Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

NEMESIANUScups ; nor yet of the '^ sister ^ whose conscience contriveda (brother's) burial by night : in all this erenow a band of mighty bards has forestalled us, andall the fabling of an ancient age is commonplace.We search the glades, the green tracts, the openplains, s^\'iftly coursing here and there o'er all thefields, eager to catch varied quarries with docilehound. We enjoy transfixing the nervous hare, theunresisting doe, the daring wolf or capturing thecrafty fox ; our heart's desire is to rove along theriver-side shades, hunting the ichneumon on the quietbanks among the crops of bulrushes, with the longweapon to pierce in front the threatening polecat on'^a tree-trunk and bring home the hedgehog entwinedin the convolution of its prickly body : forsuch a task it is our resolve to set sail, while ourlittle barque, wont to coast by the neighbouringshore and run across safe bays with the oar, now firstspreads its canvas to southern Minds, and, leavingthe trusty havens, dares to try the Adriatic storms.Hereafter I will gird myself with fitter lyre torecord your triumphs, you gallant sons of deifiedCarus,*^ and will sing of our sea-board beneath thetwin boundaries of our world,^ and of the subjugation,by the brothers' divine power, of nations thatdrink from Rhine or Tigris or from the distantsource of the Arar or look upon the wells ofThey succeeded their father on hisDecline and Fall, ch. xii.death in a.d. 283. In 284 Carinus celebrated elaborate gamesat Rome in the name of himself and Xumerian; but thebrothers never saw each other after their father died. Xumerian'sdeath in 284 during his return journey with his army fromPersia prevented him from enjoying the triumph decreed tothe young emj)erors at Rome.* Fines are the limits set by Ocean on East and West.491