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as Ovid had done in similar circumstances, lie bore it with cheerful 

 magnanimity as a philosopher. Not that he did not cherish 

 an anxious wish of returning to his native country, that instinctive 

 love of home which he has so beautifully described as adhering to 

 the deer species, when taken from their native haunts. 



a^ci'KiOig r tvvots ^iXiov rs vccvaKTi ^tKu^^or 

 E« hi 7i f^iv s^iirTYicTi '^nh^ffccvng fi^oy^ihsfffftv 

 Ay^ivrri^ii ccyoiiv stt uXXsg ct.VTtx.ot, ^m^ni, 

 TilXo^f h' tv ^ntrtrria'iv i'Kiv^i^ov «u3-/ "Kmotzv, 

 Fticc 'TTori yXvKs^ov Sof/,01/ i^Xv^iv, riy^t fOiiscraev, 

 OvS' erhri ^uvog ti? iit ak'Koha.'jroKrtv uXatr^ui. 

 Ovx, a^ot, rot f^avottrt (ptXfi ^roir^ri fhepomtrtrf 

 Kat poihtm hi iTo^os rt? SHirtUKTat (p^ijirt ^ti^eiiii. 



Kvv. B. 1. 306. 



What wond'rous instinct bids the deer repair 

 To well-known forests, and his wonted lair ? 

 Should hunters snare him in their tortuous toil. 

 And lead him captive to a foreign soil. 

 How soon, when freed among its wilds to stray. 

 Back to his lov'd retreats he speeds his way ! 



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Estur ut occulta vitiata teredine navis, 



Jiquoreos scopulos ut cavat unda salis, 

 Sic mea perpetuos curarum pectora morsus, 



Fine quibus nullo conficiantur, habent. 



It must, Iiowever, be allowed that the cases are not exactly parallel. Oppian was young, 

 and full of hope and expectation. Ovid was now advanced in years, he liad experienced the 

 pleasures of a court, and hope had ceased to flatter. 



