* * * * * Page 202 et rigidae sedere comae, non distulit atrox iussa deae; sociis, quae viderat, ordine pandit 235 inritatque sequi. Coniurat barbara pubes nacta ducem Latiisque palam descivit ab armis. Pars Phrygiae, Scythicis quaecumque Trionibus alget proxima, Bithynos, solem quae condit, Ionas, quae levat, attingit Galatas. utrimque propinqui 240 finibus obliquis Lydi Pisidaeque feroces continuant australe latus. gens una fuere tot quondam populi, priscum cognomen et unum appellata Phryges; sed (quid non longa valebit permutare dies?) dicti post Maeona regem 245 Maeones. Aegaeos insedit Graecia portus; Thyni Thraces arant quae nunc Bithynia fertur; nuper ab Oceano Gallorum exercitus ingens illis ante vagus tandem regionibus haesit gaesaque deposuit, Graio iam mitis amictu, 250 pro Rheno poturus Halyn. dat cuncta vetustas principium Phrygibus; nec rex Aegyptius ultra restitit, humani postquam puer uberis expers in Phrygiam primum laxavit murmura vocem. Hie cecidit Libycis iactata paludibus olim 255 tibia, foedatam cum reddidit umbra Minervam, hic et Apollinea victus testudine pastor suspensa memores inlustrat pelle Celaenas. * * * * * Page 203 heart, and his stiffened hair sank down again, he made all haste to carry out the commands of the goddess. He told his followers all that he had seen and urged them to follow him. Rebellious Barbary had found a champion and openly threw off the Latin yoke. That part of Phrygia which lies towards the north beneath the cold constellation of the Wain borders on Bithynia; that towards the sunset on Ionia, and that towards the sunrise on Galatia. On two sides runs the transverse boundary of Lydia while the fierce Pisidians hem it in to the south. All these peoples once formed one nation and had one name: they were of old called the Phrygians, but (what changes does time not bring about?) after the reign of a king Maeon, were known as Maeones. Then the Greeks settled on the shores of the Aegean, and the Thyni from Thrace cultivated the region now called Bithynia. Not long since a vast army of Gauls, nomad hitherto, came at last to rest in the district; these laid by their spears, clothed them in the civilized robe of Greece and drank no longer from Rhine’s, but from Halys’, waters. All antiquity gives priority to the Phrygian, even Egypt’s king had perforce to recognize it when the babe, nourished at no human breast, first opened his lips to lisp the Phrygian tongue.[112]