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ITER AD BRUNDISIUM<\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

*<\/p>\n

EGRESSUM – text
\nHaving – pony
\nMighty<\/strong> – translation<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

EGRESSUM MAGNA ME ACCEPIT ARICIA ROMA
\nHaving left great Rome, Aricia took me
\n<\/span>Mighty Rome behind me, I found a modest inn in Aricia.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

HOSPITIO MODICO: RHETOR COMES HELIODORUS,
\ninto a modest inn: my companion, the rhetorician\u00a0<\/span>Heliodorus
\nHeliodorus the Rhetorician, by far the most learned\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

GRAECORUM LONGE DOCTISSIMUS;\u00a0 <\/span>INDE FORUM APPI,
\nof the Greeks far the most learned; from there Forum Appi,
\n<\/span>of the Greeks, was my companion.\u00a0 <\/span>From there we went\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

DIFFERTUM NAUTIS, CAUPONISBUS ATQUE MALIGNIS.
\nfull [with] boatmen, and perfidious innkeepers.
\n<\/span>to Forum Appi, teeming with boatmen, perfidious innkeepers.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

HOC ITER IGNAUI DIUISIMUS, ALTIUS AC NOS
\nThis route out of laziness we cut in two, higher than us
\nFrom laziness we cut this leg of the trip in two.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

PRAECINCTIS UNUM; MINUS EST GRAUIS APPIA TARDIS.
\nmake it in one; is less heavy, the Appian, slowly.
\nThe hearty make it in a day.\u00a0 <\/span>The Appian is best taken slow.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

HIC EGO PROPTER AQUAM, QUOD ERAT DETERRIMA, UENTRI
\nHere I because of water, which was putrid, to my stomach
\nBecause of putrid water, I declared truce with my stomach,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

INDICO BELLUM, CENANTIS HAUD ANIMO AEQUO
\ndeclared war, the dining companions not with calm mind
\nand waited, none too patiently, for my companions to leave table.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

EXSPECTANS COMITES.\u00a0 <\/span>IAM NOX INDUCERE TERRIS
\nwaiting.\u00a0 <\/span>Already night spreading on the earth
\n<\/span>Night was already spreading shadows over the land<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

VMBRAS ET CAELO DIFFUNDERE SIGNA PARABAT;
\nshadows and on the sky scattered signs was preparing;
\nand scattering constellations in the sky<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

TUM PUERI NAUTIS, PUERIS CONUICIA NAUTAE
\nthen from slaves to boatmen, to slaves from boatmen a clammer
\nwhen a clammer arose of boatmen insulting slaves rose up.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

INGERERE: H\u00c6C APPELLE! — TRECENTOS INSERIS! — OHE
\nrose up: “Here tie up! — Three hundred you put in! — Whoa!
\nTie up over here!<\/span>\u00a0 You put 300 on board!<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

IAM SATIS EST.\u00a0 <\/span>DUM AES EXIGITUR, DUM MULA LIGATUR
\nEnough is enough!”\u00a0 <\/span>While fares collected, while mules are tied,
\nWhoa!\u00a0 <\/span>Enough is enough!”\u00a0 <\/span>A whole hour goes by collecting fares\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

TOTA ABIT HORA.\u00a0 <\/span>MALI CULICES RANAEQUE PALUSTRES
\nA whole hour goes by.\u00a0 <\/span>Cursed mosquitoes and frogs of swamp\u00a0and hitching the mules.\u00a0 <\/span>Cursed mosquitoes and a concert of frogs\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

AUERTUNT SOMNOS;\u00a0 <\/span>ABSENTEM UT CANTAT AMICAM
\navert sleep; and about absent lover he sings
\nkeep sleep away while the muleteeer and a drunk,\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

MULTA PROLUTUS UAPPA NAUTA ATQUE UIATOR
\nsoaked in much spoiled wine, boatman and traveller
\nsoused in rotgut, warble about their absent lovers,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

CERTATIM, TANDEM FESSUS DORMIRE UIATOR
\nvying with one another, until, tired, to sleep the traveller
\nvying one with the another until, exhausted, the traveler<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

IMCIPIT, AC MISSAE PASTUM RETINACULA MULAE
\nbegins, and put to graze the reins of the mule
\ndozes off, and the lazy boatman turns the mule out to graze,\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

