Dedication to Maecenas

Text: ME DOCTARVM EDERAE PRIAEMIA FRONTIVM
Me the ivy, the reward of poets’ brows

Extract from Ode. 1.1. 29
Me doctarum hederae praemia frontium
dis miscent superis, men gelidum nemus
nympharumque leves cum Satyris chori
secernunt populo, si neque tibias
Euterpe cohibet nec Polyhymnia
Lesboum refugit tendere barbiton.

Me the ivy, the reward of poets’ brows,
links with the gods above; me the cool grove and
the lightly tripping bands of the nymphs and satyrs
withdraw from the vulgar throng,
if only Euterpe withhold not the flute, nor Polyhymnia
refuses to tune the Lesbian lyre.

Playing faun sitting on a pillar.

Michel 553, Sassone 404, AFA 485

Date of issue: 1936

Face value: 1.75+1 l.

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Date created: 22/03/00 11:41:49