![]() ![]() O cruel Demophoon, breaker of many hearts, whose treachery even now causes girls to weep! Oaks attended her, chanters of the fates, 16 oaks once given for man’s sustenance before the grains of Ceres: these oaks the furrow of Triptolemus exchanged for ears of corn. Next came she, 15 to whom, as she wept over his treachery, Demophoon left unending grief. ![]() Through grief transformed-the Heliads, 14 their arms entwining the slender stems-from outstretched branches lavished their white veiling. his suberat gelidis manans e fontibus unda, quae levibus placidum rivis sonat acta liquorem 150 et quaqua geminas avium vox obstrepit aures, hac querulae referunt voces quîs nantia limo corpora lympha fovet sonitus alit aëris echo, argutis et cuncta fremunt ardore cicadis. at volucres patulis residentes dulcia ramis carmina per varios edunt resonantia cantus. 145 quîs aderat veteris myrtus non nescia fati. 140 ilicis et nigrae species nec laeta cupressus umbrosaeque manent fagus hederaeque ligantes bracchia, fraternos plangat ne populus ictus, ipsaeque ascendunt ad summa cacumina lentae pinguntque aureolos viridi pallore corymbos. hic magnum Argoae navi decus addita pinus proceros decorat silvas hirsuta per artus ac petit aëriis contingere motibus astra. quam comitabantur, fatalia carmina, quercus, 135 quercus ante datae Cereris quam semina vitae (illas Triptolemi mutavit sulcus aristis). ![]() posterius cui Demophoon aeterna reliquit perfidiam lamentanti mala-perfide multis, perfide Demophoon et nunc deflende puellis. Heliades, teneris implexae bracchia truncis, 130 candida fundebant tentis velamina ramis. ![]()
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