ante sacros vidi proiecta cadavera postes, quam gerere atque suas ibi praeconsumere vires. certe mea pectora movit. Do you think I can transfer any part of your life to another? But Oliaros gave no aid to the Cretan ships; nor Didyme, Tenos, Andros, Gyaros; nor Peparethos rich in bright olives. But if my vision is far-sighted, you will wish you had never had her.” In a fury, she sent me back to her. Ovid's Metamorphoses In Latin And English, Translated By The Most Eminent Hands. "speque fideque, pater", dixit "maiora videbis: Further on she sees the Cephisus, the river-god lamenting his grandson’s fate, changed by Apollo into a lumbering seal, and the home of Eumelus, mourning his son Botres, reborn as a bird, the bee-eater, in the air. attonitus tamen est, ingens discrimine parvo But when my right hand was sated with the slaughter of wild creatures, I would return to the cool of the shade, and the breeze, aura, out of the chill valleys. “You are my greatest pleasure” I used to say. promisitque torum, lacrimis ait illa profusis: If we wanted to count your years and your honours. has concresse putant nactasque alimenta feracis esse canis: specus est tenebroso caecus hiatu, Medea, seeking his destruction, prepared a mixture of poisonous aconite, she had brought with her from the coast of Scythia. After Jason’s new bride Glauce had been consumed by the fires of vengeful Colchian witchcraft and both the Isthmus’s gulfs had witnessed flame consuming the king’s palace, Medea impiously bathed her sword in the blood of their sons. "Iuppiter o!" inter opus tauros medioque recumbere sulco; cornuaque exurunt nec non cum cornibus annos, Wherever I looked as I turned my gaze, there were layers of dead, like rotten apples fallen from shaken branches, or acorns from a windblown ilex. To present to the public a faithful translation … qui poterat curvare trabes et agebat ab alto decipiet, sed amor. Near there was the city of Pleuron, where Combe the daughter of Ophius, on flickering wings, escaped death at the hands of her sons, the Aetolian Curetes. and come, to aid the witches’ art, and all our incantations: You, Earth, who yield the sorceress herbs of magic force: You, airs and breezes, pools and hills, and every watercourse; Be here; all you Gods of Night, and Gods of Groves endorse. sed trahit invitam nova vis, aliudque cupido, natorumque patrumque animae iuvenumque senumque, Each volume sets the work in its literary and historical context, and aims to offer a balanced and engaging assessment of its content, artistry, and purpose. Login or signup free. You make me love the woods and lonely places. The hero, weeping, had told this sorrowful tale, when, behold, Aeacus entered with his two sons, and their newly enlisted men, whom Cephalus then accepted, with all their heavy armour. tantaque sunt miseris invisi taedia lecti, sumpserat ignara Theseus data pocula dextra, There Phylius, at the boy Cycnus’s command, brought him birds and a fierce lion he had tamed. et medium vulgus nec non et carmina vino huius in exitium miscet Medea, quod olim ea coniugis astu Scylla rapax canibus Siculo latrare profundo? Stretching her arms to them she three times turned herself about, three times sprinkled her head, with water from the running stream, three times let out a wailing cry, then knelt on the hard earth, and prayed: ‘Night, most faithful keeper of our secret rites; Stars, that, with the golden moon, succeed the fires of light; Triple Hecate, you who know all our undertakings. obliquantem oculos nexis adamante catenis adiciuntque animos. 'immo ita sit' Cephalus, 'crescat tua civibus opto Cerberus, provoked to a rabid frenzy, filled all the air with his simultaneous three-headed howling, and spattered the green fields with white flecks of foam. est data, nox somnis. They are more than hard! though bronzes of Temese clash, to take away your pains; and at my chant, the chariot of the Sun-god, my grandsire. scire; pedum calidus vestigia pulvis habebat, 775 The hardcover should be in … ut timeam fraudem meritique oblivia nostri. neve parum valeant a se data gramina, carmen ad regem Cephalus simul et Pallante creati arte mea soceri longum temptabimus aevum, The diseased entrails showed no marks, from which to read the prophetic truths, and warnings, of the gods. Andr. pace deae: quod sit roseo spectabilis ore, 705 conicit et patulas perfundit sanguine fossas; 245 principio caelum spissa caligine terras gesserunt tum, cum discederet Herculis agmen, Sinis, you killed, a man of great strength. temptamenta fide; male me, quin vera faterer, at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 0906515408 - ISBN 13: 9780906515402 - Bristol Classical Press - 1991 - Softcover nempe tenens, quod amo, gremioque in Iasonis haerens adspicit Aeoliden ignota ex arbore factum milite; quem Cephalus cum fortibus accipit armis. She was sad (but no one could be more lovely than her in her sadness). lexque datur Minyis magnorum horrenda laborum, This once knew you Phene, the most righteous, and you old Periphas, both flying in the air, as birds, the eagle and the osprey: and Alcyone, granddaughter of Polypemon, resting on strange new wings. When, eventually, she promised to do it, she said ‘To give you greater confidence in my gift, your oldest ram, the leader of your flocks, will by turned into a young lamb again, by my magic drugs.’ Straight away the woolly creature, worn out by innumerable years, was dragged forward, his horns curving round his hollow temples. admonitus patrii luctus suspirat et illi 480 signa sui generis facinusque excussit ab ore. nuda sed in terra ponunt praecordia, nec fit ad praesepe gemit leto moriturus inerti. sacra tori coitusque novos thalamosque recentes inplevit pariter ternis latratibus auras Theseus, unwittingly, had taken the cup he was given in his right hand, when his father recognised the emblems of his own house, on the ivory hilt of his son’s sword, and knocked the evil drink away from his mouth. But she escaped death, in a dark mist, raised by her incantations. partim succidit curvamine falcis aenae. flabat adhuc eurus redituraque vela tenebat: spectat et in vultu veluti tum denique viso et quia causa latet, locus est in crimine; partim et genus et virtus? Genre Matters 3b. conveniunt populi sacrum Mavortis in arvum non exempta foret poenae: fugit alta superque Known for its crest, its triple tongues and curved fangs, it was the dread guardian of the tree’s gold. nectareis quod alatur aquis, ego Procrin amabam; et quota pars illi rerum periere mearum! vivaque saxa sua convulsaque robora terra ecce vetus calido versatus stipes aeno despicit et certis regionibus adplicat angues: The same oak-tree was there before my eyes, with the same branches, and the same insects on its branches, and it shook with a similar motion, and seemed to scatter its column of grain-bearers onto the ground below. an, quod debuit esse, accingere et omnem The unexpected power of the disease surprised us, at the first, with its destruction of dogs, sheep and cattle, wild animals and birds. Oenopiam Minos petit, Aeacideia regna: terque senem flamma, ter aqua, ter sulphure lustrat. et quae de gelidis exibat vallibus aura: 810 He threw a boulder into the midst of his enemies, and this turned their attack, on him, against themselves. maiorem specie mirabere' dixit 'in isto. et tener auditur medio balatus aeno: gaudia percepit nato secura recepto: 455 Eurypylique urbem, qua Coae cornua matres Hugo Magnus. vos serpentigenis in se fera bella dedistis poscor et ipse meum consensu Laelapa magno si faciem moresque velis conferre duarum, We know the pestilence reached our lakes and streams. terribiles vultus praefixaque cornua ferro Quod nisi pennatis serpentibus isset in auras, 350 Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 Book 5 Book 6 Book 7 Book 8 Book 9 Book 10 Book 11 Book 12 Book 13 Book 14 Book 15. Quench, if you can, unhappy girl, these flames that you feel in your virgin heart! hinc Titaniacis ablata draconibus intrat Night fell, and sleep claimed my care-worn body. Book 7 When this book begins, the Argo, the first ship ever built, has reached its destination: the kingdom of Aeëtes, by the River Phasis. 'Pervenit ad miseros damno graviore colonos quem dederant cantus magicaeque potentia linguae; 330 verus eram coniunx! Cecropidis est hac tellus: ea foedera nobis.' What could they be, but to hate life, and to wish to be with my people? Powerful in men and ships, his anger as a father was more powerful still, and by right of arms he was seeking to avenge the death of Androgeos, his son. And now the Argonauts were ploughing through the sea in their ship, built in Thessalian Pagasae. As he came to them, the fierce creatures, with their iron-tipped horns, turned their terrible gaze towards him, pawed the dusty ground with their cloven feet, and filled the air with the steam of their bellowing. esse, venit Telamon properus foribusque reclusis Let him live! per si quid merui de te bene perque manentem Telamon went to him, and Peleus, junior to Telamon, and Phocus, the third child, their half-brother. semianimem et sparsas foedantem sanguine vestes 845 delicuit stagnumque suo de nomine fecit. bacchantum ritu flagrantis circuit aras qui virtute sua bimarem pacaverat Isthmon: 405 hactenus, et tacuit; 'iaculo quod crimen in ipso est?' unde sit, ignoro, sed non formosius isto viscera torrentur primo, flammaeque latentis ille cruore fluens, cubito tamen adlevat artus, in volucrem versi cum coniuge conscia regis. Presents a selection of stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the most famous and influential collection of Greek and Roman myths in the world. She poured over it cups of pure honey, and again she poured over it cups of warm milk, uttering words as she did so, calling on the spirits of the earth, and begging the shadowy king and his stolen bride, not to be too quick to steal life from the old man’s limbs. quam Telamon Peleus et proles tertia Phocus; Here, tradition says, that in earliest times, human bodies sprang from fungi, swollen by rain. servabere munere nostro, et quos Maera novo latratu terruit agros, idque petunt pretiumque iubent sine fine pacisci. Then we slipped our hounds from the tether, but she escaped their pursuit, and, travelling no slower than a bird flies, mocked the pack. in spatiumque fugit, sed decipit ora sequentis Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time. umbrarumque rogat rapta cum coniuge regem, Procrin adit linguaque refert audita susurra. vincere non poterat, 'frustra, Medea, repugnas: aeripedes tauri, tactaeque vaporibus herbae 105 marmoreamque Paron, quamque inpia prodidit Arne 465 The dragons had only smelt the herbs, yet they shed their skins of many years. pulvereumque solum pede pulsavere bisulco Ovid’s Theban Narrative 5. letiferis calidi spirarunt aestibus austri. “You revive me, and cherish me. “Aura” (Indeed, I remember) I used to call “Come to me, delight me, enter my breast, most pleasing one, and, as you do, be willing to ease this heat I burn with!” Perhaps I did add more endearments (so my fate led me on). cum me cornigeris tendentem retia cervis vernat humus, floresque et mollia pabula surgunt. utque facis, relevare velis, quibus urimur, aestus!" redditur et dulces concorditer exigit annos; Tres aberant noctes, ut cornua tota coirent Look! adspicio noscoque: adeunt regemque salutant. inmemor ambagum vates obscura suarum: mens aliud suadet: video meliora proboque, 20 1892. quos ubi viderunt praeacutae cuspidis hastas And her look seemed easier then, untroubled by death.’. Perthes. There, the Argo's captain, Jason, demands that Aeëtes surrender the Golden Fleece. neque enim micuerunt sidera frustra, Indeed I could hardly keep from confessing the truth, and hardly keep from kissing her, as I ought. et veteris retinens etiamnum pignora formae His axes struck the mountainous necks of oxen, their horns tied with the sacrificial ribbons. ergo ego germanam fratremque patremque deosque perque suos intus numeros conponitur infans pro gnato genitor dum verba precantia dicit, 590 She does not forget the scaly skin of a thin Cinyphian water-snake, the liver of a long-lived stag, the eggs and the head of a crow that has lived for nine human life-times. 1-73 74-99 100-148 149-158 159-178 179-233 234-250 ... ↑ different book ← All Latin … virque sit alterius, poenae Medea relinquar? castaque signa dabat dominoque erat anxia rapto: 725 mira loquar: non illa canes avidaeque volucres, 'Nox' ait 'arcanis fidissima, quaeque diurnis Her cheeks flushed, and then her whole face became pallid. quaerere, quod doleam, statuo donisque pudicam 720 Ovid haec quoque terra potest, quod ames, dare. a se depulsum Martem convertit in ipsos: 140 These men fresh in years and spirit, will follow you to war, as soon as that favourable east wind that brought you here’ (it was indeed an easterly that had brought him) ‘has swung round to the south.’. This is an inferior print-on-demand reprint in cheap hardcover of the Cambridge University Press Greek and Latin Classics editions. verba simul fudit terrenaque numina civit One of the monumental works of western literature, Metamorphoses is a staggering compilation of myths involving transformations that span from … spiritus iste tuus semper captatur ab ore." 820 constitit adveniens citra limenque foresque et cum rege suo custodes somnus habebat, deme meis annis et demptos adde parenti!' Each sotry are also explanations to why we act or animals act a certain way and how some species became created. dumque refert inter meritorum maxima demptos somnus in ignotos oculos sibi venit, et auro 155 cum videt Aesoniden exstinctaque flamma reluxit. Why should I tell how many times her chaste nature repelled my advances? ait: cecidere illis animique manusque; Neve doli cessent, odium cum coniuge falsum Aeacidae longo iuvenes post tempore visum I shivered, my limbs quaking with fear, and my hair stood on end. passa replet sucis; quos postquam conbibit Aeson pestis et in magnae dominatur moenibus urbis. Aeacus et, quae sit veniendi causa, requirit. ‘Un-sheath your blades, and let out the old blood, so that I can fill the empty veins with new! expetit; occurrunt illi Telamonque minorque nec dubie vires, quas haec habet insula, vestras She would not have escaped punishment had she not taken to the air, with her winged dragons. pectore Procris erat, Procris mihi semper in ore. Yet there were many I missed, that I saw before, when I visited the city.’ Aeacus sighed, and spoke sadly. After meeting and exchanging a few words, Cephalus described his mandate from Athens, asking for help and quoting the treaty sworn to by their ancestors, adding that Minos was out to control all Achaia. esse metus coepit, ne iura iugalia coniunx 715 And he will give me his word beforehand, and I will gather the gods to witness our pledge. illud Echidnaeae memorant e dentibus ortum quorum ope, cum volui, ripis mirantibus amnes The hot dust showed the print of his paws, but he had vanished from sight. vulgus erat stratum, veluti cum putria motis 585 sentit anhelatos (tantum medicamina possunt!) hasta nec excussae contorto verbere glandes inque manu turis pars inconsumpta reperta est! dextera caedis erat, repetebam frigus et umbras Urged on by these words, the more love each had for him, the quicker she was to act without love, and did evil, to avoid greater evil. You may accept or manage cookie usage at any time. in florem redeat primosque recolligat annos, dicta refert rector populorum talia centum: heros Aesonius potitur spolioque superbus Peneus, and Spercheus’s waters gave something, and the reedy shores of Boebe. though the ocean denied his bones a grave. Love is a credulous thing. You have me for a witness, you traitress!”, She said not a word. Three times with fire, three times with water, three times with sulphur, she purified the old man. creditus accepit cantatas protinus herbas Stretching his pallid hands out among the many weapons, he cried ‘Daughters, why are you doing this? Aeacus Aeginam genetricis nomine dixit. They called it Oenopia in ancient times, but Aeacus himself named it Aegina after his mother. morte fugant ultroque vocant venientia fata. crescere et in veteres agitata resurgere vires, nec Gortyniaco calamus levis exit ab arcu. muneris huius' ait, 'qui vestri maximus aevo est 310 gratantur Achivi non regit, et revolat nullo referente cruentum.' cuius ut Haemonio marcentia guttura cultro tollor eo capioque novi spectacula cursus, 780 inque patris duxere domum: spectabilis heros ad Cephalum Pallante sati, cui grandior aetas, 665 excipit Actaeis e fratribus alter et 'usum nam Telamon fraterque viros ad bella legebant. adflatuque nocent et agunt contagia late. copula detrahitur canibus, quas illa sequentes indicium rubor est et ductus anhelitus; igni 555 damnatura sui non est delicta mariti. adspicio; fugere hoc, illud captare putares. ambigui prosecta lupi; nec defuit illis obvia processit; multos tamen inde requiro, 515 permulsit manibusque leves agitavit habenas, I used to take no servants, or horses, or keen-scented hounds, or knotted snares. demisere metu vultumque animumque Pelasgi; tum mihi deserto violentior ignis ad ossa There happened to be an oak-tree nearby, with open spreading branches, seeded from Dodona, and sacred to Jove. At non Oliaros Didymeque et Tenos et Andros signa tuae!" sidera sola micant: ad quae sua bracchia tendens praemia poscenti taurum suprema negabat; quae mare turbatum, quae concita flumina sistunt, Those your mind, remembering, misses are only bones and ashes, and how great a part of my wealth perished with them! If he could do that, if he could set another woman above me, let him die, the ungrateful man! muneraque augendo tandem dubitare coegi. spes abiit finemque vident in funere morbi, 565 huic Asopiades 'petis inrita' dixit 'et urbi imperiumque peti totius Achaidos addit. dira lues ira populis Iunonis iniquae Metamorphoses. corpora foeda iacent, vitiantur odoribus aurae. I courted the breeze, gentle to me, in the midst of the heat: I waited for aura: she was rest for my labour. 'quid faciam, video: nec me ignorantia veri non sum contentus et in mea pugno The Metamorphoses is an 8 AD Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus. munus opusque tuum est; tellus Epidauria per te solverat alta quies, nullo cum murmure saepes, She adds hoar-frost collected by night under the moon, the wings and flesh of a vile screech-owl, and the slavering foam of a sacrificed were-wolf, that can change its savage features to those of a man. nescio quos audisse; "veni" tamen "optima!" ut vitam odissem et cuperem pars esse meorum? The Isthmus between the two gulfs ovid metamorphoses book 7 latin to load, but love, flowerheads, and the wild earth-born,! Et genus et virtus and wide violent flame burned in my heart: Procris was always on lips. Timeam fraudem meritique oblivia ovid metamorphoses book 7 latin. himself came, and this turned their attack, him. Dragons had only smelt the herbs, yet others still draw it dragons had smelt... 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