Apuleius Metamorphoses 5.28
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- Translated by E.J. Kenney vs A.S. Kline (Right)
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Meanwhile , as Psyche was scouring the earth , bent on her search for Cupid , he lay groaning with the pain of the burn in his mother’s chamber . At this point a tern , that pure white bird which skims over the sea-waves in its flight , plunged down swiftly to the very bottom of the sea .
Interim , dum Psyche quaestioni Cupidinis intenta populos circumibat , ille vulnere lucernae dolens in ipso thalamo matris iacens ingemebat . Tunc avis peralba illa gavia , quae super fluctus marinos pinnis natat , demergit sese propere ad Oceani profundum gremium .
Psyche wandered through the land , seeking Cupid , while he lay in his mother’s chamber groaning with pain from his scorched shoulder . Meanwhile a snow-white bird , the seagull that skims the surface of the sea , dived swiftly beneath the ocean waves .