NAUTA PIGER SAXO RELIGAT STERTITQUE SUPINUS
\na lazy boatman to a rock ties and snores on his back.
\nties its reins to a rock and passes out snoring on his back.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

IAMQUE DIES ADERAT, NIL CUM PROCEDERE LINTREM
\nAlready day comes, nothing while proceeding the bark
\nDay breaks before we feel the bark’s stopped moving.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

SENTIMUS, DONEC CEREBROSUS PROSILIT UNUS
\nwe feel, until hot-headed one steps forward
\n<\/span>Then a hot-head among us steps forward \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

AC MULAE NAUTAEQUE CAPUT LUMBOSQUE SALIGNO
\nand mules and boatmen head and sides with willow
\nand lays a willow switch to both the mule and the boatman.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

FUSTE DOLAT;\u00a0 <\/span>QUARTA UIX DEMUM EXPONIMUR HORA.
\nstick hits; fourth watch hardly only we disembark.
\nNot until 10 AM do we disembark<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

ORA MANUSQUE TUA LAUIMUS, FERONIA, LYMPHA.
\nFace and hands we wash, Feronia, in your waters.
\nto wash our face and hands in your waters, O Feronia.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

MILIA TUM PRANSI TRIA REPIMUS ATQUE SUBIMUS
\nMiles then having lunched three we crawl and come
\nThen, having lunched, we crawl three more miles to the foot<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

INPOSITUM SAXIS LATE CANDENTIBUS ANXUR.
\nset upon rocks far away glistening Anxur.
\nof Anxur, set upon rocks which glisten from afar.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

HUC UENTURUS ERAT MAECENAS OPTIMUS ATQUE
\nThere was come worthy Maecenas as well as
\nThere worthy Maecenas as well as Cocceius<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

COCCEIUS, MISSI MAGNIS DE REBUS UTERQUE
\nCocceius sent great things both of them
\nwere to join us, both ambassadors\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

LEGATI, AUERSOS SOLITI CONPONERE AMICOS.
\nlegates, accustomed to bring together adversaries\/friends.
\nof powerful men and skilled mediators.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

HIC OCULIS EGO NIGRA MEIS COLLYRIA LIPPUS 30
\nHere my eyes I dark collyrium “pink eye”
\n<\/span>Here I had a bout of pink eye, and had to salve\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

INLINERE; INTEREA MAECENAS ADUENIT ATQUE
\nsalve; meanwhile Maecenas arrived as well as
\nmy eyes with ointment; wherewith Maecenas arrived<\/strong><\/p>\n

COCCEIUS, CAPITOQUE SIMUL FONTEIUS, AD UNQUEM
\nCocceius and Fonteius Capitus too, to the nail
\nwith Cocceius and Fonteius Capitus as well,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

FACTUS HOMO, ANTONI NON UT MAGIS ALTER AMICUS.
\n<\/span>a man made, none other a great friend of Antony.
\na total man, Antony’s right hand.<\/strong><\/p>\n

FUNDOS AUFIDIO LUSCO PRAETORE LIBENTER
\nFundos, whose praefect is Aufidius Luscus, gladly
\nWe gladly leave Fundos behind, mocking the prefect there,<\/strong><\/p>\n

LINQUIMUS, INSANI RIDENTES PRAEMIA SCRIBAE,
\nwe leave, laughing at ridiculous prerogatives of this scribe
\none Aufidius Luscus, a former scribe, absurd in ceremony,<\/strong><\/p>\n

PRAETEXTAM ET LATUM CLAUOM PRUNAEQUE UATILLUM.
\nhis “pretext,” his stripes and his brazier with shovel.
\n<\/span>gown, decorations and ciborium.<\/strong><\/p>\n

IN MAMURRARUM LASSI DEINDE URBE MANEMUS,
\nOf the Mamurrassians fatigued then the city we halt.
\nNext, exhausted, we pause in the town of the Mamurrassians,<\/strong><\/p>\n

MURENA PRAEBENTE DOMUM, CAPITONE CULINAM.
\nMurena provided housing, Capitonus kitchen.
\nwhere Murena had arranged room, Capitonus board.<\/strong><\/p>\n

POSTERA LUX ORITUR, MULTO GRATISSIMA; NAMQUE
\nThe next day light rose most felicitously; for
\nFate smiled upon us with the next day’s light.<\/strong><\/p>\n

