“O fons Bandusiae” opens Horace’s Odes 3.13, an address to a spring: more brilliant than glass, worthy of sweet unmixed wine and of flowers, tomorrow you will be honored with a kid.
Fōns and dīgne are both vocatives, and dīgne governs the ablatives merō and flōribus. The sentence goes on to describe the kid, whose swollen forehead marks him out for love and battle, and whose blood will stain the cool streams. The whole sentence is below.
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Horace · Odes 3.13
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fōnsspringdōnāberisyou will be honored
