Project 2: Metamorphoses 5.23
Allie Bolton /
- Created on 2018-11-23 22:44:40
- Modified on 2018-12-05 17:33:14
- Translated by Kline
- Aligned by Allie Bolton
I chose this because it's my favorite part of the story and I doubt we will get to this part by the end of the semester.
Latin
English
urn:cts:latinLit:phi1212.phi002.perseus-lat1:5.23
quae dum insatiabili animo Psyche , satis et curiosa , rimatur atque pertrectat et mariti sui miratur arma , depromit unam de pharetra sagittam et puncto pollicis extremam aciem periclitabunda frementis etiam nunc articuli nisu fortiore pupugit altius , ut per summam cutem roraverint parvulae sanguinis rosei guttae : sic ignara Psyche sponte in Amoris incidit amorem . Tunc magis magisque cupidine flagrans Cupidinis , prona in eum efflictim inhians , patulis ac petulantibus saviis festinanter ingestis , de somni mensura metuebat . Sed dum bono tanto percita saucia mente fluctuat , lucerna illa , sive perfidia pessima sive invidia noxia sive quod tale corpus contingere et quasi basiare et ipsa gestiebat , evomuit de summa luminis sui stillam ferventis olei super humerum dei dexterum : hem audax et temeraria lucerna et amoris vile ministerium , ipsum ignis totius deum aduris , cum te , scilicetamator aliquis , ut diutius cupitis etiam nocte potiretur primus invenerit ! Sic inustus exiluit deus visaque detectae fidei colluvie prorsus ex osculis et manibus
With
insatiable
curiosity
Psyche
examined
,
touched
,
wondered
at
her
husband’s weapons . She drew an arrow from the quiver , testing the point
against her thumb-tip , but her hand was still trembling and pressing too
hard she pricked the surface , so that tiny drops of crimson blood moistened
the skin . Thus without knowing it Psyche fell further in love with Love
himself , so that now inflamed with desire for Desire , she leaned over
Cupid , desperate for him . She covered him eagerly with passionate
impetuous kisses till she feared she might wake him . Then as her wounded
heart beat with the tremor of such bliss , the lamp , in wicked treachery , or
malicious jealousy , or simply longing to touch and kiss , in some fashion ,
that wondrous body , shed a drop of hot oil from the depths of its flame on
to the god’s right shoulder . O bold and careless lamp , a poor servant to
Love , scorching the god of flame himself , though a lover it was who first
invented you so as to enjoy , even at night , an endless sight of his beloved !
Scalded like this the god leapt up , and realising his secret had been
betrayed , flew swiftly and silently from his unhappy wife’s kisses and
embrace .
husband’s weapons . She drew an arrow from the quiver , testing the point
against her thumb-tip , but her hand was still trembling and pressing too
hard she pricked the surface , so that tiny drops of crimson blood moistened
the skin . Thus without knowing it Psyche fell further in love with Love
himself , so that now inflamed with desire for Desire , she leaned over
Cupid , desperate for him . She covered him eagerly with passionate
impetuous kisses till she feared she might wake him . Then as her wounded
heart beat with the tremor of such bliss , the lamp , in wicked treachery , or
malicious jealousy , or simply longing to touch and kiss , in some fashion ,
that wondrous body , shed a drop of hot oil from the depths of its flame on
to the god’s right shoulder . O bold and careless lamp , a poor servant to
Love , scorching the god of flame himself , though a lover it was who first
invented you so as to enjoy , even at night , an endless sight of his beloved !
Scalded like this the god leapt up , and realising his secret had been
betrayed , flew swiftly and silently from his unhappy wife’s kisses and
embrace .