To Forum-Appii thence we steer, a place Stuff’d with rank boatmen, and with vintners base.
And the steep hills of Circe stretch around, Where fair Feronia boasts her stately grove, And Anxur glories in her guardian Jove; Where stands the Pontine lake——
Whether is it best to go by the Numician or Appian way to Brundusium?
We willingly leave Fundi, where Alifidius Luscus is chief magistrate.
From whom the illustrious race arose, Who first possessed the Formian towers.
My cups are neither enriched with the juice of the Falernian grapes, nor that of those from the Formian hills.
——the rich fields that Liris laves, Where silent roll his deepning waves.
Pure spirits these; the world no purer knows; For none my heart with such affection glows. How oft did we embrace! our joys how great! Is there a blessing, in the power of fate, To be compared, in sanity of mind, To friends of such companionable kind?
Formerly called another Carthage, or another Rome; it now lies buried in its own ruins.
My son laments, that he has not killed more than eighty birds in one day, whereas, I should think myself the happiest man in the world, if I could kill forty.
The knight of Aglant now has couch’d his spear, Where closely prest the men and arms appear: First one, and then another, helpless dies; Thro’ six at once the lance impetuous flies, And in the seventh inflicts so deep a wound, That prone he tumbles lifeless to the ground.
Thus by some standing pool or marshy place, We see an archer slay the croaking race With pointed arrow, nor the slaughter leave, Till the full weapon can no more receive.
Both Arcadians, but not equally skilled in singing.
What inconsiderate fellow, to terrify people, could first give the mournful name of tears to that wine which, above all others, renders the heart glad, and excites cheerfulness?
O illustrious memorial! O irrefragable truth! Come hither, ye heretics! come hither, and be astonished, and open your eyes to catholic and evangelic truth. The blood of St. Januarius alone is a sufficient testimony of the truth. Is it possible, that such a great and famous miracle does not convert all heretics and infidels to the truths of the Roman Catholic church?
Virtue crowns him after many great achievements.