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EXEECISES IN TEANSLATION 
 
 ENGLISH POETRY 
 
 GREEK AND LATIN VERSE, 
 
 1. GREEK EPIC HEXAMETERS. 
 
 2. GREEK IAMBICS. 
 
 3. LATIN ELEGIACS, 
 
 4. LATIN HEXAMETERS. 
 
 5. LATIN LYRICS. 
 
 BY HENRY HAYMAN, B.D., 
 
 HEAD VASTER OF THB CHELTEKHAH SCHOOL, AND LACE FfiLLOVT OF 
 ST. JOHK'S OOLLBGE, OXFORD. 
 
 LOITDON: 
 DAVID NUTT, 270, STRAND. 
 
 MOCCCLXrV. 
 
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 N.B. — These Exercises^ for the convenience alike 
 of teachers and students, may be had either with 
 the translations and translated passages facing each 
 other on opposite pages in the same volume ; or the 
 English wholly in a separate volume,, and the Greek 
 and Latin translations forming, if desired, a Tutor's 
 Key by themselves. 
 
 348443 
 
EERATA. 
 Page 5, line 39, /or " FeKaffTcp," read " FeKdarrcfi." 
 Page 13, line 62, /or " Bopep," read " Bope??." 
 
 „ „ „ " /'Tjcoi/s," „ " y^ffovs.^' 
 
 Page 43, line 1,/or " ifiovXofirjv,'" read " i^ov\6fn]v" 
 Page 46, line 9, /or " 6u)8ouA«;/," r^ac? " evfiovXoDU.'* 
 Page 49, line 4,/or " ^Swar'," rea<^ « ^5jJj/ot'." 
 Page 56, add at end the following :• — 
 
 " These pleasures, Melancholy, give, 
 And I with thee will choose to live." 
 Page 143, line G^for "stet pineus sequor," read " stent sequora pinis.' 
 Page 179, line 7,/or " Sesuper," read " Desuper." 
 Page 267, line 15,/or "(Etas," read " JEtas." 
 
Section 5. 
 
 GREEK EPIC HEXAMETERS. 
 
PASSAGES TRANSLATED FEOM ENGLISH POETS 
 
 I. 
 
 (1) " This is my son, mine own Telemachus." — Tennyson. 
 
 Tlo<; dp* ovTQf; ifib<i, rov iyco Tripe KrjpL (j)l\r}aa, 
 aKTJTrrpd re Fot 8(0(tq) (f)op€6Lv, vrjaoio Yavacraeiv, 
 T7jXe/jba^o<i' fiaXa jap 7r€7rvv/iievo<; earl reXeo-crac 
 €v Kol iirioTafiev(jii<; irovov, avBpdatv dypLO(f>a)voL<;- 
 5 Trprjvvetv re voov ')^p6v(d o^fri nrep, rjhe hafjudaaau 
 rjKa 7rapaK\.ii0€VTa<; eir alaifjia koX (f)p6va<; ia-QXd^' 
 /celvov S" ov TOO iyojv iTTLfjiificjiOfiao' rj yap otca 
 riixevov ev iJbea(TOL<;, rafiirjv a)9, aiaifjua vel/mai, 
 i/creKeaaL 6" a FeFot/ce juber dvBpdaiv, rjhe Oeolaiv 
 
 10 pe^aL, iirei k€ ddvco, rot? Brj roEe B(bfia fiefjurfkev. 
 Kelv(d yap ra Fa Yepya, ifiol 8' ifjid Yepyd^eaOar 
 TTJBe fiev ecTTL Xifirjv' afia Be irXr^dicrTLo^; ovpo<;, 
 Kal Tvepl ')(epG-ri) tt6vto<; direlptTo^ iare^dvMTaL 
 irop^vpwV vfjbel<; B' erapot, eirel ov ri irdpo^ ye 
 
 1.5 iKTeXicrat KaKol yT€ voov Yepyovre FeTTo? T€, 
 fi€iXi,')(^Lco<; Be Alo<; iroTiBeyfievoi et re Kepavvov 
 eX T aWpr}v, fidXa 8' alev eXev6epco oaae Kal rjTop 
 <r%6i/T6?' e7&) jjuev ^rjfiL yepovr e/xe, ^rjfMl kol vjj,/jl€, 
 dXX^ ov 7rdy)(y y dFepyov t8' UKXee^ eirXero yrjpa^^ 
 
4 GREfik^epic h:exameters. 
 
 20 irplv 8' 7]^€Lv OavaroLo reko^, to ye irdac TeruicTaL, 
 hel reXeaai fieya Yepyov 6 ^' rjfjbiayv a^iov elr} 
 01 irpiv y a6avaT0i<; elooOafiev I^t* jidyeaOat, 
 
 vvv 8' ap aiT 7]l6vaiv irvpa ^aiverai, rjXOe S' eir ^/juap 
 SeleXov, 'Y]K oLvk^y) 8e aeKrjvriy kol 7roXv(j:'^/JLOv 
 
 25 d/jL(bU dicovefjbev ecmv dyaaTovov 'AiJL(f>LTpLT7]<;. 
 
 el S' ayer, ov yap er o^/re Xlrjv Toaov eirXero kulvtjv 
 yalav iiroyjrofjLevoi,^, eV ttovtov ^dXXed' eraipoL 
 VTJa 6or]v, v/jbel^ S' ev iirl KXrflauv eroLfJiOi, 
 e^ri<; e^o/JLevoc iroXorjv dXa rvTrrer ep6r/jL0i<i' 
 
 30 Kol yap ifiol v6o<^ eaO" virep ^flKedvoLO Xoerpa 
 Yecnrepov eKirepdav, eta)9 k diro dvfxov oXeaaw. 
 TiV Fot8' el TreXdyeoraiv V7r6^pv')(^e<; e^airoXoiaOe, 
 r)e Kal el jjua'cdpcov irorl V7]aov<; a'^olre pboX6vre<;, 
 6^0aXfjLOL(Tt YiheaOai dfivfiova UrjXelcova, 
 
 35 Tov re irdXai YlSfiev; ttoXXov y d7roXa)X6TO<; dvSp&v 
 TTovXi) XeXeiTrrao ofKo^' eVel ov p,evei e/xTreSo? r]iJblv, 
 oit] Fl? 7rdpo<; eaKev evl yvajMiTTolaL fieXeaaiv, 
 oit] TTov yaldv re Kal ovpavov ia-rvj^eXi^eV 
 eljiev 8' oiairkp elfiev evl aTrj6e(j:^L Ye/caa-ro) 
 
 40 Tolov evearaKTaL Ylaov /xe^'o? rjpoaeara-Lv, 
 
 yr}pa<; S' av hajida arvyepr] Se r eTre^paei^ alaa' 
 dXXd (nhr)pe6<; ecm v6o<; re Kal evhoOev rjTop, 
 ^7)TeLV Te, KpaTeeiv 6\ evpelv re Kal ov KeKaKoyaOaL, 
 
 » The digamma ia this word appears to be inconstant in Homer's usage. 
 See Iliad I. 151, and comp. 11. 720. 
 
GREEK EPIC HEXAMETERS. 5 
 
 II. 
 
 (2) ** To him replied the bold Sir Bedivere." — Tennyson. 
 
 Tov B' apa Oaparfaa^ Trpoaecbr] Oepajrcav ^Et6cov€v<;' 
 *' ov'xl YeFoLKe, Yava^, ae (j)[\(ov airo fiovvov eovra 
 €v6a XLirelvy hetvov he Kopv<; yakKw SeBatKrac' 
 KoX 'yap p €kKo<; e%a)V a^iKpat fieyaX av l3Xa(f)6€[r}, 
 5 iravra S' e^yco jJuaXa aroi reXeadi voov, r]Be ^vXd^co 
 oaaa YiBco, Kal peV aTreXeuaofJuai dy<y6Xo<; avri^. " 
 
 rj pa Kal iK vrjolo KaTaarpa(f)6evT09 opovaev, 
 ^rj Be Bl6^ avXrj^ 66 1 arjfjbaTa (jirjve o-eXijvrj, 
 6<TTea Be (^OifJLevcjv to irpiv <ye ireXoopca Kelro 
 10 rjpodcov Xtyv B* alev eirl Ze^vpo^ KeXdBrjaev 
 
 irovTOcfuVf oKpvoet^ B* eV d(j)po<; Ke-yvr rjXiOa 7tovXv<;. 
 avrdp 6 y ^X6' dv' 6Bov<i Kara^d^ pudXa iraLiraXoeaaa^;, 
 TToXXd 8' evl crircXaBeacri, Trdpavrd re Bo^/iiid r rjX6ev, 
 619 K€ /xap/jiape7)<; eirl Xl/jlvt)^ r^vvae irovrov. 
 
 III. 
 
 (3) ** Then went Sir Bedivere the second time."— Tennyson. 
 
 Avrdp Beurepov avTL<; lev Oepdirwv 'Erewveu^, 
 firj 8' aKecdv, Kvrjfiov irepdaa^;, irapd diva daXd(Ta7]<;" 
 '^(f>lBa^ B' 6 <ye fivBaXea^ TrefiTrd^er eFepar) 
 iroXXd';, TroXXd Be Fot KpaBiij 7r6p(J2vpe klovtl' 
 5 dXX ore Brj /ccoirrjv Orjijaaro, davfjua YiBeadai,, 
 otoV iTT'^O'KTJTO %/3f o'ft) T €7ri>KeKpdavT0, 
 
GREEK EPIC HEXAMETERS. 
 
 %e/9crt T€ (7VfjL7r\aTdyrj(T6, Fe7ro9 t e(\>ar, M/noi^ev re' 
 " el S' dp* aiToirpoea) pi'^a<; f t^o?, w jiol eTreLra' 
 Tf Kev dplyvcoTov fiija tl/jlcov iadXbv djaX/jia 
 
 10 m\€t dYuarov oTriacrco iin ')(6ov\, koX iroXeecrcri 
 6r)7]aaa6ai koKov. iirel rl Kprjyvov earat 
 el TO ye pe')(6eir] ; ri S' dp' el to ye fir) pe')(6eL7) 
 TTrjfi; aXX avTO ye tovto fieyccTTOv irrjfia YdvaKrt, 
 /1778' eOeXecv 'Kei6ead\ eirel ov rt tto) eVxt Favdao-eLv 
 
 15 /jbTjSe ye ireiOo/JLevoiaiv eTT^ dvBpdatv. dWd KeXeuei 
 Yepy dcTu^rfka Fdva^ Yol S' uvt^ TTTjfiaT' eirel tov 
 vovao<i e)(€i KpaTepr) Yepyeov B* dpa icelTau dFihpc<;. 
 Ti<; K dp fjbV7}/jLoauv7}, tL he Te/c/mcop eaTat oTrlaao) 
 KOipdvov ; ev Botfj 3' ecrerat, Keva evypuaTa Yelirelv 
 
 '20 rj K\eo^ iadXov e'X^eiv, el 8' av Kec/jL7]Xiov ecr 
 TO ft ^09 ev fJueydpoLcn, Bcorpecjiecov /SaaiXr^cov, 
 TG) K dpa Tfc9 Beltec eV deOXcp ireLpTjOelcnv 
 dvhpdaiv dXXrjXcov, Kai ttov TOiavT dyopevoC 
 ' ^ApToupov fjbev dop toS* dOea^aTov alev dYaye^' 
 
 S5 Tc5 TTore BaiBdXXeo-K oXobv ^i^o<; rj/ievr] otrj 
 Xlfivr]<; ev ireXdyeaai ^adei7^<; iroTVia vuficjiT}, 
 evvecopo^ S* opecov eVt /Sevdeao retire Kapuovaa' ' 
 w<; K dpa Ti9 YeiTTOLy irdvToav 8' diro Kvho<; dpocTo' 
 TOV 3' dpa vvv «X,eo9 evpv Kev wXero Kal (f>dTC<; dvSpcji . 
 
 30 w9 dp* e^rj rrrXay^Oel^; dealcjipova OvfJbov o/hlxXtj' 
 avTap o fjbaKpd ^t^a<; jSaaiXr]' eVl ^Xr/fjuevov ovTcor, 
 Sevrepov avTi^; dop Kpvyjra^ fieya /Stj SrjOvvcov, 
 evTpo7raXi^6/iievo<;, oXiyov yovv yovvo^ duel^cov. 
 TOP 8' avT ApTovpo^ TTpoaecj)!] KeKacprjoTi OvfiM, 
 
 35 " e^dvBa, TL 8' dKovcra^, ottco^ 8' rjVTrjcra^ oTTcoTrrjf;.'^ 
 TOV 8' dpa dapar}aa<; TTpoa-ecjyTj Oepdircov 'ETecovev^ ' 
 
GREEK EPIC HEXAMETERS. / 
 
 " KVfjbaT ijoDv Yjicovaa Trardoraovr iv airrXdheaatv, 
 (f)piKa 8' eyco KeXapv^ovaav / eyaX' iv ^ovaKeaaiv.^^ 
 rov he fxey o'xjdrjaa'; Trpoae^T) Kpelwv ''AfTovpo'i' 
 40 " a')(^6TXi6, 1/77X669 ^Top €')(wv, eyfreva/jLcv, eraipcov 
 ov FetSw? vefjuealv re kgl alay^ea. c5 fioL eirecra' 
 TTplv 6ave€Lv oXiyoBpaveovra XeXoiire YdvaKra 
 (TKrJTTTpov T r]he 6efiL<ne<;, iirel pueveof; ')(7]p(t)6rj 
 TO TTplv eTreyvafjL'yfrev ficv iv odfyOaXp^olai 8ehrjo<; 
 45 irdvraf;' FolSd a oiroLo^y erjadd irep, ovhi jjl€ Xr,0€L<; 
 Ka\ crv yap vcrraro'^ wBe /jl6vo<; irepl pLOvvta kraipwv, 
 ov fjbdXa jjboi TrdvTcov X/^ew Fepya irapaa')(efxev olov, 
 K(07rrj iiT dpyvperj Ke YeKCJV d7rd(poio YdvaKra' 
 rje (jyiXoKTeavo^ ye, rj o/uLpbaatv rjure Koupr} 
 50 /JLd^fr avTco^ iTrl ¥f/pa (j^epcoV dW' earc yap dvbpa 
 h\^ dYdaavra rplrcv y iir dfieivova Trporpa^Orfvac, 
 Fepp' ovTCv^' fiol Be Trpoepbev ^i<^o<; r/v ov p-eyr}pr)<;, 
 avTCKa y^epalv ifjLr](rtv dvaaTd<; a i^evapl^CD. " 
 ^, Kal ^Y) ba Oeevv Oepdircdv iv<;, airriK dvacrrd^' 
 55 icdh Be dopev fcvrjfiov^, i'7rcd\fjLevo<; iv BovaKecro-tv 
 pet' Be aufM/Jidpyfra^ kcotttjv arpeieBiVTjaaf; re 
 *Ffc(/)' diTo X^tpo? erJKe' ae\rivr]<; Be Krvirev aiy'XTj 
 Beivov aop Tavvr]Ke<; eXd/nreTO pbapfiapvyatartv' 
 d(TT€p67raL<; B' eXeXt%^ei/, oBov t dvd aWepa Kafi^Jrav, 
 6 J dt^ao-Ke pberrjopov^-^^ 3' orav avroXai dcrrpov 
 iic Bopeov (^aw(D(T\ diro Bh (TiTiv6r)pe<; eayvrac 
 TToWol, inrel 'X^et/Jbcov Bopey vrja-cv^" avveFa^e 
 ivwx^^ 7rXft)Ta9, aixapayel ce re it6vto<; vtt avro)v, 
 G)9 Belv acTTpa-y^rav ^i<^o<; o/Bptfiov efiirecre Xl/nvy. 
 
 * See note on p. 3, 
 
Sfcttoii M. 
 
 GREEK IAMBICS. 
 
GREEK IAMBICS. 11 
 
 IV. 
 
 (1) *' How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank !" 
 
 Shaxspeaee. 
 
 eOek^ev 6')(d7)v' ivOdS' ovv Kadrjfievco 
 epireiv hC MTGdv {jov(tik7)v iaaoijuev' 
 '^(ophwv ye too OeXyrjrpov evXupoov TrpeTret 
 5 avrfj Te vvktl vrfvefiot^ re ')(apfjiovaL<;. 
 Kadrja' eV ovSel, <f)M^ TrvKvoarcKTOv, jdco<; 
 ')(\[hr]fxa TTtvaKcov 'X^pvaoKoWrjTov /SXevret?, 
 ^leaaiKT}' adcj) laOi h\ mv 6pa<; kuk\o)v 
 
 Ou8' OvXd'X,L(TTO^ eCTTtV 6(7TL<) OV Pd(TlV 
 
 10 <TTp(D<^o)v pvdfil^ec av/jofjuerp' , ft)? 6€o<;, P'^kr), 
 €voj\j/Lv avTijioXiTa BaifjLovjov ^6pot9. 
 roidSe Siot^ inTre^vKe p^ovatKr} 
 '^v')(al<;' 60)9 S' ai/ TrrjXoTrXaad^ €pKr}, Sip^af; 
 Spd^rj <f)dtT6v VLv, 0^% olol T eapbev Kkveiv. 
 
 V. 
 
 (2) "I see thou art implacable, more deaf." — Milton. 
 
 KaroiSa a ovr areyKTov' fo)9 dveXka yap 
 €U')(rjv aKouei^i rj kXuBcov daXdcraco^^. 
 op.(i)f; dueWy 77^09 kXuBcjv^ elalv xpo^ft) 
 kXvBcoul t avTw iroo'^ ireTpav BiaXXayal. 
 5 ah 8' av ')(apdaaeLy Kayplov Ti>(f)(o hiicr^v 
 
12 GREEK IAMBICS. 
 
 airavoTov opyrj'^ aifKa'^'yyov oj /maXdcraeTai' 
 TL TTpOO-TTLTVOVad (T iKkii^; elp'r]V7)<; TV')(eiv 
 ov^ev TaTreuvwdelaa Kap7rovfj.ai ifKeov 
 aTTcoaeoix; re /cal iriKpa^; drufjiia^ ; 
 
 10 dyrjXarov/jLaL B\ d)<; diroirrvo-TOV Kapa, 
 
 KaK(a<; 7rpo7r6fi(l)66lcr\ ovopua Bv(T^r]p,oupb€vov, 
 ovSev TCL XocTra irpaypidrcov tmv aa>v ip^oi 
 /ji6T€(7Ti, TapLCL 8' ov ToaovS' alo-^vvop,ai. 
 (p'^p^rj yap, el koI purj irpoaw'Tr e')(6L BiTrXd, 
 
 15 dpLipLaTopLO^y TCL ifkelara Kr)p6^acr eirr) 
 ivavTiai^ aaXTny^c, kcltt dp,(j)OLV irrepolv 
 (pL€\av6iTT€po<; yap, Oarep^ av XevKOTrrepo^;) 
 ovopar dtcrcreL aepuv ay ova dv aWepa. 
 t<ja)9 Se TovvopJ iv TrepnpLr^delai ye 
 
 20 TovpLov yevoLT dv rots* pbe6vaTepoL<; del 
 Svcrcovvp^ov Kdpalov, w? yapurfkiov 
 iria-TLv 7rpo8ou(7r]^, Betvd \otSopovp>ev7f<;' 
 oyv 8' dv paXiar eiraivov ev')(pipr)v Xa^elv, 
 ip,(j)v\lcov y, ov Bv(7K\er)^ dKovaofxaL 
 
 25 yvvrj V yvvai^L' Kdv eopratcnv deoov 
 
 KoX t^Mcra Kol Oavovaa p,aKapia6^aop.atf 
 iropOovvTO^; ^Tt9 irarpih^ eKo-Maai hopo^ 
 7rla-Teco<; re Kap^cov fidXkov elXop^rjv Xe^wi/. 
 rjvdio-p^evov Bt Tup,j3ov, iireTelov xdpLV 
 
 30 evo(Tp,ia<; Xd^oipu dv, ou% ijcraov K\eov<; 
 \a')(pva dv rjTrep 'E(f)palpjtTt<; yvvrj, 
 KpaTO<y hiapbird^ ^Jri? d^evoL^ BoKol^ 
 ripaaaev rjkov^ ^cadpa Kotp^cop^evo), 
 
GREEK IAMBICS. 13 
 
 VI. 
 
