Late tyrannus: cras foliis nemus Sternet, aquæ nisi fallit augur Annosa cornix. Dum potis, aridum 10 15 CARMEN XVIII. AD FAUNUM. FAUNE, Nympharum fugientum amator, Si tener pleno cadit hædus anno, Ludit herboso pecus omne campo, Cum bove at Minturnæ, identified by some with Circe. The mother of Latinus, acc. to Virg. Æn. vii. 47. 9. late tyrannus. evpurpelwv. 12. aquæ augur. So below, Carm. III. xxvii. 10.; and cp. Virg. Georg. i. 388.: cornix plenâ pluviam vocat improba voce. 14. Genium curabis. See the art. GENIUS in the Biograph. Dictionary, and cp. Ars Poet. 210., and pagus: 10 Inter audaces lupus errat agnos: 15 CARMEN XIX. AD TELEPHUM. QUANTUM distet ab Inacho Codrus, pro patria non timidus mori, Et pugnata sacro bella sub Ilio: Quo Chium pretio cadum Mercemur, quis aquam temperet ignibus, Pelignis caream frigoribus, taces. Da Lunæ propere novæ, Da Noctis media, da, puer, auguris : Miscentur cyathis pocula commodis. 15. ter pede pepulisse. So Catull. lxi. 14. ; Ov. A. A. i. 112. In Carm. I. iv. 7., alterno quatiunt pede. invisam, hated,' as the source of his toil; perhaps too with a covert allusion to the heavy step of such a dancer. Cp. Pers. Sat. v. 122. ODE XIX. 1. quantum distet, i. e., in point of time. The meaning is, You are absorbed in questions of ancient history and chronology, when you should be joining in our arrange ments for a party.' 3. Eaci, father of Peleus and Telamon, king of Agina (see the legend of its people the Myrmidones, in Ov. Met. vii. 622-657.), after 5 10 wards a judge in Hades. See Carm. II. xiii. 22. 4. sacro. The Homeric epithet Ιλιος ἱρή. 6 7. quotâ, at what hour?' 9. lunæ, sc. poculum, a glass in honour of,' &c.; as above, Carm. III. viii. 13. 10. auguris Murena. Carm. II. x. is addressed to Murena, probably the same. This feast may be sup posed to celebrate his election into the College of Augurs. 11. tribus aut novem. Cyathus is used to express th of the unit sextarius (as uncia of the as); therefore the proportion here proposed is equivalent to 4th or 4ths wine to 4ths or 4th water. commodis, 'fully filled.' So Qui Musas amat impares, Ternos ter cyathos attonitus petet Rixarum metuens tangere Gratia, Nudis juncta sororibus. Insanire juvat: cur Berecyntiæ 15 Cessant flamina tibiæ ? Cur pendet tacita fistula cum lyra? Odi sparge rosas; audiat invidus Et vicina seni non habilis Lyco. Puro te similem, Telephe, Vespero, Me lentus Glyceræ torret amor meæ. 20 25 CARMEN XX. AD PYRRHUM. NON vides, quanto moveas periclo, Quum per obstantes juvenum catervas Bentl. and Orelli. Gesner seems 26. See above, Carm. III. ix. 21. to explain it as 'suited to each 66 28. lentus. Longus, Carm. 1. xiii. 8." Orell. ODE XX. 2. leænæ. i. e. the beauty who claims Nearchus as her lover. (For a serious "grande certamen" of the kind, cp. Soph. Trach. 503. sqq.) 15. Nireus. Hom. Il. B. 673. 5. quocunque lectum nomine, 16. raptus. i. e. Ganymede. Cp.gathered (a term more proper for Hom. II. v. 234. the grapes; here therefore aquosus. The Homeric Toλurídag. up) to whatever end.' 6 stored> Cp. eo nomine, on that account; suo nomine, on his own account," i. e. personally: Cæsar, B. G. i. 18, Non ille, quamquam Socraticis madet Sermonibus, te negliget horridus: Sæpe mero caluisse virtus. Tu lene tormentum ingenio admoves Plerumque duro: tu sapientium Tu spem reducis mentibus anxiis, Regum apices, neque militum arma. Te Liber, et, si læta aderit, Venus, Dum rediens fugat astra Phoebus. des, Fr. 27. 10 15 20 7. descende. The apotheca where, force.' yukкeî ávάука, Ваcchylithe amphora were kept was in the upper story of the house. Corvino, Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus : 9. madet. A convivial metaphor applied to philosophic studies, bor 18. cornua, the same, in metaphor, as vires. It is a frequent phrase in Scripture, and is found in Ovid, A. A. i. 239. 20. apices. i. e. diadems. Carm. 1. xxxiv. 14. 21. te producent, shall prolong rowed from Horace by Martial, 1.thee,'i. e. 'the feast supplied by thee.' xl. 3., VIL Ixix. 2. 22. segnes solvere. i. e. non sol 13. lene tormentum, 'a gentle ventes. avguyías, Eur. Hipp. 1147. |