To Maecenas.
Thou wilt1 go, my friend Maecenas, with Liburian galleys2 among the towering forts of ships, ready at thine own [hazard] to undergo any of Caesar’s dangers. What shall I do? To whom life may be agreeable, if you survive; but, if otherwise, burdensome. Whether shall I, at your command, pursue my ease, which can not be pleasing unless in your company? Or shall I endure this toil3 with such a courage, as becomes effeminate men to bear? I will bear it? and with an intrepid4 soul follow you, either through the summits of the Alps, and the inhospitable Caucus6, or to the furthest western bay. You may ask how I, unwarlike and infirm, can assist your labors7 by mine? While I am your companion, I shall be in less anxiety, which takes possession of the absent in a greater measure. As the bird, that has unfledged young, is in a greater dread9 of serpents’ approaches, when they are left; — not that, if she should be present when they came, she could render more help. Not only this, but every other war, shall be cheerfully embraced by me for the hope of your favor; [and this,] not that my plows10 should labor8, yoked11 to a greater number of mine own oxen; or that my cattle before the scorching14 dog-star should change the Calabrian for the Lucanian pastures: neither that my white country-box should equal the Circaean walls of lofty Tusculum. Your generosity15 has enriched me enough, and more than enough: I shall never wish to amass16, what either, like the miser17 Chremes, I may bury in the earth, or luxuriously18 squander19, like a prodigal20.
Ode ii.
The Praises of a Country Life.
Happy the man, who, remote from business, after the manner of the ancient race of mortals, cultivates his paternal21 lands with his own oxen, disengaged from every kind of usury23; he is neither alarmed by the horrible trump24, as a soldier, nor dreads25 he the angry sea; he shuns26 both the bar and the proud portals of citizens in power. Wherefore he either weds27 the lofty poplars to the mature branches of the vine; and, lopping off the useless boughs28 with his pruning-knife, he ingrafts more fruitful ones: or he takes a prospect29 of the herds30 of his lowing cattle, wandering about in a lonely vale; or stores his honey, pressed [from the combs], in clean vessels34; or shears35 his tender sheep. Or, when autumn has lifted up in the fields his head adorned36 with mellow38 fruits, how does he rejoice, while he gathers the grafted39 pears, and the grape that vies with the purple, with which he may recompense thee, O Priapus, and thee, father Sylvanus, guardian40 of his boundaries! Sometimes he delights to lie under an aged22 holm, sometimes on the matted grass: meanwhile the waters glide41 along in their deep channels; the birds warble in the woods; and the fountains murmur42 with their purling streams, which invites gentle slumbers43. But when the wintery season of the tempestuous44 air prepares rains and snows, he either drives the fierce boars, with many a dog, into the intercepting46 toils47; or spreads his thin nets with the smooth pole, as a snare48 for the voracious49 thrushes; or catches in his gin the timorous50 hare, or that stranger the crane, pleasing rewards [for his labor]. Among such joys as these, who does not forget those mischievous51 anxieties, which are the property of love. But if a chaste52 wife, assisting on her part [in the management] of the house, and beloved children (such as is the Sabine, or the sun-burned spouse53 of the industrious54 Apulian), piles up the sacred hearth55 with old wood, just at the approach of her weary husband; and, shutting up the fruitful cattle in the woven hurdles56, milks dry their distended57 udders: and, drawing this year’s wine out of a well-seasoned cask, prepares the unbought collation58: not the Lucrine oysters59 could delight me more, nor the turbot, nor the scar, should the tempestuous winter drive any from the eastern floods to this sea: not the turkey, nor the Asiatic wild-fowl, can come into my stomach more agreeably, than the olive gathered from the richest branches from the trees, or the sorrel that loves the meadows, or mallows salubrious for a sickly body, or a lamb slain60 at the feast of Terminus, or a kid rescued from the wolf. Amid these dainties, how it pleases one to see the well-fed sheep hastening home! to see the weary oxen, with drooping61 neck, dragging the inverted62 ploughshare! and slaves, the test of a rich family, ranged about the smiling household gods! When Alfius, the usurer, now on the point of turning countryman, had said this, he collected in all his money on the Ides; and endeavors to put it out again at the Calends.
Ode iii.
To Maecenas.