PLOTINUS ET VARIUS SINUESSAE VERGILIUSQUE
\nPlotius and Varius at Sinuessae and Vergil
\n<\/span>At Sinuessa Plotius, Varius and Vergil<\/strong><\/p>\n

OCCURRENT, ANIMAE QUALIS NEQUE CANDIDIORES
\njoin us, souls such that no more candid
\njoin us, more refined souls cannot be found<\/strong><\/p>\n

TERRA TULIT NEQUE QUIS ME SIT DEUINCTIOR ALTER.
\nearth bore no whom to me there be more attached other.
\non earth, nor others to whom I am more devoted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

O QUI CONPLEXUS ET GAUDIA QUANTA FUERUNT!
\nOh what confusion and what joys there were!
\nO what a commotion!\u00a0 <\/span>What a time we had! \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

NIL EGO CONTULERIM IUCUNDO SANUS AMICO.
\nNothing I sane would prefer to the charm of friends.
\n<\/span>Sound of mind, I would prefer friendship to any charms.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

PROXUMA CAMPANO PONTI QUAE UILLULA TECTUM
\nNear to Campanian Bridge little village roof
\nA little village near the bridge at Campania provided us<\/strong><\/p>\n

PRAEBUIT ET PAROCHI QUAE DEBENT LIGNA SALEMQUE.
\noffered and local merchant that was due of wood and salt.
\nwith roof, and local hawkers the firewood and salt we needed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

HINC MULI CAPUAE CLITELLAS TEMPORE PONUNT.
\nThen mules at Capua baskets in due time put down.
\n<\/span>At Capua our mules were relieved of their saddle-bags.<\/strong><\/p>\n

LUSUM IT MAECENAS, DORMITUM EGO VERGILIUSQUE;
\nTo play went Maecenas, to sleep I and Vergil;
\nMaecenas went to exercise, Vergil and I to nap.<\/strong><\/p>\n

NAMQUE PILA LIPPIS INIMICUM ET LUDERE CRUDIS.
\n<\/span>For hand-ball to pink-eye inimical and play to indigestion.
\nHandball is bad for weary eyes, sport no good for a hang-over.<\/strong><\/p>\n

HINC NOS COCCEI RECIPIT PLENISSIMA UILLA, 50
\nNext Cocceius received us in a complete villa,
\nNext Cocceius took us into his splendid villa,<\/strong><\/p>\n

QUAE SUPER EST CAUDI CAUPONAS.\u00a0 <\/span>NUNC MIHI PAUCIS
\n<\/span>that above is the hotels of Caudium.\u00a0 <\/span>Now to me few words
\nset high above the hotels of Caudium.\u00a0 <\/span>O Muse,<\/strong><\/p>\n

SARMENTI SCURRAE PUGNAM MESSIQUE CICIRRI,
\nof Sarmenus the clown the battle and Messius Cicirrus
\nI would like you to tell now of the battle\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

MUSA, UELIM MEMORES, ET QUO PATRE NATUS UTERQUE
\nMuse, I would like you speak, and by which father born each
\nbetween that idiot Sarmenus and Messius Cicirrus,\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

CONTULERIT LITIS.\u00a0 <\/span>MESSI CLARUM GENUS OSCI;
\nbrought conflict.\u00a0 <\/span>Of Messius of the noble race of the Osci;
\nand of their “noble” lineage.\u00a0 <\/span>Messius descends from the Osci;<\/strong><\/p>\n

SARMENTI DOMINA EXTAT; AB HIS MAIORIBUS ORTI 55
\nOf Sarmentus the mistress is extant; from these born
\nSarmentus was once a slave: with such credentials<\/strong><\/p>\n

AD PUGNAM UENERE.\u00a0 <\/span>PRIOR SARMENTUS: “EQUI TE
\nto battle come.\u00a0 <\/span>First Sarmentus: “Horse you
\nthey come to battle.\u00a0 <\/span>Sarmentus leads out: “To my eye\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

ESSE FERI SIMILEM DICO. \u00c6RIDEMUS, ET IPSE
\nto be wild the same I say.” We all laugh, and himself
\n<\/span>We laugh, and himself you look like a unicorn.”\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

