lefs of death, and that of hardy Iberia obeys thee the Sicambrians, who delight in flaughter, laying aside their arms, revere. ODE XV. To AUGUSTUS, on the Restoration of Peace. PHOEBUS chided me, when I was meditating to fing of battles and conquered cities on the lyre; that I might not fet my little fails along the vaft Tyrrhenian fea. Your age, oh Cæfar, has both restored plenteous crops to the fields, and has brought back to our Jupiter* the Roman standards, torn from the proud pillars of the Parthians; and has fhut up the temple of Janus founded by Romulus, now free from the war; and has impofed a due difcipline upon head-ftrong licentiousness, and has extirpated crimes, and recalled the antient arts; by which the Latine name and strength of Italy have increased, and the fame and majefty of the empire is extended from the fun's western bed, even to the east. While Cæfar is at the head of affairs, neither civil rage, nor violence, fhall difturb the general tranquillity; nor hatred which forges fwords and fets at variance unhappy ftates. Not thofe, The temple of Jupiter Capitolinus. who Non qui profundum Danubium bibunt, Non Tanaim prope flumen orti. Cum prole, matronisque noftris, Rite Deos prius apprecati, Virtute functos, more patrum, duces, Trojamque, et Anchifen, et almae Progeniem Veneris canemus. 25 30 QUINTI who drink of the deep Danube, fhall now break the Julian edicts; not the Getae, not the Seres, or the perfidious Perfians, nor those born upon the river Tanais. And let us, both on common and feftal days, amidft the gifts of joyous Bacchus, to gether with our wives and families, having first duly invoked the gods, celebrate, after the manner of our ancestors, with fongs accompanied with Lydian pipes, our late valiant commanders, and Troy, and Anchifes, and the offspring of benign Venus. HORACE's QUINT I HORATII FLACCI EPODON LIBER V. CARMEN I AD MECENATEM. Ad bellum Actiacum profecturo comitem fe offert. BIS Liburnis inter alta navium, IBIS Amice, propugnacula, Paratus omne Cæfaris periculum Subire, Maecenas, tuo. Quid nos? Quibus te vita [a] fi fuperftite Jucunda; fi contra, gravis: Utrumne juffi perfequemur otium Non dulce, ni tecum fimul? [a] Vita fit superstite, Horace offers to accompany him on his departure for the Actian expedition. OU You will go, my friend Maecenas, with Liburnian gallies amongst the towering forts of Antony's large fhips, ready at your own hazard to undergo any of Cæfar's dangers. What shall I do? to whom life may indeed be agreeable if you furvive, but, if otherwife, it will be infupportable. Whether fhall I at your commands pursue my ease, which cannot be pleafing unless in your company? or |