 (3) " To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath." 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
 TTjOO? OP ')(^DLpa')(6el(; iroXk! ava^ rjfjbei'^aTo' 
 
 <pev' 
 rpLoradXC MfjL0(j)p6v re, Kal '\fr6vSijyope, 
 TrpoSov^ eraipcov Trlariv, ov irei9ap')(p<; mV 
 MjJLOt, XeXrjarao Kecfievov rayov Kparo<;, 
 5 (j)p6va^ Be Kajji-y^av Ofifia ')(ripevei a6ivov<; 
 7r€i(TT7]pLov' KaTocBd (T OGTi^ cV av yap, 
 IJbovv6<; y eraipcov vcrraro^ \ei(f>6el<; fiovcpy 
 TrdvTcov BLKato<; cov vTrrjpeTeiv virep, 
 OeXeL<i irpohovvai fju dy\aa<; jjuiaOca XajSr}^' 
 
 10 ^(^pvaov irpoTC/iicov, kov^ovovv r^roi %a/otz^ 
 6y\re(o<;, yvvauov Mcnrep' dXX\ €^6<tto yap 
 Bl<; dvSpd /juev acpaXevra y opOovaOab Tplrov, 
 epp' rjv Be /jloc crv to ^l(f>o<; pt->^aL <^Oovfj<;, 
 eyayy dvaaTa<; avT6')(eip or(^d^oo a eXoov. " 
 
 15 o8 ovv dvacrrd^ TrpovBpajjiev cnrovBy ttoBcov, 
 pd'x^ei^ 8' dv dXfia Kov^iaa<;, ^u(3XoL<i pLera 
 iveOopev' dpird^a*; Be KoXi^a^; ffla 
 ^L<t>o<; 7rpo7]Ke' pLvpt' Yiarpa'^ev fieXo^ 
 avyal<i aeXr)vr]<; aloXoV piiralai Be 
 
 20 7rvKva'i(TL Tpo')(pBivr]6ev, eiriKvicXovv aTpo<^d<;, 
 BteirTa6\ olov darpov elXia-aov cf)X6ya 
 dir dvToXSiv 'ApKrSov, rjviK evvvycd 
 yeip.(avo<; copa Keporvirovp^evrov pta 
 /Se/Spvx^ '7t6vto<; BopedBcov Xvp'irXrjydBwv' 
 
 25 ouTQ)9 eXajju^^ev eiMTrirvov Xipbvr) ^l(^o<;. 
 
14 GREEK IAMBICS. 
 
 VII. 
 
 (4) <♦ Wilt thou be gone ? It is not yet near day. " 
 
 Shakspeake. 
 
 IOTA, anei av Syjt ; aXX ou/cer' rjv 6p6po<; ^aOv^, 
 <f>6eyfiao-L h' ar)h(bv, ov tc K6pvho<;, €ii(f>o^Mv 
 ht,r{k.6ev coTWv croi KaTTjpe^rj fjLV')(pv, 
 TjTL^ ye vvKTa^ evaTo/iel poiaf; airo. 
 5 6kXv€^ ar]Bov<; T^9Se tol, itlOov, (f>i\e. 
 
 Pf2M. KopvSof^ fjLev ovv yjv, rjijuepa^ evdyyeXofi, 
 ovK Tjv arjBcoV vvv V6(j)r} ravrrjXia 
 0a(f>aLai Xa/iTT/oat?, vvKTo<i &)9 (j)66vQ), ^IXt], 
 ISov, hiea-rr], Ka^oXwXev aarepcov 
 
 10 ft)9 €KKa€ia(bi> Xa/ub7rdS(ov rjhrj (pdo<i. 
 
 opij 6^ vypcocraovT ifi^e^axr ciKpcov eiTL^^ 
 
 euft)i|r erey^ev rj/juepa' (fivyovri Erj 
 
 t^fjv iaO' GTOLfLov, KoX fievovTt KaTOavelv. 
 
 IOTA. OVK Tjv, iy^Sa, Kelv dir dmdXSyv (f)do<;' 
 
 15 a\X' olov drjiov yrj; dvrjitev rjXio^; 
 
 ae jiev irpoTrefjbyjrcoVy wktI hahovy^ovv aiXa<;, 
 7rpo<; MavTvaV fjuev ovv av' jult) (^Odarj^ loiv. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 (5) "Soft, you; a word or two before you go." — Shakspeajie. 
 
 Xeyeiv /jl idre, irplv /noXelv v/j,d<;, ^pa^v' 
 evepyerj} tlv olM fMOL ttoXl^ X^piv 
 
 * Comp. Soph. Aj. 1230. 
 
GREEK IAMBICS. 15 
 
 ^aipeiu 8' ew t68'' aXA,', i7rL(rTo\ai<; orav 
 
 hvaT7)va (Tvy'ypdyfr7)(T6e raura ptjfjLara, 
 5 €/jlov y akTjdevoLTe, XLcraofiai, irepi. 
 
 f/,r)S ovv vTTOo-TelXrjade fJuqO* v/jL€l<; Xoyay 
 
 (fyavXov tl Orjcrde' heiKvvvai fi ap' av Sioi 
 
 ipMVT ayav ri kov ti (T(o^povo<; /juerpo)' 
 
 '\lrvxpov TLv av 7rpo9 irjXov, aXk\ aXovO' aira^y 
 10 voaovuTa racr^a^*, coar aTToppi-y^ai X^P'' 
 
 OTvyvfj, TTovrjpov^ ttoj? ^lovBaiov Siktjv, 
 
 TOP fxapyapLTCov irXovaicorepov yevov^' 
 
 ov 8' ofifiar ev^iiXaKTay kovk eWta/jLeva 
 
 €07} ye fjuaXdaK, apTiSoLKpv iarO^ o/juw^y 
 15 KacrTa/crl Xel/Sec pev/ju, oaov irliTTti haKpv 
 
 irevKTjev 'Apd^eov ev vdirai^' Toaavrd fioi 
 
 ypd^eaOe' koX irpo^, ivrvx^LV ttot ovt i/jbe 
 
 iv Tot9 AXiiTTroi^ dvocrlcov tlvl ^evcov, 
 
 6? Bt) Tidpav dfXTTeywv KaKo^i Aca/cw? 
 20 '^Kicre TLV 'Evircdv dvhpd XoihopSyv ttoXlp, 
 
 TTVL^avrd 8' auro^et/oa ^dp^apov Kuva^ 
 
 a-^d^ai TOiovTov erepov. 
 
 IX. 
 
 (6) '* Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape." — Milton. 
 
 Al6w(to^, olvov ^orpvo^; ef oirwpivov 
 09 i^edXcyfre 7rpcoro<; r)Bv (fidp/iaKov, 
 iaruXov irapaXXaxOiv y€, Tvparjvcjv eVet 
 
 * See note on XVI., (5) 5. 
 
16 GREEK IAMBICS. 
 
 vamai (j^urjv rj^ei-^av, Alrvaioi^; tottol^ 
 5 ')(piijb(^6el<; /Jb6v, avpa<; irovTia^; 7rpo<; rjBovrjv, 
 KipKT]^ Karecrx^ vrjcrov {r)\lov Koprjv 
 TtV ov'xl KlpKrjv olBev ; 7]<i ye (jyapfiaKa 
 €i TL<; po(pol Kp7]Trjpo^i ev6v<; eKireawv 
 6p6rj<; <pv7](; 7Tpo<; Kairpov '^vi'xOv^ X^A''^* 
 
 10 ^eirovra iTfyr^vr^f;)' t] 8' eVet vv^j>rj Kapa 
 avdovv KarelSe ^oarpuxot^ re kol irXoKfj 
 irvKVMv Kopufjb^cov Kiaalvcovy Bcn-Xrjv ^Xt^r/^* 
 7]/3r]'; (T(f>pL'y(0(r7j<;, ereKev ef avrov reKvov 
 TTplv yrj^ aTTLevaiy 'irarpl Brj ^fx^epearaToVy 
 
 15 fxaXkov 3e fjirjTpl' tovtov iKOpeyfraaa puev 
 oivofiaae Km/jlov, 09 ttot', aKfidaa<; v^pet, 
 olov 7' €(^rj^o<; Tvyyavwv, (pocTMP irehov 
 Ke\T(i)v t' ^I^ripmv re, Svcr(f)rJ!iov^ areya'; 
 KCLTea-'x^ev v\r}^ rrj^Be avv Xpoz^M fioXoyv, 
 
 X. 
 
 (7) " Pray, do not mock me." — Shakspeaee. 
 
 AEAP. fjUTj aKJjfJbfia OecrOe Trpo^ Oewv yipovT i/jii' 
 ^vvoL^a XrjpMV kov ^6^aio<; a>v <f>peva<^y 
 oV oyhoriKOVT^ rj irXeov i^r}(7a<; err). 
 (j)6^o<i Be fjLT) vovVy ft)9 cLTrXS \6yq)y c^aXel? 
 5 rv')(^co' BoKM yap, a elhevai Beov t/? el, 
 Kol t6vB\ ahrjXevv' ovSk yap /jlv^/jlcov tottov 
 
 * For au omitted, to indicate the certainty of the immediate conse- 
 quence, see Donaldson's Gr. Gr. 602 (cc). 
 
GREEK IAMBICS. 17 
 
 Tods' elfjbt 7rdvTco<;' ovSe vovv e^w (f)pdo-ai, 
 aroXr) ri<; t]^'* aXX' ou8' otov tv')(cov Xe^ou9 
 p^^e9 i^evi(T6r}V' dXXa firj ^jiyeXdre fJLOi 
 10 e^etv hoKovvTL irathd fjuov KopSrjXlav, 
 
 6L TTov Ti Km ^(o J avTo<), ouS' oXXrjv Tiva, 
 yvva?Ka ravTijv. 
 
 KOPAHAIA. aXX' e%ei9 ^' e%6i9, irarep. 
 
 AE. ficov OfjLfi erey^a^ ; vrj At' dWd /jltj av fiOL' 
 
 dX)C el 7C fioL (7u (pap/j.dKcov e%6t9, TTLetv 
 15 6e\M ToB'' olSd a oi}<; e/ju ov <^tXet9, Koprjy 
 
 o/iaLfiove^ yap — ev toB' ifjuvrjaOrjv — aeOev, 
 
 €fi rjBiKTjo-aV aiBe fjurjv duaiTLov, 
 
 (TV S' oLTtov /jbepo<; ti. 
 
 XL 
 
 (8) " Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." 
 
 SlIAKSPEAEE. 
 
 dvBpe<;, TToXiTaL Kal (j^lXot, 'Pco/nrj^; Tpo<pr), 
 dicova-aT' ov Trdpec/nc Kalaap alveaoov 
 Td(f>(d Be Kpu^cov. ^fi TO fiev pex^ev kukov 
 pi^avTt irepiyevopuevov, dXkd TaydO' dv 
 5 evepyeTcov 6<ttoI(TL avvTacfyevT lBol';' 
 TavT dv irddoi kol Kalaap' evyevr}<; o//,ft)9 
 BpovTO<i KaTelTze Kaiaap a)9 <^povovvT dyav' 
 el TOVT dX7]6e<i, Kaiaap rjpuapTev fieya, 
 BiKTjv Be peydXrjv e^eTiaev aWia^, 
 
 C 
 
J 8 GREEK IAMBICS. 
 
 XII. 
 
 (9) "0 Antony ! beg not your death of us." — Shakspeare. 
 
 'AiTcovL, r)fid<^ jirj av y alrrjcrr] Oavelv, 
 Kalirep ^avPjvai cJ)olvlov^ '^(wijlov^ Seov 
 ravvv, 6pQ)fjL6VOL<; ye 77/309 X^/oa? jjlovov 
 Kal 77/309 Ta vvv pe')(6evTa' orol 8' Ihelv nrapa 
 5 %e/3a9 re /jlovvov avro')(elpa re crfay^p' 
 Keap S' d:j>avTOV' €')(^ou6V iXeeLvov Keap' 
 oIkto^ Be 'PcofjLTjf; kolvov rjhiKTjfiivT}^ 
 (ft)9 jap TO TTvp TTVp 0LKT0<; olfCTOV i^eXo) 
 epe^e tovto Kaiaapa' gl<^rj oe croi, 
 10 'AvTO)Vi\ aly^fia^ ecTJiv ia^aipco/jueva' 
 
 %efc/3e9 3e, Kaiirep e? ^\a^r]V ODTrXiafievai, 
 
 KoX (TTrkayxy ofjualp^ov ev^povw^ a elahe^eiai 
 
 irpo(; aya6a, 7rpb<; aiepyrfOpa, 7rp6<; r alBco <^pevCov. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 (10) " I could be well mov'd, if I were as you." — Shakspeare. 
 
 Kayco 7n6oi/Jb7]v,^ elirep (o? iifielf; eyco' 
 Tov<; yowirerel^ he, TrpoaTTLTveiv apLr}')(^avo^, 
 ovK fjvea' d(TT7]p 0' 0I09 ifiTrpeTrcov ttoXo) 
 dcrdXevTo^i, dXXwv ev rpoiral^ rjaKTjjjbevcov, 
 5 eoTTjKe /jbovvo<;, Toto9 ovv eyo)' fiXeirei^; 
 dvrjptOp.ov iroLKiX/JLa tmv ev aWipi 
 
 * For the optative, with potential force, unaccompanied by tiv comp. 
 Soph. Aj\ 921, TTov TevKpos ; us uk/jloios, el jSoiTj, fj.6\oi, and Eurip. 
 Fhosniss. (Person) 1216—7, et 5' &fi€ivov ol Oco] yva^^x-qv exovo-iv, ivrvxh^ 
 t1r}v iyco. 
 
GEEEK IAMBICS. 19 
 
 kvkXodv, aTracTL S* efiirvpov Xd/uLTrei ae\a<;' 
 
 akX ef a'irdvT(OV ovpav(p fi€(T6jjb^a\o<; 
 
 €69 €(r6^' 6fjboioi<; 8' dvSpda-cv ttjv jrjv 6pa<; 
 10 jSpvova-av, ol? crdp^, alfia, icaX (^pevS)v fiepof;' 
 
 irdvTcov 8' ev difhpwv olB' aKLvrjrov fiovov, 
 
 ovT eKTreaovTa rafeo)?' Kelvof; S' e<yw, 
 
 d(TVfi7ia6r)<; TpOTralai, KavTdpK7]<; ardo-ei. 
 
 KCivravOa irelpav, &)9 Xoyco afjuiKpcp, Xa^elv 
 15 e^eoTC 86^av Ki/jL^pov i^ekav irdXat 
 
 ')(d6vo<;, BoKel vvv ravro, /xr) Xvaac ^vyijv. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 (11) " Yet think not that I come to urge thy crimes," 
 
 Tennysoit. 
 Teue^pa, irapelvai /jltj 86k6L Kar'^yopoVy 
 fiijT 6fjL6 <y dpalov ot? eSpa<;' o-^eSoi/ ti yap 
 fiey olKTL(Ta<; a av KajOavelv y^py^oiii , opcou 
 Kdpa cre Oelcrav wBe ')(^pvaravye^, to irplv 
 5 '^XIStj/ju ifjLov TTOT oX^lov, TToBojv Trdpo^. 
 fiedrjKa 8' opyri<; tj pue irpovrpeyfrev (f)pov€lv 
 Wjjbov irpohoaia Keifievov Oeafiov TT^pc, 
 Kpiaeay^ TTvpo<;, puaOovTa a a>he XavBdvetV 
 Kol (f)povhov aXyo<i eK /nepov^y BaKpvfidTcov 
 
 10 TT'^yr} ^eadvTcov KapBiav crTaO/jLCOVTt arjv 
 TavTTj, Xay^ovajj irio-Tecof; fiel'^ov jiepo^; 
 r) yyirovoiav cFr\<; dTTKrria^ Xa^elv. 
 Kol <f>povha irdvO'* rjpiapTe<; oV '^/JbdpTav6<;' 
 lX€(ov €fjb e^et?, Ka/jue /cai rov gcovr aet 
 
 15 OeoV fJuiXoi aov raXXa crojv evoov ^pevcov. 
 
20 GREEK IAMBICS, 
 
 XV. 
 
 (12) " The quality of mercy is not strain'd." — Shakspeaee. 
 
 alSo)^ avdyK7}<i ov vofioi^ KaTd(T')(^€To^y 
 dX)C rjZ\ oirolov ovpavov hp6ao<; ')(66va 
 rjBeia Te^<yei irpocTTTeaova, evepyerel 
 TOP Spcovra rbv iradovra r av, ScttXtj %apt9' 
 5 KCLV (l)epTdTotcri (pepTCLTr), KaOijfiiva) 
 
 Op6voi<; Tvpdvvcp crT6fifiaT0<i irpeTrei nrXeov' 
 i(j)yfi€pov OcoTrevfia to aKijirrpcov KpdTo<;, 
 iv oh dvaKTcov viraro^ ivOaKel (/)o/3o9, 
 Beivov vofjbiafia, iravreKovf; dp')(rj^ (re^a<;' 
 10 alBa)<i Be Kavrrji; eKTrpeirei <T«:?;7rT0f%/a9, 
 KCivhov Tvpdvvov KapSla^^ ddcraeo 6p6vov<;, 
 irdpeSpo^ iv dp')((u<; Ztjvl' koI OvrjTcov reXi] 
 Tpeirei OeolaL ttivlk ificpepeo-raray 
 OeapLolaLV alBd)<; r}viK y fiefMiyfievq, 
 
 XYI. 
 
