Transcript CALLISTŌ Saepe poētae Mūsās invocant `Nārrā, ō Mūsa, fābulam dē nymphā Callistō’

CALLISTŌ
Saepe poētae Mūsās invocant
`Nārrā, ō Mūsa, fābulam dē nymphā Callistō’
Spectāte stellās in caelō.
Ursa maior est Callistō
Callistō erat nympha pulchra. In
Arcadiā habitābat
Iuppiter nympham spectāvit et
statim eam amāvit
Callistō per silvās cum Dīānā errābat
Fībula vestīmentum retinēbat…
….et vitta capillōs retinēbat.
Iuppiter fōrmam Dīānae simulāvit et ita ad
nympham sēcrētō appropinquāvit
Ubi puer Arcas nymphae nātus est,
Iūnō īrāta erat, nympham in ursam
mūtāvit.
Dum animālia fera vēnātur, Arcas ursam videt
sed Iuppiter mātricīdium prohibuit. Ursam et fīlium
in caelum trānsportāvit.
Hanc fābulam Ovidius poēta
narrāvit et multī pictōrēs pīnxērunt
Text reprinted from Latin Via Ovid, A First
Course, Second Edition by Norma Goldman
and Jacob E. Nyenhuis, copyright © 1982
Wayne State University Press, with the
permission of Wayne State University Press.