P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoseon liber XI

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...in the fifth foot. This is rare except with proper names. Note that in a 'spondaic' line the fourth foot must be a dactyl. 94. simul: conjunction=simulatque. sacrorum: sc. Bacchi. Cf. 68. 95. adventu: abl. of cause,' in honour of.' genialiter, 'with festal cheer.' The Romans believed that every man had a genius--a sort of life spirit or guardian angel, which shared his joys and sorrows throughout life. Genius is, in fact, often employed fancifully as the equivalent of a man's self, his animus. Accordingly to treat the genius well indulgere genio) comes to mean to enjoy oneself, and genialis dies--a day given to the genius = a festal day. 96. bis quinque. In expressions of multiplication prose uses the distributive (here bis quinos). iunctas: sc. diebus. 98. Lucifer: the morning star, harbinger of day (Greek (ftaxripupos). Cf. ii. 114: 'Diffugiunt stellae quarum agmina cogit Lucifer et caeli statione novissimus exit.' The metaphor is a military one, 'brings up the rear of the starry host,' and is different from Milton's in P. L. v. 708: 'The morning star that guides the starry flock.' The same star, appearing at evening, is called Hesperus; this dual function is commemorated by many poets,ancient and modern--Plato (trans, by Shelley), Cinna, Cicero. Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxxi: 'Sweet Hesper Phosphor, double name, For what is one, the first, the last, Thou like my present and my past, Thy place is changed; thou art the same.' undeeimus, 'for the eleventh time.' 99. The addition of iuveni shows that Ovid intends a pleasantry. King translates: 'The truant Elder to his Pupil bore.' 100. inutile: as often, not simply 'useless', 'bootless' (i.e. shown by the result to be such), but by litotes ' hurtful', 'baneful'. So xiii. 38 ' sibi inutilior'. 101. altore reoep...