If any person at any time with an impious hand has broken his aged father’s neck, let him eat garlic, more baneful65 than hemlock66. Oh! the hardy67 bowels68 of the mowers! What poison is this that rages in my entrails? Has viper’s blood, infused in these herbs, deceived me? Or has Canidia dressed this baleful food? When Medea, beyond all the [other] argonauts, admired their handsome leader, she anointed Jason with this, as he was going to tie the untried yoke12 on the bulls: and having revenged herself on [Jason’s] mistress, by making her presents besmeared with this, she flew away on her winged dragon. Never did the steaming influence of any constellation69 so raging as this rest upon the thirsty Appulia: neither did the gift [of Dejanira] burn hotter upon the shoulders of laborious70 Hercules. But if ever, facetious71 Maecenas, you should have a desire for any such stuff again, I wish that your girl may oppose her hand to your kiss, and lie at the furthest part of the bed.
Ode iv.
To Menas.
As great an enmity as is allotted72 by nature to wolves and lambs, [so great a one] have I to you, you that are galled73 at your back with Spanish cords, and on your legs with the hard fetter74. Though, purse-proud with your riches, you strut75 along, yet fortune does not alter your birth. Do you not observe while you are stalking along the sacred way with a robe twice three ells long, how the most open indignation of those that pass and repass turns their looks on thee? This fellow, [say they,] cut with the triumvir’s whips, even till the beadle was sick of his office, plows a thousand acres of Falernian land, and wears out the Appian road with his nags77; and, in despite of Otho, sits in the first rows [of the circus] as a knight78 of distinction. To what purpose is it, that so many brazen-beaked ships of immense bulk should be led out against pirates and a band of slaves, while this fellow, this is a military tribune?
Ode v.
The Witches Mangling79 a Boy.
But oh, by all the gods in heaven, who rule the earth and human race, what means this tumult80? And what the hideous81 looks of all these [hags, fixed82] upon me alone? I conjure83 thee by thy children (if invoked84 Lucina was ever present at any real birth of thine), I [conjure] thee by this empty honor of my purple, by Jupiter, who must disapprove85 these proceedings86, why dost thou look at me as a step-mother, or as a wild beast stricken with a dart87? While the boy made these complaints with a faltering88 voice, he stood with his bandages of distinction taken from him, a tender frame, such as might soften89 the impious breasts of the cruel Thracians; Canidia, having interwoven her hair and uncombed head with little vipers90, orders wild fig91-trees torn up from graves, orders funeral cypresses92 and eggs besmeared with the gore93 of a loathsome94 toad95, and feathers of the nocturnal screech-owl, and those herbs, which lolchos, and Spain, fruitful in poisons, transmits, and bones snatched from the mouth of a hungry bitch, to be burned in Colchian flames. But Sagana, tucked up for expedition, sprinkling the waters of Avernus all over the house, bristles96 up with her rough hair like a sea-urchin, or a boar in the chase. Veia, deterred97 by no remorse98 of conscience, groaning99 with the toil, dug up the ground with the sharp spade; where the boy, fixed in, might long be tormented100 to death at the sight of food varied101 two or three times in a day: while he stood out with his face, just as much at bodies suspended by the chin [in swimming] project from the water, that his parched102 marrow103 and dried liver might be a charm for love; when once the pupils of his eyes had wasted away, fixed on the forbidden food. Both the idle Naples, and every neighboring town believed, that Folia of Ariminum, [a witch] of masculine lust104, was not absent: she, who with her Thessalian incantations forces the charmed stars and the moon from heaven. Here the fell Canidia, gnawing105 her unpaired thumb with her livid teeth, what said she? or what did she not say? O ye faithful witnesses to my proceedings, Night and Diana, who presidest over silence, when the secret rites106 are celebrated107: now, now be present, now turn your anger and power against the houses of our enemies, while the savage108 wild beasts lie hid in the woods, dissolved in sweet repose109; let the dogs of Suburra (which may be matter of ridicule110 for every body) bark at the aged profligate111, bedaubed with ointment112, such as my hands never made any more exquisite113. What is the matter? Why are these compositions less efficacious than those of the barbarian114 Medea? by means of which she made her