STATI U S. BOOK the FITR S T. Tranflated in the Year MDCC III. : J. Raternal Rage the guilty Thebes alarms, FRaternal, f Th' alternate reign destroy'd by impibus arms. 'I Demand our fong; a facred fury fires My ravish'd breaft, and all the Muse inspires. 10 Europa's rape, Agenor's ftern decree,oznat runsbn'] 15 O'er the wide fields the furious mother flew, And while her arms a fecond hope contain, Sprung from the rocks and plung'd into the main, Atque adeo jam nunc gemitus, et prospera Cadmi Aut defenfa prius vix pubefcentibus annis 4 20 35 20 But wave whate'er to Cadmus may belong, 25 While Dacian mountains ftream'd with barb'rous blood; Twice taught the Rhine beneath his laws to roll, And Thou, great Heir of all thy father's fame, Oh bless thy Rome with an eternal reign, 30 What tho' the stars contract their heav'nly space, 35 Conspire to court thee from our world away; And in thy glories more ferenely shine; Tho' Jove himself no lefs content would be, To part his throne and share his heav'n with thee; Yet ftay, great Cæfar! and vouchsafe to reign O'er the wide earth, and o'er the watry main; 40 47 Tempus erit, cum Pierio tua fortior oeftro Facta canam: nunc tendo chelyn. fatis arma referre Aonia, et geminis fceptrum exitiale tyrannis, Nec furiis poft fata modum, flammasque rebelles Seditione rogi, tumulifque carentia regum Funera, et egeftas alternis mortibus urbes ; Caerula cum rubuit Lernaeo fanguine Dirce, Et Thetis arentes affuetum ftringere ripas, Horruit ingenti venientem Ismenon acervo. 55 Quem prius heroum Clio dabis? immodicum irae Tydea? laurigeri fubitos an vatis hiatus? Urget et hoftilem propellens caedibus amnem Turbidus Hippomedon, plorandaque bella protervi Arcados, atque alio Capaneus horrore canendus. Impia jam merita fcrutatus lumina dextra Merferat aeterna damnatum nocte pudorem Oedipodes, longaque animam fub morte tenebat. Refign to Jove his empire of the skies, And people heav'n with Roman deities. The time will come, when a diviner flame Shall warm my breaft to fing of Cæfar's fame : Mean while permit, that my preluding Muse 45 In Theban wars an humbler theme may chufe: 50 55 Of Kings unbury'd in the wasted coafts; With dread beheld the rolling furges sweep, In heaps, his flaughter'd fons into the deep.. 60 What Hero, Clio! wilt thou first relate? 65 Led a long death in everlasting night; 70 VER. 65. Or how the Youth] Parthenopaus. P. NOTES. |