Translation
When Mercury captured these punishments of the ill-omened mind and of the words He left the having been specified lands from Minerva And he entered the heavens by means of having been fluttered wings The not admitting father calls aside this cause of love He said,”son, faithful servant of my orders, Quickly slip down in skin with usual speed And which the earth suspects your mother from a left part (The natives in Phoenicia say by name) Seek this, and feed the royal heard which you see far away with grassy mountains Turn to the shore!” He said, and the having been driven out young men at this time seek the having been ordered shore by the mountains, where the daughter of an important king was accustomed to play with Tyrian maidens as company. Dignity and Love did not get along well nor in one seat did they remain; With the weight of the having been left scepter, that father, leader of the gods, whose right hand had been armed with three pronged fire, who with a nod vibrates the sphere He, having been mixed, is being covered by the face of a young bull He bellows and the beautiful approaches in tender grass of course the color is of snow, which neither hard lasting footprints of feet had trod, nor the wet wind loosened the necks of the bull stand out, the dewlaps hang down to the flanks, The horn in fact bent, but which you are able to stretch by a making hand, more pure and transparent jewel. No threats in his forehead, nor terrifying divinity: the face has peace. He is watched by the having been produced from Agenor, which so beautiful, which projects no disputes, but whatever gentle [thing] she dreaded to touch at first, soon the bright person of the shore went towards and stretched out to flowers And loving she rejoiced, while trusting pleasure might come, he gives kisses to the hands; now scarcely he puts off the rest scarcely; and now he plays and he rejoices in fresh grass, now he sets the snowy flank in tawny sands and little by little with fear having been removed, soon he offers the slapping chests to the virgin hand, soon he offers the obstructing horns with new chains of flowers; and also the unknowing virgin dared to sit on the back, which was the type to persue, of the bull, While the god slowly put false footprints of the foot from the land, from the dry shore into the first waves Thenceforth he went beyond and he carried his booty through water of the middle sea: that (girl) having been carried away is frightened looks back to the having been left shore and the right hand holds the horn, positioned the other on the back the trembling clothes are bending by means of the breeze |
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