escape, after having revenged herself on [Jason’s] haughty115 mistress, the daughter of the mighty116 Creon; when the garment, a gift that was injected with venom117, took off his new bride by its inflammatory power. And yet no herb, nor root hidden in inaccessible118 places, ever escaped my notice. [Nevertheless,] he sleeps in the perfumed bed of every harlot, from his forgetfulness [of me]. Ah! ah! he walks free [from my power] by the charms of some more knowing witch. Varus, (oh you that will shortly have much to lament119!) you shall come back to me by means of unusual spells; nor shall you return to yourself by all the power of Marsian enchantments120, I will prepare a stronger philter: I will pour in a stronger philter for you, disdainful as you are; and the heaven shall subside121 below the sea, with the earth extended over it, sooner than you shall not burn with love for me, in the same manner as this pitch [burns] in the sooty flames. At these words, the boy no longer [attempted], as before, to move the impious hags by soothing122 expressions; but, doubtful in what manner he should break silence, uttered Thyestean imprecations. Potions [said he] have a great efficacy in confounding right and wrong, but are not able to invert63 the condition of human nature; I will persecute123 you with curses; and execrating124 detestation is not to be expiated125 by any victim. Moreover, when doomed126 to death I shall have expired, I will attend you as a nocturnal fury; and, a ghost, I will attack your faces with my hooked talons127 (for such is the power of those divinities, the Manes), and, brooding upon your restless breasts, I will deprive you of repose by terror. The mob, from village to village, assaulting you on every side with stones, shall demolish128 you filthy129 hags. Finally, the wolves and Esquiline vultures shall scatter130 abroad your unburied limbs. Nor shall this spectacle escape the observation of my parents, who, alas131! must survive me.
Ode vi.
Against Cassius Severus.
O cur, thou coward against wolves, why dost thou persecute innocent strangers? Why do you not, if you can, turn your empty yelpings hither, and attack me, who will bite again? For, like a Molossian, or tawny132 Laconian dog, that is a friendly assistant to shepherds, I will drive with erected133 ears through the deep snows every brute134 that shall go before me. You, when you have filled the grove135 with your fearful barking, you smell at the food that is thrown to you. Have a care, have a care; for, very bitter against bad men, I exert my ready horns uplift; like him that was rejected as a son-inlaw by the perfidious136 Lycambes, or the sharp enemy of Bupalus. What, if any cur attack me with malignant137 tooth, shall I, without revenge, blubber like a boy?
Ode vii.
To the Roman People.
Whither, whither, impious men are you rushing? Or why are the swords drawn138, that were [so lately] sheathed139? Is there too little of Roman blood spilled upon land and sea? [And this,] not that the Romans might burn the proud towers of envious140 Carthage, or that the Britons, hitherto unassailed, might go down the sacred way bound in chains: but that, agreeably to the wishes of the Parthians, this city may fall by its own might. This custom [of warfare] never obtained even among either wolves or savage lions, unless against a different species. Does blind phrenzy, or your superior valor141, or some crime, hurry you on at this rate? Give answer. They are silent: and wan32 paleness infects their countenances142, and their stricken souls are stupefied. This is the case: a cruel fatality143 and the crime of fratricide have disquieted144 the Romans, from that time when the blood of the innocent Remus, to be expiated by his descendants, was spilled upon the earth.
Ode viii.
Upon a Wanton Old Woman.
Can you, grown rank with lengthened145 age, ask what unnerves my vigor146? When your teeth are black, and old age withers147 your brow with wrinkles: and your back sinks between your staring hip-bones, like that of an unhealthy cow. But, forsooth! your breast and your fallen chest, full well resembling a broken-backed horse, provoke me; and a body flabby, and feeble knees supported by swollen148 legs. May you be happy: and may triumphal statues adorn37 your funeral procession; and may no matron appear in public abounding149 with richer pearls. What follows, because the Stoic150 treatises151 sometimes love to be on silken pillows? Are unlearned constitutions the less robust152? Or are their limbs less stout153? But for you to raise an appetite, in a stomach that is nice, it is necessary that you exert every art of language.
Ode ix.
To Maecenas.
