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P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding) | 30 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Odes (ed. John Conington) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Art of Love, Remedy of Love, Art of Beauty, Court of Love, History of Love, Amours (ed. various) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
T. Maccius Plautus, Bacchides, or The Twin Sisters (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura (ed. William Ellery Leonard) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Sextus Propertius, Elegies (ed. Vincent Katz) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Works of Horace (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
T. Maccius Plautus, Stichus, or The Parasite Rebuffed (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Plato, Republic | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 3, line 314 (search)
While these events according to the laws
of destiny occurred, and while the child,
the twice-born Bacchus, in his cradle lay,
'Tis told that Jupiter, a careless hour,
indulged too freely in the nectar cup;
and having laid aside all weighty cares,
jested with Juno as she idled by.
Freely the god began; “Who doubts the truth?
The female's pleasure is a great delight,
much greater than the pleasure of a male.”
Juno denied it; wherefore 'twas agreed
to ask Tiresias to declare the truth,
than whom none knew both male and female joys:
for wandering in a green wood he had seen
two serpents coupling; and he took his staff
and sharply struck them, till they broke and fled.
'Tis marvelous, that instant he became
a woman from a man, and so remained
while seven autumns passed. When eight were told,
again he saw them in their former plight,
and thus he spoke; “Since such a power was wrought,
by one stroke of a staff my sex was changed—
again I strike!” And even as he struck
the same two sna
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 3, line 337 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 3, line 509 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 3, line 690 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 4, line 706 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 7, line 238 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 7, line 350 (search)