Fortune has not led him through the
innumerable
vicissi-
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody
--MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES.
The first twenty-two of the following exercises are design-
ed to be literally translated into Latin verse: the words
will require a different arrangement, but every word may
stand in the same line in Latin, in which it is found in
English. The remaining exercises are intended to be more
freely translated, and the wofds in one line may often be
introduced into the preceding or following verse.
1.
The lamb in company with the wolf (sociata lupv) shall
gambol (lasciviet) in (per) the vallies,
And the steer shall go (petet) with the lion in safety (tutus)'
to the stall (prcesepe).
2.
Thus (qualia) the lilies hang down (declinant) their, wi-
thering (pallentes) 6talks,
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And blooming {puberties,) roses die beneath the first chill-
ing blasts' (adprimos austros).
3.
And now the morning star {Lucifer) fringed (stringebat)
the lofty iEmus with his (ellip. ) rays,
And he urges on the rapid chariot (festinam rotam) more
speedily than usual (solito properantior).
4.
And I feared all these things, because I knew (videbam)
that I deserved them (ellip. );
But your anger is lighter (lenior) than my crime (pec-
cato).
5.
Let the heaven supply (ellip. ) dews sweet as nectar (nec-
tareos), and let it viands (epithet)
Supply, and shed (irriget) silently fertilizing showers (im-
bres).
6.
The sea was bright (radiabat) with the image of the re-
flected (repercussa) moon,
And in the night (epithet) there was a light (nitor) like
the light of day (diurnus).
7.
Let him indeed (sane) receive the price (mercedem) of
blood, and look as (et sic)
Pale (jpalleat) as the man (ellip. ) who has trodden on
(pressit) a serpent with naked feet (calcibus).
8.
And now the sea began to redden (rubescebat) with the
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morning (ellip. ) rays, and from the lofty sky
(cethere)
The saffron Morn (lutea Aurora) arose in her rosy chariot
(bigis).
9.
Drops (enall. ) wear a stone hollow (cavo) ; a ring is worn
out (consumitur) by use;
And the crooked ploughshare is worn away (teritur) by
the earth rubbing against it (pressa).
10.
You see that anger, lust (libido), vice (scelus), every where
prevail (dominentur),
And deceit (fraus) counterfeiting friendship, and malig-
nant envy,
And feuds, and treachery (insidia), and the snares (retia)
of unequal law.
11.
Around the tame tyger (mansueta tigri) flowery bands
the sportive (petulantes)
Boys in play (per ludum) shall cast, and serpents the wea-
ried
Limbs of the traveller shall refresh by licking them with
their cold tongues (recreabuntfrigore lingua).
12.
The field by degrees shall grow yellow (flavescet) with
soft ears of corn (arista),
And the blushing grape (rubens uva) shall hang on the
rough (incultis) brambles,
And hard oaks shall distil (sudabunt) dewy honey (enall. ).
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13.
O Sleep, thou (ettip. ) rest (quies) of all (ellip. ) things, O
Sleep, thou gentlest {placidissime) of the gods,
Thou peace of the mind, from whom care flies away, who
the body (corda), by its (ellip. ) daily
Toils (ministeriis) exhausted (Jessa), dost refresh and re-
cruit for labor.
14.
Often too, when the wind is rising (vento impendente),
you will see stars
Falling (labi) swiftly (enall. ) from (ellip. ) heaven, and,
through the shades (umbram) of night,
Long trains (tractus) of flame (enall. ) gleaming (albescere)
behind them (a tergal).
15.
Under this tree the dewy (madidi) Fauns (Fauni) often
danced (luserunt),
And their (ellip. ) pipe heard in the night (fistula sera)
alarmed the quiet family (domum);
And while they fled (Jugit) through the solitary (solus)
fields from midnight Pan (nocturnum Pana),
Often under this tree (Jronde) z rural Dryad (Dryas)
lay concealed (latuit).
16.
O mossy fountains, and grass (herba) more soft than
sleep (somno mollior),
And the green arbute tree (arbutus), that covers you with
its thin (rard) shade,
Keep off the heat (solstitium) from my flock (pecori);
now comes the summer
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Scorching; now the buds swell on the vine (epithet).
17.
Beneath a hedge, and often (nee raro) on the, margin of
a bank, there is a little
Reptile (the glow-worm), which glitters by night, and
lies concealed (latet) by day.
Ye great, lay aside your pride (fastus), and no longer
(nee) despise the lowly,
Since even (et) this little (minimum) reptile has some-
thing (ellip. ) which is splendid (niteat).
18.
In early spring, when the snow (periph. ) on the hoary
mountains
Is dissolved, and the crumbling (putris) glebe unbinds
itself by the Zephyr,
Then (periph. ) under the deep-pressed (depresso) plough,
let my ox begin
To groan, and the plough-share, worn bright (attritus)
by the furrow, begin (ellip. ) to glitter.
19.
