P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses 1.452–462

The Metamorphoses turns to its first love-story, which opens with a confrontation between two archer-gods. The names to know: Apollo (whom Ovid also calls Phoebus), the boy-god Cupid, the nymph Daphne, daughter of the river-god Peneus, and the serpent Python, whom Apollo names in his own speech.

 

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prīmus amor Apollinis erat Daphnē. Daphnē erat fīlia Pēneī. Cupīdō, deus amōris, hunc amōrem fēcit, quod īrātus erat. nam Apollō Pȳthōnem, magnum animal, multīs sagittīs interfēcerat et superbus erat. tum Apollō Cupīdinem vīdit. Cupīdō arcum suum tenēbat.

 

Apollō Cupīdinī dīxit: 'Cupīdō, puer es. cūr arma fortia habēs? arma fortia mihi conveniunt, nōn tibi. ego enim ferās et hostēs sagittīs vulnerāre possum. ego modo Pȳthōnem, magnum animal, multīs sagittīs interfēcī. tū face tuā amōrēs aliōrum hominum excitā. id satis est tibi. tū nōn es magnus sīcut ego.'

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