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BODL LIBR 15.50 194 OXFORD

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THE plan of editing VIRGIL for Schools with English Notes having met with general approbation, a similar appendage to Horace has been attempted. These Notes contain no critical disquisitions; they claim no other merit than that of facilitating the author to the young pupil.

Few Proper Names are explained in these Notes, because the student is supposed to have recourse to Dr. Lempriere's Dictionary, which will give him satisfactory information.

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QUINTI HORATII FLACCI

CARMINUM

LIBER PRIMUS.

ODE I.

Præfatio Carminum.

Alios aliis rebus duci;

se lyrici carminis studio teneri, cujus palmam, Mæcenate judice, consequi velle.

MECENAS, atavis edite regibus,

O et præsidium, et dulce decus meum!
Sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum
Collegisse juvat: metaque fervidis
Evitata rotis, palmaque nobilis
Terrarum Dominos evehit ad Deos.
Hunc, si mobilium turba Quiritium
Certat tergeminis tollere honoribus:
Illum, si proprio condidit horreo
Quidquid de Libycis verritur areis:
Gaudentem patrios findere sarculo
Agros, Attalicis conditionibus
Nunquam dimoveas, ut trabe Cypriâ
Myrtoum, pavidus nauta, secet mare.
Luctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum
Mercator metuens, otium et oppidi
Laudat rura sui: mox reficit rates
Quassas, indocilis pauperiem pati.
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Est qui nec veteris pocula Massici,
Nec partem solido demere de die
Spernit: nunc viridi membra sub arbuto
Stratus, nunc ad aquæ lene caput sacræ.
Multos castra juvant, et lituo tubæ
Permistus sonitus, bellaque matribus
Detestata.-Manet sub Jove frigido
Venator, teneræ conjugis immemor :
Seu visa est catulis cerva fidelibus,
Seu rupit teretes Marsus aper plagas.
Me doctarum hederæ præmia frontium
Dis miscent superis: me gelidum nemus,
Nympharumque leves cum Satyris chori,
Secernunt populo; si neque tibias
Euterpe cohibet, nec Polyhymnia
Lesboum refugit tendere barbiton.
Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,
Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.

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ODE II.

Deos omnes iratos esse Romanis ob Cæsaris cædem: unam Imperii spem in Augusto constitutam esse.

JAM satis terris nivis, atque diræ
Grandinis misit Pater; et rubente
Dexterâ sacras jaculatus arces,
Terruit urbem :

Terruit gentes, grave ne rediret

Seculum Pyrrhæ nova monstra questæ ;
Omne cùm Proteus pecus egit altos
Visere montes :

Piscium et summâ genus hæsit ulmo,

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