CARMEN XXXVIII. AD PUERUM. Admonet ut cænam fine ambitioso apparatu ftruat. PERSIO ERSICOS odi, puer, apparatus : Mitte fectari, rofa quo locorum Sera moretur. Simplici myrto nihil allabores Sedulus (a) curo: neque te ministrum' (a) Sedulus curæ. Sedulus cura. Bentl. 5 Q. HORA ODE XXXVII. To his SER VAN T. He forwarns him against any extravagant doings at his entertainment." OY, I deteft the pomp of the Perfians: chap * displease me: by no means hunt for the place where the latter rofe abides. It is my particular defire that you make no laborious addition to the plain myrtle; for myrtle is neither unbecoming you a fervant, nor me while I quaff under this mantling vine. * Philyra: a thin membrane between the bark and the wood of the Tilia, or Linden-tree, which they made ufe of by way of ribband in their chaplets, &c. THE Q. HORATII FLACCI CARMINUM LIBER II. CARMEN I. AD ASINIUM POLLIONEM. Hortatur ut, intermiffis tragœdiis, det fe totum fcribenda bellorum civilium hiftoriæ. M OTUM ex Metello confule civicum, Principum amicitias, et arma Nondum expiatis (a) uncta cruoribus, Tractas, et incedis per ignes (a) Tincta cruoribus. 5 Paulum THE SECOND BOOK O' F THE ODES O F HORA С E. O DE I. To ASINIUS POLLIO. He entreats him to quit tragedy for the present, that he may apply himself wholly to the history of the civil wars. OU are treating of the civil commotion, which began in the confulfhip of Metellus, and The caufes of the war, and the crimes that werecommitted, and the measuresthat were taken, and the sport of fortune, and the pernicious * confederacy of the chiefs, and arms ftained with blood not yet expiated—a work full of hazardous consequence: and you are treading upon fires hid under deceitful *The triumvirate of O&avius, Lepidus. and Antony, Paulum feveræ Mufa tragoedia Dalmatico peperit triumpho. Tecret equos, equitumque vultus. Præter atrocem animum Catonis. Tellure, victorum nepotes Rettulit inferias Jugurtha. Quis non Latino fanguine pinguior * Campus fepulcris împia proelia Teftatur, auditumque Medis Hefperiæ fonitum ruine? Qui gurges, aut quæ flumina lugubris Que caret ora cruore noftro? Sed ne relictis, Mufa procax, jocis, Mecum Dionæo, fub antro (a) Videre magnos.` ΤΟ 15 20 25 30 35 40 CARMEN |