X. IN SALMASIUM. GAUDETE scombri, et quicquid est piscium salo 5 10 XI. GALLI ex concubitu gravidam te, Pontia, Mori, Quis bene moratam, morigeramque neget? XII. APOLOGUS DE RUSTICO ET HERO. RUSTICUS ex malo sapidissima poma quotannis 10 Cubito] 'Quoties ego vidi patrem tuum cubito emungentem.' Sueton. vit. Horat. p. 525. Warton. 5 Damnavit celeres in sua damna manus; Atque ait, Heu quanto satius fuit illa Coloni, 10 Parva licet, grato dona tulisse animo! Possem ego avaritiam frænare, gulamque voracem: Nunc periere mihi et fœtus, et ipse parens. XIII. AD CHRISTINAM SUECORUM REGINAM BELLIPOTENS virgo, septem regina trionum, 1 regina] There is a close resemblance between the two first lines of this address, and the opening of Nic. Heinsius's Verses to Christina, p. 53. 'Belligeros virgo quæ temperas alma Triones,' &c. and 'Sidus inocciduum, septem Regina Trionum Faxque Lycaoniæ clarior igne facis.' p. 139. and p. 140, 'Regina victrix, germen acre Bellonæ, Arctoa Pallas!' 2 poli] Resembles a line in his tutor A. Gill's verses, p. 91. 'Inclyta Carolides, qui nunc moderatur Adolphus, Pene sub Arctoi sidere regna poli.' 4 Utque] Var. Lect. 'sicque.' 'ora fero.' ver. 7, at tibi. Todd. Toland first printed these lines in his life of Milton, p. 123, and ascribes them indecisively to Milton or Marvell; consult Warton's note, ed. Todd, vi. 267. I wish Mr. Warton had, by a few minutes' application of his fine poetical genius, secured these lines against the attempt of other versifiers; but Exequor et populi fortia jussa manu. Nec sunt hi vultus regibus usque truces. SYLVARUM LIBER. IN OBITUM PROCANCELLARII, MEDICI. ANNO ÆTATIS 17. PARERE fati discite legibus, Qui pendulum telluris orbem Vos si relicto mors vaga Tænaro 5 as he passed them unnoticed, I shall venture to give my translation. Christina! warrior-maid, who rul'st alone; Thou star-bright queen of all the Polar zone! Si destinatum pellere dextera Æmathia jacuisset Oetâ : Ense Locro, Jove lacrymante. 10 15 20 25 11 Nessi] Hor. Epod. xvii. 31. 'Atro delibutus Hercules Nessi cruore. Warton. 18 Telegoni] Ov. Ep. Pont. iii. i. 123. 'Telegonive parens.' Absyrtus is called 'Ægialius' by Justin. H. Lib. xlii. c. 3. Verba Hecateia' is from Ov. Metam. xvi. 44. cateia carmina miscet. Warton, Todd. 'He 29 Tuque, O alumno] The 'O' is wrongly left open in this verse. 29 Apolline] Certainly read 'Apollinis.' Warton. Gentis togatæ cui regimen datum, At fila rupit Persephone tua, 30 35 40 45 IN QUINTUM NOVEMBRIS. ANNO ÆTATIS 17. JAM pius extrema veniens läcobus ab arcto, 31 Cirrha] The third line of the Alcaic ends with two dissyllables' Cirrha luget,' which can be defended but by very few examples from Horace. The accent ought also to be on the fifth or sixth syllable. 43 calthe] See Prolusiones, p. 76. |