2. So the unstable herd follows the eyes of fortune; the which, as soon as they are concealed by the overshadowing cloud, it withdraws.

Unstable. Mobilis.-Herd. Vulgus.-The which as soon as Quæ (agreeing with lumina) simul. Overshadowing. Inductus.

EXERCISE CLII.

1. I am blamed undeservedly: a humble plain is ploughed by me; that was a work requiring great richness of production.

A humble plain. Campus tenuis. — By me. Mihi. That Illud.-Requiring, &c. Fertilitatis magnæ.

2. That skiff ought not, therefore, to trust itself to the ocean, if any (skiff) dares to sport in a small lake.

Therefore. Ideo.--If any (skiff). Si qua.-Small. Exiguus.

EXERCISE CLIII.

1. Unhappy, I follow with my eyes the departing sails, so far as I may; and the sand is wet with my tears.

Follow. Prosequi.

Humere.

So far as I may. Quâ licet. Wet.

2. A mass, the handiwork of nature, looks on the boundless deep it was a mountain: that (mass) resists the waters of the sea.

A mass, the handiwork of nature. Moles nativa.-Boundless. Immensus.-That (mass). İlla.-Of the sea. Æquoreus.

EXERCISE CLIV.

1. You are lighter than leaves then when, without the weight of their sap, they fly, dried by the ceaseless breezes.

Sap. Succus.-Dried. Aridus factus.-Ceaseless. Mobilis.

2. And there is less (weight) in you than the weight in the topmost ear of corn, which, light (as it is), is stiffened, parched by the constant suns.

Topmost ear of corn. Summa arista.—Is stiffened. Rigere.— Parched. Ustus.-Constant. Assiduus.

EXERCISE CLV.

1. (That help) which neither the earth, fertile in producing herbs, nor a god (can give), (that) help you are able to bring me.

Fertile. Fecundus.—Producing herbs. Graminibus creandis.

2. For I am yours, and with you I lived in childish years; and yours I pray to be (for) the time which (still) remains.

I am yours. Sum tua.-I lived. Fui.-Childish. Puerilis.The time, &c. Quod temporis superest.

EXERCISE CLVI.

1. You will err, if you are slow. How quickly ages have already passed away! The day does not stand idle, or return.

Are slow. Tardus eris.-Passed away. Labi.-Return. Remeare.

2. How quickly the earth loses its purple colours! how quickly the white poplar its beautiful leaves !

Lose. Deperdere.

EXERCISE CLVII.

1. I have seen before now the youth mourning that his days have passed in folly, when advanced age pressed (heavily on him).

In folly.

Stultus; agreeing with dies.-Advanced. Serior. The learner should refer to the remarks made already about the position of clauses beginning with relatives, such as qui, cum, &c.

2. O cruel gods! the renewed serpent strips off his years: but to beauty the fates have granted no delay.

Renewed. Novus.

EXERCISE CLVIII.

1. To Phoebus and Bacchus alone there is eternal youth; for unshorn locks become either god.

Either. Uterque.

2. He whom the Muses shall celebrate will live whilst the earth (bears) oaks, whilst the heaven stars, whilst the river bears along its waters.

Bears along. Vehere. This word is only used in the last clause, and understood with the preceding ones.

EXERCISE CLIX.

1. You see few streams, sprung from great sources; most of them are swollen by united waters.

Are swollen. Multiplicare.

2. Whilst you can do so, and (only) moderate emotions stir your heart, if you are dissatisfied, stop on the first threshold.

Whilst you can do so. Dum licet.-Heart. Præcordia.-Dissatisfied. Si piget.-Stop. Sistere pedem.

EXERCISE CLX.

1. For delay gives strength: delay ripens to the full the tender grapes, and makes what was (mere) blade strong

crops.

Ripens to the full. Percoquere.

2. The tree which affords broad shades to those who walk (beneath it) was a twig when first it was planted.

Walk. Spatiari.-When. Quo tempore.-Planted. Poni.

EXERCISE CLXI.

1. Then it might have been torn up from the surface of the earth with the hands: now it stands by its own strength, prodigiously grown.

Surface of the earth. Tellus summa.-Prodigiously grown. In immensum aucta.

2. (It is) a useful determination to extinguish the cruel flames, and not to have a breast a slave to its own failing.

Determination. Propositum.-Slave to. Servus, followed by a genitive.—Failing. Culpa.

EXERCISE CLXII.

1. The earth rears healthful plants, and also harmful; and the rose is often close to the nettle.

Healthful. Bonus.- And also. Idemque, agreeing of course with earth.' The pentameter ends with rosa est; this elision with the verb 'est' being not infrequent.

2. Then the people sat on steps made of turf, while any branch whatever covered their shaggy locks.

Of turf. De cespite.- Whilst any branch. Quælubet frons; using the ablative absolute.

EXERCISE CLXIII.

1. There is a sacred fount near the purple hills of flowering Hymettus, and ground soft with green turf.

2. A wood, of no great height, makes a grove: the arbutus covers the grass: the rosemary, and laurels, and black myrtle are fragrant.

Of no great height. Non altus.-Rosemary. Ros maris.

EXERCISE CLXIV.

1. Fanned by soft Zephyrs and the healthful breeze, the leaves of so many kinds and the topmost blade tremble.

Fanned. Impulsus.-Blade. Herba.