No More Learning

For no other poetry has so deeply
and so continuously influenced the thought and feeling of mankind. Its
sway has been wider than that of Rome itself: and the Genius that broods
over the Capitoline Hill might with some show of justice still claim, as
his gaze sweeps over the immense field of modern poetry, that he beholds
nothing which does not owe allegiance to Rome:

Iupiter arce sua totum cum spectat in orbem,
nil nisi Romanum quod tueatur habet.




NVMA POMPILIVS (? )

715-673 B. C.


_1. Fragments of the Saliar Hymns_

_i_

DIVOM templa cante,
diuom deo supplicate.

_ii_

QVOME tonas, Leucesie,
prae tet tremonti.
quor libet, Curis,
decstumum tonare?

_iii_

CONSE, ulod oriese:
omnia tuere,
adi, Patulci, coi isse:
Sancus Ianes Cerus es.
Duonus Ianus ueuet
po melios, eu, recum.




THE ARVAL BROTHERHOOD


_2. Against Plague upon the Harvest_

_Incertae Aetatis. _

ENOS, Lases, iuuate,
enos, Lases, iuuate,
enos, Lases, iuuate.
neue lue rue, Marmar, sins incurrere in pleoris,
neue lue rue, Marmar, sins incurrere in pleoris,
neue lue rue, Marmar, sers incurrere in pleoris.
satur fu, fere Mars: limen sali: sta berber,
satur fu, fere Mars: limen sali: sta berber,
satur fu, fere Mars: limen sali: sta berber,
semunis alternei aduocapit conctos,
semunis alternei aduocapit conctos,
semunis alternei aduocapit conctos.
enos, Marmor, iuuato,
enos, Marmor, iuuato,
enos, Marmor, iuuato.
triumpe, triumpe, triumpe, triumpe, triumpe.




ANONYMOUS


_3. Charms_

_i. Against the Gout_

_Incertae Aetatis. _

EGO tui memini,
medere meis pedibus:
terra pestem teneto,
salus hic maneto
in meis pedibus.

_ii. At the Meditrinalia_

NOVOM uetus uinum bibo,
nouo ueteri morbo medeor.


_4. An Ancient Lullaby_

_Incertae Aetatis. _

LALLA, lalla, lalla:
i, aut dormi aut lacta.


_5. Epitaphs of the Scipios_

284-176 B. C.

_i_

CORNELIVS Lucius Scipio Barbatus,
Gnaiuod patre prognatus fortis uir sapiensque,
quoius forma uirtutei parisuma fuit,
consol, censor, aidilis quei fuit apud nos,
Taurasia, Cisauna, Samnio cepit,
subigit omne Loucanam opsidesque abdoucsit.