adaptation of Ovid Met. 4.167-89

[maestissimus]

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Deus dē arte eius cōgitāvit.
The god, I believe, is Vulcan. Shouldn't suam be used instead of eius? To me, eius implies it's Sol's art.

Mōmentum laqueum effēcit, et Venus et Mārs, dēprensī arte marītī, in mediīs amplexibus haesērunt.
I'm puzzeled by in mediīs amplexibus. "Movement brought about the trap, both Mars and Venus, caught by husband's skill, got stuck in the middles embraces."???
I'm not clear if Mars and Venus are embracing, or if they are embraced by the net, and why the plural is used.

Aliquis dē dīs (nōn tristibus) dixit:
"Someone said about the (not sad) gods?" Or perhaps "it was said (not with sadness)," but tristis is plural.

 

[AoM]

For the second, literally "in the midst of their embraces".

For the third, take aliquis and de dis together.

 

[Pacifica]

Deus dē arte eius cōgitāvit.
The god, I believe, is Vulcan. Shouldn't suam be used instead of eius? To me, eius implies it's Sol's art.

Can you post the surrounding paragraph or so? (In any case, if the reflexive were used, it would be suā, ablative; but I need to see the context to know who's thinking about whose art.)

Mōmentum laqueum effēcit, et Venus et Mārs, dēprensī arte marītī, in mediīs amplexibus haesērunt.
I'm puzzeled by in mediīs amplexibus. "Movement brought about the trap, both Mars and Venus, caught by husband's skill, got stuck in the middles embraces."???

As AoM said, the meaning is "in the midst of their embraces". Instead of using a noun meaning "midst" or "middle" and following it with a genitive, Latin often uses the adjective medius, -a, -um in agreement with the noun that would come after "the middle/midst of" in English. So for example in medio horto sounds like "in the middle garden", and it can mean that in some contexts, but more often it will actually mean "in the middle/midst of the garden". Here similarly in mediis amplexibus --> in middle embraces --> in the middle/midst of (their) embraces.