V. AD AUGUSTUM. DIVIS orte bonis, optime Romulae Custos gentis, abes jam nimium diu: Maturum reditum pollicitus patrum Sancto concilio, redi. Lucem redde tuae, dux bone, patriae; Instar veris enim vultus ubi tuus Affulsit populo, gratior it dies, Et soles melius nitent. Ut mater juvenem, quem Notus invido Flatu Carpathii trans maris aequora Cunctantem spatio longius annuo Dulci distinet a domo, His mother calls with many a prayer and vow For the ox safely rambles through the mead: Are nourishing the land: with winged speed Adultery ceases the pure home to stain: While Caesar is preserved to us, who fears Amid his own familiar hills, each one In wedlock with the widowed trees unites The vine; and joying o'er the day's work done, Votis, ominibusque, et precibus vocat, Curvo nec faciem litore demovet : Sic desideriis icta fidelibus Quaerit patria Caesarem. Tutus bos etenim rura perambulat : Nullis polluitur casta domus stupris: Culpam poena premit comes. Quis Parthum paveat? quis gelidum Scythen? Fetus, incolumi Caesare? quis ferae Condit quisque diem collibus in suis, Te mensis adhibet deum; Thee, with abundance of entreaties, he Ah wouldest thou, good chief, on Italy This reads like a sort of preface to the Secular Ode. Horace begins with thanksgiving to Apollo for having slain Achilles and preserved Aeneas, the originator of the Roman state, and then turns to the chorus and gives them some directions. I hope no critic will be very hard upon me for having, in my desperate need of a dissyllable, devised Teucrum as another name for Troy. GOD, who wert found by Niobean offspring Phthian Achilles : Soldier, 'mid others best, to thee unequal, He as pine-tree stricken by biting hatchet Te multa prece, te prosequitur mero Defuso pateris; et Laribus tuum Miscet numen, uti Graecia Castoris Et magni memor Herculis. Longas o utinam, dux bone, ferias VI. AD APOLLINEM. DIVE, quem proles Niobea magnae Vindicem linguae, Tityosque raptor Sensit, et Trojae prope victor altae Phthius Achilles, Ceteris major, tibi miles impar : Filius quamvis Thetidis marinae Dardanas turres quateret tremenda Cuspide pugnax. Ille, mordaci velut icta ferro Pinus, aut impulsa cupressus Euro, |