On Contentment.
I abominate1 the uninitiated vulgar, and keep them at a distance. Preserve a religious silence: I, the priest of the Muses3, sing to virgins4 and boys verses not heard before. The dominion6 of dread7 sovereigns is over their own subjects; that of Jupiter, glorious for his conquest over the giants, who shakes all nature with his nod, is over sovereigns themselves. It happens that one man, arranges trees, in regular rows, to a greater extent than another; this man comes down into the Campus [Martius] as a candidate of a better family; another vies with him for morals and a better reputation; a third has a superior number of dependants9; but Fate, by the impartial10 law of nature, is allotted11 both to the conspicuous12 and the obscure; the capacious urn13 keeps every name in motion. Sicilian dainties will not force a delicious relish14 to that man, over whose impious neck the naked sword hangs: the songs of birds and the lyre will not restore his sleep. Sleep disdains16 not the humble17 cottages and shady bank of peasants; he disdains not Tempe, fanned by zephyrs18. Him, who desires but a competency, neither the tempestuous19 sea renders anxious, nor the malign20 violence of Arcturus setting, or of the rising Kid; not his vineyards beaten down with hail, and a deceitful farm; his plantations21 at one season blaming the rains, at another, the influence of the constellations22 parching24 the grounds, at another, the severe winters. The fishes perceive the seas contracted, by the vast foundations that have been laid in the deep: hither numerous undertakers with their men, and lords, disdainful of the land, send down mortar25: but anxiety and the threats of conscience ascend26 by the same way as the possessor; nor does gloomy care depart from the brazen27-beaked galley28, and she mounts behind the horseman. Since then nor Phrygian marble, nor the use of purple more dazzling than the sun, nor the Falernian vine, nor the Persian nard, composes a troubled mind, why should I set about a lofty edifice30 with columns that excite envy, and in the modern taste? Why should I exchange my Sabine vale for wealth, which is attended with more trouble?
Ode ii.
Against the Degeneracy of the Roman Youth.
Let the robust31 youth learn patiently to endure pinching want in the active exercise of arms; and as an expert horseman, dreadful for his spear, let him harass32 the fierce Parthians; and let him lead a life exposed to the open air, and familiar with dangers. Him, the consort33 and marriageable virgin5-daughter of some warring tyrant34, viewing from the hostile walls, may sigh —— Alas35! let not the affianced prince, inexperienced as he is in arms, provoke by a touch this terrible lion, whom bloody36 rage hurries through the midst of slaughter37. It is sweet and glorious to die for one’s country; death even pursues the man that flies from him; nor does he spare the trembling knees of effeminate youth, nor the coward back. Virtue38, unknowing of base repulse39, shines with immaculate honors; nor does she assume nor lay aside the ensigns of her dignity, at the veering40 of the popular air. Virtue, throwing open heaven to those who deserve not to die, directs her progress through paths of difficulty, and spurns41 with a rapid wing grovelling42 cowards and the slippery earth. There is likewise a sure reward for faithful silence. I will prohibit that man, who shall divulge44 the sacred rites45 of mysterious Ceres, from being under the same roof with me, or from setting sail with me in the same fragile bark: for Jupiter, when slighted, often joins a good man in the same fate with a bad one. Seldom hath punishment, though lame46, of foot, failed to overtake the wicked.
Ode iii.
On Steadiness and Integrity.
Not the rage of the people pressing to hurtful measures, not the aspect of a threatening tyrant can shake from his settled purpose the man who is just and determined47 in his resolution; nor can the south wind, that tumultuous ruler of the restless Adriatic, nor the mighty48 hand of thundering Jove; if a crushed world should fall in upon him, the ruins would strike him undismayed. By this character Pollux, by this the wandering Hercules, arrived at the starry49 citadels50; among whom Augustus has now taken his place, and quaffs51 nectar with empurpled lips. Thee, O Father Bacchus, meritorious52 for this virtue, thy tigers carried, drawing the yoke53 with intractable neck; by this Romulus escaped Acheron on the horses of Mars — Juno having spoken what the gods in full conclave54 approve: “Troy, Troy, a fatal and lewd55 judge, and a foreign woman, have reduced to ashes, condemned56, with its inhabitants and fraudulent prince, to me and the chaste57 Minerva, ever since Laomedon disappointed the gods of the stipulated58 reward. Now neither the infamous59 guest of the Lacedaemonian adulteress shines; nor does Priam’s perjured60 family repel61 the warlike Grecians by the aid of Hector, and that war, spun62 out to such a length by our factions63, has sunk to peace. Henceforth, therefore, I will give up to Mars both my bitter resentment65, and the detested66 grandson, whom the Trojan princes bore. Him will I suffer to enter the bright regions, to drink the juice of nectar, and to be enrolled68 among the peaceful order of gods. As long as the extensive sea rages between Troy and Rome, let them, exiles, reign8 happy in any other part of the world: as long as cattle trample69 upon the tomb of Priam and Paris, and wild beasts conceal70 their young ones there with impunity71, may the Capitol remain in splendor72, and may brave Rome be able to give laws to the conquered Medes. Tremendous let her extend her name abroad to the extremest boundaries of the earth, where the middle ocean separates Europe from Africa, where the swollen74 Nile waters the plains; more brave in despising gold as yet undiscovered, and so best situated75 while hidden in the earth, than in forcing it out for the uses of mankind, with a hand ready to make depredations76 on everything that is sacred. Whatever end of the world has made resistance, that let her reach with her arms, joyfully77 alert to visit, even that part where fiery79 heats rage madding; that where clouds and rains storm with unmoderated fury. But I pronounce this fate to the warlike Romans, upon this condition; that neither through an excess of piety80, nor of confidence in their power, they become inclined to rebuild the houses of their ancestors’ Troy. The fortune of Troy, reviving under unlucky auspices81, shall be repeated with lamentable82 destruction, I, the wife and sister of Jupiter, leading on the victorious83 bands. Thrice, if a brazen wall should arise by means of its founder84 Phoebus, thrice should it fall, demolished85 by my Grecians; thrice should the captive wife bewail her husband and her children.” These themes ill suit the merry lyre. Whither, muse2, are you going? — Cease, impertinent, to relate the language of the gods, and to debase great things by your trifling87 measures.
