temperet; in solam cruor hic servetur harenam. retibus et clatris dilata morte tenendae ducendaeque ferae. cupidas arcete sagittas; consulis in plausum casuris parcite monstris. acceleret divisa manus: mihi cursus anhelas 275 tenditur ad Syrtes, mecum Dictynna Lycaste et comes Opis eat; steriles iuvat ire per aestus: namque feras aliis tellus Maurusia donum praebuit, huic soli debet sed victa tributum. dum nos horribiles Libyae scrutamur alumnos, 280 Europae vos interea perquirite saltus et scopulos. posita ludat formidine pastor securisque canat Stilichonem fistula silvis. pacet muneribus montes qui legibus urbes.” Dixit et extemplo frondosa fertur ab Alpe 285 trans pelagus; cervi currum subiere iugales, quos decus esse deae primi sub limine caeli roscida fecundis concepit Luna cavernis: par nitor intactis nivibus; frons discolor auro germinat et spatio summas aequantia fagos 290 cornua ramoso surgunt procera metallo. Opis frena tenet, fert retia rara Lycaste auratasque plagas, inmortalesque Molossi latrantes mediis circum iuga nubibus ibant. quinque aliae paribus (Phoebe sic iusserat) armis 295 diversa regione ruunt ducitque cohortem quaeque suam. variae formis et gente sequuntur ingenioque canes. illae gravioribus aptae morsibus, hae pedibus celeres, hae nare sagaces, * * * * * Page 63 wonted hunting and the blood of our prey be spilled but in the arena. Not for now their death; close the glades with net and cages and lead the beasts captive; withhold your impatient arrows; spare the monsters of the forest whose death shall win applause for our consul. Divide and haste in every direction; my breathless course is towards the Syrtes; do you, Cretan Lycaste and Opis, bear me company. My purpose is to traverse the unfruitful desert; Mauretania has given ere now her animals to other consuls as a gift, to this consul alone she owes them as a conquered land owes tribute. While we track out the dread progeny of Libya do you hunt the glades and rocks of Europe. Let joy banish fear from the shepherd’s breast and his pipe hymn Stilicho in the dreadless forests. As his laws have given peace to the cities so let his shows give peace to the mountains.”