When, O happy Maecenas, shall I, overjoyed at Caesar’s being victorious154, drink with you under the stately dome155 (for so it pleases Jove) the Caecuban reserved for festal entertainments, while the lyre plays a tune76, accompanied with flutes156, that in the Doric, these in the Phrygian measure? As lately, when the Neptunian admiral, driven from the sea, and his navy burned, fled, after having menaced those chains to Rome, which, like a friend, he had taken off from perfidious slaves. The Roman soldiers (alas! ye, our posterity157, will deny the fact), enslaved to a woman, carry palisadoes and arms, and can be subservient158 to haggard eunuchs; and among the military standards, oh shame! the sun beholds159 an [Egyptian] canopy161. Indignant at this the Gauls turned two thousand of their cavalry162, proclaiming Caesar; and the ships of the hostile navy, going off to the left, lie by in port. Hail, god of triumph! Dost thou delay the golden chariots and untouched heifers? Hail, god of triumph! You neither brought back a general equal [to Caesar] from the Jugurthine war; nor from the African [war, him], whose valor raised him a monument over Carthage. Our enemy, overthrown163 both by land and sea, has changed his purple vestments for mourning. He either seeks Crete, famous for her hundred cities, ready to sail with unfavorable winds; or the Syrtes, harassed164 by the south; or else is driven by the uncertain sea. Bring hither, boy, larger bowls, and the Chian or Lesbian wine; or, what may correct this rising qualm of mine, fill me out the Caecuban. It is my pleasure to dissipate care and anxiety for Caesar’s danger with delicious wine.
Ode x.
Against Maevius.
The vessel33 that carries the loathsome Maevius, makes her departure under an unlucky omen165. Be mindful, O south wind, that you buffet166 it about with horrible billows. May the gloomy east, turning up the sea, disperse167 its cables and broken oars45. Let the north arise as mighty as when be rives the quivering oaks on the lofty mountains; nor let a friendly star appear through the murky168 night, in which the baleful Orion sets: nor let him be conveyed in a calmer sea, than was the Grecian band of conquerors169, when Pallas turned her rage from burned Troy to the ship of impious Ajax. Oh what a sweat is coming upon your sailors, and what a sallow paleness upon you, and that effeminate wailing170, and those prayers to unregarding Jupiter; when the Ionian bay, roaring with the tempestuous south-west, shall break your keel. But if, extended along the winding171 shore, you shall delight the cormorants172 as a dainty prey173, a lascivious174 he-goat and an ewe-lamb shall be sacrificed to the Tempests.
Ode xi.
To Pectius.
It by no means, O Pectius, delights me as heretofore to write Lyric175 verses, being smitten176 with cruel love: with love, who takes pleasure to inflame177 me beyond others, either youths or maidens178. This is the third December that has shaken the [leafy] honors from the woods, since I ceased to be mad for Inachia. Ah me! (for I am ashamed of so great a misfortune) what a subject of talk was I throughout the city! I repent179 too of the entertainments, at which both a languishing180 and silence and sighs, heaved from the bottom of my breast, discovered the lover. As soon as the indelicate god [Bacchus] by the glowing wine had removed, as I grew warm, the secrets of [my heart] from their repository, I made my complaints, lamenting181 to you, “Has the fairest genius of a poor man no weight against wealthy lucre182? Wherefore, if a generous indignation boil in my breast, insomuch as to disperse to the winds these disagreeable applications, that give no ease to the desperate wound; the shame [of being overcome] ending, shall cease to contest with rivals of such a sort.” When I, with great gravity, had applauded these resolutions in your presence, being ordered to go home, I was carried with a wandering foot to posts, alas! to me not friendly, and alas! obdurate183 gates, against which I bruised184 my loins and side. Now my affections for the delicate Lyciscus engross185 all my time; from them neither the unreserved admonitions, nor the serious reprehensions of other friends can recall me [to my former taste for poetry]; but, perhaps, either a new flame for some fair damsel, or for some graceful186 youth who binds187 his long hair in a knot, [may do so].
Ode xii.
To a Woman Whose Charms Were Over.
