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Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

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FLORUSIVSo Apollo <strong>and</strong> then Bacchus are firc-bring:crs, IopineBoth the gods are flame-created; in their ])irth thefires take part.Both confer their heat for guerdon, by the sunbeamor the vineOne dispels the long night's darkness, one the darknessof the heart.When my young pear-trees Iapple-trees,planted, when I plantedOn the bark the name I graved of the sweetheartwho is mine.Never henceforth will my passion find an end or findits ease.As the tree grows, so my zeal glows : love-dreamsthrough each letter shine.VIRascals have not been so always—rascals from theirmother's wombBut false comradeship <strong>with</strong> rascals brings one to arascal's doom."VIIShun the morals brought across seas; they've athous<strong>and</strong> trickeries.None in all the world lives straighter than a citizenof Rome.Why, I prize one Cato more than fifteen score likeSocrates.429

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