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... nec tibi Vespero surgente decedunt amores nec...

surgente: of. Verg. G. 1.440; Aen. 4.352; Vesper of course does not' rise,' but becomes visible in the west after sunset. The same planet (Venus) as Phosphorus, the morning star, at other times flees (vanishes in the light of) the swift rising sun. Cf. Cat. 62.35. Cf. Tenn. In Mem. 121, 'Sweet Hesper-Phospher, double name| For what is one, the first, the last.' Cf. Plato's exquisite epigram, Ἀστὴρ πρὶν μὲν ἔλαμπες ἐνὶ ζωοῖσιν Ἑῷς,ι ϝῦν δὲ θανὼν λάμπεις Ἕσπερος ἐν φθιμένοις.'Star of the morning shinedst thou,| Ere life was fled,| Star of the evening art thou now,| Among the dead.' decedunt amores: of. Tenn. Mariana, 'Her tears fell with the dews at even,| Her tears fell ere the dews were dried';