And may you be slain in your bedchamber after the manner of the Pheraean, who was delivered to death by the sword of his own wife.
And may you, like Larisaean Aleuas, experience those whom you think faithful as unfaithful through your wound.
— And like Milo, under which tyrant Pisa was tortured, may you be cast alive into secret waters.
And may the weapons which came from Jupiter against him who held the Phylaceian kingdoms among the descendants of Aphidas, also seek you.
— Or like Lenaeus once from the Amastriac shores, may you be abandoned naked on the Achillean ground.
§331Utque vel Eurydamas ter circum busta Thrasylli §332Est Larisaeis raptus ab hoste rotis, §333Vel qui, quae fuerat tutatus moenia saepe, §334Corpore lustravit non diuturna suo, §335Utque novum passa genus Hippomeneide poenae §336Tractus in Actaea fertur adulter humo, §337Sic, ubi vita tuos invisa reliquerit artus, §338Ultores rapiant turpe cadaver equi.
And as either Eurydamas was dragged thrice around the tomb of Thrasyllus by the enemy with Larisaean wheels, or he who purified with his own body the walls which he had often defended, walls that were not to last, and as the adulterer, after the daughter of Hippomenes suffered a new kind of punishment, is said to have been dragged on the Actaean ground, so, when your hated life shall leave your limbs, may avenging horses drag your shameful corpse.
§339Viscera sic aliquis scopulus tua figat, ut olim §340Fixa sub Euboico Graia fuere sinu; §341Utque ferox periit et fulmine et aequore raptor, §342Sic te mersuras adiuvet ignis aquas.
Thus may some cliff transfix your entrails, as once the Greek entrails were transfixed under the Euboean gulf; and as the fierce ravisher perished, snatched away by both thunderbolt and sea, so may fire assist the waters that will drown you.
§343Mens quoque sic furiis vecors agitetur, ut illi, §344Unum qui toto corpore vulnus habet; §345Utque Dryantiadae Rhodopeia regna tenenti, §346In gemino dispar cui pede cultus erat, §347Ut fuit Oetaeo quondam generoque draconum §348Tisamenique patri Callirhoesque viro.
May your mind also be driven mad by the Furies, like his who has only one wound in his whole body; and as to the son of Dryas who held the Rhodopean kingdoms, who had a different treatment on his twin feet, as once it was to the Oetaean, and to the son-in-law of dragons, and to Tisamenus' father, and to Callirhoe's husband.
§349Nec tibi contingat matrona pudicior illa, §350Qua potuit Tydeus erubuisse nuru: §351Quaeque sui Venerem iunxit cum fratre mariti, §352Locris in ancillae dissimulata nece.
Nor may there fall to your lot a matron more chaste than she, that daughter-in-law at whom Tydeus could have blushed: and she who joined in love with her husband's brother, the Locrian woman disguised in the death of her handmaid.
§353Tam quoque, di faciant, possis gaudere fideli §354Coniuge, quam Talai Tyndareique gener: §355Quaeque parare suis letum patruelibus ausae §356Belides assidua colla premuntur aqua.
May the gods grant that you can rejoice in a faithful wife just as much as the son-in-law of Talaus and of Tyndareus: and the daughters of Belus, who dared to prepare death for their cousins, whose necks are pressed down by the ceaseless water.
If you feel passion for anyone, may it burn with the fire of Byblis and Canace, and may you have no sister faithful to you except through crime.
If there shall be a daughter, may she be what Pelopea was to Thyestes, Myrrha to her father, and Nyctimene to hers.
§361Neve magis pia sit capitique parentis amica, §362Quam sua vel Pterelae, vel tibi, Nise, fuit: §363Infamemque locum sceleris quae nomine fecit, §364Pressit et inductis membra paterna rotis.
And may she be no more dutiful and friendly to her parent's head than his was to Pterelas, or yours, Nisus, to you: and she who made a place infamous by the name of crime, and pressed her father's limbs with driven wheels.
§365Ut iuvenes pereas; proiecta cadavera quorum, §366Oraque Pisaeae sustinuere fores: §367Ut qui perfusam miserorum saepe procorum §368Ipse suo melius sanguine tinxit humum: §369Proditor ut saevi periit auriga tyranni, §370Qui nova Myrtoae nomina fecit aquae: §371Ut qui velocem frustra petiere puellam, §372Dum facta est pomis tardior illa tribus: §373Ut qui tecta novi formam celantia monstri §375Ut quorum Aeacides misit violentus in altum §376Corpora cum senis altera sena rogum.
May you perish as a youth, like those whose cast-out corpses and faces the Pisaean doors supported: like him who himself dyed with his own blood, even better, the ground that was often soaked with the blood of wretched suitors: as the traitor charioteer of the savage tyrant perished, who gave new names to the Myrtoan water: like those who in vain pursued the swift maiden, until she was made slower by three apples: like those who the dwellings concealing the form of the new monster Like those whose bodies the violent descendant of Aeacus sent on high, six and another six on the pyre.
§377Ut quos, obscuri victos ambagibus oris, §378Legimus infandae Sphinga dedisse neci: §379Ut qui Bistoniae templo cecidere Minervae, §380Propter quod facies nunc quoque tecta deaest: §381Ut qui Threicii quondam praesepia regis §382Fecerunt dapibus sanguinolenta suis: §383— Therodamanteos ut qui sensere leones, §384Quique Thoanteae Taurica sacra deae: §385Ut quos Scylla vorax Scyllaeque adversa Charybdis §386Dulichiae pavidos eripuere rati: §387Ut quos demisit vastam Polyphemus in alvum: §388Ut Laestrygonias qui subiere manus: §389Ut quos dux Poenus mersit putealibus undis §390Et iacto canas pulvere fecit aquas.
Like those whom, defeated by the ambiguities of a dark mouth, we read that the Sphinx delivered to unspeakable death: like those who fell in the temple of Bistonian Minerva, on account of which the face of the goddess is even now covered: like those who once made the mangers of the Thracian king bloody with their own flesh as a feast: — like those who experienced the lions of Therodamas, and those who experienced the Tauric rites of the goddess of Thoas: like those whom ravenous Scylla and Charybdis opposite to Scylla snatched trembling from the Dulichian ship: like those whom Polyphemus sent down into his vast belly: like those who came under Laestrygonian hands: like those whom the Carthaginian leader submerged in well-waters and made the waters white with thrown dust.
§391Sex bis ut Icaridos famulae periere procique, §392Inque caput domini qui dabat arma procis: §393Ut iacet Aonio luctator ab hospite fusus, §394Qui, mirum, victor, cum cecidisset, erat: §395Ut quos Antaei fortes pressere lacerti: §397Ut qui post longum, sacri monstrator iniqui, §398Elicuit pluvias victima caesus aquas: §399Frater ut Antaei quo sanguine debuit, aras §400Tinxit, et exemplis occidit ipse suis: §401Ut qui terribiles pro gramen habentibus herbis §402Impius humano viscere pavit equos:
As the twice six maidservants of the daughter of Icarius perished, and the suitors, and he who gave arms to the suitors against his master's head: as the wrestler lies, felled by the Aonian guest, who, wondrously, was a victor when he had fallen: like those whom the strong arms of Antaeus crushed: Like him who after a long time, the shower of an unjust rite, elicited the rain-waters when slain as a victim: as the brother of Antaeus dyed the altars with the blood he owed, and himself died by his own examples: like him who, impious, fed with human flesh the terrible horses that used herbs instead of grass: