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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 146 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 106 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 32 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aeschylus, Suppliant Women (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Euripides, Helen (ed. E. P. Coleridge) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2 | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), BOOK 1, line 416 (search)
And after this the Earth spontaneous
produced the world of animals, when all
remaining moistures of the mirey fens
fermented in the sun, and fruitful seeds
in soils nutritious grew to shapes ordained.
So when the seven streamed Nile from oozy fields
returneth duly to her ancient bed,
the sun's ethereal rays impregn the slime,
that haply as the peasants turn the soil
they find strange animals unknown before:
some in the moment of their birth, and some
deprived of limbs, imperfect; often part
alive and part of slime inanimate
are fashioned in one body. Heat combined
with moisture so conceives and life results
from these two things. For though the flames may be
the foes of water, everything that lives
begins in humid vapour, and it seems
discordant concord is the means of life.
When Earth, spread over with diluvian ooze,
felt heat ethereal from the glowing sun,
unnumbered species to the light she gave,
and gave to being many an ancient form,
or monster new created. Unwilling she
creat
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), BOOK 1, line 712 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 2, line 193 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 5, line 177 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 9, line 764 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 15, line 745 (search)