XV.

Devastates with fire thy yellow fields;
Nor long did Mars' chivalrous offspring,
The pillar of the distressed city, resist

The Latin arms.

XVI.

Thus a populace devoted" to treasures
Unlearns Wars; luxury weighs-down arms;
Rustic youth fights more bravely, nor will it
Yield to the foe.

EXERCISE XIX.

AD AUGUSTUM.

I.

Lay-aside thy cares for the world,
Prince of princes, pillar of Rome;

Allow the Parthian bands in

Strife to glow.

II.

Leta wars bellow on the hoary deep,

When the breeze raises stormy mountains (of waters): When rocks groan, and Gibraltar is-dashed

By the refluent tide.

III.

Empires re-echo with (thy) Rhatian triumphs:

Rumour flying in her gilded car
Sends-down joyous omens to the

1 i. e. Hannibal.

m Scilicet.

q Sine, with subjunct.

Justly-reposingt lands.

n Operatus. • Super, abl. P Mitte. r Struo. s Calpe. t Benè feriatus.

IV.

The foe, victim" of righteous rage, has fallen,
The foe who-ruled the wintry shore,

Where the lofty Alps are curved with

Crowned towers.

V.

Where vales2 wateredw with snow and showers2
Are-golden: where the ice-stream4y

Is melted when the sun2 pierces the

Neighbouring mountains.

VI.

Enduring to flows with captive stream

The Danube serves thee with impetuous wave:
The Rhine quickens his current, and obeys thee

On either bank.b

VII.

The Medes, with bended-knees, have experienced thee: Before-theed the Moor unstrings his bow:

The Chinese dread thee, and the Parthians replace

Their darts in quivers.

VIII.

For thee the Indus2 with streams of goldf
Forms1 a name,1 echoing with musical waves:
With-thees the wandering mouths of fabled

EXERCISE XX.

MENALCAS.

I.

While Menalcas fills his reeds,

Let youths mingled with maidens listen,
Whom sweetly smiling Cytherea hath touched

With fire.

II.

Let no oned be-at-leisuree to be idle :

Let the tasteless crowd hurry? far hence!
And let no one lend an unseasonably-idles

Ear to my songs.

III.

Here Venus everywhere smiles; here with arrows
Aimedh swift Cupid sports:

Here the Graces1 with loosened girdles delight to

Lead their choirs.

IV.

Those numbers which Apollo by Amphrysus

Once chaunted to remote rocks,

Here Menalcas' reed echoes in

Equal measures.

V.

While he uttered such hymns with sacred lips,1
We saw the Naiads oft,m in the marshy

Reeds, raising their heads from

The water's-surface."

d Non ullus.

• Vaco, impers.

f Facesso.

g Malè feriatus. 1 Charites. j Ad. k Daret. 1 Ore. m Non semel. • Summâ undâ.

h Intentus.

a Juncus, sing.

VI.

Meanwhile the winds were? hushed,

The gusts arrested their suspended course:
Ands the listeningt woods heard from

Afar his verses.

VII.

We saw the Dryads, leavingu

The lawns, hasten around with-speed,▾
Pan running with-them," by the magic

Strain led.

VIII.

One Dryad2 beyond many (others)

Devoted her mind to the song:

At which the heart of the jealous Mopsus

Might have burst.

EXERCISE XXI.

RURIS DELICIA.

I.

Often I wander with a mind2 freed

From cares, while, wrapt-ind the Muse,
I hardly remember to retire-before noxious

Dew, or night.

II.

And where my steps hurry me, in every
Hill I seem to discern a Parnassus

Fertile in wood, and in

every fountain

A cool Aganippe.

III.

Rest on the soft grass delights me;
Wherever the water leads its channels,

And lingers1 with a sweet sound

On every pebble.

IV.

These simple2 cares2 have usually held2 my breast
In the new year,' as long3-as

The breeze of Favonius refreshes

The clear; sky.2

V.

Nor do I yet leave ease and the plains,
And the cliffs, and sweet recesses of groves:
Though the winds blow-fresher, and summer
Grows-old.

VI.

For, whether rising,3 in his car2 that

Refreshes1 men's toils, and the meadows and mountains,

He mantles the eastern climesm

With purple and gold;

VII.

I watch with-reverencen his orb

Lavish of splendour: or-whether3 with a softer

Fire he designs to paint his

Loved Calpe;

VIII.

Until the cloud2 checquered2 with refulgence
More and (1) more fading¶

Glides-away insensibly, and the verdant scene

Retreats into darkness.r