MESSIUS: “ACCIPIO\u00c6 CAPUT ET MOUET. O TUA CORNU
\n<\/span>Messius: “I accept,” and nods his head. “But if your horn
\nlaughs with us.\u00a0 <\/span>But Sarmentus insists: “The horn<\/strong><\/p>\n

NI FORET EXSECTO FRONS\u00c6INQUIT, “QUID FACERES, CUM
\n<\/span>had not been cut out,” he asks, “what would you do, while
\n<\/span>you had has been cut out.\u00a0 <\/span>Already so mutilated \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

SIC MUTILUS MINITARIS? \u00c6AT ILLI FOEDA CICATRIX
\nso mutilated you threaten?”\u00a0 <\/span>But whom disgusting scar
\nwhy risk provoking me now?”\u00a0 <\/span>There was a horrible scar<\/strong><\/p>\n

SAETOSAM LAEUI FRONTEM TURPAUERAT ORIS.
\nhairy left forehead horrified the side.
\nrunning along the left side of Messius’s face.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

CAMPANUM IN MORBUM, IN FACIEM PERMULTA IOCATUS,
\nOf Campinians the disease, of his face multifold laughed,
\nHaving over and over mocked Messius’complexion and face,<\/strong><\/p>\n

PASTOREM SALTARET UTI CYCLOPA ROGABAT;
\nthe shepherd that he dance Cyclops asked him;
\nSarmentus dared him to dance Cyclops the Shepherd’s dance;<\/strong><\/p>\n

NIL ILLI LARUA AUT TRAGICIS OPUS ESSE COTURNIS.
\n<\/span>nothing to him masks nor tragical cothurna were needed.
\nafter all, that freak had no need of masks or make-up.<\/strong><\/p>\n

MULTA CIRCIRRUS AD HAEC.\u00a0 <\/span>DONASSET IAMNE CATENAM.
\nMuch Cirirrus to this.\u00a0 <\/span>If he had given his chains
\nCircirrus was upset. \u00a0 <\/span>He asked if Messius\u00a0had<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

EX UOTO LARIBUS, QUAERABAT: SCRIBA QUOD ESSET,
\nto the cult of the Lares, he asked; scribe he had been
\nnot perhaps cut a deal with someone for be free; for lackey\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

NILO DETERIUS DOMINAE IUS ESSE; ROGABAT
\nnothing to lesser of his mistress the rights were; he asked
\nand scribe he was born and would always be.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

DENIQUE CUR UMQUAM FUGISSET, CUI SATIS UNA
\nthen why one day did you flee, to whom sufficient a
\n“Are you not some kind of escapee, you to whom<\/strong><\/p>\n

FARRIS LIBRA FORET, GRACILI SIC TAMQUE PUSILLO.
\nof wheat a pound be, so slight and skinny you are.
\n<\/span>a mere pound of bread suffices, such a runt you are!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

PRORSUS IUCUNDE CENAM PRODUCIMUS ILLAM.
\nForthright with charm dinner we proceed.
\nThis is the kind of table-talk we put up with there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

TENDIMUS HINC RECTA BENEUENTUM, UBI SEDULUS HOSPES
\nWe go straight to Beneventum, where an assiduous host
\nWith some relief we set off for Beneventum, where a rabid host<\/strong><\/p>\n

PAENE MACROS ARSIT DUM TURDOS UERSAT IN INGI;
\n<\/span>almost meager burned while game-birds turning over the fire;
\nnearly set fire to the house roasting emaciated quail for us.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

NAM UAGA PER UETEREM DILAPSO FLAMMA CULINAM
\nfor errant flames spilled across the ancient kitchen
\nFlames ripped across the greasy kitchen.<\/strong><\/p>\n

VOLCANO SUMMUM PROPERABAT LAMBERE TECTUM.
\n<\/span>Vulcan high advanced to lick ceiling.
\nVulcan’s flames advanced to lick the high ceiling.<\/strong><\/p>\n

CONUIUAS AUIDOS CENAM SERUOSQUE TIMENTIS
\nGuests avid dinner and frightened slaves
\nYou would have loved it: the startled guests and quaking\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

TUM RAPERE ATQUE OMNIS RESTINGUERE UELLE UIDERE
\nwhile to carry away and all extinguish would want you see.
\nslaves all rushing to save the food and put out the fire.<\/strong><\/p>\n

INCIPIT EX ILLO MONTIS APULIA NOTOS
\nBegins from there mountains Apulia known
\nFrom there on Apulia begins to show the mountains<\/strong><\/p>\n

