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Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.262-1.312
Protinus Aeoliis Aquilonem claudit in antris by fierce Lycaon?” Ardent in their wrath
et quaecumque fugant inductas flamina nubes the astonished Gods demand revenge overtake
emittitque Notum. Madidis Notus evolat alis this miscreant; he who dared commit such crimes.
terribilem picea tectus caligine vultum: 'Twas even thus when raged that impious band
barba gravis nimbis, canis fluit unda capillis; to blot the Roman name in sacred blood
fronte sedent nebulae, rorant pennaeque sinusque. of Caesar, sudden apprehensive fear
Utque manu late pendentia nubila pressit of ruin absolute astonished man
fit fragor: hinc densi funduntur ab aethere nimbi. and all the world convulsed. Nor is the love
Nuntia Iunonis varios induta colores thy people bear to thee, Augustus, le
concipit Iris aquas alimentaque nubibus adfert. than these displayed to Jupiter whose voice
Sternuntur segetes et deplorata coloni and gesture all the murmuring host restrained:
vota iacent, longique perit labor inritus anni. and as indignant clamour ceased, suppressed
Nec caelo contenta suo est Iovis ira, sed illum by regnant majesty, Jove once again
caeruleus frater iuvat auxiliaribus undis. broke the deep silence with imperial words;
Convocat hic amnes. Qui postquam tecta tyranni “Dismiss your cares; he paid the penalty
intravere sui, “non est hortamine longo however all the crime and punishment
nunc” ait “utendum. Vires effundite vestras: now learn from this:—An infamous report
sic opus est! aperite domos ac mole remota of this unholy age had reached my ears
fluminibus vestris totas inmittite habenas!” and wishing it were false, I sloped my course
Iusserat; hi redeunt ac fontibus ora relaxant from high Olympus , and—although a God—
et defrenato volvuntur in aequora cursu. disguised in human form I viewed the world.
Ipse tridente suo terram percussit: at illa It would delay us to recount the crime
intremuit motuque vias patefecit aquarum. unnumbered, for reports were less than truth.
Exspatiata ruunt per apertos flumina campos “I traversed Maenalus where fearful den
cumque satis arbusta simul pecudesque virosque abound, over Lycaeus, wintry slope
tectaque cumque suis rapiunt penetralia sacris. of pine tree groves, across Cyllene steep;
Siqua domus mansit potuitque resistere tanto and as the twilight warned of night's approach
indeiecta malo, culmen tamen altior huius I stopped in that Arcadian tyrant's realm
unda tegit, pressaeque latent sub gurgite turres. and entered his inhospitable home:—
Iamque mare et tellus nullum discrimen habebant: and when I showed his people that a God
omnia pontus erant; deerant quoque litora ponto. had come, the lowly prayed and worshiped me
Occupat hic collem, cumba sedet alter adunca but this Lycaon mocked their pious vow
et ducit remos illic, ubi nuper ararat and scoffing said; ‘A fair experiment
ille supra segetes aut mersae culmina villae will prove the truth if this be god or man.’
navigat, hic summa piscem deprendit in ulmo. and he prepared to slay me in the night,—
Figitur in viridi, si fors tulit, ancora prato to end my slumbers in the sleep of death.
aut subiecta terunt curvae vineta carinae; So made he merry with his impious proof;
et, modo qua graciles gramen carpsere capellae but not content with this he cut the throat
nunc ibi deformes ponunt sua corpora phocae. of a Molossian hostage sent to him
Mirantur sub aqua lucos urbesque domosque and partly softened his still quivering limb
Nereides, silvasque tenent delphines et altis in boiling water, partly roasted them
incursant ramis agitataque robora pulsant. on fires that burned beneath. And when this flesh
Nat lupus inter oves, fulvos vehit unda leones was served to me on tables, I destroyed
unda vehit tigres, nec vires fulminis apro his dwelling and his worthless Household Gods
crura nec ablato prosunt velocia cervo. with thunder bolts avenging. Terror struck
Quaesitisque diu terris, ubi sistere possit he took to flight, and on the silent plain
in mare lassatis volucris vaga decidit alis. is howling in his vain attempts to speak;
Obruerat tumulos inmensa licentia ponti he raves and rages and his greedy jaws
pulsabantque novi montana cacumina fluctus. desiring their accustomed slaughter, turn
Maxima pars unda rapitur; quibus unda pepercit against the sheep—still eager for their blood.
