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 1 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. XIV3 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. Venus. inuria saecli Ellis: Palladi magna suae visa est iniuria sedis Baehrens. XIV. erat Z. non ego ture modo aut picta tua templa tabella 5 10 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. XIV. 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. = INDEX = = = = = 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. References 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, Pallas (3), Phoebus, Phrygius, Priamus, Romanus, Rutulus, Teucrus, Troia, Troianus, Troius, Tros, Turnus, Tyrius, Tyrrhenus, Venus. Abaris, member of Turnus' army, A. IX. 344 Abas: (1) early king of Argos, A. III. 286; (2) companion of Abydus, city on the Hellespont, Acamas, son of Theseus, A. II. 262 Acca, friend of Camilla, A. XI. 820, 823, 897 Acerrae, town of Campania, G. II. a Achelois, a water-nymph, Co. 15 Acheron, a river of the lower world; 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, Aconteus, a Latin warrior, A. XI. Acragas, town in Sicily, now Acrisione, daughter of Acrisius, Acrisius, king of Argos, father of 511 |