Quicum ego, dum virgo quondam fuit omnibus expers, Nunc vos, optato quas iunxit lumine taeda, Tu vero, regina, tuens cum sidera divam Placabis festis luminibus Venerem, 77, 78.] With whom, when she was formerly a virgin free from all men, I drank the value of many thousands of money in unguents." Or, with Ellis, placing the comma after Unguentis,With whom,' &c., 'I, that am now bereft of all ointments, imbibed many thousands.' N.B.-Expers usually takes a geni 80 85 90 were falling in! May I become a lock of the queen's hair! O that Orion were shining next to Aquarius!' Orion, as Mr. Cookesley observes, is really far distant from Aquarius, and such a change would involve a complete upset of the universe, which the lock would not object to, if it could but return to Berenice's head.-fulgeret, so Virg. Aen. vi. 827, Paribus quos fulgere cernis in armis.' corruerent is Ellis's reading for corruerint, which Lachmann gives. If we read corruerint, fulgeret must be pres. subj. from fulgero = fulguro, and the three wishes must all be directed to the future. ALBII TIBULLI ELEGIARUM LIBER PRIMUS. I. DIVITIAS alius fulvo sibi congerat auro I.-1. auro] With gold obtained by military service.-fulvo cannot fulvi auri. Dissen. auro 2. iugera multa] This land would be that which was commonly allotted to veterans after civil wars. Cf. Virg. Ecl. i. 71, 'Impius hæc tam culta novalia miles habebit?' 3. terreat] Because in his military toils he is exposed to constant peril. 4. pulsa] Ut Græci dixerunt κρέκειν αὐλόν, et κρούματα pro avλnuara.' Dissen. [The Hebrew yn, 'to sound the trumpet (once),' means properly to strike.' So the Germans say 'in die Trompete zu Et quodcunque mihi pomum novus educat annus, Vos quoque, felicis quondam nunc pauperis agri es defossus in agris Stipes,' Ovid. Fast. ii. 461.-veneror, I perform my religious duties.' 14. deum] Probably Silvanus. 18.] Priapus was the god of gardens, whose image was made use of as a scarecrow. 19. felicis quondam, &c.] How Tibullus became impoverished is not known. It is supposed that his lands were sequestered, as was the case with those of Virgil. 20. fertis] pepeo Oε, 'receive.' 25.] The MSS. have non instead of nunc. It is doubtful what Ti bullus really wrote. 26. longae viae] Long and distant military expeditions. 27. Canis] The dog-star, Sirius, called also Canicula. Te flagrantis atrox hora Caniculae Nescit tangere.' Hor. Od. iii. 13. 9, 10. 34 de mayno, &c.] Est' is to be supplied. 35. lustrare] To purify by means of heaps of lighted straw, over which the shepherds jumped in honour of Pales. 36. placidam] 'Ut placida sit.' Dissen. Non ego divitias patrum fructusque requiro, Aut, gelidas hibernus aquas cum fuderit Auster, Te bellare decet terra, Messala, marique, 45 50 Me retinent vinctum formosae vincla puellae, 55 Dum modo sim, quaeso segnis inersque vocer. Tristibus et lacrimis oscula mixta dabis. Vincta, nec in tenero stat tibi corde silex. 42. condita messis] 'The harvest that was garnered.' 46. detinuisse] So in Virg. Aen. iv. 84, Aut gremio Ascanium, genitoris imagine capta, Detinet.' 49. iure] Rightfully.' 51. O quantum est, &c.] Dissen reads potius pereatque, remarking that the collocation is not unusual, it being customary with poets to place the verb common to two members of a sentence at the beginning of the second member; thus, i. 3. 56, 'Messalam terra dum sequiturque mari,' as if 'dum terra sequitur sequi 60 65 turque mari.' 'May all the gold and emeralds that there are perish sooner than that,' &c. 57. Non ego laudari curo] 'I care not for glory.' 61. arsuro lecto] The funeral pile about to be fired. 64.] Nec magis incepto vultum sermone movetur, Quam si dura silex aut stet Marpesia cautes.' Virg. Aen. vi. 470. 67. parce solutis, &c.] He does not wish Delia to tear her hair or disfigure her cheeks. 'Iliades crinem de more solutae.' Virg. Aen. iii. 65. Interea, dum fata sinunt, iungamus amores: Nunc levis est tractanda Venus, dum frangere postes 70 Hic ego dux milesque bonus: vos, signa tubaeque, 75 III. Ibitis Aegaeas sine me, Messala, per undas, Delia non usquam ; quae me cum mitteret urbe, 10 |