illos longa domant inopi ieiunia victu. His vesture separates in shaggy hair

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1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 107-201, 106 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 106. (The lid already stopped her, by the will
2. Hebrew Bible, Daniel, 2 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)
3. Horace, Odes, 1.2.1-1.2.20 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
4. Ovid, Fasti, 1.65, 1.89, 1.106-1.124 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 1.106. Fire, water, earth, were heaped together as one. 1.107. When, through the discord of its components 1.108. The mass dissolved, and scattered to new regions 1.109. Flame found the heights: air took a lower place 1.110. While earth and sea sank to the furthest depth. 1.111. Then I, who was a shapeless mass, a ball 1.112. Took on the appearance, and noble limbs of a god. 1.113. Even now, a small sign of my once confused state 1.114. My front and back appear just the same. 1.117. Whatever you see: sky, sea, clouds, earth 1.118. All things are begun and ended by my hand. 1.119. Care of the vast world is in my hands alone 1.120. And mine the goverce of the turning pole. 1.121. When I choose to send Peace, from tranquil houses 1.122. Freely she walks the roads, and ceaselessly: 1.123. The whole world would drown in bloodstained slaughter 1.124. If rigid barriers failed to hold war in check.
5. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.21, 1.89, 1.90, 1.91, 1.92, 1.93, 1.94, 1.95, 1.96, 1.97, 1.98, 1.99, 1.100, 1.101, 1.102, 1.103, 1.104, 1.105, 1.106, 1.107, 1.108, 1.109, 1.110, 1.111, 1.112, 1.113, 1.114, 1.115, 1.116, 1.117, 1.118, 1.119, 1.120, 1.121, 1.122, 1.123, 1.124, 1.125, 1.126, 1.127, 1.128, 1.129, 1.130, 1.131, 1.132, 1.133, 1.134, 1.135, 1.136, 1.137, 1.138, 1.139, 1.140, 1.141, 1.142, 1.143, 1.144, 1.145, 1.146, 1.147, 1.148, 1.149, 1.150, 1.179, 1.180, 1.185, 1.186, 1.187, 1.188, 1.189, 1.190, 1.191, 1.192, 1.193, 1.194, 1.195, 1.196, 1.197, 1.198, 1.199, 1.200, 1.201, 1.202, 1.203, 1.204, 1.205, 1.206, 1.207, 1.208, 1.209, 1.210, 1.211, 1.212, 1.213, 1.214, 1.215, 1.216, 1.217, 1.218, 1.219, 1.220, 1.221, 1.222, 1.223, 1.224, 1.225, 1.226, 1.227, 1.228, 1.229, 1.230, 1.231, 1.232, 1.233, 1.234, 1.235, 1.236, 1.237, 1.238, 1.239, 1.240, 1.241, 1.242, 1.243, 1.244, 1.245, 1.246, 1.247, 1.248, 1.249, 1.250, 1.251, 1.252, 1.253, 1.254, 1.255, 1.256, 1.257, 1.258, 1.259, 1.260, 1.261, 1.263, 1.264, 1.265, 1.266, 1.267, 1.268, 1.269, 1.270, 1.271, 1.272, 1.273, 1.274, 1.275, 1.276, 1.277, 1.278, 1.279, 1.280, 1.281, 1.282, 1.283, 1.284, 1.285, 1.286, 1.287, 1.288, 1.289, 1.290, 1.291, 1.292, 1.293, 1.294, 1.295, 1.296, 1.297, 1.298, 1.299, 1.300, 1.301, 1.302, 1.303, 1.304, 1.305, 1.306, 1.307, 1.308, 1.309, 1.310, 1.311, 1.312, 1.313, 1.314, 1.315, 1.316, 1.317, 1.318, 1.319, 1.320, 1.321, 1.322, 1.323, 1.324, 1.325, 1.326, 1.327, 1.328, 1.329, 1.330, 1.331, 1.332, 1.333, 1.334, 1.335, 1.336, 1.337, 1.338, 1.339, 1.340, 1.341, 1.342, 1.343, 1.344, 1.345, 1.346, 1.347, 1.348, 1.349, 1.350, 1.351, 1.352, 1.353, 1.354, 1.355, 1.356, 1.357, 1.358, 1.359, 1.360, 1.361, 1.362, 1.363, 1.364, 1.365, 1.366, 1.367, 1.368, 1.369, 1.370, 1.371, 1.372, 1.373, 1.374, 1.375, 1.376, 1.377, 1.378, 1.379, 1.380, 1.381, 1.382, 1.383, 1.384, 1.385, 1.386, 1.387, 1.388, 1.389, 1.390, 1.391, 1.392, 1.393, 1.394, 1.395, 1.396, 1.397, 1.398, 1.399, 1.400, 1.401, 1.402, 1.403, 1.404, 1.405, 1.406, 1.407, 1.408, 1.409, 1.410, 1.411, 1.412, 1.413, 1.414, 1.415, 1.747, 1.747-2.400, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14, 2.15, 2.16, 2.17, 2.18, 2.19, 2.20, 2.21, 2.22, 2.23, 2.24, 2.25, 2.26, 2.27, 2.28, 2.29, 2.30, 2.31, 2.32, 2.33, 2.34, 2.35, 2.36, 2.37, 2.38, 2.39, 2.40, 2.41, 2.42, 2.43, 2.44, 2.45, 2.46, 2.47, 2.48, 2.49, 2.50, 2.51, 2.52, 2.53, 2.54, 2.55, 2.56, 2.57, 2.58, 2.59, 2.60, 2.61, 2.62, 2.63, 2.64, 2.65, 2.66, 2.67, 2.68, 2.69, 2.70, 2.71, 2.72, 2.73, 2.74, 2.75, 2.76, 2.77, 2.78, 2.79, 2.80, 2.81, 2.82, 2.83, 2.84, 2.85, 2.86, 2.87, 2.88, 2.89, 2.90, 2.91, 2.92, 2.93, 2.94, 2.95, 2.96, 2.97, 2.98, 2.99, 2.100, 2.101, 2.102, 2.103, 2.104, 2.105, 2.106, 2.107, 2.108, 2.109, 2.110, 2.111, 2.112, 2.113, 2.114, 2.115, 2.116, 2.117, 2.118, 2.119, 2.120, 2.121, 2.122, 2.123, 