Illustrious souls! If mortal things at all affect (quid
tangunt)
The inhabitants of heaven (ccelicolas), if there is still with
you (ellip. ) any regard (cura) for the British race,
I beseech you, renew (vos instaurate) our ancient vigor;
That, sloth (somno) being shaken off, we may at length
aspire (nitamur) to noble things (ardua),
Mindful of true virtue and of our fathers' (avitec) fame.
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20.
Thus the Lagean (Lagea) bark, while in the vast ocean
like an island
It appeared (conspecta), struck against (illisit) the rocks,
where the east wind (epithet),
Scattering ruin around (naufragium spargens), blocks up
(operit) the sea: and now on the waters
Both planks (transtra), and masts, and colors (aplustria)
with (ellip. ) the torn sail,
And seamen {epithet), striving against (removentes) the
waters, float.
21.
For some (pars) commit the dead body to the earth,
And strew garlands on the tomb, and obsequies yearly
Pay, as though the shades of the dead (manes) required
such offerings.
Others (pars), the funeral pile being in order raised, burn
on it the bodies (artus) of the dead (ellip. ),
And collect their ashes, and place them in the faithful urn.
22.
Their life was like the life (ellip. ) of a beast, spent with-
out any regularity (nullos agitata per usus);
They were a savage people, and destitute as yet of know-
ledge.
They had (nurant) for houses leaves, for food (frugibus)
herbs;
Water, drunk out of their two hands, was their nectar.
No ox panted under the curved plough-share;
No land was under the cultivation (imperio) of the
husbandman (colentis).
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23.
Night , had wrapped all things in darkness and in her
silent shade,
And deep sleep had seized on weary man.
24.
The birds were now singing, and the sun hastened from
the east,
To open with a purple smile the day.
25.
The shepherd guides his flocks ; he now takes in his arms
the tender lambs,
And gives them, while cherished in his bosom, the sweetest
herbs;
He now seeks for the sheep that are lost, and brings back
the wandering.
26.
The third morning had from the heavens removed the
cold shades of night [ellip. ),
When they sorrowfully collected together (ruebant) on the
hearths the high raised (altus) ashes and
The bones intermingled with each other, and placed over
them a warm mount of earth,
27.
Begone, ye sleepless cares; begone, complaints,
And the host of envy with her "jealous leer malign"
[transverso tortilis kirquo);
Nor thou, O cruel calumny, bring hither thy envenomed
scoffs {anguiferos rictus).
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28.
Thus (talis) the Parthian lord leads from the Tigris
His barbarian troops, and proudly adorns his head
With regal chaplets, gems, and rich attire.
29.
For now Eurus collects his strength from the purple east;
Now Zephyr approaches hasting from the west (sero
vespere missus).
Now cold Boreas rages (jbacchatur) from the dry north
(Arcto);
Now the south wind joins the contest with an opposing
front.
30.
Androcles, who had fled as an exile from the anger of
his master,
Wandered over the parched sands of Libya.
At length when wearied and exhausted by his journey
(labore viarum),
A secret cave presented itself to him at the side of a
rock.
31.
He enters the cave; and scarcely had he committed his
wearied limbs to sleep,
When suddenly an immense lion roars in the cavern.
It lifted up its wounded foot, and uttering a mournful
cry,
It implored, as well as it was able to implore, the
assistance of Androcles.
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32.
The fugitive slave, struck with the novelty of the circum-
stance, and hesitating with fear,
Scarcely at length moves his trembling hands to the
assistance of the lion (ellip. );
But after having examined the thorn, (for a thorn stuck in
the wound)
He carefully and tenderly draws it out of the lion's
foot.
33.
Now again he roams through the sylvan shades, and the
groves; and, like an attentive host,
Brings to the cave for Androcles constant food.
The man, as the lion's guest, sits down to the feasts pre-
pared for him (ellip. ),
And hesitates not to partake of the undressed pro-
visions.
34.
But who could bear to live thus solitarily in a cheerless
desert (tcedia deserta vitce)?
Scarcely could the rage of a revengeful master be more
terrible.
The slave at length resolves to expose his devoted head to
certain dangers,
And again to seek his paternal abode.
35.
Here he is given up by his master, and, doomed to afford
a cruel entertainment to the people,
He stands in the theatre as a wretched criminal.
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By chance the same lion that he had assisted in the desert
(ellip. ), fierce and raging with hunger, rushes
from the dens,
And looks with an astonished countenance on his physi-
cian.
36.
He looks at him, and, as an old friend recognizing his
former guest,
He lies down at his well known feet caressing him
(blandulus).
This prodigy (ellip. ) was the work of nature alone: she
alone, who gave to the lion all his rage,
She alone induced him to repress it.
37.
The dove, that has been wounded by thy talons, O-hawk,
Is alarmed at the least rustling of a wing.
The lamb, that has been at any time rescued from the
jaws of a rapacious wolf,
Never dares again to wander from the fold.
38.
Happy is the man, who has spent his days in his paternal
fields.
