Si te forte iuvant Helles Athamantidos urbes, Nec desiderio, Tulle, movere meo, Tu licet aspicias caelum omne Atlanta gerentem, Sectaque Persea Phorcidos ora manu, 8 Geryonis stabula et luctantum in pulvere signa Herculis Antaeique Hesperidumque choros, Tuque tuo Colchum propellas remige Phasim, Peliacaeque trabis totum iter ipse legas, 12 Qua rudis Argoa natat inter saxa columba In faciem prorae pinus adacta novae, Et siqua Ortygii visenda est ora Caystri, Et quae septenas temperat unda vias; 16 Omnia Romanae cedent miracula terrae; Natura his posuit, quicquid ubique fuit. Armis apta magis tellus, quam commoda noxae: Famam, Roma, tuae non pudet historiae. 20 Nam quantum ferro, tantum pietate potentes Stamus: victrices temperat illa manus. Hic Anio Tiburne fluis, Clitumnus ab Umbro Tramite, et aeternum Marcius umor opus, 24 Albanus lacus et foliis Nemorensis abundans, Potaque Pollucis lympha salubris equo. 26 Haec tibi, Tulle, parens, haec est pulcherrima sedes; 39 Hic tibi pro digna gente petendus honos; Hic tibi ad eloquium cives, hic ampla nepotum Spes et venturae coniugis aptus amor. 42 PROPERTIUS, III. (IV.) xxii. 5-26, 39-42. +Subject.+ Go where thou wilt, my Tullus, know that all the sights and marvels of all lands, from West to East, are outdone by those of thine own Italy. A truly famous land! A land ever victorious, ever merciful; full of fair lakes and streams. Here, Tullus, is thy true abode: here seek a life of honour and a home. [Linenotes: 8. +Phorcidos ora+ = _the head of Medusa_, the daughter of Phorcus. 15. +Ortygii Caystri.+ Ortygia, an old name for Ephesus, near the mouth of the R. Cayster: the haunt of _quails_ (_Ortygia_, ὄρτυξ). 16. +temperat septenas vias+ = _moderates its seven channels_, of the delta of the Nile. --Ramsay. 19-22. Cf. Verg. _Aen._ vi. 853 _Parcere subiectis et debellare superbos._ 19. +commoda noxae+ = _disposed to harm_. --North Pinder. 24. +Marcius umor+, i.e. the aqueduct of Q. Marcius Rex; built 145 B.C. 25. The Alban and Arician Lakes (+Nemorensis+ = mod. _Nemi_) are close together. 26. i.e. the well Iuturna in the Forum (‘the well that springs by Vesta’s fane’) at which the Dioscuri washed their horses after their hot ride from Lake Regillus. 41. +ad eloquium cives+ = _citizens to hear and profit by your eloquence_. --N. P.] B72 LAUS ROMAE.