OSTENTARE MIHI, QUOS TORRET ATABULUS ET QUOS
\nto show to me, which dry Atabulus and which
\n<\/span>so well known to me, drained by the River Atabulus<\/strong><\/p>\n

NUNQUAM EREPSSEMUS, NISI NOS UICINA TRIUICI
\nnever would climb if not us village of Trivicum
\n<\/span>and which we would never have climbed were it not<\/strong><\/p>\n

UILLA RECEPISSET LACRIMOSO NON SINE FUMO,
\n“villa” had received in tears not without smoke
\nfor a rustic cottage near Trivicum, whose welcome brought tears\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

UDOS COM FOLIIS RAMOS URENTE CAMINO.
\nwet with leaves brances burning in the hearth.
\nto my eyes–wet branches were burning in the hearth!<\/strong><\/p>\n

HIC EGO MENDACEM STULTISSIMUS USQUE PUELLAM
\nHere I mendacious most stupid one until girl
\nHere, fool that I am, I was stood up and waited<\/strong><\/p>\n

AD MEDIAM NOCTEM EXPECTO; SOMNUS TAMEN AUFERT
\nto the middle of the night I wait; sleep however took me
\npast midnight for a lover before sleep overtook me<\/strong><\/p>\n

INTENTUM UENERI; TUM INMUNDO SOMNIA UISU
\ntensed with Venus; while improper dreams seen
\nstiff with lust.\u00a0 <\/span>While I slept supine, salacious<\/strong><\/p>\n

NOCTURNAM UESTEM MACULANT UENTREMQUE SUPINUM. 85
\nnight shirt stain and stomach supine.
\ndreams spilled out their substance, stained my sheets.<\/strong><\/p>\n

QUATTUOR HINC RAPIMUR UIGINTI ET MILIA RAEDIS,
\nFour there we were taken twenty and miles by chariot,
\nFrom there a chariot carried us twenty-four miles,<\/strong><\/p>\n

MANSURI OPPIDULO, QUOD UERSU DICERE NON EST,
\nin order to wait little town, that in verse to say not is.
\n<\/span>before stopping in some hole whose name won’t fit into verse,<\/strong><\/p>\n

SIGNIS PERFACILE EST; UENIT UILLISSIMA RERUM
\nby signs easy is; is sold the most common of things
\nbut is known by all.\u00a0 <\/span>The commonest of things must be sold here–<\/strong><\/p>\n

HIC AQUA, SED PANIS LONGE PULCHERRIMUS, ULTRA
\nhere water, but bread by far the most beautiful, beyond
\nwater–but the bread is most excellent, and the well-advised<\/strong><\/p>\n

CALLIDUS UT SOLEAT UMERIS PORTARE UIATOR.
\nthat is accustomed on shoulder to carry traveler.
\ntraveler usually buys here and carries it on with him, \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

NAM CANUSI LAPIDOSUS, AQUAE NON DITIOR URNA
\nFor at Canusium hard as a rock, water not more abundant urne
\n<\/span>for farther at Canusium bread is hard as rock, and water no more<\/strong><\/p>\n

QUI LOCUS A FORTI DIOMEDE EST CONDITUS OLIM.
\nwhich place at valiant Diomedes was founded formerly.
\neasy to find in this site founded by valiant Diomedes,<\/strong><\/p>\n

FLENTIBUS HINC VARIUS DISCEDIT MAESTUS AMICIS.
\nIn tears here Varius left sadly friends.
\nand where Varius tearfully took leave of us, his dear friends.<\/strong><\/p>\n

INDE RUBOS FESSI PERUENIMUS, UTPOTE LONGUM
\nThen to Rubos exhausted we arrive, since long
\nFinally we make our way to Rubos, exhausted, \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

CARPENTES ITER ET FACTUM CORRUPTIUS IMBRI.
\nhaving taken a route and made more degraded by rain.
\nfor we had taken a route rains made almost impassable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

POSTERA TEMPESTAS MELIOR, UIA PEIOR AD USQUE
\nNext day the weather better, but the road bad to
\nThe weather was better the next day, but the road\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

BARI MOENIA PISCOSI.\u00a0 <\/span>DEIN GNATIA LYMPHIS
\nof Barium the walls fishy.\u00a0 <\/span>Next Egnatia nymphs
\nto fishing port of Barium worse.\u00a0 <\/span>Finally Egnatia, built\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

