The Alban Kings in the Metamorphoses: an Ovidian Catalogue and Its Historiographical Models
CHAPTER ELEVEN THE ALBAN KINGS IN THE METAMORPHOSES: AN OVIDIAN CATALOGUE AND ITS HISTORIOGRAPHICAL MODELS Stratis Kyriakidis Ovid, Met. 14.609-23, 765-76 inde sub Ascanii dicione binominis Alba resque Latina fuit. succedit Silvius illi 61 0 quo satus antiquo tenuit repetita Latinus nomina cum sceptro. clarus subit Alba Latinum. Epytus ex illo est; post hunc Capetusque Capysque, sed Capys ante fuit; regnum Tiberinus ab illis cepit et in Tusci demersus fluminis undis 615 nomina fecit aquae; de quo Remulusque feroxque Acrota sunt geniti: Remulus maturior annis fulmineo periit, imitator fulminis, ictu. fratre suo sceptrum moderatior Acrota forti tradit Aventino, qui, quo regnarat, eodem 620 monte iacet positus tribuitque vocabula monti. iamque Palatinae summam Proca gentis habebat. rege sub hoc Pomona fuit, ... haec ubi nequiquam formae deus aptus anili 765 edidit, in iuvenem rediit, et anilia demit instrumenta sibi talisque apparuit illi, qualis ubi oppositas nitidissima solis imago evicit nubes nullaque obstante reluxit, vimque parat; sed vi non est opus, inque figura 770 capta dei nympha est et mutua vulnera sensit. proximus Ausonias iniusti miles Amuli rexit opes, Numitorque senex amissa nepotis munere regna capit, festisque Palilibus urbis moenia conduntur; Tatiusque patresque Sabini 775 bella gerunt, ... Next double-named Ascanius ruled the land Of Latium and Alba. Silvius Succeeded him. His son, Latinus, took 212 STRATIS KYRIAKIDIS The name and sceptre of his ancestor. After Latinus glorious Alba reigned; Then Epytus, and next came Capetus And Capys (Capys first), and following them The reign of Tiberinus, king from whom Was named the Tuscan river where he drowned. Fierce Acrota and Remulus were his sons; Then Remulus, of riper years, who mimicked Lightning, was by a lightning-flash destroyed.
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