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PIGRAM, being a poetic inſcription, addreſs, or eſſay, on any ſubjećt; may contain, and muſt,
in ſuch hands as MART I Als; encomium or ſtrićture, remark or hint, anecdote or oddity, deſcrip
tion or deciſion, antiquity or apologue ; poem, of any kind, in miniature: ode, epode; epiſtle, ſatyr;
elegy, epitaph. To theme, as ſhould every compoſition, it adapts the ſtile; exalted or familiar, ſerious
or comic, tender or keen, didactic or deſcriptive.
Every meaſure and ſtanza thus in its power, it catches every ſcene as exhibited ; and paints inſtanta
neous each various character, for the delight or deteſtation of mankind. With the manners, natural or in
cidental, to rank, age, circumſtance, and occaſion ; each paſſion finds here her particular play, each ac
tion her propriety or its oppoſite. - -

While other ſpecies of poetry are reſpectively confined in ſubječt; method; time, place, meaſure, and,
ſo forth; epigram, animated as free, owns but one limit; if more or leſs requiſite to every human labor;
eſſential to this, brevity. Quick as thought, it begins without form, procedes without interruption, tho’
not without order; and flies to its point, which enters head and heart; with unavoidable, as often unex
pećted, power. -

Epigram admitting, in all languages, all meaſures, as well as all ſubjećts; we cannot wonder if a wit,
that has flaſhed on every theme, have adopted every ſpecies of Latin verſification, that could moſt plea
fingly point his morals, and moſt poinantly couch his jokes. Tho' he ſometimes therefore chooſes the Iam
bic ſtanza; to both parts of which, the modern tongues, eſpecially ours, ow their principal meaſures;
and often the Scazontian, when the Muſe would ſeem to halt nearer to proſe, in order perhaps to move
with double majeſty: his favorite meter for gaiety, is doutleſs the Phaleucian (or Phalecian); as, for ſo
lemnity, tenderneſs, every purpoſe; the elegiac diſtic. Neither is pure heroic, as himſelf demonſtrates,
beyond the reach of epigram.
That MART I Almight, in Engliſh, meet like adaptation; every poſſible meaſure, and ſuitable ſtanza,
have been with attention employed : the Iambic, in various fize, ſuſceptible, not onely of the grave and
the grand : its reverſe, however near ; the Trochaic, expreſſive of ſprightly ſtrains ; and the Anapeſtic,
or Dačtylian, differing alſo, but by a ſhort (or weak) ſyllable; if not abſolutely excluding elevated
themes, obviouſly more ſuited to the jovial ſong. But, as all meaſures may prove occaſionally lyric; tho’
our pentameter and hexameter (or five and fix-foot-) Iambic be appropriated to the heroic lyre; the ſhor
ter Iambics, no leſs than the Trochaics, and the Dačtylians or Anapeſtics; admit reſpective muſic; fami
liar to a Britiſh, as were the Latin modulations to a Roman ear. In either language, he that runs, may
read; and he that reads, may ſing.
If thus, in manner, as in matter, MART 1 AL own juſtice attempted him; it will neither be unaccepta
ble to the knowing, nor unavailing to the ignorant; to find (perhaps for the firſt time) in a work compri
fing much above ten thouſand lines of Engliſh verſe; that, on every rime and ſtreſs, as well as (it is ho- -

ped) on every term and phraſe, the reader may ſecurely depend. -

Much of the expreſſion, in every tongue, muſt be common to language, looſe and limited. Not that ei
ther is looſe, without controul; or limited, without freedom. Poetry has queſtionleſs her peculiar ſtile ;
and muſt, from a poet, demand it. She inſiſts, for inſtance, on the undouted privilege of Britiſh liberty,
to employ any word, or aſſemblage of words, either as a noun, or as a verb ; and, far from always hun
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ting the authority of precedent, is often proud to know none. Nor muſt then, in any (far leſs in our) li
ving language, a term be proſcribed, merely becauſe not to be found in a dictionary, or even becauſe re
probated there. No occaſional repoſitory can contain one half the riches of a living language; or, conſe- º

quently, the whole of a dead. Whoever thinks to count, or confine them; thinks to tame, and to hedge,
the cuckow. All laws, eſpecially of language, have a letter, and a ſpirit. Without the ſoul, hapleſs he,
who ſhall load himſelf or others with the body' Poetry, as all Elegance, loves the leſs common; yet af.
fests not the fingular; prefers (with Horace) the cunning uſe of a well-known word, to the quaint intro
dućtion of an obſolete or unknown : ſtill revering Authority, in the ſecond place ; but, as the teſt of A
nalogy, in the firſt. Where no precedent exiſts, ſhe fears not to form one ; yet uſes not her power of coi
nage, where coin of equal weight may be found. Needleſs therefore, no leſs than improper, formation is
treaſon againſt Analogy; who, miſtreſs of the mint, and harmoniſt of Nature, can as ſoon miſcoin, as
coin in vain.
The ancients, none more than MARTIAL, panted after diſtinétion, as the parent of uſefullneſs; and
uſefullneſs, as the earneſt of immortality. They endevored therefore, ſo to think, ſo to expreſs themſelves,
and ſo to paint their expreſſion; that light ſhould exhibit beauty, and beauty render benefit unavoidable.
Ancient moraliſts indeed, ſacred and profane, cooperated unknowingly, in the reformation of mankind :
nor differed they in aught, more than in the manner. Nature laſhed folly, in folly's own ſtile :
Revelation gave to chaſtiſement, authority by decorum. Diſſimilar inſtruments effected in proportion :
with vices vaniſhed their expoſure. If MART 1 Al, ſo warm a friend of delicacy, apologiſed for ſtile uni
verſal, while deemed indiſpenſable; moral is the certainty, that, reviving at this day, he would not onely
rejoice at the amendment of a ſtill bad enough world; but, with candor, give the glory where due ; that
he would however hold the preſent age leſs excuſable than his own; blinded as it was by inveterate preju
dice, againſt any new light: nor would he perhaps dain even to ſatyriſe thoſe, whom he might ſee negle: /,
great ſalvation. If he did ſo condeſcend, it is preſumable that, finding man, with whatever advantages, man;
tho' a weak, not quite an incorrigible being ; he might be induced to make a complete, corrected, and
arranged, edition of all his ancient works, that a modern world can require ; in the rational belief, that
Antiquity might give Nature weight with ſome, whom he bluſhed to ſee inſenſible to Revelation ; and in
the humble ardor of working again with thoſe, whom he could not but glory to reſemble. Not more new,

than ſimilar to this Edition, in both languages, would perhaps his publication be ; leaving, as it would
at leaſt in the original, nothing to add, reject, or change. In this view, if ſome refuſe be ſwept away,
many antiquities have been reſtored; and the whole ſo endevored in either language, as the Author would
have executed now.
Nothing was either above or beneath the accuracy of the ancients ; particularly, of one, who muſt be
allowed a critic, in letters as in life. He were therefore not revived, were not his expreſſion equal to his i
dea, and his orthography to his expreſſion. His Editor and Verſioniſt have accordingly united here, as e
verywhere, their lights with thoſe of his Commentator; whom MART 1 AL, XI. cxliii. authoriſes to avow
the reddineſs of all three to join the ſtandard of elegant Uſe, or Analogy; and to vindicate, in practice,
thoſe Principles, which the ſaid triumvirate has alone preſumed to ſyſtematiſe". He there expreſsly com
mands his three aſſociates, unawed by Pedantry, to carry, with all convenient ſpeed (tho’ this they have
deferred), the laws they proved ſo juſt, into full execution ; ſhould ſhe even treat Engliſh Analogy, as
ſhe did French, Latin, and Greek; and hurl again, at Orthography, the bolt of Innovation.
Tho' therefore a few tendencies may occur, beſide thoſe vindicated in the above article, towards rende
ring our ſymbols the pictures of our ſounds; little elſe is offered here, than an improvable truth; that
Sound's picture muſt repreſent her, before ſhe be reflexible from it. This is obviouſly the firſt ſtep to wri
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ting's firſt beauty, perſpicuity: a beauty, never more happily united with conciſeneſs, than by the prince
of epigrammatiſts. If his perſpicuity have, in ſpite of a jumble, to which the works of ſcarce any other
genius have been liable, ſent MARTIAL thro’ the ſhades of ſo many centuries; it may ſeem the arrogance
of lending light to the ſun, to promiſe Mart 1 AL light from arrangement. But order will fling light on
angels. Curioſity, at length rouſed on the ſubject, proved deſirous of knowing; to how many, or how
few, living ſyſtems; a thouſand conflicting atoms could be raiſed. While Pythagoras (510) diſputed the
inveſtigator with Democritus (512); not onely one, but a round dozen have been found. The latter arch
philoſopher, was grinning at the tranſmigrator; when the poet’s learned Counſel, or commentators,
laughed in their turn at the atomiſt: whom they rendered indeed grave, by demonſtrating Epicurus too
many for him once more. For the talent, as well as taſte of diſorder, they owned MARTIAL endetted,
like Epicurus himſelf, to the laughing ſage; but the merry bard's defiance of all principle, and ſcorn
of any other than ſenſual pleaſure, they muſt aſcribe ſolely to the improver and eclipſer of Democritus.
They carried inveſtigation into example ; and irrefragably inferred, that the foe of all order and princi
ple, could never have written II. I 19; or in their own words, that it was unworthy of him. A little far
ther exertion, of their critical ſagacity; might have ſaved them much labor, of which the world was no
more worthy, than MART I Al ; by evincing, in a few more, every one of his epigrams incompatible
with the ſpirit of anarchy, impiety, immorality, or the groſs gratification of a heavy hour. But ſome
eyes, even of the learned, are not qualified to diſtinguiſh the literal from the figurative; to ſuppoſe one
genius, occaſionally, capable of both ; or to elucidate any author, by every author’s beſt commentator,
himſelf. That our poet may at length enjoy the opportunity of doing himſelf, and his reader; this juſ.
tice; here, the firſt time in ſeventeen centuries, have his works been illuminated by arrangement. Every
book thus and epigram, will not onely exhibit in itſelf every poſſible propriety; but will diffuſe proportiona
ble light, on its nearer and remoter companions. From all will ſo conjunctly and ſeverally beam, that piety,
morality, and love of order, which unvitiated Nature has rendered inſeparable from Senſibility and Rea
ſon.

Next therefore to devotion for the Omnipotent, in his various attributes, however allegorically clo
thed; MARTIALs firſt reverence was paid to the viſible lord of the world, as delegate to the Lord of the
univerſe; whether in the neceſſary ſuperintendance of mankind, or in the protection of individuals. Ap
ter is man to envy, than to eſtimate greatneſs. Envy rankles eaſily into abuſe; and abuſe proves doubly
virulent againſt power, that ventures on its primary duty, the ſyſtem of reformation. Were Domitians
chara&ter pure of certain imputations, from which the zeal of Candor pretends not to clear it; of innova
ting ſeverity would he ſtill be arrained by thoſe, who, themſelves reddy to introduce any darable enormi
ty, are the firſt and the loudeſt to empeach every improvement as new. We now ſee Domitian, the pious, pa
triotic, triumphant, warrior; tho’ unaſſuming, fondeſt of his bloodleſs laurels. We ſee him, not onely,
regaling the people with their favorite exhibitions; but rearing temples of peculiar magnificence, to Ju
piter, Pallas, and Hercules ; but inſtituting, or reviving, to two of thoſe powers, quinquennial celebra
tions: happy to be the champion of the firſt, the child of the ſecond; and that, with the third, his honor
ſhould be united. Nor was his rivalry of Virtues Heroe either affected or romantic. He ranged not, in per
ſon, ſo widely; but centered a more extenſive influence. From Rome he diverged ſo effectual a reformation
of manners, as perhaps none ſince Numa, either predeceſſor or ſucceſſor. That Minerva’s heroe cultivated
every ſcience and art, the remains of his ſtructures, and the pile his poet here revives with new ſymmetry,
will everlaſtingly teſtify. Shall we then continue to regard ſuch ſatyriſts, or hiſtorians, of whatever name or
age; as have, whether thro’ malice or ignorance, palpably exaggerated, often totally created, this empe
ror’s blemiſhes; and labored to loſe, in the cloud themſelves raiſed, the demonſtrable beauties of his cha
raćter Or, ſhall we not at length own his laureat his moſt credible hiſtorian : a title unſhaken (for fact
is immovable) by two compliments (I. Ap. x. xiv.) which cannot be denied alike unworthy of Domitian,
of Trajan, and of MART 1 AL *
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Poetry, or Figure, has always named potentates gods: our poet may plead privilege. To call Domi
tian Jupiter, had been to diſparage his patron ; but that, Jove, in ſpite of his motley mythologic picture,
was ſtill named with reverence, as the father of gods and men; even when allowed the ſon of a ſuperior.
The Greeks however regarded him ſo little, as familiarly to ſwear by his name. The Romans ſwore lightly
by none of their deities: with the three Indigetes, or deified heroes, they continued to uſe ſome freedom.
A choice ſpirit (p. 53, pen.) would, without ſcruple, famiſhriſe, an, originally ſolemn, invocation
of Hercules; as a bruiſer would abbreviate that of Pollux or his temple, ſo an unguarded female would
perhaps adjure Caſtor; thinking, if ſhe thought at all, that the ſexes might fairly divide the brothers.
Fidius", the god of faith, they ſeldom atteſted; more, than his father Jove himſelf; unleſs in caſes, of pro
voked ſolemnity. Head; the heathen left, as by-words of ſeeming property (if not propriety) to Jews,
who could no more change than make a hair of them; but who ever held ineffable, the name of JE Ho
v AH : lives and ſouls, to Chriſtians ; for other purpoſes, than to ſwear by.
Of no ſuch blaſphemy then could either the fire of gods, or ſoverain of men, complain, on the ſubſtitu
tion of names, as would have been in the philoſophic ſenſe (ſo never by MART 1 AL) offered to HIM,
whom Nature pronounced, by another ſublime bard, without or like, or next ; had his name been debaſed
to interchange with that of his creature, tho’ vicegerent: the chaſtiſer of nations, the reformer of man
ners, the reſtorer of order, the rewarder of merit; the father of refinement, and improver of man.
The firſt book thus devoted, as due, to his imperial patron, the next proved naturally ſacred to the ho
nor and entertainment of friends. Never had genius greater, more numerous, or more deſerved. Horace

and Virgil, happy in each other, beamed in no ſuch.conſtellation. With MART 1 AL have come down, as
joint claimants of praiſe; Juvenal, Valerius Flaccus, and Silius; Quintilian, his pupil Pliny, Elian, and
Frontinus. His other honored intimates, the poet has rendered ours. The third object was his own Muſe;
whom he vindicates from aſſailants, and contraſts to rivals. As MART 1 AL was, perhaps, the firſt mora
liſt; he was queſtionleſs the firſt mannerift, of the ancients. The Romans did he eye, and delineate, from º
their origin. The fourth book commences their manners : the former part arranging certain hiſtorical a
necdotes, and incidents; the latter exhibiting characters and characteriſtics. The fifth touches the various
ranks, and pecuniary relations, of life. The ſixth ſhows, in one part, luxury, the poſſible child; but the
natural parent, of beggary; as beggary, of theft; in the other two, rallies the looſeneſs of either ſex.
The ſºventh throws various light, on the convivial manners of the Romans. The eighteth illuſtrates the Sa
turnalian, and Conſanguineal, Feſtivals; in the ſecond part, the Natal and Nuptial ; not unnaturally
followed, in the nineth book,
by the Funeral, Celebrations. To the Saturnalians belong the tenth and ele
weath books; which, in the Hoſpitalities and Carriofables, afford the ampleſt, if conciſeſt, collection,
of what may be conjunctly named Panded, or ſummaries, of Roman Antiquity: the eatables, drinka
bics, wearables, and movables, of the Romans. The twelfth book, confidering diſtic as an extempora
neous performance; has digeſted all MART I Als other two-line epigrams, into an abridgement of the nine
books. Of the three laſt, couching hiſtoric with moral ſentiment, in epigram’s moſt Laconic form ; it may
be obſerved ; that no other is perhaps ſo capable of lending to fugitive matters ſtability; or, of preſer
ving curſory hints, by the ſalt ever ſprinkled upon them. Our tenth and eleventh were indeed the onely
two books, which their Author had collected ; or rather ſeparated from the reſt, as the property of the
Saturnalians. Them alone he is reaſonably ſuppoſed to have titled, or particularly inſcribed. The Exhi
bitions, by whomever compiled, tho’ by none till now arranged; have generally appeared alſo by them
ſelves. Yet many, eſſential to that ſet, were inveterate ſtragglers, in the other books. Nothing therefore,
but intrinſic merit; could have ſaved ſuch a multitude of petty pieces, in ſuch a jumble ; and the world
has been, much more than commonly, ſagacious in deſcrying, and candid in acknowleging, merit ſo diſ
advantageouſly preſented. That world however ſhowed a veneration worthy of herſelf, if not of antiqui
ty; when ſhe drempt not, that MARTIAL could; or drempt, that he could not ; receive any luſter from
arrangement.

* In hercle, mehercule, pol, aedepol, mecaſtor, mediufidius.

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arrangement. But, tho' our bard may be allowed, the compiler of his own works; in the chaos, whence
they have emerged: we can no more alledge, that he digeſted them into propriety; than, that he was
inſenſible to the love of order. His imperial, tho' a ſufficient, was not his ſingle patron. Every friend, in
power; was ambitious, of the charaćter. Next to Love, was Friendſhip, our poet's ruling paſſion; and
Gratitude, next to Generoſity, his favorite ſpecies of Juſtice. One he held a natural, the other a det in
curred. When therefore he had got together, fourſcore or a hundred Epigrams; he bundled them up,
and inſcribed them to whatever friend ſeemed moſt, by deſiring, to deſerve them : well knowing, that

ſuch friend would not grudge the trouble, of giving them all the arrangement, they might either require or
admit. Such parcel, ſo far complete, as perhaps all he had ; he unſcrupulouſly called a Book; and ſo his
Editors have hitherto ſuppoſed themſelves bound, by his authority, to call it. The Author doutleſs looked
forward, to that indefinite futurity, which has ever cheared by its very diſtance; when all his Works, .
written and to write, ſhould be recolle&ted into as much order, as the parts of every piece
in itſelf: nor probably leſs imagining, that himſelf ſhould not enjoy the pleaſure ; than that ſeventeen
centuries ſhould roll, before the world ſhould enjoy it.
Moſt poets have fancied they fulfilled their taſk, when they reecchoed the fićtions of each other. MAR
T1A1, by original as inſtantaneous touches, ſets before us the realities of the Romans; in their manners,
cuſtoms, laws, ceremonies; reſpecting every ſcene familiar or ſolemn, from the cradle to the grave : mar
riage, birth, education, purſuit, employment, conduct; entertainments, feſtivals, funerals. Our poet
becomes thus our completeſt, and moſt authentic, as well as moſt pleaſing, antiquary ; ſketching for us,
with the pencil of a Roman, what he ſcans with the eye of a ſtranger. - ---

Horace, above half a century; Perſius, not half ſo long, before MART 1 AL, had painted the manners
of their times; and employed their wit, in the ſervice of morality. In this career was Juvenal, our bard's
highly priſed fellow-laborer; but, like the two former, a ſatyriſt profeſt. Excellent and uſefull, as all
three muſt be allowed; notwithſtanding certain freedoms of ſtile, deemed requiſite in their days; but
from which, unneceſſary in ours, our poet alone of the three, can be (and here is) cleared, without muti
lation - and admirably, not onely in his Odes, as the firſt played about the heart ; none ever played more
admirably round it, than MARTIAL ; or more happily touched every feature, not merely of the Romans,
but of mankind. Man, being indeed compoſed, as of the ſame parts, of the ſame powers and propenſities,
ſtrength and weakneſs, under every economy, and in every age ; virtue and vice being unchangeably the
bliſs and the bane of humanity; like pićtures of old, muſt be like pićtures ſtill ; and ſatyr applicable in
one place or period, can hardly be inadequate in another. Hence are Horace and MARTIAL, often Per
fius and Juvenal, as pointed ſatyriſts of the preſent, as they were of their reſpective times; nay, as de
ſcriptive of modern manners, as Boileau, Pope, or Young.
But, ſmart as is our Cenſor, on every ſpecies of folly; he abhors the imputation of perſonal ſatyr; or
of aught, that reſembles invečtive. Under every name ſatyriſed, he couches, with unfailing adaptation ;
not a perſon, but a charader. As he never attacks an individual, ſo may he be greatly vindicated from the
vulgar charge of trumpeting himſelf. To a delicate ſenſe of reputation, ſo apt to be aſperſed by ignorance
and envy ; or to be infringed, as is every Wit's, by plagiariſin; to the love of poetic juſtice, unexcluded,
if unincited by perſonal concern; to an ardor for the improvement of genius and letters, and often for
complimenting a patron rather than himſelf; muſt be imputed the frequency of apparent egotiſm: tho’
none of the poets, far leſs one ſo jealous and jocoſe as MART 1 AL; has been affraid, occaſionally to own
his honeſt conſciouſneſs; to ſpeak truth, even of himſelf; or to provoke at once Time and Malignance,
by an undouting claim to Immortality.
While he took ſuch pains to ſcan, refine, and vindicate, his intelle&ual and moral powers; it had been
as great an injury to the public, as a defe&t in his ethic ſyſtem, to ſuppreſs feelings or operations, which
he beſt knew to be thoſe, of ingenuity and of virtue. From the ſtudy of himſelf, he became the better
judge of others; and, from the exhibition of the poet, he the more naturally proceded to that of the ora
tor,
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tor, the ſtateſman, the magiſtrate; the ſoldier, the citizen; the ſubjećt, the ſoverain : of the huſband
and wife, the patron and client, the maſter and ſervant; the benefactor and the friend, in public and pri.
vate life. -

Alike then was he enabled and neceſſitated, with whatever regret or indignation, to expoſe the
violators of every character: the ignorant, the affected ; the idle, the effeminate ; the epicure, the
glutton; the drunkard, the debauchee ; the rioter, and the rebel; the unjuſt, the ungenerous; the un
gratefull, the undutifull; the hypocritical, the faithleſs; the adulterer and adultereſs; the lewd, diſſo
lute, and ſhameleſs of every kind.
Into the claſſes of thus analyſed man, (as himſelf ſpeaks,) whether for imitation or abhorrence, is MAR
T 1 AL’s moral ſyſtem here digeſted : that it may anſwer every end of its ingenious as benevolent Author;
*
and that he be no more admired, but with equal delight and advantage,

To MART I A L’s own ſtory, no one, who reads him, can be quite a ſtranger. A heart, ſo ingenuous,
muſt ſcorn idle ſecrets; certain alike to pleaſe, and edify, by expanſion. But, had our poet been an ego
tiſt, we ſhould have known more about his family. Modeſty might have allowed him, to own himſelf the
firſt knowable there; or might have wiſhed worthineſs, of a noted anceſtry. Pride, it is true, would have
precluded either: but MARTIAL was above pride. He mentions however, ſo eaſily and ſo fondly, the
country and the city; where his birth could not be unworthy his breeding ; that we may adore, in his
name, the unfathomable Wiſdom, which hid from his perſpicacious eye, the uncertainty, concerning the
very ſpot, where ever Bilbilis ſtood; to prevail ſeveral centuries, before the works of her immortaliſer
ſhould emerge into new form and luſter; at once in their native, and in a then unexiſting, language.
A city ſhe was, of the Celtiberians, in the Tarraconian Spain ; now the province of Arragon ; fituate on
the Salo, now the Xalon (or Chalon); a river running N. E. into Iberus, now the Ebro ; and famed
of old, for its virtue of tempering iron. The ſituation, however controverted, cannot be diſtant, if at all
diſtinét, from that of the now Calatayud. Nor did the filial Muſe confer Auguſt on Bilbilis. A copper coin
of Tiberius, had exhibited the title. On all Spain had Veſpaſian beſtowed the honors of Latium; as did
*
afterwards Caracalla, citizenſhip of Rome. -

Said to have been educated at Calagurris (now Calahorra), where Quintilian was born ; MARTIAL in his
twenty-firſt year, repaired, like other Geniuſſes, to Rome. Arriving juſt in time to mourn (however fi
lently) Seneca and Lucan; he ſoon attracted and adorned the friendſhip of the eminent perſons, who now
invite, and muſt adorn, ours. Thus having entered the world under Claudius, he ſpent his firſt Roman
years under Nero ; and, unprotećted, thought quietneſs beſt. Galba, Otho, Vitellius, paſſed ſucceſſively
before him. MART 1 AL's patrons aroſe in the Flavian family. Veſpaſian was too frugal, to patroniſe a
poet; but his ſon Titus would never have been the Delight of Mankind, had he too proved inſenſible to the
charms of wit, or def to the voice of poetry. With his Amphitheater and Empire, he left his taſte to Domi
tian ; who firſt taſted all the hardſhip, of ſucceding to ſuch a brother ; yet rivalled him at leaſt in magnifi
cent ſtructures, in public reformation, and in the patronage of the Muſes, peculiarly MART 1 al’s ; who
may be ſtiled Poet Laureat, during the whole of this Emperor's reign.
Imperial taſte, more bounteous to its owner, than to its object; ſet Domitian in glory, and MART 1 Al
at eaſe; the former affording a town-houſe, a pleaſant villa; with every accommodation that could gratify
the donor and donee: the latter making ſuch returns, as the feeling ſoul, and animated Muſe, of a MAR
TIAL, alone could conceive or expreſs. Nor was the Patron ſatisfied, with conferring pecuniary benefits.
To each adequate honor, did the Prince raiſe the Poet : to the rank of Tribune, and dignity of Knight.
Nay, the munificent Soverain crowned his meritorious Laureat, as an equal benefactor to the ſtate, with the
father of three children: a character teeming, in thoſe days of polity; with honor, immunity, and emo
lument.

Tho’
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Tho' Nerva's great age left him ſhort opportunity, of emulating his predeceſſor; in the patronage of
the Muſes, whom himſelf had early cultivated; or, in the promotion of that public utility, which he had
ever been ſo ſtudious to advance ; from the pupil of Plutarch, the virtuous as vigorous Trajan, what
might not Moral Wit have expected To that philoſopher, this emperor may have owed many qualities,
worthy even a Pliny’s panegyric: but the love of poetry, muſt have been none of them.; or any temper
for ſmiling on that genius, ſo ardent to do him honor. To both the ſucceſſors of Domitian did there
fore his poet pay occaſional ſalutations, in vain. Diſappointed by one emperor, famed for virtue and
taſte ; and by another, famed for virtue (if ſhe can be) without taſte : many of his honored friends
being dead; particularly Parthenius, ſlain ſoon after his maſter; the patriot-bard conceived a longing to
fee his native land; and to quit a capital, no more commanding his ſtay.
After five and thirty years abſence, he regained the city; where he had commenced, and hoped to
crown, his days. Fallacious proved his idea. The native was no longer, the country of MARTIAL :
changed were mother and ſon, to each other. He taſted not again the joys of his youth : ſhe afforded
not thoſe of his maturity. Ruſticity ſhocked him doubly, when mingled with malignance : even inno
cence grew inſipid, unhightened by refinement. Three years, did his Muſe therefore languiſh ; unin
cited to entertain, where was no appetite; or to beam on a cloud, ſhe could not pierce. Some ſolace
however found the forlorn in his Marcella; whom the widower of Cleopatra, as he had perhaps jocularly
named her, (VI. iii. 53. I. iii. 9, 1o.) appears to have wedded on his return to Spain. After ſo unu
fual an interval, his old friend Priſcus, from Rome ; on a viſit, probably to the poet; makes a new de
mand, which is immediately honored. In a letter, we ſee (p. 130) accompanying the pieces demanded;
the Wit regrets the audience, that uſed to inſpire him; his change of ſituation and of company; hinting
even a wiſh to reviſit the land of elegance, and the queen of taſte. Nor to Rome alone, had he always
been partial. On an excurſion many years before, by the Emilian Way, thro’ the northern towns of |
t
Italy and the Gowned Gaul; from one of which he addreſſes a packet of Epigrams to Rome; he had |

brethed, in a beautifull paſſage, a diſtant half-hope (II. lxxviii. 7) of making his final retreat in thoſe *

parts. But Italy he viſited no more : nor probably ſuſtained the languor he ſo feelingly paints, above
four or five years. Under eight emperors, had he variouſly ſojourned ; who left the ingenious world to
mourn, that he completed but his ſixtieth year.”

Juſtice, thus done to MARTIAL, is next due to his Reader. The latter, ſuppoſed a ſtranger, muſt be ~
introduced. Others need no introdućtion. This, perhaps leſs numerous, claſs, will, benevolently en
joy, whatever may augment it. To inexperience, every ancient muſt be elucidated ; firſt in the vehicle
|
of excellence, his language ; in the various adaptations of ſtile. The manners next, and cuſtoms ; the
polity and laws; the mythology, philoſophy, and religion : the hiſtory in ſhort, enlightened by the |

chronology and geography, of the reſpective ſubjects ; demand ſucceſſive or concomitant explanation. -
--
But our poet, more than any other; poſſibly more, than all the ancients beſide ; by the minuteneſs,
... -
multitude, and keenneſs of his ſparks, kindles all antiquity, as all nature ; and gives the reader ſo many ~ 2.
reſiſtleſs incentives, to pervade with him. No Roman poet, far leſs ours, can be underſtood, not to ſay, -

taſted; without ſome ſmall notion of Greek, as well as Roman ; Egyptian, as Aſiatic, ſtory; above all,
of the mythology, common to Grece and Rome: a ſtudy, commenced in the nurſery; and generally con -

tinued, in a child-like ſimplicity, thro' life.

The moſt pleaſing of taſks, as was the making of Martial lucid, at once in order and in Engliſh;
indiſpenſable became the duty both to that maſter and mankind, to give him all the uſefullneſs he ment
to diverge; and to promote the gratification of that boundleſs curioſity, which he knew ſo peculiarly to
b excite.
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* Domitian was aſſaſſinated in the year 96. Nerva died in 98. In 7 rajan's firſt or ſecond, MARTIAL re
turned to Spain ; where he /ºems to have departed the world, in the year 104.
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excite. It is impoſſible to converſe long, often, and fondly ; without catching ſome tinčture of the com
pany that delights. The firſt reward of cultivating MARTIAL, was the knowlege of him ; with the una
voidable conſequence of love, eſteem, and veneration. Candor indeed, and Perſeverance, had their per
fºr work; in affording the higheſt human vićtory, that over ones ſelf; in its very pinnacle, the triumph
over Prejudice. Her cloud diſpelled, light poured around. MARTIAL, the imputed foe, emerged the
champion of morality: Domitian, of a monſter, became a man. Nor had Prepoſſeſſion tainted onely
Hiſtory and Criticiſm : Mythology herſelf was found malignant. Her gods and her goddeſſes, her heroes
and her heroines, to the inveſtigator's amazement, ſhe ſeemed, one way or other, to have miſrepreſented.
To ſpeak perhaps more ſafely, her pićtures had been ſo wild, as either to go for nothing; or, far worſe,
to paſs into realities. To her high characters in general, has Juſtice therefore, on weighing their wrongs,
proved ſo benign, as to form almoſt every one of them, more or leſs, new. .
The liberty of man, muſt primarily conſiſt; in the fair, as free, exerciſe of his reaſon. It is the con
ſequential ſyſtem, of whoever may preſume to inveſtigate, to take nothing for granted ; to admit no fact,
without its voucher; real, or rational : no fiétion, without its key ; obvious, or procurable : to allow no
2
precedent or name, as the ſančtion of nonſenſe ; nor ever ſenſe dependant, on any name or precedent : to
hold therefore no literary ſerch, either unimportant or impracticable. He, that ſeeketh, findet} - and to
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Bim alone, that knocketh, ſhall the door, be opened. But no intricacy can be ſo perplexing, as that, which
hiſtory and fable combine to complicate. Such has been, hitherto the predicament, particularly of the
Golden Flece; and peculiarly, of the Amazons ; whoſe tradition, thro’ every medium of darkneſs, has
made her unreſiſted way, into this age of marvellous light. Of both theſe unbeaten paths, ventures the
Commentator an inveſtigation ; and ſo leaves none of equal importance, or of equal fallacy, behind.
Not that any of the other tracks have been hitherto ſo beaten, as to ſtrike us their light; which, that it
might neither dazzle nor evaporate, has, ever fince its danger of breaking forth, on the revival of lear
ning, been diligently repelled from expoſure ; and, like a Mummy, has MART I Al, ſtill ſafe in his own
falt; been proportionably removed from human ken, by every new coat that wrapped him. Whoever
therefore has the patience to peruſe the enquiry, may happen to find, like the enquirer, his labor not
wholely loſt; and, in ſuch caſe, muſt double the reward of a modern, who has caught at leaſt ſo much
of his archetype, as to exert, with equal ardor, however unequal powers; in the detection of error, the
vindication of innocence, the diffuſion of knowlege, and diſplay of truth.
In this view, he flatters himſelf with having left no alluſion unilluſtrated, no paſſage obſcure, of an
Author, who communicates more life and more literature, more wiſdom and more wit, than any other
of the ancient poets; or perhaps, than they all put together. Yet has not one of thoſe glorious lumina
ries a fonder, a more reverential, or a more ſteddy gazer than him, who has not been more ardent to im
bibe, than to diffuſe the ſpirit of MARTIAL. To render that ſpirit therefore diffuſive, as it is pregnant,
of both light and heat; and MARTIAL, like his friend Mercury, an introdućtor to Fellow-Gods; every
opportunity has been ſeized, with our authors conſent, tho' without his neceſſity; of expanding his
themes, into their various capacity of collateral illumination : of thence diverging, perhaps as copiouſly
as conciſely, in chronological as well as geographical dire&tion, certain momentous articles of ancient,
eſpecially Roman, hiſtory : and of ſo exciting (if not guiding) where not gratifying Curioſity, in the
great delineations, not merely of Grece and Italy; but of Gaul and Spain; of Afric, chiefly Egypt;
and, ſtill more, of Aſia.
Nor will theſe delineations prove, either leſs pleaſing or leſs permanent; that they flow, as if ſponta
neous, from the reſpective ſubjećts ; that they follow the range of mountains, the courſe of rivers, or
the ſweep of ſeas ; which waſh the lands, encloſe the iles, and ſituate occaſionally the greateſt works of
man ; nay, on their happy ſpots, what we call below, the nobleſt works of God. This geography of
Nature, coeval with herſelf, throws ſteddy light on ſucceſſive nations ; but remains independant of hu
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man tranſience ; and ſo becomes perennial, as the Circles and Poles, by which the world is bounded.
Now Earth, as a Planet, proves a member of the Heavens; and her movement in the Zodiac, renders
fome knowlege of that great circle, indiſpenſable, to whoever would converſe, with either poets or aſ-,
tronomers ; would admire the Wiſdom of Omnipotence, and meaſure the viciſſitudes of time. Chaldea,
mans firſt habitation, muſt have been eldeſt in the ſtudy of the ſtars ; and, over a ſtudy, elſe laborious as .
important, did Mythology (or Allegory) there ſtrow her earlieſt flowers. But Grece formed the ſyſtem,
which Rome was proud to adopt, of thoſe conſtellations and particular ſtars ; which glorious members of
the viſible Creation, and conſequent ornaments of the Celeſtial Globe, MARTIAL ſtarted as game too
important, for his Commentator at leaſt, not to purſue. Earths tranſitory glories have their occaſional
place : Empires, Nations, Cities, Structures, Men; as neceſſarily introduced, or ñaturally introdu
cible. Aétions, Events, and Characters interchange their dire&t or collateral light. Cities; above all,
the Capital of Capitals; forming, in mans chief ſcenes, the moſt exalted fabrics; ariſe, floriſh, or even.
:

fall, the principal objects, of whoever deſires his acquaintance. Countries alſo, by Canals and High
ways, afford him not more convenience ; than they reflect honor and benedićtion, on their reſpective au-,
thors. - - - -

Egypt, by nature and art, land as water, led to the ſtupendous. Next to the Egyptian, were, and
are,) the Roman ſtructures, the glories of Antiquity ; who knows not whether more to redout their,
ſtrength, or to admire their beauty. In the works of ſolid, as uſefull grandeur, Rome has had no rival.
Her roads ſtill carry us thro’ Italy, nay, thro’ ſome forain regions, better than the Apennines or Alps,
the Tiber or the Po; than all the mountains and rivers of the reſpective countries. He therefore, who
opens to us all the Roman Ways, could not but point the principal, whether literal or figurative, to Cu
rioſity's inveſtigation.
While matchleſs were thus Romes imperial works ; a genius, like our Poet's, wiſhed more to trace the
intelle&tual; to ſhow herſelf the depravity of her morals, from the very zenith of her power ; and, to
other or future nations, the brilliance of her wit, more ſtriking when pointed at ſuch depravation. No
part of her manners did he therefore conceal : one fide he expoſed for amendment ; the other for admi
ration. Her errors, all human, required little commentary : her excellence, improved from the Grecian
to the Roman, deſerved a ſyſtematic review. If thus MARTIAL revives a burning and ſhining light, with
the addition of arrangement, in both languages; the Comment cannot be ſuppoſed merely an elucidation
of an Author ſo variouſly luminous ; but has been calculated to fulfil his expanſive deſign of holding a
torch to all the Ancients, peculiarly the Poets; to Univerſal Hiſtory with Univerſal Geography; to Phi
loſophy, Natural, and Moral, as well as to Mythology and Poetry : thoſe enchanting Teachers! who,
ſcarce announcing entertainment, infinuate information.
That therefore every end may be anſwered, of MART I Al at once and his Commentator; not onely
has the Poet accepted arrangement : his Comment has found its particles, however ſeemingly fortuitous,
elicitable into a plan. This the peculiar Index will exhibit in particulars, ſummoned by page, column,
and line; from the reſpective ſituation in the Comment, to the regular place in the ſyſtem. Such Index
will therefore form a Tree (or whatever it may be called) of Ancient Mythology, including doutleſs Poetic
Aftronomy; of the ancient Heroes and Heroines, mythological and hiſtoric : followed by Groops collateral
where not ſucceſſive, of Soverains, Commanders, Philoſophers, and other Geniuſſes; eſpecially ſuch as
prepare, open, or illuminate, the laſt and greateſt Monarchy.
To the Mythologic, Heroic, and Hiſtoric Tree, or Chart, ſuccedes an ample delineation ; that may
be followed. with eaſe, in Nature, in the Claſſics, or on the Map ; of Ancient Geography; in the Seas,
Lakes, Straits, Fountains, Rivers ; Countries, Ilands, Almoſt-ilands, Mountains and Cities ; con
dućted at length, by her own Great Ways, to the Capital of the World. Rom E becomes thus the termi
nating object; not merely in her Situation and Structures; but in her Conſtitution, Feſtivals, Games,
Dreſs, Money, Time, Religion, Law, Cuſtoms, Manners, and Letters.
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Half is atchiev'd, the labor well begun.

The Horatian apophthegm will not find leſs regard, if, what Martial hinted poſſible, his Com
mentator have carried at leaſt into commencement ; if hence ANT1 Qy it Y, peculiarly Roman, be effec
tually as pleaſingly traced in her Mythology, Philoſophy, Hiſtory, as well as Poetry, and Geography;
and if here the Plan be laid, by which ſhe muſt be traced, wherever ſhe can be known. But Nature,
thus traceable to or from the beginning, is in the Comment, where poſſible, deduced into modern days.
In the various viciſſitudes of ſtates, cities, and men ; we feel a chain of irreſiſtible impulſe to adore the
wiſdom, juſtice, and mercy of the Author and Ruler of all; particularly in commanding and diſpelling
the cloud, which ſo many ages wrapped up the ancients ; which, eclipſing their works of light, buried
their works of darkneſs. How benignant that cloud, ſo alternating the pillar / which gives us with ſafety
as well as reaſon to admire the emerging ancients ; and to felicitate later times, on the accumulation of
purified light. -

While thus the Engliſh MARTIAL is or may be carried into all his effect; nor even the Table omitted,
that adjuſts preſent order to former confuſion; that no jumble may boaſt advantage, which arrangement
cannot give ; a complete, nor yet perhaps quite vulgar Index of the text, is ſubjoined to our Latin Edi
tions. The Engliſh Comment being ſo copious, renders any comment leſs neceſſary to the Latin Mar
tial. Yet he, in his new form, may probably viſit regions, which our language, now in her meridian,
may not have begun to penetrate. To ſuch therefore as may, for whatever cauſe, require onely the Oris
ginal ; a Miniature-Comment, in the few indiſpenſable Notes ; ſo as neither to intrude, nor prove
wanting; finds its place, alſo at the end of the Volume. Thus the Original and Tranſlation, like their
languages, become independant or concomitant; reciprocating or poſſeſſing ſuch ſufficience of light, that
!
Martial may now pour his native ſoul into the mere Engliſh Reader, in a vehicle which threttens per
haps no indignity either to the ſtranger or to our tongue; and ſtand confeſt the moſt valuable Claſſic to
the Latin Scholar; in ſuch Editions, as ancient and modern times may have wiſhed ; but neither had the
ſatisfaction to ſee. -

CONTENTS.
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C O N T E N T S.
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B O O K I.

To D O M I T I A N.

P A R T I.

On his Patronage, Warfare, and Structures.

ig. Page. Epig. Page. Epig. Page.

Epig, PISTLE Dedicatory i P A R T II. XXXIII. On the lion and lads ;
I. To the Muſe 2 XXXIV. lion : licentious,
II. To Ceſar: with a volume The Exhibitions of Domitian. XXXV. Iion ſlain 28
III. To the Public : on decency 3 XXXVI. deer : duelliſts
IV. To Ceſar : on conſciouſneſs I. On the Amphitheater 17 XXXVII. To Ceſar; interceſſion 29
V. - the warrior II. To Ceſar ; upon it XXXVIII. On the doe and dogs
VI. —— patron 4. III. -- on the confluence 18 XXXIX. —boys and bulloc,
VII. — cenſor IV. —- informers
XL. To Agathinus; ventilator 3o
VIII. going abraud V. On Laureolus : Prometheus XLI. On the ſea-fight: flying
IX. ——abraud : 5 VI. To Ceſar: on Orpheus 19 XLII. On Leander ; performed 31.
X. —-— returnin VII. On Scevola ; equalled XLIII. On the ſwimmers : magic
XI. - ſtill abſent 6 VIII. outdone. XLIV. On Ceſar's ſea-fight
XII. - announced IX. On the Praſinian 2O
XLV. To Ceſar : on gladiators 32.
XIII. Tojanus ; hailing 7 X. On Carpophorus XLVI. ——another match
XIV. — reſtoring XI.- and his antagoniſts XLVII. his exhibitions 33
XV. To Ceſar : reſtored 8 XII. To Ceſar: on his champion
XVI. —— triumphant XIII.--on female beſtiaries 21
XVII. To Phoſphor; on C's entry9 XIV. on Paſphae P A R T III.
XVIII. To Ceſar: entering XV. On the rhinoceros and bull
XIX. — on the temple and arch Io XVI. rhinoceros and bear 22 On Domitians Reformation of the pºº.
XX. — the ſacrifices XVII. — limed bear lic Manners; with Anecdotes of 4.5
XXI.-his entertainments i i XVIII. — ſhe-boar: delivered Character.
XXII. — their value XIX. - Diana double
XXIII. On Domitians banquet XX. —— critical 23 I. To Ceſar: molding the ſtage 34
XXIV. On Degis : the Iſtrian XXI.
12 eagle carrying jove II. reforming Rome
XXV.Toyulcan: on Rome reſtored XXII. — bull bearing Hercules III. prohibiting caſtration
XXVI. To Dom. on winter-roſes XXIII. — elephant and bull IV. preſerving infancy
XXVII.-- on Rome improved 13 XXIV. To C. on the ſuppliant 24 V. protećting modeſty 35
XXVIII. his #. XXV. On the tigreſ, and lion VI. modelling the court
XXIX. its dignity 14 XXVI. — lion and hare: no fear VII. To jove: for Domitian 36
XXX. ——theFlavian temple XXVII. no hope VIII. To Domitian : for the poet
XXXI. his birth-place XXVIII.--———no chance 25 IX. —for the right ofthree 37
XXXII. Jupiterjealous I 5 XXIX. — a refuge X. To Cleopatra : upon it
XXXIII. To Rab. the archite& XXX. —the cauſe XI. — Ceſar : thanks
XXXIV. To D. on the bankrupt XXXI. — the owner 26 XII.-complaint and remedy 38
XXXV. — builder and exhibitor-16 XXXII, — the maſter 'XIII. ——indirectly, for this 18°
XIV.
xiv. - C O N T E N T S.
XIV. To C. dire&ly, for that XXVI. To Hercules: in it 44|V. To Nerva upon it
XV. doubly gracious 40 |XXVII. On Hercules and Dom. 45 || VI. —janus ; reedified 3
XVI. On Aretulla's dove VII. On the coming of Trajan 4
XVII. — Pelius’ vow VIII. To Rhine : from 7.4%r. 49
XVIII. To an Angler 41 APPEND IX to B O OK i. IX. —– 7 rajan : a compliment
XIX. —— a whiſperer X: On Nerva-7 rajan : another 5 o'
XX. —— the heir expe&ted 42 To Nerva and Trajan. XI. For Nerva-Trajan : a prayer
XXI. On Circenfian ſhow XII. To Nerva-Trajan: an elogy; I
XXII. — the ſtatue of Julia I. To Nerva - with a volume XIII. On Nerva-Trajan : exhibited
XXIII. To Carus : on his crown 43|II. On Nerva: the genius XIV. — Trajans magnificence 52
XXIV. C’s buſt III. modeſt 47|XV. — no munificence
XXV. On the ſtatue of Domitian | IV. On the acceſſion of Nerva

C O N T E N T S.

B O O K. II.

To his F R I E N D S.

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N PISTLE to Derian 53 |XXXIV. To Fauffinus: a requeſt 69 |LXVIII. To Narnia: for Ovid
I. To Decian : ſelf-denied 54|XXXV. — -at Rome: Spring LXIX. — Ovid : on Ce/onius 90
II. —not ſelf-ſlains | XXXVI. —— on 7 rebula: Summer 70 |LXX. —— on friendſhip
III. His charaćter XXXVII. —— 7 ibur: Autumn LXXI. —— for Caledonia
IV. To Regulus : on Book II. 55 XXXVIII. On Fauſinus’ villa 72 LXXII. To Marcellinus; militant 91
V. his due XXXIX. To F. on Baſus 73 LXXIII. -- Fau/?inus : for M.
VI. On Regulus : preſerved XL. For Julius Martial 74. LXXIV. – M. proceding northw.92
VII. To Regulus : encircled XLI. To j. M. with a book LXXV. To Domitius
VIII. ––– with a preſent 56 XLII. On the villa of J. M. LXXVI. From Gaul to Rome 93
IX. On young Regulus XLIII. To the library of J. M. 76 LXXVII. To his Book
X. To Stella : on repetition 57 XLIV. — J. M. on life LXXVIII. — Altinum *- 94.
XI. with a ſervice of pottery | XLV. —— procraftination 77 LXXIX. —Clement : for Sabina
XII. a gratefull hint XLVI. viciſſituae 78 LXXX. On M A. Primus
XIII. To C. on Stella’s games 58|XLVII. — happineſs LXXXI. His picture 95
XIV. — Apollo : for Stella XLVIII. To Palerius Flaccus 79 LXXXII. To Ceditian ; on it
XV. On Stella’s Dove 9| XLIX. —- on patronage LXXXIII. To M. A. P. thanks
XVI. — rings: brilliant L. —poetry and law 81 LXXXIV. For Artanus 96.
XVII. On the ſame: potent 6ol LI. — Baiae: the Bath LXXXV. On Pºienna : to Lawſus
XVIII. — Stella and Ianthis LII. —— in Cyprus LXXXVI. To Fuſºu, 97
XIX. To the fºuntain of Ianthis 61| LIII. To Silius Italicus 82 LXXXVII. —perhaps another
XX. ——Arginus : Ianthis' boy LIV. conſuland poet 83 LXXXVIII.-Rufus : a wiſh
XXI. -- the Nymph of the F. LV. To Ceſar: for Silius LXXXIX. – a preſent 98
XXII. For Parthenius 62 LVI. On Silius : double heir 84 XC. for Penukius
XXIII. To Thalia - for P. LVII. repreſentative XCI. -- on Pacerra
XXIV. — the Muſes : for P. 63 LVIII. For Cecilius (Pliny 11.) 85 XCII. To Petus : guilty
XXV. P's vow, to Apollo 64 LIX. -- at Rome XCIII. — Nepos : advice 99
XXVI. Parthenian gown : new LX. To Severus : a demand 86 XCIV. — Fabian : unqualified
XXVII. old 65 LXI. — a compliment 87 XCV. - Sextus : his chance 100
XXVIII. For Apollinaris LXII. To Aulus Padens XCVI. – Librarian
XXIX. To the Jambic Muſ? 66 LX1] [.. --— on flow XCVII. To D’s table-decker IC 1
XXX. Rºſe : for A. LXIV. —— —— abraud 88 XCVIII. — Criſpinus
XXXI. On the Farmian Shore LXV. For Sabinus XCIX. On Austus, not a reader Ioz
XXXII. For Fauſinus 68 LXVI. To the Nymph of Sabinus 89 C. — Celer, not a hearer
XXXIII. To the bearer LXVII. — a Chaplºt for S. CI. For the Poets buſt Io;
CII.
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CII. To Unicus : modeſt CXVII. On Elians preſent CXXXIſ. Avitus : the contraſt
CIII. — Cirinius : generous CXVIII. To Sparſus : on retreat 1 12 CXXXIII. To the Bilbilitans 125
CIV. — Caſtricus : formidable Io4 CXIX. The Country-journal 113 CXXXIV. For Bilbilis 126.
CV. —— ſufficement CXX. To Quintilian I 14 CXXXV. — — Rome
CVI. To Frontinus: the country lo; CXXI. On Macer : the overſeer CXXXVI. To his Clients 127
CVII. — L. julius : on eaſe CXXII. governor 115 CXXXVII.juvenal: the country
CVIII. — Potitus : on buſtle 1 oë CXXIII. To Inſtantius. 1 16 CXXXVIII. To Marcella I 29
CIX. For Proculus Hoy CXXIV. — Betis : for Inſt. CXXXIX. On her gardens
CX. To Paſłor ; on wealth CXXV. — Trajan: for Palma 117 M. Wal. Martial: to Priſcus 130
CXI. — Melior : on it IoS CXXVI. — Lucius : of Spain CXL. M. W. M. to P. at leiſure 131
CXII. —Norbanus ; abraud Io9 CXXVII. — Licinian : for Sp. 118 CXLI. the hunter
CXIII.-L. Sura : convaleſcent CXXVIII. On birth-places L2 I CXLII. patron
CXIV.-Colin : on life I lo CXXIX. To Manius : magnetic CXLIII. -
—— ſpeculator 132.
CXV. —Martian ; its eſtimate CXXX. — Maternus : commands 122 CXLIV. To Saturu ; for P.
CXVI.-Fronto: ambition I I I CXXXI. –Marius : the charge

C O N T E. N T S.
B O O. K. III.
On his own Writings; and thoſe of his Critics, Rivals, Envier, Detrađors, and Plagiaries.

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* PISTLE to the Reader 134 XXVII. To C. requiring modeſtly LIV. To the tetraſtic-ſqueezer 159
I.E.
II.
To Cato : the Floralian 135 XXVIII. — Gaurus : the gigantic
On the Muſe
LV. —— Sextus : the puzzler
XXIX. — Coſconius: the conciſe LVI. — Priſcus: the puffer
III. To Thalia : on rank XXX. — the chaſte LVII. —another ſweet poet
IV. On Laconics 136 XXXI. To Ligurra : unbranded 147 LVIII.-Mali/ſan: the bland 16o
. V. To Severus : on Pierians XXXIſ.— a detractor: untouched LIX. — Pompillus ; the big
VI. — his Book 137 XXXIII.-another: untoren- 148 LX. — Chreſillus : the anteek 161.
VII. To the Enquirer XXXIV.-Tucca : the critic 150 LXI. — Pacerra: the poſtumous
VIII. — another 138 XXXV. an alternative LXII. —the Muſe: ſurviver 162
IX. — Lupercus : the borrower XXXVI. To Fidentinus: 151 LXII [..—Cornelius: no oracle
X. — Quintus : the begger a 139 XXXVII. — Q, the reclaimant LXIV. —the crabbed : no critics 163.
XI. On the long XXXVIII. — Fidentinus : homeſt 152 LXV. – In. Rufus : a caution
XII. luſcious 14o XXXIX. — — a purchaſer LXVI. –Fau/finus ; the eccho 164.
XIII. rough XL. To a plagiary: advice I 53 LXVII.-Numatius Gallus
XIV. wnfiniſhed XLſ.—— expoſtulation LXVHI. – Paulus : a condition 165:
XV. — unequal XLII. To Corduba 154 LXIX. — Priſcus: an appeal
XVI. To the Reader : the wiſh 141 XLIII. — a jew I 55 LXX. On Titus: the adviſer. 166,
XVII. — expoſtulation XLIV. ——makebate LXXſ. The poet lawyer
XVIII. On Procillus : ſafe XLV. On Mamercus 156 LXXII. — compromiſe 167.
XIX. — Zoilus ; endangered XLVI. To a ſlanderer LXXIII. To the poets all
XX. — Carinus : the ſoarer 142 XLVII. — Septitian 157 LXXIV. Muſe: Minerva 168
XXI. To julius : on the burſter XLVIII. —Theodorus : ungifted LXXV. "To Mamurra: man
XXII. — Calliſfratus : no rival XLIX. On The regretted 158 LXXVI. — Claſſicus : nature 169
XXIII. — Nevolus : no ſaluter L. To Baſus: either theme LXXVII. Book: hinting relief 17o.
XXIV. On T. and O. rivals 144 Lſ. – Softbian: an incentive LXXVIII. —— aſking it
XXV. – Eros : not laughable LII. —Albius Maximus: a hint LXXIX. To the unwearied Muſ:
XXVI.- Cecilians Muſe: kind 145 LIII.-Laberius : a challenge

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C O N T E N T S.

4. B O O K IV.

P A R T I.

Hiſtorical Anecdotes.

