...METAMORPHOSEON LIBER PRIMVS In noua fert animus mulatas dicere formas Corpora ; di, coeptis, nam uos mutastis et illas, Adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi Ad mea perpetuum deducite témpora carmen. Ante mare et terras et, quod tegit omnia, caelum Vnus erat toto naturae uultus in...

...den Dichter in der Zeit des Domitian und Augustus leben. Er bemerkt nämlich zu den Versen I 3 f.: adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen : Velitis me dicere a principio mundi usque ad tempus domiciani et augusti c. fabulas. o. enim fuit...

...innuendo becomes more specifically Callimachean. Ovid continues d1, coeptis (m1n1 uos mutastis et 1lla)1 adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen. Gods, favour my undertaking —for it was you who changed that too - and bring down jrom the beginning...

...Paradise Lost: Figurations of Ovid In novafert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora; di, coeptis (num. vos mutastis et illas) adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempera carmen! Metamorphoses, 1.1-4 The Anti-heroic Epic Milton's daughter Deborah, in her old age,...

...was changed even as it took shape: "Gods, inspire my undertaking (for you have changed it too)": In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora; di,...coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) adspirate meis. [Meta. 1.1-3] Ovid begins his Metamorphoses, then, with a reversal of his demotion from epic to elegiac...

...delivers. He opens the Metamorphoses as if he truly believed in the explanatory power of etiology: In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora; di,...vos mutastis et illas) adspirate meis primaque ab origins mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen! [My mind moves me to speak of the new: forms...

...Homer, has a beginning of primitive elemental naturalism; it narrates the genesis of form from chaos: In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas Corpora; di...omnia caelum Unus erat toto naturae vultus in orbe Quern dixere chaos. . . . [My spirit moves me to tell of forms changed into new bodies; gods (for it...

...invocation in Paradiso i rewrites the Ovidian invocation at the beginning of the Metamorphoses: In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora; di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) adspirate me is primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen! (Met. 1.1-4) My mind is bent...

...unifies the epic, as he promises in the proem of thc work: ...di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis el illa) adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen. (Met. 1.2-4) [Gods, inspire my undertakings (for you have transformed even these), and spin a fine...

...Febrer va partir, segons l'edició ja esmentada: In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas Corpora. Du coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) Adspirate meis;...carmen. Ante mare et terras, et, quod tegit omnia, coelum, Unus erat toto naturae vultus in orbe, Quem dicere Chaos: rudis, indigestae moles, Nec quicquam,...