Whom the same roof shelters (videt) when an old man,
that sheltered him when a boy;
Who leaning on his staff on the same sand, on which he
once crept as a child (ellip. ),
Relates the long history (sacula) of his single habi-
tation.
39.
Fortune has not led him through the innumerable vicissi-
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tudes of life (vario tumultu):
He has neither as a traveller (periph. ) tasted of foreign
waters;
Nor as a merchant has he feared the seas, nor as a soldier
the trumpet's sound;
Neither has he undergone the contentions of jarring
, courts of law.
40.
The lofty oak he (qui) remembers when it hung as an
acorn (ellip. ) on a little branch,
And he sees the grove of the same age with himself, with
himself grow old.
But yet unbroken is his strength, and the third generation
sees him
A grandsire still robust with vigorous limbs.
41.
For the men add to the noise (sonant) by their clamor,
the ropes by their rattling,
The heavy waters by the dashing of the waves against
each other (undarum incursu), and the sky by peai^s
of thunder.
The sea ascends in mighty waves, and seems to reach the
heavens,
And sprinkles the contiguous clouds with briny dew.
42.
May I never so misapply the powers of my mind,
As to become the flatterer of kings and the promoter
of vice: ?
Nor may I spend the short space, that I can steal from
the grave, <<
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In fawning and cringing (caudam sabmittatn) like a
fearful dog.
43.
There is near the Cimmerians {Cimmerios) a cave in a long
recess,
Formed of a hollow, mountain, the palace and retired
abode of lazy Sleep;
Into this cave the sun, whether rising, or on the meridian
(mediusve), or setting,
Is never able to penetrate with his rays. Fogs, mixed
with darkness,
Are exhaled from the ground, and a glimmering (crepus-
cula) of dubious light.
44.
Again, to show what virtue, and what wisdom can ac-
complish,
Homer (ellip. ) has exhibited Ulysses to our view as an
instructive example,
Who, having subdued Troy, viewed with an observant
eye the cities ?
And manners of many nations, and
While seeking for himself and his associates the means of
returning over the wide ocean to their own land
[ellip. ),
Endured many hardships, yet could never be overwhelmed
by the waves of adversity.
45.
See lofty Lebanon his head advance!
See nodding forests on the mountain dance S
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46.
Ah me! the blooming pride of May (Mali),
And that of beauty are but one:
At noon both florish bright and gay;
At evening fade, are pale and gone.
47.
When winds approach, the vex'd sea heaves around;
From the bleak mountain comes a hollow sound;
The loud blast whistles o'er the echoing shore;
Rustle the murmuring woods, the rising billows roar.
48. ?
? So the sweet lark, high poised in air,
Shuts close his pinions to his breast,
If chance his mate's shrill note he hear,
And drops at once into her nest.
49.
Nations behold, remote from reason's beams (ellip. ),
Where Indian Ganges rolls his sandy streams,
Of life impatient, rush into the fire,
And willing victims to their gods expire,
Persuaded (percussa cupidine cercd) the freed soul to
regions flies (sedes ubifata dedere quietas),
Blest with eternal spring and cloudless skies.
50.
Subdued at length, he owns Time's heavier tread,
Bowed with the weight of ages on his head:
So on some mountain's top the lofty pine,
With years and tempests worn, in slow decline
Droops to the chilling rains, the stormy gales,
While wasting age its trembling boughs assails.
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LYRIC AND DRAMATIC MEASURES.
CHAPTER I. --Feet.
The dactyl and the spondee were the feet in the most
general use among the Latin poets, and the measures, in
which these feet were most commonly arranged, were the
hexameter and pentameter; but in their lyric and dra-
matic compositions, several other kinds of feet were often
introduced, as well as a great variety of measures.
Besides the dactyl and the spondee, the following feet
are admitted into Latin poetry;
A pyrrhic, or two short syllables, as Plaga.
An iambus, one short and one long, Legunt.
A trochee or choree, one long and one short, Magnus.
An anapest, two short and one long, Capiunt.
A tribrac, three short, Facere.
A molossus, three long, Contendunt.
An amphibrac, one long between two short, Remotus.
A cretic or amphimacer, one short between two long,
Castitas.
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A bacchic, one short and two long, Legebant.
An antibacchic, two long and one short, SolamSn.
Two of the preceding simple feet are often connected,
and form the following compound feet;
A dispondee, or two spondees, as Clrcumspectiint.
A proceleusmatic, two pyrrhics, Hominibus.
A diiambus, two iambi, Serenitas.
A dichoree, two chorees or trochees, Comprobavit.
A choriambus, a trochee and an iambus, Sanguine! .
An antispast, an iambus and a trochee, Reformidat.
A great ionic, a spondee and a pyrrhic, SucciimbSre.
A small ionic, a pyrrhic and a spondee, Radiantes.
First epitrit, an iambus and a spondee, Voluptates.
Second epitrit, a trochee and a spondee, Concitarl.
Third epitrit, a spondee and an iambus, Mutabiles.
