Thou givest me to recline At the feasts of the gods; Over storm-cloud and tempest Thou makest me potent." JAMES HENRY. 3. TO THE EDITOR OF THE Classical Museum. (ON THUCYD. III. 12, 31.) SIR,—In the XIXth No. of the Classical Museum, appear two paragraphs by Professor Dunbar of Edinburgh, with reference to passages in the 12th and 31st Chapters of Thucydides, Lib. m.-I do not doubt that they will be made the subject of remark to you from other and abler scholars than myself; but should you insert the following in your next Number, an answer may perhaps be elicited from the learned Professor, who will remove what at present seems to me a difficulty in his rendering of both the passages. The difficulty in the rendering of the first of the passages, is more a historical one than a verbal,-for the use of evoia, as exegetical of ó, is of course familiar to every Greek student. Indeed the principle on which Professor Dunbar seeks to explain the passage in question, might be employed with great advantage in explaining several of the Eschylean "cruces" in the Agamemnon. But looking at the historical occasion on which the words with which we are immediately concerned were used, I cannot see how we can allow that TOUTO refers to evoia. We may paraphrase the proposed translation thus:" In all other cases, the strongest bond of union between allied states, I mean good-will,-is based upon mutual good offices, and such respect as free men pay to one another. In the case of ourselves and the Athenians, this requisite good-will was rivetted by the strong chains of fear, (TOTO ó póßos èxvpòv #apeixe,)"-to which I may be permitted to add, "a sorry substitute for the genuine bonds of affection;" so how can the evvoia, (which in the case in question did not exist, be regarded as τοῦτο ἐχυρόν ? νοι As to the second passage (m. 31,) the order of words in the original is avτoîs opioɩ dañávy, k.7.\.—In the 15th line from the bottom of p. 77, (of the xixth No.) the learned Professor substitutes for αὐτοῖς σφίσι—σφίσι αὐτοῖς. This order of the words will suit the explanation given of the passage, which makes both these pronouns refer to the same persons. I submit to the consideration of scholars, whether it would be possible to construe in the same way, should the usual order of αὐτοῖς σφίσι be retained. Should these suggestions seem worthy of a place in your pages, their insertion may obtain for myself, and others of your readers who have seen the difficulties to which they refer, a satisfactory answer, which would oblige your obedient servant, OXFORD, April 14th 1848. Y. B. 4. QUINTI HORATII FLACCI CARMINUM LIBER PRIMUS, ODE I. Mæcenas, sprung from royal race, My patron, and mine own sweet grace! And skilfully around the goal Exult, with glowing wheels to roll, Rival to grant him honours proud; He hoards what's swept from Libyan floors. In Cyprian barque, th' Egean deep. While dreads the merchant winds that rave In conflict with th' Icarian wave, He praises each retired scene, And near his town the meadows green; But-poverty untaught to bear His shatter'd barques he'll soon repair. Another lives, who'll ne'er disdain Of some refreshing, hallow'd rill. The camps to many pleasures yield, Forgetting tender wives at home, If the staunch hounds have track'd the spoil, Ivy, the prize to learning given, ODE V. What graceful youth, in rosy wreaths, Dear Pyrrha, "in thy nea tness plain," Who now an unsuspecting boy, To wretched youths untried you shine,- To the great God who rules the wave. 1 In thy neatness plain;-I have taken this from Milton's translation, as nothing can equal or surpass it. Where in barren lands no tree, Place me-beneath Sol's car too near- Who sweetly speaks and smiles. CARMINUM LIBER TERTIUS, ODE XIII. As crystal clear, Bandusian spring- Whose young expanding brow in vain The scorching Sirius' burning ray, Knows not to reach a wave of thine; Thou shalt become a famous spring, While I, the scarlet oaks that grow Above thy hollow mountains, sing, Whence thy sweet waters prattling flow. 5. REMARKS ON SOPHOCLES, Antig. 593 and 676. THE following passage in the Antigone of Sophocles (593), has been variously interpreted. Instead of the common reading Koves, the more appropriate expression comes has been given by Brunck, Wunder, and Gaisford. The words of the Chorus are, νῦν γὰρ ἐσχάτας ὑπὲρ ῥίζας ὁ τέτατο φάος ἐν Οἰδίπου δόμοις, κατ' αὖ νιν φοινία θεῶν τῶν νερτέρων |