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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. 


TRAWSTiATBD  IHIO  EHOLISH  PBOSB. 


XAOB  AOmfPAHIED  B7  OSB  OB  UCfKK  YZBSI  TRAKSUlTKIB^, 
nunc  THB  WOBKB  OF  ZSQUBE  FOET&L  AHB  TABIOUB 

OTHXB  SOUBCSlBaL 


U)HDOK:  QEOBGB  BBLL  AKD  80278^  TOBR  STREET, 

OOYEMT  GABDJEH. 
1890. 


A 


FBomo  BT  wnuAM  auawm  ahd  aoaa,  idozid, 


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. 


fSITAOOb  T 

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. 


nrTBOPucTioy.  ft 

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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nrTBODUcnoM.  h 

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 


%  niTROliUCTIQir. 

f 

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-  '* 

B 


t  liABTIAJi 

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. 

Pede.  1(M», 

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. 


mmwm^mm^m^^tm^K^^^mam^^^mmmm^ema^m^s^, 


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 


'^^mm 


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. 


16  KABTZAL 

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^ 


24  iClBTIAL^S 

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 


26  kibtial's 

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. 


28  lLUlTIlIi*8 

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. 


80  yABTTATi  ■ 

'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. 


82  UJLRTIAL*fl 


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, 

■  • 


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 


gg  usxtusH 


.  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 

Qtni.  Mag,  174^ 

*  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. 


00  ICABTI1X*B 

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& 

• 

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^ 


BOOK  t.]  -xnokAMi*  61 

• 

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. 


X.]  BFIffXiMt*  09 

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 


M  ICABTIiJi'l 

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 


lOOV  X.]  XFI01UMB.  65 

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. 


06  J£ABTIAL*8 

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* 


BOOK  I.  MBIBUAUM,  M 

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. 


68  )CiATIAL*8 

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. 

• 

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. 


BOOK  I.]  VKGBAICS.  89 

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, 


70  ]CABTIAL*8 


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. 


72  xabtul'b 

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 


74  xabtial's 

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. 


76  XIBTIAL*! 

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 


78  ICASTlJLL'a 

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. 


80  2UBTIAL*B 

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. 

I  2' 


116  XABIIAL*! 

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. 


118  XABTUL*! 

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. 


122  iOLBTIAL*! 

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. 


186  |CABTIAL*S 

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*" 


138  xabtial's 

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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14B  XABTIAL*B 

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. 


^^n 


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*! 


BOOK  xxl]  xpigsahs.  161 

•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 

M 


162  iubtlll'b 

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. 


BOOK  bl]  iFieBim.  168 

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.** 

nS 


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* 


BOOK  m.]  mosAXii.  187 

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* 


BOOK  XUL]  XPIOaAJCB.  169 

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.'* 

«  FeUaL 


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. 


BOOK  m.]  IPIGUlCf .  171 

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. 


BOOK   III.]  XFIOBAXS.  179 


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. 

a  2 


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. 


v^^ 


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. 


BOOK  IT.]  SPieBAKB.  185 

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 

1  8eeB.iiLEp.47. 


188  xastial'b 

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 


188  martial'b 

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. 

«  *  • 

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. 


lOOX  IT.]  m&RAMB.  189 

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. 


190  ICABTIiX*! 

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. 


BOOK  XT.]  XZieSAXt.  191 

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. 


192  ]CABTIAL*B 

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. 

0 


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. 


BOOK  IT.]  XFIO&lKfl.  106 

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. 

oa 


106  HAXTlAL*t 

I 
■ 

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  { 


BOOK  Tf.]  XPIORAXI.  107 

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£ 


198  ICABTIAL*! 

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. 


BOOK  rr.]  ineiuicB.  199 

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* 


4 


200  iCAsniL*! 

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 


BOOK  IT.]  MFinLAMU.  20) 

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. 


202  KAETIJLL*! 

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. 


BOOK  ir.]  BnesAMB.  200 

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 


206  ]UBTUL*8 

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. 


BOOS  IT.]  XFIOBllCa.  207 

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* 


206  UAXIUL^B 

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. 


«OOK  IT.]  EPiaHAHS.  209 


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 


BOOK  IT.J  inOSAlOI.  211 

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. 

p2 


212  KABTIAL*8 

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 


BOOK  IT.]  IPTOIUMB.  918 

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 


214  KiJlTIAX*8 

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 


BOOS  IT.]  AFIOBAKB.  2l6 

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. 


S16  xabxul'i 


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 


BOOK  IT.]  xpieiuics.  219 

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« 


BOOK  IT.]  I7I0BA1C1.  2101 


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* 


BOPS  T.]  iPieSAMB.  221 

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. 


222  uuLTixVn 

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. 


224  icabtial's 

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. 