IRATIS EXTRUCTA DEDIT RISUSQUE IOCOSQUE,
\n<\/span>irate extracted gave us laughter and amusement.
\ndespite the anger of nymphs, provided many jibes and laughs,<\/strong><\/p>\n

DUM FLAMMA SINE TURA LIQUESCERE LIMINE SACRO
\nfor flame without incense melts on the sill sacred
\nfor the locals try to convince visitors incense can dissolve\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

PERSUADERE CUPIT.\u00a0 <\/span>CREDAT IUDAEUS APELLA,
\nto persuade desires.\u00a0 <\/span>Believes the Jew Apella
\non the sacred altars without flame.\u00a0 <\/span>Maybe Apella the Jew\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

NON EGO; NAMQUE DEOS DIDICI SECURUM AGERE AEUON,
\nnot I; for the gods I have learned secure move with time
\nbelieves that, not I.\u00a0 <\/span>For the gods wile away their time<\/strong><\/p>\n

NEC, SIQUID MIRI FACIAT NATURA, DEOS ID
\nnot, if miracles be made by nature, gods it
\n<\/span>in eternal play, and if nature manages some miracle,<\/strong><\/p>\n

TRISTIS EX ALTO CAELI DEMITTERE TECTO.
\nsad from above heavens send down ceiling.
\nit is not bored gods who send it down from on high.<\/strong><\/p>\n

BRUNDISIUM LONGAE FINIS CHARTAEQUE UIA EQUEST.
\nBrindisi long end and papyrus and trip.
\nBrindisi marks the end of this text and this trip.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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NOTES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Topos of the crowded port: the multitude of boatmen and hucksters.\u00a0 <\/span>From here led a paludal canal along which mules dragged one’s bark overnight, if one were so inclined, to save one\u00a0 <\/span>day’s journey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Montezuma’s revenge threatens.\u00a0 <\/span>“Don’t drink the water,” in this case of the swamps.\u00a0 <\/span>On the other hand, the wine is excellent here, according to Lejay: “Sur la colline qui dominait Forum Appi se r\u00e9coltait le Setinum, vin pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9 d’Auguste et de ses successeurs” (149).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

See l. 83: expecto.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>This is a satire. Levels are deliberately mixeds, the epic portrayl of the constellations contrasts with the vulgar clammer of the harbour.<\/p>\n

Chiasmus– sailors : slaves :: slaves : sailors.<\/p>\n

According to Villeneuve, these frogs are proof (like the leanness of the woodcock in l. 72 and Horace’s need for a nightshirt in l. 85) that it is early to mid spring.\u00a0 <\/span>A subtle logging of season.<\/p>\n

A litle like Horace himself will do in l. 85. Supinus\/supinum: no better example of Jakobson’s tenet: “The poetic function projects the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection into the axis of combination.” \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lejay: “Au printemps la quatri\u00e4me heure du jour tombait entre 9 et 10 heures du matin” (181).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cf. l. 97: lymphis.\u00a0 <\/span>The fountain was devoted to Feronia, a local divinity, the protectress of freed slaves, and was confused with Juno.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>My dictionary defines lippus as “qui a les yeux malades par la d\u00e9bauche.”\u00a0 <\/span>Maybe Horace was merely rubbing them too much.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jusqu’aux bouts des ongles.\u00a0 <\/span>Villeneuve defines this stock metaphor as having come from sculptors, “qui promenaient leur ongle sur le marbre pour s’assurer qu’il n’y restait aucune asp\u00c7rit\u00c7.”\u00a0 <\/span>I prefer to think that this Fonteius was perfectly manicured.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maecenas and Cocceius Nerva negotiated the peace of Brindisi between Octavius and Antony in 40 B.C.\u00a0 <\/span>Anthony got the East; Octavius, the West; Lepidus, Africa.\u00a0 <\/span>Lejay gives us 37 B.C. as date for this journey.\u00a0 <\/span>Octavius knew by Maecenas that Antony was supposed to show up in Brindisi in the spring.\u00a0 <\/span>He sent along the two emissaries in l. 31-32.\u00a0 <\/span>Somehow these diplomats and bag-men managed to arrange the presence of three great Roman poets, Horace, Vergil and Varius– though the poets were apparently debauched throughout most of the two week trip.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These artefacts of Roman authority should be familiar to Catholics and students of Baudelaire– ciboire<\/em>!<\/p>\n

