37. The imperative form gives a very vivid turn to the conditional. Cf. "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." 40. 43. Of the ashes after the body was burnt. Flames that could be guilty of such sacrilege would not have shrunk from devouring the gold-decked temples of the gods. 45. There was a famous shrine and temple of Venus on Mt. Eryx, in Sicily. Poetic tradition connected it with the burial of Anchises in Sicily. Virg. Aen. V. 759. 47. Phaeacia, Corcyra, which was supposed by the Greeks to be the island of the Phaeacians (Odyss. VII.). There Tibullus was left sick on the way to the East with his friend Messala. Join in partem doloris venit 51. 57. 62. A fair retort. If that be true you have lost nothing. Why do you, then, mourn a loss which is not yours, but mine? for mine was the hand which he held in his dying grasp. Calvus and Catullus are mentioned together by Horace: "Nil praeter Calvum et doctus cantare Catullum." They both wrote epigrams. Calvus was a respectable orator (Cicero, Brutus 81). Catullus was a poet of great power in various styles, as the specimens of his work which still survive show. He appears to have died young. For an estimate of his poetry see Sellar's Roman Poets of the Republic, chap. XII. 64. Galle. See XXV. 53, and note. He was recalled from the government of Egypt on a charge of treason against his friend Augustus (temerati amici), and committed suicide at the age of forty. If the charge was true he would not be in Elysium. PARDON AND SON, PRINTERS, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON November, 1875. Books for Schools and Colleges PUBLISHED BY MESSRS. RIVINGTON HISTORY An English History for the Use of Public Schools. By the Rev. J. Franck Bright, M.A., Fellow of University College, and Historical Lecturer in Balliol, New, and University Colleges, Oxford; late Master of the Modern School in Marlborough College.. With numerous Maps and Plans. Crown 8vo. 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