Supper with Gods - I

Metamorphoses VIII, 626-636 - Ovid: Juppiter huc specie mortali cumque parente To this part of the country came Jupiter in human disguise and with him his son, Mercury, venit Atlantiades positis caducifer alis. carrying a messenger's staff though not his wings, which he had put aside. mille domos adiere locum requiemque petentes, A thousand homes they approached looking for a place to rest. mille domos clausere serae; tamen una recepit, A thousand homes were barred; till one gave them shelter, parva quidem, stipulis et canna tecta palustri, a small one to be sure, roofed with stalks and reeds from the marsh. sed pia Baucis anus parilique aetate Philemon In that cottage dear old Baucis, and Philemon, her equal in age, illa sunt annis juncti juvenalibus, had first set up home as young newly-weds and stayed there through middle age. illa consenuere case paupertatemque fatendo They were penniless; but by acknowledging and cheerfully putting up with their lot effecere levem nec iniqua mente ferendo; they made light of it. nec refert, dominos illic famulosne requiras: In that house there was no distinction between master and servant; tota domus duo sunt, idem parentque iubentque. the two were the entire househod; they both gave instructions and both carried them out.