CARMEN XXXVIII. AD PUERUM. Admonet ut cænam fine ambitiofo apparatu ftruat. PERSICOS odi, puer, apparatus: Mitte fectari, rofa quo locorum Simplici myrto nihil allabores Sedulus [a] curo: neque te ministrum 5 Q. HORA [a] Sedulus curæ. Sedulus cura. Bentl. ODE XXXVIII. To his SERVANT. He forewarns him against any extravagant doings d his entertainment. BOY, OY, I deteft the pomp of the Perfians: chap lets, which are woven with the Philyra,* di please me: by no means hunt for the place wher the latter rose abides. It is my particular defin that you make no laborious addition to the plai myrtle; for myrtle is neither unbecoming you fervant, nor me while I quaff under this mantlin vine. THI * Philyra; a thin membrane between the bark ar the wood of the Tilia, or Linden-tree, which they mad ufe of by way of riband in their chaplets, &c. Q. HORATII FLACCI CARMINUM LIBER II. CARMEN I. AD ASINIUM POLLIONEM. oratur ut, intermiffis tragediis, det fe totum facribende bellorum civilium hiftoriæ. [OTUM ex Metello confule civicum, Bellique caufas, & vitia, & modos, Ludumque Fortunæ, gravefque Principum amicitias, & arma ondum expiatis [a] uncta cruoribus, riculofæ plenum opus aleæ Tractas, & incedis per ignes Suppofitos cineri dolofo. [a] Tincta cruoribus, 5 Paulum To ASINIUS POLLIO. He entreats him to quit tragedy for the prefent, that he may apply himself wholly to the hiftory of the civil wars. ΤΟ OU are treating of the civil commotion, which began in the confulfhip of Metellus, and the causes of the war, and the crimes that were committed, and the measures that were taken, and the fport of fortune, and the pernicious* confederacy of the chiefs, and arms ftained with blood not yet expiated-a work full of hazardous confequence: and you are treading upon fires hid under deceitful The triumvirate of Octavius, Lepidus, and Antony. Paulum feveræ Mufa tragedie Dalmatico peperit triumpho. Jam nunc minaci murmure cornuum Terret equos, equitumque vultus. Et cuncta terrarum fubacta, Præter atrocem animum Catonis. Juno, & Deorum quifquis amicior Afris, inulta cefferat impotens Tellure, victorum nepotes Rettulit inferias Jugurtha. Quis non Latino fanguine pinguior Campus fepulcris impia proelia Hefperiæ fonitum ruine? Qui gurges, aut quæ flumina lugubris Non decoloravere cædes? Quæ caret ora cruore nostro ? Sed ne relictis, Mufa procax, jocis, Ceæ retractes munera næniæ: Mecum dionæo fub antro Quære modos leviore plectro. |