merses: hortatory (imperative) subj. as virtual protasis to evenit. For the word, cf. 3.16.13; Verg. Aen. 6.512; Lucan, 1.159, quae populos sem per mersere potentes.--profundo: abl. --evenit: used here in its primary etymological, not in its secondary sense. Cf. on 1.5.8; 3.11.27, pereuntis; 1.36.20, ambitiosior; 2. 1.26, impotens; 3.24. 18, innocens; Epode 17.67, obligatus; 3.3.51, cogere; 3.7.30, despice; 4.2.7, immensus? Epode 2.14, feliciores.
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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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