Fruftraque vincla gutturi, innectes tuo.
Faftidiofa triftis ægrimonia

Vectabor humeris tunc ego inimicis eques :
Meæque terra cedet infolentiæ.

An quæ movere cereas imagines,
(Ut ipfa nofti curiofus) et polo

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Deripere lunam vocibus (a) poffim meis,

Poffim crematos excitare mortuos,

Defiderique temperare poculum;

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Plorem artis in te (b) nil valentis exitum ?

(a) Vocibus poffum meis, poffum.. (b) Nullum habentis exitum.

ous indifpofition fhall tie noofes about your neck in vain. For I at that time will ride on your odious fhoulders; and the whole earth fhall acknowledge my unexampled power. What fhall I, who can give motion to waxen images, (as you yourself, inquifitive as you are, were convinced of) and fnatch the moon from heaven by my incantations. I, who can raise the dead after they are burned, and duly prepare the potion of love; Jhall I bewail the fuccefsless event of my art having no efficacy upon you.

QUINT I

HORATII FLACCI

CARMEN SECULARE*.

Lib. 3 Ode 1.

O

POETA ad Populum.

DI profanum vulgus, et arceo.
Favete linguis; carmina non prius
Audita Mufarum facerdos
Virginibus puerifque canto.

*The Secular Poem. The Poet to the People.

In conformity to the opinion of M. Sanadon, and many other ingenious editors of our author, it is here thought proper to collect together, into one view, the feveral parts the fecular ode may be supposed to have originally confifted of. Whether or no the generality of competent judges of antiquity and Horatian elegance, be convinced that this is the form in which its author wrote, and Rome admired it; most, I believe, will allow, that in this condition every part is confiftent, each divifion adds dignity to the whole, and that there arifes a poem, which is at once the finest monument of heathen worship, and perhape the nobleft specimen of lyric poetry that is any where remaining.-----Translations of the feveral parts will be found by the references in the margin.

Ad

Lib. 4.

Ode 6.

Ad PUEROS ac PUELLAS.

PIRITUM Phoebus mihi, Phoebus artem 5
Carminis, romenque dedit poeta.

V. 29. Virginum primæ, puerique claris

Patribus orti,

Delia tutela Deæ, fugaces

Lyncas et cervos cohibentis arcu,
Lefbium fervate pedem, meique
Pollicis ictum;

Rite Latonæ puerum canentes,
Rite crefcentem face noctilucam,
Profperam frugum, celeremque pronos
Volvere menfes.

Nupta jam dices; ego Dis amicum,
Seculo feftas referente luces,

Reddidi carmen, docilis modorum

Vatis Horati.

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CONCENTUS PRIMUS +.

Lib. 4.
Ode 6.

HYMNUS ad APOLLINE M.

UTERQUE CHORUS.

D'Vindicem lingue, Tityofque raptor
IVE quem proles Niobea magnæ
Senfit, & Trojæ prope victor altæ
Phthius Achilles,

Cæteris major, tibi miles impar;
Filius quamvis Thetidos marinæ
Dardanas turres quateret tremenda
Cufpide pugnax.

*To the Chorus of Youths and Virgins.

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Firft Concert. Hymn to Apollo. Chorus of Youths and Virgins.

Ille,

Ille, mordaci velut icta ferro
Pinus, aut impulfa cupreffus Euro,
Procidit late, pofuitque collum in
Pulvere Teucro.

Ille non inclufus equo Minervæ
Sacra mentito, male feriatos
Troas, et lætam Priami choreis

Fallerit aulam :

Sed palam (a) captis gravis, heu nefas, heu!

Nefcios fari pueros Achivis

Ureret flammis, etiam latentes

Matris in alvo:

Ni, tuis (b) victus Venerifque gratæ

Vocibus, Divum pater annuiffet

Rebus Æneæ potiore ductos

Alite muros.

Doctor (c) Argutæ fidicen Thalia

Phoebe, qui Xantho lavis amne crines,

Dauniæ defende decus Camenæ,

Levis Agyieu.

CONCENTUS SECUNDUS*.

CHORUS PUERORUM.

IANAM teneræ dicite virgines

Lib. 1.
Ode 21.

DIANA

CHORUS PUELLARUM.

Itonfum, pueri, dicite Cynthium,

UTERQUE CHORUS.

CHORUS PUERORUM.

Vos lætam fluviis & nemorum coma,

Quæcunque aut gelido prominet Algido,

Nigris aut Erymanthi

Sylvis, aut viridis Cragi:

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(a) Palam captor gravis. (b) Tuis flexus vocibus. (c) Ductor

Argivæ & Argeæ

*Second Concert. Chorus of Youths.

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