2.124, 2.125, 2.126, 2.127, 2.128, 2.129, 2.130, 2.131, 2.132, 2.133, 2.134, 2.135, 2.136, 2.137, 2.138, 2.139, 2.140, 2.141, 2.142, 2.143, 2.144, 2.145, 2.146, 2.147, 2.148, 2.149, 2.150, 2.151, 2.152, 2.153, 2.154, 2.155, 2.156, 2.157, 2.158, 2.159, 2.160, 2.161, 2.162, 2.163, 2.164, 2.165, 2.166, 2.167, 2.168, 2.169, 2.170, 2.171, 2.172, 2.173, 2.174, 2.175, 2.176, 2.177, 2.178, 2.179, 2.180, 2.181, 2.182, 2.183, 2.184, 2.185, 2.186, 2.187, 2.188, 2.189, 2.190, 2.191, 2.192, 2.193, 2.194, 2.195, 2.196, 2.197, 2.198, 2.199, 2.200, 2.201, 2.202, 2.203, 2.204, 2.205, 2.206, 2.207, 2.208, 2.209, 2.210, 2.211, 2.212, 2.213, 2.214, 2.215, 2.216, 2.217, 2.218, 2.219, 2.220, 2.221, 2.222, 2.223, 2.224, 2.225, 2.226, 2.227, 2.228, 2.229, 2.230, 2.231, 2.232, 2.233, 2.234, 2.235, 2.236, 2.237, 2.238, 2.239, 2.240, 2.241, 2.242, 2.243, 2.244, 2.245, 2.246, 2.247, 2.248, 2.249, 2.250, 2.251, 2.252, 2.253, 2.254, 2.255, 2.256, 2.257, 2.258, 2.259, 2.260, 2.261, 2.262, 2.263, 2.264, 2.265, 2.266, 2.267, 2.268, 2.269, 2.270, 2.271, 2.272, 2.273, 2.274, 2.275, 2.276, 2.277, 2.278, 2.279, 2.280, 2.281, 2.282, 2.283, 2.284, 2.285, 2.286, 2.287, 2.288, 2.289, 2.290, 2.291, 2.292, 2.293, 2.294, 2.295, 2.296, 2.297, 2.298, 2.299, 2.300, 2.301, 2.302, 2.303, 2.304, 2.305, 2.306, 2.307, 2.308, 2.309, 2.310, 2.311, 2.312, 2.313, 2.314, 2.315, 2.316, 2.317, 2.318, 2.319, 2.320, 2.321, 2.322, 2.323, 2.324, 2.325, 2.326, 2.327, 2.328, 2.329, 2.330, 2.331, 2.332, 2.333, 2.334, 2.335, 2.336, 2.337, 2.338, 2.339, 2.340, 2.341, 2.342, 2.343, 2.344, 2.345, 2.346, 2.347, 2.348, 2.349, 2.350, 2.351, 2.352, 2.353, 2.354, 2.355, 2.356, 2.357, 2.358, 2.359, 2.360, 2.361, 2.362, 2.363, 2.364, 2.365, 2.366, 2.367, 2.368, 2.369, 2.370, 2.371, 2.372, 2.373, 2.374, 2.375, 2.376, 2.377, 2.378, 2.379, 2.380, 2.381, 2.382, 2.383, 2.384, 2.385, 2.386, 2.387, 2.388, 2.389, 2.390, 2.391, 2.392, 2.393, 2.394, 2.395, 2.396, 2.397, 2.398, 2.399, 2.400, 7.353, 7.354, 7.355, 7.356, 15.870, 15.871, 15.872, 15.873, 15.874, 15.875, 15.876, 15.877, 15.878, 15.879 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
6. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.36, 1.48, 1.76-1.77 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
7. Seneca The Younger, De Consolatione Ad Marciam, 26.6 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
8. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 101.5 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
9. Seneca The Younger, Natural Questions, 3.27-3.30, 3.27.4-3.27.5 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
10. Seneca The Younger, Thyestes, 789 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
11. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 7.87 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 7.87. This is why Zeno was the first (in his treatise On the Nature of Man) to designate as the end life in agreement with nature (or living agreeably to nature), which is the same as a virtuous life, virtue being the goal towards which nature guides us. So too Cleanthes in his treatise On Pleasure, as also Posidonius, and Hecato in his work On Ends. Again, living virtuously is equivalent to living in accordance with experience of the actual course of nature, as Chrysippus says in the first book of his De finibus; for our individual natures are parts of the nature of the whole universe.
12. Anon., 4 Ezra, 12, 11

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aetiology	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 5
allusion	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 5
apocalypse, genre	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 109
apollo	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 5
atreus	Volk and Williams, Seeing Seneca Whole: Perspectives on Philosophy, Poetry and Politics (2006) 192
augustus	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 109
bacchus	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 5
bible, responses to	Sattler, Ancient Ethics and the Natural World (2021) 64
callimachus, aetia	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 5
cerambus	Hay, Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought (2023) 52
chaos	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 190
civil war	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 190
