Lemniades
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1
In insula Lemno mulieres Veneri sacra aliquot annos non fecerant, cuius ira uiri earum Thressas uxores duxerunt et priores spreuerunt. at Lemniades eiusdem Veneris impulsu coniuratae genus uirorum omne quod ibi erat interfecerunt, praeter Hypsipylen, quae patrem suam Thoantem clam in nauem imposuit, quem tempestas in insulam Tauricam detulit.
On the island of Lemnos the women had not performed sacrifices to Venus for several years; in her anger their husbands took Thracian wives and spurned their former ones. But the Lemnian women, at the prompting of that same Venus, conspired and killed every male on the island, except Hypsipyle, who secretly put her father Thoas aboard a ship, whom a storm carried to the island of Taurica.
2
interim Argonautae praenauigantes Lemno accesserunt; quos ut uidit Iphinoe custos portae, nuntiauit Hypsipylae reginae, cui Polyxo aetate constituta dedit consilium ut eos laribus hospitalibus obligaret hospitioque inuitaret.
Meanwhile the Argonauts, sailing past, put in at Lemnos; when Iphinoe, the gatekeeper, saw them, she announced it to Queen Hypsipyle, to whom Polyxo, advanced in age, advised that she should bind them by the household gods of hospitality and invite them as guests.
3
Hypsipyle ex Iasone procreauit filios Eunum et Deipylum.
Hypsipyle bore Jason sons, Euneus and Deipylus.
4
ibi cum plures dies retenti essent, ab Hercule obiurgati discesserunt.
When they had been detained there for many days, they departed, rebuked by Hercules.
5
Lemniades autem postquam scierunt Hypsipylen patrem suum seruasse, conatae sunt eam interficere; illa fugae se mandauit. hanc praedones exceptam Thebas deportarunt et regi Lyco in seruitutem uendiderunt.
When the Lemnian women learned that Hypsipyle had saved her father, they tried to kill her; she fled. Robbers captured her, carried her off to Thebes, and sold her into slavery to King Lycus.
6
Lemniades autem quaecunque ex Argonautis conceperunt, eorum nomina filiis suis imposuerunt.
Whatever children the Lemnian women conceived by the Argonauts, they gave their sons the names of those Argonauts.
Notes
- Paragraph 1, patrem suam: as supplied (feminine suam with masculine patrem); translated as “her father” without emending the Latin. Hyginus specifies Thebes in paragraph 5, though other traditions place Lycus in Nemea; “Thebes” is kept as supplied.
- Paragraph 2: Polyxo and eos are supplied in Packhum. Paragraph 3: Eunum and Deipylum are supplied in Packhum.
- Edition check, still open: this Latin text has not yet been checked against a printed critical edition; the points above were checked against the Packhum online text.
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