A term of Ovid, stories from the Metamorphoses for study and sight reading . W. GLEASON, CONTENTS PAGE Preface ....... 3 I. Atalantas Last Race . . . . 9 II. Pyramus and Thisbe . 18 III. Apollos Unrequited Love for Daphne ... 27 IV. How Phaethon drove his Fathers Chariot . 35V. The Death of Orpheus . . . .49 VI. The Touch of Gold 54 VII. Philemon and Baucis 59 VIII. The Impiety and Punishment of Niobe ... 64 IX. The Flood 71 X. Perseus and Andromeda yy For Sight Reading : XI Ceres and Proserpina 85 XII. Jason and Medea . ....... .94 Notes 109 Helps to Scansion 156 Vocabulary 161 7 In nova fert
A term of Ovid, stories from the Metamorphoses for study and sight reading . W. GLEASON, CONTENTS PAGE Preface ....... 3 I. Atalantas Last Race . . . . 9 II. Pyramus and Thisbe . 18 III. Apollos Unrequited Love for Daphne ... 27 IV. How Phaethon drove his Fathers Chariot . 35V. The Death of Orpheus . . . .49 VI. The Touch of Gold 54 VII. Philemon and Baucis 59 VIII. The Impiety and Punishment of Niobe ... 64 IX. The Flood 71 X. Perseus and Andromeda yy For Sight Reading : XI Ceres and Proserpina 85 XII. Jason and Medea . ....... .94 Notes 109 Helps to Scansion 156 Vocabulary 161 7 In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formascorpora. Di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis et Mas)adspirate meis, primaque ab origine mundiad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen. Metamorphoses, Book I, lines i- Of bodies changed to various forms I sing: —Ye gods, from whom these miracles did spring,Inspire my numbers with celestial heat,Till I my long laborious work complete;And add perpetual tenor to my rhymes,Deduced from Natures birth to Caesars times. Dry dens AtalaNtas Race: Poynter. I. ATALANTAS LAST RACE A MAIDEN OF MATCHLESS BEAUTY AND FLEETNESS F6rsitan , au diesis . alrquam cer taurine , cursusv£lo,c£s superasse vi^s. „ Non , fabula , rumorille fult; n supe^abat e,nim. „ Non , dicere , p6sseslaude pedum B fo^maene bo,n6 u £ Deus , huic u de , c6niuge, , C6niuge, , dixit, 5 nil opus , £st, ,| Ata|lanta, trbi. „ Fuge , c6niugis , usum,N£c tamen | £ffugi,6s; u te,que ipsa , viva ca^£rrita , s6rte de,i „ -per o^acas , innuba , silvasvivit, et, instan,tem tur,bam vio;l£nta prO|C6rum Forsitan audieris aliquam virginem certamine cursus velocesviros superasse. Ille rumor non fuit fabula; superabat dicere posses pedumne laude an formae bono esset prae-stantior. Huic de coniuge scitanti Deus dixit: Tibi, Atalanta,nil coniuge opus est. Fuge usum coniugis. Nee tamen effu-gies, vivaque te ipsa carebis. Territa sorte del per silva
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