Book III.17 of The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace
Translated into English verse by John Conington, M.A. Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. Edition.
The Latin text comes from The Latin Library.
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Book III. Notes
XVII. Aelius, of Lamus' ancient name (For since from that high parentage The prehistoric Lamias came And all who fill the storied page, No doubt you trace your line from him, Who stretch'd his sway o'er Formiae, And Liris, whose still waters swim Where green Marica skirts the sea, Lord of broad realms), an eastern gale Will blow to-morrow, and bestrew The shore with weeds, with leaves the vale, If rain's old prophet tell me true, The raven. Gather, while 'tis fine, Your wood; to-morrow shall be gay With smoking pig and streaming wine, And lord and slave keep holyday. | Aeli Vetusto. Aeli uetusto nobilis ab Lamo -- quando et priores hinc Lamias ferunt denominatos et nepotum per memores genus omne fastos, auctore ab illo ducis originem, 5 qui Formiarum moenia dicitur princeps et innantem Maricae litoribus tenuisse Lirim, late tyrannus, -- cras foliis nemus multis et alga litus inutili 10 demissa tempestas ab Euro sternet, aquae nisi fallit augur annosa cornix. Dum potes, aridum conpone lignum; cras Genium mero curabis et porco bimenstri 15 cum famulis operum solutis. |
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