Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

iNEMESIANUSand again direct your anxious thoughts towards theyoung ones. For they liavc melanclioly ailments,and the filthy mange often comes on their veins,and the dogs cause widespread mortality withoutdistinction : you must yourself expend anxiousefforts on them and every year fill up your pack bysupplying progeny. Besides, the right thing is toblend tart draughts of wine with Minerva's olivefruit,and it will do good to anoint the whelps andthe mother dogs, expose them to the warm sun, andexpel worms from their ears with the glitteringknife.Dogs also get rabies, a deadly peril. Whether itemanates from taint in a heavenly body when theSun-God shoots but languid rays from a saddenedsky, raising a pallid face in a world dismayed ; orwhether, rather, in striking the glowing back of thefire-tressed Lion," he drives deep into our friendlydogs his feverish heats, whether earth breathes forthcontagion from its bosom, or harmful air is the causeof the evil, or whether, when cool water runs short,the torrid germs of fire grow strong throughout theveins—whatever it is, it stirs the inmost marrowbeneath the heart, and with black venomous foamdarts forth into ferocious snarls, compelling the dogto imprint its bites in madness. Learn, therefore,the curative potions and the treatment that bringshealth. In such cases you will take the fetid druggot from the beaver and work it well, forcing it togrow viscous %\'ith the friction of a flint : to thisshould be added powder from pounded or choppedivory, and by a long process of blending you will getboth to harden together : next put in gradually theliquid flow of milk besides, to enable you to pour5^3