1. PĀN ET SYRINGA

2. Ōlim erat nympha pulchra. Nōmen nymphae erat Syringa

3. Syringa in Arcadiā habitābat.

4. Deī et satyrī Syringam amābant

5. Syringa nymphās cēterās et Dīānam amābat

6. Deus Pān Syringam videt et statim amat. Dīxit: `Aeternum tē amābō’

7. Syringa autem dīxit: `Aeternum nympha Dīānae erō’

8. Per silvās fugitat dōnec rīpam undārum spectat

9. Nymphae eam in papyrōs mūtant.

10. Pān fistulam fōrmat, et fistulae nōmen Syringam dat.

11. Text reprinted from Latin Via Ovid, A First Course, Second Edition by Norma Goldman and Jacob E. Nyenhuis, copyright © 1982 Wayne State University Press, with the permission of Wayne State University Press.