Diva, producas fobolem ; Patrumque. UTERQUE CHORUS. Certus [a] undenos decies per annos Orbis ut cantus referatque ludos Ter die claro, totiefque grata Nocte frequentés Vofque veraces ceciniffe Parcae, Quod femel dictum eft [b] ftabilifque rerum Terminus fervet,, bona jam peractis Jungite fata. Fertilis frugum pecorifque tellus Spicea donet Cererem corona: Et Jovis aurae. CHORUS PUERORUM. Condito mitis placidufque telo Supplices audi pueros, Apollo: CHORUS PUELLARUM. UTERQUE CHORUS. Roma fi veftrum eft opus, Iliaeque [a] Certus ut denos. [b] Stabilis per aevum. 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 cherish 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 ui per ardentem fine fraude Trojam Di probos mores [a] docili juventae, Quique [c] vos bobus veneratur albis a mari terraque manus potentes am Fides, et Pax, et Honor, Pudorque CHORUS PUERORUM. Augur, et fulgente decorus arcu Phoebus, acceptufque novem Camenis, Qui falutari levat arte fellos Corporis artus ; Si Palatinas videt [e] aequus arces [a] Mores docilis juventae. 105 115 120 125 130 CHORUS [b] Difenectutis placidae, [d] Impetret bellante prior. furviving his country, fecured a free paffage, with out damage, through the burning Troy, about to give them more ample poffeffions than thofe tha were left behind. O ye deities, grant to the tracta ble youth probity of manners; to old age, ye deities, grant a pleafing 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 Anchises 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 muses, 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 af fairs, and the happy state of Italy to another luf trum, and to a ftill improving age. |
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