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ALBERT ANDREW HOWARD
POPS PROFESSOR OF LATIN THB GIFT <W HIS SON
HERMANN HAGEN HOWARD
BOnirS CLASSICAL LIBRART.
EPIGRAMS OF MARTIAL.
THE EPIGRAMS
M A E T I A L.
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PREFACE.
It IB a ghignlftr fact that Martial is the only Latin poet of mark who has not hitherto been oompletdy translated into the English language. If not so interestiiig as Poets of the Augustan Age for his latinity, he is more so for his piotnres of the manners and onstoms of Borne at that Teiy interesting period, the oommenoement of the Christian era. It mast be premised that his constant and soYere castigation of the two great vioes which prevailed in his time, and the unflinching boldness with which he pro- claims them, has given him the reputation of an obscene poet ; bat his lashings were well directed, and, no doubt, had a beneficial eflfect*
Elphinston, in his prefiuje, ventures to assert that Uartial laboured in the detection of error, the vindication of innocence, the diffusion of knowledge, and the display of truth; 4aid that he communicates more life, and more literature^ more wisdom, and more wit, than any other
IT PBXPACS.
of the audent poeta, or perhaps than all of them put together. This is Btromger language in his favour than other writers have used, and perhaps more than is borne oat by facts, bat the English reader may now judge for
The plan of the present edition has been to give every Epigram hitherto asoiibed to Martial, in English prose, accompanied, as far as they could be foond, by metrical versions. In those instances where an English translation given fidthfolly would not be tolerable, the Latin has been retained, accompanied 1^ the Italian version of Giaglia, who has been rather dexterous in refining impurities. He was an Italian teacher in London, where his book was printed in 1782 and 1791, and it then had, and still has, a very general and unrestricted sale. There have been seven complete French vendonB of Martial/ some very recent, and it would have been equally, if not more, con- venient to select from these, but that none of them have used the least refinement, and indeed, have sometimes rather exceeded their author in his worst properties.
This translation will at least be found to possess one singular advantage, that is, the metrical versions. For
> Trad, en pme par Miobel de WaTollea, Pazii^ 1655. Ba Ten pu M. de Mainlliia, Paiii^ 1671 and 1676. Bn Yeni par le Baraa Simon et P. B. Angola, Palis, 1819. Bq proae par VeKger, Dnbofa ek Haageait, Paris, 1884*^. Bn ven par Dnboa ek Jules Janin, Paris, 184]. Bn prose par Denis YoDaad, Parish 1807. Bn pzosa par H. Niaard, Parish 1848.
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these several xare volnmee were Immglit into xeqtuBitioii hy tbe editor, amongst others, a very interesting MS. of tbe age of ElisEabeth, whioih Tersifies with oonsideraUe ability a great proportion of the Epigrams. The only metrioal Torsions introdnoed which may he deemed un- worthy of heing reprinted, are those of Elphinston, which, it most he oonfessed, are very indifferent. Bnt he has always stood to the pnUio as the aooepted English Ternfier of Martial, and his pompous quarto, dignified hy a long array of sobsoribers' names, still ooonpies a prominent place in many libraries; we may therefore stand ezcosed fbr using him in places where no better
could befimnd.
H.G. B.
INTRODUCTION.
Tux Htentoe of imperial Borne baa powerfblfy influenced tbe dTilization of the Western wodd ; and« amid the vaat changes of our soda] system, stfll cratinaes to maintain its high place in the republic of letters. This is due partly to the granoenr of the people by whom the language was spoken, but more so to the illustrious writen who wedded it to intellectual creations that must ever be models for study and admiration.
Among these writen, Martial stands as the first Epigrammatist, notonly of Mb own, but of eyeiy succeeding age. The bent of his genins seems to have lain entirely in this direction. Everjrthing he penned, whether begging a &vour, satirizing a &ult» writmg an inscription, or paying a compliment, was an ^igram.
The word epigram originally signified, as ite etymology implies, nothing more than an inscription. But in the devtlopment which it received in the progress d Htersture, and especially at the hands of Martial, it assumed an entire^ new character, and may be de* fined aa the concentration of satire and pdnted invedxve in a short poem. Onie idea is selected, and to this aU the powers of the poet's mind are directed, and made to converge as to a point.
To the graceftdhess c^ the Ghneek epigram the Bomans super- added shrewdness and an acute observation of human nature : the shafts of Martial are pointed by the same sarcastic feeling which inspired the Epodes ot Horace, and the Satires of JuvenaL
In the eBsentials of brevity and smartness our author seldom or never &iied. Some of Mb epigrams are, it is true, very obscure to US now, owing to our inqieifect accjuaintance witii the subject of his satire. And in such a mass it ii to be expected that many would be of indiflferent merit. Of tMs the poet himself was w^ aware, as we learn item his own words. Book l Ep. 16 :
Sunt bona, sunt qnadam medioeria, timt malm plnra Qjm legii hie : afiter non fit, Arits, Uber.
Of ths epimniB whioh yon raid here, lome are ffood, boom middliiig, naay had t a book, Avitiii, cannot he made in any nther way.
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But flie greato part aie unquestioiiabhftin of jxrofetmdwit and hnnioor, aod it is only to be regretted uiat thej ahonld be aaao- flkted with so many thai mnst be inUderable to any bat an impure
He age of Mutial, which just preceded thd decline of Bo- man fitentore, aUowed foil aoope for epigrammatio aative. The dty cf ^me appears, as we kam fiom ^venaL and other oon- tempomy writas, to haye presented one nniverBal scene of TiUaznr. The despotism of the Emperors, the hixniy of the patricians, the disi^ation of the dtisens, and the conniption of pnolio men, had then amved at a dimaz. Eveiy featore of depravity started from the eanvass. The laws of nabore were ereiTwherB violated, and ddqnitf itself aoqidred a kmd of legal admowledgment
*' In amy street wbtb found Yoli^taoiii Sybarites with roaet eroim'd; The rank Kilstsn sod the Tarantiiie, Lmrd, putnlant, and xediog rips trith wins."
TheUography of Majwips ViigRiF^ VAitTT^.Ta jg involved insomeobscnzitf; an^Tthelittle we mow of him is chiefly derived fiom hb own writings. With the exception of iESIhis Yeras, who dfsigmsted him as "his Yirgil,'* and the yoonger PHny, he does not sppear to have been especiaUy noticed by any contempoiaiy wiHen. Pliiiy describes him as a man of acute and livefy geoins, whose wiittngs abound with an agreeable spirit of wit and satiie^ ymdmM at the aame time with great candoor and good natmv. He also informs ns that when Martial left Borne, hd made him a present to defray the expenses of his journey, **not onfy as a testimony of his fiiendship, but in retium for the verses with which he had complimented mm."
From the above, and occasional aUnsions made by Spartianiis, Lamnridina, and the grammarians of the later poioa, we are enahud to dean so much of Martial's personal histoiy, as that he was born at Bilbilis, in Spain, on the 1st of March, in the ttird year of Olandras, ▲. d.'4S. This Bilbilis (the modern Bnbien) was a town of andent Celtiberia, now known as Aingon, and sibuted on the river Sab, or Halo, which ftDs into the Eoro, abofe Saragossa. The name of our poet'a fslher (as we learn from the 84th Epignm of his 6th Book) was Fronto, and of his mother IlaoaOa.' At the age of twenty-one or tweDty-t?ro he came to
> ^nL BaiBSsy (Smith's Dieti srt Msrtisl) tresti this si s miioonlBep.
^im IXTEODUCTIOy.
Borne, in tlie ragn of Noo, ▲. d. 66 ; and there he ocmtinned to reside dozing a period of thirfy-fiye years, imdor the Emperon Galba, Otho, Yitellias, Yeqfwsian, Titos, and Domitian. His first intention was to qoalifyhimseiffixr the bar: bot on discovering that he had no genius or inoiinaiion for this profession, he applied himself to the stody of literatnie and poesy. In this panimt he happily sacoseded, and acquired an d^ant and Tersadie st^e of wnong, which intiodnc^ him to Siliiu ItaHcos, Juvenal, rliny, and many of the first wits of the age. It appears that a noble- man, named Stertinias, oonodved so great an esteem for Martaal's compositions, that he placed a statoe of him, while living, in his libruy — at that time an unosoal honour.
Domitian, the last of the twelve Cfesazs, whose name has ob- tained an in&mons notoriety in the annals of imperial Bome, con- fened many especial fiivoors on MartLal, which may be attributed to the adokbons bestowed upon him by the poet Among other bonoors Martial was advanced to the tribunate and eq[oe8- trifm dignity, and, at the same time, invested with the Jms irium Uberarumy which conferred on him all the important piivilagea ci a citizen who had threie children. The poet^ homiliating pe- tition for this honoor is recorded in Epigram 91 of Book iL
Martial's continued flattery of the brutal despot of Bome is a drawback on his feme. &s praiaes of the imperial monster were boondless and unqualified. Thus in one of his epigrams he invokes Jupiter not to confer fevouis on himself but iq>on the representative (^ the gods (Cssar), wbo, in his munificence, was certain to transfer them to his fevoured bard. And sore enough Domitian rewarded the poet not only with wealth, but with the highest honoois ; and this at the very time, as Juvenal, the fiiend of Martial, egresses it, when the tyrant
^ daily dntn'd, by none withitood, Tha dty of itf belt ana noUert blood."
On the aswaawination of Domitian^ to whom the senate refeae^ funereal honours, tiie true diaracter of Martial developed itaelfl After having portrayed the emperor, while Uving, as the pattern of every vhrtoe, he undertook, after death, to expose his fiendlike abominationa, and iq^reaented him as
" the monfter of the dmea, inthont one virtue to redeem hie crimeB.'*
Martial afterwards attempted to pay his court to Fngan; but that virtuoua monarch turned a deaf ear to him. Being forsaken
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by)miABDdM^he directed his thoughts towards hfa natiTe ooontiy whiokhe was enabled to xeyisit through the Hbendily of his finoid JPliiij; for it appears, aooordiiig to his own showing, ihst he was tim ndnoed to great distress. See Ep. 18, Book ▼
'* Sum, &teor, leniperqoa foi— psoper."
Hs fiiere sncoeeded in gaining the afeotions of a woman of fixtnM^ named Marcdla,w&m he eyentaaUy married. Bespeaks voj h^ifaly of this lady, who, it. appears, was in possession of a mugnificBnt house and gardens, which she settled npon her hnaboid. After his marriage he completed his 12th iBook of ^pipBns, at the desire of hu fiiend Priscos, a man of oonsolar d]gm^, to whom the book is insoribed as his natron. . The other two bodks, whidi oonstitote the 18th and Im of the series, are entitled **XeDia'* and " Apopboreta,'* and so called fixmi their ewitaiBing mottoes or de?ices to be affiTed to presents offisred to fisendii^Qr distributed at the SatornaliaandotherfintiTals. lliese fbarteen books are preceded by " Bpectacola," which are a series of qiigrams on the shows odiibifced hr IStos and'Domitian; tboott^ u it n)|peax8, not all written by Martial himselfl
Martial liTea m eomparative afllnence and ease to an advanced period offife; anddiea aboiitthe ttthyearof Ipage, ilieip4tit^ of die Christian era. ^^^s^KiWftfl^^ tdl^
Mny difScnlties exist in the chronology of Martial's Epi- nams; but the researdies of Lloyd, DodmQ, and dmton have done midi towards their satisfiictoiT ehuadation. It appeare that the diffBrent books were collected and pnbHshed \yf Martial, sometimes singfy, and at other times sevoal together. Their chronolMgf and cider of publication are thus stated in ;Dr. Smith'a Biotionaiy of Gredc and Eoman Biography :
"Us 'liber de Spectacolis,' and the first nine books of the re- gular aeriee^ involve a great number of historical allusions, ex.- tepdiag fiom the games of Titus, a. b. 80, to the return of Do- ndtian from the Sarmatian expedition, in January, a. d. 94. The aeoQod book could not have been written until after the commence- BMDt of the Dadan war ^ 2), that is, not before a. d. 86, nor the sixtii untQ after the triumph over the Dadans and Germans (a. d. 91);^ Ae seventh was written while the Sarmatian war, whidi be- gan in A. D. 98, was still in progress, and reaches to the end of that year. The eighth book opens in Januuy, a.i>. 94; the ninth also niBn to the same epochs out nu\y, as Cuinton m^posea^have
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been written in ▲• D. 96. The whole of tbeae wete compoMd at Eome, except the third, which was written during a tonr m Gallia Togata. 1^ tenth book was published twice : t^finteditioQ was given hastily to the worid ; the second edition, that which we now read (x. 2), cdebiates the aniyal of Tnjan at Bome, after his ac- cession to the throne (x. 6, 7, 84, 72). Now since this event took pbce A. D. 99, and since the twenty-fouith epigram of this book was written in honour of the author's fifty-seventh birth-day, we are thus supplied with the data requisite for fixing the epoch of his birth; and since at the dose of the book (x. 104) he had been thirty-four years at Borne, we can thence calculate the time when he Idt Spain. Hie eleventh book seems to have been published at Borne early in ▲. D. 100, and at the dose of the year he n>- tuined to Bilbilis. After keeping silence for three years (xiL pro- em.), the twdfth book was despfl£ched finom Bilbilis to Bome (xii 8, 18), and in this he refers (xiL 5) to the two preceding books, published, as wis have seen, in ▲. D. 99 and 100.
Martial, though he often offends by gross indelicacies of expres- sion, or pruriency of thought, stands preeminent, not only as an epigrammatist, but as one of the purest Latin writers of his age; and his style and manner have been generally copied by the wits of all succeeding periods. Yet there are few authors who have been moie exposed to critidsm. Some have bestowed upon him the most unqualified praise, while others have treated him with the grossest scuirility. The learned Scaliger dedares that many of Ins epigrams "are divine^ and his style pure and ex- act," and Moifaofins, in his " Polyhistor," speaks of nis "elegant knowledge of the Latin tongue." Vossius^ on the contrary, con- tends th^ Martial was one of those authors who taught vice while reproving it; and that, though he deserves commendation for many of his epigrams, yet by those which are obscene he did more harm than by others he had done good.
Notwithstanding the conflicting opinions of his numerous critics, it is perhaps not too much to say, that the writings of Martial will be read and admired so bug as the Latin language shall continue to be undentood. Thej are pervaded by a vein of wit ttid fund of infonnation concerning the manners and customs o( the important age in whidi he lived, that will always render him valuabk and iuteiestiiig both to the ardiedogist anid ttie student, of human nature.
MARTIAL
OK THE FUBIJO SHOWS OF DOlOnAK.
I. OS THB AHPHITHIXTBl.
Lit bsrbarian^ Memphis keep silenoe oonoeminff the won* d««> of her pynmicf, and Irt not ijM^rian ^ Taunt ita Bahylon. Let not the effeminate lonians claim praise for tiieir temple of ^e Trivian goddess ; snd let the sltar, brist- ling with noms, speak modertlj of the name of Delos.* Their mausoleum too, nan^ing in empty air, let not the Carians with immoderate prF*«4 extol to the skies. Eyery work of toil yields to CsMar's amphitheatre; fieune shall tell of one woiifor alL
' Ths word barhara may agree either with Mempkii or miraeula. Most probehlj it it meant to tie taken with the former. It was a habit of the Greeks and from them copied by the Bomana (see Plant Mil. Glor. ii. S. 58), to speak of all thoae who were not of theur own nation aa barbari; whkik worn oonseq[nently signifies nodung more than firti^ itnmffB^
* MwaciUa. — The wonders of the ancient world were nsqally con- siderad to be sofen : ris. — - 1. The Egyptian pyramida; 2. The temple of DianaatEnhesos; 3. The tomb erected by Artemiaia, qneen of Gana, in memory of her deceased husband Mansolns, fVom whom it deriTod its name of Mansolenm; 4. The Goloesns of Rhodes; 5. Phidias' Japiter Olympios, a statne of ivoiy and gold; 6. The hanging gardens of Baby- km, lakl out npon the walls of that capital; 7. The palace of Cyrus, king of Persia*
* Tliere was an altar in Delos, said to have been ccnstmcted by Apollo of the honis of the stags slain by Diana, or " the Tririaa goddc- '*
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No more let lun-barnt Oairo vaunti fhat tlM Bequeaths her wonders to eternity. Let not Boitoites, in a suj>erb st^le^ Brag her ivul-girdle unto sixty mile. Who lends Diana confidenoe to tell Her cedar statues soom a parallelP What if Apollo's homed altar stands Unimitable t^ Lvsippus' hands P Let CSsrian mmuoence presume so far As to make Mausoleum Jdss a star, Bsme TeDnsI and thy prodigies confer ; They must kneel to the Amphitheatre. This mirade, graced by Vespasian's name. Hath the monopoly of cheoquer'd fisuoie.
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Egypt; fbrbesr thy pyramids to praise, A oarbVons work up to a wondn raise ; Let Babylon cease ui* incessant toil to prise, Which made her walls to such immensenesB rise r Nor let th' E^esians boast the curious art Which woader to their temple does impart. Belos, disKmUe, too, the high renown Which did thy hom-frsmed altar lately crown i . Gazia, to Tsmt Ay Mausoleum spare. Sumptuous te cost, and yet for art more rare, As not booM up, but pendulous T th' air. All works to Oinai^s tneatre give place ; This wonder Fame abore the rest does grace.
Jmm. 1606.
Why siog Ae wonders of th' Egyptian shore ? Let lar-iiuBed Babylon be nraised no more ,* Let not loida vaunt Diana s feuie ; • • • • • • *
Nor let the Carian town exalt so high
Its mausoleom, hanging in the sky ;
In CsBar's amphitheatre are diown
Those rifal glories all combined in one :
Let Fame henceforth her dam'rous tongue confine
To sing the beauties of that dome divine. Eustace*
II. Oir THE FUBLIO W0BK8 OF BOiaTIAJT.
Here, wheze the stonr Colossus^ surveyB the skies from • nearer point than we, ana where lofty Bcaffoldings* now rise in
* A colussal statue of Umself, raised by Nero as an ornament to the vestibule of his "golden kraae," 120 feet ui height (Suet. Ner. & 31). On the fate of this Goloaiw, see Gifibrd. Juv. viii. 230.
' Scaffoldings, or pageaais, coniiisting of sererai stories
OH THX TTBLIO BHOWB. 8
the midst of tbe street, the detested balls of a criel king lately glistened,* and one single mansion began to oocapy tbe wmde space of tbe city. Here^ wbere tbe yenerable * mass of tbe &r-seen Ampbitbeatre now rises, were the ponds of Nero. Here, wbere we gaxe witb admiration at the ThermiB^ a boon so suddenly bestowed,' a proud lawn bad deprifed poor wretcbes of tbeir homes. Where tbe Claudian portioo now throws its wide-spreadine shadows, was tbe last remnant of a fidlingoonrt. Bome has been restored to herself, and what were formerly tbe delights of the master, are now, under thy nde, Cnsar, those of tiie people.
Where the ethereal Coloss doei appear, The towVuig Machine to the stan draw near, The hated coart, which so much Uood did spills Late stood: one boose the city seem'd to fill!
Where the stapendous theatre's great pile Is reared, there Nero's fish-ponds were erewbile. Here, where the Baths, a sreat yet medy gift, All men admire (the people left to smft For dweOings) late was a nroud ample space, Beaenred to boast an insolent state and grace.
Where now a goodly terrace does extend. The city both with shade and walks befriend, Was bvBt the comt^s fitg and ei^iring end.
Bome '§ to itself restored ; in GeBwi's reign The prince's pleasures now tiie people gain. jMon^lWi*
Where the Colossal star would stars smrey, And rising machtnatioQB maie the way, DiTcrged the conrts of an inridions crown. And one vast house monopolised the town. Here, where the awfol pile displays the show, Apond of Nero could presume to flow. We there the Baths, the sudden boons, admire. Where the prond lawn bade wretches' homes retire. Wbere Claudins* portioo expands her shade, Was the last stand a fiJling nalace made. Hail, Bome restored ! hail, Usesar, thy rewards ; Those ere the people a joysy that were its lord's.
' The horror with which a Roman* after the expulsion of the Tarquin^ nnrded a Irinst is well known.
* Because dedicated to Mars.
* Hastfly eneted by Titus ; see Suetonius, Life of Titus, c 7, and note Bokm'i erfir. p. 470.
2LUIVUL
III. TO OJMJLBy OS THS COITCOUESB Ol BTaiLSeXES
TO fiOKS.
What race ii bo distant from us, what race so barbarous, CsBsar, as that from it no spectator is present in thy city ? The coltiyatar of Bhodope is here from Orpheus* Hsmus : ^ the Sarmatian nourished by the blood drawn from his steed, is here. He too who drinks the waters of the Nile where it first becomes known to us, and he whose shores the surge of the remotest ocean laves. The Arabian has hastened hiUier^ the Sabaeans have hastened, and Gilicians have here drip- ped with showen of their own perfume.^ With locks twist- ed into a knot^ are come the Sicambrians; and with hair twisted in otiier forms, tiie jEthiopians. Though different the speech of the various races, there is but one utter- ance, when thou art hailed as the true father of thy country.
Most potent sir! whst n^on is so rode From whence into your aty none intrude P The Bhodopeisn fanner IcAves oold Thrace, And to benqoet his. eyei eleots this plaoe : Tartariaai, imo quaff horses* blood at home Are much impatient till they have view'd Bome. lliev who fint eive a welcome to the NUe ; Ana tfaiy on whom sweet Zephyros doth smOe. Both the Axalnas are in rapid haste i For perftmied water Ana comes not last Shall we omit knot-hair'd Sicambrians, And nature's frizzled Ethiopians P llieir langnages are disorepant; yet all The fitther of your country can you oalL Pedse^
What land's so barVrous, Caasar, so remote, Whose natives come not to admire thy court P Bongh Thraoians hither from Mount Hflsmus speed t Fieroe Tartars, who on flesh of hoises feed ; Who the Nile drink at Ihe first sprinff and head ; Britons from utmost Thule hither led. Arabs mske haste, CSlieians posting come, And in their saffinon showers are dranch'd atBomei Germans inth rolling locks in knots upftirrd ; Ethiops siter a diffrent manner corrd^
> Modepe and Hieaitw. Two of the highest mountains in Thraea
OV THB PITBUO SHOWS. O
Vsrions ihek voices soaiid, bat heartiy we see, And the whole jaigon, does in one sgxee When Jb^AdT ^% ComUrw all style thee.
What Boene seqnester'd, or what rade renown, Sends no spectators to th' imperial town? Hie Bhodopeian hind here soonrs the plainsi And tunes nrom Hssmns Ids Ornhesn strainsi Sarmatians, CSesar, hie thy works to see» And thdr proud hoTMs ahare their master's glee i Ther come who flnt ihe risinff Nile explore^ And they who hear remotest Tethyi* roar ; The Arab hastes, the Sabean hither flies, And the Cilidan spurns his natiTe skies ; With tortured tresses, here Sicambzians gay, There Etibiops stroll along the crowded way. Idd Tarious tongues, but one glad Toioe we find, Which hails thee fiither of converged mankind.
WuimmiUr BevieWf Apr. 1853.
IT. TO OMBAS^^ UPOV HIS BAKIBHUrff ICTOSHBBS.
Hut erowd, hostile to peace, and foe to calm repose ; that erowd, which was ever mdestmg unfortuDAte opmence, has been handed oyer to the Ghetulians. The arena did not suffice for the nomber of the guilty :* and the informer now suffers that exile which he sought to giye to others.
Those catorpfllarB of the cosmionweahh.
The poor man's wolf^ whose liyelihood was stealth,
Groinng too numerous, are shipped away.
To least the lions of Oetulia :
And those informers, who have many sent
Into ezile^ now suffer banishment Pectf,
The hatefbl crew to peace and sweet repose. Informers, anxious wealth's molesting roes (The lions not sufficing to destroy The numerous caitiflb toat did all annoy).
■ Who is raesnt r Titus or Domitasn r It is equally applicable te eithsr of them. See Suetonius, Tit 8, and Domit 9.
' N0O etpU anna noeentea is rendered by scmie trsnslators, "end the Bsndy desert wss not large enouf^ to cootam the number of Uie guilty." Otheis, with greater probability, suppoee that the informers were exposed to the public gase in the arena of the Amphitheatre, beftre they -vera sent iato exile; see Sueton. Tit o. 8.
HASTIAL
T: th' Ides and ftirthest Africa are aent i And thoae that oauaed now sufBor baniahment
Jmm. 1695.
IT. B. OV THI BAld STTBJSOT.
The informer now wanden an outcast firom the Auaoniat city : this you may add to the other boons of our prince.
The head of Italy CaMar acquits
From sycophants. New days, fresh benefits.
Jmom, 1695.
T. Oir THl 8FXCTA0U OF PAfllPHAB.
Believe that PasiphaS was enamoured of a Cretan bull : wo have seen it. The old story has been confirmed. Let not ▼enerable antiquity boast itself OsBsar ; whateyer fiune cele- brates, thy arena reproduces for thee.^
Enamouz'd of a bull a Cretan queen We oft have heardt but now the thing hate seen. Then, CSmar, let not age her pride dii^ilay : What fitUe feign'd, thy Cirque has shown to-day.
n. TO QMEJiRy OV ▲ WOKAS'S TiaBHrSQ WTTta ▲ LIOV.
That the warrior Mars aerres thee in arms, suffices not, OsDsar ; Y enus, too, herself serves thee.
TI. B. OV THE SAHB SUBJECT.
A lion laid low in the vast jMih of Nemea &me trumpeted abroad as a noble exploit^ and worthy of Hercules. Ijet ancient tales be silent ; for since thy shows have been ex- hibited, Oasar, we have seen this accomplished by a woman's hand.'
*T is not enough in this our martial age
That men, but women, in fierce commit *gage.
Among the noblest acts frone does lesound,
Aloides Isid a lion on the ground.
Let fiJiles cease : Casar, at thy command,
This hath been acted by a woman's hand. .^sos. 1695.
* See Snetooiiu, Nero, o. 12.
* The last wordi are a co^jectoial mode of filling up a lacuna in tke ^^ In aome edition^ theae two epigrams are giren as one.
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CIS TBM IWUO SHOWB. 7
Nol Man alone eigoji imTaDmiiBh'daniifly For tfaeetijTeat Cnaar, YeBtis ihana th' alanoff A lion fcNU'd, and in a vasty Tale, Hie teak Herealean rear*d ^ loftj tele. Old fidth be mute : at thine angmcoommand Sneh deeds we aaw aohieVd by female hand.
As erat^ bound down upon the Scythian rqck, Prometheus with eyer-renewed vitala feaated the untiling Tulture, ao has LauieoluSy auapended on no feigned croaa, offered his defenceleaa entrails to a Caledonian hour. His maneled limba quivered, every port dripping with gore, and in nis whole ood^ no shape waa to be found. In short, he suffered such puniahmezit aa one who had been guilty of parricide, or who had cat his master's throat, or mid msanelv despoiled the temples of tbeir hidden gold,' or had wplied the incendiary torai to thee, O Some. This crimimu had surpassed the Crimea of ancient atory, and what had been fiibulous, was in faia case a real punishment.
Prometheos to oold Gaucasui is chain'd.
Whilst bv hit entraili vultures axe lastain'd:
Wretehea Lameolus a northern bear
Very sinoerely did asunder tear.
Every vein to weep blood was inelined ;
Sfziet seaieh m 's carcass oonld no body find. ^
Urns one that stebVd his master must have died.
Or acton of inibmal parricide.
This torment is his due who dazes Rome fire,
Or who ddlowen the godi^ most sacred choir.
Obsolete miiehieft reealuto the stage :
Fables prove true in this our conscious age. Pede.
■ lids -epigram refers to a Ballet Or Drama of Action, composed either by Navitis or by Enniiis, — for on this point the leaxned oisagree,— in vidch a certain Lameolus, a noted robber, was crucified on the stage. UsoaUy the death was amply a e<i^$P*-deaih, withont harm to the actcr. DomituB has the honour of introdndng a real death— that of an un- fcftnnate wretch already condemned " for the ommMmmf of this detest- able people."-— See Giflbrd and Mayor on Jut. viii. 187 ; and for a curious comment, compare what Martial says of the tigrese in Ep. 18. 6 : *' Post- qnam inter nos est, plus feritatU habet ! "
' It was a common pimctice for tbo ancients to deposit their private property in the temples for greater security.
8 UAxrui,
DsdaluB, whQe thou wast being thus torn by a Lucaoian bear, how must thou have desired to hare those wings oi thine.
Now, Dedaliu, thou thtts art torn
By the Lncanian bear. How dost thou wish thy waxen wings,
Agun'to cut the abf Fletcier-
So ton, O Dsdal, by Lxicanian bear,
Then well migfaf st wish thy wonted wings to wear.
IX. OK THB BHIK00BB08.
The rhinoceros, exhibited for thee, CsBsar, in the whole apace of the arena^ fonght battles of which he gave no pro* mise. Oh, into what t^rible wrath did he with lowered head blaze forth I How powerful was that tusk to whom a bull was a mere baQ ! *
He who with armed nostril wildly elared* Has fooffht the battles he had not aedared. How did his headlong rage the pit appal I How flash'd the horn that made a bull a ball I
X. OV ▲ LIOV THAT HUBT HIS KEEFXB.
A perfidious lion with ungrateful jaws had wounded his keeper, haying dared to attiKsk with violenoe the hands so well known to him. But worthy of such a crime was the offender's punishment, and he who would not submit to oorree* tion, suooumbed to weapons. What should be the characters of men under such a prince, who bids the savage nature of brutes become more gentle !
> A iimilar aifpinient to Uie pxeceding, a crimiiial being compelled to act the part of Dndaliis, and precipitated by tbe failme of Ua Tringa among a croud of bimgry bean. On the bear-flgbts in the arena, aee be- low, £p. 11; Jmr. ir. 99.
* A oall oovered with red doth, used for the purpose of irritating the animals ; aee below, Ep. 19 ; B. it Ep. 43; B. sir. Ep. 53, in vhich last epigram releieDoe is made to the same contest between the ihinooerci and a bulL
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OS THX PUBUO 8H0VS. ^
With deep ingntitade, a lion flew
At '8 keepaf^s throat ; thus his aoauamtance slew.
But he receiTed hif wages ; since ne eonld
Kodure no blows, the hivitang-speazi he should.
Men must be cantelous in caxriage, since
Beasts are taught morals by our gracious prince. PmNl
A trattf^ons lion on his keeper flew,
In him that fed him durst nil teeth imbue.
But Tengesace worthy of his crime he found :
Who bore not stripes, was forced to bear the wound. •
To sudi a prince what manners ou^t men show,
Who beasti commands a gratitude to know I Jsum, 169A>
ZI. OK A LIICXB BXAB.
Whilat Bruin was roUinff himself impetuoiisly on the Uood-atained arena, he lost the power of flight, entangled in bird*lime. Henoefcnrtii let glittering hnnting-Bpeara ue n^ leeted, and their iron points be hid; no more 1^ the dart Sj forth, lanced by the exerted arm. Let the huntsman suipriae Us prey in the open air, if beaata are to be caught by the fowWa art.*
A bear roU'd barrels on the bloody sand,
And was arrested at bird-lime's command :
There *s no more need to throw the letal spear.
Or that a lance should forbid coming nesr.
Huntsmen may chase the birds unto a bay,
If ibwlers to catch beasts oonceiTe &ir play. Feeh,
While Bruin wallow'd in th' enssnffuin'd sand.
He lost, bdimed, the needM flighrs commandL
Now let the glesming spears in darkness lie,
Nor from the twisted arm the jayUns fly i
In fields of air the huntsman seiie his prey,
If by the fowler's art we beasts betray. Btpkuuiaa.
> Jkpnkmderw is the proper word for eaptoring hetuiB of ihtjiddi €afiar9, for snaring th§ fowta of the oir. So that Martial's mean- ing BAy be this : the huntsman had better nse his arts in trying to cap* tore the fowls of the air, since the beasts of the field are now taken by arts borrowed from bixd-catchers. Or rather, that the huntsman need no longer conceal himself in thickets, or aim spears at wild beasts from a distSDce, since he mar catch them on the open plains with bird-lime, sad desfiatGh them with ms hvnting-knife at his ease.
]0 llABTUJb
Zn. OV ▲ 8HE-B0AB, THAT BBOTTGHT FOBTH TOVJTO HI
OOKSSQUXVCX 07 A WOT727B.
Amidst the terrible contests by which Cesar imitates the sports of I>ian% a light spear having pierced a pregnant sne-boar, one of her litter leaped forth from the wound of its wretched motiier. Oh ! cniel Lucma ! was this a delivery ? She would willingly have died wounded by more weapons, that this sad way to life might have been opened to all her young ones. Who will now deny that Bacchus owed his t>irth to the death of his mother r you may believe that a deity was so produced ; for thus has a beast been bom.
r th' JNiblic huntinsB Cssar did allow, A jav%i swift tranmx'd a pregnant sow : StzBigfat from the wounded dun the litter sprang; Lndna, eaU'st thou this to bring forth yoimg P The dying sow wish'd that her wounds were more, That isBoei had been made for all her store. Who dames Baochus from the womb was torn P A god mdflttt well, when beasts were this way bonu
Xni. OK THE 8A1CB.
Stricken with deadly weapon, and pierced with a mortal wound, the prc^^nant sow at once lost life and save it. Oh ! how unerring was the hand with the well-poised dart 1 This I believe to have been Ludna's stroke. Dying, she ex- perienced the power of either Diana ; ' hers, by whom the mother was delivered, and hers, by whom the savage beast was destroyed.
Pierood with a deadly dart, the wounded mother At one time lost one life and gave another. How sme the leveU'd steel the right hand throws! lliis was Lucuia's srm, I do suppose. Disaa's double power she did sustain, When di* parent was delivered and yet slain.
A pngnant sow, pierced with a deadly blow. Her me at once aid lose and life bestow.
« Diana in her two characters ; that of huntreas, and that of tbr goi- daM preaidms oteir childbirth.
OV THI PITBLIO SHOWS. H
How sure an aim did tlie dire steel oommsadi Loema, 't was believed to be thr band : For dying both thy daitiea she round, The huntreas and the midwift in her wound.
Anoiu 606.
rrr. ov thi sakx.
A wild she-boar, iost about to be delivered of the pledse of her ripen'd womb, gave bir& to her ofipring, being made a parent by a wound ; nordid the litter lie still-Dom, but ran about while its mother was fiillinff. • Oh 1 how great inyen- tion is evoked by sudden chances I
A sow, now jreat with pig, died of a wound Through which her litter tumbled to the around ; While the dam stagger'd, that stay'd not behind : Distress will force a pig some wit to find. Fedb$,
A sow, her litter ready to have laid,
Was by a &tal stroke a mother made :
The younff, not staying birth, nn forth the womb.
How quick a wit in sudden straits is found 1
jMnu 1695.
The pregnant boar, with ripen'd honours crown'd.
Became a parent from her mortal wound.
Soon as the mother fell, the grioelings flew:
What th' ingenuity of chance can do 1 ElpkuuUm.
XT. 09 CAltP0PH0B17S.
That which was the utmost glory of thy renown, Melea* ger, a boar put to flight, what is it h a mere portion of that OT Carpophoms. He, in addition, planted his hunting-spear in a fierce rushing bear, the monarch in the realm of the northern pole ; he also laid low a lion remarkable for* its unheard-oi size, — a lion, which might have become the hands of Hercules ; and he then, with a wound from a distance, stretched lifeless a fleet leopard. And when at loigth he canied off his prizes, he was still in a condition to engage in new combats.
A boar, Meleager, which gave thee a name, Adds little to Caipophorurs fame : Who a vast bear, rushing upon him, slew ; The nortfaem dime a fiercer never knew i
12 UXUTIAL
A lion wbioh beoame Alddei^ hand»
Of immeme bulky he kid upon the laad t
Alao a pud : and idien the prise was woUf
He itill was fresh^ and conla yet more have dona.
16M.
Zn. OV ▲ BTTLL BlABIVa HBSCTTLlfiB TO THB 8KIB8.
That a boll, matched up from the midst of the arena, cended to the akies^ was a work, not of art, but of piety.
Zn. B. Oir THB 8A1CB BUBJBCT.
A bull' had carried Europa through his brother's waves ; but now a bull has borne Alcides to the stars. Compare now, Fame^ the bulls of GsBsar and of Joto : ' grant that they carried an equal weight, GaBsar's bore it to a greater height.*
Hist the boll was snatch'd up into the sky
Seems not a pageant, but true piety:
On a bull's mu£ Euroua rid at ease,
But not to heayen* as aid Hercules.
Let JoTe and Oeesar's bulls for credit vie }
Jove's did but swim, snd Ceesaf s bull can fly. Pedfca.
That from the stage a bull towards heaven did fly
Was not th* eiq)loit of art, but dei^ :
A bull Euroi>a through the surges Dore,
But with Alcides now iMve clouds doth sosr.
The fret of CflBsar and of Jove compare,
'Which of the two shall we pronounce most rare F
Suppose the burdens even ; were that true^
The Jighter-loaded swsm ; the heavier flew. Jnom. 1095.
Bi^from the sand, a bull ascends the skies ;
Let not the act, but pietv, suiprise :
One bore Europa through fhitemal main,
And one Alcides to th' ethereal reisn.
Compare the steers of CaBsar and of Jove :
What diffrent loads through difTrent mediums rove I
xm. oir Air xLXPHAirr'B KinxLora to ojisab.
Whereas piously and in suppliant guise the elephant kneels
*• That is, Jupiter in the shape of a bnll. * SeeJuvsnsliv 101.
' Comx>are B. I. Ep. 6.
F^Ewai
OV THl PimiJO 8H0W8. 18
to thee, Cnear, — ^that elephant which erewhile was so formi- dable to the bull hia antagoniaty — ^thia he doea without com- mand, and with no keeper to teaeh him : belieye me, he too feela our pieaent deily.
That thee an dephaat tappliant did adore,
Who Btroek with terror afierce bidl before,
T* his keeper^B art cannot im^ted be |
We must ascribe it to thy deitj. Anon. 1695.
• • •
None taoffht him homage, bat by instinct he
Kneel'd £>wn to you, beeanse a deity* PecKuu
xyiii. ov A TiOBiaa matohxd with a lzof.
A tigreaa that had been accoatomed to lick the hand of her unanapeeting keeper, an animal rf rare beauty firom the Hy> canian mountaina, being enraged, lacerated with maddened tooth a fierce lion ; a atrange occurrence^ audi aa had neyer been known in any ace. She attempted nothing of the aort while ahe liyed in the depth of the foreata ; but aince she baa been amongat ua, she haa acquired greater ferocity.
The rare-seen glory of th' Hyroanian land,
A ti^, wont to lick his msstet^s hand,
Inpteoes tore a lion in his rage ;
A thing not known before in any age.
He dnrst not this attempt in forests high :
Beasts among men learn greater emel^. Anon. 1096.
XEL Oir THI BULL AVB THX ILSFHAVT.
The bull, which, lately goaded by flamea through the whole arena, had caught up and caat aloft the balla,^ auccumbed at length, beinff atruck 1^ a more powerful horn, while he im- agined the ttephant might eaaily be thua tosaed.
When the strong boll, enraged by fire, did eye
Puppies like men, he mounted mm on h^ }
But dreaminff thus an elephuit to toss.
He was struck dead by the flinty proboss. Psdki,
1 PUtti, See note on Ep. 9.
14 UAMTIAL
XX. OK MTRTSVB AITB TBIUXPHTTB, TITO aLABIATOBt.
When one &ction ^ was callipg for MTriniu, the other for Triiunphua, GaBsar promised them both with either hand. He oonld not have terminated the amnm'ng contention in a better waj. Oh, the charming wit of onr nnriyalled prince
These Myrinns, Triamphos these demsnd :
Indnlflsnt Gbbsst wstss his either hsnd.
Who oetter oould the nice decision hit ?
UnriTsll'd pzinoe, how gracious is thy wit ! Elphhuiitn.
XXI. Oir OBPHBUB.
Whatever Bhodope is said to have beheld npon Orpheus' stage, yoor arena, Cassar, has exhibited to yon. Books have crept alonff, and, marvelloas sight! a wood, such as the grove of the Hesperides is believed to have been, has run. There was to be seen every species of wfld beast mingled with flocks, and above the poet bung many a bird. Bnt be him- sdf was laid low, torn by an ungrateful bear. Thus, how- ever, this story, which was before but a fiction, has now be- cone a &et.*
What ThsBoe on Or^wuf stage was said to see, Cnflsr, the sand exhibits here to thee. The rocks have crept, and the strange wood did move. Such as was once believed ih* Hespoian aiove. A mingled troop of all wild beasts were there, And o'er the bard a cloud of birds in th* air ;
But he lay torn by the ungrateful bear : As it came feigned thence, so 't was tmc
tme here. FldAtr.
What in the Thracian mount 's of Orpheus told.
Thy theatre, great Ciesar, did unfold :
The rocks were seen to move, the woods to run,
When to his harp the wondrous minstrel song :
Tosether with the trees the beasts were led,
Ana hovering birds circled his sacred head.
At last a bear the prophet piecemeal tore^
Acted in truth -whit mbled was before. Anom, 1095.
* Pan, tbat is, «a fiustion of the people m the Amphitheatie." As to the fuhjeet of the epignm, see Sueton. .fiomt^. 0.4, BMm DwuL p. 481. Mvrinus is mentioiied again, B. laL Shp. 29.
' Coicpaze the storj m £ps. 7 and 8, where a criminaLbeiiig oUiged to act an anamed part m a ihow, was killed by a bear.
OH THS PiriLIC SHOWS. 17
nr. oir thi sxmBinoir ov ths stort of lxaj^deb.
That the wave in thy noctaniBl joumej should have spared thee, Leander, cease to wouder : it was Gieear's wave.
XXY. B. ok Li'AVDEB.
While the daring Leauder was seeking the sweet ohject of his love, and, exhausted, was just being ingulfed bj the swelling waves, the unfortunate adventurer is ssid to have thus a^iressed the menacing surges : ''Spare me on my way ; drown me on my return." '
Leander, wonder not curFd waves th«e spare ;
These ioofiiensive surges CflBsar^s are.
When Tethvs stopp'd love-sick Leandei's breath,
And some few drops would hurry him to death,
The poor wretch begged: 0 waft me safe to spround ;
When I have seen my dear, let me be drovm^ JPseXw.
zxYi. OH A Bwnocnre xzhibitiof.
The eentle band of Nereids sported throughout the sea, and adorned the yielding waves with manv an antic. There was the trident threatening with it| barbs, the anchor with its curved prong: we thou^t that ^e looked sometimes on an oar, sometimes on a ship ; that the constellation of the Laconian twins,* welcome to sailors, was shining, and that wide-spread- ing sails were clearly swelling before us. Who invented sudi arts in the liquid waves P Thetis either taugbt these gamboln, or learned them.*
The docile crew of watery nymphs did vie To paint the waves with their vivacity. A threatening trident, anchor, scalding oar, A stately ship, we beheld ftom the shore j Gsstor and PoUox, the Pilot's delight. And tomid saildoths, gratified our sight To whose invention should we this refer? DidThetisinstruct us,or weteach herP PseXw.
' Probably this Epigram is not genuine. It seems made np (rom B.ziv. Ep. 181.
* Sitku Laeoman, i. e. the coiistenation of Cantor and Pollux, so called becaoae their mother Leda was a Lacedemonian. ^ * The meaning ia, she either learned them of Cesar^ or tan^t them to htflk
IS MABTIAL
XXTU. OK CABP0PU0BU8.
Had tbe ages of yore, Ga»ar, given biith to CarpophoniSi rbarbarian lands would not have boasted of their monsters].' Marathon would not have feared the bull, the woods of Nemea the lion, Arcadia the Mgnalian boar. Had Carpophorus armed ]m hands, one deadly stroke would have sufficed for the hydra; by him would the whole of the Ghimaora have been tjitricken aown at once. He would have yoked together the firc-bxeathing bulls without the assistance of tlie Colchian princess ; he could have conquered eitlier monster of Pasi- |)hae. Could the fable of the marine prodigy be revived, he alone would release Hesione and Andromeda. Let all the glories of the praise bestowed on Hercules be counted up ; it u more to have subdued twenty animals at one time.'
If former ages had Garpophoros known. Betide himself there would have needed none The monsters through the world to have subdued ; fieing in truth with all that might endued Whidi to the finbUous heroes gave a name, Baised Jason's, Perseus*, Meleagei^s fiune. Theseus for th' Minotaur had ne'er been crown'd} For the Nemean Hon Hercules renown'd ; The Hydra which so oft renew'd the fight, At first assault he would have slain outright; Chimaora, of such various fiffores formed, Hii poweifiil hand would sjd at once have storm'd ; The bulls, which from their nostrils breathed a fiame» Without a charm, his oomrage knew to tame : Hesione's devouring ore to quail, Andromeda to rescue from the whale.
Let poets then their specious lies relate, How Jove, a matchless hero to create. Two nights did turn to one ; to him allow A term of life twelve labours to go through; Garpoph'nis' glory yet does his excel, By whom in one day twenty monsten felL
Jmm. 1095.
^ Ver. 2 IS entirely corrupt, although the sense, as given m the text, tfi manifestly that intended by the author.
* The meaning u, there were only twelve labours of Herc'jles, vhereas Garpophoros slew twenty animals on the same occasioD.
Oir THX FVBIiIO 8H0W8. 19
zxnu. ojr ths szHiBinoir op a BSA-n&HT.
Ihe task of AugofltuB had been to embattle fleets, and to arouse the waves with tiie sonnd of the naval trumpet. How inferior is this to what our Cssar accomplishes ! Thetis and Galatea have beheld in the waves wild anunals previously un- known to them. Triton has seen. chariots glowing along the foaming ocean course,^ and thought the steeds of his master ' were passing before him; and iNerens, while he ^as (prepar- ing fierce contests with bold vessels, shrunk from going on foot throuffh the liquid ways.* Whatever is seen in the circus anduie amphitoeatre, the rich lake of Gcesar has shown to thee. Let Pucinus, and the ponds of the dire Nero, be vaunted no more ; and let ages to come remember but this one sea-fight.
The pafan of gloij to Au^uftos vield.
For naming sea mto a {ntched field.
How then may Cam triumph I Such beasts are
Guests to the waves as lea-^ueen Thetb scare.
Swift chariots track the main, at whose approach
Triton cried oat — Here comes King Neptune's coach :
Whilst Nerens for the skirmishes proviues,
And a whale's back victoriouslv bestrides.
What Caeiar's plessure, shall tne C^ue command ;
The floods reHot, as mimics to the land.
(hi Cbadiuflf, Nero's lake, let scorn reflect :
Domitian's shows merit entire respect FeeUm
V embattle fleets exalts Augustus* reign, And with the naval trump to rouse the main : Tet what ii his to our Augustus' praise ? Or what the ancient to the modem days P Thetis and Galatea stared to own Buch savages ss Ihey had never known. Triton behdd, nor to behold sbhori^d, Hie steeds he thousiht the coursers of his lord ; He saw with fflee the flying axle glow. Though oovsr d widi the oust of spray below : For, when to furious fight a Nereus strains, He looms on foot to scour the liquid plains,
^ In ttqmirm puh€r§. BypuMi most commentators suppose t) at tht spume, of the sea is meant, eataehnttici. ' Domini, L e. Neptune. ' That is, he chose a chariot drawn by sea-horses.
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20 VABnix
Whate'er tlie CSn^ue or Theatre Boneys,
To blett the eyes impartial water piavB ;
AbsorVd the Fudne in the Maxsiaii land,
The pools of Nero duly still shall stand.
Sunk every scene that wondrous wayes bestow,
This single sea-fight shall the ages know. S^UmUuL
ZXIX. OK PBIBOVB AHD T£B178.
While Veros and Priscus were prolonging the combat, and the valour of each had been for a lonff time equal, quarter for the combatants was demanded with great clam- our. But Gssar obeyed his own law. The law was to fight with a stated reward in view, till by his thumb one qf ike pair proclaimed himself vanquished : ^ but, as was allowed, he frequently eave them dishes and gifts.* An end, howeyer, was found for the well-matched contest : equal they fought, equal they resigned. GsBsar sent wands to each,* to each the meed of victory. Such was the reward tiiat adroit valour received. XJnaer no other prince save thee, Ossar, has this ever happened, that, when two fought with each other, both ▼ere victors.
When Priscus, Yerus, did nrolong their fight, Charaeterised by Mais wim equu spite,^ For their discharse a loint consent appUed itself to Cssar ; by whom 't was denied. It was the fiuhion so long to contend TlQ the van^uiflh'd made ngns the fight should end : And to detam the people to the last, Gifts were provided, and a slight rraast Even wounds the sword-players did enarave ; lliey fought aUke ; or equal scores did leave. CBBsar acquitted both, gave both the palm : Thus prowess for her cure acquired a balm.
■ Ad diffUvm etmemrtn. There lias been much dodbt shcmi the sense of these words. Ramiresins supposes that the gitdiatois were to fight till one of them, aMaio diffUo, bj holding up his thumb or flaaer, acknowledged himself conquered. See note on Qumt. nii 5, 20^ Bokm** Cl,LSbrmy.
* It was the custom to distribute dishes of various kinds of food to the combatants, to relinTigorate them to continue the contest; sad to the peo- ple, to keep them quiet till its conclusion.
' Mmtviritftierudet. This nidii or wand was thesimi of their acquit- tal from all further sorrioe as gladiators. See Hor. u Bp. 1, 2, Ac
Oir THZ FFBLIO BHOITB. 21
Before your leign, CfleMr, who thought to see. When cfaampions fif^t, that both ahould yicton be P
Peeks.
OH ▲ HUTD AlTD BOGS.
A hunted hind, as she was fleeing from swift Molossian hounds, and was bj yarious tarns contriving a lingering pro- tnetion of the fatd moment^ halted before Gtesar's feet, sup- > pliant and in pleading guise ; and the hounds touched not
their prej ^ Such was the boon which she derived
from recoffnising the emperor. Cesar is a divinity : sacred, sacred is his power - believe it ; the beasts of the field have not learned to lie.
The panting doe flung oat the headlong hounds,
By various doublings on the various grounds.
Spent at th' impeiisl feet the suppliant stood $
Her fell puiBuen, awed, no m(n« pursued.
*Mid foes, now iSdends, suxroundi^ safety blessed ;
Instinctive piety that power oonfesrd.
Csssrean power let misereants blind deny :
Believe we those who have not leam'd to lie. Elpkuutom.
OK AV UKBQUAL COMBAT.
To yield to superior force is the second honour. That is an insupportable victory, which an inferior enemy gains.
To bow to nobler foes is almost £une ;
The basely-yielded pahn alone is shame. W. 8. B.
imn. TO OJISAB.
Be indulgent to impromptus : he does not deserve to dis- please^ whose haste, Cssar, was to please thee.
My haste, though fiiul^, ought thee to appease :
Psidon his haste, who nasted thee to please. Aium, 1695.
XXXlll. AOIIHBT nOlCITIAK.
Baoe of the Plavii, how much has the third of thy name taaen from thee ! It had been almost as well not to have had the other two.*
How much thy third has wronged thee, Flavisn race !
rr were better ne'er to have hied the previous brace. An<m»
' A lins is here wanting in the original.
> Sc. Yetpaaian and Titos. As this Epigram is written againH Domi- tfaaiy it sppMzt either not to be Martial's, or to be out of place here. The only aathority for ascribing it to Martial is a scholiast on ."uTenal, iT 38.
EPIGRAMS.
BOOK L
TO THX BSAOEB.
I TBU8T that, in these little books of mine, I have obaerred Buch self-oontrol, that whoeyer forms a fair judgment from his own mind can make no oomplaint of them, since thej indulge their sportiye fimcies witnout violating the respect due even to persons (^ the humblest station ; a respect woich was BO far disregarded bj the authors of antiquity, that thej made free use, not only of real, but of great names. For me, let fame be held in less estimation, and let such talent be the last thing commended in me.
Let the ifi-natured interpreter, too, keep himself from meddling with the simple meaning of my jests, and not write my epijgrams for me.^ He acts dishonourablywho exercises per- verse ingenuity on another man's book, for the free plain- ness of expression, that is, for the language of epigram, I would apologize, if I were introducing the practice ; but it is thus that Catullus writes, and Marsus, and Pedo, and Gtotu- licus, and every one whose writing are read throujgh. If any assumes to be so scrupulouslj nice, however, that it is not allowable to address him, in a smele page, in plain languajge, he may confine himself to this adoress, or ratner to the title of the book. Epigrams are written for those who are accus- tomed to be spectators at the games of Flora. Let not Gato enter my theatre; or, if he do enter, let him look on. It appears to me that I shall do only what I have a right to do, ii I close my address with the following verses :—
' Lot him not make them hifl own, by the Iklae interpretation which he puti upon them.
Oir THS FUBXJC 8HOW8. 15
XXL B. 09 OBFHIVS.
Do we wonder that the mund with sudden opeiimg sent fixth Orpheus P He oune from Enrydioe who was eompaUed to retnm to the shades.^
DOTATIOH.'
"When Oxphens went down to the legions below,
Which men are fbrfaidden to lee. He toned up his lm» as old histories show,
To set his Bnryoice free.
All hell was sstonish'd a person so wise
Shoold lashly endanger hii life^ And Tentme so ftr— but how Test their sonrise,
When they hesrd that he came for his wife !
To find out a ponishment due to hii fiuilt
Old Flnto long pasded his brain. But hell had not tormenti sufficient, he thoogfat^
So he gare him his wtfe back sgain.
Bat pitj snoeeedinff soon Tanqnish'd his heart,
And, pleased wiu hii plaTinjr so well, He to<^ her ssain in reward of his art;
Such merit had mnne in helL
ZXn. OK A RHUrOGXBOB.
• While the trembling keepers were excitisg the rhinoceros, and the wrath of tiie huge animal had be^ long arousing itself^ the coniBicta of the promised enga^ment were begin- ning to be deapaired of; but at length his fuiy, well-known of old, returned For easily as a bn& tosses to the skies the balls* plaoed upon hii kom», so with his double horn did he hurl aloft the hesry bear.
While lop^ they roused the hero to engage, And bid his nostrils j^ther all their rage, In Tain the timid goides for battle bnm'd } When lo ! the glory of his power retozn'd :
1 This Epigram, wUck many of the books and editions omit, is Tory eompc. The text followed is, as osoal, that of Shneidewm. For reni m the aecoad line, Heinaiiia and others after him propoae Threud,
' Thai corioos sad hnmoions epigram is a traoalation from the Spanish, hy Dr. lisle. * PUat, See note on Bp. 9.
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Hig^ a huge bear he heayed with double ham. At a bull senda aloft the balla ftat brave hia Boon.
xxm. 02r CJLBPOPHOBua.
The bold right hand of the atill yoathfol CarpophoruB now directa with unerring blow the If one hnntinff-Bpeara. He carried two ateera on ma ahooldor witii eaae ; tonim auo- cumbed the bobaloa^ and the biaon. IHeeing from him, the lion fell headlong among the darta of othera.* Gk> now, im- patient crowd, and complain (xF the tardy dcday to which you are exposed.
The Doric spean, with aim uneranff, bore
The gallant aim of youtfafhl Gaipopnore :
WelT mifffat two aolt-neckM steen reeign the field ;
To him ttie bnffido and bison yield.
The lion fled $ but headlong nuh'd a prey.
Fly, madding mob, and chasten duU aelay.
SioUMMiOMm
ZEIT. OV THB IXHIBmoir OV A aXA-FIOHT.
Whoever thou mayat be, who art here a lately arrived spectator from distant lands, upon whom for the first time haa ahone the vision of the sacred ahow, — that the ^oddeaa of naval wariare may not deceive thee with theae ships, nor the water so like to the wavea of the aea^ — here, awhile aince, waa the dry land. Dost thou hesitate to belieye it P look on, whilst the wnves fiitifl;ue the god of war. A abort interval, and thou wilt say, "Here but a while aince waa the sea."
Thou, late spectator, from a distant shore, Who oom'st this day onr festal shows f explore, Be not deodved though naval battles here. And biUowB like the rolling main appears The sea thou now behold'st was lana of late : Believ'st thou notP A few short moments wait» T^ oease the ships to war, the waves to flow. And thou shalt say, Twas sea not long ago.
Jmotf Gems of Latin Poetry, p. 36.
' It is imoertaiii what animal we are to imdentaod by bmbabu. Pliny, H. N. Tiii. J5t speaks of it as resembling a stag or a cow. Many suppose it to be tbe baffalo.
* That is, the darts of the #iift<worw, or liers-in-wait; those who were fesdy to stipport Garpophorua, if he should be in dansor.
fcWOK I.] XPICfBA.H8. 28
ro CATO.
Since you knew the lasciviouB nature of tbe riioB of sportiTe Ebm, as well as the dissoluteness of tbe games, and tne license of the populace, why, stem Gato, did you enter the theatre ? Did you come in only that you might go out again?
When thou didst know the merry feast
Of jocund Flora was at best,
Our lolemn sports, how loosely free
And debonsir the rolgar be,
Strict CSsto, why dost thou intrude
Into the leated multitade P
Wss it Uiy froHe here alone
Only to enter snd begone P Fletcher*
When thou the wanton rites of Flora's feast Didst know, the people's license then express'd. Why cam'st thou in, sour Cato, 'mong the routP Dim enter only that thou might* st go out P
Anom. 1695.
Why dost thou come, ^reat censor of the age. To see the loose diversions of the stage P With awful countenance and brow serere, What in the name of goodness dost thou here P See the mix'd crowd! now giddy, lewd, and Tain I Didst tiion come In but to go out again ?
Speeiator^ No. 446.
I. TO THS BZABXB.
The man whom you are reading is the very man that Tou want, — ^Martial, known over the whole world for bis bumorous books of epigrams ; to whom, studious reader, you have accorded such honours, while he is alive and has a sense of them, as few poets receive after their death.
This whom thou read'st is he bv thee reouired, — Martial, through aU the world &med and desired For sharpest Iraoks of epigrams, on whom
aigenious reader^ Uving, without tomb, ou hast bestow d that hish snd glorious wreath, Whidi seldom poets after death receive. Fletelmt^
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He unto whom thou art ao Mrtialf
0 reader, is the weU-known Martialt
The epigrammatiat: while hfing,
Give nim the fame thou wonldat he ^ving
So ahall he hear, and feel, and know it :
Poat-obitB rarely reach a poet Byrwk
n. TO THE BXABBB; BHOWnTG WHXBl THE AVTHOB'B
BOOKS MA.Y BX PITBGHASXB.
You who are anxious thafc mj books should be with yoa everywhere, and desire to have them as oompaiiions on a long journey, ibuy a copy of which the parchment leaves are com-
{>re88ed into a small compass.' Bestow book-cases upon arge volumes ; one hand will hold me. But that vou may not be ignorant where I am to be bought, and wanaer in un- certainty over the whole town, you diul, under mv guidance, be sure of obtaining me. Seek Secnndus, tiie freedman of the learned Lucensis, ^hind the Temple of Peace and the Porum ofPaUas.
Where you go, if you 'd have a few books to befriend you,
And on a long journey have one to attend you.
Buy those whose short sides a small skin does go over, —
As for great ones, lock up, — me your one hand will cover.
And if you can be struck with such foibles as these,
I hope that my trifles their readers wiU please.
But that you may know where I 'm sold, and may n*t strpy
All over the dty, 1 11 show you the way :
Ask for Wilkie^ fam*d shop, near the diurch of St Paul,
Where this book may be had by whoever will calL
Bev. Mr Scott, 177a
Whoe'er thou be, that wouldst mv Muse convey, llie light companion of the lengthen'd way; Purchase the petty skin that crams her strains : A case huffe bodies, her a hand contains. But, lest uou doubt where she duplays her pride^ And roam the town, accept herself thy ffuide. The leam*d Lucensian's hbortine thou 'h find The Fane of Peace and Pallas* Square bdiind.
Mphimtom
TEL. THB AUTHOB TO HIS BOOK.
Thou preferrest, little book, to dwell in the shops in the ' lliat is, a copy with small pages ; a small copy.
BOOK I.] XFZOIUlMS. 25
ArgOetum,^ though mj book-case has plenty of room for thee. Thou art imonuit, alas ! thou art ignorant of the &8tidioii8ne88 of K>me, the mistresfl of the world ; the Bona of Mam, beUere me, are much too critical. Nowhere are there lender sneera ; young men and old, and even boys, have tiie nose of the rhinoceroa.* After thou hast heard a loud ** Bravo I " and art expecting kiaaee, thou wilt go, tossed to the skies, firom the jerked toga.' Yet, that thou mayst not so often suffer the corrections of thy master, and that hia relentieas pen may not so often mark thy yagaries, thou de- sirest, frolicsome Uttle book, to fly throuffh the air of heaven. Gh^ fly ; but thou wouldst have been saror at home.
Among the stationerB th' hadst rather be,
My Uttb book, though my ihelf 't void for thee :
Alas ! thou know'st not Madam Rome's disdain ;
Great Mass's sons are of a fiery brain ;
Oibes nowhere are more free ; jamiat men, and old.
And bovs, their nose up in dension nold :
While mm shah hear thy praise, and kisses have^
Thou shalt be tossed from in' bosom to the grave.
But thou, for fear thou feel'tt thj master's hand.
And thy loose sport should bv his reed be scann'd^
gioaciTious book I) thou seek'st to mount abroad :
Oo, fly } but home were yet thy safer road.
Why in Pall-mall with Bodsley will vou dwell.
When in my desk you stQl might lo^ so wdl?
Little you know, how nice Uie taste in town :
The meanest of mankind are critics grown.
Sneerers abound } the beau, the man in years.
The boy at sehool, the scoff of Bentley wears.
They cry, ''Extremely fine!" You com the He;
But soon in rockets to the stars shiul Sy.
Ton, who csstration dread, who hate my strokes,
And grave oorrection of your idle jokes.
On wanton wingnow sigh abroad to roam :
Away : — ^but you might safer be at home. Bisq^.
In the bookseUen^ windows you long to be shown. Little book, though my dei^ be entirely your own.
^ An open place, or square, in Rome, where tradeBmen had shops.
* HsTe great powers of ridicule, which the Romans often expressed by tanmig up or wrinkUng the nose.
' People will take thee into their kp, snd then jerk thee out of it, as il thou watt tossed in a blankeL
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You know not our critics have nice^udsing eyet, And, believe me, the town is prodigiously wise. Men are loud both their censure and scorn to disclose Young and old, eyen children, all turn up their nose. While you fondly expect on Fame's pinions to rise, T is a blanket vnll toss you, my book, to the fikies. But you, that your mast^ may cease to condemn, Nor your sallies be quench'd any more by his phlegm, Are ambitious to leave me, and largely to roam. Go, fly ; — but you might have been safer at home. Jnon,
IT. TO C^SAB.
If you should chance, Cesar, to light upon my books, lay aside that look which awes the world. Even your triumphs have been accustomed to endure jests,^ nor is it any shame to a general to be a subject for witticisms. Sead my verses, I pray you, with that brow with which you behold liymele* and LatinuB* the buffoon. The censorship* may tolerate innocent jokes : my page indulges in freedoms, but my life is pure.
CflBsar, whene'er you take in hand my books, Awe of the world ! lay by your sterner looks. Your very triumphs mirth used to admit, Though you yourself were subject of the wit With such a face look on my yena^ pray. As you 'd an antick dance or mimid^ play. Let not these harmless sports your censure taste : My lines are wanton, but my ufe is chaste.
Old MS. llik CeiU. .
T. THE EICPBBOB'S BXFLT.
I give you a sea-fight, and you rive m^ epigrams : you wishy I suppose, Marcus, to be set afloat with your book.
Igive thee searfights, thou a book giv'st me : VM>uld8t have me set afloat both it and thee P L^ff.S.
TI. OK A LIOK OF CJSSAB'S THAI SFABXD A HABX.
While through the air of heayen the eagle was can^'ing
* In alluiioa to the jests which the soldiers threw out on their generals, while they were riding in the triumphal procession,
* A female dancer.
> A dancer in pantonine ; a sort of harleqnxn.
* Alluding to Domitian having made himself perpetual oensoi*
BOOK L] SPTttBAXB. 27
the jonthy' the bnrden imhnrt dung to its anxious taiOUB. From Csnr'e lions their own prej now succeeds in obtaining mere^, and the haie plays safe in their huge jaws. Which minde do. jou thins the greater? The author of each is a supreme bemg: the one is the work of Casar ; the other,' of JoTe.
While with the stnpling ■ cries the welkin rang,
The priie, unhurt, in trembling talons hung.
Now the imperial whdus oompiess no prey :
6afb m tiie lion's jaws &e lererets play.
Say, whether stres thy wonder more to rove,
The power of UMsr, or the pounce of JoTeP E^JUmUm,
yn. TO icAxncirs.
The doye, the delight of my friend Stella,* — eren with Verona^ listening will I say it, — haa surpaseed, Maximus, the sparrow of Catullus. By so much is my Stella greater than your Catullua, as a doye is greater than a sparrow.
The HDer, that my Stella sings
(I care not, though Verona hear), We, Maxiwins, must own, outsprings
llw chiiper to Catullus dear.
Mysongster sosrs as far beyond
The genius you so justly love (Be eotrmted whether bird more fond),
As less the spaxrow than the doye. ElpkintUm,
ym. TO BxciunTS.
In that you so far only follow the opinions of the grea Thraaea and Osto of consummate virtue, that you still wish to preserve your life, and do not with bared broist rush upon drawn swords, yon do, Dedanua, what I should wish^ you to do. I do not approve of a man who purchases fJEune with life- blood, easy to oe died : I like him who can be praiaed with- out dying to obtain it.
■ Ganymede. * Comp. Eps. 14, 22.
' A poet of Pataiiimu who wrote an elegy on the dove of Ins mislreet laatluf. See B. tL Bp. 21 ; B. tH. Ep. 13. < TheMrth-plaMorOiUallQs.
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That Ton great PetiiB' maxima so approval Or gallant Oato's, aa still life to lo^e, Nor run on naked sworda with bared breasti Yon do, my Becian, what 1 think, ia best. I Uke no squanderers of life for fisune : Oiye me the man that liTing makes a name !
Old MS. 17M Oenhfg.
Consummate Cato's and great Thrasea's strain, As far as prudence goes, thou dost maintain, And not tny breast on naked swords dost run ; What men judge best, that, Dedan, thou hast done. He 's not approved, who cheaply dies for fiune, But, without death, who gets a glorious name.
That yon, like Thrasea, or like Gato, jgireat,
Pursue their maxims, but decline their fitte ;
Nor rashly point the dagger to your heart i
More to my wish you act a Soman's part.
I like not him, who fame bj death retrieves {
Give me the man who ments praise^ and lires. Hay,
IX. TO OOTTA.
Ton wish to appear, Cotta^ a pretty man and a great man at one and the same time : bat he who ia a pretty man, Cotta^ is a veiy small man.
A pretty and a great man thou 'dst be deem'd :
But prettiness is littleness esteem'd. Jmoh. 189d.
X. ON GEMBLLVS AKD ICABOKILLl.
Glemellua is seeking the hand of Miaronilla, and is earnest, and lays aiese to her, and beseeches her, and makes presents to her. Is we then so pretty P Nay ; nothing can oe more ugly. Wbat then is the great object and attmction in her P —Her oongh.
Gemellus seeks old Maroniii to wed.
Desires it much, is instant, pra^ and fees. Is she so &ir? — ^Nought 's more ill-fiiToured. What then provokes P-— Oh, she doth cough and wheese I
Flekker. Curmudgeon the rich widow courts ; Nor lovdy she, nor made for sports. 'T is to Curmudgeon charm enough That she has got a ohorch-yard cough.
DrJIoadleg^
•oov I.] ma^AMB. 29
To Iftdy Mary, Bellair makes addretaea ; Prtienti he makes ; axclis, presses, and profeaaea. Ii ahe BO fidr P— No lady ao ill off. What IS ao oaptiTatmg then P— Her oough. ffof.
Strephon moat fierce besieges Cloe, A nymph not over younir nor showy. What tnen can Strephoir a loTe provoke P — A cbaiming paralytic stroke.
Wettwumter Emew, Apr. 1863.
XI. TO axxTiLiAirxrg.
Seeing tiiat tiiere are giyen to a knight twice five pieces,^ wherefore is twice ten the amount which you spend by your- self, SeztilisnuB, in drink P Long since would tiie warm water have fiuled the attendants wno canied it, had yon not> Sextilianna^ been drinking your trine unmixed.*
When twice five copper coins to a knight are allotted, WrAi twice ten must Sextilian alone be besotted? Wave the tejAd had fiul'd the meek ministers smre, If SeztQian's good natore had scmpled the pure.
xn. oir BiGVLtrs.
Where the road runs to the towers of the cool Tiroli, sa- cred to Hercnlea, and the hoary Albula * smokes with sulphu- reous waters, a milestone, the fourth firom the neighbouring city, points out a country retreat, and a hallowed grove, and a domain well beloved of we Muses. Here a rude portico used to afford cool shade in summer; a portico, ah I how nearly the desperate cause of an unheard-of calamity: for suddenly it fell in ruins, after Beffulus had just been conveyed in a carriage and pair from unaer its high fabric. Truly Dame Fortune feared our complaints, as she would have been unable to withstand so great odium. Now even our loss delights us ; so benefidal is the impression which the very danger pro- duces ; since, while standing, the edifice could not have proved to us the existence of tiie gods.
^ Ten Bcslaicti, the usual qiorfulo, or donation from the emperor, s The Romans used to driiiJt their wine mixed with warm water.
* A plain near TlvolL
* See Addieen, Letter from Italy : —
And hoaiy Alhnla'a infected tide
O'er the warm bed of smoking solphur glide.
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'Sen HerenW ftne, and Tibiir^8 oooliiig ktieaiiitp Where Alha TapoozB fordi pale su^nioiu atreainii Meadows and landi are aeen, a aamd groTe» Four miles from Kome, the Muse^ caze and love : A rude old portioo, near tiiese high-raised. For grateful shade in heats of summer praised, A monstrous fiut oommitted had well nigh ; As Begulus in 's chariot passed hj. The ponderous fiibric rush'd unto tiie noond, And nim and 's train did only not oonfound ; But Fortune did our plaints and curses fear, Nor equal was the odious crime to bear.
The ruin pleases now ; which did not nroTe, While yet it stood, what care the gods aboTe Have of good men« — their guardianship and loYe.
On TTbur's road, to where Alcides towers, And hoaiy Anio smoking sulphur pours ; Where laugh the kwns, and grores to Muses dear, And the fourth stone bespeaks Augusta near, An antique porch proloDg'd the summer shade : What a new deed her dirtage half essay'd ! Beeling, hoself she threw with instant crash, Wliere Begulus scarce pass*d in his calaslL Sly Fortune started, for herself aware ; Nor could the overwhelmuig odium bear. Hius ruins rayish us, and dangers teach : Still-standing piles could no protection preach.
Zm. Oir ABltIA XSD PiBTUS.
When the chaste Arria handed to her F»tii8 toe sword which she had with her own band drawn forth from her heart, " If jou believe me," said she, ** the wound which I have made gives me no pain ; but it is that which you will make, P»tuB, that paina me.*'
When Arria to her Fetus gave the sword. With which her chaste and fidthfbl breast she 'd gored, - Trust me," said sIm, "thai I myself have slain I do not grieve i 't is thy death gives me pain."
When the chaste Arria drew the reeking sword From her own breast, and save it to her lord, ^ This wound," she said, ** believe me, I despise ; I feel the dagger by which Pstus dies." Arf •
BOOK I.] EFIGSAMt. 81
Wbfln the ehaite Arria gare the reeking nror d* Dniwn from her bowele» to her honourd lord, ** Pctni,'' she died, ** for thii I do not giieye, Bnt for the wound that Potof must reoeiYe.
Bev. Mr Seatt. 1773
Thus to her mnch-loyed Yirtaoos lord,
With tender ^;iief oopreis'd, Chaite Arria eatd, ana saTe the sword Drawn reeking from ner breest ; ** Beliere me, PAtas, void of pain I 'to found the pointed steel ; But, oh ! the wound ^t you 'U sustain. That wound I doubly feeL"
Bouquet, Dublin, 17S4.
When fitnn her breast diaste Arria snatch'd the sword. And gave ibe deathfril weapon to her lord, ^ My wound,** she said, *' believe me, does not smart ; But thine alone, my Pstus, pains my heart." Mdwuik,
When Arria to her Pastus gave the steel Which from her bleeding side did newlr part, ^ For my own wound," she said, ^ no pain I fed ;
And yet thy wound will stab me to the heart" SeH^,
When Arria, from her wounded side,
To Pstus gave the reeking steel, " I fed not what I 'ye done,^ she cried ; —
" What Pstus is to do, I feeL" Dr Hoadtey.
XIT. TO DOHTTIA^.
The paatimea, Csear, the sports and tbe play of the lions, we hare seen ; your arena anords you the additional sight of tbe captured hare returning often in safety from the kindly tooth, and running at large through the open jaws. Whence is it that the greedy lion can spare his captured prey P He is said to be yours : thence it is that he can show Bifircy.
Thy lions, mighty Caesar, shed the fflee On serried nations, they but mean for thee, When with the gentle tooth and generous jaws The captive wantons, conscious of applause. Whence has the savage leam'd his parey to ftpareP Thine, Cssar, is the Hon ; *hine the hare. &pki»tUia.
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XT. TO JULItlS.
Oh ! tbou who ait regarded bj me, JuliuSy as seoond to none- of m^ companions, if well-tried friendsbip and long- standing ties are worth anything, already nearly a sixtieth consul IS pressing upon thee, and thy life numbers but a few more uncertain days. Not wisely wouldst thou defer the en- joyment which thou seest may be denied thee, or consider the past alone as thine own. Caiw and linked chains of dis- aster are in store ; joys abide not, but take flight with winc- ed speed. Seize them with either hand, and with thy fmi grasp ; eren thus they will oft-times pass away and glide from thy closest embrace. 'T is not, beliere me, a wise man's part to say, "I will li?e." To-morrow's life is too lato : lire to-day.
ThoQf whom 0f fidth or honour reeommendi A fHend) I rank amongst my dearest friends, RemembiBr, yon are now almost threesoore ; Few days of li& remain, if any more. Defer not, what no fntore time insures : And only what is past, esteem that yours. Sucoessiye cares and trouble for you stay ; Pleasure not so ; it nimbly fleets away. Then seize it &st ; embraice it ere it nies ; In the embrace it yanishes and dies. '' I '11 liye to-moiTow," will a wise man say P To-morrow is too late, then liye to-day. JEEfVf.
Julius, my friend, — for well thy worth may daim. And lon^tried fiidth, that highly honour'a name,^ The sixtieth winter wreaths with grey thy brows. And fewer grow the days that Fate allows. Then reckon not on yean thou ne'er mayst see Nor be the past alone enjoy'd by thee. For cares await thee and fdl sorrow's sting, While Pleasure flies, for oyer on the winff. Then seise her, if Uiou canst, with both &y hands, And flrml^, for she *Kai>e8 the tightest bands. No sage will e'er " 111 liye to-morrow " say : To-morrow is too late : liye thou to-day. JF. S, B*
XTL TO AyiTUS.
Of the epigrams which you read here, some are good, soma
BOOK 1.1 BFItt&llfB.
miiMlhig, niaiij Iwdx a book, ATitus; cannot be made m anj odier wi^.
Sane ||oodt end tome io-eo» moi^of them nangbt ! Waflvifiioirone^tliebodkmayftfllbeboii^t Jmm.
Sane thingi ue good, indifEsram lome, lome nauffht, Tea ned: a book oent otherwiie be wrote. AKom, 1695.
Hm tone good tidiig% tome middling, mora bad, 70a irOl see : Ebe a book, my Avitai, it neTercoala.be. Slpkuukm.
xm. TO TiTve.
TitoB nigee me to go to tbe Bar, and often tella me, ^ The nina an luge.*' The gains of the haabandman, Titus, are nkewiee laige.^
Tboa mgett me to pleadi doet oft repeat, ''How mat it ii a wrong eauae to defeat! " That wnieh tbe ploughman does ii alio gresl
Jtum. 1696.
xnn. TO TVOOA, oh his PABsncovr.
"Wbat pleasure can it gire 70a, Tucca, to mix with old lUeniian wine new wine rtored np in Vatican casks P What Test amount of good has the most worthless of wine done yon For what amonnt of eril has the best wine done yon P As lor ns, it is a small matter; but to murder Falemian, and to pot poisonous wine in a Campanian cask, is an atrocily. Tour guesta may possibly haye deserred to perish : a wine-jar of audi Talue has not desenred to die.
Tneoa, what ttrange delight ib thit of thine,
To mix the noblest with the Tilett wine?
What so gnat good, from bad, didst e'er reoeiTe P
Or of wh£t good did thee the good bereaTsP
Oar throats to cot may no great matter be i
To slay pyernian is a hi^h decree
Of murder; rieh Campanian wme tf abuse,
r th' generous giape rank poison to inftue.
Thy gnesti may possibly deserve their bane)
Sudi predons liquor cannot to be slain. Jacm. 1690.
I Maitfad iirtiBMtes thst he dbould like the Bar as little as he likaB agrieoltart.
M yABTMT*!
ZIZ. TO JDIA.
If 1 remember right, JEHitL, joa bad four teeih; a oooffk diapLusedtwObanotber two mare. Yon can now coagb witb- ont anxiety all the daj long. A third oongh can find no- thing to. do in your month.
\filiajiist font teeth had, if I told right s One cough ejected two, another two : Now she may cough seeiueiT day and ni^t { There 's nothing left for toe tnird oouc^ to do.
Fieider.
When Gammer Gnrton first I knew,
Fomr teeth in all she reckon'd : Comes a damn'd cough and irbip^ out two^
And f other two a second.
Courage, old Dame, and never fc
The third idiene'er it comes ; Gi^e me but f other jug of beer,
And 1 11 insure your gums. Hm BrcmtL
TO ciBCiLXAjnra.
Tell me, what madneaa ia this F While a whole crowd of invited gneeta ia looldng on, yon alone, CnciliannB, devour the trofflea. What ahofi I imprecate on yon worthy of ao large a stomach and throat F That you may eat a truffle
audi 08 Claudius ate.
•
What bmtiflhness is this? When friends you treat, lliey looking on, alone you mushrooms eat| What on sudi {^uttony shall I implare P May'st Qaudius* mushrooms eat, and ne'er eat more I
160&
Ty. ov poBaxiTA Aim Kircnra bojbtoi^
When the band that aimed at the king mistook for bin* bia secretary, it thrust itself to perish into the sacred fire but the generous foe could not endure so cruel a sight, and bade the hero, snatched from the flame^ to be ^ free. The band which, despising the fire, Mudus dared to bum, Porsena could not bear to look on. Greater was the fame and glory of that right hand from being deceived ; had it not missed its aim, it bad accomplished less.
^^•^i»ff^
Whmk that right hand whioh aim'd a ropl Wow
Spent on a worthle« ilaTe its bafflad a% Itraih'd into the flainesi bat e^en the foe
Admiring natch'd it from the laorBd fixe. The pangp that feariev Scmrola raatain'd,
Ponenna's ere endured not to behold : Had it not en^Oy that hand had never gain'd
So great a fiuie, or done a deed so Md. Sod/ftm*
The handy which strack the serrant for the king^
Did in the fire itself a Tictim fling.
The dreadftd wonder moved the pions foe :
He anstoh'd the man horn flames, and let him go.
Mndna unmored the hand to born decreed}
Ponena coold not view the tragic deed.
lliat hand bv fidlinff gain'd a nobler ftme i
And less haa doneinM.it not misi^diti aim. Et^
ZXn. TO A HiLBX.
^ 'Wlijy riOy haMy are jou fleeiog from the fieroe jawji of the lion now grown tame P They have not learned to cmidi such tiny aninmla. Those talona, which 70a fear, are reserved for migfaty necks^ nor does a thirst so sreat dey^ ht in so amall a dnoffht of blood. The hare is the prey of hounds; it does not flU large months : the Dadan hoj should not fear Cbiar.
Why, gentle hare, the generoiis lion fly if He has not leam'd to touch the tiny fify. For brawny necks the griding daw remains.: Enormous thirst the petty draught disdains. PSIling no jaw, thou nll'st to dogs a prey : Ne^er dreaa the Dadan boy that Cessr slay.
XXm. TO COTTA.
Ton invite no one, Cotta, except those whom yon meet at tiie hath ; and the bath alone supplies von with guests. I naed to wonder why yon had never asked me, Ootta; I know now that my appearanoe in a state of nature was nnpleasing in jonr eyes.^
Cotta, thou Invitest none, but such with thee Are bathed, and baths provide thee company 1
«CbmpaieB.m.Ep.d0,73; B.vii.Ep.54.
b8
IOBTIAL*!
I wondar'd long how I eMaped thy^ etHf
But now 1 866 my iiakod tnitii ^oITd lU. iMdkr.
xzrr. TO oxoiunrfi.
Yon see yonder indiTidnal, DeeiannB, wiib locks imcombeay whose graye brow even yoa&ar; whotaDcBinoesBaailyof the Onrii and Oamilli, defenders of their oonntry's liberties: do not trust his looks ; he was taken to wife but yesterday.^
Behold the man, with cardeaB hair.
Whose adenqn saperoilioos air
Inapires a Deoian^a aelf with awe,
And 80 may wdl fpyre others law |
Who talks a Corius too, and whom
A new Oamilhii wanhips Bome :
He, Dedan (radi the fiith of &m !)
YeQ'd yesteraay her new disgraesk J^plwi/as,
xcT. TO TAirsTonrs*
Issae at lenfl;th your books to the public^ Fftostinn^ sad giro to the liffht the work dabonted uj yonr aooomplished mind, — a work such as neither the Cecropian city of Fandion would condemn, nor oar old men pass bj in silence. Do you hesitate to admit Fame, who is standing before your door; and does it displease you to reoeiTe tiie reward of yonr la^* hour P Let the writings, destined to lire 'after yon, oegin to liye throogh yonr means. ' Qlory comes too late^ when paid only to onr ashes.
At lenffth, Fanstbns, let the world obtain
Iha pcuiah'd pieces of thy learned brain,
Which the Athenian aehools would hi^;faly praiie^
And onr old eaoes to the stars will raise.
Dost donbt tf admit Fame standing at thy sateP
Thy labonr's jnst reward to bear, cbst hate r '
That which wdl t^, ca thy time let liye ;
Too late men praise mito omr ashes i^iye. Jmm. 168&
Yonr book. Sir Oeorge^ now^ye to pnblie nsei From yonr rich Aind the pohsh'd piece prodnoe : Which will defy the Lonyre's nicer laws ; And from onr critics here command applanssb
1 MsJiBhria pssras est
BOOK l] BFIOIUltt. 87
Fasie'it your portal ifaitsj the cUwr why Iwn^d? Why loth to take your laboor'a just reward P Lei woika live wita yon, which wOl long enrritei For hononre after death too late airita. Ea§*
Xm. TO BSXTZLIAinTB.
Seiiflimu, yoa drink as much aa five rowa of knighta ^ alono: yoa might intoxicate younelf with water, if ;^*a ao often d^nk aa much. Nor ia it the coin of thoae woo ait near you alone that you conaumo in drink, hut the money of tiioae &r removed nom you, on the diatant benchea. Thia rintafle haa not been oonoemed with Pelignian preaaea, nor waa uia juice of the grape produced upon Tuann heifhta ; hot it ia m i^oriooa w of the long«4eparted (>pimiua* that ia drained, and it ia theMaaaic cellar that aenda Knrthits black- ened oadka. Oet drega of Laletane wine from a tavem- keeper, Seztitianua, if you drink more than ten cupa,'
la thee^ Ae wine of five ia imik :
With aa much water, thou wert dnmk.
What fat thy hedging caaet allege^
Kmm neaxeat knight, and &rtheet wedge P
Nor owni thy giape r^Hgnian prees \
Or vine the hazdv Tuscan's dresa.
Tliy palate old C^imian asks ;
Imn Ifaasie cell the sable casks.
Rom tavern fetdi Laletandreg,
Above ten goblets if thou beg. "EMAmUmu
XXV 11. TO FBOOILLUa.
Lasa mght I had invited you— after aome fifty glaaaea, I anppoae^ mid been deapatdied — to aup with me tMhj* Tou immediateh' fliought your fortune waa made, and took note of mjunaoberworda, with a precedent but too dangeroua. I hate a boon companion whose memory ia good, Fioeillua,
To aop with me, to tiiee I did propound.
Bat t waa when our ftdl enpa had oft gone roond,
> fleeted sa ths bsDchfls allotted then hi the theatre. SeeBp.!!. * The yJBfsse of a. c 121, in which year L. Ophnins was one of the eonsoli^ wassKtrendy oelebxated, and is frequently mentioned by the Ro«
* The vathm te wUdi peiaons at fbssts usoally rastxicted theaselvBa
88 KAXTIiX*!
The thing thoa ftnaght ooneliideft to be done^
Meny and sober woras counting aU one.
Hi' exanqile's dangerons at fhe highest xatei
A memoratiTe drnuazd all men bite. Jmoil 1606.
JLXVlll. OV AOIBBA.
Wboerer belieres it ia of jesterdaj's wine tbafc Aoem imeDSy ia mistaken : Aoem always drinks till morning.
Wbo says with last nigfat^s wine Aoerra stinks.
Is much deoeived: tiU day Aoem dzinks. Wri^U.
Aoem smells of last nighf s wine, yon say«
Don't wrong Aoem i he topes on till day« S^miou*
XXIX* TO JflUJMTJJIUB.
Beport ULjm that yoo, Fidentinns, ledte my compositioDS in public as if thej wer^ yonr own. If you allow them to be called mine, I will sena youmy yersqe gratis ; if you wish them to be called youis, pray buy them, that they may be mine no longer.
T is said my booas thou dost abroad reeitey As if my venes then thyself didst write. Verses I H gratis send, let tiiem be mine i Otherwiw bny them, that they may be thine.
Jmom. 1896.
Fame has, my Kdentine, made londly known That yon reate my verses as yoor own. If mine they be^ 1 11 send them yon for nongbt : To make them yours, by you they must be bongbt
XXX. ov Bii^ULtrs.
])ianlua had been a suraeon, and is now an undertaker. He has begun to be useful to the sick in flie only way that hecouUL
■
Diaolos, late who, roid of skOl,
Profess'd the healing art. Now acts, in league wHh Pluto still,
The uadertakei's part.
;asf«< Dublin, 1789;
KKKK L] . snftum. M
VO APOLLOy. OV IVOOXiPiri.
Boeolpoi, t&e faTonrito of the oentorion his maaifv, oozu leentei theM, tbe whole of the locks from his hetd, to tliee, 0 Fhobos.^ When Padetu shall hare gained flie pleasinff honour of Ae chief-oentorionBliip, whidi he has s6* weU mefited, eat these long trasses dose, 0 PhoBbns, as soon as possiUe^ whfle theten£r&oe is yet nudisfigored with dbwn, sad wfaOe Ae flowing hair adorns the milk-white neck ; and, that both master and &Tonrite maj long enjoy th j gifts, make
him early diorn, but late a man.*
•
To thee^ ApoOo* tows his beaateons hair
SDMljroi, minioii of hii master's caze.
"Soon as the bntTe centtirion shall attain
The primipOsr honours, mine be slainl
Whib yet my modest dieeks oonfess no down«
Whila wavy xinaleti snowy shonlden crown.
That knd snd ilaYe may longithy sifts enjoTy
Xiad PhoBbaSi crop me soon } bat aeep me long a boy.**
miK TO SABOIUa.
I do n0tlo?efliee,SabidinSynor canlaaywhy; leanonty say tidi^'I do not lore thee.
I love thee not, but why, I can't display I lore thee not, is all tlut I csn aay.
Jmom. 169i.
I love thee not, Ssbidius ; sak yon why P
I do not lore thee, let that satiaQr I JTr^ii.
TIm feOowJae Ihiea, In tmitatioQ of this epifftam, wera made bj sovm Oiiiidwi^ OB Dr John Pell, Bishop of Oxford, who died in 1686:
I do not lore thee. Doctor Fdl } The reason why I csnnot telL But this I 'm su» I know fhn weD, I do not lore thee. Doctor FeU.
^ Enoolpaa, a ikfobiUe of Avlos Pudeos tlia centurion, had Towed Us Isir to Phabos, in order that faia master might aoon be made chief (arinv H artial prsTa that thqr may both obtain what thej deaixe.
* Exlsai his yonmss long ssposaibls.
40 lUBTUL*f
mm. oir aiLUJU
Gkdlia does not monm for ber deoeased faihery wben aiia 18 alone; bat if aaj one ia present, obedient tears Bpring fortii. He mourns not^ GMlia, wbo seeks to be praisea; he is the true mourner^ who mourns without a witness.
When an alone, your tears withstand i
In company, can floods oommand.
Who moQzns for fituihion, bids us mark i
Who mourns indeed, mooms in the daxk. AMom,
GeOia ne^er mourns her fitthei's loss,
When no one 's by to see. But yet her soon conunanded tears Flow in society: To weep for praise is but a foigned moan ; He ftrieres most truly, that does srieYe alone.
Ifeicitr.
Her fother dead! Alone no ^ef she knows i Th' obedient tear at ereiy Tisit flows. No mourner he^ who must with praise be fee'd I But he who mourns jn secret, mourns indeed I Agr«
OeDia alone, alas! can never weep.
Though her fond fiither perish-d m the deep |
With company the tempest all appears,
And beauieoiis OeHia 's e'en dissolTod in tears.
Throu^ public grief though Gellia aims at praise,
T is priTate sorrow which must merit raise.
OtnUmtafiMaganitii 1786L
XZZXT. TO LBSBUU
Yon always take jour pleasure^ Lesbia^ with doors nn- guarded and open, nor are you at any pains to conpeal your amusements. It is more the spectator, than the aocomp&ce in your doings, thsi pleases you, nor are any pleasures grate- ful to your taste if tney be secret. Yet the common courte- san excludes every witness by curtain and by bolt, and few are the chinks in a suburban brotiiel. Learn something ai least of modesty from Ohione, or from Alls : even the monu- mental edifioea of the dead afford hidinff*pIaoes for abandoned ' harlots. Does my censure seem too harsh ? I do not ex* hort you to be chaste^ Lesbia^ but not to be caught.
lOdK X.] spieiuMB. 41
LetUiy thou nim'it stOl :nth an impum'd door
And opeiiy and ne^er doak'tt thjr pleasure o'er |
Thy peepen more than aotiTe mends delig^ti
Kor are thy joys in kind, if ont of si^t
Bnt yet the common wenoh, irith tcu and key,
StriTes to expel the witness fiur away j
Ko chink doth in a brothel-hoiise appear:
Of Alis learn, or Ghione, this care.
They hide such filthiness ; bat, LesbiSf see
If this my censure seem too hard to be :
I do n't raxbiid thee to employ thy niime,—
But to be taken Lesbia, there 's the crime. Fkiei^*
ZZXT. TO COBlTBLirS.
Ton eomplain, Oornelitia, that the Tersee which I oompow ne Hide remarkable for their reserve, and not such as a mas- ter can read ont in his school; but such efihsiona, as in the caae of man and wife, cannot pleaae without some spice of jJeasautiy in them. What if^jjroa were to bid me write a njmeneal song in words not suited to hymeneal occasions p Who enjoina ttie use of attire at the Flond games, and im- poaea on the courtesan the reserve of the matron P lliia uw htf been allowed to frolicsome verses, that without tickling the fiui<^ they cannot please. Lay aside^ therofore, yoor severe look, I beseech you, and spare my jokes and niety, and do not desire to mutilate my compositions. Kottnng la more disgusting' than Friapus become a priest of, Cybda
My verses are too loose, you say: Not sueh as a school-master may Beadto'sbovs. But such booas as these . ttj&e husbanos with their wives) do n't please- . Without the prick of wantonness. Bid inee as well sing nuptials In words beflttmg nineralsl Who would at F&ral games permit Whores dad in modest robes to sit? This law to epigrams allow'd, They may with lustfull itch go proud. Therefore, severity, away I Indulge my sportive Muse, jl prav ? Kor seek to geld my wanton dooksi A gelt Friapus ugly looks. (Hd MS. llik (kaL
12 ICABXIU'l
That I xiifiiie vDohasteiiM wiit% Wbkli a iBMter may n't zeoite f Tbat I diM my miue deny To the caflUeas fbimy fry; . Thou, AraeliuB, dost decree: Bat ahalt onm thou iigiizest me. Witty ]aj% Hke man and wife, Muflt not ahraya be at atrife i And, Hke them, but pleaae by halft If ther do not often Jaagh. Wonld'at diou bid Tha&aaoa apeak, Not in Latin, but in Qzeek ? Who oan dothe the Flcnal fame F Who allowi a harlot ahame r Sueh the rule of joennd atraina : , Wit no point, unamilinff, gaina. * Count caatration death oy law : Let the Qod of Gardena awe. What a paltoy god were he, Dubb'daaageofCybelel Mj^JUiuioM.
ZXm. TO THl BBOTHBBS LITCAVUS AHD TULLITI.
H Lacanna, to thee, or if to thee, TuUub, had been offerod Buch firteeaatiieTmoonian children rfLeda enjoy, there woold have beepi thia noble struggle of affection in both of you, that eiu^ would haye wished to die first in place of his oro- ther ; and h6 who shoold have first descended to the nether realms of shade would hare said, ** Lire, brother, thine own term of days ; live also mine.*'
Fraternal love in aach atrong currenta nma.
That, were yornr &te like that of Leda'a abna,
This were the nigle, but the generous, strife,
Which for the other first ahould yield hia life:
He first wonld ory, who first should breath rengn.
Live thou, dear brother, both thy days and mine. Eay.
XXXVil. TO Bxssirs.
You deposit your eioretions, without any sense of shame^ into an unfortunate vessel of gold, while yon drink out of glass. The former operation, consequently, is the more expensive.
For namelaaa uaa^ thou bluahleaa uaeat go. d ;
Bdt qUiiTat in ^aas I frugality befod'dl Sfpkiuicm.
z.] moiRAUBt 48
zxxnn. TO npnrrunrs.
The book wliidi tool sre reading aloud is mine, I^dentinua bn^ while 70a read it so hadlj, it begins io be youn.
The book tfaoa.xead'st is mine, my But now tfaoa xead'st to ill, H ii imely
The Tenesy fHead, which thoa haatmd, axe mine } Bnt^ ai thou xead*ft thenit they may piMiflsr thine.
With firalty aocentiy and to ^ile a tone,
You quote my lines, I took them for yoqr own. Jmo/l
jLXxix. TO nsouima.
If there be anj man fit to be numbered among one*8 few dioioe frienda, a man such as the honeabr of past timea and aneieot renown would readilj acknowledge; if iuiT man tiunoogfalj imbued witii the aocompliahmentiof ihe Auienian and Latin Minerraa, and exem^ury for true integrity} if there be ai^* man who cheriahea what is light^ and admires what ia bonjQuiable, and aaka nothing of tlie goda but what an may hear; if there be an^ man sustained by the strength of a great mind, may I die, if that man is not Decianus.
Is there t^ emroU among the fiiendly few.
Whose names naze fidm and sneient ftme mewF-
Is therBf enricnd with Tirtae's honest storey
Besp tmed in Latian and Athenkn lore?
Is thflie who li^t maintains anid truth purnies,
Nor knows a wish that HeaTen can zeftise P
Is there who can on his great self depend? .
Now let me die, but Hazris is this fhend. Dr Hoaif^
Is there a friend, like those distznguish'd few, BenownM for fitith, whom fonner ages knew 1 Polish'd by art, in ^rrerj maaoe wisei Truly smcere, and good without disgniset Ouardian of right, who doth by honour steer; Who makes no prayer but all ttie waM may hear ; Who doth on fortitude of mind depend? I know indeed, but dare ndt name^ that friend. Hay»
n Sr Theodore Jmmm^ OkimAerJain qf Oe (X^ qf Ixmien.
If there 's one shall arise among all his rare friends. Whose &med hononr and irirtue knows no pr^te'ends}
'^4 IEAXTUlL*!
I
If one wboae gnat skill iMvei os mtiflih at a itrift^ If in aril he ezoeli, or most tSmple in life i ' If one iito 'a the goardian (tf Itoneity^a eaoae^ And in aaorat aaks nothing against diTine lawa | If there 'a one^ who on greatnen of mind boilds hia plan, May I die if the CSiamberlain wont be the man!
JBteo. Mr SeoU, 1763
XL. TO AV BFYIOUa XIV.
Yoa who maka grimaoea, and read these yenes of mine witb an in gvaoe^ you, yicfciin of jealoua^y majr, if yon pleaae^ envy ereiyDody; nobody will envy you.
Who xead^st these Unes, from ranoorona roleen not free, Ifay'st envy all, and none e'er enyy thee f Jmoiu IGM
ZLi, TO oiBCixnra,
• Ton imagine yoDzael^ Cscilina, a man of wit Ton aie no andi thu^ braere me. What then P A low buffoon; such a thinp; aa wandera about in the quartera berond the Tiber, and bartora pale-coloured aulnhur matchee lor brok- en ^aaa; audi a one aa sella Ixn^ peaa and beans to the idle crowd; such aa a lord and keener of snakea; or aa a common aerrant of tbe salt-meat-sellers ; or a hoarse- voiced cook wko caniea round smoking sausages in steaming sbope ; or the wont of street poets ; or a blackguard slaTe- dealer from Gades;' or a chattering old debauchee. Cease at leuRth, therefore, to imagine yourself that which is ima^ gined by you alone, CoMnlius, you who could baye silenood mbba, and eyenlhstiusGabdlus, with yoiur jokes. It is not giyen to eyery one to haye taste ; * he who jests with a stupid effixmtery is not a TestiuB,but a Caballus.'
Thon tfiink'st thyaelfe a sparke o' th' towne^ But art in deed a fowle-month'd downe : Like those i' ^' snbnrbs making ory; For broaken fflass who 'U mabmes bay? Or those ? th'^play-honae goe about Selling tfasir gm^er-bread to th' rout | '. Or jnper that with snakes decoys Men m, or rongy tmnbler^ boys :
' ' See Jvmal IL 16S, and Mayor's note.
* Bdbmr$ aofiMi, L e. be a apod critio.
* A play on Uie woid CsAa&Mi, which, asaaappellatife nion, auant a hack4ioisa;
Or liM irith moting oren erieiy CT hee bee hoene, hott paddinMfHf Or liim makes £uoet» bat not wdli (^ the Item beadle of Bridewell I Or an old leoher'i beaatly talke. To thinke th jaelfb a wit then banker • finiee none Imt thine owne telle thinke les Or that Wm Darenant tou ontgoot Or XJUegrawt in witty droleing. 'AU haTe not the riffu knaek of fooling : Who ftill witk wxtUeei rudeneM jeasti PlbTee'hoxse-nlaYy not for many but beaati.
Old MB. na CM
Oeeilt thoa a witty knave I Ko : thoa 'rt bat a aancyalaTe^ And inightf 8t 'Tond the Tiber peaii TVoddng maren witk broken glaasf Or diepmee the fetehea drowf d, T6 the gi^ungmob azoand: Aieh enongh ibr Tiper-qaaekf Maiter of ue huokater'a daok : Nay, of croak foil hoane to eiyt ■^ Smoking saoiage, who will bay P" Poett fbr the dty-ecom ; Bhowman, freah from Oadea oome ; Month eflbaing aaoh delicti. As a doting catamitePs.
Cecilf then, no more oonoeiT^ What thoa canst alone beUere. Jokea thoa may'st wiUi Galba spi^ Sexty Stallion may'st oatwit Bat, on this assared repose : Every &ce has not a nose } Nor can every pert rascsllion Be a Sezty, tnough a Stalliom Elpkuukiu
XLZZ. OH POBOIiu
Wben Porein bad beard the &te of ber ooniort Bratos, and her grief wis seeking the weapon, wbicb had been carduUr remaredfromber, ** Ye know not yet," she cried, ** that death eauDot be denied: Ibad eupposed that my&tiier had taught yon this lesson by his &te. She spoke, and with eager Month swallowed the blazing coals. '' Go now, officious at* tendants, and refuse me a sword, if you wOL"
0^ IUBTUlL^I
Vfhim Bratoi^ fkte fiune unto Poroift oroiiglity And frundi withheld the anns ber aonow aooAh^ ^I thoofl^V' Mid ihe, ^my fiither, when hadwd. Taught Te that death to none oan be denied.'* . She tpoke^ and greedily derooi^d the fbn^ ^ Qo nowy ofELcions throng, Tainly conspire The wei^oos to deny, my giiefi deeire." JnotL 168^
When Poreia was infonn'd her lord was dead i And the stolen dagger sought in Tain, she said« M Think ye, the means are wanting to expire F Are ye ao ill bstrneted by my sire ?/' The Dununff coals then greedily derour'di Crying,** Unkind att^dants, keep tbe sword." Ay.
When the sad tale, how Brutus fell, was brou^t^
And slaTes refiised the weapon Poreia sougbti ^
''Know ye not yet," she said, with towering pride,
** Death is a boon that cannot be denied F
I thought my ikther amply had imprest
This sunple trutb upon each Boman breast*
Danntlem she ^ph'd the embers as tbey flamed*
And, while their heat within ber rag^ ezdaim'd,
''Now, troublous guardians of a life abhon'd,
Still uxge your caution, and refuse the sword.** Geo, Ztmb.
XLm. OK HAircuius.
Twice thirty were invited to your table, Mancinnw, and nothing waa placed before ua yesterdaj but a wfld-boar. Nowbere were to be seen grapee preserved from tbe late vines, or apples vyinff in flavour witb sweet bonev-oombe ; nowbere tbe fjears which bang suspended by flexible twigs, or pomegranates tbe colour of summer roses: nor did tbe ruatio basket supply its milky obeeses, or tbe olive emerge from its Fioenian jar. Your wild-boar was by itself: and it was even of tbe smallest size, and sucb a one-as migbt have been slaugbtered bjr an unarmed dwai£ Besides, none of it was given us ; we simplv looked ^n.it as spectators. This is tbe way in wbieh even nie arena places a wild-boar before us. May no wildrboar be placed before you after sudi doings, but may you be placed before tbe boar in front of wbicb Dhari- demus vras placed.^
Thine invited were yesterday, Mandn, tfarsesoora ; Nor was anytUng served to thy guests^ but a boar.
» ByOooiitiaB,lobatoniinpieoes, See Saeton. £|^ ^
BOOK X.] BPiaRAXB. 47
Not the gxmpesy that the last from fheir parent depend i
Not tne applest that with the iweet oomo eaa contend ;
Not the peexB, that are bound by the lunberly broom |
Or pomegranates, ao like fleeting nmm in bloom }
Not a oone of zioh dots, from m oountiy afiuri
Not an oUto Pioenmn had pent in a jar.
Naked Aper, onite hannltes. the oompaay charm'd i
And eonmss'd Ifimself slain by a pigmy miaxm'd.
But our eyes had the sense, irhicn alone he would frast :
On the sand hare we often admfrad sneh a beast :
Henoe to thee be a tosker presented no more :
But be thon, Charidemiis-like, senred to a boar. MpMMitotu
ZUT. TO BTSLUL
If it aeema to you too much, Stella, that my longer and shorter oompoeitionB are occupied with the frisky gambols of the hares and the play of the lions, and that I go over tiie same subject twice, do yon also place a hare twioe before me.
If twioe the harss and lions sporthig be
A snbjeet, Stella, triml nnto thee,
Rerenge 'fliyself upon me with like ftrei
Invite ine twioe, and set before me hsre. Jmoil 169f
XLT. OK HIS BOOK.
That the care which I have bestowed upon what I have pabliahed may not come to nothing through the smallneas of my Tolnmes, let me rather fill up my yerses with T^r V
Lest, in air, the mere lishtness my diitiohs should toss,
I had nther nng T6v ^T dwofutpifupoQ. Wpkkuicm.
ZLTT. An HSPTLTTK.
Cum dicia propero, fac si fiuaa, Hedyle, languet
ProtinuB, et cesaat debflitata Yenua. Eroectarejube: velociua ibo retentus :
Hedyle^ ai properas, die mih], ne properem.
A. XDtLO.
If •
si vo
^ Let ms lather use frequent repetitibni, just as Homer frequently iv
a^ttAJtf aW^^^ ^^m^mI^
peais mess wuras*
Qnando did mi smoeio, spicoiati, o Edilo^ in un subito priapo erra, fH jnacere abbattuto perde fbrsa. Di eh*io m'srresti:
48 ltiLBTIAI.*8
pii^ pnsto ((iiaiido'Bon rattenuto. O Ediloi.se ti tpiod dinunek^ aodo io Tadi adagio. QragUa*
When fliou say'st I hasten to 't,
Do it if thoa mean'st to do \
Hedyla, delay'd desire
Soon lanffaishes, and doth expire.
Command me to expect, then i,
Withheld, shall run more speedily \
Bat, Hedyla, if thou dost haste,
Tell me, that I not oome too &8t FUieker.
XLTn. OF DIAtTLirS.
Dianlus, latelj a doctor, ia now an undertaker: what he does as an undertaker, he used to do also as a doctor.
Dianle tiie doctor is a sexton made :
Hiou^ he is changed, he changeth not his trade.
The Doctor's late, is now the Dismal's lore :
What Dismal does, the Doctor did before. laSfNUute.
XLTm. OV THB LIOH AHD HULX.
The keepers could not snatch the hulls from those wide jaws, through which the fleeting prey, the hare, goes and re- turns in suety; and, what is still more strange, he stwts from his foe with increased swiftness, and contrads something of the great nobleness of the lion's nature. He is not safer when he courses along the empty arena^ nor with equal feel- ing of security does he hide hun in his hutch. If, venturous hare, you seek to avoid the teeth of the hounds, you have the jaws of the lion to which you may flee for refbge.
In the jaws that deny all retreat to a bull, See the bare come and go \ and his gambol is.flilL O'er his fficht as fell fear has lost all her oontrol \ YwoL the me he takes fire, by contagion of souL
Not mote safe in the course, when thou wanton'st alone i Or so aaft^ when thou boastest a home of thine own. The dira dogs to cast o% tiiou hast, puss, one sore feat : In the Bumm of the lion thou It find a retreat
XLix. TO LionriAVirs. O thou, wDOse name must not »e 1^ untold \j Celti-
BOOS z.] KJnflRAarB. 49
•
berian natiozia, thou the bondtir of our common oountry^ Sdaxh, thott^TiicinMTiojp, wilt behold the lofty Bilbil]s,TeDownea for honee and arms, and Gatna * yenerable with hia locka of ano w. and aacred Yadarero with ita broken difia, and the liweet mre of delidoua Botrodiia, which the happy Pomona loTea. Thon wilt Ixreaat the eantl j-flowing water of the warm Con- gedoa and the .qalin lakea of the NymphB^ and thr body, relaxed bj 'these, thou mayat biaqe up in the little Sale, which haraena iroit. Jhere Yoberca* herself will aupply for thy meala animals which may be brought down doae at hand. 13ie aerene supimer hcBjb thou wilt diaaiTn by bathing in the solden Tagua, hidden beneath the ahadea of treea; thy greedy thirst the freah Dercenna will appeaae, and Nutha, whkh in coldneaa aurpaaaea andw. But when hoar December and the fuziona aolatioe ahidl reaoond with the hoarae blasta of tiie' north-wind, thou wilt a|;ain sedc the amuiy ahorea of Tnraoo and thine own Iialetania. There tiiou wilt despatch hinda caught in thy aupple toila, and natiTe boara ; and thou wilt tire out the cuniung hare with thy hardy ateed; the ataoa thou wilt leaye to thy bailiff. The n6igh1x>uring wood wmcome down into thj very hearth, surrounded as it will be witii a troop of uncombed children. The huntaman will be in^ ▼ited to thy table, and many a guest osUed in from the neigh- bourhood will come to thee. The creaoent-adomed boot' will be nowhere to be aeen, nowhere the toga and garmenta ^ffnyllinp of purple dye. Far away will be the ill-favoured Libumian porter^ and the grumbling client; far away the imperioua c&manda of widowa. The pale criminal will not break thy deep deep, but all the morning long thou wilt enjoy thy slamber. Xet another earn the grand and wild ^^rayo f" Do thou piiy auch happy onea, and enjoy with- out pride true delight, while your friend Sura ia crowned with applause. Not unduly does life demand of us our few rernaining daya, when fame haa aa much aa is sufficient.
*MoDg Oeltiberians, thoumtich-fianed man,
Spayne'i praise^ Litsiniaii, - Now uum myre Bilbilis* high-seated ground.
For hone and aims renown*d,
^ Gttiit and YadaTero are names of nKmntoins near BilbUia. Botrodaa Is a small town ; Congedns and Salo, rivers.
* The name Ma town. I>eroenna and Nnliia are fonnUins.
* Wcm 1^ lenatoia. * See Jufenai, i?. 7ft
9Q yjjBLTiu^M
And old Yadoreron'B snow*irhite baned E«id
Tl^hh oany oliib bespread, And Iflofllf Mtrod'a pleasant glares, wilt sea^
When die braTe arcfaarda Me f In wanw Gonffede to swiinm, thyselfe betake^
Or aoBse taai pleasant lake : Or Innd tky pofeain Salon's shallow flood,
Whiflk hanlen'd Steele makes good. VoberlB% came oomes as you dine to th' hand.
And to oee shott will stand : On goUsn Tagus' shadv banks you may
Sham ^ son's Boorenxnff ray : Andy wi& springs oookr tEsn the snow, the rage
Of greedy tiiixst assiiage. When fceUe. winter andlOeoember hoare
Wilh hoazae norUi-swinda doth roare, To Tteaeon's warme beedi yon may retreat,
Or Lalstapian heat I
Then desn eaoffht in tiie yidding tojdesyoa may,
Or horns fedd Urawnen, slay i Or sobde hares "with stronger horse runn downe,
Leanng the stagg to the downe. The nei|^noaring in>od large ^fies to yonr heazthe fisdsb
B^giit with d&ty hinds. Tonr iUlow-hnntBman there yoti 11 make a guest,
Or your next neighbour Mst I Frmn pnsi of suitors and lords' oompanie
And raabes perfumed free ; From henid oyen and bold widdows' Toyce^ -
And peefish dyents' noyse ; Nopab dspendant your sound deepes shall breaker
With yoQ r th' mome to speak. Whilst olhen puxdiaae great applause, but yayn%
Pity tibeir hapless gaine.
Enipy tras bliss, nor envious bee^ whene'er
Your Sara's prayse you heaie : Boldly ]fi» miay, with fiune enough now blest,
live to youndfe the rest
OldMS.naCmt.
L. TO J^XZLIAinrB.
If your oook, fmilianufl, ia called MistyOoB, why should not mine be caDed TaratallAf >
If a oook•bog^ by thee, may Mistyllusbe hight; IVumtalla to Sspkim, commences my right JSpkaUoiu
* A BMsnini^jsM, ttkan from Ho»er'a words (ILL465), •tersAXi* ¥ Jftt rdXXa, cr JL
ff.J meEixii n
No neeki flsre tbe nroadeBt^ aarvee for tbe fierce lion. Whj dost thou, Tain-glorioiis have^ flee firom tbew teetli P Ko doaU iboa wonldst wish ihem to stoop firom the huge bull to thee^ and to craah a neck which the^ cannot see. Hie gloiy of an illaBtrioiiB death must be sn object of despair to t&e. ThoUy a tiny prey, canst not (all before sach an
enemjl
Cfn nenroas necks behold hmi hang;
Proad puss, why fear tha iion's fimg ?
Fhim bulls would he deiosnd to thee,
Or crush the bones he csnnot see P
Then soar not to a fiite so hi^h ;
Kor hope by such a fbe to die. SpUutioiu
itXi. TO QunroTiAinTs.
To thee, Qoinctianua, do I oommend my bboks, if indeed I can call books mine, which thy poet recitea.^ If thc^ complain of a grierons yoke, do tiioa come forward aa their adyocate, and defend them efficiently; and when he calla himself their maater, say that they Were mine, bnt haye been giyen* by me to the pnblic If thoa wilt proclaim this three cr fimr tmiea, thou wilt bring shame on the plagiaiy.
Dear Quintian, to thy happy powen
Our lays (if I may caQ them oun,
Which thy bold bsrd will needsreoite,
And sWear that once himself could write)
I with just confidence oommend ;
And shall exact it of my friend,
That, if they heayy bondage wail,
Thou stand their claimant and their bail :
So when himself the culprit calls
The owner of the wretched thralls,
That them as mine thou redemand.
As sent to freedom from my band.
This truth if o'er and o'er thou bawl,
The thief thou Tt redden and appaL S^Muioih
un. TO vmEVTnrus.
One page only in my books belongs to you, Eidentinos^
* A poet that recited Tenes to QmnctisanB ; the eame, probably, OuA m mimwoasd fai tbe next epigram. ' IfanmBitted ; xeleasea I'rom my portftlim
aS
but it bean the sure stamp of its master, and accuacs your yeraea of glaring theft. Juat so dqea |i Qa]lic ^fiock coming in oontmst with ptu^le city cloaka staiii them with greaae and filth ; jnat so do Airetine ^ pota disgrace taaea of cryatal ; ao ia a black crow, strajin£ perchance tni the banka ot the Gayster, langhed to acorn amid the awana c^ Leda : and so, when the sacred erove resounds with the music of the tuneful nightiiigale, the miscreaDt niagpie disfurba her Attic plainta. JB^ pooka need no one to accuse ot judge you: the page which ia yours stands up against you and says, "Ton are a thie£'*
To steals mv bookes thou 'rt greedy, but affwise. To thinke taou "rt poett made at the same price A booke 's tnnBcriDed, or a iliffht Tolome sold. 'Wisedom *» not purchased for few Bnuuns of gold. - Seeke wme obscurer lines and ruder paynes Of one who th*.Tirgin isinie of his bnunes Keepes looked up to any's eye unknowne. By any's Hpps unkiased out nis owne. A well-knowne booke can't shift its authour. Tett If you one with unpoHah'd front would gett, Never yett bound or boss'd, I such can uiow : Buy them, and whence you had them none Bhall know. Who othm* lines does as his owne rehearse. Had need his silence buy as well as yme.
Old MS. lia (M.
F th' book th* ast fild^'d from me, one page alone
Is thine, and to be thine is so well known, .
If all the rest proclaims to be purloin'd.
So creasy homespun doth, to scarlet join'd, -.
Its histre as it wrongs and does defile.
Itself it also renders the more yile :
So crystal cups, with earthen set in place.
The worse they suit, the more themselves disgrace ;
In consort thus, ridiculous does show
Among the milk-white swans a rascal crow :
A cha&ring pie's harsh notes in grove so sound.
Where quires of charming nightingales abound.
.1 need no critic^s sid for my retief;
Thytown vile yerse rights me, and calls thee thiet
Jmm. 1091
' Earthen pots from ArretidiB, a town of Stmria,
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BOOK l] mesAxi. 68
(fix
TO
K Wmv^ thaa bart room to raeetTe still more affeetion, |fixr thcra hasl fiieoda aroimd l^hee (m all ndes), I fudc thee ov one plaoe in thj hearty if one stiU rematne yacanty and thatthoawiknotxefuaebee^iiaelamasinnm all
tlif old finenda were ao onoe. Simply eonmoer wbethier he mo 18 preiented to yon a stranger la lil^y to beoome an old friend.
YoOf whom your Ikithfbl friends snrroond,
Om then within your faieast be found
One spot another fiiend to giaee?
Ohl giant to me tbat hqipy place
Beftise me not, beeaose mtiieds
80 ones were all your friends bende.
Weig^ well the man; for from the new
May grow a good old fldead and true JEGJif •
If yet one comer hi thj brmst
Benuunsp good FusenSi unjkmess'd
fFor many a friend, I know, is thine),
tHre me to boost that comer mine,
Xor thou the honouz'd place I sue
Itefose to an eeanaintance new.
The oldest friend of all thy store
Was once, 'tis certain, nolning more.
It matters not how late the choiee.
If but approved liy reason's toice !
Then let thy sole mquiry be.
If thou canst ifaid such worth in me
That, constant as the yean are rolTd,
Hatnros new friendship into old. MidmotL
LT. TO rXOlTTO.
If tliou, Tronto, ao diatingnisbed an ornament of military and civil lifis, deeireat to mam the wisbea of : thy friend Mneaa, he prays tpir tiiia, to be the tiller of hia own form^ nor dmt a large one, and he lovea ingloriooa repoee in an mmreteoLding sphere. Does any one bannt the portiooea of eoM yariegated Spartan marble, and nin to offer, like a fool, hia mominff sreetniga, when he miffht, rich with the spoils of grore and idd^ nn^U before )us &e his weU-filled nets, and
(i4i ]CABTIAL*t
lift the leapng flah with the quivering, line, and draw fortfc the.yellpw nonejr from the red* cask, while a plump house* keeper loads his unevenly^proppidd table, lind nis own ^gs are cooked by an unbought fire P That the man who loves not me m^. not love this life, is jAj wish ; a^d let him drag 3ut life paBid with the cares of the dtj.
Well then, Sir, you shall know how fimr extend
The tmyert and hopes of your poetio friend : .
He ooes not palaoet nor manors crave,
Would be no lord, but less a lord would have
The ground he holds, if he lus own csii saU,
He qoarrek not with heaven because ^ small):
Let say and toilsome greatness others please^-^
He raves of homely littleness the ease.
Gsn any man in gilded rooms attend.
And his dear houn in hmnble visits snend,
When in the fresh snd beauteous Mas he ma]r
With various healthful pleasures M the day P
If there be man (ye goos !) I ouflht to hate^
Deoendenoe end attendsnoe be nis fiite.
Still let him busy be, and in a crowd.
And very mwAx a slave, and veqr proud :
Thus he petfaaps powerfrd snd neb may grow)
No matter, 0 ye godsl that 1*11 allow;
But let him peace and freedom new see s
Let him not love this life, who loves not' me. ■ Qwsiijf.
Since yon, whom all the world admires, Woola know what your poor friend desiiesj Some litde spot of earth he prays, To psss imcffkUo his days. Who 'd bear the noisy pomp of state,' ' - Or crowd of dienti at his sate^ That nught, in his own fields and wood, Find his diversion and his food P His nonds With various tidies aitoredt >The!Dees for him their honer ho^rd; ... A: nut-brow^ Iass» both kina and neat» To ipfke his bed* a^d dreis Us meat Be that hates me, oT likes not 'this, May he ne'er tasie so sweet a'bliis,' ' Bat, fooPd by riidies and renown, BtiU stay behind, and r6t in town I ^ / n
• ' > lltsined with TSfBitlicn.
iOOS I.] BItilSAlfSi SS
* LTI. TO A
Hanuwd with ocmtiniul nuQi, tlie TuieTard d^
Toa caniidt aeU ua, vintner, evea tboogh yoa wish, neat
wine.
So eoofltant pomt tnd Iwntid Tintiige iwelly Thou euiat not, if thoa wottldity nnmiiigled mIL
LTIZ. TO TLLCOUt.
Do Toa ask whftt sort of maid I desire or dislike, FlaoeoB P I 4isl&e one too easy, and one too 007. The just mean, wUch lies between the two extremes, is what I approve ; I like neither that which tortures, nor tliat which doys.
Wooldst know what tamper I tdjcnre would ehooso f What maid I like, and what I wonld reftise P I nother ][ike the fuSit, nor the 007,
• The oteriuffd, nor easj to eijoj :
A mean twixt both I rather do approve,
She that nor xaeks, nor ekyyiy the tweeCi of love.
Yon ask me, dear friend, « What lass I *d enjoj : * I would have one that's neitlier too ooniing nor 067, A medium is best, that gives us no pain, B7 too much' indnlgeaosb or too mtidi disdain. Ay.
You ask, were I to change m7 liih^
What kmd of giri I MAe to wifb f
Not one who 007 or easy seems,
I hate alike the two et^r^emes f
She satiates who at ifast eompiies.
She starresmy lore who long dnDies.
The maid must not, I 'd call mj own,
8a7 <« No" too oft, or « Yes ''too soon. Jao£
Ask 70U, m7 friend, what hind of she I *d choose ?
Not one too diffiooit, or one too Ax)se s
The moderate fiib, indiflerentl7 007,
With sense to please, but not too nee to clojrf
Whose passiens 'twist the wide extremes sre put!
I love no torment^ and I hats a slut OitU, Mt^. nsif
LVm.< DS FirXBI 3PBnTI0.
IQlin pro pnero oentom me mango pop^adt': '• Biai ^ : eed fhcebos protmns ilia aedtt;.
ICABTIAX*!
Hoe dolat et qaeritur de me mea mentuA meeofli^ Lsadatiiique meam FhcebuB in inTidiam.
8ed flettcotiuiuxn donayit mentnla Phosbo Bis decieB ; hoe da tu mihi, pluria emam.
DEL FBXZZO D'TJIT GIOTIKOTTO.
II sensJe nd dimando oeato nulla sestexsi per on gioruiotto : io iTsi : ma Febb inodntBiieiite gli diede. Ctuesto mi anidd al oaefe, e la mia nieiiiola n lag;no meco di me ftteaBo, e Febo h lodato in spreno di moi Ma la mentok diede a Febo Tenti Tcdte oento milla sestenL Bammi ta qoeeto, che lo pagher6 addhe fi f&u,
OragUtu •• ■ ' - • '
IiIZ. TO TIiACCUe. ,
The aportnla* at Bai» brings me in a hundred fiurthings; of what nse is snch a miserable sum in the midst of such sumptuous baths P Qire me back the darksome baths of Lupus and Gkyllus. * ^Wlieia I sup so scantily, Flaoens^ why should I bathe so luzuridusly P
An hmable hundred, Baian boonty tf Tea : Amid 80 nigh deiiffhts, what hunger iiyea ! Beatore me Xupur .baths, and Qiylloa^ ^oom : ."Why bathe in state, if starring be my doom?
. £X« OK THX UOir AKD JUOBOL
Haie, aKhongh thou enterest the wide jaws of the fieroe lion, still he imaginea his mouth to be empty. Where ia the bade on which he shall rushP where the shoulders on wUch he shall fallP where shall he fix those deep bites whidi he inflicts on young buUsP why dost thou m Tsan weary the lord and n^onarcn of the groyes P 'T is only on the wild prey of his choice that he feeds.
In the mozzle'a dread repair. Scarce the hero feds the hare. Olee, my leVret, may be thine % Can he rush upon tor chine P On thy shoulder can ne bound P Where infix the fifttal wound P Vainly, trifler, dost thou aeud; Vainly proffer paltry Uood ;
» qiwiali, ApTMentftomtho riebardaaatothS^ocnr; BttidBaQf theprioaoCasapper* See Dtct^ Anti^q. a. ir
BOOK I.] mmAMMM {S7
Yauilj plagae .tfa« king of gro?6ts
He for TQjil viotims xoret. SpkiMaioit,
m. TO LionrmnrSy ok thi ooTnmiisB ox cxxjmuoTD
JLUTHOBB.
Yerana lores the yenes of her learned Poet ; MantnA is hlest in her Maro ; the tenitoiy of Apona isrenowned for its Iatj, its Btell% and not less for its Ilaccas. The Nile, whose waters are instead of rain, applauds its ApoUodoms ; the Pehgnians Taunt their Oyid. Eloquent Cora9Ta speaks of its two Senecas and its single and preeminent Ltrban. Yo« hiptoous Oades delights in her Oanius,' Emerita il^ m^ friend Dedanns. Our Biu>ilis will he proud of you, Liciniailius^ nor will be altogether silent oonoeming me.
Whilst IGltcm *8 read, or nlyer Thames shall rtli^
"Will gnat Aug^ista boast hflrgreater son.
ATon abaU flow as urond of Sbakspeai^a name,
Alike in genhis, ana the next in &me.
WaEsr polite from Hertford's boimds remores,
To eomt the frir in Penshnrrt^s rsTidi'd groves.
The lofhr Denhsm, from Hibemia's shorB^
Makes Gooper^s HiH what Pindns was before.
Hear Gowley^s in&nt eriesi the town he hates:
Bear him, ye swans, to Ghertsey's ^reen retreati*
But let her Prior in the town remain,
With weD-wvougfat tales hii town to entertain.
The Goritani deck their Dryden's bays :
Th'aooomplish'dAddiKm ma Belm praise. . . .
Pope's Wmdsor Bzyads listen to his versei ;
And at his arot the Naiads slack their course. ' ,\
ComaTian dimea the merry Butler bore :
And* tisiEder Otway graced niy natire shore.* - JSGy.
TiTTT. OW liMTISX, \
Issfina, so ohaste as to rixal eren the Sabine women ot old. and more austere than ewea her stem husband, chanced, whue intrusting herself sometimes to the waters of the Lu* crine lake, sometimes to those of Avemns, and while fre- quently refreshing herself in tiie baths of BEaisi to frll into the flames of love, and, leaving her husband, fled with a rofomg gallant. She arriTed a Penelope, she departed a Helena
> 8seb.lM-l^» * HaywasbomatTrottcinhiBiisiexl
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. chaste m Sabinei were <^old« Than her ttriet hiuband yet more itriet and €o4 Whfle in the oonunon baths she did deeoeod. And in those freedoms many hoitfs did spend* She feU in lore ; in the oold streams took fixe ; , And, buniinff with a yonth in loose desire, She lelt her nnsband, and her virtaous name ; Hden went tfaence, Penelope that came. Jmoil lOtt.
LXin. TO CXLSB
»
. ^ Toa ask me to recite to you mj Epigrama. I cannot oblige yon ; for you wish not to hear them, Celer, but to re- cite them.^
Celer to read my epigrsms does crate,
But to redte his own 's the thing ho 'd haTe. Jtum. 1095.
Yon are pretty,— rwe know it ; and young, — ^it is tme ; and rich, — ^who can deny it F Bat when you praiae yourself eztrayagantly, Fabiiua^ you appear neither nch, nor pretty, nor young.
Yon Ve fkyre, t know 't ; and modest too, H is tme $ And*rieh yon are ; well, who denyes it yon F But whilst your owne prayse yon too mndi pioelame, Of modesty xiJBh, and fiiyre you loose the name.
* OidMSS.lia'OeMi.
dr, rich, and 3roung! how rare is her perfection, VTere i( not mingled with one foul infection : So proud a heart, I mean, so cursed a tongue^ As makes. her seem nor rich, nor fair, nor young.
$it Jaim BimriagUm*
Pretty thou art^ we know ; a pretty maid;
AziohonetOO: it cannot be gainsay'd. '.
But when thy puffii we hear, thy pride we see^
Thou neither nch, nor £ur, nor maid canst be. Jmoil ,
Genteel, 't is true, O nymph^ you are ; You Ve rich and beauteous to a hair. But while too much you paise yourself You *ye neither air, nor diarms, nor pelf
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* To plsgisrise them from ms^ snd then to recite them as your own*
£ZT. TO OJiOILIAinri.
When I Mijleut, yoa kughed at it as a barbarous word, CBcQiaBua^ and bade me aaj JSeaa, I ahaU call the jnrodnoe of the ^'treeJlcHt; jouis I shall call,/EeM.
LXn. TO ▲ PLAOIABT.
, Yon are mistaken, insatiable thief of mj writinffs, who think a poet can be made for the mere expense wUdi oorfj. ing, and a cheap volume cost. The applause of the worki is not acquired for six or even ten sesterces. Seek out for tiiis purpose yerses treasured up, and unpublished efforts, known pnlj to one person^ and which the father himself of the yirpn sheet, that has not been worh and scrubbed by bushy diins, keeps sealed up in his desk. A well-known book cannot change its mastec But if there is one to be found yet unpolished bj the pumice-stone, jet unadorned with bosses and corer, buy it: I haye such by me, and no one shall know it. Whoeyer recites another's compositions, and seeks for fame, must buy, not a book, but the autiior's ailence;
Thon lordid felon pf iny yerae and &mei
So cheap dost hops to get a poet^s namSi
Ai, by the purehaae barahr of my book,
For ten yile pence eternal glonr rook P
Find out some yiigm poem ne^ saw the day, -
Which wary writen In their desk do lay
Loek'd up, and known unto themielyea alone }
Nor one with naing toni and aozdid grown.
A pahUah*d work, can ne*er the author chann,
Like one ne*er paaa*d the pre8a,'that ne'er did range
The world, tnml'f bound up ; and audi 1 11 aeSl^ -
Give me my mpe, and ne'er the aecret telL
fie that anoU»er *8 wit and fame will own.
Must ailenbe buy,' and not la book that ''a known.'
Jmom, 1685.
IXVILr TO CHCBBILTIB.
; ^Tott are too Jbee-spoken,'* is your constant remark to
^ An uotraiialataUe Jest on the douhle meaning of the wordjieiii,' WUeh, when dedmed/Mv, ^Hieaiiia apedea of ulcer; and whan/oaa •40, a flf-tree.
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me, ChflBrQufl. He who speaks againsfc jou, CIiiBriliis, is iiii deed a free speaker.^
Why doitlhoa hlame my writingt as too free? * Imay write freely^ when I irrita of thee. JLH.S9
LXnU. OK BTTTUS.
Whatever Bafiis does, Nflsvia is all in all to him. Whether he rripioea, or moums, or is silent; it is ever Nrnmu He eats, be dnnks, he asks, he refuses, he gesticalatei^ Nevii^ alone is in his thoughts: if there were no Nsvia, he would he muto. When he had written a dutiful letter yesterday to lus father, he ended it with, ''Nsria, light of my eyes, Nsvia, mr idol, &rewell." NsBvia read these words, and laughed with downcast looks. 29'8Byia is not yours only :' what madnesK is this, foolish num P
Let Rofus weep, KJoioe^ stand, sit, or wa)k, Still he oaa nothing hut of N»via talk : Let him eat, drink, ask ^uestioDS, or dispate. Still he must speak of Ni^ria, or be mnte^ He'wzit to hii fiither, ending with this liiie^ I am, my lovely Neyia, ever thine.
Spectator, No; II&
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I^EIX. TO XAxncus.
Taienios,' which was wont to exhibit the statue of Pan, be* pns noW| Maximus, to exhibit that of Canius.
Her god Taientos showed m Pan :
In Guiius ^e displays her man. SlpUMttoM
jjjL xo ma BOOK.
Gk>, my book, and pay mj respects for me: you are ordered to go, dutiful volume, to the snlendid haDs of Proeaiua. Do jou ask the way P I will teu jou. You will go ahn^ bj
* 1 Free IrdlB til raitimin^ for lie may 9Kf all sorts of fliiiigi sgslnst yon without feir of contradiotiop.
' PubUeum enim est prostflmhun. ' JZodSmi*.
* fynaUm, a plaice in- the OunpurMsrtiut, in wh{ish wu a temple oen* seented ib Pluto, and' filled with statues of Pan, the datyrv, and other deities or temarfcable penonases. (te Ouifau,. a humorous poet of (Sadeib ii^ym statue, it appes^s, was put thers wiU( Paa's, ne sbors^ ^p. 61^
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tbe temple d Oasior, nev ihflt of ancient Testa^ and that goddesa's Tirgin home. Tlienoe Toa will paaa to the majea- tio Palatine ediloe on the ncrea hill, where glitten manj .11 atatoe of the anpreme ruler of i^e empire. And let not the ray-adomed maae of the Coloeaiia detam you, a work which ia prpad of aoipaaring tiiat rf Bhodea. * But turn aaide ^ the way where the temple of the wine-bibUng Bacdiua naea, and where the eonch of Cybele stands adcmed with picturea of the Coirbatites. Immediately on the left is th^ dwelling with its splendid fii^ade, and the halls of the loffy 'mansion which roa are to approach. Ibterit ; and fear not it» haughty looks or proua gate; no entrance affords mcM ready access; nor is there any house more inciting for FhcDhua and the learned sisters to lore. If Froculus shiul say, " But whr does he not come himself P " you maj^ excuse me thus, ''BsGaase he could not hare written what is to be read here, whaterer be its merits if he had come to pay his respects in person.''
Go, litUe book, the bieathinn of thy lord Tore Proonlos's ^dbDdidffMS record. Which is mynray r By (Sster shalt thou roanif Nesr hoaxy Vesta's fime and Tirgin-dome. Thenoe hf the awM hOl aioendi thy tour : The soir'xeigii's xmase beams direction pore. 'Nor. thee too lone me fknud Colose begmle^ '., That dims the islfanice of tbe Bhodian pile. Hence seek the soaking &ther of the feast, • The mightjr mother, snd her painted priest Now, on the left, the lofty towers incite : The oonrts angnst possess the lavidi'd sight. Tet, bold appmch ; thoa canst redoubt no pride i . No welcome portals stand more sweetly wide. None eyes Apollo, or the Nine more near. The poet, why, he 'U say, himself not here P Then thoa: Beeanse, iniateTer these indite, Hie personal salntar could not write. JS^Mntiom,
LTTT. TO SLklB.
Let LsBffia be toasted with ail cups, Justina with seren, Lycaa with fiye, Lyde with four, Ida with tiirse. ipet the number of letters m the name of each of our mistresses be eq[nalled by the number of ciips of EiJernian. But^ since Hone of tiiem comes, come thou, Sleep, to me.
rQS MABTZAL>
Ltoiis Are, JLyde Crar, and Ida threes Each man hu lore l^ healthi arithmetiM | If hone appear, thoif Sletfp, oome thou to me.
Till 11, • TO n2>EimirT78| i. FLAGIABT.
Do you imagine^ Eideiitmiu, that jou are a poet by the aidof mjTenee, and do jou wish to be thought BO? Justao doM. Mffe think ahe haa teeth from having pufchaaed bone or itoiy. Jnat ao doea Lyooria, who is bla(S:er than the jbU- in^ molberrj, aeem fiur in her own eyea, becauae ahe is
Cmted« Ton too, in the aame way that yon are a poet^ will Te flowing locka when you are grown bald.
Fidentme, dont then think, andieek to he A poet wUh my veiae in thiereirF So Jfigle, with her bought and Indian bone^ Msy aeem to have a sound month of her own. So paintad-fkoed Lyooria may mem white, Though blaek a« moori yeiTd In a natural night For that lame canae that thoa art poet call'd, Thon mayrt be said bnsh-hair'd wpen thou art bald.
LxxuL. TO ojBOiLZijnra.
There waa no one in the whole city, CscQianiia, who de- ' to meddle with your wife, even gratia, while permiaaion waa given ; but now,8inoe you have aS awatch upon her, the crowd of gallanta ia innumerable. You are a clever fillowl
Scarce one in all the city would embrace Thy proffer'd wife, GsBcilian, free to have ;
But now she 's guarded, and lock'd up, apace Thy custom comes. Oh, thou "rt a witt^ knaTe I
Your wifii 's the plainest piece a man can see:
No soul would touch bar, whiUt you left her free:
But smce to g^nard her yon employ all arts.
The lakes besiege her«— Ton 're a man of parts ! Eof.
TiTTTT. TO FAULi.
He waa your gallant, Paula ; you could howerer deny it. He is become your huabuid ; can you deny it now, Paulk P '
* Ha was said to be jma gaOaat wlian your first husband was aUva.
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H« WIS tiia fiiTomitei thoa might ttditftTows
Hie if thj oooMrti canst thou, Paulit now P XlpUndOM.
KZXTo OK Lonrs.
He who prefers to giro LinuB ihe half of what ne wiahee to borrow, rather than to lend him the whde^ prefisrv to loee only the half.
Why gxfe poor UniiB halt not lend the whole P
''I'd rather loee hot half." Apradentaonll B^Muitm.
Lend Spanae a amnea I Ned, jrou 'd beet leAiae, '
And gire hnn hiu£ Bnre^ that *• enough to lose. Jmoil
UOTL, TO TXLEStUn JLLOCUn.^
Plaoeosy rained objeot of my aplieitade, hope and nnrs* ling of the city of Antenor,* put aside Pierian atraina and tiie lyie of the Siaters; none of those damsela will giro you money. What do yon expect from Fhcebna P The cheat of Minerra containa the caah; she alone ia wise, ahe alone lenda to all the ffoda. What can the iry of Bacchna give P The dark tree m Fkdlaa benda down ita Tariegated boogha nnder the load of finnt. Helicon, besides ita waters and the garlanda and lyiea of the goddesses, and the great but empty applanae of the multitude, haa nothing. What haat thou to dowith CirrhaP What with bare Permeasis P TheBmnaa forom ia nearer and more lueratiTe. There ia heard the chink of money; but around our desks and barren chain kiases ' alone resound.
Though midst the noUest poets thoa hast place,
Flacena, tiie oflBmring of ^tenor's race i
Benonnce the lineer songa and ehanning <}uxre.
For none of tiiem enrich, though tiiey inspire.
Gout not Apollo, Pallas has the gola ;
She 's wne^ snd does the gods in mortgage hold.
What nrafit istiiere in aaivy wreath P
Ita fruti the loaden dlive sinhs benealh.
In Hdiooa thsra's nought but springs and bays,
The Muse^ hazpa loodaounding em^ praise.
Ten fbfln denied it Yon aaixied Um as soon as your hnsband diedi WHlTon denj it now r I The asthor of fbe Aigooantica.
* The city of PatsTinai, founded bj Aatenor ' Astonnsofasplansst
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What with Famaflsiu* streamt hut thou fo dof The Boman forum 's rich, and nmxet too. There chmks the cash : but roond the poet^s chair The amacka of kiMcs only fill the air. jMm.ieM
LXXVIl. OK OHABHriTS.
CharinuB is perfectly well, and yet he is pale ; CharinuB drinka aparingly, and yet he ia pale ; Oharinua digeeta well, and yet he ia pale ; Charinua auna hixnaelf^ and yet he ia pale ; Charinua dyea hia akin, and yet he ia pale ; Charinua indulgea in infamoua debauchery, and yet he la pale.*
Gharinna nothing aeenu to ail i Bat poor CSiarinus fltiU is pale. CharmuB drinks with due reflodon, . But ^y 18 his best complezion. Charinus eats, and can oigest ; Yet wan is he* as with a pest Charinus basks him in the sun; Tet pale his hue, instead of dun. Cfaannus deeplj dies hii skin ; Still nought ahTe appears within. Charinus hates the Muse aa hdl: Pure paleness will with Charin dwelL J^pkuuttm,
LXXmi. Oir 7S8TU8, WHO BTABBXn HIK8SL7.
When a devouring malady attacked hia unoffending throaty and ita black poison extended ita ravafiiea over hia face, Eeatua, conaoling hia weeping fnenda, while ma own eyea were dry, determined to aeek the Stygian lake. He did not however pollute hia pious mouth with secret poiaon, or agj^vate nis sad fate by lingering famine, but ended his pure bfe by a death befitting a Koman, and freed his spirit in a nobler way. 'Hiia death fame may place above that oi the great Cato ; for Domitian was Festus' friend.'
When the dire auiosey choked his noble breath.
And o'er his mce the black'ning venom stole, Festtts disdain'd to wait a liuff'ring death.
Cheered his sad fiiends, ana freed hii dauntlen souL Nor meagre famine's slowly-wastinff force,
Nor hemlock's gradual chillness he endured $ But dosed hia life a truly Boman course,
And with one blow his liber^ secured. Eodpoa.
That is, he does not blush at lus infsmy. * Oslo said that he died to SToid lookiiig on the fsce of the tynoit Csiac
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LZXDC. TO ATTALITB, i. BIT8T*B0DT.
Attahui joa are ever acfcing the barrister, or acting the man of buameaa : whether there is or is not a part for you to act» Aitalnsy joa are alwm acting a part. If kwauits and buaineBB are not to be &und. Attains, yon act the mule- driTer. Attains, lest a part should be wanting for yon to aet^ act the part of executioner on yourself.
Tea act the pLeader, and you aet the man Ofbnnness; acting ii your constant plan : So prone to act, the coachman's part is Ided ; Lest all parts tui thse, set Uie soicide. L, H, S.
Lxzx. TO CAjrrrs.
On the last night of your life, Oanus, a sportula was the object of your wishes. I suppose the cause of your death was^ Canns, tSiat there was only one.^
The sportale, tiiat last night poor Gaaos sought^ Has BordT slsm him i for bat one he caught.
T^*»«' TO BOSmiAiriTS.
Ton know that you are the son of a slave, and you in- genuously confess it^ when you call your &ther, Sosibiauus, « master.^* «
That thou *rt son to a slsTe, tiion dost frankly record, When, Sosibian, thou titlest thy fkther *<My lord*'
SlpkuuUm.
Til mi. OK BSOTTTUS.
See from what misdiief this portico, which, overthrown amid douds of dust^ stretches its lon^ ruins over the ground, lies absolyed. Par Besulus had but just been carried in his Utter under its arch, and had got out of the way, when forthwith, borne down by its own weight, it fell ; and, beinff no longer in fear for its master, it came down free from blocSguiltineas,
any attendant anxiety. After the fear
A He had hoped fo^ tefenl largowea ; he died of mortiflcatioa at re- eehmg only one.
* llie mothflr of Socibiimie had been guilty of adnlteqr with a tlava. When Sonbieniis calla his roputed fitther Dommua, at a title of mpeot, bat which wis also a teim lor a master of slavei^ he oonfawea hinself a or bom-elave.
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of 80 great a cause for complaint is passed, who would denj, BeguIuB, that you, for whose sake the fall was innoziouay are an object of care to the gods P
The portico, that, mould'ring hero.
Her meLancholy 'wnok extends: From what a miff hty misdiief desTf
A wise and wming witness lends. Hardly had Beffolns rode by,
When, tremluing with unwieldy weight, Vo passenger before her eye,
she ruih'd upon a bloodless £ite.
If totfring towerB so cautions be, What gofffdian-gods endrde theel
Jl^pltsitoB.
Lzxzm. ov iLunrziA.
Tour lap-dog, Manneia, licka your mouth and lips : I do not wonder at a dog liking to eat ordure.^
On thy loved lips the whelpling Ismbent hnng :
No wonder if a dog can fcM on dung. ^Mul<m,
LxxziY. OK QiriBnrAiiia.
Quirinalis, though he wishes to haye children, has no in- tention of taking a wife, and has found out in what way he can accomplish his object. He takes to him his maid-servants, and fills his house and his lands with dave-knighta.' Quiri- nalis is a true pater-familias.
Sly Quirinalis cares not mndi to wed, Yet would partake the ofipring of the bed. But yet what tridc, what custom is *t he uses P Most certain he his chambermaids abuses. So stocks his house and fidds : how truly he Iscall'dthe&therofhis&milyP IMOtr.
IXZXT. OK AK AUOTIOKIXII.
A wag of an auctioneer, offering for sale some cultivated heights, and some beautiful acres of land near the dtf , aayai ^If any one imagines that Marius is compelled to seU, he is
^ A aarcssm on the foulnen of Manneis's brasth. t Bqnitihus vemis. (See Heinridi on J w. is. l(k) Epm mrm, ths sfffpring of s kni|^ sua a dsve*
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mifltaken; Mmns owes notbmg: on the contnuy, he rather has money to imt out at interest." '^ What is his reason, then, for sellinff P'' ''In this place he lost all his slayes, and his estde, ana his profits; hence he does not like the locality." Who would hafo made any offer, nnless he had wished to lose all his pruperiy P So the iU-fated land remains with Manns.
When tiie hidi-enltiized hills by the glib auedoneefy And the tillrs fur acres were enter'afiill dear $ He 's a blockhwid, my bnyeri, who offers the flout That a Mazhis must mU, who miffht rather lend out. What's the reason no ilaTes, flocks, or fruits, we can trace ? There 's Hie reason, I fisar, why he likes not the place. Who would bid for such purcnase, or less, or bid more. Who not wish'd to lose servants, and cattle, and store ? llien the cess of poor Bfsrius we well understand, And the eanse why the premises hang on his hand.
ElpkUuUm. LZXZYI. OK KOTTUB.
Novias is my neighboor, and may be reached by the hand from my windows. Who would not envy me, and think me a happy xban every boor of the day when I may enjoy the sodety of one so near to me P Bnt^ he is as far removed from me as Terentianns, who is now ffovemor of Syene on the Nile. I am not privileged either to me with him, or even see him, or hear bun ; nor in the whole dtj is there any one at once so near and so far from me. I mast remove ftrther ol^ or he must. If any one wishes not to see Novius, let him become his neighbour or his fellow-lodger.
My nsifihbour Hunks's house and xkiine
An bnut so near thev almost join;
The windows too project so much,
Thst through the casements we msj touch.
Nay, I 'ffl so happy, most men think,
To Hve so nesr a man of chink,
That 1fae]f are apt to envy me,
For keepmg suui good company :
But he % as Ikr mm. me, I vow,
As London is firom good Lord Howe ;
For when old Hunks I chance to meet,
Or one or both must quit the street
Thus he who would not see old Roger, Must be his neighbour— or his lodger. Sm^f.
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Sir FonuaTs liome adycnning standt :
We fix)m oar windows may ihake haiidi.
Blest situation I you will say.
Do not you enry me, I pray,
Who may, at etnlj^ hours and late^
£^oj a mend so intimate?
Sir formal ifi to me as near
As is the Consul at Algier.
So &r from intimacy is it,
We seldom speak, we never visit
In the whole town no soul can h6
So near, and yet so far from me.
Tis time for him or me to start;
We cannot meet, unless we part
Would YOU Sir Formal keep aloof?
'"ake loogings under the same roofl * Eig^^
itxxxm. TO TEBomnA.
Thslt yon mnj not be disagreeably fragrant with your yes- terday's wine, yon deTonr, luxurioua Feacennia^ certain of Cosmna'a ^ perfnmea. Breakfasts dTsuoh a nature leave their mark on the teeth, but fonn no barrier against the emanationa which escape from the depths of the stomach. Nay, tiie fetid smell is bnt the worse wen mixed with perfume, and the double odour of the breath is carried out the further. Cease then to use fiiinds but too well known, and disguises well understood ; and simply intoxicate yourself.
Each mome rich losenges thou eat* st, the stinke^ Feseennia, to hide o' th' last nightfs dxinke : Such breakfasts smear thy ohapps ; but all in vaxne^ When those sowre fumes thou must belch up againe. Nay, mixt with those perfumes the stinke is woney And fbrther goes with this redoubled force : The cheats, mscover'd now, and too weU knowne. Lay by I and henceforth smell of dzinke alone.
OldMSAiaaKi.
Lxzxyni. OK jxcnms.
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A I'nmus, whom, snatched fix)m thy lord in thy opening jrears, the Labican earth covers with light tart, receive^ not a nodding mass of Parian marble, — an unenduring monument
^ Gosmns : a celebrated perfumer of llie day, and froqueutly meq* tioned.
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which mionplied tcH ffires to the dead, — ^but ahajielT boz- treee and toe daik Bha&s of the palm leaf^ and dewy flowers of the mead whieh bloom from beinjg; watered with my team. Beceiveydear yotttfay the memorials oxmy grief : this tribute will lire for thee m all time. When Lachesis shidl hare spun to the end of my last hour, I shall ask no otiier honours for my ashes.
SoatehM from thy lord in thy youth*! verdant bloome, Whow snth nooght but eaxth-tuifes ^ntly entombe : Aceeptno tigae vast marble piles, which must Bistead of keepbg thine, ^emuelTes bee dust : Butt this frUle Ime and Palme-trees' gloomy shade, And greene lodds, with my dewy teaxes so made : Aeeept, deare bojr, these griefr poured on thy hearse^ Thns shall thy name Hve ever in my verse. When Eites my life's last thredd shall oatt in twaiae, May I no other grave, than such, obtayne.
Old US. lia Ckni.
Sweet innocent, whom wishes could not save, lig^ he ^ tmf that rests upon thy grave 1 . No Fszun maxble thine, whose pomp might prove The seolptor's labour, not the parent's love. The hnmole box, and festil vine thy bier, Ihy hooM the mead, thy monument a tear. O early lost, accept my votive lav, The Isk food trimite which the Mnse can pay: And when too luig*nng age has dosed my doom, My heart's ssylnm be-^ dan^ter's tomb.
Desr boy ! whom, torn in early youth away.
The lig^t torf oovers in Labicum's way,
Reoeire no tomb hewn from the Parian cave
B^ useless toil to moulder o'er the grave ;
But Im and shady palms shall flourish here,
And softest heibage green with many a tear.
Dear boy I tiiese records of my grief receive,
Thess smiple honours that will bloom and live ;
And be, when Fate has spun my latest line,
My ashes honoor'd, as I honour thinel Oeorye LemL
LXXXIX. TO ODTKi..
Ton always whisper into every one's ear, Cinna; you whisper even what might be said in the hearing of the whole woilcL Ton laugh, you complain, you dispute, you weep,
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jcu fling, joxL eriticifle, you are sflent, you are noisy ; and ail in one's ear. Has this diseaae bo thoroiu|Uy taken posses- sion of you, that you often praise 0»sar, Ginna, in the ear P ^
CSzmay thoD 'rt ever whiiperioff in fhe ear.
So far thou "rt sone in this diMsae, I swear,
Thoa pnisest Ceesar often in the ear. Jmom. 1695.
Your powdez'd nose jron throst in every ear.
And whisper that wmch all the world may near;
In whiskers smile, or wear a diimal fkoe :
In whispers state, or else lament, the oaie:
Now hum a tone, juduaons now appear i
Now hold your tomrae, now hollow in the ear.
Is this a secret too r Tour aeoent raise :
We lore the king, whom yon in whispen pnuse. S^*
ZO. OK BAB8A.
Inasmueh aa I never saw yon, Basaa^ anironnded by a crowd of admirers, and report in no caae assigned to yon a faronred lover ; bnt every duly about your person was con- stantly performed by a crowd of your own sex, without the presence of even one man; you seemed to me, I confess it, to be a Lucretia.
At tu, proh fadnua, BassSi fututor eraa. Inter ae geminos audea committere connos,
Mentitur que vimm prodigiosa Yenus. Commenta es dignum Thebano snigmate monstmniy
Hie ubi vir non ea^ ut ait adult^um.
That I ne*er saw thee in a ooach with man,
Nor thy chaste name in wanton satire met ; Hiat from thy sex thy liking never ran.
So as to siuGer a male servant yet; I thou£[fat thee the Lucretia of our time:
But, liassa, thou the whib a Ttibss wert. And clashing — with a prodi^ous crime
Didst act of man th*^ inimitable part What (Edipus this riddle can untie P
Without a male there was adultery. Mbf •
* When his prtiie onsht to he proclaimed aloud eToywheiei
BOOK 1.] xnexAMs* n
XOI. TO ZJBLIUB.
^ T<m do not poblisli jour own yenesy LsliiiB ; you criti- dse mizie. feay ceaae to criticiae mine, or else puDliah your own*
Tlioa bbm'tt my yenes and eonoeal*ft thine own :
Or paUiah thine, or elae let mine alone I Jjum. 1695.
XOH. TO XAKUSIiJnTB.
Ceatna with teara in hia eyea often oomplaina to me, Mamniianoa, of being touched witli your finser.^ Ton need not nae your finger merely; take Ueatua afi to youraeli^ if notiung elae la wanting in your eatabliahment^ Mamurianua.* But if you haye neither fire, nor lega for your bare bedatead, nor bfoken baain of Chione or Antiope ; * if a doak greasy and worn hanga down your back, and a Gbllic jacket coyera only half of your loina; and if you feed on the smell alone of the dailc kitchen, and drink on your kneea duty water w.'th the dog ;
Non culum, neque enim eat culua, qui non eacat olim, Sed fodiam mgito qui auper eat oculum.^
Neo me aelotypiun nee dizeria eaae malignum : Denique peoica^ Mamuiiane, aatur.
xoni. ov AQTrnnTB ash rABBiciira.
Here repoaea Aquinua, reunited to hia faithful Fabridua, who rejoioea in haying preceded him to the Elysian retreata. Thia double altar beara record that each waa honoured witb therankofdiief centurion; but that praiae ia of atill greater worth whidi yon read in thia ahorter inscription: Both wen unUed im the eaered bond of a uM-^pewt hfe^ andy what is rarefy hnawm tofame^ toerefiiende,
' ^ See Khtgriflj*! Hypktia, c. 5, p. 57, ed. 2. * llaaiiziioiiia it rid&nled for his sordid and lioentioiis life. He hid hnt one eyt^ is appeals from wliat ii said below. Ceatns was Martial's
* Names of oomleaana, from whom Martial intimates that Mamnrianns would aooept broken Teasels.
* A j^y on the woidi oifttf and oniAtf . A oonmon threat was, "(teiifM IA^^^Um," ofien used in Plantns.
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Here irith AqTd&us is Fabridus laid*
Eqoioed to find him in the xealmi of shade.
Grayed on this tomb is dither soldiez^s name |
Alike their friendship, and alike their fiune. Eodfioiiu
ZOIT. AJ> iieLEV 7XLLATBI0BH.
Gantasti male, dum fiituta es, iBgle. Jam cantas bcmue ; baaianda non es.^
O Egle, nei tempi che fosd immembrata cantavi male. Ora ehe canti bene, la toa booca fa sohifo. Qragiid,
XOT. TO iBLIUB.
In constaatij making a clamour, and obBtzncting the pleadera with tout noise, .SUna, yon act not withoat an object ; you look for pay to hold your tongue.
That bawlen yon outbawl, the busy enish.
No idler you, irho bnng to sale your hush. Bipkimkm*
Ton, TO HIS TBB8B, OK A UOlSimOFB CHABaOTXB.
If it 18 not disagreeable, and does not annoy yon, my yerae^ say, I prithee, a word or two in i^e ear of our fiiend Mater^ nuB, 80 that he alone may hear. That admirer of Bad-colour- ed coats, clad in the costume of the banks of the river Bastis, and in grey garments, who deems the wearers of scarlet not men, and calls amethyst-coloured robes the drees of wo- men, howeyer much he may prsise natural huea, and be id- waya seen in dark colours, has at the same time morals of an extremely flagrant hue.* You will ask whence I suspect him of effeminacy. We go to the same baths ; * Do you ask me who this is P His name has escaped me.
My darling muse, if 't is no troublous task. Or painfnl toil, let me one fityour ask.
Olim, ^nanqnam msl& csntabss, nae tamen nstortt adTersabsiiSy om- nes ta basiare yolebant; nimo snton, com os taum fcBdaTeris, qnis te baaiabitr
* QaStmoi habti mom, Oalbimu is a diminutsre from gaUmi^ yeUow; and as clothes of that colour were thonght too gay, the worc^ was used la tha signification of effuminaU,
* ^Aspicit nihn samim,
Sed spCNBtat ocnlii defozsatibus diaucos Nee otiosis mentnlis videt labris.
BOOK I.] XFIG1ULM8. 7S
Oo, drop these few in our Mateniiu' eai s
But 80 that hdf and only he» shall hear.
Yon ssUow loyer of the sad array,
Whom Betis erer clothes, or motley grey
Who none, in scarlet, can esteem as men }
Who aUf emporpled, wonld with females pen ;
Who hugs the natiye hue, detests all dye,
Unless^ psih^iB, what saves from slare tlie eye ;
Though ofibscation overcasi his whole,
Galbantsn manners tinge his inmost souL
Inquiry, of the who, my course has stopped.
Inquirer, pardon : I the name have dropp'd. l^pkinttoMB
XCm. TO VJBTOLUB.
When every one is talking, then and then only, Nsvoliu, do yon open your mont^ ; and yon think youraelf an advocate and a pleader. In soch a way every one may be eloquent. But eee^ everybody ia silent ; say something now, Nsvolos,
Stin in a crowd of noise thy voice is heard.
And ihkkfst thyself a lawyer for thy prattb; •n tins aooonnt Moh man that wean a beard May be as wise. Lo, all men peace I Now prattle.
FUteier.
ZOVHL TO TLLOOUBf OV DIOBOBXTS.
Diodomsgoesto law, Flaccns, and has tbegout in bis feet Bat he pays his counsel nothing; surely be has the gout mlarfc in bis bands.
Thou 'st gouty feet, yet stoutly dost withstand At law, and pay'st no fees the court demand : Isnotthegout^I>iodore,inthyhandP Jmom, lfSB6*
XCIX. TO CALEinrs.
But a short time since, Calenus, yon bad not quite two millions of sostorcos ; but jou were so tnodigal and open- hsnded, and hospitable, tliat all your mends wished yon ten miOiona. Heaven beard the vnsh and our prayers; and within, I think, six months, four deaths save you the de- sired fortone. But yon, as if ten millions had not been left to you, but' tsken from you, condemned yourself to such absti- nenoe^ wretdied man, that you prepare even your most sump* tnous toBBbSf which you provide gbIj once in the whole yeari
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at the cost of but a few dirly pieces of black coin ; and we, Beyen of jour old oompamonB, stand you in just half a pound of leadki money. What blessing are we to invoke upon you worthy of such merits P We wish you, Calenus, a fortune of a hundred millions. If this falls to your lot, you will die of hunger.
When some time nnoe you had sot dear
AboTe three hundred pounds a year,
Ton lived so well, your bounty such,
Tour Mends aU wish'd you twice as muohs
Heayen with our wishes soon complied i
In six months four relatioiis died.
But you, so far from having more.
Seem robb'd of what you had before :
A greater miser every day.
Live in a cursed starving way:
Scarce entertain us once a year j
And then not worth a groat the cheer:
Seven old companions, men of sense,
Scaxoe cost you now as many pence.
What shall we wish you on our part?
What wish can equal your desert?
Thousands a year may heaven grant I
Then you will starve^ and die for want I Eojf.
FoBsess'd of sesroe three hundred dear, How blitfady roU'd the lib'ral year! So kind ti^y hand, thy heart so free, T was almost prodigality: Eadi friend made happjr wish'd thee more,
' Thy worth increannff with thy slore.
HeaVn has indulseu the grateful call :
Seven moons revolved, piofiisdy faSX
The showers of wealth, the kindred breath
Four darts unerxing dosed in death.
While thou, as not a mite were left,
As of thy little all bereft.
Where Joy should smile bidst Avarice frowBt
j[)inmi'd every gem in Plenty's crown I
In annual pomps we coldly greet
One solitary sumptuous treat.
The treat to glut thy sordid pride
Cheaply from basest coin suppl/d^
To seven choice friends; your choicest food
As your light guineas light and good.
BOOK I.] xnosAW. 75
Wliit pnyen diall now engage the ftiendP Pnyen m thy riches without end : Tliat meagre Famine death will giye To him whose meanness does not Uto.
S. JB. Qmm, 1774.
0. ov AiriLU
Afra talks of her papas and lier mammas ; but she heneb maybe called the grandmamma of her papas and mammas.
Though papa and mamma, my dear,
So prettuy you call, Yetyoo, metmnks, yourself appear
The grand-mamma of alL Bimqm^ 1784.
CI. QV fBB DXATH OT HIB AlCAmTXlTBIB SXICXTSIUB*
Demetrins, whose hand was once the fiuthfbl confidant of my verses, so useful to his master, and so well known to the Csaara, has yielded up his brief life in its early prime. A fourth harvest had beim added to his years, whuai previousty numbered fifteen. That be might not, however, cksoend to the Stygian shades as a slave, J^ when the accursed disease had seuied and was withering hun, took precaution, and re- mitted to the sick youth all my right over him as his master ; he was worthy of restoration to health through mj^ ffifk.* He appreciated, with failing fiMnilties, the kindness whioi he had received; and on the point of departing; a fiiee man, to the Xsttarean waters, saluted me as his patron.
That hand, to all my labours onoe so trae,
'Whieh 1 80 loved, and which the CesazB knew|
Forsook the dear Demetrius^ blooming ^rime :
Three lustres and four harvests all his tune.
That not to Styx a alave he dionld descend.
When fell contagion urged him to his end }
We cheered, with all our rights, the pining boy.
Oh! that the oonvalesoent could enjoy.
He tasted his reward, his patron blesrd.
And went a free man to 'eternal rest - Elpknnim*
CTL TO LTC0BI8.
The painter wbo drew your Yenus, LyooriB, paid courts I iiqypose, to IGnerva.*
. ^ /. «., would that my gift oofuld have restorad Um to heilth. ' Bramcnted Vemifl lev beantiftli than she i^ in order to plesss IQ* aena, her rival for the golden q>ple.
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That Painter guxe, Lyooria, meantltiKiii^Qr
Favour to FaUaai w]u> thj Yeniu dreiM^ Jfiv-
cm. TO SOilTOLA*
'^If the goda were to giye me « fbrtune of « million aea- temsy'* 70a used to mv, ScasiFola, before you were « full knighv ''oh how would I lire! how magnificentlj, how liappilyl** The compIsLaaat deities smiled and granted jour wish. Since that time your toga has become much more dirtr, /our cloak worse ; your shoe has been sewn up three ana rour times ; of ten olives the creater portion is always put by, and one spread of the table serves for two meals ; the thick drags of pink Yejentan wine are your drink ; a plate of lukewarm peas costs you a penny ; your mistress a penny likewise. Cheat and liar, let us go before the tribuniu of the gods ; and either live, Scaavola; as befits you, or restore to the gods your million sesterces.
Th<m aaidst when yet dioa hadst not a knightft fee^
^ U Heaven would gnnt ibor thousand pounds to ma^
Oh I in what ease, what splendour, I would live ! "
Tlie easy ffods smiled, and the sum did sive.
But then thy gown was sordid ; doak, thread-bare >
Shoes thrice and four times clouted thou didst wear.
Of poor ten olives, some were still set up ;
On the same meat thou uaest twice to sup ;
Lees of wine served, that at Veientns grew,
A pen'orth o' peas, a penny mistress too.
We 11 sue the cheat : live better, or refund
Unto the gods thou 'st mock'd four thousand pound.
Orr. OK A SPBCTACU IK THB JLBBKA.
^ When we see the leopard bear upon his spotted neck a light and easy yoke, and the furious tigers endore with pa- tience the blows of tbe whip; the stags champ the golden curbs; the Libyan bears tamed by tbe bit ; a Doar,*huge as that which Oalydon is said to have produced, obey the purple muzde ; the ugly buffidoes drag chariots, and the dephant^ wben ordered td dance nimbly, pay prompt obedience to his swarthy leader ; who would not imagine such things a spec-
* That is, before you had fbur hoadfed thoussnd sesterees ; which wis the fortune that a men must haTs before he could be a knight.
BOOK 1.] XTieBJLXB. 77
tMle gmn by the gods P These, however, any one diire- nrda as of imerior attraction who sees the conaeaoenaion of die liona, whidi the awift-fooied tiinoraaa haroa fatigne in the daae. They let go the Uttle animala, catch them agnin, and careaa them when caught, and the latter are aafer intiieir captora' mootha than elsewhere; ainoe the Uona delight in Slanting them free paaaaffe through their open jawa, and in hdding their teeth aa with fear, for thej are ashamed to croah the tender prey, after having just come from slaying bulls. This domency does not proceed from art ; the uona know whom they aerve.
On painted neck thepard Bostains
The tender yoke, ana lovei the reins.
The fbrifSns tim knows the erack,
And timely takes the keenest smack.
The itaggard champs the golden bit •
The libysn beazs to chains sabmit.
A beast, like CSalydon's of Tore,
Boasts headbands never bnsfler "wore.
The shapeless baffler draws the wain:
The monster moves beneath &e chain
Of his Uack mler, and obeys,
As bid to earn thepraneei's praise.
Worthy the gase oi gods axe all :
Yet mortals will pronomioe them small*
When they the humble hunte admire
Of lions, whom the levVets tire.
Behold Ihem seised, snd now let go ;
Kow see them swallow'd by the foe.
Tet safer in the month the prey.
Than whoi it fiothest ffles away
The fondling jaws all pervious nang.
How dextrous is the tmiid fimg!
To hnrt a hare, they grin with shame.
Who late the stoutest steers o*ercame.
Art ne'er produced tiie pitying play :
They know what master they obey. Bpkuuki^
OY. TO QUIKTUB OTTDIXTa.
The wine, Ovidius, which is crown in the Nomentan fieldsi in proportion as it receives tiie addition of years, puts o£^ through see, itadiaracter and name; andthejarthuaandeDt reoetvea whatever name yon please.'
1 Beios mellowed bysge, itmaybecaUedFslenil8n,GecnbaO| oraoy Mher name giTen to the best winesi
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The pure, my Orid* from Nomentan TinoSf
If all-rijnprcmng age's smile the boast ; Her nature and ha name at once resigns,
For th' appdlation that endears her most.
on, TO BUFUB.
Brufas, you often ponr water into your wine, and, if hard pressed by your companion, you drink just a cup now and then of^i^uted Falemian. raiT, ia it tnat Nsvia has pro- nused you a night of bliss ; and you prefer by sobriety to ^enhance your enjoyment? You sigh, you are silent^ you groan: she has nnused you. You may drink, then, and often, cups of four-fold aize^and drown in wine your concern at her cruelty. Why do you spare yourself Kufus P You have nothinir before you but to sleep*
Rufhs, I must plainly deal,
Sinoe tou will your water steal ;
And, uiough prompted bv a £nend,
Scarce a drop of wme will blend ;
Naughty Nasvia, in her spite,
Promised you a pleasins night :
And you sober will prerer
Jocund certainty with her.
