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3. redono. A rare word, used again in Carm. III. iii. 33., and nearly in the same sign., if Pompeius came back under pardon; but Orelli explains it here by reddo, there by condono.

Quiritem (used only in the poets as a singular noun). i. e. in full citizenship. So Orell. Compare Pers. v. 75.: "una Quiritem vertigo facit." Or no longer a soldier,' as in Tac. Ann. i. 42. So Gesner.

6. See Carm. I. i. 20.

8. malobathro. The oil of the uaλóba@pov, an aromatic Indian plant.

Tecum Philippos et celerem fugam
Sensi, relicta non bene parmula ;
Quum fracta virtus, et minaces
Turpe solum tetigere mento.

Sed me per hostes Mercurius celer
Denso paventem sustulit aëre :
Te rursus in bellum resorbens
Unda fretis tulit æstuosis.

Ergo obligatam redde Jovi dapem,
Longaque fessum militia latus

Depone sub lauru mea, nec

Parce cadis tibi destinatis.

Oblivioso levia Massico

Ciboria exple funde capacibus
Unguenta de conchis. Quis udo
Deproperare apio coronas

Curatve myrto? quem Venus arbitrum
Dicet bibendi? Non ego sanius

Bacchabor Edonis: recepto

Dulce mihi furere est amico.

12. Hom, Il. β. 418, πρηνέες ἐν κονίῃσιν ὀδὰξ λαζοίατο γαῖαν ; Ι. λ. 749., ὀδὰξ ἕλον οἶδας. Virg. Æn. x. 349. fronte ferit

terram.

Id. xi. 418.: humum ore momordit.

13. Mercurius, patron of poets. See Carm. 11. xvii. 29. Of Horace esp.; see Sat. 11. vi. 5. 15. The interposition here ascribed to him is an imitation of the rescue of Paris by Venus, Il. y. 380.; of Æneas by Apollo, Il. e. 344.

1. juris pejerati, perjury,' the converse of jus-jurandum, an oath.' In these two phrases the pt. in -dus accords with the idea of something to be maintained, the past part. is required to express the breach of it; pejerandi would be improper to signify that which has been broken. For the sentiment, cp. Ov. Amor. III. iii. 1.:

Esse Deos i crede, fidem jurata fefellit,

Et (sc. tamen) facies illi, quæ fuit ante, manet,

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8. publica cura, 'the general admiration of all.'

"The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.'

Milton, L'Allegro, 80.

prodis, from prodeo. 10. fallere. Orell. quotes Æn. vi. 324.

toto cum cœlo. Ovid. 1. c. ver. 41.: toti facio convicia cœlo.

15. ardentes. Cp. Moschus, in Ἔρως δραπέτης :

τὰ γὰρ πυρὶ πάντα βέβαπται.

Te suis matres metuunt juvencis,
Te senes parci, miseræque nuper
Virgines nuptæ, tua ne retardet
Aura maritos.

CARMEN IX.

AD VALGIUM.

Non semper imbres nubibus hispidos
Manant in agros, aut mare Caspium
Vexant inæquales procellæ

Usque; nec Armeniis in oris,

Amice Valgi, stat glacies iners
Menses per omnes, aut Aquilonibus
Querceta Gargani laborant,

Et foliis viduantur orni.

Tu semper urges flebilibus modis
Mysten ademptum, nec tibi Vespero
Surgente decedunt amores,

Nec rapidum fugiente Solem.
At non ter ævo functus amabilem

ODE IX.

Caius Valgius Rufus. Mentioned again Sat. 1. x. 81. Nothing is known for certain of him. He appears to have been of consular rank, and a poet.

1. Ov. Ex Ponto, Iv. iv. 1. 3. inæqualis, 'roughening.' Used actively, as prob. varius, Carm. 11. v. 12.; as informes, Carm. II. x. 15.

7. Garganus, a mountain and promontory of Apulia,

9. flebilibus modis. i. e. elegies. 10. Mystes. Acc. to some a favourite son; more prob. a friend of Valgius. Orell. compares the mention of Cicero's grief, Ad Att. i, 12.

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11. Neither at evening nor morning.' So Virg. Georg. iv. 466.: Te veniente die te decedente canebat.

Vesper. The morning as well as the evening star. Cic. de Nat. D. ii. 20.; Ov. Her. xviii. 112.

13. ter ævo functus, Nestor.
τῷ δ' ἤδη δύο μὲν γενεαὶ μερόπων
ἀνθρώπων
ἐφθίατο .

μετὰ δὲ τριτάτοισιν ἄνασσεν.
Hom. Il. a. 250. 252.
By later poets the 3 generations
were lengthened into 3 centuries, as
in Ov. Met. xii. 188.:
Vixi
Annos bis centum, nunc tertia
vivitur ætas.
Cp. Juv. Sat. x. 246.

RECTIUS Vives, Licini, neque altum Semper urgendo, neque, dum procellas