This poem is taken from PN Review 247, Volume 45 Number 5, May - June 2019.
from the Mosella of AusoniusPassages from the Mosella of Ausonius (fourth century A.D.)
Greenest of creatures,
up your left and right
Ridges garnished aromatically
With vines;
coated along the slopes
Of tender sides with turfy reaches;—
Ship-bearing as seas,
but sliding river-like
With a declining run; in lucid volume
Rivalrous with broad, capacious lakes;
Peer to rills and becks
in excitation; smart
Challenger to any chilly spring
For a pure cup;
little runnel,
Gush of the fountain:
what does either claim?—
...
up your left and right
Ridges garnished aromatically
With vines;
coated along the slopes
Of tender sides with turfy reaches;—
Ship-bearing as seas,
but sliding river-like
With a declining run; in lucid volume
Rivalrous with broad, capacious lakes;
Peer to rills and becks
in excitation; smart
Challenger to any chilly spring
For a pure cup;
little runnel,
Gush of the fountain:
what does either claim?—
...
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