Odes+1.23

fourth Asclepiadean
 * Horace Odes 1.23**

//You avoid me like a fawn, Chloe,//
 * Vitas inuleo me similis, Chloe,**

//searching for its trembling mother in the pathless mountains//
 * quaerenti pavidam montibus aviis**

//not without an empty fear//
 * matrem non sine vano**

//of the forest and the breezes//
 * aurarum et siluae metu.**

//for whether the arrival of spring has trembled with inconstant leaves//
 * nam seu mobilibus veris inhorruit**

//or whether green lizards//
 * adventus foliis, seu virides rubum**

//have moved a bramble//
 * dimovere lacertae,**

//it trembles with both its heart and knees//
 * et corde et genibus tremit.**

//nevertheless I do not chase you as a fierce tiger//
 * atqui non ego te tigris ut aspera**

//or as a Gaetulian lion to break you.//
 * Gaetulusve leo frangere persequor:**

//At last you ripe for man,//
 * tandem desine matrem**

//stop following your mother//
 * tempestiva sequi viro.**