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CARMEN XXXVIII.

AD PUERU M.

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Admonet ut canam fine ambitiofo apparatu firuat.

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ERSICOS odi, puer, apparatus:
Difplicent nexæ philyra coronæ:

Mitte fectari, rofa quo locorum
Sera moretur.

Simplici myrto nihil allabores
Sedulus * curo: neque te miniftrum
Dedecet myrtus, neque me fub arcta
Vite bibentem.

Sedulus cura, Sedulus cura. Bentl.

HORA.

O DE XXXVII.

To his SERVANT.

He forwarns him against any extravagant doings at

his entertainment.

OY, I deteft the pomp of the Perfians: chaplets, which are woven with the * Philyra, difplease me by no means hunt for the place where the latter rofe abides. It is my particular defire that you make no laborious addition to the plain myrtle; for myrtle is neither unbecoming you a fervant, nor me while I quaff under this mantling vine.

Philyra; a thin membrane between the bark and the wood of the Tilia, or Linden tree, which they made use of by way of ribband in their chaplets, &c.

THE

Q. HORATII FLACCI

CARMINUM

LIBER II.

CARMEN I.

AD ASINIUM POLLIONEM.

Hortatur ut, intermiffis tragediis, det fe totum fcribenda bellorum civiliam hiftoria.

OTUM ex Metello confule civicum,

M Bellique caufas, et vitia, et modos,

Ludumque Fortunæ, gravefque

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Principum amicitias, et arma Nondum expiatis. uncta cruoribus, Periculofæ plenum opus alex Tractas; et incedis per ignes Suppofitos cineri dolofo.

Tinta cruoribus.

Paulum

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To ASINIUS POLLIO.

He entreats him to quit tragedy for the prefent, that he may apply himself wholly to the hiftory of the civil wars.

Y whic

OU are treating of the civil commotion which began in the confulfhip of Metellus, and the caufes of the war, and the crimes that were committed, and the measures that were taken, and the fport of fortune, and the pernicious* confederacy of the chiefs, and arms ftained with blood not yetexpiated--a work full of hazardous confequence: you are treading upon fires hid under deceitful

and

afhes;

The triumvirate of Q&tavius, Lepidus, and Antony.

Paulum fevere Mufa tragedie
Defit theatris: mox, ubi publicas
Res ordinaris, grande munus
Cecropio repetes cothurno,
Infigne moftis præfidium reis,
Et confulenti, Pollio, curiæ:
Cui laurus æternos honores
Dalmatico peperit triumpho.

Jam nunc minaci murmure cornuum
Perftringis aures: jam litui ftrepunt :
Jam fulgor armorum fugaces

Terret equos, equitumque vultus.
Audire * magnos jam videor duces
Non indecoro pulvere fordidos,
Et cuncta terrarum fùbacta,

Præter atrocem animum Catonis.
Juno, et Deorum quifquis amicior
-Afris, inulta cefferat impotens
Tellure, victorum nepotes

Rettulit inferias Jugurtha.

Quis non Latino fanguine pinguior

Campus fepulchris impia prælia
Teftatur, auditumque Medis

Hefperiæ fonitum ruinæ ?

Qui gurges, aut quae flumina lugubris
Ignara belli? Quod mare Dauniæ
Non decoloravere cædes?

Quæ caret ora cruore noftro?

Sed ne relictis, Mufa procax, jocis,
Cex retractes munera næniæ:
Mecum Dionæo fub antro

Quære modos leviore plectro.

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Videre magnos.

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