Lectoribus eruditis, præfertim iis, qui in ludis literariis operam navant. NOLUMUS fanè cum Fabio Horati um in quibufdam interpretari, ideoque locos omnes parùm caftos honeftà (uti fperamus) fraude ad verecundiam quodammodo revocavimus. Tantum enim abeft ut juvenes ab afterifcis (quibus editiones in ufum Delph. fcatent) quo minùs quædam legant, impediantur, ut potiùs exinde dirigatur, imò invitetur eorum curva in pravum curiofitas. Q. HORATII FLACCI CARMIN UM LIBER I. CAR MEN I. 毙 AD CILNIUM MECENATEM. Alios aliis ftudiis duci: fe lyrici vatis gloriam ambire, unius Mecenatis judicio obtinendam, M AECENAS atavis edite regibus, O & præfidium & dulce decus meum ! Collegiffe juvat, metaque fervidis Evitata rotis, palamque nobilis Evehere, Bentl. + Nunc, fi nobilium 5 10 Gau All men have different attachments: HORACE's tafte is for Lyric poetry, for the fuccefs of which he depends upon the patronage of MACEN AS. Μ ECENAS, defcended from royal ancestors, O both my protection and my darling honour! There are some whofe delight it is to have collected Olympic duft in the chariot race; and whom the goal nicely avoided by glowing wheels, and the noble palm, exalts to the Gods-the governors of the world. This man, if an affembly of the capricious Roman commonalty be bent to raife him to the highest dignities; another, if he hath * stored up in his own granary whatsoever is fwept from the Lybian threfliing *Hath imported valt quantities of corn from Africa. floors: Gaudentem patrios findere farculo CARMEN II. AD AUGUSTUM. 15 20 25 30 35 Occafione portentorum, quæ anno incunte contigerant, Axguftum Horatius a deponendo principatu dehortatur. AM fatis terris nivis atque dire JAM Grandinis mifit Pater, & rubente Dextera facras jaculatus arces Terruit urbem : * Te. Hare, Terruit |