Ode iv.
To Calliope.
Descend88 from heaven, queen Calliope, and come sing with your pipe a lengthened89 strain; or, if you had now rather, with your clear voice, or on the harp90 or lute91 of Phoebus. Do ye hear? or does a pleasing frenzy92 delude93 me? I seem to hear [her], and to wander [with her] along the hallowed groves95, through which pleasant rivulets97 and gales98 make their way. Me, when a child, and fatigued100 with play, in sleep the woodland doves, famous in story, covered with green leaves in the Apulian Vultur, just without the limits of my native Apulia; so that it was matter of wonder to all that inhabit the nest of lofty Acherontia, the Bantine Forests, and the rich soil of low Ferentum, how I could sleep with my body safe from deadly vipers101 and ravenous103 bears; how I could be covered with sacred laurel and myrtle heaped together, though a child, not animated104 without the [inspiration of the] gods. Yours, O ye muses, I am yours, whether I am elevated to the Sabine heights; or whether the cool Praeneste, or the sloping Tibur, or the watery105 Baiae have delighted me. Me, who am attached to your fountains and dances, not the army put to flight at Philippi, not the execrable tree, nor a Palinurus in the Sicilian Sea has destroyed. While you shall be with me with pleasure will I, a sailor, dare the raging Bosphorus; or, a traveler, the burning sands of the Assyrian shore: I will visit the Britons inhuman106 to strangers, and the Concanian delighted [with drinking] the blood of horses; I will visit the quivered Geloni, and the Scythian river without hurt. You entertained lofty Caesar, seeking to put an end to his toils108, in the Pierian grotto109, as soon as he had distributed in towns his troops, wearied by campaigning: you administer [to him] moderate counsel, and graciously rejoice at it when administered. We are aware how he, who rules the inactive earth and the stormy main, the cities also, and the dreary110 realms [of hell], and alone governs with a righteous sway both gods and the human multitude, how he took off the impious Titans and the gigantic troop by his falling thunderbolts. That horrid111 youth, trusting to the strength of their arms, and the brethren proceeding112 to place Pelion upon shady Olympus, had brought great dread [even] upon Jove. But what could Typhoeus, and the strong Mimas, or what Porphyrion with his menacing statue; what Rhoetus, and Enceladus, a fierce darter with trees uptorn, avail, though rushing violently against the sounding shield of Pallas? At one part stood the eager Vulcan, at another the matron Juno, and he, who is never desirous to lay aside his bow from his shoulders, Apollo, the god of Delos and Patara, who bathes his flowing hair in the pure dew of Castalia, and possesses the groves of Lycia and his native wood. Force, void of conduct, falls by its own weight; moreover, the gods promote discreet114 force to further advantage; but the same beings detest67 forces, that meditate115 every kind of impiety116. The hundred-handed Gyges is an evidence of the sentiments I allege117: and Orion, the tempter of the spotless Diana, destroyed by a virgin dart113. The earth, heaped over her own monsters, grieves and laments118 her offspring, sent to murky119 Hades by a thunderbolt; nor does the active fire consume Aetna that is placed over it, nor does the vulture desert the liver of incontinent Tityus, being stationed there as an avenger120 of his baseness; and three hundred chains confine the amorous121 Pirithous.
Ode v.
On the Recovery of the Standards From Phraates.
