Percurrisse polum, morituro. 

 Occidit et Peloins genitor, conviva cleorum, 



Tithonusqne remotus iu auras. 

 Et Jovis arcanis Minos admissus ; liabentque 



Tartara Panthoiden iterum Oreo 10 



Demissum, quamvis clipeo Troiana refixo 



Temijora testatus nihil ultra 

 Nerves atque cutem morti conc';'sserat atne, 



Judice te noii sordidus auctor 

 Naturre verique. Sed omnes una inanet nox, 15 



Et calcanda semel via leti. 

 Dant alios Furise torvo spectacula Marti ; 



Exitio est avidum mare nautis ; 

 Mixta senum ac juvenum densentur fuuera, nullum 



Sseva caput Proserpina fugit. 20 



Me quoque devesi rapidus comes Oriouis 



lUyricis Notus obruit undis. 

 At tu, nauta, vagic ne parce malignus arenm 



Ossibus et capiti inbumato 

 Particuli'.m dare. Sic, quodcuuque minabitur Eurus 25 



Fluctibus Hesperiis, Venusinre 

 Plectantur silvae te sospite, multaque merces 



Unde potest, tibi defluat £equo 

 Ab Jove, Nepiunoque sacri custode 1'arenti. 



Negligis immeritis nocituram 30 



Postmodo te natis fraudem committere ? Fors et 



Debit I jura vicesque superbte 

 Te maneant ipsum : ijrecibus non linquar inultis, 



Teque inacula nulla resolvent. 

 Quamquam festinas, non est mora longa ; licebit 85 



Injecto ter pulvere curras." 



Thus translated in the metre of the original — 



Ocean and earth and the numberless sand thou hast counted and measured ; 



Yet lipro art thou confined, Archytas, 



Under a handful of dust, on the shore of Matinum, a trifling 



Gift of a generous hand. It a%ails thee 



Nothing to have soared up to the stars and attempted the heavens 5 



All to explore with thy mind, though a mortal ; 



Thus died Tantalus too, though the guest of the gods, and Tithonus 



Though to Olympus exalted, and Minos 



Trusted with .Jupiter's councils ; and Panthous' son Euphorbos 



Twice sank down to Tartarean darkness, 10 



Though from his shield unfixed he proved his Dardanian lineage, 



Yielding tu death the destroyer no more than 



Sinews and skin; he surely of nature and truth an expounder 



Highly esteemed by thee, Archytas. 



But for us all is in store one terrible night, and we all must 15 



Travel the darksome ruad towards Hades. 



