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Q. HORATII FLACCI

CARMINUM

VOL. I.

LIBRI.

Q. HORATII FLACCI

CARMINUM

LIBER I.

CARMEN I.

AD CILNIUM MECENATEM.

Alios aliis ftudiis duci: fe lyrici vatis gloriam ambire, unius Mæcenatis judicio obtinendam.

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ECENAS, atavis edite regibus,
O et præfidium et dulce decus meum!
Sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum

Collegiffe juvat; metaque fervidis
Evitata rotis, palmaque nobilis,
Terrarum dominos evehit* ad Deos.
Hunc, fi mobilium + turba Quiritium
Certat tergeminis tollere honoribus;
Illum, fi proprio condidit horreo

Evehere. Bentl.

† Nunc, fi nobilium,

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All men have different attachments: HORACE'S tafte is for Lyric poetry, for the fuccefs of which he depends upon the patronage of MECENAS..

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ECENAS, defcended from royal anceftors, O both my protection and my darling honour! There are fome whose delight it is to have collected Olympic duft in the chariot race; and whom the goal nicely avoided by glowing wheels, and the noble palm, exalts to the Gods-the governors of the world.

This man, if an affembly of the capricious Roman commonalty be bent to raise him to the higheft dignities; another, if he hath * ftored up in his

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Hath imported vast quantities of corn from Africa.

Quidquid de Libycis verritur areis ;
Gaudentem patrios findere farculo
Agros, Attalicis conditionibus
Nunquam dimoveas, ut trabe Cypria
Myrtoum pavidus nauta fecet mare.
Luctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum
Mercator metuens, otium et oppidi
Laudat rura fui: mox reficit rates
Quaffas, indocilis pauperiem pati.
Eft qui nec veteris pocula Maffici,
Nec partem folido demere de die
Spernit, nunc viridi membra fub arbuto
Stratus, nunc ad aquæ lene caput facræ.
Multos caftra juvant, et lituo tubæ
Permiftus fonitus, bellaque matribus
Deteftata. Manet fub Jove frigido
Venator, tenere conjugis immemor;
Seu vifa eft catulis cerva fidelibus,
Seu rupit teretes Marfus aper plagas.
Met doctarum ederæ præmia frontium
Dis mifcent fuperis: me gelidum nemus,
Nympharumque leves cum Satyris chori
Secernunt populo; fi neque tibias
Euterpe cohibet, nec Polyhymnia
Lefboum refugit tendere barbiton.
Quod fi me lyricis vatibus inferes,
Sublimi feriam fidera vertice.

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