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~ I.
II.
N Mucius and Porſena
— Porcia: Cato's daugh.
171 | XXXVIII. Polyphemus and Scylla
III. — Feſtus : the Roman dier. 172 XL. From Priapus : defiance
IV. – 9tho equally great
V. — Apicius : the philoſopher
VI. — Pompey, and his Sons 173
VII. — Antony beyond Pothin
VIII. beyond Catiline
IX. To Saturninus : beyond A. 174
X. Arria and Petus
XI. Birth and death of Lucan
XII. On Lucans birthday
XIII. To Phebus and Polla
XIV. – Polla
XV. On Cerelia : loſt
XVI. – Ladon : ſaved
XVII. — Philoſłratus: the reeler
XVIII. — Amyntas : the climber
XXXIX. To Priapus : a menace
XX. — Symmachuſ : and
XXI.
purſ."197
— Carus ; carried off
186 XXII. — Andragoras ſlain
XLI. On Juno's ſtatue XXIII. — premiſes unſold .
XLII. — Herculeſes ſtatue 187 XXIV. — a girl unbought
XLIII. ſpeaking XXV. To Severus : beſt match 198
XLIV. On Iſa; and her pićture 188 XXVI. — Lupus : beſt buſineſs
XXVII. — Ciperus : a baker 199
XXVIII. — Ovid': comfort
P A R T II. XXIX. — Ceditian ; a prodigy
XXX. — Cinnamu: ; the knight zoo
175 On the manners of the Romans : in XXXI. On Antiochus : the terrible
the characters of ſchoolmaſter, fen XXXII. To a ſhoemaker: high zor
cer,pleader, phy ſcian, auctioneer, XXXIII. — a cobbler : exhibitor
aker, vintner, barber, ſhoemaker, XXXIV. peppermonger zoz
176 cobbler, ſlave, favorite, freedman, XXXV. To Condylus ; whether
ſaluter. XXXVI. On favorites
XXXVII. — twin-brothers 2O

XIX. — the boy and icicle 177 I. To a ſchoolmaſter: terms 189 XXXVIII. To Ceffus: amiable
XX. viper and bear II. — another : vacation 190 XXXIX. — Theftylus ; a wiſh zot
XXI. — in amber III. On Hermes : king of arms XL. On Aulus : the poetic
XXII. — ant, in amber 178 IV. To Taurus : the waverer 191 XLI. — Polytimus: the Pelopian
XXIII. — bee, in amber V. -- Attalus ; the every-thing XLII. — Encolpus’ vow 205
XXIV. — lion and ram VI. On Sabineus : the cool 192 XLIII. paid
XXV. — deſerted ſwallow VII. — Nevolus : the noiſy XLIV. On Earimus’ name
XXVI. — Bacchus’ prieſ? 179 VIII. To Cinna : four glaſſes XLV. — the ſame : ſeaſonable zoö
XXVII. — Miſitius : ſimilar I 8o IX. — Cecilian : ſeven XLVI. — blazonable
XXVIII. The Lingonic Cybelian X. — Matho : ſemitertian 193 XLVII. On Earinus’ hair: offered 207
XXIX. On Fabianus : ſilent 181 XI. — Poſłumus : the rambler XLVIII. To Eſculap. for the ſame
XXX. To Caſtricus : the Theta XII. — Ponticus : the prudent XLIX. On Jupiter and Ganym. 208
XXXI. On Philenis’ vow 182 XIII. the at-all 194 L. — Spendophorus 209
XXXII. — Maro's vow XIV. the fiſher LI. To Charidemus : the free 2 Io
XXXIII. — Mount Weſuvius 183 XV. To Gallicus : the like 195 LII. — Linus : the ſaluter
XXXIV. — the plane of Corduba XVI. On Apollodotus : apt LIII. — Baſus : the buſſers 2I I
XXXV. fragment of Argo 184 XVII. — the ſtately ſage LIV. On Rome: the welcome 213
XXXVI. To a crew of Argonauts XVIII. — Sauſtius and clients 196
XXXVII. Hippod, no horſeman 185 XIX. — Hippocrates

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B O O K. V.

on the Manner of the Romant : in the characterſ of patron, client ; borrower, lender ; teſtator, convaleſcent ;
dreamer, catcher; rich-man, poor-man ; cynic, philoſºpher.

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XXX. To Rome: the patroneſs LVIII. To Gaurus : the ſhuffler 237
HI. To Matho; its attraćtion XXXI. — Caius : the adviſer 228 LIX. —?ongilian : burned down
III. On Tuccius : its repulſion 215 XXXII. the promiſer LX. — Cecilian ; the price
IV. On the ſportule aboliſhed XXXIII. To Criſpus: the friend LXI. --— a queſtion
v. To Gargilian ; the prudent XXXIV. — Baccara : pining 229 LXII. a return
VI. -— the litigant XXXV. the nee LXIII. For C. a prayer 238
VII. To Fabian: the patron XXXVI. To Sextus: the courtly 230 LXIV. To Nevolus ; no robber
VIII. — Baſus as honorable 216 XXXVII. the client LXV. — high and low
IX. — Gallus : more XXXVIII. wiſe too ſoon LXVI. To Calenus: lowandhigh 239
X. a poſe 217 XXXIX. On Gellius: the builder 231 LXVII.-Scevola: the dilemma
XI. an adjuration XL. To a man of honor LXVIII. — Paternus ; a father 240
XII. To Paulus : the ſelf-denied XLI. — Chereft. not a knight LXIX. — Philomuſus : heir
XIII. — conſul and client 218 XLII. — Calliodorus : not two 232 LXX. — Pontilian: the wanted 241
XIV. To a ſenator and ſaluter 219 XLIII. — no Pylades LXXI. On Numa : the bilker
XV. — After : the affluent 22O XLIV.ToMarcus: turtle and dove233 LXXII. To Polyc.the convaleſcent
XVI. the officious XLV. On Novius: the neighbor LXXIII. — Carinus ; the teſtator
XVII. the ſelf-denied 221 XLVI. — Theleſinus ; rich 234 LXXIV. — Bithyn. the legatee 242
XVIII. To Titullus : the buſtler XLVII. To — the lender LXXV. On Marius : no briber
XIX. — Poſtumus : the loſs 222
XLVIII. the mortgagee LXXVI. To Marianus : baited
XX. — the double bite XLIX. To Phebus : the profferer LXXVII. —oldman: new friend243
XXI. — the canceller 223
L. the preſenter 235 LXXVIII. — Oppian ; a prey
XXII. To Candidus : happy Lſ. To Polycarmur • the like LXXIX. — a bequeather
XXIII. all common LII. — Quintus : the refuſer LXXX. — Gargilian: the baiter
XXIV. non-attendance 224 Ll II. – Cinna : the neuter LXXXI. — Naſidian: dreamer 244
XXV. To Labullus : time loſt LIV.— the ſloven 236 LXXXII. Solid wealth
XXVI. the laſt, and beſt 225 LV. the vindicator LXXXIII. To Neffor: nopoor-man
XXVII. To Mancinus : mercileſs 226 LVI. To Petus : the loſer LXXXIV.-Coſmus; on nocynic 245
XXVIII. – Rufinus; humiliating LVII. the dun LXXXV. — Cheremon: contraſt
XXIX. On Mevius : in gray 227

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P A R T

On luxury, beggary, theft.

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I. To—Parthenop. coughing 247 XLIV.
XLV. On
Cilix
Luſcus }*. 265
XXXV. To another
XXXVI: – an audacious boy
28o
II. Tongil, ſemitertian 248
III. — Lentinus : feaveriſh
IV. On Celius : no feiner 249
XLVI. } Hermog. XXXVII. chaſtiſable
XXXVIII. To A. on Delia's grief 281
V. — Tucca’s baths XXXIX. On Artem. and Calliza.
VI. To Tucca : ill 25o P A R T II. XL. To Quintus : on 7%ai,
VII. — Olus : buſy XPſ. On the father of a family 282
VIII. a ſlave 251 On the manners of the men. XLII. To Dento: a petitioner
IX. To Maximus : free XLIII. — Fabullus: the like
X. — the ubiquary 252 I. To Cecilian ; on the times 267 XLIV. – Scevinus ; the lover
Xſ. To Amenus : ſumptuous Iſ; - Effrons: a query XLV.- Cecilian: the improver 28 3
XII. --— ſelling III. - Gaurus : another XLVI. — a pair : concordant
XIII. To Pannic. the ploughman 253 IV. – Coracinus ; the fumer 268 XLVII. For Fabius and Chre/filla
XIV. On Aper : the cunning V. - Poſłumus : his brother XLVIII. To Gallus : noſon-in-law
XV. — poor and rich VI. half-kind XLIX. — Ammianus; no ſon 284
XVI. To Calliodore: the cannibal 254 VII. On P. doubly ſo L. no huſband
XVII. On Pompoſe: the pawner VIII. — a ſecret LI. On Am: the legatee: a query
XVII). To Codrus : Alpha, Beta IX. To P. mauled 269 LII. To Flaccus : the choice
XX. — Baſis : in Tyrian 255
X. an idler LIII. the plight 28
XX. On B. the bargain-buyer XI. a procraſtinator LIV. the battle 5
XII. On Charinus : pale 27o LV. on demands
XXI. — Criſpinus’ cloke
XXIſ. – Phºffs: the knight 256 XIIſ. On his plate LVI. To Saletanus: overwhelmed 286
XXIII. — Manneius ; equivocal XIV. baths : to Severus 271 LVII. – Priſcus; on parity
XXIV. ToEqueſter: unequeſtrian 257 XV. On Etruſtus' baths: to Oppian LVIII. – Sila Wedwood: articles
XXV. On Euclid : and his key XVI. To Labienus : a Geryon 272
XXVI. — M. the man of taſte XVII. — Marinus : a Halmyrotes 273
XVIII. — Phebus : a ſpunge
XXVII. To Milichus : no lover 258 XIX. 274 P A R T III.
XXV II. — $2, the magnanimous a top-ſhoe
XX. To Eſcul, on the toothpicker
XXIX. — a boy: home-ware 259 XXI. On the manners of the women.
XXX. — Flaccus : Flaminian – Lentinus : the maſker
XXXI. On Calpetians plate XXII. — Gargilian: the lotioner I. On Gellia: weep. with a witn. 287
26o XXII. — Carm. the Corinthian 275 II. To Gellia : eſſential 288
XXXII. — Carinus’ rings
XXXIII. — the bandaged hoe XXIV. — Cotil, the pretty fellow III. On G. high and humble
XXXIV. To Zoilus : on his ring XXV. On an innocent 276 iV. To G. no hare-eater
XXVI. — a man of buſineſs V. On G. and her loves
XXXV. progreſſive
XXXVI.- ill: cauſe and cure 261 XXVII: To Didymus : a half-man 277 VI. To Linus : for Poſłumilla’, 289
XXXVII. perſpiring XXVIII. — Pannic. no whole one VII. On Cerelia and Gellia: alike 290
XXIX. On Hedyl: trite VIII. To Maximina: laughing
XXXVIII. To Aſer: boren
XXXIX. — Pacerra : poor 262 XXX. To Calliſfratus : plain 278 |X. — Leſbia: Promethean 291
XXX'. ——- wedded X. — Matrinia : an anſwer.
XL. — where and why X. — Elia ; ſolace
XLI. —— movin XXXIſ. To Decian : ſolemn
XLII. On Laurus: the ball 263 XXXIII. — the Muſe; his fellow 279 XII. On Gemellus : the wooer
X111. – Nevia ; the flatterer
XLIII. To L. the wonder-worker 264 XXXIV. — a provoked by and 292
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XIV. On Philani; : more ſweet XXXII. On a rival L. To F. the beguiler
XV. —- leſs fair XXXIII. To P. conſcientious 298 LI. On F. the ponderer
XVI. To Philenis - fond XXXIV. — Articilla : the modeſt LII. On Levina: the bather
XVII. —- hopeleſs XXXV. — Chloe : nowhere nec.
LIII. — Cleopatra: the plunger 30;
XXXVI.
XVIII. To Lycoris : not Glycera 293 - the bounteous 299 LIV. To Elopeia: the economiſt
XIX. On Lycoris : from Tibur XXXVII. To Pontia: mouthfiller LV. – Gallopina : the conformiſt .
XX. To Polla : impolitic XXXVIII.-Galla: more pleaſing LVI. On Thel. ſold and bought 306
XXI. – a bather: the alternative XXXIX. in boxes 3oo LVII. To #.
: no adultereſs
XXII. – Lydia ; ſafe, filent XL. —— the purchaſer LVIII. — Paula : honeſty policy
XXIII. — Lalage : the bloody 294 XLI. To Lelia : talking Greek LIX. — Candidus: no monopoliſt 307
XXIV. — Feſcennia : comfitted XL!I. On Lydia ; the looſe 3ol LX. — Gallas the vindication
XXV. — Myrtale : laurelled 295 XLIII. To Leſbia: the open LXI. On Philenus ; a father
XXVI. On Baſa: the cunning XLV. — Baſa ; the ſphinx 3oz LXII. — M's wife : a paradox 308
XXVII. - leſs fragrant XLV. — C. the fond alternative LXIII. To Milo : the merchant
XXVIII. On Thai : not more 296 XLVI. — Rufus : the ſought .303 LXIV. – Cinna : on Marulla
XXiX. To Diad. the contraſt XLVII. — Fabulla : the found LXV. --Antiquilla : youthfull 309
XXX. the number 297 XLVIII. the proud LXVI. — a lady: the proph. 311
XXXI. the conſequence XLIX. - the politic 3o4 LXVII. its accompliſhment

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B O O K. VII.

On the convivial manners of the Romans : their paraſites, inviters, entertainers ; eating, drinking, feaſing.

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I. O Capitol, the jeſter 312 XXX. To Liber : not Bacchus LVIII.To Severus : on the conſular
II. To Cecilius : the buffoon XXXI. — a Boar: returning 326 LIX. — Amm. on the Vatican
III. - Calliodorus : the wit 313 XXXIſ. – Gallicus : boared LX. — Tucca : the murderer
IV. — Philom. the delighter XXXIII. — a prince : princely 327 LXI. — Pamph. the widower 337
V. - the politician 314 XXXIV. — Mancinus ; the reverſe LXII. — Munna : the Maſſilian
VI. To a pair: the friend XXXV. — Fabullus ; anointed 328 LXIII. — Pinacauſtus : no cooler
VII. — Sabellus ; the panegyriſt 315 XXXVI. — Marus : ſplendid LXIV. — Lupercus : the timely 338
VIII. — Cantbarus : the ſpirited XXXVII. On Annius: the courſer LXV. — Sext. the goodnatured
IX. On Selius : melancholy XXXVIII. — Cotta ; unſhod 329 LXVI. ſtill begging
X. hunting 316 XXXIX. To Germ. the barbarian LXVII. On Syriſcus : the ſwiller 339
XI. ſucceſsfull 317 XL. — Romanus : the Roman LXVIII. To Au.on the glimmerer
XII. – the philoſopher XLI. – Entellus : the hoſpitable 33o LX!X. On Panar. the decanter
XIII. To Claſſicus : ſhy XLII. On Paulus and Atilius LXX. To Cotta: the amethyſtine 34o
XIV. On Mºnog. the number 318 XLIII. To Ponticus: parity LXXſ. On Eučius : the anteek
XV. To Charopinus; the watcher XLIV. – Cecilian : a muſhroom 331 LXXII. — the Crumb : of D. 341
XVI. — Dento: the denier 319 XLV. — late and early LXXIII. — Mauſoleums
XVII. — Procil. the reminiſcent XLVI. -— the ſweeper LXXIV. – Ceſar Germanicus
XVIII. — Sextus: the oblivious 320 XLVII. On Sané?ra: the ſeller LXXV. — Caius julius Proculus
XIX. — Gallus : the parallel XLVIII.-Sabidius : the blower 333 LXXVI. To Flaccus: on Priſcus 342
XX. — Lupercus : the revenge XLIX. To the man of taſte LXXVI ſ. – Paulus : outwitted
XXI. —Fabullus : the reaſon 321 L. — the man of none LXXVIII. On Rufus and Nevia
XXII. — Zoilus : the bleſſer LI. — Cinna : ſly 334 LXXIX. To Rufus : on Nevia 343
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XXIII. — king Maximus : a ſong LII. – Nevia: the cook-cutter LXXX. — Somnus : on four more
XXIV. On Ethan : the penitent 322 LIII. — Ruſticus : his advocate LXXXI. -- T. the invitation 344
XXV. To Ligurinus; the reader 323 L!V. — Theopomp. the celeſtial LXXXII. — L. the entertainm. 345
XXVI. the reciter 324 LV. — Publius: bluſhing 335 LXXXIII.-j.C. the bill of fare 347
XXVII. the entertainer LVſ. – After : jealous LXXXIV. On Cecilius’ gºurd 348
XXVIII. To Priſc. the enquirer 325 LVII.-Ovid': on the Nomentan 336 LXXXV. — Zoilus’ feaſt 349
XXIX. — Liber: the liver
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On the Roman Fºival: Saturnalian and Conſanguineal.

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I. O Rome: on the Satur. 351 XVIII. To Quintianus: no bait 360 VI. To Q. Ovid, on Calends
II. —Varro: invitation 352 XIX. On Sabellus’ Saturnians 361 VII. – the compromiſe
III. -- Atticus: incitement XX. To Galla : requitable 362 VIII. To the Calends of March
IV. On Horatius : decent 353 XXI. — a kinſman: cozened IX. ——on natalenjoyment 368.
V. A winter-provocation XXII. —Flaccus: forgiving 363 X. On Domitians birthday
VI. The Endromir: another . XI. — the ſame: Ceſonia’s 369
VII. To Rufus : a warning 354 XII. 15 to the Cal. ofJune
VIII. On Athenagoras: gloomy P A R T II. XIII. On Canius ; what doing?
IX. To juvenal: the remnant XIV. –the unquittable370
X. —a friend: with pippins 355 On the Roman Feſtivals - Natal and XV. To Canius: on Theophila 371
XI. — Sextilian: the transferent Nuptial. XVI. On Pudens and Claudia
XII. — Umber: another XVII. — Claudia and Pudens
XIII. —Poſtumian: the dwindler 356 I. To Diodorus : born yeſterday 364 XVIII. For Carus and Norbana 372
XIV. —Paulus : on his vial II. — 7uffinus ; born tomorrow XIX. On Sulpitia: the connub.
XV. — Inſtant Rufus: on his 357 III. —Clytus : born monthly XX. To Calenus: the bleſſed , 373
XVI. —Lupus : his error 35 8 IV. —Reſtitutus: the honoraries 365 XXI. -Nigrina: with Antiff. 374
XVII. –a pretender: half-honeſt 359 V. – Wirgilianus : on the Ides 367

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B O O K IX.

On the Funeral Celebrations.

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I. N Nigr. twice a widow 375 XIV. To Silius: paternal XXVII. On Urbicus: enchanting
II. O To Sempronia: on Ruf. XV. On the pićture of Camonus 38o XXVIII. —Eutychus : raviſhed 386
XVI. — Camomus : adoleſcent
III. To Varus : the centurion 376 XXIX. — Fenius’ daughter
IV. On Fuſtus : ſecurely vićtor XVII. To Ra. Ca. gone before XXX. conſecrated 387
V. — Saloninus: alive 377 XVIII. On Erot. commended 381 XXXI.-a matron: twice Teren.
VI. To Lucan and Tullus XIX. - compared XXXII.-Plotia ; the gay
VII. enviable XX. — honored 383 XXXIII. To Philenis : premature 388
VIII. On Aquinus and Fabritius 378 XXI. On Canace: unmournable XXXIV. On Paris : the player 389
IX. — P. reddy and willing XXII. —Demetrius: ſent free 384 XXXV. —Latinus : the comedian
X. —- C. blaſpheming XXIII. — Pantagathus: at reſt XXXVI.-Scorpus: the charioteer
XI. — Picens: the pious XXIV. To Alcimus: his honors XXXVII. young and old 390
XII. — Etruſcus: either 379 XXV. On Glaucias: manumitted 385 XXXVIIſ. On Lydia : peerleſs
XIII. - Rabirius: filial XXVI, the paragon
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The Saturnalian Hoſpitalities : preſenting every article M. the table. To the initiatory incenſe and neceſſary fuel
fºccede the products of nature and art ; in the vegetables, whether legumes, or other fruits ; in the animals; 7ua
drupeds, birds, or fiſhes ; in every ſimple or compound, ariſing conſequentially - ſo in all the varieties of milk, egs,
pickles, honey, oil, and wine.

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I. O the Muſes: their play 392 XLIV. The kids : devoted LXXXVI. Sowr-womb : choice 4o:
II. To the ſneerer: his prey 393 XLV. Lalifto: the ſuckling LXXXVII. A Lucanian ſauſage
III. — the reader: price, and titles XLVI. The wild-aſ; 99 LXXXVIII. A ham : ſucculent
IV. Incenſe ; for Ceſar XLVII. The dormouſe: fed and f: LXXXIX. A gammon : alternative
V. Smokeleſ, wood: for Nomentum XLVIII. Pannonians : indefinite XC. Gooſes-liver ; a puzzle
VI. Wheat. Libyan, the beſt 394 XLIX. The thruſh : prime XCI. Flour: of manifold uſe
VII. Barley : for the mules L. The godwit : in flavor XCII, Picentine loaves: light
VIII. The coated bean LI. The wittal: trepanned XCIII. Cheeſe, Lunian
IX. The Egyptian bean LII. The figpecker: º name XCIV. Veſtinian 405
X. Lentiles: Peluſian LIII. her needfull XCV. . Velabrian
XI. Cole worts : their dreſſing LIV. Porphyrion : a conundrum 4oo XCVI. Trebulan
XII. Lettuce : a whet
XIII. Beet: to be qualified
LV. Phenicopter: name and danger
LVI. Pheaſant : the Colchian
XCVIII. #. §§ #.
XCVII. Beaffing, or Beeffing:
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XIV. Aſparagus : from Ravenna 395 LVII. Partridge: ſcarce Auſonian XCIX. Anchovy-pickle.
XV. Shred leeks : ſtrong LVIII. Rail: cheaper, and ſo held
- C. Tunny-pickle
XVI. Headed leek: ; from Aricia LIX Turtle-dove : independant CI. Attic honey
XVII. Scallions: genial LX. Dove : ſacred CII. Sicilian honeycomb. 406
XVIII. Turnips : Romulean LXI. Ringdove : improper . CIII. %. oil
CIV. Seaſoning taffe
XIX. Navews: Amiternian LXII. The cranes : Palamedian 401
XX. Shampinions: not ubiquarian LXIII. The peacoc : Junonian
LXIV. The ſwan : melodious
CV. juce of ;:
XXI. Truffles ; equivocal CVI. Raiſºn-wine: whence
XXII. Hard grape; not uſeleſs 396 LXV. The turkey : Numidian CVII. Pitch-wine: whoſe
XXIII. Olives: of double ſervice LXVI. The gooſe : Capitolian CVIII. Metheglin of what
XXIV. Dates : for the patron LXVII. The duck : her bits CIX. Alban : where
XXV. Codans or Cottams : Syrian LXVIII. Fedfowl : darkling CX. Surrentine : modeſt 4O7
XXVI. The Chian fig : tempered LXIX. The capon : preferable CXI. Maſſic : beyond conſular
XXVII. The quince: to be ſo LXX. The ben : alſo Cybelian 4oz CXII. Setian : whence, and what
XXVIII. Peaches : grafted LXXI. The pullet : acceptable CXIII. Fundam : Opimian
XXIX. Citrons: Grecian or Afric. LXXII. The barbel ; out of element CXIV. Trifoline: ſeventh
XXX. Pine-apples: alarming 397 LXXIII. The lamprey: ſun-ſtruck CXV. Cecubian ; of Amycle
XXXI. Damaſcenes : aperient LXXIV. Turbot : lordly CXVI. Tarentine : of Aulon
XXXII. Sorbs : oppoſite LXXV. Sturgeon : kingly CXVII. Mamertine : mature
XXXIII. Pomgranates and Pippins LXXVI. The raven-fiſh : Nilian CXVIII. Nomentan : Martialian 408
XXXIV. The ſame inverted CXIX. Ceretan : ſelect
LXXVII. The ſea-urchin: a pincher
XXXV. The bare : leader LXXVIII. Purple-fiſh : plaintif 403 CXX. Tarraconian : a challenger
XXXVI. The coney : teacher LXXIX. The gudgeon: commencer CXXI. Spoletine: beyond Falern.
XXXVII. The boar: Diomedean LXXX. Char: rich and poor CXXII. Pelignian : low
xxxVIII. The pig; preferred 398 LXXXI. Pike: a temperer CXXIII. Ma/ilian ; ſervile
XXXIX. The ſtag: whether? LXXXII. Gilt-head : Lucrine CXXIV. Signian ; aſtringent
XL. The doe not gardleſs LXXXIII. The oiffer : greedy CXXV. Egyptian vinegar
XLI. The doe-fawn ; a plaything LXXXIV. Theſhrimp : if not ſquill CXXVI. Ointment and wine 409
XLII. The roe : dependant LXXXV. Sows-udder; luſcious CXXVII. The winter-wreath
XLIII. The wild goat: fierce
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II. I. Carrioſables: orportables 411 LII. A ſword, a ſickle
III. Citron-tablets
IV. Ivory-tablets
V. Fivefolds : announcers
VI. Threefolds: promiſers
VII. Witellians: as pleaſing
VIII. leſs ſo
IX. Wellum-tablets: commodious
X. Paper-pocketbook: elegant
XI. Miffive-paper: ſhameleſs
XII. Book-caſe : preſervative
XIII. Book-board: ; alſo fencers
XIV. Pencaſe: weightier care
XV. Writing-reeds : Memphian 413 LXV. Balſam or balm. whoſe
XVI. Standiſh : for the boy
XVII. Chamber-lamp : truſty
XVIII. Candle: her handmaid
XIX. Manymatch-lamp : conven.
XX. Wax-taper: ſubſidiary
XXI. Corinthian candleſ?ic
XXII. Wooden candleſtic
XXIII. Horn-lantern: ſnug
XXIV. Bladder-lanterm : next
XXV. irº. }
XXVI. Ivory-coffer: for what
XXVII. Tallies: in luck
XXVIII. Dice : leſs numerous
XXIX. The dice-box : awfull
XXX. Playing-tables
XXXI. Drafts or Cheſ;
XXXII. Nuts : dangerous
XXXIII. Coit or Quoit : no leſs
XXXIV. Hoop: doubly pleaſing
XXXV. jinglered
XXXVI. Trigonal (hand-) ball
XXXVII. Harpaſt or catch-ball
XXXVIII. Bellows, or 'wind-b.
XXXIX. Paganic, or ruſtic, b. 416
XL. The bath-bell
XLI. — ballances
XLII — oil-horn
XLIII. — rinoceros-born
XLIV. — lether-cap
XLV. — feſh-bruſh
XLVI. — umbrella
XLVII. — braud-brim
XLVIII. Hunting-ſpears
XLIX. The hunting-ruck
L. cinctured ſword
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LI. The dagger: ſaloed Cl: Lingonic, or Leuconic, ſocks
CII. Circenſian locks
LIII. A hatcher, or battle-ax CIII. Down: Amyclean 424.
LIV. Trimming inſtruments CIV. Hay: healthfull
LV. A toothpicker 4.18 CV. The pillow; eſſential
LVI. An earpicker CVI. Afrieze-counterpane
412 LVII. A back ſcratcher CVII. Coverlets : ſiſterly
LVIII. A hair-pin CVIII Grogram frieze: whence
LIX. A pate-comb CIX. Embroidered furniture
LX. Sope: Teutonic CX. Guſtatories: not female
LXI. Mattiac b. momentous C XI Citron: beyond gold 425
LX11. Dentifrice: for whom SXII. Maple: underſtanding
LXIII. Myrobalan: at whom 419 CXIII. Elephant-ſupporters
LXIV. Saltpeter: whence CXIV Table-frieze: for whom
CXV. Spunge: when kind
LXVI. Lotion : precautious CXVI. Inlaid platters : for what
LXVII. Stomacher: expedient CXVII. Shampinionary: ſprout.
LXVI, i. 7 ucker: friendly CXVIII. A Cumean platter
LXIX. Neckatee: happy | CXIX. Aretine ware 426
LXX. Girdle: variable CXX. Baſrauda: Britannic
LXXI. An Apron 42O CXX. Panacian ºve/r/
LXXII. A Cap CXXII. Snow-cullander
4.14 LXXIII. A Muffer CXXIII. Snow-ſerce
LXXIV. Cilician ſºcks CXXV. A ſnow-flagon
LXXV. Slipp. from what ſerv.
LXXVI. Rings : chains
CXXV. Snows : pervaded
CXXVI. — —not for ſmoke
LXXVII. Ring-caſe: enſurer CXXVI. Pitcherlings 427
LXXVIII. The gown: Latian CXXVIII. An earthen pitcher
LXXIX. The Sportules dear 421 CXXIX. Beakers : for three
LXXX. Endromis: not vulgar CXXX. Patinian cups
415 LXXXI. Patavinian Tunics CXXXI. Saguntine cups
LXXXII. Supping-garments CXXXII. Surrentine cups
LXXXIII. Syntheſis, or revel-v. CXXXIII. Stadded cups
LXXXIV. The hooded mantle CXXXIV. Anteek gobblets
LXXXV. Liburnian cowls CXXXV. Pial ſculptured 428
LXXXVI. Frieze-cloke: light CXXXVI. A coſmetic flaſ.
LXXXVII. The lether-cloke 422 CXXXVII. A glaſ;-cloud
LXXXVII". — gabardine CXXXVIII. Glaſs-gobblets
LXXXIX. White Overalls
CXXXIX. Glaſſ-cup,
XC. Crimſon Overally CXL. Cryſtallimes: affraid of fear
XCI. Betic Overall CXLI. Myrrhines: fragrant
XCI). Amethyſłine wool CXLII. Earthen ſlipper
XCI'ſ. White wool; ; three CXLIII. Silver-ligules not lingule 429
XCIV. Wyrian wools : for whom CXLIV.Cockler: why notºggler p
XCV.
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Pollentime wool; ſable 423 CXLV. A medicine-cheft
XCVI. —------- for whom CXLVI. Fivefoot. no jobber
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4.1% XCVII. Canuſian, dark CXLVII. The laſh: no joker
XCV II. —red CXLVIII. Rod: Promethean
XCIX. Peacoc-bed CXLIX. Whip ; vain for ſome
C. A Sigma-couch
CL. Cowtail-ſwitch : potent
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CLI. The peacoc-fiflap 43o CLXXV. Viâory - whoſe 433 CXCVIII. An Affurian: ambler
CLII. The beeſom, or broom CLXXVI, Pallas: without Egis CXCIX. Horſe furniture 436
CLIII. The ſcrip ; of the cynic CLXXVII. Hercules, and the ſnakes CC. Pigmy-mules -

CLIV. The rattle: for a ſqualler
CLV. The Cymbal : for Cybele
CLVI. Pipe: her compoſition
CLVII. Flute : her blower
CLVIII. Harp, or Lyre: Orphean
CLIX. yet expelled 431 CLXXXIII. Europa, painted 434 CCVI. The raven ; a ſaluter
CLX. The bow : kind ſubſtitute
CLXI. Frogmouſe-fight : Meonian
CLXII. Homer: in vellum
CLXIII. Wirgil’s gnat
CLXIV. frontiſpice
CLXV. Ovid's Metamorphoſes
CLXVI. Propertius : inſpired
CLXVII. Tibullus ; aſpiring 432 CXCI. The Ceſius
CLXVIII. Catullus : the endetter
CLXIX. Lucan : a poet
CLXX. Thais : not Glycera
CLXXI. Tully, fellow-traveller!
CLXXII. Livy : enormous
CLXXIII. Salluff - greater
CLXXIV. Water-verſes : for ſwim.
CLXXVIII. in clay CCI. The Gallican lap-dog
CLXXIX. Saurocłonos : in ačt CCII. The tumbler: diſintereſted
CLXXX. Brutus’ pigmy CCIII. The hawk : not ſo
CLXXXI. Hyacinth, painted CCIV. The parrot : loyal
CLXXXII. Danae, painted CCV. The magpy : as clear
CLXXXIV. Leander, in marble CCVII. The nightingale: Philom.437
CLXXXV. Hermaph. in marble CCVIII. A cage : for a rambler
CLXXXVI. A Germanic maſk CC; X. The purveyor : two queſt.
CLXXXVII. A deformed figure CCX: Bird-catching reeds, or twigſ
CLXXXVIII. A dwarf CCXI. A Rhodian cake
CLXXXIX. The targuet CCXII. Priapus : munchable
CXC. The fool, or zany CCXIII. The hog : fatted
435 CCXIV. The ſauſage : a gladder
CXCII. Cytherean CCXV. The rams head 4.38
CXCIII.2%ung comedians: not univ. CCXVI. The bullocs heart
CXCIV. The comé for papyrus CCXVII. The cook : qualified
CXCV. The ſecretary : flying CCXVliſ. The gridiron, and ſpit
CXCVI. The wreſtler: wriggl. CCXX. The confect. and ſervant
CXCVII. The ape: no marmoſet CCXX. Breakfaſt; and the baker

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B O O. K. XII.

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I. O Ceſar : a prayer 439 XXVII. To an unenviable LIII. To Cherilus ; on the free 446
II. To Marcus : the return XXVIII. – the moroſe : their objećt LIV. — Mattus : on ſelf-denial
III. To Ceſar : the apology XXIX. On cheapneſs: penury 443 LV. – Ponticus : on the tongueleſs
IV. — Stella : demanding XXX. To a vintner LVI. On the branded boy vindićt.
V. — Sabinus : morning-ſtrains 440 XXXI. On water at Ravenna
VI. — Avitus : a book LVIII.To
LVII.
XXXII. – the vintner of Ravenna OnGargilian : foolmonger
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VII. – Lauſus : a good book
VIII. On diffics : ſhort and long
IX. To a volume : for Rome
X. — Pontilian : no preſents
XI. — Tucca : none
XII. — Claſſicus : bards cunning
XIII. On Paulus : the purchaſer 441
XIV. To Fidentinus : the acquirer
XV. — Celer: the ſpouter
XVI. — Velox : conciſe
XVII. — Varus : witty and wiſe
XVIII. — Mamercus ; alſo prudent
XIX. On Picens: the leaf-turner
XX. To Lelius : the carper
XXI. — a pettifogging pecſter 442 XLVII. To a muffed ſpeaker
XXII. — Bithynicus : ſatisfaction XLVI iſ. On Apollodotus: reddy
XXIII. On Cinna : ſlandered
XXIV. To Noſy ; ſharp-ſented
XXV. On Tongilian's noſe
XXVI. Terentos' contraſt
XXXIII. — the cobbler and fuller LIX. To Catian : on the blue driver
XXXIV. – Eutrapelus: the barber LX. — Levinus : the upſtart
XXXV. — a various trimmer LXI. — Dedalus ; repreſented 447
XXXVI. To Olus : particolored LXII. On a match of gladiators *
XXXVII. On Diaulus : the clinic 444 LXIII. — little Lout ; a tear
XXXVIII. — Dočfor Diſmal LXIV. — Fannius : ſafe
XXXIX. — Doctor Tilter LXV. — Africanus : poor
XL. — Doctor Herod LXVI. To Emilianus : not enriched
XLI. To Cotta - the bag-bearer LXVII. To angry friends: prudent
XLII. — the finic LXVIII. — Autur ; economy
XLIII. To Matho: the fine ſayer LXIX. To Paulus ; his anteeks 448
XLIV. —Helius: the huſhmonger LXX. — Cecil, the ſummer-pond
XLV. — Maxim. his plea good 445 LXXI. - Garricus : his det
XLVI. On a hoarſe harmoniſł LXXII.- Sextºr: pepper-merch.
LXXIII. On Diodore : the gouty
LXXIV. — the firſt claimant
XLIX. To Pontilian : no ſaluter LXXV. To Sextus : no dettor
L. — Priſcus : no king LXXVI. — Cinna: denied nothing
LI. — Softbian: no prince LXXVII. no hypocrite 449.
Lll. — Cinna : firred. LXXVIII. On Caffor: the buy-ail
LXXIX.
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LXXIX. On Ollur the ſell-all CXXVI. To another favorite CLXXIII. B. water-drinkcr 461
LXXX. — Linus : no borrower CXXVII. Phebus : on a funnel CLXXIV. B. in gold and glaſs
LXXXI. To a friend: a bluſh CXXVIII. ſelf-ſatisfied CLXXV. An adultereſ, robed
LXXXII. — Matho; an advice CXXIX. preſcription CLXXVI. On a eunuc : gowned
LXXXIII. —the buyer bit CXXX. On Philip : on eight CLXXVII. Them. unmarried
LXXXIV. —Linus : the revenue CXXXI. — Oppian : ſallow CLXXVIII. Pol, untouching
LXXXV. — S. egs and apples 450 CXXXII. To Opp. never well CLXXIX. guarding
LXXXVI. — Fauffinus ; a hint CXXXIII. Charinus : not def 456 CLXXX. On Paula; wooing
LXXXVII. — Regulus: a proffer CXXXIV. Papilus: ſnuf-taker CLXXXI. old and young 462
LXXXVIII. —Lupus : a caution CXXXV. Tucca: the Coſmetic CLXXXII. and the mute
LXXXIX. — Maro: promiſing CXXXVI. Neffor: whiſperer CLXXXIII. P. the dilemma
XC. — Gaurus : gifts, what CXXXVII. Sabid. unbeloved CLXXXIV. 2, the undeniable
XCI. — Softbian: the houſeletter CXXXVIII. P. condeſcending CLXXXV. Gellia: the ſolution
XQII. — Catullus: unproving CXXXIX. Hermus: humane CLXXXVI. —one gallant
XCIII. On Labienus: unrepaid 451 CXL. To Macer: unringed CLXXXVII. Gal. the demand
XCIV. — Marius : the joker CXLI. Zoilus : phyſiognomiſed 457 CLXXXVIII. Gellius ; earning
XCV. --Criſpus: his heir CXLII. not vicious CLXXXIX. After: in no hurry 463
XCVI. Emil. no abraud-ſupper CXLIII. — relieved CXC. To a pair on a par
XCVII. Philo: no home-ſupper CXLIV. — unſavory CXCI. On Aper: the archer
XCVIII. Naſica: the inviter CXLV. foul-mouthed CXCII. To Galla : all promiſe
XCIX. Sextus: ſportule-dealer CXLVI. fine-clothed CXCIII. — paradox
C. Gallicus: the mongrel-maker CXLVII. — boren CXCIV. a healing overture
Cl. To Olus ; the diſh-coverer 452 CXLVIII. — unborn CXCV.--an important counſel
CII. Another: the boy-feeder CXLIX. — dedicating 458 CXCVI. —the double return
CíII. To Rufus : the dog-cutter CL. Flaccus : on chin-rubbing CXCVII.- mourning modeſtly 464
CIV. On Aper: frugal CL ſ. To Senia: confronted CXCVIII. To her 8th huſband
CV. —Cariſſan, begowned CL II. On Nevia: ſilent CXCIX. Phileros: improver
CVI. To Cinna : the epicure CLII". To Fauſtus: writing CC. On Chloe; the inſcriber
CVII. — Tucca : the glutton CLIV. — Claudia : no dwarf CCI. To Lycoris : on her Venus
CVIII. On Canus: ſportule-ſlain CLV. On Spatale: no ſpider CCII. — Artemid. the painter
CIX. — Ethon: penitent 453 CLVI. — Thais : no entity CCIII. On the picture of Memor
CX. Cecilians crony CLVII. — Quintus and Thais 459 CCTV — Turnus: his brother
CXI. To Marul. the oil-dropper CLVIII. To Thai: ; undenying CCV. —the buſt of Socrates 465
CXII. Pompon. where eloquent CLIX. on age CCVI. — Phaeton enamelled
CXIII. Calliſłratus : praiſe-all CLX. On Thais and Leucania CCVII. — ſculptured fiſhes
CXIV. On different wine CLXI. To Lelia: no eye CCVIII. —a lizzard engraved
CXV. —various cup CLXII. — Leſbia: golden locks CCLX. To an anteek-maker
CXVI. Why various wine CLXIII. On Fabulla : to Paulus
CCX. — Chione: on her name
CXVII. On Acerra : wronged 454 CLXIV. – Lycoris : the ogler CCXI. On Chione: to Rufus
CXVIII. Poſłumus : promiſer CLXV. friend 460 CCXII. — Paulinus : his riſk
CX1X. Fabullus: honeſt man! CLXVI. —— traveller CCXIII. —Bacchus, Bimater 466
CXX. Caſtellius: premature CLXVII. Philen. half-weeping CCXIV.—Achilla: ; the bruiſer
CXXI. On Munna : the teacher CLXVIII. On Ligeia: her age CCXV. To Emilian ; on Miſyllus
CXXII. Sophronius: the father CLXIX. Afra : her youth CCXVI. On Diffics: the remedy
CXXIII. Codrus : credit-giver CLXX. To another: ſafe unſeen CCXVII. To the Reader: conclu.
CXXIV. On Aſper: the fancier CLXXI. — Manmeia: the buſſer
CXXV. To a favorite 455 CLXXII. —Baſa ; the belier

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Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. " .
Epig. Lib. Epig. Epig. Lib. Epig- |Epig. Spect.Epig. Epig. Spect. Epig. Epig. Lib.Epig.
I • -8 I 29 8 39 || 17 1 I | 44 28 20 6, 3
2 5 1 || 3o 9 2 | 18 12 || 45 2O 2I 4. 3
3 5 2 || 3 || 9 21 || 19 13 || 46 -. 29 22 6 13,
4. 5 15 32 9 35 | 20 . 14 || 47 Lib. 5 65 || 23 9 24
5 2 2 || 33 7 55 || 21 Lib. 5 55 24 9 25
6 8 82 || 34 9 4 22 Spect. 16 25 9 65
7. t 5 || 35 8 8o 23 19 P A RT III. 26 9 66
8 7 I 24. 17 27 9 Ioz
7 4 25 18 || 1 9 84
1% 7 5 P A RT II. 26 Lib. 1 23 2 6 4.
I I 7 6 27 I 52 3 6 2 || APPENDIX.
I2 7 7 || 1 Spect. 1 || 28 I 61 4. 9 9 -

13 8 2 || 2 2 29 1 49 5 9 7 || 1 I2 5
14 8 8 || 3 3 || 30 I 7 || 6 9 8o 2 9 27
15 8 1 1 || 4 4 || 3 || I 15 7 7 59 || 3 8 7o
16 8 15 # 7 || 32 I 1 os 8 8 24 || 4 I I 2
l 8 2I - 21 || 33 2 75 9 2 91 5 I2 6
: 8 26 || 7 Lib. 8 3o 34 . Spea: io || 16 2 92 || 6 Io 28
19 8 65 || 8 1o 25 || 35 Lib. 8 55 || 11 4 27 || 7 IO 6
20 8 4 || 9 I1 34 || 36 4 35 | 12 5 19 || 8 1o 7
2. 8 5o 10 Spect. 23 || 37 4 74 || 13 6 io || 9 io 34 ** *
22 8 54 || 1 || 15 38 Spect. 3o | 1.4 9 19 || Io 1o 72 . . . "
23 9 92 || 12 27 | 39 Lib. 5 31 || 1 ; 6 83 || 1 | I I S -

24 5 3 || 13 6 || 4o 9 39 || 16 8 32 || 12 I i 6 - •. "
25 5 7 || 14 - A 5 || 41 Spect. 24 || 17 9 32 || 13 12 8 - º

26 6 8o 15 9 || 42 25 | 18 4 3o || 14 12 15 º •
27 7 60 | 16 22 || 43 26 || 19 I 9o 15 II 4. º
28 8 36
B O O K II.
I 2 5 | 16 5 11 || 3 || 1o 3o 46 12 34 || 61 11 58 -

2 I 9 || 17 5 12 || 32 3 2 || 47 1o 47 || 62 7 lo
3 1 40 | 18 6 21 || 33 4 lo || 48 4 49 || 63 4 29
4. 2 93 || 19 7 49 || 34 a 26 || 49 8 56 || 64 6 58
5 I 1 12 || 20 7 14 || 35 io 5 1 || 5o 1 77 || 65 7 96 *

6 1 13 || 2 I 6 47 36 5 71 || 51 1i 81 | 66 9 59
7 1 83 22 11 1 || 37 4 57 || 52 9 91 || 67 9 61 •
3 7 3o 23 12 11 38 3 58 || 53 4 14 | 68 7 92

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I2 7 35 | 27 9 5o 42 4 64 || 57 I 5o || 72 6 z;
13 * 8 78 || 28 4 87 || 43 7 16 || 58 7 83 || 73 7 79
14 9 43 || 29 7 25 || 44 5 20 || 59 1o 19 || 74 9 46
15 1 8 || 3o 7 88 I 45 , , i 16 l 60 5 8o 75 IQ 12
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Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. - Ord. vulg. Ord, vulg. Ord. vulg.
Epig. Lib. Epig. Epig. Lib. Epig. Epig. lib. Epig. Epig. Lib. Epig. Epig. Lib. Epig.
76 3 I 90 4 83 |104 7 41 I 18 12 57 132 1o 96
77 3 4. 9t 6 82 |195 6 43 i 19 4. 9o 133 io 1 of
78 4. 25 92 1i 8o loé 1o 58 12C 2 9o 134. 1o 104
79 Io
93 93 6 -27 || 1 o'7 1 loš i2I 1o 17 135 I2 3
8o 9 1 Oo 94. 4. 5 || 108 1o 7o 122 1o 78 136 12 68
8i IO 8 73 137 I 2 18
23 95 . 3 38 io9 1 71 123
82 lo 32 96 5 : 5 || Io 9 23 I 24 12 99 138 I2 2I
97 8 || 1 1 I 8 38
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to I 9 I I 15 6 7o 129 Io 20

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18 1 116 || 34 6 65 5o 5 53 § 7 11
19 4 77 || 35 12 95 5I 4 33 67 1o 33
2O 8 61 || 36 I 3o 52 i I 107 68 7 71
2 I 9 98 || 37 I 53 53 6 14 69 1O 3
22 5 13 || 38 I 54 54 7 84 7o I 18
23 3 95 || 39 1 73 55 no 2i 71 5 16
24. 1o 79 || 4o I 67 56 7 45 72 5 62
25 1o 8o || 41 io loo
57 7 24 no 2
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26 2 71 || 42 12 63 58 4. 6 74 8 3
27 1 43 || 43 1I 95 59 6 6o 75 IO 4.
: 28 9 51 || 44 7 23 6o 11 91 76 2 86
29 2 77 || 45 5 28 61 8 69 77 Io l
3o 3 69 || 46 1o 5 62 5 to 78 11 1 og
31 12 61 || 47 11 Io9
63 1 36 79 4 91
32 5 60 | 48 5 73 64 11 17
B O O K IV. P A R T I.
2I 4 59 || 41 1o 89 15 8 76 9 93
22 6 15 || 42 9 44 16 5 21
7 86
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24 9 72 || 44 i 1 IO 18 2 74
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19 9 95 7 28
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27 3 91 || 1 9 69 2i 1o 77 12 85
28 8 75 2 1o 62 , 22 6 53 I 32
29 12 84 3 5 24 23 1 86 5 48
3o 7 36 l 4 2 64 24 6 66 9 12
3I 9 41 S 2 7 25 6 . 8
32 12 9 6 -
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33 4 44 || 7 1 98 27 8 16 9 17
34 9 62 8 8 7 28 9 99 9 18
35 7 18 || 9 6 35 29 8 52 9 37
36 3 67 || 1 o 4 81 3o 7 63 9 57
37 4 3" | I i 6 19 31 11 85 1I 4o
38 7 37 || 12 2 32

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Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg.
Epig. Lib. Epig. Epig. Lib. Epig. Epig. Lib. Epig. Epig. Lib. Epig.
3I 2 3o 42 5 38 || 53 7 42 | 64 2 46
32 lo 16 43 1o II 54 7 32 || 65 4 84
33 Io 14 44 6 1 1 || 55 9 83 66 1 1 Oo
34. 59 45 1 87 56 6 3o 67 1 104
3 91 46 6 5o 57 11 77 | 68 12 53
.# 55 47 3 4o 58 5 82 | 69 3 lo
37 17 48 12 25 59 3 52 7o Iz 4o
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I 9 71 || 36 ° 2 6o | I t In 20
2 12 Ico || 37 4. 7 | 12 I I I
3 2 89 || 38 7 13 13 2 26
4. 6 55 || 39 9 22 | 1.4 9 63
5 2 I 2 4o 3 I 1 15 I2 22

6 2 Io 41 a 85 | 16 2 33
7 2 22 || 42 8 31 || 17 1O 22

8 2 23 || 43 9 67 || 18 6 4o
9 2 72 || 44 3 7o 19 7 12
1O 2 67 || 45 I 74 20 3 42
i I 5 58 || 46 8 35 | 21 3 3
i 2- 1 78 || 47 8 43 22 1I 1 of
13 4 39 || 48 4 16 || 23 2 66
14 7 33 || 49 2 4 || 24 I 88
15 6 42 5o 2 17 || 25 5 4
16 5 49 || 5 || 4 7o 26 4 88 t io2
: 17 io 83 || 52 1 58 27 4. 4. I ol
18 6 57 || 53 1I lo I 28 6 93 I O2
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lo I of 13 2 69 || 25 3 44 || 37 7 47
42 14 12 83 || 26 3 45 || 38 12 88
44 I5 5 5o 27 3 5o 39 11 97
75 16 5 44 || 28 9 78 || 4o 8 14
17 1 28 29 8 77 || 41 8 68
I5 18 7 85 3o 9 73 || 42 9 86
2O
9 3 27 || 3 | 7 20 || 43 3 6o :
i i 2O 6 5 | 32 9 49 || 4 + i 2 i
I I 2I 11 36 || 33 12 48 || 45 8 67
14 22 2 19 || 34 1 44 46 2 37
27 23 2 18 35 3 12 || 47 7 19
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Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg... . Ord. vulg.
Epig. Lib. Epig, Epig. Lib. Epig. Epig. Lib. EPig. Epig. Lib. Epig. Epig. Lib. Epig.
I 4 69 66 1 27 || 71 8 6 || 76 8 45 || 81 5 78
62 1o 36 || 67 5 7o || 72 2 59 || 77 4 17 | 82 Io 48
63 6 86 | 68 6 78 || 73 5 64 || 78 1 69 || 85 1 53
64 9 88 || 69 6 89 || 74 9 94 || 79 i loy | 84 11 32
65 1 12 || 70 io 49 || 75 11 37 || 8o 1 72 || 85 3 82

! - B O O K VIII. . P A R T I.
1. i i 7 I lo 1o 94 || 19 4 46 || 4 1o 87 || 13. 3, 20
2 5 3o I I I 1o- 29 zo. 5 84 || 5 . . 12 67 | 1.4 3 64
3 7 31 | 12 7 52 || 2 | 9 55 || 6 9 53 || 15 7 68.
4. 4. 2 || 13 8 7 1 || 22 9 56 || 7 9 54 | 16 4 13
5 2 85 14 33 8. lo 24 || 17 11 54
6 4 19 | 15 8 51 P A R T II. 9 12 60 | 18 7 73
7 9 89 || 16 1i 19 l 1o 27 | Io 4. I | 19 Io 35
8 8 41 || 17 4 89 2 11 66 || 1 1 9 4o 20 1o 38
9 7 9o | 18 5 18 3 8 64 || 12. 3 6 || 2n = 4 75

- B O O K IX.
l 9 31 || 9 4 73 || 1 7 6 85 25 6 28 || 33 9 3o
2. 12 52 lo 4 6o 18 5 : 34 || 26 6 29 || 34 !I 14.
3 1o 26 | 1 | 8 57 || 19 5 37 || 27 7 95 || 35 9 29
4. 6 76 12 7 39 zo 1o 61 || 28 6 68 || 36 1o 5o.
5 6 18 || 13. 1o 71 || 2 | 11 92 || 29 1 115 37 Io 53
6 1 37 || 1.4 9 87 22 1 1 oz 3o 1 1 17 || 38. 11 70
7 9 52 | 1.5 9 75 || 23 6 52 || 31 1o 63
8 1 94 | 16 9 77 || 24 I 89 || 32 1o 67
B O O K X.
Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg.
Epig. Lib. XIII. Epig. Lib. XIII. [Epig. Lib. XIII.]Epig. ii. xiii-Fig. Lib. X111. Epig. Lib. XIII.
1 Ep. i 23 Ep. 36 45 Ep. 97 67 Ep. 52 89 EP. 54 || 1 | 1 Ep. 111
2. 2 24. 27 46 iOO 68 62 90 58 || 1 12 I 12
3 3 25 28 || 47 59 69 63 91 IO 1 13 1 13
4. 4 26 23 || 48 69 || 7o 64 92 47 || 1 14- I 14
5 15 27 24 49 5I 71 45 93 3o || 1 15 I 15
6 r2 28 46 5o 61 72 79 94. 31 || 1 16 125
7 1 1 || 29 37 || 5 || 68 || 73 8o 95 32 || 1 17 1 17
8 7 3o 25 || 52 49 || 74. 81 || 96 33 || 1 18 119
9 57 31 29 53 5 75 9I 97 38 || 1 19 1 24.
1O 9 || 32 26 || 54 78 || 76 85 98 4o | 120 I 18
1 I 17 33 42 55 71 77 86 99 I O2 || 12 I 120
12 14 34 43 56 72 78 87 1 OO log I 2.2 12 I
13 13 ſ 35 92 || 57 65 79 88 || 1 o I loé | 123 123
14. 2 I 36 6o 58 76 8o 84 I O2 IoS 124 1 16.
15 18 37 93 59 53 81 89 || 1 of 1ol 125 I 2.2
16 19 38 4I Öo 66 82 90 104 8 126 126
17 34 39 96 61 67 83 82 || 1 oš 6 || 127 127.
18 16 4o 94 62 75 84 83 || 106 1 oë
19 2O 4I 98 63 7o 8; 44 loy 1 of
2O 48 42 99 64 77 86 56 || 1 o'S 108
2I 5o 43 95 || 65 73 || 87 35 | 199 io9
22 22 44. 39 66 74 88 55 # 1 lo 1 1O

B O. O K XI.
Lib. XIV. Lib, XIV. Lib. XIV. Lib. XIV. Lib. XIV. Lib. XIV.
l l 7 8 13 84 19 4I 25 12 31 2O
2 2 8 9 14. 19 2O 42 26 13 32 18
3 3 9 7 15 38 2I 43 27 14 || 33 164:
4. 5 1O lo 16 21 22 44 28 I 5. 34 168
5 4 || 1| I i 17 39 || 23 61 29 16 || 35 169
6 6 I2 37 18 4o 24 62 3o 17 36 46
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Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg.
Epig. Lib. XIV, Fº Lib. XIV. Epig. Lib. XIV, Epig, Lib. XIV.[Epig. Lib. XIV. Epig.
37 Ep. 48 8 Ep. 134 99 Ep. 85 13o Ep. 96 || 161 Ep. 183 | 192
38 - 47 || 69 149 loo 87 1 31 1 o8 || 162 184 193
39 45 7o 15I I on I 59 I 32 . . I O2 163 185 194
4o 163 71 153 || 1 oz 16o I 33 1c3 | 164 286 195
4I 49 72 I 32 I of 16i 134 93 || 165 192 || 196
42 52 73 142 I Q4 162 135 95 166 189 || 197
43 53 74 14o | IoS 146 136 1 io || 167 193 198
44 5o 75 65 || 1 of 147 137 1 12 168 195 || 199
45 5I 76 122 || 1 of 148 138 115 169 194 || zoo
46 28 77 123 Io9 152 I 39 94 || 17o 187 || 201
47 29 78 124 Io9 15o 14o i i I 171 188 h zoz
48 3o 79 1 25 I lo 88 14 I 1 13 || 172 190 || 2:03
49 31 8o 126 1 1i 89 142 I 19 || 173 191 || 294
5o 32 81 143 1 I2 90 143 12o 174 196 || 205
5I 33 82 * 35 I 13 9i I 44 12 I 175 17o | 206
52 34 83 141 I 14 138 I45 78 176 179 || zo.7
53 # 84 128 1 I5 144 146 92 177 177 || 208
54 3 85 139 || 1 16 97 I 47 79 || 178 178 || 209
55 22 86 145 || 1 |7 1 Oi 148 8o || 179 172 2 lo
56 23 87 130 || 1 | 8 I 14 149 55 18o 171 2 i I
57 83 88 136 || 1 19 98 15o 7i 181 173 ſ 212
58 24 || 89 137 12o 99 15t 67 182 175 2 13
59 25 90 131 I2 I I oo 152 82 | 183 18o || 2 14.
6o 26 9i 133 r 22 1 of | 153 81 | 184 181 2 15
61 27 92 154 123 Io 4 154 54 || 185 174 || 2 | 6
62 56 93 155 124. 116 | 155 204 || 186 176 217
63 57 94 156 125 117 156 63 || 187 182 2 18
64 58 95 157 126 1 18 157 64 || 188 2I2 || 2 19
65 59 || 96 158 || 127 1os 158 165 189 2I3 220
66 6o 97 127 i 28 1 oë 1 59 166 190 24 O

