5. A fifth Asclepiad, C. 11. and 18. A tetrameter choriambic (with a half foot at the beginning and end of the verse):

7. Another variety of the Sapphic, C. 8.

9. The Alcmanic (from Alcman, a Spartan lyric poet), C. 7. A dactylic hexameter verse, followed by a tetra

meter.

10. Hipponactean (from Hipponax, more known as the inventor of the Scazon Iambic). A trochaic dimeter catalectic, followed by an iambic trimeter catalectic, C. ii. 18.

11. The Ionic à minore (~ ~ — −), C. iii. 12. shown by Bentley, in his note, to consist of strophes or periods of ten feet.

The remaining metres are called Archilochian :

12. One (the fourth Arch.) is in C. 4.; the first verse consisting of a dactylic tetrameter and three trochees, the second of a trimeter iambic catalectic.

13. Another (the first Arch.) is in C. iv. 7, consisting of a dactylic hexameter followed by a penthemimer.

Two more varieties of the Archilochian are found in Epod. 11. and 13.; but the principal metre in the Epodes is the Iambic.

Q. HORATII FLACCI CARMINUM

LIBER PRIMUS.

AD

CARMEN I.

MECENATEM.

MECENAS atavis edite regibus,

O et præsidium et dulce decus meum,
Sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum
Collegisse juvat, metaque fervidis

Evitata rotis palmaque nobilis
Terrarum dominos evehit ad Deos;
Hunc, si mobilium turba Quiritium
Certat tergeminis tollere honoribus ;
Illum, si proprio condidit horreo
Quid quid de Libycis verritur areis.
Gaudentem patrios findere sarculo
Agros, Attalicis conditionibus

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10

Hunting. 29. Poesy. With the first few lines and their general scope compare Pindar, Fragm. 139.

1. Caius Cilnius Mæcenas. His prise. 19. Feasts. 23. War. 25. birthday is celebrated, Carm. 1v. xi. 18. His ancestry referred to, Carm. III. xxix. 1. ; Sat. I. vi. 1. The Cilnii were an ancient and leading house at Arretium Liv. x. 1.

3. Description of the various objects of men's ambition. 3-6. The chariot race. 7. Political distinction. 9. Commercial wealth. 11. Home occupations. 15. Mercantile enter

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8. tergeminus, threefold. The offices of ædile, prætor, consul, which formed the political decursus honorum at Rome.

10. Libya, the granary of Rome : cp. Sat. 11. iii. 87.

12. i. e. by unbounded wealth.

Nunquam dimoveas, ut trabe Cypria
Myrtoum pavidus nauta secet mare.
Luctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum
Mercator metuens, otium et oppidi
Laudat rura sui; mox reficit rates
Quassas, indocilis pauperiem pati.
Est qui nec veteris pocula Massici,
Nec partem solido demere de die
Spernit, nunc viridi membra sub arbuto
Stratus, nune ad aquæ lene caput sacræ.
Multos castra juvant, et lituo tubæ
Permixtus sonitus, bellaque matribus
Detestata. Manet sub Jove frigido
Venator, teneræ conjugis immemor,
Seu visa est catulis cerva fidelibus,
Seu rupit teretes Marsus aper plagas.
Me doctarum hederæ præmia frontium
Dîs miscent superis: me gelidum nemus
Nympharumque leves cum Satyris chori
Secernunt populo, si neque tibias
Euterpe cohibet, nec Polyhymnia
Lesboum refugit tendere barbiton.

Attalus III., king of Pergamus, left the kingdom by will to the Romans 133 B. C. Cp. Carm. II. xviii.

5.

14. Myrtoum, the sea S. of Euboea. Plin. iv. 9. and 18.

15. Icarium mare, "inter Samum et Myconum." Ibid.

Africum, the S.W. wind: præceps, Carm. iii. 12.; creber procellis, Æn. i. 85.

17. Mox reficit rates. Cp. Ov. Ex Pont. I. v. 39.

19. Massici, wine from Mons Massicus in N. Campania.

20. partem demere, comp. II. vii. 6., diem mero frangere, to break

in on the day,'" tempestivis conviviis," Cic. pro Archiâ, vi. (the context of which corresponds nearly to this ode).

23. Lituus used by the cavalry, "acutus est sonus (ie. "the shrill clarion") tubæ gravis:" Schol. The tuba was a straight trumpet: Ov. Met. i. 98.

25. Sub Jove, in the open air. Sub divo, Carm. III. ii. 5. Comp. Epod. xiii. 2.

29. Ivy, the poet's crown. Virg. Ecl. vii. 25; viii. 13., and Persius Prol. vi.

30, 31. Cp. Ep. 11. ii. 77.
34. Lesboum. So 1. xxvi. 11.; ш.

xxx. 13., Æolium carmen, referring | lowed by an inundation of the Tiber, to Alcæus and Sappho as his great represented as a judgment upon the lyric models. Some suppose a re-crimes of the age (ver. 21.); appeal ference to Terpander (also of Lesbos), to Augustus finally to show himself to whom the special invention of the the restorer of the Empire. BápBiros is assigned (in a fragment 2. rubente. "His red right hand of Pindar, Scolia, v.). Milton, P. L. ii. 174.

36. Ov. Ex Ponto, 11. v. 57.

ODE II.

Ad Cæsarem (Augustum C. in an old inscription, the anachronism probably of a copyist). See Chronol. Table, B. c. 27.

1. Jam satis. Great storms fol

6. Seculum Pyrrhæ, the deluge of Deucalion. See Ov. Metam. i. 260. 7. Proteus, Ποσειδάωνος ὑποδμώς. Odyss. iv. 386. Pascit sub gurgite phocas: Virg. Georg. iv. 395. 15. dejectum, the supine. monumenta Vestæ. The old palace of Numa. Regia, or domus

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