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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.

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ST mihi nonum fuperantis annum
Plenus Albani cadus; eft in horto,
Phylli, nectendis apium coronis;
Eft edere vis

Multa, qua crines religata fulges:
Ridet argento domus: ara, caftis
Vincta verbenis, avet immolato
Spargier agno:

Cuneta feftinat manus: huc et illuc
Curfitant miste pueris puellæ :

Sordidum flammæ + trepidant rotantes
Vertice fumum.

Ut tamen noris quibus advoceris
Gaudiis; Idus tibi funt agendæ,
Qui dies menfem Veneris marinæ
Findit Aprilem;

Jure folennis mihi, fanctiorque
Pene natali proprio; quod ex hac
Luce Mecenas meus affluentes
Ordinat annos..

Telephum, quem tu petis, occupavit,

Non tuæ fortis juvenem, puella

Dives et lafciva; tenetque grata

Compede vinctum.

Flame crepitant. Bentl.

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O DE XI.

To PHYLLIS.

He invites her to an entertainment on Mæcenas's

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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.

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Terret ambuftus Phaethon avaras

Spes; et exemplum grave præbet ales

Pegafus, terrenum equitem gravatus
Bellerophontem,

Semper ut te digna fequare; et, ultra
Quam licet, fperare nefas putando,
Difparem vites. Age, jam meorum
Finis amorum,

(Non enim pofthac alia calebo
Femina), condifce modos, amanda
Voce quos reddas: *minuentur atræ

Carmine curæ.

CARMEN XII.

AD VIRGILIUM.

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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.

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Dicunt

Minuuntur atræ.

Que male barbaras.

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