67 66 98 129 || 129 ro? 16o 167 || 19.1 206

: B O O K XII.
Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg.
Epig. Lib. Epig. Epig. Lib. Epig. Epig. Lib. Epig. Epig. Lib. Epig. Epig. Epig. - *
I 6 87 || 29 12 76 57 8 13 || 85 7 48 || 13 I2 81
2 1 6 || 3o 1 57 || 58 11 39 || 86 5 36 || 1.4 3 49
3 Sp. 31 || 3 || 3 56 59 6 46 || 87 7 15 || 15 4. 86
4 Lib. 9 99 || 32 3 57 || 6o 6 9 || 88 6 79 || 16 12 28.
5 11 18 || 33 3 59 || 6 || Sp. 8 || 89 11 68 || 17 I 29. - -

6 I 17 | 34 7 82 || 62 Sp. 32 || 9o 8 27 || 8 I2 I 2
7 7 8o 35 8 47 || 63 11 15 || 9 | 1i 84 || 19 I2 5!
8 8 29 || 36 4 36 | 64 2 8o || 92 1.2 73 || 20 7 8
9 12 2 || 37 1 31 || 65 12 loſ 93 7 65 || 2 | IO 69
In O 7 2 || 38 l 48. 66 5 81 || 94 2 76 |122 Ioq.
1 1 7 76 || 39 8 74 67 3 37 || 95 • 5 32 |123 15
12 12 46 || 4o 9 97 | 68 12 13 96 12 19 |124
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16 I 1 1 1 || 44 I ; 72 io 57 |loo 8 22 128
17 8 20 4 3 18. 73 I 99 || ot 1o 54 |129
18 2 88 : 6 41 || 74 2 I3 || oz 3 23 || 3o
19 8 62 || 47 4 41 || 75 2 3 |Io9 3 94 || 3 ||
2O 1 92 || 48 5 54 || 76 3 61 || o4 12 3o [I32
21 5 33 || 49 5 66 || 77 8 19 |io; 6 24 || 33 l

22 12 79 || 5o 1 1 13 || 78 7 97 || oë 12 64 || 4
23 3 9 || 51 1 82 || 79 3 48 || of 12 41 || 35
24 12 37 || 52 5 57 || 8o 1 76 || o8 1 81 || 36
25 12 89 || 53 1 68 || 8 I 4 76 |log 12 78 || 37
26 I 7o 54 12 Iol | 82 11 69 o 7 58 |138
27 1 41 || 55 2 82 || 83 4 8o || | 1 5 77 || 39
28 11 3-1 56 3 21 | 84 2 38 1112 6 48 liqo

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Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg. Ord. vulg.
Epig. Lib. Epig. Epig. Lib. Epig [Epig. Lib. Epig.[Epig. Lib. Epig|Epig. Lib. Epig.
141 12 54 |157 3 8 || 73 6 69 |189 1o 84 |zo; lo 99
142 11 93 |158 4 12 |174 1 38 |190 12 58 |zoö - 4 47
143 6 91 |159 4 5o |175 2 39 || 9 | 1o 15 |zo? 3 35
144 1 1- 31 || 6o 5 43 |176 1o 52 |192 z 25 |zo.8 3 4. I
145 2 42 |16.1 12 23 1177 12 20 || 93 3 9o |zo9 8 34
146 2 58 |162 5 68 || 78 I1 90 |194 3 54 |* lo 3 34.
147 2 81 163 6 12 |179 Io 69 |195 4 38 |2 i 1 3 97
148 1i 13 |ró4 3 39 || 8o 9 6 |196 Io 95 12 3 78
149 3 29 |165 4 24 |181 io 8 |197 4 58 |2 13 5 72
15o 11 96 |166 4 62 |182 6 6 || 198 9 79 |214 7 56
15I 12 27 | 167 4 65 |183 1 75 |199 1o 43 |z I 5 I 5.1
152 2 9 |168 I2 7 || 84 5 75 |zoo 9 16 |216 1 46
153 11 65 |169 * I or || 85 6 67 |zo I i 1 of 1217 i i 19
154. 8 6o 17o 7 100 || 86 6 9o |zoz 5 4o
155 2 52 |171 1 84 || 87 3 92 |zo.3 ! I lO
156 11 1 oz 1172 5 45 || 88 9 81 lzo4 I I I I

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To propriety alſo that every part be adjuſted, we ſtill muſt read, Pref. vii. 13. leſ – more ; ix. 11. hoped
— where he hoped — Text, 18. 8. And — Or – 26. 13. crack — clack – 68. 4. bufflers — buffles — 79. 21.
ſages — ages — 93. 3. leave — ſcope — 213. 15. peopled — leprous — 239. 6. years – months – 240. 4. now –
twice – 245.6. from — on — 26o. 14. plaintive — plaint/s/ – 296. pen. dear — coy – 34o. 15. Rhetus – Rhe
cus – 348. 16. Then — Them — 355. I. 396. laſt. Maſſylia — Ma/yla – 38o. 9. 15. ant. pen. Camonus —
Camonius — 456. 4. To — On — 82. 24. dout decide — craft deride — 258. 17. The hundredth Jefferce — One
hundred thouſand — 23. ten thouſand — a million — 87. 6. To ſupper why invite an affuent friend ? — 7 o
ſupper when I aſk my learned friend ? — The couplet, 93.7. That on thy friends — That, eas'd of city-yoke,
and all annoy; One autumn thou indulge to rural joy – The ſtanza, 121. 1 1. Apollodorus – Apollodorus charms the
Nile, Their Naſo proud Pelignians ſound ; Two Seneca's, one Lucan, ſmile On Corduba's mellifluous ground —
The couplet, 137. 17. 1 et thou — ?et, left thou of thy lords correction brook, Or his fell weapon change thy
playfull look — Omitted was the laſt couplet of p. 67. The aged barbel hears the call, And honors it without ap
{. — and that of p. 111. Well the boon may lº content, That my honor'd Elian ſent. If, in fine, it ſhould
e objected, p. 13 1. that the addreſſee is not named, Ep. II. 142. the laſt line may run, Thou, PR is cus,
boomeſ mine ingenuous eaſe.
In the Comment, p. 557. c. ii. 1. 22. His ſhould be Her. — 516. i. z. forbid he in — precluded he – 526.
i. 25. Egeria, who — to whom therefore — Egeria, that exhauſtleſ, ſource of counſel and conſolation; to whom there
fore Among the names of Bacchus, 478. i. 29. was forgot Thyoneus, ſpeaking, like his mother Thyone,
rather tumult than ſacrifice; and, among the infernal floods, the boiling Phlegethon, who ſtill may enter
503. ii. 20. from the Chaldaic dardar dropt, and whence Phlegethon rolls his burning rocks to Erebus. The para
graph 473. i. 3, ought thus to procede — laſt. 4. My life is guarded, tho' my Muſe be gay ; like Ovid's con
traſt: My life is modeſ?, tho' my Muſe will play. One genius is apt to apologiſe for laſhing vice in expoſure;
the other claims at leaſt the imputation of virtue, while wantoning virtue away. Not but that — Laſt of all,
559. ii. 19. Macrobiuſes credibility may ſuffer from a probable interpolation of millia (thouſands); Ioo.ooo
feſterces (our 781 p. 5 ſh;) being, for the occaſion, an honorary not unworthy Auguſtan munificence.

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TA B L E of S U B S C R IB E R S.
IS Grace the Duke of Argyle.
His Grace the Duke of Athol.
is Grace the Duke of Ancaſter.
The Right Honorable Earl of Abercorn.
The Right Honorable Earl of Aboyne.
The Right Honorable Earl of Aberdeen.
The Right Honorable Earl of Aylesford.
The Right Honorable Earl of Aſhburnham.
The Right Honorable Earl of Ayleſbury.
The Right Honorable Lord Abergavenny.
The Right Honorable Lord Arundel of Wardour.
George Abel, Eſquire.
The Rev. William Abernethy-Drummond, M.D.
Mrs. Abington.
Alexander Adam, A. M.
Robert Adam, Eſquire.
John Ainſlie, Eſquire.
George Ainſlie, Eſquire.
Alexander Aliſon, Eſquire.
The Rev. John Allan, A. M.
John Anderſon, Eſquire.
John Anderſon, Eſquire, F. R. S. Profeſſor of Na
tural Philoſophy, Glaſgow.
John Anſty, Eſquire.
Hugh Atkins, Eſquire.
B.
His Grace the Duke of Buccleugh.
His Grace the Duke of Beaufort.
His Grace the Duke of Bolton.
His Grace the Duke of Bedford.
His Grace the Duke of Bridgewater.
His Excellence the Count de Belgioioſo, Envoy extra His Excellence Francis Bukaty, Miniſter Refidentiary
ordinary and Miniſter plenipotentiary from his Im
perial Majeſty.
The Right Honorable Earl of Balcarras.
The Right Honorable Earl Berkeley.
The Right Honorable Earl of Bute.
The Right Honorable Earl of Besſborough.
The Right Honorable Earl Bathurſt.
The Right Honorable Lord Viſcount Beauchamp.
The Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of Bath and Wells.
The Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of Bangor.
The Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of Briſtol.
The Right Honorable Lord Blantyre, 2 copies.
The Right Honorable Lady Blantyre, 2 copies.
The Right Hon. Lady Dowager of Blantyre, 2 copies. His Excellence the Earl of Carliſle, Lord Lieutenant
The Right Honorable Lord Byron.
The Right Honorable Lord Ballenden.
The Right Honorable Lord Beaulieu.
The Right Honorable Lord Brudenell.
The Right Honorable Lord Bagot.
Beauchamp Bagenal, Eſquire, of Carlow.
The Honorable George Baillie, of Jerviſwoode.
Alexander Baillie, of Dalfour, Eſquire.
Matthew Baillie, of Carnbroe, Eſquire.
ames Baird, M. D.
illiam Baker, A. M.
Andrew Balfour, Eſquire, Advocate.
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James Balmain, Eſquire.
Sir Joſeph Banks, Bart. Preſident of the R. Society.
James Barr, A.M. Rećtor of the High Sch. Glaſgow.
Thomas Barwel, Eſquire. -
Bates, Eſquire, of Moſcow.
Mr. James Bean.
James Beattie, L. L. D.
The Rev. H. Beeke, A.M. of Oriel-College, Oxford.
The Rev. William Bell, D.D. Prebendary ofWeſtminſter.
James Bell, Eſq.
Robert Bell, Eſq. *
Richard Belſon, Eſquire.
Robert Berry, Eſquire.
- #. Eſquire, of Moſcow.
The Reverend William Blacklock, D. D.
William Bleamire, Eſquire.
Mrs. Dorothea Blunt.
P. Boiſier, Eſquire. . .
Phineas Bond, Eſquire, of the Middle Temple.
Michael Bourke, Eſquire.
The Honorable Charles Boyd.
Thomas Braidwood, Eſquire.
Guſtavus Brander, Eſquire.
Mrs. Brockhurſt.
Robert Browne, Eſquire.
George Browne, Eſquire.
Pierce Bryan, Eſquire.
Thomas Buchan, Eſquire, younger, of Auchmacoy.
George Buchan-Hepburn, Eſquire.
Hugh Buchan, Eſquire, Chamberlain to the City of
Edinburgh.
William Buchan, M. D. Norfolk-ſtreet.
from the Crown of Poland.
The Honorable James Burnet, Lord Montboddo.
George-Anſon Byron, Eſquire.
Mrs. George Byron.
Thomas Bytheſea, Eſquire.
C.
The Honorable and Moſt Reverend his Grace the Lord
Archbiſhop of Canterbury.
His Grace the Duke of Chandos.
The Right Honorable Earl of Caffilis.
The Right Honorable Earl of Corke and Orrery.
The Right Honorable Earl of Cheſterfield.
of Ireland. -
The Right Honorable Earl of Coventry.
The Right Honorable Earl Cornwallis.
The Right Honorable Earl of Chatham.
The Right Honorable Lord Viſcount Courtenay.
The Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of Chicheſter.
The Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of Carliſle.
The Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of Cheſter.
The Right Honorable Lord Cathcart.
The Right Honorable Lord Cranſtoun.
The Right Honorable Lord Craven.
The Right Honorable Lord Clifford of Chudley.
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The Right Honorable Lord Chedworth. Robert Dreghorn, Eſquire.
The Right Honorable Lord Camden. The Honorable Robert Drummond.
The Right Honorable Henry-Seymour Conway. The Honorable Henry Drummond.
The Right Honorable Lord Frederic Campbell, Lord The Honorable John Drummond.
Rji. of Scotland. Alexander-Monro Drummond, M. D.
The Honorable John Campbell, Lord Stonefield. James Drummond, Eſquire.
Colonel Archibald Campbell. Robert Dryſdale, A. M.
Captain Archibald Campbell. The Honorable George Duff.
Ilay Campbell, Eſquire. - The Honorable Henry Dundas, Lord Advocate for
Mungo Campbell, Eſquire. Scotland. -

Dugald Campbell, Eſquire. Sir Thomas Dundas, Baronet.

Colonel James Capper, of Madras.
John Caw, Eſquire. E.
Sir George Chalmer, Baronet. The Right Honorable Earl of Erroll.
James Chalmer, Eſquire. The Right Honorable Earl of Eglintoun.
The Honorable Francis Charteris, of Amisfield. The Right Honorable Earl of Exeter.
Samuel Chollet, of Carolina, Eſquire. The Right Honorable Earl of Eſſex.
Thomas Clutterbuck, younger, Eſquire. The Honorable and Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of
Benjamin Collins, of Saliſbury, Eſquire, 3 copies. Ely. -

George Colman, Eſquire. The Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of Exeter.

ames Colquhoun, younger, of Luſs, Eſquire. The Right Honorable Lord Elphinſtone.
Robert Colt, Eſquire. The Right Honorable Welbore Ellis. -

William Compton, L. L. D. The Right Honorable William Eden, Secretary to the

The Reverend Copolſtone Coward, A. M. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. -

Thomas Corkran, Eſquire. William Elphinſtone.

Francis Corkran, Eſquire. - The Honorable {}}".
James Craig, Eſquire, Archite& of New Edinburgh. Alexander Elphinſton, of Glack, Eſquire.
The Honorable George Cranſtoun. Theodore Edgar, of Elſhiſhields, Eſquire.
Alexander Croke, Eſquire, Civilian, of Oriel-C. O. Gerard-Noel Edwards, Eſquire.
Andrew Croſbie, Eſquire, Advocate. John Edwards, Eſquire, of the Temple.
Richard Cumberland, Eſquire. Jonathan Elford, Eſquire, of Plymouth.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, of Minto, Baronet.
D. John-Auguſtus Erneſt, Eſquire, Secretary to the Saxon
His Grace the Duke of Devonſhire. Embaſſy. -

His Grace the Duke of Dorſet. Sir William Erſkine, Baronet.

The Right Honorable Earl of Denbigh. º David Erſkine, Eſquire.
The Right Honorable Earl of Dalhouſie. John Erſkine, Eſquire, Advocate.
The Right Honorable Earl of Dartmouth. The Reverend John Eveleigh, A, M. Provoſt of Oriel
The Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of Durham. College, Oxford.
The Right Honorable Lord Dormer. Mrs. Eyres.
The Right Honorable Lord Digby.
The Right Honorable Lord D'Artry. F.
The Right Honorable Lord Preſident Dundas. The Right Honorable Earl of Ferrers.
Henry Dagge, Eſquire. The Right Honorable Earl of Fife.
Robert-Charles Dallas, Fſquire. The Right Honorable Lord Forbes.
Stuart-George Dallas, Eſquire. The Right Honorable Lord Forteſcue.
Alexander-James Dallas, Eſquire. The Right Reverend Biſhop William Falconar, of
‘The Honorable Baron Sir John Dalrymple, Baronet. the primitive Church of Scotland.
The Honorable Sir David Dalrymple, Baronet, Lord Colin Falconar, Eſquire. --

Hailes. -
William Farquhar, Eſquire, of Marlborough-ſtreet.
The Honorable David Dalrymple, Lord Weſthall. James Ferguſon, of Pitfour, Eſquire.
Colonel William Dalrymple. Walter Ferguſon, Eſquire, of New Edinburgh.
Francis Daſhwood, Eſquire. The Honorable Thomas Fitzwilliam.
William Daſhwood, Eſquire. Sir William Forbes, of Pitſligo, Baronet.
ames Daſhwood, Eſquire. - -
Arthur Forbes, of Culloden, Eſquire,
}.net,Davidſon, Eſquire, Deputy-Keeper of the Sig
Edinburgh.
Captain Thomas Forreſt, of Edinburgh and New,
Guinea. -

William Davidſon, of Muirhouſe, Eſquire. Thomas Fothergill, Eſquire.

George Dempſter, of Dunnichen, Eſquire. Sir James Foulis, of Colinton, Baronet.
Sir Alexander Dick, of Preſtonfield, Baronet. James French, A. M. Edinburgh.
Alexander Donaldſon, Eſquire. William Fullarton, of Carſtairs, Eſquire,
The Honorable Archibald Douglas, 2 copies.
Archibald Douglas, Eſquire. G.
Andrew Douglas, Eſquire. His Grace the Duke of Grafton, 2 copies.
George Douglas, Eſquire. His Grace the Duke of Gordon, 2 copies.
Nathan Draper, Eſquire. | The Moſt Honorable Marquis of Graham.
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 T A B L E of
The Right Honorable Earl of Glencairn.
The Right Honorable Earl of Glaſgow.
The Right Honorable Lord William Gordon.
John-William Galabin, A. M.
Payne Galway, Eſquire.
James Gambier, Eſquire, Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
The Honorable Francis Garden, Lord Gardenſton.
John Garden, Eſquire.
Archibald Gardiner:*A. M.
Miſs (Mary) Gairdner, of Tarrie.
Charles Gaſcoigne, Eſquire, of Carron.
William Gilchriſt, Eſquire, of Jamaica.
Matthew Glover, Eſquire.
George Goldie, Eſquire, of Edinburgh.
The Honorable Baron Gordon.
Robert Goſling, Eſquire.
The Honorable and Reverend Charles Graham.
William Graham, of Airth, Eſquire.
David Graeme, Eſquire, Advocate.
Alexander Grant, Eſquire.
Iſaac Grant, Eſquire.
Gregory Grant, M. D.
The Reverend Patrick Grant, D. D.
Alexander Gray, Eſquire.
William Gray, Eſquire, of Jamaica.
Mrs. Gray,
Charles Gregory, Eſq. Capt. of the Fortitude-Indiaman.
Edward-Burnaby Greene, Eſquire.
George Grenfell, Eſquire.
The Reverend Joſeph Griffiths, A. M.
H.
His Grace the Duke of Hamilton, Brandon, and
Chaſtel-herault.
The Right Honorable Earl of Huntingdon.
The Right Honorable Earl of Home.
The Right Honorable Earl of Hadinton.
The Right Honorable Earl of Hyndford.
The Right Honorable Earl of Hopeton.
The Right Honorable Earl Harcourt.
The Right Honorable Earl of Hartford.
The Right Honorable Earl of Hillſborough.
The Right Honorable Lord Hyde.
The Right Honorable Thomas Harley.
Humphrey Hall, Eſquire, of Manadon, Devonſhire.
Ambroſe Hall, Eſquire,
Mrs. (Anna) Hall, of London.
Humphrey Hall, Eſquire,
John-Meggot Hall, Eſquire,
William Hall, Eſquire, of Whitehall, Berwickſhire.
Archibald Hamilton, Eſquire.
Thomas Hammerſley, Eſquire.
Mrs. (Helen) Hammond, relict of Capt. Hammond.
onas Hanway, Eſquire.
Thomas Hardwick, Eſquire.
The Reverend Samuel Harper, A. M. and F.R.S.
The Reverend William Harper, A. M.
Mr. Robert Harper, Harley-ſtreet.
Mr. Thomas Harper, New Road, Tottenham-court.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Harris.
The Reverend William Hawtayne, of Oriel-C. O.
Alexander Hay, of Drummellier, Eſquire.
Charles Hay, Eſquire, Advocate. - The Right Honorable Earl of Moray.
James Hay, of Haſtings, M. D.
Miſs Elizabeth Henckell.
John Henderſon, Eſquire, of Milk-ſtreet.
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John Henderſon, Eſquire, of Buckingham-ſtreet.
Robert Herries, Eſquire. -
Sir Robert Herries.
Mrs. (Mary) Hewſon, relićt of William Hewſon, Eſq.
The Rev. Joſeph Hodgſon, A. M. of Carmannock.
Richard Humphries, A. M. Walſall.
Alexander Hunter, Eſquire.
Robert Hunter, Eſquire.
I.
The Right Honorable Earl of Ilcheſter.
The Right Honorable Lord Inverurie.
William Innes, Eſquire, of Blackheath.
Thomas Irwin, Eſquire, of Oriel-C. O.
Iſaac Jammineau, Eſquire, Conſul at Naples.
John Jackſon, Eſquire, of Plymouth.
Samuel Jackſon, Eſquire.
Sir Richard Jebb, Baronet.
Samuel Johnſon, L. L. D.
Andrew Johnſton, Eſquire, Breadſtreet-hill.
William Johnſton, Eſquire, of the Temple.
Peter-Cuchet Jouvencel, Eſquire.
K.
The Right Honorable Earl of Kintore.
Mrs. Kelly, relićt of Hugh Kelly, Eſquire.
Richard Kelſall, younger, Eſquire.
Miſs Ker, of Boulogne.
The Reverend Joſeph Kidd, A. M.
L.
The Right Honorable Earl of Loudoun.
The Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of London.
The Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of Lincoln.
The Honorable and Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of
Litchfield and Coventry.
The Right Honorable Lord Lucan.
The Right Honorable Lord Loughborough.
William Lacy, Eſquire, firſt Captain of the Honora
ble Africans.
Robert Laing, Eſquire, of Kirkwall.
Sir James Lake.
Thomas Latter, Eſquire.
Gilbert Laurie, Eſquire.
Sir William Lee, Baronet.
The Reverend William Leigh, L. L. B.
William Lepard, Eſquire.
Robert Lewis, Eſquire.
The Hon. Aiº, Lockhart, Lord Covington.
Lowe, Eſquire, of Moſcow.
Sir James Lowther, Baronet.
The Library of the Univerſity of Saint-Andrews.
The Library of Kings College, Aberdeen.
The Library of the Greek College, Glaſgow.
M.
His Grace the Duke of Marlborough.
His Grace the Duke of Montroſe.
His Grace the Duke of Montagu.
The Right Honorable Earl of Morton.
The Right Honorable Earl of Marchmont.
The Right Honorable Earl of Mansfield.
The Right Honorable Lord Wiſcount Montague.
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The Right Honorable Lord Monſon.
The Right Honorable Lord Macdonald.
The Right Hon. Lord Chief Baron Montgomery.
The º Honorable Thomas Miller, Lord Juſtice
clerk.
Sir Herbert Mackworth, Baronet.
Archibald Macarthur, of Ayſcough, Eſquire.
William Macdoual, younger, of Caſtle-Sempil, Eſq.
John Macfarlan, younger, of Macfarlan, Eſquire.
James Macpherſon, Eſquire.
John Macgowan, Eſquire.
Colin Mackenzie, Eſquire.
James Mackenzie, M. D.
Joſhua Mackenzie, M. D.
Henry Mackenzie, Eſquire.
John Maclaurin, Eſquire, Advocate.
Robert Maclaurin, M. D.
Alexander Macleod, of Muiravonfide, Eſquire.
Mrs. Macleod, dowager, of the ſame.
J.; Macrae, of Houſton, Eſquire.
The Honorable Robert Macqueen, Lord Braxfield.
James Makittrick, Eſquire.
{. Maneſty, Eſquire.
amuel Maneſty, Eſquire.
Mrs. (Anne) Marſton, relićt of Elias Marſton, Eſq. .
Abraham Martin, Eſquire.
Mr. Maſſey, Harley-ſtreet.
Mr. Maſſey, Fenchurch-ſtreet.
Alexander Matthiſon, A. M.
His Excellence Lieutenant-General Melvill.
William Mercer, Eſquire.
Samuel Merriman, M. D.
William Merriman, Eſquire.
Samuel Merriman, Eſquire.
Miſs (Mary) Merriman.
Hugo Meynell, Eſquire.
Sir Charles Middleton, Baronet.
Alexander Millar, Eſquire, Advocate.
John Millar, Eſq. Profeſſor of Civil Law, Glaſgow.
William Miller, Eſquire, Advocate.
Samuel Mitchelſon, Eſquire.
John Moffat, A. M. - Alexander Robertſon, Eſquire.
Šir Harry Munro, of Foulis, Baronet.
Alexander Monro, M. D. Profeſſor of Anatomy,
Edinburgh.
John Monro, M. D. London: - James Robertſon, D. D. Profeſſor of Oriental Lan
Alexander Moray, of Abercairny, Eſquire.
Sir William Murray, of Auchtertyre, Baronet.
James Murray, Eſquire.
Charles Murray, Eſquire.
Donald Murray, Eſquire.
Arthur Murphy, Eſquire.
N.
His Grace the Duke of Norfolk.
His Grace the Duke of Newcaſtle.
His Grace the Duke of Northumberland.
The Right Honorable Earl Nugent. - His Grace the Duke of Somerſet. .
The Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of Norwich,
The Right Honorable Lord North.
William Niſbet, of Dirleton, Eſquire.
O.
The Right Hon. Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer.
The Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of Oxford.
Alexander Orme, Eſquire, of Edinburgh,
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P.
His Grace the Duke of Portland.
The Right Honorable Earl of Pembroke.
The Right Honorable Earl of Peterborough.
The Right Honorable Earl Poulet.
The Right Honorable Earl Percy.
The Right Honorable Lord Petre.
Sir John Paterſon, of Eccles, Baronet.
George Paton, Eſquire.
Samuel Pawſon, Eſquire.
Thomas Payne, Eſquire.
Henry Peirſe, Eſquire.
Mr. Pearſon, Birmingham.
Samuel-Biſhop Peppin, Eſquire.
John Perrot, Eſquire.
Fleming Pinkſtan, Eſquire.
Mr. John-Henry Powell, New Bond-ſtreet.
Mr. John Pownall, Caſtle-ſtreet.
John Preſtwich, of Preſtwich and Helme, in the
County of Lancaſter, Eſquire.
Joſeph Pringle, Eſquire.
Q.
| His Grace the Duke of Queenſberry.
R.
His Grace the Duke of Richmond, Lenox, and Aubigny.
His Grace the Duke of Rutland. -
His Grace the Duke of Roxburgh.
The Right Honorable Earl of Roſeberry.
The Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of Rocheſter.
The Right Honorable Lord Romney.
The Right Honorable Richard Rigby.
David Rae, Eſquire, Advocate.
Allan Ramſay, Eſquire.
Sir Joſhua Reynolds.
Mrs. Redwood, of Rhode-iland.
Morgan Rice, Eſquire.
Captain George Richardſon.
William Richardſon, Eſquire, Profeſſor of Roman,
# Humanity, Glaſgow.
David Robertſon, Eſquire.
The Reverend William Robertſon, D. D. Hiſtorio.
grapher for Scotland. º
guages, Edinburgh. -
| The Honorable Sir George-Brydges Rodney, K. B.
Gideon Herin de Rogier, Eſquire; from Sweden.
Mr. Rollaſon, Birmingham.
The Honorable David Roſs, Lord Ankerville.
George Roſe, Eſquire.
William Roſe, L.L.D.
| Mr. Robert Roy. º
The Reverend Mr. William Rutherford.
S.
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The Right Honorable Earl of Shrewſbury.
The Right Honorable Earl of Saliſbury.
The Right Honorable Earl of Strathmore..
The Right. Honorable Earl of Selkirk.
The Right Honorable Earl of Sandwich.
The Right Honorable Earl Spenſer.
The Right Honorable Lord Wiſcount Stormont.
The Right Honorable Lord Viſcount Sackville.
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The Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of Saliſbury.
The Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of St. Davids,
The Right Honorable Lord Saltoun.
The Right Honorable Lord Stourton.
The Right Honorable Lord Saint-John.
The Right Honorable Lord Sondes.
The Right Honorable Lord Chief Baron Skynner.
The Right Honorable James Stuart-Mackenzie, Lord
Privy-Seal of Scotland.
The Honorable General Henry Saint-John,
The Honorable John Saint-John.
The Honorable Alexander Sandilands.
Iſrael Levin Salomons, Eſquire.
º Signor Franceſco Saſtres.
Arthur Saunders, M. D. Dublin.
Richard Saunders, M. D. S #.
James Saunders, Eſquire, of Edinburgh.
Thomas Scardifield, Eſquire.
Walter Scot, of Harden, Eſquire.
Hugh Scot, younger, of Harden, Eſquire,
Francis Scot, Eſquire.
John Scot, M. D. Titchfield-ſtreet.
James Scot, Eſquire, of Forge.
Charles Searle, Eſquire.
The Honorable James Seton.
William Shard, Eſquire.
The Reverend William Shaw, A. M. 2 copies.
Charles Sheppard, Eſquire, of Paradiſe, Glouceſterſhire. H
Richard-Brinſley Sheridan, Eſquire.
The Honorable Mrs. Shirley. -
John Sinclair, of Ulbſter, Eſquire.
George Skene, of Skene, Eſquire.
Thomas Smeaton, Eſquire, of Yorkſhire.
Robert Smith, Eſquire.
Joſeph-Bouchier Smith, Eſquire.
Adam Smith, L. L. D.
The Reverend John Smith, D. D. Maſter of Caius
College, Cambridge.
The Reverend Samuel Smith, D. D. Maſter of Weſt
minſter-School.
James Carmichael-Smyth, M. D. Charlotte-ſtreet.
Mrs. Smith, relićt of Smith, Eſquire.
Abraham Spalding, Eſquire, of Chriſt-church, Hants.
James Spence, #. Treaſurer to the Bank of
Scotland.
David Spence, M. D. Edinburgh.
James Spence, younger, Eſquire,
Alexander Spiers, Eſquire.
John Spottiſwoode, of Spottiſwoode, Eſquire.
John Spottiſwoode, younger, Eſquire.
Francis Stephens, Eſquire, Plymouth-dock.
Edward Stevens, M. D.
The Reverend William-Bagſhaw Stevens, A.M. Rep
ton, Derbyſhire.
Archibald Stirling, of Keir, Eſquire.
The Honorable Colonel Charles Stuart.
The Right Honorable Lady Louiſa Stuart.
The Honorable Charles Stuart, 2 copies.
The Honorable Miſs (Margaret) Stuart.
The Honorable Robert–Walter Stuart.
Thomas Steuart, Eſquire, Secretary to the Bank of The Right Honorable Sir Joſeph Yorke, K. B.
Scotland.
William Strahan, Eſquire.
Mrs. Strahan.
The Rev. George Strahan, A. M. Vicar of Iſlington.
Andrew Strahan, Eſquire,
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William Sutherland, Eſquire, of Lymington,
William Swanſon, Eſquire, of Edinburgh.
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The Right Honorable Earl of Traquair.
The Right Honorable Lord-Viſcount Townſend.
The Right Honorable Lord Torphichen.
The Right Honorable Lord Thurlow, High Chan
cellor of England.
James Taylor, Eſquire.
Alexander Telfer, of Symington, Eſquire.
Bonnel Thornton, Eſquire.
Alexander Thomſon, M. D. Margaret-ſtreet,
George Thomſon, of Corſehill, Eſquire.
John Thomſon, Eſquire, Secretary to the Exciſe
Office, Edinburgh.
William Tytler, of Woodhouſelee, Eſquire.
Alexander Tytler, Eſquire, Profeſſor of Civil Hiſ.
tory, Edinburgh.
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– Utoff, Eſquire, of Moſcow.
V.
The Right Honorable Earl Verney.
Harry Verelſt, Eſquire.
W.
The Right Honorable Lord Viſcount Weymouth.
The Honorable and Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of
Wincheſter.
The Right Reverend Lord Biſhop of Worceſter.
The Honorable Horace Walpole.
Humphrey Waſcot, Eſquire.
Charles Walcot, Eſquire.
David Walker, Eſquire.
James Walker, Eſquire, of Lincolns-Inn.
The Reverend Robert Walker, A. M.
Richard Warren, M.D. and F. R.S. Phyſician in
ordinary to his Majeſty. -
William Watts, Eſquire.
William White, Eſquire.
William Whitehead, Eſquire, Poet Laureat..
Caleb Whitefoord, Eſquire.
The Reverend William Wight, D. D. Profeſſor of
Theology, Glaſgow.
Alexander Wilſon, L.L. D. Profeſſor of pračical
Aſtronomy, Glaſgow.
Andrew Wilſon, Eſquire.
Patrick Wilſon, Eſquire.
Joſeph Williamſon, Eſquire; Advocate.
Mrs. Williams, of Walworth.
The Reverend. George Wiſhart, D. D. -
Adam Wood, Eſquire.
The Lady Wood, relićt of Sir James Wood, Baronet,
John Woolfrys, Eſquire, of Kingſton, Jamaica.
John Wright, Eſquire.
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynne, Baronet.
Y.
: John Young, L. L. D. Profeſſor of Greek, Glaſgow.
William Young, Eſquire.
The Reverend William Toy-Young, A. M. Fellow of
Pembroke-College, Oxford, and Miniſter of St.
Paul’s, Birmingham.
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To THE S U B S C R IB E R S.

YE, who make a MART 1 Als Muſe your care

To ancient worth, who modern witneſs bear!

Who Wit, thro’ ev'ry medium, ken divine;

And, greatly daring, join'd your names with mine:
All hail who bade THA L1A fix her ſtand,
And own her Darling, in BRIT ANN IA's land.
That Lore primeval dains to rear her head,
And buried Truth emerges from the dead;
That, in whatever vail, ſhe peers around;
And ſteals the willing heart, on Classic ground:
That fountains, which of old ſo copious flow'd,
Were, for all tongues, and for all times beſtow'd,
On man, ſtill man, in evºy clime and age ;
Is, was, and will be Yout, in MART I Als page.
Your Bard it is, who all your treaſures pours;
Bids Wiſdom, Wit, Antiquity, be ours.
Prophetic Modeſty could well declare,"
How lynx-ey’d Friendſhip might the merit ſhare;
What wings muſt waſt her to remoteſt" lands,
What poliſh highten for August AN hands.
From ſtep to ſtep muſt all terreſtrial riſe:
Humility alone can ſcale the ſkies.
If MArtial meekly wood Subscript Ions charms,
Subscription gracious met a MART I Als arms,
Contagious taſte illum'd th’imperial ſmile,
And, Julius' greater, MARTIAL, won our ile.
PA R T H E N I Us", FAust 1 N, Pl 1 NY, all — his own;
Each kindling ſex would outſubſcribe the Throne.
Rome ſaw her world expand by Wirs domain,
Nor ſcorn'd to wear the bays of Celtic SPAIN.
Pervading Wit, two thouſand years ago,
With Albion sº dames bid Roman rivals glow;
And, where his Chaos then ſuch friends could find,

He iſſues now his Digeſt to mankind.

IANT H We,
*II. 28, 33, 6o, 142. *II. 24, 41. * II. 22, 32, 58, 59; 109. *I. Ap. 15.
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Ianth1s," Stella, was thy primal ray:
cazarus liv'd, on lov'd Sue Pitta’s f hay.
THEoPHILA s gave CANI us laſting ſmile : -

Sweet Claudia 1" thou could'ſ Pubens' cares beguile.

Then, learned Labras, were your pow’rs ſublim’d ; º

When happineſs connubial ſo ye climb'd. s

Our heavenly ile diſplay’d a CLAup 1A then: º
A Claudia' firſt lent Martial here her pen. . . . . . .. .
| Such were thy prodigies, immortal Rome !. --

Such glories now diſpel Augusta’s” gloom.

Such too, my Bivhills diverge thy rays: * - G -- .

Such brighten ſtill unfoil’d Caledons" days.

Auguſt Epina'ſ ſuch emblaze thy hill,
And bid Boborka n ſwell asalo's • Hii.
His Muſe, our Poet found the City-Queen,”
Tho' Bliſs we never own, till ſhe has been.
How momentary, MAN, thy bliſs below 1
The paſt and future is the all we know.
Yet Rome 4, and more than Rome, was, MART 1 AL, thine:
For thy Ma Rice LLA — was — my CLE MENT IN E.
London, Great Marybone-ſtreet, N. 3. - *

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purch. II. 133. Pref. viii. 19. "I. ii. 3. p. 491. c. i. 1.39. "The Fort H. " II. 134. l. 8.
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MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL.

B O O K I.

To D O M I T I A N.

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P A R T I.

On his patronage, warfare, and ſtrućtures.

E P I S T L E D E D I C A T O R Y.

To DOMITIAN, CESAR, the AUGUST, the GERMANIC, the

DACIAN : VALERIUS MARTIAL, Health.
A'. my little books, to which thou, SIR, haſt given fame, in another
word, life; lay at thy feet their ſupplications : and thence, I ſuppoſe,
draw the public eye. This however becometh duly the firſt, as colle&ting my
various and blisfull opportunities of paying my pious veneration. Leſs had
genius then to labor, where matter ſo abounded: which we have indeed now
and then attempted to vary, by a certain ſprinkle of the jocoſe; left the truths,
apter to cloy the modeſty of their objećt, than to ſatisfy the ardor of the fin
ger, ſhould prove the theme of every ſtanza.
B But,
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But, tho' epigrams, to the ſevereſt and ſublimeſt charaćters, have been ſo
couched, that they ſeem even to have affected licence; in no ſuch wantonneſs
have I indulged this liberal ſpecies of writing. The greater and better part of
the volume being appropriated, SIR, to the majeſty of thy ſacred name; the
whole muſt remember, that none, beſide the religiouſly purified, ought to ap
proach hallowed habitations. Which principle, that my readers may know
the guide of my praćtice, it may be no undue commencement of the work, by
a laconic epigram, to profeſs.

I. To the M U. S. E.

IN aćt thy PATRoN's laurel'd gods to hail, -

Learn, Muse, to ope thy decent lips with aw.

Hence, naked Venus: we diſdain thy law.
Imperial PALLAs, let thy pow'r prevail.

II. To C E S A. R.

OR be Palladian hills thy high repair,

So Trivia here thou gaze, and Thetis there:
Or both the righteous ſiſters learn thy lore,
Where the ſuburban wave forgets to roar.
Whether Eneas' nurſe announce delight,
Or the Sun's potent daughter more invite,
Or Anxur pour her health, and beam her white:
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To thee, the collect of my lays I ſend,
O thou of things the ſtay, of men the friend!
In whom preſerv'd, where'er thou dain to rove,
We trace the love, and gratitude, of Jove.
Receive benign: I know that thou wilt read,
And, ſwelling, ſhall enjoy a Gauliſh creed,
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III. To the P U B L I c.
YE MATRONs, Boys, and virgins all,
To you my page combines her call.
Whoe'er canſt, with a roguiſh view,
The nakedjeſt alone purſue;
Peruſe what wanton wit thou wilt:

Be mine no partner of the guilt.

I here preſent my Lord a lay, ,
Where humor and decorum play;
Which chaſte GERMAN1c, unaffraid,
May tune to his Cecropian maid.

IV. To C ESA R A U G U S T U.S.

My jokes, AUGUSTUs, have a volume gain'd;

Nor has a mortal of my muſe complain'd:
But many a reader boaſts an honor'd name,
That in her nich ſhall find undying fame.
How rich muſt the return of praiſes bel
! Not over rich: and yet it pleaſes me.

V. To the ſame.

C RETE much renown, vaſt Afric gather'd more;

That matchleſs Scipio and Metellus bore.
A nobler ſtill, the vanquiſht Rhine beſtow'd:
The name GERMAN1c on the ſtripling flow'd.
* The fire and ſon Idume's palms combine:
We own the DACIAN laurel, CESAR, thine.
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VI. To the ſame.

WHILE plaintive mobs, AUGUSTus, aſk redreſs;

We, to our bounteous lord, our bliſs confeſs.
We know that, from intending human-kind,
He with the Muſes can his refuge find.
Accept thy various bards, their various lay:
Thy grace, thy glory, thy delight are they.
Nor oak, nor laurel, proves thy ſole renown:
Be thine, of ivy too, a civic crown.

VII. To the ſame.

Should eyes imperial e'er theſe verſes ſcan,

Diſpel the brow, that aws collective man.
Thy proudeſt triumphs brook what ribbalds ſpit,
Nor ſcorns the chief to riſe the ſcope of wit.
Light Thymele thou ey'ſt, Latinus droll =
Oh! with ſuch glance, my rapſodies controll.
Dread cenſure may indulge offenceleſs play:
My life is guarded, tho' my Muſe be gay.

VIII. To the ſame. -

G IRD on the breaſt-plate of the warlike maid,

Of which Meduſa's ſnakes might ſhrink affraid.
Habergeon, Cesar, uninform'd of thee,
Will, on thy ſacred boſom, EGIs be.
Bleſt cuiraſs, go, Sarmatic ſhafts deride;
Nor fear to rival Marſes Getic hide.
Mail'd with the ſlipp'ry claws of many a boar,
. Thee never point of fell Etolian tore.
Hail,
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M A R T I A L’s E P I G R A M s.
Hail, happy cuiraſ, what a lot is thine!

To gird a God, and glow with ſoul divineſ

Go, glean, unhurt, thy triumphs o'er the globe,
And ſoon reſtore the heroe to the robe.

IX. To the ſame.

IF, CesAR, the people and fires

Attraćt thine, as thou their regard;
Hear all the gown Latian requires;
Let nought their lov'd heroe retard.

Proud Rome juſtly envies her foe,

Tho' laurel on laurel ne'er cloys:
His glance on earth's lord he can throw ;
And, trembling, the ſavage enjoys.

X. . To the ſame.

H ARK! from Hyperborean ſhores,

CesAR now his rout explores.
Fame, the harbinger of praiſe,
Glads the great Auſonian ways.
What, tho’ none aſſure the bliſs?
Ev'ry voice announces this.
Fame, upon thy lips I dwell;
Truth as thou art wont to tell.

Vićtor-letters ſpeak the joy:

Martial weapons quell annoy,
With their laurel'd point ſerene:
All is glad, and all is green.
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Io's bid thy Rome rebound: ---

Matchleſs CesAR is the ſound.

But, the bliſs that nought gainſay,

Bring thyſelf the Sarmat bay.

XI. To the ſame.

M ID polar ice, and Peucian ſnows,

Where, with the hoof hard Iſter glows;
And rebel Rhine, with broken horn,
Still bids thee aw, and ſtill adorn,
The kingdoms of a faithleſs race,
That ſpurn thy guidance and thy grace;
O earth's controller unconfin'd,
Propitious parent of mankind
Far from our vows thou canſt not be :
Our heads and hearts are full of thee.
Nay, all our eyes thou holdeſt ſo,
That, not the vaſty Circus know,
What paragons pretend to ſhine;
A Tigris or a Paſſerine.

* XII. To the ſame.

C OME, ye jocund Muſes, play,

If ye ever laught with me:
From th’ Odryſian world to-day,
Hail the vićtor-god with glee.

Dear December, ever kind,

Thou the people's vows haſt crown'd:
Now one mighty voice and mind
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welidelighted with Hylot, º .
Thou need ne'er to Janus yield ; --

If the joys thou ſhalt have got, *

That he brings us from the field.

Now one points the feſtal gibe, - -

Who in pompous wreath procedes:

Now he ſwells the martial tribe,
Strutting with the laurel'd fleeds.
CesAR, dain to ſhare the wit,
Which the jovial ſongs enhance:
If a triumph's ſtate admit,
That the merry Muſes dance.

XIII. To J A N U. S.
THE watchfull parent of record,
When late he ſaw foil'd Iſter's lord,
Of all his looks implor'd ſupplies,
And wiſht acceſſion to his eyes.

In concert then he mov’d each tongue;

And to earth's ſov'rain thus he ſung:
Thine, thine, thine, thine the Pylian day !
Add, JANUs, but thine own, we pray.

XIV. To the ſame.

*
D READ guardian of the infant year,
That opens, but in ačt to fly;
Who bidd'ſt us ſtill the laſt revere,
And keep it in reflexive eye:
Tho’
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Tho' thee the primal incenſe hail, ,
Tho' thee invoke the early vow ;
Glad purple fan thee with her gale,
To thee each honor awfull bow:

It more beſpoke thy gracious nod,

As bleſſing more the Latian town;
To ſee thy month bring back a god,
Who could the wiſh of nations crown.

XV. To C E S A. R.

THAT Tiber hails, to Rhine is not unknown:

Thy people's voice auſpicious gales have blown.
The Sarmats, Getes, and Iſter heard the ſound:
The new acclaim diverg'd, like lightning, round.
While the long joys bid ſacred Circus ring,
No eye perceives the looſen'd courſers ſpring.
Lord ne'er like thee, nor thee thus Rome admir'd :
Nor could ſhe more, if more her wiſh aſpir’d.

XVI. To the ſame.

WHILE the Pannonian War new glory ſends,

And ev'ry altar coming Jove attends ;
The people, knights, and fathers, blend the ſong;
And the third boons enrich the Latian throng.
RoME ſhall thy modeſt triumphs mad expreſs:
Nor ſhall the laurel of thy peace be leſs.
What joy, from piety combin'd, muſt flow !
A prince's honor is, his own to know.
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XVII. To P H O S P H O R.

Sweet Phosphor, bring the day:

Ah! why our joys delay
We Cesar coming ſing:
Fair Phosphor, morning bring.
Does ſlow Bootes draw,
So late we own thine aw
From the Ledean ſtar,
Stout Cyllarus afar,
Had gladlyjoy'd our fields,
As glad his rider yields.
Why panting Titan hold 2
Or halter Xanthus bold:
His ſpirit claims the rein:
Mad Ethon paws in vain.
See Memnon's parent peep,
And ſtorm the ſtrength of ſleep:
Yet no conſtellants fly.
Thee Luna will deſcry;
And ſmiles at Sol's relief,
To ray th’ Auſonian chief.
Then, CesAR, come by night:
Let ſtars beam e'er ſo bright,
When CesAR comes, the day
Can ne'er be far away.

XVIII. To C E S A. R.
O N Ganges' banks, who ſpoils the wood or mead,
And paly flies on the Hyrcanian ſteed,
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Ne'er ſaw, GERMAN1c, as thy Rome, ſuch fights:

Nor can ſhe number all her new delights.
The Erythrean triumphs yield to thine;
The pow'r terreſtrial, and the wealth divine:
For, when the car the captive Indians trod,
A brace of tigers drew the vićtor-god.

XIX. To the ſame.

WHERE now returning Fortune's glorious fane

Effulges far, was late a blisfull plain.
There deckt with northern duſt did CesAR gleam,
Diffuſing from his cheek a purple beam.
There, with belaurel'd locks, and fair attire,
Did RomE acclaim, with heart and hand, her fire.

The ſpot's renown yet other gifts atteſt:

The ſwelling arch o'erſprings the nations preſt.
Here double cars impoſe réſpective aw,
Which em’lous elephants majeſtic draw:
Here the high heroe takes his golden ſtand,
Sufficing cars and cattle to command.
Such gate, GERMANIC, ſhould thy triumphs crown ;
And ſuch acceſs befits a Marſes town.

XX. . . To the ſame. •e

AT Latian altars ſee conglob'd mankind,

Joint vows and Io's for its lord to pay.
Such joys to man alone were neer aſſign'd :
The gods themſelves do ſacrifice to-day.
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XXI. To the ſame.

R ICH as the board, that boaſted giants quell'd;

Glad as the night, ſupernal pow'rs beheld;
When the bland fire with humbleſt gods reclin'd,
And Fauns familiar with the Thund’rer.din'd :
Such feſtal joys, Augustus, bleſs thy bays;
And ſympathetic in celeſtials raiſe. . . -

Fathers, and knights, and commons, feaſt with thee:

Rome, with her chief, partakes ambroſial glee.
Great promiſe thou, with greater proof, haſt crown'd;
And, for the ſportule, the regale goes round.

XXII. To the ſame.

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M UCH tho' thou ſtill beſtow, and promiſe more;

Tho' lord of leaders, of thyſelf, thou be :
The people thee, not for rewards, adore;
But, the rewards adore, for love of thee.

XXIII. On DOMITIAN's Banquet.

I O various bliſs, if various ſummons ſtrove;

For CesAR's banquet, or the feaſt of Jove ;
Tho' the celeſtial palace beam'd at hand, -

The earthly aw'd the moſt ſequeſter'd ſtrand;

My duteous anſwer ſhould attend the bleſt :
Find the ſupreme of gods a worthier gueſt;
And pitying eyes upon the bard beſtow,
Detain'd, by the ſupreme of men, below.
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XXIV. On DEGIS : the Iſtrian.

W HEN Degis, ſent from Iſter's ſubjećt waves,

Hail'd the bleſt bank vićtorious Tiber laves;
Aſtoniſht, as o'erjoy'd, the ſtranger ſaw
The man, from whom mankind beſeeches law;
And thus, on either hand, addreſt his mate: - .

How rais'd is ours, beyond our brethrens fate' .

To us is giv'n, to gaze th' empyreal ſtar; .
Which they are humbly proud tadore afar.

XXV. To V U L C A N.

A S raging fires renew th’ Aſſyrian neſt,

When, by one bird, ten centuries poſſeſt;
So novel Rome lays down her load of years;
And, in the aſpe&t of her lord, appears.
Dread VULCAN, ſpare : forget thine ancientire,
And reaſſume the feelings of a fire.
We're children of the warrior-god, 'tis true:
But oh remember ; and of VENUs too.
So thy gay ſpouſe, the Lemnian chains, forgive;
And learn with patience, in thy love, to live.

XXVI. To D O M I T I A N.

To thee, great CesAR, Egypt would diſplay

The roſeate produce of her winter's ray.
The modeſt Memphians own'd the Pharian ſhame,
Soon as within thy city's mound they came.
So bloom'd the ſpring, ſo breath'd fair Flora's reign;
| Such glory wanton'd on the Peſtan plain:
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Which way the wand'rer turn'd his ſtep or eye,

The textile garlands redden’d all the ſky.
Proud Nile, the Roman ſolſtice, forc’d revere:

º Send us thy harveſts; take thy roſes here.

XXVII. To the ſame.

WHE N the bold hucſter bore the town away,

And within bounds no boundary would ſtay;
Thou bad'ſt obſtrućtion ſound a quick retreat;
And what was now a lane, became a ſtreet.

Concatenated pots no poſt ſurround:

No pretor waddling in mid-mud is found.
No raſor, drawn in darkneſs, now we feel :
Whole ſtreets of tipplers dance no more their reel.
The tonſor, taverner, the butcher, cook;
Who, each forſaking, curſt the bounds forſook;
All their reſpective mounds ſubmiſs explore:
And ſhe is Rome, that was a ſtall before.

XXVIII. To the ſame.

G REAT CesAR, ſmile at kingly taſks of yore:

Now barb'rous Memphis boaſts her piles no more.
What's Egypt's toil to the Parrhaſian hall,
Which renders proud mankind's ſtupendous ſmall
Seven ſocial mountains ſeem at once to riſe:
Not Oſſa ſo bore Pelion to the ſkies.
Loſt in the ſtars, it pierces ether ſo,
The thunder iſſues from the cloud below ;
And ſooner drinks Apollo's ſecret fire,
Than duteous Circe hails her riſing fire.
Yet
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Yet this high houſe, which ſo the heav'ns excels,

Is ſtill inferior to the lord that dwells.

XXIX. To the ſame.

THy feaſts ambroſial, feſtal train,
No compaſs promis'd to contain/ . -º-Lº- /. , */& 2"
How chang'd, GERMAN1c, now the glee;
In this immenſe ſo worthy thee!
The ſacred neétar ſparkles round:
The mixta Ganymede has crown'd.
Oh! be thou late a gueſt above,
Or Jove deſcend to ſpeak his love.

XXX. To the ſame: On the FLAVIAN temple.

WW HILE JANUs ſhall his winters lend,
Dom ITIAN autumns to the year,
AUGUSTU's bid the ſummers bend,
And Rhine GERMANIC Calends fear;

While Jove's Tarpeian ſummits ſtand;

And pious matrons hail the hour, f

With ſuppliant voice and incenſt hand,

That celebrates a Julia's pow'r;

The glory of the Flavian race

Shall beam in Rome's eternal day:
Whate'er unvanquiſht hands could place,
Is heaven, and cannot paſs away.
XXXI. To DOMITIAN: On the ſame.

ON this grand ſpot, which gold and marble crown,

Smird firſt the infant-lord of her renown.
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What joy was hers, to hear th’ auſpicious cry,

And teach the ſprawling hands to hail the ſky.
Here ſtood the awfull dome, that brought mankind,
What Rhodes, what pious Crete, to heav'n aſſign'd.
The fam'd Curetes well might clang their arms :
Half-men could guard a little god from harms.
But, CESAR, thee the fire of gods conceal’d:
The bolt and Egis prov'd thy ſpear and ſhield.

XXXII. On the ſame.

J OVE ſaw th’ Idean tomb with due diſdain,

When he beheld th’ auguſt imperial fane;
And now, in ſeas of nećtar well nigh drown'd,
Puſhing, by war's own god, the gobblet round ;
on Phebus and his fiſter caſt an eye, -

Alcides and the good Arcadian by:

“In vain your Cnoſſian monuments aſpire:
How much more great to be a CESAR’s fire l’

XXXIII. To R A B I R I U. S.

- A LL heaven was compaſt, with capacious mind;

Ere thou the dome Parrhaſian hadſt deſign'd.
Should Piſa ſeek her Phidian Jove a fane,
The archite&t from ours ſhe muſt obtain.

