II.

Rest never overcomes you: even in the dark
Night you repeat the plaint of lovers,

You echo their mad laments

Beneath the moon's brilliant3 torch.

III.

When Phoebus rises from the eastern waves,

When birds salute light with song,

Swiftly you fly, and re-echok with clear

Voice their strains.

IV.

As often as a shepherd in retired woods

Renews praises of rustic girl,

You teach groves1 spontaneously1 to resound-with fair

Phyllis.

V.

Nothing can escape you whether

Owls disturb silent darkness,

Or the lark in the heavenly climem modulates

Song.

VI.

Or huntsman o'er heights beneath2 early

Sun urges Laconian hounds,

You repeat cries of dogs and men with faithful

Echo.n

VII.

Amid eternal ice the

Rude Scythian knows you resounding;1 you roaring
With redoubled cry lions tremble-at

On the Moorish coast.

1 Reddo. j Os.

k Gemino.

1 Ipse. m Axis.

# Vox.

VIII.

Thus by sound of his own step is roused
Among India's inhospitable jungles,
The tiger, and thinks prey is-approaching,"
Unaware of the illusion.P

EXERCISE IX.

"Testudo."

I.

Hearest thou? tuning musical strings

The divine harp, like a wave with

Downward course 2 gliding, soothes with plaintive

Murmur the brooks.

II.

It curbs the madness of a mind incensed,

Or as a torrent over lofty rocks

And over plains and corn-fields with headlong

Careerr is borne.

III.

Whether ice binds soil beneath Arctos,

Or heat of Sirius parches dry pools,

The Muse equally curbs disturbed

Minds with song.

IV.

Thus weapons hostile to peace yield,

And the warrior raging with love of Mars,

The harp's numbers being heard,

Abandons idle3 passion.

o Adfuturus.

P Fraus.

q Declivis.

r Impete.

EXERCISE X.

"Dicetur meritâ Nox quoque næœniâ.”

I.

It is sweet to gaze-upon the ray of the rising
Sun, and the blush of the eastern heaven,
While the air is-fragrant, and brilliant dews
Cling to flowers.

II.

It is sweet, beneath the light of mid day,
To wander more widely in the open plains:
It is sweet to recline near a river's

Golden waves.

III.

It is sweet, when eve has brought2 darkness

Upon the quiet1 earth, and has driven-away Phœbus' Gilded car, to close the eyes in friendly

Sleep.

IV.

But to renew thy praises, O Night!

Clio demands, and the silent tune,

When she is wont to call-down the holy

Muses to3s her strains.

V.

In shady night Philomela deplores2

1

Her stolen offspring, and with plaintive song
Laments among the ilices, and renews

The hymn of love.

VI.

Where the Moon's white torch2 falls upon2

Ruinous1 towers, and ivyt clothes3

The prone2 elms, the owl bewails to himself his

VII.

At night, if faith is to be given to poets,
Manes go forth, tombs being left:

And an image, pale in countenance, rejoices
To terrify men.

EXERCISE XI.

"Fons splendidior Vitro."

I.

I have" a glassy fountain2 with perennial
Stream,1 near the sandy shore, whence
Often the departing sailor draws for himself
Refreshing-streams.▾

II.

It is the only-one on our banks,

While the immense tract of mountain is dry,"
Where the vine-bearing Pausilypus runs into
The salt waves.

III.

This I, crowned with a white fillet,

Venerate with flowers and with summer chaplets,
When the rivers, and parched fields fear

The cruel Leo;

IV.

Before the festive calends of Augustus
Return, and (while) four3 days remain
To his sire, a season sweeter to me

V.

Twice sacred for me, twice to be invoked by me,
Twice to be worshipped with speciale rite:

With a double vow, and always a double

Censer of incense.

VI.

For, hastening from farthest East
Phoebus3 on this day first shone3

On me (2) an infant, and we together drews

The breath of-heaven.

VII.

On this (day) also sacrifices2 to be performed
With brilliant pomp 1 come to solemn altars,
Whence are all the titles and names of

My family.

VIII.

O glory of heaven, and at the same time of your race,b
Whom we duly venerate in humble temple,
To whom we build altars to be frequented

By a future people ;1

IX.

have given me the first parents of my race,

If light also to me,

May you grant my vows, and regard

The crystal fount's stream.

• Proprius. ! Vagiens. g Dius. h Tuorum.

i Plur.

j Pariter.