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Book 11. Orphei mors. DEATH OF ORPHEUS. While with his songs, Orpheus, the bard of Thrace, allured the trees, the savage animals,

Hating wealth, Midas lived among woods and fields, and the mountain caves Pan always inhabits. But he remained dull-witted, and, as before, his foolish mind was ...

Apollo and Mercury both rape Chione, and she bears twins with extraordinary talents. Chione considers herself greater than Diana. Diana kills her with an arrow.

Orpheus is attacked and killed by maenads; the world laments his death; Orpheus is reunited with Eurydice in the underworld; Bacchus punishes the maenads.

21 июн. 2022 г. · Suddenly, a group of women from Thrace notice Orpheus. They start throwing spears at him, angry because he had rejected their company.

Grandsons to Jove there might be more than one, But he the Goddess had enjoy'd alone. The Story of Thetis and Peleus For Proteus thus to virgin Thetis said,

P. OVIDI NASONIS METAMORPHOSEON LIBER VNDECIMVS. Carmine dum tali silvas animosque ferarum. Threicius vates et saxa sequentia ducit,

Orpheus, the bard of Thrace, allured the trees, the savage animals, and even the insensate rocks, to follow him.

21 июн. 2022 г. · Midas realizes that his love of gold will destroy him. He prays to Bacchus, confessing his stupidity and asking for Bacchus to reverse his gift.