IV. DRUSI LAUDES. QUALEM ministrum fulminis alitem (Cui rex deorum regnum in aves vagas Permisit, expertus fidelem Juppiter in Ganymede flavo) Olim juventas et patrius vigor Insolitos docuere nisus Egit amor dapis atque pugnae : S So did the Rhaeti and Vindelici See Drusus 'neath their Alpine boundaries In the right hand: all things to know were sin. They learnt what mind, what heart beneath the wing What fruit, the youthful Neros tutoring, Brave men are gendered by the good and brave: The courage of the sire: fierce eagles have Never as progeny unwarlike doves. Yet do all natures strengthening culture crave, Polluting vice the germs of good removes. Witness is Metro's stream, and Asdrubal When, as the flame through pine-forest, or through Videre Raetis bella sub Alpibus Tempus Amazonia securi Consiliis juvenis revictae, Sensere, quid mens rite, quid indoles In pueros animus Nerones. Progenerant aquilae columbam. Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam, Rectique cultus pectora roborant: Utcunque defecere mores, Indecorant bene nata culpae. Quid debeas, o Roma, Neronibus, Testis Metaurum flumen, et Hasdrubal Devictus, et pulcher fugatis Ille dies Latio tenebris, Qui primus alma risit adorea, Dirus per urbes Afer ut Italas, Ceu flamma per taedas, vel Eurus Per Siculas equitavit undas. Post hoc secundis usque laboribus Romana pubes crevit, et impio 1 Their rightful gods received. Outspake at last Meet food for ravening wolves, pursue in haste, This hardy race, from Troy, by fire laid waste, As doth an oak by ruthless hatchet shred, Merged in the deep, they rise with livelier glow: Shall I my boastful envoys expedite To Carthage. Now, with Asdrubal no more, Our name's whole hope and fortune take to flight. Vastata Poenorum tumultu Fana deos habuere rectos. Dixitque tandem perfidus Hannibal; Fallere et effugere est triumphus. Merses profundo, pulchrior evenit: Proelia conjugibus loquenda. Nominis, Hasdrubale interempto. Nil Claudiae non perficient manus : Quas et benigno numine Juppiter Defendit, et curae sagaces Expediunt per acuta belli. |