Dura rudimenta! et nulli exaudita Deorum
Vota, precesque meæ!”
—which the same translator has rendered as follows:—
“O Pallas, thou hast failed thy plighted word,
To fight with caution, not to tempt the sword;
I warn’d thee, but in vain, for well I knew
What perils youthful ardour would pursue;
That boiling blood would carry thee too far,
Young as thou wert to dangers, raw to war;
O curs’d essay of arms, disastrous doom,