_And the hind has stood still on the crag close beside the lioness._
+VII.+ +Et sĭne līte lŏquax cum Palladis ālite cornix sēdit.+
+Līte+ = _strife_. To _litigate_ = contest in law (+lit + agere+) may help you to the root-meaning.
+Loquax+ = _talkative_, clearly connected with +lŏq-uor+, and _loq_-uacious. +Alite+ = _a bird_, lit. _winged_; cf. +āl-a+, a _wing_.
+Cornix+ = _a crow_, probably from √καρ; cf. our _croak_, and κόραξ, +cor-vus+, a _raven_.
+Palladis.+ You have no doubt heard of Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη, the virgin goddess of war and of wisdom.
(ii.) _Translation._--The force of the illustration lies in the strong contrast between the chattering, tale-bearing crow and the wise, silent owl sacred to the goddess of wisdom. Two such opposites, under the spell of Arion’s music, forget to quarrel, though for the time in close company.
_And the chattering crow has without strife sat in company with the bird of Pallas._
+VIII.+ +Et accipitri iunctă cŏlumbă fuit.+
+Accipitri+ = _hawk_ (a general name for birds of prey), probably from √πετ-, +pet-+ = _move quickly_; cf. πέτ-ομαι = _fly about_; +pĕt-o+ = _fall upon_, _attack_, _seek_.
So +accipiter+ = +ac + pĕt-+, _swift + flying_; cf. ὠκύπτερος = _swift-winged_.
(ii.) _Translation._--The metre shows that +columbă+ and +iunctă+ must be taken together:--
_And the dove has-been-joined-to (has consorted with) the hawk._
+Cynthia saepe tuis fertur, vōcalis Ărīōn, Tamquam fraternis obstŭpuisse mŏdis.+
+Cynthia+ = _Diana_ (_Artemis_), so called from Mt. Cynthus, in Delos, where she and Apollo were born.
+Fertur+ = _is said_, _asserted_; cf. +fĕrunt+ = _they say_.
+Vōcalis+ = _tuneful_, clearly from same root as +vox+, +vŏc-o+, &c., of our _vocal_. For change of quantity cf. +rex+, +rēgis+, from +rĕgo+.
+Obstŭpuisse+ = _to have been spell-bound_; +stŭp-eo+, +stŭp-idus+, and our _stupefy_, _stupid_ will suggest the root-meaning.[11]
+Mŏdis+ = _measures_, especially of verse, or, as here, of music.
[Footnote 11: Notice this word, which is often employed to express the ideas of _entránce_, _enthrall_, _strike dumb_, _amaze_.]
(ii.) _Translation._--You will remember that Apollo, the god who brings back light and sunshine in spring, is also the god of music and of poetry. Ovid skilfully implies that Arion’s playing was so beautiful that even Diana, Apollo’s own sister, mistakes Arion’s playing for her brother’s.