Arion
Nautarum jussu se praecipitavit Arion
In mare cantator funeris ipse sui:
Delapsum recipit gelidis amplexibus aequor,
Fatorumque ferax undaque et unda tumet.
Sed Delphinus adest, — sed adest secumque salutem
Attulit et vati et squamea terga dedit
O hominum feritas! O mollia corda ferarum,
Blanda mage humanis omnia monstra feris. Translation, By the sailors' command Arion hurled himself into the sea, himself the chanter of his own obsequies. As he dived in, the sea received him in its chilly embrace, and wave upon wave, fertile with doom, swelled up. But the dolphin was there to help: he was there indeed, and by his presence brought safety and offered his scaly back to the bard. O beastliness of men! O gentle heart of beasts! All the monsters that exist are more kindly than beasts in human shape.
In mare cantator funeris ipse sui:
Delapsum recipit gelidis amplexibus aequor,
Fatorumque ferax undaque et unda tumet.
Sed Delphinus adest, — sed adest secumque salutem
Attulit et vati et squamea terga dedit
O hominum feritas! O mollia corda ferarum,
Blanda mage humanis omnia monstra feris. Translation, By the sailors' command Arion hurled himself into the sea, himself the chanter of his own obsequies. As he dived in, the sea received him in its chilly embrace, and wave upon wave, fertile with doom, swelled up. But the dolphin was there to help: he was there indeed, and by his presence brought safety and offered his scaly back to the bard. O beastliness of men! O gentle heart of beasts! All the monsters that exist are more kindly than beasts in human shape.
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