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CARMINUM LIBRUM

QUINTUM

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RUDYARDO KIPLING

ET

CAROLO GRAVES

ANGLICE REDDITUM

ET VARIORUM NOTIS ADORNATUM AD FIDEM CODICUM MSS. EDIDIT

ALUREDUS D. GODLEY

Editio Tertia

l?S'- 3'

OXONII APUD BASILIUM BLACKWELL

MDCCCCXX

DocTis viris loaniii Powell, Ronaldo Knox (qui in apparatu critico praecipue elaboravit) Oxoniensibus, AUano Ramsay Cantabrigiensi maximae et meritae grates sunt agendae ; quorum nisi continue auxilio innixi essemus, nunquam profecto fieri potuisset ut haec libri quinti quae nunc prodit forma legentibus offerretur.

Aliis alia debentur. Nam cum scriptor ingeniosissi- mus Rud3'ardus Kipling utpote studiis Horatianis iam antea deditus duo carmina (primum videlicet, et sextum) latebris extracta non modo Anglice reddiderit verum et aliis quoque libellis inseruerit, agnoscitur comitas iterum ut appareant quae iam omnibus placuerunt permittentis.

Neque obliviscendum est eiusdem aut diligentia aut fortuna repertum esse et nobis benignissime donatum fragmentum illud quod undecunque profectum in ex- trema libri huius pagina legitur.

PRAKFATIO.

Q. HoRATi Flacci Carminuin liber iam pridem in bibliothecis latitans (neque tamen a viris doctis ignoratus, quippe qui multas eius partes emendando tetigerint) nunc demum totus in lucem profertur.

Dubitari non potest quin hunc librum Flaccus noster iam perfecto atque expolito ad unguem arti- ficio velut culmen et fastigium operis sui esse volu- erit. Separatum igitur et clausum habuisse, et profanum vulgus ab intimo Musarum sacello quan- tum potuit arcuisse videtur ; quam separationem posteritas quoque ita servavit ut suis codicibus neque ullam aliam Carminum partem exhibentibus quintum hunc librum etiamnunc contineri videamus.

Iam vero codicum quibus textus innititur auctori- tatem perlustremus. Horum ea ratio est habenda ut una familia multo graviorem auctoritatem quam ceteri obtineat ; cuius princeps est codex ille quem P littera in apparatu critico notavimus. Is in Badensi Grosspaniandrumpinacotheca asservatur, pluribus ille quidem locis saucius sed a librario Latinitatis ut videtur baud ignaro magna diligentia conscriptus ; cui proximus accedit alter ille quem T littera notavimus, saeculo XIV scriptus, nunc post varias vices in Patavinorum Museum illud Trentunosettembrense delatus; necnon eadem stirpe profectum esse iudicamus quem Cantabrigiae in Collegio de Cavendish asservatum bibliothecarius cuius est comitatis nobis inspiciendum tradidit.

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PRAEFATIO

Hunc in apparatu critico W appellamus. Ita ex his codicibus una quasi familia componitur, quippe qui inter se plerumque consentiant ; igitur quoties fit universorum consensus in apparatu nostro A littera notatus est. Fuit enim unus sine dubio codex a quo hi omnes originem traxerunt. Hoc quoque a ceteris codicibus familia ilia differt, quod cum illi eis car- minibus careant quae in Appendicem huius libri relegavimus, haec sola omnia in se continet. Verum cum magna sit codicum horum inter se similitude, inest tamen ea diversitas quae P saltem librum a ceteris seiungat ; non quin illi quoque sui aliquid et proprii singillatim exhibeant ; quippe W codicis scriptor, cum multa loca corrigere conetur, insolitae vel inter scribas rei metricae ignorantiae arguitur. Duo sunt praeterea codices qui deteriores haberi possunt. Primus, qui Jii vocatur, in Monasterio S. Tryphosae apud Valladolidenses asservatus procul dubio a monacho conscriptus est ; quas enim a ceteris variationes exhibet eae sunt quae monach- orum consuetudinem et librorum usum prae se ferunt ; quem codicem ne Orellius quidem inspexit. Alter incertum quibus fortunae vicissitudinibus in domum familiae illius Poshworthianae de Market Poshvvorth pervenit. Ipsi cum inspicere et cum aliis conferre vellemus insana domini suspicione et clausa aedium ianua prohibiti quae codicis sit condicio omnino ignoraremus, nisi proxime habitans Vicarius de Boosting Parva pro sua diligentia et

PRAEFATIO

comitate apographum fecisset ; quem hominem ita honoris causa nominamus ut propter pietatem magis quam propter Latinitatis peritiam laudandum esse iudicemus. Hos codices inter se cognatione coniungi nemo est quin intellegere debeat. Mendis scatent sed similibus (nisi quatenus Vicarii describentis cura novas corruptelas intulit) ; itaque non possumus quin ex uno atque eodem fonte et quidem deperdito profluxisse existimemus ; cuius exemplaris scriptor eodem atque A familiae auctores saeculo floruit.

Restat ut ad eos pauca respondeantur quibus Horatium non singula tantum carmina de rebus propositis sed bis terque versus in eandem senten- tiam composuisse mirum et veri dissimile videtur ; non quo totam banc controversiam retractare aut possimus aut cupiamus ; est enim taedii atque inepti- arum plenissima. Et quorsum tot ineptias ? num- quid a quoquam rationis est allatum cur Horatius, cuius fuerit ubertatis, non diversitate verborum ad eosdem sensus saepius exprimendos usurus fuerit ? Fecit Archias ille quem Tullius noster propter hoc ipsum laudavit ; multi q'uoque alii fecerunt. Sed non possumus quin Toshii inter laponenses Professoris nomen ita referamus ut stuporem hominis vel potius pecudis exemplo illustremus ; qui ut erat omnium indoctissimus et cathedra sua indignissimus ipsa totius libri fundamenta labefactare conabatur. Ilia enim non modo dictitabat homo helleborosus sed etiam litteris mandavit, nullum quintum librum a

V

PRAEFATIO

Flacco esse scriptum ; carmina scilicet quae hoc

volumine contineantur primum Anglice ab incerto

auctore composita postea a grammaticis nescio qui-

bus verae Latinitatis insciis ita reddita esse ut specie

carminutn Horatianorum vulgus imperitum deci-

perent. O incredibilem hominis foedissimi cum

ignorantiam, turn malitiam ! Melius erat ad merae

dubitationis et dyvooa-LWi tenebras confug( le, sicut

fecit vir ille alioquin venerabilis Tomirotiu-, propter

Latinitatis elegantiam Tullius alter a Tatagonen-

sibus suis merito appellatus ; qui se post vitam his

studiis deditam " neque caput rei neque caudam

facere posse " autumavit. Verum et hie quoque

dubitando si non improbitatis at stultitiae se coar-

guit. Ubi sunt istae tenebrae, ubi posterioris aevi

indicia ? Legat qui modo Latine sciat ; totam rem

luce clariorem esse confitebitur. Adeo nihil in his

carminibus est, sive verba ipsa sive syntaxin sive

metrum respexeris, quin ita curiosam illam Horati

felicitatem redoleat ut ab ipso planissime scriptum

esse videatur. Noli igitur, lector benignissime,

spuria atque adventicia nobis ea videri existimare,

quae in Appendicem relegavimus. Sunt haec eius-

dem, cuius cetera, Flaccitatis : ideo tantum a

ceteris seiunximus quia, cum uno codicum genere

nee pluribus contineantur, neque commentatorum

diligentiam neque poetarum Anglice reddentium

perpolitam elegantiam provocaverunt.

A. D. G.

R. A. K.

CARMINUM LIBER QUINTUS

Q. HORATI FLACCI

CARMINUM LIBER QUINTUS

I

Natura rerum quae sit odoribus intenta sunt quos porticus audiat monstrare, vel mixtis duabus tertia qua ratione peior

confletur auris. Hie potius rotas ignemque laudans, unde sit impetus maior laborabit volutis

turbinibus rapidoque rhombo.