We believe from his thundering that Jupiter has dominion in the heavens: Augustus shall be esteemed122 a present deity123 the Britons and terrible Parthians being added to the empire. What! has any soldier of Crassus lived, a degraded husband with a barbarian124 wife? And has (O [corrupted] senate, and degenerate125 morals!) the Marsian and Apulian, unmindful of the sacred bucklers, of the [Roman] name and gown, and of eternal Vesta, grown old in the lands of hostile fathers-inlaw, Jupiter and the city being in safety? The prudent126 mind of Regulus had provided against this, dissenting127 from ignominious128 terms, and inferring from such a precedent129 destruction to the succeeding age, if the captive youth were not to perish unpitied. I have beheld130, said he, the Roman standards affixed131 to the Carthaginian temples, and their arms taken away from our soldiers without bloodshed. I have beheld the arms of our citizens bound behind their free-born backs, and the gates [of the enemy] unshut, and the fields, which were depopulated by our battles, cultivated anew. The soldier, to be sure, ransomed133 by gold, will return a braver fellow! — No — you add loss to infamy134; [for] neither does the wool once stained by the dye of the sea-weed ever resume its lost color; nor does genuine valor135, when once it has failed, care to resume its place in those who have degenerated136 through cowardice137. If the hind29, disentangled from the thickset toils, ever fights, then indeed shall he be valorous, who has intrusted himself to faithless foes139; and he shall trample upon the Carthaginians in a second war, who dastardly has felt the thongs140 with his arms tied behind him, and has been afraid of death. He, knowing no other way to preserve his life, has confounded peace with war. O scandal! O mighty Carthage, elevated to a higher pitch by Italy’s disgraceful downfall! He (Regulus) is reported to have rejected the embrace of his virtuous141 wife and his little sons like one degraded; and to have sternly fixed132 his manly142 countenance143 on the ground, until, as an adviser144, by his counsel he confirmed the wavering senators, and amid his weeping friends hastened away, a glorious exile. Notwithstanding he knew what the barbarian executioner was providing for him, yet he pushed from his opposing kindred and the populace retarding146 his return, in no other manner, than if (after he had quitted the tedious business of his clients, by determining their suit) he was only going to the Venafrian plains, or the Lacedaemonian Tarentum.
Ode vi.
To the Romans.
Thou shalt atone147, O Roman, for the sins of your ancestors, though innocent, till you shall have repaired the temples and tottering148 shrines149 of the gods, and their statues, defiled150 with sooty smoke. Thou boldest sway, because thou bearest thyself subordinate to the gods; to this source refer every undertaking151; to this, every event. The gods, because neglected, have inflicted152 many evils on calamitous153 Italy. Already has Monaeses, and the band of Pacorus, twice repelled154 our inauspicious attacks, and exults156 in having added the Roman spoils to their trivial collars. The Dacian and Ethiopian have almost demolished the city engaged in civil broils157, the one formidable for his fleet, the other more expert for missile arrows. The times, fertile in wickedness, have in the first place polluted the marriage state, and [thence] the issue and families. From this fountain perdition being derived158, has overwhelmed the nation and people. The marriageable virgin delights to be taught the Ionic dances, and even at this time is trained up in [seductive] arts, and cherishes unchaste desires from her very infancy159. Soon after she courts younger debauchees when her husband is in his cups, nor has she any choice, to whom she shall privately160 grant her forbidden pleasures when the lights are removed, but at the word of command, openly, not without the knowledge of her husband, she will come forth64, whether it be a factor that calls for her, or the captain of a Spanish ship, the extravagant161 purchaser of her disgrace. It was not a youth born from parents like these, that stained the sea with Carthaginian gore162, and slew163 Pyrrhus, and mighty Antiochus, and terrific Annibal; but a manly progeny164 of rustic165 soldiers, instructed to turn the glebe with Sabine spades, and to carry clubs cut [out of the woods] at the pleasure of a rigid166 mother, what time the sun shifted the shadows of the mountains, and took the yokes167 from the wearied oxen, bringing on the pleasant hour with his retreating chariot. What does not wasting time destroy? The age of our fathers, worse than our grandsires, produced us still more flagitious, us, who are about to product am offspring more vicious [even than ourselves].
Ode vii.
To Asterie.
Why, O Asterie, do you weep for Gyges, a youth of inviolable constancy, whom the kindly168 zephyrs will restore to you in the beginning of the Spring, enriched with a Bithynian cargo169? Driven as far as Oricum by the southern winds, after [the rising] of the Goat’s tempestuous constellation23, he sleepless170 passes the cold nights in abundant weeping [for you]; but the agent of his anxious landlady171 slyly tempts172 him by a thousand methods, informing him that [his mistress], Chloe, is sighing for him, and burns with the same love that thou hast for him. He remonstrates173 with him how a perfidious174 woman urged the credulous175 Proetus, by false accusations176, to hasten the death of the over-chaste Bellerophon. He tells how Peleus was like to have been given up to the infernal regions, while out of temperance he avoided the Magnesian Hippolyte: and the deceiver quotes histories to him, that are lessons for sinning. In vain; for, heart-whole as yet, he receives his words deafer than the Icarian rocks. But with regard to you, have a care lest your neighbor Enipeus prove too pleasing. Though no other person equally skillful to guide the steed, is conspicuous in the course, nor does any one with equal swiftness swim down the Etrurian stream, yet secure your house at the very approach of night, nor look down into the streets at the sound of the doleful pipe; and remain inflexible177 toward him, though he often upbraid178 thee with cruelty.
Ode viii.
To Maecenas.
