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When he has spoken out and raised his hand to check the noise, all the gods stop talking. Once stifled by that royal authority, the murmuring dies down, and Jupiter breaks the silence once again by saying:.

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Reports of that bad time had reached our ears. It would take too long to describe in full how much evil I discover everywhere. The report itself was less disturbing than the truth. I had passed by Maenala, a dreadful place where wild beasts have their lairs, Lycaeus with its ice-cold groves of pine, and Mount Cyllene.

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At first, Lycaon ridicules their pious vows. Then he says:. He finds that way of testing for the truth amusing. And not satisfied with that, he takes a sword and slices open the throat of a hostage sent from the Molossians, makes some of the half-dead limbs more tender in boiling water, and roasts the rest of him above an open fire. He runs off quite terrified, and then, once he reaches the quiet countryside, begins to howl, trying without success to speak. His mouth gathers up the fury he holds inside, and his blood lust for habitual slaughter turns him against herd beasts, so even now he delights in blood.

His clothes have disappeared, changed to hair, his arms to legs. Thus, one house collapsed, but more than one home deserves to perish. Let them all quickly pay the penalty they richly merit! So stands my judgment. Some of the gods speak up, endorsing what Jupiter has said, spurring him on and encouraging his rage, while others play their parts with silent affirmation. But still, for all of them the destruction of the human race is something grievous. They ask about the future of the world. How will Earth look, if she lacks human life?


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Who will now place incense on the altars? He promises a race of beings unlike the previous ones and says their origin will be a wonder. What we require is for you to discharge all your power. Open your homes, remove all barriers, and let your currents have free rein to flow. Neptune himself with his trident strikes the land. Earth trembles and with the tremor lays bare the sources of her water. Streams spread out and charge through open plains, sweeping away all at once groves, planted fields, cattle herds, men, and homes, along with sacred buildings and their holy things.

And now the land and sea are not distinct—all things have turned into a boundless sea which has no ocean shore. Some men sit on hill tops, others in boats, pulling oars here and there, above the fields which they just ploughed not long before. Sometimes, by chance, an anchor bites into green meadowland, or a curved keel scrapes against a vineyard submerged beneath the sea.

And in those places where slender she-goats have grazed on grasses, misshapen sea calves let their bodies rest. Wolves swim among sheep. Waves carry tawny lions and tigers. The forceful, mighty power of the boar is no help at all, nor are the swift legs of the stag, once they are swept into the sea. The wandering bird, after a long search for some place to land, its wings exhausted, falls down in the sea.

Those whom it spares, because food is so scarce, are overcome by gradual starvation. Its summit rises high above the clouds. Deucalion lands here in his small boat, with the wife who shares his bed—for the sea now covers every other place. When Jupiter observes the earth submerged in flowing water, with only one man left from many thousands not so long before and sees one woman from many thousands a short while earlier, both innocent, both worshippers of the gods, he scatters the clouds, and once North Wind has blown away the rain, he makes land open to the sky and heaven to the earth.

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The lord of the ocean sets down his three-pronged weapon, calms the seas, and summons dark-blue Triton standing there above the ocean depths, his shoulders covered by native shells, and orders him to blow his echoing horn and with that signal summon back the flooding waters and the sea. They listened to it, and all of them pulled back. After a long time, exposed tops of trees revealed themselves, their foliage covered in layers of mud. The world had been restored. The sea has taken all the others.

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Even now, there is nothing secure about our lives, nothing to give us sufficient confidence. Those heavy clouds still terrify my mind. How could you endure the fear all by yourself? For if the sea had taken you, dear wife, I would follow you, believe me, and the sea would have me, too. The human race lives now in the two of us.

Deucalion said this, and they wept. They thought it best to pray to the celestial god and to seek help from sacred oracles. As they touch the steps before the shrine, they both fall on the ground, and kiss the cold stone, in fear and trembling. Then they speak these words:. The goddess is moved and through the oracle speaks out:. Cover your head, and loosen the garments gathered around you. Then throw behind your backs the bones of your great parent. For a long time they are both astonished.

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Meanwhile, they both review the obscure dark riddle in the language of the oracle they have been given, examining the words between themselves. These stones are what we have been commanded to throw behind our backs. They go down, cover their heads, unfasten their tunics, and, as they have been ordered, throw stones behind where they are standing. Gradually they softened, and then, once soft, they took on a new shape. They grew larger and before long acquired a gentler nature. But still, those pieces of them which were earthy and damp from any moisture were changed into essential body parts.

What was solid and inflexible changed to bones, and what just a few moments before had been veins remained, keeping the same name. When the Nile with its seven river mouths leaves the sodden fields and sends its waters down their old channels and the brand new mud grows hot from the aetherial sun, farmers, as they turn the soil, find many animals.

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Men see some which are incomplete and lacking limbs. Often in the same body one section is alive, while another is crude earth. And therefore, when earth, still muddy from the recent flood, grew warm again from penetrating heat of the aetherial sun, she then brought forth countless forms of life, in part restoring ancient species and in part creating new monstrosities. In these games any young man who prevailed in boxing, running, or in chariot racing received the honour of an oak leaf crown. The Delian god, proud of his recent conquest of the snake, saw Cupid flexing his bow, pulling back the string, and said to him:.

Carrying that bow suits shoulders like my own, since I can shoot wild beasts and never miss and wound my enemy. Stay content kindling any kind of love you fancy with that torch of yours, but do not pre-empt those praises due to me. The son of Venus then replied to him:. Just as all animals are less than gods, so, to the very same extent, your fame is less than mine. Cupid spoke. He pulled out two arrows from his quiver, each with a different force. One of them makes love run off, the other brings it on.


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He is immediately in love, but she runs away from the very name of love, delighting in deep places in the woods and skins of the wild beasts she chases down, emulating virgin Phoebe. Many men court her, but she dislikes all suitors. Her father does, in fact, grant her request, but your beauty, Daphne, is an obstacle to what you so desire. The way you look makes sure your prayers will not be answered.