Mecum sæpe viri, nunc vino pellite curas; CARMEN VIII. AD LYDIAM. LYDIA, dic, per omnes Te deos oro, Sybarin cur properas amando Perdere? cur apricum Oderit Campum, patiens pulveris atque solis? Cur neque militaris Inter æquales equitat, Gallica nec lupatis Temperat ora frenis? Cur timet flavum Tiberim tangere? cur olivum Sanguine viperino Cautius vitat, neque jam livida gestat armis Brachia, sæpe disco, Sæpe trans finem jaculo nobilis expedito? Quid latet, ut marinæ Filium dicunt Thetidis sub lacrimosa Troja Funera, ne virilis Cultus in cædem et Lycias proriperet catervas? ODE VIII. 4. Campum. The Campus Martius. See Cookesley's Map of Rome, and Index, and the Dictionary of Antiquities. 5 10 15 patiens solis. Cf. Eur. Bacch. 458. 6. lupatis, adj. of lupus, a sharp bit. Ov. Trist. IV. vi. 4. 14. Ov. Art. Am. i. 689. CARMEN IX. AD THALIARCHUM. VIDES, ut alta stet nive candidum Flumina constiterint acuto? Dissolve frigus, ligna super foco O Thaliarche, merum diota. Nec veteres agitantur orni. Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quærere, et Appone, nec dulces amores Sperne, puer, neque tu choreas, Donec virenti canities abest Morosa. Nunc et Campus et areæ, 16. puer dum puer es. V. Schol. 18. areæ, public places,' the Tu ne quæsieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi Finem dî dederint, Leuconoë; nec Babylonios Tentaris numeros. Ut melius, quidquid erit, pati! Seu plures hiemes, seu tribuit Jupiter ultimam, 15. Troja. Dat. c. 6 16. fefellit, passed unnoticed through the watchfires of the Myrmidons.' 17. This alludes to Mercury's office as ψυχοπόμπος. πομπαῖος, χθόνιος, Soph. Ajax, 832. 18. virga aurea. The caduceus (pásdos). Hence his title xpuoóparis, Hom. Od. . 87.; Pind. Pyth. iv. 178. levem exilem in Carm. I. iv. 17., 'shadowy'; leves populos, Ov. Met. x. 14. 20. superis.... et imis. Obs. imis used for inferis. As a rule, adjectives of different degrees of comparison should not be placed in connection or antithesis. But imus seems to differ from ordinary superlatives. (See another instance in Carm. 111. i. 15.) Perhaps summus also: cf, multis ac suminis viris, Cic. Cat. i, 10. There is an exception (which seems to prove the general rule) in Cic. Rh. ad Her. iv. 44. ODE XI. 1. ne quæsieris. The following are phrases of prohibition nearly synonymous: ne quære, ne quæras, ne quæsieris; noli quærere, as Epist. I. xviii. 283. ; fuge quærere, Carm. 1. ix. 13.; parce quærere, Carm. III. viii. 26. ; remitte quærere, Carm. 11. xi. 3., and omitte quærere, Carm. III. xxix. 11., in the sense of 'discontinuing.' Cave quæras or quærere may be used. 2. Babylonios numeros. The calculations of Chaldæan astrologers. Cf. Chaldæorum promissa, Cic. Tusc. Qu. i. 40. Juv. vi. 553. : Chaldæis sed major erit fiducia; quidquid Dixerit astrologus credent a fonte relatum Hammonis. ver. 373.: in manibus, ceu pinguia sucina, tritas Cernis ephemeridas, ver, 576.: Quæ nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare 5 CARMEN XII. AD AUGUSTUM. QUEM virum aut heroa lyra vel acri Quem deum? cujus recinet jocosa Aut in umbrosis Heliconis oris, Aut super Pindo, gelidove in Hæmo? Arte materna rapidos morantem 5. debilitat, breaks its waves." 6. liques, 'strain off.' 7. spem longam. See on Carm. 1. iv. 15. fugerit, 'it will have fled,' i.e. it is almost gone. Orell. cf. Lucret. iii. 927.: i Brevis hic est fructus homullis; Jam fuerit, neque post unquam revocare licebit. ODE XII. 1-3. Pind. Olymp. ii. 1.: 'Avağıφόρμιγγες ὕμνοι τίνα θεόν, τίν ἥρωα, τίνα δ ̓ ἄνδρα κελαδήσομεν ; 4. imago. i. e. vocis, as in Virg. Georg. iv. 50., Echo: cf. Carm. 1. xx. 8., Montis imago. In the Greek epigram: Ἡχω πετρήεσσαν παντοίων στομάτων λάλον εἰκόνα. 5. Helicon, in Boeotia, now Zagora. 6. Pindus, running from north to south, from the Cambunian range to that of Parnassus. Hæmus. The great northern boundary of Thrace, the Balkan. 9. arte maternâ, taught by his mother Calliope. Virg. Ecl. iv. 56. 11. blandum ducere. The inf. after adjectives (a Greek construc tion) is common with Horace. With similar license, ver. 2., celebrare is for celebrandum. auritas, i. e. listening. Cf. Carm. 1. xxiv. 13, 14. |