'nam quis you iuuenum confidentissime, nostras 445
iussit domos bring? quidue hinc petis?' inquit. at ille:
'scis, Proteu, scis ipse, neque est te fallere quicquam:
sed tu desine uelle. deum praecepta secuti
uenimus hinc lassis quaesitum oracula rebus.'
tantum effatus. ad haec uates ui denique multa 450
ardentis oculos intorsit lumine glauco,
et grauiter frendens sic fatis ora resoluit:
'Non te nullius exercent numinis irae;
magna luis commissa: tibi has miserabilis Orpheus
haudquaquam ob meritum poenas, ni fata resistant, 455
suscitat, et rapta grauiter pro coniuge saeuit.
illa quidem, dum te fugeret per flumina praeceps,
immanem ante pedes hydrum moritura puella
seruantem ripas alta non uidit in herba.
at chorus aequalis Dryadum clamore supremos 460
impleuit montis; flerunt Rhodopeiae arces
altaque Pangaea et Rhesi Mauortia tellus
atque Getae atque Hebrus et Actias Orithyia.
ipse caua solans aegrum testudine amorem
te, dulcis coniunx, te solo in litore secum, 465
te ueniente die, te decedente canebat.
Taenarias etiam fauces, alta ostia Ditis,
et caligantem nigra formidine lucum
ingressus, Manisque adiit regemque tremendum
nesciaque humanis precibus mansuescere corda. 470
at cantu commotae Erebi de sedibus imis
umbrae ibant tenues simulacraque luce carentum,
quam multa in foliis auium se milia condunt,
Vesper ubi aut hibernus agit de montibus imber,
matres atque uiri defunctaque corpora uita 475
magnanimum heroum, pueri innuptaeque puellae,
impositique rogis iuuenes ante ora parentum,
quos circum limus niger et deformis harundo
Cocyti tardaque palus inamabilis unda
alligat et nouies Styx interfusa coercet. 480
quin ipsae stupuere domus atque intima Leti
Tartara caeruleosque implexae crinibus anguis
Eumenides, tenuitque inhians tria Cerberus ora,
atque Ixionii uento rota constitit orbis.
iamque pedem referens casus euaserat omnis, 485
redditaque Eurydice superas ueniebat ad auras
pone sequens (namque hanc dederat Proserpina legem),
cum subita incautum dementia cepit amantem,
ignoscenda quidem, scirent si ignoscere Manes:
restitit, Eurydicenque suam iam luce sub ipsa 490
immemor heu! uictusque animi respexit. ibi omnis
effusus labor atque immitis rupta tyranni
foedera, terque fragor stagnis auditus Auernis.
illa “quis et me” inquit “miseram et te perdidit, Orpheu,
quis tantus furor? en iterum crudelia retro 495
fata uocant, conditque natantia lumina somnus.
iamque uale: feror ingenti circumdata nocte
inualidasque tibi tendens, heu non tua, palmas.”
dixit et ex oculis subito, ceu fumus in auras
commixtus tenuis, fugit diuersa, neque illum 500
prensantem nequiquam umbras et multa uolentem
dicere praeterea uidit; nec portitor Orci
amplius obiectam passus transire paludem.
quid faceret? quo se rapta bis coniuge ferret?
quo fletu Manis, quae numina uoce moueret? 505
illa quidem Stygia nabat iam frigida cumba.
septem illum totos perhibent ex ordine mensis
rupe sub aëria deserti ad Strymonis undam
flesse sibi, et gelidis haec euoluisse sub antris
mulcentem tigris et agentem carmine quercus: 510
qualis populea maerens philomela sub umbra
amissos queritur fetus, quos durus arator
obseruans nido implumis detraxit; at illa
flet noctem, ramoque sedens miserabile carmen
integrat, et maestis late loca questibus implet. 515
nulla Venus, non ulli animum flexere hymenaei:
solus Hyperboreas glacies Tanaimque niualem
aruaque Riphaeis numquam uiduata pruinis
lustrabat, raptam Eurydicen atque inrita Ditis
dona querens. spretae Ciconum quo munere matres 520
inter sacra deum nocturnique orgia Bacchi
discerptum latos iuuenem sparsere per agros.
tum quoque marmorea caput a ceruice reuulsum
gurgite cum medio portans Oeagrius Hebrus
uolueret, Eurydicen uox ipsa et frigida lingua, 525
a miseram Eurydicen! anima fugiente uocabat:
Eurydicen toto referebant flumine ripae.'
