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

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418 EXPLANATORY NOTES. SPECULAR HYMN.
an oracle received &oin Apollo. Diana is here joined Tvitli ApoHo, and
the founding of Borne is ascribed by the hard to their united auspices.
niaque turmcB. The reference is to "the Trojan bands" of ^neas.—
38. lAtus Etruscum. The shore of the Mare Tyrrhenum, or Lower Sea,
is meant.
41-59. 41. Sinefraude. ""Without harm." Compare the words of
Ulpian {leg, 131, de V. S.) : "Aliud iraus est, aliud poena. Praus enim
sine poena esse potest .* poena sinefrmtds esse non potest. Poena est noxa
mndicta ; fraus et ipsa Twxa dicitWt ^ quasipoena qucedam prapa/raiio!'
—44. Plura relictis. "More ample possessions than those left behind,"
i. e., a more extensive empire than their native one.—45. XH. Addressed
to Apollo and Diana jpintly.—47. Romulte genti date remque, &c.
"Grant to the people of Bomulus prosperity, and a numerous offspring,
and every honor." By decus omne is meant every thing that can increase
the glory and majesty of the empire.—49. Quique vos huhus, &&
The allusion is now to Augustus as the representative of the Boman
name. As regards the expression buhus albis, "with milk-white steers,"
it is to be observed, that the Sil^ylline verses prescribed the color of the
victims [^dAev/co£ ravpoi). Some read qumquem this line, aadwipetrei
in the next, " and may the illustrioas descendant of Anchises, &c.| obtaui
those things for which he (now) worships you," &c.—53. Jam mari ierraque.
In this and the succeeding stanza the poet dwells upon the glories
Manuspo-
of the reign of Augustus, the power and prosperity of Rome.
tentes. " Our pow;erfal forces."—54. Medus. This allusion comes in
with peculiar force, since the Boman standards taken by the Parthians
from Crassus and Antony had now been restored. Consult note on Ode
iv., 14, 41. Albanas secwres. " T&e Alban axes," i. e., the Roman power.
An allusion to the securis and fasces, as the badges of civil and military
authority. Albanas is here equivalent to. Jtomanas, ia accordance with
the received belief that Rome was a colony from Alba Longa.—57. Jam
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Fides, et Pax, &c. According to the bard^ the Golden Age has now re-
turned, and has brought back with it the deities, who had fled to their
native skies, during the Iron Age, from the crimes and miseries of earth.
Compare Ifesiod, 'Epy. /cat ^H/tt 197, seqq.— Pax. An allusion to the closing
of the Temple of Janus. Consult note on Ode iv., 15, 8. Pudorque
priscus. "And the purity of earlier days."—59. Beata pleno, dec. Compare
Epist. i., 13, 28 : " Av/reafruges Italice plena defudii copia comu."'
61-73. 61. Augur, etfulgente,, &c. " May Apollo, god of prophecy, and
adorned with the glittering bow," (fcc.—63. Qui salutari levat arte, &c.
'" Who with healing art relieves the languid members of our frame."
With fessos supply morbo. An allusion to Apollo as the god of medicine.
Compare the appellations bestowed npon him by the G^eek poets in
reference to this : &Ki