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Portrait of Ovid Ovid,  Metamorphoses — Pyramus and Thisbe

“ Having set out later, [Pyramus] saw, in deep
sand, the certain tracks of a wild animal, and his whole face
turned pale, when [ut] indeed also the garment stained with blood
[he] discovered. 'one night', he said, 'will destroy two lovers,
from which she was most worthy for long life.
My soul is guilty. I killed you, O [girl] who must be pitied,
[I] who, in places full of dread, ordered you to come by night,
nor did come here first. Tear apart our body
and devour our wicked entrails with your fierce bite,
O whatever lions dwell under this rock!
”
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Portrait of Ovid Ovid,  Metamorphoses — Pyramus and Thisbe

“ But it is the mark of a cowardly man to desire death.' Thisbe’s veil
he lifts, and brings it with him to the shade of the tree agreed [on] ,
and as he shed [dedit] tears, and gave [dedit] kisses to the well-known garment,
'accept now', he said, 'draughts of my blood too!'
and he sent into his bowels the iron [sword] with which he had girt himself,
nor was [there] delay: dying he dragged the sword from his steaming wound.
”
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Portrait of Ovid Ovid,  Metamorphoses — Pyramus and Thisbe

“ O Pyramus, respond! Your most dear Thisbe
calls you; heed and lift your lying countenances!”
At the name ‘Thisbe’ Pyramus stirred eyes made heavy by death
and closed them again after he saw her.
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“Quae postquam vestemque suam cognovit et ense
vidit ebur vacuum, ‘tua te manus’ inquit ‘amorque
perdidit, infelix! est et mihi fortis in unum
hōc manus, est et amor: dābit hǐc in vulnera vires.
“After she recognized her veil, she saw the ivory [sheath] without
a sharpened point, [and] said “your hand and love has destroyed you,
o unlucky one!
”
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