I. BOOK OF THE ODES of HORAC E. "M ODE I. To MACENAS. Mæcēnās ǎtǎvis ēdītě Regibus. What various life we frame? Some praise the proud a Olympic space, And gather dufty fame. Away the winged chariot flies, The fervid wheels efchew the pole, And reach, 'mid fhouting crowds, the goal, 2. This courting dignities fupreme, b Another bent on fordid gains, Sweeps all the grain ‡ of Libyan plains; Engroffing the grain from Lybia. a Olympian Charioteer 5 10 b Engroffing Cornfactor 5 Each -Before Ægypt becaine a province, Africa was the granary of the Romans. B |