...twelfth century. It contained three thousand lines divided into three books. The poem commences : — ning to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath...above shall grow In its next verdure, when this f et mala terminet, /Equa coronet. Recta remuneret, anxia liberet, yEthera donet, Auferat aspera duraque...

...material to work upon when making his vigorous and flowing translation from Latin like this, — " Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt, vigilemus !...minaciter imminet arbiter ille supremus. Imminet, imminet, at mala terminet, icqua coronet Recta remunerct, anxia liberet, sethera donet • * » » " Patria...