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Præliis audax neque te filebo,
Liber, & fævis inimica virgo
Belluis; nec te, metuende certa
Phoebe fagitta.

Dicam & Alciden, puerofque Ledæ;
Hunc equis, illum fuperare pugnis
Nobilem: quorum fimul alba nautis
Stella refulfit,

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Defluit faxis agitatus humor
Concidunt venti, fugiuntque nubes;
Et minax (quod fic (a) voluere) ponto
Unda recumbit.

Romulum poft hos prius, an quietum
Pompili regnum memorem, an fuperbos
Tarquini fafces, dubito, an Catonis

Nobile lethum.

Regulum, et Scauros, animæque magnæ
Prodigum Paulum, fuperante Poeno,
Gratus infigni referam Camena,

Fabriciumque.

Hunc, & incomtis Curium capillis
Utilem bello tulit, & Camillum

Sæva paupertas, & avitus apto
Cum lare fundus.

Crefcit, occulto velut arbor ævo

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Fama Marcelli: micat inter omnes

Julium fidus, velut inter ignes

Luna minores.

Gentis humanæ pater atque cuftos,
Orte Saturno, tibi cura magni

(a) Sic Di voluere. HEINS. BENTL.

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Cæfaris

Neither will I pafs thee by in filence, O Bacchus, bold in combat: nor thee, O virgin,* who art an enemy to the favage beafts: nor thee, O Phoebus, formidable for your unerring dart. I will fing alfo of Hercules, and the two foast of Leda, the one illuftrious for his atchievements on horfeback, the other on foot; whofe benign conftellation, as foon as it has fhone forth to the failors, the troubled furge falls down from the rocks, the winds ceafe, the clouds vanifh, and the threatening waves fubfide in the fea, becaufe it was their will.

After thefe, I am in doubt whom 1 fhall first commemo. rate, whether Romulus, or the peaceful reign of Numa, or the haughty enfigns of Tarquinius, or the glorious death of Cato? I will celebrate, out of gratitude, with the choiceft verfes, Regulus, and the Scauri, and Paulus, prodigal of his great foul, when Carthage conquer'd, and alfo Fabricius.

Severe poverty, and an hereditary farm, with a dwelling adapted to it, form'd this hero ufeful in war, as it did alfo Curius with his rough locks, and Camillus. The fame of Marcellus increafes, as a tree does in the infenfible progrefs of time. But the Julian constellation fhines amidst them all, as the moon amongst the leffer stars. O thou fon of Saturn, the author and preferver of the human race; the protection of Cæfar is committed to thy VOL, I. charge

* Diana.

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+ Caftor and Pollux,

Tarquinius Prifcus,

Emilius Paulus.

Cæfaris fata data: tu fecundo

Cæfare regnes.

Ille feu Parthos Latio imminentes
Egerit jufto domitos triumpho,
Sive fubjectos orientis oræ
Seras & Indos:

Te minor latum (a) reget æquus

urbem:

Tu grayi curru quaties Olympum;
Tu parum caftis inimica mittes
Fulmina lucis.

CARMEN XIII.

UM tu, Lydia, Telephi

AD LYDIAM.

Cervicem rofeam, cerea Telephi

Laudas, brachia, væ, meum

Fervens difficili bile tumet jecur. Tunc nec mens mihi, nec color

Certa fede manet: humor et in genas Furtim labitur, arguens

Quam lentis penitus macerer ignibus. Uror, feu tibi candidos

Turparunt humeros immodica mero

Rixe; five

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furens

Impreffit memorem dente labris notam. Non, fi me fatis audias,

Speres perpetuum, dulcia barbare Ladentem ofcula, quæ Venus

Quinta (b) parte fui nectaris imbuit. Felices ter, & amplius,

Quos irrupta tenet copula; nec malis

Divulfus querimoniis,

Suprema citius folvet amor die.

(a) Lætum. (b) Quanta. de Prado,

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charge by the fates: thou fhalt reign fupreme with Cæfar for thy fecond. Whether he fhall fubdue with a juft victory the Parthians making inroads upon Italy, or fhall render fubject the Seres and Indians on the eastern coafts; he fhall rule the wide world with equity, in fubordination only to thee: thou shalt shake Olympus with thy tremendous car thou fhalt hurl thy hoftile thunderbolts against the polluted groves.

ODE XIII. To LYDIA.

Horace defcribes his own Jealoufy.

LYDIA, when you commend Telephus's rofy neck, and the waxen arms of Telephus, alas my inflamed liver fwells with bitter choler, At that time, neither is my mind firm, nor does my colour maintain a certain fituation:* and the involuntary tears glide on my cheek, demonftrating with what lingering flames I am inwardly confumed. I am on fire, whether exceffive quarrels in your cups have flained your fair fhoulders; or whether the youth, in his fury, has impreffed with his teeth a memorial of himself on your lips. If you'll give due attention to my advice, never expect that he will be conftant, who inhumanly wounds thofe fweet kiffes, which Venus has steep'd in the quinteffence of her own nectar. O more than thrice happy are those, whom an indiffoluble connection binds together; and whofe love, undivided by impious complainings, does not feparate them fooner than the day of death.

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ODE * That is, my reafon is confused, and my colour comes and goes.

CARMEN XIV.

NAVIS, referent in mare novi

Fluctus? O quid agis? Fortiter occupa
Portum nonne vides, ut
Nudum remigio latus,

Et malus celeri faucius Africa,
Antennæque gemant; ac fine funibus
Vix durare carinæ

Poffint imperiofius

Equor? Non tibi funt integra lintea;
Non Di, quos iterum preffa voces malo.

Quamvis Pontica pinus,

Silvæ filia nobilis

Jactes & genus, & nomen inutile:

Nil pictis timidus navita puppibus
Fidit, tu, nifi ventis

Debes ludibrium, cave.

Nuper follicitum quæ mihi tædium,.

Nunc defiderium, curaque non levis,

Interfufa nitentes

Vites æquora Cycladas.

CARMEN XV.

Nerei vaticinium de ruina Troja.

PASTOR cum traheret per freta navibus
Idæis Helenam perfidus hofpitam;

Ingrato celeres obruit otio

Ventos, ut caneret fera

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Nereus fata. Mala ducis avi domum,

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