OCR GCSE Latin - Verse Literature - Baucis et Philemon (Ovid) - Lines 26-35

interea medias fallunt sermronibus horas

sentirique moram prohoibent. erat alveus illic

fagineus dura clavo suspensus ab ansa;

Meanwhile, they while away the intervening hours with conversations and prevent the delay from being realised. There was a bathtub there made of beech, suspended from a nail by a sturdy handle

is tepidis impletur aquis artusque fovendos

accipit. in medio torus est de mollibus ulvis

impositus lecto sponda pedibusque salignis;

this is filled with water and receives limbs which need warming. In the middle of the house is a mattress of soft sedge placed on a bed with a frame and feet made of willow

vestibus hunc velant quas non nisi tempore festo sternere consuerant, sed et haec vilisque vetusque vestis erat, lecto non indignanda saligno.

they cover this with a coverlet which they were not accustomed to strew over it except at holidy time, but even this coverlet was both cheap and ancient, not to be deemed unworthy of the willow couch.

accubere dei.

The gods reclined on it