XXXIV. To Do M IT I A N.
IF, CesAR, all thou to the pow'rs haſt lent,
Thou ſhould'ſt reclaim, a creditor content ;
Should a fair auðtion rend Olympus' hall,
And the juſt gods be fain to ſell their all ;
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The bankrupt Atlas not a twelfth could ſound,
Who bade the ſire of gods with man compound.
For Capitolian fanes, what to the chief;
What can he pay for the Tarpeian leaf
What, for her double tow’rs, the thund’rer's queen?
Pallas I paſs, thy manager ſerene.
Alcides why, or Phebus, ſhould I name?
Or the twin Lacons, of fraternal fame?
Or the ſubſtrućture (who can ſum the whole?)
Of Flavian temples, to the Latian pole
Augustus, pious then, and patient ſtay:
The cheſt of Jove poſſeſſes not to pay.
XXXV. To the ſame.

TH OU reviveſt, great CesAR, the marvels of yore,

Nor permitteſt hoar ages to dy;
When the rites of the pit are neglected no more,
And the champions more ſimply defy.

While antiquity's fanes their prime reverence hold,

E’en the cot has her patron we ſee.
While thou foundeſt the new, thou rebuildeſt the old:
Things that are, and that were, ow we thee.

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P A R T II.

The E X H I BIT I O N S of D O M IT I A N3

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I. On the A M P H IT H E A T E R.

H ER pyramids let Memphis boaſt no more ;

Nor Babylon extol her labors' lore.
In Trivia's fane be no ſoft honors prais'd ;
No horned altars bleſs the god, that rais'd.
In Carian air vain Mauſoleums hung,
Aſcend the ſtars no more on buoyant tongue.
Let paſſing glories own the common lot ;
And fame ſound one, when all ſhall be forgot.

II. To C E S A. R.

WHERE the coloſſal ſtar would ſtars ſurvey,

And riſing machinations maze the way;
Diverg'd the courts of an invidious crown,
And one vaſt houſe monopolis'd a town.
Here, where the awfull pile diſplays the ſhow,
A pond of Nero could preſume to flow.
We there the baths, the ſudden boons, admire;
Where the proud lawn bade wretches' homes retire.
Where Claudia's portico expands her ſhade,
Was the laſt ſtand a falling palace made.
Hail, Roxie reſtor'd hail, CESAR, thy rewards !
Thoſe are the I-9ple's joys, that were its lord's.
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III. To the ſame.

WHAT ſcene ſequeſter'd, or what rude renown,

Sends no ſpe&tator to th' imperial town -

The Rhodopeian hind now tempts the plains,

And tunes from Hemus his Orphean ſtrains.
The Sarmat, CESAR, hies thy works to ſee;
And gives the ſteed he ſwills, to ſhare the glee.
They come, who firſt the riſing Nile explore;
And they, who hear remoteſt Tethys roar.
The Arab haſted, the Sabean flew ;
And the Cilician own'd his native dew.
With tortur’d treſſes here Sicambrians gay; -

There Ethiops briſtling in their diverſe way.

Mid various voice, but one glad voice we find,
That hails thee father of converg'd mankind.

IV. To the ſame.

F ELL foe to peace, and bane to placid reſt;

Of miſerable wealth the mortal peſt;
The dire delating crew compos'd the train,
With breaſt inſcrib'd : nor could the pit contain.
The traitor in his turn becomes the ſlave;
Glad to accept the exile that he gave.
Hail royal riddance to th’ Auſonian town I
The ſubjećts ſafe the prince's glory crown.

V. On L A U R E O L U S.

AS on the Scythian rock Prometheus bound,

Suppli'd th' aſſiduous bird with breaſt profound 3
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So to Caledon's bear the boſom bends;
While, on no feined croſs, Laureolus extends.
Still liv'd the mangled limbs, with gore diſtain'd,
And in the total frame no frame remain'd.
Nor let us wonder at the wretches pain:
A parent, or a maſter, he had ſlain;
Or, robbing fanes, the miſcreant ſought his doom ;
And ſet the ruthleſs torch to thee, O Rome.
Beyond all figur'd crimes, his crime remov’d,
On whom the fable fair inflićtion prov’d.

VI. To C E S A R : On O R P H E U S.

WH AT Rhodope on Orpheus' ſtage ſurvey'd ;

That, mighty CesAR, has thy vale diſplay'd.
The rocks came reeling, and the forreſts danc'd :
The whole Heſperian grove in tune advanc'd.
Mixt with the mild was ev'ry ſavage thing;
And o'er the bard hung birds of ev'ry wing.
Ah! who inſpir'd the whole what tooth could tear?
A bacchanal tranſmuted to a bear:

And, what had fed alone wild fancy's eyes,

That dire event the ſcene could realiſe.

VII. On M. U C I U S S C E V O L A.

THE dauntleſs man, whom young and old admire,

Who thruſt his precious limbs into the fire; - A.

Muſt adamant or ſalamander ſeem,

To thoſe, who like Abdera's ſages deem.
But, were he bid, the tort’ring tunic by,
Conſume the hand; 'twere more to ſay, Not I.
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VIII. On the P R A S I N I A N.

SEE the PRASINIAN to the palm ſuccede;

And, Nero here no more, to many a meed.
Go, gnawing envy ; to oppreſſion yield:
No Nero, the Praſinian won the field.

IX. On C A R P O PHO R U S.
THE Doric ſpears, with aim unerring, bore
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The gallant arm of youthfull Carpophore:
Well might two ſoft-neckt ſteers reſign the field;
To him the buffalo and biſon yield. -

The lion fled; but headlong ruſht a prey.

Fly, madding mob : and chaſten dull delay.

X. On the ſame.

THE ſummit Meleagrian fame could ſoar,

Carpophorus derides: a proſtrate boar !
A headlong bear his ſpear bereft of ſoul,
The primal terror of the Arétic pole.
O'er an enormous lion, proud he ſtands:
A glory, that might grace Herculean hands.
Nay, a ſwift pard, with lengthen'd wound, he ſlew:
Still in full manhood, when his meed he drew.

XI. To C E S A R: On the ſame.

H AD thy champion, dread CesAR, bleſt ages of yore;

All turmoil with mad monſters had now been no more.

Not a bull had low'd terror, on Marathon's plains;

Not a boar briſtled pannic, where Menalus reigns.
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Not a lion on Nemea ſo grizzly had glar'd :
Or a record commenc'd, when no longer he ſcar'd.
By one hand the fell Hydra had loſt every head;
By one ſtroke the Chimera had lain with the dead.
f One the flame-footed bulls, without guide could ſubdue ;
One Heſione looſe, and Andromeda too.

Be Alcides’ exploits in full glory proclaim'd :

Twice ten furies at once, ’tis far more to have tam'd.

XII. To the ſame: On female beſtiaries.

N OT Mars alone enjoys unvanquiſht arms:

For thee, great CESAR, Venus ſhares th’ alarms.
A lion foil'd, and in a vaſty vale ! -

The taſk Herculean rear'd a lofty tale.

Old faith be mute: at thine auguſt command,
Such deeds we ſaw atchiev'd by female hand.

XIII. To the ſame : On PA SIP H A E.

ENAMoRD of a bull, a Cretan queen I

We oft have heard, but now the thing have ſeen.
Then, CESAR, let not age her pride diſplay:
What fable fein'd, thy Cirk has ſhown to-day.

XIV. On the R H IN O C E R O S and BULL.

H E, who with armed noſtril wildly glar'd,
Has fought the battles, he had not declar'd.
How did his headlong rage the pit appall !
How flaſht the horn, that made a bull a ball !

XV. On
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XV. On the R H IN O C E R O S and B E A R.

WH ILE long they rous’d the heroe to engage,

And bid his noſtril gather all her rage;
In vain the timid guides for battle burn'd,
When lo! the glory of his pow'r return'd.
High a huge bear he heav'd with double horn,
As a bull ſends aloft the balls that brave his ſcorn.

XVI. On the L I ME D B E A R.

WH ILE Bruin wallow'd in th' enſanguin'd ſand,

He loſt, belim'd, the needfull flight's command.
Now let the gleaming ſpears in darkneſs ly,
Nor from the twiſted arm the jav'lins fly.
In fields of air the hunter ſeize his prey;
If, by the fowler's art, we beaſts betray.

XVII. On the S H E - B O AR, delivered by the Wound.

AMID imperial Dian's fierce alarms,
The loaded parent felt the dint of arms.
Swift ſprang the progeny from out the wound:
Severe Lucina, didſt thou tread the ground
Glad would the dam expire by many a door;
So could her ev'ry ſon the light explore.
Who douts, by ſtroke maternal Bacchus roſe ;
Since death deliv'ry on a beaſt beſtows :

XVIII. On the ſame.

THE fatal ſhaft, the teeming womb that tore,

Open'd at once to life and death the door.
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The ballanc'd ſteel confeſt ſupreme command;

Nor was it hurl’d, but by Lucina's hand.
The wond’rous wound prov'd Dian's double reign :
The dam deliver'd, and the ſavage ſlain.

XIX. On the ſame.

THE pregnant boar, with ripen'd honors crown'd ;

Became a parent, from her mortal wound.
Soon as the mother fell, the gricelings flew :
What th' ingenuity of chance can dol

XX. On the E A G L E carrying JOVE.

SAY, queen of birds, whom haſt thou there
The mighty thunderer I bear.
I ſee no bolts ; and that ſeems odd.
No bolts become a loving god.
The objećt what? A beauteous boy:
This Ganymede is all his joy.

XXI. On the BU L L bearing H E R C U L E S.

R APT from the ſand, a bull aſcends the ſkies:
Let not the art, but piety, ſurpriſe.
One bore Europa through fraternal main ;
And one Alcides to th’ ethereal reign.
Compare the ſteers, of Ceſar and of Jove:
What diff'rent loads thro' diff'rent mediums rove!

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XXII. On the E L E PH A N T and the BU L. L.

W HO late, by flames arrous'd, diſpred appalls

Along the ſand; and ſent to heaven the balls;
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Fell prone, by more than horned ardor croſt,

When the huge elephant he would have toſt,

XXIII. To C E S A R : On the ſuppliant.

THAT CesAR, thee the ſuppliant ſhould adore,
Whom late thou ſaw'ſt give trembling bulls to roar;
Confeſſes no command : no maſter taught.
He feels thy pow'r, and owns it as he ought.

XXIV. On the TI G R E S S and L IO N.

THE tigreſs, wont to lick her maſter's hand,

Whoſe ſov’rainty had ne'er confeſt a fear;
The peerleſs glory of Hyrcanian land,
Tore a fierce lion with a tooth ſevere.

A feat ſo novel mockt enquiring time:

To no ſuch val’rous miſchief had ſhe mov’d,
In the proud forreſt, while ſhe reign'd ſublime.
Her ſtay with peace her warfare had improv’d.

YXV. On the L I O N and the H A R E.

WHY, gentle hare, the gen'rous lion fly?

He has not learnt to touch the tiny fry. -

For brawny necks the griding claw remains:

Enormous thirſt the petty draft diſdains.
Filling no jaw, thou fail'ſt to dogs a prey:
Ne'er dread the Dacian boy, that Ceſar ſlay.

XXVI. On the ſame.

ON nervous necks behold him hang;

Proud puſs, why fear the lion's fang :
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From bulls would he deſcend to thee,

Or cruſh the bones he cannot ſee *

Then ſoar not to a fate ſo high ;

Nor hope by ſuch a foe to dy.

XXVII. On the ſame.

IN the muzzle's dread repair,

Scarce the heroe feels the hare.
Glee, my lev'ret, may be thine :
Can he ruſh upon thy chine
On thy ſhoulder can he bound
Where infix the fatal wound P
Vainly, trifler, doſt thou ſcud ;
Vainly proffer paltry blood;
Vainly plague the king of groves :
He for royal vićtims roves.

XXVIII. On the ſame.

IN the jaws that deny all retreat to a bull,

See the hare come and go; and his gambol is full.
O'er his flight as fell fear has loſt all her controll;
From the foe he takes fire, by contagion of ſoul.

Not more ſafe in the courſe, when thou wanton'ſt alone;

Or ſo ſafe, when thou boaſteſt a home of thine own.
The dire dogs to caſt off, thou haſt, puſs, one ſure feat:
In the mouth of the lion, thou'lt find a retreat.

XXIX. On the ſame.

W HILE, with the ſtripling's cries, the welkin rung;

The prize unhurt, in trembling tallons hung.
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Now the imperial whelps confeſs no prey:

Safe in the lion's jaws the lev'rets play.
Say, whether gives thy wonder more to rove,
The pow'r of CESAR, or the pounce of Jove?

XXX. To DOMITIAN: On the ſame.

THy lions, mighty CESAR, ſhed the glee,
On ferried nations, they but mean for thee.
When, with the gentle tooth and gen'rous jaws,
The captive wantons, conſcious of applauſe ;
Whence has the ſavage learnt his prey to ſpare *
Thine, CESAR, is the lion ; thine the hare.

XXXI. On the ſame.

ON painted neck the pard ſuſtains

The tender yoke, and loves the reins.
The furious tiger knows the crack,
And timely takes the keeneſt ſmack.
The ſtaggard champs the golden bit:
The Libyan bears to chains ſubmit.
A beaſt, like Calydon's of yore,
Boaſts headbands never briſtler wore.

The ſhapeleſs buffler draws the wain:

The monſter moves beneath the chain.

Of his black ruler, and obeys,

As bid to earn the prancer's praiſe.
Worthy the gaze of gods are all :
Yet mortals will pronounce them ſmall,
When they the humble hunts admire,
Of lions, whom the lev'rets tire.
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Behold them ſeiz'd, and now let go;

Now ſee them ſwallow'd, by the foe.
Yet ſafer in the mouth the prey,
Than when it fartheſt flies away.
The fondling jaws all pervious hang:
How dextrous is the timid fang ! .
To hurt a hair, they grin the ſhame,
Who late the ſtouteſt ſteers o'ercame :

Art ne'er produc’d the pitying play:

They know what maſter they obey.

XXXII. On the LION and the LA D.S.

THE lion, wont to take the laſh ſo tame,

Whoſe mouth receiv'd the fearleſs hand ſo mild 3.
Reſum'd himſelf, and ſudden ſuch became,
As hardly ſhould aſtound the Libyan wild.
While modeſt minions of the tender train,
Recall'd to decent peace the enſanguin'd ſand;
The ruthleſs fang at once extended twain:
Deed direr never ſtain'd the Martian ſtrand.

Perfidious ravager too late we cry,

If aught can give the guſt of gen'rous joys ;
Learn from our wolf, to lay thy fierceneſs by,
And bland like her, to ſpare the beauteous boys.

XXXIII. On the LION licentious.

THE traitor, who could violate the hands,

That but enforc'd the known as juſt commands;
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Dire penitence too late was doom'd to feel;

And, who not brookt the laſh, endur'd the ſteel.
In man what manners ſhould that maſter find;
Who bids the very ſavage beaſts be kind?

XXXIV. To DOM ITIAN : On the L I O N ſlain.

WH AT murmurs oft Maſſylian wilds have tore,

When countleſs lions bid the forreſt roar;
Th' aſtounded bulls, and heartleſs herds to ſtall,
While paly ſwains with falt'ring voice recall;
Such terror did the ſand Auſonian ſtun :

There roar'd a thouſand lions, and was one :

But one, who'd ſtrike the lion-kind with aw:
Numidia's marble would implore his law.
What thunder cloth'd his neck! how crown'd the plain,
The golden glory of his mooned mane !
What matchleſs ſpears his ample cheſt defy
What triumph echo'd, when he dain'd to dy!
How, Libya, rages thy renown ſo far
Or had he drawn the mighty mother's car?
Or thunder'd headlong from Alcides' fire;
As by thy brother ſent, or by thy fire?

XXXV. On the D E E R : D U E L L IST S.

WITH adverſe front, the tender deer engage ;

And ruſh on mutual fate, by mutual rage.
The diſappointed dogs deplore their prey:
The bloody huntſman throws his blade away.
Could gentle ſouls with ſo much fury glow,
As levels bulls; and lays e'en heroes low
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XXXVI. To DOM IT I A N : On the ſarne.

B EHOLD the feeble deer, what war they wage;

In timid breaſts what balefull furies rage
For death reciprocal, each forehead bounds:
In mercy, feeling CESAR, ſend the hounds.

XXXVII. On the DOE and D O G S.

THE panting doe flung out the headlong hounds,

By various doublings on the various grounds.
Spent, at th’ imperial feet the ſuppliant ſtood;
Her fell purſuers aw’d, no more purſu'd.
"Mid foes now friends, ſurrounding ſafety bleſt:
Inſtinétive piety that pow'r confeſt.
Ceſarean pow'r let miſcreants blind deny:
Believe we thoſe, who have not learnt to ly.

XXXVIII. On the B O Y S and B U L.L O C S.

M ARK how the giddy crew inſult the ſteers,

And how each load the gen’rous beaſt endears.
This urchin from the higheſt horns depends,
That on the brawny ſhoulder ballanc'd bends.
He runs, he flies, he wheels, diſplays his art,
And ventilates his arms from ev’ry part.
Unmov’d, the beſtial ſtands: nor were the vale
More ſure, and ſooner would the level fail.
So ſtrong the tread: nor knows the boy diſmay.
The anxious herd attend the doutfull day.
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XXXIX. To A G A T H IN U S.

L ITTLE nimble Agathine,

What conſummate art is thine !

Play thy poſtures, one and all;

Never will the target fall.
Thee ſhe follows everywhere:
Stooping thro' the eaſy air,
To thy hand or foot ſhe flies,
On thy back or buttoc lies.
Slipp'ry footing proves no dread,
Tho' the ſhow'r Corycian ſhed;
Tho' the rapid ſouthern gales -

Strive to rend theatric vails.

Still ſecure, the careleſs boy

Flings from limb to limb the toy;
And the artiſt well may brave
All the force of wind and wave.

Little, dextrous Agathine,

To eſchew ſhould'ſt thou incline,
Poor thy chance, alone of this :
Who ſtill hits, can never miſs.
Thou muſt change thy poſtures all ;
Elſe the target ne'er will fall.

XL. On the S E A - F I G H T.

Thou late ſpećtator, from ſequeſter'd ſhore,

Who doſt this day the ſacred boon explore;
Let not Enyo, with her naval train,
Beguile thee: nor believe the ſeeming main.
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Here now was land: nay, quell thy ſtare, and ſtay,
Till flying Neptune fatal Mars diſplay.
Then, on the land's return glad gaze beſtow'd,
Thou fairly may'ſt exclaim : Here water flow'd

XLI. On L E A N D E R.

Thee ſpar'd the nightly ſtream, Leander brave;

But ceaſe thy wonder: it was CesAR's wave.
When thy bold paragon his flame explor’d,
Thro' ſeas in ačt, to ſwallow, as they roar'd;
The pray’r the ruthleſs heard not, ſtruck them dumb:
* Waft, as I wing; but whelm me, as I come.’

YLII. On the S W IM M E R S.

WHEN erſt the docile band of Nereids play'd,

They bid the pićtures, and the waves obey'd.
The trident's thret'ning prong would keen purſue;
The anchor bended with her friendly flue:
Here was the liquid limn'd with lambent oar;
There the trim galley ſmil'd to ſweep the ſhore.
The twins Laconian, on the ſailors riſe;
And with expanded wings the veſſel flies.
Who fram'd ſuch fantaſies in lucent ſphere
Or Tethys taught them, or acquir'd them here.

XLIII. On D O M IT I A N’s ſea-fight

T. Embattle fleets exalts Auguſtus' reign;
And, with the naval trump, to rouſe the main:
Yet what is his, to our Augustus' praiſe 2
Or what the ancient, to the modern days :
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Thetis and Galatea ſtar'd to own

Such ſavages, as they had never known.

Triton beheld, nor to behold abhorr'd,
The ſteeds he thought the courſers of his lord.
He ſaw with glee the flying axel glow ;
Tho' cover'd with the duſt of ſpray below.
For, when to furious fight a Nereus ſtrains,
He ſcorns on foot to ſcour the liquid plains.
Whate'er the Cirk or Theater ſurveys,
To bleſs the eyes, imperial water plays.
Abſorb’d the Fucine, in the Marſian land,

The pools of Nero duly ſtill ſhall ſtand.

Sunk ev'ry ſcene, that wond’rous waves beſtow,
This ſingle ſea-fight ſhall the ages know.

XLIV. To C E S A R : On a match of gladiators.

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T HES E MYRINUs, TRIUMPH.Us thoſe demand :

Indulgent CesAR waves his either hand.

Who better could the nice deciſion hit 2

Unrival’d prince, how gracious is thy wit!

XLV. To the ſame: On two other champions.

WHEN PR1scus now, now VERUs urg'd the fight,
Juſt Mars, the neutral friend of either wight;
Diſmiſſion for the heroes, loud was claim'd;
But CESAR voucht the law, himſelf had fram'd.
The law, that laid the prize, enjoin'd the field,
Till the firſt faltring finger begg'd to yield.
Yet nought forbade imperial grace to flow;
Which momentary chear would ſtill beſtow.
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Thus both excelling, neither could excel:

They ſtood together, and together fell.
To each a rod and palm were ſtraight decreed:
Unvanquiſht manhood bore the double meed.
No battle, but from thee, great CesAR, found
The wond’rous cloſe: a brace of vićtors crown'd?

XLVI. To C E S A R : On his E X H I BIT ION S.

s WHILE fain the envious ſtepdame would preclude

The meed of merit, in a vengefull mood;
To Hercules gave heaven, in various lore,
A Nemea's terror, and Arcadia's boar;
The chaſten’d plaſter of the Libyan ſchool;
Hot Eryx laid in duſt Sicilian cool;
The forreſt's pannic, all unknown till then,
Who backward drew the heifers to his den.

What portion theſe, dread CesAR, of thy ſand P

Superior combats does each morn command.
What huger than the Nemean monſter fall !
And what Menalians does thy ſpear appall!
The threefold fight of the Iberian ſwain, -

Returning, would renew a Geryon ſlain.

Oft bids the Grecian Lerna ſwell the ſtile :

Yet what's a Hydra to the births of Nile

Soon gave juſt gods Alcides heaven to ſee;
But late, Augustus, ſhall they welcome thee.

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P A R T III.

On DOM IT IAN's reformation of the public manners; with anecdotes

of his charaćter.

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I. To C E S A. R.
AMID the marvels of th’ imperial ſtage,
That beggar bounties of each former age,
Much are our eyes, our ears much more delighted,
That thoſe regard, who previouſly recited.

II. To the ſame.

Awfull CENsor, chief of chiefs,
Thine our triumphs and reliefs.
Thou bidſt fanes aſcend the ſkies :
shows, and gods, and cities riſe.
What are cities, temples, taſte
It is thine, that Rome is chaſte.

III. To the ſame.

THEY ſported erſt, with wedloc's holy flame;

And, innocence tº unman, they held no ſhame.
Both, CesAR, thou forbidſt with gen’rous ſcorn;
And ſayſt: O coming age, be guiltleſs born.
No caſtrate or ſuborner ſhall there be :
Erewhile the caſtrate was the debauchee.

IV. To the ſame.

As tho' the vileſt wrong were right refin'd,

To traffic it with proſtitute mankind;
The
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The cradle prov'd the pander's, who could buy
* The fineſt vićtim, from the feebleſt cry.
Againſt poor innocents, ſuch arts conſpire
As ſhock ſweet nature, and th’Auſonian ſire:
That ſire, who to the aid of youth had flown,
Leſt ſavage luſt ſhould blight the heroe grown.
The boy, the youth, the ſage did love, applaud:
Now ſmiling infants liſp their CesAR's laud.

- V. To the ſame.
O Thou, who couldſt the Rhine reſtore,
Dread guardian of mankind;
Meek modeſty, with bluſhing lore,
Was to thy care conſign'd.
To thee their everlaſting praiſe,
Let town and country pay;
Who fairly may their offspring raiſe,
To people and obey.
By avarice no more beguil'd,
Virility ſhall mourn:
Nor ſhall the proſtituted child
Be from the mother tor'n.

Shame, tho', before thy bleſt decree,

The bridal bed's diſdain;
Now ſanétifi'd again by thee,
Muſt in a brothel reign.
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VI. To the ſame.

THE miniſterial train and menial tide,
Rome whilom hated, as imperial pride.
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Now, CESAR, to all thine ſuch love we bear,

That what is ours, becomes a ſecond care.
So mild the minds, and ſuch the aw of thee; |
Such modeſty adorns each face we ſee;
No one his own (a court's ſupreme record 1)
But each refle&ts the manners of his lord. -

VII. To J U P IT E R C A P IT o L IN U.S.
RULER of Tarpeia's tow'r,
Where we own ſupernal pow'r,
But our leader ſafe;
Weary thee who will below,
For whate'er ye gods beſtow :
Jove, Oh! do not chafe.
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Nor impute to pride my lore,

That I nought for me implore :
I for CESAR pray.
Give the ſov'rain lord the fit;
Health and wealth, and wiſdom, wit:
He'l not ſay me nay.

VIII. To D O M IT I A N.

I Faught with ſoul ſincere, tho' ſlender lay,

I aſk; nor aſk amiſs: indulge, I pray.
Or, CESAR, ſtill the aſker dain to bear:
Jove ne'er is cloy'd with incenſe or with pray’r.
Who into aw bids gold or marble riſe,
Not makes the gods: he makes them, who applies.

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IX. To the ſame.

Support of things, and glory of mankind I

Who ſafe, the gods we great and gracious find;
If oft my merry Muſe, by ſtrong ſurpriſe,
Has known the pow'r to faſcinate thine eyes;
Command to ſeem, what fate forbids to be ;
And ſtamp me, SIR, the ſire of children three.
Some ſolace this, where I’ve diſpleas'd my lord;
And, where I've pleas'd him, this my rich reward.

X. To his W I F E.

THE right of three ſons,

The price of my puns;
Alone could beſtow,
Who gave it to flow. -

Then farewel, dear wife,

Thou joy of my lifel
Great CESAR uncroft,
His boon be not loſt.

XI. To C E S A. R.

TH OU’RT wont, bland Augustus, to ſmile on my ſtrains ;

My envier denies it: the honor remains.
What, tho’, when thy voice gave my praiſes to flow,
Thou pouredſt ſuch boons, as none elſe could beſtow?

*
The caitif corrodes his foul claws with his fang.
Pour on, mighty CESAR : the monſter may hang.

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XII. To the ſame.

IF truth make e'er her mandates heard,

No times to thine can be preferr'd.
Great CesAR, who could triumphs ſee
Equal to thoſe diſplay’d by thee?
Or can the period be aſſign'd,
That boaſted palace-gods more kind?
More great or glorious, under whom
Effulg'd, high SIR, imperial Rome 2
And, under what auſpicious reign,
Had liberty ſo large domain
Yet one defečt I muſt confeſs:
Nor can I cloke, or make it leſs.
The widgeon, in dependant ſtate,
Muſt oft th' ungratefull cultivate.
Who to an old and faithfull friend
Will now his faculties extend ?

Or where is now the patron known,

Attended by a knight his own
To ſend a ladle of fix ounces,
Amid the Saturnalian flounces;
Or, in the hope of high renown,
Ten ſcruples' worth of flaming gown:
This is a lux'ry worthy kings,
Who princely hold ſo paltry things.
An oddity may be ſo ſchool'd,
As down to chink ſome bits of gold.
Still, as ſuch inſtances are rare,
Be bounty, CESAR, more thy care.
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No virtue can more ſweetly ſhine,

Or in a prince be more divine.
But now I ſee GERMAN1c ſtint

The ſmile : and ſo I drop the hint.

XIII. Indireétly to the ſame.

WHEN late a few thouſands to Jove was my plea,
He'l give them, ſaid Jove, who gave temples to me.
The god had his fanes; but no thouſands I knew.
The plea deſerv'd pennance, for aſking ſo few.
But oh how unawfull, how cloudleſs a brow ;
How placid an eye did he caſt o'er my vow !
With ſuch to poor Dacians their crowns he reſtores:
With ſuch he the Capitol's purlews explores.
Say, virgin, our Thundrer's prime counſeller wiſe,
With what look he grants, if with this he denies 2
Thou fool, anſwer'd Pallas, her Gorgon aſide,

Doſt think the not granted is therefore deni'd?

XIV. To the ſame.

A Petty farm, and humble gods in town,

By thee, and may they long, my wiſhes crown.
But, CesAR, from the vale, to ſlake the graſs,
A painfull pump muſt win the wave to paſs.
And then the houſe complains no fountain chears;
When, babbling by, the Martian rill ſhe bears.
The ſtream Augustus on our gods ſhall pour,
Will prove Caſtalian, or the Thund’rer's ſhow’r.
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XV. - To the ſame.

WH ATE’ER parental love to filial ows,

That, chief of chiefs, thy grace on both beſtows.
The bolts emitted, thou forbad'ſt to rove:
O for ſuch temper to the bolts of Jovel
Oh! did the Thunderer like CESAR feel,
Rare would his hand her total vengeance deal.
Thy double boon, Etruſcus muſt admire;
That crown'd th' aſſociate, when it call'd the ſire.

XVI. On A R E T U L L A's D OVE.

A Dove ſoft glided thro' the air,

On Aretulla's boſom bare.

This might ſeem chance, did ſhe not ſtay,

Nor would permiſſive wing her way. .
But, if a pious ſiſter's vows
The maſter of mankind allows;
This envoy of Sardoan ſkies,
From the returning exile flies.

XVII. On V E L I US’ V O W.

IN northern climes, amid ſublime alarms;

This bird a Velius vow'd for CESAR’s arms.

Not twice four times, her courſe did Luna ſtray;

When Mars his vot'ry card his vow to pay.

The gander joyous peal’d his fun'ral knell;

And on the ſacred fire ſpontaneous fell.
Eight wond’rous coins he dropt from out his bill
Theſe, from his bowels, he did late diſtil.
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Who now with ſilver, not with blood, atones ;

The happy unavail of iron owns.

XVIII. To an A N G L E R.

FROM the Baian lake, with aw,

Angler, I adviſe, withdraw:
Leſt, of hallow'd blood unſpilt,
Thou ſhouldſt raſh incur the guilt.
Sacred fiſhes, ſwimming bland,
Hail their lord, and lick his hand :
Hand, whoſe greater cannot wave;
Or to ſacrifice or ſave.

Name reſpective know they all,

‘And attend their maſter's call.

Once a Libyan ru'd the deed,

When he play'd the trembling reed.
• Sudden light his eyes forſook,
Nor diſplay'd the fiſh he took.
Now he well the hook may hate,
Clothed with ſo dire a bait;
Where he, by the Baian pool,
Sits a blinded begging fool.
Then, dear angler, ſtill by law
Innocent, do thou withdraw.

Throwing firſt a ſimple diſh,

Venerate devoted fiſh.

XIX. To C I N N A.

S TILL you whiſper in the ear,

That which all mankind might hear.
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In the ear you laugh and cry,

In the ear you ſing and figh.
In the ear you plead, pronounce:
In the ear you flag and flounce.
The diſtemper muſt amaze,
That can whiſper CesAR's praiſe.

XX. To the SON of D OMIT I AN.

CoM E, promis'd name ; Iulus’ race adorn.
True offspring of the gods ! bleſt babe, be born :
To whom thy fire, when many an age has roll'd :
May give th' eternal reins with him to hold.
The golden threds, ſhall Julia's fingers draw;
And Phryxus' fleece the willing world ſhall aw.

XXI. On a ſhower of S NOW. .

S EE the fleece of filent wave
Play on CesAR's, face and veſt t
See him ſmile, as bland as brave,
At the ſlow-congealing jeſt,
Once he could Bootes tire,
Helice might ſoke his hair.
Who thus dry upon the fire
It muſt be the raviſht heir.

XXII. On the ſtatue of JULIA.

O JULIA, never form'd by Phidian tool,
Thou progeny confeſt, of Pallas' ſchool
Fair Lygdos bids the ſmiling image. ſpeak,
While living luſter radiates from the cheek.
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‘Twas ſoftneſs ſeiz'd the Acidalian knot,

Which, cunning Cupid, from thy neck ſhe got,
Would Juno, or the laughter-loving dame,
Recall her lord, ſhe muſt from thee the Ceſtus claim.
XXIII. To C A R U S.

O Thou, whoſe head with golden glory glow'd :

Say, where my friend the virgin-boon beſtow'd
In marble fixt th' imperial features view:
The crown, ſpontaneous, round the honors flew.
With envy may the oak the olive eye,
That this ſhould now th' unvanquiſht wreath ſupply.

XXIV. To the ſame.

WH O, daring to portray th’ imperial face,
In Latian marble ſtole the Phidian grace 2
Such is the aſpect of the heav'n ſerene:
So the god thunders, when no cloud is ſeen.
The goddeſs, who conferr'd her own reward, -

Gave thee the image of thine honor'd lord.

XXV. On the ſtatue of D O M IT I A N. .

I NTO auguſt Alcides' form,

AUGUSTU's dained to deſcend:

Sublimer ſtrengths than his to ſtorm,

And temples to the Latian lend.
Where, while the wand'rer's weary feet
Explore fair Trivia's woodland ſcene,
Marble the eight’th he joys to meet,
Sequeſter'd from the city-queen.
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With copious blood, and pious vows,

Alcides whilom was addreſt: *

But lo! his greater he allows;

And bends, obſequious, with the reſt.
To one for wealth this ſuppliant ſues,
For honor that ſubmiſs applies;
While fearleſs, with inferior views,
They plague the heroe of the ſkies.
XXVI. To H E R C U L E S : On the ſame

THEE muſt the Latian Thundrer gladly own,

Where CESAR’s godlike lineaments are known.
Had then thy guiſe and aſpect been the ſame,
When thy hands render'd ſavage monſters tame:
Mankind had ne'er with due diſdain beheld

The tyrant honor'd, and the heroe quell'd ;

Or in Argolic thraldom ſeen the brave;
But ſeen Euryſtheus prove Alcides' ſlave.
Nor had ſly Lichas made thy blood to boil,
With the dire preſent of the Centaur's ſpoil.
Free from the taſks of pow'r, or goads of guile,
Free from the torments of th’ Etean pile,
Thou hadſt ſecurely climb'd thy fire's domain,
Nor ſtorm'd its ſummits by the ſtrength of pain.
From hands heroic, none had dancing ſeen,
The Lydian ſpindles of the haughty queen.
Ne'er hadſt thou viſited the ſhades below,
Nor the Tartarean dog couldſt ever know.
Now Juno ſmiles ; fair Hebe now adores;
And Amphydacia Hylas' ſelf reſtores.
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XXVII. On H E R C U L E S and D O M IT I A N.

O Appian who thine awfull ſhall diſplay ?

Thou peerleſs glory of th’ Auſonian way !
To CESAR ſacred, in Herculean guiſe,
Thy feet on earth, thy fame is in the ſkies.
Wouldſt thou admire the firſt Alcides’ deeds,
And then compare Alcides, who ſuccedes?
One tam'd the Libyan, and the dragon tore :
The vićtor-god the golden apples bore.
How hard was buckler'd Menalippe's lot!
He bid the fair unlooſe the Scythian knot.
What need I fing the lion, whom he ſlew 3
Or ſcar'd Arcadia's boar he overthrew

From woods he drove the brazen-footed hind,

The birds Stymphalian from the waves and wind.
Safe he return'd, from out the Stygian bog;
Unquitted, but unworried by the dog.
The Hydra he forbade to ſpring by blood,
And cows Heſperian lav'd in Tuſcan flood.
Such were the toils of Hercules the leſs;
The glory of his greater now confeſs:
Whoſe majeſty is worſhipt, and whoſe pow'r,
By the ſixth marble from the Alban tow'r,
‘Twas his, fell uſurpation to deſtroy 3.
And for his Jove he warfar’d, yet a boy.
When now he held the Julian reins alone,
He ſat but third upon the human throne.
The trech’rous horns of Iſter thrice he broke,
In Getic ſnow thrice quencht his charger's ſmoke.
To
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To conquer ardent, and to triumph ſhy,

Fairvićt’ry nam'd him from the polar ſky.
Fanes to the gods, to men he manners gave ;
Reſt to the ſword, and reſpit to the brave;
Stars to his own, conſtellants to th’ alcove,
And wreaths refreſhing to immortal Jove,
So high could ne'er Herculean pow'r aſpire:
The god ſhould lend his looks to the Tarpeian fire.
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A P P E N D I X to B O O K I.

To N E R v A and T R A J A N.
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I. To N E R V A.

Two tedious books, demanding loud the file,

To one, leſs rude, leſs daring, volume roſe.
Both be the idler's, baſking in thy ſmile :
This thine, ſage CESAR, not diſdaining thoſe.

II. On N E R V A.

WHo dares to tunefull NERVA ſend a lay,

To purple Coſmus ſends a cloke of gray ;
Vi'lets and privets bids the Peſtan pleaſe,
And honey Corſican Hyblean bees.
But yet the feeble muſe ſometimes may ſtrike,
And the cheap olive grace the coſtly pike.
No wonder ſprings, if, conſcious of her bard,
Thalia trembling ſuch a judge regard;
Of
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Of whoſe chaſte ear a Nero was affraid,

When, young himſelf, a youthfull piece he play'd.

III. On the ſame.

OF ſpirit gentle, as of genius ſtrong,

His modeſty alone can do him wrong.
When all Permeſis his one draft might drain,
He bids his thirſt, however keen, refrain.
Content with ſlender wreath to bind his brow,
He will not to his fame her ſail allow.

Yet him, the ſweet Tibullus of our days,

Each critic owns, who honors Nero's lays.

IV. On the acceſſion of N E R V A.

FASTIDIO US gloom, and Cato's ſtubborn brow,

Grave daughter of Fabricius from the plough ;
All perſonated pride, and cramping aw;
Whate'er we are not in the dark, withdraw.
Hail! Saturnalian joys | Thalia, fing; -

And with thy NERVA's name bid wall and welkin ring.
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V. To N E R V A : On his Acceſſion.

TH E peer benign has crown'd th’ Auſonian reign:

Let Helicon reſound the golden ſtrain.
Hail, holy faith, that know'ſt not to beguile !
Hail, ſweet-ey'd clemency, that joy'ſt to ſmile !.
Hail, happy pow'r of well-attemper'd ſway !
Hence, daftard fear ! Tº enjoy is to obey.
Thy nations, pious Rome, prefer the ſong:
Thine ſtill be ſuch a leader, he be long ||
On:
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On then, thou ſpirit rare; inſpire the moſt:

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On, manners Numa might, or Cato boaſt.

The largeſs, as receiving, to beſtow ;
On want dete&ted, to bid bounty flow ;
T’ atchieve ſuch bliſs, as vainly men have ſtriven;
To pour, what ſcarce the gracious gods have given;
Is lawfull now and right. But, thou ſublime,
Beneath a tyrant, in an impious time,
Tº improve a dang'rous art haſt underſtood :
Thou, greatly daring, daredſt to be good.

VI. To J A N US, reedified.

FATHER of years, and of each beauteous round;
whom firſt our vows invoke, our thanks reſound !
Pervious and ſcanty was thy late abode,
Where many a Roman beat a barb’rous road.
Now gifts Ceſarean thy glad threſholds grace,
And thou a ſquare enjoy'ſt for every face.
For theſe, O ſacred fire benign agree
To lock thy cloiſters with perpetual key.

VII. On the coming of T R A J A N.

H APPY, whoſe lot allow'd to ken afar,
The gleaming warrior of the polar ſtar !
Haſte, feſtal day, when ev'ry field and tree
Shall laugh with verdure, and ſhall fing with glee;
When every window ſhall effulge new flame,
Fed by the luſter of the Latian dame ;
When fond ſuſpence anticipates parade,
And the long cloud enſures the cavalcade:
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When hailing Rome herſelf ſhall full diſplay,

The wond’rous objećt of Flaminius' way. t

Ye prancing Moors, in pićtur'd veſt of Nile,

When ſhall ye ſhed on all the ſudden ſmile !
When ſhall we hear the voice, that ſweetly ſums
The wiſh of nations, in one word: he comes 2 - -

VIII. To the R H IN E.

SI RE of nymphs, of ſtreams the ſource,

Swilling northern ſnows;
Still may'ſt thou enjoy thy courſe, -

In ſerene repoſe.
So may never barb'rous car, - º

Of inſulting ſwain,
Thy pellucid channel mar;
Or thine ear his ſtrain :

So may'ſt find thy horns, and roam

Roman on each ſtrand;
Send but ſafe our TRAJAN home :
Tiber gives command.

IX. To T R A J A N.
W HATE’ER thou haſt deſerv'd, may heav'n beſtow :
And ratify whate'er it gave below !
Who, with their rights reſtor'd, ſett'ſt patrons free;
. Nor to their freedmen bad'ſt them exiles be.
Hail, worthy patron of profan'd mankind
And, the event evinces, ſuch aſſign'd,

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X. On N E R V A - T R A J A N.

ON me, ye blandiſhers, in vain,

With lambent liplings, leer.
No human lord and god my ſtrain:
Ye can't inhabit here.

Hence to the high-crown'd Parthians go,

Or ſuch poor pageant things;
And kiſs, with due proſtration low,
The ſteps of painted kings.

Here is no deſpot; but their guide,

Who liberty eſpouſe:
He, whom the ſenate's honeſt pride
Her pureſt peer allows:

Who call'd plain Truth, with artleſs locks,

From Stygian thrall to ſmile.
Beware then, Rome, the menial mocks
Of antiquated ſtile.

XI. For N E R V A-T R A J A N.

YE Phrygian gods, whom erſt the heir of Troy,

Had raviſht with a far ſincerer joy,
Than from the flames Laomedontian ſtore :

O Jove, now firſt in everlaſting ore

O ſiſter, fervent with a conſort's fire
O daughter, ſolely of the ſov'rain fire !
And thou, who thrice in purple roll'ſt the name
Of NERVA | I implore, with holy flame,
Ye
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Ye all the chief, the ſenate may enthrone;

They living by his lore, he by his own.

XII. To N E R V A - T R A J A N.

IN rev'rence of the right, ye well agrees

With Numa thou; but indigent was he.
Wealth to withſtand, how arduous is the ſkill !
Surpaſſing Creſus, to be Numa ſtill l
Might bleſt Elyſium but unlock her grove,
And give once more our heroes here to rove;
Camillus, freedom's friend, by thee were rul’d ;
Fabricius, from thy hand, would take the gold:
A Brutus' ſelf would deem thy reins renown;
A bloody Sylla lay his empire down:
Julius, the bliſs of private life would ſee;
And Pompey's pride were proud to honor thee:
| Craſſus, the vileſt ſlave of ſlaves below,
On thee would gladly all his bags beſtow ;
And, could a Cato quit th' infernal ſhore,
A foe to CESAR he would prove no more.

XIII. On N E R v A-T R A JAN.

Q UEEN of nations, unperplext; º; "
Who has nothing like, or next; .. . . . .

When ſhe told, with gladneſs pure,

TRAJAN's years, thro’ time ſecure : . .. .

When the youth ſhe ey'd with aw,

Sword at once and ſcepter ſaw ;
Proud of ſuch a preſident,
She her pride vouchſaf'd to vent:
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Parthian peers, and Serian chiefs;

Thracians, Sarmats, ceaſe your griefs,
Getes and Britons, come and bow :
I can ſhow a CesAR now. *
XIV. On T R A JAN's magnificence,
WH ATE’ER could in the palace ſhine,
Hails human eyes, and pow'rs divine.
The Scythian flames of verdant gold,
A Jove admires: ſo ſweetly cool'd H
Yet, when his godſhip throws his gaze,
He cannot cover his amaze, -

At joys ſuperb of regal ſway;

And loads that luxury could lay.
Theſe bowls become a Thund’rer's hand :

With theſe the Phrygian youth might ſtand.

With Jupiter we all are bleſt;
Tho' honeſt ſhame muſt now atteſt, }
With Jupiter we were diſtreſt.

xv. on the double D is AP Po INTMENT.

TH E leiſure of the town may quaff my rill;
But, vacant taſte alone, I ſcorn to fill.
Amid the Getic ſnows, in martial field,
The bold centurion dare my weapons wield.
Britannia's ſelf is ſaid my lays to fing;
Yet my purſe feels not, what my fame ſhall bring,
What deathleſs ſtrains might we indulge to flow,
What battles the Pierian trump might blow ;
Would heaven to earth Auguſtus redecree,
Mecenas would dear Rome revive to me !

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E P I G R A M S

MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL.

B O O K II.
To F R. I E N D S.

E P I S T L E to D, E C I A N.

MARTIAL to his DE CIAN, Health.

W. buſineſs have we, thou ſayeſt, with an Epiſtle º Do not we

do thee honor enough, when we peruſe thine Epigrams ? And what
wouldeſt thou tell us there, that thou mighteſt not as well ſay in verſe 2 I
am ſenſible why tragedians admit a prologue, who are not allowed to ſpeak
for themſelves. Epigrams, need no prolocutor, contented as they are with.
their own, their own dear wicked tongue. In what page they pleaſe, they
cook up an epiſtle. Do not therefore a thing ridiculous, or ſuperinduce as
gown on a dancer. Look to it, in ſhort, whether thou chooſe a rod againſt;
a trident. For my part, I range with thoſe, who ſhoot point blank againſt it.
By Hercules, DecrAN, with whomſoever thou range, thou haſt hit the:
mark; didſt thou but know with how ponderous an epiſtle thou wert likely
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to be loaded. Therefore thy will be done. To thee, whoever ſtumble on

this bunch, will prove beholden; for not getting to the end of their patience,
ere they reach the beginning of the book.

I. To D E C I A N,

ON me may neither health nor fortune ſmile,

If I’d not days and nights with thee beguile.
But two invidious miles ſuch friends diſpart;
And four, when the return muſt rend my heart.
Thou'rt oft abroad, and oft at home deni'd ;
By public cares, or ſelf-enjoyment ti'd.
To ſee thee, would I fly two miles or more:
- Yet, not to ſee thee, I repent the four.
- II. To the ſame.

IF thou a Thraſea's, or a Cato's lore

Purſue, perfection high as theirs to ſoar;
Yet pant'ſt not on the naked point t'expire:
Thou doſt, my DeciaN, juſt what I admire.
Poor pride to tinge in one's own blood the bays
My heroe dies not, to enſure his praiſe.
III. On the ſame.

IF one, among the few, a friend we own;

Such as old faith, and fabling fame have known :
If one, who Rome and Athens underſtood,
Be ſimply native, and ſincerely good :
If one the right regard, the pure purſue;
Nor once prefer a pray’r with private view:
If bor'n on mighty mind one mortal be;
Then let me dy, if DeciaN is not he.
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IV. To R E G U L U. S.

THE ſecond book you ſay ! where is the prior

What ſhall I do, if that be found the ſhier *
Yet, REGULUs, if this the firſt you'd make,
One I you've onely from the top to take.

V. To the ſame.

I N thee, while reaſon and religion ſhine,

While wit and wiſdom beam alike divine;
Gifts adequate he knows not to beſtow,
Who'd give a book, and bid no incenſe glow.

VI. On R E G U L U S preſerved.
ON Tibur's road, to where Alcides tow’rs,

And hoary Anio ſmoking ſulfur pours;

Where laugh the lawns, and groves to Muſes dear;
And the fourth ſtone beſpeaks Auguſta near ;
An antic porch prolong'd the ſummer-ſhade:
What a new deed her dotage half-eſſay’d
Reeling, herſelf ſhe threw with inſtant craſh,
Where REGULus ſcarce paſt in his calaſh.
Sly fortune ſtarted, for herſelf aware;
Nor could the overwhelming odium bear.
Thus ruins raviſh us ; and dangers teach :
Still-ſtanding piles could no protećtion preach.

VII. To R E G U L U S : On the ſame.

TH E portico, that, mold'ring here,

Her melancholy wreck extends ;
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From what a mighty miſchief clear,
A wiſe and willing witneſs lends.
Hardly had REGULUs rode by,
When, trembling with unwieldy weight,
No paſſenger before her eye,
She ruſht upon a bloodleſs fate.
If tott'ring tow’rs ſo cautious be,
What guardian-gods encircle thee!

VIII. To R E G U L U S : With a preſent.

SoME coopling ſcreamers, young and old;
Some Chians yellow, not with cold;
Some fruit of the complaining dam,
(The kid I mean, and not the lamb)
Some olives, that have brav'd the froſt;
Some hoary greens, that are not loſt;
.i Altho' they own the ſeaſon's rigor,
From out my farm may flaſh a figure.
How wide and wilfull muſt thou ſtray,
If, REGULUs, thou ſo ſhould'ſt ſay!
My petty lands, thou wilt agree,
Can nothing more produce than me.
Whate'er thy ſteward, or thy hind,
Or villa, at Third Marble, find ;
Tuſcans or Tuſculans may ſend :
To me muſt fair Subura lend.

IX. On young R E G U L U.S.

SEE REGULUs, not aged three, aſpire
To fan the fewel of a father's fire.
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From his fond mother's arms behold him flown,

-

To catch applauſes, which he feels his own.

The judges' glories, and the people's noiſe,
The Julian temples prove the infant's joys.
Thus the keen offspring of the gen'rous ſteed º

. Already pants, to paw the ſounding mead.

Thus the young bull, with harmleſs front, will play
The embryo-battles of another day.
Ye pow'rs! to this my pray’r propitious be:

So crown the father, mother, child, and me;

That he may feel his ſon's attemper'd fire,

And ſhe may hear the rival ſon and fire.

X. To S T E L L A.

THE race of lev'rets, and the lion's play,

Both in the ſhorter, and the longer way,
Offend thy taſte If twice ſo diſagree,
Take vengeance, STELLA : twice ſend hare to me. :

XI. To the ſame: With a preſent of POTTERY.

TH AT of ſilver or gold we afford no oblation,
'Tis for thy ſake, ſweet Stella, th’ economy's ſuch.
Ample off 'rings expect ample remuneration :
A plain ſervice of earth will not gravitate much.

XII. To the ſame.

WHEN ſoking Jove, with ev'ry ſtorm, would come ;

And with the wint'ry floods the villa ſwom :
A hoſt auxiliar 'gainſt th’ invaders flew,
Of fencefull tiles, diſpatch'd by heav'n and you.
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Now Boreas blows December's, keeneſt wind :

The cot you cover, and forget the hind.

XIII. To CESAR : On the GAMES of STELLA.

WH AT games might make Phlegrean triumphs ſhine,

What India's pomp might wiſh, Lyeus, thine ;
The high enhancer of the Northern day

Does, and ſtill thinks he nothing does, diſplay.

In him how modeſty and duty ſtrove
'Twas all inferior to terreſtrial Jove.
Him not ſuffices Hermus' ſordid ſtream,
Whoſe wave, diſturb’d, yet gave the gold to gleam :
Him not rich Tagus, flood no leſs ſublime;
Th’ unrival’d glory of the weſtern clime.
Each day profuſes boons: nor fails the chain
Of wealth, or to the people rapine's rain.
Now wanton coin deſcends in copious ſhow'r =
Now the large token bids the prey devour:
The bird into the breaſt ſecure is bor'n,
And catches now her lord, Ieſt ſhe be tor'n.
Why tell the cars, or palms unnumber'd ſhow ;
Which neither conſul, or not both, beſtow.
Yet, all outdone, ne'er thine outdoing cloys;
Thy preſence, CESAR, fince thy bay enjoys.

XIV. To A P O L L O : For S T E L LA;

S O be thy boaſt the ſteeds marine,
So be thy ſwans both heard and ſeen;
So be the nine thy handmaids high,
Nor e'er thy prieſteſs tell a ly:
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The court ſo honor thy beheſt,

And render me the aſker bleſt;
As CESAR, with indulgent nods,
Shall ſoon beſtow the awfull rods

Upon my moſt propitious STAR,

Who knows to bid them beam afar.

Then I, glad dettor of my vow,

In piety ſhall ſtop the plough.
The ſteer with golden horns decreed,
I’l to the ruſtic altars lead.

The ready vićtim hails the day:

Why then, my PHEBUs, why delay ?

XV. To M A X IM US : On S T E L LA’s D OVE.

TH E biller, that my STELLA ſings,

(I care not, tho’ Verona hear :)
We, MAxIMus, muſt own, outſprings
The chirper to Catullus dear,

My ſongſter ſoars as far beyond

The genius you ſo juſtly love;
(Be counted whether bird more fond,)
As leſs the ſparrow than the dove.

XVI. On S T E L LA's rings.

THE ſardonyx, emerald, jaſper, emblaze;
The adamant darkens my Stella with rays.
On joints many gems, many more in his ſong:
To STELLA's hand hence muſt the luſter belong.
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XVII. On the ſame.

TH AT the haughty Maſthlion now

Wields ſuch weights on perched brow;
Or that Linus finds his praiſe,
With each hand eight boys to raiſe;
Cannot ſeem a matter hard,
Or attract ſupreme regard:
When my STELLA, without pother,
On one finger, this or t'other,
Can, by ſo enchanting aids,
Carry half a ſcore of maids.

XVIII. On S T E L L A and I A N T H IS.

W HEN erſt the joyous queen of love,

IANTHIs made a STELLA's dove; -

She ſaid: I could not more beſtow.

The lady heard, and rev'renc'd low.

Now Venus whiſper'd in his ear:
Beware thou do not fin, my dear.
How oft the god of war I ſmote,
And bid him change his rambling note;
. Before I dain'd the bluff to wed,
As lawfull inmate of my bed
But, after mine the god became,
He burnt with no illicit flame.

Great Juno well could wiſh her Jove,

As loyally averſe to rove.
With this ſhe clos'd her ſecret ſong,
And thwackt him with her pleaſing thong.
But, mutual, goddeſs, make the oath:
And ſmack the bride and bridegroom both.
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XIX. To the F O U N TA IN of I A N T H H S.

I MPERIAL fount AIN, fair IANTHis' joy,

Thou pureſt glory of th’ enchanted ſpot I
When thy mild margin beams with many a boy,
And thy bright wave beams back the beauteous knot:

Why ſtands Alcides ſacred in the grove :

Why forms the tutelar ſo cloſe a fence 2
Is it to guard, leſt many a nymph ſhould rove;
And ſo ſhould raviſh many a Hylas hence 2

XX. To A R G IN US: HAN THIS’ boy.

WH AT boy, decline IANTHIs waves, I ſee ;

And court the Naiad-queen a Hylas he?

Hail, happy grove, that own'ſt Tirynthian care!

! Hail, loving waters, that ſuch guardian ſhare 1.

Safe from the nymphs, the fount, ARGINUs, tend:
Nor aught, but from the patron, apprehend.

XXI. To the NY MPH of the fountain of I A N THIS.

PEL LUCID daughter of perennial ſpring,

Who giv'ſt my STELLA's gemmy dome to ring ;
Did Numa's goddeſs glide thee from the cave,
f Where the chaſte Trivia wont her limbs to lave?
or, origin as thou muſt own divine,
Perhaps the ninth thou iſſu'ſt of the Nine.
If with the virgin porket I have paid,
And ſtreaming eyes, the theft a ſickling made 3:
My crime aton'd, accept the ſuppliant ſtrain;.
Indulge thy joys, nor let me pant in vain.
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XXII. To his B O O K : For P A R T H E N I U.S.

