Poemata quaedam excerpta: Selections from the poems of Ovid, chiefly the MetamorphosesGinn brothers, 1876 - 282 pages |
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Achilles Æneas aëra agrees Ajax ancient Apollo arma Atalanta auras Bacchus became Book bracchia brother Cadmus caelo Cæsar called Ceres changed chief city Cloth conjunx converted corpora course daughter death Delos deus earth English father first following form Galatea given gods golden great Grecian Greek Hercules ignes illa ille inque island Italy Jamque Jupiter Juppiter king last Latona life limits long love lumina made means Medea Medusa Metamorphoses mihi Minos mother mountain MUSIC name names neque Niobe nunc Orpheus Ovid pages pectora Peleus perque Perseus Phoebus place poems postquam power Proserpine quæ relates represented river Roman Rome sacred same Samos sanguine sine slain stone story tamen tellus terras Theseus third Thrace three tibi time Tristia Troy turned Ulixes Ulysses unda undas undis used utque verse vulnera vultus water whole wife word work world worship ΙΟ
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Page 195 - Goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view...
Page 221 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Page 155 - Ter limen tetigi, ter sum revocatus, et ipse 55 indulgens animo pes mihi tardus erat. Saepe 'vale' dicto rursus sum multa locutus, et quasi discedens oscula summa dedi. Saepe eadem mandata dedi meque ipse fefelli, respiciens oculis pignora cara meis. 60 Denique 'quid propero? Scythia est, quo mittimur', inquam, 'Roma relinquenda est.
Page 122 - Omnia mutantur, nihil interit: errat et illinc hue venit, hinc illuc, et quoslibet occupat artus spiritus eque feris humana in corpora transit inque feras noster...
Page 124 - Herculeis similes, fluidos pendere lacertos ; flet quoque, ut in speculo rugas aspexit aniles, Tyndaris, et secum cur sit bis rapta requirit. Tempus edax rerum, tuque invidiosa Vetustas, omnia destruitis, vitiataque dentibus aevi 235 paulatim lenta consumitis omnia morte.
Page 4 - Phaethon miratur, opusque perspicit, ecce vigil rutilo patefecit ab ortu purpureas Aurora fores et plena rosarum atria ; diffugiunt stellae, quarum agmina cogit Lucifer, et caeli statione novissimus exit.