P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses 8.711–724

The tale comes to its close and its point: the final metamorphosis, the local wonder shown 'to this day,' and the moral with which the passage ends, the frame-narrator Lelex stepping forward in his own voice.

 

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deī vōta fēcērunt. Baucis et Philemon templum servābant dum vīvēbant. annōs multōs vīxērunt et senēs factī sunt.

 

ōlim ante gradūs sacrōs stābant et cāsūs locī narrābant. tum Baucis vīdit Philemonem folia habēre. Philemon vīdit Baucidem folia habēre.

 

super capita eōrum rāmī crēscēbant. dum licet, mūtua verba dīcunt. simul 'valē, ō coniūnx' dīcunt; simul cortex ōra eōrum tegit.

 

hominēs illīus locī adhūc ostendunt duōs truncōs vīcīnōs, dē geminō corpore factōs. senēs nōn vānī haec mihi narrāvērunt; ipse vīdī serta dē rāmīs pendentia, et nova serta posuī et dīxī: 'quōs dī cūrant, deī sint, et quī deōs coluērunt, colantur.'

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