Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Ver. 1. Hear, ye children.] Audite senem, iuvenes, quem iuvenem senes audierunt: Hear me, now an old man, O ye youths, whom old men once gladly heard, when I was but a youth. With this speech Augustus pacified his mutinous army: -
“ Aspice, vultus
Ecce meos, utinamque oculos in pectore posses
Inserere, et patrias intus deprendere curas.” a
“Behold my looks; and oh that thou couldst see
Mine anxious thoughts and careful heart for thee!”
a Sol Phaetonti, apud Ovid. Met.