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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
Preobrazba Pierid
Here Arethusa’s tale ended. The goddess of the harvest yoked twin serpents to her chariot and curbed their mouths with reins, then rode through the air between heaven and earth and sent her light chariot to the city of Tritonia for Triptolemus. She gave him seed and bade him sow it partly in virgin soil, partly in fields reclaimed after long neglect. Already the young man had ridden high above Europe and the land of Asia; now he turned toward Scythia’s shores.
Lyncus was king there, and he entered the king’s house. Asked where he came from, the purpose of his journey, his name, and his homeland, he said, “My homeland is glorious Athens; my name is Triptolemus. I came neither by ship across the waves nor on foot over land: the open sky gave me passage. I bring the gifts of Ceres, which, scattered over broad fields, will yield fruitful harvests and wholesome food.”
The barbarian envied him, and, wishing to claim for himself the credit for so great a gift, welcomed him as a guest, then, when sleep weighed him down, attacked him with a blade. As he tried to pierce his breast, Ceres turned him into a lynx and bade the Athenian youth drive her sacred team through the air once more.” The eldest of us had finished her artful song.
Then the nymphs declared with one voice that the goddesses who dwell on Helicon had won. When the defeated sisters hurled abuse at us, she said, “Since it is not enough that you have earned punishment by challenging us, but you add insults to your offense, and we are not free to bear this patiently, we shall exact our vengeance and follow wherever anger leads.” The daughters of Emathia laughed and scorned her threatening words.
But as they tried to speak and, with loud cries, insolently shake their fists, they saw feathers sprouting from their nails and plumage covering their arms. Each saw the other’s mouth harden into a rigid beak, and new birds flock into the woods. And as they tried to beat their breasts, their moving arms lifted them, and they hung in the air as magpies, the scolds of the woodland.
Even now these birds retain their old eloquence, their raucous chatter and insatiable urge to talk.”
Izvirnik
The Pierides Transformed
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Source ID: ovid_metamorphoses_story_038 Citation: Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.642-5.678 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 642: Hac Arethusa tenus. Geminos dea fertilis angues 643: curribus admovit frenisque coercuit ora 644: et medium caeli terraeque per aera vecta est 645: atque levem currum Tritonida misit in urbem 646: Triptolemo; partimque rudi data semina iussit 647: spargere humo, partim post tempora longa recultae.
648: Iam super Europen sublimis et Asida terram 649: vectus erat iuvenis; Scythicas advertitur oras. 650: Rex ibi Lyncus erat: regis subit ille penates. 651: Qua veniat, causamque viae nomenque rogatus 652: et patriam, “patria est clarae mihi” dixit “Athenae, 653: Triptolemus nomen. Veni nec puppe per undas, 654: nec pede per terras: patuit mihi pervius aether. 655: Dona fero Cereris latos quae sparsa per agros 656: frugiferas messes alimentaque mitia reddant.”
657: Barbarus invidit; tantique ut muneris auctor 658: ipse sit, hospitio recipit somnoque gravatum 659: adgreditur ferro. Conantem figere pectus 660: lynca Ceres fecit rursusque per aera iussit 661: Mopsopium iuvenem sacros agitare iugales.” 662: Finierat doctos e nobis maxima cantus. 663: At nymphae vicisse deas Helicona colentes 664: concordi dixere sono. Convicia victae 665: cum iacerent, “quoniam” dixit “certamine vobis 666: supplicium meruisse parum est maledictaque culpae 667: additis et non est patientia libera nobis, 668: ibimus in poenas et, qua vocat ira, sequemur.”
669: Rident Emathides spernuntque minantia verba: 670: conataeque loqui et magno clamore protervas 671: intentare manus, pennas exire per ungues 672: adspexere suos, operiri bracchia plumis; 673: alteraque alterius rigido concrescere rostro 674: ora videt volucresque novas accedere silvis. 675: Dumque volunt plangi, per bracchia mota levatae 676: aere pendebant, nemorum convicia, picae.
677: Nunc quoque in alitibus facundia prisca remansit 678: raucaque garrulitas studiumque inmane loquendi.”
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