P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses 4.147–166

Thisbē's final speech closes the tale: her words over Pyramus, a prayer to both their parents, and an apostrophe to the tree, followed by the narrator's brief close.

 

Tier 1

Thisbē vestem suam et gladium vīdit. tum dīxit: "manus tua et amor tē perdidit, miser! etiam ego manum fortem habeō. etiam ego amō. amor mihi vīrēs ad vulnera dabit. tē in mortem sequar. dē tuā morte miserrima causa et comes dīcar. nunc nec mors nōs dīvidet.

 

ō miserī parentēs meī et illīus, rogō vōs: amor noster certus erat. ultima hōra nōs iūnxit. nōlīte prohibēre quod in eōdem sepulcrō pōnimur.

 

et tū, arbor, quae nunc ūnum corpus tegis, mox duo corpora tegēs: signa caedis tene. semper habē frūctūs nigrōs et dolōrī aptōs, in memoriam duōrum mortuōrum."

 

dīxit. tum gladium sub pectus pōsuit. in ferrum cecidit.

 

vōta deōs tetigērunt. vōta etiam parentēs tetigērunt. nam color in pōmō, cum mātūrum est, niger est; et cinerēs eōrum in eādem ūrnā requiēscunt.

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