E'en as the prudent ants which towards their nest
Bearing the apportioned heavy burden go,
Exercise all their forces at their best,
Hostile to hostile winter's frost and snow;
There, all their toils and labours stand confessed,
There, never looked-for energy they show;
So, from the Lusitanians to avert
Their horrid Fate, the nymphs their power exert.
Thus, as in some sequestered sylvan mere
The frogs (the Lycian people formerly),