Latin 3 Ovid King Midas L. 104-112 Translation

adnuit optatis nocituraque munera solvit

Liber

• Bacchus nodded assent to his wishes and released the gifts

  about to harm

• Bacchus nodded assent to his wishes and released the gold

  about to harm

et indoluit, quod non meliora petisset.

• and cried, for he had not asked for better.

• and grieved, because he had not asked for better.

laetus abit gaudetque malo Berecyntius heros

pollicitique fidem tangendo singula temptat

• The happy Berecyntian hero leaves and rejoices in his evil

  and tests his faith by touching individual things with his thumb

• The sad Berecyntian hero leaves and rejoices in his evil

  and tests his luck by touching individual things with his thumb

vixque sibi credens, non alta fronde virentem

ilice detraxit virgam: virga aurea facta est;

• and scarcely believing it, he pulled off a brown twig

  from the not high foliage from an oak tree: the twig became silver;

• and scarcely believing it, he pulled off a green twig

  from the not high foliage from an oak tree: the twig became golden;

tollit humo saxum: saxum quoque palluit auro;

• he lifts a rock from the ground; the rock also grew pale with gold;

• he lifts a stick from the ground; the stick also grew pale with gold;

contigit et glaebam: contactu glaeba potenti

massa fit;

• and he touches the soil: the soil becomes a weight (of gold)

  with his powerful touch;

• and he touches the soil: the soil becomes a weight (of gold)

  with his golden fingers;

arentis Cereris decerpsit aristas:

• he plucked off the corn husks of grain:

• he plucked off the dry crops of grain: