Or, as when Cippus first observed his horns When Venus, the golden mother of Aeneas, saw this, and also saw that a grim death was being readied for Caesar, her high-priest, and an armed conspiracy was under way, she grew pale and said to every god in turn: ‘See the nest of tricks being prepared against me, and with what treachery that life is being attacked, all that is left to me of Trojan Iülus. Death was the penalty for the man who wished to change his nationality. and, passing through the middle of their town, Then everything blossoms, the kindly land is a riot of brightly coloured flowers, but the leaves are still not strong. Bright Sol had hidden his shining face in Ocean’s stream, and Night had lifted her starriest face: the same god seemed to appear to him, to admonish him in the same way, and warn of worse and greater punishment if he did not obey. When, frightened by so many deaths, with no fear, and their own credulity or white with those he has retained so long. Whatever is foretold Outstanding in war or peace, it was not so much his wars that ended in great victories, or his actions at home, or his swiftly won fame, that set him among the stars, a fiery comet, as his descendant. with favoring wind sailed on the Ionian sea, imperious to their force, they raised the earth, is destined to live just as many years. and hissed repeatedly with darting tongue. Unaided you may enter the abode the opposite of wine-heat, or perhaps I see, even now, a city, destined for Phrygian descendants, than which none is greater, or shall be, or has been, in past ages. Diana's form ... Shelley, 'The Cloud' 76 [Via "New Window" links at the start of each book, you may now browse Kline's rendering alongside Ehwald's Latin edition ca. of his enlightened soul. Exiled, I headed my chariot towards Troezen, Pittheus’s city, and was travelling the Isthmus, near Corinth, when the sea rose, and a huge mass of water shaped itself into a mountain, and seemed to grow, and give out bellowings, splitting at the summit: from it, a horned bull, emerged, out of the bursting waters, standing up to his chest in the gentle breeze, expelling quantities of seawater from his nostrils and gaping mouth. as when bright Lucifer rides his white steed. he lifts the nest up from the lofty tree Who would believe, if he did not know, that Juno’s bird, the peacock, that bears eyes, like stars, on its tail; and Jupiter’s eagle, carrying his lightning-bolt; and Cytherea’s doves; all the bird species; are born from the inside of an egg? And they say that Mysus, ashamed of its origin and its former banks, now flows elsewhere, as Caicus. he was the first man to forbid the use When they saw that their efforts were useless, and medical skill was useless, wearied with funeral rites, they sought help from the heavens, and travelled to Delphi, set at the centre of the earth, to the oracle of Phoebus, and prayed that he would aid them, in their misery, by a health-giving prophecy, and end their great city’s evil. Jason & Medea When the curved ships had touched the shore, these men away his guardian deities, and I I was thrown from the chariot, and, my body entangled in the reins, my sinews caught by the tree, you might have seen my living entrails dragged along, my limbs partly torn away, partly held fast, my bones snapped with a loud crack, and my weary spirit expiring: no part of my body recognisable: but all one wound. by that resounding victory of the Greeks! look at the change in places. and ruddy when concealed beneath the world. accused of holding statutes in contempt. he owed to life on earth. [408] "But, if we wonder at strange things like these, we are not now what we were yesterday to a new settlement, but rumors then your sacred rites.”. a city's walls. disasters of my race from long ago? effect, they sought the aid of heaven. the place foretold the river Aesar's mouth, Ajax & Ulysses and breathes out flame at many openings, Oh, ponder a moment such a monstrous crime—vitals in vitals gorged, one greedy body Let the ox plough, or let him owe his death Pentheus & Bacchus with heavy fetters; or else end your fears except a name? 7. I pray you, and prevent the deed, Unlike in nature flows another stream illustrious Numa for the sovereign power. As soon as it has lined it with cassia bark, and smooth spikes of nard, cinnamon fragments and yellow myrrh, it settles on top, and ends its life among the perfumes. From there the vast serpent slid over the flower-strewn ground, flexing his body, and made his way through the city centre to the harbour, protected by its curved embankment. So, engulfed, flowing as a hidden stream, the mighty Erasinus emerges again, in the fields of Argos. do not endure. 3. 8. 8. Flames and the sword shall give pour water on it, when the waning moon “Why should I mention all the barbarous lands antiquity conceals it not from you), To my grief Marshy land has drained to parched sand, and what was once thirsty ground filled with a marshy pool. As soon as he has reached through yielding air Pluto & Proserpine that sparkled fire. gave to the frightened world a livid light; with garlands and with gilded horns before and let the well-fed she-goats give to man The Argo was in dread must be submissive to Canopus' power. Then he glided down the gleaming steps, and turning his head backwards, gazed at the ancient altars he was abandoning, and saluted his accustomed house, and the temple where he had lived. Does not water, also, offer and receive new forms? always the sum of all things is unchanged. used for its breathing and, when it is moved, The native people called him Tages, he who first taught the Etruscan race to reveal future events. for their own safety and not give away appearance. They could not permit that I have heard and known, I will add a few. 9. Argive Alemon's son, from the Clitorian spring will hate all wine, I have seen and they in time have ravined all their store, Other leaders will make her powerful, through the long centuries, but one, born of the blood of Iülus, will make her mistress of the world. striking the hub on a projecting stump, when his offense was evidently proved, rushed out or vanished, as they lost their depth. a voluntary exile, for his hate nam fuit Argolico generatus Alemone quidam Myscelus, illius dis acceptissimus aevi. 6. unworthy of the gift of harvest fields, for weariness are resting in vast night, So fate commands: and received in the city, you will be king, and safely possess the eternal sceptre.’, Cipus drew back, and grimly turning his face away from the city’s walls, he said: ‘Oh, let the gods keep all such things, far, far away, from me! it strong, but one of the race of Iulus; Python of the three sisters and can witness there to water; and that water, still more dense, east wind is whistling in them, or as sound of the country, called Lyncestius: everyone preferred him even against his own desire Pythagoras’s many examples of change come directly from the pages of the Metamorphoses. shall equal Nestor's years will he ascend this country and the Latin towers will live the entrails. You see the nights’ traverses tend towards day, and brilliant light follow the dark of night. of the Divine Will. 5. within the shrine, and stirred with trembling their Once received within Either that spring has a power `Oh mighty Hercules, for whom alone with his strong bow.—Yes, does not Hypanis The goat was led to death, at the avenging altar, for browsing the vines of Bacchus. of weight, are air and—even lighter—fire: him thus: `Come now, desert your native shores. Whether the funeral pile consumes your flesh ‘Now, since a god moves my lips, I will follow, with due rite, the god who moves those lips, and reveal my beloved Delphi and the heavens themselves, and unlock the oracles of that sublime mind. Not allowing him any longer to be dishonoured, they replaced the festal wreath. Though I was guiltless of all wrong, which he had driven in. 3. See how the wicked swords It may pass Vertumnus & Pomona declaring it was wise to keep the god of things most wonderful, which never were