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Cornicis vetulae temporibus Lycen:
Poffent ut juvenes vifere fervidi,
Multo non fine rifu,

Dilapfam in cineres facem.

CARMEN XIV.

AD AUGUSTUM.

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Drufi de Vindelicis, ac praefertim Tiberii de Rhoetis victorias Agufti aufpiciis ac felicitati adfcribit. UAE cura Patrum, quaeve Quiritium,

Augulle, virtutes in aevum

Per titulos memorefque faftos
Aeternet? O, qua fol habitabiles
Illuftrat oras, maxime principum,
Quem legis expertes Latinae
Vindelici didicere nuper

Quid Marte poffes. milite nam tuo
Drufus Genaunos, implacidum genus,

Breunofque veloces, et arces

Alpibus impofitas tremendis.

Dejecit acer plus vice fimplici.

Major Nercnum mox grave proelium
Čommifit, immanefque Rhoetos
Aufpiciis pepulit fecundis :

Spectandus in certamine Martio,
Devota morti pectora liberae
Quantis [a] fatigaret ruinis:
Indomitas [b] prope qualis undas

[a] Quantis fatigarat ruinis.

[b] Indomitus prope qualis. BENTL

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to be a rival in years with the aged raven: that the fervid young fellows might vifit, not without exceffive laughter, that torch, which once fo brightly Scorched, now reduced to ashes.

ODE XIV.

To AUGUSTUS.

He afcribes the victory of Drufus over the Vindelici, and more especially that of Tiberius over the Rhoeti, to the auspices and fuccefs of Auguftus.

WHAT zeal of the fenators, or what of the

Roman people, by decreeing the most ample honours, can eternize your virtues, O Auguftus, by monumental infcriptions, and lafting records? O thou, wherever the fun illuminates the habitable regions, greatest of princes, whom the Vindelici, that never experienced the Roman fway, have lately learned how powerful you are in war. For Drufus, by means of your foldiery, has more than once bravely overthrown the Genauni, an implacable race, and the rapid Breuni, and the citadels fituated on the tremendous Alps. The elder * of the Neroes foon after fought a terrible battle, and, by your propitious aufpices, fmote the ferocious Rhoeti: how worthy of admiration in the field of battle, to fee with what deftruction he oppreffed the brave hearts devoted to voluntary death: juft as the fouth works the untamable waves, when the myftic

Tiberius.

Exercet Aufer, Pleiadum choro
Scindente nubes; impiger hoftium
Vexare turmas, et frementem

Mittere equum medios per ignes.
Sic tauriformis volvitur Aufidus,
Qui [a] regna Dauni praefluit Appuli,
Cum faevit, horrendamque cultis
Diluviem [b] meditatur agris ;
Ut barbarorum Claudius agmina
Ferrata vafto diruit impetu,
- Primofque et extremos metendo

Stravit humum, fide clade victor;

Te copias, te confilium, et tuos
Praebente Divos. nam tibi, quo die
Portus Alexandria fupplex

Et vacuam patefecit aulam,
Fortuna luftro profpera tertio
Belli fecundos reddidit exitus,
Laudemque et optatum peractis
Imperiis decus arrogavit.

Te Cantaber non ante domabilis

Medufque, et Indus, te profugus Scythes

Miratur, O tutela praefens

Italiae, dominaeque Romae.

Te, fontium qui celat origines
Jilufque, et Ifter, te rapidus Tigris,
Te belluofus qui remotis

Obftrepit Oceanus Britannis,
Te non paventis funera Galliae,

Qua regna Dauni. BENTL. [b] Diluviem minitatur agris.

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mystic dance of the Pleiades cleaves the clouds ; f is he ftrenuous to annoy the troops of the enemy, and to drive his eager fteed through the midst of flames. Thus the bull-formed* (or branching Aufidus, who washes the dominions of the Apulian Daunus, rolls, when he rages and meditates an horrible deluge to the cultivated lands; when Claudius overthrew, with impetuous might, the iron ranks of the barbarians, and by mowing down both front and rear, ftrewed the ground, victorious, without fuftaining any lofs on his fide; through your fupplying him with troops, with councils, and your own guardian powers. For, on that day, when the fuppliant Alexandria opened her ports and deferted court, fortune, propitious to you in the third luftrum, has put a happy period to the war, and has afcribed fresh praife, and the only wifhed-for honour to the victories already obtained. O thou dread guardian of Italy and imperial Rome. Thee the Spaniard, till now unconquered, and the Mede, and Indian; thee the vagrant Scythian admires ; thee both the Nile, who conceals his fountainheads, and the Danube; thee the rapid Tigris; thee the monster-bearing ocean that roars against the remote Britons; thee the region of Gaul, fearlefs

The antient painters and sculptors used to give horns

to the images of their river-gods.

+ See note to ODE IV. BOOK II.

This victory, obtained by Tiberius, left the world in peace, and Rome no more to with for.

Duraeque tellus audit Iberiae:
Te caede gaudentes Sicambri
Compofitis venerantur armis.

CARMEN XV.

AUGUSTO PACIFICO.

PHOEBUS volentem proelia me loqui,
Victas et urbes, increpuit, lyra;
Ne parva Tyrrhenum per aequor
Vela darem, tua, Cæfar, aetas
Fruges et agris rettulit uberes ;
Et figna noftro reftituit Jovi,
Derepta Parthorum fuperbis

Poftibus; et vacuum duellis

Janum [a] Quirini claufit; et ordinem
Rectum evaganti fraena licentiae

Per

Injecit, emovitque culpas,

Et veteres revocavit artes;

quas Latinum nomen et Italae Creverevires, framaque, et imperi Porrecta majeftas ad ortum

Solis ab Hefperio cubili,

Cuftode rerum Caefare, non furor
Civilis, aut vis [b] exiget otium;"
Non ira, quae procudit enfes,

Et miferas inimicat urbes.

[a] Janum Quirinum. PASSERATIUS.
[b] Vis eximet otium.

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