt. nullifua manfit imago.41 <j
Prejferat occiduus Tarteffta litora Phoebus:
Et frufra conjux oculis animoque Canentis
Exfpettatus erat. famuli populusque per omnes
Difcurrunt fefoas, atque obvia lumina port ant.
JSfec fat is eft Njmphae pre, & lacerare ca-
pillosy 420
Et dare plangorem3facit haec tamen omnia:fefe
Proripit; ac Latios err at <vefana per agros.
Sex illam noBes, tot idem redeuntia Solis
Lumina viderunt, inopem fomnique cibique,
Ter juga, per cvalles3 qua fors ducebat 3 eun-
tem. 425
Ultimus adfpexit fejfam lucluque viaque
Thjbris, & in gelida fonentem corpora ripa.
Illic cum lacrimis, ipfo modulata dolore
Verba ,fono tenui moerens, fundebat>- ut olim
Carmina jam moriens canit exfequialia cy-
gnus: 43°
"'LuBibus extremum tenues liquefacla medullas
T'abuit j inque leaves paullatim evanuit auras.
Tama tamenfignata loco efliquemrite Canentem
Nomine de Njmphae <veteres dixere Camenae.
Thalia multa mihi longum narrata per an-
num 43 5
Vifaque funt. refides &f defuetudine tardi
Rurfus inirefretum, rurfus dare velajubemur.
Ancipitesque mas, & iter Titania vafum
Dixerat, & faevi re fare pericula ponti.
Pertimui, fateor; naffusque hoc litus ad-
haefi. 44°

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PHOSES. Book XIV. 473

,, Now, ftrange to tell, the Plants lweat Drops
of Blood

The Trees are tols'd from Forefts where they
flood -y

Blue Serpents o'er the tainted Herbage Hide ,
Pale glaring Spectres on the ALther ride;
Dogs howl, Earth yawns, rent Rocks forfake
their Beds,

And from their Quarries heave their ftubborn
Heads.

The {ad Spectators, ftiffen'd with their Fears >
She fees, and fudden ev'ry Limb flie fmears;/•-
Then each of favage Beads the Figure bears. )
„ The Sun did now to Weftern Waves retire,
In Tides to temper his bright World of Fire.
Canens laments her Royal Husband's Stay;
111 fuits fond Love with Ablencc, or Delay.
Where flie commands, her ready People run-
She wills, retracts j bids, and forbids anon.
Reftlefs in Mind, and dying with Delpair,
Her Breads fhe beats, and tears her flowing
Hair.

Six Days , and Nights flie wanders on, as
Chance

Directs, without or Sleep , or Suftenancc.
Tiber at laft beholds the weeping Fair;
Her feeble Limbs no more the Mourner bear;
Stretch'd on his Banks, flie to the Flood com-
plains ,

And faintly tunes her Voice to dying Strains.
The fkk'ning Swan thus hangs her Silver
Wings,

And, as flie droops, her Elegy flie lings.
E'er long fed Canens waftes to Air ; whilft
Fame

The Place (till honours with her haplefs Name.'
„ Here did the tender Tale of Picus ceafe,
Above Belief, the Wonder, I confefs.
Again we fail, but more Duafters meet,
Foretold by Circe, to our fufF'rins Fleet.
My felf, unable further Woes to bear,
Declin'd the Voyage, and am refug'd Here,

EXPLICATION OF THE VI. & VII. FABLES.

Ido not know if any body has remarked, that Ovid, Italy \ and beginning with thofe that had been in-
after having firft run through the Fables of the vented concerning iEneas, from whom the Romans
Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Greeks, comes at lafi: to deduced themfelves, carries them down to the Death
Tom. II. E e z of