Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

NEMESIANUSas bridles too. Nay, once launched across thespacious levels of the plain, with blood stirred, thesteeds win fresh strength in the race, leaving bydegrees their eager comrades behind. Even so,on the outburst of the winds across the blue watersof Nereus, when Thracian Boreas has uprisen o'erhis cavern and with shrill howling dismayed thedreary waves, all the blasts on the troubled deepgive way to him : himself" aglow mid foamingdin. above the billows he o'ertops them in masterymanifest upon the sea : the whole band of theNereids is mazed in wonderment as he passes overtheir watery domain.These horses are slow to attain confidence inprolonged running; also, theirs is youthful vigoureven in age that has served its time. For no qualitywhich has bloomed full at its due period sufferscollapse in spirit ere physical powers fail. In thefresh spring-time, then, feed the coursers on softmash, and, lancing a vein, watch old-standing ailmentsflow out with the ooze of the tainted blood.Soon strength returns joyously to their gallanthearts, moulding the sleek limbs with strengthdiffused : soon a better blood runs warm in theirveins, and they wish for long stretches of road, andto make the broad plain vanish in their career.Next, when summer has hardened the ripeningstalks and, scorching the juicy blades, has driedall the moisture for harvest and joined corn-earsto stems, then be sure to furnish barley and lightchaff: moreover, there must be care to winnowthe produce free from dust, and to run the hands" Boreas.