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

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Τhis interestin myth requires no explanation heyon thesimples and mos obvious analogies O natura phenomena. - an intenselytot summer trees Maring a vague resemblance to flendermaidens Ombard poplam , dropsis amber haped like lears, ali combine Min the familia lesso of Uultin ambitio thalo'erleapsestself.' It is probabi the best told an mos popular iasi the stories in the Metamorphoses.

is an epitheti Athena Minerva), tutelary divinit of Athens. 833. Ennia Mercur is represente missio inge cap 'nasus , and winged sandals salaria).

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844. tua Europa, ahelmad brow, tau ter of the Easternking, is ne of the numerous ames oven to the a. in the Gree mythology. The clawn o civilization rises pon the westem ori fro Asia. For the significationis this fabis, Eo

among the Grecian istands Severa of the divinities orshimed by the Greelis ere probabi introduce by them. The lable of Europa a perhaps mini in suo a setilement in Crete .u the introductionis catile stom Asia The heiser hic micles Cadmus Mould thus have the fame signification in the stor Mith the bull

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7. mocto . . . In Tarim, re . . . . --

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Ia7. Tritonis Tritonis is an epithe of inerva, probabb

the rude Greelis received the rst eginning o civiligation, especiali the nowledge of the alphabet. an religious rites Mere likemis horrowed rom them, speciali the worahi os Heralites Remcules, the Phoenicia Meuaro an Aphrodite Asiane or Venus.

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ACRISIUS, vin o Argos, ad been warne that he hould edethrone an flain by the chil of his aughter Danae, homineresore, to elude the oracle, he confined in iungeon illi braeten alis. ut Iupiter Dine admission in the formo a hower of mld, and Danaeiecam the mother of Perseus. Bein aliut withthe child ethen souraears of age in a chest, or offer an Stinto the ea, sh driste to the fland of Seriphus, here the oygre up and was sent crinily by the tyrant of the istan sor thehead of the Gorgon edusa. In his enterpris he was et clan delivered by the friendi care of the divinities Μercur anctΜinerva, ho armed him sor his tasMaavelim the wwer offiglit, and made him invulnerable an invincibie. See, sor an admirabie

ine thei rebellion to bear the weight of heaven um his

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AEgyptus and Danaus. 67o maisma ungum Cassiopeia mother of Andromeda, Maa ahat starre Ethiop queen that atrove To et her beauty' pris a veThe sea-nympha and thei m ers offended. 'Cepheus, Cassiopeia Andromeda, and Perseus are among the mos strihin constellations in the orther heavens.

67I. Ammon the hie divinit Magypt identifie Wit the Gree Zeus Iupiter represented Wit in head os a ram. Hehad an oracle in the Libyan desert.

672. raoohia, a c. o specification. 673. Ahantiactaa: Abas, in os Argos, descende homDanaus, a fallier os Acrisius. 673. ignea tne flames of love. 679. quihun, C. Bis asenis. 68o. Te uenti Sc mihi. 683. Eugata, i. e. herianos bound bellino. 684. quo potuit, i. e. the ni ining sh could iis antecedentis the sentence rumina BD. 68s. natanti, soraim urient. - aua emphatic ahe ould notaeem to consessauiit.

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a tua: the oster ad more reason oraries, Maeason ofher offence, hic incurred his penalty.

7 . mouit, cursus.

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IV. 68 791.4 VI. Perseus an Andromeda. Is

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CEos, in the Gree myth, is the Eariis orare Δημι πηρ , type of the productive mwer of the soli, - seelia e chil Proserpina Ρersephone, calle also omi, Me mairin), tolen Bom hersio by the king of the lower orid, and oni restore t he hyIupiter sor si months of eac year. y this parable the ancients understoo the annua so in of the grain-harvest, by hic thecor is hidde in the ground throuo the inter montha, but reatore in princto suntlol, and ripening to the harvest, in Whichthe early sestives of Ceres is celebrared Mith religio uites. V. 34I. uno aratro the ancient plough, stillisomelimes seen in Italy Was a rude, de instrument hic brove in soli Mitti ita hooked extremity. 343. ectit Iema: ecauae agriculture iret Ied men to anorderinlise, she was calle Ceres Ierimeri Δημητηρ Θεσμοφορο0.346. memtiris dat aster inmatM, Aeased on Meuiant Iim Typhoeus se Introd ). Typhoeus a no rechone one of thegianis, but represente the violent power os nature, especiali in the earlhquake: ence e is place so punishment unde thevolcano Elna.