A term of Ovid, stories from the Metamorphoses for study and sight reading . wonderful exploits he slew the Gorgon Medusa, whose headhad the power of turning to stone all who looked upon it. While on his wayhome with this head as a trophy, he asked shelter of the Titan Atlas, whorefused, and was turned to stone for his inhospitality. Continuing his jour-ney, Perseus came upon Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus of Ethiopia,exposed on a cliff as prey to a sea monster. He stayed his flight to kill thecreature, and received the hand of Andromeda as his reward. At the wed-ding feast he related to t
A term of Ovid, stories from the Metamorphoses for study and sight reading . wonderful exploits he slew the Gorgon Medusa, whose headhad the power of turning to stone all who looked upon it. While on his wayhome with this head as a trophy, he asked shelter of the Titan Atlas, whorefused, and was turned to stone for his inhospitality. Continuing his jour-ney, Perseus came upon Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus of Ethiopia,exposed on a cliff as prey to a sea monster. He stayed his flight to kill thecreature, and received the hand of Andromeda as his reward. At the wed-ding feast he related to the guests the story of the capture of the Gorgon. 1248. viperei spolium monstri: the Gorgon Medusa, with its head of snaky hair. 1249. aera carpebat: like carpe viam in 1. 809 the air being for the time his : : which Mercury had loaned him for the flight. 1253. colubris: take with both adjectives. 1254. per immensum: cf. profundum, 1. Arctos, Cancri bracchia: the extreme Gorgo North and the extreme South. (From an Ancient Terracotta). t$0 NOTES [P. 77 1261. Hesperio: used of any place in the unknown West, here Mauretania in Africa, where Atlas was king. He was son of the Titan Iapetusand brother of Prometheus and Epimetheus (see Table VI). Sincethe rebellion of the Titans he had been condemned to support theheavens on his shoulders. 1262. Lucifer, Aurora: cf. 11. 461-463, 767-768. 1264. hominum cunctos: by a Greek construction for homines cunctos. The ace. is usual even in prose with praestans in the sense of excel. 1265. ultima: the farthest to the West. 1266. pontus: of course the ocean called after Atlas himself, the Atlantic. 1267. aequora subdit . . : see 11. 416, 417. axes: currus, as before. The epithet is transferred as frequently inOvid. So, too, in Vergil, as the familiar line (Aen. I, 168), hie fes-sas non vincula navis ulla tenent. 1268. illi: of his, dat. of reference. 1269. premebant: plural, as the subject vicinia is pl
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