DRYOPE

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ARBORE M.

DIXIT: et, admonitu veteris commota miniftrae,

Ingenuit; quam fic nurus eft adfata dolentem:

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Te tamen, o genitrix, alienae fanguine veftro
Rapta movet facies. quid fi tibi mira fororis
Fata meae referam? quanquam lacrymaeque dolorque
Impediunt, prohibentque loqui. fuit unica matri
(Me pater ex alia genuit) notiffima formâ
Oechalidum Dryope: quam virginitate carentem,
Vimque Dei paffam, Delphos Delonque tenentis,
Excipit Andraemon; et habetur conjuge felix.
Eft lacus, acclivi devexo margine formanı
Littoris efficiens: fummum myrteta coronant.
Venerat huc Dryope fatorum nefcia; quoque
Indignere magis, Nymphis latura coronas.

NOTES.

DRYOPE.) Upon the Occafion of the Death of Hercules, his ther Alcmena recounts her misfortunes to Iole, who anfwers with a

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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.

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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:

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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
Haud procul ftagno, Tyrios imitata colores,
In fpem baccarum florebat aquatica lotos.

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:

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Nec quidquam, nifi fumma, movet. fuccrefcit ab imo,

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Totaque paulatim lentus premit inguina cortex.
Ut vidit, conata manu laniare capillos,

Fronde manum implevit: frondes caput omne tenebant.
At puer Amphiffos (namque hoc avus Eurytus illi
Addiderat nomen) materna rigefcere fentit.

Ubera: nec fequitur ducentem lacteus. humor.

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