P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses 4.71–92

This section opens with a direct address to the wall, then turns to a meeting place beyond the city: the tomb of Nīnus, where a mulberry tree stands beside a spring.

 

Tier 1

saepe Thisbē ex ūnā parte stābat, Pyramus ex alterā. dē mūrō querēbantur. Pyramus dīxit: "ō invide mūre, cūr nōbīs obstās? cūr nōn sinis nōs corpora iungere? sī hoc nimium est, cūr nōn pates ut ōra iungere possīmus? tibi tamen grātiās agimus, quod verba nostra ad amīcās aurēs trānseunt."

 

tālia frūstrā dīxērunt. tum vesper vēnit. dīxērunt "valē". uterque ōscula mūrō dedit. sed ōscula ad alterum nōn pervēnērunt.

 

posterā diē sōl surrēxit. ad eundem locum convēnērunt. ibi multa questī sunt. tum hoc cōnstituērunt: "nocte tacitā custōdēs fallēmus. ē domibus exībimus. urbem relinquēmus. ad sepulcrum Nīnī conveniēmus. sub arbore stābimus." (ibi arbor magna stābat; mōrus, plēna pōmīs albīs. fōns prope erat.)

 

cōnsilium placuit. sōl tardē discessit. tum nox vēnit.

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