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EXPLANATORY NOTES. BOOK I., ODE III. 265
goddess who rales over Cyprus, so may the brothers of Helen, bright lurainaries,
and the father of the winds direct thy course, all others being
confined except lapyx." Observe that sic, in such constructions as the
present, becomes a conditional form of wishing : " if you do as I wish you
to do, so {i. c, in that event) may such or snob a result happen unto you."
Here, however, in order to render it more forcible, the conditional sic is
placed first, which cannot, of course, be imitated in translating.
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Diva
potens Cypri. Venus. From her power over the sea, she was invoked
by the Cnldians, as Et/jr^Oia, the dispenser of favorable voyages. (Pau-
san., i., 14.)—2. Fratres Helenm. Castor and Pollux. It was the partic-
ular office of " the brothers of Helen" to bring aid to mariners in tiine of
danger. They were identified by the ahcients with those luminous appearances,
resembling balls offire, which are seen on the masts and yards
of vessels before and after storms. Z. Ventorum patar. iBolas. The island
in which he was fabled to have reigned was Strongyle, the modem
Stroinboli. — 4. Ohstrictis aliis. An allusion to the Homeric fable of
Ulysses and his bag of adverse winds. lapyga. The west-northwest.
It received its name from lapygia, in Lower Italy, which country lay
partly in the line of its direction. It was the most favorable wind for sailing
fh)m Brundisium toward the southern parts of Greece, the vessel hav-
ing, in the course of her voyage to Attica, to double the promontories of
Tffinarus and Malea. Animce dimidiuTn m&s. A fond and frequent expression
to denote intimate friendship. Thus the old scholiast remarks,
iiXia iOTi Ida ijwx^ iv dvolv c6/iaaiv.
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