A term of Ovid, stories from the Metamorphoses for study and sight reading . river Pactolus. Midas betook himself to the woods, wherehe became an admirer of the god Pan, whom he backed in an unfortunatemusical contest with Apollo. As a reward for his bad judgment, he receiveda pair of asss ears. These he tried to conceal, but his servant whisperedthe secret to the earth, from which reeds sprang up, and by their rustlingexposed the whole affair. 755. hoc: the punishment of the women described in 11. agros: the region where Orpheus had been killed. 756. Timoli: Mt. Tmolus in L
A term of Ovid, stories from the Metamorphoses for study and sight reading . river Pactolus. Midas betook himself to the woods, wherehe became an admirer of the god Pan, whom he backed in an unfortunatemusical contest with Apollo. As a reward for his bad judgment, he receiveda pair of asss ears. These he tried to conceal, but his servant whisperedthe secret to the earth, from which reeds sprang up, and by their rustlingexposed the whole affair. 755. hoc: the punishment of the women described in 11. agros: the region where Orpheus had been killed. 756. Timoli: Mt. Tmolus in Lydia, famous for its vineyards, so a favorite haunt of Bacchus, and called sui in this line. There is another inter-esting allusion to this region in Meta?norphoses, V, 15-16: — Deseruere sui nymphi vineta Timoli,deseruere suae nymphae Pactolidas undas. 757. Pactolon: a river which rises on the slopes of Mt. Tmolus, famous in later times (guamguam non aurea illo tempore) for its golden sands, 136 NOTES [; So also annisque meroque, in 1. 760, and 759-760. 762. 763-. 758. harenis: abl. of , 1. 765. hunc : Bacchus, not Pactolus. Silenus: read an account of thisinteresting personage in somebook of mythology. Midan: a mythical king of Phrygia,whose character will be under-stood by the story which follows. Cecropis: see Jebbs Primer ofGreek Literature, p. 18. 767. coegerat agmen: cf. 1. 462. 768. undecimus : as, in the determina- tion of time, the point of depar- Silenus ture is reckoned in as one of the series, undecimus here is the tenth, and not the eleventh, day. 769. iuveni: here an adjective, the {ever) : sc. ut with vertatur. 775. Liber : a Latin name of Bacchus, similar in meaning to the Greek epithet : subjunctive because the reason is given on the authority of theperson described, not on the writers authority. 776. Berecyntius : as in 1. 686. horos : because the son of Cybele, according to some accounts. 777. pollicit
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