Immagini della pagina
PDF
ePub

147. Incipe: sollicitos Galli dicamus amores,

Dum tenera attondent simae virgulta capellae.
Non canimus surdis: respondent omnia silvae.
Quae nemora aut qui vos saltus habuêre, puellae
Naiades, indigno quum Gallus amore periret?
148. Illum etiam lauri, etiam flevêre myricae :

Pinifer illum etiam solâ sub rupe jacentem
Maenalus, et gelidi fleverunt saxa Lycaei.

149. Venit et upilio: tardi venêre bubulci :

Uvidus hibernâ venit de glande Menalcas.

Omnes 'Unde amor iste' rogant 'tibi ?' Venit Apollo. 'Galle, quid insanis ?' inquit; ' tua cura Lycoris Perque nives alium perque horrida castra secuta est.'

150. Venit et agresti capitis Silvanus honore

Florentes ferulas et grandia lilia quassans.
Pan deus Arcadiae venit, quem vidimus ipsi
Sanguineis ebuli baccis minioque rubentem.

151. 'Ecquis erit modus ?' inquit; 'Amor non talia curat.
Nec lacrymis crudelis Amor, nec gramina rivis,
Nec cytiso saturantur apes, nec fronde capellae.'
152. Tristis at ille 'Tamen cantabitis Arcades,' inquit,
Montibus haec vestris: soli cantare periti

Arcades: O mihi tum quam molliter ossa quiescant,
Vestra meos olim si fistula dicat amores!'

153. Mecum inter salices lentâ sub vite jaceret.
Serta mihi Phyllis legeret, cantaret Amyntas.
Hic gelidi fontes, hìc mollia prata, Lycori.
Hic nemus, hìc ipso tecum consumerer aevo.
Nunc insanus Amor duri me Martis in armis
Tela inter media atque adversos detinet hostes.
Ah te ne frigora laedant!
Ah tibi ne teneras glacies secet aspera plantas!
Ibo et Chalcidico quae sunt mihi condita versu
Carmina pastoris Siculi modulabor avenâ.
Certum est in silvis inter spelaea ferarum
Malle pati, tenerisque meos incidere amores
Arboribus: crescent illae: crescetis amores.

154.

155. Interea mixtis lustrabo Maenala nymphis :

Aut acres venabor apros: non me ulla vetabunt
Frigora Parthenios canibus circumdare saltus.
Jam mihi per rupes videor lucosque sonantes
Ire: libet Partho torquere Cydonia cornu
Spicula: tanquam haec sit nostri medicina furoris,
Aut deus ille malis hominum mitescere discat.

156. Haec sat erit, Divae, vestrum cecinisse poetam,
Dum sedet et gracili fiscellam texit hibisco,
Pierides: vos haec facietis maxima Gallo;
Gallo, cujus amor tantum mihi crescit in horas
Quantum vere novo viridis se subjicit alnus.
Surgamus: solet esse gravis cantantibus umbra:
Juniperi gravis umbra; nocent et frugibus umbrae.
Ite domum saturae, venit Hesperus, ite capellae.

VOCABULARY.

1.

Pan, cultor nemorum.

A.

Pān, Pān-os (acc. Pān-a), 3 mas. PAN, the god of woods and of flocks (hence PANIC fears are such as PAN was supposed

to inspire).

B.

col-ĕre, -ui, cul-tum [col-] 3 tr. to dig, to till, to inhabit, to frequent, to worship-to CULTIVATE; so ex col ĕre, to CULTIVATE carefully, and in col ĕre, to inhabit.

cul-tor, -tōris [cul tōr-] 3 mas.' cultr-ix, -icis [cultr ici-] 3 fem.

cul t-us, -ûs [cul tu-] 4 mas. cul tūr-a, -ae [cul tūra-] 1 fem. in cult-us, -a, -um [in cult o-]

wild.

}

a tiller, an inhabitant, a fre

quenter, a worshipper-a

CULTIVATOR.

tilth-CULTURE, CULTIVATION.

adj. UNCULTIVATED, untilled,

oc cul-ĕre, -ui, -tum [ob col-] 3 tr. to dig in, to hide, to conceal (OCCULT).

occult ā–re, —vi, -tum [oc cult a-] 1 tr. to hide closely, to conceal carefully (OCCULTATION).

C.

něm-us, –õris [něm os-] 3 neut. (a grazing place among woods),

a woody pasture, a glade, a grove.

němŏr ōs—us, -a, -um [němor ōso-] adj. (full of groves or glades), well-wooded.

