Met. 7.350Quod nisi pennātīs serpentibus īsset in aurās,
nōn exēmpta foret poenae.And had she not gone off into the air with her winged serpents, she would not have been spared punishment. Met. 7.351Fugit alta superque
Pēlion umbrōsum, Philyrēia tēcta, superque
Othryn et ēventū veteris loca nota Cerambī.She flees on high, over shady Pelion, the home of Philyra's son, and over Othrys and the places known for the fate of old Cerambus. Met. 7.354Hic ope nymphārum sublātus in āera pennīs,
355cum gravis īnfūsō tellūs foret obruta pontō,
Deucaliōnēās effūgit inobrutus undās.He, raised into the air on wings by the help of the nymphs, when the heavy earth was overwhelmed by the sea pouring in, escaped Deucalion's waters unoverwhelmed. Met. 7.357Aeoliam Pitanēn ā laevā parte relinquit
factaque dē saxō longī simulācra dracōnis,
Īdaeumque nemus, quō nātī fūrta, iuvencum
360occuluit Līber falsī sub imāgine cervī,
quāque pater Corythī parvā tumulātus harēnā est,
et quōs Maera novō lātrātū terruit agrōs,
Eurypylīque urbem, quā Cōae cornua mātrēs
gessērunt tum cum discēderet Herculis agmen
365Phoebēamque Rhodon et Ialysiōs Telchīnas,
quōrum oculōs ipsō vitiantēs omnia vīsū
Iuppiter exōsus frāternīs subdidit undīs.She leaves on the left Aeolian Pitane, and the image of a long serpent made of stone, and the grove of Ida, where Liber hid a bullock, his son's theft, under the likeness of a false stag, and where the father of Corythus lies buried in a little sand, and the fields which Maera terrified with her strange barking, and the city of Eurypylus, where the matrons of Cos wore horns at the time when the band of Hercules was departing, and Phoebus' Rhodes, and the Telchines of Ialysus, whose eyes, spoiling everything by their very gaze, Jupiter hated and sank beneath his brother's waters.
Met. 7.368Trānsit et antīquae Carthēia moenia Cēae,
quā pater Alcidamās placidam dē corpore nātae
370mīrātūrus erat nāscī potuisse columbam.She passes too the walls of Carthaea on ancient Cea, where the father Alcidamas was to marvel that a peaceful dove could be born from his daughter's body. Met. 7.371Inde lacūs Hyriēs videt et Cycnēia tempē,
quae subitus celebrāvit olor.Then she sees the lakes of Hyrie and Cycnean Tempe, which a sudden swan made famous. Met. 7.372Nam Phyllius illīc
imperiō puerī volucrēsque ferumque leōnem
trādiderat domitōs;For there Phyllius, at a boy's command, had handed over birds and a wild lion, tamed; Met. 7.374taurum quoque vincere iussus
375vīcerat, et sprētō totiēns īrātus amōre
praemia poscentī taurum suprēma negābat.ordered to conquer a bull too, he had conquered it, and, angry that his love was so often spurned, he was refusing the bull, the last of his prizes, to the boy as he demanded it. Met. 7.377Ille indignātus "cupiēs dare" dīxit et altō
dēsiluit saxō.The boy, indignant, said, 'You will wish you had given it,' and leapt down from a high rock.
Met. 7.378Cūnctī cecidisse putābant:
factus olor niveīs pendēbat in āere pennīs.All thought he had fallen: turned into a swan, he was hanging in the air on snowy wings. Met. 7.380At genetrīx Hyriē, servātum nescia, flendō
dēlicuit stagnumque suō dē nōmine fēcit.But his mother Hyrie, not knowing he was saved, melted away in weeping and made a lake named after herself. Met. 7.382Adiacet hīs Pleurōn, in quā trepidantibus alīs
Ophias effūgit nātōrum vulnera Combē.Next to these lies Pleuron, where on trembling wings Combe, daughter of Ophius, escaped the wounds of her sons. Met. 7.384Inde Calaurēae Lētōidos adspicit arva,
385in volucrem versī cum coniuge cōnscia rēgis.Then she looks upon the fields of Calaurea, sacred to Leto's daughter, which witnessed a king turned with his wife into a bird. Met. 7.386Dextera Cyllēnē est, in quā cum mātre Menephrōn
concubitūrus erat saevārum mōre ferārum
Cēphīson procul hinc dēflentem fāta nepōtis
respicit, in tumidam phōcēn ab Apolline versī,
390Eumēlīque domum lūgentis in āere nātum.On her right is Cyllene, where Menephron was to lie with his mother in the manner of savage beasts; far from there she looks back at Cephisus, lamenting the fate of his grandson, turned by Apollo into a bloated seal, and at the house of Eumelus, mourning his son in the air.
Met. 7.391Tandem vīpereīs Ephyrēn Pīrēnida pennīs
contigit.At last on serpent wings she reached Ephyre of Pirene. Met. 7.392Hīc aevō veterēs mortālia prīmō
corpora vulgārunt pluviālibus ēdita fungīs.Here, in the earliest age, the ancients spread the tale that mortal bodies sprang from rain-fed mushrooms. Met. 7.394Sed postquam Colchīs ārsit nova nūpta venēnīs,
395flagrantemque domum rēgis mare vīdit utrumque,
sanguine nātōrum perfunditur impius ēnsis,
ultaque sē male māter Iāsonis effūgit arma.But after the new bride burned by the Colchian's poisons, and both seas saw the king's palace blazing, her impious sword is drenched in the blood of her sons, and, having taken a wicked revenge, the mother fled from Jason's arms. Met. 7.398Hinc Tītāniacīs ablāta dracōnibus intrat
Palladiās arcēs, quae tē, iūstissima Phēnē,
400tēque, senex Peripha, pariter vīdēre volantēs
innīxamque novīs neptem Polypēmonis alīs.Carried off from here by Titanian dragons, she enters the citadel of Pallas, which saw you, most just Phene, and you, old Periphas, flying side by side, and the granddaughter of Polypemon supported on new wings. Met. 7.402Excipit hanc Aegeus, factō damnandus in ūnō;Aegeus receives her, to be condemned for this one deed; Met. 7.403nec satis hospitium est: thalamī quoque foedere iungit.nor is hospitality enough: he joins her to himself in the bond of marriage too.