Lo ! TOU sigh, look wise, and groan :
She denies r n^ Rufus, own.
Therefore drink your sorrow down,
And your shame in goblets drown.
Neither wise it now, nor weep :
Hapless Rufus, you must sleep. ^pkiMdoM,
Om. TO LUCIUS JULIUS.
Tou often say to me, dearest Lucius Julius, '' Write some- thing great : you take your ease too much." Giye me then leisure, — ^but leisure sudi aa that which of old Mascenas gaye to his Horace and his VirgQ, — and I would endeayour to write something which should fiye through time, and to snatch my name from the flamea of the funeral pyre. Steers are un willing to carry their yoke into barren fields. A &t soQ fa tigues, but the yery labour bestowed on it is delightfoL
^ Write some braye pieoe ; thou "rt lasy I ** often thus Thou dost reproye me^ dearest Julius.
BOOK L] S7I0SAX8. 70
Gifenee Imt «ue mu^ at Macenas saTe
To Honoe and to VirgiU, tfaon ihalt haYO
Soflli linea aa ahallliTe to eternitj*
And nyie my name above mortmlitj.
In texen gronnda wbat bootea the oxen'a tojle?
Labour 'a zewazdad In the richer aoylei
Old MSAia OmL
Xoat ftmoQi Jolina, tiioa aafit oft to me^
*Thoa'rtidle i write thinga for etemitr."
Give me ioch boons, I crv, andh as of old
Honoe and Vu|pil from their patron hold,
I H strive to nuae my cares beyond timers date,
And anatoh my name from fire^a consoming hate.
The OK on banen fields his voke won't bwr i
Afrtaofltaea,batyettheiabomr'sdear. JMsim
oym. TO QXLLvn.
TottpQew and may it be yonraaiid ffrowlai^ger through a long aeriea of yeara— a houae, beaatiful I admit, but on the ouer aide of the Tiber. But my garret looka upon the laaxela of Agrippa; and in thia quarter I am already grown old. I must move, in order to pay you a morning call, Gallua, and you deaerve thia oonaideration, even if your houae were BtiU fiirther o£ But it ia a amall matter to yon, Gallua, if I add one to the number of your tMa-dadviaitora; while it ia a great matter to me, if I withhold that one. I myself will bSquenSf par my reajpecta to you at the tenth hour.^ Thia moming my Dook ahaU wish you " good day" in my atead.
Uij thy iair fiutm (though beyond Tibei^f site).
As It doea now, thee more ana more delightl
My rooms ^psanian laurels do behold,
Li the which region I am now grown dd:
A journey 't is, to give thee the good mom.
But soeh thou art, though farther, to be borne.
One gown-man mpre^ yet were not mndi to thee^
nioog^ to detain this one ia much to me.
My book shall th' early m» for me pay.
And in attend when ended ia the day. ^aoa. lOM.
• OB* OV ▲ PXT nO0 AJTD THS PilSTXB.
Ian ia more playful than the aparzow of CatuUua. laaa
^ The tflB& honr from sonriss^ coixesponding to our Ibnr o*dodc ia the afternooBi See B. iv. Bp. 8.
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18 more pure than the kiBS of a dove. Issa is more loving than any maiden. laaa ia dearer than Indian gema. The little dog laaa ia the pet of Poblioa. If ahe oomplainBy you will think ahe apeaka. She fidela botli the aoirow and the gladneaa of her maater. She liea reclined upon hia neck, and ueepa, ao that not a reapiration ia heard from her. And, howeyer preaaed, ahe haa nerer auUied the coverlet with a single apot ; but rooaea her maater with a gentle touch of her foot, and bega to bo aet down from the bed and relieved. Sucih modeaty leeidea in thia chaate little animal; ahe knowB not tne pleaaorea of love ; nor do we find a mate worthy of ao tender a damaeL That her laat hour may not cany her off wholly, Publiua haa her limned in a picture, in \niich you will aee an laaa ao like, that not even herself ia ao l^e heraelf. In a word, ^lace laaa and the picture aide by aide, and you will imagine either both real, or both * ' ^
lasa 's more fbll of sport and wanton play
Than that pet sparrow by Ostallns song ; Issa 's more pure and deamy in her way
Than kines,from the amorous turde^s tongue* Issa more winsome is than any girl
That ever yet entranoed a lo w^s sight } Ina 's more mecious than the Indian nearl ;
Issa 's my fnUius' favourite and delight Her plaintive voioe &lls sad as one that weeps ;
Her master's cares and woes alike she shares $ Softly redxned upon his neok she sleeps,
And icaroe to sigh or draw her breath she darea. When nature caUs, sUe modestly obeys,
Nor on the oonnterpane one drop will shed i But warns her lord with sentle foot, and nrays
That he will raise and uft her from the oecL So chaste it she, of contact so afraid.
She knowB not Venus' rites, nor do we find A husband worthy of such dainty maid
'Mong all the damorous sniton of her kind. Her, lest the day of fate should nothing leave,
In pictured form my FuUius hath.portray'd | Where yon so lifielike lasa might perceive^
That not herself a better liraiess made. Ina together with her portrait lay. Both real or both depicted you would s^.
^Utk J(mm.f^SiKeaium, Jan. ISSa
BOOK I.] XPieSAXB. 81
ox. TO TXLOZ.
Ton oomplaizi, Yelox, that the epigramB which I write •le long, xon yourself write nothing; your attempts are shorter?
Toa ay my epfmoBf Velox, too loDg are : You nothing wnte ; mae yours are shorter far.
WfiffkL .Vdox eomphins my epigrams are long, While he vrites none : he slogs a shorter song.
Fleicker.
. OOi so BX&VLVBf OK BIVDIKO HIK A BOOK ABD ▲
PBB8XKT 07 rBAVlOSrCBKSB.
Sinoe your reputation for wisdom, and the care which you bestow on your labours, are equal, and since your piety is not inferior to your genius, he who is surprised that a book and incense are presented to you, Begulus, is ignorant how to adapt presento to deserts.
In thee, while reason and religion shine, While wit and wisdom beam alike diirine i Gifts ade^nate he knows not to bestow. Who 'd giTe a book, and bid no incense dow.
M
cm. OK PBiscTJs, A rsinuEB.
• •
When i did not know you, I used to address you as my lord and king. Now, since I know you well, you shall be plain FHseus with me.
1 8lj4ed thee lord and king, while jet unknown ; Flam Priseus now's the most that thou canst own.
Jmm. 1695p
I knew tiiee not: I haiTd thee lord and king. I know thee; and plain Priseos is the thing.
OZnX. TO THB SBADBB.
H reader, yon wish to employ some good hours badly, and are an enemy to your own leisure, you will obtain whaterer spoitije.TerBCB I produced in my youth and boyhood, and all Bsy trifles^ which even I myseli mive forgotten, from Quin-
> Impeiftct; abortiTe; ending in nothinf.
hjlbtial'b
toa PoUius yalerianiiB, who has zesotred not to let my Ught effiuioiiB periah.
Header of my xoguuh ]ay»
Wonld^tt thoa con a ftripling-playy
Which a fiiend will never diow,
Which mjaelf could hardly know ?
Wonld'st tlioa waste a golden hoary
And abiiae thy predons power P
Thou to Pollina must apply,
Who foiluda my trash to me. Elpiituitm*
OXIT* TO VATJBTUIUa.
These gardens adjoining your domain, Faustinas, and these small fiefis and mcnat mMdows, Tele8{>horas Faanius owns. Here he has deposited the ashea of his daughter, and has consecrated the name, which you read, of Antulla; — ^^ougfa his own name ahoold rather haye been read there. It had been more just tiiat the &ther should have gone to the Stygian shades ; but, since this was not permitted, may he li?e to honour hia daughter's remains.
Next, Faiistin, thine^ confess a Fcnins* sway |
Whom modest lawns and oozy meads obey.
Here his AntaUa's nm receiTes his moan :
Her name he haDow'd, moominir not his own.
The sire, as just, had woo'd the Stygian shade i
But sad survivesy to see her honours paid. JSpUmtaiL
OXT. TO PBOOILLUB.
A certain damsel, envious Procillus, is desperately in love with me,^a nymph more white than the spotless swan, than silver, than snow, than lily, than privet : already you wQl be thinkinff of hanging yourself. But I long for one darker than ni^ht, than the an^ than pitch, than the jack-daw, tlum the cncket. If I know you well, Procillus, you wfll spare your life.'
Me a damsel dotes upon,
Fairer than the fairest swan ;
Silver, snow ; than lily, privet |
Or what else the soul can livet.
^ ■ The tnmslationof this epigram is in conformity with the order of the Jnes in the coounon editionsy which seem^i profersUe to that in Schnei- dewin's.
loox l] bptobamb.
One I love as black as niffhty aek-daw, pitch, ant, cri(£et, sprite. Poof ProciUns tibought tu sinng : Now he thinks of no such thing. ElpkUuion,
OXTI. OV THE TOMB OB ABTITLLA*
Thn grofe, and these fiur acres of cultiyated land, Fsnius lias ooDsecrated to the eternal honour of the dead. In this tombisdi^poBited Antulla, too soon snatched from her family : intliistombeachof her parents will be miited to her. If any one desbee this piece of^ground, I warn him not to hope for it ; it is for erer deroted to its owners.
CXm. TO LTTPSBCFS.
'Whenerer yon meet me, Lapercas, yon constantly say, * Shall I sena my senrant, for you to riye him your littie book of Epigrams, which I will read and return to you di- reetty P** Inere is no reason, Lupercus, to trouble your ser^ yant. Itis«longjoume;^, if hewishes tocometothePirus;' and I liye up three pairs of stairs, and those hish ones. What you want you may procure nearer at hand. You frequently go down to the Argiletnm : opposite CaBsar^s fo* rum is a shop, with pillars on each side covered over with tides of books, so that you may quickly run over the names of an ^ poets. Procure me there; you will no sooner ask Atrectus, — such is the name of the owner of the shop, — ^than be will give you, from the first or second shel^ a^Biartialy well smoothed with pumice-stone, and adorned with purple, for five denariL "You are not worth so much," do you say P You are right, Lupercus.
As oft. Sir Tradewell, as we meet, Ton 're sure to ask me in the street. When von shall send your boy to me^ To fetca my book of poetry ; And nromise you 'U out read it o'er, And aithfblly the loan restore : But let me tell yon as a friend. You need not take the pains to send: T isa long way to where I dwell, At ftrther end of Qerkenwell :
* The pesr-trse. The same of some spot near which Martial lived.
o2
84 MurrxAL's xFiesAKs. [book l
There in a garret near the iky,
AboyiD fiTe pair of ataun, I lie!
But iif yon d hare what you pretend.
You may proeore it nearer hand :
an Comhin» where yon often fOf
Hard by th^ Exchange, there u, yon know^
A shop of rhyme, wl^ yon may see
Hie posts all olad in poetry:
There H Utos of high renown.
The noted'st Tory in the town :
Where^ if yon please, inqnire for me;
And he, or 's prentice, presently
From the next shelf wiu reach yon down
The piece well bound for half a crown.
Hie price is much too dear, yon cry,
To giTe for both the book and me :
Yes, doubtless, for such Tanities ;
We know, sir, you are too, too wCse. OkUam.
Cma. TO CMDIOIASVB.
Tor him who is not satisfied with readina; a hundred epi- grama, no amount of trouble is aufficieiLt, (^Bdidanua.
He who a hundred epigrams reads o'er, No ill 's enough for mm, if he wants more.
Jmm. 1695. If a thousand ardi epigrams are not enouffh, Nev« wilt tboQ be sated, kind reader, wim stuflL
JBhiMftfaa
EPIGRAMS.
BOOK n.
TO BIB Tsaan), DSciAinri.
■What do I want," Bajyou, "with a letter? Do I not ■DOir you sufficient indulgence by reading yoor epigrams P Besidee, wliat hare yon to say in thia letter, whidi you could not aay in your yerses P I see why tragic and comic writers admit a prologue, — ^because tbey are not allowed to speak for themselyes. But epigrams haye no need of aherald,'and are contented with their .own liberty of speech. In whatever page they please, they ]^resent an epistle. Do not, therefore, I pray, do a ridiculous thing, and dap a long dress on a persbn going to dance.' Consider, too, whether you would choose a wand as a weapon against a retiarius.* tor myself^ I take my seat amongst those who at once object to a contest so un- e^iaL*' Indeed,Decianus,methinks yon say what is just. Is it possible that you knew with what sort of an epistle, and how long a one, you were in danger of being occupied P Be it^ then, as you desire. Whatever readers light upon this book, vnll owe it to you that they come to the mt page without being tired*
I. TO HIS BOOK.
Ton could, t admit, have contained three^ huncbed epi* grams ; but who, my book, would have contained himself at you, and read you through P Tet learn, what are the
* Hm eommoo radmf is here followed, togmi^ »aUmiH mduetnpermm^. Sdmeidawin has in togiSt saitanH inducere personam.
• An epiftle, says Radenis, ia of no more nee as a deteee againit the critics than a wand againkt the weapon of the retiarins.
M 1CABTIJLL*8
ndnuitages of a sliori book. The first i8,tiuit I waste I paper. The next, that the copier fizuBhes it in one hour, and hia servioes will not be confined only to mj trifies. A third advantage ifl, that if any one happena to read yon, jou will not^ though erer ao bad, be detested. A person at table will hegm to read you with hia wine mixed, and finish you before the cap aet before him begins to grow warm. ^ Do you imagine that by such brevity you are secure firom all objec* tion P Alaa! to how many will you even thus be too longi
Thres hmdred epigiBms thou mightrit oo&taiii, But who, to read so many, can sustainP Hear what in praise of breryity if said. First, Ism expense and waste of paper *% made $ Hie printefs labour, next, does sooner end, And to more serious works he may attend ; Thirdly, to whomsoe'er ibxm shalt be read. Though naught, not tedious yst thou esnst be ssid } Again, in lei^th whilst ibxm dost not abomd, Thou mayst m heard while yet the oops go roond; And when this caution 's used, slas ! I fesr > To many yet thou wilt too long apuear. Aium. 1695.
n. TO DOHITIAir.
Crete saye a great name, Africa a greater, to their con- querora, Hetellua and Scipio ; a still nobler name did Ger- many confer on thee, Csaar, from the subjugation of the Bhine ; and even aa a boy thou wast worthy of that name. Thy brotiier* earned his triumphs oyer IduiuM^ with the assistance of thy fiither ; ' the laurel which is given firom the conquest of the Gatti ia all thy own.
Great was tiie Ubysn, crest the Cretan fiuns^
Adorning Scipio's and MeteDun^ name ;
l4iureli more glorious fixmi the yanquish'd Rhine^
In opening youth, round Casaz^s temples twine.
His sire and brother Isid Idume low,
lis trinmph'd nngly o'er the German foe. Eottj^aau
m. TO axxTua.
You owe nothing, Sextus; you owe nothing, Sextua, I admit; for he only owes, Sextua, who can pay.
1 His wise hsTina been mixed with snow, or fsrr cold water. 8tsB.y
Ep.64. > Titos. * vespsstsa.
n.] BPxeBAXi. 87
8«ztot OWM nonglit, nor t&tn Ui qnartardayi
*Tif true i ha owwmofttnily that can pay. FleUktr.
Too nj, 70a nothing owe; and ao I lay:
He only owaa, who aomathing hath to pay. Ht^.
XT. OK AMlCIAJraB.
Oh, how canaaing, AmmiiuinH, are joa with your mother 1 how careaaine, Ammianqjs ia your mother with you ! She ealla jou biotiier ; tou call her aiater. Wliy do auch atrange tatlea of a&ctio& aeUght y^u P Why are yon not c(mtent to be what ^oa areP 1)0 you think thia an amnaement and a jeatP It lanotao. A. mother, who deairea to be ft aiater, ia not aatiafied with being either mother or aiater.
To thy mother, ah ! how kind I
Parent, 1^ I how Idnd to diee I
Brother thou, and lister ihe t Why to norel names indined ?
Than ye are, pray, why be other?
Jest ye think it : yile the ahame 1
Mother, wishing sistei^s name, Would not sister be, nor mother. Wphuuha.
y. TO nxcijunra.
May I periah, DeeiAnua, if I ahonld not like to be with jou aU day, and all niffht ! But there are two milea that ■epante ua; and theae become four, when I haye to return. You are often not at home : eyen when yon are, you are oft- en denied; or you haye leisure only for your law buaineaa or your priyate concema. To aee you, howeyer, I haye no objection to go two milea ; but I haye great objection to go ibur milea not to aee you.
Wllh yon, dear Tom, I 'd often snend the day.
And lauch, and eha^ and trifle lira away 1
But ten long miles, you know, divide us twain ;
Those ten make twenty, measured bask again.
!nieB, o'er the downs with patience should I oome,
Tou *ie always out, at least you 're not at home $
Or busy, or ensafled in rhyme and metre,
Or wito your ehi&, that entertuning creature !
In short, to see my fHend ten miles I 'd go i
But twen^ not to see you 11 neyer do. Bev. R Grtfm
68 |fABTlAL*B
May I not liye, but, "were it in my power,
With thee I 'd pass both day and night each hoar.
Two rnHee I go to see yoa ; and two more
Wheii I return i and two and two make four.
Ofteii denied; often from home you*re gone:
Are busy oft ; and oft would be alone.
Two mues, to see you, give me no great pain :
Four, not to see you, go against the grain. - 2hf»
In some irile hamlet let me Hto forgot.
Small-beer my portion, and no wine my lot ;
To some worse fiend in church indentures bound
Than ancient Job or modem Sherlock found«
And with more aches plagued, and pains, and ills,
Than fiU our Salmon's works or Tilbuigh's biUs |
If 't is not still the burden of my prayer.
The night with you, with you the day to share.
But, sir (and the complaint you know is true),
Two damn'd long miles there lie 'twizt me and you }
And these two miles, by help of calculation, ,
Make four by that I 'ye reach'd my habitation.
You *re near sage Will's, the land of mirth and daxet |
I Hto stow'd up in a Whitechapel ffatret.
Oft when I 'tc walk'd so far, your hands to kiss,
Flattered with thoughts of the succeedinff bliss,
I 'm told jou 're gone to the vexatious Hall,
Where with etemid lunn the lawyers bawl;
Or else stol'n out, some Temale friend to see 2
Or, what 's as bad, you 're not at home for me.
Two miles I 're at your service, and that 's civil ;
But to trudge four, and nuss you, is the deviL
Tom Bfomm*
TI. TO SBTSBVS.
Oro now, and bid me publish my litiile books. When yon have scarcely read a couple of pages, you look at the last page, Sev;enis, and eive long ]^i^wns. These are those epi- grams which, when I was reciting them, you used to steal and write out in Yitellian tablets.^ These are they which you used to carry one by one in your pockets to every feast^ and every theatre. These are they, or (if there are anjr among them that you do not know) hietter. Of what use is it for
■ Smtll tablets^ on which lore letters and other licht matten weie written. See, B. ziv. Ep. 8, and Diet. Antiqq. t. 9. Tabula
BOOK n.] inCSAHBi
me to make mr book so thin, as hot to be thicker than a mere loUeTy* if it takes jou three days to read it throoffh P Neyer were compositioiis intended to amnae more listlesslj received. You are ntigned, and lag so soon in your course ; and when yon ought to run to BoviUs^y you want to unharness your cattle at the temple of the Muses. Gk> now, and bid me publish my little books.
Bid me now bring forth my spawn.
Scarce hast thou two pages past» When thoa op'st a piteous yawn.
Panting to oehold the last
These, SeTeros, are the strains,
Thou didst swallow with delighty Treasure with unwearied pains,
And on thy best tablets write.
Public scenes, and private too, HesM thee these same lays rehearse ;
Or, if any here are new, StQl superior is the Terse.
Whst avails my tiny book.
How can sudi a shrimp succeed ; If thou cast bo rare a looa.
That it take three days to read P
Soon the verdant journey cloys. Though so smooth extend me lawn ;
Stop amid Pierian joys ! Inen bid me bring forth my spawn ! SijMuiim,
Tn. TO ATTAXVB.
Tou dedaim prettily, Attalus; you plead causes prettily: you write pretty histories, pretty verses. You compose pan- tomimea prettily, epigrams prettily ; jou are a pretty gram* marian, a pretty astrologer. You sing prettuy, Attalua, and you duice prettily : you are a pretfy hand with the lyre, a pretty hand with the ball. Since vou do nothing well, and yet everything prettily, shall I tell you what you are P You are a great busybody.
iVWflb erauior Mi iU fanbiUeo, The wnbUieut was the oniament at ths endof tlie stkk on which parchment was rolled.
XABTIAl/l
A ymUf ontonr and pleedar, hmt Pretty m history and poetry i Pretqr grammarian, enigranunatttt; Pretty astrologer and numorist : Hee siageth nret^ly, and danoeth so; Playes prettyly o' the lute, at tennis too. Hee tlii^ doth nothing "well, aU prettyly, A Tery idle-busy-man must bee.
OldMSAmCM.
Yesy yoa Ve a pretty preacher, Sir, we know it,
Write pRtt^ noTds, are a pretty poet i
A pretty entie, and tell fortunes too ;
Then, inw writes faroe or epigrams like you P
At everr ball how prettUy ^ou nick it !
You fiddle^ >ingf V^J prettily at cricket.
Yet, after all, in nothing you excel.
Do all tiiinn prettily, but nothing welL
What dball I call youP say the best I can.
Yon aie^ my Mend, a Tery busy man« Beo. £ Oraim^
Fine Isetares Attains rehearses.
Pleads friely, writes fine tales and yerses }
fine epigrams, fine farces vie
With grammar and astrology ;
He mkf sings, and dances finely ;
Plays mnis! fiddles mont diyinely
All findy done, and nothing well :
Then, ifa man the truth ma]r tell,
This sD-aoeompliffh'd Punemnello
Is a most busy, idle fellow. EUpm.
ym. TO THX BXiJDBB.
If in these pAgei of mine, reader, anything seem to you too obsenre, or writfon in too homely lAnp:uage, the baiit is not mine : the oopier did the miBcmef^ in ma over-anxiety to give jou. the niU amount of verses. But if you shall deem, not him, but me to be the culprit, then I shaU believe you to have no underatnding. "But still those verses of yours aro bad." As if I would deny what ia evidentl They are bad * but you do not write better.
Header, if in theise bookes aught seeme to want. As too obssne or little elegant; T is nott my &ult, the printer must bee blam*d. Who, too onieh hastening, at thy pleasure aym'd.
BOOS n.] hpigsajm. 91
If ttill Ton thiolui *t my cRoiir a&d not! Ids,
I ihill oeli0Te your breast not candid is.
Thsy "r badd, yon 'U say— well, that for gnntedtakei
Thongh IlieLw bebadd, yon cannot better make.
Old MS. im (knt
If in my leaTCS aught, reader, to thee seem Obacnre, or vhich less Latin thou dost deem. To Ih* printer these impute, not me i vho, wlule More books he hastes to vend, cares not how vile* If yet thou think'st not him, but me, to blarney Thou fear*8t not want of candour to proclaim. But still mjr tctm for naught thou dost decry : As if what \ manifest I would deny. Nan^t be they then : but them for good ones take. Till thou dost show that thou canst better make.
Anon. 1696.
Should here and Ihere my squeamish reader smile, At sense unpdidi'd, or unchasten'd style 2 ' The flying penman mu.^ essay th' excuse. Of pressing haste the Tolume to produce. Bu^ if ihou deem that I alone should smart, I shall pronounee thee Toid of head and heart *< Yet, sad the stuff r* Alas ! thou sa/st too true ; T is Tery sad ; dear reader better do. Elpkhuioiu
re OK ir.sTLi.
I wrote to NsBTia; she has sent me so answer: she will xiot then grant me what I want. But I think that she had letA what I wroto: she ufill then grant it.^
I wrote,-she wrote not badi ; so won't fblfil. Yet, i^X I wrote, she read; and therefore wiU.
WfMntkn
z. TO posTVinrB.
I oommend yon, Postnmns, for kissing me with only half Tonr Up: jfm may, howerer, if yon please, withhold eren the naif of thia ha]£ Are yon indinea to grant me a bopn still greater, and eren inexpressible P Keep this whole half en* tffdy to yomseli^ Postomns.
' If she relbsed to rsoeire my commuaicadoDt, I diould datpair of p»« vailing on her; but ss die reoeiTeB them, I hope at length to giin hsf
92 ICABTIAIi'B
Th' embnee {boa d«ign*Bt with balf-lip to bestow, I praise, though thou shonld'tt hence take half awty.
OiVe me a nobler, nameleaa boon to owe. And take the whole of f other half, I pray. SIpiiMitM.
I
XI. TO JLXTFVB.
Thouffh, Bu{ul^ jou see Selius with clouded brow ; though ou see him walking kte in the porticoes; thouch you see his eavY look conceal some moumftu feeling, his ugly nose nearly touching the earth, his right hand striking ms breast, and tearing nis hair, he is not bewailing the loss of a friend or brother. Botii his sons are alive, — ^and I pray they may continue to live ! Safe and sound is his wife too, and his furniture, and Us slaves ; nor has his &nner or his baiM wasted any part of his property. What then is the cause of his sadness r He dines at home.
Whence comes it, that old Frank we see Himtiiig the Mall, thus, after three P What means that slow and ftolemn pace ? That doudy look, and rueful face P Why starts he thus, and smites his breast, Like one with secret grief o^press*d P Prone to the earth his droopmg head I Why sore his wife or child is dead.
No, Sir J foif aught that I can tell, Frankls wife and diildren all are welL And heaven vouchsafe their lives to spare ! For lovelv boys and girls they are, As like old Frank as they can stare.
His money 's out in proper hands, Or weQ seciued on mortgaged lands. Nor km of interest or of rent By bankruptcies does Frank lament.
Whence is* this grief, then? prythee say. Why, Sir, Frank mnes at home to-day. Bev, B, Orwtn
See von the doud on yonder mortal's face Walking the Mall, the last who quits the plaoe : In tragic nlence, and in dumps profound, His nose almost draws furrows on the ground : His wig he twitches, and he canes the air. Li he for friend or brother in despair P *T is no sneh thing. Two sons with him do dweP; Tkof both are promisuig, they both are wetU :
Booi n.] ineBiMS^ n
So hit good wife, for whom wo all do pnj.
Sofa an his hm i nor aeryants ran away :
BuIt aoeonnti hia atewaid for hia rent ;
Ana by hu bailifra eaie hia erqps an^ment
8ay, ftom wliat eaoie can aaeh affliction coma ?
la tfaara not eanae P ye goda! lie aapa at home. Ee^*
xa. TO poBTUinrs.
What am I to imderatand from the oireamBtance, that your Idaaea alwsya amell of myrrh, and thatyou nerer have aboDt yoa an odour other than luuuvtoral P lliat jou alwaya ameU ao agreeably, Poatumua, makea me aoapect that you have aomething to oonceaL He doea not amell pleaaantly, Poetnmua, who alwaya amella pleaaaatly.^
What 'i this that myrrh doth still tmell in thy kin,
And that with thee no other odour ia P
Tia donbt, my Fostimraa, he that doth arneU
So aweetly always, smeUs not yery welL Fktd^*
How strong then saTonr^st myrrh's perfmne !
What foreign odours romia thee scent! They giye us shrewdly to presume,
Ihat they are not for nothing lent E^pkmdm.
That thou dost, Gasho, breathe of foreign gums,
BnoDffh to pat thy mistress into fits : though itome thy liair, and Spain thy gloyes perfbne,
Few like, but all suspect those boiTOW*d sweets} The sifts of yarions nature come and go. He uat smells always well does neyer so. Sedlef.
zm. TO sszTua..
The jadge wsnts money, and the eonnael wants money. Pay jour mditor, Sextua, I should adyiae.*
At moner, money, judse and pleader aim :
The creditoi'a I deem tiie primal daim. Mpkimlim.
zry. TO PATTsiirna.
Nothing does SeUua leave untried, nothing unattempted, wbeneverne aeea that he must dine at home. He runs to
> See B. yL Ep. 55. Plant MosteH i. 3. 106. ' P^ your creditor without ligitation.
M liUBTXAL*!
the portico of Earopa, and pndses jou, Pauliniu, and joof Acbmean swiftness of foot^ without ceasing. If Eixropa does nothing for him, he then goes to the endosuies, to see whether he can eain anything firom the sons of Fhilljra and JSmotl^ Dioappomted here likewise, he next haunts the Memphitic teniple of IsiBy* and seats himself near the seats of that sad heirer. From tins place he goes to the palace suspended upon a hundred columns ;' thence to the monument of Pom* peius' magnificence* and his douhle groye. Nor does he disdain the baths of Fortunatus, or those of Faustus, or the confined and dark ones of Ghryllus, or the windy ones of Lupus. As to the warm baths,he bathes in them again and again and again. After doing eyerything, but without the fayour of heayen, he runs back, wdl washed, to the boz> eroye of the warm Europa, in case some belated friend may be taking his way there. By thyself, amorous Bull, and by thy mislTOSs, whom thou carriedst oS, do thou, I implore, in^ yite Selius to dinner.*
■
NotiiiDff does Selius unattempted leaye, WhflD he's to rap at home he doth oonoeiye. . He toots to th* Race, where, Paulus, he wiH swaa Thy &et are swifter than AdiilW were. Nothing here got, the Place of Votes he tries. If aught wiU oome fh>m the JBRonides. Where &iling too, to th' Memphian temple next. Near the sad Heifer, ealfs-head aits perplexed. Thenee nms to th' Porch a hundred props sastaiB, To Pompey's Arch and Qroyes, nor aoes disdain The ynlgar baths, which Gryllos, Lupus, keep, One on the hill, ihe othei low and deep. Where having bathed in all, and aU in vain, No piling god faVrins his ^utt'nous pain, Back to the Race he flies, to see if there^ Some friend be yet taking the evening air. Ih* adjoining Porch, of various paintings full, Shows fiur Europa borne upon a buU.
' ChiraBtSon of the oymph PhOIyra; Jtson, ton of JEsoo. The endo» tttiei were the peas m which the citizens assembled to vote.
' lab was aappoaed by many to be the same as lo, who was changed into a heifer by Jupiter.
' Centum j^dentia tecta columnia, L e. the portico of Agrippa.
' The portico of Pompeius.
■ Take Selius out of Uiis life, Jnpiter, that he may dine with thee.
BOOK If.] BFIOBIXS. 95
JoTtty I more thee br the iriigm briohty Hake forloRi Selios tny own goest this night !
Jjum.ie06.
XT. TO HOBHirS.
In offering to no one the cup from which jou drink, you giYO a proof, HormuB, not pf pride, bat of hndnees.'
That unto othen your owne enpp'i deny'd, Hoxmiu, 't if Tout ciTility, not pride.
Old MS. na CaU.
Honnne, became thon giVrt thy cup to none,
It ia not proadly, but humanelj done. lUkker,
That, when thon 'at drank, thon offer'at none thj glaaa, Onght not for pride, but for good breeding paaa.
.iaM.1090.
That thon preaenf at thy cop to none beaide,
la thy humanity ; and not thy pride. ElpMiuioM.
xn. aoahtbt eoilxts.
Zoilus is ill: his gorgeouB bed is the cause of this fever. If he were well, of what use would be theae scarlet coverlets, this bed brought from the banks of the Nile, or this, steeped in the perfumes of Sidon P What but an illness disnlays such idle wealth P What have you to do with physidaiis r Dismiss all your Uachaons. If you wish to ^ well» use my bed- donies.
Zoilusisaiek; hia rich atnif makea him so s
If he were well, what should hia acarleta do P
Hia bed from Nile P hia hangmga dyed at TyreP
He 'a aick, we may hia sottish mdu admire.
Dismiaa &e doetora, the ICaehaona all.
To make him well, for my rug only calL Jmnu 189fi
Vainlove ia ill : hia illneaa is hia bed.
Made up of chints and ailka nrohihited :
Near it an Indian acreen, ana work'd aettee,
Inflame hia fever to a hirii d^iiee.
When he ia well, these foppenea are not aeen:
They make him aick, and give ua too the apleen*
Diamiaa hia doctors, and apply my apell \
Let him chai^ beds with moi and he 11 be wdL E^ .
' Honnua had bad breath.
M XABTUL*!
xm. TO AXioAirTrs
At tlie rerj entranoe of the Suburns where hang Hbe blood- Btained whips of the torturers,^ and where many a cobbler blocks up the Argiletum,' sits a female hair-cutter. But that female cutter, Ammianus, does not cut hair. ^Does not cut hair P '* you say. ''What does she then f" She shayes.'
Where first Suburra sits to urge,
Where chastiBement displays Uie scourge ;
Where many a cordwainer onoe more
Dares honest Argus' death deplore ;
Thy dipster, Ammian, does not clip :
She tenders thee her ev'zy slip.
She does not dip, you say ? What 's btSTer,
if not a clipster, she 's a shayer. Bpknutm,
xvui. TO KAxnnrs.
I court your dinner; alas! I am ashamed of doing so, but^ Mazimua, 1 court your dinner : you court some one else's ; BO we are equal in this matter. I come in the morning to pay myrespects to you; I am told that you are gone alreidy to pay your respects elsewhere : again we are equal. I my* sell am of your escort, and walk before my proud patron ; you are of the escort of the other, your patron : affain we are equal It is bad enough to be a servant; but I object to be the serrant of a servant. One who is a patron himself MaTiTOw^ should not haye a patron.
I haunt your table, led by my 01 star : Aad you another^s : — then we 're on a par. Tour levee I frequent: and you go ftr Unto another^s :— still we 're on a par. * I, your led captain, walk before you bare : You are another's : — still we 're on a par. Ihoagfa servant, vet I '11 be no servant's slave : A master 'diould nimself no master have. ASspr.
TO zoiLxrs. Do you think, Zoilus, that I am made happy by an in
> Wliere mtlefiictoii were punished with soouigiog.
* See B. t Ep. 4.
* She is a cnmiing shaver; a conrteaant who scrapes up monsy ftw the panes of joang men. So the oommentators intorpret*
BOOK n.] SFI0B4M8. 97
Titiitioii to dinner P Happj by an invitation to dinner, ZoiloBy and that dinner yoora f That guest d^Bervea to be a ffoeat at the Aiicine Hiiy who is maife happy, Zoiija, by a dinner of yonra.
Me by a tapper them beHeveat blest : Supremely blest, gpat Zoilus, by thine ! On the Aridan dm he must redme.
Whose ostrich-maw thy supper can digest ^pktMttoih
XX. 09 PAULtJB.
Ftalaa boya Teraee : Panlua recitea his own veraea ; and what you buy you may legally call your own.
Bought Terses for his own Paul doth redte^ For what yon buy you may call yours by right
WH^ki. Panlus buys Terse, redtes, and owns diem all, For what thou buy'st, thou may'st thine truly calL
SlyPanl binrs Terse as he buys merchandise,
Tlien for nis own he 'U pompondy redte it- Paul scoms a lie— the po^ry is his-— By law his own* alUiourii he could not write it
New MoMlf Maganne, 1825.
XXI. TO PosTuinrs.
To some, Poatumua, you give kiaaea, to some your right hand. ''Which do you prefer?" you say, ** choose.^* I prefer your band.
Posthumus* kisses some must ha^e.
And some ealute his fist; Thy hand, good Postomns, I cnve,
If I may dioose my list Fletder,
•
XXn. TO APOLLO AUn THS HFaXB.
In what have I offended yon, ApoUo, and ye nine Siatera P For, behold, the Mnae of gaiety bnnga ill to ner poet. Poat- nmna brfore need to kiaa me with mdf a lip. iNow he haa begun to kiaa me with both lipa.
1 Aiida was a town on the Apptaa way, iboot fweoty mOss from B«Be; a noted place for beggais, as sppesis from JuTeoal. Sat ir.
9H XA&TIAL •
O PhoBbiu, and ye Sisters nine.
What shall I do with youf fiehold that merry Muse of miiit
Her poet will undoe.
Posthumus late was wont to kisse With half lippes, which I loathe;
But now my p^^e redoubled is, — He kisses me with both. Wdcker,
Phcebns, farewell, farewell, my merry muse^ Your poet, who adores you, ye abuse : Postume with one kiss used to let me go, — Pleased with my own, now many doUi bestow.
1695. rem. OK FosTincuB.
I win not say, howeTer closely you piesa me, who is the Postomiis of mj book. I will not say ; for why should I giye offence to these same kisses, which can so well ayeuge themselTes ?
No, though thou begs'st a thousand times to know, Who 't is by name of Postumus does oo, IwiUnottelL What need I to offena Sueh kisses, and their fury 'gainst me bend P JmotL 1695.
XXIV. TO OAKDIDUS.
''If harsh Fortune should oyerwhelm you with some terrible accusation, I will attend yon in mouminff habit, and more pale than a person accused. If she shouKl order yon to depart under condemnation from your natiye land, I will go, uirough seas, through mountains, your compauion in exile." She giyes yon riches. ''Are they the common property of us both P " Will you ^ye me half ? " It is a iarfi;e sum." Candidus, will you giye me anything? Yon will, then, share with me in misfortune only : but if bearen with smiling countenance shows you favour, you will enjoy your happiness, Candidus, alone.
If thy cross fortune sends thee some sad fate^
I must persist thy pale and squalid mate ;
If horn thy country thou must banish'd be.
Through seas and rocks I still must follow thee.
If riches oome, will theybe free to many P
Wnt thou giye nart P T is much. Wilt thou give any P
*T is crosses make thee mine ; when they axe gone,
Gsndidus will be happy then alone. FMektrm
BOOK n.] SFIOBAMI. 90
XXT. TO GALLA.
GhDft, j<m never graat, but always promiae^ fiivonra to any one &at aaka them. If jou alwaja deoeiye, I beg you, 6a]]% for the future, to say ""No."
Galla dares uromifle^ but makes good no tie : tf thou still nil'sty I pray thee once deny.
Fletcher.
xzn. TO BITHTKIOirS.
Becauae Nasm breathes painfully, and has a severe oough, and often sputters out saliva on your breast, do yoU imagine, Bithynicua, that your fortune is already madeP You are ~--^^ lisBvia is flattering, not dying.
That Nsvia coughs, and groans, and finds no rest,
Letting the slaver &U upon her breast ;
Thou hop'st Bithynicus, her hour is nigh :
Nsvia but flatters ; she do n't mean to die. Amm, 1695.
That thy wife con^ all night and spits all day,
Already thou bdiev'st thv fortune made, Her whole Mate thou think'st thy sudden prey :
She will not die, but wheedles like a jade. 8edl^.
XXVil. OK SILIUS, THI niinnBB->HUJITE&.
Hark how Selius praises you, when spreading his nets for a dinner, whether you are reading your veraes, or pleading at the bar. "Excellent! how safi;acious! how ready! how clever I weDdonel how sucoesdul ! There, that is all I want; your supper is earned ; be quiet.
Angling for dinner, Charles, at every line
I read him, puts me to the blush : "Delicious!" "charming!" "exquirite!" " divine !••
Hush, Charles, you've eam'd your victuals, hush !
N. B. HaiML
XXVUL TO SSXTILLrB.
Bideto multum qui te, Sextille, cinsdum Dixerit, et digitum porrigito medium.
Sed nee pspdico es nee tu, Sextille, fututor, Calda VetustinsB nee tibi bucca placet.
Ex istis nihil es fateor, Sextille : quid ergo es P Nescio, sed tu sds res supvresse duas.
s2
100 XABTIi.L*8
Biditi smasoellatamente, o SestOlo, di oolni che ti ehima dnedo 6 &gli le ficche. Impexoceh^ In, o Sestillo, non sei ne vn dnedoi 116 un' adidtero : ne a te piaise la fooosa booea di VetiutiUa. In nesiona di queete oose, o Sestillo, ti miachi, lo so : coe* d dunqueP Nol 8o: ma ta aai cfae ti rimaogono due altre oose. OragUa.
XXIX. TO Bxrvrs.
BofiiB, do yoa see jon penon who is always sitting on tbe front benches, whose sardonyxed hand glistens even at this distanoe ; whose doak has so often drimk deep of the Tyrian dye, and whose to^ is made to surpass unspotted snow; him, whose well-oiled nair smells of all the essences from Maroellus' shop, and whose arms look sleek and polished, with not a bur unextracted P A latchet of later than yesterday's make sits upon his crescent-adorned leg, a scarlet shoe decks his foot unhurt by its pressure, and numerous patches cover his forehead like stars. Are you ignorant what the thing is P Bemore the patches, and you will read his name.'
Seest Ihou him, Ruftia, that does so frequent
The nobles' seat P from whose bri^t gems are sent
Bays to this place, ^in twice dippM purple goes^
Or nrments whiter than the driTen snows :
CSosUy amomum from whose locks does flow,
Whose sleek, blanch'd aims no hair upon them show ?
The lunar-buckles were not his of old.
Nor sandals pinch*d his feet, gamish'd with gold.
No secret pams his numerous patches need ;
Look undoneath, and him a stsTe you 11 read. Jmoil 1095.
XXX. OK GAITS.
I asked, by chance, a loan of twenty thousand sesterces,' which would have been no serious matter even as a present. He whom I asked was an old acquaintance m good drcum- stanoes, whose money-chest finds difficulty in imprisoninjg his overflowing hoards. '' You will enrich yoursd^ was his re-
fly,*" if you will go to the bar.** Give me, OaiuS| wh^ I ask : do not ask advice.
> The patches being removed, the letters branded upon his favebBSii, wkkk proTe him to have been a slave, wUl appear. * Abcmt a hnndred and sixty pounds of our mcusj
BOOK u.] sneiuMS. 101
When twenty pooDds I 'd bcnrow of a friend,
One, who mifit give me more, u well ai lend ;
Bleft in hit lortone ; my companion old ;
Whose oofiets, and whoee pune-ttringa, crack with gold ;
" Tom lawyer, and yon 11 loon pow rich/' he eriea :
Gire what! ask, myfriend: — 'tia notadvice. Hof.
TTTT TO ICABIAinXS.
!
I haye often made lore to ChriBtizuL Do you aak how she letnrQB it P So well, that it is impoaaible for any one to ^q beyond her.
xzzn. TO Fovncirs.
I have a lawsnit on hand withBalbna: yon, Fonticiu, are unwilling to offend Balbua: I have one on hand with Lid- nufi; he alao is a penon of importance. My neighbour Pa^ trobaa ofken trespaaaea on my little field: yon are afraid to oppose a freedman o£ CflBsar. Laronia refoaee to restore mr ataTe, and keeps him for herself: yon tell me ^ she is child- less, rich, old, a w«{^jr." It is i<Ue, believe me, to hope for service from a friend #ho is himself in service. Let lum be a bee man, who wishes to be my master.
With Balboa I'm at law: thon nought dar'it do:
Liciniui next, but he's a great man too.
Patrobaa oft trespaaiea on my fidd :
He'iOnar^sfreMlman; "tia beet here to yield,
Laronia my servant does deny :
She *8 rich, old, childless, every hour may die.
His patronage it little boots to crave,
Who to so many is himself a slave. Jnoif. 169fl.
Wm and I differ ^-who so great as Will P
Too gnat for you. — ^And T<»n is flieater stilL
My neighbour Cringer trespasseto my land i
Tou dan not &voniites at court witlistand.
The widow Scrapeall doth my goods withhold ;
You answer, she is childless, rich, and old.
How can I serve a friend that is not free P
Free be the man, who would my master be. Bof,
XTTTTI. OV TBXLMSIM.
Whr do I not kiss yon, Philanis t yon are bald. Why do I not aiss yon, PhibanisP yon are carrotty. Why do I not
IQS ITABTIiX'S
loBS 7011, FhilmuBp you are one-eyed. He who IdsBes you, FhilsBoiB, aiuB agaiuBt nature.
In Tsiiif fond PhUsnis, thou woo'st my embrace : Bald, cazTotty, one-ejred, thy tripartite grace ! The wietoh, poor PmlflBnia, that would thee talute, Oan never aipire to the busa of a brute EfphUuttm,
ZXUT. TO eALLA«
In your love for Fhileroe, whom you have redeemed from alaTery with your whole dower, you allow your three aona, Gkdla, to penah with hunger : so great indulgenee do you show to your aged charms, no longer the due objects of CTen dbiaste pleasures. May the ffods make you for erer the admirer of Fhileros ; you, a mother, than whom not even Pontia^ is worse.
With your whole dower when Phileros you buy,
Tou let three hopeAil sons with hunser die.
To hoary love you such indulgence snow.
At modest Venus hardly deigns to know.
To Fhileros be doom'd th* etornal whore :
Mother more dure than Fontia was before. JBlpkuuioiL
XZXY. TO PH(BB1TS.
Since your legs, Phcsbus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia.'
As thy lees mock the horns of a moon incomplete : Thou mi^f 8t wash, in a funnel, friend Phcsbus, thy feet
XI XVI. TO PAjnriGus.
I would not have you curl your hair, nor yet would I have you throw it into disorder. Your skin I would hare neither oyer-sleek nor neglected. Your beard should be neither that of an effeminate Asiatic, nor that of an accused person.' I alike detest, Fannicua, one who is more, and one
' A mmuk idio is aud to hsTe poisoned her children Jut. SaL n. 637.
* The Latin k Rkytium, a reasel narrow at the bottom, and broad at the top, with sides of a crescent shape. See Diet Antiqa. b. t. Rhyton.
* Persons under aoeosation allowed their hair and beards to grow, and assamod a squalid garb, in order to excite compassion.
BOOS n.] BPTGBAlCfl. 108
who is less, than a man. Your legs and breast bristle with shaggy hair; but your mind, Fannicua, shows no signs of manuness.
Me nor with frisdy ihock, nor frowBY hair ; Thy akin nor sleeky shine, nor sordid scare. Thy beard nor gixhah, nor at culprit's such | Be not a man too little, or too much. File clothes thy len, thy hreast the hristles suit ; But thy poor mina is pfuck'd up hy the root
JLIXVLL TO OMCUJikirUB,
Whatever is placed upon table you sweep off right and left; breast of aow, chine of pork, a woodc<>ck prepared for two guests, half a mullet, and a whole pike, tne side of a lamprey,'and the leg of a chicken, and a wood-pigeon dripping with its sauce. All these articles, wrapped up in your drip- jnng napkin, are handed to your servant to carry home.' We sit oy with jawa unemployed. If you have any feeling of ahame, replace the dinner on the table : it is not for to-mor- row, CsBcflianus, that I invited you.
Tou sweep my tsble : sausages and chine,
A capon on which two at least may dine.
Smelts, salmon, stmrgeon, birdi of every feather,
Dripping with sauce, you wrap up all together ;
And ^ve it to voor servant home to bear ;
Leavmg us nothing, but to sit and stare.
For shune, restore the dinner ; ease our soirow :
I did not ask you, air, to dine to-monrow. Hiay.
These carry home thy servant must, All in a greasy napkm thrust, Whilst wee, an idfe company, Haveing nought left to eate, sitt by. For shame, restore the meate : I did Not for to-morrow, too, thee bid.
Old MS. im CM.
rULVlU. TO LOTS.
Do TOU aak what profit my Nomentan estate brings me, Lmua r My estate brings me this profit, that I do not see you, Linus.
' Onests oilen bnm^t their napkins with them ; see B zii. Ep. 29 ; and such of them as desired to cany away portkns of the viands from the table seem to have been allowed to do so*
IM IURTIAL*8
LiniiB, doit ask what my field yielda to me f
Eren this profit, that I ne' er see thee. Ueieker.
Aak you what my Nomentane field brings me P
This, linns, 'mongst the lest, I ne*er see thee. Wrigkt
What my &nn yields me, doet thou uige to know P This, thi^ I see not thee, when there I go. Amm. 1690*
IIXII. OS ▲ FBXaBVT.
You give your mistress scarlet and yiolet-colonied dreflaet. If you wish to give her suitable presents, send her a toga.*
Linus ^ves piuple and rich scarlet gowns To his notorious and adultrous woman : If thou would'st give what her degree becomes, A loose coat would more fitly stock her common.
Fleteker. Tou ffiye to Alba hoods, and scarft, and lace i Qive ner a mask to hide her whorish face.
OeiUlmaft Mag, toL xtL p. 100.
XL. 07 TOVGIUirS.
Tongilius is reported to be consumed with a semi-tertian ferer. I know the cunning of the man ; he has a hunger- and-thirst fever. He is now craftily spreading nets for &t thrushes, and throwins out a hook for mullet and pike. He wants strained Gsdcuban wine, and wine ripened in the year of OpimiuB ; and dark Falemian which is stored in small fla«
fons. All the doctors have ordered Tongilius to bathe, ^ools ! do they think it is a case of fever P It is disease of the throat.'
That Tongelin is feveridi, many think;
I know the man; he wants choice meat and drink*
Straight for fst thrush and cocks spring are set;
For pike and carp 's employ*d the castmg net ;
Purveyance for old C^ecuban is made,
Such as the sound drink sparing and allaVd ;
Bathing, physicians with one voice prssenbe :
To cure his fever, fools, his belly bnbe. AMtm* 1099.
xLi. TO MAXnmrA.
'' Laugh if thou art wise, girl, laugh,*' said, I believe, the poet of the Feligni.* But he did not say this to all girk.
> The aiala was the dress of the Roman matron. Gourtassnsand adul* teresses were compelled by law to wear the toga^ the attire of the othei ' He pretends to be ill, that his friends may send him dainties. * Orid, bom at Sulmo, a town of the PeU^
BOOi: n.] BTCGEAXS. 105
Qnntin^, howevery that he did say it to all girls, he did not say it to you ; voa are not a girl, MaTimina, and you hare but three teeth, and those plainly the colour of pitch and of boxwood. If^ therefore, you beheve your mirror and me, you should shrink from laughing as much as Spanius dreads the wind, Priscus a toudi,^ FabuUa, with chalked face, a rain-doud, or Sabella, painted with white-lead, the sun. Pat on a countenance more seyere than the consort of Priam, and hie eldest daughter-in-law. Avoid the pantomimes oi the amusing Philistion, and ga^ feasts, and whatever by its wit and mirth distends the lips with broad laughter. It b^ts you to sit by the side of an a£9icted mother, of a wife lamenting for her husband, or a sister for her aJSectionate brother, and to seek your recreation only with the tra^o Muse. Take my advice, and weep if thou art wise, girl, weep.
'' Lauffh, my jgpile, lauffh, if you bee wise ] **
Ovid, 1 take it, gave advice.
But nott to all i^viwd it hee |
Or if to all, yet nott to thee :
For thou no girle art certaynly.
Thou hast thrae teeth,.'t it true, butt which
Are made of boxe, and black aa pitch.
If thou It tnut, then, thy glaase or mee^
Thou ahouldat aa much wide laushter flea
As neat-sett doatha or bonow'd nayre
Bough hands or blustaring windea doe feaie f
As faces whited the rayne shunn.
Or nainted o'er avoyd the sun ;
And with severer lookes still bee
Than Hecuba and Andromache.
The farce, with fooUsh mindcka doy'd.
And frolick gosdpings, avoyd.
Or what through wanton nurth, beside,
"With lauj^hter opes thy lippes too wide.
Bather with matrons sadd converse^
Lamenting o'er thdr husbandi^ heuSSy
Or pious brothel's monument ;
Thy time in trafficks only spent
And if thou 'It follow my advice,
Weepe, old wench, weepe, if thou bee wise.
Old MS. im CM.
* The sae dreada tkat his hair, the other that his dxesi, ihonld be dis*
100 iKlSTIAIi'S
Lsnah^ lovefy wmd, lamgh q/t^ iftiok wi mm^
As I remember, Ovid does aayiae.
But this to every maid he nerer laid.
Or, if he did, 't was always to a maid ;
T was never sjioke to wretched aced thee,
To whom remain of all thy teeth but three.
And thoee coal-black. Therefore if thii do paas
For truth, inform'd the same b^ thine own glass,
A smile thou ougfat8tt*avoid with no less dread
Than gallants fear the wind for their curPd head}
Than painted madams fear a dashing shower.
Or, when pomatum*d, the sun's raging power :
Bather ola Hecuba's sad mood put on,
When Troy was burnt, and all her glory gone.
Mimics and droUs, a lau^hter-movinff jest,
Whatever makes thee firm or gape, detest ;
Mourn by your mothers side vour eoual cross.
Tour fathers and your pious orothers loss ;
Tour hours in what is sad and serious spend*
An ear to tragic stories only lend.
The counsel 's good, if to it you can keep.
Weep, if you 'repntdent, old smm^, f^ten weep, Amm. .OM
Ovid, who bid the ladies laugh.
Spoke only to the young and fidr ; For thee his counsel were not safe,
Who of sound teeth have scarce a pair.
If thou thy glass or me believe, Shun mirai as foplings do the wind :
At Durf/s iiEurce affect to grieve ; And let thy eyes alone be kind.
Speak not though 't were to give oonsentp
For he that sees these rooen bones. Will dread their monumental scent,
And fiy thy sighs like dying groans.
If thou art wIbo, see dismal plays,
And to sad stories lend thy ear. With the afflicted spend thy days,
And laugh not above once a year. SedUf*
XLn. TO EOIL178.
Zoilua, why sullj the bath by bathing in it your lower extremities P It could only be made more fool, Zcilus, by yonr plunging yonr head in it.
BOOK n.] xpiaBAXS. 107
Why in the tab thy parts pofterior jlj f
Tkj head, immeiged, would it and thea bewrMr.
Why wiA thy fiULv limbs the water cuiseP
Plunge in thy heaa ; that only can be worse. JF. S» £*
TUn, TO CAKDIDIXS.
ThiB is your oommanity of goods among friends, Candidus ; this ia your community of goods which you talk about ao grandiloquently day ana niffht. You are dad in a toga wash- ed in the waters of Lacedemonian GaLesus, or one which Parma aapplied from a select flock : but I, in one which the staffed figure first ezpoaed to the furious horns of the bull,' would be unwilling saonld be called his. The land of Cad- mus has provided you with coats dyed by the descendants of Agenor ; for my scariet vestments you would not get three sesteroes. Your Libyan tables are supported on feet of Li- dian iyory ; my beechen table is propped up with a pot- sherd. Immense mullets, on your bourd, coyer dishes of yellow ffold; with me, my earthen platter is ruddy with a craw- fish of the same colour as itself. Your crowd of attend- anta might vie witli the Idaaan Gbmymede : my hand seryes me for an attendant. From such a mass of wealth you giye nothing to an old and faithful companion, and do you say, Candi£iB, that the goods of friends are common P
Still in your month, and at your fingered ends,
These words, — "All things are common amongst fiiends."
Iloe doth, or Genoa ydyet, is your coat :
A tatter'd tcare-serow mine, not worth a groat.
With tables of mahosany you 're stored :
I haye but one^ and Uiat a beedien board.
The ample salmon fills your golden dish :
The oab my platter, oolour'diike the fish*
Tour seryants spruoe, eadi seems a Ganymede :
Me a dumb-waiter seryes whene'er I feeoL
For old acquaintance do you nothing care P
Fnmi so mudi riches can you nothing spare P
layour expression a yain song, which ends
Where it begun P — ^All 's conmion smongst friends. JSQiifk
• la the arena. Si*e PuUio dhows, Ep. 19.
108 ICABTIAL*!
All thixijp are eommon amongit finenda, tihoa sa/il| This 18 thy morning and thy eVning aong:
Thou in rich point and Indian silk art draii'df Six foreign steeds to thy calash belong]
Whilst by my clothes the raeman scane would gtdn t
And an uneasy hackney jolts my sides : A cloak embroic&r'd interrupts thy rain,
A worsted camblet my torn breieches hides.
Turbots and mullets thy large dishes hold*
In mine a solitary whiting lies s Thy train might fire the ixnpotent and old,
whilst my poor hand a Ganymede suppliea.
For an old wanting fiiend thou It nothing do,
Yet all is common among fijends we know :
Nothing so common as to use 'em so. Sedi^>
XLIT. OV BSXTTTS.
Whether it be a dare that I hare bought, or a new tog% or something worth perhaps three or four pounds, Sextus, that usurer, who, you all Know, is an old acquaintance of mine, i^ immediately afraid lest I should ask a loan, and takes his measures accordingly ; whispering to himself, but so that I may hear : ^ I owe Secundus seven thousand ses- terces, Phoebus four, Fhiletus eleven ; and there is not a far- thing in my cash-box." Profound stratagem of my old ac- quaintance ! It is hard to refuse me a fiivour, Sextus, when you are asked ; how much harder, before you are asked.
Whether 1 'ye bought a firieze coat, or a boy. For three or four times double the pound TVoy, Forthwith the usurer Sextos, whom you know To be my ancient neiffhbour-friend in show, In care lest I should borrow of him, fears, And whispers to himself, but by my eaza, ** I to Secundus owe seven thousand pounds; To Phoebus four ; eleven Fhiletus sounds i Whilst 1 have not one ferthing in mv cbeeL** Oh my conceited friend*s ingenious lest ! Sextus, 'tis hard to give a fiat denial When thou art ask'd ; much more before the tiia..
/Mob
BOOK XL] SPieSAKS. 100
Hie MBfmuTt who of late so rich it crown, 'Whom we haie long so intimately known. Saw my ooat laoed, my boy in liyery wait. And on my nde-board a tmall piece of plate: He tfaenoe ooodudet, I 'm now eztn^aganti And, fbaring I may his assistanoe want. He mnmblee to lumself, that I may hear: ''My God! what will become of me thia year! Seren thonnnd pounds to Gripe, to ShylodL four I owe; end to my broker as much more! And not one fanning by me! nor can get!** How great, old friend, is yoor Change-uley wit! To ask and be denied is hard, all know: Before I ask, is most extremely so. St^,
When I had purchased a fresh whore or coat
For which 1 knew not how to pay. Sextos, that wretched, ooTetous old sot,
My ancient friend, as he will say. Lest I shoold bonow of him took great care,
And mutterM to himself aloud. So as he knew I could not choose but hear.
How mudi he to Secundus owed ;
And twice as much he paid for interest,
Nor had one &rthing in his trusty chest :
If I had ask'd, Ilmew he would not lend ,
T Is new, before-hand, to deny a friend. Sedkf*
XLY. TO GLTPT1J8.
Qns tiU non atabat pnadBa est mentula, Olypte. Demeiu, cum ferro qttid tibi P Ghdlos eras.
OCHiptOytiseimtttilatoilmembrOfChegiinonerigeTa. Balordi^ cfae nceositi aferi tu di ooltello P En, pur Gallo. Qraglia,
XLYl. OK VJKYOJAJB.
Like aa flowviy Hybla is Tariegated with manj a oolonr, when the Sidliaa bees are laying waate the fleetinff g^ of spring, so your presses shine with piles of dofucs, your wardrobe glistens with uncounted robes. And your wUte garments^ which the land of Apulia produced from more than one flock, would dothe a wnole tribe. You look, nn*
110 ICABTIAL^B
moTed, upon your iD-clad fiiend in the winter fflonthiiY Bhama on yoU I while yon yourself fear the cold which pieroeB my r&gged side. What sacrifice would it haye been, wretched mortol, to deprive of a couple of habits — (what do you fear ?) -^not yourso^ NstoIus, but the moths P
Not all the hues the blooming Hybla sees, When Bhort-liyed ^xing revives Sicilian bees, With the rich glones of the vestments vie, That thy vast wardrobe's endless stores supply. Though a whole nation warm the fleece could keep, Shorn from thy numberless Apulian sheep; Thou canst supine th^ threadbare friend oehold* Inhuman eye him ! smeldless from the cold. What were it, should*st thou reave two bits of doth i Nay, frown not : not from thee, but from the moth P
xLvn. to oallus.
Snbdola fiunoaiB moneo fiige retia mcschse,
Levior o conchis, Galle, Cytheriacia. Confides natibus ? non est pedico maritua :
QuiB frunat duo sunt: irrumat aut fiituit.
O OaUo pill sensuale delle Citeriache oonchidde, iugn, t^aviso, i fraudolenti aguati della si nota coiteggiana. Tamdi tu a&e natiche f II suo marito non sodomiaza. Due sono le cose che piatica : irruma o immembra. QragUa,
XLvni. TO BTrnis.
A wine-merchant, a butcher, a bath, a barber, a chess- board and men, and a few books (but give me the selection of them) ; one companion, not too unpolished ; a tall ser- vant, one who preserves his youthful bloom for a long time ; a damsel beloved of my servant : secure me these things, Bufus, even though it were at Butunti,' and you may krop to yourself the baths of Nero.
Wine, and good fare, and my own pemn nice, Backgammon-tables, and a pair of mee, Books very few, but those aU chosen right,
Out only fiiend, and him not unpolitCi
•
^ An obscure town of Apuiiib
BOOK n.] IFIGBAH8. Ill
A man and maid, both honeft, free from aime^ Both neat and handy, and in age's prime, Grant me in any comer of the lana: TouzB be the town; or yours the world's command.
Etty.
XLTE. 07 TXLBSIKA.
TTzorem nolo Teleainam ducere : quare P MoBcha eat. 8ed pueris dat Tefeaina. Yolo.
lo non ▼(wlio sposar Teleshia. Perche P £* una meretrioe. Ma Teleaina si aa ai raganL La voglio. Oragim.
L. TO LX8B1A.
Qaod fellas et aquam potaa, nil, Lesbia, peocaa. Qaa tibi parte opus eat, Leabia, sumia aquam.
Perche ta felli, e beri aoqna, &i nulla che ripugnL To, o Lesbia, pvendi aoqna per quella parte che ti fa bisogno. QtagUa,
Leabia talka loosely, and doea water drink :
Thou doet well, Lesbia, so to wash the sink. Ajmh. 169Ai
LI. OK ETLLXTS.
TTnuB asBpe tibi tot& denarius arcft Cum Bit, et hie culo tritior, Hvlle, tuo,
Von tamen hunc pistor, non aureret hune tibi oopOy 8ed si quia nimio pene superbus erit.
Infelix Tenter spectat conTivia cuU, Et semper miser hie eeurit, ille Torat^
Quantonque tntto il too danaro soTrente non oonsista, o Hilo, die in una aola moneta, e questa pii!^ rimeaata del tuo culo : con tntto ci6 il panatiere non te la tuerA dalle mani, ne tampoco Toste; ma benin se qualcuno sari baldanaoao per esser bene in menliro. Lo sfortnnato rentre sta a Tedere i bandietti del culo, e mentre miseiabile» questo ha sempre fiune» quello diyora.
QragUa,
LH. OK DASIIJS.
Dasius ia a ahrewd hand at counting his female bathers 2
113 XiLBTUX*8
he asked tbe bulky Spatale the price of three, and aha gave it.^
Keen Danus, counting all the dames to laTe, Aak'dbreastFewohiSpatBle for three: she gave. E^kUuttm.
Lin. TO KAxnnxs.
Do you wish to become freeP You lie, Maximna, 70a do not wish it. But if you should wish to become so, yon can in this way. You wiU be free, if you give up dining out ; if the Yeientan p;rape assuages your thint ; if you can smile at ike golden dishes of the qumdous Cinna ; if you can be content in a toga like mine ; if a plebeian mistress becomes yours for a couple of small coins ; if you can submit to lower your head when you enter your house. If you haye strength and force of mind such as this, you may liye more free than the monarch of Farthia.
Would you be free P 't it your chief wish, yon say. Come on s 1 11 show thee, friend, the certain way : If to no feasts abroad thou loy'st to ffo, Whibt bounteous Qod does bread at noma bestow; If thou the goodness of thy clothes do*8t prise By thine own use, and not by others' eyes ; Ii (only safe from weathers) thou canst dwell In a small house, but a conyenient shells If thou without a sigh, or golden wish, CSanst look upon thy beechen bowl and dish ; If in thy mind such power and greatness be ; The Perrian king *s a slaye compared with thee.
Aiviee to a daplam: — FtmiUarued ts ike Maimer of Dr Swift.
Parson! t is &lse; 1 11 ne'er belieye With liberty you wi^ to lire : You hug your chains, and out your jokes On us. p<ior indmeadent folksl ** But would you then indeed be free P Come, I H presaibe — ^without a fee.
First, thai, *t is nlain you loye to eat, And haunt the tames of the great :
> Daaius was the proprietor or superintendent of baths lor females. Spatale was so Urge that he reqairad her to pay the price of throe women ; a demand to which she nuide no objection. SpataU tt dum tZKin I. says the Delphin Gommentator, irwm kcwm oooHpeMmt
BOOK n ] SFZGXAJCB. HJ
Toa ikan tlia man, and think him poor, Ihat ennot cpye you ** four .and four. ' Indeed, my fiiend, thia must not be ; A puHite can ne'er be ftee.
natf Doctor, yon must drink no inne.— CimreoP Saint Paul, that great divine, Sayi, «IIrink a little."— Jl That 'a not the question Ton can't afford it— Ci. But for dig^tion— /• A fh« of cider, or old mead. Or e'en mild ale, will do the deed.
Then, you *re a captain in your dreas | A ffood slack Meae would cost you leas, And lock more yenerable too. Than Oat grey cloth which I call blue. Talk what ;jrou pleaae, you H ne'er be free. If yon de^iae economy. Peihapi^ too, you may think a wife Amoo^ the requiaitea of life : Why, take aome ncMldiy ikrma^a daughter, 6ome Bimaalind—Jiaj, spare your laua^hter : Shell mend your ahnts, inspect yourbrewing;-» A lady, air, would be your ruin.
Tour panViage house, I own, is mean ; But aeef that fragrant jessamine ; See ! how that woodbine round the door And lattice blooms — ^What would you moie P Oh I Doctor, could you but despise Lift^s pompous supofluities i CSonId yon but learn to live content With what indulgent HeaVn has sent ; WhateTer your lot, you 'd live more free Than any princo-in ^0nfi«9r. Beo.R.Gr99m
Ton talk of freedom, trust me, friend. Tour freedom all in talk will end. If t is your pasaion to l^ free. Contented dme at home, like me ; Tour befeiage draw from Whitbread's butt i Wear nsefbl clothes of homely out; And thoudi yon ceaae to plmae the fidr, Dinard aU {wwder from your hair : Walk undistinguiah'd "mid the group, Nor scon a door that makes you stoop To such a plan contract your view. And kinfi will be less fi^ than yoo. dmrn.
i
IM XABCUL*8
Wbold'it thou be fine? I Usar thou art la Jcil But if tfaott woald'it, thii k the only law;
Be no man's tavern nor domeitio guett : Dzink wholesome wine which thy own serranti dzmv*
Of knaTish Gario soom the ill-sot plate. The nom'rous servants and the cringing throng :
With a few friends on fewer dishes ea^ And let thy clothes, like miney be plain and strong*
Such friendships make as thoa may'st keep with ease i Great men expect what good men hate to pay ;
Be never thou tnyself in pain to please, But leave to fools and knaves th* uncertain prey.
Let thy expense with thy estate keep pace ; Meddle with no man's business, save thine own :
Contented pay for a plebdan heb. And leave vain fops the beautieB of the town.
If to this pitch of virtue thou canst bring Thy mind, thou 'rt freer than the Persian king.
Sedkf.
LIT. TO ISSVB.
Quid de te, Line, Bnamoefciir vaioirf Et quA parte velit puoiciorem, Certis indioiia satis Drobavit, GuBtodem tibi qum aedit spadonem. Nil nasatiua hac maligninsqae est.
Tua mo^e o lino, ehe ti diede un' eunueo per guaraia ha dt eerti indiz) dinotato oual cosa di te sospetti, ed in qua! parte tl voglia piiS^ pudico. Nulla V d di pii!^ sagace di costei, e nulla di piik astuto. OroffUa,
LY. TO BEZTVS.
Yoa wish to be treated with deference, Sextos : I wished to love you. I must obey you : you shall be treated with deference, as you desire. But if I treat yon with de&reuee, I shall not love you.
Yes ;,I submit, my lord; you Ve sain'd your end : I 'm now your slave— that would nave been your friend ; 1 11 bow, 1 11 cringe, be supple as your glove i — Bespeot, adore yon— e/rytmng but— love. Bev. JBL Orfwet
I offer love, but thou respect wilt have ;
Take, Sextiis, all thy prioe and folly crave :
But know I can be ao man's friend and slavey AHfigb
loos n.] xnexAXf. lit
LTI. TO BJLLLUn.
Among the naiioDB of lobya^ your wifb^ Ghdloi, ii un- happQj leDOwned for the disgraoefbl reproaeh of immoder* atea^arioe. Batwhatiseaidof herispyefiJaehood; Aeii not in the haUt of leceiTing^ alwaya. What then ia ahe in the hahit of doing? Ghranting.
GaDni, tfajr wiib k tucad far the Tioe
(Aflioog toe labyans) of fool avarioe :
But ihe ii wrongd, and all are lies tliejr telli
Nonq cheaper does henelf both give and ieUL Jmoil IWL
LTii. OH ▲ Fssmmn.
He, whom ^oa aee walkinff alowlj along witii cardeaa atep, who tdcea hu way, in ▼iolet-colooied robea, thtoogh the middle of Ae acpiaie ; whom my friend Publiua doea not lui^ paaa in dreaa, nor even Gordoa himaelf^ the Alpha of Gloaka ; ne, I aay, who ia foUowed by a band of dienta snd alaTea, and a litter with new enrtaina and girtha, haa but juat now pawned hia rinff at Cladiua* oonnter for barely eight aeateroea, to get himaeu ft dinner.
He whom you eee to walk in so much state,
Wanng and slow, with a migestio gait,
In pome dad, pessmg die nobles* seat,
My PoUiiis not in garments more eomplete ; —
Uliose new zich ooMh, with gilt and staddad reins.
Fair bovs and gown-men follow in great trains,
Latdf his Teiy ring in pawn did lay
For ioar poor orowas, his sapper to definay.
Jmm. 1095.
LTUi. TO Eonva.
tn Tonr new and beantifal robea, Zoilna, yon smile at mj threadbare dothea. They are threadbare, Zoilna, I admit but they aie my own.
Too, rameelT elothed, lanrii at my threadbare gown j^ T is tmeaMare troly, Zcmus, hot mine own.
YoorVe ifaie, and ridieole my thread-bare gown. Thread-bare hideed it is r— bnt *t is my own. E^
Embroidei^d Raftn Jeers my thread-bare rest, T IS paid f or, Bafbs. Now, where lies the Jest?
s OeDa^itissapposedylisdbeeiiprwtorofLibyaer Aftiea.
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Lix. ov A. BUAUt Dnrnro-HALL.
lam called Mica:^ what I am you ace, a small Jii^ng* hall ; from me, behold, you Yiew the dome of the imperial Mausoleum. Press the couches ; call for wine ; crown yourself with roses ; perfume yourself with odours : the god himself' bids you remember death.
I 'm call*d the Crumb : a petty snppinff-home i From me thou kemieit the GfiBaiean dome. Prepare the beds, the wines, the roses, nard : The god himself enjoins thee death's regard.
ElpAinshM.
£Z. TO HTLLU8.
founff Hyllus, you are the fiivoured gallant of the wife of a mi&tary tribune ; do you fear, in conseouence, merely the punishment of a child P Have a care ; whue thus divert- ing yourself, your flame will be suddenly extinguished. Will you tell me, "^ lliis is not kwful " P Well, and what yot» are doing, HyUus, is that lawful P
Audaoious striplinff, hast no shame.
To tempt an armed tribnne^s dame P
And dost thon, yomigster, barely fear
The chastiBement all dots reTere P
No more be thus thy ooldness piopp'd :
Thine all of manly will be loppd.
The law, thou saT'tt, will ne^er allow.
Does law, my lad, thy pranks avow P SlpMnttoM*
LXI. OV ▲ BLASDBBBR.
- Cum tibi yemarent dubi& lanugine male,
Lambebat medics improba lingua yiros. Postquam triste caput mstidia vespillonum
Et miseri meruit t»dia camificis, Uteris ore alitor nimiilque erugine captus
Allatras nomen quod tibi cnnque datur. Haareat inguinibus potius tarn noxia lingua:
Nam cum fellare^ purior ilia fuit.
Allorche un' apparente lanunne spontaya su 1 tuo yolte, la sosn taa lingua lambiya i centri tixuL Dopo che la tua odiata teata si
^ A dining-haU erected by Domitian, called Mica, "OrumV or " Mimiikiii," from its emalhiaw.
* The god of the building; thai ii^ Domitian, to whom it was dedi* csted.
BOOK tL] SPI0IUM8. 117
tird V af«EiioM de' beecamorti, e lo lehiib del camefioe, fid altr' mo delk tea lingua, onmuo da un' oo^oMiTo Htofb, la scateni contro ehinnqoe ti Tiene in inente. Sia la tua esecrabil lingua piutosto appota alle pndenda, imperocche essa mentre fellava, era menb im- poral OragUM.
JXa. TO LABIXKU8.
Qaod pectus, quod crura tibi, quod bracbia yelliSy Qnod cincte eat brevibua mentula tonsa pilia :
Hoe praetaa, Labiene, tuas — quia nescit P — ^amic». Cm praetaa culuxn, quod, I^abiene, pilas P
n perdie ti diBsetoli il petto, le ^ambe, le braecia, il percbe la rua tea mentola h cinta di curti peli, chi non sa, cbe tatto questo. o Labieno, prepari per la tua arnica. Per chi, o Labieno, prepaii te il eulo^ ene diBtetoIi P Cfn^Uk
LXni. TO KILI0HU8.
You bad but a hundred thousand sesterces, Mflichus, and thcMe were consumed in ransoming Leda from the Yia Sacra. This, Milichus, would have been an act of great extravagance, had you loved at such a price, even though rich. You will at ooee tell me, "I am not in love." It is still an act of great extravagsnce.^
The hmidredth testeree thou hadst just to rav,
which bought thee Leda, from the Sacred Way.
Of wealth in love luxuriant the disburfie I
I'm in no love, cries Milic. Ten times worse. iSSJplMi^.
LXrV. TO I.AURT7B..
While jon aire thinking of becoming, sometimes a ]aw;^eri sometimes a professor of eloquence, and cannot deade, Lanrus, what you mean to be, the age of Peleus, and Priam, and Nestor, has passed by with you, and it would now be late enough for you even to retire from an^ profession. Be- gin ; three professors of eloquence have died in one year, if you have courage, and anv talent in that line. If yon de- cide against the School, all the courts of law are in a perfect fever oi litigation ; Marsyas himself * might become a lawyer. Come, give over this delay ; how much longer are we to await TOUT decision P While tnus hesitating what to be, you are becoming unfit for anything at alL
* A dilemma. If you ransomed her for loTe, yon were eztrav^(iBt ; if y«m nuMomel her without being m Ioto with her, you were extiamgsat ' The ststae of Marsyas m the fonim.
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Sometimes a hwyer, eometimet a dhiii%
Ton lay, you '11 be; yet neither aze in ibe i
Befoze you fix your ehinoe, yon loee an agei
Fit to retire, baore yon movnt the atage.
Three biahopa are gone off within the year i
If you hare any aoul, yon 'II now ajppear.
Or elae, ^ete 'a ao much tmaineia m the laws,
A poat, if robed, could nerer want a canae.
Bouae ; in thia world begin to preach or plead,
Tou 'U m^dLO a aorry dean or aerjeant dead. J£tf
While xbetorieian, lawjnar, tempta thy choice, And what thou It be atill han«i upon thy Toioe : Wilt thou old Priam'a ace or Neator'a wait P Now wilt thou fix P 'til umg ago too late: Nay come — ^thia year three rfaetoiiciana diedt Come— haat thou apirit P brainaP the achoola are wide. If you dialike the achoola, the law-courta brawl. To rouae e*an Marayaa from hii Mdeatal, Come, ho ! decide, or muat we ami gaae on : Boubtfat thou what aomething thou wilt fix upon P Thou oanat be nothing now,— time waa, *t ii gone.
One month a lawjrer, thou the next wilt be A grare phTaiman, and the thhrd a prieat:
Chooae quickly one profeidon of the uree \ Maxzied to her, tlK>u yet may'at court thlazest
Whflat thou atand'at doubting, Bradbury haa got Fiye tiiouaand pounda, and Conqueat aa much more %
W ii made B from a drunken aot:
Leap in, and atand not ahiVkinff on the ahore.
On ainr one amiaa thou eanat notmll ;
Thou It end in nothing if thou gra^at at alL S$dley,
LXY. TO BALBlASirS,
WhydoweseeSaleianiiswxiihaBadderairtban uanalP— b the reason a trifling one? I haye just buried my wife^ says he. Oh great cnme of destiny! oh heayy chancel Is she dead, she so wealthy, Seenndilla, dead, who brought you a dower of a million sesteroesP I would not haye had thia happen to you,
Why aeem you dead to all the ioya of life P Haye I not cause P yon aay :— 1 've lost my wifo.
BOOK ZL] IFie&AJU. 119
Oh enwd fiiie I and oil miifoitttiie dire ! tint ouB M wealthy ahould so woobl exmie t Who left yoa twioe five hnndxed anniial rent ! I'mMnyy^hAfohadthii accident JSy.
Un. TO LALAGI.
Que rindet of hair, in the whole drde of Lalage'a treaeee, im out of ita plaoe^ hsTing been badly fixed by an erring piiL Thia crime ahe puniahed with the mirnir,' by meana en iriiidli ahe diaoovered it, and Plecuaa fell to the ground under herblowa^ in oonaeouence of the cruel hair. CMae now, Lih lege, to adorn your utal locka ; let no waitinff-woman hence- fora touch yoitfoutrageoua head. Let the saTamander* leave ita venom on it, or the raaor pitileaaly denude it^ that the image may be worthy of your mirror.
One dngle euxl beyond its bonnda had stny*d i The wandering hair-pIn one Ihlie loop had made, llila fiuilt to Lalage ner mirror ahowa s Plaenaa'a head receivea ita atonning Uowa. Ceaae, Lalage, to deck thy browa; fbrbeari Ceaae, maidena, ceaae to oreaa that ftny'a hair. Let adaMn dip* or aipa among it dt; Thaoy then her fkce that mirror ahaU befit
Jt^, Jotirm. ^BihcMmg J^an. 18M.
Lxm. TO roannnTa.
In whatever place you meet me, Foatumua, you cry' out iili* mediately, and your very firat wbrda are, ^How do you do PH You aay thia, even if you meet me ten timea in one ain^ hour: you, Foatumua, haye nothing, I auppoae, to do.
Whoever thee, Poatomns, doea chance to meet.
Hum lay'ft, •'What dost thouP" thna then all doat greet
Ten tiBMa an hour, if met: by which doat show
That thou thyadf but little halt to do. Anim.ie95,
ULVIUL TO oLira.
Beeaoae I now addreaa you by your name, when I uaed bebre to call you lord and maater, do not resard me aa pie- •umptuouB. Atthepnce of aUmyduittelalhayepurdiaae^ my cap of liberty. He only wanta lorda and maatera who cannot govern himael^ and who eoveta what lorda and maatera
^ A bnuMD admnr. . ^ AnasiiDalaomethinglikaalliardi aofpoaad to yield a poAmwoa liquid, nied ai a depillatbiy.
120 ITABTIAL*!
eovet. If you can do without a aenrant, Oloa, yen can alto
do without a master.
That I do yoa with humble bows, no more, And danser of my naked head, adore i That I, who lord and master cried erewhile, Salute you in a new and different style. By your own name, a scandal to yon now | Tnink not that I forget myself and you : By loss of all things oy all others sought, Tnis freedom, and the freeman's hat, is bought A lord and master no man wants, but he Who o'er himself has no authori^. Who does for honours and for riches striye, - And follies, without which lords cannot liye. If thou from fortune dost no servant craye, Belieye it, thou no master need'st to haye. Comlejfm
LUX. TO CLAS8ICT7B.
^ You say, Glasaicua, that it ia acainat your will that you dine ftom home. May I periah, Claaaicua, if you do not lie. Eyen Apidua himself delighted in going out to dinner, and, when he dined at home, was rather out of spirits. If, howeyer, you so against your will, why, Classicus, do you go at all? ''I am oblieed," you say. It is true; just as much aa Selius ^ b obli|;ea. See now, Melior inyitee you to a regular dinner, Classicos ; where are your grand protest- ations P if you are a man, say " No."
Unwillinffly thou supp'st abroad ! Ill die.
If what thou say'st be not a splendid lie.
In others' treats Apidus did delight.
And with rMret at home did pass the night
If thou unwuling art, why dost thou so r
Thou 'rt forced, thou say'st All smeU-feasts are forced so.
Melior inyites thee to a sumptuous feast: Where are thy bragsP Deny, mw is the test Jmoil 169ff.
When thou Bit ask'd to sup abroad^ Thou swear'st thou hast but newly dined |
That eating late does oyerload The stomach, and oppress the mind ;
* A parasite. See Eps. 11 and !••
BOOK II.] BPIfflUMI. 121
B«t if Apieiiis makes a treat, Tbe.ilenderest sammons thon oheftt i
Ko dild 18 greedier of the teat Than then art of the bounteous feast.
ThsR thou wilt drink till every star
Be sirallow'd by the rising sun ; Soeh channs hath wine we pay not for,
And mirth at other's charge begun.
Who shuns his dub, yet flies to erery treat,
Does not a supper, but a reckoning hate. SiO&ff*
UOL TO COTILITS.
NoQ Yia in solio priiu laTari Qaenquam, GotQe ; causa qusa, nisi h»e eati Undia ne foyeariB imunatia P FkimuB te licet abluas, necesse est. Ante hie mentula, quam caputs layetar.
Tu, o Cotikt non ruoi che nessnno si Ian nel tino prima di te. Qnal n'd la cagione, se non i questa P Che non Tuoi laTsrti in ao^ irmmate. Bisogna dunque che tu ti kri fl primo, a m«- d&ioae ehe tn ti layi la mentola prima del capo. Ora^Utu
TiTTT. TO OJiOTLIAirnS.
No one k more mgeniona than jouraeli^ CsBcilianns ; I have remarked it. 'Woenever I read a few distichs fiom my own compqaiftiona, you forthwith recite some bits of Maraoa or CatuUm. Do you offer me these, as though what you read were inferior to mine, so that, when placed side by side, my eompdaitiona should gain by the oompanson P. I believe yon do. Nevertheleaa I should prefer, Cscilianufl^ that you recite your own.
There's none than thee more candid can be said, Who, when some parcels in my book thou 'st read. From Marsns or Catullus dost recite Tbe like, to show how much I better writer Compaied with them. Thy goodwill 's to me known, But would thou 'dst read some verses of thine own.
Jsum, IOOSl iN'othiBg^ I see, your candour can exceed. My diraehs whensoe'er you please to read : From Dryden or ftiom Pope you cite a line, To show how much they botn fall short o£ mine. Such fiiils, no doubt, make mine appear more takings Tet I should choose some verses or your making. Sap.
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LXJJi. TO POBTUMUI,
HestemA fiustam narrator, Foatuine, cosnA
Qaod noUem— quia enim talia fiu^ probet P— Oa tibi perciaam qiumto nan ipae Latinoa ^
YiliA rannicoli percutit ora aono : Quodque magia minim eat, auctorem criminia hajaa
Csciliom tatk rumor in nrbe sonat. Eaae negaa fiietom : via hoc me credere ? credo.
Quid, quod habet teatea, Fostume, Gfleciliua P
O Poctomo, n xaoeonta un &tto tuccesBo nella cena paasata, cbt ou dispiaoe : imperooche chi mai acoonaentirebbe a ri &tte ooie P Ti ta perooasa la ftcda con mA gran forsa, ehe Latino stesso non peccaote le Tili gnande di rannienlo : e dd ohe piii sorroende, li rumoreggia per tntta la oitti die Cedlio sia V autore di queito sfireggio. To oi6 neAbi ; yaoi eh' io lo ereda P Lo credo. Ma eot'it 0 Posttamo, ehe Cecuio ha testimonj P OragUa,
Of yesterday*! moet loeial meal Thejr tell a truth, that won't conceal i Whiah moat the mirth or toRow move, Of all Kbo oenrare or approve. They say that, Post, thv mouth and nose^ Were battei'd by sudi barb'rons blows, As Latin's hand, with archest bound, Ne'er bade finom Pannv's visage sound.
To make thie riot all sublime. They name the hero of the crime : That Cecil pbyd this fint of funs, The mmour through the dty runs. Thou, Postome, sweai'st the whole a lie i ^d boldly canst the &ct defy. But all thy shams must prove reftise : Cedl attesters can produce. E^hmtim,
Till 1 11. ov LTBia.
Lyria wiahea to be told what it ia ahe ia doing. What P Why 9 ahe aulliea her mouth even when not intoxicated.'
LXXIT. TO ICATSBVUa.
Do you notice, Matemna, that Saufeina accompanied in front and behind hj aorowd of followera, a crowd aa great aa that
1 Latimis snd PaonieQlua wen two acton in pantomime.
* There are variooa readings of this Epigram. The best periiuis i% QtM /aeiai WM 9eir$ L^f QMf SobrU fetlai. A MS. in the Bod* .eiaa adds snother verse ' Otmiei * pM/aein tbHafieUk, Lfri$f
BOOK XL] IPX^BAKf. lUf
• •
br whidi Begnlas is eseortod home after 0ehdmg off hif thaveQ^ olient to theloflj templet of thesodfl P Do not enij him. iby tach an escort neveri I pra^, oe yonra. Ti^ca* lenna and Faventiniia* proooie for bmi these friends and flocks of dients.
What tnins before, what trams behind him ridel
What erowds of fiiends snpport him on eadi tide!
Such mnltitadei did nerer with lord mayor
Ob lokmn fettiTal to Paul's xeiwir :
Ton gaimg etj, ** How timea with him are mended!**
May nerer friend of mine be thns attended!
Envy him not: the .matter 1 11 mlain :
Ton aee hii mortgage ; and 'tis trapland*s tnun. Ay.
LXXT. OK ▲ LICIT.
A lion who had been aoonstomed to put up wiA the blows of his nDsnspeoting master, and qnietlT to suffer a hand to be inwnted in his mouth, baa nnleamed nia peacefnl habita, his fierooiess haTing suddenly returned, greater eren than it ouriit to hsTO oeen on tne Libyan mountains. For, cmd and malidons, he slew with furious tooth two boys of that yonng^ band whose dntir it was to put a new fsce on the en* mrnngmn^ srens with their rakea. I^'erer did the theatre of Mara bdibld a greater atrocity. We may exdaim : "Savage^ faithless robber! learn from Bome'a aacred wolf to spare ehildien.'* .
A Eon, wont his keeper's stripes to besr,
Into whose month his hand, without all fear,
He used to thrust, sueh tameness he was taught ;
But suddenly so high his ftiry wrought,
Twas 'bore what m>m the labyan clime he brought i
For while two boys did rake the sandy floor,
With sarage rage he both in pieces tmtt —
The theatre like crime ne^er knew before.
Bosuns mar weU say, ^Treacherous beast, forbeari
Cf Bomulur wolf young children leant to spare."
169A.
> 8haf«i^ L e. acquitted ; as persons under accusation let their beards
ow.
' NaaMs of usvenb it is su]posed, to ^om he Ud SMnrtgsfsd kis
LxrrL ov MAxrui,
Marias has left yoa a legacy of five ponnda of bUtbt. Hv to whom jott gave nothings has given you — ^worda.^
Fire pounds of fine nlTer was Marinf* beqaett Though thou gSTsst him nothing, he gaVe ^ee a jest.
LXXVIJL TO ooscoKrus.
^ Too, Oosconias, who think my epigrams long, may nos- sibly be expert at greasing carriage-wheels. With like judgment, you would think the Colossus too tall, and might call Brutus's boy * too short. Leani somethinff which you do not know : two i»ges of Marsua and the teamed Fedo often contain only one epigram. Those compositions are not lon^, in which there ia nothing to retrendi : but you, Cos- conius, write even distiehs that are too long.
My epuxams are long in tout conoeit : Much fitter for a groom than judge of wit. Long in your lenie the giants in Guildhall ; And short the British kmg on Ludsate-walL Learn, that tihe Iliad and the .£neia shines. Though eaoh contains so many thousand lines. Works are not Ions, firom which you nought can take : But long the very mstichs which you make. Ha^
Coscus, thou say'st my epigrams are long : I 'd take thy judgment on a pot of ale :
So thou may*8t say the elephant's too strongs A dwarf too short, the pyramid too tall.
Things are not lonf where we can nothing spare :
But, Uoscus, e'en tby distiehs tedious sre. Sedkjf.
LXXTHJ. to OJBCILLLKTrS.
Do you aak where to keep your fish in the summer-time P Keep it in your warm baths, Gscilianus.
''Where keep my fish i» summer P *' Helluo oriea Tour kitchen 's ooolj that grotto I adrise.
Oendeman'i Mag.
What nlace to keep Tour ice in I approTe,
Ton ask. — ^Tour kitohen chimney or your stOTe. Sa§.
' Marios htTing left no property. * Hm statue of a boy, nuide by Brutus, sa artificer.
BOOK n.] BPIORAJO. 125
tZXIZ. TO HASICA.
Yoa innte me tiien, aod then only, Nancai wbec yov know I am engaged. Excuae me, I pray : I dine at home.
Ton think I 'm call'd elsewhere, so bid me oome
To dine with yon. Thank yon ; 1 dine at home. Anon.
LXTT. OK TAHiniTB.
Fannina, aa he waa fleeing from the enemTy put himself to death. Is not this, I ask, madneaa,— to die for fear of dyingP
When Fannins from his foe did fly, Himself with his own hands he slew : Whoe'er a greater madness knewP
Life to destroy for fear to die ! ^fioa. 1095.
Himself he slew, when he the foe wonld fly :
What madness this, for fear of death to die! IKby.
LXZXI. TO EOTLVa.
Tour litter may, if you plea8e,be larger than an hexaphoroi^ Zoilua ; but, aa it ia your litter, it ahcrald be called a bier.^
Let thy litter be lai^ than e*er mored on six, • T is a biier, if upon it thy carcase they %x. Etpkmdomi
LZZXn. TO P09TICU8.
Why do you maim * your slave, Fonticua, by cutting out
hiB tonffueP Do you not know that tiie' public aaya what ha
caonotr
What 'tbiU it thee to make thy slaye a mute F^ Of thy fonl crimes much louder now *s the bruit.
Amm. laOff.
T^»«»i'i OK ▲ CBT7XL HUSBAKD.
Husband, you haye diafi^ored the wretched gallant, and Ub countenance, deprived ox nose and ears, regreta the loaa rfita oiiflinal form. Do you think that you are sufficiently afcoged? Youaremiataken: aomething atill remaina.
* Ths hezaphoros wts a Isrge sort of DsUuKpitn, esitied on the shonl- tes of six men. By calling Zoilns'a Jitter a bier, Martial means, as Bader snopoaea, that Zoilns waa bloated with glnttoo j, and mora like a eoqisa Usui a liringperaon. See B. iii. Ep. 82.
* Aerfsf appeals to be the beat reading In the first line, instead of ;i^^orjl|^ the latter of wfaiehScfaeidewin adopts. Compare the fim ef me asKt epigram, "^'^* — '
196 XAJlTIAIi^f
Tlion bast defonn'd the poor galknti
Nor eonld (Ht Justice merey grant
His nose lo uit, and ear lo tore,
Now seek in vain the grace thev wore.
Now Tcngeance boaati her ample due.
Fool! mayn't the foe the chaige renew? SifkmUm.
ULXXIV. TO mrvBf ov butobius.
MoIliB erat fieiliaqxie viris PoeantinB heroa : i Ynlnera aic Earidia dicitur ulta Yenna.
Car liugat ennnum Siculua Sertoriua, hoc eat : Aba hoc oociaiia, Bufe, Tidetor Eryx.
L*Eroe Feanzio era effeminato, e compiacento asli nomini : n dice elie Venere cos) abbia Tendicato le fente di Faiiae. 11 percbfe So^ curia Sieulo sia ennnilingo, d d, o Bnfi), per quel ehe pue, dair aver ncciao Erice.* AraffKa,
IiZZXT. TO ▲• TBIBHI).
A bottle of iced water,' bound with light baaket-work, ahaU be m^ offering to you at the pieaent Satonialia. If you comphun, that i aent 70a in the month of December 8 gift more auited to the aommer, aend me in retam a li^t toga.
A fummer gift» that I in winter mak ,
In evil part I would not have tiiee take ;
Or, for my present hold me for a down ;
But while *tif cold, send me a summer gown.
16M.
ixxxTi. TO cLiaaicira, nr siaPASAOsicEirT ov botioitlt
poxTic Tsrrusa.
Becaoae I neither delight in verae that may be read back- vfarda,^ nor rererae the effqininate Sotadea ;* beoiuae nowhere
^ Philoctetes, by one of whose arrows Paris is ssid by some to have been shot.
* The son of Venus. A neighbottr of Sertorius, who hsd lately died, bore the same name.
' Water boiled and then cooled m snow, such as the Bomans used te mix with their wine. ^ Such as, with regard to letten»
RomoMitubUomtMrnOftamorf ^, with regard to words and metre,
Uuaa miki cpmmom mimera, 9110 mim«M Uuo*
* That is, (he metre used by Sotsdes, who wrote, it would appear finom aUs pasHfB^ vwMs that might be read backwards; Tenes,peiiiBps, which
BOOK n.] xpieBAKi. 197
in mj writags, as inthoae of .the GieekB, are to be found ediomg Tenes,' and the handsome Attis does not dictate to me 1^ soft and eneirated Gallismbic strain;* 1 am not on tiiat aoooonty Classicas, so verj bad a poet. What if you were to order Ladas against his will to mount the nanow ridge rfthe pefcaurum P' It is absurd to make one's amuse- ments dffieut ; and labour expended on follies is childish. Let Bdsmon^ write verses for admiring crowds. I woul4 lather please select ears.
That I acrostics' glory not do writes
In Tsnes, backwud read* take no deli^'i
Make not the echo in my Tenet playt
After the Grecian poetasteiing way ;
Kor yet wott melting numben so reepecty
Ai more the chime, than eVn the sense, tf affect ^—
So bad a poet, as these ways to take,
I am not, Claasieas. What hire woiild make
Ladas, for swiftness fiuned, so meaoly stoop,
To leave the race, and tamUe throngh a hoop F
Dittnaoeftil 't is unto a poe^s name
IMmenlt toys to make his hishest aim :
The labomr^fooliih that doth rack the brains
For tiungs hare nothing in them, but much nains.
Anon. leSfiw
uipiiiasul oommendation of tlie person to whom they were sddiesssl. WMB resd forwards, bnt satire when read the other way; as in,the liass addrssssd by Philelphiis to Pope Pins II. :
CSmdUio ilia nt ttabilit nee iempon parvo VvMte tefaaatkle Deue omm^oiens,
* Yenes in whidi the termination is formed by a repetition of the pre- eediag syOabie or sjllaUes, as if giren by an echo :
Ver$no90^H>nenmmeJbrerenst Erie,
Bntlsr, Hndlbrss, canto III. line 189 et ieq.» banters this species of poetyy. and Addison has a paper on the subject in Spectator, No. 59.
* The GaUiambic yam had its name from Galli, the prfests of Cjbde^ wke aie add to haTo written in it* Attis, more commonlj written Atys, wasajronth belored by Oybeie.
** Tlie petanrnm was some sort of machine by which perfonneis were raised mm the srennd ; some haTo thonglit it a sprins plaiik, others a wliesl or part of awheel; possibly there may have been different forms of it. Ladas was a swift mnner (see B. z. Ep. 100), but conld not be ia- dnesd to momit the petanrnm.
* AeoMtted srammarian; pediq^ the one aMotioned bySaeCoaias as CL GnBBm* o. IS*
128 MA&TIAL*!
UUXfiL TO 8BXTV8, ▲ DBrOBMXD KEBSOIT.
Toni saji Bextcu, that fair damaelB are burning with lova for 76a— ^or jouy who have the face of a man swimming under water I ^
That for diee the fiur bom, Is the modesteit whim! Under water thy viutge declares thee to swim.
Elphmikm.
lzzxthl to iLLHSBOira.
Ton recite nothing, and you wish, Mamercus, to be thought a poet. Be whaterer you will, only do not recite.
Artfanr, they Bay, has wit " For what P For writing P^ No— for writing not. Swift.
Ton 'd poet seem, yet nothing yon reheaxse :
Be what you will, so we ne'er hear your Terse. WrighL
Thou wodd'ft a poet be, yet nought dost write : Be what thon wut, so nouj^t thou dost indite.
Anon. 1095.
TiTTTTX.
For delighting to lengthen oat the night over too many eupa, I pudon you, murus; you hare the weakneaa of Cato. For writing versea without help firom Apollo and the Muses, you deserve to be praised ; this weakness was that of Cicero. Yon vomit ; tnat was Antonius' failing ; your luxury, that of Apidus. But aa to your abominable de- bauchery, tell me, from whom do you derive that P
In profbse drinking that thy nights are spent,
Ganros, thou Cato nast for present ;
Tolly, for barbarous verses mm dost write,
Ai if the Muses bore to thee a spite ;
Antony, Apioius, vomitings did use ; —
Thy honid lust no patron can excuse. Anon, 1696.
That thou dost shorten thy long nisfats with wine»
We all for^ve thee, for so CSto did \ That thou wn^st poems without one good line,
Tolly's example may that weakness hide.
Thou art a cuckold ; so great Ceesar was : Eat* St tin thou spew'st ; Antonios did the name
Hum lovest whmes ; Jove loves a bucksome lass : But that thon 'rt whipp'd ii thy pecoliar shame.
^ Distoitody ss things ai»pesr under tronbled water.
BOOK n.] BPIOBAKI. 129
XO. TO QirCKTILIAK.
Qnintiliim, supreme ruler over our uiiBteadj youth,— QnintiliaTi, g^ory of the Boman toga, do not blame me, that I, though poor yet not useleas to my generation^ hasten to enjoy hfe: no one haBtena enough to do bo. Let Ami de- lay doing 80, who desires to have a greater estate than hia fuher, and who crowds hia loify haUa with countless buata. A quiet hearth delights me, and a house whidi H^■l^ft^T^^ not the blackness of smoke,^ a running spring, and a natural piece of turf. May these be mine ; a well-fed attendant, a*" wife not over-learned, nights with sleep, days without stxife.<
Quintilian, thou glory of the gpwne^ And for instrueting youth of nigh renowne, Jif poors, my life to mee ooatent can give, Allow me : none t* himsielfe too much can live. Lett who will strive their fathers' wealth t* enlarge, . And with vast statues their huge porches charge i Give mee good fires, though in a smoaky hall, Unforced springs, and grass-plotts natunll ; With fioll ledd downes, and not too leam'a a wifb» Spending my nights in sleepe, dayes without strife.
Old MS. letk
Wonder not, sir (you who instruct the town In the true wisdom of the sacred gown),
n<
That I make haste to live, and cannot hold Patiently oat, till I now rich and old. Life for delays and doubts no time does give i None ever yet made haste enough to live. Let him defer it, whose prepoeterons care Omits himself, and reaches to his heir. Who does his &thei^s bounded stores despiie» And whom his own, too, never can suffice. My.humble thoughts no glittering rooft requite, Or rooms that shme with aught but constsnt fira I will content the avarice of my siffht With the fair gildings of reflected light : Pleasores abroad the sport of nature yields, Her living foontaina, and her smilinff fieldL And then at home, whatpleasore is% to see A little deanly cheerful nmily! Which if a chaste wife crown, no less in her Than fortune, I the golden mean prefer,
* A house not too fine or splendid ; snch ss will sUow of the ftee ass <r files without receivins damtge by the smoke.
sir Deli<
ISO UAUTIAL 8
Too BoUe, nor too wise, ahe thoald not be^
No, nor too rich, too fair, too fond of me.
Thns kt my life iHde mlentlj ftwajf
'With deep all niglit, and quiet all llie daj. Cbteliy.
XCI. TO OiUAS, ASKIirff THE BIGHTS 07 1. "FAJfEXR 07
THBEI OHILBIUnr.
GflBsar, thou who art the certain safety of the empire, the lory of the murerse, from whose presemition we derive our 'iefin theenstenceof thegods; if my verses, so often read by thee in my hastily composed books, have succeeded in fixing thy attention, permit that to seem to be which for* tune forbids to be in realitv, namely, that I may be regarded as the &ther of tiiree childien.^ This boon, if I have fiuled to please thee^ will be some consolation to me; if I have succeeded in pleasing thee, will be some reward.
Welftre and glory of the eardi, while thee
We nh behdd, we fodi believe to be ;
If my eligfat books did e'er thee entertain.
And oft to read them thou didit not di^iain,
"What nature does deny, do thou bestow :
For fader of ikne ckHdren make me go.
When my verse takes not, this will be an ease;
A high reward, in ease it thee do please. Anon, 1695.
XCn. TO HIS WIFE.
He, who alone had the power, has granted to my prayer the rights of a father of three children, as a reward tor the efforts of my Muse. Gbod bye to you, madam wife. The munificence of our lord and master must not be rendered valueless.'
He /SrfAer ofikne ekildren me has made.
And all my Hose's labours ricUv paid.
Who only could : thee, wife, I 'U not retain.
Lest I the prince's bounty render vain. Anon, 1695.
xoin. TO BBffuiiirs.
** Where is the first book," yon ask, ** since this is the se- cond P" What am I to do, if the first book has more mo-
^ To the fiither of three or. more children great priTileges were Allowed snong the Romans; he sat ia the best seats at the games, and had ad^ Tantages in standing for pablio offices and dislinetions.
* That is, by his harmg three children by her, which would make tile soon of Domitian superiluons.
lOOX IL lZI0BAXf. 181
destj than this P If yon, howerery Begidiia, prefer this to be made the first, you can take away ''one** from ite title.
The leoond book joa laTl where ii the prior P
What ihall 1 do» frthat be found the ihier P
Tety Beffolus, if this the ibit yoa'd make,
One "I^ you're only from the top to take. JSlphmiiaik
BOOK III.
Z. TO THl TtlAnmL
THia booky whaterer may be ita worth, Ganl, named after Ae Boman toga^^ aenda from &r distant dimes. Yon read it, and award yonr praise perhaps to the preoeding ; bnt both are eqnkllT nune, whichsoeYer you think the better. That book wtdch saw tiie light in the dty should, indeed, give the ffreater pleasure ; for a book of Aoman production should bear the palm oyer one from GanL
This third book, good or bad, whatever it be,
GaUia Togata sends from &r to thee.
If, reading this, my fonner thou dost praise^
Both yet are mine, that "whiek least claims the bayk
Those must excel, bom. Borne, withiu thy wall :
A slave of thiue, aboTe a free-bom GauL Anon. 1695.
n. TO HIS BOOK.
To whom, my little book, do you wish me to dedicate you P Make haste to choose a patron, lest, beixig hurried off into a murky kitchen, you cover tuzmies with your wet leavea, or become a wrapper for incense and p^per. Is it into Fausti- nua' bosom tlmt you flee P you hare chosen wisely : you may now make your way perfumed with oil of cedar, and, decora^ ed with omamenta at both ends, Iwiuriate in all the glory of painted bosses ; delicate purple may corer you, and your tide proudly blaze in scarlet. With him for yop patron, fear not even Probus.*
1 GaUia Togata. * M Valerius Probias. the celebrated grnnmsrian,
a)
182 JLlSTTiX'B
Whither, thou dailing chfld of jokfl^
To what jxroteetor dost thou flyP Lest, wnmt in culinary smoke,
Thou uipping clothe the tunny-fry :
Lest holy incense thou profime, Or think to lend the pepper poignanoe \
Thou wouldst Faustiniu^ oosom gain P That is thy fiither's own enjoinanoe.
Lnbued with cedaz^s potent oil, The country thou beroam'st, and coast.
Ihy decent mmtlets nought shall soil : Thou may'st thy painted navels boast.
And now, in gorgeous purple dad.
Thy fsoe assumes a maiden-blush : In such a patron wisely glad,
Thou wuest Probus not a rush. JB^Mifoii.
m. TO Air ILL-70BMXD LAJ>T.
Tour face, which is beautiful, jou coyer with a black yeil ;' but with your person, which is not beautiful, yon offend the waters in which tou bathe. Imagine that the nymph of the brook herself addresaes you in these words of mine : ^'Either luicover your face, or bathe dressed."
Thy face, that 's &ir, thou Teil*st when thou dost go
To bathe, an n^ body naked show.
BelieTs tiie water-nymph thee thus doth pray,
^ Bathe in thv dothes, or cast thy veil away.'' Awm, 169ff»
IT. TO HIS BOOK.
Ch> your ways to Eome, my book. If Borne shall ask whence ;f ou are come, you will say from the quarter to which the ^milian Way leads. If she shall inquire in wbat land I am, or in what ci^, you may reply that I am at Oomelii Forum.' If she ask the reason or my absence, make in few words a full confession : ** He was not able to endure the wearisomeness and yanity of the toga." * If she shall say,
1 Nigro t^cfsmtiM. We prefer this reading to the other, m^ro smcNm* mtiM, '\with a blade dntment," whidi Schneidewin adopts. If the lady's face was beautifal, there would be little need of any application, blade or of anjr other colour, to improre it. Velamim also suits bettor with the following opmri. ^ A town of Gdlia Togata, now called JmcHa.
* The trouble of tisits of ceremony to patrons, which were paid In the loga.
BOOK m.] BPiaHAKB. ).88
''When is he likely to return P" zeplj, ''He departed a poet : he will return when he has learned to play Hbe lyre.'*^
Hie thee to Borne, my book. If whence, she say i TeU her thou comest from th'. JBmilian Way If, in what track or town, ihe ask, we be; In old Comeliua' Fomm, Madam, he. Why does the poet itray so &r from townP He could not bear the langaon of the gown. When cornea he back P the next inquiry movee : Abard he went; but comes, when he a minstrel ^▼ac.
T. TO HIB BOOK.
Do yon wiah, my little book, who are goinff to the city without me, to have recommendationa to aeyeral persona P or wiU one person be sufficient P One, believe me, will be suffi- dent,— one to whom you will not be a stranger, — Julius, whoaenameiaaoeonatantlyonmylipa. Him you will aeek out without delay, near the very entrance to the Yia Tecta ; he liTes in the house which Daphnia once occupied. He has a wife, who will receive you to her arms and bosom, even were you to go to her covered with dust. Whether you see them together, or either of them first, you will say, ''Marcus bida me salute you," and that ia enough. Let lettera of introduction herald others ; he is foolish, who thinks it ne- oeaaary to be introduced to his own friends.
Thee, little book, whom awift to town I send, To many, or to one, shall I commend P To one, enough; nor ahalt a stranger be : Jnliua ! a consecrated name to me. To him then hie : lol aittinff at the docnr,
ge guards the gods, that Daphnia did before,) on seest his dame, whose longing arms will press. Or bosom, thee, shonld'st all in dust address. Whether them both, or either, thou assail. Say : Marcus bid you, both or either, haiL Let dedications incense power or pelf : No letter need address another sen* JB^nUom
n. TO XAJlOBLIJNlTa.
Iliia is the third day, Marcellinus, after the Idea of May ; a day to be celebrated by you with double rites : for it
> Pkyeis on the lyie or haip beiDg valued at Rome more than poeta See o. V. Ejp. d7*
184 lCiBTXAL*ll
witness^ the mirodaction of joar father to the light of heaven, and waa the first to receiye the offering from jour blooming cheeka.^ Although the day conferred on your fitther the gift of a happy life, yet it never afforded him a greater blessing than your safe arrival at manhood.
Hafl, happy third beyond the Ides of May I Twioe^ my dear Maroelline, thy holy day. This broQght thy parent to th' ethereal galea : Thii of thy down the primal harvest haib. On tfati wnatever joys have whilom flowed, . More on a fiitfaer never day bestowed. JBtpkimUm.
rtL OV THB ABOLITIOir OV THB BPOBTULA. BY
SOIOTIAK.
Eaiewdl at len^h, ye paltry hundred fiirthings, the pa* tron*B laigess to his worn-out escort, doled out by the half- boiled batiunff-man. What think ye, my masters, who starve your friends r The sportuls of proud patrons are no more, there is no way of escape: you must now give a regular dinner.* •
Ye hundred poor fkrtfaingB, faieweU.
Hia dole tiie vain dmdge no more telL
The bathmonger boil'd did divide it :
Ye starvelingB, how could ye abide itP
The tyrantf 8 proud basket is broke :
Oar salary now is no joke. JBiphkuioiu
Tm. oir QxrnrTTTS.
/' Quintus is in love with Thais."— What Thais t—*' Thaii with one eye.'* — ^Thais wants one eye ; he wants two.
Quintus loves lliais.— Whibh P— Thais the blind.
As she wants one eye^ he wants both, I find. Jnon. 1695.
PbrniB, as odious as youth weU can be, llie daughter of a courtier in hi^ plaoe^
Met with a filthy mass that could not see ; ~[ii blindness she^ and that excused her free.
^ The flnt eaUiiigB from the beard, which wis always cu^ for the first time, with great ceremoay ; th^ day on which it was done bemg kept as a festival, and the hair cnt off being dedicated to some god. This was the commencement of minhood.
* A regular sapper, or late dinner, which Domitian ordered to be given by patrons to their followers, instead of the hundred iarthings for the sportnk, which appear to have been sometimes distributed by the bath* keepers.
BOOK IIL] EFiaXAXI. 185
Wen the not ugly, the noold bim daq^f
Nor woidd he many her if he had eyea.
To their defects they 're for the match in debt,
Andf but for firalta on both aides, ne^er had met Sedlgy.
IX. OK oraVA.
Oimu^I am told, is a writer of small aqoiba against me. A man cannot be cdled a writer, whose effusions no one reads.
Cluia writea Tenes asainst me^ 'tis said:
He writea not, whose bad irexae no man doth read. JFMcA^r.
Afuntlt me CSnna, as I hear, inditea i
Smee none him reads, who can affirm he writea P
Anon, 1696. Jack writes serere lampoons on me,*t is said-r Bnt he writea nothing, who ia never read. Sodgton,
X. TO PHiLOimsus.
Tour fSsfcber, Philomasus, allowed you two thousand ses* teroes a month, and paid you day by day ; because, with you, the wants of the morrow always pressed dose on ti&e extra- Taganoe of to-day; and consequently it was neoessarv to allow HaSij aliment to your yioes. Tour &ther is now dead, and has left you his sole heir; and by so doing, Fhilomususi he has disinherited you.'
Your ikther gave yon a lam monthly pay ;
And this continnsd to his ^ing day :
Tet want still foUow'd dose yomr luxury ;
And daily ricea daily craTed snpply :
But now he all hath left you, and u dead,
By being heir yon *re dismherited. JBajf.
Toor fhther, young Split-coin, they say,
Allow'd yon five hundred a year; And it came like a corpofaTs pay ;
Eadi week he made up the anear. *T would keep you from starring, he thought;
For he knew your extrantfanoe such. That to^moKTOw you 'd nie^er nsTe a groat,
Though to-day you got erer so much. But his will, in appeanmee less strict,
Outright save you all he could gWe : 'Why, afiesOT we see how youVe tridt'd —
I)iamherited,Bob,asIlm. N.B.SMmkk
* Becsase you will soon squander all he has beqneathed yoo.
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XL TO QTJItmrS.
•
If your mirtr^ss, Qointus, is neither Thais nor ono-e^ed, why ao you imagine my distich to haye been leyeOed against yon P — but perhapa there is some similarity in the name ; perhaps it said Thais for Lais. — ^Tell me, what similarity is there oetween Thius and Hermione P — ^But you are Qnintus, you say ; — well, let ns chance the name of the loyer. If Qointos win not haye Thais, let Sextus be her swain.^
If she ttou lov'rt nor blind nor Thais be, Whatmakes thee think last distich writ on thee P If Lais twere, and her I 'd Thais named, For sQcii resemblance I might well be blamed : Bnt niiat aimilitdde do these two bear? How dp Hermione and Thais pair P
But tfaoa art Qmntos, and that name I chnse.
Be t ao: I alwm feigned names do use.
I 'U change the u>yer*8 name, if that please more $
Seztoib not (teintos, lliais byes, the whore. Jmom, 1685.
ZIX. ^ OK FABTTLLTTS. .
The periomes, I own, were ^ood which you ^ye yonr guests yesterday; but you caryed nothing. It is a queer kind of entertainment to be perfumed and starred at the same time. A man, Fabullus, who eats nothing, and is embalmed, seems to me a yeritable corpse.
Faith I your essence was excelling ;
But you gaye us nought to eat : Nothing tasting, sweetly smelling.
Is, FabuUuB, acaroe a treat.
Let me see a fowl imjointed,
When your table next is spread : Who not feeds, but is anointed,
lAw )ike nothing but the dead. Oeor^ Lamb.
1 This El^igtsm reauires a comment. A certain Qmntns was angry at Martial on aooomii or the eighth Epigram. As the name of his mistreas was Hennione, and ibe was not one-eyed. Martial aaks him how he ooold have supposed that the Epigram was directed against her and him. If there had been, he adds, any similarity in the names, — if yonr mistress, for instance, had been callea Lais, yonmif^t hare fancied that Lais was meant by Thais; bnt what similarity is there between Thais and Hermione? But, yon will mj, I mentioned Qnintns in those lines, and yoiir name is Qnintns. Well then, to please yon, I will change the name, and for Qnintns snbstitote Sextus, since it is of no consequence to me by what Banw, •• Fifth " or •< Sixth," I call Thaia's lover.
BOOK mj maKAMB. 187
XIXI. TO TtMVtL,
While yon lefose to cat up the hare, Nasvia^ and the mnl* let, and spaie the boar which is already more than patrid, yoa aoenae and ill-treat your cook; on the pretence tnat he haa Berred up everything raw and indigestible. At such a banquet I shall never suffer from indigestion.
While boar to carve, and mulleti thou dost spare,
Wilt sooner cut thy fktfaer up, than hare :
But, as if all were crude, thy cook dost beat
No emdities they 11 find, whom thou dost treat Amm. 169A.
ZTV. .Oir TUCCIUS.
The hungry Tnccius had left Spainand was cominff to Borne. But a rumour about the sportak met him, and ne turned back at tiie Mulvian Bridge.^
Starved Tuooius from remotest Spain did come, Full of areat hopes plenty to fina in Borne : But at the very port oeing told the hard Duty of dientB, and their lean reward. He tamed straight his horse's head asain, "Wiih switch ana spur posted him back to Spain.
Amm. 18M..
A Torkshire squire, an ^eors well known, Set forth to spend hii winter months in town. But heard the devlish price of beef and pork, Stopp 'd short at High^its^ and returned to YQrk.
rr. oir copbub.
No one in the whole city gives more credit * than Godrus. — ** But since he is so poor, how can that be ? "—He bestows his affeetiona with his eyes shut.
Tom gives more trust than sny one in trade. — And yet so poor P — ^Tom ihinki his love a maid.
Hodgson. XVI. TO A OOBBLXB.
Cobbler, kindet of cobblers, you give gladiatorial ex- hibitiona, and what your awl haa bestow^ the sword destroys,
^ He hesrd.of the tmalhiess of Che sportnla, and (he titrable and hunnU- tMU to be endured in obtiiningit, and it once tmned back, though he had lesdied the Mnliian Bridce, which was only a mile from Rome.
' A iM ait aiotf on the dilTerent meaningB of <* credit," Tis., "he leAda money on credit," and " he yields implicit faith*"
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You are intoxieated; for you nerer would hare acted when sober, in such a way as to amuse yourself cobbler, at the expense of your tanned hides. You have had your sport ; and now, be advised, remember to confine yourself fnthin your own natural skin.
An haughty enrich'd cobbler dmrst bestow
A most profuse and pjcinoely fencers' show :
What in his life he earned oy the awl,
At sWord and buckler fight lie made fly all.
Sue thou wert drunk ; thou oould'st not, cobbler, play.
In any 'sober mood, thy hide away.
Enough of shows ; now to thy skins abide :
Fear what befell the ass i*th' lion's hide. Anon. 1695.
zm. ow sABmitrs.
A tart^ which had been carried round the second course several times, burnt the hand with its excessive heat. But the throat, of Sabidius was still more ardent to swallow it ;
he immediately, therefore, blew^ upon it three or four times with his moutn. The tart certainly grew cooler, and seemed likely to allow us to touch it. But no one would touch it : it was infected.
A tsrt around the second service flew,
And burnt whatever hand the nearest drew.
More bum'd Sabidius' maw : Ins cheeks he swell'd,
And in repeated blasts Ins breath repell'd.
TbB tart, relenting, could admit the touch :
But ah! the tart relented ^ now too mucL E^akmgiom,
zvin. TO iCAxnnrs.
In ^our exordium you complained that you had caught a cold in your throat.* Since you have excused younel^ IVfaTimns, why do you recite P
Thou hsst got a dire cold: it is well understood ;
Why daborats cnP The apology's good. JB^Muttm.
XIX. Oir A TIPXB.
Close to the hundred columns, where figures of wild beasts adorn the plane-grove, is to be seen a she-bear. The &ir Hylas, pbymg near it, explored its yawning jaws, and buried hia t^er himd in its mouth ; but an accursed viper was
^ Tlut iM, U tended to dinolutioii became putrid.
BOOK in.] lK:0EiM8. 189
iiirking in the chrk reoeases of the bnsen tbroftt, and bear was animated with a breath more deadU than ita own. The child did not peroetre that any miacmef waa there, ontilhe waa dying from the bite of the snake. Oh, sad mia» Gnrtunel that the bear waa not a real onel
In tiia Piasn, when tall poplan grow. And well-earYad beaata aoom the thaded row, A mgged bear takes np a mishtf apaoe, The ornament and tetror of toe place. Yoong HyLu tfaera the hoirid monater law, And zearleaa aported with ita gaping Jaw. A lurking Tiper anhnatwi the atone, * And azma the bnite with poiaon, not ita own. Too late, alaal the fur expising boy Foond bean oonld ating, and marble oonld deatroy.
Jt XmoIb, i7se. OK oAVXira.
TeiIlme,myMi]fle,whatmyGaninBBiifii8'iadomg. la he committing to imperishable tablets the hiatory of the fiunilj of the Claudii, for future generations to read; or refuting the iUaehooda of the historian of Nero P Or is he imitating the jocosity of the plains-speaking Fhadms P * Or is he sport- ing in elegiacs ; or writing gravely in heroic Terse P Or is he terrible in the buskin of Sophodes P Or is he idling in the school of the poets, uttering jests seasoned witii Attic salt P
Or, if he has retired from thence, is he pacing the portico of the temple of Iris,* or trayersinff at his ease the enclosure ofthaAigonautsP^ Or rather, is be ritting or walking, in the afternoon, free from cankering cares, in the sunn^ boz-groYcs of the delicate Europe P* Or is he bathing in the warm ballis of Titus or of^Agrippa, or in that of the shamelesa Tigillinus P* Or is he enjoying the country seat of TuUua
1 B. L Ep. 70.
* It if luppoeed by Gronorhis and otben^ wilh neat probabfliiy, thai Phsdm^ the writer of &blei. if meut, whom Martial cella teyroftiif, or ''plaiB-^eeldiig," beeanse he aatirifea the aot'ona of men by worda rat into the numtha of the inferior aoimala. What ** historian of Nero'* Si raeant» la anlmown.
* flee B. iL Ep. 14. The origfaial has merely •'temple," but aU the commentaton asrae that the temple of lait ii meant
^ The ana and portioo of A^rippa, adoned with paintingi of the ad* ▼eotaiea of the Anonants.
* flee B. ii. Bp. 14.
* Soriibiihia TSgiUinQa, an nnprincipled chaiaeter, manticned by Ju« Tenal, Sat I;, and by TacitQa.
MO ICABTIAL^ft
and Lacaiias ? ^ or hastenixig to Follio*6 deliglitful retsreat^ four miles firom the city P Or has he set out for scorch- inff Bfti»» and is he now sailing about on the Lucrine IsSe P*-'' Do you wish to know what your Ganios is doing ? Laughing."
TeQ me, my Muse, how Obiuqb spends his time : In Issting leaves, and in immortal rhyme, Does he the hxttB of Nero rightly statd, Fromi malice and from flatf ry free, relate P Light ele^es, or grare heroics write P r th' oom^ or the traffic strain delight P Or in the poets* school does Csnins sit, Begalinff all "with hii choice Attic wit P Or else, heing free from study, does he talk F th' temples, end the shady porches mUk? Bathes heP Or from the cily toil retired. Are fields and rivers more by hin^ admired, Baia'e or Lucrin's sweet recess desired P
SJMV.] How Csnins soends his time, wonld'st hSTC me showP kdghs at all whidimost men serious do. Anon. 1606u
XXL OK ▲ ICABTEB Aim SLATB.
A daye, branded on the forehead by his master, sared him when proscribed. Thus, while the life of the master was preserred, his infamy* was perpetuated.
Who, saved by lus man, does stigmatise the ssme, Betorns himself to banuh his good nsme. WrighL
xxn. oir APicirs.
You had spent, Apicius, sixty millions of sesterces* on your belly, but you had still leib a loose ten millions. Li despair at such a reduction, as if you were condemned to en-^ dure hunger and thirst, you took as a last draught, a dose of poison. No greater proof of your gluttony than this, Apicius, was erer giv^i by you.
Six htmdred thousand spent, and butt Ten thousand left to feed his gutt. Fearing for want of food to dye. Despairing, hee did poyson buy; ' Never was known such gluttonye.
Old 3iS.ietk Cent.
•• ■ • • •
^ Two brothers ; see B. 1. Ep. 37 ; B. iz. Ep. 52. * T^.faiiSuny of a master who .coiUd have hranded a sUre so attached to him* • • 3 A^out half amilUon of our money.
BOOK m.] ZSIGBAMS. li]
ZXm. TO A inOGABBLT HOST.
Since 70a hand over all the dialiea to the slares behind you, why ia not your table spread at your back F ^
A& to the boys thou leabhert o'er the shoulder.
Set them a table, that they may grow bolder. ElphmdotL
XZIY. OV A. TVaOAir BOOTHBATSB.
A goat, guilty of haying gnawed a vine, was standing
doom^ before the altar of Bm^ub, a srateftd victim for his
Bacred rites. When the ToBcan sooflisayer was about to
sacrifice him to the god, he chanced to order a rustic and
unlettered countryman to castrate the animal quickly with a
sharp knife, bo that the foul odour ttota the unclean flesh
might pass away.* But wh3e he himself, with his body bent
over the p;ra8By altar, was cutting the neck of the struggling
animal wilii hu Jmife, and prsBsing it down with hiB haii^ an
immensehemiaof his own showed itself at the outra^;ed rites.
This the rustic seized and cut, thinking that the ancient ritee
of sacrifice demanded it, and that the ancient deities were
honoured with such ofierings. So you, who but a while
since were a Tuscsn, are become a Gfallus ;* and while yon
were cuttuig the throat of a goat, you were cut yoursel£
A goat without awe,
IVho tendrili would gnaw. Was doom'd on tiie altar to die.
Now, Baochui, thy priest
Laid hold of the beast I And thus to a down that stood by :
*«WhileIsba]lclirine,
Iiop off either sign. That so no rank odour remaxn."
When now he would slay,
Both struffglingly lay ; Both doom'd the greoi altar to stain.
As thus they lay low, - How dire was ue show I The auspices saw it, and soowl'd.
1 Adpedet, Properly *' at your feet," where the slaves in waitfaig stood^ a Uttle withdrawn towards the back of the master.
* A supposed effect of the operation.
* ApnestofCybele. The word Gallus means also a GmA
142 XABTIAL*!
The down, irith a knifSi, Cieai'dalltothelife: Too lato the bere bacchanal howl'd.
Well thought the poor man,
when orgies b^^an. Bach fibres high honour ware held in.
The priest of the god
Own'd Cybeb's nod } And, slaying the goattproTed a gelding, .^kimtm
xxT. TO TAirsTnrus, ox ▲ fhioid bhbtobioiajt.
If you wiflh, FauatinnB, a bath of boiling water to be re- duced in temperatare, — a bath, such as scarcely Julianna oonld enter, — ask the rhetorician SabinAus to bathe him« self in it. He would freese the warm baths of Nero.
If thy hot bath, Faustns, thou seek'st to eore^
'Bore what a paialytie can endure :
Let orator Sabinns enter in
Nero's hot baths, he 11 make a eooling spriuff.
^£km» 160IE.
XXVI. TO OAITDIDITS.
Alone yon possess yonr fieffms, Candians, alone your cash; alone your golden and murrhine vesseLs ; alone your Massic wine, alone your CsBcuban of Opimius* year ; alone your heart, alone your wit; alone you possess aU your property ; (do you think I wish to deny it P) — ^but your wife, Oandidus, you share with all the world.
Candidas has alone fine fiums, gold coin,
Mynh, and drinks Gtecuban, and Massic wine ;
Has the sole wisdom, and the only wit i
Enjoys the world alone, and all in it Bat has he all alone P That I deny i His wife witii all ii in oommunity. mdker»
Thy pleasant fiinn thou dost enjoy alone,
Ity money, plate, communics^st to none.
Alone, thou affed Massio wine dost drink.
Alone thyself Doth wise and witty think:
Tliat all UkOVL hast alone, I yet deny.
Thy wife is common, or the people lie. Anon, 1696.
XXVii. TO OALLirS.
Tou nerer inyite me again, although you fireqiiently accept
BOOK XXL] £BimiMB. 148
my inntatioiiB. I pBrdon yon, GMlns, provided that j<m do not inTite others. jSut others you oertaizily do inyite ;— we are both in the wrong. ** How so F " you ask. I hare no common sense; and yon, QallnSi no sense of shame.
I often TOO, Ton mee doe nerar bid. Which X eould pardon if none elie you did i But others yoa mtite : — ^we're both to blamer^ Mjrself for want of witt, and you of shame.
0ldM8.imCIM.
That oft I th'ee, thoa me dost never csU
To sap. I oould finrgive, if none at sll
llioa didst invite : but, cbnrl, thoa dost afford
To other gaests a fireaoent well-served board.
We *ie faulty both. In what, dost bid me nsme P
I for the want of wit, and thou of shame. AnotK 1095.
JLXViii. TO KXSTOB.
Tod wonder tiiat Marina* ear smells nnpleasantly. Yon are the cause of this, Nestor; you whisper into it.
Wonder yoa, Nestor, ICsxios* esr smeQs strong ?
Toar briMlh's the cause; you wfaiiper there so long. Wright
Thoa 'rt shocked at the bad smell from Marios' ear: Tis horn the bad thoo *xi ever whispering there. Anon,
XnX. TO BATUJLF, OK 20ILU8.
To thee, 0 Saturn, ZoUus dedicates these chains and these doable fetters, his first rings.^
To thee, the sod, whom freedom's sons adore, Glad Zoilus cbvotes the xingi erewhile he vrore.
TO GABOILIAKTS.
The sportula is no longer ^ven ; * you dine as an ordinary guest.' Tell me then, Sargilianus, how do you contrive to Eve at Borne P Whence comes your paltry toga,'and the rent of your murky den P Whence the money for a bath among the poor P or for the &youni of Chioner You say you live
1 This Zoilas, whoever he wss, hsd been a sIsTe, but had risen to the dignity of a knight, when he wore a gold ring; in allurion to which Martial calls hit fetters "hie firrt rings." The fetten of slaTei, on their manomisiioii, were dedicated to Satnm, because he had himself been put In fetters bj Jupiter. See B. xL Ep. 37.
* flee Ep. 7. ' OrcOit eonetva reeumbit, Wtthoat receiving sny morsy.
141 MAATLlL'ft
in tlie Iii^Iiest degree reasonably, but yon act nnieaaonablj, in mj opinion, in living at alL
No money 's paid, yet gratis eaf st my cheer,
But When at llome, Gargilian, what doat there P
Whence hast thou house-rent ? or whence hast a coat ?
How canst thou pay thy wench P whence hast a gxoat P
Though with much reason thou art said to live^
Yet how thou dost it none can reason give. FleUherm
XXXI. TO BurnnrB.
You Have, I adndt, ^nany a wide sere of land, and many a &im over which Alban household goda preside; crowds of debtors to your well-filled money-chest serve you as their master, and golden tables support your meals. Do not, however, Faustinus, disdain smaller people than yoursdf: Didymus had more than you have ; Jnulomelus' has more.
I own, in manors you have large command;
And rich in houses are, as well as land :
You have in mortgages a vast estate:
Your table elegant and served in phute.
Despise not your inferiors on this score :
More once had Verres, CheataU now hath more. Jfoy.
I own. Sir Lutestring, you 've a mOlion dear, You boast in lands ten thousand pounds a year ; Your various mortgages no chest can hddt Subscriptions, loans, and South Sea stock untold} You eat on silver, and you drink in gold. Yet sneer not righteous patriots, though on foot, Nor grin at virtue in an old surtouL Sejanus daim'd than you a larger store Bufinus and Eutropius, sir, had more. And so had Osterman, — ^but all is o'er.
Gentieman*$ Mag, voL m
Disdain not, Bufus, all that yet are poors
There's greater rogues than you, that have much more.
Anon. 1696.
ZXXII. TO KATBnriA..
You ask, Matrinia, whether I can love an old woman. I can, even an old woman : but you are not an old woman ; you are a corpse. I can love a Hecuba or a Niobe, Matriniai provided the one has not yet become a hound, or the ether a stone.
* Names of low people who had become rich at Rome.
MOK Zn.] ttl&EAMS. 146
Aik yoot poor Bell, if I ean loT« tile old f
I can,— bat yon are abeollitely deed.
Sad Niobe, or Hecuba the loold,
I might haTe borne i bat natore^t self had fled
From tender looks, and arms m fondness thrown
Aroand the railing bitch or weeping stone. iSMZ^.
XZXm. THB WEAL 07 HIS XIBTBIBS.
I Drefer a lady; bat if each ie denied me, mj next choice woaid be a freea-womaiL A slave is the last resource ; but if her beauty indenmifiee tiie want of birth, I shall prefer her to either.
•
A wife of high descent, I first woald wed i
For want of sach, one freed should share my bed ;
A slave the last ; yet if she nebU be
In/onn, I 'dohuse her first of all the three. Anon, 1600
IIIIV. TO CHIOin.
• Why you are at once deserving and undeaemnff of your name, I will tell you. You are c(3d, and you are^u^L xon ■re not^ and yon are^ Chione.^
To Chkno, or Madam Snom,
Pit and unfit thy name to thee doth show,
Par black and oold thou art^ Snow and not Snow.
Anon. 1695.
XZXT. OV 80X1 aOUXPTUUD 118H
You see those fish before you, a beautiftd example of the acnlpture of Phidias ; give tnem water, and they will awim.
So graved to th* life by Phidias' art, you *ld swear The fish would swimme, were butt the water there.
ouM&imcM.
XXXVI. TO FABIAKU8.
Such attentions as you receive from a new and lately made friend, Fabianua, vou expect to receive also from me. x on ex- pect that I should constantly ran in dishabille to salute you at the dawn of day, and that your litter should drag me tmxmgh the middle of the mud; that, worn out, I should follow you at four o'clock or later to the baths of Agrippa, while I my- self wadi in those of Titus. Is this my rewwd after twenty
I GhioD is Qreek for snow
146 ]CABTXAIi*i
winten* aerrioe, FabianoBy that I am erer to be in m;|r ap- prentioeahip to jour friendahip P Ib thia what I hare gained fabianna, by my worn-out toga^— and thia too my own,— that you do not oonaider me to hare yet earned my macharge ?
Of a new fHend the dutieB dire.
Thou, Fabian, wooldst of me require :
Ihat briBtling I each mom repair,
To tend through thick and thm thy ofaair :
That I, at ten, or later hour,
Despisinff toiFs and hunger's power,
CouToy wee to Agrippa^ wtTe,
When I must thence with lltus laTe.
Thus, thirty winters at thy will I
And must 1 be thy notice still P
This sakry must I make known.
For wearing out the gown my own P
Kor hare I len^ of duty trod.
To merit the discharging rod P B^Mutm^
xxxrn. TO Hia bioh nnvna.
My rich friends, you know nothing bbto how to put your* aelvea into a pasBion. It ia not a nice thing for yon to do^ but it Buita your purpoae. Do it.
Rich firiends 'eainst poor to anger still sre prone : It is not well, out profitably done. May.
xxxYin. TO aixTua.
What cauBO or what preaumpticm, SextuB, brings yoa to Borne P what do you expect or seek hereP Tell me. "I will plead causes," you say, ^more eloquently than Cioero himBelf, and in the three forumB^ there shall be no one to equal me." Atestinus pleaded causes, and CiTis ; you knew both of them ; but neither made enough to pay for his lodging. '' If nothing is to be cained from this pursuit, I will write verses : when you hare neard them, you will say they are Yirgil's own." xou are mad ; aU that you aee here shiyering in threadbare cloaks are Ovids and Yir^ls. ^ I will push my way among the great." That trick has found sup- port for but two or three that have attempted it, while all the rest are pale with hunger. ** What shall I do? adriae me:
' The old Roman forum, that of Jumis Gmst, end that of Augustus.
BOOK XZX.] XFXeiAXB; 147
Smt I am determined to lire at Bome.'* If tou are a good man, Sextai^ 70a wiU ha?e to li?e by ohaaoe.^
To town what caniev or xatiker wliat III star,
Ibtli brooglit UT friend P iet what your profpeeti are*
More doquent tun Mnziay I will be ;
In the four eoiirti» not one ihall ri¥al me.
SomOt whom we Imow, in hall their time have loit :
Othen ha^e rid the eireoit» and paid coat
If that won't do» TerMi oompoie I will.
Equal to Maro^a. That ia wilder stilL
In window'd hoae, and gjarmenta twice oonvey'd,
Our Orida and onr Virgib are airaVd.
Then 1 11 attend tiie great How few thrive by it!
The rest all starre upon ao thin a diet
Tell me^ then, what to do : here live I mnst
Yon 're a good man 1 and in the Lord nraat tmat Ay.
What bnaineaa or what hope bringa yon to town* Who eanat not i^is nor cheat, nor awear, nor lie ?
Thia place win noorian no anoh idle drone ; Hoioe in remoter parts thy fortone try.
But thon hast oonragei honesty, and wit. And one, or all these three, will ffive ^ee bread:
The malice of this town thon know^ not yet : Wit is a good diversion, bat base trade.
Cowards wiU for tiiy oonrage call thee bully, Till all, like Ihraso's, thy acquaintance shun t
Bognes call thee for thy honesty a cully : Yet this is all thou hast to live upon.
Friend* three such virtues Audley had undone :
Be wise, and, ere thou'rt in the gaol, begone.
Of all that starving crew we saw to-da^.
None but has kUl d his man, or writ his play. Sedhy,
mil. TO TArsTnora.
The one-eyed Lycoiia, Fauatinns, has set ber affectioDB on a boy like tne Trojan shepherd. How well the one-eyed Ljooriaseeel
One-eyed Lyooris' love 's more fair than he
Kept flocks on Ida.' How the blind can see ! Anon. 1005.
• Since it is only the bid that make sure of a living at Roma.
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XL. TO THXLssnnrg.
For lending me one hundred and fifty thouBand aerterees' out of the yaat wealth which jour heavy chest, Thelesinna, contains, you imajeine yourself a great friend to me. Yon great, for Wding r Say rather, I am great, for repaying.
For having lent, foisooth, an hundred pound
From foll-cramm'd chests and wealth mat does abound,
Thou think'st that thou much greatness hast displayed :
But that the grandeur 's mine, it may be said $
Who, being poor, so great a simi repaid* Anon, 1695.
ZLI. OV ▲ BCXTLFTUBSn LIKABI).
The lizard wrought npon this vessel by the hand of Mentor, ia so life-luB that the silver becomes an object of terror.
Mentor i* th' ewre so lively graved a newt^ Tou 'd think it breathed, and feare it, butt yon knew 't
Old MS. IGtk Cbnt
The Heard wrought by Mentor's hand so raze
Was feared i' th' cup, as though it living were. Wiifhi.
XLn. TO POLLiu
When you try to conceal ypnr vnrinkles, PoIIa, with paste made from beans, you deceive yourself not me. Let a defect, which is possibly but smaU, appear undisguised. A fault concealed ia presumed to be great.
Thou seek'st with lard to smooth thy wrinkled skin,
Bedaub'st thyself, and dost no lover win.
Simple decays men easily pass by,
But, hid, suspect some great deformity. Anon, 1695.
Leave off thy paint, perftmies, and youthftd dress, And nature's failing honestly confess ; Double we see those faults which art would mend, Plain downright ugliness would less offend. Sedky.
TTiTTT. TO LSTLSUB.
You ape youth, Lstinus, with your dyed hair ; and you, who were but now a swan, are suddenly become a crow I Tou will not deceive every one : Proserpine knows that you are hoaiy, and will snatch the mask from your head.
* About twelve hundred pounds of our money.
BiMC in.] SPI0SA1C8. 140
Laitiniit ooonterfbits his yonth
With periwiga, I trow, But tit tllMm cnaDged lo soon, in tnilii,
From a fwan to a crow P Tkoa eantt not all the world deceive : ' Proierpine knows thee mj ; And the li make bold, wiuiout your leave,
To take your cap away. FleUlur,
Before a iwan, behind a orow,
Such lelf-deoett I ne'er did know.
Ah, cease yoar arts I Death knowi yon 're my,
And, spite of all, will have his way. 2V JSoadhy,
Hioo, diat not a month a^
Wast white as swan or dnven snow,
Kow blacker frr than .£sop's crow.
Thanks to thy wig, set^st up for beau :
Faith, Hairy, thou 'rt i' the wrong box i
Old'a^ these vain endeavours mocks,
And tune, that knows thou 'st hoary locks,
Wm pluck thy mask off with a poz. Tom Browim.
XLET. TO LI617SIHT78.
Do roa wish to know the neason, Ligoriniu, tiiat no one willingly meete you ; that^ wherever vou come, everybody takes flighty and a vast solitude is left aroond yon P You are too nioeh of a poet. This is an eztremdiy dangerous firalt. IThe tu^ress aroused by the loss of her whelps, the viper scon^ied by the midday sun, or the ruthless scorpion, are lees objects of terror than you. For who, I ask, could undergo such calls upon his patience as you make P You read your verses to me^ whether I am stuKdine, or sitting, or running, or about private business. I fly to tne hot baths, there you din my ears : I seek the cold bath, there I cannot swim for your noise : I hasten to dinner, you stop me on my way ; 1 sit down to dinner, you drive me from my seat: wearied, I fidl asleep, you rouse me from mycouch. Do you wish to see how mudi evil you occasion P — - x on, a man justg npiight^ and innocent, are an object of fear.
You come; away flies every mother's son : On Bagshot Heath you can't be mora alone. If you adc, why, — ^you an bewiteh'd with rhyme. And this, belim BM, is a dangerous crime.
150 HABTIij/S
BobVd of her whtlps, a tigieH tirai we shim
Or viper baBking in tbe noon-day son :
Not more the dreadful eoorpion'f tting we ftar,
Than thif inceeaant lagging by the ear.
Standing or titdng, you rroeat your laya :
On my doee-etool I near toem ; in my chaise :
Your trumpet on the water strikes my ear i
I at Yauzhall no other music hear.
When dinner waits, you seiie me by the button t
At table placed, you driTe me from my mutton :
From a sweet nap you rouse me by your song.
How much, by this, yourself and me you wrongi
The man of worth, the poet, makes us fly i
And by your Terse we lose your probity. IGq^
Tou often wonder what the denl Can make the town so damn'd undnL With idiat indifference they treat you I There 's not a soul that cares to meet yon. Wherever you come, what cQiulteniafi(m\ What universal desolationi But for the cause — why, must you know it P I11tellyo.is ^^you'retoopealapoeti" And that 's a thmg true Bntons fear More than a tiger or a bear ; Your man of sense, of all God's euzses, Dreads nothing like repeating verses.
And really, Tom, you 're past all beaiingi You 'd tire a Dutchman out with hearing. One must submit : — there *s no contending | You keep one sitting i keep one standing ' Got loose, with more than decent speed I trudge away— yet von proceed. Go wnere one wul, there% no retreat) You 're at it still, repeat, repeat I fly to <«Nando's*^vou are there^ Stiu thund'ring disticfas in one's ear : Thence to the park-— still you 're as bad) The ladies think yon drunk or mad : " But oome,'t is late^ at three we dinei* You stop one with ** a charming line; ** Kow down we sit; but lo ! v^wating Is ^7!eater joy to you than eatmg. Quite tired, I noo, and try to doee ; In vain — ^you 've murder'd all xepoMi But prithee, Tom, repent in time I • Yon see the sad effielot of rhyme
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BOOK HI.] VPTOBAKB. 151
CAnd cheek tliis humour, if yoa can)
That fueh an honMt worthy man,
With 10 much lenae, and inch good natorey
Should be eo terrible a creature ! .Bdv. J2L Oram$»
That oouains, fdenda, and ftnmffen fly ihae^
Nay, thy own eiater can't ait nigh thee,
That all men tiiy aoouaintance «hiii^
And into holei and comers run,
like Iriah bean from Kndiiih dun^
The reason 's plain s and if thou 'dst know it^
Thou 'rt a most damned repeating poet.
Not baiUff sour'd with horrid beard
Is more in poor Alsatia feared.
Since the stem Pariiament of late
Has stript of ancient rights their state;
Not tigm when their whelps are mining f
Not serpents in the sunshine hisnng i
Not snake in tail that carries rattle;
Not fibre, nor planw, nor blood, nor battle^
Is half so dreaded hf the throng.
As thy rile perMCutrnff tongue.
If e'er tiie restless deck that 's in it
OiTes Okj head leave to think a minute.
Think what a penance we must bear,
Thy damn'd impertinence to hear.
'Where*er I run, or stand, or sit.
Thou still art in th' repeating fit:
Wearied, I seek a nap to take;
But thy cursed muse lueps me awake.
At church too, when the oi^^ 's blowing,
Thy louder pipe is still Spgoing.
Nor peril nor baffuio 's from thee free ;
AH places are alDLC to thee.
Learn wisdom once, at a friend's instance.
From the two feUows at St Dunstan's :
Make not each man thou meet^st a martyr;
But strike, like them, but once a quarter. Tnn Browne
XLT. TO THS 8AKX.
"Wlietiier Fhoebua fled from the table and supper of Thy* eatea, I do not know: I flee from yours, Ligunnus. It iM certainly a splendid one, and well ramished with excellent dishes, but nothing pleases me when you recite. I do not want you to put upon table turbots or a mullet of two pounds weight, uur do I wish for mushrooms or oysters ; what I want is your silence.
152 lCASTLiL*S
Whether Bcaxed FhoBlnu fled (my Ligniiiie) Thyettes* feast, I know not j we fly thine : Though that thy taUe'f rich and nobly spread, Tet thy sole talk knocks aU th' eigoyment dead.
ZLTI. TO GAin>n>UB.
You demand from me, without end, the attentions due firom a client. I go not rnyBd^ but send yon my freed-man. " It is not the same," you say. I will prov^ that it is much more. I can scaroelj follow your litter, he will carry it. K ^ou get into a crowd, he wiU keep it off with his elbow ; my sides are weak, and unsuited to such labour. Whaterer state- ment you may make in pleadine, I should hold my tongue ; but he will roar out for you the thrice-glorions '' braro ! " Kyou hare a dispute with any one, he wul heap abuse upon 70ur adversary with a stentorian Toice; modesinr prevents me from using strong lanyiage. ^ Well then, will you show me," say you, '^no attention as my friend ? " Yes, Gandi* dus, every aftention which my freedman may be unable to show.
How often do yoa ask me to go down,
To aid vour interest in your Mrongh town P
I woola do all to serve yon that I can :
Yet cannot go : but I wdl send my man.
Yon say, 't is ^ot the same ; 1 11 prove it more.
I scarce can follow yon ; he 'U so before.
Is there a mob P he 11 elbow folks away :
I am infirm, not used to such rough play.
I can't repeat the popolar tlungs you say s
He wiU extol them, more than once a day.
Is there a quazrelP he 11 be very loud :
I am ashamed to buUy in a crowd.
** What I will my firiend do nothing, then P " say yon :
AU, that a servant cannot do^ 1 11 do. .Shy.
ZLVn. TO TiLUSTIVirB.
Yonder, Faustinus, where the Capene Gkte drips with larj^ drops,^ and where the Almo cJeanwes the Phrygian sacrificial knives of the Mother of the Gk>ds, where the sacred meadow of the Horatii lies verdant, and where the temple of the Little Hercules* swarms with many a visitor, Bhssus waa
^ On account of the aqueducts and springs near it. Jut. iii. 11. * Either Henmles worahi^ped as a boy^ or in allusion to the smallassi of the temple
BOOK m.] XFI0BAKa« 158
taking hifl wbj in a well-packed chariot, canring with him all the richea of a &TOured country spot. There you might have aeen oibhagea with nohle hearta, and both kinda of leeka,' dwaff lettocea, and beet-roota not nnaerriceable to the tor- pid BtomadL There alao you might ha^e aeen an oaier ring, wmg with fiit thmahes ; a hare, pierced by the fanga of a Game hound; and a sucking-pig, that had never vet eruah- ed bean. Nor did the runnmg footman go idly before the carriage, but bore egga aafely wrapped in hay. Was Bassiu going to town P No ; he was going to his country-seat.'
Where the Ospenxan gate her pool extends, Whefe to the Phrygian parent Almo bendi ; Where the Horatians Terdore still the spot ; Where pony Herculei^s fime is hot) Poor Bassos drore his team, but sanff no song i Logging the stmggUhff stores of the blest land along.
TEers oolewortsJni^t yon lee of noblest shoot ; There might adimxe CAch lettaoe, leek, and root j But, above all, jdw deobstrueUfe beet ; Hen a ridi frau of fatted throahes greet ; And hoe a ham, the cruel hounds conld crunch i Wilh a sow's nnwean'd babe, that bean could never muncht
Befixre thef'car, behold no idler stray : Yet one preceded, stuffing eggs in hay. Was Bsssos winding his glad way to town P ' No : winding his glad way to his dear villa down.
XLTm. TO oLra.
Olna built a pbmr man's cot,' and sold his farms. Olua now inhahita the poor man's cot.
Noble Olos constructed a noOr man's retreat ;
TAo^ his kndi all he sold, ne posecsws a seat J^Muton,
ZLZX. TO ▲ HOST.
!
- You mix Yeientan wine for me, while you yonraelf drink Maaaic I would rather smell the cups which you present me, thian drink of them.
'^ Tifwiiri sad adons are mesnt.
* Bams is xidicaled for the unproductireneis of his gronndi^ to which he carried suppliet from the ct^.
' A fiuiey cottage, or smaller houM of reception, such as great men built tan their dependents, or othex% whom th^ did not wiidi to admit ints their massiiQiiia
IM lCAXTIiX*8
You Maniok dimk, Veientan eiYe to me.
I need not taste { the smell dou satisfie. Wr^hL
L. TO LIOtJBIirFa.
The Teason you aak us to dinner, Ligarinaa, ia no other than thia, that jou maj recite your veraea. I have joat put off my ahoes/ when forthwith in cornea an immenae Yolnme among the lettuoea and ahaip aauce. Another ia handed, while the firat oourae ia lingering on the table: then oomea a third, before even the aecond courae ia aerved. During a fourth courae you redte ; and asain during a fifth« Why, a boar, if ao often placed upon table, ia unaavoury. If YOU do not hand over your accuraed poema to the mackerel* aeuera, Ligurinua, you will aoon dine alone.
The single cause why yon umt»,
"h that your works you ma^ recite.
I hardly had my slippeza mopp'd,
Nor dream*d the entertainment stopp'df
When, mid the lettuces and salad.
Is ushered in a bloody bsUad.
Then,loI another bunoh of lays,
While yet the primal serriee stays.
Another, ere the second couxse t
A third, end fourth, end fifth yon force.
The boar, beroasted now to rags,
AppeazB in yain : the stomach fiegs.
Tne kbouxB, that destroy each dish.
Were useftil coats for ftyinff fisL
A£Bnn, my Bard, this due decree:
Else you shall sup alone far me. Slphuutotu
LI. TO 0ALLA.
When I praiae your &oe, when I admire your limba and handa, you tell me, Oalla, '' In luiture'a ^armenta I shall pleaae you atill better." Yet you always avoid the same baths with myself. Do you fear, Gralla, that I ahall not pleaae you P
When, Galla, thy fiice, hands, and legs I admire, Tliou say*st : ** I, when naked, more jdeasing shall be.*
Yet one common bsth I fbll vainly require : Dost fear that I shall not be pleasmg to thee P JS^pkmtton.
Ln. TO TOFOILIAKUS.
You had purchased a house, Tongilianua, for two hundred ^ In Older to lie down on the dining-ooiidi.
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BOOK m.] meRAia. 16S
thoQBand sesfeeroee; and a calamity but too frequent in thiB dtj deefcroyed il Oontribntiona poured in to the amount of a million aeateroes. May yon not, I aak, be aospeeted of bttfing aet fire to your own nouae, TongilianoaP
Two bandied ponnd thy honae, TongOiaOf ooity Which waa hy fire— a eoanoe too fireqaent^losti Ten tunas as much in lien was gatherd thee,
thou not bnxne thy honse in pdlide P Jlby*
Lm. TO CHLOS.
I could do without your £eu^, and your neck, and your handa, and your limba, and ^our boaom, and other of your eharma. Indeed, not to fiitigue myaelf with enumerating each of them, I could do without you, CUoe, altogeUier.
I eoold resi^ Ihat ere of bhie, Howe*ar its splendour used to thrill ma f
Ande?^ that eneek of roseate hue — To loaeit, CUoe, scarce would kill me.
That anowy neck I ne^er should miss,
Howefer much I \e rayed about lt| And sweetly as that lip can kiss,
I ikmk I could eziBt without it
In shorty 80 wdl IVe leam'dto fast, That aooth, my loye» I know not whether
I midbt not bring myself at last — ^o do without you altogether. Moon
Uy. TO OALLA«
Seeing that I cannot give you, Ghilla, what you aak of mo aa the price of your &youra, it would be much mcve aimple. GUla^ to Bay No at once.
As yon well know your price I cannot pay,
rr were much more simple No, at onoe, to say. W. 8* B.
Ly. TO 6EUUUL.
Whereyer you ocmieyGellia, we think that CoamuB baa mi- and tiuit hia bottlea are broken, and hia perfiimee about. I would not haye you delight in outlandiah [uitiea. You know, I auppoae, that in thia manner my do^ might be made to amell agreeably.
< A celebialedpsritaflMr, mentioned B.i.Ep.88k and alsetdiare.
166 lOATIAl^'t
That shops of odonza seem with thee to go. And rieh perfmnes thou dost around thee throw, Think not this mnch i "t is not thy natnzal smeD, A dog, like thee embahn'd, would scent as welL
An<m. 18M.
At Bayemia, I would rather have a cistern than ariiieywd, as I could sell water there for much more than wine.
Lodged at Rayenna, water sells so dear,
A dstem to a Tineyard I prefer. Addi$on*
• «
LTn. OK AK nnrxnpsR as -ratsksa.
^ A craflbj innkeeper at Savenna lately cheated me. I asked him*fixr wine send watier ; he sold me pure wine.
By a RaTenna vintner once hetray'd.
So m«6h for wine and water miz'd I paid ;
But when I thought the purchased liquor mine^
The rascal fobh'dme off wiUi only wine. Addiam.
A landlord of Bath put upon me a queer ktm : I ask'd him for punch, and tiie dog gave me men rumA
T. Warion.
LTin. TO BASSTTS, OK THX 0OUKTBT-HOXI8S OV
TAUSTm US.
Our friend Faustinus's Baian Arm, Bassus, does not occupy an ungrateful expanse of broad land, laid out with useless myrtle groTee, sterile plane-trees, and clipped box- rows, but rejoices in .a real unsophisticated oountiy scene. Here dos^pressed heaps of com are crammed into every comer, and many a cask is redolent with wine of old vint- ages. Here, after November, when winter is at hand, the rough vine-dresser brings in the ripened grapes; the sa- vage bulls bellow in the deep valley, and the steer, with forehead still unarmed, yearns for the fight. The whole muster of the farmyard roams at larse, the screaming goose, the spangled peacock, the bird whi(£ derives its name from its red wuigs,' the spotted partridge, the speckled fowls of INTumidia, and the pheasants of the impious Colchianv ; the
^ A plaj on the original:
Gallidas imposoit nupermihi oopo RsTeims ;
Ctan pelerem mixtnm, rendidit il!e ' The phoniooptenis, or
V^f^^^P
BOOK m.] xFiexAXt. 167
proud oockfl csress their Bhodisn mates, and the turrets resound with the mnnnnr of pigeons. On this side mourns the rinffdo?e,on that the wax-coloured tnrtle-doTe; the gree^ swine rollow the apron of the bailiff's wife, and the tender lamb bleats after its well-filled mother. Young house-bred riareSy sleek as milk, surround the cheexful fire, and piles of wood blase near the joyous Lares. The steward does not^ through inactifity, grow pale with enenrating ease, nor waste oil in anointing' himself for wrestling,^ but sets ciafty nets for greedy thrushes, or draws up fish captured with the tremulous line, or brings home deer caught in the hunter'i toils. The productiye g^arden amuses the well-pleased towns- men,* and long-haired children, fireed from the rule of their instructor, d^ght to obey the farm-bailiff, and e?en the eflfeminate eunuch finds enjoyment in working. Nor does the rustic come empty-handed to pay his respects ; he brings with him white honey in its waxen cells, and the conical cheese from the forest of Sassina. This one offers the sleepy dor- mouse, that the bleating youxig of the hairy she-goat; another, the capon debarred from loving. Tall maidens, daughters of honest husbandmen, bring their motiiers' nresents in baskots of osiers. Work being over, the cheerful neighbourhood is invited in ; nor does a stinted table reserve its &nties for the morrow, but every one eats his fill, and the well-fed attendant has no cause to envy the reeling guest. But you, BassuB, possess in the suburbs of the city a splendid mansion, where your visitor is starved, and where, from lofty towers, you look ovw mere laurels secure in a garden where Friapus need fiear no thief. You feed vour vinedresser on com "vniich you have bought in town, and cany idly to your ornamental arm vegetables, eggs, chickens, frmts, cheese, and wine. Should your dwelUngbe called a country-house, or a town-house out of town?
At my Fanstiiiiu* eomitry-houte there growes
No equal ranked shady myrtle rowes.
Or buren plane-trees ; no boxe-hedges there
Cot into various flgnzes doe appeare
To nlease the eye, engrosnng a large field,
Ana nonght but an unfruitful prospect yield,
^ He employi bimiidf in mcce profitable oocopatioiiB. P^rd^M oImm ec^pauM, ttya the adase. ' Who come to vidt the place.
158 MABTIAL*B
But more delighti in the true oountry's dieMv
In wilder forma afibrding rich inoreue.
The bamee and gamers there with come are iilFdi
And fragrant winee the ipacioai cellan Yield i
There (yinta^ past) when winter davi Degin«
The rough Tme-dreaaer latter grapes orings in i
Fioroe mdli low in the Tales, and there £li^ht
The wanton ealves with budding homes to fright
The yard all sorts of poultry there mayntaynes ;
Shrill p;eeee, and peaoocks with their staziy trayneaf
The cnmson end rf umidian birds there nest,
Pheasant, and partridge with his speckled breast ;
The lustfull cooks the lUiodian henns there tread,
With moaning doves the house-topp 's eoTered (
The ring-doTes in tfaor moumAill notes eomplayne,
Which Uie soft turtles echo back againe i
The gruntling swine follow the house-wife's feete,
The tender lunbes for their dam's teats doe bleate ;
The milk-fedd downes begird the shininff hearth.
And, warm'd with the huge loggs, begin tneir mirth.
The caterer, nott witii ease languishing,
Butt, with his pavnefull swett, the cates brings in ;
For greedy thiushes with spedd netta hee waytesi
Or angling taketh fishes with his baytes ;
Or deore caught in the toyles he bringeth home.
The meny maydes supply the gardners roome.
The nicer pages here without oommand
Delist in oountzy-worke to have their hand.
And ^e neate chamberlayne putts in his too.
No farmer there doth empty-handed Roe
To Tisit you. — One honny in the oomoe.
Another curds and creame from his owne home
By th' next wood's side $ some sleepy dormice giro,
A kid^ or capons forced chaste to utc ;
And with their baskets the plumpe girles are sent
Their mothers' gifts and serrice to jiresent.
Harvest being £>ne, neighbours invited, there
No dish reserved is for next daye's iue;
All eate their fill ; nor does the wavter curse
The full-fedd, well-drench'd guest, ^cause hee has wone.
Ton your neate hungi^ suburbe house may prayse^
From your balconies newing naught butt bayes ;
Tou no Priapus neede there to preserve
Your fruite : your gardein would your gardner stenrt.
When from tne cit^ thither you retreate,
Tou must bringe with you (if you meane to eate)
BOOK in.] VlBUkMB. in
Your liUftdes, ppoltry, fruitei, eheetc, nd yofor wmB, SIm on your painted modi yon mnit dine. Ii ^iethet thing yoor oonnt^-lioaee yon eellP No. Tb yoor q^-honse withoat the wbIL
Old MS. im Omk*
LIX. OV ▲ OOBBLXB AVD ▲ DTSS.
A paltry cobbler, O eleffant Bononia, has exhibited to thee a show of gladiatora ; a dyer has done the same to Mutina. Now where will the iimkeeper exhibit P ^
On the CMlerand Ikttter ; Ihthe VmiMr.
Thee, Bononia, thy mender; theOi Mutina, Scmb
Gate a boon : where ahalt thou give one, gnpe-sneking |;mbP
.EuMMIuitMm
Lx. TO pomnors.
Seeing that I am invited to dinner, and am no longer, as before, to be bought,* why ia not the same dinner given to me, as to yonP Ton partake of oysters fiittened in the Lucrine lake; 1 tear my lips in sucking at a limpet. Before you are placed splendid mushrooms ; I help myself to such as are fit only for pigs. Yoa are provided with a tnrbot; I witii a sparolus.' The golden turtle-dove fills ^our stomach with ita over-fiittened b^y ; a magpie which died in its cage is set before me. Why do. I dine without you, Ponticus, when I dine with you P Xiet it be of some pront to me that the spoT' tula exists no longer ; let us eat or the same dishes.
Me, as a firiend, to supper you invite :
Why have we liien our sunper different quite P
Coldieiter oysten you, ana mussels I P
YoQis perigord, and mine a mutton pieP
I have no rarities, you eat them up :
Strsngel I should with you and witiiout you sup I
Osme I, to lee the king at table, hither P
If we must eat, pray let us eat together. JSEsf
LZI. TO CIKMA.
Whatever &vour you ask, presuming Cinna, you call notfiing: if yonaskfor nothing, Cinna,! refuse you nothing.
* For oChsr vsntoos or traosIstioDs of this Epignun we Pope, in Outrdian* 173^ The Gonnoineiir, 33^ and Bm Jonton, in his Peodinnt
1 An ezprBHion of indignation that low characters should giro showa to the popnlaoe. See Ep. 16. ' An allusion fo the abolition of the
•portnU : Ep. 7. * ^''■''■'^f "ome unknown kind of fish. Some
think a the heam. See Plui. H. N. zzzii. 1 1 ; Cels.ii.18; Ov.Hal 106.
loo XABTUL^t
Whate'er you ask, tia nothinjBr, still yon ory;
If nothing, Gbna, nothing I'D deny. WnghL
TiB a mere nothing that you ask, yon ery :
If yon ask nothing, nothing I deny, Saif*
TiTTT. TO QUI5TT78*
•
. Because yoa purchase daves at a hundred and often two hundred thousand sesterces ; because you drink wines stored in the reign of Numa; because your not over-large stock of fiimituro cost you a million ; because a pound weight ox wrought silyer costs you five thousand; because a golden chariot becomes yours at the price of a whole farm; because your mule cost you more than the value of a house ;<— do jou imagine that such expenses are the proof of a great mmd, Quintus P You are mistaken, Quintus ; they are the extra* vagances of a small mind.
Upon rich liveries no expense yon spare
Your Bhenish older than the mrst Prench war;
Tour little cabinet cost hundreds three,
And full as much your little carved settee i
Your gilded coach a moderate estate ;
More than a house your pad is valued at.
Think yon yon show a soul by thiB expense?
A little one it is, and void of sense. jBoy.
Milo, forbear to call him blest
That only boasts a large estate. Should all tiie treasures of the East
Meet, and oonspire to make him sreat. * * * Let a broad stream with golden sanos
Through all his meadows roll. He 's but a wretch, with all his lands,
That wean a narrow souL Dr W<M$.
LXm. TO COTILU^.
Ootilus, 70U are a beau; so say many, Cotilus, I hear; but tell me, what is a beauP ** A beau is one who arranges bis curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon ; who hums the son^ of the Nile, and Gadis ; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes ; who idles away the whole day among the chairs of the ladies, and is ever whispering into some one's ear ; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return ; who avoids rumiof his dress by contact with his neighbour*!
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•leere ; wlio knows with whom eTerjbodj is in love ; who flutters ftom feast to feast ; who can recount exactly Ihe pe« digree of Hiipinus." ^ What do you tell me P is this a beaU| OotilusP Thai a bean, Cotilus, is a yeiy trifling thing.
Oh I Jtmmy, tou 're a beau ! Not I alone
Saj iMb, but ^t 18 the talk of all the town.
PiTthee be free^ and to tfa^r friend impart
Wnat is a beau. At, sir, with all my heart
He 's one who nicelj curls and combs his hair,
And fkita Sedgwick monthly all the year i
Sings bawdy songs and hums them, as alouff
Flanuting he wa&s through the admirinir &rong ;
AU the day long aits with the ohanning &r,
And whisners pretty stories in their ear i
Writes biuets-douz, shuns all men as he goes,
Lest Aeir unhalloVd touch should daub ois clothes;
He knows your mishap ; nay, at eyery feast
Helltdl Ihepedii^ree of eyery guest
Is this a bean? Faith, Jemmy, I 'U be plain,
A bean 's a bawUe, destitate of brain. linn BrwoM.
They tell me, Cotilus, that you 're a beau :
What this is, Cotilus, I wisn to know.
''A beau is one who, with the nicest care^
In parted locks divides his curling hair ;
One who with balm and cinnamon smells sweet,
Whose humming lips some Spanish air repeat;
Whose naked arms are smootii'd with pumice-stone^
And toes'd about with graces aU his own :
A beau is one who takes his constant seat,
From mom to eyeninff, where the ladies ineet ;
And erer, on some sola hoyering near,
Whiqien some nothing in some fair one's ear ;
Who scribbles thousand billets-doux a day ;
Still reads and scribbles, reads, and sends away :
A bean is one who shrinks, if nearly press'd
By the coarse nrment of a neighbour guest i
Who knows woo flirts with whom, and still is found
At each good table in successive round :
A beau is one — none better knows than he
A racehorse, and his noble pedigree "•—
Indeedf Why, Cotilus, if this be so,
What teasing tnfling thing is call'd a beaut EUmu
* The uanw of a bone fiuneua in the chariot-races. Juvenal, viiL GSi
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LXIT. TO OASBIAinrB.
The Sirens, those seductive destroyers of manDors with fteir deceitful blandishments and &tiu caresses, whom, once listened to, nobody had before been able to quit, the crafty Ulysses is said to iiaye escaped. Nor do I wonder at it ; but I should have wondered, Cassianus, had he escaped from Canius, ^ when reciting his verses.
The seamen's merrj min, killing joy. The syrens, who with melody destroy. That sly Ulysses had the power to leave, When all besides, with channs, diev did deceive, I wonder not : but this I should admire. From Camus' fetf ring tongue could he retire.
Anon. 1696. £XT. TO DIADinCBinTS.
The perfume, which is exhaled by the apple bitten by a joung (kmsel; by the sephyr that passes over tne saffiron-fields of OOTycia ; by the vine, when it flowers white with its first dusters ; by grass just cropped by the sheep ; by the myrtle ; by the Arabian spice-gatherer; by amber ruboed with the hand ; by the fire pale with eastern frankincense ; by the turf lightly sprinkled with summer showers ; by the cnaplet resting loosely on locks dripping with nard : all this Ira- grance, cruel Diadumenus, is combined in your kisses, what would it not be, were you to grant them without grudging P
As a^les smell bitt by a yoong girVs tooth.
Or winde past o'er a neld of saBron doth $
As floVry vines when their first budds forth peepe,
Or firagrant grass new eropt by tender sheepe ;
As m^tle or the Arabian mowers scent;
Chaft gums, or fumes which spices burnt present :
As furrows gently sprinkled with heat showers.
As locks oykd with nard and crown'd witii flowers :
So smell thy half-lipp'd kisses, cruell fayre ;
If freely gi^n how sweeter much they were I \
Old MS. leth'Oni.
IiXVI. OK ICASK AirrOITT Aim FOTHIKTTS. \
Antony was guiliy of a crime similar to that committed by Pothinus ; either sword cut off a sacred head. The one, thy
> See B. I. Ep. 70.
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hcMd, O Bome, when thoa wast oelebntinff with joy laiueUed triniDphi; the other, when thou wast auplaymg thy elo- qnegooe. Tet the caae of Antony is worse thim raat of Fothiani; FothinnB did the deed for his master, Antony forhimseUl^
Alike mat Pompey and lage TuUy bled;
Sew^d alike each yenerable head j
Borne on that head her laurell'd tnomphs law ;
Haard her free Toioe from tbis enforce her law.