What would you be at, you woman fitter for the swarthy monsters? Why do you send tokens, why billet-doux to me, and not to some vigorous youth, and of a taste not nice? For I am one who discerns a polypus, or fetid ramminess, however concealed188, more quickly than the keenest dog the covert189 of the boar. What sweatiness, and how rank an odor every where rises from her withered190 limbs! when she strives to lay her furious rage with impossibilities; now she has no longer the advantage of moist cosmetics191, and her color appears as if stained with crocodile’s ordure; and now, in wild impetuosity, she tears her bed, bedding, and all she has. She attacks even my loathings in the most angry terms:—“You are always less dull with Inachia than me: in her company you are threefold complaisance192; but you are ever unprepared to oblige me in a single instance. Lesbia, who first recommended you — so unfit a help in time of need — may she come to an ill end! when Coan Amyntas paid me his addresses; who is ever as constant in his fair one’s service, as the young tree to the hill it grows on. For whom were labored193 the fleeces of the richest Tyrian dye? For you? Even so that there was not one in company, among gentlemen of your own rank, whom his own wife admired preferably to you: oh, unhappy me, whom you fly, as the lamb dreads the fierce wolves, or the she-goats the lions!”
Ode xiii.
To a Friend.
A horrible tempest has condensed the sky, and showers and snows bring down the atmosphere: now the sea, now the woods bellow194 with the Thracian North wind. Let us, my friends, take occasion from the day; and while our knees are vigorous, and it becomes us, let old age with his contracted forehead become smooth. Do you produce the wine, that was pressed in the consulship195 of my Torquatus. Forbear to talk of any other matters. The deity196, perhaps, will reduce these [present evils], to your former [happy] state by a propitious197 change. Now it is fitting both to be bedewed with Persian perfume, and to relieve our breasts of dire198 vexations by the lyre, sacred to Mercury. Like as the noble Centaur199, [Chiron,] sung to his mighty pupil: “Invincible mortal, son of the goddess Thetis, the land of Assaracus awaits you, which the cold currents of little Scamander and swift-gliding Simois divide: whence the fatal sisters have broken off your return, by a thread that cannot be altered: nor shall your azure200 mother convey you back to your home. There [then] by wine and music, sweet consolations201, drive away every symptom of hideous melancholy202.”
Ode xiv.
To Maecenas.
You kill me, my courteous203 Maecenas, by frequently inquiring, why a soothing indolence has diffused204 as great a degree of forgetfulness on my inmost senses, as if I had imbibed205 with a thirsty throat the cups that bring on Lethean slumbers. For the god, the god prohibits me from bringing to a conclusion the verses I promised [you, namely those] iambics which I had begun. In the same manner they report that Anacreon of Teios burned for the Samian Bathyllus; who often lamented206 his love to an inaccurate207 measure on a hollow lyre. You are violently in love yourself; but if a fairer flame did not burn besieged208 Troy, rejoice in your lot. Phryne, a freed-woman, and not content with a single admirer, consumes me.
Ode xv.
To Neaera.
It was night, and the moon shone in a serene209 sky among the lesser210 stars; when you, about to violate the divinity of the great gods, swore [to be true] to my requests, embracing me with your pliant211 arms more closely than the lofty oak is clasped by the ivy212; that while the wolf should remain an enemy to the flock, and Orion, unpropitious to the sailors, should trouble the wintery sea, and while the air should fan the unshorn locks of Apollo, [so long you vowed] that this love should be mutual213. O Neaera, who shall one day greatly grieve on account of my merit: for, if there is any thing of manhood in Horace, he will not endure that you should dedicate your nights continually to another, whom you prefer; and exasperated214, he will look out for one who will return his love; and though an unfeigned sorrow should take possession of you, yet my firmness shall not give way to that beauty which has once given me disgust. But as for you, whoever you be who are more successful [than me], and now strut proud of my misfortune; though you be rich in flocks and abundance of land, and Pactolus flow for you, nor the mysteries of Pythagoras, born again, escape you, and you excel Nireus in beauty; alas! you shall [hereafter] bewail her love transferred elsewhere; but I shall laugh in my turn.
Ode xvi.
To the Roman People.
