Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

I'nVO ELEGIES OX MAIX I'.XAShe sought for his beloved wife's enibraees, her kisses,words and hands :" Yet after all this is enouu:h," he said, " I havelived and I die in thy friendship, Caesar ; and, as I die,it is enouirh. From thy kindly eyes some drop willfall, when thou art told the sudden news that I amgone. This be my lot, to lie 'neath the impartialearth : nor yet would I have thee longer grieve forthis. But I would wish for remembrance : there inthy talk would I live ; for I shall always exist, ifthou wilt always remember me. 'Tis fitting so,and I shall surely live for thee in affection everthy dying friend ceases not to be thine own. Myself,whatever I shall be among the ashes and the embers,e'en then I shall not be able to forget Caesar. 'Tisthanks to thee I have lived the luxurious pattern ofbliss, thanks to thee that I was the one Maecenas ofthe day. I was my own controller : I willed to bewhat fell to my lot : ^ I was truly the heart of thineo\\Ti heart.Long mayest thou live, old friend I love so well;late mayest thou pass to heaven : the earth hath needof this : this should be thy will too. May the youths'doubly worthy of Caesar grow up to thy supportand thenceforward hand on to the future the house" A.s captain of his fate, Maecenas did not aim at risingabove his equestrian rank.* Gains and Lucius, the sons of Agrippa by Julia, wereadopted by Augustus in 17 B.C. as " Caesares." " Doubly "is variously explained : it may refer to their paternity byblood and by adoption ; or to their personal qualitiesadded to adoption; or, as Gorallus thought, simply to thefact that they were two. Lucius died a.u. 2, and GaiusA.D. 4.137