Met. 12.316In tantō fremitū cūnctīs sine fīne iacēbat
sōpītus vēnīs et inexperrēctus Aphidās
languentīque manū carchēsia mīxta tenēbat,
fūsus in Ossaeae villōsīs pellibus ursae.Amid all this uproar Aphidas lay, sunk in endless sleep through all his veins and unawakened, holding in his drooping hand a cup of mixed wine, sprawled on the shaggy skin of an Ossaean bear. Met. 12.320Quem procul ut vīdit frūstrā nūlla arma moventem,
īnserit āmentō digitōs "miscenda" que dīxit
"cum Styge vīna bibēs!"When from far off he saw him lying idle, stirring no arms, he fits his fingers into the thong and said: 'You shall drink your wine mixed with the Styx!' Met. 12.322Phorbās;Phorbas; Met. 12.322nec plūra morātus
in iuvenem torsit iaculum, ferrātaque collō
fraxinus, ut cāsū iacuit resupīnus, adācta est.and delaying no more he hurled the javelin at the youth, and the iron-tipped ash was driven into his neck, as by chance he lay on his back. Met. 12.325Mors caruit sēnsū, plēnōque ē gutture flūxit
inque torōs inque ipsa niger carchēsia sanguis.His death came without feeling, and from his full throat black blood flowed onto the couch and into the very cups.
Met. 12.327Vīdī ego Petraeum cōnantem tollere terrā
glandiferam quercum;I saw Petraeus trying to tear an acorn-bearing oak from the earth; Met. 12.328quam dum conplexibus ambit
et quatit hūc illūc labefactaque rōbora iactat,
330lancea Pīrithoī costīs inmissa Petraeī
pectora cum dūrō luctantia rōbore fīxit.while he grips it in his embrace and shakes it this way and that and tosses about the loosened timber, the lance of Pirithous, thrust into Petraeus' ribs, pinned his chest to the hard oak it was wrestling with. Met. 12.332Pīrithoī cecidisse Lycum virtūte ferēbant,
Pīrithoī virtūte Chromin.By the valour of Pirithous, they said, Lycus fell, by the valour of Pirithous Chromis. Met. 12.333Sed uterque minōrem
victōrī titulum quam Dictys Helopsque dedērunt:
335fīxus Helops iaculō, quod pervia tempora fēcit
et missum ā dextrā laevam penetrāvit ad aurem;But each gave the victor less glory than Dictys and Helops gave: Helops was pierced by a javelin which made a passage through his temples and, thrown from the right, went through to the left ear; Met. 12.337Dictys, ab ancipitī dēlapsus acūmine montis,
dum fugit īnstantem trepidāns Ixīone nātum,
dēcidit in praeceps et pondere corporis ornum
340ingentem frēgit suaque induit īlia frāctae.Dictys, slipping from the steep edge of a mountain as he fled in terror from the pressing son of Ixion, fell headlong and with the weight of his body broke a huge ash, and spitted his own guts on the broken tree.
Met. 12.341Victor adest Aphareus saxumque ē monte revulsum
mittere cōnātur: mittentem stīpite quernō
occupat Aegīdēs cubitīque ingentia frangit
ossa;Aphareus is there to avenge him and tries to hurl a rock torn from the mountain: as he hurls, the son of Aegeus forestalls him with an oak club and breaks the huge bones of his elbow; Met. 12.344nec ulterius dare corpus inūtile lētō
345aut vacat aut cūrat tergōque Biēnoris altī
īnsilit haud solitō quemquam portāre nisi ipsum,
opposuitque genū costīs prēnsamque sinistrā
caesariem retinēns vultum minitantiaque ōra
rōbore nōdōsō praedūraque tempora frēgit:
350rōbore Nedymnum iaculātōremque Lycopēn
sternit et inmissā prōtēctum pectora barbā
Hippason et summīs exstantem Riphea silvīs
Thereaque, Haemoniīs quī prēnsōs montibus ursōs
ferre domum vīvōs indignantēsque solēbat.and he has neither time nor care to put the useless body to death any further, but leaps onto the back of tall Bienor, unused to carrying anyone but himself, and set his knee against his ribs and, holding fast the hair he had grasped with his left hand, shattered his face, his threatening mouth and his very hard temples with the knotty oak: with the oak he lays low Nedymnus and Lycopes the javelin-thrower, and Hippasos, his chest protected by his flowing beard, and Ripheus, who towered above the topmost trees, and Thereus, who used to catch bears in the Haemonian mountains and carry them home alive and raging.
