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Neu desint epulis rosae,

Neu vivax apium, neu breve lilium. Omnes in Damalin putres

Deponent oculos, nec Damalis novo Divelletur adultero

Lascivis hederis ambitiosior.

XXXVII.

NUNC est bibendum, nunc pede libero Pulsanda tellus: nunc Saliaribus

Ornare pulvinar deorum

Tempus erat dapibus, sodales. Antehac nefas depromere Caecubum Cellis avitis, dum Capitolio

Regina dementes ruinas,

Funus et imperio parabat
Contaminato cum grege turpium
Morbo virorum, quidlibet impotens
Sperare, fortunaque dulci

Ebria. Sed minuit furorem
Vix una sospes navis ab ignibus;
Mentemque lymphatam Mareotico
Redegit in veros timores
Caesar, ab Italia volantem

Dogging her flight from Italy, (e'en so

Hawk, gentle dove pursues, or through the snow
Keen sportsman, hare, on Aemon's plains,)

And, bent on girdling with his chains
That baleful marvel, who, resolved to die
By nobler death, paled not with womanly
Fear of the sword's fell menace, nor

Sought with swift ships some secret shore;
But with a countenance serene could eye
Her ruined palace, and courageously

Handle infuriate asps, nor shrank

While their foul spume her body drank: Firmer since she her death had pre-ordained, Not she, in truth, by rude Liburnians deigned To be borne off triumphantly,

As though some low-born woman, she.

The thin inner bark of the linden-tree, says Mr. Macleane, was used for a lining on which flowers were sewn to form the richer kind of chaplets called 'sutiles.'

I HATE, boy, preparations Persian:

Linden-wrought wreaths are my aversion.
Cease searching in what corner grows
Delaying there, the tardy rose;
And labour not so anxiously
Aught to plain myrtle to supply.

Myrtle will shame not, I opine,
Either thy forehead, page, or mine,

While here I drink, 'neath arching vine.

Remis adurgens, accipiter velut Molles columbas, aut leporem citus Venator in campis nivalis

Haemoniae, daret ut catenis

Fatale monstrum: quae generosius
Perire quaerens, nec muliebriter
Expavit ensem, nec latentes
Classe cita reparavit oras.
Ausa et jacentem visere regiam
Voltu sereno, fortis et asperas
Tractare serpentes, ut atrum

Corpore combiberet venenum;
Deliberata morte ferocior,
Saevis Liburnis scilicet invidens
Privata deduci superbo

Non humilis mulier triumpho.

XXXVIII. AD PUERUM.

PERSICOS odi, puer, apparatus :
Displicent nexae philyra coronae :
Mitte sectari rosa quo locorum
Sera moretur.

Simplici myrto nihil allabores

Sedulus curo: neque te ministrum Dedecet myrtus, neque me sub arta Vite bibentem.

THE ODES OF HORACE.

BOOK II.

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