Too, Antony, Pothinus haxe outdone ;
His WM his master't crime ; but youn your own. JSToy.
LXTIL TO 801IX LAZT SAILOBS.
Yon are loitering, saflors, and know nothing of yonr busi- neas, more slnggiui than Yatemns and Bamna;* thronffh whoee sleepy waters while yon take yonr way, yon just £p yonr idle oan to measured time. Already Phaeton is de- scending, and iBthon * is perspiring ; the day has reached ita groateat heat, and noon unyokes the tired horses of the hus- bandman. But you, floating negligently on the unrippled waters^ a^oy yonr leisure in a safe bark. Yon are not saiknfl^ 1 consider, but Argonauts.^
Why, my lads, more slngdsh go.
Than Vetrenus or tbe Po P
Think ye thro' their still ye steer,
Drawling oan, to wait tbe cheerP
PhaStonMgins to fire :
JEtiumf lo I in full perspire.
Now the noontide hour proceeds
To repose the panting steeds.
Te, serene upon the ware.
Sun, and wind, and water biave.
No mere navigators now,
Te are Argonauts, I tow. E^MuUm*
LXVlll. TO THE KODKST IUlTBOIT.
Thus &r this book is written entirely for you, chaste ma-
' Msxk Antony pnt Cicero to death to gratify hia own rerenge ; Pothinus peisnaded Ptolemy to hare Pompey pat to death for the benefit of Cssar.
* Small rtvers in Gallia Togata, where Martial was residing.
* One of the son's horses.
^ An nntraaslatahle pun on the word Aigonants, which Maitia. fin* ciftiUy conpoonds of the Greek words dpyic "slow/* snd vo^rfCt **• sykr.**
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164 mabtial's
troQ Do you ask for whom the sequel is wntten P For mj- self. The gymnasium, tlie warm baths, the race-course, are here; you must retire. We lay aside our garments; spare yourself the sight of us in that state. Here at last, after her wine and crowns of roses, Terpsichore is intoxicated, and, laying aside all restraint, knows not what she says. She names no longer in doubtful guise, but openly, that deity ^ whom triumpmuit Venus wdcomes to her temple in the sixth month of the year; whom the bailiff stations as protector in the midst of his garden, and at whom all modest maidens gase with hand before the face. If I know you well, you were laying down the long book £rom weariness ; now you will read diligently to the end.
To thee, ^Te matron, hitherto my book
I write. Towards whom, dost aak, the rest doth look t
Myself the race, the baths ; retire thou then.
We strip, forbear to look on naked men.
Well-8oaked« Terpsichore weighs not what she says ;
Niceness *moii^ cups and roses down she lays ;
And though, without disguise, she plainly names, ^
In broadest tenns, what yearly Roman cfames >
To^ Venus offer, cares not who ner blames : )
T is that, I mean, our hinds in ffardens place,
And maids peep at, with hands before then: fiice.
If now I know thee, though my book before
Tired thee, thou It eager oe to read it o'er. ^non. 1005.
CXIZ. TO COSOONIUS.
Inasmuch as you write sll your epigrams in chaste words, and ribaldry is nowhere to be found in your verses, I admire you, I praise you ; no human being is more pure than your- self, out no page of mioe is without freedoms of language. Mine, then, let sportive youths, easy damsels, and the old man who is tortured by his mislaress, read. But your respect- able and immaculate writings, Gosconius, must Se read only by children and virgins.
That all thy epigrsms thou dost indite In cleanest terms, nor one broad word dost write, I praise, admire ; how chaste alone thou art I Such crimes my psges show in every pert ^
^ Pritpos.
BOOK in] EPIGAAXS. 105
The which the waggish youth and maids approrei The dder, too, who feel the ating of love. But yet, I must confess, thy holy verse Dei^iTes much more with children to convene.
Awm. 1685.
Lxx. TO saBTnara.
You, ScsBfinua, who were recently the hnabaod of Anfidia, are now hereallant ; while he who was your rival is now her husband. Why should you take pleasure in her, as the wife of your neighbour, who, as your own wife, gave you no plea* sure P la it that obstacles alone inspire you with ardour P
Aufidia's now gallant, who wast her lord! Her lord thy rival, once again abhorred! Why like another's, nor tmne own endure ? Gsnst feed no fervour, where thou art secure ?
EfphmiUm,
LTTT. TO VJryOLUfl.
Tour dave, NsbvoIus, is sufTering from a disgraceful dis- ease ; yourself^ from one analogous to it. I am no sorcerer, but I Know what yon are about.
£ZXn. TO SAUTILL.
Tis fntuiy neo vis mecum, Saofeia, lavari ;
Neeoio quod maenum suspicor esse ne&s. Aut tiU pannosfl» dependent pectore mamms^
Aut snlcos uteri prodere nuda times ; Aut infinito lacerum patet inguen hiatn,
Aut aliquid cunni prominet ore tui Sed nihil est horum, credo, pulcherrima nuda es.
Si verum est, vitium pejus habes; fatua es.
Tn, o SaufeHa, vuoi essere immembrata, ne vuoi lavarti meeo. Non so, ma sospetto qualche gzan difbtto : o che le mamme ti pen- dono rugose dai petto, o che tend di lasdar vedere i solchi del tuo ventre: o che la lacera tua nin& si vede nella smisurata tna aner- tora: o quaJohe altia cosa vien fiiori dal fesso deUa tna nature, lia nulla d 01 tntto questo, credo che nuda sei belUsuma. S'odi h veroi hai un visio peggiore : sei &taa. umgUa,
TtTTTn. TO PHdBVB.
Dermis cum pueris mutuniatis,
Et non stat tibi, Fhcsbe, quod stat illis.
16l 1IJLBTUX*8
Quid yiB me, rogo, Fhoebe, Buspicari P Mollem credere te virom yolebam, Bed mmor negat ease te dxuedum.
To dormi eon gioTani membmti, e non ti sta, o Febo, quel die sta a lore. Che Tuoif diminiy o Febo, ch' io ne sospetd ? voleyo erederti un dnedo : ma quel ohe si dice non 6 ehe sd mi dnedo.
OragUa.
LZZir. !F0 GAB&ILIAJnrS.
With the psilothnun ' you make sleek jour faoe^ with the dropaz ^ your bald head. Are jou afraid of the barber, G^ar- giliamiar How will youriuula mreP^ — ^for certainly you caii- not pare them by means of resin or Venetian day.* Cease, if you haye any modesty left, to disgrace your miserable head, Ott^gilianus : Xeave snch things for the other sex.
One lotion smngi thy face, and one thy crown. Dost dzead the rasor, or dost hope renownP How tfeat thy talons P Them corrode away Nor can fdl rodn, nor Venetian day. Cease then, and blush t^ expose thy barren scull : One daubs but where one may nor shaye nor culL
£XXy. TO IilTPIBOUS.
Stare, Luperoe, tibi jam pridem mentula dealt:
Luctans demena tu tamen arrigere. Sed nihil emoB fiidunt bulbique salaoes,
Improba nee prosunt jam satureia tibi. Cospisti puras opibus oorrumpere buccas :
Sic quo^ue non yiyit solUcitata Venus. Mirari satu hoc quisquam yel credere possi^
Quod non stat, magno stare, Luperoe, tibi P
Gia da lungo tempo, o Luperoo, il tuo membro cessa stare, tutta- ▼ia tu arrabiato ti sforsi anigere. Ma nulla fanno le ru^e, e ^ indteyoli bolbi, ne tampoco ti gioya la oltre modo lasdTa satureia. Tentasti corrompere con licchesze le innooenti bocche. Venere soUedtata oosl non ha Tigore* Nessuno c'd che posaa ad bastante- mente aamiirare o credere, die dd die non ti consta, tanto, o Luperoe, ti oostL Qraglia.
Seallions and lose rochets nought preyall, And heightening meats in operation fail ;
^ Names of unguents. * The Roman barbers used to pare *he niilSi * Materials of which uoguents for the &oe and head were mads*
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Thy WMlth bbgmt fhe pore eheeki to defllsi So venery proTok'd livee bat a while : "Who can admire enough, the wonder's inohf That thy not standing stands thee in so mnoh ?
LXXn. TO BA8B1TB.
Yoa are all on fire for old women, BaasuB, and look with oontempt on yonng ones ; and it is not a handsome lady that charAia yon, but one just on the brink of the tomb, is not this, I ask, madness ? is not your desire insane P To lore a He<nib% and disdain an Andromache !
LXXVii. TO B.ST10ITB.
Neitiier mnllet, Bnticus, nor turde-dore delidits you; nor is hare eter acceptable to yon, or wild boar. Sfor do sweet* meats please yoo, or sUoea of cake ; nor for yon does Libya or Fhaaia send its birds. Yon devour caperB and onions swimming in disguating sance, and the son part of a gam- mon of bacon, whose mshness is disputable ; and pil<marda and tmmy, whose flesh is turning white : you drink wines wlii<A taste of the resin seal, and abhor Falemian. I sub* pact that there must be some other more secret vice in your stomadi : for why^ Beticus, do you eat disgusting meats P ^
Nor mnllet delights thee, nice Betio^ nor thmsh i
The hare with ue scut, nor the boar with the tash|
No iweet cakes or tablets ; thy taste so absoid,
Nor Libya need send thee, nor Phasis, a bnd«
But capers, and onions, besoaking in brine,
And brawn of a gammon scarce £>ubtfiil, are thine.
Of garbage, or flitch of hoar tunny, thou "rt Tain:
The rosin 's thy joy, the Falemian thy bane.
I dread thy poor stomach hints some dai^ abuse :
Else why, Betie, relish alone the refuse ? JB^pkmtUm,
xxzYm. TO PAUiinnTB, ov boabd ship.
You have emptied your yessel once, Paulinus, while the ship was going at fall speed. Do you wish again to repeat iba actP You will bea PalinnruSy'if youdo.
As the keel flew, Paulinus swell'd the sea.
Would he onoe more P He 'd Palinurua be. j5!^A«uftiii.
I He foannatet that Beticos is guilty of that with which he ehargei him in Bp. 81.
* ▲ itey upon the word, aa if compounded of w^W, " agam,** and •^ptf» mnmamrt4dtr§.
16S 1CAJITIAL*S
TiTITT. OK 8SBV0SIUI.
Bern peragit nollam Sertoriiu, incboat omnes. Hone QgOy cum fatuity non puto perfioere.
Sertorio intnmroide ogni oosa, e nesBiina ne tenmna. lo credo ehe coetiii quando immembra nenmien compisca. OragUa,
LZXX. TO iiPIOIUB.
You complain of no one, ApiciuB ; you slander no one ; and yet rumour aays you have an evil tongue.
Apidus ne^er oomplaynes, does no man wrongs
Yet the yoyoe gooB, he hat a filthy tongue. FUtcher.
HXII. TO B^TICUB.
Quid cum femineo tibi, Bastice Gbdle, baiathro ?
HsBC debet medios lambere lingua yiros. Absdaaa eat quare Samia tibi mentula teata^
Si tibi tarn gratua, Bsticey cunnua erat P Castrandum caput est : nam sis licet inguine GalluSy
Sacra tamen Gybeles dedpis : ore yir es.
Che afiari hai to, o Betico GaDo, col femineo baratio P Qnesta toa lingua h &tta per lambixe a meiso gli uominL A che motiTO la mentola fu a te con Samia tegola recisa, se a te, o Beiico, si
grato era il c P n tuo capo merita esser castrato : impooche,
quantonque sii Oallo neUe pudenda, tuttayia inganni i sacrifici di Cibele : sei uomo nella bocca. Qraglia.
Till XI I. TO BTTTITS.
He who would consent to be the guest of Zoilus, would not hesitate to sup with the strumpets of the SummcBnium,' and drink,without a bluah, from tiie broken pitcher of Leda.' This, I contend, would be both easier and more decent. Clothed in an effeminate kind of robe, he lies upon a couch which he wholly covers, and, propped up on puiple and silk cushions, thrusts aside his guests with his dbows on this side and that. At hand stands a minion, who hands to his master, ready to remit, red feathers and toothpicks of lentisc wooa; while, if he is oppressed by the heat, a concubine, reclining by his side, wafts upon him a pleasant coolness with a green £ui ; and a young slave scares away the flies with
^ A part of the city tmu the walls, as its name signifies.
' A conrtesan. See B. i. Ep. 93; B. iv. Ep. 4.
* The fisathen of the phoniooptenia, nsed to provoke vonutina*
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a rod of myrtle. A softener,^ with nimble art, strokes his whole body, and passes her skilled hand over all his limbs* The signal of snapping his fingers is watched by an ennneh, who presents him with the yessel which his copious dianghts renoer indispensable. Meanwhile Zoilns himself, leaning biuskwards to the crowd at his feet, unonff the pup-* pies who are licking np the giblets of geese, diyides among ois athletes the nc^ of a wild-boar, or oestows upon his fa- Yourite the thigh of a turtle-dove -, and while to vt is offered wine from Ligurian rocks, or such as has been ripened in the smoke of Marseilles, he hands to his creatures Opunian nectar in crystalline and myrrfaine vases ; and, while ae himself is drendbed with essences from the stores of Cosmus, he is not ashamed to divide amongst us in a little g^t shell, un- guents such as only the lowest women use. j^ally, over- come by many draughts from his large cups, he fidls snoring asleep. We sit at the table, and, ordered to keep silence whfle he is ernntine, drink each other's healths by signs. Such is the insolence which we have to endure from this presum- ing Malchion; nor do we aak^to be avenged, Bufus. He haa an evil tongue.*
* Whoe'er with a Zoilus' trtet can put up, As weU at a prostitute's table may sup ; And e'en, while yet sober, were far better off From Leda's lame pomnger humbly to quaff
Behold him betrick*d on the couch he has seised, On either side elb'wing that he may be eased i Supported on purple, and pillows of silk i The catamite standing, that nothing may bilk.
To Zoilus sqneamish his minister lends The ruddy provokers, and lentisk extends : And now in a swim while he 's stewing, poor man I A lolloping ooncnbine flaps the green hn.
As thus she restores him to regions of liaht, A minion with mvrtle puts insects to fli^L Meantime the bold stroker his person must skim. And ply h^r aroh palm o^er his Moh laiy limb.
1 Tkactetrix. The Romans carried their huwj and effeminacy at this time to each an extent as to hare their limbe nibbed by the hsnds of yoims sbTes as thej reclined at table. To this practice the expression ia the text refisrs, iriuch we hare ventiued to rendtir ** a aolicner.'*
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170 icabtial's
The finffeiii now snapp'd, giTO the eimndi the 8iftBt My lord h« a mind to alembio his wine. The latter unwearied persiating the filler, The deztzoQi emaacolate guides the distiUer.
The treater oonrerti, the repast to complete, • Hit thought! and his eyes on the crew at his feet|
He duly refleets what to servants he owes, And so to the dogs the goose-giblets he throws.
Tlie kernels, and other nice bits of the boar, He portions to those who have toil'd on his floor: And* sleek to plump up his most &Tourite widgeon. He deals the plump thighs of his best potted pigeon.
To us while the rocks of liguna present,
Or ftunes of Massilis, their must and their tent{
Tlie nectar Opimian he gives to refine.
In crystals and mynfaines, for sanies the wine I
Himself made essential fix>m Cosmus* fint flasksi Hii guesti to accept a few chroplinjn he asks, From out his gola shell scarce sufficing to shed The unguent upon an adulteresi^ head.
O'erpower'd with deep goblets, sweet Zoil besnores : And, though we redine, none ihe musick deplores. We smile^ or we sweat, or we swill, now by nods s Kor can we revenge— such a feast of the gods !
J3lphmitom»
Tiimil. TO OOBDUB.
Yon bid me write shorter epigrams, Cordus. Act me now the part of Chione. I ooold not say anjrthing shorter.^
Lxxxrr. TO tokoiliok.
What says your trollop, Tongilion P I do not mean your trull P— " What then P "—Tour tongue.
What does thy strumpet say, Tongilion ? I do not mean thy wench. "What thenP **— Thy tongue.
Fleiehtr.
LXZXr. TO A JIALOUS HITSBAKD.
Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your vrife^a gallant P Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you. Fool, what have you done P Your wife has
> I ezpresi myself ss briefly ss ponible, by compaxing you to GUoae See Eps. 87 and 97.
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loit nothmg br tbe operatioii, siiioe that whieh pleased her in joar fiie&d Deiphobufl is still safe.
Offended lord* what could thee discompoie^
So oni^ to lop th* offender*! nose ?
That Bufifring limb, as Uiine, was umooent;
Nor flsels the paramour the pumibment.
Ne'er canst thou hope t* extmguish either fire,
While the incendiazy remains entire. S^^uuUm.
IiZZXTI. TO THX CHA8TX ICiLTBOK.
I forewamed and admonished you, chaste matron, not to read this part of my BfoiUve l>ook : and yet, you see, yoa oontmne to read, ^ut if^ chaste as you are, you go to see tiie acting of Pannicnlua and Latinus, read on ; these yersea aie not more shameless than the pantomimea*
I wam*d yon, madam, not to read;
But I foretold, and you proceed.
If you indulge to see some plays,
You safely may peruse my Jays. SIphmtUm,
lxxzyh. to oHiom*
Bnmonr says, Chione, that you have ncTer had to do with man, and that nothing can be pnrer than yonrself. And yet when you bathe, you veil not that part which you should veiL If you haye any modesty, yeil your bee.
TilUVm. OK TWO BBOTHXBS.
Sunt ^emini fratres, diyersa sed ingoina lingnnt. Dicite, dissimiLes sint magis, an similes P
Vi acno due fratelli somigliantasmmi, ma lambiaeono oontrtrie pudenda. Dite se sieno piu dissimili, o simili P Chraglia.
mm. TO PHciBva.
Use lettuces, FhcBbus, use aperient mallows ; for yon hayo a free like one suiFering from constipation.
Use lettuce Hmp, emollient mellows gain : Thy sturdy stare bespeaks a stubborn strsin.
Elphkmlm.
ZO. OV BJOJJU
GkJla will, and will not, comply with my wishes ; and I cannot tell, with her willing and not willing, what die willa.
172 MABTIAL'S
Mt Galla will and will not buss |
My &Dcy never could« By viUing and not billing thusy
Suppoue whBt Oalla would. Fletcher*
XOL OK A YXTX&Air SOLDIER.^
When a dismiflsed veteran, a native of Bavenna^ waa return- ing home, he joined on the way a troop of the emasculated priests of Oy beLe. There was in close attendance upon him a runaway slave named Achillas, a youth remarkable for his handsome looks and saucy manner. This was noticed by the effete troop ; and they inquired what part of the couch he occupied. Hie youth understood their secret intentions, and save them false information; thej believed him. After drinking suffidentij, each retired to his couch ; when fbrth- with the malicious crew seized their knives, and mutilated the old man, as he laj on one side of the couch ; while the jouth was safe in the protection of the inner recess. It is said that a staff was once substituted for a virgin ; but in this case someuing of a different nature was substituted for a stag.*
When dd lliaitius sought his native land.
Chance bid him join a sly CybeUan band,
Achillas, from his lord a slij^p'ry stray,
Adhered die prtner of Misitior way.
Him eye the naif-men ; and their art employ.
To leain the lair that hopes the beauteous boy.
Suspecting well their aim to catch such elvesy
Ana render them enervate as themselvesy
Their industry industrious to deride,
The pricket points the bed ; but not the side.
They quaff ttieir wine, and now the slumbers please.
The slombea o'er, the noxious steel they seise.
Misitius ihtj unman, who next them lay ;
Safe on the inner beam, and snug, the stray.
Onoe, for a vizgin, bled a wond*rous hind :
Now, for a deer, a dotard was consign'd. JSlpkmUon.
XOn. TO GALLTTS.
M 7 wife, Ghdlua^ asks me to aUow her one sweetheart,-* onlj one. Shall I not, GkJlus, put out his two eyes P *
^ In most copies, Oe fixst line of this epigram is, C^ p§Ur$i patrim HiiiHut wrva Ravenmm. Schneidewin reeidt mttfietiit.
* Pro etrvo, PturiliTe slaves are said to have been Jestingly called 0tr9t, "stags *' or " deer." > Ludit in verbo; per oeidSot vult tmtn.
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Allow me one jnllaiit, m j oomort eiiei. I shall noty GaUtu, pluck out both his
eyes. Blphindcm.
XCni. TO TXTUBTTLLA.
Hioiigfa joa hate seen three hundred oonsulB, Yetnstilla, and have but three hairs, and four teeth, with the chest of a Snasahopper, and the legs of an ant ; though your forehead snows more folds than a matron's dress, and your bosom resembles a spider's web; though in comparison with jour Tsst jaws the mouth of crocodile of the Nile is small ; though the nogs at Sayenna chatter more melodiously ^an you, and the pmt of Atria sings more sweetly; thoup^h your eyesiffht is no better than the owPs in the morning, and your body exhales the odour of the husband of the she-goat ; though your loins are those of a lean duck, and your leas shrunk like those of a withered old Cynic ; though the batn- keeper does not admit you into the bath till he has ex- tinguished his light, and then only among the prostitutes thttfe lodge in the tombs ; though it is wbter with you eyen in the month of August, and not eyen a pcstQent feyer can unfieese you, you neyertheless dare to think of marriage after two hunored years of widowhood, and insanely exp^ somebody to fall in love with relics like yours. Who, I ask, even if he were willing to tiU a rock, would call you wifeP — you whom Philomelus but recently cslled grand- mother. But if you will haye your corpse meddled with, let Cons the graye-di^ger prepare you a couch, such as alone befits your nuptial rites, and let the kindler of the funeral pile bear the marriace torches for the new bride. Such a torch is the only one that Hymen can offer you.
Alert Antiquilla, on thee
Kind consuli three hundred haye smiled : What beauties remain, let us see,
Of one but so lately a child.
Three hairs, and four teeth, are the dwindle
Fell Chranus allows thy command : Thy grasshopper-breast on a spindle
As floe as an antling's can stand.
Thy forehead more fuirows has made^
Than any high dame in her stole : Thy panten, unpropt, are decay'd
To nets of Araehne's contrsL
174 KABTIAX'S
•
Think not that i seaxoh for thy flawi f
Toonmna^uxsiiitto benunel But nanow the crocodile^s jaws,
Compaied, Antiquilla, with thine.
BaTenna's brisk fix>gliim becroke Len hoane, my gruff crony, than tfao«|
And Adria's high hornets invoke A hum thou canst hardly avow.
Thine eyes axe as dear as thy notes:
Thou seest as the owl in the mom. Thou smeU'st like the lord of the goats :
Compize of each kind is thy soom.
But now, to descend to the stump :
What giYes an old cynic to rage, Rmaciate duck, is thy rump ;
And bony the war he must wage*
Hie bather wiU blow out his lamp,
To thee ere he open his doors ; Then, cmless of age, or of stamp.
Admit all the bustuary whores.
Bland August thy winter we know :
Insatiate must still be thy maw P Ah ! how can tx>or Hymen e*er glow.
Where pestilence' self cannot thaw P
Thou only two hundred hast slain, And would'st the third oentury wed :
Would'st have a man, madding m vain, Attend thy cold ashes to bed P
Tet, wish'd he to harrow a stone. Who 'd honour such mate as a wife P
Whom call'd Philomelus a crone, Who 'd e'er call the love of hislifeP
But, scraped if thy carcase must be,
Carides the clinic shall strow The couch : he alone can agree
With thy hymenean to go.
The burner the torches shall bear,
Before the desirable bride : A torch can alone enter there ;
Where Pluto himself will preside. Eiphmgkm.
XOIV. TO BtrFXIB.
Znu aay the hwe is not suffidentlj cooked, and call for a
BOOK zn.] moEAxi. 17S
whip. You would rather cut up y^^or cook, Bufus, than your hare.
Hie hare not done ! you stonn $ and fly to flog :
Bathef than out the nare, you "U out the dog. JBlpkmtUm,
TOY. TO VMYOLVn.
You never say, ^Good day 1" first, Nasrolus : but oontent yourself with returning the salute, though even the crow ia often in the habit of saying it first. Why do you expect this from me, NibtoIub ? I pray you, tell me. JPor I consider, Nsyolns, you are neither better than I am, nor hare pre- cedence of me in the eyes of the world. Both CflBsars have bestowed upon me pndae and rewards, and have given me the rights of aladier of three chOdren. I am reM by mtaijr; and &me has given me a name known throughout &e dties of the earth, without waiting for my death. There is some- thing, too, in this, that Borne has seen me a tribune, and that I sit in those seats whence Oceanus ^ ezdudes you. I sus- pect that your servants are not even as numeroua as the Aoman dtuens that CsBsar has made at my request. But ▼ou are a debauchee, NsvoluSy and play your part excel- lently in that capacity. Yea, now you take precedence 6t me, Nsvolus ; you have decidedly the advantage. Gk)od day to you.
Nsvolua ne'er nlutee first, bat replies,
Whieh the taught crow hmiBelf seldom denies.
"Why dost expect this from me, Nevolus P
Since thou art not more great nor good than us P
Both Cnsais have rewarcted my due pxaise,^
And me to th' priv'lege of three sons did raise.
I 'm read by every mouth, known through the town.
And before death receive my quick renown.
And this is worth your note, I m tribune too,
And sit where that Oceanus caps you ;
How many by great CsBsar's grant are made
Free demaeni Mcause by me twas pray'd P
The number &r exceeds thy ftmily :
But thou shock'st nature, l^cvolus, feed*st high :
Now, now thou over-com'st me sheere ; thus, thus,
Thou art my better. Salve, Nievolus. J%teA«r.
' The ofBoer who had the charge of the seats appropnated to the fcaif^ in the theatre, and who saw that no imiiroper penous occupied Iham. He it meoiiooed B. vi. Rp. 9 and elsewheie.
1^6 UAxrui/n
XOn. TO QABeiLIITt.
LingiBy non futuis zneam paeUam ; "Et gairiB auaai mcechuB, et fatutor. Si te prendero, Gkugiliy tacebis.
Tn lingi, non immembri la mia ragazn: e ti milanti qnal droda, e qnaT immemfaiatoie. Se t'aochiappo, o Oaigilioy taoeraL
GhroffKa,
XOm. TO BTTTTTB.
I adviae toii, Bnfda, not to let Gbione read tliis little book of mine. She is hurt by my yenea : and she may hurt me in return- Let not Snow, my dear friend, chill this bnndle of snirt. If ihetbaw by my fire, in her turn she may hut JStphmdom,
XOVill. TO BABILLTTB.
Sit tibi culua quam macer requiria P Fsdicare potea, Sabelle, culo.
Vnm ta sapere qtianto 1 tno ompigio sia magro P ta puoi, o Sa- boUo^ sodonuaar con quello. QragUa.
XCa. TO THB OOBBLU.
You ought not^ cobbler, to be angry with my book; your trade, and not your life, ia satirized in my writings. JUlow me inncoent pleaaantriea. Why should I not have the right of amusing myself if yon have had that of getting throats
cutP^
Why art offended, Cerdo, with my book P Thy life, and not thy person, 's by me Btrook. Then suffer harmless wit ; why is 't not due For me to sport, when stabbing 's free to you P
Fbteher.
0. TO BUFira.
It waa twelre o'dock, Eufus, when I sent the messenger to YOU, and, I suppose, he must have been wet through when he nanded you my yerses. For it happened that the sky waa pouring down floods of rain. This waa exactly the weather in whidi it was proper for the book to be sent.'
1 See Eps. 16 snd 69.
" As U deserred to be corrected with water and a SDoiMie ; see B. h Ep. 10.
BOOK IT.] XPIOBUCl. 177
I hied thee, bit Bnlbe, a nmiMr at six. Who, loek'a to the skin, would mj glories present i
While heaVn deign'd her torrents most copious to mix : Ko other so proper way could they be sent E^hmdoM*
BOOK IV.
I. Oir THI XHFXBOB DOKITIAir'8 BIBTH-DAT.
O AirsFioioirB birth-day of Goear,* more sacred tlian that on whidi the oonscious Ida witnessed the birth of Die- tsan Jupiter, come, I pray, and prolong thy duration beyond the age of I^lian Nestor, and snine OTer with thy presoit aspect or with increased brilliancy. Let CsBsar, decked with abundance of gold, sacrifice to Minerva on the Alban mounts and let many an oak-garland pass through his im- perial hands. Let him welcome the approachinff secular games with maffnificent sacrifices, and ouebrate toe solem- nitieB due to Bomulean Tsientus.' We ask indeed great things, O ye gods, but such as are due to earth ; since lor so great a god as Cesar what prayers can be extrayagant ?
Caesar's bright birth-day 's to be honoured more Than Joto's, on Ida's top by Rhea bore. May Rome this day*8 return more oftcm see, Hum, aged Nestor, thine was seen by thee, And, than the present, still more fflorious be. May he on earth (his head adom'd widi gold) Keep Pallas' feast ; as president behold The poef s and the rhetor's strife, and crown With 's mighty hand the highest in renown. May he the secular games, none twice e'er saw. Behold I be priyile^d beyond nature's hiw.
Great things I au, but which from beaTen are duei For such a prince too much we cannot sue. Anon, 1605.
> Domitian wsa bom on the 24th of October.
* Tsientos was a place near the Campus Martins, where an allar of Phito and Proserpine was buried in the ground, and was dhintened only at the time of the Secular Games.
178 ICABVUIi*!
U. OK H0BATIU8.
HoratiuB, a little while ago, was the onlj one, among all the spectators of the games, who aopeared in black dothesy when the plebeians, the knights, and the senate, with their sa» cred chief; were sitting in white array. Suddenly snow fell in great abundance; and Horatiua became a spectator in white.^
Horace, mid the joTial crew.
Saw the show in sable hue.
Third, and next, and first estate,
With the chief idl candid sate.
Sudden burst the flaky snow :
Horace saw, in white, the show. S^indcn.
m. OK iHa avow which ivll ok doiotiak at thx
GAMES.
See how thick a fleece of silent congealed water flows down upon the flioe and robes of CsMar. Still he pardons Jupiter for sending it, and, with head unmoyed, smiles at the waters condensed by the sluggish cold, being accustomed to braye the oonstellation of the Northern Bootes, and to disregard the Ghreat Bear drenching his locks.' Who can be sporting with the dried waters and gambolling in the sky P I suspect this snow came from CsBsar's little son.'
See the fleece of silent wave
Play on Cesar's hce and vest ! See him smile, as bland as braye,
At the slow-congealing jest.
Once he could Bootes tire,
Helice might soak his hair. Who thus diy upon the fire ?
It must be the ravi^'d heir. JSi
ry. TO BASSA.
Of the odour of a lake whence the water has retired ; ot the miasmata which rise firom the sulphureous waters of Al-
' It was nsual originally for all the spectaton to appear in white at the games (see B. xir. Ep. lo7), but this custom had begun to be neglected in the time of Domitian. Some of the commentators suppose Martial to intimate that the gods sent the snow to diow their displeasure at the black dreas of Hoiatins.
' An allusion to Domitian's expedition into Germany.
* Domitian's son by bis wife Domitia, who died when he was ysiy young.
•ooK IT.] xneBAici. I7u
bok ; of the putrid ifcench of a marine fiab-pond ; of a busy goat in amorous dalliance; of the old shoes of a tii«d ve» teian ; of a fleece twice drenched in Tynan dye ; * of the ftsting breath of the Jews; of that of wretches under ac- cusation ; of the expiring lamp of the filthy Leda ; of oint- ment made of tiie oregs of Sabme oil ; of a fox in flighty or of the nest of the riper,— of all these things, Bassa^ I woold ratiier smell than smell like you.
Of a drying ditch, the pool ;
Crudest dond, when nun'nls cool}
Of a Btsgnant pond« the gale ;
Of a goat, when spirits tail;
Weary Tef ran^s fiowsy Test i
Fleece in purple twice bedress'd;
FIsTor of the futing Jew i
Panting of the culprit crew ;
Lewdest Leda's dying lamp ;
Unguent of the Sabine vamp ;
Fox's flight, and ▼ipei's cell i —
Basse, thou might'st better smelL E^Muitm,
T. TO YABIAirUS.
What do yon, Fabianus, an honest and poor man, sincere in speech and in heart, expect from risiting the Git^ P You can neither be a pander nor a parasit^ nor, with your monotonous Toice, a crier, to call up persons trembling under accosation : nor can you corrupt the wife of your dear friend, nor feel any desire after irozen old women, nor sell empty smoke about the palace ;* nor award praise to Canus, or to Olaphyros,' How then, unhappy man, will you Ure P " I am a trustworthy person, a faithful friend." Inat is nothing at all : it would neyer make you a Philomelus.
Honest and poor, fiiithibl in word and thought. What hath thee, Fabian, to the city brought P Thou neither the buffoon nor bawd canst play ; Nor with false whispers th' innocent betray ; Nor ooimpt wi^es ; nor from ridi beldams get A liring by thy industry and sweat ;
^ That there wu an unpleasant smell from the Tyrian dye appeals from B. L Bp. 50, Oiidtefu$ vetUt muriet.
' Pretend to sell (aTonrs of the emperor.
* Names of musicians. Philomelus was also a musician, and cs* traaelyridi: B. ill Bp. 31.
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180 Iff^KTIAL'S
Nor with Tain promiseB and projects diestf
Nor bribe nor flatter any of the great.
But you 're a man of learning, prudent, juit i
A man of courage, firm, and fit for trust
Why, you may stay, and lire unenvied here ;
But (faith) go back, and keep you where you were.
TI. TO MAXI8IAKU8.
Yea wish to be thought, Malisianus, as chaste as a mo- dest virgin, and as innocent as a child, although yon are more abuidoned than he who recites in the house of Stella' poems composed in the metre of Tibullus.
Malisian, haste, and tell me how
You can unbend the modest brow
Of chtetest maid, or sweetest child
That erer blandly blushed or smiled P
When all the while you conscious are
Of sentiments corrupter far
Than he, who wakes a Stella 's ire
By waking a Tibullus* lyre. JE^hituttm.
Tn. TO HTLLUS.
Why do you refuse, youthful Hyllus, to-day, whM yon fredy gave yesterday ? Wh^ are you so suddenly become cruet who but now were so kind P xou now excuse yourself on account of your beard, and your age, and your hairy limbs. O night, how long hast thou oeen, that hast made a youth into an old man I Why do you mock me, Hyllus P You were yesterday a boy ; tell me, how are you to-day a manP
Why, how now, Hyllus, child.
To yield make such a sputter I Who wast before so mild.
Nor Tentur^dst once to mutter P
Thy besrd, thy bristles, years.
Thou scruplest not attesting : How long one night appears,
lliat shoots a sage clandestine!
But yesterday a bo^.
Why brave us with thy treason P To-day thy pow*rs employ,
To prove the man of reason. JS^uuUm,
^ Stella the poet, mentioned B. t. Ep. 8, and elsewhere. TibuUas is said to have wntten some Priapeia in iambic metre.
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900K IT.] Xn0BA]IB. 181
Tin. TO S17PHXXV8.
' The fint and second honn of the day ' exhaust the clients who pay their respects to their patrons ; the third exercises the lun^ of the noisy pleaders ; until the fifth Borne emploTS herself in Tarious occupations ; the sixth brings rest to the fatiffiied ; the seventh closes the day's labours. The eishth anmces for the games of the mly paJfistra ; the ninth ULcb us press ihe piled«up couches at table. The tenth is the hour for my effusions, Euphemns, when your skill is preparing ambrosial delicacies, and our excellent Cssar relaxes his cares with celestial nectar, and holds the little cups in his powerful hand. At that time give my pleasantries access to him ; my muse with her free step fears to approach Jupiter in tlie morning.
The two first houn o' th' great conramed are ;
The third in lawyers^ pleadinffi at the bar ;
The trades of Borne me fourm and fifth employ,
The aizth some rest, the serenth all rest eajoy :
Ftom eiriit to nine in exercise is spent,
The ninm on feasting all men are mtent :
Hie tenth hour 's proper for my book and me.
And, Eaphem, thou who dost the board o'ersee,
And order our great lord's ambrosial £ire.
When nectar hu dissolved his public care,
Hii mighty hand the sober cup does hold,
To introduce my mirth, thou may'st be bold.
My muse forbem licentiously to rore
I' th' mom, when serious, to importune Jove. Anon, 1695.
DC TO FABTTLLA.
Esbulla, daughter of surgeon Sota, you desert your hus- band to follow CUtus, and give him both presents and love. You act like a sot.*
Of doctor Health thou wayward duld.
For VainloTe hast thy lord beguiledi
While thus thou sena*st thy smiles astray,
Nor Health directs, nor Hope the way. Blpkindon.
X. TO FACSTJJiUB.
While my book is yet new and impolished,* while the page
' Reckoning from <rar six in the morning.
* An sUempt to Imitate the pun in lx«C d9Armt without whkh there is 10 pofait to the En^ish reader. ' Oroitd JroiUt. Not yet snoolhed with the pumice^stoiie.
182 ICABTIAL*!
Bcaiodj dry fears to be touched, ffo, boj, and bear fhe liliU piesent to a dear friend, who deaenrea beyond all oihen to have the first sk^ht of my trifles. Bon, but not without being duly equipped; let a Oartha^finian sponge accompany the book ; for it is a suitable addition to my pesent. llany erasures, Faustinus, would not remoye aU ita fimlta; one sponging would.
Whiles that my book is new and rough, and feares To haye its imdryed page took by the ean, Ooe, boy, preieiit this small gift to my friend. He that dMerres my toys at the first end: Bun, but yet let the sponge aocompsnie The book, for it becomes each gift nom mee.
Fanstinns, "t ii not many blots, we say. Can mend my merry fiaahes, one blot may. Fkicher.
XL TO 8ATUJUI1III78.
Whiter puffed up beyond measure by an empty name^ you were entranced with delight, and were ashameo, unfortnnato man, of bang merely Satuminus,' you stirred up war under the Pairhasian Bear, like he who bore arms for his Egyptian consort. Had you so entirely forgotten the ill-fortune oi that name, which the fierce rage of the sea at Actium oyer- whelmedP Or did the Bhine promise you what the Nile denied to him, and were the northern waters likely to be more propitious ? Eyen Antony fell by our arms, who, compared with you, traitor, was a OsMar.
While thou wert proud to bear Antonius^ name.
And that of Satominus didst disclaim ;
Thou aims in Oermsny 'ninst Cesar bors^
As Antony in Egypt md hefore.
What Fate attends that name didst thou not fear?
Of his diBgFBoe at Actium ncTer hear?
Or did the Rhine promise success to thee,
Tho' Nile to him deny*d the victory P
That £unoas Antony by Rome's sword did ftll ;
Compared to thee^ whom Cnsar we might caU. .
Amm, 169ft.
ZEL TO THAia.
Tou deny no one, Thais; but^ if you are not ashamed oi denying no one, at least be ashamed of denying nothing, Thais.
' Satonunus was a Bomsn n&eral, who, haTinc taken offence at sont remarks of Domituui, excited an inaiirrection m Germany. Martial (aunts him with wishing to becoiae a second Antony.
BOOK XT.J tnoxim, 188
den^ no man : If no thame tlianee 4ttfaig» TA let thii ihame thee, to deny no-tfaing. FkUihtr.
Zin. TO BlTTUBy OK ▲ HAPFT KABBIA.0X.
Claud]aPeregrma,Bii{iu,i8 abont to be married to mj friend Padena. Be propitxoua, Hymen, with thy torchea. Aa fitlv ia predona cinnamon united with uard, and Maaaic wine with Attic boner. Nor are ehna more fitly wedded to tender Tinea, the lotoa more love the watera, or the myrtle the riyer'a bank. Mayeat thou always hover over their couch, fidr Concord, and may Yenna ever be auapicioua to a couple ■o well matched. In after years may the wife cheriah her huaband in hia old age ; and may she, when grown old, not aeem ao to her huabimd.
Strange, Claudia *8 manied to a friend of mine.
O Hymen, be then ready with thy pine !
Thus the rare cinnamoiia wi^ the apicknaTd joyne^
And the Theiean sweeta with Maaaick wine.
Nor better doe the elm and vine embrace.
Nor the lote-tree alfeet the fenny place.
Nor yet the myrtles more
Love and desire the shore. Let a peipetual peace sorroimd their bed. And may thetr loves with equall fire be fed! May she so love him old, that to him shee, Thous^ old indeed, may not seem so to bee. Fletektr*
XIY. TO 8ILIU8 ITiXIOTTB.
SiUua, gloiy of the Caatalian aiatera, who ezpoeeat, in mighty aong, the perjuriea of barbaric rage, and compelleat the perfidioua pnde of Hannibal and the faithleaa Car- fehAgitiinna to yield to our great Scipios ; lay aaide for a while thy tostere gravity, and while December, aporting with at&active gamea, reaounda on every aide with the l^xea of haxard, and plays at tropa with fraudulent dice,^ accord some indulgence to my muae, and read not with aevere but with cheerral countenance my little booka, abounding with
1 Some copiet htreroU; some pon^s some popL TropA is a con* Jaetme of Brodeoi, adopted by Sdineidewin. It wm a gune played^ tiffowiBg dice into a hole prepared for the pmpose. See PoUnZy liL Ua, sad Melneeke, Fr. Com. Gr. iL p. 113.
184 vibhal's
jocular pleasantries. Just so perhaps might the tender Calullos venture to send his sparrow to the great Yirgil *
O thou, whose strains in loftiest style
(O Silius, glory of the Nine !) T^ bsrbaroas war&re't vsried wile,
Hannibal's ever new design ; And paint the Scipiot in the field, Where Gsrthage false was forced to yield.
Awhile your grandeur put away ;
Deoember now, with rattling d^ Cast from the doubtful box, is gay ;
And Popa * plied his fidse dmce ; T is now an easy festire time That weQ befits my careless rhyme.
Then smooth your frowns ; with placid brow Read, pi^ythee, these my trifiing lays,
My lays where wanton jests o*er£w ; For thus, perchance, his sparrow's praise
CatuUus, whom sweet strains attend^
To mighty Maro dared to send. Otorgt Lamb.
XV, TO O^CILIAinTB.
When you asked me yesterday for the loan of a thousand sesterces, Ciecilianus, for six or seven days, I said, ^I have not so much.** But, on the pretence of a friend's arrival, you now ask me for a dish and some vases. Are you a fool P Or do you think me a fool, my friend P I refused you a thousand; diall I give you five thousand sesterces P
Ten pound thou begg'dst to boxrow th' other day,
Which speedily thou promised to repay.
I had it not, as civil I did say.
But thou, by a friend's visit much surprised.
To borrow of me silver plate devised.
Art thou a fool P or me dost one suppose P
When ten I would not, fifty pound I'd lose? Amm.lG^
m. TO GALLVB.
It was rumoured, GhJlus, that you were not exacily tiie step* son of your mother, while she -wna the wife of your &ther. This however could not be proved while your father was
' Catullus flourished before Virgil, but Martial is purposely gufity of the anachronism, that he may compare Silius Italicus to VirgU, as he cea* pares himself to Catullus. ' The taTem-keeper.
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alive. Your father, Gkllna, ia now no more ; yet your atep- mother atill liyea in the houae with you. Even if the great Cioero could he recalled from the ahadea helow, and Be- gulua himaelf were to defend you, you could not be acquitted ; for ahe who doea not ceaae to be a atep-mother after a fa- ther*a death, G^ua, never waa a atep-mother.
That, G alios, thou wast never son-in-law To her thy fiither's consort late we saw, The nxmoor rose ; but could not hope to thrive. While he, by whom thou liv'st, was yet alive. Now, where thine awiid aire no more is seen. The step-dame revels an unrivallM qneen. For thee should TuHv break the Stygian laws, And Regulus himself attempt thy cause, Thy cause were lost. Who ceases not to be Thy step-dame, GaUus, ne'er was such to thee.
ZYII. TO PATTLXia.
•
Tou reqaeat me to write veraee againat Lyciaca, Faulua, of auch a nature that ahe may^ be angrv on reading them. Faulua, you are unfiur ; you wiah to get her all to youraelf.
Why, Paulus, would yon have me write
On JPhillis, to provoke her spite P
The reason is, as you must own.
You *d have her for yourself alone. Anon.
XYUJ. OK ▲ YOUTH KILLED BT THB FALL 07 ▲ PIBCX
OW ICI.
Juat where the gate near the portico of Agrippua ia alwaya dripping with water,* and the alippeiy pavement ia wet with conatant ahowera, a maaa of water, congealed by winter'a cold, fell upon the neck of a youth who waa entering the damp temple^ and, when it had inflicted a cruel death on the un- fortunate b^, the weapon melted in the warm wound it had made. What crueltiea doea not Fortune permit P Or where ia not death to be found, if you, watera, tium cut-throati.
T was from a spout, which pours into the street, And mskes the paTcment shppery to the feet. An icicle dcpenomg grew, until By its own weight the ponderous ruin hH i
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Struck on the neek a boy upon the giinndi Wounded to death ; then melted in tljo wound* From cruel fortune can we more endure f If waters stab, where can we be secuxeF J2<qf.
XIX OK ▲ CLOAK.
I Bend you a foreign doak, the stout workmanBhip of a GMlie weaTor, which, though of a barbarous country, has a Laoedamoniau name ;^ a gift of small value^ but not to be despised in cold December. Whether you are rubbing into your akin the dammy wrestler's oil, or playing at tennis to warm you ; whether ^ou are catching the dus^ ball with your hand, or sharing with your competitors the featherlike weight of the loose bladder,^ or seekinjo; to surpass the light Atnas* in the race, this will be a deronce to you, that the searching cold may not affect your wet limbs, or unpropitious Iris oppress you with sudden rain. Clad in this gin, yon will lao^h ib winds and showers ; nor will you be equally safe in Tynan silk.
The frowsy foster of a female hand«
Of name Laconian, from a barVroua land ;
Tho' rude, yet welcome to December's snow:
To thee we bid the homely stranger so.
Whether in limber liniment thou toi^
Or in the Triffonal thy fibres boil ;
Whether thy nand the dusty Hazpast snatch,
Or the Wind-bomb thy flyins; foot shall catch :
Whether die mmble Athas tnou 'd*8t outran i
Or dare the bravest feati that brayes the sun :
That into fflowing limbs no cold may slide,
That baleral Iris neyer drench thy prioe ;
This fence shall bid thee scorn the winds and showers.
The Tyrian lawn pretends no equal powers. JSlphinstonm
zx. TO coLLnrrrs, ok ciSBSLLiiL AJrn oxllia.
CsrelUa calls herself an old woman, when she is but a ffirl; Gellia calls herself a girl, when she is an old woman. Nobody can endure either, Gollinus ; the one is ridiculous, the other disgusting.
^ Endromis.
* A laifB light ball, which appears to have been thrown or knocked about with the hand or fisU
* A bey iamous for his swiftness. Pliny, H. N. yiL SO*
BOOK IT.] XneBAKS. 187
Cerdlia, yoimg, afieets to say she *s old. Old QeUia *moiig the jBirls would be enroU'd. What dther doM, Ckuunns, eaost digest F The young one pk js the fool, the old the beast
Anm, 1O05,
TTT. OK 8XLIU8, AK ATHSIBT.
SelioB affinna that there are no goda, and that hesyen ia empty ; and tbinka be baa sufficient proof of bis opinion in aeemg himself become rich while be maintaina it.
Selios affirms, in hea^ no gods there are t
And while he tfaxivesv and they their thunder spare^
His daring tenet to the world seems fair. Amn. IBOfiw
Seiius asserts, there is no proTidenoe:
And what he thus asserts, he prores from benes^
That such a Tillain as himself still liTssi
And, what is more, Ib courted too, and thrives. Ay.
That there's no God, John graTely swears, And quotes, in proo( his own afisirs } For how shonla snob an atheist thiiTe^ If there was any God aliTe?
Wutmmdtr JSemew^ AprH, I853L
nil, oir GLBOPATRA, Hia wm.
Cleopatra, aflter having submitted to the flrat embrace of lore, and requiring to l^ aootbed by her bnaband, plunged into a glittering pool, flying fix>m hia embrace ; but tne wave betrayed ber in ner hiding-place ; and sbe shone tluough the water though wholly ooTcred by it. Hiua lilies are distinctly seen tbrouffb pure glass, and clear crystal does not allow rosea to be bidaen. 1 leaped in, and, plunging be« neatb tbe wayes, snatched struggling kisses ; more waa for* bidden by the transparent flood.
Tbe yirgin danger pasi^d, the bride enraged.
Sweet deopatn, to be disengaged.
And scare mine srms, diyes m the baths most dear:
But the kind waters soon betrayed ber there,
For thougb tbus hid her glories did appear,
lake to naft lilies in a crystal grave.
Or roses dosed in gems no oover have.
With that I dived, and cropped the struggling kisses,
Te^ glittering streams, forbade the other blisses. jP/MbAst
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ZXm. TO THAXIA, ON THS POST LTTBTISCVS BBVTTAinrsJ
Whilst yoa are too dilatoiy, Thalia, and take long to oon* aider which is the fint, which the second, in yonr e8timation» or to whom shall he assigned the palm in Greek Epigram, GaJ- Umachus has himself conceded the superiority to we eloquent l^tianus;' aiid if he, satiated with Attic wit^ shoula now sport with our Boman Minerva, make me, I pray you, second to him.
"While thou deliheraf st too long.
Whom, in suhlime inscriptiye aong,
Thou &r8t or second shalt decree $
CallimachuB hids Bnitian be
The foremost bard, in Attic sense i
Who, did he Roman salt diapense, - ( Would leave my vanity unvex'd :
Do but, Thalia, name me next Eiphuuton,
ZXIT. TO TABtLSVB.
Ijyeom has buried all the female friends she had, FabU anus: would she were the friend of my wife !
Lycoris of her friends still makes an end:
I would she were to my wife such a fdend. WrighL
Lycoiia* friends are rarely of long life : ^
I wish she were acquainted with my wife. Anon. 1695.
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XEY. TO THB BANKS 01* ALnKUH AlTD AQITILBIA..
^ Ye banks of Altinum,' that rival the rural beauties of Bai», and thou wood that sawest the fall of the thunder-stricken Phaeton ; thou Sola,^ fairest of the Dryads, who wast taken to wife by the Faun of Antenor's land near theEuganean lake ; and thou, Aquileia, who delightest in Ledsoan * Timavus, at the spot where Gyllarus drank of thy seven streams: Ye shall be the haven and the restine^places of my old age, if my retirement be at my own dispose.
Altinum*8 shores, that with tbe Baian vie ; Te oonsdous poplars, that a PhaSthon sigh ;
* Mentianed by Pliny, Epist. viL 22.
* TliAt is, the world has acknowledged his superiority over Oallimacbus.
* A town on the Adriatic, towards Venice.
^ Sola was the name of a lake in those parts.
* The river Timavus is here called LeasBan, because it was visited by Castor ind PoUux, the sons of Leda, when they were among the Aigo- tUMits. Qrllams was the horso of Gastor.
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Thoa Mn$t Brysd on Antenor^s lawn.
Who weddedst on Euganean lake hit Faun s
Blest Aqniltta, whom TimaTus awes,
"Where Cyllar^s his serenfold waters draws :
Hail, peseeftd port and pillow of my age !
So mine it proye to choose my final sti^. ElphintUm
ZXn. TO IfOBTJnCUB, AS ATABIOIOirS ICAir.
By not haying bean to see you at home in the morning for a whole year, do you wish me to say how much, FostumuSy I have lost ? I suppoee about twice thirty and thrice twenty sesteroes. Fardon me, Foatumua, I pay more for a toga.^
For not attending on thee a whole year, What I have lost thereby, Foethumus, hear. Yvre hundred pence at Inst upon this score. T is much : a gown would yet haye cost me more.
Anom. 1685.
zxTn. TO noKiTiAir.
Tou are in the habit, Casar, of frequently commending my little booka. A jealous riyal, behold, says you ought not to do 8o ; yet you do it none the less on that account. You haye even not been content to honour me with words alone, but haye bestowed on me gifts such as no other could have giyen me ; behold again, my enyious riral gnaws his black naib. Give roe, Cssar, so much the more, that he may be the more mortified.
Ify books thou often gracest with thy praise,
Tho* malice it denies, thou oft giv'st Mys ;
Nor only by thy words, this truth is known.
But honours too, which thou canst give alone ;
Enyy to black my fame yet goes on still ;
Cossr, giye more, till thou ue enyious kilL Anon, 1095.
zxym. TO OHifOS, sQUAKDinnro hsb pbopeutt ok lit*
FXBOUB.
You haye giyen, Chloe, to the tender Lupercua atuffii from Spain and from Tpie, of scarlet hue, and a toga washed in the
^ If your iportule smounted to a hundred and twenty sesteroes in the eoune of the year, a toga, which I should wear out in yisitiDg yon, would cost me more than that sum.
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warm GUnsuB,* Indian sardonyzeB, Soythian emeralds, a hundred gold pieces newly coined ; whatever indeed he bAs^ yon nerer fail to give him. Poor shorn lamh I ITnhappY wo* man, yonr Lnpercus will strip yon bare.
Thou on young Lupercus, fooly
Dorst the woiks of SpaniBh wool :
Tyrian robe, and scarlet Test,
Oown, in warm GalflBsus drest;
Sardonyx from farthest Ind ;
Em'rald of the Scythian kind :
Hundred lords,' of norel coin :
And what else he can enjoin.
Woe to thee, self-wasting fair !
Thy Lupero will strip thee bare. EiphHutin.
XIIX. TO PunxiTB.
The number of my books, dear Fndens, forms an objection, to them; the eyer-recnrring toil &tigneB and satiates the reader. Barity gives a chann : thus early fruits are most esteemed ; thus winter roses obtain a higher price ; thus coy- ness sets off an extravagant mistress ; and a door ever open attracts no young suitor. Persius is oftener noticed on ac- count of one book, than the empty Marsus for the whole of his Amaeonid. Por yourself when you are reading any one of ray little books, imagine it to be the only one ; it will then be of more value in your eyes.
The number of my books does them much wroug.
The reader 's tired and glutted with their throng ;
' Scarce things take most, first fruits jplease those are niosy
Roses in winter bear the highest pnce :
Persius' one book 's more celebrated hi
Than Marsus* bulky Amasonian War.
Beadinff a book of mine, feign there 's no more ;
Thus of my wit thou 'It make the greater stcre. Awm. 1695.
XXX. TO ▲ nSHSBHAUr, THAT HS ICAT BPABB DOMITIAir'a
FISH.
Withdraw, fisherman, I warn you, far from the Baian lake, flv, that you may not retire with goilt on your head. Ijiese waters are inhabited by sacred fish, who know their
^ Made of the wool of sheep fed on the banks of the Galsisus, a ihrsr Boar Tarentum. See B. Ui. Ep. 43. * X>9mtfiot. Coins with the head of the emperor on them.
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BOTereign, and lick his hand, a band than whicli the world oontains notlimg more powerful. Thej even have each ita namey and each cornea up at the Toioe of ita master when called. Once, in this deep pool, as an impious Libyan was drawinff up his prej with quivering rod, he was suddenly struck with bunoness, and unable to see the captured fish ; and now, abhoRing his sacrilegioua hooks, he sits a beggar on the banks of the Buan lake.^ But do jon withdraw wSle jou may, and while JOU are yet innocent, casting into the waters only narm- less morsels of food, and respecting the tender fish.
From the Baian lake, with awe. Angler, I adxise, withdraw : Lest, of hallowM blood unspilt Thou shoaldst mah mcur the Ruilt. Sacred fishes, twiimning bland, Hail their lord, and lick Mb hand : Hand whose greater cannot waye, Or to saerifioe or eaye. Name respectiTe know they all^ And attend their niaster*8 calL
Onoe a Libyan rued the deed, TVhen he played the trembling reed. Sudden Ught his ^es forsook, Nor display'd the fish he took. Now he wdl the hook may hate^ Clothed with so dire a bait ; Where he, by the Baian pool. Sits a blinded begging fooL Then, dear angler, stm by law Lmooent, do thou withdraw. Throwing firrt a simple dish. Venerate deroted fisn. Elphin$ton.
TTTT. TO HIPPODAKTS.
*
As to your desire to be named and read of in my bpoka, and your belief that it would be something of an honour to you, may I be confounded, if your wish is not most agree* able to me ; and I am most anxious to giye you a pla^ in my yerse. But you haye a name imposed upon you un- fiiyourable to the inspiration of the Muses ; a name which a
^ A ttoiy periiaps whoUy Um inTnttioii of the poet ; or peibapv mmcur nay haTo afforded some foiiii<]iiti<«ii for it Amos supposes, that MarUal may allude to some wretdi ^l^im eyes were put out by Domitiaa, for tdung in the pond. *' Gmu uf Latin Poetry," p. 21 1.
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barbarooa mother gare you, and which neither Melpomene^ nor Polyhymnia, nor pious Calliope, nor Phcsbua, could pro* nounce. Adopt, then, some name which is acceptable to the Muses ; '' HippodamuB " can nerer be introduced with good effect.^
Caufle thou denrest to be read and named
So in my books, as by it to be fiuied,
Let me not live the toinff much pleases me,
And in my lines I wonld insert thee free,
But that tny name is so ayerw to all
The Muses, which thy mother did thee call.
Which nor Melpom'ne nor Polymnia may,
Nor sweet Calliope with Phcebns say.
Adopt thee then some grateful name to us ;
How wretchedly this soundi 1 Hippodamus ! FhUhtr,
zxxn. OK A Bss EKCLOsxn nr ahbeb.
The bee is enclosed, and shines preseryed, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils ; we may suppose that the bee itself would haye desired such a death.
Here shines a bee closed in an amber tomb.
As if interred in her own honey-comb.
A fit reward fate to her labours gaye ;
No other death would she haye wish'd to haye. May,
The bee enclosed, and through the amber shown.
Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
So honoured was a lire in labour spent :
Such might he wish to haye his monument Jiay»
xxzni. TO sosiBiAjrus.
As your desk, Sosibianus, is full of elaborate compo- sitions, why do you publish nothing P '' My heirs," you say, ^ wiU publish my yerses." WhenP It is already, Sosibianus, time that you should be read.
Thou say'st th' hast poans by thee of great worth : Why dost thou not, Sosibian, brins; them forth P Thy heirs, thou say'st, will cause them to be read ; T IS pity *t Ib not done, and thyself dead. Anon^ 1695.
^ Martial, we may suppose, disliked the soimd of this name. It is used frequently, as an epithet, in Homer.
' The tears which the sisters of Phaethon shod at his death, are saU (0 hays been changed into amber. Orid, Metam. b. vL
BOOK XT.] ineuxi. IM
X2XIT. TO ATTALITB.
Alfhoogh, AttalnB, your toga is very dirfy, wloerer Bays that you nave a niow«like toga speaks the tnith.'
Thongli tiiy gown '• dirty, be says true, I know,
Who »js tlioa hast a gown that looks like snow. L.S,&
r. OV A OOMBAT OV DOSS HT THB TBXATBI.
We haye seen gentle does engaj^ in fight with opposed horns, and fall nnder the impartuil stroke of fate. The honnds gazed on their prey ; and the proud huntsman stood amazed that nothing remained for his knife to do. "W hence are feeble minds wanned with so great furyP Thus fight bulls ; thus fall heroes.
Wee Bftw fiunt deere with fimouB butts, of kte^ Each other meet, and dye with mutaall &te. The dogi beheld their prey, the huntsman proud Admired no worke was to his knife alloVa. Whence ahoold ftint hearts such fiixie entertaine f So fight Sterne buDs, so valiant men are slaine. Hay,
The timorous deer against tfaemaelTes make head,
The fight forsake not, tiU they both lie dead:
The dogs look'd on, huntsmen amased appear.
No prey employment found for either here.
In softnt breasti what moved a rage so hi^h f
Bulls rush on bulls, and stoutest men so die. Anon, 1695.
XXXVi. TO 0LU8.
Your beard is white, Olus, your hair is black. The reason is, that you cannot dye your beard, though yon can dye your hair.
Thy beard is hosry ; but thy locks sre black : To tinge tiie besrd thou hsst not yet the knack.
JB^kmsUm,
yU, TO A7IB.
"CoraauB owes me a hundred thousand sesterces, Hisn- dnus two hundred thousand, Titius three hundred thouaand, Albinus six hundred thousand, Sabinns a million, and Ser-
* Qm'tfifft U niwmm JUUkaAtf togom. The commentators have been much Mplezed about the msnifiaition of ntMoiii in tlus panaae, and in a similar one in B. iz. Ep. 50, Qmm (togam) pouU ntetani me&njm9 fm. Some think the meaning is that the toga hung in tatterst like lakes of SBow ; othei% that Hi odours were bleadied to dirty white.
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IM MABTIAL*!
rannB anotber million ; from m j lodging-houBes and fiurms I receiye three millions, from my Parmesan flocks six hundred thousand." Such are the words, Afer, that you dailj din into m J ear ; and I know them better ihui my own name. You must pay me something, to enable me to bear this. Dispel my daily nausea with a round sum : I camiot listen to your catalogue, Afer, for nothing.
** Coranus does a hundred to me owe ; MancinuS three ; Albinua twice this ; so Sabixms doth ; Seiranus ten ; I know A sixthf ten more : then from my lands do come, My flocks and city rents, a vaster sum." Tms thou, whole days, relat'st, and I retain With that exactness as I do my name. Say not to what thy income does amount, But something teH which turns to my account: I cannot hear thee, STatis, thus excite. Be thy tales true or ftlse, my needy appetite, ^non. 169S.
" Ten thousand pounds in hank and South-Sea funds i Twenty in India stock, and India bonds ; Five thousand more have you in three per cents. } A thousand are your Kent and Essex rents s Those from Barbadoes axe of late the same.'* All this I know, as well as my own name. The daily tale is grown extremely dull: I cannot hear it patis, on my soul. For every time give me a gumea still ; Repeat it then as often as yon wilL Say*
JLULVlii. TO GAIiLA.
Galla, say ^ No : " love is soon sated, unless our pleasurea are mixed with some pain ; but do not continue, Gklla, to say "No" too long.
Galla, deny; and render passion strong:
But, prudent Oalla, do n*t deny too long. Slphindon.
mil. TO oHAEiinrs.
You have bought up all sorts of silver plate ; you alone possess the old masterpieces of Myro, and uie handiwork of Praxiteles and Scopes ; you alone have the productions of Phidias' graver, and the labours of Mentor. Nor are ^nuine Gratiuses ^ wanting in your collection, nor vases inlaid with
1 GraiiaiM iMm, the workmanship of one Gratios: Plin. H. N* xxxiii. 11.
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Callaic ^ gold, nor emboesed ones from tbe tables of jour anoeiton. Tet^ amidst all your Bilyer, I wonder, GhannuBy that yon poflaen none pnre.'
Chaiinna, thou 'at a rare collection made Of flilyer works, both maasy and o'erlaid Alone dott Myron*8, Scopar pieces show, What Mentor and Praxiteles could do ; Alone dost Phidias^ noble ffravings Taunt, Alone the true Gratianus dost not want ; Enchaaad goblets of pure Spanish ore, All double gilt, thy mther's table bore.
What *s in these wonders to be wonder'd most, A penny current-coin thou canst not boast
Anon* 1695.
Wrought, grared, emboas'd, of old and modem date,
In the best taste, how great your stock of plate I
Here Phidias, there Praxiteles doth stand :
Here the sole piece, that 'a left, of Mentor^s hand.
This cistern did a Jemioffham invent :
That bowl and cup were both designed by Kent
'Mongst all the things where art and ftmcy join,
I wonder you no silTer hare in coin. Say.
XL. TO P08TUKI7S.
When the halls of the Pisos, and the thrice-illnstrious house of the learned Seneca, were displaying Ions lines of ped^E;ree8, 1 prderred yon, Postumns, to all such high per- sonages ; you were poor and but a knight, but to me you were a consuL With you, Postumua, I counted thirty winters ; we had one couch in common between us. Now, full of honours, and rolling in wealth, you can give, you can lavish. I am waitinff, Postumus, to see what you will do for me. You do nothmg ; and it is late for me to look about for another patron. Is this. Fortune, your act ? Postumus has impoeed upon me.
Though Piso's stem speaks great nobility,
Seneca shows a threefold pedigree,
And both their courts to my access are free ;
' Vases mannfaclured by the Callaci or Gallicians in Spain, or of metal brooght from their ooantiy.
* A play on the word pure. Martial means that Charinus's table was defiled with debauchery. The translators in verse have not had regard lo this meaning; Compare B. L Ep. 77.
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Yet mj salates to tbee I fint did bring.
Poor, and a knight, bat unto me a king : '
Ten yean, twice told, in amity we led, |
One table senred us, and one common bed.
Thou 'rt noble now and rich, canet throw away | What to our andent friendship wilt thou pay P I may expect: but thou haat nought to Bay* Qrown old, a patron I can't seek, though poor On me, or fedui, haat thou imposed more? j3um,lC95
XLI. TO A POST UCITnTO BAPLT.
Wbjf when about to recite, do you wrap your neck in wool P That wool would be more proper for our earn.
Why, wrapt about your neck, wool do you wear f That wool would better serve to stop our ear. WrigkL
When thou thy poems dost recite, for fear Of catching cold, fur 'bout thy neck dost wear. This fitter were for th' eszs of them that hear.
Anm. 1095.
XUI. TO 7LACCV8, OK HIS JATOITBITI AJCAZOHIOVS.
If any one could possibly grant my wisheB, hear, FUuxma* what sort of £Bi.younte I would desire. The youth should, first, be bom on the banks of the Nile ; no landknowa better how to bestow attractions. Let him be whiter tiian snow; for in dusky Egypt that colour is more beauteous, as more rare. Let his eyes rival the stars, and his floatxug locks play upon his neck ; I do not love, Elaccus, carefulfy arranged locks. Let his forehead be small, and his nose slightly aquiline; and let his lips rival Fsstan roses in recmeas. I^t him often seek my caresses when I refuse them; refuse his when I seek them ; and let him be oflken more sportive than his master. Let him be jealous of other yontns, and ever keep young damsels at a distance ; and, while a man to all else, let him be a youth to me alone. ** I understand,** say yon ; *' you do not deceive me ; for I can testify that joni description is exact. Such was my Amasonicus."
If I could such obtain, as I desire,
Hear then what beauty, Flaccus, I admire.
One bom in Egvpt, i' th' first place, I' d choose ,
Such artifidid charms none eke do use :
I 'd have her skin white as the driven snow, —
From thai ffwarth clime the fiur do fairest show {
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Her eyes with ttan ahould ^e, her flowing hair
Fill on her neck, which I to earls prefer;
Her forehead ehonld be smooth, well ihaped her noee^
Her lo^elj line a rosy red diadoeei
Sometjmwi I^d have her kind, and sometinieB coy,
In no man's oomrtship, but mine own, to joy;
Yonnff men to hate, eT*n her own sex to fear;
To otners ioe^ to me a maid appear.
Now, Flaoeos, I foreknow what thon wilt say.
CbHa, my GnJia, thon dost here display. Afum. 1685^
TTiTTT. TO COBAOnnjS.
I did not can you, Coradnns, an unnatural debauchee ; I am not bo raah or daiing; nor am I a person to utter fidse- booda willindy. If I bo spoke of you, Goracinus, may I find tiie flagon of Pontia and the cup of Metilus^ hostile to me; I swear to you by the extrayaganoe and madness of the rites of Isis and Qybele. What 1 said, howerer, was of a li^ht and tnflinff nature, — a something well known, and which you youiadf will not deny ; I said, Coradnus, that yon are strange^ fond of tiie female sex.
zuT. OK Hovirr YxsxnniTS.
This is YesuTius, lately green with umbrageous Tines; here the noble grape had prcflsed the dripping coolers. These are the heights which Bacchus loved more tluin the hills of Nysa; on this mountain the satyrs recently danced. This was the abode of Venus, more erateful to her than Laoedssmon ; this was the place renowned by the diyinity of Hercules.* All now lies bnned in flames and sad ashes. Even the gods would haye wished not to haye had the power to cause such acatas* trophe.'
Vesinins, shaded once with peenest yines. Where pressed grapes did yield the noblest wines; Which nill fiur more than Nvsa Bacchus loy*d. Where satyrs once in mirthrall dances moy'd. Where Venus dwelt, and better loVd the place Than Sparta, where Alcides temple was. Is now cramt downe, rak'd up in ashes sad. The gods are grill'd that sncn great power they had.
Jfay.
* TwopoisoBflnofduitday.
* There were temples of venns end Hercoles on the monntam.
* This WIS the enmtkn of Vesnnns in which Pliny the elder lost Us Uk. Plm. Ep ?i l£
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Vetavios, covered with the finitfiil Tine,
Here flourished once, and ran with flcods of wine i
Here Bacchus oft to the cool shades retired.
And Mb own native Nysa less admired :
Oft to the mountain's airy tops adTanced^
Hie finsking Satyrs on the summits danced :
Alddes here, here Venus, graced the shore,
Nor loYed her ikvourite Laoedeemon more.
Now piles of ashes, spreadimr all around
In undistinguish'd heims, detorm the sround :
The gods themselves the ruin'd seats bemoan,
And olame the mischie& that themselves have done.
Additm,
3XT. TO APOLLO.
To thee, FhoDbos, Partheniua, the chmnberlain of Domitiaa makes these offerings, in beha^ of his son Burros, jo^3rftiUy and with full censer ; that he, who this day marks nis first five years by entering a second lustrum, may live many Olym* piads of years. Grant accomplishment to the prayers of a father ; so may thy Daphne delight in thee, and thy sister rejoice in unspotted virginity ; so mayst thou glory in per- petual youth; so may Bacchus never possess, Phoebus, locks as long as thine.
Accept, peat Apollo, the censer of joy, Parihemus the Falatine lights forms boy; That Burrus, who hails his first lustre complete, Olympiads unnumber*d of glory may greet. Oh, sanction the vow : so be loved bv thy tree ; 80 euard thy fiur sister viijpnity's glee ; 80 bloom thou perennial* with radiance divine ; Not Bromius* own head boasdng honours like thine.
XLTI. OV SABXLLTJS.
The Saturnalia have made Sabellus a rich man.^ Justlj does Sabellus swell with pride, and think and say tiiat there is no one among the lawyers better off than mmself. All these airs, and afi this exultation, are excited in Sabellus by half a peck of meal, and as much of parched beans ; by three half pounds of frankincense, and as many of pepper ; bj a sausage from Lucania, and a sow's paunch from Falerii ; by
^ It was cnstomaiy for clients and dependents to make presents to their patrons at the Satoznalia, celebrated in December.
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a Syrian fla^n of dark mulled wine, and some figs candied in a Libyan jar, aooompanied with onions, and sheU-fish, and cheese. From a Ficenian client, too, came a little chest that would.- Bcaroelj hold a few olives, and a nest of seyen cups from Saffuntam, polished with the potter's rude grayer, the day wonmanship of a Spanish wheel,' and a napldn ya- riesated with the latidaye. More profitable Saturnalia Sa- beuus has not had these ten years.
' Of Satumiaa joy* s Sabellus may tell. And display tae new riches that give him to swell. He may thmk, 'mid the pleaders, and safely declare That hnnself is most blessed beyond a compare.
Say, my Muse, what makes Belly so proud and so vain f Of split beans half a peck, half a bushel of grain ; Of franldncense and pejiper, thrice half a pound stanch ; A Lucanian sausage, Fausdan panch ;
Or of deep must decocted a Syrian flaak ;
Superfine candied figs, a &ir Libyan cask ;
With some scalUons, perwinkles, some choicest of cheese i
And whateyer a high-pamper'd palate can please.
Nor, amid Satumalian boons, be forgot
Of old half-shrivell*d olivea, no overgrown pot :
Nay, of crockery smooth'd with the potter's rough tool^
'See a sweet set of seven, says the Saguntine schooL
Though his plate bumiah neither the silver nor steel, Tis the well-temper'd clay of a good Spanish wheeL On a board so supplied universally spread, With a cloth of broad border, white striving with red.
Now can envy unburst eye the cloth, plate, or cates, If but half be the truth, that Sabellus relates P - Can she deem that Sabellus, or lawyer alive, Tasted richer Satumians these twelvemonths twice five f
XLyn. OK ▲ FIOUBB OF PHiufiTON.
An encaustic figure of Fhaeton is depicted upon this tablet. What do you mean, painter, by burning FnaSton a second time?
Behold poor Phaeton again sublime !
Ah 1 why bum Fhaeton a second time P JElphiruion.
* /L potter's wheel. The earthenware manufacture of Spain was of a yeiy inferior diancter*
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ZLYm. TO PAPILin.
Percidi gaudes : perdsiifly FapOe, plonfl.
Cur, qua vis fieri, Fapile, ucta doles P Poanitot obscGBDS pniriginiB P an magiB illad
Elea, quod peradi, Fapile, dederia r
Ta ^odi d*eBiere inxmembnto : e dopo d'esaerlo 8tato» to, o Pa^ piloy pmiijgL Perchd, o Papflo, ti iMfoi ta di oid ehe tuu die ti a nodaP ti peati ta delP oeceiio pmntoP OYYeio piangi to, Papilo^ per desidenrlo maggionneate f QragliUu
TTiTT. TO nACOlTB.
He knows not, Placcos, believe me, what Bpigrams leaUr are, who calla them mere trifles and frirolities. He la mneh more frivoloiia, who writes of the feast of the cmel Teieba; or the banquet of the unnatural Thyestes ; or of ]>BdaluB fitting
melting wiima to his son's body ; or of Polyphemus feeding hia Sicilian flocu. From my effiisionB all tumid ranting is ex- cluded ; nor does my Muse swell with the mad garment of Tragedy. ^But eyerything written in sudi a sMe is paised, amnired, and adcnred 1^ alL" I admit it. l!hing9 m tiiat style are praised; but mine are read.
Thou knov*8t not, trust ms^ what are Epigrams, Flaoeua, who tfaink'st thiem jests and wanton games. He wantons more, who writes what homd meat The nlagu'd Thyestes and Tez*d Tersos eat» Or Ds£lus fitting his boy to fly, Or Polyphemus^ £cks in SioQy. My booke no windy wofds nor tmgid needss, Nor BweUs my Muse with mad sm^umal weedes. Tet those things all men uraiBe, admize, adove. IVnei they praise those, oat read these poems mora.
You little know what Epgiam ocmtains, Who dean it but a jest m jocund strains. He rather jokes, who writes what honid meat The plagued Thyestes and Tez'd Tereus eat; Or tdls who roMd the boT with mdtmg wingsi Or of the sheplMEd Polyphemus sings. Our muse disoains by ibraan to excel,
a rant to rattle, or in buskins swdL Du^ turgid themes all men admire^ adore^ Be well assured tW read my poems more.
, fTsiARMuter £wMis, Apr. laOL
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L. TO THAU.
yfhjf TliaiSy are you oonBtantlv' Baying tliat 1 am old P One 18 nerer too old, Thais, for what you require.
My age, you, Thais, often spell ;
One 's neW too aged—- to oo welL ^gtkmd(m.
LI. TO OiBOILIAXHTB.
When you had not six thousand sesterces, Ciecilianus, yon used to he carried ahout ostentatiously in avast litter borne by six men. But since the blind soddess has given yon two millions^ and your ooins haye orernowed your coffers, behold you have taken to go on foot. What prayers ought I to offer on your behalf for such merit, such praise-worthy modesty P Hay- the gods restore you, Csdlianus, your litter I
Wheii 'nx thoiuand, Gncilian, exceeded thy store, Thee to bns'iieM or pleasure six huge fellows bore. When her thousands twice ten th« blind goddess bestow'd. And thy coin bunt the budget,^ thy foot took the road. For a merit so modest, what wish can be fiur P May the gods, poor CeBdlian, restore thee thy chair !
LII. TO HXDTLUB.
If yon do not leare off, Hedylus, being drawn by a yoke of goats, yooy who were recently a ,fieui, will become a eo-
UUL TO OOBKITS, OK AK ILLITSnATX TMLLOW PBXTXVDIira
TO Bs ▲ onao.
Yonder person, Cosmus, whom you often see in the recesses of the temple of our Pallas, and on the threshold of the new temple,' — an old man with a stick and a wallet ; whose hair bristles white and dirty, and oyer whose breast a filthy beard descends ; whom a wax-coloured cloak, sole partner of his bare bed, coyers ; and to whom the crowd that encounters him g^yes food foroed from them by his impor« tunily, — him, I say, you take for a Cynic, but you are deceiyed by a fidse appearance; he is no Cynic, Cosmus. What then P— a dog.*
^ An untnunlat&ble pun on the words oop^r vdAJSou, Fieu$ dgniflsi On les, or a penou afflicted with them ; oqvri^Sciit, a wild fig tree.
* The temple of BiinerraFlaTiaaa, recently built by Domitisn. See 11 fs.Bp. 2.
* The naiae Gynio, "dog-Eke,** ig deririd from dW, « a dog.
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He who r th temples you lo often meet,
In public porches, CoroiOB, and the streeti
With bag and ttsit, nasty, and antique dressed,
His hair an end, beard banging doim his breast t
Who, for a cloak, a coverlet does use;
Barks for his meat, the givers oft* abuse ;
A Cynic to be thought does make this stir :
But ne no Cynic is. What then? A cur. Anon. 1695.
LIT. TO coLLnnrs.
O CoUinus, to whom it has been granted to obtain the crown of oak in the Capitol,^ and to surround thy deserving locks with its foliage first of all thy race, make the most, u thou art wise, of every day, and always imagine that thy last is come. No one ever succeeded in moving the three wool-spinning sisters ; ' they observe rigidly the day which they have fixed. Though thou be richer than Crispus, more firm-minded than Thrasea's self, more magnificent than the splendid Melior, Lachesis adds nothing to the thread ; she unwinds the spindles of her sisters, and one of the three always puts a stop to the prolongation of it.
You, whom your country's honours hi^h do raise.
And crown with merited but early praise ;
If you are wise, make use of every nour,
And never think another in your power.
No man could ever soften cruel fate ;
But what that once decrees must be our date.
Were you polite as Sidney, or as great.
Had Cato's soul, or Marlborongh's estate,
Still is life*s hne by the three sisters sped :
Not one prolongs, but one still cuts, uxe thread. J9ay.
LY. TO THS POST LVCITJGt.
O Lucius,' glory of thy age, who dost not allow old Guius ^ and our Tagus to yield the palm to eloquent Arpi,* let him who has been bom among the cities of Ghreece sing of Thebes or Mycens in his lay, or famous Bhodes, or the
^ In the Quinquennial games, instituted by Domitian to Jupiter Capito* anus. > The Fates.
* Lucius was a native of Spam, contemporary with Martial.
^ Gatus was a river of Spain, sometimes called Old Gains, say the com* mentators, when it was afterwards named Gravius.
* Lucius imitated Horace, who was boin in Apulia, in which Arpi was situate.
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Ledflsaa pabestno' of lioentionB* Laced»inon. For us, bom among the Celts and Spaniards, let ub not be ashamed of repeatiiu; in grateful Terse the harsher names of our own land ; Bilbus, renowned for its mines of cruel iron, a town which Borpaases in this respect the Ghalybes and the Norid ; Flatea^ resoonding with the working of its own steel, a town which the rirer Siuio, that tempers arms, surroimds with shal- low but nnqniet waters ; Tuteia ; the dances of "RiTamie ; the joyful festivities of Gardua ; Peterus, red with intertwined roses; Bigs, and its ancient theatres constructed bj our ancestors ; the Silai, unerring in the use of the light dart ; the lakes of Turgontus and Perusia ; the pure watm of the humble Yetonissa ; the sacred oak-grove of Buradon, through which even the tired traveller wa&s; ' and the fields of toe vale of Yativesca, which Manlius tills with lujsfy steers. Do these rough names excite a smile, fastidious reader? Smile, if jaa please; I prefer them, rough as they ore, to ButuntL^
Ludns, thou gloiy of thy times, "Who, by th' enchantment of thy rhymes Nor letfrt old Gains quit^ field. Nor Tagos' paiae to AipTs yield : By bards, 'mid Argive cities spnmg. Be Thebes or great Myoens smig ; Or Bhodes renown'd, or Leda^s ^ooIb, "Where lustfnl Laeediemon rules. F^om CeltB and bold Iberians, we Shall twan^ the stabbom names with glee i Nor deem it shame, in duteous verse, Parental honours to rehearse. ^
Be thou, my BilbiliB, prodaim'd. For might of savage metal famed. Nor Cbalybs nor JN oridaos try With thy superior sons to vie. Haik ! how thy Platea's blowB astound The edioes, with her iron-sound ! Her Sslo locks, the lord of arms, With gentle grasp, but potent charms.
1 Falastis, wreftlinc-grounds, called Ledoan because Oastoraiid Pol* lax, the soDi of Leda, m^goiahed themsdTes in athletic ezerdiSB.
* In aUnsioii, probably, to the wrestling and numing of girls m tbt gymnaina.
* Attracted by its beauty and hiviting shade. « A town of Apulia. B. iL £p. 48.
2M ICJLXTIAL^
Tatela, come ; and bring along
The Bixamazm with dance and scng |
The Cardnana, with their festal joyai
And Feteros, who never doya,
As blnahing atill with wattled rose ;
And RigSy aeat of ancient ^ows.
Silaans, sure with slender shaft ;
Ye ffladdeat lakes, that erer laugh'd I
Bom Tuzgens and Petosia, hear :
Te rills, inio, raviahing the ear
Of little Vetomasa, rove ;
And Baradon's hofan-balloVd grove,
Where Sloth herself would oeaseleu stray.
Nor lose her patience, or her way.
But never shall the Muse forset
The winding vales, unequall'd yet,
That Matinessa's toil endears
To Manlius, by her sturdy steers.
Nice reader, at each rustic name,
Thy stomach slirrinff, not th]r blame.
Thou lai:^'st ; lanm on : snll be tiiey mine,
And be we sweet Bitunti thine. EJphkmUm*
LTI. TO OAHeiLIAinTS.
Do you wish me, Gkffgilianua, becaoBe you send large pre* Bents to old men and widows, to call you munificent P Theore is nothing on earth more sordid or meaner than you ate, who call your snares gifb. In like manner is the giuleful hook bountifal to fishes, and the crafty bait a boon to the silly inhabitants of the forests. What the difieienoe is between giving liberally, and making such presents, I will teach you, if you do not know. I^kke them, Qargilianus, tome.
Gifts (^ old rich men tiiou send'st, and widows all,
Tet would'st be thoug^it, Gaigilian, liberalL
rhere 's nought more sordid, nought more base than thee^
To call thy snares a liberalitie.
So to tiie greedy fish the hooka is kinds:
Sneh fiivour beasts from cousening bates do finds.
But wouldst thou know true libenlitie P
1 11 teach thee then ; bestow thy gifts on me* Maifs
Bichjpresentii, to old men and widows sent, Tou hope may prove you are munificent. What can your sordid baseness more declare^ When fbr a present thus you send a snaxeP
BOOK IT.] BPieSUCi. 906
Sneh prasenU makes tbe angler to the tront i Booh preaenti in a monse-trap aie set oat. If yon would leam what 's generous and free, A real present is one sent to ma Ay
Lm. TO TJLVBTnrCB,
Whilit I am detained by the Yolaptuous watera of tbe ittraotire Imcriiie lake, and tbe caves warmed with foontaina iBBaing from tbe rocka of pumice-stone, you, Paua&iui, are dwelling in tbe domain of tbe Ar^ve coloniata,^ wbiUier tbe twentieth milestone from tbe citj brings you. But tbe brial^ chest of tbe Nenusan lion'isnow inflamed with beat, and Aim glows with more than its own warmth. So, then, fiffeweD, ye sacred fountains and grateful abores, the home alike ot Nympba and of Nereids I In the odd winter you were preferable to the mountains of Hercules : ' but now you must yidd to the cool shades of Tibur.
'WhUe near the Lucrine lake, oonsomed to death,
I draw the soltry air, and gasp for breath.
Where streams of salphur raise a stifling heat,
And throoffh die pores of the warm pnmioe sweat,
Ton taste me oooung breese^ where^ nearer home^
The twentieth pillar marks the mUe from fiome :
And now the smi to the bright lion turns.
And Bais with redoubled mrj burns ;
Then, briny seas and tasteftd springs, frreweD,
Where fountain-nymphs ooniused with Nereids dweD f
In winter you may all tbe world despise.
But now 't is Tiroli that bears the prise. AiiiBim.
LTm. TO OALLA.
You lament in secret, Ghdla, tbe loss of your huaband ; you are aabamed, GMla» I suppose^ to weep for a man.
TTiy husband lost, thou wail'st in gloom, I ween.
Thou blushest, Oalla, to make sorrow seen. Elphimion,
LIT. OV A TIPXB mrCKOSXD HT AMBIB.
Whilst a viper was crawling on tbe weeping bougba of the
■ TIbar,htiilth]rOfttinus,anatiTeofAzgos. Hor.Od.iL6.
■ The oontteUatioD Leo.
s The biUb near Tibur, where Hercules was worshipped. See B. i Bp.l3
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Heliades,^ an amber^dioi) flowed upon the reptile as it laj in its way. Wbile wondering at being fettered by the gammy exudation, it suddenly &[rew stiff, immured in tne congealing mass. Pride not thyself Cleopatra, on thy royal sepulchre ; §or a viper reposes in a tomb still nobler.
Greening amonff the boughs, where gums doe drop. The nowing amber did a viper stop : Amazed awhlLe how in that dew she *b held. That straight tnrn'd ice, and shee in it congeaPd. Of your vast ahrine bee n*t, Cleopatra, proud, Since vipera now are nobler tombs allowed.
Old M8. 16M CM.
As 'mon^ the poplar boughs a viper crawls,
The liamd gum upon him struggling falls :
With orops alone while wond'ring to be held.
He straight within the amber was congeal'd.
Then of thy tomb, proud queen, think not too high :
A worm far nofato nere entomb'd doth lie. Anon. 1696,
£Z. OK CTBIATITIB.
Let us in the summer solstice retire to Ardea and the coun-
Sf about PflBstum, and to the tract which bums under the eoniean constellation ; * since Curiatius has condemned the air of Tivoli, carried off as he was to the Styx notwithstand- ing its much-lauded waters. From no ^lace can you shut out &te: when death comes, Sardinia' is in the midst of TivoH itself.
When Leo rages with the summer's sun.
From pestilential climates never run ;
Since, in the wholesom'st and the purest air,
The destinies Croatius did not spare.
When th^ time's come, death from no place is bound,
Sardinia m the midst of Tibur 's found. Anon, 1696.
LXI. TO HAKCTKUS.
A little while ago, Mancinus, you Joyfully boasted to us, m an exulting tone, that some £riend of yours had made you a present of two himdred thousand sesterces. Only four days ago, as we were talking in the assembly-room of the poets, you told us that your cloak, which had cost ten thousand
^ Daughters of the sun; sisters of Phaeton ; who were metamorphoset into poplars. See Ep. 25 and 32. > The Constellation Xeo.
* Sanlinia was thought a Tery unhealthy island.
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Bestoroes, was tiie gift of PompnllA; you swore ihnt Basstf and CeliA had given you a real sardonyx, a brilliant opal« and two goDB green aa the waves of the sea. Testerdayy when yon suddenly left the theatre while Pollio was singing, yon rema^ady as you ran of^ that three hnndred thousand sostorces had just come to you by a legacy; this morning you spoke of another hundred thousand, and this afternoon of a hundred thousand more. What extraordinary mjury have we, yoor companions, wrousfht youP Have pily on us, unfbelnig mortal, and at length hold your peace. Or, if your tongue cannot be silent, tell us now and then some* thing that we should like to hear.
Two hundred bountied by a friend,
llaneinns, thou didit late pretend.
In poeti^ oomer proved our walk ;
Pompilla's present was thy talk :
Eobes wortn ten thousand, robes so finel
The sardonyx with treble Hne,
And the two gems, so like the wave,
Bassa, thou swor^st, and Caelia gave.
Last ni^ht, whfle charming Porno sung,
Soeoession shook iky flippant tongue.
No theatre thy foot ooutci stay ;
Three hundred fell that very day ;
And one at mom, and one since noon.
Have mercy on us, vile buffoon.
From thy poor friends what canst thou dread.
That with thy wealth thou 8trik*st them dead
Or if thy dack can never tire.
Say, sometimes, what thy friends desire. B^Muion.
LXn. 09 LTOOBIB.
Swarthy Ljcoris has left Borne for Tivoli, sacrea to Her- eules; for she imagines that everybody becomes white
there.^
To heights Herenlean Lyoo would repair.
Assured that ev'ry black was whiten'd there. E^hkutoiu
LXin. OK OJBBXLLIA.
Whfle Gasrellia, the mother of a family, was sailing from Bauli to Bais, she perished, drowned by the malice of the raging flood. What glory have ye lost, ye veaters ! Such a
^ As it was a cooler place than Rome, and people were thonsht to be leas scorched hy the sun in it*
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monstrooB catastrophe re did not of old allow to Nero, efen though commandea to do aoJ
F^rom BttollMi, while the seekB the Baian coast f A mother 's murder'd hy the madding main.
No more, ye waves, your wonted slory boast : 8abh honor once a Nero begg^o in vain. JS^Mutm*
£Zrr. OV THB eABDXKB or J17LII78 1CAXTIALI8.
On the long ridge of the Janicolan Hill lie the few acrea belonging to Julias Mardalis; land more blessed than the gardens of the Heaperidea* Seduded retreats aie spread over the hills, and the smooth summit, with gentle un- dulations, enjoys a doudless sk^, and, while a xmst ooTera the hollow valleys, shines conspicuous in a light all its own. The gracefhl turrets of a lofty yiQa rise gently towards tiie stars. Hence you may see the seven hills, rulers of the world, and contemplate the whole extent of Bome, as well as the heights of JQba and Tusculum, and every cool retreat that lies in the suburbs, with old Pidens and httle Bubra, and the {hnt-bearing grove of Anna Perenna, which delightB in Tir- gina' blood.*^ Thence may be seen the traveller on the FIami« nian and Salarian roads, while his carriage is unheard, so that its wheds are no interruptian to gentto dee^ ; neither is it broken by the cry of the Doatswain, or the noise of hawsm, although the Mmvian bridge is near, and ships aie seen glid« ing smfAy along the sacred Tiber. This country hox^ but wmch ought rather to be called mansion, is rendered addition- ally agreeable by the welcome of its owner ; you will imagine it to bs your own; soungrudKingly,soliberfaly, is it thrown open to you, and with such refin^ hospitality. You would deem it the pious abode of Alcinous, or of Molorchua re- cently made rich.* You now, who think all these attrac* tions insignificant, cultivate with a hundred spades cool
^ Nero had contrived that his mother ahonld be shipwrecked on the voyage to Beuli, but the project did not eucceed. By drowning CsreUia, Uie waten loet the hononr which they had guned by sparing Agiippine.
a Qmdvirgin$o eruon aaudti, whether it is meant that virgins were fn old times sacrificed Uiere, is nnoertain. Such sacrifices to Anna Perenna are nowhere else menttoned.
a Molorchus was a shepherd worshipped for having entertained Her- onlea when he was seeking the Nemaean lion. He is said to have beea recently made rich, because Domitian had built a temple to him near that of Herccles.
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Tiroli or Fnmeiste, and siye the slopes of Setia to one ni ^ hmbandman ; whilst I, for my part, prefer to all your po^ sessions tiie few acres of Julius Martialis.
MartisU'i few acres plesaanter Than the Hesperian sardeni axe : Along the ridse of hSUa which crooks With many a jiarge and hollow nooke. The topp, with little swelling there, Tett plajrne, enjoys a sky more dears i And whilst foggs spread the winding Talesi There only ligntsome ayre ne'er &jlm i And rentier stars with happyness This fittle lofty yillaffe hless, Whence the seVn hills distinctly wee, And the world's lord, great Rome, do sss f The Tnscnlan and Alhan mount, And the suburban snrings may count i The old Fidene, Kubra's short bounds^ Perenna's ap]>le-beannff grounds. Which mneh in Tiigin olood delight. There in the highways to our sight The whirling chariots oft appeare i Butt tiieir sound cannot reach our ears^ To break soft sleepes, nor joyned Toyos Of seamen or the ooatemen's noyse, Thoufffa by the Milvian bridge so nigh On Tioer's flood the shins sayle by. This loTely fiurme, or rattier seate. Its master's bounty makes compleate ; With courteous frankeness still t is showns^ So ope to guests they 'd thinke 't their owns. It 's like the howse o' th' king or swayns^ Who heroes once did entertayne.
You now who all too little count Cold Tiber or Pneneste, or Mount 8etia f which hundred teemes can* t plow]^ May all unto their Fame allow ; WhQst Martiall's acres I prefer, Fewer, 't is true, but pleasanter. Old M8. IM OhH.
LXT. OK FHILJUnB.
Pbilmis is slwavs weeping with one eye. Do yon ask how that can be P She nas but one.
^^Ih but one ere Philsnis weeps. How done
If ycrn inquire, snow she hath got but one. YFryAt
210 vabtialV
£m. TO LnnTB.
You baye alwajB led the life, Lmns, of a conntrj gentle- man ; an existence than which none can be more inexpen« riTO. It was only on the ides, and occasionallj on the kalends of the month,^ that you pufc on your toga ; and one robe of ceremony lasted you ten summers. The forest sent you wild boars, and the field sent you hares, without cost ; the well- searched wood gaye you mt thrushes. The fish came easily snatched firom f£e watery pool ; and the red cask poured forth winea of natiye erowth. iHo attendant of Ghrecian birth stood at your orders, but a rustic assemblage from the farm. As omn as your amorous fimdes were warmed and excited by wine, the housekeeper, or the wife of your hardy labourer, sufficed to appease tnem. Fire hurt not your house, nor Siiius your lands : no ship of yours was ever sunk in the deep ; nor 18 any one now at sea. In your house dice neyer supplanted the quiet tali;* but all your stake was a few nuts. Tell us, then, where is the million sesterces which your parsimonioua mother left you. Nowhere. You haye accomplished a diffi- cult thing, Ijinus.
Tour life has ever in the comitry been
And in a way that nothing was so mean.
Scarce at a wedding a new bob did wear :
Tour coat an old acquaintance of ten year.
From your estate ^ur pork and yenison came :
Tour ponds sapphed your fish, your woods your game.
And not a glan of wme througnout the year s
Tour cdlar stoek'd with only your own l>eer.
No Fitndii yalet appear'd in spruce attire :
Only John trots about your kitchen fire.
You ne'er had drunken firolic in your life,
Tdat erer aim'd aboye a farmer's wife.
No loss by fire, or by tempestuous skies, ^
Of ships, msurance, freight, or merchandise.
You neyer pisfd or yentured deej^ at White's :
The most was shilling whist on wmter nights.
How is your mothei^s yast estate run out r
You Ve Drought a most surprising thing about ! J3ay.
LXyn. TO PBJBTOB.
Hie poor Ghinrus begged of Frsstor a hundred thousand
' DajM of pnblic business, ceremuny, and sacrifices. > Boots, with which children and country people played
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wBterceB, weD known to him as he was hy long-tianding friendship, and told him that he wanted that aom alone to add to his three hundred thousand, to qualify him, as a fall knight^ to applaud the emperor.' Says Frstor: '^ You know, I shall hare to give a sum of money to Seorpus and Thallus ;* and would that I had only a hundred thousand scstoroes to giro them I " Ah ! shame, shame on your un- grateful coflfors, filled to no good purpose ! That which you refuse to a knight^ Fnetor, will you bestow upon a horse P
Oamnu, in 'i need, did of the Pretor uray A hundred pound, grown in his frieacuhip fnjt And said, that sum would giTe him a just nght To all the honours of a Boman knight. But he reply'd : ** An hundred pound I use r th' raoe to spend, nor this will me exooae." Ah, shames it not, ingiate, thy friend to slight? To gite a hone what thou doiy'st a knight?
Anon. 1895.
ULVm. TO BXXT178.
You inyite me to a dinner that costs but a hundred farth- ings, while you yourself dine magnificently. Am I inrited to dine with you, Sextus, or to envy you P
My mess cost cheap, thine the prolusest sum ;
To tapt not enry, Sextos, I did oome. Amm, 1085.
IXEC TO PAICFHTLUB.
You always, it is true, Pamphilus, place Setine wine, or Massic, on table ; but rumour says that they are not so pure as they ought to be. You are reported to have been four times made a widower by the aid of your goblet. I do not think this, or believe it, ramphilus ; but I am not thirsty.
Pure Massic wine thou dost not only diink.
But g^T'st thy ^ests : though some this do not think.
Four wives, 't is said, thy fla^n caused to die ;
This I beUeve not, yet not thirst to try. Amm, 1605.
With the best wines of France you entertain : Yet that your wine is bad the world complain : That you have lost four wives by it; but! Neither believe it, sir, — ^nor am a-diy. Ay.
^ To sit in the theatre in the seats appoiDted for the kniahts ; an ordei to which no one was admitted who haid not a fortone of at lesst fool taadred thoussnd sesterces. * Names of charioleen.
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LiZX. TO KABULLUnrB.
The father of ATnmianas, when dying, left him by hiB will nothing but a dry halter. « Who would have thought it pos- sible, MaruUinus, that Ammianus could have been made to wish his father still aliYe t
Jack's ikther 'i dead : and left him without hope : For he hath nodim^ left him, but a ropeu By a itrange torn did fortune Uius contrive To make Jack wish his fieither were alive. JZoy.
LzxL TO BAnpinirs mnfrs.
^ I have been long seeking, Safronius Bufus, throughout the dt;^, for a maiden tiiat says No : but not one says c(o. Just as if it were not ri^^ as if it were disgraceful, as if it were prohibited, No maiden says No. Is there then no maiden chaste P There are a tiiousand. What then does the chaste one do P She does not say Yes, certainly, but still die does not say No.
Lonff have I learch'd, my Soph, the town.
To nnd a damsel that would nromL
But not a damBel will deny,
As if a sfaame 't were to be shy i
As if a m, will no one dare :
I see not one denying fiedr.
''Then of the fair is no one ehasteP*
A thounady Soph : you urge in haste.
'^ What does the chaste P Enlarge my views."
She does not grant, nor yet refuse. JBlpkmtitm.
LTTTT. TO QUIirTTJS.
You beg me, Quintns, to present you my works. I have not a copy, but the bookseller Trypho has. "Am I going to ^ve money for trifles," you say, "and buy your verses while in my sober senses P I shall not do anything so ricU- culous.*' Nor shall L
Tou ask me ibr my books of poems still : I have not one i but Dodsley^ shop the^ filL " What ! spend my money ! and such tnfles buy I I am not such a fooV* say you : — nor L I£m/*
LTTTTT. OK yESTIirUS.
Wben Yestinus, overcome with disease, was at his last hour, and just on the point of crossing the Stygian waters, he
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pmyed to the sisten who were Bpinning his last threada that thqr would bring their dark twine to an end with little dalaj. Whiles dead for himself, he lived a few moments for hia dear ftiendi^ such affectionate prajers moved the stem ffoddessee. Then, having divided his great wealth, he letirea from the lig^t of day, feeling, after this was done, that he died an old naiL
When on time's pedpioe Allworthy stood,
Beady to lamieh mto th' eternal flood*
The cruel &te8 addressing thus he laid,
** Te goddesses, one moment spare my thread :
Lost Siongh I am, let friends my bomity prove."
His pious prayers the rigid sisters move.
He his vast wealth divides ; then quits the stage ;
And in that moment lived a Nestor's age. ITsy.
liZXIT. TO OABAXy OK BOn DOSS TIBBTIXQ.
Bo jon see what fierce combats the nnwarlike does at- tempt^ and how great rage there is in these timid ^"^"iftlf P They bum to rash together npon death with their narrow browa. Do yon desire to spaio the does, Csaar P Let tiie honnda loose npon them.
See how the tim'rous herd in flght engsge I How fearful deer express the fiercest rage ! Death from themselves they sre not seen to ftarl Cassr, set on the dogs, to save the deer. Anon, 109A.
LXXT. TO KIGBDTA.
0 Higrina, hnppy in thy beautv of sonl, happy in thy ecmsoit^ chief glory of the daoffhters-in-law of Latinm, it ddights thee to share with thy nusband the wealth inhe- rited mm thy fi&ther, rejoicing to associate and participate with him in sil things. Though Evadne may have cast herself npon the funeral pyre of her husband, and liave been burned ; and though a fame in no respect inferior exalt Alcestis to the stars ; thou hast done better ; thou hast gained, by visible evidenoe, such reputation for affection, thiS thy love needa not to be attested by death.
Blest in thy spirit, in thy husband blest, O thou of wives most bonour*d, and the best i Who your whole fortune to your consort spare f And know no joy in which he beurs no shaxSi
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Eradne died in her lord's fiineral flame ;
Nor leis immortal Ib Aloettis' name i
Yet len did they, when thev reaign'd their breath :
Late IB jhe proof of love, when after death. Sai^
Blest in yourself and in your husband too»
The minor of our Boman dames are you,
Nigrina, that so generously impart
Your fortune where you wisely gare your heart.
Eyadne and Alcestis we admire.
Who martyzs of ohaste wedlock did expire :
Whereas in life jour merits shine so dear,
You need not die to make your love appear. Arum,
UCCn. TO AK ATABI0I0U8 TBIEim.
You haye BODt me six thouBand sesterceB, when I asked yon for twelye : to obtain twelye, I must ask you for twenty-four.
I ask'd twelve thousand sesteroee ; six you gaye ; Henceforth 1 11 double ask what I would have. Wr^fhL
Ten pound I begff'd; with half thou didst me speed : Next time 1 11 uk thee twice what I haye need.
Amw, 1695.
mVU. OK K0IL17B, AF XFTI0TJ8 HA.K.
I haye neyer hitherto asked riches of the gods, being con- tent with moderate enjoyments, and happy in what I possess. —But now, poyerty,! wish joa (pray excuse me) to re- tii^e. What is the cause of this new and sudden prayer ? I long to see Zoilns hang himself.
I ne'er ben^d riches firom the gods before,
Well pleard with what I had, and to be poor :
But, want, now set thee hence : Heav'n grant me store.
Whence comes this sudden new desire of pelf P
I 'd fain see enyious Zoilus hang himaelfl Jnon, 1695.
I neyer did the gods importune.
To grant to me a monstnous fortune i
Contented with my little store :
But now I own I wish for more.
Whence comes this sudden love of pelf P
That Zoilus may hang himself JZoy.
LXJLViU. TO AI15B.
Although you haye seen sixty harvests gathered in, and your faoe glistens with many a white hair, you run lather and tiuthfir wildlj throughout the city, and there is no
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neat man's chair to whidi yon do not erefy morning aaa* dnooalj pajyonr respects, without yon no tribune is allow- ed to leaye his house, nor is either of the consuls excused firom your dutifuliattendance upon him. Ten times a day you re- turn to the palace on the sacred hill, and talk unceasmgly of your friends Sigerius and Parthenius. Let youn^ men act thus — ^but than an officious old man, Afer, there is nothing more offonsiYe.
Tlirioe twenty yean you *ye seen yow ^prsis made hay;
Your eyebrows too proclaim your hair u grey :
Yet through all quarteri of the town you nm ;
At every ball, and levee, you make one.
No great man stin, but you are at his hedi t
And nerer tsSL both them who have the seals.
You never miss St James's ; ever ohat
Of Lord or Biiho^ this, or General that.
To youth leave tnfles : have you not been told,
That of all fools no fool is like the old ? JSay.
T.TTTT. TO MATHO.
You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my villa at TivolL Now you buy it. — ^I Imve deceived you ; I have merely sold you what was already your own.
So constant ^est unto my farm ye Ve known,
You buying it, I cheat, and sell your own. Wrighi.
You stin were welcome at my oomitry aeal
You buy it It was yours bobre. — ^Yon Ve bit Anon.
LXZZ. TO KUIO.
You declaim, Maro, when you are ill with a fever. If you are ignorant that this is frenzy, you aro not in your right senses, friend Maro. You declaim when out of order; you dedaim while a victim to the semitertian arae. If you cannot excite perspiration by any other means, wdi and good. ^ Oh ! but it IS a great thing to do.*' You aro mistaken; when fever is burning your vitals, the great thing is to be quiet, Maro.
Ihongh fever-struck, thou plead*st stilL Dost nott know
This madness isP That doth thy madness show.
Sick of an ague, still you bawie i' th' court;
If *t bee to make you sweat, y* have reason fort
T is mudi to speuLe (you 11 say), when fires like these
The entiails biuui— No ; much to hold one*s peace.
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OV TABTTLLA.
When Eabolk had read that epigram of mine, in which I comphun that no maiden says Ko, she, although asked onoe^ twice, and thrice, diarecardea the prayera of her lover. Now, Fabnlla, saj Tea : I advised you to say No, bnt not to say No for ever.
Whan FabuDa heard the strain.
Where the poet dares to plain
That no damsel will deny i
Onos^ nay twice or thrioe, the sigh
Of her lover she despised :
Now, FabuUa, be advised,
Yield a promise, and be dever :
Do dmy i but not for ever. S^phmiUm.
SO VUTUB, WITH TWO BOOXa OT BPIGBiJCa
Tos vnrvLBnia.
Becommend alao, Bofua, these little books of mine to Ye- nuleins, and b^ him to grant me some few moments of hia leiauie, and, forsetting awhile his caiea and occnpationa, to examine my tri&a wxhi indulgent ear. But let him not read them after eiflier hia first or ms last glass, but when Bacchna is in his glory, and delights to witness convivial excitement. If it be too much to r^ two volumea, let him roll up one of them ; and the task, thus divided, will seem shorter.
Tbme, Bofbs, to onr Venuleins commend t And beff him a moment with me to nnbendi Forget 06 must totally cares and designs, Not critie severely my libertine lines. Nor let hm read after the first or last enp^ But when middle Bacchns bidi spixits be up. If two be too much, double one parcel down i So hal( pediaps, better the pleasure will crown.
JBipkmatom^
Tiiiiiii. TO irjwoLirs.
When you are devoid of care, Nsvolua, nobody is move diaagreeable than you; when you are in. trouble, Nnvohia, nobody is more pleaaing. When devoid of care you answer nobodj's salutation, you look down on every one, you seem to thmk every one a slave, and no man living worthy of your regard. When yon are in trouble, yon make presents to one pecBon, yon pay your respecta to another as your lord
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md patron, and invite everybody to your honse. Fray bo alwaya^ NflBVoluB, in trouble.
Nothing more iosolent than you in place i
And nothing more obliging in diagnoe.
In place, you bow to none ; BOom every soul :
** Tms fellow ia a acnib ; and that ia dull"
T ia ** dine with me ; " '* your aervant I " in diagraoe :
la it then proper you ahould have a place P JSqr •
Ii2XHT. OK IHAIB.
lliere ia no one amon^ the people, or in the whole town, who will assert that 'Bmrn has granted him fiivours, although many desire and entreat them. Is Thais then, I ssk, so pure P By no means; she has an evil tongue.
LXXXr. TO POHTIOUS.
We drink out of glara, Ponticus; you, out of porcelain.' Why P Lest a transparent vessel should betray the better quauty of your wine.
We drink in glaaa, but you in atone ; and why P
Lett dear glrn ahould your better wine deacry, Wright
Thy cup 'a of china, ouxa of glaaa. Why ao P That we thy aordid uaage may not know : One glaaa two aorta of wine would plainly ahow.
uinofi. 1095.
IXXXVI. TO HIS BOOK, SBST TO AFOLLHTABIS.
If thoa wishest to be approved by Attic ears, I exhort and advise thee, my little book, to please the learned Apol« linaris.* No one is more acute than he, or more learned, nor is any one more candid or more indulgent. If he shall receive thee to his heart, and repeat thee with his lips, thou wilt neither have to dread the sneers of the malignant, nor wilt thou furnish parchment coverings for anchovies. U he shall condemn thee, thou mayst run forthwith to the stalls of the salt-meat sellers, to have thy back scribbled upon by their
boys.*
Wouldat thou, by Attic taste approved, By all be read, by all be loved,
* Literally Murrhint toon, made of fluor spar. * See B. viL Ep. 96.
* Sappoead to mean, who may improTe themtehea in writing, bv pxie- tiabg on the back of the parchment ; or who, alter wrappinf up taa flah S&U,uii|^inaeribepricea, or the addresaea oif cuatomeia, on it.
318 HJLBTZAL*!
To lemied HazriB* curious eye,
By me advised, dear Muse, apply.
lu him the learned judge you U findy
In Um the candid friend and kind.
If he repeats, if he approves,
If he the laughing muscles moves,
Thou nor the critic's sneer shalt mind.
Nor be to pies or trunks oonsign'd.
If he condemns, away ^ou fly,
And mount in paper kites the sky,
Or, dead, 'mons Grub-streetfs records lie.
Dr Soamey, Addressed to the author of Bermm,
ULXXVU. TO TABTJLLXrS.
Tour wife Bnaa, FabulluB, has always a child at her side, which she calls her delight and her darling. And, that you may have the ^|Bater cause for wonder, she is not at all rond of children. iKThat is her reason, then p She is troubled with wind.
Basaa, a little child has ever near. Which die does call her playfellow and dear : For sudi yet cares not, ii you 11 credit &me. How then P She^s rude, and the child bears the blame.
Anon, 1695. Hiv Basn, FabuUus, a child bears about.
On whom she strives eVry sweet name to bestow : Before made she never with children a rout : Some'seapes she may blusbless on innocence throw.
Eiphisutonm
UOLXYUL. lO Ora WHO DID KOT AOEKOWLXDOX THX XBOSIPT OP MABTIAIi's FBBBBNT.
You have sent me nothing in return for my little
S'ft, and five of the days of the Saturnalia are passed, ^us neither have six scruples of Septician silver^ been sent to me, nor a table-doth, fit present for a complaining dieut, nor a jar red with the blood of the Antipobtan timny, nor one containing small prunes, nor a little basket of wnnkled Picenian olives^ so as to enable you to say that you have not forgotten me. You may deceive others by your words and your smilinff ooontenanoe ; to me you will be henceforth an unmasked decdveT.
For the little boon that went, Tou, regardless, nothing sent :
^ See note on B. viiL Ep. 71«
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And, what hoghtena mj taautd,
Five hu Saturn leoi hia dajL
ScrapUt one of Sent/i name.
Nor a doth from cuent camei
Not a jar to sweetly red
With the blood poor tunny shea t
Nor the texture of the twin ;
Frauffht with tiny Coctan figa.
Nor vie wiiely wattled frail,
With Pioenian wrinklei nale :
That you should prefer uie pleai
You had onoe remember*d me.
Oihen, then, von may beguile
With your silken woras and smile:
You to me haye shown your plan ;
SoaxehalfanhmiestnuuL ^fhmabm^
TiTTTTT, TO HI8 BOOK.
Baoagliy enongh! little book! we haye already reached the end of the parchment. You would still go on, and add to yoor balk, and cannot confine yonraelf witun doe limita; joat aa if yon had not done enough, when you had com* pleted the firat ]9age. The reader ia now quite ^uerul^ oua, and out of patience ; the librariua^ himself now cnea out^ ^ Enough, enough, little book."
Oh, "t is enough it is enough, my book ;
Upon the utmost page thou now dost look.
Would'st thou swdl fturther yetP yet larger be F
Not leave thy naiagraphs and manins me ?
As if to some uiown period thou £dst tend.
When er'ry epigram may be thy end.
Header and printer tire^ no more can brook i
T is time thyself pronounce the last line strook.
Oh, "t is enough, im, 't is enough, my book. Anom, IGM
* Uhtsrins may be silher libmian, bookssUer, or trsasnibsr.
22C XAXTIAL*!
BOOK V.
X. so 3>0HrrLLiry itith thb aipchob's book.
This oflfering, 0 Cssiir, whether thou art residing npontbe liillB of Palladian Alba^ and looking thenoe on the one side upon the temple of Diana, and on the other upon the waters of Tneti8y-Hir whether the truth-telling sisters are learning thj oracular responses,^ where the smooth waters of the s&aita bathe the suburban meadows; or whether the nurse of .£neaS|* or the daughter of the Sun,* or Anxur, white witii healtii-giTO^ waters, attracts thee ; — ^this offering I send to ihee, auspieionB support and protection of our empire, by whose continued preservation we belieye that Jupiter shows his gratitude.^ Do thou but receive it; I will imagine that thou haat read it, and proudly indulge in Ghillic ' ciidulity.
Whether i' th' Alban Mount thy station be.
Where thou the proBpeot hast, on one side, sea,
Duma's Orove on th' other ; or before
Hus, if Gaieta's bay delight thee more,
Hie hill named from the daughter of tiie sun,
Or iriiere the Anxur's wholesome streams do ran.
O health and safety of the public state I Whose evils, as our own, we deprecate ; And whom, when prosperous and we happy see^ Gntteful we then believe Uie gods to be, Beoeive this little book I to t£ee send. Only a sracious hand vouchsafe f extend ; 111 thiu thou read'st it, though thou cast it by. Pleased with a Oallio, rude cr^ulity, Asum. 1685.
' Whedierflion art residing at Antiam, where Fortime was worshipped under the fonn of two sisters, representiiuK good and eril fortone.
of A
* Caieta, so called from the nurse of .£neas, said to hare been bnrisd there.
> Girceii, which had its name from Circe.
^ For the restoration of the Capitol after it had been destroyed by fire* Saetomua, DomiL c 5. Comp. B. tIL Ep. 59.
* The Gaols had the character, among the Romans, of being crednhns*
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n. TO KU BXASBBf .
Te matrons, youths, and virgins, to you is oar page dedicat- ed. But you who delight in wanton sallies and licentious jests may read my first four books, whicb are of a more free character. The fiftb book is for the amusement of the lord of the world ; and is such as Oermanicus may read without a blush in the presence of the Cecropian Tirgin- goddess.^
Te matrons, boys, and Tiigioi neat.
To you my page I dedicate.
Thou whom more ahamelflss sports delight,
^d naked pleaaant wit, invite
Thy fancy to my four first booka :
Thu fifth ahall aport with Caaar*a looks {
Which ^eat Domitian may be bold
Before nu goddeaa to unfold. Fletehir^
m. TO DOXITLUr.
Degis,* who now, O Germanicus, lives on the hanks of our river,' having come to thee from the placid waters of the Ister, is said m his ddight and overjoyment at having just seen the firuardian of the world, to have addressed his com* panions thus : — " How much better is my fate than that of m V brother, since I am allowed to behold so closely that god; whom he adores at so great a distance!"
When Degia, aent from lateif^a aulnect wavei^
Hail'd the bleat bank victorioaa Tiber lavea ;
Astoniih'd, aa o'eijoy'd, the atranger aaw
Ihe man, from whom mankind beaeechea lawf
And thua, on either hmd, addraaa'd hia mate :
How raiaed im onia, beyond oar brethren*a £ite!
To ua ia giVn to gaze th' empyreal atar.
Which t&y are humbly pnmd tf adore afiur. JBiphmtUm.
IT. TO FAULrS, OS HTKSAJM.
Myrtaleis wont to smell of dsep draughts of wine; hut, to
* Meaiuiig that Domitian, wlio lored to be called Qennaaicni^ firom Ua eSEpedition into Gern:any, nug^t lead tkia book in the preMiice of ch4k te Minerra, a goddeas tmom he eapedally worahipped. Saet Domit. e. 4.
' Suppoaed tohare been the brother of Deoebaloa, kbigofthe Daeii and 1) have come to Borne aa an ambaandor. * The Tiber.
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decern vb, die eats bay-leaTes, and cautiously mingles tbem in her cups instead of water. Whenever, Paulns, jou observe her mth flamine face and swollen veins approaching you, jou may wdl saj, ** Myrtale drinks bays." ^
Ifotefe often tmeUs of wine, but, wise, mth estinff bay-leaves thinks it to disffuiae : 80 nott wiuL water tempers the wine's neate, But eoven it Henceforth if her you meete With nd face and sweU'd veynes, modestly savt ''Sue Mvitale hath drank o* th* haves to day/'
Old M8, leth CM.
T. TO 8EXTU8.
Sextos, eloquent keeper of the Palatine library, who enjoyest the immediate presence of the god that inhabits it (for it is thy privilege to learn the cares of the emperor as they rise wi&un him, and to know the secret soul of our mler), make room somewhere for mv little books also, near those of Fedo^ of Marsus, of Catullus. Near the heaven- inspired lay of tiie Gapitoline war,^ place the lofty epic of tiie sublime VugiL
Sextos, whose winninff Muse presumes t* explore
The Palatnie Minerva s matchless lore,
T is thine tf approach her friend, the earthly god ;
T* imbibe his graces, and attend lus nod.
'Tis thfaie to scan and soothe eadi springing care ;
To mariL the hue bis inmost secrets wear.
Oh 1 to thy friend some little nook assign,
Where Pedo, Marsus, and Catullus shine :
But place the heavenly GapitoUan strains
Fast hy the buskin'd Maro's grand remains. E^phhuUm,
TT. SO na XUSXS. ▲ BSQUXST to PABTHBJrniS.
If it is not too much to ask, or too troublesome to you, ye Muses, make this request of your favourite Partbenius : — So may a long and happy old age, under the rule of Caesar, brinff thy last hour ; so mayst thou prosper, even envy her* self lookmg &vourably on thee ; and so may Burrus soon ap-
' An aUiuion to certain poetasters, who were said to seek inspiration by eating laurel-leaves.
' Some poem en the war raised by the party of Yitellius is evidently meant ; written either by Domttton or by Sextus. This war is oailed JMhm %'MLmmm. Suetoniusy Domit. c 1.
SOOX T.] XnGBAKt.
predate tbe Tirtiiee of hit fiither, as thoa sluitt admit thia timid and email collection within tilie lacred predncta of the prince*B priTa<^. Thou knoweat the timea when our Jove ia at eaae, when he oeama on na with hiaown benignant counten- ance, with which he ia wont to refiiae nothing to aupplianta. Thoa haat no reaaon to fear that our reqneatiaextrayagant; a book which ia decorated with cedar and puiple, and awella proadlj with dark boaaea, never makea too ^eat or inconveni- ent demanda. Yet do not put theee compoaitionB too forward ; but hold them aa if thou wert offering and contemplating no- thing. If I know the votary of the nme siatera, he will of hie own accord ask for the purple-covered book.
If what I ask appears to yoa not great, O HtiM I yan/^a^emb thus ^Mt :-
May thy old age come Iste, snd happy end : CScsar be safe, and, to the last, your mend ; 80 above envy may you ever be, Your son a scheme of all voiit virtues see. As you this timorous, basoftd book shall grace When in the sacred presence 'tis in place. To you the prince's gracijoiis moods axe known. When with serenest looks, and most his own, He shines on all who to his throne address, And measures bounty out to each distress. Nor apprehend, this trifling gilded book Aims at high things, does for great matters look 1 Tou need not offer 't, hold it in your hand. As one designing nothing to demand : If the nine sisters* patron I do know. Himself will you command the book to ihow. Anon. 169d.
th. to TiTLCAir, oir thb ssbtoratiov of ths oitt afteb
- BBIHe FABTIiXLT DUTBOTXD BT ITBB.
Aa the flamea renew the neat of the Aasvrian phoenix, when- ever the solitary bird haa lived through ita ten centuriea; 80 Home, renewed, has put off her former old age, and haa heraelf aaanmed the looka of her guardian. Forget at length, I beaeech thee, Vulcan, thy cauae of complaint againat ua,' and apare na : we are, it ia true, descendanta of Mara, but we are abo deacendanta of Yenua. Spare na, mighty lord ; so
' As being the oApring of Men. to wbom Vulcin waf an eneiiy a account of toe liberties wUch he bad taken with Ve&us.
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may tb]^ >prig1itlr conBort pardon the nets forged at Lemnoiy' and resigii herself to love thee.
As mills renovate th' ABmian nerta. When twice fi^e ages the Sol's bird hath spent t
So Rome her old deerepitness digests, Bress'd in the ^dsage of her president.
Now, Ynkan, I beseech, foreet and spare Our ffrie^ w* are Mars and Venus progeny ;
So thy loose wife shall pass the Lemnian snare, And in chaste love affect thee patiently. JFUdlsr*
tul ok fhjlbib.
The edict of our supreme lord and ruler, by which the ■eats in the theatre are more exactly defined, and the knight is allotted a place free from contact with the yulgar, was lately the theme or Phaais' approbation in the theatre, where, flaming with purple robes, he was boasting proudly, and in a pompons tone: ^ At length we can sit more at our ease; the di^ty of the knighthood is now restored ; we are not pressed or contaminated by the mob.*' These and such remarks waa this upstart uttering, when Leitus* ordered his anogant purple robes to change their seat.
While Phasis in the theatre of late,
Phasis, in piurple shining, did dilate
On th* emperox's edict, which each order gnoed,
And 'oordmj^ to their di^t^ them placed.
These swellmg words, big with conceit, he spake :—
** At length we nobles here our ease may take i
Regard 's had of us, and our seat 's set out,
We "re neither press'd, nor dirty'd by the rout/*
While, lolling, thus he did the rout despise.
The lictor bios his saucy purple rise. Anm, 1890.
IZ. TO SYMICAOHUS.*
I was mdisposed ; and you straightway came to see me» Symmachus, accompanied by a hundred of your pupils. A
« Nets in iriuck Venus and Man were canght by Vdcsa. See Odyss.
B*«« .TIU.
' Leitus, having the charge of the equestrian seats, ordered Phssii to quit them, as not being qualified by his fortune to be in the order of knigbtSt
* A physidsD, who came to risit Martial, accompanied, acoordiog to the ftahion of those times, by his pupils.
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hundred handB, frozen by the northern blasts felt mj pulae. I had not then an ague, SjmmachnB, but I have now.
I droop'd ; straight Symmacbos to me doei hie.
An hundred quMkB bearing him company $
An hundred vozen hands my pulse did crave :
Before I had no ague, now I hsve. Anon* 169^.
X. TO BXOXTIiUB.
Por what reaaon shall I aay it happens, that fame ii refuaed to writers while living, and that out &w readers love the eompoeitions of their own day P It is doubtless the cba- raeter of envy, Begulna, ever to prefer the ancients to the modems. Just so, ungrateful as we are, do we frequent the ancient portico of Pompey;' just so do old men extol the mean temple of Catulua.^ Enniua was read by thee, O Some, while Virgil was alive ; and Homer was derided by his own age. Barely did the theatres applaud and crown Menander ; Ovid was Imown only to his Corinna. Do not, however, ye little books of mine, be in haste for fame : if glory comes only after death, I am in no hiury for it.
What 's this P that fiune to living men 's denied P
And readers their own times seldom affect P B^nilus, these are tricks of envious pride.
The present still for old things to reject So most inpate we seek old Pompey's shades,
And praise the tbtter*d ftne of Catulus. While Maro lived, Emilus whole Borne invades,
And Homer's age laugh'd him ridiculous. Crowned Menander selcfom heard a shout,
Corinna her own Kaso knew alone. 0 my small books, ne'er hasten to go out:
If praise come after death, I 'U not go on. FUtehtr.
ZI. TO BXVBBTTB, OV THX POBT STELLA.*
Hy friead Stella, Severus, wears on his fingers sardonyxes, emeralds, diamonds, jaspers. Though there are many gems on his fineers, there are more in his verses^ whence, I con- dude, his Imnd is so decorated.
My Stella does upon his fingers wear £m*ralds and diamonds, sapphires, rubies fair;
' Preferring it to thr newer ones of Domitian and othexs. ' Built by Xntaiins Catulus. It was mean in companscn with mora modem temples. ' See Ep. 8.
a
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Many bright gems upon Mb bands we
More, ana more radiant, in his verses be.
The brilliant fSuicies in bis lines which stand,
Seem to proceed from his adorned hand. Jsum. 169II.
XII. OK STELLA
That Mastblion proudly carries nodding burdeoB upon his Bturdy head, or that the gigantic NinuB holds seven or eight boya on each arm, seems to me by no means dilBcult, when my friend Stella bears, upon any one of his fingers, ten girls.^
That the haughty Masthlion now Wields such weights on perched brow; Or that Linus finds his praise, "Wltib each hand eight Iwys to raise Cannot seem a matter hard, Or attract supreme regard ; When mv Stella, without pother, On one miger, this or t^ otner, Can, by so enchanting aids. Carry naif a score of maids.
Xm. TO CALLIBTEATVB.
I am, I ooniess, Callistratus, and have always been, poor ; yet I am not an obscure or unknown knigh^ but am read throughout the world, and people say of me, ** Huit is he ! " and, what death has awarded to but few, has become mine during my lifetime. But you have halls, resting upon a hundred columns ; your coffers with difficulty contain the iK^salth which you have gained as a freedman ; vast farms in Egyptian Syene are yours ; and Gallic Parma shears for you innumeraole flocks. Such are you and I ; but what I am, you cannot be ; what you are, any one of the multitude maybe.
I am, I own, and ever have been, poor.
But yet a gentleman, and not obscure.
Spread through the world my writings and my name i
Few in the mve have reach'd my living fiune.
Tou have a house on a vast colonnade ;
More wealth than merchant ever gain'd in trade ;
Your farms in Evesham Vale rich harvests crown ;
Many your flocks which feed on Banated Down.
^ The representations, perhaps, of the nine Muses, and of his misftiesi Hiantis See B. vi Ep 21
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8iibh yon and I : like me you oeimoi bei
Fortune mmy make a cobuer like to thee. Hoy.
Tea, I am poor, OaDistFatua, 1 oim i
And io waa erer i yet'not quite unknoim ;
Graced irith a knighfa deg^; nor thii alone.
But tfaroogfa the worid my Terae ia frequent aungi
And " That ia hel" aoonda bun'd from every tongue :
And what to few, when duat, the £itea aangn.
In bloom and freahneaa of my daya ia mine.
Thy oeilinga on a hundred columna reat ;
Wealth, aa of upatart freemen, bursta thT cheat ;
Nile flowa in iatneaa o^er thy ample fielda ;
CSaalpine Gaul thy ailky fleeoea yielda.
Lo ! auch thou art, and auch am I : like me,
Galliirtntua, thou canat not hope to be i
A hundred of the crowd reaemole thee. EUon,
xiY. OH KAxnrxiiTa.
Nanneiufl, hayizig been always accustomed to ait in the fitmt row, at the time when anybody was allowed to take a place, moved his quarters, after beins twice or thrice requested to do so, yet still seated hims^ on the benches of the knights, almost immediately behind Cains and Lucius. Thenoei for awhile, with his head shrouded in a hood, he re- mains a spectator of the games ; ungracefully peeing with but one eye. Being again ejected, the unhappy wight crossed to the standing way, and, leaning over the end of a seat, halt kneeling, he endeavoured to make it appear to the knights that be was sitting, and to Leitus that he was standing.
Nanneius used in the fint rank to sit,
While so the sleeping edict did permit :
But, that revived, tlmce routed, up he truss'd
His camp, and to the lowest seat was thrust,
£v^ behind Gains, Lucius, straitly pent :
Where, wrapping up his head, and there content
Ill-&vour*dly to see but with one eye.
The lictor did the wretch no sooner spy.
But thence he chased him to the farthest space.
Between the cdls ; where, takins up his place.
Half standing, and half leaning samst the end
Of the knights' form, which did nis stress befriend,
F^ from exceptions here on ev*ry hand.
To soma he boMts to dt; to some, to stand. Awm, 169Ai
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XV. TO DOIOtXiK.
Thifl is tbe fifth book, AuguatuB, of mj BportiTe effoBioniy and no one complains of having been injured by my verse. Bnt many a reader rejoices in an honoured name, to whom lasting fame is secured by m v gift. " And yet of what use are these trifles, however much they respect personal character ? ** Ghranted that they are of no use to many, still they amuse md.
Thii is the fifth book of my drolling Muse, Tet none complain my verses them abuie ; . But many given they have a noble name. Who by my pen enjoy immortal fiime.
What profits this, some say, though so it be F If none it profits, yet it pleases me. Antm, 1696.
Xn. TO THB BBAnEB.
That, although I could write on serious, I prefer to write on »mnmng topics, IS youT fkult^ kind reader, who read and repeat my verses all over Borne. But you do not know how much your favour costs me. If I were to plead causes at the temple of the scythe-bearing god,^ and to sell my words to persons trembling under accusation, many a seaman whom I had defended would send me jars of Spanidi wine, and the lap of my toga would be stained with all sorts of coin. But^ as it" is, my book is merely a guest and sharer of revels, and my page affords amusement for which I receive no ]^y. Not even the poets of old were content with empty praise ; in those days the smallest present made to the immortal bard (Virgil) was Alexis. '' You write charmingly," you say, "and we will reward you with praises for ever."— "Do you pretend not to understand my hints ? You will, I suspect^ make me a lawyer.
That I, who could be serious, thus doe write. Dears reader, 't is for your, not mv deliffht, Who my lines thro' the towne reaoe and repeate : But what I lose by this you know not yet - For would I pleaa for prisonerB waiting death* Or unto caretul clients sell my breath, That many a piece of Spanish wine would yield* And with much gold my bosome would be fill*d. But now I and my bookes are only guests, And gratis make you merry at your feasts.
* Satan, a temple of whom was near the forum. Macrob. b. I e.8
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But fbnner poets were not pay^d with prayie i Alexis was least meed for virflil*s layes. Now youery, •'Good." That 's alL May then I see Ton not oonceiye me. I must lawyer l!ee.
Xm. TO GXLLIA.
While jon were telliog ub of your ancestorsy and theis fmoeatora, and the great names of your fSunily, while you looked down on our eauestrian order as a mean rank, and while you were asserting that you would marry no one who did not wear the hn^d border of the senator, you married, 6el]i% a porter.
Of ranky descent, and title proud. Mere gentry Lady Susan could not bear i
She 'd wed but with a duke» she yoVd — And so absconded with a player. i\r. B. HalhttL
ZYUi. TO QunmAHus.
Sinee, in this month of December/ in which napkins, and elegant shoe-iastenings,* and waz-tapers, and taolets, and tapering Tases filled with old Damascene plums, fly about in all directionB, I have sent you nothing but my little books, the oflspring of my study, I may seem to you stiney or rude. But 1 hate the craify and mischieTous arts of pre- sents. Gifts are like fish-hooks ; for who does not know that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swal- lows P Wheneyer the poor man abstains from making pre- sents to his rich firiend, Quintianus, he shows a liberal spurit.
Now in December that the napkins fly About, spoons, candles, paper, plums, that I Only my home-bom books a present make, For raid or ooyetous thou ma/st me take. But, know, I hate the vile ensnaxing trade, By which a gift abaited hook is made t which is not cast to feed the hun^ fish. But for aprey to fill the fishez^s dish. Then, Qmnctianus, to his wealthy finend, A poor man *s lib'ial when he nought does send.
AnofL 1095.
1 In which presents were made, during the Satunialia.
* £^pifl0. It is micertain whether Hpua here means a si ae-ftstening, u hi B. a. Ep. 29,or asmaU ladle or spoon, as m B. tUI. £p. 33, aad B. xi? Bp. 120.
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ztl. to 0a8jlb.
If any reliance ia to be placed on true report^ no age^ CsBar, can be preferred to yours. Wben have men lud the priyil^ of beholdinff triumpha better deaerred ? When have the ralatine goda done more to merit our sratitude P Under what mler haa Man's Some shoim herseff fairer or greater? TTnder what prince was there ever so much uberty P This vice, howerer, exists, and not a small one, although it be but one, that the poor man coltiyatea frienda who simply treat him with in^titude. Who bestows any portion ox his wealth upon his old and fiuthfiil Mend, or whose train is accompanied by a knight whom he haa helped to create P To have sent at the tmie of the Satomaha a silver spoon of small weight, or a gaudy toga worth ten scruples, is extravagant liberality ; and our proud patrona call such things presents. Periiaps there may be one, who will chink out a tew gold pieoea. But since these men are not our firiends, be thou, Cawar, a friend to ua ; no virtue in a prince can be more pleasing than generosity. But be- fore you have read thus far, Gfermanicus, you will have Deen fiwighing at me to yourself for giving you advice which a for my own benefit.
If truth make e*er her mandates heard, No times to thine can he prefefx'd. Ghreat Csesar, who could tnumphs tee Equal to those dispU/d hy theeP . Or can the period he assigned, That boastea palace-gods more kindP More great or glorious, under whom Effulged, high sir, imperial Borne P And under what auspioious reign Had Hherty so lam domain?
Yet one defect 1 must confeas ; Nor can I cloak or make it less. The widgeon, in dependent state, Must oft th* ungrateful cultivate. Who to an old and Mthfiil Mend Will now his faculties extend? Or where is now the patron knowat Attended hy a knight his own? To send a ladle of six ounces, Amid the Satumalian flounces i
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Or, in th« hope of hiffh renown,
Ten seraplet* worth of flaming gown
This is a InzW worthy kings,
Who nrinoely nold so paltry things.
An oadity maj be so schooi*d«
As down to chink some bits of gold
Still, as snch instsnces are rare,
Be bounty, Casar, more thy care.
No Tirtne can more sweetly shine.
Or in a prince be more divine.
But now I see Germanic stint
The smile: and so I drop the liint. Slpkmttcm.
XX. TO JVUJSB XABTIALIB.
If yea and I, dear MartiaUs, mi^ht enjoy our days to- sether free from care, — if it rested with ua to- dispoae of our feiaore time, and to spend in each other's company a life of tnie ease, — ^we ahould know no halls or mansionB of lordly patrona, nor vexatioua lawaoita and troubles of courts, nor proud frunily buata ; but carriage airings, oonversation, read- ing, tne Campus Martina, the shady porticoes, the Virgin water,^ the warm hatha ; — such placea would be our constant reaorta, and such our daily occupation. Aa it is, neither of ua Uvea for himself, but sees his good days flee from him and ▼aniah; days which are ererbeine lost to us, and set down to our account. Should any one, then, delay to live, whoi lie knowa howp
It, dearsst friend, it my good fate might be T enjoy at once a quiet life and thee. If we for happiness could leisure find, And wand'zing time into a method bind. We should not, sure, the great men's fitvonr need, Nor on long hopes, the court's thin diet, feed } We should not patience find to daily hear The calumnies and flatteries spoken there ; We diould not the lords' tables humbly use, Or talk in ladies^ chambers love and news ; But books and wise discourse, gardens and flelds, And all the joys that unmixt Nature yields. Thick summer shades, where winter stdl does lie, Bright winter flres that summei^s part supply. Sleep not controlTd by cares confln'd to night, Or bound in any rule but appetite.
* Water so called, which Agrippa brought by as aqneduct from Prmcste.
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Freoi but not laTage or vngxaciona mirtliy
Rich wines to ^ye it iree and easy birth.
A few companions, which onrselTes should chooeei
A gentle mistress, and a gentler muse.
Sack, dearest friend, such, without doubt, should be
Our place, our business, and our company.
Now to b^mself, alas ! does neither live.
But see good suns, of which we are to gi^e
A strict account, set and march thick away.
Knows a man how to live, and does he stayP Cbwle$
XZI. TO BBeXTLTTB, OK AP0LL0D0TU8, A, PIB80V 07
WEAK MEMOBY.
The rhetorician Apollodotos, Begulus, used formerly to salute Decimus by the name of Quintus ; Graasns, by that ot Macer.' Now he retunu the salutation of each by his own name. How much can care and labour effect! He had written the names down, and learned them by heart.
Instead of Decimus thou didst Quintus greet. And Macrus name when thou didst Grassus meet ; What wonders we to labour may impute ; Writing and conning, thou canst both salute !
Anon. 1695.
XXn. TO FAVLUS.
If I did not wish, as well as deserve, to find yon at home this momine, may your Esquiline mansion, Paulus, be re- moved still urther m>m me 1 But I live dose to the Ti* burtine column, near the spot where rustic Flora looks upon ancient Jove. I must surmount the steep path of the Suburran hill, and the pavement dirty with footsteps never drj ; while it is scarcely possible to get dear of the long trains of mules, and the olocks of marble which yon see dragged alooff by a multitude of ropes. Worse than all this is it, that, after a thousand toils, your porter tdls me, &- tijnied as I am, that you are not at home. This is the end of my useless labour and dripping toga : even to have seen Paulus at home in the morning was scarcely worth so much. The most attentive client always meets with most neglect from his friends. Unless you sleep longer in the morning,' you cannot be my patron.
1 Decimus, "tenth," he caUed Quintus, <* fifth;" Crassos, '<ftt," Ms€er,"lesa." ' So that 1 may find you at home when I call on you.
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lliee at home, hoDom'd Paul, in the morn. If I wiah'd not, and earn'd not, to lee i
Be my glory debased to my acorn, And thine Etquiline fiuruer from me.
Fait 1»y Tibni^s famed pillar I rhyme, Where rude Flora contemplates old Jove ;
Then the steepy Subnrra must climb. And the rocks nerer dry must I rove.
Of the mnles I most break the long train, And of marbles bedragg'd for tbe dome.
Wont of all, after labour so vain, Thy gruff porter denies thee at home.
This I pay, ^e great Paulus to miss : This atones both the rain and the vind.
Let me die, if a price such as this I 'd afford, the best patron to find.
Thus the drudges of duty may weep.
And protectors extol as diTine. But, my Paul, if thou canst nerer slee^
Tiiou canst ne*er be a soy'reign of mine. J^MuUm,
XXXn. TO BU8UB, FBXTSlTDINe TO BE A, XKIOnT.
You used to wear garmentB of the colour of sraaB,^ Banua, while the laws concerning the seats in the theatre were a dead letter. But since the care of a discreet censor* has bid them rerive, and the knight, more certain of his position, obeys the directions of Oceanus,* you shine forth m a garb dyed either with saffron^colour or vermilion, and think you deceiYe others by such a dress. No cloak, Bassus, is worth four hundred thousand sesterces,^ or, before all men, my friend Gordus would have been a knight.*
In the hue of fair nature plain Bassus was dreas'd. While the statutes theatnc continued at rest But, the moment the censor benign bade them wake. And the knight ascertain'd heard an Ocean that spake. Only scarlet and purule betinctured thy clothes. Thus thou &ndest, snrewd Bassus, on fools to impose.
> Yon wore a dress of green, or of whaterer colour yon pleased, wtiils ths Roecian law, which allotted the knighu seau distinct irom the othei spectators, was disresarded. Now yoo dress splendidly, that yon may appear to hare a right to the eqoeetrisn seats.
i Domitian. > Holdnig the same office is Leitns, Ep. 8.
^ The fortune requisite for aknight. * For he has at least a fine lobe^
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But no robes era four hundred thousand have cost: Else my Cordus a steed, before all, bad emboss'd.
zht. oh hbbhsb, ait vmxsvst olabiatob.
Hermes is the pride of his age in martial contests; Hermes is skilled in all kinds of arms; Hermes is a gladiator and a master of gladiaton ; Hermes ia the terrcn* and awe of his whole school ; Hermes is he of whom alone Heliua is afraid; Hermes is he to whom alone Adyohina submits ; JBLermes is skilled in conquering without a blow ; Hermes is his own body of reserve;^ Hermes makes the fortunes of the letters of seats ; Hermes is the object of care and anxiety to the actresses ; Hermes walks proumy with the warlike spear; Hermes threatens with Neptune's trident; Hermes is terrible with the helmet shading tne face ; Hermes is the glory of Mars in every way ; Hermes is everything in himself, and thrice a man.'
Hermes, the martial fflory of the age,
Skilful in all the combats of the stage ;
Hermes, master of fence, and fencer too ;
The cock and terror of tiie sword-men's crew;
Hermes, whom Helius fears, but feais alone,
Advokms yields to, yet to him but one ;
Hermes, that knows to conquer without blows,
The second to himself against all foes ;
Hermes, the stag's mint and endless gain.
The love and strife of all their female tndn ;
Hermes, that proudly shakes the warlike spear,
And fiercely threatfnuiff does the trident bear;
Hennes, when cashed for the blindfold fight,
'When moped and droopinff seems, does then affiright ;
Hermes engrosses all men s gifts in one,
And Trismegistus' name deserves alone. Anon. 1095.
ZZT. OK CHJBE8TBAT178, A KNIGHT XET BXSVCBO
CrBCUUSTAVCSS.
** You have not four hundred thousand sesterces, dueres- tratus ; rise, Leitus ' is coming ; quick ; away with you ; run, hide yourself." Does any one call him back, and restore
* Other gladiators wore succeeded by fresh ones, when they were tired ; Hennes was nerer tired.
> In allusion to Hermes Trismegistus. This Hermes is as great in the arena as the other was ia science. ' See Ep. 8.
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bim to tbe wat he is leaying P Does any patron offer him a Bhare of hia larilj riches P Is there such person whose name we may commit in verse to fame and the apphinse of the people. Where is he^ who does not wish to sink in obseority to the waters of Styx P Would not such ge- nerosity, I ask, be better than to sprinlde the stage with a rufous doud,^ and to be drenched with a shower of saf- fron-water P Or than to spend four hundred thousand ses- terces upon a horse which will not appreciate it ; or that the nose of Scorpus * may glisten evenmniere in gold P O rich man, rich to no purpose, and faithless to thy friend, dost thou read and approve these verses P What glory dost thou allow to escape thee !
Wanting a knight*a estate, you want the style i The lictor comes : " Stand up, vdd, stay a while.'*
Doea any the degraded kmg^t cidl MckP O nohLe deed ! la any friend not alack Out of vast wealth his title to restore, Not loat by any vice, but being poor P Hia ffenVona name we will commit to verae^ Whioi all sacceeding agea ahall zeheunel Who 'a thna leaolved his better part to aave^ And not deaoend entire into the grave P
And were 't not nobler ao nreat wealth bestow. Than on a vain, ambitiona, puoUo ahow P On braaa unfeeling atatnea it expend, Althon^ the artmoe the chazge commend P
O ricii in vain ! O ialaely aeeming wise ! Who read, approve, and yet true fame despise.
XXVI. TO OOBDUS.
If in calling you lately, Cordus, in one of my jocose effu- sions, the alpha of Cloaks, the expression happened to move your indignation, you may call me m return the bela of Togas.'
That Alpha I dnbVd thee, proud Cordoa, of doaks, When late I behi^t thee a prince in my jokea,
> The atage and theatre used to he sprinkled with lafihsL See De Spectac Ep. 3. * A charioteer.
* See B. ii. Ep. 67. The words in the origfaal are d^haptmulatorum and beta topatorum, ThejNMifla aeems to have heen worn chiefly hy the upper daaa of people ; the togoH denotea thoae who attended on their patrona aa clients.
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M> freedom perchance has attncted thy frowns :
If so» thou ma/st dub me the Beta of gowns. Elphmtion
XXYTI. TO ▲ ERIGHT BY BIBTH, DEFIdlCKT IS TUB TOJLTJrSlt BSQUIBEB BY LAW.
You liave, I admit, a knight^s intelligence, education manners, and birth ; your other qualitiea you bavo in com* mon with the multitude.^ The fourteen rows of seats * are not of so much consequence to you, that you should seat your- self there to grow pale at the sight of^^Oceanus.'
For garb, for parts, all thee would noble rate.
If thou plebeifui were 't not in estate.
To sit 'mongst knights 't is not a erace so hiffh.
To make thee pale, whene'er the fictor 's nigL Anoiu 1695.
zzTm. TO xuLva.
By no excellence of character, Aulus, could you induce Mamercus to think or speak well of you, even though you sur- passed the two Curtii in piety, the jN'erYSB in inonensiveness, the Susones in courtesy, the Macri in probity, the Maurid in equity, the Be&^nli in eloquence, the rauli in wit. Mamer- cus gnaws everything with his foul teeth. Perhaps yon think him enyious ; 1 may think him, whom no one can please^ a
wretch.
Mamercus* eood conceit or word to gain,
The best endeaTours, Aulus, are in vain.
Excel the Curii in a pious fiune,
'Bove Nenra, Rufiis, get a courteous name,
In justice Macrus, Maurieus outdo ;
Benowned Bi^g^us and Paulus too
For mirth and eloquence : yet all he bites
With canker'd teetn, and to asperse delights.
You judge, perhaps, that envy 's his disease ; —
I think unhappinees, whom none does please.
Anon. 1695.
To the best character he can't afford
One fkTourable thought or civU word.
Could you a man pious as Crsnmer find,
Humble as Tillotson, as Hough resign'd ;
> Yon are deficient, like them, in the fortune requisite for a knif^t
s See Bp. 23.
* See Ep. 23. As you hare not the required pecnniary qualification, you will not take a seat on any of those benches, lest Oceanus shonld question your title to it.
BOOK T.} KPI0&AX8. 2S7
Benefolent as Berkeley, were there one i
Uprifht 88 Holty polite ai Addison }
Conla one in eloquence with Somers Tie i
Had Donetfs wit, or Pelham's probity i
Or oonld to one all these endowments fall«
Still wonld he snarl, tradace, and censure aL.
Seems he to you satirical at worst ?
I think diat man, whom none can please, is eoxsid.
ZXIX. TO GSLLIA.
Whenever yon send me a hare, Gellia, you Bay, ^Marcos, yoa will be handaome for seren days." ^ If you are not joking, my darling, and if what you say is true, you, Gklm^ have never eaten hare.
When thou prescnt'st me, Oellia, with a hare, Marcus, ^ou aa/st, *t will make thee seven days &ir. If hare be such a beautifying meat. Thou ne*er of one in all thy life didst eat Amm. 1695.
ZXX. TO TAXBO, WITH ▲ FBX8SKT 07 THX AUTHOB'S
W0BK8.
Yarro, whom the tragic muse of Sophodes would not re- fuse to reco^^nise, and who are not less admirable in Galabrian lays, put aside your work, and let not the scene of the elo- quent Catullus ' detain you, or Elegy with her graceful locks. !But read these verses, whidi are not to be despised in smoky December, and are accordingly sent to you m that month ; sent to you in that month ; unless perchance you think it fitter and more agreeable, Yarro, to lose nuts at the Satur- nalia.'
Yarroy whom envy must allow A soul of Sophodean fire ! Whom ooy Calabria deigns t* avow The lora of her exalted lyre I
Defer each talk : nor let the scene
Of magical Catullus stay Thine eyes ; or deg}* serene,
With tresses soft, in tzim array. The produce of December's smoke.
Thou mayst (O strange I) superior ciioo8e ; Unleis it seem the higher joke.
With 8atum*s self thy nuts to lose.
' Aocording to a soperttitious notion. See Ptin. H. N. zxriii. 19.
* Supposed to be a writer of farces, mentioned by Juvenal, Sat TiiL
* To play for nuts was a common amusement at the Satninalia.
288 mjlbtiax'b
TTTT. Oir ▲ SHOW OF B0T8 BPOBTDTa WITH BVLIiS.
See with wbat hardihood jon troop of children spring upon the quiet bulls, and how the gentle animals dSight in their burdens. One banes upon the tips of the boms ; another runs at pleasure idonff the back, and brandishes his arms over the whole body. But their savageness is un- aroused and at rest ; the arena would not be safer ; a plane sur£euse mieht even be more dangerous. Nor do the gestures of the children betraj any trepidation; but each of them appears sure of gaining the yictory, and each of the bulls seems to be anxious not to prevent it.
See how th' advenf rous boys insult secure,
While the mild bulls their weight and sport endure :
One hangs upon a horn, while othezs run
O'er their broad backs, skirmish, assault, and shun
Bach other's blows : the bulls, as frozen, stand ;
Combat they could not firmer on the knd.
The children striTo for th' palm, without all fear ;
The bullSf alone, solicitous appear. Anon. 1696.
TTTTT. TO FAtrSTIFUS.
CrispuB, hj his last will, Faustinus, did not give a farthing to his wife. To whom then did he give it P To himself.^
Crispus by will no doit of all his pelf
Gaye to ms wife : whom then ? even to himselfl
Fletcher.
Crispus one doit of 's wealth to none did leave.
What came of 't, then P Who did his land receiTe ?
Aliye, to 's belly he did all bequeath. Anon. 1695.
XXXm. TO A LAWTSB.
A certain lawyer is said to carp at my rcrses. I do not know who he is. If I find out, lawyer, woe to you !
A lawyer's said, unknown, my book to fiout,
But woe be to thee, if I find thee out! Fletcher.
XXXTT. AV' XFITAPH OK ZBOTIOV, WHO DIED AT ITBABLT SIX TXABS OLD, AFTBB HSB PABKKTS.
To thee, O Eronto my father, and to thee, O Eloccilla * my
^ He had squandered it all in luxury before his death.
* The Latin is, Hone tU>i Fnmto pater, genitrix FtoeaUa, putUam^ which losTB the sense ambiguous. See Smith's Diet, r f 6r. and Rom. Diogr. art. McartitUie.
BOOK T.] XPIOBAMB.
mother, I oommend tUs child, the little Erotion, mj jot and my deliffht, that she may not be tenified at the dark shades anid at ma monstronB mouth of the dog of TartaroB. She would juBt hare passed the cold of a sixth winter, had she lived but dx days longer. Between protectors so yenerable may she Bport and plar, and with lisping speech babble my name. Let no rude tnri cover her tender bones, and press not heavy on her, O earth ; she pressed but lightly on thee.
Te parents Fronto and Floocilla here,
To yon I do commend my girl, my dear,
Lett pale Erotion tremble at the shades,
And ue fonl dog of hell's prodigious heads.
Her ase fulfilling just six winters was.
Had she but known so many days to pass.
'Mongst yon, old patrons, may she sport and play,
And with her Uspms tongue my name oft say.
May the smooth tun her soft bones hide, and be,
O earth, as light to her as she to thee I JZeidbr.
xxzF. ov noLinxB, ▲ psxTEimsn kkight, bxtbatxb
BY nBOPPIKa HIB KEY.
While Enclides, dad in purple robes, was exclaiming that his income from each of his farms at Patras was two hundred thousand sesterces, and from his property near Corinth still more, and while he was tracing down his long pedigree from the beautiful Leda, and resisting Leitus, who was trying to make hitn leave his seat,^ suddenly there dropped from the toga of this knight, so proud, so noble, so rich, a large key Never, Eabullus, was a key a worse friend.'
While Euclid, clad in purple, loud did brawl, And near together by the ears did fall With Ldtus, bidding him his seat to leave, Protesting proudly, Siat he did receive Two thousand yearly patrimonial rent. And more, which lus Corinthian manor sent i Produced an ancient goodly pedigree. Derived from Leda, by which all might see He was in truth a kmght, rich, poten^ gi'eat; A huge foul key, the badge of slaves, i' th' heat
* He hid seated himself in (he seats of the knights. SeeEp.Sand 14
* The key showed that he was a slave ; as it was the office of erery dare to cany the key of that department of the household of which bs lk.d the chaiget
240 XABTtAL*!
Unfoftanateij firom hii boeom felL
Didy'e'er oisocb aspitefiilkeyheartellf uIimm. 189&
XXXVi. TO TJLVSriSVB.
A oortain indiTidoal, FaustinaB, whom I bad praised in a book of mine, affects not to know the fieurt, as though he owed me nothing ; he has deceived me.^
Sim, whom I 've prais'd in Terse, ignoras the feat, Unwilling to be xratefoL — Sim *8 a eheat. W, & B,
XCXm. OK THS TOITiro SBOTIOK.
Child, more sweet to me than the song of aged swans, more tender than a lamb of Phalantine Oalassus,* more delicate than a shell of the Lucrine lake ; thou to whom no one coold prefer the pearls of the Indian Ocean, or the newly polished tooth of the Indian elephant, or the newly fallen snow, or tho untouched lilj ; whose hair surpassed the fleece of the Spanish flock, the Imotted tresses of the dwellers on the Bhine, and the golden-coloured field-mouse;' whose breath was redolent with odours which riyalled the rose-beds of Fastum, or the new honey of Attic combs, or amber just rubbed in the hand; compared to whom the peacock was ugly, the squirrel unattractiye, the phcenix a common object ; O Erotion, thy funeral pyre is yet warm. The cruel law of the inexorable x^ates has carried thee off, my love, my delight, my plaything, in thy sixth winter yet incomplete. Yet my friend Pietus forbids me to be sad, although he smites his own breast and tears his hair equally with myself. "Are you not ashamed (says he) to bewail the death of a little slayeP I haye buried a wife, — a wife distinguished, haughty, noble, rich, and yet am aliye." What fortitude can be greater than that of my friend PsBtus P — ^Ke inherits (by the death of his wife) twenty millions of sesterces, and yet can liye.
The girl that wai to ear and sight ^ More soft of tone, of skin more white. Than plumaged swana, that jrield in death The sweetest murmur of their breath ; Smooth as GalflBsus* soft-fleeoed flocks i Dainty as shells on Lucrine rocks ;
^ By making me no retunu
* A riTer near Tarentum, which wis fomided by Phalantus. See B. iL Ep. 43. * Her hair was auburn.
900K T.] IFlOBAltf. Ml
At B«d-teft pearlii bright mrfu glow i
UnsalHed Hues ; tix]^ mowi
Whote boki were tippM with ruddr gold^
lake wool that olothee the Bntie fold i
lake bnided hair of girli of Bhine f
Aa tawnj fleld-mouae deek aod fine i
"Whoie TermeQ mouth Incathed Pastom'i loea^
Or hafan fresh honey-combs dUsdoeei
Or amber yielding odour sweet
EroB the chafing hand's soft heat;
By whom the peacock was not fair }
Mar squinelsy pets i nor phoonix, rare:
Brotico crumbles in her urn i
Wann from the pile her ashes bum :
Ere yet had olosra her sixteenth yeary
The Fates accursed have spread her bier |
And with her all I doated on,
My lofcs, my ioys, my sports, are gone.
Yet Patas, who, like me disbess^^
la &xnto beat his mourning breast.
And tsar his hair beside a grave,
Asks, " Blush Tou not to mourn a slave f
I mourn a hign, rich, noble wife i
And vet I b«ir my lot of life."
Thy rarthude exceeds all bounds :
Thou hast two hundred thousand pounds :
Tboubear'st, *t is true, thy lot of lifef
Thou bear'st the jointure of thy wife. .Etton.
ZUVILL TO aiXTTrs, OV OiXLIODOBVS, WH08B PBOFBBTT WITH THAT OV HIS BBOTHEB AHOlTirTXl) TOOBTHXB TO THB 70BTT7BB OB ▲ KKIOHT.
Galliodonu, friend Sextua, poaseaaes (who does not know it P) the fortane of a knight ; bat Galliodoraa baa also a brother. He who divides four hundred thousand sesterces would halve a fig. Do you think that two men can sit on one horse P What want you with a brother, a troublesome Pollux P if you had not tills roUux, you would be a Castor.^ While you are one, yon require, Galliodorus, two seats. You are com- mittanff a soledsm, CUliodorus. Bise, or else imitate the sons of Leaa» and, as you cannot sit along with your brother, CaQiodoraSi occupy the seat by turns.
' You wonld ksve been a complete and acknowledged knigiit. CaOm ^tmdei 9fmtf ftc. Hor. A. P.
242 JCABTIAL*a
Odliodor has a kniffht^s estate, all know,
The mischief is, he has a hrotfaer too,
Who claims one hal( the fiff in twain does splil^
And on one horse two kni^ts are &in to sit.
How can thy brothez^s aim and thine agree ?
No Pollux hadst thou, thou might'st Outor be ;
But being one, as two if yon take place,
A solecism 's plainly in the case.
Leda's kind oS^iring imitate you may.
Sit knights by turns, not both on the same day.
^M0fi.ie90.
TTTTT. TO CHABUnrS.
Thirty times in this one year, Charinua, while you have been arranging to make your will, haye I sent jovl cheese- cakes dripping with Hyblsan thyme. I am ruined: haye Sity on me at length, Charinus. make your will less ofben, or o that once for all, for which ^our cough is ever fidsely I^idp ing us to hope. I have emptied my coffers and my purse. Had I been richer than CrcMus, Charinus, I should become poorer than Irus, if you so frequently devoured my poor repast
'Bove thirty wiUs a jear thou dost subscribe,
Qft*ner I send thee junkets for a bribe :
I am exhaust, Ghumos, pitv me ;
The bottom of the chest ana nurse I see.
Delude no more, make thy wul once and die,
To show thy coush was real, not a lie.
lliough I in wealth like Ctobsus did abound,
Than Irus I should yet be poorer found,
Should'st thou, I say not tiurts, daily devour.
But of vile beans and pompions such a pow*r. Antm* 1095.
Xh. TO JLBTSlCU>0BrS, UKSUOOBBSFrLLT SAOBITIOIirG TO
THE 0&A.CS8.
You have painted Venus, Artemidorus, while Minerva is the object of your veneration, and do you wonder that your work has not given pleasure ?
Dost thou admire, when Pallas is thy saint, That but a sorry Venus thou dost paint P When rigid virtue has thy study been, J^or wanton verse wouldst thou the laurel win ?
Amn. 16M
lOOK T.] XPIOKAXa. 248
ZLI. TO SIDTHUa.
ThoDffh you are more enervated than a languid eimnehy and weaker than tiie Gehenean minion of the mother of the gods, to whom the mutilated priestB of that inspiring goddess howl, you prate of theatres, and rows of seats, and edicts,^ and puiple robes, and Ides* and buckles,' and equestrian inoomea ; and, with a hand polished with pumice-stone, point out the poor. I shall see, Didymus, whether you are en- titled to sit on the benches allotted to the knights ; you cer- tainly are not to sit on those of the married men.
Too, than emaacnlate, still leu a man i
Soft, ai the Celenean boy, we ecan ;
Whom the mad mother*8 maimlings moum the moat -
Of theatres, deg;ree8, and laws vou boasti
Of flowing robes, and brilliant Droachea tell.
Of Ides renown'd and valuationa fell :
And for yon poor, your wealth to ascertain.
Tour pumiced huid disidayi the due disdain.
If, *m]d the knights, your seat we soon shall see; ^
'Mid husbands, Didymus, yon cannot be. ElphimUm,
TUJL WHAT IB aiYXV TO VSIEHns IS KOT LOST.
A cunning thief may burst open your coffers, and steal your coin ; an impious ftre may lay waste your ancestral home ; your debtor may refuse you both principal and interest; your corn-field may prove barren, and not repay the seed you nave scattered upon it; a craffy mistress may rob your steward ; the waves may ingulf your ships laden with mer- chandise. But what is bestowed on your friends is beyond the reach of fortune ; the riches you give away are the only riches you will possess for ever.
Thietes may break looks, and with your cash retire ;
Tour ancient seat may be consumed by fire :
Debton reAue to nay you what they owe ;
Or your ungrateful field the seed you sow ;
Tou may be plundered by a jilting whore ;
Tour ships may sink at sea with all their store :
Who i^ves to niends, so much fix>m fate secures ;
That It the only wealth for ever yours. Hay.
^ Alluding to the edict of Domitian about the seats of the knights. Bp. 8. * The Ides of July, when the knights rode fai processioii. ' DncUes for the robe worn by the knights.
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Tout slftve will wiliii ycrar gold absoond,
The fire your home lay low, Tour debtor will disown his bond.
Tour &nn no crops bestow : Tour steward a mistress firail shall eheati Tour freighted ship the storms will beat i That only from misdiance you 11 save,
Which to your friends is giTen ; The only wealth you 11 always have
Is that you 've lent to heaven.
JBngfiihJ<nirnalo/EdMe(Uwn, Jan. 1866.
XLin. Oir THAI8 AJSTD LAOAlTLi.
Thais has black, ligpoania white teeth ; what is the reason P Thais has her own, Ii«cania bought ones.
Thais her teeth are black and nought^
Lecania's white are srown : But what's the ressonP these are bought^
The other wears her own. Fl/dn^i&r.
Nell's teeth are white ; but Betty's teeth are brown : Hemmet^s Nell's are $ but Betty's are her own. .fioy-
Kate's teeth are black ; white lately Bell's are grown : Bell buys her teeth, and Kate still keeps her own. Hodgmm.
ZLIT. TO DXKTO.
How has it come about, I aak, how has it so suddenly come about, Dento, that though I have asked you to dinner four times, you hiive (who would believe it ?) constantly pre- sumed to refuse me P You not only avoid looking back wnen I call, but you flee from me as I follow you, — me whom tou so lately used to hunt for at the baths, at the theatres, and at every place of resort ? The reason is; that you have been captivated b v a more delicate table, and that a richer kitchen has attracted you like a dog. But very soon, when your rich host shall have found you out, and left you in dismst^ you will come back to the bones of your old dinner wi£ me.
What is the cause ? iriiat new thing 's &Ileii out P That Dento, oft invited, is so stout, fBeyond belief) my table to refuse P He, who through all the porticos did use, The baths, the theatres, to hunt me out. Flies, when I call, asd will not turn about
BOOK T.] ZPIGBAX8. 245
The mysfry is, he*ai found a iktter trmt| Like dogi, is drswn br strongest soent of met:* But soon as known, tne mat lie will dlsgnsti Tlien fbr mysonps hell leap, and for a crust Amm. 189A.
ZLT. TO BAflSA.
You saj, Baasa, tliat you are beautiful ; you say that you
are a znaiden. She who ie not so, Bassa, is genendly ready
to say that she is.
IhoQ mak'st thee &lr, and young bidd'st us suppose.
To do and say what is not^ Basse knows. JB^MuiotL
ZLYI. TO DIADUKBVirS.^
Ab I dislike all kisses, except thoee which I ha?e secored with a struggle, and as your anger, Diadumenus, pleaaee me more than yomr face, I oiten flog you that I may often haye to solicit you. The result is, that you neither fear me nor love
me.
While eVry joy I scorn, but that I snatch i
And me thy fury, more than features, catdi ;
I often condescend to ask consent :
That thou nor fear'st nor lovest me, proTes the erent.
XLTH. OS PHILO.
Fhilo swears that he has never dined at home, and it ii so ; he does not dine at all, except when invited out.
Thou say*st, thou never supp*Bt at home. Tin right, That is, thou fast'st, when none does thee invite.
Anon. 1895. Ned swears he never sups at home ; then Ned, Not supping out, goes supperless to bed. Say,
Jack boasts he never dines at home.
With reason, too^ no doubt : In truth, Jack never diues at all,
Unless invited out Anon.
ZLTm. OV BVOOLPUB.'
To what does not love compel us P Encolpua has shorn his locks, against the wish of his master, who did not even for- bid him. Padens permitted, though lamenting it. Just so did the father, foreboding evil, give up the rems to the rash PhaSton. Just so did the stolen Hylas, and the discovered «B.ilLEp.6S. « SeeB.LEp.d2.
24G ]CASTlAli*8
AchDles, part with their locks, the latter gladly, though to the grief of his mother. But may thj hem be in no haate to come, or presume on thy shorn hair ; but may it be late in appearing, in return for so great a sacrifice.
Whither will not all-duteoiu love compel !
EQs TOW obtain'd, Encolpus' honoun felL
While thus the thankfiil dot relijnon kept,
Though not forbidding, feeune Pudens irepL
So PnoBbiu yielded erst th' wming rein
To the rash youth, whom he forbade in yain.
So raTish'd H)rlas laid his glory down :
So cauffht Achilles kindled for renown,
When ne denied his graoefid lo(^ to flow,
And triumph'd impious in a mother's woe.
But make no haste, nor trast Ihe votive hair ;
And late, thou beard, for such a boon repair. E^hnuUm,
XLIZ. TO ItABIVKirS, PABTIALLT BALD.
When I happened to see you a while ago, Labienns, sitting alone, I thought you were three persons. The number ra the divisions of your bald head deceived me. You have on each side locks of hair, which mieht grace even a youth. In the middle, your head is bare, and not a ainde hair is to be remarked in the whole of that extensive area. This illusion was of advantage to you in December, when the emperor distri- buted the presents of the Saturnalia ; vou returned home with three baskets of provisions. I rancy that Gferyon mxjLst have resembled you. Avoid, I advise you, the portico of Philippus ; if Hercules sees you, it is all over with you.'
When, Jjabiene, by chance I thee did see
Sitting alone, I thought thou hadst heen three.
The number of thy baldness me deceived,
For here and there thy hairs I then retrieved,
Which a boy's bead will hardly well become i
Upon thy crown lies a large vacant room,
A floor wherein no hair 's observed to be.
Tet this December's error yields to thee,
That when the emp'ror keeps lus solemn day.
Thou carry'st three shares of his alms away.
Oeryon, I suppose, was such a one :
But when thou seest Philippus' porch, begone ;
If Hercules shall spy thee, to* art undone. FbMer.
> Hercules, whose statue is in the portico of PhLSppus, will take yi s for the three*headed Qeiyoik
BOOS T.I XnOSAHS. 247
I «v Ihae ktelT nttiiig all alone, And that thoa nadat been three I duzat hare avoniy Thy •eeming numVoas heads to me deeeiTed« Tfaj pate here lock*d« and there of hair bereaTedi Not vith lore-loeka, which beanteous bop do wear, Bai Mme parti tufted were, much broaaer bare. Thy vurionB baldness stood thee late in stead, 'Wfien Cnsar doled the neople meat and bread i For thou bor*st home wnat did bdons to three : The fiun'd Qeryon, sure, was such as uiee. Phflqyptts* portico I adyise thee fly : If Herenlesflpy thee, thou art sure to die. Amm,\B95.
