The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil . theAusones, one of the ancient races of Italy, had spread makes the Ausones a portion of the great Oscan nation.—Versibus incomtis ludunt, &c. The Italian communities, too, re-marks the poet, have festivals in honour of Bacchus, accompaniedwith song and drollery.—Oraque corticibus sumunt, &c. And puton hideous masks made of hollow bark. Amid their mummerieson these occasions, they wore bark masks, of a hideous expression,for the purpose of scaring. 3S8-392. Tibique oscilla, &c. And in honour of thee hang upthe mild oscilla on the tall pi
The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil . theAusones, one of the ancient races of Italy, had spread makes the Ausones a portion of the great Oscan nation.—Versibus incomtis ludunt, &c. The Italian communities, too, re-marks the poet, have festivals in honour of Bacchus, accompaniedwith song and drollery.—Oraque corticibus sumunt, &c. And puton hideous masks made of hollow bark. Amid their mummerieson these occasions, they wore bark masks, of a hideous expression,for the purpose of scaring. 3S8-392. Tibique oscilla, &c. And in honour of thee hang upthe mild oscilla on the tall pine. Oscillum, a diminutive throughosculum, from os, means, properly, a little face, and was the termapplied to faces or heads of Bacchus, which were suspended in thevineyards to be turned in every direction by the wind. Whichso-ever way they looked, they were supposed to make the vines andother things in that quarter fruitful. The left-hand figure in theannexed wood-cut is taken from an oscillum of white marble in the. 326 NOTES ON THE GEORGICS. BOOK II. British Museum. The back of the head is wanting, and it is con-cave within. It represents the countenance of Bacchus with a mildand propitious expression (molle, honestum). The metallic ring bywhich the marble was suspended still remains. The other figureis from an ancient gem, representing a tree with four oscilla hungupon its branches. From this noun came the verb oscillo, meaningto swing. Swinging (oscillatio) was among the bodily exercisespractised by the Romans. Vallcsque cava, saltusque profundi. Not only the vineyards, butthe valleys and the fields in general, feel the propitious influenceof the god.—El quocumque. And every other quarter unto which.— Circum caput egit honestum. Has swung around his propitiousvisage. 393-396. Dicemus. Will we ascribe.—Suum konorenu Thehonour that is his due, i. e., that belongs of right to him for all hisfavours unto man.—Carminibus patriis. In ancient strains, i. e.,in strain
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