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

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EXPLANATORY NOTES. BOOK II., ODE XIX. 335
more 1" Death must overtake thee in the midst of thy course.
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teilus. " The impartial earth."—34. Regumque pueris. The allasion is
to the wealthy and powerful.— iSaWfes Orci. AUoding to Charon.
35. Callidum Promethea. Alluding to some fahuloas legend respecting
Prometheus which has not come down to us.—37. Tantali genus, Pelops,
Atreas, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Orestes.—40. Moratus. The common
text has voaztus, for which we have given the elegant emendation of
Withofias. Levare deptindfr on vocatus.
Ode XIX. Celebrating, in animated language, the praises of Bacohui,
and imitated, very probably, from some Greek dithyrambic ode. There
is nothing, however, in the piece itself to countenance the opinion that it
was composed for some festival in honor of Bacchus.
1-20, 1. Carmina docentem. " Dictating strains," e., teaching how
to celebrate his praises in song. Compare the Greet in of expression,
MdaxEiv dpafia. As the strains mentioned in th» 'e^t are supposed to
have reference to the mysteries of the god, the sce