Fourth epitrit, a spondee and a trochee, Debellare.
First paeon, a trochee and a pyrrhic, Temporibus.
Second paeon, an iambus and a pyrrhic, Potentia.
Third paeon, a pyrrhic and a trochee, Rubicundus.
Fourth p "on, a pyrrhic and an iambus, Celeritas.
A dochimus, an iambic and a cretic, Deerraverant.
In the following exercises the pupil is required to men-
tion the name oj the feet, into which each verse is divided.
EXERCISES.
1.
Inte|ger vl|ta3, scele|rlsque | puriis,
Non e|get Mau|ri jacu|lis, ne|que arcu.
2.
Pater|na ru|ra bo|bus ex|ercet | suis,
Solu|tus 6m|nl fce|nore.
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3.
1111 I robur et jes | triplex
Circa | pectus erat, | qui fragilem | truci
Commi|sit pelago | ratem
Primus, | nec timuit | pracipitem A|fricum.
4.
Quid latet, iit | marina:
Filium dl|cunt Thctidis | sub lachrym6|sa Troja;
Funera, ne | virilis
Cultus in cae|dem et Lycias | proriperet | catervas?
5.
Qui sere|re ingenu|iim volet | agrum,
Liberat | arva pri|us fruti|cibus.
Domina|re tumT|dus; spi|ritus | altos [ gere;
SequYtur | super|bos iil|tor a | tergo | DSus.
6.
Neque pugno, | neque segni | pede victus,
Simul unctos | Tiberinis | humeros la|vit in undis
Has cum gemilna compede | dedicat ca|tenas
Saturne, ti|bi Zo'ilus ] annulos pri|ores.
CHAPTER II--Metres.
The metres employed in Latin poetry are the dactylic,
the anapestic, the iambic, the trochaic, the choriambic,
and the ionic measures.
The preceding measures have received their names from the
frequent occurrence in them of some particular foot; they are,
however, often called after the name of some celebrated poet,
who-excelled in a peculiar species of verse, and they have some-
times been classed according to the number of feet, which they
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contain; as octonarius, a verse of eight feet; senarius, a line of
seven feet; hexameter, six feet; pentameter, five feet; tetra-
meter, four feet; trimeter, three feet; dimeter, two feet; mono-
meter, one foot.
A verse, which has a redundant syllable or foot, is
termed a hypermeter or hypercatalectic line; a verse
wanting a syllable at the beginning is called acephalous;
a line that wants one syllable at the end to complete the
measure, catalectic; a verse wanting two at the end,
brachycatalectic; and a line containing its exact number
of feet and syllables is denominated acatalectic.
DACTYLIC MEASURES.
1. The principal dactylic measure is the hexameter.
2. The hexameter meiurus is a defective hexameter,
and has an iambus in the sixth foot instead of a spondee;
as
DirTge o|doris S|quos ad | certa cu|bilia | canes.
Liv. Andron.
3. The priapean is also a species of hexameter; but it
has generally a trochee in the first foot, and sometimes an
amphimacer in the third; as
O co|lonia [ qua e ciipts | ponte | ludSre | longo.
Catull.
A regular hexameter verse is termed priapean, and is consequently
considered inelegant, when it is so constructed, as to admit of
being divided into two portions of three feet each; as
Tenia | pars pa|trl data | pars data | tenia | patrl. Catull.
4. The regular pentameter is also a dactylic measure.
5. The . /3? olic pentameter consists of four dactyls, pre-
ceded by a spondee, a trochee, or an iambus; as ?
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Edi'|dit tuba | terribi|lem soni|tum procul.
Terentian.
6. The Phalaecian or Phaleucian verse consists of the
penthemimer of a hexameter, followed by a dactyl and a
spondee; as
Vise|bat geli|dae | sldera | brumae. Boeth.
A trochee is sometimes found in the first foot of this
measure, and Boethius has admitted an iambus in the first
and second feet; as
Hic e^nim cau|sas | cernere | promptum est.
Illic | laten|tes | pectora | turbant.
Stupet | cum subi|tis | mobile | vulgiis. Boeth.
7. The tetrameter a priore, or the Alcmanian dactylic
tetrameter, consists of the three first feet of a hexameter,
followed by a dactyl; as
Desuper | In ter|ram nox | fiinditur. Boeth.
8. The tetrameter a posteriore, or spondaic tetrameter,
consists of the four last feet of a heroic verse; as
Sic tris|tes af|fatus a|micos. Horat.
9. The tetrameter meiurus or Faliscan consists of the
last four feet of the hexameter meiurus; as
Fake ru|bos filT|cemque rg|secat. Boeth.
1. 0. The tetrameter acephalous is the tetrameter a pos-
teriore wanting the first semifoot; as
Qui | se volet | esse po|tentem,
ani|mo3 domet [ ille fe|roces. Boeth.
11. The tetrameter catalectic is the tetrameter a priore
wanting the last semifoot; as
Nostra de|us canet j harmont|a. Prudent.
