The Works of Horace : With English Notes, Critical And Explanatory
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"Thou tumest backward the courses of rivers, thou sway est the billows of the Indian Sea." Alluding to the won- ders performed by Bacchus in his fabled conquest of India and other re- gions of the East. The rivers here meant are the Orontes and Hydaspes. ^18. Tit separatis, &a " On the 'onely mowitain tops, moist with wine, 336 EXPLANATORY NOTES. BOOK II., ODE XX. thou confinefit, withont harm to them, the locks of the Bacchantes with a knot ofvipers,"z.e., under thy inflaence, the Bacchantes t...ie up their locks, &c. — ^20. Bistonidum. Literally, "of the female Bistones." Here, how- ever, equivalent to Baccliarum. 23-31. 23. Leonis unguibus. Bacchus was fabled to have assumed on this occasion the form of a lion. — 25. Quanguam ckoreist &c. *' Though said to be fitter for dances and festive mirth."— 36. Non sat idoneus. "Not equally well suited." — 127. Sed idem, Sec. " Yet, on that occasion, thou, the same deity, didst become the arbiter of peace and of war." The poet means to convey the idea that the intervention of Bacchus alone put an end to the conflict.
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