Pars efficaces gignere vel lueni sanare nostri corporis incolas propagat enatamque pascit sponte sua segetem venenis.

Incurioso non mediocriter, et nunc et horis damna trahentibus alaene me vectent an axes

Brundisium, milii, cui quietum

fervore pectus non nisi Pindari, Naso, per omnes incaluit dies, haec prorsus exaudita frigent, nee magis alliciunt eodem,

scrutante quam si mente profundius, certo futuri quid placeat Deo, fert ligna supplendo focorum iunctus amicitia minister.

I 2 porticus MSS. exc. m ivhich reads publicus 8 rapidoque

rhombo, Orelli's restoration /oy MSS. readings, subitoque bombo IT; solitoque bombo T: rapidaque Roma mn. i6 cui quietum:

quietum MSS. 19 prorsus: Morsus A (Mopsus W) Marsus T

21 profundius Orelli for MSS. profundis

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THE ODES OF HORACE

BOOK FIVE

I

There are whose study is of smells,

Who to attentive schools rehearse What something mixed with something else

Makes something worse. Some cultivate in broths impure

The clients of our body; these, Increasing without Venus, cure

Or cause disease.

Others the heated wheel extol,

And all its offspring, whose concern

Is how to make it farthest roll And fastest turn.

Me, much incurious if the hour Present, or to be paid for, brings

Me to Brundusium by the power Of wheels or wings,

Me, in whose breast no tiame hath burned Life long, save that by Pindar lit,

Such lore leaves cold ; nor have I turned Aside for it,

More than when, sunk in thought profound Of what the unaltered Gods require.

My steward (friend but slave) brings round Logs for my fire.

R. Kipling.

[2]

CARMINUM V. II

II

DuLcis o certe recolenda imago noctis aestivae tibi, cum rosarum flore, Maecenas, redimitus uncto

crine sub arta vite nobiscum Maro duxit horas. Ibat in caelo, memini, sereno Cynthia, argentique nitore vallis

ima lavabat nocte tranquilla, nisi lynipha dulcem flumine adlabens strepitum ciebat mobili, quo non magis uUa nostras

vox capit aures. Lingua sed mellita Maronis illic gratia cepit potiore sensus, cui lovis natae dederant canorae

voce profari vatis antiqui gravia eloquentis. Inde miranti tibi qua furores nosset adflictosqiie animos in umbra

devius, acri ulcere aegrescente dolentem Elissam, et quam fides mentita fefellit Annam, ille subridens: "Mihi nempe notas

nostra sorores Mantua in prima viduas iuventa nutriit iusta dicione ruris arbitras lati, resides at in su-

spiria amantum

II 5 Maro duxit: maroduxit MSS. (produxit W) i6 profari profani MSS. (profane W) 21 aegrescente Bentlty for ulciscenti : 23 subridens: subvidens MSS. 28 amantum: Mantua WTJ

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ODES V. II

II

Can you forget, Maecenas, how together Virgil and you and I once sped the hours

Rose-wreathed, anointed, in the summer weather. Under the shelter of my trellised bowers ?

Clear was the sky, the moon aloft was sailing. Flooding the valley with a silver gleam ;

Still was the night, save for the never-failing Murmurous music of the rushing stream.

Dear is to me the voice of running waters. Dearer that night was Virgil's voice of gold,

Gift of the Muses, Jove's melodious daughters, Fraught with the wisdom of the seers of old.

How could he probe (you asked) serene, sequestered, Hearts torn ^vith passion, trampled in the dust ;

Dido, in whom the wounds of love had festered, Anna, the victim of her perfect trust ?

"Ah! but I knew them," answered he benignly, '* Mantuan sisters, widowed ere their prime,

Ruling broad acres righteously and finely. Deaf to the call of passion — for a time.

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CARMINUM V. II III

hactenus — donee procus acer audax ambiit victor potiturque votis, credulamque avectus equo fefellit ;

at sibi Dido ocius mortem struit ipsa; tabes lenta languentem minuit sororem. Turnum et erectis animis vel ipsa

clade ferocem, lulio victis remeante Gallis, videram, fata in sua pervicacem, Roma quo nunquam generosiorem

norat in armis." lamque sermonum vice dum vetustis pergit intexens nova, nox abibat; inde succensum tenuata ponunt

ora calorem, mensque, persona veluti resumpta, condit arcanos adoperta sensus. Amnis at leni properantis ad po-

maria lapsu pratum et herbosum ciet unda iuxta clarius murmur, tremulisque ad auram populus procera comis revecta

luce susurrat.

Ill

MiSERANDUs vir amicis hymenaei tamen expers, patitur continue qui sine solamine Bacchi

studiosae iuga neptis : pia ludos adit omnes, revocantesque Camenas

40 Btntley reads morat in arma, unnecessarily 47 ad pomaria:

ad pomoeria mn ; ad Pomono A (Applunina W)

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ODES V. II III

" Till there came one, resistless in his wooinj;, Gallant and bold, who loved and rode away,

Leaving his Dido to her swift undoing, Leaving her Anna to a slow decay.

" Turnus I saw, unshaken by disaster,

Brought out of Gaul in mighty Julius' train.

Noblest of foes, whom fate could never master, Holding his captors in a fierce disdain."

Late was the night ere Virgil ceased from telling How past and present mingled in his view.

And the worn features, lit by fire indwelling, Changed to the marble mask that others knew.

Clearer uprose the murmur of the river Hurrying onward past the orchard lawn.

And the tall poplars with their leaves aquiver Trembled and whispered in the breath of dawn.

C. L. Graves.

in

How unhappy (though unmarried) is an uncle who, bereft Of the solace of the wine-cup, is continually left

At the mercy of an energetic niece. Neobule is unfailing in attendance at the Games,

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CARMINUM V. Ill IV

animo respicit aequo Neobule, neque pacem

patrui dat furia oti. Dryas et Naias aeque, freta quae tranatat Helles, et eques Penthesileam, pede vincens Atalanten

iuvenes urit et angit : calathis non vacat umquam sapientique Minervae: oculus me tamen ardens et iniquae flagra linguae

agitant exanimatum.

IV

Ad mea, note quondam Flore Musarum studio, limina claudicantem

sors tulit, a recenti caede Parthorum reducem ; mox solitos calores

(cedere dum Minervae aede Bellonam iubeo) sedulus excitabam ;

Lesbias, an priori cantet Alcaeus cithara, saepe rogo ; suilli

an gregis exstet altor maior Eumaeo ; potius Nausicaae colatur

fallere nescia aetas, an fidem servans toties Penelope dolosam.

Talia me fefellit spes requirentem ; potior cura virum premebat

iam nova cogitantem, bella dum narrat, quibus et bella dolis geruntur

(quid pice fax flagranti, quid venenati valeant in galeas vapores) ;

qui procul expeditum

III 8 Atlanten ; Atlantem \V. IV 8 rogo suilli ; rogas villi

MSS. (rogas vel illi W) i8 The MSS. have quid venari valeat

in galeasve ponis (pomis T) ; / have rejected Sauwoschius' irell-kiiown quidve nativas valeant in galeas veruta, as I cauiiot undeystand the meaning he attaches to nativas

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ODES V. Ill IV

Imperturbably regardless of the Muses or their claims

And relentless in denying me release. Her equipment is amphibious : she can swim a mile or

more ; Her appearance in the saddle I both envy and adore ;

She's the super-Atalanta of the young. She declines to ply her needle, and she never reads a

book, But she withers me completely with a single scorching look,

And she cows me with the lashing of her tongue.

C. L. Gr.wes.

IV

When Florus, who of old was burning

With zeal for literary lore, Home from the Parthian front returning

Came round on crutches to my door, I strove his ancient ardour to relume And oust Bellona from the Muses' room.

