Cui per ardentem fine fraude Trojam 105 Caftus Æneas patriæ fuperftes ning 297chan Liberum munivit iter, daturus Plura Di probos * docili juventæ ;sfed adfor docili juventæ; Difenectuti placidæ quietem; Romulæ genti date remque, prolemque, Quique vos bobus veneratur albis, Jam mari terraque manus potentes Jam fides, et pax, et honor, pudorque contes Prifcus, et neglecta redire virtus Audet; apparetque beata pleno s Copia cornu. CHORUS PUERORUM. Augur, et fulgente decorus arcu Phoebus, acceptufque novem Camoenis, Corporis artus: Si Palatinas videt || æquus arces Remque Romanami, Latiumque felix, Alterum in luftrum, meliufque femper e Proroget ævum. Moris docilis juvente. Quæque vos bobus. pious Eneas, furviving his country, fecured a free paffage, without damage, thro' the burning Troy, about to give them more ample poffeffions than thofe that were left behind: O ye Deities, grant to the tractable youth probity of manners; to old age, ye Deities, grant a pleafing retirement; to the Roman people, in general, wealth, and a numerous progeny, and every kind of glory. And may that prince, the illuftrious iffue of Anchifes and Venus, who this day worthips you with offerings of white bulls, reign fuperior to the warring enemy, but merciful to the proftrate. Now the Parthian, by fea and land, dreads our powerful forces and the Roman axes: now the Scythians beg to know our commands, and the Indians, but lately fo arrogant. Now truth, and peace, and honour, and ancient modefty, and neglected virtue, dare to return, and happy plenty appears, with her horn full to the brim. CHORUS of the YOUTHS. Phoebus, the God of augury, and confpicuous for his fhining bow, and dear to the nine mufes, who, by his falutary art, fooths the wearied limbs of the human body; if he, propitious, furveys his own Palatine, May he prolong the Roman affairs, and the happy ftate of Italy to another luftrum, and to a still improving age. CHORUS PUELLARUM, Quæque Aventinum tenet Algidumque,« Lubl Curet; et votis puerorum amicas UTERQUE CHORUS. UND Hæc Jovem fentire, Deofque cunctos, be A Dicere laudes 5140% CHORUS OF VIRGINS. And may Diana, who poffeffes mount Aventine' and Algidus, regard the prayers of the Quindecemviri, and lend a gracious ear to the fupplications of the youths. CHORUS of YOUTHS and VIRGINS. We the choir, that were taught to fing the praifes of Phoebus and Diana, bear home with us a good and certain hope, that Jupiter, and all the other Gods perceive and attend to thefe our fupplications. END of the FIRST VOLUME. |