Narrat pæne datum Pelea Tartaro, 15 mortem accelerare Bellerophonti nimiùm pudico. Refert Peleum tantùm non interfectum, cùm temperans eluctatur Hip Magnessam Hippolyten dum fugit abstinens; polytam è Magnesiâ. Quin Et peccare docentes Fallax historias movet Frustra, nam scopulis surdior Icarî Voces audit adhuc integer. At, tibi Ne vicinus Enipeus Plus justo placeat, cave; etiam deceptor narrat historias crimen admittere suadentes. 20 Sed incassum. Etenim rupibus Icarii maris durior ista verba excipit huc usque incorruptus. Tibi verò cave ne, plusquam par est, arrideat Enipeus vicinus. Tametsi nemo tam peritus Quamvis non alius flectere equum sciens 25 equum regendi in Campo Mar Eque conspicitur gramine Martio, Nec quisquam citus æque Tusco denatat alveo. Primâ nocte domum claude; neque in vias Sub cantu querulæ despice tibiæ; Et te sæpe vocanti Duram difficilis mane. tio spectatur: nullusque tam expedite flumen Hetruscum tranat. Ædes occlude nocte ineunte: nec in vias deorsum aspice ad sonitum canoræ fistulæ : et crudelem frequenter appel30 lanti, crudelis persiste. NOTES. 18. Hippolyten.] Wife of Acastus, king of Magnesia, a region in Thessaly. Pindar, Nem. iv. 92. Abstinens.] Refusing to yield to her seductions. 19. Et peccare, &c.] And other stories the insidious agent quotes-prompting to illicit compliance, to escape the vengeance of women's baffled passions. 21. Icari.] Scil. maris. Od. i. 1. 15. But deafer than the rocks of the Icarian Sea, &c. ̓Αλλ' ἴσα πόντῳ Ιονίῳ μύθων ἔκλυες ἡμε Téρwv. Philod. xx. 5. in Anthol. Gr. 22. Adhuc integer.] Still sound-with faith unbroken. 24. Plus justo.] Too much-beyond the point of propriety. 25. Quamvis, &c.] Although he does ride better than any body else in the Campus Martius, and swims, &c. Compare Od. i. 8. 6. 28. Tusco alveo.] In the Tiber, which flows through Etruria-the Tuscan country. 29. Prima nocte, &c.] Early in the evening close your door; nor look out of the window, into the street, at the music of his plaintive pipe. 31. Et mane.] And keep firm-not facilis -not giving way, or opening the door to him, though he call you ever so unkind. Sci refertum, atque prunæ consti- Plena, miraris, positusque carbo tutæ in gramine virenti. Cespite vivo, licet arboris ego lapsu ferè exanimatus lautas dapes et hoedum Docte sermones utriusque linguæ. candidum Baccho promiseram. Voveram dulces epulas, et album En dies iste lætus anno vertente Libero caprum, prope funeratus Arboris ictu. recurrens corticem pice affixum auferet dolio quod fumum contrahere cœpit sub Consulatu Hic dies, anno redeunte, festus Tulli. O Maecenas, accipe cen- Corticem adstrictum pice demovebit tenos scyphos, ob amicum incolumem, et lychnos accensos pro- Amphoræ, fumum bibere institutæ duc usque ad diem. Longè abConsule Tullo. sit vociferatio quælibet et rixa. Sume, Mæcenas, cyathos amici Dimitte solicitudines de civitate. Sospitis centum, et vigiles lucernas Mitte civiles super Urbe curas: NOTES. presiding deity of wedlock, was wreathed with flowers. Ovid, Fast. iii. 253. Acerra.] A small box, apparently, in which was usually kept the tus intended to be burnt at the sacrifice-not the pan or vessel in which it was actually burnt. Sat. i. 5. 36. 3. Carbo.] Coal, or charcoal rather, placed, ready for kindling, on the turf-altar. 4. Vivo.] Fresh-cut. 5. Docte, &c.] Well acquainted with both Greek and Roman literature-with the customs, and rites, and antiquities of both people. You wonder at these preparations of mine, not being aware, with all your knowledge, of any public or customary occasion for such a solemnity. 