et resides levi modulatus pectine nervos 15 pollice festivo nobile duxit ebur. vix auditus erat: venti frenantur et undae, pigrior adstrictis torpuit Hebrus aquis, porrexit Rhodope sitientes carmina rupes, excussit gelidas pronior Ossa nives; 20 ardua nudato descendit populus Haemo et comitem quercum pinus amica trahit, Cirrhaeasque dei quamvis despexerit artes, Orpheis laurus vocibus acta venit. securum blandi leporem fovere Molossi 25 vicinumque lupo praebuit agna latus. concordes varia ludunt cum tigride dammae; Massylam cervi non timuere iubam. Ille novercales stimulos actusque canebat Herculis et forti monstra subacta manu, 30 quod timidae matri pressos ostenderit angues intrepidusque fero riserit ore puer: “te neque Dictaeas quatiens mugitibus urbes taurus nec Stygii terruit ira canis, non leo sidereos caeli rediturus ad axes, 35 non Erymanthei gloria montis aper. solvis Amazonios cinctus, Stymphalidas arcu adpetis, occiduo ducis ab orbe greges tergeminique ducis numerosos deicis artus et totiens uno victor ab hoste redis. 40 non cadere Antaeo, non crescere profuit hydrae; nec cervam volucres eripuere pedes. Caci flamma perit; rubuit Busiride Nilus; prostratis maduit nubigenis Pholoë. * * * * * Page 317 idle chords with the smooth quill, plied the famed ivory with festal fingers. Scarce had they heard him when the winds and waves were stilled; Hebrus flowed more sluggishly with reluctant stream, Rhodope stretched out her rocks all eager for the song, and Ossa, his summit less exalted, shook off his coat of snow. The tall poplar and the pine, accompanied by the oak, left the slopes of treeless Haemus, and even the laurel came, allured by the voice of Orpheus, though erstwhile it had despised Apollo’s art. Molossian dogs fawned playfully on fearless hares, and the lamb made room for the wolf by her side. Does sported in amity with the striped tiger and hinds had no fear of the lion’s mane.