O Maecenas, learned in both languages, you wonder what I, a single man, have to do on the calends of March; what these flowers mean, and the censer replete179 with frankincense, and the coals laid upon the live turf. I made a vow180 of a joyous181 banquet, and a white goat to Bacchus, after having been at the point of death by a blow from a tree. This day, sacred in the revolving182 year, shall remove the cork183 fastened with pitch from that jar, which was set to inhale184 the smoke in the consulship185 of Tullus. Take, my Maecenas, a hundred cups on account of the safety of your friend, and continue the wakeful lamps even to day-light: all clamor and passion be far away. Postpone187 your political cares with regard to the state: the army of the Dacian Cotison is defeated; the troublesome Mede is quarreling with himself in a horrible [civil] war: the Cantabrian, our old enemy on the Spanish coast, is subject to us, though conquered by a long-disputed victory: now, too, the Scythians are preparing to quit the field with their imbent bows. Neglectful, as a private person, forbear to be too solicitous188 lest the community in any wise suffer, and joyfully seize the boons189 of the present hour, and quit serious affairs.
Ode ix.
To Lydia.
HORACE. As long as I was agreeable to thee, and no other youth more favored was wont190 to fold his arms around thy snowy neck, I lived happier than the Persian monarch191.
LYDIA. As long as thou hadst not a greater flame for any other, nor was Lydia below Chloe [in thine affections], I Lydia, of distinguished192 fame, flourished more eminent193 than the Roman Ilia.
HOR. The Thracian Chloe now commands me, skillful in sweet modulations, and a mistress of the lyre; for whom I would not dread to die, if the fates would spare her, my surviving soul.
LYD. Calais, the son of the Thurian Ornitus, inflames194 me with a mutual195 fire; for whom I would twice endure to die, if the fates would spare my surviving youth.
HOR. What! if our former love returns, and unites by a brazen yoke us once parted? What if Chloe with her golden locks be shaken off, and the door again open to slighted Lydia.
LYD. Though he is fairer than a star, thou of more levity196 than a cork, and more passionate197 than the blustering198 Adriatic; with thee I should love to live, with thee I would cheerfully die.
Ode x.
To Lyce.
O Lyce, had you drunk from the remote Tanais, in a state of marriage with tome barbarian, yet you might be sorry to expose me, prostrate200 before your obdurate201 doors, to the north winds that have made those places their abode202. Do you hear with what a noise your gate, with what [a noise] the grove43, planted about your elegant buildings, rebellows to the winds? And how Jupiter glazes203 the settled snow with his bright influence? Lay aside disdain15, offensive to Venus, lest your rope should run backward, while the wheel is revolving. Your Tyrrhenian father did not beget204 you to be as inaccessible205 as Penelope to your wooers. O though neither presents, nor prayers, nor the violet-tinctured paleness of your lovers, nor your husband smitten206 with a musical courtezan, bend you to pity; yet [at length] spare your suppliants208, you that are not softer than the sturdy oak, nor of a gentler disposition209 than the African serpents. This side [of mine] will not always be able to endure your threshold, and the rain.
Ode xi.
To Mercury.
O Mercury, for under thy instruction the ingenious Amphion moved rocks by his voice, you being his tutor; and though my harp, skilled in sounding, with seven strings210, formerly211 neither vocal212 nor pleasing, but now agreeable both to the tables of the wealthy and the temples [of the gods]; dictate213 measures to which Lyde may incline her obstinate214 ears, who, like a filly of three years old, plays and frisks about in the spacious215 fields, inexperienced in nuptial216 loves, and hitherto unripe217 for a brisk husband. You are able to draw after your tigers and attendant woods, and to retard145 rapid rivers. To your blandishments the enormous porter of the [infernal] palace yielded, though a hundred serpents fortify218 his head, and a pestilential steam and an infectious poison issue from his triple-tongued mouth. Moreover, Ixion and Tityus smiled with a reluctant aspect: while you soothe219 the daughters of Danaus with your delightful220 harmony, their vessel221 for some time remained dry. Let Lyde hear of the crime, and the well-known punishment of the virgins, and the cask emptied by the water streaming through the bottom, and what lasting222 fates await their misdeeds even beyond the grave. Impious! (for what greater impiety could they have committed?) Impious! who could destroy their bridegrooms with the cruel sword! One out of the many, worthy223 of the nuptial torch, was nobly false to her perjured parent, and a maiden224 illustrious to all posterity225; she, who said to her youthful husband, “Arise! arise! lest an eternal sleep be given to you from a hand you have no suspicion of; disappoint your father-inlaw and my wicked sisters, who, like lionesses having possessed226 themselves of calves227 (alas)! tear each of them to pieces; I, of softer mold than they, will neither strike thee, nor detain thee in my custody228. Let my father load me with cruel chains, because out of mercy I spared my unhappy spouse229; let him transport me even to the extreme Numidian plains. Depart, whither your feet and the winds carry you, while the night and Venus are favorable: depart with happy omen230; yet, not forgetful of me, engrave231 my mournful story on my tomb.”
Ode xii.
To Neobule.
It is for unhappy maidens232 neither to give indulgence to love, nor to wash away cares with delicious wine; or to be dispirited out of dread of the lashes233 of an uncle’s tongue. The winged boy of Venus, O Neobule, has deprived you of your spindle and your webs, and the beauty of Hebrus from Lipara of inclination235 for the labors237 of industrious238 Minerva, after he has bathed his anointed shoulders in the waters of the Tiber; a better horseman than Bellerophon himself, neither conquered at boxing, nor by want of swiftness in the race: he is also skilled to strike with his javelin239 the stags, flying through the open plains in frightened herd240, and active to surprise the wild boar lurking241 in the deep thicket242.
