6.

Navita Bosphorum

Pænus perhorrescit, neque ultra
Cæca timet aliunde fata;
Miles sagittas et celerem fugam
Parthi; catenas Parthus et Italum
Robur. Id.

7. Otium Divos rogat in patenti
Prensus Ægæo, simul atra nubes
Condidit Lunam, neque certa fulgent
Sidera nautis :

Otium bello furiosa Thrace;

Otium Medi pharetra decori,

Grosphe, non gemmis, neque purpura venale, nec auro. Id.

8. Mentemq; lymphatam Mareotico Redegit in veros timores

Cæsar, ab Italia volantem

Remis adurgens; accipiter velut
Molies columbas; aut leporem citus

Venator, in campis nivalis

Emoniæ.

Id.

Cæsar brought down her (Cleopatra's) mind, intoxicated with Mareotic wine, to real fears pursuing her with his gallies, &c. Here the verb is twice inferred from the participle adurgens.

9. Mæcenas atavis edite regibus,

O et præsidium et dulce decus meum:
Sunt, quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum
Collegisse juvat, metaq; fervidis

Evitata rotis, palmaq; nobilis

Terrarum dominos evehere ad Deos :

Hunc, si mobilium turba Quiritium

Certat tergeminis tollere honoribus :

Illum, si proprio condidit horreo

Quicquid de Libycis verritur areis. Id. Ov. 1. 1. 10. Ille et nefasto te posuit die,

Quicunque primùm; et sacrilega manu

Produxit, arbos, in nepotum

Perniciem opprobriumq; pagi. Id.

11. Illum, 6, nefasto te posuit die

Quicunque primum, et sacrilega manu

Produxit, arbos, in nepotum
Perniciem, opprobriumque pagi;

Illum et parentis crediderim sui
Fregisse cervicem, et penetralia
Sparsisse nocturno cruore
Hospitis. O. 2. 13.

RULE 24.

Adjectives are often elegantly used as adverbs; and are then joined with verbs in the construction, &c.

EXAMPLES.

1. At tu, nauta, vagæ ne parce malignus arenæ Ossibus et capiti inhumato

Particulam dare.

Hor.

Dare particulam vagæ arenæ ossibus et, &c.
2. Non hoc jocosæ conveniet lyræ :
Quo, Musa, tendis? Desine pervicax
Referre sermones Deorum. Id.

3. Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis,
Qui feros cultus hominum receptum
Voce formasti catus, et decoræ
More palæstræ. Id.

Construe voce et decoræ more palæstræ last of all, or immediately after Qui, before catus formasti.

4. Regulum et Scauros, animæque magnæ
Prodigum, Pæno superante, Paulum
Gratus insigni refe am Camæna,
Fabriciumque. Id.

I will gratefully sing in lofty strains of Regulus, and the Scauri, and Paulus, prodigal of his great (say useful) life, the Carthaginian Hannibal, conquering him at the battle of Canna, and Fabricius.

5. Quid, quòd usque proximos

Revellis agri terminos, et ultra

Limites clientium

Salis avarus? Id.

Quid, what will you say; quòd usque revellis, that you are ever plucking

up, &c.

6. Utcunque mecum vos eritis; libens
Insanientem navita Bosphorum
Tentabo, et arenas arentes
Littoris Assyrii viator. Id.

7. Fertur pudicæ conjugis osculum,
Par osque natos, ut capitis minor,
A se removisse, et virilem

Torvum humi posuisse vultum.

Id.

Caput bere is a term of law, and means the honourable condition of a Roman Citizen: bence slaves were said non habere caput, because they were not in that condition, and therefore were not polled in the census or assessment; so that ut capitis minor bere means, as though he were no longer a Roman Citizen, but a mere

slave.

8. Rectiùs vives, Licini, neque altum

9.

Semper urgendo; neque dum procellas
Cautus horrescis, nimium premendo

Littus iniquum. Id.

Vivas in amore jocisque :

Vive, vale. Si quid novisti rectius istis,
Candidus imperti: si non, his utere mecum.

Id.

10. I, puer: atque meo citus hæc subscribe libello. Id.

FINIS.

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