{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/ovid/lboo/lbool47.htm","path":"cla/ovid/lboo/lbool47.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid/lboo/lbool47.htm","text":"'Nox erat, et somnus lassos submisit ocellos;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0terruerunt animum talia visa meum:\nColle sub aprico creberrimus ilice lucus\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0stabat, et in ramis multa latebat avis.\narea gramineo suberat viridissima prato,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0umida de guttis lene sonantis aquae.\nipse sub arboreis vitabam frondibus aestum -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0fronde sub arborea sed tamen aestus erat -- \necce! petens variis inmixtas floribus herbas\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0constitit ante oculos candida vacca meos,\ncandidior nivibus, tunc cum cecidere recentes,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in liquidas nondum quas mora vertit aquas;\ncandidior, quod adhuc spumis stridentibus albet\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0et modo siccatam, lacte, reliquit ovem.\ntaurus erat comes huic, feliciter ille maritus,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 cumque sua teneram coniuge pressit humum.\nDum iacet et lente revocatas ruminat herbas\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0atque iterum pasto pascitur ante cibo,\nvisus erat, somno vires adimente ferendi,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cornigerum terra deposuisse caput.\nhuc levibus cornix pinnis delapsa per auras\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0venit et in viridi garrula sedit humo,\nterque bovis niveae petulanti pectora rostro\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0fodit et albentis abstulit ore iubas.\nilla locum taurumque diu cunctata relinquit -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sed niger in vaccae pectore livor erat;\nutque procul vidit carpentes pabula tauros -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0carpebant tauri pabula laeta procul -- \nilluc se rapuit gregibusque inmiscuit illis\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0et petiit herbae fertilioris humum.\nDic age, nocturnae, quicumque es, imaginis augur,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0siquid habent veri, visa quid ista ferant.'\nSic ego; nocturnae sic dixit imaginis augur,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0expendens animo singula dicta suo:\n'Quem tu mobilibus foliis vitare volebas,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sed male vitabas, aestus amoris erat. \nvacca puella tua est -- aptus color ille puellae;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0tu vir et in vacca conpare taurus eras.\npectora quod rostro cornix fodiebat acuto,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ingenium dominae lena movebat anus.\nquod cunctata diu taurum sua vacca reliquit,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0frigidus in viduo destituere toro.\nlivor et adverso maculae sub pectore nigrae\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pectus adulterii labe carere negant.'\nDixerat interpres. gelido mihi sanguis ab ore\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0fugit, et ante oculos nox stetit alta meos.","title":"The Love Books of Ovid: ELEGY V: A Dream.","type":"page"}