Ovid’s Metamorphoses #015/111: “Mercury and Battus”

What this project is about.  

This one is from Book 2.

How long it took to read this (aloud): 2mins 30

What it’s “about”: A shepherd sees too much, can’t help himself, suffers for his “treachery”

Words I didn’t know: none

Quotable quotes

Dear Stranger, you are safe; even that rock will tell a story before I speak a word.

The old man, trapped by sight of double gifts.

Mercury laughed,, “Old scoundrel, you’d betray Me to myself before my eyes.”

How it lands to my eco-sensibility: Stones have feelings too (silicon based life forms – Ogri, Eldred etc) 

Obvious allusions, ways it was used (that I am aware of already) : xx

What I know I didn’t ‘get’: xx

To my knowledge, who’s used it why/how (RACC): xx

Further research questions: xx

Anything else: xx

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