Book III.15 of The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace

XV.

Wife of Ibycus the poor,
Let aged scandals have at length their bound:
Give your graceless doings o'er,
Ripe as you are for going underground.
YOU the maidens' dance to lead,
And cast your gloom upon those beaming stars!
Daughter Pholoe may succeed,
But mother Chloris what she touches mars.
Young men's homes your daughter storms,
Like Thyiad, madden'd by the cymbals' beat:
Nothus' love her bosom warms:
She gambols like a fawn with silver feet.
Yours should be the wool that grows
By fair Luceria, not the merry lute:
Flowers beseem not wither'd brows,
Nor wither'd lips with emptied wine-jars suit.

Uxor Pauperis Ibyci.

Vxor pauperis Ibyci,
tandem nequitiae fige modum tuae
famosisque laboribus;
maturo propior desine funeri
inter ludere uirgines 5
et stellis nebulam spargere candidis.
Non, si quid Pholoen satis,
et te, Chlori, decet. Filia rectius
expugnat iuuenum domos,
pulso Thyias uti concita tympano. 10
Illam cogit amor Nothi
lasciua similem ludere capreae:
te lanae prope nobilem
tonsae Luceriam, non citharae decent
nec flos purpureus rosae 15
nec poti uetulam faece tenus cadi.

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