Met. 12.355Haud tulit ūtentem pugnae successibus ultrā
Thēsea Dēmoleōn: solidō dīvellere dūmō
annōsam pīnum magnō mōlīmine temptat;Demoleon could not bear Theseus enjoying his success in the fight any longer: with great effort he tries to tear an aged pine from its solid thicket; Met. 12.358quod quia nōn potuit, praefrāctam mīsit in hostem.because he could not do this, he broke it off and hurled it at his foe. Met. 12.359Sed procul ā tēlō Thēseus veniente recessit
360Pallados admonitū: crēdī sīc ipse volēbat.But Theseus drew back far from the oncoming missile at the warning of Pallas: so he himself wished it to be believed. Met. 12.361Nōn tamen arbor iners cecidit;Yet the tree did not fall without effect; Met. 12.361nam Crantoris altī
abscīdit iugulō pectusque umerumque sinistrum.for it severed tall Crantor's chest and left shoulder from his throat. Met. 12.363Armiger ille tuī fuerat genitōris, Achille,
quem Dolopum rēctor, bellō superātus, Amyntor
365Aeacidae dederat pācis pignusque fidemque.He had been your father's armour-bearer, Achilles, whom Amyntor, ruler of the Dolopes, when overcome in war, had given to the son of Aeacus as a pledge and guarantee of peace.
Met. 12.366Hunc procul ut foedō disiectum vulnere Pēleus
vīdit, "at īnferiās, iuvenum grātissime Crantor,
accipe" ait, validōque in Dēmoleonta lacertō
fraxineam mīsit, mentis quoque vīribus, hastam.When Peleus saw him from afar, torn apart by the foul wound, he said, 'At least accept funeral offerings, Crantor, dearest of young men,' and with his strong arm, and with the strength of his spirit too, he hurled his ashen spear at Demoleon. Met. 12.370Quae laterum crātem praerūpit et ossibus haerēns
intremuit.It broke through the framework of his ribs and quivered, sticking in the bones. Met. 12.371Trahit ille manū sine cuspide lignum
(id quoque vix sequitur), cuspis pulmōne retenta est.He pulls out the shaft with his hand, without its point (even that barely follows); the point was held fast in his lung. Met. 12.373Ipse dolor vīrēs animō dabat: aeger in hostem
ērigitur pedibusque virum prōculcat equīnīs.Pain itself gave strength to his spirit: in agony he rears up against the enemy and tramples the man with his horse's hooves. Met. 12.375Excipit ille ictus galeā clipeōque sonantī
dēfēnsatque umerōs praetentaque sustinet arma
perque armōs ūnō duo pectora perforat ictū.The other takes the blows on his helmet and ringing shield, and protects his shoulders, and holds up the weapons stretched out before him, and through the shoulders pierces two breasts with a single thrust.
Met. 12.378Ante tamen lētō dederat Phlegraeon et Hylēn
ēminus, Īphinoum conlātō Mārte Claninque;Before this, however, he had given to death Phlegraeos and Hyles at a distance, Iphinous and Clanis in close combat; Met. 12.380additur hīs Dorylās, quī tempora tēcta gerēbat
pelle lupī saevīque vicem praestantia tēlī
cornua vāra boum multō rubefacta cruōre.to these is added Dorylas, who wore his temples covered with a wolfskin and, serving in place of a savage weapon, the bent horns of oxen, reddened with much blood. Met. 12.383Huic ego (nam vīrēs animus dabat) "adspice," dīxī,
"quantum concēdant nostrō tua cornua ferrō!"To him I said (for my spirit gave me strength): 'See how far your horns yield to our iron!' Met. 12.385et iaculum torsī;and I hurled my javelin; Met. 12.385quod cum vītāre nequīret,
opposuit dextram passūrae vulnera frontī:
adfīxa est cum fronte manus.since he could not avoid it, he put his right hand up before his forehead, which was about to suffer the wound: his hand was pinned to his forehead. Met. 12.387Fit clamor, at illum
haerentem Pēleus et acerbō vulnere victum
(stābat enim propior) mediam ferit ēnse sub alvum.A shout goes up, but Peleus (for he stood nearer) strikes him with his sword in the middle of his belly as he stuck there, overcome by the bitter wound.
