Metrum 10

Meter: Phalaecean hendecasyllable alternating with sapphic hendecasyllable, except that line 2 is phalaecean where one would expect sapphic if the alternation were regular. In the sapphics there is a caesura after the fifth syllable.

line 1

Huc: "here, hither."
pariter: take with uenite.

line 6

asylum: "place of refuge."

line 7

Tagus: Tagus . . . Hermus . . . Indus: rivers of Spain, Asia Minor, and India, respectively; take donat with each.
aureis harenis: "golden (gold-bearing) sands."

line 8

Hermus: Tagus . . . Hermus . . . Indus: rivers of Spain, Asia Minor, and India, respectively; take donat with each.
rutilante: "reddish," from the color of the silt.

line 9

Indus: Tagus . . . Hermus . . . Indus: rivers of Spain, Asia Minor, and India, respectively; take donat with each.
calido: calido . . . orbi: i.e., the equatorial regions.
orbi: calido . . . orbi: i.e., the equatorial regions.

line 10

candidis: sc. lapillis, pearls.
uirides lapillos: emeralds.

line 11

inlustrent: inlustrent . . . condunt: (1) plural subject to be taken from the gifts of the three rivers; inlustrent is potential subjunctive (goes with non in line 7: its object is aciem: "sight").
magisque: "and instead" (lit.: "more").

line 12

suas: antecedent in the subject of the verb; these bright things have a darkness of their own.
condunt: inlustrent . . . condunt: plural subject to be taken from the gifts of the three rivers.

line 13

Hoc: object of aluit (< alo, "raise, nourish") and antecedent of quicquid.

line 15

quo regitur: quo regitur . . . caelum: cf. 2M8.30, 1M5.47.
caelum: quo regitur . . . caelum: cf. 2M8.30, 1M5.47.

line 17

hanc: hanc . . . lucem:i.e., splendor (line 15).
lucem: hanc . . . lucem:i.e., splendor (line 15).

line 18

candidos: sc. esse.