Tardavit alas; cum populus frequensopars25 Lætum theatris ter crepuit fonum: blue and Me truncus illapfus cerebro og nefrotong Suftulerat, nifi Faunus ictum No Anhange Dextra levaffet, Mercurialium bre Cuftos virorum. Reddere victimas Edemque votivam memento: Nos humilem feriemus agnam. 30 N Romanorum luxum et avaritiam infectatur. neque aureum ON ebur, Non trabes Hymettiæ * Premunt columnas ultima recifast Africa: neque Attali," Ignotus heres, regiam occupavi: Nec Laconicas mihi Trahunt honeftæ purpuras clientæ. At fides, et ingenî Benigna vena eft; pauperemque dives Me petit. Nihil fupra Deos laceffo; nec potentem amicum Largiora flagito, Satis beatus unicis Sabinis. Truditur dies die, Novæque pergunt interire Lunæ. Tu fecanda marmora Locas fub ipfum funus; et, fepulchri Immemor, ftruis domos ; 5 to 15 Marifque Trabes Hymettias. Gale. Ukima recifæ Gale. the refounding applaufes, thrice hailed you in the theatre: me, the trunk of a tree falling upon my fkull, would have dispatched, had not Faunus*, protector of men of genius, with his right hand warded off the blow. Be mindful to pay the victims and the votive temple; I will facrifice an humble lamb. you O DE XVIII. He inveighs against the Roman luxury and cove N° toufness. OR ivory, nor gilded arch, makes a figure in my houfe: no Hymettian beams reft upon pillars cut out of the extreme parts of Africa; nor, a pretended heir, have I poffeffed myself of the palace of Attalus: nor do ladies, my dependants, fpin Laconian purple for my ufe. But honour, and a liberal vein of genius, are mine: and the man of fortune m makes his court to me who am by poor. I importune the Gods no farther, nor do I require of my friend in power any larger enjoyments, fufficiently happy with my Sabine farm alone. Day is driven on by day, and the new moons haften to their wain. You put out marble to be hewn, though with one foot in the grave, and, unmindful of a fe "pulchre, are building houfes; and are busy to exVOL. I. M • Or Pan. tend Marifque Baiis obftrepentis urges Parum locuples continente ripa. In finu ferens Deos, Et uxor, et vir, fordidofque natos, Nuila certior tamen Rapacis Orci * fede deftinata Aula divitem manet Herum. Quid ultra tendis? Æqua tellus Pauperi recluditur, Regumque pueris: nec fatelles Orci Callidum Promethea Revexit *. auro captus. Hic fuperbum Tantalum atque Tantali Genus coërcet: hic levare functum Pauperem laboribus, Vocatus, atque non vocatus, audit. CARMEN Orei fine deftinata, Revinxit auro captuse tend the fhore of the sea, that beats with violence at Baix, not rich enough while reftrained to the limits of land. Why is it, that, through avarice, you even remove the landmarks of your neighbour's ground, and trespass beyond the bounds of your clients? and wife and hufband are turned out, bearing in their bofom their houfhold Gods, and their poor-looking children. Nevertheless, no court more certainly awaits its wealthy lord, than the destined feat of rapacious Pluto. Why do you go on? The impartial earth is open to the poor, as well as to the fons of kings: nor has the life-guard ferryman of hell, bribed with gold, re-conducted the artful Prometheus: He condefcends, whether invoked or not, to relieve the poor freed from their labours. CARMEN XIX. IN BACCHU M. DITHYRAMBUS. Sibi fas effe Bacchi laudes, ut ejus numine pleno et concitato, canere. B AсCHUM in remotis carmina rupibus Fas et beatæ conjugis additum Thracis et exitium Lycurgi. Tu fléctis amnes, tu mare barbarum : S 15 * Non levi ruina, Tu |