Met. 6.675Hic dolor ante diem longaeque extrēma senectae
tempora Tartareās Pandīona mīsit ad umbrās.This grief sent Pandion to the Tartarean shades before his day and before the final season of a long old age. Met. 6.677Scēptra locī rērumque capit moderāmen Erechtheus,
iūstitiā dubium validīsne potentior armīs.Erechtheus takes the sceptre of the place and the governance of affairs, a man of whom it was doubtful whether he was mightier in justice or in strong arms. Met. 6.679Quattuor ille quidem iuvenēs totidemque creārat
680fēmineae sortis: sed erat pār fōrma duārum.He had begotten four young men and as many of the female sex: but two were equal in beauty. Met. 6.681Ē quibus Aeolidēs Cephalus tē coniuge fēlīx,
Procri, fuit;Of these, Cephalus, grandson of Aeolus, was happy with you as his wife, Procris; Met. 6.682Boreae Tēreus Thrācēsque nocēbant,
dīlēctāque diū caruit deus Ōrīthyiā,
dum rogat et precibus māvult quam vīribus ūtī.Tereus and the Thracians stood in Boreas' way, and the god long went without his beloved Orithyia, while he entreats and prefers to use prayers rather than force.
Met. 6.685Ast ubi blanditiīs agitur nihil, horridus īrā,
quae solita est illī nimiumque domestica ventō,
"et meritō!"But when nothing is achieved by coaxing, bristling with anger, which is customary and all too familiar to that wind, 'And rightly so!' Met. 6.687dīxit: "quid enim mea tēla relīquī,
saevitiam et vīrēs īramque animōsque minācēs,
admōvīque precēs, quārum mē dēdecet ūsus?he said: 'for why have I abandoned my own weapons, savagery and strength and anger and threatening passions, and turned to prayers, whose use does not become me? Met. 6.690Apta mihi vīs est: vī trīstia nūbila pellō,
vī freta concutiō nōdōsaque rōbora vertō
indūrōque nivēs et terrās grandine pulsō.Force suits me: by force I drive the gloomy clouds, by force I shake the seas and overturn knotty oaks and harden snows and pelt the lands with hail. Met. 6.693Īdem ego cum frātrēs caelō sum nactus apertō
(nam mihi campus is est), tantō mōlīmine luctor,
695ut medius nostrīs concursibus īnsonet aethēr
exsiliantque cavīs ēlīsī nūbibus ignēs.I too, when I have met my brothers in the open sky (for that is my field), wrestle with such effort that the midst of the sky resounds with our clashes and fires leap out, struck from the hollow clouds.
Met. 6.697Īdem ego cum subiī convexa forāmina terrae
supposuīque ferōx īmīs mea terga cavernīs,
sollicitō mānēs tōtumque tremōribus orbem.I too, when I have entered the vaulted hollows of the earth and fiercely set my back beneath the deepest caverns, trouble the ghosts and the whole world with tremors. Met. 6.700Hāc ope dēbueram thalamōs petiisse, socerque
nōn ōrandus erat, vī sed faciendus Erechtheus."With this help I ought to have sought marriage, and Erechtheus should not have been begged to be my father-in-law, but made one by force.' Met. 6.702Haec Boreās aut hīs nōn īnferiōra locūtus
excussit pennās: quārum iactātibus omnis
adflāta est tellūs lātumque perhorruit aequor.Saying these things, or things no weaker than these, Boreas shook out his wings: with their beating the whole earth was blasted and the wide sea shuddered. Met. 6.705Pulvereamque trahēns per summa cacūmina pallam
verrit humum pavidamque metū cālīgine tēctus
Ōrīthyian amāns fulvīs amplectitur alīs.And trailing his dusty mantle over the highest peaks he sweeps the ground, and, hidden in darkness, the lover enfolds Orithyia, trembling with fear, in his tawny wings.
Met. 6.708Dum volat, ārsērunt agitātī fortius ignēs.As he flies, the fires, stirred up, burned more strongly. Met. 6.709Nec prius āeriī cursūs suppressit habēnās,
710quam Ciconum tenuit populōs et moenia raptor.Nor did the ravisher check the reins of his airy course before he reached the peoples and walls of the Cicones. Met. 6.711Illīc et gelidī coniūnx Actaea tyrannī
et genetrīx facta est, partūs ēnīxa gemellōs,
cētera quī mātris, pennās genitōris habērent.There the Athenian girl became both wife of the icy tyrant and mother, bringing forth twin offspring, who had the rest of their mother but the wings of their father. Met. 6.714Nōn tamen hās ūnā memorant cum corpore nātās,
715barbaque dum rutilīs aberat subnīxa capillīs,
implūmēs Calaisque puer Zētēsque fuērunt.Yet they say these were not born together with their bodies, and, while the beard was absent beneath their reddish hair, Calais and Zetes were boys without feathers. Met. 6.717Mox pariter pennae rītū coepēre volucrum
cingere utrumque latus, pariter flāvēscere mālae.Soon, together, wings began to encircle both their sides in the manner of birds, together their cheeks began to turn golden.
Met. 6.719Ergō ubi concessit tempus puerīle iuventae,
720vellera cum Minyīs nitidō radiantia villō
per mare nōn notum prīmā petiēre carīnā.So when boyhood gave way to youth, with the Minyans they sought the fleece radiant with its shining wool, over an unknown sea in the first ship.