Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

RUTILIUS NAMATIANUSstands guard, fasliioiud as a little statue in stone,the figure of one with horns upon his shepherd'sbrow : although long years have blotted out theearliest name, legend considers this was once*' Castrum Inui," whether '^ it be that Pan exchangedMaenalus for Tuscan woods or that Faunuscomes in to haunt his native dells : since '' he reneweththe offspring of mankind \\'ith plenteousbirths, the god is represented over-prone to venery.To Centumcellae *^ we changed our tack before astrong South wind : our ships find mooring in the calmroadstead. An amphitheatre of water is thereenclosed by piers, and an artificial island shelters thenarrow entrances ; it rears twin towers and extendsin both directions so as to leave a double approachwith narrow channels. Nor was it enough to constructdocks of wide harbourage ; to keep thevagrant breeze from rocking the craft even when safein port, an inner basin has been coaxed into the verymidst of the buildings, and so, with its surface atrest, it knows naught of the wayward wind, like thewater imprisoned in Cumae's baths ^ which buoysup the unhurried arms plied by the swimmer inalternate sweep.We pay a pleasant visit to the hot springs namedafter a bull : '^ the distance of three miles seems noI. xvi. 2 qui {sc. Horte^isius) dum veritus est . . . nan viditillud. . . . Rutilius I. 443 may also be a parallel.' Now Civita Vecchia. The port was constructed underTrajan : see the description in Plin. Ep. VI. xxxi. 15-17.^ Cumae, on the bay of Naples, was partly settled byEuboeans :cf. Virg. Aen. VI. 2 : Euboicis Cumarum allabituroris.' Aquae or Thermae Taurianae, three miles N. of CivitaVecchia.3e785