Whether "twas Sappho or Alcaeus

That tuned the authentic Lesbian lyre;

Was ever swineherd like Eumaeus ; Or whether we should more admire

Patient Penelope's heroic fraud,

Or frank Nausicaa's innocence unawed —

In vain I challenged his opinion

On these and other kindred themes ;

The master-passion's rude dominion Banished them ever from his dreams.

Only of War and War's new arts he spoke.

Of liquid fire and masks and poisoned smoke.

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CARMINUM V. IV v

rexit ad finem jaculum, vatibus anteponit

omnibus, hos et inter laude Tyrtaeum inerita prosequitur. Sed unum,

plurima quern decoro Martis addictum retinet servitio cicatrix,

ut minus elegantem nam notem censor? Potius, dum re\^oco peractam

turpiter otioso tamdiu vitam, profugus quam retuli Philippis,

vivere pro Camenis improbo, laudans animam pro patria relictam.

V

Iam molesta transvolat hiems, serenus dum renidet axis ;

Colcliicis velut sacris refloruerunt et comas virentes

induuntur arbores, Favoniisque Thracias procellas

dissipantibus, sinus vocante Maio pandit alma tellus.

Sumat ut diem labor, cohors iocosa, prodeunt Sabinae;

ipse, viveret modo, suas stuperet filias Quirinus,

ut premant Amazones gradus, stolasque praeferant Lacaenas.

20 Bentley read vestibus for vatibus, referring to the CHStom of wear- tng bullae stamped with the effigies of famous generals 22 laude

Tyrtaeum 0>W/r /or MSS. Laudetur tecum V 3 Colchicis velut

sacris: A has Cochlicis (Coclicis T, codicis W) velut sacris: T has codicisve lussacris 8 vocante Maio Laihmann for MSS. vacan

tomato 14 Lacaenas: lascivas A, lacernas T

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ODES V. IV V

The strong unerring missile-flinger

Above all poets he enthroned ; Tyrtaeus was the only singer

Whose spell ungrudgingly he owned, And deeply seamed with honourable scars He paid allegiance to no lord but Mars.

Yet can I dare to be censorious ?

Nay, when I honestly retrace My life through years of ease inglorious

Back to Philippi's headlong race. Needs must I count it far the nobler pari To die for country than to live for art.

C. L. Graves.

V

Old winter the churl is at last on the wing ;

The heavens grow soft and serene, And the trees, at the magical summons of Spring,

Are robed in fresh mantles of green.

The Zephyrs have banished the blasts of the north ;

The bosom of earth is unsealed ; And our new Sabine women go cheerily forth

To labour all day in the field.

Their masculine garb and the length of their stride

Would surely make Romulus stare ; But their fathers already are feeling a pride

In their strength and their resolute air.

B [6]

CARMINUM V. V vi

Invidi vident patres virile robur aemulosque vultus :

quippe dum Paphi dea proterva solitas deserit choreas,

Gratiis ducis vice Ceres relictis imperatque Nyinphis.

Ipse (nam famis nietus vetat vacare iamdiu Camenis)

"Ecqiiid est novi ? " rogans, porros serendos intibosque promo.

VI

SoLVissE votum saepe suo stetit fidum per ensem sanguine militi ; verbosus accusator instans saepe brevem vitiavit horam

summae potentem. Qui foret exitus denuntiantem senserat augurem Romanus, effuditque prudens gentis opes validumque nomen,

duroque largus tempore iudices sprevit molestos, si nova limina tutetur et molles arenas

fluctibus oppositas tremendis.

Monies ab arvo suspicientibus alti minantur: non aliter viros aeterna fundamenta rerum ponere, et imperium sagaces

15 invidi vident 0 relli foy "MSS. invident 18 proterva; T has

prothero 24 The MSS. have porro serendus intimusque porna

{exc. M. which has Pelro sacerdos illi bosque pronto.) / prefer Ike teading given above to Pijl' s parvo Serenas en cihos reposco VI ir tutetur: A has turtur (B /5 missing here)

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ODES V. V VI

For gay Cytherea has wholly fors\torn

The dances she formerly led, And her playmates, the Nymphsand the Graces, forlorn

Of their Queen follow Ceres instead.

Producers of food must abandon the Muse —

I have done so for several weeks — For I'm either engaged in discussing the news

Or in sowing my endive and leeks.

C. L. Graves.

VI

The overfaithful sword returns the user

His heart's desire at price of his heart's blood.

The clamour of the arrogant accuser

Wastes that one hour we needed to make good.

This was foretold of old at our outgoing ;

This we accepted who have squandered, knowing,

The strength and glory of our reputations,

A t the day's need, as it were dross, to guard

The tender and new -dedicate foundations

Against the sea we fear — not man's award.

They that dig foundations deep,

Fit for realms to rise upon, Little honour do they reap

Of their generation. Any more than mountains gain Stature till we reach the plain.

B 2 [7.1

CARMINUM V. VI

fulcire ttita sede, parum sua laudavit aetas. Scilicet in foro et luce, non illi tenentes

sceptra manu tacitaeque freti

terrore vestis, se pariter gerunt acquis iniquis, non timidi sua pro gente communes per usus eximiam reperire causam.

Empti quiescit nocte labor gregis: illi probantes an nimis angulo credatur, insomnisve fornix quid ferat, advigilant futuris

custodientes abdita saeculis, nee gloriosa laude nee otio capti, sed in veram salutem frigida corda manusque lassas

firmare prompti vi propria, sibi pacem negantes. Qui tua pulpita struxere, Libertas, eosdem dedecorat populus reosque

explodit, et iam libera civitas acclamat ipsis qui sibi procreant rerum potituros suarum

seque premunt alios colendo.

Qui magna parvi finximus, arbitri docti sedentes si quis ad inferos decessit, emolimur alte tecta novo peritura limo;

27 iornix, BentUy's famous emendatioH 0/ MSS. phoenix 34 pul- pita : the MSS. are very discordant here ; M has Apulica ; P publica ; W pituita : T putrida

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ODES V. VI

With no veil before their face Such as shroud or sceptre lend —

Daily in the market-place,

Of one height to foe and friend —

They must cheapen self to find

Ends uncheapened for mankind.

Through the night when hirelings rest,

Sleepless they arise, alone, The unsleeping arch to test

And the o'er-trusted corner-stone, 'Gainst the need, they know, that lies Hid behind the centuries.

Not by lust of praise or show Not by Peace herself betrayed —

Peace herself must they forego Till that peace be fitly made ;

And in single strength uphold

Wearier hands and hearts acold.

On the stage their act hath framed

For thy sports, O Liberty ! Doubted are they and defamed

By the tongues their act set free. While they quicken, tend, and raise Power that must tlieir power displace.

Lesser men feign greater goals,

Failing whereof they may sit Scholarly to judge the souls

That go down into the pit, And, despite its certain clay. Heave a new world towards the day.

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CARMINUM V. VI vii

illi, quod aestus continuant opus annive furtim motave sidera, mentem laborantes deorum

non hominum subitas recludunt

spes et timores, nee titulos sibi rebus secundis nee veniam malis poscunt sacerdotes parati

ferre necem pariter decusque,

non aestimato, dummodo pontifex seandat triumphans in Capitolium, vineti coronatine portent

sacra domum stabiles in arces.

VII

Crescunt vera dies; resecantibus invidum soporem

quod una noctis demitur tenebris hora, quis invideat, Cleophon nisi lampadas reelamans

paucis coemptas ? Itur hue et illuc sub love per vicos ; densent magis, ut magis propinquant

fori tabernis virginum coronae — hie proponuntur quotquot nova, quotquot invidenda

gestare possis (sive Coa textu, Sidonio placeant seu muriee) pluribus periclum,

audax emendi dum monet eupido, lex ab omittendo stat Fannia. Pauperum tabernas

regumque turres ambiente Leto illacrimabilior iani Seaptius exigit tributum ;

vocis canorae prodigas alaudas,

46 Ortlli's reading for A amniv furtim motave sidorura VII 3

Cleophon; I^' y^arfs Caiaphas. 11 stat Fannia; 7 A<j5 Stefania'

the other MSS. have impossible variants, e.g. straphangia (W)

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ODES V. VI VII

These at labour make no sign, More than planets, tides or years

Which discover God's design, Not our hopes and not our fears;

Nor in aught they gain or lose

Seek a triumph or excuse.

