Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

^3.265 hic latet Hippolytus loris direptus equorum, ^3.266 unde nemus nullis illud aditur equis. ^3.267 licia dependent longas velantia saepes, ^3.268 et posita est meritae multa tabella deae. ^3.269 saepe potens voti, frontem redimita coronis, ^3.270 femina lucentes portat ab urbe faces.

^3.265 By his horses, and so no horse may enter the grove. ^3.266 The long hedge is covered with hanging threads, ^3.267 And many tablets witness the goddess’s merit. ^3.268 often a woman whose prayer is answered, brow wreathed, ^3.269 With garlands, carries lighted torches from the City. ^3.270 One with strong hands and swift feet rules there,

^7.763 eductum Egeriae lucis umentia circum, ^7.764 litora, pinguis ubi et placabilis ara Dianae. ^7.765 Namque ferunt fama Hippolytum, postquam arte novercae, ^7.766 occiderit patriasque explerit sanguine poenas, ^7.767 turbatis distractus equis, ad sidera rursus, ^7.768 aetheria et superas caeli venisse sub auras, ^7.769 Paeoniis revocatum herbis et amore Dianae. ^7.770 Tum pater omnipotens, aliquem indignatus ab umbris, ^7.771 mortalem infernis ad lumina surgere vitae, ^7.772 ipse repertorem medicinae talis et artis, ^7.773 fulmine Phoebigenam Stygias detrusit ad undas. ^7.774 At Trivia Hippolytum secretis alma recondit, ^7.775 sedibus et nymphae Egeriae nemorique relegat, ^7.776 solus ubi in silvis Italis ignobilis aevom, ^7.777 exigeret versoque ubi nomine Virbius esset. ^7.778 Unde etiam templo Triviae lucisque sacratis, ^7.779 cornipedes arcentur equi, quod litore currum, ^7.780 et iuvenem monstris pavidi effudere marinis. ^7.781 Filius ardentis haud setius aequore campi, ^7.782 exercebat equos curruque in bella ruebat.

^7.763 debase our ancient, royal blood—and I, ^7.764 be spurned upon the threshold?” Then drew near, ^7.765 the men whose frenzied women-folk had held, ^7.766 bacchantic orgies in the pathless grove, " ^7.767 awed by Amatas name: these, gathering,", ^7.768 ued loud for war. Yea, all defied the signs, ^7.769 and venerable omens; all withstood, ^7.770 divine decrees, and clamored for revenge, ^7.771 prompted by evil powers. They besieged, ^7.772 the house of King Latinus, shouting-loud, ^7.773 with emulous rage. But like a sea-girt rock, ^7.774 unmoved he stood; like sea-girt rock when surge, " ^7.775 of waters oer it sweeps, or howling waves", ^7.776 urround; it keeps a ponderous front of power, ^7.777 though foaming cliffs around it vainly roar; ^7.778 from its firm base the broken sea-weeds fall. ^7.779 But when authority no whit could change, ^7.780 their counsels blind, and each event fulfilled, " ^7.781 dread Junos will, then with complaining prayer", ^7.782 the aged sire cried loud upon his gods