Who loves his natal wood,

And Lycian, Delian abode,

High Pataréan God? *

18. A great unwieldy body's force,
In want of conduct, fails of course,
Whilft, wife-attemper'd works fucceed;
The Gods on high, affift the deed,
Detefting brutal powers combin'd,
With fiend-like facrilegious mind.
19. Briáreus, with his hundred hands,
Of facred truths, a witness stands,
And who, the chastity of Dian
Attempted, infamous Orion

By virgin arrow flain,

And Tityus, from whose luftful heart,
The keeper bird fhall ne'er depart,

Unrefpitéd the gnawing pain,

And bound in Adamantin chain,

PIRITHOUS, the lover bold,

Three hundred links enfold.

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20. With hideous weight, o'er-whelming, Parent Earth,

Bemoans her impious monster-birth,

Hurl'd by the fulminating blow,

To livid Orcus doom'd,

And Ætna, thy Æternal glow

Of vengeful fulphurs-unconfum'd.

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High Pataréan, &c. The reafon of this compliment, being fo fingularly paid to Apollo, is because he was the Tutelary Deity of Auguftus, to whom, next unto Jupiter, he gave the greatest honors, and dedicated many Temples, and his Palatine Library. It is to be obferved, that Auguftus is here attended by all the greater Gods, Pallas, June, See Virgil, B. viii. Sub finem.

&c.

Cum Patribus, Populoque, Penatibus, et Magnis Dîs,

And on Cleopatras' fide-armed,

Contra Neptunum, et Venerem, contraque Minervam.

The Dog Anubis, and the Gods of Nile,
With all the Monsters of her fruitful foil,

OMNIGENUMQUE Deûm Monftra, et Latrator Anubis,

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ODE V. THE PRAISES of AUGUSTUS.

Cælo tonantem, credidimus Jovem
Regnare, præfens, Divus habebitur
Auguftus, Adjectis Britannis
Imperio, gravibufque Perfis,
Milefne Craffi.

HEN Jove was thundering from above,
We all believ'd in fovereign Jove;

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Nor less, Auguftus fhall be held

A present Deity,

Who adds to our imperial fway,

The Britons, and dread Parthians quell'd.

2. Could* Craffus troops, renown'd in ftrife, Endure the turpitude of life,

In arms of a barbarian wife?

Mid foreign fires, grown old and grey,
Beneath a Perfian Monarch's sway?
O State! O manners of the land

3. Revers'd-th' Apulian, Marfyan band,
Forgot his honors, togue, and name!
The shields, of everlasting claim,
And Vestas' unextinguish'd flame,
Yet-Jove, and Empire stand!

4. Wife Regulus had caution'd this,
Diffenting, from the terms of peace

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Could Craffus.- Thefe misfortunes had never befaln, if the wife advice of out ancestors, had been perfu'd; this leads him to the ftory of Regulus, who difcouraged, and exclaimed against the exchange of prifoners, he was fent to folicit; upon his parole of honor to return, if he did not carry his point. The fame fpirit and example was fhewa in the wars of Annibal, who had taken eight thoufand prifoners, whom he offered to the Senate at a fiall ranfom, which they refufed, adding, a Roman mutt conquer or die, The answer ftruck Annibal with terror, feeing fuch an exalted spirit, in the midst of calamity.

Inglorious of the foe;

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Foreseeing, by acceptance base,

What mifchief, in fome future race,

From precedent would grow;

Unlefs, the Roman youth did all,
By doom unmercifully fall,

I faw, he said, our standards high,
Difplay'd, o'er Punic Temples fly,

In proud triumphant shew;

The gates unbarr'd, fecure, repafs'd,

And realms, by your command laid waste,
Submitted to the plough;

6. I faw the free born Roman ty'd,
His arms clofe pinion'd, to his fide,
And fwords deliver'd up, untry'd,

Undar'd one bloody blow.

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And purchafing your shame;

8. The fleece, once drencht in pois'nous ftain,

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Shall never, native hue regain,

Nor valour, once, it leave the heart,

Shall e'er re-dwell th' ignoble part;

If ftag, deliver'd from the fnare,

Return, to face the hunter's fpear,
Then, manfully, fhall he,

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Who, to the perfid enemy

Gaye up, and took a willing chain,

Encountering face the bloody plain,

And mowing, aftrew, the next campaign, a ironical

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The field, with Punic maflacre;

Will ranfom, daftard fouls reclaim,

More eager dangers to defy?

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10. In the true means of life, untaught,

(Best with the sword in hand, resought,)
He made a mingled, motley ftrife,

Confounding peace, and war,

Forgetful, of his country dear,
I faw a Roman foldier fear,

And bafely tremble for his life;
O fhame! O Carthage rising proud,
O'er Rome's opprobrious ruins trod!
And unredeem'd, ye fathers—all
By doom unmerciful, muft fall.
II. His tender babes, and bofom bri de

Repel'd-deny'd the kind embrace,
A Roman, now no more, he cry'd,
And fternly, held affixt on earth, *
His fteady manly face;

12. Till, by unheard-of fortitude,

To wond'ring history,

His voice, the wav'ring fires, fubdu'd,

To fix the hard decree.

13. Nor knew he not-what did

The barbarous executioner,

prepare,

Ne'erlefs, reprefs'd the crowded way,

And weeping multitude's delay,

And through oppofing friends, a moaning clan,

Preft on, the great felf banifh'd man,

14. † Serene, as when, all business done,

Adjudged by final laws,

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*For Mr. Weft's admirable picture, thus

And fternly held affixt afide,

His fteady, manly face.

+ For the schools thus:

With countenance, and placid eye,
As when a pleafing journey bent on,
To fweet Venáfra, or Tarenton,

A Spartan Colony.

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At length, the hard contested cause
Of Clients, he had won,

And haftned, to his calm retreat,

Cool Tybur, or Prænefte's height.

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Delicta majorum, immeritus, lues
Romane, donec templa refeceris,
Adefque labentes Deorum, et
Fæda nigro Simulachra fumo,
Dis, te minorem, quod geris imperas,
Hinc, omne principium, huc refer exitum.

I.ROMAN, thy fires tranfgreffions call,

For heavenly vengeance, on us all,

Tho' guiltless, thou the wrath must bear,
Unless with more religious care,

'The tott'ring temples thou repair;
The folemn fanctuary nods,

And duft, and smoke incruft our Gods;

2. That, bending you the Gods revere,

The Empire of the earth

you bear,

Your piety they blefs,

To this, from firft, to laft refer,

Your merited fuccefs ;
Place to this fad neglect-the cause
Of all our great Hefperian woes.

3. Twice has Monafes, late repell'd,
And, utmost Roman efforts quell'd,
In evil, inauspicious day,