Extracts from Ovid's Metamorphoses, with notes by I. M'Burney

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. 1854 Excerpt: ...cheeked by the authority of their ruler. 47. "Solvit poenas," has paid the penalty--has been suitably punished. 48. "Quod admissum (sit)," what was his crime. 49. 'Infamia temporis," a report of the iniquity of the times. 64. Msenalus (neut. in the plural) was an Arcadian mountain. 65. Cyllenus, or Cyllene, and Lycseus were also mountains in Arcadia--the former chiefly sacred to Mercury, the latter to Pan, who is hence styled Lycseus. On this mountain the God of Shepherds had a famous temple; and the rites, which were called.umx by the Greeks, were known at Rome as the Lupercalia. S8. "Dedi signa Deum venisse," I gave tokens that a god had come. Deities were recognized as divine, even against their will, on some occasions--their beauty, splendour, gait, Ac. betraying them. On the present occasion Jupiter willingly gives proof of his divinity. 60. "Aperto discrimine," by a plain proof--a clear test. 62. "Parat perdere me gravem somno," he attempts to destroy me when sunk in sleep. 63. "Hsec experientia veri," this method of testing the truth. 64. Molossia was the mo3t southern district of Epirus. 65. "Mucrone resolvit jogulum," with a sword cut the throat. 66. "Atque ita," and having done so. "Partim--partim," some--others. 69. "(Ego) everti tecta in penates dignos domino, vindice flatum a," I overthrew the palace upon the household gods, worthy of their master, with fire that avenged such guilt. The Penates were punished for patronizing or tolerating the tyrant. 72. "Os colligit rabiem ab ipso," his mouth gathers fury from himself: i.e. from his natural disposition, which was truculent and ferocious. 73. "Vertitur in pecudes," it (his...