Ode xiii.
To the Bandusian Fountain.
O thou fountain of Bandusia, clearer than glass, worthy of delicious wine, not unadorned by flowers; tomorrow thou shalt be presented with a kid, whose forehead, pouting244 with new horns, determines upon both love and war in vain; for this offspring of the wanton flock shall tinge245 thy cooling streams with scarlet246 blood. The severe season of the burning dog-star cannot reach thee; thou affordest a refreshing247 coolness to the oxen fatigued with the plough-share, and to the ranging flock. Thou also shalt become one of the famous fountains, through my celebrating the oak that covers the hollow rock, whence thy prattling248 rills descend with a bound.
Ode xiv.
To the Romans.
Augustus Caesar, O ye people, who was lately said, like another Hercules, to have sought for the laurel to be purchased only by death, revisits his domestic gods, victorious from the Spanish shore. Let the matron (Livia), to whom her husband alone is dear, come forth in public procession, having first performed her duty to the just gods; and (Octavia), the sister of our glorious general; the mothers also of the maidens and of the youths just preserved from danger, becomingly adorned243 with supplicatory250 fillets. Ye, O young men, and young women lately married, abstain251 from ill-omened words. This day, to me a real festival, shall expel gloomy cares: I will neither dread commotions252, nor violent death, while Caesar is in possession of the earth. Go, slave, and seek for perfume and chaplets, and a cask that remembers the Marsian war, if any vessel could elude94 the vagabond Spartacus. And bid the tuneful Neaera make haste to collect into a knot her auburn hair; but if any delay should happen from the surly porter, come away. Hoary253 hair mollifies minds that are fond of strife254 and petulant255 wrangling256. I would not have endured this treatment, warm with youth in the consulship of Plancus.
Ode xv.
To Chloris.
You wife of the indigent257 Ibycus, at length put an end to your wickedness, and your infamous practices. Cease to sport among the damsels, and to diffuse258 a cloud among bright constellations, now on the verge259 of a timely death. If any thing will become Pholoe, it does not you Chloris, likewise. Your daughter with more propriety260 attacks the young men’s apartments, like a Bacchanalian261 roused up by the rattling249 timbrel. The love of Nothus makes her frisk about like a wanton she-goat. The wool shorn near the famous Luceria becomes you now antiquated262: not musical instruments, or the damask flower of the rose, or hogsheads drunk down to the lees.
Ode xvi.
To Maecenas.
A brazen tower, and doors of oak, and the melancholy263 watch of wakeful dogs, had sufficiently264 defended the imprisoned265 Danae from midnight gallants, had not Jupiter and Venus laughed at Acrisius, the anxious keeper of the immured266 maiden: [for they well knew] that the way would be safe and open, after the god had transformed himself into a bribe267. Gold delights to penetrate268 through the midst of guards, and to break through stone-walls, more potent269 than the thunderbolt. The family of the Grecian augur270 perished, immersed in destruction on account of lucre271. The man of Macedon cleft272 the gates of the cities and subverted273 rival monarchs274 by bribery275. Bribes276 enthrall277 fierce captains of ships. Care, and a thirst for greater things, is the consequence of increasing wealth. Therefore, Maecenas, thou glory of the [Roman] knights278, I have justly dreaded279 to raise the far-conspicuous head. As much more as any man shall deny himself, so much more shall he receive from the gods. Naked as I am, I seek the camps of those who covet280 nothing; and as a deserter, rejoice to quit the side of the wealthy: a more illustrious possessor of a contemptible281 fortune, than if I could be said to treasure up in my granaries all that the industrious Apulian cultivates, poor amid abundance of wealth. A rivulet96 of clear water, and a wood of a few acres, and a certain prospect282 of my good crop, are blessings283 unknown to him who glitters in the proconsulship of fertile Africa: I am more happily circumstanced. Though neither the Calabrian bees produce honey, nor wine ripens284 to age for me in a Formian cask, nor rich fleeces increase in Gallic pastures; yet distressful285 poverty is remote; nor, if I desired more, would you refuse to grant it me. I shall be better able to extend my small revenues, by contracting my desires, than if I could join the kingdom of Alyattes to the Phrygian plains. Much is wanting to those who covet much. ’Tis well with him to whom God has given what is necessary with a sparing hand.
Ode xvii.
To Aelius Lamia.
O Aelius, who art nobly descended286 from the ancient Lamus (forasmuch as they report, that both the first of the Lamian family had their name hence, and all the race of the descendants through faithful records derives287 its origin from that founder, who is said to have possessed, as prince, the Formian walls, and Liris gliding288 on the shores of Marica — an extensive potentate). To-morrow a tempest sent from the east shall strew289 the grove with many leaves, and the shore with useless sea-weed, unless that old prophetess of rain, the raven102, deceives me. Pile up the dry wood, while you may; tomorrow you shall indulge your genius with wine, and with a pig of two months old, with your slaves dismissed from their labors.
Ode xviii.
To Faunus.
A Hymn290.
