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Or else shall hymns unaccompanied by the lute in yearly song (2) tell (of thee), when now, in kindly (3) spring, through the sky the wandering moon with full (4) orb is shining,

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what time at Sparta the revolving year shall bring back the festival (2) in the Carneian month. Prosperous (3, 4) Athens shall ever sing of thee in hymns and mindful eulogy.

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Thy fate (pl.), I trow, yields matter for glorious strains. (2) Would that I might now (3) call thee back again to earth, (4) back again to the upper world,

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out of the darksome caverns of Erebus, (2) out of the wave of the gloomy Styx, (and) from the aged (3) waterman's dusky bark, which ferries over the shades of the silent.

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(As) a wife, the pride of wives dost thou shine unrivalled; (2) who, lavishing thine own life, by a willing (3) death ransomest thy husband from the palace of the infernal (4) king.

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O may the earth lightly cover thy bones: (2) but if thy husband be smitten with a new flame, (3, 4) he will pass the time hated by me, hated by his very children;

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seeing that neither his father, stricken in years, nor his aged (2) mother, (though) with hair snow-sprinkled, (3, 4) were willing, instead of their own son, to visit the waters of Acheron.

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Yet thou, blooming in early youth, (2) rescuest from death a youthful husband, (3) while by a glorious death thou thyself repairest to black (4) Avernus' shore.

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O may a bride excelling in such constancy and dutiful affection (2) fall to my lot: but so blessed (3) a lot of life have the fates granted to few (4) to draw.

HINTS

I. (1) "Noble," insignis; "for the last time," supremum; (2) "cruel," ferus; "Pluto," Dis (-ītis); (3) "art bound for," petis; (4) "devoid of," carens (with abl.)

II. (1) "Ruler," moderator; " palace," aula; (2) "over," per; (3) "convey," transveho; (3) "aged," senilis; (4) "ferryman," portitor.

III. (1) "Bark," carina; (2) 'dutifulness,” pietas; (3) “illustrious," resplendens. For the rest comp. Hor. Od. iii. 11. 35, "in omne virgo nobilis aevum."

IV. (1) “Yes, but," at; "to be celebrated" (gerundive); "in song," musis; (2) "the vista of years," extenti anni; “rehearse," itero; (3) "lyre," etc.: comp. Hor. Od. iii. 11. 3, "tuque testudo resonare septem callida nervis."

V. (1) "Or else," aut; "unaccompanied by," carens (as in I. 4) (2) "kindly," benignus.

VI. (1) "What time," ubi; "revolving," revolutus; "festival," festa (n. pl.); (2) "the Carneian month" (August), mensis Carneius į prosperous," beatus; (3) " 'eulogy," laus.

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VII. (1) "I trow," scilicet; "yield matter for," praebeo; (2) 'glorious," splendidus; "I might," liceret; (3) "upper,” superus.

VIII. (1) "Darksome," tenebrosus; (2) "; "aged (see II. 3); (3) "waterman," nauta; "dusky," luridus; (4) "ferry over," deveho.

IX. (1) "Pride," decus; "unrivalled," una; (2) "lavish," fundo ; (3) "ransom,” redimo; (4) “palace” (see II. 1).

X. (1) "Lightly" (adj.); "thy," tibi; (2) "to be smitten," capi; (3) "hated by," invisus (with dat.) Instead of repeating this word, repeat ducet.

XI. (1) "Stricken in years," annosus; “nor," aut; (2) snowsprinkled," aspersi nivibus (with acc. of nearer definition). XII. (1) “Blooming," viridis; (2) “rescue,” eximo.

XIII. (1)

Constancy," fides; (2) "fall to the lot of," contingo (with dat.); (3) "grant," tribuo.

EXERCISE XXI1

TELLE EST LA VIE

I

O (thou) who, exulting in golden youth, (2) art seeking uncertain joys, who art attracted by (3) both the unruffled smiles of fortune (4) and the fickle breeze of glittering fame,

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see how through the unruffled sky (her) lights (2) Aurora sends, while the bark its canvas (3) spreads out, and with a favouring breath (4) the breeze skims over the placid

waves;

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not knowing how dangerous a storm is coming on, (2) with how threatening a burst of the north wind; (3) and with

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(what) black tempest's anger, and (4) with shipwreck balefully charged, the evening is at hand.

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So life glides on deceitfully, and fickle (2) fortune changes her winsome smiles: (3) so for each one, ready to mar his pastimes, (4) does the hour of irresistible death press on.

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For all things human yield to pitiless (2) fate; for glory alike (3) and beauty and fortune's gifts (4) are entombed along with the silent urn.

HINTS

(1) "Exulting," laetus; (2) "who art attracted by" (take the active turn); "whom draw," quem trahunt, etc.; (3) "unruffled," serenus; (4) "fickle," levis; "glittering," "brilliant: comp. Hor. Sat. ii. 3. 222, "quem cepit vitrea fama.'

II. (1) "Canvas," carbasa (n. pl.); (3) "breath," flatus; (4) "skim," volo.

III. (1) "Not knowing" (referring to "the bark "), ignara; "storm," "whirlwind," turbo; "burst," inpetus; (4) “balefully,” male; "the evening," vesper (to begin line 2).

IV. (1) "6 'Deceitfully" (adj.); (2) "winsome," amabilis; (3) "ready to mar," diripio (fut. part.); comp. Verg. Aen. iii. 227 (of the Harpies) "diripiuntque dapes ;' (4) "irresistible,”. indomitus ; "death," nex.

V. (1) “ All things (together)" cuncta; “pitiless," inlacrimabilis; (3) "beauty," forma; (4) "entomb," tumulare.

EXERCISE XXII

PROMETHEUS UNBOUND

I

Therefore, sharers of my sufferings, let us take (our) way (2) together, where thick leaves of woods (3) through the heats of the summer (4) sun, and where an ever-flowing spring may shed

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its pleasing coolness around. (2) Here, reclined at ease beneath a grot, we will look back on the race (3) of men and the cares of men (4) with influence benign;

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until, when kings, mindful of my chain, (2) have bound their brows with a crown, (3) a sweet image of former sadnesses, shall steal over (4) our minds.

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And thou, O son of supreme Jove, of my (2) preservation the author, what thanks to thee (3) can I pay? But store up in (thy) mind what I prophetically utter to thee.

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As great as thou wilt leave the grove of the Hesperides, (2) honoured in renown, so great from the lower world (3) wilt thou return, and in safety the triple-headed (4) monster wilt thou lead and bring back to the (upper) air.