7 fingit For thee, with poured-out gold, the Indus forms argutâ A name, the water loud resounding: 1 vaga 2 Thee the seven wide-extending mouths of the fabled * sonant Nile re-echo. 3 * Horace, Od. I. 22. 7. PART II. EXERCISE I. SAPPHIC. 1 IF, in [these] so-great storms of mankind, and amid assertor cares and calamities, any-one, the vindicator of Faith, gaudet decoram is-ready to pass an honourable life; 2 expeditus liber His example I will gladly follow; and, the unbiassed honesti referam cultivator of truth, I will restore my years to the fixed rest of a better life. 3 Hereafter, more cautiously my barque, driven amid the solvet syrtes, and the rugged rocks, shall-direct its course; insequetur temere and shall incautiously venture-upon no tides of the ocean. 4 It-has-been-advantageous to have approached the rage and the maddened waves of the fierce Charybdis ; that it might be a more grateful pleasure at length to visit the harbour. 5 melius sentiunt integram The weary are- more - sensible - of full rest: Pæan, relictis adjective [when] the rain is-gone, is restored in-calmness; and Apollo pours-forth his beauteous light. EXERCISE II. ALCAIC. 1 ergo Trusting, then, to the threatening south-west - wind, wilt-thou-venture-upon the plains of the tumultuous Nereus, and the battles of the winds, and the tyrants Eolia of the palace of Eolus? 2 adj. Does not the grim image of the licentiousness of-theocean deter thee? Nor the terror of the sea to-be-sailedequitatus * through? Nor that frequent rushing-on by the petulant east-winds? *Horace, Od. II., 14, 11. 3 But despisest thou the insolent threats of Eolia, and subis the anger of the sea, and enterest-thou-upon the obvios irretortâ opposing passions of the world with unruffled forehead, simili and with the same countenance, 4 With which, being-about-to-walk-through the walls of feriantis jugera the glad Tusculum, or the fields of the peaceful Tibur, Anienis thou-enteredst the cool streams of the Anio? . 5 The direful petulance of the water moved by this countenance subsides. Now I see at-a-distance that acclinata ad decubuisse the waters reclined against the shore are-lulled in gentle repose, 6 And that the breezes of the slumbering Nereus breathe Scinde peace. Away-with the delays of the tenacious cables; perge * animare velivolis haste to inspire the fleet with the sail-filling winds. Two dissyllabic words at the end of the third line. EXERCISE III. SAPPHIC.* 1 Whoever sails-over the restless waves of the Egean sea, or in a frail ship attempts the uncertain Adriatic iniqua through the stormy battles of the Wind; fluat 2 If the heaven teem with the sudden shower, or the agat wave raise the tempestuous mountains, his ship being damnatâ oppressed, he prays for the retirement of calm peace. 3 Whoever either provokes the Medes with the quiver, or rouses in war the furious bands of the Thracians, and Gradivo renews the battles of Achilles with the brave Mars; 4 Marte He at length prays-for repose; and, free-from war, sine nube desires tranquil, cloudless days, and to live a soldier and a general for himself beneath a lowly roof. vēnit 5 But peace is-to-be-purchased neither by the price of blandiori allapsu shining ore, nor by the softer stream of the Pactolus, bracteati nor the streams of the gold-bearing Hermus. |