Ovid, The Rape of Europa
From
Metamorphoses, Book II, contributed to the European Prospect pages by
Laellius.
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Thus spoke the God, concealing his intent.
The trusty Hermes, on his message went,
And found the herd of heifers wand'ring o'er
A neighb'ring hill, and drove 'em to the shore;
Where the king's daughter, with a lovely train
Of fellow-nymphs, was sporting on the plain.
The dignity of empire laid aside,
(For love but ill agrees with kingly pride)
The ruler of the skies, the thund'ring God,
Who shakes the world's foundations with a nod,
Among a herd of lowing heifers ran,
Frisk'd in a bull, and bellow'd o'er the plain.
Large rowles of fat about his shoulders clung,
And from his neck the double dewlap hung.
Cf.
Horace, Wife
of the Invincible ,
Virgil, Europe
& Beyond,
Hippocrates, Europeans Have
Courage (margin: Aristotle, Europeans, Asians, and Greeks)
