Ovidius Naso, Publius; Banier, Antoine [Comm.]; Picart, Bernard [Ill.]: Ovid's Metamorphoses In Latin And English: [Two Volumes] (Band 2) (Amsterdam, 1732)

522 P.OVIDII METAMOR-

Non bene fifa, cadet: frufraque erit ilia mi-
nata ,

Ser<vitura fuo Capitolia nofra Canopo.
Quid tibi Barbariem,gentes ab utroquejacentes
Oceano, numercm? quodcumque habitabile
tellus 830
Sujlinet, hujus erit. pontus quoque ferviet illi.
Pace data t err is, animum ad ci'vilia <vertet
Jura fumn, legesque feret jufiffmus auBor:
Exemploque fuo mores regetinque futuri
Temporis aetatem , <venturorumque nepo-

tum, 835
Profpiciens, prolem fanBa de conjuge natam
Ferre fmul nomenque fuum curasque jubebit.
Nec ,nifi cum fenior Pjlios aequaverit annos,
JEtherias fedes cognataque fidera tanget.
Hanc animam interea caejo de corpore rap-

tarn 840
Fac jubar , ut femper Capitolia nojlra Fo-

rumque

Divus ab excelfa profpeBet Julius aede.
Vix ea fat us erat ,• media cum fede Senatus
Conjiitit ahna Venus nulli ccrnenda : fuique
Caefaris eripuit membris, nec in aera folvi 845
Pajfa recentem animam , coelejiibus intulit
afris.

Dumqut tulit lumen caper e, at que ignefcere
jenfit :

Emiftque jinu. Luna volat altius ilia:
Flammiferumque trahens fpatiofo limite cri-
nem

Stella micat, natique widens bene faffa; fa-
te tur 850

EJfe fuis major a & vinci gaudet ab illo.

Hie fua praeferri qviamquam cuetat aBa pa"
ternis i

Libera fama tamen nullisque obnoxia juffis ,
Innjitum praefert s unaque in parte repugnat.
Sic magni cedit titulis Agamemnonis A-

treus: 855
JEg^ea fic Thefeus, fic Pelea 'vincit Achilles.
Denique, ut exemplis ipfos aequantibus utar,
Sic & Saturnus minor ef Jove. Ju^piter arces
temper at aetherias 3& mundi regnatriformis:
Terra fub Augufco. pater ef & rector uter-

que. 860
Dl,precor, JEneae comites, quibus enfis & ignis
Cejferunty Dique indigetes3genitorque3 Quirine,
XJrbis, & inviBi genitor, Gradi<ve, Quirini,
Vefaque Caefareos interfacrata Penates;

Et

P.OVID'S METAMOR-

Too late fhall find, her {welling Hopes were
vain,

And know, that Rome o'er Memphis Ml muft
reign :

What name I Afric or Nile's hidden Head ?
Far as both Oceans roll, his Power fhall fpread:
All the known Earth to him fhall Homage pay,
And the Seas own his univerfal Sway :
When cruel War no more difturbs Mankind;
To civil Studies fhall he bend his Mind,
With equal Juftice guardian Laws ordain,
And by his great Exemple Vice reftrain:
Where will his Bounty or his Goodnefs end ?
To Times unborn his gen'rous Views extend ,
The Virtues of his Heir our Praife engage,
And promife BlelTings to the coming Age :
Late fhall he in his Kindred Orbs be placed,
With Pylian Years , and crowded Honours
graced.

Mean time , your Hero's fleeting Spirit bear,
Frefh from his Wounds, and change it to a Star :
So fhall great Julius Rites divine aiTume,
And from the Skies eternal frnile on Rome.
This {poke; the Goddefs to the Senate flew:
Where, her fair Form conceal'd from mortal
View,

Her Cxfar's heav'nly Part fhe made her Care,
Nor left the recent Soul to walte to Air:
But bore it upwards to it's native Skies:
Glowing with new-born Fires fhe law it rife j
Forth fpringing from her Bolom up it flew,
And kindling, as it fbar'd, a Comet grew;
Above the Lunar Sphere it took it's Flight,
And fhot behind it a long Trail of Light.

Thus rais'd, his glorious Off-fpring Julius view'd,
Beneficently Great, and lcattering Good ,
Deeds, that his own furpafs'd, with Joy beheld,
And his large Heart dilates to be excell'd.
What tho' this Prince refufes to receive
The Pref'rence, which his jufter Subjects give;
Fame uncontroll'd, that no Reftraint obeys, ^
The Homage, fhunn'd by modeft Virtue, pays, >
And proves difloyal only in his Praife. 3
Tho' great his Sire, him greater we proclaim :
So Atreus yields to Agamemnon's Fame:
Achilles fo fuperior Honours won,
And Peleus muft fubmit to Peleus' Son ;
Examples yet more Noble to difclofe,
So Saturn was eclipfed , when Jove to Empire
rofe :

Jo<ve rules the Heav'ns •, the Earth Auguflus lways,
Each claims a Monarch's, and a Father's Praife.

Celeftials, who for Rome your Cares employ;
Ye Gods, who guarded the Remains of Troy ;
Ye native Gods, here born, and fix'd by Fate;
Quirinus, Founder of the Roman State;
O Parent Mars, from whom §uirinus fprung;
Chafte Fefta, "Cafars houfhold Gods among,

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