Ovid lines 1-49 Flashcards
Iamque deus posita fallacis imagine tauri se confessus erat dictaeque rura tenebat
now the god had revealed himself with the form of the deceitful bull having been cast aside, and Europa? was holding the Diction countriyside
cum pater ignarus Cadmo perquirere raptam imperat et poenam, si non invernerit, addit
when the ignorant father, orders Cadmus to see out the taken woman and he added the punishment if he did not find her,
exilium, facto pius et sceleratus eodem
exile, the father is pious and sinful by the same deed
orbe pererrato quis enim deprendere possit furta Iovis?
With the globe having been wandered over, for who is able to catch the love affair of Jupiter?
profugus patriamque iram que parentis vitat Agenorides Phoebique oracula supplex consiulit et quae sit tellus habitanda requirit
the exiled son of agent avoids both the fatherland and the anger of his father and as a beggar he consulted the oracle of phoebus and he askes what land should be inhabited.