O Faunus, thou lover of the flying nymphs, benignly291 traverse my borders and sunny fields, and depart propitious292 to the young offspring of my flocks; if a tender kid fall [a victim] to thee at the completion of the year, and plenty of wines be not wanting to the goblet293, the companion of Venus, and the ancient altar smoke with liberal perfume. All the cattle sport in the grassy294 plain, when the nones of December return to thee; the village keeping holiday enjoys leisure in the fields, together with the oxen free from toil107. The wolf wanders among the fearless lambs; the wood scatters296 its rural leaves for thee, and the laborer297 rejoices to have beaten the hated ground in triple dance.
Ode xix.
To Telephus.
How far Codrus, who was not afraid to die for his country, is removed from Inachus, and the race of Aeacus, and the battles also that were fought at sacred Troy —[these subjects] you descant298 upon; but at what price we may purchase a hogshead of Chian; who shall warm the water [for bathing]; who finds a house: and at what hour I am to get rid of these Pelignian colds, you are silent. Give me, boy, [a bumper] for the new moon in an instant, give me one for midnight, and one for Murena the augur. Let our goblets299 be mixed up with three or nine cups, according to every one’s disposition. The enraptured300 bard301, who delights in the odd-numbered muses, shall call for brimmers thrice three. Each of the Graces, in conjunction with the naked sisters, fearful of broils, prohibits upward of three. It is my pleasure to rave73; why cease the breathings of the Phrygian flute302? Why is the pipe hung up with the silent lyre? I hate your niggardly303 handfuls: strew roses freely. Let the envious304 Lycus hear the jovial305 noise; and let our fair neighbor, ill-suited to the old Lycus, [hear it.] The ripe Rhode aims at thee, Telephus, smart with thy bushy locks; at thee, bright as the clear evening star; the love of my Glycera slowly consumes me.
Ode xx.
To Pyrrhus.
Do you not perceive, O Pyrrhus, at what hazard yon are taking away the whelps from a Gutulian lioness? In a little while you, a timorous306 ravisher, shall fly from the severe engagement, when she shall march through the opposing band of youths, re-demanding her beauteous Nearchus; a grand contest, whether a greater share of booty shall fall to thee or to her! In the mean time, while you produce your swift arrows, she whets307 her terrific teeth; while the umpire of the combat is reported to have placed the palm under his naked foot, and refreshed his shoulder, overspread with his perfumed locks, with the gentle breeze: just such another was Nireus, or he that was ravished from the watery Ida.
Ode xxi.
To His Jar.
O thou goodly cask, that wast brought to light at the same time with me in the consulship of Manlius, whether thou containest the occasion of complaint, or jest, or broils and maddening amours, or gentle sleep; under whatever title thou preservest the choice Massic, worthy to be removed on an auspicious155 day; descend, Corvinus bids me draw the mellowest309 wine. He, though he is imbued310 in the Socratic lectures, will not morosely311 reject thee. The virtue even of old Cato is recorded to have been frequently warmed with wine. Thou appliest a gentle violence to that disposition, which is in general of the rougher cast: Thou revealest the cares and secret designs of the wise, by the assistance of merry Bacchus. You restore hope and spirit to anxious minds, and give horns to the poor man, who after [tasting] you neither dreads312 the diadems313 of enraged314 monarchs, nor the weapons of the soldiers. Thee Bacchus, and Venus, if she comes in good-humor, and the Graces loth to dissolve the knot [of their union], and living lights shall prolong, till returning Phoebus puts the stars to flight.
Ode xxii.
To Diana.
O virgin, protectress of the mountains and the groves, thou three-formed goddess, who thrice invoked315, hearest young women in labor236, and savest them from death; sacred to thee be this pine that overshadows my villa295, which I, at the completion of every year, joyful78 will present with the blood of a boar-pig, just meditating317 his oblique318 attack.
Ode xxiii.
To Phidyle.
My rustic Phidyle, if you raise your suppliant207 hands to heaven at the new moon, and appease319 the household gods with frankincense, and this year’s fruits, and a ravening320 swine; the fertile vine shall neither feel the pestilential south-west, nor the corn the barren blight321, or your dear brood the sickly season in the fruit-bearing autumn. For the destined322 victim, which is pastured in the snowy Algidus among the oaks and holm trees, or thrives in the Albanian meadows, with its throat shall stain the axes of the priests. It is not required of you, who are crowning our little gods with rosemary and the brittle323 myrtle, to propitiate324 them with a great slaughter of sheep. If an innocent hand touches a clear, a magnificent victim does not pacify325 the offended Penates more acceptably, than a consecrated326 cake and crackling salt.
Ode xxiv.
To the Covetous327.
