
Hellenic · Dionysiaca, Vol. I · 2 of 15
BOOK II
Nonnus, tr. W.H.D. Rouse (1940)
now the shepherd's reed breathing melody t, and a mantling shadow of cloud hid the as he cut off his tune. Typhocus rushed headwith the of battle into the cave's recesses, searched hurried madness for the windleapt upon Olympos. track with enaky oot, under et; the flanks of auros crashed with a rumbling din, until the Pamphylian hills danced with fear ; the caverns boomed, the rocky headlands ae ©, 5 thrust of his carthshaking foot loosened Rawravening made « meal for the jaws of Ty- Seceeasiiened by the piping jaws of his own mee the vc dns se drank the wate The plant is really « flag or tris. a This refers to the contest between Athena and Poxeidon for the city. Fach was to offer a gift; Poseidon gave the q meee tee poeten By the dry leaves of whirtsong, and lamented far more bitterly than for his a chathors of Am flowers, when the laure! by his SRDS RES Tas Pephies ele cope when ber he Sena Pel tid bathe dust and tose ned long over the ed bush we vere Shipme! cut no timbers my tree, eguer that may feel the billows of the Sea! Yes, woodcutter, grant Pate Hallie His iF Fi be it nay PTE HE He Hina Hasan itty as the heights of Olympos he air with umbler, and tearing iechading the bbermder aleout morn and mythological gods give sighs iit HE Hatt apt 3 a lesa tain matte faa is her comstant attercdant), only a father, Athena, whose gone a-wandering, and for bold Eros has flown generative arrows, he all-mastering, the un- Hera, though she hates me sure Hephaistos has left his hat never be ness.” I wish to er to come back into noe a — is =, cll at i aiila you and your of chikbirth to vec Will she stretch out her to me, and then Hildfiti? JPME OF OF he rad PHI sitet ee a, a Rteae sith: ue : he sth is an oo Vriaat He ENE and Ephialtes, who shut up Ares in « brasen of i Hireua aay regular ritual of Lridanon, be ewallowed his children.
ie a con of Parth: Hesiod, Tivei Hivtiilid ; pase is ree 4 were wits, ‘lags Pee, et aone his own Rout and Terror his servant," the with the error he made strong with the Ying Typhon. Vietory lifted her shield and held it before Zeus: E.nvo countered with a shout, and Ares made the team of the winds. Now he battled with new poured out petrified masses of frozen hail in showers, Waterspouts burst thick upon the 's beads with sharp blows, and hands were cut off from the monster by the froecn volle of the air as by « knife. One hand rolled in t dust, struck off by the icy cut of the hail; it did not en Nan, War Senge on eytn whe it rolling over the ground in self-propelled a mad! as if it still wished to strike the vault of Olym as it « eenes Ephedra mountains, and threw these d parcels of the streams rst the lightning. But the ethereal flame with with many an thunderbolt struck it, and half-consumed, #« blazed.
j UiRsdecasteen TLE iting it eae HER fall li ory with a roll of thunder ; from heaven, stricken with a warmore than steel, and lay with his mother, stretching his snaky taunted him like this in a flood old Cronos found in you, Earth could scarcely bring forth that serene os! A jolly pion of Titans ! The of Zew soon lost their power to heaven; if : pwn nde? hee, ronal 409 return to the sky, and Crom in the train that chains, and come with you; the bold bird who makes gt Sayan off that rejuvenescent liver shall show him way to heaven. What did you want to gain y your riot, but to see Zeus and Farthshaker : men behind throne? Well, here have Zeus of his rms and his clouds, holding up the 's fire divine or the familiar thunderbolt, but a torch for Typhaon’s bower, groom era the bride of your spear, whom he cyes with wrath, jealous of Salar bad tous crags ? Deo you flog no longer the mazy circles of the stars? Do the jutting tusks of your boars no longer whiten their chins, wet with a frill of foamy Come now, where are the bristling grinbe . give place to the sons of heaven!
or I with one hand have vanquished your hands, two hundred strong. Let three-headland Sicily receive Typhon whole and entire, let her crush him all about under her steep and lofty hillk, with the hair heads miserably bedabbled in dust. did have an over-violent mind, phe at paanitort tower ti build you a cenotaph, pre- Then Cilician Tauros brayed a vichis stony trumpet for Zeus Almighty, on his watery feet, cryto make S with the acinetiel Dunnam, alana HE eee bef ai ADDITIONAL NOTE TO BOOK HE ie A” gals ? in the smooth water rece Helle fell off the golden ram's back there, hence of the Chalcklic peninsula. werd in the m