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TRANSLATIONS FROM HORACE.
For me be nought but myrtle twined;
The modest myrtle, meet to bind
Alike thy brows and mine;
While thus I quaff the bowl, reclined
Beneath the o'erarching vine.
Original of theforegoing.
Persicos odi, puer, apparatus:
Displicent nexæ philyrâ coronæ:
Mitte sectari, rosa quo locorum
Sera moretur.
Simplici myrto nihil allabores
Sedulus, curo. Neque te ministrum
Dedecet myrtus, neque me sub arcta
Vite bibentem.
