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P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Epictetus, Works (ed. Thomas Wentworth Higginson) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (ed. H. Rackham) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Letters (ed. Norman W. DeWitt, Norman J. DeWitt) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.) | 2 | 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 Thebes (Greece) or search for Thebes (Greece) in all documents.
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P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 3, line 95 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 5, line 250 (search)
Through all these mighty deeds
Pallas, Minerva, had availed to guide
her gold-begotten brother. Now she sped,
surrounded in a cloud, from Seriphus,
while Cynthus on the right, and Gyarus
far faded from her view. And where a path,
high over the deep sea, leads the near way,
she winged the air for Thebes, and Helicon
haunt of the Virgin Nine.
High on that mount
she stayed her flight, and with these words bespoke
those well-taught sisters; “Fame has given to me
the knowledge of a new-made fountain—gift
of Pegasus, that fleet steed, from the blood
of dread Medusa sprung—it opened when
his hard hoof struck the ground.—It is the cause
that brought me.—For my longing to have seen
this fount, miraculous and wonderful,
grows not the less in that myself did see
the swift steed, nascent from maternal blood.”
To which Urania thus; “Whatever the cause
that brings thee to our habitation, thou,
O goddess, art to us the greatest joy.
And now, to answer thee, reports are true;
this fountain
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 7, line 759 (search)
“After the son of Laius,—Oedipus,—
had solved the riddle of the monster-sphinx,
so often baffling to the wits of men,
and after she had fallen from her hill,
mangled, forgetful of her riddling craft;
not unrevenged the mighty Themis brooked
her loss. Without delay that goddess raised
another savage beast to ravage Thebes,
by which the farmer's cattle were devoured,
the land was ruined and its people slain.
“Then all the valiant young men of the realm,
with whom I also went, enclosed the field
(where lurked the monster) in a mesh
of many tangled nets: but not a strand
could stay its onrush, and it leaped the crest
of every barrier where the toils were set.
“Already they had urged their eager dogs,
which swiftly as a bird it left behind,
eluding all the hunters as it fled.
“At last all begged me to let slip the leash
of straining Tempest; such I called the hound,
my dear wife's present. As he tugged and pulled
upon the tightened cords, I let them slip:
no sooner done, then he was l
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 9, line 324 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 12, line 64 (search)