The first twenty-two of the following exercises are design-
ed to be literally translated into Latin verse: the words
will require a different arrangement, but every word may
stand in the same line in Latin, in which it is found in
English. The remaining exercises are intended to be more
freely translated, and the wofds in one line may often be
introduced into the preceding or following verse.
1.
The lamb in company with the wolf (sociata lupv) shall
gambol (lasciviet) in (per) the vallies,
And the steer shall go (petet) with the lion in safety (tutus)'
to the stall (prcesepe).
2.
Thus (qualia) the lilies hang down (declinant) their, wi-
thering (pallentes) 6talks,
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And blooming {puberties,) roses die beneath the first chill-
ing blasts' (adprimos austros).
3.
And now the morning star {Lucifer) fringed (stringebat)
the lofty iEmus with his (ellip. ) rays,
And he urges on the rapid chariot (festinam rotam) more
speedily than usual (solito properantior).
4.
And I feared all these things, because I knew (videbam)
that I deserved them (ellip. );
But your anger is lighter (lenior) than my crime (pec-
cato).
5.
Let the heaven supply (ellip. ) dews sweet as nectar (nec-
tareos), and let it viands (epithet)
Supply, and shed (irriget) silently fertilizing showers (im-
bres).
6.
The sea was bright (radiabat) with the image of the re-
flected (repercussa) moon,
And in the night (epithet) there was a light (nitor) like
the light of day (diurnus).
7.
Let him indeed (sane) receive the price (mercedem) of
blood, and look as (et sic)
Pale (jpalleat) as the man (ellip. ) who has trodden on
(pressit) a serpent with naked feet (calcibus).
8.
And now the sea began to redden (rubescebat) with the
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morning (ellip. ) rays, and from the lofty sky
(cethere)
The saffron Morn (lutea Aurora) arose in her rosy chariot
(bigis).
9.
Drops (enall. ) wear a stone hollow (cavo) ; a ring is worn
out (consumitur) by use;
And the crooked ploughshare is worn away (teritur) by
the earth rubbing against it (pressa).
10.
You see that anger, lust (libido), vice (scelus), every where
prevail (dominentur),
And deceit (fraus) counterfeiting friendship, and malig-
nant envy,
And feuds, and treachery (insidia), and the snares (retia)
of unequal law.
11.
Around the tame tyger (mansueta tigri) flowery bands
the sportive (petulantes)
Boys in play (per ludum) shall cast, and serpents the wea-
ried
Limbs of the traveller shall refresh by licking them with
their cold tongues (recreabuntfrigore lingua).
12.
The field by degrees shall grow yellow (flavescet) with
soft ears of corn (arista),
And the blushing grape (rubens uva) shall hang on the
rough (incultis) brambles,
And hard oaks shall distil (sudabunt) dewy honey (enall. ).
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13.
O Sleep, thou (ettip. ) rest (quies) of all (ellip. ) things, O
Sleep, thou gentlest {placidissime) of the gods,
Thou peace of the mind, from whom care flies away, who
the body (corda), by its (ellip. ) daily
Toils (ministeriis) exhausted (Jessa), dost refresh and re-
cruit for labor.
14.
Often too, when the wind is rising (vento impendente),
you will see stars
Falling (labi) swiftly (enall. ) from (ellip. ) heaven, and,
through the shades (umbram) of night,
Long trains (tractus) of flame (enall. ) gleaming (albescere)
behind them (a tergal).
15.
Under this tree the dewy (madidi) Fauns (Fauni) often
danced (luserunt),
And their (ellip. ) pipe heard in the night (fistula sera)
alarmed the quiet family (domum);
And while they fled (Jugit) through the solitary (solus)
fields from midnight Pan (nocturnum Pana),
Often under this tree (Jronde) z rural Dryad (Dryas)
lay concealed (latuit).
16.
O mossy fountains, and grass (herba) more soft than
sleep (somno mollior),
And the green arbute tree (arbutus), that covers you with
its thin (rard) shade,
Keep off the heat (solstitium) from my flock (pecori);
now comes the summer
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Scorching; now the buds swell on the vine (epithet).
17.
Beneath a hedge, and often (nee raro) on the, margin of
a bank, there is a little
Reptile (the glow-worm), which glitters by night, and
lies concealed (latet) by day.
Ye great, lay aside your pride (fastus), and no longer
(nee) despise the lowly,
Since even (et) this little (minimum) reptile has some-
thing (ellip. ) which is splendid (niteat).
18.
In early spring, when the snow (periph. ) on the hoary
mountains
Is dissolved, and the crumbling (putris) glebe unbinds
itself by the Zephyr,
Then (periph. ) under the deep-pressed (depresso) plough,
let my ox begin
To groan, and the plough-share, worn bright (attritus)
by the furrow, begin (ellip. ) to glitter.
19.
