7), the latter part is a dactylic trimeter catalectic (No. 3). It is, therefore, directly the reverse of the preceding.

Occasiōnēm de dre: || dumquè vi|rënt gënйļā.

The license mentioned in the preceding measure takes place also in this; as

Epod. Line.

13.

8. Red icet in sedem vice. Nunc, &c.

10. Levure diris pectorā sollicitudinibus

14. Findunt Scamandri flumină, lubricus &c.

These lines are also, like those mentioned in the preceding section, called ȧovváρτητоι, or inconneri. Many editions prefer the following arrangement, which has simplicity in its favor, but not strict accuracy:

Occasiōnēm de | drẻ :

Damque vi rent gra.

METRICAL INDEX

TO THE

LYRIC COMPOSITIONS OF HORACE.

Ali, Vetusto..
...................... 18, 18, 8, 20 | Icci, beatis......
Equam memento ... 18, 18, 8, 20 Ille et nefasto

Altera jam teritur 1, 5

...

Impios parrae.

10, 10, 10, 4

Angustam, amice.... 18, 18, 8, 20 Inclusam Danaën.... 13, 13, 13, 14

Bacchum in remotis. 18, 18, 8, 20 Integer vita

Intactis opulentior... 11, 13

The numbers refer to the several metres, as they have just been explained Thus in the ode beginning with the words Eli, Vetusto, the first and second liner of each stanza are Greater Alcaics (No. 18), the third line is an Iambic Dimcter (lo B), and the last line a Mino Alcaic (No. 20), and so of the rest.

Non semper imbres.. 18, 18, 8, 20 | Qualem ministrum... 8, 18, 8, 20

Q. HORATII FLACCI

CARMINUM

LIBER PRIMUS.

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CARMEN I.

AD MECENATEM.

MECENAS, atavis edite regibus,

alliteration.

O et præsidium et uuice decus meum
Sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum
Collegisse juvat, nietaque fervidis
Evitata rotis palmaque nobilis
Terrarum dominos evehit ad Deos;
Hunc, si mobilium turba Quiritium
Certat tergeminis tollere honoritus;
Illum, si proprio condidit horreo
Quidquid de Libycis verritur areis.
Gaudentem patrios findere sarculo..
Agros Attalicis conditionibus

Nunquam demoveas, ut trabe Cypria a
Myrtoum, pavidus nauta, secet mare.
Luctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum
Mercator metuens otium et oppidi
Laudat rɩ ra sui; mox reficit rats
Quassas, indocilis pauperiem pati.
Est qui nec veteris pocula Massici,
Nec partem solido demere de die
Spernit, nunc viridi membra sub arbut
Stratus. nunc ad aquæ lene cap it sacra
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