According to our scholars, this is the topos of the borrowed apartment, for Licinius Varro Murena was not around.<\/p>\n

Let us call this topos “the meeting of like minds,” and note in passing the Horatian theme of friendship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They got there earlier than foreseen, hence time to play, or time to snooze.\u00a0 <\/span>Maecenas is into aerobics, but Horace and Vergil prefer to steal away and siesta. After all, tennis (“pila”=ball=”pelote,” etc.) is bad for weary eyes and queasy indigestion.\u00a0 <\/span>The cr_dus of which Horace writes has a contemporary counterpart in Mexican cruda, hangover.<\/p>\n

A scathing pun here, for “osci” or “obscus” (“peasant’) leads to “obscene”; in other words not breeding at all. This is mock-heroic epic.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Very Latin and endless, this business of the horns.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The quintessential satirical figure, half-god, half-beast.\u00a0 <\/span>All of this is miming; saltare was common usage for actor’s mincing.\u00a0 <\/span>According to Lejay (161) pantomine was not full-blown until a decade or two later (ca. 22 B.C.), but this kind of provocation and teasing is ageless, starts on the playground.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Implicit mockery of gladiators throughout, but Horace chooses to pass lightly over it, like some wry table-talk. What are the conventions of table-talk (neither politics nor religion…)?\u00a0 <\/span>Domestic table-talk is rarely transcribed.\u00a0 <\/span>What is is our talk around tables we travel to, restaurants.<\/p>\n

This means it is in fact spring; for why else would game-bird be lean?<\/p>\n

Others’ kitchens usually look pretty grim and insalubrious.\u00a0 <\/span>As does foreign food.\u00a0 <\/span>A realm of study: the food others eat, and foreign food cookbooks. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is an elaborate chiasmus (Durcheinander<\/em>) in which the distinction between guests and slaves, their respective attitudes and the vocabulary to express these differences criss-cross in a ballet-pantomine.<\/p>\n

For some reason Lejay (165) imagines around the word camin_s, “hearth,” that the unobtained sex-object in the next passage must have been attending the fire. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another logging of season.\u00a0 <\/span>Why else the night-shirt, unless it is still chilly?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Buy bottled water, or beer.\u00a0 <\/span>Don’t drink from wells.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This callidius\u00a0 <\/span>(“hardened”) and this soleat (“accustomed”) are core figures of travel guides and newspaper travel sections.\u00a0 <\/span>The knowledgeable traveler who knows in advance is the ultimate reader. \u00a0 <\/span>What better recipient of the writer’s desire than one who follows carefully plotted footsteps, comparing sensations word by word?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Satiren, Erkl\u00e4rt von Adolf Liessling, erneuernt und besorgt von Richard Heinze<\/em> (Dublin\/Z\u00fcrich: Weidmann, 1968), p. 90. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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ITINERARY OF THE “ITER”<\/strong><\/p>\n

DAY PLACE\u00a0 <\/span>MILEAGE\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I Aricia XVI
\nII Forum Appi (Night on XXVII, the canal)
\nIII Lucus Feroniae-Tarracina XIX
\nIV Fundi-Formiae XXVI
\nV Sinuenssa-Pons Campnus XXVII
\nVI Capua XVII
\nVII Villa near Caudium XXI
\nVIII Beneventum XI
\nIX Villa near Trivicum XV [?]
\nX Ausculum XXIV
\nXI Canusium XXXV
\nXII Rubi XXIII
\nXIII Barium XXIII
\nXIV Gnatia XXXVII
\nXV Brundisium XXXIX<\/p>\n

[One mile = 1480 meters\/ 1609 modern meters per mile]<\/p>\n

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ITER AD BRUNDISIUM * EGRESSUM – text Having – pony Mighty – translation * EGRESSUM MAGNA ME ACCEPIT ARICIA ROMA Having left great Rome, Aricia took me Mighty Rome behind me, I found a modest inn in Aricia. HOSPITIO MODICO: RHETOR COMES HELIODORUS, into a modest inn: my companion, the rhetorician\u00a0Heliodorus Heliodorus the Rhetorician, by … <\/p>\n

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