Though, more wealthy than the unrifled treasures of the Arabians and rich India, you should possess yourself by your edifices328 of the whole Tyrrhenian and Apulian seas; yet, if cruel fate fixes its adamantine grapples upon the topmost roofs, you shall not disengage your mind from dread, nor your life from the snares329 of death. The Scythians that dwell in the plains, whose carts, according to their custom, draw their vagrant330 habitations, live in a better manner; and [so do] the rough Getae, whose uncircumscribed acres produce fruits and corn free to all, nor is a longer than annual tillage agreeable, and a successor leaves him who has accomplished331 his labor by an equal right. There the guiltless wife spares her motherless step-children, nor does the portioned spouse govern her husband, nor put any confidence in a sleek333 adulterer. Their dower is the high virtue of their parents, and a chastity reserved from any other man by a steadfast334 security; and it, is forbidden to sin, or the reward is death. O if there be any one willing to remove our impious slaughters335, and civil rage; if he be desirous to be written FATHER OF THE STATE, on statues [erected to him], let him dare to curb336 insuperable licentiousness337, and be eminent to posterity; since we (O injustice338!) detest virtue while living, but invidiously seek for her after she is taken out of our view. To what purpose are our woeful complaints, if sin is not cut off with punishment? Of what efficacy are empty laws, without morals; if neither that part of the world which is shut in by fervent339 heats, nor that side which borders upon Boreas, and snows hardened upon the ground, keep off the merchant; [and] the expert sailors get the better of the horrible seas? Poverty, a great reproach, impels340 us both to do and to suffer any thing, and deserts the path of difficult virtue. Let us, then, cast our gems341 and precious stones and useless gold, the cause of extreme evil, either into the Capitol, whither the acclamations and crowd of applauding [citizens] call us, or into the adjoining ocean. If we are truly penitent342 for our enormities, the very elements of depraved lust199 are to be erased343, and the minds of too soft a mold should be formed by severer studies. The noble youth knows not how to keep his seat on horseback and is afraid to go a hunting, more skilled to play (if you choose it) with the Grecian trochus, or dice138, prohibited by law; while the father’s perjured faith can deceive his partner and friend, and he hastens to get money for an unworthy heir. In a word, iniquitous344 wealth increases, yet something is ever wanting to the incomplete fortune.
Ode xxv.
To Bacchus.
A Dithyrambic.
Whither, O Bacchus, art thou hurrying me, replete with your influence? Into what groves, into what recesses345 am I driven, actuated with uncommon346 spirit? In what caverns347, meditating the immortal348 honor of illustrious Caesar, shall I be heard enrolling349 him among the stars and the council of Jove? I will utter something extraordinary, new, hitherto unsung by any other voice. Thus the sleepless Bacchanal is struck with enthusiasm, casting her eyes upon Hebrus, and Thrace bleached350 with snow, and Rhodope traversed by the feet of barbarians351. How am I delighted in my rambles352, to admire the rocks and the desert grove! O lord of the Naiads and the Bacchanalian women, who are able with their hands to overthrow353 lofty ash-trees; nothing little, nothing low, nothing mortal will I sing. Charming is the hazard, O Bacchus, to accompany the god, who binds354 his temples with the verdant355 vine-leaf.
Ode xxvi.
To Venus.
I lately lived a proper person for girls, and campaigned it not without honor; but now this wall, which guards the left side of [the statue] of sea-born Venus, shall have my arms and my lyre discharged from warfare356. Here, here, deposit the shining flambeaux, and the wrenching357 irons, and the bows, that threatened the resisting doors. O thou goddess, who possessest the blissful Cyprus, and Memphis free from Sithonian snow, O queen, give the haughty358 Chloe one cut with your high-raised lash234.
Ode xxvii.
To Galatea, Upon Her Going to Sea.
Let the omen of the noisy screech-owl and a pregnant bitch, or a tawny359 wolf running down from the Lanuvian fields, or a fox with whelp conduct the impious [on their way]; may the serpent also break their undertaken journey, if, like an arrow athwart the road, it has frightened the horses. What shall I, a provident360 augur, fear? I will invoke316 from the east, with my prayers, the raven forboding by his croaking361, before the bird which presages362 impending363 showers, revisits the stagnant364 pools. Mayest thou be happy, O Galatea, wheresoever thou choosest to reside, and live mindful of me and neither the unlucky pye nor the vagrant crow forbids your going on. But you see, with what an uproar365 the prone366 Orion hastens on: I know what the dark bay of the Adriatic is, and in what manner Iapyx, [seemingly] serene367, is guilty. Let the wives and children of our enemies feel the blind tumults368 of the rising south, and the roaring of the blackened sea, and the shores trembling with its lash. Thus too Europa trusted her fair side to the deceitful bull, and bold as she was, turned pale at the sea abounding369 with monsters, and the cheat now become manifest. She, who lately in the meadows was busied about flowers, and a composer of the chaplet meet for nymphs, saw nothing in the dusky night put stars and water. Who as soon as she arrived at Crete, powerful with its hundred cities, cried out, overcome with rage, “O father, name abandoned by thy daughter! O my duty! Whence, whither am I come? One death is too little for virgins’ crime. Am I awake, while I deplore370 my base offense371; or does some vain phantom372, which, escaping from the ivory gate, brings on a dream, impose upon me, still free from guilt332. Was it better to travel over the tedious waves, or to gather the fresh flowers? If any one now would deliver up to me in my anger this infamous bull, I would do my utmost to tear him to pieces with steel, and break off the horns of the monster, lately so much beloved. Abandoned I have left my father’s house, abandoned I procrastinate373 my doom374. O if any of the gods hear this, I wish I may wander naked among lions: before foul375 decay seizes my comely376 cheeks, and moisture leaves this tender prey377, I desire, in all my beauty, to be the food of tigers.” “Base Europa,” thy absent father urges, “why do you hesitate to die? you may strangle your neck suspended from this ash, with your girdle that has commodiously378 attended you. Or if a precipice379, and the rocks that are edged with death, please you, come on, commit yourself to the rapid storm; unless you, that are of blood-royal, had rather card your mistress’s wool, and be given up as a concubine to some barbarian dame380.” As she complained, the treacherously-smiling Venus, and her son, with his bow relaxed, drew near. Presently, when she had sufficiently rallied her, “Refrain (she cried) from your rage and passionate chidings, since this detested bull shall surrender his horns to be torn in pieces by you. Are you ignorant, that you are the wife of the invincible381 Jove? Cease your sobbing382; learn duly to support your distinguished good fortune. A division of the world shall bear your name.”
