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A28403	The comparison of Pindar and Horace written in French by Monsieur Blondel ... ; English'd by Sir Edward Sherburn.; Comparaison de Pindar et d'Horace. English	Blondel, François, 1618-1686.; Sherburne, Edward, Sir, 1618-1702.	1696 (1696)	Wing B3221; ESTC R16593	52,857	120

Youth who from Aeneas draws his Birth Fear'd by the Parthians then o'er all the Earth Grows great and powerful And in the first he makes Trebatius thus speak to him Aude Caesaris invicti res dicere L. 2. Sat. 1. Dare Unvanquish'd Caesar's Glories to declare To the end he might give him this Answer Cupidum Pater optime voces Deficiunt neque quivis horrentia Pilis Agmina nec fractâ pereuntes enspide Gallos Aut labentis Equo describere vulnera Parth● Ibid. This my Good Father still I 'm harping at but my Wit fails my Will For 't is not every Man that can display Of Martial Troops the terrible Array Describe of vanquish'd Gauls the Fight or tell How wounded Parthians from their Horses fell Where it appears he knew very well to raise himself up to the Heroick when the Subject requir'd it Could there be any thing said more great of a Mortal Man than this Coelo tonantem credidimus Iovem Regnare praesens divus habebitur Augustus L. 3. Od. 5. We once believ'd the Thundring Iove To govern Heaven with his Nod. The present Age does now approve Augustus for an Earthly God Can there be any thing seen more obliging for Mecaenas than the Answer our Poet gives to the importunate Person who would have insinuated himself into the Family and Service of that great Minister of State by corrupt and underhand dealing Domus hac nec purior ulla est Nec magis his aliena malis L. 1. Sat. 9. No House than that 's from base Intrigues more free Or more a Stranger to such Ills There are many other passages of the same height and vigour Come we now to that nobleness of Mind and that disinteressed concern which was much greater in Horace than in Pindar Upon which 't will not be amiss to call to mind that Pindar was not born of Parents over well accommodated in the World and that Horace had lost the greatest part of the Estate his Father left him after the Death of Brutus as appears by these Verses of his Vnde simul primùm me demisere Philippi Decisis humilem pennis inopemque paterni Et laris fundi paupertas impulit audax Vt versus facerem L. 2. Epist. 2. After Philippi's fatal Day was lost And I with it all my poor fortunes crost The small Estate my Father left me gone Bold Poverty to write first urg'd me on And yet they found the means both the one and the other to make their Fortunes But by ways very different For Horace was not at all Covetous and Pindar on the other side naturally lov'd Money as his Scholiasts expresly affirm and as may be seen in divers places calling it sometimes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the best of Things otherwhiles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Olymp. 2. Bright Star and veritable Light to Man Upon which Score he imploy'd his Talent to acquire Wealth selling his Compositions for ready Money as he himself says speaking to his Muse. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pyth. Od. ●● Muse Since thou hast agreed For a Price proceed And see thy Song thy Bribe exceed Which he declares without being asham'd on 't since the Custom had been before establish'd by Simonides and others as he seems to testifie in the beginning of the second Ode of his Isthmioniques where he says 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isthm. Od. 2. Time was O Thrasibulus When The Muses freely Chanted of Brave Men The Glorious Acts of all the Nine not one Was Covetous or Mercenary known Now such Terpsicore her self appears Who never sweetly sings but when she wears A Mercenary Mask of Gold It was not so of old See what that sordid Spartan Maxim can Pindar names not the Author of this Sentence But his old Greek Scholiast as I find him particularly cited by Schmidius in his Comment upon this place declares from the Authority of Alcaeus that his Name was Aristodemns a Spartan without Fortune or Friends of which he could not be seemingly long destitute if he had throughly inculcated his Principle into that State These Times having clearly demonstrated it to have been a more certain and necessary Political than Poetical Improvement 'T is Money Money makes the Man But contrarywise there is nothing seen in all the Works of Horace but Generosity He mocks at the Covetous in a thousand places He commends every where Frugality and Moderation He appears always content with his present Fortune and always ready to resign what he has from her Laudo manentem si celeres quatit Pennas resigno quae dedit mea Virtute me involvo probamque Pauperiem sine dote quaero Lib. 3. Od. 29. I praise her while she stays if she 'll be gone Her Presents I resign And in my own Vertue wrapt up scorning her fickle Power Seek honest Poverty without a Dowre And when he asks any thing of Mecaenas he does it with so much spriteliness and address that he seems to ask nothing as Pauperemque dives Me petit Nihil supra Deos lacesso nec potentem Amicum Largiora flagito Satis beatus unicis Labinis Tho Poor I 'm courted by the Rich nor more Of the Gods ask I Nor pretend For greater Favours from my powerful Friend Happy enough in my mean Sabine Store Where he well knows to put in practice what he advises Scaeva in a Letter he writes him giving him Precepts how to manage the design he had to fasten himself to a great Person telling him Coram Rege suo de Paupertate tacentes Plus poscente ferent L. 1. Epist. 17. Who 'fore his great Friend speaks not of his Want Gets more than they that ask 'T is very easie to perceive he was rather Prodigal than Covetous as may be judg'd by the Checks he gives himself for his lavish Humour It appears by divers Odes that he often treated his Friends and that he sometimes invited Mecaenas to Dine with him He invites Torquatus by a Letter to come and Sup with him and bring his Friends along with him whom he pleasantly terms his Shadows saying Locus est pluribus umbris He had room enough for many such He knew besides how to serve his Friends and th● Complaint he makes that he had not a moment of time at his own Disposal whilst he stay'd at Rome shews clearly the facility and readiness he had to employ himself on their Behalves His Recommendations are ingenious and pressing as in that Letter to Tiberius Septimius Claudi By which he presents to him Septimius who desir'd to be entertain'd in his Service and in another to

