with slimy water thou satest thyself, then returnest to thy lumpish wife, untiest the boiling sausages her dowry provides, and then, hated though thou art, dost smother her with kisses.

33 Now assail, now provoke me, if at all thou canst! Even thy name I add, thou wanton Lucienus! Now thy means have failed thee, and with hunger thy back teeth rattle! I shall yet see thee possessed of nothing but good-for-naught brothers and an angry Jove, thy stomach rent, and thy ruptured uncle's feet swollen with fasting.

XIIIA

A SCHOLAR'S shade rests beneath this place 1—a wrong done by heaven 2-one not inferior to the great minds of old, and a man with whom Rome could challenge learned Athens: but to none is it given to vanquish iron Fate.

XIVS

If it be my lot to finish the course I have begun, O thou that dwellest in Paphos and in the Idalian groves, so that at length through Roman towns Trojan Aeneas may go his way, borne along with

1 Nobody knows to whom this epitaph refers, and the first verse is largely conjectural.

2 The gods are reproached for allowing the man to die; cf. Culex, 347.

3 Written, apparently, after the poet had begun the Aeneid. 4 Venus.

inuria saecli Ellis: Palladi magna suae visa est iniuria sedis Baehrens. XIV. erat Z.

non ego ture modo aut picta tua templa tabella
ornabo et puris serta feram manibus—
corniger hos aries humilis et maxima taurus
victima sacratos sparget honore focos,
marmoreusque tibi vel mille coloribus ales
in morem picta stabit Amor pharetra.
adsis, o Cytherea: tuus te Caesar Olympo
et Surrentini litoris ara vocat.

XV

VATE Syracosio qui dulcior Hesiodoque
maior, Homereo non minor ore fuit,
illius haec quoque sunt divini elementa poetae
et rudis in vario carmine Calliope.

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XIV. 7 et] sed Burmann. maxima B: maximus HM. 8 sacrato Heinsius. spargit BHM.

9 vel] Birt: aut. XV. In the MSS. portion of that poem.

vel mille col.] caput, ignicolorius Ellis. this follows upon xiv. 12, as if it were a • sint HM.

thee in worthy song: not with incense alone or with painted tablet will I adorn thy temple and with clean hands bring thee garlands, but the horned ram, a lowly offering, and the bull, noblest victim, with blood of sacrifice shall besprinkle the hallowed altars, and unto thee in marble, with his quiver painted, as is wont, in all its thousand hues, shall winged Love be set up. Come, O lady of Cythera! thine own Caesar and the altar of Sorrento's shore call thee from Olympus.

XV1

To that divine poet who was sweeter than the Syracusan bard,2 greater than Hesiod, and not inferior to Homer in his speech-to him also belong these first efforts, even his untutored Muse in varied strain.

1 An editorial epilogue, composed, according to Birt, by Varius.

2 Theocritus.

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The references are to books and lines in the Latin text. Abbreviations: A. Aeneid; Ca. Catalepton; Ci. Ciris; Co. = Copa; Cu. = Culex; D. = Dirae; E. Eclogues; G. = Georgics; L. Lydia; M. Moretum; P. = Priapea; also adj. = adjective; fem. feminine; plur. plural; sing. singular; subst. = substantive. ferences to the following names are not given in full on account of their frequency: Achates, Aeneas, Anchises, Apollo, Ascanius, Ausonius, Bacchus, Danai, Dardanius, Dido, Graius, Italia, Italus, Iulus, Iuno, Iuppiter, Latinus, Latium, Laurens, Manes, Mars, Nympha, Palías (3), Phoebus, Phrygius, Priamus, Romanus, Rutulus, Teucrus, Troia, Troianus, Troius, Tros, Turnus, Tyrius, Tyrrhenus, Venus.

Abas: (1) early king of Argos,

A. III. 286; (2) companion of
Aeneas, A. I. 121; (3) an
Etruscan, A. X. 170, 427
Abella, town in Campania, A. vII.
740

Abydus, city on the Hellespont,
G. I. 207

Acamas, son of Theseus, A. II. 262
Acarnan, adj. of Acarnania,

a

province of central Greece, A. v. 298

Acca, friend of Camilla, A. XI. 820, 823, 897

Acerrae, town of Campania, G. II. 225

Acesta, town of Sicily, also called

Egesta and Segesta, A. v. 718 Acestes, Sicilian king, son of Crinisus, A. I. 195, 550, 558, 570; v. 30, 36, 61, 73, 106, 301, 387, 418, 451, 498, 519, 521, 540, 573, 630, 711, 746, 749, 757, 771; IX. 218, 286 Achaemenides, deserted companion of Ulysses rescued by Aeneas, A. III. 614, 691

Achaicus, and Achaius,

adj.

Achaean, Greek, A. II. 462;
V. 623; Ca. v. 2

Ichates, trusty squire of Aeneas,
A. I. 174, &c.

VIRG. II.

Achelois, a water-nymph, Co. 15
Acheloius, adj. of Achelous, a
river of central Greece, used for
water in general, G. I. 9

Acheron, a river of the lower world;
hence, that world itself, G. II.
492; A. v. 99; VI. 107, 295;
VII. 91, 312, 569; XI. 23
Achilles, hero of the Iliad, E. IV.
36; G. III. 91; A. I. 30, 458,
468, 484, 752; II. 29, 197, 275,
476, 540; III. 87, 326; v. 804
VI. 89, 168, 839; IX. 742;
X. 581; XI. 404, 438; XII. 352, 545
Achivi, Achaeans, Greeks, A. 1. 242,

488; II. 45, 60, 102, 318; V.
497; VI. 837; X. 89; XI. 266
Acidalia, term applied to Venus
from a fountain in Boeotia, A. I.
720
Acmon,

companion of Aeneas,

A. X. 128
Acoetes, armour-bearer of Evander,
A. XI. 30, 85

Aconteus, a Latin warrior, A. xi.
612, 615

Acragas, town in Sicily, now
Girgenti, A. III. 703

Acrisione, daughter of Acrisius,
i.e. Danaë, Ca. IX. 33
Acrisioneus, adj. of Acrisius, A.
VII. 410

Acrisius, king of Argos, father of
Danaë, A. VII. 372

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