Metamorphoses X 238-246






     "Sunt tamen obscēnae Venerem Prōpoetides ausae
esse negāre deam; prō quō sua, nūminis īrā,
corpora cum fōrmā prīmae vulgāsse feruntur;
utque pudor cessit sanguisque indūruit ōris,
in rigidum parvō silicem discrīmine versae.
     "Quās quia Pygmaliōn aevum per crīmen agentēs
vīderat, offēnsus vitiīs, quae plūrima mentī
fēmineae nātūra dedit, sine coniuge caelebs
vīvēbat thalamīque diū cōnsorte carēbat.


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