The works of Horace : with English notes, critical and ... - Cristo Raul

324 EXPLANATORY NOTES.—BOOK 11., ODE X.
Btrictaess, Lucifer, or the morning star; but when it follows the sun it it
termed Hesperus or Vesper, ana by us the evening star.
13-23. 13. Ter tevo functus senex. " The aged warrior who lived three
generations." Allading to Nestor. Homer makes Nestor to have passed
through two generations, and to be ruling, at the time of the Trojan war,
among a third. 14. Antilochum. Antiloohus, son of Nestor, was slain in
defence of his father by Memnon. (Horn., Od., iv., 188.)—15. Troilum.
Troflus, son of Priam, was slain by Achilles. {Virg., JEn,., i., 474.)—16.
Fhryna. Put for Trojana.—17. Desine mollium, &c. " Cease, then,
these°nnmanly complaints." Prose Latinity would require, in the place
of this Grsecism, the ablative querelis or the infinitive gueri.—18. Nma
Augnsti tropaa. Alluding to the successful operations of Augustus with
the Armenians and Parthians, and to the repulse of the Geloni, who had
crossed the Danube, and committed ravages in the Eoman territories.—
SO. Rigidum Niphaten. "The ice-clad Niphates." The ancient geographers
gave the name of Niphates to a range of mountains in Armenia,
forming part of the great chain of Taurus, and lying to the southeast of
the Arsissa palus or Late Van. Their summits are covered with snow
throughout the whole year, and to this circumstance the name Niphates
contains an allusion {Ni^oT^r, guasi vi