Romanus, eheu-posteri negabitis-
Emancipatus feminæ,

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,
Hostiliumque navium portu latent

Puppes sinistrorsum citæ.

Io Triumphe, tu moraris aureos
Currus, et intactas boves?

Io Triumphe, nec Jugurthino parem
Bello reportasti ducem,

Neque Africanum, cui super Carthaginem
Virtus sepulcrum condidit.

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,
Et Chia vina aut Lesbia.

Vel, quod fluentem nauseam coërceat,
Metire nobis Cæcubum.

Curam metumque Cæsaris rerum juvat
Dulci Lyæo solvere.

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CARMEN X.

IN MÆVIUM POETAM.

MALA soluta navis exit alite,

Ferens olentem Mævium.

Ut horridis utrumque verberes latus,
Auster, memento fluctibus.

Niger rudentes Eurus, inverso mari,
Fractosque remos differat;

Insurgat Aquilo, quantus altis montibus
Frangit trementes ilices;

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.
13. Cum Pallas... Hom. Od. d.

O quantus instat navitis sudor tuis,
Tibique pallor luteus,

Et illa non virilis ejulatio,

Preces et aversum ad Jovem,
Ionius udo quum remugiens sinus
Noto carinam ruperit!

Opima quod si præda curvo litore
Projecta mergos juveris,
Libidinosus immolabitur caper
Et agna Tempestatibus.

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20

CARMEN XI.

AD PETTIUM.

PETTI, nihil me, sicut antea, juvat

Scribere versiculos amore percussum gravi.
Amore, qui me præter omnes expetit
Mollibus in pueris aut in puellis urere.
Hic tertius December, ex quo destiti

Inachia furere, silvis honorem decutit.
Heu! me, per urbem-nam pudet tanti mali
Fabula quanta fui! conviviorum et pœnitet,
In queis amantem et languor et silentium
Arguit, et latere petitus imo spiritus.

5

10

Contrane lucrum nil valere candidum

Pauperis ingenium? querebar applorans tibi,
Simul calentis inverecundus deus

Fervidiore mero arcana promorat loco.
Quod si meis inæstuet præcordiis

Libera bilis, ut hæc ingrata ventis dividat
Fomenta, vulnus nil malum levantia,

Desinet imparibus certare summotus pudor.
Ubi hæc severus te palam laudaveram,
Jussus abire domum, ferebar incerto pede
Ad non amicos heu! mihi postes, et heu!
Limina dura quibus lumbos et infregi latus.
Nunc, gloriantis quamlibet mulierculam

Vincere mollitia, amor Lycisci me tenet:
Unde expedire non amicorum queant
Libera consilia, nec contumeliæ graves;

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-
drops,

Stain my man's cheeks."
ventis dividat. Carm. 1. xxvi. 1.
17. fomenta. i. e. my sighs and
complaints. Like its verb foveo, it
corresponds properly to the metaph.
vulnus.

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.
'When I had manfully expressed
this determination, I could not main-
tain it.'

Cum bene juravi pes tamen ipse
redit.
Tibull. II. vi. 14.
20. incerto. i. e. irresolute.
22. Carm. III. x. 3.

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?
Munera cur mihi, quidve tabellas

Mittis, nec firmo juveni, neque naris obesæ?
Namque sagacius unus odoror,

Polypus, an gravis hirsutis cubet hircus in alis,
Quam canis acer, ubi lateat sus.

Qui sudor vietis et quam malus undique membris
Crescit odor! quum, pene soluto,

Indomitam properat rabiem sedare; neque illi
Jam manet humida creta, colorque

Stercore fucatus crocodili ! jamque subando
Tenta cubilia tectaque rumpit.

Vel mea quum sævis agitat fastidia verbis:-
"Inachia langues minus ac me:

Inachiam ter nocte potes; mihi semper

Mollis opus pereat male, quæ te,

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Lesbia, quærenti taurum, monstravit inertem;
Quum mihi Cous adesset Amyntas,

Cujus in indomito constantior inguine nervus,
Quam nova collibus arbor inhæret.
Muricibus Tyriis iteratæ vellera lanæ
Cui properabantur? tibi nempe ;

Ne foret æquales inter conviva, magis quem
Diligeret mulier sua, quam te.

O ego infelix, quam tu fugis, ut pavet acres
Agna lupos, capreæque leones."

28. longam comam. Cp. Carm. | a synonym for pueri, in Martial, iii. II. V. 24. Capillati is used nearly as | 58., x. 62.

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