Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

GRArnusis devastating her own fair products," remove thesource of the evil. I warn you to lead the dogs overthe high mountain-paths : you are to cross thebroad river in your flight. This is your first escapefrom destruction : thereafter the aids we have devisedwill avail and some service is secured from our lore.But varied are the onsets of disease, nor is therethe same force in all of them : learn their phasesand make trial of the medicine which is most available.Rabies, prevalent among young dogs and uncontrollablefor those who delay treatment, launches adeadly evil : it must be safer then to forestall itNnth remedies and overcome its first causes. Forthe mischievous and barbarous plague—it has beendescribed as a tiny worm—steals in where the tongueis rooted to its firm ligaments. When the wormhas seized on the inwards briny with prolongedthirst, darting its sweltering fires with feversaflame, it works its escape and spurns its bitter^quarters. Impelled, it is plain, by its activity andpotent goads, dogs turn frantic. So, when theyare quite young, it is usual to cut out with the knifethe deep-seated elements and causes of disease.Prolonged treatment is not needed for the wound somade : sprinkle clean salt and soothe the affectedpart with a little olive-oil : before returning nightcan well complete her shadows, look, the dog willbe on the scene, and, forgetting the wound made,is actually fawning at table and pleading for bread '^with his mouth." i.e. with the result that they rot and cause disease.* With the meaning of ainaram compare salsa in 388.' The goddess' name is put by metonymy for bread :cf.Nemes. Cyn. 154, cererem cum lade ministra : so for com,Virg. G. I. 297; Cic. N.D. II. 23. GO ; Aetna, 10.189