Raeburn trs, Met. Book 7
Metamorphoses 7.553--582, 613--651
The Plague at Aegina (youtube)
(New College Reads to You - David Raeburn reads from his own translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses)
7.553--582, p.206 (pdf)
‘The plague grew stronger and next attacked the peasants and farmers; it then proceeded to lord it inside the walls of the city. First a burning sensation inside the intestines, then flushes [555] and short-drawn breathing were early symptoms of latent disorder.
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[580] then, weakly extending their arms to the stars in the lowering heavens, here or there, wherever death took them, they gave up the ghost.
7.613--651
Aeacus next explained how sorrow had yielded to gladness: ‘Overwhelmed by this powerful whirlwind of pain, I protested: [615] “Jupiter, hear me! Lord! If the story isn’t a lie,
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I followed him out, and there were the men [650] who’d appeared to me in my dream, exactly the same as I’d seen them down to their order of march, approaching to hail me as king.
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