Latin Apollo And Daphne

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horridus observo. nescis, temeraria, nescis,

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You don’t know, o thoughtless one, you don’t know whom you

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quem fugias, ideoque fugis: mihi Delphica tellus

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flee, and therefore you flee: to me the land of the Delphi

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et Claros et Tenedos Patareaque regia servit;

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and Claros and Tenedos and the royal palace of Patara are devoted;

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Iuppiter est genitor; per me, quod eritque fuitque

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Jupiter is my father: what will be, was, and is

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estque, patet; per me concordant carmina nervis.

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is revealed through me; through me songs harmonize with strings

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certa quidem nostra est, nostra tamen una sagitta

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Indeed our arrow is sure, yet surer than ours

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certior, in vacuo quae vulnera pectore fecit!

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the one arrow which has made wounds in my empty heart

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inventum medicina meum est, opiferque per orbem

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Medicine is my invention, and I'm said aid-bringer through

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dicor, et herbarum subiecta potentia nobis.

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the world, even power of plants was put under our

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ei mihi, quod nullīs amor est sanabilis herbīs

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Woe to me, because love is curable by no herbs

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nec prosunt domino, quae prosunt omnibus, artēs!”

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nor the skills which benefit all benefit their master!”

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Plura locuturum timido Peneia cursu

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With fearful running, Daphne fled him about to say more,

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fugit cumque ipso verba inperfecta reliquit,

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and she left the unfinished words with him himself;

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tum quoque visa decens; nudabant corpora venti,

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then also she seemed graceful, the winds were exposing her body,

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obviaque adversas vibrabant flamina vestes,

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and her garments were fluttering exposed to opposing breezes,

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et levis inpulsos retro dabat aura capillos,

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and a light breeze was giving her hair driven back,

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auctaque forma fugā est. sed enim non sustinet ultra

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and beauty was increased in flight. But indeed, the young man god

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perdere blanditias iuvenis deus, utque monebat

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doesn't endure to further waste his flatteries, and as Love himself

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ipse Amor, admisso sequitur vestigia passu.

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warned, he pursues her footprints with his stride let go.

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ut canis in vacuo leporem cum Gallicus arvo

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As when a Gallic dog has seen a hare in an empty field

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vidit, et hic praedam pedibus petit, ille salutem;

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and this one seeks prey with its feet, that one safety;

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alter inhaesuro similis iam iamque tenere

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one like one about to grasp, now and now hopes to hold it,

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sperat et extento stringit vestigia rostro,

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and grazes its footprints with his stretched-out snout

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alter in ambiguo est, an sit conprensus, et ipsis

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the other is in doubt, whether he was caught, and snatches

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morsibus eripitur tangentiaque ora relinquit:

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himself from the very jaws, and escapes the touching mouth:

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sic deus et virgo est hic spe celer, illa timore.

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thus god and maiden; he is swift with hope, she with fear.

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qui tamen insequitur pennis adiutus Amoris,

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Yet helped by the wings of Love, he who pursues

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ocior est requiemque negat tergoque fugacis

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is the swifter and denies her respite and overhangs the back

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inminet et crinem sparsum cervicibus adflat.

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of the fleeing one and blows on her hair spread on her neck

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viribus absumptis expalluit illa citaeque

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With her strengths spent she paled and having been conquered

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victa labore fugae spectans Peneidas undas

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by the effort of swift flight, watching the waves of Peneus

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“fer, pater,” inquit “opem! si flumina numen habetis,

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she said, “Father bring help! O Rivers, if you have divinity

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qua nimium placui, mutando perde figuram!”

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destroy my shape by which I’ve pleased too much, by changing

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vix prece finitā torpor gravis occupat artūs,

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Having barely finished the prayer, a heavy numbness seizes her limbs,

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mollia cinguntur tenui praecordia libro,

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her soft breasts are girded by thin bark,

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in frondem crinēs, in ramos bracchia crescunt,

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her hair grows into foliage, her arms into branches

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pes modo tam velox pigris radicibus haeret,

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her foot, just now so swift, clings by sluggish roots

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ora cacumen habet: remanet nitor unus in illa.

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her face has the top of a tree: a single splendor remains in her.

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Hanc quoque Phoebus amat positāque in stipite dextrā

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Apollo loves this one too and with a right hand placed on the

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sentit adhuc trepidare novo sub cortice pectus

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trunk feels that her heart still trembles under the new bark,

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complexusque suis ramos ut membra lacertis

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and having embraced the branches as limbs with his own arms

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oscula dat ligno; refugit tamen oscula lignum.

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he gives the wood kisses, and the wood shrinks from the kisses

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cui deus “at, quoniam coniunx mea non potes esse,

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The god said to her, since you can't be my bride, at least

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arbor eris certe” dixit “mea! semper habebunt

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you will certainly be my tree! My hair(s) will always have you

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te coma, te citharae, te nostrae, laure, pharetrae;

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my lyres [will have you], my quivers [will have you], o Laurel;

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tu ducibus Latiis aderis, cum laeta Triumphum

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You will be present for the Roman generals when a happy voice

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vox canet et visent longās Capitolia pompās;

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will sing Triumph, and the Capitoline will see long processions

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postibus Augustīs eadem fidissima custos

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the same most loyal guard, by the Augustan doorposts

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ante forēs stabīs mediamque tuebere quercum,

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before doors you'll stand and protect the middle of the oak garland,

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utque meum intonsīs caput est iuvenale capillīs,

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and as my head is worn with unshorn hair

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tu quoque perpetuōs semper gere frondis honorēs!”

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you also, bear always the everlasting praise of your foliage!”

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finierat Paean: factis modo laurea ramis

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Apollo had finished: The Laurel nodded with her made branches

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adnuit utque caput visa est agitasse cacumen.

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and she seemed to have shaken her treetop as though a head.