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A note on Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.48

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Alan H. F. Griffin
Alan H. F. Griffin
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
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Extract

These lines come from the passage describing the mourning of the natural world following the death of Orpheus. A. D. Melville (Ovid, Metamorphoses [Oxford, 1986]) translates as follows:

[‘ … ] and naiads wore,

and Dryads too, their mourning robes of black

And hair dishevelled.’

Type
Shorter Notes
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , December 1995 , pp. 578 - 579
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1995

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