BOOS  T.]  BnoBAia.  225 

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 


226  icabtial'b 

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 


BOOK  T.]  inauHi.  827 

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 


228  ICABTIAL^S 

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 


BOOS  T.]  BPIGSAM8.  229 

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. 


290  icabtial's 

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 


BOOK  T.]  mXQRAMM.  281 

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. 


282  HAMTUjfn 

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. 


BOOK  T.]  IPieBAHB. 

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^ 


284  mabtial's 

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. 


SOOX  T.]  ZPIGBAIM.  285 

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. 


286  1CABTIAL*S 

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. 

a  31 


2M  ma&ttjll's 

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. 


200  mabtiil'b 

lti.    to  lufu8. 

^^        • 

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. 


BOOK  T.J  BFieXAin.  S51 

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. 


BOOK  T.]  BFI<nU]CI«  3S8 

« 

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. 


254  KASTI1L*8 

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 


2S9  iCAXTIAL*t 

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 


BOOK  T.]  inSBAlCl.  267 

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. 

^iiofi.l6d5. 

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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25R  1CA.BTIJLL » 

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^ 


•ooK  T.]  mmuuB.  259 

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. 


£00  lCABTliL'8 

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. 


1001   T.]  XFIORAMI.  261 

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 

Jmom,  1096 

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 


2G2  xabsial'b 

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. 

0UM8.iethCM 

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 


BOOK  T.]  wnonAMM,  268 

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 


264  VABTIAL^I 

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 


266  MABTIAL'i 

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. 


^OOK  Ti.]  raeBAici.  287 

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 


268  lCABTIAL*i 

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. 


270  icabtial's 

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.* 


BOOK  Tl.]  XTIOBAHi.  271 


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 


272  HABTtAZB 

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 


274  1UBTIAL*8 

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. 


BOOK  Ti.]  aneiuxs.  270 

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. 

T  2 


276  MABTIAL*B 

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 


BOOK  TX.]  XflOSJLMfl.  289 

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. 

Old  MS.  leth  Omiurp. 

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^ 


BOOS   TI.]  BFieiUXB.  281 

'  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. 

jteM.16M. 

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 

v2 


2d2  muitial'b 

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 ! 

Old  M8.  leth  Century 

LXIX.     TO  OATULLUS. 

I  do  not  wonder  that  your  Bassa,  Catullus,  drinks  water ;' 
I  Os  entiB,  %Q0  tibi  morigentnr,  "surgari  debet 


BOOK  tlJ  BnOAXi.  396 

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. 


2M  xuitial'i 

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| 


iOOK  TI.]  BFmBAXI.  205 

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. 


296  iuxruL*u 

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 


lOOK  TI.]  IFIOSAlCi.  907 

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 


208  icabtial's 

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. 


BOOK  n  XFie&iJci.  298 

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. 

Old  MS.  16a  CaO. 

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. 


MO  ICABTIAL*! 

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. 


BOOK  TI.J  IPieXUCB.  801 

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 


i 


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. 


BOOK  TH.]  1PI01UX8.  807 

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. 


BOOK  yn.]  xnoAAJOk  9U| 

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. 

% 

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^ 


BOOK  TU.]  mmAMM,  817 

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 


818  lu&vuL'i 

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* 

« 

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- 


820  XAmTUL'ft 

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 


822  JftAXTIAL*t 

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. 


824  llABTIiX*8 

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. 


926  lfABTIAL*B 


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» 


828  VABTIAL*B 

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 


BOOK  Tn.]  xnoBAXf.  829 

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. 


J 


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. 


Boo<  m.]  xnaBAMi .  887 

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 

s3 


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, 


d42  KAftlliX't 

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*. 


BOOK  til]  vnexiMS.  848 

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. 


BOOK  Tn.]  jBFieBiJcs.  845 

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. 


BOOK  Tni.1  xnosAiOL  851 

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. 

m 

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. 


BOOK  Tin.]  mOBAXt.  871 

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. 


BOOK  Tin.]  xsicouMs;  879 

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 


BOOK  Tin.]  iPieftAics.  881 

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 


882  XABTIAL*8 


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. 


BOOK  TnX.]  VIBJLAMB.  888 

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. 


884  1UBTIAL*8 

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. 


BOOK  Tin.]  ZPIOBAXt.  885 

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. 


886  iustlll'b 


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 


BOOK  Tin.]  ineBAXi.  887 

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. 

2oS 


88S  jcabtial'i 

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 : 


BOOK  Tm.]  XPIGSAXl.  880 

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 


890  ICABTIAL*! 


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. 


BOOK  Tm.]  inemAin.  S91 

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. 


892  1CABT14L*! 

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. 


BOOK  ul]  mexAMi.  808 

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. 


804  XABTIAL*! 

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. 


BOOK  IX.]  ineBAXi.  805 

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 


896  JCABTULL't 

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. 


BOOK  IX.]  mOBAMt.  807 

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." 


