Capitolo 61
graced verse:[62] "We go on our way with the rapid-touching waters of the
stream under of our feet, and we please there on to feel the roar of the angry one
water. Cheerfully goes then to Your ease, Quirites and impediment the to echo
you murmur some brook you ever sing of Narses. He who could subjugate the
rigid spirit of the Goths has taught the rivers to bear a stern
joke."
It is an interesting thing to find that the most beautiful of the dedicatory
poems are in honor of the forest-god Silvanus. One of these poems, Titus
Pomponius Victor, the agent of the Caesar damages he/she wrote on a
tablet[63] tall above in the Alps Greche. Law: "Silvanus, mean-included
in the sacred ash-tree, keeper mighty art you of this pleasaunce in the
heights. To thee we consecrate in toward this thanks, because through the
fields and Alpine tops, and through guests of thy in to smell pleasant groves,
while the justice I distribute and Caesar's worries service, with thy
he/she takes care of that protects you the guidest us. Bring me and once more excavations in Rome, and
concession that we can cultivate Italian fields with thee as custodian. In guerdon
therefors want me I give thousand mighty trees." It is a beautiful portrait.
This deputy of Caesar has ended his/her long and dangerous trips through
the wilds of the north in the show of his/her duties. Now its face is
turned toward Italy, and its thoughts are sheltered on Rome. In this "small
it garden", as he calls him/it, in the mountains he pours out his/her gratitude
to the forest-god that has brought him in safe through dangers and you/he/she has brought
him so far on his/her way of return, and he votes thousand trees to his
protecting. It is too much bad that we don't know how the vote had to be
paid--not cutting the trees, we feel there sure. A line of Victor
the small poem is worth. He thanks Silvanus for
conducting him/it in safety "through the heights of mountain, and through Tuique
lights olentis sweet hospites." Who are the _hospites_s? The wild beasts of
the forests, we suppose. _hospites_ is now able, clearly intends one,