Perseus and Andromeda (Latin song)

Cepheus et Cassiope Andromedam filiam habent. Cassiope, superba forma sua, cum Nymphis se comparat. Neptunus iratus ad oram Aethiopiae urget beluam marinam, quae incolis nocet. Oraculum incolis respondet: " regia hostia deo placet!". Tum Cepheus Andromedam ad scopulum adligat; belua ad Andromedam se movet. Repente Perseus calceis pennatis advolat; puellam videt et stupet forma puellae. Amans invisus beluam delet et amorem liberat.  (Perseus hasta beluam delet et Andromedam liberat. Cepheus, Cassiope et incolae Aethiopiae valde gaudent.) (G. Savvantidis / M. Paschalis)

Cepheus and Cassiopeia have a daughter, Andromeda. Cassiopeia boastful of her beauty, compares herself to the Nymphes. Poseidon, enraged, sends at the Aethiopian shore, a maritime beast, which harms the residents. The oracle responds: Royal sacrifice pleases the God. Then Cepheus chains his daughter at a rock and the beast is moving towards her. Suddenly Perseus, with winged shoes, comes from the sky. Looking at the girl, he is stunned by her beauty. In love and invisible, he destroys the monster and liberates the love.

Κηφεὺς καὶ Κασσιόπη Ἀνδρομέδαν ἔχουσι θυγατέρα. Κασσιόπη,  τυφωθεῖσα ἑαυτῆς μορφῇ ἑαυτὴν  ταῖς Νύμφαις συγκρίνει. Ποσειδῶν ὀργισθεὶς πέμπει ἐπ' Αἰθιοπικὴν ἀκτὴν κῆτος θαλάσσιον, ὅ φθείρει κατοίκους. Μαντεῖον δ' Αἰθίοψιν ἀποκρίνεται: βασιλικὴ θυσία τῷ θεῷ ἀρέσκει. Κηφεὺς θυγατέρα ἐπὶ σκοπέλου  δεσμοῖ καὶ τὸ κῆτος κινεῖται πρὸς αὐτήν. Ἐξαπίνης Περσεὺς πτερωτοῖς ὑποδήμασιν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἀφικνεῖται. Ἰδὼν δὲ τὴν παρθένον θαμβοῦται τῷ κάλλει αὐτῆς. Ἐρῶν τε καὶ ἀόρατος κτείνει τὸ κῆτος καὶ ἀποδεσμοῖ τὴν ἀγάπην. (Μ.Μ)

Image-Links: (Cepheus - Urania's mirror) (Cassiopeia - George Ward) (Andromeda - Kagaya) (Cassiopeia - Kagaya) (Venus at her Mirror - Diego Velázquez) ( Nymphs - William-Adolphe Bouguereau(Poseidon- R.Sanders ) (Monster Windmill -Patrick McEvoy) (Priestess of Delphi - John Collier) (Sacrifice - El Castillo, Chichen Itza, Mesoamerican pyramid) (Cepheus - Leiden Aratea) (Andromeda - Paul Gustave Doré) ( Andromeda - Auguste Rodin) (Clash of the Titans 1981 film - Judie Bowker - Harry Hamlin ) (Andromeda - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres) ( Territorial Monster - Dodo-Dodoulis) ( Charles Napier Kennedy - Clark Gable, Carole Lombard -collage- ) (Funland) (Judie Bowker - Harry Hamlin)