non ego te: recurs 1. 23. 9; 4. 12. 22.—candide: 'bright god of the vine' (Martin). Cf. Epode 3. 9; Ov. Fast. 3. 772;Tibull. 3. 6. 1. But cf. Epode 14. 5. n.—Bassareu: from the foxskin, βασσάρα, from which the Bassarids = Maenads took their name. Macrobius (Sat. 1. 18. 9) speaks of a bearded Bacchus under this name. Cf. Class. Review, 10. 21. 12 sqq. The thought 'I will not abuse the gifts of Bacchus,' is clothed in imagery borrowed from his mystic rites. For the concealing leaves and the affected mystery of Bacchic orgies, Cf. Theoc. 26. 3; Catullus, 64. 259, 260; Tibull. 1. 7. 48.—quatiam: rouse. The poet probably has in mind the shaking of the thyrsus, one of the symbols of the god, by the Bacchantes. Cf. Catull. 64. 255, horum pars tecta quatiebant cuspide thyrsos.—obsita: (symbols) concealed.—frondibus: chiefly grape and ivy leaves.
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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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