Latin Ovid: Echo and Narcissus Part 3

ille fugit fugiensque 'manus complexibus aufer; ante' ait 'emoriar, quam sit tibi coia nostri.'

He runs away, and while running away, he says: 'Take your hands away from embracing me; may I die before you have enjoyment of me.'

rettulit illa nihil nisit 'sit tibi copia nostri!

she replied nothing except, 'you may have enjoyment of me!

spreta latet silvis pudibundaque frondibus ora protegit et solis ex illo vivit in antris;

rejected she hides in the woods and embarrassed she covers her face with foliage and she lives from that time in lonely caves;

sed tamen haeret amor crescitque dolore repulsae:

but still her love persists and grows with the pain of rejection:

attenuant vigiles corpus miserabile curae,

her sleepless troubles make her pitiable body thin,

adducitque cutem macies, et in aera sucus corporis omnis abit;

and her thinness shrinks her skin, and all the moisture of her body goes off into the air;

vox tantum atque ossa supersunt: vox manet:

only her voice and her bones are left: her voice remains:

ossa ferunt lapidis traxisse figuram.

they say that her bones took on the appearance of stone.

inde latet silvis nulloque in monte videtur.

from then on she hides in the woods and is seen on no mountain.

omnibus auditur: sonus est, qui vivit in illa.

but she is heard by everyone: her sound is all that remains of her.