Admelville Quotes

“His eyes that swam in death's dark night looked round
For Athis, and he lay down by his side,
Solaced among the shades to share his death.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“Straightway [Juno] sought the filthy slimy shack
Where Envy dwelt deep in a dreary dale,
A gruesome sunless hovel, filled with frost,
Heart-numbing frost, its stagnant air unstirred
By any breeze, for ever lacking warmth
Of cheerful fire, for ever wrapped in gloom.
...
The door flew wide and there
She saw foul Envy eating viper's flesh,
Fit food for spite, and turned her eyes away.
...
[Envy's] cheeks are sallow, her whole body shrunk,
Her eyes askew and squinting; black decay
Befouls her teeth, her bosom's green with bile,
And venom coats her tongue. She never smiles
Save when she relishes the sight of woe;
Sleep never soothes her, night by night awake
With worry, as she sees against her will
Successes won and sickens at the sight.
She wounds, is wounded, she herself her own
torture,”
― Ovid

“Between the houses was a common wall,
Flawed with a narrow chink long years ago,
When it was built. This chink, so long unnoticed-
But what does it not see? - those lovers found
And made of it their voices' passageway,
And safely flowed the whispered words of love”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“Even the Sun, whose star-born radiance
Governs all the world, became the thrall of love.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses