Jussa pars mutare lares et urbem

Sospite cursu ;

Cui per ardentem sine fraude Trojam
Castus Æneas, patriæ superstes,

Liberum munivit iter, daturus

Plura relictis;

Dî, probos mores docili juventæ,
Dî, senectuti placidæ quietem,
Romulæ genti date remque prolem-

que, et decus omne.

Quique vos bobus veneratur albis,
Clarus Anchise Venerisque sanguis,
Imperet, bellante prior, jacentem

Lenis in hostem.

Jam mari terrâque manus potentes
Medus Albanasque timet secures :
Jam Scythæ responsa petunt, superbi

Nuper, et Indi.

Jam Fides, et Pax, et Honos, Pudorque

Priscus, et neglecta redire Virtus

Audet; apparetque beata pleno

Copia cornu.

Urged over sea, by strict command,

Fresh homes to seek.

To whom Æneas, good and chaste,
When safe through burning Troy, in haste,

He led them o'er the watery waste,

Gave ampler store.

With virtue may our youth be blest;
To placid age, ye gods! give rest;
May Rome-by no decay distrest—

Shine more and more.

May he1 who offers oxen white,
Sprung from Iulus, reign in fight
Victorious, but relent at sight

Of fallen foe.

The Medes now fear th' Albanian axe,

The Scythians pay us tribute-tax,

Our will the Indians-once so lax

Desire to know.

Now modest Virtue seeks the light,

Now Truth, and Peace, and Honor bright

Return, whilst Plenty cheers the sight

With teeming horn.

1 Augustus Cæsar.

CHORUS PUERORUM.

Augur et fulgente decorus arcu

Phoebus, acceptusque novem Camoenis, Qui salutari levat arte fessos

Corporis artus,

Si Palatinas videt æquus arces; Remque Romanam, Latiumque felix, Alterum in lustrum, meliusque semper

Proroget ævum.

CHORUS PUELLARUM.

Quæque Aventinum tenet Algidumque,
Quindecim Diana preces virorum
Curet, et votis puerorum amicas

Applicet aures.

UTERQUE CHORUS.

Hæc Jovem sentire, deosque cunctos, Spem bonam certamque domum reporto, Doctus et Phoebi chorus, et Dianæ

Dicere laudes.

FINIS.

CHORUS OF YOUTHS.

May Phoebus, arm'd with shining bow,
Loved where the Muse's streamlets flow,
Who knows to soothe each painful throe
Of wretch forlorn,

If, kind, he views mount Palatine,—
May he Rome's triumphs intertwine,
Extending them in glorious line

From age to age.

CHORUS OF VIRGINS.

Guard, goddess of the silvan nooks!

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Those priests who keep the sibyl's books,

And youths who now, with suppliant looks,

That Jove and all the gods on high

Consent our prayers to ratify,

We-youths and virgins-know;-taught by

Experience sage.

1 The Quindecimviri.

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