Will-sing thy praises; only be benign;
1 plur

Always let my heart be full of the holy
Influence of Apollo.

I-will-plant to thee, [O] Goddess, a pleasing myrtle,

se revolvit Where the rose-bearing Vancius pours along :

This [myrtle I] suppliant will-bedew with wine and

snow-white

Milk yearly.

2

et

immixtæ

Around this [myrtle] also girls mixt-with boys

And shall-sing thee alone with first, and thee also

4

4

with last

Voice.

EXERCISE XXX.

SAPPHIC.

Health.

1

almi

O, Health! Queen of [what is] good and holy,

fautrix

Be-present hither, favouring with radiant countenance; Tangas

Touch with [thy] golden rod my limbs

Languid with disease.

3

4

2

Thou canst relieve the cares of the mind:

redimis caducum

Thou even in death rescuest the sinking
Body; and with rosy beauty

Rejoicest to paint the countenance.

Oh! how again do I seek the harmonious measures! Oh! how has the melody stolen* me from myself!

hiulco

[My] senses have now fled; through-my-open

Labello

Lip [my] breath knows-not-how to go;

Compare Horace, Od. iv. 13. 20.

2

mitti

sciat

adeo

Nor, if [it] knew, is-it-willing to-be-sent-forth, with so good and

dat

Grateful a fetter is-it-held now from-me is

nec

[My] liberty taken away, not-even by the draught reparanda

Of Elysian Lethe to-be-restored.

tale

3

stirps

If in-such-a-manner the Siren, the offspring

patronym. adj.
of Achelous

Used-to-sing to the passing sailors;

nil

I do not-at-all wonder that the ships, being-turned

I neither study too-much to please the common-people;

duco malè

Nor bear [it] ill too-much to displease [them]:

prodest

Neither the favour of the people is-advantageous,
Nor does [their] sinister anger injure.

[He], whom virtue pleases,

2

Is not able to please the foolish common-people. This

He is vile, who values himself at-the-price of the babbling 2

uni

Common-people. To myself alone

ære

By virtue's coin, easy to-be-procured, [I] labour to-be great.

2

EXERCISE XXXIII.

ALCAIC.

Friendship.

1

[He] is not a friend, whom rather the desire

studium 2

Of gold binds-to [you], than the love of yourself:

1

abl. abs.

Faithful when Fortune smiles,

abl. abs.

He-will-become perfidious when she departs.

2

adstat

[Him], who firm stands-by [you] in difficulties,*

abl. abs.

Or never will desert [you], while life is entire ;

* Compare Horace, Od. II. 3. 1.

Whom, if the wrecked world should-fall-upon 4 [him],*

The dire-ruins will strike, tenacious of [his] fidelity;

Friends: [you as] Orestes will-be-able to embrace him,

your Pylades;

[You as] Automedon [will be able] to consider

Farewell, ye sweet lares of [my] native-country!
For [I] am not able to see the wretched
Battles of citizens, and the swords of brothers
Stained with blood.

2

Yet my mind shall always love you:

Licet

Though the Parcæ should take me to [that part of]

the orb,

dirimit

Which the torrid zone vexes with the glittering

4

Flame of-the-sun.

3

* Horace, Od. III. 3. 7.