Quid brevi fortes jaculamur ævo Scandit æratas vitiosa naves Cura, nec turmas equitum relinquit, Ocior Euro. Lætus in præsens animus quod ultra est Oderit curare, et amara lento Temperet risu; nihil est ab omni Abstulit clarum cita mors Achillem, Te greges centum Siculæque circum Vestiunt lanæ mihi parva rura, et 30. So Mimnermus (yoyos yńpws): Τιθωνῷ μὲν ἔδωκεν ἔχειν κακὸν ἄφθιτον ὁ Ζεὺς γῆρας . . . 33. sqq. The same contrast in Carm. xviii. vv. 1. 9. 35. bis tinctæ. Dibaphum: Cic. Fam. ii. 16. 38. tenuem, 'refined,'' delicate.' 40. As Ode xx. 4.: invidiâ major. CARMEN XVII. AD MECENATEM. CUR me querelis exanimas tuis? Grande decus columenque rerum. Ah! te meæ si partem animæ rapit Ducet ruinam. Non ego perfidum Me nec Chimæræ spiritus igneæ, Seu Libra, seu me Scorpios adspicit Cp. Ov. Trist. iv. x. 32. 66 5 10 15 10. sacramentum, prop. a deposit as caution-money in a lawsuit ; so called because, if forfeited, applied to sacred purposes. Afterwards, an oath (as here); prop. the military oath of obedience to the general. 13. Chimæræ. Carm. 1. xxvii. 24. The sense is 'No dangers shall part me from you (ep. Epod. 1. 5— 14.); such is my wish, and (ver. 16 21.) the will of Fate, which has linked our destinies together.' 18. pars violentior. i. e. exercising the most powerful influence on my nativity. Natalis horæ, seu tyrannus Utrumque nostrum incredibili modo Tardavit alas, quum populus frequens Dextra levasset, Mercurialium Premunt columnas ultima recisas Ignotus heres regiam occupavi: 19. tyrannus. So Carm. 1. iii. 15., arbiter; and Carm. III. iii. 5., dux Hadriæ. 21. Compare Pers. Sat. v. 45-51. Sidus triste minetur Saturni. Juv. vi. 569. 26. ter. Like our "three cheers." crepuit sonum. A cognate accus. For the fact cf. Carm. I. xx. 4. 28. sustulerat (answered by) levâsset; so Virg. Æn. ii. 55. (where see Wagner's note); En. iv. 19. (potui); Georg. ii. 133.; Ov. Her. xvii. 23. 5 Nec Laconicas mihi Trahunt honestæ purpuras clientæ. At fides et ingenî Benigna vena est, pauperemque dives Deos lacesso, nec potentem amicum Largiora flagito, Satis beatus unicis Sabinis. Truditur dies die, Novæque pergunt interire Lunæ : Locas sub ipsum funus; et, sepulcri Marisque Baiis obstrepentis urges Parum locuples continente ripa. Revellis agri terminos, et ultra Salis avarus? pellitur paternos In sinu ferens deos Et uxor, et vir, sordidosque natos. the builder conducit, opus faciendum. sub ipsum funus, 'on the verge of the grave.' Sub (of time), 'close upon, about.' 21. summovere, to push forward,'' advance.' The constr. gov. by urges; a rare construction and meaning. 23. quid, quod, 'nay more' (quid loquor, quod). 27. Cp. Tyrtæus, F. i. 4., describing expulsion in war : πτωχεύειν πλαζόμενον σὺν μητρὶ φίλῃ. 29. Yet there is no abode more |