Met. 2.466Sēnserat hoc ōlim magnī mātrona Tonantis
distuleratque gravēs in idōnea tempora poenās.The wife of the great Thunderer had long since perceived this, and had postponed her severe punishment to a fitting time. Met. 2.468Causa morae nūlla est, et iam puer Arcas (id ipsum
indoluit Iūnō) fuerat dē paelice nātus.There is no reason for delay, and now a boy, Arcas (this very thing pained Juno), had been born of the mistress. Met. 2.470Quō simul obvertit saevam cum lūmine mentem,
"scīlicet hoc etiam restābat, adultera" dīxit,
"ut fēcunda forēs, fieretque iniūria partū
nota, Iovisque meī testātum dēdecus esset.As soon as she turned her savage mind and her gaze on him, she said, 'This, of course, was all that remained, adulteress, that you should be fruitful, and the wrong be made known by the birth, and the disgrace of my Jupiter be attested. Met. 2.474Haud impūne ferēs: adimam tibi nempe figūram,
475quā tibi, quāque placēs nostrō, importūna, marītō."You will not go unpunished: I shall take away from you that beauty with which you please yourself and please my husband, you shameless girl.' Met. 2.476Dīxit et adversā prēnsīs ā fronte capillīs
strāvit humī prōnam.She spoke, and seizing her by the hair at the front of her head, threw her face down on the ground.
Met. 2.477Tendēbat bracchia supplex:
bracchia coepērunt nigrīs horrēscere villīs
curvārīque manūs et aduncōs crēscere in unguēs
480officiōque pedum fungī, laudātaque quondam
ōra Iovī lātō fierī dēfōrmia rictū.She was stretching out her arms in supplication: her arms began to bristle with black hair, and her hands to curve and grow into hooked claws and perform the office of feet, and the face once praised by Jupiter to become ugly with wide jaws. Met. 2.482Nēve precēs animōs et verba precantia flectant
posse loquī ēripitur;And lest her prayers and pleading words should sway hearts, the power of speech is taken from her; Met. 2.483vōx īrācunda mināxque
plēnaque terrōris raucō dē gutture fertur.an angry, threatening voice full of terror comes from her hoarse throat. Met. 2.485Mēns antīqua tamen facta quoque mānsit in ursā,
adsiduōque suōs gemitū testāta dolōrēs
quālēscumque manūs ad caelum et sīdera tollit
ingrātumque Iovem, nequeat cum dīcere, sentit.Yet her former mind remained even when she had become a bear, and, testifying to her sufferings with constant groans, she raises such hands as she has towards the sky and stars, and feels Jupiter's ingratitude, though she cannot say so.
Met. 2.489Ā quotiēns, sōla nōn ausa quiēscere silvā,
490ante domum quondamque suīs errāvit in agrīs!Ah, how often, not daring to rest in the lonely wood, she wandered before her house and in the fields that were once hers! Met. 2.491Ā quotiēns per saxa canum lātrātibus ācta est
vēnātrīxque metū vēnantum territa fūgit!Ah, how often she was driven over the rocks by the barking of hounds, and the huntress fled, terrified with fear of the hunters! Met. 2.493Saepe ferīs latuit vīsīs, oblīta quid esset,
ursaque cōnspectōs in montibus horruit ursōs
495pertimuitque lupōs, quamvīs pater esset in illīs.Often she hid at the sight of wild beasts, forgetting what she was, and, a bear herself, shuddered at bears seen on the mountains, and feared wolves, though her father was among them. Met. 2.496Ecce, Lycāoniae prōlēs, ignāra parentis,
Arcas adest, ter quīnque ferē nātālibus āctīs:
dumque ferās sequitur, dum saltūs ēligit aptōs
nexilibusque plagīs silvās Erymanthidas ambit,
500incidit in mātrem;Look, Arcas, the offspring of Lycaon's daughter, ignorant of his parent, is here, with about fifteen birthdays passed: and while he follows wild beasts, while he chooses suitable glades and surrounds the Erymanthian woods with woven nets, he comes upon his mother; Met. 2.500quae restitit Arcade vīsō
et cognōscentī similis fuit.she stood still at the sight of Arcas, and was like one who recognised him.
Met. 2.501Ille refūgit
inmōtōsque oculōs in sē sine fīne tenentem
nescius extimuit propiusque accēdere aventī
vulnificō fuerat fīxūrus pectora tēlō.He shrank back, and, not knowing, feared her as she kept her unmoving eyes fixed on him without end, and as she longed to come nearer he was about to pierce her breast with his wounding spear. Met. 2.505Arcuit omnipotēns pariterque ipsōsque nefāsque
sustulit, et celerī raptōs per inānia ventō
imposuit caelō vīcīnaque sīdera fēcit.The almighty prevented it, and removed both them and the crime together, and, carrying them through the void in a swift wind, set them in the sky and made them neighbouring stars. Met. 2.508Intumuit Iūnō, postquam inter sīdera paelex
fulsit et ad cānam dēscendit in aequora Tēthyn
510Oceanumque senem, quōrum reverentia mōvit
saepe deōs, causamque viae scītantibus īnfit:
"Quaeritis, aetheriīs quārē rēgīna deōrum
sēdibus hūc adsim?Juno swelled with rage when the mistress shone among the stars, and she went down into the sea to white-haired Tethys and old Oceanus, reverence for whom has often moved the gods, and when they ask the reason for her journey she begins: 'Do you ask why I, the queen of the gods, am here from my heavenly seat?
Met. 2.513prō mē tenet altera caelum.Another holds heaven in my place. Met. 2.514Mentiar, obscūrum nisi nox cum fēcerit orbem,
515nūper honōrātās summō, mea vulnera, caelō
vīderitis stellās illīc, ubi circulus axem
ultimus extrēmum spatiōque brevissimus ambit.Call me a liar if, when night has made the world dark, you do not see stars lately honoured in highest heaven, my wounds, there where the last circle, the shortest in extent, encircles the end of the axis. Met. 2.518Est vērō, cūr quis Iūnōnem laedere nōlit
offēnsamque tremat, quae prōsum sōla nocendō?Is there indeed any reason why anyone should shrink from wounding Juno, or tremble at her anger, when I alone do good by doing harm? Met. 2.520Ō ego quantum ēgī!Oh, what great things I have achieved! Met. 2.520quam vāsta potentia nostra est!How vast my power is! Met. 2.521Esse hominem vetuī: facta est dea.I forbade her to be human: she has become a goddess. Met. 2.521Sīc ego poenās
sontibus impōnō, sīc est mea magna potestās.This is how I impose punishment on the guilty, this is how great my power is. Met. 2.523Vindicet antīquam faciem vultūsque ferīnōs
dētrahat, Argolicā quod in ante Phorōnide fēcit.Let him restore her former appearance and take away her beastly face, as he did before with Argive Phoronis.
Met. 2.525Cūr nōn et pulsā dūcit Iūnōne meōque
collocat in thalamō socerumque Lycāona sūmit?Why does he not drive Juno out and marry her, and place her in my bedchamber, and take Lycaon as his father-in-law? Met. 2.527At vōs sī laesae tangit contemptus alumnae,
gurgite caeruleō septem prohibēte triōnēs
sīderaque in caelō, stuprī mercēde, recepta
530pellite, nē pūrō tingātur in aequore paelex."But you, if the insult to your wronged foster-child touches you, keep the seven Plough-oxen from your sea-blue waters, and drive away the stars received into heaven as the price of adultery, so that the mistress may not be dipped in your pure waters.'