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THE POPULAR EDUCATOR. 



Intentata nites ! Me tabula sacer 

 Votiva paries indicat uvida 

 Suspendisse potenti 

 Vestimenta maris Deo. 



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NOTES. 



I. In rosa, on a couch strewn with roses. 



5. Simplex munditiis, plain in thy neatness. Fidem, the confidence 

 which he reposed in you deceived. Supply fselsam. 



6. Mutates Deos, changed fortune. 



7. .ffiquora. The poet compares Pyrrha's changing humours to the 

 fickleness of the weather. Like many others, he has been ship- 

 wrecked on her smiles, but he has got safely through it. Nigris, black 

 and scowling, probably as bringing up the black storm-clouds. 



8. Emirabitur, a strengthened form of rniror, occurring only in 

 this passage. 



13. Me tabula, etc. The construction is Paries sacer indicat votiva 

 tabula me suspendisse vestimenta uvida Deo poteuti maris, and the 

 allusion is to a custom of the Italian sailors, on escaping from ship- 

 wreck, to put up a votive tablet in the temple of Neptune, or some 

 other sea deity, together with the clothes in which they were preserved. 



16. Maris probably is governed by potens, according to a Greek 

 construction, by which verbs of ruling govern a genitive case for 

 example, " Sic te Diva poteus Cypri " (Odes, I. iii. 1). 



The next extract is from the Satires, and is the beginning of 

 an amusing description of the way the poet was pestered in the 

 street, by a person who persisted in fastening on to him. The 

 whole satire is peculiarly bright and vivid, and the description 

 is so true to life, that it is as applicable at the present day as 

 at the time when it was written. 



HORACE. SAT. I. ix. 

 Ibam forte Via Sacra, sicut meus est mos, 

 Nescio quid meditans nugarum, et totus in illis : 

 Accurrit quidam notus mihi nomine tantum, 

 Arreptaque manu, " Quid agis, dulcissime rerum ? " 

 "Suaviter, ut nunc est," inquam; "et cupio omnia quae vis." 5 

 ^uum assectaretur, "Numquid vis ? " occupo. At ille, 

 " Noris nos," inquit. " Docti sumus." Hie ego, " Pluria 

 Hoc," inquam, " mihi eris." Misere discedere quaerens, 

 Ire modo ocius, interdum consistere, in aurem 

 Dicere nescio quid puero ; quum sudor ad imos 10 



Manaret talos. " te, Bolane, cerebri 

 Felicem ! aiebam tacitus ; quum quidlibet ille 

 Garriret, vicos, urbem laudaret. Ut illi 

 Nil respondebam, " Misere cupis," inquit, " abire ; 

 Jamdudum video ; sed nil agis, usque tenebo ; 15 



Persequar. Hinc quo nunc iter est tibi ? " " Nil opus est te 

 Circumagi ; quendam volo visere, non tibi notum ; 

 Trans Tiberim longe cubat is, prope Caesaris hortos." 

 " Nil habeo quod agam, et non sum piger usque sequar te." 



NOTES. 



. 1. Via Sacra, one of the principal streets of Rome, leading up to 

 the Capitol through the Forum, from whore the arch of Constan- 

 tine now stands. It was called sacred as being the route followed 

 by triumphal processions and religious pageants. 



4. Quid agis. The common form of salutation in Rome. Where 

 we say, " How do you do ? " the Romans said, " What do you do ? " 

 Rerum goes with dulcissime, not quid. 



5. Ut nunc est, as times go. 



6. Occupo, I asfc him at once. 



7. Pluris, etc. On this account, I reply, you will be more esteemed by 

 me. Pluris is the gen. of price. 



10. Puero, the slave whom Horace had in attendance, according to 

 the fashion of the day. 



II. Bolane cerebri felicem, I wish you were here, Bolanus, with your cool- 

 ness, apostrophising some outspoken friend, who would have got rid of 

 the fellow summarily. Cerebri, genitive, signifying with respect to. So 

 Pliny has " Miseros ambitionis," and in Greek we find, ev&ain<av rum 



Voycov. 



]5. Jamdudum, etc., I've seen it all along, but it's no use. 



17. Circumagi, there is no need for me to take you out of your way. 



18. Caesaris hortos, the gardens on the Janiculum, which Ceesar, 

 when dictator, had assigned to the people as a public pleasure-ground. 



The following are some of the canons for the treatment of 

 dramatic subjects which Horace lays down in the " De Arte 



Poetica." 



HOKACE. DE ARTE POET., 179. 