For, so the Ark be home to Zion, who Heeds how they perished or ivere paid that bore it ? For, so the Shrine abide, what shame — what pride — If we, the priests, were bound or crowned before it P

R. Kipling.

VII

With lengthening days we revert to the plan

Of stealing an hour from the night, And all but the lamp-makers honour the man

Who taught us to husband our light.

There's a stir in the streets, and the feminine flocks

Grow denser the closer they near The marts where the merchants exhibit their stocks

Of the newest and gayest of gear.

Bright purples of Cos and of Sidon unrolled

Work havoc in many a brain ; For whenever extravagance urges " Be bold ! "

Economy whispers " Refrain ! "

Collectors of taxes, impartial as Death,

Stalk forth on their pitiless rounds ; And the lark, inexhaustively lavish of breath,

In lyrical rapture abounds.

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CARMINUM V. VII viii

Phoebe, rapis. Siquis medico vacat, aequinoctiali

tumens laborat bile; cui negantur otia ne doleat, parvae tamen invidentis arcae

timore fisci pallidus gravatur. Eridanum iam ripa tenet sua; fissilem remoto

labore glebam vomeres recludunt ; perpetuo miles caeno caret, et minore cura

desiderati iam movent Penates,

VIII

Cum gentes vacuae vitam agerent, te Babyloniae refrenare sitim notitiae qui nimis impiam iussi, Leuconoe, nunc ubi Mars aestuat, ipsaque tellus nutat, idem praecipio consilium acrius.

Non quo corripiam te, neque quos exanimat dolor, dilecti capitis si quis avet colloquio frui, fortunasque virum veridico discere nuntio quis dulces reditus fata negant, aethera et invident.

Seu Manes habitant Tartareis in regionibus, seu picta asphodelo prata petunt, turba beatior, nullam, crede mihi, praestat opem, aut rem tibi prosperat, quae conducta canit Thessalica gente venefica.

Quod si fas animas post cineres claustra refringere, non interprete egent barbarico sortis et infimae, nee saga docili cum pretio vertere turbinem respondere iubet qui magicum sollicitis stilum.

Si solamen id est, posce deos Mors reparet tua damna; optave vices Panthoidae ; Thessalida at cave ; vivis namque quies vipereo rumpitur halitu, maiestasque (nefas) polluitur luce carentium.

i6 laborat bile Lachmann for laborabile (A) VIII 12 venefica;

benefica A 16 Bentley's magicam pollice fistulam seems over-

ingenious

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ODES V. VII VIII

Old vernal disorders unsettle the health

Of those who have time to be ill, And in those who have not, the conscription of wealth

Strikes home with a glacial chill.

The rivers no longer are swollen in flood ;

The ploughshare cuts crisp through the loam ; And our Legions, released from the merciless mud,

Less wistfully long to be home.

C. L. Graves.

VIII

Leuconoe, I warned you, in tranquil days of yore, To curb your impious craving for Babylonian lore. And now when earth is rocking, and war at fever heat, More urgently than ever my warning I repeat.

Not that I seek to blame you, or others sore bested, For longing to hold converse with your beloved dead, Or gain authentic tidings of how the heroes fare Who never shall revisit the kindly upper air.

But whether in Plutonian abodes their spirits dwell, Or haunt the happy meadows of radiant asphodel, No messages, believe me, can truly heal or bless Delivered by a hireling Thessalian sorceress.

If quick with dead may commune, if soul may speak to

soul, They need no base-born stranger to guide them to their

goal, No salaried enchantments, no workers of the wheel That prompts the magic stylus to answer your appeal.

Pray, if it gives you comfort, that death may reunite ; Or hope that, re-embodied, your soul may take fresh

flight ; But shun the necromancer who poisons with his breath The calmness of the living, the dignity of death.

C. L. Graves.

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CARMINUM V. IX

IX

Ne pauca aratro iugera regiae

moles et ingens Roma relinqiierent,

ne rura depulsis colonis

urbs domibus tegeret forisque

verebar olim ; nam prius omnia

passim sonabant aedificantium

stridore : tectorum columnae

mixtaque porticibus nitebant

templa ; architectos largius indies

ditabat aurum ; floruit aedium

conductor, ingentesque nummos

vecta Paro peperere saxa.

Nunc poena tales addita legibus

sumptus coercet ; segnis et indigens

mendicat in stratis redemptor ;

frusta petit miser architectus.

Quid quod coactos non toga dedecet

pannosa Patres ? quod locupletium

turres suburbanas solemus

stramineo reparare tecto ?

Quid quod cibis iam simplicioribus

cenare lauti est ? Iccius helluo

voracis uxoris maritus

Pythagorae studet ipse normis ;

formosus olim Telephus horridi

barbam Catonis sumit ; agellulum

conduxit, et spreta Neaera

prata fodit suibusque gaudet.

IX 9 indies is Orellt's reading for MSS. impios. Bentliy profostd indicos 12 This restoration (Lachmann's) for MSS. rectabar

opere saxa is now generally admitted 22 The MSS. have eutnely

obscured the reading in the second half of this line, givin/: ecce tohelluso with some variants, eg., exit opilio {IV) and incite aerugo («) : / prefer the reading I have given to Orelli's indica bellua 26 agellulum :

Fitter for MSS. Sigedum 28 suibusque; A //diY ovibusque ;

m read suetusque (suet usque n)

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ODES V. IX

IX

Years agone, though not so many, I was prompted

complain Of the City's deep encroachment on our arable domain, Watching with a grave misgiving fields that once were

rich in wheat Overrun with royal mansions, busy mart or crowded

street.

All around the mason's trowel or the carver's chisel rang, Palaces and baths and temples swiftly into being sprang ; Dealers in imported marbles quite colossal fortunes

made, And the builder and contractor drove a truly roaring

trade.

But the rigorous enforcement of new sumptuary laws To this craze for bricks and mortar gave a salutary

pause ; Private enterprise in building long has been severely

checked, And the doom of unemployment dogs the hapless

architect.

Luxury is at a discount; even villa roofs are tliatched; Senators appear in togas palpably and freely patched ; Frugal fare is all the fashion ; Iccius and his greedy wife, Once disciples of Lucullus, now affect the simple life.

Even Telephus the dandy, whose complexion was his

pride. Now adopts the "bearded Cato" as his model and his

guide. He has rented an allotment, where he hoes and sows

and digs. Shuns the company of ladies, and is busy raising pigs.

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CARMINUM V. IX x

Maiora canto ; tu quoque piscibus imples latebras Naiadum, et tuos largire, Maecenas, aratro

(Caesar enim tibi suadet) hortos. Friget rosarum gratia : lilium passim videmus cedere caulibus : exoticos floras abegit

vis holerum magis apta mensis. Vare, inserendas qui prius arbores ullas negabam vitibus, en ego do vela retro : nil serendis

est melius, mihi crede, pomis ! iMe poma pascant ; vivere frugibus domi paratis me iuvat ; en, nimis quos farra nutribant caroque vecta mari, Libycaeque messes, nunc nostra aratris iugera findimus : hinc inde missis nunc gravidas sues hortamur ad partum libellis : spes oritur melioris aevi cum navitarum pervigilantium curis levatis, merce domestica pastum per infernos tumultus

Rondda feret Protheroque Flaccum.