W HITHER, idler, doſt thou ſtray,

In thy trim of holiday?
Woo PARTHENIUs, would'ſt thou bold 2
He'l remit thee, ne'er unroll’d. |

Writs he reads not, but of moan ;

Minds no Muſe, or would his own.
Well then thou may'ſt be content,
If to humbler notice ſent.
With fair expectation go,
To Quirinus’ portico.
Idler crew could ne'er degrade,
Pompey, or Agenor's maid;
Or, who o'er the waves could reel,
Captain of the eldeſt keel. - 4

There thou haply may’ſt explore

~! Some, who turn thy tinies o'er ; -

When the bets are loſt and won, - -

When the ſtorm of ſteeds is done. -

XXIII. To T H A L I A : For P A R T H E N IU S.

To thine, my Muſe, and my PARTHENIUs, pay

The tender'ſt, warmeſt, moſt endearing lay.
Who quafs more copious from th’ Aonian wave 2
Whoſe lyre ſounds ſweeter from Pimplea's cave
Of the Pierian vot’ries, who can be, *

By great Apollo, more belov'd than he

Catch, if thou ſhrewdly canſt, a vacant hour:
Bid him, who can approach Ceſarean pow'r,
Preſent

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Preſent our ſtrains; whoſe elogy procedes

In four ſweet wordlings: Theſe thy city reads.

XXIV. To the M U S E S.

M USES, if no pleaſure preſs,

Thus your PARTHENY addreſs.
So thy late and blisfull age,
CesAR treading ſtill the ſtage,
Seek, and hardly find, a cloſe;
Nor let envy interpoſe:
Or, may envy's ſelf beguile,
And ſurpriſe thee with a ſmile :
So may Burrus ſavor ſoon,
Of his parent's happy noon :
As thou ſhalt admit a ſcrawl,
Humble, but without appall,
Into the Auguſtan hall.
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Time thou know'ſt of Jove ſerene,
When his placid look is ſeen;
When he nothing can deny:
Partheny, then be not ſhy.
Ne'er importunate the pray'r,
Ne'er too arrogant her air,
When the page of cedar ſmells,
And with royal purple ſwells ;
When ſhe's amply thus adorn'd,
And with jetty navels horn'd.
Nor preſent her then; but play,
As if thou would'ſt nothing ſay.
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If the maſter, of the Nine,

Comes within a ken of mine ;
He will caſt a longing look,
And demand the purple book.

XXV. PART HENIUSS E S vow to APOLLO.

Accept, great Apollo, the cenſer of joy,

PARTHENIUs the Palatine lights for his boy :
That BURRUs, who hails his firſt luſter complete,
Olympiads unnumber'd of glory may greet.
O ſančtion the vow: ſo belov'd by thy tree;
So guard thy fair ſiſter virginity's glee ;
So bloom thou perennial, with radiance divine ;
Not Bromius' own head boaſting honors like thine.

XXVI. On the PAR THE NIAN Gow N.

*
SAY, gratefull gift of
mine ingenious friend,
What happy flock ſhall to thy fleece pretend ?
For thee did herb of fam'd Phalantus blow,
Where glad Galeſus bids his waters flow
Or did Tarteſſian Betis alſo lave

Thy matchleſs woof, in his Heſperian wave

Did thy wool number ſtreamlets more than ſeven,
Of him, who ſlak’d the warrior-horſe of heaven

Amycle's bane ne'er harrow'd up thy hair:

Miletus never boaſted fleece ſo fair.

To thee the lilly fades, the privet's pale;

And all the blanching pow'rs of Tibur fail.
The Spartan ſwan, the Paphian doves deplore,
The perls their hue, on Erythrean ſhore.
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But, tho' the boon leave new-faln ſnows behind,

It is not fairer than the donor's mind.

- A Babyloniſh veſt I'd ne'er purſue, ,,

A veſt the Semiramian pencil drew; -

Old Athamaſſes gold I'd proudly mock,

Would Phryxus give me an Eolian flock.
* Yet oh! what laughter will the contraſt crown
My thredbare cloke upon th' imperial gown

XXVII. On the ſame.

B EHOLD the gown, diſtinguiſht in my ſtrains;
Which in thy head and heart, kind reader, reigns.
She was PARTHENIAN of the courtly bard
The boon, that cloth'd a knight of rich regard;
While ſoft, and ſleek, and ſhining from the frame;
While yet deſerving her high author's name.
Now frail and feeble, wither'd, wrinkled, old;
She ſcarce can fence a ſhiv'rer from the cold.

But naked truth need never bluſh to ſay,

She ſtill is ſnowy, and in ſleek array.
O length of days 1 to what doſt thou conſign
The robe, no more PARTHENIAN, lo! is mine.

XXVIII. To T H A L I A : For A P O L L IN A R IS.

Wo ULDST thou Attic ears delight?

For Apollinaris write.
Nicer or more ſkill'd than he,
Or more candid, cannot be.
If he ſmile, thou need not fear
Coarſeſt critics hoarſeſt ſneer:
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Nor ſhalt roaſting coats ſupply

To the hapleſs finny fry.
If he frown, thou haſt no props;
But muſt beg about the ſhops ;
There to ſell by ounce thy pride,
Boys bedaubing tº other ſide.

XXIX. To the I A M B I C M U S E.

I AMBIC, go; Apollin ARIs hail:

But mark his leiſure; nor abrupt affail.
Thy lib'ral ſtrain, of which he forms the ſoul,
His ear ſhall temper, or his aw controll.
His total brow if he unclouded dain,
Thee with his ſmile beſmile him to ſuſtain.
Nor need'ſ his love for thee too nice explore :
Thou know'ſt thou canſt not me enamor more. -

Wouldſt thou 'gainſt each malignant pow'r prevail; : ... º

Iambic, go ; Apollin ARIs hail.

XXX. To the R O S E : For A P O L L IN A R I S.

G O, happy roſe, and claim thy ſhare,

To wreath Apoll INARIs' hair.

Oh! feel it late the ſnowy ſhower:

so be thou ſtill fair Venus' flower.

XXXI. On the F O R M I A N S H O R. E.

O Temperate, joyous, Formian ſhore,

Which my Apolly's thoughts explore,
When he the town of Mars would fly,
And caſt his all of anxious by
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Thou ſite, he well prefers to all

The fites that beautify the ball !
Nor a ſuperior joy allows
The Tibur of his ſacred ſpouſe.
He finds all other places tire,
That many men of taſte admire;
Finds Tuſculan and Algid ſeats
Preneſte, Antium, vain retreats;
Holds ſoothing Circe but a curſe; -

Nor better deems the Dardan nurſe:

Nor hallows more Marica's reign,

Tho' Liris irrigate the plain. / -

Not Salamis his eye could take, ºr, 1 4 3 / ~ tº º, #3 &

If bathing in the Lucrine lake.
Fair Thetis feels a gentle figh,
That bids the painted galley fly.
No languor thus beduls the deep, \

Which juſt enjoys a living ſleep:

So, chaſing heat, the pretty fool
The purple moves, to bring the cool.
Nor need the briſtle put away - -

To ſea, in queſt of friſky prey.

If from the ſofa he incline,
He ſees the dangler draw the line.
When winds will wage wild war with waves,
His board ſecure the tempeſt braves.
The peacefull pond the turbot feeds,
And perch and pike domeſtic breeds.
The lamprey owns her maſter's hand:
The mullet ſwims up at command.
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O Rome ! when ſhalt thou ſay, enjoy

The pleaſures, that can never cloy/ º & 29 f
How many Formian days a year
Do city-buſtlers leave him clear 2
The joys, ye bumpkin happy crew,
Prepar'd your lords, attend on you.

XXXII. To his B O O K : For F A U S T IN U.S.

W HITHER, thou darling child of joke,

To what protećtor doſt thou fly
Leſt, wrapt in culinary ſmoke, ".
Thou dripping clothe the tunny-fry:
Leſt holy incenſe thou profane,
Or think to lend the pepper poinance;
Thou wouldſt FAUSTINUs’ boſom gain
That is thy father's own enjoinance.

Imbu'd with cedar's potent oil,

The country thou beroam'ſt, and coaſt.
Thy decent frontlets nought ſhall ſoil :
Thou may'ſt thy painted navels boaſt.

And now, in gorgeous purple clad,

Thy face aſſumes a maiden-bluſh :
In ſuch a patron wiſely glad,
Thou valu'ſt Probus not a ruſh.

XXXIII. To his boy: For F AUST IN US.

W HILE young yet my volume, nor ſhaven his face;
My page hardly dry, fearing well for her grace;
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Go, boy, and preſent the light work of my muſe,

To him, who firſt merits ſuch work to peruſe.
But let a ſpunge Punic go with thee along,
Companion the fitteſt for my pretty ſong;
Which daubings unnumber'd will never amend:
Yet one daubing may make at leaſt a good end.

xxxiv. To F A U S T IN U.S.
NO more lock up, my modeſt friend, thy powers;
From thy rich magazine bring forth thy lays ;
Which may reſound thro' glad Pandion's towers,
And which our ſages moſt reſerv'd may praiſe.
Admit fair fame, who dances at thy door;
And dain to reap thyſelf thy toil's reward.
. The ſtrains that ſhall ſurvive thee, give to ſoar;
Nor to thine aſhes leave the late record.

XXXV. To the ſame.

W HILE we from laughing Lucrine ſcarce can go,

And from the caves, with pumice-ſprings that glow ;
My FAUSTIN rules the realm of Argos' hind,
Where ſtone from town four times the fifth is kind.

But Nemea's monſter gathers all his ire :

To Baia not ſuffices native fire.

Then, ſacred fountains, hallow'd ſhores, fareweſ;

Where beauteous nymphs, and bounteous Nereids dwell.
Beat ye, in ſolſtice ſharp, Herculean hills :
Now yield the palm, to the Tiburtian rills.
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XXXVI. To the ſame.

THE gelid vales where Trebula commands,

Where Cancer ſmiles upon the verdant lands;
Lands that Cleone's fervors ne'er moleſt;
A dome, by the Eolian ſouth careſt,
Invites her lord, to brethe autumnal air:
His Tibur ſhall be winter's bland repair.

XXXVII. On F AUSTINUS’ VILLA: To BASSU.S.

THE Baian plain, where our FAustiNUs roves,

Not, BAssus, idly rang'd in myrtle-groves;
Or with the widow’d plane, or ſhapely box,
Ungratefull lengths of blameleſs land enlocks:
But, in the rural, and the greatly-wild, -

Laughs with true joy, where nature firſt has ſmil’d.

Vaſt magazines deny poor Ceres room :
What crouded caſks of ancient autumns fume !

November paſt, and winter's hoar at hand,

The rugged pruner clears of grapes the land.
In the deep vale, the bulls tremendous low :
The ſteers, with fenceleſs front, for battle glow.
No coop confines, and no encloſures hem,
The gooſes cackle, or the peacoc's gem;
Or her, whoſe ruddy wings her name have propt;
The painted partridge, and Numidian dropt:
The pheaſant, of the impious Colchian crew ;
Who thence no bane, but all her beauty drew.
The ſtately cocks careſs their Rhodian loves:
The tow’rs repeat the plaudits of the doves.
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On this ſweet ſide the warm wood-pidgeon woos,

On that his tender mate reſponfive coos.
The hungry hogs attend the dame, that crams:
The lambkins bleat for their diſtended dams.

By the briſk fire the homeborn ſuckling nods,

The forreſt flaming to the feſtal gods.
No ſluggiſh taverner grows pale with eaſe;
No ſlipp'ry wreſtler gives his oil to freeze :
But for the greedy thruſh weaves dire deſign,
Or plays the plunger with the trembling line;
Or, unpurſu'd, thro’ various treſpaſt ſoils,
The ſtruggling doe he tangles in his toils.
Now the kind garden waves her wanton ſhade:
And now, the pedagogue no more obey'd, -

The buxom youth around the hind repair ;

At his command, ſhould he command their hair.
The eunuch delicate enjoys his taſk:
Nor empty comes the boor, of health to aſk. .
He brings a comb of honey undiſtill'd ;
A mug of milk, that Sarſina has fill’d.
See one rough lad the dreaming dormouſe ſhow,
And one the animals we better know :

The bleating offspring of the ſhaggy dam,

The pamper'd capons, onely doom'd to cram.
The clucſter's gifts are bor’n in wicker brown,
By the tall virgins of the honeſt clown.
A neighbor, conſcious that his work is done,
Is ſummon'd to enjoy the falling ſun.
All eat, all drink, all revel, and all reſt ;
Nor envies he, that ſerves, the ſated gueſt.
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Diffuſive happineſs diſpelling ſorrow,

The bounteous board ſaves nothing for to-morrow.

With thee the teeth are, like thy villa, clean:
Beneath a lofty tow'r mere laurels ſeen.
No interloper thy Priapus’ dread,
With city-grain thy vinedreſſer is fed:
And, when to thy ſweet pićture thou repair'ſt,
Greens, eggs, chicks, apples, cheeſe, and muſt, thou bear'ſt.
A country-ſeat this pićture ſhall we call? *

Or clep we the bleak lodge SEQUESTER’D HALL }

XXXVIII. On BASSUS: To F A U S T IN U. S.

WHE RE the Capenian gate her pool extends,

Where to the Phrygian parent Almo bends;
Where the Horatians verdure ſtill the ſpot,
Where puny Herculeſes fane is hot;
Poor BAssus drove his team, but ſang no ſong;
Lugging the ſtruggling ſtores of the bleſt land along.
There coleworts might you ſee of nobleſt ſhoot;
There might admire each lettuce, leek, and root;
But, above all, the deobſtrućtive beet;
Here a rich frail of fatted thruſhes greet;
And here a hare, the cruel hounds could crunch ;
With a ſow's unwean'd babe, that bean could never munch.
Before the car, behold no idler ſtray:
Yet one preceded, ſtuffing eggs in hay.
Was BAssus winding his glad way to town 2
Yes: winding his glad way, to his dear villa, down.

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XXXIX. To F A U S T IN U S : At R O M E.

W HEN now the Tyrian bull reflećts an eye,

On his Phryxean partner of the ſky;
When winter, and her dreary train, have fled
The brother, who revives a brother dead;
Loud laughs the lawn: the ground in green is dreſt;
And each gay tree aſſumes his broider'd veſt.
The Attic, mourn'd, adulterated, maid
Bids Itys echo thro' the plaintive ſhade.
What days what ſuns ! what tunicated eaſe
What a Ravenna, how enricht to pleaſe,
Has Rome FAUSTINUs reft | O ſolemn grove
Ye ſprings that gurgle, and ye rills that rove
Ye ſoking ſands ! yet thou continual ſhore
! Reſplendent Anxur, where the waters roar!
And thou alcove, that uncompar'd we deem ;
Thou fond ſpectatreſs of the twofold ſtream
Whom here the river-barges entertain,
And there the vaſt machin'ry of the main.
But ſo remote, no theaters abide ;
Marcellus’ honor, or a Pompey's pride.
No threefold baths, for happineſs or health;
No fourfold forums ſummon wit or wealth.

No Capitolian crown, ſupreme of ſeven ;

No thuné'rer's temples beam approach to heaven.
Yet ah! how oft, while ſhe attunes her lay,
My muſeling hears thee to Quirinus ſay:
Take, oh! take all thine own, whate'er it be ;
And mine, oh! gracious, mine reſtore to me.
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XL. To his B O OK; For J U L IU S M A R T I A L.

THE E, little book, whom ſwift to town I ſend,
To many, or to one, ſhall I commend ?
To one, enough; nor ſhalt a ſtranger be:
JULIUS 1 a conſecrated name to me.
To him then hy: lo! ſitting at the door,
(He guards the gods, that Daphnis did before)
Thou ſeeſt his dame, whoſe longing arms will preſs,
Orboſom, thee; ſhould'ſt all in duſt addreſs.
Whether them both, or either, thou aſſail;
Say: Marcus bids you, both or either, hail.
Let dedications incenſe pow'r or pelf:
No letter need addreſs another ſelf.

XLI. To JULIUS M A R TIAL: With a book.

THEE a novel book attends,

Julius, beſt below'd of friends ! wº

If thou cleanſe with faithfull ear,

Thou wilt diſſipate each fear:
It may reach remoteſt lands ;
Nay, approach Auguſtan hands.

XLII. On the VILLA of JULIUS MARTIAL.

My JULIUs’ few acres divine,
Than gardens Heſperian more ſweet,
On Janicle gently incline,
And hills do but crown the retreat.

The
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The ſmooth ſummit modeſtly ſwells,
. Enjoying ſerenity's hight;
And, while the cloud curls o'er the dells,
Peeps forth with diſtinguiſhing light.
The tow’rs that ſurvey ev'ry ſtar,
When nature's broad canopy's furl’d,
Deſcry ſeven giants afar,
That carry the queen of the world.

O'er Tuſculum's hills hence Irove . .

Then, o'er the cool ſtretch of the plain,
Fidena I ken, and the grove,
That Delia's dire orgies, diſtain.

Flaminius', and Salters', fam'd way,

Diminiſht to pathlings appear;
And drivers, like pigmies, diſplay,
Whoſe wheels rattle none to the ear:

*Nor here the ſoft ſlumbers are broke,

By Tritons in chime or in cry:
Offenceleſs is here ev'ry joke,
As down holy Tiber they fly.
But, when the beſt beauties are ſhown,
º The place's firſt pride is her lord;
Who bids ev'ry gueſt ſee his own,
And ſo prove the owner's reward.

Thou'd'ſt dream it Alcinous' reign,

*- The Ithacan king thought ſo odd;
Or fancy Cleone's old ſwain,
Who welcom'd ſo gratefull a god.
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Ye, this who regard a thing ſmall,

Go, cultivate Tibur in ſtate ;
Or tame proud Preneſte, where all
Your hundreds of ſerviles await.
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On one favor'd tenant beſtow

All Setia, that deluges wine:

Ye never will equal below,
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My Julius’ few acres divine.

XLIII. To the LIBRARY of JULIUS MARTIAL.

O F charming ſpot, O charming hoard
Who doſt the joys refin'd afford; -

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Amid the fair of chaſter face,
If my Thalia hope a place 5
She craves thy very loweſt neſt,
Tho' there ſhe will repoſe my beſt.
Yet ſeeks ſhe not thy darkeſt den,
For lays, that boaſt the author's pen. -
His precious blot will bid her riſe,
Nor fear the ſun in cloudleſs ſkies.

Thus, undebas'd by humble boom,

Thou far and wide effulgeſt ſoon ;
And o'er the globe thou ſhalt be ſung,
The glory of each time and tongue.
Thou claim'ſt the darling of my breaſt,
of Julius favºrite friends poſſeſt.
XLIV. To JULIUS M A R TIAL.
IF, dear MARTIAL, I with thee,
Could enjoy the moments lent;
And
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And improve the days of glee,

. On true life alike intent;

Nor the halls, nor homes of ſtate,

Should our dazzled eyes ſurvey 3.

Nor the pageants of the great,

Nor the pićtures proud as they.

Shelter'd from the brangling bar,

Safe from nonſenſe and from noiſe;
From all city-buſtle far,
Ours ſhould be unmingled joys.
We would read, and write, and talk;
Now would meditate a theme ;
Now, unbending, ride or walk;
Woo the ſhade, or wind the ſtream.

To himſelf ſtill neither lives ;

Each expends the golden day,
Thoughtleſs of th' account he gives:
Who can live, and yet delay

XLV. To the ſame.

SEc OND to none, my JULIUs! O endear'd

By holy friendſhip, and by hoary ties 1
To thee, has thirtieth conſul twice appear'd,
And ſcarce thy life a few more days ſupplies.
Why then delay, what well may be deni'd
The time alone that's paſt, eſteem thine own,
Cares and concatenated toils abide :
But joys no ſooner come, than they are flown.
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Enjoyment faſt embrace in all her charms:
To-morrow I ſhall live, the fool will ſay.
Enjoyment may elude thy fondeſt arms:
Wouldſt thou be ſure of living : Live to-day.

XLVI. To the ſame,

H ARVESTS with thee full thirty-four,

If right I tell them, I have ſpent.
The bitters many, ſweets were more :
A JULIUs' friend enjoy'd content.
If we the pieces, black and white,
Shall throw into contending ſcale;
The inſtances, that yield delight,
Will on the candid fide prevail.
Wouldſt fling the ſours from out the bowl,
Nor mortal poinancies receive *
Admit no partner of thy ſoul :
Thou leſs ſhalt joy, and leſs ſhalt grieve.
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XLVII. To the ſame

*

OF things that highten human bliſs,

The ſum, ſweet MARTIAL, may be this.
A freehold, not amaſt by care;
But, dropt on a deſerving heir :
A ſoil, that ev'ry culture pays,
A hearth, with never-dying blaze:
No conteſt, and but little court;
A quiet mind, her own ſupport:
A gale, to fan ingenuous flame;
Exertion, to enforce the frame:
Simplicity,
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Simplicity, that wiſdom blends ;

Equality, the bond of friends:
An eaſy converſe, artleſs board,
With all the little needfull ſtor'd :
* --

A night not ſoking, care effac'd;

A couch not diſmal, always chaſte:
| Sleep ſtealing o'er the gloom ſo ſweet,
That evening bids and morning meet.
Content, which nought beyond aſpires;
And death nor dreads, nor yet deſires.

XLVIII. To v AL E RIUS FLAC CUs.

TH O U little know'ſt what epigram contains,
Who think'ſt it all a joke in jocund ſtrains.
He direly jokes, who bids a Tereus dine ;
Or dreſſes ſuppers like, Thyeſtes, thine ;
Feins him who fits the boy with melting wings,
Or the ſweet ſhepherd Polyphemus fings.
Our muſe diſdains by fuſtian to excel;
By rant to rattle, or in buſkin ſwell.
Thoſe ſtrains the learn'd applaud, admire, adore. A

Thoſe they applaud, 'I own; but theſe explore. ſ

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XLIX. To the ſame. ,

º W HEN ancient ſages yield the palm to ours;
When Rome, with higher head, far higher tow’rs;
Thou think'ſt it ſtrange, no Maro now is found;
No equal ſtrength the warlike trump to ſound.
Let new Mecenaſſes on earth ariſe;
New Maroes ſudden will ſalute the ſkies.

Thy
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Thy very hinds will trumpet war's alarms,

And Virgils will aſcend from FLAccus’ farms.
Young Tityrus his little land had loſt:
Cremona prov'd his neighbor to his coſt.
Forlorn, he moan'd his deſolated flocks;
And melted with his woe reſponſive rocks.
Th’ Etrurian knight with ſuch complacence ſmil'd,
As ſoon the ſorrows of the ſwain beguil'd :
And, with a look, ſhe dar'd not to deny,
He bade fell poverty for ever fly.
Be riches thine, the prince of bards be thou ;
And our Alexis let thy ſmile avow.
Faſt by the board the beauteous youth did ſtand,
Deep nećtar pouring with his marble hand.
And, ere he gave, he toucht with roſy lip,
That would have call'd a Jove himſelf to ſip.
Th’ enraptur'd bard, tranſmuted on the ſpot,
The blouſy Galatea's name forgot.
Poor Theſtylis no more his fancy won,
With all her roſes ſallow'd in the ſun.

The ruſtic muſe, that ſcarce a gnat could ſing,

Refin’d at once, aſſum'd a tow'ring wing.
Fair Italy gave all her ſoul to glow :
ARMs AND THE MAN her trump eſſay'd to blow.
A. Varus, or a Marſus, need I name; -

Or other bards, by fortune rear'd to fame *

Mecenas' boons might Maro make of me.
A Maro ! no : I will a Marſus be.
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L. To the ſame.

CRow N of my care, and ſource of my renown

Sweet hope, and nurſeling of Antenor's town
Fly, fly the ſongs and dances of the Nine:
Not one of them will fill a purſe of thine.
What aſk of Phebus 2 Pallas has the pence:
She beggars ev'ry god of every ſenſe.
What's Bacchus' ivy to her ſable tree,
Which waves with ſolid weight its head to thee?
Beſide his ſtreams, his garlands, lyres, and lays,
What boaſts thy Helicon An Echo's praiſe.
With Cirrha why, or with Permeſis fool'd,
When the full forum flows with tinkling gold 2
There clients glad the pow'rs that they employ;
But here the few that gall not, give thee joy.
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LI. To the ſame.
H AIL, golden ſhore, where bliſsfull Venus ſmiles,
Where Nature proud with blandeſt boons beguiles
Exalted ſtrains, that would the theme purſue,
Could never reach the praiſe to Baia due.
Tho' Baia fair, my FLAccus, I confeſs;
Thy Martial is a friend I love no leſs. e

Theſe to unite eludes the fondeſt hope:

To part them then ſhould prove no arduous ſcope.
Yet, if the bounteous gods would both beſtow,
From MARTIAL, and the BATH, what bliſs might flow. -

LII. To the ſame.

ON verdant bed of vari’d flow'rs reclin'd,
Where ſparkling rills their ſoft enchantment wind;
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Where the ſtream gurgies o'er the ſtartled ſpar,

Each joy at hand, and all annoyance far;
So may kind ice thy duſky gobblet tings,
So garland gay thy roſy forehead fringe ;
so pureſt miniſter thy nod obey,
So chaſteſt maid enjoy thy lengthen’d ſtay;
As the fell fervors of the Cyprian ile
Shall ne'er (Oh! may they ne'er, I pray) beguile,
When ſounding floors ſhall bruiſe the crackling grain,
And the dun lion rear his raging mane!
But thou, O Paphian goddeſs, guard the head
Of the dear youth, from all the woes we dread.
Reſtore him ſafe and ſound; ah! ſoon reſtore,
To our fond wiſhes, and his natal ſhore.
So ſhall thy Marſes Calends homage pay,
With incenſe ſweet, and wine without allay.
So ſhall, before thy candid altars, fall
The hallow'd vićtim, as thou hear'ſt our call:
So ſhall thy vot’ries juſt libation make,
On many a lozenge of the parted cake.

LIII. To S I LIUS IT A LI CU S.

GREAT SILIUs, glory of the Nine !

Who canſt with peerleſs pow'r confine
Barbarian fury, Punic pride;
Quell perjury, and dout decide;
Force Annibal to fly the field,
To Africanus fain to yield:
Ceaſe but a moment to be nice,
While free December flings the dice;
While
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While wicked boxes rattle round,

And many a caſt is fatal found;
Indulge a glance upon my ſtuff:
Great as thou art, oh! look not gruff.
Tender Catullus thus would ſend,
A ſparrow to his mighty friend.

LIV. To the reader of S I L I U.S.

THou, whoſe fine taſte, or bleſt occaſion ſtrays

On deathleſs Siliusses exalted lays;
Lays, that reflect th' admirer's own renown,
Lays, doubly worthy of the Latian gown |
Wouldſt think he quaft but the Pierian ſpring,
And bound his locks but with Aonian ring.
Soon as in buſkin'd Maro's ſtep he mov’d,
A Cicero he flaſht with fire improv’d.
The venerable Hundred feel his fame :
A thouſand clients form but one acclaim.

When with the rods, that twice ſix bundles bind,

He rul'd the ſacred year that freed mankind: _/

His lib'ral years became Apollo's prize,

And Helicon is now the court he plies.

Lv. To Do MITIAN, For sILIUs.

To CesAR let your incenſe riſe,
To him your vićtims fall:
Ye Nine, ſalute th' auſpicious ſkies;
And let us carol all.

The twice fix bundles bids the god,

* Upon the ſon rebound; . . . .
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And, with the welcome awfull rod,

The dome Caſtalian ſound.

Augustus, thou ſupreme of things;

Their primal, ſingle ſtay !
To thee thine own Thalia flings
Th’ unmeditated lay.

While thou enjoy'ſt to crown my joy,

A twofold wiſh remains:

For bliſs upon th' empurpled boy,

And for a third the reins.

To Pompey tho’ the fathers gave,

And Ceſar to his ſon,
The honors of the wiſe and brave,
Which they alone have won;
Tho peacefull Janus three times threw
A glory round each name;
My SILIUS would acquire, in two,
A higher threefold fame. -

LVI. On S I L I U. S.

Sweet SILIUS celebrates a Maro's tomb,

And tills glad acres in a Tully's room.
Heir to the living, or the dead repoſe,
No other had the bard or ſpeaker choſe.

LVII. On the ſame.

- I O a Maro's dread aſhes, and name near unknown,

Ev'ry honor he paid, while yet poor and alone.
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But a SILIUs, now maſter of Andes' own rents,

Doubly honors the bard he both ways repreſents.

To the MUSE : For CECILIUS SECUN DUS.

W HILE for my friend the fond reſemblance grows, .

And from the maſter's hand the canvas glows;
To Peuce, Muse, and peaceful Iſter, go,
where he has laid the haughty nations low :
A collečt ſmall, but ſweet, Cecilius give :
Still in my lays my look ſhall better live.
There ſhall it accident and age defy,
When th' Apellean touch itſelf ſhall dy.

LIX. To the ſame: For the ſame.

N OR a learned, nor looſe, little book:

Nor a ruſtic, THALIA, convey.
On my Muſe glad Cecilius will look: .
Sure I need not demonſtrate the way.

Short the toil ſteep Subura to climb,

Magic Orpheus tranſported thou'lt ſee,
O'er the theater tuning his rime;

And the beaſts dancing round him with glee.

Then the raviſher-bird thou'lt behold,

With the Phrygian boy in his pounces:

Northy Pedo's ſnug ſeat need be told,
Which a ſhorter-wing'd eagle announces.
But, my dear giddy Muſeling, take heed,
That thou tap not untimely the door.
Livelong
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Livelong days is her vot'ry indeed

Cloiſter'd up in ſtern Pallaſſes lore.

For the Hundred he pleadings prepares,

That poſterity ſtill ſhall admire;
And which, wondering Candor declares,
Are rekindling bold Cicero's fire.

At the later lamps then thou ſhalt go :

On the hour, now thine own, he'l attend;
When the god gives the ſpirits to glow,
And commands e'en the wiſe to unbend.

Then they welcome each generous joke,

Then the roſes encircle the head;
Then the locks with ſweet eſſences ſoke:

Then by Catoes themſelves I am red.

LX. To S E V E R U S.

I Demand no total hour,

If thou ply thy vacant pow'r.
Yet, upon my things of glee,
State the total hour to me.

But, methinks, thy ſpirit ſays:

Hard to loſe the Holidays
'Tis to me a precious boon :
Thy loſs will be over ſoon.
Should'ſt thou with Secundus read

(How ſuch merit can we plead?)

More to thee my lays might ow,
Than their bard could e'er beſtow.

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For, ſecure that book ſhall be,

Nor Siſyphian ſcenes ſhall ſee,
Which, with my Severus join'd,
Secund's ſtamp ſhall have recoin'd.

LXI. To the ſame.

WHY to the learn'd SEveRus verſes ſend?

To ſupper why invite an affluent friend?
Tho' Jove on nećtar and ambroſia live,
To Jove the entrails, incenſe, wine, we give.
If all his own divine conceſſion make,
Can, aught he has not, my Severus take :

LXII. To A U L U S P U. D. E. N. S.

TRIFLEs would my PUDENs ſcan,

Winnow'd by the author's fan
Oh! how keen will friendſhip fift,
Such originals her driftſ

LXIII. To the ſame.

TH E copious flow, dear PUDENs, lames my lines;

And frequency will pall the beſt deſigns.
The rare delights : we find firſt apples nice,
And winter-roſes bear a tenfold price.
So due diſdain endears the ſpoiling fair:
Nor does the open door confine the heir.
More from one book a Perſius earns of fame,
Than puffs to Marſus th' Amazonian name.
Whatever traćt of ours thou travel o'er,
Think it our all, and thou wilt prize it more.
LXIV. To
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38 M A R T I A L’s E P I G R A M S.

LXIV. To the ſame.

WHILE thou didſt joy to drive the ſluggiſh wain,

And in thy boſom either Bear to gain;
How nearly raviſht to the Stygian ſhore,
Up to Elyſium's awfull dawn I bore
On thee my heavy eyeballs hov'ring hung,
And PUDENs falter'd on my ſtiff'ning tongue.
Yet, if no ſable thred the ſiſters draw,
And, if thoſe dain to hear, whom late I ſaw ;
My pow'rs reſtor'd ſhall hail thee ſafe and ſound,
In Latian climes, with knightly honors crown'd.
LXV. To his B O O K : For S A B IN US.

L ITTLE collečt of my lays,

Seek where my SABINUs ſtrays;
Gracing now the Umbrian hight,
Once my Pudens' town's delight.
Slily ſlip into his hand:
His attention thou’lt command.

Load whatever cares his mind,

To my charmers he'l be kind.
For, to mine his love remains,
Next to noble Turnus’ ſtrains.

Hark! the trump of fame ſo loud 1

Round thee what admirers croud!
Square and portico ſhall ring ;
Temples, ſtreets, and taverns ſing,
For convivial joy decreed.
One receives thee: all ſhall read.

LXVI. To
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LXVI. To the NY MP H of S A B IN U.S.

QUEEN of the lake, whoſe temples ſoar the ſkies,

That my SABINUs’ bounty gave to riſe !
So may high Umbria in thy fountain lave,
Nor Sarfina prefer the Baian wave:
Receive the anxious boon my Muſes bring,
And duly prove their Pegaſean ſpring.
Who lays, ye nymphs, his labors in your fanes,
Juſt intimates the merit of his ſtrains.

LXVII. To a C H A P L E T : For S A BIN U.S.

D ID Peſtum's gales, or Tibur's, bid thee blow :

Or Tuſculum elicit all thy glow :
Thee in Preneſte's bed has hoydon ſlain
Or waſt the glory of Campania's plain 2
Yet fairer to my SABINE that thou ſeem,
Thee child of my own tendance may he deem.

LXVIII. To NARNIA: For QUINTUS OVIDIUS,

O Narnia, circled by ſulfureous rill;
That dain'ſt acceſs, but by thy double hill;
Why call my Quintus, ahl ſo oft away
Yet, need I aſk or, why prolong his ſtay ?

Why ſink the value of Nomentum's land,

Which once was doubled by the ſocial band
Releaſe my friend, nor lengthen my annoy :
So may'ſt thou ſtill thy peerleſs bridge enjoy.
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LXIX. To Q. OVIDIUS: On the image of CESONIUS MAXIMUS.

THERE thy Cesonius' ſelf, my Ovid, ſee;
Whoſe look the faithfull wax bids living be.
Him Nero doom'd : but thou didſt Nero dare

To doom, and would'ſt an exile's fortune ſhare.

Thro' Scylla's rage a volunteer would fly,
Who late th' entreating conſul could deny.
If little rolls keep mighty names alive,
And if my aſhes I may ſtill ſurvive;
The preſent and the future age ſhall ſay:
Thou waſt to him, what he to Seneca.

LXX. To the ſame: On the ſame.

OF ſweet-tongu'd Seneca, the potent friend,

To Carus next, before Serenus plac'd ;
Thy MAXIMUs what ſoothing ſtrains attend,
With each epiſtolary honor grac'd 1
With him thou wander'ſt o'er Sicilian waves:
What tongue my Ovid's praiſe ſhall ceaſe to ſound?
Bleſſing and bleſt, while all the tyrant raves;
And ſmiling, while his thunder roars around.
Antiquity her Pylades may vant,
Who to a parent's exile kept his vow:
But who the heroes in compare ſhall chant?
Unſever'd, from a Nero's exile, thou !

LXXI. To the ſame: Abroad.

2
M ON G Caledonians does thy ſpirit fire,
My Qg INTus, to explore thy ſtrange retire :
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To viſit Tethys, in her green abode,

And trace old Ocean in his wildeſt road 2
Thy Numa's hills, and my Nomentum's charms,
Can the ſage quit? quit his fireſide and farms ?
Joy thou remitt'ſt; not Atropos her count :
For ev'ry hour goes down to thine amount.
Thou ſhow'ſt thy friend (and who ſhall ſay, haſt err'd 2)
Unbroken faith to longeſt life preferr'd.
Soon to thy Sabines wind again thy way;
Soon crown their wiſhes with continu'd ſtay:
And, while thou mourn'ſ the orphan'd multitude,
Among thy friends, one, oh! thyſelf, include.

LXXII. To M A R C E L L IN U.S.
INGENUous offspring of a fire ſublime,
Whom the Bear zeniths in Parrhaſian clime;
To vows, which thine, and which thy father's friend
Prefers, a due and deep attention lend.
Rein'd be thy valor; nor let rage of arms
Hurry thee headlong 'mid fell war's alarms.
Let brainleſs heroes boaſt th' enſanguin'd field:
Thou know'ſt thyſelf thy country's ſword and ſhield.

|LXXIII. To F A U S T IN U S : For M A R C E L L IN U.S.

N ow Roman peace becalms th’ Odryſian ſhore,

Where the ſhrill trumpet's voice is heard no more;
To MARCELLINE my lay, dear FAustiN, ſend :
An ear to jocund lays the youth may lend.
Yet, fully to enſure my Muſe's care,
The humble boon a modeſt tripling bear:
: N 2 Not *
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Not he, whoſe cheek the Getic heifer dies;

Who, on the glaſs, his hoop Sarmatic plies;
But one of Mitylene's roſy breed;
Or Spartan, by his mother doom'd to bleed.
From haughty Iſter's now obſequious rocks,
A cub ſhall crawl to tend thy Tibur's flocks.

LXXIV. To M A R C E L L IN U. S.

TH OU ſoon the northern Wain muſt meet,

Amid the Getic ſnows;
And each dull conſtellation greet,
That ever nature froze.

Prometheus there ſhalt thou behold,

Nor will his rock ſurpriſe;
And all the tale thou haſt been told,
Will terrify thine eyes.

But, when, his roars around the rocks,

The echoes reconvey;

Thy ſoul will own, between the ſhocks,

He harder was than they.

The wond’rous ſage, who knows to bear

His pangs with manly mind;
Thou may'ſt without preſumption ſwear,
Was fit to forge mankind.
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To range th' Emilian, and the tribes ſurvey,
Where once Apollo made a fav'rite ſtay;
To
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To ſtroll the lawns, where Padus rolls along,

And ſooth thy toils with Phaethontian ſong;
I give thee leave, my friend; or let me dy:
Tho' without thee each day but ſpins the figh.
Yet on theſe terms alone we brook thy tour,
(For nature cannot pain prolong'd endure)
That on thy friends one ſeaſon thou beſtow,
And ſhun in city-ſhade fell Sirius’ glow.
Drink then at ev'ry pore the burning air :
Be but a forainer, thou ſtill art fair.
True, when thou com'ſt, our eyes thou wilt amaze:
Thy friends will ſcarce acknowlege, as they gaze.
Thou too ſhalt wonder, at their paly hue:
To thy new brown their tinčture will be blue.
But Rome thy raviſht tint will ſoon reſtore,
Tho' from the Nile thou ſhould'ſt return a Moor.

LXXVI. To the R O M A N R E A DE R.

These ſtrains from far, in queſt of ſome renown,

Sends Gallia, ſurnam'd from the Roman gown.
Thou read'ſt them; but commend'ſt the lays before :
Or theſe, or thoſe are mine, that ſuit thy lore.
More pleaſe the produćts of a city-queen:
A town-born wit out-beams a Gaul, I ween.

LXXVII. To his B O O K.
* Hy thee, to Rome, my Book. If whence, ſhe ſayi,
Tell her thou comeſt from th’ Emilian way.

• If, in what track or town, ſhe aſk, we be ; -

Hn old Cornelius' Forum, Madam, he.

Why
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Why does the poet ſtray ſo far from town

He could not bear the languors of the gown.
When comes he back the next enquiry moves.
A bard he went; but comes, when he a minſtrel proves.

LXXVIII. To the ſhores of A LT IN U M.

ALTINUM's ſhores, that with the Baian vy;
Ye conſcious poplars, that a Phethon ſigh;
Thou faireſt Dryad on Antenor's lawn,
Who weddedſt on Euganean lake his Faun :
Bleſt Aquileia, whom Timavus aws,
Where Cyllarus his ſevenfold waters draws:
Hail, peacefull port and pillow of my age
So mine it prove to chooſe my final ſtage.
* *

LXXIX. To C L E M E N T : For A T E S T IN A.

SHOULD'st thou ſee ſooner Helicaon’s reign,

Where viny ridges paint the pregnant plain;
To fair ATESTE’s pride preſent with aw,
Some ſtrains empurpled, that the world ne'er ſaw.
As a fair roſe delights, when pluckt in prime;
So virgin-ſtanzaes and unſullied rime. *

LXXX. To ATT ICUS : On MARCUS ANTONIUS PRIMUS.

My ATTIcus will taſte my fair delight,

In what MARK ANToNY has dain'd to write,

How he beloves my Muſe! a judge how kindl

If a ſaluting card may credit find.
That judge who bids Toloſa's fame increaſe;
Whom form'd repoſe, the progeny of peace.
Go,
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Go, little book, ſuſtain the lengthen'd way;

And of an abſent friend the ſoul convey.
Mean were thy value, did the buyer ſend :
But, FROM THE AUTHOR, may thy worth commend.
How diverſe muſt the living fountain ſlake,
And the dull water of the dormant lake

LXXXI. On the ſame.

His placid eyes behold ANToNIUs caſt,

On times fifteen a ſweet Olympiad paſt.
Secure he ſees each day, and hails each year;
Nor dreads Lethean waves, that roll more near.
No hour departed brings him back appall:
No light has lapſt, he joys not to recall.
A doubled ſpan the virtuous mind employs,
Who thus the preſent and the paſt enjoys.

LXXXII. To C E D IT I A N.

WH AT face, with violets and roſes crown'd,

So ſtrikes the eye? you aſk with aw profound.
Here ANTony the PRIME looks all his truth:

The ſage beholds himſelf in prime of youth.

Could art expreſs the manners and the mind,
On earth no fairer pićture ſhould we find.

LXXXIII. To M. AN to NIUS PRIMUs.

A Miſſive pledge, whence pledges bring renown,
Brought the grave preſent of th’ Auſonian gown;
Which, not Fabricius, would Apicius bear;
And which th' Auguſtan knight were proud to wear.
This
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This from elſewhere might leſs acceptance gain : - \

Not ev'ry hand can hallow vićtims ſlain.

From thine the boon muſt yield ſupreme delight:
The very name might ſelfiſh love excite.
But, far more gratefull than the boon or name, |

From learning's hand, and friendſhip's heart, it came.

LXXXIV. To his B O O K : For A R T A N US.

N OR yet empurpled, nor polite,

From the dry pumice’ grating bite,
Thou hi'ſt ARTANUs to attend ;
For whom bright Narbo dains to ſend,
Tº enforce the juſtice of the gods,
And prop the laws with equal rods.
Hail, NARBo, hail! ſupremely bleſt,
Of ſuch a progeny poſſeſt !
ARTANUs, born to think and ſay:
Learn'd votienus, for the lay.
Go then, my child; thy wiſhes crown,
In ſuch a friend, and ſuch a town.
How juſt a joy would light my look,
Could I but now become my Book

LXXXV. To LAUS US: On VIENNA in G A U L.

VIENN A fair delights to con my lays:
Nor can we dout what honeſt rumor ſays.
There am I red by ancient, youth, and boy; *-

º
By the chaſte dame, before her jealous joy.
This gives the Rhone and me more rapid courſe,
Than, if they quaft, who quaff the Nilian ſource;
Than
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Than if my Tagus pour'd his golden bed,

My bees if Hybla or Hymettus fed.
Some little then are we ; nor us deceive

The pow'rs of ſong: thee, LAUsus, I'l believe.

LXXXVI. To F U S C U S.
F USCUS, if thine ample heart
Still have any vacant part;
Compaſt as thou art with friends;
Mine upon that part depends. .
* • **'.
ºf
Nor deny, becauſe I'm new :
All thy old have been ſo too.
Thou haſt onely to unfold,
If the new may grow the old.

LXXXVII. To the ſame.

S O may thy Tiburtine Diana ſing,

So may thy cropling grove rejoice to ſpring;
Nor may thy Pallas to Tarteffus yield,
Nor be thy Bacchus foil'd from off the field:
So may the courts admire, the palace praiſe;
So many a palm thy dancing doors emblaze:
While mid-December ſhall ſome leiſure lend,
Then let thy critic eye my jokes intend. r

I long to learn the truth: an arduous taſk

What thee thou wiſheſt told, of thee I aſk.
LXXXVIII. To R U F U. S.
A Vintner, butcher, barber, pray:
A bath for pleaſure, cheſs for play:
... O A few,
 M A R T I A L’s E P I G R A M S.

A few, but very choſen, books;

A knowing friend, with kindly looks:
A pleaſing damſel to my boy,
A ſtripling long with her to toy:
Theſe anywhere, on any terms,
Give me, and take a Nero's therms.

LXXXIX. To the ſame.

I Hi'd thee, my Rufus, a runner at fix,

Who, ſok'd to the ſkin, would my glories preſent;
While heav'n dain'd her torrents moſt copious to mix:
No other ſo proper way could they be ſent.

XC. To the ſame: For V E N U L E I U. S.

THESE, RUFUs, to our VENULEIU's commend:

And beg him a moment with me to unbend.
Forget he muſt totally cares and deſigns,
Not critic ſeverely my libertine lines.
Nor let him read, after the firſt or laſt cup;
But, when middle Bacchus bids ſpirits be up.
If two be too much, double one parcel down:
So half, perhaps better, the pleaſure will crown.

XCI. To the ſame.

A Fellow, Rurus, t'other day,
Caſt o'er thy friend a cloſe ſurvey:
As would a bruiſer or a buyer.
When he had ſcann'd, and ſcann'd me nigher;
Art thou, and art thou then, indeed,
That paragon of roguiſh breed,
Whoſe
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Whoſe jocund rimes become ſo dear

To all of no Batavian ear 2
A bluſhing bow confeſt aſſent:
He found I was the man he meant.

Why, MARTIAL, ſo ignobly cloth'd

Becauſe I am a poet loth'd.
That this no more thy bard diſgrace,
Put him, dear friend, in better caſe.

XCII. To P E T U. S.

THE primal ſtone, we hardly reacht by ten;

Arrain'd of ſullen ſlowth prepenſe we prove.
Not guilty, Petus, road or I: who then P.
Thyſelf, who ſent'ſt me mules, that ſcorn'd to move.

XCIII. To N E P. O. S.

ſ O Twice my neighbor 'tis with joy I tell,

You faſt by Flora and Ficelia dwell.
Yours is a daughter, in whoſe lines we trace
The mother's virtue, and the father's grace.
Yet not for her the old Falernian ſpare:
Rundlets replete with coin, bequeath the fair.
Muſt ſuits the child of piety and pelf:
The infant-caſk grow aged with herſelf.
More than the childleſs bland Cecubian chears:

Bleſt parents too the gen’rous juce endears.

XCIV. To F A B I A N.

TH OU, without wealth, in honor find'ſt renown:

What evil genius drives my friend to town
O 2 Thou
I OO M A R T I A L’s E P I G R A M S.

Thou canſt nor vice promote, nor riot make;

Nor bid with dolefull ſummons culprits quake.
Thou lov'ſt thy friend, nor canſt ſeduce his wife;
Nor catch, for chilling age, the glow of life:
Nor ſell among the great one puff of praiſe;
Nor a ſweet ſongſter to Elyſium raiſe.
How think to live, whom honeſt all muſt ſee :
So ſhalt thou ne'er a Philomelus be.

XCV. To S E X T U S.

WH AT confidence, or cauſe, brings thee to town

What, Sextus, canſt thou hope ; or there deſire
I'l ſuits emplead, with more than Tully's fire;
And the three courts ſhall ring with my renown.

Civis and Ateſtine did ſo aſpire.

Thou knew'ſt them : neither ever paid his gown.
If nought come thence, my verſes fame ſhall crown:
Can theſe be Maro's verſes they'l admire.
The Maroes and the Naſoes | Thou art mad:

Have ſcarce a rag to clothe the rage divine.

The great I'ſ cultivate. A caſe as bad Î
Few have they fed : the reſt with hunger pine.
In town I'l live, be town-life e'er ſo ſad.
If thou deſerve to live, a ſlender chance is thine.

XCVI. To the ſame.

S EXTUS, whoſe winning Muſe preſumes t'explore

The Palatine Minerva's matchleſs lore,
'Tis thine t'approach her friend, the earthly god;
Timbibe his graces, and attend his nod.
*Tis
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'Tis thine to ſcan and ſooth each ſpringing care;

To mark the hue his inmoſt ſecrets wear.

Oh! to thy friend ſome little nook aſſign, i.

Where Pedo, Marſus, and Catullus ſhine:

But place the heavenly Capitolian ſtrains,
Faſt by the buſkin'd Maro's grand remains.

XCVII. To E U P H E M U. S.

THE firſt, or ſecond, with ſaluters cloys:

The hoarſe empleaders hour the third employs.
Rome to the fifth her various toils extends;
Which the fixth reſpits, and the ſeventh ſuſpends.
Th’ enſuing hour bids oil’d Olympus glow :
Her ſucceſſor lays garniſht couches low.
The jovial tenth my budget may prepare,
When cates ambroſial prove EUPHEMus' care;
When CESAR’s brow with nećtar may unbend,
And his great hand a petty gobblet tend.
Then welcome wit: for, in a morning-hour,
Thalia ſports not with imperial pow'r,

xcVIII. To c R I s PIN U.S.

S O ſtill ſerene the Thund’rer may'ſt thou ſee,
Nor Rome, than Memphis, leſs delight in thee:
Should'ſt thou at court my ſtanzaes chance to hear,
(Stanza's oft honor'd with the ſacred ear)
As thou, the candid reader of my rimes,
Shalt dare: ‘He's ſome acceſſion to thy times ;
“To Marſus ſcarce inferior, I proteſt;
“Nay, to Catullus:’ ſtop. The god will ſay the reſt.
XCIX. To
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XCIX . To URBICUS, or TOWNLY: On POMPEIUS AUCTU.S.

IF you do not chooſe to buy,

Yet my jocund lines would try ;
Aſk for PoMPEY ; you may know him:
Honeſt Auctus ſoon will ſhow 'em.

Auctus' beſt direction tells,

In th’ Avenger's porch he dwells.
Deep in law is his renown :
His each uſage of the gown.
Nor, in him, expect to look
On my reader ; but my book.
He ſo cons and chants my lays,
Not a word or letter ſtrays.
He might paſs them for his own:
But his love and faith are known.

You may call on him at ten :

He will hug his leiſure then.
His repaſt will amply do:
Little chear ſuffices two.

He will read, and you may drink:

Tho' it cloy you, he will clink.
Nay, when you declare, enough ;
He will rattle on the ſtuff.

C. To A U C T U S : On C E L E R.

WIT H my poor lays 'tis kind to entertain

A CELER, if to hear a CELER dain.
He fann'd with gentle gale my nation's flow'r,
While, but his honor, nought controll'd his pow'r,
The
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The more, mid humble hope, the Muſe reveres

Not a mere auditor's, but judge's ears.

CI. To A W IT U S.

I N vain thou lurk'ſt, O bard of heavenly flamet

Who bidd'ſt thine aſhes gather all thy fame:
This little verſe beneath our image live,
To which a place thou doſt with nobler give.

In trifles no one's ſecond, him above,

If not admire, kind reader, thou may’ſ love.
Let loftier bards attune ſublimer ſtrains :
If oft he kiſ; thy hands, his hight he gains.

CII. To M. UNICU S, or O N E L Y.

O NELY, my double boaſt ! my blood-ally,

With ſoul, of fair purſuits congenial fond ;
whoſe ſtrains with all, but with a brother's, vy:
Equal in parts, in piety beyond.

With ſoft Catullus might a Leſbia thee,

Thee next a Naſo bland Corinna woo.
No want of zephyr, would'ſt thou put to ſea:
But ſhore thou lov'ſt, as loves thy brother too.

- CIII. To C I R I N I U. S.

TH Y pointed ſhafts, my CIRIN, haſte to play:

What tho’ they rival, or eclipſe my lay :
Why to an ancient friend ſuch rev'rence ſhown P.
To thee my fame is dearer than thine own.
* A Maro
Io.ſ. M A R T I A L’s E P I G R A M S.

A Maro thus forbore a Flaccus’ ſtrain,

When he could open more than Pindar's vein;
And to his Varius left the buſkin's praiſe,
Tho' higher he the tragic note could raiſe.
A friend will oft beſtow gold, goods, or ground:
But who his wit will yield, is rarely found.

CIV. To C A S T R ICU's.
I N gen’rous deeds who would contend with thee,
In gen'rous ſtrains may next thy rival be.
In either feeble we, and ſoon outdone;
Seek peace profound, and every conteſt ſhun.
How dare I then ſo paltry ſtuff preſent
Think'ſt no one apples to Alcinous ſent

CW. To the ſame.

r

WHILE BAIA bright perſiſts thy joy,

And ſulfur'd Naiads never cloy;
My bow'r becomes my bleſt abode,
And cot, upon my land no load.
Here Baian ſuns, and ſtreams, and health;
Here, CASTRICUs, I have thy wealth.
It once was my delight to err,
Where'er the wond’rous waters were.

Nor did I dread the longeſt way:

But ſhort the ſtretches now I ſtray.
I ſeek the town's adjacent ſeats,
And eaſe directs my fond retreats:
Suffic'd of pleaſure, pow'r, and pelf;
If I can but enjoy myſelf.
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cvi. To F. R O N T IN US.
W HILE heaven, Frontinus, dain'd thy friend to bleſs
With eaſe to viſit Anxur's ſweet receſs ;
With cloſer ken each Baian charm t'explore,
And ſcan th’ auguſt abode that crowns the ſhore :
When contemplation could indulge to rove,
Where not a graſhopper infeſts the grove;

While yet intolerable Cancer glow'd,

And lambent lakes to rapid rivers flow'd ;
With thee I could adore each learned Muſe:
Now Rome conſpires my ev'ry bliſs to bruiſe.
Here, ah! when ſhall a day be all my own
On city-ocean's various face I'm thrown.
By ev'ry gale of buſy tempeſt toſt,
In barren toil my laviſht life is loſt.
While thus we cultivate ſuburban clods,
And, dread Quirinus, thine adjacent gods;
Oh! deem not friends alone the idlers there,
Who night and day thy happy threſholds wear.
What, tho' thy bard pretend no equal joy
His abſence proves his moſt intenſe annoy.
For, by the all of awfull in the Nine,
By ev'ry god I ſwear, and ev'ry ſhrine ;
Officious token ſhould I ne'er impart,
O thou, FRONTINUs, thou enjoy'ſt my heart.

CVII. To L UC I U S J U L I U.S.
How oft thy theme, ſweet guardian of my ſtate,
Spring from thy ſlowth, and tune us ſomewhat great!
P If
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If thou, my JULIUs, wilt ſuch eaſe beſtow,

As on his bards Mecenas years ago;
Perennial ſtrains th’ advent'rous Muſe may try,
That ſhall forbid thy poet's name to dy.
Bleak barren lands deter the ſtouteſt ſteers:

Rich ſoil may tire them; but the labor chears.

CVIII. To P O TITU S.

I F a whole year ſhall ſcarce a ſcroll produce,

The learn’d Pot ITU's finds me no excuſe.

