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- The Death of Adonis
O izvirniku
Ovidove preobrazbe
Pesniški tok antičnih preobrazb, kjer bogovi, ljudje in narava stalno menjavajo obliko. Bralni jezik je English, izvirnik pa prihaja iz vira Ovidove preobrazbe v jeziku Latin.
Besedilo
Adonisova smrt
She gave her warning and, with swans yoked to her chariot, made her way through the air; but courage defies all warnings. By chance the hounds, following an unfailing trail, roused a boar from its lair, and as it made to leave the woods, the young son of Cinyras struck it with a glancing spear. At once it shook the weapon from its curving snout, stained with its own blood, and as the trembling youth sought safety, the savage boar pursued him, buried its tusks to their full length deep in his groin, and stretched him dying on the tawny sand.
Borne through the open air in her light chariot, Cytherea had not yet reached Cyprus on her swans’ wings when she recognized from afar the dying youth’s groan and turned her white birds toward it. When from high in heaven she saw his breathless body writhing in its own blood, she leapt down, tore her robe and tore her hair, and beat with her palms her breast, which deserved no such blows.
And railing at the Fates, she said, “Yet not everything shall lie within your power. The memorials of my grief shall endure forever, Adonis, and the image of your death, renewed each year, shall reenact my lamentation. But your blood shall turn into a flower. Were you once allowed, Persephone, to change a woman’s limbs into fragrant mint, while I must be begrudged the power to transform the son of Cinyras?” So saying, she sprinkled his blood with fragrant nectar; at its touch the blood swelled, just as a translucent bubble rises from tawny mud. No more than a full hour had passed when a flower sprang from the blood, of the same hue
as those borne by pomegranates, which hide their seeds beneath a pliant rind. Yet its beauty is short-lived: for, clinging weakly and so light that it falls easily, it is shaken loose by the very winds that give it its name.”
Izvirnik
The Death of Adonis
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Source ID: ovid_metamorphoses_story_074 Citation: Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.708-10.739 Original language: Latin Source: PerseusDL canonical-latinLit Source URL: https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit/blob/master/data/phi0959/phi006/phi0959.phi006.perseus-lat2.xml Segmentation certainty: medium 708: Illa quidem monuit iunctisque per aera cygnis 709: carpit iter: sed stat monitis contraria virtus.
710: Forte suem latebris vestigia certa secuti 711: excivere canes, silvisque exire parantem 712: fixerat obliquo iuvenis Cinyreius ictu. 713: Protinus excussit pando venabula rostro 714: sanguine tincta suo trepidumque et tuta petentem 715: trux aper insequitur totosque sub inguine dentes 716: abdidit et fulva moribundum stravit harena. 717: Vecta levi curru medias Cytherea per auras 718: Cypron olorinis nondum pervenerat alis, 719: agnovit longe gemitum morientis et albas 720: flexit aves illuc. Utque aethere vidit ab alto 721: exanimem inque suo iactantem sanguine corpus,
722: desiluit pariterque sinum pariterque capillos 723: rupit et indignis percussit pectora palmis. 724: Questaque cum fatis “at non tamen omnia vestri 725: iuris erunt” dixit. “Luctus monimenta manebunt 726: semper, Adoni, mei, repetitaque mortis imago 727: annua plangoris peraget simulamina nostri. 728: At cruor in florem mutabitur. An tibi quondam 729: femineos artus in olentes vertere mentas, 730: Persephone, licuit: nobis Cinyreius heros 731: invidiae mutatus erit ?” — Sic fata cruorem 732: nectare odorato sparsit: qui tactus ab illo 733: intumuit sic ut fulvo perlucida caeno
734: surgere bulla solet. Nec plena longior hora 735: facta mora est, cum flos de sanguine concolor ortus, 736: qualem, quae lento celant sub cortice granum, 737: punica ferre solent. Brevis est tamen usus in illo: 738: namque male haerentem et nimia levitate caducum 739: excutiunt idem, qui praestant nomina, venti.”
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