ἘΠει βροτος ἐτέχθω,

Βιότε τρίβον δεν

Χρόνον, ὃν παρῆλθον, ἔΓνων,
Ὃν δ ̓ ἔχω δραμῶν ἐκ οἶδα.

Μέθετέ με αἱ Φροντίδες

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Our English Spenfer uses the fame Turn of Expreffion.

For not, to have been dipt in Lethe Lake,
Could fave the Son of Thetis from to Die.

Barnes.

VER. 8 & 9. But fince no treafur'd Heaps have Pow'r To ftay the Fate-compelling Hour.] They that truft in their Wealth, and boaft themselves in

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Insensate, why should I complain,

And render Life's fhort Bleffings vain?
Be't mine to drain the laughing Bowl,
Whilst focial Mirth exalts the Soul;
Or on foft Beds entranc'd, to prove
The sweeter Joys of fweeteft Love.

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HIMSELF.

PRUNG as I am, of Human Seed,

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And for Life's little Race decreed; The Way I've come I only know, Unconscious of the Way I go.

Then, anxious Care, a laft Adieu!

My mirthful Heart's no Home for you.

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the Multitude of their Riches; none of them can by any Means redeem his Brother, nor give to God a Ranfom for him. Pfal. xlix. 6, 7.

VER. 5. Then, anxious Care, a laft Adieu.]

Ite procul, durum cura genus, ite labores.

Tibul. L. 3. Eleg. 6.

VER. 9 & 10.

Πρὶν ἐμὲ φθάσῃ τελευτην,
Παίξω, γελάσω, χορεύσω
Μετὰ τὸ καλῶ Λυαίο.

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VER. 9 & 10. And smile, and dance, and faweetly play,. With foft Lyæus ever-gay.]

Julian, in his Epitaph on Anacreon, has made him re

peat the fame agreeable Doctrine.

Πολλάκι μὲν τίδ ̓ ἄεισα, καὶ ἐκ τύμβο ἢ βοήσων
Πίνετε, πεὶν ταύτίω ἀμφιβάλησε κόνιν.
Still from my Tomb I fing this Song of Joy,
Drink, Mortals, ere like me in Duft you lie.

VER. 1 & 2.

Ere Fate shall change my Day to Night,
I'll court the Season of Delight;

And smile, and dance, and fweetly play,

With foft Lyaus, ever-gay.

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HIMSELF.

HENE'ER I drain the focial Bowl,

It's all a Sunshine of the Soul:

For why should Thought on Joy intrude?

Or what's to me Solicitude?

Whene'er Death calls, I must obey;

From Life's smooth Path why should I stray?

VER. 1 & 2. Whene'er I drain the facial Bowl,
It's all a Sunshine of the Soul.

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Εἰς ἑαυτόν.

Ὅτ ̓ εἰς με ΒάκχΘ. ἔλθῃς

Εὕδασιν αἱ μέριμνα

Δοκῶν δ ̓ ἔχειν τὰ Κροίσει,

Θέλω καλῶς αείδειν.

Κισσοςεφής ἢ κείμαι,

Πατῶ δ ̓ ἅπαντα θυμῷ.

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VE R. 9. For while we drain the roly Bowl.] The Original of this Line, in the firft Editions, was Eu Tδε πίνειν ἡμᾶς, which being corrupt, made Stephens think that the firft Line of the Ode ought to be repeated inftead of it; but the Correction of Scaliger, who reads, Σω τῷ τιῶν τὰ ἡμᾶς, renders the Conjecture unnecef fary. Barnes.

VER. 3. In Thought as rich as Lydia's King.] Cra

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