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Medium. This adjective may take a partitive genitive plural, or, as here, two genitives singular, equivalent to a plural; midway of (the two places) Cyane and Arethusa. These are two fountains near Syracuse. On Pisaeae, see v. 493 foll. The final syllable of the word is not elided. — 410. Quod-cornibus which flows in a narrow channel, shut in by close promontories; referring to the strait between Sicily and Ortygia, a small island on which Syracuse was partly built.—413. Gurgite. Gr. 434. I. A. & S. 242. Summa. See on IV. 659. Alvo. Gr. 47. 2. 2). A. & S. 49. 1. -414. Deam Proserpina. Nec - inquit: et inquit, "Non longius ibitis." 415. Roganda she should have been asked for; i. e. of her mother. Gr. 229. A. & S. 162. 15.416. Magnis. Gr. 386. I. A. & S. 224. 417. Anapis; the god of the Anapis, a river near Syracuse. - 418. Exorata = wooed. Exterrita = frightened (into yielding to his suit). —420. Saturnius=Pluto, as the son of Saturn. - 421. In ima = into the depths of the spring; i. e. of A. & S. 205, R. 9, and 212, R. 3. A. & S. 274. 3 (b).·

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566. I. A. & S. 275, R. 4. —465. Fuisset. Gr. 510 and 1. A. & S. 261. I. – 466, 467. Volenti (sc. ez) is equivalent to a dative of pessessor, aderant being used for erant. Quo loqueretur the means of speaking. Gr. 501. I. A. & S. 264. 7. —469. In = into. A. & S. 235 (2), R. 4. —470. Persephones is the Greek form for Proserpinae. Summis. See on IV. 659. —471. Simul=simul ac, as often. Tanquam-scisset = as if she then at length had discovered that her daughter had been carried off. Gr. 503. II. and 506. A. & S. 263. 2 (1). — 473. Repetita repeatedly. See on IV. 734. — 474. Sit. Gr. 525. A. & S. 265. — 475. Munere. See on v. 345, and cf. vv. 342, 343.-477. Reperit. See on repulit, II. 157. Vertentia = (used for) turning. -479. Leto destruction. -480. Fallere depositum to betray their trust; i. e. the seed sown. Gr. 551. II. 1. A. & S. 273. 2 (a) and 272, R. 6. Vitiata. See on v. 436. -481. Terrae=Sicily; which was famous for its fertility, in ancient times. —482. Cassa jacet=lies useless; i. c. avails nothing. Primis in herbis; i. e. as soon as they spring up. – 484. Sideraque. The final e is lengthened by the arsis. 660. A. & S. 308. —485. Jacta = that have been sown. Fatigant = exhaust, hinder the growth of. same construction as lolium and tribuli. thusa; a nymph of Elis, beloved by the changed by Diana into a fountain, that she might escape him. But he still pursued her; and when she fled under the sea to Ortygia, he followed her, and rose with her on that island. Hence it was said that a cup thrown into the Alpheus would appear again in the fountain of Arethusa in Ortygia. —489. Virginis is in the same construction as frugum. — 491. Terrae. Gr. 385. A. & S. 223, R. 2. — 492. Nihil; i. e. no punishment. Rapinae. Gr. 384. I. A. & S. 223. Cf. v. 419 foll. — 494. Such transition from the singular to the plural is sometimes found even in prose. Cf. v. 504.- 496. Solo. Gr. 417. A. & S. 256. 2. Arethusa is in apposition with the subject of habeo. Penates. See on I. 174. sim=why I have been driven from my native land. 265.-499. Ortygiam. Gr. 379. 3. 2). A. & S. (c). Narratibus. Gr. 391. I. A. & S. 222, R. 1.que. Gr. 425. A. & S. 251. 501. Vultus. Gr. 402. III. 211, R. 6. Melioris more cheerful. Pervia tellus. Stygian; i. e. beneath the earth, near the I flow. -506. Vultu. Gr. 429. A. & S. 250. I. - 507. Maxima = domina.

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II. — 519, 520. Si— certius: = if you call it finding to lose more certainly. Gr. 373; 550. A. & S. 230 and N. 3. So scire and the second reperire. On sit, see Gr. 525. A. & S. 265. Rapta; SC. est. Gr. 558. V. 2. A. & S. 273. 5, R. (3) and N. 6.- 521. Reddat. Gr. 505. A. & S. 263. 2 (1). Praedone. See on v. 345. Marito. Gr. 363. A. & S. 204 and R. 1 (a). The idea is : if my daughter does not deserve such a fate, surely your daughter does not. 524. Mihi. Gr. 391. I. A. & S. 221, R. 1. Si — placet (sc. tibi, or nobis): if you will only call things by their right Gr. 362. A. & S. 210. So amor.

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526. Nobis... pudori a disgrace to us. Gr. 390. I. 1). A. & S. 227. — 527. Tu modo velis=if you will but consent to it; i. e. the marriage. See on reddat, v. 521. Ut- cetera: were there nothing else in his favor. Gr. 516. II. and 1. A. & S. 262, R. 2. 528. Esse. Gr. 549. A. & S. 269 (b) and R. 2. Quid — desunt =but (or, nay) other things are not wanting. "Quid quod often introduces a new and striking fact, when the literal translation would perhaps be: what would you say to the fact that ? but the idea may often be more simply expressed by nay." Key's Lat. Gram. § 1454. h. -529. Sorte. See on v. 368. — 530. Discidii= of their separation, or divorce. Repetet. See on reddat, v. 521. 531. Lege condition. Gr. 414. 2. A. & S. 249. II. — 532. Nam―est = for so it is enjoined by a decree of the Fates. Not even Jupiter could change the decrees of the Fates. See on I. 256. — 533. At-est but Ceres is resolved: a construction like Gr. 388. II. A. & S. 225. II. Educere. Gr. 549 and 1. A. & S. 269 and R. 2.

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METAMORPHOSES. Book VI.

THE STORY OF NIOBE. - Niobe was the daughter of Tantalus and Dione, one of the Hyades. [See on III. 595.] She married Amphion, king of Thebes, and had seven sons and seven daughters, of whom she became so proud as to think herself superior to Latona and her two children, Apollo and Diana. How she was punished for her insolence the poet here tells us.

146. Lydia was a district of Asia Minor, in the middle of the western side of the peninsula. Fremit=shudders; i. e. at the punishment of Arachne, who had boasted that she could surpass Minerva in weaving, and had been changed by the goddess into a spider. Phrygia lay to the east of Lydia. —148. Ante―illam = before her own marriage Niobe had known her; i. e. Arachne. — 149. Maeoniam = Maeonia, the ancient name of Lydia. Sipylus was a mountain of Lydia, and the ancient capital of Maeonia is said to have had the same name. -150. Popularis her countrywoman. -151. Cedere. Gr. 552. 2. A. & S. 273. 2, N. 4 (a) and (b). So

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