Metamorphoses (Brookes More translation)
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Ovid's Metamorphoses was translated by Brookes More in 1922.
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Metamorphoses 1.5-9
- Ante mare et terras et quod tegit omnia caelum
- unus erat toto naturae vultus in orbe,
- quem dixere chaos: rudis indigestaque moles
- nec quicquam nisi pondus iners congestaque eodem
- non bene iunctarum discordia semina rerum.
- "Before the ocean and the earth appeared—
- before the skies had overspread them all—
- the face of Nature in a vast expanse
- was naught but Chaos uniformly waste.
- It was a rude and undeveloped mass,
- that nothing made except a ponderous weight;
- and all discordant elements confused,
- were there congested in a shapeless heap."
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