L. TO ACHBOFIiriTa.
"Wlieoefer I dine at home, Charopinna, and do not inrite TOO, yonr anger forthwith exceeds aU bonnds ; you are ready to nm me tuouffb with a drawn sword, if you diaco?er that my kitdien fire has been lighted without a riew to your en- tertttnment What then, shall I not be allowed for once to defraud yoa of a dinner P Nothing ia more ahamdeaa, Cha- ropinna, than that throat of yours. Ceaae at length, I pray yon, to watch my kitchen, and allow my hearth aometmies to disappomt you.
If I e^cr m at home, and not chance to invit^ My poor Gnaropine fills, not with food, but with spite. 1^, hk rsge draws the whinyard to whip my hmgs through. When he tems that my hearth dared to neat without you. Is mr e^ sudi theft an infringement of law ? Sxmif nought is more impudent than such a maw. Gesse^ I pray, to attend to my eulinar chimes i And let my cunning cook put upon you sometimes.
JElpkimion.
II. TO BiTTira, OS ▲ nxmrnxp lawtsb.
That person yonder, who has his left arm heayily laden with mannacripta, who ia doaely presaed by a beardleea band of ahort-hand writers, who fixes a ptLre look on papers and letters, wUdi people bring him fiom variona quartera, aa- aunung a demeanour like thst of Cato, or Cicero, or Brutus, that person, I say, Bufua, even should torture try to compel him, cannot properly utter ** good morning,'* either in Latin or inGiedL If ycu think I am joking, let us go and address
248 ]CJLBTIi.L*8
He whose left ann leaden with hooks j<m see. And thronged with hosy clerks to that degree^ Whose ftoe composed attendTeW does hmr Ganses and suits pour'd in at eiuer ear, Most like a Gato» Tolly, or a Brute, If put npon the rack, could not salute In Xatin, Ave^ or Xidpi in the Greek : And, if thou douht the truth, let's to him neak.
Jntm. ie95.
JilL, TO POBTiTinrs.
Your services to me I remember, and shall never forget. Why then am I BJLant about them, Postumns P Because 70a
one [d me things which cannot be well done hj two people; one is enoudi in this case. If yon wish me to speai, keep silence Yourself. Believe me, Postumns, gifls, however great, are aeprived of their value by garrulity on the part of the donor.
What thou confeir'st on me I do
Remember, and shall think on too.
Why therefore do I hold my tongue P
Cause, Posthumus, thou ne'er hast done.
As often as I ^ to treat
Of these thy gifts to them I meet,
T is presently^ replied, '* Forbear,
He wmsper^d it into my ear."
Two men some things cannot do well :
One person may suffice to teU,
And do this work : if it mav please
That I shall nieak, then hold tiiy peace.
For prithee, rostumus, believe,
Though that thy gifts are ereat to give
All thanks must perish, ana are lost.
When authors tiieir own actions boast FUUktrm
Your &VOUZS to me I remember well 1
But do not mention them ; because you tell.
Whenever I beffin, I 'm answer'd straight,
** 1 heard from his own mouth what you relate."
Two ill become the business but of one ;
Be you but silent, I i^ill speak done.
Qreat are your sifts f but when proclaim'd around^
The obligation dies upon the sound. Say.
MOK T.] XPTORiJCB.
To John I owed great obligatioii,
But John, unhappily, thought fit To nublish it to all the nation :
Gluxe John and I are more than quit JVmt.
Km. TO BkBSVS^ JL WBITIB OV T&A.eiDIXa.
Why, mj ffood air, do yon write about the Coldiian queen r why &out Thyeatea f what haye you to do, BaaBua, with Niobe^ or Andromache P The fitteat aubjeet for your pea ia Deucalion, or, if he doea not pleaae you, FhaStoa.'
My Banus, why ? why doet thou write
Thyeetea^ feast P Medea's flight?
What hast to do with NiobeP
Or T^y's remains, Andromache P
DeucAlion's feat's a theme more fit,
Or Fhaethon*s, to share thy wit FbieKtr.
Why dost thou, Bassus, of Thyestes write?
NioWs tears, or of Medea's iught P
A fitter subiect of thy Terse by ftr,
Fhaethon's Duming, or the Deluge, were. Anon, 169dL
UT. OK ▲ BHBTOSIOIAJT.
3f y fiiend, the rhetorician, haa become an improTiaatore ; he had not written down Calpumiua'a name, yet he saluted him correctly.*
Eztemporist thou *rt now, and of renown,
CSslpurnius canst salute, not writing down. Anon, lOM.
Ly. OV THl 110.01 07 Air XAOLB OAXBTIKO JUPITXB.
Tell me whom thou art carrying, queen of birds. ^The Thunderer." Why doea he carry no thunderbolta in hia graapP ''fie is in loye." For whom is he warmed with paaaionP ** For a youth." Why doet thou, with thy mouth open, look round so mildly on Jupiter P ** I am apeaking to him of Ganymede."
Ssy, queen of birds, whom hast thou there P
•* The mighty thunderar I bear."
I see no bolts ; and that seems odd.
"No bolts become a loring god."
Hie object what P '* A beauteous boy :
This Ganymede is all his joy." JS^Muum.
* Inthnattng tUt his tragedies had better be thrown into the wai« w the fire. > See Ep. 23.
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lti. to lufu8.
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To what master to inirost jour son, Lupna, has been an anxious object of oonrideration with you for some time. Avoid, I advise jou, all the grammarians and rhetoricians; let him have nothing to do with the books of Cicero at Yirgjl ; let him leave Tutilius ' to his fiune. If he makes verses, give him no encouragement to be a poet ; if he wishes to study lucrative srts, make him learn to plaj on the guitar or flute. If he seems to be of a dull cusposition, make him an auctioneer or an architect.
Whene'er I meet yon, still you cry,
« What shaU I do with Bob my boy ? "*
Since this afiur you'd have me treat on.
Ne'er lend the lad to Paul's or Eton*
The Muses let him not confide in,
But leave those jilts to late or Dzyden.
If with damn'd numes he racks his wits.
Send him to Mevis or St Elites.
Would yon with wealth his pockets store wellf
Teach him to jnmp or bolt a door well:
If he 'as a head not woilh a stiver.
Make him a eorate or hog-driver. Tom Bromu
Yon on one great concern your thoughts employ i
Still askinff now to educate your boy.
First, caraully avoid, if you are wise,
AU Qreek ana Latin masters, I advise.
Let him both (Scero and Virgil shun.
Unless yon wish him to be quite imdone.
Then, of a lad yon never can have hope.
Who verses makes, or reads a line in Pope.
If he in gainful business would engage^
Teach lum to stuff or play upon the stsge.
Or if he is too dim to oe a player.
Teach him to job, and he may die a mayor. Baff,
IiVTl. TO CIHKA*
When I call you ^My lord," do not be vain, Cinna. I often return your slave's salutation in a similar way.
When ^Sir** I call thee, be not pleased } for know, Cinna, I often call thy servant so. Wrighi
* A riietorician, whose dangbter QainUlian married.
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On a newhf mad$ Baromi, Thaof^ I do •'Sir" thee, be not Tain, I pnj: I M g|pM „ monkey Jadio ererj day.
Cfyrtu EMmg. N. ICMag., 1828.
LTm. TO POBTinnrB.
Ton tdl me, PostumuB, that you will liye to-moirow ; you alwayi say to-morrow, Postamus. Tell me, PoBtomus, when will that to-morrow arrive ? How far is that to-morrow off? Where ia it P or where ia it to be found P la it hidden among the Parthiana and Armeniana P That to-morrow al- ready counta np aa many yeara aa thoae of Priam or Neator. For how mnch, tell me, may that to-morrow be bought ? You will live to-morrow : even to-day it ia too late to bepn to Uto. He ia tiie wiaeman, Poatumua, who lived yeatorday.
To-monow, PoathumuB, to-morrow still
Hum aayaty thoult live : bat, Posthuniia, when wiU
That morrow come? how fiff ? whers to be fomid?
la't in the Parthian or Armenian ground ?
Or can that morrow Pxiam'a age out-boast P
OrNestox'sP tellwhatwill that monow cost?
Thou It live to-monow P — this day's life *s too late:
He *s wiM that lived before the present date* IkUhmr.
To-moRow you wiU live, yon always enr f
In what fidr country does this morrow ue^
That 't is so miffh^ long ere it arrive P
Beyond the Indies does this morrow live P
T IS so ftr-fetch'd, this morrow, that I fear
T wiU be both very old and very dear.
''To-morrow I will live," the fool does say |
To-dayitaelf's too late,— the wise lived yesterday. Co»kf§.
« To-morrow, and to-matrow,* still yon say, « To-moRow. 1 11 reform, but live to-day." When will to-morrow come P or where be fomd P
^ ^ Larks it on Indian or Peruvian ground P
^' 'T is now, alas ! tluree generations old« And at no price is that to-morrow sold* For look I the hour of sale has pass*d away : He who is wise has purchased yesterday. Wdgvm.
LIX. TO BTBLLA.
In forbearing to send you either ailver or gbLd, eloquent Stella^ I have acted for your intereat. Whoever makea great
252 mabtull's
presentB, wishes great presents to be made him in retnm. By mj present of earthenware vases yon will be released from such an obligation.
That I nor gold nor ulver to tnee send,
I this forbeur, for thy sake, learned friend.
Who gives great gifts, expects great gifts again ;
My cheap ones to retain will cause no pain, jinon, 1605.
liX. TO A nSTSACTOB.
Although you bark at me for ever and ever, and weary me with ^our shameless invectives, I am determined to persist in denymg you that fiune which you have been so long seeking, namely, that you, such ss you are, may be read of in my . works throughout the whole world. For why should any one know that you ever eziBtedP You must perish unknown, wretdied man ; it must be so. Still there will not be want- ing in this town perhaps one or two, or three or four, who may like to gnaw a dog's hide. For myself^ I keep my hands away ficom such corruption.
Snsrl on ; yoa never shall your purpose ^ain:
What long yon leek, yon still shall seek m vath.
Who aim at any, rather than no fame :
I wiU not, to abuse jon, use your name.
It never in mv writings shall be seen,
Or the world know tim such a wretch hath been.
Try to make others angry when vou bellow,
I scorn to meddle with a dirty fellow. Hajf.
LH. TO UASJAJSrUB.
Who is that curly-pated fellow, who is always at the side of your wife, Mananus ? Who is that curly-pated fellow ? He who IB always whispering some soft notning into my lady's gentle ear, and pressmg her chair with his right elbow ? He on all of whose fingers is displayed the light sum- mer ring, and whose legs are disfigured by not even a single hair ? Do jon give me no answer r '' He attends," say you, ^ to my wife's affiurs." Trulv he is a trustworthy gentle- man, and looks like a man of Dosiness, — one who bears the character of agent in his very face ; the Chian Aufidius ^ will not be more energetic than he. Oh how well, Marianus, you deserve a dap from Latinus ( I imagine you will be
- A licentious chanuTtiif of that day, mentioned by Juvenal, tz. 25.
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tbe soooeeaoF of FkamicaliiB.* He attends to your wife's •ffidn! Does that carlj-pated fellow attend to any aSaira P Yei^ be attends, not to jour wife's afbirs, but jonrs.
Who is tfaatbeauP pimy tell me, for yon know,
Stni near your wife P pray tell me, who's that bean.
Still pouring nonsense in her glowing eari
Wilh his right elbow leanin|p on her chair i
Who on his hand the sparkhag brilliant wean —
His hand almost as soft and white as hers?
"That man is, though he now so gay apneaxs,
A lawyer who transacts my wife's afnin.
A lawyer thati I tow, you make me starel
Surely Lord Foppington *s tum'd pnu^iser.
A lawyer that ! you are a precious ^squire^
Fit for a Gomez in the Spanish Fryu:!
Your wife's afiairs ! beliere me, one so fine
TVansaets not her affiurs, so much as thine. Hay, .
IXn. TO HIS OUXSTS, OTTRBXSB THXM HIB HOtlSX £SD .
OBOUITDS UHlUEiriBHBD.
You may remain in my gardens, my euests, aa long aa yoo please, if you can submit to lie upon the bare ground, or if plenty of furniture is brought in for your use along with you; for as to mine, it has dready suffered sufficiently from former guests. Not one cushion, eyen emptied of its feathers, remains to coyer my broken couches, the sacking of whidi lies rotting with the cords all seyered. Let us share the premises, howeyer, between us. I haye bouffht the gardens ; ' that is the greater part : do you furnish them ; tluit is the less.
Stay your owne time, and what my house affords Take as your owne ; so you can lye on boardst Or will bring with you your own furniture, For mine, o'er-wome, longer will not endure : Of quilts to my patch'd beads I haye no store, The bedd-coras oroake^ the ticks lie on the floors : But if to liye in common you think fitt, I 'ye bought the house; do you then furnish it.
OidMS.lMCM.
Lnn. TO povnous, a foolish wbitsb.
" What do you think," say you, ** Marcus, of my compo-
' A cknm, who played with Latinus as harlequin, or some siafa. See B u. Ep. 72.
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fationBp" Sudi is the question which you often and mmonsly put to me, PonticuB. I admire them, I am amazed, nothing is more perfect. Beffulufl himself must bow to your superior genius. ** Do you uiink so f " say you ; *' then may Caasary then may Gapitoline Jove be propitious to you ! " Nay, may he be propitious to you rather I
Often yon ask, solicitoiis as Bayes,
That I would oast my eye upon your lays.
I 'm cham'd— astoniui'd : noming is so mie :
T is Shaksspear's spirit breathes in every line.
« Think yon soP" say you; "bless you for a true
Critic, as well as friend." — ^And Gk>d bless you. JSaff,
IXIY. TO HIS BSBTAVTS.
Fill double cupa of Falemian, Callistus; dissolve into it^ Alcimus, the summer snow.^ Let my hair drip richly with abundance of nard, and my temples be encircled with wreaths of roses. The Mausoleums, close at hand, bid us live, for they teach us that even gods* can die.
Ton, boy, two measures of briske wine let flow, And you, poor on it summer cooleing snow ; Lett my moist haire with rich perfumes abound, Witii loades of rosy wreaths my temples crown'd : " Live now,* our neighbouring stately tombes doe cry,
** Since kinas, you see (your petty gods], can dye.
Old MS. im Ceni.
Boy I let my cup with rosy wine o'erflow,
Al>ove the meltm^ of the summer snow :
Let my wet hair with wasteful odour shine.
And loads of roses round my temples twine :
Tombs of the CSsBSsrs, your sad honours cry,
*< Live, little men, for lo ! the gods can die." Hodg$on
Fill high the bowl with sparkling wine ;
Cool the bright draught with smnmer snow.
Amid my locks let odours flow ; Around my temples roses twine. See yon proud emblem of decay,
Ton lordly pile that braves the sky!
* Snow preserred till summer, for the purpose of being dissolved in the wino to cool it.
* llie emperois, wko desired to be worshipped as gods.
•oox T.] xncouLia. 2M
It bidi xm liTe our little day^ Teaehing that gods thenuelTei may die. Mnrwak*
LZT. TO OJUiJL
Hie subjugation of the Nemean lion and the Arcadian wildphoar, — and of the athlete of the Libyan plain,— >the con* ^pett of the diead Eryx amid Sicilian dust, — ^the destrn^ turn of Cacus the terror of the woods, who, with stealthy cnnTiing usM to draw oxen by their tails to his caye,— seeorea to Alcides, notwithstanding the opposition of his stepmotiier, a place in heaven among the stars. But how small are such achieyements, Cassar, compared to what are per- formed on thy arena ! There each new morning exhibits to us neater contests. How many monsters fall, more terrible than tnat of Nemea ! How many Maenalian boars does thy spear * stretch on the ground I W ere the thrice-conquered Iberian shepherd, Geryon,to be restored to life, thou hast a champion, Gnsar, that would conquer even him. And though the hydra of Grecian Lema be often celebrated for the number (A its heads, what is that monster compared to the crocodiles of the Nile ? For such exploits, Augustus, the gods awarded early immortality to Alades ; to tl^ thqr will award it late.
While ftan the enTious itepdame would preclude The meed of merit, in a Tengeftd mood; To Hercules gave heaven, in varioui lon^ A Nemea's terror, and Arcadia's boar ; The ehasten'd plaster of the Libysn sehooli Hot Eryx laid in dust Sicilian cool ; The foresf 8 panic, all unknown till then, Who bacJ^waid drew the heifers to his den What portion these, dread Gnsar, of thy sand? Superior combats does each mom command. What huger than the Nemean monster fall ! And what MenaHans does thy spesr «>pal I The threefold fisht of the Ibaian swain, Beturoinff, would renew a Oeryon slain. Oft bids me Grecian Lema swell the style: Yet what's a hydra to the births of Nilef Soon gave just gods Alcides heaven to see i But ]ate» Augustus, shall they webome thee.
*
^ The spesr of Gsipophorusy thy senrant See de Spectac. Bp. 15
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LTfl. TO POVTILIAHT78.
Though I often Balnie joo, you nevest salute me first; I
shall therefore, PoniOuuniSy siJ ute you with sd eternal fiue*
welL
PontOian ne'er salutes till after me ;
So his fioewell shall everlastiiig he. Fldeher,
I often bow; toot hat you nerer t^ : ^
So, onee lor aU, your humhle servant, sir. Haff*
IZm. OK A SWALLOW.
When the Attic birds, after their custom, were seeking their winter retreats, one of them remained in her nest. The other birds, retazning at the iqpproach of spring, dis- covered the crimen and tore the deserter in piecee. Her punishment came late ; the guilty mother had deserved such a death, but it was at the time that she slaughtered Itytk}
When the Athenian birds explored their way
To the bleat climes that know no winter's day,
One hapless twitt'rer, who disdain'd the rest,
Outbraved the ri^uis in the fenceftd nest :
Till the clan, oommff with the genial spring,
As a deserter held me loifring thinff.
Thus Ute the guilty parent penance oore.
Who whilom her own guiltless Itys tore, ^phimim.
LXYin. TO LMBIA, WITH A LOOK Of HAIB VBOM
eSBlCAKT.
I send you this trees, Lesbia, from the northern regions, that you may know how much lighter your own is.*
Hair, from the dime where ^Iden tresses grow, I sent, that Lesbia*8 locks might brighter glow.
JBlphintttm
LXEE. OV UAXK AITTONT.
0 Antony, thou canst cast no reproach upon the Egyp- tian Pothinus,* thmi who didst more injury by the mur*
1 Alluding to the fikUe of Progne, who tore in pieces her son Itjs, and was afterwirds changed into a swiUow.
t The courtesans It Bone, at that time, wore fklae light hair. Lesbia'f was extravagantly light.
* For von are as bad as he. He killed Pompey, yon (Soero. See B SL Kp. odi
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der of Oioevo, than br all your pfUBcriptian lista. Why did jon draw the swor^ madman, agamat the nmmik of Borne P oueh a oiime not even CatOme himadf would hare com* nutted. An impiona addier waa comiptedbj your aocuiaed gold, and for ao much money procured you tiie aOenoe of a aing^ tongue. Butof whatai^ toyoaia the deariy-bought auppreaaion of thaA aacred eloquenoeP On behalf of Cicero the whde world will apeak.
So blaok, Mark Anton^^ bo foul '■ thy name, That er^ Pothinua* guilt thou dax^st not blame: In TullVs gore alone more deeply dred, Than all the tea of blood thou ahecld'at bedde. How duzst thou, madman, sheath th^ impioua blade In Rome's own throat P — ^in Tull/s life invade The commonwealth's P A crime that put a stand To Gatline's soul, and damp'd his danng hand. Thou hiz^dst a Tillam with accursed gold To gag the tongue that did thy life umold ; "What boots it thee, to silence, at such price. One dirine tongueP Think'st so to hide thy vice P For Tirtne now, and murder*d Tully's sake, AU tongues inveigh, and all philippies make.
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I2Z. TO icAznnia, ok sniacirB.
Syriaeoa, while wandering about among the low tavema m the neighbourhood of the four birtha,^ haa diaaipated, M^Timiia^ ten whole milliona of aeatercea, recently laviahed upon him by hia patron. Oh what gluttony, to have con- sumed ten nulliona of sesterces I And how much greater doea it appear, when we consider that he consumed it without ait- ting down to table I *
In rambling only through base booths and huts,
Vile tap^houses, and ceUars among sluts,
Syriscus full five hundred pounds made fly
(His lord's vain gift) i* th' twinkling of an eye.
Strang luxury, to consume all this deal,
Nor sitting for't the time alloVd a meal I Asmil 1606.
LZXL TO rAtTBTnrna, nrriTDre huc to thi oool gbotb8
07 TBBBirLA, L TOWK 07 TBDI BABmB.
Where moiat Trebula ainka in cool vales, and the green
> Those of Agrippt, Nero, Orylhis, and Titus. ' Without spendbig any of it among the hotter ckss ol persons, wIm rselined on conches at their hanqnets.
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fields are cool in the raging heat of summer, a oonntry spot, Faustinas, nerer withered bj the ardour of the Cleonoan lion,^ and a house ever fayoured hj the iBolian south wind, invite you. Pass the long days of harvest on these hills; Tivoli shall be your winter retreat.
The gdid Tales where Trehtda commands, Where CSancer smileB upon the verdant lands — Lands that deons's fervours ne'er molest^ A dome by the .£olian south caress'd, Invites her lord to breathe automnal air : [is Tibur shall be winter's bland repair. ^Muiim.
LXXn. TO BVFVB.
He who oould call Jupiter the mother of Bacchus,* may very well, Sufua, call Semele his father.
Who sayes that Jove was Bacchus' mother, he As well may call his father Semele. Moff.
He that sfBrms Jove Bacchus* mother, may
Prove Semeb his father the same way. JFMdbr.
LXZm. TO THZOnOBlTJ.
Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstand- ing your fiequent requests and importunities, I have never presented you with my works P I have an excellent reason; it is lest you should present me with yours.
** Why ne'er to me," the Lamreat cries,
« Are poet Paulo's verses sent P " " For fear," the tuneful rogue replies, " You should return the compliment.'' JSodffion,
LXUV. OK POKPBT AKB HIS B0V8.
The sons of Pompey are covered by the soils of Asia and Burope ; Pompey himself by that of Africa, if indeed he be covered by any. What wonder that they are thus dispersed over the whole globe P So great a ruin could not have Iain in a single spot.
Pompey's dead sons Europe and Asia have ; Libya, if any, was the fikther's grave.
^ The oonsteHatioa Leo^ where the sun is in the heat of summer.
1 Some foolish poet of that day may perhaps have called Jupiter tss mother of Baechufl, in allusioD to the story of Bacchus having been sews 4p in Jupiter's thi^
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The mi^ty rainWead tibe woild't wida hoBt Too greatto lie inymy nngleplaoe. Hajf,
lzxtJ to QinVTUB.
Lntia^ wbo has become your wi&^ Quintiis, in compliance with ttie lawy^ jou may fiurly call your lawfol wife.
She 'b mamed to avoid the law ; now aU A Tery lawful wife her well may calL
(HdMAMOnL
LUIVI. TO CLMJTA.
IGthridatea, by frequently drinking poiaon, rendered it im* poaaible for any poiaon to hurt him. x ou, Cinna» by alwaya dinmg on next to nothing, have taken due precantion againat erer periahing from hunger.
The king of Pontna, drinking poison still,
Attain'dthe art to guard agamst the ill :
So you a like precaution do obsenre^
By dining always ill, to n^er starYe. Soj^.
Aa he that had used p<»soii long
Found that it did him no great wrong,
Tou practiBe such a daily fist^
That nunger you 11 not feel at last Anon,
LZXni. TO KABITLLUB.*
A certain person, Marollua, is reported to have made an excellent joke ; he said that you cany oil in your ear.
It was a derer joke, though somewhat queer,
To say thou'st oU, MaruUus, in thine ear. Anon,
Lxznn. TO TusAimrs.
If you are Buffering from dread of a melancholy dinnor at home, Tonmiua, you may oome and fiiat with me. If you are in the habit of talcing a preparatory whet, yo|i will experience no want of common CapniMlocian lettuces aiid strong leeln. ISie tunny will luik unaer dicea of eeg; a cauliflower hot enough to bum your fingers, and whicm haa but just left the cool garden, will be servM freah and green on a black platter ; while sausages will float on snow-white porridge, and the
< For fasr of the Julisn law tgainst adultery ; a law iriiich Domitian rsTived.
* A person dow to spetk wss said " to carry oQ in his mouth." Ma- raDiis wss slow to listen to others, snd wss thersfore said to csrry oil ia hissar.
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pale bean will aooompanj the redHrtieaked baeon. If 70a would knowtiie riches of the second coarse, raisiiis will be set before yon, and pears which pass for Syrian^and chestnuts to which learned Ivaples gave burth, roasted at a slow fire. The wine 70a will prove in drinking it.^ After all this, if BaechoB perchance, as la his wont, produce a craving, excellent olives, which Ficenian branches recentlv bore, will come to your relief with the hot vetch and the tepid lupine.* The dinner is small ; who can den7 it f — but 70U ynH not have to invent fidsehoodsy or hear them invented ; vou will recline at ease, and with 70ur own natural look ; tne host will not read aloud a bulk7 volume of his own compositions, nor will licentious girls from shameless GadiE be there to gratify 70U with wanton atti- tudes ; but (and I hope it will not be unpleasant or distaste- ful to you) the small reed-pipe will be neard. Such is m7 little dSnner. You will follow Claudia, whom 70U eamestij wish should be with me before 70ursel£
To snpp alone if grievous bee.
At yoor own home, come fast with me:
Your stomach to prepazie, you shall
Have letdce and strong leekes with alli
A peoe of linff with egn, and greene
CoIewortB with oil, shSli there be seene
In phtter brown, new gathered
Fron the cold garden where 't was bredd ;
Pudding ex sausage shall not fisiile.
And bacoD redd, with beanes more pale.
If seeond couTse you do affect,
Dried latter-grapes you may expect ;
The pleasant boasted Syrian peares 1
And chestnutts which leam'd If spies bearei^
Roasted i' th' embers, shall attend ;
The wine your drinkmg will commend*
After which if you hungry grow
(As many cupps will make men doe),
Kich oHves we will you allow,
FnA gathered from Hbe Pioene bough |
Or scalded lupines, or paroh'd peas :
A slender supper, I confess.
But yet unforced s where you may bee
In your discourse and garo most heti
1 By drinking it only when you feel thirsty. Or, yoa will nake ms think it n>od if you drmk plenty of it * Psrdied pesi and boiled lupines.
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Nor tedious T<4iime8 foned to heir i Nor wanton Spaniih wenofaes there, Wzij^ling with heat of lost, shall make Their practised limhs all postures take : JhB small pine's notes shall then rebohnd. But with no iiarsh unpleasinff sound s And the nioe Claudia there snail bee* Whom you would rather hare than mee.
Old2£S. im CM.
LXZIZ. TO Z0ILU8.
Eleven times haye you rieen from the table, Zoilus, at one meal, and eleren times hare you changed your dinner-robe, leat the perspiration retained by your damp dress should re- main upon your bodjr, and the light air hurt your relaxed sldn. Why do not I perspire, Zoilus, who dine with you P why, to have but one robe keeps me yeiy cooL
r th' meal ten times thou from the board dostrange^ And ev'ry time thou dost thy yestment change^ For fear lest, sweating, harm thy body get. Between the air and garments tnat are wet Why sweat not I, who sup with thee, thou fool P Who has no change of clothes is stzangely oooL
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T.T-nr. TO SITUirS.
If you haye the time, Seyerus, giye something less than an hour — and you may count me your debtor for it — to the
Csal and examination of my light effusionB. It is hard to your holidays ; yet I beg you to endure and put up with the loss for once. But if you peruse them in company with the eloquent Secundus — (but am I not too bold?) — this little book will owe you much more than it owes to its master. For it ^ill be released from all anxiety, and will not see the rolling stone of the tired Sisyphus,' if polished by the Cen- Borian file of the learned Secundus, in union with my friend Seyerus.
Would you but scarce one houre lay by, *
These toyes of mine to reads, and try. You'd thereby much oblige your friend. It is too much thus to
1 Will not be sent ad Merot ; condemned to obliTita. By Secundus sooM suppose that Pliny the Tonnger u meant
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Your leasure time j jett do n't gainaaf To beare this low of time^ I pray. Butt (might 1 bee bo bold) would yott My lineB with leam*d Secundus view, They *d thereby more indebted standi Than to their author^s, to joxii hand. For he ahall Bcape tired Sisyph's stone, Still rowling in obliTion, Whom leam'd Secundus' critic file, With yours, has smooth'd into a stile.
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TiTm. TO MMXLLAJSfVS.
If you are poor now, .^^TnilianiiH, you will always be poor BicheB «re now given to none but the rich.
If thou art poor, ^milian,
Thou shalt be erer so, For no man now his prosonta can
But on the rich bestow. Fieieher,
You want, iBmilianus, so you may ;
Riches are given rich men, and none but tibey. WrigkL
Poor once and poor for ever, Nat, I fear ; None but the nch get place and pension here.
LXXZH, TO OAirBlTB.
Why did you promise me, Ghuiros, two hundred thousand sesterces, if you could not give me a single ton thousand P Is it that you can, and will not P Is not that, I ask, still more dis- honourable ? GK>, to the devil with you, GbiuruB. You are a pitiful fellow.
Two hundred thousand why thy promise bear P
If, Oaurus, thou ten thousand could'st not spare P
Or canst, and wilt not P neither boast nor bellow :
Go, hxDg thyself: thou art a paltry fellow. S^Muton,
wish, I do.
LZXZni. TO DZirDTMTJS.
cfa is 11
you do not
You pursue, I fty ; you fly, I pursue ; such is my humour. What you wish, Dmdymus, I do not wish ; what
I fly, you follow ; fly when I pursue : Whatllove^hate; what hated, 1« zed by yoo. WriffXt
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lxxht. to oalla, who had butt ilibtiax vo pbisbkt
at thb batubitalia.
The boy now sadly leaves his playthingB, and retoma at the call of hia loua-voiced preceptor; and the drunken ffameeter, betrayed by the ratding of hia aeduetiye dice- oozy IB imploring mercy of the magiBtrate, haying, but a little while before, been dragged from some obscure tayem. The Saturnalia are quite at an end, and you have sent me, Galla^ neither the little nor the lesser c;iit8, which you uaed to send. Well, let my December pass thus. You know yeiy well, I suppose, that your Saturnalia, in March,' will soon lie here. I will then make you a return, Oalla, for what yoa baye giyen me.
Now the lad ichoolboy emwls from play, Call'd by his awful loni away ; And now, by his dear boz lletny'd, Dragg'd from a tippling hole diniay'd. The sambler, reefing on his legs, The 2Bdile'8 gradooA pardon ftgs. • Our joys are o'er, thou most confess f Nor greater presents thou, nor less, Hast sent to cheer the social ember; Bat so let drawl our dull December. Thou, Oalla, know'st a feast a-ooming. And doutless ey'ry hour art summing, Nor do I, more than thou, abhor The Calends of the god of war. Then, GaUa, will I pay, with reason. The loye thou showdst our festal season. S^kkuUm,
BOOK YI.
I. TO JVUna ICABTIALIB.
To you, Mabtia£Is, especially dear to me, I send i book ; which if it should be polished with your exa may yenture, with little anxiety or apprehension, i august presence of Giesar.
^ When a kind of Satuinslia of tfie women was kepL
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This my lixth book« Julim, to thee I lendt Detr 'moDg the fint, and my judicious Mnid *. If it shall pass approTed thy leamed ear, When 't is in Ccesar's hand, I less shall fisar.
U. TO DOUJTtLS,
It oaed to be a oomtnon sport to violate the sacred rites of marriage ; a commoii sport to mutilate innocent males. Ton now forbid both, Caesar, and promote future generationSi whom you desire to be bom without illegitimacy. Hence- forth, under your rule, there will be no such thing as a eunuch or an adulterer ; while before, oh sad state of morals ! the two were combined in one.
llimr^^Qrted, ent, with wedlock's holy flame,
Ana iimoce&ce f munan, ihey held no shame.
Both, Gesar, thou forbid'st with ffen'rous soom;
And sajst : 0 coming age, be ffuutless bom.
No castrate or suborner shall there be :
Erewfaile the castrate was the debauchee. WpkkuUm.
m. TO SOlOTIAir, ok the XZPXOTBB BIBTH OV ▲ BOW
BT HIS WmB BOMITLA^
Spring into light, 0 child promised to the Trojan lulus,' true scion of the ^>ds ; spring into light, illustrious child I Itlay thy fiither, uter a long series of years, put into thy hands the reins of empire, to hold for erer ; and mayst thou rule the world, thyseli an old man, in concert with thy still more seed sire. For thee shall Julia herself,* with her snow- white thumb, draw out the golden threads of life, and spin the whole fleece of Phrizus' ram.
Come, promised name ; lulus' race adom. True ofipiing of the gods ! blest babe, be bom : To whom thy sire, when many an age has roU'd, May give th' eternal reins wiu him to hold. The mlden threads shall Julia's fingers draw. And Phrizus' fleece the willing wond shall awe. ^
^ Martial speaks as if the Fates had pronused the birth of this pxinoe to lulus the son of .fineas.
* Niece of Domitisn, and daughter of Titos, who, Martial intimatea, must neoettarily lore her cousiii, and desire to spin for him, like one of the Fates, a long snd happy thread of life.
BOOK TX.] inOBAKS. 266
nr. TO DomsiAir.
Most nuffhtj oeoBor, prince of prinoes, although Ihrnie is already in&bted to you for bo manj triumphs, so many temples, new or rebuilt, so manj spectacles, so man^ gods, so many cities, she owes you a stiu greater debtinowmgtoyou her chastity.
Most mighty C«ar, king of kings, to whom
Rome owes so many triumphs yet to come,
So many temples growing and restored.
So many spectacles, gods, cities : lord.
She yet in debt to thee doth more remain,
That she by thee is once made chaste again. Fleieherm
T. TO OMOtLLAJSJJS.
I hsTe bought a &rm in the country for a great sum of money ; I ask you, GaBciliaaius, to lend me a hundred thou- sand sesterces. Do you make me no answer f I belieye, yon are saying within yourseli^ '' You will not repay me.** It is for that reason, OsBcilianus, that I ask you.
I lately purchased hsTe a niece of ground ;
Cedlian, lend me, pray, a nundred pound.
Dost say, I ne'er wiU nay P And thereon pause P
To speak the truth, I Donow for tfaftt cause, ^ffon. lOM.
yi. TO LUSBBOUS.
There are three actora on the stage; but your Paula, Lu- percus, loyes a fourth : Paula loyes a mutapenana.
Three are the drama's persons, Paula's four.
Thy modest Paula can the mute adore. SX^hmtiom,
yn. TO 7AT7STnn78.
^ Vfom the time when the Julian law, Paustinus, waa re- nved, and modesty waa ordored to enter Soman homes, it is now either less, or certainly not more, than the thirtieth day, and TelesiUa is already marrying her tenth husband. She who marries so often cannot be said to marry at aill ; she is an adulteress under coyer of the law. An ayowed prostitute offends me lees.
Fausdnus, from the hour the Julian law BeriTed, and chastity began to draw
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By public edict into erery hoii8e»
Scazoe thirty days have paas'd.
Since Thelesine was askM, And ten times over hath been made a tponae. She that doth wed bo oft, weds not at all; But rather her we may more taruly cdl A mere legitimate adulteress : A simple aixant wench offends me less. JXrfdbsr.
Ym. TO BXYXBITB.
Two auctioneers, four tribunes, seyen lawyers, ten poets, were recently asking the hand of a certain young lady fix>m ner aged &tber. Without hesitation, he eaye ner to the auctioneer Eologus. Tell me, Seyerus, did he act foolisUj P
Welsh judges two, four military men,
Seyen noisy lawyen, Oxford scholszs ten,
Were of sn old man's daiLphter in purrait
Soon the curmudgeon en&d the dispute.
By giyiny her unto a thriying siocer.
What thmk youP did he play the fool, or no^ sir f
'X. to UBTOnXB, WHO HAD BSATBD HDCBILV AKOVO THl XFIGHTB Aim PSBTXimXD TO BX iiBLKXP.
You go to sleep in the theatre of Fompeius, Lsyinus, and do you complain if Oceanus ^ disturbs you P
In Pompey's theatre thou dsi^st to snore ; And growrst to stsrt up, if old Ocesn rosr P
X. TO nOlOTIAJr, COyXBXLT ABEIKO HDl FOB MOKET.
A little while ago, when I happened to ask of Jupiter a few thousand sesterocB, he repued, " He wiU ^ye them to you, who haa giyen temples to me." Temples mdeed he has giyen to Jupiter, but to me no thousands at alL I am asham- ed, alas ! 01 haying asked too little of our Jupiter. Yet how kindly, how undisturbed with anger, and with how placid a oounteoiance, did he read mj request ! With such did he restore their diadems to the suppliant Dacians^ with such does hegoand come alongthe way to the GapitoL O Yixgin,* confidant of our Jupiter, tell me, 1 pray thee, if he lefuscB wiUi Buch a look as this, with what sort is he wont to grant P 1%U8 I besought Pallas, and thus she, laying aside her Qorgtm,
^ See B. iiL Ep. 96; B. r. Ep. 27. ' PsCts, of whom Domitian wis a Totarf. B. It. Bp. 1.
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briefly replied: ''Do you imagine, fbolidi man, that what ia not yet given ia neoeaaarily refiiaed F "
I late of JoTe a thonaand orowoi did oraTe ; . '•He11giTe%''nyih0b''whomeatemplagaTe.'' That he, 't ii true, a temple nre to thee, But yet no Uiouaand erowns oeatows on me. I backward waa our Jove this way t^ engage : But how serene ! How free from doady rage He read my suit ! With each a placid orow To conquered kings their erowns he does allow s And frOTB the Capitol letnms snd goes. O '>^nin ! who alone oar great lord knows I If with snbh looks he does our suits reject, Say, wiUi what mien he does them then accept I ma/d. Pallas (her shield reversed) replied : « Wliat is not gir n yet, thinkst thou, fool, denied f '
XL TO UAMOUM.
Do yoQ wonder, Harcaa, that aPvladee and an Oreetea ara nottobefoundinthepreaentdayP Fyladea, Harcaa, naed to drink the aame wine aa Oreatea; and before Oreatea waa not aet a better kind of bread or a fritter throah, but there waa one and the aame entertainment for both. Yon deronr Laaine oyatera ; I feed upon thoae from tiie watera of Pe- loria; and yet my taate ia not leaa nice than yonia^ Marenab You are dothed from Cadmean Tyre; I, in the coarae gar- ments of GkuiL Do yon expect me^ dad in a common aoldier^a doak, to love you who are reaplendent in pnrple P If I am to play ^ladoBylet some one play Oreatea to me; and thia ia not to be done by words, Miurcua. To be loved, ahow love
yomradfl
Where is there now a Pylsdeaf yon ay :
Aet jou Oreste^ part, and he am I.
Their cup was common ; and it is aven^d.
They never supped, bat eadi man had his bird.
You feast on toroot, whilst I eat poor-jack :
I like, as wdl as you, a glass of sack.
Can I love you, in uncut velvet neat,
In an old coat that comes f^om Monmouth-streetf
Be you a friend, if yon a friend would prove •
Pine words are vain ; love is the piioe of love. IQy.
Xn. OS FABULLA.
Fabnlla aweara that the hair which ahe haa bonght ia her own* Doea ahe perjure herad^PanloaP
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The Kolden hair that Galla wean Is nen who would have thought it f
She flwean "t is hen, and true she iwean For I know where she hought it
Sit Jokm Biufw^iiM*
XTTT. OF THB 8TAT17I OT JTJLLl.
Who would Dot suppose thee, Julia, to have been fashioned by the chisel of Phidias, or to be the ofispring of tiie art of nllas herself P The white Ljgdian marble seems to answer in the speaking image, and a life-like gloss beams on thy placid countenance. Tbj hand plays, not ungracefuUj, with the cestos of the Acidahan ffodaess, stolen from the neck of little Gapid. To reviye the Ioyc of Mars and of the supreme ThundereTy let Juno and Yenus herself ask of thee th j oestus.
Who would not think this piece bj Phidias wrought ?
Or to pezfeotion by Minerva brought P
The snow-white marble seemeth eVn to speak.
Such life and- sraoe does from the count*nanoe break.
It nwrting hoUs Loye*s girdle in its hand,
Ana "boTe tiie god of love does love command.
When Venus would in Man lost flames renew.
Hero for the charming oestus she must sue. Atum. 1606.
zry. TO LABEKinS.
You assert, Laberiua, that jou can write excellent yerses ; why then do you not write them ? Whoever can write ex- cellent yerses, and does not write them, I shall regard as a remarkable man.
Thou canst write exc*llent vene, as thou dost say i Why then to write, Laberius, dost delajrP Who can do aught that *s excllent, and withhold. Among the greatest men may be enroll'd. Anom, 1095.
Xy. OK XS AJSfT XKCLOSSn DT AICBXB.
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaetcm, a drop of amber enveloped the tin^ insect ; thus ^e^ who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
A drop of amber, from the weeing plant, Fell unexpected, and embalm'a an ant ; The little msect we so much contemn Is, fbom a worthless ant, become % gem.
iZra. JL Oravtk
BOOK TX.1 ipieiuxt. 289
Xn. TO PBIAFVi.
O thoa irho, with thy staf^ aflMghtert men, and m& Aj aejihe, debaocheeBy daend these few acres of sequeatered gronnd. So maj no old thieves, but onlj boys and girla, graced with long tresses, enter thj orchards.
xvn. TO oansAMVB.^
You would have us, OinnaihuB, call 70U Cinna. Would not this Cinna, I ask you, be a barbansm P Bj a similar process, if you had been previously named Boberson, you might now oe called Bobber.
Hum 'dst be oall'd Gimia; (Snnsmus is thy name :
Such barb'rousjiraetioe many would de&ma.
To be named Tnesens, say it thee befell,
And men should csil thee Thief; wonUst take it well P
Anom, 1095.
XTIZ1« TO PBISOUS, OW THX nx^TH ow sixovivirs.
The sacred shade of Saloninus, than which no better looks upon the Stygian abodes, rrooses in the land of Spain. But w^ must not lament him ; for he who has left thee, Friscus, behind him, lives in that part of himself in which he pre* iiaiTed to live.
Our friend, who lately captive died in Spain,
Went to the other world without a stain.
To ^eve is wrongs for leaving you alive^
He m his dearer pert doth stiusurvive. IGiy.
XIX.' TO POSTUMTTS.
My suit has nothing to do with assault, or batterr, or poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I complain, have beoL stden by my neighbour. This the judge desires to have proved to him ; but you, with swellinff words and ex- travagant gestures, dilate on the Battle of (Smn», the Mith* ridatic war, and the perjuries of the insensate Carthaginians, the Sylls, the Marii, and the MudL It is time, Fostnmus, to say something about my tiiree goats.
My cause oonoems nor battery nor treason 1 I sue my neigbbour for this only reason, That me three sheep of mine to pound he drove : Tiiis is the point the oouil wonld nave you prove.
* TIiebailMr,prplMbly,tow)ioBithssixt7-foQrthBpisrminofBodkvtt. is addressed.
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Ccmoeniing ICa^^na Charta yoa run on.
And all the penuries of old KingJolm }
Then of the Edwards and B]ack%moe yon n&ty
And talk of John o* Stiles and John o' Gniunt:
With Toioe and hand a mighty pother keep.
Now, pray, dear sir, one word aooat the sbep. 2Rqf.
ZZ. TO FHOEBITS.
I aaked you, FhcBbus, for the loan of a hundred ihonsand aeaterceB, in conaeqiieiioe of your having said to me, " What then, do you want nothing of me P " You make inquiries, you doubt, you torment both yourself and me for ten days. Now, pray, FhoBbus, refuse me at once.
You bid me take the freedom of a ftiend:
I beg Toa but a hundred pound to lend;
You shuffle, shift, delay, and we both lose
A fortni^t^s sleep : — I beg yon to reliise. Hay.
TTT. OV STELLA AVB lAlTTHIB.
In uniting for ever lanthis to the poet Stella, Venus gaily said to him, ^ I could not give you more." This she said before his mistress ; but added maliciously in his ear, " Be careful, rash man, not to be guilty of any foQy. Often have I, in a rage, beaten the dissolute Mars for his wandering propensitieB before he was flEurly united to me. But now he IS my own, he has nerer wronged me with a rivaL Juno would be happy to find Jupiter as weU conducted." She spoke, and struck the poet's breast with her mysterious cestus. The blow was sweet : but now, O goddess, spare thy votary.'
When erst the joyous queen of love lanthis made a StcUa*s dove! She said: "I could not more bestow." The lady heard, and reverenced low. Now Venus whispered in his ear : Beware thou do not sin, my dear. How oft the god of war I smote. And bid him change his rambling note,
^ Pan$ dio is the resding which Schneidewin has sdopied in his first edition, Poros <iio in the second. Other copies have emiM duot^ which the genenllty of editors have adopted, understsoding it to mesn, " strike both lanthis and Stella, that one may be as (aithfiil as the other.*
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Befon I deigii'd the bluff to w^d.
Am lawful inintte of mj bed!
But, after mine the god became^
He bamt with no ilfieit flame;
Great Jnno well ooold wiah her Joye,
Aa loyally avefae to rore.
With this ahe eloied her seeret aong*,
And thwaek'd him with her pleasing thong.
Bat mutoal, goddess, mske the oath. And smaek the oride and bridegroom both.
xxn. TO FBOorLnrju
When, Ktxmlina, 70a marry your paramour, and, in order that the Julian law may not touch you, make him your hua* band who was recently your gallant, it is not a maniage^ Proculina, but a confession.
Because thou |oin'st, my Procidine^
In marriage with tiiy concubine^
Lest that the law should thee distress.
Thou dost not many, but emifess. Iteicier,
Inflamed with Ghloe^s marketable charms, Strephon, by bond, secured her to his arms 1 Then, growmff wiser as he grew less fond, E^ouMd the lady to seoaiB the bond: Now all the witlings of the turf allege Strephon's was not a wedding, but a hedge.
N, B. EMmL
XUn. TO LXSBIA.
You wish me, Lesbia, eyer to be ready for your service^ beUeye me, a bow is not always strung. Howerer strongly you try to move me with caresses and soothing words, your face invincibly preyents your success.
xnr. ov CHABisiAinis.
Nobody can be more luxurious than Charisianus. He walks about during the Saturnalia dad in a toga.'
Oiarisian 's yainer ftr than all the town; When others masqnerade, he 's seen in 's gown.
Anon, 169d.
^ Msrtisl imputes that ts the eflhmteiy of GhuUsnus which is to be attributed to hii poverty. The richer sort of people, at the Satar* aaliiL ezehaiigBd tlie togs m the tfBthflsis, or lighter dnss, fai which they
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XST. TO MABOSLLUnrS IS 2>ACILk.
KBiceOmuB, true scion of a worthy sire, thou whom the shaggr bear coyers with the Farrhanan car,^ hear what 1, the old Mend of thee and thy father, desire for thoe, and retain these mj prayers in thy mindful heart: That thy valour may not be rash, and that no daring ardour may hurry thee into the midst of sworda and cruel weapona. Let them who are deyoid of reason wish for war and savaffe Mors ; thou canst be the soldier both of thy &ther and of thy emperdr.*
Thoa true descendant of a worthy sire,
Whom in the field the RuBsian troops admire i
Take the adyioe your Mend at home thinks besty
And keep it like the military cheat.
Let not your eager valour make you run
On a pike's point, or mouth of a great gun.
Thick scuUs are best against a sam : you
May guard your oount^, and may grace it too. JXatif,
ZXyi. OK SOTADBS.
Our friend Sotades is putting his head in dai^ger. Do yon suppose Sotades in accused of any crime P He is not. But, bemg unable any longer to hold out a stout truncheon, he goes to work with his tongue.
ULVU. TO KEFOS, OV THB BIBTH OV HIS nAlTOHTXB.
0 Nepos, who art doubly my neighbour (for thou, like myself^ inhabitest a dwelling next to the Temple of Flora, as well as the ancient Ficeliffi),* to thee has been bom a daugh- ter, whose face is stamped with the likeness of her father, evidence of her mother's fidelity. Spare not too much, how- ever, the old Falernian, and leave behind you casks filled with money rather than with wine. May tny daughter be affectionate and rich, but let her drink new wine ; and let
I The Gar of Bodies, or Ghsrles's Wain ; the same as the Great Bear, into which Callisto of Porrhasia in Arcadia is said to hare been metamor- phosed. See B. iv. Ep. 11.
* Tu paUi et patria mOet et €999 dueU, So Schneidewin. Host editions have^ TupaU9 etpatrim mtbt st 9999 d9eu9. which seems &r preferable.
' lljiiei^bouriathetowii,a]idinyiiei^boarintheooantiy. Martial had a piece of ground near Fioelia, a town of the Sabines.
BOOK VI.] iHQJUKi. S78
the wmejar, now new, grow old along witb its mirtreBB.- The Gncaban yintage mnet not he the drink of thoise onl} who have no childran; fatfaan of families, beliere me, can also enjoj life.
Let me eihort 700, who myneighhoiur aie^ At well in Yondiixe ai in Oroavenor-aqnam ; And have a girl, your piotore to the life, Whoae likaiMM it an honour to vonr wife 1 Broach Tour heat Burgundy, and never tpare it; Leave her a oaak of guineat, not of claret : Or thould difl^ rkh and Tirtuoui, take a cup, Let it he wine of her own nnzsing up. I never can agree in any tort, That haohelora drink claret, and you port Hay.
JJLVllL SPCTASH OH aiAHOIAB.
Glauciaa, the well-known freedman of Melior, at whose ^eath all Borne wept, the short-lived delight of his affection- ate patron, reposes D^oeath this niarhle sepulchre close to the Fhuninian "Way. He was a jouth of pure morals, of simple modesty, of ready wit, and of rare beau^. To twice six harvests completed, the youth was just addmg another year. Traveller, who lamentest his £ite, mayst thou never have ought else to lament I
That lordy youth, hee to well known, Whote dei^ all Borne did to bemoane^ I£t knd't toothort delimit, though dearth Under thit ttone interred liet here. Near the Flammian Way. So chatto fn hit behaYiour, to thame&ced And innocent, to quick of witt, Lovely in diape and featurea, yett So young wat teldom ever teene ; He tcaroeiy had attayn'd thiiteene. Who, paitmg hy, weept o'er thit grave, May hee ne'er oUier tozrowt have!
Oa MS. ten OuUwy.
XXDL Oir THl SAXB.
GHanda waa not of the lower dasa of house slaves, nor of
^ Drink the old ivine youiidf, tnd lei her drink that which it made t» the time of her birth, iriiich wfll grow old with her. Schneidewin, instead of am/Aora JUU mnt^ reidt mupkon^-^^ opm^ 10 which we htTe not thou^t fit to follow hiBL
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sudi as are sold in the commoiL market : bat he was a yiuih worthy of the tender affection of his master, and, before he could as yet appredate the kindness of his patron, he was already made toe freedman of Meiior. This was the reward of his morak and his beauty. Who was more attractive than he P or whose face more resembled that of Apollo ? Short is the life of those who possess uncommon endowments, and rarely do tiiey reach old age. Whatever you love, pray that you may not love it too mu6h.
Lest by his birth than by his merit known,
A favourite lamented by the town.
Of ftiends the exquisite but shoit-lived joy,
Amongft the great mterr'd, here lies a boy :
A ehaste behaviour, and a modest grace ;
An eaxly judgment, and a cherub's aoe
But soon, alas ! too soon his race was run !
Scaroe had he seen a thirteenth summer's sun !
Ne'er may he grieve again, who drops a tear !
Worth is short-lived ; then nothing nold too dear. Hi^*
nz. TO pjBTirs.
If you had given me six thousand sesterces forthwith, when you said to me, '' Take them, and carry them away, I make you a present of them," I should have felt as much indebted to you, Patus, as if you had ^ven me two hundred thousand. But now, when you have givon them to me after a long delay,-«after seven, 1 believe, or nine months, — ^I can tell you (shall I ?) something as true as truth itself: you have lost all thanks, P»tus, for the six thousand sesterces.'
If thou hadst sent me presently
Six sesterces, when first to me
Thou Baid*8t, my Potus, **Take, I give,"
I 'd owed thee tenacore, as I live.
But now to do *t with this delaj,
When seven or nine months shpp'd away,
Wouldst have me tell thee what I think P
Petns, thou 'st clearly lost thy chink. FMeken
ZXZI. TO OHAmnXXTTS.
You are aware that your physician, Cbaridemus, is the
> He gives twice who gives qnickly. Had joa given me the aii Utossand setterces when I wanted them, and ^nien you promised me them, I should have been greatly indebted to you ; but you have de- layed to long that I cannot now even thank yon for lettiug *ne have them.
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gdlant of your wife; yon know it,ancl pennit it. Yon wisb td die without a fever.*^
Knowing thon letfit the doctour hare thy wife : Thou Tt die without a feayer, on my life.
Old MS. lea CMmf
I Me, thon wiltnot of a ferer die. Jston, 1090.
mil. OK OTHO.
While BeUona yet hesitated as to.the result of the civil war, and the gentle Otho had still a chance of gaining the day, he looked with horror on a contest which would cost gr^t bloodshed, and with resolute hand plimged the sword into his breast. Grant that Cato, in life, was even greater than Cssar ; was he greater in death than Otho P
Whibt donbtftd was the chance of civil war, And victory for Otho might dedare ; That no more Roman blood for him miffht flow, He gave hii breast the great decisive blow. . 086881*8 superior you may Gate call : Was heso great as Otho in his fitUP J9«f.
XXXni. TO ICATHO.
Yon have never seen any human being more miserable, Mat^o, than the debauchee Sabellus, than whom, before, no one was mpre joyfuL Thefts, the escape or death of slaves, fires, mournings, aSict the unhappy^ man. He is so wretched that he even Moomes natural in his appetites.'
xxnr. TO niA^Duiainxs.
Give me, Diadumenna, dose kisses. " How many P" you say. You bid me count the waves of the ocean, the shells scattered on the shores of the iBgaaan Sea, the bees that wander on Attic Hybla^ or the voices and clappings that re-
^ Ton make no opposition to the phyiiciaii's prooeedinss, because you do not wish him to poiaon yon, in order to get yon out of the way. Or, yon take things so calmly that yon will never be thrown into a ferer by feelinge of reaentment ' Fnrta, fugs, mortea aerromm, bcendia, Inctua
AflUgnnt hominem ; Jam miaer et fotnit. DiTea, pneroa deperibat ; pauper, mnlieribna oootentna ease oogitur.
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Bound in the foil theatie, when the people suddenly see the countenance of the emperor. I Bhoiud not be content even Tith aB many aB LoBbia, after many entreatieB, gaye to the witty OatulluB ; ^ he wants but few, who can count them.
Seal me squeezed kisses, Diadumene,
How many P Count the billows of the sea.
Or cookies on the .£gSBan shore spread,
Or wandering bees in the Ceoropian store.
Or th' hands and yoioes in the theatre
When Borne salutes her sudden emperor :
I sliffht how many courted Lesbia gaye
Gatiillas : he that numbers, few would haye. FteUkef*
Come, Chloe, and giye me sweet kisses,
For sweeter sure girl neyer gaye ; But why, in the mi£t of my busses,
Do you ask me how many I'd haye P
I 'm not to be stioted in pleasure.
Then, prithee, my charmer, be kind, For, while I loye tnee aboye measure.
To numbers 1 11 ne'er be confined.
Count the bees that on Hybla are playing ;
Count the flowers that enamel its fields ; Count the flocks that on Tempe are straying i
Or the grain that rich Sicily yields.
Go, number the stars in the heayen ;
Count how many sands on the shore ; When so many kisses you 'ye giyen,
I still shall be craring for more.
To a heart full of loye let me hold thee. To a heart, which, dear Chloe, is thine ;
With my arms 111 for eyer enfold thee^ And twist round thy limbs like a yina.
What joy can be mater than this isP
My life on thy lips shall be spent ; But the wretch that can number his kimBS,
With few will be eyer content
Sir C Eaudmnf WiOiamr.
ZXXT. TO O^OILIAKITR, ▲ TBOtTBLXSOMB PLBABSB.
The judge has reluctantly permitted you, OflMsilianus, oo
> See Ofttallua, Ep. 5, ad Lesbiam. Da mtAt botia ffufie, dmd^ centum, Dnn miUe ailrffrv, dWii §Betmda emiium, Ac.
BOOK Ti.] iPiasAXS. 277
▼oar kradittporhmify, to exhaust the clerajdra ' seyen times. But yoa talk modi and long; and, benoing half backwards^ 70a quaff tepid water out of glasses. To satisfy at once your Toioe and your thirst, pray drink, Cacilianus, firom the depeydra itsel£
Sefen glasMi^ Oedliaii, thou loudly didst crave :
8ef«i glasses the judce, full reluctantly, gave.
Still tlwn bawrit, ana bawl'st cm ; and, as ne'er to bawl oS,
Tepid water in bnmpen supine dost thou quaS,
That tiiy voioe snd tny thint at a time thou may'st slake>
We entreat ftom the glass of old Chronns thou take.
SlpimttaM.
:▼!. AD PAPILUH.
Mentula tarn magna est, tantus tibi, PapQe, nasus: Tit possis, quoties airigis, olfaoere.
Tu o Painlo, hai una mentals dsmisurata, ed on si gran xiaso, che potesti, ogni yolta ohe anigi, flutsila.
xxzni. nr chaiukux, oiirjU>OK.
Secti ]^odicis usque ad umbilicum NuQas reUiquias habet Charmus. Et prurit tsmen usque ad umbilicum. O quanta scabie miser laborat ! Culum non habet, est tamen dniedus.
Garino ha nesrana rdiqui del suo podioe raso siho all' umbillico,' e tattaTia gli prude sino all' umbillico ;' oh da quanta icabie Pin- &me h tzaTagSato! eukm koM mdum^ e tuttam \ cinedo.
Medslsofbe,
Short-breech'd Csrine,
No Tain superfluous rdiaues hast,
Yet itdiest from the heaa to the waist !
0 wretch, what pain
Dost thou sustsinP
I'venoplsoefor't,
Yet lote the sport? Flei^m.
xzznn. ow seb bov ov xboitlub ths adtooats.
Do you see how the little Begulus, who has not yet com*
* A dock vhioh mesiured time by theft]] of a ceitamaiiantit^ of water cflnflned in a cyllndric TcneL See Bedcman's Hist of Inrentioos. v. 1. p. 83. (BohR,1846.)
* QneiC in&me catamitob tutto ehe scamato e tagliato, la ribalda sni tnrpttadine noo lo laeciaTa in ripoto. OroffUa.
* TantotNwtiaopraqueslodetestabileepigramma. GragUa
278 MABTIAL*S
pleted hiB third year, praifles hia ftther whenever he heart hia mune mentioned ? and how he leavea hia motber'aUp when ho aeea hia &ther, and feela that hiafiither^agloiyiahia ownP The applanae, and the oonrt of the GentomTiri, and the doeelj packed Burroiinding; crowd, and the Jnlian temple,^ form the child'a delight. l%na the adon of the noble horae delights in the duaty expanae of the plain; thua the ateer with tender forehead longa for the combat. Ye goda, preaerve, I entreat, to the mother and father the ohiect of tharprajera^that Be- gulna may haye the pleaaore (A liatening to hia aon, and hia wife to both.
See Reguliis, not aged three, aspire
To fan uie fuel of a Other's fire i
Flrom his fond mother's arms behold him flown.
To catch applanses, wbiefa he fbds his own.
The Indies' glories, and the people's noise,
The Julian temples proye the inanf s joys.
Thus the keen ofibprinff of the ffen'rotis steed
Already pants to paw me soimmng mead.
Urns tne yomig bull, with harmless front, will plaj
The embiyo bimes of snother day.
Te pow*rs ! to this my prayer propitbns be :
So crown the ftither, mother, diila, and me.
That he may feel his son's attemper'd fire^
And she may hear the liyal son snd sire. ElpkuuUm,
*"!*- TO cnrvA.
MaruUa haa made jon, Cinna, the ftther of seven children, I will not aaj freebom, for not one of them ia either yoor own or that of any friend or neighbonr ; but all being conceived on menial beda or mata, betray, bj thdr looka, the infidelitiea of their mother. Thia, who ruua towarda na so like a Moor, with hia crisped hair, avowa himaelf the ofTapring of the cook Santra ; while that other, with flattened nose and thick lipa, ia the very image of Pannicua, the wreatler. Who can be ignorant, that knowa or haa ever seen the blear-ejfred Dama, that the tburd ia that baker's aon ? The fourth, with hia flur fiuse and voluptuous air, evidently sprung from your £ivourite LygduB. You may debauch your offspring if you please ; it will be no crime. Aa to thia one, with tapering; head and long ears, like aaaea, who would deny that he is the aon of the
' The temple of Julius Gsesar, where the body of judges called the Gea- tnmTiri had tneir four courts for trying cauws.
BOOK TI.] XPIORAVS. 270
idiot CjrrhAP Tbe two siBtera, one swarthy^ the other idd^httied, are the offspriog of the piper Croitnfly and the bailiff* Carpna. Your flock of hjhrida would hare beea quite complete^ if Ooresua and PyiidymuB had not been ii^ capable.
Thou fiitfaei'it for thy wife sea^^n births, which I Gaat children call, no, nor yet free-borni why P Game thou thyielf not one of them, no, nott Thy iHend or honeM neighbour, ever gott, But all On matti conceiTed or conchei, they E'en Inr their locks their mother's stealths hetray. Ihis, tost with curled hayre Moor-like doth looker Frores himself issue of the swarthy oooke : He with flat nose, and blubber lips, you 'd sweare . The wrestler Pannicus his picture were ; Duna, the third, who that did e'er him see, Knows not the blear-eyed baker's son to be P The fourth, a sweet-ftoed boy, with wanton mien, "Was ^t by Lygdus, thy hee-concubine: UsJB hun so too; thou need'stno incest feare : But this, with taper head and his louff eare^ 'Which like an'avs moves, who can cueny To be the idiot Crrxha's prctteny ? Two daughters, this one rect that other browne^ One 's Crote the pber's, t^ other Carp's the clowne : Thy mongrel^ numoer had been now complete. Could Dindymus and Cores children get
OldMS. IGiA CM
.t
^ T is a strange thing, but't ii a thing well known, Tou seven childrcai hsTc, and yet have none : Ko genuine ofispring, but a mongrel rabble. Sprung from the ganret, hovel, bam, and stable. Tner ereiT one proclaim their mothei^s ihame : Look in tneir fSue, you read their father's name. This swarthy flat-nosed Shock is Afric's boast ; His grandsire dwells upon the golden coast The second ii the squinting buUex's lad $ And the third lump droppxl from the gardener's spade As like the carter Uiis, as he can stare: That has the footman's pert and forward air. Two fiirls with raven and with carrot pate i Hiis die postOlion's is, the coachman's that The steward and the groom old hurts disabU, Or else, two branehea. more had graced your table, iri^.
280 vabttal'b
XL. TO LTOOBIB.
Thero was not a woman that oould be preferred to you, LyooriB; there ia now none that can be prefored to Glycera. fflrcera will be what you are ; you cannot be what ane is. What power tii^ has 1 I once desired you ; I now desire her.
With thee, Lyooris, durst no female Tie :
With Olycera dare none the oontett try.
What thou, Lyooxis, art, one day shall she:
What is my Olyoera, then oanst not be. E^hmttom*
XLI. OK A HOABSI POIT.
Yon poet, who redtea with hia throat and neck wrapped in wool, intimates that he finda great diffioolty in speakmg and equal difficulty in keeping si&nce.
Who pleads with diopps bound op, what's his diseasef That he esn neither speaker nor hold his peaoe.
Old MS. letk Cgnt
XCn. TO OPFUNITB, IF FBAISH OT THl BATHS OF
xTBirsoirs.
Unleaa you bathe, Oppianus, in the baths of Etruscus you will die unpunfied. No waters will reoeiye you so pleasantly; neither the sprinj^ of Aponus, forbidden to yoong maidens ; ^ nor the relaxing Sinuessa ;' nor the stream of the ferrid Passer, nor the proud Auzur, nor the baths of Apollo at Cuma, nor those of Bai», most delightful of all. Nowhere ia the air more clear and serene; light itself stays longer there, and from no spot does day retire more reluctantfy. There blase resplendently the green quarries of TaygetuB yying with rocka* of yariegated l^uty, which the Phrygian and the Libyan have hewn deeply, the dewy onyx * emits its dry rays, and the ophites glow with a tiny flame. If the Lacedfldmonian customs please you, you maj, after being gratified with dry hest^ plunge into the Virgin or
^ A stream near PaUTiam, which wu said to aoordh up maidens who went into it after a man had been bathing in it
* A town of Oampania, near which flowed the rirer Pasaei. ' Marble from Phrygia and Libjk.
* A marble similar in consistence to exude. It has a dewy ajiprsr* B&TCt but ia in reality dry ' ,
BOOK TI.] XPieBAMS. 281
Martian watew; ^ which shine so brilliantlj, andare so pure, that ^on woald scaively suspect anj water to be tnere, and imagine 70a saw nothing but the polished Ljgdian marble. But yon are not attending, and nave all the while bem listening to me with a deaf ear. You will die unclean OppiMnuT*
Wash in £tniM»ii^ baths, say I, If yoa 'd not fowle and sordid dye ; No watan w31 you so much please i Not Apon« Virgin's litde-ease i SoftSmuessa; or hott steames ; Of Passer, or mmd Anxur's streames ; Not FhcBbus* loardi, or Baise, best Of waters. No place is so blest With deere fiiyre weather j day nowhere Stayes longer, slower moves, than there : There stones in chequered order putt. From Phrygian rockes and Libyan cutty Gontendixig with Taygetus* greene Marble for gracefulness, are seene : Fat onyxes there pantiiig swcaite. And flaming ophites bume with heate. . If the Laoonian mode you crave, Dry sUmes'to sweate in there you 11 have. Jn cold and Virgin streams you may There bathe, so pure, so eleere, are they, The marble pavement dry you 'd sweare. Not once suspecting water there. Tea marke me nott ; and with deaf eare Careless you all this while scarce heare : And so I see, fiiend C>ppian, Tou 11 die a fowle and sordid man.
Old MS. ieth CtnL
XLin. TO OASTBIOirS.
Wlifle happj^ Bai», Castricus, is showering its favoura upon you, ana its fidr nymph receives you to swim in her sulphureous waters, I am strengthened by the repose of .mv Nomentan fiyrm, in a cottage which ^ves me no trouble with its numerous acres. Hero is my Baian sunshine and the sweet Lucrine lake ; here have l!, Castncua, all such riches
I The ApM Vuyo, tec B. t. Ep. 21, and the Aqm Miatcia, wereiaru- ons at Rome for their parity.
282 1CAB1IAL*S
as yon are enjoying. Time was when I betocAc myself at pleasure to any of the far-£uned watering-placeSy and felt no apprehension of long journeys. Now spots near town, and retreats of easy access, are my delight; and I am content if permitted to be idle.
Whfle ^ou at Baih indulge eadi happv day,
In batmngjdriiikixiff, daneiiig, or at play i
I at Bam £hn8 a Tula haye m late.
Healthy, and not too large for my estate.
And here am I as rich as yoa can be ;
T Ib Bath, 't is Tunbridge, erezytbing to me.
Once every public place was my abocto ;
Nor was I Mtter pleased than on the road.
Now like a boose, to whidi with ease I go ;
And to be idle^ find enou^ to do. Hajf»
ZLIY. TO OALUODOBtrS.
Yon imagine, GalliodoruB, that your jesting is witty, and that you alK>Te all others overflow with an abundance of Attic salt. You smile at all, you utter pleasantries upon aU, and you think that by so. doing you will please at the dinner table. But I will tell you something, not very nice, but very true. No one will invite you, Calliodorus, to drink out of his glass.'
Wond'rons witty CUHodore !
Salt has sprinkled thee all o'er
Tickling, with respective aest,
Thou must be a pleasant guest
Yet the truth, if olunt, may be i
Not a soul wUl drink with thee. JB^thimton,
XLT. ON THB HASBIJLGB OV Til&DV^ AlH) LSTOBIA.
You have had your diversion ; it is enough. You, who have lived so freely, are married, and now only chaste pleasure is allowed you. But is there any chaate pleasure, when Lstoria is married to Lygdus P She will be worse as a wife than aho recently was aa a mistress.
Te 've plaVd enough, lascivious cronies, wed j
No lust is lawful but in mairiage bed.
Is this love chaste ? L^ffdus and Lectore join P
8h« 11 prove a wprse wife than a concubine^ FkUkm •
^ Propter oria tui impniitatefliL
BOOK Ti.] xpieiuHS. 288
XLTI. TO OATIAKXri.
Ton cbariot ia niged hy the anrBmittiiig wbip of the blue fiustion drivery yet it moYee no faster : truly, Uatianniiy yon do wonders I '
See the blue driTer, witb wbat might be moil^ ! Nor gsins an inch : how wohdroai are his toils!
XLTn. TO THE KTICPH OV A FOTTNTAHT.
Hon household nymph of my friend Stella, who glidest, with pure stream, beneath the gemmed halls of thy lord, wheuer the consort of Numa has sent thee from the caves of the triple goddess, or whether thou comest as the ninth of the band of Muses, Marcus releases himself from his tows to thee b^ sacrificing this virgin pig, because, when ill, he drank furtively of th^ waters. Do thou, reconciled to me at length by this expiation, grant me the peaceful delights of thy fountain ; and let my draughts be always attended withnealth.
PellQcid daughter of pereunial spring, Who ffiVst my Stella^s aemmy oome to ring } Did Noma's ffodden glme thee from the cavsy Where die chBste Trivia wont her limbs to lave P Or, origin as Uiou must own divine. Perhaps the ninth thou isiu'st of the Nine. If with the viigin porket I have paid. And stresming eyes, the theft a sickling made ; My crime atoned, accept the suppliant strain ! Indulge thy joys, nor let me pant in vain.
ZLvin. TO poHPOimrs.
When your' crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, tnat is elo- quent.
** Bophos," to thee thy clients cry ; but know
Thy supper *8 eloquent^— thou srt not so. WrigkL
XLDC. FBIAPITB UPOV HUCBBLT.
I am not carved out of the fraffile elm, and this column, which rises so straight and so firm, is not made of wood
1 By hsUng bii hones so mudi, and yet keepicg them in the nuns ipot.
2&I XABTIAX*!
taken at randoni, but is produced from the eTenreen c/presa which fean neither hunoredB of centuries nor tne decay of a long-protracted old age. Fear it, evil-doer, whoever you may be ; tor if you injure with rapaciouB hand even the smallest cluster on this vine, this cjpress shall ingraft upon your body, however much you may struggle against it, a fig-tree which will bear fruit.^
Ko brittle elm my sabstanoe gave ; Nor is this firm uplifted stave Hewn from a common wayside block. But ever-living cvpresi^ stock— That tree whidi teaxs not canker's bite, Nor centuries' devastating flight. Thief ! of the garden-god bewsre ! For if with greedy hand thou dare The smallest cluster heuoe to take^ This cypress-slave on thee shall make
?[owe'er thou strugg^ to get free) graft that will bear fruit to thee. W.8.B.
L. TO BlTHXmOUS, GS TELSSHnTS.
•
While Telesinus was poor, and cultivated virtuous and honest friends, he used to wander about in sorry guise, dad in a chilly little toga. But since he has begun to pay court to nersons of licentious character, he can buy himself plate, table services, and fiums. Do you wish to become rich, Bithynicus P Become a panderer to vice ; virtuoiu courses will gain you nothing, or very little.
Whilst he did none but honest friends observe. In thredd-bare doake he walk'd, and like to starve : Since he 's the wanton gallants^ nabbor growne. He farmes good fk^re, and coyne has ofhis owne. Would*st thou be rich, then thou most share the crimes. Else not the wealth, of these licentious times.
out MS. IQOk C$ntwry.
LI. TO LUPXBCITB.
I haye found out how to be even with you, Lupercus, for so often haying guests at dinner without me. I am in a passion, and however frequently you may invite me, and send for me, and nress me—" What will you do ? " you say. What will I do r — ^I will come
> See B. IT. Bp. 52*
BOOK n.] iPiesAiCfl. 28ff
'Oraie thou dost feast so often withont met Luperons, I have found a plague for thee. Ihouffh diou dost importuney and send and call, 1 11 show a seeming ^nger over alL And when thou sar^ YThat wilt thou do in sumP " * What wiU I do P I am resolved to oome. Fkieher»
UI. XPITAPH OK PAKTAaATHUB.
Id this tomb repoees PantagathuB, the object of his master'a affi»etion and regret, snatched away in toe prime of joath. Well skilled was he iu dipping stray haim with Bdasors that gently touched them, and m trimming bristly cheeks. Earth, be propitious to him, as it behovoBt thee, and lie lightly on him ; thou canst not be lighter than was the artist's hand.
Snatcht hence, jet scarce a youth, under this stone Lyes hee, his master's joy once, now his moane : SiilAill the wanton hayre to cut, with such A hand, and shave the cheek, as scarce did touch. Lye ne'er so gently on him, earth, yet hee More lightly gentle-handed used to bee.
Old MS. leth Centunf.
IXLU TO PAUSTIFirS, OK AKDSAOOSAB.
. Andragoras bathed, and supped giuly with me ; and in the morning was found dead. Do you ask, Faustinns, the cause of a death so sudden P He had seen Doctor Hermocrates in a dream.
Bath'd, supn'd, iu glee Andragoras went to bed Last night, out in 3ie morning was found dead : Would*8t know, Fausdnus, what was his disease ? He dreaming saw the quack, Hermocrates.
MvfUaiyne (6y Cotton), B. iL ch. 37.
LIT. TO Airi«IT8, OK SZXTILIAKUB.
If, Aulas, you forbid Seztilianns to speak of his "so great" and "so great,*' the poor fellow will be scarcely able to put three words together. " What does he mean P ▼on ask. I will tell you what I suspect: namely, that ^eztilianuB is fallen in love with his "so great" and "so- great." >
XT. TO COBAOIKXJB.
Because you are always redolent of lavender and cinnamon, * Tofitet 9t tmnM$, Pnegnmdes dniucos eoramque cradas.
286 MiJiTiiX>
and Btained^ with the spoib firom the nest of the proiid phoBnix, exhale the odour of NicerotiuB'B * leaden Taaea, ^ou amile with contempt, Coradniu, on us, who smell of nothing. I would rather smell of nothing than of scents.
Of riehest spioet thou do'st erer soent, Nor is the phoBniz* nest more redolent. Despiseit us, who do n*t in tweets ezoel : Of nought 't is hetter than of odours smelL
Amom. 1695.
LTI. TO CHABEDEXUB.
Quod tibi crura rigent setis, et pectora Tillia, Yerba putas &mis te, Oharideme, dare.
Extirpa, mihi crede, pilos de corpore toto, Teque pilare tuas testificare nates.
Qu» ratio est ? inquis ; scis multos dicere multa. Fac pedicari te, Charideme,.piitent.
Perche hai le ^aabe ixsute di setole, ed il petto d* ispidi peli tu If imTnaginii o Gendemo, impoire alia fiouna. Gredimi, ^tappati i peli da totto il oorpo: e oommineia ditme proTS dalle natiche. Per
SiudmotiyoP Di to. Tu sal che molti monnorsno. Fa, o Osri- emo, che /mitotfo pensino, che tu lei un dnedo.* Oraglia^
LTH. TO PHdBUB.
Tou manufacture, with the aid of unguents, a false head of hair, and four bald and dirtr skull is coyered with dyed locks. There is no need to have a hairdresser for jour head. A sponge, FhoDbus, would do the business better.
PhcBbus belies with oil hii fSuned hairs, And o'er hii scshi a painted border wears: Hiou need'st no oarber to correct thy pate, PhoBbus, a sponge would better do the feat FUtekar*
ItTtn. TO AULITS PUnXKS.
Whilst you, Aulus, delight in a near view of the Arcadian bear, and with enduring the climate of northern skies, oh how nearly had I, your friend, been carried off to the waters of Styx, and seen the dud^y clouds of the Elysian plun I My eyes, weak as they were, continually looked round for
I Niger^ i. e. unctni. ' A perfluner. * See B. iL Ep. 12. * Hanc qutii leTioris xei ■ufpictoneiaoppone isUsniTion, nempe lol foimtiZiiv,
BOOK TL] inOSAXB, 28?
your oomiteDasoe, and the name of PodedS was p^rpetu*. allj on my eold. tongqe. If the wool-spinning sisters do not wea^e the threads of my life black, and my voice does not address inattentive deities, you will return safe to the cities of Latium to see your friend safe, and, as a deserving knight^ be rewarded with the rank of first centurion.
yndLe thou didrt joy to eye the sluggish Wain, And in thy prospect either Bear to gain i Hbw nearly ravish'd to the Stygian uiore, Up to Elysram's awful dawn I bore ! Ob thee my heavy eyeballs hoVring hung, And Pudens falterd on my stiff'ninff tongue. Yet, i£ no sable thread the sisters ctaw, And, if those deisn to hear, whom late I mw. My pow^ restorea shall hail thee safe and sound, In Dilian dimes, with knightly honors erown'd.
LTZ. OV BACOABA.
Bacearai desirous of exhibiting his six hundred fur mantles, nieves and complains that the cold does not attsck him. JSe prays fiir dark days, and wind, and snow; and hatea wintry cava which are at all warm. What ill, cruel mortal, have our light cloaks, which the least breath of wind may cany off our shoulders, done you P How much simpler and honester would it be for you to wear your fur cloaks even in the month of August.
Thy ehest such store of winter-garments hold,
Thou griev'st, and oft oomplain'st; for want of cold j
Wishsst dark days and short, sharp winds and snow,
And hates the season, if it milder grow.
Didst thou the worse for my thin gown e*er fare.
Bone from my badt by ev'ry puff of air P
How much more humane, more smoere, *t were done,
Shoold'st thou in August winter-doths put on P
Atum. 1G95.
LX. TO tAVOTlSrUB.
Pompullus has accomplished his end, Taustinus ; he will be read, and his name be spread through the whole world 1 So may the inconstant race of the yellow-haired Qermans flour- ishy and whoever loves not the rule of Bome I Yet the writ- inffsof Pompnllus are said to be ingenious; but for fame, believe me, wt is not enoufffa. How many eloquent writers are there, who afford food for mites and worms, and whos«»
288 iiABTii.L*i
learned Teraee are bought only by cooksl Something more ia wanting to confer immortality on writingB. A book dea« tined to hve must have genius.
Hee 's made, for one, the people 07, " Loud Fame Through the whole world shall Pompulliu^ name ! " Such Me di* inconstant yellow Germans' £ite ! 80 prosper all who Roman empire hate I Tet are nil lines, you 11 say, ingenious : That 's not enough ; fame is not gotten thus : For mothes and wormes how many learned bookes Prove food, or else waste paper for the cookes ! Hiere 's somewhat more in "t To make lines to Utc, A constant yeine of wit you must them give.
Old M8. IM Omtia^.
LXL ov AJX nmous pbbbov.
Borne, city of my affections, praises, loTes, and redtee my compositions ; I am in every lap, and in every hand. But see, yon gentleman prows red and pale by tnrps, looks amazed, yawns, and, in fieict, hates roe. I am delighted at the sight ; my writings now please me.
Bome hugs my Tene, and cries it up for rare, My books each hand and ex*rj bosom bear ; Hiere 's one yet lowers, disdains, is ill at ease : I *m glad; my yerses now myself do please.
LXH. TO OFFiAirus.
Salanus has lost his only son. Do you delay to send
f resents, OppianusP Alas, cruel destiny and remorseless 'ates ! of what vulture shall the corpse of Salanus be the preyP
Silanus mourns an only son :
^^7* Qppian, thus uy gifts delay ? Ah ! cruel nites ! what liave ye done? What vulture shall devour the pnsyP JBjpAwsfofi.
Silanus* only son is dead. Why, Apian, hast thou offisred Noe^toth'ftreP Oh destinies; What Vultur shall this carcass seiie P Mgy
LZm. TO HAEIAirUS, DSGEim BT JL FLATTXBXB.
You know, Marianus, that you are obsequiously courted ; vou know that he who courts you is a covetous fellow ; yoo know what his attentions mean ; and yet you name him in your will, foolish maUias your heir, and destine him, as if . you were
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out of your mind, to take your place. ** But he lias ient me^ you Bay, large presentB." True, but they are a baited hook ; and can the fiao ever love the fisherman f Will this j^retend- er bewail your death with real sorrow P If you denre him to weep, Marianus, give him nothing.
Hum know'st hee angles, kiiow*Bt him covetoua, Tboa know'st what he would have, and why he does } And yet, mad foole, him for theine heire thou tak'st ; And to thy will executor thou mak'st. Hum It say, *'He gave great presents." IVue ; as baitea For which the fisherman what fish but hates P Think'st thou thy hearse with teares of arete hell steq>? No ; give him nought, dien hee will tnuy weepe.
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LZIY. TO A DXTSAGTOB.
Althouj^ you are neither sprung from the austere rsce of the Pkbii, nor are such as he whom the wife of Curius Dentatos brought forth when seised with her pains beneath a shady oak, as she was carrying her husband his dinner at the plough ; but are the son jf a fiither who plucked the hair from his face at a loo^une-glass, and of a mother con- demned to wear the toga ik public ; ^ and are one whom your wife m^ht call wife ;* ^Cti aUow yourself to find fault with mr hoota^ which are known to fame, and to carp at my best jokes,— lokes to which the chief men of the city and of the courts do not disdain to lend an attentive ear,— jokes which tiie immortal Silius deigns to receiye in his library, which the eloquent Begulus so frequently repeats, and which win the praises of Sura, the neighDour of the Aventine Diana, who beholds at less distance than others the con- tests of the great circus.' Even Giesar himself, the lord of all, tiie supporter of so great a weight of empire, does not think it beneath him to read my jests two or three times. But yon, perhaps, have more senius ; you have, by the polishing of Minerva, an understandine more acute ; and the subtle Athens has formed your taste. May I die, if there is not fkr more understanding in the heart of the animal which, with entrails hanging down, and large foot, lungs
' Ai being aa adulteress. * So dTemfaiAte are you.
* His house overlooked the Circu Maximus.
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coloured with oooffeiiled blood, — an object to be feared by aL noseSy — i% carried by the cruel butcher from street to atoeet. You have the audacity, too, to write veraea, which no one will read, and to waate your miserable paper upon me. But if the heat of my wrath ahould bum a mark upon you, it will live, and remain, and will be noted all Idirough the citr ; nor will even Cinnamus, with all hia cunning, efface the Bti^rma. But have pity upon yourself, and do not, like a funoua dog, proYoke with nibid mouth the fuming nostrila of a living bear. Howerer calm he may be, and however gently he may lick ;^our fingers and hands^ he will, if resent- ment and bile and just anger excite him, prove a true bear. Let me advise you, therefore, to exercise jour teeth on an emnt;^ hide, and to aeek for carrion which you may bitci with impunity.
When s^nmg of Fahiai^ race you no way are, Nor Cmriiu, who himself to 's plough-men baxe Their dimier; whose rourii wife her child-bed made Under the covert of an oak's thick shade : But id a father bora, trimm'd by a glass, A mother for a courtesan does pass ; And so eflwninate you yourself withal. Your wife, thongh nice she be, vou wife may call i For you to dare my much-femed verM detract ! Th» Homos, on my approved tojrs to act I My tojnp, I say, all Bcnne attentive hear, To whidi boui lesm'd snd noble lend an ear ; Which deathless Silius with re^^;ard does treat ; And Regnlus' fluent tongue deigns to repeat ; ^ '^Which to revolve, CSeesar a time does spare* Amidst the weight of all the public care.
But vou know more, your wise disceraing heail Pallas nas framed bv the Athenian art May I not live^ if tn heart and paunch we meet, Hie ffsrbsn ffuti^ and the great dangUng feet^ Which loaned butchers cany through the street^ With no small tenor unto erry nose, Do not a shsrper wit then thme disclose. Yet, with the waste of pi^er, against me Verses yon write, such as none read or see : But if my chafed eholer thee shall brand. The work will live, be read in ev'ry Isndi T is not thy baxber^s soap can deanse the daia. Take heed the outrage he not thine own bane^
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' To um a filing bear, cease to nreiiim6» Until Dif zage firth at his nostnla fbrne. Tbongh calm* lie 11 lick the band* and ftrokinn liaar } Boneed and prorokedf you 11 find him ttQl a Sear* Tbj teeth than ftaten in some emptj hide^ Or beast that 's deadt and will the wrong abide.
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LXT. TO TUCCJL.
''Yoa write epimuna in hexameters,'* is what Tooca, I know, is saying. There are, Tucca, precedents for it ; in a word, Tooca, it is allowable. ^ But this one, yon say, is yery loDjj;." There are precedents &r its length also, Tticca^ and it IS allowable. If you approve of shorter ones, read only my distichs. Let us agree, Tucca, that I shall be at liberty to write long epigrams, and you be at liberty not to read them.
What? in long Terse write epinams? say yoo.
I say, 't is usual, and *t is lawnu too.
Then, they are Ions. This too is law and use;
If you like short, do you the distichs chuse.
Let us Bgree ; the barsain does no hurt;
I may write long ; and you may read the short. JEToy.
ixn. on A cbub Bxixme a oibl.
The crier GMlianua was lately ofifering for sale a young lady of not oYcr-cood reputation, such aa ait in the middle of the Subnrra.^ When she had been for some time standing at a small jprice, the seller, desiring to prove her purity to all around, drew her towards him, and, while she feigned resistance^ kissed her two, three, and four times. Do you ask the result he produced by his kisses P It waa, that he who had just ofifezM six hundred sesterces, withdrew hia bidding.
OeDian the orior brought a lass
To market, of small iune to pass,
Such as in ill-fam'd taverns sate :
Whiles she stood long at a small rate,
He to approve her sound and good.
Drew her near to him as die stood.
And kin^d her three or four times o'er ;
But wouldst thou know what firuit these bote f
* ▲ straot in Rome where prostitutes dwelt
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Why be that bads rix Hundred pieces for her.
Upon this score did utterly abhor her. FUiiker.
Lxm. TO PijnnouB.
Do Tou ask, F^amicoB, why your wife Celia has about her only prietsts of Gybele ? UsJia loves the flowers of mar- riage, but fears the mute.
Pannicos, dost mh to know
Why thy GeUia £EtToiirs so
The nriesti of CybeleP To sport
She loves, and pay no suffering for^t. Aiwn,
LXYin. TO CA8TBI017S, OK THE DSATH OF THI TOXJire
BUTTOHtTB.
Bewail your crime, ye Naiads, bewail it tiirough the whole Lucrine lake, and may Thetis herself hear your mourning! Eutychus, your sweet inseparable companion, Gastricus, has been snatched away from you, and has perished amid the waters of Baiie. Bie was the partner and kind consoler of all your cares : he was the delight, the Alexis, of our poet. Was it that the amorous nymph saw thy charms exposed beneath the crystsl waves, and thought that she was sending bade Hylas to HercolesP Or has Sfumacis at length left her effeminate Hermaphroditus, attracted b^ the emDrace of a tender but vigorous youth P Whatever it may be, whatever the cause of a bereavement so sudden, may the earth and the water, I pray, be propitious to thee.
Tou waf ry nymphs weepe for your dire mishap, But with whole floods poured into Thetis lapp. / That lovely youth in Baian streames is drown'd,
MThom by yonr side so oft you sweetely found, Deare Outzicui: companion of your care ^ And sweete hearts-ease, your love, your minion foyre. Thee naked fth' deare waves when shee did see. Did the njmjAi leave her Hylas and seize thee ; Or Salmacis ner loved Hermaphrodit With this soft youth's embraces tempted quitt ? Whate'er the cause o' lh* sudden rapyne be^ May earth and water gently cover thee !
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LXIX. TO OATULLUS.
I do not wonder that your Bassa, Catullus, drinks water ;' I Os entiB, %Q0 tibi morigentnr, "surgari debet
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but I do wonder tbat tiie daughter of Baaras* driaka water.
TliyBttMa water dxinki: *t ii weD and good*
Bat I maat marrsi Baasoif daughter ahoold. X^Mutm^
izz. TO UAJunjJsroB.
Sixtjr munmera, Marcianua, and, I think, two more have heea eompleted by Gotta^ and he doea not remember erer to have felt the wearineaa of a bed of aickneaa even for a ainde day. With reaolute, nay uncourteoua ffeature, he bida ukb doctora Alcon, Daaiua^ and Symmachua aeep at a diatanoe. If our yeara were accurately counted, and if the amount anbtraeted from them by cruel ferera, or opprea- ai?e languor, or painful maladiea, were aeparated from the happier portion of our Uvea, we ahould be found in reality but in&nta, though we aeem to be old men. He who thinki that the Uvea of Friam and of Neator were Icm^ ia mneh deeeiTed and xmataken. Life conaiata not in lirmg, bat in enjoying health.
Cotta has pan*d his threeaeore years and two,
And ne'er remembers that he had to do
With sickness, or yet once laid down his head;
Fora distemper fel^ a tedions bed:
But at physieians he durst point with soom.
At Dasius and Aloontus make a horn.
It, like wiie men, we do evr years oompnte,
Baie or subtract the ^ys that did not salt
With happy life, such as in pain are ^>ent,
Oouts, feven sharp, and the mind's discontent.
We should but chudren be, that aged seem,
And hugely they 're imposed on, who do deem
Friam and Nestor many years haye told :
Not who Uto long, but happOy, are old. Anmt. 1G95.
If I Judge ri|^t, our aood old Mend, Sir John, Next spring is sixty-Uiree, or therenixm. ^ Yet it was never known, I 've heard it said. That in his life he one dav kept his bed ; Nor ever, but in joke, heid out his poke, To Slottie, to Mead, to T^lmot, or to Hulse. If firom our life's account we should strike oul The hours we lose by fevers or the gout,
> Who was a dronkard.
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Bt spleen, by head-ache, eYerr other ill ;
Though we seem old, we are oat children stiflL
If any tiiink Priam or Neator old,
Though o'er the last three oenturiea had roU'd,
They Te much deceived ; for sense and reason tell.
That life is only life when we axe well Map.
£XXI. Oir TSLETHUB^
Telethuaa, skined in displaying attractiye gestures to the ■ound of her Spanish castanets, and in dancing the sportiTC dances of Oadis ; Telethnsa, capable of exciting the decrepit Pelias, and of moring the husband of Hecuba at the tomb of Hector; Telethuaa inflames and tortures her former master. He sold her a slave, he now buys her back a mis- tress.
Wantoninff to Betic sounds,
She in Gaotdi jfambols bounds ;
She a Pelias nu^t beguile,
Or the sire at Hector's pile.
For love her former master dies ;
liaid he sold her, mistress buys. Sl^kmtitm.
TO VABULLUB, OV A THOSYTBH CHJCIAK.
A Cilidan, a thief of but too notorious rapacity, wished to rob a certain ffarden ; but in the whole grounds, large as they were, Fabouus, tiiere was nothing save a marble Friapua. Am he did not wish to return empty-handed, the Cilician stole Priapns himself.
CUxL, a knave of noted theft,
Besolved to rob a garden by :
But there was nought, Fabullus, left
But a hu^ marble deity.
Tet lest his empty hand should miss its prey,
CSlix presumea to steal the god away. ' FMeker.
LXIiH. OS TAB FBIAFITS 07 HILABU8.
No rode rustic &shioned me with untaught pruning knife ; you behold the noble handywork of the stewivd. For HilaruB, the mosf noted cultivator of the Cieretan territory, possesses these hiUs and smiling eminences. Behold my well- formed &ce, I do not seem made of wood, nor the arms I bear destined for the flames, but my imperishable sceptre, fashion- ed of ever-green cypress, in manner worthy of the hand of Phidias, boldly presents Itself. Neighbours, I warn yoii|
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wonhip the dimity of PriapuB, and respect theee fourteen
No ratde, with untotoi'd hand, Ha9 bid mv stately sodship ttsiid : Who, fornrd with adamantine too]« SpedU Diq)eniator's noUe sohooL fw joyoua Gere's foremost yeoman. The wealthy, witty, jolly freemsBt Sole tenant of the high and low, Exults mine honest fice to show. Spectator, scan mjr frame entire i Nor deem me destined to the fire : Well mingled with immortals, I In deathlSs cypress, time dtt^. But chief, my beard, thou mamy part ! Still brisde, as by Phidian art
Good neighbours, wise, attend my law ; And eye your guardian-god with awe. Each mimifal act forbear. And these twice seven frir acres spare. Spkimtm.
LXULV. TO jBTITLAKUB.
That guest reclining at hie ease on the middle couch, whose bald head is furnished with three hairs, and half daubed OTer pomade, and who is dig^png in his half-opened mouth sr kntisc toothpick, is trymg to impose upon us, iEfu- lanua : he has no teeth.
Who lounges lowest in the middle bed,
Bich unsuent portioning his three-hair'd head ;
And, wiu the lentiM in nis mouth, looks big ;
But looks a lie : he has no teeth to dig. slpkiMtUm,
LXXT. TO POKTIA.
When you send me a thrush, or a sb'ce of cheesecake^ or a hare's thigh, or something of that sort, you tell me, Pontiai that you have sent me the dainties of your choice. I shall not send these to any one else, Pontia, nor shall I eat them myself.^
When you send me a thrush, or a portion of cake. Or the wing of a haze ; and would have me partake : You beg leave to present me some monthftds, yon say : Neither my mouth they fill, nor another's, to-day.
JBfalfifrffa,
> Pontia was skilled in poisooing. Sm B. ii. Ep. 34.
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FoBeoBy lately tiie guardian of the Bacred penon of tbe emperor, the supporter of the Mars who adminifltered ei^il justioe at home, the leader to whom the armj of our BOTe- reign lord was intmated, Ilea buried here. We may cQufesB thia. Fortune, that that stone now fears not the threats of enemies ; the Dacian has receired our proud yoke wi^ sub- dued ne6kf and tiie YictoriouB shade of Fuscus reposes in a grove which he had made his own.'
Guard d the nered life, of primal poVr ; Lord of th' imperial camp, in lockleas hour Here Foaeoa has. Dread fortone this moat own, No hoatile tliraata can aetata a atone : Nor Tsinlj with feU Daeia Tengeanoe atioTe : The rictor-dbade oommanda the Tanquiah'd groTe.
Eipkm§bm.
LlXfil. TO A7BB.
When jou are poorer than even the wretched Ims, more rigorous than even Parthenopeus, ' stronger than even Artemidorus' in his prime, whj do you delight to be carried bv six Cappadocian slaves? You are laughed at, Afer, and derided much more than you would be were you to walk unattired in the middle of the Forum. Just so do people point at the dwarf Atlas ^ on his dwarf mule, and the bmck dephant carrying its Libyan driver of similar hue* Do you wish to know why your utter brin^ you into so much ridicule P You ou^ht not to be carr&d, even when dead, on a bier borne by six persons.*
Wben poorer yet than Iroa thou art deem'd* Than Fartfaeno|Meaa yonnger much esteem'd. Stronger than wreatlen in their prime and might. Why to be home by aix dost thou delightF T were a lev jeat, uiooldft thou in public go Naked, afoot, than with this pageant ahow.
^ Faaeus died fli^btmg a^unst Um DacUni, tn4 whs buried in Dadaa gromid. ' One of the sercn ehielt agftinst Thebes.
* A pencratiset in the reigns of Galbe ud Vitelliiis. ^ Mentioned by JoTensl, riiL 31.
* Ton 00^ to be baiied as a poor pf itoo, on a smaOer
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Tlie ftate ihon tak'tt does more abiiiid ^vpeftr
Than if aiz slayes a seyenth* in pomp, ahoiud bear t
A Moor upon an elephant of like hne^
Would moye leas laughter 'mens the Tolgar erew ;
80 on a mule as little as himself
Mounted, we see, some pigmy little elt
Wouldst know what soom thy pride to thee has bredP Men grudge that six should odt thee, wert thou dead.
Amm, 1606.
LZXTm. TO XVLVB,
Fhiyx, a famous drinker, Aulas, was blind of one eye, and purblind of the other. His doctor Heraa said to bim, " Be- ware of drinking ; if ^ou drink wine, you will not see at all." Phryx, lauffhing, said to hia eye, "I must bid you &re- welll" and forthwith ordered cups to be mixed for him in copious succession. Do you ask the result ? While Fhryz drank wine^ his eye drank poison.
Phryx, a stout drinker, who no ffoUet iJBax'd, Though one eye he had lost, ana tf other bleer'd : Who, when physicians bid of wine beware^ And threaten'd blindness, if he had not oare, Deriding, said, ** farewell, mj^ other eye ;* And ten laise cups bid fill nun by-and-by. And more tnan once. Wouldst know the end o' th' prank Phryx soak'd good wine, but his eye poison drank.
Jium. 1605.
LZXIX. TO LUFirS.
Yoa are sad in the midst of every blessing. Tske care that Fortune does not observe, or she will call you un* gratefuL
How f sad and rich P Beware lest Fortane catch Thee^ Lupus, then she H caU thee thankless wretcL
Ih' art rich and sad ; take heed lest Fortune see,
And, as ungrateful, do proceed with thee. Anom, I09A.
LXZX. TO nOlCITIAK, OK HIS WIimB BOSXB.
Anxious to pay her court to thee, the land of the Nile had sent to thee, Caesar, as new gifts, some winter roses. The Memphian sailor felt little respect for the gardens of Egypt, after he had crossed the threshold of your city ; such was
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the splendour of tbe spring, and the beauty of balmj Flora ; and such the gloij of the FsMtan rose-beds. So brigfatlj, too, whererer he directed his steps or his looks, did eyeij pa£h shine forth with garlands of flowers. But do thou, O jN'ile, since thou art compelled to yield to Boman winters, send us thy harvests, and receire our roses.
Egypt did proudly winter roses boast,
As toe sole raoduct of her fertile ooast :
But now at Borne her merchants are surprised
To see such store, the Memphian are despised :
Where'er they look, where'er they take ueir way,
Hedges of blushing roses do display.
So does this glor^ of the spring excel.
Not Pestan rosanes more nragrant smell ;
Eren goddess Flora seems in Rome to dwelL
Let not thy winters, Nile, then vie with ours, Go plough, and send us com; we'll send thee floVrt
TiTXTl. TO CHABIDSICVS.
Iratus tamquam populo, Charideme, lavans .
Ingoina sic toto subluis in solio. Nee caput hie yellem, sic te, Charideme, lavare ;
Et caput, ecce, lavas ; inguina malo laves.
Tn,^ o Oaridemo, ti lavi come sdesnato con tatti : tahnente gnani le pudenda per tutto il tino. Non vorrei, o Garidemo» che tu vi lavasd il capo m questo modo : pure, ecco tn vi lavi H capo : amerei m^g^ <^e vi lavasd le pudenda.
Til X nil. TO BUFIJS.
• A man, the other day, Bufus, after having dOigentiy contemplated me just as a buyer of slaves or a trainer of gladiators miriit do, and after having examined me with eye imd hand, said, " Are you, are you re&Uy, that Martial, whose lively sallies and jests are known to every one who has not a downright Dutcl^inan's ear ?" I smiled faintly, and with a careless nod admitted that I was the person he supposed. ** Why then,'* said he, ** have you so bad a cloak P ' I an- swered, '' Because I am a bad poet." That this, Bufus, may not happen again to your poet^ send me a good cloak.
EVn now one looking on me wistl), and Trying, as butchers (£)e» with eye and hand.
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Tlie wares th«r? are to boy, ** Art thou,** quoth liae^ ** That MartiaU, whose wanton droUerj li 10 well known, and valued too to mudh. By all whose eares are not dull dreary Dutch P** I smild a little, and with gentle nod Seem'd to confess I was the man. ''Good God!" Quoth he, "why are you then so meanly dadd P " ** Because," quoth I, ** my poetr? ii bead." That men your poet may not still thus jeere, Send him, good Bufus, better doathes to wean.
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uxxni. TO BOXiTiijr, nr praise oy his OLzioiroT.
Am much as the fortune of the father of Etruscun ' owes to the solicitationfl of the son, so much, most powerful of princes, do both owe to you ; for you hare recalled the thunderbolt laundied by your right hand; I could wish that the fires of Jupiter were of a similar character. Would that the all-powerful Thunderer had your feelings, Casar ; his hand would then rarely apply its fall force to the thunderbolt. From your clemency Etruscns acknowledges that he has re- ceiTed the double noon of being allowed to accompany bia ihther when he went into exile, and when he returned from it.
Whatever oarental loye to filial owes. That, chitf of chieft, thy grace on both bestows. The bolts emitted, thou forbad'st to rove : Oh, for such temper to the bolts (Kf Jore ! OhI did the Thunderer like Ciesar feel, Rare would his hand her total Tensesnoe deaL Thy double boon Etmscus must acu^lre ; That crown* th* associate, when it call'd the sureu
Til I r IT. TO ATinra.
Fhilippua, in good bodily health, is carried, Avitua, in a litter borne by eight men. But i£, Aritus, yon think him saxie^ you are yourself insane.
FhiHp, in healA, eight men to bear him had : Who thinks him in good health, himself ii mad.
Jmm. 1605.
^ Tliere were two Etnud, fkther and son ; the fkther wit tent bito ezQe hj Domitiin, and the son acconpaiiied him. By ihe sr Jcitations of the SOB, Domitian was indnced to aUowthe fkther f >retiun. See B. yis. Rp. 99, Bad Statius Sylr. 3.
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LIXZT. <nr THB BXAITH 01* BUTTTS OAlCOlTItrB.
My sixth book is published without thee, Bufus Camoniui, for a patron, and cannot hope to have thee, mj friend, for a reader. The impious Lmd of the Cappadodans, beheld by thee under a mabgnant star, restores ouy thy ashes and bones to thy father, four forth, bereared JBononia, thy tears for thy Bufus, andlot the roioe of thy wailing be heard throughout the .£milian Way. Alas ! how sweet an affection, alas I how short a life, has departed ! He had seen but just fiye times the award of prizes at the Olympian ^mes. 0 Brufus, thou who wast wont to read through my tnfles with careful attention, and to retain my jests in thy memory, receive this short strain with the tears of thy sorrowful friend, and regard them as incense offered by him who is far removed from thee.
In th' absence, Rufus, my sixth book is out,
Bat thoa ber reader she doth sadly doubt,
Base OapDadoda by a fate unjust
Gives to my friends thy bones, to thee thy dust
Widow^ Bononia batne my Mend in teaia.
While that ^Enulia thy grieif s echo bean.
How moos ! but how short-lived did he fall !
live bars Olympiads he had seen in alL
Rufos, thou that wast wont to bear in mind
Our sporti^ and them in memory to find,
Accept this sad verse which I send,
As the sweet incense of my absent friend. Fkkter,
itUULVL ov Bxnro sbquibxd to dbhtk hot wateb whxb
SICK.
O wine of Soda, O excellent snow, O eoblets constantly refilled, when am I to drink you with no doctor to prevent me P He is a fod, and ungrateful, and unworthy of so great a boon, who wonld rather m heir to the rich Midas, than enjoy you. May he who is envious of me possess the harvests of liibya, and the Bbnnus, and the Tagus, and drink warm water.
Setian nectar, soVrain snow !
Guclinff, as attempered bowl ! When win ye your bliss bestow,
And no quack pretend control ?
Senseless to a boon so lare,
Fool, that would fore^ the joy* To be golden Midas' heir I
His & Midas' full aUoy.
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Far him let all UbpuffLre i
Hennns, Tagns, xoll tfadr gold : Burning may be qnaif and langb, Wboao gmdgesme the ooolU S^Muio^.
Lzzxrn. to DOMnxur.
May ihe ^N>d8 and yon yourself indolge yoa with whute?er yoa daaeiTa J Ma^ the gods and you joiuaelf indulge me with whatever I wish, if I have deserved it I
On thee, may hearen, and thoo, thy due hettow : On me» my utUe wish ; if that ye owe. ElpkbuUnu
sxzxYin. TO oJBOiUAirua.
One morning, Cascilianna, I happened to salute you simply by your name, without eallinff you, " My Lord." Does any one ask how much that freedom cost me? it has cost me a hundred fiothings.^
Thee, by thy real name, this mom I hail'd ;
Nor plun Ca^cilian as ''My lord" addresfl^d. What stood the freedom, that to areatly fiul'd^
But a poor hundred fiurthinga, f protest
LXXZUL TO BU7178, OS FAITABBTUS, ▲ nBimXAJB]).
Panaietna, full of wine, called witii eloquent finger,* just at midnight^ for a yessel necessary for a certain purpose. A Spoleten wine-jar was brought to him ; one wnich he had himself drained to the dregs, but which had not been enough for him, though drinking alone. Most fidthfully measuring Imck to the ^ar its former contents, he restored the fuU quantity of wine to its receptacle. Are you astonished that toe Jar held all that he had drunk P Cease to be astomshed, Bunis ; he drunk it neat.
When Panaret, maudlin, with snap of the thumbs At midnight commanded the neeonil to oome i A spoletine came, whidi hinuelf had just drain'd : Nor had it sufficed that the flagon contained. With utmost good faith redecanting his store. He crown'd w yast yessel as high as before.
K Cwtwm quadnmts§, the nsoil Talue of (he tportula or present made ^ the rich to their dependants insletd of a dinner. * By napping his Uinmb and finger, the usual signal to the attendsntf
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MABTXiX'S
OapacioiUy jon wonder^ tho pot as the cask!
This puxe bid imbibed ; whioh aocounts for the task.
XO. Oir GXLLXjL.
Gdlia baa bat one gallant; tbia ia a great diagrace, but, whi^ IB a greater, die ia the wife of two haabanda.
To one alone gaUant will Gellia deign, Moxe seaadal hers ; the oonsort thus of twun.
xoi. TO EoiLxra.
The sacred cenaorial edict of our aoTereign Lord coDdemua and forbids adulteij. Bejoioe, Zoilua, th^ your taatea ex- empt you from thia law.^
The emperar*8 law foibids adultery ;
But giiefe not, Zoilus ; 'twill not touch thee. Amm.
XCH. TO iLMKIAKUS, DBJjnCOra BAD WIVX.
By the serpent which the art of Myron has graren on ^onr sup, Ammianua, it ia indicated that^ in drinkiDg Vatican wme,* you drink poison.
The senent twined around thy cup,
By Myron's wondrous art, Is emblon of the poison which
Thy odious wines impart. Atumm
xom. OK THAia.
Thaia ameUs worse than an old jar of a coYetpua fuller just broken in the middle of the stoeet; worse than a eoat after an amorous encounter ; than the belch of a lion ; uian a hide torn from a dog on the banka of the liber ; than chick rotting in an abortiye egg ; than a jar fetid with spoilt pickle. Ounnirtgiy wiahing to exchan^ thia diaagreeable odour for some onier, she, on laying aside her garmenta to enter the bath, makea heraelf green with a depilatory, or oon- ceala herself beneath a daubing of chalk diasolved in add, or eoTers herself witili three or four layera of rich bean*un* guent. When by a thousand artificea ahe thinka ahe haa
' FemiBM enim non inibat, utpote fellator. * Which was the wont sort of wine.
BOOK Ti.] xnoBAva. 808
SQCoeeded in makiiig hendf safe, ThaiB, after aO, smells of Thais.
WoTM than a iullei^s tabb doth Thaii ttmk. Broke in the ttnetB, and leaking through eaohchiiik} Or HonV beloh ; or lustftill reekmg soata ; Or skin of dosff that dead o' th' buiknde floats i Or half-hatch? chicken from broke rotten eggs. Or taynted jam of stinking maekxell dreggs : This Tile rank smell with perftmies to dis^ise, "Whene'er she 's in the batn, she doth dense ; She's wiUi nomatom smug^d, or paint sood store. Or oyle of bean-flowV Tarnish'd o^ ana o'er : A thonsand wayes ahee tries to make all well; In ^-ayne, still Thais doth of Thus smelL
(M M.S lea CM.
XCIT. Oir 0ALFXTIAKT7S.
Cdpetianos' table is always laid with a gold seirioei whether he dines abroad or at his own honse in town. So, too, does he sup even in an inn or at his oonntry house. Has he then Battling else P No ! and even that is not his own.^
Calpettan's board the golden platters crown. At home, abroad ; in countiy and in town : In horel or the field, alike they Ve shown. He has none else : nay, he has not his own.
BOOK vir.
X. TO nomriAir, oir his AssuicPTioir or ▲ bbsast-
PLAXB.
BsoBiTB the terrible breastplate of the warlike Minerra, which even the 'anger of the snaky-locked Medusa dreads. When yon do not wear it, Giesar, it may be called a breast-
' The meaning is uncertain ; bat it seems tobe intfanated either thai he had borrowed or hired pUte, for the sake of oelentatioD, or that he had sot iiby dishonest means
804 HABTIAL'i
plate ; when it sits upon your sacred breast^ it will be aa
flBgia.^
CflBsar, tfav dread PaUadian brrastolate wear, Whieh ern the Oomn seems itself to £9ar: When on tbee buckled, all the egis knows But when unann'd, it doth plain armour show.
n. TO THX BBXABTFULTX ITSSLF.
Breastplate of our lord and master, impenetrable to the arrows m the Sarmatians, and a greater defence than the hide worn bj Mars among the Gretse ; breastplate formed of the polished hoofs of innumerable wild boars,' which de- fies the blows eyen of an ^tolian spear ; happy is thy lot, to be permitted to touch that sacred breast, and to be warmea with the genius of our god. Gk>, acoompanr him, and mayst thou, uninjured, earn noble triumphs, and soon restore our leader to the palm-decked toga.'
Gird on the breastplate of the warlike maid. Of iHdch Medusa's snakes misht shrink afraid* Habergeon, Gesar, uninform'a of thee, Will, on thy sacred bosom, egis be.
Blest cuirass, go, Sarmatio shafts deride ; Nor fear to rival Mars's Getic hide. MailM with the slipp'rr claws of many a boar, Ihee never point m feu ^tolian tore. Fail, happy cuirass! what a lot is thine 1 To g^ a god, and flow with soul dirine ! Go, ^ean, unhurt, toy triumphs o'er the globe $ And soon restore the hero to the robe. JSlpiudau,
m. TO FOKTILIAinTS.
Why do I not send you my books, Fontilianus ? Lest yon should send me yours, rontilianus.
* The aegis wu borne by the gods; the lorieOf or breastpUte, was worn by men. Domitian appears to hare had an segii, or shield, made for himself after the fashion of Minerra'tf seids, whom he paxiiciilarly worshipped.
* The Sarmstfans, according to Pausanias, mado breastplates, or coats of mail, of the talons of wild beasts, arranged like scuios. The breas^»Iate of Domittan was formed either of that material, or in imU tation of it
' The toga paimuta, worn by grneriils in triumphal precessions.
MOK TO.] X7ZOB11M. 805
VHry send I not to tiiee tiieie books of mine P
'Ceuse I, PontiHan, would be free from thine. Wri^ki
Ton ask me why I haye no irerses sent ?
For fear yon should return the compliment. Say,
IT. TO CABTBlOTTBy OK OFPIAlTirs.
Oppianns, haying an nnhealthj complezioni^ Oaatricosi b^gan to write yeraes.
To haye some eolour for his pallid lookes, Oppian begins, forsooth, now to write bookea.
OldMSLimCM.
T. TO DOjcrtiAir, aoLiciinro mx to Biruiur.
H Cesar, yoa TC^;ard the wiahea of Tonr people and aeni^ and tbe real nappineea of the inhabitanta ox Bome, restore our deity to our argent prayers. Bome ia emrions of the foe that detains him, aithouffh many a laurelled letter reachee her. That foe beholds tne lord of the earth nearer than we ; and with thy countenance^ Cttsar, the barbarian is as much delighted as awed.
If with thee, Gnar, the desires take plaoe Of people, senate, all the Boman race^ Thy presence graciously to them aifoid, At their iinpatient suit, return their loi^ Rome her foes enyies, that they thee detain, Tliouffh many laurels she thereby doth gain i That barb'rous nations see her prince so neax^ Enjoy that &ce which they do so much fear.
.im. 1090.
TI. TO JAXE.
Is there then any truth in the report that CsBsar, quitting the northern dimes, is at length preparing to return to Ausonia P ^ Certain intelligence is wanting, but eyery tongue
Xits this news. I belieye thee, Fame; thou art wont to the truth. Letters announcing yietorpr confirm the Public joy; the jayelina of Mars have their points green with JaureL Again, rejoice! Bome proclaims aloud your great triumphs ; and your name, Cassar, eyen though it be against
* Looking pale^ as these who would be tbou^ peels wished to look. Hor. Epbt L 19.
806 xastial's
jour will, resoandB througboat your dtj. But now, that our J07 may haTO greater grounOB for certaintj, come your* adf ; and be your own messenger of your yictory over tiie SarmatianB.
Hark! from hyperborean shozeBy
Cnsar now his route ezpLorau
Fame, the harbioger of praise,
Glads the gieat Ansomaii ways. ^
'What though none assure the bliss P
ET'xy Toice announces thisl
Fame, upon thy lips I dwell j
Truth as thou art wont to telL
Victor-letters speak the joy :
Martial weapons ouell annoy,
With their laurel'd point serene :
All is glad, and all is green.
los bid thy Rome rebound :
Matchless Obbsst is the sound.
But, the bliss that nought gainsay,
Bring thyself the Saxmat bay. S^mUm, .
TH. TO C28AB.
Though the wintry Northern Bear, the barbaroua Fenee,^ the Danube warmed by the trampling of horses' feet, and the Bhine, with its presumptuous nom already thiioe broken, may withhold thee from us, O sovereign nuer of the earthy and father of the world, whilst thou art subduing the realms of a peifidiouB race, yet thou canst not be abs^t from our prayers. Even tbere, CsDsar, our eyes and minds are with thee; and so fully dost thou occupy the thoughts of all, thak the yery crowd in the great Gircua know not whether Fas* ierinna is running or Tigris.'
Mid polsr ice and Feucian snows, Where with the hoof hard Ister glows ; And rebel Bhine, with broken horn, Still bids thee awe, and still adom. The kingdoms of a fledthless race. That nium thy guidance and thy grace \ O eartn's controller uuconfined, Propitious parent of mankind ! Far from our tows thou canst not bo : Our heads and hearts are full of thee.
> An iiland at the moatk of the l)aB«ba» > Karnes of iaTonriie hones.
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Xay, all oar eyw thoa boldest id,
That not the yatty CSicui know
What paragons pretend to ahiney
A Tigns or a Paaierine. SljtitMtitmm
TITL TO THB XUBSSy OH HOHJTULS'n SXTUBIT.
Now, 0 Muses, now, if erer, give yent to joy. Ourffod is x^stoied to lis yictoriouB from the plains of Tnraoe. Tnou art the first, O December, to connrm the wishes of the people ; now we may shout with load yoioe, ^He is coming.*' Happy art thon, O December, in thy lot^ thoa mightest haye aasomed equality^ with January, hadst thou piyen us the joy which he will ffiye us. The crowned soldier will sport in festal railleries,' as he walks in procession amid the laurelled steeds. It is not unbecoming eyen in thee, O Gssar, to listen to jests and trivial yerses ; since the triumphal cele- bration itself giyee a license to amusement.
Now iport, if e'er, ye Muiesy with my yeint From the north wond the god retuma again. December first bringt forth the neople^s vote, T \» just we cry, S& pomesy wim open throaL Bleit in thy cfaanee, from Janni ihare the dajTt Srnoe what he 'd giye^ thoa giyest to us, our joy. Let the orown'd soldier playms solemn sport, While he attends the bays-myetted ooart; *T is riffht, mat Gnnr, oar light jokes to hear, Srnoe that thy triumph them doth loye and beer.
Fteicier.
IX. OV CASOILLItrSy ▲ lAWm nXJUOUEKT IK 7LIJZKCT.
CascelUus numbers sixfy years, and is a man df talent When will he be a man of eloquence P
If at threesoore he lawyer do commenoe i
Say, at what age he'll be a man of sense. J5^f.
Thy yalour, Boimee, mproyes apace,
For one BO past his prime t Already thou It an simy fkoe, —
Thoa It fhoe a man in time. K.B.HaiM,
X. TO OLTTS, ▲ SLAITDXBX^.
Bros has a Ghinymede, Finns is strangely fbnd of women | vhat ia it to you, Olus, what either of them does with him-
> S6eB.LEp.y. x2
8Q6 MiBTTAf/S
aelfp MattopayBakimdrodthoasazidsesteioestoaiiiigto^ what ifl it to you, OIob P It is not 70a, but Matlio^ wBo will thufl be leduoad to po^ert^. SertonoB sits at tebfe till daylight: what ia it to yon, Olua^ wheiiyoa are at Uberhr to snore all sight long P Impne owes ^tos seven hundred thoosand sesterces : what is it to yoo, OlosP Do not give or lend Lapos a single penny. What really does conoeni yoa, OluSy and what ought more intimately to oonoern yoo, you keep out of sight, xou are in debt for your paltry toga; that, OluS) ooDcems you. No one will any longer give you a fartlung*8 credit ; that, Olus, oonoems you. lour w^ plays the adulteress ; that, Olus, concerns you. Your daughter is
r»wn up, and demands a dowry ; tliat, Olns, concerns you. could mention some fifteen other tilings that coDcgm you ; but yeur affidrs, Olus, concern me not at alL
JwA and Tom haunt each bawdy-honae in town : 'What's that to yon P Is not their skin thdr own P Hnxy at vast expense maintains a whore : What 's that to you P T is Hany will grow poor. Nad spends the nights in gaming and in ziot: 'What^B that to yon P Csnnot yoa sleep in qnietP Disk owes fire hmidzedpoands mito a fiiend: 'What'sthattoTouP IJoea Biek ask tou to lend P Do yoa foxget what is yonr own affiur r Of what it more becomes yoa to take care P "Tis yonr affiiir to pay for your own ooat, As t IS, that none will trust you for a groat; *Tii yoor afhir, that your wim goes astnyt As *t is, your daaghter*s portion toon to pay. Thoosands are your affiurs, which I decline lb name; for what you do is none of mine. JSiqf.
''Win and Hal love their bottk." Well, Prattle, why not < Drink as mudi as they can, t will not make you a sot ** FhStu purse has finM de^ for illicit amours;* WeD, Pnittle, the damage is Philip's, not yours. " Surlwe rerelB aU night, and sleeps out half the day.** Wdl, Prattle, his pranks will not turn your head grey. ^ Chnlea, ruin'd by eamblinff, begs alms to subsisti''
snbe or wi
Wdl, Prattle, subscribe or withhold, as you
Be leas busy, good Prattle, with others'
Keep an eye to concerns of your own, and not thein
YooVe in risk of arrest, Prattle ; that *s yoor eoncem;
None will lend you a doit| and you 've no means to
BOOK ?IL j SPtttBAXS* 800
Tour wife 't ever drunk* Fntde^ tfiat ooncenu yoa. Miss Pnttle, your daughter's with child,— end that too I could preach thus a weekt did my taste so incline ; Buty Ptattle, your scrapes axe no huainesB of mine.
If. JB. SMeiL
XI. TO XULUn FVDXKB.
Yea urge me, Pudena, to oorroct my books for jou, wiUi 1117 own lumd and pen. Ton are fiir too partial, and too kind, thus to wish to poaseaa mj trifles in autograph.
Trifles would my Pudens scan,
Winnow'd by the author's £ui P
Oh I how keen will fiiendship sift,
Such originals her dxift ! Slpkmiiom.
in. TO FAxrsTnrrs.
So may the lord of the world, Fanstinns, read me with serene countenance, and receiye my jests with his wonted attention, as my page injures not eren those whom it iustly hates, and as no ^rtion of reputation, obtained at the ez* pense of another, is pleasing in m j eyes. To what purpose IS it that certaia yersifiers wish pubhcations which are but darts dipped in the blood of Ljcambes ^ to be deemed mine; and thai thejr Tomit forth the poison of yipers under mj name P — ^yersiflers, who cannot endure the rays of the sun and the liriit of day ? My sport is harmless ; you know this well ; I swear it by the genius of aU-jpowerfm Fame, and by the Castalian choir, as well as by the attention you grant me, reader, who, if you are free from the unmanly passion of enyy, are to me as a great deity.
May CSaesar still wish the same gracious ear, Ana serene brow, my sportiTe yerses hear. As they wrong none^ not those I justly hate 1 As ftme I loye not at the odions rate Of others' blushes. But what does t avail ? If in Uood-fetohing lines others do rail. And yomit yip'rous p<nson in my name ; Such as the sun, themseWes, to own, do shame P Who know me, know my yerses harmless are : And by the Muses' sacred cfaoir I swear,
* Who WIS ditTon to commit suicide by the satiro of Archilochm^ la l4tem he had first engiged, and then lefiised, his dau^to'.
810 ]CABTUL*S
By th* genina of my prerafling funei
By tfar ean, eandia reader, and th j name^
Whien hold the place of deities to me»
From all malignant eary I am free. .^iioe. 169A.
Zni. OV LTC0BI8.'
LyooriB the hranMef haying heard that the iyoiy of an antiquated tooth reoovered its whiteness bj the action of the sun at l^Toli, betook herself to its hiUs, sacred to Hercules. How great is the efficacy of the air of the lofty Tiyoli I In a short time she returned black.
Ihat an elephant's frnir, dusk Lyooris had heard. On the liburtine hi&a ey'ry sallowneH spom'd.
To Aleidei^ ftmed heights her ambition transfbn'd, £Vry gale blew in yain: she aU sable retom'd.
XIY. TO XVZVfi,
A frightful miflfortuney Aulus, has befallen a &ir acquaint- ance of mine ; she has lost her pet^her delight ; not such as Lesbia^ the mistress of the tender Catullus, bewailed, when she was bareayed of her amorous sparrow ; nor such as the doye, sung by my friend Stella^ which lanthis lamented, and whose dark shade now flits in elysium. My fiur one is not capti« yated by trifles, or objects of affection such as those ; nor do such losses affect the heart of my mistress. She has lost a young friend numbering twice six years, whose, powers had not yet reached maturity.
What dire diBaster gaye, alasl the knell To Delia's joy, I wiU my Aulas telL Her playmate^ and her oarlinff, has she lost Far other eurse the lambent Leslna cross'd. When of her chaimet's kiUing^nmeries n^ Which just Gatnllus has immortarieft. Other my Stella sang lanthis' sighs. For the dear doye that in Elysium flies. My minion ne'er was smit with shafts so mean: No tririal losses oould dismay my queen. Him, who told years twice ten, does DeUa moom, Whose down was never mow'd, or youthlbl hooonrs ahom.
JStpkuutim. .
Xy. TO ABOTKVUS.^
What boj is this that retreats from the sparkling waters of ^ See B. IT. Kp. 62. , ' Compare Ep. 50.
BOOK Tn.] moBUcfl. 811
lanthis, and flees from the Naiad tbeirxnistreuP laitHylasP Well is it that Heroules ia honoured in this wood, ana that he 80 closelj watches these waters. Thou majst minister at these fountains, Aigynnns, in security ; the Njmphs will do thee no harm ; bewaie lest the guardian himseli should wish to do so.
What boy dedine Isatiiis* waTss I lee,
And court the Naiad-queen P a Hylas he P
Hail, happy giove, that own*it Tirynthian care f
Hail, lorinff wateriy that such guardian share !
Salb from uie nympbs, ^e fount, Argynnns, tend :
Nor aught, but fitnu tiie patron, apprehend. E^thmiUm,
Xn. TO BXeXTLUS.
I baye not a fiurtbing in the bouse ; one thing only rc<* mains for me to do, Be§^ns, and that is, to sell the presents which I baye received firam you ; are you inclined to buy them P
I baye no money, B^gnlns, at bome^
Only thy gifts to sell : wilt thou buy some P Fkieher.
XyH. TO THX LXBEAET OF JVLIUS 1U.BTIALIS.
LibraiT of a charming country retreat, whence the reader can see we neighbouring town, if, amid more serious poems, there be any room far the roortiye Thalia, you may place even upon the lowest shelf tnese seven books which I send you corrected by the pen of their author. This correction gives them their value. And do thou, O library of Julius Marw tialis, to whidi I dedicate' this little present, thou that wilt be celebrated and renowned over the whole globe, guard this earnest of my affection !
Tbon lovely oomitij Ubrary,
'Whence thy lord Tiewi the city nigh,
H^ *mongst his serious stodys, nlace
My wanton muab may find, ana grace^
To these sev'n books affind a rooms,
Though on the lowest shelt which oome
Coin»ted bv their authoux's penn ;
For those blotts' sake esteems them then.
And thou, whose worth the world shall note^
This litde gift, which I devote
> The eommaa Teading dkUeata m followed here, instead of dbMeala which Scfaneidewia adopti.
812 ]UBTIAL*8
To thee, mtenre ^pledge of the deare
IHendfliup I to my JuIuib bcaie. 0"i3fS.\ M Om
Xnn. TO GALLA.
Cum tibi sit fiusies, de qua nee foBmina possit
Dioere ; cum corpua nulla litura notet : Cur te tam rarua cupiat, renetatque fututor,
Miraria ^ yitium eat non leve, GhiUa, tibi. Acceaai quotiea ad opua, miatiaque movemur
Inguinibua : cunnua non taoet, ipaa tacea. Dl filucerent ut tu Ipquereria, et ipae taoeret.
Offendor cunni gamilitate tui. Pedere te mallem : namque hoc nee inutile didt
Sjmmachua, et riaum rea movet iata aimuL Quia ridere poteat fatui poppjamata cunni P
Gum aonat hie, cui non mentula menaque eadit ? Die aliquid aaltem, clamoaoque obatrepe cunno :
Et ai adeo muta ea, diace yel inde loqui.
Arendo tn un Tolto, del quale ne pur una donna pud dine oontio e nesson diffetto marcando il too corpo : ti meravigli perche at di nut) un' adnltero ti brami, e ti rioerchi : tu, o Oalla, hai un diffetto die non <l Here. 0^ Tolta che Tenni teoo alle prese, e nei^ mia- diiati piaeeri s'agsitiamo ooi lombi, tn taci, e 1 too o — no cihiaza. Volencfo i Dei we tu parlaau ed ease taoeaae : io aono nauseato daOa cfaiaoebiera del too o — no : amerei meglio che tu petaaai : im- perocche Simaco dice che dd k gioverole, e nd tempo ateno muove ilriso. Chi pud ridere d poppiBmi d'un fiittuo o— noP quando costal romba, a chi non casca la mente, e la mentola P dl almeno quakhe coia, o serra il susurroso too c — ^no : e ae non sd aAitto mutok, impara indi a parlare. QragUa,
XIX. OK ▲ nAOHXVT OT THE BHIP ABGO.
Thia fragment, which jou think a common and uadeaa piece of wood, waa a portion of the fint ahip that ventured on un- known aeaa, a ahip which ndther the Cjanean rocka, ao fer- tile in ahipwrecka, nor the atiU more dangeroua rage of the Scythian ocean, could formerly deatroj. Time haa overcome it; but^ tiiough it haa }rielded to yeara^ thia little plank ia more 8acr8d than an entire ahip.
Thia piece thou sees't of rotten, useleat wood, Waa the fint diip that ever ploughed the flood i
SOOS til] BnOKAKf . 8U
Which not the IriUowB of Cjwhean Of old oonld wreokt or Sejwan vone than tfaeoe. Age ooDOver'd it i but in time's gulf thus dxown'd. One plank's mora itorod than the Teasel sound.
Amm. 1006.
ZX. OV flAKTSA.
Xo one is more pitiable, iio one more glnttonona, thaii Saotra, when he is invited and hurries off to a regular supper, to which he has fished for an invitation manj days and nights : he asks three times for boar's neck, four times for the loin, and for tiie two hips and both shoulders of a hare nor does he blush at lying for a thrush, or filching even the livid beards of oysters. Sweet cheese-cakes stain his dirty n^>kin; in which also potted grapes are wrapped, with a few pomegranates, the unsightly skin of an excavated sow's udder, moist fiss, and shrivelled mushrooms^ And when the napkm is bursting with a thousand thefts, ho hides in the reeking fold of his dress gnawed fish-bones, and a turtle-dove deprived of its head. He thinks it not disgrace- iul, too, to gather un with sreedy hand whatever the waiter and the dogs have left. Nor does solid booty alone satisfy his gluttony; at his feet he fills a flagon with mingled wines. ISiese things he carries home with him, up some two hundred steps; and lodn Idmself carefully in his garret and ban it; and the next day the rapacious fellow sells them.
When Sanetn long had rioted m dreams,
And fed his waking mind with fiitore steams;
To the stOl panted, inrsy'd, pursued repast,
Hnn the .dear inritation blessed at last
But oh ! poor Sanctiv, wast thou bless'd or cursed.
When on the gorgeous board thine eveballs bust P .
The kernels of the boar he thrioe aemands: The loin he four times hints he understands. To the hare's dther hip his spirit springs : . And flutters now to Ihr on boui the wings. I& soul he perjures ror a glorious thrush: He beards ihe oysters, bat he will not crash. With comflts next behold his napkin graced : In the same hoard the potted grapes are placed* Here a few grams of Punic anples lie ; And there a skin, just seoop*a fircnn out a sty.
814 ITABTIAIi*!
Nor it the blear-eyed fig hereelf forsoi ) Nor here forgets uie miubroom maaa'd to loU When the n£k'd doth, by many a hundred renti^ BewraTB a thousand thera, a thousand soents i The huf-gnaVd bones he fosters in his breasti Where not the headless dore disdains to rest Nor does his dntrous hand abhor the theft Of the last offiils that the dogs haTe left.
But lo I he fiUs, sufficed not thus to eat, With mingled "wine the flagon at hii feet When all ten-soore of stain he home has raisedy And e^ry poVr, that lent him powV, has praised, ffis treasure he unlocks ; and, strange to tell I Next mom he condescends — the whole to sdL E^MitiotL
XXZ. OS TBM UnrnmUiABT 07 ZHB BIBTH-DAT 07
LUOAjr.
This is the daj which, witneaa of an iUastrioua birth, save Locaa to the people and to thee, Folla.^ ALu, ernel Nero, more detested on aooonnt of no one of jour yictimB than thia, such a crime at least should not have been permitted
you.
«
This is that day, Folia, to thee brought forth Lucan, and to the world; that man of worth. Ah^ cruel Nero I ne'er more loath'd than now, Hus &ct at least heay'n ^ould not thee allow.
OldM8.imCM.
XXn. Oir THB BAKB.
The day returns, memorable for the illustrious birth of a bard inapured by Apollo ; Aonian Tirgins, be propitious to our sacrifices. BsDtis, when she gave thee, Lucan, to the earth, deserved that her waters should be mingled with those of Castalia*
Apollo's bard exalts to-day :
Aonian choir, attune the lay.
When bounteous Beds Lucan gave,
He blended with Castalia's wave. JB^watoit-.
XXXn. TO APOLLO, OK THE SAIOB.
Phc^buSy come great as thou wast when thou gavest
* The wile of Lucan.
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the seodnd quiU of the Latin lyre to the smger of wi|;ni. ; What can I pray for ^orthj of so glorious a day P That thou, Polla, mayat often yenerate the shade of thy hushand, and. that he may be sensible of thy yeneration.
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Come^ PhcBbni, gnat as vhen the warlike swain Thon lent* 8t the aeocmd bow to sweep the lyre.
What mout tow can for this mom remain P QftyToUa, hail thy lord ; and may he feel ^7^
my. oir ▲ slaitdebbb.
Perfidious tongue, that wouldst embroil me with my dear ftiend Juyenal, wkat wUt &ou not hare the audacity to say P With tbee to coin acandalous stories, Orestes would hare hated Pyladea; the affectionate Pirithous would have shunned Theseus. Thou wouldst haye parted the SidHaa brothers, and the Atridn, stQl greater names, and the sons of Leda. This I imprecate upon thee, 0 tongue, as a justre* ward for thy doings and tiiy audacious attempts, that thou mayst continue to do what I believe thou dost already.*
Perfidioui toii^e, that wouldst embroil
My Javenal and me ! What £uth so pure to stand the soil
Of Tenom shed by thee P
At thy furmiie^ ^ Pylades
Orestes loon would hate ; For llieseiif would, by slow degrees,
Pxrithous* loTe abate.
SieDian brothen thou 'dst divide.
Or Atrean, greater name ; To Leda's twins 'twould be thy pride
To give a novel flame.
For deeds so done, and so dasign'd,
I prav, with humble trust, That all the tongues of all mankind
To thee be ever just JSpkhutotL
XXT. TO ▲ BAD BPIGBAJOLLTIST.
AUhough the epigrams which you write are always swesfe
> Luctti, wbom Mmrtial nalcs next to Vlrgfl.
* Haraat inguinibus pottos tsm nosia lingua. B« iL Bp. 61
nesa itself and more spotless than a whiteleaded skin, asd althongh there is in them neither an atom of salt, nor a drop of bitter ffall, jot you expect, foolish man, that they irill hie read. Why, not even food itself is pleasant^ if it tie vholly destitute of acid seasoning; nor is a &ice pleasing, which shows no dimples. Give children your honey-apples and luscious figs ; the Chian fig, which has sharpness, pleases my taste.
Since all your lines are only sweet and fine,
As is the skinn which with white wash doth shine^
Butt nott a come of salt, or dropp of gall,
In them ; yeCt, foole, thou 'dst have me reade them alL
Meate has no gust without shaipe sawoe ; no face
Without a smmng dimi^ie has a grace :
For children sweete insipid froits are best $
The quidL and povnant only me can feast.
Old I£8. leik CmL
In all the epigrams you write we trace
Hie sweetness and tne candour of yomr face.
Think you, a reader will for verses call,
l^thottt one {[rain of salt, or drop of gall P
T is vinegar gives relish to our food :
A &oe that cannot smile is never good.
Smooth tales, like sweetmeats, are for children fit t
High-seasou'd, like my dishes, be my wit. Ifay.
XXn. TO HTS SCAEOFS.^
Go, my Seasons, and pay your respects to Apollinaris ; and, if he be disengaged (for you must not importune him), present him with this collection, whatever may be its worth, a collection in which he himself has a share.* May his re- fiined ear grant my verses an audience. If you find your- selves welcomed with open brow, you will ask him to support jou with his usual favour. You hiow his passionate liking for m^ trifles ; not even I myself could love them more. If you wish to be safe againBt detractors, go, my Seasons, and pay your respects to Apollinaris.
Season, to my ApoUinazis come ;
If hee's not busy (be not troublesome),
lliese frolic lines, wherein himself much shares,
Offer fth' judgment of his critick ears.
' A sort of Iambic verse. * By haring corrected some of the pieces^
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If he TMtxn thee not with a half-looks^
With hii kAown fitvour pray him owne mjr booka
Thoa knoVflt how much my trifles he does love i
I cannot eVn myself them more approve.
If thoa malignant eensuiera wonlost shmrn,
Season, to my ApoUinaris rann. OldMS.lWGmi.
ZXTIL Oir ▲ iriLB-BOAB.
A wild hear, a derooier of Taacsn aoomfl, and hesry with the firnit of many an oak, aecond in fame only to the monater of ^tolia, a boar which my friend Dexter picnneed with fflittov ing spear, lies an enned prejr for my kitchen fire. £et mj Peni^ &tten and erade with the pleasing steam, and my kitchen, festally adorned, blase with a whole mountain of felled wood. But, ahl my cook will consomo' a Tast heap of pepper, and will hare to add Talemian wine to the mYsfcerions sanoe. No; return to your master, minona wild-boar : my kitchen fire is not for auch as you ; I hunger for less costly delicacies.
Surely, Sir John, yon must hare been in liqnor.
To send a bock unto a country Ticar:
The fattest, too, that you have shot tids season.
It crowds my kitchen up beyond all reason.
To dress it, I should build my chimney new:
Without a cook, should boirow one of you.
It would consume almost a cord of wood :
Much wine and s^ce, to make the pasty good*
If I invite my panah } without doubt,
Tliey would confound a hogshead of my stout.
nien take it back; for here it can't be drest :
And it is Embei^weekr-to &st is best. fftry*
XXYin. TO 71TSC17S, OK VXSJ>TSB HIM HIS XPIOBAXB.
So may your grove at Ttvoli, consecrated to Diana, grow unceasingly, and your wood, though often cut,ha8ten to recruit itself; so may not your dives, fruit of Pallas, be excelled by the presses of Spain ; so may yoor vast wine-coolers sup- ply yon with good wine; BO may the courts of law admire and the nalace praise you, and many a palm decorate your fold* ing aoors,^ as, whib the middle of December affords you a
* Pk!lM were afized to thsdoon of eminent advocatca who had gaiaed
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Bbort Tacntiopy you ooraect with uuerring Jadgment tliese trifles which ^ou are now reading. " Do jou wish to hear ^he trath P^-it ia a trying task." But you can say, Fnacua, what you would wish to m aaid to yourself.
Soon may your new-cut ooppipet xeme^ And your new-planted gzove and garden thrive ; May laaghing Ceres danoe aroond your fields, And your press flow with gifts Pomona yields i May you afee receive in erezy cause, • And nail and houses hear yon with applause i If, in the time the long Tacations Isno, Ton read my jokes, and censure as a friend. I want the truth, still backward to appear : Tell me^ what yon yourself would freely hear. Ha^f*
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XCIX. TO THX8TTLU8, TEX POIT TICTOB'B BOT.
i
Thostyloay sweet torment of Victor Yooonius, thou than whom no youth is better known in the whole cdty, so mayst. thou still, though thy longhair haa been cut, retain tiiy beauty and the affection of thy master, and so may no maiden flnd faTOur in the e^es of thy poet-lord, as thou now latest aside for a while his learned compositions, whilst I read to him a few humble rerses. Even by Mfficenaa while Yii^gil sauR of Us Alexis, the brown MieUduis of Maraus was not disregaroidd.
O thou, Voconins* painfbl joj.
Thou o'er the globe renonned boy !
So be thou still thy Victor's prides
E'en when thou lay'st thy loeks aside i
Nor ministration of the nir
With ^ complaisance tempt compare :
Such, Thestyl, be thy just reward;
As thou the labours of thy lord
Shalt silly set one moment by.
While in his ear some striuns I try.
Though Maro, with Alezii smooth.
Knew well his patron's soul to soothe \
Mecenas coula a Marms own.
Nor dusk Helnnis held unknown. ElphiKgUm.
XXX. TO cmLik, Tou grant your favours, Caalia, to Pftrthians, to Qermans,
BOOK vn.] meBAHi. 819*
to Dftcums ; md despise not the homage of Ciliclaiis and Cappadpciaxis. To Toa joameys the E^jptiaa gaDant from the dty of Alexandria, and the swart^ Indian from the waters of the Eastern Ocean ; nor do jou shnn the emhraoes of oiicamcised Jews; nor does the Akn, onhis Sarmatic steed, pass hy yon. How comes it that, though a Boman girl,' no attention on the part of a Boman atixen is agreeable to you?
For Partfaiam, Gennans, thoo thy nets wilt spread;
Wilt Oappadooian or Cilidan wed i
From Memphii eomei a whipster mito thee^
And a bhusk LidBsn from the Red Sea I
Nor dost thoo fly the circumcised Jew,
Nor can the Monovite once pais by yon i
Why being a Roman kss dost do thus? tell.
Is *t 'cause no Roman knack can please 80 well? Fletcker.
TO BAeuLvs, ov snrDiNO nnc bought fbxsbkts.
Diese shziU-Toiced denisens of the hen-coop, these eegs a? the matron hens, these Chian figs made ydlowby a moderate heat, this young oibpring of a plaintiTe she-goat, these olives yet too t^der to brar the cold, and these Togetables hoary with the cold frosts, do yon imagine that they are sent from my cotintry-hoose? 01^ how intentionally you mis- take, B4;u1us I my fields bear nothing but myself. What- erer your ITmbrian bailiff or husbandman, or the Etruscan, or the people at Tuseulum, or your country-house three miles from Rome, send to you, is all produced for me in the middle of theSuburra.
If I by chsnee a pullet hafe with egg.
Of Ghristmss-lamb if I produce a leg,
With winter pease or 'sparagus I treat,
Ton think them sent me from my country-seat
But you Ve dsoeiTed ; for you must undentsnd,
I am mr only stock u^n my land.
What Doiking sends, m Tieadwihall I ibund|
In Oovent-gsraen more than Chdsea ground. Hag.
xaxu TO ▲TTicirs, coioiximiKo nia xzbboisb nr thb
BACOt.
O Atticns, who rerirest the fame of a fiunily renowned for, doquenooi and sufferest not a mighty house to fidl into ob-
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Imon, thou art accompaniod hj the inous Totariea of the Cecropian Minerya, tboa art pldaaed with calm retiremout, and beloved by eyery philosopher, whikt other joung men are inetracted in boxing hj a pngiliat at the expenae of wounded ears, and the greaay anointer carriea off tneir mo- ney, which he little deserves. No ball, no bladder, no feather- stuffed plaything prepares thee for the warm baths, nor the harmless blows dealt upon the defenceless wooden image.' Neither dost thou square thy arms drenched in stiff wrest- ler's ofl ; nor seise at full speed the dusty hand-balL Thou only runnest near the ^listeninff Yimn water,* and when» the bull shows his affection for zne Sidonian maiden.* For a young man who can run, to indulge in the various sporbs that every arena presents, is mere idleness.
0 Attieus ! who dost thy name attest, Not lett*8t thy mighty house in sileiice rest ! Thee the Cecropian train mast Still pursue : Bland wisdom love thee, and indulgence woo : While the rouffh rector batters either ear, ' Of thine each brave, and each beloved compeer; Whom the mean dauber lubricates to lean, And riches ravishes he ne'er could earn. Thee neither ball nor post for bath prepares, Nor the soft liniment lor bruising bares. Bat to the virg^-«tream wilt tho« retire, Or, where the bull confessed Sidonian fire. Of all the sports, whate*er the ^und or arowth. To play, when thou canst run, is very slotL j^kiiufom,
XXXm. TO COTKA.
When your toga, Cinna, is dirtier than mud, and your shoe whiter than the new-bom snow, why, foolish man, do you let your garment hang down over your feet P Gather up your toga, Cinna ; or your shoe will be quite spoilt.
When in a sordid gown thou lov'st to go.
But shoes as white as the new-finUen snow«
Why 'bout thy feet thy ffown to wear dost use P
Fool, tuck it up, or it wul foul thy shoes. Jnan. 1605.
■ Stipn^ a sort of block or post, perhaps formed into die shape &f a man at which the young men exercised themselTes as against an adTemry. s See B. V. Ep« 20. > In the Portico of Europa, ML
BOOK TU.] 1?ieBlM8. 821
XZXIT. TO 8lTXBV8y OV CHUUKVS' XXCXLLBHT BATHS.
Do yon ask, Serenu, bow it could come to pass that Cha- nnua, the very wont of men, has done one thing well P I will tell jou at once. Who was ever worse than NeroP Yet what can be better than Nero's warm baths P But hark, there is not wanting some ill-natured individual to say, immediately^ in a sour tone, ^ What, do you prefer the baths of Nero to the munificent structures of Domitian, our lord and master P " I prefer the warm baths of Nero to the baths of the debauch- ed Charinus.
It pasMt my 8evenii' ken,
How Chaiin, vilest much of men,
Should e*er to praise or profit bring
The greatest or the smallest thing.
What's wone than Nero P brief my terms.
Or better what than Nero's therms P
Lo I sodden one of malice* tribe
Croaks from his putrid mouth his gibe,
PrefexT*st the baui of an abhorr'd,
To all the bounties of our lordP
I do prefer, and nothing fightSi
A Nero's to a catamite's. jEjpiiaifai.
XXXT. TO J*MCAXLL»
Inguina sucdnctus nigra tibi servus aluta
Stat, quoties calidis tota foveris aquis. Sed mens, ut de me tacearo, Lecania^ servus,
Judaum nulla sub cute pondus habet. Sed nudi tecum juvenesque senesque lavantur,
An sola est servi mentula vera tui P Ecquid foemineos sequeris, matrona, reoessus P
Secretusque tua, cunne, lavatis, aqua P
Un servo, cinto le pudenda con un nero enoio, attende a te ogni volta che tutta tf immein nelle ealde acque. Ma H mio servo, senn uarlare di me, ha il giuwco peso sotto vemn cuojo. Ma e i gio- vani, e i vecchi si lavano nudi teco, forse die la mentola del tuo servo d solamente la vera P A ohe, o matrona, siegui tn i femxnei reoessi P O c— no, ti lavi tu di nascosto neUa tua acqua P
OragUa,
XXXVI. TO BTILLA.
When my crazy farm-house, unable to resist the rain and dropping staes, was inundated by the winter floods, there
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came to me, sent by jour kindness, a supply of tiles^ suffi- cient for a defence against any sudden shower. Hark ! in« clement December is roaring with the blast of Boreas ; Stella, jou cover the farm-house, and Ibiget to corer the farmer.'
When my crazed house heaVn's shoVrs coold not sustain. But floated with rast deluges of rain. Thou shingles, Stella, seasonably didst send. Which firom th' impetuous storms did me defend : Now fierce loud-soundinff Boress rocks does cleave, Dost clothe the farm, and fiurmer naked leave P
Anon. 1685.
ZZZm. TO 0A8TBI0U8.
Do you know, Castricus, the quiestor's sign of condemna- ^on to death ? It is worth your while to learn the new Theta.' He had given orders that every time be blew his nose dropping witn cold, the act should be a fatal sign for death. One day, when furioua December was blowing with dripping jaws, an unsightly idde was hanging firom his o^ous nose. His oolleaffues held his hands. What further do you ask ? The wretched man, Castricus, was not allowed to blow his nose.
Dost thou know the deadly sign.
That a qunstor could divine ?
It is. Gastric, worth thy while.
Though the Theta make thee smile.
When the judge his nostrils blew.
By ihe sound a man he slew.
In December's firost and snow.
When the floods forgot to flow,
From the fatal truinp depended
Mischief if not timely mended.
But his coUesffues interpose ;
Nor can Nosy mow his nose. Elphtnttom,
XXXVni. TO POLTFHXHUS.
O Polyphemus, slave of my fnend Severus, you are of such a size and such a form that the Cyclops himself might wonder at you. Nor is Scylla ' inferior to you in these respects.
* Y<m forget to send me a toga.
* The letter tAeta (bang the initisl letter of Bdvarot) was the mark of coadenmation to deaUi, on the votiag tablets among the Greeks.
* Anotha slave.
BOOK TTI.J IPieBAXS. 828
If Toa briiiff fiioe to &ce the awful monatroBitieB of the two, either will he a terror to the other.
So hews, ind so huge, ii Serere^s Polypheme^ . A Cfclop with wonder would glara. Nor Seyrlk lets fell : did thejr mutually gleaaoL The moDsten would mutually aeare. JBlpkmtiUm,
XXXIX. OK 0ML1XJ%.
Cfldiiu, unable any longer to endure with patience the ooik- etant running from place to place, the morning callfl, and the
gride and cold salutations of the great^ began to pretend that e had the goat. But^ while he was over-ea^ to prore his disease teaX^ and was plastering and bandaging his sound feet, and walking with laboured rtep (such is the efEcacy oi eare and art in fogned pain) he ceased to feign.
•
The many ranninga to and fro, the paynea Of moTDrng Tisitta, waytings on the braynea Of the proud great ones, CSeliua to fozbeare Resohei, and take hia ease. Butt yett for feare O* th' wont, hee tuttly feigna to have the sout i Which too much labouring to putt out of doubt. While he swathes up and plasters hii sound feet, And with much sreife pretends to goe or ntt,
go see how well the care and art may s{>eed seeming payn'd I) hee 's got the gout indeed.
Old MS. \6tk CemL,
His lorddiip's mornings were in huiry spent,
What with a levee, news, and compliment i
That his good lordship was quite wearied out!
And for ms ease save out he had the gout.
T is fit a man of honour should say true :
To show he did, what did his lordship do P
His foot, not foundered, he in flannels bound ;
limp'd on a crutch ; nor touch'd with toe the ground*
What may not man with care and art obtain I
By feigning long, his loidship did not feign. Say,
XL. XPITiLPH OK THS FATHKB OV XTEUSCUS.'
Here lies that old man, well known at the court of the emperor, whoee favour and whose anger he endured with no mean spirit. The affection of his children has laid him
1 See B. iv Ep. 83.
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vith the hallowed ashes of his consort ; the Elysiaii grove holds both. She died first, defrauded of her jouthful prime. He lived nearly eighteen Olympiads. But whoever beheld thj tears, Etruscus, thought that he had been snatched from thee prematurely.
Here lyes that good old man in court well knowne For 'a equall temper m both fortimei showne. His sacred bones here with his wife's are mixt By filiall care ; their souls in heaVn are fixt. Shoe dyed first, hear yonthfull prime much spent ; Xear nmety yeeres tne Fates unto him lent Tett him in haste snatch'd hence all would beUeve, Who knew how much the world did for him greive.
OldI£S.lQthCBnL
XLI. TO BXHPS0HTU8 TUOOA.
Tou think yourself Sempronius Tucca, a cosmqpolite Vices, Sempronius Tucca^ are equally cosmopolitan vrith virtues.
A cosmopolitan thou wouldst be thought :
But cosmopolitans are good^-and nought. Anon.
ZLn. TO CABTBICUS.
If any person, Castricus, should wish to rival you in making presents, let him attempt to do so also in making verses. I am but of small resonrces in either way, and al- ways readj to own myself beaten; hence ease and undis-. turbed quiet charm me. Do you ask, then, why I have offered you such bad verses p I ask you in return, do you imagine that no one ever offered apples to Aldnous ?
If anv in rich gifis with thee dare vie. His skill with thee in verse, too, let him try . I, poor in both, prepared am to yield. And find much ease by quitting of the field. Why then ill verses do i thee present? Dost think none e'er Aloinons apples sent?
Anon. 1695.
ZLin. TO CIKirA..
The greatest fiivour that you can do me, Cinna, if T ask anything of you, is to give it me ; the next, Cinna, to refuse it at once. I love one who gives, Cinna ; I do not hate one who refuses ; but you, Cinna^ neither give, nor refuse.
BOOK ni.] XFiesAKS. 825
Tho kindett thin^ of all is to comply ;
The next kind thing is quickly to deny
I love pecfonnancei nor denial bate :
Toor "Shall I, Shall I P" is the cursed state. Ay.
XldT. TO QinVTUB OTIDITrB, OV THS BUST OV MiLXOniB
oJBsovnrs.
ThiB, QuintuB OvidiaB, is your friend MaximuB GsBoniua,^ whose lineamentB the linns wftz still preseryes. Him Nero oondemned ; but you dured to condemn Nero, and to follow the fortunea of the exile instead of your own. You went throuffh the waters of Scylla, a noble companion of his exile ; YOU who, but a little while before, were unwilling to go with him when he was consul. If names that I commit to paper are to lire, and destiny wills that I should survire my tomb, present and future generations shall know that you were to nim what he waa to his friend Seneca.*
See your great friend CSeesonins, who ii gone !
"Hm likeness seems to animate the stoneT
Whom Nero censured, spite of tyrant's hate.
Ton dared acquit, and dared to share his fate.
Ton, who rerased a consul to attend, ^
Attend through dangerous seas an exiled friend.
If any names shall in my writings Utc,
Or if my own my ashes shall surviye.
Let it in eyery mture age be said.
His loye to Seneca, that you repaid. Say.
3XT, TO THB BAKE, OK THB BAMX BVBT.
This is that Maximua, the powerful friend of the eloquent Seneca, next in his affection to Garus, or more dear to him than SerenuB, and whom he Balutes with many a charmine letter. You, Oyidiua, in whose praise no tongue should be silent, followed him through the Sicilian wayes, setting at nought the wrath of a furious tyrant. Let antiquity ad-> mire her Fylades, who adhered to one exiled by his methods fury. Who could compare the dangers defied by the two Y You adhered to one exiled by Nero.
Sweet-speaking Seneca's great friend (whom bee More thjEm Serene, next Ouns, loyed) here see,
^ CcesoDius had been banished, probably, to Gorsica or s He had aoeompanied Seneca m his exile to Corsica.
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That Mazimnsy whoie frequent bappy naoM
Hie leam'd eputles xeoommend to rame.
Him thouy dmre Orid, didst so highly prise
As ragjiiig Nero's fury to despise.
And mm through stormy seas aooompany ;
Which £une shall speak to all poetenty.
Lett old times Pylaoes a wonder make.
Who stuek to 's friend banish'd for 's parents* sake:
Who will compare the dan^eis of these twoP You Nero's banish'd did stick dose unto.
Otd MS. \Gth (>mi.
XLtl. TO FBIBCITB.
While you are wishing to enhaxioe your present to me by yerses,^ Iriscos, and endeaTouring to speak more eloquentlj than the mouth of Homer ever ^»oke, you torture both me and yourself for many days, and still your muse says nothing about what concerns me. x ou may send poetry ana sounding yersea to the rich ; to poor men giye substantial presents.
I understand, to send me joa design
A present of fine yerees, with your wine.
Why will you crack your brain, and break my rest.
And make of me your idle Clio's jest P
Send rhymes to peers; to poor men send your treasure :
They may, I cannot, wait toe Muse's leisure. Say.
TLYLL, TO IJ0nrn7B BVBA, OK HIS BSCOyXBT TBOM
SIOKKBSS.
O LiciniuB Sura, most celebrated of learned men, whose eloquence, sayouring of antiquity, reminds us of our mighty ancestors, you are — (oh, by what kindness of the Fates f)--» restored to us ; sent back alter h^yins almost tasted the water of Lethe. Our prayers had lost their fear;' our sadness wept without relief; and it appeared from our tears that you were ^uite lost. But the riuer of the silent Ayemus feured our displeasure, and has himself restored to the Pates the dis- taff already snatched from their hands. Thus you know, then,
^ Prisctts delayed his presents tfll hii yerses should be ready to ac- company iu
' We no longer feared that yon would die, but considered it certain. How these venes should be tead, it is impoisible to settle satisfiu^toiilyi such is the yaiiatioa of oopias.
BOOK Til.] SnOBiiMt. 827
what lamentiftioiiB the fUbe report of your death caaaed anMMigst your fellow-creatares, and jon enjoy what will be said of yon hy posterity. Live aa though you were etolen from death, aod leiae fleeting joysy and thua your leoovered life wQl not hate lost a angle day.
O doctey leun'd as erer fill'd a ohair, Whoss doctrine 's primitiTe, and life is fidr i What SB amasing JProvidenee did saTe, And tins tsmU you from the opening grsTS ! We oessB to pray ; despairing we deplore ; Our tens burst out ; we crjr« '' He is no moie ! * Kind EDssTen relented ere it was too late, And sent an angel to retard your fate. Conseioas whst sorrow from this rumour came; Ton now inherit yovr own fiiture fkme. Lose not one day, that was so kindlv given : Employ each well, in gratitude to Heaven. JSoy.
XLTm. OK AKKIUS.
Annius baa some two hundred tables, and servants for every table. Dishes run hither and thither, and plates fly about. Such entertainments as these keep to yourselveSi y» pompous ; I am ill pleased with a supper that walks.
Annius two hundred tables has, I think. And for those tables boys to fill him drbik.
The platters fly. And chargers run about most fluently. Bich men, take to yourselves these feasts and stir i I csie not for your walking supper, sir. Hii^er
XLIX. TO BETXBU8.
I send you, Severus, the small oflerings of my suburban garden; eggs good for your throat, fruits to please your palate.
What hss my little garden for thee got P
Apples to please thee ; eggs to dear thy throat. Anon.
L. TO THB IOUVTA.TK OF LUTTRIS, STKLLA.*8 HISTBISS.
Fount of thy IGstress, queen of the spot in which lanthis de- lights, glory and delight of this splendid retreat, when thy bnnk is adorned with so many snow-white attendants, and thy waves reflect a troop of OanymedeS| what is the veneip»
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ated Alcide^ doing in the wood near thee P Why occupies the god a position so close to thee P Is it that he keeps watch over the amorous nymphs, whose manners he so well knows, to prevent so many Myiases from being carried off at onceP'
Imperial fountain, fair lanthia' joy,
Thou purest glory of th' enchanted spot ! When thy mild margin beams with many a boy,
And thy brisht wave beams back the beauteous knot : Why stands Alcides sacred iu the grove P
why forms the tutelar so close a fence P Is it to guard, lest many a nymph should rove ;
And so should ravish many a Hylas hence P
Elphituiom.
U. TO 1TBBICT7B.
If you are unwilling, Urbicus, to purchase my trifles, and yet desire to huve a knowledge of my sportive verses, go find Pompeius Auctus. Perhaps you know him ; he sits in the porch of the temple of Mars the Avenger. Though deeply imbued with law, and versed in the various usages of civn life, he is not only my reader, Urbicus, but my book itself. He so faithfully remembers and repeats his absent friend's compositions, that not a single letter of my pages is lost. In a word, if he had chosen, he might have maide himself appear the author; but he prefers to assist in spreading my reputation. You may apply to him after the tenth hour ' of tne day, for before that time he will not be sufficiently disengaged; his little dinner will accommodate two. He will read ; you may drink ; he will recite whether
ou like it or not : and after you have said " Hold, enough ! '*
e will still continue to recite.
If you desire my sportive books to know. Yet care not for them money to bestow, Fompeius Auctus (unknown) from me greet, In Mars Kevenger's temple mm you H meet ; Skill'd in all law and courts : on him I look^ Not as my reader, but my very book. Bv heart he has so perfect ev*ry line, Inat not a tittle can be lost that 's mine. So that the author he might claim to be. Did he not favour both my fame and me.
^ Oompare £p. 15. Four in the aAetoooiL
I
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Too maj yoonelf to him, at ten, mvite i Phmi liosiness he is never hee till night Hii little supper will admit of two. Hell read; to eat, is all you have to do : And when yon say, Enough, he 11 still go on ; Nay, tfaongn you Ve tired, he will not yet haye done.
j4non, 1096.
Ln. TO POICPSIUB AUCTUB.
I am delighted, Auctua, that you read my effarioxiB to Celer ; I mean, if Geler is also pleased with what yon read, fie has been goyemor of my countrymen and the Celtic Iberians, and neyer was purer integrity seen in our region. The profound reyerenoe I entertain for him fills me with awe ; and I regard his ears as those not of an auditor, but of a judge.
Reading my books to Celer pleases me,
If what tfaoti read'st to him as pleasing be.
Cer Spain, my natiye soil, he does preside ;
Such jusdce in that world did ne'er reside.
So great a man my rev'rence does excite ;
Not to a reader, but a judge, I write. Anon, 1695.
Lm. TO nCBEB.
You haye sent me as a present for the Saturnalia, Umber, eyerything which you haye received during the past five days ; twelve note-books of three tablets each, seven tooth-picks ; together with which came a sponge, a table-doth, a wine- cup, a half-bushel of beans, a basket of Picenian olives, and a black jar of Laletauian wine. There came also some small Syrian figs, some candied plums, and a heavy pot of fiffs from Libya. They were a present worth, I believe, scarcely thirty small coins altogether; and they were brought by eight tall Syrian akvea. How much more convenient would it have been for one slave to have brought me, as he might without trouble, five pounds' weight of silver !
The five days' presents which were given to thee In the Satumal feasts thou send'st to me. Twelve tiiree-foot tables, and seven tooth-pickers A sponge, a napkin, and a cup with ears. Two pedks of beans, of olives one small twig, A bottle of coarse Spanish wine to swig. Small Syrian figs with musty damains came, And a huge cau of Libyan figs o' th' same :
8dO MABTI^L'g
T^T ffifts were wortih aearoe fiye shUHngg in all, Wnicn to me aail'd on th j eight Syrians ttJL "With how mudh eaie might^at thon have sent, in ahorti Me fiTe pounda by thy Iwy, and ne*er sweat for 't.
FIHehar.
LIT. TO ITASIDIBiarB.
Every morning you leooont to me your idle dreaxui about myself, such as may move and alarm my mind. All my wme of last vintage has been exhausted to the dregs, and even that of the present is failing, while the wise woman is exorcising for me the effects of your nocturnal visions. I have consumed heaps of salted meal and mountains of frank- incense ; my flocks, by the frequent sacrifices of lambs, have altogether dwindled away. ISot a pig, not a fowl of the hencoop, not an en have I left. IBither lie awake, Nasi- dienus, or sleep anddream for yourself.
There 's not a mom that me thou doat not vex
With idle dreams, that may mv thoughts perplex :
Which while to expiate thou dost pretend,
The wine of two years' vintage to an end
Is bronght ; salt, meal, whole heapa of gnma are spent
And from my dwindling flocks my lambs are sent :
A pig, a hen, an egg, I cannot keep.
Wat^ with a pox, or at thine own charge sleep.
Afum, 1066.
LY. TO CHRESTUS.
NuUi munera, Chreste, si remittis, Nee nobis dederis, remiserisque ; Credam te satis esse liberolem. Sed si reddis Apicio, Lupoque, Et Ghdlo, Titioq[ue, Caesioque ; Linges non mihi (nam proba et pusilla est) Sed qusB de Solymis venit perustis, Damnatam modo mentulam tributis.
8e tn non rendi resali a veruno, o Cresto, nd tampoco ne farai e renderai a noi ; ti creaerd essere bastantemente liberale. Ma se tn ne rendi ad Apicio, a Lnno^ a Gallo, a Tiaio, ed a Cmio ; lambirai non la mia (imperoochd eila d mori^^enta e modesta) mentola, ma quella che venne dall' abbrociata Giudea condaimata al tributo.
Oraglia.
JOOJr 1U.'\ JBPI0BAHB. 8dJ
LTL TO &ABISI1TS, DOMITIAir'B ABOHITXCT.
Ton hire embraced the stars and the skies in your pious mind, Babirius ; such is the wondrous art with which you are erecting the Parrhasian ^ edifice. If Pisa still prepare to giro the Jupiter of Phidias a temple worthy of him, she should request of our Jupiter the aid of your skilful hand.
Babixius modell tooke from heaven to build Oar wondrous pallacey sure i hee is so ikill'd. For Phidian Joto a worthy fame to rears, Fka must begg him of our Thunderer.
Old MS. 16tt CM.
LTn. oir gabhtia.
Gkibinia has made Achilles a Castor out of a PoUnx ; he was Pyxagaihos, now he will be Hippodamus.*
LTm. TO eJLLLA.
Jam sex, aut septem nupsisti, Gkdla, cinaDdia :
Bum coma te nimium, pexaque barba jurat. Seinde experta latus, madidoque simillima lore
Inguina, nee lassa stare coacta manu, Deseris imbelles thalamos, mollemque maritum :
BursuB et in similes deddis usque toros. Qusre aliquem Curios semper Fabiosque loquentem,
Hirsutum, et dun rusticitate trucem. Invenies : sed habet tristis quoque turba cinsdos :
Difficile est, rero nubere, Galla, yiro.
O Galla, ta ti 8ei eiamaritataconseiosettecinediyintuitoQheuna beOa eapigliatura, m una forbita barba troppo ti piace. Ayendo poi qperimentato i fianchi e le Tirili somi^iantissime ad un caojo mate- rato, nd azzigere soUeticate a stanca mano, abbandoni gU impotent! talami, ed on fiaoco marito : e cU bel nuoTO caachi per tin in quelli tteHi takmL Cearca un qualche rissuto, ehe aempre parla dei Corj e dei Fabj, ed uno inferocito, par la dura maticita. Lo ritroTerat : ma la tazbaaerera ha anche i auoi oinedL £* difficile, o OaUa, man* tarsi oon un uomo compiuto.
' A pilaoe on the Palatine Mount, where Bvander the Arcadian, or Parrhaaian, aetUed.
* A jeat in allnaion to Hoxner'a Hdaropa 5' linr^^afiov coi riC iyoB^ UoXviiiaa (U. UL 237). Achillea waa a noted boxer (wH Jiy'^B^) ; Gabbita, hf endowing him with the fortune of a knight, may be fiusetionalj said to have made him IxrSSanop (a horse-tamer).
882 |CASTIAL*t
Lix. TO xinrs, ok oJBOiLiAjnrs.
Our friend Oflscilifliiiu, Titiu, does not sup without a whole wild-boar on his table. A pretty table-companion Ciecilianiui hasl
Without a boar CtBdliaii ne'er doth feast ;
Titus, OsBciHan hath a pretty guest. FlM^er:
Without oalTes* head the aldennan can t dine ; Well the companion cheers the dvic 'wine.
CyruB Eddding, N, M. Mag. toI. xxyI. 1829.
LX. TO JXTPITEB CAFITOLIKUB.
Venerable sovereign of the Tarpeian palace, whom we be- lieve to eziflt as Lord of the thunder, from the care which thou showest for the preservation of our prince, when every one im- portunes thee witii prayers, and implores thee to give what the gods alone can give, be not angry with me, O Jupiter, as though I were proud, because I ask thee nothing. It is my duty to supplicate thee for Domitian ; to supplicate Domi- tian for myself.
Great Gapitolian Jove, thou god, to whom
Our Caesar owes that bliss he sheds on Rome,
While prostrate crowds thy daily bountjr tire,
And all thy blessings for themselves desire,
Accuse me not of pride, that I alone
Put up no pra/r that can be call* d my own ;
For Cssar^ wants, O Jove, I sue to uiee ;
Cssar himself can grant whatfs fit for me. Aaron EUL
Ln. TO noMiTiAir.
