Ovid Selections Author:Ovid This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... other than Apollo; but in other forms of the story Artemis is represented as the destroyer of the daughters. Cf. lines 5... more »6-58. 125. atris: see N. to p. 61, 1. 27. 126. toros: 'biers.' demisso crine: cf. N. to p. 54, 1. 2. 127. viscere: suo viscere. 128. fratri: after Imposito. 130. duplicata... eat: ' was bent together by an invisible wound'; like our colloquial phrase 'was doubled up.' Page 137-133. Sex: sex filiabus. 135. miuimam: minimum natu, ' the youngest.' 136. et imam: ' and (only) one,' 'it is only one I ask for.' The mother's pride was broken. 137. Dum... occidit: et dum Niobe precatur, ilia filia, pro qua precatur, occidit. 139. Ntillos movet aura oa-pillos: nulla aura capillos movet. 144. bracchia: sc. possunt. 145. Intra... est: in the Greek Anthology there is the following epigram on Niobe: "Within this tomb no body lies; About this body is no tomb; And that which stands before thine eyes--Itself both body is and tomb." 147. In patriam: to Lydia (see N. to 1. l). On the north side of Mt. Sipylus, not far from Magnesia, the rude form of a woman may be seen in a large niche in the limestone rock, half way up a steep cliff. The figure is in a sitting posture, about three times the natural size. Some observers have reported that the dripping of water down the cliff over the face gives even now the appearance of weeping. This figure, which has been called Niobe, seems rather to be a very ancient image of Cybele; the figure of Niobe was probably a rock of peculiar appearance, which has not yet been identified. The story of Niobe belongs to a very large class of myths, common in other mythologies as well as the Greek, which relate as their outcome a transformation into stone. (Compare, for example, the story of Battus, p. 106; of...« less