Free-from error, and ignorant of fraud,

Despectans

Looking-down-upon the vulgar, and the petulant threats

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of envy.

jacentes

And lands lying-low,

[She] seeks lofty-[places] with rapid flight.

By no purpose is the day to-be-changed,
Which the fates have given the last
Repôstis

To-those-laid in the darkness of the tomb.

cadens

May Fame, expatiating through the wide lands,
Evehat
Carry-forth, where the rising and setting sun
Turns back [his] reins;

Of [his] Poet giving-an-account-of the ancient origin

genus

Of [his] family, and [his] illustrious race, and
The name of [his] powerful ancestors,

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2

Conferred with bounteous right-hand

numerosa

Gifts the-reward-of verse, and to indolent youth

I have, transparent with perennial rivulet,
A fountain, near the sandy shore; whence
Oft [when] departing the sailor for himself

rores

Draws the friendly waters.

redimitus

2

This [fountain] I, encircled with a white fillet,

sing.

Venerate with flowers and summer chaplets,

hiulca

When the rivers and the fields full-of-fissures fear the

fierce

4

Tuning the strings of the Thracian lyre : magistrâ

And, with skilful art, exciting

Strepitum ad

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And opening [her] mouth, rivalling the vernal flowers,

EXERCISE XXVII.

SAPPHIC.

Youth.

1

Behold! with how easy a step Youth

Graditur

sparsa

Aavances, throwing-abroad-his shining locks;
Cinctæ

Clad with white robes [there] accompany [him]
Both Hope and Fidelity.

2

Ho! be [ye] far, far [away], [ye] black cares!

afferte proprios

[Ye] boys and girls, bring peculiar flowrets with

bounteous

3

Hand, and with joyful dances

Surround [him].

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EXERCISE XXVIII.

SAPPHIC.

Dedication of a Laurel to Apollo.

1

To thee, this laurel, in green youth

Flourishing, [I] wish dedicated, [O] Apollo:

Singulis

luce

Every year, the festal day returning,

[I] will resound