Paucis oftendi gemis, et communia laudas; 10 1.5 Non ita nutritus. (a) fuge quo defcendere geftis: 5 (a) Fuge, quo decedere gestis. (c) Unetus mitteris Ilerdam (b) Ubi quis te læferit. 20 25 Q. HORATII agreeable to a modeft volume: you grieve that you are fhewn but to a few, and extol public places; tho' educated in another manner. Away with you, whither you are fo folicitous of going there will be no returning for you, when you are once fent out. Wretch that I am, what have I done? What did I want? you will fay; when any one gives you illtreatment, and you know that you will be * fqueezed into small compass, as foon as the eager reader is fatiated. But if the Augur be not prejudiced by refentment of your error, you shall be careffed at Rome only till your youth be paffed. When thumb'd by the hands of the vulgar you fhall begin to grow dirty; either you shall in filence feed the groveling bookworms, or you fhall make your escape to + Utica, or fhall be fent bound to Ilerda. Your difregarded adviser fhall then laugh at you: as he, who in a paffion pushed his refractory afs over the precipice. For who would fave an ass against his will? This fate too awaits you, that faultering dotage fhall feize on you to teach boys their rudiments in the fkirts of the city. But when the abating | warmth of the fun fhall attract more ears; you fhall tell them, that I was the son of a freedınan, and extended my wings beyond my neft; fo that as much as you take away from my family, you may add to my merit that I was in favour with the first men in the state, both in war and peace; of a fhort ftature, grey before my time, calculated for fuftaining of heat, prone to paffion, but fo as to be foon appeafed. If any one fhou'd chance to enquire my age; let him know that I had completed four times § eleven Decembers, in the year that Lollius took in Lepidus as his collegue in the confulate. *Roll'd up clofe, to lie by: at that time of day, all the books were in rolls, the libri quadrati, as we have them now, not coming into use till long af ewards + Acity of Africa. A town in Spain. When company meet together to converfe in the gentler heat of the evening. Horace was born on the 8th of December, an. ab urb. cond. 639, and confequently his forty-fourth year end.d 733. SANADON. THE Ampliffimis eum laudibus demeretur; tum de poefi, unde caperit ut judicanda fis et ornanda, varie disserit. C UM tot fuftineas et tanta negotia folus, Res Italas armis tuteris, (a) moribus ornes, Legibus emendes; in publica commoda peccem, (a) Manibus ornes, Bentl. Si To AUGUSTUS*. He honours him with the highest compliments; then treats copiously of poetry, its origin, character, and excellence. SING INCE you alone fupport the burden of fo many and fuch weighty concerns, defend Italy with your arms, adorn it by your virtues, reform it by your laws; I fhould offend, O Cæfar, against the in terefts *This epifle is fuppofed to have been occafioned by a kind reproach from Auguftus, for our author's neglect, or bashfulness, in acknow ledging him in his works; "Know, fays he, I am angry with you. "What are you apprehensive it will injure your reputation with pofte"rity, that you have been one of my friends?" This is defervedly ranked amongst our author's best performances; and proves at once the moft perfect delicacy of taste and manners, a mafculine fuperiority of genius, Si longo fermone morer tempora Cæsar. ་ 10 15 Romulus, et Liber pater, et cum Caftore Pollux, 5 (a) Poft ingentia facta, Deorum in templa recepti, Dum terras hominumque colunt genus, afpera bella Componunt, agros affignant, (b) oppida condunt; ‹ Ploravere fuis non refpondere favorem Speratum meritis. diram qui contudit Hydram, Notaque fatali portenta labore fubegit, Comperit invidiam fupremo fine domari. Urit enim fulgore fuo, qui prægravat artes Infra fe pofitas: extinctus amabitur idem. Præfenti tibi maturos largimur honores, Jurandafque (c) tuum per numen ponimus aras, Nil oriturum alias, nil ortum tale fatentes. (d) Sed tuus hoc populus fapiens et juftus in uno, Te noftris ? ducibus, te Graiis anteferendo, Cætera nequaquam fimili ratione modoque Eftimat; et, nifi quæ terris femota fuifque Temporibus defuncta videt, faítidet et odit ; Sic fautor veterum, ut tabulas peccare vetantes, Quas bis quinque viri fanxerunt; fœdera regum. Vel Gabiis vel cum rigidis æquata Sabinis; Pontificum libros, annofa volumina vatum, Dictitet Albano Mufas in monte locutas. 20 25 Si, quia Græcorum funt antiquiffima quæque Scripta, vel optima; Romani penfantur eadem Scriptores trutina; non eft quod multa loquamur: 30 (e) Nil intra eft oleam, nil extra eft in nuce duri. Venimus ad fummum fortunæ : pingimus, atque Pfallimus, et luctamur Achivis doctius unctis. (a) Poft ingentia fata, Bentl. (b) Oppida formant. (d) Sed tuus hic populus. Si |