Now is another age worn away by civil wars, and Rome herself falls by her own strength. Whom neither the bordering Marsi could destroy, nor the Etrurian band of the menacing Porsena, nor the rival valor of Capua, nor the bold Spartacus, and the Gauls perfideous with their innovations; nor did the fierce Germany subdue215 with its blue-eyed youth, nor Annibal, detested216 by parents; but we, an impious race, whose blood is devoted217 to perdition, shall destroy her: and this land shall again be possessed218 by wild beasts. The victorious barbarian, alas! shall trample219 upon the ashes of the city, and the horsemen shall smite220 it with the sounding hoofs221; and (horrible to see!) he shall insultingly disperse the bones of Romulus, which [as yet] are free from the injuries of wind and sun. Perhaps you all in general, or the better part of you, are inquisitive222 to know, what may be expedient223, in order to escape [such] dreadful evils. There can be no determination better than this; namely, to go wherever our feet will carry us, wherever the south or boisterous224 south-west shall summon us through the waves; in the same manner as the state of the Phocaeans fled, after having uttered execrations [against such as should return], and left their fields and proper dwellings225 and temples to be inhabited by boars and ravenous226 wolves. Is this agreeable? has any one a better scheme to advise? Why do we delay to go on ship-board under an auspicious227 omen? But first let us swear to these conditions — the stones shall swim upward, lifted from the bottom of the sea, as soon as it shall not be impious to return; nor let it grieve us to direct our sails homeward, when the Po shall wash the tops of the Matinian summits; or the lofty Apennine shall remove into the sea, or a miraculous228 appetite shall unite monsters by a strange kind of lust; Insomuch that tigers may delight to couple with hinds229, and the dove be polluted with the kite; nor the simple herds may dread the brindled230 lions, and the he-goat, grown smooth, may love the briny231 main. After having sworn to these things, and whatever else may cut off the pleasing: hope of returning, let us go, the whole city of us, or at least that part which is superior to the illiterate232 mob: let the idle and despairing part remain upon these inauspicious habitations. Ye, that have bravery, away with effeminate grief, and fly beyond the Tuscan shore. The ocean encircling the land awaits us; let us seek the happy plains and prospering234 Islands, where the untilled land yearly produces corn, and the unpruned vineyard punctually flourishes; and where the branch of the never-failing olive blossoms forth235, and the purple fig adorns236 its native tree: honey distills from the hollow oaks; the light water bounds down from the high mountains with a murmuring pace. There the she-goats come to the milk-pails of their own accord, and the friendly flock return with their udders distended; nor does the bear at evening growl237 about the sheepfold, nor does the rising ground swell238 with vipers; and many more things shall we, happy [Romans], view with admiration239: how neither the rainy east lays waste the corn-fields with profuse240 showers, nor is the fertile seed burned by a dry glebe; the king of gods moderating both [extremes]. The pine rowed by the Argonauts never attempted to come hither; nor did the lascivious [Medea] of Colchis set her foot [in this place]: hither the Sidonian mariners241 never turned their sail-yards, nor the toiling242 crew of Ulysses. No contagious243 distempers hurt the flocks; nor does the fiery244 violence of any constellation scorch13 the herd31. Jupiter set apart these shores for a pious64 people, when he debased the golden age with brass245: with brass, then with iron he hardened the ages; from which there shall be a happy escape for the good, according to my predictions.
Ode xvii.
Dialogue Between Horace and Canidia.
