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APPENDIX. 



377 



Rustica Phylli, 

 Ipsa Dione, 

 Jpsa puelli 

 Arcitenentis 

 Aurea mater, 

 Aurea qvge nunc 

 Ore nitenti 

 Numina captat; 

 Blanda marines 

 Filia spumee 

 Edita ponto est: 

 Nunc quoque pontum 

 (jEthere spreto) 

 Ssepe revisens, 

 Alite curru 

 Diva serenis 

 Labitur undis, 

 Collaque olorum 



Floribus atque 



Flectit habena ; 

 -/Eolus Euro 



Lora frementi 



Contrahit arete ; 



At tibi laxat, 



Alme Favoni, 



Prupureisque 



Exsilis alls. 



Moxque reportans 



Conjugis horto 



Sive rosarum 



Vel hyacinth i 



Fundis odores. 



Grandia cete 



Guadia vasta 



Saltibus eduut 



Incompostis, 



O Venus alma, 



Teque salutant, 



Et maris sequor 



Impete Iseto 



Sydera ad alta 

 Naribus efflant. 



O mea vita, 

 Ocyus adsis, 

 Molle latusque 

 Littore fulta, 

 Prospice mecum 

 Colle propinquo 

 Subsilientes 

 Lanigerarum 

 Ubera circum 

 Molliter agnas; 

 Pendula lino 

 Et tibi dextram 

 Armet arundo; 

 Hamus aduncus 

 Fluctuet unda : 

 Mox genus ecce 

 Omne natantum 

 (Squammea pubes 

 Ex latebrosis 

 Advena fundis) 

 Preepete pinna 

 Trans maris eequor 

 Ultro requiret 

 Humid a nostree 

 Lina puellse ; 

 Crine madentes 

 Et tibi fundent 

 Naiades udse 

 Divite dextra, 

 Mille colorum 

 Munera conchas, 

 Saguine multo 

 Tincta coralla 

 Gurgitis imi 

 Splendida dona, 

 Doridos almas 

 Laeve tributum. 1 



(1) This eclogue, which on account of its excellence is here inserted, was 

 commuuu-atfd by a learned friend to the rditor of this work (1760); but it does 

 not occur in any of the editions of Mctastasio's Works. 



