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Ovid · Metamorphoses 1.1–9

Latin · Level 4 · ~2 min · dactylic hexameter

Bodies Changed

Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.1–9

In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas
corpora; di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas)
adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi
ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen.
Ante mare et terras et quod tegit omnia caelum
unus erat toto naturae vultus in orbe,
quem dixere chaos: rudis indigestaque moles
nec quicquam nisi pondus iners congestaque eodem
non bene iunctarum discordia semina rerum.

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Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.1–9. Source text. CC BY-SA 4.0. Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University), PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit; edition: H. Magnus, Perthes 1892. Word analyses are machine-generated, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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