Williams, Hugh W.: Select views in Greece (Band 2) (London, 1829)

FOUNTAIN AT VOSTIZZA,

THE ANCIENT .EGIUM.

LOOKING TOWARDS THE CRISSEAN SEA, AND MOUNTAINS

OF PHOCIS.

" Est nitidus, vitreoque magis perlucidus amni

Fons sacer, hunc multi numen habere putant;
Quem supra ramos expandit aquatica lotos,
Una nemus; tenero cespite terra viret.
Hie ego cum lassos posuissem fletibus artus,
Constitit ante oculos Naias una meos."

Ovid. Ep. XV.

*' There springs a fount, more pure than crystal stream,
The haunt of gods, as neighbouring rustics deem;
Itself a grove, the lotos blooming round,
Shades with o'er-arching leaf the emerald ground;
On that green couch my weary limbs I threw,
When, lo! a Naiad stood before my view."

J. P.

« Separat Aonios Actaeis Phocis ab arvis
Terra ferax.

Corycidas nymphas, et numina montis adorant,
Fatidicamque Themin, quae tunc oracla tenebat."

Ovid. Met. I.

« Between the Actaean and Aonian plain—
Fair region! Phocis rears her mountain-chain;
They, landed there, Corycian nymphs adore,
And mountain-gods that haunt the summits hoar,
And Themis, uttering thence her dim prophetic lore."

J. P.