Themisto
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1
Athamas Aeoli filius habuit ex Nebula uxore filium Phrixum et filiam Hellen, et ex Themisto Hypsei filia filios duos, Sphincium et Orchomenum, et ex Ino Cadmi filia filios duos, Learchum et Melicerten.
Athamas, son of Aeolus, had by his wife Nebula a son, Phrixus, and a daughter, Helle, and by Themisto, daughter of Hypseus, two sons, Sphincius and Orchomenus, and by Ino, daughter of Cadmus, two sons, Learchus and Melicertes.
2
Themisto, quod se Ino coniugio priuasset, filios eius interficere uoluit; itaque in regia latuit clam et occasione nacta, cum putaret se inimicae natos interfecisse, suos imprudens occidit, a nutrice decepta quod eis uestem perperam iniecerat. Themisto cognita re ipsa se interfecit.
Themisto, because Ino had deprived her of her marriage, wanted to kill Ino's children. So she lay hidden in the palace and, when she got her chance, thinking she had killed her rival's children, she unwittingly killed her own, deceived by the nurse, because she had put the garments on them wrongly. When Themisto learned what had happened, she killed herself.
Notes
- Latin names are kept: Nebula is Nephele, the cloud-nymph and mother of Phrixus and Helle.
- Paragraph 2, inimicae: "her rival", that is, Ino.
- Paragraph 2, perperam: "wrongly". The Latin does not say the clothes were swapped between the two sets of children, only that they were put on wrongly, and no swap is supplied in the translation.
- Edition check, still open: this Latin text has not yet been checked against a printed critical edition; the points checked against the online text are noted on the Fabula 3 page.
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