Will-sing thy praises; only be benign; Always let my heart be full of the holy 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 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. 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, [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! 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. |