[160] Quem subito reddidit herba Deum. This refers to the fabulous history of Glaucus, a fisherman of Anthedon, a city of Boeotia. Having observed, after throwing the fishes upon the bank, that when they had tasted of a certain herb, they leaped again into the sea, he was carried so far by his curiosity, as the make trial of the herb upon himself. He had no sooner tasted it, than, following the example of the fishes, he threw himself
into the sea, and was transformed into a sea-god. See the seventh book of the Metamorphoses. Leander therefore means, that, inspired by the hope of seeing his mistress, he would carry the prize of swimming, even from Glaucus and Palaemon, sea-deities.This text is part of:
P. Ovidius Naso. The Epistles of Ovid, translated into English prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the Latin and English languages will allow; with the Latin text and order of construction on the same page; and critical, historical, geographical, and classical notes in English, from the very best commentators both ancient and modern; beside a very great number of notes entirely new. Anne Mahoney. edited for Perseus. London. J. Nunn, Great-Queen-Street; R. Priestly, 143, High-Holborn; R. Lea, Greek-Street, Soho; and J. Rodwell, New-Bond-Street. 1813.
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