6. Voveram, &c.] It is not a public occasion, but entirely a private one. It is in consequence of a vow-a festival and a goat in honour of Bacchus, as a grateful commemoration of the day on which, but for his protection, I should have been killed, &c. 7. Libero.] In Od. ii. 17. 28. the escape is ascribed to Faunus, and Od. iii. 4. 27. to the Muses. 9. Hic dies, anno red. &c.] This festive day, the Calends of March, in each returning year, shall remove the cortex from an amphora, which has been drinking the smoke ever since the year Tullus was consul. The wine is kept for this especial purpose. 10. Demovebit.] Instead of the dimovebit of other editions. Dimovere applies to many things, demovere to one. Words compounded with di and de are often confounded-originating in the negligence or ignorance of transcribers. Corticem.] The cork, or bung, fastened with pitch, or rosin, and sometimes with wax, and sealed. 11. Amphora.] Amphora, or cadus, was an earthen jar, with a narrow mouth, and two handles, containing eight or nine gallons. 5 10 15 Fumum bibere.] To imbibe smoke. The ancients had repositories in the upper part of their houses, accessible to the smoke from below, where the wine in amphora was supposed to imbibe the smoke, and mellow-thus accelerating the slow effects of age. Colum. de R. R. i. 6. 20. Instituta.] Set up, or placed in the apotheca or repositories. 12. Consule Tullo.] That is, 689 U. C., the year in which L. Volcatius Tullus was consul with M. Æmilius Lepidus. Of course, if the Ode was written, as it appears from line 22 to have been, 734 U. C., the wine must have been forty-seven years old. Another Tullus was consul U. C. 721; but Horace twice speaks of wine of his own age, that is, of the vintage of 689 U. C. (Od. iii. 21. 1. and Epod. 13. 8.) This, however, may be not quite decisive, because those lines may have been written earlier than his forty-seventh year; but in Od. iii. 14. 18. he alludes to wine Marsi memorem belli, and that at a date which will certainly make it more than fifty years old. 13. Sume, &c.] Come and take a hundred cyathi, in commemoration of your friend's deliverance, &c. Cyathos.] The cyathus held the twelfth part of a sextarius, (the sextarius about a pint)-it was of the form of a spoon, or bivalve-shell, and with it wine was measured into drinking-cups, and diluted in fixed proportions with water. 14. Vigiles lucernas, &c.] Keep the lamps burning till day-light-keep up the festivities -drink till morning. 16. Clamor, et ira.] Let there be no bickerings nor tumults. 17. Mitte, &c.] Mæcenas was, at this time, præfect of the city, 734 U. C. Augustus was in the East. Tacit. Ann. vi. 11. Dio. xlix. 16. Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen ; Servit Hispanæ vetus hostis oræ, Negligens, ne qua populus laboret, NOTES. 18. Daci Cotisonis.] The Daci, headed by Cotison, were repulsed by Lentulus this year. Suet. Oct. 21. and Fl. iv. 12. 19. Medus infestus, &c.] The Parthians were split into factions, and in hostility to each other. Revolts were excited by the friends of Teridates against Phraates, recently restored. Od. ii. 2. 17. Luctuosis.] Comp. Od. iii. 6. 8., where is the same word applied to Italy, on a similar occasion. 21. Hispana ora.] The northern shore of Spain-the Cantabri. 22. Serd.] Subdued at last. Od. ii. 6. 2. 23. Scytha.] These seem to be the Geloni, Od. ii. 9. 22., checked by Lentulus in the same campaign in which he routed the Daci. Apparently they occupied the shores of the lower Danube, or spread towards the Dnieper. The limits of the Sarmata and the Scythæ are ill defined. The boundary usually Deletus est exercitus Cotisonis Daci. Medus sibimet adversarius bello fatali distrahitur. 