Unde nil majus generatur ipso, Nec viget quidquam simile, aut secundum; Proximos illi tamen occupavit Pallas honores. Proeliis audax, neque te silebo, Dicam et Alciden; puerosque Ledae, Defluit saxis agitatus humor; Romulum post hos prius, an quietum Pompili regnum memorem, an superbos Nobile letum. Regulum, et Scauros, animaeque magnae Prodigum Paullum, superante Poeno, Gratus insigni referam Camena, Fabriciumque. Hunc, et incomptis Curium capillis, Saeva paupertas, et avitus apto Cum lare fundus. D Growing like tree in secret, of Marcellus Groweth the glory. But thy star outshineth, Shines the moon's splendour. Offspring of Saturn! thou of human creatures Whether he subject, righteously triumphant, Under thee, he wide earth shall justly govern: In respect to the Lydia of this and other odes, and to the rest of the fair, and presumably frail, ones celebrated by Horace, it may here be remarked once for all, that to attempt to identify them with real personages would be as hopeless an undertaking as to seek originals for Mr. Thomas Little's Fanny of Timmol, and for the Rosa, Kitty, Martha, Chloe and Susan who figured on the list of beauties loved and caressed by that fortunate young gentleman. WHEN, Lydia, of Teleph's charms, Crescit, occulto velut arbor aevo, Luna minores. Gentis humanae pater atque custos, Ille, seu Parthos Latio imminentes Te minor latum reget aequus orbem : Tu parum castis inimica mittes Fulmina lucis. XIII. AD LYDIAM. CUм tu, Lydia, Telephi Cervicem roseam, cerea Telephi Laudas brachia, vae! meum Thick bile my burning liver swells, But tears, that steal adown my cheek, How on your lips the frenzied boy You'd trust not one who spoils the lips Triply, and more than triply, blest, They whom unbroken bands invest, Whose love, by no unseemly fray The Republic is here addressed under the form of a ship. Navem pro republica,' says Quintilian, 'fluctuum tempestates pro bellis civilibus, portum pro pace atque concordia dicit.' Ан ship, are the waves bearing thee to sea, Of banks of oars thy quarters are? Fervens difficili bile tumet jecur. Tum nec mens mihi, nec color Certa sede manet: humor et in genas Furtim labitur, arguens Quàm lentis penitus macerer ignibus. Uror, seu tibi candidos Turpârunt humeros immodicae mero Rixae; sive puer furens Impressit memorem dente labris notam. Laedentem oscula, quae Venus Quinta parte sui nectaris imbuit. Felices ter, et amplius, Quos irrupta tenet copula; nec malis Divolsus querimoniis, Suprema citius solvet amor die! XIV. O NAVIS, referent in mare te novi Nudum remigio latus, |