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E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 7 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), BOOK 1, line 163 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 3, line 251 (search)
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 4, line 604 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 6, line 146 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 8, line 612 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 9, line 172 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 9, line 324 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 9, line 418 (search)