Quid studiosa cohors operum struit? Hoc quoque curo. Bella quis et paces longum diffundit in ævum? Ut valet? ut meminit nostri? Fidibusne Latinis Thebanos aptare modos studet auspice Musa, An tragica desævit et ampullatur in arte? 10 Quid mihi Celsus agit ? monitus multumque monendus, 15 Privatas ut quærat opes et tangere vitet Scripta, Palatinus quæcunque recepit Apollo, Ne, si forte suas repetitum venerit olim 9. in ora. As Virg. G. iii. 9.: 'per ora;' and Theognis, 240.: πολλῶν κείμενος ἐν στόμασι. 10. Pindarici. etc. i. e. an imitator of Pindar. Cp. Carm. IV. ii. 11. This is perhaps an imitation of Callimachus, Epigr. xxix. 4. (The quotation is unimportant, except as an additional instance of familiarity with that poet.) 13. aptare. Carm. II. xii. 4. 14. ampullatur. Cp. ampullas, Ars P. 97.; and see note. This term is also said to be borrowed from Callimachus, Fragm. 319., Anκύθειος Μοῦσα. 20. 15. Quid mihi Celsus agit? Sat. 1. ix. 4., How is my friend Celsus ?" The Eighth Epistle is addressed to him. monitus. Orelli argues that this advice is given not against plagiarism, but imitation and translations from Greek poets. 17. Palatinus Apollo. The temple on the Palatine, with its public library. Cp. Epist. 11. i. 216. Its dedication is the occasion of Carm. 1. xxxi. Cp. Ov. Trist. 11. i. 6064. (The first library of the kind had been founded by As. Pollio in the Atrium Libertatis on Mount Aventine. See Ovid, 1. c. 71.) 21. Carm. IV. ii. 29. 24. respondere, with jura as a cognate accusative, to decide law points,' as chamber counsel. amabile carmen. Theocr. i. 61., ἐφίμερον ὕμνον. Prima feres hederæ victricis præmia. Quod si Hoc opus, hoc studium parvi properemus et ampli, EPISTOLA IV. AD ALBIUM TIBULLUM. ALBI, nostrorum sermonum candide judex, 10 Curantem quidquid dignum sapiente bonoque est ? 5 15 EPISTOLA V. AD TORQUATUM. Si potes Archiacis conviva recumbere lectis 1. x. 62., nor, though one of the con- also compare our Morning Hymn by · 6. eras. You used not to be.' But is it not rather an instance of the imperfect as used (refinedly) for the present tense? You certainly are not,' 'I cannot think you are.' 9. sapere et fari. Epist. 1. i. 57. Cp. Xen. Mem. 1. ii. 52.: à§lovs eîva τιμῆς τοὺς εἰδότας τὰ δέοντα καὶ ἑρμηνεῦσαι δυναμένους . 10. Compare the descr. of Thorius Balbus, Cic. de Fin. ii. 20.: "Color egregius (cp. v. 6. formam), integra valetudo, summa gratia," etc. 11. mundus victus. Nearly our 'comfort.' 13. Cp. Carm. III. xxix. 42.; 14.; and below Epist. XI. xxiii. 1. ix. But EP. V. 1. Archiacis. Made by Archias, some workman of the day. 'Archias breves lectos fecit.'-Schol. 2. olus omne. i. e. a frugal meal. 3. Torquate. See Carm. iv. vii. He seems (see vv. 10. and 31.) to have been a lawyer. Compare the mention of facundia in the Ode, v. 23., and the figurative arbitria as an image of death. 4. iterum Tauro, sc. iterum consule. B. c. 26. diffusa, sc. ex doliis in cados (or, amphoras). 66 contra defundi 66 ... Inter Minturnas Sinuessanumque Petrinum. 5 10 15 20 25 Tu, quotus esse velis, rescribe, et rebus omissis 30 EPISTOLA VI. AD NUMIČIUM. NIL admirari prope res est una, Numici, 30. quotus. Cp. Mart. xiv. 217.: EP. VI 1. Nil admirari, from the Greek, undèv lavμáGeiv, which the Schol. quotes as a saying of Pythagoras (it is given in Plutarch, De Audiendo, 13.). Orelli compares, amongst other passages, Archilochus, Frag. xxi. 2.: οὐδ ̓ ἀγαίομαι θεῶν ἔργα, and Lucian, Timon, 27. (describing a wealthy man), θαυμάζει τε τὰ οὐ θαμαστά, καὶ ὀρέγεται τῶν φευκτῶν. Cp. Cic Tusc. Qu. v. 28, and De Fin. v. 29: 6 summum bonum. àlaußlav. 10 15 2. facere beatum. On this term and these ethics consider St. Augustine's words (Serm. 150., quoted in Wordsworth's N T., on Acts xvii. 18.): "Dic, Epicuree, Quæ res faciat beatum? Responde: Voluptas corporis. Dic, Stoice: Virtus animi. Dic, Christiane : Donum Dei." 4. momentis. Ep. 1. x. 16. 6. Arabas... Indos. Carm. III. xxiv. 2. 10. pavor is used of hope in Virg. G. iii. 106.: exultantiaque haurit Corda pavor pulsans ; and similarly, too, exterreo, as in Virg. Æn. xi. 806. |