Now, now I yield to powerful science; and suppliant246 beseech247 thee by the dominions248 of Proserpine, and by the inflexible249 divinity of Diana, and by the books of incantations able to call down the stars displaced from the firmament250; O Canidia, at length desist from thine imprecations, and quickly turn, turn back thy magical machine. Telephus moved [with compassion] the grandson of Nereus, against whom he arrogantly252 had put his troops of Mysians in battle-array, and against whom he had darted253 his sharp javelins254. The Trojan matrons embalmed255 the body of the man-slaying Hector, which had been condemned256 to birds of prey, and dogs, after king [Priam], having left the walls of the city, prostrated258 himself, alas! at the feet of the obstinate259 Achilles. The mariners of the indefatigable260 Ulysses, put off their limbs, bristled261 with the hard skins [of swine], at the will of Circe: then their reason and voice were restored, and their former comeliness262 to their countenances. I have suffered punishment enough, and more than enough, on thy account, O thou so dearly beloved by the sailors and factors. My vigor is gone away, and my ruddy complexion263 has left me; my bones are covered with a ghastly skin; my hair with your preparations is grown hoary264. No ease respites266 me from my sufferings: night presses upon day, and day upon night: nor is it in my power to relieve my lungs, which are strained with gasping267. Wherefore, wretch268 that I am, I am compelled to credit (what was denied, by me) that the charms of the Samnites discompose the breast, and the head splits in sunder269 at the Marsian incantations. What wouldst thou have more? O sea! O earth! I burn in such a degree as neither Hercules did, besmeared with the black gore of Nessus, nor the fervid270 flame burning In the Sicilian Aetna. Yet you, a laboratory of Colchian poisons, remain on fire, till I [reduced to] a dry ember, shall be wafted271 away by the injurious winds. What event, or what penalty awaits me? Speak out: I will with honor pay the demanded mulct; ready to make an expiation272, whether you should require a hundred steers273, or chose to be celebrated on a lying lyre. You, a woman of modesty274, you, a woman of probity275, shall traverse the stars, as a golden constellation. Castor and the brother of the great Castor, offended at the infamy276 brought on [their sister] Helen, yet overcome by entreaty277, restored to the poet his eyes that were taken away from him. And do you (for it is in your power) extricate278 me from this frenzy279; O you, that are neither defiled280 by family meanness, nor skillful to disperse the ashes of poor people, after they have been nine days interred281. You have an hospitable5 breast, and unpolluted hands; and Pactumeius is your son, and thee the midwife has tended; and, whenever you bring forth, you spring up with unabated vigor.
Canidia’s Answer.
Why do you pour forth your entreaties282 to ears that are closely shut [against them]? The wintery ocean, with its briny tempests, does not lash283 rocks more deaf to the cries of the naked mariners. What, shall you, without being made an example of, deride284 the Cotyttian mysteries, sacred to unrestrained love, which were divulged285 [by you]? And shall you, [assuming the office] of Pontiff [with regard to my] Esquilian incantations, fill the city with my name unpunished? What did it avail me to have enriched the Palignian sorceress [with my charms], and to have prepared poison of greater expedition, if a slower fate awaits you than is agreeable to my wishes? An irksome life shall be protracted286 by you, wretch as you are, for this purpose, that you may perpetually be able to endure new tortures. Tantalus, the perfidious sire of Pelops, ever craving287 after the plenteous banquet [which is always before him], wishes for respite265; Prometheus, chained to the vulture, wishes [for rest]; Sisyphus wishes to place the stone on the summit of the mountain: but the laws of Jupiter forbid. Thus you shall desire at one time to leap down from a high tower, at another to lay open your breast with the Noric sword; and, grieving with your tedious indisposition, shall tie nooses288 about your neck in vain. I at that time will ride on your odious289 shoulders; and the whole earth shall acknowledge my unexampled power. What shall I who can give motion to waxen images (as you yourself, inquisitive as you are, were convinced of) and snatch the moon from heaven by my incantations; I, who can raise the dead after they are burned, and duly prepare the potion of love, shall I bewail the event of my art having no efficacy upon you?
The Secular290 Poem of Horace.
To Apollo and Diana.
Phoebus, and thou Diana, sovereign of the woods, ye illustrious ornaments292 of the heavens, oh ever worthy293 of adoration294, and ever adored, bestow295 what we pray for at this sacred season: at which the Sibylline296 verses have given directions, that select virgins297 and chaste youths should sing a hymn298 to the deities299, to whom the seven hills [of Rome] are acceptable. O genial300 sun, who in your splendid car draw forth and obscure the day, and who arise another and the same, may it never be in your power to behold160 anything more glorious than the city of Rome! O Ilithyia, of lenient301 power to produce the timely birth, protect the matrons [in labor]; whether you choose the title of Lucina, or Genitalis. O goddess multiply our offspring; and prosper233 the decrees of the senate in relation to the joining of women in wedlock302, and the matrimonial law about to teem303 with a new race; that the stated revolution of a hundred and ten years may bring back the hymns304 and the games, three times by bright daylight restored to in crowds, and as often in the welcome night. And you, ye fatal sisters, infallible in having predicted what is established, and what the settled order of things preserves, add propitious fates to those already past. Let the earth, fertile in fruits and flocks, present Ceres with a sheafy crown; may both salubrious rains and Jove’s air cherish the young blood! Apollo, mild and gentle with your sheathed arrows, hear the suppliant youths: O moon, thou horned queen of stars, hear the virgins. If Rome be your work, and the Trojan troops arrived on the Tuscan shore (the part, commanded [by your oracles] to change their homes and city) by a successful navigation: for whom pious Aeneas, surviving his country, secured a free passage through Troy, burning not by his treachery, about to give them more ample possessions than those that were left behind. O ye deities, grant to the tractable305 youth probity of manners; to old age, ye deities, grant a pleasing retirement306; to the Roman people, wealth, and progeny307, and every kind of glory. And may the illustrious issue of Anchises and Venus, who worships you with [offerings of] white bulls, reign291 superior to the warring enemy, merciful to the prostrate257. Now the Parthian, by sea and land, dreads our powerful forces and the Roman axes: now the Scythians beg [to know] our commands, and the Indians but lately so arrogant251. Now truth, and peace, and honor, and ancient modesty, and neglected virtue308 dare to return, and happy plenty appears, with her horn full to the brim. Phoebus, the god of augury309, and conspicuous310 for his shining bow, and dear to the nine muses311, who by his salutary art soothes312 the wearied limbs of the body; if he, propitious, surveys the Palatine altars — may he prolong the Roman affairs, and the happy state of Italy to another lustrum, and to an improving age. And may Diana, who possesses Mount Aventine and Algidus, regard the prayers of the Quindecemvirs, and lend a gracious ear to the supplications of the youths. We, the choir313 taught to sing the praises of Phoebus and Diana, bear home with us a good and certain hope, that Jupiter, and all the other gods, are sensible of these our supplications.