898  ICABTIAL'l 

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 


BOOK  re]  iPieBAMB.  890 

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.** 


400  HABTIiLL't 

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. 


BOOK  DL]  BPIffUlCI.  401 


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. 


BOOK  IX.]  inesAXS.  408 

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. 


BOOK  IX.]  XPIOBA1C8.  407 

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. 


BOOK  IX.]  iFieBAiai.  421 

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. 


XABTliLL*8 

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 : 


BOOK  IX.]  knoBAXS.  428 

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. 


4SA  XABTIAL*B 

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. 


BOOK  dl]  iPiesAiCB.  425 

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 


426  iiUlBtlll*« 

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 


BOOK  IX.]  apiGBAacf.  '481 

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. 


182  XXATI^L'8 

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 


431  uabtiai/b 

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 


BOOK  IX.]  WBIfOtAMB.  485 

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 


486  VABTIAL*8 

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. 


BOOK  IZ.]  ITiaBAlCS.  M7 

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, 


BOOK  IX.]  WnBRAXB.  489 

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 


446  lULBTIAIi*8 

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. 


BOOK  Z.]  IPIOBA1C8.  447 

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 


BOOK  X.]  ZnOBAMt.  4tf 

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 

S  • 


4S0  ]UXfUL*8 

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 


BOOK  X.]  BH0SAM8.  451 

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 

3o3 


4i52  liABTIAL*8 

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» 


BOOK  Z.]  ZPiaBAHS.  468 

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       '~ 


464  VAKTTATi'S 

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 


BOOK  X.]  mosAscs.  4B5 

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 } 


i 


456  1C^11TIAL*B 

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 


BOOS  X.]  ZPIQftAlCS.  457 

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. 


tfS  1CASTIAL*8 

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 


BOOK  Z.]  BVIGBAXS.  459 

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. 


VOOK  Z.1  m&^AMB.  461 

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 


BOOK  X.]  xpiaiuics.  485 

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 


BOOK  X.]  anaiuia.  471 

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. 


BOOK  X.]  mesAJCt  181 

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, 

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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. 


BOOK  X.]  xnesAid.  409 

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. 


BOOK  ZL]  BPieSAKt.  801 

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. 

ft 

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 


BOOK  ZL]  S7I6SA1CI  S06 

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 


BOOK  XX.]  BPIOBAICI.  507 


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^ 


BOOK  XI.]  ipiosuca.  800 

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* 

2h% 


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. 


618  ]llBTXAL*a 

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. 

Jjiofi»169a. 


620  MABTlAL'a 

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 


522  ICABTIIL*! 

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' 


BOOK  TX!]  IFiaiUKS.  S28 

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 


524  UAXTUIi'% 

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 


526  icabtial'q 

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 


BOOK  XI.]  If  XGBAXS.  S27 

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^ 


628  iCABIIAL*B 

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 


580  XABTUL't 

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* 


684  jcabtul'b 

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. 


BOOK  XL]  BPIGBAiri.  685 

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* 


530  HASIIAL*S 

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» 


BOOS  zl]  nieiAia.  .  6S7 

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 


BOOK  zi.]  mosAMS.  589 

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. 


640  ICABTIAL*! 

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^ 


542.  icabtxal'b 

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 


BOOK  zl]  irroBAKS.  548 

■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. 


6M  ]CABTIAL*t 


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& 


BOOK  xn. 


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 


BOOK  XIL]  BPIOSAMfl.  5i5 

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 


540  )CABTIAL*8 

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. 


BOOK  Zn.]  SPIGRAMS.  649 

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. 


BOOK  ZII.]  EFI0BAM8.  551 

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» 


552  ka.btial'8 


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. 


BOOK  Zn.]  XFIOEAXS.  557 

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^ 


570  ]lAJtTUL*S 

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. 

.iiiofi.l6M 


BOOK  zm.!  mosAKi.  fgjt 


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. 


BOOK  Xm.]  BPIOBAXl.  S97 

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* 


BOOK  XIT.]  IFIfi^BAml.  015 

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» 


BOOK  XIT.3  XPI0BAU8.  017 

^  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. 


BOOK  XIT.]  inesAKB.  610 

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. 


BOOK  xir.]  inesAKB.  621 

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. 


BOOK  XIT.]  IFieXAXS.  825 

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* 


BOOK  xiT.]  BPiasAXi.  627 

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 


628  31^BTIAL*t 

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 


BOOK  ZIT.J  IPieSAKB.  681 

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. 


jmanAMM.  639 

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. 


66S 


PSD6  OdBMi  A91* 

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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I50XX> 


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. 


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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. 


A  complete  Index  of  the  Lo^Im  ./Inf  linei  will  be  found  in  Schneido- 
win's  small  text  ediUon,  published,  Leipsig,  1853^  in  Teubner's  Series  oi 
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