Translation

              He threw the shining gold apple to the side of the field. From where she would take a long time to retrieve it. The maiden doubted whether she should chase it: I forced her to raise the apple. I threw some weight into the having been raised apple and impeded her with the burden equally with the gravity and the delay, and so my discussion is not longer than the course, with the maiden having been passed: I led the victor to his prize. “Am I worthy of someone whom makes thanks, to someone whom bears the honor of frankincense, Adonis? Forgetful, neither does he give me thanks, nor does he incense me. I had undergone a turn towards anger, and suffering contempt, so that I not be which is to be rejected in the future, I ordered that both would be made an example of by me myself: the temple having been concealed in shady forest, of the gods Cybele, mother of Gods, which was sometime made out of a vow by noble Echion, was traversed, and the length of the journey urged rest; there, incited by means of a divine sway, an untimely lust for intercourse occupied Hippomenes. There was a drawn back room of narrow light near the temple, similar to a cave having been covered in natural pumice, an ancient sacred holy place, which many priests were gathered together with old statues of wood of the gods; he enters in and violated the shrine with having been forbidden intercourse. They turned their eyes away from the sacred images, and Cybele with a turreted crown wavered if she should send the criminals down under the wave of the Styx: but the punishment seemed to be light; thus just now tawny manes covered their light necks, their fingers curved into claws, out of shoulder came animal shoulders, a heavy burden went away in their chest, the top of sands is being swept by their tail; their face retained an angry gaze and they return murmurs instead of words, instead of marriage-beds they in the woods and they were which is to be feared by others, and with a tamed tooth they pressed the bit of Cybele as lions. This you must flee from, my dear, with every uncivilized type, which do not back away and flee, but fight with breasts, so that your manhood does not ruin us both!” “She warned him, and made her way through the air, drawn by harnessed swans, but his courage went against the warning. By chance, his dogs, having followed a marked trail, roused a wild boar from its lair…