& G. 615: _Selections_ 1-5.
Trochaic Septenarius, B. 366, 2; A. & G. 620: _Selections_ 6, 7. Elegiac
Stanza, B. 368, 369; A. & G. 616: _Selection_ 8.

_1._ 'Lines of tender regret and true hero-worship.'--Sellar. Cf. Livy,
1. 16. 2, 3. Prose translation in Sellar, _Roman Poets of the Republic_,
p. 110. 3. qualem...genuerunt: How great a guardian of our country did
the gods create in thee!--Sellar. 4. O pater, o genitor: pater is a
title of respect, genitor the actual parent. sanguen: an ante-classic
neuter collateral form of sanguis. 5. intra luminis oras: within the
realms of light (Sellar), a favorite expression with later poets.

_2._ 'Sentiments truly regal and worthy of the race of the Aeacidae.'
Cicero, _De Officiis,_ 1. 12.

This is Pyrrhus' reply to Fabricius and other envoys sent to negotiate
for the ransom of the Roman prisoners after the battle of Heraclea, 280
B.C.

Prose translation and fine comment in Sellar, Roman Poets of the
Republic, p. 99.

1. dederitis: perfect subjunctive in a prohibition. 2. nec cauponantes
bellum: not making petty traffic of war. 3. vitam: accusative of
specification. 5. accipe: to Fabricius, while ducite (1. 8) is to all
the envoys. 7. eorundem: scanned as three syllables. 8.
volentibus...dis: under favor of the great gods.--Sellar. Final s in
volentibus as in vivus (_Selection_ 8. 2) is neglected in scanning.

_4._ These lines were often quoted. They are imitated by Vergil,
_Aeneid,_ 6. 845-846:

Tu Maximus ille es,
unus qui nobis cunctando restituis rem.

Prose translation in Sellar, Roman Poets of the Republic, p. 106.

1. cunctando: by biding his time.--Sellar. rem equals rem publicam. 2.
noenum equals ne, not + oenum, old form of unum, one. This eventually
contracts into non. rumores: what men said of him.--Sellar.

_5._ One of the grandest lines in Latin poetry. Cicero says of it (_De
Republica_, 5.1): 'For brevity and for truth it is like the utterance of
some oracle.'

1. Moribus...virisque: By olden custom and great men Rome stands.
virisque: of. Sir William Jones, _An Ode in Imitation of Alcaeus_:

What constitutes a state?
Not high-raised battlement, nor labored mound,
Thick wall or moated gate:
Not cities fair with spires and turrets crowned:
No;--men, high-minded men,--...
Men, who their duties know,
But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain.

_6._ From the _Telamo_, spoken by Telamon on receiving tidings of his
son's deat