Cupid and Psyche Chapter 1 Translation

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Sic latius procedit in dies opinio, sic insulas iam proximas et terras plurimas fama pervagatur.
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Sic latius procedit in dies opinio, sic insulas iam proximas et terras plurimas fama pervagatur.
Thus the belief(about this rumor) day by day advanced more widely, in this the rumor spreading already through the neighboring island and many lands.
Puellae omnes supplicant: ubi mane virgo domo procedit, victimas offerunt, ubi per plateas ambulat, floribus sertis precantur.
Everyone prays to the girl: when early in the day the young maiden proceeds out of the house, they offer sacrificial victims, when she walks through the wide streets, they pray with wreathed flowers.
Sic honores caelestes ad puellae mortalis cultum translati sunt.
Thus heavenly honors were transferred to the worship of a mortal girl.
Verae Veneris vehementer incenus est animus: caput quassat et sic ait: 'en ego rerum naturae prisca parens, quae cum mortali puella honores partior.
Thus the mind of the true Venis, was violently set on fire: she shakes her head and says: look at me, the original parent of all nature who shares honors with a mortal girl.
Sed non sic gaudebit ista, quaecumque est, nec sic meos honores impune usurpabit;
But that one will not rejoice, whoever she is nor will she usurp my honor without punishment;
iam huius ipsius formositatis paenitebit.'
she will even regret that very beauty itself.
Et vocat confestim puerum suum pinnatum illum qui flammis et sagittis armatus impune committit tanta flagitia.
And immediately, she calls that winged son of hers who armed with flamed arrows commits such shocking acts without being punished.
Hunc verbis stimulat et ducit ad illam civitatem, et Psychen—hoc enim nomine puella appellabatur—ostendit et ubi totam illam narravit fabulam summa indignatione, 'ego tē' inquit 'per maternae caritatis foedera precor, tuam parentem ulciscere.
She rouses him with words and leads him to that state, and shows him Psyche- for the girl was being called by this name- and when she had told him that whole, total story with the greatest indignity: 'and she says' I beg you through the bond of the mother's love, avenge your parent.
Virgo ista amore flagrantissimo teneatur hominis infimi et miserrimi.'
Let that young maiden be held by the most burning love of the lowest and most miserable of human beings.'
Sic dixit, et ubi filium suum diu suaviata est, proximas oras maris petit.
Thus, she spoke, and when she kissed her son for a long time, she sought the nearest shores of the sea.
Statim totum mare tranquillum factum est nec moratur marinum obsequium:Immediately the whole sea was made calm nor are her servants of the sea slow(to attend her):adsunt Nerei filiae quae chorum canunt, et auriga parvus delphini, Palaemon; iam per maria persultant Tritonum catervae;the daughters of Nereus are present who are singing a chorus and the little charioteer of the dolphin, Palaemon; now a crowd of tritians are now leaping through the sea;alius conchā leniter buccinat, alius dominae speculum gerit, sub currū alii natant.one is softly blowing a conch shell, one is holding a mirror of the mistress, and other are swimming under the carriage.Talis, ubi ad oceanum pergit, Venerem comitatur exercitus.When she reaches the ocean, such an assembly tends to Venus.