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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt:...sure of hitting on the right one. 17. producas, 'rear,' i.e. to manhood; cf. KovpoTp6fos applied to various goddesses. For subolem, cf. Od. 4. 3. 14 n. patrum: the conscript fathers, the Senate. 18. super iugandis feminis, i.e. the lex lulia de maritandis ordinibus or de adulteriis, enacted B.c. 18, see Diet, of Ant., and Od. 3. 6 Intr. 19. prolis feraci: cf. Od. 4. 4. 58 and 3. 6.17 n. 2O. lege marita, 'marriage law.' 21. per, i.e. after revolving 'through.' 22. orbis, 'cycle.' referatque. For the position of que, cf. Od. 2. 19. 28 n. 23. ter. Three was a sacred number, cf. 1. 28. 36 iniecto ter pulvere, Soph. Ant. 431 "xocuffL Tpinrbv§OLri, and the chorus here consists of thrice nine youths and thrice nine maidens. 24. frequentes. Emphatic: the prayer is that they may be numerous. 25. veraces cecinisse, ' ever truthful in your oracles': for canere of prophetic utterance cf. Od. 1.15. 4 n. The inf. is epexegetic, and the perfect is used accurately: the Parcae have been found truthful in their past utterances, and this is the ground of confidence in their promises for the future. 26. quod sexnel... 'Ye Fates, as has been once appointed--and so may the abiding landmark of our fortunes preserve it--link happy destinies to a happy past.' Supply bonis with peractis. A few MSS. give servat. stabilis rerum terminus: in the phrase 'abiding landmark of our fortunes,' Horace refers to the popular legend that, when space was being made for a temple of Jupiter on the Capitol, the god Terminus (see Class Diet. s.v.) alone refused to make way, thus symbolising the eternal stability of the Roman state. The Romans regarded ' boundstones' with peculiar reverence, cf. 2. 18. 24 n.: the word terminus is constantly used as a symbol of abiding fixity,...