Yet rather might he ſtare, did one appear:

So many days withdrawn curtail my year.
At night I muſt embrace the honeſt friends,
Who pay the ſalutation morning lends.
Many I gratulate with real glee:
How few, Potitus, give like joy to me !
At friendſhip's call now hying up the hight,
My gem atteſts the goddeſs crown'd with light.
Me ſteals the firſt, me hour the third away;
From the delights, and duties of the day.
The conſul now, or pretor, me commands ;
With all the, grave or gay, returning bands.
Oft a fell poet, raging, undeterr'd,
Muſt, no gainſay, the deathlong day be heard.
Nor ſafe can you deny, who pleads your cauſe ;
Nay, if the rhetor or grammarian draws. *
Extinét, I gain the bath; but not till ten :
My hundred farthings muſt I garble then.
On ſuch diſtraćtions if thou dain a look,
When, wiſe Porirus, ſhall emerge a book?
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CIX. To his B O OK : For P R O C U L U.S.

Go, little Book, the brethings of thy lord

‘Fore PRoculusses ſplendid gods record.
Which is my way? By Caſtor ſhalt thou roam,
Near hoary Veſta's fane and virgin-dome.
Thence by the awfull hill aſcends thy tour:
The ſov'rain's image beams direétion pure.
Nor thee too long the fam'd Coloſs beguile,
That dims the radiance of the Rhodian pile.
Hence ſeek the ſoking father of the feaſt,
The mighty mother, and her painted prieſt.
Now, on the left, the lofty tow'rs invite: -

The courts auguſt poſſeſs the raviſht fight. -

Yet, bold approach; thou canſt redout no pride:

•r
No welcome portals ſtand more ſweetly wide.
None eyes Apollo, or the Nine more near.
The poet, why, he'l ſay, himſelf not here *
Then thou : Becauſe, whatever theſe endite,
The perſonal ſaluter could not write.

CX. To P A S T O R.

Do ST dream, dear PAstor, that I wealth deſire,

As vulgar minds, and paltry mob, admire 2
To grind my mattocs in Setinian land, - *

Bid Tuſcany reſound my fetter'd band: - -

That my ſaloons by Maurian orbs be wor'n,

On a fair hundred teeth of Libya bor'n : -

That beaten gold, in many-twinkling ſhreds, - *

May beam her glories o'er my jovial beds :

P 2 That
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That vaſteſt cryſtals may my lips encloſe,

And our Falernian boaſt his ſable ſnows:

Or, that the brawny, briſk, broad-ſhoulder'd, lad,

Thrall'd Syria's ſon, in gay Canuſian clad,
Beneath my ſumptuous chair may ſwet and ſigh;
Full many a trimly client trotting by :
That my mad mule may ſplaſh my Tyrian weed,
My rod command the Maſſylean ſteed?
Not one my objećt: all the pow'rs above
I call to witneſs, who inſpire, my love.
What is it then myſterious MARcus, ſhow.
That I may build, and that I may beſtow.

CXI. To M E L I O R.

THE man, who with officious hand beſtows

A boon that ſenſibility ſhall taſte,
Perhaps a lure to retribution throws,
Or may betray the fortune-hunter's haſte.

But he, who for a name, that's lonely left,

A fondly-perſevering flame ſhall blow,
A name of body and of ſoul bereft ||
What ſeeks he to acquire, but leſs of woe:
Bounteous to be, or ſeem ; the diſtance wide l'
A truth thou proveſt; nor can fame deny ;
Who from a buried boy canſt ſteal thy pride,
Nor ſuffereſt thy Blesus' name to dy.
What thy munificence has dol'd of bribes,
That natal honors to the dead be paid;
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On the prompt piety of feeling ſcribes,

Thine amity a BLEsus' own has made.
Yet to thyſelf the tribute ſhall remain,
So long as here below thy mind ſhall move;
And, when Elyſian glory ſhe ſhall gain,
Thy rich revenue ſhall for ever prove.
CXII. To No R B A N U.S.
WHILE thee, to quell the ſacrilegious rage,
Fair loyalty would for thy lord engage;
Safe wanton'd in the ſweet Pierian ſhade,
who Norban's friendſhip held his primal aid.
My death to Vindelician ſhores had flown:
Nor was my name to northern climes unknown.
Thine ancient friend thou never didſt deny :
My bard my bard became the tender cry,
My code complete in parts the reader lent:
The ſix-years' produce has the author ſent,

CXIII. To L I C IN I U S S U R A.

Licſ NIUS, of the learn'd thou moſt renown'd li

Whoſe priſtine ſtile has priſtine manners crown'd ;
Thee of the fates, what wond’rous boon we deem'.
Rapt from the margin of th’ oblivious ſtream.
Secure wept Sorrow, Wiſh her fear had loſt;.
Nor Dout diſputed thee completely croſt:
When the dread ruler of the ſilent ſhade,
Whom peril, if not pity, may pervade 3.
Eſchew'd the imputation of the ſhock,
And to the three reſtor'd their raviſht rock.
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Thus haſt thou witneſt how mankind muſt mourn

The mere ſurmiſe of ſuch a member tor'n;
And, while thou diſſipat'ſt ſo juſt annoy,
Thou doſt thine own poſterity enjoy.
Live then by ſnatch, no fleeting joy refuſe:
Returning life muſt not a moment loſe.

CXIV. To C O L I N.

O Thou, who could'ſt attain Tarpeian praiſe, .

And bind with primal oakling leaves thy brow,
Improve each particle of all thy days, -

And deem the light the laſt, that bleſſes In OW,

No one could ever win the ſpinſters three;

Or the ſtern, ſolemn, ſiſterhood divide.
They keep the day, which they could once decree;
And human art to change that day, deride.

More rich than Criſpus, more than Thraſea ſtrong;

More ſtately than trim Melior ſhould'ſt thou tread;
Fell Lacheſis will not the line prolong :
She clears the ſpindle ; but one cuts the thred.

CXV. To M A R T I A N. -

HARVESTs threeſcore, and, ſome ſay, two,

A Cotta interruptleſs knew :
Nor could fair memory atteſt,
That one ſad night had loſt her reſt.
Mail'd thus in adamant, his pride
Would phyſic's faculty deride.
Yet, if, my MARTIAN aught ſhould raiſe
The whim to calculate our days ;
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And to compute what feavers fell,

What languor dead, or killing knell,
Have ſever'd from our perfeót plight;
How young to truth I how old to fight!
A Priam's, or a Neſtor's age,
May much beguile the ſhrewdeſt ſage.
To brethe can juſt not dying give :
But, to be well, muſt be to live.

CXVI. To F. R O N T O.
TH Y MARK's high-crown'd ambition wouldſt thou know? -

Thou glory of the ſenate and the field !

A farm his own, not over-ſwell'd to ſow ;
And that repoſe, which rural labors yield,

The chill of marble-halls can he admire,

Or buſy bear about the morning bow,
Who, bleſt with what the woods and lawns allow;
Can ſpred his teeming toils before the fire;
Can play the ſtruggling trout with trembling hair,
Diſtil the golden ſweet from out the hoard:
Can bid the hoyden heap the homely board,
And unbought embers his own eggs prepare *

May whoſo loves not me, not love this life;

But rob’d in ſtate, enjoy the city-ſtrife.

CXVII. To J U V E N C U S : On the gift of E L HA. N.

LoveLY, lonely, little, chair,
Vehicle beyond compare I
To all others I prefer it,
For the donor and the merit.
Here
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M A R T I A L’s E P I G R A M . .
Here one may, deſpiſing dread,
Say what enters firſt the head.
Black not reins my Libyan ſteed :
No trim runners me precede.
Not a driver tunes the dales:
Honeſt tits will tell no tales.

Haſte, Juvencus; ſhare with me,

Safety ſweet, and ſocial glee.
O ! were but Avitus here,
No third perſon ſhould we fear.
- With what joy would glide the day,
Almoſt unperceiv'd, away !

cxviii. To s P A R S U.S.
WHy I reviſit oft Nomentum's fod,
And celebrate the hamlet's humble god;
My SPARsus aſks. A poor man, I proteſt,
In town finds neither room to think nor reſt.
By night the bakers, and at morn the ſchools ;
All day the tinkers murder with their tools.
The idle banker ſhakes the ſordid board,
By toſſing and retoſling Nero's hoard.
Th’ inceſſant thwacker of the Spaniſh ore,
From the ſmooth ſtone, rethwacks the ſounding ſhore.
Nor ceaſe Bellona's wild enthuſiaſt-crew,
Or the mouths mercileſs, that mercy ſue :
The loudeſt roarer of the wretched caſt,
The ſhipwreckt ſailor, with the bandag'd maſt:
The noiſy Jew, his mother taught to cry,
Not, what do ye beſtow; but, what d'ye buy?
Or
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Or he, whoſe calling not his call impairs ;

The blinking hucſter of the ſulfur'd wares.
Whoſo the various foes of ſleep can claſs,
May count the rattlers on the ſuff'ring braſs;
When the rapt moon, in planetary reel,
Receives the laſhes of the Colchian wheel.

Of ſuch annoy no notice canſt thou gain,

So proudly prinkt up in Petilian reign ; -

Who, level, look'ſt on proudeſt mountains down :

A villa, nay, a vinyard thine, in town.
No ampler autumn crowns Falernum's hill:
A car's career expands within thy fill.
Yet balm'd thy ſlumbers, which no tongues bereave:
Not peeps the ſmiling day, without thy leave.
The joy of vagrant ribbalds wakes our woe:
All Rome, around our bed, repeats the blow.
When, quite wor'n down, we will no longer wake;
Our ſole retreat we to the village take.

CXIX. To a FRIEND: The cou NTRY-Jo URNAL.

I N rural ſcene how I my time beſtow,
A few plain verſes give my friend to know.
At dawn I to the pow'rs proſtration make ;
And bleſs them bounteous, when I ſleep or wake.
Then to ſurvey my various hinds I run,
And portion duty, as it muſt be done.
I read, Apollo call, the Muſe provoke;
To ſtudy ſerious, or demure to joke.
. Unbending now my mind, her frame I oil,
And joyous brace each nerve by temp'rate toil.
Q_ I dine,
II.4. M A R T I A L’s E P I G R A M S.

I dine, drink, ſing and play, waſh, ſup and reſt :

By motion mental, and corporeal bleſt:
And, while the little lamp relumes a ray,
Sweet lucubration thus digeſts the day.

CXX. To Q_U INT I L I A N.

O Thou, who aw'ſt, with uncontroll’d renown,

The wave of youth, thou glory of the gown

That I, who boaſt not yet my wine or oil,
Nor quite diſabled by fell time to toil,
Should haſte (who makes ſufficient haſte) to live:
Such oddity, my gen’rous friend, forgive.
This joy let him delay, who deems th’ extent
Penurious, of his affluent father's rent;
Whoſe full ſufficience anſwers not his calls,
Who crouds with endleſs images his halls.
Mine be the roof, no envy can provoke;
Warm'd by the fire, yet fearleſs of the ſmoke;
A fount of cryſtal, gently babbling by;
A bed of greens, luxuriance to ſupply :
A ſated ſervant, not a learned wife;
Nights crown'd with reſt, and days unknown to ſtrife,

CXXI. To the MUSE: On M A C E R.

FELoNious Muse, doſ thou pretend

To bilk both Saturn and thy friend,
Of their delight, the jocund lay;
The annual tribute thou ſhotild'ſt pay 3
Tho' MAceR now has little leiſure
To ſcan, but heavy books of meaſure;
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Amid
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M A R T I A L’s EP I G R A M 8, 115
Amid his labors, he complains
He hears no more my flippant ſtrains.
Poor Appian what thy fate would be,
Did MAceR alſo ſtudy me !

cxxii. To the ſame: On the ſame. .

My MACER ſeeks Salona's ſhore:

Rare honor will his ſteps attend;
Nice reëtitude the rout explore,
with modeſty, her boſom-friend.
Mending the ſubjećts of their toil,
The gen'rous may themſelves impair :
Bleſt tenant of the golden ſoil,
Thou home wilt ſend thy ruler bare.

Thou, Dalmat, wiſe wilt wiſh delay,

And his prolong'd dominion woo:
Him, when he can no longer ſtay,
Thou ſhalt with weeping joy purſue.
'Mong Celts, and rude Iberians, we
Shall ſoon retrace our native ſeat;
Where, Macer, the regret of thee
Muſt harraſs our belov'd retreat.

But thence, whatever page of ours

Expand from teeming Tagus' reed,
Shall prop with Macer's name her pow'rs
So to eternity decreed.

"Mid ancient bards ſhall I be red, !

When with his chaſte peruſal crown'd ;

Q_2 And,
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And, of the living or the dead,
Catullus onely greater found.
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cxxiii. To I N S T A N T I Us.
INSTANTIUS, whoſe fincerer ne'er was known,
The ſnow unſoil'd of ſimpleneſs thine own
Would'ſt my Thalia crown with pleaſing pow'r,
And hope for lays, that fear no final hour?
Would'ſt place me, ev'ry blame or praiſe above 2
Give who ſhall light me, with the torch of Love.
Thee, gay Propertius, Cynthia earn’d a name:
The fair Lycoris prov’d a Gallus’ flame.
"Twas Nemeſis attun'd Tibullus' lyre,
And Leſbia ſet Catullus’ ſoul on fire.

Not me ſhall the Pelignian's ſelf outſhine;

Ore'en the Mantuan, with his Muſe divine;
Corinna be, or Amaryllis mine.
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cxxiv. To BETIs: For INSTANTIUs.
B ENEATH an olive-crown thy locks that wav'ſt,
That with pure ſtreams thy golden fleeces lav'ſt,
O BETIs I may the man, to Bromius dear,
Whom Pallas cheriſhes with love ſincere;

To whom the ſov'rain of the wat'ry ſway,

Opens o'er ſwells and ſteeps a whitening way;
With joyous omens and auſpicious roars,
INSTANTIus, be acclaim'd by ſounding ſhores.
May coming joy recall the joy, that's paſt;
And this year bleſs the nations, like the laſt.
To
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M A R T I A L’s E P I G R A M s. 117.

To MACER he ſuccedes, not unaware:

His ſtrength who meaſures, can his burden bear.

CXXV. To T R A JAN: On PAL M A.

THE glad Iberians PALMA's nod obey,

And peace remote enjoys his placid ſway:
- What thanks, benignant CESAR, do we ow;
Who ſent'ſt thy graces, where thou could'ſt not gol

CXXVI. To L U C I U. S.

Lucius, thou glory of thy times,

Who, by th’ enchantment of thy rimes,
Nor lett'ſt old Graius quit the field,
Nor Tagus' praiſe to Arpi's yield:
By bards, mid Argive cities ſprung,
Be Thebes, or great Mycene, ſung;
or Rhodes renown'd, or Leda's ſchools,
Where luſtfull Lacedemon rules.

From Celts and bold Iberians, we

Shall twang the ſtubborn names with glee;
Nor deem it ſhame, in duteous verſe, -

Parental honors to reherſe.

Be thou, my BILBIL1s, proclaim’d,

For might of ſavage metal fam'd.
Nor Chalybs, nor Noricians try,
With thy ſuperior ſons to vy.
Hark! how thy Platea's blows aſtound
The echoes, with her iron-ſound !
Her SALo locks, the lord of arms,
With gentle graſp, but potent charms.
Tutela,
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Tutela, come; and bring along
The Rixamars, with dance and ſong;
The Carduans, with their feſtal joys;
And Peteros, who never cloys,
As bluſhing ſtill with wattled roſe;
And Rigae, ſeat of ancient ſhows.
Silaans, ſure with ſlender ſhaft;
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Ye gladdeſt lakes, that ever laught ! .

Both Turgens and Petuſia hear:
Ye rills, who raviſhing the ear
of little vetoniſſa, ; roVe -

And Baradon's holm-hallow'd grove,

Where ſlowth herſelf would ceaſeleſs ſtray,
Nor loſe her patience, or her way. º

But never ſhall the Muſe forget

The winding vales, unequal’d yet,
That Matineſſa's toil endears
To Manlius, by her flurdy ſteers.
Nice reader, at each ruſtic name,
Thy ſtomach ſtirring, not thy blame,
Thou laugh'ſt; laugh on ; ſtill be they mine,
And be the ſweet Bitunti thine.

CXXVII. To L I cI N IA N.
RENowN of reign,
Celtiberian
Thou boaſt of our beloved Spain, -

High BILBIL1s ſhalt ſee;

So fam'd of old for ſteeds and arms,
Tho' now unknown to war's alarms;
And there ſhalt think on me. -
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Old Caunus ſhall preſent his ſhows,
Vadavero recount he roſe,
When quaking mountains rent:
Bland Botrodus ſhall point the grove,
Where thou may'ſt all enchanted rove,
Pomona's prime content.
Here Congedus ſhall bid thee glide,
Adown his gentle tepid tide:
The Nymphs ſhall woo thee there.
Thy frame relaxt with thoſe ſo kind,
Shall S.A.Lo, who the ſteel can bind,
Imbue with ſtrong repair.

Thy rage is now the game to pierce :

Woberta's ſelf ſhall ſtart the fierce,

And give thy hand to ſeize.

The cloudleſs ardors thou ſhalt quell, .
Where Tagus' golden waters ſwell,
Umbrageous by the trees.

When ſtill with thirſt thy juces boil,

Dircenna's chill ſhall choiceſt foil
The foe, with kind controll:
Or Nemea, who can freeze the ſnow,
May well forbid thy blood to glow,
And ſave thy fainting ſoul.

But, when thou ey'ſt December hoar,

And hear'ſt the bluſt'ring Boreas roar;
Thou know'ſt a ſure retreat:

The
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The ſunny Tarraconian vales:

The gentle Laletanian gales,
That fan thy native ſeat.

There tangled does, in tender toils;

And boarlings, thy domeſtic ſpoils,
Thy heart ſhall bleed to ſlay.
The doubling hare thy ſteed runs down;
The ſtag thou leaveſt to the clown,
And to the dogs at bay.

The neighb'ring forreſt, ſo long coy,

Jumps down into the fire with joy,
To chear the homeſpun child:
Thou call'ſt each brother of the ſport, ,
And welcom'ſt all thy country-court;
Nor fear'ſt to be beguil'd,

No mooned ſhoe, no gown is here ;

No veſtments rank with dy are near :
The dire Liburnian far.

Around no plaintive clients ſtand,

No widows claiming new command:
No pomp, no pain, no jar.
No wretch, with guilt or terror pale,
Attempts thy nightly ſleep t aſſail,
Or ſtorm thy morning-reſt.
Let who will purchaſe vain applauſe,
For might of mind, or lore of laws :
Still pity thou the bleſt.
Above
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Above all pride, enjoy thy days;

Partaking fond thy Sura's praiſe:
Bejoy ſincere thy throne.
When fame has had her ample ſhare,
The reſt may life her own declare:
That reſt is life alone.

CXXVIII. To the ſame.

VeRoNA loves her learned bard,

A MARo's Muſes Mantua bleſs :

From LIvy Padua draws regard;

From STELLA, nor from FLAccus leſs,

ApollopoRUs charms the Nile,

A NAso the Pelignian croud:
Two SENEcA's, one LucAN, ſmile
On me, cries Corduba the proud.

Her CANIus, claims the Gadian coaſt;

Emerita, my Declan, thee:
LIcINIAN, BILBILIs ſhall boaſt;
Nor haply ſink in ſilence me.

CXXIX. To M A N I U. S.

TH AT SALO draws me with reſiſtleſs lore,

To the fam'd parent of the precious ore ;
That inſtinčt points me the magnetic roads,
To where my natal hangs her high abodes;
** Thou, for whom fondneſs in the child began,
And, from the youth, aſcended to the man ;
Thou art the cauſe: than whom Iberian clime

Ne'er form'd a ſweeter friend, or more ſublime.

R Getulian
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Getulian wilds were wat'ry lands with thee:

A Scythian cottage would a palace be.
If mutual the regard, if like thy mind ;
In ev'ry region, we a Rome ſhall find.

CXXX. To M. A. T E R N US,

JUDGE of the right, and guardian of the law;

Whoſe mandates fill the Latian courts with aw;
Thy citizen, MATERNus, and thy friend,
On whom thou ever might'ſt and may'ſt depend,
Aſks, on the pious wing to parent-lands,
For the Callaic ocean thy commands.
And camſt thou deem it more a manly joy,
The vile Laurentian crokers to deſtroy ;
Or in the pools the petty fry to play,
Than on his rocks the captive roach to lay,
If not three ample pounds he ſeem to weigh
}
To bid Pelorian taſteleſs crown the board,
Or all the rivel’d race ſhort ſhells afford;
Than boaſt ſuch oiſters as diſdain to vy
With aught that Baian tumid conchs ſupply;
Such as the ſervile band are not forbid;
For high and low one undiſtinguiſht tid? .
Here the rank fox thou'lt tangle in thy toils:
The dogs ſcarce dare approach him, as he moils.
There the dank ſean, juſt dragg'd from out the deep,
Will hank my hares, when they pretend to peep.
But lo! the angler, with a bloodleſs hook:
The boaſtfull hunter has a polecat took.
The
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The city-ſtalls muſt ſaturate the ſea:

Thy kind commands for Ocean and for me !

CXXXI. To M A R I U. S.

OF the ſequeſter'd ſcene thou ſocial friend,

Atina's boaſt ! I to thy faith commend
Theſe twinling pines, the glory of the grove ;
Theſe oakling clumps, where Fauns delight to rove:
Theſe altars, that a ruſtic hand has rear'd,
Or to the Silvan lov’d, or Thund’rer fear'd ;
Which lambkin's oft, or kidling's, blood has ſoil'd,
While duty chode the horror, that recoil'd,
Dear delegate, with pious aw ſuſtain
The virgin-goddeſs of the hallow'd fame;
And him the modeſt ſiſter joys to ſee,
The champion of my Calends and of me.
Still dreſs the laurel-grove, that Flora knew,
When from the brutal raviſher ſhe flew.
Hail, guardian-groop of my beloved ſpot!
O ne'er forgetting, ne'er to be forgot 1
Or you, in arduous taſk, or thankfull eaſe
Let bloodſhed honor, or let incenſe pleaſe;
Where'er your MARTIAL be, his friend will ſay,
He miniſters with me your rites to day.
Abſent, alas ! impute him ſtill at hand;
And grant to both, what either may demand.

CXXXII. To A W. I.T U S.
TH AT one grown old, in Latian town,
Should forain nations ſo renown ;
R 2 On
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On golden Tagus ſo deſcant,

And for his native SALo pant;
You wonder, and to ſee me pine,
Who want for neither wit nor wine;
Till I regain, by happy lot,
The clodlings of a cloying cot.

To that primeval land I preſs,

Where ſcanty things can make ſucceſs;
Where moderation ſets me high,
And competence is luxury.
Here earth is fed; but there ſhe feeds:
Benignant nature little needs.
The proud, tho' hardly tepid, hearth
Beſpeaks too plain the land of dearth.
Here peeps a mean, malignant gleam ;
There Vulcan's kindeſt glories beam.
Here hunger boaſts a highten’d price:
Each ſhamble ſhows a cockatrice.

The riches yonder farms afford,

With welcome crown the copious board.
In this abode of giddy glare,
Four ſuits are ſcarce a winter's wear :

In that belov'd, ador'd receſs,

One ſuit ſupplies four autumns' dreſs.
Go, cultivate your lords and kings ;
And puff the pride, that meanneſs brings: -

Since, what a friend may not beſtow,

From out the very place may flow.
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CXXXIII. . To the BIL BILITAN S.

Y E, whom our awfull parent plac'd

Upon her arduous hill,
By that majeſtic flood embrac'd,
That bids each joy diſtil ;

Say, can ye feel your poet's fame:

Your rare renown is he .

And can ye fan a brother's flame,

With more than brother's glee
Not more Verona’s tender ſoul

To her Catullus ows ;

Nor leſs your bardling to enroll
Had fair Verona choſe,
l
Twice fifteen ſummers bleſt the plain,
Enlarg’d by autumns four ;
Without me, to the queen of grain,
Ye offer'd primal ſtore.
th; :imperial town,
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While I bade £,/ 23.4 r *

My growing honors ſhare ; f

Her warmer climes have wor'n my crown,

And chang'd the honors there.

If then ye ope fraternal arms,

To meet thoſe arms I burn:

If hearts obdurate ſhrink your charms,

I ardent can return.

CXXXIV. To
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CXXXIV. To his B O OK; For BIL BIL IS.

G O, little Book, my kind companion, go:

O'er gentle waves may winds propitious blow.
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Having made all thine own, the heavenly pow'rs ;
Explore the friendly Tarraconian tow’rs.
Thence mount thy car, and joyous ſkim the land,
Where fond Hiſpania waves her hailing hand.
The fifth bleſt ſtage may haply give to ring
My lofty Bilnius, and bid thy SALo fing.
Thou aſkeſt my commands : Make no delay,
Nor ſeek a reſpit from the weary way;
Till thou ſalute my ancient friends: how few
Whom, twice ſeventeen long winters ſince, I knew.
Inſtant our beſt beloved FLAccus tell,
To trace me out a ſweet ſequeſter'd cell;
Benign of aſpect, of ſalubrious breeze ;
Where thy wor'n parent may retire to eaſe.
Hark! how the maſter calls to ſpred the ſail;
Chaſtens delay, and gratulates the gale,
That opes the port. Farewel, my filial LAy: -

One paſſenger, thou know'ſt, will ne'er the veſſel ſtay.

CXXXV. To his B O O K.: For R O M E.

THou, who from town to nations didſt repair,

Hi'ſt thee to Rome, a forain volume there;
From Tagus' gold, and ſtubborn Salo's ſteel,
Which blend the glories of one wond’rous weal:
Dread land 1 whom firſt, whom laſt my eyes have known,
Who hail'd my parents' ſhades, and hopes my own.
Yet
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Yet forainer thou never canſt be ham’d,

Since Remus' houſe has all thy brethren claim'd.
Then by thy proper right explore the fane,
Where new-rear'd temples to the Muſes reign.
Or, if thou wilt attempt Subura's road,
That boaſts my honor'd conſul's high abode ;
There, with his laurel'd gods does STELLA dwell,
Still panting for the Hyantean well.
There the Caſtalian ſpring diſpels annoy,
Proud to be quaft by thrice three queens of joy.
Thee he'l impart to commons, knights, and peers;
Yet, as he reads, will ſcarce refrain his tears.
Why aſk a title At the ſecond line,
One voice conſenting will acclaim thee mine.

CXXXVI. To his C L I. E.N.T. S.

º WHoE’ER in town didſt morning-homage pay,

And waſt one cauſe, why thence I wing'd my way;
| Hunt now ambition's hants, let me adviſe;
And learn, at leaſt in this, learn to be wiſe.
I am no brangler, nor can hairs untwine: .
My growing age aſks eaſe, yet woos the Nine.
Scenes are my joy, for which at Rome I figh’d:
But thither I return, if here deni'd.

CXXXVII. To J U V E N A L.
WHILE JuvenAL perhaps may ſtray,
In rank subura's noiſy way;
Or beat his miſtreſs Dian's hill,
And bid his chaſteſt bee diſtill:
Him,
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Him, thro' the lobbies of the great,

The ſwetting gown may ventilate;
And Celius, greater or the leſs,
The vagrant variouſly diſtreſs:
So many dull Decembers paſt, *-

What oft I ſought, I found at laſt:

A city proud of gold and ſteel,
Yet ſenſible to all I feel;
Who thinks herſelf may prove the town,
If MARTIAL ſhe can make the clown.

Here then, with ſweet, if ſluggiſh, toil

We cultivate our natal ſoil.

Boterdus this, and Platea that,

we call in Celtiberian chat.
The names may ſomewhat more convey,
Of ſtiff, than e'en her ſtiffeſt clay.
Earning th' enormous ſleep I take,
Which oft not hour the third can break;
I now fetch up the long arrears, *

Incurr'd by watching thrice ten years.

Unknown the gown, I call; and there,
A garment from a broken chair
Riſing, I'm welcom'd by a fire
Of holly, pil'd as for a pyre ;
Crown'd by the dame, with many a pot ;
That all may breakfaſt, hot and hot.
The huntſman comes, with look alert,
As if to ſpring the game expert:
Whom, heroe of the wildeſt wood,
Nor fear aſſail nor danger could.
Meantime
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Meantime the ruler of the taſk

Aſſigns the youth, before they aſk;
And, ſmug for bus'neſs or for box,
Commands the lads to crop their locks.
Got to my wiſh, (and wiſh was high;)
So may I live, ſo may I dy! -

CXXXVIII. To M A R C E L L A.
WHo'D think her birth refin'd MARcellA ow'd,
To the rude rocks, where ſteely Salo flow'd
So rare thy taſte, and ſo chaſtis'd thy tone,
Imperial courts might challenge thee their own.
With thee, no daughter of Subura vy;
Or, of the awfull hill, that climbs the ſky:
Nor ſooner ſhall the firſt of forain fame,
Riſe to the dignity of Roman dame.
. Thou giv'ſt the miſtreſs-town leſs mourn'd to be:
MARCELLA, thou art Rome herſelf to me.

CXXXIX. On the GARD E N S of MARCELLA.

This ſacred grove, and that contextur'd ſhade,
The dangling parent of the grape has made;
The dimond fountains, and the dućtile rill;
Th’ enamel'd meads, that perly dew diſtil;
The breathing roſaries, that bluſh to yield
To Peſtum's boaſted, as twice-bearing, field :
The vegetables Janus verdant ſees,
That all his froſt eſſays in vain to freeze:
The ſtagnant wave, where eel domeſtic ſwims;
The candid cote, whence cooing candor ſkims :
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Theſe hail their lord, whom ſeven long luſters mourn'd :

Theſe ſcenes Elyſian his vagaries bourn'd.
Theſe conſtitute MARCELLA's bleſt domain :
Theſe ſhe has made her MARcus' little reign.
Nauſicae might her father's groves preſent:
I'd thank Alcinous, with my own content.

M. V.A L, M A R T I A L to his PR IS CUS, health.

Know that an apology is due for my invincible three years' indolence;
I which were not to be juſtified, even amid thoſe city-buſtles, ſo much
apter to make one impertinent than obſequious : far leſs in this provincial
ſolitude, where unleſs a man intemperately ſtudy, without ſolace and with
out excuſe has he retired.

Take therefore my reaſon, or its main part. I want thoſe town-ears, to

which I was accuſtomed; and, methinks, am pleading at a forain bar. For,
if in my little compoſitions aught pleaſing be found, it was the hearer dićta
ted. That ſuttlety of judgement, that ſource of materials, the libraries,
theaters, aſſemblies, in which the members are inſenſible how much they
contribute to their own pleaſure ; in ſhort, the things one abandoned ſquea
miſh, one regrets forlorn. To this add the ruſt of ruſtic teeth; and, inſted
of fair criticiſm, livid. envy : one or other malignant; for a petty place,
many; with whom it is not eaſy always to keep one's temper.
Do not wonder then that indignation has thrown quite aſide, what ardor
was wont to perform. Yet, that, to a perſonage from town, I might nothing
deny; one, to whom I make no return, if I do but my poſſible; I have com
manded myſelf to ſhake off indulgence, and to exert a few days’ attention;
that I might treat, ears to me the moſt familiar, with the entertainment due
to ſuch a ſtranger. Theſe ſketches, which with thee alone, Priscus, TUIIl Ilo

riſk, I hope thou wilt not grudge to ſcan and eſtimate; and, what muſt prove
the
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the hardeſt taſk, to pronounce, all candor apart, upon them: leſt to Rome, if
thou ſo decree, we diſpatch, not a Spain-faring, but a Spaniſh volume.

CXL. To P R IS C U S.

W HILE the toils are at reſt, nor the hounds are in cry;
While, the boar not yet ſtarted, no forreſts reply;
The nice junéture my PRIscus may lend to my lay :
It is no ſummer-hour, nor perhaps thrown away.

CXLI. To the ſame.

S PARE, ſpare, keen PRIscus, the impetuous ſteed;

Nor on the feeble hare expend thy ſpeed.
To him the ſwall'wing whinnier oft will cry:
Mine, as thy murd’rer, meek behold him ly!
What, tho’ no moat, no mound, no crag be near P
The plain, that threttens leaſt, gives moſt to fear.
There will not want, who monuments preſent,
And leſs embarraſs fate with the event.
If animated perils urge thee more,
With ſafer proweſs ſtart the Tuſcan boar.
What boot th' embold'ning reins, thy trech’rous caref
More oft they rend the horſeman, than the hare.

CXLII. To the ſame.

To Flaccus, Varius, and the bard divine,

Whate'er the gen'rous knight of royal line;
That ſuch art Thou to me, the world ſhall know ;
Loud fame ſhall trumpet, and pale record ſhow.
Thou mak'ſt my Muſe, my ev'ry pow'r to pleaſe:
For thou createſt mine ingenuous eaſe.
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CXLIII. To the ſame.

TH OU aſkeſt oft, how I ſhould brook the hour,

Of wealth o'erwhelming, and reſiſtleſs pow'r,
His future ſelf what ſeer can propheſy
What lion, PRIscus, ſhould'ſt thou make Reply.

CXLIV. To SATURN: For PRISC U S T E RENT I Us.

G REAT RULER of the ancient ſky,
And of the realms ago;
Where golden reſt, that reign'd on high,
Prevail'd alike below :

Where no tremendous thunder roar'd,

No crimes to thunder doom'd;
The womb of earth yet unexplor’d,
Whoſe genuine aſpect bloom'd :

With thine accuſtom'd joyous face,

Oh I ſmile on PRIscus' glee:
He humbly hopes thy preſent grace,
To rites that honor thee.

In thy ſixth ſeaſon, with renown,

Thou giv'ſt him, gracious siRE,
From peacefull Numa's Latian town,
To fan his natal fire.

Thou ſeeſt that, with Auſonian land,

This happy land can vy;
That PRIscus, with no ſparing hand,
Thy table can ſupply.
But,
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But, that the double merit be

With double favor bleſt;
The father, and the frugal, ſee
One ample zeal atteſt.

So thee, of pow'rs O holy, prime,

Still thy December pleaſe;
As thou ſhalt oft bid hoary Time
Bring PRIscus days like theſe.

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E P I G R A M S

MARCUs vaLERIUS MARTIAL

B O O K III.

On his own W R IT IN G S ; and thoſe of his Critics, Rivals,

Enviers, Detraćtors, and Plagiaries.
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E P I S T L E to the R E A D E R.

Hope that in my writings I have proceded with ſuch caution, as to give no

I ground of complaint, to any who judge fairly of themſelves: my Muſe,
in her moſt gameſom mood, preſerving for the loweſt individuals, that re
verence, which the ancients knew not for the greateſt names. No fame be
ever mine at ſo dear a rate; and be my genius held the moſt modern, ſo my
plan be approved as new. Let malignity no more preſume to conſtrue the
nativeneſs of my jokes, than to conſtrućt my epigrams. He is a miſcreant,
who is cunning, on the compoſition of another.
For the naked truth of expreſſion, or the language of epigram, I would
apologiſe, had I ſet the example. So write Catullus, Marſus, Pedo, Getuli
cus, and whoever elſe is red. If any however be ſo moroſely demure, that
one muſt not talk nature before them; let ſuch content themſelves with the
preface,
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preface, or rather with the title. The epigrams are written to thoſe, who
are in the uſe of beholding the Floralians. Let not Cato enter: if he do,
let him be a ſpectator. Methinks I ſhall ačtin charaćter, if I cloſe my epiſtle
in rime.

1. To C A T O.
- - THE games of the goddeſs, and joys of the ſcum,
Thou knew ſt: for who knew not the ſhame of the ſhow?
Dread cenſor, then why to the ſcene didſt thou come?
Ah! cameſt thou thither, that thence thou might'ſt go

II. On his MUSE.

THE Muse, who here invites the mind,

Is MARTIAL's, known to all mankind;
For ſhrewd epigrammatic ſkill,
For merry moral wit at will.
The fame the knowing reader gives,
The feeling bard, while yet he lives,
Few other bardlings ſo much bleſt,
E’en when their relics were at reſt.

III. To T H A L I A.

WH ILE thou deliberat'ſt too long,

Whom, in ſublime inſcriptive ſong,
Thou firſt or ſecond ſhalt decree ;
Callimachus bids Brutian be

The foremoſt bard, in Attic ſenſe;

Who, did he Roman ſalt diſpenſe,
Would leave my vanity unvext:
Do but, THALIA, name me next.
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IV. To his B O O K.
Thou may'ſt preſent three hundred pieces rare:
But who three grains of patience will prepare
The comforts of ſuccinét compoſures take:
They firſt are frugal, for the paper's ſake.
In one ſhort hour, the lad may write each line;
Then hy to copy, other traſh than mine.
Next, to be red, if thy propitious fate;
Men may deſpiſe thee, but they cannot hate.
Thy tales to chear the gobblet may be told:
A gueſt may read thee, ere the liquor's cold.
What various virtue in Laconic ſong
But ah! how many will eſteem it long !

V. To S E V E R U S.

B ID me now bring forth my ſpawn,

Scarce haſt thou two pages paſt,
When thou op'ſt a piteous yawn,
Panting to behold the laſt.

Theſe, Severus, are the ſtrains,

Thou didſt ſwallow with delight,
Treaſure with unwearied pains,
And on thy beſt tablets write.

Public ſcenes, and private too,

Heard thee theſe ſame lays reherſe:
Or, if any here are new,
Still ſuperior is the verſe.
What
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| What avails my tiny book,
How can ſuch a ſhrimp ſuccede;
If thou caſt ſo rare a look,
That it take three days to read

Soon the verdant journey cloys,

Tho' ſo ſmooth extend the lawn :

Stop amid Pierian joys |

Then bid me bring forth my ſpawn
VI. To his B O O K.

To venal booths, my darling, would'ſt thou roam,

When thou’rt ſo lodg'd, and lickt, and lik'd at home
Thou little know'ſt imperial Rome's diſdain,
Or the nice palate of the Martian train :
The young and old their ſhorting noſes toſs :
Each idle boy is a rhinoceros. -

Thee the glad peals for glowing lips prepare,

When from th' infidious cloke thou ſpringſt in air.
Yet thou no more thy lord's correótion brook,
Nor his fell weapon change thy playfull look:
Thy wanton wiſh is ſtill to wing the ſky,
Tho' in his hands far ſafer than on high.

VII. To the E N Q_U I R E R.

WH OE’ER thou be, that would'ſt my Muſe convey,
The light companion of the lengthen'd way;
*-
Purchaſe the petty ſkin that crams her ſtrains:
A caſe huge bodies, her a hand contains.
But, leſt thou dout where ſhe diſplays her pride,
And roam the town, accept herſelf thy guide.
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The learn'd Lucenſian's libertine thou'lt find,
The fane of Peace, and Pallas' ſquare behind.

VIII. To the ſame.

READER of my roguiſh lay,
Would'ſt thou con a ſtripling-play,
Which a friend will never ſhow,
Which myſelf could hardly know
Would'ſt thou waſte a golden hour,
And abuſe thy precious pow'r?
Thou to Pollius muſt apply,
Who forbids my traſh to dy.

IX. To L U P E R C U S.

WHENEER we meet, “When ſhall I ſend

My lad to whom you'l kindly lend
A copy of your little book;
Which I ſhall ſwiftly overlook,
And ſend it you again with joy."
“What need you ſo fatigue the boy
Long is the way to my abode:
A rough and rambling dreary road.
Then I aſcend three pair of ſtairs;
Both ſtrait and ſteep, my honor ſwears.
Why ſeek ſo far, and find ſo near,
If you will take direétion here 2
It coſts but little time or breath,
As well you know, to Argus'-death.
Right oppoſite great Ceſar's ſquare,
Whither the learned all repair; .
You

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You ſee a ſhop with titled poſts,
And read whate'er Parnaſſus boaſts.
Thence ſummon me, nor aſk the dweller:
Honeſt Atrečtus is the ſeller.

From out the firſt, or ſecond neſt,

He'l hand me, ras'd, in purple veſt.
Five humble tenpences the price:
A bard ſo noted and ſo nice l’

* He is not worth ſo much,' you ſay.

You're very right: and ſo, Good-day.

X. To Q_U IN T U.S.
t Give thee my books indeedthou greedy fop!

I have them not: thou'lt find them in the ſhop.”

* Money for traſh! Doſt think I'd go to buy
I am not fool enough, my friend.’ “ Nor I.

XI. To a nice reader.

IF one ſmall theme exhauſt a page,

Thou fli'ſt upon the wings of rage,
To fewer words, tho’ not more fine ;
And met'ſt my matter, by the line.
A rich repaſt, from ev’ry ſtall,
We ſee upon thy palate pall.
We fear a fickly appetite,
Where tid-bits onely can delight.
But oh! may I receive no gueſt,
Who picks the tiny for the beſt,
His taſte will ſtand him more in ſted,
Who makes no meal up without bread.
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XII. To another.

I F ſoothing aught, or ſweet my lambent lay,

Or compliment my kindeſt page convey,
Thou luſcious deem'ſt; a bone would'ſt rather gnaw,
When a Laurentian boar preſents his maw.
Lov'ſt vinegar? The Vatican be thine.
Toſs thy own tankard, who diſtaſteſt mine.

XIII. To another.

SH OULD here and there my ſqueamiſh reader ſmile,

At ſenſe unpoliſht, or unchaſten’d ſtile;
The flying penman muſt eſſay th’ excuſe,
Of preſſing haſte the volume to produce.
But, if thou deem that I alone ſhould ſmart,
I ſhall pronounce thee void of head and heart.
Yet, ſad the ſtuff! Alas ! thou ſay'ſt too true:
'Tis very ſad: dear reader, better do,

XIV. To A U C T U.S.
THE reader and the hearer like my lays.
But they're unfiniſht things, a poet ſays.
The ſtrićture ne'er ſhall diſcompoſe my looks:
My chear is for my gueſts, and not for cooks.

2XV. To C R IT I C U S.

My book is unequal, a Matho may boaſt.

So ſaying, he knows not he cries it up moſt.
Books equal a Calvin and Umber did write ;
But equally penn'd in poor Pallaſſes ſpite,
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XVI. To the RE A DE R.
THE town beloves, applauds, attunes my ſtrains;
Each hand engraſps them, and each boſom gains:
See one change color, grin, and gape with hate 1
This crowns my wiſh : be this my Muſe's fate.
XVII. To the ſame.

K NOWN for feet that never halt;

Not for pepper, but for ſalt;
Known to ev'ry race and clime,
Why ſhould envy grudge my rime *
Why deny my Muſe the meed,
No one grudges to the ſteed?

XVIII. On P R O C I L L U.S.

M E a damſel dotes upon,

Fairer than the faireſt ſwan;
Silver, ſnow ; than lilly, privet ;
Or what elſe the ſoul can rivet.

One I love as black as night,

Jacdaw, pitch, ant, cricket, ſpright.
Poor PRocILLus thought to ſwing:
Now he thinks of no ſuch thing.

XIX. On Z O I L U.S.

W EALTH of the gods I never aſkt,

Contented with mine humble caſt.
Dear Poverty, I now with aw
One grace ſollicit : hence withdraw.
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Whence could a wiſh ſo ſudden ſpring
I muſt give Zoilus to ſwing.

XX. On C A R IN U. S.

C ARINUS frets and fumes, and ſtorms, and cries;

And ſeeks the loftieſt boughs to ſcale the ſkies. -

Not, becauſe o'er the globe I'm ſaid and ſung,

Or, becauſe richly trimm'd in cedar hung;
But, that I boaſt a box not far from town;
And air on mules, no longer hirelings, down.
What ſhall I pray on CARIN's envious pride?
A bow'r to build in, and a mule to ride.

XXI. To J U L I U. S.
O Julius I thou of friends the firſt,
Could'ſt ne'er believe a wretch ſo curſt,
Piecemeal to periſh, and to pine
That, RoME ſhould read a friend of thine.

He's ſhot with ſting of ſtings the worſt,

That e'er I dar'd the deeds I durſt:
That I amid the mob am pointed,
Wrings not his noſe, but neck disjointed.

With boiling ſpleen he's fit to burſt,

(A feller fiend was never nurſt)
That both the Ceſars boon to me

The dignity of children three.

His gall is in his bladder purſt:

His ſwelling bowels ſoon will burſt,
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The little home I have in town,

Has knockt his ſtouteſt ſtrućtures down.

And then my hut upon the hurſt,

Leaves him amid his floods athirſt.
That I am hail'd a gratefull gueſt,
Makes him mankind itſelf deteſt.
That many me ſome kindneſs ſhow,
on me ſome ſmall eſteem beſtow,
Whome'er this renders moſt accurſt,
May envy's thrall by envy burſt.

XXII. To C A L L I S T R A T U S.

I Am, and ever was (pray, ſpare thy ſpite :)

A not obſcure, nor unilluſtrious knight.
Red by mankind, I'm pointed: This is he.
. What aſhes rarely give, life gives to me.
Thy domes upon a hundred columns ſoar:
Thy coffer laſhes forty freedmens ſtore.
For thee expands Syene's vaſt domain :
Thy countleſs flocks are fleec'd on Parma's plain.
But mark! what I am, thou canſt never be:
The loweſt of the low may rival thee.

XXIII. To N E V O L U.S.
All-HAIL you never give, but often take;
Sometimes return for condeſcenſion's ſake.

A Curius firſt ſalutes, and all the high:

The dignifi'd alone can dignify.
Why, Nevol, then expect I ſhould prevent
Thy ſalutation ? What were mine intent 2
Thee,
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Thee, Nevol, nor my better can I deem,

Nor my ſuperior can mankind eſteem.
With honors me and meeds both Ceſars crown:

Me of three ſons the parent they renown.

By each degree I ardently am red,
Thro’ ev'ry town mine humble name is ſpred.
On me, yet feeling, fame vouchſafes her ſmile ;
Nor, for my glory, ſends me to the pile.
Me tribune Rome beheld, with joyous eyes;
And ſees me fit, where OcEAN bids thee riſe.

More citizens Ceſarean pow'r has roll'd

For me, than ſervants thou haſt ever told.
In pence thy compenſation muſt prevail:
There, there, my dread ſuperior, Nevol, hail!

XXIV. On T OR QUA TU S and O TAC I L IUS.

AT the fourth ſtone Torqu ATUs’ villa ſtands:
There OTAcILIU's bought ten foot of lands.
For one a bath of vari'd marble roſe:
A bathing-vauſe the other proudly ſhows.
Torquatus had his laurel-grove beſtow'd : -

A hundred cheſnuts Otacilius ſow'd.

Torquatus conſul, Ote was overſeer;

Nor meaner man did to himſelf appear.
As by the ox the frog was rent in twain,
By fell Torquatus will poor Ote be ſlain.

XXV. On E R O S.

A N ERos weeps, whene'er he ſpies

The coſtly cups of myrrhine dies;
The
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The faireſt lads that e'er were ſold,
The citron of ſuperbeſt mold:
And from his deepeſt breaſt the groan
Too well atteſts his piteous moan,
That he the auðtion can't engroſs,
And carry home, and hug it cloſe.
How many feel the filent figh,
Tho' ſorrow ſwim not in their eye
If all that laugh at ERos' tears,
Would look within, they'd ſave their ſneers.

XXVI. On C E C I L I A N's Muſe.

Nou GHT is more candid than Cecili.AN's Muſe,

Whene'er ſhe dains my diſtichs to peruſe.
Straight Marſus' or Catullus' lines ſhe cites,
* To ſhow me how inferior either writes.

Compar'd with mine, their ſtanzaes doutleſs groan :

But I could rather wiſh ſhe'd ſing her own.

XXVII. To C E C I L I A N.
TH OU aſkeſt epigrams that live:
Cecili AN, who can be ſo fool'd 2
And themes thrice dead pretend'ſt to give :
Can ever led engender gold 2

Thou bidd'ſt a Hybla's ſweets diſtil,

Or would'ſt Hymettus' honey ſee:
Tyme Corſican, on either hill,
Doſt plant for the Cecropian bee?
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XXVIII. To G A U R U S.

My pigmy-genius, you, grand bard, deſpiſe 3.

Becauſe, by brevity, my verſes riſe. -

But you, who Priam's battles dire endite,

In twice ten volumes wax a weighty wight:
We form a Brutus' boy, bid Lagon live;
And you a giant huge, of death-cold clay, do give.

XXIX. To C O S C O N I U. S.

THo U, who my lays think'ſt long, may'ſt well ſupply

The oil, that bids the ſluggiſh axel fly.
The fam'd Coloſs a monſter ſo will ſeem,
And Brutus' boy thou muſt a pigmy deem.
Keen Marſus’, or the learned Pedo's rage,
Oft epigram extends to t'other page.
That is not long, whence no one aught can take;
But long the diſtich, thou preſum'ſt to make.

XXX. To the ſame.

TH AT ev'ry thought thou cloth'ſt in chaſteſt ſtrains,

And that in all thy gold no droſs remains, -

I prize and praiſe: can ſuch a phenix be:

While not a page of mine from faults is free.
Each roguiſh youth, and each obſequious maid;
Roam here each elder, if the fair invade.
But, Coscony, thy Muſe, who never cloys,
Become the governeſs of girls and boys.
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XXXI. To L I G U R R A.
L EST a little living ſong
Make thy fame, LIGURRA, long;
Thou would'ſt have thy terror ſeen:
Vain thy wiſh as fear, I ween.
At the bulls the lions riſe,
Never ruſh on butterflies.

Wherefore, if thou wilt be red,

Find a bard by Bacchus bred,

Who may, in a gloomy nook,

Not by ev'ry fool forſook,
Bid rough coal or rotten chalk
Raviſh ribbalds, as they walk.
But a brow, ſo baſe as thine,
Muſt not hope a brand of mine.

XXXII. To a DE T R A C T O R.

BA RK on, bark on, thou ſnarling cur,

And fancy to provoke:
Thou never ſhalt my ſpirit ſtir,
Or make me feel thy joke.

I am determin'd to deny
The fame, that bids thee pine.
Thou vainly for a nich may'ſt figh,
In adamant of mine.

Thou would'ſt o'er all the globe be red,

With unremitted ſcorn,
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Ah! why proclaim that thou art dead,

Or that thou e'er waſt born ?

Yet in deſpair, oh! be not drown'd ;

Nor quite unpropt thy pride:
Some in this city may be found,
To gnaw a ſnarler's hide.

Tho' prudent we preſerve our paws,

From fell contagion free :
Nor would we proſtitute our claws,
Were it to fritter thee.

XXXIII. To another.

O! Neither from the hardy Fabians ſprung,

Nor aught like him, no leſs ſublimely ſung,
Whom, while the heroe-ſire the viands bore
Afield, to his deſerving hinds, of yore,
His ruddy conſort yean'd beneath the oak,
All labor holding, like her lord, a joke.
O adverſe thou! true offspring of a fire,
Skill'd but the heroe in the glaſs t'admire,
And of a female parent in a pall;
Whom thy fair ſpouſe a fairer ſpouſe may call: z

To touch my little verſe doſt thou pretend,

Or think, what fame avows, that thou canſt mend ?
Preſumeſt thou to peck my happy lays,
Which, humble as they are, defy thy praiſe
Poſieſt of that, which aſcertains renown,
The ſmile of ſcience, and th’ applauſe of town.
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‘ſo them immortal SILius dains a place:

Them Regulus recites with all his grace.
Them SURA, who approaches Dian's hill,
And eyes them, than the Cirk, with better will ;
Vouchſafes to laud. But, what exalts me moſt,
And builds complete mine adamantine boaſt;
Our Lord himſelf, beneath the weight of ſway, *

Diſdains not to revolve my petty lay.

Far mightier is thy mind: a Pallas' arts
Thy head refin'd, and Athens form'd thy parts.
But ne'er may I do well, if not the head
Enjoys ſuperior taſte, as better bred,
Which with the heart and liver, lungs and feet,
And ev'ry garbage, bids the noſe retreat;
Bor'n, after all the butch’ry of the day,
By miniſters of blood, along the way.
To ſpit thy ſpleen, if not to vent thy wit,
In verſes no one knows, and nothing hit;
At me thou wilt thy barren brains employ,
Poor helpleſs paper dantleſs to deſtroy.
But, ſhould'ſt thou once have pow'r to bid me glow,
Thine infamy th' indignant globe ſhall know :
The dire inſcriptions on thy ſhameleſs face
Not Cinnamus' devices ſhall eraſe.

Have mercy on thyſelf, nor madly dare

The rabid noſtrils of a foaming bear.
However long he gently lick thy hand,
If ſtrong refertment boiling bile command,
The bear will rouſe : then ſeek a vacant hide,
And fleſh to gnaw, where thou canſt fear no pride.
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XXXIV. To T U C C A.

º A Heroical epigram, did you produce ’’

Should I not, my dear TuccA, what's ſo much in uſe 2
“But to write ſuch a long one !' 'Tis alſo the faſhion.
You may read onely diſtichs: ſo puniſh your paſſion.
We ſhall ſettle, concerning the long ones, with eaſe:
You ſhall paſs them; and them I ſhall pen, if I pleaſe.
XXXV. To the ſame.

W E wrote epic, you began ;

We gave up the epic plan:
Quitting thus a path divine,
Leſt our verſe ſhould rival thine,

Our Thalia now would walk,

And in ſwelling buſkin ſtalk.
Thy Melpomene would plain,
And aſſume the tragic train.
Now I ſtrike Apollo's lyre,
Fraught with all the Muſe's fire.
With an emulation new,
Phebus' bow is ſeiz'd by you.

I in ſatyr dip my pen:

Thou wilt be Lucilius then.

Tune I elegiac lay ? -

Thou the ſelf-ſame tune wilt play.

Take I ſtill an humbler flight,

And in epigram delight 2
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In epigrammatic flame,
Thou'd'ſt annihilate my name.

Chooſe then, where thou wilt not ſtray:

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Shame to block up ev'ry way !
And whate'er thou wilt not be,
Tucca, leave that trade to me.

YXXVI, To F ID E N T IN U. S.

F AME has, my FIDENTINE, made loudly known,

That you recite my verſes as your own.
If mine they be, I'l ſend them you for nought:
To make them yours, by you they muſt be bought.

XXXVII. To Q U IN T I A N.
D EAR Quintian, to thy happy pow'rs
Our lays (if I may call them ours,
Which thy bold bard will needs recite,
And ſwear that once himſelf could write ;)
I with juſt confidence commend;
And ſhall exačt it of my friend,
That, if they heavy bondage wail,
Thou ſtand their claimant, and their bail :
So, when himſelf the culprit calls
The owner of the wretched thralls,
• That them as mine thou redemand,
As ſent to freedom from my hand.
This truth if o'er and o'er thou bawl,
The thief thou'lt redden and appall. -

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XXXVIII. To F ID E N T IN U.S.

PATCHT on my produce is a page of thine,

Which needs no ſignature, my FIDENTINE.
This obvious vamp thy motley verſe arrains,
Of what infers both penalties and pains.
Thus the Lingonic cowl, with unctuous lobe,
Diſtains the Tyrian of the townly robe.
So cryſtals jar with old Aretian ware:
So contraſt claſhes at each odd compare.
If ſly Cayſter ſees a raven ſtray
Ledean ſwans among, he ſmiles away.
When Philomela gives the grove to glow,
The coxcomb-py forbids the note to flow.
Her violator brings my Muſe relief:
Thine honeſt page has evidenc'd the thief.

