Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Et domus exilis Plutonia; quo simul mearis, Nee regna vini sortieie taiis, Nee tenerum Lycidan mirabere, quo calet iuventus Nunc omuls et mox virgines tepebunt. 20 V. TO A FLIRT. 1. Outline of the Poem : a) What youth now courts thee, Pyrrha ? 1-5 ; 6) Alas ! he little knows how inconstant is thy fancy, 5-13 ; c) I am thankful to have escaped betimes, 13-16. 2. Time : Uncertain ; not after 23 B.c. 3. Metre : Fourth Asclepiadean. Introd. § 48. Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa Perfusus liquidis urget odoribus Grato, Pyrrha, sub antro ? Cui flavam religas comam, Simplex munditiis ? Heu quotiens fidem 5 Mutatosque deos flebit et aspera Nigris aequora ventis Emirabitur insolens, Qui nune te fruitur credulus aurea, Qui semper vacuam, semper amabilem 10 Sperat, nescius aurae Fallacis. Miseri, quibus Intemptata nites. Me tabula sacer Votiva paries indicut uvida Suspendisse potenti 15 Vestimenta maris deo. chapter{Section 4VI. HORACE PLEADS HIS INABILITY WORTHILY TO SING THE PRAISES OF AGRIPPA. 1. Occasion of the Poem : Agrippa had asked Horace to write an epic poem in celebration of his own military successes and those of Octavian. 2. Outline of the Poem : a) Varius is the poet fittingly to celebrate thy achievements, Agrippa, 1-4; 6) My lyric muse is unequal to epic themes, 5-16 ; c) Wine and love are the subjects of my song, 17-20. 3. Time : 29 B.c., or soon after. 4. Metre: Third Asclepiadean. Introd. § 47. Scriberis Vario fortis et hostium Victor, Maeonii carminis aliti, Quam rem cumque ferox navibus aut equis Miles te duce gesserit. Nos, Agrippa, neque haec dicere nee gravem 5 Pelidae stomachum cedere nescii Nee cursus duplicis per mare Ulixei Nee saevam Pelopis domum Conamur, tenues g...
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