Cupid & Psyche — Chapter 25

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1Psyche 2vero, 4humi 3prostrata 5et, 9quantum 11visu 10poterat, 7volatus 8mariti 6prospiciens, 14extremis 12affligebat 15lamentationibus 13animum.

1sed 2ubi 9remigio 10plumae 8raptum 6maritum 3proceritas 4spatii 5fecerat 7alienum, 13per 17proximi 16fluminis 15marginem 11praecipitem 12sese 14dedit.

1sed 2mitis 3fluvius, 4in 5honorem 6dei 7scilicet, 8qui 9consuevit, 10urere 11et 12ipsas 13aquas 14metuens 15sibi, 16confestim 17eam 18innoxio 19volumine 21super 22ripam 23florentem 24herbis 20exposuit.

Psyche meanwhile, flung down on the ground and, watching the flight of her husband as far as she could with her eyes, tormented her heart with the most intense laments.

But when the length of space had made her husband no longer hers, carried off by the oarage of his wings, headlong herself through she flung the edge of a river close by.

But the gentle stream, in honour of the god, of course, who is accustomed to set on fire even its very own waters, fearing for itself, at once her with a harmless eddy set down onto a bank rich with grass.

Content — what is happening

Flung down on the ground, Psyche watches her husband’s flight as far as her eyes can follow, tormenting her heart with the bitterest of laments.
But when distance has carried him out of her sight — rowed away on the oarage of his wings — she hurls herself headlong over the brink of a nearby river.
Yet the gentle stream, out of reverence for the god whose fire can set even water ablaze, and fearing for itself, at once lifts her up on a harmless eddy and lays her down on a grassy bank.