I climbed a neighbouring hill, to secure a wider view, and saw your sails disappearing. In vain I tried by calls and signs to bring you back: you had already forgotten me. 30 112 Mons fuit: apparent frutices in vertice rari Aut vidi, aut tamquam quae me vidisse putarem, Nec languere diu patitur dolor: excitor illo, 66 [seu, 112 150 a 124 (1) 'Quo fugis?" exclamo, "scelerate revertere The- Si non audires, ut saltem cernere posses, Iactatae late signa dedere manus. Candidaque imposui longae velamina virgae, 106 a 133 I was left to my despair: all that I saw only brought my desolation more vividly before my eyes. 50 Iamque oculis ereptus eras. Tum denique flevi; Qualis ab Ogygio concita Baccha deo : What can I do? I cannot return home to a father's curse, even had I the means; and now that you have proved faithless I have no tie to life. Better to die than to live in constant fear. бо 70 80 xi. 5 Quid faciam? quo sola ferar? vacat insula cultu; 141, Finge dari comitesque mihi ventosque ratemque, Quid sequar? Accessus terra paterna negat. Non ego te, Crete centum digesta per urbes, At pater et tellus iusto regnata parenti [vivis, Morsque minus poenae quam mora mortis habet. 1521(5) 106 (1) 107 d 150 130 a 111 p. 141,. ix. 4, or . 144, B. iii. 106 (1) III. ARIADNE AT NAXOS. The doleful Ariadne so On the wide shore forsaken stood: But Bacchus came to her relief, Bacchus himself's too weak to ease my grief.-COWLEY. ARGUMENT. ARIADNE, deserted by Theseus, is found by Bacchus, and becomes his wife.-(DE ARTE AMAT. I. 527 foll.) Ariadne, wandering on the shore of Naxos, is lamenting the treachery of Theseus, when she is roused by the sound of cymbals and drums. GNOSIS in ignotis amens errabat arenis, 10 20 Qua brevis aequoreis Dia feritur aquis. 112 100 p. 134, III. B. 125 111 107 111 A merry rout appears, Bacchus and Silenus and their attendant train. Vix sedet, et pressas continet ante iubas. [que, 115 123 $139, Clamarunt satyri "surge age, surge, pater." 30 Bacchus assuages her fears, and promises her his hand and immortality. Cui deus "En, adsum tibi cura fidelior" inquit: 107¿ IV. THE CRETAN CROWN. Looke, how the crowne, which Ariadne wore, Being now placed in the firmament, Through the bright heaven doth her beams display, And is unto the starres an ornament, Which round about her move in order excellent. SPENSER, FAERIE QUEENE, vi. 10, 13. ARGUMENT. ARIADNE, deserted by Theseus, is found by Bacchus, and placed by him as a constellation in the heavens.—(FASTI, III. 461, foll.) Bacchus has brought back from his Indian campaign a royal captive. Ariadne deems him, like Theseus, inconstant in his love, and pours forth her jealous complaints. IAM bene periuro mutarat coniuge Bacchum, p. 137 D. 107 d 106 3 115 Sorte tori gaudens “Quid flebam rustica?" dixit, 111 115 106 3 ΙΟ 20 Flebat amans coniux, spatiataque litore curvo "En iterum, fluctus, similes audite querellas! Of what good was it to rescue me, only to leave me deserted once Servabas? potui dedoluisse semel. 115 (106 3 p. 135, IV.B. more? 141, ix. 4 Bacche levis, leviorque tuis, quae tempora cingunt, 124 1 |