Nil desperandum Teucro duce, et auspice Teucro: Certus enim promisit Apollo, Ambiguam tellure nova Salamina futuram. O fortes, pejoraque passi Mecum saepe viri, nunc vino pellite curas; Cras ingens iterabimus aequor. VIII. AD LYDIAM. LYDIA, dic, per omnes Te deos oro, Sybarin cur properas amando Oderit campum, patiens pulveris atque solis? Inter aequales equitat, Gallica nec lupatis Temperat ora frenis? Cur timet flavum Tiberim tangere? Cur olivum Sanguine viperino Cautius vitat? neque jam livida gestat armis He, once full oft renowned For quoit or dart despatched beyond the bound! Why hides he, as they say Did marine Thetis' son near Troy's sad day Of doom, whom male attire Would force on Lycian hosts and carnage dire? An adaptation of a drinking song by Alcaeus, a fragment of which has been preserved by Athenaeus. SEEST thou how whitened with deep-lying snow Brachia, saepe disco, Saepe trans finem jaculo nobilis expedito? Filium dicunt Thetidis sub lacrimosa Trojae Cultus in caedem et Lycias proriperet catervas? IX. AD THALIARCHUM. VIDES, ut alta stet nive candidum Flumina constiterint acuto? O Thaliarche, merum diota. Nec veteres agitantur orni. Sperne puer, neque tu choreas, Donec virenti canities abest Morosa. Nunc et campus, et areae, And let soft whispers, oftentimes, at night This also is supposed to be an imitation of a poem of Alcaeus. MERCURY, grandson eloquent of Atlas, Who the rude ways didst of mankind primeval Thee will I sing, of mighty Jove the legate, Thee, a boy yet, while harsh in tone he threatened, Softened Apollo. 'Twas with thee guiding him that wealthy Priam Fleeing from Troy, the haughty sons of Atreus Duped, and the Phthian watch, and foes encamped round Ilium's rampart. Lenesque sub noctem susurri Composita repetantur hora; Nunc et latentis proditor intimo Gratus puellae risus ab angulo, Pignusque dereptum lacertis, Aut digito male pertinaci. X. AD MERCURIUM. MERCURI, facunde nepos Atlantis, Te canam, magni Jovis et deorum Te boves olim nisi reddidisses Quin et Atridas, duce te, superbos, Thessalosque ignes, et iniqua Trojae |