603. tumulo ab altɔ prospicio : on a high hill I examine; lit. look forth from a high hill (to see).

604. repeto carinam: go back to the ship.

605. Adsumus en! here we are.

606. utque putat praedam nactus: and having found a prize, as he thinks.

607. virginea forma: of girlish appearance, Abl. of Quality.

litora: along the shore.

608. titubare: to stagger.

609. vixque sequi: and scarcely able to follow.

per

cultum his dress.

610. posset: Characteristic Subjunctive after a negative antecedent. 611. Quod numen: what divinity.

quod interrogative Adjective.

613. faveas: Subjunctive of Wish, to be translated as an Imperative. 614. mitte precari: do not pray, leave off praying.

615. quo non alius ocior: than whom none was quicker.

616. prenso rudente relabi: to slide down a rope with his hands.

prenso rudente: Ablative Absolute.

617. Hoc: this; that is, what Dictys said.

pronae tutela: the offi

requiem modumque :

cer who had charge of the prow, second officer, mate. 618. et qui dabat remis: that is, the boatswain. the pause and the measure; the officer gave the signal for the stroke in order that the rowers might keep time. He also gave words of encouragement to keep the men in heart (animorum hortator).

622. Non perpetiar: I will not suffer.

most authority.

pars... iuris: here I have

623. in aditu obsisto: I oppose them at the entrance.

625. exsilium poenam luebat: was suffering exile as a punishment.

amens: senseless,

over.

628. si non haesissem: if I had not held on.

unconscious. Notice the use of quamvis with an adjective, a construction

that is natural to us, but uncommon in Latin.

stopped in the ropes.

630. fuerat: it was.

in fune retentus:

631. solutus sit, redeant: with veluti, tamquam, and similar words of comparison, where we might expect only the tenses of Unreal Conditions, other tenses are used according to Sequence of Tenses: see 602; A. & G. 312, R.; B. 307, 2; H. 513, II. in pectora: to him; the breast was looked upon as the seat of the reason as well as of the feelings.

632. qua ope by what means.

633. quo: where, to what place.

635. ede: tell us.

be placed.

velis: Indirect Question.

terra: Ablative of Place Where.

636. Naxon... vestros: direct your course to Naxos.

sistere you will

638. fallaces: the traitors.

640. Dextra mihi lintea danti: as I was setting sail to the right.

641. furor: he suddenly stops from fear. The others, too, were afraid to speak out.

643. quid... susurrat: whisper in my ear what they wish.

644. Capiat aliquis: let some (other) take.

645. ministerio . . . artisque: lit. from the service of the crime and (the exercise of) my skill; that is, from helping them in their crime with my skill.

647. scilicet of course, ironical.

te in uno in you alone.

648. subit takes my place; compare Met. I. 114.

649. explet: performs.

Naxoque ... relicta: and leaving Naxos

behind, goes in the opposite direction.

650. modo denique: not till then. 651. senserit: see on 1. 631.

653. mihi: Dative of Agent.

quae

654. Quo... facto: what have I done to deserve punishment ? gloria...unum: what honor is it to you, if you, being men, get the better of a boy—if you, who are many, get the better of one?

656. Iamdudum flebam: I had long been weeping; for the tense, see 234; A. & G. 277, b; B. 260, 4; H. 469, 2. manus impia: the impi

657. ridet (used as a transitive verb): laughs at, makes sport of. impellit: beats.

658. per ipsum (sc. Bacchum) tibi adiuro. per is often separated from its case in adjurations. praesentior: nearer; the

illo: than he.

speaker himself turns out to be Bacchus.

659. tam vera quam veri maiora fide: as true as incredible.

a kind of Objective Genitive depending on fide.

veri :

maiora fide: greater

aequore: Ablative of Place Where.

than belief, too great to be believed.

660. stetit: stood still.

puppis: the ship; compare carinae, Met. I. 134.

661. haud aliter quam: just as. navale dock.

662. in verbere perstant: persist in the stroke, persist in plying.

663. vela deducunt: let down the sails, which had been tied up to the halliards.

664. Impediunt hederae: ivy obstructs.

665. corymbis: clusters of ivy-berries.

666. Ipse... hastam : he himself, with his forehead encircled with clustering grapes, brandishes his spear (the thyrsus) covered with leaves of frontem: Accusative of Respect.

the vine.

668. Quem circa: around him.

simulacra images; illusory crea

tures of the imagination, attendant upon the god of wine. These animals

were added to his train when he conquered India.

669. pictarum: spotted.

672. expresso.

...curvamine: with an outward curvature of the spine. The dolphin is hogbacked.

673. In quae miracula: into what strange shape.

674. lati... erat: as he was speaking his mouth became broad and his nose curved in.

675. squamam trahebat: assumed scales, became scaly. Dolphins, however, have no scales.

676. obvertere: to pull.

677. in spatium... vidit: he saw his arms leap back to a short length, become short.

678. pinnas: fins.

680. trunco repandus corpore: curved backward as to his limbless body,

with a curved, limbless body; Ablative of Respect.

681. falcata... est: the end of his tail is sickle-shaped.

compare summa, Met. 11. 235.

682. qualia sinuantur: curved like.

683. adspergine: spray.

