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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
C. Valerius Catullus, Carmina (ed. Sir Richard Francis Burton) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2 | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. Theodore C. Williams) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
C. Valerius Catullus, Carmina (ed. Leonard C. Smithers) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 10, line 220 (search)
If you should ask Amathus, which is rich
in metals, how can she rejoice and take
a pride in deeds of her Propoetides;
she would disclaim it and repudiate
them all, as well as those of transformed men,
whose foreheads were deformed by two rough horns,
from which their name Cerastae. By their gates
an altar unto Jove stood. If by chance
a stranger, not informed of their dark crimes,
had seen the horrid altar smeared with blood,
he would suppose that suckling calves and sheep
of Amathus, were Amathus, were sacrificed thereon—
it was in fact the blood of slaughtered guests!
Kind-hearted Venus, outraged by such deeds
of sacrifice, was ready to desert
her cities and her snake-infested plains;
“But how,” said she, “have their delightful lands
together with my well built cities sinned?
What crime have they done?—Those inhabitants
should pay the penalty of their own crimes
by exile or by death; or it may be
a middle course, between exile and death;
and what can that be, but the punishment
of a chang
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 10, line 519 (search)