ODE XVIII. TO FAUNUS. FAUNUS! from whom each Dryad flees, Smile on my sunny fields and trees; Leave my small family at ease, And free from harm; So shalt thou have a kid each year, Whilst incense rich thy rites shall cheer, And brimming cups-to Venus dearShall thickly swarm. 1 When glad December's nones' return, Then wolves inspire no lambs with dread, Then stately groves their foliage shed; O'er the till'd land, with dancing tread, The rustic goes! 1 The Faunalia were then celebrated. E ODE XX. AD PYRRHUM. Ne a puella Nearchum dilectum conetur abstrahere. Non vides quanto moveas periclo, Prolia raptor; Cum per obstantes juvenum catervas Major, an illi. Interim, dum tu celeres sagittas Promis, hæc dentes acuit timendos : Arbiter pugnæ posuisse nudo Sub pede palmam Fertur, et leni recreare vento Sparsum odoratis humerum capillis : Qualis aut Nireus fuit, aut aquosâ Raptus ab Idâ. ODE XX. TO PYRRHUS. WITH danger are you overhung Soon, Pyrrhus, all your nerves unstrung— When, through the opposing band of lovers, You snatch keen arrows from your sheath, She, raging, whets her dreadful teeth; Whilst th' umpire treads the victor's wreath Under his feet, Careful, alone, to let the air Sport, playful, with his clustering hair! Such Ganymede and Nireus were, In form complete. |