Scilicet hæc partem tibi, Masinissa, triumphi Magnum Romanæ pignus amicitiæ ! 10 Munere. Non nimiùm vivere, crede, velim. 14 Parva mora est, breve sed tempus mea fama requirit: Detinet hæc animam cura suprema meam. Ne videar flammæ nimis indulsisse secundæ, 20 V. 7. In Mason's edition it is spelt Massinissa;' which, however, will only partially correct the quantity; as the second syllable will still be short. See Ovid. Fast. vi. 769: "Postera lux melior, superat Masinissa Syphacem." And Sil. Ital. xvi. 117: "Cultuque Aeneadum nomen Masinissa superbum." ક That Masinissa' is the right orthography, see Drakenborch's note on Sil. Italicus; Gronovius on Livy, lib. xxv. c. xxxiv. 11; Vorstius on Val. Max. i. i. 31. Tortellius, in his Grammatical Commentaries, under the word Masanissa,' says, Non enim primum aliquo pacto duplicari potuit: ut ignari quidam syllabarum voluerunt." See also Noltenii Lexicon, vol. i. p. 112. Cellarii Orthog. Lat. i. p. 285. V. 12. "I liber absentis pignus amicitiæ." Martial. ix. cii. V. 15. "Parva mora est," Ovid. Met. i. 671. Ep. ii. 144. V. 18. See Sil. Italicus. ii. 239; vi. 346; xiv. 257. V. 20. " Pallet, et hostiles credit adesse manus," Ov. Fast. ii. 468. V. 21. "Non annis revocare tuis," Ov. Met. vii. 177. Gaudiaque heu ! quantis nostra repensa malis. Primitiasne tuas meministi atque arma Syphacis Fusa, et per Tyrias ducta trophæa vias? (Laudis at antiquæ forsan meminisse pigebit, 25 Quodque decus quondam causa ruboris erit.) Tempus ego certe memini, felicia Pœnis 30 Quo te non puduit solvere vota deis; Moniaque intrantem vidi: longo agmine duxit Turba salutantum, purpureique patres. Fœminea ante omnes longe admiratur euntem Hæret et aspectu tota caterva tuo. Jam flexi, regale decus, per colla capilli, Jam decet ardenti fuscus in ore color! Commendat frontis generosa modestia formam, 35 Seque cupit laudi surripuisse suæ. V. 26. “Aut ubi cessaras, causa ruboris eram.” Ov. Trist. iii. vii. 26. V. 27. Here the last syllable of ego is again made long. See the note to the Sapphic Ode to West, ver. 45, p. 186. I have only to add to that note, that ego is said to be found with this quantity in the Diræ Catonis,' ver. 156; but which line is thus given by Wernsdorf, vol. iii. p. 19: "Ausus egon' primus custos violare pudores?" and by all the other editors prior to him. See Pithæi Catul. p. 219. Scaligeri Collect. p. 61. Boxhornii Poet. Sat. p. 117. Burmanni Anthol. ii. 674; but erroneously see Bentley's Canon, Heavt. Terentii, act v. sc. 1. and Clas. Journ. No. lxii. p. 352. V. 30. “Turba salutantum," Claudian. iii. 213, p. 30. ed Gesn. Virgil. Georg. ii. 462. V. 31. "Omnia fœmineis quare dilecta catervis," Martial. xi. 48. "Venit in exsequias tota caterva meas," Prop. iv And “ And aspectu hæsit," Virg. Æn. iii. 597. xi. 68. V. 34. "Et enim fusco grata colore Venus," Ov. Amor. And Propert. El. ii. xix. 78. ii. 440. V. 35. Ov. Medicam. ver. 1. cura." Quæ faciem commendat 40 Prima genas tenui signat vix flore juventas, 45 50 V. 37. "Ora puer prima signans intonsa juventa," Virg. Æn. ix. 181. Also Ovid. Met. xiii. 754. Virg. Æn. vii. 162. viii. 160. V. 39. "Facilesque oculos fert ómnia circum," Virg. Æn. viii. 310. V. 40. "Ad fratrem casu lumina flexa tulit," Ov. Trist. iii. ix. 22. V. 43. Gray has in this instance preserved a metrical canon, which has been broken through by many of the modern Latin poets; repeatedly by Milton, Addison, Buchanan, and T. Warton. See the Classical Journal, 1. 71. 283, xxi. 174. xxii. 364. and Barthius and Burman on Nemesian Eclog. ii. 32. see Poet. Lat. Minor. vol. i. p. 570. and Dawes. Misc. Crit. ed. Kidd. p. 3. V. 46. "Sæpe oculos etiam detinuisse tuos," Ov. Trist. ii. 520. V. 49. "Infelix totâ quicumque quiescere nocte," Ovid. Amor. ii. 9. 39. V. 50. “ Lumina cum placido victa sopore jacent," Ov. Ep xvi. 100. + Ellis, in his Historical Sketch of English Poetry, (p. 224,) DIDACTIC POEM UNFINISHED: ENTITLED DE PRINCIPIIS COGITANDI. LIBER PRIMUS. AD FAVONIUM. [See Mason's Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 55.] 5 UNDE Animus scire incipiat; quibus inchoet orsa tum Ad limen (si ritè adeo, si pectore puro,) 10 thinks that the description of the entry of Troilus into Troy, in Chaucer's Romance of Troilus and Creseida, suggested to Gray some very beautiful lines in this Epistle: "Jam flexi, regale decus," &c. (See Chaucer, b. xi. st. 83. fol. 151. ed. 1602.) "This Troilus sat on his baye steed, All armed, save his head, full richely," &c. V. 4. Virg. Georg. i. 237, " Mortalibus ægris," and Lucret. vi. 1. Luke. V. 5. Virg. Georg. iv. 345, "Curam Clymene narrabat inanem.” Luke. V. 7. "Magnæ spes altera Romæ," Virg. Æn. xii. 168. This apostrophe is addressed to Locke.' V. 9. "Tremulis possunt insistere plantis," Juv. Sat. vi. 96 Obscuræ reserans Naturæ ingentia claustra. Mentis. 15 Tuque aures adhibe vacuas, facilesque, Favonî, (Quod tibi crescit opus) simplex nec despice car men, 22 Nec vatem: non illa leves primordia motus, 26 V. 12. Naturæ primus portarum claustra cupiret," Lucret. i. 72. "Cæcas causas, " Ibid. iii. 317. Virg. Æn. vii. 15 "portarum ingentia claustra.” Luke. V. 13. “ Amnemque severum, Virg. Æn. vi. 374. And V. 15. "Mentis penetralia nudat,” Claud. Rap. Pros. i. 213. V. 16. "Faciles habuit aures, "Quintil. Inst. Orat. vi. v. "Vacuas aures adhibe," Lucret. i. 45. p. 576. V. 21. “Eventusque secundet," Virg. Georg. iv. 397. V. 24. "Rubens accendit lumina Vesper," Virg. Georg. i. 251. V. 26. Hor. Epod. xiii. 18, "Deformis ægrimoniæ." Luke. V. 27. "Scilicet et rerum facta est pulcherrima Roma,' Georg. ii. 534. |