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

EXPLANATORY NOTES. ^BOOK H., SATIEE II. 493
fish sewed np together.— Qi«"» corpus onustum, Ice. "Besides this, the
body, ovevchnrged with yesterday's excess, weighs down the soal also
with it, and fixes to the earth this portion of the divine essence," or, more
freely, " and immerses amid gi-oss matter this particle of the divinity."
Horace, to give a higher idea of the nobleness and dignity of the sonl,
bon-ows the language of the Pythagoreans, the Stoics, but particularly
the Platonists, respecting the origin of the human soul. These and other
schools of ancient philosophy believed the souls of men to be so many por-
tions or emanations of the Deity,
80-93. 80. Dicto cithis. Referring, Hot to sopori, but to curata membra.
The allusion is now to a frugal repast, in opposition to " a doubtful"
one, and to the ease and quickness with which such a meal as the former
is dispatched, as well as to the peaceful slumbers which it brings, and the
renewed bodily vigor which it bestows for the labors of the ensuing day.
—81. PnBscripta ad munia'. " To his prescribed duties," i. e., to the du-
ties of his calling.—82. Hie tamen ad melius, &c. " And yet even this
abstemious man may on certain occasions have recourse to better cheer."
—84. Ten-uatum. "Worn out with toil." Uhique. "And when."
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86. Tibi quidnam aceedet ad istartij dec. " What will be added for thee to
that soft indulgence, i^hich, young and vigorous, thou art now anticipal^g,
if either ill health or enfeeblidg age shall come upon thee ?" i, c, thou art
now anticipating the only things that can support thee amid the pains of
sickness or under the pressure of age. When age and sickness come,
where will be their aid ?—90. Credo. " I presume." Quod hospes tardills
advcniens, &c. " That a guest, arriving later than ordinary; might
better partake of it, tainted as it was, than that the greedy master should
devour it all himself, while sweet." Integrum has here the force of recentem,
" fresh," " sweet."-^2. Hos ntinam inter hexoas, &e.
earnest. The poet indulges in a joke.—93. Tellus prima.
Ofellns is in
" The young
earth." The good Ofellns, in his earnestness, confounds the " antigwi"
and their " raiiddus aper" with the happy beings who lived in the Golden
Tulissei. In al-
Age, and the rich banquets that nature provided them.
lusion to the belief that the primitive race of men were produced from the
earth.
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94-111. 94. Das aligruidfamce, &c. " Hast thou any regard for fame,
which charms the human ear more sweetly than music 1" Byfama is here
meant, in fact, good report, priUse. The idea here intended to be conveyed
is said to be borrowed from A remark of Antisthenes the philosopher.
—96. Una cum damno. " Along with ruin to fortune."—97; Jratiim patruum.
The imcle on the father's side (patrwus) was always regarded
as a severe censor. Te tibi iniquutn. "Thee angry with thyself."
98. Quiim deerit cgenti. Ice. " When an as, the price of a halter, shall be
wanting to thee in thy poverty," i. e., when plunged in abject poverty,
thou Shalt not have wherewithal to purchase a halter in order to put an
end to thy &isery.—99. Jure,'inqmt, Trausius istis, dec. These words are
apposed to proceed from some rich and luxurious individual. " Trausius
(says some rich individual) is deseirvedly reproached in such words as
these : as for me, I possess g^at revenues, and riches sufficient for three
kings," i. e., go and read these wise lectures to Trausius, I am too rich to
need them. Trausius was one who had wasted his patrimony in luxury