Harum pars tecta quatiebant cuspide thyrsos, 260 265 270 275 Nam quotcunque ferunt campi, quot Thessala magnis 280 Montibus ora creat, quot propter fluminis undas Aura parit flores tepidi fecunda Favoni, Hos in distinctis plexos tulit ipse corollis, Quo permulsa domus iucundo risit odore. Confestim Peneios adest, viridantia Tempe, 287.] Magnessum is Ellis's emendation for minosim. Cf. Il. ii. 756. 288.] Non vacuos non vacuus, i. e. not empty handed.' 290. lentaque sorore] The alder or poplar, into which kind of trees the sisters of Phaethon were changed. 291. Flammati] Blasted with fire. Terret ambustus Phaethon avaras Spes,' Hor. Od. iv. 11. 25. 295. Extenuata] Grown faint and nearly obliterated.-vestigia, i. e. of the fetters, or of the wounds which the vulture gave him. 296.] silici restrictus = fixus. 285 290 295 300 305 310 rupi ad 300. Unigenam] 'Twin sister.'Idri, a mountain in Caria, where Diana was worshipped. 304. piled.' ་ constructae sunt] Were 308. ora] A hem or fringe= кpάomedov. 309.] This is Doering's emendation for roseo niveae. 312.] Cookesley quotes Hor. Od. iii. 23. 1, Caelo supinos si tuleris manus.'-supinis here='up-turned.' Formabat digitis, tum prono in pollice torquens Carmine, perfidiae quod post nulla arguet aetas. Sed vos, quae fata sequuntur, Adveniet tibi iam portans optata maritis Currite ducentes subtegmina, currite, fusi. Nulla domus tales unquam contexit amores, Currite ducentes subtegmina, currite, fusi. Nascetur vobis expers terroris Achilles, 315 320 325 330 335 323.] augens clearly governs decus eximium, and cannot aucte, as Doering strangely explains it. 327. subtegmina] Woof,' but here it means simply threads. Talia saecla suis dixerunt, currite, fusis Concordes stabili fatorum numine Parcae,' Virg. Ecl. iv. 46. 330.] Lachmann reads: Quae tibi flexanimo mentis perfundat amo rem. 334. contexit] 'Held two suck lovers together under the same roof;" ὁμοστέγους. Cookesley. Qui persaepe vago victor certamine cursus Currite ducentes subtegmina, currite, fusi. Currite ducentes subtegmina, currite, fusi. Illius egregias virtutes claraque facta Currite ducentes subtegmina, currite, fusi. Testis erit magnis virtutibus unda Scamandri, Quae passim rapido diffunditur Hellesponto, Cuius iter caesis angustans corporum acervis Alta tepefaciet permixta flumina caede. Currite ducentes subtegmina, currite, fusi. Denique testis erit morti quoque reddita praeda, · 341. Flammea] Swift as flame.' So Virgil, of Camilla, Aen. xi. 718, 'Pernicibus ignea plantis.'-praevertet, shall outstrip.' An ordinary race could not be called vagus, but that after a hind would clearly be so. 345. longinquo] Probably here applied to time. The Trojan war lasted ten years. 346. Periuri Pelopis] Pelops had bribed Myrtilus, the charioteer of Oenomaus, to remove the linchpin from his master's chariot, and recompensed him by throwing him into the sea. tertius heres. Agamemnon was son of Atreus, who succeeded 340 345 350 355 360 his brother Thyestes, the son of Pelops. 351. Putrida]' 'Bruised.' 353.] With this passage compare Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act v. SC. 5: 'And there the strawy Greeks ripe for his edge Fall down before him like the mower's swath.' 357.] Quid debeas, o Roma, Neronibus, Testis Metaurum flumen,' Hor. Od. iv. 4. 37, 38. 363.] Doering reads 'teres excelso,' but we prefer the reading here given, which is adopted by Rossbach." Excipiet niveos percussae virginis artus. Currite ducentes subtegmina, currite, fusi. Currite ducentes subtegmina, currite, fusi. Curite ducentes subtegmina, currite, fusi. Talia praefantes quondam felicia Pelei 364. percussae virginis] Polyxenia, to whom Achilles was betrothed, and at a meeting with whom, in the temple of Apollo, he was slain by Paris. His shade afterwards demanded her sacrifice to him, and in obedience to it she was slain by his son Neoptolemus. 367. Neptunia] Troy was built for Laomedon by Neptune and Apollo. 368. mutescent] This is Rossbach's probable conjecture. Lachmann reads mitescent. Doering and Ellis madifient. The shade of Achilles was quieted after the sacrifice. 369. ancipiti] 'Two-edged.' The axe called 'bipennis.' 365 370 375 380 385 374. iam dudum] The usual meaning is 'long since. Doering prefers to take dudum separately with nupta 6 lately (nuper) married.' But if taken as one word, tum positum videtur iamdudum pro: quam primum, ut apud Ovid. Amat. ii. 457, "Candida iamdudum cingantur colla lacertis." Doering. 380. Secubitu] Separation from her husband.'-mittet, shall cease.' 'Mitte sectari rosa quo locorum Sera moretur,' Hor. Od. i. 38. 3. 382. Pelei] Dative, ПInλeł. |