What though, a Pontic pine, thy race No safety in thy painted stern. Oh! thou, who late didst cause to me Such wearying anxiety, But now a source of love alone And deep solicitude art grown, Mayst thou avoid the rocky seas ODE XV. NEREUS'S PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF TROY. WHEN the perfidious shepherd o'er The seas his hostess Helen bore In Ida's ships along ; Ingrato celeres obruit otio Ventos, ut caneret fera Nereus fata. "Malâ ducis avi domum, "Quam multo repetet Græcia milite, Conjurata tuas rumpere nuptias, "Et regnum Priami vetus. "Eheu! quantus equis, quantus adest viris "Sudor! quanta moves funera Dardanæ "Genti! Jam galeam Pallas et ægida "Currusque et rabiem parat. "Nequidquàm, Veneris præsidio ferox, "Pectes cæsariem, grataque fœminis "Imbelli citharâ carmina divides; Nereus the rapid winds controll'd "With evil auspices away "That woman dost thou home convey, "With mighty armaments demand, "What sweat for man, what sweat for horse 66 Appears! alas! how many a corse "For Troy dost thou presage! "Pallas e'en now her helmet wears, "In vain, embolden'd by the vow 66 Songs such as only women suit; "In vain avoid the dart 66 "Nequidquàm thalamo graves Hastas, et calami spicula Cnossii "Vitabis, strepitumque, et celerem sequi 66 Ajacem; tamen, heu! serus adulteros "Crines pulvere collines. "Non Laërtiaden, exitium tuæ "Gentis, non Pylium Nestora respicis? 66 Urguent impavidi te Salaminius "Teucer, te Sthenelus sciens "Pugnæ; sive opus est imperitare equis, "Non auriga piger. Merionem quoque "Nosces. Ecce furit te reperire atrox "Tydides, melior patre. 66 Quem tu, cervus uti vallis in alterâ "Visum parte lupum graminis immemor, "That threats your couch, the battle's din, "The Cnossian's pointed javelin, "And Ajax' swift pursuit ; "The day will come, for come it must, "When thine adulterous locks in dust "Though late shalt thou pollute. "Look, look behind thee, quick upon 66 Thy track is now Laertes' son, "Thy nation's bane; and see, "There's Pylian Nestor, Teucer bold "Of Salamis, and close, behold, "Soon Sthenelus will be; "Well skill'd is he in warlike deeds, "And should there wanting be the steeds, 66 "No sluggish charioteer. Merion, thou shalt know him too. "Thee is Tydides mad to view, "More than his father's peer. "As flies the stag, a wolf espied 66 Upon a valley's farther side, "Nor longer heeds the glade, |