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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 190 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 110 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 42 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Anabasis (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristotle, Politics | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, for Quintius, Sextus Roscius, Quintus Roscius, against Quintus Caecilius, and against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristotle, Metaphysics | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More). You can also browse the collection for Miletus (Turkey) or search for Miletus (Turkey) in all documents.
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P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 9, line 418 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 9, line 630 (search)
Then back and forth she argues; and so great
is her uncertainty, she blames herself
for what she did, and is determined just
as surely to succeed.
She tries all arts,
but is repeatedly repulsed by him,
until unable to control her ways,
her brother in despair, fled from the shame
of her designs: and in another land
he founded a new city.
Then, they say,
the wretched daughter of Miletus lost
control of reason. She wrenched from her breast
her garments, and quite frantic, beat her arms,
and publicly proclaims unhallowed love.
Grown desperate, she left her hated home,
her native land, and followed the loved steps
of her departed brother. Just as those
crazed by your thyrsus, son of Semele!
The Bacchanals of Ismarus, aroused,
howl at your orgies, so her shrieks were heard
by the shocked women of Bubassus, where
the frenzied Byblis howled across the fields,
and so through Caria and through Lycia,
over the mountain Cragus and beyond
the town, Lymira, and the flowing stream
called Xanthus, a