risissent: 'But Venus laughed to see and hear him sleep !' (Cowley). fore enim, etc.: their thought in indirect disc. Cf. Verg. Aen. 1.444; F. Q. 3.11.31, 'Vain was the watch, and bootless all the ward, | Whenas the god to golden hue himself transfar'd.' The unpicturesque pretium, perhaps the best word his vocabulary supplied (cf. 3.19.5; 3.24.24; 4.8.12), serves Horace to introduce the rationalization of the myth. Cf. Ov. Am. 3.8.33; Marlowe, Ed. 2.3.3, 'like the guard| That suffered Jove to pass in showers of gold| To Danae.' deo: probably dative.
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Horace. Odes and Epodes. Edited with commentary by. Paul Shorey. revised by. Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing. New York. Benj. H. Sanborn and Co. 1910.
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