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238 THE LANDSCAPE ANNUAL.
that he was accustomed to compose his poems there;, have
induced a belief that he must have possessed a residence
Where the precipitate Anio thunders down,
And through the surging mist a Poet’s house
(So some aver, and who would not believe it?)
Reveals itself.
The following is the beautiful passage usually cited in
corroboration of the opinion that the poet’s mansion was
situated at Tibur:
-Ego apis Matinee
More modoque
Grata carpentis thyma per laborem
Plurimum, circa nemus uvidique
Tiburis ripas, operosa parvus
Carmina fingo.
But as a bee which through the shady groves,
Feeble of wing, with idle murmurs roves,
Sits on the bloom, and with unceasing toil
From the sweet thyme extracts its flowery spoil,
So I, weak bard! round Tibur’s lucid spring,
Of humble strain, laborious verses sing.
“ Horace,” says Gray, in his Letters, “ had another
house on the opposite side of the Teverone, opposite to
Maecenas’s ; and they told us there was a bridge of com-
munication, by which “ andava il detto signor per tras-
tullarsi coll’ istesso Orazio.” Later critics have doubted
the fact of the poet’s residence at Tibur, and have con-
jectured, that while he composed his verses there, he was
an inhabitant of Maecenas's villa. His Sabine farm at
some distance from Tibur, amongst the Sabine hills, has
that he was accustomed to compose his poems there;, have
induced a belief that he must have possessed a residence
Where the precipitate Anio thunders down,
And through the surging mist a Poet’s house
(So some aver, and who would not believe it?)
Reveals itself.
The following is the beautiful passage usually cited in
corroboration of the opinion that the poet’s mansion was
situated at Tibur:
-Ego apis Matinee
More modoque
Grata carpentis thyma per laborem
Plurimum, circa nemus uvidique
Tiburis ripas, operosa parvus
Carmina fingo.
But as a bee which through the shady groves,
Feeble of wing, with idle murmurs roves,
Sits on the bloom, and with unceasing toil
From the sweet thyme extracts its flowery spoil,
So I, weak bard! round Tibur’s lucid spring,
Of humble strain, laborious verses sing.
“ Horace,” says Gray, in his Letters, “ had another
house on the opposite side of the Teverone, opposite to
Maecenas’s ; and they told us there was a bridge of com-
munication, by which “ andava il detto signor per tras-
tullarsi coll’ istesso Orazio.” Later critics have doubted
the fact of the poet’s residence at Tibur, and have con-
jectured, that while he composed his verses there, he was
an inhabitant of Maecenas's villa. His Sabine farm at
some distance from Tibur, amongst the Sabine hills, has