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riis operam navant.

NOLUMUS fanè cum Fabio Horatium in quibufdam interpretari, ideoque locos omnes parùm caftos honeftâ (uti fperamus) fraude ad verecundiam quodammodo revocavimus. Tantum enim abeft ut juvenes ab afterifcis (quibus editiones in ufum Delph. fcatent) quo minùs quædam legant, impediantur, ut potiùs exinde dirigatur, imò invitetur eorum curva in pravum curiofitas.

Q. Horatii Flacci

CARMINUM

LIBER I.

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Q. HORATII FLACCI

CARMINUM

LIBER I

CARMEN I

AD CILNIUM MÆCENATEM.

Alios aliis ftudiis duci: fe lyrici vatis gloriam ambire, unius Macenatis judicio obtinemdam.

ÆCENAS atavis edite regibus,

MA

O & præfidium & dulce decus meum!
Sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum
Collegiffe juvat, metaque fervidis
Evitata rotis, palmaque nobilis

Terrarum dominos evehit✶ ad Deos.
Hunc, fi mobilium+ turba Quiritium
Certat tergeminis tollere honoribus;
Illum, fi proprio condidit horreo
Quidquid de Libycis verritur areis ;

* Evehere. BENTL.
Nunc, fi nobilium.

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All men have different attachments: HORACE's tafte is for Lyric poetry, for the fuccefs of which he depends upon the patronage of MECENAS.

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ECENAS, defcended from royal ancestors, O both my protection and my darling honour! There are fome whofe delight it is to have collected Olympic duft in the chariot race; and whom the goal nicely avoided by glowing wheels, and the noble palm, exalts to the gods-the governors of the world.

This man, if an affembly of the capricious Roman commonalty be bent to raise him to the high. eft dignities; another, if he hath *ftored up in his own granary whatfoever is fwept from the Lybian threshing*Hath imported vast quantities of corn from Africa.

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Gandentem patrios findere farculo
Agros, Attalicis conditionibus
Nunquam dimoveas, ut trabe Cypria
Myrtoum pavidus nauta fecet mare.
Luctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum
Mercator metuens, otium & oppidi
Laudat rura fui: mox reficit rates
Quaffas, indocilis pauperiem pati.
Eft qui nec veteris pocula Maffici,
Nec partem folido demere de die
Spernit, nunc viridi membra fub arbuto
Scratus, nunc ad aquæ lene caput facræ.
Multos caftra juvant, et lituo tubæ
Permiftus fonitus, hellaque matribus
Deteftata. Manet fub Jove frigido
Venator, teneræ conjugis immemor:
Seu vifa eft catulis cerva fidelibus,
Seu rupit teretes Marfus aper plagas.
Me* doctarum ederæ præmia frontium
Dis mifcent fuperis: me gelidum nemus,
Nympharumque leves cum Satyris chori
Secernunt populo; fi neque tibias
Euterpe cohibet, nec Polyhymnia
Lefboum refugit tendere barbiton.
Quod fi me lyricis vatibus inferes,
Sublimi feriam fidera vertice.

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