![]() ![]() in revenge - THE HEROIDES IX even drive away Aetolian Deianira, and her rival lay aside the name of mistress, and be made your wife. c By d Meleager perished when his mother Althea, n8 Oeneus, for slaying a brother. Agrius drove out Oeneus his brother after Meleager's death. 3 : : G 2 : : a * His poisoned blood is in the robe she sends to Hercules. et insanii in lotifero Bent.: Eueno Hein.: letiferoque veneno in letifero Eueno Hein. exulat ignotis Tydeus germanus in oris ! 1 50 ! 155 alter fatali vivus in igne fuit 1 atque Aonii Bent. ei mihi quid feci ? quo me furor egit amantem? 145 inpia quid dubitas Deianira mori* An tuus in media coniunx lacerabitur Oeta, ! 1 tu sceleris tanti causa superstes eris ? siquid adhue habeo facti, cur Herculis uxor credar, coniugii mors mea pignus erit tu quoque cognosces in me, Meleagre, sororem inpia quid dubitas Deianira mori ? Heu solio sedet Agrios alto devota domus Oenea desertum nuda senecta premit. cornua flens legit ripis Achelous in udis truncaque limosa tempora mersit aqua 140 semivir occubuit in lotifero Eueno 2 Nessus, et infecit sanguis equinus aquas, sed quid ego haec refero ? scribenti nuntia venit fama, virum tunicae tabe perire meae. Me quoque cum multis, sed me sine crimine amasti. ! ! - ! "7 ! OVID forsitan et pulsa Aetolide Deianira nomine deposito paelicis uxor erit, Eurytidosque Ioles atque Aonii : Alcidae turpia famosus corpora iunget Hymen, mens fugit admonitu, frigusque perambulat artus, 1 35 et iacet in gremio languida facta manus. She looks straight out at the throng, with head held high, as if 'twere she had conquered Hercules you might think Oechalia Perhaps you standing yet, and her father yet alive. Nor comes she after the manner of captive women, with hair unkempt, and with becoming countenance that tells to all her lot she strides along, sightly from afar in plenteous gold, apparelled in such wise as you yourself in Phrygia. ![]() ![]() A woman has borne the darts blackened with the venom of Lerna, a woman scarce strong enough to a woman lias carry the spindle heavy with wool taken in her hand the club that overcame wild beasts, and in the mirror gazed upon the armour of her lord lly These things, however, I had only heard I could distrust men's words, and the pain hit on my senses softly, through the ear but now my very eyes must look upon a stranger-mistress " led before You them, nor may I now dissemble what I suffer do not allow me to turn away the woman comes a captive through the city's midst, to be looked upon by my unwilling eyes. O shame, that the rough skin stripped from the flanks of the shaggy lion has covered a woman's delicate side You are mistaken, and know it not that spoil is not from the lion, but from you you are victor over the beast, but she over you. To her passes the full measure of your exploits yield up what you possess your mistress is heir to your praise. You are as much less than she, O greatest of men, as it was greater to vanquish you than those you vanquished. THE HEROIDES IX Go now, puff up your spirit and recount your brave deeds done she has proved herself a man by a right you could not urge. So early editions, Plan sublime sub Hercule victo 130 : : : 2 : 3 : " n6 Iole. ![]()
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