Met. 8.547Intereā Thēseus sociātī parte labōris
fūnctus Erechtheās Trītōnidos ībat ad arcēs.Meanwhile Theseus, having done his part in the shared labour, was going to the Erechthean citadel of the Tritonian goddess. Met. 8.549Clausit iter fēcitque morās Achelōus euntī
550imbre tumēns.Achelous, swollen with rain, blocked his way and caused him delay as he went. Met. 8.550"Succēde meīs," ait "inclite, tēctīs,
Cecropida, nec tē committe rapācibus undīs:
ferre trabēs solidās oblīquaque volvere magnō
murmure saxa solent.'Come under my roof, famous son of Cecrops,' he says, 'and do not trust yourself to the greedy waters: they are accustomed to carry solid tree-trunks and to roll boulders sideways with a great roar. Met. 8.553Vīdī contermina rīpae
cum gregibus stabula alta trahī: nec fortibus illīc
555prōfuit armentīs, nec equīs vēlōcibus esse.I have seen tall stables bordering the bank swept away together with their flocks: there it was no use for the herds to be strong, nor for the horses to be swift. Met. 8.556Multa quoque hic torrēns nivibus dē monte solūtīs
corpora turbineō iuvenālia flūmine mersit.This torrent too, when the snows melt from the mountain, has drowned many young bodies in its whirling flood.
Met. 8.558Tūtior est requiēs, solitō dum flūmina currant
līmite, dum tenuēs capiat suus alveus undās."It is safer to rest, until the river runs within its usual bounds, until its own channel holds its thin waters.' Met. 8.560Adnuit Aegīdēs, "ūtar" que "Achelōe, domōque
cōnsiliōque tuō" respondit;The son of Aegeus assented and replied: 'I shall make use, Achelous, of your house and your advice'; Met. 8.561et ūsus utrōque est.and he made use of both. Met. 8.562Pūmice multicavō nec levibus ātria tōphīs
strūcta subit: mollī tellūs erat ūmida muscō,
summa lacūnābant alternō mūrice conchae.He enters halls built of porous pumice and rough tufa: the floor was moist with soft moss, and shells, alternating with murex, panelled the ceiling. Met. 8.565Iamque duās lūcis partēs Hyperīone mēnsō
discubuēre torīs Thēseus comitēsque labōrum:
hāc Īxīonidēs, illā Troezēnius hērōs
parte Lelex, rārīs iam sparsus tempora cānīs,
quōsque aliōs parilī fuerat dignātus honōre
570amnis Acarnānum, laetissimus hospite tantō.And now, when Hyperion had measured out two parts of the daylight, Theseus and the companions of his labours reclined on couches: on this side the son of Ixion, on that the Troezenian hero Lelex, his temples now sprinkled with scattered grey hairs, and others whom the river of the Acarnanians had thought worthy of equal honour, delighted with so great a guest.
Met. 8.571Prōtinus adpositās nūdae vestīgia nymphae
īnstrūxēre epulīs mēnsās dapibusque remōtīs
in gemmā posuēre merum.At once barefoot nymphs set the tables placed beside them with feasts, and when the food was removed they set down wine in jewelled cups. Met. 8.573Tum maximus hērōs,
aequora prōspiciēns oculīs subiecta, "quis" inquit
575"ille locus?"Then the greatest hero, looking out over the waters lying below his eyes, said: 'What is that place?' Met. 8.575digitōque ostendit, "et īnsula nōmen
quod gerit illa, docē: quamquam nōn ūna vidētur."and pointed with his finger, 'and tell me what name that island bears: though it does not seem to be one.' Met. 8.577Amnis ad haec "nōn est" inquit "quod cernitis, ūnum:
quīnque iacent terrae: spatium discrīmina fallit.To this the river said: 'What you see is not one: five lands lie there; the distance hides the divisions. Met. 8.579Quōque minus sprētae factum mīrēre Diānae,
580nāidēs hae fuerant.And so that you may wonder less at what scorned Diana did, these were once Naiads. Met. 8.580Quae cum bis quīnque iuvencōs
mactāssent rūrisque deōs ad sacra vocāssent,
inmemorēs nostrī fēstās dūxēre chorēās.When they had sacrificed twice five bullocks and called the gods of the countryside to the rites, forgetting me they led their festal dances.
Met. 8.583Intumuī, quantusque feror, cum plūrimus umquam,
tantus eram, pariterque animīs inmānis et undīs
585ā silvīs silvās et ab arvīs arva revellī
cumque locō nymphās, memorēs tum dēnique nostrī,
in freta prōvolvī.I swelled up, and as great as I am when I flow at my fullest, so great was I, and, monstrous alike in fury and in flood, I tore woods from woods and fields from fields, and rolled the nymphs, who then at last remembered me, together with their ground into the sea. Met. 8.587Flūctus nosterque marisque
continuam dīdūxit humum partēsque resolvit
in totidem, mediīs quot cernis Echīnadas undīs.My waves and the sea's split apart the continuous land and broke it into as many parts as the Echinades you see in the midst of the waves. Met. 8.590Ut tamen ipse vidēs, procul ēn procul ūna recessit
īnsula, grāta mihi;Yet, as you see yourself, far, look, far off one island has drawn away, dear to me; Met. 8.591Perimēlēn nāvita dīcit.the sailor calls it Perimele. Met. 8.592Huic ego virgineum dīlēctae nōmen adēmī.From her, whom I loved, I took the name of maiden.
Met. 8.593Quod pater Hippodamās aegrē tulit inque profundum
prōpulit ē scopulō peritūrae corpora nātae.Her father Hippodamas took this hard, and pushed the body of his daughter, to her death, from a cliff into the deep. Met. 8.595Excēpī nantemque ferēns "ō proxima mundī
regna vagae" dīxī "sortīte, tridentifer, undae,
adfer opem mersaeque precor, feritāte paternā
dā, Neptūne, locum;I caught her, and bearing her as she swam, I said: "O trident-bearer, who won by lot the realm of the wandering waves, next to the heavens, bring help, and, I pray, to her who was drowned by a father's savagery, Neptune, grant a place; Met. 8.602vel sit locus ipsa licēbit."or let her be a place herself." Met. 8.609Dum loquor, amplexa est artūs nova terra natantēs,While I speak, new land embraced her swimming limbs,