 (13) ** I had not thought to have unlockt my lips." — Milton. 
 
 i^ovko/jLTjv av KXelS' eVt yXcoaajj vefieiVy 
 fiea-r} y dvoaLcnv ovcra* vovv et* fir] OeXoi 
 y6r]<; olov irep o-^jnv e^ekelv oSe, 
 BeXywv, TTpo^dWcov al(T')(^pa avv k6\jij1T(^ Xoycov. 
 
 * The law of the final cretic is not violated here, since et /i^ must 
 be read as one word; comp. Eurip. Fhoen. (Pors.) 1213, et S' eurux^^r 
 and 1606, ov fi-fi Trore. 
 
GliEEK IAMBICS. 21 
 
 5 (TTvyo) TTovrjpbv^ prjfjLar eKpl-^jrav arofia, 
 fjLTjT aviaKovdav /nrjEev evraKTov irapa. 
 Travovpye, firjSev ry cfyuaet KaT7jyopfj<^ 
 fidXccrT avaiTia ye, 7r]v aa-Mrlav 
 ft)9 el KeXevoL iraialv, a^Oovm %6/)t 
 10 hihovaa y avrr)' /ji7]8a/jLco<;' olov Se ^/o^ 
 iadXrjv Boreipav, awcfipoaLv fjLovov 6i\ec 
 hovvai, OefiiaTevovaL y evXa^rj /Sfov, 
 Trjpoval T alSov^ eyKparr} aeirrov vo/ulov. 
 
 XVII. 
 
 (14) " Alas, good vent'rous youth." — Milton. 
 
 JAIMflN. (I>€v- 
 
 p.TTrjvecr' auSpela^ ye a, o) reKVOv, (r(j)6Spa, 
 Xiav yap rjaO' evToX/jLo<;' aXXa yap ^i^o<; 
 (TfjiLKpov y iiTw^eXr^fjba, vvv dXXcov oirXwv 
 aXKrj<; S' er aXXrj^ Set ttclvv, prj^at, aOevo^ 
 5 Seivcov eircahwv (f)ap/judK(ov re veprepcov. 
 ovTO<; rd a dpOp dvapBpa rfj pd/SSo) jxovy 
 afrjaei, a'Trohr]aa<; lva<;. 
 
 AAEA^O^. dXXd, jSovKoXe, 
 
 7rw9 irXrjcnd^eLv eV roaovr erXr)^ irohl, 
 0)9 Bevp' dTrayyelXat rdh' ; 
 
 * Jelf Gr. Gr. § 58, 16, says that -rrSwnpos is the accentuation proper to 
 the Attic dialect, but as this is not confirmed by Beatson apd Beck in 
 their Indices to the Tragaedians, it has not been adopted. 
 
22 GREEK IAMBICS. 
 
 AA. ev^ovkcov (j^pevcov 
 
 10 iir ea^ar ^\0ov, 7rw9 aicrjpaTov <f>6^(ov 
 hea-TTOivav ev (raxrat/jLi, Ka/jbv^ordrjv tlvo^ 
 ov Sff Vo^XeTTTOf 7rat(rl ^ovk6\oi<; fxera, 
 ofjbcofy ye (pvWcov kol (f>vTMV fxaX elSoTOfy, 
 oaa irep ea)ov veodaXrj cralpec (j>do<i, 
 15 %wo-' av Tp€<l)oc TL (l)apfjbdKQ)v OeXKTTjplcov. 
 
 XYIII. 
 
 (15) " And slie abode his coming, and said to him." 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
 jvvrj 8* lovT €fjbifiv6y KoX tXtJ/llcov (j:6^a), 
 eiirevj Xeyetv egecm ; Kai yap ovv, €(jyr), 
 ' TJSrj Xe7e^?*" aX)C 7]8e, " rpel^ Xyaral vdirovi 
 TCLKel <r, €KaaTO<; irdvoirXo'; cov, Xo^wa, " ecftrjj 
 5 " t/o/to9 Be Kelvo^ aov fjueXrj fiei^cov IBelv, 
 fcat (TOL irapaareixovTL (f>aalv e/jL^aXelv, ** 
 o3' av 8l opyr}^ elirev eKpi'y^a^ eirrj' 
 " aX(ro<; Be Kel Xox<^ev eKarov, ^S' eiMov 
 fjuei^cDv 6KacrT0<i elcnBelv TV')(pL fieXi], 
 10 ')(a'TravTe<; iu^dXoiev eic fiia<; fjuovw, 
 fjid Zrjv av opylaeie fjbov roaov rdSe, 
 a>9 fjLOL (TV fit) iretadelaa' vvv iieOiaraa-Oy 
 (T')(e(T6aL Be TdvBpo<i, rjv ireaw, ^eXrlovo^. " 
 rj 8' ovu fjLeOlaTar 01vl<; w<; reXo^ (tkoitoI, 
 
GREEK IAMBICS. 23 
 
 XIX. 
 
 (16) '* Humpty Dumpty." — Gammee Guhton. 
 
 Toi')(piaLV Xt,(DV 6dK0<; Ov/JLTTTlBoUflTTTLO'; 
 
 rdXa^ eirLirre TrrayfiaT ouk a.va(T')(eTa' 
 7) 8' ov ^acnXe(o<; ltttto^ ou Trefo? a-rpdro^ 
 iBvvar dvopOovv avdL<i OufiTTTLCovfiirTLov. 
 
Sfttton M$. 
 
 LATIN ELEGIACS, 
 
LATIN ELEGIACS. 27 
 
 XX. 
 
 (1) " Drink to me only with thine eyes."— Ben Jonson. 
 
 Nil nisi respiciens oculis milii sicca propines. 
 
 Omen ego accipiam par referamque meis ; 
 Oscula seu cyatlio admoveas^ satiabor in illo. 
 
 Nee cyatlio inveniens oscula vina petam. 
 5 Quae sitis est animi setlierios desiderat liaustus. 
 
 Nee mens terrenas ignea passa dapes : 
 Sed libare Jovis liceat si pocula^ mutem 
 
 Non potiore tuo nectare pocla Jovis. 
 Quod tibi mittebam roseas paulo ante coronas, 
 10 CredCj tui baud adeo pars id honoris erat, 
 Quam data quod poterant sero marcescere serta, 
 
 Flore tuo florem continuante rosis. 
 Ore fovens tremulis afflabas leniter, et mox 
 
 Florea quae dederam dona recepta tuli. 
 15 Jam, tester superos, sua non stat gratia flori. 
 
 Quod viget et redolet muneris omne tui est. 
 
 XXI. 
 
 (2) " The raiu had fallen, the Poet rose."— Tennyson. 
 
 Sol ex imbre serenus erat, per strata viarum 
 Protulit exsurgens urbe poeta pedem ; 
 
 Mittitur e portis aurae levis horror Eois, 
 Fluctuat umbrarum per sata longa sinus. 
 
28 LATIN ELEGIACS. 
 
 5 Consedit solus : resonabant avia cantu 
 
 Mox loca^ dum liquido carmen ab ore dabat. 
 Constitit auscultans vagus aere cygnus^ alauda 
 Praecipitem ad numeros se dedit ante pedes. 
 Sectatrix apium praedas neglexit birundo, 
 10 Subrepsit coluber delituitque rubis. 
 
 Obstupuit, trucia ut plumis resperserat ora, 
 
 Ut ferus ungue dapem presserat^ accipiter ; 
 Et solitas recolens artes Philomela negavit, 
 Unquam ita laetificos se sonuisse modes ; 
 15 "Nam memorat quae post annos ventura trabantur. 
 Quid sseclo extincto fiat in orbe, canit.^^ 
 
 XXII. 
 
 (3) " But let my due feet never fail."— Milton. 
 
 Nec musis desim nee claustris debitus bospes : 
 
 Sedeque pallenti sit mibi ferre pedem ; 
 Daedala amem mira laquearia mole^ columnas 
 
 Marmoraque^ artificis celsa tropaea manus ; 
 5 Mille ubi dissimulat tabulata fenestra colores^ 
 
 Saxaque sublustri religione ferit. 
 Dum spirant paeana suum recinentibus infra 
 
 Plenius altisonis organa mista cboris. 
 Hie cantus liquida capiar dulcedine_, et ima 
 10 Quod mihi corda melos diluat aure bibam; 
 
 Dum mibi mens super astra rapi^ dum visus Olympus 
 
LATIN ELEGIACS. 29 
 
 Obversari oculis stellifer ipse meis. 
 Denique eremitse sedes tutosque recessus 
 Fracturus vitae taedia longa petam ; 
 15 Accola muscosae rupi pellitus ab antro 
 
 Kite notem, verset quot sua signa polus ; 
 Quotve bibant herbge rores ; dum munera tangam 
 
 Fatidici doctus tempera longa senex. 
 Talia^ Tristitise numen^ mode cede fruenda, 
 20 Hac tibi lege libens jungar^ eroque tuus. 
 
 XXIII. 
 
 (4) *' Thus lived — thus died she ; never more on her," — Bteon. 
 
 Accipe qua vita fuerit qua morte, lacesset 
 
 Quam nibil astemum, cui maculamve dabit ; 
 Scilicet intolerans oiieris_, quod ferre per annos 
 
 Pectora seu menses frigidiora queant ; 
 5 Dum senio in cineres recidant ; sed munus amandae 
 
 Decerpens vitae quod breve dulce tulit ; 
 Nee longum sors atra dabat j jam dormit arena ; 
 
 Litus amarat enim, mortua litus amat. 
 Insula nuda vagos defendit inbospita fluctus, 
 10 Cessat deciduis incola adesse casis. 
 
 Stant tumuli, patris atque suus ; sed signa sepultis 
 
 Nulla, ubi cum sola funera solus babet. 
 Non tituli non testis adest ; frustraque requires 
 
 Condita quo lateat csespite tanta Yenus. 
 
30 LATIN ELEGIACS. 
 
 15 Heu fuit ! infleta et rauci est nisi murmure ponti 
 
 Dicta olim Cycladum prasnituisse choris. 
 Mgeret at hanc luctu permiscens carmen lonis 
 
 Plurima^ et extollit navita gesta viri ; 
 Et citius noctem sentit procedere^ narrans 
 20 Qua forma virgo, qualis ad arma pater ! 
 
 Perdite amasse fuit crimen quod morte luebat ; 
 
 Tandem amor est aliquo res pretiosa modo. 
 Nee tibi, si quis amas^ tua detrectanda pericla ; 
 
 Ocyus ultor amor serius ipse suus. 
 
 XXIV. 
 
 (5) " Nymphs and Shepherds, dance no more." — Milton. 
 
 Ludere arenosas^ nympliae, Ladonis ad oras. 
 
 Past ores que, inter lilia juncta vadis ; 
 Cyllenesque nives supra veterisque Lycaei 
 
 Desinite_, et luna ducere teste chores. 
 5 Msereat amissos quamvis Erymanthus lionoreSj 
 
 Gratior tie operum praemia reddet ager : 
 Hie domus est potior, teneant ne Maenala saxis, 
 
 Quominus hue adsit cum grege quisque suo. 
 Amplior hie vestros expectat gratia cultus, 
 10 Dignior ofl&ciis hue quoque Diva vocat. 
 Pana sibi servum Syrinx si fecerit olim, 
 
 Hanc Syrinx dominam noverit ipsa suam. 
 Huic, etiam Arcadici peteret si ruris honores, 
 
 Judice at Arcadia debita rura forent. 
 
LA.TIN ELEGIACS. 31 
 
 XXY. 
 
 (6) " O Thou dread Pow'r, who reign'st above."— Burns. 
 
 Qui premis imperiis superos, formidine terras, 
 
 Tu, si Te novi, non mihi surdus eris : 
 Dum precor his laribiis tua supplex munera, sedes 
 
 Quas sibi Pax optat, quas sociatus Amor. 
 5 Abstineas cano capiti vim mortis, et addens 
 
 Ultro longa seni tempora, parce patri. 
 Dux gregis hie teneros sancto beet omine natos, 
 
 Sospitis exemplar, quid sit honestus, habes. 
 Quae pulchram assiduis prolem meditatur ocellis, 
 10 Cui pia mens inter spem trepidatque metum ; 
 Maternos, matri dans quod juvet, exime fletus, 
 
 Absit ab officio pars, sine, massta suo. 
 Qui, decus et columen, vixdum puer exit ab.annis, 
 
 Cuive dies caepto vix rubet orta viro ; 
 15 Hunc, Tu Numen amans fidei et pietatis, amando, 
 
 Integra dum patri sint rata vota, fove. 
 Pro nuribus precor in lacrymas effusus — ab omni 
 
 Nosti, qui vitient, parte latere doles — 
 Nympharum decus hocce sororiaque agmina serves . 
 20 Omnem perficiat Te duce quseque viam. 
 Nactaque supremas quum serius ocyus oras 
 
 Ibit, ut oceanum trans ratis acta, domus ; 
 Gaudeat, exciderit tanto quod de grege nemo, 
 
 Et numerum in coehs expleat ipsa suum. 
 
32 LATIN ELEGIACS. 
 
 XXVI. 
 
 (7) " Haplj some hoary-headed swain may say."— G-eat. 
 
 '^ Cernere erat juvenem vix orto lumine, (credas 
 
 De grege sic aliquem posse referre senem,) 
 Yerrentem rapido rores pede, ut ardua saltus 
 Per juga Phoebeis obvius iret equis. 
 5 Adve pedem fagi tremulse, quae mille vetusta 
 Stirpe plicans nodos prodigiosa tumet ; 
 Carpebat medio lentissimus otia sole. 
 
 Argute oblapsas ceu meditatus aquas ; 
 Jam temere ad sylvam simulans fastidia risu 
 1 Ore vago nulla frivola lege dabat ; 
 
 Jam languebat inops animi, ceu perditus, aut quern 
 
 Curse essent, exspes aut agitaret amor. 
 
 Quadam destituit solitos luce advena colles, 
 
 Nescia prata viri sylvaque amata fuit ; 
 
 15 Crastina lux venitj juvenis sed^ ut antea, sylvae, 
 
 Saltibus, et solitis non veniebat aquis. 
 
 Tertia deduxit funus, via sacra recepit : 
 
 Debita non deerat naenia et exequiae : 
 I, neque enim indoctus, sculpto lege carmina saxOj 
 20 Qua vetus impositam rhamnus obumbrat bumum. 
 
 XXVII. 
 
 (8) " Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth."— Geat. 
 
 Quod caput baud olim fortuna aut fama levarat^ 
 Hie fovet omniparens flebile terra sinu. 
 
LATIN ELEGIACS. 83 
 
 Non Musse a tenui non Phoebus abhorruit ortu, 
 
 At gregis hunc scripsit Tristitia ipsa sui. 
 5 Largitore animo fuerat^ purissimus idem, 
 
 Larga dabant Superi munera proque datis. 
 Qui dederat laciymas miseris, nam plura nequibat, 
 
 In votis quod erat^ Numina amica tulit. 
 Parce sed emeriti virtutes volvere^ parcas 
 1 Excutere infanda sede tacenda viri ; 
 
 Illic speque metuque sinas sors pendeat anceps. 
 
 Causa sit in Patris corde reposta Dei. 
 
 XXVIII. 
 
 (9) "Leaves have their time to fall." — Mrs. Hemans. 
 Tempora sunt foliis^ sylvse sua fata caducae, 
 
 Hora est deciduis flante Aquilone rosis ; 
 Temporibus stellse merguntur in sequora ; sed tu_, 
 Tempora, Mors, quot eunt omnia, sola tenes. 
 5 Exercens tominum curas sol aureus exit, 
 Instauratque hilares serior hora focos ; 
 Sunt sua vota etiam nocti sua somnia ; at omne 
 Arbitrium in terris, tempus et omne, tibi est. 
 Hora refert epulas evantibus orgia ; venis 
 1 Fervidulis hora est carminis, hora meri ; 
 Nee caruere die frangentes pectora curae, 
 
 Nee lacrymge mites, omnis at hora tua est. 
 Te puer et nimium nascens rosa fisa colori — 
 Heu ! non credidimus talia posse mori — 
 15 Risere; ast tibi mos praedam qui praeripit omnem, 
 Nee nisi maturis abstinuisse juvat. 
 
34 LATIN ELEGIACS. 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 (10) [The same continued.) 
 
 Nosse licet lun83 interitus,, trans aequora vectas 
 
 Strymonias verno tempore nosse grues ; 
 Novimus aestates et flavescentia culta, 
 
 Sed te quo monitis omine nosse licet ? 
 Estne ubi jam veris violaeque Favonius auctor 
 
 Qua lateant Florae pignora prima monet ? 
 Ante pedes ubi marcescit rosa ? Scilicet unum 
 
 Tempus iis^ nobis tempus at omne mori ! 
 Inter aquge montes^ miscentur ut asquora, chordas 
 1 Inter ades^ liquidos haurit ut aura modes. 
 
 Otia seu quis amat Larium, strepituve virorum 
 
 Misceri, servas tu fora tuque Lares. 
 Tu necopinanti, quum conventurus amicum 
 
 Ulmos et requiem quaerit amicus^ ades ; 
 15 Tuque^ ges quum cantu ferit astra^ legitque virum 
 vir^ 
 
 Adstas_, Marsque apices preterit ense ducum. 
 Tempera enim foliis^ sylvae sua fata caducae, 
 
 Hora est deciduis flante Aquilone rosis ; 
 Temporibus stellse merguntur in aequora ; sed tu 
 
 Tempora^ Mors, quot eunt omnia, sola tenes. 
 
 XXX. 
 
 (11) " Call it not vain, they do not err."— Scott. 
 
 Ficta cave credas, naturam vate perempto 
 Flere^ sibique sacro sacra litare viro : 
 
LATIN ELEGIACS. 35 
 
 Neu temere incuses dictum, mugire cavernas, 
 MaBstaque ab aeria murmura rupe dari ; 
 5 Ad nomen vitreos liqui de montibus amnes, 
 Inque sua effusam balsama flere rosam ; 
 Suspirare nemus zepbyris quod amaverat ipse, 
 
 Raucius et quercus ingeminare ^Vale'^ ; 
 Ferre elegos tumulo vel euntia flumina, et undas 
 10 Suprema in vatem verba docere suas. 
 
 Non quasi bruta queant munus dare lugubre nostris 
 
 Manibus, aut hominum tangere saxa dolor. 
 Sed quia plangor inest nemori, per saxaque et auras 
 Vox venit, beroas questa carere lyra ; 
 15 Altera quos Letbe, citbara semel inde redemptos. 
 Jam manet, ab ! solitos ire per ora vii'um. 
 
 XXXI. 
 
 (12) "And strangely on tlie Knight looked he."— Scott. 
 