decline, historical	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 109
decorum/to prepon	Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 145
destruction, of the universe/cosmic	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 190
deucalion	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 5
didactic, function	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 5
dissolution, cosmic dissolution/of the universe	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 190
dissolution	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 190
ekpyrosis	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 190
flood (inundation)	Sattler, Ancient Ethics and the Natural World (2021) 64
floods, in horace	Hay, Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought (2023) 51
floods, in ovid	Hay, Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought (2023) 51, 52
four- (or five‐) kingdom paradigm	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 109
gallus, cornelius	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 5
gigantomachy	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 190
hesiod	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 109
hexameters	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 5
hylas	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 5
irony	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 109
janus	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 190
judgement, final	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 109
jupiter, and the flood	Hay, Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought (2023) 52
jupiter	Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 149, 161, 162
laudes neronis	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 190
linus	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 5
lycaon	Hay, Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought (2023) 51
metakosmesis	Hay, Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought (2023) 51, 52
metamorphoses, phaethon	Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 145, 149
muses	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 5
nature, living according to	Sattler, Ancient Ethics and the Natural World (2021) 64
neptune	Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 149, 161
pastoral	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 5
periodisation of history	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 109
phaethon	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 190; Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 145, 149
philomela	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 5
philosophy, greek, in rome'	Hay, Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought (2023) 52
philosophy, greek, in rome	Hay, Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought (2023) 51
procne	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 5
prometheus	Hay, Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought (2023) 52
seneca, cataclysm in natural questions	Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 145, 149, 161, 162
seneca, criticism of ovid	Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 145, 149
seneca, demythologizes ovid	Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 161
seneca, natural questions, original order of books	Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 145
seneca	Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 145, 149, 161, 162
silenus	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 5
solodow, joseph	Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 149
stoicism/stoics, periodic destruction of cosmos , by flood or by fire	Volk and Williams, Seeing Seneca Whole: Perspectives on Philosophy, Poetry and Politics (2006) 192
stoics, stoicism	Sattler, Ancient Ethics and the Natural World (2021) 64
stoics/stoicism	Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 161, 162
suffering, as sign of the end	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 109
teleology\n, view of history	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 109
tereus	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 5
triton	Hay, Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought (2023) 52
varus (p.alfenus)	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 5