+Rome now ruled supreme over the whole of Italy from Ariminum in the North to the Sicilian Straits.+ D48 THE PRAISE OF ITALY. ‘_Salve, magna parens frugum, Saturnia tellus, Magna virum._’ Adde tot egregias urbes operumque laborem, 155 Tot congesta manu praeruptis oppida saxis, Fluminaque antiquos subterlabentia muros. An mare, quod supra, memorem, quodque alluit infra? Anne lacus tantos? Te, Lari maxime, teque, Fluctibus et fremitu adsurgens Benace marino? 160 . . . . . . . Haec eadem argenti rivos aerisque metalla 165 Ostendit venis atque auro plurima fluxit. Haec genus acre virum, Marsos pubemque Sabellam, Adsuetumque malo Ligurem, Volscosque verutos Extulit: haec Decios, Marios, magnosque Camillos, Scipiadas duros bello, et te, maxime Caesar, 170 Qui nunc extremis Asiae iam victor in oris Imbellem avertis Romanis arcibus Indum. Salve, magna parens frugum, Saturnia tellus, Magna virum: tibi res antiquae laudis et artis Ingredior, sanctos ausus recludere fontes, 175 Ascraeumque cano Romana per oppida carmen. VERGIL, _Georg._ ii. 155-176. [Linenotes: 158. +mare quod supra alluit+ = the _mare superum_ = the Adriatic. +mare quod infra alluit+ = the _mare inferum_ = the Tuscan or Tyrrhenian (Τυρῥηνός = Tuscan) sea. 159. +Lari+ = Lake Larius (= _Como_), N. of Milan. 160. +Benace+ = Lake Benacus (= _Garda_), W. of Verona. +fremitu marino+ = _with roar as of the sea_. 168. +adsuetum malo+ = _trained in hardship_. --Mackail. +Volscosque verutos+ = _and the Volscian spearmen (light infantry)_. +verutos+ = armed with the _verutum_ (or _veru_ = lit. a _spit_), a _javelin_. 170. +Scipiadas+, Greek patronymic form = Lat. _Scīpĭōnēs_. +maxime Caesar+ = Augustus. 172-173. After Actium, 31 B.C., Augustus spent more than a year in reducing and settling the East (+imbellem Indum+) whose forces had been wielded by Antony. --Sidgwick. 173. +Saturnia tellus+, in allusion to Saturn’s reign in Latium in the age of gold. 174-175. +tibi res ... fontes+ = _for thee I enter on themes of ancient glory and skill_ (i.e. in agriculture) _and dare to unseal_ (+recludere+) _the sacred springs_; +res laudis+, the theme of the _Aeneid_, +res artis+, of the _Georgics_. 176. +Ascraeum carmen+ = _the song of Ascra_, i.e. the _Georgics_, because Hesiod (author of _Works and Days_ to which Vergil is much indebted) was born at Ascra, near Helicon, in Boeotia. --S.] CONTEST WITH CARTHAGE, 264-202 B.C. C1 _The Vision of Anchises.--Rome’s Heroes._