 Ille feros oculos intorquens lumine glauco, 
 
 Torva tuens, eqaiti talia voce refert : 
 '' Qualia Di superi celarent, qualia Manes, 
 
 Tu, dure, ausurus visere, miles, eras ? 
 5 En ego, qui csedor spinis, quemque aspera adurit 
 
 Pellis, cui cingunt ferrea claustra sinus ; 
 Non luiturus eram binis mea crimina sseclis, 
 
 Improba dum genibus tunditur ista silex ; 
 Omnia nam mea sunt leviora piacula culpa, 
 10 Audax qui norim quae mibi nosse nefas. 
 
36 LATIN ELEGIACS. 
 
 Tu quoque si cupias scelus exorare perenne^ 
 
 Si macie aeterna tempora agenda tibi ; 
 Hac lege ut paveas seram tamen, improbe^ mortem, 
 Yade, age, quod placuit me duce nactus eris/' 
 15 ^ ^ Longe a me macies, pater alme, manusqne supinae ; 
 Unam callet enim vix mea lingua precem ! 
 Hunc pia vota agitare putes, bunc sacra, ^ Mariam,' 
 
 Vix qui dum fines vastat, ' avere,^ jubet ? 
 Sic precor et prsedor, sed caetera nil moror ; at tu 
 20 Fac missum, citius perfice jussa, pater/' 
 
 XXXII. 
 
 (13) " Tliou .the light sail boldly spreadest." 
 
 Tu levia sequoreas audes dare vela per undas, 
 
 Nee tibi naufragii nee timer testis adest. 
 Non servans, tenuis, sulcas mare, nauta, Booton, 
 
 Picta gubernaclo non tua puppis eget. 
 5 Sole favente natas devexus concava aquarum, 
 
 Sospite te motum concipit unda Noti. 
 Non opus, exigue, est timeas, Palinure, procellam, 
 1 Gestit spumoso quem vebere unda salo ; 
 
 Irrequieta ferant quamvis freta gm-gite cymbam 
 
 Alterno, refluis usque agitata vadis ; 
 Non potes usque adeo, tangant licet sequora ccelos, 
 
 Pergere ut imperiis egrediare tuis. 
 
LATIN ELEGIACS. 37 
 
 XXXIII. 
 
 (14) " An arrow from a bow just shot." — Machles. 
 
 Evolat ad coelum nervo pulsante sagitta, 
 
 Adque avium regem^ nubila nacta, refert, 
 Plurima dum voKtat jactans et inania, " possum, 
 
 '^ Ecce, tuas alas aequiparare meis : 
 '^ Quin, supero et Plioebi sublimis apricor in auris.' 
 
 Leniter arridens cui, " mdsera/^ inquit avis, 
 ^' Quid quod tabes alas, aliena levamina ? Jactas 
 
 '* Irrita, si terras ipsa caduca petis V 
 
 XXXIY. 
 
 (15) " Phyllis, why should we delay ?" — Walleu. 
 
 Gaudia quid breviora die, mea Phylli, moramur ? 
 
 Quidve tenere sinu mox peritura juvat ? 
 Si vitam — Parcse sed enim vetuere — liceret 
 
 Tendere, et invisas exsuperare colos, 
 5 Flos tamen exciderit, ceu transvolat umbra, decoris, 
 
 Et brevior nobis nostra juventa perit. 
 Ast eadem si forma manet, si laeta juventus, 
 
 Praecipiti penna transvoHtabit Amor. 
 Antevolat Tempus puer ales ; Amorque vicesque 
 10 Scandunt vel coelos, nam vicis auctor Amor : 
 Queis etenim sors est mutari nesca, juvit 
 
 Odisse inque vices rursus amasse Deos. 
 
38 LATIN ELEGIACS. » 
 
 XXXY. 
 
 (16) *' For we were nurst upon the self-same hill." — Milton. 
 
 Communem ad fontes unius montis alumni 
 Duximus, ad sylvas^ ad fluviosque^ gregem : 
 . Ambo una pastum pecus egimus, ardua saltus 
 Vix quum palpebra tangeret orta dies ; 
 5 Bt simul ambobus cecinit mala bucina, quali 
 Est solitus medio stridere sole culex. 
 Dum, pasto noctem et rores grege_, Vesper ab ortu 
 
 Caeperat occiduam deproperare rotam. 
 Nee siluere tamen gaudentes rure Camaenae, 
 10 Nee minus interea carmen avena dedit ; 
 Duxerat berba simul bifidae vestigia calcis, 
 
 Dum saltant Satyri Capripedumque chori ; 
 Quemque carere diu cantus dulcedine taedet ; 
 Damaetasque modes audit amatque senex. 
 
 XXXYI. 
 
 (17) [The same continued.] 
 
 Ahj conversa tuo decessu tempora, pastor. 
 Quern via in setemum non remeanda tulit ! 
 
 Te silva3 et cava saxa gemunt, quot lenta racemis 
 Labrusca obduxit_, quot loca flore tbyma ; 
 
 Nulla repercussa3 vocis requievit imago, 
 Quin saxa excuterent verba suprema tibi. 
 
LATIN ELEGIACS. 39 
 
 Non plaudent foliis posthac coryleta canenti^ 
 
 Non gestire pia visa salicta coma. 
 Qualis obest vermis depulsae in pascua caprae^ 
 10 Exedit aut teneras pestis amara rosas. 
 Quale gelu sensit veris modo conscia florum 
 
 Copia^ vix pictos ausa aperire sinus ; 
 Induit ut flores cy tisus ; tua talia fata ; 
 
 Sic, Lycida, sortes audit ovile tuas. 
 
 XXXYII. 
 
 (18) " Seest thou yon bark ? It left our bay." — Maby Howitt. 
 
 Quae viden^ e curva nobis proram extulit or^, 
 
 Audax mane, vocans omnia fata, ratis, 
 Quam multa ex oculis cursu tulit aura secundo, 
 
 Quam multa appulsu vix levis unda suo ? 
 5 Omine quam falso nituit ! Quam, nauta, superbis 
 
 Cursibus excideras, beu, male fisus aquae ! 
 Scilicet ignarus, maria obdormiscere cernens, 
 
 Quum tranquilla satis, tum metuenda nimis. 
 Flos erat in pratis florum pulcberrimus ; ilium 
 10 Roscida nox aluit fovit et orta dies : 
 
 Hunc modo prae forma nolebam carpere florem, 
 
 Parcebamque borto demere tale decus ; 
 Sed clam letiferas fovit sub cortice gemmas, 
 
 Includens fibris funera fraude sua ; 
 15 Sensit enim vermem radix ; ea noxa comantem, 
 
 Frustra et pollicitam crastina, nocte tulit. 
 
40 LATIN ELEGIACS. 
 
 XXXVIII. 
 
 (19) " But why should I his boyish feats display ?"— Beattie. 
 
 Quid tamen huic laudo puerilia? Nam neque vulgus 
 
 Nee strepitus plaeuit^ turba molesta fuit : 
 Nee libuit raueae medium se ferre catervse, 
 Rixantumque gregi, duxit at umbra pedem ; 
 5 Seu temere inculti premeret capita aspera mentis, 
 Seu caperet longae devius error aquae ; 
 Ferre per intact os voluit vestigia salt us 
 
 Et vagus band uUeI per nemus ire YJk ; 
 Dum, jubare occiduis demisso cautibus, irent 
 10 Gaudentes solvi languida coUa boves. 
 
 Non pede, non dextr^ raelior^neque gramine victor 
 
 Ibat ovans, juvit non ea palma virum. 
 Pectora crediderim crudelis nescia ludi 
 Condoluisse, foret si violata pecus. 
 15 Non rete aut laqueum, non tela aut stuppea 
 amabat 
 Yincla ; doles sprevit, duxit at arma nefas. 
 Tutelam ille sibi ruris non regna petebat_, 
 Nedum inde ut fastus proditiove foret : 
 Imperium sed quale daret sine sanguine sylva, 
 20 Huic fuit in votis imperitare suum. 
 
 XXXIX. 
 
 (20) " Oh ! that the chemist's magic art." — Kogebs. 
 
 Arte Prometbea queat, 0, quis sistere guttam, 
 Cogere et in vitrum quas pretiosa fluunt. 
 
LATIN ELEGIACS. 41 
 
 Pendula vi tacita premeret pia bullula nostros, 
 
 Tristitiasque ciens deliciasque, sinus. 
 6 Gemma nitens nitidis lapsura pependit ocellis, 
 
 Estque a luminibus lucida facta Chloes; 
 Puniceis eadem labens tremebunda cavernis. 
 
 Ex animae teneris fontibus ibat aqua. 
 Candida^ lucentes simulans aspergine bacas, 
 10 Quam virtus radiis imbuit alma suis ; 
 Mitior ipsa micas lucesque serenior omni^ 
 
 Quae tenebris terrae gemmea flamma subest. 
 Te, lacryma, expectant refici quaerentia, et ultro 
 
 E se, quod poscunt_, saucia corda cient ; 
 15 Tu_, stimulis animus quum jam male suetus iniquis 
 
 Gaudetj amat^ maeret, commiserescit, ades. 
 Te scriptis adbibet sapiens,, novere Camsenae ; 
 
 Quae te non celebrant tempora^ quidve solum ? 
 Te^ seu Socratic^e cliart^e versentur^ amamus, 
 20 Seu nos ficta juvet somnia mente sequi. 
 
 Nam lacryma in vitreum qua lege volubilis orbem 
 
 It globus, et proprio fonte caduca perit. 
 Lege orbis terrae pendet globus alter eadem, 
 
 Yolvitur in spatiis sidus et omne suis. 
 
Section i.V. 
 
 LATIN HEXAMETERS. 
 
LATIN HEXAMETERS. 45 
 
 XL. 
 
 (1) " So the false spidei*, when her nets are spread." — Dbtde:?. 
 
 Sic ubi fraude mala suspendit aranea casses, 
 Lustris insidiata silet_, dum fila corusco 
 Fune trahi longe noscat, jam signa teneri 
 Posse reluctantem viscosa compede muscam ; 
 5 Quam simul haesisse inveniat, se proripit imis 
 Sedibus, et telas decurrens improba gaudet 
 Captivo imbutas fraudes tractare retento ; 
 Et miseram exultans rapit in penetralia prsedam. 
 
 XLI. 
 
 (2) " The riders rode abreast, and one his shield." — Deyden. 
 
 Fronte pari incessere equites ; hie scuta ferebat,, 
 lUe hastam corni de vimine^ tertius arcum^ 
 Et totam e levi decus auro insigne pharetram, 
 Admirabile opus. Mox illustrissimus ortu 
 5 Grajugeniim quisque insequitur^ junctisque feretrum 
 Fert subiens humeris : it flens segni pede turba, 
 Perque Viam Sacram sistens se saepius agmen 
 Triste onus educit : paries supremus ad imum 
 Quisque atra induerat masrens sibi tegmina^ mgerent 
 10 Ipsa pavimenta obducto celata tapete. 
 
46 LATIN HEXAMETERS. 
 
 XLII. 
 
 (3) (The same continued.) 
 
 -^geus parte senex dextrst velamina servans 
 Tristia^ rex aderat Theseus Sens ipse sinistra, 
 Cymbia uterque ferens, divinum opus, aurea, lacte 
 Et melle et rubri spumantia munere Bacchi. 
 5 Proximitate loci et generis (nam sanguine ab uno 
 Mortuus et Palamon) Palamon succedit, et agmen 
 Insequitur proceriim : pompge decus, intulit ignes 
 Candida celatos, incendia sera rogorum, 
 u^milia : inde viro de more amplissima fiunt 
 10 Sacra, superstitione patrum qusecunque coluntur. 
 Jam pyra tanta fuit, cui posset vincere summum 
 Aera vix Parthi magnti vi missile telum : 
 Bis tamen a fundo denas superaverat ulnas, 
 Inque modum stipulis texta est crepitantibus aequum. 
 
 XLIII. 
 
 (4) {The same continued.) 
 
 Exsurgens viridem simulabat fabrica sylvam : 
 Tum femes flammas sulfur, sparsumque bitumen 
 Intererat ta3dis ; abies ibi pinguis, et ornus 
 Hastarum genitrix, flentique simillima taxus, 
 5 Atque opifex quercus, fagus quoque, et aptior alnus 
 Fluctibus, et platani, et tili83, mollissima ligna, 
 Et buxus praedura, Deorum et munere laurus 
 
LATIN HEXAMETEES. 47 
 
 Victor! concessa aderant : sed nil moror ordo 
 
 Qui fuerit memorare^ aut quae sine nomine nymphae 
 
 10 Sylvarum quamque incolerent, qualive ululatu. 
 Exilium sylvestre sororiaque agmina ducens 
 Fugerit orba Dryas latebris ; nee dicere versu 
 Sedibus eversis coelum mutasse volucres, 
 Aut profugas stupuisse feras sua lustra carere 
 
 15 Frondibus ; aut jubar immissum formidine lucis 
 Quot loca perculerit non ante obnoxia soli. 
 
 XLIY. 
 
 (5) " All nations now to Rome obedience pay." — Milton. 
 
 Komanos rerum dominos gentesque subactas 
 Aspice,Romanus princeps dat jura per orbem. 
 Huic quantum decus imperii ! Premit arbiter eras 
 Extremas, opibusque potens et moribus addens 
 5 Arma^ armisque artes^ civilibus aspera miscet. % 
 Tantarum famam rerum tu jure feroci 
 PraGtuleris Partho^ his sordent tibi csetera demptis, 
 Barbara, principibus nimium sortita remotis. 
 
 10 His te cuncta tenere puta, nam sedulus auctor 
 Quicquid opum docui, terrae quae gloria toti. 
 Languet at ille senex fractusque libidine princeps ; 
 Sceptra vacant haerede senilia, et ipse receptus 
 Ad Capreas (parva est sed munitissima ad eras 
 
 15 Insula Campanas) parat impurissimus artes 
 Horrendasj secreta et polluit otia culpa. 
 
48 LATIN HEXAMETEES. 
 
 (6) " I, wretched I, have other fortunes seen." — Detden. 
 
 '^ Me miseram ! quantum mutor Capaneia conjux 
 Longe alia regina fruebar sorte : sed ille 
 Occidit ad Thebas : lux heu sceleratior omni 
 Sustulit ; et quam cernis, eo certamine maeret 
 5 Ante urbem extinctos, sociis quam cinximus armis^ 
 Ceetera turba viros, flentes longo agmine matres. 
 Sed falso qui jure Creon se jactat in arce, 
 Impius ille senex, Dircaeosque arrogat agros, 
 Ignes et miseris negat ultima jura, sepulcrum, 
 
 1 Invidus exanimis et in ipsa cadavera saevus. 
 
 Hand rogus, haud tumulus : sed strage oppressa 
 
 frequenti 
 Indignatur bumus fera fata et jussa tyranni. 
 Nee venia est miseris tollendi corpus amicis 
 Flebile, membra canes divellunt mortua rostris.^^ 
 
 15 Illi turba comes, dum voce ululabat ad auras 
 
 ' Talia, fletqiie simul, projectaque pulvere sordet ; 
 Atque supinatis manibus gemituque frequenti 
 Omnes corda cient, miseris succurrat amicis. 
 
 XLYI. 
 
 (7) " In this remembrance Emily, ere day." — Deyden. 
 
 -Emilia ante diem surgens, non immemor liorum, 
 Veste nitet picta : non Eos pulcbrior, ore 
 
LATIN HEXAMETERS. 49 
 
 Non Flora* ipsa rubet potior : per Candida coUa 
 Luxuries effusa comae est, quam taenia plexu 
 5 Parte coercebat ; temere irreligata protervae 
 Caetera ludibrium virgo permiserat aurae. 
 Yix clarescebat stellis Aurora fugatis 
 Spargebatque rosas, gelido quum tramite ludens 
 Cum pede pulchra levi rores libabat in hortis, 
 
 10 Conceptura preces et debita vota diei, 
 Flore puella suo cultum Floralibus addens. 
 
 Constitit in spatiis paulum, niveamque roseti 
 Insinuare manum spinis est ansa rosamque 
 Ducere ; ducta amat ilia sequi, quotque inde legebat, 
 
 15 Detersit liquidos quassato stamine rores. 
 Vincula mox nectit capiti bicoloria, pingens 
 Flore rubro niveos : liquida tum voce peractum 
 Cantat opus tamque arguto sonat ore puella^ 
 Terricol^e ut numeris laetentur coelicolaeque. 
 
 20 Miraturque oblita modes philomela, quibusque 
 Ver iniens numeris jubeat salvere docetur. 
 
 XLVII. 
 
 (8) "The city whicli thou seest no other deem." — Milton. 
 
 Quam spectas urbem, rerum est pulcherrima Roma, 
 Ne ere das aliam ; terrarum lauta rapinis, 
 
 * The Floralia began on the 29th of April, and ended on the 3rd of 
 May (Ovid, Fasti, iv. 947, v. 183-4) ; hence, as Maia is the Pleiad, 
 the mother of Mercury, not the month, for which we have Mains 
 mensis, Maice Kalenda, etc., but never Maia, the substitution of Flora 
 and Floralia for the English " May (personified), May-day," etc., may 
 perhaps be allowed. e 
 
50 LATIN HEXAMETERS. 
 
 Imperium oceano famam quae terminat astris. 
 En Capitolinas sedes et Pergama ! quali 
 6 Majestate alias supra caput extulit arces 
 Una haec, exsurgens per inexpugnabile saxis 
 Tarpeium : ecce, Palatinusque et Principis aedes 
 Circuitu immodico educta stant mole sub astra, 
 Mirandas ingeniis, magnae res laudis et artis ; 
 10 Culmina fastigata auro lateque corusca, 
 Luce sua distinctus apex, solaria, turres. 
 
 XLYIII. 
 
 (9) " So spake he ; and was buckling.'*— Macaflat. 
 
 Dixerat, at que Austro stringebat epbippia nigro ; 
 Ecce autem juvenum a dextra par nobile ferri 
 Yidit equis ; una ambobus facies erat, unus 
 Armorum nitor et niveorum candor equorum ; 
 5 Alterum ab alterius ne quis dignoscere vultu 
 Posset, at ante oculos iret mortalibus error. 
 Non ilia humanis crepuere incudibus armaj 
 Nee bibit ullus aquas terrenis fontibus haustas 
 His sonipes animis : expalluit omine miles 
 1 Et tremuit viso : primus dictator et Aulus 
 Faucibus baerentem vix vocem rupit ab ore : 
 " Dicite," ait, '''genus, unde domo, quo nomine clari ? 
 Quidve ita pro signis cinctu fulgetis equestri 
 Romulidum V " Hand uno,^' referebant, " nomine 
 clari. 
 
LATIN HEXAMETERS. 51 
 
 15 Hand unam incolimus patriam. Samothracia novit^ 
 Novit Cyrene nostrum decus_, aedeque nostra 
 Omni festivum suspendens mane Tarentum 
 Florea serta ; Sjrracusae superantia males 
 Limina nostra vident^ nostro freta marmore lucent. 
 