20 Cantaber Hispaniæ fines incolens, antiquus noster inimicus, subactus est, quamvis tardâ profligatus victoriâ. Jam Scythæ arcu remisso incipiunt agris discedere. Tu quasi privatus omitte 25 curare, et plusculùm consulere ne quid detrimenti capiat populus: atque temporis præsentis usurâ fruere, genio indulgens, et molesta abjice. assigned is the Don; but there is no evidence that Lentulus did much more than cross the Danube. Laxo arcu.] As suspending the use of it against the Romans, and retreating behind the lines of demarcation fixed by Lentulus. 24. Cedere campis.] Ready to recede, or retire from the plains occupied by them, and from which with facility they made incursions upon the Roman territory. 25. Negligens, &c.] Construe Privatus, parce nimium cavere, ne qua populus laboret, negligens. Though in so responsible an office, yet, as all our enemies, east and west, are subdued, or at least in no condition to trouble the empire, relax your cares, and, as if you were a private man, &c. 26. Parce, &c.] Do not be unnecessarily apprehensive about public dangers, &c. 28. Linque severa.] Official cares. Lyd. Quamdiu non alteram plùs Lyd. Donec non aliâ magis dilexisti, nec Lydia posthabita est Chloë; ego Lydia magnæ Arsisti, neque erat Lydia post Chloën; famæ illustrior florui quàm Ilia Multi Lydia nominis Romana. Hor. Mihi jam do Romanâ vigui clarior Iliâ. minatur Chloë è Thraciâ, perita Hor. Me nunc Thressa Chloë regit, suavium modulorum, ac pulsan- Ornyti è Thurio, pro quo bis Lyd. vivo fata indulgeant. Hor. Quid Pro si vetus amor reviviscat, et divulsos copulet æreo vinculo? si 5 Dulces docta modos, et citharæ sciens; 10 Si parcent animæ fata superstiti. Si parcent puero fata superstiti. formosa Chloë rejicitur, et os- Hor. Quid? si prisca redit Venus, tium meum aperitur pulsæ Lydiæ ? Lyd. Tametsi est ille astro splendidior; tu verò es levior subere, atque Adriatico Diductosque jugo cogit aëneo? Si flava excutitur Chloë, Rejectæque patet janua Lydiæ ? mari procelloso ferocior; tecum Lyd. Quamquam sidere pulchrior Ille est, tu levior cortice, et improbo 15 20 Tecum vivere amem, tecum obeam libens. NOTES. Persarum rege, &c.] I was happier than the king of the Persians-selected as the richest, and, in the common estimate, the happiest and most enviable of mortals. 5. Alia arsisti.] As long as you loved nobody more ardently than myself. Ardere alia, instead of ardere ob aliam. Od. ii. 4. 7. 6. Neque erat, &c.] And as long as Lydia was not placed after Chloe-that is, as long as Chloe was not preferred to me. Horace only spoke vaguely of some youth-Lydia names her rival plump. 7. Multi Lydia nominis.] Known everywhere as the Lydia blessed with the love of the poet, and celebrated in his verses. 8. Romana Iliá.] I was more illustrious than Ilia, the mother of the founder of Rome, between whom and a king of Persia merely the difference was immense. 9. Me regit.] Rules me-I am her subject and slave. 10. Cithara sciens.] Kidápas sidvĩa. 12. Animæ.] My life, that is, my Chloe. 13. Me torret face mutud.] Fires me with a mutual torch-with whom I am madly in love, and he with me. Horace's regit is comparatively tame. 14. Thurini.] Of Thuria-a town of Lucania, built near the ruins of Sybaris. Lydia opposes the name to Thressa―a foreigner, and perhaps a slave or libertine. Ornyti.] A son of Ornytus-somebody, of course, of importance. 15. Bis mori.] Horace says simply mori. 17. Prisca Venus.] My old love-my old affection for you. 18. Diductos.] And couples together you and me, now disunited, in her firmest yoke. 19. Flava.] Descriptive of the colour of the hair-but repeatedly used for fair or beautiful. 