Fies nobilium tu quoque fontium,
Me dicente cavis impositam ilicem
Saxis, unde loquaces
Lymphæ desiliunt tuæ.

CARMEN XIV.

AD ROMANOS.

HERCULIS ritu modo dictus, o Plebs,
Morte venalem petiisse laurum,
Cæsar Hispana repetit Penates
Victor ab ora.

Unico gaudens mulier marito
Prodeat, justis operata sacris ;
Et soror clari ducis, et decoræ
Supplice vitta

Virginum matres, juvenumque nuper
Sospitum. Vos o pueri, et puellæ
Jam virum expertæ, male ominatis
Parcite verbis.

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2. venalem, used with abl. c. in Carm. II. xvi. 8.

morte venalem. Cp. Virg. Æn. ix. 206.; xii. 49.

5. unico gaudens. i. e. whose love is given to him alone.

mulier, Livia Drusilla, wife of Augustus. The Augusta Julia of Ovid, Fast. i. 536.

6 operata sacris. Let her come forth and offer her thank-offerings.'

divis is a various reading; operor might be construed equally well with it. sacris is the abl. c., divis would be dative.

7. soror, Octavia, mother of the Marcellus of Virgil, Æn. vi. 883. 11. virum expertæ. i.e. married. male ominatis verbis. See above, Carm. II. i. 2.

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Hic dies vere mihi festus atras
Eximet curas: ego nec tumultum,
Nec mori per vim metuam, tenente
Cæsare terras.

I, pete unguentum, puer, et coronas,
Et cadum Marsi memorem duelli,
Spartacum si qua potuit vagantem
Fallere testa.

Dic et argutæ properet Neæræ
Myrrheum nodo cohibere crinem :
Si per invisum mora janitorem
Fiet, abito.

Lenit albescens animos capillus
Litium et rixæ cupidos protervæ:
Non ego hoc ferrem, calidus juventa,

Consule Planco.

CARMEN XV.

AD CHLORIN.

UXOR pauperis Ibyci,

Tandem nequitiæ fige modum tuæ,
Famosisque laboribus:

Maturo propior desine funeri

male om... is a quasi-compound; it may be compared with suave olens in Catull. xix. 13.

18. Marsi. The social or Marsic war of 90-88 B. C.

19. Spartacum, the head of the servile war, 73-71 B. C.

"The most terrible guerilla chieftain recorded in history, unstained by the vices of his conquerors."

See the Life by W. B. Donne, in Biogr. Dict.

si qua, sc. viâ, ‘if by any means.'

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23. janitorem, the porter.' 'If he will not admit you, or keeps you waiting, come back.'

27. Cp. Ov. Met. xv. 209.:
posito fervore juventæ

Maturus mitisque.

28. L. Munatius Plancus. Cos. 42 B. C.

ODE XV.

3. laboribus. i. e. amoribus. 4. maturo funeri, 'death that comes at a ripe or full age.'

Inter ludere virgines,

Et stellis nebulam spargere candidis.
Non, si quid Pholoën satis,

Et te, Chlori, decet: filia rectius
Expugnat juvenum domos,

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AD MECENATEM.

INCLUSAM Danaën turris aënea,

Robustæque fores, et vigilum canum
Tristes excubiæ munierant satis

Nocturnis ab adulteris,

Si non Acrisium, virginis abditæ

Custodem pavidum, Jupiter et Venus
Risissent fore enim tutum iter et patens
Converso in pretium deo.

Aurum per medios ire satellites,
Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius

7. Though such gaiety becomes Pholoë, it does not therefore become you.'

13. Home and household occupations suit your age' (decent te vetulam).

14. Luceriam, in Apulia.

ODE XVI.

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2. robustæ,oaken.' Cp. Ov. Met. v. 120-125., and Virg. Æn. ii. 48 l., firma robora (mentioned, it may be observed, in connection with postes æratos).

3. munierant. i. e. munivissent. See Carm. II. xvii. 28., sustule

rat.

7. fore enim. For they knew that

An Ode on the power of gold and the road would be open,' etc. the worth of contentment.

10. amat, 'is wont.' So Gr. piλeî,

Ictu fulmineo: concidit auguris

Argivi domus ob lucrum

Demersa exitio; diffidit urbium

Portas vir Macedo, et subruit æmulos
Reges muneribus; munera navium
Sævos illaqueant duces.

Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam,
Majorumque fames. Jure perhorrui
Late conspicuum tollere verticem,

Mæcenas, equitum decus.

Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
Ab dîs plura feret. Nil cupientium

Nudus castra peto, et transfuga divitum
Partes linquere gestio ;

Contemptæ dominus splendidior rei,
Quam si, quidquid arat impiger Apulus,
Occultare meis dicerer horreis,
Magnas inter opes inops.

Puræ rivus aquæ, silvaque jugerum
Paucorum, et segetis certa fides meæ,
Fulgentem imperio fertilis Africa

Fallit sorte beatior.

12. Argivi. Amphiaraus, betrayed which I could not or should fear to by Eriphyle to the Theban War.

Plu

14. vir Macedo, Philip, callidus emptor Olynthi, Juv. xii. 47. tarch says, in his life of P. Æmilius, "It was a common saying, that it was not Philip, but Philip's gold that took the cities."

15. navium duces. This is generally understood to be an allusion to the deserter Menas.

17. Cp. Juv. xiv. 139.

23. nudus. Having nothing, I am vet content, and thereby am really richer than if I possessed stores

use.'

28. Cp. the Gk. epigram of Palladas:

ὦ τοῖς κληρονόμοις πλούσιε, σοὶ δὲ πένης.

29. Cp. Sat. II. vi. 1.

30. certa fides. Cp. the opposite phrase above, Carm. 111. i. 30. 31. Cp. Carm. I. i. 9, 10.

32. fulgentem fallit. i. e. contains a happiness unknown to the wealthiest.

fallit. Gr. λανθάνει.

Quamquam nec Calabræ mella ferunt apes,
Nec Læstrygonia Bacchus in amphora
Languescit mihi, nec pinguia Gallicis
Crescunt vellera pascuis,

Importuna tamen Pauperies abest;

Nec, si plura velim, tu dare deneges.
Contracto melius parva cupidine
Vectigalia porrigam,

Quam si Mygdoniis regnum Alyattei

Campis continuem. Multa petentibus

Desunt multa: bene est, cui Deus obtulit
Parca, quod satis est, manu.

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