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Q. Horatii Flacci

CARMINUM

LIBR I.

VOL. I.

Q. HORATII FLACCI

CARMINUM

LIBER I.

CARMEN I.

'AD CILNIUM MECENATE M.

Alios aliis ftudiis duci: Je lyrici vátis gloriam ambire, unius Mæcenatis judicio obtinendam.

ECENAS atavis edite regibus,

O et præfidium et dulce decus meum!
Sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum

Collegiffe juvat, metaque fervidis

Evitata rotis, palmaque nobilis

Terrarum dominos evehit * ad Deos.

Hunc, fi mobilium + turba Quiritium

Certat tergeminis tollere honoribus;

*Evehere. Bentl.
† Nunc, fi nobilium,

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All men have different attachments: HORACE's tafte is for Lyric poetry, for the fuccefs of which he depends upon the patronage of ME

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ECENAS, defcended from royal anceftors, O both my protection and my darling honour! There are fome whose delight it is to have collected Olympic dust in the chariot race; and whom the goal nicely avoided by glowing wheels, and the noble palm, exalts to the Gods-the governors of the world.

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This man, if an affembly of the capricious Roman commonalty be bent to raise him to the highest dignities;

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Illum, fi proprio condidit horreo
Quidquid de Libycis verritur areis;
Gaudentem patrios findere farculo
Agros, Attalicis conditionibus

Nunquam dimoveas, ut trabe Cypria
Myrtoum pavidus nauta secet mare.
Luctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum
Mercator metuens, otium & oppidi
Laudat rura fui: mox reficit rates
Quaffas, indocilis pauperiem pati.
Eft qui nec veteris pocula Maffici,
Nec partem folido demere de die
Spernit, nunc viridi membra fub arbuto
Stratus, nunc ad aquæ lene caput facra.
Multus caftra juvant, & lituo tube
Permiftus fonitus, bellaque matribus
Deteftata. Manet fub Jove frigido
Venator, tenere conjugis immemor :
Seu vifa eft catulis cerva fidelibus,
Seu rupit teretes Marfus aper plagas.
Me doctarum ederæ præmia frontium
Dis mifcent fuperis: mé gelidum nemus,
Nympharumque leves cum Satyris chori
Secernunt populo; fi neque tibias
Euterpe cohibet, nec Polyhymnia
Lefbouin refugit tendere barbiton.
Quod fi me lyricis vatibus inferes,
Sublimi feriam fidera vertice.

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