Echo Amd Narcissus Section 9 Flashcards
Tum quoque se, postquam est inferna sede receptus,
Even then, after he had been received into the abode of the underworld
In Stygia spectabat aqua. Planxere sorores Naides et sectos fratri posuere capillos
He kept looking at himself in the Stygian water. His sister Naides wailed and offered their cut hair to their brother
Planxerunt dryads; plangentibus assonat Echo. Iamque rogum quassasque faces feretrumque parabant:
The dryads wailed; and Echo responded with wailings. And now they were preparing his funeral pyre and the torches that are brandished (at funerals) and the bier
Nusquam corpus erat; croceum pro corpore florem inveniunt foliis medium cingentibus albis
His body was nowhere to be found; in place of his body they found a yellow flower, with white petals surrounding the middle of the flower