Diva, producas fobolem; Patrumque. UTERQUE CHORUS. Certus [a] undenos decies per annos Orbis ut cantus referatque ludos Ter die claro, totiefque grata Nocte frequentes Vofque veraces ceciniffe Parcae, Quod femel dictum eft [b] ftabilifque rerum Terminus fervet,, bona jam peractis Jungite fata. Fertilis frugum pecorifque tellus CHORUS PUERORUM. Condito mitis placidufque telo CHORUS PUELLARUM. Siderum regina bicornis audi, Luna, puellas UTERQUE CHORUS. Roma fi veftrum eft opus, Iliaeque [a] Certus ut denos. [b] Stabilis per acvum. BENTL. 85 9@ 95 .100 Cui Genitalis. Oh goddess, multiply our offspring; and profper the decrees of the fenate in relation to the joining of women in wedlock, and the matrimonial law about to teem with a new race. CHORUS OF YOUTHS AND VIRGINS. That the stated revolution of an hundred and ten years may bring back the hymns and the games, three times by bright-day light reforted to in crowds, and as often in the welcome night. And you, ve fatal fifters, infallible in having predicted what is now established, and what the fettled order of things preferves, add propitious fates to those already paft. Let the earth, fertile in fruits and flocks, prefent Ceres with a fheafy crown: may both falubrious rains and Jupiter's pure air cherith the young brood. CHORUS OF YOUTHS. Apollo, mild and gentle, with your sheathed arrows, hear the fuppliant youths: CHORUS OF VIRGINS. Ch moon, thou horned queen of stars, hear the virgins. CHORUS OF YOUTHS AND VIRGINS. If Rome be your work, and the Trojan troops arrived on the Tuscan fhore, the part commanded by your oracles to change their homes and city by a fuccefsful navigation: for whom the pious Æneas VOL. I. U fur Cui per ardentem fine fraude Trojam Di probos mores [a] docili juventae, Quique [c] vos bobus veneratur albis Jam mari terraque manus potentes Jam Fides, et Pax, et Honor, Pudorque Copia cornu. CHORUS PUERORUM. Augur, et fulgente decorus arcu Phoebus, acceptufque novem Camenis, Qui falutari levat arte feffos Corporis artus; Si Palatinas videt [e] aequus arces [a] Mores docilis juventae. [b] Difenectutis placidae, [c] Quaeque vos bobus. [d] Impetret bellante prior. Palatinas videt arces. furviving his country, fecured a free paffage, without damage, through the burning Troy, about to give them more ample poffeffions than thofe that were left behind. O ye deities, grant to the traciable youth probity of manners; to old age, ye deities, grant a pleating retirement; to the Roman people, in general, wealth, and a numerous progeny, and every kind of glory. And may that prince, the illuftrious iffue of Anchifes and Venus, who this day worships you with offerings of white bulls, reign fuperior to the warring enemy, but merciful to the proftrate, Now the Parthian by fea and land, dreads our powerful forces and the Roman axes: now the Scythians beg to know our commands, and the Indians, but lately fo arrogant. Now truth, and peace, and honour, and ancient modefty, and neglected virtue, dare to return, and happy plenty appears, with her horn full to the brim. CHORUS OF THE YOUTHS. Phoebus, the god of augury, and confpicuous for his fhining bow, and dear to the nine mufes, who, by his falutary art, fooths the wearied limbs of the human body; if he, propitious, furveys his own Palatine, may he prolong the Roman affairs, and the happy ftate of Italy to another luftrum, and to a ftill improving age. |