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caucus
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| v.努力争取(for)( labor的第三人称单数 )；苦干；详细分析；（指引擎）缓慢而困难地运转 | |
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plows
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generosity
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miser
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luxuriously
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squander
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prodigal
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paternal
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prospect
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| (wide area network)广域网 | |
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shears
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adorned
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| [计]被修饰的 | |
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adorn
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mellow
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| adj.柔和的；熟透的；v.变柔和；(使)成熟 | |
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guardian
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glide
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| n./v.溜，滑行；(时间)消逝 | |
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murmur
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| n.低语，低声的怨言；v.低语，低声而言 | |
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slumbers
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tempestuous
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oars
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intercepting
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| 截取（技术），截接 | |
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toils
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| 网 | |
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snare
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| n.陷阱，诱惑，圈套；（去除息肉或者肿瘤的）勒除器；响弦，小军鼓；vt.以陷阱捕获，诱惑 | |
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voracious
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| adj.狼吞虎咽的，贪婪的 | |
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timorous
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| adj.胆怯的，胆小的 | |
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mischievous
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| adj.调皮的，恶作剧的，有害的，伤人的 | |
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chaste
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| adj.贞洁的；有道德的；善良的；简朴的 | |
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spouse
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| n.配偶(指夫或妻) | |
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industrious
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| adj.勤劳的，刻苦的，奋发的 | |
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hearth
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| n.壁炉炉床，壁炉地面 | |
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hurdles
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| n.障碍( hurdle的名词复数 )；跳栏；（供人或马跳跃的）栏架；跨栏赛 | |
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distended
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collation
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| n.便餐；整理 | |
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oysters
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| 牡蛎( oyster的名词复数 ) | |
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slain
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| 杀死，宰杀，杀戮( slay的过去分词 )； (slay的过去分词) | |
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drooping
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inverted
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invert
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pious
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baneful
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hemlock
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hardy
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| adj.勇敢的，果断的，吃苦的；耐寒的 | |
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bowels
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constellation
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laborious
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facetious
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allotted
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| 分配，拨给，摊派( allot的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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galled
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fetter
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strut
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knight
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mangling
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| 重整 | |
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tumult
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hideous
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| adj.丑陋的，可憎的，可怕的，恐怖的 | |
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fixed
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conjure
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| n.蝰蛇( viper的名词复数 )；毒蛇；阴险恶毒的人；奸诈者 | |
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marrow
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savage
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| adj.野蛮的；凶恶的，残暴的；n.未开化的人 | |
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| adj.行为不检的；n.放荡的人，浪子，肆意挥霍者 | |
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| adj.精美的；敏锐的；剧烈的，感觉强烈的 | |
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beholds
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conquerors
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maidens
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lamenting
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