Illustrious souls! If mortal things at all affect (quid
tangunt)
The inhabitants of heaven (ccelicolas), if there is still with
you (ellip. ) any regard (cura) for the British race,
I beseech you, renew (vos instaurate) our ancient vigor;
That, sloth (somno) being shaken off, we may at length
aspire (nitamur) to noble things (ardua),
Mindful of true virtue and of our fathers' (avitec) fame.
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20.
Thus the Lagean (Lagea) bark, while in the vast ocean
like an island
It appeared (conspecta), struck against (illisit) the rocks,
where the east wind (epithet),
Scattering ruin around (naufragium spargens), blocks up
(operit) the sea: and now on the waters
Both planks (transtra), and masts, and colors (aplustria)
with (ellip. ) the torn sail,
And seamen {epithet), striving against (removentes) the
waters, float.
21.
For some (pars) commit the dead body to the earth,
And strew garlands on the tomb, and obsequies yearly
Pay, as though the shades of the dead (manes) required
such offerings.
Others (pars), the funeral pile being in order raised, burn
on it the bodies (artus) of the dead (ellip. ),
And collect their ashes, and place them in the faithful urn.
22.
Their life was like the life (ellip. ) of a beast, spent with-
out any regularity (nullos agitata per usus);
They were a savage people, and destitute as yet of know-
ledge.
They had (nurant) for houses leaves, for food (frugibus)
herbs;
Water, drunk out of their two hands, was their nectar.
No ox panted under the curved plough-share;
No land was under the cultivation (imperio) of the
husbandman (colentis).
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23.
Night , had wrapped all things in darkness and in her
silent shade,
And deep sleep had seized on weary man.
24.
The birds were now singing, and the sun hastened from
the east,
To open with a purple smile the day.
25.
The shepherd guides his flocks ; he now takes in his arms
the tender lambs,
And gives them, while cherished in his bosom, the sweetest
herbs;
He now seeks for the sheep that are lost, and brings back
the wandering.
26.
The third morning had from the heavens removed the
cold shades of night [ellip. ),
When they sorrowfully collected together (ruebant) on the
hearths the high raised (altus) ashes and
The bones intermingled with each other, and placed over
them a warm mount of earth,
27.
Begone, ye sleepless cares; begone, complaints,
And the host of envy with her "jealous leer malign"
[transverso tortilis kirquo);
Nor thou, O cruel calumny, bring hither thy envenomed
scoffs {anguiferos rictus).
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28.
Thus (talis) the Parthian lord leads from the Tigris
His barbarian troops, and proudly adorns his head
With regal chaplets, gems, and rich attire.
29.
For now Eurus collects his strength from the purple east;
Now Zephyr approaches hasting from the west (sero
vespere missus).
Now cold Boreas rages (jbacchatur) from the dry north
(Arcto);
Now the south wind joins the contest with an opposing
front.
30.
Androcles, who had fled as an exile from the anger of
his master,
Wandered over the parched sands of Libya.
At length when wearied and exhausted by his journey
(labore viarum),
A secret cave presented itself to him at the side of a
rock.
31.
He enters the cave; and scarcely had he committed his
wearied limbs to sleep,
When suddenly an immense lion roars in the cavern.
It lifted up its wounded foot, and uttering a mournful
cry,
It implored, as well as it was able to implore, the
assistance of Androcles.
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32.
The fugitive slave, struck with the novelty of the circum-
stance, and hesitating with fear,
Scarcely at length moves his trembling hands to the
assistance of the lion (ellip. );
But after having examined the thorn, (for a thorn stuck in
the wound)
He carefully and tenderly draws it out of the lion's
foot.
33.
Now again he roams through the sylvan shades, and the
groves; and, like an attentive host,
Brings to the cave for Androcles constant food.
The man, as the lion's guest, sits down to the feasts pre-
pared for him (ellip. ),
And hesitates not to partake of the undressed pro-
visions.
34.
But who could bear to live thus solitarily in a cheerless
desert (tcedia deserta vitce)?
Scarcely could the rage of a revengeful master be more
terrible.
The slave at length resolves to expose his devoted head to
certain dangers,
And again to seek his paternal abode.
35.
Here he is given up by his master, and, doomed to afford
a cruel entertainment to the people,
He stands in the theatre as a wretched criminal.
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By chance the same lion that he had assisted in the desert
(ellip. ), fierce and raging with hunger, rushes
from the dens,
And looks with an astonished countenance on his physi-
cian.
36.
He looks at him, and, as an old friend recognizing his
former guest,
He lies down at his well known feet caressing him
(blandulus).
This prodigy (ellip. ) was the work of nature alone: she
alone, who gave to the lion all his rage,
She alone induced him to repress it.
37.
The dove, that has been wounded by thy talons, O-hawk,
Is alarmed at the least rustling of a wing.
The lamb, that has been at any time rescued from the
jaws of a rapacious wolf,
Never dares again to wander from the fold.
38.
Happy is the man, who has spent his days in his paternal
fields.