The audacious shopkeeners had appropriated to them- selves the whole city, ana a man's own threshold was not his own. You, Gbrmanicus,' bade the narrow streets grow wide ; and what but just before was a pathway became a high- way. No column is now'girt at the bottom with chained win^ flagons ; nor is the Prstor compelled to walk in the midst of the mud. I^or, again, is the barber's razor drawn blindly in the middle of a crowd, nor does the smutty cookshop project over every street. The barber, the vintner, the cook, the butcher, keep their own places. The city is now Borne; recently it was a great shop.
> Domitlsii, who liked that title. B. t. £p. 2.
BOOK TIX.] SPieSlMt.
Pkesnmptaoiu tnden did all Borne pt No bounds did set to such thdr macTexceis : CSeiar the peetei'd ctreetB did open laj, Where only iras a path he made a way; Qroimd for their huts or Tessels none mi^ht hire, To came the Praetor tread o'er ehoes i' th' mire : And nwnes encouraged street arms to bcttr ; CSookSy oarbers, Tict^alloB, all restrained are : Ihy edicts, GBBsar, their encroachments stop | Bflone's Borne again ; 't was lately one great shop*
Anon, 1695.
Lxn. nr akillitb, impitbum.
Beduflis foribuB grandes pHerddiB, Amille, £t to deprendi, cum facia ista, cupifl ;
Ne ^d liberti narrent, servique paterni, Et niger obliqua gairulitate diena.
Non psdicari se qui teatatur, Amille, Illud Biepe facit, quod sine teste fiunt.
O AndUo^ tOy preddi coUe porte aperte, e brand esser sorpreeo qnando &i qaeste cose i non importanaoti che i liberti» ed i serri di ease dicano qoalche cosa, ed il diente ti tacda con qnalehe chiac- chiera. 0 Ajnillo, colui che testifica non esser pedicato, & soTrente dd» she h sena testimonio. OragUtu
LXm. OK BILI178 ITALI01T8.
Yon, who read the imperishable Yolumea of the ever^livinff SilioB and his yersea, worthy of the Boman toga, do you think that Pierian retreats, and iyy chapleta, like those of Bacdma binding the hair of the Aonian Virgins, alone gaye pleasure to the poet ? No ! he did not approach the mysteries of the lofty Virgil until he had acoompiished the course pursued by the great Cicero. The graye centumyiral court of the judges still remembers him with admiration; and many a dient speaks of him with grateful lips. After ruling with the twelye fasces the eyer-memorable year which was consecrated by the liberation of the world,^ he deyoted his remainins daya to the Muses and Phosbos, and now, instead of the ronim, ealtiyatea Hdicon.
Ton that read Silios' wozkes, whose great renowne Shin eyer liye, worthy the Latian gowne,
^ The year in which Kero pci shed.
3M XABTIAL*!
Thiok Tou the poef 8 was the only prayse
Pleased him, and crownes made of the Muses bayes ^
Hee to bee oompleat orator attavn'd,
Before the sacred buskin's £une nee gain'd.
Him yet the graTe oentumTiri admire.
Him grateful! clients pxayse, him yett denre.
His consulship once done» that yeare which free
Did sett the world from Nero's tytannie,
From business to the Muses he resorts,
And prizes Helicon instead of courts. Old MS. 16M Oml;
LZTT. TO CnflTAMUS.
You, CinnamoB, who were a barber well known orer all the city, and afterwards, by the kindness of your miB- tress, made a kni^ht» have taken refuge among the dtiea of Sicily and the regions of JStna, fleeing from the stem justicd of the forum, nj what art will you now, useleas log, euatain your years ? How is your unhappy and fleeting tranquillity to employ itself ? You cannot be a rhetorician, a grammarian, a school-master, a Cynic, or Stoic philosopher, nor can you sell your Toice to the people of Sicily, or your applause to theatres of Eome. All that remains for you, Ginnamul, is to become a barber again.
Thou wast s barber through the dty known,
Though by thy mistress raised to the gown
Of Knighmood TCinnamus) ; when thou shalt fly
The juo^ent or the court to Sicily,
What art shall then sustain thy useless ase P
How will thy fngitiTe rest foot the sta^ P
Thou canst not be grammarian, rhetorician,
Fencer, nor Cynic on any condition.
Nor yet a Stoic, nor canst sell thy tongue
Or thy applause in the Sicilian tmrong :
What then (my Cinnamus) doth yet remain P
Why thou must e*en turn shayer once again. FUkhtr,
LXT. TO OABOILIAITUB.
One suit carried through the three courts,^ Oargilianus, is wearing you out, now numbering, as you do, the colds of twenty winters since its commencement. Wretched, in* fatuated man I does any one continue at law for twenty years, GkurgiUanus, who has the option of losing his suit P
' Ths old Roman oooxt, that of Julius Csesar, and that of Augustus.
BOOK til] xnoBAMa. 885
For twice ten yean yoa to the hell i«fOit;
And now pursue your cauae in the third oourt.
Would any madman let a proceu last
For twen^ years, who sooner oonld be cast f Sity.
LXTT. OK LABtXKITB.
Fabina has left Labienua all hia property : Labienua aaya, Botwithatanding, that he deaerved more.^
Fabins left Labien heir to all his store ;
Yet Labien says that he desenred more. Fleleier,
LXYU. IK PHILJiKIlC TBIBADSH.
PflBdicat ^ueroa tribaa Philsnia, Et tentigine asevior mariti Undenaa Yorat in die puellaa. Harpaato quoque aubligata ludit, Et flaveacit haphe, graveaque draucia Halterea fiunli rotat lacerto, Et putri lutulenta de palfietra Uncti verbere vapulat magiatri. Neo coanat priua, aut recumbit ante Qum aeptem Tomuit meroa deunoea : Ad quoa &a aibi tone putat redire. Cum coliphia aedecim comedit. Poat fane omnia ; cum libidinatur, Non fellat ; putat hoc parum Tirile : Sed plane medias vorat puellaa. Di mentem tibi dent tuam Philnni : Cunnum lingere qua putaa yirile.
La tribade Filene pedica i rag^ri, e pin lilndinosa nella nnnigine die un maiito, strugge in un giomo ondici raguae. £ soracciata giuoea anche aU'aipasto, ed in^;ialisce pel tattodeUapolyere, agetta con robusto bracdo pelle di piombo pesanti agli irsuti, e stro&ata d'unffuento deUa putre palestra, ^ slenata ooua reiga del maestro ehe la ugne. Ne prima eena, o si mette a tayola, che non abbia Tomitato eette sestieri, al jual numero esse penaa potar &r litomo quando ha mansiato sedici oolifie. Dope tntte queste eose ; quando k presa dalla libidine : non fella : tied dd per jioeo masehife : ma tutta s'aTTenta al mesio deUo rdgaaie. iDei, o Filene, ti dieno un' inelinaiione a te conTeniente : tn che pensi esser maschile lingere un 0— DO. QragUa*
^ He saTS that he is not repaid for the presents which he made tii Fa- bins to induoe him to make him bis heir.
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836 KABTIiLL*!
LXVUL TO TSBTlLStlUB BTHTUS.
Be cautious, I prajr you, Inataatiufl BufoB, in commending the effuaionB of mj muse to your &ther-in-lAw ; perhaps he likes serious compositions. But should he welcome my sport- ive writiujgs, I may then yenture to read them even to Gurius and Fabricius.
My bookt to ■how thy &ther, friend, forbear;
Perhaps he only likes those serious are :
Mv wanton Terse, if they with him succeed,
I oare to Curias and Fabridus read. A$wn. 1695.
LXir. TO THX POBT OAITIVS, OV ▲ POBTRAIT OF THEOPHILA.
HIS BSTBOTHBD.
This is that Theophila, Canius, who is betrothed to you, and whose mind overflows with Attic learning. The Athe- nian garden of the great old man ^ miffht justly claim her for its own, and the Stoic sect would with equal pleasure call her theirs. Every work will live that you suomit to her judgment before publication, so far is her taste above that of her sex, and of the common herd. Your fiivourite Pan- tasnis, however well known to the Pierian choir, should not claim too much precedence of her. The amorous Sappho would have praised her verses ; Theophila is more chaste than Sappho, and Sappho had not more genius than Theophila.
This, Canius, iv that spouse of thine, from whose Wise breast Cecropian learning sweetely flowes : Her Epicurus^ gardens might have bread. Or Stoick schooles for schoUer challenged. 'Twill live whste'er her critick eares doth pass, So little vulgar, womanish, shee has. Let not Pantaenu too much before her. To th' Muses though well knowne, herself prefer. The amorous 8appho*s self her lines would prise ; This chaster is, and that was ne'er more wise.
Old MS. 16a Ceni.
£XZ. TO PHIUiinB.
Ipsamm tribadum tribaa Phiheni, Icecte, qoam futuis, voces amicam.
O FUene, tribade delle tribadi stesse, tu chiami con propxleti smicsy oolei ohe tu immembri. OrayUtL
Bpicuros.
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LZKI. OV ▲ OBBTAIV FAXTLT.
The wife is affected irithjieua ; tbe husband is affected the daughter, the Bou-in-law, and the grandson are alike af* fected. 19 or is the steward; or the &rm bailiff, free from the disgusting ulcer ; nor even the sturdy diggeror the plough- man. When thus young and old alike are affected with tnis disease, it is a marvellous circumstance that not a single plot of their land produces figs.^
LXXIT. TO PATTLTTS.
So may December be pleasine to jou, Paulus, and so maj there come to you neither valueless tablets, nor table-cloths too short, nor half-pounds of incense light in weight : but may some influential client, or powerful friend, bring you chareers or goblets that belonged to his ancestors, or whatever delists and fascinates you most ; so may you beat Novius and PublinB at chess, shutting up their glass men in their squares ; so may the impartial judgment of the well-oiled crowd of athletes award you the palm in the warm triangular game at ball, and not bestow greater praise on the left-handed strokes of Polybus : as, if any malignant person shall pronounce verses dripping with black venom to be mine, you lend your voice in my favour, and maintain, with all your miffht and witibout remission, "my friend Martial did not write Uiose.'*
So, Paulus, may December please,
Nor table-boolu nor toilets tease ;
Nor half-a-pound of incense vain
Thine approbation bum to gain :
But potent friend, or client schooi'd.
Present the plates and cups of gold :
Or, when thon aimest arener shsits.
So vanquish each adept at drafts :
Of naked fives the manly meed
Be thine, so by the judge decreed i
That nota dexf rons left that day,
Bear from thy right a ball away:
As thon, if wight shall dare to esU
The libel mine, embaned in gall,
Shalt, with commanding voice, declare :
** My Martial's pen was never thne." Slpkiukm,
' An untranslatable jeii whicL may be partly understood bv refercaos to B. L Ep. 66.
88B VABTIAL't
LXYTTT. TO KAXllCirS.
Yon bare a mansion on. the Esqailine hill, and a mansion on the hill of Diana ; and another rears its head in the Pa- tricians' quarter.^ From one of your dwellings you behold the temptd of the widowed Gybele,' from another that of Vesta; irom others jou look on the old and the new GapitoL Toll me where I may meet you ; tell me where- abouts I am to look for you : a man who lives everywhere^ Maximus, lives nowhere.
Thou hast a house on the Aventine hill. Another where Diana's worshipped still. In the Patrician street more of them stand, Hence thou beholdst within thine eyes, command The widdowed Cybelk, thence Vesta with all, There either Jove earth'd in the CapitoL Where shali I meet thee ? tell, where wilt appear P He dwells just nowhere, that dwells everywhere.
Fleicier.
LXXIT. TO KEBCUBT; A. PBATIB FOB CABPITS AUD KOB-
BAITA.
0 glory of Gyllene and of the skies, eloquent minister of Jove, whose golden wand is wreathed with twisted snakes, so may an opportunity for some fond intrigue never fail thee, whether tne Paphian goddess, or Granymede, be the object of thy affection ; and so may thy mother's Ides be adorned with sacred garlands, and thy old grandfather be pressed with but a light burden, as Norbana shall ever joyf ulfy keep with her husband Garpus the anniversary of this day on which they first came together in wedlock. He, as thy pious vo- tary, consecrates his gifts to wisdom ; he invokes tnee with incense, but is fiuthfiu at the same time to our Jove.' '
Cyllene's glory and Olympus' crown.
Melodious nuniater of men and gods! Whose solden wand, bright emblem of renown,
With blooming dragons still connubial nods.
^ The part allotted to the Patricians by Serrius TuUlus, act iar from the Baquiline hiU. ' So called from hairing lost Atys, for whom she mourned. * Faithful to Domiliu, as thou art to Jupiter.
BOOK ni.] SPIGBAXB. d89
So tbee no surmtitioiis fountain fail, Whether the Paphian or the nymph endear t
So verdant still thy parenfi Idea prerail, Nor e'er thy granaaire*a load beoome 8eTer&
Still, with Norhana Carpus hail the day.
This day, that ratified the holy hands. He wisdom's rites her pious priest shall pay :
Thine incense he, wiiile true to JoTe he standa.
LXZY. or AKUK DirOBMEK.
Via futui gratis, cum sia deformia, anusque. Bee perricucula est : via dare, nee dare via.
Ta Tuoi esser immembrata gratis, essendo ta deforme e veochia. ET una eosa fuor di modo ridicola: vuoi dare, e non TUoi dare.
LxxvT. TO PHiLoinraua, ▲ Burrooir.
rhough the great hurry you off to their banaueta, sod walki in the porticoea, and to the theatres ; and though they are delighted, whenever you meet them, to make you share their littm, and to bathe with you, do not be too vain of such attentions. Tou entertain them, Philomusus ; yon are not an object of their regard.
When dukes in town ask thee to dine,
To rule their roast, and smack their wine.
Or take thee to their oountry-4ea^
To make their dogs, and bless their meat.
Ah ! dream not on preferment soon :
Thou 'rt not their mend, but their buffoon. Hoadley.
All the great men take you away
To dinner, coffee-house, or play.
Nor happier are, than when you chance
To hunt with them, or take a dance.
Yet do not pride yourself too soon :
You 're not a Mend, bat a buffoon. Hoj^.
LZSVU. TO TUCCA.
You importune me, Tuoca, to present you with my booka I shall not do so ; for you want to sell, not to read them.
Tucca moat earnestly doth look I should present him with my book : But that! mil not ; for 1 smell BIy book he will not read, but sell /Miarv
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8iO HABTIAIi*8
LXXYm. TO PAPILT78, A KAK ITTGOABDLT An
OBTEITTATIOTJS.
While upon your own table is placed only the tail of a poor Sazetan fish,' and, when you dine luxuriously, <»bbajZ8 drenched with oil ; you make presents of sow's udders, wud boar, hare, mushrooms, oysters, mullets. You have neither sense, Papilus, nor taste.
For thyself if the tul of a pilchard thou broil, And on festhrala swill a bean-soup without oil; Teat, boar, hare, shampinions, and oysters, and mullet, Thou bestow'st : my poor Pap has nor palate norjnillet
£lpki9Utan,
riTTTT, TO BBBTEBXTB, OK DUTSKXSe^ NEW WINE.
I have just drunk some consular wine. You ask how old and how eoieroas P It was bottled in the consul's own year ; and he who gare it me, Severus, was that consul himself.
Some consular wine late I dzank ;
Ton ask how insenuous and old ? Hie consul himself gave it rank :
My treater the consul, I 'm told. E^inston,
T.TTT. TO F AUSTIN UB.
Inasmuch, as Bome now leaves in peace the Gretic dimei and the hoarse clarions are hushed, you will be able, Eausti- nus, to send this book to MarcelHnus: now he has leisure for books and for amusement. And if you wish to enhance your friend's trifling present, let a young slave carry my verses; not such a one as, fed with the milk of a Getic heifer, plays wiUi Sarmatian hoop upon frozen rivers, but a rosy youth, bought of a Mitylenean dealer, or one from Laoe- da^mon not yet whipped by his mother's order. My messenger to you will oe a slave from the subdued Danube^ only fit to tend sheep at Tivoli.
Now Bmnan peace becalms th' Odrysian shore,
Where the ihrill trumpet* svoice is heard no more,
To MarodOine my lay, dear Faustin, send ;
An ear to jocund lays the youth may lend.
Yet, fully to ensure my muse's care,
The humble boon a modest stripling be^r :
^ SoiM small Ak from Betica in Spato.
BOOK Til.] SFI0B1MS. Ml
Not he, whoie oheek the Gelio beite djai f
Who^ on the ioOy his hoop Saimatie plies ;
But one of Mitylene^s rosy breed ;
Or Spartan, by his mother doom'd to bleed.
Frcm hauffhty Ister^s now obseanioos rodu,
A cab shaU crawl to tend thy Tibur's flocks. ^MuUm,
LXZXI. TO LAUBTTB.
In this whole book^bere are thirty bad epigranui; if there aie aa many good ones, LausuB, the book is good.
Thou thirty epigrams dost note for bad :
Call my book good if thirty good it had. .iaoe. 168S.
LTTXn. DM HSKOPHILO TZBPA.
Menophili penem tam grandiB fibula Testit^
Ct ait oomoDdifl omnibuB una BatiB. Hunc e^o credideram (nam ssBpe laTamur in unum)
SoUicitum Toci parcere, Flacoe, bu» : Dum ludit media populo spectante palsstray
Delapsa est misero fibula ; yerpua erat.
Una si gpran fibula cojne il membro di Menofilo, che sola bestereb- be a tutti i oommediantL Io» o Flacoo, ayero mduto (imperooche si siamo soyyente lavati assieme) che esso soUeeitoayesse curadeUa sua yoce : lotta in mezso la palestra a yiita del popolo, la fibula cased aUo syentorato ; era un' inciso. Oraglut,
LTTITTT. OK LUPIBOUB.
Whilst the barber Eutrapelua is going the round of Luper- cub's face, and carefullj smoothing his eheeks, another beard springs up.
While that the barber went to trim^
And ahaye Lupercoa^ chops and chin.
He was so tedious on the fitce.
Another beard grew in the place. Fkieker.
Eutrapelos, the barber, works so slow.
That while he shayes, tbe beard anew does grow.
ufsM. 169A.
While good master Temple but drawls o'er your &oe, Anothn* bend rises, and steps in its place.
IU9. Mr. Seats,
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UCZXIT. TO HIB BOOK.
While inj portnit is being takenfor 08Bciliu8SecaDduB,'aDO the piotuie, painted by a skiuiil hand, seems to breathe, go, my book, to the Qetic Peuoe ' and the submissive Danube ; this is his post, amonff the conquered people. You will be a litUc gift to my dear firiend, but acceptable : my countenance will be more truly read in my Terse than in the picture. Here it will live, indestructible by accidents or lapse of years, when the work of Apelles shall be no more.
While my Cowulius to the world would leaye
My pictare; and the rare piece seems to breathe ;
My Dook, to Pence and stul Ister go.
Held by Secundus from the conquer'd foe.
To him a small, but pleaauig, gift Uioult be^
And in my vene, my perfect faoe he 'U see :
Which neither chanoe nor pow'r of time can rase,
Ev'n when Apelles' works they shall deihoe. jioit* 100&.
LXXXT. TO 8ABEIJ1IT8.
For sometimes writing quatrains which are not devoid of humour, Sabellus, and for composing a few distichs prettily, I commend you ; but I am not astonished at you. It is easy to write a few epigrams prettily ; but to write a book of them is difficult.
That some tetrasticks not amiss you writer
Or some few disticks prettyly indite,
I like, but not admire. With small paynes tooke
An epigram is writt ; bat not a booke. (Xd MS. lOOdw
IiXZXn. TO SEXTUS.
I used to be invited to your birth-day feasts, before I had become your intimate friend, Sextus. How has it come to pass, I aak, how has it so suddenly come to pass, that, after so many pledges of affection on my part, and atter the lapse of so many years, I, old friend as I am, am not included in your invitations. But I know the reason ; I have not sent you a
5ound of refined silver, or a fine toga, or a warm cloak, 'he sportula which is made a matter S[ traffic, ia a sportula no longer.* You feed presents, Sextus^ and not Mends. But
^ Pliny the youn^.
' An island at the month of the Danube. Pliny was prceoosol d Pontos and Bithynia. * You hate given only thai yon might feceiv*.
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you will now tell me, " 1 will pmuBh the flkre iimitting to doliTer my invitatioiifl."
When hat a stranger, to thy hirth-dey feaet I erer, Seztiu, was a constant gnest What 'sfidlen out P What did toy anger moTe, After so many years and prooft of lote^ That I, thy ancient friend, am passed by P But I myself can tell the reason why. I sent no plate, no gift to thee I maoe ; For thou call'st that a treat, in truth 's a trade ; Profit then seek'st ; thou seek*st not, Sextus, friends. ** My man forgot," thou say'st, ** his stripes shall make amende. **
Jmm. 169d.
iixxxm. TO na.ooTTa, ok me owk lots fob i^lbtoas.
If my friend Flaccus delighte in a long-eared lagolopez ; ' if Caoiufl likes a sad-coloured iBthiopian ; if Publius is pas- sionately fond of a little puppy ; if donius lovea an ape re- aemblmg himaelf ; if a miachievoua ichneumon forme the
Cktification of Mariua ; if a talkati^^ magpie pleases yon, usus ; if Qlaucilla twines an ic^ snike rouna her neck ; if Telesina has bestowed a tomb on a nightingale ; why should not the fiioe of Labycas, worthy of Cupid himself, be an object of love to him who sees that things so strange furnish pleasure to his betters ?
If Flaoens in an homed owl delight,
And CaniQs in an Ethiope, black as night;
If Publius much a little bitch does love,
And Gronius does an ape no less approve ;
If Marius a Tile Indian mouse affects,
J£, La usus, thou a pratling pye respect^st ;
Glacilla wreaths about her neck a snake.
Another for her bird a tomb does make ;
Why may not I admire a loyely ftce.
When monsters, like to these, the others grace P
Jmom. 1695.
LXULViAL TO LAITSVS OK HIS WOBKS.
It is reported (if &me says true) that the beautiful town of Vienna counts the perusal of my works among its pleasures. I am read there by every old man, everv youth, and every boy, and by the chaste young matron in presence of her
1 Some bird of the owl kind, with ears ratembling those of a fox.
MA xabtial'ii
grave huBband. This triumph affords me more i leasore than if my verses were recited oj those who drink the Nile at its veiT source, or than if my own Tagus loaded me with Spanish sold, or Hybla and Hymettus fed my bees. I am then reaSy somethmg, and not deceived by the interested smoothness of flattery^s tongue. I shall henceforth, I think, believe you, Laosus,^
Yieona fidr delights to con my lays :
Nor can we doubt what honest rumour says.
There sm I read by ancient, youth, and boy ;
By the chaste dame, before her jealous joy.
This gjives the Khone and me more rapid course.
Than if they quafi'd who c^uaff the Nihan source ;
Than if my Tasus pour*d his golden bed.
My bees if Hybla or Hymettus fed.
Some little then are we ; nor us deceive
The powVs of nong : thee, Lausus, I 'U believe. Anon.
LTTTTX. TO A CHAPLBT OP BOSSS.
Gk>, lunpy rose, and wreathe with a delicate chaplei the tresses ofmy ApoUinaris. Bemember, also, to wreathe them even after they are grown grey, but far distant be that time I So may Yenus ever love thee.
Go, happy rose, and claim thy share,
To wreathe ApoUinaris^ hair.
Oh I feel it late the snowy shower :
So be thou still fair Venus' flower. Elphintion,
XO. TO CBETICUS.
Matho exults that I have produced a book full of inequal- ities; if this be true, Matho only commends my verses. Books without inequalities are produced by Calvinus and (Jmber. A book that is all bad, Creticus, may be all equality.
Matho objects, my books unequal are ; K he says true, he praises ere aware. Calvin and Umber write an equal strain : Naught is the book that 's free from heights, and plain.
Anon, 1695.
XOI. TO JUTENAL.
I send you, eloquent Juvenal, some nuts from my little
^ I shall beliovn tluu there are as many good epigrams in my books as bad ones. See £p. 81.
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iann ai apresent for the Saturnalia. The libertine god who protects it, has givein the rest of the finiita to amorous young ladies.
Old Saturn presents, to the lord of the lay. Some filberts to toss, and to eraok with his jokes.
The gay fod of gardens gSTe all else away Last night in a treat to the maids of the oalu.
Blphimtonm
XCn. TO BAOCABA.
** If you want anything, you know it is not necessary to solicit my assistance," is what you tell me two or three timeji every day. The stem Secundus calls upon me with harsh voice to repay him. You hear, Baccara, but do not know what I want. My rent is demanded of me, loudly and openly, in your very presence : you hear. Baccara, but do not know* what I want. I complain of my worn-out cloak, that will not protect me from the cold : you hear, Baccara, but do not know what I want. I will tell you then what I want ; it is that you may become dumb by a sudden stroke of paralysis, and so be unable to talk to me of what I want.
If need thou hast, thou need'st not me intreat, Baocar, these words thou often dost repeat My creditor's rsge thou in his look dost read ; Thou seest, but know'st not, Baocar, what I need. My rent, thou by, is call*d for in with speed ; Thou hear*st, but know'st not, Baocar, what I need. I shiver in a tatter'd thread-bare weed ; Thou seest, yet know'st not, Baooar, what I need. I need, that thou wert planet-struck with speed, No more that thou may*st say. What dost thou need P
Awm, 1695.
XOIU. TO THB TOWK OT KABKIA, WHBBB QimiTlTS
oyinius WAS bbsidiko.
29'amia, surrounded by the river Nar ^ with its sulphureoua waters, thou whom thy double heights render almost in- accessible, why dees it delight thee so often to take from me, and detain with wearisome delay, my friend Quintus ? Why dost thou lessen the attractions of my Nomentan farm, which was valued by me because he- was my neighbour there t
> The rirer Kar, now Negra.
846 XABTIAL*t
Have pity on *3e at length, Namia, and abuse not thy poB aeasion of Qiuntus: so mayest thoa enjoj thy bridi(e foi ever !
0 Namiay droled by Bulphoreoiu rill, That deiffn'st access but by thy double hill ; Why call my Quintus, ah! so oft away P Tet, need I ask P or, why prolong his stay P
Why sink the Talue of Xomentom^s land, Which once was doubled by the social band P Release my friend, nor lengthen my annoy : So may'st thou still thy peerless bridge enjoy.
ZOIT. OK PAPIL1TB.
What the small onyx box contained was perfume ; Papilos smelt it^ and it is become a mass of corruption.
Sweet ointment once was in that onyx-stone : Yon smelt, and, see, 't is putre£sotion grown.
Wright. XOT. TO uirus.
It is winter, and rude December is stiff with icej yet you dare, Linus, to stop every one who meets rou, on rais side and on that^ with your freezing kiss, and to kiss, indeed, the whole of Some. What could you do more severe or more cruel, if you were assaulted and beaten ? I would not have a wife kiss me iu such cold as this, or the affectionate lips of an innocent daughter. But you are more polite, more refined, you, from whose dog-like nose depends a livid icicle, and whose beard is as stiff as that of a Cinyphian he-goat,^ which the Gilician barber clips with shears. I prefer meeting a hundred of the vilest characters, and I have less fear of a recently consecrated priest of Gybele. I^ therefore, Liuus, you have any sense or decency, defer, I pray you, your wint» salutations till the month of April.
*T is winter, and December's horrid cold Makes all things stark \ yet, Linus, thou la/st hold On all thou meetfst ; none can thy clutches miss \ But with thy frozen mouth all Rome dost kiss. What eould'st more spightful do, or more severoy Had'st thou a blow o' th' &ce, or box o' th' ear P My wife^ this time, to kiss me does forbear, My daughter too, however debonaire.
^ On the river Cinyps in Africa.
BOOK Tn.'J anemiici. 347
But thou more trim and sweeter art No doubt,
Th' idclesy hanging at tfaj dog^like snout.
The oongeal'd sniyel dangling on thy bewd,
Ranker than th' oldest goat of all the herd.
The nas^st month i' th' town 1 'd rather greet.
Than witn thv flowing firoaen nostrils meet.
If therefore thou hast either shame or sense,
mi April comes no kisses more dispense. Anon, 1605
ZOTI. SPITAPH 07 T7BBI0TIB.
Here I, the child Urbicua, to whom the mighty city of Borne ga^e both birth and name, repose; an object of moumii^ to BaaauB. Six montha were wanting to complete my thira year, when the stem goddesses broke my fatal thread. What did my beaaty, my |>rattle, my tender yean avail me P Thoa who readeat the inscription before thee, drop a tear upon my tomb. So may he, whom thou shalt desire to survive thyself, be preserved from the waters of Lethe till he has reached an age greater than that of Nestor.
My parents' grief I here lie in this tomb,
Who had myt>irth and name from mighty Rome :
Six months I wanted of three years to me,
When my life's thread was cut by destiny.
What grace shall age, or tongue, or beauty have P
Thou mat r^'st this, shed some tears on my grave.
So he that then wouldst have thyself survive,
Shidl longer than decrepit Nestor live. Fletchtr.
XCVn. TO HIS BOOK.
Ij^ my book, you are well acquainted with Gaesius Sa- binus, the glory of the mountainous Umbria, the fellow- townsman of my iiiend Aulas Pudens, you will present these lines to him, even though he be engaged. Thoueh a thou- sand cares may besiege and press upon him, he will still have leisure for my verses; for he loves me, and will read me next to the noble compositions of Tumus.^ Oh, what renown is in store for me ! what glory 1 what nxunbers of ad- mirers 1 You will be celebrated at feasts, at the bar, in the temples, the streets, the porticoes, the shops. You are sent to one, but you will be read by all.
If, book, GflBsius Sabinus (the renown Of hiUy Umbria, and of the town
> A writer of satires. S«e B. zL Ep. li.
94S HlBTIALm
Of my Mend Aultu PudensV thon dost know. Howe*er employ'd, jet boldly to him fo ; Though many urgent cares oppress his mind, A Taeant time to read thee> he will find. For me he loyes ; and deigns my verse the graee^ Next Tomus' noble works to hold the place. O, what great trophies are for thee prepared ! What num*rous mends ! what glories to be shared ! There's not a mart, in which thou 'It not be found, A feast, a street, but will with thee resound ; The baths, the porticoes, ev'n ev'ry stall : To one thou 'rt sent, but wilt be read by alL
Anon, 1695.
ICnil. TO CA8T0B.
lou buy every thing. Castor ; the consequence will be, that jfm will sell eyerything.
Tou purchase everything, which makes it plain That everything you soon will sell again. Say.
If for mere wantonness you buy so fast,
For very want you must sell all at last BouqueL
Why, Tom, you purchase everything ! 't is well :
Who can deny you *11 have the more to sell P Hodg9on.
XCEC. TO CEISPINTrS.*
So, Grispinns, may you always see the Thunderer's ' face, looking serene, and so may Bome love you not less than your own Memphis, as my verses shall be read in the Parrhasian
Salace;* (for the sacred ear of CsBsar usually deigns to sten to them). Take courage to say of me, as a candid reader, ^ This poet adds something to the glory of thy age, nor is he very much inferior to Marsus and the learned Ca- tullus." That is sufficient; the rest I leave to the god himself.
May*8t thou the prince still gracious to thee find,
And Rome, no less than £gyi)t, ever kind ;
If, when in court, my verses thou dost hear
(For sometimes Cesar deigns to them an ear),
Thou me afibrd'st this free and candid praise,
This man's a fflory, Ciesar, to thy daA-s,
Yields not to Marsus, Pedo, or the best
This is enough ; to Cssar leave the rest Anon, 1695.
< The same, aajs Raderus, that is mentioned by Juvenal, Sat I. and V9 * DomiUan's. < On the Palatine hUl. See Ep. &&
BOOK Tza.] mssuu. 349
BOOK VIII.
TALBBIITB HJLBTIALTB TO THB EKPIBOB DOMITIAKDB, CJESjLB jLUeUBTUB, OXBHAinCITB, BjLOIOTTB, OBXXTIKO.
All my bookB, Sire, to which yoa have ffiren renown, that ia, life, are dedicated to yoa ; and will for that reason, I doubt not, be read. This, however, which is the eighth of mj col- lection, has furnished more frequent opportunities of show- ing m J dcTotion to you. I had consequently less occasion to proauce from my own inyention, for the matter supplied the place of thought ; yet I have occasionally attempted to produce Tariety by the admixture of a little pleasantry, tliat erery verse might not inflict on your divine modesty praises more likely to .fittigue you than to satisfy me. And though epigrams, addiessea even to the gravest persons and to those of the highest rank, are usually written in such a manner that they seem to assume a theatrical licence of speech, I have nevertheless not permitted these to speak with any such freedom. Since, too, the larger and better part of the book is devoted to the majesty of your sacred name, it has to re- member that it ought not to approach the temples of gods without religious purification. That mj readers also may know that I consider myself bound by this obligation, I have determined to make a declaration to that effect at the com- mencement of the book in a short epigram :
I. TO HIS ^00%,
My book, as you are about to enter the laurel-wreathed palace of the lord of the world, learn to speak with modesty, and in a reverent tone. Setire, unblushinff Venus; this book is not for thee. Come thou to me, Palhs, thou whdm Cssar adores.
To th' uiince't laurell*d court, seeing thonVt to go, Leant, oook, a chaste and modest speech to know. No place is Idft for wanton Venns there; Pallas, CsBiiarean Pallas, rule does bear. Anon. 1699.
850 JIASTIAL*S
n. TO JAirrs.
Janiu, the autbor and parent of our annala, when he r» cently b^eld the conqueror of the Danube, thought it not enough to hare BeY&nl &ceA^^ and wiflbed that he had more eyes ; then, speakinff at once with his different tongnee, he pronuaed the lord of earth and diyinity of the empire an old age four times as long aa that of Nestor. We pray thee, father iTanuBy that thou wouldst giro the promised term in addition to thine own immortality.'
When Janus, lord of times, beheld of late Th' impmal Tictor in triumphant state, Though &ces he bad two, he thought them few, And wish'd that yet more eyes he had to view. T^th both his tongues he said unto our lord, Nestor's four ages i 11 to thee afford.
O father Janus ! thine own also give. That he not long, but may for ever, live. Anm, 1686.
in. TO HIS MUBX.
** Fire books had been enough ; six or seven are surely too numy : why, Muse, do you delight still to sport on P Be mod- est and make an end. Fame can now give me nothing more: my book is in every hand. And when the stone sepulchre of Messala^ shall &e ruined by time, and the vast marble tomb of LicinuB^ shall be reduced to dust, I shall still be read, and many a stranger will cany my verses with him to his ancestral home." Thus had I concluded, when the ninth* of the sisters, her hair and dress streaming with per fumes, made this repl^: Canst thou then, ungrateful, lay aside thy pleasant tnfling p Canst thou employ thy leisure, tell me, in any better way P Dost thou wish to relinqnish my sock for the tragic buskin, or to thunder of savage wars in heroic verse, that the pompous pedant may read thee with hoarse voice to his class, and that the nown-up maiden and ingenuous youth may detest theeP Let such poems be written by those who are most grave and singularly severe, whose wretched toilings the lamp witnesses at mid- night. But do thou season books for the Uomans with racy
> ianof is generally represented with two faces ; but sometimes with four, answsring to the four seasons. > Immortality.
* The orator, Messala Gorrinos. B. z. Ep. % ^ k rich freed-man of Augustas. Pernua^ Sat IL * Tlialia.
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salt ; in thee let human nature read and recognise ita own manners. Although thou mayst seem to be playing on but a Blender reed, that reed will be better heard than the trum- pets of many.
FiTe had sufficed; six books or seren do doy.
Why dost as yet delight, my mnse, to toy P
Qive o'er, for shame : Fame has not more to grace
My verse, the business made in ev'ry place.
And when proud tombs, in which for mme men trust
O'erthrown and broken lie reduced to dust,
I shall be read, stranffers will make *t their care,
Unto their sev'ral soiIb my works to bear.
She of the sacred nine (when I had spoke\ Whose locks with odours drop, thus silence oroke:
And wilt thou then thy pleasant Terse forsake? What better choice, ungrateful, canst thou make P Exchange tfiy mirthfiil for a tragic rein ; Thunder harsh wars in an heroic strain ; Which strutting pedants, till they're hoarse, may ranti While the ripe youth detest to hear the cant : Let the o'er-sour and dull that way deHsfat, Whose lamps at midnight see the wretcmes write. But season thou thy lines with sharpest wit, That all may read their vices smartly hit Altho^ thou seem'st to plsy but on a reed. Thy slender pipe the trumpet does exceed. Anon. 1696.
IT. TO noxiTiAK.
What ft world of people, ye sods, is ooUected at the Boman altars, offering up prayer and vows for its ruler! These^ Oermanicus, are not the joya of men only ; it aeema to me that the goda themselves are celebrating a festival.
At Latian altars see conglob'd mankind. Joint vows and lo's for its lord to pay.
Such joys to man alone were ne'er assisn'd : The gods themselves do sacriflce to-day.
Blphmiicm.
y. TO UJLCKR.
Yon have given so many rings to young ladies, Maoer, that you have none left for yourself.^
* ' Ton are deprived of yoiur equestrian ring and dignity, for which yoiu htUuM hss reaaed to be sufficient
352 ]CABTIA.L*B
Yon giVe bo many girls a ring, • That you younelf haye no audi thing. JJoy.
TI. OK E1TOTT78.
There is nothing more hateful than the antique vases of old EuctuB. I prefer cups made of Saguntine clay. When the garrulous old man boasts the pedigrees of his smoky silver vessels, he makes even the wine seem musty with his talk. " These cups belonged to the table of Laomedon ; to obtain which Apollo rais^ the walls of Troy by the sound of his lyre. With this goblet fierce Bhoecus rushed to battle with the LapithiB; you see that the work has suffered in the struggle. This double vase is celebrated for having belonged to the aged Nestor ; the doves upon it have been worn bright by the thumb of the hero of Pylos. This is the tankard in which Achilles ordered wine to be pre- pared for his friends with more than ordinary copiousness and strength, la this bowl the beauteous Dido drank the health of Bitias, at the entertainment given to the Phrygian hero." When you have done admiring all these trophies of ancient art, you will have to drink Astyanax in the cups of Priam.^
In leathern jack to drink much less I hate,
Than in Sir William's antique set of plate.
He tells the gasconading pedigree,
Till the wine turns insipid too as he.
M This tombler, in the world the oldest toy,**
Says he, *' was brought by Brute himself mm Troy.
Tluit handled cup, and which is larger far,
A present to my father from the Czar :
See how 't is bruis'd, and the work broken off;
*T was when he flung it at Prince Menriko£
llie other with the cover, which is less,
Was once the property of good Queen Bass :
In it she pledg d duke d'Alen9on, then gave it
To Drake, my wife's sreat uncle : so we have it.
The bowl, the tankara, flagon, and the beaker.
Were my grc»it-grand&th&s, when he was Speaker."
What pity^t is, Siat plate so old and fine
Should correspond no better with the wine. i/oy.
I You will hare to drink new wine oul ol old cups.
BOOK Tm.] ineBAXi. 868
TIT. TO OUWA.
Xb this pleading caiuee, CSniia P Ib this speakixig eloaiienily, to ahj nine words in ten hours P Just now you adcea with a loud Toioe for four more elep^drs.^ What a long time yon take to say nothing, Cinnal
Gnns, la this to plesdP and wiaelr aay Only nine woida in ten houxi of the diyP But with a mighty Toioe thou orav'at for thee The hoor-g^aaa twioe two tzmea rereraed to be : CSnnSy how great 'a thy tadtumityl Fleiehtr.
Tin. TO JAMTJB, OH BOlflTIAir's BXTUBIT IK JAinjABT
Altboufifa, Janus, thou nyest birth to the swiftly-rolling years, and reeallest with thy presence oenturies lon^ past; and although thou art tiie fiiit to be celebrated with pious in- cense, saluted with tows, and adorned with the auspidoua purple and with erery honour; yet thou nreferrest the glory, which haa just befJEdlien our g%, of behcuding its god return in thy own month. '
Dread guardian of the infrnt year.
That opeoa, bat in act to fly i Who bidd'flt ua atiU the laat xerere^
And keep it in reflexiye eye :
Thonf^ thee the primal inoenae hail. Though thee invoke the early vow i
Glad purple ha thee with her gale, To thee each honour awful bow :
It more bespoke thy graaoua nod, Aa bleaaing more the Latian town,
To see thy month bring back a god. Who eould the wiah of nationa crown.
IX. TO QUIHTUS.
Hylas, the blear^yed, lately offered to pay you three quar- ters of his debt; now that he has lost one eye he offers you half Hasten to take it; the opportunity for getting it may soon pass, for if Hylas should become blind, he will pay you notiiing.
Niiie ounces bleared Hjlaa would have paid i Now duak he tenden half thy debt delay'd :
s Sea B. ri. Bp. aa. Sa
8M xastial'b
Take liis next offer : gain's occanon 's short : If he nrove Uind, thou ^t haTa nothing fort
Z. OK BAS81T8.
BaasuB haa bought a doak for ten thoiiaand aeatercea; a Tyrian one of the yery beet colour. He haa made a gqod bar- gain« ''la it then," you aak, ''ao yeiy cheap F " Yea; for he will not pay for it.
His lordship boasht his last gay birth-day drees^ And gay it was, K>r fourscore pound, or less. Is he so ffood at buying cheap P yon say — Extreme^ good : for he does nerer pay. JSSity.
Gay fiassus for ten thousand bought
A Tyrian robe of rich array. And was a gainer. HowP fie taught:
The pm£nt Bassus did not pay.
TTMCmtfiator Jcmmw, Apr. 1853.
ZI. TO DOMITIAir.
The Shine now knowa that you haye aniyed in your own city ; for he too bean the acclamationa of your people. Eyen the Sarmatian tribea, and the Danube, and the Oetn, haye been atartled by the loudneaa of our recent eznltationa. While the prolongea ezpreaaiona of joy in the aacred cncua greeted you, no one perceiyed that the horaea had started and run four times. No ruler, CsBaar, haa Borne eyer so loyed before, and she could not loye you more, eyen "wore ahe to deaire it.
That Cesai's come to Borne the Bhine does know, So &r, so &st, the people's yoices go ; Their iterated shouts tne Scythians fiiffht, All nations, whom their joy does not delight. While in the cirque their ^dye's welcome thee, The races they r^rard not, though they see. No prince, thyself was e'er so loVd bttbre ; Bome, if she would, she could not loye thee more.
Anm. 1095.
XII. TO PBiscirs.
Doyouask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wifbP It ia becauae I am unwilling to beti^entohuabandby mywife. The miatreea of the house ahould be aubordinate to h^ bus*
BOOK Tin.]. BFIOSAXI. 855
InumI, for in no other way, FriBcnB, will the wife and hosband be on an equality.
Dost ask why I'd not parry a rich wife P
I 'U not be nibjeet in that double strife.
Let matrons to thieir heads inferior boi
Else man and wife have no equality. FJeMit»
Why a rich bride I would not choose
To lead home, do yon ask P Why tmly an nzorioas noose
Is no such pleasant taskl
Oh, Edward, let the husband be
Superior to the wife. As otherwise they'll disame
And Hye in endless stme. Bsv, Mr, SooUf 1773.
xm. TO eAsonjAinrB.
I boogbt what yon called a fool for twenty thousand eee- laercet. Betum me my money, Ghirgilianus ; he is no fool av alL
I bought him 'cause you said a fool he'd bee : Pay back my money s hee's too wise for mee.
OldM&ieOkCM.
ZIY. TO jL FBIXHn.
That your tender Cilician firuit trees may not suffer from frosty and that too keen a blast may not nip your young plants, class frame-works, opposed to the wint^ south winds, admit tne sunshine and pure light of day without an;^ detri- mental admixture. But to me a cell is assigned with un- glazed windows, in which not even Boreas himself would nke to dwell. Is it thus, cruel man, that you would have your old friend live P I shoidd be better shelter'd as the com« panion of your trees.
Your oranges and myrtles, with what cost,
You guard against the nipping winds and firost!
Hie absent sun the constant stoves repav:
Windows admit his beams without the air.
My gaiiet too hath windows, but not glasses;
Wnere Boreas never stays, but often passes.
For shame I to let an old acquaintance freeset
I had much better live amongst your trees. .fliigr.
2a%
856 XABTIAI.*!
XT. TO SOlOTZAir.
While the newly-aoquired glory of the F^umonian oampaign IB the umTenal theme of convenation, and while, every altar 18 offisrixu; propitioua aacrifioea to oar Jupiter on hia return, the peopk, the grateful knighta, the aenate, offer inoenae ; and largeaaea from you for the third time enrich the Boman tnbea. Theae modeat triumpha^ too, Borne will celebrate ; nor will your laurela gained in peace be leaa glorioua than your former triumpha in war, inaamuch aa jou feel aaaured of the aacred affection of your people. It la a prince'a greateat virtue to know hia own aubjecta.
While the Pannoniaa war new glor^ sends,
And ef'rr altar comiiig Jove attends ;
The people, knights, and fathers, blend the song ;
And the third boons enrich the Latian throng.
Borne shall thy modest triumphs mad express :
Nor shall the laurel of thy peace be less.
What joy, from piety oombm'd, must flow !
A prinoers honour is his own to know. Elpkimiim.
Xyi. TO OXPXBTTB.
Tou, Cyperoa, who were long a baker, now plead cauaee, and are aeeidng to gain two hundred thouaand aeatercea. But you aquander what you get, and eyen go ao far aa to borrow more. You have not quitted your former profeaaiony (>^perua : you make both bread and flour.
Long you bak'd, and no one wondered :
Now you plead, and ask two hundred.
Still you wsste^ and still you boirowi
That, Cyperus, proyes our sorrow*
Baker stul, though someiHiat musty.
Bread you make, and still are duster* ^pkmattm.
xyn. TO axxTTTB.
I pleaded your cauae, Seztua ; haying agreed to do ao for two thouaana aeatercea. How ia it that you haye aent me only a tiiouaoud P ^ You said nothing,'* you tell me ; " and the cauae waa loat through you." You ought to give me au much the more, Seztua, aa I had to bluah for you.
Tou said, ten guineas when your cause wu done x What P do you think U fobb me off with one?
BOOK Tin.J ZFIOBAXI. 857
Now yon pretend tiiat I oonld nothing saj.
The more you owe, my hluahee to repay. Ay.
xnn. TO ci&iini78.
If, Cirinins, you were to publieh joui epigrams, ^on might be my equal, or even my superior, in the estimation of the reading public; but such is the respect you entertain for your old friend, that his reputation is dearer to you than your own. Just so did Yireil abstain firom the style of the Cala* brian Horace, although he was well able to excel eyen the odes of Pindar, and so too did he resign to Yarius the nruse of the Boman buskin, although he comd haye dedaimea with more tracio power. Gold, and wealth, and estates, many a friend wul bestow; one who consents to yield the palm in genius, is rare.
So smooth your nnmben, fUend, your vene so sweet,
So shaip the jest, and yet the tone so neat.
That with her Martisl Kome would nlace C^xine, ^
Bome would prefer your sense and thought to mine.
Tet modest you decline the public stage,
To fix your mend done amid th' appending age.
So Maro did ; the mighty Maro sings
In yast heroic notes m yast heroic thixigs.
And leayes the ode to dance upon his FlaccusT stzings.
He 8com*d to daunt the dear Horatian lyre.
Though his braye genius flaah'd Pindaric fira.
And at his will ooud silence all the lyric quire.
So to his Yarius he resifln*d the praise
Of the nroud buskin ana the tragic bays,
When ne could thunder with a loftier yein.
And sing of gods and heroes in a bolder strain.
A handsome treat, a piece of gold, or so. And comnliments, will eyery friend bestow : Barely a Yiigil, a (Srine we meet, "Who lays hii laurels at inferior feet, And yields the tenderest point of honour, wit.
Dr. JFatU, Horm Lgrkm
In epigram so happy is your strain,
You might be read, and I nught inrite in yain:
But your regard to friendship so sincere.
Tour own applause, than mine, you hold less desf«
So Blaro left to Fkceus Pindar's flight,
Able himself to soar a nobler height :
858 VABTIAL*!
And, wann'd with a laperiar tngio ngB,
To Vaziiu gave the honour of the stage.
Friends eft to friends In other pointi snbmit f
Few yield the glory of the fiela in wit Ay*
05* oimrA.
Cinna wiahfie to seem poor, and is poor.
China does always act the poor man's part,
And is nott wortn a groat What needes such artP
Old M8. 16(4 CmL
Hal savs he's poor, in hopes tou 11 say he's not; Bat take his word for 't i llaf 's not worth a ^oi^
Sw» Urn GtO069,
TO TABUS.
Though you write two hundred yeraee ereiy day, Yanui, you reate nothing in public You are unwiae, and yet yon are wise.
Each day you make two hundred verses, sott, But none recite : you 're wise, and you are nott
Old MS. leik OmL
Tou make two hundred totms in a trice i
But publish none : — ^The man is mad and wise. Siaif.
Ua. TO THX HOBVIHO STAB.
Fhosphorua (I^omingStar), brin^ back the day ; why dost thou dday our joya ? When CsBsar ib about to return, rhoe- phorua, bring back the day. Bome implores thee. Ib it that the sluggish wun of the tame Bootes ia carrying thee, that thou comeat with axle so slow P Thou shouldst rather snatch Cyllarua from Leda'a twins ; Castor himself would to-day lend thee hia horse. Why dost thou detain the impatient litan P Already Xanthus and iBthon Ions for the bit, and the benign parent of Memnon is. up and ready. Yet the lineering stars refuse to retreat before the shining light, and me moon ia eager to behold the Ausonian ruler. Gome, Caesar, even thouffh it be night : although the stars stand stLll, day will not be absent from thy people when thou comest.
Phosphor, bring li^t; why dost our jcnrs delay P Cssar 's to come ; I'hosphor, bring on toe day. Bome begs it Art drawn in Booteaf team. Thou morst so slowly with a lasy beamP
BOOK Tin.] inGBAXS. 859
Castor will not xeftue that tfaoa ihould'it mount His iwift-foot Cyllaroa on this aoooimt Impatient Htu why dost thou detain ? Xanthos and JBthon both desire the rein i Aurora waits ; yet ling'zing stan there be» As if the moon th* Ansonian king would seel Come» GeBsar, thon^ in night let stan dday : When thon art hen, we sludl not want a day.
AsMik, 1690.
xxn. TO aAXLious.
Ton invite me, GalHcna, to partake of awild boar; 70a place before me a home-fed pig. I am a hybrid, Oallicofli if 70a can deceive me.
Ton bid to a boar, and yon treat with a hog. Ton make as both mongrels, if thus you're a dog.
zzm. TO BTTBTioxrs.
I seem to you crael and too much addicted to gluttonyy when I beat mj oook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, aay for what cause you would have a cook flogged?
On me as steme and gluttonous you looks, 'Osuse for my supper spoyl'd I beats my oooke : If this fault you think slight, nor worth a blow, For what else should a oooke be beaten P Show.
rnr. to DOHmijr.
If I chance in mj timid and slender book to make any request of thee, grant it, unless my pages are too presump- tuous. Or, if thou dost not grant it, Cesar, stOl permit it to be made ; Juoiter is never o&nded by incense and prayers. It is not he who fiishions divine images in gold or marble^ that makes them gods, but he who offers supplii^tions to th«n.
If I in fear chance to petition thee^
If I 'm not impudent, Touchiafe it me.
If thou It not grant, deign to be ask'd in love^
License and prayers ne'er offended Joto.
" He that an image frames in gold or stone
Makes not a god} he that kneels, makes it one.
800 KABTUL ■
xxT« TO OTPtonrs.
Ton have seen me yery ill, OppianuB, only onoe: I sLaL often Bee 70a so.^
Toa saw me ill one day, you teQ, OppiaiL I never lee you welL if non,
xm. TO soiOTLur.
The huntsman on the banks of the Gkmges, looking pale as he fled on his Hyrcanian steed, never titSoA in fear, amid the Eastern fields, of so many tigers as thy Bome, 0 Gter- manicas, has lately beheld. She could not even count the objects of her delight. Tour arena, Casar, has surpassed the triumphs of Bacchus among the Indians, and the wealth and magnificence of the conquering deity; for Bacchus, when he led tiie Lidians captive mier his chariot, was content with a single pair of tigers.
On Gangei^ banks, who spoili the wood or mead.
And pa^ flies on the Hyrcanian steed,
Ne'er saw, Germanic, as thy Borne, sndi sights :
Nor can she number all her new delists.
Hie Erythrean triumphi yield to thine ;
Hie pow'r terrestrial and the wealth divine ;
For, when the car the captive Indians trod,
A brace of tigers drew the viotor-god. JSJjpAtfisloM.
zzth. to OAXJBirs.
He who makes presents to you, Gkrarus, rich and old aa yon are, says plainly, if yon have but sense and can under- stand hun, "Die!"
Gaurus, he that doth gifts bestow
On thee, both rich and old. If then art wise thou needs must know
He'd have thee dead and cold. I7deher.
Who gives you gifts, bemg rich and old, doth cry, Gaums, to thee I give these gifts to die. WrighL
Tou *re rich and old ; to you they pesents send: Don't you perceive they oid you die, my Mend ? JEGiff.
XI. vm. TO ▲ ToeA, aiYzir mu bt PAHTHsmis.
Say, toga, rich present from my eloquent friend, of what flock wert thou the ornament and the glory P Did the grass
> See B. viL Bp. 4. I shall see yon often looking pale.
HOOK Tm.] sndBAHS. 861
of Apulia and Led«tn Fhalantua ^ vpnng tip for thee, where Gal«Biifl irrigateB the fields with waters from Calabria P Or did tiie Tutessian Onadalqniyir, the nourisher of the Iberian fold, wash thee, when on the Iwck of a lamb of HeeperiaP Or has thy wool counted the mouths of the divided Timavus,* of which the affectionate Cjrllarus, now numbered with the stars, once drank ? Thee it neither befitted to be stained with Amydsean dye^ nor was Mletus worthy to reoeiye thy fleece. Thou surpsnest in whiteness the uly, the buddins flower of the privet, and the iVoiy which glistens on the hiU of Tiyoli.* The swan of Spsrta and the doves of Faphos must
Sield to thee ; snd even the pearl fished from the Indian sees. ut though this be a present that vies with new-bom snows, it is not more pure than its fiver Farthenius. I would not prefer to it flie embroiderea stufi of proud Babylon, de- corated with the needle of Semiramis ; 1 should not admire myself more if dressed in Hie eolden robe of Athamss, could Fnrixus give me his JSolian £ece.^ But oh what laughter will my worn-out ragged doak excite^ when seen in company with this regal toga I
Say, giateftd sift of mine tngemous Mend, "What happy flock ihaU to thv fleece pretend ? For thee aid herb of &m'd Fnalsntns blow, "WherB fflsd Oalesos bids his waters flow P Or did Tarteflnan Aetis also lave Thy inntchleM woo( in lua Hesperian waveP Did thy wool nmnber streamlets more thsn aevsn. Of him who alak'd the wamor-horse of heaven P Amycltt*! bane ne'er hanow'd up thy hair : . Miletas never boasted fleece so fair. To thee the lily ftdes, the privet 's pale ; And all the blanching poirrs of Tibur faiL The Spartan swan the Fimhian doves deplore^ The pesris their hue on ^ythresn shore.
* The pattores of Tarratmn, laid out bj Fhtlaathiis the Lacedsmooio, wko wai descended from Leda. See B. v, Ep. 37.
* A river of the north of Italy, mnmng mto the Adriatic, at which Pjrlhmiv, Gastor'i hone, dnmk, when he pawed the month of it, as it is laid, among the Anonanti.
* The iroTj in Uie temple of Hercnles is piobahly meant Comp. B. iv. Ep. 62.
^ The goldm fleeee of Phrizns the son of Athamas sad grandson el JBolvs.
Bnt, Hioi^h llie boon IwTe neir-fidl'n mowi beUi^ It 11 not mirer tiian the donoi'i mind. A Babylonish vest I 'd ne'er punae, A vest the Seminmian pencil drew ; Old Athamas'i gold I *d proudly mock* Would Phzixoa gi^e me an iBolian flocL Tet oh I what laughter will the oontrast crown I My threadbare doak jxpoa th' imperia gownl
OV SI8TI0HB.
He who writes disticha, wiahea, I Bappoae, to please by breyity. But, tell me, of what aTail is their bxenty, when there is a whole book fall of them P
Who dxstichs writes to farerity does look:
But Where's the brerity, if 't fills a book. Anom. If^lNL
Ton hope in distiehs brerity may please :
A book of distiehs gi^es us no great ease* Majf,
XXX, OV THE SPXOTACLB 07 SC^TOUL^ BXTBimre
HIS HAJTB.
The spectacle which is now presented to us on Caasai^s arena, was the great glory of the days of Brutus. See how brayely the lumd bears the flames. It even enjoys the punismnent, and reigns in the astonished fire! »»P7ola nimself (ippears as a spectator of his own act, and applauds the noble destruction of his right hand, which seems to luxuriate in the sacrificial fire; and unless tlie means of suffering had been taken away horn it against its will, ther left hand was still more boldly preparing to meet the van- quished flames. I am unwilling, after so glorious an action, to inquire what he had done before ; it is sufficient for me to lave witnessed the fiite of his hand.
He who cheife glory was of Brutus' age^ Is now become the mx>rt of Cssai^s stajgpe : See how he grasps tne flames, enjovs his paynes. How in th' astonish'd fire his bold hand reignesi His own spectator, unoonoem'd, doth stand! LoTes, ana e'en feeds o' th' sacrifice of 's hand I So much that (if not rarish'd from 't) he'd tyre With his more bold left hand the weary*d lyre.
* A msleftctor was compelled to act the part of ScibtoIs, as otiifii had been obliged to act those of Prometheus Daedalus, Oxpheus, snd ttheia. See Speciac £p. 7, 8, 21
BOOK TUX.] BPTOBAlrt. 8C8
No matter wliat thii liand'i foifeit has beeoot Enough to me this gallant act t^ hare seen.
Old MS. im OhL
Xni. TO SXBTTO.
Toa make a pretty oonfearion about jonnel^ Dento^ when, after taking a wife, yon petition for the rights of a fiither of three dmdren.^ But oeaae to importune the em- peror, and retain, though a little behind time, to your own coun^ ; for, after so long aeekinff three childr^i &r away firom your deserted wife, you will find four at home.
Thou knoVst not, Dento, what thon dost give leaTe To men pleasantly of thee to oonoeiTe : Who ben'st that grace, as soon as thon art wed, 'Which 8m>ald be giVn thee from the marriage-bed. But with requests to tire the prince forbear, And to tfar lons^left wife and nome repair ; Who, while at Bome thou'rt suing on the score Of baring three sons, irill hare brought thee four.
160ff.
XZXn. OK THB nOTI 07 ABITVLLA, WHOBl BBOTHIB
WJLB SZILBD TO BABDHTIA.
A gentle dove, eliding down through the silent air, settled in the very lap of Aietulla as she was sitting. This might have seemed the mere sport of chance, had it not rested there, although undetained, and refoaed to depart, OTcn when the liberty of flight was granted it. If it is permitted to the affectionate sistCT to hope for better thingpi, and if prayers can avail to move the lord of the world, this bird is perhaps come to thee from the dwelling of the exile in Sardinia, to announoe the speedy return of uiy brother.
A dore soft glided through the air.
On Aietnlla's bosom bare.
This might seem chance, did she not stay.
Nor would pemuniTe wing her way.
Bnt^ if a pious sister^s vows
The master of mankind allows $
Hus envoy of Sardoan skies,
From the retummg exile flies. j^hmtUm^
B. iL Ep. 91, 92.
8M ]CABTIl.L*t
zxxin. 10 PAiTLtrsy oir BsoxiYiire noK hdc a citp of
TSBT THnr lOTAL.
You send me, Paulas, a leaf from a Frstor^B crown, and' give it the name of a winfr^nip^ Some tcj^ at the stage has perhaps recently been covered with tiiis thin substance, and a dash of pale saffiron-water washed it offl Or is it rather a piece of gilding scraped off (as I think it may be) by the nail of a cunning seryant from uie leg of your couch P Why , it is moved by a gnat flying at a distance, and is shaken by the wing of the timest buttOTfly. The flame of the smallest lamp n^es it flit about, and it would be broken by the least quantity of wine poured into it With some such crust as this the date is covwed, which the ill-dressed client carries to his patron, with a small piece of money, on the first of January. The bean of Egypt produces filaments less fiexible ; and libes, which fall be^re^an excessive sun, are more sub- stantial. The wandering slider does not disport upon a web so fine, nor does the hanging silk-worm produce a work so slight. The chalk Ues tucbr on the fiice of old Fabulla; the bubble swells thicker on the agitated wave. The net which enfolds a ^I's twisted hair is stronger, and the Batavian foam which changes the colour of Boman locks is thicker. With skin such as this the chick in the Ledsan egg is clothed: sudi are the patches which repose upon the senator's forehead. Why did you send me a wine-cufh when you might have sent me a small ladle, or a spoon evenr But I speak too grandly ; when you might have sent me a snail-shell ; or in a word, when you might have sent me nothing at all, Paulus P
As thinn as March-psyne flaggs you lent mee, Paul, A cupp, which you a gobblett needi must call : With such thinn staff gih pageants wee o'erlay, Which saffiron water washes streigfat away : Such plate as your light-fingered pace wiui's nayles Scrapes firom your bM-poast when nis money fayles. So tninn 'tis, that a gnattfs wing passing by, Shakes it at distance, or least butterfly. With candle's smoak it takes a doubtnil flight, Least drop of wine inftis*d diasolvei it quite. With such sre nutmem silt, that downes present At Christmas to their findbrdi witii their rent
MOX Yin.] XPI6BAKS. 800
Greene beene-ftobki pill'd so thin a leafe can't nmn, Nor lilly'B leaTes that fall with too much rann. From buaie spider^i loome no nioh imall thred* Or pendnloui iilkworme*8 womb, is borrowed. The troubled water's bubble is more thi^ Or paint which on Fabulla's ehe^ doth stick ; A stronger eaule keeps in her curled hayre. And thiokei lather makes her tresses fayre : Her half-moon'd beauty-spots are nott so thinn i Chiekins f th' esg are cloath*d witii sudi a skinn. Why then a goblett P when you might have sent A ladle, or as well a spoon present? I speake too bigg — might it a thimble call P Nay, when you needed not have sent at all P
Old MS. IGtk CM.
ZZZIT. TO ▲ BOABTXB.
Yoa 8^ that yoa have a piece of i|late which ia an origixud work of Mrs. J%at rather ia an original, in the making of which you had no hand.
Thy onp thou as a true antique dost show :
What tbou'dst no hand in making, may be so. Antm,
ZXXT. TO A BAD 00VP£X.
Sinee 70U are ao well matched, and ao much alike in jour livea, a yery bad wife, and a yery bad husband, I wonder that you do not agree.
«
When as you are so like in life, A wicked husband, wicked wife, I wonder you' should live at starife.
OldMS.ieihCmd.
Both man and wife as bad as bad can be,
I wonder they no better should agree. JJoy.
Who says that Giles and Joan at discord be?
Th* obserring neighbours no such mood can see.
Indeed poor Giles repents he mazried erer ;
But that his Joan doth too. And GKles would nerer
By lus free will be in Joan's company ;
No more would Joan he should. Giles riseth early,
And haTing got him out of doors, is ^lad :
The like is Josn. But tunung home is sad,
And so ii Joan. Oft-times when Giles doth find
Haisn sights at home^ Giles wisheth he were blmdi
•806 ICABCXAL*!
All tliu doth Joan. Or tliat his Imiff-yeuiiM life
Were (juite out-spun t the like wish nath his wifsL
The children that he keeps Giles svears are none
Of his begetting ; and so swears his Joan.
In all affwtions she oonoaneth still :
If now, with man and wiie» to will end niQ
The self-same things, a note of concord be,
I know no couple better can agree. Sen Jmwm.
XZXYI. TO SOKITIAjr, OV HIS PAULOB.
Smile, OiBaar, at the miracnloiu pTramida of E^ryptian kings ; let barbarian Memphis now be silent oonceming her eastern monnments. How insignificant are the labours of JBgypt compared to the Farrhuian palace!^ The cod of day looks upon nothing in the whole world more spkndid. Its seven towers seem to rise tosether like seven mountains ; Ossa was less lofty surmounted hj the Thessalian Felion. It so penetrates the heavens, that its pinnade, encircled by the glittering stars, is undisturbed by thunder from the douds below, and receives the rays of Phodbus before the nether world illumined, and before even Circe' beholds the fSEU» of her rising father. Yet though this Palace, Augustus, whose summit touches the stars, rivals heaven, it is not so great as its lord.
Smfle, CtBsar, at the pTramids' loud fame ; Memphis no more thy barb'rous wonders name ; Th' Egyptian works reach not the smallest part Of the r arrhasian courf s majestic art : No such illustrious piece the day does show ; Nor Sol in*s univenal travels know.
Seven vast pavilions, like seven mountains, risci Pelion on Ossa scal'd not so the skies ; Thunder and clouds beneath, th* aspiring top Enters the heavens, and 'gainst the stars does knock | The sun salutes it with his early'st ray. On highest hiUs 'tis night, when here 'tis day. Thy pakoe, 'bove th' Olympian though renown'd. Unto its lord is not yet equl found. AMion, 1685,
IXJLVU. TO POLYOHABKUS, WHO UrVXCTBD UBSIULITT.
When you have given up to Caietanus his bond, do yon
imagine that you have made him a present of ten thousand
' See B. viL Ep. 55.
* The pFomontory of Girce, csDed the Daughter of the Sion.
BOOK thl] spiobahb. {87
aortcrooe P ^He owed me that mun^" 70a saj. Keep the bcoid, PolyehamniB, and lend CaietanuB two thonaand.*
BaoauBB to Oatch his bond yon render'd haye^ Think job tiiereby a hundred pound you aave ? He owed so much, you 11 say — ^your bond neH sendf 80 you 11 the toother forty shillings lend.
Old M8. lea CM.
Ton gave Jack u^ his judment and his bond : HaTS JOB then siyen Jack a hundred pound? Ton say, he oVd it : he will both restore, Let him bat owe you for a hundred more. Say.
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llXfiJUL TO XBUOB, OK HIS TBIBUTB TO THX lOtXOBT
OT THE VOTABT BLJBBUB.
He who makea preBents with peneyering attention to one who can make a return for hia bberality, is perhapB angling for a legacy, or Becking some other return. But if any one pereeTeree in gifinff to the name which alone remaine after death and the tomb, what doea he seek but a mitigation (rf hia grief P It makee a difference whether a man ia, or only wd8heBtoBeem,good. Tou are good, Melior, and Fame knowa i^ in that you BmdouBly prevent with solemn ritee the name of the buned BIsbub from periahing : and what you profuBely give from your munificent coffers to the observant and aflfoo- tionate oomnmy of notaries to keep his natal day, you bestow purely on ^Isbbub* memory. This honour will tie paid you for many a year, as long as your life shall last» and will c Jii> tinue to be paid after your oeath.
With sealous seeming love who gives To one who feeb the good, and lives, May ky abayte retomes ^engage: Butt whose oevotioQs to the dead Doe penevere, what can we say Hee seekes, but his greifes to aUay P lis better bee^ than seeme, good: yon That good repiart challenge as due^ "Who with such strict solemnity Buffer nott the dead's name to dye; But doe with profuse bounty pay (To celebrate your boy's bixth-day) Large snmms r hii fellow pages, wIm By mose remember him and yon:
> Compsre B. ix. Ep« 101
868 illstial'H
So lafdng tributei while you livei And after death, ^ yonnelf you give.
Old MS. lea CM.
Presents to liTing friends may have sn eye
To greater fiiTonrs, or a legacy.
Expenses, lavish'd after thdr decease.
May be perhaps to giTe our sorrows ease.
Perhaps *tis Tanity : 'tis not the same,
To coyet and to merit a good name.
AU know, each yeuryou costly tiibnte pay.
To celebrate great "William's natal day :
All know, immortal is his memory.
Osn )ron, then, fear lus memory may die P
Illuminations, liquor to the towni
Add not to hu, but may to your renown.
The tale may now among your neighbours spread i
But soon will die away, when you are dead. Hajf,
ZXXIZ. TO DOMITLOr, OK HI8 PAI^OZ.
There was preyiooBly no place that could accommodate the feasts and ambrosial entertaixmients of the Palatine table. Here thou canst duly qnaff the sacred nectar, G^ermaoicos, and drain cups mizea by the hand of thy Ghinymede. May it be long, I pray, before thou becomest the guest of the Thunderer ; or, u thou, Jupiter, art in haste to sit at table with Domitian, come hither thyself I
For those that eat the court^s ambrosial ftre.
Spacious enough the rooms not lately were.
Tne structure now adds to the wine a grace,
Which Gan^edes pour forth in ey'ry place.
Borne does miplore, Joye's guest thou late wou'd'st be s
Or, if impatient, that he 'd sup with thee. Anon. 1696.
XL. TO PSIAPUS.
O Frifl^us, guardian, not of a garden, nor of a fruitful vine, but of this little groye, from which you were made and may be made again, I charge you, keep nom it all thievish hands, and preserve the wood for its master's fire. If this should fidl short, you vrill find that you yourself are but wood.
I care not that the task ii thin^ To tend the garden's generous vine. But warn thee with a ffuardian's love— Priapus, wa^h my litue grove :
BOOK nil.] SPIGBAIO. 860
The grove from whose pirental shade Thoa wast and may again be made. Bid er^ inlfrutg nand xetixe : Piessive me trees fSor Martial's fire. Fttl bat my jgiroTe, thyself must bonit Andy onoe a tog, 'mongst logs retom.
£. B. Ghnen^^ 177i.
XLL TO HhJJWnSXSM.
Atheoagom wys he ia aony that he baa not sent me the preaents whidi he usually aenda in the middle of Decern* oer. I shall see^ Fauatinua, whether Athenagoraa is sorry \ certainly Athenagoraa has made me aorry.
You're sonry you forgot to send, you say, My usual present upon New-jeax's day. Mlielher you sony are, 'tis tme must show: It certain is, that you have made me so. Hoff.
ZLH. TO KATHO, OV aXHDnrO HDC ▲ BFOBTULA.
If a larger aportola baa not attracted you to those who are more &Toured by fortune, aa ia usually the case, yon may take a hundred baths, Matho, from my sportula.^
If nol^ sedno'd by higher bribe.
Thou blessest now the blessed tribe i
My little sportule se sabUmes,
She bids thee bathe a hundred times. JE^phmtkm.
XLIIL OK FASnTS AlO) OHBSBTILLiu
Tabiua buries hia wives, Chreatilla her husbanda ; each shakes a frmeral torch oyer the nuptial couch. Unite theae conquerors, Venus, and the result will then be that Libitina will carry them both off together.
Fiye wItss hath he dispatch'd, she husbands flye:
By both alike the und^takers thriye.
Venus ssiist! let them join hands in troth!
One common fbneral, then, would senre them both. Ay.
fo the Etm. nomas WM aitd lady JhroOg^ Ms wi/s, near
JPcfieuut S^Mtre,
'While Tom and DoUy many mates Do cazry off ftis said)
^ The sportula wis t hundred quadisatss, snd a qusdianS| equal ts about half a iaithiag; was the price of sn ordinary bath.
2b
870 xabtial's
Each ahakes by tonu (so vQlllie Fatss)
The Funeral toroh In bed. Oh fie, ma'aniy Yeaofl, end this root
Ck>mmit than to the Fleet, And grant they may be carried out.
Bom buried with one aheet
JB0O. i6*. SooU, 1778.
XLLV. TO T1TULLI7Q.
I admonish yon, IStulhu, enjoy life; it la already late to do 80 ; it ia late, even to begin under the achoolnuiBter, Bn% you, miserable Titollus, are not even enjoying life in yotir old age, but wear out every tiireshold with morning call& and ail the forenoon are covered with perspiration, and slobbered with the kisses of the whole city. You wander through the three forums,^ in £Etoe of all the equestrians, the tomple of Mars, and the colossus of Augustus ; you are run- ning about everywhere firom the third to the fifth hour.* Grasp, accumulate, spare, and hoard as you will, you must leave all behind you. l^ough the splendid cofibr be pale' with closely packed silver coins, though a hundred pages of kalends^ be filled with your debtors names, vet your heir will swear that you have left nothing, and, whilst you are ly- injg; upon your bier or on the stones, while the pyre stuffed with papyrus is rising for you, he will insolenuy patronise your weeping eunuchs ; and your sorrowing son, whether jou, like it or not, will caress your &vourito toe very first night after your funeraL
Tib late : begin to live, old gentleman :
It would be uite, if you at adiool began.
Tou a long race of miaery have rmi ;
But have not yet the race of life begmL
Your every morning ia in labour spent,
This man to dun, or that to comphment
With dirty tto^unga yon to Hall reaort,
A well-known party now in every court.
Through every quarter of the town you ranaw,
Guild-haU, the Bank, the Cnatom-houae, Uie Ghapse*
Heap, aenme, oppreaa, uae every firaudfbl art ;
Oh ! diamal thought ! your wealth and you must part
1 See B. iii. Bp. 38.
t From smiriae ; between nine and eleren of our time.
* In allusion to the colour of the sihrer.
« On the Kalends or first day of the month, interest was paiJ.
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Of oaih and mortgaget thourii nuge jour iton Tour graoelen son will woaoer 'tis no more. And when the plumes shall o'er yoor coffin waTe^ And Sable's Tenal train attend yonr sraTe. Cliief moomer he, and heir to;^i]r eStbrue, Shall with yomr whore that night supply your plaoe.
Say
ZLT, fO VLAOOTTBy OV THX BITUBK 07 TBIBOVB
TXBBKTIUS.
PriBcaa Terentiiu, my dear Flaccus, is restored to me from the coast of Sicily ; let a milk-white ^m mark this day. Let the contents of this amphora, diminished by the lapse of a hundred consulshipii,^ flow forth, and let it grow brighter, torbid as it now is, strained through the purifying Imeu.* When will a night so auapicious cheer my board? When will it be mine to be warmed with wine so fitly quaffed P "When Cytherean Cyprus shall restore you, Flaccus, to me^ I shall hare equally good reason for such indulgence.
My Priscus, lo ! retum'd from iBtna's hdght ! the gem, that marks this day, be purest white. Flow, fining cask, from out the deep recess: The hundredth consul has just made it less. "When shall with such a joy mj table shin^ P When feel the fervours of so iair a wine P When Cjrprus thee^ m v Flaccus, shall restore^ Wise luxury again shall have her lore. JBlpkmti€tu
ZLTI. TO CXBTTS.
How peat is thr innocent simplicity, how great the i*1iniiiah beao^ of toy form, youthful Gestus, more chaste than the youn^ Hippolytus ! Diana might covet thy society, and Doris desire' to bathe with thee : Cybele would prefer to have thee all to herself Instead of her Phrygian Atys. Hiou mightest have succeeded to the couch of Ganymede, but Aou, cruiol boy, wouldest have given kisses only to thy Icnrd Happy the bnde who shall move the heart of so tender a husbfuid, and the damsel who shall first make thee feel that thou art a man*
* Wine was supposed to suffer some diminution in bulk from being kept iong* " It was coasidBred also to grow thick, and require straining.
9b3
872 XABTIAL'B
How great '• iJiy Yirtae, and thy fomi how xbm ! Theseua' chaste son cannot with thee compare. For all the ^lonr of her yirgin name. To bathe with thee, Diana, would not shame. And whom might Cybele alone enjoy. She would praer bdbre her Phirgian boy. Ganymede's place didst thou to Jove supply, Juno thou would'st redeem from iealousy. Happy 's the maid shall thy soft breast mflame. And give thee first a man's and husband's name.
Anon, 168ft.
ZLTn. TO 0KB imO ABHAir&XD HIS BSABD IH THBXB
DDrnSBBVT WATS.
Part of your fiioe is dipped, part shaven, part has the hair pulled out. Who would tiunk that you have but one headP
Part of thy hair is shorn, part shaved to thee,
Part puU'd: who 11 think it but one head to beP FUtdktr.
While your cheeks are part shav'd, scrap'd, and part
pluck'd away, Who the devil can think you've but one head, I pray P
Itev. Mr Seottf 177S.
XLVm. Oir THl STOLEK OLOiJC OF OBISFHTXTS.
Crispinus does not know to whom he gave his Tynan mande, when he changed his dress at the bath, and put on his toga. Whoever thou art that hast it, restore to his shoulders, I prav thee, their honours ; it is not Crispinus, but his doak, that makes this request. It is not for every one to wear garments stewed in purple dye ; that colour is suited only U> opulence. If booty and the vidous craving after dishonourable gain possess you, take the toga, for that will be less likely to betray you.
When at the bath Crispinus did undress, To whom he gave his robe he cannot guess. Restore the i^mif whoever has it, pray. Not this Crispinus, but the robe, iow say. A scarlet gown is not for aU men*8 wear, Who are not noble, this rich dye forbear. If theft delights thee, a diahonest prise. Avoid what will betray thee, if thou 'rt wise.
.^ifiofi. leM.
BOOK TZix.] meBiicf. 878
XLIZ. Oir ABf BB.
Aroer lovei a daniBel; she is handsome oerteinlj, but he iB olind. Bridently then, such being the case, Aaper lores better than he sees.
Bfied Asper knret a hm that beaateoas is, And^ as it seems, he Iotss more than he sees.
Fl6t€h$r.
L. TO 0A8AB.
Qieat aa is reported to have been the feast at the triumph orer the giaafta, and glorioua aa waa to all the gods that ni^ht on whidi the kind &ther sat at table with il& infierior deities, and the Fauna were jpermitted to ask wine from Jove; so grand are the festiyaia that celebrate thy victories, O CiBsar; and our joya enliven the gods themselves. All the knights, the people, and the senate, feaat with you, and Bome partakea of ambrosial repasts with her ruler. Thou TOomisedst much; but how much more hast thou given! Only a spottda waa promised, but thou hast set before us a splendid supper.
As WBS that ovant feut, niffht swell'd with joy, Aftar that Jove the giants aid destroy, And vulgar sods, together with the gieat, Benunly at lis heavenly table treat i And rauit and Satyrs were allowed to call Freely for nectar P th' Olympian halL
Saeh was that mual feast, triumphant stste^ When Gsear did lus hmrel consecrate. And gods, as well as men, exhilarate. Patricians, people, kniffhto, all Rome, did eat With their great lord of his ambroeian meat ; Great thinn Ihon promis'd, greater didst bestow ; Hoi fixr a dole, but royal feast we owe. Anon. 1096.
U. OH A WnS-CUP BBOUVZD nOM INBTAimUS UVTVB.
Whoae workmanship is displayed in this cup P Is it that of the skilful Mys^ or of Myron P Is this the handiwork of Mentor, or tJnne, PolydetusP No tarnish blenushes its brightness, ita unalloyed metal is proof against the fire of the assayer. Pure amber radiates a less bright yellow than ita metal; and the fineness of its chaaing aurpassea the carving on anowy ivory. Por the work ia not inferior
874 IClBTIAL'iB
to the material ; it Banoanda the cup, to the moon aurroimda the eaith, when she ahinea at the fiili with all her light. Em- bossed on it is a eoat adorned with the .Solian fleece of the Theban Fhrizus ;^ a goat on which his sister would haye pre- ferred to ride ; a goat which the Oinjphian shearer would not despoil of his hair, and which Bacchus himself would al* low to browse on his vine. On the back of the animal sits a Cupid fluttering his golden wings ; and a Palladian flute made of ike lotus seems to resound m)m his delicate lips. Thus did the dolphin, delighted with the Methymnsan i^on, convenf his melodious rider ^through the tranquil waves. Let this splendid gift be filled for me with nectar worthy of it, not by tne hand of a common sbive, but by that of Cestus. Cestua^ ornament of my table, mix the Setine wine ; the loTcly boy and the goat that carries him both seem to be thirsty. Let the letters in the name of Listantius Bufus determine the number of the cups that I am to drink ; for he is the donor of this noble present. If Telethusa comes and proffers roe her promisea entertainment, I shall confine myself, !Etufu^ for the sake of my mistress, to the third part of the letters in your name;' if she delays, I shall indulge m seven cups; if she disappoints me altogether, I shall, to drown my vexation, drain as many cups as there are letters in both your name and hers.
What paynes, what skill, did this cupp's forme command?
Was't MyoB*, Myron't, or bold Mentor't hand?
Cleare and antarnishM no pale cloud it bears.
The metal no fyre't sesrching tmll fearee.
The yellow gold pure amber dotn outvie,
The embossed sQver whitest ivory.
The skill equalls the staff; such orbei combines
As when the moone in her A2II lustre shines.
There Phirxus' ffoat with 's golden fleece doth swim
80 lively, Helle M choose to ride on him ;
So trim, no hair a barber needes, and thou,
Bacchus, wouldst lett him browse on thy vine-bough.
Cupid, with ffolden wings, sittinff on *8 back,
With pipe in^s pretty month dom musidi make :
■
Rufos.
See £p. 28. * See B. ?iL Ep. 95.
To a^e cups; there being fifteen letters in the two nsaiss Inatsntioi
BOOK TUX.] SPIGBAHS. 875
"With birp and yqioe so did Anon please
The dolpnin bearing him through toylsome seaa.
With richest nectar, worthy sudi a cnn,
Nott b> a common hand, bntt thine, ml'd np,
Giye't mee, deare Cestns, lorely boy ; meet^nka
Both goate and Cupid thirst for Setian drinks.
To ereiy letter of his name who gaye
Mee this so precious bowle, a round wee'll have.
If Telethusa oome» I must reserve
Myself far those sweet joyes ; then five shall serve :
If shee bee doubtful, sev'n ; lif shee iayle quite,
To drown my griefes, 111 drink both names outright
Old m. \m OtwL
Ln. TO OADIOTAlTETa.
^ Csodiciaiiiiay I lent my barber (a ycmxiff man, but akilled in hiB art even beyond Nero's Thalamus, whose lot it was to dip the beards of the Droai) to Bufa8,at his request, to make his cheeks amooUi for onee. But» at Bufua'a orders, he was so long occupied in going over the same hairs again and again, consulting the mirror that guided his hand, cleaning the skin, and making a tedious second attack on the locks previously ahom, that my barber at last returned to me witn hia own beard full grown.
A boy, of so consummate art,
When call'd to phry the barber's part.
As had not for a rival fear'd
The trimmer of a Nero's beard \
To smug the cheek of Rufus, once
I lent; nor deem'd myself a dunce.
While o'er and o'er each hair he glides,
A faithful glass his fineers guides ;
And now he ffives the skin to fflow.
While hx and wide he draws ue mow }
Behold a wondrous thing, and new !
The shaver's down a harvest grew. EipMiulmu
LUX. TO OATULLA*
Most beautiful of all women that are or have been, but moat worfehleaa of all that are or have been, oh! how I wish, Catulla, that you could become leas beautiful, or more
ehaate.
Soveivfair! and yet so very common !
Woula you were plainer! or a better woman! fGigr.
876 UIL&TIAI/B
UT. TO BOHrriAK.
Althougli jcfa make bo many liberal donatioiiB, and promise eren to exceed them, O oonqueror of many leaders, as well as conaueror of yonrselj^ you are not loTed oi the people, Cssar, for the sake of your boanties, but your bounties aro loved by the people for your sake.
Though thou givest great boons oft, and irilt give more,
O kii^ of kings, and thyBelTs conqueror !
The people loTe thee not 'canse they partake
Thy olessings ; but thy blessings for thy sake. lUUktr.
LT. TO DOKITIAir, OK HI8 LIOV.
Loudasare the roarings heard through the trackless regions of Massylia^when the fraest is filled with innumerable raffinff lions, and when the pale shepherd recalls his astonishea bulls and terrified flock to his runic huts, so loud were ter- rific roarings lately heard in the Boman iirena. Who would not have thou^t they proceeded from a whole herd P Thepre was^ however, only one lion, but one whose authority the lions them- selyes would have respected with trembling, and to whom Numidia, abounding in variegated marble, would have giyen the palm. Oh what majesty sat upon his neck, what bMnbr did the golden shade of his arched neck display as it bristled! How apt for laige hunting speara was his broad chest, and what joydidhefeel insoifiustriouBadeathi Whence, labya, came so noble an ornament to thy woods P 'From the car of Cybele P Or, rather, did thy brother, Oermanicus, or thy father himself^ send down the mighty animal from the con* stellation of Hercules P ^
Like the STnasing teirors which rewound In Libyan pastures, and a^oining ground, When nerds of lions rage in forests nigh, And make the fiercest bulls and shepherds fly Home to their holds, read^ through fear to die : Sueh wss the roaring late i' tfa' place of game; A troop of lions seem'd to make the ssme; It was out one, but one sU else did dreads And psid subjection to his crowned head. Oh, what a horrid ^fnce his neck did show ! Down to his feet his curled mane did flow:
> The oonsteUatioii Leo, yrhkk wm Ikbled to be the Nemean lion slaia by Uercoles.
BOOK nil.] XFIOBAHI. 877
fiis large-tpread bieatt for larsett sj^ean did ctU; Great wbs the fear and triumph at hia hXL Like fflmy Libyan coasts ne^er sent before^ Nor £ut ever saw in all her store : Was 't not the same t^ Alddes gave renown, And by thy father from the stars sent down?
LTI. TO 7LA.0CfT78.
Am die age of our anoeaton yields to our own, and as Boilo has grown sreater with her iiiler, you wonder that geniuB like that of the divine Viral ia nowhere found among ua, •ndtiiat no poet thundera of wara with ao powerful a darion. Let there be MfiBcenaaea, Haccua, and there will be no want ofTupla; even your own fium may fumiah you with a Maro. TitjTOB had loat several acres in the neishbourfaood of poor Crmom^ and was sadly mourning^ over the loea of his sheep. The Totean knight * smiled on hun, repelled harah poverty from hia door, and bade it quickly take to flight. ** Accept,** aaid he, ^ a p<ntion of my wealth, and be the greatest of baraa ; nay, thou mayst even love my Alexia." That most beautifiil of youiha used to stand at hia maater'a feaata, pooling the dark Pftlemian with hand white aa marble, and to preaent him the cup just aipped with his roa^ lipa ; lipa which might have attracted the admiration of Jupiter himself. The plump GFa* latea, and ThcHitylis, with her ruddy cheeks burnt o^ the har- vest aun, vanished from the memory of the inspired bard. Forthwitii he aang of Italy, and '^ Arma and the man,'* — he, whose inexperienced strain had scarcely aufficed to lament a gnat* Why need I mention the Yarii ' and Marsi,^ and other poeta who nave bc»n enriched, and to enumerate whom would oe a long taak ? Shall I, then, be a Virgil, if you give me audi sifia aa Mscenaa gave himP I ahall not be Yirgil; but I ahafi be a Maraua.*
8mce never was an age so haj>py yet| So great the nation or the pnnce so greati Ton wonder that no Addisons remain. No hard to sing a fortunate campaign. Lei but tf soenas, IHrgil will, revive : Ev'n your own villa may a Virgil give.
> Maoenas. See Hor. Sat I. tL L • Alluding to Virgil's - Onlez.*'
* Vsrinik who anisted Tucca in correcting the iKoeid,
* "Hie eptgnmmatist; B. iL Ep. 71, 98.
* I ihsn be enriched, like Manas tUEpigrammatisL SeeB.iLEp.7l
378. habtial'b
Mlien Tityras bewail'd hk flockjB 86 dear;
And to Cremona &rm8, alas ! too near i
BeneTolentlv smil'd the Tuscan knight.
And put maliffnant poyerty to flight.
A poet be, and take my pune, he said $
Take irhat you like; take eVn mv fayourite mailt
Attendant at his board the damsel stands ;
And fills his claiet with her lily hands ;^
Sips it with rosy lips, which might inspire
With wanton thoughts the yirtue of a friar.
Fat Galatea haunts his soul no more ;
Nor ThestyUs, his sun-burnt country whore.
He, who once humble themes pursued, then sung
*' Arms and the man whence Koman grandeur sprung *
'Twere endless to recount each laurel d shade
Rteh and immortal by such bounty made..
I ^i Virgil be, mi^ht I like fityours hope : No : 'tis not Vii^ I will be, but Pope.
Elay.
LTTI. OK PIOEKS.
Fioena had three teeth, which he coughed out all together one day, as he was sitting at the place destined for his tomb. &e collected in his robe the last fragments of his decayed jaw^ and buried them under a heap of earth. His heir need not collect his bones after his ^th; Picons has already pep^ formed that office for himsel£
Old Picens had three-teeth which from him oome As he sat oougfainff hard oyer his tomb : Which fragments ne took up into his breast, Dropp'd fi^m his mouth : then laid his bones to rest Lest that his heir should not them safely see Intetr'd, he did himself the curtesy. It^eher,
LTIU. TO ABTBICIDOBUB.
Seeinff that your doaky Artemidorus, is so thick, I might justly cul you Sagaris.^
So yast thy doake, it seemeth to eontayne
In 't all the doakes that eyer Un'd Cloake-Lane.
OldJUSL
KIX. OK A OKE-XTED THIE7.
Do you see this fellow, who has but one eye, and under whose scowling forehead yawns a bUnd cavity for the other P Do not despise that head; none was eyer more acquisitive ;
^ In aUnsioii to the word iogum^ a militaiy cloak.
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nor mte even the finffen of Autolyeos more stioky. Be cantioQB how you male him your gueet, and watdi him dosely, for on sadi occasionB he makes one eye do the dnty of two. The anziouB Berranta lose capa and apoona; and many a napkin ia warmed in the secret zolda of hia dreaa. He knowB how to catch a doak as it falls from the arm of a neigh* honr, and often leaves the table doubly dad. He e?en teeiB no lemone in robbing the dumbering skve of his lighted lamp. Hhefaiktokyhandaonan^hingbdongingtoowerBy he inlleiercise his thievish propensity on his own servant, and ited his slippers from him.
Bee yoa that fdlow, with a harden'd front*
One eye with patch* and one with knave upon "i P
Severs in him the oaptain crfthe hand
Once niled by WUd ; more glney ia hit hand.
At table with him take care what you dO|
His eye will be more watdifol than your two.
He 11 make the servants hnnt for spoonsi and dap
His napkin in his breediesy not his lap.
Whip up a handkerchief^ that 's fallen down.
Or flup another Joseph on his own.
Hu own portmantean carry off un8een«
And chai^ it on the master of the inn. 2Giy.
LX. TO CLAJJVLL.
If von had been shorter by a foot and a hait, Chindiai yon
wodd have been about the same hdght aa the odossus on the
Fdatiiie mount.'
At the Gdoss imperid thou misfaf st laugh, Cl«idia,if shorter by a foot and half. JSIphmdon.
JJLl. TO BXTBETTB, OK CHABIKUS.
Chaiinus is pde and bursting with envy; herage8,weep8,and
18 looldng for a high branch on which to hang himself; not,
aa formerly, because I am repeated and read by evetybodyi
or because I am drcolated with degant bosaea, and anointed
with oil of cedar, through all the nationa that Home hdda in
aubjeetion ; but because I possess in the suburbs a summer
oountry*house, and ride on mulea which are not, aa of dd^
hired. What evil ahall I imprecate on him, Severua, for hia
envyP This is my wish: that he may have mulea and a
eountry-honse.
' Speetac Ep. 3.
880 HABTIAL*t
ne'er oease to gnaw Carinai^ breaiCi Anguiah and grief hia auiet to moleat ; ffia eawj xagea to that nigh degree* To bang liimaelf he only wanta a tree. Not 'eanae my book 'a nov richly gilt and bound* Myaelf and yerae through all the world renown'd : But I Ve a houae near Home, and on the aoore, I 'm drawn with mules, not hired« aa heretofore.
What ahall I wiah, th' enyioua to repay P I wiah, on him that Fortune alao may A form beatow near town, and men may tell That mulea he driyea, and roota and herbs doea aelL
Anon. 1695. LXn. OK PICSKS.
PicenB writes epigrams upon the back of hia paper, and then eomplains that the god of poetry turns his back upon him.
He turns the leaf, to eke th* inacriptiye lay, ^d monma the god haa tum'd hia face &w^.
£lphin9Um, LZm. OK AULTTS.
Aulus loves ThestyluB, and yet he is not less fbnd of Alexis; perhaps he is also growing fond of my Hyacinthas. Go, now, and resolve me whether my friend Aulus loves poets them- selyes, when he loves what the poets hold dearest.
On Theatylna, nor on Alexia leaa ;
Nay, on our Hyacinth he dotea beyond. Who for the barda can Aulua' love ezpreaa,
When of their lav'ritea Aulua provea ao fond ?
^Amatofi.
LXrV. TO CLTTU8.
I^or the purpose of askiog and exacting presents, Clytus, your birth*day fills eight times in one year ; and you count, I think, only three or four first days of months that are not an* niversaries of your coming into the world. Though your fiioe is smoother than the polished stones of the dry shore ; though your hair is blacker than the mulberry ready to fall ; though the soft delicacy of your flesh suipasses the feathers of the dove, or a mass of vrnk just curdled ; and though your breast is as full as that which a virgin reserves for her husband* yon already, Clytos, seem to me to be an old man ; for who would believe that Priam and Nestor had as many biztii-daya as you P Have some sense of moderation, and let there be
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some limit to your rapadtjr ; for if joa still cany on your }okO| and if it is not enoogh for yon to be bom onoe a year, I shall not, dytoSy consider yon bom at alL
More gifts moro clearly stUl to eiaye, Each yeere eight birth-dayee yoa will have i And of twelye montha scaroe four, or threes Wherein yon were not bom there bee. Though your downe chin be imoother hi Hum on dry beach worne pebbles ere ; More black than mulbenys TOur hayre ; Than feathers trembling m the ayre Your breasts more soft, than curds and creama More swell'd and plump, or more than them To husband's beda greene yixgins bring, You are an old man in your spring. For whoM beliere Pxiam, or old Kestor, so many birth-dayes told ? For sham^ at ienath your greedy minda Stint ; for if still ueise trius we finds, And once a yeere suffice not you« We 11 thbA. none of your birth-dayes true.
aid MS. IM CM.
LXT. TO nouTiAir, oir Hia tucpu ov tobtuvb Aim
TBIUHPHAL ABCH.
Here^ where tiie temple dedicated to retaining Fortone glistens resplendent far and wide, was formerly a spot of ffromid of great celebrity. Here Domitian, graced with the aost of the Sarmatian^ war, halted, his oountoiance radiating with dory. Here, with locks wreathed with bays, and in white garb, Aome saluted her general with yoice ana gestore. The great merits of the spot are attested by the other monumenta witii which it has been honoured; a sacred arch is there erected in memory of our triumphs oyer subdued nationa. Here two chariots* number many an elephant yoked to them; the TOJnee himself, cast in ^Id, guides alone the mighty team. Thia gate^ Gtarmanicua, la worthy of thy trinmpha; such aa entrance it ia fit the eiij of Mara ahould possess.
Where to returning Fortune now we build Vast glittering temples, latdy was that field Where, loyely in the dust of warr, such graces Bueh lustre snin'd firom Gesar^s ruddy moe i
^ See B. TiL Bp. 5.
' On the triumphal arch, in memoiy of two yictonss over the Dsjdsaa
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Where In white loebee, their heads wiUi leirrel onywn'd. Home welooDi'd him with handi^ and yojcw' sound. There, for that nlaee's greater worth and glory, On aroh trinmpiiant stands that conquest^s story | Where Gasar, ail in gold, on ohaziotts rides, And the huge elephants that draw them guides. Such conquests meritt such a noble roome, And such gates liars's dtv best become.
Old MS. 16M (ML
XZTL OK THl OOKBITLSHIP OV TSB BOK 01* BIUUB
ITAXJOirB.
Give to the emperor, ;^e MuBes, sacred inoense and victimB on behalf of your fiiTonrite SiliuB. See, the prince bids the twelve fitfcea retnm to him in the oonsulBhip of hia bod, and the Castaliaii abode of the poet resoimd with the rod of power knocking at his door. O CsBsar, chief and only stay of the empire, still one thing is wanting to the wishes of the rgoie- bff father, — ^tiie happy purple and a third consul in his £unily. Althoogh the Benate gaye these sacred honours to Fompey, and Augustus to Ub Bon-in-law,^ whose names the pacifio Ja- nus thnce ennobled,* Silius prefers to count successive con- sulships in the persons of his sons.
To Cesar let your incense rise,
To him your victims &11 : Ye Nine, nlute th' auspicious skies ;
And let us carol aU.
The twice six bundles bids the god
Upon the son rebound ; And, with the welcome awful rod.
The dome Castalian sound.
Auffustos, thon supreme of things ;
Tneir primal, sii^e stay I To thee thine own Thalia flings ' Hi' unmeditated lay.
While thou enjov*st to crown my joy,
A twofold wisn remains: For bliss upon th' empurpled boy,
And for a third the reins.
1 VtpnoiusAgrippa, the husband of Julia. LikePompey.hewasthrioe eoosnl*
* Thdr names were enrolled in the fiuti kept in the temple of JsnQ% %ihkk was closed in the reign of Augustus.
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And GcMur to Sis aoiit The hononn of the wiae and braTS^ ' T^Hiidi they alone ha^e won ;
Thonflfa peaoeftd Janni three timea threw • A^ory round each name ; My Diliua would acqiiire, in two, A higher threefold fiune. JB^hmtUm.
LiwVUL TO OMCILZkJFUBm
Tour alaTe, OadcilianuB, liaa not vet annonnced to ^oa the flfth honr,^ a&d yet you are already oome to dine with me ; alti&ongh, too, the fourth hour has but just been bawled to adjourn 4ie b^il-conrta,* and the wild beaata* of the Floral Gamea are atill beinff ezerciaed in tiie arena. Bun, OaOiatiiBf haatonto call the atul unwaahed attendants; let the oouchea .be spread; sit down, Cttdlianos. Yon aak for warm water; but the cold is not yet brought; the kitchen is still dosed, and tlie fires not yet lit. You should surely come earlier; why do you wait for the fifth hour? You haye come Terylate^ for breakfiist.
Ton as my guest appear, when Has not one
Br Paul's, or wot otiner dock in town.
The' courts at Westminster are sitting still :
The Sneaker has not read one priTste bilL
Make lukste, cood John, and nerer mind jour hair |
But lay the <uoth| and set us eadi a chair. •
Bring us the soup. — ^There is no water yet
Where is the lambP— It is not on the rait.
Tou should be earlier, Sir ; till noon wny wait?
Tou oome to break&st most extremely lateu JBaif.
LlVILi. TO BirHLLirS, OV HIS BIAUTJUPUL OABDIKS.
He who has seen the orchards of the king of Coreyra» will prefer the garden of your country-house^ Entellus. That the malidons frost ma^ not nip the purple dusters, and the icr cold destroy the gifts of Bacchus, tiie yintage lives protected under transparent stone;^ carefully co?erod| yet not oon-
* About our eleren in the forenoon.
* In which bustnesi wis conducted during the third hour: JBmtmC nm Mi Urda tfCMfuiioof . B. iv. Ep. 8.
: f Ham*, &wns, and other aaunals of the kfaid, SeeB.LBp. 8i
* The Icyif qmcmIsKi.
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oealed. Thus does female besaty shine timmgh silken folds ; thus are pebbles visible in the pellucid waters. What is not nature willing to grant to genius P Barren winter is forced to produce the firuits of autumn.
He who balh seen the ffardens at VerBaHIes, When he sees youri, wul think their beauty faik. Here, lert the purple branch be tcorch'd by firoet^ And Beeehoi^ gifts by cold devouzin^ lost. Shut in the glm the liTing Tintage lies, SeeorelT eloath*d, yM naked to the eyes. Throng finest lace so female jixaoei beam; Pebbles are counted in the lucid stream. What win not natore yield to human skillP When sCsrile winter shsll be automn stilL Ea^f.
TiTTT. TO TA^OBBBA.
You admireiTaoerra, only the poets of old, and raaiae onl^ tiiose who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Y aoerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
The sBcients sll your yeneration haye:
You like no poet on this side the grave.
Yet, nay, excuse me ; if to please you, I
Gan naroly think it worth my while to die. IBjob^,
LZX. OK HUTA.^
Gkeat as is Ae placidity, equally great is the eloquence of the quiet Nerva; but his modesty restrains his powers and his genius. When he miffht with large draughts have drained the sacred fountain of the muses, he preferred to keep his thirst within bounds; he was content to bind his inspired brow with a modest chaplet, and not to crowd all sau for &me. But wlioeyer is acquainted with the verses of the learned Nero, knows that Nerva is the TibuUus of our day.
Of sptBt gentle, as of genins strong, His modMty alone can do him wronj^. When ail Permessis his one draft might drain, He bids lui thirst, however keen, refinun. Content with slender wreath to bind his brow, He will not to his fsmt her ssil allow.
' Supposed to be Uw Kerra afterwards emperor, whose poetry is noticed by Pliny, Ep. v. a. See B. iz. Ep. 27.
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Yet him the sweet TibuUiis of our daji
Each oritio owns, who honoozB Nero't lays. SIphiiuton,
LXXI. TO POaTUXIiJn78.
Ten yean ago, Foatumiaaua, 70a sent me at the time of the winter aolatice ^ four pounds of silver. Next year, when I hopeid for a larger present (for presents ought either to stand at the same point or to grow lamr), there came two pounds, more or less. The third and £)urth ^ears hroucht still less. The fifth year produced a pound, it is true, but only a Septician pound.* In the sixth year it fell off to a small cup of eight undsD ; * next year came half a pound of silyer scrapings in a little cup. The eighth year brought me a ladle of scarcely two ounces ; the ninth presented me a little spoon, weighing less than a needle. The tenth year can haye nothing less to send me; return, therefore^ Postu* mianuSy to the four pounds.
Four pounds of fine silyer you tent,
To neighten the tolstician glee. The boon ten yean since ^ye content,
And spoke you, Postumian, to me.
Nf^t year I depended on more.
As bounties should neyer grow less : And what came to strengthen my store?
Just half the four pounds, I profess.
The third and the fourth lessen'd still.
The fifth brought a pitiful pound : A dish of eight ounces to fiU,
The sixth generosity crown'd.
And now half a pound in a cup ;
A ladle then, less than two ounces: A spoonlet now gaye me to sup,
Inough light as the feather that fiounces.
Nought has the tenth twely^month to send :
To see her endeayour I bum. Pottnmian, my counsel attend.
To four honest pounders return. JB^hinstetL
^ At the Saiunudia in December.
* A pound of eight ounces and a hilf instead of twelye. The deriratica el' the word is unkoown.
' The uncia was the twelftn part of the soxtaiins, which wis nearly f^ttivalent to an English pint.
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LZXn. TO HIS BOOK, OK PBESIirTIKO TT TO ABCAKVS.
My little book, thooffli not yet adorned with the purple, or polished with the keen filing of pnmice, you are in haate to follow AzcanuB, whom beautiful Nsrho, the native town of the learned Yotienua,' recalls to uphold her laws and the annual magistracy; and, what should equally be an 'object of your wishes, that delightful spot, and the friendship of Arcanus, will at once be yours. How I could wish to be my book I
Nor yet empurpled, nor polite,
From the dry pumice' grating bite,
Thoa hi*Bt Arcanus to attend i
For whom bright Narbo deigns to send,
T* enlbroe the iustioe of the gods.
And prop the laws with eqmu rods.
Hail, Narbo, hail! supremely blest,
Of such a progeny possess'd !
Aresaus, bom to tlunk and say,
Leam'd Votienus, for the lay.
Go then, my child; thy wishes crown,
In sock a mend, and such a town.
How just a joy would light my look.
Could I but now become my book ! JBiphifutom,
LXXm. TO nrSTAlTTITrB BUTUS.
Instantius, than whom no one is reputed more sincere in heart, or more eminent for unsullied simplicity, if you wish to giye strength and spirit to my muse, and desire of me versea which shall live, giye me something to love. Cynthia made sportiye Propertius a poet; the fair Lycoris was the genius of GUlus. The beautiful Nemesis eave &me to the wit of Tibullus; while Lesbia inspired the learned Catullua. Neither the Peli^nians, nor the Mantuans, will refuse me the name of a bard, if I meet with a Corinna or an Alexia.
Instantius, whose sinoerer ne'er was known. The snow UBsoil'd of simpleness thine own! Would'st my Thalia crown with pleasing pow'r. And hope rar lays that fear no final hour P Would'st place me eVry blame or praise aboye f Give who shall light me with the torch of loya.
* Aa emineat poet
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Thee, ^7 Fropertiue, CynthU earn'd a namei
The fiur Lycoris proVd a Oallunf flame t
Twas NemesiB attan*d ISballna' Ijxet
And Lesbia set CatuUui^ •oql on fire.
Not me shall the Pelignian't self outshine.
Or e'en the Mantuan* with his muse divine,
Coiinna be, or Amaryllis mine. JBlphmtion.
£ZXIT. TO ▲ BAD DOOTOB.
Yon wee now a gladiator ; yon were preyiouBly an oculiH. Yon uaed to do as a doctor wnat you now do aa a gladiator.
A doctor lately was a captain made :
It is a change of title, not of trade. JSoy.
LZZT. TO LVCASUBy OB ▲ COBFULBBT OaUL.
A Lingonian Ghiul, fresh arrived, returning late at night to hia lodging, through the Covered and Flaminian wa^ra, struck hia toe vi<3ently against some obetade, dislocated his ankle, and fell at full length on the pavement. What was the Ghiul to do, how was he to get up P The huge fellow had iiith him but one littte slave, so thin that he could scarcely carry a little lamp. Accident came to the poor fellow's assistance. Pour branded' slaves were carrying a common corpse, such aa poor men's pyres receive bj thou8aDd& To them toe feeble attendant, in a humble tone, addressed his prayer, entreat- ing that they would carry the dead body of his master wmthersoever they pleased. The load waa changed, and the heavy burden crammed into the narrow shell, and raised on their shoulders. This gentleman, Lucanus, seems to me one out of many of whom we may justly say, " Mortue Galle." ^
Tom about one was from the tavern come,
And with his load throujrh Fleet-street reeling home ;
Striking his toe against me Lord knows what,
Into the kennd he directly shot
What must Tom do P he could not stir or speak :
One only lad he had ! and he so weak.
He scarce could bear his doak; and wanted might
To set the fidlen monument upright
But Tom's kind stars did present help supply :
By chance an empty hearse was passing by:
' ** Dead Gallns." A play on the word QaUna, which means either a Oanl, or one of the priest of Cybele, who, from being emascnlate, mifht be called dead men.
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The lad acreams out, ** Good gentlemen, I pnyy
One moment stop, and take a cbxpae away.
There's no great ceremony with tne dead :
They sqneeze him in, no matter, heels or head.
Thus Iwune, in gay humour, did oontrive
To make of Tom uie best dead man aliye. Ay.
liXXTI. TO GALLIOUB.
"Tell me, Marcus, tell me the truth, I pray; there i*. nothing to which I shall listen with greater pleasure." Such is your constant prayer and request to me, Oallicus, both when you recite your compositions, and when you are plead- ing the cause of a client. It is hard for me to deny your re- quest : hear then what is as true as truth itself, xou do not hear truth with pleasure, GaUicus.
Tell me, say you, and tell me without fear
The truth, the tlung I most desire to hear.
This is your language, when your works you quote:
And when you plead, this is your constant note.
*T!s most inhuman longer to deny
What you so often press so earnestly.
To the great truth of all then lend an ear —
" Ton are uneasy when the truth you hear." Sojf.
LXXVii. TO HIS FBISKD LIBER.
Liber, dearest object of care to all thjr firiends; Liber, worthy to live in ever-blooming roses; if thou art wise, let thy hair ever glisten with Assyrian balsam, and let garlands of flowers surround thy head ; let thy pure crvstal cups be darkened with old Falemian, and thy soft couch be warm with the caresses of love. He who has so lived, even to a middle age, has made life longer than was bestowed on him.
Liber, of all thy friends thou sweetest care, Thou worthy in eternal flow'r to fare. If thou beest wise, with Tyrian oil let shine Thy locks, and rosy garlands crown thy head ; Dark thy clear glass with old Falernian wine. And heat with softest love thy softer bed. He that but living half his days dies such, Makes his life longer than 't was given him, much.
BenJofmm. liber, thou joy of all thv friends, Worthy to live in endless pleasure :
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Whfle koiTes and fooli pnnae their ends. Let mirth and freedom be thy treasure.
Be itill well dress'd, as now thou art, Gay, and on eharminff objects thinlcipg ;
Let easy beauty warm tny heart, And fill thy bed when tiiou leay'st drinking.
Delay no presung appetite,
And sometimes stir up lazr nature i Of age the envious censure sught,
Wnat pleasure's made of, *tis no matter.
He that Utcs so but to his prime,
Wisely doubles his short time. SedUy,
LZZnn OK THB Oi3CS8 01* STELLA, IK EOKOUB OT TJU
TBIUKPHB OF DOHITLLZr.
Gktmes, such as the yictory gained over the giants in the Fhlesmui plains, such as thy Lotdian triumph, 0 Bacchus, wotdd haye deserved, Stella has exhibited in celebration of the trinmph oyer the Sarmatians ; and such is his modesty, such his affection, he thinks these too insignificant. Hermus, turbid with gold cast up from its depths, or Tagos which mnrmurs in the Hespenan regions, would not be sufficient for him. Every day brings its own gifts ; there ia no cessation to the rich series of largesses, and many a prize frdls to the lot of the people. Sometimes playful coins come down in sudden showers ; sometimes a liberal ticket bestows on them the animals which they have beheld in the arena. Sometimes a bird delights to fill your bosom unexpectedly, or, without having been exhibited, obtains a master by lo^ that it may not be torn to pieces. Why should I enumerate the chariots, and the thirty prises of victory, which are more than even both the Consuls generally give P But all is surpassed, C»« sar, by the great honour, that thy own triumph has thee for a spectator.
What sames might make Phlegrean triumphs shine.
What India's pomp might wish, Lyaeus, thine ;
The high enhancer of the northern day
Does, and still thinks he nothing does, display.
In him how modesty and duty strove I
Twas all inferior to terrestrial Jove.
Him not suffices Hmnus' sordid stream,
Whose wave, disturbed, yet gave the gold to gleam i
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not ricn Tagns, flood no leas ■ublimc^ Th* imriTall'd glory of the western cLuoae. Each day pronues boons; nor jfoils the chain Of iraalui, or to the people rapine's rain. Now wanton coin descends in copious show'ri Now tiie large token bids the prey deyonr : The bird into the breast secure is borne, And catches now her lord lest she be torn. Whjr ten the cars, or palms unnumbered diow, Which neither consul, or not both, bestow. Yet, all outdone, ne'er thine outdoing cloys ; Thy presence, Cesar, since thy bay enjoys. .EjpAmftoii.
LXXIX. TO FABTTLLA.
All your female fiienda are either old or ugly; nay, more ugly than old women usually aie. These you lead about in your train, and drag with you to feasts, porticoes, and theatres. Thus, Fabulla^ jou seem handsome, thus you seem young.
AU thy companions aged beldames are.
Or more derorm'd than age makes any, far :
These cattle at thy heels Uiou trail'st always
To public walks, to suppers, and to plays.
'CSause when wi^ such alone we thee compare.
Thou canst be said^ Fabulla, young or fair. Anon. 169&
AU the companions of her Grace, I *m told.
Are either very plain or very old.
With these she Tisits : these she drags about
To blaT, to ball, assembly, auctions, rout.
Witn these she sups : with these she takes the air.
Without such foil^ is lady duchess &ir P Hay,
LXXX. TO DOKinAir, OK HIS BBTIYAL OV PUOILISTIO
CONTESTS.
Thou revirest among us, GsBsar, the wonders of our yener- able fore&thers, and sufferest not ancient customs to expire, for the games of the Latian arena are renewed, and ralour contends with the natural weapon, the hand. Thus, under thj rule, the respect for the ancient temples is preserved, and the fane where Jupiter was worshipped of old, is still honoured by thee. Thus, while thou inventest new things, thou restorest the old : and we owe to thee, Augustus, both the present and the past.
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Our ikthen* deeda, CflBiar, thoo dost reviTe^
PreMTve the gnreft ages ttiU aliye ;
Hie ontiquatM Latian games renew,
The fight with simple fiste, thy sands do show|
Temples, though old, their honour thou maintain's^
The mean, for th' sake of richer, not disdain'st
Thus while thou new dost build, the old restore,
We owe thee for thy own, and all before. Anon, 169&
LXXXI. TO PAPIBIAirXTB, OK OILLIjL.
Gkllia swears, not by the mystic rites of Gybele, nor bj the bull that loyed the heifer of Ebypt, nor indeed by anj of our gods and goddesses, bat by her pearls. These she em« braces; these she coyers with kisses; these she calls lier brothers and sisters ; these she loyes more ardently than her two children. If she should chance to lose these, she declares she could not liye eyen an hour. Ah ! how excellently, BapirianuB, might the hand of Annnus Serenus ^ be turned toaccoontl
What do you think is Lady Betty's oath?
lis neither split me, dem me, faith, nor troth :
Not by heayen's powers, or tiiose of her own &ce :
But her dear drop, and dearer Bruiaels laoe.
She calls them her dear creatures, hugs, and kisses.
And loves them better than both little misses.
Protests, if they were ravish'd from her power.
She could not possibly survive that hour.
Then srant, kind heaven, when next she sees the plai^
Some hand, like Peny's, snatch them both away. May,
LXXXIl. TO DOKITIAN.
While the crowd presents to thee, Augostus, its humble supplications, we too, in offering to our ruler our poor yersea, know that the divinity can find time equally for public a& fiura and the Muses, and that our garlands also please thee. ITphold thj poets, Augustus ; we are thy pleasing glory, thj chief care and delight. It is not the oak' alone that b^ comes thee, nor the laurel' of FhoBbus ; we will wreathe for thee a civic crown of ivy.
* A noted thie( who might steal her pesrli, and cause her death, as she dasenre% for her foolish woiship of them.
' The crown of oak, given for having preserved the lives of citisen^
* The laurel crown for victoiy in battle ; that of ivy, the distinction of poets, or the patrons of poets.
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Wliile plaintiYe mobs, Aiupistas, asV redraw
Vfe to our bousteous lord our bliaa confesa.
We know that, from mtendinflr huinan-kind«
Ue with the muses can his rmge find.
Accept thy yarioua bards, their yarious lay ;
Thy grace, thy glory, thy delight are they.
Nor oak, nor laurel, proves thy sole renown :
Be thine, of ivy, too, a dyio crown. E^kmdam,
BOOK IX,
TO ATITU8.
0 POIT, celebrated, even against your will, for your sub- limity of conception, and to whom the tomb will one du/ bring dne honours, let this brief inscription live beneath my bust, which you have placed among those of no obscure per- sons : — ^ I am he, second to none in reputation for composing trifles, whom, reader, you do not admire, but rather, I suspect, love. Let greater men devote their powers to higher subjects: I am cont^t to talk of small topics, and to come frequently into your hands."
Though thy leam'd breast, great Poet, '■ to me known,
And Uiat tny verse will raise me ^ve mine own ;
Yet this short title on my statue place.
Which 'mong no common authors thou dost grace.
** I 'm he, in sportive verse, none is above,
Who none astonish, yet all readers love ;
In vaster works vast uncouth things are said.
My gloiy is, that I am often read.^ Anon* 1095.
TO TOItAVITTS.
Hail, my beloved Toranius, dear to me as a brother. The preceding epigram, which is not included in the pages of my book, I addur^sed to the illustrious Stertiniua, who has re- solved to place my bust in his library. I thought it well to write to you on the subject, that you might not be ignor- ant who Avitus really is. Farewell, and prepare to re- ceive me.
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I. Ojr THB TIlCFLl 07 THX FLATIAK 7AKILT.
Ajb long as Janiu shall giye the jean their winten, Domi- tian> their autanms, and Augoatna their summera ; aa long aa the glorioua day of the Oermanic kalends* shall recall the mighty name of the subdued Ehine ; aa long aa the Tarpeian temple of the chief of the gods shall stand ; aa lono; aa the Bomau matron, with suppliant voice and incense, shall propiti- ate the sweet divinity oi Julia;' so long shall the lofty glory of the Flavian family remain, enduring like the aun, and the stars, and the splendour of Borne. Whatever Domitian's un- oonquered hand has erected, is imperishable aa heaven.
While summers, autunma, winters shall abide.
Imperial names shall o'er the months preside ;
While great December'i bright and glorious day
Shall boast Domitian made the Rhine obey ;
While the Tarpeian rock shall fix'd remain.
And Jove withm the Oanitol shall reign ;
While Roman matrons Jolia shall adore,
With firankincense the soddett mild implore t
The lofty temple of the jPlavian race
Shall fiourish with divine immortal grace ;
Uke sun and moon, e'en like Rome's empire, stand,
A heaven is built by a victorious hand. Antm. 1096*
H. TO LUPUS.
Although you are poor to your friends. Lupus, you are not so to your mistress, and your libidinous desires cannot complain of want of indulgence. The object of your affec- tions &ttens upon the most delicate cakes, while your guests feed on black bread. Betine wine, cooled in snow, is nlaoed brfore your mistress ; we drink the black poison of Corsica out of the cask. A small portion of her favours you purchase with your hereditarr est^ee : while your neglected friend is left to plough lanoa not his own. Your mistress shines resplendent with Ery thnsaa pearla ; your client, whilat you are immersed in pleaaure, is abandoned to his creditor and
^ Domitian desired that the month of October should be rentned after himself; as SextUts had been after Angnstns.
' The first dav of the month of September, on which Domitian pretended to have sobdned the Germans.
* Daof^ter of Titus, Domitiin's brother.
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dragged to priflOXL Alitter, supported by eight Syrian sUyea, is provided for your mistress ; while ^our mend is left to be carried naked on a common bier. It is time for thee, Ovbele, to mutilate contemptible Toluptuaries ; such are tiie charao* ters that deserve the infliction.
III. TO DOMITIAir.
If you, O Cffisar, were to assume the rights of a creditor, and to demand payment for all that you have given to the gods and to heavepi, Atlas, even though a great auction were to take place in Olympus, and the deities were compelled to sell all they have, would be bankrupt, and the father of the
Sods would be obliged to compound with you in a very small ividend. For what could he pay you for the temple on the Capitol P What for the honour of the glorious Gapitoline
fames P What could the spouse of the Thunderer pay for er two temples ? Of Minerva I say nothing ; your interests are hers. IBut what shall I say of the temples to Hercules and Apollo, and the affectionate Lacedsmonian twins ?^ What of the Flavian temple which towers to the Boman skyP You must needs be patient and suspend your daims, for Jove's treasury does not contain sufficient to pay you.
If thou thouldst challenge what is due to thee
From heaven, and its creditor wouldrt be ;
If public sale should be cried through the spheres.
And th' gods sell aU to satisfy arresrs,
Atlas wiU bankrupt prove, nor one ounce be
Reserv'd for Jupiter to treat with thee.
What canst thou for the CSapitol receive ?
Or for the honour of the laurel-wreath P
Or what will Juno give thee for her shrine P
Pallas I pass, she waits on thee and thine.
Aleides, Jb^hoBbus, Pollux I slip by,
And Flavia's temple neighb'nng on the iky.
Cesar, thou must forbear, and larust the heaven :
Jove*8 chest has not enough to make all even.
If, OflDsar, thou shouldst itom fteat Jove redain All thou hast lent to digni^ his name } Should a fiiir auction rend Olympus' hall. And the just gods be forced to sell their all,
* Castor and PoUoz.
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The bankrapt AtJat not a twelfth could pay To meet thy daimi upon the ledLoning oay ;
• • • • Do not oUige great Jore, then, to oomponnd. Who could not pay thee sizpenoe in ihe pound.
Wmbmntter Smnew, April, 1853.
17. TO MBOETLVB,
When Oalla will grant yoa her fryonre for two gold pieces, and what you please for as many more, why is die presented with ten gold pieces on each of your visits, iEschyms P She does not estimate her utmost farours at so high a price : why then do you give her so muchP To stop her mouthP
When for two gnildeit Galla thou mightfst have. And bring her to do audit, if four thou gave, Wh^, iEschylut, gaVst thou tenP Was it, in sooth. To tie her tongue F Or, rather, gain her mouth P
AnoHffmouB M TraimiaUim,
T. TO PAXTL^.
You wish, Paula, to many Priscus ; I am not surprised; you are wise: Priscos will not marry you ; and he is wise.
Paulla, thou wouldst to Priaous wedded be ; Thou 'rt wise } and hee 's wise too t hee won't wedd thee.
(M MS. 16M CM. That vou would wed Sir John it very wise: That ne do n't care to wed is no surprise. J9«y.
You 'd marry the marquis, fair lady, they say ;
Tott 're right; we 've suspected it long : But hk lonuhip declines in a complaisant way,
And, futh, he 's not mudi in the wrong. Jv. B. HoML
Tl. TO DOXiTtur.
To thee, chaste prince, mighty conqueror of the Ehine^ and father of the world, cities present their thanks : they will henceforth have population; it is now no longer a crime to bring infants into the world. The boy is nc^ionger muti« lated by the art of the greedy dealer, to mourn the loss of his mamy rights ; nor does the wretched mother give to her prostituted child the price paid by a contemptuous {Hinder. That modesty, which, before your reign, did not pmvail even
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on the marriage couch, begins, hj yonr inflaence, to be felt even in the haunts of licentiousness.^
0 thou, who oouldst the Rhine restore^ Dread gasrdion of mankind ;
Meek moaesXy, with blushing lore, Was to thy care consign'd.
To thee their everlasting praise
Let town and country pa^ ; Who &irly may their o&prmg raise,
To people and obey.
By avarice no more beguiled,
^^riUtv shall mourn : Xor shall the prostituted child
Be firom the mother torn.
Shame, though, before fhy blest decree.
The bridal bed's disdain ; Now, sanctified again by thee,
Ubiquitous must reign. ^jihmdom^
m. TO APEB.
I hnve been desirous for five whole days, Afer, to greet you on your return from amon^ the people of Africa. " He 18 engaged," or " he is asleep,'* is the answer I have received on cfuling two or three times. It is enough, Afer; you do not wish me to sa/ ^ How do you do ? " so I 'U say *' Gkiod bye!"
Since your return from Rome, I five days went To wish you weU, and pay my compliment " Busy," ** not up," hath been my answer still: Adieu : you will not let me wish you weU. Sojf,
Vni. TO POHITIAK.
As if it were but a trifling crime for our sex to bareain away our male children to public lust, the ver^ cradle had become the prey of the pander, so that the child, snatched from its mother's bosom, seemed to demand, by its wailing, the disgraceful pay. Infimts bom but yesterday sufferea scandalous outrage. The father of Italy, who but recently brought help to tender adolescence, to prevent savafi;e lust from condemning it to a manhorxi of steriUty, comd not endure such horrors. Before this, Ciesar, you were
1 Comp. B. vL Ep. 2, 5; ind Ep. 9 below.
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loved by boyB, azic youtliB, and old men; now infanta alaci
lore yoiL
As tho' the Tileft wronjg; were rifflit refin'd. To traffic it with ofoftitate mankind ; The cradle proVd the pander's who could buy Hie finest Yiotim, from the feeblest cry. Against poor innocents such arts conspire As shock sweet nature, and th' Ausonian sire : That sire, who to the aid of youth had flown, Lest savage lust should blight the hero grown* The boy, the youth, the sage did Iotc, applaud : Now smiling infants hsp their CflBsar^s laud.
IX. TO BITHTFICVa.
Fabios has bequeathed you nothing, Bithynicoa, although you used to present him yearly, if I remember right, with aiz thousand aeateroes. He haa bequeathed nothing more to any one ; so do not complain, Bithynicoa ; he haa at least aaved vou aix thousand aestercea a year.
Thousands to him each yeere thou esT'st, yet hee. At *s death, I take 't^ ffaTe thee no Tegacie : Repine not, though ; lor to none more he gave ; By 's death those thousands yeerely thou dost saye.
Old MS. 16(A CmL Not in his will ! who trom you used to clear A hundred pounds in presents every year I Cease to complain ; you are dealt greatly by : A hundred pound a year 's a legacy. ^oy.
X. TO CAJTTHABUS.
Though you willingly dine at other people'a houaea. Can- tharua, you indulge yooradf there in clamour, and complaintay and threats. Lay aside this fierce humour, I adviae you. A man cannot be both independent and a glutton.
Since tou abroad love to ftre plentifully, Why 00 TOU bawl, and domineer, and bully P This craboed humour will not do ; for he Win seldomi taste deserts that is so free. JSby.
XI. OV BAJUKUa, THB FAYOUBITB 01 DOmTIAir.
A name bom among Tioleta and the rosea, a name which IB that of the most pleasant part of the year ; ^ a name which
> The name Eanmu is from the Greek lap, "spring."
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saTon of HybU and Attic flowers, aad which exhales a per* fume like that of the nest of the superb phconix ; a name sweeter than the nectar of the gods, and which the boy, be- loved of Gybele, as well as he who mixes the cups for the Thunderer, would have preferred to his own ; a name which, if even breathed in the Imperial palace, would be responded to by every Venus and Cupid ; a name so noble, soft, and deli> cate, I wished to utter in not inelegant verse. But you, ob- stinate syllable,' rebel I Yet some poets say Eiarinoti but then they are G-reek poets, to whom every license is permit- ted, and with whom it is lawful to pronounce the word Ares' long or short just as they please. We Bomans, who court severer muses, dare not take such liberties.
'With the roies and Tiolets Bpnmg, In the Beason most joyously sung ; That sips Hybla and Attical flowers. To the PhoBuix fum'd eyry that towers ; Oh tibe name than the nectar more sweet! That to music's own ear were a treat ; That, whom Cybele loVd, would cajole ; Or, who tempers the Thunderer's bowL In the Palatme-hall if it sigh, All the Loves and the Graces reply. Little name noble, delicate, soft! . Thee in smoothest of lays wish I oft. But the train of short vowels proves cross : Yet the bards can tune Etarinos : The bold Greeks, whom can nothing confound, And who ''Af»fc 'Aptc can resound. Such fair freedoms our language refuses, Which obeys more despotic muses. Other tongues, wisely tree as the Greek, Can with equal variety speak : Nor the privilege need they decline, Of Earinus, or Earine. EXphmdom.
Xn, OK THB SAKE.
If Autumn had riven me a name, I should have been called Oporinus ; if the shivering constellations of winter, Gheime* rinus. If named by the summer months, I should have been
* The first syilablei which the Greek poets lengthened by writing Biar* mos. ' Homer makes the a in Area, *< Mars," long and short in the same
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caOed Theripna. What; is he, to whom the spriiig has gtren
anameP
From aatamn my name would drd^voc he, Rnde Boktioe with xufdpwo^ would agree ; From fenrid delights ^ptvoe miffht I bring: Bat who is the stripling yclept m>m the sprins P
jBiphmdim»
JUL OK THX SAHB.
Yon haye a name, which designates the season of the new- bom year, when the Ceciopian Dees plunder the short>liyed yemal flowers ; a name, which deseryes to be written with Cupid's arrow, and which Cytherea would delight in tracing wito her needle : a name, worthy of being traced in letters m Brythrsan pearls, or gems polished by the fingers of the He- liades,^ a name which the cranes fl^g to the skies might de- scribe with their wings,* and which is fit only for C»sar*8
palace.
Thy name the sweetest season in does brin^,
(Jo]r of the pland*rinff bees) the flow'ry spnng ;
Whidi to deeypher Venus may delight.
Or Cupid, wiu a plume firom s own winr, write ;
tniich those, that amber chafe, should omy note,
Or be upon, or with a jewel wrote ;
A name the ersnes do figure as they fly,
And boast to Jore^ as they approach tne sky:
A name that does with no place else oomp<nt.
But where 'tis fix'd, only in desar^s court Anon. 1096.
Xry. OK ▲ PABASITB TBIXKP.
Do yon think that this fellow, whom your dinners and hos* ptali^ haye made your friend, is a model of sincere attach- ment r He loyea your wild boars, and your midlets, and your bows' teats, and your oysters— not yourself. If I dined as sumptuously, he would he my friend.
Think*st thou his friendship eyer faithfiil proyes,
Whom first thy table purcnas'd P no, he loyes
Thy oysters, mullets, boara, sowes* paps, not thee:
If 1 could feast him so, he would loye me. IffSf*
« See B. iy. Bp. 25; B. y. Bp. 38, _
* The cnnes as th^ fly Ibnn the letter Y, the first of the word m^j '^epriiif.**
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This honest friend* that you lo much admire^
No better is than a mere trencher-squlie.
He loves not you ; but salmon, turkey, chine :
Your friend a better dinner will make mine. Hoff.
XT. OV OHLOB.
The shameless Ghloe placed on the tomb of her seven hus- bands the inscription, "The work of Ghloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly P
On her seven husbands' tombs she doth impress
TAm CMm did: what can she more confess? WrighL
On her seven husbands' tombs ''This Chloe made" She writes : what could she have more plainly said?
0}dM8.lM, Cent. In Stepney church-yard seven tombs in a row
For the reader*s soft sympathy call ; On each-^<* My dear husband lies buried below." And Chloe 's the widow to all.
Wntnnnsier JR^ciew, AprH 186S.
XYI. OK THB HAIB 07 EABIFUS.
The youth, who is dearest to the emperor of all that com- pose his court, and who has a name that denotes the season of spring, has presented his mirror, which showed him how beautiful he was, and his graceful locks, as sacred offerings to the god of Fergamus.^ Happy is the luid that is hqnoured by such a present ! It would not have preferred even the locks of Ganymede.
His lovely hayre, and form's adviser, hee,
g[is fflass,) Pereamean god, devotes to thee ! ee, by hu lord in court so h^ly pris'd. Whose name the sweets o' th' spring characterized. Hap])y the place that 's honoured with such hayre, As will not yield to Ganymede's for fayre.
Old MS. im Cent
Xm. OK THS SAME, TO JBSCVLAPirS.
Venerable grandson of Latona, who miti^test with healing herbs the rigorous threads and rapid distaffs of the Pates, these tresses, which have attracted the praise of the emperor^ are sent to thee by the youth, thy votary, as his consecrated
1 .dfiscuUpius, who had a magnificent temple at Pergamns.
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offeringB, fihom the eit;^ of Borne. He has sent with his sacred bur, too, a shining mirror, by the aid at which his beanteoos tresses were ananged. Do thou preserve his jouth- fill beauty, that he may prove not less handsome with his bfiir «hort than long«
Thou that with powerfiill drogss rereneit fate's Decrees, and eeaest out life's tnortett dates, To thee this Tonth his Towed bam doth send, Which, with mmself, his lord did soe commend : His spotless mirronr too does joyne with theiBe, The uythfi^ jadge of 's &oe't takeingst dress. Pgesenre tSSu his youth's beautr, that less &yrB He grow not m his short, thsn longer, hayre.
Old MS. leth CM.
xviii. TO DOKiTiiw, nrinoinire fob ▲ supflt or
WATXB.
I possess, and pray that I may Ions continue to possess, under thy guardianship, Caesar, a smaU country seat ; I haye also a modest dwelling in the dtv. But a winding machine has to draw, with hu>oriou8 effort, water for my thirsting garden from a small valley ; while my dry house complains that it is not refreshed even by the slightest shower, although the "V^i^im fount ^ babbles dose by. The water, which tiiou wilt grant, Augustus, to my premises, will be for me as the water of CastaSa or as showers from Jupiter.
\ petty fsnn, snd humble godi in town, ' ly thee, snd may they long, my wishes croinL Sut, Gsssar, from the vale, to slake the grass, . L painful pump must win the wave to pass : knd then the house oomnlains no fountain cheers i .Vhen, babbling by, the Mercian rill she hears, /he strsam Augustus on our sods shall pour, Will prove* Gsstelian, or the Inund'rer's show'r.
JB^hituion. ZIX. TO SABSLLUS.
You praise, in three hundred verses, SabeUus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine^ Sabollus, not to bathe.
Thou praysest in three hundred lines
Ponticus* baths, who richly dines ;
Thy minde to eate, not wash, inclines. Jfsy.
1 B. vi. Ep. 42.
402 UAXsuL'n
Tour TeriM on my lord mayoi^t coach declare^
Not that you ride, but dine, with my lord mayor. Siojf.
ZX. TO DOIOTIAK, OK HIS XBXOTIOK 07 ▲ TSKPUE OV THB SPOT WHXBX HI WAS BOBH.
This piece of land, which lies so open to all, and is coyered with marble and gold, witnessed the birth of the infant lord of the world. ^Gippy land, that resounded with the cries Oa so illuBtrioTis an inmnt, and saw and felt his little hands spreading over it I Here stood the yenerable mansion, which gaye to uie earth that which Shodes,^ and pious Crete, gave to the starry heaven. The Guretes ' protected Jupiter by the rattling of their arms, such as Phrygian eunuchs were able to beu*. But thee, Gssar, the sire of the Immortals protected, and the thunderbolt and legis were thy spear and Dttckler.
On this grand spot, which gold and marble crown, Smil'd first Ae mfimt-lord of her renown. What joy was hers, to hear th* anspxcious cnr, And teach the sprawling hands to nail the uy. ^ Here stood the awful dome, that brought mankind What Rhodes, what pious Crete, to heav*n assign'd. The fiun'd Curetes well might dans their arms : Half-men could guard a litde sod m>m harms. But, Cssar, thee the ore of gods conceal'd : The bolt and iEgis proved thy spear and shield.
JESIphifuioiu
TO ATTOTUS.
Artemidorus ^sesses a &vourite boy, but has sold his fiurm : Calliodorus received his farm in exchange for the boy. Say, which of the two has done best, Auctus P ArtemidoruB plays the lover ; Calliodorus the ploughman.'
Artemidore his purchas'd fiur may boast:
But ev'ry doa for balmy blira he sold. Still-lauffhmg lands have Galliodore engross'd:
Of botn the fiiends the wondYous truth be told.
1 Neptone was bom in Bhodes; Jupiter in Crete.
* Priests of Cybele ; originally from Phrygia.
* Artemidonis, whose name is from the c£ute Artemis, or Diana, is a lover; CalUodoms, whose name is from Ka}JioQ, " beau^," is turned a more ploug^mun.
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Say, Auctni, whether made superior choice P Or let the queena of land and love decide.
For ploughman Cbd ahall Venus giTC her Toice P Can am'rous Art remain Dianrs pride P JBlphiiuian
Xxh. TO PA8T0B.
Tou think, perfaape, Pastor, that I ask riches with the same motive with which the Yulgar and ignorant herd ask them ; that the soil of Setia may be tilled with my plonghshares, and our Tuscan land resound with the innumerable fetters of my slaves ; that I may own a hundred tables of Maureta- nian marble supported on pedestals of Libyan ivory, and that ornaments of gold may jingle on my couches ; that my lips may press only large cups of crvstal, and that my Palemiau wine may darken the snow in which it is cooled ; that Syrian slaves, dad in Canusian wool, may perspire under the weight of m^ litter, while it is surrounded oy a crowd of fashionable clients ; that my guests, fuU of wine, may envy me the posses- sion of a cupbearer, whom I would not change even for Ghiny- mede; that I may ride a prancing mule to bespatter my Ty^^^ doak ; or goad with my whip a steed from Marseilles. It is Hot, I call the gods and the neavens to witness, for «dj such objects. For what, then P That I maj bestow gifts, Pastor and build houses.
Peihaps you think more riches I desire. From motives which the vulgar herd inspire* That the bright plough share shine upon my lands f And that my fium employ a hundred nands. My tables firom carr'd frames derive an air ; From gilt ones my settee or elbow-chair. That the huge massy eolden cup be mine ; Or ice look crimson d by my cooling wine. That two tall Irishmen my chair support ; Or at my levee beaux may pay theur court Or when my mellow guest is put to bed» He may admire the beauty of my maid. In harness gay my set of greys advance : Or that my pad at Foubert^s learn to dance* But, witness heaven ! and judge if I speak true ! Not one of all those things have I in view. Buflding my passion is, and to extend Alms to the poor, and presents to a friend. Soy*
2i>3
404 XABTIAL*!
ZXni. TO OAXUB.
0 tiion, whose lot it was to have thj head decorated with th<i golden Tirgin crown,^ saj, Oarua, where is now thj Palladian trophy? *'Thou aeeat the oonntenance of our emperor re- splendent in marhle ; my crown went of its own accord to plaee itself on those locb." The sacred oak ' may be jealons of the Alban olire, for being the first to surround that unoon* queredhead.
O thou, whose head with golden glory glow'd,
Say, where my Mend the Yiig^-TOon bertow'd?
In marble fix'd th' imperial mtures view :
The crown, spontaneous, round the honoum flew.
With envy may the oak the oliye eye,
That this should now th' unTsnquiah'd wreath suppl]|r.
ZXiy. TO THB SAICB, OK HIS BTTST Ot nOKITLAJr.
What sculptor, imitating the lineaments of the imperial bust, has surpassed in Soman marble the ivory of Phidias P This is the face that rules the world ; these are the features of Joye in his calm majesty ; such is the god when he hurls his thunder in a cloudless sl^. Pallas has given thee, Garus, not only her crown, but the image of thy lord, which thou hast thus honoured.
What noble artist has such ^lory won P
In taking Geesai^s face, Phidias out-done P
Whose polish'd iVry is no way so &ir,
As with the Latian marble to compare.
Such, with delight, we see heaVn's &ce, and wonder
When, without clouds, serene, we hear it thunder.
Pallas not only gave thee th' olive wreath.
But her own work, thii statue, did bequeath. Anan, 1696.
TO
Whenever I glance at your Hyllus as he poure out my wine, Afer, you fix upon me an eye full of mistrust. What harm is there, I ask, in admiring a pretty attendant P We gaze at the aun, the stars, the temples, the gods. Am I to
^ The crown^ in the form of an olive wreath, presented hj the emperor to the victor in the games of the Qainquatria, celebrated in honour of Minerva on the Alban mount.
' The crown of oak-leaves usually worn by Domitisn. See B. viii Ep. H*
BOOK n.] inexAHB. 405
torn away my head and hide my eyes and oonnienanoe, aa though a Gk)rgon were handing me the cape P Aleidee waa aereie ; yet he permitted Hylaa to be looked at ; and Mercury ia allowed to play with Ganymede. If you do not wish youi ^estSy Afer, to look at your youthful attendants, you should inTite only such as Phineus and CBdipua.^
As oft as we thy Hyllus do behold
Fining thy wine, thy brows do seem to scoldi
What crime ii t, I would know, to yiew thy boyf
We look upon the gods, the staxs, the day.
Shall I flmff back ss when a Oorgon lies
Steep'd in uie cap f and hide my hoe and eyesF
Great Herenles was fierce in cruelty,
Tet we might see his pretty Hylas free:
Nor would great Jove have anaht in wrath to say
If Mercury with Ganymede did play.
(Afer) if then we must not yiew thy loose
Soft ministers that serre thee in thy house,
Innte such men as Phineus to be
Thy guests, or (Edipus, that ne*er could see. ITeMer.
ZXn. TO VBBTA.'
He who venturee to send yersee to the eloquent Nerva^ wiU present common perfumes to Goemus,' violets and privet to the inhabitant of raBstum, and Gorsican honey to the bees of Hybla. Yet there ia some attraction in even a humble muse ; the cheap olive ia relished even when costly dainties are on the table. Be not surprised, however, that, conscious of the mediocrity of her poet, my Muse fears jrour judgment. Nero himself is said to have dreaded your criticism, when, in hia youth, he read to you his sportive effusions.
Who lines to witty Nerva dares present,
As well might pemmes to th' Exchange have sent ;
To Pesstum flow^ to th' country privet send,
Or Hybla's hives with Carsick honey mend :
Tet may a slendsr muse some gust sfford ;
liong choyoest &rs sowre olives come to th' board.
Nor wonder that our Muse, beins conscious
Of her mesne worth, should dreaa thy judgment thus :
• Both were blind. PliinsDS was a king of 8almydesras in Thiaosb sad sa augur, s J9«e B. viii. Ep. 7a > Probably the Gosmns elsewhere msntiousd ss a perftunsr.
406 XAsniL't
IfcfO ^''*— ^ vxdi '• wtaSoR ftnuBBi^ did ietn In Toolli, 't if layd, f anpraadi liiT critic eve.
XXm. TO CJiJLUTUB.
Cum depOatot, ChieBte, odeos poctei^ Et Tulturmo mentoLun pmm oollo, Et prostitatiB levint c^nit ca^ Nee YiTat hIIob in too pilitt ernie, Pnri^entone crebne cana labia TolselUB ; Cnnoa, Uamilloe, Qoinctioe, Nnmaa, Aiiooa^ Efe qoidqaid naquam legimoa pilosomm LoqueriB, sonaaqne gnuidiboa minax verbia ; Et cum theatriay aecDloqoe iixaria. Oocmrit aliquia inter lata ai diaacaa, Jam pasdagogo liberatna, et cojaa Befibnlavit targidum faber penem : Natn Tocatam docia, et miaei faii, Catonianay Chreate, qnoa facia lingoa.
O Chrerto, qnantnnqne porti i tesdooli ndati, ed ana mentola b- mile al oollo a on Avotogo, e 1 capo piik aUegerito di natiche pro- stituite, ne Temn pelo esista tn le toe ooteie^ e le mollette soTrente tuate netdno le cannte tae labia; ta pazli diei Cnziiy dei Oamilli, dei Quintii, dei Numa, degli Ancfai, e di auanti altri pelod cbe noi leg- giamo, e ferero ti fid sentire con parole goofie; e ti sdegni coi tea- tri, e ooi tempL 8e iGra tanto ti capita qnalefae nerbarnto di giA li- berato dal peda^go, il di cui tuigioo membro abbiail &bro sfiMuato, tu lo condiua chiamato con un 8^;no : emitergognodireyOGhiesto, cio cbe Ceu coUa tua lingua da CJatone. QragUa,
XXYm. EPITAPH OK IiATOTUa.
I, that lie here, am Latinna, the pleasing ornament of the stage, the honour of the games, toe obj^ of jour ap-
Elauae, and yonr delight ; who could hare fixed even Cato imself as a speefcator, and have relaxed the graTitr of the Curii and Fabricii. But my life took no colour from the stage, and I was known as an actor only in my profesaion. Nor could I have been acceptable to the emperor without strict morality. He, like a god, looks into the inmost re- cesses of the mind. Call me, if you please, the slaye of laurel-crowned PhoDbus, provided Borne knows that I waa tiie aenrant of her Jupiter.
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The dianning meet the glorjr of the stage.
Th'mAxoBdt tne darling pastune of the age ;
Latin fies here, whom Cato would have made
His fix*d tpectator, Boumen have alla/d
In rough Fahridus. His strict life near drew
The stage's vioe, its arts he onljr knew.
Dear to his lord, he must, by virtue, be.
His lord, whose eyes the inward mind do see.
Him, Phosbus* parasite, cease, Bome, to name,
To be thy Jotc s domestic, he did daim. Amm, 189ft.
I 'm that arch fellow Foote, the delight of his age,
Tlie &me and applause of the droll mimic stage ;
"T is I who, by muscles quite chang'd and grimace.
Could the de^ lurking laugh of great senators trace.
And quite shorten the lengm of Sir Thomas's face.
T is I who the various powers have shown
Of changing the hce by a secret unknown :
The feign'd laugh, ogling smile, and the wide vacant staxn,
That hfw made the snectators all loudly declare
They never saw anything Hke it, they swear.
Thus, during my life-time, my house was still showing
That by my sole art I could keep the scenes going.
But what will become of it after I 'm dead
The Lord knows, but fear 't will lie low as my head !
I We faim pothers till quite out of breath.
And now I in taken off by tiiat fell serjeant. Death.
Bev. Mr. Scoit, 1773.
TTIT. XFITAPH OK PHIL^VIS.
AAer having lived through a period as long as the age of Nestor, are you then so suddenly carried off, Fbilasnis, to Plato's streuns below ? You had not yet counted the long years of the Guma^ Sibyl ; she was older by three months. Alas ! what a tongue is suent ! a tongue that not a thousand cages full of slaves, nor the crowd of the votaries of Serapis, nor the schoolmaster's curly-headed troop hurrying to tneir lessons in the morning, nor the bank resounding with flocks of Strymonian cranes, could overpower. Who will hence- forth Know how to draw down tne moon with Thessalian dideF^ Who will display such skill in managing an amorous intrigue for money P May the earth lie lightly on you, and may you be pressed with a thin covering of sand, that the dogs maj not be prevented from rooting up your bones!
* Thssssly was oelebntad for mairic arts.
408 HABTIAL'S
Philienis, old as Nestor, must thou take So soone thy passage to th' infemall lake P Thou hadst not reach'd the SibyU's age ; her oonntt Alas ! does thine yet fall three months surmount. ' Ah ! what a tongue 's now sileno'd« which no cry Of Isis' priests, or gaole-birds, could outvie i Or in a morning a full schoole of boyes, Or flock of screaming wylde-geese, e er outnoyse. Who now shall charme the moone with ma^c whirleP "What bawd know how to sell this or that girle P May gentle earth, and light dust, cover thee. Lest tiiy bones unscratdrd up by dogs should bee I
Old MS. l^th Cent
XXX. OUT THX OOKJUaAL APFXOTIOIT OF KIOBHTA.
AntiBtiiiB BuflticuB has perished on the barbarian frontiera of the Ciq>padocians, land guilty of a lamentable crime ! Ni- grina brought back in her bosom the bones of ber dear hus- band, and complained that the way was not sufBciently long ; ^ and, when she was confiding the sacred urn to the tomb, wmch she envied, she seemed to herself to lose her husband a second time.
When late his Grace at Naples did expire
(A place we now may curse, and not admire^,
The pious wife brought home the dear remams ;
^d of the journey short, too shor^ complains.
Envies the tomb tnat robs her of hk urn ;
A loss which she, as widow*d twice, doth mourn. J7ay.
XXXI. ON THB TOW 07 TXLITXS.
Yelius, while accompanyinj? Csasar on his northern expe- dition, vowed, for the safety of his leader, to immolate a goose* to Mars. The moon had not fully completed eight revolu* tions,' when the god demanded fulfilment of his vow. Tho goose itself hastened willinelj to the altar, and fell a humble victim on the sacred hearth. Do you see those eight me- dals hanfiing from the broad beak of the bird ? * Thej were recently nioden in its entrails.^ The victim which offers pro*
^ That she mifjbt have had his relics longer In her possession. ' The preserver of the Roman empire. ' The war lasted onlv eight months. .
* A silver image of the goose, to the besk of which dght medsls were suspended, indicative of the eight months of the war.
* In allusion to the taking of omens by inspecting the entrails of birda
BOOK IX.] ZPIGBAKI. 400
pitious Bacrifioea for thee, CsBaar, with sflver iiiBtead of blood, teaches oa that we have no longer need of steel (the aword).
In northem dimesy amid rablime alarma,
This bird a VeliuB ToVd far CaaEo's arms.
Not twice four timeB her course did Luna stray,
When Mars his vot'ry call*d his tow to pajr.
The gander joyous peal'd his ftin'ral knell.
And on the sacred nre spontaneous felL
Ei^t wondrous coins he dropt from out his bill:
These from his bowels he did late distiL
Who now with silver, not with blood, atones ;
The happy unavail of iron owns. Efpkindom.
TTTTT. OK THB OHOIOX OF ▲ MI8TBXBB.
I prefer one who is free and eaay, and who goes about dad in a loose robe ; one, who has just before sranted favours to my young slave; one, whom a couple of pence will buy. She who wants a great deal of money, and uses grand words^ I leave to the fat and foolish Ghiscon.
XZnU. TO 7LA0CU8.
Audieris in ^uo, Flacce, balneo plausum ; Matronia illic esse mentulam sato.
Tn, O Flaooo^ avrai sentito in qualche bagno delo schiamam* \ sapi c^ ooli v* i 1 cotale d' un drauoo. Oraglia.
JULXiV. TO OJiSAB, OK THX TSK7LB 07 THX FLATIAK
Jupiter, when he saw the Havian temple rising under the shy or Bome, laughed at the Bibulous tomb erected to himself on Moont Ida, and, having drunk abundantly of nectar at table, ezdaimed, as he was banding the cup to his son Mars, and addressing himself at the aame time to Apollo and Diana, with whom were seated Hercules and the pious Arcosy. ^ You gave me a monument in Crete; aee how much better a thii^ it is to be the father of 0«ur !*'
When Jove great Gesar's'Flavian ten^le ey'd, His fiibulous Cretan tombe he did dende. AAd when at table he did freely supp Nectar, and nve to Mara, hia sonne, the eupp, Iiookina on raosbus, and bright Fhosbe, where Faire Maia*s sonne and great Alddes were, ^ Yon rais'd me Cretan monuments,** quoth he» How mudi more Cesar's ftither 'tis to be I* Ifay.
410 ICASTUL't
XXXT. TO PHILOHUSUS.
These are the contriyances, PhilomoBOB, hj which you art constandy trying to secure a dinner ; inventing numbers of fictions, and retailing them as true. You are informed of the counsels of Facorus at the court of Parthia ; you can tell tl^e exact numbers of the German and Sarmatian armies. You reveal the unopened despatches of the Dacian general ; you see a laurelled letter, announcing a victory, before its arrival. You know how often dusky Syene has been watered by Egyp- tian floods ; you know how many ships have sailed from the shores of Africa ; you know for whose head the Julian^olives grow, and for whom the Father of Heaven^ destines his triumphal crowns. A truce to your arts ; you shall dine with me to-day, but only on this condition, Philomusus, that you tell me no news.
By these stale arts a dumer you pursue ;
Tou trump up any tale and tell as true.
Know how the councils at the Hague incline ;
What troops in Italy and on the Aiine.
A letter from the general pioduoe,
Before the officers could nave the news.
Know to an inch the rising of the Nile :
What ships are coming from each sugar isle :
What ire expect from this year's preparation :
Who shall command the forces of the nation.
Leave off these tricks ; and with me if you choose
To dine to-day, do so ; but then, no news. Sa^,
XXXVT. COKVEHSATIOIT OP GANTHSDIS AKD JXTPITEB OK XABINUS AJXB OTHEB FATOTTBITES OP DOHlTlAir.
When the Fhrygian youth, the well-known fiivourite of the other Jupiter, had seen the Ausonian attendant' with his hair just shaved ofi^ '* 0 sovereign ruler," said he, " concede to thy youth what thy Cassar has granted to his. l^e first down upon my chin is now succeeded by longer hairs ; thy Jimo now laughs at me and calls me a man." To whom the Fa* ther of Heaven answered, ^ Oh, sweetest boy, not I, but ne- cessity, denies your request. Our Caesar has a thousand cup- bearers like you ; and his pahice, lai^ as it is, scarcely holos the brilliant troop. But if your hair be shaved, and give
* Jupiter Gapitolinos. ' EariDiis. See Ep. 17 and 18.
BOOK DL] IPIOSiJffl* 411
yoa a man's vuage, what other youth will be ioond to mix mj nectar for me P"
Whan late the Phx^rBian youth espied TV Ausomaiiy with his lodLS laid down}
To Jupiter he humbly cried^ On my desixe, oh! do not frown.
What priYilege thy Geesar dei^'d.
To md his striplinff fond coyoy, Of thee, great ruler, be obtained,
To bless thine ever grateful boy.
The down, with which my cheek is dadt
Beneath my waving honours plays. ^Thou now art quite a man, my lad,"
To me thy smiling consort says.
To whom the sire : **My sweetest boy^
Thon seem'st not vet maturely wise. Thou know*st I would indulge uy joy t
But thee the thing itself £nies.
A thousand ministers, like thee,
Adorn my dear Augustas' luJl : Her vast expanse, whate'er it be,
Can hardly hope to hold ihem alL
Should the rich harvest of thy hair
Upon thy looks implant the man i To mix my nectar, tell me where
I eoold supply another Gan P " J^Muten,
XXXni. TO OiXLA.
Thongh, while you yourself, Galla, are at home, you are being drened out in the middle of the Suburra, and your locks are prepared for jou at a distance ; though you lay aside your teeth at night with your silk garments, and lie stowed away in a hundred boxes ; though even your face does not Bleep with you, and you ogle me from under eyebrows which are brou^t to you in the morning ; though no consi- deration of your &ded charms, which belong to a past gener- ation, moves yon; thouffh all this ia the caae, you offer me six hundred seeteroee. But nature revolts, and, olind though ahe be,^ she seea vexy well what you are.
When, thou at home and absent, borrow'd hayrs And tyres for thee the shops doe still prepare!
> See B. vi. £p. 23 and 33.
412 ULvnufn
When teeih, as oloathi, at sleeping times layd by. Thy face at night doth never with thee lye ; Lock'd up in himdied boxes ; whenoe T tn' mome, That looke they bring thee out is next day vronie i Tet, witiiont rey'renoe to Orr locks (as ola As grand-dame*8^» thon to Cupide offei^st gold ; But Cupid's deafe ; and, ne'er so blind, can see Thou temptest not to sport, but drudgerie.
Old MS. 16/A Cent.
XXX Vm. TO AGXTHIKXTS, A JUGGLEB.
Though, Agathinus, yea play dangerouB tricks with the utmost nimbleness, you stiu cannot contriye to let your shield falL It seems to follow jou, even against ^our willy and, returning through the thm air, seats itself either on your foot, or your biMsk, or your haor, or your finger. However slippery the stage may be with showers of saf- fron, and however the violent south winds may tear the canvass opposed to its fury, the shield, without apparent guidance, freely traverses your limbs, unimpeded by either wind or water. Even though you wished to fail, whatever your endeavours, you could not; and the fall of your shield would be the greatest proof of your art.
Little nimble Agathine, What consummate art is thine ! Play thy jpostnres, one and all i Never wiU the taiget falL Thee she follows everywhere : Stooping through the easy air, To thy hand or foot she £[ie8, On thy back or buttock lies. Slipp*rv footing proves no dread. Though the showr Corydan shed | Though the rapid southern gales Strive to rend theatric vails. Still secure, the careless boy Flings from limb to limb t£e toy ; And the artist well may brave AU the force of wind and wave.
Little dextrous Agathine, To eschew shonld'st thou incline^ Poor thy chance, alone of this : Who stul hits, can never miss. Thou must change thy postures all | Else the target ne'er wiU fall. JB^Miuioti^
BOOK IX.] XFIOBiJCf. 418
XXXXZ. OK THl BIBTHOAT OV OiiSOinUL
This ia the mniyenary of the first day on which the Pala- tine Thnnderer ' saw lignt» a daj on which Cjbele might have desired to give birth to Jove. On this day, too, the chaste Casonia was bom, the daughter of mj mend Bnfos; no nudden owes more than she to her mother. The husband re- joices in the doable good fortune which awaits hia prayers, and that it his bllen to his lot to have two reasons for lov* ing this day.
TUs vas our earthly Jove^t first happy monit Bhea oft wiah'd her Jove upon it bom, Whidi day fixat light did to Ceaonia ahow^ No daiji^ter e'er V a mother more did owe; Two miriity joya the day in Rufoa movea, Which ror nia prince, and for his wife, he lovea.
Antm. 1096.
XL. OV DIODOBTTS AKB HIS Wm PHILinriS.
When Diodonis left Pharos for Borne, to win the Tar- peian crowns,* his Philenis made a vow for his safe return, that a young girl, such as even the chastest woman might love, should prepare her for his embraces. The ship beinff destroved bv a terrible storm, Diodorus, submerged and overwhelmed in the deep, escaped by swimmine, through the infiuence of the vow. Oh husband too tar^ and too sluggish ! If my mistress had made such a vow for me upon the shore, I should have returned at once.
Apintt the high Tarpeian time, WAen garlands rendor beads sublime ; To Rome retominff, Diodore The canvass spreaa from Pharoa* shore. Phibeius for her lord's return, Famiinff the flame that bid her bum, Vow'd mat the purest maid should meet What Sabine dames not blush to greet.
The vessel wredk'd in the profound, Poor Diodore was just not drown'd. Ha swims through each opposing storm, Hm vow all Tttous to perform. Tet kinder tban deserv'd his fata • T was well he came» nor came too late.
1 DomitSan.
« In the Qnmquatriaa games. Sea Ep. 33, and B. iv. Ep. M,
414 XABTIiX'i
1, 10 devoted by my dove.
Would fly upon the wings of love. S^hmikm,
XLL TO FONTIOTTB.
Pontice, quod nimquam fatuis, sad pellice bava
Uteris, et yeneri sernt arnica maziiiB : Hoc nihil esse putasp soelus est, mihi crede, sed ingens,
Quantum vix animo ooncipis ipse tuo. Nempe semel futuit, generaret Horatius ut tres ;
Mars semel, ut geminos IHa casta daret. Omnia perdiderat, si masturbatus uterque
Mandaywflet manibus gaudia fodda suis. Ipsam credo tibi natoram dicere rerum :
Istud quod digitis, Pontice, perdis, homo est.
O Pontioo^ 11 perohe ta mai inmiembri, ma ud 1' adnltera tua sinistra, e 1' arnica mano serve a Venere: pens! tu che ci6 sia niente ? £' una soeleragine, cradimi, ma u grande e tale, ehe appena tu stesso la conoepisci nell' animo tuo. In &tti, Oraxio immembzd una volta sola perche generasse tre figliuolL Marte una volta, perche la casta Ilia dasse i gemellL L' uno e 1' altro avrebbe distrutto ogni oosa, se qual masturbatore avesse abbandonate i sozzi
Siaceri alle sue mani. Credi, che la natura stessa delle cose ti ice : ci6 die, O Pontico, distrnggi oolle dita, d un uomo. GragUa,
XHa. TO APOLLO, THAT STELLA HAT HATX THX
OOirsXTLSHIF.
So mayst thou ever be rich, Apollo, in thy sea-girt plains ; SO mayst thou ever have delight in thy ancient swans ; ao may the learned sisters ever serve thee, and thy Delphic oracles never speak falsely ; so may tho palace of Ga&sar wor- ship and love thee ; as the kind Domitian shall speedilygrant ana accord to Stella, at my request, the twelve fasces. J&ppy then shall I be, and, as thy debtor for the fulfilment of my prayer, will lead to the rustic altar a young steer with golden horns, as a sacrifice to thee. The victim is already bom, Phcebus; why dost thou delay ?
So may thy temples, PhoBbus, honour'd bei Prophetic swans held sacred unto thee ; The muses glory to make up thy train, The Delphic oracles prove never vain ;
BOOK IX.] mOfiAVB. 415
Gbntalar ensigns upon him bestow.
Thj happy debtor then, a steer 111 bring, With gil(Ma horns, for my glad offering; This TOW upon my rural altar pay ; Ihe victim's ready, Phoebus, Wny dost stay P
Ano9k. 1691.
ZLm. OK A. nATXTE 07 HIBCTTLBB, TEXT HAD COICI IVTO
THX P088E88IOK 07 TIKDZX*
This great deity, represented by a small bronze ima^e^ who mitigates the hardneaa of the rocks on which he sits bj spreading oyer them his lion's skin ; who, with upraised countenance, gaaea on the heaTen which he once supported ; whose 1^ hand is engaged with his club, and his right with a cup of wine, is not a new-bom celebrity, or a glory of our own sculptor's art. You behold the noble work of Lysij^us, which he presented to Alexander the Ghreat. This divinity adorned the table of the monarch of Fella, so soon laid in the earth which he had subdued. By this god, Hannibal, when a child, took his oath at the Libyan altar; this ffod bade the cruel Sulla hkj down his kingly power. Offended by the proud despotism of various courte, he now delights to inhabit a private house; and, as he was formerly the guest of the benevolent Molorchus, so he desires now to be the god of the leanwd Yindex.
On stone, with softer lyon's skinn o'erlayd,
This mi^ty god, that sits in brass pourtray'd.
Looking to th' stairs, sostayn'd once by his mif^ht,^
Whoaeldft hand his dubb warmes, and wine his ri^t^
Is no new piece of which our gravers boast i
Wee to Lysippus owe this paynes and cost
This onoe the Alaoedonian youth possess'd,
"Who soooe the whole world conquered, soone deoe8s*d;
Then Hannibal to Libyan coasts translated;
Who S^'s Sterne commanding power abated.
Brooking no lonjrer swelling tyrant^ courts,
T a private dwemng hee at length resorts ;
And, as he once was kind Molorchus' ^est,
8o withleam'd Vindex now ttiis god will rest
Old MS. IM Omi.
416 UAxmi/n
XUT. 09 TEB BJLiar.
I laiely asked Ymdez to wboBe bappy toil and workman* ship his Hercules owed his exiatence. He amfled, as ia bia wont, and, with a slight iDclination of head, '' Prar,'* said he^ **mj djBar poet, can you not read Gbeekp The pedestal bean an inscription which tells you the name." I read the w^^"^. Xijsippaa, I thought it had been the work of Phidias.
When kfce Alddes* self I saw
A Vindez' guest, I gaz'd with awe ;
Tet humUy of the god inquir'd,
What human art he had inspired,
To bid his image stand oonfess'd.
His godship scarce his smile suppressed i
And, nodding Uand, thus deign^ to speak :
Poor bardling, dost thou know no Greek P
Behold the base, and learn to spell :
Thence wonder and inquiry qudl.
I, blushing, there AYSinnor scann'd ;
But thou^t it had been Phidias' hand. ElphmdotL
XLY. TO lOJlCELLIiarS.
Yon are now about to set out, Marcellinua, as a soldier to the northern climes, to brave the sluggish constellations ot the Getic sky : there the Promethean rocks and the fisibled mountains, to which you must now go, will be dose to your eyes ! When you have beheld the rocks, the confidants of the* mighty plaints of old Prometheus, you will sar, " He watf more enduring than they." And you may ad^ '^He who was able to bear such simerings, wsa well qualified to fashion the race of mortals."
Now thou bear'st arms under the nortbem pole^
Near which the oonstdladons slowly roll $
With thy approaching eyes thou may'st behold
Prometheus' rock, the fabulous scene of old.
Where th' aged hero fill'd both earth and skies
With hideous ezdamations and loud cries,
The tortures pronng, which he there sustain'd.
The rock leas nard to which his limbs were chain'd.
Who can men's hardships or hard hearts admire,
When they, the ofipring, are of such a sire P Atum. 1695.
XLTl. 09 GELLIUS.
Gtellius is always building; sometimes he is laying down thresholds, sometimes fitting keys to doors, and buying
BOOK IX.] BFIfilUMt. 417
loeks ; aometimeB lie is chancing or replacing windowB. He does anytliing to be engaged in buildinff, and all this that he may be able to say to any friend who a£s him for a loan, ^ I am building."
He fltill is bmlding : patches up a door,
Alters a lock, or key ; and nouing more t
Bemoves a window j puts it in repsir :
80 he but build, no matter what m affiur ;
That he may answer, ask him when you will
To lend you money, " I am building stilL" Sag.
XLTn. TO PAJTNIOB.
DemocritoB, Sjenonaa, inexplicitosque Flatonas,
Qnidquid et hirsutiB sqiudet imaginibus^ Sic quasi Fythagor» lo^aeris snooessor et hares,
PnBpendet sane nee tibi barba minor. Bed, quod et hircoaia senun eat, et turpe pilosis.
In molli rigidam dune libenter babes. Ta qui sectanim cansaa et pondera nosti,
Die mihi, percidi, Pannice, dogma quod est f
Ta cod rammemori i Democriti, i Zenoni, e f]i ineiplieabiU Pis- toni, e tuUo dd che Vd di succido per le inute unmagini, qusai tuc- oeisore ed erede di Pitagora : ne minor barba ti pende dal mento. 3Ca do che tardi d aente agii ircosi, e turperohnente pdosi, tu Tolontieri lo oomporti insopportabile nelle effeminate coade. Tu che sai le origini, e gli argomenti ddle Sette, dimmi, o Psnnioo, esaer Indao dke dogma d P QragUa*
Thy words the deep recondite lore reaonnd
Of Plato, Zeno, wnat *8 aeverest found
'Mong tfaoae whose horrid images affect
To doom all Tice, by their austere aspect;
Speak thee Pytiiag'ras successor and neir.
Nor 'bate thou him in bush of beard a hair.
Thou *8t yet, what 's ahamefnl, and ahou'd ne'er be said,
A wanton mind to thia thy awful head.
Sav thou, who th' azioma of all aects doet know,
whose dogma 'tis, the scaxs of luat to diow.
AsMiL 1695.
XLTm. TO OABBIOirS.
As you swore to me, Garricus, by your gods and by your head, that I was to inherit the fourth of your estate, I be- lieved you, (for who would willingly disbelieve what he de- sires P) and nursed my hopes by continually giving you pre*
418 MABTIAL't
Bents ; amoDg wbich I sent you a Lanrentian boar of extra- ordinaiy weight ; one that you might have supposed to be firom ^toliui Oalydon. But you forthwith myited the people and the senators ; and glutted Borne is not yet free nrom the taste of my boar. I myself (who would belieye it P) was not present even as the humblest of your guests ; not a rib, not even the tail, was sent me. How am I to expect from you a fourth part of your estate, Gkffricus, when not even a twelfth part of my own boar came to me P
By all tfaat*8 good and sacred you do swear,
To make me of a quarter part your heir.
