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E. Be constantly on the lips of the banqueters ! 33. Celeber: this may be the first instance of the use of the word in the sense of ' famous. ' — triumphis : for the plural cf. I, 7, 5 ; the occasion is the same there referred to. 34. Intonsis : a common epithet cf the Romans of early times, be- fore the tonsorial art was in vogue. Cf. Hor. Car. I, 12, 41 : intojtsis Curium ca pi II is. Cf. I, 7, 16. N. 35. Ades adspiraque: Messalla is invoked, as if he were one of the Muses. So Vergil called u...pon Maecenas in Georg. 2, 39 : tuque ades, inceptuntque una decurre laborem, decus . . . Maecenas. 36. Agricolis: 'patrons of hus- bandry. ' 38. Glande : for acorns as a staple of food in the Golden Age, cf. Ovid, Met. I, 106; Atn. 3, 10, 9; Fast. I, 676; Tib. 2, 3, 68: 158 ELEGIARVM LIBER II [I. 52 illi conpositis primum docuere tigillis 40 exiguam viridi fronde operire domum, illi etiam tauros primi docuisse feruntur servitium et plaustro supposuisse rotam. Turn victus abiere feri, turn consita pomus, turn bibit inriguas fertilis hortus aquas, 45 aurea turn presses pedibus dedit uva liquores mixtaque securo est sobria lympha rnero.
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