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Selections From the Metamorphoses and Heroides of Publius Ovidius Naso, With a Literal and Interlineal Translation on the Hamiltonian
Selections From the Metamorphoses and Heroides of Publius Ovidius Naso With a Literal and Interlineal Translation on the Hamiltonian Author:Ovid Title: Selections From the Metamorphoses and Heroides of Publius Ovidius Naso, With a Literal and Interlineal Translation on the Hamiltonian Translation, as Improved by Thomas Clark Subtitle: For the Use of Schools and Private Learners General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1873 Original Publisher: C. Desilver Notes... more »: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LIBER QUARTUS. BOOK THE FOURTH. FAB. I. (Metam. Lib. IV. 1 -- 54.) DERCETES IN PISCEMJ SEMIRAMIS IN DERCETES (TRANSFORMED) INTO A flSB; SEMIRAMIS INTO COLUMBAMJ ET NAIS IN PISCEM. A DOVE; AND NAIS INTO A FISH. At Minyeias Alcithoe censet orgia But Minyeian [daughter of Mineus] Alcithoe thinks the orgies del non accipienda; sed temeraria, adhuc of the god not to be received; but rash, yet negat Bacchum esse progeniem Jovis; que habet denies Bacchus to be the offspring of Jupiter; and has sorores socias impietatis. Sacerdos jus- (her) sisters companions of impiety. The priest had or- serat que dominas que famulas immunes suorum dered both the mistresses and maid-servants free of their 6] operum celebrare festum, tegi pelle labours to celebrate the festive (day), to be covered with a skin pectora, solvere crinales vittas, (as to) the breasts, to loosen | the hairy fillets, [the fillets of sumere serta comS, frondentes thyrsos the hair,] to take garlands in the hail", leafy thyrsuses manibus; et vaticinatus-erat iram Isssi in bands j and had prophesied the anger of the injured numinis fore ssevam. Que matres que nurus deity to be about-to-be fierce. Both mothers and daughters-in-law parent: que reponunt telas, que calathos, que [io obey: and lay-by web?, and baskets, and infecta pensa; que dant thura; que vocant un...« less