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P. Ovidius Naso, Art of Love, Remedy of Love, Art of Beauty, Court of Love, History of Love, Amours (ed. various) 4 0 Browse Search
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Diodorus Siculus, Library, Book XII, Chapter 58 (search)
use of which was the excessive heat. And this was the reason why most of the sick threw themselves into the cisterns and springs in their craving to cool their bodies. The Athenians, however, because the disease was so severe, ascribed the causes of their misfortune to the deity. Consequently, acting upon the command of a certain oracle, they purified the island of Delos, which was sacred to Apollo and had been defiled, as men thought, by the burial there of the dead. Digging up, therefore, all the graves on Delos, they transferred the remains to the island of Rheneia, as it is called, which lies near Delos. They also passed a law that neither birth nor burial should be allowed on Delos. And they also celebrated the festival assembly,An ancient festival of the Ionian Amphictyony, held in honour of Apollo and Artemis. Cp. Thuc. 3.104. the Delia, which had been held in former days but had not been observed for a long time.
P. Ovidius Naso, Art of Love, Remedy of Love, Art of Beauty, Court of Love, History of Love, Amours (ed. various), Leander's Epistle to Hero (search)
threw That man might guess at what he could not show. So when our pleasures rise to excess, No tongue can tell it, and no pen express. Love will not have his mysteries revealed, And beauty keeps the joys it gives concealed. And till those joys my Delia lets me know, To me they shall continue ever so. Ah! Delia, would indulgent love decree, Thy faithful slave that heaven of bliss with thee: What then should be my verse? what darling flights Should my muse take? reach what celestial heights? NowDelia, would indulgent love decree, Thy faithful slave that heaven of bliss with thee: What then should be my verse? what darling flights Should my muse take? reach what celestial heights? Now in despair, with drooping notes she sings, No dawn of hope to raise her on her wings. In the warm spring the warbling birds rejoice, And in the smiling sunshine tune their voice. Bask'd in the beams, they strain their tender throats, Where cheerful light inspires the charming notes. Such, and so charming, should my numbers be, If you, my only light, would smile on me. Your influence would inspire as moving airs, And make my song as soft and sweet as theirs. Would you but once auspiciously in
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 5, line 572 (search)
limmes opprest, and downe apace From all my bodie steaming drops did fall of watrie hew. Which way so ere I stird my foote the place was like a stew. The deaw ran trickling from my haire. In halfe the while I then Was turnde to water, that I now have tolde the tale agen. His loved waters Alphey knew, and putting off the shape Of man the which he tooke before bicause I should not scape, Returned to his proper shape of water by and by Of purpose for to joyne with me and have my companie. But Delia brake the ground, at which I sinking into blinde Bycorners, up againe my selfe at Ortigie doe winde, Right deare to me bicause it doth Dianas surname beare, And for bicause to light againe I first was raysed there. Thus far did Arethusa speake: and then the fruitfull Dame Two Dragons to hir Chariot put, and reyning hard the same, Midway beweene the Heaven and Earth she in the Ayer went, And unto Prince Triptolemus hir lightsome Chariot sent To Pallas Citie lode with come, commaunding him