Whom the same roof shelters (videt) when an old man,
that sheltered him when a boy;
Who leaning on his staff on the same sand, on which he
once crept as a child (ellip. ),
Relates the long history (sacula) of his single habi-
tation.
39.
Fortune has not led him through the innumerable vicissi-
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tudes of life (vario tumultu):
He has neither as a traveller (periph. ) tasted of foreign
waters;
Nor as a merchant has he feared the seas, nor as a soldier
the trumpet's sound;
Neither has he undergone the contentions of jarring
, courts of law.
40.
The lofty oak he (qui) remembers when it hung as an
acorn (ellip. ) on a little branch,
And he sees the grove of the same age with himself, with
himself grow old.
But yet unbroken is his strength, and the third generation
sees him
A grandsire still robust with vigorous limbs.
41.
For the men add to the noise (sonant) by their clamor,
the ropes by their rattling,
The heavy waters by the dashing of the waves against
each other (undarum incursu), and the sky by peai^s
of thunder.
The sea ascends in mighty waves, and seems to reach the
heavens,
And sprinkles the contiguous clouds with briny dew.
42.
May I never so misapply the powers of my mind,
As to become the flatterer of kings and the promoter
of vice: ?
Nor may I spend the short space, that I can steal from
the grave, <<
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In fawning and cringing (caudam sabmittatn) like a
fearful dog.
43.
There is near the Cimmerians {Cimmerios) a cave in a long
recess,
Formed of a hollow, mountain, the palace and retired
abode of lazy Sleep;
Into this cave the sun, whether rising, or on the meridian
(mediusve), or setting,
Is never able to penetrate with his rays. Fogs, mixed
with darkness,
Are exhaled from the ground, and a glimmering (crepus-
cula) of dubious light.
44.
Again, to show what virtue, and what wisdom can ac-
complish,
Homer (ellip. ) has exhibited Ulysses to our view as an
instructive example,
Who, having subdued Troy, viewed with an observant
eye the cities ?
And manners of many nations, and
While seeking for himself and his associates the means of
returning over the wide ocean to their own land
[ellip. ),
Endured many hardships, yet could never be overwhelmed
by the waves of adversity.
45.
See lofty Lebanon his head advance!
See nodding forests on the mountain dance S
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46.
Ah me! the blooming pride of May (Mali),
And that of beauty are but one:
At noon both florish bright and gay;
At evening fade, are pale and gone.
47.
When winds approach, the vex'd sea heaves around;
From the bleak mountain comes a hollow sound;
The loud blast whistles o'er the echoing shore;
Rustle the murmuring woods, the rising billows roar.
48. ?
? So the sweet lark, high poised in air,
Shuts close his pinions to his breast,
If chance his mate's shrill note he hear,
And drops at once into her nest.
49.
Nations behold, remote from reason's beams (ellip. ),
Where Indian Ganges rolls his sandy streams,
Of life impatient, rush into the fire,
And willing victims to their gods expire,
Persuaded (percussa cupidine cercd) the freed soul to
regions flies (sedes ubifata dedere quietas),
Blest with eternal spring and cloudless skies.
50.
Subdued at length, he owns Time's heavier tread,
Bowed with the weight of ages on his head:
So on some mountain's top the lofty pine,
With years and tempests worn, in slow decline
Droops to the chilling rains, the stormy gales,
While wasting age its trembling boughs assails.
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LYRIC AND DRAMATIC MEASURES.
CHAPTER I. --Feet.
The dactyl and the spondee were the feet in the most
general use among the Latin poets, and the measures, in
which these feet were most commonly arranged, were the
hexameter and pentameter; but in their lyric and dra-
matic compositions, several other kinds of feet were often
introduced, as well as a great variety of measures.
Besides the dactyl and the spondee, the following feet
are admitted into Latin poetry;
A pyrrhic, or two short syllables, as Plaga.
An iambus, one short and one long, Legunt.
A trochee or choree, one long and one short, Magnus.
An anapest, two short and one long, Capiunt.
A tribrac, three short, Facere.
A molossus, three long, Contendunt.
An amphibrac, one long between two short, Remotus.
A cretic or amphimacer, one short between two long,
Castitas.
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A bacchic, one short and two long, Legebant.
An antibacchic, two long and one short, SolamSn.
Two of the preceding simple feet are often connected,
and form the following compound feet;
A dispondee, or two spondees, as Clrcumspectiint.
A proceleusmatic, two pyrrhics, Hominibus.
A diiambus, two iambi, Serenitas.
A dichoree, two chorees or trochees, Comprobavit.
A choriambus, a trochee and an iambus, Sanguine! .
An antispast, an iambus and a trochee, Reformidat.
A great ionic, a spondee and a pyrrhic, SucciimbSre.
A small ionic, a pyrrhic and a spondee, Radiantes.
First epitrit, an iambus and a spondee, Voluptates.
Second epitrit, a trochee and a spondee, Concitarl.
Third epitrit, a spondee and an iambus, Mutabiles.