Met. 12.390Prōsiluit terrāque ferōx sua viscera trāxit
trāctaque calcāvit calcātaque rūpit et illīs
crūra quoque inpediit et inānī concīdit alvō.He leapt forward, and wildly dragged his own entrails on the ground, and trampled what he dragged, and burst what he trampled, and tangled his legs in them too, and fell with his belly emptied. Met. 12.393Nec tē pugnantem tua, Cyllare, fōrma redēmit,
sī modo nātūrae fōrmam concēdimus illī:
395barba erat incipiēns, barbae color aureus, aurea
ex umerīs mediōs coma dēpendēbat in armōs.Nor did your beauty save you as you fought, Cyllarus, if indeed we grant beauty to that nature of yours: his beard was just beginning, the colour of his beard was golden, and golden hair hung from his shoulders to the middle of his flanks. Met. 12.397Grātus in ōre vigor;There was a pleasing vigour in his face; Met. 12.397cervīx umerīque manūsque
pectoraque artificum laudātīs proxima signīs,
et quācumque vir est;his neck and shoulders and hands and chest came closest to the praised statues of artists, and so did every part where he is man; Met. 12.399nec equī mendōsa sub illō
400dēteriorque virō faciēs: dā colla caputque,
Castore dignus erit;nor was the horse's form beneath him faulty or inferior to the man: give it a neck and head, and it will be worthy of Castor; Met. 12.401sīc tergum sessile, sīc sunt
pectora celsa torīs.so fit for a rider is the back, so high the chest with its muscles.
Met. 12.402Tōtus pice nigrior ātrā;He was all blacker than black pitch; Met. 12.403candida cauda tamen, color est quoque crūribus albus.yet his tail was white, and the colour of his legs was white too. Met. 12.404Multae illum petiēre suā dē gente, sed ūna
405abstulit Hylonomē, quā nūlla decentior inter
sēmiferōs altīs habitāvit fēmina silvīs.Many of his own race sought him, but Hylonome alone won him, than whom no female more comely lived among the half-beasts in the deep woods. Met. 12.407Haec et blanditiīs et amandō et amāre fatendō
Cyllaron ūna tenet;She alone holds Cyllarus with her endearments and by loving and by confessing her love; Met. 12.408cultus quoque, quantus in illīs
esse potest membrīs, ut sit coma pectine levis,
410ut modo rōre maris, modo sē violāve rosāve
inplicet, interdum candentia līlia gestet,
bisque diē lapsīs Pagasaeae vertice silvae
fontibus ōra lavet, bis flūmine corpora tingat,
nec nisi quae deceant ēlēctārumque ferārum
415aut umerō aut laterī praetendat vellera laevō.with her grooming too, as much as there can be in such limbs: her hair is made smooth with a comb, she twines herself now with rosemary, now with violets or roses, sometimes she wears white lilies, and twice a day she washes her face in the springs that fall from the summit of the Pagasaean wood, twice she dips her body in the stream, and she wears on her shoulder or her left side only the becoming fleeces of choice beasts.
Met. 12.416Pār amor est illīs: errant in montibus ūnā,
antra simul subeunt;Their love is equal: they wander together on the mountains, they enter caves together; Met. 12.417et tum Lapithēia tēcta
intrārant pariter, pariter fera bella gerēbant.and then they had entered the Lapith palace side by side, side by side they were waging the fierce war. Met. 12.419Auctor in incertō est: iaculum dē parte sinistrā
420vēnit et īnferius quā collō pectora subsunt,
Cyllare, tē fīxit;Its author is uncertain: a javelin came from the left side and pierced you, Cyllarus, below where the chest lies under the neck; Met. 12.421parvō cor vulnere laesum
corpore cum tōtō post tēla ēducta refrīxit.the heart, injured by a small wound, grew cold, with the whole body, once the weapon was drawn out. Met. 12.423Prōtinus Hylonomē morientēs excipit artūs
inpositāque manū vulnus fovet ōraque ad ōra
425admovet atque animae fugientī obsistere temptat.At once Hylonome catches his dying limbs and soothes the wound with her hand laid upon it, and puts her mouth to his mouth and tries to stop the fleeing breath. Met. 12.426Ut videt exstīnctum, dictīs, quae clamor ad aurēs
arcuit īre meās, tēlō, quod inhaeserat illī,
incubuit moriēnsque suum conplexa marītum est.When she sees him dead, with words which the uproar kept from reaching my ears, she fell on the weapon that had pierced him, and, dying, embraced her husband.