Poemata quaedam excerpta: Selections from the poems of Ovid, chiefly the Metamorphoses

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I. HEROIDEM a collection os t enly-one elegies, meing letteraehieflydrom leading heroines' of the Homeric age. a. AMOREM: sori nine elegies, in three book miscellaneous, but chien amator o personat in thei topica. 3. ARS AMATORIA: three ooks, o the means os inning an retaining the affections os a mistressu and 4. REMEDIUM AMORIS mem prescribing the means by .hicha molis passio may be subdued These in poema contain the passages supposed toto excited the ange of Augustus. 3. ETAMORPHOSEO Libri xv. The Mesamor oras a stillun ishe when vi ment into exile, an he committerit to the flames, apparently Wit his o niandi ist. i. 7. II aeq. Lbut coplea his Me preserved by his istenda. 6. FASTORUM Libri vi. a poetic Calendar of the Roman montha, stom Ianuarnis Iune, designe to he continue to the en of the year a torehous o Roman custom an Italian legend. 7. TRISTIUM Libri v. and 8. EPISTOLARUM EX PONTO Libri im elegies vritten in exile. Many of the letters implore the intercessioni sienda a Rome to lain favor stom Augustus. 9. IBIS, a Poem o 646 verses Wriuen in exile a bitte invective

against some persones enemy. Io. ALIEUTICO LIBER I32 hexameter verses, a fragmentarynatura histor of Fishes. II. EDICAMINA FACIEI a stamentis Io elegiae verses, nste se of Cosmetics. The soll-incare include in some collections of Ovid' poems, but are probablymo genuinera CONSOLATIO ad Liviam Augustam : an eleg of 474 verses addressed to the Emperor's .is o the deat of her o Drusus. Nux the NuNTrees h lamentationis a WalnuNue by theroadside, at the crueities inflicteris manarem, and the vices of the age in genera

The mortale ea, in this connection, describes no the topic or a te es remmem, ly the versification, - hexameter vera vitam in Mit pentameter mining tha

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INDEX OF SELECTI S.

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I. THE FASTI PAGE

α HER IDEM Penelope to Ulysses 623. AMORES.

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INTRODUCTION

TΗ Μytholog of the Greeis, adopte by the Romans,

consist maint of two distinc paris. The Mst is halcis technicali calle Theogony, the generatio of the oes,' and was put in the hape est nown in us by Hesiod some time besoreso B.C. I began there is no reason to doubt, With rude personifications of the objecis an forces of nature, such as ould benatum is a eopte O active intelligence, lives imagination, and chiloliis ignorance noli matters of science. The Sun the Damn the Winda the Floods, are easti conceived a superhumanpersons. Some of the earlier abies are ardi an thin morethan metaphors, o poetic mages, ut in the or os narrative.

That the Suncis figure a a hepheta, and the fleec clauda his floch, hic are cauered by the win and gathered again by hisbeams, a very old bit of Easter metry - easti gives riserio thestorie of Apollo a the shepher of Admetus, and that hic telis the realing of his caule by the rome Hermes That the maiden Artemis gages Wit love o the fleeping prince Endymion, is hardlymore than a poetica way o describin the beautissi spectacle os fultioon rising opposite the sun at his ming domn. A seasono blastin drought an heat may have been describe by sayingstat he hario of the Sun was rive sto iis course by the unSkillat, selDconfident My whos late is tot in the wil tale os Phaethon. An somn. But se fabies canis explaine in his simple Way. Da ery

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a Introductionis Me

progen o fabulaua belua inhabitin the hi doma es sis,

Τhmother depariment of mytholain is that mim .hichahi poemchiessy devis It consista of the miracles an adventures ascribedio theae superhuman persona, - a vast fieri, in Whic ancient sancyriote a freel a the modern anc in novet an lair tales. Some of them ma possibi he explaine as a picturesque Wayes recountin naturalis nomena oris exaggerate tales of realeventa. ut in genera the seem purej fictions of the imagination. In a very large proportio thentis the formis mesamor Moses that is, transformations of men or oster creatures into Various aha su and this eatur ives the subjeci and the liue fcte present poem se therars lines of Book L . t prosesses simiunt teli thos stories hic have in them this element of themarvellous - the transformations particularly of men into planisor animais But as early at myths introduce some such seature,firs o last, it manages to include early au the important ones missi more oraes stanesa Therare tot in a ambitu discursive

Way one ator leadincto another by the aliores possibi liis

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o association, - sometime is hal aeema meres the wera artifice, iminxto mali a coherent tale ut of the miscellanyat his comma ..