 20 At nos Indigetes Eurotas_, maximus amnis, 
 
 Vindicat ; liaec domus, haec patriae carissima sedes. 
 Et nos, Komulidse, cinctu fulgemus equestri 
 Pro signis_, careat pietas ne vindice vestra." 
 Sic memorantj et uterque infestam cominus tastam 
 
 25 Mirus eques vibrat demissa cuspide in hostes : 
 Romanus toto non secius agmine laetus 
 ExtoUitque animos gestitque cupidine pugnae. 
 
 XLIX. 
 
 (10) " There lives and works 
 
 A soul in all things." — Cowpee. 
 
 Insunt nempe omnibus haustus 
 -ZEtherii^ Deus auctor inest operosus : euntes 
 Dirigit bic stellas, et vos docet aetbere cursus, 
 Lumina, labentem coelo quae ducitis annum. 
 5 Ble biemi fines et ineluctabile vinclum 
 Imposuit, mulcens iras et tela retundens. 
 Germen et implicuit fusco squalore tenellum 
 Vaginarum opifex non lUe bnitabilis ; ante 
 Proxima concipiens rerum miracula, praesens 
 10 Quam rosa deperiit quamque baec defloruit aestas. 
 Arbiter Hie vitae magno se corpore miscens 
 Fit quodcunque vides, et vita animantibus Ipse est. 
 
52 LATIN HEXAMETEES. 
 
 (11) " Oft list'ning how the hounds and horn."— Milton. 
 
 Saepius exeipio quo cornua murmure, laeti 
 Quo catuli Auroram increpitent tardumque cubile 
 Tithoni, ut juga per montis canentia et altum 
 Personuere nemus ; saepe liaud invisus ad ulmos 
 5 Sepibus oppositas obductos caespite colles 
 Perlustro viridi, Eois adversus^ ut ortus 
 Observem, portis ; egressus unde superbos 
 Jam parat electro cinctus flammisque Hyperion ; 
 Perque clientelam nebularum mille colores, 
 10 Vestes mille trabens varias^ jacit ; et modo arator 
 Stridere per sulcos propior_, modo dulce puella 
 Cantare ad mulctram, cotemque intendere messor 
 Instituit falci ; reducemque sub arbuta vallis 
 Quisque gregem pastor confert et ovile recenset. 
 
 LI. 
 
 (12) {The same continued.) 
 
 Mox circumspicio nova gaudia ; pascor inani 
 Mente videns tinctas sera ferrugine sylvas^ 
 Admissas pecudes^ et cana novalia morsu 
 Detonsa errantum, et montes qui vertice nudo 
 Saspe trabunt nimbos innixumque agmen aquarum. 
 Turn juvat appictus per prata nitentia cultu 
 FlosculuSj aut breviora vada^ aut latissimus amnis. 
 
LATIN HEXAMETERS. 53 
 
 Hie sese insinuare locis sylvestribus arces^ 
 Moenia quels tumidae, ambitiosa cacumina, fagi 
 
 10 Cinxere; his forsan lateat miranda puella, 
 Sidereoque trahat vultu sibi lumina : fumus 
 Nee procul inde casae, geminis quae quercubus exstat 
 Annosis media : tie Corydon cum Thyrside miscet 
 Congrediens escas, et agrestia fercula Phyllis 
 
 15 Dextera munditiis herbas contundit olentes. 
 Quae tuguri hospitio cedit eito^ Thestyli, tecum 
 CoUatura operas Cerealibus hordea culmis 
 Stringente ; aut si ducat opus maturior hora, 
 Paseua sicca petit flavi studiosa manipli. 
 
 LII. 
 
 (13) " Arcite return'd, and, as in honour ty'd."— Deyden. 
 
 Arcites rediit victumque torumque paravit, 
 Namque hosti hospitium pudor imperat : armaque 
 
 binis 
 Tegmina corporibus nondum lueente petivit 
 Auror^^ quod eques prae se religarat onusto 
 5 Pondus equo : lorica erat utraque lucida ferro 
 Et purum ignis opus ; qualis defenderet ictus 
 Tantos et dextras tantas : jam quique vocarat 
 Quemque vocarat adest, quaque et quo tempore 
 
 pactum est. 
 Ut coram adsteterunt, longe cognorat uterque 
 10 Hostem, et mutato rabies exarserat ore. 
 
54 LATIN HEXAMETERS. 
 
 Qualis ubi infesta Threx armentarius hasta 
 Stat servans aditus^ fugientes optat et ursos ; 
 Dum quassata procul magno monet ire fragore 
 Sylva feram : notat, et " quo non capitalior/^ inqiiit, 
 " Hostis adest, subita tollendus cuspide_, nobis 
 15 ^' Ni ferat ille necem.-'^ Secnm dum talia_, vibrat 
 Tela, parant vense generosis frigora membrisj 
 Fortia sed refluus co'it in praecordia sanguis. 
 
 Lin. 
 
 (14) " Thus pale they meet ; their eyes with fury bum." 
 
 Hand secus adversi paUent, stant lumina flamm^ 
 Effera ; ab invitis voces dare, reddere, neutral 
 Parte salutatur ; sed torve obmutuit armans, 
 Fratris id officium manifesto in Marte, virum vir. 
 5 Nee mora, procursant infestis cominus bastis, 
 Remve gerunt gladiis ; mucrone acieve lacessunt ; 
 Hie ferit, ille fodit, casdit, premit ictibus ictus. 
 Loricam explorat, tenuissima quaeque requirens, 
 Hasta ; furit Mars aequus, et bora supervenit boram, 
 
 10 Taedia longa : flagrant in mutua yulnera dextris, 
 Caede madent ambo, pede nee coiiceditur ulli, 
 Ceu statione ista victoria pendeat orbis. 
 Bcce, inimicus atrox Arcites, tigridis instar^ 
 Bella ciet, Palamona feri rapit ira leonis : 
 
 15 Seu quales, geminis si quando amor incidit unus. 
 
LATIN HEXAMETERS. 55 
 
 Horrescunt setis spumescunt faucibus apri, 
 Et dente adversos obliquant vulnera in armos 
 Fulmineo ; gemitu immani sylva intonat omnis 
 Frendentumque fragore sonat : sic miles uterque 
 20 Depugnat, certaturus sine fine, recidant 
 Ni Parcas pugnas, et idoneus arbiter exstet. 
 
 LIY. 
 
 (15) "Thence to the gates east round thine eje, and see." — Milton. 
 
 Inde oculos refer ad portas : urbs undique quantam 
 Intranti oppositam totis vomit arcibus undam ! 
 Sorte datas Praetor sedes, pro consule missus 
 Munera adit ; jactans redit inde insignia, fasces 
 5 Lictoresqne, potestatis, trabeatus : at arma 
 
 Fert legio, et turmas glomeratque cohortibus alas. 
 Adsunt oratum variis de gente remota 
 Vestibus, ^miliam emensi, quosve Appia defert : 
 Hos plaga sub curru Pboebi propiore Syene 
 
 10 Ultima, at bos Meroe, cui sol aequissimus umbras 
 Dividit ancipites, Nilo circumflua mittit 
 Insula, et occiduis Boccbus vicinior astris. 
 Ad mare porrectus Numidum : mox Aside ab ora 
 Missi adsunt, Partbi ante omnes; quosque India, 
 et auri 
 
 15 Ditior educit regio paeninsula; quosque 
 Indica Taprobane, Eoi Thule ultima ponti ; 
 Omnibus alba nigrse circumdata serica fronti. 
 
56 LATIN HEXAMETERS. 
 
 Turn Gallic et Calpe, occiduoque a sole Britanni, 
 Et Cimbri atque Scytliae, et septem gens juncta trioni 
 20 Sarmata^ transque Istrum quos Taurica periuit unda. 
 
 LV. 
 
 (16) "Who loyes a garden lores a greenhouse too.'' — Cowpee. 
 
 Si quis amas hortos^ tibi vitrea claustra placebunt. 
 Exulat his felix, mutari nescia coelum^ 
 Tuta calore loci_, peregrino flore venusta 
 SylvTila, dum Boreas fremit et toto aere ningit. 
 5 His formosa apices non decussura virescit 
 Myrtus^ et Hesperia ulterior quae munera jactat 
 Aurea_, mitescunt^ et quae sub sole calentes 
 Occiduo prsebent Indi ; sunt altera rubra. 
 Altera sed pallent acidos celantia succos. 
 
 10 Hie nimbos levi de tegmine prospicit arbor 
 Utraque, derisura minas sine fraude procellae. 
 Hie flore et bacis miscentur vimina amomi, 
 Puniceoque nitent perfusa gerania* cocco ; 
 Distinguitque sues, splendens bellissimuSj ignes 
 
 15 Ficoides, tardas expectans flore pruinas. 
 
 Turn nulla non fronde biemem qua3 torva tuentem 
 Ferre queat, morsu modo non obnoxia acerbo, 
 Felix sylva viget : solis sub origine matrem 
 Hge repetunt Syriam, Ausonias pars altera sedes. 
 
 * This name and ficoides following lack poetical anthority, and the 
 second, as far as I know, has no place in Latin. They are here treated 
 as proper names merely, which may excuse the arbitrary lengthening of 
 the a from yepauos, and shortening of the i from eiSvs. 
 
LATIN HEXAMETEES. 57 
 
 LVI. 
 
 (17) " No forest fell 
 
 Wlien thou would'st build."— Covvper. 
 
 Non sylvse artifici tibi procubuere recisae. 
 Nee sua saxa Pares misit ; lympha ipsa securim 
 Visa pati, sculptisque exstabant marmora ab undis. 
 Turn quali stupuit sede Oceanitida matrem, 
 5 Amissas questurus apes et mellea furta 
 Tristis Aristseus, tales patuere cavernge. 
 Arcibus his tibi, Musa, armamentaria Brumae 
 Fingas ; unde agmen coelorum. et caerulus imber 
 Bella parent, Isesara cutem crystallina tela, 
 
 10 Aut qu8B grandineo prosternant pondere florem, 
 Quseve nives misero fallant vestigia eunti 
 Cseco errore viae, volventes viva sepulcris 
 Corpora. Ibi surgens per mira silentia somni 
 Fit domus : liaud serrae obstrepuere hand malleus 
 antris, 
 
 15 Sed partes, glacie glaciem cogente, tenaces 
 Inter se fusa coierunt undique lympha. 
 Gratia, ceu lychnis nullo non lumine tinctis, 
 Artifici variata manu radiatur ab omni 
 Parte, micatque vitrum luci penetrabile aquosaB ; 
 
 20 Ut credas lunae nasci nova cornua, ut ire 
 Coelitus ad terras sidus, cursuque sereno 
 Innocuos ignes longosque albescere tractus. 
 
58 LATIN HEXAMETEES. 
 
 LYII. 
 
 >(18) " The stable yields a stercoraceous heap." — Cowper. 
 
 Pingue fimo stabulum immundos praebebit acervos : 
 His vivos natura sales, tardosque calores_, 
 Nescia hyperboreis vinci fermenta pruinis, 
 Subdidit : ante etenim sylvis quam fagus et ulmiis 
 5 Deciduas posuere comas, flatuque Novembris 
 Jampridem rigido astrictus sub cortice succus 
 Constitit, accingendum operi, summaque petendus 
 Arte locus laterum aspectu circum undique tutus. 
 Hue densas glomerare operas, ut vinea soles 
 
 10 Suspiciat medios et aprica fronte calescat ; 
 Omnia at a tergo bene tecta fovere memento. 
 Sen muro, seu sepe placet, seu claudere juncis, 
 Pellere qui possint Borese penetrabile frigus. 
 Turn bibulas stemi filices stipulasque maniplis 
 
 15 Effusas, nebulam bausturas fumosque volucres, 
 Profuit : inde manu, modo ne trepidante, solutes 
 E gravidis leviter culmos superinjice furcis 
 Tu saturos : tum, quod stringat bene claustra, 
 
 tenaci 
 Robore texe latus justa teres arte ; soloque 
 
 20 Latins exsurgens impendeat undique culmen. 
 Cratitium succedit opus, compagibus arctum 
 Undique, et obducto transmittens lumina vitro ; 
 Erige, et acclivi s^deat super aggere dorso. 
 Dorsa resultantes acuantur vertice ad imbres, 
 
 25 Sit que ira illisaB pluvii Jovis irrita lamnae. 
 
 Claude latus ; clause est pars prima exbausta laboris. 
 
LATIN HEXAMETERS. 59 
 
 LYIII. 
 
 (19) " The sequel of to-day unsolders all."— Tennyson. 
 
 Altera lux solvet foedus collegiaque armis 
 Inclyta, quale decus nullum memoratur ab a3vo. 
 Tali pressa jacent somno milii pectora frustra 
 Juncta fide ! Puto^ non Camelodunensibus liortis 
 5 Tempore venture^ non nos spatiabimur aulis ; 
 Nee sermone retractantes gratissima mentis 
 HeroUm laudes soles que iterabimus actos ! 
 En, ego quos feci populum pereo ipse meorum 
 Fraude miser ! Reduci sed enim regna altera vates 
 
 10 Testatus superos cecinit milii : debita currant 
 
 Fata tamen : neque enim potero penetrabile vulnus 
 Quod mihi per galeam sedit tolerare^ nee ortus, 
 Ni quis opem tulerit, sperare licebit Eoos. 
 Ergo age^ tu ferrum magico cape nomine clarum, 
 
 15 Et nostrae partem, meministi, laudis ; ab ipso 
 Quod sublime sinu stagni manus aequore surgens, 
 Induta et magico s candentia serica amictus^ 
 -Mira loquor, medio aestivi sub sole diei, 
 Hei mibi ! praeteriti, mediis porrexit ab undis. 
 
 20 Quid multa ? Exsupero remex vada, et arma pre- 
 bensa 
 Rex gessi ut decuit regem ; nee laude carebit 
 Hoc factum, quacunque canar, quacunque per orbem 
 Dicar . Sed cape jam, neu sit mora, et eminus ensem 
 Correptum, medio missum aequore, projice in undas; 
 
 25 Cunctaque nosce oculis, refer et cito cognita nobis. 
 
60 LATIN HEXAMETEES. 
 
 LIX. 
 
 (20) " Then first I heard the voice of her, to whom."— Tennyson. 
 
 Turn milii prima Deae coelo vox fertur ad aures 
 Cui, simul ingreditur^ consensu assurgit Olympus ; 
 Qualis enim lam pas radiis_, inclaruit ore 
 Amplior illucens. Paridi regina ferebat 
 5 Regale imperium^ nullo obtrectante ; ter amplis 
 Finibus adjiciebat opes sine fine,, superbi 
 Par decus id regni : " valles ubi/' dixit^ " opimas 
 Yestiit alma Ceres, ubi flava interluit amnis 
 Arva secans, ubi inexbaustis manus sera metallis 
 10 Exsudat, tibi bonor, tibi opes, portoria, largo 
 Vectigale fluent : cinctas regionibus urbes 
 Tu ditione premes, seu quae tenet obsita malis 
 Umbrosos portus atque arcibus innatat undis, 
 Atque videt vitreo claudi sua Pergama Averno.'^ 
 
 LX. 
 
 (21) " Mine eye, descending from the hill, surreys." — Denham. 
 
 Per juga deflexo contemplor lumine valles. 
 Per quas lascivo Tbamesis devolvitur amne, 
 Filius Oceani Tbamesis, gratissimus unus 
 Ille seni, et pendens undas, pietatis imago, 
 5 Currit in amplexus patrios : ita defluit aevum 
 Mortale seternis condens sua tempora saeclis. 
 Quamvis Eridani non semulus ille Tagive, 
 
LATIN HEXAMETEES. 61 
 
 Ut fluat Heliadum lacrymis spumosus, ut auro 
 Turbidus ; at dives sine noxa et fraude sub alveo 
 
 10 Nil celat, si quaeris opes circumspice ripas. 
 His gaza est : super bas effusis incubat arvo 
 Stagnis, excludenda fovens sua munera vere. 
 Nee tamen bseret in amplexu^ fetumque fovendo 
 Angit, ut infantem imprudens nutricula pressit : 
 
 15 Gurgite nee refluo raptor sua dona resorbet. 
 Quae temere addiderat_, ceu rex profusior aequo. 
 Non neeopinatis frustrans incur sibus anni 
 Spem saturat messes^ bominumque boumque 
 
 labores 
 Diluit ; at Superum ritu largitor agrestes 
 
 20 Ditat inexbaustus, ditatos diligit ultro. 
 
 Adde quod baud ripis praefinit munera ; cunctis 
 Cuncta fluunt, pontoque magis communia et ipso 
 Liberiora Noto. Terras nam visit onustus 
 Riparum spoliis plenoque a btore febx. 
 
 25 Haee jaetat vagus et^ quum vult_, dispertit in orbem 
 Munera, vebvoHsque domum redit arcibus Indos 
 Dives utrosque addens nobis ; quodque exstet in orbe 
 Quserit opum tribuitque inopi, ut deserta eolantur 
 Urbe loca, atque ultro media nemus urbe vireseat. 
 
 30 Orbis merce nites, Tbamesis, toto aequore, nobis 
 Ne quid inexperti, ne quis peregrinus in orbe. 
 utinam ista fluam referens exempla fluenti 
 Teque ornem ornato similis ; simque altus at idem 
 
 35 Purus ! Sim, liceat, lenis neque segnis eundo, 
 Et rabie fortis demptaque voragine plenus ; 
 Atque imiter sine vortice aquas sine murmure lapsas ! 
 
62 LATIN HEXAMETERS. 
 
 LXI. 
 
 (22) " So said he, and the barge with oar and sail." — Tennyson. 
 
 Dixerat, et remis velisque e margine cymba 
 Qualis olor cessit, plenis qui turgidus alis, 
 Indoctum exspirans moribundo e pectore carmen. 
 Per coUa excutiens niveas purissima plumas, 
 6 Palmula aquas livente capit : vestigia rerum 
 
 Multa diu volvens steterat comes ; usque nigrescens 
 Dum mera fit macula extremes adversa per ortus 
 Cymbula visa procul, periitque ululatus ab undis. 
 
 LXII. 
 
 (23) " The trumpets next the gate in order plac'd." — Detden. 
 
 Ordinibus tuba multa suis stat proxima portis, 
 Quo signo canat expectans^ quo provocet arma. 
 Per spatia aularum^ velut unda supervenit undam, 
 Fluctuate adque latus premit ultima turba priorem, 
 5 Usque sed in medio densissima ; vulgus at extra 
 Exclusum est, soKsque patet melioribus aula ; 
 Fit globus bic, illic spatiantur in ordine amici. 
 Jam commentantur, jam fingunt seria vultu 
 CoUoquioque ; placent partes studiumque favorque, 
 10 Seu quia ficta valent, seu mens infirmior errat. 
 Pignoribus certant in vota ; placetque frequenti 
 Turbao candidior leviter rex sole per ora 
 Conspersus_, barb a auricoma; tum, '^qualia ocellis 
 
LATIN HEXAMETERS. 63 
 
 Lmniiia/' quisque fremit_, " majestas qualis ab uncis 
 15 Naribus emineat, ceu sit Jovis armiger ales." 
 Sed plures oculos captat rex nigrior ; armos 
 Luxuriansque toris pectus spectantque lacertos. 
 Arboream laudant bastam^ morsuque bipennem 
 Ancipiti infestam^ gestamen utrumque gigantis. 
 20 Mobile pro studiis valgus diversa frementes, 
 Securus sibi quisque^ aliis funesta canebant. 
 
