The Spring Of Bandusia
Horace ''Odes'' 3.13 O fons Bandusiae splendidior vitro dulci digne mero non sine floribus, :cras donaberis haedo, ::cui frons turgida cornibus primis et venerem et proelia destinat; frustra: nam gelidos inficiet tibi :rubro sanguine rivos ::lascivi suboles gregis. te flagrantis atrox hora Caniculae nescit tangere, tu frigus amabile :fessis vomere tauris ::praebes et pecori vago. fies nobilium tu quoque fontium me dicente cavis impositam ilicem :saxis, unde loquaces ::lymphae desiliunt tuae. The Spring of Bandusium ( la, fons Bandusiae) is a natural water source in rural Italy, to which the Ancient Rome, Roman poet Horace addressed a well-known ode (Odes 3.13). The location is thought to be the site of poet's beloved Horace's Villa, Sabine farm in what is now the commune of Licenza. In the poem Horace promises to sacrifice a young goat to the spring and praises the spring's constancy in the hottest days of summer. The poem ends with Horace promising to immortalize the spring thro ...
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