To adore [thy] meeting chariots, and [beneath thee]

flying

supposuisse

2

To place [their] steep backs.

EXERCISE LXVIII.

ALCAIC.

The same continued.

1

Hence thou-shalt-permit the pomps to go, hence for

4

præpetes

thee the swift Muses

3 curulibus

To go [in] a hundred superb chariots, [O] Urban! and [through] the open Sky thy own deeds to go.

*

2

imago

Hear-ye? or does a lovely imagination

pomparum

2

Of [splendid] trains mock me? Now methinks

turmas frementes

The bands sounding through the empty azure [of
Heaven]. 3

pl.

3

Thrice borne over † the earth and sea,

* Horace, Od. III. 4. 5.

Super, with an ablative after its case.

lituis

Echo answered: thrice at-a-distance with-clarions,

plectris

Thrice with Pindaric lyres, the scattered Muses
Sung Urban. 4 4

3

The vast Ocean heard, and

ilicet

Up-raised all [his] islands: at-once the kingdoms of

And at length the joyful Muses said: "Run [ye] ages;

protinus

[Thus] the Muses said: forthwith the golden

pretium

[Their] face being-formed-again into value.

3

* Two dissyllabic words may close the line.

EXERCISE LXIX.

SAPPHIC.

Currit enim ferox

Etas. HOR.

1

metuens

Live, fearful-of pleasant youth,

[O] Crispus Lævinius! The moons fly [swiftly] covetous

3

Mayest-bind [thy] vest with a jewelled zone,
And on thy neck the buckle may adorn

Justly the plume, waving with Phoenician crest,

May hesitate to stand [unmoved] on [thy] falling

galero helmet;

Justly the gold, in which [thou] shinest, [as] fearful 4 palluit

To-be-unfixed, is-pale.

3

4

What the Hour has given to thee with bounteous right

hand,

furaci

The Hour will snatch-away with stealing left-hand, More

Like a mother sportively deceiving [her] tender

4

Nursling.

adj. of moveo

5

The fickle and doubtful chances of things

pl.

Have [ever] held the sway of mortal life ;
Sedulus

impetus

Eager for the goal, the tide of fleeting

Ævi

Life hastens-on,

3

EXERCISE LXX.

SAPPHIC.

Urbani laudes.

1.

super. (with abl.)

Lay-aside [thy] rising cares for the world,

[O] great ruler of the pacified orb!

Mitte

Threïssas

Permit [that] storms may bellow [on] the foamy sea,

struit

When the gale raises the stormy mountains [of waters],

The kingdoms resound with [thy] Rhætean triumphs; Rumour, flying with [her] gilded car,

feriatis

Pours-down on the well-reposing earth
The grateful omens.

3

reus

4

The enemy, exposed to just anger, is fallen;
The enemy, the ruler of the wintry shore,
Where the lofty Alps are-wreathed

With towers placed-on-their-summits.

The Danuble serves, [its] water being subdued:

genu nixi

Thee the Medes, on-bended-knee, have learnt :
For thee the Moor looses [his] strung bow:
Thee the Seres fear, and the Parthians lay-aside
The shields from their shoulders.