 LXIII. 
 
 (24) " O Winter, ruler of the inverted year." — Cowpeb. 
 
 Tristis Hiems, raros glaciali aspergiue crines 
 Ceu cinere impleris_, verso dominaris et anno. 
 Halitus ipse gelat tibi labra, rigensque pruina 
 Canities mentum inspicat, non ilia senilis^ 
 5 Sparsa genis ; nimbis obnubere tempora, ramus 
 Fronde carens sceptruni_, nuUoque volubilis orbe 
 Eadit iter currus levi per lubrica lapsu 
 Vique procellarum pernix : inamabilis ut sis 
 Visa, places nobis, qua tu formidine gentes 
 
 10 Cunque premas : nam te Phoebus custode tenetur 
 Nequicquam tentans ortus, spatioque minore 
 Sentit iter fieri quo matutinus ad arces 
 Jam properet medias : eadem non passa morari 
 Urges, et roseos intercipis aequore currus^ 
 
 15 Deque die partem demis, sed dempta reponis, 
 
64 LATIN HEXAMETERS. 
 
 Sermonumque vices et culta sodalibus addens 
 Otia : tu subito revocas quam sparserat liora, 
 Conciliasque domum ; nee secius segra diurno 
 Munere corda foves ut rursum in se ipsa residant. 
 
 LXIV. 
 
 (25) " All in a moment through the gloom were seen." — Milton. 
 
 Undique continue medist e caligine surgunt 
 Millia signorum, piceas jactantia ad auras 
 Versicolor decus Bourn : simul agmina crescunt 
 Spissa jubis, simul hastarum densissima sylva, 
 5 Et clypei clypeis, alse clauduntur ab alis : 
 
 Hand modus, haudnumerus. Mox it justissima ab 
 
 omni 
 Parte instructa plialanx ; servans vestigia Doris 
 Fistula mulcet iter moUique foramine buxus : 
 Quale melos suasit virtutem beroibus olim 
 1 Egregiosque animos, rabiemque etiam armamoventes 
 Dedocuit ; sed stare loco dedit, immotosque 
 Admonuit spreta firmissima pectora morte ; 
 Et vetuit dare terga fuga turpive receptu. 
 
 LXY. 
 
 (26) " Hast thou a charm to stay the morning star." — Coleeidge. 
 
 Queis potes illecebris scandentes caerula currus 
 Sistere Luciferi ? Tarn lentis vertice nudo 
 
LATIN HEXAMETERS. 65 
 
 Pendet equis, mgens rerum caput Alpinarum, 
 Ille tuo, dum vallem Arve Arvironque per imam 
 5 Usque fremunt fluvii : fades quam, numiiiis instar, 
 Dira tibi ! At circum_, tanquam stet pineus aequor, 
 Sylva immota silet : tu cingeris arduus atro 
 Aere, tanquam ebeni solida caligine septus 
 Desuper ; at cuneatus apex ea robora rupit_, 
 10 Dissiluitque polus : referens sed lumina sedes 
 Te retinere tuas video,, crystallina montis 
 Coelicolae delubra^ aeterna pace serena. 
 
 LXVI. 
 
 (27) " The current, that with gentle murmur glides." — Shakspearb. 
 
 Cernis ut allapsus lento cum murmure adacta 
 Mole eat impatiens et ab objice sasvior amnis. 
 Sin fluat illaesus, picto resonante lapillo 
 Dulce crepat melos^ atque ulvis levia oscula figit, 
 5 Quot sacro cursu assequitur : sic devius error 
 Defluit, et tardis sinuans ambagibus undas 
 Ludit iter liquidum^ oceano immiscerier alto 
 Se cupiens : mihi sic cursus permitte secundos ; 
 Sic ego mitis ero^ lento quoque moUior amne. 
 10 Sic mild Indus erit, studio fallente laborem, 
 Tsedia ; dum suprema trahens vestigia amato 
 Eeddar amans : ibi ut Elysio pia functa labore 
 Umbra manet^requiemqueaeternaque gaudia carpam, 
 
6Q LATIN HEXAMETERS. 
 
 LXVII. 
 
 (28) "At last appear 
 
 Hell-bounds, high reaching." — Milton. 
 
 Tandem in conspectu surgnnt, quos Tartara fines 
 Ultima habent, eductae infanda ad tecta columnae. 
 Ter ternas habuere fores^ tres aere revinctas, 
 Tres ferro, solidus teloque impervius omni 
 5 Tres adamas firmat, flammis circum undique septas, 
 Nee tamen exesas : duplex custodia visa est 
 Vestibule, diras facies quae limina servant : 
 Candida fasminea medio tenus altera forma, 
 Deinceps vasta tamen, sinuansque volumina subter, 
 
 10 Desinit in squamas succincta per inguina nexu 
 Anguineo et dente infesto : latrantia monstra 
 Pone trahi visa, horrisonoque immanis hiatu 
 Cerberus attoUens centum circumtonat ora. 
 Sed placet interdum celari ; uterosque sub ipsos, 
 
 15 Si quid obest, pestis se corripit; nee tamen ipsos 
 Fit requies uteres quin impleat usque ululatu 
 Caeca imos. Non lauta mari, quod dividit oram 
 Trinacria Calabram, tales Scylla horruit hydros, 
 Nee magis obscaenas Hecate trabit agmine Diras 
 
 20 Noctivago, juvat ut liiagica clam voce vocatam 
 Aerias carpsisse vias, et sanguine nares 
 Implesse infantum ; Borealis saga choreas 
 Quum miscet, Stygiasque artes exosa laborat 
 Phoebe deficiens. Forma altera (dicere formam 
 
LATIN HEXAMETERS. 67 
 
 25 Quae stetit informis, liceat, cui membra nee artus 
 Nee pars certa loco ; moles, seu corporis umbra, 
 Ancepsve alternal specie,) nocte atrior ipsa, 
 Torva decem rabie Furias, terror ibus aequat 
 
 30 Tartara ; at e dextra telum furiale minatur, 
 
 Quodque caput visum est regis fert fronte coronas. 
 
 LXVIII. 
 
 (29) " That day I oft remember, when from sleep." — Milton. 
 
 Quam memini, qua prima die resoluta sopore 
 Me stupui exsomnis moUi recubare sub umbra 
 Flore ; ibi dum jacui meditabar inania rerum, 
 Quove loco, quidve ipsa forem, qua forte venirem, 
 5 Undeve ducta rogans ? Sed aquarum fertur ad aures 
 Hand procul inde sonus, lympbasque exire loquaces 
 Nosco antris, videoque effusi fluminis aequor 
 Immotum, vivosque lacus magis setliere puros. 
 Carpsi iter, adque sinus ignara locique meique 
 
 10 Procubui berbosos ; vitrea et mox stagna tuebar 
 Desuper : en, flexis stabat polus alter ocellis, 
 Et geminse coeli facies ; tum forma tuenti 
 Ad versa, et speculum radiabat imagine aquosum 
 Me cupiente : pedem referebam, retulit ilia 
 
 15 Se ; redii sed amans, rediit sed amantior ultro ; 
 Et simili affectu petere et dare conscia visa est 
 Obtutus ; potuique etiamnum fixa manere, 
 Et desiderio languentem pascere inani 
 
08 LATIN HEXAMETERS. 
 
 Usque animum ad ripas, ni vox venisset ad aures : 
 20 ^' Quam formosa vides ipsius crede figuram ; 
 
 " Te fugiente fugit redit et redeunte : sed adsis, 
 
 " Me duce devenies verum, non corporis umbram. 
 
 " Hie manet adventus molles^ cui debita figas 
 
 ^' Oscula, cui formam visa est tua forma referre. 
 25 ^^ Hunc, thalamo junctum stabili, tu prole parentem 
 
 '^ Innumergl facie s, et magna ab origine mater 
 
 " Ipsa hominum audieris/^ 
 
 LXIX. • 
 
 (30) " So on he fares, and to the border comes." — Milton. 
 
 Pergit ita, et fines aperit Paradisus amcenos 
 Jam propior ; virides, ceu rustica moenia, colles 
 Cingunt immensi capita avia ruris, et horret 
 Vepribus intonsis laterum dejectus, agresti 
 5 Senta situ nee arnica pedi loca : desuper ingens 
 Pendet sylva comis et inexsuperabilis umbrst^ 
 Cum patula cedrus palma, cumque abiete pinus, 
 Mirandi simulans spectacula longa tbeatri : 
 Ordineque exsurgunt umbrisque prementibus umbras 
 10 Arbore89 frondes et ramis scena coruscis. 
 Ambitiosa tamen Paradisi moenia ad auras 
 Stantque virentque nemus Super omne ; ut copia vis lis 
 Fiat ibi genitori hominum^ dum prospicit orbem 
 Infra se positum penitusque adfinia regna. 
 
LATIN HEXAMETERS. 60 
 
 LXX. 
 
 (31) "What wonder, then, if fields and regions here." — Milton. 
 
 Quis stupet ergo istos toto passim aequore campos 
 Felices spirare aurai simplicis ignem, 
 Quis potari aurum fluviis, si semina rerum 
 Tot mirandarum Titan variosque colores, 
 5 Arte Prometliea coelestis Mulciber^ addit^ 
 Temperie tactuque potens^ procul inde remotis 
 Yel nobis, ubi nox et terreus officit humor ? 
 Lucifer hic nova miratur, non ille retortis 
 Cuncta oculis, nam cuncta tenet ; simul objice et umbra 
 
 10 Visa carentj pariter jubar est quodcunque videtur ; 
 Ceu quum solstitium medias a vertice terras 
 Perculit : Mc etenim penitus ferit setbera sursum 
 Undique inoffensum lumen, neque corpus obumbrat 
 Hie uUum coelos, nee factus opacior ulla est 
 
 15 Parte polus, sed visum acuens tenuissimus aer 
 Longinqua adducit. 
 
Section V. 
 
 LATIN LYRICS. 
 
LATIN LYRICS. 73 
 
 LXXI. 
 
 (SAPPHICS.) 
 (1) " I am this fountain's god j below."— Fletchee. 
 
 Sum potens fontis deus hujus : infra 
 Crescit in rivum mea lympha, et inter 
 Consita ex utraque salicta ripa 
 
 Non nisi in udo 
 5 Laeta, delabens secat unda pratum, et 
 Ambitu serpit sinuosa multo, et 
 Alveos quaerens redit aequiores 
 
 SaDpius in se. 
 
 LXXII. 
 
 (SAPPHICS. 
 (2) "To grass, or leaf, or fruit, or wall."— Cowpee. 
 
 Cochlea hand lapsus metuens inhaeret 
 Pariete et ficu, foliisque et herbis ; 
 Pars ut innasci videatur istic 
 
 Testaque et ipsa. 
 5 Conditur secura ibi convoluta, 
 Sive coelestes aqua ducat iras, 
 Sive tempestas aliud pericli 
 
 Cunque minetur. 
 Comibus strictis simul ilia sensit 
 10 Vel leves tactus^ adeo coactis 
 
 Se capit membris,, abit^ et latebris 
 
 ^stuat ira. 
 
74 LATIN LYEICS. 
 
 LXXIII. 
 
 (SAPPHICS.) 
 
 (3) {The same continued.) 
 
 Sicubi sedes colat ilia, solas 
 Optat ; his secum fruitur, nee extra 
 Se petens quicquam, fieri supellex 
 
 Vult sibi tota. 
 5 Sic eremitae juvat acta vita. 
 Absque convictu sociisve mensis ; 
 Seu qua sit conviva, edit ilia tanto 
 
 Ocyus escas. 
 Ipsa quern fallat, domibus repertis, 
 10 Caecior caecis merit o vocetur ; 
 
 Lege tarn stricta placet usque jungi 
 
 Incolam et aedes. 
 
 LXXIV. 
 
 (^SAPPHICS.) 
 
 (4) " Qtither ye rose buds while ye may." — Hebeick. 
 
 Dum licet flores, fiigit invida aetas, 
 Carpite aestivos ; bodiema vobis 
 Quae brevis ridet rosa eras soluta 
 Morte jacebit. 
 5 Lampas et coeli decus ille Phoebus, 
 Quo magis curru rapit alta templa. 
 
LATIN LYRICS. 
 
 Cursibus tanto citius peractis 
 
 Ibit in undas. 
 Optima aetatis fiigit hora princeps, 
 10 Caldior venis salit ut juventa ; 
 Pejor absumpta subit_, et suprema 
 
 Pessima quaeque est. 
 Quid fugax cessas ? Abit liora amoris 
 Justa; tempestiva puella nube. 
 15 Excidat cui flos semel, omne virgo 
 
 Sperat in aevnm. 
 
 LXXY. 
 
 (sapphics.) 
 (5) Fabula S^culaeis. 
 
 Janus. Perge tu^ Saturne, age^ perge pennia ; 
 Phoebus in centum revolutus orbes, 
 Aureas zonge spatiis peractis, 
 Ambiit astra 
 5 Centies : en, jam manifesta meta est, 
 Prsepes impletas quate laetus alas. 
 Satuenus. Quippe quem dudum pigeat ferendi 
 Ponderis, adsum 
 Tardus : excussus mibi fascis esto ; 
 10 His lever terris, hominumque prole : 
 Alterum nam non potero per annum 
 Munus obire. 
 
76 LATIN LYRICS. 
 
 MoMUS. bone^ excussus mihi risus esto I 
 Euge ; mox ibis levior reposta 
 15 Sarcina : vecors fuit usque ab ortu 
 Hie globus ipso. 
 Quumque tu^ Saturne, ego, et ipse Bifrons, 
 Tempori adsimus moderamen impar, 
 Temperet fletu melior cacbinnus 
 20 Improba saecla. 
 
 LXXYI. 
 
 (SAPPHICS.) 
 
 (6) {Tlie same continued,) 
 
 Janus. Quaeris in terris tibi, Mome, risum : 
 Tuque jam spectacla, senex, reclude, 
 Auctor aevorum ; videat peractis 
 Tempera fastis 
 6 Quas vices rerum dederint. 
 Saturnus. Agamus : 
 
 Incipe, argenteis Dea clara telis. 
 Dlana. Excitans lucem catulisque comuque. 
 Ad fruticeti 
 10 Tramites accingor, et expeditis 
 
 Veste succincta propero in cothurnis, 
 Comibus frontem redimita lunas : 
 
 Inde fugacem 
 Insequor cervum excipioque vulpem, 
 15 Aut capram cursu quatio per alta 
 
LATTN LYRICS. 77 
 
 Saxa; clamantumque ululatus axem 
 
 Rumpit, et Eclio 
 Fitque venatrix iteratque voces. 
 Janus. Ipse flos nostri fuit illud aevi 
 20 Tempus. 
 
 Satuenus. Intactum rabie — 
 
 Diana. Nee ulla 
 
 Lugubre culpa. 
 MoMUS. Per que festivum, bibulum et choreis 
 25 Deditum tempus ; male sobriorum 
 Corda tum vino genium fovebant 
 Nescia curae. 
 
 LXXYII. 
 
 (SAPPHICS.) 
 
 (7) [The same continued.) 
 
 Maes, ^s sonet flatu sonet aes canorum ; 
 Provocat saBclum^ nucibus relictis^ 
 Gloria excretum ; ciet arma vibrans 
 Gloria gentes. 
 5 Martios ignes animus virilis 
 
 Concipitj flagrans rabie et pudore ; 
 Mars polum aspectu rubefecit ipso, et 
 
 Segne refugit 
 Pax bonum terris, et opes, et oti 
 10 Gaudia; agrestem virides colorem 
 Tramites mutant, Tyriosque fucos 
 Combibit herba. 
 
78 LATIN LYEICS. 
 
 LXXYIII. 
 
 (SAPPHICS.) 
 
 (8) [The same continued,) 
 
 Tympanum pulsu strepet, aera cantu. 
 Personat terras abigitque somnos 
 Armiger Mayors ; rapit ardor omnem 
 
 Martius orbem. 
 Mom. 5 Terra, vagina gladium premente. 
 Sit sibi concors, potiusque toto 
 Dormiat saeclo tibi quam recusis 
 
 Excubet armis. 
 Quid facis stultos nisi rariores, 
 10 Sedulus perdens operam, relapsis 
 Rebus, ut, nullo superante, palma 
 
 Pendeat anceps ? 
 
 LXXIX. 
 
 (SAPPHICS.) 
 
 (9) " All hail ! inexorable Lord !"— Buens. 
 
 Raptor, baud ullis precibus movende, 
 Yoce qui magnos mala fulminante 
 Excutis reges opibus superbis, 
 Maxime, salve ! 
 5 Quem ferum semper comitatur agmen. 
 Quern Dolor circumvolat atque Luctus ; 
 
LATIN LYRICS. 79 
 
 Lugubri salvere jubemus omnem 
 
 Yoce catervam. 
 Figor, et vultu sedet borror exspes, 
 10 Tela dum torques,, penitusque corde 
 Copula vulnus tenerum resecta 
 
 Sedit in imo. 
 Obrutus nondum timeo procellas ; 
 Jamque securum ferit, et sacratum 
 15 Densior circa caput atriorque 
 
 Ingruit imber. 
 
 LXXX. 
 
 (SAPPHICS.) 
 
 (10) {The same continued.) 
 
 Tuque quam vivi trepidant Potestas, 
 Vita dum grata est^ miseram vocantis 
 Audias vocem ; neque enim expavesco 
 
 Tela minantem 
 5 Deprecans ; ultro fer opem ; benignam 
 Provoco dextram : miseri tumultus 
 Quando erunt mentis tibi submovendi ? 
 
 ubi luce 
 Cedam, et irrupta requie perosus 
 10 Tristia et vitam fruar ; aegra quando 
 Pulverem nactus tumulique compos 
 
 Corda resolvam ? 
 
80 LATIN LYRICS. 
 
 Turn timor nullus quatiet, genasve 
 Tinget exsangues lacryma ; at tenebor^ 
 15 Et tuas stringar metuente solvi 
 Frigore dextrse. 
 
 LXXXI. 
 
 (SAPPHICS,) 
 
 (II) " Distracted with care." — Walsh. 
 
