Apollo et Hyacinthus, K. 38: No 8. Recitativo: Amare numquid Filia (Oebalus/Melia)
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OEBALUS:
Amare numquid Filia, haud dubito, Deum,
Favore qui ter dignus est nostro, potes?
MELIA:
Quid loquere, Pater? Apollo mortalem
Sibi me coniugali cupiat adiungi thoro?
OEBALUS:
Dubitare noli, Apollo te sponsam petit,
Meumque, libertate sed Nata utere
Tua, roganti placidus adsensum dedi.
MELIA:
Negare num me, Genitor! adsensum putes?
Quae virgo contempsisse divinum virum
Tantosque honores, stulta nisi et animi impotens
Fuerit, et obstitisse fortunae velit?
OEBALUS:
Prudenter istud Nata! coniugium eligis
Sic namque per te Frater et Genitor tuus,
Sic et Nepotes sorte divina eminent
Sic nostra diva efficitur his facibus domus.
MELIA:
Dic, ubi moratur Apollo? colloquio illius
O ut liceret optimo actutum frui!
OEBALUS:
Cum Fratre disco ludit et Zephyro simul
In nemore. At huc redibit, ut spero, citius
Tuumque me praesente consensum petet.
MELIA:
O petat! habebit omne, quod pectus cupit.
OEBALUS:
My daughter, I have no doubt that you are able to love
a god who is ever worthy of our favour?
MELIA:
What are you saying, father? Apollo wants me, a mere
mortal, to be joined to him in marriage?
OEBALUS:
Have no doubt about it, Apollo wants you for his wife,
and I was glad to give my consent,
but the choice is yours, my daughter.
MELIA:
Surely you could not think I would refuse, father?
What girl would want to reject a divine suitor and
such an honour, or to turn her back on such good
fortune, unless she were a weak-minded fool?
OEBALUS:
You are wise, my daughter, to choose this union
for in this way, through you, your brother, father and
descendants will be elevated by the god's status,
and our house made divine by these nuptial torches.
MELIA:
But tell me, what is delaying Apollo? Would that I
could straightaway enjoy his noble conversation!
OEBALUS:
He's throwing the discus with your brother and
Zephyrus in the woods. But I hope he will return here
Soon to ask for your hand in my presence.
MELIA:
Let him ask, and he'll have everything his heart desires.
Amare numquid Filia, haud dubito, Deum,
Favore qui ter dignus est nostro, potes?
MELIA:
Quid loquere, Pater? Apollo mortalem
Sibi me coniugali cupiat adiungi thoro?
OEBALUS:
Dubitare noli, Apollo te sponsam petit,
Meumque, libertate sed Nata utere
Tua, roganti placidus adsensum dedi.
MELIA:
Negare num me, Genitor! adsensum putes?
Quae virgo contempsisse divinum virum
Tantosque honores, stulta nisi et animi impotens
Fuerit, et obstitisse fortunae velit?
OEBALUS:
Prudenter istud Nata! coniugium eligis
Sic namque per te Frater et Genitor tuus,
Sic et Nepotes sorte divina eminent
Sic nostra diva efficitur his facibus domus.
MELIA:
Dic, ubi moratur Apollo? colloquio illius
O ut liceret optimo actutum frui!
OEBALUS:
Cum Fratre disco ludit et Zephyro simul
In nemore. At huc redibit, ut spero, citius
Tuumque me praesente consensum petet.
MELIA:
O petat! habebit omne, quod pectus cupit.
OEBALUS:
My daughter, I have no doubt that you are able to love
a god who is ever worthy of our favour?
MELIA:
What are you saying, father? Apollo wants me, a mere
mortal, to be joined to him in marriage?
OEBALUS:
Have no doubt about it, Apollo wants you for his wife,
and I was glad to give my consent,
but the choice is yours, my daughter.
MELIA:
Surely you could not think I would refuse, father?
What girl would want to reject a divine suitor and
such an honour, or to turn her back on such good
fortune, unless she were a weak-minded fool?
OEBALUS:
You are wise, my daughter, to choose this union
for in this way, through you, your brother, father and
descendants will be elevated by the god's status,
and our house made divine by these nuptial torches.
MELIA:
But tell me, what is delaying Apollo? Would that I
could straightaway enjoy his noble conversation!
OEBALUS:
He's throwing the discus with your brother and
Zephyrus in the woods. But I hope he will return here
Soon to ask for your hand in my presence.
MELIA:
Let him ask, and he'll have everything his heart desires.