Calendar: 1887-1888 Page 656

656 GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE where the soldiers were on whose protection the Carthaginians depended For Latin Elegiacs Love makes the ivy climb the oak Love the strong and weak doth yoke Under whose shadows lions wild Softened by love grow tame and mild He burns the fishes in the seas Love no medicine can appease Love did make the bloody spear Once leafy coat to wear While in his leaves there shrouded lay Sweet birds for love that sing and play III -Wrgtl XII Translate with notes Illi ad surgentem conversi lumina solem Dant fruges manibus salsas et tempora ferro Summa notant pecudum paterisque altaria libant Non pudet Rutuli pro cunctis talibus unam Obiectare animam numerone an viribus aequi Non sumus En omnes et Troes et Arcades hi sunt Fatalisque manus infensa Etruria Turno Vix hostem alterni si congrediamur habemus Qualis ubi ad terras abrupto sidere nimbus It mare per medium miseris heu praescia longe Horres corda agricolis dabit ille ruinas Arboribus stragemque satis met omnia late Ante volant sonitumque ferunt ad litora venti Sancta ad vos anima atque istius inscia culpae Descendam magnorum haud unquam indignus avorum Ecce autem flammis inter tabulata volutus Ad coelum undabat vortex turrimque tenebat Turrim compactis trabibus quam eduxerat ipse Subdideratque rotas pontesque instraverat altos