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    P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More)

    Book 6

    Editions and translations: English (ed. Brookes More) | Latin (ed. Hugo Magnus) | English (ed. Arthur Golding)
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    Marsyas. Pelops.

    MARSYAS

    So he related how the clowns were changed
    to leaping frogs; and after he was through,
    another told the tale of Marsyas, in these words:

    The Satyr Marsyas, when he played the flute
    in rivalry against Apollo's lyre,
    lost that audacious contest and, alas!
    His life was forfeit; for, they had agreed
    the one who lost should be the victor's prey.
    And, as Apollo punished him, he cried,
    “Ah-h-h! why are you now tearing me apart?
    A flute has not the value of my life!”

    Even as he shrieked out in his agony,
    his living skin was ripped off from his limbs,
    till his whole body was a flaming wound,
    with nerves and veins and viscera exposed.

    But all the weeping people of that land,
    and all the Fauns and Sylvan Deities,
    and all the Satyrs, and Olympus, his
    loved pupil--even then renowned in song,
    and all the Nymphs, lamented his sad fate;
    and all the shepherds, roaming on the hills,
    lamented as they tended fleecy flocks.

    And all those falling tears, on fruitful Earth,
    descended to her deepest veins, as drip
    the moistening dews,--and, gathering as a fount,
    turned upward from her secret-winding caves,
    to issue, sparkling, in the sun-kissed air,
    the clearest river in the land of Phrygia,--
    through which it swiftly flows between steep banks
    down to the sea: and, therefore, from his name,
    'Tis called “The Marsyas” to this very day.

    And after this was told, the people turned
    and wept for Niobe's loved children dead,
    and also, mourned Amphion, sorrow-slain.

    PELOPS

    The Theban people hated Niobe,
    but Pelops, her own brother, mourned her death;
    and as he rent his garment, and laid bare
    his white left shoulder, you could see the part
    composed of ivory.--At his birth 'twas all
    of healthy flesh; but when his father cut
    his limbs asunder, and the Gods restored
    his life, all parts were rightly joined, except
    part of one shoulder, which was wanting; so
    to serve the purpose of the missing flesh,
    a piece of ivory was inserted there,
    making his body by such means complete.

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Ovid. Metamorphoses. Brookes More. Boston. Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922.
    OCLC: 24965574


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