Emersere feri candenti e gurgite vultus
Aequoreae monstrum Nereides admirantes,—
of Ariadne watching with pale and anxious face the perilous encounter of Theseus with the Minotaur—
Quam tum saepe magis fulgore expalluit auri,—
and again, looking on the distant fleet—
Saxea ut effigies bacchantis,—
of the advent of Bacchus—
Cum thiaso Satyrorum et Nysigenis Silenis,—
a passage which has inspired one of the masterpieces of modern art,—of Prometheus—
Extenuata gerens veteris vestigia poenae—