Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

RUTILIUS NAMATIANUSSo then 1 moor iiiv ships in the safe anchorage,and myself drive to Pisa by the road the wayfarer^oes afoot.'* I get horses and the ofter of carriagestoo from a tril)une personally endeared to me throughformer comradeship.^ when as Master of HouseholdDuties I was controller of the palace and of the piousemperor's armed guard. I scan the ancient city ofAlphean origin/" which the Arno and the Ausur girdwith their twin waters; at their junction the riversform the cone of a pyramid : the opening frontbut 'tisoffers access on a narrow tongue of land ;'^the Arno that retains its own name in the unitedstream, and in truth the Arno alone arrives at thesea. Long time ere fortune could enrol the houseof Trojan birth among Laurentum's royal line,*"Etruria welcomed Pisa as a colony from Elis,witnessing its origin by the evidence of its name.Here was shown to me the statue of my reveredfather,/ erected by the Pisans in their market-place.The honour done to my lost parent made me weep :tears of a saddened joy wet my cheeks with theirflow. For my father once Avas governor of the landof Tuscany and administered the jurisdiction assignedto the six fasces.^ After he had passed**Those coming up-stream would face the apex of thetriangle formed by the union of the two rivers, and by thistongue of land those going inland would enter on the opening" frons," the narrow strip gradually expanding into a broadfront.* The claim implies that Pisa was founded before Aeneasarrived in Italy.f The name of Rutilius' father was Lachanius, I. 595.' The arva are identical with the proviy\cia of I. 597. Sixfasces were the insignia of the office of Consularis Tusciaeel Umbriae. A consul in Rome had twelve fasces : rf. LausPisonisj 70 {supra, p. 300).815