gest the vision of the Muses in Hes. Theog. 1-10 sqq., so exquisitely imitated in the last song of Callicles, in Arnold's Empedocles. 6. Pindo: Verg. Ecl. 10. 11. -Haemo: the earlier Thracian seat of the worship of the Muses, and the tradition of Orpheus. Cf. Verg. G. 2. 488, O, qui me gelidis convallibus Haemi | sistat. 7. temere: blindly, in mad rout; 2. 11. 14. 8. Orphea: a symbol of the charms of music 'to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.' Cf. Simon. fr. 40; Aeschyl. Ag. 1629; Eurip. Bacchae, 562; Iph. Aul. 1211, etc.; Anth. Pal. 7. 8; Apoll. Rhod. 1. 26; Ov. Met. 11. 44–46; Hor. Epp. 2. 3. 392; Shaks. Henry VIII. 3. 1, M. of V. 5. 1; Dryden, St. Cecilia, Orpheus could lead the savage race, | And trees unrooted left their place | Sequacious of the lyre'; Tenn. Amphion; Dobson, A Case of Cameos, Sardonyx; Words. Power of Music. Cf. also on 1. 24. 13; 3. 11. 13. 9. materna: Calliope; Verg. Ecl. 4. 57. Cf. fraterna, 1. 21. 12. — morantem: 3, 11, 14, morari. Cf. Thyrsis, whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal,' Milton, Comus; Sen. Herc. Fur. 577, ars quae praebuerat Aluminibus moras; Verg. Ecl. 8. 4. : 10. lapsus cf. Milton's 'liquid lapse of murmuring streams,' and his smooth-sliding Mincius'; Horace's labitur et labetur; Epode 2. 25, labuntur. 11. blandum: cf. 1. 24. 13; 3. 11. 15; 4. 1. 8; Propert. 1. 8. 40, blandi carminis obsequio.—auritas: Tyrrell, Latin Poetry, p. 184, says that 'long-eared oaks' is a strange deviation from the lyrical manner.' Cf. Verg. G. 1. 308, auritos lepores. But cf. Plaut. Asin. Prol. 4, face nunc iam . . . omnem auritum poplum; Manilius, 5. 322, et sensus scopulis et silvis addidit aures; Milton, 'that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard | In Rhodope where woods and rocks had ears | To rapture.' — fidibus canoris: Verg. Aen. 6. 120, Threicia fretus cithara fidibusque canoris. 13. solitis: the customary ab Iove principium (Verg. Ecl. 3. 60), the κ Aids άpxwμeola of Greek poetry; Arat. Phaen. 1; Pind. Nem. 2. 1.-parentis: 2. 19. 21; Arnold, Empedocles, 'First hymn they the father | Of all things; and then, | The rest of immortals, | The action of men'; Hesiod, Theog. 16-18. Cf. 3. 4. 45; Verg. Aen. 1. 230. 15. mundum: the universe, and more specifically the heavens. Cf. Munro on Lucret. 1. 73. 16. temperat: governs, preserves the harmonious order of. Cf. 3. 4. 45; Epp. 1. 12. 16; Propert. 4. 4. 26, quis deus hanc mundi temperat arte domum; Ovid, cited on 1. 49; Thomson, Spring, ‘And temper all, thou world-reviving sun, | Into the perfect year'; Pausan. 1. 40. 4.-horis: seasons. Cf. 3. 13. 9; A. P. 302. 17. unde: ex quo. Cf. 1. 28. 28; 2. 12. 7; Sat. 1. 6. 12; 2. 6. 21. So the Deity in Milton, 'For none I know | Second to me or like, equal much less.' 18. secundum : cf. Quintil. 10. 1. 53, ut plane manifesto appareat quanto sit aliud proximum esse, aliud secundum; i.e. close following (sequor). Cf. Verg. Aen. 5. 320. Hence tamen is to be taken closely with proximus. 19. occupavit = Hesiod says obtinet. Some read occupabit. 20. Pallas: she is in Homer second only to Zeus. her power is equal to her sire's, Theog. 896. In Aeschylus (Eumen. 826) she boasts that she alone knows the keys of the chambers of the thunder-bolt. Cf. Callim. Hymn 5. 132-133. 21. proeliis audax is a possible epithet of Liber conceived as the Greek Bacchus (cf. 2. 19. 28), and balances inimica and metuende if so taken rather than with Pallas. But the position of neque is unusual. 22. Cf. on cohibentis arcu, 4. 6. 34; Theog. 11, "Aρteμ Onpopóvn. — virgo: voc. 23-24. certa . . . sagitta cf. Catull. 68. 113. Byron, Childe Harold, 4. 161, 'The lord of the unerring bow,' with which he slew the Python; Ov. Met. 1. 438 sqq. 25. Alciden: Hercules. Cf. Lexicon. So in English poetry, 'Young Alcides when he did redeem | The virgin tribute paid by howling Troy,' Shaks. M. of V. 3. 2.- puerosque Ledae: Il. 3. 237, Κάστορά θ' ἱππόδαμον καὶ πὺξ ἀγαθὸν Πολυδεύκεα ; Sat. 2. 1. 26, Castor gaudet equis, ovo prognatus eodem | pugnis. 27. quorum: when their. —simul (ac): 1. 9. 9. 27-28. alba... stella: cf. on 1. 3. 2. 28. refulsit: cf. on 2. 17. 23. 29-32. Cf. Theoc. 22. 15; note position of verbs: back from the rocks streams-down die the winds-away flee the clouds. Cf. Tenn. Locksley Hall, Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree.' — agitatus humor: wind-blown spray, or 'wind-shaked surge' (Othello, 2. 1). 30. concidunt: cf. Verg. Aen. 1. 154, sic cunctus pelagi cecidit fragor. 31. et joins (29 + 30) to 31, 32. sic voluere: parenthetical formula of submission to or recognition of the inscrutable divine power. Cf. 1. 33. 10; II. 1. 5. Some read sic di. 32. recumbit: Sen. Thyest. 589, mitius stagno pelagus recumbit. 33. quietum: the peaceful reign of Numa Pompilius established the religious and civil traditions of Rome. Cf. Livy, 1. 21.6. 35. Tarquini... Catonis: the last king and the last republican. Proud rule of Tarquin rule of Tarquin the Proud - Superbus. Cf. Cic. Phil. 3. 9, Tarquinius; . . non crudelis ... sed superbus habitus est et dictus. His reign was splendid on the whole, despite its disgraceful close. Macaulay, Virginia, 'He stalked along the Forum like King Tarquin in his pride.'-dubito: the throng of great memories crowds on the soul of the bard. Cf. Verg. Aen. 6. 842-845; Gray, The Bard, 'Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.' 36. nobile letum: his suicide at Utica, which gave him the epithet Uticensis, and made him the idol of declaimers. Cf. on 2. 1. 24. 37. Regulum: cf. on 3. 5. 13 sqq. - Scauros: Niebuhr says he never could understand why Horace placed Scaurus in this roll of honor. See the character of M. Aemilius Scaurus, Sall. Jug. 15. Cicero often praises him. Cf. Juv. 11. 90. The reference is perhaps to the story of M. Scaurus, lumen ac decus patriae (Valer. Max. 5. 8. 4), whose stern rebuke to his son for joining the rout in the defeat of Catulus by the Cimbri drove the young man to suicide. 38. L. Aemilius Paullus sought voluntary death on the field of Cannae (B C. 216), lost by the rashness of his colleague in the consulship, Terentius Varro. Cf. Livy, 22. 49. For prodigum, cf. Ov. Am. 3. 9. 64, sanguinis atque animae prodige Galle tuae. 39. gratus: possibly in grateful memory, or merely pleasing. Cf. Martial, 4. 55. 10, grato non pudeat referre versu. —insigni : in lofty strain, or quae reddit insignes. Cf. 3. 25. 7, dicam insigne. — camena: cf. Lexicon, s. v. ; 2. 16. 38; 3. 4. 21; 4. 6. 27; 4. 9. 8. 40 sqq. Cf. Milton, P. R., 'Canst thou not remember | Quintus, Fabricius, Curius, Regulus? | For I esteem those names of men so poor, | Who could do mighty things.' The constancy of Fabricius, whom King Pyrrhus' gold could not seduce nor his 'big beast' terrify, is in all the copy books. Cf. Cic. de Off. 3. 22; Plut. Pyrrhus. For M' Curius Dentatus, consul 275, who defeated Pyrrhus at Beneventum, cf. Macaulay, cited on Epode 9. 24. Camillus took Veii and delivered Rome from the Gauls (390). The names of all three were proverbial to point a moral. Cf. Otto, Sprichwörter der Römer, s.v. Cf. Martial, 1. 