Aut agitur res in scenis, aut acta refertur : 

 Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem, 

 Quam quae sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus, et qusa 

 Ipse sibi tradit spectator. Non tamen intus 



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185 



Digna geri, promes in scenam ; multaque tolles 

 Ex oculis, quas mox narret f acundia prsesens. 

 Nee pueroa coram populo Medea trucidet, 

 Aut humana palam coquat exta nefarius Atreus, 

 Aut in avem Progne vertatur, Cadmus in anguem. 

 Quodcunque ostendis mihi sic, incredulus odi. 



NOTES. 



179. Aut acta refertur, or its occurrence is related. The drama con- 

 sists partly of action, partly of narrative; and the action which the 

 spectators see with their own eyes naturally impresses them more 

 strongly than that of which they merely hear secondhand. Still, 

 there are subjects which, either from their being repulsive or unnatural, 

 should be described rather than enacted, as the Greek poets have 

 done in the case of Medea's murder of her children, or Atreus' 

 horrible feast, or the unnatural transformations of Progne and Cad- 

 mus. 



180. Segnius irritant, impress less vividly. 



181. Fidelibus, on f he evidence of which he can depend. 



182. Quae ipsi sibi tradit, and for which he is his own authority. Intus 

 digna geri, things whish ought to be fcept behind the scenes. 



184. Mox, in due time. 



185. Pueros. In Euripides' play of " Medea," the cries of the children 

 are heard on the stage, but the actual murder is not shown. If you 

 choose such subjects as Medea or Atreus, you must treat the horrors 

 of the story in the same way as the old Greek poets did. 



188. Quodcunque, etc., anything you show me in this way is repugnant 

 to my reason and my taste. 



Translation of SALLUST " CATILINA," v. 



(See page 124.) 



Lucius Catilina, the son of a distinguished house, was a man 

 endowed with great capacities, both of mind and body, but he had 

 a wicked and perverse disposition. From his boyhood he had 

 revelled in the scenes of intestine strife, murder, rapine, and civil 

 broil, which became his pursuits on arriving at manhood. Gifted with 

 a constitution capable of enduring to an almost incredible degree, 

 fasting, cold, and want of sleep, with a mind courageous, cunning, 

 and shifty, capable of pretence or concealment to any extent ; covetous 

 of his neighbour's money, lavish of his own ; outrageous in his 

 desires ; with plenty of eloquence but little wisdom to guide it ; 

 in his boundless ambition, ever straining after some extravagant 

 object beyond the belief or aim of ordinary men ; this man, ever 

 since Lucius Sulla's dictatorship, had been fired with an irresistible 

 desire to seize the reins of the state, an.i, provided he could gain 

 the regal power he aimed at, he cared not one jot by what means it 

 was to be attained. Day by day his views became more and more 

 outrageous, spurred on by his want of money and the recollection of 

 his crimes, to both of which results his former courses had con- 

 tributed. An additional incitement was found in the corrupt state 

 of morality in Rome, which was cursed by two abominable evils differ- 

 ing widely in their nature luxury and avarice. 



LESSONS IN ALGEBRA. XVIII. 



EXERCISE 30. MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS IN SIMPLE 

 EQUATIONS. 



1. What two numbers are those whose difference is 10 ; and 

 if 15 be added to their sum, the amount will be 43 ? 



2. There are two numbers whose difference is 14 ; and if 9 

 times the less be subtracted from 6 times the greater, the re- 

 mainder will be 33. What are the numbers ? 



3. What number is that to which if 20 be added, and from | 

 of this sum 12 be subtracted, the remainder will be 10 ? 



4. A and B lay out equal sums of money in trade ; A gains 

 .120, and B loses 80; and now A's money is triple that 

 of B. What sum had each at first ? 



5. What number ia that, | of which exceeds its J by 72 ? 



6. There are two numbers whose sum is 37 ; and if 3 times 

 the less be subtracted from four times the greater, and the 

 remainder be divided by 6, the quotient will be 6. What are 

 the numbers ? 



7. A man has two children, to 1 of the sum of whose ages if 

 13 bo added, the amount will be 17 ; and if from half the differ- 

 ence of their ages 1 be subtracted, the remainder will be 2. 

 What is the age of each ? 



8. A messenger being sent on business, goes at the rate of 6 

 miles an hour ; 8 hours afterwards, another is dispatched with 

 countermanding orders, and goes at the rate of 10 miles an 

 hour. How long will it take the latter to overtake the former ? 



9. To find two numbers in the proportion of 2 to 3 whose pro- 

 duct shall be 5i. 



