Met. 2.401At pater omnipotēns ingentia moenia caelī
circuit et nē quid labefactum vīribus ignis
corruat explōrat.But the almighty father goes round the mighty walls of heaven and examines whether anything weakened by the force of the fire is collapsing. Met. 2.403Quae postquam firma suīque
rōboris esse videt terrās hominumque labōrēs
405perspicit.When he sees that they are firm and keep their own strength, he surveys the lands and the works of men. Met. 2.405Arcadiae tamen est impēnsior illī
cūra suae: fontēs et nōndum audentia lābī
flūmina restituit dat terrae grāmina, frondēs
arboribus, laesāsque iubet revīrēscere silvās.Yet his own Arcadia is a more earnest care to him: he restores the springs and the rivers that do not yet dare to flow, gives the earth grass, the trees leaves, and orders the injured forests to grow green again. Met. 2.409Dum redit itque frequēns, In virgine Nōnacrīnā
410haesit et acceptī caluēre sub ossibus ignēs.While he comes and goes frequently, he was caught by a maiden of Nonacris, and the fires he had taken in grew hot beneath his bones.
Met. 2.411Nōn erat huius opus lānam mollīre trahendō
nec positū variāre comās;It was not her business to soften wool by drawing it out, nor to vary the arrangement of her hair; Met. 2.412ubi fībula vestem,
vitta coercuerat neglēctōs alba capillōs,
et modo leve manū iaculum, modo sūmpserat arcum,
415mīles erat Phoebēs: nec Maenalon attigit ūlla
grātior hāc Triviae.when a brooch had fastened her dress, and a white ribbon her careless hair, and she had taken up now a light javelin in her hand, now a bow, she was a soldier of Phoebe: nor did any girl tread Maenalus who was dearer to Trivia than she. Met. 2.416Sed nūlla potentia longa est.But no power lasts long. Met. 2.417Ulterius mediō spatium sōl altus habēbat,
cum subit illa nemus, quod nūlla cecīderat aetās.The high sun held a course beyond the midpoint when she enters a grove that no age had felled. Met. 2.419Exuit hīc umerō pharetram lentōsque retendit
420arcūs, inque solō, quod tēxerat herba, iacēbat
et pictam positā pharetram cervīce premēbat.Here she took the quiver from her shoulder and unstrung her pliant bow, and lay on the ground that grass had covered, and rested her neck on her painted quiver.
Met. 2.422Iuppiter ut vīdit fessam et custōde vacantem,
"hoc certē fūrtum coniūnx mea nesciet" inquit,
"aut sī rescierit sunt ō sunt iūrgia tantī."When Jupiter saw her tired and without a guard, he said, 'This theft at least my wife will not know of, or if she does find out, the quarrels are worth it, oh, they are worth it.' Met. 2.425Prōtinus induitur faciem cultumque Diānae
atque ait: "Ō comitum, virgō, pars ūna meārum,
in quibus es vēnāta iugīs?"At once he puts on the face and dress of Diana and says: 'O maiden, one of my own companions, on which ridges have you been hunting?' Met. 2.427Dē caespite virgō
sē levat et "salvē nūmen, mē iūdice", dīxit
"audiat ipse licet maius Iove."The maiden raises herself from the turf and said, 'Hail, divinity greater, in my judgement, than Jupiter, even if he himself should hear.' Met. 2.429Rīdet et audit,
430et sibi praeferrī sē gaudet et ōscula iungit
nec moderāta satis nec sīc ā virgine danda.He laughs as he hears it, and rejoices to be preferred to himself, and joins kisses with her, not moderate enough nor such as a maiden gives.
