Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

PANEGYRIC OX PISOwhole crowd, sweatino; with exertion, suddenlyabandons its own iianies. If mayha]) you please,when weary with the wei^^ht of studies, to he neverthelessnot inactiV'C but to play _i»-anies of skill, thenon the open board " in more eunnins; fashion a piece i';moved into different positions and the contest is wagedto a finish with glass soldiers, so that white checksthe black pieces, and black checks white. But whatplayer has not retreated before you ? What piece islost when you are its player ? Or what piece beforecapture has not reduced the enemy ? In a thousandways your army fights : one piece, as it retreats, itselfcaptures its pursuer : a reserve piece, standing onthe alert, comes from its distant retreat—this onedares to join the fray and cheats the enemy comingfor his spoil. Another piece submits to risky delays ''and, seemingly checked, itself checks two morethis one moves towards higher results, so that, quicklyplayed and breaking the opponent's defensive line,''it may burst out on his forces and, when the rampartis down, devastate the enclosed city.'^ Meanwhile,however fierce rises the conflict among the men intheir divided ranks, still you win with your phalanxintact or deprived of only a few men, and both yourhands rattle with the crowd of pieces you havetaken.But the Sun-God would complete his circuit aftermeasuring the heavens, ere my lays could traverseso many merits. Fortunate youth, most worthy of' Mandra, a herd of cattle, was taken by Scaliger for theequites of the Indus lair luiculor urn. There is evidence that,as a piece, the latro had higher value than tlie mandra. Inthe sense of "enclosure," mandra may mean the line of lessvaluable pieces (like " panns ").**The ir6\is of a similar CTreek game.3"