“they frequent the woods for a bedroom and terrifying to
the other lions, they tamely press by means of teeth on the bit of their master Cybele.
This you must flee, dear to me, and with all these types of savage beasts 705
that do not turn for escape, but present their chest to fight.
Lest your courage be detrimental to us both!”
She warned him and hurries to journey through the air by joined swans
but his courage stands opposite her warning.
By chance the dogs having followed the clear path 710
roused the pig from it’s hiding place, and preparing to exit the woods
the young Adonis pierced it with a slanted blow:
it shook off the blood tinted spear immediately from it’s snout
and seeking the nervous boy from the safe place
the savage boar attacks and he buries the whole tusk into his groin 715
and dying he is laid out on the yellow sand.
Venus, having been carried in a light chariot through the middle of the heavens
had not arrived at Cyprus by the wings of her swans,
and she recognized the groans of the dying boy from afar
and turns the white birds to there, and when she sees from the air 720
his body bloody and lifeless throwing itself around
she jumped down and she both ripped her toga and her hair equally
and she beat her breast with her unworthy palms
with fate having been protested she said, “but, however, not all laws will be yours.
the monuments of my grief will remain for Adonis, and the image of death having been called back will finish the annual imitations of our wailing;
but the blood will have been changed into a flower. can it be that
it is permitted formerly by you, Persephone, to turn womanly limbs
into fragrant mint: will the transformation of the hero Adonis be judged to us?” 730
having said thus she sprinkled the blood with sweet fragrance which, having been soaked
by her, swelled up as a transparent bubble is in the habit to rise in yellow mud
for not more than a full hour is delay having been made, when a flower rose the same 735
color as blood, of the sort which pomegranates are accustomed
to carry, clinging, hiding under hard skin; however the use in this is brief
for the ready to fall petals stick too lightly and they shake off in excessive winds,
the same winds which are responsible for the name, [anemone]
the other lions, they tamely press by means of teeth on the bit of their master Cybele.
This you must flee, dear to me, and with all these types of savage beasts 705
that do not turn for escape, but present their chest to fight.
Lest your courage be detrimental to us both!”
She warned him and hurries to journey through the air by joined swans
but his courage stands opposite her warning.
By chance the dogs having followed the clear path 710
roused the pig from it’s hiding place, and preparing to exit the woods
the young Adonis pierced it with a slanted blow:
it shook off the blood tinted spear immediately from it’s snout
and seeking the nervous boy from the safe place
the savage boar attacks and he buries the whole tusk into his groin 715
and dying he is laid out on the yellow sand.
Venus, having been carried in a light chariot through the middle of the heavens
had not arrived at Cyprus by the wings of her swans,
and she recognized the groans of the dying boy from afar
and turns the white birds to there, and when she sees from the air 720
his body bloody and lifeless throwing itself around
she jumped down and she both ripped her toga and her hair equally
and she beat her breast with her unworthy palms
with fate having been protested she said, “but, however, not all laws will be yours.
the monuments of my grief will remain for Adonis, and the image of death having been called back will finish the annual imitations of our wailing;
but the blood will have been changed into a flower. can it be that
it is permitted formerly by you, Persephone, to turn womanly limbs
into fragrant mint: will the transformation of the hero Adonis be judged to us?” 730
having said thus she sprinkled the blood with sweet fragrance which, having been soaked
by her, swelled up as a transparent bubble is in the habit to rise in yellow mud
for not more than a full hour is delay having been made, when a flower rose the same 735
color as blood, of the sort which pomegranates are accustomed
to carry, clinging, hiding under hard skin; however the use in this is brief
for the ready to fall petals stick too lightly and they shake off in excessive winds,
the same winds which are responsible for the name, [anemone]