Echo And Narcissus

Question 1

adspicit hunc trepidos agitantem in retia cervos

Answer 1

A talkative nymph catches sight of him chasing the frightened deer into the nets,

Question 2

vocalis nymphe, quae nec reticere loquenti

Answer 2

the resounding Echo, who has learnt neither to hold her tongue to one who speaks

Question 3

nec prius ipsa loqui didicit, resonabilis Echo.

Answer 3

nor herself to speak first.

Question 4

corpus adhuc Echo, non vox, erat; et tamen usum

Answer 4

Echo was still a body, not a voice; and yet

Question 5

garrula non alium, quam nunc habet, oris habebat,

Answer 5

being loquacious she had no other use of her mouth than she now has,

Question 6

reddere de multis ut verba novissima posset.

Answer 6

so that she could give back the last words out of many.

Question 7

ergo ubi Narcissum per devia rura vagantem

Answer 7

Therefore when she saw Narcissus wandering through the remote countryside

Question 8

vidit et incaluit, sequitur vestigia furtim,

Answer 8

and was inflamed with love, she follows the footsteps furtively,

Question 9

quoque magis sequitur, flamma propiore calescit,

Answer 9

and the more she follows, the closer she is inflamed with fire,

Question 10

non aliter quam cum summis circumlita taedis

Answer 10

no differently than inflammable sulphur, smeared round the tops of torches,

Question 11

admotas rapiunt vivacia sulphura flammas.

Answer 11

catches fire when it is brought near flames.

Question 12

o quotiens voluit blandis accedere dictis

Answer 12

O how often she wanted to approach him with charming words

Question 13

et molles adhibere preces. natura repugnat

Answer 13

and to use gentle entreaties. Her nature prevents it

Question 14

nec sinit incipiat; sed, quod sinit, illa parata est

Answer 14

nor will it allow her to begin; but, she is ready for what it allows her to do,

Question 15

nor will it allow her to begin; but, she is ready for what it allows her to do,

Answer 15

to wait for sounds, to which she can return her words.

Question 16

forte puer comitum seductus ab agmine fido

Answer 16

By chance, the boy, separated from his faithful band of followers,

Question 17

dixerat ‘ecquis adest?’ et ‘adest’ responderat Echo.

Answer 17

had said ‘Is anyone here?’ and ‘Here’ Echo replied.

Question 18

hic stupet, utque aciem partes dimittit in omnes,

Answer 18

He is astonished, and sends away his glance everywhere,

Question 19

voce ‘veni’ magna clamat; vocat illa vocantem.

Answer 19

and shouts in a loud voice ‘Come!’; she calls as he calls.

Question 20

respicit et rursus nullo veniente ‘quid’ inquit

Answer 20

He looks back, and, no one appearing behind, says ‘why

Question 21

‘me fugis?’ et totidem, quot dixit, verba recepit.

Answer 21

do you run from me?’ and receives the same number of words as he speaks.

Question 22

perstat et alternae deceptus imagine vocis,

Answer 22

He stands still and deceived by the likeness to an answering voice,

Question 23

‘huc coeamus’ ait nullique libentius umquam

Answer 23

says ‘let us meet here’ and never answering to another

Question 24

responsura sono ‘coeamus’ rettulit Echo

Answer 24

sound more gladly Echo replies ‘let us meet’

Question 25

et verbis favet ipsa suis egressaque silva

Answer 25

and to assist her words she herself comes out of the woods,

Question 26

ibat, ut iniceret sperato bracchia collo.

Answer 26

and ran to him, to throw in her arms around his neck in longing.

Question 27

ille fugit fugiensque 'manus conplexibus aufer;

Answer 27

He ran away and, as he ran, 'take your encircling hands'

Question 28

ante' ait 'emoriar, quam sit tibi copia nostri.'

Answer 28

he said 'may I die before what's mine is yours.'

Question 29

rettulit illa nihil nisi 'sit tibi copia nostri.'

Answer 29

She answers nothing but 'what's mine is yours.'

Question 30

spreta latet silvis pudibundaque frondibus ora

Answer 30

Scorned, she wanders in the woods and hides her face in shame among the leaves

Question 31

protegit et solis ex illo vivit in antris;

Answer 31

and from that time on lives in lonely caves;

Question 32

sed tamen haeret amor crescitque dolore repulsae:

Answer 32

But still her love endures and increases by the sadness of rejection:

Question 33

attenuant vigiles corpus miserabile curae,

Answer 33

Her cares which keep her awake weaken her pitiful body,

Question 34

adducitque cutem macies, et in aera sucus

Answer 34

and poverty wrinkles her skin, and all her body's strength

Question 35

corporis omnis abit; vox tantum atque ossa supersunt:

Answer 35

vanishes into the air; only her bones and her voice are left.

Question 36

vox manet: ossa ferunt lapidis traxisse figuram.

Answer 36

Her voice remains: her bones, they say, were changed to shapes of stone.

Question 37

inde latet silvis nulloque in monte videtur.

Answer 37

Ever since she hides in the woods and she is not seen on any mountain.

Question 38

omnibus auditur: sonus est, qui vivit in illa.

Answer 38

But to be heard by everyone: it is sound, that lives in her.

Question 39

hic puer, et studio venandi lassus et aestu,

Answer 39

Here the boy, both tired by his enthusiasm for the hunt and by the heat,

Question 40

procubuit faciemque loci fontemque secutus;

Answer 40

lies down and is drawn to the place by its appearance and by the fountain;

Question 41

dumque sitim sedare cupit, sitis altera crevit,

Answer 41

While he desires to quench his thirst, a different thirst is created,

Question 42

dumque bibit, visae correptus imagine formae

Answer 42

and while he drinks, he is seized by the vision of his reflected form.

