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fro the labour by hich he had been confine amon his
This de is a Lindis morat ad dros to the Romans, in hichthe poet ascribes thei calamities to thei corrupi manners, and neglectis religion He heresore endeavour to dissuade themfrom heir impiety, and intimates that the od would bring upo them stili heavior punishmenis, is the did not repat their temples an respect their orship. He ny the Roman were formeri a brave and virtuous eopte that the cultivatod theirland an extende thei empire; ut that timo ad songradu atly undermining their virtu es, and thus ever Succeeding generation ad been ors than that hicli prucodexit, till
17. Nuptias i. e. have violate the laws and sanctit of the
21. Ionicos i. e. lascivos: the wanton dances of the Ionians stre proverbial. 22. Fingitur artibus: i. e. is educate O traine to eductive aris artibus is in the dative case. 24. De tenero . . . ungui from childhood this is a common expression illi the Romans. 25. Non his juventus, dic. . the meaniniis, cit Was notoοuthborn f Such corrupi arenis that formeri fought the batiles
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30. Sabellis . . . ligonibus: Mith Sabino spades. 35. Amicum tempus ... curru restorin in his descendingchario the gratesul times of rest.
festiva was observo with much religious pom by the
Janus. Aster these religious Services ere ver the adies re
We ma Suppogo that Maecenas, in a visit to the poet earlyon tho Calend of March had expresse diom surpris at findinglii employed in preparations sor a domestic east, as Horace
was not a married man. his de a Writton in OnSequenee, in hicli Horace informillim of tho reason, and invites him ob present at the entertainment.1. Martiis . . . linguinci the construction is, o Maecenas, docte Sermones utriusque lingum, miraris quid ego caelebs agam kalendis Martiis, quid fores velint, et acerra plena thuriS, carboque positus in vivo cespite. 5. Docte . . . tinguet learne in both reoli an Latin. This means no more than a complimentur Salutation a vir eruditissime.
T. Libero: the poet here ascribes his preservation to Bacchus hereas in Book II. de XIV. 28, he attributus the fame hindissice to Faunus. As both these divinities ore Supposedi have poets unde thoi protection, Dacier hinks it a both sam god unde different name and that a goat Was O fere to him unde tho nam o Bacchus, an a hee Whenhe was calle FaunuS. 11. Instilutre i. e. coeptin. 13. Amici sospitisu Ec in gratiam; i. e. ob amicum ovitem.
I 5. Perfer in lucem: continue illiuybreah.'17. Mitte civiles Maecenas, in the absence of Augustus, had the overninenti Rome. 18. Daci Cotisonis: Cotiso was hin of the Daci, O Getae. He ad ad inroad into the Roman territory; ut Wa repulsed by LentuluS. 21. Ser vit . . . Cantaber the war in Spain continue morethan two hundred years besere the Cantabrians ere perfectly subdued.
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25. Negligens . . . cavere relaXing Our anXiety, Since ouare a private man, do not e to Solicitous abolit publie concertas. -Privatus although Maecenas a praesectis Rome, yet, as compare With the emperour, hecis properi callud a privat man. Other underStani it thus Divest yourself of our public character an assume that os a private citige so tho
Horace ad sorme an attachment to Lyde, lio, eingyotan an a trange to Iove, aid litti regar to his professions. The poet there re ad dresses this oderio Mercury, introatin him to inspire a Song the trains of Whicli a malio an impressioni the obdurate seir ne And we ather romth XXII. Od of this Book that he did not writo in vain.
1. Te . . . magistro Unde your instruction.
5. Nec loqua olim: besere Mercur conceived the plan offormin the lyre, no music a made UpOn the testudo or tor-toise heli. 9. Tu potes . . . silvas 'his alludes to the fabie of Orpheus. 17. Tityose o Tityus the Greeli termination is in os.
Near o Horace' villa, in the Sabine territory there a ubeautisu fountain, calle the Duntain os Bandusia, rom thenam of the place in hicli it a siluate d. In accordanee with tho popular belle that some spirit or Genius reside divere ach Duntain, our poet proposes to Offer a sacrifice to this, andio consecrato it to immortality. 2. Dulci digne mero: i. e. orthy of the wine' intenditopour ut in libation. 6. Frustra: he was in vain destine to e the leador of the floch, ince he illae sacrificed.
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Ι is statu in the introductor remariis to de XXIX. os Bookd that Augustus was preparinisor two expedition a thetim that od was ritiun the ne destinod io Arabia, under Gallus, and the ther against the Britoris, hicli ho hoadsed in person Havin metin his marcho deputation from Britain, whicli acceptod the toruis 1 Tered by him, he turne his marchinto Spain; here e continuo somo inhat more than three years, tillae subdued tho Cantabrians an returne to Rome in the uar of the cit 730, hen this de as ritte O the
11. Virum evertoe . i. e. nuploe.-Maia minatis . . . verbis
22. Myrrhinum usually, myrrheum persumod with myrrh.'23. Ianitorem 'o telis his servant hoy, fle meet with any dissiculi in conv0yin his message to Neaera, O Ome Waywithout makin a disturbanee.
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In his domoraco attempis to how the misellius produce db riches an declares that he is much happier ithout thum, than heraliouldae, ereae possessed of the wealth of tho Ιn
1 I. Auguris Argivi the famil of the augur Amphiaraus Was ulteri overthrown by the avarice of his is Eriphyle, who was bribe to botra him. Sue Class. Diet. 14. Vir Macedo , Philip of Maccdon, the Ather of Alexander th Great. e a notorious O bribin the OVernours of cities an stron places by presenis. He osten aid there asno dissiculi in makin himself master of an sori, i the galewere large enough to admit a camel loaded, illi silvor.
15. Munera . . . a vox. reserunt ad Menodorum, vel Menam,
qui muneribus corruptus a Pompeio, cujus classi praesectus fuerat, ad Augustum, et ab eo vicissim ad illum desecisse traditur : sce vos h. e. sortes. Doer. 19. Tollere verticem rais myae ad.)22. A dis plura feret: sc tanto S much the more hali hereceive rom the gods.' 31. Fulgentem . . . beatior: yield a pleasiare unknown to
Elius Lamias, o hom this de a addreSSed, a a person os illustrious family and considerable estate. He had risent, his ursonat muri to the rank of lieuienant-genera in huSpanish war unde Augustus. 0 so demeansd himself in this ossice a to gain tho es te ei and respectis the army. orace
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there re compliments him o the hereditar honours, hiel, hoso et Eustained undispon hicli his own character undachiuvomunis ad shed additiones lustre. An Sinceae prodiet aratorinon the morrow he invites Lamias to pus the stywithaim. 1. Cli . . . late tyrannus the constructio is, ΕΓ, nobilis ab vetusto Lamo, quandoserunt et priores Lamias hinc denominatos
QSSO, et omne genus nepotum per memores fastos ducit originem
ab illo auctore, qui princeps dicitur incoluisse moenia Formiarum, et lat tyrannus tenuisse Lirim innantem littoribus Mariere. 2. Hinc i. e. a Lamo from this Lamus, Ling of the Laestrygones the sortiter Lamiae derived theirmame. 4. Fastosis these ere the register o annals in hich was hept tho recor of the family of the Lamiae, as ess a that ofother nobi families, and of public assairs. 7. Et innantem . . . Lirim i. e. an hel unde his Waytho rive Liris, hic flows into the seu through the marshes OfMinturne . Ager Minturnensis designatur per fluvium Lirim, qui illum transit, et per paludes Minturnenses in mare diffunditur.' DOer. J Iarictim Marica was a nymph, the wis of Faunus, and mollieri Latinus, ho preside diver Minturnae, and theregion about it lieno littori bus Maricae, for the marshes of
Minturnae. 9. Cras . . . cornis the constructio is, Cras tempestas, demissa ab Euro, sternet nemus foliis multis, et littus inutili algu,
nisi anno3 cornis, augur aquce, fallit me. 14. Genium . . . curabis bou hali honour our uardiangenius' i in indulge in sestivity.
Tho Romans boliouod that many of their od passe their
Summers in D country, and thei Winter in another. Faunus
was of this number. He a supposed to come into Ital onthe 13this February, and to return to Arcadiam therath of December. Both these days ore observo by sacrifices an sestivit in honour os Faunus, bo a supposed i preSide Verthoi sociis andiolds. his de a probably ritte for ne ophis sestivais. In therars pari, tho post intrent Faunus, fh pays him due honours to mile pon his seld an preserveth tendor offspring of his flockso an in the econd, he eis fortii hucio of tho village o the retur of his autumnal DaSt, When man and east Will rota from thei toti, an rejoice in the bount of thei benefactor. 3. AbeaSque . . . alumnis and may ou depari propitious to the oundio m floclis.'6. Veneris sodali calis the cratera the companion OPVenus, Sine the wine is potirud from it in libation to her. 10. Tibi Nonoe redeunt tho nones of December ere theseason of the autumnal seastrio Faunus.
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16 Ter pede terram a par of the festivities O this occasionconsistud in dancing.
It donis that Murena ha been chosen augur, and that severat of his friendillud me togother in honour of the occasion and that amon them eremorace, an another Oet amed Telephus, Nilo Wa a great Scholar, und who undertook ointeriai thu company ith Some grave discuSSion On ancient history.
9. Da Lunae: Se poculum in honorem. 13. Qui Musas . . . vates the construction is, Vates, qui amat impares Musas, attonitus petet ter terno cyathos. 14. Attonitus . i. e. furore poetico CorreptuS. DOer.
