Cui per ardentem fine fraude Trojam
Caftus Æneas patriæ fuperftes

Liberum munivit iter, daturus
Plura relictis:

Di probos mores (a) docili juventa,
Di (b) fenectuti placida quietem,
Romulæ genti date remque, prolemque,
Et decus omne.

Quique (c) vos bobus veneratur albis
Clarus Anchife Venerifque fanguis,
Imperet (d) bellante prior, jacentem
Lenis in hoftem.

Jam mari terraque manus potentes
Medus, Albanafque timet fecures :
Jam Scythe refponfa petunt, fuperbi
Nuper et Indi.

Jam Fides, et Pax, et Honor, Pudorque

Prifcus, et neglecta redire Virtus

Audet; apparetque beata pleno

Copia cornu.

CHORUS PUERORUM.

Augur, et fulgente decorus arcu

Phoebus, acceptufque novem Camenis,
Qui falutari levat arte feffos

Corporis artus;

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Si Palatinas videt (e) æquus arces
Remque Romanam, Latiumque felix,

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Alterum in luftrum, meliufque femper

Proroget ævum.

(a) Moris docilis juventæ. (b) Di fenectutis placidas

(c) Quæque vos bobus.

(d) Impetret bellante prior,

(e) Palatinas videt arces.

CHORUS

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 pleasing 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 worships 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 modesty, 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 muses, who, by his falutary art, fooths the wearied limbs of the human body; if he, propitions furveys his own Palatine, May he prolong the Roman affairs, and the happy ftate of Italy to another luftrum, and to a ftill improving age.

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CHORUS PUEBLARUM.

Quæque Aventinum tenet Algidumque,
Quindecim Diana preces virorum
Curet; et votis puerorum amicas
Applicet aures.

UTERQUE CHORUS.

Hæc Jovem fentire, Deofque cunctos,
Spem bonam certamque domum reporto,
Doctus et Phoebi chorus et Diana

Dicere laudes,

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CHORUS of VIRGINS.

And may Diana, who poffeffes mount Aventine and Aigidus, 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 praises of Phoebus and Diana, bear home with us a good and certain hope, that Jupiter, and all the other Gods perceive and attend to these our fupplications.

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