Et domus exilis Plutonia: quo simul meâris, Nec regna vini sortiere talis ; Nec tenerum Lycidan mirabere, quo calet juventus Nunc omnis, et mox virgines tepebunt. CARMEN V. AD PYRRHAM. QUIS multâ gracilis te puer in rosâ Perfusus liquidis urguet odoribus Grato, Pyrrha, sub antro? Cui flavam religas comam Simplex munditiis? And Pluto's shadowy mansion hide : Where, once attain'd that dreary goal, For whom each youth is raging now, ODE V. TO PYRRHA. PYRRHA, what slender youth, bedew'd With liquid odours, courts thee now, In yonder pleasant grotto, strew'd With many a rose? For whom dost thou In braids thine amber tresses rein, So elegant, yet simply plain? Heu, quoties fidem Mutatosque Deos flebit, et aspera Nigris æquora ventis Emirabitur insolens, Qui nunc te fruitur credulus aureâ; Qui semper vacuam, semper amabilem Sperat, nescius auræ Fallacis. Miseri quibus Intentata nites ! Me tabulâ sacer Votivâ paries indicat uvida Suspendisse potenti Vestimenta maris Deo. How oft, alas! thy perfidy, And the chang'd Gods, will he deplore, And stand amaz'd, unus'd to see The waves by tempests roughen'd o'er, Who, fondly trusting to thy vow, Enjoyeth thee, all golden now; Who hopes thee ever his alone, Alas! how little has he known The varying of the fickle wind! Against the sacred wall on high My votive tablet duly set, Proclaims to all that even I Have erst my vestments dank and wet Suspended to the deity Who rules omnipotent the sea. CARMEN VI. AD AGRIPPAM. SCRIBERIS Vario fortis et hostium Victor, Mæonii carminis aliti, Quam rem cunque ferox navibus aut equis Miles, te duce, gesserit. Nos, Agrippa, neque hæc dicere, nec gravem Pelidæ stomachum cedere nescii, Nec cursus duplicis per mare Ulyssei, Conamur, tenues grandia: dum pudor Laudes egregii Cæsaris et tuas Culpâ deterere ingenî. |