Solus  HyperborenB  glacies,  Tanaimque  nivalem,

Arvaque  Riphneis  nunqiiam  viduata  pruinis

Lusirabat,  raptam  Eurydicen,  atque  irrita  Ditis

Dana  querens :  sprcto  Ciconum  quo  munere  matres,

Inter  sacra  Dcflm,  noctumique  orgia  Bacchi,  621

Discerptum  latos  juvcnem  sparsere  per  agros.
I'um  quoque  marmorel  caput  a  cervice  revulsum,

Gurgile  cum  medio  portans  (Eagrius  Hebrus

Volveret,  Eurydicen,  vox  ipsa  et  frigida  lingua,  526

Ah  miseram  Eurydicen  !  animi  fugiente,  vocabat :

Eur)'dicen  toto  refcrebant  flumine  ripae.
Hjbc  Proteus  :  et  se  jactu  dedit  eequor  in  altum ;
Quaque  dedit,  spuinantem  undam  sub  vertice  torsit.
NOTES.
I5fl


514.  fl«t  per  noeteia
616.  Animum  Orphek


519.  Rapt&m  a«e

530.  Quo  mtptiali  mu-
nere spreto,  matres  Ci*
ooDum

523.  Turn  quoque  cum
(EagriuB  Hebrui  voire-
ret  ^ut  caput  revulsum
4  marmorek  cervice,  por-
tans id  medio  gurgito,
ejut  vox  ipsa,  et  frigida
lingua,  vocabat


5 10.  Ageniem :  in  the  sense  of  ducentem.
521.  Philomela:  the  nightingale.  See
CcL  vL  78.  This  is  a  most  exquisite  simile,
not  more  generally  admired  than  beautiAilly
conceived.  To  heighten  the  picture,  the
i<irds  are  not  only  impluma^  without  fea-
tht'rs,  but  they  are  taken  from  theaest;  not
only  BO,  they  are  drawn  from  it  by  the
iiands  of  a  cruel,  hard-hearted  ploughmaji.
lu  reading  it,  an  emphasis  should  be  placed
>ipon  durus  and  delrnxit..  It  may  be  ob-
!=crved  that  the  poplar  shade  is  very  judi-
ciuuslj  selected  by  the  poet  to  heighten  the
Uiidgt;  because  the  leaves  of  the  poplar
tree,  trembling  with  the  least  breath  of  air,
m;ikc  a  kind  of  melancholy  rustling.  See
td.  vi.  78.
512.  ^ueriiur:  laments  her  lost  young.
514.  MisKrahih  carmen:  mournful  song.
fntrgral:  in  the  sense  of  retiovuL

51 6.  f^enus :  love — person  loved.
