DRYOPE IN ARBORE M. DIXIT: et, admonitu veteris commota miniftrae, Ingenuit; quam fic nurus eft adfata dolentem: 10 Te tamen, o genitrix, alienae fanguine veftro NOTES. DRYOPE.) Upon the Occafion of the Death of Hercules, his ther Alcmena recounts her misfortunes to Iole, who anfwers with a Mo THE FABLE OF DRYOPE. SHE HE faid, and for her loft Galanthis fighs, When the fair Confort of her fon replies. Since you a fervant's ravifh'd form bemoan, And kindly figh for forrows nor your own; Let me (if tears and grief permit) relate A nearer woe, a fifter's stranger fate. No Nymph of all Oechalia could compare For beauteous form with Dryope the fair, Her tender mother's only hope and pride, (Myfelf the offspring of a fecond bride.) This Nymph compress'd by him who rules the day, Whom Delphi and the Delian ifle obey, Andræmon lov'd; and, bless'd in all those charms That pleas'd a God, fucceeded to her arms. ΤΟ A lake there was, with fhelving banks around, 15 Whofe verdant fummit fragrant myrtles crown'd. Thefe fhades, unknowing of the fates, fhe fought, And to the Naiads flow'ry garlands brought: NOTES. relation of thofe of her own family, in particular the Transformation of her fifter Dryope, which is the subject of the enfuing Fable. Inque finu puerum, qui nondum impleverat annum, Dulce ferebat onus; tepidique ope lactis alebat. 20 Scilicet, ut referunt tardi nunc denique agreftes, Lotis in hanc Nymphe, fugiens obicoena Priapi, Contulerat verfos, fervato nomine 'vultus. Nefcierat foror hoc; quae cum perterrita retro 35 Ire, et adoratis vellet difcedere Nymphis, Haeferunt radice pedes. convellere pugnat: 40 Nec quidquam, nifi fumma, movet. fuccrefcit ab imo, 1 Totaque paulatim lentus premit inguina cortex. Fronde manum implevit: frondes caput omne tenebant. Ubera: nec fequitur ducentem lacteus. humor. 50 |