| Term | Definition |
|---|
| sed quid ego a primo digressus carmine plura commemorem | But why should I leave the first subject of my song and tell of more, |
| ut linquens genitoris filia uultum, | how the daughter, flying from her father's face, |
| ut consanguineae complexum, ut denique matris, | how the embrace of her sister, then of her mother last, |
| quae misera in gnata deperdita laeta | who lamented, lost in grief for her daughter, |
| omnibus his Thesei dulcem praeoptarit amorem: | how she chose all of these before the sweet love of Theseus |
| aut ut uecta rati spumosa ad litora Diae | or how the ship came born to the foaming shores of Dia |
| aut ut eam deuinctam lumina somnio | or when her eyes were bound with sleep |
| liquerit immemori discedens pectore coniunx? | her spouse left her, departing with forgetful mind? |
| saepe illam perhibent ardenti corde furentem | Often in the madness of her forgetful heart |
| clarisonas imo fudisse e pectore uoces, | uttered piercing cries from her innermost breast |
| ac tum praeruptos tristem conscendere montes, | and now she would sadly climb the rugged mountains, |
| unde aciem pelagi uastos protenderet aestus, | thence to strain her eyes over the waste of ocean-tide, |
| tum tremuli salis aduersas procurrere in undas | now run out to meet the waters of the rippling brine, |
| mollia nudatae tollentem tegmina surae, | lifting the soft vesture of her bared knee. |
| atque haec extremis maestam dixisse querellis, | and thus she said mournfully in her last laments. |
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