20. Rejectæque, &c.] And my door be thrown open again to you, whom I had cast off. 22. Ille.] Calais, son of Ornytus. Levior cortice.] Lighter than cork-proverbial, for levity or caprice. 23. Irac. Hadrid.] More passionate and stormy than the Adriatic. Od. i. 33. 15. Amantium iræ amoris integratio est. CARMEN X. AD LYCEN. EXTREMUM Tanain si biberes, Lyce, Puro numine Jupiter? Ingratam Veneri pone superbiam, Tyrrhenus genuit parens. Nec vir Pieriâ pellice saucius Curvat; supplicibus tuis ODE X. METRE III. NOTES. At the door of Lyce, in the night, when the snow lies on the ground, and the winds whistle, the poet deprecates the cruelty of his mistress, and implores her to admit himwarning her that his powers of endurance are limited. Compare Od. i. 25; Propert. i. 16.7; Ovid, Am. i. 6; Theoc. 3. and 23. 1. Extremum.] Not strictly as of the remotest river, but as very distinct. Just as extremi Arabes, extremi Indi, ultima Africa, &c. Tanain.] The Don. Si biberes.] If you drank the waters of the Don-if you were the wife of a Scythian. 2. Savo nupta.] The wife of a Scythian, who would visit your infidelities with the severest vengeance. Asperas ante fores.] Before the cruel doors -expressively for, your doors thus cruelly closed against me. 3. Incolis.] That eternally dwell—are residents in Scythia. Od. i. 16. 6. 4. Plorares.] You would weep-you would have too much pity to expose me, thus prostrate, to the winds, &c. 5. Nemus inter pulch., &c.] The trees and shrubs in the impluvium-the interior, or court, or quadrangle, around which the dwelling and offices were built. Ep. i. 10. 22; Tibull. iii. 3. 15. 6. Pulchra tecta.] Lyce therefore occupied a considerable house, and may be supposed to have been of a respectable rank in life. O Lyce, si potares ultimum Tanaïm marito juncta barbaro, nihilominus fleres me ante januam tuam duram extensum exponere ventis Septentrionalibus illic habitantibus. Nonne 5 audis quo murmure tuæ fores, quo nemus in ædibus magnificis consitum resonet ventis perflantibus? utque Jupiter puro numine constringat nives demissas? Abjice fastum Veneri odiosum, ne funiculus retrorsum abeat rotâ versatâ. Tyrrhenus pater haud procreavit te Penelopen amantibus intractabilem. O licèt te nec dona flectant, nec vota, nec violaceus pallor amore tabescentium, neque maritus 15 tuus amore pellicis Pieriæ vulneratus, indulge supplicantibus tibi, 10 7. Positas.] ground. Et positas ut glaciet.] Supply percipis, or something like it, after et. The snows which lay on the 8. Puro numine.] Clear sky-clear, frosty night. Jupiter for aër. 10. Ne currente rotá.] A crane-wheel, suppose, for raising weights aloft by means of a rope, which will run backward if the counteracting power be withdrawn. Do not strain your power, lest,-like the rope of a cranewheel, which, too heavily laden, runs down again-it fail you at last. 11. Penelopen difficilem.] As chaste as Penelope-the wife of Ulysses. Od. ii. 6. 7. 12. Tyrrhenus.] Lyce was thus an Etrurian, and the Etrurian ladies were not famed for severity. Athen. xii. 3. 14. Tinctus violá pallor.] Poetically for pallor violaceus. A bilious hue seems to be meant. Pliny speaks of violets, purpurea, LUTEE, alba. Comp. Ep. i. 10. 16. pallor luteus. This paleness is one of the symptoms of love-the effect of suspense and agitation, and harassed feelings. Palleat omnis amans, hic est color aptus amanti. 15. Nec vir, &c.] Nor, though your husband is in love with a Pierian-a Thessalian. harlot. Pieria is in Thessaly. 16. Curvat.] Bends you, or induces you to listen to my vows. Supplicibus tuis.] Do not suffer me, your |