Alios aliis rebus duci▪ se Lyricorum versuum studio teneri.

Deos omnes iratos esse Romanis, ob Caesaris caede [...] ▪ unam imperii spem in Augusto constitutam.

Adventu veris, & communi moriendi conditione pro­positâ hortatur ad voluptates.

Miseros esse qui illius amore teneantur; se ex co, tan­quam è naufragio, enatasse.

Obseurè juvenem quendam, quem Sybarin vocat, ut amo­re perditum, & voluptatibus collique factum, notat.

Hyeme indulgendum voluptati.

Dolet sibr Telephum anteponi.

Secundam ei navigationem precatur: deinde occasio­nem nactus; hominam audacium detestatur.

Vini potu moderato hilarari animum▪ immoderato [...]ixas excitari.

Ad Sodales inter pocula rixantes, & poculis ipsis pugnan­tes, invitatus ut bibat, id se ea lege facturum, si frater Megillae nomen amicae suae proferat, vel sibi in aurem dicat.

Se non opulentiam, sed tranquillam hilaren [...]que vitam ab Apolline poscere.

Deflet Quintilii Vari mortem.

Poenitere se, quod dum Epicueram disciplinam sectare­tur, parum studiose Deos coluerit.

Commendat scripta illius, quibus bella civilia comple­ctebatur.

Primo Proculejum laudat ob liberalitatem in fratres▪ de­inde oftendit, eum qui suas cupiditates reprimere, pecuniamque contemnere possit, solum regem, sol [...]m beatum esse.

Neque demittendum adversis, neque efferendum secun­dis rebus animum: sed hilariter vivendum, cum aequa sit omnibus moriendi conditio.

Quod ancillam amet, non esse cur eam pudeat: multi [...] enim magnis viris idem usu venisse.

Non esse cur ei juranti credatur: Formosarum enim perjuria a diis non vindicari.

Retinendam esse mediocritatem, & animi in utraque fortuna aequalitatem.

Nunquam homini satis exploratum esse, quid vitare de­beat. Sapphonis & Alcaei laudes.

Mortem vitari non posse.

Tranquillitatem animi optari ab omnibus: eam vero non congerendis opibus honoribusve consequendis, sed coercendis cupiditatibus compa [...]ari.

Negat se ei superstitem velle esse.

Non opibus aut honoribus, sed animi tranquillitate vi­tam beatam effici.

Virtute praeditum virum nihil extimescere; oratio Junonis de Troja eversà, bello Trojano finito, im­perio Romano à Trojanis initium capturo.

Se à multis periculis, Musarum ope ereptum fuisse. Male [...]s­sisse omnibus qui adversum deos aliquid moliri voluerint.

Reguli constantia, & ad Poenos reditus.

Con [...]olatur eam de viri sui absentia moestam, [...]ac soli­citam.

Dialogus Horatii & Lydiae.

Ut cantus sibi dictet, quibus Lyde flecti possit. D [...]aidum fabula.

Quanta sit ad omnia expugnanda, etiam ad pudicitiam, vis auri, exemplis docet. Sed esse id pecuniae insitum, ut nulla ejus copia satiet, & crescente ea crescat simul cura & sollicitudo. Ideóque beatum esse qui mediocritate contentus vivit.

In avaros invehitur, qui domos domibus subinde addunt, in ipso etiam mari aedificantes: cum tamen nulla aedificia necessitate mortis eos liberare possint. Scythas, qui plau­stris domos suas trahant, & in commune agros colant, feliciores esse ait. Quinetiam eam morum corruptelam & peccandi licentiam apud hos esse negat, quae sit apud Romanos. Ad haec autem mala extirpanda unà cum prava illa augen i opes cupiditate, disciplina asperiore opus esse dicit. d

Deterret eam praecipue exemplo Europae.

Scribendis carminibus Lyricis sem [...]lius cons [...]ui [...]e [...] ­talitati nominis sui Ai [...]it, quam si obtinuisse [...] ut [...]ibi [...] statuae aut pyramides erigerentur. Pr [...]cipuámque laudis materiam fore in [...]uit, quod primus ex Latinis in ho [...] carminum genere Graecos imitatus fuerit.

