QUO, CARMEN VII. AD ROMANOS. Bellum civile Redintegrantes. UO, quo fcelefti ruitis? Aut cur dexteris parumne campis atque Neptuno fuper Non ut fuperbas invidae Carthaginis Intactus aut Britannus ut descenderet Sacra catenatus via : Sed ut, fecundum vota Parthorum, fuz Sic eft: acerba fata Romanos agunt, Ut immerentis fluxit in terram Rémi 5 15 20 CARMEN [a] Furorne caecos. ODE VII. To the ROMAN PEOPLE. On their renewing the Civil War. THITHER, whither impious are you rufhing? Or why are the fwords drawn that were fo lately fheathed? Is there then too little of Roman blood fpilt upon land and fea? and this, not that the Romans might burn the proud towers of envious Carthage, or that the Britons, hitherto unaffailed, might go down the Sacred Way bound in chains: but that, agreeably to the wishes of the Parthians, this city may fall by its own strength. And yet this barbarous method of fighting never obtained even amongst either wolves or favage lions, unless against a different fpecies. Does blind phrenzy or your fuperior valour, or fome crime, hurry you on at this rate? Answer me. They are filentand livid palenefs infects their countenances, and their ftricken fouls are stupified. This is the cafe : a cruel fatality, and the crime of fratricide, have difquieted the Romans, from that time, when the blood of the innocent Remus,* to be expiated by his defcendants, was fpilled upon the earth. He was flain by his brother Romulus, for rediculing his wall by leaping over it. CARMEN VIII. IN ANUM LIBIDINOSAM. ROGARE longo putidam te feculo, Vires quid enei vet meas? Cum fit tibi dens ater, et rugis vetus Podex, velut crudae bovis. Sed incitat me pectus, et mammae putres, Venterque mollis, et femur tumentibus Exile furis additum. Efto beata: funus atque imagines: Ducant triumphales tuum: Nec fit marita quae rotundioribus Onufta baccis ambulet. Quid, quod libelli Stoici inter fericos Jacere pulvillos amant? Illiterati num minus nervi rigent? Quod ut fuperbo provoces ab inguine, IQ 15 20 CARMEN ODE VIII. Upon a WANTON OLD WOMAN. CAN you, grown rank and old, ask what un nerves my vigor? When your teeth are black, and old age withers your brow with wrinkles; and whofe back finks between your ftaring hip-bones, like that of an unhealthy cow. But, forfooth! your breast and your fallen cheft-full well refembling a broken-backed horse, provokes me; and a body flabby, and feeble knees fupported by fwollen legs. May you be happy and may triumphal ftatues * adorn your funeral proceffion : and may no matron appear in public abounding with richer pearls. What follows, because the bookifh ftoics fometimes love to indulge on filken pillows? are unlearned conftitutions the lefs robuft? or are their limbs lefs ftout? but for you to raise an appetite in a ftomach that is nice, it is neceffary that you exert every art of language. ODE There was a privilege, termed the right of Images, which permitted the ftatues of fuch ancestors of the deceased as had been dignified by public honours, to be car-Fied in the funeral proceffion, Qu CARMEN IX. AD MECENATEM. Actiacae victoriae primordia celebrat. Uando [a] repoftum Caecubum ad feftas dapes Tecum fub alta (fic Jovi gratum) domo, Beate Maecenas, bibam, Sonante [b] miftum tibiis carmen lyra, Minatus Urbi vincla, quae detraxerat Romanus (eheu! pofteri negabitis) Emancipatus foeminae 5 Fert vallum et arma miles, et fpadonibus Servire rugofis poteft: Interque figna turpe militaria Sol afpicit conopeum. Ad [c] hunc frementes verterunt bis mille equos Galli, canentes Cæfarem : Hoftiliumque navium portu latent Puppes finiftrorfum citae. To triumphe; tu moraris aureos To triumphe; nec Jugurthino parem Bello reportafti ducem; [a] Quando o repoftum. HEINS. [b] Mixtis tibiis carmen. [e] Ad hoc frementes. BENTL. 15 Neque |