Met. 4.481Nec mora, Tīsiphonē madefactam sanguine sūmit
inportūna facem, fluidōque cruōre rubentem
induitur pallam tortōque incingitur angue
ēgrediturque domō.Without delay, relentless Tisiphone takes up a torch soaked in blood, puts on a robe red with flowing gore, girds herself with a twisted snake, and goes out of the house. Met. 4.484Lūctus comitātur euntem
485et Pavor et Terror trepidōque Īnsānia vultū.Grief goes with her as she goes, and Panic and Terror and Madness with trembling face. Met. 4.486Līmine Cōnstiterat: postēs tremuisse feruntur
Aeoliī pallorque forēs īnfēcit acernās,
sōlque locum fūgit.She had stopped at the threshold: the doorposts of Aeolus' son are said to have trembled, and pallor stained the maple doors, and the sun fled the place. Met. 4.488Mōnstrīs exterrita coniūnx,
territus est Athamās.Terrified by the portents was the wife, terrified was Athamas. Met. 4.489Tēctōque exīre parābant:
490obstitit īnfēlīx aditumque obsēdit Erīnys,
nexaque vīpereīs distendēns bracchia nōdīs
caesariem excussit.And they were preparing to leave the house: the ill-omened Fury stood in the way and blocked the entrance, and stretching out her arms entwined with knots of vipers, she shook out her hair.
Met. 4.492Mōtae sonuēre colubrae,
parsque iacent umerīs, pars circum pectora lapsae
sībila dant saniemque vomunt linguīsque coruscant.Disturbed, the snakes hissed aloud, and some lie on her shoulders, some, gliding around her breast, give hisses and vomit gore and flicker with their tongues. Met. 4.495Inde duōs mediīs abrumpit crīnibus anguēs
pestiferāque manū raptōs inmīsit.Then she tears two snakes from the midst of her hair and, seizing them with her pestilent hand, hurled them. Met. 4.496At illī
Īnōōsque sinūs Athamantēōsque pererrant
īnspīrantque gravēs animās.And they glide all over the breasts of Ino and of Athamas, and breathe their noxious breath into them. Met. 4.498Nec vulnera membrīs
ūlla ferunt: mēns est, quae dīrōs sentiat ictūs.Nor do they inflict any wounds on their limbs: it is the mind that feels the dreadful blows. Met. 4.500Attulerat sēcum liquidī quoque mōnstra venēnī,
ōris Cerbereī spūmās et vīrus Echidnae
errōrēsque vagōs caecaeque oblīvia mentis
et scelus et lacrimās rabiemque et caedis amōrem,
omnia trīta simul;She had brought with her also monstrous liquid poisons, foam from Cerberus' mouth and the venom of Echidna, and aimless wanderings and the oblivion of a blinded mind, and crime and tears and rage and the love of slaughter, all ground together; Met. 4.504quae sanguine mīxta recentī
505coxerat aere cavō viridī versāta cicūtā.these, mixed with fresh blood, she had boiled in a hollow bronze pot, stirred with green hemlock.
Met. 4.506Dumque pavent illī, vergit furiāle venēnum
pectus in ambōrum praecordiaque intima mōvit.And while they tremble, she pours the maddening poison into the breasts of both and stirred their innermost hearts. Met. 4.508Tum face iactātā per eundem saepius orbem
cōnsequitur mōtīs vēlōciter ignibus ignēs.Then, whirling the torch again and again round the same circle, she makes fires follow fires with the swift movement. Met. 4.510Sīc victrīx iussīque potēns ad inānia magnī
regna redit Dītis sūmptumque recingitur anguem.So, victorious and having carried out her orders, she returns to the empty realm of great Dis and ungirds the snake she had put on. Met. 4.512Prōtinus Aeolidēs mediā furibundus in aulā
clāmat "iō, comitēs, hīs rētia tendite silvīs!At once the son of Aeolus, raving in the middle of the hall, shouts: 'Ho, comrades, spread the nets in these woods! Met. 4.514hīc modo cum gemina vīsa est mihi prōle leaena:"
515utque ferae sequitur vestīgia coniugis āmēns
dēque sinū mātris rīdentem et parva Learchum
bracchia tendentem rapit et bis terque per aurās
mōre rotat fundae rigidōque īnfantia saxō
discutit ōra ferōx.Here just now I saw a lioness with her twin cubs!' and, frantic, he follows the tracks of his wife as of a wild beast, and from his mother's bosom he snatches Learchus, laughing and stretching out his little arms, and two and three times whirls him through the air like a sling, and savagely dashes the infant's face on a hard rock.
