Baucis and Philemon Section 3

Interea medias fallunt sermonibus horas

Meanwhile they whiled away the intervening hours with conversations

Sentirique moram prohibent. Erat alveus illic

And prevented a delay being noticed. There was a bowl there

Fagineus dura clavo suspensus ab ansa;

made of beechwood, hung on a nail by [its] hard handle;

Is tepidis impletur aquis artusque fovendos

It was filled with warm water and received [their] limbs

Accipit . In medio torus est de mollibus ulvis

For refreshing. In the middle [of the room] was a mattress of soft sedge

Impositus lecto sponda pedibusque salignis;

Placed on a couch with willow frame and feet;

Vestibus hunc velant, quas non nisi tempore festo

This they covered with coverlets, which they were not

Sternere consuerant, sed et haec vilisque vetusque

Accostumed to spread out except at festive times, but even this

Vestis erat, lecto non indignanda saligno.

coverlet was cheap and old, not unworthy of a willow couch.

Accubere dei.

The gods reclined.