Romanus, eheu-posteri negabitis- Fert vallum et arma miles, et spadonibus Servire rugosis potest, Interque signa turpe militaria Sol adspicit conopium. At hoc frementes verterunt bis mille equos Galli, canentes Cæsarem, Puppes sinistrorsum citæ. Io Triumphe, tu moraris aureos Io Triumphe, nec Jugurthino parem Neque Africanum, cui super Carthaginem Terra marique victus hostis punico Lugubre mutavit sagum; Aut ille centum nobilem Cretam urbibus, Ventis iturus non suis, 12. emancipatus, 'made over as slave or subject to. feminæ. i. e. Cleopatra. 20. puppes sinistrorsum citæ, 'backed towards the left,' i. e. eastward. puppem ciere seems 16. conopium, a gnat or mos-трúμvav åvaкpoveolai, 'to back waquito net.” κωνώπειον, fr. κώνωψ, ter. a gnat.' 17. at hoc frementes. The readings of the MSS. are very various here, and probably corrupt. ad hoc, 'hereupon' (πрòs τаûтα), is one of the simplest corrections. at hoc is preferred by Orelli; and he takes hoc as the acc. after frementes, quoting Tacit. Ann. xiii. 18. There is nothing harsh or unusual in this construction of a pronoun after verbs intransitive; cp. the phrases id (aliquem) admonere, aliquid cogi, hoc gloriari. Here the sense will be, 'crying out indignantly upon this, indignant at it.' 21. Io Triumphe. See Carm. IV. ii. 49. tu moraris? i. e. Why do you delay when shall Cæsar celebrate his triumph? 22. intactas. Virg. Georg. iv. 540. 23. Jugurthino. Jugurthæ, Carm. II. i. 28. Exercitatas aut petit Syrtes Noto; Aut fertur incerto mari. Capaciores affer huc, puer, scyphos, Vel, quod fluentem nauseam coërceat, Curam metumque Cæsaris rerum juvat 35 CARMEN X. IN MÆVIUM POETAM. MALA soluta navis exit alite, Ferens olentem Mævium. Ut horridis utrumque verberes latus, Niger rudentes Eurus, inverso mari, Insurgat Aquilo, quantus altis montibus Nec sidus atra nocte amicum appareat, Qua tristis Orion cadit; Quietiore nec feratur æquore, Quam Graia victorum manus, Cum Pallas usto vertit iram ab Ilio In impiam Ajacis ratem. ill luck to him, misfortune attending him. So, non suis, 'not propitious. non meus, Tibull. 11. iii. 28. These surmises as to Antony's fate show how recent and incomplete was the news of the event. 31. exercitatas. Cp. exercet Auster, Carm. VI. xiv. 21. EPODE X. 5 10 An invective against Mævius, of whom see Virg. Ecl. iii. 90. 1. malâ alite. As malâ avi, Carm. I. xv. 5. 5. inverso. Cp. Virg. Æn. i. 43., evertit æquora. 6. differat. Cp. Epod. v. 99. O quantus instat navitis sudor tuis, Et illa non virilis ejulatio, Preces et aversum ad Jovem, Opima quod si præda curvo litore 15 20 CARMEN XI. AD PETTIUM. PETTI, nihil me, sicut antea, juvat Scribere versiculos amore percussum gravi. Inachia furere, silvis honorem decutit. 5 10 Contrane lucrum nil valere candidum Pauperis ingenium? querebar applorans tibi, Fervidiore mero arcana promorat loco. Libera bilis, ut hæc ingrata ventis dividat Desinet imparibus certare summotus pudor. Vincere mollitia, amor Lycisci me tenet: 11. nil valere. The infinitive by itself, generally, as here with the interrog. ne, expresses emotions of surprise or indignation. So Virg. Æn. i. 37. 12. querebar. The complaint is that of Tibullus, II. iii. 49.; and Anacreon (Anacreontea, 31.), σοφίη, τρόπος, πατεῖται, μόνον ἄργυρον βλέπουσιν. 13. inverecundus deus, scil., "aperit præcordia Liber.” Sat. 1. iv. 89. Cp. Carm. III. xxi. 16. Contr. "verecundum Bacchum," Carm. I. xxvii. 3. 15. quodsi, etc. i. e. when my anger is roused I shall scatter these fretful palliatives of my pain to the winds, and cease contending.' 16. libera bilis. Nearly K. Lear's phrase, A. ii. sc. 4. : "Touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water- Stain my man's cheeks." 18. imparibus, unequal to me,' viz. in character and talents (candido ingenio, ver. 12.). Some construe it, my more successful rivals, with whom I contend on unequal terms; but impar, when used of persons, denotes inferiority. 19. ubi hæc... laudaveram. Cum bene juravi pes tamen ipse 23. i. e. Such was my subjection to Inachia; now I am caught as inextricably again.' Sed alius ardor aut puellæ candidæ, Aut teretis pueri, longam renodantis comam. CARMEN XII. IN ANUM LIBIDINO SAM. QUID tibi vis, mulier nigris dignissima barris? Mittis, nec firmo juveni, neque naris obesæ? Polypus, an gravis hirsutis cubet hircus in alis, Qui sudor vietis et quam malus undique membris Indomitam properat rabiem sedare; neque illi Stercore fucatus crocodili ! jamque subando Vel mea quum sævis agitat fastidia verbis:- Inachiam ter nocte potes; mihi semper Mollis opus pereat male, quæ te, 10 ad unum 15 Lesbia, quærenti taurum, monstravit inertem; Cujus in indomito constantior inguine nervus, Ne foret æquales inter conviva, magis quem O ego infelix, quam tu fugis, ut pavet acres 28. longam comam. Cp. Carm. | a synonym for pueri, in Martial, iii. II. V. 24. Capillati is used nearly as | 58., x. 62. K |