I think, Toa would not gratis go to hell ; *
Nor would I stanre a humour I like welL
Ifongst other things I sent of bucks a brace,
Fatter than any now on Enfield cfaaee.
Tour corporation you invite to dine ;
And GFBmm'd they were with ven'son which was mine.
Though founder I, and not the meanest guest,
Tou sare me not one mcnsel with the rest
A litue ominous an empty plate!
Pray, don't forget a slice of your estate. Hay.
XLTX. OK A TOOA GIYEK HIH BT PABTHEKIUS.'
This is that toga much celebrated in my little books, that toga BO well known and loved by my readers. It was a
J)resent from Parthenius ; a memorable present to his poet onff ago ; in it, while it was new, while it shone brilliantly with gfisteninfl; wool, and while it was worthy the name of its giver, I walked proudly conspicuous as a Koman knight. Now it is grown old, and is scarce worth the acc^tance of shivering poverty ; and you may well call it buowt .^ What does not tune in the course of years destroy P lliis toga ia no longer Parthenius's ; it is mme.
This is that ooa^ so often by me sung, Upon whose praise the raptur'd reader hung. His lordsh^'s once ; a gift for poet meet ; In which I walk'd respected in the street New, and with all its fflossy honours on, Worthv its donor, it cuvinely shone. Now old, a hangman scorns it for his fees : And if it shines st all, it shines with gresse.
* flee B. via. Bp. 28. > See Note on B. iv. Bp.3t
BOOK IX.] x?ieiu3C9. ^419
t All tfainp by time, and length of yean, deelme : Is this hiB lordship's coat ? for shame I 'tis mine. Hay.
L. TO BAJTRUB.
toa pretend to consider my talent as email, Ghraraa, be- canae I write poems which please by being brief. I eonfess that it is so ; while you, who write the grand wars of Priam in twelve books, are doubtless a ffreat man. Ipaint the fim>nrite of Brutus,' and Langon,' to the life, lou, great artist^ fiuhion a giant in day.
Oaums approves my wit but slenderly,
'Gause I write verse that please for brerity:
But he in twenty volumes drives a trade
Of Priam's wars. Oh, he's a mighty blade !
We give an elegant young pigmy birth,
He makes a dir^ giant aU of earth. JFteieh§r,
I am no genius, you affirm : and why P
Because my verses please by brevity.
But you, who twice ten ponderous volumes write
Of mighty battles, are a man of might.
Like Prior's bust, my work is neat, but small:
Tours like the dirty giants in OuildhalL Hoff^
m
XT. OV TEE BB0THSB8 LUOASTITS AJSTD TTTLLrS.*
3%at which you constantly asked of the gods, Lucanus, has, in spite of your brother's remonstrances, fallen to your lot; it has been your fate to die before him. Tullua enries von the privilege ; for he desired, though the younger, to go first to tne Stvffian waters. You are now an inhabitant of the Elysiaa fields, and, dweUinff in the charming grove, are content, for the first time, to be separated from your brother ; and if Gastor in his turn now comes from the brilliant stars, you, as another Pollux, exhort him not to return to them.
To weary heaven, while gen'rous brothers vie. Thou, Lucan, earlier hast obtain'd to die. Nor seek'st tmenvied thou the shades below : Tnllus, thy younger, glad would elder go. Blest tenant of the bland Eljrsian grove.
Now first would'st thou without thy brother rove.
•
1 See B. riv. Ep. 171.
* Of whom sn degsnt statuette was made by Lyciscus. Plio. H. N sv. 6.
* See B. I. Ep. 37.
2b2
A20 MABTIAL*!
Would Gutor leaye the li^ht, to pay thy lof«^ A Pollux thou wottld'st bid him itay above.
uim TO Qunrrtrp 0Tn>nj8.
If yea but beliere me, QumtoB OridiuB, I love, a» yoa de- Beive, the first of April, your natal day, as much as I love mv own first of March. Happy is either mom ! and may both days be marked l^ ua witn the whitest of stoneal The one gave me life, but the other a friend. Yours, Quintus, gave me more than my own.
Beliering hear, what you deserre to hear }
Tour birth-dajr, as my own, to me is dear.
Blest and distmg^uiBh'd days ! which we should prise
The first, the kindest bounty of the skies.
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a fiiend. J3ay.
Zin. TO THB 8AHS.
On your birth-day, Quintus, I wished to make you a small present: you forbade me; you are imperious. I must obey your injunction : let that be done which we both desire, and which will please us both. Do you, Quintus, make me a present.
"When I would send sudi trifles as I can,
You stop me short! you arbitrary man !
But I submit Both may our orders give ;
And do what both like best : let me reoeiye. Hay.
LIT. TO OABrS.
If I had thmshes fiittened on Ficenian olives, or if a Sa- bine wood were covered with my nets ; or if the finny prey were dragged on shore by my extended rod, or my branches^ thickly limed, held fiuit the fettered birds ; I should offer you, Garus, as an esteemed relative, the usual presents, and neither a brother nor a grandfather would have the preference over you. As it is, mv fields resound only with paltry starlings and the plaints or linnets, and usher in the spring with the voice of the shrill sparrow. On one side, the ploughman re- turns the salutation of the magpie ; on the other, tne rapaci- ous kite soars towards the distant stars. So I send jqu sm^ll presents from my hencoop ; and if you accept such, yon wQL often be m^ relative.
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If a meVd quail hf acddeht I had;
Or mipe at woodcock taken in my gladei
Couldl a troat now with my angle get;
Or corer a young partrid^ with my net;
Yon, oootin, ahomd have it looner than another,
As soon as my own fiither, or my hrother.
Bat now the fields with chattexingmacpiesnng;
SpazTows and swallows now proclaim ue spring :
Ifow to the cnckow shepheitl hoys reply:
The thieying kite now uims alons the sky.
So that I nothing bat a fowl conld send ;
Which, if yoalil^ you're always webome, friend. Ay.
LT. TO TAL2BITJ8 TLACCXTS*
On the day sacred to relatiyea,^ on which many a fowl ia Bont as a present, there throngs around me, while I am pre- paring some thruflhes for Stella, and some for yon, Fhccas, an immense and troublesome crowd, of which each indiyidnal thinks that he onght to be the first in my Sections. My desire was to show my regard for two ; to offend a nombor is scarcely safe ; while to send presents to all wonld be ex- pensiye. I will secure their pardon in the only way that remains to me ; I will neither send thrashes to Stella nor to jon, FbccuB.
When Chxistmas turkeys round in presents fiew.
One I design'd for Neo, and one for you.
But most miluckily on this occasion.
Fat torkeys make me friend to half the nation.
Two I would fam obUge ; and none offend :
But to giye eyery one there is no end.
I then determine, after counsel heard.
That Ned and you must go without your bird. J3by.
LTt. OK SPSlTDOPHOBirS, A FATOimiTl 09 DOlCITLUr.
Bpendophorus, the armour-bearer of our soyereign lord, is iettmg out for the cities of Libya. Prepare weapons, Cupid, to bestow on the boy ; the arrows with which you strike joutiis and tender maids. Let there be also, howeyer, a Binoo& spear in his delicate hand. Omit the coat of mail« the ahiela, and the helmet ; and that he may enter the battle in safisfy, let him go unooyered; Parthenopadus' was hurt
^ The fiist of March.
* One of the seren cfaiefr sgsinst Thebes. His besnty is ssid to haye 3een his defence.
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br no dart, no Bword, no arrow, whilat lie was unesicinnbered intih a head-piece. Whoever shall be wounded bj Spendo- phoma, will oie of lore. Happy is he whom a derai ao for- tunate awaits! But return whSie thou art still a boVy and while thy face retains its youthful bloom, and let thy Bome^ and not liibya, make a man of thee.
To Libya goes Spendojihonia to wane.
Cupid, thy ihafb for this Cure Boy urepare,
Those shafts, which youths snd tenaer Tiigins wound ;
Light let thy speare in his soft hand be found.
T& bresitplstB, helme, and shield I leave to thee ;
To fight in ssfehr, naked led him bee. ^
No arrow, swot^ nor dsrt could hurt in wane
Parthenqpen^ whilst his &oe was bare.
He whom this youth shall wound, will dye of lore,
And happy too so sweet a fiite to prove.
Whilst yet thy diin is smooth, &ir boy, come home ;
Grow not a man in Affiricke, but at home. Ifiay.
LTH. OV HSDTLU8.
Nil est triftiua Hedyli lacemia, Non ansa Teterum Gorinthiomm, Nee cms oompede lubricum decenni^ Non mptiB recutita colla muls, Nee qu0 Flaminiam secant salebne, Neo qui littoribns nitent lapilli, Neo Tusca ligo vinea politus, Nee paUeua toga mortiu tribuliSy Nee pigri rota quassa mulionis, Nee raaum cavea latus bisontis. Nee dens jam senior ferocis apri. Bes una est tamen, ipse non negabit, Cuius ttitior Hedyli lacemis.
Nulla v* ^ di pin trito delle laoeme di Edilo, non i manichi dsi Ysoohi Yssi Coxinsiiy ne una gamba Tadllante per i cepi deoennali, non il coUo ricutito dHma scorticata mula, ne gl' ingomlni ohe' intemmpono la Flsminia, ne le pietnuae che rxluccono sui lidi, ne la zappa Instrata nella Tnsca vigna, ne 1 palido mantello d' un povero deftinto, ne la spezsata ruota del Tecchio carrettiere, ne 1 nanoo d' un bisonto spinto nella cava, ne 1 di gii Tecchio dente d^ un feroce cignale. Inttavia ▼* k una cosa, e8so non la negheri, il cttlo di Edilo d piii trito delle sue laceme. QragUa.
Than Hedyl's dotfaes is nought more bare : Not handles of Corinthian ware :
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Witfa ten Tean* ohain the thinuig thini
Of battei'a mule the dosing akb :
No rat of old Flaminina^ ynj $
No pebbles, on the shore that pla]r :
No polish'd spade, tiie ▼inejazds show;
No paly ^own, that shrouds the low :
No sluggish diiTer's shattered wheel |
No shaven flank, when bisons reel
Into th' insidious pit^ and roar :
No gleaming bolt of aged boar.
Yet one thing *s much more worn away,
A Hedyl's seu will not gainsay.
That wondrous thing must doubtless pose :
oonsdence! triter than his dothes. Slpkmdom.
LTm. TO THJ HTXPH OF BABnTUB.^
^ Nymph, QQeen of the Sacred Lake, to whom SahinuB, with piouB munincence, dedicates an enduring temple; receiye with kindnesB, I pray thee, (so may mountamouM Umbria ever wordiip thy source, and thy town of Sassina never prefer the waters of onim !) my anxious compositions which I offer thee. Thou wilt be to my muse the fountain of Pegasus. Whoever presents his poems to the temple of the Nymphs, indicates of himself wliat should be done with them.
Queen of the lake, whose temples soar the skies,
lliat my Sabinus' bounty gave to rise !
So may high Umbria in thy fountain lave^
Nor Sassina prefer the Baian wave :
Receive the anxious boon my muses bring,
And duly prove their Pegasean spring.
Who lays, ye nymphs, his labours in your fimes,
Just intimates Uie merit of hii strains. JElphkuiam.
UX. ON MiJCTJBBA.
Mamurra, after having walked long and anxiously in the squares, where eolden Borne ostentatiously displsYS her riches, ▼lewed the tender young slaves, and devoured them with his eyes; not those exposed in the open shops, but those which are kept for the select in private apartmento, and are not seen by the people, or such as I am. Satiated with this inspection, he uncovers the tables square and round; and asks to see some rich ivory ornaments which were displayed on the upper shelves. Then, having four times measured a dinner-couch
1 8eeB.viLEp.97.
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for six, wrought with tortoise-shell, he sorrowfully reffrotied that it was not large enough for his citron table. He con« suited his nose wh^er the bronzes had the true Corinthian aroma^ and criticiaed the statues of Polyditus ! Nert, com- plaining that some crystal vases had been spoiled by an ad- mixture of elaas, he marked and set aside ten myrrhine cups. He weighed ancient bowls, and inquired for goblets that had been ennobled by the hand of Mentor. He counted emeralds set in chased gold, and exaznined the largest pearl ear-pendants. He sought on ereiy counter for reel sardo- nyxes, and chei^eiied some large jaspers. At last, when forced by fatigue to retire at the eLeventh hour, he bought two cups for one small coin, and carried tiiem home himself.
Mammra many hourB does ra^rant tell r th' shops, wnere Rome her ncbest ware does seU. Behoku air boys, deyouia them with hia eyes. Not thoae of oommon note, one first espies ; Bat which in imier rooms they closely mew, RemoT'd from mine, and firom the people's view. Glutted with these, choice tables he micaaes, Othen of ifOiT, set high, displaces. Rich tortoiae beds he measures four times o'er. Sighs, they fit not, and leayes them on that score Consults the statues of Corinthian brass By the scent; end not without blame lets pass Tny pieces, Polydet He next complains Of crystals mix'd with glass, and them disdains. Maru porcelain cups, sets ten of them apart : Weighs sntique plate (of Mentor's noble srt If any be) ; counts, T th* enamell'd gold. The ffems that stand. Rich pendants does behold : For Uie ssrdonyx makes a search most nice, And of the Inggest jaspers beats the price. Tir'd now at last, after eleren hours' stay. Two fitfdiing pots he bought, and himself bore away.
Atum. 1695.
VainloTB die Hve-long da^ strolls up and down. To riew the dioioest rarities in town.
Rarish'd admires a Ganymede's soft mien ; Not such as is at common auctions seen ; But an old painting, capital, and rare;^ Shown to toe curious, and presenr*d with carsw Then tskes an inlaid table nom its case : Searches a chma jar, or marble yase.
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A Tnikey oarpet meMuret ten dmas 4/«r i And gri^res it is too little for his floor. Of ri^t japtn then jndm hf hie noee : In stataes oares Sir Andrew's taste ezposei ilnds the French ware too much to f^um aUiedi The Dresden therefore marks, and sets aside* 'Baskets of fillimne he then takes up ; Bj Kent ennooled wei^ a golden enp* Numbers the jeweb that a ring may IxNr ; And wants a pendant for a lacfy's ear; Looks till he diamonds of true water meets. And cheapens them, though half as big as Pittfa. At length fatigaed, the hour of dinner come, He buys and bears two glass deeanters home. JScqf •
LX. OV ▲ OBOWK or B08X8 BUTT TO OJiSnTS BABIVUB.
Whether thou wast produoed in the fields of PflDstum or of Tiyoli, or whether the plaiiiB of Tnscolnm were decked with thy flowers ; whether a bailiiTB wife called thee in a FnaneBtine garden, or whether thou wsat recently the glory of a Campanian yiUa, that thou mayst aeem mora beauteouB to my £nend SabinuB, let him think that thou oomeat from my iHomentan gTounda.
Did PflB8tum*s gales, or Tibur's,l»d thee blow P Or Tusculum &dt all thy glow P Thee in Pr»neste*8 bed has hoyden slain P Or wast the gloiy of Oampania^s plain P Tet fairer to my Sabine that thou seem. Thee child of my own tendance may he deem.
EiphmsUm.
LXI. OV ▲ FLAirX-TRXS AT OOBDOTJL, PLAKTin BT
JtrLITTB OJBBAB.
In the regiona about the TartessuB, where the rich landa of Cordova are watered by placid Bstia, where the yellow flocka shine with the gold of the river, and liTing metal decka the fleece of Hesperian sheep, stands a well-known mansioDy and in the midst of its oourta, overshadowing the whole of the Burroonding buildings, riseB the plane-tree of CBsar, with its thick foliage, which was planted by the auBpiciouB right hand of that invincible guest, and tendea by it while yet a sapling. This tree aeema to acknowledge by its vigour ito parent and lord; BO richly does it flourish, and lift its branchcB towards the stars. Often, under this tree, have the playful Fauna
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BDorted with.Uieir midnigbt music, and the pipe has startled the quiet homestead ; often has the woodland Drjad, whfle flying from thlB nocturnal marauder Pan across the solitary fields, sought shelter heneath it; and often have the house- hold gods retained the odour of the Bacchanalian banquets, which by their libations have developed its luxuriance. The turf has been strewed and vermiSoned with the chaplets of yesterday^ and no man could diBtin^;uish the roses that had belonged to his own. O tree, favourite of the gods, tree of the great. GflDsar, fear not the axe nor the impious fire. Thou mayst hope for the glory of an ever-verdant foliage ; thoa wast not planted by rompeian hands.
A well-known house doth in that country stand
Where BsBtis waten Corduba's riohlan^
Where woob their native mettal's colour keepe,
And ^wing goldfoile gilds the Spanish sheepe*
In midst of u house, her gods ore^hadowing.
Does Casai^s plaine-tree prosperously spring,
Planted by that victorious guest, from whose
ImperiaU hand the tender twigg arose;
Which now it seems her lord and founder knowesy
She spreads so fast her sky-aspiring bowes.
Under that shade the rusticke Dryades
And wanton Faims themselves with sporting please |
And oft, as she by night from Pan doth fly,
This silent house doth Syrinx terrifie.
There oft hath Bacchus kept his reyellinff,
"When wine has made the tree more ricmy spk^jg^
There roses grow f adome the drinking crowne ;
And none can say those roses are his owne.
Great GsBsaz^s tree, to all the gods most deaze.
No sacrilegious fire, nor hatchets feare;
Still mayst thou hope honoured with leaves to bee |
Twas no Pompeian hand that planted thee. Iftfjr.
Lxn. OK FHILiEinS.
If Philienis wears all day and night garments dyed with Tyrian purple, it is not that she is ^travagant or proud ; it is the odour that pleases her,* not the colour.
That Tfrian tinge, both night and day,
Philienis in her trappings uses ; Nor pomp, nor pride, bespeaks th' array :
The ooour, not the hue, she chooses. Blphinaitm.
, ^ To diBgiiise the odour of her own person. Ck)]npaie B. rii. £p. 67, tod B. ir. Kp. A*
BOOK n.] xFiaiuiCBk 427
TiTTTT. TO THOBBUS.
All the lioentioas men aboat town invite joa to their tables, FhoBbuB. He who gets his living under snoh circcim* stanoesy is not, I considery respectable company.*
IiHt. ov ▲ wtjltum or nouTXAir nr thb ohajiaotib
OF HlBOtnJES.
CiBsar, having deigned to assume the form of the mightf Hercules, adds a new temple to the Latian way, at the spot where the traveller, who visits the grove of Diana, reads the inscription on the eighth mflestone from the Queen of Cities. Formerly, O Bomans, you used to worship Hercules, as the superior, with prayers and abundant blood of victims i now Hercules, as the inferior, worships Domitian. We address our more important prayers, some for wealth, others for hon- ours, to Domitian, wno, unsolidtous about inferior requests^ leaves the fulfilment of these to Hercules.
Into anguft Alddei^ form
Augiistns deigned to daieend : Sublimer strengths than his to stona,
And temples to the Latian lend.
Where, whHe the wandVer's weary feet Explore fm Trivia's woodland aoene.
Marble the eighth he joys to meet. Sequestered from the eity-qQ<
With oopions blood, and pious vows,
Alcides whOom was adoreef^d: Bat lo ! his greater he aDowi ;
And bends, obsequious, wiUi the rest.
To one for wealth this snpplisnt sues.
For honour that submiis applies; 'While fearless, with inferior views.
They plague the hero of die skies. SipMmiaiL
LXV. TO HIBC1JI.X8, OK THS SAMX BTATXTB.
O Hercules, whom the Latian Jupiter must now recoffuise, since thou hast assumed the glorious features of the £vine Cttsar, if thou hadst borne those lineaments and that air when the wild beasts yielded to thy prowess, nations would not have beheld thee a slave to the Argive tyrant, and submitting to
* Ad csnam inriUnt omnei te, Ptebe,
Mentala qoem pssdt, non, polo^ pvms homo est
i28 iu&tta<*fi
his cruel rule; bat tbou wouldat have iasned orders to EurjB* theoa, and the deceiver Lichaa would not have brought thee the perfidious gift of Nessus. Saved from the torment of thd funeral pyre upon mount (Eta, thou wonld have ascended to the heaven of thy fekther above, free fiY)m all care, thi^ heaven to which thy labours entitled thee. Nor wonldst then have twirled the Lydian spindles of a proud mistress, or have looked upon Styx and the dog of Tartarus. Now Juno is favourable to tliee, now thy Hebe indeed loves thee ; now, if the i&ymph that carried off th^ Hvlas were to see thy majestie appearance, she would send him back to thee.
Thee must the Latian Thund'rer gladly own.
Where 00881*8 godlike lineaments are known.
Had then thy snuse and aspect heen the same,
When thy hands rendered savage monsten tame^
Mankind had ne'er with due disdain beheld
The ^Tuit honoured, and the hero quell*d i
Or in Anolio thraldom seen the brave i
But seen JBunrstheos prove Aloides* slave.
Nor had sly Lichas made thy blood to hoil,
With the mie present of the Oentaur's spoil
Free from the tasks of poVr, or goads of guile,
Free from the torments of th* (Etean pile,
Thou hadst securely climh'd thy sire*s domain.
Nor storm'd its summits by the stamigth of pain.
From hands heroic none mid dancing seen
The Lvdian spindles of the haughty queen.
Ne'er hadst thou visited the shades below.
Nor the Tartarean doj; couldst ever know^
Now Juno smiles ; fair Hehe now adores ;
And Amphydacia Hylas* self restores. Elphuuifm.
LXVl. TO FABULLUS.
When you have a wife, handsome, chaste, and yonns, Fa^ bullus, whv should you supplicate for the riehts of amther of three children P * That which you ask of our ruler and deity, you will obtain from yourself if you deserve the niune of a man.
You've a wife, blest Fabullus, fur, modest, and young;
And the honour of tripartite progeny ask ! What you erave of our lord, wiu so touching a tongue.
Is your own to bestow: 'tis a natural task. E^phmdotu
^ 8eeB.il Ep. 91, 92.
BOOK IX.] xneEAjfS. 4S9
lEiXm. TO MBOBTLVB,
LasoftTam tota ^ossedi noete pneUam,
Cujufl nequitiaa Tinoere nemo potecit. Feasufl mille modis illud puerile popoaci :
Ante preoea totaa, primaque Tem dedit. Improbiua quiddam ndena^ne mbenaqne rogari:
rollicita eat nulla luxurioaa mora. Sed mihi pura fuit ; tibi noa eriti JSachjlQ 9 n V9f
Accipe et hoc mtmua oonditione mala.
Potsedei per tatta la notte una laaeiTa ra^^ana, le di eui malisie neuona puo lorpaMare. Sazio in mille mamere, dimandai qual uon 60 cbe aUa ftnciullesca : me lo acoordd aTanti d' esseme pregaia, od alle prime riochieste. Fra '1 riso e la Yergogna dimandai qualehe coea d* anai ne&ndo : me lo promiae senia ui menoma intereaaata dOasione. Ma fii!^ da me lasciata pura ; non lo sari da te, o Eadulo s se vuoi queato dono, prendilo, ma a earo preaio. QragUop
Lxnn. TO THX KABTxn 07 ▲ irouT acROOL nr Hia
KEIOHBOXTBHOOn.
What rigbt bave you to disturb me, abominable acbool- maater, object abhorred alike by boya and ^la P Before the created oocka have broken ailence, you begm to roar out your aavaffe acoldinffa and blows. Not with louder noiae doea the metid reaound on the struck anril, when the workman ia fitting a lawyer on hia horae ; ' nor ia the noiae ao great in the larffe amphitheatre, when the conquering gladiator ia ap» plauded by hia partisaua. We, your nei^hTOura, do not ask you to allow ua to aleep for the whole nieht, for it ia but a small matter to be occasionally awakened ; but to be kept awake all nisht ia a heavy a£Gliction. Diamiaa your acholara, brawler, and take as much for keeping quiet, aa you I'eoeive for malong a noise.
Despiteful pedant, why dpct me puisne. Thou hateu head by ail the younger crew P Before tiie oodL proclaims the day is near, Thy direful thrvAtg and lashes ston mine eari The anvil linc. ..ot out a shriller somid. When massy bammers tha hot irons pound 1 Statnea of brass with lesser din are made. Than thou dost carry on the grammar trade ; Shouts in the race and theatre are less, When fictions for theur parties seal express.
* k sneer at the equsstrian.st^ijiM of lawyers. See Juv« 1^ 198.
lUO XABTXAL*!
Whole Bwhts, I ask not, in re^oM to keepi
To waka % not grieTona, but *taa, ne'er to sleep.
Wilt leafe thy Mhool, thy bawling lectures ceaaeP
Thy gain shdil greater be to hold thy peace. Anon, 16S^.
T.TTT. TO POLTOHABinra.
Com futnia, Polycharme, solea in fine caoare, Gum psdicarifl, quid, Polychanne facia :
Qnando immwhri, o Policarmo, suoli dope sgnmulL Qnando sei sodomiatOi she fiu, o Policarmo?
LXX. TO OAOILIAJnTB.
*<0 timea! OmannBre!** was of old the cry of Cicero, when Catiline waa ooniriving hia im^ioua plot ; when father-in-law and Bon-in-law were engaging in fierce war, and the aad aoil of Italy waa aoaked wini ciYil bloodshed. But why do you, CsBcilianua, now exdaim " O timee ! OmanneraP" Whatia it that diapleaaea you ? We have no cruel leadera, no mad- dening warfare, but ma^ enjoy aettled peace and happineaa. It ia not our morala, Ciecilianua, that disgrace the age of whidi you complain, but ^aur own.
Oh! the dajenerate age! great Tolly cried.
When Catimie d»nffn d his parricide :
When kindred chien join'd battle on the plain.
Which moom'd in tears of blood the subject slain.
Oh ! the degenerate a^ ! you loudly chatter :
What is the matter, Sir, what is the matter?
No dTil discord now : no tyrsnt^s power:
Peaceful and blissful passes eyery hour.
If you esteem the age so wicked grown.
Blame not our morals for it, but your own. Hay.
"O times! O nuumers!*^ Tolly cried of old.
When GatifiDe in impious plots grew bold $
When in fbU arms the son and father stood.
And die sad earth reek'd red with ciyil blood :
Why now, why now, <* O times ! O manners!" cry P
What is it now that shocks thy purity ?
No sword now maddens, and no chiefs destroy,
But all is peace, security, and joy.
These timn, these manners, that so Tile are grown,
Prythee, Cbcilian, are they not thy own P EUonm
IXLL. OK ▲ LIOK AlTD JL SAK.
It ia aatoniahing with what attachment thia lion, the glorj of the Maaaylian mountaina and thia huaband of the neecj
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flocky are. tixdied. Behold with your own' eyes ; they dwell in one stall, and take their social meals in company. Nor do they delight to feed on the brood of forests, or the tender grass ; but a smidl lamb satisfies their joint appetites. What were the merits of the terror of Nemea,^ or toe betrayer of IbJle,' that they shoold shine among brilliant constellations in the luffh heaven P If cattle and wild beasts are worthy of a place m the heavensy this ram and this lion deserve to become stars. .
LXXn. TO LIBIB, ▲ PU0ILIS9.
,' ' O Liber, whose brows are adorned with the Spartan crown, and whose Soman hand strikes blows worthy of Greece, when ^oa send me a dinner, why does the wicker basket, in which it is conveyed, contain no wine-flask as an accompaniment t If you mean to make presents worthy of yoor name,* yoa ne aware, I suppose, wnat you ought to have sent me.
O thou, whose forehead boasts Amyele's band, Who deal'st the Greciaa blows with Latian hand! My nooninff why didst bid the wicker bear, Nor with the wattles bid the flask repair P Worthy thy name hadst thoa the boons bestoVd* My lioer knows what on his friend had flow'd.
UJmi. TO ▲ OOBBUIB, WHO HAD OBTAUm ▲ LEGACT
BY TKLJTO.
Ton, whose business it once was to stretch old skins with yoor teeth, and to bite old soles of shoes besmeared with mud, now enjoy the lands of yoor deluded patron at Pmneste^ where you are not worthy to occupy even a stalL Intox* icatedwith strong Falemian wine, too, you dash in pieces the crystal cups, and plunge yourself in debauchery with your
e iron's &vourite. As for me, my foolish parento taught me ters. ' What did I want with grammarians and rhetorici- ans P Break up, my muse, your flowing pen, and tear up your books, if a shoe can secure such enjoyments to a cobbler.
' The Nemeaalkm dain hj Hercules ; afterwards the oonitenatioii of Leo.
* The ram with the golden fleece, that was to carry Helle aeraes the Helletpont, and allowed her to drop into the water, afterwards the oonstel- •ation Aries.
' Liber being a name of Bacchus.
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Who With youi taoth tho stxetehing lealh«r dmri
To patch a hole in an old dirty shoe i
To yon Your cheated lord's poMowioni ialL
In which you scarce deserre to have a stalL
In amoions fits saoceedinj; to his lasses;
And in your drunken firohcs breakinj^ fflasses.
My leaminff only proyes my &ther fool :
"Wiiy would he send me to a grammar school f
Ah I cease, my musel your works condffn to fire!
If an old shoe may serve to raise us higher. JG^*
LZXIT. QV THX PQBTR^IT OF OAXOKirB.
This jpictuie presenres the likeness of Camonus as a child ; it ip oufy his ^urly features, when he was an infant, tiiat re- main to us. The affectionate father has kept no likeness of bis countenance in the bloom of manhood, dreading to look on so fine a fiu» deprived of animation.
' Here, as in happy ii^mcy he smiled. Behold Camonus — ^painted as a child f For on his &oe as seen in manhood's days,
sorrowing fftther would not dare to gaze. W, 8, B.
Lxnr. OK THB woonsir bath of titcga.
Tucca has. not constructed his bath of hard flint, or of quarry stone, or of baked bricks, with which Semiramis en- curclQd great Babylon, but of the spools of the, forest and masses of ^e planks, so that he maj sail in his bath. The same magnificent personage has built splendid warm baths of every kind of marble ; that which Carystos produces ; that whidi Phrygian Sjnnas,' and Afirican I^umidia, sends ua ; and that which the Eurotas has washed witii its verdant stream* But there is no wood in it; put your wooden bath, therefore, Tucca* beneath your warm baths.
No stubborn flint, by cement bound. Or that the queen could rear around
Her haughty town, made Tuoca's bath : But muid^d groves, and mortis'd pines. Exalted Tuoca^ grand designs ;
That he might swim in cooling lath.
A hot bath next he built, sublime. Of marble hewn in every dime, Caiystos, 8jnnas, Nomas send t
1 A town of Phrygia.
BOOS IX.] ZPIGBJJU. tt8
Or that die green Enrotas larei. But wood was wantbg to the wares : Then to the hot the oold-bath lend. S^Muton.
£XXTI. OK THI POBTBATF 07 OAMOKUB.
The foftturee yea here see are thoee of my Camonua; each was hia face and figure in early youth. That counten- ance had grown more manly in the course of twenty years; a beard seemed delighted to shade his cheeks ; and, once dip- ped, had scattered ills ruddy hair from the points of the scis- sors. One of the three sisters looked witn malice on such beauty, and cut the thread of his life before it was fully spun. An urn conveyed his ashes to his father from a far distant pyre ; but that the picture may not alone speak of the youth, there shall be a more impressive description in my page.
This which you see is my Gamon]as' face ;
Such his yoong looks, such his first beauty was.
His countenance grew stronger twice ten years.
Tin a beard oream'd his cheeks with downy hairs.
The ofiiBa!^d purple once his shouldos spread.
But one of the three sisters wish'd him dead,
And thence his hasten*d thread of life did cut,
Which to his father, in a sad urn put,
Came from his absent pile : but lest alone
This picture should present his beauty ffone.
His image yet more sweetly drawn shall be
In never-dying papers writ by me. Flet^er.
Lxrvn. OK THB VIABT 07 FBTSCUS.
The eloquent pase of Friscus considers ''what is the best kind of feast?" and offers many suggestions with grace, many with force, and all with learning. Do vou ask me, what is the best kind of feast P That at which no flute-player is present.'
Friscus with art in many leaves disputes, What requisites a sumptuous feast oest suits ; Manv sublime and iriUy things he brings, ^ All mm a leam'd and noble art which springs. What makes a feast, shaD I in one line say P Absence of scunilous Jests and fiddlers' play.
Anon. 1G95.
* One that does not require the attnctions of music, bat is sufficienUy fscommendcd by the dishes and the conrersation.
2p
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TiXivm. TO nojwriHUB.
After the deaths of aeyenliUBbaiicLB, Ghi]laha8e8poii8edy0ii, Fioentinaa. Ghdla^ I suppoee, wishes to follow her husbuids.
Tour spouse, who husbands dear hath buried aensk. Stands a bad chance to make the number eren. .Hsy*
TiTTTX. TO DOMTFIAlir.
Before thj reign, Borne hated the crowd attendant on the emperors, and the haughtiness of the court ; but now, such is our love, Augustus, for all that belongs to thee, that every one makes the care of his own family of l)ut secondary consider- ation ; so sweet are the tempers of thy courtiers, so consi- derate are they towards us, so much of quiet good-fidelin^ do ther display, and so much modestjr is there in their beanng. Indieed, no servant of Csosar (such is the influence of a power- ful court) wears his own character — ^but that of his master.
Cssar, our former princes' courtly state,
And throngs of hanriity servants, Borne did hatei
But of your house aQ now so tender are,
That each man's own is but his second care :
Such gentle mindes, such reverence of you.
Such quietness, such modesty, all shew.
As proves (which is the nature of great courts)
Eacn to his prince's guiw his own comports.
LTTT. Oir OBLLITJS.
The poor and hungry Gellius married a woman old and rich. OB eats and enjoys himself.
An old rich wife starv'd GeUius, bare and poor. Did wed : so she cramm'd him and he cramm'd her.
Fleteker.
LXXZI. TO ATTLUS.
^ My readers and hearers, Aulus, approye of my composi- tions ; but a certain critic says that tney are not uultleBs. I am not much concerned at his censure ; for I should wish the dishes on my table to please guests rather than cooks.
The readers and the hearers like my books. And yet, some writers cannot them digest ; But what care I P for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
JzafTifyAMu
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My wox^ the reader and the hearer praise.
They're not exact, a brother poet wm :
I heed not him; for when I nve a feast,
Am I to please the cook, or ^ease ^e guest P Slaif,
LTTTTT. TO KUirKA.
An aetrologer declared, Mmma, that you would soon come to an end; and I belieye he spoke the truth. For, through fear of leaving anything behind you, you have aquandeied your inheritance in luxuries ; yonr two millions have dwindled away in less than a year. Tell me, Munna, is not this com* ing soon to an end P
Tme spoke the conjurer, when he foretold
Your end, before tliat twice ux moons had rolled.
Ton took the hint ; spent your estate with care,
For fear of beinff bubbled by your heir.
Twice ten years income spent at once ; 'tis deari
live e'er so long, yon cannot live this year. Sof,
LZZXm. TO DOMITIAK, OK HIS XXCLUSIOV OF THB KKIOHTS VBOM THX STAOB.
Among the numberless wonders of your arena, CsBsar. which surpasses the splendid shows of the old emperors, our eyes oonms that they owe you much, but our ears more ; inasmuch as those who used to recite upon the stage are now only spectators.
Among the many wonders of the stage.
With which thou hast adom'd the present age
'BoTe former princes, Cesar, as we owe
Much for the cost and gallantry of show, i
Nothing does yet advance thy glory more.
Than that the nobles now, however poor,
Spectators sit, that players were before. Anon, 1899.
Lxxznr. TO kobbakus.
When your affectionate fidelity, Norbanus, was standing in defence of OsBsar against the raging of sacnl^ous fury, I, the well-known cultiyator of your friendship, was amusing myself with the composition of these verses, in tnecalm security of Pierian retreats. The Bhstian spoke of me to jovl on the borders of Yindelicia, nor was the Northern Bear ignorant of my name. Oh how often, not renouncing your old friend, did you exclaim, " It is my poet, my own I All my compo- rt f tf
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ritionB, whicli for nx whole years your reader baa recited to yoOy their author will now present to you in a body.
While thee, to quell the sacrilegious rage,
Fair loyalty would for thy lord engage ;
Safe wanton'd in the sweet Pierian shade,
Who Norban's Mendship held his primal aid.
My dea^ to Vindelician shores had flown ;
Nor was my name to northern climes unknown.
Thine ancient friend thou never didst deny:
My bard ! my bard ! became the tender cry.
My code complete in parts the reader lent :
The six-years produce has the author sent, JSlphimioih
IXXZT. TO ATTLlUBj OV TAXTLUB VEIGlTIKe SICKHBSS.
If our friend Paulus is ever out of health, Atiliua, it is not himself^ but hia p^uests, that he depriyes of a dinner. Tou suffer, Paulus, with a sudden and nctitious ailment ; but my ■portulA has given up the ghost.
Our Paul| whene'er his langnaor reigns,
Still, in his friends, himself will treat: A head-ache when Atilius feigns,
My sportula extends her feeL JBlpiinstoiu
LXZXTI. TO BmUS ITAXIOUS, OK THJB DXITH OF HIS
80K SEYEBUS.
While Silhis, whose powers have been displayed in more than one department of Boroan literature,^ was lamenting the premature death of his friend Sererus, I expressed my sym- pathy with him to the Pierian choir and to Phoebus: ^I too, said ApoUo, ** wept for my Linus ; *' and, looking round at Calliope, who stood next to her brother, he added: ** You also haye your own sorrow.^ Behold the Tarpeian and the Palatine lliunderer; Lachesis has audaciously presumed to wound both Jupiters.'" When you see the diyimties exposed to the harsh role of destiny, you may acquit the goda of in- justice.
Thee, Silius, not one way renown'd,
Thy rapt Severe in sorrow drown'd ; ^
Each muse, nay Phosbus, mouxn*d with me;
I wept my Linus too, said he.
> SUius Kalieus, orator and poet See also B. Wi. Ep« 62. ' In the loss of her son Orpheus.
* B J causing the deaths of Sarpedon, and of Domitisa's inlant son. See B* vi. Ep. 3.
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Galliope then caught his eye :
** Sweet siater, thoa hast had thy sigL
Palatine and Taxpeian Jove ;
'Gainst both bold Lachesis has strDre. *
If fiite with ns can be at odds,
No more let en^y load the gods. Elphmtton,
XZZXm. TO XXrPBBOTB.
After I have taken aeren cope of Opimian wine, and am stretched at fall length, and beginning to stammer from the effects of my heavy potationa, you bring me some sort of papers, and say, "I have jnst made Nasta free— he is a slaye that I izmerited from my fieUiher ; — ^please to give me your signatore." The business may be better done to-mor- roW|Lnpercas; at present my signet is wanted for the bottle.^
When I am half seas o*er, and cannot read,
Mv lawyer brin^ me a long parchment deed :
Tells me I promised, when ue tenn began,
lo seal a leaf to Tim, my fathei's man.
It will be better by to-moiTow*s Us^ht :
rU touch no wax, but that on corks, to-night. JSEdy.
ixxxTHL TO Bunrs.
While you were trying to catch me, Bufus, you used to send me presents ; since you have caught me, you have given me nothing. To keep me when caught, send presents to me now as you did before, lest the boar, being badly fed, escape from his cage.
While thou didst seek my love, thou sent* st me some Presents, but now thou liast it, no gifts come. That thou maVst hold me, Rnfus, stall be free. Lest th' ill-fea boar break frrai his frank and flee.
Fletcher.
Tiim.1. TO STXLUL
By too severe a decree, Stella, you compel your guest to write verses at table. Under such a decree I may certainly write verses, but bad ones.
Thy ffuest must verses give; a piteous task! But thou art good, and dost not good cnes ask
Elpkkmkm.
^ Tits Boinsns pot seslsca their wine«vesseh,ss a secniiiyasiinst their
488 VABTIAL*8
ZO. TO 7LA0CUB, BBBIDIKG BT OTFBTTS.
So, Tedinmg upon the flowery meads, where rolling pebbles sparkle in the brook, its winding bulks fflowinff on every side, may you br^kk the ice into the ffob&t of dark wine^ fikr removed from all cares, and your orow wreathed with chaplets of roses ; so may you enjoy alone the caresses of a favourite, and the pleasures of a chaste love, as you keep on your guard, I warn and pray T01:^ Elaccus, agamst the climate of Cyprus, too well known for its excessiye heat^ when the threshu^-floor receives the crackling harvest, and the mane of the tawny lion fflows in its fierceness. And do thou, goddess of Paphos, send back the youth, send him back unharmed, to my prayers. So may the kalends of March be ever consecrated to thee, and may many a slice of cake, with incense, and wine, and offerings, be laid upon thy fair altars.
So stretched on the flowery mag, Where o'er the moved pebbfos jmss Fore streames, with waves euihng about. Fair thence all troubled thoughts cast out: With coole ice may your cupps abound, Your browes with rosy garlands crown*d| So may your mistress, and your boy. To you be kind, to otiben coy. As you of your own health take oaze^ In Cyprus*s too sultry ayre, When the ripe come is layd i' th' floors, And Leo's scorching rage boyles o'er. So, Venus, may much wine and spioe. On altars pure in sacrifice. On Mais's calends ofBer*d bee, With many a piece of cake, to thee !
OUMAimCM.
xoi. TO nouiTiAir.
If two messengers were to invite me to dine in diSbrent heavens, the one in that of Cawar, the other in that of Ju- piter, I should, even if the stars were nearer, and the palace at the greater distance, return this answer: ^Sedc some other who would prefer to be the guest of Hie Thunderer; my own Jupiter detains me upon earth."
. If that a diverse invitation came At once in Jove's and in great Cnsat's name,
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Tlunigii that the stan mn near, Rome more xemotey
The gods in answer ihould ha^e this my Tote,
** QOf seek another that Jove^s gueit wotdd be^
My Jupiter on earth hath fetter'd me." FUiehtr.
XCTL TO OOVDTLirS.
Of the troubles of a master, and the pleasures of a daye, Oondjlus, 700 are ignorant, when 70a lament that yon haye been a slave so long. A common rag giyes 7011 sleep firee fix>m all anxiety; Gains lies awake all night on his bed 01 down. Cains, finom the first dawn of da7, salutes with trembling a Dumber of patrons; 700, Cond7lus, salute not even 7onr master. '^Cfaios, pay what 70U owe me,*' cries Fhoebus on the one side, and Cinnamus on the other ; no one makes such a demand on 7on, Gond7lus. Do 70a fear the torturer P Cains is a martyr to the gout in his hands and feet, and would rather suffix a thousand floggings than endure its pains. You indulge neither gluttonous nor licentious propensities, la not mis preferabk to being three times a CaiusP
More eaae than masters* seryanta^ liyes afford :
Think on that, Tom ; nor wish to be your lord.
On a coarse niff you most securely snore :
Deep sunk in aown he counts eadi sleepless hour 1
Anxious betimes to evezy statesman low
He bows ; mudi lower than to him you bow.
Behold him with a dun at either ear,
" Pay, pay," the word ; a word you neyer hear.
Fear you a cndffel P yiew his gouty state ;
Whicn he woula change for many a broken pate.
You know no morning qualm, no costly whore :
Think then, though not a lord, that you are more. J&y.
XCm. TO CALOCIBSUS, HIS SLA.yX.
Why, m7 slaye, do 70U dela7 to pour in the immortal Ealeniian P FiU double measures from the oldest cask. Now tdl me, Calocissus, to which of all the gods shall I bid 70U fill six cups? It shall be Cesar. I^t ten wreaths of roses be fitted to m7 locks, to honour the name ^ of him who raised ihe noble monument to his sacred iamil7.* Next giye me twice fiye kisses, the number which denotes the name* our diyinity acquired from the Sarmatian countries.
^ Doinitisnus,awordoftenletteis. s The FlaTian temple. See Ep. 24 and 34. > Gennaaicos.
MO XASTIiX*B
Cro^m the deaHdeas Falernian, my bor i Draw the quincunx from out the olcL caaL
Of the gods who shall heighten the joy P Tis for Cesar five bumpen I ask.
Let the garland ten times bind the hair.
To the hero that planted the faAe : Twice fiye goblets replete will declare
The kind god from th' Odrysian domain. Siphmttom,
XOIY. Oir HIPPOCBATXS.
HippocrateB has given me a cup medicated with worm- wood, and now baa the presumption to ask of me honied wine in return. I do not suppose that even Ghuicus was so stupid, who gare his golden armour to Diomede for armour of orasa. Can an^ one expect a sweet sift in return for a bitter one P Let bun have it, but on condition that he drink it in hellebore.^
What blest assurance ! when my doctor thought
To get' my dazet, for his wormwood draught.
Qlaucus of old was not a greater ass,
Who gave his golden arms for arms of brass.
But I will sena it ; if he will agree
To drink it from the bottle sent to me. Hay.
XOT. OV ATHXKAGOBAB.
Athenagoras was onoe Alphius ; now, since he has taken a wife, he has begun to call himself Olphius. Do you belie?^ CallistratuB, that his real name ia Athenagoras ? May I die if I know who Athenagoras is ! ' But suppose, Callistratua, I call him by his real name ; if I call him otherwise, it is not I who am in fault, but your friend Athenagoras himself.
BoVs name was Booby, now 'tis Bou— ou — bee:
His wife would not plain Booby be, not she.
If we doubt which is right, and which is wrong,
I shall not know if Bob ib Bob, ere long.
I think that Booby is his real name:
If I mistake, is Bob or I to blameP Hay.
XOYI. OV H1SB0DB8.
^ The doctor Herodes had filched a cup belonging to his pa- tients. Being detected, he exdaimeo, ''7oml what need have you of drink P"
> The {^resumed specific for nmihiow. ' That is, what is his true name.
BOOK IX.] BFfSSAJCI. Ml
The doctor from hit patimt iteals his eupp,
Bat» caiight i* th' ftet, mjb, <<I)riiikeI no, not a moo I
Old MS. 19ih Cmimf.
A (jnaok, who ftole hispatientfs onp, did erjt
Caught in the fact, ** Wnat 1 wonld yon drinky and dieP*
XOm. TO J ULIUS.
A certain person, mr dearest Julius, is bursting with enyy because Kome reads me ; he is bursting, I say, with enVy. He is bursting with envy, too, bursting with eavj^ bo- cause in ereiT assembly I am pointed out hj the finger of admiration. He is bunting with envy, bursting with enTy, because both Ciesars ^ aoooraed me the rights of a father of three children. He is bursting with euTy, bursting with enry, because I haye an agreeable suburban Tilla and a small house in town. He is bursting with envy, bursting with envy, because I am dear to my friends, and beoiuse I am their m- quent g^uest. He is bursting with enyy, because I am loved and praised. Whoeyer is bursting with envy, let him burst.
Bursting with envy is a wretch unknown,
Because my works have taken with the town.
\^th envv bursting, that the admiring throng
Point to meir poet as they pass along.
With envy bunting, that by royal grace,
Under my sovereign I enjoy a place.
With envy hursting, at my house in town,
And at my little hox on tiansted Down.
Bursting with envy, that I am caress'd
By all my friends, to all a welcome guest
Prom love, and from esteem, if envy springSy
May he e'en fr«t his guts to fiddle-stnngs ! JSby.
XCTm. TO QTrrBTTUS OYmiTTS.
The produce of the Tinevards has not fiuled everywhere, Ovidius. The heav^ rains have been productive. Uoranua mada up a hundred jars by means of the water.
Fray, dont imacine, without reason,
The vintage is A lost this season :
The heavy rains, which fell, produce
A hundred pipes for Daahwell's use. Ay.
• fl»!,
and Domitian.
M2 1CABTIAL*8
XCIX. TO ATnCITB, OV ICABOTB AlTTOinuS, TO "VrHOX HI
BSKSS HIS BOOK.
MarcuB Antomtis Ioyos mj miue, AtticaB, if hiB oompli- mentary letter but Bpeaks tne truth, — Marcus, who is the undeniable glory of Palladian TouIouBe, and whom repose^ the child of peace, has nurtured. You, mj book, who can Dear the toil of a long journey, go to him, as a pledge of love from his absent friend. You would be worthleBS, I admits if a dealer were to send you: but yoiur coming from the author will give value to the present. It makes a sreat dif- ference, belieye me, whether a draught be taken from the fountain-head, or from the stagnant waters of a sluggish pooL
My book, a better trayeller, 1 send,
To show my honour for an abscoit Mend.
The value from a bookseller were small ;
The authoi^s present is the all in alL
Much better tastes the water, which you take
From a spzing-head, than from a standing lake. Say,
0. TO BABBITS.
You invite me to a supper, Bassus, worth three denarii,^ and «rpect me to dance attendance in your antechamber in the momins dad in my toga ; and afterwards to keep dose to your side, or walk before your chair, while I attend you in your visits to ten or a dozen widows. My toga is threadbare, shabby, and even ragged ; yet I could not buy one as good, Bassus, for three denarii.
For drachmas three thou offer'd'st to expend*
Thou requir'st go^n'd I early thee attend, ^
Make up thy train, and trot oefore thv chair.
When tnou old ladies court'st to be tneir heir.
My gown is threadbare, mean, I not deny,
Tet such I cannot for three drachmas buy. Anon, 1695.
01. FIiATTBBY OF DOiaTIAlT.
0 Appian way, which C»sar consecrates under the form of Hercules,' and renders the most celebrated of Italian roads, if thou desirest to learn the deeds of the ancient Hercules, listen to me. He subdued the Libyan giant ; he carried Off the
^ The price of the sportula.
* See JSp. 65. DomitUn erected on the Appian Way a temple to Her^ coles, in which he himself was to be woxiliipped.
BOOK IX.] BPIffSAXS. 441
golden apples; he dinrmed the Amaeonian qneen of her ahield^ tbonffh aecnred hj a Bcvtinaai girdle; bj &at of anna he added the Uon'B akin to tnafe of the Arcadian boar ; he deliYered the forest from thebrasen-footed stag and thelakea of Arcadia from the Stfrnphalian birds ; he brought from the waters of Styx the inramsl do^ Cerberus; he nrerented the finitfiil ILjm from reoewing its heads after tne^ had been cut off; he plunged the homed bulls of Hesperia in the Tus- can Tiber. Such were the achieyements of the ancient and lesser Hercules. Listen now to the deeds of the greater Hercules, whom the sixth milestone from the citadel of Alba celebrates. He freed the palace from the thraldom of a bad rule. His first wars, as a D07, were waeed in defence of his patron Jupiter.^ When alieadj in sole possession of ihe Cnsarean reins of eoremment, he resigned them to his fitthery contenting himself to become the third citizen in his own world.' Tnrioe he broke tiie perfidious horns of the Sarmatian Danube; thrice he cooled his sweating steed in the Getic snows. Fodbearing to accept the honours of a triumph, and often re- ftising them, he aoauired a title, as a conqueror, from the Nortnem dunes. He gaye temples to the gods, morals to his people, rest to the sword, heaven to his family,* constel- lations to the skies, garlands to Jupiter. The diriniiy of a Hercules is not sufficient for acts so great ; our deity should be represented under the form of Taq)eian Jupiter.
O Applan! who thine awful shall display? Thou peerless glory of th' Ausonian way ! To Gnnr sacred, in Herculean guise, Thy feet on earth, thy fame is in the skies. Would'st thou admire the first Alcides* deeds. And then eompare Alcides who succeeds P One tamed the libyan, and the dragon tore ; The rictor-god the solden apples bore. How hard was bucUer'd Menalinpe^s lot! He bid the fiur unloose the Scythian knot.
What need I sing the lion whom he slew ; Or scared Azoidia's boar he orerthrew P From woods he droTe the brasen-footed hind, The birds Stymphalian from the wayes and wind*
> In the Vitellian war he look refiifs in the Gapitol, and defended its Suetonius, Domit. c 1. ' Being inferior to Vemaan snd Titna. * Enrolling his father, firother, and wifoi among the goda.
M4 lCAJtTIAL*8
Safe he Tetarn'd, from out the Stygian bogf Unquitted, but unworried by the &f. The Hydra he forbade to spnnff by olood. And coin Heroerian lav'd m ^nxaaui flood. Such were the toils of Herenlea the lees ; The glory of his greater now confess : Whose majesty is worshipped, and whose pow*r9 By the sixth marble from the Alban tow'r. 'Twas his, fell usurpation to destroy ; And for his Jove he warfiir'd, yet a boy. When now he held the Julian reins alone, He sat but third upon the human throne. The treacherous horns of Ister thrice he broke, In Oetic snow thrice quench'd his charger's smoketi To conquer ardent, and to triumph shy, Fair yicf ry nam*d him from the polar sky. Fanes to the gods, to men he manners gave f Best to the sword, and respite to the brave ; Stars to his own, constellants to ih' alcove, And wreaths refreshing to immortal Jove. So high could ne'er Herculean poVr aspire : The god should lend his looks to the Tarpeian fire.
JElphmiUnL
Cn. TO PHOBBTTB.
Yon eiye me back, FhcBbna, my bond for four hundred thouaand sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. Seek some one else to whom you may vaunt your empty present : what I cannot pay you, FhoBbus, is my own*
My bond for four hundred you proudly present; One hundred, kind Phosbus, I'd rather you lent. In the eyes of another such bounty may shine ; Whate'er I can't pay you, dear Ph(ebus, is mine.
Wettmintter Beview, April, 1853.
Om. OK UIEBUS USH ASHiLTJS, TWIK-BBOTHSB8.
What new Leda has produced you these attendants so like each other? What fiurl^artan has been captiyatedbj another swanP Pollux has given nis face to Hierus, Castor his to Aail* lus ; and in the countenance of each gleams the beauty of their Tyndarean sister (Helen). Had these beautifol figures been in TherapiUBan A^ycla, when the in&riorpreBent prayailed over those of the two other goddesses,' SLelen would have
> When Venus promised Helen to Paris^ while Juno offerfld him empfae^ and Minerva wisdom.
BOOK X.] XPieBAMS. 4tf
remBined at Sparta, and Troiaii Faria haTO letumed to Phxy* gian Ida with two Qdajmem.
Whenoe so much likeness, so mucli sweetness, grew ?
To bear these twins did Leda brood a-newP
If this is Pollux, that is CSsstoi's &oe :
In both alike there shines the sister's grace.
When riyals yielded to the Cyprian queen i
At Sparta's court had so much beauty been.
The Phryipan Paris had reversed his deed ;
And, leaTing Helen, stole each OanTmede. ^ey.
BOOK X.
I. THI BOOK TO THB BBABSB.
If I seem to be a book of undae sise, with mj end too much delayed, read only a small portion of me; I shall then be to you but a little book. Each of my pages is occupied by but three or four short pieces ; make me as short aa you please for yourselfl
If of my length you 're tempted to complain,
A slight exiwdient puts you out of pain :
A page, a poem, fourteen Terses make ;
Stop where you please, a whole in each you take*
If of my price, tne age to verse how cold I
A thousand poems at that price are sold. Cbjw/ Lojft.
n. TO THB BXABBB, OV PUBIiISHIKO ▲ BSOOBD BDmOK
or THIS BOOK.
The labour, which I bestowed upon thia tenth book, beins too hurried, made it necessary that the work, which haa alipped £rom mj himds, shoula be revised. You will read here some pieces which you have had before, but they are now repoHshed by the file; the new part will be the larger; but be iavourable, reader, to both; for you are my true Bupport ; since, when Borne gave you to me, she said, '^ I have nothing greater to give you. By his meana you wdl CNBcape the sluggish waves of ungrateful Lethe, and will mrnre m
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the better part of younelfl The marble tomb of Mesaala ii BpHt by the wild ng, and the audadoiu muleteer Liagha at the mutilated horses of the statue of Criraus.^ But as for writizLn, thej are mdestmctible either by thieves or the »▼• ages of time ; such monuments alone are proof against death.**
This my tenth booke, set out before too scone, Backe to my hands comes to be better done. Some old, but new corrected, thoa wilt finde ; The most are new ; reader, to both be kinde. Reader, my wealth ; whom when to me Rome gave, Nought p;reater to bestow f quoth she) I have : By mm mgratefull Lethe moa shalt flye, And in thy better part shalt nerer dye. Wilde Fig-trees rend Messalla's msrbles off; Crispus halfe-horses the bold esrters sooffe. Writings no age can wrong, no theeving hand ; Deathlesse alone those Monuments will stsnd. Majf*
The Terses in this book too soon took air:
My want of care at first renewed my csre.
Some, that are old, you here retoucnd will find :
The greater part are new :' to both be kind.
When Fate to me a constant reader gave ;
" Reoeiye," she said^ ** the greatest b<x>n I have.
By this beyond oblivion's stream airive !
And in your better part by this survive.
Statues may moulder; snd the down unbred
Scoff at young Ammon's horse without his head.
But fimsVd writings theft snd time defy.
The only monuments which cannot die." Slay.
m. TO PBIB0V8.
A certain anonymous poet is circulating the jargon of slayeSi foul aatirea, and filthy turpitudes, such as are uttered only by low vagabonds ; vulgarisms such as even a dealer in brok- en Yatinian glass would not purchase at the price of a sul- phur match ; and these he attempts to pass on as mine. Do you believe, Prisons, that the parrot can speak with the note of the quafl, and that C^us* would wish to be a bag- piper ? Far from my little books be such foul fiime ; books wnich the fairest reputation bears aloft on unsullied wing. Why should I labour to attain a disgraceful notoriety, when I can remain silent without loss P
1 Mentioned B. iv. Ep.54. B. ix. Ep. 5.
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The partar's ioke, the ehaimum's low ocmoeiti
Hie oirtjr ityle of angry Billinngate,
Snoh M a itroUinff tinker woold not uae,
Nor hawker of old clothes, or dreadAil newsy
A estam poetpritately dinmesi
And fiun wonla fob them off for Martial's TerMii
"Win then the parrot steal the raven's note P
At ooontry wakes Italians strain their throat?
Far from mj writings be th' envenom'd lie :
My name on purer wings shidl mount the sky.
Bather than striTe an eril fiune to own*
Gannot I hold my tongue, and die unknown? Bay.
IT. TO ICAHUBSiu
You who read of (Edipua, of Thyestes deserted by the Bon, of the Colchian prinoeea (Medea), and of the ScyDaa, of what do yoa read bat fabulooa wonders P Of what advantage to you is tiie storr of the rape of Hylas, or of Parthenopeaa, or of Atp, or of {tie sleeper EndymionP Orof they outn learns despoiled of his fidling wings P or of Hermaphroditus, who shuns the amoroos waters ? What do the einnty tales of such firihroloos writings profit yon ? Bead in this oook of mine of rod life, of which you may say, *'It is mine." You will not find hero Centanrs, or Gkxfgons, or Harpies ; flnypages sarour of nuoL But if yoa have no wish, Mamuna, to stady the manners of the times, or to know yoorsel^ you may read the wiffikicS Oallimachus.^
What are but monsters, in the Theban bed, Threstes, Scyllaes, or Medea's readP What profits thee sleeping Endymion P Partfaenopaeus, Atis, Hylas goneP leans drown'dP Hermaphroditos* &te. Who now doth love's transforming waters hate P Why such vaine traiJi spendst thou thy time uponP Beade that, which truly thou mayst call thine own. There are no CSentaures, Oorgons, Barpves here i My pace speakes only man. But thou aost feare Tliy asB^ Mamuna, and thy erunes to know. Tlien read Oallimachus his Oausea, thou. l^i^.
- Who reads of (Edipns or Scylla now,
As well mav read of Warwick's monstrous cow* Leave all tne stories of a cock and bull. Which you in Ovid find, to boys at sdiooL
* The A<n«, a woik of CtlUmachus the poet, no longer estsnl.
MS UABTTAL'8
From idle tales what pleasure will remain t
Bead but to liTe; all reading else is Tain.
Never on monsters my invention ran :
My every nage an essay is on man.
If you oislike yourself at all to know i
Proceed in your romance, transported beau. J7ay.
No Centaurs here, nor Oomns look to find,
My subject is of man, and humankind. Button,
T. OK A SLAITDSBOUS POST.
Whoever, despising the matron and the noble, whom he ought to respect, has injured them with impious verse ; maj he wunder through town after town, an oatcast on bridge and hill, and lowest among craving mendicants, may he entreat for mouthfuls of the spoilt bread reserved for the dogs. May December be dreair to him, and the dripping winter and dose cell prolong the cheerless cold. May he call those blessed, and pronounce them happj, who are borne past him upon the nineral bier. And when the thread of his last hour is spun, and the day of death, which has seem- ed too slow, has arnvedi, may he hear around him the howling of dogs for his body, and have ix) drive off the birds of prey by shaking his rags. Nor may the punishment of the abject wretch end with his death ; but, sometimes lashed with the thongs of the severe Macun, sometimes burthened with the mountain- stone of unresting Sisyphus, sometimes thirsting amid the waters of the babbling old Tantalus, may he exhaust all the fabled torments of the poets ; and when the Furies shall have compelled him to confess the truth, may he ezdaim, betrayed hj DJE conscience, '' I wrote those verses."
Whoso by impious verse in all the town Scandals the senator's or matron's gown, Which rather ought be worshipp'd, let him be Banish'd through all the seats or beggary ; And let him from the do^ bespeak Uieu: meati Be his December long, his winter wet; Let his shut vault prolong the frost most sad ; And let him cry such hapny that are dead, On hellish-bedsteds carriea to their grave ; And when his last threads their fulfilling have^ And the slow da^ shall come, oh, let him see Himself the strife of dogs, and his limbs be
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ITie pej of mv^oui birds, nor let hif pains End m the simple crack of his heartfs Teinii But fedinff tiie strict doom of .fiacns. One while let him relieve old SisvphuSy Then scorch in Tantalus his dry aesire^ And an the &bles of the poets tire i And when the truth the Furies shall demand. May his fidse conscience cry, This was the hand.
TI. OK THB ABBrriJi 07 TKiJAK,
Happy are the^ whom Fortune has permitted to behold this leader beaming with the rays of northern anna and conatellationBl "When will that day oome, on which the fiddfly and the treea, and eyery window shall ahine resplend- ent, adorned by the ladies of Kome P When shall be witoesa- ed.the delightful halts on the road, the distant clouds of duft tellinff of GsDsai^a apprcMudi, and the spectacle of all Borne aasemoled in the Flaminian Way P Woen will ye, Enigfats, and ye Moors clad in rich Ilgyptian tunica, go forth to meet him P And when will the uuanimoua yoice of the people eT« claim, '^He oomea" P
Happy, whose lot alloVd to ken a&r, The gleaming warrior of the polar star ! Haste, festal day, when ev'ry field and tree 8hall laagli with yerdure, and shall sinff with glee $ When erery window shall effulge new flame, Fed by the lustre of the Latian dame ; When fond suspense anticipates parade, And the long cloud ensures the cayalcade : When hailing Rome herself shall full display The wondrous object on Flaminius* Winr. Te prandng Moors, in pictured yest of Nile, When will ye shed on all the sudden smile? When shall we hear the yoice that sweetly sums The wish c^ nations in one word, — ^He comes P
^^paifisloii*
TIT. TO THB BHIirS.
O Bhme, &ther of the nymphs and streams that drink the northern anowa, ao may thy waters eyer flow unconcealed, and no barbaroua wheel of insolent ruatic trayerse or hia foot trample thy ice-bound aurface; ao mayest thou pursue thy way, reoeiymg thy eolden tributariee, and owning the away of Borne on either bank, aa thou ahalt aend back Trajan to
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his people and to his dly. This does oar Tiber, fhy mastor, implore of thee.
Sire of nympbiy of itreuna the loaroe,
Bwillixig nortfieni snowi | ' Still wKfit tboa enjoy tfay conne,
In flerene repow.
So may nerer bezb'roni car
Of insulting twain. Thy pelludd channel mar;
Or thine ear hia strain :
So msfttt find thy horns, and roam
Bcxnan on each strand ; Send but safe our Trajan home :
Tiber gives command. JElphmtUmm
Tin. OK PAITLA.
Paula wiflhes to be married to me; I am unwilling to many Paula, beeauee she is an old woman; but I should haye no objection^ if she were still older.
Paula thou needs woold'st marry me
When thou art old and tough : I cannot : yet Fd yenture thee
Wert thou but old enough. Flet^er.
Me would the widow wed: she's old, say I :
But if she older were, I would comply. Slay.
To ik$ HoiL Cbarlet Fox, m a propoud made to km to marry a rick
MmaUL
Lady Bab, though tum'd fifty, was hot I should wed her,
But I, being not yery willing to marry. Told a firiend she was old, so could ne'er think to bed her.
And therefore desir'd some time longer to tarry. At this, being nettled, she flew in a rage.
And pouted, as she was ne'er courted before : Pooh ! said I, I mistook, she is quite imder agot
Oh would she were now but a hundred or more.
Ego.MrSeoU.
n. OK HIHSXLr.
I am that Martial known to all nations and people by my yerses of eleven feet,^ my hendecasyUables, and my jokes»
> He calls his hendecasyUable Tenes dnm fid^ as if each syllable were a foot
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which however are without malice. Why do yon enry me P I am not better known than the hone Andnemon*
Whjr doft thoa envy Martial's being hnown
Por hia smart Terse, abuaiTe yet to none P
That Borne, the proyinces, extol his name?
Geler, the raoe-hoxse, has a loader £une. Anon, 1090.
Z. TO PAITLna, OVB 01* THB OOVBXJLB.
While yon, who open the year with lanrel-wreathed faacea, wear away^ a thousand door-irfcepa with your morning calls, what remaina for me to do P Wnat do you leave to me, Pan* lus, who am sprung from Numa's people, and am simply one of the plebeian crowd P Shall I salnte as lord and king every one who hononra me with a look P Thia you do yourself and oh I with what superior grace 1 Shall I follow somebody's litter, or chair P Yon are not above this office yourself^ and yon even B^gglo for the distinction of walking foremost through the midst of the mud. Shall I frequently rise to applaud a poet who recites his verses P You remain standing all tne time, with both hands stretched out towards the auflior. ^ What is a poor man to do, when he cannot even be a client P Your purple has supplanted our plain togas.
When thoa of oonsolar rank think'st it no seom A hundred to salute by early mom ; What oiBce, Paulas, leav*8t thou unto me, And to Home's num'roas throne of low decree P Who stoops himself, shall I calf lord and kmg P Croaeh to one acts the fawnine underling P Shall I attend his chair, who does not shun Otfaen to bear, throngh 'thick and thin to run P To praise men's verse, what boots it oft to rise, When thoa, to show applause, dost not despise Always to stand, with hands stretch'd to the skies P What shall mean men do, clients when no more P If those are great, share duties with the poor P
Anon. 1695.
ZI. TO OALLIOnOBVS.
Yon speak of nothing but Theseus and Firithous, and you imagine yourself equal to Pylades. May I perish if you aie worthy to hand a chamber-vessel to P^mdes, or to feed Pirithous's nigs. '' Yet I have given mv fnend," say you, ^five thonsana sesterces, and a toga (0 Iraunty I), not
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more than three or four tunes scoured." Munificent gift! Pylades never gave anything to Orestes : a man who gives to his friend, however much, witiiholds still more.
Pirithons his name yon oft repeat ;
And equal Pylades m your conceiL
Not fit to fill to P;^ laden his wine ;
Not fit to feed Pirithoua his swine.
Once, as you boast, yoa gave your fntnd a note
For fifty shillings ; twice an old seour'd coat.
True : you than Pylades more prenenti make :
He never gave, he let Orestes take. Ea^,
ZIX. TO DOHITnrB.
You who are goine to visit the people of Emilia, and of Yercellie dear to Apdlo, and the fidds of the Po, renowned for the death of Phaeton, may I perish, Domitius, if I do not cheerfully allow yon to depart, although without your so- ciety no day is tolerable to me. But what I greatly desire is this ; that, if for only one summer, yon would relieve your neck of the yoke imposed upon it by a residence in town. Gk), I pray you, and imiale the fervid rays of the sun at every pore. How handsome you will become during your journey ! And when you return, you will be past recognition by your pale faced mends, and the pallid crowd will envy the colour of your cheeks. But Bome will soon take away the colour which your journey gives you, even though you should return IS black as an Etmop.
To range th* i^^ilian, and the tribes survey, Where once Apollo made a fav'rite stay; To stroll the lawns, where Padus rolls along, And soothe thy toils with Phaethontian song i I give thee leave, my fiiend ; or let me die : Though without thee each day but spins the sigh. Yet on these terms alone we brook thy tour
S[>r nature cannot pain prolonged endure), at on thy fitiendi one season uou bestow. And shun m city-shade fell Sixius' glow. Drink then at ev'ry nore the burning air : Be but a foreigner, tnou still art fair. True, when thou com'st our eyes thou wilt amase : Thy frienda will scarce acknowledge, as they gase. Thoii too shalt wonder, at their psiy hue : To thy now brown their tincture will be blue»
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But Borne fhy nyith'd tint mH aioon restore^ Tlumfh from the Kile thoa ihould'st return a Moor.
Xm. TO TUOCA.
While a diariot carries your effeminate miDioiiB aittinff at their eaae, and African out-ndere toil in your service afong the dus^ road ; while your samptuous couches surround your hatha wnieh rival those of Bais, the waters whitened with perfumes; while measures of 8etine wine sparkle in your brilliant glasses, and Venus sleeps not on a softer conch ; yon pass your nights upon the threshold of a proud harlot, and her deaf gate is wet, alas ! with your tears ; nor do sighs cease to rend your sad breast. Shall I tell you, Tucca, why matters go so ill with you ? It is because they go too welL
Althouffh your berlin always moves in state ;
And a u>ng train on horseback with it sweat;
Although your house, in many an airy room,
Reeeivet a floweir garden's rich perfume;
Although your gfaas sparkle with burgundy ;
No dntdiess on a softer bed can lie ;
Tou for a paltry actress sigh in vain.
Stung to tne heart whole nights by her disdain.
Little you guess, sweet Sir, what 'tis doth tease ye ;
An easy fortune makes you thus uneasy. Hay»
XIT. TO 0BI8PIT8.
Yon say, Crispua, that you yield to no one of my friends in ttffection for me ; but what, I pray, do you do to prove the truth of thia assertion P When I asked for a loan of five thousand sesterces, you refused me, though your overstocked cash-box could not contain your hoards. When did yon give me a bushel of beans or grain, though you have lands ploughed by Egyptian husbandmen P When was even a wcK^y toga sent me in the cold winter season P When did half a pound of silver find its way to me P I see nothing to make me look upon you as a friend, Crispus, but your habit of putting yourself quite at ease in my presence.
Ton ssv, I have no better friend than you : What ao tou do, to make me think it trueP I wanted hut dye pounds, which you deny; Though you have useless thousands lying by. From all the fertile harvests of your plain. When did you send to me one smgle '~
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When a thort doak, to guard me from the ooUlF To line my pozBe, when a small piece of gold? I see no mark of friendahip on your part; But, before me, yon are free enough to — • Eoj^
XT. OK APIB.
Aper has pierced the heart of his richly-dowered wife witli a eharp arrow. Bat it waa in play. Aper ia akilful at play.
With a sly shaft he ihot his dowxied wife. Aroh Aper knows tfaa game, and plays for life.
JSiphmdim. XYI. TO OAIITS.
If you call it making a pieaent, Caiua, to promise and not to give, I will far outdo you in gifts and presents. Seceive from me all that the Asturian has extracted from the mines of Ghdlicia ; all that the golden wave of the rich Tagus pos- sesses ; all that the swarthy Indian finds in the seaweM of^the Erythraan sea; all that the solitary bird amasses in its nest ; all that industrious Tyre collects m her Phoenician coppers ; all that the whole world possesses, receiye from me, — after your own manner of giving.
If promises, for q^ifts, thou dost acoonnt,
8ee, Caius, how m {^fts I thee surmount.
Take all the gold delv'd in Asturian fields ;
The wealthy sand &e strand of Tagus yields i
Whate'er the Indians find of yellow ore ;
The spices which the phenix' nest do store i
Tyre's richest purple aU that all men have,
I give you, Gaius, just as you me gave. Anon. lG9i5.
Xni. TO HIS HUSX, OK 1£A0XB.
In vain, my Muse, would you defraud Maoer of his tribute at the Satunialia ; you cannot, he himself asks you for it. He demands the customary jokes, and cheerful verses ; and complains that he no longer hears my jests. But he is now engi^^ upon long computations of surveyors ; and what will become of thee, 0 Appian Way, if Macer reads
Felonious Muse, dost thou pretend « To bilk both Saturn and thy friend Of their delight, the jocund lay ; The annual tribute tnou diould'st pay? Though Maoer now has little leisure To soan, but heavy books of measure i
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Amid hii labonn he eomplaiiif
He heen no more my flippant etnlni.
Poor Appian ! what thj nte wonld be
Did Maioer alio atudj me ! J^fhmdoiu
Znn. OK ICABIXTS.
HiBriiiB neither aake any one to dinner, nor sends Dresentiy nor becomes security for any one, nor is wQling to lend ; in« deed he has nothing to lend. NcTertheless a crowd is found to comi his barren friendship. Alas, how blotted, Borne, are the wearers of thy toga!
No dinneiB ! presenta ! he is no man's bail! He cannot lend, because hit riches iiul I /
Tet crovda attend his fatore power and grace. For fook of all sorts London ia the place. .S2qr«
TTT. HB Sm>B HIS BOOK TO PLZKr THB TOUVOIB.
Go, my llialia, and present to the eloqaent Pliny my little book, which thonfh not learned enongh or yerj grave, is not entirel^jr devoid of elegance. When you have passed tiie Su« burra, it is no long labour to ascend the steep pathway over the I^uiline hilL There you will see a riittenng statue of Orpheus on the top of a perfume-sprinkled theatre, surrounded b^ beasts wondering at nis music ; and among them the royal bad which carried off Ganymede for the Thunderer. Near it is the humble house of your friend Pedo, surmounted by an esffle with smaller wings. But take care lest, in a moment of indiscretion, you knock at the leuned Pliny's door at an inauspicious time. He devotes his whole days to the severe Minerva, while preparing for the ears of the centumviri that which our own afte and posterity may compare even with the eloquent psges of Cicero. You will go with the best chance of success men the evening lamps are lighted. That hour is for YOU the best when the ^od or wine reigns, when the rose holds its sway, and the hair is moistened with perfumes. Hicd even rigid Catos read me.
My book not leam'd enough, enough aevere^ But yet not rude, to fluent Pliny bear. Sportive Thalia. The Suburran way^ Pasi^d, with short labour the next mil you majr Ascend ; from whence, thou Orpheus (set on highf • Dssh'd by the theatre) plainly sbalt descry }
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The wond'ring beuts, the king of birds and aiff
Which the ^ungPhxygian to the Thimd'rer bear:
there thj friend redo's houae stands also by,
Showinff a lesser eagle carr^d on high.
But to team'd Pliny make not thy address
Wanton, but when time suits ibr thy access ;
He in severer studies spends the day,
How he the Hundred J udges best may sway :
Studies, which ours, nor no age, will forbear,
With TullVs noblest labours to compare.
Thou'lt sateli'st go when it is candle-light;
This is the hour when Bacchus mads the nieht |
When odours reign, when roses crown the head,
By rigid CSato then thou may'st be read. Anon. 1695.
XX. TO UAJSTLVB,
That Oeltiberian Sale draws me to its aoriferotiB banks, tiiat I am pleased again to visit the dwellings of my native land suspended amid rocks, you, Manius, are the cause; you who have been beloved of me from my infant years, and cherished with affection in the days of my youth ; than whom there is no one in all Iberia dearer to me, or more worthy of real regard. With you I should delight eyen in a tent of the Libyan desert, or a hut of the savage Scythian. If your sentiments are the same, if our affections are mutual* eyery place will be a Bome to us both.
That in my native soil I long to be,
The golden sands of Spanish Sale see ;
Thou, to whom love from tender years I bore,
Honoured, while yet thou the pnetexta wore,
Art the chief cause : and yet a sweeter air
No country yields, or may with Spain compare*
But, wert with thee, I Scythia could enjoy.
Nor would the sands of Africk me annoy.
If mutual love thou bear^st and a like mmd,
Bome we shall both in ev*ry climate find. Arum. 1095.
ZXI. TO 8BXTU8, A WBITEB AJmSCTHTO OBSOITBITT.
Why, I ask, Sextus, is it your delight to produce com« positions which even Modestus himself, or Clanyius, could scarcely understand ? Your books require, not a reader, but an AnoUo. In your judgment Cinna was a greater poet than Ylrgu. May your works receiye similar praise! As for
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mine, I am eontent that thej please the Gtrammariaoa, provided thej please others without the aid of Ghiammarians.
What pleasure Is it, that your ^tinffs are
Almost too hard for Bentley or for Hars P
Tou write not to be read, but criticis*d :
Penius yon foUow ; >^rgil is despis'd.
This be your praise : but may mj every lins^
Or with a comment, or without it, shine. Mai^n
xxn. TO FHiikfiins.
Do you aak, PhSsniis, why I often come abroad with plaiater on my chin, cft with my lips covered with salve when nothing ails them P I do not wish to kiss you.
Why on my chin a plaster dapp'di Besalv'd my lios, that are not coapp*d: Philflenis, why? The cause is this : Philnia, thee I will not kiss. S^phmtioiL
TTfTT. OK H. XNTOVTUB PBIinTS.
The happ7 Antonius Primus now numbera fifteen 01ym« piads (75 years) passed in tranquillity ; he looks back upon the days that are gone, and the whole of his past yearSi with* oat fearinff the waters of Lethe to which he daOj draws nearer. iHot one day of his brings remorse or an unpleasant reflection; there is none which he would be unwilling to r^ caU. A good man lengthens his term of existence; tooeable to enjoy our past life is to live twice.
At length, my fi:iend (while time with still esxeer Waits on his gentle wing this eightieth yeart, Sees his past days safe out of Fortune's powT, Nor dreads approaching fate*s uncertain hour; Reviews his me, and, in the strict survey, F^ds not one moment he could wish away, Pleas'd with the series of each happy day. Snohf such a man extends his life's short space, And from the g^ again renews the race : For he lives twice who can at once employ The psesent well, and e*en the past enjoy. Pope.
XXiy. OV THS SXLIKDS, OS IZEBT DAT, 07 XASOH.
O Kalends of Misrch, anniveraary of mj birth, day more charming to me than any other kalends, day on which even maidens send me preeenta, I place upon the hearth, in honour of you, these cdLes, and tlus censer, for the fifty-seyenth time.
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To these yean ^roTided it be for my good) add at my e»« treaty, I beeeech yon, twice nine more, ao that I may de- Bcena to the groTea of the Elysian qneen wliile stQl nndis* abled with protracted old age, yet haring aooompUahed the three sta^ of life. After such a Nestor's existence^ I will not ask for a single day more.
IlanCs calends, ne'er outshin'd I
Fairest of the calend-hind I
When to me the maids present
Fiftr cakes for half a cent:
With the fifty, truth requires
Censer serenth^ upon tout fires.
Still to these, if so be best.
Add twioe nine, I meek obtest i
That, not yet quite spent with ags^
Though tlurioe trod the youthful stage^
I mar seek Elysian grores :
Eartnly wish no wider rores. S^pkmthn,
zzT. OK xxrcnis.
If that Hndna, whom we lately beheld in the arena in the morning, and who thrust his hand into the blaring fire, appears to you to be a man of patience, fortitude, and endurance, you hare no more sense than the people of Abdera ; for when a man is commanded, with the altematiye of the pitched shirt before his eyes, to bum his hand, it would be more courage* ous to say, ^ I will not bum it ! "
Who Mucius acted on the stage's sand.
So promptly thrust into the fiame his hand ;
If brsTe and bold for this thou him dost deem,
Thyself of lome duU dime I must esteem :
To BSTe his life by this means was his case ;
Twere braver fiur to have refused the grace. Anon. 16811
ZXTI. ON THX DXATH 07 THB CEKTUBIOK TABI7S IK
SOTFT.
O Yams, thou who wast but lately a Boman officer of rank among the ParsBtonian cities, and a distinguished leader of a hundred men, art nowrepjosin^, a strange shade, on the Eg^ tian shore ; your return ia Tamly expected by the Auaoniaa Quirinus. It was not permitted us to moisten thy parching lips with our tears, nor to place rich incense on thy sad pyre. But an enduring tribute shall be given thee in immcvtal Terse. Wouldst fiiou, perfidious Nile, also deprive ua of this t
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ytrasy who as Borne*! Tribune didet oummaiii An hundred men, renown'd in Egjrptft land. Now M a stranger ghost thou dost lemaine On I^us* shore, promis'd to Rome in Taine. We oould not dew with teares thy dying &oe^ Nor thy sad Ainerall flames with odours gmoe i Tet in my verse elemiz'd shalt thou bee : Of that mlseiBgypt cannot oousen thee. Jfiy.
ZXYII. TO DIODOBUB.
On your birth-day, Diodorua, the senate and a great many knights sit as guests at your table; and your sportnla is a largess of no less than thirty sesterces to each person. And yet^ Diodoros, no one regarcu you as a man of birth.
The senate did thy birth-day celebrate j
Many knights also at thy table sat :
Largess thou jsaVst ; yet still thou'rt all men's scorn i
None will behcTe that CTer thou wert bom* Ammm lOOff.
zxvin. TO JAirrs.
O most honoured &ther of years, and of this glorioos nni- Terse, to whom first of all the gods the public vows and pray- ers are addressed, thou wert formerly wont to dwell in a smiul temple, open to all, and through which the busy crowd of Bome wore their constant way. Now thy threshold is sur- rounded with tokens of the munificence of CflBsar, and thou numberest^ Janus, as manj forums as thou hast fiMses. Bat do thou, Tenerable father, m gratitude for such a booUi secure Hbj iron gates with a perpetual boltJ
Father of years, and of each beauteous round ;
Whom first oar tows iuToke, our thanks resound I
Perrious and scanty was thy late abode,
Where manr a Boman beat a barb*rous road.
Now ffifts desarean thj gkd thresholds graoe.
And mou a square enjoVst for erery fkoe.
For these, O sacred fire ! benign agree
To kek thy cloisters with perpetuia key. SIphimlom,
xxrr. TO sBZTELiijrrB.
The dish which yon were wont to present to me, Sextiliannai
at the Satmmalia, you haTO bestowed on tout mistress: and
with the price of my toga^ which you used to giTe me on the
first of March, you haTe bought her a green dinner robe.
> That vi, grant ns uiiatamipted peace. The temple of Janus wu open only in tfane of war.
460 ]CAllTIAIi*8
Your mistreaseB now begin to cost you nothing; yon oqqy them at my expense.
In the dayi of old Satam you dol'd me a dish.
Which you now throw vour damsely like bait to a fish.
On the calendB of March you enlarff*d my renown i
Now you buy the KTcen Test with the pnce of my gown.
The mir faVHtes, Sextilian, you render bo gay,
Are, by my presents only, enroli*d in your pay. Efyhmdon,
XXX. TO ▲POLLnfiJtlS ON THB CHAB1C8 OV 70BMUB.
O delightful shore of salubrious Formiie; Apollinaris, when he Sees from the city of stem Mars, and wearied kys aside his anxious cares, prefers thee to every other spot. The charming TiYoli, the birth-place of his yirtuous wife, is not to him so attractiye, neither are the retreats of Tusculum, or Algidus, or FrsBneste, or Antium. He pines not after the blimd Circe, or Trojan Caieta, or Marica, or Liris, or the fountain of Salmacis, which feeds the Lucrine lake. At Formia the surfiBuse of the ocean is but gently crisped by the breese ; and though tranquil, is ever m motion, and bears along the paint^ skiff under the influence of a gale as gentle as tiiat wafted by a maiden's fan when she is distressed by heat. Nor has the fishing-line to seek its victim far out at sea ; but the fish may be seen beneath the peUndd waters, seizing the Une as it drops from the chamber or the couch. Were JSolus ever to send a storm, the table, still sure of its provision, might laugh at his railings ; for the native fish-pool protects the turbot and the pike ; delicate lampreys swim up to their master; delicious mullet obey the call of the keeper, and the old carp come forth at the sound of his voice. But when does "Rome permit him to partake of these enjoy- ments P How many days at Formiie does the year allot to him, closely chained as he is to the pursuits of the city P Happy gate-keepers and bailiffs ! These gratifications pro» video for your masters, are enjoyed by you.
O Bay of Formiae, tem^rate and &ir f Whicm, when ApoUinaris, tir'd with care, Flies from the toilsome business of the town, Than pleasant Tybur holds in more renown. His chaste wife's soil : prefers to th' sweet recess Of Tusculane, Pneneste, Lucrine; less Esteems Cajeta, or what men more admire, Kais'd by meir Amcy or by fiction higher.
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A gentla air here glides o'er Thetis* ISmm^
BxStk as the fims m Virgin., make, to chase
Bummer's nngrateftd heat. The sea is smoothy
Not torpid dead, but a soft gale does soothe
The aetiTe calm ; and paint^ gallies moTO.
For lish yon need not launch into the deep,
These you may take, and yet your chamber keqi^
Out at your window cast your line and lead,
And draw the dangling prey up to your bed.
And when the waves by winter winds arise.
From your safe board you may the storm desinse.
Gardens no less, and mssh Rpnnss Formia grace,
Fountains are seen to flow in eVry place ;
FJsh-ponds the stranger trout and mullet feed.
The home-bred pike, wluch cbll*d, does come with speed
Fat cans here luiow thdr names, and to you make,
And alia pastime is, no nains, to take.
But to the owners when aoes Rome give leave.
But a few days these pleasures to receive ?
Fruition's lost, while they to business deave.
Tliese sweets (O hinds and gard'ners, happy crew !)
Were for your lords prepar'd, but are enjoy'd by yon.
In vain rude iBolus deforms Old Ocean's brow with rising storms ; Thy splendid board, secure, defies The angnr main and threat'ning skies* Within thy ample bason see Each nobler fisn that swims the sea t The stately sturgeon, ocean's pride^ The mugif, fond in sands to hide. The tnrbot, and the mullet old, Are pastur'd in the liquid fold, ^hnined to the summons, lo ! they all at the feeder's weU-known calL
MelmaA.
TO 0ALLI0D0BU8.
•
Yoa Bold a dave yesterday for the Bum of thirteen hundred seBteroes, in order, CalliodoruB, that you might dine well once in your life. NevertheleBB you did not dine well ; a mullet of four pounds* weight, which you purchased, was the chief dish, the very crown of your renast. I feel inclined to ezdaim, ** It was not a fish, shameleBB rello w, it was a man, a veritable man, Calliodoras, that you ate."
462 iciatxal's
Thy eenrant tboa for a great man. didst mU, That bat onoe, CUlidore, thou mif hf st fiure well. Nor fiur'd'st Hum well ; a mullet m four poond Was the head dish, which the whole table crown'd. liay we not, wxeCidi« exclaim *gaiiist this thy treat? Say, 'twas a maii« not fish, that thou didst eat
Anon. 169S.
TXTTT. TO OiDXOIAinTB, OK ▲ LTKZKE8S 07 KAX0U8 AJSTOVTUS PBDCXTS.
Do jou aak, CsBdicianiis, whose lineaments are traced in thia picture, which I am adorning with roses and violets P Such was Mbtcqb Antonius Primus in the prime of life ; in thia portrait the old man sees himself in his youth. Would that art could have painted his character and his mind 1 There would then be no £Eurer portrait in the whole world.
This pictore seel on which no cost I spate;
But set in gold, and in my snuff-box wear.
At twenty-one such was lord Worthy's face ;
Who, now srey-hair'd, here views wnat onoe he was.
Could but uie peoe h» mind and morals show,
"Twould choicer be than Raphael ever drew. Say,
XlIllL TO MUITATITTB OALLTJ8.
MunatiuB Gfallus, more simple in manners than the Sabines of old, more virtuoua than the Athenian sa^ (Socrates), so may the chaste Yenus bless your union, and give you to inherit the noble mansion of your mther-in-law, as you exculpate me from haying written any verses, tinged with loul malice, whidi malevolence may have attributed to me ; and as you inaist that no poet, who is read, composes such verses. In all my writings my rule has ever been to lash vices without per* aonality.
Blest with the morals of a former age,
In goodneMpasnng the Athenian sage,
May vonr fiur dan^tez's virtues fix her spouse,
Ana nis allies, frat friends unto your houses
If when you meet a malioe-tinotur*d line.
And slandering fiune report that it is mine.
Ton vindicate your firiend; and boldly plead,
I ne'er compose what 'tis a shame to read :
For in my writings 'tis my constant care
To lash the vioss^ but the persons spare. 2£ay»
BOOK X.] mOBXMM. 468
imv. TO THl IHFIBOB T&AJAV.
Vxf tlie gods grant thee, 0 Trajan our prince, wbatsoerer thoa aeaerveat, and may they ratify in perpetuity whatsoerer the^ grant; thou who restorest to the patron the right of which he had been deprived. He will no lonser be resarded by hia fireedmen aa an exile. Thou art worthy and able to protect the whole body of citisena, and if occaaion aerrea thoa wilt prove the truth of my words.
Whatever thoa haat desery'dy may heav^ beitow :
And rati^ whate'er it gave below !
Who, with their rights restoi^d, sett'rt patrons firee |
Nor to their fireedmen bidd'st them exiles be.
Hail, worthy patron of profiined mankind !
And, the event evinces, such assigned. JB^Muiotu
ZXXT. FBAIBS OT BULTIOIA.
Let all maidens, who would please only one huaband, read Bnlnida. Let all husbands, who would please only one wife, read Snlpida. She does not describe the fury of Medea, or paint the feast of the accursed Thyestes ; nor does she be- ueve in the existence of Scylla or Byblis ; but she tells of daste and affectionate loves, of pure sports, gratifications^ and amnsements. He who shall properly estimate her poems, w31 say that no one is more modest, no one more loving. Sndi I should suppose were the endearments of S^ria in the cool grotto of Ifuma. With Sulpicia as fellow-«tudent» or as an instructress, Sappho might have been more learned, and more chaste; and had cruel Fhaon seen both at* the same time, he would rather have fallen in love with Sul* pida. But in vain ; for she would not sacrifice Calenna to become either the queen of the Thunderer, or the beloved of Baodi:u or Apollo.
Let all chaste Vurgins, that would wed One man alone, Sulpitia read. Let all good men, that love the bed Of one chaste spouse, Sulpitia read. She sings not or Medea's spells, Nor dire Thyestes' banquet tells. Scylla and tf yblis stories lies Sfale counts ; pure loves, and chastities,
* By restoring to them their patrons.
Sweet fportoi andliarmelees she xelsteii
Hervene whoe'er well flsstimatesi
Will say lliat none are holier.
Such jolii I thinke, .£geria'ii were
In that mcnst cave to Numa's ear.
Brought UD with her, or tangiit by her,
Ghaite, and more learn'd, had Sappho ~
But flinty Fbao, had he seene
Them both, had loVd Snlpitia sure,
(Although in Taine,) for sne, more pare»
Would not exchange CalenuiB' love
For Baeehus, Ph<BDU8» or great Jove. Mof.
zzzn. TO innnrA, &X8£Dive at XAsaxiLZiES.
Whatever the diBbanest wine vaiilts of ManeilleB contaiOp whatever cask has aasumed age by the help of the fLame, comes to ns, Mnnna^ from you : to your unfortmiate friends yon send, across seas and by circuitous paths, cruel poisons ; nor do you supply them on moderate terms, but at a price for which wine from Eidemum, or Setia, so esteemed lot their cellars, would be su£5cient. Your reason for not coming to Bome durinfi^ so long a p^od is, I suspect, lest yon should have to driuK your own wine.
All the wont cvder Hereford could make, Mix'd up, and ooil'd, for taste and coloui's sake^ A hundred miles you b^ the earner send : Have you a mind to poison every friend ? And make us pay such monstrous prices for't. It dearer comes than Malaga or Fort Perhaps you now have staid so long from town« For fear of drinking cyder, once your own. J92*f.
ZXZVn. TO ICATEBirUS, ACQUAIirriKa Hnt THAT THB AVTHOB IS SETTUTO OUT TOB, BILBILIS.
O Matemus, most scrupulous observer of law and equity, YOU who rule the Boman forum by your convincing eloquence^ nave vou any commands for the Spanish Main to send by your fellow-townsoum and old friena P Or do you imagine it better to catch hideous frogs on the shores of the Tiber, and to angle for poor stickle-backs, than to be able to throw back to its rocky^ oed the anptured mullet because less than three pounds' weight ? Ana to feast, at your principal meal, upon a stale crab or a disk of periwinkles, rather than upon oysters which may compare w^h those of Bai», and whicn even the
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serrantB are penuitted bjtheir mAster to eatP At Borne you hunt with much ado a stinking fox into your toila, and the Slthy captiye wonnds your dogs. There (at Bilbilia^ the wet fishing nets scarcely arawn iip from the depths foU of fish, entangle the hares. While 1 am speaking, see, your fisher- man returns with emptv creel, and your huntsman comes home proud of having caught a badger ; your every feast comes from the city markS to tne coast. Have you any commands for the Spanish main P
Tlioa lererend searcher of our equall law,
From whose sme mouth Rome's comtB their dietates diaw«
Tour cytyxen, and old companion, mee
Please you aught to command to th' Spanish sea P
"Whether Ufi hetber on Laurentum's ahoare
To catch feule froggs, or little minnow's atoare P
Or mullets, caught among the rocks in Spayne,
Not three pound weight, straight to throw m agayne P
Insipid wincklea top]^ of all your feast
To make, or little thm-ahell'd shrimps at best P
Bather than oysters, (Bais ne'er did yield
Better,) with which our senrants there are fill'd P
Here toe rank foxe, that bites your dogn, you driye
"With clamorous noyse into your netts auve :
Tour fishingdraggs, scarce drawn from sea, will thers^
Tett well spread on the sboare, streight ca^ a hare:^
Here see the fisherman retumes with nought,
The huntsman's proud that has a weesel cauffht: —
Tour shoaiea witn fish from marketts fiirmsb^d bee.
Please you command me aught to th' 81
OldMS.iethC^.
XXXYIIT. TO CALBKirS.
Oh how delicious haye been the fifteen years of married bliss, Calenus, which the deities have layished, in full mea- Bure, on thee and thy Sulpicia I Oh happy nights and hours, how joyfully has each been marked with the precious pearls of the Indian shore I ^ Oh what contests, wnat yoluptuous strife between you, has the happy couch, and the lamp drip- ping with Niceronian perfume, witnessedl Thou hast liyed, Ca- leDus, three lustra, and the whole term is placed to thy ac- count but thou oountest only thy days of married lifi». Were
^ Marked with iHdte stones, with i^iich the Bomsas distingwishfd aa» spicioiis days. Comp. B. yiiL Ep. 45.
466 )CABTIAL*I
AtropoB, at thy urgent request, to bring back to theo but one of thoee daySythoawooldst pi^er it to the long lift of Neator ^uadraplea.
Twioe Wfen yean, and one above it.
Yon have been yoked vith Mz8 Lovdt.
A heaTenlr blessing snch a wife I
Ton mnst naye led a charming life !
OhI happy days! in which no hour
Ton can iwget in twenty-four.
What nights! still spent in curtain^lecture!
What straggling, who should be director!
What blest debates ! which oft have lasted
Until the candle quite was wasted.
The number of your years, I ween,
Don't even now exceed fifteen :
I count not those^ which time did give i
But those^ yon fehyourself alive.
And if, like these. Fate add one more i
That one may seem to you fourscore. Sag^.
XXXIX. TO LBBBLi.
Why do you swear, Leabia, that you were bom in the eoBSulfihip of Brutiu ? You say falsely, Lesbia, you weie Dom in the leign of Numa. Should you even acunit that^ you would eeem to say ftlaely ; for, judging by your decrepi- tude, you must have been formed by the hand of Prometheoa.
Why do yon swear that you were bom
In good Qneen Anna's reign P You're out, for by your face forlorn
In James's it is plain : Nav, here you're out ; for sure your age
Does show, as one may say, That you were form'd, and in a rage,
OfthePftunetheanday. Beo. Mr Soofi 1778.
XL. TO LITPUS.
As I vros constantiy told that my mistress Polla indulged in improner connectioQ vrith a young Hberfciney I suipziaed them^ ana found they were as proper as my own.
I heard my Polla was a roveri I watch'd, and causht her widi a lover. How did she treat him P Was she ftee^ To the last possible degree, Jiumm
BOOS X.] mesAMi. 487
XU. TO FBOOVUIA.
On the Totam of Janusry you deeert your did hiubandy nocoleia, and foroe him to conaeat to a BepantioEi of pio- perty. What^ I ask, has hmpened P Why this sudden dis- OQntentP Ton answer not r I win tell you then: Hie was elected FMbor; his Megalesian pniple robe would hare cost yon a hundred l^onsand sesterces, eroiif ron had gpen shows of the most economical kind : and the pubUc festiyities woidd hare cost twenty thousand more. GRiis is not a diroroe^ Pro- eoleia: it is an artifice to save money.
* On Michaelinaa^ eve, it is said, Ladv Jans
From your husband that you did dope, And tell nim that he was the esuse of your paint
So bade him go e'en take a rope ! I ask whafs the matter, the cause of your soixoWt
But nothinff you answer aaain : rU teU you, tnat hell be lord-mayor to-moROW |
So now your disorder tm plain. Feasts at faster, Old Bailey, and gxaTS Judgei^ show%
And many gay generoos trcstii But you ^dge every ftrthiuff of money that goes
In makmg him fit for suoh leati : This is not what alarm'd Lime-street Ward at the fixsCi
So to them HI the true cause explain : Tou pine and are fisunish'd witii ''^Id's sacred fhirstt**
And aU your concern then is gam.
Bev. Mr ScoU, 1773.
zLii. TO nnmTinrs.
80 light is the down upon your cheeks, and so soft, that a bread^ or the heat of the sun, or a light breeze, would dis- pme it. They are clothed like young quinces which are de- piiyed of their bloom, and become smooth by the touch of a nudden's thumb. Were I to kiss yoa rather eagerly fiye times or BO, I ahonld become bearded, I>indymus, &ran the spoQ of your lips.
So light upon your cheeks the down.
By subtlest breese it may be blown ;
lis like that which on quinces comes,
Which shine when brusnd by maiden's thumbs |
I kiss ^u thrice, your lips are deai^d.
And mine have caught a second beard. Amku
2 R S
468 ]CABTIAXi*S
TTiTTT. TO FHUiIBOS.
Your seyenth wife, Fhfleros, is now being buried in your field. No man's field brings bim greater profit than yoniSy
Philerps.
Thy serenth wife lies buried in thy field :
Thy ground more gain than any man's doth yield.
Seven wives ! and in one grave ! there is not fomd (hi the whole globe a richer spot of ground. - Bay.
XLIT. TO QVHrrUB OVIDIUS.
Ton, Quintus Ovidiua, who are about to visit the Cale- donian Britons, and the green Tethys, and fiM^er Ocean; will you then resiffn Numa's hills, and the comfort of Nomenton retreats? and does the oounl7y,and your own fireside^ fiul to retain you in your old age P 1 ou defer enjoyment, but Atro- pos does not at the same time lay aside her spindle, and every passing hour is placed to your account. You show by per- forming a kindness to a dear friend (and who would pot praise such conducts, that a sacred regard to your word is aearer to you than life. But may ^ou at length be restored to your Sabine estate, long to remain there, and remember yoursdf among your frieni!
Do von an India ▼oyase then design P
Ana twice to cross the Tropic and the IdneP
In your old age qnit Paul's and Harrow spire P
A dieezful house, and comfortable fire P
Postpone not life : Ufe still is posting on :
And makes you debtor for eacn moment gone.
A noble proof of friendship you afibrd,
Who hold your life less sacred than your word.
Soon to your friends return I and in your breast
Leave for yourself a place amongst the rest. JGby.
XLT.. TO ▲ nxAnsR nimcuLT to bb plbasbb.
If my little books contain anything gentle and firacefbl, if my pace teems with pleasing tenns ofeulo^y , you tiiink them insipid ; and when I gSbt you the choicest bits of a Laurentian boar, you prefer to gnaw the bones. Drink Vatican wine, ii you like something sour ; my spread is not for your stomach.
If in my books aught sweet and gentle sound. Aught celebrating famous acts is found.
BOOS X.] spiaxAXB. 409
Wiileis thou 't deem'st ; a dry bone Taln'ft mare^ Than mck ohoioe mondt of ue noblest boar. If 1800*10118 s^een be thy belo Vd dieeaae, My candid Tern shall ne'er thy malice pleaae.
Anon, 1(I96.
XLTI. TO MATHO.
Yoa are always wiahing, Matbo, to speak finely; speak sometimes merely well; sometimes neither well norm; some- times eren ill.'
Thou finely woold'st say all P Say something well : Nay, somelMiig ill, if thou wonld^st bear tbe belL
« Omnia Tolt hellS Matho dicere ; die aliqnando £t bene : die luiUrum ; die aliquando ffia^."
The first is rather more than mortal can do; Hie second may be sadly done, or gaUy ;
The third is still more difficult to stand to; The fourth we bear, and see, and say too, daily :
The whole toother ii what I could wish
To serye in this conundrum of a dish.
Byron^ Dom Juan QuUo XV.
ZLTn. TO JXTLItrS KAXTIAXIS.
The things that make life happy, dearest Miartial, are these : wealth not gained by labour, but inherited ; lands that make no ill return ; a hearth always warm ; freedom firom liti^tion ; little need of business costume ; a quiet mind ; a yigorous frame ; a healthy constitution ; pruclenoe without cunninff ; friends among our equals, and social intercourse; a table spread without luxury ; nights, not of drunkenness, yet of medom from care ; a bed, not yoid of connubial pleasureSy yet chaste; sleep, such as makes the darkness seem short; contentment witn our lot, and no wish for change; and nettfaer to fear death nor seek it.
What makes the happiest life below, A few plain rules, my friend, will show. A good estate, not eam'd with toil,
But left by will, or gif'n by &te ; A land of no ungrateful soil,
A constant fire within your grate :
1 ThisBpisnmisquotedbyAbp.WlialDsly, kUsRhsioi^asafood nle in composttion.
4l7n ICABTIiLL't
No kwf few oazes; a quiet mind;
8tze^{:tfa unimpaix^df a healthfiil finmei 'WiidoM iriUi iimoceiioe oomfainM i
F^iflodi equal both in yean and fame;
Tour fifing eaejr, and your board "With ibody but not wiui luzuzy ttored A bedy tbough ohastey not solitary ; 8oaid deep, to shorten nightf s dull reign i
"Wish Bodiing that is youn to yarjr s Think all enjopients that remam ; And te the ineyitable hour, Kor hope it nigh, nor dread its power. JfsnVatw
MardaJ^tiie things that do attain
The happy life, be these, I find: The ridies left, not got with pain ;
The fhiitful ground, the quiet mind :
The equal fiiend, no grudge, no strife |
No civm of rule, nor govemanoe ; Wilhoafc duease, the healthful life ;
The household of continuanoe : The mean diet, no delicate fare ;
True wisdom join'd with simpleness | The ni|g^ discharged of all care,
Where wine the wit may not oppress :
The £uAlol wife, without debate ;
Such afeeps as may beguile the night Contented with thine own estate ;
Ne wUtk for Death, ne fear his might
Sonry Sbwardf JSttrt of Surptjfm
The things that make a life to please
(Sweetest Martial), they are these :
Estate inherited, not got :
A thankful field, hearai always hot :
CSty seldom, law-suits never :
Equal friends agreeing ever;
HealUi of body, peace of mind:
Sleeps that till the morning bind :
Wise sbanlicitir, plain &re :
Not drunken nignts, yet loos'd from care :
A sober, not a sullen spouse :
Glean stzcngth, not such as his that plows |
Wish onh what thou art, to be ;
Death netther wish, nor fear to see.
Sir Siehard Fanthamik
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The foregoing elegant Epignun baa alao been tnndafted by Fleidier, FentoD, Ck>wley, Somerrile, Hay, ElphisaUm, the Anonymona tunaiator of 1695, and the anther of the MS. of the Kith Gentoiy.
XLTHI. KASIIAL'B PBXPAlUXIOir TOB ▲ BASqVMT.
^ The priestliood of the Phaxian hei£sr^ axmonnoe to her tdie eighth nour,' and the guard armed with jaTelixifl now return to their qoarters.' Now the warm baths hare acooired a pro- per temperature ; at the preceding hour tJiey eznaled an in* tolerable ezoesa of steam ; at the sixth the heat of the baths of Nero is unsnpportable. Stella, Nepos, Canius, Cerealis, IlaccQSy are you coming ? The sigma (dumer-eouch) holds seven ; we are only six, add Lupus. My bailifiTs wife has brought me mallows, to aid dieestipn, and other treasures of the ^irden; among them are lettuces and ledcs for slicing; nor IS mint, the antidote to flatulence, or stimulant elecam^ pane, wanting. Slices of egg shall crown anchoyies dressed with roe; and there shall be sow's teats swimming in tunny- sauce. These will serve as whets for the i^petite. My litde dinner will all be placed on table at once; tnerewill beakid snatched from the jaws oC the rapacious wolf; there will be tid-bits such as have no need of a carver; there will be haricot b^ms, and young cabbage sprouts. To these will be added a chicken; and a ham which has already ap- petfed at table three times. For dessert I will give ripe fruits ; wine from a Nomentan flagon which was fllled in tne second consulship of Trontinus. All shall be seasoned with pleasantry &ee from bitterness; there shall be no licence of speedi that brings repentance on the morrow, and nothing said that we should wish imsaid. But my guests may speak of the rival £B;ctions in the circus^ and my cups shall make no man guilty.
The elobk strikes two: now eveiy powdei^d spaxk
SallSes self-eatisfied into the Park.
IVom one to two himself he. did peniae :
From twelve to one his chocolate and news.
At three predsdy I shall dine at home;
Will, JacK, and Tom, and Dick, and yon will eome:
^ lais. * Two o'clock in the afternoon.
* Bi pUata redit Jamgue 9ubitgv$ eohan. What mAotv ia meant hen^ baa been a neat subject of doubt. Oronorioa an^poses it to be ^ pff9* toiian gnard^ which it was now the time for chan^ng.
^72 ]CJLBTL1L*8
ThatmikMiiBiix; I have one place to span |
Bring Ned; and listen to your bill of &ra.
h. wholewme salad will adorn the board,
Lnxniions, as mj garden will afford.
The lettDoe cooling ; leeks that claim the knifei
Mint good for wine ; and rocket for the wife :
Farsneps with em shall hide a salted fish i
DeUdoas pidkled pork, another dish.
Lamb, which perhaps you'll think is better meat i
A monel Bevnard nad a mind to eat.
CutletB, whidi want no carving till they're cold ;
The youngest i^irouts, and beans that are too old.
Fowl, sua a ham that thrice appear'd before ;
Bipe no^areilB for those who wish for more.
Farsons his stout (I entertain with beer)
Brew'd when Lord Mayor elect the second year.
No dannrons secret, no ill*nat«ir'd jest,
No freeaoms, which next day will break your rest :
But taliBS of bets the last Newmarket season :
Noneofmy friends shall in his cups talk treason. Slgf^.
Ben Jooson's Invtistkm to Supper is a close imitation of this Epigram.
XLIZ. TO GOTTA.
While yon yonnelf^ Cotta, drink out of Amethystane caps, and regale youTBdf with the rich wine of Opimiua, yon offer me new Sabine wine, luid aay to me, " Will ^ou hftve it in a cup of gold?'* Who would have leaden wine in a golden cap P
When ridi Opimian wine thyself dost qna£(
Turn th'smetbystine glasses often of^
Thou vile Sabinum oner'st unto me.
And 8ay*st, << Wilt drink in goldP " to show thou'rt fine.
Who cares (thy sordid nature to unfold^
For leaden wine, thou^ in a cup of gold? Jmom. 1695.
L. OK THB DEATH OF THS CHABIOTXEB BOOSFITB.
Let YictoiT in aadneas break her Idumsaan palms; O Fa- Tour, strike thy bare breast with unsparing hand. Let Hon- onr chauffe her garb for that of mourning ; and make thy crowned locks, O disconsolate Glory, un offering to the cruel flames. Oh ! sad misfortune ! that thou, Scorpus, should be cut off in the flower of thy youth, and be caUea so prema* tuiely to harness the dusky steeds of Pluto. The chariot-raoa was always shortened by your rapid driring; but O why should your own nee have been so speedily run P
BOOK %.'] IPIOBAlCf. 4T8
Boast, Vietoiy, no more IduWt land :
Beat^ Favour, iky hne breast, wiUi bttrbVoiu haad.
Change, weepfaiff Honour, ohann thj ^ad attize :
Feed, manmc Glory, feed the nrnVal fire
With the lich honours from thy temples torn :
Tliere be no more the wonted parlands worn.
Of youth bereft, amid thy glorious deeds,
How soon thou, Scorpus, j<nn'st thy sable steeds I
Ah ! why so rapid was thy car's career P
And^ythygoalofTitalooursesonearP WpkUutoiL
LI. TO TA178TIia78.
The Tynan bull ^ now looks back on the oonaiellation cS the ram of FhryzoSy^and the winter flees from Oaator, Tisible alternately with his brother.' The country anulea ; the earth reBomes its Terdure, the trees their foliage ; and plaintiTe Philomel renews her strain. Of what bright days at Bavemui doea Some depriye yon, FaiutinaB ! 0 ye suns I O retired ease in the simple tonic! O groyeal O fountaina! 0 aandy ahorea moist but firm I OrodhyAnxnr, towering in aplendoor aboye the asure surface ! and the couch, which commands the yiew of more than one water, beholding on one side the ships of the riyer, on the other those of the aea! But there are no tiieatrea of Maroellua or of Pompey, no triple baths, no four fomma; nor the lof!y temple oi Capitoline Joye; nor other glittering temples that almost reach the heayen to which they are consecrated. How offcen do I imagine I hear yon, when thoroughly wearied, saying to the Founder of Homes ''Keep what is yours, and restore me what is mine.'*
Now that the yemal constellations chase The wintei^s rage, and earth renews her &ee ; Now the fields smile, and trees fresh yerdures take^ And Philomel her charming plaints does mske ; What days, what joys, doesRome from thee withholil What ease from city tml, not to be told ! O woods ! O founts ! O Anzui^s nleannt strand! Where roUmg wayes wash o'er the glittering sand | Where eVn m>m bed you diyeis waters see, Here boats on riyets ^de, there on the sea. But some will urge, you do not here behold The Capitol, the temples rich with gold Embellish'd, which in gorgeousness draw ni^h The heay'ns they represent and with them yie t
1 Tsnrus, Apni. > Mmk, * The OemH ^n
474 1I1BTIAL*B
Bomef august batfas, nor thofttns, an liefer
Her giandear does not in the leaat appear.
Before yon both adTantages I laj ;
And now, I fimcy, I do hear yon say, —
As men, when with ill wives they can't a
^Boine» take whaf s thine, render whafs mine tc me.''
Now the gay hours to meet the Pleiads mn» And winter flies before the Temal sun ; Now smiles new-clad the woodland and the plain, And plaintive Philomel renews her strain ; "What happy days the town now steals £h>m Keotl There in pure air and ease unformal spent! Th^ on your groves, your fountains, Dover's slzaiid% And o'er the waves her high commanding lands i Whidi to your bed a doufle view afford. Of diips at sea, and ships in harbour moor'd. (What, though there be no crowded theatre ; No senate, and no courts of justice there ; No palace, where our honourd monarch lies | No !Panl*s with gilded cross invade the skies i I seem to hear you thus reproach the town : '< Keep to yourself your things ; give me my own.** J32i|r.
Ln. OK ▲ SUKUCH.
Nnmay one day, saw the eunuch llielyB dressed in a tog«. He zemarked tiiat it was a convicted admtress.
The eunuch Thelis when begown'd he saw. Sage Numa cried : A punk condemned by law
LIIL XPITAPH OK THE CHABIOTSIB B00SFU8.
O Borne, I am Scorpus, the glory of thj noisy circus, the object of Hbj applause, thj short-lived favourite. The envious Lachesis, when she cut me off in m v twenty-seventii year, aooounted me, in judging by the number of my victories, to be an old man.
£ am that Scorpus, glory of the raoty, Bome^s admired jov, but joy for a short space. Amonff the dead f'ates esny me enrolTd; NumbTing my conquestBy they did think me old.
Anum. 160e, Om ike death of a OirL
Censure no more the hand of death That stopp'd so early Stella's breatht
BOOS x«] iPiGaAMS. 475
Nor let la easy error be Charged with tae name of eraeltf* fle heard her lenae, her ▼irtaes told. And took her (well he might] for old.
LIT. TO 0L17B.
You put fine dishes on joor table, Olus, bat yoa alwsji
fit them on covered. This is ridicoiooB ; in the same wsjr OGold pat fine dishes on mj table.
Yon give us good dishes, bat all of them oow:
So I could feast gaesti a himtod and oTer. Jbtom.
LT. OK MABITLLiL.
Arrectam qooties Manilla penem Penaavit digitis, dioq ; menaa est : Libras scriptula, sextolasque dicit. Idem post epos, et sate palsstras, Loro com similis jaoet remisso: Qoanto ait levior Manilla didt. Non ergo eat manas ista, sed statera.
Ogni Tdta che Manilla ha pesaio oolle dita 1' eretto membro^ e ^ungo tempo misorato : ne dice le libre, gli sempoli ed i gnaL Fttimenti dope le sue ^ostre, giaoe simile ad nn rilasciato onojo^ iffamiu dice di qnanto siapiu leggiero. Qnesta dumqne non d una mano ma una stadera. OragUtu
LTL TO GALL178.
Yoa expect me, GUlos, to be always at yoor service, and tradge ap and down the Aventine monnt tliree or foor timea a day. Cascellius extracts or repairs an aching tooth ; Hy- ginos buma away the hairs that disfigore the eye ; Eannioa idieves, withont cutting, the relaxed uvula ; Eros efiacee the degradinff brand-marks from slaves' foreheads ; Hermes ia a very Po&IiriuB in curing hernia; but tell me, Gallus, where ia nie that can cure the raptnredP
Gallns, thoa'd'st have me thee attend alway, To pass th' Aventme three, four times a day* CSaaoeUius remedies to th' teeth iq)plies» Hyginns to all evils of the eyes) Fannius defluzions of aU sorts can stay, Eros the scars of brandmg dear away; Hermes inveterate ruptures will insure: Hast thou the skill a oroken state to cure?
Anon.KM.
476 UAS,tUL*B
LTn. TO BBXOT8.
Toa used to send me a pound weight of Bilker; it baa dwindled to half a pound of pepper I I cannot affinrd to bay my pepper, SextoBy so dear.
You'd wont to tend a pound of plate each yeari But half a pound does uow from you appear. And l^t ox apioe. I buy not apice ao oear.
168ff.
LTHL TO TBOlSnSVBj EXOXTBHTO HIICSXLF FOB HAnZTG nXOLICTBD TO PAT HI9 BXBPXOTB TO HUC.
Whilst I frequented, ProntinuB, the calm letreats of Anxur on the aea, and the neighbouring Bais^ with itB YiDaB on the shore, the groTCs free m>m the &>ubleBome eieada in the heats of July, and the freshwater lakes, I thai was at leiflure^ in company with you, to cultiyate the learned muses ; but now mighty Kome exhausts me. Here, when is a daj my ownP 1 am tossed about in the Tortez of the city; ana my life is wasted in hiboriousnothinffneBs; meantime I cul- ti?ate some wretched acres of a 8m>urban &rm, and keep my homestead near thy temple, O aacred Bomulus. But love is not testified solely by day and night attendance on a patron ; nor does such waste of time become a poet. By the sacred Muses and by all the gods I swear that I Ioto you, thou^ I fiul to exercise the officiouBneBs of a mere client.
On the cool shore, near Baia's gentle seats,
I lay retired in Anxui^a soft letreata ;
Whose ailver lakes, with verdant shadows crown'd,
DiBpene a grateful coolness all around.
The ^praashouper avoids th' untainted air,
Nor, m the neat of summer, ventures there.
Whilst I the brackish Anxur's sweet retreats. And on the shore the nearer Baian seats Haunted; those springing lakes and woods wherein I* th' summer grasshoppers ne'er made a dinn i I leisure had the Muses to adnure With thee : Great Rome now bolh of ua doth tira. What day is now our own P wee're lost i' 1h' mayne O* th' towne, and waste our lives in fruitless payne s Whilst barren suburb grounds wee to manure About our seats, neare Rome, ourselvea enure. Yet those may love that do not ni^t and day (Which not lieoomea a poet} visits pay.
vooK X.] ineEiHS. 477
By ibf saered Mmes snd the godf abora^ I yon in tratfa, not like a oomtier, lore.
Old M8. IM CtnL
LIZ. TO A BBASIB BmnCTITLT TO PUBABl.
If one Bubjecfe occapies a whole page, 70a paaa oTer it; abort epigrama, rather than good ones, aeem to pleaae 70a. A rich repast, oonaisting of eyer7 apeciea of dish, ia set be- fore 7011, out only dain^ bita gntiry 70iir taate. I do not ooret a reader wita Buch an oTer-nice palate; Iwantonethat «8 not oontent to make a mefd without bread.
If one sole epigram takes np a page,
Ton torn it o'er, and will not there engage ;
Consnltinff not its worth, but your dear ease 1
And not matf s good, but wbBt Is short, does please.
I serre a feast with all the richest fare
The market yields; for tarts you only care.
My books not firam'd snch liq*rish guests to treat.
But such as relish bread, and solid meat. Anon. 1690.
LX. OK MUinriL.
Mnnna solicited Cssar for the rights of a teacher of three scholars ; though he had alwaya been accustomed to teach onl7 two*.
The riffht of three disciples Munna sought : But Mnnna, more than two, had never tau^t
JBlphimion,
LXI. IPITAFH OW XSOTIOW.
Here reposes Erotion in the shade of the tomb that too early dosed around her, snatched away b7 relentless Eate in her sixth winter. Whoerer thou art that, after me, ahalt rule oyer these lands, render annual presents to her
gmtle shade. So, with undisturbed possession, so, with th7 mi]7 oyer in health, may thia stone be the onl7 one of a mournful description on thy domain.
Undemeaih this ff^^ stone LiQi litde sweet Erotion ; Whom the Fates, with hearts as odd, Nipp'd away at six years old. Thou, whoerer thou maTSt be. That hast this small field after me,
> A jest drawn ton t]M>ii»lrMMilikronaii; seeB iLB^91
178 1CABTZAL*S
Let the yearly lites be ^
To her litde alender ahade |
So ahallnodiaeaaeor jar
Hurt thy houae, or dhill thy Iat |
But thia tomb be here alone
The only melandioly atone. Le^fk Amt
liZn. TO A BOHOOUimiTBB.
Scbodmaator, be indalfi[ent to yoiir simple flchoto if yon would have many a long-haired youth resort to your lectares, and the class seated ronnd your critical table love you. Somay no teacher of arithmetic, or of swift writing, be sunoimded by a greater ring of pupils. The days are oright, and elow under the flaming constellation of the Lion, aim fervid July is ripening the teeming harvest. Let the Scythian sooinfie with its £Drmidable thongs, such as flo^md Marsyas of C^ heam, and the terrible cane, the schoolmaster's sceptra^ be laid aside, and sleep until the Ides of October. In summery if boys preserve their health, they do enough.
Thou monarch of ei^t parts of speech,
"Who sweep'at with buch a yonnff^ez's breeehy
Oh! now awlule withhold your nand!
So may the trembling crop-haii'd band
Around your desk attentive hear.
And pay you love instead of fear :
So may yours ever be as full.
As wntinf or as dancing schooL
The scorching do^-day is begun {
The harvest roastmg m tiie sun :
Each Bridewell keeper, tiioug^ reqnii'd
To use the lash, is too much tiz^d.
Let ferula and rod together
lie dormant, till the firostjr weather.
Boya do improve enough m reason.
Who miss a fever in this aeason. JSGiy.
TiTTTT. XFTTAPH OZT ▲ VOBLB ILLTEOS.
Small though the tomb, traveller, on which you read tiiese Imes, it yields not in interest to the sepulchres of Mausolus or the ]^nn^^* I ^&^o ^^®d ^oi^g enough to be twice a spedator of the Secular Games ; and my lue lost nothiog of happiness before my funeral pyre. Juno gave me five sons, and as many daugnters; and their hands closed my dying
BOOK z.] maEAm. 478
6je0. Bare oonjiigal gkny, too, was mine ; my diaata lore Imew Init one husband.
By this small stone as great remains aze liid,
As sleep in an Egyptian pyzamid*
Here lies a matron, for her years rerer'd {
Who throngh them aA with spotless honoor steered
FiTe sons, as many daughters, nature ga^e,
Who dropped their pious teaxs into her graTe.
Nor her least glory, though too rarely Imown |
One man she held most dear, and one alime. JSKsy
LXZT. TO POLLA, Wm OV LTJOAV THl P019.
Polla^ mj Queen, if 7011 light ap<m any of my litUe bookiy do not regara my sportiTe sallies with Imitted bxx>w. Yonr own great hard, the glory of onr Helioon, while he was sonnd* ing ftsroe wars with his Jnerian trumpet, was yet not ashamed to say in sportiye Terse, '' If I am not to play the part of Ghmymede, what, Cotta, am I doing here P" *
Imperial PoUa, should my Tarious lay
To thy ehaste ears ezpbre her dubious wayi
Interpretation bland would meet each joke,
Whicui a soft smile (0 could it!) woula provoke
Of him, so deep who quaffd Osstalia's spring,
Whose deathless glory bids Parnassus rmg ;
Who, while his tramp sublime blows savage mOf
Not stiU the strains of guiltless mirth abhors {
Nor blushes in fiuniliar guise to say :
'^Ifnever I unbend, who nerves my lay P" S^Mtdam*
IXV. TO OABMXKIOK, AK irFBlOKATl FBSSOH:.
Whilst you vaunt yourself^ Carmenion, a citisen of Corinih, and no one Questions your assertion, why do you call me brother; I, wno was bom' amongst the Iberians and Celts, a native of the banks of the Tagus P Is it that we seem alike in oounteuanceP Yon walk about with shining wavy treeses; I with my Spanish crop stubborn and bristhng. You are perfectly smooth from^ the daily use of depilatoies ; I am rough-haired both in limb and &oe. You nave lisping lips and a feeble tongue ; my infant daughter speaks with more force tlum you« Not more unlike is the «>Teto the ea^
> Words taken Irom some piece of Luean's^ none of whose ■naOei
poems ars extsnt
480 icabxial'b
the timid gaselle to tiie fierce lion, tVui yoa to me.^ Cease then, Oannenion, to call me brother, 'Jest I call you sister.
Boasting youzself a ortysen
Of Corintt, (which all ^prant,) -why then
Mee bom in Spayne, within the wall
Of Bilboa, doe yon brother call F
Are we in countenance like at all ?
Soft neately curled locks you wears :
Ftc stubborn biistles like a beare.
You with a puimnioe-stone are sleekt
Dayly : Fm na^-thi^h'd and dheekt
You naTC a lisping yoice and weake,
My daughter aoes more strongly speake.
Bold lyons from the fearfull doe,
Eagles from doTes, differ not see.
Foroeare to call me brother then.
Least I yon sister call agayne. Old US. IW^ CM,
£XTL TO THXOPOXFtJS, ▲ HAITDSOICB TOUTH, BSOOICB
▲ OOOK.
Who,I ask, was so unfeeling, who so barbarous as to make you, Theopompus, a cook P Siu any one the heart to defile a fikse suim as this with the smut of a kitchen P Can any one pollute such locks with greasy sootp Who could better present cups, or crystal goblets P Out of what hand would the Eslemian come with more relish P If this is the destiny of youth of such brilliant beauty, let Jupiter at once make^ a cook of Ghmymede.
Who could so cruel, who so brutish be. For a cook, Theopomp, to destine thee P Could any soil that woe so sweetlv fiur? Condemn to soot and grease that lovely hair? None worthier witii tiie crystal glass to stand. And praise the wine with his more crystal hand. For such a £Bite, if beauteous boys must look, Next news we hear, Joye doats upon a cook.
£XVn. XPTTAf H OV PLOTIA, AIT OLD WOlCAir.
Hotia, the daughter of Fyrrha, the stepmother of Nestor^ she whom Niobe, in her youth, saw grey-headed, she whon: the aged Laertes called ma grandmother, Priam his nurse, Thyestes his mother-in-law ; Flotia, older than any crow, is at last laid lusting in this tomb a.ong with bald Melantliion.
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Here Fjrrriut'e daajf^itei^ Neetoi^e mother-in-law^
Whom youthful N&be in gnt hain eawi
Whom old Laertes did his hfudame namei
Great Priam's nurse, ThTestes* wife's graadam,
Surnvor to all nine-livea daws are gone.
Old Plotia, with her held Meknthimi,
lies itdung here at last under this stone. ^Uidltr.
JiXTOL TO UBLIiL
Though, Ltdia, jour home ia not BpheaoBy or il^odea, or Mitjlene^ but a house in a patrician street at Bpme; and though you had a mother from the awarthj Etm^jcana, who never painted her bee in her lift, and a sturdj fiither from tiieplama of Aricia; ^et you (oh shame I) a countrywoman of Hcrailia and Egena^ are perpetually repeating^ in Tolupi tuoua Greek phrase, ^ My lire, my bouL" Such cpipreaBiona should be reserved for the couch, and not even for erery conch, but only that which ia prepared by a mistress for 4 wanton lover. You pretend forsooth a wish to know how to speak as a chaste matron, but your lascivious movements wonla be* trayyou. Though jrou were to learn all that Corinth osnteadiy Lnlia^ and practise it, you would never become aperftct Lata.
When thee nor Ephesns nor Bhodes will own, When Mitylene*s name thou soaipe hast known i Though Gracian main or iile could ne'er complete The upstart native of Fatrieian-etreet r Thy mother tinged but by Etruscan brown f Thy sire a stalker of Aricta's down : Fresumest thou to lisp^ without oontrolt ^m) koL 4^0x4 I for, my life and soul? shame I a " "
Oh shame I a daughter of Hersilia thou P ^
Thee shall Egeria of her dan avow?
Such strains thy ooudi, nor ev'ry couch, should hear :
Such wit keeps Lewdness for her lover's ear.
Thou studiest style that suits a matron's use :
More luscious cannot buryiing lust produce.
All Oorinth should she Qon, and bin us see,
A Lnlia ne'er wiU quite a Lais be. E^skmtktL
LUX. TO POLLA.
You set a watch upon your husband, Polla: ^ou refuse to have any set upon yourseUl This, Polla, i^ malong a wife of your husband.
Thou, Pdia, guanfst thy spouse ; he guarda npt tiiee : Ihon sure must be the husband, the wifb hd^ Amm,
Si
4SS XiATU£*S
TiTT. TO FOTITirB.
Because 1 produce Bcaroely one book in a whole jear^ I in- cor ^m 7011, learned PotituB, the censure of idleness. But with how much more justice might 70U wonder that I produce even one, seeing how fre^uentl^ mj whole day is mttered away! Sometimes I receive friends in the evening, to re- turn my morning calls ; others I have to congratulate on jpie- ferments, though no one has to congratulate me. Sometimes I am required to seal some document at the temple of the lustrous Diana on Mount Aventin ; sometimes the nrst^ some^ times the fifth hour, claims me for its occupations. Some» times the consul detains me, or the pnetor, or the dancers as the^ return ; frequently, listenii^ to a poet's recitation oc- cupies the entire dav. ISTor can i fairly refuse a few minutes to a pleader, or a rnetorician, or a grammarian, should they make the request. After the tenth hour, I go £Eitigued to the bath, and to get my hundred farthings.^ What time have I, Potitus, for writing a book ?
That scarce a piece I publish in a year.
Idle perhaps to you I may appear.
Bat rather, that I write at all, admire,
When I am often robb*d of dkp entire.
Now with my friends the evening I must spend:
To tiiose preferr'd my compliments must send.
Now at the witnessing a wul make one :
Hurried from this to that, my morning's gone.
Some office must attend ; or else some bul }
Or else my lawyer's summons to the halL
Now a rehearsal, now a concert hear ;
And now a Latin play at Westminster.
Home after ten return, quite tir*d and dos'd.
When ii the piece, you want, to be composM P 'Bay*
£XXT. OS lUBIBIUS, THE iJtCHITECT OF BOKITIAIT, PRAIS* UrO HIS AFFSOTIOK FOB HIS PABKVTS.
•Whoever thou art that desirest for thy parents a long and nappy life, regard with sympathy the short inscription upon this marble tomb : — *' Here Babirius consigned two dear de> parted ones to the earth ; no aged couple ever died under nappier circumstances. Sixty years of married life were gently, closed in one and the same night; a single pyre
^ Tliatis, thesportala. See B. I. Rp. 70.
BOOK X.] intfBlHI. 4M
■nffioed for both Ainenls.** Tet Babirius rncunii them as though they had been enatehed from him in the flower of their youth ; nothing can be more unjustifiable than luch la- mentations.
Thou that dott wish thy paienti' Htm should proTe
Both longand blest, thii tomb's short title loTe.
Wherein Asbirius^ deed dears parents rest
Ko age irith happier fate was erer blest
Wedlooke of tfarseecoro years one night untwineiy
And in one Ainecall flame both bodies wynes.
But he, as they had dy'd in greener yeares.
Still weepes. Whatiuitioeis therein those tearesP Jfippr.
LZXII. Iir PBAIBS OV TIUJAK.
Fiatteries, in yain do you oome to me, miserable objectSy with Drostituted lipsl I am not about to celebrate a Xiord or a God ; there is now no longer any abode for tou in this city. Go fitt away to the turbaned Farthians, and, with base and servile supphcationa, kiss the feet of their pageant kings. Here there is no lord, but an emperor ; as senator, the most just of all the senate ; one through whose efforts Truth, simple and unadorned, has been recovered from the Stygian reaun. Under this prince, Bome, if thou art discreet, beware of speaking in the language used to his predecessors*
In vain, 0 wretched Flattery,
"With bare->wom lips thou oom'st to me^
To call me iakely Xord and God.
Away ; for thee here's no abode ;
To Parthia's mitred Monarchs goe ;
There fidlinff prostrate, basely low,
The candy King's proud feet sdore.
TiuM IS no Lord, but Emperor,
Of sll the jnstest Senator.
By whom from Stygian shades, the j^Iain
And rustic truth's brought badi agauu
Thou delist not^ Kome, this Emperor
To ilstter as thou didrt before. Mofm
In vsin, mean flatteries, ye try To gnaw the lie, and M the eye' No man or goa or lord I name : From Bomans fitf be snch a shame . Go teaeh the supple Parthian how Td veil the Ixmnet on his browf
til 2
484 MABTXAL*«
Or on the ground all prostnte im^ Some Pict, before his Darbarons Kjog.
JddistmTMA cm Medd$.
CZZm. TO HABOFB AHTOBIVB FBDCirB.
A letter from my elo<}Uent friend has brought with it a pleasing token of his friendship, an ittj^osing present of a Itoman toga ; a tosa not such as Eabricias, but as Apicius, would haye been ^ad to wear; or as the knieht Mccenas, the friend of Augustus, might haye chosen. It would have been of less value in my estimation had any other person been the giver ; it is not by every hand that a propitious sacri- fice may be offered. Coming from you it is grateful to me ; but even had I not loved your gift, Mareus, I must naturally love my own name.^ But more valuable than the ^ift, and more pleasing than even the name^ is the kilid attention and &vour of so &amed a man.
A missive pledge, whence pledgat brin^ renown,
Brousht tnejmve present of tl? Auaoman gown ;
Whic^ not f abiicius, would Apidns bear;
And which ih' Augostan knight were proud to wear.
This from elsewhere miafat less acceptance gain s
Not ev'ry hand can halfow victims slain.
From thme the boon must vield supieme delight : .
The very name might selfish love emte.
But, far more flprateful than the boon or name.
From lesminys hand, and friendship's heart, it came.
£XZrV. TO BOICB.
Have pity at length, Bome^ upon tiie weary congratulatory the weary client : now long shall I be a duigler at levees.
while ScorpuB * triumphantly carries off in a single hour fifteen heavy bacs of shining ^Id r I ask not as the reward of my little books (for what indeed are they worth P) the phunB of Apulia, or Hvbla, or the spice>bearin^ Kile, or the tender vincB which, from the brow of the Setian hill, look down on the Pomptine marshes. What then do I desire, you askP— * To sleep.
^ Marcus was the name both'of the giver and the reouTer of the presot. « gee £p. 70. * The chsiioleer: sae Ep. dO, 53.
BOOK Z.] BFIOSAJCB. 48S
TVd with the town, too mach of lift IVe spoilt
In formal lereet, and dull oompUment
For long attendanee what reward we meet!
A word! at moet a dinner from the great!
One hour to FIgg did greater nine afford,
Mach ffreater, for a flonriah of nil iword.
Were I to pay the labours of my Muae
^mall her deiert), not Chekea fieldi I'd chooeef
MOK Hybla's honej ; nor Arabia's spioe i
Nor pleMant gardens hung on Hignj;ate's rise,
O'erlooking Ttackney-maishes fed with sheep.
A^ you, what is it tiien I want P— To sleep. J&v*
•
UOT. OK GALLA.
Once upon a time GaDa^a demand was twenty thooiand ■eeteroea; and I admit she was not much too dear at the price. A year passed by : **! am yonn," she said, ''for ten thouaand aeateix^." Thia seemed to me more than ahe had naked before. Six months affcerwarda, when ahe came down to two thouaand, I offered one thousand, which she refused. About two or three months later, so far from refusing this sum, she herself lowered her demand to four gold pieces. I dedined to nve it, and then she asked me to nve her a hondred ■eeteroes ; but eyen this sum seemed ^teMy too much. A miseiable sportola of a hundred farthings would then have brouffht us together ; that is, she propos^ to accept it ; but I tola her I Imd bestowed it on my slave. Could she descend lower than this P She did; she now offers herself for nodung ; but I decline.
OsUa, times psst, sik*d me sn hundred pound :
And 'twas not mueh, where such a torn was found*
After one year, fifty was her demand :
Methought she now was at a dearer hand*
Some tune lapi^d : says she^ Twenty yuull bestow
Teh I shall gudly : but she answerd, No.
Two or three months, I know not whieh, pasi^d more:
Then she ask'd nobles, and of them, but four.
And I reftu'd. Wdl, send a hundred pence :
But this seem'd then too much, and I went tiienoe.
She next my poor dry sportula did crave.
Good truth, said I, that to my boy I gave..
Was 't possible that she should lower go P
Tess Gratis herself she offar'di I ssid, I^o. Jmom. ieO&
486 MABTIAL*B
LXXVl. 09 ILSYHTB.
Does thifl. seem jast to yoa, Fortune P A man who ii not a natiye of Syria or. of rartbia, not a knight from Cappa- docian slaye-caMy but one of the people of BemuB, and a bom aubject of Numa, a man of agreeable manners, upright, and Tirtuoos, a trustworthy friend, learned in the Greek and Soman languages, a man whose only fruit (but that a groat one) is, that he is a poet ;-^MflDyiu8, 1 say, shiyers in a raded blade hood ; while the mule-driver Indtatus glitters in purple.
Oh! Fortune! ii your jnstioe lost?
Behold this man, no kmg^t o* 1h' post :
Who is no alien, French, or Swiss ;
But Englishman, and Cockney is :
Plessant, sincere, gopd-natm^d, meek.
Well skill'd in Latin and in Greek:
Who hath no individual crime,
But that he is pos8ess*d with rhpne.
Should he, half starr'd, wesr shabby black.
When grooms have gold upon their back f JG^Si
LXXni. TO KAZnniB, ok THB death OV CABXTBy
A QUACK.
Never did Cams do anything worse, Mazimaa, than to die of fever ; the fever, too, was much in the wrong. The cruel destroyer should at least have been a quartan, so that he might have become his own doctor.
Not a slipp'rier trick e'er by Osnu was pla/d,
Than bv Fever, who Cams has swept. Wicked Fever ! a ouartan thou mifffarst have essay'd :
For her doctor sue should have been kept £lphmtitm,
LIXVUI. TO ICAOEB, SXTTI9& OtTT YOB HIS PBOYIKCl 09
DALHATIA.
You are goinc;, Macer, to the shores of Salona. Bare in* tegrity and the love of justice will accompany yon, and mo- desty follow in the train. A just governor always retuma Scorer than he went. 0 happv husmmdman of the gold-pro- udng country, thou wilt send back thyruler with his puree empty ; thou wilt deplore his return, 0 jDidmatian, and escort him on his departure with mixed feelings of gratitude and sorrow. I, Macer, shall go among the Uelta and the fierce Iberians, with deep regret for the loss of your companionship.
BOOK X.] BKOBAlCf, 487
Bat eriby'page of mine that shall be circulated there, written ^th a pen made fiom the reeds of the fish-abounding TaguSy will record the name of Maoer. So may I be read among old poets, and rank in your esteem as inferior to none but Gatullus.
My Itsosr seeks Salona's shore ;
Bare honoar will his steps attendf Nice reetitiide the route ezplora.
With modaity her bosom-friend*
Mending the sutjeefes of their toO* The gen'roDS may themselYes impair :
Blest tenant of the golden soil. Thou home wilt send thy roler bare.
Thou, Dslmati wise wilt wish delay. And his prolonged dominion woo :
when he can no longer stay, Thoa shsh with weeping joy pursue.
'Mong Celts snd rude Ibezisns we
Shall soon letraee our natiTe seatf Where, Macer, the resret of thee
Must harsss our be&T'd retreat
But thenee, whaterer pace of ours
Expand from teeming Tagus* reed, ShaU prop with Maeei^s name her pow^ |
So to eternity decreed.
Ifid sneient hszds sha9 1 be read, When with his chaste perusal crown'di
And, of the living or the dead, OatnUus only greater found. J^phmtiam,
OK THI niCH TOBQUATUII AlfD THX POOB
otachiIus.
Near the fourOi milestone from the cily, Torqnatns haa a prinoelj mansicm: near the fonrA milestone, Otadlius pur- diases a little country-house. Torquatus haa built splendid warm bi^ha of Tariegated marble ; Otaciliua erecta a basin* Torquatus haa laid out a plantation of laurela on hia land ; Otacilius sows a hundred chestnuts. When Torauatua waa consul, Otaciliua waa chief magistrate of the mlage, and, proud of such a dignify, did not imagine himself a less pei^ sonase than Torqmitua. As, of old, the large ox made the smaU frog bursty so, I suspect, Torquatna will binrat Otaciliua.
488 MjdkTIAL^M
^oiur Bulas from town his lorddiip^s boiUliiigi jrtMid t
So doM tom'i oottege irith a bit of land.
A mtMe men-houie lately built mv brd :
Tom fo^ bis flowen ereoU & abed of board.
Hia paik witb oaka bia lordibip planted loondt
Tom pat a bundred aoonia in the ground.
My lord waa treasurer : Tom OTerMor ;
Aa cpreai, in bia opinion^ aa the neer.
Aa tne 6x burst tne frog (so &bles speak^,
Aping my lord, I fear poor Tom will nresL JBI^
Lxzx. oir raos.
Eros weeps wtienever he casts his eye on besntifol yases of mottled myrrbai or on young slaves, or choice specimens of citron-wood ; and be ^Shs from the jety bottom of his hearty because, unhappy mdftal, he cannot buy them all and cany them home witn hirii. How many persons do the same as &0S, but with dry eyes ! The greater pprtion of mankind laugh at such tears, And yet at heart are like him.
At Qhenevix' poor little master eries.
When boxes, seals, and rings, and dolls he 8pieB|
And from bis soul sincerest sonows come,
That he can't buy the room, and bear it home.
How many witb dr^ eyes act master's part?
Andf while they smde, for trifles sob at heart JSby.
TiTTTL 6n PHYLLIS.
Gum duo Tenissent ad Fhyllida mane fututum, Et nudam cuperet sumere uterque prior ;
Promisit pariter se Phyllis utrique daturam, Et dedit. IHe pedem euatulit^ hie tunicam.
Dui essendo vennti da FEBTde in sul mattino per immembruia, e V uno e 1' altro desiderando goderla nuda il prime : FHlide pro- mise dazst ugualmente a tutti e due, e si diede : quelle alsolb il piede, questo la tunica. Ofw^ttom
LTTYTI. TO ffALLTXS.
If discomfort to me is of any advantage to yon, I will put on my toga to attend you at dawn, or eveu at midnigfat: I will endure the whistung blasts of the keen north wind; I will bear showers of rain, and brave storms of snow. But if you are not a fraction the better for all my suffinings, all thMe tortniea inflicted on a free man, show some indulgence,
BOOK X.] ^nauxk. 489
I prajy to ^onr fiitlgiied dient^ and ezetue Bim firom sndi bootlen toilB, wUeh are of no adrantage to you, GflJlna^ and aie painM to me.
If yoor afiun my diligence conld mend^ Ettty and late I ready would attend: Sipof'dto ftarttf, when ancry winda do blow; And xm my bfeaat receiTe uie driying mow, . But if yon not one fiurthing happier are By my fiitigae, and by my generoua care i Spare one worn oat, ohl ifMBre a labour YUOf whieh belpa not yoa,bnt giyee me real pain. ffa§»
T.^TTTTT. 90 ICABIHITB, OV HTB BALDirXBa.
You eoUeot your atragg^faig hairs on each aide^ MarinnSy endeayonring to conceal the vast expanse of your shining bald pate by the locka which still grow on yoor temples. But toe hairs disperse, and return to their own ^lace with every goat of wind; flankinff your bare pole on either side with crude tufts. We might imagine we saw Hermeros of Cydaa standing between Spendbpnorus and Telesphorua. Why not confess yourself an old man P Be content to seem what YOU redly ai^ and let the barber sbayeoff the reat ot your mdr. There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to haye hair.
Tour thm-sown hairs on any aide
With dextrous care you cull; And rob your temples of their jprids^
To thatch your ahining acult
BepeU'd by eVr^ puff of wind,
Thcnr take their former stand. And then your deaert poll they bind*
Vnak locks on either hand.
Sp, twixt two tuxzy youthful patea,
One Halmyrotea aeea^ Dirow ridicule no more auch baita :
The bare old-man will pleaae*
But, tiiat at length you may aeem ose,
The ahayer quick be callM i And let him o'er the remnan^ run :
BekNsk'dl ohahame! andbaldl Stphmtiom.
4M> ]CAB9U]i*S
LXrXIT.' TO OJmiCIAVirB, OV AIVB, THI HUBJUOTD OF;
Air V9UT Tmn.
• • . . • • •
Do yoa wonder, CediciamiB, whj Afer does not zetiie to rest P You Bee with whom he hu to share his coach.
Dosf wonder why Afer goes kte to his bed, Ottdicisn? Just see whsi a wife he has wed! Amm.
LXXXT. bir LADOK.
Ladon, a jboatnum on tho- Tib^, bought himself when
grown old, a bit of hind onthe banka of ma beloyed stream, ut aa the oyerflowing Tiber ofiea iuTsded it with raging floods, brekkinff into hu ploughed fields, concerting them in winter into a lake, he nlled his worn-out boat, which waa dnwn up on the beach, with stones, makuog it a banner afininst tne floods. By this means he repelled the inundation. Who Fould have believed itp An unseaworthy boat waa the safe-guard of the boatman.
A worn-out sailor, ehsrm*d with Deptford strand,
dose to the river bought a pieoe of land.
fhe winter tides prendl'd andnst the mound;
And in strong torrents OTerflow'd his ground.
His cast-off hark, which luckily lay near.
He fill'd with stones, converted to a pier,
And 8topp*d tiie breach : and, who would have believed f
That a sunk ship a tar's aflbirs retriev*d. Jliiy.
LXXXVI. OK LAXmUS, ▲PI.ATBB A.T BALL, IV HIB
OLD JLGS.
No one waa ever so inflamed with ardour for a new mistress, as Laurus with love for the game of balL But he who, in hia prime, was the hest of players^ is now, after having ceased to pky, the best of balls.^
With a new love was nftrer stripling fir^d^ like Lauras, by the lust of ball inspir'd. But the prime player, while his vigour reign'd. Desisting play, the primal ball remain'd. £lphin$Um.
lt\ X X VII. OZr THE BIUTH-BAT OF BXBTITUTirS, THX
XLOQVXKT ADTOOATB.
Let Bome gratefully celebrate the first of October, the natal day of the eloquent Bestitutus. Let us all join in
' See B. iL Bp. 43k
BOOK X.J BPI^IUlli. 40t
■olemn and pioiu cnrisons to celebrate thy annitenaiy. A trace to litigation; let wax tapen, cheap tablets, and little table-napkinfly propitatoiy giflte of the poor client, be defianed until the aatonudia rf icj December* Let rich Inen now Tie in the mnnificence of their offering Let the swelling mer- chant of the portico of Agrippa bnng cloaks from the dty ot Oadmns. Let him who htm been charged with drunkenness and midnight brawling present a dinner-robe to his defender. Has a mamen triumphed orer the slanderer of her fiur ikme^ let her, with her own hands, brinff pure sarclonyxes. Let the antiquaiT present ^u with a work from the cbuel of Phidias. Let the nunter brmg a hare, the farmer a kid, the fisherman a prej from the waters. If eTery one sends you his own pe»' cnliar sift, what do you think, Bestitutus, that a poet oupil to send you P
"With fettsl rites, let pious Bome^ In guise the antipode of gloomt
Oelobei^t Gbleads hail : With soleom vowi, and sUent awe^ Appdaeh to greet the man of law.
And softly tread the Tale.
Qnisseent lie judicial fray i The oiator was bom to-day :
Te Tofries, bring no trash. Let taper% tablets, toilets fine. Their lokes to iocund days 6onsigii»
And tempt December^ lash.
Let aU the heiis of thy suooessy To crown the hero of redreos,
In grateful tokens Tie. To thee the swelling eon of trade Shall bid the robes be all display'd,
That boast Oadmimn dye.
Of riot and assault arraign'd. The wi^t, so innocent maintain'd,
A reTel-TSst may render : The youthful and the injured dame, "Who dear STinc'd her lord to bkms^
Tm ssrdonyx wfll tender.
The hosry peer, empowerM by thee To csDj up his peoiaree, Must bum to pay his debt i
102 .]ciBTux.-e
The mode alone be etpdioiie seekti And deeply ▼Sfwnt in antiquesv Fretenta e Fhidian set
The joUj hunter brinsi a haxe, The noneat hind a kia will bear
The fisher robs the sea: If ev'ry client send his own. Who know*8t so mneh, hast thon yet known
What may be sent by me ? S^phmdam,
XXXXVllL TO COTTA9 i. DIBHOVSBT FSB80V.
Tea are eager to take charge of all the pmtorB' bag^ and ready to carry their tablets. You really are a very handyman.
To bear folks* ba^ and tablets, is yonr plan :
Ton do some semoe — to yourseli^ good man! Anom,
▼-«»«■« Oir ▲ BTATin 07 JUirO by P0LTC£BTV8.
I
> This Juno, PolycletuB, your happy workmanship and maateipiece, which would do honour to the hand of Fhidiaa, displaya such beauty, that, had she thus appeared on Mount Ida, me judge would have felt no hesita^on in preferring her to the other goddesses. If Jupiter had not loved his sister Juno, he might, Folycletus, Imve fallen in love ~~^^^ your Juno.
Thy Jnno, Polyelet, (most matchless piece!) May well contest the proudest hand of Greece. Had but the soddess shone with saeh a grace In Ida, both her rivals had nven place. Though his own Juno Jove did n^er approve^ Before his brightest strumpets thine hexl love.
Anon, lOMw
XC. TO LIOBIA.
Quid vellis vetulum, Ligeia cunnum P Quid busti cineres tui laoessis P ^bles munditisB decent puellas. Nam tu jam nee anus potes viderL Istud, erode mihi, Ligeia, belle Non mater facit Kectoris, sed uxor. Erras, si tibi cunnus hie videtur. Ad quem mentula pertineie desii.
BOOK z.] mesAXS. 468
Quaie si pudor est, Ligella, noU Barbam yellere mortuo leoni.
Perdie^ o^ LigeUa, depili ta il yeochio tuo o-no P Pereha foment! tu le oeneii du tuo acheletro? Tali forbitesse <x>nTeiigoiio tJkd ffioyinottei imperooehd ta gii yeoohia non puoi aaaomi^iar loio. Grediou, Ligdl% dd lion node bene alia maoie di Etore, ma bens' alia modie. T* inganni ti questo o-no te ne parei al quale la mentola na oesMto appartenere. Per la qnal oosa, se hai qnalehe roesora^ o Ligella, non yoler syellere la barba al morto leone.
XCI. Oir ALKO.
Almo bas none bat eonuohs about him, and is himself impidssant; yet he complains that his wife Folia produces him nothing.
Ton keep no laoqneyiy nor can do the deed, Tet grumble that your lady fails to breed.
XCn. TO ILUUVS, TO WHOSE OAU HAJITIAL 00M>aT8
HIS GBOUVDS.
To yooy Marius, the admirer of a tranquil life, you who shared mine with me, you the glory of the ancient town of Atiaa, I commend these twin pines, the pride of a nistic ffroye, these holm oaks sacred to the Fauns, and these altars dedicated to fehe Thunderer and the shaggy Silyanus, erected by the unpractised hand of my bailiff; altars which the blood of a lamb or a kid has frequently stained. I intrust to you also the yimn goddess, the patroness of this sacred temple ; him, too, whom you see the guest of his chaste sister. Mars, my patron saint ; and the laurel grove of the tender Flora, into which she fled for refuse from the pursuit of Friapus. When- ever you propitiate these kind divinities of my little pro- perty, whellier with blood or with incense, you will remem- Der to say to them, ''Behold the right hand of your absent votary, wherever he may be, unitM with mine in offering this sacrifice. Imagine him present, and grantto both wha^ soever either shall pray for.'
Of the sequesto'd scene, thou social friend, Atina't boast! I to thy fiuth commend These twinling pines, the glory of the flfove ; These oakling euunps, where Fauns deught to rove i These altars, that a rustie hand has rear'd, Or to the Silvan bv'd, or Thund'ier feared*
Which kuubkin s oft, or kidling^i, blood has aoilU While duty ohid the honor tmit reooiTd, Dear delegate^ with pious awe ■oatain The Tirgin-goddess A the halloVd fene ; And him the modeet aiiter joye to 8e6» The champion of my Oalenda and of me. Stiil drees the lauref-mre, that Flora knew, When from the brutu rayisher she flew.
Hail* ffuardian-groap of my beWed spot ! O ne'eir forgetting, ne^er to be foreoti Or yon, in arduous task, or thankful ease. Let bloodshed honour, or let incense please i Where'er your Martial be, his friend will say, He ministers with me jrour rites to-day. Absent, alas ! impute mm still at hand. And grant to bota what either may demand.
XOm. TO OLBICEKS, OK BEFDOTCh BOMB UlTPITBLISSBD
POXXB TO HIB WIFE.
If, Clemens, you see the Euganean coast of Helioaon, and the fields yaried with Tine-dad hills, before me, present to your wife Sabina, to whom Atesta gare birth, these verses not jet published, but just stitched up in a purple cover. As a rose which it newly plucked deliffbts us, so a new book, not jet soiled with the beards of reacbrs, gives as pleasure.
Should'st thou see sooner Helieaon's rdgn,
Where viny ridges paint the pregnant puiin ;
To Sabine Atestina bear with awe
Some strains empurpled that the world ne'er saw.
As a fair rose ddights, when pluck'd in prime,
So virgin-stanaas and unsullied rhyme. ElpkiMstom.
ZCir. tVITH A. BBSSEITT 07 JTBITIT.
No Libyan dragon guards my orchards, no royal plantations of Alcinous serve me; but my garden flourishes in security with Nomentan trees, and my common fruits do not tempt the robber. I send you here, therefore, some of my rosy au« tumnal apples, gathered in the midst of the Suburra.
No snake of Massylia my orchards ddlends : No soil of Alcinous my wishes attends. Secure my Nomentan : no robbers are here. My cn^s and my tooddlings depend without fear.
BOOK X.] IndiiicB. )M
Tlieiep^iiiit In genial Subnxn that ffMir,
Mj aatamn's beat prodooe, have meltoVd for 3 on.
' XOT. TO OALIuL.
^ Your hnabi&d and your gallant alike refoae, GUhiy to ac- knowledge yoor infant : tbua, I oonaideri they plainly dedare that they bm done nothing to render you a mother.
Thee back the child Uiy lord and lover sent : BodLdaimlaaa^Galla, to thy kind intent S^Mu(oi$»
XCVI, TO A.TITI78.
Yon are aatoniabedy Avitna, that I» who bare grown old is the capital of Latinm, abould so often apeak of countriea afar off; that I ahoold thurat for the eold-bearing Tagna, and my native Sale; and that I abould long to return to the mcle flelda around my well-fumiahed cotti^. But that land wins my afbctiony in.which a amall income ia sufficient for bappi- neaa, and a dender estate affords even luxuries. Here we must nourish our fields : there the fields nourish us. Here tiie hearth is warmed by a half-starved fire ; there it bums with ^pgrinfaMJ brilliancy. Here to be hungiy is an expensive gratiflcationy and the market ruins us ; there the table is cov- ered with the riches of its own neighbourhood. Here four togas or more are worn out in a summer; there one suffices for four' autumns. Gto then and pay your court to patrons, while a spot exists which offers you everything that a pro* iector refuses you.
Me, who have lived so long among the great» Ton wonder to hear talk <u a retreat, And a retreat so distant as may show No thoughts of « return when once I go. Give me a coantry, how remote soe'er, When happiness a moderate rate doth bear 1 "Where povertv itself in plenty flows, And aU the solid use x>f ridies knows. Ibe gromid about the house maintains it there 1 ' The noose maintains the ground about it here. Hen even hunger's dear, and a ftiU board Devours the vital substance of the lord. The land itself does there the feast bestow, The land itself must here to market go. Tuee or four suits one winter here does wastei Om suit does thsce three or four winten last.
406 ]CABTIAL*i
Hon oftty frugal nuui must oltb6 ooU^
And little Ivke-wann fim to yoa told:
Then fiie*8 an element as olie^i and fi«e
Almost as any other of the three.
Stay you dien here^ and lite among the gnai^
Attend their sportBt and at their table eat i
When all the Domities here of men yoa Booze»
Hie pkoe^a boonty there wOl giye you more. Cbwfiy*
XOTtt. OK VTJICA.
While the li^tly-piled Auieral pyre was heing enpplied with paper to kindle it; while the aesokte wife was buying myrrh and layender; when the grare, the bier, the oorpae- anointer, were all ready. Noma maj^ me hia heur, and forth- with reoorered.
While they the funeral charge prepare
Which in the pi^wr pilea piacea are,
And Kuma's weepii^ wife now bnya
Sweet perfumes wt ms obsequies,
&JS graye and bier beinff ready made^
And one to wash his body dead.
And me left heir by his own pen.
Pox on him ! he grew well again* Fteieksr.
XCTin. TO PUBLIVa.
When my CsBcuban wine is poured out for me by an attendant of yours, more delipate than the Idnan Ghuijmede, than whom neither your daughter, nor your wife, nor your mother, nor rour sister, recline more elegantly attired at ^ble, would you have me rather look at your dress, and Tpnr old citron-wood furniture, and your Indian ivories P Howerer that I may not, while your guest, incur your suspicions, let me be served by the son of some rank swineherd, or coarse fellow from a mean Tillage, with bristling hair, rough, rude, and ill-grown. Your pretended modest^ will betray you ; you cannot haye at the same time, Pubhus, such morBls aa you wiah us to suppose, and sudi beautiful minioiuk
When a looser lad, forsooth.
Than was e'er th' Idean roath,
Mmisters Geenbian jnice i
Ihan thy danghter's sdf more spmoe^.
Than thy mate, or mothetflne^
Qr thy sister can redinet ..
BOOS X.] nfOBAMB. i0T
Must I quae t^ tnppiqgg twangs
CStron old, or IiidiaD fimg?
Yet, o£Eenoele88 that I lean,
That I thee, like me, Mnne I
From the herd, or sordid ooty
Let the homely train be got i
Gropt and bristling, mde, and email i
"Ranawit iwinehera'i children alL
ThoB, my friend, beware undoing :
Blnshee may bewray thy ruin.
But thou ottift not tfaoee I we^
Pnbliuii keep, and blushing be. Jjpiastfafc
X0IX. 07 A POBTSAIT OT SOCRATIB.
If iheee lineamenftB of Soorates ooold be sappoeed to lo* present a Bomao, it would be Julius Bufos among liie Sa^CPSatiriitB).
This Socrates, had he a Roman been,
Wen Julius Bnfus, 'mid the Satyrs, seen. J^isifti,
0. TO A PLAOIABIST.
"Whjf simpleton, do ^oa mix your Terses witb mine f Wlmft have Toa to do, foolish man, with writings that eontict Toaof ibeftP Why do you attempt to assoioiate foxes with uoDS, and make owb pass for eagles P Though you had one of Ladas's l^gs, yon would not be able, blocknead, to mn wiA fte other leg of wood.
Fool that you are to mix your Terse irbk ndnei Of theft indicted by each other line. To herd with lions will the fox del^t? Eag^ resemblance bear to birds of night? Gsn yon expect to mn with one leg ff<x>d. When you another hafe» which is ofwoodP Stf
OX. ov OAPiTOLnnrs.
If it woe possible for GUbba^ who owed so mneh to the patronage of Angostns, to return to earth fiom the Hyiiaa plainsi he who should hear Camtolinus and Gabba engage in a oombot of wil^ would say, ^Dull GUbba, be sflent.*'
Oonld witty Boohester return again THth jokes his menr prince to entertaini And he and you could with the monarch sit| He'd silenoeBodiester for want of wit. fiy,
3k
MS. 1UBTUL*II
on. TO ATCTVB.
Yaa ask me^ ATiiroa, how FhilenuB became a lather, he who Derer did anything to gain the name? Gkulitanna can tell joOi he who, without writing anything, daims to be a poet.
Hee Venna iportB did nerer try.
Yett is a fioher. Tou'd know wny.
Ask Gaditane, that never writt,
And is a poet called yett Old X8. l(M CM.
How Joseph's self a father may be made
And kmg sterility a ehild produce, Let Glynn declare, who got oy Robertas aid
A tuiTing babe upon a banren muae«
Dr, .fiodj^aofi.^
Om. TO HIS 7XLU>W TOWVBlOSir 07 BILBIU8.
Fellow townsmen, bom upon the steep slope of Augustan Bilbilie, which Sale enoompaasea with ita rapid waters, dbea the poetical glory of your bard afford you any pleaaure P For my honour, and renown, and fame, are yours; nor doen Yerona, who would wilUnriy number me among her sona, owe more to her tender Catullus. It ia now thirty-four years that you have presented your rural offerings to Cerea- without me; meanwhile I have been dw^ling within the beautiful walls of imperial Some, and the Ita&n dime haa ehanged the colour of my hair. If you will receive ma oorduiUy, I come to join you ; if your h«irts are frigid, X fi^ quickly leave you.
My friends, who round Mount Cabozn do abide,
Drink Lewes' stream, or o'er her carpet ride ;
Are you not anxious ibr your poefs Tame P
His honours yours, and yours his deathless name.
Much Twick'nam owes to Pope : now he is gone.
May you not wish some j>oet for your own P
You without me, now thn^jrcArs at least.
In social mirth enjoy your Christmas feast.
"While in this fair metropolis we stay,
Our hairs, alas ! (ss soon you*ll see), are grey.
If well receiVd, with yon will we remain :
If not, a chaise oonveys us back again. Ay. .
^ The Day of Judgement, a Seatonian prise poem (1767), written by Roberts, was fathered by Glyzm of King's College, Cambridge, becMise the real author was too old to be a candidate ; in order to extort firom Baky (a third kmgsman, and one of tfie best modsni Latinists) his rerenoe, as he mied &oetioasly to term this prise.
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Cir. 10 HIS BOOK, PBXBXVTKB TO rULOOm OV Hill
DSPABTUSB TOB BPAIB.
Goy my little book, go; aooompanj mj Elaocos aerofls the wide, bat propifcioiu, watera of the deep, and with nnob- rtracted ooone, and favouring winds, reach the towen of Bjapanian Tunffona. Thence a chariot will take yoa, and, earned iwifUj luong, you will see the lottf Bilbilis, and yoor dear Salo, after the fifth change of carnages. Do you adc what are my commissions for you P That, the moment yoa arriye, you offer my respects to a few but old friends, whom I hflfe not seen for tour and thirty years, and that you then xeooest my friend Flaccus to procure me a retreat, pleassnt ana commodious, at amoderateprice; a retreat in whidi your author maj enjoy his ease. Tnat is all ; now the master of tiie vessel is bawmig loudly, and chiding your de- lay, and a fiur wind favours the way outoftheharlxmr. Fare- well, my book. A single passenger, as I suppose you knoW| qrast not Inep a vessel waiting.
Go, little book, my kind compamon, go : O'er gentle waves may winds pnmitioos blow. Having made all thine own, the heavenly pow^ i Explore the friendly Tanaeonian toVn. Thenee moont thy car, and joyoos akim the land* Where fond Hinpenia waves her hailing hand* The fifth blest stige may haply give to ring My lofty Bilbilis, and bid thy Suo sing. Thoa askest my commands P Make no delay. Nor sedL a respite from the wearv way, TQl thou salute my ancient friends — ^how few! Whom, twice seventeen lonff winters since, I knew. , Instant our best beloved Flaccus tell To trace me out a sweet sec|ue8ter'd cell, Benign of aspect, of salubrious bieese. Where thy worn parent may retire to ease. Hh&I how the master caUs to spread the smI, Ohssffflis delay, and mtnlates the nle That opes the port. Farewell, my filial lay: On passenger thou knoVst, will ne'er tlie vessel stay.
-BhAtittfaiiL
tKl
^00 KAXTUL*!
BOOK XL
I. TO EIB BOOK.
Whithbb, mj book, whither are yoc ^omg bo modi al jonr ease, dad in a holidaj drees of fine hnen P Is it to see farfchenine P^ oertainlj. Gk), then, and return unopened ; for he doee not read boon, but onlj memorials ; nor has he time for the muses, or he would hare time for his own. Or do 70a esteem yourself suffidentlj happj, if jou £b11 into hands of less note P In that case, repair to the neighbouring portico of Bomulus ; that of Fompeius does not contain a more idle crowd, nor does that of i^nor's dau^ter,* or that of the inconstant captain' of the first ship. Two or three may bd jbund there who will diske out the worms that infest my trifles; but tiiey will do so only when the^y are tired of tla betting and gossip about Scorpus and Inatatus.^
. TVhiiher, ah ! whither, idle muse, Stray yon from Dodaley's shop so spruoe P To minirter of hig^ condition, Less used to poem than petitionP By him reoeiTed, yon may lie still. With that or with a tradesman's bill. Or if to Terse he should indine ; More to his own, porfaaps, than mine. Are you content to lie on stall, A common prostitute to all ? Oo, then, and catdi some Idtering beau, Wliikt he is walking to and fro 1 Who in the playhouses delights, Or Tom's, or Cocosptree, or Whitens. How few win take from mice their due ! Nor wfll your follies b^^ those few Betdd; but when thdr stories flag Of some new bet or running nag. Ma^f.
U. TO HIS nXADIBB.
Te stem brows and severe looks of rigid Catos^ ye daughters of rustic Fabridi, ye mock-modest, ye oensora of
^ See B. T. £p. 6^ end B. ir. Ep. 45. * Europe. See B. ii. ^p. 14. > Jason. 4 caumoteeia.
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monk, i^e, and all yeproprieties opposed to tiMUm dk darknMy flee hence I Hark! my yenes exdaim, **Iuaif Ba- tdmalia 1" we are at liberty, and^ under thy rnle, Nenra, re- joioe. EMtidious readers may con oyer the mgffed yerses ct BantnL^ We haye nothing in common; the b^ before yon is mine.
8«d looki, and ri^d Oato't stricter brow» And ooana Fafaridiu'daiiffhter from the plou^ Dimiied pride, manneri by rule put on. Ana what we are not in the dark, oegone.
My TerMS lo Saturnalia cry,
And, Nerra, under thee 'tia liberty. JMdUr.
m. ov HI8 owir wnirnros.
It is hot the idle people of the city only that delight in my Mnae^ nor ia it alone to listless ears that these Terses are addressed, but my book is thumbed amid Getio firosts, near martial standards, by the stem centurion ; and even Britain issaid tosingmyyerses. Yet of what advantage is it tome P My purse benefite nought b^ my reputation. What immortal pages could I not have wntten and what wars could I not naye sung to the Pierian trumpet, if, when the kind deities gaye a second Augustus' to the earth, they had likewise giyen to thee, O Kome, a second Madcenaa.
Tit not the ci^ only doth approve.
My muae, or i<ue eares my Tereea Iotc.
The rouffh centurion, where cold frosts oreapread
The ScyUiian fields, in war my bookes doth read.
My lines are sung in Brittaine far remote {
But yet my empty purse perceives it not
"What deathless numbers from my pen would flow f
What wars would my Pierian TVumpet blow ?