Haec Proteus, et se iactu dedit aequor in altum,
quaque dedit, spumantem undam sub uertice torsit.
at non Cyrene, namque ultro adfata timentem: 530
'nate, licet tristis animo deponere curas.
haec omnis morbi causa, hinc miserabile Nymphae,
cum quibus illa choros lucis agitabat in altis,
exitium misere apibus. tu munera supplex
tende petens pacem, et facilis uenerare Napaeas; 535
namque dabunt ueniam uotis, irasque remittent.
sed modus orandi qui sit prius ordine dicam:
quattuor eximios praestanti corpore tauros,
qui tibi nunc uiridis depascunt summa Lycaei,
delige, et intacta totidem ceruice iuuencas. 540
quattuor his aras alta ad delubra dearum
constitue, et sacrum iugulis demitte cruorem,
corporaque ipsa boum frondoso desere luco.
post, ubi nona suos Aurora ostenderit ortus,
inferias Orphei Lethaea papauera mittes 545
et nigram mactabis ouem, lucumque reuises;
placatam Eurydicen uitula uenerabere caesa.'
haud mora, continuo matris praecepta facessit:
ad delubra uenit, monstratas excitat aras,
quattuor eximios praestanti corpore tauros 550
ducit et intacta totidem ceruice iuuencas.
post, ubi nona suos Aurora induxerat ortus,
inferias Orphei mittit, lucumque reuisit.
hic uero subitum ac dictu mirabile monstrum
aspiciunt, liquefacta boum per uiscera toto 555
stridere apes utero et ruptis efferuere costis,
immensasque trahi nubes, iamque arbore summa
confluere et lentis uuam demittere ramis.
Haec super aruorum cultu pecorumque canebam
et super arboribus, Caesar dum magnus ad altum 560
fulminat Euphraten bello uictorque uolentis
per populos dat iura uiamque adfectat Olympo.
illo Vergilium me tempore dulcis alebat
Parthenope studiis florentem ignobilis oti,
carmina qui lusi pastorum audaxque iuuenta, 565
Tityre, te patulae cecini sub tegmine fagi.
'Chi, chi mai ti spinse, giovane audace, / a venire da me? e qui cosa cerchi?'
'Ma tu lo sai, Pròteo, lo sai', rispose, / non è possibile ingannarti;
cessa tu di volerlo fare. / Seguendo ordini divini, / qui vengo a chiedere presagi per la mia sventura'. / Questo disse, e a queste parole, exasperated / guess it twisted his eyes in a flash of green / and gnashing of teeth by force, / opened her lips to the future:
'Certainly, the wrath of a god persecute you; / grave sins you discounts.
Against you, if fate does not object, / Orpheus unwittingly unhappy / causes your punishment
and rages at the loss of his wife.
Racing at breakneck speed along a river, / Eurydice, now marked by death, / to escape, he saw the snake
monster lurking among the thick grass on the shore.
And the chorus of her fellow nymphs / moans filled the highest mountains, / cried the tops of the Rhodopes, the high
Pangea, / Made of earth warrior,
cried the Geats, the Ebro, the Orita Attic.
And Orpheus, the lyre looking for comfort / love lost,
you, sweet wife, to you / on the deserted beach, you just sang
to be born and to die the day.
Then came the grooves of Tenaro, / the deep gate of Dis,
and in the forest where the darkness / fear thickens,
came to Mani and to their king tremendous
those who are not gentle to human prayers .
