Iam dudum teretes hendecasyllabos attrito calamis pollice lusimus, quos cantare magis pro choriambicis excusso poteras mobilius pede; sed tu per Calabri tramitis aggerem vis ut nostra dehinc cursitet orbita, qua Flaccus lyricos Pindaricum ad melos frenis flexit equos plectripotentibus, dum metro quatitur chorda Glyconio, nec non Alcaico vel Pherecratio iuncto Lesbiaco sive anapaestico, vernans per varii carminis eglogas verborum violis multicoloribus.
Long have I with pen-worn hand lightly essayed the smooth hendecasyliable: these you might have sung rather than choriambics, flinging out your foot with greater freedom, but it is your will that henceforth my wheel should follow the course of the Calabrian road along which, with reins mighty in music, Flaccus guided his lyric steeds towards Pindaric melody, while his lyre vibrates with the Glyconic measure and the Alcaic and the Pherecratian, with the Sapphic added or the anapaestic; and in all this series of varied song he flowers with words as with violets of many hues.
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