Od. iii. 13.

O FONS Bandusiæ, splendidior vitro,

Dulci digne mero, non sine floribus,

Cras donaberis hædo,

Cui frons turgida cornibus

Primis et Venerem et prælia destinat,

Frustra; nam gelidos inficiet tibi

Rubro sanguine rivos

Lascivi soboles gregis.

Te flagrantis atrox hora Caniculæ

Nescit tangere: tu frigus amabile

Fessis vomere tauris

Præbes, et pecori vago.

Fies nobilium tu quoque fontium,

Me dicente cavis impositam ilicem

Saxis, unde loquaces

Lymphæ desiliunt tuæ.

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Od. iii. 13.

BANDUSIA, purest fount, as crystal bright,
Well worthy floral wreaths and festal rite,
To thee shall bleed, to-morrow morn,

A kid, whose newly budding horn

Gives hopes of future loves, and battle's shock:

Vain hopes the scion of the wanton flock,

With the red tribute of his blood

Must stain thy cold and silv'ry flood.

Thou by the fiery Dog-Star's fiercest heat
Remain'st untouch'd; thy shelt'ring cool retreat
Is welcome to th' o'er-labour'd ox,

Loos'd from the plough, and wand'ring flocks.

Nor shalt thou want, 'mid founts, an honour'd name; While I, thy bard, consign to future fame

The cavern'd rocks, with ilex crown'd,

Down which thy babbling waters bound.

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Quem super notas aluere ripas,

Fervet immensusque ruit profundo
Pindarus ore,

Laurea donandus Apollinari,

Seu per audaces nova Dithyrambos

Verba devolvit, numerisque fertur

Lege solutis ;

Seu deos, regesve canit, deorum

Sanguinem, per quos cecidere justa
Morte Centauri, cecidit tremendæ

Flamma Chimæræ ;

Od. iv. 2.

WHO seeks to rival Pindar's fame

With waxen wings, Iulus, flies;
To give, like Icarus, a name

To seas, where quench'd his folly lies.

As mountain torrents, swoll'n by rain,
O'erpass their banks, and boil along,
So Pindar, boundless, rolls amain
The deep-mouth'd volume of his song.

With Phoebus' laurel justly crown'd,

Whether in Dithyrambics free,

From trammels loos'd, with words new-found,

He pour his lawless harmony:

Whether of Gods, or kings, the seed

Of Gods, he sing, who gave to death,
Well-merited, the Centaur breed,

And quench'd Chimera's fiery breath;

Sive, quos Elea domum reducit

Palma cœlestes, pugilemve equumve

Dicit, et centum potiore signis

Munere donat;

Flebili sponsæ juvenemve raptum Plorat; et vires animumque moresque aureos educit in astra, nigroque invidet Orco.

Multa Dircæum levat aura cycnum,
Tendit, Antoni, quoties in altos

Nubium tractus: ego, apis Matinæ

More modoque

Grata carpentis thyma per laborem
Plurimum, circa nemus uvidique

Tiburis ripas operosa parvus

Carmina fingo.

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