X

Qui iactantius antea Flaccum praecinui perpetuum fore,

et nomen magis in dies clarum et Pyramidum mole perennius,

52 / have preferred to leave this line as it stands in the MSS., uhich have a feu' obvious attempts at correction, e.g. proteloque (M). Bentley's Roma feret propriaque Flaccum is very attractive, but hardly explains the corruption

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ODES V. IX X

Nobler signs of public spirit I delightedly remark

In the fact that good Maecenas recently ploughed up

his park, And in patriotic answer to the Emperor's appeals Turned his artificial waters into hatcheries for eels.

Flora bows to bustling Ceres ; unobserved the violet

blows ; And the satisfying parsnip triumphs o'er the blushing

rose ; Fragrant and exotic blossoms now no longer scent the air, For the humblest vegetables have usurped the gay

parterre.

Once, O Varus, I besought you "first and foremost plant the vine;"

Now my former predilection I reluctantly resign.

Rather cultivate your orchard; apples, raw or baked or stewed,

Are not merely rare refreshing fruit, but highly whole- some food.

Far too long relying largely on imported foodstuffs,

Rome Learns at last to stock her larder and her granaries

from home, Learns to push the propaganda of the multiplying sow. Learns to ease her Navy's vigil by the speeding of the

plough.

C. L. Graves.

X

Of yore I sought the future to forecast, And vaunted that my fame would long outlast Memorial bronze or regal pyramid, And gain fresh lustre as the ages passed.

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CARMINUM V. X

inox normam veterem crepans praecepi rigidus quae docuit Cato.

Aptaram numeris meos crescentis titulos, et senium Imperi,

labis Romuleum genus insectans, dubius roboris integri.

Sed me Roma fefellerat germana recidiva ipsa propagine.

Spectavi pueros ferum hostem acres positis frangere ludicris,

quos nunquam indoluit pater vivos, et cineres plangere destitit,

ipsa morte superbiens. Nee sanctas animas laus neque praemium

ultro proicere impulit, dum ferrent sociis praesidium suis

aut dulci patriae, caput quercu promeritos cingere civica,

si non fata resisterent. His dum spiritus et vita animos dabat,

motu pectora percitis explevit Pietas totius in brevi

aetatis numeros die. Noster "Sed Pietas, sed superest Amor"

testatur "cineri" Maro frustra ; verum animo consona vox meo.

Aetatem an Latium melos imbellisque magis parmula proroget,

quam virtus iuvenum, mei tutamen, nimium larga animae suae?

hoc Desiderium, hoc Amor laudisque aemula mens eximiae negant.

X 34 tutamen, nimium; MSS. have tutam eximium (tutum mini" mum \V)

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ODES V. X

Then, ever harping on the nation's need Of discipline in rugged Cato's creed, Mistrusting that her heart was sound and strong, I spoke harsh words of Rome's degenerate breed.

So ran the double burden of my strain — My waxing glory and the Empire's wane. Yet Rome was re-awaking in her sons And I was blind, but now I see them plain —

Sons who in boyhood put their games aside And flew to stem the fierce barbarian tide : Who never gave us pain until they fell. And then our pain was swallowed up in pride.

Who laid their blameless lives unmurmuring down, Without a thought of guerdon or renown, To save their country or to shield a friend ; Who earned, but seldom wore the civic crown.

Who, ere their generous hearts in death were stilled, By some unconquerable impulse thrilled, Within the compass of a crowded hour Outlived a lifetime, and "all hours fulfilled."

" Immortal dead ! " I hear our Virgil sigh " How can the dearest and the noblest die ? " And though his passionate appeal be vain, Now less than ever can I chide his cry.

Shall I outlive them with my Latin lay, I who my shield once basely cast away. Preserved and sheltered by their sacrifice ? Love and Regret and Envy answer Nay.

C. L. Gr.wes.

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CARMINUM V. XI xii

XI

Mercis Sidoniae purpura te, Chloe, nardumque Assyriam crinis olens decent,

cum sollemnia pompae

urbs festo celebrat die. Sed turn forma magis praenituit tua, dum lenociniis tota cares, ubi

promit Livia siccis

vappam centurionibus. Fractos militia limen ad imperi et lassos nimii Martis, at in viro

lentos Mercuriali,

te curantem ope sedula ut vidi, ut rubui ! Nee fugias tuae quem movere vices nuper Horatium,

doctum vulnere privo

rem clarescere publicam.

XII

Te prius mecum (pudet heu fateri) sive brumales, Bibule, ad lucernas, sive cum saevus medio furebat

Sirius aestu Bacchus addictum tenuit : diurnis nasus amborum cyathis madebat : quaelibet quavis capiebat hora

causa bibendi.

XI 7, S A read Livius ictis tappum (tantum W) centurionibus (T is missing here). The reoiiing given in the text (Keller's) is less open to objection than OrelWs Livia victum vafris centurionibus 13 ut rubui Bcntley for MSS. utrubibi (utre bibi, Ritter) XII 5

Bacchus MSS. : Bassus Keller

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ODES V. XI XII

XI

Though purple robes of Tyrian

Or of Sidonian sheen, Though essences Assyrian

Befit your festal mien, You never shone so greatly As when I saw you lately, Clad simply and sedately,

In Livia's canteen.

On weary war-worn fighters,

Who guard the Empire's gate, But set no store by writers. Ashamed I saw you wait. But, Chloe, though you shun me, Your later mood has won me To own, the ill you've done me Adds glory to the State.

C. L. Graves.

XII

How strange they seem, those hours of eld. When on the slightest provocation

Dear Bibulus, we were impelled To unrestrained potation !

Alike when Sirius burned on high,

And when the days grew short and bleaker,

We dipped our noses, you and I, Deep in the brimming beaker.

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CARMINUM V. xii

Ebrius Musis super aut amore qui fuit sermo, ioca quae solutis ! Pindarus magnum resonans, — sed idem

fautor aquarum — visus est cunctos superare vates. Mene festivis epulis amicum Pindari leges rigidi sequentem

spernere vina ! Caesar augustis tamen ut Falernum arcuit mensis, nihil hinc niorata sobrias cenas Ducis aemulata est

pars proba Romae. Quid quod interdum veteris Lyaei nunc quoque invictus redit appetitus, inter et lymphas aliquid profusas

surgit amari ? At mei sumptus minuuntur ex quo Liberum puri pepulere fontes ; res mihi augetur duplicique crescunl

fenore nummi ; corporis fio validi, et minoris quam fui ventris ; melius per omnem dormio noctem ; redeunte Phoebi

mi placet ortu strenuus fundo labor in Sabino; nee minus dulces citharam Camenae nunc regunt nostram, neque ineptiora

carmina pango. Proinde si quando Tiberi relicto cura te rerum sinet otiari, fessus hue fer te reparaque fractum

mentis acumen ;

17 augustis: angustis A; Caesar eluri (51V) pede cum coactus aruit mensis m, quod sensu caret 26 Liberum puri Scalign for

liberum erumpere 40 mentis acumen Btntley for MSS. mente

cacumeu, ti'liich Keller defends

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ODES V. XII

We talked of poetry and love —

Our hearts were sensitive as tinder —

And praised, all other bards above, The majesty of Pindar.

But Oh ! How little did I think

That I should come, the festive Flaccus,

To follow Pindar's rule of drink And turn my back on Bacchus !

And yet when mighty Caesar banned *^ The wine-jar, and himself foreswore it,

With all the loyal in the land We simply grinned and bore it.

And though, at moments, for the cup That "elevates " my spirit hankers,

I've doubled, through not liquoring up, My balance at my bankers.

My sleep is sound, my girth is less, My flaccid muscles daily harden ;

I rise betimes, I bathe and dress, And hoe my Sabine garden.

Nor am I conscious that my skill

In poesy has been declining Since I repaired to nature's rill

And made an end of wining.

Come then, when high affairs of State That keep you captive by the Tiber

Relax their hold, and renovate Your jaded mental fibre.

