Note 578 — BOOK IX.
William Julius Mickle translation
And stain'd with lover's blood.—Pyramus and Thisbe:—
"Arborei fœtus aspergine cædis in atram Vertuntur faciem: madefactaque sanguine radix Puniceo tingit pendentia mora colore..... At tu quo ramis arbor miserabile corpus Nunc tegis unius, mox es tectura duorum; Signa tene cædis: pullosque et lectibus aptos Semper habe fœtus gemini monumenta cruoris." Ovid, Met.