Lesbian shore.

210. Oeagrius: Oeagrius was a king of Thrace and father of Orpheus. 213.
referebant: echoed with. Cf. Pope, _Ode on St. Cecilia's Day_, 113-116:

Yet ev'n in death Eurydice he sung,
Eurydice still trembled on his tongue,
Eurydice the woods, Eurydice the floods,
Eurydice the rocks, and hollow mountains rung.

214. iactudedit: i.e. iecit. 219. choros...agitabat: used to dance.
Agito means to occupy oneself with, as Plautus, Asinaria, 5. 1. 7. 221.
Napaeas: Dell-nymphs, Greek [Greek: napaiai], belonging to a wooded
vale. 225. Lycaei: a mountain of Arcadia. 234. facessit: he despatches.
235-239. The repetitions from 224-232 are in the Homeric manner. 241 ff.
The bees are thought to form within the bodies and to force their way
through the yielding sides. 244. uvam demittere: to let fall a cluster.
The cluster formed by the bees when they alight in swarming resembles a
bunch of grapes.

V. PHAEDRUS.

Flourished about 15 A.D.

Phaedrus, born in Thrace, came to Rome as a slave, and was set free by
Augustus. Under Tiberius he was the victim of political persecution on
account of some verses offensive to Sejanus. He published five books of
fables (with occasional anecdotes) largely imitated from Aesop.

His style is fluent, his tone lively and sometimes coarse, his diction
correct, his verse skilful.--Teuffel, Schwabe, and Warr, _History of
Roman Literature_, vol. 2, p. 30.

For Reference: Teuffel, Schwabe, and Warr, _History of Roman
Literature_, vol. 2, p. 29 ff.

Metre: Iambic Trimeter, B. 370, 1, 2; A. & G. 618, a, b.

_1._ Aesopus: a famous writer of fables, born in Phrygia about 600 B.C.
He is said to have been liberated from slavery, to have lived at Sardis
and to have been Croesus' ambassador to Delphi, where he was murdered by
the angry townspeople, who hurled him over a precipice. Babrius, a Greek
who lived about 100 B.C., made a comprehensive collection of Aesopian
fables which Phaedrus imitated with considerable closeness. 5-7. 'Let no
one censure me for representing trees as speaking; it is merely the play
of fancy and a fable.'

_2._ 4. latro: the robber wolf. 7. Qui: how? Qui is the old
ablative of the relative, interrogative, and indefinite pronouns.

_4._ 1. devocat: allures. 3. Tanto...melior: 'That is good!' See _Lex_.
under tantus, I, C, 3, a, b. 4. prosecutus: and went on to say. See
_Lex_. underprosequor, II, B. 5. unde: equivalent to a quo. 7. dignum
ff.: with a