Met. 4.519Tum dēnique concita māter,
520seu dolor hoc fēcit seu sparsī causa venēnī,
exululat passīsque fugit male sāna capillīs
tēque ferēns parvum nūdīs, Melicerta, lacertīs
"euhoe Bacche" sonat.Then at last the mother, roused, whether grief did this or the cause was the poison sprinkled on her, howls aloud and flees, out of her mind, with her hair streaming, and carrying you, little Melicertes, in her bare arms, she cries 'Euhoe, Bacchus!' Met. 4.523Bacchī sub nōmine Iūnō
rīsit et "hōs ūsūs praestet tibi" dīxit "alumnus."At the name of Bacchus Juno laughed and said, 'May your foster-child do you this service!' Met. 4.525Inminet aequoribus scopulus: pars īma cavātur
flūctibus et tēctās dēfendit ab imbribus undās,
summa riget frontemque in apertum porrigit aequor.A cliff overhangs the sea: its lowest part is hollowed out by the waves and shields the waters it covers from the rain; its top is stiff and stretches its brow out over the open sea. Met. 4.528Occupat hunc (vīrēs īnsānia fēcerat) Īnō,
sēque super pontum nūllō tardāta timōre
530mittit onusque suum;Ino seizes this (madness had given her strength), and, held back by no fear, throws herself and her burden over the sea; Met. 4.530percussa recanduit unda.the water, struck, foamed white.
Met. 4.531At Venus, inmeritae neptis miserāta labōrēs,
sīc patruō blandīta suō est: "Ō nūmen aquārum,
proxima cui caelō cessit, Neptūne, potestās,
magna quidem poscō, sed tū miserēre meōrum,
535iactārī quōs cernis in Īoniō inmēnsō,
et dīs adde tuīs.But Venus, pitying the undeserved sufferings of her granddaughter, coaxed her uncle thus: 'O deity of the waters, Neptune, to whom fell the power next to heaven, I ask great things indeed, but have pity on my kin, whom you see tossed on the boundless Ionian sea, and add them to your gods. Met. 4.536Aliqua et mihi grātia pontō est,
sī tamen in mediō quondam concrēta profundō
spūma fuī Grāiumque manet mihi nōmen ab illā."I too have some favour with the sea, if indeed I was once foam formed in the midst of the deep, and my Greek name remains to me from that.' Met. 4.539Adnuit ōrantī Neptūnus et abstulit illīs,
540quod mortāle fuit, maiestātemque verendam
inposuit nōmenque simul faciemque novāvit
Leucothoēque deum cum mātre Palaemona dīxit.Neptune assented to her plea and took away from them what was mortal, and put upon them a majesty to be revered, and changed both their name and their appearance, and named the god Palaemon, and his mother with him Leucothea.
Met. 4.543Sīdōniae comitēs, quantum valuēre secūtae
signa pedum, prīmō vīdēre novissima saxō;Her Sidonian companions, following the prints of her feet as far as they could, saw the last ones at the edge of the rock; Met. 4.545nec dubium dē morte ratae Cadmēida palmīs
dēplānxēre domum, scissae cum veste capillōs,
utque parum iūstae nimiumque in paelice saevae
invidiam fēcēre deae.and, thinking her death beyond doubt, they mourned the house of Cadmus with beating palms, tearing their hair along with their clothes, and they cast reproach on the goddess as too little just and too savage towards a rival. Met. 4.548Convīcia Iūnō
nōn tulit et "faciam vōs ipsās maxima" dīxit
550"saevitiae monimenta meae."Juno did not bear their abuse and said: 'I will make you yourselves the greatest monuments of my cruelty.' Met. 4.550Rēs dicta secūta est.The deed followed the word. Met. 4.551Nam quae praecipuē fuerat pia, "persequar" inquit
"in freta rēgīnam" saltumque datūra movērī
haud usquam potuit scopulōque adfīxa cohaesit.For the one who had been most devoted said, 'I will follow the queen into the sea,' and, about to make the leap, could not move anywhere, but clung fixed to the rock.
Met. 4.554Altera, dum solitō temptat plangōre ferīre
555pectora, temptātōs sēnsit riguisse lacertōs;Another, while she tries to strike her breast with the usual beating, felt the arms she tried to move grow stiff; Met. 4.556illa, manūs ut forte tetenderat in maris undās,
saxea facta manūs in eāsdem porrigit undās;one, as she had chanced to stretch out her hands towards the waves of the sea, turned to stone, stretches out her hands towards the same waves; Met. 4.558huius, ut arreptum laniābat vertice crīnem,
dūrātōs subitō digitōs in crīne vidērēs:
560quō quaeque in gestū dēprēnsa est, haesit in illō.of another, as she was tearing the hair she had seized on her head, you would have seen the fingers suddenly hardened in the hair: in whatever gesture each was caught, in that she stayed fixed. Met. 4.561Pars volucrēs factae;Some were made birds; Met. 4.561quae nunc quoque gurgite in illō
aequora dēstringunt summīs Ismēnidēs alīs.and these Theban women even now skim the surface of the waters in that gulf with their wingtips.