M. Valerius Messala Corvinus havin engage to sup illi Horace the poet ahes his addresso acia os choice oldwine, by hichae intimates that he hal givo his Diund wino
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an expression of gratitude sor ome favour, consecrates to her afavourite in tree, that Shaded his countrymeat, an promise s
4. in triformis this Oddus was callud Luna in heaven; Dianampo parti, and Proserpine in the insernat regions. 5. Tu pinus esto let the in true e sacre to thee.-
6. Per Tacto . . . annos bearly. acto enim anno recurrunt feriae. '
havo imbibe tho opinion that sacrifices to the god Were moreor lus acceptabie in proportion to thei intringi value Horace in thiside attempis to convince her, that the god rogarded the disposition o mind with hicli sacrifices ere Tered, atherthan the costlines of the ins that purit o lis and good intentions ere fisos importanem; and that illi these any offerings, hoWeVer Smali, ere acceptable. 1. Supinam: hen the ancient prayed to tho colestia godsine raisod thei hand with the palm upwardi'; ut turne dilium downward when they addressed the inferna gods.
diis devota, quae pascitur nivali Algido inter quercus et ilices, ut crescit in Albanis herbis tinget cervice secures pontiscum. The meaniniis that these victim are designe sor public sacrifices, which may illi propriet be more magnificent than hos os private individustis, ho ought to malle thei offering proportionale to thei statio an abilities.
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17. Immunis: Sc. Sceleris i. c. iure.'18. Non sumptuos . . . micti it has appeased the angry godswith plous mea an craclitin sali, and would not have been more acceptabie illi a costi sacrifice.'
In his de Horace inveigh against luXury and Xtravaganeo a tho prevallin vices of the age. The de ma be considere das consistin of three paris. In the irat, the poet exposus thelicentio iis enormities of the geri in the Seeond, he howsthei causes an in the hird, oinis ut thei prope reme
1. Inlactis . . . caput the constructio is, Licet occupes omne Tyrrhenum et Apulicum mare tuis coementis, opulentior intactis
thesauris Arabum et divitis Indioe, tamen si diriNecessitas sigit
adamantinos clavo summis verticibus, non Vedie animum metu, nec caput laquei mortis. -Intactis i. e. nondum attrectatis
integris adhuc. V Doer. The Roman had notoet succe eded in thei attempis to conque Arabia FeliX. 3. Coementis i. e. the materialisor bullding, Euch a stones an mortar See Book III. Oderi. 34. note . 6. Verticibus: Ome suppos the tops of the liouses of persons destine to deatha be meanti suminis verticibus other Suppos it to mea theirae ads. 9. Campestres quod in campis sine tectis vi*unt. 15. Defunctumque . . . micarius and another, on ille condition succe edihim ho has persormed his year' labour.' 17. Illi . . . innocens : the constructio is, Illic innocens mulier noverca temperat privignis carentibus matre.-Temperat privignis: are ais kindly the childreni a forme marriage. 24. Et peccare there ero sola things whicli suomed to have influenco in securing the happines of marriage among the Scythians a virtuous education, an attachment of wives totheir usbaniis, hui horror o conjugal infidelity, and the severit of thei laws in punishing that crime illi de ath. 27. Si quini et . . . postgenitis he wishes o have rittenbene ath his statues, ather of his counita, et hii dare to curti the verwhelmin Spiriti licentiolisness, an he will e come
45. Vel nos in Capitolium : The poet says, is e salty istito ut an nil to this luxur an vice, an to return totur primitive simplicity, et u either carry ur Superfluous wealth
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into the Capitol, and consecrate it to the gods, as an offering or else et u thro it into the ea, as desecrated, and the
against playin dice, and alliumes of hagard. 59. Quamperjur . . . properet: i. e. Whil in the mea timethe perfidicus ather, o amas wealth so this unworthyaeir, cheat without distinctio his parine and his host.
Horace, unde pretence of be in inspired by Bacchus, indulges in the ruises of Augustus more Xtravaganti thanmight other is Seem proper. 3. Mente noud: Mitti ne inspiration. - Quibus . . . Jovis the constructio is, In quibus antris meditans eternum de
In his lituo de Horace declares that he willio in futures hearhen to the dictates of a huris ut passion to hicli ho adbeen to longin Elave Andrit musti faid, o his credit, thatho id actuallyaive up at the age of sorty, he this de WRSwritten, his sermo habit os sensual indulgende Though DomWhat he stys, we have Some reason to belleve that resenimenthad some hare in formin the resolutio tota So. 3. Nunc arm . . . custodit it was usual to offer at the temple o Eome od the instruments of an ari, hich Was discontinuod In his case the temple of Venus a selected vitii great propriety. 5. Loevum . . . latus: he hangs up the arm of his idnight revelr o the easter Wal of the templo, o the of side of the oddoss. For the statues of the god were Eo place a toface the Eouth consequently the east, hich was esteeme thehappy quarter of the heavens, asin thei test hand.
6. Ponite: the addrus is made to the attendanis, homeroto deposit the arm n ordered. 8. Oppositis . . . minaces 'threatin the door closed against