P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses 8.616–625

The dinner-table frame returns, and the eldest of the company, Lelex, takes up the thread with a tale told within the poem. It opens in the hill country of Phrygia, in land once tied to Pelops and his son Pittheus.

 

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omnēs mīrābantur, sed dicta nōn probābant. tum Lelex, vir sapiēns et senex, sīc dīxit: 'potentia caelī immēnsa est et fīnem nōn habet. quidquid dī volunt, fit. et, ut minus dubitētis, in collibus Phrygiae est quercus prope tiliam.

 

parvus mūrus circum arborēs est. ego ipse locum vīdī. Pittheus enim ōlim mē in arva Pelopis mīsit. Pelops, pater Pitthei, ōlim ibi rēgnāverat.

 

nōn procul ab hōc locō stāgnum est. ōlim ibi tellūs erat ubi hominēs habitābant; nunc autem aqua est, et multae avēs aquāticae ibi sunt.'

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