Pindarum esse ejusmodi poetam, ut siquis eum imitari co­netur, non minus famae suae periculum sit aditurus, quam si cum Icaro pennis Daedaleis coelo se credere audeat. Deinde ut Pindarum cygno alte volanti, ita se api gra­ta thyma laboriose carpenti comparat: ideóque ipsum Antonium ad celebrandam majore plectro Caesaris victoriam hortatur.

Se natum esse ad poeticen, ejúsque beneficio nominis im­mortalitatem & gloriam consecuturum esse.

Drusi Neronis, qui fuit Augusti Caesaris privignus, victori­as de Rhoetis & Vindelicis celebrat. Quin etiam Clau­dii Neronis fortia quaedam facta commemorat. Tandem vero & totius gentis Romanae fortitudinem ore hostis (nimirum Annibalis) laudat. Sed de Druso loquens poeta, disciplinam & educationem multum ad virtutem posse ostendit, aliquam ha [...]umejus laudum partem in Augustum derivans.

Augustum, ut reditum suum omnibus optatissimum, matu­ret, precatur: & quam felix sit ejus beneficio rerum Ro­manarum status, commemorat. Unde illum, non aliter quam olim in Graecia Castorem ac Herculem, coli dicit.

Veris adven [...] ▪ & aequa omnibus hominibus moriendi conditione sine s [...]e reviviscendi, omniúmque rerum mutatione & vicissitudine proposita, invitat ad hilari­ter jucundéque vivendum.

Nihil esse carminibus potentius ad sempiternam sui nomi­nis memoriam posteris prodendam, atque ab oblivione hominum vindicandam.

Scripta sua nunquam interitura. Sine poetarum ope Vir­tutem oblivione sempiterna deleri. Se suis versibus res à Lollio gestas memoriae proditurum. Laus constantiae, abstinentiae, & caeterarum virtutum.

Maecenati ad bellum Actiacum proficiscenti comitem se o [...] ­fert, non tam quod praesentia sua quicquam commodi sit ei alla [...]un [...], quam quod minus de salute ejus sollicitus fit futurus.

Varias vitae rusticae laudes haec ode complectitur: prae­sertim vero ab animi tranquillitate & frugalitate eam laudat.

In Bellum Civile gestum hinc Bruto & Cassio, illinc Octa­viano, M Antonio, & M. Lepido ducibus.

Phrynes amorem causam esse quamobrem promissos lam­bos non absolvat.

Queritur bellorum civilium nullum esse finem, quire de Rep. Romana desperat, aliásque terras & ipse petere co­gitat, & aliis, ut idem faciant, suadet.

Ob victoriam Actiacam, genio indulgendum esse.

That severall Men affect severall Things; That Himself is delighted with the Study of Lyrick Verses.

That all the Gods are angry with the Romans for the killing of Julius Caesar: That the only hope of the Empire is placed in Augustus.

Proposeth the arrivall of the Spring, and the common Con­dition of death, as Inducements to Pleasures.

That those Men are miserable who are intangled in her Love: That he is escaped out of it as from Shipwrack by Swimming.

He notes obscurely a certain Young Man whom he calls Syba­ris, as undone with Love, and melted with Pleasures.

That being Winter, it is time for Men to give themselves to Pleasure.

He complains that Telephus is preferr'd before Him▪

He prayes a prosperous Voyage to Virgil, Embarqued for A­thens: and takes occasion from thence to enveigh against the Boldness of Man.

That with moderate drinking of Wine, the Minde is exhi­lerated: with immoderate, Quarrels begotten.

To his Companions feasting together, that they should not quar­rel in their drink, and fight with the Cups themselves, af­ter the manner of the Barbarians.

He asks not Riches of Apollo, but that he may have a sound Minde in a sound Body.

Who lamented immoderately the death of Quin­tilian.

Repenting that having followed the Epicureans, he had been little studious in worshipping the Gods.

