CARMEN X. AD LIGURINUM. Monet ne fibi de forma nimium placeat. Crudelis adhuc, et Venerismuneribus potens, Infperata tuæ cum veniet * pluma fuperbiæ, Et, quæ nunchumeris involitant, deciderint comæ, Nunc et qui color eft puniceæ flore prior rofæe, Mutatus, Ligurine, in faciem verterit hifpidam; ;5 Dices, Heu! (quoties te fpeculo videris alterum Quæ mens eft hodie, cur eadem non puero fuit? Vel cur his animis incolumes non redeunt gene? Veniet bruma fuperbiæ. Bent?. CARMEN ODE X. To LIGURINUS. The poet advifes hira not to be too fond of his fine perfon. Cruel ftill, and fill prevalent in the endowments of beauty, when an unexpected plume fhall come upon your vanity, and thofe locks, which now play loofely on your shoulders, fhall fall of, and that colour, which is now preferable to the bloffom of the damask rofe changed, O Ligurinus, fhall turn into a wrinkled face; then will you fay, (as often as you fee yourfelf quite another perfon in the looking-glafs) Alas! why was not my prefent inclination the fame when I was young? or why do not my former cheeks return unimpaired to these my prefent fentiments? ODE CARMEN XI. AD PHYLLIDEM. Invitat eam ad epulas die natali Mecenatis. ST mihi nonum fuperantis annum Multa, qua crines religata fulges: Cuneta feftinat manus: huc et illuc Sordidum flammæ + trepidant rotantes Ut tamen noris quibus advoceris Jure folennis mihi, fanctiorque Telephum, quem tu petis, occupavit, Non tuæ fortis juvenem, puella Dives et lafciva; tenetque grata Compede vinctum. Flame crepitant. Bentl. τα 15 Terra O DE XI. To PHYLLIS. He invites her to an entertainment on Mæcenas's PHYLL : birth-day. HYLLIS, I have a cafk full of Albanian wine, upwards of nine years old; I have in my garden parfley for the weaving of chaplets: I have a great plenty of ivy, with which, when you have bound your hair, you look fo gay; the house fhines cheerfully with plate: the altar, bound with chafte vervain, longs to be fprinkled with the blood of a facrificed lamb all hands are bufy: my girls and boys, in bufy preparation, fly about from place to place; the flames quiver, rolling on their pointed fuminit the footy fmoak. But yet that you may know to what joys you are invited; the Ides are to be celebrated by you, the day which divides April, the month of fea-born Venus; a day, with reafon to be folemnized by me, and almoft more facred to me than that of my own birth; fince from this day my dear Mæcenas reckons his flowing years. A rich and buxom girl hath poffeffed herself of Telephus, a youth above your rank; and she holds him faft by an agreeable fetVOL. I. Ꮓ ter. Terret ambuftus Phaethon avaras Spes; et exemplum grave præbet ales Pegafus, terrenum equitem gravatus Semper ut te digna fequare; et, ultra (Non enim pofthac alia calebo Carmine curæ. CARMEN XII. AD VIRGILIUM. 25 39 35 Illum ad canam vocat, ea lege ut fuum fecum adferat fymbolum. AM veris comites, quæ mare temperant, Jampettis que mare Jam nec prata rigent, nec fluvii ftrepunt Hiberna pive turgidi. Nidum ponit, Ityn flebiliter gemens, Infelix avis, et Cecropiæ domus Eternum opprobrium; † quod male barbaras Regum eft ulta libidines. 5 Dicunt Minuuntur atræ. Que male barbaras. |