Ode xxviii.
To Lyde.
What can I do better on the festal day of Neptune383? Quickly produce, Lyde, the hoarded384 Caecuban, and make an attack upon wisdom, ever on her guard. You perceive the noontide is on its decline; and yet, as if the fleeting385 day stood still, you delay to bring out of the store-house the loitering cask, [that bears its date] from the consul186 Bibulus. We will sing by turns, Neptune, and the green locks of the Nereids; you, shall chant, on your wreathed lyre, Latona and the darts386 of the nimble Cynthia; at the conclusion of your song, she also [shall be celebrated387], who with her yoked388 swans visits Gnidos, and the shining Cyclades, and Paphos: the night also shall be celebrated in a suitable lay.
Ode xxix.
To Maecenas.
O Maecenas, thou progeny of Tuscan kings, there has been a long while for you in my house some mellow308 wine in an unbroached hogshead, with rose-flowers and expressed essence for your hair. Disengage yourself from anything that may retard you, nor contemplate389 the ever marshy390 Tibur, and the sloping fields of Aesula, and the hills of Telegonus the parricide391. Leave abundance, which is the source of daintiness, and yon pile of buildings approaching near the lofty clouds: cease to admire the smoke, and opulence392, and noise of flourishing Rome. A change is frequently agreeable to the rich, and a cleanly meal in the little cottage of the poor has smoothed an anxious brow without carpets or purple. Now the bright father of Andromeda displays his hidden fire; now Procyon rages, and the constellation of the ravening Lion, as the sun brings round the thirsty season. Now the weary shepherd with his languid flock seeks the shade, and the river, and the thickets393 of rough Sylvanus; and the silent bank is free from the wandering winds. You regard what constitution may suit the state, and are in an anxious dread for Rome, what preparations the Seres and the Bactrians subject to Cyrus, and the factious394 Tanais are making. A wise deity shrouds395 in obscure darkness the events of the time to come, and smiles if a mortal is solicitous beyond the law of nature. Be mindful to manage duly that which is present. What remains396 goes on in the manner of the river, at one time calmly gliding in the middle of its channel to the Tuscan Sea, at another, rolling along corroded397 stones, and stumps398 of trees, forced away, and cattle, and houses, not without the noise of mountains and neighboring woods, when the merciless deluge399 enrages400 the peaceful waters. That man is master of himself and shall live happy, who has it in his power to say, “I have lived today: tomorrow let the Sire invest the heaven, either with a black cloud, or with clear sunshine; nevertheless, he shall not render ineffectual what is past, nor undo401 or annihilate402 what the fleeting hour has once carried off. Fortune, happy in the execution of her cruel office, and persisting to play her insolent403 game, changes uncertain honors, indulgent now to me, by and by to another. I praise her, while she abides404 by me. If she moves her fleet wings, I resign what she has bestowed405, and wrap myself up in my virtue, and court honest poverty without a portion. It is no business of mine, if the mast groan406 with the African storms, to have recourse to piteous prayers, and to make a bargain with my vows407, that my Cyprian and Syrian merchandize may not add to the wealth of the insatiable sea. Then the gale99 and the twin Pollux will carry me safe in the protection of a skiff with two oars408, through the tumultuous Aegean Sea.”
Ode xxx.
On His Own Works.
I have completed a monument more lasting than brass409, and more sublime410 than the regal elevation411 of pyramids, which neither the wasting shower, the unavailing north wind, nor an innumerable succession of years, and the flight of seasons, shall be able to demolish86. I shall not wholly die; but a great part of me shall escape Libitina. I shall continualy be renewed in the praises of posterity, as long as the priest shall ascend the Capitol with the silent [vestal] virgin. Where the rapid Aufidus shall murmur412, and where Daunus, poorly supplied with water, ruled over a rustic people, I, exalted413 from a low degree, shall be acknowledged as having originally adapted the Aeolic verse to Italian measures. Melpomene, assume that pride which your merits have acquired, and willingly crown my hair with the Delphic laurel.
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humble
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brazen
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bloody
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virtue
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injustice
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caverns
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overthrow
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warfare
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haughty
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provident
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croaking
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presages
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uproar
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prone
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serene
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deplore
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offense
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phantom
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procrastinate
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doom
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foul
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comely
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prey
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precipice
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dame
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invincible
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sobbing
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Neptune
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hoarded
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darts
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yoked
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contemplate
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parricide
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