 Phyllida infelix sibi non movendam 
 Deperit Damon ; face dum puellae 
 Nil spei dantis male maceratur ; 
 
 Non tulit aeger 
 5 Yulnus ; immanes furialis arces 
 Scandit, in prseceps, meditans, ruina 
 Sesuper facta_, subitum dolori 
 
 Quaerere finem. 
 Jam puer nactus scopulos frequenti 
 10 Cote dejectus et acuta leto 
 
 Saxa et immensum stupuit profundum : 
 
 Queis sibi visis 
 Cogitat tristis,, stimulos recensens, 
 Posse amatorem nova ferre vincla, 
 15 Nee tamen cervice caput refracta 
 
 Posse reponi ; 
 Et dari mortem sibi se volente. 
 Esse sed quantum dederint Sorores 
 
LATIN LYEICS. 81 
 
 Cuique vivendum. Pudet inde csepti 
 20 Finis amorum : 
 
 Crescat in pejus dolor, at ferendus : 
 Virque jam constans animo, dolore 
 Fortiter spreto, tenues requirit 
 Ille Penates. 
 
 LXXXII. 
 
 (SAPPHICS.) 
 (12) "Lately on yonder swelling bush." — Wallee. 
 
 Qua novas trudunt fruticeta virgas 
 Prole Ventura gravidas rosarum, 
 Haec rubescebat modo parte prodens 
 Gemma colores : 
 5 Ut fuit carp si tamen ; exit inde, 
 Antea impubes_, aperitque risus ; 
 Jamque distinguens rubet, ecce, plenos 
 
 Flosculus orbes. 
 Dum rosee scintilla fovetur usque 
 10 Spiritu nostro, sibi purpuras vim 
 Flammeam duxit, quasi semen ignis 
 
 Gemma fuisset, 
 Postmodo arsurum face luculenta : 
 Sic quod in pullo* voluere soles 
 15 Flore, quod ventus fieri, peregit 
 
 * Comp. Hob. Carm.^ i. 25, 18, Ghiudeat pulla magis atque myrto. 
 and lEpod.y 16, 46, Suamque pulla ficus omat arborem. 
 
82 lATIN LYRICS. 
 
 Halitus oris. 
 Hoc mero flatu potui ; quid ergo 
 Non amans idem potero^ paratur 
 Quando amor, quando lyra, Flaviaeque 
 20 Quum mo vet ignes 
 
 Iste, qui flori properabat lioram, 
 Unde vel segnes caluere gemmae, 
 Iste, ut in pectus calidum juventa 
 
 Spiritus ibit ? 
 
 LXXXIII. 
 
 (ALCAICS.) 
 (13) "Ancient dame, how wide and vast." — Cowpeb. 
 
 Annosa, quantos adnumeras tibi 
 Fastos ! stupemus, quale sumus genus, 
 Completa, tot dum volvis annos, 
 Orbe suo tua ssecla condi. 
 5 Nos impotenti de grege volvimur 
 Angustiorem temporis in modum, 
 Nos tenuiores, quosque vitaa 
 Summa brevis miseros coercet. 
 Nos optat escas, eque utero rapit 
 10 In prole praedam Mors volucri magis 
 Umbra fugaces ; crescit Oreo 
 Inque rogos alitur propago. 
 [ Crudescit ipsis deliciis malum, 
 
LATIN LYRICS. 83 
 
 Ipsaque morbi semen inest dape ; 
 15 Hos pestis improvisa toUit, 
 
 Hos minuit mora longa tabis. 
 Sin vita praescriptum superet, seni 
 Quid restat ultro ? Scilicet ut sibi 
 Funesta delirans sequatur 
 20 Somnia depereatque nugas. 
 
 LXXXIV. 
 
 (ALCAICS.) 
 (14) " The star that bids the shepherd fold."— Milton. 
 
 Jam Stella, cogat pastor oves monens_, 
 Cceli supremis imminet arcibus, 
 Fluctuque prolutos Atlantis 
 
 Phoebus equos rutilumque pronus 
 5 Restinguit axem ; dum jubar arduum 
 Caliginosos subjicit in polos 
 
 Devexus, alternamque metam 
 Ad thalamos Orientis optat 
 Transire : salvete, interea joci 
 ] Clamore juncti noctivago, cborus ^ 
 Non siccus, evantes, adeste, 
 Orgiaque, illicitique ludi, 
 Serto capillos impliciti rosae, 
 Stillante odores, vina liquentia 
 15 Stillante ; cesserunt Catones 
 
 Jam cubitum, monitorque morum 
 
84 LATIN LYRICS. 
 
 Cessit senilis ; Socratico madens 
 Sermone dormit^ nulla crepans die ax 
 Praecepta ; nos exercet ignis 
 20 Purior atque imitatus astra. 
 
 LXXXV. 
 
 (ALCAICS.) 
 (15) " 'Tie time this heart should be unmoved." — Btkon. 
 
 Dudum moveri desierit sinus 
 Immobilem qui senserit alterum : 
 
 Ast, ipse quamvis liaud amandus, 
 Fas sit amem. Periit juventae 
 5 Flos omnis, aret pampineum decus 
 Exsors racemo et palmite ; me manet 
 Emca robigoque solum ; 
 
 Me dolor ; heu populante pectus 
 Absumor igni solus, inhospita ut 
 10 Sentit Cyclopes insula, nee foeis 
 
 Tie das minis trat ; solus uror 
 » Sic ego, sic rogus ipse fio. 
 
 LXXXVI. 
 
 (ALCAICS.) 
 
 (16) (The same continued.) 
 
 Sperare non est, non tremere aemulum 
 Kon, qua? doloris pars generosior. 
 
LATIN LYRICS. 8i) 
 
 Sentire snblimes amoris 
 
 Fas milii jam stimulos_, sed uri 
 5 Tantum catenis ! Nee tamen Ms locus, 
 Aptusve curis quels agitor dies, 
 Quo laurus lieroum feretra 
 Ambiit, impediitve frontes. 
 En signa et enses ! en aciem vocant 
 10 Et laus et Hellas ! poscimur : haud dedit 
 Spartanus in scuto relatus 
 Pectora liberiora morti. 
 
 LXXXVII. 
 
 (ALCAICS.) 
 
 (17) " Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen." — Miltok. 
 
 O Nympha, testas dulce decus tuge. 
 Echo, sub auras abdita, seu latens 
 Qua segne Maeandri fluentis 
 Ripa viret, violaeve pingunt 
 5 Valles, amorem qua bene perditum 
 Decantat Atthis nocte avis : an potes 
 Narrare Narcissi tenellam 
 
 Par juvenum referens figuram ? 
 O, si sub antro tu pueros mihi 
 10 Celas rosarum floribus obsito, 
 
 Quo furta condantur locorum 
 Die modo, dulcisonao loquelas 
 
86 LATIN LYRICS. 
 
 Regina, cceli filia concavi; 
 Sic rapta tangas a&thera, sic sono 
 15 Crescant repercusso Deorum 
 
 Carmina, bis placitura Olympo. 
 
 LXXXYHI. 
 
 (ALCAICS.) 
 (18) " Start tjot — nor deem my spirit fled.'*— Bybow- 
 
 Mireris ? aut nos jam niLil amplins 
 Spirare credas ? En caput nnicum 
 Unde exit, — o si sic cerebra 
 Viva forent ! — nihil inficeti. 
 5 Ut tu, puellis aptior et mero 
 
 Vixi, sed actum est ! jam cape Massico 
 Explenda quae tellus resignat 
 Ossa; nihil queror, osculatur 
 Eruca pejus. Pascere sordidos 
 1 Malimne vermes_, an laticis capax 
 
 Splendere ? Dem mensis Deorum 
 Pocula_, bestiolaeve prsedam ? 
 
 LXXXIX. 
 
 (ALCAICS.) 
 
 (19) (The same continued.) 
 
 Festivus olim, nunc adero salis 
 Minister ; ex me prome facetias. 
 
LATIN LYRICS. 87 
 
 Hospes : quid extinctum cerebrum 
 Restituat potius Falerno ? 
 5 Dum fas_, bibendum : te quoque cum tuis, 
 Ut nos, sepultum gens nova suscitet 
 Ad vina rursum barbitonque 
 Ossa_, nefas ! rapiens sub auras. 
 Quid obstat ? Ergo quod spatio brevi 
 10 Tantum nocebas^ fas^ caput, exuas 
 Cum tabe vermes, inque vitae 
 Tandem aliquos revoceris usus. 
 
 xc. 
 
 (ALCAICS.) 
 (20) " When coldness wraps this suffering clay." — Bykon. 
 
 Quum frigus ambit membra laboribus 
 Defuncta, quo mens ignea, non mori, 
 Errare non se passa, caecas 
 Aufugit exuvias relinquens ? 
 5 An tum recenset mole carens, eant 
 Quot astra coelo, singula consequens ? 
 An complet una vi profundum, 
 Fitque oculus_, fruiturque signis ? 
 Sterna, solvi nescia, finibus 
 10 Immunis ; ipsa at mens mera, perspicax 
 Coelique terrarumque, quondam 
 
 Visa iterans, nova quasque lustrans. 
 
88 LATIN LYRICS. 
 
 Turn fiet aevi conscia quod prius 
 Egisse vix se credat, et in dies 
 15 Reflexa decursos, in unam 
 
 Quicquid erat revocabit horam. 
 
 XCI. 
 
 (ALCAICS.) 
 (21) " When Time, or soon or late, shall bring."— Br eon. 
 
 Oblivio ! quum serins ocyus 
 Nox imminebit quae sine somniis 
 Ducat soporem^ tu cubile 
 Languidulo foveas susurro 
 5 Alarum : at absint qui socii fleant 
 Quique optet haeres fata mihi, et nurus, 
 Sincera quas^ sen ficta plorans, 
 Solvat ad officium capillos. 
 Sed me silentem terra premat ; procul 
 10 Sit turba fletu sedula ; naenia 
 
 Nolite convictum^ so dales, 
 
 Rumpere, neve epulas in horam 
 Faedare : at o si turn gemitus queat 
 Frenare ineptos fortis Amor, regat 
 15 Supremus ambos ; liaec superstes 
 
 Pareat, bio moriens, Amori. 
 Quantum juvares tum facie, mea 
 Psyche, serena ! praeteriti tibi 
 Rideret oblitus lab oris 
 20 Cum placido Dolor ipse vultu. 
 
LATIN LYRICS. 89 
 
 XCII. 
 
 (ALCAICS.) 
 
 (22) " On Linden when the sun was low." — Campbell. 
 
 Sol pronus umbras deproperans adhuc 
 Intaminatas caede nives videt ; 
 Atrasque devolvens Isara 
 
 Torquet aquas Memale fiumen. 
 5 Quassata sed mox tympana, sed cito 
 Caedem parari flamma micans monet ; 
 Et quse silebat nox timores 
 Omine longe alio minatur. 
 Aptantur ensesj audit eques tubas 
 10 Taedasque cernit; striata acies micat, 
 Dirusque commissator optat 
 Cum fremitu sonipes tumultum. 
 Sensere montes Mmina, nee minus 
 Volvente flammas nare fremunt equi ; 
 15 Et tela Divorum fragore 
 
 Ignivomo simulant balistae. 
 
 XCIII. 
 
 (ALCAICS.) 
 
 (23) [Tlie same continued^ 
 
 Mox erubescens tetrior igneo 
 Tinget cruentas c£ede nives color 
 
90 LATIN LYRICS. 
 
 Montesque ; jam torquens Isara 
 Sanguineas properabit undas. 
 5 Vix aequa toUens ora dies neci 
 
 Fumum obvolutiim riunpit, ubi Scythee 
 Gallique permisto furore 
 Sulfureae reboant tenebrae. 
 Mars crescit bastis^ laurea sen vocat 
 10 Seu quern cupressus ; Municbium viros, 
 Vexilla prefer, nunc in bostem 
 
 Calcar, eques, preme, perge, miles. 
 E tot maniplis quantula pars redit ! 
 Nivale tegmen corpora quot virum 
 15 Volvet, quot beroiim tumescens 
 KeUiquiis premet ossa csespes ! 
 
 XCIY. 
 
 (ALCAICS.) 
 
 (24) " Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky." — Campbell. 
 
 Quid sis, docendus, non Sapientiam 
 Quaere superbam, qui capis sBtbera, 
 Arcus triumpbalis, fugato 
 
 Sol quo ties redit imbre victor. 
 Felicibus te pontem animis dari 
 Infans putabam, sic videare, ubi 
 Cselestis ad terras meatus 
 Se media statione sistat. 
 Sordet magister gnomonis et poli 
 
LATIN LYEICS. 91 
 
 10 Interpretatus te milii, quern juvat 
 Finxisse celantem recurvis 
 CrysoHtlios latebris et aurum. 
 Quum docta fraudes tollit^ et exuit 
 Mens orbe tegmen, mens magicos dolos, 
 15 Cedit venustas^ lege terras,, 
 
 Lege polum cohibente dura. 
 
 xcv. 
 
 (ALCAICS.) 
 
 (25) (The same continued.) 
 
 Non, pulcber arcus, fabula nasceris, 
 Cui testis Auctor narrat origines, 
 Et veste cur cingas Olympum 
 Fulminea radiisque textis. 
 5 Omen renatis e refluo mari 
 
 Coeleste terris ver referens suum, 
 Ut te^ relicta nave, saecli 
 
 Fons, veteres stupuere patres 1 
 Risu tenentem turn croceo juga 
 10 Vestigiorum nescia te, Doi 
 Arcum, salutabat levato 
 Ad superas pia mater auras 
 Infante : credo, sospes ab aequore 
 Te terra primis laudibus extulit ; 
 15 Non ante tentatis poetae 
 
 Te numeris cecinere primi. 
 
92 LATIN LYEICS. 
 
 XCYI. 
 
 (ALCAICS.) 
 
 (26) {Tlie same continued.) 
 
 Nunquam colores suspiciens tuos 
 Non incalescet musa : sacro seni 
 Cantata quondam^, semper. Iris, 
 Carminibus celebranda nostris. 
 5 Te ture tellus prosequitur, jubent 
 Salvere alaudae, post pluvias ubi 
 Per laetiores imbre campos 
 Candidulse enituere buUse. 
 Curvamine ambis quam juga fulgido 
 10 Turresque et urbes, et vada Tetbyos, 
 Quum mille per fluctus reflexa 
 Imbuis oceanum corona ! 
 Tarn clara coeli margine livida, 
 Tarc pura fulges, quam sacra reppulit 
 15 Quum claustra fulgebas, tuumque 
 Rex avium jubar bausit alis. 
 Nam firmat auctor Scripta Deus, tuos 
 Arcus retexens, ne pereat fides, 
 Turpive pallescant veterno 
 20 Prima homini data signa pacis. 
 
LATIN LYRICS. 93 
 
 XCYII. 
 
 (ALCAICS.) 
 (27) " It is the day when he was born."— Tennysci*. 
 
 Natalis illi lux redit : asperam 
 Maturior vis condiderat diem 
 Tingens pruinosos vapores 
 
 Sole brevi^ viduansque noctem 
 5 Luce. Haud rosarum tempus^ egent rosis 
 Mensse ; sed Eurus cum Borea ferox 
 Bacchatur ; inspicata pendet 
 Stiria sub trabibus^ rubosque 
 Vepresque obarmat ; dum riget ^ethere 
 10 Pboebe renascens, rostraque mugiens 
 Collisa cum ferri fragore et 
 Nuda fero quatit ossa planctu 
 Sylva ; et procella praBpete nix salo 
 Delenda fertur Candida livido 
 1 5 Tundente arenas : sed bibendum^ 
 Vina liques, niteantque mensse ; 
 Ignis meduUam Hgna super foco 
 Large reponens exstrue ; nee minus 
 Sermone festive retractes 
 20 Omnia,, dans cyathos amici^ 
 
 Tanquam hie, colendus, quicquid erit, suis 
 Conviva adesset : neu requies lyrae 
 Sit, neve capsae, dum canatur 
 Quod recini placuisset ipsi. 
 
94 LATIN LYRICS. 
 
 XCYIII. 
 
 (aSCLEPLA.de AN WITH GLYCONIC.) 
 
 (28) " Gay liope is theirs, by fancy fed."— Geay. 
 
 His pascunt animi spem nitidam^ minus 
 Quae deprensa juvet^ decidit in genas 
 Siccaturque simul laciyma^ cordaque 
 
 Sole aprica calent suo. 
 5 Florent incolumes ore rosae^ et vigor 
 Membris ; usque novos dum reperit jocos 
 Mens effrena, animi dum saliunt bonis 
 
 Sano in pectore viribus. 
 Turn secura dies,, et facilis sopor, 
 10 Et noctes vacuae, dum liquidum et leve 
 Spirant cor da, paret quod sibi somnia 
 
 Prima luce fugacia. 
 
 XCIX. 
 
 (ASCLEPIADEAN with GLYCONIC.) 
 
 (29) {The same continued.) 
 
 Quantorum immemores ludere bomunculos 
 Fatorum juvat ! Heu, victima sic nihil 
 Sentit, nil metuit, crastina quid dies 
 
 Cervici immeritse ferat ! 
 En, bumana premens coUa Necessitas, 
 En, funesta trahit Sors Furias, viam 
 
LATIN LYETCS. 95 
 
 Cingens obsidiis undique ! Quis sua 
 Ergo est qui pueris canat 
 
 Fata, Orcique minas illacrymabilis^ 
 10 Humanamve homines edoceat vicem, 
 
 Tigresve hinnuleis indicet asperas, 
 Agnisque insidias lupi ? 
 
 0. 
 
 (asclepiadean with glyconic.) 
 (30) (The same continued.) 
 
 Heu, quam obscaena cobors excubat ultimis 
 Annorum spatiis ! En^ soboles adest 
 Mortis, dira magis matre, molestior 
 
 Ipsa turba comes duce. 
 5 Hie artus crucians, ille parans febres 
 Venis, strenuus bic tortor adest petens 
 Nervos morbus, at baec visceribus lues 
 
 Defigens penitus malum : 
 Tandem, ne numerus deficiat, subit 
 10 Importuna animos Pauperies manu 
 
 Stringens egelida, et membra terens sua 
 
 Tempus tabe seniHa. 
 
96 -LATIN LYEICS. 
 
 CI. 
 
 (ascleptadean with glyconic.) 
 
 (31) [The same continued,) 
 
 Sortes quisque suas lege homimun dolet ; 
 NulU non gemitus non laciymae datse ; 
 Quum tangant tenerum fata aliena^ nee 
 
 Expers ille molestiis, 
 6 Durus qui sua flet_, nee nisi quae sua. 
 Cur ergo properent crastina noscere ? 
 Nunquam sera nimis tristis adest dies^ 
 
 Felix heu fugere occupat ! 
 Quid plura ? Elysium perditur his suum, 
 10 Mistum consiliis : scire quid expedit 
 
 Quos nescire juvat ? Quid sapere est nisi 
 
 Delirare operosius ? 
 
 CII. 
 
 (asclepiadean stanza.) 
 
 (32) " Ah, Cselia ! where are now the charms?" — ^Walsh. 
 