U, as Augustus nowasaine doth live.
So Borne to me would a Meosnas give. Jfiqr.
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ly. nrrooATioir to thb gods or FA.yoxrB ot trajait.
Ye sacrad altars, and Phrygian Lares, whom the Xro* jan hero preferred to snatch from the flames,rather than pos* sess the wealth of Laomedon ; thou, O Jupiter, now first re- presented in imperishable gold ; thou, his sister, and thou,
* A Bomao grammarian of wbon nothing remaioa * The emperor Merva.
fi02 ICABTULL*!
bis daiighter, the ofipring solely of the supreme Father ; thou, Ux), Janus, who now repoatest thQ name of Nerrs for the third time in the purple Tasti, I offer to you this prayer with pious Ups: **Rx»orve, all of you, this our emperor; preserve the senate; and may the senators exhibit in theur nyes the morals of their prince, the prince his own."
The Phrygian gods and sacred rites to saye, Up to the flames the Trojan hero gaye Troy's wealth ; Jove, Juno, whom we now behold, Wiu Pa]la8, fint engntTod in purest gold. And Janns, who rpoords the happy day . Of Numa's reign. To all I pious pay, llie senate may be safe, the piinoe s throne^ By his example all may live, he by his own. Amm, 1096.
• T. TO TBAJAir.
^ou have as much reverence for justice and equity, CaBsar, as Numa had ; but Numa waa poor. It is an arduous task to preserve morality from the corruption of riches, and to be a ]n uma after surpassing so many Croesuses. K the great names of old, our ancient progenitors, were to return to life, and liberty were granted them to leave the Elysian grovea^ nnconquered Gamillus would worship you as Liberty her^ self; I*abricius woidd consent to receive money if yon were to offer it ; Brutus would rejoice in having you for his emperor; to you the blood-thirsty Sylla would offer hia power when about to resign it ; rompey, in concord with CflBsar, as a private dtisen, would love you; Grassus would bestow upon you all his wealth ; and even Gato himself, were he recalled firom the infernal shades of Pluto, and restored to the earth, would join the party of GsBsar.
Thy love of right and iustioe, Onsar, 's more Than Nnma's was, and Kuma yet was poor, j lis rare, when ridies cannot taint the mindf In GroBBUs' wealth, a Noma's soul to find. If our old Romans of renowned name nOispensed with in Elisium) hither came^ Gamillus, thee tf obey, would think it free | FabridoB would take gold, if giv'n by thee f In snoh a king Brutus would take ddight | Sjylla, to thee resign th' imperial right ; ^ C«sar and Pompey private men wQuld live | And Grassus hii loved treasure to thee jgivei
loox zz.] lenauia. SOS
Oato himMU; if Fates wovld wt him free^
Retnni'd to earth; would a Cbnnan be. Jnon. 1685w
TI. TO BOld, OV THl BATmoriXIiL.
' In these feetiTe daje of the e^he-bearin^ old man, when the dioe-boz rules sapeme, you will permit me^ I feel as- •snredy cap-dad Borne,' to sport in nnhtbdured rerse. Ton smile; I may do so then, and am not forbidden. Depart, pale ceres, fiur away from hence ; let ns saj whateyer comes ttf^Mrmost without disaffreeable reflection. Mix cup after cup, my attendants, such as Pythagoras* used to give to •Nero; mu, -pindymus, mix still fiuter. I can do nothing without wine ;*bu^ while I am drinking, the power of fifteen poets will show itself in me. Now give me kisses, such as GatuUns would hare loved ; and if I receive as many as he desotibesy I will give you the 'Sparrow'' of Catullus.
In aevtihe-orown'd Saturn's feasti, wherein
Hie pox of dioe doth retcn as kin^,
All-^ovei'd Rome, thou dost permit
Me now to sport my fluent wit.
So I Buppoaeb for thou did'st smQe^
Thenoe we are not forbid the while.
Ye pallid cares, hi henoe begone^
1*11 speak whate'er I think upon,
Sans any studied delay $
So fill me out three cune, my boyt
Such as Pithagoras dia give
To Nero when ne here did live ;
But, Dindymus, AH fiwter too^
For lober X can nothing do.
"When I am drunk up to the heiriit
FuU fifteen poets sdxe me straight.
Now give me kiaees, such as were
Oatuluis his, and if they are
So numerous as his are said to be,
I will OatulluB* sparrow give to thee. JWrfdW;
yn. TO PAITLA.
Yon win certainly, Paula, no longer say to yo\ir stupid hnsband, whenever you wish to run after some distant gallant^ ** Caesar has ordered me to come in the morning
1 TbS dares wore caps st the Satunslia; at other times their heads
s AfitrmufteofNero. > His most fiuaodspocsk
6M ILLBTIAIi'a
to his Albaa lillA; OflBsar lias sent for me to OiroeiL** Booh Btrtttogems aie now stale. With Nerva as emperor, yoa ought to be a Penelope; but yonr lioentumsness and force of habit prevent it. Unhappj woman! what will you doP will jon pretend that one of yonr female friends is iUP Your husband will attach himself as escort to his lady. BJe will so with you to ^our brother, and your mother, md your &ther. What tricks will your in- genuity then devise P Another adultress might say, perha^ that she is hysterical, and wishes to take a sitting-bath in the Sinnessan lake. How much better will it te, Ftola, whenever you wish to go and take your pleasure, to tell your husband the trutL
ym. OV TBM KISSBS OF HIS FATOITBITX.
The fragrance of balsam extracted from aromatic trees ; the ripe ^our yielded by the teeming saffron; the per- fume of fruito mdlowin^ in their winter repository; or of the flowery meadows m the vernal season ; or of silken robes of the Empiess from her Palatine wardrobes; of amber warmed by the hand of a maiden; of a jar of dark Ealemian wine, broken and scented from a distance; ^ of a garden that attracto the Sicilian bees ; of the alabaster jars of Cosmus, and the altars of the gods ; of the chaplet just fallen from the brow of the luxurious; — but why should I mention all these things singly P not one of them is enough by itself; mix all together, and you have the perfume of the morning kisses of my favourite. Do you. want to know the name r I will only tell you of the kisses. YovL swear to be secret. You want to biow too muohy Sabinus.
Like balsains .diaTd by some exotiok fkyn :
Or from a laffioii field fresh gliding ayre :
In winter cheiti like apples npening,
Or grounds c^tnpnMd with budding trees in spring i
Like silken robte in royal presses : and
Gumms suppled bya virgin's soft white hand :
As broken jtn of Paleme wines do smell
Far off: or flowery gardens whero bees dwell :
Peilumers potts, DiuiLt incense toit in the ayrs!
Ohaplets new iklTn from rich perfumed hayrs :
* Sacli ftasianoe being more sraleiiil from a distsaosu
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Wliat moreF AIl'i not enongii : mix all If ezpiwi My detr gnl't momiiig kiitos sweetnenet. Toald kmnr her name ? Ill nought but kiiiee tell: I doubts I iweflr, jou'ld know her ftin too welL
aid M8. letk Oiiiwf.
EC OV A. TdBTEATF OV HXMOB| ▲ TBA6I0 P0I9.
Memor, diBtmgaiBhed by the diaplet of Jove's oak, the gjiary of the Bomaa stage, bieathea here, reitored by the pencil of ApelleB.
X. OV TVBirUB.
TumiiB has consecrated his vast senilis to satire. Whj did he not devote it in the manner <n Memor P He was his brother^
ZI. TO' HIS SI1A.TS.
Away, boy, with these goblets, and these embossed vases of the tepid Nile, and give me, with stesdy hand, caps fiydU liar to tne lips of our sires, and pure from the touch of a virtuous attendant. Bestore to our table its pristine hon- our. It becomes you, Sardanapalus, to drink out of jewelled oups, you who would convert a master-piece of Mentor into a convenience for your mistress.
XII. Oir 20IL1TS.
Though the rights of a father of even seven duldren be
g'ven you, Zoilus, no one can give you a mother, or a ther.
Xm. EPITAPH Oir PABIS THE ACTOB.
Whoever thou art^ traveller, that treadest the TlaminiaD way, pass not unheeded this noble tomb. The delight of the city, the wit of the Nile,* the art and gTace, the sportive- ness and joy, the glory and grief of the Boman theatre, and all its Tonuses and Cupids, lie buried in this tomb, with Paris.
Thou thatbeatest the Flamhiian Way,
Pan not this noUe tomb, but stay :
Here Rome's delight, and Nile's salt treainn^
Art, graces, sport, and sweetest pleasure^
The grief and glory of the stage,
And all the Cupids of the age,
> He did not wish to rival Memor. Turnos is mentioned in B. vfi. Bp. 9ft.
' Paris was bom in EgypL
506 ]CASTIAL*8
And an the Yeniuesy lie here^
Interred in Paris* sepulchre. Ftdekat,
Zrr. OV ▲ HTTBBAimiCAK, A BWABT.
O ye heirs, bury not the dwarf hnflbflndman, for the least quantity of Mrth will lie heavy on him.
XT. OH HIS BOOK.
There are some of my writings which maj be read by the wife of a Cato, and the most austere of Sabine women. But I wish the present little book to laugh from one end to the other, and to be more free in its language than any of my books; to be redolent of wine, and not ashamed of being greased witii the rich unguents of Cosmus ; a book to make sport for boys, and to make love to^ls; and to speak, wiA- out disguise, of that by respecting which men are ge- nerated, the parent indeed of all; which the pious Nnma used to call by its simple name. Bemember, however, Aj)ol- linaris, that these yerses are for the Saturnalia, and not to be token as a picture of my morals. •
I hsTe such papers that grim Gate's wife
May read, and strictest oabines in their life.
I will this book should laugh throughout and jest.
And be more wicked than are all the rest,
And sweat with wine, and with rich unguents flow.
And sport with boys, and wi^ the wenches too ;
If or by periphrasis describe that thing,
That common parent whence we all do spring \
Which sacred Numa once by 't 's name aid call.
Tet stiU suppose these verses satumaL
O my Apolunaris, this my book
Has no dissembled manners, no feign'dlook. jpbfeilsr*
XVI. TO HIS BXASBBS.
Beader, if you are exceedingly staid, you may shut up my book whenever you please ; I write now for the idlers of tfaie city; my^verses are devoted to the god of Lampsacus, and my hand shakes the castanet, as briskly as a aandng-girl of Cadis. Oh ! how often will you feel your desires arouMd, even though you were more frigid than Curius and Eabricius. Thou too, young damsel, wilt read the gay and sportive sallies of my bo^ not without emotion, even thougn thou shouldst be a native of Patavium. Lucretia blushes, and lays
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my book aside; but Bratos is present. Let Bratns retire^ and she will raid.
xm. TO sjlbdtus.
It is not eveij paoe in niy book tiiat is intended to be read at nigbt ; you wm find something; also, Sabinus^ to xead in tiie morning.
Not all my yene for Niffhf 8 loose honn are ^t. Many yaall find the noher monung fit. Jnoiu 168dw
XViU. TO LUPUS.
Ton have giyen me, Lnpus, an estate in the suburbs, but I hate a lar^ estate on my wlndow-silL Can you say that this is an estate, — can you call this, I say, an es&te, wnere a sprig of rue makes a groye for Diana; which the wing of the (mining grasshopper is sufficient to coyer; which an ant couM Lay waste in a single day; for which the leaf of a rose- bud would serye as a canopy; in which herbage is not more easily found than Cosmus s perfumes,' or green pepper : in which a cucumber cannot lie straight, or a snake uncoil itsel£ As a garden, it would scarcely feed a single cater- pillar; agnat wouldeatupitswiUowbBd sndstarye; amole would serye for digger and ploughman. The mushroom can- not expand in it, the fig cannot bloom, the yiolet cannot open. A mouse would destroy the whole territory, and is as much an object of terror as the Caledonian boar. My crop is car>» ried off by the claws of a flying Frogne, and deposited in a swallow's nest; and there is not room eyen for the half of a Friapus, though he be without his scythe and sceptre. The hMTCst, when gathered in, scarcely fills a snail-snell; and ike wine may be stored up in a nut-sheU stopned with resin. Ton haye made a mistake. Lupus, though omy in one letter ; instead of eiying me aj?fa0(K«M, I would rather you had giyen me a jpran&uim}
JjanoM, a &rm near town you gaye to me ; A larger plot I in my window see; Such scrap of earth a farm *twen hard to proys^ When one small rue-plant makes Diana's groye.
1 C^mi /Mm. Some editors reed eotH/oKym, « leaf of spikscard.* Bpikansrd does not grow in Italy . < Fnttkmih "aiinn" or *'estato;" pnaidmm, <'adinnor.'*
sod SCABTIAIi'a
This, wlnoh a looutt*! wing might oreriarl WhoM oropt would feed an ant one single day! This, which a folded xose-leaf miffht haye crown'df Where not a herb can any more be fbmid Than eastern scents or fragrant smoes rare^ To please the palate or pemmie the hair ; Where e'en a cucumber must crooked lie | A snake to coil its tail would yamly tnr. Sudi garden scarce one caterpillar feeds ; Hie willow-bed no second insect breeds i The mole alone my farm does plough and digi No mushroom here can ffape ; no early fig, Nor smiling violet^ here nas room to grow ; The derastated land a mouse lays low,. More dreaded by the owner than of yore Was that huge beast the Oalydonian boar. Aloft my crops are carried in the straw, Caught oy the flying swallow's slender claw. Friapus here can scarce find room to stand, Tliough half his sixe, and reft of wooden brand. One snail-shell holds our yearly ^rain, and morei In one pitbh'd nutpshdl aU the wme we store. Lupus, your kindness by one letter err'd ; To call audi gift a jf^R^oiir was absurd: Take back your farm ; more grateful &r to me The ioeoiir that your kitchen yields, would be.
EngUtk Jounial o/Edueationt Jan, 1856u
XIZ. TO OAXiIiA.
Do yoa ask, GMla, why I am anwilling to marry yoc f You are a prude; and my paasiona frequently commit sole-
Oalla, dost ask why I'll not marry thee P Oalla, thou are too learned fiur for me. A consort so correct I cannot ti^e : For I, as husband, oft shall solecisms make.
Old Venion, Anom.
XX. TO HIB 8TBICTKR BBADBB8.
O oaptioiui reader, who penueat with stem oountenanoe certain IJatin Teraes of mine, read aix amorous lines of Au- gnstos CflMar : — ** Becaose Antonius kisses GlaphTra, Fulyia "vrishes me in rerenee to kiss her. I kiss Fulna! What if Manias were to make a similar request ! ! Should I grant it ? I should think not, if I were inmy senses. Either kiss me^
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Mm ihe^ or fiffht me. Nay, my puri^ is daaier to me fhas lin^ fhennefore let the trumpet sound tot battlel '* -^ Truly, AugnatoBi jrou aeoait my aportiTe aalliea of lieentJooBnoaa, WMQ you giye Boen examples of Boman aimplicity.
'GaoM Anthony is fir'd with Oliq>hlra'8 ciianii% Fain .would his FoItia tempt me to hsr sniii: If Anthony be false, what Uian? most I Be slaTe to FuItia's lustful tynnny f Then wonld a thousand wanton, wispirii whes Swann to my bed like bees into their Ures. Declare lor Lore or War, ahe said, and frown*d. Mo lore I'll grant : to arms bid trumpets sound.
ifonto^ (ay CMm), B. iL ck II.
ZXI. OV LTVIA
Lydia tam laza eat, eqaitis quam coins aeni ;
Qoam celer arguto.qni sonat «re trochns; Qofttn rota transmisso toties intacta petanrd,
Qoam TOtos a craasa calceoa ndoa aqua; Qoam qn» ran vagos expectant letia tordos^
Quam Fompeiano yela negata Note; Qoian (fpm de phthiaico lapaa est annillaciiUBdo^
Colata Leoconico quam yiduata suo ; Quam yeterea brachsB JBritonia pauperis^ et quam
Turpe Bayennatis guttur onocrotalL Hanc m piscina dioor fntuisse marina.
Nesdo: pisdnam me futuisse puto.
Udia non d meno sfhsciata che il oolo d' una statoa eqnestre di branao^ che la yelooe trottola ohe rombeggia per il sottil rame^ che la mota tante yolte lattenuta per il petamo msndalo in aria, che una yeoehia scazpa imfarattata d' acqua fimgosai che la aperte letL le qoali aspettano i yaganti tordi» che le yds non pin esposle al Note Fompeiano, che on braodaletto che d cascato da im* ctieo cinedo^ che u materasio spogliato del suo Leoeonioo, che i yecchi oalsom tf un misero Bretanno, e che la torpegiunjadelRayeBaate Onocmtale. Bono apostrolhto d* ayer inunemonto oostd aeOa pitoina nazina, Ndl lapra: panni ayer inuoembrato la pissina
XTIT. OX AX ABASnOHD DXBAITCHBB.
HbUia quod niyei duro teria ore Ghdeai Baaiai quod nddo cum Ganymede jaoea;
610 XABTIAL*!
QoiflnegatlMwmmiaiiiP BedritsatiiBziiigiiiiiaBaitem
Faroe fbtatrici Bollidtue manu. LevibuB in pneris plus hsc, quam mentala^ peocat :
Efe fiMshmi diciti, prsdpitaatque yiram. Inde tragus mbreBque pili, mirandaque matri
Bartw^.nee in dara balnea lace placent. DiTiait natma marea ; para una pneUia,
Una yiriagenitaeat: utere parte tua.
Di Old oha ta dfatrnggi ooUa roida tua fiMda i moIU baod de^ niTBO Galeae, di tad che ta giaoi con Ganimede ignadoi chi nega qoesto eaaer moltoP Ma do ti baati: almeno rattienti aoDidtue biguina numa fatatrid. Haoc ploa peocat in leriboa noeria qoam mentnla, et digiti frdont et pradpitant Timni. Indi u tanib, ed i aabiti pdx, e la baiba dalla madre oaaervatai ne i bagni piaodonoin duara luce^ La aatora dittmae i maaehi ; una parte td &tta per la dtdloi ed una per ifi, uomini : fk uao della toa parte. Qrafiuu
TTTTT. AeAprBT BTLkm
Sila IB read J to become my wife at an j price ; bat I am onwilling at any price to make Sila my wife. Aa ahe inaiatedy howeier, I aaid, '^Yon ahall bring me a million of aeatercea in gold aa a dowry" — ^What leaa could I take P ^Nor, althongh I become your huaband, will I aaaodate widi yoa evten on ike firat night, or at any time ahare a oouck with you. I will abo embrace my miatreaa without reatraint; and YOU diall aend me, if I require her, your own maid. Any UYourite, idiether my own or youra, ahall be at liberty to
f>e me amoroua aalutea even while you are looking on. oil ahall come to my table, but our aeata ahall be ao fitf apart, that my garmenta be not touched by youra. You diall salute me but mdy, neyer without inyitation ; and then not in t^ manner of a wife^ but in that of a grandmother. li you can aubmit fee thia, and if there ia notkmg that you re- fiiBe to endure, you will find in me a gentleimm, Sila, ready \o take you to wife.
SHa on an tennea would me fiune wed|
But I on ail oonditiona fly her bed.
When atin ahe preaa'd, '* Ten thpuaand pounds I CFaya,"
Sayd I, ''for portion ; how can I leaa hayeP
Nor will ( no not the firat night, board thee i
Nor ahall one bed e'er common to uabee*
My wench TU haye too, ne'er by you gainaayed i
Nay, n^Mi I bid, you ahall aena jour own mayd.
BOOK xz.] iFieiuHii: 511
In wanton Idnef with tiie boy HI twinei yon looking qii» too, bee bee yoon or mine. Ton ihall eate with mee» but at diftanoe, anoh Aa our loose roabea may not eaeh other toobh s Seldome ahall kin me, nor unbid i so oold, Too, that, not Eke a wife, but matron old. - If all this yon can beare ; if nought refbse^ Here you can find one you for wife may diooae.
OidMSAmCM.
ZXIT. TO LABXTLLira.
Whfle I am attending you about, and eaoorting you bome^ wbfle lending my ear to your chattering, and i>raiainff what- erer you aay and do, how mnxxj veraea of mine, Labullua, might haye aeen the light I Doea it aeem nothing to you, that what Bome reads, what the foreigner seeks, whSt the knight willingly accepts, what the senator stores up, what the bar- lister praises, and riyal poets abuse, are lost through your finilt P Is this right, Labullus P Can any one endure, that while you thus augment the number of your wretched clients, jou proportianatdy diminish the number of my books P In the last thirty days, or thereabouts, I haye scarcely finiahed one page. Seewhat befalls a poet who does not dine at home.
WhQe I attend thy steps early and lata^
Afford an ear unto thy idle prate^
Applaud whate'er by thee is done or said»
How many excellent rerses m^t be made !
This thou aooounfst no loss, although that Bome
Reads tiiem with joy, &r nations b«ir them home i
Knights and patricians make them their delighty
Lawyers admire, and poets also spi^t
And can I this digest? That for thy sake^
Only thy train more numerous to make,
My DooKS should fewer be P So to engage,
That scarce in thir^ days I write one page ?
But thus it IS, for cneer when poets rome.
And win not be content to sup at home. Jmoiu ICM.
xxT. OH Lnnrs.
nia salaz Tiiminm, nee paucis nota puellis Stare Lino desit mentula: lingua caye.
Qnella troppo salace mentolat ne nota a poohe xagaiae^
ateie a Uno : Dada,o lingua. Oinsyfc'a,
013 XASTXAL't
X^Cn. TO TBUBSFEOBirS.
Oharm of myfife, Telesphonu, sweet object of mj^ cave^ whoie like never before lay in my aroM, giye me^ njr one^ kiBaes reddent of the fragrance of old KilemiaQy gi?e pie goblets of whidi Hkj lips haye first partaken. If, in addition to this, you gnni me the nleasnre of troe affedion, I shall say that Jove is not more happy at the side of Ghmymede.
XXm. TO VLA.0CUS.
Yon most have an iron resolation, Elaccus, if you can bestow your alfoetion on a woman, who values herseu at no more than half a dozen jars of pickle, or a couple of dices of tunny fiflJi, or a paltry sea-lizara ; who does not think herself worth a bunch of raisins; who makes only one mouth- ful of a red hening, whidi a servant maid fetches in an eurthenware dish; or who, with a brasen &ce and lort to shame, lowers her demand to five skins for a cloak. Why! my mistress aaks of ms a TOund of the most precious perfume^ or a paur of green emeralds, or sardonvzes ; and wm havjo. no dress except of Ae yeij best silks icam tiie Tuscan Btreet| nay, she would ask me ior a hundred gold pieces with as little concern as if they were brass. Do you think that I wiah to make such presents to a mistress P No, I do not: but I wish my mistress to be worthy of such presents.
TlKra.*rt irao, Flaocui, if to such a dame.
Who ben vOe gifts, mon can'st keep up a flame i
Cuw-he^ does aal^ tzipes, sprats, and sorapB of fiaht
And a whole pompion holds too much to wish :
To whom her maid, joyful f have got, does poor
Cheap puke, which sreedily she does devour :
And TOca she's bolc^ and will all shame depose^
•B^ yam caoogh to knit a pair of hose.
My wvnich perfiimfls exacts, ooth rich and rare^
Rabies and pearls, and those must also pair ;
Choioe Nicies silk, with her, wiU only pass,
An hundred crowns in gold she begs like brass.
Give I such mfts, dost sajr, a miss to nleaseP
No: but Fd have her merit suoh as these. Antm» 16M«
xxvnr. ov kasica.
InvBsit medicum Naaica phreneticus, Aucte : Bt perddit Hylan. Hic^ puto, sanua erat
BOOK XI.] mesiiii. sis
Un mediiM frenetiod, o AnetOy aasaU eon h ijmda'ed infilnd lUk Iti, eredoy era aano. Oraglia*
:. TO FHTLLI8.
Langiuda cum vetula tnudtare yirilia deztm
Cospisti, jagcLor poUioe, Fhylli, tao. Nam com me vitam, com me tna lamina dicia :
Horia me refid yix pato poaae decern. BlanditiaB neacia : dabo, die, tibi ndUia centum,
Et dabo Setini jugera culta Boli : AcciDe Tina, domum, pueroa, chiTsendfita^ mensaa :
Nu opua eat digitia ; aic mihi, rhylli, firica.
Qvando to iDOomind ooUa Teodiia tna destra a palpaxe la langnide mie padenda, io sono, o Fillide, amasinato dalle tae dita. ImperoMhe, qaando to mi duami tna vitay toe Ind : Ho pena a o»- dere di poter in died ore esaer d*amora : non fxntendi di eareaie : di, ti daro cento milla sesterq, e tl dax6 dd ooltiTatL jugeri dd saolo Setino : nrendi ▼ini, ca^a, Manri, aigenterie, menie : non oo» com dita : solleticami, o FiUide, in qoeito modo. OragUon
When with caienes then wonld'it me ezdtey
AU amoroiu poVr thon doet extmgnMh qoite:
For when ^ou call'it me lore, thy ii&y and dear.
The tnxfdt I digest not in a year.
These were due arti ifbea thon wert yomig and fidr i
^Hiou doft not know what aged toyinn axe.
I siTe thee, Martidi sayi ten thonaana pound.
My manor honae, with all the fertile ground i
I giTO thee jewela, plate, whole caTea cf wine.
Tbeae, without lore tridu^ wiU to lore indine. Anom.
TO aoxLxra. Oa uuild caumdicia et dida olere poetia : Sed fellatori, Zoile, pejua olet.
Tu did ohe la bocoa aente eattiTO d canddid ed d poeti| ma at feQatore» o Zoflo, aente peggio. OragUa.
XXXI. ox* cAciLnja. Cneiliua, a yery Atreua of ^urda, teara and cnta them into a thouaand pieoea, juat aa if thcnr were the childsen of Thyestea. Some of theae pieoea will be placed before you to begin with aa a reliah ; the;^ will appear again aa a 'aeodnd course ; then again aa a third course. Irpin aome he will contrive a dessert ; from others the baker will make roawk- ia a pattiea, cakea of every form, and datea auch aa aie add
t u
514 1UBTIAL*«
at the fheaties. By tbe art of the cook tbqr ue ikietamor- phosed into all sorts of mincemeat, bo that you would fimcj YOU saw lentils and beans on the table ; thej are also made to imitate mushrooms and sausages, tails of tunnies and anchovies. This dextrous oook exhausts ihe powers of art to disguise tbem in eyery way, sometimes by means of Capellian rue.' Thus he fills his dishes, and side dishes, and polished plates, and tureens, and congratulates himself upon nis skill m furnishmg so many dishes at the cost of a penny.
Thou Atreus of a oncumber,
Which, Uke ThyesW sons, you tear,
And in ten thousand pieces slice i
And in ten thousand ways disguise.
This in your soup at first you use :
And this in every course produce.
Hence your confectioner still takes
His idfies, sweetmeats, and his cakes i
Deeaing his dishes in a row
Of hi^HEaised pyramids for show.
Tour cook fimn this hath found the means
To fbniish us with pease and beans;
And by his magic art create
A muahroom, sausage, cod, or scate.
Tour house-keeper, as &r as can go
Her aeaaoning art, turns this to mango.
Hius yon, who fill by this device
Tour dishes of all sorts and siie,
Would modest and polite be thought
By serving up one smgle groat. Say,
11X11. TO KSSTOB.
You have neither a toga, nor a hearth, nor a bed infested with Termin, nor a patohed rug of marsh reeds, nor a slaTe young or old, nor a maid, nor a child, nor a lock, nor a key, nor a house-doe, nor a wine-cup. Yet, Nestor, you desire to be thought and called a poor man, and wish to be counted as such among the people. You are a deceiver, and do your- self too much idle honour. To hare nothing is not poverty.*
' So called from Oapellins, who cultirated or sold it The common leading, rutm Ct^MiUanm, is followed ; Schneidewin, without any appar- ent reason, has CapOliana. Rue was nsed'far gamiihina d*4ihes: see Ep.52.
* It is worse; it is mere beg£ary.
BOOK XI.] SFIGBlMf . 51fl[
When thon hast neither coat, nor fire^ nor bed
Thaf 1 eat with worms, nor mat widi se^ patoh'd up^
Nor boy, nor man, nor maid, nor infimt head,
Nor lodL with thee, nor key, nor dog, nor cup^
Tet thon afSBctest to be calrd and seem
Poor, and to hare a popnlaar esteem.
Thou liest : thon soothest thyself with Tanitf i
Nestor, this is not wan^ bat buggery. Ifeiehsr.
null. OK THI CHJlBIOTIIB OT THB '' OBIBH" FAOTIOir.
Since the death of Nero the charioteer of the Green 7ac^ tion has often won the palm, and carried off many pzizea. Go now, malicious envy, and say that yon were infloenced by Nero ; for now assuredly the charioteer of the Green Faction, not Nero, haa won these Tictories.
ZZXIT. OK APIB.
Aper haa bought a house ; but such a house, as not even an owl would inlu^bit ; so dark and old is the little dwelling. But near it the elegant Maio haa his country seat, and Aper will dine well, though he will not be well looged.^
Aper a cottage bought, which not an owl
Would deign to own, it was so old snd fowle.
But Mdro's sumptuons hoose and walkes ezcelL
Aper will richly &re, not richly dwelL May.
Jack bnys an ancient cottage, dismal, foulf
And scarce a decent haxbonr for an owl,
Near to an hospitable neifljiboiiT's seat
Jsck will not lodge so wm as he will eat ffaj^.
XXXT. TO 7ABULLUB.
You invite some three hundred guests all unknown to me, and tiien wonder that I do not accept your inyitation, and complain, and are ready to quarrel with me. 7abulluS| I do not like to dine alone.
That I your inyitation should dedine. Why do you wonder ? why do you r^dne? When hundreds you uiTite to me unlmown : I do not choose, dear friend, to dine alone. Ay^
Witii a room fb]!, to me all unknowny Yott bid me make one at yonr test i
I decline it, yongrombls and groan. And call me nnsofflable beastr-
• Aper esfects his rich neighbour to iBTile hill freqnsntly to diiiBsr*
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516 HASTIAL*!
Why nnoe I mtut dine qnite alone^ rU dine by myself nr, at least N, B. EM$i,
Yoa aak a hundred guests unknown to me^ And wonder, Bicmod, I refuse to come :
Bichardt I go abroad for company, For solitude I like to stay at home. Sbdgioiu
ZXXYI. OK CAIUB JITLIirS PBOOULUB.
0 mark this day for me with a white stone, Gaxos Julins haying been lestored (how deliditfal !) to my prayers. I re- joice to have despaired as though the threads of the sisters had already been snapped asunder; that joy is but little where there nas been no fear. Hypnus, why do you loiter P Pour 3ut the immortal Falemiaii; sudi fulfilment of my prayers demands an old cask. Let us drink fire, six, and eight cups, aoswerine to tiie letters in the names Cains, Ju&us, and Ph^us?
Hail« hKpfFf dayl my Julius, hail, restored I
Hail, ^neious heaVn, who heard'st when I implored !
Despaff prores hope, the fiital sdsBon near:
The less they know of joy who knew no fear.
Hymius, why loitei'st f pour Falemian wine :
Sucn UflssinffB pour'd demand a cask divine.
Five, sii, ana eight fair brimmers shall be crown'd.
And Osiiis Julius Proculus go round. JBipkuubm.
XXXV ii. TO aoiLxrs.
Zoilus, why do you delieht in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and thus ouiyinff your poor sardonyx? Such rings are more suited to your legs ;' vke weight is too great for fingers.
TVhy, Zt^us, dost thou bury, not enfold, A diamond spaik in a whole pound c^gjold P When kte a slave, this ring Ihy leg mi^ wear, But soeh a weight ihy finger csnnot bear. Amm.
xxxvui. TO xirLxrs.
A muleteer was lately sold for twenty tiiousaad sesteroes, AuluB. AreyonastonisnedatsolaigeaprioeP HewasdeaC*
1 8seB.LE^73. « See B. iii. Ep. 29.
' HecooUnotllieNlionoTeikeartheooavenatioiiof thosewfaosi he
• UOTlb
BOOK XI.] moBua. 517
'mil. TO OHABIDBinrSy HXB WBJBOaUS.
Too, GharidemnSy rocked mj endle; ^oa were the guardian and oonstont oomnanion of mj ^aldhood* Now my b€«rdy when ahaved, blackena the barber'a n^>kina, and my miatreaa complainB of being pricked by my matlv lips. Bat in your eyea I am no older; you are my bailifTa drtad ;
2ateward and all the honaehold &ar ;^ou. Ton neither m me to play nor to make lore; nothmg is permitted to moy yet eyerything to yourself. You rebuke me, you watch me, you complain of me, and aigh at my conduct^ and your ire la with oifiiculty restrained firom uaing the cane, if I
gut on aTjrrian rol>e,or anoint my hair, you exclaim,'' Tour ither neyer did such things." ±oa count my cups of wine with contracted brow, as if they came from a caak in your own cellar. Oease this conduct: I cannot abide a Oato in a tteedman. My miairesa ynH tdl you tiiat I am now a man.
You were for ever by my inikiit side i
My guardian, my oompaaion, and my guide.
Hie raaor now grows bhmt agunst my oeardi
And etery girl oomDlaiua that it is hud.
TVlth vou lam but Jittle master still :
And aU my serrants tremhls at your wiO.
To game or to xntrigoe I must not dars :
AU things to you, to me none, lawful are.
Yoa cheek, remark, complain, and err ** Good Oodl*
And in yoor passion scarce forbear tne rod.
If my toaoee or yelyet I put on }
You say, Oh I how unlike your father gone !
You count each bumper with a serious lodL ;
As if from your own yauH the wine I took*
Such censure I no lonaer snfisr can:
Pray, ask my maid if I am not a man. £Gy.
You rock'd my cradle, were m^ goide
In youth, stQl tending at my side }
But now, dear Sir, my beard is grown,
Still Fm- a child to ^ee alone.
Our steward, butler, cook, and aU
You fright, nay e'en the yery wall ;
Yon pry, and frown, and growl, and chide,
And scarce will lay the rtM aside. JP. LsisMt.
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XL. OK LVFBBOri.
LapercuB loTes the hir Olycera ; he poBseBseB her all to
himself^ and is her sole commander. Once, when he was com to .Mianns, in a sad tone, that he had not caieesed
plaining nerfor a
ler for a whole month, and wished to give the reason to his auditor, who asked for it, he told him that Gljcera had the tooth-ache.
XLI. 09 AlCTVTAS, ▲ SWUHBHSBD, EILLXD BT ▲ JALL
PBOK AN OAK.
Whfle .the swineherd Amyntas was over-anxioosly feeding his flock, proud of its renown for high condition, his weight proved too much for the yielding branch of an oak which he nad ascended, and he was precipitated to the ground in the midst of a shower of acorns, which he had shaken down. His father would not allow the fatal tree to surnve the cruel death of his son, and condemned it to the flames. Ljgdus,^ let your neighbour lolas fatten his pigs as he pleases; and be content to preserve your full number.
XLII. TO CXOlIAAJfUB,
You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What can I do, Gscilianas ? You expect Hyblsan or Hy* methian honey to be produced, and yet offer the A.ttic bee no- thing but Corsican thyme ?
Yoa lively epigrams require still, when
You siye flat uiemes ; how can vou have them then ?
Think you that e*en Cecropian bees can breed
HybkBan honey, that in Corsio feed? OUIMSAMCM.
When Hving epigrams thou crav*st of me,
Thon giv'st dead arguments. How can Uiat be ?
How canst thou have Hymittian honey flow,
And Gonick thyme t* A&enian bees allow P May.
Alas ! dear sir, you try in vain ImpoHibilitieB to fola ; No bee from Corsica's rank juioe Uyblcan honey can produce.
F.Lewu. MoUo to the 10l8t No. qfihBa»M$f
I Martial's swine-herd.
BOOK XI.] mn^RAMM. iSl9
TTiTTT. TO BIB Win.
DeprenBum in pneio tetrids me yoeilmfl uxor
Uorripifl, et calum te qiioqiie habere lelm. Dixit ioem q[tiotie8 laaciTO Juno tonantiP
Ule tamen gracili cam Gbnymede jaoefc. Iiiciir?abat Hjlam podto l&TOthiua aitm.
Ta Megaram eredifl non Tiabniase natee P Torqoebat PhoBbum Daphne fogitiva: aed illaa
Oebalina flammas jnarit abiie pner. Biyseifl mnltom quamTia ayena jaoeret^
M/Buddad propior leris arnicas erat. Parce tuia igitur dare maacola nomina reboa
Teque puta connoB, uxor, habere duos!
, To, mogIi6» oon anabbiate parole ximbrotti me aorpreao nd r»- gasao, ed addnei che anohe tu hai il o-lo. Quante yolta Gitmone non dioe lo tteaso a GioTe Tonanta ? Con tntto cid eaio giaoe ool delieato Ganimede. ^limdo, depoato Faico ineurraTa Ha; oredi tu che Megara non ayene natiche ? Da&e fhggitiya tormentaya Febo : ma il ragaaao Oebalio feee partire ^eUi amorL Briaeide ^nantnn- que siaoeaae molto ayersa, £1 daheato amioo era confaciente ad £adaa. Blspazmia dimqne dar nomi maaoolini alle ooee tne, ed hnmaginad, o moglie, d'ayer doe 04ii I OroffUa,
Fletcher his giTen a complete tmialation of theae Unea, and ao haya aeferal of the Fraich editoxa, but we think them better omitted here.
XLIT. TO ▲ CHILDLXB8 OLD XAK.
Yon are childleBa and rich, and were bom in the conanlahip of BrutoB ; do yon imaeine that yon haye an^ real friends P Ton haye tme fiienda, but they are those whidi yon made when yonng and poor. Yonr new Mends desire only your death.
Now then are chOdleaSi rich, "boye meaamre old, The loye profeaa'd to thae, amoere dost hold ? Tme loye I haye fonnd. Tea, when yoongand poori Who loyed thee now, do bye thy death much moro.
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What! old, and rioh, and chJldlew toOi And yet beliere your friends axe true P Truth mi^t perhaps of old belong To those who loyea you poor and jroung i But, trust me, for the friends you hare, TheyH loyeyou dearly — in your grave.
F.LeufU. MoUo io the ie2nd SmnbUr
Childless, and rich, and bom in Charles's reign,
Can you expect that oordial friends remain?
If such ; thev are, whom voung and poor you found :
The new will love you only undor ground. £(ay.
Childless, and rich, and old, and hope to find
A real friend P Disordor'd is thy mind.
That heaVn-bom li^t, which nerer long endures
In youth, in poverty, Derehanoe, was yours.
But all your present mends, whatever ther say,
I/ore but your death, and cuxse its slow delay. Hodgmm.
XLT. TO OAHTHABUS.
Intrasti quoties inscriplsB limina cella,
Sen puer arrisit, sive pudla tibi : Contentus non ea foriboa, yeloque, seraqae,
Secretum^ue jubes grandius ease tibi. Oblinitar minimie si qua eat suspicio rinue,
Panctaque laacim quae terebrantur.aca. Nemo est tarn teneii, tarn solicitique pudoria,
Qui vel piedieat, Canthare, vel lutuit.
^ Sempre che entrasti i limini d*un' inscritta ceLa, o un n^j^axao, o da una putella t^arrise ; tu non sei contento degli usd chiusi, e deUa cortina, e della seratora : ma vuoi ayere un cabinetto piii reeondito. 8e V d qualche sospetto d'una menoma fessura, si copre : oosi pure i'buchi che sono yergolati con un lascivo calamistra Nessuno i d'un cosi delicato e soUecito pudore, ida chi pedica, o Osntaro, o cbi immembra. OragUa,
XLTI. TO KJETIFS.
Jam nisi per somnum non ariigia, et tibi| Unyi, Incipit in medioa meiere yerpa pedes,
Truditur et digitis pannucea menhila lasais, Nee levat eztinctum sollicitata caput.
Quid miseros frustr^ ounnos, culosque laoesaia P Summa petaa : ilUc mentula viyit anua.
BOOK ZI.] m&RAMM. 521
Di ^ non aixigi piilk ohe in fosno, ed II too peae, o MerIo» in- oomnuhda piMiarti m i piedi e la langnida mentola d nrorocaU dalle stanohe dita, ne loUecitata rioa resttnto capo. A one inutil- menteimportimiipoTeiio-niyeo-li? Vain alto: colik una reoehia mentola Tive. QragVa.
m
Why does Latiara avoid all the baUia whicli aie freqiieiited by women P That he may not be exposed to temptation, rfhj does he neither promenade in the shade of Fompey^s portico, nor seek the temple of the daughter cS Inacnus P That he may not be expoMd to temptation. Why does bo bathe in the cold Yirem water, and anoint himself with Spartan wrestler's oQr That he may not be exposed to temptation. Seeinff that Lattara thns avoids all temptation of the female sex, -mat can be his meaning?
XLTm. OV SILIUB XTAUOUS.
Silios, who possesses the lands that once belonged to the eloquent Cicero, celebrates funeral obsequies at the tomb of the great YirgiL There is no one that either Yirgil or Cicero would have preferred for his heir, or as guardian of his tomb and lands.
XLEC OV THB SAU.
There remained but one man, and he a poor one,' to honour the nearly deserted ashes, and rerered name, of Yirgil. SiUus determined to succour the cherished shade ; Silius, a poet, not inferior' to Yirgil himself^ consecrated the glory of tne bard.
To honour Itfaro's dust^ and Mcred ahade. One swain remained, deserted* poor, alone.
Till SiHua came hia pious toils to aid, Li homage to a name aosroe greater than hia own. Anwt,
Jt. TO PHYLLIS.
Not an hour of the da^ , Phyllis, passes that you do not plunder me, such is the m&tuatton of my love for jou, so great your cunning in the art of robbery. Sometimes
^ It appears that there was a cenotaph m honour of Yirgfl, which aome poor man waa paid to keep up^ and that Siliua Italicua purchaaed the ground on whicn it atood. The aite of it ia uncertain.
* We read nm miners with the common editionai not ntmm^ vtth SdmeidewhL
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your artfiil maid bewaOs the loss of your mirror, or a ring drops off jour finger, or a precious stone from your ear. Sometimes contraband silk dresses are to be bad cheap* sometimes a scent casket is brought to me empty. At one time I am asked for an amphora of old Falemian, to reward the chattering wise^woman who explains your dreams ; at another, your rich friend has inyited herself to sup with you, and I must buy you a great pike or a mullet of two pounds' weight. Have some sense of decency, I entreat you, and some respect for rifht and justice. I deny you nothing^ Phyllis : deny me, FhylliB, nothing.
There^s not an hour, my Phyllis, in the day.
But yon eontciTe to make my fondness pay.
Tour maid, an artful slut, now cries, *' Alas !
What shall I do ? Tve broke my lady's glass!*
^nien Phyllis comes herself in tears, poor thing I
And tells me she has lost her fiivounte ring,
Or dropped perchance, a diamond from her locket :—
Then, a new piece of silk must pick my pocket
Behold her next her essence-box produce,
'Which wants some rich njsrfume, or eau-de-luoe.
Now an old haff , pretenoing to dirine.
And solye her dreams, must have some old tent-wine,
I then for fish the market must explore.
Some demirep will dine with us at four.
Bu^ prylhee, Phyllis, pay some small regard
To Justioe, and my generous flame reward :
Since I rplkise you nothinff, how can you
Thus pick my pocket, ana reftue me too ?
Rev. R, 6fpviM8.
M. Oir TITIUS.
Tanta est qu» Titio oolumna pendet. Quantum LunpsacisD colunt puellie. Hie nullo comitante, nee molosto, Thermis grandibus, et suis layatur : Anguste Titius tamen lavatur.
Si grande d la isolonna ohe pende a Tizio, quantb queUa che le siteUe Lampsiache yenerano. Cestui senza com^agno ne molestato d laya nelle sue ample tenne : oontutto cid llzio si lava angusta- mente. QragUa.
Ln. nmTA.Tioir to nrLius oebsalis.
You may have a good dinner, Julius Cerealis, with me ; if jrou haye no better engagement, come. Ton may keep your'
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own hour, the eighth ;■ we will go to the hatj together; you know how near the baths of Stephanua are to my honae. Lettuce will first be aet before you, a plant uamQ aa a lazatiyey and leeka eut into ahreda; next tunnj-fiah, full ^wn, and larger than the dender eel, which will be gam- lahed with egg and leaves of rue. Nor will there be wanting egga lightlj poached, and cheese hardened on a Ydabrian h^rth ;* nor olivea which hiFe experienced the cold of a Picenian winter. These ought to bid sufficient to whet the appetite. Do you want to know what is to follow P I will playthe braggart^ to tempt you to come : There will be Fish, oysters, sow s teats, well-fattened tame and wild-fowl ; dain- ties which not eren Stella,' except on rare occasions, is used to place before hia guests. I promise you still more : I will reate no verses to you; while you shall be at liberfy to read to me again your ** War of the GKanta," or your Georgica, aecond only to those rfthe immortal YirgiL
Trimly to sup, Jnlioi, I thee invite : Kbetter be not affnr'd, come to-ni^t. Well bathe together; at six o'clock be here, Nen/s batht, to my house, you know, axe near. Melons and figs, for ante-past, Fll serve, Other ragalios which are aeem'd to have The grateM properties health to nresenre, ^d qnickea appetite. If yon au, what more ? rU lie, to make yon come. Oyiten, wild boar» Choioe fatted fowl ta'en from the coop or pens ; Those nobler vet, that range the woooi ana fens : Such as eT*h SteUa rarely aoes afford, Thongh altogether princely is his board. Ill promise more, no Terns Fll redte : To bear yonis read m dedicate the nisht, Yonr giantfs war, vomr art of tilling fidda, Which not in worai t^ immortal VirgiEs pelds.
Anon. 1095.
Un. OV CLAXTDU. BTTTIKA.
Althouffh bom.anioDg the blue-eyed Britons, how fully has Clancua Bufina tiie intelligence of the Boman peoplel What beauty is hers ! The matroua of Italy might take ner for a Boman ; those of Attica for an Athenian. The gods
^ Two o'clock in the aftenioon.
* On dried checM; see B. ziL Ep. 32.
s The poet; see B. riiL Ep. 78
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liave kindly ordered that she proves finoirful to her revered husband, and that, while yet young, she may hope for sons- in-kw and daughters-in-kw 1 May heaven Mmt ner ever to rejoice in one single husband, and to exmt in being the mother of three children.
Though Brilash skies first besu'd on Claudia's face, Her beantj &r outries the Latin race : E^en Greoian nymphs her fonn csnnot ezosl. Or Bomsn matrons play the aneen so welL Te powers, how bleai'd most her posseesiDr be! What progeny will olimb the motner^s knee ! Kind heaven, grsnt her constant love to ahsrsp And may three boys reward her tender esrs.
WegtmimUr JZmns, Jpnt^ 18S3.
LTV. TO S0IL1T8.
Empty your pockets, rascally Zoilus, of those perfumes, and that lavender, and myrrh redolent of funerals, and half- burned fininkinoense, snatched from tiie midst of pyres, and cinnamon stolen from Slygian biers. It is from your feet, I suppose, that your hands have learned to be knavish. I do not wonder at a fellow being a thid^ who was a runaway slave.'
LV. TO 17BBIOI78y OK LX7PU8, ▲ ZiriTXSH rLATTBXn.
When Lupus exhorts you, Ilrbicus, to become a father, do not believe that he means what he says ; there is nothing that he desires less. It is part of the art of flattery to seem to wish what you do not wish. He earnestly desires that vou may not do what he begs you to do. Were your Coeconia out to say that she is pregnant, Lupus wouU grow paler than a woman when her hour is come. But, that you mav seem to have adopted the advice of your friend, die in suca a way that he may imagine you have really become a &ther.
Ned prays, that heaven may you with issue Ueas :
Believe nim not; nothing he wishes less.
To wish what he diilikes is fawning art:
And when he speaks, his tonfue belies his heart.
Let but your lidj feel a brewing throe,
Ned will look pale, as he were bmding too. .
Yet with a friend's desire so far comply;
That he may think you did not childless die. ffaif.
I See B. iiu Ep. 29.
BOOS XI. IFIGBAICS.
LTL TO OHiniKOV.
"WlieD you eitol death in Buch extraTagant temuii Stoio ChaEvemon, you wish me to admire and respect your dbirit. Such magnanimity ariaes from your poeaewion of only a pitcher with a broken handle, a cheeneaa health, wanned with no fire, a mat, plenty of fleas, a bare bedstead, and a short toga that seires you botih niffht and day. How great a man you are, that can think of arandoning dregs of red yinegar, and straw, and black bread. Bat tet your cnshions swell with Leueonian wool, and soft purple covers adorn your couches ; and let a &TOurite share your couch, who, when mizinff the CSflBCuban wine for your guesta, tcntures them with tae roddiest of lips, how earnest^ then will you desire to lire thrice as long as Nestor; and study to lose no part dt a sinffle day! In adrersiiy it is easy to despise life; the truly brare man is he who can endure to be miserable.
That thoiL Ghenmion, death doit oft danre
Thou woold*tt have us thr stoio mind sdmirB.
This high resolve oomes nom au esislene pot»
A chinmey without fire to keep it hot,
A bedsted eat with wonnes, mas oosne snd lif ht,
One short here gown to weare both day snd night
How brave a man srt thoo canst leave saeh geers
As straw, ooaree bread, snd lees of vinegar !
But if a woven purple ooveiled,
And fine freneh lawne sdorn'd thy downv bed,
Hadat thou a airl, whose rosie lips would fire^
As wine she fills the lustfuU gueeti dedze:
Then thou to live tfazioe NSstor's years would'st prsy,
And would'st not lose sn hours or sny day.
Inpboxe estate *tis essie toominff death;
Valisnt Is he dares draw a wxetoned breath. Ifiiy.
LTn. 90 SXTRBUS.
Do you wonder, learned Severus, that I send you verses when I ask you to dine with me P Jupiter lives luluriondy on ambrosia and nectar; and yet we propitiate him with raw entrails and plain wine. GJeeing that by the &vo.nr of heaven every bleraing is yours, what can be offiBied you, if yon are unwilling to receive what yon already have?
LTnX. TO TILBSTHOBUB.
Cum me velle vides, tentumme, Teleaphore^ staitb; Magna rogaa: puto me Telle n^gare nihil P
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Bfe nin juntos dizi, dalbo, subtnluB fllai,
Fermittunt in mi qu» tibi multa, natee. Quid si me tonaor, cum Btricto novacula sapra esl^
Tunc Hbertatem, divitiaaqae roget ? Fromittam: nee enim rogat illo tempore tonsor,
Latro Togat : res est imperiosa timor. Bed fuerit cnrva cum tuta novacola theca,
Fningam tonsoii crura manusque simuL At tibi nil fadam : sed lota mentula lara
Asixa(iiy cupidflB dicet ayariti».
O Telesforot quando ta Todi eh' io Toelio, e mi senti teso ; dimandi cose eooeanTe : mimmaginoio potertcae negare P To, se io non ho con giununento detto, dm^ lottrai qndle natiehe, che ti permettono molto oontro di me. Che sarebbe se fl mio barbierey auando, im- pugnato iliasojo, sta sopra di me, mi dimandasse allora la liberty, e ricdiesse ? Frometterei : imperooch^ in detto tempo non dimanda come barbiere, ma dimanda come ladio ; il timore d mia cosa im- periosa. Ma quando il rasqio sazebbe ncoxo nel curve staoehio, xomperei le sambe, ed anche le biacda al barbiere. A te per6 far6 niente : ma fiimentola, laTatala sinistra diri, chinderd la bocca deir aniiosa tua aTariaa. OroffUm.
When with desire you see me raok*d,
The bmax's part you always act ;
And if i grant not on the ipot
Whate'er you ask, you 11 kiss me not.
Suppose my barber, steel in hand,
Should liberty and wealth demand,
I yield of course, for he is then
No baxber, but a highwayman.
But, when his rasor^s in its case,
I*d hare him flogg'd till black m the face.
And you, though you may think it odd,
When Tre kissed you, shall kiss my rod. W. 8. B.
VCL. ov oixABnnirs.
Olearinus wears six lin^ on each of his fingers, and never takes them ofl^ even at mght, or when he bathes. Do you aak the reason P He has no ring-case.^
Six rings on every finger Vainlove keeps: In them he goes to stool \ in them he sleeps. If YOU are curious, and the cause would trace i ^ It is because he did not hire the case. JSy»
* He has his rings en
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LX. OV OHIOnE Aim PHLOGIS.
Sit Fhlogifly an Chione yeneri magis apta reqiiirui«
Fulchnor est Ghione ; Bed FhlogiB 11I014B habet P ITlcoB habety Friami oaod tendere poaait alataiOy
Quodque aenem Fylium non ainat eaae aenem. ITlcua habety quod liabere anam Tult qmaque puellain x
Qaod aanaie CritoDy non quod H^geia poteat At Ohione non aentit opua, nee voaboa iDia
AdjuTat: abaentem, marmoreamque putea. Exorare, Dei, ai voa tarn magna lioeret»
Bt bona yelletia tarn pretioaa dare : Hoc quod babet Cbione corpua, faoeretia baberet
Ut rblogia; et Cbione, quodPblogia ulcna babet.
Diniaodi to se Flog^e o ChioDe na piilk atta a Venere F Ghione i pin bella; ma Flo^de ba un' uloenu Un uloera, eha jpotrebbe tendere il nerro a Pnamo» e cbe non permetterriibe ehe il Teocbio Pilio fosse yeochio. Ha un* uloera, ehe ogn' nno Toiebbe ehe la sua innamorata I'aTesse : ehe Critone puo sanazet ehe Igeia non pno. Ma bhione non sente stnnolo, ne eon yenma parole lo nudrisoe : la crederestiastnttaedimanna O Dei, se fosse psnnessoiopplioarri per oose si grandi, e yoleste dard ben! tanto pzeiiosi : fkrcste ehe Flogide ayesse quel eoipo ehe ha Chione : o Cnione Fuloera ehe ba Flogide. OragUM.
LXL ov HASimira.
Lingnl maritna, moBcbua ore, Mannmua, SummcBniania inquinatior buocia : Quern eum fenestra yidit a Suburana ObaooBua nudum lena, fomicem daudit. Medium^ue mayult iMaiare, quam aummum : Modo qui per omnea yiacerum tuboa ibat^ Bt yooe certa, conaciaque dioebat, Faer, an pueUa matria eaaet inyentre ; rOaudete cunni, yeatra namque rea acta eat) Arrigere lingw^m non poteat futntrioem. Nam, dum tumenti meraua baret in yulya, Et yagientea intua audit infimtew, Partem guloeam adyit indeoena morbua, Nee puma ease nunc potest, nee impurua.
Mann^o h msrito ooOa Ixngua, adultero coDa booca, piilk sporeo (telle boodie Sammeniane; if juale qoando Tosoena meivtnoe lo yeds dalla Suburana ibsstra ehiude lo scamiciato Inpanario, An^
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jn^lio baodare al mezso ehe all' alto : eho pooo |9L entrata per tuttl i tuoi delle Tiscere, e con certa e consapeTole usezaione dicera, ae tn on maachio o una femina nel ventre delk madre t (RallegrateTi e-ni, atteeoch^ le rostre ,&oende sono raasettate) rimmemuatrice lingna non pia6 anigere. Imperooch^ mentre sta immeno nelb lumente YulTa, e dentro sente i Tagienti bambtniy W indeoentc tnorbo itroge la parte golosa: nd ora pud eeser puro, ne impuro.
OrOj^Ua
LZn. OK UBBBIl..
Lesbia protests tbat no one has ever obtained her fayoun without payment. That is tme ; when she wants a lover. shehenBelf pajs.
Lesbia ne^er gratis sports, she aavs : Tis true; for when she sparts, she pays.
OW VerHim.
IXin. TO PHILOmTSTTS.
Sbectas nos, Fhilomuse, cum ]a?amur, Et quaie mihi tarn mutoniati Sint leves pueri, subinde qufiris. Dicatn simplidter tibi ro^^anti : Pssdicant, Philomuse, cunosos.
0 Filomnso, ta d osservi quando d laviamo } ed indi dimand. ptirdie io abbia dd teneri ragazd tanto mentolatL Te lo diro caadidamente poidie *1 cerdii ; o Filomusoy esn pedicano i curiosi.
OragUa.
XZrV. TO 7A1T8TU8.
1 do not know, Paustus, what it is that jou write to so many girls. But this I know, that no girl writes anything to you.
We know not why you for the &ir
So many biUet-douz prepare:
But this we know : A bulet^ooux
No fm one ever penn'd for you. Anon,
ImXT. TO JUBTurus.
Six hundred people are invited to dine with you, Justinus, to celebrate the day on which you first saw the light; and amongst these, I remember, I used once not to be the last ; nor was my position attended with envy. But your intention now is to offer me the honours of your festive board to-morrow; to-day you have a birth-day for the hundreds, to-morrow yoa will hife one for me.
BOOS XlI IPIGSAin.
JiMtiii, upon tiiy lolemn birth-day ftift.
No fewer than nx hundred were thy ffoeet :
Among the which, timet Mst, I had the gzaoe
To hoKly mieiiTy'd, no inferior plaoe :
But now, to th' xeUoi of the leoond day,
If 10 1 like^ to be thy goeet I may.
Unto dx hondred bom, to-day, tnen be^
To^noBow ifait thou shalt be bom to me. Anon,
IiXTT. TO Yi-OIBBA.
Tea are an infonner, a calumniator, a forser, a secret agent, a aUre tothe nndean, and a trainer of ^adUators. I wonder, Yaoenra, why you have no money.
Thon art a dandorer and delator.
Fake dealer, pimp, and fornicator:
Where inbh noe perts and tndei are foond,
I wonder much, tny pnxae doee not abound. AnotL
Ton an infomer axe, and a badL-biter i
A oonunon sharper, and ahaekney writer ;
A whore-master, and master of defence ;
Jack of all trades; strsngel that yon want the pence I
LXyn. TO ICABO.
You give me nothiiu^ while yon are liTinff ; yoa say that you will give me aometHing at your death. If you are not a fool, Maio, you know what I deeire.
Msro, yoall nre me nothing while yoa liye. But sfur desui yon cry then» then you'll gtre : If thou art not indeed tum*d sirant ass. Thou know'st what I desire to come to pass.
Alire yoa gire me nought, yoa say yoa will Atdeath:yoaknowmy wish, if you hare akilL Jfoy.
You nothing gire me now : when you erpire
You promise aU.— You know what I desire. Aiy.
pronuse
LXTm. TO ICATHO.
You aak but amall fisToun of your Ri^eat friends; yet your ffieat friends refuse you eren small uTOura. That you may fed less ashuned, Matho, adc great faYOuza.
An ensign's post you ssk ; and thatTs denied: Ask for a cdcmd^s ; leis*twill hurt yoor pride. fl%.r
3m
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T.TTT IFTTAPU OV A HOUITB VAXID LYBXA.
Nurfcnred among the trainen of the amphitheatre, bred np for the chaoe, fierce in the forest, gentle in the house, I was called Ljdia, a most faithful attendant upon my master Bezter, who would not have preferred to me the nound of Eriffone, or the dog which followed Gephalus from the land of Orete, and was translated with him to the stara of the light-brinfi;ing goddess. I died, notof lenfl;th of years, nor of useless old age, as was the fete of the houna of Ulysses ; I was killed by the fiery tooth of a foamiiif boar, ashuee as that of Oalydon or that of Erymanthus. Nc^ do I complain, though thus prematurely hurried to tibe shades below ; I could not hare died a nobler death.
I trained was, by masten of the g^une,
r the field no hound more fierce, T the house more tsme i
Lydia my name, my owner's right hand held,
^igone*8 dog not me in fidth exoell'd,
Nor Lelaps yet, for whose great truth 'tis told»
By Jove amooff the stars he was enrolPd.
Like Argus a umg life I did not upend
In sloth, by useless ase brought to my end :
But the fierce tusks of an enngdd boar,
Like that of CSalydon, my entruk tore.
Nor of my earhr death do I oomplam,
A nobler fete I could no way sustain. Jmohl
TiTT. TO TUOCA.
Can you, Tucca, sell these daves whom you bought for a hundred thousand sesterces a-pieoe? Can you sell the weeping despots of your sIFections, Tucca P Do neither their caresses nor their words and untutored lamentations move you 'r ^ If a quantity of hard cash is your object, sell your plate, your tables, your myrrhine yaaes, your estate, your house. Sell your old slayes, sell too your hereditary lands; sell everything, wretched man, to ayoid selling your young feyourites. It was extrayagance to buy them ; who denies or doubts it? — ^butitisfer greater extrayagance to sell them.'
^ Ah fiiemns ! tnnici patet ingoen utrinque leratly Inspidtorque toA mentola fiicta nana. • Comp. B. it Bp. 63.
BOOS XL] BFieitllCB. S81
TiTTT. OV laSBA.
Hyiteicam Tetnb se dizerat esse marito^
JBt qofiritur futoi Leda neoesse nbi : Bed fleiiB, atqnegemeiiB tanti negat esse aalutem,
Seqiie re^ j^ua propoauisee mori. Yir ront ut vvmtf Yindes nee deaerat anno0,
Bt &ny quod jam non bdt ipse, ainit. FrotmuB aooedunt medid, medicseque reoedunt,
ToUontorque pedes : Q medicma grayis !
Leda dine al sac ^eoehio marito ehe era iaterica, e n lagnava
aver neoeniti d'esser immemlirata : ma uangendo, e gemeadb non Tuole ehe la sua talnte ^ ooeti tanto, e disae che a'era pintocto de- tenninata a morire. II marito la ^reg|a ehe Tita, nl porda i giorenili nun anni; e permette ehe d fiuxaa ei6 ch' eno pii^ non pao. In- oontanente i media s'aecoatano, e le mkliehe s'allontanano, i piedi •one akad in alto ; oh la ditpiaoerol medicine I OragSa,
Leda oomplain'd to her old man that she
Was eholra up in her womb, and enred must be,
But weepa ana whines her health's not so much worth,
And xamr ohoose to die than thns hold foitfa.
Tbe poor men ben her liye, her youth mn on,
Aad what he oooM not suffers to be done.
Henoe male physicians come, and female fly
A clyster then : O mighty remedy! JFUieher.
LXXn. OV KA.TA.
Praaci Natta aui Tocat pipinxiam, GoDatos eoi Ghillua est Friapua.
Nata ehiama phnnna qoella del sno dxanco, alia quale Friapo con frontato 2 nn Gallo. OroffUa.
LZZm. TO LTGDUB.
YeDtorom jniaa semper mihi, Ljgde, roganti, Conatdtmaqne horam, eonatitiiisque locum.
Cum Jruslra jaeui longa pmiigine tentus, Sueeunrit pro te aaspe sinistra mihL
Quid preoer, o fiJlaic, mentis, et moiibua istia F Umodlam luacs^ Lygde, feraa domixua.
O Ligdo, lempre prometti a me ribhiedente di fenire, e fissi Tors e *1 luogo. Qnando teso da ana Imiga pmrigine ho inutilmente giadoto^ soTfente in Teoe tna la dsstia mia suplisee. Che t'sn*
iu2
5SS jcabtial'b
ffoiero, o tnditoie, per qnetti taoi meriti e oostomi F Che to* o Ligdo, pcrd rambnUa della Inaca signon. QragUa,
JJOXr. GS BACOABA.
Oanndain penem oommisit Bftocftra grsBOUB Biyali medico ; Baocara GMlns erit.
Baooara Greoo confide al medico saoriTaleflpeneaooio 1 oozaaaes Baocaim diveni OaDo. OroffUa
LZZT. TO OALIA.
Theca tectna aenea layatur Tecom, Oielia^ fervna. TJt quid, oro, Non sit cam citharcBdna, aut choranlaa ? Non via, ut puto, meatulam videre. Qoaie cum populo laTaria ergo P Omnea an tioi nos aumua apaidonesP Ergo, ne yidearia invidere, Se^o, Gslia, flbulam romitte.
H tao aenro^ oGelia, ai laTa teoo, coperto oonmioataoQhio di xamau A che qneatOy ti prego, non esaoido n^ bhitaiedo, o aoonator di piffiuroP Non vnoi, come penao, Tedergli la mentola. Perch^ dmique ti lavi ta col popolo ? Ti aiamo noi foiae tutti apadoniP Dunque, affinoh^ ta non paja che t^Tidiamo, togli Tia, o Cdia, la fibula al aerro, OragUa.
LZXn. TO PA0TU8.
Yoa oblige me to bay you eighty ponnda, Factns, because Bacoo has oocaaionea jou the loss of aixteen hundred. Let me not, I pray yon, suffer for &ult8 not my own. It ia rather for you, who can support the loss of sixteen hundred, to submit to that of eighiy.
Ten pomids, I owe, yon call for in a pet.
Because Tom broke two huidred in your debt
Hard I I should bear the fimlta of other men ;
Tou, who could lose two hundred, pray loae ten. Say^
LULVIX. OB TACBBBA.
Yaeerra^ while passing his hours in ererybody's dining- room, and sitting iSLere all day long, desires not to empty his beUy, but to ffllit.*
^Compeacendatlfi gratia aedfln^etiaBaaere,aafln9dbaS ut inyitaietis avm oBna eaiit instnicta*
BOOK zl] ineBAXS.
szzynx. to tiotox.
Uteie fifrnninftiB oomplezibafl, utere "^etor,
IgnotniDqiie mbi mentalA diacat opus. Ilammea texontur sponsaBy jam Tirgo panta eat:
TondeUt pueros jam Dova nupta tnos. Pedkare semel capido di^it ilia marito,
Dam metuit teh Tulnera prima nori SBmaa hoe fieri nutriz, materque retabnnt,
Et dioent^ uxor, nonpuer, Uta Hhi ett. Hen qaastoe oatos, qnantoa patiere laborea,
Si nierit cmmiiB rea peregrina tibil Eko Subniaiift tironem trade magiatrs.
fik yirom fadet : non bene yirgo docet.
Faiuo,o'Vittoni,faiiio drnfemmeiamplenitelamentoJaimiMri I'opiB ad ena ignota. Le spose sono ooperte oon reli, d[ gui la Tergine ^ prepanta : tubbito la huova mantata toaeri i too! lagauu Eiia daii ma Tolta da pedicare all* arido marito, meatre teme le prime ferite delnnoro stnle. La nutrice e la madre rietenumo che do 81 fitfia tioppo iOT?eQte, e diianno (jpeata ti d moglie^ non za- gaiso. Oh qnanti furari e qnanti atenti ae fl o^o aaia a te ooaa nnova I Donque oonaegnati qTial noriao ad una Submana maeitra. QneOa ti &ri eaperto : mia fezgine inaegna do malamente.
QrogUa.
LTTTT. TO PAXTUSy OK THI 8LOWirZ88 OF HI8 KFLX8.
For arriring onlj afe the first mfleatone after nine bonra' tnyellinf^ I am diarged with idlenesa and inactiTitj. The fitult is not mine^ I assure jon, but your own, in sending me sndi mules, Esetus.
From Kew to town four homn I spent: yon rail.
As if I tzavell'd slower than a anaiL
Hie road waa good : not 1, but toUi to blame,
Who sent the equipage in which I came. May.
TiTTT. TO 7LA.00178, A.T BALB.
Though Flaocua, I were to praise Baia, golden.shore of the blessed YenuSyBaio^kind gift of Nature who is proud of it, in a thonsand versea, yet would not Baue be praised as it deserrea. But^ Flaccus, I prefer Martial^ to Baia^.
* Thai ii, lumaeUl He had imther mind hia own bnsineM at honu^ than jda Flaecos at M«b to he enonrmted hj ita lazorx*
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To wish for both at once would be presumptaotui. But i^ by the kindness of the sods, that blessing were granted yoa, what happiness womd it be to enjoy !Bbrtial*s powers and the climate of Bai» at the same time f
LXXXI. OS AJS OLD UAJf AXB LS SITirCJOH.
Cum Bene communem vezat spado Dindjmns JEglen,
Et jacet in medio siocapueiUa tore : Yiribus hie operi non est, nio inatilis azmis.
Ereo sine effectu prorit uterq ae labor« Suppfex ilia rogat nro se, misensque duobns,
Hnne juyenem facias, hunc^ Ojtherea, yirom.
L'eunuco Dindimo reasa Egle in oomune con un Teochioy e la giovane giaoe asnuta in messo si leCto : qnello non ha Tiffore all' opra, qneBto inutile per gli amiL Di modo che gli tfoni ctell' nno e deU' altro indtano sensa effetto. Easa supplicheTole prega per se, 6 per i due Bfoxtanati, ohe Gterea xenda questo gioTsne, e quello nomo. Chragiuu
LXXXn. OV PHIL08TnA.TV8.
FhilostratoB, letoming to his lodging late at night, firom a feast at Sinuessa^ famed for its waters, rery nearly lost his life, imitating Elpenor^ in his cruel fate, by rolling headlong down the whole length of a flight of stairs. He would no^ re nymphs of Sinuessa, have incurred so great a danger, had he in preference drunk of your waters.*
At Bristol, Tom from the mayor's feast was led :
And home retum'd, was Roing up to hed :
From the stair-head he luke ifipenor fell ;
And, like Elpenor, almost dropp*d to helL
My sober friend ! reflect upon this matter !
How safe are you who diink but Bristol water I JSTiy.
Lxxzin. TO sosiBiAinrB.
Nobody lodges in your house gratis, unless he be rich and childless. No one, BosibianuB, lets lodgings to more profit
Gratis your house old bschelorB firequent :
Tet none can let a house at higher rent. JBay,
* Who WES killed by Ming from tbe roof of Circe's caye. Odyn. B. X. 550.
* Which were ndd to hare such a sdlMriiig effect, that they cored Cff«i madness. Plin. H. N. izxL 3.
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LZXXIT. 09 AKTIOOHTTS, AJX TnXBKLLTUJt BABBIB.
Let him who does not wish yet to descend to the watera ot Styr, avoid, if he be wise, the oarber Antiochua. The kniyea with which, when the maddened troop of O^bde's priesta rage to the Boond of Fhrynan meaaurefl, their white anna are lacerated, are lesa crud than the razor of Antiochns. More gently does Alcon cut a strangulated hernia, and hew broken bones with his rode hand. Antiochus should deal with needj Ornics, and the beards of Stoics, and denude the necks of Wses of their dusty manes. If he were to shave Prometheos under the Scythian rock, the Titan would again, withbsred breast, demand his executioner the vulture. Fentheus would flee to his mother, Orpheus to the priestesses of Baochua, were they to hear but' a sound &om the bsr- baroua weapon of Antiochus. All these scars, that von count upon my chin, like those that sit upon the brow of an mpi boxer, were not produced by the naila of an enraged wifSa, but br the steel and cuned hand of Antiochus. Of all animals the goat alone has any sense ; he wears his
beard, that he may not risk himseli under the hands of Antiochus.
Yon, vrho wish not to die before your hour,
Tnut not your face to barber 8cnipeill*s power.
A loldiflx^s skin ii less severely rent,
Who nms the gantlope through his regiment.
Hawkins by far cuts easier for the stone ;
And any surgeon sets a broken bone.
A baibei^ fit for begsazs in a lane ;
To do^ a horse's tafl, or eat his mane.
A felon, martyred by such hands as these.
Would eall upon the hangman's hand for ease.
Debton for refuge would to bailifb fly,
And tazs to press-gann, when his rasor 's nigh.
Look on these scars ! now movingly they spcnk !
And seam as I were burnt in eithor cheek !
Not of an aopy wife they records stand ;
But SoE^Nilr s xaior, and his bungling hand.
A goat is wisest of the hmtiBh herd }
Who^ to avoid a Scrapeill, wean his beard. Hay^
Lxxzv. TO aoiLira.
Sidere pesrcussa est subito tibi, Zoile, lingua^ Dumlingis certOi Zoile, nunc futuea*
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ImproTigamente, o Zoilo, t' 6 da on oonta^ pereova k linjB^oai mentre lingi il o-no, o ZoUo, ora immembrerai. OragUa.
LXZXTL TO PASTHBVOPATTB.
To relieye your throat, ParthenopiDiiBy which is mceasantly Inflamed by a seyere cough, your doctor prescribes honey, and nuts, and sweet cakes, and eyerything that is giyen to chil- dren to preyent them from being uimily. Bat yon do not giye oyer coughing all day long. A cough is not yonr malady, Farthenopsus ; it is gluttony.
Tour oough the doctor and your sharp Ehumis rage Which your chopps dayly yexes to asswadge, Prescribes yoa honey, pine-natt8» and sweate pastes, And what e'er plesses children's liquorish tastes. To oough all day for this you do not cease : No cough, but gluttony, is your disease.
Old MS. im CaU.
That thy doctor may assuace
Thy jaws, whose cough doth seem to rage
Daily, Parthenopceus, he
Commands that they shall giye to thee
life-honny, kernels, and sweet cakes,
That eyery boy unlndden takes.
But day by day ihj cough grows more on thee ;
This is no cough ; I fear^tiB gluttony. Fischer.
LXXXm. TO OHAJLIDSlCirB.
Diyes eras quondam : sed tunc p»dico fuisti,
Et tibi nulla diu foemina nota fuit. Nunc sectaris anus. O quantum cogit egestas !
Bla fututorem te, Charideme, facit.
Altre yolte en rioco : ma allora eri un pedicone, e per lungo tempe yeruna donna fu da te oonbsciuta. Ora insegui & yecchie. Oh quanto la nuseria oostringe I essa, o Garidemo, ti fa immembratore.
OroffUa.
T.t««viii- OV OHUUBIAiriTS.
Mnltis jam, Lupe, posse se diebus Fsdicare negat Chariaianns Gaussam cum modo quiererent sodales : Yentrem dixit habere se solutum*
0 Lupo, Carislano dice di non poter pedicare gii damoiti gionn. Dimandandogliene poco fk i compagni la cagione^ disse che ayeya ladiarrea. OragUa»
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Whj do joa nod me, FoDa, wreatiis of loaes that are Quite fireehP I would rather hafo roeee that yoa haro handW.
FMh tinm cb^ileli why lend joa to ma P Botai xorivm your hand would swoeter bee.
ZO. TO OHBXaTXXIilTa, AS ABBITBB ABHIBaft OV THB
OLD P0XT8.
YoQ approfe of no Toraea tiiat run with a amooth cadence, bat of thoae only tib^t Tsolt aa it were oyer hilla and craffB; and a line anch aa thia, Lueeilei cohmetta heic iiiw MsirophaH* ut^ ^Ludlina'a right hand, Metrophanea, liea here^" .ia of more yalne in your eyea than a poem of Homer; and you read with ecataay each words aa ierrai fru^endf ''the fruit-producing earth," aa well aa all that Attiua and Facuyiua have apnttered forth. Do you wish me to imitate tiieae old poetay Chreatillua, whom you ao much admire P Confoundme, if I think you know what vigour is.'
XOI. XFITAPH OV OASAOB.
Canace, one of the daughtera of JBolia, liea buried in thia tomb, a litde child whose seventh winter waa her last. " 0 ahamel 0 dire fato l" why are you in haste, trayeller, to weep P We do not here complain of the ahortneas of life ; sadcEsr than death itsdf waa the manner of it ; a horrid disease destroyed her fiu^ and aeiaed upon her delicate mouth. The cruel foe dcrroured her rer^ lips, nor waa her body consigned entire to the funeral pile. ^ If the fiitea intended to faU on her with such headlong riolence, they should have come in some other form. But death hastened to dose the passage of her sweet voice, lest her tongue should dissuaoe the stem goddesses from their purpose.
Within this tombe fun Osnaoe Is pWt,
To whom her seventh winter was her last
0 dire miachanoe I Reader, why weepest thou there P
'TIS not her short life that dwnsnda thy teare.^
Beatha mannei'a worse than death ; the dire diaeast
Beaet harftoei her tender month did aeisew
588 iubhal's
The moDBter tickenene striVd a kiase to hsf9»
Her faiie lips went not wholly to the graTOi
If &teB 80 Boone had meant to stop her brealiif
They ihonld haYe come some other way. But death
Made haste her tonneB sweet mnsidce to preTenty
Lest that should make the flintie fates relent May.
xon. TO EOILirB.
He speaks erroneoiialy, Zoilus, who calls you yicioiis You are not TiciouB, Zoiliis, bat vice itself.
Zoilus he lied that caU'd thee vicions el^
Thou art not Yidous, bat art vice itscdf. Fkicher.
Who calls you vicioiis, lies. Ton, Zoilus, are
Not Tidous, but pnre vice itself I swear. Wtighi.
He says not right, who says that you are eril :
Tou an ill manl— you are a yery deyiL Sojf.
XCIU. OJSr THSODOBITS, ▲ BAD POET.
The flames haya destroyed the Pierian dwelling of fiie bard Theodoras. Is this agreeable to you, ye muses, and thou, Phodbus P Oh shame, oh great wrong and scandal of the gods, that house and householder were not burned together I
Flames Theodore's Pierian too& did seize. Can Uiis Apollo, this tiie Muses, please P O oyersight of gods! O dire disaster I ' To bum the hannless house, and spare the master.
Anon* Poor poet Dosiel's house consumed by fire ! Is the Muse pTeaM ? or father of the lyre ? O cruel fate ! what injury you do To bum the house 1 and not the master too ! Say*
XOiy. OV A JXW, ▲ BITAL POBT.
As for the fact that you are exceedingly enyiousandeyery* where carping at my writings, I pardon you, circumcised poet ; you haye your reasons. Nor am I at all concerned that, while carping at my yerses, you steal them ; for this too, circumcised poet, you haye your reasons. This howeyer, circumdsed poet, annoys me, that, though you were born in the heart of Jerusalem, you attempt to seduce the object of my affections You deny tiiat such is the case, and swear by
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the templet of Jupiter. Idonotbeliere jou; swear, dioum* cia^ poet^ hy AnchialuB.'
XOT. TO TLA.QOVB.
lacideriB quotiee in beaia feDatomm, In aolio poto te mergere, Elaoee, caput.
Ogni Tolta ebe f imbatti nei baod del feUatoxi, io m* imiiiaffbok o Plaooo^ eihe immergi il oapo in un tino. QragUa.
XCn. TO ▲ GIBMASr, PBIYXHTIKO ▲ BOICAIT TOVTH nOM
DBonmro ov thi kastiajt watbb, wbilm hi dbtjitx iT.Hncaxur.
It ia the Martian fountain,* and not the Bhine, that riaea nere^ Oerman. Wh7do70U8tandintheboj*8wa7, andkeep him back from the water of the rich well P Barbarian, a fountain belonp;ing to the oonquerora ahould not allaj the thiiat of a e^ptiTO dave, to the exduaion of a dtiaen.
XOm. TO TlLSaiLLA.
Tina nocte quater poaaum: aed quatuor anma 8i poaaum, peream, te Theleailla aemeL
n poHO oiiatro Tolte in una notte: ma poaaa io morire ta ia quatr amii u po8M> teoo una Tolta, o TelefiUa. QrogUtu
TOnUL TO 7LA.00Ua.
It ia impoaaible, Flaeona, to ajoid the kiaaera. They preaa upon jou, the^ delay you, they pursue you, they run affainst you, on all sides, from OTery direction, and in every puce. No malignant ulcer will protect you from theoi, no inflamed pimplea, or diaeaaed chin, or ugly tetter, or lipa smeared with <uly cerate, or drop at the cold nose. They kiss you when you are hot and when you are cold ; they kiss you when you are reserving your kiss for your wife. To envelope your head in a hood will not avaQ you ; nor to secure your litter with skins and curtainay nor will a chair doaed again and again be any defence to you ; the Idaaer
SuppoMd to be a oomiptioii of tlie Hebrew, rfm Tm **•§ Uie Loia Uvetb,' the Rommi sappoems that the Jew% when they pranonnoed those woid4» uttered the name of some deity, whi<±. they wrote Anohliliii. • Saa B. vi Bp. 42.
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will find an entranoe ttirongh every chink. Not Uie oonsnl* Bhip iteell^ nor the tribunate, nor the six fascea/ nor the proud rod of the noisy Tctor, will drive off the Idaser. Though you be sitting on the lofby tribunal, and laying down the law to nationa from the curule chair, the siaaer will climb up to either place ; hewillldBa^roainafeyerorinteaTa; he will Kias you n^iile you are yawning and Bwimminff ; he will kiaa you when you are at atooL The sole remeofy for the evil is, to make him, whom yon would not wish to kiss, your friend.
There are no means the Idsiing tribe to shunt
They meet you, stop ^o, after you they ran.
Press yon llefore, behind, to each side deave.
No plaoe, no tinie, no men, exempted leave j
A dropping nose, salved Hps, can none reprieve^
Gangrenes, foul nmning sores, no one relieve i
They kiss jou in a sweat, or starv'd with cold.
Lovers thor mistress* kines cannot hold ;
A chair is no defence, with curtains gnarded.
With door and windows shut, and closely waidedt
The kissers, through a dunk wiU find a way,
Presume the tribune, consul's self, to stay i
Nor can the awful rods, or Lictor's mace»
His stounding voice away these kissers ehace.
But the^ 'U ascend the Rostra, curule chair.
The judges kiss, while they five sentence diere.
Those laugh they kiss, ana mose that sigh and weep i
*Tis all the same whether you laugh or weep ;
Those who do bathe, or recreate in pool.
Who are withdrawn to ease themselves at stooL
Against this pla^e I know no fence, but this : ^
Make him thy ftiend whom thou abhorr'st to kiss. Anom
XOIX. TO LBSBIA.
De cathedra quotiea surgis, jam asdpe notavi,
Paddicant miaeram, L^bia, te tunicie. Quas cum oonata es dextra, conata sinistra
Yellere, cum laorymis eximis, et gemitu. 3ic oonstiingnnturgemina symplegade culi,
Bt Minyas intrant, Oyaneasque nates. Bmendare cupis vitium deforme P dooebo ;
Lesbia^ nee surgas censeo, nee sedeas.
^ Osnied before the pnetor.
BOOK ZI.] IFteSJJffS. Nl
Ogni ToUa die ti alii da wdero, oome piA Toht notai, le tmiehe, oLe•bdb^teae»g;lIntapedieano: chetuorooDadeitim,orodI]afm- iatza ta an dbinta milere oon nan lanm Coaitono
eaae rinaemta dalle jgenam nm^egadi del tao colo» ed entrano fra le natiche Minie e Cianee. Vuoi ta emendare il defonne Tuio P te I'lnwgnezdi an di aentimento ohe ta, o Leabia, ne atii id piedi, ne
0. TO TLACOTTB.
I lum no fiuunr, Tlaociie, for a miatreas ^
thin, who can make my rings serve her for hr^oeleta ; whc Bcrapea me with her mpa and pricks me with her knees ; whose loins are rough as a saw, or sharp as a lanoe. Yet I haye no taste for a mistress weighing a thousand pounds; I am a lorer of ik«h, hut not of fiS.
My miatreas Vd not haye ao thin,
A nng her aimea might oompaaa in;
Wboae haunch or knee my aidea might weare,
Hdr back a saw, her romp a speaie ;
Yet her a eart-loade Vd not hsTe ;
Tia solid fleah, not &tt, I craye. Did M8.ieik OnU.
or. TO FLACors.
And ha?e you been able, Haocus, to see thedenderHiais T Then, Tlaoeufl, I suspect you can see what is iuTisiUe.
CTI. TO LTDIA.
He told no untruth, Lydia, who informed me thi^ you hsTe a handsome face, but devoid of expression. It is so; your face would always look handsome, if you would but be silent, and st as mute as a waxen image, or a picture. But whenever you speak, Lydia, all your beauty flies, and no tongue doea more damage to ita owner than yours. Have a care Jest the asdile see and hear you; it is portentous when a statue qwaks.
He lied not^ Lvdia, who prononnoed thee fidr.
For fladi and blood none may with thee oonmare.
Tbia ia moat true while tium doat aUent atand^
like aome rare piece of amatmaater'a hand.
But iriien thou apeek'at^ e'en such thy beauty's goaf,
And thnr own tonsne none ever ao md wrong.
Let not the JSdile near thee lilenoe break :
It is a portent If an image speak. Jnomin^
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oxn. TO sopHsoinus.
So great is tiie modesty of your mind and conntonanoef
S<n)liiomuB| that I wonder you should erer hayo become a
fiither.
Thou art 00 tune and simple, on my life, ^
I wondeor how thoa e'er ooold'st court a wife. Anon,
OIT. TO HIS WIFB.
Uxor Tade soru, ant moribns utere nostris :
Non ego sum Corius, non Numa, non Tatins* Me jucnnda juTsnt tracto per pocnla nootes :
Tn properas pota surgere tristis aqua. Tn tenebris nndes : me Indere teste lucemay
Et juYat admissa rompere luce ]atus< Fascia te, tunioBqae tegnnt, obscoraque palla:
At mihi nnda satis nuUa paella patet. Basia me capimit blandas imitata columbas :
Tu mihi oum, avis qnalia mane soles. Nee motn dignaris opus, nee yoce juTare,
Neo diffitis : tanquam thnra, merumque pares. MasturbaiMintor Fhrygii post ostia send,
Hectoreo qnoties sederat uxor equo. Et quamyis Ithaco stertente, pudica solebat
Illic Penebpe semper habere manum. Pa9dicaie negas : dabat hoc Cornelia Graocho^
Julia Pompeio, Fortia» Brute, tibi. Dulcia Dardimio nondum miscente ministro
Focula, Juno fuit pro Ghinymede Jovi Si te delectat grayitas, Lucretia toto
Sis licet usque die : Laida nocte toIo.
Moglie mia ya fuori, o pratica i nostxi oostumi : io non eono nJk Curio, ni Nuina, ni Tazio. A me piacdquo le notti eoorae fia i jriocondi bicclderi : tn, heyuta dell acqua, tfafietti partire aeriosa. Tu ti pisci nelle tenebre : a me schenare che la luoema mi yeda, e mi paoe^ approasimato il ehiaro^immembrareapiiinon poara. Una fascia e deile tuniche ti eoprono, ed un' oscuro manto : ed a me nesauna atella pare abbaatansa ignuda : I baoi aimili a quelli delle iasciye colombe m'alacdano: tu me li dai quali dar auou all'ayola Bid mattino ; ne ti degni dar piaoere ool moto, ne con parole^ ne colle mani : e ti preparicome ad offiir incenzi e libazioni. I Frigii aeryi maaturbayano dietro I9 porta, ogni yolta che la moglie aedeya
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■0 FEUmo mwtSlo. E Itaoo qnantanqae nifmite, k yaim P^ nelqM taolsrft ayer semm oolila mano. Ta riotm pe^Uoaze. * Cornelia aooordaTa do a Oraooo, Oiulia a Pompeo, a Ponia a te» Brnto.' H Dardaaio minigtro ^ nando non TenaTa i doloi bioohiarit Oinnone 6ni a Giofa in Teoe di Oanimede. Selamntitidiletta, •iaii ledto eaer Luaeda tatto quanto '1 giomo : ai notta ta Toglio utaLaida. QragUSi
Piytliee die and set me free^
Or else be Kind and brisk, and gay like me i I pretend not to the vise ones»
To the graye, to the grayey Or the predse ones.
lis not cheeks, nor lips, nor eyes*
Thatlpriie, Quick conceit^ or sharp replies, If vise thou wilt appesr and knowing,
Bepartie, reparde To what An doing. BirJofmDmJmm.
CT. TO GASBICTTB.
Toniued to send me a pound ; now, Oarricna, yon send me only a quarter; at least, Garricua, let it be half aponnd.^
on. TO TiBirrs icAmnrs.
Yibina Maximiu, if you can roare time, read thia trifle; for yon haye Utile to do^ and are not oyer laborioiis* What, do you pasa oyer eyen theae four linea P Well i yott are right.
Vibiiis, hast an hour to spare P
On these Imes bestowthy care.
Bat labour is not thy delight,
Thoa*lt pass e'en these four lines P Tlioa *rt right
Anotu
CTU. TO BsmoiAjruB.
You send me back my book, Septicianua, aa if it had been unrolled down to ita yery end, ana read through. You haye read eyeiytiiing; I belieye it, I know it; in truth I am delighted. In the aame manner I haye read through your fire Dooka.
1 An intimation tbit Gsrriens should have limmished his prsssnts ^ degress; eompsie B yiiL Ep. 71.
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The leavw lUfoil'dy aometnni'd, the oomen woniy Show you'Te iwnued my work* which you retunu Fm fflad you^ read it all ; I see tia true ; 80 1 liaTe rMd fi^e Tdumea writ by yon. J3^«
Omi. TO Tin BXAI^lB.
book,
Pay,*reader. You are silent ; do you pretend not to bear? Then, goodbye.
With my long book thou well may'rt gutted be,
Yet thon more epignuna exactfat of me :
But Lnpua oaUi for nae, aerranta for pay,
Biachaise them, reader. Now thon 'at nought to aay,
DiBaembleat, ai my wcnrda thou oould'st not apelL
No riddle thon^rt to me, reader, &rewelL Anom. 160&
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ILLBTIAL TO HI8 TSSXSD THIBOUB.
I KKOW that I owe some apology for my obstinate three yean' indolence ; though, indeed, it could by no apology haye been excused, eyen amid the engasements 01^ the city, engasementa in which we more easi^ succeed in making ours^yes appear troublesome than serviceable to our friends , and much less is it defensible in this country solitude, where, unless a person studies eyen to excess, his retreat is at once without consolation and without excuse. Listen then to my reasons ; among which the first and principal is this, that 1 miss the audience to whidh I had grown accustomed at Borne, and seem like an advocate pleading in a strange court ; for if
> A^nsorer, of whom Martial mtimatee that ha had borrowed money. * SdIm. Sdmeidewin leada tahi, without regard to quantity. We lldnk it neceaaaiy to Ibllow the oommon
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there be anything pleasing in mj books it is due to m j auditors. That penetration of judgment^ that fertility of inyention, the libraries, the theatres, the social meet- uigs, in which pleasure does not perceive that it is studying; everythmg, in a word, which we left behind us in satiety, we regret as though utterly deserted. Add to this the backbiting of the provincials, envy usurping the place of critidsm, and one or two ill-disposed persons, who, in a small society, are a host ; circumstances under which it is di£Bcult to be always in the best of humours. Do not wonder then that I have abandoned in disgust occupa- tions in which I used to employ myself with delight. Not to meet you, however, with a refusal on your arrival from town, and when you ask me for what I have done (you, towards whom I sbould not show a proper feeling of grati- tude, if I did not exert myself for you to the utmost of my power), I have forced myself to do that which I was once in the habit of doing with 'pleasure, and have set apart a few days for study, in order to regale your friendly ears with the rejMut suited, to them after their ioumey. Be pleased to weigh considerately the offering, which is intrusted without apprehension to you, .and do not think it too much labour to examine it ; and, what you may find most difficult, judge of my trifles without scrupulous regard to eleffsnce, lest, if you are too exacting, I send ^ou to Itome a bodL not merely written in Spain, but in Spanish.
I. TO PBI8CU8.
While nets lie unemployed, and Melossian hounds are silent, and while the woods no longer reecho to shouts in pursuit of the boar, you will be able, Friscus, to accord a portion of your leisure to a short book. The hoxir so oestowed will not be so long as that of a summer^s day, and you will not find it entirely wasted.
n. TO HTS BOOK.
Tou, my verses, who but a short time since were taking
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your way to the shores of Fyrge,^ take your way along the Via Saera : it is no longer dus^.*
m. TO HIS BOOK.
Yon, my book, who used lately to be sent from Borne to foreign lands, will now go as a foreigner to Borne ; setting out from amone the people of the ffold-producing Tagus, and from the ruae Salo,' a potent lana that gave birth to my forefathers. But you will not be a foreigner, nor can you be justly called a stranger, now that the lofty city of Bemua contains so many of your brethren. Seek, as of right, the venerable threshold of the new temple,^ where their sacred abodes have been restored^ to the Pierian choir. Or, if you prefer, enter by the Subura first ; there are the lofby halls of my friend the consul The eloquent Stella inhabits the laurel-crowned mansion ; Stella, the illustrious quaffer of the sprine dedicated to lanthe.^ There is a Castalian spring, proud of its glassy waters, which they say the nine sisters have oft-times sipped. He will circulate you amongst the people, and the senators, and the knights, and i^ill read you himself with eves not altogether dry.^ Why do you ask for a title-pape r Let but two or three verses be read, and all will exclaim, Book, you are mine.
IT. TO PBiscirs.
What Mscenas, the knight sprung of royal lineage, was to Horace and to the sublime Virgil, many-tongued Fame, and a long-lived work, shall proclaim to people and nations that you, Priscus Torentius, have been to me. You give me my facility, and whatever power I am thought to have ; you give me the means of enjoying a not ignoble indolence.
^ A maritime town of Apulia. Martial used to send his writinip from Rome iuto the country ; he was now sendiug them from the country to Home. See next epigram.
' It being the winter season.
' A river near Bilbilis in Spain, Martial's birth-place, whence he writing. See B. L Ep. 50.
* That of Apollo and the Muses, built by Augustus. ^ Sy Nerva*
* Stella's mistress. See B ri. I2p. 21. f Through conceni at my abMiice.
BOOK ZZL] BPIGBAH8. 647
What unto Flaccui, and to Maro thee
Mecenas was of royal pedigrea •
Most noble Prisons, that thon art to me.
Which loudest feme, and mv long-IlTing Terser
Unto all times and nations snail hearse.
For the name I have, and wit, I owe thee both.
Whose boimty does maintain my learned sloth. Anon,
T. fO nSHYA, OV THB ABBREYIATIOK OF HI8 BOOKS.
Mj tenth and eleventh books were too much extended ; the preaeDt is in smaller com^Miss. Let the larger books be read by those who have leisure, and to whom you have granted undisturbed tranquillity of ezistenoe: do thou, CsBsar, read this shorter one ; perhaps thon wilt also read the others.
TI. BULOOT OK KBBYA.
He palace of Bome has the honour of receiving Nerva, the mildest of princes ; we mav now enjoj Helicon to the fulL Perfect equity, humane clemency, discreet power, now return ; long-continued alarms have disappeared. For thee, O affectionate Bome, thj people, and the nations subject to th^ empire, utter this prayer : May such a ruler be ever thine, and may this one especially long reign over thee! Blessings be upon thy spirii^ which is such as few have, and upon thy character, which is such as Numa, or a cheerful Cato,' might have owned. Now thou mayst, and it is right that thon shouldst, make presents, display thy beneficence, enlarge the slender incomes of the poor, and grant blessings such as the indulgent gods could scarcely exceed. For even under a seyere prince and in bad times, thou hadst the courage to be good.
Nflfva, the gentlestjirince, now mles oox coort ; We freely mav to Elelioon resort Just fiutfa, ana oheexfoU mildness, now dwell here. And well-weigh'd power, which bamshes all fears. Bome's provinces and people pray that hee Long may their chief, ana long their chiefs sadi bee. Qoe on, rare prince, whose manners Nnma grave, Or Cato (were he less severe) might have.
> As Just as Osto the censor, bnt not so sereie.
Sii 2
648 lCABTIA£*t
To bee Jiurt, bonntjrfuU, eDrich the ]^oora^ And give so franklyi heaVn could ffiTe no more^ Is laimdl, now yon reign ; who boldly durst Bee good when times were bad, and the prince ciinrt.
(Hd M8. IQih dni.
m, 09 LIGSIA.
If Ligeia'8 years are equal in number to the luurs of htf heady she is only three years old.
If by^ thy hairs thy age be to be told,
ligeia, by thy crown thou*rt tluree years old. Fl/dehtt.
Her years, if numbered by her hairs, I ween,
That lady elderly is scarce nineteen. Hay.
Tin. TO BOHX, nr pbaiss of tbajak.
Borne, goddess of the earth and its people, to whom there is nothing equal, nothing second, when she was reoentlj com- puting with joy the long series of years destined for the life of Trajan, and saw in our great leader so much brarery, youth, and martial ardour, Rome, I say,j?lorying in such a ruler, ex- claimed : ^ Ye princes of the rarthians, ye leaders of the Scythians, ye Tiuracians, Sarmatians, QetSB, and Britons, ap- proach, I can show you a Gaeaar."
Queen of the nations, Rome, that has no peer
Kliom none does equal, none approaches near), tely with joy computing Tnjan's years. The ages she should pass, and know no feaia ; As she so famed a captain did behold. And yet a soldier stout, younff, martial, bold, ProuQ of her prince, thus Tauntingly she epoke : Parthians, Bntains, submit unto my yoke ; Thraeians, Scythians, I've a Ceraar now, Come pay your tribute, to my eagles bow. Anon, 1695.
IX. TO TRAJAK, OV SPADT BBnra TBAITQVILLISEI).
Palma,^ most benign Cssar, rules my Iberian countrymen, and under his mild rule the provinces flourish in peace. Joy- fully therefore do we offer you our thanks for so great a boon ; you hare sent your own character into our parte.
Now, gracious Gssar, Palma rules omr Spain^ Peace, long a stranger, has restored agam :
^ Aulns Coraelitts Fahna, a prefect much belored by Tn^aa.
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We tfaanki return thee for so great a grace. That thine own Tirtuee thou *mongst us doet plaoe.
Anon, 1695.
X. OK AP&IOAinTB.
AftieanoB poaseBsea a hundred thousand aeateroea, and yet ooveta more. Fortune giyea too much to many, enough to none.
African has a thousand pounds in store,
Yet he desires, and hunts, and rakes for more :
Fortune hath overmuch bestow'd on some ;
But plenary content doth give to none. Fieteher,
Fortune, some say, doth give too much to many ; And yet she never gave enough to any.
Sir John Sarrington,
He fiiwns for more, though he his thousands touch : Fortune gives none enough, hut some too much. Hatf,
XI. TO HI8 HTiaS.
Huae, salute Parthenius, your good friend and mine ; for who drinks more largely from the Aonian fountain ? Whose lyre cornea forth more ennobled from the cave of the muses P whom among all hia Pierian followers does Phoebus love more P And if by chance (but for this we must scarcely hope) he shall have a moment to spare, beg him to present with hia own hands our veraea to the emperor; and to recommend this little book, so humble and ao small, with merely four words : '' This your Some reads."
An health to my and thy Parthenius bring, My muse ; for who in the Aonian spring E'er deeper drank P From the Pimplean cave, Whose harp a sweeter, nobler sound e*er gave ? Who of the inspired and immortal choir, Does Phcsbus' self more love or more admire P Request when he the prince does vacant know (Which hardly can be hoped), my book to show, with these few words my humble verse to speed : This man, dread Cesar, all thy Rome does md* Anon,
Xn. TO POLLIO.
Ton promise everything after you have been drinking all night, next morning you perform nothing. Drink, Pollio, iu the morning.
550 ICABTIAL^i
While in loose caps thou top'st the night away, Then thoa wilt promise anything to do,
But nothing wilt peif onn en the next day : Pray, Poethumus, drink in the morning too. JMcW«
In midnight cups you grant all we propose :
Nest mom neglect : pray, take a monung dose. JSoy.
Tousle lull of promises, my friend.
When you are drunk all night, And 9Kf that er^rything shall end
To aU my wishes quite : fiut in the mom you nothing do.
And therefore be advis^. Be drunk both ni^ht and morning too :
Your word will then be prized.
B^. Mr. Seoit, 177a.
ImUation.
Thraso jneks quarrels when he's drunk at night i When sober in the mommg dares not fight : Thraso, to dmn those ills uiat may ensue, Drink not at night, or drink at morning too. WaUK
Xni. TO 1.170X118.
The rich, Anctoa, make a species of gain out of anger. It is cheaper to get into a passion than to give.^
Anger's a kind of gain that rich men know :
It costs than less to hate than to bestow. FleteKer.
Rich men, my friend, by aneer know to thrive.
lis cheaper much to quarrel than to give. JBay*
Ask you, last night, why Oripus ill behaved ?
A wdl-timed quarrel is a dinner saved. N, B. HaHhed,
XIT. TO PBI80U8, OK THB DAITOEBS OF HABE BJTSTrSQ,
Use more sparingly, I advise yon, the gallopping hunter, Priscus, and ride not so furiously after the hare. Th - sportsman has often made atonement to the prey, an*' fallen, never to rise again, from the spirited horse. Thi- very plain, too, has its dangers ; even though there be m ditch, no mound, no rocky places, yet the levd eround is apt to deceive. There will not be wanting some rider to exhibit to you a spectacle soch as this ; but his fall would excite less
> Comp. B. liL Ep. 87.
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repining at Fate than yonra. If the excitement of danger attract jou, let ns spread toils for the wild boars of Tuscany ; courage in that pursuit is safer. Why do such break-neck steeds delight you ? They much ofiener succeed in killing the rider than the hare.
Dear squire, take my adTice ; your hmiter spare :
Nor with such Tiolenoe pursue a hare.
The sportsman often does the prey become ;
And mm his horse receiTe his final doom.
No ground is safe : if ditch nor bar remain.
Nor pit, your hone may stumble on a plain i
There are enough, at distance to divert,
And break their neck, who have not your desert
If manly exercise such pleasure yields.
Safer and nobler seek in Belgic fields.
Why ride at all, and madly fate defy ?
Roper at last before the fox did die. iJoy.
XT. A. COHPLnCEirT TO TSUAJT, OIT HI8 inTKXFIOIiroX 90
THB TX^PLS 07 JITFITXB.
Erer^hing that glittered in the Farrhasian^ palace has been given to our gods and to the eyes of all. Jupiter wonders at the Scythian radiance of the emeralds* set in gold, and is amazed at the objects of imperial magnificence,' and at luxuries so oppressive to the nation. Here are ciipa fit for the Thunderer ; there for his Phrygian favourite.^ We all now rejoice with Jupiter. But very lately (and with shame, jes, with shame I confess it) we were all poor as well as Jupiter.
Whatever shined in the Parrhastan hall
Is to our eyes and to our gods m^ all i
Jupiter stands and wonders to behold
Himself in Scythian flames of sparkling gold i
Great Caesaz's pleasant pride, and vast expense.
These cups may suit with Jove's ma^ificenoe.
Such as may weQ become the Phrygian boy.
Now all with Jove are rich and dad with joy.
It shames, it shames me to confess of yore
How aU of us with Jove were very poor. FMekif^
* Palatine. See B. viL Ep, 55.
' Radiance of the emoralds bronsht from Scythla.
■ Dooufiia'a. * OiBymsda»
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in. TO ULBIXNTTII.
You hare made away, Labienus, with three of your faims | you have purchased, Labienus, three favourites: you are making three farms, Labienus, the object of your love.
mi. TO LEirmrirB.
You inquire, Lentinus, why your fever does not leave you for so many days, and you complain bitterly on the subject. It is carried about with you in your litter ; it bathes with vou ; it feeds upon mushrooms, ojf sters, sow*s paps, and wild boar, with you. It is often inebriated with Setine, and often with Falernian wme ; nor does it quaff C»cuban unless it be mixed with sdow water. It reclines with you, decked with roses, and darkened with amomum ; and sleeps with you ou down, and on a purple bed. Seeing that your fever is so well treated, and Jives so comfortably in your society, do you expect it to transfer itself in preference to Dama P
Tour fever still attends you, though you grieve ;
Though you complain, will not one moment leave.
With you it travelB in a chariot ; dines
With you, on truffles, oysters, sweetbreads, chines :
Drinks hock ; in Bui^nd^ is veir nice ;
Nor will taste claret, till 'tis cool'if in ice ;
Reclines at ease ; and smells to some perfume ;
Lodges on down, in a well-fumish'd room.
Thimc you, a fever, which you treat so well,
Will with a porter or a cobler dwell ? Kay,
Xrni. TO JITVBNAL.
Whilst you, my Juvenal, are perhaps wandering restless in the noisy Suburra or pacing the hill of the goddess Diana ; whilst your toga, in which you perspire at the thresholds of your influential friends, is fannmg you as you ^Oy and the greater and lesser Cslian hills mtigue you in your wan- derings ; my own Bilbilis, revisited a^r many winters, haa received me, and made me a country gentleman; Bilbilis, proud of its gold and its iron ! Here we indolently cultivate with agreeable labour Boterduna and Platea ; these are the some- what rude names of Celtiberian localities. I enjoy profound and extraordiuary sleep, which is frequently unoroken, even
BOOK Xn.] EKOBAKfl. 558
it nine in the morning; and I am now indemnifTing myself fully for all the interruptionB to sleep that I endured for thirty years. The toga here is unknown, but the nearest dress is giTen me, when I ask for it, from an old press. When I rise, a hearth, heaped up with faggots from a neighbour- ing oak groTe, welcomes me ; a hearth which the bailiff's wue crowns with many a pot. Then comes the housemaid, such a one as you would envy me. A dose-shorn bailiff issues the orders to my boy attendants, and begs that they nay be obliged to lay aside their long hair.^ Thus I delight to Uve, and thus I hope to die.
While Tou perhaps now crowd thro' Temple-bar,
Stonn'a witn the din of rattling ooach and car i
Or towards Paul's are mounting Ludgate-street;
Or running to the levee of the great;
Or in jour lawyer's gown, are driving hard i
Either through great or little Palaoe-yard i
My native Sussex, and her favourite shore^
Or golden harvests proud, and iron ore.
Me, her too long absenting renegade,
Again revives, and hath a farmer made.
Busy but pleas'd, and idly taking pains.
Here Lewes Downs I till, and Bmgmer plains i
Names which to each South Saxon are well known.
Though they sound harsh to powder'd beaux in town*
None can enjoy a sounder sleep than mine {
I often do not Whke till after mne ;
And midnight hours with interest repay,
For years in town diversions thrown away.
Stranger to finerv, myself I dress,
In the first coat nrom an old broken press.
M^ fire, SB soon as I am up, I see
Bnght with the ruins of some neighbouring tree f
And early by a country cook-wench crown^
'With boiling pots and skillets all around.
Next comes my dairv-maid; and such a one,
As Pan hunself mignt wish to meet alone.
My boys, whose heads roiudi as a filly*s crow
Are summon'd by my baiUff to the j^ugn.
Such is my life, a life of liberty :
So would I wish to Hve, and so to die. Jfsy;
^ Li order to be ranked among fall-grown men, and do men's woik.
554 KABTUL*t
nX. OK AlEHILIUB.
At the wann baihs AemOins takes lettaoes, eggs, and anchovies i ' and then says that he does not dine out.
ZX. TO TABULLITB.
Do jou aak| Tabtdlns, why Themison has not a wife P He has a sister.
Yon lately were inquiring, why Silrester
Has not yet got a wife? — ^He nas a sister. JSoy.
xzi. TO KABOBLLA9 HIS wirs.
Who wonld imagine, Maroella^ that you dwelt upon the banks of the iron-nardening Sale,* and were bom in our regions P So rave, so sweet is your disposition ! The court of CiBsar will say, should it but once hear yonr voice, that you belong to itself. Nor can any woman bom in the midst of the Subnrra^ nor any native of the Capitoline Hill, vie with you. Nor will any glorious foreign offispring more fit to be a daughter of Eome soon smile upon its mother. You cause my longing for the Queen of Cities to be more sup- portable ; you alone are a Eome to me.
That yoa were bom, and ever since have livedo
In Derby Peak, is scarce to be conceived.
Wit to nncommon, and diyerting too,
Courts might admire, and challenge as their due.
No Pall Mall lady can with you compare;
None who sees company in UrosTenor-square.
Nor soon again will shine in tracts unknown,
One, who would be an ornament to town.
You for the lost metropolis atone j
And London I enjoy in you alone* JSby,
XXJI. OK PHILieiTES.
Do you wish me, Fabullus, to tell you in few words how ugly FhiltBuis is with her one eye ? Flulffinis would be better looking with no eye at all.
^ Slight refreshments were sometimes taken at the baths ; Aemilius par- took of them immoderately, so as tc make a meal, s See Ep. 3, and B. iv. Ep. &5.
BOOK XTL] BPieBAMS. 555
Xmi. TO IISLIA.
Tou wear bought teeth, and bongbt hair, Lelia^ without a blush. What will you do for an eye P You cannot buy that.
Tour hair and teeth yon^ not asham'd to buy.
What nill yon do, should'it low the other eye P Say,
Tour teedi from Hemmett, and your hair from Boh&ey : Was not an eye to be procnsed /or money P l>r, MoatOeif,
,zxir. TO jruTATra, ov ▲ oabriaob, thb ourr ov
O carria^y that affordest a sweet solitude ! — Gift of my eloquent friend y^lianus, more pleasant than open curricle or chariot I Here, JuYatus, yon may say to me whaterer comee into your head. No black driyer of a Libyan horse, no well- girt running footman in frront of us, no muleteer alongside ; and the horses will not babble. Would that Ayitus were here with us ; I shoidd not fear his third pair of ears. Thus how charmingly would the whole day pass !
How pleasant is this one-horie chair !
In which alone I take the air :
rris Pleadwell's present : for my age,
Thers is no better equipage.
Now with thy master, Bafi, be free i
And say whate'er yon please to me.
No master of the none hare I,
Or sroom or mnning footman by.
And though your curb and harness rattle^
The deTil^i in it, if they tatde.
Would that my honest friend Ned Hearty
Were here but with ns of the party !
I should not fear, that he would tell :
We three might pass the day full welL J2ay.
XXT. TO TBLXSHrOS.
When I ask you for a loan without offering you secnrity, you say, ** I haye no money**' Tet, if my farm stands pledged for me^ you have money. What you refuse, Telesinus, to lend me^ your old friend, you are willing to lend to my acres and my trees. But see ! Carus^ has accused you before the magistrate; let my farm undertake your defence. Or if
> A common ii
656 jcxbtial's
you look for a companion when you go into exile; let m} farm attend you.
If I wut money i von have none, yon cry :
Bat lend it, if my field's Becurity.
With what you would not tnut your ancient friendf
That to my aoreB and my trees vou lend.
Are yon indicted for a breach of laws P
Oo to my field, and let him plead yonr canae.
Want yon a fiimd your banishment to ease ?
Let my field trarel with yon, if he please. JZoy.
XZn. TO L^TOBIITSy AK AYABIOIOTrB FBIBirD.
When youy a senator, ^ about knocking at sixty doors eyery morning, I appear in your estimation but a slothful kniAt^ for not running all over the city from the first dawn of day, and bringing nome, fiitigued and worn out, some thousand kisses.' tint you do aU this, that you may add a new name to the Fasti, or that you may be sent as governor to the Numidians or Cappadocians ; while, as to me, whom you persuade to break my slumbers unseasonably, and en- dure the mominR mud, what have I to expect P When my foot bursts out from my torn shoe, when a pelting shower of rain has suddenly drenched me, and when, on takuig off my outer-coat, no servant answers my call, your slave comes up to my chilly ear, and says, ^ Lietorius requests your company at dinner.'* What, at a dinner of which my share is worth twenty sesterces P Not I. I prefer my own scanty fare, rather than have a dinner for my reward, while yours is a province ; rather than that while our labour is the same, our gains should be so different.
When in your borough you yourself bestir, I do appear to you an idle cur; That iy day-break I run not up and down, And kiss each voter's wife throuriiout the town By this you may gaiu credit in the nation ; Or be made governor of some plantation. But as for me, what end can I obtain ? Whom you compel to break my rest in vain, And eany march aloag a dirty street, With scarce a shoe entire upon my feet :
1 See B. vii. Ep. 94 ; B. xi. Ep. 98.
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And if a sadden heavy shower desoends. Without a boy» who with a doak attends. Your servant whispers to me in this plight, ' His honour begs youll sup with him to-night* Had I not rather by myseli keep Lent ? Let not our pains and pay be different ! Is it not harOf that this snould be the case ? I but a supper get, and you a pUuse.
zzm. oir BXKUL.
Ton Bay, Senia, that you were violated by robbers, bnt thi robberfl denj it.
She ravish'd was by highwaymen, she cries : Flatly the fact each highwayman denies. JZoy.
XZ\'ni. TO OIUVA.
The sise of the cups, Cinna, from which I drink, and that of those firom which you drink, are in the proportion of seven to eleven; and yet you complain that we do not drink the same sort of wine.
I drink a pint ; a gallon ^u : for shame!
Can you complain, the wine is not the same ? Saijf,
XXIX. TO POKTICUS, OIT HXBMOOBKIS.
Hermogenes, it seems to me, Fonticus, is as great a thief of napkins as Massa was of money. Even though you watch his right hand, and hold his left, he will find means to ab> stract your napkin. With like subtiltn^ does the breath of the stag draw out the cold snake ;^ and the rainbow exhale the waters from the clouds. Lately, while a respite was im- plored for Myrinus,* who had be^ wounded in a conflict, Hermogenes contrived to filch four napkins. Just as the prstor was going to drop his white napkin, to start the horses in the circus, Herrooeenes stole it. When at last nobody brought a napkin with him, for fear of thefts, Hermogenes stole the cloth firom the table. And should there be nothing of this kind to steal, Hermogenes does not hesitate to detach the ornaments from the couches,* or the feet firom the tables.
' htags were said to draw serpents fitmi their hidinff-plsces, kill tbcm with their horns, and then deTour them. See Plin. H. N. zL 83 ; iBliaa. Hist An. IL 9.
•AgUdiator > See B. viiL Ep. 33.
568 ]CABTIAL*B
However immoderate may be tbe heat in the theatres, the awnings are withdrawn when Hermogenes makes his appear- ance. The sailors, in trembling ha^, proceed to furl their sails whenever Hermogenes shows himself in the harbour. The bareheaded priests of Isis, dad in linen vestments, and the choristers who pli^ the sistnim, betake themselves to flight when Hermogenes comes to worship. Hermogenes never took a napkin to dinner ; Hermogenes never came away from a dinner without one.
OK JLPXB.
Aper is abstemious and sober. What is that to me P For such a quality I praise my slave, not my firiend.
Tom never drinks : that I should much commend
In Tom my ooacbman, but not Tom my friend. JBojf.
XXXr. OK ICABOELIdL'S GirC TO XIETIAL.
This grove, these fountains, this interwoven shade of the spreading vine ; this meandering stream of gurglinff water ; tnese m^idows, and these rosaries which will not yidd to the twice-bearing Ffestum ; these vegetables which bloom in the month of January, and feel not the cold ; these eelB that swim domestic in the enclosed waters ; this white tower which affords an asylum for doves like itself in colour ; all these are the gift of my mistress ; Maroella gave me this retreat, this little kingdom, on my return to my native home after thirty-five years of absence. Had Nausicaa offered me tiie gardens of her sire, 1 should have said to Aldnous, " I prefer my own."
^This grove ; these fountains ; tensile Linden's shade;
Refreshing streams, by ductile waters made i
These flowering meadoirs, still like Eden gay;
These pot-herbs green, that dare the coldut day;
This eel, which swims familiar to the si^ht ;
This towering dove-house, oover*d with its flight ;
I to my wife, after lonjip absence, owe :
Tis she this house, this kingdom, did bestow :
Coold I with the &Bt &ir have paradise,
Blest as I am, the boon I would despis 3. Sof.
XXZH. TO YACXBRA, IK BXBISIOK OP HIS PBBTIKnBD
WEALTH.
Oh disgrace of the Calends of July, I saw, Yaoerra, I saw ▼our chattels, which, refused by the landlord in dilchargo of
(£
BOOK xn.] sneiuHB. 559
two yean' rent, were carried away bj jonr wife, distinguish- able dj her seven carroty hairs, your hoaiy-headed mother, and jour giantess of a sister. I thought at first thej were Funos emerging from the shades of Pluto. They weAt be- fore, while you, wasted with cold and hunger, and paler than a piece of old box-wood, the yery Irus of your day, followed. People might have thought that the Aridne Hill was migrat* ing. There went in procession a three-legged bed, a tii^'o footed table, a lamp, a horn cup, and a cracked chamber- t^ leaking through its side, ulose to these was a rusty Itove, the neck of a wine-vessel, and a jar, which its disgust- ing smell proved to have contained pilchards and decayed herrings, a smell like that wafted by the breeze from a pond of stagnant water. Nor was there wanting a slice of Toulouse cheese ; a garland, four years old, of black pennyroyal ; a rope of bald^ garlic and onions ; or a pot belongmg to your mother, full of offensive resin, which the easy dimies of the Suburra use at their toilette. Why are you looking about for a house and deluding agents,* when you may live for nothing, Yaoerra? This pompous train of baggage just suits the brid^.'
0 jest and shame of such as households move, TVnen July comes, and do new dwellings prove !
1 saw thy stufi^ Vaoer, thy stuff I saw, Which, lor thy rent, not seised on by law. Thy landlord rather glad such trash to spare, Thy red-faced wife, with seven red hairs, did bear. Helped hy diy giant sister, and thy mother i Men thouffht the furies there were got toother ; For such ttieir number was, and such their fisices. That Pluto seem'd to have lent thee his three graces. The Irus of thy age, thou these didst follow,
Thy skin, like seasoned box, distain'd and vellow ; With cold and hunger, also dzVd and parcned: All beggars-bush, £e people thought, had maich'd* A two-le^d table, and a three-l^^d bed There went; a pan with fire, on thme own head. A sconce and goblet all of massy horn ; A jorden, itseff pissing, as 'twas borne ; Stale sprats and pilchards could not be conceal'd. Their oosoene scent Uieir presence there reveal'd.
1 HsTing been orer kept, and the outer skin peeled oC
* Whom you hure not the means of paying.
* The Aricine Biidge, frequented by beggars. B. x. Ep* fi^
560 kabtul'b
Kor did there irant to go in state nith thewj A cantle of uiiBav'ry Toulouse cheese i A wisp of ^njxojiif four years old ; • A rope, which onions had, but pidL*d, and bald | A pot of turpentine, thy motho's care, The brothel dames with such fetch off their hair. Why mock'st thou landlords, and dost houses see^ When gratis, Vacer, may thy dwelling be ? Such pomp of goods, such household stuff pertains To highways, hedges, bridges, and to lanes. Jnm,
ZZXm. OV LABISKXTB.
TJt pueroB emeret LabienuB, vendidit hortoB : Nil nifli ficetum nunc Labienus habet.
Labieno per oomperar ragazzi, ha ^enduto gli orti : ora Labienb aon ha altro che nn ficajo. Qraglia,
XXXIV. TO JTTLIUB MABTIALIB.
«Eoiir-and-thirty years, Julius, if I remember right, I passed in your society ; have shared your friendship, the delights of which were not unmixed with pain, but the pleasures prepon- derated. And if all the stones of different colours, that mark the seyeral days, were placed in juxtaposition, the white would far exceed the black. W ould you avoid many griefs, and escape heart-rendings, make of no one too dear a mend. You will have less joy, but your sorrow will be less.
Julius, 'twas foure-and-thirty year
That Uiou and I together were.
Sweeter days were miz*d with soure.
But yet the pleasanter were more.
And if we should divide the time
With a diverse-colour'd line,
Hie white would over-vie the black*
If thou wouldst shun the bitter smack,
And stinging tortures of the mind,
Ko man to wee do too much bind,
Or too much in thy friend believe :
Thou shalt joy less, and less shalt grieve. JMeAsr,
We two, in fidr and in foul weather, Thirty-four years have pass'd together ; Nor sweet nor sour our cup did wsnt ; Yet sweet hath been predominant: And, bring life's chequer'd board to light. Fewer .the spots of bladL than white.
BOOK XZX.] mOBAlCS. Ml
Would yon ahim many thincs to ean&f And guard aganut tiie min<r8 remoney With none too intiittately Uto ; Lets you'll rejoioe, an^ lata idll griere. Sa^.
TO OALLUTBATXra.
Tam^uam aimj^lioiter mecam, Calliatrate, Tivaa :
Dioere pnecuum te mihi aspe aolea. Non ea tarn aimplez, qnam Tia, GaUiatrate, credi
Nam quiaqma nairat talia, plura tacet.
O Galliatrato, eiusto oome le ta foan meco ainoeriaaimo, auoH aoyyente dirmi ene aei atato pieciso. Non ad poi tanto ainoeRH qnanto Tnoi, o CalliBtrato, eaaer credato i imperooch^ diimique diae tali ooae, ne taoe le piiL OnigUa»
Open and frank yon would to me appear.
And tell tome little hvlt, to leem imcere ;
But your ainoeri^a not deep I feel :
You tell a little, oat yon much ooneeal. A/urn,
Free from reaerre you would to me appear,
And tell me, jou 're diaeaaed, to aeem ainoere.
But with a friend this ia not dealing well i
For he moat more oonoeal, who thia oould telL jBhy,
xzm. TO LAiiirLLva.
Beeanae no one but yooraelf, Labullua, girea a friend two or three pounda, a thin toga, and a acanty aoak, aometimee a few gold pieoea, which you chink in your iiand, and which are CO laat for a couple of montha, you are not for that reaaon, belioTe me, a good man. What then ? To apeak the truth, the beat of bad onea. Giv6 ua back our Piaoa, and our Senecaa, our Memmi and our Criapi, I mean thoae of old time, and you will forthwith become the laat of good men. Do you wiah td boaat of your running, and awiftneaa of foot P Outatrip Tigria and the fleet Paaaerinua.^ There is no gloiy in outatripping aaaea.
Tliouff h you beatow upon a man of worth,
A jacket, joaepl^ dinner, or ap forth ;
A piece or two in hand, which aoonmuat fidl.
And aaye but two montiia longer from a jail i
And though aearoe one beaidea youTBolf aoeattana |
Bahere me, lir, you are not generooa«
^ Probably are naBMa of hciaea. to
XASTIiJi's
Whatam I then? say 700. Whj truly, !» rfr» nmik yoa at best a better sort of miwr. Beeall to mind the Pisos, Senecas ; Boanty, irhidh is not now, but sndi as was 1 Compared with them, how mneh are tou suxpass'dl OfaUthegeneronsmenyou are the last If for Newmarket plate you would contend 1 Tis strength, 'tis swiftness, that most recommend* The glonr is, from the best horse to gain s Not to overtake an ass upon the plain. Bay.
XXXm. TO ▲ "WTT ABOITT TOWK.
Tea wish to be regarded as haying an extremely good noee. I like a man with a good nose, but object to one with a polypus.'
xxxrm. TO oakdidttb.
Ton have no reason to fear yon person, Oandidus, who, stmt- ting about night and day, is well known throughout the city to the litters of the ladies, whose hair shines so brightly, and is darkened with unguents ; who is radiant in purple, of delicate fioatuie, broad chest, and smooth limbs, and who con- stantly follows your wife with importunities. Fear him not^ Gandidus, he does not meddle in your department.
XmH. TO SABXLLVS,
I hate TOU, Frettyman, because you are always acting the pretty fellow. A pretty fellow is a contemptible thing, and so is Pretty man. 1 prefer a manly man to Frettyman. May you wither away prettily, Frettyman.
I hate yoor prettiness, Sabellns :
*Ti8 litde, so are y^on, SabeUus.
I like a manly nuen, Sabellns :
But yoa liye prettily, SabeUus^ —
Mayst thou me prettily,' SabeUus. Anm^
XL. TO POVTILIAKUS.
You utter all sorts of fidsehoods, Fontilianus ; I assent t# theoL You recite bad yerses ; I praise them. You aing; 1 do the same. You drink, Fontilianus ; I drink dso. jTou are rude; I pretend not toperoeiye it. You wish to play at
^ This digram ctimot be translated with exactness. What the Satiic says is, m wish to be thought nacvfict, properly, *' haying a large nosc^" but used hi the sense ef *< hating a good or keen nose."
BOOK xn.] ine&iiitt. 568
ohcNw; I allow mYBdf to be beaten. There is one tbing only which you do without me, and I hold my tongoe on the aab- iect. let you nerer make me the alighteat preaent. ** When I die," Bay you, " I ahall remember you nandaomely." I do not look for anything ; but die.
I praise your doggeral yene: beHere four Ije:
Tou arng, I siiig: you drink, and to do I.
You bet, I Iom: we (^y, you win Uie game :
One thing, you do without me, I dont name.
And yet you nothing me me : when you die,
Tou promiee nraeh >--%ut one more wish ha^e L i/oy.
XLL TO TTTOCA.
Tou are not content^ Tncca, to be a glutton. Tou long to be oaUed and to appear a glutton.
Tis not sufficient that thou drunk hast been» Butthoudesui'stsotobecalI'dandseen. Fletchtr.
TTiTT. Oir OALIIBTBISUB AlTD ATIB.
The bearded CalliBtratua haa been taken in marriage by the luBty Afer, in the same way aa a yirgin ia uaually taken in marriage by her huaband. The torchea ahone forth, the flame- colour^ yeO concealed tiie bride's countenance, and the lan- guafi;e heard at bridala was not wanting. Eyen the dowry waa seti&d. Does not this aeem yet enough to you, Bome P Do you expect that the bride should present the spouse with pledges of affection P
XCm. TO BABELLUS.
Faoundos, mihi de libiduiosiB Legisti nimium, Sabelle, yersus ; Qiuiles nee Didymi sdunt pueUso, Nee moUes Elephantidos lioelli, Sunt illic Yeneris noye figura : Quales perditus andeat fiitutor. Fnsstent, et taceant ^d exoleti ; Quo Bympl^gmate qumque copulentur ; Qoa plurea teneankir a catena; &8tmctam liceat quid ad lucemam. Tanti non erat esse te disertum.
0 SabeDo, tu mliai letto del Teiai troppo ftoondi di ooee fibidinose • ttkd nd le FigazsediDiduno ssmio, nd gn effeminate Eleftmtidi libii.
3o2
6M XASTIAL't
Qmn tono nnore fignre, phe H pii2k leateiuito nmiMB&bimtora mai udi : ohe i yeochi libertmi taodono, e sjacj^ano ood qmJi attitadiiii dnqne li oopulinoi con qiial modo-parecchi li oongjnnghmo iMMme cosa non na lecito estinta la luoema. La materia non era ttsaUime per oomparire eloqnente. OragMtt.
XLIY« TO UJIiOUB.
TJmcos, same ccnmected with me b^ ties of blood, and attached to me bj aimilaritj of pursuit; while the veirses which you write yield the palm omj to those of your brother, you are not inferior to him in ability, and are superior to him in affection. Lesbia would hare sbiured her lofe for the ten- der Catullus with you, sweet Corinna would have followed you neit to her Ovid. Nor would the Zephyrs ha?e refased their assistatioe, had you been pleased to spread wide your ' sails, but you prefior the shore. This too is a peculiarity whidi you haye from your brother.
We both in name and blood allyed axe^
And to like studies like affection bear :
Thy brother'a yezse when thine thou aet'st before, i
Thy artfa not lest, but pie^ is more :
When thee Corinna, Ijesbia woold admire,
Eaual to those they did themselyes inspire :
when, if thou'dst spread tfay wings, a biisker air.
And loftier numbers none e'er bi^er bear :
Thou flag'st thy plomes, restiain'st thy soaring yein.
And shewst thyself a brother here again. Jmm, 169ff,
XLY. TO PH<BBUS.
It was not without wit, FhcBbus, that a person said of yoo, when you coyered your bald pate and temples with a kid*s skin, raat your head was well shod.
When to secure your bald Date from the weather,
Tou lately wore a cap of bkok neatt' leather i
He was a rerf wag, who to you said,
< Why do yon wear your slippers on your head?' Sa^.
XLTL, To CLJLSBIOirS.
GMlus and Lupercus sell their poems ; no longer deny, Classicns, common sense to poets.
When Scribbler makes us for his yens subscribe^
AU axe not mad of the poetic tribe. St^,
BOOK xu.] BnoAAin. 68S
XLVIL OK ▲ tbukd.
Tou aie at onoe moroee and agreeable, plaarfng and re- pulnye. I can nejther live with joo, nor withont you.
ThoaVt merry, nd; eesy, and bard to pleaae i
Nor with nor from tliee can I \rn at ease. Wright,
In all thy hmnoiira, whether graye or mdlow, ThonVt luch a touchy, testy, pleasant fdlow ; Hast so much wit^ and mirth, and spleen aboat thee, There is no lining with thee, or without thee.
Additon, Spedator^ No. 68,
Our Garrick*s a sslad : for in him we see Oil, Yuiegar, sugar, and saltness agree.
XLTm. TO A. HOST.
If yon put on table before me mnahrooma and wfld boar aa common nre, and do not presume that aueh diahea are the object of my prayers, it is well ; but if yon imagine that by them I ain made ha^pjr, and expect to get youradf inscribed in my will, aa my heir, in return for some half-dozen Lucrine oysters, good-bye to you. Yet your dinner is a handsome one, I admit, most handsome, but to-morrow nothing of it will re- main ; nay, this yery day, in fact this yery moment, there ia nothing of it but what a common sponge at the end of a mop-stick, or a famished dog, or any sfareet conyenience can take away. Of mullets and hares and sow's teats, .the result ia cadayerous complexion and gouty feet. In my estimation, no Alban reyeV no feasts in the Oapitol, nor banquets of the chief prieshi, would be worth so much. Were Jupiter himself to giye me nectar on such conditions, it would turn to yinegar, and the cheating trash of a Vatican cask. Seek other guests, Sir Host, who may be cauffht by the^ reeal sumptnonsness of your table ; as for me, 1 prefer a frienmy inyitation to a hastily arranged little dinner : it is such a r^ past as I can return that pleases me.
As common Are, when saosages and chine You pkoe before msb I with pleasure dine. Bat if you think to nleaae me t or eonoeiye By soups to be my heir I I take my leaye.
* laallosiontoUishaaqiMtsofDoqutisaoa thsAIbaaUIL
566 JCABTIAL*!
Your dinzto^B nioe, extremel]r nioe, I own t
Tet it is noaght the moment it is down.
Petchanoe, it to a dirty mop may &!!,
A hungry dog, close-stool^ or nmaL
In wh& ends mullet, hare, and season'd meat P
In ashy countenance, and gouty feet
Dear at that rate the most ddidous dieer :
A coronation feast l^ mudh too dear I
Think you, when you your Bui]randy do pour.
You honour me P the uought wH torn it sour.
Proud entertainer, seek another guest
To praise the regal splendour of your feast
Me let a friend to a chance scrap reoeiTe :
I like a dinner such as I can give. IGiy*
zux TO LnrvBy a tutob.
O LinuB, preceptor of the long-haired troop, whom the rich Postnmilla calls the Icnrd of her fortune, and to whom she intrusts gems, gold, plate, wines, fayourites: so may your patroness prefer you to all others, lumng made poof of yoor lasting fidelity, as you grant to my prayer the indulgence of my wretched desires, and keep at times but a negligent watch over those objects whicii nave taken possession of my heart, which in my longing I pray day and night to dasp as my own — ^beautifm, snow-white, equal in size, twins, lar^o — not slaves, but pearls.
Thou master of T6te de Mouton^
Thou Calverly of high renown,
To whom my Lady Wealthy sent,
Her girl witL every ornament
Long be you fiunous for your care;
And motners you to all prefer.
Pity on me, some pity, have.
To a strong passion auite a slave.
Nor guard so dose wnat I admire.
And what hath set my heart on fire :
Which night and day I Ions to hold;
And eager on my breast infold :
Brigifat, sparkUng, lively, lovely, Mr.
—i speak of miws sohtaire. J9^.
It. TO THB POSSBSSOB OF A BXATTTIFinti DOICAHT.
You are distinguished for possessinff laurel-groTes, avenues of plane-trees, towering cypresses, ana most capadous baths
BOOK til] xpzeiuxf. Wf
Tour lofty portioo ttaodflon a Iitindred oolunmsy and ia paved with poliflhed marble. The iwift-footed hone makoB your dnaty hippodrome resomid with his hooft, and the mnr- mnr of toantaini is heard on eveiy side. Your halls are spacioTis and extensive ; bat there are no chambers either for aining or for sleep. iLaw pleasantly you do not live !
Nona equal yoa in trees for ever green : Your brai'B the most majeidc can be Men : Tour oolomiada ia lofty, spaeioiiiy fine : And nnder-feot your marme psTementi shine : lUnmd your mat park the fleetin{^ courser bomidss Many caacadea aalute na with theur aounda : Apartmenta grand : no place to eat or sleep! WhatamoatnoUehonseyon do Motkeep. Ay.
-So tiiiek your planea and lanrda apreadt And mrasa grorea ao near the h«id High m the air; your hatha ao wide Expand their stream on eveiT aide. They'd ahade and bathe foil half the town ; - Yet shades and hatha are all your own. Your porch an hundred oolnmna aoaza i You tread on alabaster floora ; The race-hom beats your doirty ring } Fountaina, with erer-wasting spring, Fan on the ear with gliding aound. And spacious courts are opening round. Tia aU ao grand and ao complete. There ia no room to aleep or eat : How excellently lodged, air, here In thia no-lodgmg you appear I JBUom.
LI. TO AtTLTTS.
.Lxio you astoniBhed, Aulns, that our friend Fabullinus is so frequently deceived P A good man has always something to learn in regard to fraud.
Wonder you, MeanweQ ia ao often bit?
An honeat man's a child in worldly wit JS!^
LH. to SnCFBOHIAy AH BFITA7H OW HXB HUBBAITD BinrUB.
Here, Sempron]% lies vour late husband Bufiis, whose brows were wreathed with Pierian chaplets, and whose elo- quence in defence of dejected criminals was renowned ; his very asbei bum with love for you. You are the theme of
568 XABTIIL*!
admiration in the ELysian fielda, and Helen Iienelf marveli at tiie story of ^our abduction. You are saperior to her^ as you deaeorted hun who overcame yon, and letomed, but she would not follow her husband, even when he sought to regain her. MenelauB smiles, and listens to these new Trojan^e amours ; the yiolence done to you ezeoaee the Phrysian Paris. When the jo^ul asylum of the pious shall one cuiy receive you, there will be no shade in the Stygian abodes better known than yourself. Proserpina does not look witii aversion upon &ir ones that have been carried off^ but loves them, ^ur amour will gain you the queen's fiivour.
He that his brows deck'd with the mnsei' erowut Whose voice to guilty men no less was known, Sempronia, here thy Rufua, here is laid. Whose dust even with thy love still drives a trsde. 'Mongst the blest shades thy story he doth beoTy And Helen's self thy rape adnures to hear: Thou better from thy spoiler didst xetoni. She, though redeemed, did after Txoj still bom. Menelaus laughs and hears the Ulan loves, Thy rape old jParis* guilt forgives, removes. And wnen thee those blesi^d mansions shall receive No shade greater acquaintance there shall have. Proserpina loves although she cannot see Such rapes, that love shall make her kind to thee.
Fleieher.
Lm. TO PATSBVUS.
Although you possess abundance of money and wealth, Patemus, such as out few other citizens possess, you never make any present, and brood over your hoard like the great dragon, which the poets sing of as the guardian of the Scywian ffrove. The cause, as you yourself allege and boast, is the dire rapacity of your son. Pray are you looking for fools and novices to beguile and delude P To thia vice you have ever been a father.
When thou hast so much coin and wealth with thee That seldom eitiaens or fathers see. Yet are not liberal, but thy heaps hansfst o'er Like the great dragon, whom the barcu of yore Feign'd to be keeper of the Scythian grove, But the base cause of this thy muck-wonn lofS^ Thou brag^st and dost pretend thv son to be s Why dost delude us with this foolezyy
BOOK zn.] momiici.
Ai thoi^ we Mocks or idioti had been f ThoawastafktfaereTertothifBiii. FUUktr*
LIT. TO soiLn.
With red hair, a black fiu», a doren foot| and blear ejesi' you ehow the world a prodigy, Zoilua, if 70a are an honest nuuL
Bed-hsir^d, Usek-fkoedy elub-footedt and Ussr^ed,
Zoilus, 'tis mndi if Ihoa art good betide. FUUhm'*
Bed-hair, black-month* badger-less, blind, I see 1 Be^ Zoflus, good, and the worlf b wonder be. WrigkL
Thy beard and head are of a different dye : Short of one foot, distorted in an eye; "With all theie tokens of a knare complete Bhooldst thou be honest thou'rt a derUsh cheat
AdJ^9om, aptdaior. No. 88.
LY. TO THB TAIS iXX.
Gratis qni dsze tos jubet pnells, Tnrnilsissifnns, improbissimnsqiie est. Gratis ne date, basiato gratis. Hoc JBffle negate hoc ayara yendit. Sed vendat b^ie, basiare quantum est. Hoc Tendit quoque neo leyi rapina : Ant libram petit ilia oosmiani, Aut binos ^uater k novft moneta: Ne sint basia mnta, nee maligna, Ne dusis aditum neget labelBs. Humane fiidt hoc tamen ; sed nnum est. GhmtiB ouiB dare basium recusat^ Gratis lingere nee recusat .£gle.
O ZStelle, ooltd che Ti stimola a darri per niente h nn temcniio ed nn' indegno. Non daten per niente, Dadate per niente. Eg^ disaprova questo : ayaxa lo Tende. Ma ch' essa Tenda, quanto jmo fl badtan, ita bene. Boa Tcnde anche qndla coca, ne con here rapina: o essa dimanda una libra d'unguento Cosmiano, orvero flayii deOa nuoTa moneta : acdd i bad non neno muti, ne dispisr oenti, non ricuserii I'adito alle diinse labra. Tntta^ia questo lo & per ri^^uardi ma c*d una cosa : Egle che xicnsa dare nn bado per niente, non riousa lingere per niente. ^ '*
LTI. TO POLTOHABXTS.
You &U dck ten times or more in the course of a year; a practice whidi inconrenienoesy not yourself Polycnarmus^
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but ub; for every time you lesve your bed» yofa ezacfc the ciutomary preBeatB of conmtulatioii &om your frieada. Have Bome connderation : ull rick at length, Pdyeharmiu, onoe for alL
Thou tea timei xa a year art ndk, or more;
This is not thine^ my friend, bat 'tis oar sore.
No sooner well bot mr thy gifts dost cslL
Blush: piy'theeonoebesi^fbrgoodandalL Flddntr.
jiTTL TO sPABaxra.
You aak why I ao often go to mr amall domain at arid Komentnm and the humble houaehoM at my fiurm P There ia no place in town, Sparaoa, where a poor man can either think or reat. One cannot lire for adioohnaatera in the morninff, com grindera at nighty and braoen' hammen all day and night: Here the money-dianger indolently rattlea pilea of Nero'a rouRh coina on nia dirty counter; there a DCAter of Spaniah gold' belabonra hia worn atone with ahmbg mallet, if or doea the fanatic rabble of Bellona ceaae from ita clamonr, nor the gabbline aailor with hia piece of wreck hong over hia ahoulder; nor the Jew boy, brought up to begging by hia mother, nor the blear-eyed huckater of matdiea. Who can enumerate the varioua interruptions to aleep at Bome P Aa well might you tell how many handa in the city atrike the cymbala, when the moon under edipae ia aaaailed with the aound of the Colchian magic rhombs Tou, Sparaua, are ignorant of auch thinga, liTins, as you do, in luxurioua eaae on your Petilian domain ;' whoae manrion, though on a level plime, overlooka the lofty hilla which aurround it ; who enjoy the country in the dty^ (rut in urbe)^ wiUi a Boman* Tine-dreaaer, and a vintage not to be aurpaaaed on the Faler- nian mount. Within your own premiaea ia a retired carriage drive; in your deep receaaea aleep andjepoae are unbroken by the noiae of tonguea : and no daylight penetratea unleaa purpoaely admitted. But I am awaraied by the laughter of the paaaing erowd ; and all Bome ia at my l!ed-ride. When-
1 Some editois lesdiMlMiM, *'iiis]ih-Tiishe8,'' instead otbalueii,
■ SeeB.iaLEp.30.
' In PMimui re^. A mtgnifloent rfllii on the ^smcnlnm that fbnneriy belonged to Ludos Petilins, a rich lawyer.
* This aowoommonsajring isiappoeed to hsTe been first need by Msi- lisL * As living within the oompess of the d^.
BOOK xn] ineBAXt. 571
B?er, oTeroome with wearinees, I long for repoae^ I repnr to 017 oountry-hotue.
Why to a hoinetf ootteffe I retiza,
On a dij tpot^ not tu non Hanow iplra P
Becaoie a man, to poor aa I, may creep
Bound tovn; nor find a hole to think of sleep.
XsittolbeP to lodge as in a mill:
DistoiVd each mom hy chimney-sweepen shnUs
With pewterew* hammers tStiVling in one*s ears :
With aOer johben crying buUs and bears.
Here Ixisn DOff-trotterSy now pa^iors ppwn.
Ham with lood hems and thump the shining stonob
There soldiers wiM«>img to their duty come,
With trumpets soundii^, and with bieat of drum.
Dunn'd hv a sailor with a wooden 1^ ;
Or little PalatuM brought up to beg.
Stonn'd by a tcsin of raggea dirty wretehes,
Hawking a Grulvstreet pi^Mr, or card matehes.
The ways to lose one^s sleep whoerer tolls,
IGght count the dianges on St Martin's beDs.
But you, my lord, know none of all this ill,
Whose palace looks o'er Gonstitntion H2IL
Your rui m ur^ delicately yields
A prospect fidr o'er (Sielsea^s twice-mow'd fields.
Within your gate a jsrd to turn a coach :
Your chamber safe from noise and da^s i^iproacli.
No passing mob with idle jokes to noise it ;
Nor lodflinf-room with London for its doset.
P^tiguea with all this hubbub, &r we fiy it,
To pass in country cot the night in quiet Ay.
LTni. TO AXAITDA.
Your wife, Aknda, caila yoa a oourter of davea, while ahe herself nma after litteNbearera. You are on an equal fi)ot« ing.
£IX. OK DCPOBTUITATB TBIXin>8.
Borne girBB, on one*B return after' fifteen years* absenee^ audi a number of kisses' as exceeds those given hy Leshia to CatnlluB. Ereiy neighbour, erery hairy-fiM^ed fander, presses on jouwithastrang^y-soentMNlkiBs. Here the wesTor asssils yon, there the fuller and the cobbler, who baa just been kiss- ing leather; here the owner of a filthy bettd, and a one-eyed
* See B. xL Bp.
57S xabtul's
genflerosD; tiiere one with bleared ereSy and feilowa wlioee mouths are defiled with all maoner of abominationa. It was hardly worth while to return.
LX. TO HIS BIBTHDAT.
O daj^, nunding of Mars,* on which I first beheld the rosy Ught ot Aurora^ and the broad fiice of the sun, shouldst thou feel shame at being celebrated in the country, and at an altar of turf, who usedst to be celebrated by me in the city of Borne, be indulgent, if I am unwilling to be a sUve upon my own birthday, and if I wish to Uoe^ on the day on which I received life.
Hail, Taffi'f day I on which my race began:
On which I first beheld the glorious sun.
That day I now in rural ease wiU spend;
In banquet whilom pass'd with many a Mend.
Kg longer slave to forms, I wOl oontriTe,
U|>on mat day, which g^ave me life, to live.
Is it to keep the day P m pain to sup.
About Sir Harry's hock, and Ned*s spioe-cnp \
Anxious the punch well zested be, and brignt :
The tables, mshes, company placed right
Rising each moment durinff tne whole feast;
And catching cold to oompmnent each guest
Were this commanded, we should not comply :
Why therefore choose such formal slavery. JEGry.
LX. B. OS THl BAMX.
To grow pale with anxiety on one's birthdav, lest Sabellus should not be supplied with hot water, and Alauda not have dear wine to dnnk;* to strain turbid CcBCuban anxiously through linen filters, and to ran to and firo among one's tables ; to receive this guest and that, and to be getting up all dinner* time firom one's place, and treading upon marble pavement colder than ice; what is the reason that vou should endure all these annoyances of your own dhoice, when, if a rich firiend and natron were to impose them on you, you would refuse to suomit'to them P
1 Martial was bom on the first day of March, Mars's month. See B. iz.Ep. 52.
* To enjoy life free from the distnustions of the city.
* SabeuQs and Alauda are names of guests whom he would have had to entertain if he had stayed at Borne.
BOOK zn.] moxAigi. 678
LZL TO LieUlMU.
You are afrsid, Ligum, lest I should compose roiees cm you, some short and puuffent epigram, and jou wish to be thotight a proper object of such ratf . But nun is jour fear, and Tain your desire I libran lions rush upon bulls ; they do not hurt butterflies. U you aim at getting your name into Terse, seek, I adTise jou, some sot (^ a poet from some dark den, who writes, with coarse charcoal and crumbling chalk, Teises which people read as they ease tiiemsdrea. Tour brow is not to be branded with my mark.
Ton dread my Tsne, and itixiff of wit,
Whi^ put yon in a shaking & i
Woold leem of rank to entertain
Sadi ten: yoor ten and hopes are Tain.
Tit at the boll that lions fly,
"While rats mn unregarded by.
Find other poets, if you long
To be the burden of a song :
Some dmnken bard from GrulhstreeC hol^
Who, with a piece of dialk or ooal,
Ma^ draw a Ime or two of satire,
Which we may read in eaainff nature.
Yonr oozeomb may deserre the burden,
Kotof my Terse^bntof myjorden. 2£aif»
ImUaiion, appUed to Sir Lugo Jon$9,
Sir Iniffo doth fear it, as I hear,
And labours to seem worthy of that ter,
That I should write upon mm some sharp Tene^
Able to eat into his bones, and pierce
Thmr marrow. Wretch ! I quit thee of th^ pain.
Thou 'rt too ambitious, and dost fear in Tarn :
The libyui lion hunts no butterflies,
He makes the camel and dull ass Ids prise.
Seek out some hungrr painter, that for bread
With rotten coal or onalk upon the wall
"Will well design thee to be rieVd of all i
Thy forshead is too narrow for my brand.
vm. TO B^TVsir, ok bxhalt ov fsisoub tuehtiub.
Cheat king of the ancient world, and of the primitiTe state of thiuffs, under whose rule quiet repose nreTailed, and labour was unlnown ; nor was the thunder-bolt of Joto fieouentlv
574 ICABTIAIi'S
lued, nor lived there those who were deserFUigof it ; and the esrth yielded its riches, without heing cloven down to the infernal re^ons; oome, propitioaB and gradous, to this solemn festival of Priacns; it befits thee to be present at thy own sacred rites. Thou restorest him to his oonntry,' glorious finther, in the sixth winter, from the Latian cii^* of the padfie Numa. Dost then observe how like Boman loxuiy the lestal array is spread, and how great splendour is shown in gay profusion P how unnparing the hand, and the coins on the rich table, the wealth, Saturn, which is counted for thee P And that thy beneficence and fiiivour for these deserts maybe ffreater, it is both a &ther and a careful man that thus magnl- ncentlv celebrates thy festivaL But mayst thou, venerable deity, be ever thus greeted with proo& of affection, in Decem- ber ; mayst thou bid this season frequently return to him.
TiTTTT. TO OOBDOYA.
Cordova^ spot more delightful than rich Yenafirum, nnaux^ passed in fermitr by the ouve-bearinff Istna^' richer in sheep than the pellucid GhtUssus,^ and that deceives not with purple or red dye, but hast thy flocks tinged by nature ; command, I pray you, that poet of yours to have some sense of modesty, and not to recite my compositions without having paid me forthem. I coald have borne his proceedings, if he had been a f^ood poet, on whom I could have made reprisal, but he is a bachelor who destroys mv peace without giving me the op- portunity of revenge. Ablindmancannot be retaliated upon for the loss of sight of which he deprives another. Nobody is more reckless than a plunderer, who has nothing to lose ; nobody more secure than a bad poet.
O Ghrab-street I fiuii*d fbr dying speech. And many a acrap to wipe the ozeeoh : With pamphlet and with journal vying In downright, troe htoB, native Iving : Pray tell your ahaniftlesi bard^ mo f^tis Bepeata my woika, that "tii/MCt./Site. From a good poet such behaviour rd bear, and mi^ retnm the &vour.
> Spain. * Rome.
• mttrA fue mmku abiohUa iBUL ** Not leas perfect than the (oli?e) Jar of Uistria." The best olivea were produoad at Vanaftam in Gun* paaia* the neat best in latiia. « See B. iL Ep. 43.
BOOK in.] SFiesAMi. 67S
Wlm batohelon mxpptf yonr plaee^
Then^f no retaliatrng the ease.
If a bfind man betti ont yonr ^fa^
Ton eaB*t retnm the injnx^jr.
As beggan are from emta iniiired i
So a liad poet la aeenred. Sk^
LXIT. OV CJJIjrA*
Cinim nuide one of his rosy attendantVy who snrpaaaed.ali the others in beanfey of feature and hair, hia oooL Cinna ia a InxurioQB personage.
£XT. OK SHT£IiI8.
Daring a whole night of pleasore, tiie beauteona FhjUis had shown herself kind to me in eveiy wsy ; and, as I was thinking in tiie morning what preaent to mtke her, whether a pound of Oosmus' or Nioeros' perfumes, or a piece of fine Spanish wool, or ten ydlow coins of Domitian, sb threw her arxns round my neck, and caressing me with a hmg kiss, like those of amorous doyes, proceeded to ad: me for— « jar of wine.
To diarming Gslia'f aims i flew, And there all night I feasted ; No god foch tzaotportt ever knew, No mortal erer tasted.
Lost in the iweet tomultuoos joy.
And pleased beyond espreasmf, How eaa your alaye, my nir, said J,
Bewaid so great a blessing P
The iHiole creation's wealth storey i
Throogh both the Indies wand^; Ask what brib'd senates gire airay.
And fluting monardhs sqaander«
The ridiest spoils of earth and air {
The rifled ocean's treasnre i TIs aH too poor a bribe by fiir
To pnrAase so mnoh pleasare.
She Unshinf cried, my life, my dear.
Since CSaha thus yon fhno^ Ovn her, but *tis too much, I fear,
A rmdlet of right Nancy. Ihm Bromu
With me fidr Phyllis paas'd the ni^ht And strofs to please ivith new deh|^ti
576 ICABTIAL*!
Ab at the dawn I mumug lay
How all her fitYOozs to xepay,
In dhina ware, or tea, or Baitt,
Or in some gaudy pieoe of stuff $
She dasn'd my neck and chuek'd tlj Ma,
And softly begged a <iuazt of gin.
Oentkmati^s Magaaim,
i^nn. TO AK<Dnrs.
Though your house cost you a hundred tiiousand sesteroe^ you pretend to be willing to sell it for even a smaller sum. But you are seeking, Amoenus, to oyer-reach your purchaser by art and cunning, for your house is hidden amia the rich furniture with wmch it is gorgeously adorned. Couches gemmed with tortoise-shell, and valuaole solid furniture of citron-wood from A&ica, gUtter at the entrance ; silyer and gold yases are supported upon a Delphic table of eztr»- ordinaiy beauty, and slayes stand by whom I would will- ingly pray to be my masters. Then you talk of two hundred thousand sesterces, and sa^ that it cannot be had for less. Tou offer a house so exquisitely famished, Amcenns, at a low price.^
LXyn. 09 THB BIBTH-nAT OF yiBQIL.
Ye, Ides of May, eaye birth to Mercuiy. Diana's birth- day recurs on the Ides of August. Yirgil has consecrated the Ides of October. Thou who celebrat^ the Ides of the great Maio, mayst thou often celebrate both the first and the second I
LJLVIil. TO HIS CLIE5TS.
O clients, that beset me in the morning, and who were the cause of my departure firom Borne, frequent, if you are wise, the lordly mansions of the city. I am no lawyer, nor fitted for plea£ng troublesome causes, but inactive, somewhat ad- vanced in years, and a votary of the Pierian sisters. I wish to enjoy repose and slumber, which great Bome denied ; but I must return thither, if I am to be equally hunted here.
Thou morning client, this is mv retreat i Go to the town and palaoe of the great.
^ Amoeniis adorned his house, which he had bou^t too dear, with ▼alnable fumiture, merely to set it ofi^ and tb induce a purchaser to give him a higher price for it than he would have given IumI it been empty.
BOOK ZXI,] m&RAMM. • 677
No lawyer I that can your oanse defend f
"BxX old, and idle, and the muae'f friend.
EeeeandzeposelloTei but if in Tain
I leek them nerei why not to town again? JSGiy.
LUX. TO PAI7LL17I.
Yoa hftTB fiiends, PauIlaBy jnat like jixar piotoxei and fBBeei all antique originalB.^
Thy friendf, Panlhiiy juft imto thee relate^ lake to lome fiunoas works in paint or plate : Thy honour tis, such pieces to xetain, . But in zetom thc^receiTe nought again. Amo$l 10M
LXX. OV APBB, 80BXB WHIV POOB, mBBlJLTKD
ITBXS BICH.
When xeoently a miBerable bow-leffged daye need to cany Apor's linen to the bath for him, and a one-eyed old woman Bat on hia ];»ltry to^ to guard it, while a hermoee bathing man aapplied lum witli his drop of oil, he need to be a aerere and unaparing censor of dronkarda. ** Break your cuds, and throw away jour Ealemian," he would exclaim toany Vuight who diank anything on leaving the bath. But aince three hundred thousand sesterces came to him from his old unde, he cannot so home from the warm baths sober. Oh what power jeweled cups and a retinue of five long-haired serranta have I Aper, as Jbng as he was a poor man, did not suffer from thirst.
Tom had a lad lame with a broken thi^ \
And an old hooaekeeper witii but one eye :
On greasy steaks from ofaop-house did resale;
Ana against dnmkBrds most deroutly ran.
Did Ton for bottles after dinner call ;
He damn'd the bottles, glasses, wine, and alL
Now an estate is from an unde oome ;
He from the tayem ne*er goes sober homei
Such the eiEBOt of plate and laMjoeyn firet
When poor, Tom was the soberest man alive. JSGiy,
^ The meaning is. either that PanUns regarded his friodi ss heregaidid hia antique traaaores, beatowing nothing more on the one than on the other or that he aouf^t to make friendi only of old men, from whom he hoped ahortly to obtain kgadea. In either aooeptation, it is a satire oa PaaUnsIa sraiks.
£XXI. TO LTeBiri.
Tou refuse me, Lygdua, everything I aak ; Imt there vnm a time, IJjgdnB, when you refused me nothing.'
LXXEI. TO PAITKIOTTB, WHO HAD qVT£TMD THl BIB TO
BBOOia BASMXB.
'- Hayine purdiaeed the acres of a little obscure fiunn near the Sepulchres,* and a badl^ constructed csbin with apropped- up rooi^ you leave the htiffations of the town, Pannicus, which were your farm, and uie scanty but certain profits of the worn toga. As a lawyer you used to sell wheat, millet^ barley, and beans f now, as a fiunner, you buy them.
A little him yon porebase near the town, With B ]joor tmiber house, just dropping down, And busmeM quit, a better fitfm by nr i I mean the certain profits of the bar. • Of wheat, oats, beans, and bariey, large supplies
The lawyer got { whidi now the fiutmer buys. JETsy.
LZZm. TO OATUUiUS.
You tell me, Catullus, that I am your heir. I shall not believe it, CatuUus, till I read it.
I am thy heir, Oatollns; thou hast said it;
But I will not believe it till I 've read it JUeAsr.
Lxrnr. to blacous, with a fbbsbvt ob glass oubs^
CALLBP CALIOBS AITDAOBS, *" AUBAClDrS OUPS."^
Although the Nile vesseb bring you goblets of crystal, yeit accept some cups firom the Flaminian circus. Are these cups the more audacious, or those who send such presents P But there is a double advantage in the use of these common vessels ; no thief is allured, !l!bocus, br such specimens of art, and they are not cracked by over-heated water. Nay more, the guest drinks without disturbing the peace of the attendant, and trembline hands have no fear lest they should fall. GQiis too is someuiing, that i^ after a toast, you must break your cup, Ilaccus, you will propose it in one of these vessels.
> See B. zL Ep. 73 ; B. iv. Ep. 13.
* Tbe pUoa where the Gaols were honed is the time of Camillas.
* From the presents made yoo by yoor dieats. ^ See B. xiv. Ep. 94
BOOK zxl] snenio* 579
Thoof^ lUpi fkim CSuna bring Toa eqi and jar I
Acoa^ diia nrag of homaly LraiDalli waxa.
Bold la tha man, who aoeh a preacnt aandai
num^ a cheap fjot may answer aararal anda»
A tmaf for thia will hardly risk hia naok :
Nor aaaOy will aoaldiwg water break.
Theaerfant brings it in no pain at all^
Nor have yoa anr^ lest yon tot it fiiU.
Ton pledge not mm, you think haa a diaeaaei
But oiop the eap» ana break ity if yon pleaae. Ay.
LXXT. OV Hia TAYOUBITBB.
EeatiDat Folytimua ad puellaa : Invitaa puenim fatetor Hymxraa : Ftataa nande natea babet Secundna. MoQia Dindjmiia eet^ aed eeae non Tult: Amphion potiiit pnella naacL Homm deliciaa, auperbiamque, Et fiutua ^uemloB, amioe, malo^ Q^am dotu mihi qninquiea dacena.
Politimo sfimpasienta per le ntelle: Imno si conftssa aon anoor atu> a sno dispetto ; Seoondo ha le natiohe nndrite di riiiande. Dindimo ^ eneminatOy nut non tuoI eiseilo; Anfione cuce ehe poteva nasoere mia Stella. O amico, amo meglio le delisie e For- gos^ di oostorOy e la loro qnenile ileressa, ehe nna dote di einqne TOtte dnoento nulla sestersL GragUa,
LZXn. OV THB TABXBBa.
The amphora of wine aella for twenty aesteroea^ a bushel of oom for four. The huabandmazi, intoxicated and orer^fed, makee nothing.'
LZXVU. 09 AXTHOV.
While Aetiion waa praying in the Capitol, with oumj'.a surolieation, to Jupiter, and with up-turned ejee waa bowing to hia very feet, he let wind eacape oehind. The byataadera laughed, but the father of the goda was offended, and eon- demned hia worshipper to dine at home for three aneeoaaifo daya. After this accident, the unhappy Aethon, when he wiahea to enter the Capitol, goea first to Patrodua* bouae of
^ Isrumed. SndiltthedieapneaiofpraTisaoos^thathasataanAdziDka tha prodaot of hit land rather than sell it.
Sra
680 ICAIITZAL*!
conTeniende, and rdietiBe himself hj Bome tm or tweiity & charges. But, notwithstanding this precaation, he ia- careful never to address Jove again wiuiout being tightly compressed in the rear.
Whfle Spintexti in his seimoii long and loud,
On tip-toe catechia'd the listoiinff crowd ;
He ttoja the pulpit wind behind let fly.
The congreffation lost IheirgfaTity.
Th' offended bishop did the thing resent :
A cruel penanoe Snintezt underwent :
Doom'd to his loroship's board no more to oome ;
But on light diet live three months at home.
And 'tis with Spintext now a constant rule.
Before he mounts th6 desk, to go to stooL
And after all that caution, less does mind
His prayers at church, than to hold fast behind* JEGqf.
IiULVlII. TO BITHTKI0178.
I haye written nothing affainst you, Bithynicus. Are you unwilling to believe me, and require me to swear P I prefer to give you another sort of satimction.^
LXXIX. TO ATTIOILLA.
I have granted you much that you asked: I have granted you more than you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of ,me. He who refuses nothing, AttidllB, will soon have nothing to refuse.
LXXZ. OK CALUBTnATTTB.
CallistratuB, making; no distinction as to merit, praises everybody. To him, in whose eyes no one is bad, who can appear good P
Lest that Oallistratns should not
Praise worthy men, he praises all :
He thinks that no one hath a blot ;
Whom can he then a good man caJl P JF^Mekmr.
Through servile flattenr thou dost all commend : 'Who cares topieoie whom no man can offend t Anon.
LXCa. OK inCBEB.
In winter-time, and at the festival of Saturn, Umber used
^ I had rather write something against yon, as I now do, than swear ihsi I have written nothing. '-'
BOOK ZQ.] MtlBnAUMi 5S1
to send me of hia pororty a light dn«; now lie lendi me a li^t men of'fiimutyi £ar he has beoome rich.
Li wintep-time and Satnn'f holy dairi,
Umber, whea poor, did me prefent alwayi
With finest wneat: bat now with eoerwr giafait
For be^f grown lieh, and made a man of gun. AMmv
izzzii. ov xBroemna, ▲ anxiB ov nrraision to
DnmBB.
To eeoqie Menoffenea at the bathe, hot or oold, ie quite impoeeiUe, althoogh you try every art to do bo. Bb wOl catch up your warm Dall with eager banda, that he may lay you under obligation for having eevaral timea stopped it. He will pick up ike foot-ball, when ooUapeed, out of the dirt, and bring it you, eren though he may have juat bathed and have his slippers on. If you bring linen with you,^ he will declare it waiter than snow, even though it be dirtier than a diiUPs bib. I£ you comb your sca^ bur with the toothed ivory, he will say that you have arran^ your tressea like those of Adiilles. He will himself bnng yoii the fttid drpgs of the smo^ wine jar,* and will even re- moTo the perspintion from your forehead. He will praise everything^ admire everytiiing about you, until, after having patiently endured a thousand tortures, you utter tiie invite* tion, ^Oome and dine 1"
Tb breakftst if to Hanelagh you staiqr. And Supple meet, he^s not snook on that day. . The boiling ke^e with both hands he'U seiiei And hand the cakes ; that you may sit at ease. In the esaal the wind your beaver oIowb i To take it out, he ventures over shoes. If yon take snuff; your box he majpifles, AIUMra^h of iron, and of lowest price. Then with his comb will set yoimg mastei^s hair : And swear, no wig can with those locks oompars. Attsttds him to tM neoessanr plaoe ; And wipes a drop of sweat mnn off Us &ce. An he admires and pnises ; tUl in fine Fatigued you cry, ** To-day, pray, with us dine." JBHaf,
I To the bsth. Comp. Bp. 70.
* WhJdi thflj used In the bath, ss^Badar, either to promote psnvliai tiea, or to piofcka vooutina befbrs dnnsc .
882 XJUMEXAL^i
Tiimil, OV TABIAVU8.
EaUanuB, who used to make meny at the expeaae of hemiaa, and whom all dreaded when he derided swelling hj- diDoelea with more pnngeiiof eren than two CatiiUi together would have done^ anddnify found himself miaerable wretch, in the warm hatha of Nero, and then became silent.
I was long unwilling Potytimus, to yiolate your 1 the adsson ;^> but ndw I am glad that I yielded h
LlXXIf. TO POLTTDnrS.
looks with in this spect to your entreaties. SucE^wasFelops when, newly shorn, he shone forth with shortened tresses, that his betroUied might see the whole of Us iyory dioulders.'
TiI»IV. TO PABTTLLirS.
Pasdiconibus os olere dicis.
Hoe si, sicut ais, PabuUe, Temm BBk,
Quid tu eredis olere cunnQingis P
Ta dl ehe la booca seate eattiTb ai Bodomid. Se qoerto, oome ta dioi, o FaboUo, h Tero^ ehe eradi ta dhe senta ai cnnnilingi P
LXULVi. TO AK HOXMB BLA.BX.
Triginta tibi sunt pueri, totidemque pue]l» : Una es^ nee surgit mentula. Quid fades ?
Ta hai trenta lagazii, ed altre tante ngane ; ta hai una sol mentola, ne si xina. Che &iaiP OragUa.
LXXXVn. TO COTTA.
Ootta, complaining that he had twice lost his sUnpera through the negligence of his servant, who attends him about^ and IB the poor creature's only valet and escort, hit upon a plan, like a shrewd and cunning fellow, by which he might avoid such a loss for tiie futiue. He began to go out to dinner without slippers.*
Twice to have losttfaj Bhoes, thou dost oomphun.
While that a nedigent slave thou didst remnf
And he thy irhow retinae, and thy tndn.
Wise on tny loss, snd eraflv thou didst grow,
And to avoid being often choused so,
Thoa after bsre-foot didst to sapper go. Anon. 1095«
1 8asB.v*Bp.49; B«i,Ep.33. ' Madeofivoiy lijOsrss^
> rnnapoveriv
BOOK ZZL] IPI0BA1C8. 58^
ULXXVUL OV TOVOILIAinrf.
Ton^jlia&iia has a nooe, I know, and dan*t deny it. But Tangilianna haa, I know that too, nothing elae but a note.'
TO CHABnnrfl, onoworo baud.
When yon wrap your head in flannel, Oharinna, it is not yoor ean that troume jon, but your hair.
Ghtriaiu, 'eaiiM thou bind'it thy head with wool, TEf not thy ean that griero i 'di thy bald akolL
lUieher. XO. OV KABO.
Mho, on behalf of his old friend, whose semitertian feyer WM seyeie and at its heiffh^ made a yow, but in a loud yoice, so as to be OTerheaio, tiiat, if he were not sent to the Slygian Shades, a grateful yictim should &11 before great Jove. The doctors began to promise certain recorery. Maro now makes new yows, that he may ayoid paying the rormer.
Wealthy was of a fersr like to die ;
When a most iolemn yow wai made by Sly :
If hk friend Wealthy gaye not up the ghost,
A dmrch he'd build at Ids own vmpar cost.
Wealthy^ gets well : thinks Sly, left in the lurch.
Since priyate prayer prevailed, there need no church.
XCI. TO ILiaiTLLA.
Since, Magnlla, you haye couch and fayourite, in common with your husband, tell me why you haye not your cup>bearer in common. Tou sigh : the reason is, you fear the cup.'
XOn. TO PBISCT78.