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CARMINUM V. XII xiii

fonte potabis data Bandusino pocula, et nullo moderante quod do conditas a me repetita promet

amphora fruges ; vineas subter nihil hie nocentes siccus accumbes, recinesque mecum Penthei potare merum vetantis

gaudia regis.

XIII

Xanthiam, Publi, quod equestre nomen cum rosis emptum liquidaque nardo gestiat portare, inhiante vulgo, rodere parcas.

Postulat census suboles pudendae gentis in lucem veniat metendo Africam vastum cumulantis auruni, postulat uxor.

Acer in serum famulus diei serviet parvo ; dominum magister ambiet ludi facilique durus navita voltu.

Docta curandum iecur Aesculapi turba captabit, nee adulta proles nunc in angusto cohibebit amplos orbe volatus,

42 quod do Pifl for MSS. Rhondda 47. 48 / retain the MSS.

reading, for which Bcntley would substitute Lloydii potare raerum vetantis iura Georgi ; Davidi m

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ODES V. XII XIII

I offer you unrationed fruit,

Which I have lately learned to bottle, And pure Bandusian, undilute,

Shall titillate your throttle.

Here, stretched at ease beneath the vine (Now balked in its malefic mission)

Shall we experience, as we dine, The joys of Prohibition.

C. L. Graves.

XIII.

Why gird at Lollius if he care To purchase in the city's sight,

With nard and roses for his hair. The name of Knight ?

Son of unmitigated sires

Enriched by trade in Afric corn.

His wealth allows, his wife requires, Him to be born.

Him slaves shall serve with zeal renewed At lesser wage for longer whiles,

And school- and station-masters rude Receive with smiles.

His bowels shall be sought in charge By learned doctors ; all his sons

And nubile daughters shall enlarge Their horizons.

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CARMINUM V. XIII xiv

aequa iam tactu simul atque plumis mater ad nidos positis vocabit promptior praedae cupidas sorores sternere rostro.

Merce pro tali semel ille laetus hauriens areas caput atque nomen Caesaris posthac nihil addituriis iurat acervo.

Si nee incendit sitis atra fisci cor nee orandi populum libido, quisquis est uni sibi non inempti largus honoris,

integer vixit : nee enim pudore fulta venali domus est nee usu coniugis, puro sed odoris expers crevit ab auro.

At gradu cives humiles ab imo artis ignaros tulit ante virtus ipsa. Solvuntur tabulae, movente te quoque risum.

XIV

Gratos quae numeros effingitis, inque serenis

verticibus recubatis Olympi, quid vetat, excusso queni non sine fraude soporem

earpitis, in nova bella moventes pro vestris capere arma sacris ? Hi dulcia vitae

despecto fugiunt Mimnermo,

XIII 25 atra fisci Lachmunn for MSS. atrabisti (attraxisti w) 30 venali ; MSS. have venati (venari n, venenato w) 32 ab ;

A have obe

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ODES V. XIII XIV

For fierce she-Britons, apt to smite Their upward-climbing sisters down,

Shall smoothe their plumes and oft invite The brood to town.

For these delights will he disgorge

The State enormous benefice, But — by the head of either George —

He pays not twice !

Whom neither lust for public pelf Nor itch to make orations vex —

Content to honour his own self With his own cheques —

That man is clean. At least, his house Springs cleanly from untainted gold —

Not from a conscience or a spouse Sold and resold.

Time was, you say, before men knew Such arts, and rose by Virtue guided ?

The tables rock with laughter — you Not least derided.

RuDYARD Kipling.

XIV

Ye moulders of musical numbers. Serene and celestial Nine, Awake from your perilous slumbers. Strange enemies threaten your shrine. Despising the joyance of living They hold, in their haughty disdain, That genius consists in the giving Of infinite pain.

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CARMINUM V. XIV

nee numeros laudant nisi qui sine fine dolores

intulerint. Citharae resonantis murmura nunc sordent ; credas Gaetula rudentes

corpora nunc agitare leones ; nunc immane sonant quae sistra crepantia Nilus

invenit, quae t3'mpana Ganges, quod lyra non potuit fidibus, non tibia flatu.

Credidjmus regnare tonantem caelo quippe lovem ; nostri maiore tumultu

aes, ferrum, pellemque ferinam tundere festinant, puerisque crepundia linquunt

quod simplex, quod amabile carmen ; una deum colitur studiis ferventibus Echo.

Telorum de more secantes aethera, dum friget circum praecordia noster

insolita vertigine sanguis, o prohibete tubas ! requiem date, cedere retro

non tulerint sine fine medullae. Est suus, et sit honos Corybantibus; est ubi gratum

Melpomenae sit nenia munus ; peccat, crede mihi, qui vel furit omnibus horis

vel maeret. Satis ilia superque continuis violat fessas vesana fragorum

congeries ululatibus aures ; obstupuere animi, labefactaque membra tremiscunt.

O nimium nimiumque moratae Haemo vel Pindo, doctae properate sorores,

et capiat Discordia finem !

XIV 12 quae tympana Ganges: ctympana nanges n ; Stymphala gigantes w 29 nenia munus Btntley /or MSS. non iam unus

30 ululatibus: T has kakakatibus

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ODES V. XIV

From Greece, though her prowess has perished,

Not yet had her nightingales flown

When her conquerers honoured and cherished

Her music and made it their own.

But scorning these delicate treasures

Our minstrels have turned to the East

For ragged and barbarous measures

At dance and at feast.

No longer content with the mellow And exquisite tones of the lute They take for their model the bellow And howl of the man-eating brute. And, enamoured of mammoth dimensions, To strengthen the strings and the wind They borrow the monstrous inventions Of Egypt and Ind.

And still, as they rabidly rush on To spread the dominion of din, They multiply means of percussion — Brass, iron, and copper, and skin. For melodies simple and tender They reckon as infantile joys. And worship the strenuous splendour Of absolute Noise.

From trumpets that pierce like an arrow, And freeze all the brains in my skull. From cymbals that curdle my marrow I long for a merciful lull. There are times for a mood Corybantic ; In season 'tis sweet to be sad ; But an art that is constantly frantic Or dismal, is bad.

Our ears have been brutally battered

With volleys of virulent sound ;

Our senses are cruelly shattered

With shocks that amaze and astound.

O hasten from Pindus or Haemus,

Come down, you have lingered too long,

Come down, and from Discord redeem us.

Dear Sisters of Song ! ^ ^ „

C. L,. Graves.

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CARMINUM V. XV

XV

FoRTEM, fortibus et viris stipatum Rhodius dicat lasona

mercis scilicet aureae qui desiderio litora Colchidos

Argoapetiit scaplia. Sed me inaius opus fert animus sequi,

nostras dum celebro magis dignas laude rates, et pretiosius

portantes onus. En uti noctes dispereunt, dispereunt dies

annona spoliantibus OS septemgeminum, Nile pater, tuum !

Nee dispendia nee moras norunt, dum Libycis pondus ab areis

vectando prohibent Fames eives innumeros eeu lupus impetat

Romanumque (nefas !) forum. Non eurvata decet prora, neque aureos

praefert sculpta manu deos : stant puppes solido robore — sic hiemps

dudum Pontica coxerat pinus, artifices sic fabricaverant

duras quidquid erit pati. Vobis, dura magis robora, navitae,

seu Symplegades adsonant lueem sideribus noete negantibus,

seu fractis data palmulis antennaque ratis praeda Charybdidi,

seu praedo Cilicum palam deeurrit latebris, exitium sinu

XV 12 OS : MSS. have O. 29 praedo Cilicum : MSS.have

praedocilium( patrocinium \V)

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ODES V. XV

XV

In quest of golden cargo brave Jason and his band Upon the good ship Argo sailed to the Colchian strand; But nobler is the story that I would fain unfold Of ships of greater glory, of freights of richer gold.