2.

Minerva inventrix oleae.

A.

men-s, men-tis [men t- and men ti-] 3 fem. (the thinking or MEANING power), MIND, thought, disposition.

memĭn-isse (měmĭn-i) [měmin-] defect. (to have called to MIND), to REMEMBER.

mon ẽ-re, mon-ui, -ĭtum [mon e-] 2 tr. (to cause to think, or to put in MIND), to REMIND, to advise, to warn.

Mõnẽ t-a, -ae [Mon ēta-] 1 fem. Moneta (the REMINDING one), one of the names of Juno, in whose temple MONEY was first coined-hence MONEY, MONETARY, &c.

Mín erv-a, -ae [Mîn erva-] 1 fem. Min erva (the goddess of MIND or thought; and hence the patroness of all arts, as well as the representative of wisdom).

B.

věn i-re, vẽn-i, -tum [věn i-] 4 intr. to come; so in ven ire, to come upon, to find-to INVENT.

inven-tor, -toris [in ven tōr-] 3 mas. ) a finder (male or female), inventr-ix, −īcis [in ventr ici-] 3 fem. ) a discoverer-an INVENTOR. invent-um, -i [invent o-] 2 neut. (a thing found out), a discovery

[blocks in formation]

ŏlě as-ter, –tri [ŏlě astro-] 2 mas. the wild OLIVE tree—an OLEASTER. The oleander, the rhododendron of the ancients, has olive-like leaves.

3.

Uncique puer monstrator aratri,

A.

unc-us, -i [unc o-] 2 mas. a нOOK, a barb.

unc-us, -a, -um [unc o-] adj. HOOKED, crooked, bent.

ang-ĕre, anx i [i.e. ang si], anc tum or anx um [i.e. ang-tum or -sum] [ang-] 3 tr. to squeeze, to compress—to STRANGLE, to choke (so ANXIETY causes a feeling of choking or halfsuffocation).

ang-or, -ōris [ang ōr-] 3 mas. a choking in the throat-ANGUISH. anx i-us, -a, -um [anx io-] adj. (causing a feeling of suffocation), troubled, ANXIOUS, tormenting.

ang u-is, -is [ang ui-] mas, or fem. (a squeezing reptile), a snake, a serpent.

ang ŭl-us, -i [ang ŭlo-] 2 mas. (bent, crooked), an ANGLE, a corner (hence ANGLING with a bent HOOK).

The British tribe of the Icēni are said to have been so called because they inhabited the iken, ANGLE or elbow of Britain, which holds the present counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.

B.

que, conj. enclitic (i.e. leaning back on the first word of its clause, like the not in don't, won't, &c.), and, both.

C.

pu er, pu ĕr-i [pu ĕro-] 2 mas. a boy.

pu er-a, -ae [pu ĕra-] 1 fem. a girl.

puel l-a, -ae [puel la-, i.e. puer ěla-] 1 fem. a little girl, a lass. puĕr il-is, -e [puěr ili-] boy-like, boyish—PUERILE.

puella r-is, -e [puella ri-] girl-like, girlish.

pu ll-us, -i [pu llo-] 2 mas. a young animal, a chicken, a colt, &c. The POULTRY are strictly only the young birds or PULLETS (Fr. POULB); the word foul has a totally distinct origin. See 44. B.

pull ul-us, -i [pull ŭlo-] 2 mas. a little chick, a young dove. pullŭl ā–re, −vi, -tum [pullŭl a-] 1 intr. to sprout forth, to make shoots.

[blocks in formation]

mon str-um, -i [mon stro-] 2 neut. (that which gives warning), an omen, a prodigy, a marvel—a MONSTER.

monstr ā-re, -vi, -tum [monstr a-] 1 tr. to show, to point out, to

DEMONSTRATE.

monstrā-tor, -tōris [monstrā tōr-] 2 mas. (one that points out), a teacher, an inventor.

E.

ǎr ā-re, -vi, -tum [ar a-] 1 tr. to plough—to EAR.

ǎrā bil-is, -e [ără bili-] adj. fit for ploughing-ARABLE.

ǎrā-tor, -tōris [ăr atōr-] 3 mas. one that ploughs, a ploughman. ărā tr-um, -i [ără tro-] 2 neut. (a ploughing instrument), a plough.

« IndietroContinua »