Met. 2.432Quā vēnāta foret silvā, narrāre parantem
impedit amplexū, nec sē sine crīmine prōdit.As she is preparing to tell in which wood she had hunted, he prevents her with an embrace, and betrays himself by no innocent act. Met. 2.434Illa quidem contrā, quantum modo fēmina possit
435(adspicerēs utinam, Sāturnia: mītior essēs !),
illa quidem pugnat: sed quem superāre puella,
quisve Iovem poterat?She indeed struggled against him, as far as a woman could (would that you had seen, daughter of Saturn: you would be kinder!), she indeed fights: but whom could a girl overcome, or who could overcome Jupiter? Met. 2.437— Superum petit aethera victor
Iuppiter: huic odiō nemus est et cōnscia silva.— Jupiter, the victor, makes for the ether above: she hates the grove and the wood that knew. Met. 2.439Unde pedem referēns paene est oblīta pharetram
440tollere cum tēlīs et quem suspenderat arcum.As she withdraws from there, she almost forgot to take up her quiver with its arrows and the bow she had hung up. Met. 2.441Ecce, suō comitāta chorō Dictynna per altum
Maenalon ingrediēns et caede superba ferārum
adspicit hanc vīsamque vocat: clāmāta refugit,
et timuit prīmō, nē Iuppiter esset in illā.Look, Dictynna, attended by her band, advancing across high Maenalus and proud of the slaughter of beasts, catches sight of her and, seeing her, calls her: called, she shrank back, and feared at first that Jupiter was in the goddess.
Met. 2.445Sed postquam pariter nymphās incēdere vīdit,
sēnsit abesse dolōs numerumque accessit ad hārum.But after she saw the nymphs advancing with her, she sensed there was no trickery, and joined their number. Met. 2.447Heu quam difficile est crīmen nōn prōdere vultū!Alas, how hard it is not to betray guilt in one's face! Met. 2.448Vix oculōs attollit humō, nec, ut ante solēbat,
iūncta deae laterī, nec tōtō est agmine prīma,
450sed silet et laesī dat signa rubōre pudōris;She scarcely raises her eyes from the ground, nor is she, as she used to be, close at the goddess's side, nor first in the whole troop, but she is silent, and by her blushes gives signs of wounded modesty; Met. 2.451et nisi quod virgō est poterat sentīre Diāna
mīlle notīs culpam;and, were she not a virgin, Diana could have perceived her fault by a thousand signs; Met. 2.452nymphae sēnsisse feruntur.the nymphs, they say, perceived it. Met. 2.453Orbe resurgēbant lūnāria cornua nōnō,
cum dea vēnātū, frāternīs languida flammīs,
455nacta nemus gelidum, dē quō cum murmure lābēns
ībat et attrītās versābat rīvus harēnās.The crescent horns of the moon were rising in their orb for the ninth time, when the goddess, faint from hunting in her brother's flames, came upon a cool grove, from which a stream ran, gliding with a murmur and turning over the worn sands.
Met. 2.457Ut loca laudāvit, summās pede contigit undās:
hīs quoque laudātīs "procul est" ait "arbiter omnis;When she had praised the place, she touched the surface of the water with her foot: praising this too, she says, 'Far off is every witness; Met. 2.459nūda superfūsīs tingāmus corpora lymphīs."let us bathe our naked bodies in the waters poured over them.' Met. 2.460Parrhasis ērubuit.The Parrhasian girl blushed. Met. 2.460Cūnctae vēlāmina pōnunt:
ūna morās quaerit.They all take off their garments: one seeks delays. Met. 2.461Dubitantī vestis adempta est;As she hesitates, her dress is taken from her; Met. 2.462quā positā nūdō patuit cum corpore crīmen.and when it was laid aside, her guilt was revealed with her naked body. Met. 2.463Attonitae manibusque uterum cēlāre volentī
"ī procul hinc" dīxit "nec sacrōs pollue fontēs"
465Cynthia;To her, aghast and trying to hide her belly with her hands, 'Go far from here,' said Cynthia, 'and do not pollute the sacred springs'; Met. 2.465dēque suō iussit sēcēdere coetū.and she ordered her to leave her company.