For the gram ships are sailing, are sailing all the while. Unresting and unfailing from the mouth of Father Nile; And by their precious lading from Libya's threshing

floors They keep the wolf from raiding ten thousand Roman

doors.

They are not carved or gilded or dainty in design ; Their hulls are stoutly builded of seasoned Pontic pine. For strength their makers plan them, their purpose to

fulfil, And the mariners that man them are stouter, stronger

still.

Alike when nights are starless and hidden breakers

boom, When rudderless and sparless they drift to certain

doom, Or when the pirate sallies in sunshine from his lair With murder in his galleys, death is their daily share.

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CARMINUM V. XV

foedo Scylla ferens, ubi mors non ante oculos ? O genus inscium

qui naves onerarias nee fretas celeri remige temnitis !

Audaces ego navitas aeterno referam carmine, seduli

dum nostris domibus procul arcent pauperiem, dum populo famem,

ventorumque periculis praedonumque minis insuperabiles.

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ODES V. XV

Some foolish folk disdain ships that are not swift or

"long," But the heroes of the grain-ships deserve undying song. They brave the worst of weather, they face the direst

dread, To keep our homes together and give the people bread.

C. L. Graves.

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APPENDIX

I

Sunt quibus solum colitur Mephitis numen, auritis gregibus probando peior ut mixtura malis duobus

condita fiat. Hi, quibus nostrae scateant minutis beluis venae, cohibent in urnam ; crescit iniussu Veneris propago

saeva vel insons. Cura fervores aliis rotarum (Daedalus quotquot peperit labores) usque quas volvunt citius, vel usque

longius urgent. Me, moraturum nihil, imputandus vel dies praesens ad amoena rura Brundusi penna potiore fretum

ducat, an orbe, flamma cui numquam nisi Pindarea torpidum pectus calefecit, artes non magis tales oculo irretorto

praetereuntem permovent, quam si mihi cogitanti quid parum mites Superi requirant, in foco, servus sed amicus, Aeli,

ligna reponis.

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APPENDIX

V

Florus, quern doctae prius accendere Camenae, adversum Parthos meritus, mea limina nuper ingreditur baculis firmans vestigia binis, atque ego, sopitos ignes conflate, triicemque bellonam cupiens Musarum expellere sede, talia subicio, flammaruni alimenta priorum ; acer an Alcaeus sincerius edat an ardens Aeolios Sappho numeros fide ; quisne subulcum Eumaeum superet pietate ; audacia furta Penelopae potius constantis, Nausicaaene virginis impavidae mores miremur apertos ; at lentus fomes non ullum concipit ignem : nempe ferox mentis dominatur in arce tyrannus, exercetque grave imperium et dat ferrea iura. Sulcos et vineta crepat mera Florus, et artes Martis inauditas inventaque mille, liquentem ignem personasque venenatamque mephitim ; et iaculatori valido, qui spicula torquet certa manu, genus omne iubet decedere vatum, Tyrtaeumque suos ait unum inflectere sensus ; dumque cicatrices confosso monstrat honestas pectore, solius se verba in Martis adegit.

At patruum in Floro qui me decet esse ? Tot oti desidis ut recolo sincere lustra, Philippos, praecipitemque fugam, cogit res ipsa fateri mortem pro patria quanto sit honestius una oppetiisse, novem quam vitani addicere Musis.

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VIII

Traxquillis ego te temporibus qui monui sagax quidquid scire nefas ne numeros per Babylonios scires, hoc itevum praecaveas atque iterum rogo, dum fervent acies, Leiiconoe, dum quatitur solo saevis omne quod est turbinibus. Non equidem queror si tu. sive qiiibus, quod dederat vivere, mortuumst, coram colloquium poscitis, et numquid agant viri non oras superas, non iterum lumen amabile visuri, petiti?. Sive tamen Ditis habet domus, seu, secura manus, picta colunt asphodelo loca, non est auxilium (crede mihi) nuntius ut ferat aegrae vendibilis, per Siculam forte datus magam ; umbrae si superest tale aliquid, reddat et audiat ut voces solitas, Thessalica cur egeas duce, quae responsa ferens pro pretio cantibus et rota commendet foliis? Ut melius ture pio deum placavisse focos, ut repetas mortua mortuum, — seu Lethe placeat, sorsque redux. Sed fugias magum qui, ceu germinibus flamen atrox, ne maneant vetat aut vivis requies, aut pietas debita Manibus.

IX

Urbs quod labores protereret boum Pansa querebar consule, qui satis immissa (pro Fauni fugati !)

fumum et opes strepitumque vidi. Hie sculptor, illic intonuit faber quis posset arniis ; atria balneis confusa delubrisque divum,

Troia velut moduiante Phoebo,

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crevere in auras : trans mare venditis ditata large marmoribus Paros gaudebat, et fervens redeniptor vidit opus sibi profuturum. Nunc, ecce ! flecti non levis ad preces aedilis obstat, ne male decidant caementa privates in usus, utilius positura Sexto nostris minanti litoribus moram. Nunc Polliones sollicite timent non erubescentes Carinas stramineum subiisse tegmen. Luxu remote, sarta palam toga gestatur ipsis Patribus : Iccius praecepta Luculli relinquit

cum grege Pythagoran secutus et cum gulosa coniuge glandibus vescens. Colorcm, gaudia Telephi, sol mutat, intonsum Catonem qui sibi proposuit colendum : ex quo serendum frugibus hortulum saepsit, ligoni datque bidentibus curam ; puellarum choreae

saepe dolent suibus vacantem. Maiora canto munia divitum. Agrippa poscit, nee mora ! praedium vertisse Maecenas aratro creditur, et pepulit lacunis anguilla niullos. Dat Cereri locum Flora obstrepenti, cum violis latens; lactuca successit rosetis,

utile olus, neque quod profnndat

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Coos odores. VITE SACRA PRIUS, O VARE, NULLAM SEVERIS ARBOREM scripsi, sed invitus probrosum consilium meliore muto. Pomariorum dignior est honos : Pomona quovis more coquentibus dat mala solamen laborum, mala cibum cupidis salubrem Quid Roma possit, iam nimium diu consueta messes carpere non suas, Clitumne, testaris, iuvencos indigenas et Abeila, fruges mittens inemptas. Sus dabit omina ter dena natis ubera porrigens, nautasque consurgens vetabit ne nimium vigilent, Aratrum.

X

Creturum in annos aere perennius et fabuloso Pyramidum situ quondam (sed inconcessa divis vaticinans) mihi praevidebam illustre nomen ; nee minus, anxius staretne morum prisca severitas, cives monebam, ne lateret quod rigido placitum Catoni nos nequiores, et vitiosius semen daturos : sic mihi gloriam, sic damna Romano per annos imperio cecini futura.

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Atqui vigebat, prole nova ferax, Romana virtus : dedocet exitus, ventura dum pandit, quid adsit Tiresian male nescientem. Ludis remotis, ut puerilibus, hi barbarorum ingentibus obvii turbis ierunt, omne secum diluvio licitum trahenti. Qui causa flendo non fuerant prius flemus peremptos; est lacrimis locus, est at triumpho, si libentes innocuam posuere vitam. Nee fronte gestae, sed meritae manu laurus movebat spes data civicae, nee fama, nee merces, tulissent dum patriae sociisque lumen. O corda quid se cogeret inscia ! Vitam, priusquam mors tetigit, lovis degere, correptas in unam

quotquot erunt peragentis horas. Tu mortuorum non moritura si frustra recenses nomina, Vergili, Parcas tot in Sanctis reclamans totque in amabilibus nocentes, non est ut istas amplius increpem voces. Relicta non bene parmula vivamne, quem iactura talis reddidit incolumem, superstes ? Hos posterorum laudibus aeniuJis vox prosequetur, civicus iios amor desideratos, cum Latinis barbiton exciderit poetis.

