+fatum+ = _that which is said_, espec. prophetically. √+fa+, φα. Cf. +for+ (+fā-ri+), _speak_; +fā-ma+, _report_; +fā-bula+, _a story_; +in-fans+, _that cannot speak_; +fā-cundus+, _eloquent_. +strepitum+ = _roar_; lit. a wild, confused noise, din of any kind; cf. _obstreperous_. +Acherontis+ = _Acheron_ = (a) a river in the Lower World; (b) the Lower World itself. Perh. +Acheron+ = ὁ ἄχεα ῥέων = the stream of woe; cf. Κωκυτός = _Cocytus_, river of _wailing_. (ii.) _Translation._-- You cannot be in doubt about the principal subject and predicate. +Felix+ is the only word outside the subordinate clause from +qui ... avari+. The sense, too, of these lines is clear, so you may translate at once; but you must take special care to use dignified and appropriate language:-- _Happy the man who has availed to know the causes of things, and so trampled under foot all fears and fate’s relentless decree, and the roar of insatiate Acheron._ +II.+ +Fortunatus et ille, deos qui novit agrestes, Panaque, Silvanumque senem, Nymphasque sorores!+ (i.) _Vocabulary._-- +agrestes+ = _of the country_; cf. +ager+ (ἀγρός), +agrarius+, _agrarian_; +peragro+ (+per + ager+), _travel over_. Perhaps to be traced to the same root as +ag-o+ = _drive_, +ager+ and ἀγρός being so named +a pecore agendo+ (cf. Germ. +trift+ = _pasturage_, +treiben+ = _drive_). +Silvanum+ = _Silvanus_ = Latin god of fields and woods (+silva+), _sylvan_. (ii.) _Translation._--This sentence closely resembles in form Sentence I, +Ille Fortunatus+ being the principal subject and predicate. _He too is blest who knows the gods of the country, Pan, and old Silvanus, and the sisterhood of the Nymphs._ +III.+ +Illum non populi fasces, non purpura regum Flexit, et infidos agitans discordia fratres; Aut coniurato descendens Dacus ab Histro, Non res Romanae, perituraque regna;+ (i.) _Vocabulary._-- +fasces+ = _fasces_, i.e. _honours_; +populi+, i.e. _conferred by the people_. +fascis+ = a _bundle_, espec. of wood. +fasces+ = _the lictors’ rods_ (_rods_ + _axe_ in certain cases) carried before the highest magistrates, as an emblem of authority. +purpura+, _i.e._ the _purple_ robe worn by kings and magistrates. Cf. [16]‘+Purpura Pompeium summi velabit honoris.+’ OV. _Ex Ponto_ IV. iv. 25. [Footnote 16: ‘The purple (the insignia) of the highest office shall clothe Pompeius.’] +agitans+ = _driving_, i.e. _moving_, _impelling_. +discordia+ = _discord_. Notice force of +dis-+ = separation, negation; cf. +dis-crimen+, +dis-par+. +coniurato+ = _united by oath_, _sworn confederate_. +Dacus+, the Dacians, akin to the Thracians, N. of Danube, conquered by Trajan. Cf. modern _Roumanians_. +Histro+ = the Lower Danube.