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

EXPLANATORY NOTES. BOOK III., ODE IV. 345
tersa odes retro. "The army routed at Philippi.' Consult "Life of
Horace," p. xviii, aud note on Ode ii., 7, 9.— 27. Deoota arbor. " The aC'
cursed tree." Consult Ode li., 13.—28. Palirmrus. A promontory on the
coast of Lucania, now Capo di Paliniiro. Tradition ascribed the namr
to Palinurus, the pilot of .fflneas.
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( Virgil, ^n., vi., 380.) It was notet.
for shipwrecks.—29. Utcunque. Put for quandocunque.—30. Bosporum.
Consult note on Ode ii, 13, 14.—32. Littoris Assyrii. The epithet Assyrii
is here equivalent to Syrii. The name Syria itself, which has been
transmitted to us by the Greeks, is a corruption or abridgment of Assyria,
and was first adopted by the lonians who frequented these coasts after
the Assyrians of Nineveh had made this country a part of their empire.
The allusion in the text appears to be to the more inland deserts, the
Syria Palmyrenai solitudines of Pliny, H. N., v., 24.^—33. Britannos hospiiibusferos.
Acron, in his scholia on this ode, informs us that the Britons
were said to sacrifice strangers. St. Jerome informs us that they were
cannibals. (Adv. Jovin., ii., 201.)—34. Concanum. The Concaui were a
Gantabrian tribe in Spain. As a proof of their ferocity, the poet mentions
their drinking the blood of horses intermixed with their liquor.—3S. Gelonos.
Consult note on Ode ii., 9, 23.—36. Scythieum amtwm. The
Tanais, or Don.
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