obvius

Nor yet does any fierce pirate meeting him

Instat
Press-upon [him].

7

4

Now the safe husbandman takes rest tecti exercet

In [his] poor cot, and turns [his] paternal plains

3

With the ploughshare; and enjoys peace,
A lover of peace.

8

Jamjam turpis situs occupat

Even-now disfiguring rust covers the helmets an

3 atque

With constant use; and the smooth
Plough shines.

EXERCISE LXV.

ALCAIC.

Ad testudinem.

1

sutilis

O sonorous daughter of the compact box-wood,

Barbite

Lyre! [thou] shalt hang [from] the lofty poplar,
Whilst the air smiles, and

supinas

The light breeze courts the listless leaves.

F

3

2

A gentler breath of the murmuring

East-wind shall blow-through thee: let-it-delight me

To-have-reclined my neck, and [on] the green

temere

Bank thus carelessly to-have-lain.

3

Alas! what clouds cover the serene

Heaven suddenly! What a sound of showers!
Let us rise: Ah, joys ever with fleeting

The winter, which now covers the hoary valleys,

Deteget

abl. abs. jaculante

Will-uncover [them], when-the-sun strikes the

3

neighbouring mountains,

Again. To you, when snowy

Old-age's winter

2

pruinis

Has fallen on [your] head with [its] sere hoariness,

decidet

[It] will never fall-off. Swift Summer flies, Autumn flies the times will fly, of approaching

Spring.

4

3

But to you cold, and to [your] head grey-hairs
Will always adhere: neither much nard,
Nor repeated garlands, will-take-away

4

purùm gratum

The little-pleasing colour.

3

4

[Thee], whom youth alone had given to us, Thee will old-age alone snatch [from] us.

geminare

But [thou] canst, [O] Publius! double by great

This [man], whom [when] snatched away [his] citizens

2

have lamented,

scribat

Has lived long. Let every-one appoint to himself Fame

[O] Urban! greatest of kings;

[O] Urban! greatest of bards; for thee the Pegasean

Temo

1

2

Eripe

Is long-ago with me.* Raise thyself from the ground; Raise from the oblivious clouds

Both [thy] name and praises.

council of the Gods

O [thou] once to the

4

Heaven promised! Thee, above the renowned [places]

pl.

Of earth, and the Acroceraunia

Egressa

acc.

Soaring-beyond the high clouds: thee, pl. 2

superni

Above the neck and shoulders of the lofty Pindus,

4

3

Will-I-struggle to raise aloft, not without the Deity;

2

Thou shalt go, about-to-leave beneath [thy] feet the sluggish

Cities and nations,

3

The new guest of the astonished air,

Hâc

5

licebit

By this way, whence it-shall-be-permitted to-admire

6.1

Nerĕi

the shores of the vast sea,

And rivers, and plains, and hills,

* See Horace, Od. III. 29. 5.
+ Que connected with relicturus.

3

In thy presence. Now to thee the barbarian

supinis

annuit Hamus, with [his] bending hills, bows;

3

aulâ

And afar, [thy] court being saluted, 4 attremit

The Acrocorinthus trembles.

7

Thrice the prone Othrys, thrice the side of the trembling Ossa has subsided, thrice Rhodope [has bowed her]

And Pangea, woody with the wide-spreading pine,

9.1

9

frondium

Rejoice to have extended the arms of [their] boughs

*

2

Far, and at-a-distance

* Longè tetendisse, et procul obvios.