Question 43

spem sine corpore amat, corpus putat esse, quod umbra est.

Answer 43

He loves a bodiless hope, he thinks that it is a body, that which is a shadow.

Question 44

astupet ipse sibi vultuque immotus eodem

Answer 44

He is astonished by himself, and hangs there motionless with a fixed expression,

Question 45

haeret, ut e Pario formatum marmore signum.

Answer 45

like a statue carved from Parian marble.

Question 46

spectat humi positus geminum, sua lumina, sidus

Answer 46

Flat on the ground he contemplates two stars, his eyes,

Question 47

et dignos Baccho, dignos et Apolline crines,

Answer 47

and his hair, fit for Bacchus, fit even for Apollo,

Question 48

impubesque genas et eburnea colla decusque

Answer 48

and his youthful cheeks and ivory neck and the beauty

Question 49

oris et in niveo mixtum candore ruborem,

Answer 49

of his face and blush mixed in the whiteness of snow,

Question 50

cunctaque miratur, quibus est mirabilis ipse.

Answer 50

admiring everything, for which he is himself admired.

Question 51

se cupit imprudens et, qui probat, ipse probatur,

Answer 51

Unknowingly he desires himself, and the one who praises is himself praised,

Question 52

dumque petit, petitur, pariterque accendit et ardet.

Answer 52

and while he courts, is courted, so that equally he inflames and burns.

Question 53

irrita fallaci quotiens dedit oscula fonti!

Answer 53

How often he gave his futile kisses to the deceptive fountain!

Question 54

in mediis quotiens visum captantia collum

Answer 54

How often trying to embrace the neck he could see

Question 55

bracchia mersit aquis nec se deprendit in illis!

Answer 55

he plunged his arms into the water, but could not catch himself within them!

Question 56

quid videat nescit, sed quod videt uritur illo

Answer 56

What he has seen he does not understand, but what he sees he is on fire for,

Question 57

atque oculos idem qui decipit incitat error.

Answer 57

and the same error, which deceives his eyes, seduces them.

Question 58

quae simul aspexit liquefacta rursus in unda,

Answer 58

As he sees all this reflected in the clear water,

Question 59

non tulit ulterius sed, ut intabescere flavae

Answer 59

he can bear it no longer but, as yellow wax

Question 60

igne levi cerae matutinaeque pruin

Answer 60

melts in a light flame and as morning frost gets accustomed

Question 61

sole tepente solent, sic attenuatus amore

Answer 61

to the warming sun, so he is weakened and melted by love,

Question 62

liquitur et tecto paulatim carpitur igni;

Answer 62

and plucked little by little by the hidden fire;

Question 63

et neque iam color est mixto candore rubori,

Answer 63

he no longer retains his colour, the white mingled with red,

Question 64

nec vigor et vires et quae modo visa placebant,

Answer 64

no longer has life and strength, and that form so pleasing to look at,

Question 65

nec corpus remanet, quondam quod amaverat Echo.

Answer 65

nor that body remains, which Echo once had loved.

Question 66

quae tamen ut vidit, quamvis irata memorque

Answer 66

Still, when she saw this, though angered and remembering

Question 67

indoluit, quotiensque puer miserabilis 'eheu'

Answer 67

she pitied him, and as often as the poor boy said 'alas',

Question 68

dixerat, haec resonis iterabat vocibus 'eheu.'

Answer 68

she repeated with her echoing voice 'alas'.

Question 69

cumque suos manibus percusserat ille lacertos,

Answer 69

And when his hands strike at his shoulders,

Question 70

haec quoque reddebat sonitum plangoris eundem.

Answer 70

she returns the same sounds of pain.

Question 71

ultima vox solitam fuit haec spectantis in undam:

Answer 71

His last words as he looked into the familiar pool were:

Question 72

'heu frustra dilecte puer!' totidemque remisit

Answer 72

'alas, in vain beloved boy!' and the place echoed

Question 73

verba locus, dictoque vale, 'vale' inquit et Echo.

Answer 73

every word, and when he said goodbye, Echo also said 'goodbye'.

Question 74

ille caput viridi fessum summisit in herba,

Answer 74

He laid down his tired head on the green grass,

Question 75

lumina mors clausit domini mirantia formam.

Answer 75

death closing those eyes marvelling at their master's beauty.

Question 76

tum quoque se, postquam est inferna sede receptus,

Answer 76

And even when he had been received by the seat of the lower world,

Question 77

in Stygia spectabat aqua. planxere sorores

Answer 77

he was gazing into the Stygian waters. His sisters the Naiads

Question 78

Naides et sectos fratri posuere capillos,

Answer 78

lamented, and let down their cut hair for their brother,

Question 79

planxerunt Dryades; plangentibus assonat Echo.

Answer 79

and the Dryads lamented; Echo returned their laments.

Question 80

iamque rogum quassasque faces feretrumque parabant:

Answer 80

And now they were preparing the funeral pyre and the quivering torches and the bier:

Question 81

nusquam corpus erat; croceum pro corpore florem

Answer 81

but there was nowhere a body; they found a flower, instead of his body,

Question 82

inveniunt foliis medium cingentibus albis.

Answer 82

with white leaves surrounding a yellow heart in the middle.