Mecum sæpe viri, nunc vino pellite curas; CARMEN VIII. AD LYDIAM. LYDIA, dic, per omnes Te deos oro, Sybarin cur properas amando Perdere? cur apricum Oderit Campum, patiens pulveris atque solis? Cur neque militaris Inter æquales equitat, Gallica nec lupatis Temperat ora frenis? Cur timet flavum Tiberim tangere? cur olivum Sanguine viperino Cautius vitat, neque jam livida gestat armis Brachia, sæpe disco, Sæpe trans finem jaculo nobilis expedito? 5 10 CARMEN IX. AD THALIARCHUM. VIDES, ut alta stet nive candidum Flumina constiterint acuto? Dissolve frigus, ligna super foco O Thaliarche, merum diota. Nec veteres agitantur orni. Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quærere, t Sperne, puer, neque tu choreas, Donec virenti canities abest Morosa. Nunc et Campus et areæ, Cf. ter frigore 4. constiterint. constitit Ister, Ov. Trist. v. x. 1. 7. Sabina. i. e. the wine was Sabine. So Carm. I. xxxi. 9. 8. diota, a vessel with two handles (ὦτα). 14. quem dierum. A partitive construction, emphasizing the idea of portions of time, day by day, doled out to men. lucro appone, 6 set it down as so much gain.' 16. puerdum puer es. V. Schol. 18. area, public places,' the pleasures of society. 21. latentis proditor. Cf. Virg. | póvτns, Hom. Od. e. 43.; Inter pres Divûm, Virg. En. iv. 356., cf. v. 238. sqq. lyræ parentem. ὡς χέλυν Ἑρμάων, κιθάραν ὡς αὐτὸς Απόλλων Bion. Id. iii. 5. 9. Te. boves olim. Taken from Homer's hymn to Mercury. 9. nisi reddidisses. The constr. is dependent on terret, used of past time. 13. Hom. Il. w. 384. sqq. Tu ne quæsieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi Finem dî dederint, Leuconoë; nec Babylonios Tentaris numeros. Ut melius, quidquid erit, pati! Seu plures hiemes, seu tribuit Jupiter ultimam, 15. Troja. Dat. c. 16. fefellit, passed unnoticed through the watchfires of the Myrmidons.' 17. This alludes to Mercury's office as ψυχοπόμπος. πομπαῖος, χθόνιος, Soph. Ajax, 832. 18. virga aurea. The caduceus (pásdos). Hence his title xpuoóparis, Hom. Od, €. 87.; Pind. Pyth. iv. 178. levem exilem in Carm. I. iv. 17., shadowy'; leves populos, Ov. Met. x. 14. 20. superis.... et imis. Obs. imis used for inferis. As a rule, adjectives of different degrees of comparison should not be placed in connection or antithesis. But imus seems to differ from ordinary superlatives. (See another instance in Carm. III. i. 15.) Perhaps summus also: cf, multis ac summis viris, Cic. Cat. i. 10. There is an exception (which seems to prove the general rule) in Cic. Rh. ad Her. iv. 44. ODE XI. 1. ne quæsieris. The following are phrases of prohibition nearly synonymous: ne quære, (in poetry) ne quæsieris ; noli quærere, as Epist. I. xviii. 28. ; fuge quærere, Carm. 1. ix. 13.; parce quærere, Carm. III. viii. 26. ; remitte quærere, Carm. 11. xi. 3., and omitte quærere, Carm. III. xxix. 11., in the sense of discontinuing.' Cave quæras or quærere may be used. 2. Babylonios numeros. The calculations of Chaldæan astrologers. Cf. Chaldæorum promissa, Cic. Tusc. Qu. i. 40. Juv. vi. 553. : Chaldæis sed major erit fiducia; quidquid Dixerit astrologus credent a fonte relatum Hammonis. ver. 373.: in manibus, ceu pinguia sucina, tritas Cernis ephemeridas. ver. 576.: non ibit numeris revocata Thrasylli, |