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Piton in pitijske igre
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- Python and the Pythian Games
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
Piton in pitijske igre
The other creatures, in their various forms, the earth brought forth of her own accord, once the lingering moisture had warmed beneath the sun’s fire, and the mud and sodden marshes had swollen with the heat, and the fertile seeds of life, nourished in the life-giving soil as in a mother’s womb, had grown and, in time, assumed some shape. So, when the seven-mouthed Nile withdraws from the waterlogged fields and returns its waters to their ancient channel, and the fresh silt grows hot beneath the sun, farmers, turning the clods, find countless creatures: among them, some have only just begun to take shape, still in the act of birth; others they see unfinished,
lacking their full complement of limbs; and often, in the same body, one part is alive, while the other is still unformed earth. For when moisture and heat achieve the proper balance, they conceive, and from these two all things arise; and though fire is the enemy of water, moist warmth creates all things, and discordant harmony is fruitful. Thus, when the earth, still muddy from the recent flood, grew warm again beneath the sun’s rays and the deepening heat, she brought forth countless species, restoring some to their former shapes, but creating strange new monsters too.
Unwillingly, she also gave birth to you then, mighty Python, and you, a serpent unknown before, became a terror to the newly risen peoples: so much of the mountainside you filled. The bow-bearing god, who had never before used his weapons against anything but deer and fleeing roe deer, nearly emptied his quiver, striking the huge beast with a thousand shafts, and slew him as venom poured from his black wounds.
And lest time should erase the glory of his deed, he established sacred games with thronged contests, called the Pythian games after the serpent he had overcome. There, any young man who won with his fists, his feet, or his chariot received the honour of a wreath of oak leaves: the laurel did not yet exist, and Phoebus crowned his temples, graced with flowing hair, with leaves from any tree.
Izvirnik
Python and the Pythian Games
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Source ID: ovid_metamorphoses_story_006 Citation: Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.416-1.451 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 416: Cetera diversis tellus animalia formis 417: sponte sua peperit, postquam vetus umor ab igne 418: percaluit solis, caenumque udaeque paludes 419: intumuere aestu, fecundaque semina rerum 420: vivaci nutrita solo ceu matris in alvo 421: creverunt faciemque aliquam cepere morando.
422: Sic ubi deseruit madidos septemfluus agros 423: Nilus et antiquo sua flumina reddidit alveo 424: aetherioque recens exarsit sidere limus, 425: plurima cultores versis animalia glaebis 426: inveniunt, et in his quaedam modo coepta per ipsum 427: nascendi spatium, quaedam inperfecta suisque 428: trunca vident numeris; et eodem in corpore saepe 429: altera pars vivit, rudis est pars altera tellus.
430: Quippe ubi temperiem sumpsere umorque calorque, 431: concipiunt, et ab his oriuntur cuncta duobus; 432: cumque sit ignis aquae pugnax, vapor umidus omnes 433: res creat, et discors concordia fetibus apta est. 434: Ergo ubi diluvio tellus lutulenta recenti 435: solibus aetheriis altoque recanduit aestu, 436: edidit innumeras species, partimque figuras 437: rettulit antiquas, partim nova monstra creavit.
438: Illa quidem nollet, sed te quoque, maxime Python, 439: tum genuit, populisque novis, incognite serpens, 440: terror eras: tantum spatii de monte tenebas. 441: Hunc deus arquitenens, et numquam talibus armis 442: ante nisi in dammis capreisque fugacibus usus, 443: mille gravem telis exhausta paene pharetra 444: perdidit effuso per vulnera nigra veneno. 445: Neve operis famam posset delere vetustas, 446: instituit sacros celebri certamine ludos, 447: Pythia perdomitae serpentis nomine dictos.
448: Hic iuvenum quicumque manu pedibusve rotave 449: vicerat, aesculeae capiebat frondis honorem: 450: nondum laurus erat, longoque decentia crine 451: tempora cingebat de qualibet arbore Phoebus.
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