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 METAMORPHOSES BOOK V plaintively on her mother and her companions, but more often upon her mother. And since she had torn her garment at its upper edge, the flowers which she had gathered fell out of her loosened tunic; and such was the innocence of her girlish years, the loss of her flowers even at such a time aroused new grief. Her captor sped his chariot and urged on his horscs, calling each by name, and haking the dark-dyed reins on their necks and Through deep lakes he galloped, through pools of the Palici, reeking with sulphur and up from a crevice of the earth, and where the Bacchiadae, a race sprung from Corinth between seas, had built a city between two harbours of nanes. the boiling two unequal Size. “ ‘ There is between Cyane and Pisaean Arethusa a of the sea, its waters confined by narrowing of land. Here was Cyane, the most famous of the Sicilian nymphs, from whose name the pool was called. She stood forth from the midst of her pool as far as her waist, and recognizing the goddess cried to Dis: "No further shall you go! lhou canst not be the son-in-law of Ceres against her will. The maiden should have been wooed, not ravished. But, if it is proper for me to compare small bay points itself things with great, I also have been wooed, b Anapis, and I wedded him, too, yielding to prayer, however, not to fear, like this maiden." She spoke and, stretching her arms on either side, blocked his way. No longer could the son of Saturn hold his wrath, and urging on his terrible steeds, he whirled his royal sceptre with strong right arm and smote the pool to its bottom. The smitten earth opened a road to Tartarus and rcceived the down-plunging up chariot in her cavernous depths 267