in the primitive istichiatic notion es a separate lis in

every objeci, an is human ovi differing in no essentia regatafrom the life that wella in things, it Was eas in imagine the apirito man, Mast, o plant a passing romine dWellinxto another, sora longe or horter lay. Such a transmigration uas in sacvtaugh as a creed by the schoo o Pythagoras se Metam. v. I 87 . ut, as against hemindo doctrine os transmigrationlato the very lis of other animata, the Greeis helesto the identi and continuit of the human ovi, hic aster Mathia ita a de signe in the Lower Worid. The mesamor oris, heresore, is ni an occasiones miracle, notis rea meums9Mosis; it didno alter essentiali in ordinar course of human illa, ut onlymarhed the intimate connection etween that an the lis of externa nature or in a certain Wild, pictoria may, ahowed the orking of human fanc' is account so the fimi creationis planta and animais orither atrihings nomen of the natural morte, aclear ate sprinci a litue fland Arethusa , a mountain ridge

Τ ive omething like system, order, an develumen to this morio of table seem th have been a favorite imis poetica compositio Min the ancients. his rim is parti religious, an partly scientific, - is that an e calle scientificishic oni filis ithsancies a void statis science et exista torall. hus the Theogony V o Hesio groupa together the myth relatin to the birthesiod an heroes misin a sortis pagan Genesis V - in asor paru chronological parti picturesque an poeticat his

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is apparently the first attempti human thought is dea systemati-

alition to reject the early sabies. The tities of severat Greeli morks of the fame hin are known and Virgil, in the Stat Eclogue, is a simila sontinis the mout o Silenus. Annining like a real belles in theae fabies hin passed a a longhesore the time of Ovid. He a the popular poetis a sensualand artificia age, ho ound in these creations os ancient sancya ooupi subjecis auiis in his gracessit, ornate, an mareellousj facile styleis narrative, and who cli no hesitate to alter o dressthem up to fuit his purmae. The metamorphoses V - Libri xv. Mesamor oseon a Gree genitive)-ia the mos abundant indricli collectionis these abies that exista The are tot in adiffuse sentimentat, osten debase Way, hic contrast stronglymith the serious meaning that originalty belonge to these myths; hut are monderiali fluent easy, and melodious in thei languam, and sho. a kill o versification hic Aeems neve totali or eary. The poem egins it the firs origi of thinga rom chaos thesour age of gold, silver brass, and iron the deluge sollowed by the gracesta an picturesque versio of the tales of mda an heroes,

through a long narrative, - about a. o verses in all, - enclingwith the apotheosis of Caesar, a the seque of the tale o Troy. The series umoris to e chronological hut the orde is ostenarbitrar and the connectio forcedis affected a Would naturallybe the caseisit an author res inversissimas in speciem unius corporis oui num Quinti iv. I, 77). The mytholog of Ovid and the other Roman wet was Greehmytholog dressedis in Roman ames It i no necessar toremin the reade that the storie here tot relate in Zeus, Athene, Artemis, and the ther member of the Gree Olympus, and could neve have been attribute to the sober abstractions of the Roman Pantheon. evertheleas. In commentin um Ovid, it is impossibi to voi mahing se of the ames in the samesens that he diu, - the ames long familia in modern liter ture, Which took them stom the Romans and no the Greeis.

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Ν nova seri animus mutatas dicere sormas

corpora. Di, coeptis nam vos mutastis et illas

adspirate meis, primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora Carmen. ANTE mare et terras et quod tegit omnia caelum,

unus erat toto naturae vultus in orbe,

quem dixere Chaos rudis indigestaque moles,

nec quicquam nisi pondus iners, congestaque eodem non bene junctarum discordia semina rerum. nullus adhuc mundo praebebat lumina Titan, io nec nova Crescendo reparabat Cornua Phoebe,

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6 1. Creation an Me Euod METAM. nec circumfuso pendebat in aere Tellus ponderibus librata suis, nec brachia longo margine terrarum porrexerat Amphitrite; quaque fuit tellus, illic et pontus et aer. Is Sic erat instabilis tellus, innabilis unda, lucis egens aer nulli sua forma manebat, obstabatque aliis aliud, quia corpore in uno frigida pugnabant calidis, humentia siccis,

mollia cum duris, sine pondere habentia Pondus ao Hanc deus et melior litem natura diremit. nam caelo terras et terris abscidit undas, et liquidum spisso secrevit ab aere Caelum. quae postquam evolvit Caecoque exemit acervo,

dissociata locis concordi pace ligavidi asIgnea convexi via et sine pondere caeli emicuit, summaque locum sibi fecit in arce. proximus est aer illi levitate locoque; densior his tellus, elementaque grandia traxit

et pressa est gravitate sua circumfluus humor so ultima possedit, solidumque coercuit orbem.

Sic ubi dispositam, quisquis fuit ille deorum,

Congeriem secuit, sectamque in membra redegit, principio terram, ne non aequalis ab omni parte laret, magni speciem glomeravit in orbis astum stet diffudit, rapidisque tumescere ventis jussit, et ambitae circumdare litora terrae. addidit et sontes et stagna immensa lacuSque,

fluminaque obliquis cinxit declivia ripis,

quae diversa locis, partim sorbentur ab Psa, mi mare perveniunt Partim campoque recepta liberioris aquae pro ripis litora pulsant. jussit et extendi campos, subsidere valles, fronde tegi silvas, lapidosos surgere montes. Utque duae dextra caelum totidemque Sinistra s