Plectantur silvae, te sospite: multaque merces, Unde potest, tibi defluat aequo Ab Jove, Neptunoque sacri custode Tarenti. Negligis immeritis nocituram Postmodo te natis fraudem committere? Fors et Debita jura vicesque superbae Te maneant ipsum. Precibus non linquar inultis; Teque piacula nulla resolvent. Quamquam festinas (non est mora longa) licebit, Injecto ter pulvere, curras. XXIX. AD ICCIUM. IccI, beatis nunc Arabum invides Gazis et acrem militiam paras : Non ante devictis Sabaeae Regibus, horribilique Medo Nectis catenas. Quae tibi virginum Puer quis ex aula capillis Ad cyathum statuetur unctis, Accustomed with his father's bow to fly That headlong rivers may flow back Uphill, and Tiber change his track; And the entire Socratic family, Composed perhaps on the occasion of some lady friend of Horace sacrificing, or dedicating a little chapel to the Goddess of Love. O VENUS, queen of Cnidus and of Paphos, Let with thee haste thy fervid boy, the Graces, Is when without thee. Doctus sagittas tendere Sericas Montibus, et Tiberim reverti; Pollicitus meliora, tendis? XXX. AD VENEREM. O VENUS, regina Cnidi Paphique, Sperne dilectam Cypron, et vocantis Ture te multo Glycerae decoram Transfer in aedem. Fervidus tecum puer, et solutis Mercuriusque. In commemoration of his victory at Actium, Augustus dedicated to Apollo a temple, with a library attached, built by him on the Palatine Hill. After the ceremonies of dedication were over, we may suppose Horace putting in his own claim to the god's favour in this Ode, in which he represents himself as offering a libation, and asking for mens sana in corpore sano.' WHAT asks the bard in consecrated shrine Not goodly herds from parched Calabria's fold; Not meads through which, with quiet play, With pruning-hook be vines Calenian pressed Choice wines, in trade's exchanges ta'en The Atlantic main uninjured. Me Mild mallows nourish, olives, succory. To enjoy with mind still vigorous and in health; Not lacking the lute's company. XXXI. AD APOLLINEM. QUID dedicatum poscit Apollinem Non aestuosae grata Calabriae Mordet aqua, taciturnus amnis. Mercator exsiccet culullis Vina Syra reparata merce, Dis carus ipsis, quippe ter et quater Me cichorea, levesque malvae. Frui paratis et valido mihi, Cum mente; nec turpem senectam |