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XI

FuLGEBAS, memini, cum sinerent dies festi, Sidonio murice vel Tyri : te non Assyriis dives odoribus costum dedecuit, Chloe,

Sed nunquam nitidam vidimus, ut, tuis simplex munditiis, munera Liviae impendenti aderas nuper ab Africa devectis legionibus.

Dum damnum prohibent finibus imperi fessis Marte viris tunc operam dabas, Musas sacra novem non facientibiis — quem non desidiae pudet ?

Tali pro studio me miserum Chloen vitantem, fateor, deperii magis, in me proditio si patriae tamen tantum contulerit decus.

XII

Ergo tempus erat cum mihi cum tibi certandum genius suasit amystide fastos atque nefastos baud seponere callidis soles ? Quot Bibuli, quot cyathis genae innavere meae, seu fureret Canis seu stridore November tristes contraheret dies ! Ecquis crediderat sic fore, Pindari quod se lege tenens Flaccus amat procax a non ante relicto liber vivere Libero ?

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Nee parvo auspicio : Caesaris excidunt dum parcis epulis munera Setiae, nos, quantumque piorum Romanos adhibet deos, non omen sequimur ? Quid, quod identidem tu desiderium, Bacche potens, moves ? cui bis quanta bibenti res sicco redit et sopor dulcis : qui gracilis iam magis in die's turpi membra situ languida conterens prima luce Sabinum perfusus gelida, colo. Hue, quando Tiberim linquere Cantabri Parthorumque sinent insidiae, veni, defessnm Bibuli dapes

ut nostrae recreent caput. Docti condidimus poma — nee imputat annonae peragens munia, quod vores, sed languente palato purus Bandusiae latex vires sufficiat. Qua celebrabitur Pentheus laude, quibus pampinus, heu nimis insueta vice fungens

dat tegmen modo sobriis !

XIII a

Cur immerentem crimine Lollium vexas, aperte (juod medio in foro unguenta ceu mercans ibidem

nomcn emat titulumque equestrem ?

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Hunc non neganda patris origine de plebe natum, mercibus Africis et farre ditatum coempto stirpe senem meliore nasci

coniux et auctae divitiae iubent. Cur ista rides ? Crede, equitis locum tanti parare est : nempe servit nobilium dominoruni in aula

mercede curta verna, et equestria Lolli facessit iussa diutius :

saevos ad ingressuni videbis

Orbilios aperire frontem:

Baias euntem portitor obvius

vulgo negatis inseret essedis,

magnique certabunt Galeni

quisnam equiti medeatur aegro.

Mox amplioris spes nova filio vitae patebit : filia nubilis jam mente Baronis Ducisve concipiet speciem mariti :

nam quae sorores lieu nimis aemulas plerumque misso fulniine deiicit Boudicca initescet, voletque Lolliadas adhibere cenis.

His grande fenus condicionibus dat civitati Lollius: at seniel

danda est viro simplexque merces (tester utrumque caput Georgi) !

O si quem habendarum improba non regunt orationum gaudia, pubiicos

cuicunque non curae est acervos in propriam male vertere arcani,

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hie est vocandus purus et integer : sunt luiic honoruni pignora quas habet opes, et exactis cupitum

nominibus petit ipse nomen :

nam pompa certe stirpis olentibus non surgit illi condita nummulis, nee gentis infaniavit ortum vendita vel probitas vel uxor.

At tu vetustatem et titulos canis virtute partos. En tabulae tibi solvuntur ut risu ! Nee ipse tu minimos moveas cachinnos.

XIII ;8

Cur immerentem LoUiuni mordes iocis

si, civibus spectantibus, unguenta ceu qui vilia aut narduni petit

mercatur baud occultius equestre nomen ? Scilicet planissime

plebeculae propaginem, mox emptione farris et vulgi fame

factum ex egeno divitem hinc uxor, inde nota maiestas opum

ignobilem nasei vetat. Stipeiidiis huic servuli minoribns

diutiusque servient : immite ludi sic magistrorum pecus

iam blandietur Lollio : iam rus eunti mulio locum tiabit

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captabit omne quod medendo aptissimum est

curanda Lolli viscera. Turn filiosque nubilesque filias

spes excitabit aniplior : nam quae petentes alta lautorum loca

misso sorores fulmine Boudicca sacris arcet a praesepibus,

terror novarum gentium, ira reposta iam vocabit ad dapes

et Lollios et Lollias. Hac lege pondus grande nummorum libens

dat civitati Lollius ; sed o, Georgi testor utrumvis caput,

tantum semel quod dat dari ! Quicumque non est publicae pecuniae

orationumve appetens, sed quos opum secura mercatur fides

contentus est honoribus, hunc iure purum et integrum vocaveris ;

nummis enim quam comparat Stat fulta certe non olentibus domus ;

hunc nulla certe fama fert venumdedisse vel fidem vel coniugem ;

cur hoc requiris amplius? Quod si vetusta repetis et cantas mera

virtute quaesitum decus, risu solutas ecce tabulas aspicis,

tu primus es ludibrio !

XIII y

Quid consulares cum titulis avos rides ementem sub love Lollium, venale munus, non amomi lacte minus, Syriove nardo ?

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Quid, si refertae messibus Africis naves honestant ? Divitiae genus clarosque natales reposcunt, et soceros Venuleia plorans fastidiendos. Officiosius sic excubabit pro tenui stipe Davus, renidens sive mannis seu pueris moderator addi ! Sic sub flagranti Musa Canicula purgabit ultro : filia nubilis natique sublatis Olympum verticibus ferient, ut iras Drusilla ponat, semper in aemulis lunonis instar saeva sororibus matrona, confundatque divum terrigenas epulis nepotes. His ne careret, Sisyphias opes fisco remisit, non iterum tamen (testatur utriusque Gai

saepe caput) totidem daturus. Quem publicae non ulla pecuniae urget cupido, nee scabies fori verbosa, sed contentus aurum de proprio proprios in usus expendit, hie est criminis integer ; res non olentes turpiter huic olet nummos, neque u\orem probrosani vendiderat, patriamve lucro. " Priscis at olim, fallere nesciis, virtute crevit fama Catonibus" — te saepe " Boeotum " sodales, te tremulae sonuere mensae.

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Carmen ut videtur sextum incertae aetatis scholiasta pedestri oratione Anglice ita reddidit:

Weapons too faithful offer them using all things mixed with blood and he who loudly brings false charges exhausts the unique hour capable of preserving works. It was related to us wandering outside, nor did we reject black wisdom ; our strong fame having been poured out like hard sand, the day demanding it, to add margins to recently sanctified substructures so soft that the}" fear waves more than words.

Like as mountains are not seen to be high unless fields have been left, so those making places for peoples about to stand are not beheld by anyone on the spot. Lacking integuments for their countenance of the sort afforded by graves or insignia, their friends and enemies too asserting them to be equal in stature, they sell themselves cheap in order to purchase dear things. Venal persons lying down through the nights, they themselves rise to a man to prove arches never-sleeping and immense marbles to which too many things are confided for fear of hidden weights to be imposed by following ages. They do not look at laurels or spec- tacles nor even at peace, a traitress, till she is proper. In the meantime, they support cold hands, and virtues. Those whom they have freed from chains to play in arenas built for libidinous games, gnaw at them hesita- tingly and they cherish strength destined to push aside their strengths.

Smaller men pretend to seek larger things which, not being found, they sit down like doctors to measure spirits descending into profound earth and, spotted all over none the less elevating all things towards the

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breath of morning. But these persons labour like dumb stars or rivers or ages with mouths hardly opened, revealing the council of Gods not of mankind. Having gained anything they do not beg for triumphs nor, being lost, consider themselves excused. The images having been drawn into the city, it is of no interest whether those pulling shall have been rewarded by death or thin white money. Moreover, if the temples remain, why are you or I ashamed or proud that we had been either imprisoned or set upon a throne before taciturn thresholds ?

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