![]() ![]() This should not be taken as an indication that the poem is about to become pornography (although certain segments verge on the pornographic and fetishistic). Now, we get an introduction to what will become a signature theme in the Metamorphoses: erotica. Lycaon and Deucalion/Pyrrha were arguably proper ‘myths’, but even they tied into the cosmological elements. Up until now, we’ve been getting a heavy dose of cosmology and natural philosophy. Whoah, wait… monster fights, then a love story? What gives, Ovid? Seriously, though, this turn might be a bit surprising. You go be content to stir up some love or other with your marriage torches**,Īnd don’t try to claim praises due to us.” Which just now to lay out huge Python, his pestilent gore covering so much of the mountain peaks, Which to give sure wounds to beasts and sure wounds to enemies, ![]() Had seen him bending his bow to the taunt stringĪnd had said, “what are you doing with high-powered weaponry, you lusty little boy? The Delian, flush from his recent victory over Python, ![]() The first love of Phoebus was Daphne, daughter of Peneus, whomīlind chance did not give him, but the savage anger of Cupid. Inritare tua, nec laudes adsere nostras.” Stravimus innumeris tumidum Pythona sagittis. Qui modo pestifero tot iugera ventre prementem Qui dare certa ferae, dare vulnera possumus hosti, “quid”que “tibi, lascive puer, cum fortibus armis?”ĭixerat “ista decent umeros gestamina nostros, Primus amor Phoebi Daphne Peneia, quem nonįors ignara dedit, sed saeva Cupidinis ira.ĭelius hunc, nuper victa serpente superbus, ![]()
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