EPIGRAMS AND OTHER POEMS
To CumaLend hospitable rites and house-respect,You that the virgin with the fair eyes decktMake fautress of your stately-seated town,At foot of Sardes, with the high-hair’d crown,Inhabiting rich Cuma; where ye tasteOf Hermus’ heavenly fluent, all embrac’dBy curl’d-head whirl pits; and whose waters moveFrom the divine seed of immortal Jove.
Lend hospitable rites and house-respect,You that the virgin with the fair eyes decktMake fautress of your stately-seated town,At foot of Sardes, with the high-hair’d crown,Inhabiting rich Cuma; where ye tasteOf Hermus’ heavenly fluent, all embrac’dBy curl’d-head whirl pits; and whose waters moveFrom the divine seed of immortal Jove.