24. 3; Juv. 2. 3. 41. incomptis: Quintil. (9. 3. 18) quotes this line. There were no barbers at Rome till after B.C. 300. intonsis is read. Cf. on 2. 15. 11. 42. utilem: belongs to all these names. πόλει παρασχεῖν σῶμα χρήσιμον θέλει; Οr. bello equorum; Soph. Ajax, 410. Cf. Eurip. Suppl. 887, 43. paupertas: cf. 3. 2. 1; 3. 24. 42.—apto: the dwelling matches the modesty of the little ancestral farm. 45. occulto. aevo: cf. Shakspeare's 'unseen, yet crescive in his faculty'; Anth. Pal. 7. 564. 3, àvwíoтolo xpóvoio; Ov. Met. 10. 519, labitur occulte fallitque volatilis aetas. Nauck, however, takes it of a tree whose roots go back to unknown antiquity, Kiessling of growth towards an unknown future! For the comparison of tree and family, cf. Pind. Nem. 8. 40. 46. Horace, like Vergil (Aen. 6. 860), blends the name and fame of M. Claudius Marcellus, who took Syracuse в.c. 212, with that of the young Marcellus, son of Octavia, husband of the emperor's daughter Julia, whose premature death B.C. 23 was so much deplored. Cf. Propert. 4. 17. 15; Gardthausen, 2. 399 sqq. — micat: cf. Ov. Trist. 5. 3. 41, sic micet aeternum vicinaque sidera vincat. 47. Iulium sidus: cf. Verg. Ecl. 9. 47, ecce Dionaei processit Caesaris astrum. A comet appeared after the death of Julius Caesar. Cf. Pliny, N. H. 2. 93. Gray, Ode for Music, 'The star of Brunswick smiles serene, | And gilds the horrors of the deep.' ignes: Doubt that the stars are fire,' says Hamlet; 'cold fires,' Tennyson calls them. เ 48. minores: Epode 15. 2. Cf. Sir H. Wotton, You common people of the skies, | What are you, when the moon shall rise' ? Cf. Claudian's expansion of the image, In. Prob. et Olybr. Con. 22 sqq.; Sappho, fr. 3; Bacchylides, 9. 28. 49 sqq. Jupiter in heaven, Augustus on earth. Cf. Ov. Met. 15. 858, Iuppiter arces | temperat aetherias et mundi regna triformis | Terra sub Augusto: pater est et rector uterque.— custos: 4. 5. 2; 4. 15. 17. 53-55. seu . one conclusion. sive marking divers alternatives that lead to : Cf. 4. 2. 10; 1. 1. 27; 1. 4. 12; 1. 16. 3; 2. 3. 5; 1. 7. 20; 2. 14. 11; 2. 17. 17; 3. 4. 22; 3. 21. 2. 53. imminentes: cf. on 3. 6. 9. 54. egerit: the captives preceded the chariot of the triumphator. Cf. on 4. 2. 34. — iusto: legitimo, fairly earned. 55. subiectos . . . orae: beneath the margin of the eastern sky, or simply along the farthest eastern shore. Cf. Tenn. Tiresias, 'All the lands that lie | Subjected to the Heliconian ridge.' 56. Cf. 1. 2. 22. n.; 4. 15. 23; 3. 29. 27; 4. 14. 42. 57. minor: 3. 6. 5. 59. parum castis: desecrated, polluted, by homicide or other crime. The stroke of the lightning was sufficient proof of the fact and required expiation (Preller-Jordan, 1. 193). ODE XIII. Jealousy. When thou praisest Telephus, O Lydia, I turn pale, I weep, I burn. Deem them not pledges of a lasting love-the ravenous teeth that have smitten | Through the kisses that blossom and bud.' These violent delights have violent deaths. Blest is the tie that truly binds, unbroken to the end. Translated by Blacklock, Johnson's Poets, 18. 216. 1. Telephi: the angry repetition has the effect of a direct quotation of her fond iteration. Cf. on 1. 35. 15, and Plato, Symp. 212. D; Sat. 1. 6. 45. For name cf. 3. 19. 26; 4. 11. 21. 2. roseam: Verg. Aen. 1. 402, rosea cervice; Tenn. Princess, 'the very nape of her white neck was rosed,' etc. cerea: apparently of the smooth even texture of the flesh. But Ovid uses wax as type of whiteness (A. A. 3. 199; Ex Pont. 1. 10. 28). |