...the turn on words, amongst a 30 thousand others, is that in the last book of Ovid's Metamorphoses — Heu ! quantum scelus est, in viscera, viscera condi ! Congestoque avidum pinguescere corpore corpus ; Alteriusque animantem animantis vivere leto. 35 An example on the turn both of thoughts and words...

...the turn on words, amongst a thousand others, is that in the last Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses — "Heu! quantum scelus est, in viscera, viscera condi! Congestoque avidum pinguescere corpore corpus; Alteriusque animantem animantis vivere leto." Several other illustrations of pathetic but rather jejune...

...Körper viel zuwenig", Heinse (Anm. 2), 261-317, hier 294. Pythagoras hingegen nach dem Zeugnis Ovids: „heu quantum scelus est in viscera viscera condi congestoque avidum pinguescere corpore corpus alteriusque animantem animantis vivere leto!" („Welch schwerer Frevel ist es, Leib in Leib zu bestatten,...

...equus et pecudes annentaque gramine uiuunt. At quibus ingenium est inmansuetumque ferumque, 85 Armeniae tigres iracundique leones Cumque lupis ursi, dapibus cum sanguine gaudent. Heu! quantum scelus est in uiscere uiscera condi Congestoque auidum pinguescere corpore corpus Alteriusque animantem animantis...

...a straightforward topic which at once allowed the poet to indulge in conceits after his own heart : Heu quantum scelus est in viscera viscera condi, congestoque avidum pinguescere corpore corpus, alteriusque animantem animantis vivere leto !^:I92 To bury flesh in flesh! O dreadful deed! With body's...

...637-50 (ii) n., 649n., 650n. Ovid is fond of (multiple) polyptoton; cf. Her. 12.19-20, Met. 15.88-90 heu quantum scelus est in viscera viscera condi/ congestoque avidum pinguescere corpore corpus/ alteriusque animantem animantis vivere leto, Wills (1996) 206, 213ff. The sentiment here, however,...