Perseus section A Flashcards
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[Perseus] as he brought back the famous plunder of the snake-haired monster
aera carpebat tenerum stridentibus alis.
was passing through the delicate air on whirring wings.
cumque super Libycas victor penderet harenas,
While he, as the victor, was hanging above the Libyan sands,
Gorgonei capitis guttae cecidere cruentae,
bloody drops from the Gorgon’s head fell
quas humus exceptas varios animavit in angues;
which, (once) caught, brought the soil alive into different kinds of snakes,
unde frequens illa est infestaque terra colubris.
from which [as a result of which] that country is crowded by and dangerous with snakes.
inde per immensum ventis discordibus actus
From there, driven across the vast sky by opposing winds,
nunc huc, nunc illuc exemplo nubis aquosae
he was carried now here, now there, like a raincloud;
fertur et ex alto seductas aethere longe
and from high in the air far away,
despectat terras totumque supervolat orbem.
he looked down on remote lands and flew above the whole world.
ter gelidas Arctos, ter Cancri bracchia vidit,
Three times he saw the frozen Arctic, three times the claws of the Crab,
saepe sub occasus, saepe est ablatus in ortus.
often he was carried away below the settings (of the sun) and often towards the risings (of the sun; the east)
iamque cadente die, veritus se credere nocti,
And already/now with the dying day, fearing to entrust himself to the night,
constitit Hesperio, regnis Atlantis, in orbe,
he stopped in the western part of the world, in the kingdom of Atlas,
exiguamque petit requiem, dum Lucifer ignes
and sought a little rest, until the Morning Star
evocet Aurorae, currus Aurora diurnos.
called forth/out Dawn’s stars and Dawn [called forth] her daytime chariot.
