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

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EXPLANATORY NOTES. BOOK UI., ODE XXIV. 363
vutata is what the grammarians term a uTTnf ^eyo/ievov, since it occurs
only in this passage of Horace. Liberal fruges et Cererem. " A harvest
free to all." Cererem is here merely explanatory oifrages.—14. Nee cultura
placet, Ice.
" Nor does a culture longer than an annual one please
them." Alludingto their annual change of ahode. Compare Caasar's ac
count of the Germans, S. O., vi., 22.—15. Defunctumque laboribus, ice.
"And a successor, upon equal terms, relieves him who has ended his labors
of a year."
17-40. 17. Illic matre earentibus, 4o. " There the wife, a stranger to
guilt, treats kindly the children of a previous marriage, deprived of a
mother's care," i. e., is kind to her motherless step-children.—19. Dotaia
conjux. "The dowered spouse."—20. Nitido adiUtero. "The gaudy
adulterer.".—21. Dos est magna parentium, &c. A noble sentence, but
requiring, in order to be clearly understood, a translation bordering upon
paraphrase. "With them, a rich dowry consists in the virtue instilled
by parental instruction, and in chastity, shrinking from the addresses of
another, while it firmly adheres to the marriage compact, as well as in
the conviction that to violate this compact is an offence against the laws
of heaven, or that the punishment dnetoits commission is instant death."
—27. Pater Urbium subscribi statuis. " To be inscribed on the pedestals
of statues as the Father of his country." An allusion to Augustus, and to
the title of Pater Patrice conferred on him by the public voice.—28. Indomitam,
licentiam. " Our hitherto ungovernable licentiousness." —
*' 30. Clarus postgenitis. Illustrious for this to after ages." Quatenus.
" Since."—31. Virtutem iTicoVwmem. " Merit, while it remains with us,"
i. e., illustrious men, while alive.—32. Imiidi^ .Compare the remark of
the scholiast, ^ Vere enimper invidiam Jtt, ut boni viri, cum amissi sint,
desiderentur."^^i. Culpa. "Crime."—35. Sine moribus. "Without
public morals to enforce them."—36. Si nequefeniidis, &o. An allusion
to the torrid zone. Consult note on Ode i., 22, 22.—38. Nee Boreajimtimum
latiis. " Nor the region bordering on the North."—40. Horrida cal
lidi, &c.' "If the skillful niariners triumph over the stormy seas J If
narrow circumstances, now esteemed a great disgrace, bid us," &c.
45-58. 45. Vel nos in CapitoHum, &o. The idea intended to be conveyed
is this : If we sincerely repent of the luxury and vice that have tarnished
the Koman name, if we desire another and a better state of things,
let us either carry our superfluous wealth to the Capitol and consecrate it
to the gods, or let us cast it as a thing accursed into the nearest sea. The
words in CapitoHum are thought by some to contain a flattering allusion
to a remarkable act on the part of Augustus, in dedicating a large amount
of treasure to the Capitoline Jovi>. exceeding 16,000 pounds' weight of
gold, besides pearls and precious atones. {Suet., Aug., 30.)—46. Faeentium.
"Of our applauding fellow-citizens." — 47. In mare proximum.
Things accursed were wont to be thrown into the sea, or the nearest running
water. i9. Matenem. "The germs." i\. Eradenda. "Are to be
eradicated."—52. Tenerre nimis. "Enervated by, indulgence."—54. Nes-
cit equo, rudis, &e. " The free-born youth, tramed up in ignorance of
manly accomplishments, knows not how to retain his seat on thi) stninl,
and fears to hunt." Among the Boiaans, those who were bom of pareats
that had always been free were styxd ingenut.—57. Gtoico trochv. Tlio
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