XXXIX. To the ſame. "

By our verſes, for a bard,

FIDENTINE would paſs forſooth :
So poor Egle claims regard,
- ... Buying bone, or Indian tooth.
- Falling mulberry's more white,
Than Lycoris' hue ſo fair;
Yet the ceruſe yields delight,
And affords a rich repair.

By the ſelfsame happy way,

That thou art a poet"call'd ;
Thou full honors may'ſt diſplay,
When thou art entirely bald.
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XL. To a P L A G IA R Y.

THou'RT far a greater fool than thief,

To entertain the ſtrange belief,
That one may for a poet vapor,
At the mere coſt of pen and paper.
Th' applauſe of ſcience, and of ſenſe,
Will ne'er be bought by twenty-pence.
Seek ſecret lays, and embryo-notes,
That none have ſeen, and no one quotes.
Thou ſhould'ſt explore the virgin-muſe,
Whom no one but her parent views ;
Who never lets a ſtranger in,
Nor ſuffers from a briſtly chin.
A muſe, when once the world has known her,
Can never brook to change her owner.
But, if by chance you ſhall embrace
A fair, of yet unpoliſht face;
Not finiſht quite for public ſhow,
Nor fully trimm'd from top to toe ;
Of ſuch a fair become the prizer,
And nobody need be the wiſer.
Whoe'er recites another's ſenſe,
And hopes renown to gather thence ;
Muſt mind how ſuch a trade he try ;
And not a book, but ſilence buy.

XLI. To the ſame.

W ITH ours why would'ſt mingle thy verſes, poor elf?

What boots thee a book, that's at war with itſelf?
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154 M A R T I A L’s E P I G R A M S.
With lions how canſt thou bid foxes combine *

Or thinks the dim owlet the eaglet to ſhine

One leg of a Ladas, thou may'ſt perhaps boaſt:
But ne'er ſhalt thou run, with the other a poſt.
XLII. To C O R D U B A.

C ORDU BA, more joyous far,

Than Venafrum's unctuous boaſt;
Nor inferior to the jar,
That renowns glad Iſtria's coaſt.

Who ſurmount'ſt the fleecy breed,

That the bright Galeſus laves;
Nor bidd'ſt lying purple bleed,
O'er the hue that nature craves.

Give, oh! give thy bard a bluſh;

That he may no more recite
Verſes he could no more cruſh,
Than his thieviſh muſe endite,

With ſome patience could I bear,

Did a real poet borrow ;
We might mutual honors ſhare:
But I cannot traffic ſorrow.

The unwedded ſometimes take,

What unwedded none can pay;
As amends no blindman make,
For the light he takes away.
'Gainſt a never-clothed thief,
Muſt in vain the injur'd chafe:
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So, from all ingenuous grief,
Muſt the giftleſs bard be ſafe.

XLIII. To a J E W.

THINE envy, that my lays ſhould live,

And blaſting labor hard,
I can forget, as I forgive,
Wiſe mutilated bard.

Nor can thy canker rouſe my care,

Tho', while thou peck'ſt my ſtrains,
Thou pick: thine obvious wiſdom there,
Denuded bard, remains.

My fingle torture muſt ariſe,

In Solyma that born,
Thou ſhould'ſt ſeduce the maid I priſe,
And conſtitute her ſcorn.

Lol thou deni'ſt; and ſwear'ſt the fane

Of thunder's Wielder, elf.
I not believe : then ſwear amain,
ANchiALUs himſelf.

XLIV. To a M A K E BATE,

PE RFIDIOUS tongue, that would'ſt embroil

My JuvenAL and me !
What faith ſo pure to ſtand the ſoil,
of venom ſhed by thee

At thy ſurmiſe, his Pylades

Oreſtes ſoon would hate ;
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For Theſeus would, by ſlow degrees,
Pirithous' love abate.

Sicilian brothers thou'd'ſt divide,

Or Atrean, greater name: ---

To Leda's twins 'twould be thy pride,

To give a novel flame.
For deeds ſo done, and ſo deſign'd,
I pray, with humble truſt,
That all the tongues of all mankind
To thee be ever juſt.

XLV. On M A M E R C U S : To A U L U.S.

To ſpeak well, and think well, you never will make

MAMERcus, by any ſhrewd ways you may take.
In piety, ſhould you the Curtians outdo;
In mildneſs, the Nerva's and Ruſo's purſue:
In worth, you the Marks and the Maurics may maul;
In ſpeaking, a Regulus; jeſting, a Paul :
Where'er he once breth'd, a fell peſtilence flow'd:
His putrefi’d fangs ev'ry matter corrode.
The fool, as malignant, let ignorants teaſe :
A wretch I pronounce him, whom no one can pleaſe.
XLVI. To a s LAN DE RING SCRIBB.L.E.R.
WHoe'ER, regardleſs of the rev'rence due
To ſtole or purple, impious verſe could brew ;
From bridge to beach a vagrant may he roam,
Nor town nor country yield him houſe or home.
Of ſuppliants hoarſe the refuſe and the dreg,
The camine offals may the miſcreant beg.
Long
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Long his December, wet his winter prove:
No kindly nook the killing cold remove.
Thrice happy may he hold, ſupremely bleſt, t

Who on the ſable bier in ſilence reſt.

And, when at length his final thred is ſpun,

When the ſpent ſpindles with reluštance run,
May jarring curs diſtraćt his tardy day,
And remnant rags drive noxious birds away.
Nor ſhall a ſimple death conclude his pain:
Racks unimagin'd in the ſhades remain.
Stern Eacus ſhall bid the ſcourges ply:
Up the high hill with Siſyphus he'ſ hy.
Now parcht in waters, with the babbling fire,
The fables of the poets ſhall he tire.
When truth at laſt the Fury bids him own,
'Twas I, 'Twas I, cries Conſcience, with a groan.

XLVII. To S E P T IT I A N.

H AST unroll'd to the horns, cunning SEPTY, my book?

And roll'd, as perus'd, doſt reſign
I believe, I rejoice: thou didſt all overlook 1
So have I lookt o'er five of thine.

XLVIII. To T H E O D O R U S.

W HY I dole thee not my pieces,

Theodore, thou may'ſt divine.
Yet thy wond'ring zeal increaſes:
Leſt thou ſhould'ſt redole me thine.

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XLIX. On T H E O D O R U S.

THE poor poet THEoDoRE's gods, in a flame,

Gave you, wicked Muses, and PHEBUs full glee.
Ye ſov'rain diſpoſers, what ſin and what ſhame,
That holder and houſe ſo diſparted ſhould be

L. To B A S S U. S.

MEDEA, why, or, why Thyeſtes wail?

Why Niobe, Andromache aſſail
Deucalion, truſt me, would thy lays beſeem :
If him thou hate, be Phaeton thy theme.

LI. To S O S I B I A N.

You R learned labors why ſhould coffers quell ?

Ah! why, SosibiAn, nought diſpred?
Mine heirs, you ſay, my darkneſs will diſpel :
'Tis now high time that you were red.

LII. To A L B I U S M A X IM U.S.

ALB IUS, if thou have the time,

Do but read this little rime.

True, thou hateſt pains as hell:

This thou ſkippeſt, and doſt well.

LIII. To L A B E R I U. S.

TH OU canſt cunning verſes write

Why, LABERIUs, doſt not try
Who can cunning verſe endite,
Let him not: I’l hold him high.
LIV. To
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LIV. To S A B E L L U. S.

S OME not abſurd tetraſtichs thou may'ſt ſqueeze;

And diſtichs, that can ſcarce deny to pleaſe.
I praiſe, yet not admire: a verſe to cook
Is no hard taſk; but canſt thou write a book?

LV. To S E X T U. S.

W HAT avails it thee, Sextus, to pen what muſt puzzle

Or Modeſtus, Claranus, or any ſuch muzzle 2
A peruſer thou wanteſt not, but an Apollo :
Thou'd'ſt give Cinna to lead, and a Maro to follow.
So let thy lays be lauded; but may my barbarians
The grammarians pleaſe, and pleaſe without grammarians.

LVI. To P R IS C U S.
TH Y preſent while thou wilt with ſong enhance,
And ſtay'ſt to curvet in Meonian dance;
Thyſelf and me how many a day ſhall teaſe,
*

And at my coſt bid thy Thalia pleaſe ?

| Thy labord ſtanzacs on the rich expend
But, PRiscus, to the poor plain preſents ſend.

LVII. To another poet.

WHI LE thus thou honey'ſt thine inſcriptions alſ,
And mak’ſt them than the whited ſkin more white;
Thou giv'ſt no grain of ſalt, no drop of gall:
Yet madly dream'ſt, that reading is thy right
No food can pleaſe, of acid if beguil'd :
Without a ſmile no face can charming be.
Sw, cer
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Sweet apples, taſteleſs figs cajole a child :

The Chian ſmart alone has charms for me.

LVIII. To M A L Is I A N.
MALIS IAN haſte, and tell me how
You can unbend the modeſt brow,
Of chaſteſt maid, or ſweeteſt child,
That ever blandly bluſht or ſmil'd
When all the while you conſcious are
Of ſentiments corrupter far,
Than he, who wakes a Stella's ire
By waking a Tibullus’ lyre.

LIX. On P O M P I L L U. S.

Po MPILLUS thinks the thing is done,

The bleſt Pompillus ſhall be red :
º

His name ſhall circle with the ſun,

From pole to pole his writings ſpred.

So proſper the Uſpian breed,

Offickle heart, and flaxen hair :
So ſcatter'd be the ſavage ſeed,
That not Auſonian empire bear.

Ingenious are Pompillus’ lines;

But this ſuffices not to fame:
And fair perhaps are his deſigns:
His glory ſtill may prove his ſhame.
How many ſcholars feed the moth,
With eloquently-ſpecious books
What
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What fine-ſpun verſes, turn'd to froth,
Can onely be redeem'd by cooks

There's ſomewhat more than ſkill and art, .

That can to paper ages lend. * * *

: The mighty ſecret, oh impart.

'Tis genius bids a book deſcend.

LX. To C H R E S T 1 L L U.S.
EACH flowing lay, CHREstilius, you deplore:
Dragg'd over rugged rocks, your ſtrains rude roar.
Regardleſs of the low Meonian ſong,
Lucilius ditties drear, enrapturd you prolong.
ibeye ſpeth %Dan Lucilius' Comfort, -

99&ty0pbaneg, the Daific Of Diſport,

1900t 99etyophane, Đcyc be ipctſ), 3 ſaic:
Ønt for euer toolſ Ipc, and eke for aie.
$iti) be ig taught, and fettyCU in pºiſ0n,
'cis time for to paſſen to concluſion.
So AccIUs and PACUvius had the knack :

Who does not glow to bring the charmers back?

Well as they knew, you know, or let me dy;
What pow'r have numbers, and what words imply.

LXI. To W A C E R R A.

TH OU, in the ancients onely, red;

Admir'ſt no poet, till he's dead.
I hold not thine eſteem ſo high,
That, to acquire it, I ſhould dy.
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LXII. To the M US E.

WH AT, tho' to living bards be fame deni'd,

Nor ſelfiſh readers make their times their pride?
'Tis balefull ſpleen ſuch maxims can purſue,
And ſtill prefer the ancient to the new.
Thus do we court fell Pompey's thrett'ning ſhade,
And fume the fanes a Catulus has ſtay’d.
See Ennius red, while Maro is forgot!
Nay, the coeval ſneer was Homer's lot.
Rare plaudits peal'd to crown Menander's lays:
A Naſo knew but a Corinna's praiſe.
With patience then, my Muse, to glory hy:
If after death ſhe come, I ſhall not dy.

LXIII. To C O R N E L I U. S.

TH AT I rime unchaſten’d write,

Which a maſter mayn't recite;
That I thus my muſe deny,
To the guiltleſs funny fry;
Thou, CoRNELIUs, doſt decree 3.

But ſhalt own thou injur'ſt me.

Witty lays, like man and wife,
Muſt not always be at ſtrife;
And, like them, but pleaſe by half,
If they do not often laugh.
Would'ſt thou bid Thalaſus ſpeak,
Not in Latin, but in Greek -

Who can clothe the Floral game * -

Who allows a harlot ſhame *

Such
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Such the rule of jocund ſtrains:

Wit no point, unſmiling, gains.
count caſtration death by law :
Let the god of gardens aw.
What a paltry god were he,
Dubb'd a ſage of Cybele!

LXIV. To the M O R O S E.

H ASTE hence, moroſe remarker, haſte:

Urbanity alone has taſte.
No ſtrains Lampfacian foul my page,
Nor feels my braſs Tarteſian rage.
Yet here the mirth that cannot cloy,
Shall often ſhake thy fides with joy:
Suppoſe thy mind of graver mold,
Than Curius' ſelf poſſeſt of old;
Or had thy features greater force,
Than his, that brav'd the ſolar courſe.
Nay thou my nonſenſe keen ſhalt read,
Meek maid of Patavinian breed.

Lucretia bluſht, and dropt the book;

Nor, Brutus there, would dain a look.
Brutus, begone : thy dame, at eaſe,
Will ſhow how my peruſals pleaſe.
Lxv. To INSTANT IU S R U F U.S.
C OMMEND not my ſtrains to thy father-in-law:
Not grave enough, Rufus, I fear them.
If merry things venture the teſt of his aw,
Fabricius and Curius ſhall hear them.

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Lxvi. To F A U S T IN Us,
S O may my LoRD with cloudleſs brow,
And wonted ear, my jokes allow ;
As my THALIA ſoars above
Annoying thoſe ſhe cannot love;
Or building her beloved's fame,
Upon the moſt deſerved ſhame.
What matters it that ſome would call
The verſes ours bedipt in gall,
Which not Archilochus could ſpout,
*

Or vipers' ſelves would vomit out;

Who onely dread the face of day,
And fear (but need not) Phebus' ray :
Harmleſs we ſport: I ſwear by all
The genius, that enlights the ball;
By the fair flock Caſtalia–ſprung,
Who ſhed their fleece the bards among:
Nay, by thine ears, that are to me
The echoes of divine decree;
Bland READER, who diſdain'ſt to know
Envy, the felleſt human foe.

LXVII. To NUMATIUS G ALLUS,

SIM PLER than Sabines of the former age,
More candid than the fam'd Cecropian ſage,
NUMATIUs! So chaſte Venus link the chain,
That gives her daughter with thy ſon to reign;
And thy domeſtic gods ſtill fan the flame,
That ſends thro' ages thine illuſtrious name;
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As thou, if pale malevolence ſhould ſay,
That a verſe, ting'd with gall, were MARTIAL's lay;
Shalt frown it falſe, and prove it the delight
Of the wretch no one reads, ſuch verſe to write.
This fair diſtinétion has my chARMER choſe,
To ſpare the perſon, and the fault expoſe.
*

LXVIII. To P A U L U.S.
S O, PAULus, may December pleaſe,
Nortable-books, nor toilets teaſe ;
Nor half-a-pound of incenſe vain
Thine approbation burn to gain :
But potent friend, or client ſchool'd,
Preſent the plates and cups of gold:
Or, when thou aimeſt archer ſhafts,
So vanquiſh each adept at drafts:
of naked fives the many meed
Be thine, ſo by the judge decreed;
That not a dext'rous left, that day,
Bear from thy right a ball away :
As thou, if wight ſhall dare to call,
The libel mine, emban’d in gall,
Shalt, with commanding voice, declare:
•. My Martial's pen was never there.' '

LXIX. To PRI scus TERENT I Us.

ScuRRILITY of paltry ſlaves,
The ſordid tooth of ſnarling knaves;
The refuſe of the hawker's tongue,
That ſhould be neither ſaid nor ſung:
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No broker of a broken cup,

Would buy it with a matchling up:
All this is ſcatter'd by a ſcrub,
Who fain would garble me the grub.
With PR1scus can the bam prevail?
A parrot clamor like a quail?
Or Canus, tho' a muſic-ſtriper,
Affect to bray a mere bagpiper ?
From my THALIA ſever'd far
Be black'ning fame, or bluſt'ring jar.
Whatever note ſhe dain to fing,
Shall ſoar on rumor's whiteſt wing.
Why ſhould I murder my renown,
When ſafe I ſit in ſilence down

LXX. On T IT U.S.
FRIEND Titus bids me cauſes plead :

It is a mighty thing, he ſays.

It is a mighty thing indeed,
The labor of the ploughman pays.

LXXI. To the R E A DE R.

FOR ſerious fit, why I the jocund ſtrain,

Prefer, kind READER, you the cauſe remain;
Who fing the ſonnet and the ſonneteer,
Not dreaming all your love ſo truly dear.
Should I the dread Sithebearer's fane defend,
And ſell my breth to each embarraft friend,
How many a Spaniſh caſk my ſtore would join
How were my ſatchels ſoil'd with various coin
Now
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Now a mere gueſt and goſſip am I ſought:
My page delights; delights, alas ! for nought.
Praiſe bounded not of old the poet's joy:
The loweſt preſent was a lovely boy.
* How ſweet the ſong lone from the ſong may draw.
I'm no cameleon; ſo muſt take the law.
LXXII. To a str AN GER.
I N theſe our gardens range a welcome gueſt,
If on the naked ground thy limbs can reſt;
Or, if thou bring equipment for thy tent:
Mine on my viſitants has long been ſpent.
No flockleſs pillow clothes the ſhatter'd frame:
The rotten bedband burſts with age and ſhame,
Yet let us kind the conteſt compromiſe:
The premiſes I bought; thy bounty but ſupplies,
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LXXIII. To the RE A DE R.
F ELL hurry, who the former volume brands,
Recalls th’ abortions, that eſcap'd my hands.
Some hackney'd ſtanzaes here confeſs the file;
But more are new : on both, ſweet READER, ſmile.
READER, our riches | Well, ſaid Rome, I know,
A bleſter boon I have not to beſtow.
By this thou thro’ Lethean ſtreams ſhalt ſtrive,
And in thy better part ſhalt ſtill ſurvive.
The wilding may Meſſala's marble cleave,
The ſpeaker filence, and the ſculptor reave.
The mule's pert driver may reproachleſs laugh,
At Criſpus' courſers dwindled down to half.
Wit’s
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Wit's labors onely rape or age defy:

- His monuments alone can never dy. . . . . .
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LXXIV. To the MUSE.

To books unnumber'd would'ſt relume the lay ?
And canſt thou ſtill, my Muse, pretend to play
For ſhame, have done. Not fame can more beſtow :
Thou giv'ſt already ev'ry breaſt to glow.
When great Meſſala's monuments ſhall ly, . . . .
When the Licinian marbles' ſelves ſhall dy; * *
Thee ſtill mankind ſhall read. To diſtant climes,
Each ſon of taſte ſhall raviſh home thy rimes."
I juſt had clos'd the never-cloſing toil,
When ſhe, whoſe locks and veſture drip with oil:
Canſt then, ingrate forſake a taſk like ours * * *
How, idler, better would'ſt employ thy pow'rs
Would'ſt change my ſock, for what my ſoul abhors
In even meaſures thunder oddeſt wars 2

That thee the pedant with hoarſe voice may roar,

Thee the meek maid and ſtripling may deplore.
Thoſe pompous ſtrains let midnight-wretches write,
Whoſe lucubrations dare Minerva's ſpite. .
Do thou, with Roman ſalt, beſtrow thy lays;
That life may ſee, and hear, and mend, her ways.
What, tho' thy reed full ſlender may be found
That ſlender reed may many a trump outſound.

Lxxv. To M A M U R R.A.
O Thou, who weep'ſt an Edipuſes tale ;
Yet brook'ſt the board, that made the ſun grow pale;
Whom
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Whom Colchian ſpells, and Scylla's rage, amuſe;

What elſe than monſters does thy mind peruſe
What can avail the nonſenſe and the noiſe
Of Hylas raviſht, or an Attis' joys
And ſorrows : What Parthenopeus' arms ?
Or what the fond Endymion's ſleeping charms ?
What boots the ſtripling, ſtript of faithleſs wings
Or the ingrate, who loth'd the loving ſprings
From fable made a fool what can be known

Here ſhalt thou find, what thou may'ſt call thine own.
No Centaurs, Gorgons, Harpies, ſhalt thou ſcan:
Our humble page but analyſes man.
Thyſelf, MAMURRA, thou abhorr'ſt to know:
Callimachus (read him) the cauſe will ſhow.
LXXVI. To C L A S S I C U S.

WH AT, tho' I call no ſing-ſong, ſoft, ſupine,

No backward wayward Sotadean, mine ;
No greeking echo bid reſing the ſong,

No fibbling Attis trill the lay along;

In the enervate Galliambic ſtrain

So low, my CLAssic, never was my vein.

Would'ſt bid the ſwifteſt ſcourer of the road,
Twiſt all the poſtures that the tumbler ſhow'd
How pitifull the boaſt of petty feats |
How idle is the toil of mean conceits

Marvels for mobs let pleas'd Palemon brew :

I ſimplify my cordials for the few.
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LXXVII. The B O OK, to the R E A DE R.

IF, averſe to the coping, I ſtill appear long ;

Read me leſs, and I ſhrink to a bookling, with eaſe.
Three or four times a page puts an end to the ſong:
You may render me, READER, as ſhort as you pleaſe.

LXXVIII. The ſame, to the ſame.

TH O', READER, thou well might'ſt be ſick of ſuch ſtuff,

With couplets thou ne'er art content.
So Hunks ne'er has uſance, nor boys bread enough.
Diſmiſs me: mum ſymbols conſent,

LXXIX. To the M U S E.

OH enough; my MuseLING, Oh!

How far, prithee, would'ſt thou go?
Reſpit aids us, and adorns.
Do but look: we're at the horns.

On, and on, and on thou tend'ſt:

At the end, thou never end'ſt :
As if ſtill thy theme remain'd,
Which in page the firſt was drain'd.
Ev'ry patience now expir’d,
Now the very penman's tir’d.
Without reſt, thou canſt not go :
Oh! enough ; my Museling, Oh!

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P A R T 1.
l H IS T O R. I C A L A N E C D O T E S.

I. On MUCH US S C EV O L A and P O R S E N A.

THE hand that, for the king, his captain ſlew ;

Into the hallow'd flame, with ardor flew.
The deſprate deed aſtounds the gen'rous foe:
Snatcht from the fire, he bids the heroe go.
The limb, that in combuſtion ſtill ſeem’d cold ;
The feeling PorseNA could not behold.
The hapleſs hand, by error, ſav'd her fame:
She leſs had hit, had ſhe not miſt her aim.

II. On P O R C I A.

W HEN Porcia underſtood her conſort's fate,

And muſt I not, ſhe cri'd, remain his mate -

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To have diſarm'd me, may exalt your pride:

But dream ye ſtill, that death can be deni’d 2
Methought ye better knew, who knew my fire ;
She ſaid: and ſwallow'd down the living fire.
Go now, malignant mob, deny the ſteel ;
Or think to reave me of the joys I feel.

III. On F E S T U S.

WHEN from th’ indignant jaws contagion ran,

And on the ſacred face the plague began ;
His ſtedfaſt eyes forbidding tears to flow,
FESTUs reſolv'd to ſee the ſhades below.

Yet ting'd he not his mouth with impious bane,

Nor feaſted fate by hunger's growing pain.
A nobler exit, panting to diſplay ;
He ſent his ſpirit in a Roman way.
His beyond CATo's death, muſt fame commend:
For ſhe muſt own, that CESAR was his friend.

IV. On O T H O.
WHIL E civil rage ſuſpended yet the ſcale,
And yet th’ enervate Orho might prevail;
He curſt wild war, that muſt imbrue the land;
And pierc'd his naked breaſt with certain hand. .
CESAR let CATo, while he lives, deſpiſe:
What's greater, ſay, than OTHo when he dies 2
V. On A P I C I. U S.

FULL threeſcore millions, on his maw,

APICIUs had beſtow'd ;
And,
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And, ſpite of all the joys he ſaw,

Ten ample millions flow'd.
With hunger's pang, or parching thirſt,
Diſdaining to repine;
of freedom's jolly ſouls the firſt,
Abſorb’d the final wine.

Amid th’ atchievements of thy craft,

Thou didſt no nobler deed :

Thou deeply paid'ſt the drunkard's draft,

And hadſt the glutton's meed.

VI. On P O M P E Y and his S O N S.

You Ng PoMPEYs Europe may, and Aſia hold ;

A Libya's land, if any land, the old.
No wonder o'er the globe if Pompey fly:
Ne'er could, on partial ſpot, ſo vaſt a ruin ly

VII. On M A R K ANT O NY.

ALIKE the Roman and Egyptian crime:
Either aſſaſſin lopt a head ſublime.
Thy glory this, when thou would'ſt laurels wear ;
And that, O Rome, when ſpeaking was thy care.
Yet darker ANTony's, than Pothin's hue:
That for himſelf, this for his maſter ſlew.

VIII. To M A R K A N T O N Y.

O Antony revile no Pothin now :

In Tully more, than in a roll, accurſt.
Of the ſweet Roman tongue aſſaſſin thout

A Cataline thy horror never durſt.

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An impious bravo may by gold be won,

And opulence one voice ſuppreſt may buy :
But ah! what has the dear-bought filence done?
Mankind one tongue will now for Tully try.

IX. To L. A N T ON I U S S A T U R N IN U.S.

WHILE yet thou gloriedſt in thy gaudy name,

And SATURNINE alone became thy ſhame; -

Beneath the Bear thou impious arms could'ſt wield,

Like him, who ſhon his Pharian conſort's ſhield.
And had indeed his fate eſcap'd thy mind?
Hadſt giv'n the Aétian ačtion to the wind
Or did the Rhine, ſtill bolder than the Nile,
Flatter enormous hope, and then beguile
Might Arétic waves to greater licence run,
Than thoſe attemper'd by a ſothern ſun ?
Antonius own'd our uncontroll'd decree,
Who was a CESAR, rebel-wretch, to thee.

X. On A R RIA and PET U.S.

W HEN the chaſte ARRIA to her PETUs bore

The dagger, reeking with her boſom's gore;

My wound, if faith be mine, inflićts no ſmart:
'Tis that my Petus gives, muſt wring my heart.
XI. On the birth and death of L U C A N.

THIS conſcious day, O Poll A, big with glee,

Gave glorious LucAN to mankind and thee.
Ah! NERo, blacker by no other wound;
Thy pow'r ſhould here at leaſt have known her bound.
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XII. On the birth of LU CAN.

A Pollo's bard exalts today: -y «4.8 A, 9 @ 8"

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f When bounteous Betis LucAN gave,

He blended with Caſtalia's wave.
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XIII. To PHE BUS and PO L L A : On the ſame.

CoME, PHEBUs, great, as when the warlike ſwain

Thou lent'ſt the ſecond bow, to ſweep the lyre.
What pious vow can for this morn remain
oft, Polla, hail thy lord; and may he feel thy fire.
- XIV. To P O L L A.

IMPERIAL Poll A, ſhould my various lay

To thy chaſte ears explore her dubious way; -

Interpretation bland would meet each joke,

Which a ſoft ſmile (O could it!) would provoke,
Of him, ſo deep who quaft Caſtalia's ſpring,
Whoſe deathleſs glory bids Parnaſſus ring;
Who, while his trump ſublime blows ſavage wars,
Not ſtill the ſtrains of guiltleſs mirth abhors;
Nor bluſhes in familiar guiſe to ſay:
If never I unbend, who nerves my lay ?

XV. Qn C E R. E L I A.

F ROM Baulian, while ſhe ſeeks the Baian coaſt;

A mother's murder'd by the madding main.
No more, ye waves, your wonted glory boaſt :
Such horror once a NERo hugg'd in vain.
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XVI. On L A D O N.

A Boatman and boat, both paſt ſervice, had ſhov'd

Themſelves on the ſhore of the Tiber they lov’d.
Both ſettle: but once, when the waves would forſake
Their mounds, and would bury the banks in a lake;
The boat booming high, by a wonderfull hap,
The flood fill'd with ſtones, that juſt fill'd up the gap.
Quoth the wreck to the waters: no farther ye come.
I ſank for my maſter, as for him I ſwom.
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XVII. On PHIL O S T R A T U.S.

FROM Sinueſſa's ſalutary wave,

Which to each ſex reſpećtive virtue gave ;
PHILosTRATUS his menial manſion ſought,
The empreſs guiding of the ſtarry vault. .
The errant reel'd, Elpenor full in view ;
And headlong down the fatal flight he flew.
Yet had he not, ye NYMPHs, his fate embrac'd,
Had your wiſe waters ſatisfi'd his taſte.
XVIII. On A MYNTA S. To LY G D U.S.
W HILE the cares of the herd young AMYNTAs employ,
And its feaſt and its fame prove his glory and joy;
The poor branches, o'erburden'd, perceive themſelves bound,
Swift to follow their bender and fruit to the ground.

The gay grove ruſtled laughter; but ceaſt ſoon to ſmile,

When the fire doom'd the wicked old wood to the pile.
Fat and ſleek be good neighbor Iolaſſes ſwine:
Ours to number, my Lyg|DUs, the labor be thine.
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XIX. On the B O Y and the IC I C L E.

- WHERE the Vipſanian columns view the drain,

Where ceaſeleſs ſhow’rs the ſlipp'ry ſtone diſtain;
On a young throat, that climb'd the dewy ſteep,
Dropt wint'ry water, who forgot to weep;
And, when her cruel purpoſe ſhe had crown'd,
The point relented in the glowing wound.
How ruthleſs fortune ſports with ſweeteſt life
Where dwells not death, if droplings form a knife 2

XX. On the VIP E R in the mouth of the B E A R.

FAST by the Hundred Columns, gapes a bear;

And the plane-grove boaſts many a monſter there:
While beauteous HyLAs tempts the grinning jaw,
The innocent inſerts his tender paw.

Here earlier had her home a viper ſtole:

So liv'd the ſavage with more ſavage ſoul.
Nor was the youngling conſcious of the ſnare,
But by the deadly tooth. Oh! had it been a bear !

XXI. On the VIP E R in A M B E R.

ON the ſun's daughters' arms a viper crept,

When o'er the wriggling thing the amber wept.
Wond'ring to be ſo bound in clammy dew,
She petrifi'd amid the glaſs'ning glue.
Thy ſepulture, proud queen, no longer prize;
If, in a nobler tomb, thine adder lies,
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XXII. On the A N T in A M B E R.

AN emmet roaming in the poplar-ſhade,

The gluy drop a petty pris'ner made.
So ſhe, whom men deſpis'd, while life remain'd,
From the funereal ſcene her glory gain'd.
XXIII. On the B E E in A M B E R.

PENT in th' elečtric drop, and yet diſplay'd,

She ſeems to ſwim the nećtar ſhe has made.

This might the meed of all her toils ſupply:

Thus, ſure, ſhe pray'd that ſhe embalm'd might dy.

XXIV. On the L I O N and the R A M.

THE ſhaggy ſov'rain, and the fleecy fire,

Form'd once a union, that the learn'd admire.
Stall'd in one den, behold the faithfull mates
Partake in common their uncommon cates,
Nor now the forreſts, nor the fields can feed:
Their motley maw commands a lamb to bleed.
What pleads the Nemean peſt, or Helle's bearer,
That of the heavenly ſigns each beams a ſharer
Could ſheep or ſavage merit aſtral fame,
Such were this ram's, and ſuch this lion's claim.

XXV. On the deſerted S W A L L O W.

WHEN the Athenian birds explor'd their way,

To the bleſt climes that know no winter's day;
One hapleſs twitt'rer, who diſdain'd the reſt,
Outbrav'd the rigors, in the fencefull neſt:
Till
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Till the clan coming with the genial ſpring,
l As a deſerter held the loit’ring thing.
- Thus late the guilty parent pennance bore,
Who whilom her own guiltleſs Itys tore.
XXVI. On the PRI E S T of B A C C H U S.

A Goat without aw,

Who tendrels would gnaw,
Was doom'd on the altar to dy.
Now, BAccHus, thy prieſt
Laid hold of the beaſt;

And thus to a clown that ſtood by:

While I ſhall divine,
Lop off either ſign,
That ſo no rank odor remain.

When now he would ſlay,

Both ſtrugglingly lay;
Both doom'd the green altar to ſtain.
As thus they lay low,
How dire was the ſhow !
The auſpices ſaw it, and ſcowl’d.
The clown, with a knife,
Clear'd all to the life :
Too late the bare bacchanal howl’d.

Well thought the poor man,

When orgies began,
Such fibers high honor were held in.
The prieſt of the god
Own'd Cybele's nod;
And, ſlaying the goat, prov’d a gelding.
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XXVII. On M I S I T I U. S.

WHEN old MISITIUS ſought his native land,

Chance bid him join a ſly Cybelian band.
Achill As, from his lord a ſlipp'ry ſtray,
Adher'd the partner of Misitius' way.
Him eye the half-men ; and their art employ,
To learn the lair that hopes the beauteous boy.
Suſpecting well their aim to catch ſuch elves,
And render them enervate as themſelves;
Their induſtry induſtrious to deride,
The pricket points the bed; but not the ſide.
They quaff their wine, and now the ſlumbers pleaſe.
The ſlumbers o'er, the noxious ſteel they ſeize.
Misitius they unman, who next them lay;
Safe on the inner beam, and finug the ſtray.
Once, for a virgin, bled a wond’rous hind :
Now, for a deer, a dotard was conſign'd.

XXVIII. On the L IN GON I C C Y B E L I A N : To L U C A N.

As late in the night, to the hole he had hir’d,

From way the Flaminian a Lingon retir’d;
His toe firſt he wrencht, then his ancle put out;
And lay on the ground, as if laid in the gout. .
What could the poor prieſt? how, alas! ſhould he limp 2
Himſelf was a porpoiſe, his ſervant a ſhrimp;
So weak, that a mantle he hardly could bear.
But chance, benign chance, opportunely was there.
Four deep-letter'd drudges a coarſe bore along :
The pile welcomes ſuch to conſume in a throng.
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The helpleſs implores of the diſmals their ſkill,

And begs that the carcaſe they'l caſt where they will.
The load is exchang'd; and the lame now on high,
Squeez'd into the bier, muſt the lifeleſs ſupply.
This one may, of many, my friend, I proteſt,
CYBELIAN DEFUNCT, be ſedately addreſt.

XXIX. On F A B I A N U. S.

A FABIAN, ſmart on each diſeaſe,

Whom ſcarce Hygeia's ſelf could pleaſe;
To thoſe became the ſtancheſt foe,
Whom ruthleſs rupture render'd low.
More on the hydrocele he'd ſhow'r,
Than ten Catulluſſes could pour. ,
In ev'ry bath, his ſatyr-look
P The naked ſtarvelings doubly ſhook:
Till, all at once, in Nero's therms,
Wiſe FABIANUs chang'd his terms;
And, ſeing how at home he hung,
He thought it beſt to hold his tongue.

XXX. To C A S T R I C U S.

D OST thou know the deadly ſign,

That a queſtor could divine * .
It is, CASTR1c, worth thy while,
Tho' the THETA make thee ſmile.
When the judge his noſtrik, blew,
By the ſound a man he ſlew.
In December's froſt and ſnow,
When the floods forgot to flow :
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From the fatal trump depended

Miſchief, if not timely mended.
But his collegues interpoſe :
Nor can Noſy blow his noſe.

XXXI. On PHIL EN IS’ V O W.

A GAINST the high Tarpeian time,

When garlands render heads ſublime ;
To RoME returning DIoDoRE,
The canvas ſpred from Pharos' ſhore.
PHILENIs for her lord's return,
Fanning the flame, that bid her burn;
Wow'd that the pureſt maid ſhould meet,
What Sabine dames not bluſh to greet. ,
The veſſel wreckt in the profound,
Poor DIoDoRE was juſt not drown'd.
He ſwims thro’ each oppoſing ſtorm,
The vow all pious to perform.
Yet kinder, than deſerv'd, his fate:
'Twas well he came, nor came too late.
I, ſo devoted by my dove,
Would fly upon the wings of love.

XXXII. On M A R O's V O W.

F OR a dear aged friend good MARo vow’d,

Whom ſemitertian burn'd ; he pray'd aloud :
If from the Stygian waves withheld he be,
A gratefull vićtim, Jove, ſhall fall to thee.
Some gleam of hope the doćtors foſter now:
Good 'Aro makes new vows, leſt he ſhould pay his vow.
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XXXIII. On mount V E SUV I U.S.

H ERE Wesvius late with rich feſtoons was green:

Here nobleſt cluſters guſht a lake ſerene.
Theſe beyond Nyſa's hights the god advanc'd :
On this glad mountain gameſom ſatyrs danc'd.
This, more than Sparta, joy'd the laughing dame:
Theſe ſummits prouden’d by Alcides' name.
Smoke, embers, flames, have laid the glories low :
The pow'rs regret the very pow'r they glow.

xxxiv. on the PLANE of co RDU BA,

IN far remote, tho' fam’d, Tarteſian lands,
An ancient, and majeſtic, manſion ſtands :
Where CoRDUBA the queen enjoys her wealth,
Whom BETIs loves to lave by ſeeming ſtealth :
Where the fleece takes her tinge from native ore,
And living ſpangles gild Heſperian ſtore.
High, in the center, o'er th’ expanded gods,
Th’ imperial plane her crouding honors nods.

The tender twig confeſt ſupreme command ;

Yet ſprang ſpontaneous from the planter's hand.
Bright from his bloom, and conſcious of his power,
To the high heaven ſhe bids her branches tower.
Beneath this grove what ſoking fauns have play'd l
Beneath this foliage lurkt the dryad-maid, -

When Pan ſhe fled acroſs the darkling plains,

When the late reed alarm'd the filent ſwains.

Swift o'er the dome Lyean fragrance flew :

The ſhade, by pure libation, gladlier grew,
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With crowns convivial was the herbage ſtrown :

Nor could a god pronounce a roſe his own.
O fav'rite of the pow'rs I great CesAR's tree
Nor ſteel, nor fire ſhall ever glance on thee.
In fearleſs prime thy vivid verdure ſtands:
Thou waſt not planted by a Pompey's hands.

XXXV. On a fragment of A R G O.
THE bit of wood, you ſo diſdain,
Was the firſt keel that plough'd the main.
Her not conflićting rocks could craſh:
She mockt the hyperborean laſh.
Regardleſs thus of ev'ry rage,
She yielded to all-conqu'ring age;
And the ſmall remnant of a ſlip, +

Became more ſacred than the ſhip.

XXXVI. To a motionleſs crew.

WH Y, my lads, more ſluggiſh go,

Than Watrenus or the Po 2
Think ye thro' their fillye fleer,
Drawling oars, to wait the chear
Phaeton begins to fire:
Ethon, lo l in full perſpire.
Now the noontide hour procedes,
To repoſe the panting ſteeds.
Ye, ſerene upon the wave,
Sun, and wind, and water brave.
No mere navigators now,
Ye are ARGONAUTs, I vow.
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XXXVII. To H IP P O D A M U.S.
TH OU'RT ambitious, in verſe, to be ſaid, and be ſung ;
Well deeming it honor to be.
I'd rejoice too, or ne'er may I quiver my tongue,
Thee there both to hear and to ſee.

But the name inauſpicious thy mother beſtow'd,

And laught at the lore of the Nine ;
From the plaintive Melpomene never yet flow'd,
Nor from Polyhymnia divine,

Not a change would on this chaſte Calliope ring,

Or Phebus in concert admit.

For a horſeman the Muſe might HippoDAMUs ſing;

But ne'er can adopt him a wit.

XXXVIII. On POLY PH E M US and SC Y L. L. A.

So hewn, and ſo huge, is Severe's PolyPHEME ;

A Cyclop with wonder would glare.
Nor Scy LLA leſs fell: did they mutually gleam,
The monſters would mutually ſcare.

XXXIX. To P R I A P U S.

O F garden trim, and bleſſed bough,

PRIApus, thou'rt no guardian now.
But thin the grove, that claims thine eyes;
Whence thou art ſprung, and may'ſt ariſe.
Check, check, the wily thief's deſires ;
And guard, oh! guard, the owner's fires.
Preſerved theſe not, as they ſhould;
Think that thy paltry ſelf is wood.
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XL, From P R I A P U.S.

N O ruſtic, with untutor'd hand,

Has bid my ſtately godſhip ſtand:
Who, form'd with adamantine tool,
Speaks Diſpenſator's noble ſchool.
For joyous Cere's foremoſt yeoman,
The wealthy, witty, jolly FREEMAN,
Sole tenant of the high and low,
Exults mine honeſt face to ſhow.

Spectator, ſcan my frame entire;

Nor deem me deſtin'd to the fire :

Well mingled with immortals I,

In deathleſs cypreſs, time defy.
But chief, my beard, thou manly part t
Still briſtle, as by Phidian art.
Good neighbors, wiſe attend my law ;
And eye your guardian-god with aw.
Each inimical act forbear,
And theſe twice ſeven fair acres ſpare.

XLI. On the ſtatue of J U N O.

A PolycLETus' peerleſs glory ſtands

The JUNo, that might grace a PHIDIAs’ hands:
Who, in ſuch form, on Ida had ſurpaſt
The goddeſſes convinc'd, the judge unaſkt.
Did not her brother love the queen divine,
That brother, PolycleTE, would glow at thine.
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XLII. On the STATU E of H E R C U L E S.

H E, whom ſupine th' extended lion bears,

Bids the relenting rocks partake his cares.
In petty bronze, the mighty god of yore,
Gazes the beaming globes, that once he bore.
The charaćter confeſt in the deſign,
His left the oakling graſps, his right the wine.
No maſterpiece of ours, or modern fame:
The gift, the glory of Lysippus' name.
This grac'd the board of the Pellean foe,
Who in his vanquiſht world lay quickly low.
By him, the boy at Libyan altars ſwore;
He bid ſtern Sylla drop the wreath he wore.
Shockt with the horrors of imperial pride,
With private gods he glories to reſide;
And, as the mild Molorchus' bow’rs he trod,
Of learned WINDEx dains to be the god.

XLIII. On the STA TU A R Y.

WII EN late Alcides' ſelf I ſaw

A WINDEx' gueſt, I gaz'd with aw;
Yet humbly of the god enquir’d,
What human art he had inſpir’d,
To bid his image ſtand confeſt.
His godſhip ſcarce his ſmile ſuppreſt;
And, nodding bland, thus dain'd to ſpeak:
Poor bardling, doſt thou know no greek 2
Behold the baſe, and learn to ſpell:
Thence wonder and enquiry quell.
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I, bluſhing, there Arz III II or ſcann'd;

But thought it had been PhidiAs' hand.

XLIV. On I S S A.

I SSA, perter than the ſparrow,

That poor Leſbia's ſoul could harrow ;
Issa, purer than the love, -

Of Ianthis' billing dove;

Issa, than a maid more fond ;
Issa, Indian gems beyond;
Issa, moſt enchanting chub
Pup, the darling of my PUB :
She can ſpeak her wants and woes:
She both joy and ſorrow knows.
On his neck, her bed ſhe makes;
And her ſilken ſlumbers takes :

Nay, ſo ſoft does Somnus ply,

No one can detect a figh.
Nature taught her, not in vain,
Charaćter nor cloth to ſtain :

With her gentle paw, the pup

Begs to be ſet down, and up.
Chaſte, as Issa, ahl how few
Issa never Venus knew.

Nor are huſbands over rife,

Worthy ſuch a modeſt wife.
Leſt the fatal, final, day
Rap his charmer all away;
Publius, preſcient of his woe,
Bade her, by the pencil, glow.
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In the image, eye the elf

Liker far, than in herſelf.
Bring together, or diſpart,
Nature's, and the child of art:
Nature ſays, they both are mine;
Art both vindicates divine.

P A R T II.
On the M A N N E R S of the R O M A N S : In the various
charaćters of life.

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I. To a S C H O O L M A S T E R.

WHy give us ſtill to feel, or ſtill to fear 2

Thou horror of each youth and virgin dear !
The creſted bird has not the welkin tore:
Thy livid lightning bids the thunder roar.
So, ſtroke on ſtroke, the batter'd anvils ſound;
When, on the brazen ſteed, the babbler's bound.
In the vaſt amphitheater, ſtill leſs
Uproar commurmurs, as the parties preſs;
To forward each its own advancing ſhield,
Or to anticipate the doutfull field.
A total night we neighbors dare not aſk.
To wake is eaſy; but to watch, the taſk.
Diſmiſs then thy diſciples: we will buy
Thy filence higher, than thy clamor high.
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KIND MASTER, ſpare the imple CreW :

So may they frequent follow you ;

And the ſweet chorus of your board,
Refle&t the love ſhe ſhall afford :
Nor he, who counters can command,
Or he, who guides the flying hand,
Be with an ampler circle crown'd,
Or than yourſelf prove more renown'd.
The lengthen'd lights you now admire,
Are fervent with the lion's fire.

With rip'ning rage, aduſt July

Speaks, not in vain, the harveſt nigh:
Ah! let the thongs of Scythian hide,
That made poor Marſyas mourn his pride;
And each dread ſcepter of the ſchool,
Suſpend, till mid-Očtober cool.
The ſummer-taſks are not in college :
Good health beſt bottoms winter's knowlege.

III. On H E R M E S.

HERMEs, glory of his age

Hermes, maſter of the ſtage
Hermes, matchleſs king of arms 1
Hermes, champion of alarms

Hermes, paragon and rule;

Hermes, terror of the ſchool;
Hermes,
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Helius' ſole appall;
Hermes bids Aggreſſor fall. . . . . . .
Hermes
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Hermes beats, and no one bleeds:
Hermes to himſelf ſuccedes.

Hermes ev'ry corner fills,

Hermes ev'ry charmer kills.
Hermes floriſhes the ſpear,
Hermes ſtrikes the trident's fear:
Hermes with the languid helm,
Hermes one and all will whelm.

Hermes, Marſes eldeſt ſon

HERMEs, all things; and thrice one t

IV. To T A U R U s.
WHEN now the pleader, now the rhetor fires,
And thou ſtill douteſ what thy ſoul defires;
A Priam's age, or Neſtor's will be paſt,
Ere vague deciſion fix too late at laſt.
Three rhetoricians have deceaſt this year:
Bid then thy ſpirit, or thine art appear.
If ſchools diſpleaſe, the courts are in a roar:
A Marſya's ſelf might catch the pleader's lore.
Haſte, haſte: how long ſuch wav'ring ſhall we ſee ?
Thou may'ſt dout on : thou now canſt nothing be.

V. To A T T A L U. S.

How ſweetly you plead, and how ſweetly declaim

How ſweet are your ſtories your ſtanzaes the ſame.
Moſt arch are your mimes, and your epigrams ſmart:
The critic's you play, and the conjurer's part.
How ſweetly you ſing, and how ſweetly you dance
In touching the lyre, or the ball, how you prance
t
when
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When nought you do well, and yet ſweetly do all ;

A ſweet goodfornothing ſuch buſtler I call.

VI. On S A B IN E U S : To F A U S T IN U.S.

A Bath to temper and prepare,

Too fervent for a Julian's pool;
Bathe rhetor SABINEUs there:
His breth Neronian therms can cool.

VII. To N E V O L U. S.

W HEN all are brawling round, will Nevol ſpeak;

And then the pow'rfull pleader will diſplay.
Who thus extends his voice, can ne'er be weak.
Lo! all is huſht around thee: Nevol, ſay.

VIII. To C I N N A.

HAIL, potent art! hail, eloquence divinel

In ten long hours to utter words juſt nine !
But, with loud hem, you hinted glaſſes four.
What a bleſt time, my friend, to ſay no more

IX. To C E C I L I A N.

S EVEN glaſſes, Cecilian, thou loudly didſt crave:

Seven glaſſes the judge full reluctantly gave.
Still thou bawl'ſt, and bawl'ſt on ; and, as ne'er to bawl off,
Tepid water in bumpers ſupine doſt thou quaff.
That thy voice and thy thirſt at a time thou may ſlake,
We entreat from the glaſs of old Chronus thou take.
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THou'RT in a fewer, and wilt ſtill declaims
Thou'rt in a frenzy, if thou feel no ſhame.
On thou declaim'ſt in ſemitertian ſeaſon:
If elſe thou canſt not ſwet, there is ſome reaſon.
'Tis a great thing, when feaver burns thy lung;
'Tis a great thing, my dear, to hold thy tongue.

XI. To Po S T U M U.S.
F ORCE nor ſlaughter, fire nor bane,
Are the griefs that I arrain.
Of three goatlings is my plea,
Which I claim as ſtole from me.
This the judge requires in proof:
But thou roam'ſt and roam'ſt aloof.
Cannae firſt becomes thy ſtage,
Then the Mithridatic rage.
Now the fraud of Punic flame:

Sylla's, Marius’, Mucius' name ;

Bid the vaulted roofs reſound,
Eloquence with ačtion crown'd.
Quit, oh! quit, thy vagrant glotes.
Plead, dear Postumus, my goats.

XII. To P O N T I C U S.

WITH Balbus is my ſuit. ‘I’ve no ſuch plan."

With Licinus. ‘He's no leſs mighty man.”
Fell Patrobas encroaches on my land.
‘Againſt great Ceſar's freedman, I'l not ſtand.’
Cc - To
194. M A R T I A L’s E P I G R A M. S. .
To keep my ſlave, Latronia is ſo bold.
* An orphan, or a widow ; rich or old.” . . .. . .
I nothing hope from ſuch a ſervile friend. .
He muſt be free, on whom I can depend.

XIII. To the ſame.

Yo U dance after ſov'rains, and ev'rything ſcan:

Purſuing ſo great things, you are a great man.
Whate'er you do, Pontic, you do without mob.
You call not much company : cunning the cob.

Renown'd for his form, is my Pontic forſooth:

Of Helen how worthy, the paragon-youth !
An adamant melts at a vocal ſo mellow :

How tunefull your warble, my ſweet little fellow !

So Pontic, you gull all around and yourſelf:
But, Pontic, plain Truth ſays, you are a mere elf.

XIV. To the ſame.

W HAT think you, MARcus, of my Muſe?

Pray, ſpeak your mind: no more refuſe.
* She ſtrikes me dumb; I ſo admire:
Beyond is nothing to deſire.
Thou'rt ſuch a paragon of arts:
A Regulus muſt yield in parts.'
This is your mind? So Ceſar crown,
So Jove ſend choiceſt bleſſings down
Upon your head. “Nay, not on mine:
So be the crown and bleſfings thine.’
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XV. To G A L L I C U S.

Tell. me, MARcus, truth, I pray:

> Nought I more deſire or need.
So, when you recite, you ſay,
And whene'er a cauſe you plead.
GALLIcus, you bid me well:
Hard is to deny the youth.
Yet the truth of truths I tell:

GALLIcus, you love not truth.

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XVI. On A POL Lo Do T Us: To RE GULUs.

Five for ten, and for Lusty he greeted you LEAN ;
As for free, he ſaluted you bond.
Now he ten, free, and Lusty, articulates clean.
Oh! what pains can He wrote, and he conn'd.

XVII. To R U F U. S. •

See the ſage, on whoſe left ſuch law-lumber is bound,

Whom the ſmug band of clerklings ſo cloſely ſurround ;
Who to codicils quoted from far and from near,
And epiſtles momentous inclines ſuch an ear;
Who contraćts ſuch a brow, as a Cato ne'er knew ;
or a Brutus, or Tully, moſt keen to purſue.
Whom the ſtrings of conſtraint ne'er attracted to ſpeak
More the Latin Ave, than the Xairs of Greek.
If you dream that I jeſt, as a fiſh I am mute:
But, to make the fair trial; let's make the ſalute.
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XVIII. On S A UFE IU S : To M.A. T E R N U.S.

GIRT before and behind,

Poor SAUFEIU's we find;
With ſuch gownlings, as proud
Would glad Regulus croud;
When he pointed the time,
For the cropling to climb
The high fane's ſteepy way,
All the praiſes to pay.
Here, MATERNUs, nor ſpleen,
Nor can envy o'erween.
May'ſt thou never be vain, -

Of ſo ſcoundrel a train,
As Fuſciculene lends,
Or a Faventine ſends.

* XIX. On H IPP O C R A T E S.

D EEP with Santonic rod to tinge my flaſk,

And have the face metheglin mild to aſkſ
With ſuch exchange, thou Glaucus, ne'er waſt fool'd;
Who gav'ſt, for arms of ſteel, thine arms of gold.
Impart a bitter, and expect a ſweet !
Why not, if ellebore metheglin meet

XX. On SY M M A C H U S.

I Ail'd : and SYMMAchus muſt right my wrong.

A hundred kind diſciples came along.
A hundred hands engraſpt, that Boreas froze.
I had no feaver; now the feaver glows.
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, xxi. On C A R U S.
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N OT a ſlipp'rier trick e'er by CARus was play'd,

Than by Feaver, who CARUs has ſwept.
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Wicked Feaver 1 a quartan thou might'ſt have eſſay'd :

For her doćtor ſhe ſhould have been kept.

XXII. On H E R Mo C R A TEs.
H E bath'd with us, briſk; and he ſupt with us, gay :
t - ºf . on * ſ
Next morn, with the dead,A=agoras lay. º,” 4 & 2"
The cauſe do you claim, of the ſudden tranſition :
In ſleep he HERMocrates ſaw, the phyſician.
XXIII. On M A. R. I U. S.

WHEN the high-cultur'd hills by the glib auðtioneer,

And the villa's fair acres were enter'd full dear;
He's a blockhead, my buyers, who offers the flout,
That a MARIus muſt ſell, who might rather lend out.
What's the reaſon no ſlaves, flocks, or fruits, we can trace 2
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There's the reaſon, I fear, why he likes not the place.

Who would bid for ſuch purchace, or leſs, or bid more,
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Who not wiſht to loſe ſervants, and cattle, and ſtore ?

Then the caſe of poor MARIUs we well underſtand,
And the cauſe why the premiſes hang on his hand.

XXIV. On an A U C T I O N E E R.

2." A Maid, of fame not over high,

Like thoſe, that in Subura ply,
Was tother day ſet up to ſale;
Nor could the audioneer prevail
On
198 M A R T I A L’s E P I G R A M S.

On the good company to bid :

He thought to warrant thus the tid.
Her half-denying hand he drew,
And of her lips he fipt the dew.
Th' event of ſuch an art as this,
You aſk: nor was th' event amiſs.

Who would before give any price,

Set now at nought the merchandiſe.

XXV. To S E V E R U S.

PREToRs two, and tribunes four, .

Lawyers ten, and bards a ſcore,
Vid a damſel to defire
Of her venerable ſire,

Hunks, ſoon having matters weigh'd,

To a crier gave the maid.
Let the thing be e'er ſo gloted, -

Think'ſt thou hunks entirely doted?

XXVI. To L U P U. S.

To what maſter commit, my dear friend, your dear ſon,

You ſo often ſollicitous aſk.

Each grammarian I beg you'l attentively ſhun,

Or whoe'er takes the critical taſk.

Let him TULLY and MARo for ever renounce,

Leave unenvi'd Lucilius his fame.

