METAMORPHOSES SCANSION FIRST 9 LINES FREE
There was an ancient wood there, free from desecration, and, in the centre of it, a chasm thick with bushes and willow branches, framed in effect by stones making a low arch, and rich with copious springs. Intending to offer a sacrifice to Jupiter, he ordered his attendants to go in search of water from a running stream for a libation.
Cadmus gave thanks, pressing his lips to the foreign soil and welcoming the unknown hills and fields. Then looking back, to see her companion following, she sank her hindquarters on the ground and lowered her body onto the tender grass. Now he had passed the fords of Cephisus and the fields of Panope: the heifer stopped, and lifting her beautiful head with its noble horns to the sky stirred the air with her lowing. He follows close behind and chooses his steps by the traces of her course, and silently thanks Phoebus, his guide to the way. Go where she leads, and where she finds rest on the grass build the walls of Thebes, your city, and call the land Boeotia.’Ĭadmus had scarcely left the Castalian cave when he saw an unguarded heifer, moving slowly, and showing no mark of the yoke on her neck. Phoebus replies ‘A heifer will find you in the fields, that has never submitted to the yoke and is unaccustomed to the curved plough. Roaming the world (for who can discover whatever Jupiter has taken?) Agenor’s son, the fugitive, shuns his native land and his parent’s anger and as a suppliant consults Apollo’s oracle and asks in what land he might settle. Meanwhile Europa’s father, in ignorance of this, orders his son Cadmus to search for the stolen girl, and adds that exile is his punishment if he fails to find her, showing himself, by the same action, both pious and impious.
Bk III:402-436 Narcissus sees himself and falls in love.Bk III:359-401 How Juno altered Echo’s speech.Bk III:316-338 The judgement of Tiresias.Bk III:273-315 Semele is consumed by Jupiter’s fire.Bk III:253-272 Juno sets out to punish Semele.Bk III:232-252 Actaeon is killed by the dogs.Bk III:206-231 Actaeon is pursued by his hounds.
Bk III:165-205 Actaeon sees Diana naked and is turned into a stag.Bk III:138-164 Actaeon returns from the hunt.Bk III:95-114 Cadmus sows the Dragon’s teeth.Bk III:1-49 Cadmus searches for his sister Europa.This work may be freely reproduced, stored and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose. Kline © Copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved
0 kommentar(er)