 Quo fugit Venus lieu ! Ccelia, jam tibi ? 
 Quo tam mirus amor ? Prseripit improba 
 ^tas lumen ocellis, 
 ^tas tela Cupidiui. 
 5 Hsec invidit atrox feminese rei, 
 
 Nee nobis minus est invida^ quse^ decus 
 
LATIN LYRICS. 97 
 
 Si quid pnblica ciira est, 
 Eaptans ante diem vorat. 
 Cui non ille foret rex miserabilis, 
 10 Nuper quern solita est turba inbians sequi. 
 Jam nudo latere ? Et tu 
 Tali pressa jaces vice. 
 
 cm. 
 
 (asclepiadean stanza.) 
 (33) {The same continued.) 
 
 Spernit turba procorum occiduas faces 
 Nunc ingrata tuas, exoriens simul 
 Prodit Flavia sidus, 
 
 Proni in servitium novum. 
 5 Nequicquam illecebris soUicitas viros, 
 Intorquens oculos ignibus ; baud prece, 
 Haud risu potes unum 
 Jam torrere procax jecur. 
 Sed fastu interea Flavia rem levi 
 10 Dignatur gerere, et quos pueros tenet 
 Grata compede_, risu 
 Temnit lubrica Flavia. 
 Quin perdantj lacrymas_, Coelia ; sed brevi 
 Flebunt quod facies non tibi manserit 
 15 Qualis jam color buic, aut 
 
 Huic non quale tibi jecur. 
 
 H 
 
93 , LATIN LYRICS. 
 
 CIV. 
 
 (asclepiadean stanza.) 
 
 (34) " I cooae from haunts of coot and heme." — Tennyson. 
 
 Quas mergus latebras^ ardea quas fovet, 
 Linquens^ per filices gemmeus emico 
 Fons^ ut valle loquaces 
 Lymplise prosiliant meae. 
 5 Triginta et trepidans per juga_, coUibus 
 Elusisve fugax, oppidulum appetit 
 Centum pontibus apta et 
 Bis denos aqua viculos. 
 Extr emus que adeo rura Pbilippicaj 
 10 Miscendus saturo flumine ; namque eat 
 Citro turba retro, sed 
 Nos in sgecula labimur. 
 
 CV. 
 
 (ASCLEPLA.DEAN STANZA.) 
 
 (35) " Telling how the Count Arnaldos." — Longfellow. 
 
 Amaldo comiti visa, refert, manu 
 Gestanti accipitrem, quae fuerit ratis, 
 Eecto litora cursu 
 
 Pictis puppibus appetens ; 
 6 Auditumque senex quod caneret melos 
 TipbySj tam liquidum et lege carens, larus 
 
LATIN LYRICS. 99 
 
 Ut radens iter alis 
 
 Staret lentus in arbore 
 Auditurus ; at liunc corda cupidine 
 10 Perculsum, petiisse, et superos prece 
 Testatum, ^^^doceamur 
 Miros nos etiam, modos 
 Rector/^ Cid senior, '^visne maris sacrum 
 Carmen scire ? opus est experiare aquas : 
 15 Ista arcana patebunt 
 Una lege periculi/' 
 
 CYI. 
 
 (asclepiadean stanza.) 
 
 (36) " To the ocean now I fly."— Milton. 
 
 Velox oceani Utus amabile 
 Yisam, perpetuo lumine quas vigil 
 Sol sedes videt, aequor 
 Quod vasto patet aere. 
 5 Succos bic liquidos aetberis bauriam 
 Hospesque Hesperidum deferar ad trium 
 Hortos usque nitenteSj 
 Qua junctge patre virgines 
 Cingunt auricomam cantibus arborem ; 
 10 Per que arbusta nova fronde comantia 
 Baccbatur pede verno 
 
 Flora ; adsunt roseo sinu 
 Horae, et muneribus Gratia cum suis ; 
 
100 LATIN LYRICS. 
 
 Hie et perpetuo vere Favonii 
 15 Ala de redolenti 
 
 Nardos excutiunt viis, 
 Et spirant casiam tramite cedrino. 
 Hie ducit pluvias roscida cornibus 
 Addens Iris odores 
 20 Hortis, et varium decus 
 
 Florum solKcitans, quod superet suum 
 Peplum versicolor, vultque liyaeintliinis 
 Jungi regna rosarum, 
 Humore Elysio rigans. 
 25 Hie fit (si qua fides, aecipite auribus 
 Mortales) recubans vulnere ab efiero 
 Somno sanus Adonis : 
 
 Juxta et tristis humi sedet 
 Begina AssyrisB, cui puer inclytus 
 30 Psyehen nactus Amor, quam sopor alligat 
 Altus, sidere multo 
 Distinctos tetigit Deos. 
 
 CVII. 
 
 ( ALTERNATE ASCLEPIADEAN.) 
 (37) " The nymph must lose her female friend." — Cowpek. 
 
 Cessant pectora mutua 
 Si sit laude virum Lydia post CMoen, 
 
 Sed rix89 quis erit modus 
 Ipsis si sata sint jurgia floribus ? 
 
LATIN LYRICS. ' ' 
 
 5 Hortorum sibi vult rosa 
 
 Formosa imperium, vult sibi lilium, 
 
 Rupto foedere csespitis^ 
 Par commisit enim lite duces decus, 
 Illi purpureus furor 
 10 Fastu turgidulis erubuit comis : 
 '' Phoebi teste/^ refert^ ^^ g'^Q^^ 
 Flos florum celebror, mille modis canor." 
 
 " Flos procerior ari'ogo 
 Hoc jus omne milii/^ lilium ait_, " meas 
 15 Virgas Flora fatebitur 
 
 Non indigna manu sceptra sua dea/' 
 
 lol 
 
 CVIII. 
 
 (alteenate asclepiadean.) 
 (38) [The same continued,) 
 
 Componi properat minas 
 Praesens pace sua Flora subaudiens 
 
 Tantas, ne pereat decus 
 Cultis, si fuerit segnior, hortulis. 
 5 " Quanto/' inquit, '^ color est tibi 
 Praestans, tanto apices imperiosius 
 
 Tu j act as : sit utrique idem 
 Eegnum, dum melior vincat utrumque bonos. 
 
 Pacatis bene convenit 
 10 Misceri in facie foeminea_, proiit 
 
 Formosissima quaeque erit 
 Anglarum, et sociare imperia in genas. 
 
102 LATIN LYEICS. 
 
 CIX. 
 
 (alteenate asclepiadean.) 
 
 (39) « Sabrina fair."— Milton. 
 
 Quse, Sabrina^ tenes vitro 
 Stagnum lucidius, frigus amabile, 
 
 Audi, sub specularibus 
 Undis, pulcbra sedens irreligataque, 
 5 Electro riguis simul 
 
 Texens serta comis, tortile lilium : 
 
 Te carus moveat pudor, 
 Argentei fer opem. Diva potens lacus. 
 
 Praesens numen ades, caput 
 10 Per Sanctum Oceani, perque maris deum 
 
 Terras cuspide qui quatit, 
 Incessusque graves Tethyos, oraque 
 
 Rugis hispida Nereos 
 Duri canitie ; Carpathii pedum 
 1 5 Testamur vitreum magi, 
 
 Gestamenque tubae tortile, quo sonat 
 Triton squamous, et modes 
 
 Glauci fatidicos, Leucothese et manus 
 FormosaB niveas deae, et 
 20 Natum Leucothea litoris arbitrum. 
 
LATIN LYETCS. 103 
 
 ex. 
 
 (alternate asclepiadean.) 
 (40) (The same continued.) 
 
 Te plantas Tbetis oblita 
 Argento, et liquida voce sonantium 
 
 Sirenum moveat melos ; 
 Te flectant tumuli Partlienopeii, 
 5 Sedes heu tibi flebiles ; 
 
 Flectat cum tereti crine Ligeium* 
 
 Pecten, quo nitet aureo 
 Insidens scopulis pulcbra adamantinis. 
 
 Per pulsata cboris vada 
 10 Noctu Naiadum, perque oculos putres^ 
 
 Oramus, roseum e specu 
 Strato curaliis surge levans caput, 
 
 Injectoque procacibus 
 Freno vorticibus_, diim fiieris preci 
 15 Responsura vocantium, 
 
 Exaudi, fer opem supplicibus, dea. 
 
 CXI. 
 
 (hipponactean.) 
 
 (41) " The sun is bright, the air is clear."— Longfellow. 
 
 Sol renidet, aere 
 Arguta Procne transvolat sereno ; 
 
104 LATIN LYRICS. 
 
 Increpansque ver vocat 
 Vates ab ulmis Halcyon superbis. 
 5 Tamque caerulus fluit^ 
 
 Ceu fonte cceli ducat amnis haustus ; 
 
 Qua Favonium manet^ 
 Ut pressa navis deligata_, nubes. 
 
 Nil novi deest ; comis 
 10 Ulmus renatis vertices inaurat 
 
 Pullus ad trabem est novus, 
 Annotino jam nil fovente nido. 
 
 CXII. 
 
 (hipponactean.) 
 (42) {The same continued.) 
 
 Plena amore gestiunt 
 Dulcedine, exultantque cuncta, prima ; 
 
 Auspice et Favonio 
 Vel nocte molli moUiora fiunt. 
 5 Quae rudes legis modos, 
 
 Virgo, juventam carpe tu fugacem ; 
 
 Carpe tempus boc fragrans, 
 Ver et Venus non mense regnat omni. 
 
 Flos A morgue (caetera 
 10 Permitte Divis) bomus est fruendus ; 
 
 Instat bora te monens 
 Annotinos jam nil fovere nidos. 
 
LATIN LYRICS. 105 
 
 CXIII. 
 
 (lono asclepiadean.) 
 
 (43) " Oft in the stilly night."— Mooee. 
 
 Quando cuncta silent nocte^ sopor nee tamen alligat, 
 Soles, Mnemosyne, prasteritos tu revocas, fovens 
 Risuque et lacrymis, quae fuerint lieu puero, senem ; 
 Reddens mutua verba, atque oculis luce carentibus 
 5 Quales splenduerint ante faces restituens, diu 
 Tristi cassa die corda iterum laeta resarciens. 
 Ebeu, quum recolo quot socios copula junxerat, 
 Quos stravit foliis jam similes deciduis hiems. 
 Solus per vacuas tum videor ferre epulas pedem, 
 10 Extinctasque faces et viduas flora suo rosas, 
 
 Atque unus nimium jam superesse ipse miser milii ! 
 
 CXIV. 
 (aechilochian, no. 1.) 
 
 (44) " River, that rollest by the ancient walls." — Byeon. 
 
 Heus, fluvie, antiqua qui labere subter arce, nostras 
 
 Sedes amatas alluens puellas, 
 Huic, quando que vagae ad ripas, si forte corda imago 
 Nostri reviset mobilis fugaxque ; 
 5 Sis, quidni? speculum, dum defluis arbiter pro- 
 fundus, 
 Suspiriorum mille, mille amorum : 
 Auspice te legat ilia magis fera vorticum furore 
 Haec corda et undis aestuosiora ! 
 
106 LA.TIN LYRICS. 
 
 cxy. 
 
 (archilochian, no. 2.) 
 
 (45) " Bright be the place of thy soul !" — Byeon. 
 
 Lucida sit sedes anirnae, neque enim altera amanda 
 
 Te magis, effugiens 
 Carcere corporeo, per sidera lapsa, beato 
 
 Fulserit in numero. 
 6 Vix homo vel terris fueras^ divinior olim 
 
 Morte carens fueris. 
 Non opus est lacrymis ; tu praesens nmnen habebis, 
 
 Te Deus ipse suum. 
 Sit tibi terra levis, niteat de caespite vivo 
 1 Gemmeus ipse color I 
 
 Absit enim noctis quum te memorabimus omen, 
 
 Tristior umbra nefas ! 
 Surgat ibi vimen semper frondentis acanthi, 
 
 Flosculus et requiem 
 15 Signet; at este procul, taxe atque cupresse ; beatis 
 
 Munus inane dolor. 
 
 CXYI. 
 
 (trimeter and dimeter iambic.) 
 
 (46) " She left the novel half uncut."— Ten>^tsuN. 
 
 Parte irresectam liquit ilia fabulam 
 Capsa repostam citrea ; 
 
LATIN LYRICS. 107 
 
 Intacta plectra^ clausum ebur liquit novuin^ 
 
 Discors sibique displicens, 
 5 Turn fugit ipsa trima equa procacior^ 
 
 Ipsasque alaudas provocans ; 
 Ludens per omne voce praemissa nemus, 
 
 Arbusta rumpens carmine. 
 Mox aura praepes involare gestiit 
 10 In virginem^ et factus fuga 
 
 Ferox amabat dulce complexu caput 
 
 Fovere quam potissimum. 
 
 CXVII. 
 
 (trimeter and dimeter iambic.) 
 (47) {The same continued.) 
 
 Sed gramen aura qualibet velocior 
 
 Sic rasit, ut planta levi 
 Flos tactus extoUensque reflexum caput 
 
 Vestigium respexerit. 
 5 Ad nos venit puella_, nos circumsilit ; 
 
 Ternosque decantat modes, 
 Queis nostra laudas robora atque ingens caput, 
 
 Gigantis instar, integros. 
 Ambire me dies ludibunda tum cupit, 
 10 Palmisque truncos assequi ; 
 
 Sed bei mibi ! sum grandior quam quod queat 
 
 Prensare virgo bracbiis. 
 
108 
 
 LATIN LYRICS* 
 
 Oj si fuissem^ qualis est fagus prope^, 
 Enodis, impubes ego, 
 15 Sic nos sinistra dextra nexa palmula 
 Cepisset ambitu suo. 
 
 CXYIII. 
 
 (48) " Go, lovely rose." — Wallee. 
 
 I, rosa, quasque perdit 
 Perdito nos tempore,, tu pulcbra mone, liquere, 
 
 Quam sit amata nobis, 
 Quamque dulcis, quum tibi, me judice, comparetur. 
 
 6 Quaeque fugax juventa 
 
 Conspici non vult veneres, buic, *^^mihi/' die, '^fuissem 
 
 Si sata sede sola, 
 Laude nulla vivere fas, fas foret interiie.''' 
 
 CXIX. 
 
 (49) {The same continued.) 
 
 Sordet enim sepulta 
 Forma, quae lucem refugit : prodeat lisec, cupique 
 
 Se sinat : ad virorum 
 Debitas laudes nihil est cur adeo erubescat. 
 
LATIN LYRICS. 109 
 
 5 Turn morere ; ut probetur 
 
 Omnibus pulcbris data fata auspice te perire ; 
 
 Ut breviore constet 
 Haec die claudi nimio quae placeant nitore. 
 
 cxx. 
 
 (hendecasyllabics.) 
 
 (50) " Virgin daughter of Locrine." — Milton. 
 
 Orta Ancliisiadis patre et Lucrino 
 Virgo, sic latices scatente ripa 
 Ob tale oJ0&cium fluant perennes, 
 MiUe et fonticuli e jugis nivosis 
 5 Undarum tibi conferant tributa : 
 Sic nunquam populet comas decentea 
 Ardens Sirius aestuante ccelo : 
 Nee fuso lutulentus imbre faedet 
 October vada puriora vitro : 
 10 Auro ripa natet,, ferant beryUum 
 Undae ; stent capiti corona celsae 
 Arces et spatia et ter amplus agger : 
 Sint ripis Arabum arboreta odora 
 Sparsa, et cinnama, myrteaeque sylvae. 
 
110 LATIN LYRICS. 
 
 CXXI. 
 
 (51) " Underneath this myrtle shade." — Cowley. 
 
 DuM sub vimine myrteo per umbram 
 Stratis floribus incubo supinus^ 
 Nardo tempora dum fluunt odoro^ 
 Innasci rosa fronte dum videtur, 
 5 Quid fiet milii^ ni mero ut calorem 
 Ingenti nimium eluamque curas ? 
 Sic me regia regiaque major^ 
 Dulcedoj jueritque Amor minister^ 
 Plenis_, heus Amor, usque pocla labris 
 10 Da ; miscebitur bis lepos, jocusque, 
 Non expers generosioris ignis, 
 Membrorum et vigor, et procax cupido. 
 
 CXXII. 
 
 (52) " Far in the bosom of the deep." — Scott. 
 
 Per longa 83quora inbospitasque arenas 
 Lux nostra excubat ; ignis bic rubescens, 
 Hoc mutabile gemmeumque lumen, 
 Noctis tempora decolora inaurat ; 
 5 Nostras navita quum faces salutat, 
 Plenis non timet aequor* ire velis. 
 
 * Comp. Virg. ^n. iii. 191, currimus (Bquor ; also v. 235 
 also Ov. ex Fonto, i. 3, 76 j and Propert, i. 1, 18, ire vias. 
 
LATIN LYRICS. 
 
 CXXIII. 
 
 (53) " Come live with me, and be my love." — Maelow. 
 
 Mecum vive age_, sis que amore juncta ; 
 Sic quot gaudia vallis, arduusve 
 Mons, collisve liabet^ arva quot, nemusve, 
 Sylvseve, omnia sint fruenda nobis. 
 5 Hie speetabimus in jugo sedentes, 
 Nostras pascere capreas magistros, 
 Aut qua pronior amnis it vadosus, 
 Juncto et carmine concinunt volucres. 
 Collata faciam rosa cubile_, 
 
 10 Mille et fascicules olente flore ; 
 
 Mitram e floribus, induesque vestem. 
 Quae sit vimine tota picta myrti. 
 Lanas in pepla flos gregis remittet 
 Agnus, calceolisque duplicatis 
 
 15 Pellent frigora moUibusque plantaB, 
 Pure fibula quos jugabit auro. 
 Zona e stramine, gemmulis corymbi 
 Picto, curaHis tibi apta eritque 
 Electro ; Ids placeat venire votis, 
 
 20 Mecum vivere, mecum amore jungi. 
 
 Ill 
 
112 LATIN LYEICS. 
 
 CXXIV. 
 
 (54) " If all the world and love were young." — Kaleigh. 
 
 Si floreret Amor recente s^clo, 
 Nee fallax foret uUus ore pastor, 
 Bellis sic ego forte capta donis 
 Tecum vivere amore juncta amarem. 
 5 Sed grex tempore septa adit relictis 
 Pratis, flumine saxa quum obstrepente 
 Frigent ; tum Philomela conticescit^ 
 Et curas queritur senex futuras. 
 Ceu defloruit ante ager protervus, 
 
 10 Pendi quum sibi vult hiems tributa ; 
 Sic quoi mel fluat ore, felque corde, 
 Auctumno dolet, ante vema fingens. 
 Vestes, calceolos, toros rosarum 
 Istos, fascicules, pepla, atque mitram, 
 
 15 CEtas perduit immemorque tollit ; 
 
 Kident liaec stolidis, catis putrescunt. 
 Zona e stramine gemmulis corjmbi 
 Picto, curaliisque juncta et apta 
 Electro est niliili : liaud movebor istis. 
 
 20 In vota ut veniam atque amore jungar. 
 
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