Summovet. Non, si male nunc, et olim
Sic erit. Quondam cithara tacentem
Suscitat Musam, neque semper arcum
Tendit Apollo.

Rebus angustis animosus atque
Fortis appare; sapienter idem

The ode is a warning (in his case ineffectual) to throw away ambition. 6. obsoleti. Prop. 'overgrown, incrusted with filth.' Obsoleta sordibus, Epod. xvii. 46. so, Cic. pro Sest. 28. obs for ob in composition is found in ostendo.

There is a double antithesis here: tutus, sobrius, sordibus, aulâ, as in Carm. ii. st. 1.

9. Cp. Hdt. vii. 10.; Juv. Sat. x. 104-108.; and Shakesp. Rich. III. act i. sc. 3.;

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They that stand high have many blasts to shake them."

12. Ov. Rem. Am. 370.:

perflant altissima venti, Summa petunt dextrâ fulmina missa

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13. infestis, sc. rebus, poet. for adversis, as in Carm. iii. arduis; and below, angustis.

So, Carm. 111. ii. 5. trepidis rebus, danger;' rebus egenis (Virg. Æn. viii. 365.), ' poverty.'

infestis, secundis, may be abl. absol., or datives after sperat, metuit; as corporibus, in Carm. II. xiv. 16., may depend upon metuemus as well

as nocentem.

15-17. Theocr. iv. 44.

22. sapienter idem. Again, you will do well to shorten sail,' i. e. control yourself, when in a prosperous course.'

idem. Used idiomatically for an adverb.

Contrahes vento nimium secundo

Turgida vela.

CARMEN XI.

AD QUINTIUM.

QUID bellicosus Cantaber, et Scythes,
Hirpine Quinti, cogitet Adria
Divisus objecto, remittas

Quærere: nec trepides in usum

Poscentis ævi pauca. Fugit retro
Levis Juventas, et Decor; arida
Pellente lascivos Amores

Canitie facilemque Somnum.

Non semper idem floribus est honor
Vernis; neque uno Luna rubens nitet
Vultu: quid æternis minorem
Consiliis animum fatigas?

Cur non sub alta vel platano vel hac
Pinu jacentes sic temere, et rosa

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NOLIS longa feræ bella Numantiæ,
Nec dirum Hannibalem, nec Siculum mare
Pœno purpureum sanguine, mollibus
Aptari citharæ modis,

Nec sævos Lapithas, et nimium mero
Hylæum, domitosve Herculea manu

16. Assyriâ nardo. So Carm. 11. vii. 8.

18. quis. A question to express a command. Cp. Virg. Æn. iv. 592.; in Gr., Soph. Antig. 885. So, to express a wish, v. Georg. ii. 488.

21. devium, 'living retired.' Orelli quotes Liv. iii. 13.; and Ov. Heroid. ii. 118., devia avis, the lonely owl.'

23. Binding her hair simply, not waiting for further ornament.' Lacænæ. The Laconian simplicity of dress is well-known. For the nodus, as a mark of it, see the description of the Tegeæan huntress

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Crinis erat simplex nodum collectus
in unum.
Ov. Met. viii. 319.
ODE XII.

1. Numantia, on the Durius. Longa bella, from 143-133, B. C.

2. Siculum mare. In the first Punic war there were four naval battles, that of Duilius, near Mylæ Portus; that of At. Regulus (Serranus) off the same coast, three years later; that of Manlius and Regulus, in the next year, off Ecnomus; and that of Lut. Catulus, near the Ægates Insulæ, which closed the war.

Telluris juvenes, unde periculum
Fulgens contremuit domus

Saturni veteris: tuque pedestribus
Dices historiis prælia Cæsaris,
Mæcenas, melius, ductaque per vias
Regum colla minacium,

Me dulces dominæ Musa Licymniæ
Cantus, me voluit dicere lucidum
Fulgentes oculos, et bene mutuis
Fidum pectus amoribus:

Quam nec ferre pedem dedecuit choris,
Nec certare joco, nec dare brachia
Ludentem nitidis virginibus, sacro
Dianæ celebris die.

Num tu, quæ tenuit dives Achæmenes,
Aut pinguis Phrygiæ Mygdonias opes,
Permutare velis crine Licymniæ,

Plenas aut Arabum domos?

Dum flagrantia detorquet ad oscula
Cervicem, aut facili sævitia negat,
Quæ poscente magis gaudeat eripi,
Interdum rapere occupet.

6. Hylæum, a Centaur. Georg. ii. 457.

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7. unde periculum, ' danger from whom.'

9. pedestribus. Prosam orationem et quam pedestrem Græci vocant: Quintil. x. i. 81. Orelli quotes Plato, Soph. p. 237. A.: πεζῇ τε ... καὶ μετὰ μέτρων. 9-11. tuque . Mæcenas, melius. Servius, on Georg. ii. 42., asserts that Mæcenas wrote a history of Augustus's life. Orelli understands the words in a general sense, any one would celebrate,' and takes no account of the emphasis on tu and Macenas.

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13. Licymniæ. Probably a poetical disguise for Liciniæ; i. e. Terentiæ, Mæcenas's bride, who was of the Licinia gens, and sister of L. Murena and Proculeius.

14. lucidum, adv., as turbidum, Carm. II. xix. 6.

21. Achæmenes. Herod. vii. 11. Mygdonias. Hom. Il. y. 185,

CARMEN XIII.

IN ARBOREM,

CUJUS CASU PÆNE OPPRESSUS FUERAT.

ILLE et nefasto te posuit die,

Quicunque primum, et sacrilega manu
Produxit, arbos, in nepotum

Perniciem, opprobriumque pagi.

Illum et parentis crediderim sui
Fregisse cervicem, et penetralia
Sparsisse nocturno cruore

Hospitis; ille venena Colcha,

Et quidquid usquam concipitur nefas,
Tractavit, agro qui statuit meo

Te triste lignum, te caducum

In domini caput immerentis.

Quid quisque vitet, nunquam homini satis.
Cautum est in horas. Navita Bosporum
Pœnus perhorrescit, neque ultra

Cæca timet aliunde fata;

Miles sagittas et celerem fugam
Parthi, catenas Parthus et Italum
Robur; sed improvisa leti
Vis rapuit rapietque gentes.

ODE XIII.

1. nefasto. Ov. Fast. i. 47. 5-10. I could believe him guilty of the greatest crimes.'

8. Colcha. i. e. from Colchis, now Mingrelia, E. of the Euxine; Medea's country, looked upon as a land of sorcery. See Epod. iii. 12, 13., v. 24., xvii. 35. Medea is called Colchis, Epod. xvi. 58.

14. Bosporum . . . insanientem, Carı. 111. iv. 30.; the Str. of Constantinople.

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15. Pœnusnavita, 'the Phoenician mariner.' Pœnus, the name of the race, is not to be confounded with its adj. Punicus.

17. sagittas et fugam. Virg. Georg. iii. 31.; Ov. Art. Am. i. 209-212.

19. Robur, the dungeon of death at Rome; Liv. xxxviii. 59.: in robore et tenebris exspiret. The earliest prison at Rome was the Carcer of Ancus Martius, Juv. Sat. iii. 314.; to which was added afterwards the Tullianum of Servius.