685. in chori speciem like a dance.

novissima:

686. acceptum. . . efflant: spurt from their wide nostrils the water which they have taken in; that is, take in and spurt out the water from their wide nostrils.

687. De modo viginti: out of the recent crew of twenty. now, a little while ago, lately. Compare Met. 1. 325. ship.

688. Pavidum: sc. me.

689. vix meum: scarcely master of myself. 690. Diam tene: make for Dia.

691. accessi sacris: I joined the rites.

modo: just ratis: craft,

Dia was an old name for Naxos. frequento: (still) attend.

6. PYRAMUS AND THISBE.

56. praelata: preferred to, surpassing.

that.

MET. IV.-55. alter... altera: the one, the other.

puellis quas: (all) the girls

60. Taedae... coissent: they would have married, too; lit. would have united by the right of the marriage-torch, that is, with the regular wed

ding ceremony.

61. Quod: what.

62. ex aequo captis mentibus: with equally captivated hearts.

63. conscius omnis abest: no one is admitted into their secrets; they use no go-between.

64. quoque magis: and the more.

magis aestuat: the hotter grows.

65. Fissus... utrique: the common wall of the two houses had been split by a slight crack which had been formed before when the wall was quam duxerat: which (the wall) had formed.

built.

fissaque agit rimas, Met. II. 211.

67. nulli: Dative of the Agent.

68. primi vidistis amantes: you lovers were the first to see. in predicative attribution.

69. tutae: safely.

70. murmure minimo: in a low whisper.

71. hinc... illinc: on one side, on the other.

Compare

primi :

blanditiae: tender words.

73. quid obstas: why do you stand in the way of.

76. nec and yet.

77. quod... aures: that to our words has been given a passage to friendly

ears.

78. Talia... locuti: having spoken such things in vain from their separate places.

79. sub noctem: towards night.

80. non pervenientia contra: which did not reach the opposite side.

81. ignes: that is, the stars.

82. pruinosas: the dewy.

83. coiere ad they met at.

murmure parvo: in a low tone.

84. multa, etc.: having first indulged in many complaints, they decide

85. temptant, relinquant, conveniant, lateant: Subjunctives of Design, depending upon statuunt.

87. neve sit... Nini: and to avoid missing each other wandering about over the broad field, (they agree) to meet at the Tomb of Ninus.

89. niveis pomis: in snow-white fruit.

90. morus: mulberry-tree; in apposition with arbor. Notice that names of trees are regularly feminine in Latin.

92. praecipitatur aquis: descends abruptly into the waters. aquis: poetic Dative = in aquas. ab aquis isdem: but from a different part,

the east.

93. Callida: cleverly; in predicative attribution. turning the hinge, opening the door.

versato cardine :

94. adoperta vultum: with her face covered; Accusative of Respect. 95. dicta: appointed. sedit (from sido): took a seat.

96. recenti... rictus: a lioness with her foaming mouth smeared with the fresh blood of cattle.

98. depositura: to quench; Future Participle after a verb of Motion to express Design: 670, 3; A. & G. 293, b, 2; B. 337, 4; H. 549, 3.

101. tergo velamina lapsa: the cloak which had fallen from her shoulders.

102. Ut: when.

compescuit: had checked; the Perfect with temporal particles is often to be translated as a Pluperfect; see on Met. I. 319.

103. dum redit: as she was returning.

A. & G. 276, e; B. 293, 1; H. 467, 4.

redit: for tense, see 229, R.; inventos... amictus: by chance

she came upon the fine garment without its owner and tore it to pieces with her bloody mouth.

105. Serius: later, Adverb.

106. ore: Ablative of Respect.

109. E quibus: of whom; the antecedent is amantes. with vita.

110. nostra... est: my soul is guilty. 111. plena metus: full of danger.

longa goes

iussi venires: urged you to come;

in prose the construction of iubeo is usually Acc. and Infinitive. 115. timidi est: it is the part of a timid man; for the Genitive, see 366; A. & G. 214, d; B. 198, 3; H. 401. Thisbes Genitive, Greek

form.

116. pactae: which had been agreed upon; pacta has passive sense, though from the deponent paciscor.

117. notae vesti: to the well-known garment.

118. haustus: Acc. Plural, streams, draughts, as if the garment drank the blood.

119. ferrum quo erat accinctus: the sword with which he was girded. demisit in ilia: he drove into his side.

120. nec mora: and immediately.

121. humo: construe with emicat: the blood spurts high up from the ground. The editors take with iacuit as equivalent to humi, a construction which at least seems doubtful. The passages cited are with verbs of motion, where humo in humum.

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122. vitiato... scinditur: a pipe of faulty lead bursts. Ovid is thinking of the Roman waterworks. The Eternal City had a wonderful system, consisting of several aqueducts extending many miles into the country. The earliest (aqua Appia) was built by Appius Claudius about three hundred years before Christ.

123. tenui stridente foramine: from a narrow, hissing opening. 124. rumpit: strikes.

125. Arborei... faciem: the fruit of the tree is changed to a dark appearance by (becomes dark from) the sprinkling of blood.

128. metu posito: Concessive.

129. requirit: searches for.

ne fallat depends on redit.

130. vitarit (= vitaverit): Subjunctive in Indirect Question. narrare gestit: is eager to relate.

131. Utque... sic: and although she recognizes the position and shape in the tree which she sees, yet.