It also occurs in PL ix 780–81: ‘So saying, her rash hand in evil hour�/ Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck’d, she eat’ and in works by several later poets. Ricks notes that the phrase occurs in Paradise Lost ix 1067–68 (‘O Eve, in evil hour thou didst give eare�/ To that false Worm’). also Byron’s Translation From Horace-his rendering of a passage in Horace’s Odes III iii, first published in Hours of Idleness (1807)-with, in line 9: ‘Ay, and the red right arm of Jove’. As Ricks notes, Pollard compares Milton’s Paradise Lost ii 174: ‘His red right hand.’ 4 But cp. Iii 5.�‘And red right-arm of mighty Jove’. 60: ‘He sees a group of female forms advance,�/ Some chain’d together in the mazy dance’. Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Tale (1817), Part I (‘The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan’), p. Ii 27.�‘The mazy dance-the power of love.’ For mazy dance, cp. (also first published in 1793) 52–54: ‘Then what to him avails the varying year,�/ The orient morn, or evening’s purple shade,�/ That robes Creation in a garb of rest?’ While the purple of his translation comes directly from line 7 ( ‘per hoc inane purpurae decus precor’) of Horace’s fifth epode, which ‘concerns the preparation for the ritual murder of a young boy, kidnapped by the witch Canidia’, 2 T.’s purple shade suggests he may also have had in mind Wordsworth’s An Evening Walk, Addressed to a Young Lady, lines 102–3 of which read, in the poem as published in the 1793 and subsequent versions, ‘There, objects, by the searching beams betrayed,�/ Come forth, and here retire in purple shade’ or perhaps Mary Robinson’s Sight. I 8.�‘And this praetexta’s purple shade’. 02 1A Three Translations of Horace 1 ( wr c. – A “covered system” means a system that Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), acting for the Secretary of Defense, has designated for LFT&E oversight.© 2019 R.
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