You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and powerful. Who can determine what would be his future conduct? Tell me, if you were to become a lion, what sort of a lion would you be P
Friieos, you*ye often ssk'd me how Fd liye^ Should Fate at onoe both wealth snd honour giys |. What Mnd his Aitore conduct can foreseeP TbH me what sort of lion you would be.
F. Lnni, Mottotoths I12nd JlmnUtr.
> Either beesots he wm too much pr&a to meering; tee B, i. Bp.3| or becauee he wm always nmeUing oat good dinneis. Comp. Bp* 37. ' Leit It ihoaU be poiaoned.
684 icabtul's
What would I do^ the ^estion yoa repaid
If on a ladden I were nch and great?
Who can himself with fiitare oondnet charge P
What would yoa do, a lion, and at large P JToy.
xoin. OV TABXnULA«
PaboQa has found out a way to Idbb her lover in fhe jpre- aence of her husband. She has a little fool whom she kiBses oyer and over again, when the lover immediatelj aeiseB him while he is still wet witii the multitude of kisses, and sends him back forthwith, chsj^ged with his own to his smiling mis* trees. How much greater a fool is the husband than tiie professed fool !
My lady Modish doth this way derise,
To kiss her spaik before her husband's eyea.
She daTers (fet her little boy with kisses,
And the sallant receives the reeking blisses 8
Then to toe little cnpid gives a sma& ;
And to his lau^^in^ mother sends him badu
But if the hnsMnd is this way begoil'd i
The husband is by much the greater chUd. JToy,
XOIT. TO TVOOA.
I was vrriting an epic poem; you began to write one ; I desisted from mine, that my verses mieht not stand in rivalry with yours. My Thalia transferred herself to the tragie buskin ; you immediately assumed the traffic robe. I struck the strings of the lyre studied by the Gakbrian muses; with new ambition you snatched from me the plectrum.^ I ven« tured on satire : you laboured to become a Lucilius. I sport in light eleey ; you do the same. What humbler style was left me P I b^;an to write epigrams ; my fame in that de- partment became also the object of your enrv. Determine what Tou do ito^ like; it is a shame for you to like everything; and if there be any species of writing that you do not affeetp Tucca^ leave that for me.
I cannot for the stage a drama lay.
Tragic or comic, but thou writfst a play*
I Inm theethere^ and, giving way, intend
An euic poem ; thou hart the same end.
I mouestly quit that^ and think to write
Next mom an ode ; thou mak'rt a song ere ni^iL
1 Quill to play on the striogi of the lyie.
BOOK Xn.] XPIOBAXS. K88
I pui to degiei ; thoa meefft me tfaflvei To ntira, and thoa doit punue me. Vnia% Where ahall I scape thee P In an epigram P Oh I thon eri'et out, that is my proper game.
XOT. TO BU7IT8.
Hiuai pftthiciBaimoo libdloe, Qui oertant S jbaritiois UbelUa^ Bt tinotas sale pmiiente chartaa Inetanti lege Buf e : aedpuella Sit teoom tua^ ne ThalaaaioQem Indicas manibos libidinoBia. Et fiaa aine fiBminA maritoa.
O Bafo, ImA i patiftfsirimi libeQi di Mnseo, che gamggiaiio eoi Sibazitifli VHma, e leggi le carte asperse di sale soUetieante: ma la toa zagaoa sia teco» affinohe con mani lihidinose ta non ecciti Tslassionei e ditenti marito senn doona, QragUtu
XOYX. TO iL JBALOUa ifm.
Onm tilri nota tni ait vita^ fldeeqne mariti,
Nee premat nlk taoa, aoUicitetqae toroe : Quid qnaai peUicibiui torqaeris inepta miniatiiBi
In mnbuB et breyia ea^ et fugitiTa Yenna P Floa ubi qnam domino pneroe prsBatare probabo :
Hi ftoiunty at aia fosmina aola viro. Hi dant, quod non Tis uxor dare. Do tamen, inqoia^
No yagoa k thalamia coigngia enet amor. Non eadem roe eet : Ohiam toIo, nolo mariacam.
Ne dohitea qua ait Chia» mariaca toa eet. Scire auoa finea matrona, et foemina debet:
Oede aoam paetia ; utere parte toa.
Essendo k Tita, e la fedelti del tno maiito a te noCa, Terona prema o soUedti il too talamo : a che^ sdooca, ti toimenti to dei serfi come di oonoabine, coi qoali 11 piaoere di Tenere d brsre e fbggitivai Ti pofer6 die i xagain giovano piik a te che al loro padrone : qaesU sonU cagione, ohetn sola sii moglieal tno marito
non dnbbiti cosa aia ana chia, la toa d una marisca, Una matrona de?e sapere i sam Umiti, ed ana femmai saoL Gedi ai xagaiii la kno parte : e ta & aao delta taa, GrigKa.
68d ICABTIiX'B
XCYIZ. TO BJLBSirS.
Uxor com tSyi Bit pfaella^ qualem Votia Tix pcrfat improbiu marituB, DiTeSy nobOiB, eraaitay casta : BampiBy Baaae, btoa, aed in comatifl^ TTxoriB tibi dote quoa paraatL Et BIO ad dominam leveraa langnet Multia mentola mOlibiu redempta : Sed nee TiDcibnB exdtata blandis, Molli pollioe neo Togata Borgit. Sit tandem pador, ant eamna in job. Non est hse tua, Bbbbo: yendidutL
"RiBitmdft toa maglie una nuloella, quale nn' improbo marito appepa fimandenbbe, rioea, nobiie, erudite, caste, tn, o Basso, ti romm i lad, ma in Cincinnati, die ti procacciasti colla dote della tua mogUe. E ood la toa mentola oomparate eon molti milliaja langnisoe di ritorno alia padiona: ma, ne eocitate con doloi parole, nd preptte eon tenera mano surse. Axiosiacifinalmente, o andiamo in judicio. Qneste mentola non e toa, o Basso : tn lliai Tenduta. OrigKa,
XCVIU. TO THX BIYXB BilTIB.
O B»tiB» whose locka aie bound with a chaplet of olire- learea ; who djest the golden fleeces of the flocks with thy radiant waters ; whom BaochuB and Pallas love ; and for whom the roler of the waves opens a ship-bearing course into his foaming seas. Grant that Instantius may enter thy regions with happy omens, and that this present year may be as pro- pitious to the people as the last. He is not unaware, what a responsibility it is to succeed Maoer. He who weighs his responsibilities can bear them.
Betis, with olire garlands deck thr hair. Who makes the ifocki aU golden fleeces beari To Bacchus, Pallas, and to Neptane dear. For wine» for OyU for Traffick without peer. May Rufos, in ms ehaiqge, successful be. His year, like that is pM^d, be loVd by thee. That Maeer he succeeds, he's well aware i Who knows his burden, best the weight can bear.
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BOOK XIIL
X. TO THI BXASXB.
Teas Ae trnmy fiah msjr not want a toga, or the olitea i doak, and that nie hnmbb wonn may not fisar pinebme fiunina^ waste, je Huaea, tins Egyptian papyma, orer whi^ I loae Bo mneh time. Winter, tne aeaaon for xeTeby, aaka for a new collection of wittidama. Mr teaaera doea not .fie with the magnanimouB talua,^ nor do the aioe^and ace ratUe' in mj irofj txiz* This paper la my plaything, thia paper my dioe-boz, thia game, if it brings me no gain, occaaiona me noloaa.
n. TO A. DITB1.0TPB.
Yon may be aa keen-noeed aa yon pleaae; in a word,^Toa may be all noae, and ao extenaiTe that Atlaa himself if aued. would be nnwilling to carry it, and yon may eren excel Latinna* himself in scoffing, atilljpa cannot eay more agpinat my triflea than I have aaid myaelfi What jrood can it do jaa to ^naah one tooth aninat another P u yon wish to. indulge m biting, let flesh oe joor food. Do not lose yotkr labour, but di^ct your yenom against thoae who are enamoured of themselyes. As for me, I know that my eSn* aiona are aa nothing ; not, howeyer, tluit they are absolutelj nothing, if you come to their neruaal witii candid judgment aad not with an empty stomaoi.*
Be nosed, be all nose^ tin thy nose appear So grsat that Atlss it refbM to bear I Though eren Minst Lsttnua thoo inyeigh, Against my trifles thou no mors canst lay TGui I hsTe said myieUl Then te what end Should we to render tooth for tooth oontendP Ton must have flesh if you'll be fldl, my friend I Lose not thy labour, but on those idio do
i The <bMM,«« die,'' was imsUer than the taiMt,««]nid]e^bQBS.*' 8se^ Sadth's Diet Aiitiq, under those words.
' An sdor fai psntomima. See B. L Ep. 5. .
* GraTa^serere; notre]szsd,ssinthssTsaiBibwlMB tta Issevssad* osres of tke day are oTsr.
88S 1CABTI1L*8
Admiie theniMlTW ibj utmost Tenom throw | That theie things Mothina are, Aill well we know.
MmOa^fne (by OoUtm), book iL a. 17*
UL SO THS BlicDIB.
The whole mnltitade of preeenti^ contained in this thin little hook will coat jon, if yon porchaae it, four small coins. If four is too much, perhaps jou may set it for two, and tbe bookseller, Ttypho, will even then mue a profit. These distichs you may send to your entertainers instead of a present, if money is as scarce with you as it is with me. The names of sll the articles are given as headings ; so that joU may pass by those which are not to your taste.
rr • TRAJI JLUrOEHSB.
That Gtermanicus* may bte begin to rule over the ethe- real hall, and that he may long rule oyer the earth, offer pious incense to Jove.
Send perAmied prayers to Jove, that CSeesar may
Long role on earth, ere he heaven's scepter sway. Wrigki,
T, FXPPXB.
When there falls to your lot a waz-coioured beccafiec^ Ivhich shines with £it back, you will, if you are wise^ add pepper to it.
VI. PXTBICITT.
I send you furmily : a rich man could send you honeyed wine. But if the rich man be unwilling to send it you, buy it.
TU. BXAKS.
If the pale bean boils for you in the red earthenware pot^ you may often decline the suppers of rich patrons.
vnL FITLaS.
Season common jars with Clusine pulse, that, when they are deansed, you may drink sweet wine from them to your satis&ction.
I Tke Book betxs, in most editions, the title Xenia, all the EpifnMM eontilned in, it betnghisBmitions ikit wnsents 'DomitiaB. See B. v. Bp. 3 sad 3^.
BOOS zmj snoBJon; 8M
IX. uranu*
Baoeiye iheae l^rrptian lentiliii a gift fiom Peloriim; if tliej aie not ao goMK as barley^ thisj aro better tium beam.
Yoa would nerer be able to ennmente all the difSnent foalitiea of wheaten floor, or ita naea, aeeiiig that both baker and oook apply it in many different waja.
Boooivo lierewithy muleteer, what yon ao often abetnct from your dumb mnlea* I give it aa a preaent to tiie inn* keeper,* not to you.
zn. ooBV.
Aooept three hundred pecka from the harreat of the Libyan huabandman, that your auborban turn may not be unprodnctiTe.
That inripid beet, the food of artiaana, may acq[ii]ie aome flaroor, how often must the cook ha?e reoourae to wine and pepper!
Lisiind beet may bid a tndeaman dine ;
Bat aaka of thee abmidant spice and wine. Wj^uutm,
m
'XIY. LBTTITOl.
Tdl me why lettuce, which uaed to doae ihe repeats of oar foraGB^hers, now commencea our feaata P
Lettaoe, which doeed the suppen of our sirei,
TeQ me, why oar ooimnencing feast admireR P E^Muton,
XT. PET woon.
If you coltiTate fields in the neighbourhood of Nomentnm,* bring wood, I charge you, countrymen, to the &rm-houae.
XYI. BADIBHia.
inieae radiahea which I preaent to yon, and whidi are anited to the cold aeaaon (^ winter, Somulua atiU eata in nearen.'
> WIm» ii to see it giTen to the moles, trhsn yoa stop at bii iaa.
' Wlwre the Isnd was nunhy, sad diy wood soiioe.
* MsitkliBtimatesthatBomah»UYedoatliesamefraaBlftniaksaf«
(9d XASTULL*fl
Xm. GABBAOl flPBOITTS.
' Uiat yotme'caSbageB maj not exdto your diffgiiBt by iheir paleneflai maKe tlieai green by boiling them in nitntted water.
Left ^y diooti o'ereast thy tool with spleen,
Let nitnnii water oolonr them with green. SfphmiUm,
Whenever yon hare eaten strong-smelling shreda of tiie Tsrentine leek, gife kisses with your mouth shut.
When you Tarentme leeks eat, shun offence, With lips dose seal'd a breathless kiss dispcnce. Wrifkk Tor it is 6f8ET oook's opinion. No saToury dush without an onion. And, lest your kissing should be spoO'd, Your onions must be thoroughly boiTd :
Or else you may spare
Tour Bustress a share, The seoiet will nerer be known f
She cannot discorer
The bresth of a lover, But think it as sweet as her own. Swyt
XDL LAB0X-EIAJ)BD £1XKS.
Aricia, eelebrated for its grore, sends ua its best leeks: look at tiiese green blades and snow-white stalks.
The prime of ledu Axida's groves bestow : Seeveidsnt tresses crown a stem of snow. E^hmdonm
TU&KJLFS.
The lands near Amitemnm abound in productive gardena s you may now eat more aparingly of the turnips of Nursia.
The delicate stslks cultivated on the coast of Bavenna will not be more grateful to the palate thanthia wild aaparagua.
XXII. BAisnre.
I am a grape not suited to the cup or to Bacdiua ; but, if you do not attempt to drink me, I shall taste like nectar
that he had eiuoyed oa earth; as Virgil says that the souls of the dead in Elysittm had the sameddi^ in horses and arms as thev had had while ia the body. iBn.vi.653.
BOOK XTrrJ mexAici. 4S91
Fit Bor far oap^ nor BAobhniy I wiUbt
Neotar although not potable, to tiiee, Wr^dt
TTTfT. OHIAV TIGB.
The Chian fig, like old ivine from Setia, coniims wiUiin II botii wine and aalt.^
ULIV. QiniTOIB.
If qoinoea, well Batoiated with Attio honey, were placed before jou, you would aayy theae honey-epplea are ddicioaa.
xzY* FINS oona.
"We are the applea at Oybele ;* keep at a distance^ paaeer- byi lest we fidl and strike yonr unfortunate head.
Cybde^B apples we : fly, ftieod, in dread i
Lest onr npe ruin erosh thy guiltless head* SlpkmHon.
XCn. flXBTIOl BXBXDM.
We are aerrioe berries, good for aatringing relaxed bowelas a fruit better suited to your little boy than yourselfl
ULVll. A. BUirOH OP DAXBS.
Gilded dates are offered on the Sjdends of January;' and yet thia is the expected gift of apoor man.
JLXVm. ▲ JAX OV PLVKS,
^ese. Syrian plums, which oome to you enclosed in a watded conical bawet, had they been any larger, might have passed fior figs.
XXIX. DAHAflCXVa PLITXS.
Accept these foreign plums, wrinkled witii age : thej are good for relaxing constipated bowek.
XXX. iL OHxssB nox LTnrjL
This cheese, marked with the likeness of the Etruscan Luna^^ will Ber?e your slaTca a thousand times £ar breakfitft*
^ Compexe B. TiL Ep. S4.
* The pine wat sacred to Cjbalflb beetuae her frTonrite Atjs was chaoged mto that tree.
* There is no aUnskm to such a eostom elsewKete.
^ Lnna is a town in Btroria. The maik on the cheew was prolMihl j some liksMss or emblem of the bbooo. or Diana.
Xllf. JL TXBTIHX OJUJIfll.
In oaaeyoadeahe to break your fi»t eoonomicaUj, withoat meaty this mass of cheese oomea to yoa from tiie flocks of the
XZXn. SXOXSD OHXESl.
It is not every hearth or everY smoke that is suited to cheese; but the cheese that imbibes the smoke of tiie Yd*- brom' is excellent.
'''■I' OHXBSl I'BOIC TBIBTTLA.
Xrebnla gave ns birth ; a donble merit recommends nsy for whetiier toasted at a gentle fire or softened in water, we are equally good.
XULIV. BULBS.
If your wife is old, and your members langoid, bulbs can do no more for yon than fill yonr belly.*
If eiiTioiis age rekz the nuptial knot y
Thy food be acallions, and thy feast shalot BlpkmttoiL
XULV. SAirSASB.
Bauffhter of a Ficenian pig, I come from Lucania; by me a grateldl garnish is given to snow-white pottsge.
XXXYI. A. JAB OF OLTniS.
This olive, whidi comes to ns rescued^ from the presses of Picennm, both bogios and ends onr repasts.
zxrvn. oiTBOKs.
These fhuts are either fit)m the boughs of the garden of Garcyia^ or were guarded by the dragon of Massylia.*
xxxvm. BEBBTnros.
We sive you, from the first milk of the mothers, sucklinn of which tlie shepherd has deprived the dams while yet no^e to stand.
* A people of Italy, bordering on the Sabines.
* A plaoB near Rome, abounding with shope.
* To what particular bulb proTOcatiye effects were attributed, it ini> certain.
^ Not having been put in the oO-preaa.
* The dragon that kept the garden of the Hespeiides.
BOOK znL masiict.
xixix.
tiet tiliid wanton creature, nozioiiB to the green yiney fay the
penalty of iti crime; though bo young, it has already ujured
the god of wine.
YoQ onoe did Baochut womid ; tfaii death yon haTe»
O wanton Goat, for the then wound you gaTe. Wright,
Thii wanton kid mut bleed at Baocbni' ehxiney Already has he harmed the God of Wine. W* 8. B.
XL. B0€W.
If white fluid Borround the saffron-coloured yoIk| let pickle fiom the j3paniah mackerel season the egg.
Let the rich man place before me the nursling of a slug- gii^ mother, fattened upon milk alone, and he may feed off an iBtoUan boar himsell
Z£n. FOiaenijrATBfl with son avd habo arons.
We present to yon pomegrsnates with soft and hard Btonesy not from Libyan, but Nomentan trees.
TLTTT. THl 8AKB.
Pomegranates with soft stones, gathered fiom suburban trees, and early pomegranates with hard stones, are sent to yon. What do you want with those from Libya P
XLIT. sows' TSATS.
Ton would hardly imagine that you were eating cooked sows* teatsy' so abundantly do they now and swell witli living milk.
XLT. TOWLS.
If we possessed Libyan fowl* snd pheasants, yon should reoeiye them ; as it is, receive birds from the hen-coop.
XLTI. PEBSIAir APmOOTB.
Though early ripe, we should, on our natural bmndies, have been little esteemed ; but now, grafted on brandies oi Persian origin, we are highly valued.
^ Rut pvt$i mmdum Bumm^ Ton would imtgine thit yoa were eatinf a noMii in its natural state. Sksmh here means the dUh made^ with itoff* inf or otherwise, of sows' teats.
* Turkeys.
5M XABTXAL*!
■
Gnbbed and wild, we dmig to iMrent anna |
Bat| hj adoptioDi haTe maturea oar ohamia. Slpkmtim*
ZLTH. PIOMTLHl LOATXS.
Pioentme flour teema with white nectar,^ jtiat as the light aponge awdla with the water it imbibea.
ZLTm. MUSHBOOXa.
To send aiher or gold, a doak or a toga, is easy enough, but to send mnahrooma is difficult.'
ZLIX. THl VIQ-FIOKXB, OB BBOCAPIOO.
Smoe I feed not only on figa, but on aweet grapea, why did not the grape rather giTe me a name P*
L. TBTTFFUBa.
'Vfe who with tender head burst through the eartii that nouriahea ua^ are tmfflea, aeoond only to muahrooms.
£1. ▲ OBOWH OB THBUSHBS.
A crown made df roaes, perhaps, or ridi spikenard,^ may pleaae you, but a crown of nddfarea* delighta me.
Thy crown, of rosea, or of spikenard, be :
A crown of thrushes is the crown for me. JBl/Mutam,
Ln. DUCKB.
Let a duck be brought to table whole : but only the breast and neck are worth eating ; return the rest to the cook.
The duck decoys you. Pick the neck and breast,
And to the worthy cook return the rest. JBljMi9Um»
LUX. TTBT^LB DOTBS.
As long aa I haye fat turUe-doyea, a fig for your lettuce, my
1 Milk, or a miztiirs of milk and honej. Pioentine hread and floor was greatly esteemed.
* Either because they were rare, or because the poesessor of them wsa more incUaed to eat them himself than to part with them.
> Why am I not called WMcliiiia, rather than Jlctdidat
* Such crowDSi or chaplets, were presented by the rich to their guests at banquets.'
* Turdui: the Germans translate this FiMfare, which, from soms Apidan reoollectioiiSt we thmk most likely to be right ; but, in more than one prerious Epigram, the word has been translated Tknuh. H. O. B.
BOOK xm.] mcBAiOi. SS8
dy and joa maj keep joor ihell-fidi to jaaimiL I bave no wish to waste m j appetite.
Lettuoe ftiewell; &t TardM gifo to me i
And pojnut hunger the best lawoe will be. Wright
UT. SAMICOV OV BAOOir.
Let me haye it from the territory of the Oerreianay' or it may be sent firom the Menapiana;* let epieozea daronr ham.
I, with Genretan, or Meniq^an, onm ;
Let gofgeoni gluttons riot on Hisir ham. Slpkimitm,
LT. HAIC
The ham is onite firesh ; make haste, and delay not to inrite yoorbestfiienas; I wiUhavenotiiingtodowimastalebam.
LTI. Pies* OmTTBBLDrGS.
Ton perhaps will give the preference to the chitterlings of a yirgin pig ; I pre£ar them nom a pregnant sow.
LTII. XGTTTIAV BIAVS.
Yon will deride this IjflTptian regetabley with its wool that sticka so doselj, when obliged to tesr its obstinate filaments wiA teeth and hands.
LTcn. eoosB*s utxb.
See, how the liyer is swollen larger than a &t goose i In amazement you will exclaim: where could this possibly gfowP
On gooseys liver wond'ring fflsnoe bestow: Jdu^ than Isrgeit goote, mere ooidd it (
grow? SlphmtUm. Ltz. DOBMOirSl.
I sleep tiirongh the whole winter, and haye become flitter during we time, with nothing bat sleep to nonrish me.
Sleeping all 'Winter Fm most hti no food.
But a loll meal of sleep doth woik this good. Wnghi,
LX. BABBITS.
QEhe zabbit delights to dwell in cavea dog in the earth.
^ A people of Spdn, whose Vsoon is eornmeaded hy Athsovns, B. xb * A people on the Rhine, near what is sow Wes^hslia.
BqS
596 MABTIAL*8
It was he wlio .taught oiemiea the art of makiiig aeoret
ways.
Ton a null bmrow-worker, do desi^
Captains great cities how to undermine. WrigkU
LZI. HBATHCOqiCS.
Among winged fowl, the best-flayoared ia held to be the Ionian heathoocL
LUC. FATTXirxn FOWLS.
The hen £Eittens readily on sweet floor and darkness.^ How ingenious is gluttony I*
The hen grows &t, with darkTiefw fed and doadhi ; The Terf gat doth now ingenious grow. fVriffhtm
TiXm. OAPOKS.
Lest the cock, by excess of conjugal enjoyment^ should ffTOw thin, it is put out of his power to do so. I shall call him a priest of Oybele.'
LZrV. THB SAME.
In Tain does the hen q^u'ess her sterile mate ; she ought to have been the bird of Cybele, the mother of the gods.
LZT. PABTBIDeSS.
This bird is placed as a sreat rarity upon Boman tables. It is only at those of the rich that you taste it frequently.
L3TI. POYES.
If you have been initiated in the sacred mysteries of the Cnidian goddess, yiolate not tender doves with sacrilegious toath.«
Touch not| with impious tooth, the tender dove,
If thou'd*st adore the Cnidian queen of love. JB^Muton.
LZVn. WOOD-PIOEOXS.
Wood-pigeons make sluggish and blunt the manly powers He who wishes to be a lover should not eat of this bird.
^ Light and motkm being adverse to fat.
* Which discorered that fowls might be soonest fattened in dazkness.
* Gallus (a cock) also sipifies a nriest of C^bele.
^ If vou nare been initiated in the mystenes of Venus, do not dseiroy the birds sacred to her.
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The wreathed pigeon damps the jgemal poVn,
The wife forbwr him, in oonnubial houzs. BiphmiicH*
The ling-dove's flesh obstracts the tide of life i
Bat it not| husband, if you love your wife I W. 8,B.
LXVllI. WXTWiXB.
The witwal is trapped by reeds and nets, while the grape^ yet immatnrey awella with green juioe.
LXIX. VASTXirS.
XTmbria never gave ua Faxmonian Martens. Padena pre- fen to send these aa presents to our Soyereign Lord.^
TiTT. THS PXi.000K.
Ton are lost in admiration whenever he spreads hia feathers that glow as it were with jewela, and can yoa oonaiga him, cruel man, to the unfeeling cook ?
Ton who admire the peacock's gorgeoos plmnes,
Can you consign him to the kitchen fumes ? W, 8.B.
jiLU. THB Pi^ucnreo.
Mr red wing gives me my name ; but it is my tongue that 18 considered savoury by epicures. What, if my tongue had been able to sing?'
Lxxxi. PHXAflAinra.
I was first brought to these dimes in the ship Argo; till then I knew only the river Phasis.
LXXLU. irmnDiAH' powls.
However well Hannibal was fed with Boman geese, the barbarian himself never ate the birds of his own country.'
LZZrr. THB OOOSB.
Thia bird saved the temple of Tarpeian Jove. Do you wonder at thia P A god haa not then built that temple.^
^ The martent were lent fixnn Pannoma to Pndena, who was in Um- bria, and who seat them thence aa a pmeni to the emperor.
* How maoh mora valuable would it ha^e been I An allusion, proba- bly, to the dish of ainging-birdi' tongues produced at a feast by iEsopus the tragic actor. Plin. H. M. x. 51.
* Never ate them in Italy; became luxury had not yet introduced Aen into that country.
* Since Domitian has encted a temple thnc^ he^ being a god, is sntfici- SBtly able to protect it.
S98 kabtial's
IXXT. OSAJriB.
You will distarb the lines, and the letfcer^ will not fly entire, if yon destroy one single bird of Falftmedes.*
XXTYI. WOOnCOCKB.
Whether woodcock or partridge, what does it signify, if the taste is the same P JBut the partridge is demr, and therefore thought preferable.
I a wild Partridge am ; what diffiarence P nought.
But that the tame one is the dearer bought. TFn(fML
LXJLVXl. SWAKB.
The swan mnrmnrs sweet strains with a filtering toogns^ itself the singer of its own dirge.
Ab how to awaoB, their truth's reward* belong
A jqyM death, and sweet ezpizing song. Gfea, lamL
LXXVIU. SHB POBFHTBIOir.'
Has so small a bird the name of a great giantP It has also the name of the charioteer Porphyrion of flie Gteen Paction.
LIYX ICITLLITB.
The mnllet yet breathes in the sea-water which is bronght in for him; but with difficulty. Is he not beginning to droop P Gifo him the natural sea, and he will reooTer his strength.
TiTTT. LAHPSBTS.
The lazj^ lamprey, which swims in the Sicilian deep* cannot againsubmerge its body, if once scorched by the son.*
£XXXI. TUSBOTB.
Howerer great the dish that holds the turbot, tiie turboi is still greater than the dish.
^ The letter V, or y, which cranes form in their iligfat.
* Granee were called the birda of Palamedes, becauae he Is said to hsfe adopted aome tana of iettera from their mode of flying.
* Abird ao called, according to iElian and Pliny, from its purple ooloar. What bird it waa, ia unhnoinL
* Such iaitafttneaa, that if it xiae to the amfiice of die water when thf aun ia ahining, the heat lelaxea it, and renders it sowadesi eren to plnnga again into the deep.
BOOK xixl] mnAMM.' 809
Lzxzn. oTflnss.
I am a alidl-fiah just oome from beizig aatunted with the waters of theImerixie]ake,iiearBai»;biitiiowIliixarioiial7 thizat for noble picUe.^
mil 1 1. PB1WV8.
The oemleaii riTer Liris lores as, Liiis sheltered bj the wood of MarioSy* thence we prawna oome in large shoala.
Till II?. TEl OHAB.
Of this char, which comes well fiittoned' from tiie biDowj sea» the liver is good ; but the other parts aieill-ilaTonred.
TiIUV. THl OOUOOTS.
CoracinnSy^ glory of the Egyptian maiAets, where yon are eagerly soug&t^ no fish is more highly esteemed tlian you among the gourmands of Alexandria.
XiXxxYi. siA-HinaiKoa,
That seaphedgehog, though it pricks ^onr fln^pers with ifLs bristly armoor, will be soft enough when its shell is laid aside.
JKneh thee he may, while pent within hin walls i
But^ ODoe didodgedy a fotUiDg uxohin sprawls. B^Muiom.
TiTIIVli. XITBIOBS, TEI FUBPLI-7ISH.
Yon wesTy ungrateful man, cloaks dyed in our blood ; and as if that were not enough, you also eat us.
O most unsmteAil man, not only you
Do dye wiu me i bat fikewiw est me too. Wright
f.tif vnr ChXTDGBOirS.
Whatever the magnificence of the fiMsts in the ragion of Venice, tiie gudgeon usually forms the beginning of the repast.
When the Venetians will with splndour eat,
Witii gudgeon gladly they oemmsnoe the treat E^phiiuim.
Though Venice prides herself on snmptuoas fioe^
The gudgeon slways hesds the bsnqoet tiiers. ^imii»
^ In which ojrten weie prewrivd. * In Ctmptaia.
* Some editioni latd mUnu, Irat moiC hsTe oSmim. « ji fii^ from the Nilsb of which nsthins is knowa.
GOO kabtzal'b
T>niiik»
The woolly^ pike Bwims at the moath of tiie Bagaaem Timayiu^ ftfttening on sweet water mixed with salt.
XC. THB JOHH DOBT.
It is not erexy Dory tiiat deserves praise and a high price, but only that which feeds on the shell-fish of the Lucrine lake.
XOI. THB STITBOBOK.
Send the stor^n to the Palatine table;* such raritiea should adorn diyme feasts.
XOn. HABBS.
If my opbion is of any worth, the fieldfiire' is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
Of Urds the thnuh, if I my thonghtB dedare i
Of qoadmpedsy the glory is the hare. JB^Mukm*
XCm. WILD BOAB.
The bristty animal which fell by an iBtolian spear^ on tiie lands of Drnmede, a dire object of terror, was just such as this.
XOIT. BOBS.
Wild boais are feared for their tusks ; horns are the de- fence of sti^; what are we, unwarlike does, but an easy prey toaUP
Tbe tusk, the Boar ; Harts, horns defend, to all We naked Does, prey midcfended, fidL Wright
XOT. THB OTJKCB.
The savage ounce, not the best victim of the morning i^rts, costs me the lives of oh! how many dogs I
XOVI. THE STAO.
Was this Ae stag which was tamed by your halter, Qypa- risBus P* or was it rather yours, Silvia P^
^ Lmutu hfm. A species of pike, so called from the colour tnd s»fU nesi of Uie ileriL Plin. H. N. iz. 17. The TimaTUs was a river not fiur from Yenioe, la the territory once oocnpied by the EuganeL
* That of Demitian's palace on the Palatine Monnt.
• TWdMt. See note on Epig. li p. 594. « That of Meleager.
* A son of Telephiub who, having accidentally killed his fitvonrite sue* is said by Grid to oare been changed into a cjnicsSi
• The dsogMer of T^heus. Virgil, Jfin. ril
BOOS xzn.] xFzcnLun. 001
xcrrix. THB LixiBiOy OB Bircizira toaii oi* ms wild xbb.
Whfle the wild ass is yonii^, and fed by its mother alone, the ntinling has, but only &r a short time^ the name of laliaio.
XOVUl. THB ChACBLKB.
GiTO yoor little son tiie saselle for a plaything ; whidi the crowd in the amphitheatre Bke to scare by waring their togas.
XdX. THB KOUBTJlIB OOAT.
See how the mountain p;oat hangs from the summit of the cliff ; yon would expect it to ftll : it is merely showingita contempt for the dogs.
0. THB WILD ASS.
Behold this beautifnl wild ass ; away with the hunting cf Indian elephants. Lay aside the hunting nets I
CI. TBHATBiB OIL.
This unguent has been exuded b^ the beny of Yenafirnm in Oampania. Every time yon use it, it emits fragrance.^
en. SUPBBIOB SAUOB PBOK OITB iXLIBS.
Accept this exouisite sauce made from the first blood cf the expiring maderu ;' an expenaite presenJL
Om. DfnBIOB SAUOB.
I am, I confess it, the offiipring of the tunny-flsh ct Anti-' polls ;* had I been that of a imuskerel, I should not haye been sent to you.
OIT. ATnO HOBBT,
^ The bee that throngs Thesean Hymettus has sent you this noble nectar from the forest of Minerva.
CT. SICILIAB HOBBTCOMBS.
When YOU make a present of Sicilian honejTComba from omid the hills of Hyblsi you may call them Attic.
OTL BAisnr wm. The vineyard of Onoesus, in that Crete where Hinos reigned,
1 A frigranoe owing^ not to the oil, bot to the epioet misMd with it t pfom Greece, Afiica, Sptin* tnd Tirioiu other parti • laGaUia
ton UAXnAL*B
produced fliis fbr yoa ; this is tiie honeyed wine of the poor
IQAIL
OnX* nS0H>TIiAT0'l7BBD Win.
Doubt not tliat tbu pitch-flftToured wino came bom. tiie wine-benmg Yienne : Sbmtdns^ himedf sent it to me.
Orm. EONBTXD WIISTB.
Attie honey thickens the nectar-like Ealemian. Snch drink deeenres to be mixed by Ganymede.
Gix. ALBAS inini.
His wine is sent from the Oaosarean hiUsy* from the sweet, vinq^tfd tiiat flourishes on Mount lulus.
ox. BITBBBimra WIHB.
Do yon drink SurrentineP Choose for it neither painted m^Trhme jars, nor Teasels of ^Id ; the wine will ftoaush you with cagB from its own locahty.
CXI. TAiiEBHiAir wm.
His Massic' wine comes from the presses of Sinuessa. Do you aak in whose Consulate it was bottled P It waa be- fore consols existed.
OXLL SXTUNJI WINE.
The litSeoity of Setia^ which, suspended on highy overlooka fhe Pontine marshesi haa sent us these old tuna.
oxm. iruKDi wnn.
This wine of Tundi^ waa produced in the splendid autumn of Opimiiia.* The consul wno saw it made dnnk of it when matured.
oxiv. TBiFOLiinB wnn.
I, Trifidxne wine,' am not, I confess, of the flmt order but I hold, at least, the serenth place.
' Thft ton of JBneu, niio tmilt Alba Longa. t Xb» ISOm mn called Gmaroao, becanae the emperon had paiaoes an them.
* Modi MaHieaB and Moni Falemtis were mciintaios near SfaniflMa in Campania; both oelebrated for tlieir winei.
« A town of Campania. * See B. • Ep. 27.
* Made at Ooma m Gampania.
BOOS xiix.] mouA tn
GeneroDB Oscnbui wine is matared at Amyeb^ near Tim- di; flieTioeubomaiidflcraziaheaintiieimdib crfanionaa.
ozn. aionra ifzini*
Ton maj drink Bignine wine^ which aatrisgea the rdazed bowda ; Imt^ that it majr not a&ct yoa too much, let your dranghta be moderate.
orfTL XAjfBBrnn ifzini.
If a iar of Mamertine^i aa old aa Neater, be giTen yon, yoa may call it by what name yoa pleaae.*
oxnn. TunuLGovBaB wnn.
Tairagon, which yidda the palm to tiie Tineyaida of Oan^ pania alone, produced thia wine^ riralUng the Toacaa.
ozn* voicTOAir win.
My Nomentan Tinerard' yielda thia wine. If Qointna^ ia your finend, you will orink better.
ozz. aioiBnra wmA
Better drink old wine from Bpoletine jar% than new Ealemiaa.
CZZL nUOHIAB' WIBJI.
The FeUgniaaTine-dreaaera aend turbid Marsio wine^ Toudi it not youiael^ but let your freed-man drink it.
czzn. TinoAx.
Diadain not thia amphora of Egyptian Tin^gar. It much worae when it waa wine.
Egyptian Tinaaar detniie not thou : Whenitw
a winfl^ *twai ftr more rile than now. WrifkL
ozzm. wnra ov icab8iillb8.
Since your aportolA attracta to you hundreda of citiaeni^ you mq^ aet before them the amoky winea of Maraeillea.
> From the Ifamertine iMioB k SkOj.
t Sjustt if lit czoeDenoei tSii it is equal to any wiae idiatofer.
* Ifertial'h Tinmid at Nonflntnm.
• QotBtasOTima. B.TLBp.92. * Fnm Spoletom la Ite^.
001 ]IABTLLL*8-
Let NepoB* place Oseretan wine on table, and yon will deem it Setine. But he does not give it to idl the world ; he diinka it only with a trio of friaads.
OXXT. TABSNTIHI.
. Anion* is renowned for its wool, and happy in its vineSi Ton may take its predons fleeces, give me its wines.
Anion 18 fianoiu for its wool and wine ;
The foimer shall be youn, Ihe latter siine. W. 5. if.
OXXTI. PXBl'XTMXS.
Kever think of leayine perfumes or wine to your heir. Administer these yourself and let him have yonr money.
OJLLVU. A OBOWK OV B08S8.
Winter, O OsBsar, offers thee a forced chaplet; formerly the rose was a flower of spring, now it comes at thy bidding. '
'Winter a rose msents unto thy throne ;
Onoe *twa8 the Spring's, but now *tis CflBsaz^ grown. Wrighi
BOOK XIV,
SHX PBESSITTS KAJ>B TO GITBSTS AS EXASTS. I. TO THX BBADXB.
Now, while the knights and the lordly senators delight in the festive robe, and the cap* of liberty is assumed 1^ our Jupiter ;* and while the sLftve, as he rattles the dice-box, has no fear of the 2Bdile, seeing that the ponds are so nearly frozen,^ learn alternately what is allotted to the ridi and to the poor. Let each make suitable presents to his friends. That these contributions of mine are follies and trifles, and even w<»se, who does not know? or who denies what is so evident P But what can I do better, Saturn, on these!
> From One in Etmiia. ' A friend of MartiaL B. x, Bp. 48.
* A modtttain in Calabtia, near Tarentnm. * See B. it Bp. 80.
* Qaps iftn worn generally daring the Satnznalia. See B. jd* Bp. C
* DoaiiUa. * Seeing winter so near at hand.
BOOS ZIT.] UneBiMH i8M
dajB of pleaanre, which thy son hunaelf has oonaecnted to thee in compensation for the heaven^^om vfhiek he efeeUd thee f '^omUjoVi have me write of Thebes, or of Trpr, or of the crimes of Mjcen» P Yon reply, ^ Flay with nnts.'^ But I don't want to waste even nnts. Beaaer, yon may finish this book wherever you please, erery subject is compLsted in a couple of lines.
n. TO THX BIADBB.
If you ask why headings are affixed, I will tell you; it is that» if you choose, you may read the headmgs only.
Inquire you why this table 'a pat before P
ril tell s if it disgusts you, read no more. JBbslj^
m. TABLETS ox* dTBOK-WOOD.
Had not our wood be«i cut into thin tablets, we should haye been the noble burden of Libyan irory.^
IT. TABLETS (WAXBH) 07 TITB LBATB8.
The joyous court of the emperor is warm with the slaugh- ter of bullocks, when the decree which confers firash honours on CflBsar is conyeyed by the fiye-leayed (waxen) tablet.*
T. TABLITS 07 lyOBT.
If the dull-coloured waxen-tablets are too indistinct for your fiiiling sights let black letters be depicted on snow- white iyory.
TI. TABLBTS OB THBBB LEAyBS.
You will think our three leayes no ordinary gift, when your mistress writes to you on them that she wul come.
Theee three-leaved tablets you'll be sure to bless,
When a fair lady sends them back with <« yes." W. 8. B.
yn. TABLETS OB PABOHKBHT.
Although these tablets are called parchment, imi^:ine them of wax; you will be able to erase and replace tiie writing at pleasure.'
^ Had we not been tablets, we thonld have been tables, sapported on -.yory legs.
* When the hononr of t oonmlate or (rinmpli is Inscribed by the em- peror on tablets of this kind, which axe sent to the peison on whom H is bestowed.
* The parchment was oorered with some chalky kind of oomposition soBceptibfe of erasore.
608 lUJOULB
Tin. TIXXLUAV XABIilTB.-
A maideiit though she xnay noTer have lead YiteUiaa tablets, knows what Hkey meftn.
Becanse yon see that we are rery small, yoa imagine that we are lore-lettars. You are mistakmi ; we bear a demand £ar money.
Z. LABGBB TAB£IT8.
When a poet presents yon with blank leaves, yon shonld consider it no small present.
No Tokar boon the bard must mean,
When he presents the paper dean. ^MuUrn.
Whether sent to a casual acquaintance^ or to a dear friend, this paper is in the habit of calling eveiybody ^ my deavffir.*'
To one lonff-Ior'd, and one she barely know% Hailing aliae Deab Fbiskd, she uTismeleiBi goes.
zn. iTOBT coims.
It is improper to fill these coffers with any other coin than gold ; let common wooden boxes hold silver.
These ivory tills should not oontajbi bat eoid,
And more vile wood should baser silTer hold. WrighL
zm. wooniir cofvibs.
If there be anything still remaining at the bottom of my cofl^, it shall be yours. There is nothxog : then the coffer itself shall be yours.
ZIT. ITOBT TAU, OB DICB.*
When yon see that no two of these dice present themsdres to you with the same fi^e, you will say that I have made you a great present.
ZV. TBSSEBJB.
Although as a tessera I am unequal in number to the tali, yet the stoke laid upon me is frequently greater.
1 8eeB.iLEp.6.
* On thii and the foUowing, see B. zm. Bp. 1, and B. it. Bp. 14.
BOOK xiT.] mesixi* 607
xn. A sicn BOX.
• The fraudulent hand, ddlled in disponng dioe to Ml in a eertain nuumer, willy if it thiowa them from me» tfocoaed only in wiahing.
The oomng hand maT dor a die with ma i
No aliipGtpTOTaOay only TOUT hopai are five. Wr^hi,
When ihe*8 at caidii or rattling dioe ihe throwi, ConniTe at eheatiy and generooaly loae. OarHL
TTIL ▲ BAMJS& TAB£B.
Here dice, with their twice six apota, are counted } here the party-colouied man ia captured hj hia double foe.^
XTEn. B17TB.
Nuta aeem a amaU riak, and not likelj to be attended inA mnch loaa i yet aoch lidL haa often robbed the young of honour.
A PS1F-CA8B.
Aa you haye been lucky enough to gain apen-caae aa your prise, remember to atore it with pena. Haymff got the more ezpenaiTe part for nothing, you can afford the lewa coatly.
XL. THB eua or bobbbb8.*
If your game be the warfiue of inaidioua robberayon have ' here m gema both your aoldiera and your enemy.
ZXI. 8TTLX-OJU9XB.
Iheae atrle-caaea fiimiahed with their own ateel atylea are for you. U you give one of them to your boy, it will be no trifling preaent.
XZn. A TOOTH-FICK.
A piece of Lentiac wood jb beat ; but if that ia unattain- able, a qiull may rdiere your teeth*
^ One oomptrtment of the table was adapted for tfarowina dioe^ the other for monng men, reeembUna eheai-men or dian^te-men, aooordina to the thiowa of the dice. A man waa taken when he waa hemmed in between two of the adveiiaiy'a men. See Smith'a Diet, of Antiq. art. CAtaoum and LAraimoDU.
* The natare of thia game ia not esacUy known ; it ia Tariooaly an^ poeed to mean chaaa, dno^hti^ or aome kind of beiicging game.
OOg ]fABVIA3J*8
UUiX. Air BAB*fIOK.
I offisr you an inBtrument to allay fhe tiekling of your eaTi when it azmcya you with troobleaome ixritatioiL
XXJLV. A GOLDBir HAXB-FHT.
That your ofled treasea m&j not injure your a^lendid aOk dreaa, let thia pin fix your twiated hair, ana keep it up.
OOICBB.
Of what uae will be this piece of bot*wood, cut into ao many teeth, and now preaented to you, aeeing that you have no hairP
XXn. POICATUK.
My cauatie influence reddena the hair of the Germana : by my aid you may aurpaaa your alaTe's treaaea.
ULVIL HA.TTIAC BALLB.^
If you deaire, Octogenarian, to change tiie colour of your venerable hair, accent theae Mattiac baOa. But to what purpose, for you are oald P
ULViU. A PABABOL.
Accept thia protection againat the exceaaive heat of the aun ; and even againat the wind it will aerve you aa a veil.
XXrX. A BBOAD-BBDOCBn &AT.
In Pompey'a theatre I go aa a apectator well hooded, the awning there being of little avail againat the wind.
XXX. H UKTUrO-8FB ABB.
They will receive ruahing wild boara, and await liona ; they will pierce beara, if the hand that directs them be aufBdenUy firm*
llil. A HUHTJJIO-KVm.
If you mourn over your hunting-apear, atruck down by the boar's long tusk, this abort weapon will oppoae the huge animal in dose encounter.
^ So called from Mattiom, a town of Geimanjr, inppoMd by some to be the aame with Marporg. They were some kind oi oompoeitaoii fbi dyeing the hair.
BOOK ZIT.] IPIOKAMB. 000
XZXIL A BWORD AVS BXLT.
This is a military deoontion, an honourable testimony ; a weapon worthy to gird on the side of a tribune.
mm. A DAOGiB.
TinB da^iger, marked with eerpentine yeina, Salo,^ while it was hissmg with heat, tempered with ioe-cold water.
XZZIY. A 8CTTHX.
The settled peace of our Emperor has bent me to unwar- like uses ; now I belong to the husbandman, formerly I be- longed to the soldier.
Me to a better trade calme peace doth change^
I, in the camp did tenre, now in the Scange. WrigkL
nZT. A HATOHIT.
When a aad sale was made for the payment of debts, this hatchet was purchased for four hundred thousand sesterces.'
XULVI. BASJBXBS* OTBTBinCBBTS.
Some of these instruments are adapted for cutting the hair ; one is useful for long nafls, another for rough chins.
TTTVTT. A BOOK-CASB.
If you do not give me well-bound books, they wiU admit the moth and devouring worms.
zzxTm. BUirnLXB or bbbb-fxhs.
The land of ^^t supplies you With reeds fit for writing on paper. Wi^ the reeds of other marshes you may thatch your roofs.
XXZn. A VIOHT*tiAKF.
I am a night-lamp, privy to the pleasures of the couch ; do whatever you please, I shall be silent.
Privy to nocturnal glee,
Nought I say of all I tee. Elphmalm.
XL. A CAVnidl.
Fortune has given you this servant of the lamp, which, by keeping awake, dispels darkness.
' A river in Spain. See B. i. Ep. 50.
* A Tast sum ; more than £3200 of our money. We are Inclined to read fmadngiiUa inttead of fmirm^mitU^ a change which wonU reduce the price to £320
2 H
OIU xaxtial's
XLI. THE LAMP WITH BSTISIL . BinoiinBBS.
Altkough I iUamine whole banqoetB with my liglifc^ and have ao many nedca, I am caJIed but one lamp.
XLn. A TATKB.
Thia tapet will provide 70a with light in the night, sup* posing your lamp ahould oe stolen from your servant,
zLm. ▲ ooBnrTHiAir casbblabbitic.
It was candles that gave us our old name ; the lamp trim- med with oil was not known to our forefathers.
XLiT. A woonxir cabblbbtiok.
Tou see that lam apiece of wood; unless you are careful of the flame, a great lamp will be made out of your candle- stick.
Unless you mind, and mend the Ught, yon H see
The candlestiok itself will candle toe. Wrij^ht.
XLT. A PAGAiriQA, OB BALL STUFFBD WITH 7BATHBBS.
This ball, stuffed with feathers, difficult to manage, is not so soft as a bladder, nor so hard as an ordinary ball.
XLTI. THB BALL VOB PLATIBG AT THB TBXGOK, OB
THBBB-OOBnBBD GAMB.
If you are skilful enough to sMke me with rapid left- hand blows, I am yours. You axe not sufficiently skilled, so, down, return the balL
ZLYn. THB BLADDBB BOOT-BALL.
Betire to a distance, youne^ men; tender age suits me; with the bladder it befits only ooys and old men to play.
ZLTin. THB HABPASTA, OB SMALL KAHIKBALL.
This the agile youth catches amid the dust of AntsBus/ (though often) stretching his neck with firuitiess efforts.
XLZX. BUMB-BBLLS.
Whv do strouff arms fittigue themselves with frivolous dumb-DellsP To £gavineyara isaworthier exercise for men.
' That ill the dost of the palnttn, or irratlinf-flproimd, Antsne havin| bean famed for wrestling. The worda in bradceta are snppUed, being ap parently required to complete the aenae
BOOK XIT.] IFIOBAMt. (HI
L. ▲ LIATHEB CAP.
To pterent the wz6BUer*B undeBn oil from defilmjg your deek locks, jon may protect yonr perfhmed hair with this leathern coyering.
U. BTBZOILt, FOB BORAHS^ THX 8KIV IV THB BATH.
Pergamos sent these; scrape yourself with the cured iron, aad the scourer will not so often haye to cleanse your linen*
LH. ▲ ooxxoir hobv oil-tlajik.
A younff bull lately bore me upon his forehead; yoo might think me a real rhinoceros' horn.
Iiin. AN OIL-VLASK 07 BEIirOOBBOB' HOBIT.
This honiy which was recently seen in the Ausooian arena of the Emperor, and to which a bull waa but as a ball, is for yon.'
UT. A child's BATTLB.
If a little boy haags oying upon your neck, let him shake, with his tender mmd, tiiis noisy rattle.
Should round thy neck the cryiiiff homebom dinff,
Its tuneful hand may bid this timorel ring. Eqihrnsicn.
LT. A HOBSB-WHTP.
If the horse which you are running is of the purple faction,* you will mnke nothing of him, however much yon flog him with this whip.
LTI. TOOTH POWDBB.
What have I to do with you P Let the fair and young use me. I am not accustomed to polish false teeth.
LTn. imoBAiiAVinc.
This, which is mentioned neither by Tiigil nor by Homer, in all their verses, is nusde up of unguent and nut-balsam.
1 See Spectae., Bp. 9.
' The same is said of those of tho bine faction. B. vi Ep. 40
2 a 2
612 XAltTIAL*8
LTIU. APHBOVITBUIC, OB SALT-PITBS.
Are you a BoBtic P Then you do not know what I am called in Greek. lam called the seam of nitre. Are you a Greek P I am Aphronitron.
Thou, Uookhead, canst not scan my Grecian name : From Boum of nitre, lySaHpetre, came. SlphmutoHm
LIZ. BALICB.
Balm delights me; it is the perfume for men. Y6matronn, acent youraelTea with the essenoea of Cosmua.
IX. BEAS-rLOITB.
This will be an acceptable present, and not without its Dae to a wrinkled body, when exposed in broad daylight at the hatha of Stephanua.
liZT. ▲ H0Bir*i^AjmB3r.
I am a lantern, a raide for the way, and ahine like gold when the flame ia aneltered and the little lamp safe in my embrace.
TiTTT. ▲ LAJnnir UADM 07 ▲ BULDDXB.
If I am not of horn, am I the leaa transparent P Will any one who' meets me think me a bladder P
LXm. A BXSD PIFE.
Why do you smile at my form, composed of wax and reeda r The first ahepherd's pipe waa suck as I am.
Of wax and reed you laugh to see me made j
So was composed the pximal pipe that play'd. E^tkm&bm,
LXir. PIPX8.
The dranken female-piper bursts our ears with her inflated cheeks ; she sometimes blowa two pipes at once ;^ sometimee only one.
LZT. WOOLUEK SLIPFBBS.
If your Ber?ant should happen to be absent, and yoo wish to get your sandola, these will enable your feet to serve themselres.
> Pipeis often pUjed on two pipes at once, called HHm daxtrm M nmitirm, " right and left^&anded pipes.** See a lull desciiptioii of them in Oolmaa'a Preface to his Terence.
^oox xiT.] ipiasAiCB. 618
Bojleai, wookUt on or off thy aUppers put P
Thj mott obwqiiioiii tlaTo thoalt find thj foot S^kmiUm.
IXn. X 00B8CT.
^ You might be abb to confine jonr breast within a bull's hide ; but what you use is too small for the purpose.
■
LXni. ▲ IXT-VLJlP OT FS1.000X*S TXATHSBi.
That which prevents disagreeable flies firom feeding on your repast^ was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
What fi^om thy food repels profiuiing fiies,
Stnittedf a gorgeous tziin, with gem-like eyes. JB^fMuUm.
LXmi. BHOBIAK BISOUIT.
If your dave commits a &ult, do not smash his teeth with your fist ; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Bhodes has sent you.
LUX. ▲ PBIAPUS KADI 07 PABTBT.
If you wish to appease your hunger, you may eat this Priapus of ours; eyen though you consume evecy part of it» you will not be the less pure.
The pig fed on acorns among foamingwildboars, will afford you a merry saturnalia.
£XXI. A OLOTHSS-BBUSH OV OZ-TAIL.
If your dress has been soiled with yellow dust^ brush it off with gentle strokes of this bushy tail
LZXn. A SAtrSAOE.
The sausage which comes to you in mid-wintor, came to me before the seyen days of the Saturnalia.
T.Hm. A PABBOT.
I, a parrot, am taught byyou the names of others ; I have leaixed of myself to say, "Haill Gasar!"
To oompliment my master teacheth me :
Bat I» by nature^ am taoght loyalty. WrighL
For other names your lessons may aTsfl ;
I taught myielf to carol, ''Cssarf hail I" Elplhkuion.
614 ICASTUL*!
LZXIY. ▲ OBOW.
Corre salutator, qnare liallator haberiB P In caput intmyit mentula nulla taunu
0 oorro nlutatore, perchd lei ta teauto un feUatoreP ▼erana mentula entrb nella toa boooa. — Qraglia,
Philomela bewaUa the crime of the inoestaoos Tereos ; and
she who was dumb as a maiden, ia odebrated for her song as
a bird*
Hear Philomela Tereos' crime bewail j
Lo ! the mute maid, a wazbling nightingale, ^^mdom.
Wron^d Philomel, while woman, mute was she ;
Bat, smoe a bird, sings heir own elegy. WrigkL
I, a talking magpie, salute 70U as mj- master with dia* tinct voice ; if you did not see me, you would no^ believe me to be a bird.
Did vou not see, sach a troe voiee I feign. Thinking me man, you would salute again* WrigkL
LXXVUL Air IVOBT OAOX.
If vou erer possess such a bird as Lesbia, the beloved of Catullus, bewailed, it may d¥roll here.
E'en such a bird, so fond, so gay.
As Lesbia loved so wdl. And moum'd in sweet GatnUua^ lay,
In thee might happy dwelL Oto* Lcaifh.
LXZVm. ▲ ICKDIOm-OEXST.
Here you have an ivoiy medicine-chest, filled with the ap> pliances of the healing art; a present sudi as even Paodus ' might have coveted.
TiTTDT. WHIPS.
Play, sportive slaves ; but only phy.* These whips of mine shall be locked up for five days.*
Play on, but only play, ye serrile tcf %
No more than five dear days I dormant lie. Elf^umgbm.
^ Some plnnicUn, probably. > Do no mischief.
* In Ep. 72 the Satninaka are said to last seren days; Ats was the prescribed number, but two were usually added*
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LTTT. nBtTLJI.
Hated exceedingly by cbildien, and dear to schoolmaBien, we are the wood ennobled by the gift of Frometheua.^
The mafter't seeptra^ and the lehool-boj't imart i
Our awe spring* aaered from Promethean art. £iphmtUm.
LXZXI. ▲ WALLBT.
Thia wallet entreats that it may not be obli^ to carry the beggarly food of a long*beardea, half-dad philoaopher. or aerye as pillow to his mangy dog.
IXZZn. BBOOKB.
Brooms were once held in esteem, as onr palm trees tes- tify;' bat now the dayes haye forsaken brooms, and pidc up crumbs.
LXXULU. ▲ BAOK-SOBATOHBB, DT THB SHAPB 07 ▲ HAITI).
This hand win protect your shoulders from the bite of the troublesome fle% or from other things more offensive than a flea.
LULXIV. A WOODBir BOOK-OOySBIKa.
These fir ooyers will long preserve your manuscripts, and protect them against the fhction of your toga and doak.'
LXXXy. A OOUOH ICADB OV OITBOir-WOOI), CALLBD
^ PBAOOOX-TAILXn."
This coudi derives its name from the bird adorned with painted feathers ; which is now the attendant of Juno, but was formedy Argus.^
LZZrVI. A SADDLB.
Huntsman^ accept thia .saddle for your swift-footed steed, for a horse ridden bare-backed is apt to cause a painful
cuBBaae.
T.tiivif. A niHBXB OOUOH.
Accept a semicircular couch decorated with crescents of
' Pcometlieiif having aCdaa lira from hearaa in a hoUow cane or lead.
* Brooms wera andently made from tlio pdm-tree.
* ComMra B. i. Ep. 67.
« The handred-^Ted Aifoi was caanxed into a peacock.
61G KASTIAL^B
tortoise-ahell. It will hold eight. Whoever is a friend, let him take a seat on it.
LxxxYin. ▲ nnnrsB-TABLi oksauxstsd with thx
BX8T T0BT0IBX-8HXLL.
If you imagine that I am adorned with female land- tortoise shell, you are mistaken ; I bear the male ofispring of the sea.
LXXXIX. ▲ CITBOir-WOOI) TABLE.
Accept a present of rich wood from the forests of Atlas.
Whoever makes a present of gold (of equal weight), will
give less.
Atlas this citron table sends to thee :
Should he give gold, the gift would smaller be. WrighL
XO. ▲ KjLPLB-WOOB tablb.
I am not veined, it is true ; nor am I the ofbpring of an African forest ; yet even my wood is no stranger to sump- tuous feasts.
XCI. rVOBT TUSKS.
Do you question whether tusks which toss in air the vast bodies of bulls, can support tables of African wood P^
Ask yon if tusks that toss a bull in air
Suffice a rosewood table's weight to bear P W, 8. B.
XCn. ▲ FIVX-FXXT BULB.
This piece of oak, marked with spots, and tipped with a sharp point, frequently exposes the fraudulent dealiUga of the contractor.
XCm. AKTIQUB VABX8.
This is no recent masterpiece, nor the work of an artificer of our day ; Mentor, who made these cups, was the first to drink out of them.
xcrv. ooiocoB oups.
Though we plebeian cups are not made of decorative glass, our stone ware is not cracked by boiling water.
XOV. ▲ OHASBB GOLD CUP.
Although I am formed of the most beautiftd and ruddv Callaic gold,* I glory far more in my workmanship ; for t is that of Mys.
^ Seo Spectoe. Ep. 17 and 19. ' 'See B. t. Ep. 16»
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^ Accept this hmnble cu^, a memorial of the cobbler Vati* nios ; it is not so big as hi9 nose.
Tom. BisHxs nrtiAiD with GOJJ).
Do not dishenour such large gold dishes with an insigni- ficant mullet; it ought, at least, to weigh two pounds.
ZOrni. ABBITIVS TASKS.*
We warn yon not to look with too mudi contempt on Arretdne vaaes ; Porsena's splendid serrice was of Etruacan pottery.
XOIX. ▲ BABXXT.*
I, a barbarian basket, came from the painted Britons; but now Bome daims me for her own.
From psinted Britont, I baseauda came ;
Whom now imperial Bome would native olaim. JSJ^Am.
I, foreign basket, first in Britain known, Am now by Bome accounted for her own.
JFVifler't Warthui.
0. PASACLUr TXSSXLS.
If yon have risited the country of the learned Catullus^ you Imre drunk Bh»tian wine from my earthenware.
01. BOLSTABIA, A COOKIira TBSSIL.
Though mushrooms (boleti) have ^ven me so noble a name, I am used^ I am ashamed to say it, for cabbages.
on. suBBEKmn cttps.
Accept these eupa formed of no common day, but the polishea woA of a Surrentine potter's wheeL
cm. A SKOW-STBAIKBB.
Temper your cups of Setine wine, I advise yon, with snow put into me. Ton may use linen strainers for inferior wines.
> So called becanse the fkahioa of it wis inrented bT Vatiiiiiia, a shoe- maker of BenereatDiii ; or became it was shaped like his noee.
* From Arretium, a town of Btmria, now Areiso.
* The word "baaket" ic sappoaed to be derired from Bammda. Sea /ohnaon'a Dictionaiy.
618 mabtial'b
oiY. ▲ nrow-BA.0.
Oar coane Imen, too, will clarify snow-water, which doea not gush any colder from your fine strainer.
CT. WATBB-JUeS VOB THX T13LE.
Let cold water not be wanting, and the warm wiD be at command ; never trifle with craying thirst.
on. AH BAXTHXir PITOHXB.
Here ia presented to yon a red pitcher with twisted handle; the Stoic Pronto ■ used to fetch his water in this vessel.
cvn. wm 0I7FS.
The Sat]^ loves ns; Bacchus loves ns; and so too the intoxicated tigress, whom we have taught to lick the feet of her master.
OVill. SAOUBTUn OITPB.
Accept these cups, fiuhioned of Sagontine day, which your servant may take and handle without aniiety.
CIX. JEWBLUBn OXTPS.
See how the gold, begemmed with Scythian emeralds, glistens ! How many fingers does this cup deprive of jewels !*
ox. Ajr AMPULLA, OB DBXlTEIira FLASK.
Here is a gemmed cup, which bears the name of Cosmus ;^ drink, luxurious man, ii you thirst for perfumed wines.^
OZI. OBYSTAL CT7P8.
Tou break crystal cups in your anxiety to avoid breaking them ; hands too careless, and too anxious, are equally de- structive.
Ton chrystal break, forftar of breaking it:
Oareleas and cardhll hands like fitults commit WrigkL
* Perhapf lie wlio is mentioned B. L Ep. 56.
* Ancient gold as well as erystal caps and rases, inlaid with Jewels, especially emeralds and mbies, are still found in some cabinets.
* The perfiuner often mentioned before.
^ It was a practice of the luzurioos. in the time of Martial, to mix spikenard, mjxrh, and other perfumes, with their wine. See Plin. H. N.
la.
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cm. ▲ VJMBVB OV QJtABB.
The nimbut that comes firom Jupiter will supply you with abundance of water to mix with your wine ; this nimbut wiU give you wine itself.^
oxhl icTBBHun ornPB.
If you drink your wine warm, a Myrrhine cup ia best for hot laleroian ; and the flaronr of the wine is improred by it.
OXIT. ▲ OVUMAX PLATX.
This plate of red Oumiean earth is sent you by the chaste SibyL it is a natire of the same place wit3i herself.
CXT. GLASS C1TP8.
Behold tlie talent of the Nile. Alas I how often has the workman, while wishing to give additional ornament to hia work, destroyed it !
This Is Egyptian work. How oft does taste^
Aiming too high, its tailsome efforts waste Wi 8. B.
Um» ▲ nXOAKTSB JOB SKOW-WATXB.
«
You drink Spoletine wine, or that which has been stored in lyfanrian celtus. Of what use to you is the noble luxury of iced water?
OXVU. BKOW.
To drink not snow, but water iced with snow, is the derice of ingenious thirst.
CXTm. TEX SAHX.
Do not, my dave, mix the smoky wiae of Marseilles with ioed water, lest the water cost you more than the wine. .
Maasilta's smoke forbear with snow to blend:
Nor mofe on water, than on wine, expend* E^pikkufym.
our, AH lAXTHXir utsvbil.
When I hare been called for by a snap of my master*8 fineeon, and the attendant has loitered, oh how oftea has the cuuiion been my riyal I
v^moM a " storm," or " storm-cload." The point lies ia the word also meiamg a wine-Tewel, probably ao called from its daik eohnir.
620 maxtial's
cxz. ▲ biltxb la&ujj^ ob bicall ladlb.
Thouf h knights and BeotAxxn call me Ugula, I am* called linyula Dj ignorant grammarianB.^
CXXI. A OOOHLBABB* (SPOOK).
I am Boitable for sbell^fiBh, but not lesB bo for eggs. Pray can you tell why the one has giyen me a name rather than the other t
CI ill'. BIKOB.
In old times we were frequently, but now we are rarely, presented to a friend. Happy the man who has for a friend a knight whose fortune he has made ! '
OXUm. A BIBO-OABB.
Often does the heavy ring slip off the anointed fingers ; but if you confide your jewel to me, it will be safe.
OXXITk A TOOA.
He who gave the skies to his illustrious sire,^ made the toga-clad Bomans lords of the world.
CZXT. THE BAKB.
If you can reconcile yourself to give up your morning sleep, you may, by wearing out this toga, obtain a sportula.
OZXn. A WABM OLOAJL
This is a poor man's gift^ but not often a poor man's wear. We send you this doak in place of a mantle.
OXrvn. A BBOWB CLOAK OF OABUBIAir WOOL.^
This Canusian doak, in colour extremely like must, shall be our gift to thee. Bejoioe! it will not soon wear out.
> The word is a diminatiTe from tmffva, ** a tongue -/' bat Uffula be- came the prevalent form of it
* CodUMTt, from eochlmt, a ahdl, on aoconnt of iti shape. Onr M tea caddy spoons were often shaped like a oockle-shell.
' In ancient times patrons often presented their clients with a snm of money to enable them to purchase the equestrian dignity, and wear the ring of the order.
^ Domitian, who deified Vespasian, and bnilt a temple t> the Flafias fiunilv.
' From Canusia in Apulia.
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ozxnn. ▲ OALLio hood.
Chuil oloUies YOQ with its Santonio^ hood: it was bat recently Uuit it clothed a monkey,'
OXXIZ. BXB CLOAKS 07 OAOTBULV WOOL.
Bome mole wiQinffiy wears brown doaks ; Ghial prefers red, a colour which pleases children and soldiers.
QXX3L \ LBATHIBir OLOAX.
Although yon begin your journey on the finest of dm; let this leathern doak oe always at hand against sudden showers.
CXXXZ. ▲ BOABLIT OOAT.
If yon bdoDg to the blue or the green fiustion, why put on scarlet? Be cs^eful, lest by that proceeding you be reckoned a deserter.
CTTTTT. A CAP.
If I coidd, I should have been glad to send you a whole suit ; as it is I send you only a coTering for your head.
Cllim. BASTIO CLOAKS.
My wool is not deceitful, nor do I diange my colour in the aying Tat. IVrian wool may please by sudi means; my colour is that of the sheep I dothed.
My wod has never known the arts of l^rxs^
The iheep that bore it was its only dyer. Wi 8, B,
Fm what I seem j not any dyer gaye,
But nature dyed thii colour that! hsTe. Wripkt
CXUUV. A BBEAST-BAITD.
Breast-band ! confine the swelling bosom of my mistress^ that I may be able to coyer and press it with my nand.
oxzxy. A nnQTBB bbxss.
No law courts or bail cases are known to me. Hy duty is to redine on embroidered couches.
OXXXyi. A WOOLLBV CLOAK.
Tine smooth garments are of little use in winter. Hy ahaggy ooyering will impart warmth to your under-dress.
* From the SantoneB, a people of Ghral.
* It leKmbled the ahor^ coat aometimea put on mookeya.
822 KAJOIIL*!
oxzxTn. -wanm wooiiav oloazi.
We reoommend oonelyes for Mmoe in the aiDplut1ieatR% wben our white ooTering enoompaaBeB the chilly toga.
OZZXTm. ▲ TABLI-OOTZB.
Let this woollen doth protect your Bplendid citron tabia On mine a diah may be puced wi&out aoing any harm.
oxxxEc ▲ LiBinunAir hood.
Ton did not know, simpbton, how to auit yonr doak to me. Yon pnt on a white doak ; yon hare to take off a green one.^
OIL. CILICIAK BOOKS.
These are not formedof wool,bntof the beard of the fetid goat.* You may bury yoor foot in tinn haiiy ooyering.
OXLI. ▲ SnrTHBBIS, OB RSTAIr BOBX.
While your toga enjoys a rest of five days,' you may, if you please, make use m this Testment.
OXLn. ▲ iniFFIiXB
H witL the intention of redting, I happen to present to you a little book, let this muffler ddend your ears.
OZLm. PATATIAK WOOLItXir 8HIBT8.
The Fktavian triple tissue is composed of many fleeces ; it is only a saw that can cut these thick shirts.
cxuT. ▲ spoirox.
Chance has given jou this sponge, useful for wiping tables, when it ia sUghdy distended with the water which it imbibes.
OXLT. ▲ OLOAK 07 LOKCh HAIB.
Sudi is my whiteness, such the beauty of my long hair, that you would like to wear me eren in tuie midst of harvest.
CXLTI. ▲ FIIi2H>W.
Rub your hair with the nard of Cosmus, and your pillow > A portion of tlie wool of the hood, which fell down oyer the npper
Q the ha during initeadofthetogE. See Ep. 72* 79, etc.
BOOK jir.'] pnexAin.
will Bmell of it. Wh^ii your ludr hai lost tbe perfume, the pillow retain! it.
GZLTIL LOire-HAIBXB OOTZBLSTS.
Tour woollr coverlet is radiant with puxple trimmiDga ; but what anuls that^ if an old wife freeses you P
Wampiizple rogi without, what profit thcMy
If aa old wife wShin doth make thee freeieP WrighL
oxLTin. ▲ PAiB on BLAJTzara.
Leqt the mattreaa ahould be too plainly aeen on your acantQy-ooTered oouchy we two aiatera oome to your aid.
CZLIX. ▲ TVOKXB.
I fear thoee whose de?elopment ia hurae : give me to some tender maiden, that the linen of whioi I am formed may delight in her anow-white charma.
CL. AH OBJIAMSimD OOTXBUK.
The land of Memphis makes you this preaenti The Babylonian needle in now auipaaaea by the loom of the Kile,
CLI. ▲ WOXAV'a eiBDIiB.
At preaent I am long enouffh; but if you ahould swell with an agreeable burden, I ahould then prove too abort for you.
CUT. ▲ BQtTABl BVO.
The land of the learned Catullua^ will aupply you with blanket^ We are from the region of Helicaon^
CLIIL AH ▲PBOH.
Let the rich man give you a tunic ; I can only give you .an apron. If I were a rich man, I wonLd giye you m>th.
OLIT. AUTETBT-OOLOirUD WOOLS.
Since I am drunk with the blood of the Sidonian ahell- fish, I do not aee why I ahould be called a aober wooL*
> Verona.
* From Patftfinm, foimdodby HeUcaon, Uieaon of Antenor. B.x.Ep.93*
* An allndon to Uie deriTatioii of amethyttui, from a and juMth bocaim ic wai foppoMd to haro tht poirvr of proranting intozicatioo.
624 illetul's
clt. -whttb wool.
Apulia 18 noted for fleeces of the first qoalilnr ; Euniui for those of the second. The sheep whose wool is of the third quality distingniwhes Altinum.
a&TX. TTSIAir WOOL.
I was the present of the shepherd-prince to his Spartan mistress. Her mother Leda's purple robe was inferior to me.
CLTII. POLLSNTlira WOOL.
The territory of Pollentia is accustomed to give us, not only wool of a dark colour, but also cups.
CLTHL THS SAXX.
I am, it is true, a sad-coloured wool ; but suitable^ for shorn attendants,* such as p^ not required for the higher offices of the table.
CLix. irATTBiss-BTuirnroB ov LEUooimrii.
Is the sacking' uncomfortably dose to your pillow P Take this wool plucked from Leuconian^ blankets.
CLX. OIBOITS STUITFnrO.
The marsh-reed, when cat up, is called circus-stuffing, and is what the poor man buys instead of Leuconian stufi&ng.
OLZI. rXATHSBS.
When fatigued, you may recline upon Amydsan feathers, which the swan's inner coat provides for you.
CLZn. HAT.
Let your fragile bed be stuffed with hay filched from the mules. Pale care does not visit hard couches.
Stuff thy oheap tick with hay, pale care vrill fly :
She never dotn apoa a hazd bed lie. WrighL
1 Schiieidewin reads nHa ; we follow the old readiDg, iqBfo.
' The better class of slares wore their hair long ; the inferior sort had it cut close. Gomp.^ B. tUL Ep. 51.
> Fateia, Some strap by which the pillow was buckled to ths eonch.
* From the Leud, or Leuoones a pcaple of Oaal.
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CLXm. ▲ BATE BILL.
GKye up (plajiiig with^ the ball : the bell of ibe wann baths rings. Do you ocmtixiae jour game P You wish, then, for a oold hath bdfore 70U return home.^
oLxrr. ▲ QUOIT.
When the shining Spartan guoit is fijing through the air, keep at a distance, children. Xiet it not m fatal more than it once was.*
OLXT. ▲ LTBX.
The lyre restored Eurydioe to her bard (Orpheus) ; but he lost her again by his want of self-control and his too im- patient love.
CLXYI. THE BAia.
The lyre, which attracted woods and detained wild beastly has often been ejected from the theatre of Pompey *
The tale of Oipheui is, IVe no doubt, trae,
For stocks ana stones the harpist still pnisae. Wi & B*
OlXm. ▲ QUILL TOS THB LTBB.
That an inflamed blister may not rise upon yoor chafed thumb, let this white quill elicit the sound ox the gentie lyre.
CLmn. ▲ HOOF.
Awheel must be protected ^with a tire). You make me a useful present It will be a noop to chfldren, but to me a tire for my wheel
OLXCC THB SAICB.
Whf do these jingling rings^ move about upon the rolling wheel P In order uiat the passers-by may get out of the way of the hoop.
CLXX. A G0LD£lf STITUB 07 TICTOBT.
Victory is here presented, without the intervention of
^ The wiTin bathf^ in which tt wm otuil to haths alter pUyins st bell, irera cloeed at a certain tiine ; thoee who did not go to them bem ther were doeed mi^t bathe in cold water. See B. t. Ep. 21 ; B« tL Ep. 42.
* Allnding to the case of Hyadnthns, killed accidentally by PhoBbos.
** By the popnlace, who sometime! drore the mnaciani off the ttagi. Bee Speotac. Ep. 21.
« Small linfi were attached to boys' hoope to make a jingUng
2 B
820 lUBTIiX'B
hnzard, to him lio wliom the Ehine gare a true xiame.^ fflafe^ pour out ten cups of Falemian.*
. OLXXI. ▲ SlCiLLL BTATin Of VRVTVB*B TATOITBITS.
Little as is this statuette, its glory is by no means inoon* siderable. Brutus set his affection on this boy.
CliZZII. THI OOBIHTHIAV LTTiATtn-SLiLYglL
Spare, treacherous child, the lizard which is crawling to* wards you. It is eager to perish by your hands.
OLlim. ▲ PICTUBX OF HTAOIKTmrB.
The young; grandson of Oebalus, at once the shame and the regret of rhasbus, turns his dying eyes from the cruel disc.'
OLZXIT. ▲ ICABBIiB HETHTAPFBODITB.
He entered the water a male ;^ he left it both male and female. In one feature only does he resemble his father ;' in every other his mother.^
OLZXT. ▲ PIOTITBa OF DAKAB.
Why, O ruler of Olympus, did Danae receive pay from thee, it Leda granted thee her favours for nothing ?
CUCXVI. ▲ GSBlCAiZr HAJBK.
I am the fancy of the potter, the mask of a red-haired Batavian. This countenance, at which you smile, is an object of terror to children.
Work'd in xed day, a Dutchman's phis am I $
I move your hughter, but make children cry. W, 8, B,
OLXXVU. THl OOBIirTHXAH HEBOITIiXB.
The infSuit crushes the two snakes without turning his eves from them. Already might the hydra have dreaded the tender hands.
See how the child doth the two serpents tear,
And squeeze out life ! Hydra e'en now may fear. WrighL
' To Domitiazi, snmamed Gennanicus.
' Answering to the ten letters in the name of Germanicus. B. L Bp. 78i
* See Ep. 164.
* The fountain of Salmads. See Ond's Metam. B« iv*
* Uercorjr. * Tenus*
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OLZXnn. ▲ TXBBA-OOTTA HXBOULIS.
lam fin^; but do not, I warn jon, despue mj Btatoette, Alddes Unahea not to bear mj xiame.
OLTTTT. HXKIBTA ZV BILTBB.
Ten me^ fierce maiden-goddeaa, why, ainoe you hare a hel- met and a ipear,70u have not also an iSgiaP '^ OflBsar haa it."
Say, gallant maid, of helm and spear pOMeit,
'Wbra is thine i^ P lis on CsBsaz^s breaat I^^hmtttm.
OLTTX. BimOPJU
The time, excellent &ther of the goda, when yon might beat ha?e dlianged youraelf into a bml, waa when your lo waaa cow.
Theoy rather, Joye, afaoold'st then haye ehoee to bee
A bdlt when lo waa a cow for thee. Jfiiy.
OLXXZI. THl lUBBLl LBAJTOBB.
The dazing Leander exclaimed amid the swelling waters ; ** Drown me, ye waves, when I am on my retnm."
Thof bold Leander cry'd i'th* swelling maine,
ThoD drown me waves, when I retume againe. Mfiay
Hios bold Leander spake to the swell'd wave ;
Spare me tUl I return, be then my grave. WrighL
OLXZXZL ▲ TXim^-OOTTA FIOXTEB OF ▲ HUKOHBACX.
Promethens, I should think, waa drunk when he gave such a monster to earth. Even he amused himself with Satuma- lian day.'
CLZZZIIL HOICBB'B ** BATTLB OF THB FBOOS UTD MIOB."
Bead of tiie frogs, sung b v the bard of lifisonia^ and learn to relax yrar brow with such pleasantries as mine
Read Homex^s Frogs and IGoe, and when yoa*ve done, PeriMfs you 11 know how to enjoy my fbn. W. 8. J?.
CKXXXIT. ▲ PABCHlCBirT OOFT OF HOMBB.
. The Iliad, and the story of Ulysses, hostile to the kingdom of Priam, lie deposited in these many folds of skin.
^^
« He had his Satninaha as well as we. 2s2
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OUDCXT. TIBeiL'B ^ eVAT^
Beoebe, stodioos leader, tixe ''Gnat" of the doquent Yirgil, and do not entirely reject droUeriea to read ** Arma vinunque cano."
OLXXZYI. TntaiL OJf PABOHMSKT, WITH POBTIUIT.
How small a quantity of parchment holdb the great Maro ! His portrait omameata the first page.
CLZxrrn. icbkaitdsb's "thaib."
In this character did he first satirize the firee loves of young men. It was not Ghlyoere, but Thais, that was his mistress in youth.
OULULVIH. OIGSBO OV SABOHUBTT.
If this parchment be your companion on a long journey, you msy imagine that you are trayelling with Cicero.
CLZZXIZ. ▲ OOFT or FBOPSBTIUS.
Cynthia^ theme of the youthful muse of the eloquent Pro> pertius, has not recei?ed more fiune from him than she has given in retuixL
cxo. un ur ▲ stsolk toliticb.
The voluminous lavy, of whom my bookcase would onci scarcely have containea the whole, is now comprised in tiiia small parchment Tolume.
In a small parchment see great lavy roird ;
Whom aU my itndy vas too small to hold. Wrf^kL
OXCI. BiJJiXrBT.
Sallust, aooording to the judgment of the learned, will rank aa the prince of B^nan histonographers.
CXCn. OTID*8 KXTAXOBPHOaBS OK PABCHMXRT.
Thia mass, whidi, as you see, oonsistB of a ereat number of leavea, containa fifteen books of the verses of Naao.
OXCm. TIBULLirS.
The playful Nemesis ooosumed with love the amorona Ti* bullus, whom it deligfaAed to be s cipher in his own house.*
' IDs ngivt eaneloi^ fllinl omnmciinia
Bl juYM ia lolt »• mka ens domo.— IVvflL L ft.
BOOK XIT.] IPISBllCB. 62ft
OXdT. IsUCAX,
There are eome who bbj that I am not a poet ; bat the bookaeller, who sells me, thinks that I am.
People there are who say I'm not a poet^
Not ao the bookaellen, — and they ihould know it JT, S. B.
OXOT. OJLTULLVS.
Gkeat Yerona owes as much to her OatuUos, as little Mantoa owes to her YirgQ.
OXCTI. OALYTTS* POIH OK WAJUC AWD OOLB SPSIKOS.
This paper, which teUs you of the yirtuee and names ot water, deserves to be set afloat on the waters it describes.
Tlie Terse, that dazes the yarions stzeams to limn.
Had better down her fiiT*rite waters swim. .SjfMwton.
oxom. nwABV huiiBS.
From these mules you need not fear s &11 ; you often sit higher on the ground.
' Ton need not fear a faU from my low mule i
You almost higher sit when earu's your stooL WrighL
cxcnn. ▲ GAixic pxtppt.
If yon wish to. hear all the pretty tricks of the Utile puppy, s whole page would not suffice for me to enumerate them.
CXCIX. ▲ JXHKZT.
This small horse, who picks up his swift hoofs in such regular time, is an Astiuian, and comes from the gold- pf^udng regions.
00. THX OSBTHOUim.^
The active greyhound hunts not for himself, but for Iiis master, and wiU bring you the hare unhurt in his teeth
1 An tlie Latin Dictioiitries interpret Vtrtofftu as a gnifhomtd, hot Mfr Amos tianilates ^triagua aoer as a keen tumbler, and rafecs for his ao- thorij^ to Dr. Nash's commentary on the following lines in Bntlsr's HndiSns: —
" Like a tumbUr that does play His game and looks another way."
We gire the note as it stands hi Bohn's edition of Hndibns, psge 96, and leave the reader to determine. " A dog, called by the Latins Kcrioyiis, that loUs himself in a heap, and tumbles orer, disguising his shape and
630 icabtlil'b
OCI. THB WBESTLSB.
I, do not like lum for oouqueriiig, but for knowing how to Buccumb, and fitQl more for naTing learned the art oi retriev- ing himself.
con. TSE ABB.
I am an ape, cannins in aroiding the darts hnrled at ma. Had £ a taQ, I dioold be a eereopitheeui.^
OCm. ▲ VXKAIiB DiJrCBB OF CAJiJZ.
Tam tremnlmn crissat, tarn blandum prurit, nt ipsom Masturbatorem feeerit Hippolytum.
Salteggia con fli minnto tremito, ed eccita oon tanta losmga, che IppoUto stesso si maBtnrberebbe. GragUa,
OCIY. CYHBALB.
The brazen instraments, which lament the Ioto of the Phrygian mother,' are often sold by her hungry priest.
OCT. THB TATOITBITB.
Mine be a £EiYourite whose delicate skin is due to tender youth, and not to art ; for whose sake no maiden may be pleasing in my eyes.
oon. THB CBBTUB.
Bind upon thy neck, child, this cestus, which is lore itself warm from tiie IxMsom of Yenus.
com. THB BAHB.
^ Take this cestus, steeped in the nectar of Cytherea ; a cincture which kindled love in Jupiter.
OCYin. ▲ SHOBT-HAITD WBITBB.
Though your words run swiftly, the hand is swifter stilL The hand has recorded before the tongue has uttered.
The swifter hand doth the swift words out-ran :
Before the tongne hath spoke the hand hath done. Wrighi,
motion, till he is near enoQi^ to his object to seise it by a sndden spring. The tumbler was senersUj used in hunting rabbits. See Cains de CUin>na Britannicis (Kay, on EngUshe Dogges, sm. 4to, Lond. 1576), and MartiaL lib. xiT. Epig. 200. ^ A tailed monkey. * Cybelei
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Swift though the wordi, the pen ftOl iwifter sped;
The pen hM fixuah'd e'er the tongue has add. Mshnoth^
OCIX. ▲ BHXLL.
Let the Efiyptian papyniB be made smooth hj the marine shell; and the pen wiU then speed along without inter- ruption.
OCX. THS BTTFFOOK.
His follj is not feigned, or assumed bj cunning art. Who- ever is not more than wise enough, is wise.
A modest tollj may for wiidome go ;
And he's less wise that would seem more than so. WHffhi.
OOXL Jl bhbsp's hulb.
Yon haye cut the* soft neck of the Phrixean husband of the flock.^ Did he, who gave you your clothing, cruel man, deserve this?
You the Phryxean beast do kill ; yet he
DisroVd himself to dress ungrateful thee. WrighL
COXn. ▲ SWABX.
If you look only at the head of the mail, you might fancy
him to be Hector ; if you see him on his legs, you would
think him Astyanax.
Whom for his head you Hector think, you 11 call Hector's young son, when you perceive how tall. Wright.
CCXm. ▲ SMAIiL BHIXLD.
This, which is wont often to be beaten,* but rarely to beat, will be a small shield to you, but would be a lai^ one for a dwarf.
COXIT. YOUVO OOHBDIAjrs.
No one of that troop will be the MtvovfUvoQ (hated one) ; but every one is ready to be A2c iiawarmr (the double oe- oeiver).*
COXY. ▲ CLASP.
Tell me, dasp, frankly, of what advantage are you to actresses and lute-players ? To enhance their favours.
^ A lam such as that which cairied Phrixus.
* Because the gladiators» called parmulam, or shield-bearerB, were dis* eouraged by Donltian. > The names of two of Mfsnder^s comedies^
682 1C1XTI1X*8 BFIOBAlCt.
OCXYI. ▲ HAWK.
He used to prej upon birds ; now he is the servaiit of the bird-catcher, and deoeiYeB birds, repining that thej are not caught for himselfl
WHLom his own, and now the fowWs thief:
To swoopb not for himself, is all his grief. JSlphmtion,
CGXTn. ▲ OATBBBB.
Tell me how msny there are of you, and at what price joii wish to dine. Not a word more ; dinner is ready for yon.
Tour ordinsiy snd number name; what is 't P
Not a word more ; your supper 's drest and disht. Wright
ccmJL, sons 7ob BiBn-OATOHore.
The bird is deoeiyed, not by the rods only, but also by the song, while the reed^ is stealthily stretched out by tlie concealed hand.
coxix. ▲ bullock's hbabt.
As youy a poor lawyer, write verses that bring yon no profit, accept a heart suuilar to your own.
OCXX. THB COOK.
Art alone is not enough for a cook. I do not like mj palate to be his slave; the cook should have the taste of his master.
A cook should double one sense have : for he
Should taster for himself and master be. Wright
cczn. ▲ aBmiBOK akd sfit.
Let your slim gridiron be greased with the crescent-shaped steak. Let the &ming boar smoke upon the long spit.
OCmi. THB COITFEOTIOKBB.
That hand will construct for you a thousand sweet figures of art ; for it the frugal bee principally labours.
OCXUH. BICH BBBAE7AST8.
Else ; the baker is already selling breakfasts to the chil- dren ; and the crested birds of dawn are crowing on all sidesi
^ A raod oovered with bird-limo.
SUPPOSITITIOUS EPIGRAMS.
I.
Whut asked wbat are my. employinentB while living in the oonntiy, I answer briefly thus : At dawn I addreae my prayer to the goda ; I yimt my alayee and my fielda, and allot to m^ people each his dne portion of work. Then I read, and inroke FhoDbus, and B<mcit the Mnses. Next I anoint myself with olive oil, and take sentle^ exercise in the palsstra; at peace in mind, and free nrom interest-bearing debta. Then I dine, drink, sing, play, bathe, sap, and so to bed ; while my littJe lamp consumes its modicum of oil, and fumishes these trifles elaborated by the aid of the muses at night.
When to my fiurm retired, how I do live
If any ask, this short account I give :
The gods at the first light I do Morei
And place this care, alTother cares before.
My grotrnds I visit then, and servants call,
And their just tasks I do impose on alL
I study next, rouse my poetic vein.
My body then anoint, and gently strain
mth some meet exercise $ exult in mind
At every turn, myself both free to find
From crimes and debts : last, I bathe, sup, laugh, drink
Jest, sing, rest, and on all that passesi tbmk.
A little hunp the while sends forth a ray,
Which to my nightly studies makes % aay. ^fioa. 1095.
634 BTJPPOSiTiTioirs
n.
YaroB happened late.7 to ask me to supper ; the appoint- ments were splendid, the supper itself was paltry. The table was laden with golden dishes, not with meats ; the semmts placed before us plenty to delight the eje, but very little to satisfy the appetite. I then observed : " I came to feed, not my eyes, but my stomach; either place food before me, Yams, or take away your rich service.*'
Varus did lately me to supper call, The table somptuous was, the supper small ; Leaden it mm with weight of golo, not meat; Much to be seen was served, little to eat ; Varus, our mouths, not eyes, to feast we're here ; Take hence thy plate, or fill 't wi^ better cheer.
With lace bedisen'd comes her man.
And I must dine with Lady Anne ;
A silver sendee loads the board ;
Of eataUes a slender hoard.
** Tour pride, and not your victuals, spars :
I came to dine, and not to stare." Dr. Soadljf.
m.
Tou nm about, Fonticus, incessantly, fiom one great man's house to another, and leave no spot untrodden: the objects at which you aim, Fonticus, are great ; you are a great man. Whatever you do, Fonticus, you do without wit- ness, without noise; you admit few persons, Fonticus, into your confidence ; you are a cautious man. Nature made you, ronticus, remarkable for good looks ; you would have oeen worthy of Helen, Fonticua; you are a handsome man. With your voice, Fonticua, you oould have moved adamant^ it sounds sweetly, Fonticus, you are a sweet man. Thus is it you deceive others, Fonticus, thus it is you deceive even yourself. Will you have me say the truth, Fonticus F You are no man at all.
XFiesiJCS. 685
IT. OS ▲ WOXAV 07 URLIABIVO OOITimirAKOB.
You are pleasing^ when felt; yon are pleasing, when heard; if not seen, you are altogether pleaaing; if aeen, joa please in no way whatever.
WhiUi in the dark on thy soft hand I hung, And heard the tempting liren in tfaj toncuei What flames, what darts, what angmah i endured 1 But when the candle enter'd I was oared.
Speetator^ No. 59*
T. OH XILO.
Milo is not at home : Milo having gone abroad, his fields lie fiillow; his wife however is none the less productive. The reason why his fields are sterile, and his wi& fruitful, I will tell you : his field receives no attention, hia wife much.
Milo abrood, one wonder aU declare:
His landi lie fidlow, yet his wifb can bear.
The oontzast stxanse some deep diviners scan :
She has, tiio' tiiey nave not, a nusbandman. Sijthmikm,
TI. THB PUKI8HMBHT 07 ▲ PLl^TSB.
A well-fed player was guilty of an offence against pro- priety, before the statue of Jupiter ; aa a punishment^ Jup piter enjoined that he should live at hia own expense.
Vn. OK MS DCFUnXVT KAV.
You say that you have the mouth of your undo, the nose and eyea of your father, and the gait of your mother. Since you thus represent your fiunily, and thore is no part in your body but attests it, pray tell me^ whose fiu» have youP
You say, ypur nose and eyes your fttfaec's are : Yonr month your grandsire's, with your mother's air. Since every part hath got some stamp upon 't ; Fray, tell us, if yon can, who is your front i32i|f.
6S0 tvppoBiTiTioirs
Tm. TO HiLTTXTB.
He who is denied, when yon knock at hiB door, know yon not what be sajB ? '' I am asleep to you, Mattoa."
He who denies himself at home, you see,
Mattos, doth say, <« I am asleep to thee." Wright.
IX. TO MILO.
Frankinoense, pepper, dresses, silver, cloaks, gems, you are accustomed, lulo, to sell, and the buyer carries them off withhim. Traffic in your wife is more profitable ; for, though often sold, she never leaves the seller, or lessens his store.
The Bpioe, elodies, plate, snd jewels, whioh each day By you are sold, ihe buyer hean away. Bat your wife's merchandise yields greater gain, Which you so often sell, yet still retain. JERiy.
Tou sell your wife's rich jewels, lace and dothes :
The price once paid, away the purchase sees :
But she a better bargain proves, I'm tola :
Still sold letoms, and stiU is to be sold. Dr, Sbadfy.
X. TO THI TO17K0.
Learn, young man, how with eloquence to plead your cause, that you may be your ovm defenoer, guard, and support. I would not that fiirtune should place me in the high^ or in the lowest rank, but that she should assien to me the middle walk of life. Bavy besets those in high places, oppression those who are needy ; how happy does he live, who is free from both. What nature denies, industry may accord ; rarely do the rich attain the blessings which are allotted to the poor. O ye young men, who rejoice in a time of life apt for study, learn ; yean pass away like running water. Do not, while ;^ou have the opportunity of learning, waste y^our days, ye doale youths, in idle pursuits ; neither the running water nor the fleeting hour ever returns. Let youth ripen in the studv of Virtue, that life may pass with well-merited esteem and honour.
iviOBAici. jB87
XX. TO BOJCTOIA.
Sc«to]a» you diLe with ereiy mxe^ bat no one with yon; Ton drain tne wine cups of others; but no one dnuns yours. Bther make a letnm, or oease to court inyitations ; it is dis- gncefol always to receive and never to give.
XU. TO AirOTUS.
You expect from us Anctus, that love which you accord to no one; you expect from us that confidence which you repose in no one. You expect from us honour which you have not earned. It ia remarkable that one who grants no- thittg himself should ask so much from others.
ffoL has
TTTT. OV PHIL178.
Philus has fine msntles, and encirdes his fingers with Id rings; and yet Philus is poorer than a pauper. He a TyrSax cloaks, mules, beasts of burden, clients; and yet Phflus is poorer than a pauper. Philus has halls furnished with royal maffnifioence ; and yet Philus is pocfrer than a pauper. ^ is hungry and thirsty, thouffh surrounded with gold and clad in stately robes of purple, he is nevertheleaB hunery and thirsty. That the pangs of hunger visit him, is told by his paleneos and thinness ; yet his golden bulla would indicate that the pangs of hunger are unknown to him. Shall the unhappy man, then. Be* oome a slave for bread P His golden omla prevents him from being a slave. Or i^ with suppliant prayer, he asks any &vour, his silken robe is an obstacle to success. (Diat he may not perish, then, let him become poor instead of rich * for, if 1m Decame poor, he might become lidier.
XIT. TO XVLVU.
Neither your birth, nor your good looks, nor the dignit} of your rank, nor the respectability of your character, Aulcs, will profit you in the least ; for being poor, you will always be poor ; and you will be enrolled in the lowiast of the low* estciass.
638 sunoBjnovn.
XT. TO BBGDXVS.
BegoIuBy HennagoraB says that we must not please ereTy- body. Chooee oat of the niany whom you would plraae.
XVI. TO AULIOITB.
You give me much, Aulicua ; I fear that you will expect much in return. I had rather that you would not give, if you look for a return.
XVn. TO OESMAinOTTB.
You raise your voice, G^rmanicus, in the strife, that your furious tones may give utterance to the fuzy of your mind.
XVJLU. TO BA8SU8.
Eveiy friend loves, but not every one that loves is a friend. But whomsoever you love, Bassus, be also a friend to him.
XIX. TO TUBomus.
You prolong your dinner, Turgidus, till nightfall ; your sup-' per till day-break ; and you drench yourself day and night with all kmds of wine. And although you study appear- ances, you decline to marry ; and you give as your reason for declining, ** A chaste life pleases me." You lie, Tuigidus ; yours is not chaste life. Would you have me t^ you what a chaste life is P Moderation.
XX. OK CHIiOS.
You long for a wanton Gfanyraede ; you are the toy of any one ; you overcome even the chastest with desire. Many an adulterer meanwhile haunts your threshold; vou listen to any offer ; how general is your taste I I should willingly have called you Demophile, had not your mother chosen to call you Ghloe. She is wrong and she is right.
XXI. TO LAIS.
Lais, most beauteous of women, whenever I ask you the, price of your charms, you forthwith demand a great teleni. I do not buy repentance, Lais, at so high a price.
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ZXn. TO X40BDrUB.
Ttm used to say, MacrinuB, that men never died of mnsh- rooms. But miumrooms have at last been the eause of yoar death.
zxm. TO TBiBomra.
Ton will be steward, Trebonus, for a long time, since you are so skilled in multiplying a single hi^e. A hare is scaroeljr sufficient for one person ; but you, by your skill in preserving an old hare, mske it do duty for a thousand.
XXrV. OK SATIBS.
The Poet, who has everywhere seised the useful and pre- sented it with the agreeable, is everprhere mentioned with praise in the well-known page. Him, I would follow at a distance, lightly touching on matters both serious and sport- ive, nay, I would even ranush sport, while treating on sen* oas matters.' I proposed to sketch, with a dash of colour^ certain traits of character; if I caro at others, I alse carp at myself. There is no malice or iU-nature, no spiteful attempts at a grin ; I laugh at myself, and I laugh at others. I lau^ at m^^elf as well as others, that no one may laugh at me. The ill-natured carper delights in repeated attaclu ; and contrives that he who has bMU satirised once should be satirised three or four times. But I am unwilling that any serious consequence should attach itself to those whom I nave satirized; let the cause and its effect be forgotten together.
ZXV. TO OALLirs.
I now know, Gkdlus, why you avoid the society of ladies, your purse is full of wind, not of coin. But if your flesh
has.
Quod seqnor 4 longd cum Indis ■eria IUmum, Imd parem Indoa seria DOtificaos. or iRrludi no tenae can be made. Possibly the lines ahoiild be,
Hanc [nempe Horatiiim] seqnor et long^ corn Indts seria libans, Imd paxem Indos seria notiflcans. But the text of the whole Epigram is so convpt, that it is useless to think of amending it It ahould nerer ha?e been attached to the works d Martial ; and the same may be said of those thai follow.
640 BITFPOBinOUS XPIOBAltS.
does not sm, your mind, my friend, defiles itself; your de« Totion to the pleasures of the table is sufficient to eon* ^ct you of want of self-control. Your stomach, I sup- pose, has resolyed to empty your purse ; under its influfnce you will always be a poor man. Yet in this way, OaUus, you may certainly secure peaceful slumbers, and set thieves at defiance. Your stomacn takes care of all your money.
JULVJL TO GLAxrcxrs.
You have a horse that wants barley, Olaucus, a sUve that wante dothes, and a house that wants a broom. Your hack is dir^ and ihin^ and your servants' bones are stiff; disgust- Jig dirt defiles your dwelling. Your horse no longer obeys the spur, • • • • your house is entered only on rare oc- casions. * * * * No poverty or needy toil compds you to live thus. The sheep gives you a fleece, clothe your slave with it ; the field gives you oats, let your horse taste them ; bid farewell to dirt^ and sweep your house.
. xivii.
Tliat the eoak might not suffer in plumpness from amor- ous excesses, he is converted into a capon. After this, he is brought up in darkness, while a kind hand provides him with com, and nis crop, purged with myrtle, is crammed to fatten him. How ingenious is luxury !
INDEX.
AboIU, (he, 37*i. JkoBtttLf on, oB« iBftilimis, to, 295. iBgra, ODy 6«, 72»
^nA,(o,d4.
Alim, to, 72. Emilias way, 132. iEmUiainia, to, 50, 262. ^milhia, on, 554. ^schTlna, to» 395, 429. iEflcuUpiufl, to, on the hair of
Earinna, 400. Athiopiana at Rome, 4. ASthon, on, 579. Afor, to, 193, 214, 296, 404; the
huaband of an uglj wiA, 490;
on« 563. Afra, on, 75. AfHcanna, on, 549. AgaUunna, a juggler, to, 412. Agrippa, area and poitioo o( 139
noU. Alanda, to, 671. Alban wine, 602. Albola, notice of, 29 ti noU. Alctmna, on, 68. Alia, modea^of, 40. Almo, on, 4»3. Alpha of doaka, 235. Alttnum and Aqnileia, to the beoka
of the, 188. Amaiontcna, on, 196. AmiUna, on, 333. Ammianna, on, 87 ; to, 96 ; on Ue
drinknig bad wine, 302. Amcenna, to, 576. Amphitheatn, on the, 1, 3;
at the, 224, 514. Ampulla, an, 618. Amycleaa dye, 361. Atnyntaa, a awineherd, 518. Aumgoraa^ on, 285. St
Andioneda, 18.
Anuina, on, 327.
Ant, on an, endoaed h amber, 268.
Antenor, dty ^ 63.
Antiochoa, the nnakiUbl barber,
535. AntiopiL the conrteaan, 71. Antipathy, ezpreaaion o( 39. Atttipolitan tnnny, 218. Antique Taaea, fooliah admiration
OC35X Antiquca of Borne, 352. Antiatina Ruatieoa, death o( 408. Anteaina Primua, on, 457. AntnUa, on the tomb of, 82, 83. Anznr (Terradna), 47^ 476. Ape, the, 630. Aper, to, 454; on, 515, 558; aober
when poor, inebriated when rich,
57r. Aphraittmm, 612. Apoilinaria, on hia book being aent
to, 217; to, on the channa of
Formin, 460. Apollo, to, 39, 198 ; on the anni-
▼enary of Lucufa birth-day,
314; to, that Stdla may hare
the eonanlahip, 414. Apollo and the Moaea, 97. ApoUodorua, birth-plaoe of, 57; a
penN» of weak memurf, on, 232. Apfloa, the birth-plaoe of Liry,
Flaoeua, Ac., 57. Apomia, apring of^ 280. Apridna, on, 120, 140; to» 168. Aprioota, Peraian, 593. Apron, an, 623. Apulia, hmd of, 109. Aquinua and Fabridua, on, 71. Arabtrua at Rome, 4. Arcadia, 18. Arena, on a apectade m the, 76
642
AretuIIa, on Uw dore of, 363.
Argiletum, a place of bnsiiieas in Rome, 2S»ra.
ArgiTe ooloniils, domains of the, §05.
Argo, on a fiagment of the iliip, 312.
Argymnis, to, 310.
Arida, tomi oC 97 not^,
Arretine poli» 52.
Arria end Pstni, on, 30.
Artemidonn^ the pancratiast, 296 ; to, 378; OQ hia unsuccessfolly ^aerifidag to the Graces, 242; on, 402.
Aspsragns, S90.
Asper, on, 373.
Ateslinos, the lawyer, 146.
Athenagoiai^ on, 440.
Atilius, to, on Panlus feigning sick- ness, 436.
Atrectos, the bookseller, 83.
Attains, abnsy-body, 65; to, 89, 193.
Attic honey, 601.
Atticilla, to, 580.
Aiticns, to, commending his exer- cise in the race, 319 ; on Marcos Antonius, 442.
Attis, the bsiored of Cybele, 127 fioto.
Auctioneer, on an, 66 ; a success- fol lover, 266.
Anctns, to 40S, 550, 637.
Aufldia, the mistress of Scesrinns, 165.
Augustas, tssk of^ 19.
Aulioes, to, 63.
Aulns, to, 236, 297, 310, 380, 434, 516, 567, 637 ; on Seztilisnus, 285.
Aulos Pudens, 39; to, 286, 309.
Author, his address to the reader, showing where lus books may be purchssed, 24; to his book, 24; m want of a cloak, 298.
Authors, odehiated, on the coun- tries of, 57; poor remuneration of, 431.
ATarice, folly of, 370.
Avancions friend, to an^ 214.
Avemus, waters of, 57.
Avitus, to, 3S. 299 392 495, 498.
Baby.on, 1.
Baccara, on, 287, 522; to, 345*
Bacchus, triumphs of^ 360.
Back-scratcher, a, 615.
Bad couple, to a, 365.
Bmtio dosks, 621.
Batieus, to, 167, 168
BflBtis, to the river, 586.
Bain, 57, 281, 205, 538; baths q( 280,281.
Baian fiurm of Fausthnis, 156.
Balbus, 101.
Baldness, 246.
Balm, 612.
Banquet, the poet's prepazatian fan a, 471.
Barbara, explanation of, 1 note.
Barber's instmmenti, 609.
Barbers, Roman, 285, 341.
Barley, 589.
Basket, a, 617.
Bassa, to, 45, 178; on, 70.
Bassos^ to, 42, 167, 586, 638; on the countiy-house of 'Faustmus, 156 ; on his pretending to be a knifl^t, 233 ; a writer of trage- dies, 249 ; on, 153, 442.
Bath bell, a, 625.
Baths of various individuals, 94; of Agrippa snd of Titos, 145; of Etruscus, 280 ; at Cnma and Baie, 280.
Basaars of Rome, 423, 424, 488.
Bean-flour, 612.
Beans, 588; Erjrptisn, 595.
Bear, entanglflid in bird-lime, 9; toased by a rhinoceros, 15.
Beard, ceremony on first cutting the, 134 fioto; to one who arrang- ed it in three different ways, 372.
Bean, epigram on a, 160.
Beautiful domain, to the possessot
. of a, 566.
Beauty, without chastity, 375.
Bee, on a, endosed in amber, 192.
Beestings, 592.
Beet, 589.
Begging incendiary, 154.
Bdt, use of the, €K)9.
Beta of togas, 235.
Biibilis, notices of, 49, 303; townee
648
BHnmUiBa, md rifm hmt, 49 ;
proud of Tiicinimni, 57; the
poet'i addren to hii fsUow-town*-
men ofi 496* Bird-cttchiiif, rods for, 632. Bird-lime, bMr entangled in the^ 9. , Birth-day of Coaar, 177. Birth-day of Domitian, 177 : to hi%
572 Ml. Biscuit, Rhodian, 613. Bithynicas, to, 99, 397, 560; on
Telesinns, 264. Bhidder foot-ball, 610. Blasns, the notai^, 367. Blankets, a pair oU 623. Boar, female, that bron^t forth
Ioong in oonseqaenoe of a wonnd, 0 Ml, 11.
Boaster, to a, 365.
Boletaria, 617.
Bononia, 159.
Book, Martial's addresses to his, 24, 131, 132, 133, 217, 219, 342, 347, 349, 499,500, 545,546; Cossr's fitTJonrable opinion on, sought for, 26; the emperor's replj, 26; epigram on his, 47,506; tnstmc- tions to his, on sending it to Pro- oalus,60; on sending one to Bs- gnltts, 81 ; reoomfnends Luper- cns to purchase it, 83 ; address to his, 85; to Serenis on his sending one ivhich was onao- knowledged, 218 ; on presenting it to Domitian, 220, 228; on presenting it to Areanns, 386; address of the, to the reader, 445; on pnbliahing a second edition of the, 445; sent to Pliny the younger, 455.
Book-csse, 609.
Book-corering. a wooden one^ 615.
Books, good, bad, and indiiTerant, 32, 33 ; on Domitian'a admisBtion of his, 189 ; on a present of. tc Varro, 237; all dedicated to Do- mitian, 349; to Nerra, on the abbreriation of his, 547.
Booksellen of Bome, 83.
Botrodns, a small town nsar B£» bilis^ 49 s< fio<«.
2t 8
Bo?0IsB,89.
Boy, price of a, 55.
Boys, on a show of^ sporting with
bolls, 238. Brsaklksts, rich onesb 682. Brsast-band, a, 621. Brsastplale of Domitian, 303, 304 Brooms, 615. Brothers, two, 171. Brntos, the consort of Fords, 45. Bmtns's boy, statue oi; 124. Bmtos's laTonrite, a small statoe oC
626. Bubahis, notice of the, 16 waU. BulToon, the, 631. Bulbs, 592. Bnll* means of irritating him, 8
noU; bearing Herculea to tha
akies, 12 bu. Bull and the elephant, on the, 13. BnUock's heart, 632. Butnnti, a town of Apulia, 203.
Caballus, poem on, 44 noU.
Cabbage sprouts, 590.
Gecilisnus, to, 34, 59, 62, 121, 126. 184, 201, 265, 301, 383, 430, 518 ; on his prandial greedineai, 103 ; a troublesome pleader, 276 ; on, 332.
OBcilins,alowbttiro<Mi,to,44; oo, 513.
Cscuban wine, 6a3.
Cedicianus, to, 84, 375; on a like- ness of Marcus Antonius, 462; on Afer, 490.
Gelia, to, 318, 532; wiib of Pan- nicos, 292.
Cttlios, to, 323.
Csrellia, on, 207.
Gcrellia and Gellia, on, 186.
Csrstan wine, 604.
Casar, to, on the concourse of strannn to Bomo, 4; on his bsnishiwg informers, 5, 6; oa a woman's fi^tinir with a lion, 6 Uf; on an elephant's kneeling to, 12 ; craTing his indulgence, 21 ; requesting him to look fa- ▼ourablr on his books, 26; hit reply, 26; on some does Cgbi
6M
tVDiX.
tog, 313; tfao poet's prtdsei aad
fUttering o( 2d0, 255» 306, 373;
addren to» on the temple of the
FlaTiaa fiuDfly, 409. (Sbe TUqs
and Domitiaii.) Cseiiu Sebmui, on a crovn of rosee
fleotto,425. CeeonlA, on the birth-daj of, 413. Gaietimiu, bond of, 366. Caiun, on, 100 ; to, 4M. Caini JnUns Procnlna, on, 516. Calenai, to, 73, 465. Calioei Andacn, 578. Callaic gold, 195. GalUodorae, on, 241, 402; to, 282,
451, 461. Callistntne, to, 226» 561 ; on, 563,
580. Ca)oci«n% the poeCa alaTe, to,
439. Calpetianni, on, 303. CalTnif poem on warm and cold
springi,629. Camono^ on the portrait of, 432,
433. Oampanian caaki^ 33. Canaoe, epili4>h of, 537. GandeUhnun, Corinthian, 610. Gandidna, to. 98, 107, 142, 152,
562. Condie, a, 609.
Candleatidc, a wooden one, 610. Canina, a humorous poet of Gades,
60 ti noU; on, 139 ; to, 336. Cantharus, to, 3Si7, 520. Canoa, to, 65 ; a musician, 179. Gap, a, 621. Capene gale, 152. Gapitoline war, 222. Capitolinna, on, 497. Gappadodan lettuces, 259. lapsus. 596 frit. Gaptare, explained, 9 noU. rjardua, festiTities of, 203. Carmenion, an effeminate person.
to, 479. Carpophoras, on his brsTery and
anocess in the amphitheatrical
arena, 11, 16, 18. Carpus and Korbana, a prajwr foi^
338.
thn
Garpus the twiiiff; 279. .
Oarus, to, 404 Mf, 420; e death of; 486.
Gascellns, the lawyer, on, 907.
Gassianus, to, 162.
Gutor, to, 348.
Gutricus, to, 281, 322, 324 , on the death of the young Butychus, 292 ; on Oppianus, 305.
Gaterer, a, 632.
Gatianus, to, 283.
Gato, 27 ; on his leafing the tem- ple of Flora, 23.
Gatti,the,'86.
GatuUa, to, 375.
Gatullua, writing oi; 22; to, 292, 578, 629.
Gatns, a monnjain near Bflbilis, 49 ttnoU.
Gayater, banks of the, 52.
Gecropian dty of Pandion, 36
Geler, to, 58, .329.
Gensorshtp of Borne, 26b
Gentumriri, court of the, 278.
Geroopithecns, 630.
Gestus, 71 ; to, 371 ; the, 630£ik.
Cheremon, to, 525.
Ghnrestratns, to, a hnUt in re- duced drcnmstancea, &4.
Ghnplain, adfice to a, 112.
Char, the, 599.
Gharidemus,46; to, 274, 286, 296, 536 ; his freedman, 517
Gharinum, on, 277.
Gharinus,on,64,379; to, 194,242, 583 ; his hatha, 321.
Charioteer of the *' Green" faction, on a, 515.
Gharisianus, on, 271, 536.
Charopinus, to, 247.
Chasings of metala, 145, 148, 373L
Chaste matron, to the, 171.
Cheese, from Luna, 591; tariona kinds of, 592; firom Trebnlat 592.
Ghian figs, 591.
Childless old man, to a, 519.
Child's ratUe, 611.
Chimera, the, 18.
Chion, aon of the nymph Phillyt% 94fio<f.
nrBxz.
64d
Chlone, tlie oonrtenn, 7|, 143;
modeMj oi; 40 : to, ]45, 171. Ghione tad Phlogu, on* 527. Chloe, to, 155; on, 400, 638; to,
on •qvindariiig lier property on
Lnperciii, 189. duBXiliii, to, 59. ChrostiUay bnriao her hubindiL
869. -^lireitQB, to, 330, 406.
•ioero on parchment, 628. Jiliden fruit-treoi, preaerration of^
355. OUieiui thief; 294. Gilieiana at Rome, 4. Ginna, to, 69. 159, 250, 259, 278,
320,324,353,557; on, 135, 358,
57&. Cinnamna, to, 269, 334. CiperuB, to, 356. Cirena ataffinf , 624. Cinnina, to, 857. Ginha,63. Oitnm wood, tableto of, 605; table
of, 616. Citxona,592. CiTia, the lawyer, 146. ClaMJoia, to, 120, 564 ; to, in dia-
paragement of difficait poetic
triflea, 126. Claap, a, 631. Qandia, to, 379. Claudia Rolina, on, 523. dearinna, on, 526. Clemency of Domitian, 299. Clemeni, to, 494 ; with a preaentof
fruit, 494. Cleonsan lion, 258. Cleopatni, hit wife, on, 187. Clienta, to hia, 576. Cloak, on a, 186; the poet'a, a shab- by one, 298 ; a mann one, 620. doaka of Ganudan wool, 620, 621 ;
diffeient kinda of, 621, 622. Clothea bmah of ox-tail, 613. Clytna, on, 380. Coat, a acarlet one. 621. Cobbler, to a, 137, 176 ; to one who
had obtained a legacy by fraud,
431. Cobbler and a Dyer, on a, 159.
Codileare, a, 693.
Cock, on the fattening of a, 640.
Codrua, to, 137.
Coffen, ivory and wooden, 606,
Ookhian prinoeaa, 18.
OoiUnua, to, 202; to, on Carellia
and Gellia, 186. Gokiaaua of Bhodes, 1 note. Goloaaoa, the etarry, 2. Combat, unequal, 21. Comba,608. Comedians, young, 631. Condylua, to, 439. Confectioner, the, 632. Conflux of nationa, 4. CoDgedna, a river near Bilbiliib 49. Connubial felidtj, 183. Conatollatian of Laconian twini^
17. Cook, the, 632. Cofadnua, to, 197, 285. Cotdora, the birth-place of Seneca
and Luein, 57 ; to, 574. Cordua, to, 170, 235. Com, 589. Coinelii forum, 132« Coneliui, to, 41. Conet, a, 613.
Corybantea, picturea of the, 61. Coeooniua, to, 124, 164. Coonua, the celebiated perfumer,
68, 155; to, on an illiterato fel- low pretending to be a cynic,
201. Cotilua, to, 121, 160. Gotta, to, 28, 35, 472. 582 ; a dis-
honeat penon, 492. Conch made of citron wood, 615. Country gentleman, 210. Conntiy-eeat of Fauatinua, 156. Coverlida, long-haired onea, 623;
onamented, 623. Cranea,598. Cretan bull, 6. Creticua, to, 344. Griminak, peraonal ajypearance oC
when imder accusation, 102 note. Grisptnua, to, 348 ; on the atolct
doak of; 372. Criipoa, tOb 453. GUtaciam miaspenty 587.
&w
Critici eompared to books, 434;
Vtlicni wine for, 468. GroiiiB, the piper, 279. Crow, «, €14. Cryetal cape, 618. Coma, bdis of, 280. CameaB plate, 619. Cups, oommon, 616; of gold,
616; tvious kinds o^ 617, 618,
619. CoiistiM^OD, 206. Corii, defenders of their country's
Ubeitiss,d6. Cnrtu,piBrf of the^ 236. Cymbals, 630.
Qyxac, deriration o( 201 fio<s. CyTrfaa,279.
Dactan boy, 35.
Dasdalii^ on, 8.
Diigger, 609.
Dama, the baker, 278.
Danag, picture of, 626.
Dandies, 115, 160.
Dasins, on, 112.
Dates, a bimch of, 591.
Debauchee, on an abandoned one,
59. Decanter Im* snow-water, 619. December, the month when the
giAs ai« presented, 229. Decianos, to, 27, 36, 43; the poet's
friend, 85, 87. Degts, 221. Delos, teaple of, 1. Demetrias, Martial's amanuensis,
on the death of, 75. Dento, to^ 244, 363. Deprendsra, explained, 9 noU, Detractor, to a, 252, 289, 587. DiadnnMms, to, 162, 245, 275. Disna, the two characters o^ 10 9t
note DUulus, SB, 38, 48. Dioe-boi, 607.
Didymns, 144 ; to, 243, 262, 467. Difficult trifles, 126, 127. Digitum cancuzrere, explained, 20
note. Dining-haO, on a small one, 116. Dinner (terts, 471, 522, 523.
Dimier-oouch, a, 61ft.
Dinher-^ress, 621.
Dmner-hunter, the, 93, 99.
Dinner-hunters, 247.
Dianer-table, 616.
Diodorus, on, 73 ; to»459; and his wife Philniis, 413.
Dishes hilaid with gold, 617.
Distichs, on the wnting oi; 362.
Doctor, to a bad one, &, 387.
Does, 600 ; on a combat of, in the theatre, 193; on their flg^iting, 213.
Dofflitia, wife of Domitian, 264 ti not9.
Doxmiii, public shows of, \ ti as;.; public works o(C 2; on his two names, 21 ; on his lion sparing the hare. 26, 31, 35, 48 ; his illus- trious titles and conquest of the Oatti, 86 ; the poet's peUtion to, asking the righti of a father of three children, 130 ; his abolition of the sportula, 134 ; on his buth- day, 177 ; on Uie snow whidi fell on him at the games, 178 ; on his admiration of the poet's works, 189; to a fisherman, that he may spare his fish, 190; on the au- thor presenting his book to, 220, 228. 349; the poet's deification of, 221, 255; the poet's flattery and praises of, 230, 351, 353, 354, 356, 359, 360. 373, 376, 391, 395, 396, 434, 438, 442; to, on his improrement of public morals, 264, 265; on the expected birth of a son, 265 ; the poet oorertly asks him for money, 266; ad- dress to, on his winter roses, 297 ; praises of his clemency, 299; the poet solicits his Indulgence, 301; on his assumption of a bresstplate, 303; the poet soli- cits his return to Rome, 305,306; the Muses hiToked on his return from Thrace, 307; on his im- proTements of the city, 332, 394 ; on the author dedicatfaig his books to, 349; on his palace, 366, 368; on his noble lion, 376; on hii
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647
temple of Portniie, md trinsiphel eicfay 381 ; on the guneeof SleUe, in honour of hii trinmnhi, 389 ; on hit reriTal of pngilntic eon- teeli^ 390; to, petiUoning fx a eupply of water, 4K)1; on his erection of a temple on the ipoi where hewae boni,402; addieee to, on the PlaTian fimiilY, 409; on a etatne of, in the chirecter of Hereolee, 427 ; on hie esdn- iion of the kni^ta from the etage, 435; the poet oebhratee his immortal deeds, 442, 443.
Domitius, to, 452.
Dormouse, 595.
Dores, 596.
Drinking of names, 61.
Drankenness, ezoess o( 301.
Dry wood, 589.
Ducks, 594.
Dumb-bells, 610.
Dwaif B, 631.
Dwarf mules, 629.
Eagle, on the image of one, carxying
Jupiter, 249. Earinus, the faTourite of Domitiaa,
on, 397, 398, 399; on the hair o^
400 bisi oouTersation of Gan]^
mode end Jupiter on, 410 Ear-pick, 60a Earthen pitcher, 618. Earthen utensil, 619. Eggs, 593. Etarinos, poetic uee of the word,
396. Elephant, kneeling to Ccssr, 12; . combat with a bull, 13., Emerita, the birth-place of Dects*
nus,57. Bncolpus, on, 39, 245; a faionrite
of Aulus Pmdens, 215 wtu, Bntellus, to, on his besatilul gsr-
dena,383. EnTiousman,tosn,44; €oal^288. Epheans, temple of Disna at, 1
fioCf. Epigrammatist, to a bad one, 315. Bpignms, 012 H $9q.; Martial's
addressea to the reader, 2% 23^
24; gooff, bad, and indifferent.
33, 341; suppositttiousones, 633
ti t§q, Erotion, epiUph on, 238, 477;
prsises of, 240. Etmsoi, the two, 299 note. Etmsens, baths oi; 280. Etruscus, epitaph on the fiither oil
323. Eudides, a pretending kcigjit, 239. Euctoa, on, 352. Bulogus, the auctioneer, 266. Eunuch, on a, 474. Euphemua, to, 181. Enropa, 627. Europa and the bull, 12. Eurydioe, fate o(^ 15. Rutiepalus the barber, 341. Eutjcnna, on the death of; 292. Eztraragsnce, erils of, 238.
Fabianns, to, 145. 179, 188, 582.
Pabius and Chrestilla, on, 369.
Pabius leayes Sabienns aU his pro- per^, 335.
Pabulla, 105 ; to, 58, 181, 267, 390, 584; on, 216.
PabuUns, on, 136; to, 218, 428, 515, 554; on a thioTish C^cian, 294.
Pains, Telesphorua, tomb of his dap^ter Antulla, 82, 83.
Pair sex, to the, 569.
Palemian wine, 602; mixing o( 33.
Pame, to, 305.
Psnnius, on, 125.'
Farmen, on the, 579.
Father, with three children, his public privileges, 130.
Faustinus, to, 36, 82. 147, 152, 161, 205, 238, 240, 265, 287, 309, 340, 369, 473 ; to, on a frigid rhetori- cian, 142 ; CO the oountrr-house of; 156 ; on inciting him to Trebula, 257; on Andrageras, 285.
Faustns, U^ 528.
Paventinua, the usurer, 123.
Fatourite, the, 630.
FaTourites. on his, 5r9«
Pe«thenbw4.
648
CTDXZ
Fell, Dr.f epigrmm on, 39.
Female dencer of Gedii, 630.
Ferula^ 615.
Feeoemiiit to» 68.
Feeiiit, who etabbed himself, 64.
Ficnit double meaning q£, 59, 337. .
Fidentiniai, a piagiaiy, 62; to,
51. Fidenthis. to, 38, 43. Fi8<^]Mcl(er, 594. Fiifaennan, to a, that he may spare
Domitian's fiah, 290. Five-feet rnle, 616. Five lesTes, Ublets of, 605. Flaocns, to, 55, 200, 377, 409, 512,
539 Mi; 541 Mt; 578; to, on
Diodoms, 73: on his iavonrile
Amasonicna, 196; on his love for
Labycas, 343; on the return of
Priseos Terentins, 371 ; residing
in Cyprus, 438; on presenting
his book to him, 499; at Bais,
533w Flaocns, Valerius, to, 63; author
of the Argonantii-a, 63 iio<s. Flamingo^ the, 597. Flavian family, 21 ; on the temple of
the, 393, 409. Floceilla, the poet's mother, 238. Flora, games of, 22, 23. Fly-flap, a, 613. Formio, on the charms of, 460. Fortune, unequal distributioa o(
549. Forums of Rome, 146. Fowls, 593: fattened, 596; Nu-
midian, 597. Frankincense, 588; on sending a
present of; to Reinxlns, 81. Fnend, to a, 126, 355; on a, 565. Friends, newly farmed, 53: gifU
to, 243; mutual, 267 ; inUmate,
560. Friendship in literary fiune, 357. Frontinusy to, on ezcosing himselC
476. Fronto, to, 53; the poet's father,
238. Fuctnns, 19.
Fafleulenus, the usomry ITSL Fnndi wine, 602.
Fnrmity, 588.
Fuscns, to, 53; epitaph oo, 296,*
his death and burial, 296 note;
to, on sending him his epigrams,
317.
Gabba,44.
Gabinia, on, 331.
GAdes, slave-dealer from, 41; the birth-place of Oanius, 57.
Gstulinus, 5.
Gains of the banister and the hus- bandman, 33.
Gains, a river of Spain, 202.
Galasns, a river ne*r Tarentum* 240fio««.
GaUtea, 19.
Galbinos, esiplanation o^ 72 fio<#.
Galla, to, 99, 102, 154, 155, 194, 205, 312, 331, 411, 508; who had sent Martial no present at the Saturnalia,. 263; on, 171, 485, 495 ; ezpeosive favonis ol^ 395.
Galliambie verses, derivation o( I27fiete.
Gallic credulity, 220.
GaUic frock, 52.
Gallic puppy, 629.
GaUicns, to, 359, 388.
Gailus, to, 79. 110, 115, 142, 172, 184, 639; on, 475, 488; a priest ofCybele,141.
Gaming-table, 607.
Gammon of baooo, 595.
Ganymede and the eagle, 27.
Ganymede and Jupiter, 249 ; con- versation of; on the ikvonrites of Domitian, 410.
Gardens of Julias Martialis, on the^ 206.
Gargilianus, to. 143^ 166» 204, 33|. 355.
GargUins, to^ 176.
Garricus^ to, 417, 543.
Gaui, on a oorpnlent one, 387.
Gaurus, to, 1^ 262, 360, 419.
Gaselle, the, 601.
GeUia, on, 40, 391; to, 155, 22^ 237, 302.
Pelliuf, on, 410 434.
649
Gemellitui tad Maranilk, od, 38. Oeniuf, few.wuh to yield the pelm
of, 357. German, to t, 539. Germanicue, the title which Do-
mitian liked, 332; to, 638. Oeimaii maak, 626. Geryon, the Iberian shepherd, 255. Getnlieiii, writing oC A Girl, to a crier aeUfaig a, 291. Gladiators, Prtscns ttDdYems, both
rewarded, H. 20. GUtphyms, a musician, 179. Glass, a nimbus of, 619. Glass cape, 619. Glaodiis, epiuph on, 273 Kf ; to,
640. Glyoera, 280. Glyptns, to, 109. Goat, sacrifice of a, 141. Goose, the, 597. Goose's lirer, 595. Gratins, works ot, 194. Great mind, strength of a, 43. Grerhoond, the, 629. Gridiron and spit, 632. Gryllos, baths ot, 56. GndfeoDs, 599.
Gncsta, the poet to hii, 253; pre- sents made to, at feasts^ 604. % Hcmns, a mountain of Thrace» 4. Hair, dyeing o( 148; cntting of,
582; cloak 0^622. Hair-jrin, golden, 608. Ham, 595.
Hanging gardens of Babylon, 1 note. Happiness, road to, 231. Happy marriage, on a, 183. Haxe, to at 51 ; to one spared by a
lion of Gssar's, 26» 31, 35, 48,
56. Hare-hvnting^ on the dangers oC
550. Hates, 600. Harpseta, the, 610. Hat, a broad-brimmed one, 608. Hatchet, 609. Hawk, a, 632. Hay, 624 Health, blessings ot, 293.
Heath-cocksb 596.
Hedylns, to, 47, 201 ; on, 422.
Ueliadesb danghtors of the sun, 206
flO<S.
Heras, the doctor, 297.
Herenles, on a boll bearing him to the skies, 12 Ms; prmiscs bestow- ed on, 18 ; labonis o( 225 ; on a statue of; 415, 416; to, lepre* senting the statoe of Domitian* 427 Hts hOKmis of; 442, 443; Corinthiau, 626; of tem-cotta, 627.
Hermaphrodite, a marble one, 626.
Heirmes, an eminont gladiator, on, 234.
HermogeneSfe on, 557.
Hero and Leander, 17.
Herodes, on, 440.
Hesione, 18.
Hesperides, gtore of the, 14.
Hexameten, epigrams written in, 291.
Hezaphoma, a large sort of palan- quin, 125.
Hiems and Asillns, on, 444.
Himself, on, 450.
Hind and dogs, 21.
Hippocrates, on, 440.
Hippodamns, to, 191.
Hoarse poet, on a, 280.
Homer's " Battle of the Frogs and Mice," 627 ; a parchment oopy of, 627.
Homme BUs4, (o, 582.
Honsyed wine, 602.
Hood, a Gallic one, 621 ; Libw nian, 622.
Hoop, a, 625 Mf.
Horatius, on, 178.
Hormus, to, 95.
Hom-hmtem, 612.
Horsewhip, a, 611.
Host, to a, 153, 365.
Hot water, on being required to drink, when sick, &0.
Hound, epitaph on a, 530.
Hunchback, terra-ootta fignie of a« 627.
Hunting-knife, 608.
Honting-speait, 608.
d50
tnjDEX.
Hn^Mad, on a cnieL one, .25. Hnsbudmin, on a, 5U6; gtins of
the, 33. HyadnUiQSy picture of, 626. Hybia, 109.
Hydra of Orecian Lema, 255.. Hylai, the blear-eyed debtor, 353. HyUw, CO, HI, 404; to, 116, 180. Hymeneal eongn, 41. Hyieiaian moontaina, 13.
lenthii, to the fonntain oC 327.
Ida, 61.
Ideal of the poet'i miatrees, 145.
Idee of May, 133.
IdtmiBa, 8^.
Imagee in Terse and in painthig,433.
Lnpoitonate friends, on, 571.
Impudent man, on an, 63&
Informeri, on Gasar't baniahment
of, 5, 6. Inieuity, prosperity of^ 187. Innkeeper at BaTonna, on an, 156. InstaatiQS Rnfus, to, 336, 386. Irus, the panper, 29iS. Isis, Memphtiic temple of« 94. Issa, the little pet dog, 80. iTory cage, 614. Ivory coifers, 606. Iroiy tablets, 605. iTory tali, or dice, 606. iTOiy tusks, 616.
Janienlan Hill, 208.
Janssen, Sir Theodore, Scott's lines
to, 43. Janus, to, 350, 459; to, on Do-
mitian's return to Rome, 353. Jason, son of JBsen, 94 note. Jealous husband, to a, 170. Jealous wife, bSb, Jennet, a, 629. Jew, on a, 538. Jewelled enps, 618. John I>ory, 600. Juggleis, 412. Julia, on the statue o( 8; daughter
of Titus, 264, 268. Julian temple, 278. Jultns, to, 32, 441; th« poet's
■* 133.
Julius Gerealia, hTiUlioQ to, 253. Julius Martialis, to, 231, 263, HB^
560; on the ^udenso^ 206; to
the libcaiy of, 311. Junoy en a statue ol^ 492. Jupiter Capitolinus, to, 332. Jnstina, 61. Justinus, to, 528. JuTatns, to, 555. Juvenal, to, 344, 552.
Kalenda, on Ihe, 457*
Kid, the, 593.
Kisses of his fiiTonrite, 504.
Kissing, reasons against, 101 ; nuis- ance of, 346, 539.
BLnight hy birth, but deficient in fortune, to a, 236, 334.
Knights^ dieas o( at the theatre, 2&.
Laberiui, to, 268.
Labican earth, 68.
Labics^ love for, 343.
Labienui, to, 117, 552; on, 335 560; to, on his partial baldness 246.
Labulltts, to, 511,561.
Laoonisn twins» ezpUinedt 17 noU 42.
Ladaa, a swift runner, 127.
Ladon, on, 490.
Lady, to an ill*fonned one, 132.
Lascanis, on, 244 ; to, 321.
Lelia. to, 481, 555.
Laelius, to, 71.
Lntorioa, an avaricious friend, 556
Lttvia,61
Lsvina, on, 57.
Levinns, to, who had seated him ielf among the knights, 266.
Lais, to, 638.
Laiage, to, 119.
Laletanian wine, 37; for the Sa- turnalia, 328.
Lamp with several burners, 610.
Lampreys, 598.
Lantern made of horn, 612 ; of a bladder, 612.
Lap-dog, on a, 66; picture of a, 79
vnti.
651
Laronia, 10].
LatiBM, thebttiBpOB, 86; tkeptnto- mimio MU»r, 122 ; epicanh on, 406.
Lattan, on, 521.
Lanraolna, on, 7; azplanatoiy no- tioeao( 7 note.
Lauroa, to, 117 ; a plajar at bill, 490.
Lanana, to^ 341 ; on hit woAm, 343.
Law, delaya and anxiacias ot 334.
Lawyer, to a, 238; on a, 247.
Ijazy nlloxa, on, 163.
Laander, on the exhibition of the atoiy oA 17 ; of maible, 627.
Leather cap, a, 611.
Leathein cloak, 621.
Leda, the oonrteaui, 168; on, 531.
Leeks, 590 Mi.
Legacy obtained by fraud, 431.
Legacy hunting, 288» 529, 519.
Leitoa, the keeper of the Eqneatrian aeata, 224fiete.
Lentila,589.
Lentinna, to, 552L
Leabia, to, 40, 111,271, 466^ 54'); to, with a loick of hair from Ger- many, 256 ; on, 588.
Letter-paper, 606.
Lettnoe,589.
Liber, to hia friend, 388 ; a pngil* i«t,431.
Lioentiooa character, on a, 72L
Licinianna, to, 48; 57.
Lidnina Snra, to, on hit recovery from aicknett, 326.
Life, Terge d, 32; contitta not in liTtng, bnt in etyoying health, 293 ; the ei\}0Tment it, 370 ; pro- lon^tion o^ 388.
Ligeia, to, 492; on, 548.
Lignla, a aUTer one, 620.
Ligntrinna, to, 149, 151, 154.
Ligurra, to, 573.
Linui, on, 63; to, 103^ 114, 210; 346, 511 ; a tntor, 566.
Lion, on a woman fighting with a, 6Mff; on one that hart hit keep- er, 8; tigreta matched with a, 13; of GctarX that ^aied a haie, 26» 31, 35b 48, 56; on ooa
that dettrmd two boya, 123 ; 9l Domitian, 376.
Lion and a ram, on a, 430.
Liont, aporta of the, 31.
literary fame, friendaUp in, 357.
LtTy in a aingle Tolnme, 628.
Lixard alayer, Corinthian, 626.
LoTO and blindneet, 373.
Lncan, 629 ; on the annivenary of the birth-day of; 314 i$r.
Lncanian bear, 8.
Lncannt, to, on a corpulent Ganl, 387.
Lucanua and TuUua, bfotbenb to, 42; on, 419.
Lucentia, the tcholar, 24.
Ludna, the poet, to^ 202; aaatireol Spain, 2(n fiolf.
Luciut Juliua, to, 78^
Lncrine lake, 57, 140.
Lnperent^ to, 166, 26^ 284, 487; on, 341, 518; to, on the purchaie ofthepoot'8book,89; onCUoe'a property being tquandered en, 189.
Lupua, baths of, 56; deeply ia debt, 308; to^ 250, 297, 393, 466^ 507 ; a knaTish flatterer, 524.
Lutiscns Brotianas, the poet, on, 188.
Lycaa, 61.
Lycoris, to, 62, 75, 280; on, 147^ 207, 310.
Lyde, 61.
Lydia, to, 441 ; on, 509.
Lygdns, 278 ; to. 631, 578.
Lygdus and Lstoria, on the mar- riage of, 282.
Lyre, a, 625 ftu; q>ii 1 for the, 625.
Lyris, on, 122.
Miioer,to,351; on, 454; to, on hia
setthig out for Dalmatia, 48& Maori, probi^of the, 23a. Macrinua, to, 639. Mfenalian boar, 18. M«Tiaa,on,486; to, 520. Magpie, a, 614. Magnlla, to, 583. MaBrianua, to, 180. Mamercu% tOb 128*
652
Maine.*tiii0 wine, G03.
Mamuriinm, on, 71.
Mamum, on, 423 ; to, 447.
Mandnna, oo the inhospitality of, 46; to,a06.
Mimiiit, to, 456.
Manneia and her lap-dog, 66
Minneina, on, 527.
Matttaa,the birth-place of Virgil, 57.
M anumianon, 75.
Maple-wood table, 616.
Matathon, 18.
Blaicolla, hia wife, 554 ; on her gift
. to Martial, 558.
Marcellinna, to, 133, 146 ; in Dacia, to, 272.
March, the period of the women'a Sainmalia, 263.
Marcianna, to, 298.
Marcua, to, 267.
B! arena Antoniua, on« 442.
Marcua Antoniua Primus, 484.
Marianne, to, 101, 252; deceived by a flatterer, 288.
Marinua, to, on hia baldneaa, 489.
Maiina. on, 124, 455 ; to, intmated with Martial's grounds, 493.
Bf ark Antony, on, 256.
Blark Antony and Pothinna, on, 621.
Maro, to, 215. 529 ; on, 583.
MaroniUa, on Gemellus seeking the hand of, 28.
Marriages, mnltiplied, 265.
Marseilles, wine of, 603.
Manns, the poet, 22, 124; writing of, 22.
Marsyaa, 117.
Blartens, 597.
MartiaL lus addresses to the reader, 22, 23; he ahows where his books may be purchased, 24; hia ad« dress to his book, 24.; his domes- tic habits and employments, 633, 634.
Manilla, on, 475.
Biamllus, to, 259,
Maesic cellar, 37.
Massie wine, 153.
Master of a noisy sehooL to the, 429.
Maater and slave, on a, 14l0.
Masthlion, 226.
Mateinna, on, 122 ; to, on the »»
thor's setting out for Bilbilis, 464. Matho, to, 215, 275, 469, 529 ; ez-
travagance dT, 306 ; on, 344 ; oo
sending him a sportola, 369. Matrinia, to, 144. Mattiao balls, 608. Maftress-etnfllngs of Lenooninm,
624. Matron, modest, to the, 163. Mattua, to, 636. Manrioi, equity of the, 236. Mannillinna, to, 212. Mansolna, temple of^ 1 note, Mazimina, to, 104. Maaimns, to, 27, 60, 96, 112, 138,
338 ; on Syriscns, 257 ; on the
death of Gami^ 486. Mazimna Gcaoniua, oo the bnst o(^
325 Mff. Medicine chests, 614. Melior, 120 ; to, on his tribnte to
the memoiy of Blaesna, 367. Memphia, city ot, 1. Memor, on a portrait of^ 505. Menander'a •* Thais," 628. Menogeoea, oo, 581. MenophOua Vopa, on, 341. Mercuiy, to, 33o. MeteUus, 86. MiUchqs, to, 117. MOo, on,635; to, 636. Minerva in silver, 627. Miracnla noticed, 1 iiols. Mistress, the poet'a ideal of his,
145 ; on the cfaoioe of a, 409. Mistyllus, 50. Mithridatea, 259. Molorchoa, notiona ot; 206 noU* Molossian hounda, 21. Moniin^ Star, to the, 358. Monntam-goat, the^ 601. Mudna, oo, 458- Mnffler, a, 622. MuUeta, live ones, 598. Mnlvian bridge, 137 note. Munatins Gallua, to, 462. Munna, to, 435 ; residing at Mar*
seiUea, 46e4{ on, 477.
Mnricei, tlie piiiple flsh, 599. MuMp to hit, 350, 454, 549. Mnsei, to the, 232. Muahrooma, 594. MTxIniii and Trinaiphiii, the two
gladiaton, 14. MyzobaUmiuii, 611. MsmliiBO cope, 619. Myrtale, to Pauloi on, 22L
Nark, BnfoifM low lor, 60; on,
91 ; to, 137. KflBToloa, to, 73, 165, 175, 216; on,
109. Kumeioa, on, 227. Nar, the river, 345. Narbo, the nattTO town of ValiHma,
AOD.
Naniia, to the town o( 345.
Nftsica, to, 125.
Niuddteniis, to, 330.
Kata, on, 531.
Nationa, confluT of, 4.
Nemea, Tale o( 6 ; wooda d, 18.
Nepoe, to, on the death of hia
daughter, 272. Keteida, the, 17. Nerena, 19. Nero, ponda o( 19. Nenra, on, 384; tcs 405: on the
abbreriation of hia booiGi, 547 ;
ea]og7 on, 547. Nerrs, inoflTenaiTeneei of the, 236. Nestor, to, 143, 514. jn iggarauneM, ovu. Niggardly hoet, to a, 141. Ni^t lamp, 609. Ni^tingale, a, 614. Nigrioa, to, 213; on the coigngai
affection ot; 408. Ktnne, the gigantio, 226. Noble matron, epitaph on a, 478. Nomentan eatate^ 103. Nomentan iknn, 281. Nomentan fielda, wine of the, 77. Norbenna, to, 435. Norio hunting apeara, 16l Noiina, on, 67 Nnnia,496. Nuta,607. Nymph of a fonntahi, to the, 283i,
IOoenpatiottfl, horanr, of the BonMta dtuena, 181, 383, 482. Ooeanna, a keaper of the eqneatrian
aeata, 233, 236. Oil-flaak, a common horn one, 611 ;
of fhinoceroe'a horn, 61 1. Old man and eunuch, 534. Old woman, deformed, 339. OUTea,jaro(592. Olua, to, 119, 15% 193; 4 alandeier,
307 ; on, 475. Olympua, bankruptcy in, 394. One-eyed thief, on a, 378. Onyx, the, 280. Opimiua, jar of, 37 ; Tintage in the
time oif^ 37 natt, Oppianua, to, in praiae of the baths
of Etmaeuik 280; to, 288; on,
305. Orpheua, on, 14, 15, 625. Otaciliua, the poor, 487. Otho, the auicide, 275. Ounce, the, 600. Ondiua Quintua, to, 77 Orid'a Metamorphoaea on paroh*
ment,628. Oy8tera,599.
Pactna, to, 532.
Pntoa, to, 274.
Ptttua and Arria, on, 30.
Paetna, to, on hia muleis 533.
Papnica, a, 610.
Pamter, pet dog and the, 79.
Palace or Cyrua, 1 fietfc
Palnnott, a conceited grammarian,
127. Paloatrs^ wreatUng ground% 208
note. Palatine Library, keeper of the,
222. Palatium, 366. PamphihM, to, 211 Panadan Teaael, 617. Panaretna, a drunkard, on, 801. Pandioo, 36. Pannice, to, 417. Pannicnlus, the pantftm??"!!? wctot§
122. Pannicua, to, 102, 292, 578; the
wrestler, 278.
B5li
Pannoniiin campaigxi of Domitian,
356. Pantnnif, 336. PaBtigalhuSi epitaph on, 285. PapUoa, to, 200, 277; on, 346; a niggaidlT and oBtentationa man, 340. Papirianna, to, on Gellia, 391 Paraaita friend, on a, 399. Paraaol, 608.
Paichnient, tableta of, 605. Paria, the actor, epitaph oo, 505. Panfaaaian car eacplained, 272
note. Panfaaaian palace of Domitian, 331,
366,368. Parrot, a, 613. Pari, explained aa a frctioo of the
people, 14. Paraimony of Tucca, 33. Parthenina, chamberlain of Do- mitian, 196 ; a requeat to, 222 ; to a toga given by, 360. Parthenopttiia, one of the aeren chiefii againat Thebei^ 296; to, 336. Partridgea, 596.
Paaiphag, on the apectacle of, 6. PaMor, the river, 280. Pastor, to, 403. Patavinm, dty ot, founded by An*
tenor, 63 nolM, Pater-familiaii, a true one, 66. Patemiia, to, 568. Patrobua, 101.
Patron, advantagea of having one, 131 ; a ivilling one, 347 ; an Attic one, 217. Paula, to, 62, 395, 5a3 ; on, 450. Panli,flr8tofthe, 236. Paulinna. the dinner-hunter, 93, 99 ;
to, on board ship, 167. Paulua, on, 97; to, 185, 232, 337, 577; on Myrtale, 221; on re- ceiving a cup from, 364 ; one of the consuls, 451. Peacock, the, 597. Pedo, ihe poet, 22, 124; writing
of; 22. Pdignan wine, 603. Peligni, poet of the. 104.
Pellgnian preasea, 37.
Peligniam, boaat of Oyid, 57.
Pen-caae, 607.
Pepper, 568.
PerRUMB,604.
Permesaia, 63.
Petanmm, a aort of tw^^hjuf
127. Pet dog and the painter, 79. Petenia, raaea oU 203. Pence, ialand oi; 306 Phadma, fables oC 139 noi$. Phafiton, on a figure of, 199. Phasia, on, 224. Pheaaanta, 597.
Phldia^ Jupiter Olympiua, 1 note. Philmia, on, 101, 209, 335, 426,
554; eptUph on, 407 ; to, 336,
457. PhOeroa, to, 102, 468. PhiUppoa, m good health, bone oo
a litter, 299. Phtliation, 105. Phflo, on, 245.
Phlloctetea, notice oi; 126 nola. Philomdos^ a musician, 179 noft/
144. Philomemis, to, 135. Philomusus, to, 410, 528 ; a buf- foon, 339. Philosnatas. on, 534. Philus, on, 637. Phoebus, to, 102, 165, 171, 2701
286, 427, 444, 564. Phrizus, golden fleece of, 361. Phiyx, the drunkard, 297. Phyllis, on, 488, 575; to, 513»
521. Physidsn, turned undertaker, 48;
a pilfering one, 440. Physiognomy, description of; 569. Picenian jar, 46. Picenian olives, 218 ; for the Sa«
tumalia,329. Picena, on, 378 ; to, 380. Picentine loaves, 594. Picentinus, to, 434. Pig. 613 ; sucking. 598. Pigs' chitteriings, 595. Pike, 600. PiUow, a, 622.
mxx.
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Pipat, 613.
PiM, the trdiitoet, 331.
PiMM,hdkofthe,ia5.
Pitch-fUTourad wine, 003.
Plagiarift. to t, 59, 497.
Plaae-tTM At Gordota, planted by
JaUna Cflear, on, 485. PUtea» town o^ 9031 Player, puniahment of a, 635. Pliny the Toanfer, the poet'a book
amt to, 455. PlbtSa, an old womant epitaph on,
480. Plnma, ajar ol^ 591. Poet, dread of the, 149, 151, 154 ;
to one reciting badly, 196. Poet ttid hia Mnae, TOO. Poetic licence, 308. Poetio triflea, naeleaa labour d,
126, 127 mim. Polla, to, 148, 481, 537; the wtfa
of Lncan, to, 479. PoUentine wool, 624. PoUio, to» 549. PoUiehannna, to, 430, 569; who
affected UberaUtr 366. Polyphemna, to, 322. Pdytimna, to, 582. Pomatum, 608. Pomegianaiea, 593 Ml. Pompeina Auotoa, 328, 329. Pompey and hia aona, on, 258. Pompoilua, wxitian ot, 287. Pomponina, to, 283. Pompnlla, 207. Pontla, to, 102, 295; aidned m
po&wning, 295 note. Ponticoa, to^ 101, 125, 159, 217, 414,
634; a fooliah writer, 253; to,
on Heiiuogeuea, 557. Pontilianna, to, 256, 304, 562. Porcelain, 217, 619. Porda, on, 45. Porphyrion, the, 598 Poiaena and Mndna BcsfOLa, on,
34. Poathnmianna, to, 385. Poathumona woika, 36. Poatumnab to^ 91, 93^ 97, 119,
122, 105, 248, 251, 269 ; on, 98 an aTaxidoua man, 189.
Pothinoa, on, 162, 256.
Potitna, to, 482.
Pnator, to, 210.
Praiaea, indiKriminate, 580
Prawna, 599.
Preaent, on a, 104.
Preaanta for the Satnmalia, 329 , made to gueata at feaata, 604.
Pretender, on a, 115.
Priapoa, to, 269, 368; upon him* aou; 283; of Helama, 294; one
' made of paatry, 613.
Priacoa, the nanrer, 81, 105; to, 326; 354, 446, 583; onthedeath of SaloBinaa, 269 ; on the feaat oC 433; the friend of Martial, ad- dieas tok 544, 545, 546 ; to, on the dangara of hare-hnnting. 550.
PiiaeiiB and Panla, 395.
Priacoa Tteentina, on hia rctnm from the ooaat of Sicily, 371 ; to Salnrn, on behalf o^ 573.
Priaona and Venia, the giadiatorab 20.
Probna, M. Valeiina, the gramma- rian, 131.
Proeilloa, to, 37, 82.
Proclaiming obligationa, 248.
Procraatination, folly ol^ 251.
Procnleia, to, 467.
Procnllina, to, 271.
Procnlna, Martial'a preaent of hie book to, 60.
Profeaaion, choice of a, 117
Prolixity of diaoourae, 276^ 277.
Promethena, on the Scythian rock, 7.
Propertina, a copy of, 628.
Proridenoe, fitvoorite c€, 29.
Public ahowa of Domttian I al $9q.
Public worka of Domitian, 2.
Pubiiua, 80, 496.
Pudena, to, 183, 190.
Ptieri, de pretio, 55.
PugiHatio oontealab on the rermi 0^390.
Pu]ae,588.
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PyladM and Orette«, 967. Pyramids of Egypt, 1 fio/«.
Qninoet, 591.
QuiocUaniis, to, 51.
Qtttnttanus, to, 229.
Quinttlian, to, 129.
Quintua, on, 134, 136; to, 212, 259, 353; explanatory note re- specting, 136 ; to, on his extra- vaganct*8, 160.
Qniiitoa Ovidius, to 420 M^, 441, 468; on the bast of Maximus Cies<»nias, 325 Mr.
Quinttis Puliins ValerianuSy 82.
Quirinaiit, on, 66.
Quoit, a, 625.
Rabbits, 595.
Rabiriiis, the architect of Domitian, to, 331, 482.
Radishes, 589.
Raisin wine, 601.
Raisins, 590.
RaTenna, on, 156 ; oo an innkeeper a^l56.
Reader, Martial's addresses to the, 22, 23, 81, 90, 131, 228, 445, 544, 587, 588, 604, 605 ; show- ing where the author's books may be purchased, 24 ; address of the Book to the, 445 : to one diffi- cult to be pleased, 468, 477 ; the poet's address to his, 221, 500, 506, 508.
Recitation, author made by, 43.
Reciter of bought verses, 97 ; an importunate one, 149.
Reed-pens, bundles o( 609.
Reed-pipe, 612.
Reguli, eloquence of the, 236.
Regulus the lawyer, 123 ; the ora^ tor, 289.
Regulus, to, 130, 225, 311, 638; on, 29, 65 ; to, on sending him a book, and a present of frankin- cense, 81 ; to, on Apolludorus, 232; on the son of, 277; on seudinir him bought presents, 319.
Relics, 312.
Ilestden<:es, plurality of, 338.
Restiintas, the eloquent advocate on the birth-day of, 490.
RhetoiJdan, on a, 142» 249.
Rhine, to the, 449.
Rhinoceros, on a, 8, 15.
Rninooeioirs noses, 25.
Rhodope,a mountain ofThrace,4,14.
Rhytinm, a narrow Teasel, 102.
RichineDds,tohis, 146.
Rich wife, 354.
Riches, misuse of, 211 ; giTen to none but the rich, 262.
Ridicule, Roman method of exhibil- ing,25,26.
RigSB, theatres of, 203
Ring-case, 620.
Rings, 620.
Rizama, dames of, 203.
Robbers, game oC 607.
Robes, ehsnging of, 261.
Rome, wonderful improremfiitB in, effected by Domitian, 3 ; on the concourse of stiangers to, 4; in- formers banished from, 5; on the rsstoration of, after being par^ tially dcstmed by fire, 223; erica of, 429, 570; addresr to, 484, 548; on the Saturnalia of; 503.
Rosdan law, 233 note.
Roses, of winter, from the Nile, 297; to achaplet of, 344; on a crown ot, sent to Cnsios Ssbi- nus, 425; a crown of, 604.
Rufinus. to, 78, 92, 100, 110, 144, 168, 174, 176 Kf, 258, 298, 437, 585 ; on his love for Nsvia, 60 on Sertoiius, 126; on a happy marriage, 183 ; to, with two boon of Epigrams, 216 ; on a pretend- ed lawyer, 247 ; address on Pa- naretns, 301 ; epitaph on^ 567.
Ruftis Gamonius, on the death oC 300.
Rug, a square one, 623.
Rostieus, to, 359.
Rosones. courtesy of the, 236.
Rustic villa, described, 156.
Sabsans at Rome, 4. 8abeUa,105.
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UTDXX.
657
Ubelliim to, 176, 341 401, 563,
563; on, ^96. Sabidins, to, 39; on, 138. Sabfami, the nymph of^ 423: td-
dre« to, 507. 8tcrifto6i* 525* 8addlo,.a, 615. Saftonini Bafiis, to, 212. Sagnntine enpi, 618. $Ai«nns,288. SaleUnni, to^ 118. Sallnst, 628.
Sale, a liTor naar Bilbilia, 49. Salooinoa, on tha death of; 269. Santim, the eook, 278 ; oo^ 313. Saimatian war, 381. Sannatiaai at Bonab 4. Satne, on, 639.
Satnm, to, on Zoilv% 143; on be- half of Priacua Terantina, 573. Satomalia, 263; proaenU for the,
229,329; on the, 503. Satornhraa^ to^ 182; biographical
notioaa c^ 182 moH. Sanoe, anperior and inforior, 601. SanfMa, to, 165. Sanfeina, 122. Saoaage, a, 592, 613. Sesrinaa, to^ 165. Scarola, on, 31; to, 76, 637; on
the apeetade of hia burning hia
hand, 365. ScaMoa, to hia, 316. Scipio, 86.
Schoolmaater, to a, 478. Soorpna, the charbteer, on hia
death, 472 ; epitaph on, 474. Sculptored fiah, on, 145. Senlptued lixaid, on a, 148. Scythe, 609. Sea-fight, on the exhIbatiOii of a,
16.19. Sea-hedgehog 599. SecnndiBa, 118. Secondna, Martiarabookaeller, 24;
doqnent and leaned, 216. Selina, the Athetit, on, 187. Selitta PanUnna, the dinner-hunter,
93,99. Scnpronia, to, 567. Bempronina Tucca, to, 324 2 0
Seneca, houae at, 195.
Senia, on, 557.
Serranta, the poet to hia, 254.
Serrioe berriea, 591.
Septidaa aflTcr, 218.
Septidasua, to. 543.
Sertoriua, on, 126, 168 ; the gour« mand, 306.
Serreraa, to, on diinUng new wlna^ 340.
Setia, wine of, 300.
Setine wine, 602.
Serema, to» 261, 266, 827, 525; on the po^a 1>ook, 88; on the poet Stella, 225; on Gharinua, 379; on hia ezceUent bathi^ 321.
Seztilianua, to, 29, 37, 459; on, 285.
Sextillua, to^ 99.
Sextoa, to, 86, 93, 114, 146, 211, 222, 342, 356, 476; on, 108; a deformed penon, 128; to, on Galliodonia, 241 ; a writer affect- hig obaenrity, 456.
Shei^'a head, 631.
SheU, a, 631.
Shield, a email one, 631.
Short-nand writer, 630.
Sicilian hooeycomba, 601.
Sicambriana at Borne, 4.
Sickneaa, on drinking hot water during, 300.
Sidonian maiden, 320.
Signine wine, 603.
Sila, againat, 510.
Sflai, the, 203.
Silraa* 289.
Siliua ItaUcua, to, 183 ; on, 333,521 Hi; ontheconsulahipofhiaaoni 382; CO the death of hia eon, 436.
Stnuena, a town of Campania. 280.
Siiena, de, 162.
Siriacua, on, 257.
Slanderer, on a, 116, 315.
Slanderoua poet, on a, 448.
SlaTc, to hia, 505.
Slarery, marka o^ 100 noet.
SlaTea. 100, 119, 125, 14a
Sleep, mTOcadon to, 61.
658
flTDlX.
Snow, 619 6»f; on tho, which fell on Domitian at the games, 178.
Snow-bag, a, 618.
Snow-strainer, a, 617.
Socks, GUidan, 622.
Socrates, on a portrait of, 497.
Sola, lake of, 188 note,
Sophronias, to, 542.
Sosibianus, to, 65, 192, 534.
Sotades, metres of, 226 noU ; on, 272.
Sow, 10; sow's teats, 593.
Sparsos, to, 670.
Spamlns, an unknown kind of fish, 159 note.
Spataie, 112 noU,
Spectacle in the Arena, 76.
Spendophoros, a iaToiirite of Do^ miti&n's, 421.
Spoletine wine, 603.
Sponge, a, 622.
Sportola, a present from the ridher class to the poorer, 56 ; price of the, 56 ; on the abolition of the, by Domitian, 134; notice of the, 137 note.
Stag, the, 600.
Stella, a poet of Petayinm, 27, 225, 226; to, 47, 251, 321, 437; on the games of, in honour of the triumphs of Domitian, 389.
Stella and lanthis, on. 270.
Stolen cloak of Crispmus, 372.
Strangers, on the concourse of, to Rome, 4.
Strigils, 611.
Sturgeon, 600.
Style-cases, 607.
Suburra of Rome, 291.
Suicide, 125, 140, 275.
Sulpicia, praise of, 463.
Supper of perfume, 136; walking ones, 32/.
Supoers, hunting for, 93, 94» 288^
Sura, 289.
Surrentine cups, 617 ; win^ 602.
Swallow, on a, 256.
Swans, 598 of Leda, 52.
Swimming exhibition, 17
Sword and belt, 609.
Synthesis, a, 622.
Symmachus, to, 224.
Syrian figi fbr the Satutnalia, 329.
Tdile oofor, a, 622. Table utsnsils and attfar^ 378, 379. Tables, different kinds of; 616. TaUeti of Tarioos Idnda, dtroQ
wood, ironr, ftc, 605, 606. Tiper, a, 610. Taiatalla, 50. Taxentine wine, 604. Taxentuffl, pastiires o( 361. Tsientns, a place hi the Ounpus
Martins, 60, 177 note. Tszpetan palace, 332. Taxtessian Guadalquiflr, 361. Tarrsgonese wine, 603. Taygetus, Quarries o^ 280. TelBsiUa, on, 265 ; to,539. Telesina,on,lll. Telesinus, to, 555. Telenhonis, to, 512, 525. Telelhusa, on, 294. Temple, on the erectioii of one
whoi Domitian was bom, 402. Temple of Fortune, of Domitian,
381. Terantianus, gorenor of Syene^ 67. Testins Gaballus, 44. Tesserc^ 606. Thais, to, 182,201,217; on, 302;
the mistress of Quintus, 135,
136. Thais and LiBcania, on, 244. Thalia, to, on the poet Lustiseos
Brutianus, 188. Theatre. Sm Amphitheatre. Themes, fit ones for epigrams, 518L TheMnus, to, 148. Theodorus, to, 258; a bad poet,
538. Theo^iila, on a portrait of; 336. Theopompus, to, oo his becoming a
Therms, the, 3
Thcstylus, the poet Yictoi't yojt
318. Thetis, 19. Thxasea,27. Three children, the poet's petition
650
ftr abb lUils of a ikthflr of; 130;
to his wiio ratpecting» 130 ; pri*
▼UegM Atuehad, 190 noU. Throe Iohtoi, Ublete of, 606. Thrmboi, a crown ol^ 594. Thyoitai, 151.
Thymele, tbo fomilo dinooft 96. TibttUuB, 628. Tibnr, the, 205, 206. Tigillmiii, Sophonius, 139. TigroM metcfaed with a lion, 13. TimeTaa, the mer, 188 notsi a rirer
of the north of Italy, 361. Titiui, on, 522. TitnlloB, to^ 370.
Titui,to^33; on Ceeilianns, 332. Tirol!, 206; towen of; 29; groTO
at, 317 ; hiU oi; 361. To^ to a, giren him by Purthe-
nius, 360; on one giren to the
poet by Parthenini, 418 ; on a,
620 «tf. Tongilianu, to^ 154; on, 583. Tongilion, to, 170. Tongilini, to, 104. Tooth-pidE, a, 607. Tooth-powder, 611. Toranini, to, 392. TorqnatnB, the rich, 487. TracCatrix, exphmation of, 169
noU. Tragedies, Baanii, a writer of, 249. Tnyan, the emperor, on the arriral
of. 449; in praiee ot 463, 483;
inrocation to the godt in faroor
oi; 501 ; flattery and pnuaee of;
502, 548 bis; on hu munifi-
oence to the temple of Jnpiter,
551. Trebonoa, to, 639. Trebnla, town of; 257. Triibline wine, 602. Triton, 19.
Triumphal arch of Domitian, 381. Trinmphni, the gladiator, 14. Tririan goddeei, 1. Tropa, game of; 183 fiote. TmfBes, 594; eating of; 34 Tncca, to, 291, 339, 453, 530, 563,
584 ; on hia pataimo^, 33 ; on
the wooden bath of, 4^.
Tnoefaii, to, 137.
Tucker, a, 623.
Tnttna and Lucanna, to, 42.
Tnranina, to, 259.
Tnrbot8,596
Tnrgidiua, to,638.
Tninipa, 590.
Tumna, on, 505.
Tortle-dorea, 594.
Tuacan aoothaarer, to a, 142.
Tutela, town of, 203.
Two brothera, on, 171.
Tyrianwool, 624.
Umber, to, 329; on, 580.
Unloua, to, 564.
Urbiena, to, 328 ; epitaph on, 347.
yacerra,to,384,529; on, 532; hia
pretended wealth derided, 558. Yadarera, a mountain near BilbiUab
49a^fio<e. Talerina Flaoeua, to, 42«. Yanquiihed, method of proclaiming
the, in thearena,20a^fio<i. Varro, to, with a preaent of the au-
thor'a worka, 237. Varna, to» 358; the centurion, on
the death of; in Egypt, 458; acp*
per of, 634. Vaaea, antique onea, 616 ; Arretine,
617; of earthenware, 252. Vatican caaka, 33. Vatican wine for critica, 468. Vatinian cup, 617. Veientan grape, 112. Veientan wine, 76, 153. Veliu% on the bow of, 408. Veloz,to, 81. Venafian oU, 601. Venuleiua, on two booka of Epi-
grama for, 216. Verona, the birth-plaoe of Gatnllua,
57. Verae, to hia, on a licentioua cha- racter, 72. Veraea, roughneaa and obacnrity of
537. Verua and Priacua, the gladiaton
20. Veatinua, to, 212
660
VemxTiui, on, 197
VetenD loldieri <m a, 172.
VetnMiUa, to. 173.
Via TeeU, 133.
Yibini Maximus, to, 543.
Vioo, panderofi to, 284.
yioet,of a oomplicated cfaanotor, 140 ; not persons, attacked by the poet, 462.
Victor, to, 533.
Victor, Vooonins, the poet, 318.
Victory, a golden statne o( 625.
Vindex, his possession of the statne of Hercules, 415, 416.
Vinegar, 603.
Vintage of Italy, b. c. 121, cele- brated for its abniylanoe, 37 tt noU.
Vintner, to a, 55.
Viper, on a, 138 ; enclosed in am- ber, 205.
Viigil, on the birth-day of; 576; his deference to Horace and Vuins, 357 ; praises of^ 377 ; on parch- ment, 628 ; his *< Gnat," 628.
Viigin water, 231, 820.
ViteUian tablets, 88, 606 K«.
Voberca, a town near BilbUis, 49.
Votienns, the poet of Narbo, 386.
Vulcan, to, on the restoration of the
. city after being partially destroy- ed by firs, 223.
Wallet, a, 615.
Water, to Domitian on his peti- tioning for a supply of, 401.
Wate»-jng for the Uble. 618.
Wealth, Afer's boast oi; 193.
Wheatsn-flour, 589.
Whips, 614.
Widowed step-mothers, 184
Wife, to his, 519, 542, 554; on ob- taining the rights of a fiither with
three children, 130 ; on her gift
to Martial, 558. Wild ass, the, 601. Wild bosr, to a, 317; faiYitation to
iiBastupoaa,359; on a, 600. Wine-cup, on one reoeiTed nom
Instantius Bnfns, 373; from
Panltts,394. Wine-cups, 618. WiDM, mixing of, 33; different
kinds of, 602. 603, 604. Winter roses, from the Nile. 297. Wit about town, to a, 562.
UTitw^a <t07
Woman, fighting with a lion, 6
bi$; of unpleasmg oountensnoe,
635. Womsn's girdle, 623. Wonders of the ancient woill, 1
noCi. ^r oodcodcs, 598. Wooden cofTers, 606. Wood-pigeons, 596. Woollen doak, 621, 622. Woollen shirts, Patavian, 621 Woollen slippers, 612. Wools, amethyst-coloured, 623 j
white, Tyrisn, and PoDentino,
624. Wrestler, the, 630. Writing tablets, 605. WritingB, on his, 81, 501
Tonng, to the, on the puitntt of learning and rirtiie, 636.
Youth, on a, killed by the tall of a piece of ice, 185.
Zoiltts, to, 106, 115. 125, 261, 302, 513, 516, 524, 535, 538, 569 ; on, 143, 505; against; 95; to, 96; on his Tolnptuousness, 168 ; sn ennons man, 214; notices of^ 505 note.
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* We believe that, all things considered, this will be foand to be the best eiJsting English dictionanr in one volame. We do not know of any work similar in sise and price wnich can approadi it in completeness of vocabiUaiy, varidbir of information, and ^eral nsefalncss.' — Gmariian,
* The most comporebensive and the most usefol of its kind.'— i\^ifMfip/ Obtenur*
*A magnificent edition of Webster's immortal Dictionary.' — Daily Tekgrapk,
* A thoroudily practical and nsefiil dictionary.*— ^aw&nl
* A spedaT feature of the present book is the lavish use of engravii^ which at once illnstrate the verbal explanations of technical and scientific terms, and permit them to remain readablv brie£ It may be enough to refer to the article on " Cross." By the use of the little numbered diagiams we are spared what would have become a treatise, and not a very dear one. • . . We recommend the new Webster to every man of business, every fiuher of a fiuntly, every teacher, and almost every student— to everybody, in fiict, who is like^ to be posed at an unfamiliar or half-nndostood word or phrase.'— Si. famtis G€UiiU.
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