He exborts him to intermit a while, his writing of Tragedies, untill he have finisht his History of the Civil War of Rome. Then extols that VVork

First He prayses P. for his Liberality to his Brothers: Then shewes, that he who can repress his appetite, and despise Money, is only a King, only happie.

That the Minde should not be cast down with Adversitie, nor puft up with Prosperitie: but that We should live merrily, since the Condition of dying is equal to all.

That he need not be ashamed of being in Love with a Ser­ving-Maid: for that the same had befalln many a grea Man.

That there is no Reason why he should belie [...]e her when she swears: For the Gods revenge not the perjures of hand­some Women.

That Mediocritie, and Equality of the Minde in both For­tunes, are to be retained.

That no man can sufficiently understand what to avoid; from thence he slides into the Praises of Sappho and Alcaeus.

That Death cannot be avoided.

Against the Luxury of his Age.

That Tranquillitie of the Minde is wisht by all: But that the same is not purchased by heaping up Riches, or obtaining Honors, but by brid'ling the desires.

That he will not live after him.

That a happy man is not made by Riches or Honors, but by tranquillity of the Minde.

A Speech of Juno at the Councel of the Gods, concerning the ending of the War of Troy, and the beginning which the Roman Empire should take from the Trojans.

The Poet saith that he hath been delivered from many dangers by the help of the Muses: and that it hath gone ill with all who have attempted any thing a­gainst the Gods.

The Praises of Augustus, the dishonour of Crassus, the con­stancy of Regulus, and his return to the Carthaginians.

He comforts her, being sad and sollicitous for the absence of her Husband.

A Dialogue of Love and Jealousie, betwixt Horace and Lydia.

That he would dictate to him a Song, wherewith t [...] bend Lyde. The Fable of Danaus Daughters.

That all thing flye open to Gold. Yet Horace is contented with his own Condition, in which [...]e lives happy.

He inveighs against covetous men, who continually joyn Houses to Houses, Building in the very Sea it self: when in the mean time no buildings can free them from the necessity of dying. He saith the Scythians are happy who draw their Houses in Waggons, and till the Fields in Common. Moreover, de­nies that corruption of Manners, and license of sinning to be amongst these, which is amongst the Romans. But for the rooting out of these Evils, together with the depraved de­sire of increasing Riches, affirms there is need of a more rigid Discipline.

He deters Her principally by the example of Europa.

He invites him to a merry supper, laying aside publick Cares.

By Writing Lyricks he saith he hath provided bettter for the immortality of his Name, then if He had procured Brazen Statues, and Pyramides to be erected to him. And intimates that His chief praise would be, that he was the first of the Latins who in this kinde of Verse intimated the Greeks.

That it is dangerous to imitate the ancient Poets.

That he is born to Poetry, and by the benefit thereof hath obtai­ned immortality and glory.

He celebrates the Victories of Drusus Nero (who was Son-in­law to Augustus Caesar) over the Rhoetians and Vindelici­ans. Also commemorates certain valiant deeds of Claudius Nero.

That he would at length return to the City. Describes the peace and happiness which Italy injoyed under his Government.

Proposing the arrival of the Spring, and the equal necessity to all men of dying, without hopes of living again, and proposing likewise the change and Vicissitude of all things, he invites to lead a merry and pleasant life.

That there is nothing which can mak Men more immortal, then the Verses of Poets.

That his writings shall never perish: Vertue without the help of Verses is buried in Oblivion. That he will sing Lollio's praises, whose vertues he now also celebrates.

He offers Himself to accompany Maecenas going to the War of Actium, not for any help he can bring him by his presence, but because being present he shall have less apprehensions for him.

He comprehends in this Ode divers Praises of a Countrey life: Commending it chiefly from the Tranquilliiy and Frugality thereof.

An Execration of the Second Civil War waged after the Death of Julius, by Brutus and Cassius on the one side; on the other by Octavius, M. Antony, and Lepidus.

That his love to Phryne, is the Cause why he doth not finish his promised Iambicks.

Commiserating the Common-Wealth, in respect of the Civil Wars.

Exhorting them to indulge their Genius for the victory of A­ctium. Extols the magnanimity of Cleopatra in her dying.