Solitas galea fulgere comas, Stilicho, molli necte corona. cessent litui saevumque procul Martem felix taeda releget. tractus ab aula rursus in aulam 5 redeat sanguis. patris officiis iunge potenti pignora dextra. gener Augusti pridem fueras, nunc rursus eris socer Augusti. quae iam rabies livoris erit? 10 vel quis dabitur color invidiae? Stilicho socer est, pater est Stilicho. II. (LXXXV.) _Descriptio portus Smyrnensis._ Urbs in conspectu montana cacumina velat tranquillo praetenta mari. ducentia portum cornua pacatas removent Aquilonibus undas. hic exarmatum terris cingentibus aequor clauditur et placidam discit servare quietem. 5 * * * * * Page 175 SHORTER POEMS I. (XIII.) _To Stilicho._ Crown with a wreath of flowers, Stilicho, that head more often graced with the shining helmet. Bid cease the trumpets and let the happy marriage-torch banish fierce war afar. Let the blood derived from a kingly race flow on through royal veins. Do a father’s duty and establish the firm bond of wedlock between thy daughter and adoptive son. Thou wert an emperor’s son-in-law; now an emperor will be thine. What cause is there now for envy, what excuse for jealousy? Stilicho is at once father and father-in-law. II. (LXXXV.) _Description of the harbour at Smyrna._ The city that meets our gaze veils the mountain peaks, fronting a tranquil sea. The two headlands that enclose the harbour protect the quiet water from the north wind. Here the sea is disarmed by the encircling land and learns to lie in undisturbed tranquillity. * * * * * Page 176 III. (LXXXI.) _Ad Aeternalem._ Quidquid Castalio de gurgite Phoebus anhelat, quidquid fatidico mugit cortina recessu, carmina sunt; sed verba negant communia Musae. carmina sola loquor: sic me meus implet Apollo. IV. (LIV.) _Descriptio armenti._ Non tales quondam species tulit armentorum tellus tergemino subdita Geryoni. non tales, Clitumne, lavas in gurgite tauros, Tarpeio referunt quos pia vota Iovi. non talis Tyrias sparsisse iuvencus harenas 5 dicitur, optatum quando revexit onus. non Cretaeus ager nec amati conscia tauri Gnosos nec similes paverit Ida feros. ipse et dispariles monstro commissus in artus qui crimen matris prodidit[60] ore novo 10 Cres puer haud talem potuisset reddere formam, portassent totum si fera membra patrem. [60] _prodidit_ cod. Med. (and Cuiacius). Birt _condidit_. * * * * * Page 177 III. (LXXXI.) _To Aeternalis._[61]