Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

AETNAhigher, charged with the full reapings of the field.So do ye tread the path of greed where sight revealsaught more precious.Everyone should imbue himself with noble accomplishments.They are the mind's harvest, thegreatest guerdon in the world—to know whatnature encloses in earth's hidden depth, to give nofalse report of her work, not to gaze speechless ontlu' mystic growls and frenzied rages of the Aetnaeanmount, not to blench at the sudden din. not to believethat the WTath of the gods has passed undergroundto a new home, or that hell is breaking its bounds;to learn what hinders winds, what nurtures them,whence their sudden calm and the silent covenant oftheir truce, why their furies increase, whether itchance that caverns deep down or the very inletsconserve them or that the earth, porous by reasonof its minute openings, draws off into itself thindraughts of air (and this in fuller measure becauseAetna, rising with its stiff peak, is exposed on thisside and on that to hostile winds and of necessityadmits gales all round from different quarters andtheir concert brings more strength to their league),or whether they are driven inwards by clouds andthe cloud-laden South Wind, or M'hether they havegallantly encircled the summit and sweep on behind ;then the water from the clouds, streaming down withheadlong noise, presses on the sluggish air-currents,drives them before it, and with its buffeting condenses^^^ forte co(kL : fortes Ellis."^2una CSZ : iraa Birt : unda Scaliger, Pithou.2*3 torrentes codd. : torpentes De Rooy, Munro, Ellis.VOL. I.C C385