CLASSICS 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Maenad, Georgics, Cicones
3 Dec 2014
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In his mourning, he stops performing: destroyed by roaming maenads. She got bitten by a snake and died. He went down to take his bride back with him by performing for persephone. Orpheus at fault: but even with that look, all his labour became wasted, the bond of that evil tyrant broken, and a crash was heard three times like thunder in the meres of hell . What ruin has your madness brought upon me, alas! Once again the unpitying fates recall me, and dark sleep closes my swimming eyes. And now farewell: covered by enormous night, i am borne away, outstretching these helpless hands toward you, yours, alas, no more! thus she spoke, and suddenly, like smoke dissolving into empty air, passed and was taken from his sight. Nor could he, clutching vain shadows, yearning sorely to speak, ever again behold her.
