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CARMENOVII.

AD ROMANOS.

Bellum civile redintegrantes.

UO, quo fcelefti ruitis? aut cur dexteris
Aptantur enfes conditi?

QUO

Parumne campis atque Neptuno fuper
Fufum eft Latini fanguinis?

Non ut fuperbas invide Carthaginis
Romanus arces ureret;

Intactus aut Britannus ut defcenderet
Sacra catenatus via:

Sed ut, fecundum vota Parthorum, fua
Urbs hæc periret dextera.

Neque hic lupis mos, nec fuit leonibus
Unquam, nifi in difpar, feris.
Furorne cæcus, an rapit vis acrior?
An culpa refponfum date.
Tacent: et ora pallor albus inficit;
Mentefque perculfæ ftupent.

Sic eft: acerba fata Romanos agunt,
Scelufque fraternæ necis ;

Ut immerentis fluxit in terram Remi
Sacer nepotibus cruor.

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O DE VII.

To the ROMAN PEOPLE.

On their renewing the civil war.

WHITHER

7HITHER, whither impious are you rushing? or why are the fwords drawn that were Jo lately fheathed? is there then too little of Roman blood fpilt upon land and fea and this, not that the Romans might burn the proud towers of envious Carthage, or that the Britains, hitherto unaffailed, might go down the Sacred Way bound in chains: but that, agreeably to the wishes of the Parthians, this city may fall by its own ftrength. And yet this barbarous method of fighting never obtained even amongst either wolves or favage lions, unless against a different fpecies. Does blind phrenzy, or your fuperior valour, or fome crime, hurry you on at this rate? anfwer me. They are filent--and livid palenefsinfects their countenances, and their ftricken fouls are stupified. This is the cafe: a cruel fatality, and the crime of fratricide, have difquieted the Romans, from that time, when the blood of the innocent* Remus, to be expiated by his defcendants, was fpill'd upon the earth,

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CARMEN VIII.

IN ANUM LIBIDINOSAM.

OGARE longo putidam te feculo,
Vires quid enervet meas?

Cum fit tibi dens ater, et rugis vetus,

Frontem fenectus exaret;

Hietque turpis inter aridas nates

Podex, velut crudæ bovis.

Sed incitat me pectus, et mammæ putres,
Equina quales ubera:

Venterque mollis, et femur tumentibus

Exile furis additum.

Efto beata: funus atque imagines

Ducant triumphales tuum:

Nec fit marita qих rotundioribus

Onufta baccis ambulet.

Quid, quod libelli Stoici inter fericos

Jacere pulvillos amant?

Illiterati num minus nervi rigent?
Minufve languet fafcinum?

Quod ut fuperbo provoces ab inguine,
Ore allaborandum eft tibi.

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CARMEN

TODE VIII.

Upon a WANTON OLD WOMAN.

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AN you, grown rank and old, ask what unnerves my vigor? when your teeth black, and old age withers your brow with wrinkles; and whofe back finks between your flaring hipbones, like that of an unhealthy cow. But, forfooth! 'your breaft and your fallen cheft--full well refembling a broken-backed horfe, provokes me; and a body flabby, and feeble knees fupported by fwollen legs.. May you be happy: and may triumphal ftatues adorn your funeral proceffion and may no matron appear in public abounding with richer pearls. What follows, because the bookish ftoics fometimes love to indulge on filken pillows? are unlearned conftitutions the lefs robuft? or are their limbs lefs ftout? but for you to raise an ap petite in a ftomach that is nice, it is necessary that you exert every art of language.

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There was a privilege, termed the right of images, which permitted the statues of fuch ancestors of the deceased as had been dignified by public bonoars, to be carried in the funeral proceffion.

CARMEN IX.

AD MECENATEM.

Actiaca victoria primordia celebrat.

Uando repoftum Cæcubum ad feftas dapes,

Q Victore lætus Cæfare,

Tecum fub alta (fic Jovi gratum) domo,

Beate Mæcenas, bibam,
Sonante miftum tibiis carmen lyra,

Hac Dorium, illis Barbarum?
Ut nuper; actus cum freto Neptunius
Dux fugit uftis navibus,

Minatus Urbi vincla, quæ detraxerat
Servis, amicus, perfidis.

Romanus, (ehen! pofteri negabitis)
Emancipatus feminæ,

Fert vallum et arma, miles; et fpadonibus

Servire rugofis poteft:

Interque figna, turpe! militaria

Sol afpicit canopeum..

Ad hunc frementes verterunt bis mille equos

Galli, canentes Cæfarem:

Hoftiliumque navium portu latent

Puppes finiftrorfum cita.

Io triumphe! tu moraris aureos
Curras, et intactas boves.

To triumphe! nec Jugurthino parem
Bello reportafti ducam;

Quando 3 repoftum. Heins.

Ad hoc frementes, Bentl

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