Fourth epitrit, a spondee and a trochee, Debellare.
First paeon, a trochee and a pyrrhic, Temporibus.
Second paeon, an iambus and a pyrrhic, Potentia.
Third paeon, a pyrrhic and a trochee, Rubicundus.
Fourth p "on, a pyrrhic and an iambus, Celeritas.
A dochimus, an iambic and a cretic, Deerraverant.
In the following exercises the pupil is required to men-
tion the name oj the feet, into which each verse is divided.
EXERCISES.
1.
Inte|ger vl|ta3, scele|rlsque | puriis,
Non e|get Mau|ri jacu|lis, ne|que arcu.
2.
Pater|na ru|ra bo|bus ex|ercet | suis,
Solu|tus 6m|nl fce|nore.
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3.
1111 I robur et jes | triplex
Circa | pectus erat, | qui fragilem | truci
Commi|sit pelago | ratem
Primus, | nec timuit | pracipitem A|fricum.
4.
Quid latet, iit | marina:
Filium dl|cunt Thctidis | sub lachrym6|sa Troja;
Funera, ne | virilis
Cultus in cae|dem et Lycias | proriperet | catervas?
5.
Qui sere|re ingenu|iim volet | agrum,
Liberat | arva pri|us fruti|cibus.
Domina|re tumT|dus; spi|ritus | altos [ gere;
SequYtur | super|bos iil|tor a | tergo | DSus.
6.
Neque pugno, | neque segni | pede victus,
Simul unctos | Tiberinis | humeros la|vit in undis
Has cum gemilna compede | dedicat ca|tenas
Saturne, ti|bi Zo'ilus ] annulos pri|ores.
CHAPTER II--Metres.
The metres employed in Latin poetry are the dactylic,
the anapestic, the iambic, the trochaic, the choriambic,
and the ionic measures.
The preceding measures have received their names from the
frequent occurrence in them of some particular foot; they are,
however, often called after the name of some celebrated poet,
who-excelled in a peculiar species of verse, and they have some-
times been classed according to the number of feet, which they
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contain; as octonarius, a verse of eight feet; senarius, a line of
seven feet; hexameter, six feet; pentameter, five feet; tetra-
meter, four feet; trimeter, three feet; dimeter, two feet; mono-
meter, one foot.
A verse, which has a redundant syllable or foot, is
termed a hypermeter or hypercatalectic line; a verse
wanting a syllable at the beginning is called acephalous;
a line that wants one syllable at the end to complete the
measure, catalectic; a verse wanting two at the end,
brachycatalectic; and a line containing its exact number
of feet and syllables is denominated acatalectic.
DACTYLIC MEASURES.
1. The principal dactylic measure is the hexameter.
2. The hexameter meiurus is a defective hexameter,
and has an iambus in the sixth foot instead of a spondee;
as
DirTge o|doris S|quos ad | certa cu|bilia | canes.
Liv. Andron.
3. The priapean is also a species of hexameter; but it
has generally a trochee in the first foot, and sometimes an
amphimacer in the third; as
O co|lonia [ qua e ciipts | ponte | ludSre | longo.
Catull.
A regular hexameter verse is termed priapean, and is consequently
considered inelegant, when it is so constructed, as to admit of
being divided into two portions of three feet each; as
Tenia | pars pa|trl data | pars data | tenia | patrl. Catull.
4. The regular pentameter is also a dactylic measure.
5. The . /3? olic pentameter consists of four dactyls, pre-
ceded by a spondee, a trochee, or an iambus; as ?
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Edi'|dit tuba | terribi|lem soni|tum procul.
Terentian.
6. The Phalaecian or Phaleucian verse consists of the
penthemimer of a hexameter, followed by a dactyl and a
spondee; as
Vise|bat geli|dae | sldera | brumae. Boeth.
A trochee is sometimes found in the first foot of this
measure, and Boethius has admitted an iambus in the first
and second feet; as
Hic e^nim cau|sas | cernere | promptum est.
Illic | laten|tes | pectora | turbant.
Stupet | cum subi|tis | mobile | vulgiis. Boeth.
7. The tetrameter a priore, or the Alcmanian dactylic
tetrameter, consists of the three first feet of a hexameter,
followed by a dactyl; as
Desuper | In ter|ram nox | fiinditur. Boeth.
8. The tetrameter a posteriore, or spondaic tetrameter,
consists of the four last feet of a heroic verse; as
Sic tris|tes af|fatus a|micos. Horat.
9. The tetrameter meiurus or Faliscan consists of the
last four feet of the hexameter meiurus; as
Fake ru|bos filT|cemque rg|secat. Boeth.
1. 0. The tetrameter acephalous is the tetrameter a pos-
teriore wanting the first semifoot; as
Qui | se volet | esse po|tentem,
ani|mo3 domet [ ille fe|roces. Boeth.
11. The tetrameter catalectic is the tetrameter a priore
wanting the last semifoot; as
Nostra de|us canet j harmont|a. Prudent.
