A term of Ovid, stories from the Metamorphoses for study and sight reading . Triton Achilles Books of Reference. — Phaethon: Age of Fable, pp. 50-59; Cox; Guer-ber, pp. 83-88. Aurora : Age of Fable, p. 35; Guerber, p. 85; Seeman, p. 108. V. THE DEATH OF ORPHEUS After the death of Eurydice — whom, by visiting the under world, Orpheusregained only to lose again — the singer forsook the society of women and thehaunts of men, and retired to the solitudes, to sing and sorrow among theforest trees. This act roused the indignation of the Thracian Bacchantes,who pursued Orpheus, and tore him in pieces
A term of Ovid, stories from the Metamorphoses for study and sight reading . Triton Achilles Books of Reference. — Phaethon: Age of Fable, pp. 50-59; Cox; Guer-ber, pp. 83-88. Aurora : Age of Fable, p. 35; Guerber, p. 85; Seeman, p. 108. V. THE DEATH OF ORPHEUS After the death of Eurydice — whom, by visiting the under world, Orpheusregained only to lose again — the singer forsook the society of women and thehaunts of men, and retired to the solitudes, to sing and sorrow among theforest trees. This act roused the indignation of the Thracian Bacchantes,who pursued Orpheus, and tore him in pieces. As punishment for this maddeed, they were turned into trees by Bacchus. The remains of the poet werecarried down the Hebrus River to Lesbos, while his spirit, at length, in theshade land rejoined his lost Eurydice, to be no more parted from her. 671. carmine tali: as, for example, the stories of Pygmalion and Galatea,of Hyacinthus, and other tales of the loves of gods for mortals whichOrpheus had been represented in the preceding book as singing. P. 5o] NOTES 133. Bacchante 672. Threicius : Orpheus was a : ut sequantur. 673. lymphata: maddened, frenzied (see derivation in Vocabulary). This has been explained in two ways: (1) as in the first place meaning hydrophobic, from lympha = water, then, by an easy change, referring to any madness; (2) from lympha = nympha, nympholeptic, bewitched by a nymph, made insane by seeing the image of a nymph in the pectora: like sinus, 1. 646. velleribus: the skins of does, in which the Bacchantes dressed when celebrating the Bacchic nervis: dat. with sociantem, but render accompanying his song with the muz: the lyre. What is an exactly literal trans-lation? In Book V of the Metamorphoses, 1. 340, the same phrase occurs, but with a different verb: Atque haec percussis subiungit carmine nervis. 677. nostri: objective gen. See introductory note. hastam : the thyrsus or Bacchic staff described in
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