And from the most profound of Erebus, / touched by his hand,
were read from the shadows, dull images of the dead:
thousands, / like birds perched among the leaves, when the evening
or rain Winter / them away from the mountains;
women, men, and now devoid of life, / the bodies of heroes generous, / and children, without love girls / young people and burned at the stake before
parents
now the black mud, the reeds of Cocytus ugly / repulsive and a marsh / with its lazy waters around them and with nine laps
Styx tighten them. / Until the heart of Tartarus,
the abodes of death, as far as the Eumenides
/ hair braided with livid snakes
swept the wonder, / silent with the three remained open mouths
Cerberus /
with the wind and stopped the wheel Ixion. / But by Orpheus, eluded every danger,
retrace his steps / free and Euridice
saliva to revise the sky, / followed behind him, / as ordered Proserpine, / when no remedy / sudden madness overcame him, / forgivable, of course, / if they knew the hands forgive: / Still, now approaching the light, / won by love, / his Eurydice turned to look enchanted. / So the hard work thrown away, / violated the law of the ruthless tyrant, or three times we heard a roar / swamps Averno.
She said, 'Alas, Orpheus, / those who have lost / what folly?
mercilessly
and fate calls me back a sleep of death glider lost my eyes.
And now farewell: around one night
absorbs me and you, no more yours, inert reach out my hands'.
said and suddenly vanished into thin air, / like smoke which dissolves in the cool air, / and could not see
while his inexhaustible desire to speak in vain
hugging the shadows, / but not the pilot Orc
allowed him to spend more beyond the marsh.
What to do? Where to go, now lost, / lost his wife?
With tears that moved the shadows, / with the voice of that?
Of course, now cold / she sailed on the boat of the Styx. They say that for seven months
/ Orpheus
crying restlessly under a cliff overlooking / on the deserted bank of the Struma,
and tell his troubles / below the freezing star
tame tigers / hand and dragging with the oaks. So
plagued the nightingale / claims in the shade of a poplar tree, the loss of children, / a yokel cruel
with the snare was removed from the nest featherless, / crying in the night, from a branch
repeats his song Regretfully and filling every place around / with the melancholy of his complaint.
No love, / no lure of wedding / bent the heart.
only went over the frozen north / and the snows of the Tana, the mountains of Thrace
oppressed by the eternal frost,
lamenting the death of Eurydice, / Tell the gift useless. And the women of
Cicones offended by that regret, during the nightly revels
the rites of Bacchus,
scattered his limbs torn fields.
But even then, when in the midst of the Ebro eddies
dragging on the wave / her head severed from his neck ivory / voice now clotted throat
'Eurydice' name, while the soul fled, / ' or poor Eurydice '. And all along the river / repeating the banks 'Euridice'. This
said Proteus, and with a jump / sank into the sea, where it plunged and
/ turned the water in the eddies of foam.
building at his side, / Cyrene turned to his son stunned:
'My son, clears the mind from sad thoughts.
Here is the cause of all evil, / for what the nymphs (and their Euridice / wove dance into the secret of the woods)
sent her to the bees that massacre. / With humility, asking for peace, / Please offer him gifts and the pitiful Nape:
votes to grant the pardon / and will lay down the anger.
But first I shall tell you how to pray. Choose from all your
, / grazing on the top of Green High School, four bulls
vigorous body, / the best, and as many heifers / not yet tamed.
Up to four of them are /
near the shrines of the goddesses and the blood flowing from the throats is sacred,
abandoning their bodies in the wood.
Then, at the beginning of the ninth dawn, / offer to Orpheus, as a gift funeral / Poppies of Lethe
and sacrificed a black sheep, / then back into the woods,
now subsided and Euridice / honor sacrificing a cow '. Without delay Aristeo / follows the advice of his mother go sanctuary
, shrugs are prescribed / leads by four bulls vigorous body, / the best, and as many heifers
not yet tamed;
then the rise of the ninth dawn, / offers the gift of the funeral and return to Orpheus in the woods.
And here suddenly appears an incredible miracle: / defeats in the bowels of the animals / the whole belly the bees buzzing, crawling
hips open /
leaving in huge swarms and collect on top of a tree,
hang in clusters from the curve branches. This
sang on the practice field, / animal and around the trees, / while away on the banks of the Euphrates, / the great Caesar electrocution at war / and winner of that law to the people waiting, / opening the way for the Olympians. / I was living then in the enchantment of Partenope /
cultivating the pleasure of hanging apart, / I, Virgil, I, that the pace of the shepherds
I improvised, / Singing, with the boldness of youth,
TITIRO shade welcoming of a beech.
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