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BOOK

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ODE I. To MACENAS.

Mæcēnās ǎtǎvis ēdītě Regibus.
ECENAS my fupport and grace,
Of kings a long defcended race,

What various life we frame?

Some praise the proud a Olympic space,

And gather dufty fame.

Away the winged chariot flies,
The dusky clouds arife;

The fervid wheels efchew the pole,

And reach, 'mid fhouting crowds, the goal,
These lords of earth the victor prize
Elates triumphant to the fkies.

2. This courting dignities fupreme,
In giddy noife, and popu'lar fame,
All Rome in ferment with his name,

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Another bent on fordid gains,

Sweeps all the grain ‡ of Libyan plains;
One ploughs the old paternal field,
Well pleas'd with what his acres yield;

Engroffing the grain from Lybia.

a Olympian Charioteer

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b Engroffing Cornfactor 5

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-Before Ægypt becaine a province,

Africa was the granary of the Romans.

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