Dexter ames; feu te rofeum Titana vocari Gentis Achaemeniae ritu, feu praestat Ofirin Frugiferum, feu Perfei fub rupibus antri Indignata fequi torquentem cornua Mitram.

Whether the stile of Titan please thee more,
Whose purple rays th' Achæmenes adore;
Or great Ofiris, who first taught the swain
In Pharian fields to fow the golden grain; 860
Or Mitra, to whose beams the Perfian bows,
And pays, in hollow rocks, his awful vows;
Mitra, whose head the blaze of light adorns,
Who grafps the struggling heifer's lunar horns.

THE

FABLE

OF

DRYOPE.

From the NINTH BOOK of

OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.

VOL. II.

DRYOPE

IN

ARBOR E M.

DIX

IXIT: et, admonitu veteris commota.
miniftrae,

Ingemuit; quam fic nurus eft adfata dolentem:
Te tamen, o genitrix, alienae fanguine veftro
Rapta movet facies. quid fi tibi mira fororis
Fata meae referam ? quamquam lacrymaeque do-

lorque

IO

Impediunt, prohibentque loqui. fuit unica matri (Me pater ex alia genuit) notiffima forma Oechalidum Dryope: quam virginitate carentem, Vimque Dei paffam, Delphos Delonque tenentis,

NOTES.

DRYOPE.] Upon occafion of the death of Hercules, his Mother Alcmena recounts her, misfortunes to Iole, who an

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