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Mittwoch, 4. März 2015

PERSEUS: THE HERO TELLING: OVID: METAMORPHOSES IV, 756-771

Postquam epulis functi (After having finished (ended, terminated) the meal) generosi munere Bacchi (by the gift of the generous Bacchus; by the gift of the hilarious B; as an Enallage)
diffudere animos (they relaxed (exhilarated) their mind) cultusque genusque locorum
quaerit Lyncides (the descendant of Lynceus=Perseus asked for the way of life and the kind of the place) moresque animumque virorum (and the habits and the spirit of the men)...
quae simul edocut (as he informed him) "nunc, o fortissime (now, my brave man)", dixit (said)
"fate precor (I ask you to tell me)", Cepheus (C.), "quanta virtute (by how much bravery; by which manly deed), quibusque
artibus (and by which arts (tricks)) abstuleris (have you taken away; did you take away) crinita draconibus ora (the face (here: head) hairy with serpents; Hyperbaton)."
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by decurio

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