esteem for that kind of P●●sie And Strabo to shew that the Sacrifices to Cybele and those to Bacchus were equally understood by the Name of Coryban●es produces a Dithyramb which Pindar had made without doubt to mock those other Poet of which the beginning is as follows 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of old O Mortals In the Dithyramb Low Words and the adulterate S were damn'd Which agrees with what Dionysius Halecarnassaeus elsewhere says of this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Pindar perhaps calls a Theban Remnant ever since the Times of Cadmus and the Phoenicians That they willingly put no S into their Verses because of its hissing sound And perhaps it is from hence that the double Σ in the Attick Dialect came ordinarily to be chang'd into Γ and which gave occasion to that agreeable process of the Consonants in Lucian As for Horace Quem rodunt omnes Libertino Patre natur● Lib. 1. 〈◊〉 6. By All Snapt at for being but a Freed-Mans Son As he says of himself it may be very well presum'd he wanted not Envy and that he was forc'd to surmount many Difficulties before he could see himself in a condition to be able to say Et jam dente minus mordeor invido L. 4. Od. 3. And now I 'm less bit by an envious Tooth By which I conceive he means his close Enemies such as swarm in great Mens Houses Where as Lucian say● ●eign Suspicions Envy Lyes and Slanders whe●e great Hopes beget great Iealousies and raging Hatreds and the continual application of searching out means to ruine others Such Enemies as these were they did Horace the greatest Mischief who was a Person upon whom they durst not with impunity openly attempt any thing and whom they had reason to fear for what he says of himself Foenum habet in Cornu fuge He carries Hay on 's Horn avoid him And Cave Cave namque in malos asperrimus Parata tollo cornua Epod. 6. Take heed take ●eed I 'gainst the ill Have Horns prepar'd and ready still And again Si quis atro dente me petiverit Inultus ut flebo Puer Ibid. If any wrongs my Fame shall I Child-like sit down and pule and cry But if our Poets were hardly dealt withall by the Envions they were sufficiently recompens'd by the Honours and Favours they receiv'd from Persons of Quality for they were caress'd in their Times by those of the highest degree For as Horace says Tamen me Cum magnis vixisse invita fatebitur usque Invidia L. 2. Sat. 1. Yet this by Envy must be needs confest I 've liv'd still with the Greatest and the Best And what a Joy was it to find Quod monstror digito praetereuntium Romanae fidicen Lyrae That with the Finger he was pointed at As Rome's fam'd Lyrick He knew the Greatness of his own Merit while he says Sume superbiam Quaesitam meritis mihi Delphica Lauro cinge volens Melpomene comam L. 3. Od. 30. Assume the Pride which thy just Merits raise And Crown my Head my willing Muse with Delphick Bays Pindar says no less of his own Works which he thinks fit to stile 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of flowing Nectar a rich Tyde By the free Muses Bounty still supply'd Sometimes he says 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pyth. 3. Hopes I assume that after Times Will with immortal Glory grace my Rhimes And then again speaking of them assures us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pyth. 6. Not Winters Wrath when he his stormy Showres From breaking Clouds like Armies powres Nor blustring Winds with their impetuous Rage Can ever in o'erwhelming Floods ingage Which Horace hath happily imitated in this Ode Exegi Monumentum are perennius Regalique situ Pyrimidium altias Quod nec imber edax non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere c. L. 3. Od. 30. A Monument which Brass shall yet outlast And Kingly Pyramids for height outvy Which neither eating Showers nor Boreas Blast Nor Time it self shall ruine rais'd have I. They knew well enough their own value Wherefore Pindar to that purpose ingeniously answer'd one as Plutarch reports who to flatter him said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I study to spread abroad your Commendations upon all Occasions and indeavour to afford you the means of speaking Truth 'T was his only Wish to enjoy long the Fruit of that Reputation and the Honour he receiv'd from Persons of Merit To this we may add his Reputation was so great after his Death that the Lacedaemonians and long after them Alexander the Great having taken the City of Thebes sav'd all the Descendants of Pindar from Slavery and his House from Burning by placing this Inscription on the Door 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Burn not the Poet Pindar's House I had almost forgot to tell to this purpose what is reported That the Athenians publickly paid a Fine or Mulct which those of Thebes had set upon Pindar for having prais'd the City of Athens calling it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The mighty City Athens of all Greece The Bulwark Upon which I cannot sufficiently admire the s●range Humour of those two Republicks who mortally hated one another in their Prosperity and yet in their Misfortunes render'd to each other those Services which they could not have expected from their best Friends To return to our two Poets Pindar flourish'd in Greece when Honour Vertue Wealth and Arts were in their greatest Splendour He appear'd several times in the publick Assembly of the Olympick Games where as Lucian says of Herodotus He receiv'd in one place the Vniversal Applause of all Greece not publish'd by ●●e Mouth of a single Crier or Herald but by those of as many Towns as had sent People to that Assembly As for Horace 't is enough to say he liv'd in the Time of Augustus and had as he himself says the Approbation Romae principis Vrbium Of Rome the Queen of Cities As much as to say That of the Whole World He seems to me among other things to have had a great Advantage over Pindar in that he chose himself the Subjects he had a mind to treat of and by that could give a free Field to his Genius to range in as to the Matters he made choice of Whereas Pindar was under a Constraint having been always oblig'd to praise Persons who for the most part were but of mean Merit Which gave occasion for those Parechases or Digressions of which I shall speak hereafter And in Truth it was requisite the Works of Pindar should have something extraordinary or rather Divine to have pleas'd as they have done by only singing of Praises which ordinarily to us appear as flat as Satyres are agreeable by reason of that little principle of Envy which is in us which