Q. HORATII FLACCI EPISTOLARUM LIBER PRIMUS. EPISTOLA I. AD MECENATEM. PRIMA dicte mihi, summa dicende Camena, EP. I. 1. Carm. I. i. 1. 2. Spectatum. "verbum propr. de gladiatoribus sæpe victoribus..... notâ SP expressum in tesseris (i. e. prize-medals) quæ talibus honoris causâ dabantur."-Orelli. rude. rudis was the foil or wooden sword of the gladiator, with which, on dismissal from service, he was presented. (Hence (in Sueton. Tib. 7.) the word rudiarii = emeriti.) 5 3. ludo. i. e. gladiatorio. Ars P. 32. 4. armis.... fixis. See note on Carm. III. xxvi. 3. 3-8. rude, armis, equum. These metaphors are similarly combined in Ov. Trist. IV. viii. 19-24. 7. purgatam. Pers. v. 63. 86. 8. Cp. Ennius, as quoted Cic. de Senect. 5.: Sicut fortis equus spatio qui sæpe supremo Vicit Olympia, nunc senio confectu' quiescit. Nunc itaque et versus et cetera ludicra pono, 10 Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo et omnis in hoc sum; Ac ne forte roges, quo me duce, quo lare tuter; 15 20 20 25 Epicurus. Cp. Eurip. Antiopa Fr., 35. 18. Aristippi. Epist. I. xvii. 23.; xviii. 103. 13. quo lare tuter, under what 19. mihi res. Cp. (for a verbal roof I shelter myself; i. e. to what resemblance) Herod. vii. 49.: ai sect of philosophy I belong. Orelli | συμφοραὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἄρχουσι, compares Carm. 1. xxix. 14., Socrati | καὶ οὐκὶ ἄνθρωποι τῶν συμφορέων. cam domum; and Cic. Divin. II. i. 23. ingrata. Irksome.' Cicero 3., Peripateticorum familia. 14. jurare in.... Cp. Epod.mihi ipse displiceo. Natus enim ad agendum semper aliquid dignum viro, nunc non modo agendi rationem nullam habeo, sed ne cogitandi quidem' XV. 4. 16-19. The sense is, 'Now, as a Stoic, I plunge into the turmoil of public life. Now, as an Epicurean, I glide back into indifference, and make myself independent of the world without.' Cp. Carm. L. xxxiv. 1-5. Λάθε βιώσας was the maxim of complains (Ad Fam. iv. 13.). 28. Lynceus. Вλénew ožúтepov TOû Auуkéws (Arist. Plut. 210.) was a proverb. So Sat. 1. ii. 90., 'Lyncei oculis.' .... Nec, quia desperes invicti membra Glyconis, 31. cheragra. Sat. II. vii. 15. 34. Eur. Hippol. 478.: εἰσὶν δ ̓ ἐπῳδαὶ καὶ λόγοι θελκτήριοι, φανήσεταί τι τῆσδε φάρμακον νό σου. 39. ferus, mitescere, culturæ. These words all correspond to one metaphor, as Virg. Geor. ii. 36.: 'Fructusque feros mollite colendo.' Cp. mitiget agrum. Epist. II. ii. 186. : 30 335 40 45 50 40. commodet aurem. "Lend me your ears." Shaks. J. Cæs. act strife? iii. sc. 2. 51. sine pulvere. Gr. ȧKOVITI. O cives, cives, quærenda pecunia primum est; Respondit, referam: Quia me vestigia terrent, 55 60 65 70 75 Bellua multorum es capitum. Nam quid sequar aut quem? 54. Janus. Sat. II. iii. 18. 55. dictata. See Epist. L. xviii. 13. 56. That is, like school children.' (The line occurs Sat. I. vi. 74. in a description of such.) Cp. Juv. xiv. 207-9. 57. lingua, readiness of language, a good address. Cp. Epist. I. iv. 9.: Sapere et fari quæ sentiat. 28. quadringentis. 62. Roscia lex. See on Epod. iv. 15. Cp. Juv. iii. 154-159. |