BOOK VI

o make womankind sweat over their woolt threads of the warp gave them a turn round mdi to end to and fro with e away, plying the rod and to her cousin Athena the ly with wooing lips. By venly dragon, the womb of living fruit, and she bore baby, who by himself climbed is horned because Dionysos often ia. “ton a to be king of the universe. By the fierce resen of implacable Hera, the Thane cunningly smeared thie urd. faces with and while he contemplated his countenance reflected in a mirror they with an infernal knife." There where his had been cut piecemeal by the Titan steel, the end of his life was the beginning of a new life into many : now young like crafty neigh, now like an unbroken horse that lifts neck on high to shake out the imperious tooth of the bit, and rubbing, whitened his covered with scales, darting out his from his gaping throat, and leaping upon the grim head of some yertota. Compare I us vill. 27 for a similar stratagem Scorpion, tr of the Plow, encircled by the blazing Bull, ogled Aphrodite opposite with a sidelong glance ; Zeus ‘ of nightfall, the twelvemonth on the starry Fishes, having on his right the roundfaced Moon in trine; Cronos‘ passed through the into the air. cliff’ were besprinkled, the dry thirsty hills were drenched as with rivers streaming ake under his fa aay ag - apna he threw away q Saiteii tees with ateldeet! Wares in battalions swam over the flooding waves; Thetis travelled over the water on the hip of a Triton and by your — you know the veut des mst » from me if you have and wooed her with euch love-congs as he could contrive to the starry on my ¢ feet!” a er che though the I have another and voyage which Rainy not one hill was then bare—not Oxsa, not the top of Pelion. Under the roared the Tyrrhenian Sea; the Adriatic rebounded with Sicilian waters in showers of the flogging sea. The sparkling rays ves, and checked her cattle with and eet The rainwater mixed starry ba , and made the Milky Way Nile, ' his lifegiving stream through Meret War lates leech the dete h was to creep fruitful the other had lost the familiar road from above downwards. The waters had riven to it 71 i ant Heat only the of