If he dare to make verſes, the poet you’l trounce;

Or to put any truſt in a name.
Should he chance to admire the pecuniary arts,
To a TIMBREL or song let him take:

And
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- And the youth, that betrays not the quickeſt of parts,
Or a Bawler or builder will make.
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. . . xxvii. To c 1 P E R Us,
º L ONG you bak'd, and no one wonder'd:
Now you plead, and aſk two hundred.
Still you waſte, and ſtill you borrow ;
That, Ciperus, proves our ſorrow.
Baker ſtill, tho’ ſomewhat muſty,
Bread you make, and ſtill are duſty.
XXVIII. To Q U IN T US OVIDI U. S.
V INTAGE has not wholely fail'd :
Plenteous pours have much avail'd.
Good Coranus crown'd his taſks,
And fulfill'd a hundred caſks.

XXIX. To C E D IT I A N.

A Boy, of ſo conſummate art,

When call'd to play the barber's part,
As had not for a rival fear'd,
The trimmer of a Nero's beard;
To ſmug the cheek of Rufus, once
I lent; nor deem'd myſelf a dunce.
While o'er and o'er each hair he glides,
A faithfull glaſs his fingers guides ;
And now he gives the ſkin to glow,
2Y
While far and wide he draws the mow ;

Behold a wond’rous thing, and new

The ſhaver's down a harveſt grew.
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xxx. To c IN N A Mus.
O, Tonſor, who late the moſt noted in town; -

waſ dubb'd by thy miſtreſs a knight.

Fair cities Sicilian, and Etna's dread crown,
Thou ſought'ſt, from fell juſtice, thy flight.
- ** * it º' - - - -

What art ſhall the preſſure, thou fugitive fool, .

Of idle years lighten to thee º i

Thou rhetor, grammarian, nor maſter of ſchool;

Nor Cynic, nor Stoic canſt be.

Thy voice neither ſell, nor applauſe canſt thou buy,

On Sicily's ſtage or her ſhore.
But, CINNAMUs, when all devices defy,
Thou may'ſt be a ſhaver once more.

XXXI. On A N T I o C H U S.
W HO would not yet deſcend the Stygian ſhade,
Let that wiſe head ANTIochus evade:
Leſs bloody war the ſavage lancets wage,
When heaven-ſtruck mobs to Phrygian meaſures rage.
ALcon, more mild, fierce ruptures can command,

And fraćtur'd bones reduce with gentler hand.

Crowns Cynie, Stoic chins, this mangler crop ;
Or duſty manes, of horſes collars, lop.
Of poor Prometheus, on the Scythian rock,
Let him, who can alone, augment the ſhock,
And bare the breaſt (improvement not abſurd 1)
For the corroſion of th’ avenging bird.
 M A R T I A L’s E P I G R A M 3, 221

| To his mad mother will wiſe Pentheus fly,

And to th' enfuriate dames will Orpheus hy,
The moment fell ANTIochus alarms,
With the dire clangor of his barb'rous arms.
What, tho' my chin as many ſcars allow,
As dwell the honors on a bruiſer's brow

No female claws with due impreſſion ſtand :

But ANTIoch's ragged ſteel, and ruthleſs hand.
Of all the bearded race, the goat has ſenſe:
He keeps his beard, for fear of ſuch offence.

XXXII. To a S HO E M A K E R.

To draw with thy teeth the old hides who art wont,
.' And to pierce rotten ſoles with thine awl;
Doſt now fill the ſeat of thy patron, thou runt?
Where I'm mad that thou e'er hadſt a ſtall.

And maudlin doſt now bid his cryſtalline bowls

Burſt with burning Falernian forſooth
Affecting each joy of inebriate ſouls,
Doſt thou fool with his favorite youth
Their ſon my wiſe parents a ſcholar would make :
What are maſters and rhetors to me?
THALIA, thy lay rend, and ſlender reed break,
If a ſhoe can confer ſuch degree.

XXXIII. To a C O B B L E R.
O Mighty monarch of ſhoe-menders,
A.Y.
Who bidd'ſt the gladiators play;
What thy keen awl ſo nobly tenders,
The cruel poniard takes away.
D d Thou
2O2 . M A R T I A L’s E P I G R A M. S.

Thou ſure art drunk; elſe would'ſt thou never

Expoſe the parent of thy pride.
/ Take my advice, my friend; and ever
Keep fenc'd within thy proper hide.

XXXIV. To the ſame.

- WH Y, coBBLER, aſperſe with keen pepper my ſtrains

I ſprinkled but ſalt, and of ſalt a few grains.
Thy life unempeacht, with thine art I might play;
If thou, at thy pleaſure, might'ſt Myrmidons ſlay.

XXXV. To C O N D Y L U. S.

THE weal of a ſervant, and woe of his lord,

Thou know'ſt not, who ſo long haſt ſervice abhorr'd.

Secureſt of ſlumbers thy coverlet crown:

Thy maſter, my CoNDYL, lies watching in down.

Lords many hails he, the chill morn juſt begun :

Thou own'ſt no ſuch duty, ſaluting ſcarce one.

To him this and that wight: Pray, pay what you ow.
To thee not a mortal pretends to ſay ſo.
Thou fear'ſt but a flogging: he's rackt with the gout.
A thouſand ſound laſhes he'd rather ſtand out.

Nor ſick thou at morning, nor pale with diſeaſe:

Who's more, prithee, thou or thy maſter at eaſe ?

XXXVI. On F A V O R IT E S. -

IF my FLAccus rejoice in the ears of an owl, *

If a CANIU's enjoy the ſad Ethiop's ſcowl;

Hſ
 M A R T I A L’s E P I G R A M S.

If my Publius a puppy with paſſion can hug,

And a Frisk love himſelf in the friſks of his pug:
If the hoſtile ichneumon a Marius delight,
If a py's pretty chatter a LAUsus invite:
If FLAccILLA's cool dragon ſhall comfort her neck,
Thelesſna her nightingale's monument deck :
A LABY CA, ſo Cupid-like, may not one love,
Who beholds ev'ry monſter careſt like a dove ?

xxxvii. On T WIN-BR OTHER S.

W HAT modern Leda has produc’d ſuch boys &
what new Laconian own’d a cygnet's joys 2
Here Pollux beams, and CAstor ſparkles there:
In either face ſhines TYNDARIs the fair.

Had a like form indulg’d Amycle's eyes,

When gifts leſs great o'ercame two deities;
The twinlings had to Ida been conſign'd;
And thou, poor HELEN, hadſt been left behind.

XXXVIII. To C E S T U. S.

INNocence and infant-grace,

Play, my Cestus, in thy face.
Charm us ſtill, ſweet ſtripling thus,
Chaſter than HIPPolytus !

Thee would Dias, in her train;

DoRIs, in the waves, would gain.
CYBELE, for thee entire,
Not her Phrygian would deſire.
Thou would'ſt GANYMEDE ſupplant,
Tho' careſſes ſhy thou grant. *

D d 2 Ah!
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Ah! how bleſt muſt be the bride

Who ſhall teaſe thy tender ſide;
And, on wedloc's pious plan,
- - Render CESTUs firſt a man l

XXXIX. To T H E S TY L U.S.

O Thou, Voconius' painfull joy,

Thou, o'er the globe renowned boy!
So be thou ſtill thy Victor's pride,
E’en when thou lay'ſt thy locks aſide;
Nor miniſtration of the fair

With thy complacence tempt compare:

Such, THESTYL, be thy juſt reward;
As thou, the labors of thy lord,
Shalt ſlily ſet one moment by ;
While in his ear ſome ſtrains I try.
Tho' MARo, with ALExis ſmooth,
Knew well his patron's ſoul to ſooth;
MEcENAs could a MARSUs own,
Nor duſk MELENIs held unknown:

XL. On A U L U. S.

ON Thestylus, nor on Alexis leſs;

Nay, on our HYAcINTH he dotes beyond.
Who for the bards can Aulus' love expreſs,
When of their fav'rites Aulus proves ſo fond P

XLI. On P O L Y T I M U. S. .

To violate poor Poly TIMUs’ hair,

I yielded onely to his earneſt pray’r.
Of
 M A R T I A L’s E P I G. R. A. M. S.

Of honors reft, ſuch, PELops, might'ſt thou be,

That the whole ivory thy ſpouſe might ſee.

XLII. On E N Co LP Us.
I O, thee, Apollo, vows his beauteous hair,
ENcolPUs, minion of his maſter's care.
* Soon as the brave centurion ſhall attain

The primipilar honors, mine be ſlain l

While yet my modeſt cheeks confeſs no down,
While wavy ringlets ſnowy ſhoulders crown.
That lord and ſlave may long thy gifts enjoy,
Kind PHEBUs, crop me ſoon; but keep me long a boy.’ .*

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XLIII. On the ſame,

W HITHER will not all-duteous love compell

His vow obtain'd, EncoLPUs’ honors fell.
While thus the thankfull boy religion kept,
Tho' not forbidding, feeling PUDENs wept.
So Phebus yielded erſt th' unwilling rein
To the raſh youth, whom he forbade in vain.
So raviſht HYLAs laid his glory down:
So caught Achilles kindled for renown,
When he deni'd his gracefull locks to flow,
And triumpht impious in a mother's woe.
But make no haſte, nor truſt the votive hair;
And late, thou beard, for ſuch a boon repair.

2XLIV. On E A R IN U S.

W ITH the roſes and violets ſprung,

In the ſeaſon moſt joyouſly ſung ;
That
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That ſips Hybla and Attical flowers,
To the Phenix fum'd eyry that towers;
O the name than the nećtar more ſweet!
That to Muſic's own ear were a treat 5

That, whom Cybele lov'd, would cajole;

Or, who tempers the Thunderer's bowl.
In the Palatine-hall if it ſigh,
All the Loves and the Graces reply.
Little name noble, delicate, ſoft l
Thee in ſmootheſt of lays wiſh I oft.
But the train of ſhort vowels proves croſs:
Yet the bards can tune EIARINos:

The bold Greeks, whom can nothing confound,

And who "Ape; "Aps; can reſound.
Such fair freedoms our language refuſes,
Who obeys more deſpotical Muſes.
Other tongues, wiſely free as the Greek,
Can with equal variety ſpeak:
Nor, the privilege need they decline,
Of EARINUs, or EARINE.

XLV. On the ſame.

FROM autumn my name would 3rdgwo, be,

Rude ſolſtice with x*wo; would agree;
From fervid delights 9% we might I bring:
But who is the ſtripling yelept from the ſpring 2

XLVI. On the ſame.

A Name is thine, each bard begins to fing,

When bees Cecropian crop the tender ſpring.
Name,
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Name, th' Acidalian reed would blazon bright;
Name, Venus' needle would rejoice to write:
Name, for the gems that from Erythra come ;

Name, to be odor'd by the Heliads' thumb:

That cranes exalt, embodi'd, to the ſky;
That ev'ry houſe, but Cesar's, muſt defy.

XLVII. On E A R IN US’ H AIR.

H IS glaſs, the counſellor of grace,

And locks, that had adorn'd his face,
Were offer'd as the marks of praiſe,
To him, whom Pergamus obeys,
By the prime fav'rite of his lord,
Whoſe nominals the ſpring record.
Hail, land, enhanc'd by ſuch again! *

A Ganymede's thou may'ſt diſdain.

XLVIII. To Escu L A PIU S : On the ſame.

LAT ONA’s grandſon, hail whoſe awfull art,
By lenient herbs, can touch th' obdurate heart
Of the dread fiſters; nay, their ſoul can win,
To drop the ciſars, and forget to ſpin.
To thee the honors, that gave full content,
He vow'd, and from the Latian city ſent.
So the bright orb attends the ſacred hair:
A judge that oft opin'd th’ uncropt aſſemblage fair.
Be thine to guard his grace, to ſhield him ſtrong;
And oh! as fair, as when his locks were long,
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XLIX. On J U PIT E R and GANYMED E.

WHEN late the Phrygian youth eſpi'd
Th’ Auſonian, with his locks laid down;
To JUPITER he humbly cri'd,
On my deſire, oh! do not frown.

What privilege thy CesAR dain'd,

To bid his ſtripling fond enjoy;
Of thee, great ruler, be obtain'd,
To bleſs thine ever gratefull boy.

The down, with which my cheek is clad,

Beneath my waving honors plays.
Thou now art quite a man, my lad,
To me thy ſmiling conſort ſays.

To whom the fire: my ſweeteſt boy,

Thou ſeem'ſt not yet maturely wiſe.
Thou know'ſt I would indulge thy joy:
But thee the thing itſelf denies.

A thouſand miniſters, like thee,

Adorn my dear Augustus' hall:
Her vaſt expanſe, whate'er it be,
Can hardly hope to hold them all.

Should the rich harveſt of thy hair

Upon thy looks implant the man;
To mix my nećtar, tell me where
I could ſupply another GAN.
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L. On S P E N D O PHO R U S.

SpeNdophorus, ſquire of his lord,

The cities of Libya muſt ſee.
Say, CUPID ; what weapons award,
That ſafe the young heroe may be.

The ſhafts, that, young men, and young maids,

Thou bidd'ſt with ſad certainty pierce?
Yet, 'mong the moſt dexterous aids,
A lance in weak hand may look fierce.

The mail, and the ſhield, and the helm,

I mean not, ſays LovE, to beſtow :
No warfare the youngſter ſhall whelm,
If thither he naked ſhall go.

Poor Parthenopeus no wound

Receiv'd, or from ſhaft, or from ſword;
So long as no helmet he bound,
And nature alone he implor'd.
whoe'er ſhall be ſhot by young SPEND,
By Love's keeneſt arrow muſt dy.
Oh I bleſt, whom ſuch fate ſhall attend,
Expiring ſo ſweeten’d a fight
Then, Spenby, return while a boy,
While yet thy ſmooth phyz we may ſpan.
Thee LIBYA not too long enjoy:
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Let Rome firſt confeſs thee a man.

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LI. To C H A R I D E M U. S.

My cradle's rocker! of the child and youth

Kind keeper, and companion fince forſooth !
Now, that my cloth confeſſes ſuds and beard,
And by the fair my briſtly chin is fear'd ;
To thee, good CHARIDEME, I have not grown:
Nor has thy kindneſs hamper'd me alone.
Thee our poor bailif holds the prime of peſts:
The ſteward thee, and thee the houſe deteſts.
Play thou prohibit'ſt, leſs wilt love allow :
No licence muſt we take, each licence thou.
Thou ſpieſt, ſigheſt; chideſt, check'ſt ſo odd;
Thy burſting rage can ſcarce forbear the rod.
If Tyrian I aſſume, or oil my hair;
Thy fire, thou whin'ſt, ne'er trickt out half ſo fair.
Thou knitt'ſt thy brow, to make our cups thy taſk;
As if from out thy cellar roll'd the caſk.
Ceaſe, libertine; no more the CATo plan:
My ſweetheart now could ſwear I am a man.
LII, To L I N U. S.

WH EN winter whitems ev'ry hill,

And drear December's horrors thrill;
Whome'er you meet, with ſnow you ſmear,
And ſlabber o'er from ear to ear;
Till the continu'd kind ſalute

Bewray all Rome: offenſive brute!

What vengeance could you worſe inflićt,
If buffeted, or ſoundly kickt
In
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In ſuch a ſeaſon, not my wife,

Or hoyden-daughter, for her life,
Shall venture to approach my face,
With blandeſt, moſt belov'd, embrace.
But, ſweeter thou, and finer far,
Than all the friends that were or are ,

Whoſe noſe, from out the canine rills,

The livid icicle diſtils;
Whoſe chin the burſting briſtles bind, Nº.

Like thoſe the ſhrewd Cilician hind

Bids, to his dext'rous ſhears ſupine,

The rank Cinyphian lord refign.
Oh! may I meet, in luckleſs hour,
Who ev'ry onion-tribe devour:
May I each ſigh occurrent feel,
Of the freſh caſtrate from the ſteel ;
Sooner than LiNus' friendly kiſs :
Which may I dy, or hope to miſs.
If, LINUs, then thy ſenſe be left;
Nor thou of total ſhame bereft:

No buſs hibernal e'er beſtow,

Till April's balmy breezes blow.

LIII. To B A S S U. S.

O R this way, or that way, or which way you run;

The buffers, my BAssus, you never can ſhun.
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They fly in your face, they beflabber, imbrue: -

You cannot reſiſt ſo determin’d a crew.

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No ulcer contagious, no carbuncle bright,

No ringworm can foil them, or tetter affright.
No ſalve, the moſt ſaving, the lips can defend:
In vain, from the noſe, does the dropper depend.
Beforming, or freezing; their aim they ne'er miſs:
For theirs would they raviſh the conjugal kiſs.
No muffler ſhall guard your unfortunate head:
They'l buſtle, and buſs you, and buſs till you're dead.
Nor leather nor awning your litter ſhall cover:
Around your cloſe chair, full as cloſe will they hover.
Bland buffers will buſs you thro' ev'ry kind chink,
As if thro’ each pore they were thirſting to drink.
Nor conſul, nor tribune, nor pretor they fear:
Nor rods, nor rod-bearers the buſſers revere. -

The lićtor may brawl, and may brandiſh his wand:

A ſtep will the buffer not ſtartle beyond. -

Diſpenſe from the lofty tribunal thine aw,

And deal, from the Curule, to nations thy law;
E’en thither the dantleſs ſaluter will climb :

Alike are to him each place, perſon, and time.

Tho’ feaver embroil thee, the buffer will ſmack:
Tho' briny tears boil thee, the ſame is the clack.
The yawner he enters, amid the fen yawn :
The ſwimmer he ſwallows, remote from the lawn.

On land, or in water; by night, or by day;

No ſcene, ſo ſequeſter'd, keeps kiſſers away.
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So dire a contagion you remedy thus:

Chooſe ſtill ſuch a friend, as you chooſe not to buſs.

LIV. On kind R O M E.

R oME gives thee as many a ſmack,

After fifteen years, come back;
As fond Leſbia could impart
To the poet of her heart.
Thee the neighborhood around
Kiſſes, with reſpect profound.
Firſt, the briſtling clown, with fuſs,
Deep imprints his rankeſt buſs. -

Now the weaver, with a ſcain:

Then the fuller, foe to ſtain. - *

The cordwainer, from his hide,

Swallows thee, his ſecond pride.
Here the lord of peopled chin,
Opes his mouth, to take thee in.
There a friend, of fingle eye,
Leers, thy batter'd check to ply.
Joy to thee do no leſs peep
Eyes, that never ceaſe to weep.
Buſſes next the belcher fell,
With his onions hot from hell.

Well thy patriot-breaſt might burn,

For ſuch welcome to return.

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E P I G R A M S

MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL.

B O O K V.

On the M A N N E R S of the R O M A N S :
In the various conditions of life.

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I. To F L A C C U S.

- AN humble hundred, Baian bounty gives:

Amid ſo high delights, what hunger lives |
Reſtore me Lupus’ baths, and Gryllus' gloom:
Why bathe in ſtate, if ſtarving be my doom *
II. To M A T H O.

IF not, ſeduc’d by higher bribe,

Thou bleſſeſt now the bleſſed tribe;
My little ſportule ſo ſublimes,
She bids thee bathe a hundred times,

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III. On T U C C I U. S.

FROM Spain the ſtarving Tuccius hi'd :

To honor Rome he burn'd.
But, learning there the ſportule's pride,
From Milvian he return'd.

IV. On the SPORT U L E aboliſhed.

YE hundred poor farthings, farewel.

His dole the vain drudge no more tell.
The bathmonger boil'd did divide it:
Ye ſtarvelings, how could ye abide it?
The tyrant's proud baſket is broke :
Our ſalary now is no joke.

V. To G A R G I L I A N.

THE ſportule no more, a free gueſt you recline:

In town what you do then, I cannot divine.
Whence have you your gownling, and whence your dark cell?
Your farthing to lave, and your fav'rite to dwell ?
You ſay that fair prudence attends on your call:
I ſee not your prudence in living at all.
VI. To the ſame.
GA RGILIAN twice ten winters drear ſupports
One cruſhing conteſt, thro’ the maze of courts.
Ah wretched fool! ſo long to tend the laws;
Who hadſt it in thy power, to loſe thy cauſe I

VII. To F A B I. A N.

O F a new friend the duties dire,

Thou, FABIAN, wouldſt of me require:
That
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That briſtling I each morn repair,

To tend thro' thick and thin thy chair:
That I, at ten, or later hour,
Deſpiſing toil's and hunger's pow'r,
Convoy thee to Agrippa's wave,
When I muſt thence with Titus lave.

Thus, thirty winters at thy will !

And muſt I be thy novice ſtill
This ſalary muſt I make known,
For wearing out the gown my own
Nor have I length of duty trod,
To merit the diſcharging rod?

VIII. To B A S S U. S.

Fo R twelve ſeſterces, Bassus (the ſhame I deteſt)

Thou command'ſt me to dangle, betimes and bedreſt:
Then to ſtick by thy ſide, to attend on thy chair;
And with thee, to a half-ſcore of matrons repair.
My poor gownling is thredbare, contemptible, rotten:
For twelve ſeſterces ſtill, it is not to be gotten.
IX. To G A L L U. S.

LoNG may my friend, with growing honorsgrac'd,

Enjoy his ſeat, tho' 'yond the Tiber plac'd.
O'er the Vipſanian laurels hangs my cell,
Where I, matur'd almoſt to dotage, dwell.
So move I muſt, to bid thee hail each morn;
Which might thy friend ſtill more than thee adorn.
Thee little boots, that I one gown ſupply,
Me much imports, that I one gown deny.
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At ten, or later, I'l mine homage pay :

My book betimes ſhall give the happy day.

- X. To the ſame.
WHole days, my good GALLus, you bid me attend,
. And over and over the Aventine bend. -

Caſcellius extirpates a tooth, or ſupplies :

Hyginus, thou burn'ſ horrent hair from the eyes.
Kind Fannius diſcuſſes the grape of the jaw :
Bold Eros bids each ſervile ſtigma withdraw.
Supreme for the rupture is Hermes the man:
But, who heals the broken pronounce, if you can.

XI. To the ſame.

IF my diſtreſs can aught thy bliſs improve ;

At morn, or midnight, in my robes I'l move.
Thro' Boreas' keeneſt blaſts I'l dantleſs go :
I'l face the torrent, and receive the ſnow.
But, if thou prove no gainer by my loſs,
By all my groans, and each ingenuous croſs;
From unavailing ſorrows ſet me free,
Which add not to thy life, and murder me.
XII. To P A U L U. S., -

THEE at home, honor'd PAUL, in the morn,

If I wiſht not, and earn’d not, to ſee;
Be my glory debas'd to my ſcorn,
And thine Eſquiline farther from me.

Faſt by Tibur's fam'd pillar I rime,

Where rude Flora contemplates old Jove;
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Then the ſteepy Subura muſt climb,
And the rocks never dry muſt Irove.

Of the mules I muſt break the long train,

And of marbles bedragg'd for the dome.
Worſt of all, after labor ſo vain,
Thy gruff porter denies thee at home.

This I pay, the great PAulus to miſs:

This atones both the rain and the wind.
Let me dy, if a price ſuch as this
I'd afford, the beſt patron to find.
Thus the drudges of duty may weep;
And protećtors extol, as divine.
But, my PAUL, if thou canſt never ſleep;
Thou canſt ne'er be a ſov'rain of mine.

XIII. To the ſame.

WHEN hou, who mov'ſt in ſtate with laurel'd rods,

Each morning worſhipeſt a thouſand gods,
Of an excluſive right would Paulus rob
A freeborn member of a Numa's mob
Shall I ſalute my patron, lord, and king;
And thou, tho' ſweetlier, do the ſelf-ſame thing?
Shall I a litter or a chair attend,
Nor thou beneath the burden bluſh to bend ?
Or ſhall I be aſham’d, to cleave the clay;
And ſee thee combating, to clear the way ?
Shall I not riſe to who recites his lays;
Thou rear'd to rev'rence, and thy hands to praiſe?
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If thus the conſul can eclipſe the clown,

Say, what diſparts the purple and the gown

XIV. To another.
TH E rank of ſenator you bear:
Each morn you threeſcore threſholds wear;
So well may call me lazy knight,
If I not, with the dawning light,
Alert around the city roam,
And bring ſalutes a thouſand home. .
Your impulſe is tinſert a name,
In the new purple rolls of fame.
The duſk Numidians are your view,
Or the dire Cappadocian crew.
But, on my ſlumbers, you break in ;
And make me trudge, thro' thick and thin.
What proves th’ emolument to me,
A vagrant's vagabond to be?
should my trampoozer burſt the leather;
Or plunge me in a plump of weather;
Midſt upper, nether, circling woes,
No ſlave attends with change of cloaths:
One may approach my frozen ear,
And whiſper, with a ſtifled ſneer:
Letorius begs you'l come and ſup.
I'd rather pocket famine up.
Shall a poor ſupper me be voted,
Thou to a province be promoted P
Shall we an equal duty pay,
And not bear equal palm away?
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XV. To A F E R.
C OR ANU S a hundred, Mancinus ows two :
Three Titius : this twice from Albinus is due.
A million pays Sabine, Serranus as much.
From houſes and lands, full three millions I touch:
From flocks of fair Parma what hundreds I gain:
With this daily bread, you your friends entertain.
I know not my name, half ſo well as your ſtore:
But tell me down, AFER ; or tell me no more.
The riches, that made me ſo ſick, muſt amend:
To hear you for nothing, I cannot pretend.

XVI. To the ſame.

TH OU haſt harveſts ſeen threefcore,
And thy face is filver'd o'er.
Still thou gadd'ſt about the town :
Still thou beat'ſt each ſopha down.
Reſt to none indulgeſt thou,
Bearing round the morning-bow.
Without thee no tribune dare
Pop his head into the air.
Neither conſul can pretend
He has no officious friend.
Up the ſacred hill ſo high,
Proud thou doſt the palace ply.
Noble now, thy friends alone:
PARTHEny becomes the tone.
Leave ſuch pother to the young:
AFER, never truſt my tongue,
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If a wretch enflame my rage, -

Like a GAD-About in age.

xvii. To the ſame.

To bid thee hail, from Libyan climes return'd,
Full five ſucceſſive days my boſom burn'd.
He's buſy, or aſleep; replies each wight.
Since thou diſlik'ſt GooD-MoRRow ; friend, Good-NIGHT.

xviii. To T IT U L L U. S.
TITULLUs, live; it now is late:
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Late, in tuition if begun.

Thou, old, not life beginn'ſt to rate,
Nor ceaſeſt buſtle's round to run:

Thou ſwett'ſt to wear each threſhold down;

And, ſlabber'd with the morning-kiſs,
In all three courts purſu'ſt renown;
As if renown could riſe from this.
Before all prancers, ſpatter'd thou,
Fli'ſt daily to the fane of Mars:
Coloſs Auguſtan will avow,
Thou hail'ſt the judges and the jars.

Raviſh, amaſ, ; purloin, enjoy

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What induſtry and art have reſt :
Thy beſt enjoyment bald annoy,
And all to be to-morrow left.
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Let thy proud coffers crack with ore,

A hundred Calends ope their page 3.
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Th’ inheritor of all thy ſtore,

That thou haſt nothing left, will rage.
While on the beam thou yet doſt dwell,
Or ſtretcht perchance along the ſtone;
Thy final couch when reed ſhall ſwell,
Thy ſon, by force, may fetch a grone.
The haughty eunuch, to ſalute
The mourners, may his neck incline;
While, like the fire, the ſorr'wing brute
That night ſhall claſp thy concubine.
XIX. To PO S T U M U. S.

TH AT at thy home, I've made no morning-bow,

Theſe twelve long months; my loſs I muſt allow.
Twice thirty ſeſterces: nay twenty thrice.
Great SIR, I buy no gownling at the price.

XX. To the ſame.

WHEN the fam'd Piſoes ſtood in ample line,

And Senecaes, dread ſages 1 thrice divine.
Then, Postumus, I dain'd thy ſlave to be:
Thou, a poor knight, waſt conſul ſtill to me.
With thee thrice ten fell winters I repell'd :
One couch convivial both recumbent held.
Now thou canſ dole, nor loſe; cant loſe, yet gain:
With honors crown'd, and tott'ring with domain.
All-patient I attend, what thou wilt do:
Thou nothing doſt; and that I ſuffer too.
A king elſewhere 'tis now too late to hit.
Exult not, Fortune : for we both are bit.
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XXI. To the ſame,

TH' officious deeds thou haſt atchiev'd for me,

Are in my heart, and ever there will be.
But why not, gratefull ſoul, upon thy tongue?
Becauſe on thine they have precluſive hung. .
When I begin the boons, thou haſt conferr'd;
I'm ſtopt. “From his good ſelf, I all have heard.”
Some themes befit hot two: and this is one.

If thou wouldſt have me trumpet, trumpet none. .

Believe me, friend; what bounties e'er have flow'd,
The tongue may cancel all the hand beſtow'd.

XXII. To c AND ID U.S.

D ID rig'rous fate preſume my friend t'arrain?
His mourner would I ſtick more pale than he .
Or bid him quit his country's dear domain 2
Thro' ſeas and rocks I'd his companion be,

She rears thee rich: to two what boots the pile *

A part thou throw'ſt : 'tis much, if aught, I own.
A partner poors thee; but, if fortune ſmile ;
Thou wilt be bleſt, my CANDID, all alone.
XXIII. To the ſame.

FR IENDS have their all in common, you declare :

So, CANDID, night and day, you proudly ſwear.
Galeſe Laconian did your garment lave;
Or from a ſever'd flock fair Parma gave.
Mine has the furies of the bull ſuſtain'd,
Which the firſt ball had for her gown diſdain'd.
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From Cadmus' land, your gorgeous mantles flow :
My purple for three feſterces would go.
You Libyan orbs on Indian teeth ſuſpend :
My beechen board muſt prop her tott'ring end. ,
Th’ enormous mullet hides your golden diſh: {
Our lobſter lies, and bluſhes: modeſt fiſh I i
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Your youthfull train defy the Trojan elf:
My hand, my waiter, muſt ſupply myſelf.
To your old friend, your wealth will nought convey:
With friends are all things common, ſtill you ſay.

XXIV. To the ſame.

AND muſt I ſtill begown'd attendance dance?

I can no more: pray, bid my ſervant prance.
That's not the thing, you ſay: 'tis more, I ſwear.
Thy litter I ſcarce follow : he will bear.
Mixt in a mob, his bones will cleave the way:
Soft is my fide, unequal to a fray.
Thy ſpeech profound, my ſtill attention aws :
He rends the welkin with a loud applauſe.
His Stentor-voice thy willing brangler be:
Shame has deni'd each warrior-word to me.
* Wilt thou afford no office of a friend ?’

Yes: any aid my freedman cannot lend.

XXV. To L A B U L L U. S.

. WHILE thee abroad and home I tend,

An ear to all thy nonſenſe lend;
Extol what thou haſt ſaid or ſung,
What ſprightly ſtanzaes might have ſprung l
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To thee, LABULLUs, 'tis no loſs,

who counteſt all my gold as droſs.
What Rome peruſes, ſtrangers ſeek;
What knights diſdain not, fathers ſpeak;
What lawyers laud, and poets peck;
All this for thee may break its neck.
z Can bard of fleſh and blood forbear,
To mourn a loſs beyond repair
Or, who, to ſwell thy pageant-train,
Shall drop the ſluces of his vein
Near thirty days 1 and ſcarce a page.
Is penn'd : what reaſon would not rage
But ſo it fares, when poets roam,
Becauſe they will not ſup at home.
XXVI. To the ſame.

A Starving old gown, or a ſhrivel'd great coat,

Sometimes peradventure thou'lt ſend:
A pittance of ſilver or gold may'ſt devote;
To ſave two months’ ſoul of a friend.

Becauſe, but thyſelf, not a mortal beſtows;

That thou art good, be not too glad.
If I, like a friend, may the ſecret diſcloſe ;
Thou art but the beſt of the bad.

The Pisoes and SENEcAEs, do but reſtore;

The MEMMIANs, for merit that ſtood;
The CRISPs, not the modern; the CRISPI of yore :
Thou'lt prove but the laſt of the good.
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In ſwiftneſs of foot, if thou joy to excel; -

A Tigris or Paſſerine paſs.

Remember, no glory can come, or can dwell,
From having outſtript a poor aſs.

XXVII. To M A N C IN U. S.

Two hundred bountied by a friend,

MANcinus, thou didſt late pretend.
In Poets' corner prov'd our walk;
Pompilla's preſent was thy talk:
Robes worth ten thouſand, robes ſo fine !
The ſardonyx with treble line,
And the two gems, ſo like the wave,
Baſſa, thou ſwor'ſt, and Celia gave.
Laſt night, while charming Pollio ſung,
Succeſſion ſhook thy flippant tongue.
No theater thy foot could ſtay;
Three hundred fell that very day;
And one at morn, and one ſince noon f
Have mercy on us, vile buffoon.
From thy poor friends what canſt thou dread,
That with thy wealth thou ſtrik'ſt them dead?
Or, if thy clack can never tire,
Say ſometimes, what thy friends deſire.

XXVIII. To R U F I N U. S.

- WII AT, tho' thine acres hardly know their bounds

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Tho' thy town-gods command enormous grounds
Tho' countleſs dettors by thy cheſt be rul’d
What, tho' thy dainties all are ſerv'd in gold 2
Let
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Let not thy pride thy poor inferiors preſs:
Full many a ſcrub has more, and ſcarce a ſongſter leſs,

XXIX. On M E V I U. S.

C OME, Fortune, anſwer for thyſelf.

What a partition of thy pelfi
For Syrian I, nor Parthian ſue;
Or knight of Cappadocian crew ;
But Remus' offspring duly ſtil'd,
A very Numa's truborn child :
A harmleſ, honeſt, pleaſant friend,
With either tongue at fingers' end :

For one, who has a ſingle fault,

Forgiveleſs : he's a poet thought.
While hence a Mevius ſtarves in gray,
Purple's the muleteer's array.

XXX. To R O M E.

- O RoME, thy weary gratulator ſpare.

How long, 'mid gownling-harbingers, ſhall he
Confeſs a hundred bits of droſs his care;
And boaſt a dreary day's ſufficient fee :
Shall vićtor Scorpus, in a petty hour,
Bear fifteen bags of burning gold away ?
Shall courting candor crown the driver's pow'r,
And ſcarce a ſmile the drudges duty pay?

I wiſh no produce of Apulia's plain.

What can, alas ! my little lays demand
No Hybla's hill, no ſpicy Nile's domain;
No fertilizing flood, or laughing land:
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Not e'en what, o'er the peerleſs Pontian pool,

From Setia's ſummit ſteals th' enchanting peep;
Th’ imperial grape, ſo copious, and ſo cool I
What then doſt thou ſo figh for Sigh for! — Sleep.

XXXI. To C A I U. S.

O F ſeſterces a ſcore I crave in loan,

Which ſcarce a boon would honeſt bounty own.
A fortune-bleſt old intimate I urge,
Whoſe gen'rous wealth tyrannic coffers ſcourge.
* Go, ply the bar : be affluent in a trice.’
I aſk your aid, my CAY, not your advice.

XXXII. To the ſame.

If promiſes perſonate preſents, my friend;

In gifts I'l outgive you, whatever you ſend.
Receive then all Aſtury digs from her mines;
Receive all the mound of rich Tagus confines,
All on the Red-Sea e'er the Indian poſſeſt;
Whate'er the bird peerleſs lays up in his neſt:
Whate'er wicked Tyre in a caldron compels,
To take ſuch a tint, as all tinctures excels.
What all had, or can have, whoever could live;
Accept it as freely, as freely you give.

XXXIII. To C R IS P U S.

To none of all my friends you yield:

Pray, CRispus, how is this reveal’d
Five ſeſterces you would not lend,
Your coffers cramm'd from end to end.
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To me when gave you bean or grain,

From all you plough in Nile's domain :
When did your gown repel my cold 2
On me when was your filver dol'd :
One humble way I own you kind:
You let me looſe a little wind.

XXXIV. To B A C C A R A.

P OOR BAccARA pines, and is oft fit to cry,

For want of ſufficient inclemence of ſky.
He dotes on each cloud, big with tempeſt and ſnow ;
And curſes the winter, that chances to glow. -

* My friezes untold were as well in the fire:

The moth can alone half my mantles admire.' .
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| What harm can our flimſies, thou ſavage, convey;

Which from our thin ſhoulders a breeze blows away
Why grudge us, inhuman, our pittance of eaſe ?
"Twere nobler, in Auguſt, to fry in thy frieze.

XXXV. To the ſame.

If there be need, you know you need no plea:

Repeats the donor to the meek donee.
With rigid voice fell Secund calls on me:
You hear, but know not what the need may be.
One for my lodging claims aloud the fee:
You hear, but ſee not what the need may be.
My trite attire admits bleak Boreas free:
You ſee and hear; nor gueſs what need may be.
The need is this: May planet ſtrike your glee,
That what the need you neither ſay nor ſee.
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XXXVI. To S E XT U S.

S EXT US, would'ſt thou courted be 2

I had hopes of loving thee.
If thou wilt, I muſt obey;
I ſhall court thee, nor delay.
Doſt thou ceremony ſeek?
And renounce my friendſhip Speak.

XXXVII. To the ſame.

For a brace of cool thouſands I pleaded thy cauſe:

From the contračt a half-brace thy bounty withdraws.
‘My poor cauſe you betray'd, and the whole matter huſht.”
Thou the more art endetted, that, SExTUs, I bluſht.

XXXVIII. To the ſame.

I Had bought a fine boy, a fine gown, or ſome plate:

And was counting my bargains, their value and weight:
When ſly Sextus the uſurer that way did bend,
Who had been my old crony, tho’ never my friend.

Of all dang'rous demands to keep cautiouſly clear,

He emits a keen whiſper, direčt for my ear.
To Secundus I ow, of good thouſands juſt ſeven;
About four to fell Phebus, Philetus eleven.

In my coffers, alas ! not a farthing remains.

In thy pate, my dear chum, what a treaſure of brains
Hard enough is denial of favor at laſt:
How much harder denial, before it be aſkt
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XXXIX. On G E L L I U. S.

Gellius will be building ſtill:

GEllius ſettles now a fill.
Now the cunning key he tries:
Now a novel lock he buys.
Then he alters one and t'other:
windows next produce his pother.
Doors and windows, locks and keys,
So he do but build, may teaſe;
So an aſking friend be fill'd,
With the ready word, I BUILD.

XL. To a P R E TO R.

A Mere hundred thouſand was Gaurus' demand:

The pretor had long call'd him friend.
He ſaid the three hundred lay dead on his hand;
| One more gave the knight to attend.
The pretor exclaim'd : I the vaſt, that I ow,
To Scorpus and Thallus muſt pay:
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And oh! that, what I on my honor beſtow.

The hundred requir’d could defray,
Ah! curſe on thy wealth, unbenevolent wight!
I bluſh for thy word and thy deed.
What thou haſt the heart to deny to a knight,
Thy heart can expand on a ſteed.

XLI. To C H E R.E.S T R A T U-8.

C HERESTRATUS, four hundred are not thine:
Vain then thy virtue, as equeſtrian line.
Felt
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Fell Leótius comes, of weightleſs worth the dread.

Up, ſtand, run, fly ; and hide thy hapleſs head.
Halo does no glad voice forbid the flight?
No happy hand reſtore the injur'd knight
Whom ſhall fair fame poſſeſs, juſt nations boaſt
Who ſeeks not wholely the Lethean coaſt 2 .
Who would, to ſprinkle red, forgo ſuch pow'r ;
Or, to ſit ſoking in the ſaffron-ſhow'r?
Who could four hundred give without remorſe,
The noſe to furbiſh of a golden horſe
Pretender vile ! how dear thy riches coſt
Thou read'ſt, and laud'ſt: how thy renown is loſt

XLII. To C A L L I O D OR U S. .

OF knightly worth is Calliodore poſſeſt:

But, with a worthy brother, he is bleſt.
Züxo, pºſs bids four hundred bleed.
Doſt think two knightlings can beſtride one ſteed P
Ah! why, or how, thy dignity divide
Hadſt thou no Pollux, thou'd'ſt a Caſtor ride.
One ſince ye are, how can ye double fit
Up: nor the ſoleciſm, my CAL, commit.
Or nobly emulate fair Leda's race ;
And, with thy brother, take th' alternate place.
XLIII. To the ſame.
TH Y theme are Theſeus and Pirithous bold;
To Pylades a paragon art thou: - -

A utenſil to Pylades to hold,

Or feed Pirithous' hogs indign, I vow.
Yet,
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Yet, on my friend, five thouſand I’ve beſtow'd;

And a gown waſht perhaps four times, he cries.
What, tho’ no gift his PYL to ORY ow'd :
Who gifts the moſt diſpenſes, more denies.
XLIV. To M. A R C U S.

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N O Pylades, and no Oreſtes now,
Thou find'ſt, and marvel'ſt: I will tell thee how.
One cup they quaft, they broke an equal bread:
At one plain board thoſe wondrous friends were fed.
Thou ſwallow'ſt Lucrines, ſoft Pelorians I:
My palate, keen as thine, is quite as high.
Proud Tyrian thine, groſs Gauliſh mine array:
In purple thee, can e'er I love in gray
If I play turtle, ſome one muſt play dove;
Not in mere cooing: would'ſt be loved Love.
XLV. On N O W I U. S.

NOVIUS ſuch a neighbor ſtands,

We from windows may ſhake hands.
Who then would not count me bleſt,
Of my friend each hour poſſeſt ?
Yet from me remote his ſmile,
As Terentian's on the Nile.

We can interchange no chear:

Him I neither ſee nor hear.
Nor, in town, can creature be
Both ſo near, and far from me.
Either he or I muſt move,
That he may my neighbor prove.
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With him live, or at next door,
Who would Novius ſee no more.

XLVI. On T H E L E S IN U S : To BIT H Y NICU. S.

WHILE Thelesinus' patrons were the pure ;

In ſtarveling guiſe he roam’d, and roam'd obſcure.
But, to the vile a friend obſequious grown,
Plate, furniture, and farms were all his own.
Would'ſt thou be rich Scorn tyrant Conſcience' rule;
Pure fondneſs gains thee nought but ridicule.

XLVII. To T H E L E S IN U.S.
TH AT me thou haſt thrice fifty thouſand lent;
Of thy vaſt coffer's circumſcrib'd content;
Thou, THELESINUs, would'ſt the friend diſplay:
The mighty friend 'Tis I, becauſe I pay.

XLVIII. To the ſame.

WHEN I aſk thee for pence, without pledge, thou haſt none.
If my little ſpot lend but her hand, it is done.
What thou canſt not accredit a crony with eaſe,
Thou canſt truſt to my cabbages, and to my trees.
Thee fell Carus arrains: be the land thine aſſeſſor:

Let the land go an exile, to chear the tranſgreſſor.

XLIX. To P H E B U S.

T'Embrace thy kind offers, my Phebus, at laſt ;

The loan of a cool hundred thouſand I aſkt.
Thou haggleſt, hang'ſt, heſitat'ſt, doſt crucify,
Both me and thee, ten dire days: do, PHEB, deny.
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L. To the ſame.

My bond of four hundred you proudly preſent:

One hundred, kind Phebus, I'd rather you lent.
In eyes of another ſuch bounty may ſhine:
Whate'er I can't pay you, friend Phebus, is mine.

LI. To P O L Y C A R M U. S.

To Caietan his writings you return,

And think a hundred thouſand you preſent.
He ow'd it. Ev'ry bond or keep or burn:
Two thouſand truſted will give him content.

LII. To Q_U IN T U.S.

WHe N Hylas complain'd of his eyes,
He proffer'd three fourths: thou didſt laugh.
A Cyclop become, he replies:
I can pay no more than one half.
occaſion flies, ſwift as the wind:
Accept, cunning Quintus, to-day.
If Hylas prove totally blind,
A farthing he never will pay.
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LIII. To C I N N A.

~ To grant muſt doutleſs be the primal boon:

The next, my CINNA, to deny me ſoon.
I love the former, nor the latter hate:
But thou not granteſt, and denieſt late.
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LIV. To the ſame.

WHEN thy gown is far fouler than fouleſt of mud,

And thy ſhoe is far fairer than firſt fall of ſnow; -

Soiling both, why thro' thick and thro' thin doſt thou ſcud --

Gather up thy poor gownling : thy foot-glove muſt go.

LV. To the ſame.

AN aſtrologer boded thou quickly ſhould'ſt dy:

Nor, I think, has he broacht any ſcandalous ly.
Leſt thou ſhould'ſt live to leave any bleſſing behind,
Thou haſt gulpt up thine all, and ſo bilkt all mankind.
Having ſpent twice ten thouſand in leſs than a year,
Honeſt CINNA has left the poor conjurer clear.

LVI. To P E T U. S.

S IX thouſand ſeſterces hadſt thou beſtow'd,

When thou ſo kindly ſaid'ſt: Pray, chooſe thy load;
Two hundred thouſand were at leaſt my det:
My ſun of gratitude had never ſet.
But, when beyond nine long months I muſt trace
The favor widow'd of her ev'ry grace;
The trueſt of all truths will ſum thy coſt:
Thy ſeſterces ſix thouſand thou haſt loſt.
* .

LVII. To the ſame.

TEN thouſand ſeſterces, thou bidd'ſt me pay;
Since thy two hundred Bucco ſwill'd away.
Let no abuſe, not mine, lay me ſo low.
Two hundred could'ſ thou loſe twice five forgo.
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LVIII. To G A U R U S.

Two hundred thouſand why thy promiſe bear 2

If, GAURus, thou ten thouſand could'ſt not ſpare :
Or canſt, and wilt not : Neither boaſt norbellow.
Go, hang thyſelf: thou art a paltry fellow.

LIX. To T O N G I L I A N.

THy houſe, that of thouſands two hundred had coſt,

Has faln by a chance not infrequent in town.
Ten times is contributed, all thou hadſt loſt:
I hope, grave Tong ILIAN, thou burnt'ſt it not down.

LX. To C E C I L I A N.

THEE, by thy real name, this morn I hail'd ; 2.

Nor plain Cecilian, as my lord, addreſt.
What ſtood the freedom, that ſo greatly fail'd
But a poor hundred farthings, I proteſt.

LXI. To the ſame.

THE loan of a thouſand, Cecilian, laſt night,

For ſix days or ſeven ; I deni'd you downright.
A friend's ſudden viſit, you ſudden pretend;
And beg that ſome pieces of plate I will lend.
Are you fool to fancy, another alive
Refus'd you one thouſand, to truſt you with five
LXII. To the ſame.

I Have purchas'd a farm with a very round ſum :

But 4 poor hundred thouſand I pray you may lend.
2f. *
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Not a word, ſhy Cecili AN | I conſtrue your mum :

* You never will pay.’ So I pray you, my friend.

LXIII. To the ſame.

--
WHEN ſix thouſand, Cecilian, exceded thy ſtore,
Thee to bus'neſs or pleaſure ſix huge fellows bore.
When her thouſands twice ten the blind goddeſs beſtow'd,
And thy coin burſt the budget; thy foot took the road.
For a merit ſo modeſt, what wiſh can be fair
May the gods, poor Cecilian, reſtore thee thy chair.

LXIV. To N E V O L U. S.

Not all the hues the blooming Hybla ſees,

When ſhort-liv'd ſpring revives Sicilian bees,
With the rich glories of the veſtments vy,
That thy vaſt wardrobe's endleſs ſtores ſupply.
Tho', a whole nation warm, the fleece could keep,
Shor'n from thy numberleſs Apulian ſheep;
Thou canſt ſupine thy thredbare friend behold,
Inhuman eye him ſhieldleſs from the cold.
What were it, ſhould'ſt thou reave, two bits of cloth;
Nay, frown not : not from thee, but from the moth ?

LXV. To the ſame.

I N independance, thou'rt a frantic fiend;

But, in dependant ſtate, becom'ſt ſeren'd.
In that, thou none ſalut'ſt, deſpiſeſt all;
Nor any honor'd, or belov'd, wilt call.
In this, thou'rt gen'rous, gracious, humble, free:
May'ſt thou, dear Nevolus, dependant be.
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LXVI. To C A L E N U. S.

M ILLIONS double not yet found,

Thou ſo ſplendid waſt, and free;
That good Calen's friends around
Wiſht five times thy wealth to thee:
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Wiſht, and wiſht it not in vain.
Twice ſix years were hardly paſt:
Four bequeſts made up that main.
Thou waſt ſurely rich at laſt.

But, as heir to nothing left,

Thou becam'ſt ſo mere a wretch ;
One would think the riches reſt,
Thee upon the rack to ſtretch.

After pining thro' the year,

When thou mak’ſ thine annual feaſt 5
There if ſeven old friends appear,
Thou beſtow'ſt ſome braſs at leaſt,

What ſhall we pray CALEN then,

Worth to ſet ſupremely high
Multiply the ſum by ten :
CALEN ſhall of hunger dy.

LXVII. To SC E V O. L. A.

- ON me a million would the pow'rs beſtow,

Cri'd Scevola, a ſimple knight below.
How I ſhould live how bleſfing, and how bleſt lº
Supernals ſmil’d upon the fond requeſt.
- His
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His gown was greaſier, and his cloke was meaner :
His ſhoes were ſtill more clouted, nor were cleaner.
Of olives ten, a portion now is ſtor'd :
A ſingle platter now beſpreds his board.
The ruddy Veian's fouleſt dreg is drunk: .
Hot vetch a penny, and a penny punk.
'Fore gods and men, thou renegado, ſtand:
Or live, or pay thy million on demand.

LXVIII. To P A T E R N U.S.

ON thee, PATERNus, wealth has flow'd,

As fortune ſeldom has beſtow'd.
Yet thou, alas ! canſt nought afford :
Thou, Pining, broodeſt o'er thy hoard.
Like the huge guardian of the grove,
In Scythia, where the poets rove.
But thou alledgeſt well the cauſe,
Demanding ſympathy's applauſe:
• The dire extortion of my ſon,
His father has almoſt undone.’
So ſeek'ſt thou, hunks, on fools to play,

And think'ſt to take our wits away. -

But thou haſt (nay, repreſs thy ſpleen)

Still to this fault a father been.

LXIX. To P H I L O M U S U. S.

Two thouſand a month did thy father beſtow,

And paid thee thy pittance each day;
When luxury laid ev'ry morrow more low,
And vice crav'd each morning her pay.
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when he di'd, he left Philosſusº all that he had :

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Difinheriting thus the poor prodigal lad.
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LXX. To P O N T I L I A N.

You cook the ly : I ſwallow. You recite

Verſe execrable: verſe, my dear delight !
You ſing: I fing. You drink: I drink. You play:
I'm but a dabbler, and reſign the day.
With me uncrampt, you give wiſe nature vent.
Do what you will : my mum beſpeaks conſent.
Yet nought you do for me. “Depend upon't :
#1 make thee, when I dy.' That's all I want.

LXXI. To N U M A.

N OW giddy Libitina mounts the pyre :

Now myrrh and caſſia fume the wailing wife.
The grave, the bier, th’ anointer, at deſire ;
NUMA ſubſcribes me heir : and ſleeps—to life.

LXXII. To P.O. L. Y. C A R M U S.

F ULL ten times, or ofter, a year doſt thou ail;

Northée, but thy friends, does the frequency gall.
Thine each convaleſcence the off 'ring muſt hail.
For ſhame, PolycARMUs: be ill once for all.

LXXIII. To C A R IN U S.

C AR IN US old, and ailing ſtill,

Makes thirty times a year his will.
As oft I ſend the cake ſublime,
Diſtilling with Hybican tyme. - -

I i - - My
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My ſtore is out, my money gone:
Us, CARIN, oh! take pity on.
Let lying coughs no more appall:
Sign ſeldomer, or once for all.
Had I been rich as Lydia's king,
Whom proſers puff, and poets fing;
I were as poor as beggar baſted,
Hadſt thou as oft my bean-ſoop taſted.

LXXIV. To B I. T H Y N I C U S.

O LD Fabian is dead, and bequeath'd thee a tear:

Thou doledſt on him full ſix hundred a year.
To none gave he more: nor thee has he bereft.
Thy yearly fix hundred to thee he has left.

LXXV. On M A R I U. S.

W ISE MARIus nor invites, nor preſents ſends ;

Will ne'er ſtrike hands, or truſt his needy friends.
And good his cauſe: he ſtill is mobb'd with clients.
Thy gownlings, Rome, in genius muſt be giants.
LXXVI. To M. A. R. I A N U. S.

THou know'ſt thee baited, know'ſt the baiting wretch;

And know'ſt the vaſt reverſion he would fetch.
Yet in thy will thou bidd'ſt his name be red;
And, where thou art no more, call'ſt him inſted.
Preſents he ſent, with preſents cloth'd a hook.
Can the fiſh fondly on the fiſher look?
With truth can ſuch a miſcreant weep thy woe:
Were this thy wiſh, thou nothing would'ſt beſtow.
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LXXVII. To an O L D M A. N.

º . . . - HEIRLess, and rich, and under Brutus born,

* - Thou fancieſt to feel ſweet friendſhip's breth
Thou may'ſt: but ſuch as bleſt thy needy morn.
) - The new but dotes upon thee, for thy death.
LXXVIII. To O P P I A N.

S ILANUS mourns an onely ſon:

Why, OPPIAN, thus thy doles delay ?
Ah! cruel fates what have ye done?
What vulture ſhall devour the prey

| LXXIX. On LUPUs or PIKE : To URBICUs or TOWNLY.

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W HEN ſly Pike ſwears he wiſhes to ſee thee a fire,
2.
Be aſſur’d nought is farther from LUPUs’ deſire.
A true catcher thinks this, and that other will ſay:
He will hope that thou may'ſt not, and beg that thou may.
Should thy Coscony own fair fecundity's law, -

PIKE would paler appear, than the dame in the ſtraw.

But, if I may preſume, as a friend, to adviſe ;
So bequeath, that a father thou prove in his eyes.

. .. . LXXX. To G A R G I L I A N.
W HEN, to the old and widow’d, boons you ſend;
Dare you, my friend, munificence pretend ?
More ſordid never was a wretch than you,
Who can your ſnares with name of gifts endue.
. Thus the infidious hook diſplays her wiles :
* , - Thus the betraying bait the beaſt beguiles.
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To largeſs where, and where preſent, I'l ſhow:
If yet you know not, GARG, on me beſtow.

LXXXI. To N A S I D I A N.
DIRE dreams about me, every morning you tell ;
To harrow my ſoul with your ſprights.
To dregs both laſt vintage, and this vintage fell,
The conjureſs ſpelling your nights.

Of all my ſalt-cakes and ſweet incenſe bereft,

My ews and my lambkins I weep.
No hogling, no henling, no eggling is left:
Or wake to thyſelf then, or ſleep.
LXXXII. S O L I D W E A L T H.

TH E thief ſhall burſt thy box, and ſlily go:

The impious flame ſhall lay thy Lares low.
Thy dettor ſhall deny both uſe and ſum:
Thy ſeed depoſited may never come,
A faithleſs female ſhall thy ſteward ſpoil : .
Thy ſhip. are ſwallow'd, while the billows boil.
Whate'er is bountied, quits vain fortune's road:
Thine is alone the wealth thou haſt beſtow'd.

LXXXIII. To N E S T O R.

THou haſt neither food, fire, gown, nor bug-bitten bed :

Nor a mat of good ſedges, the frame to beſpred.
Nor a man, nor a maid; nor a child, nor a pug :
Nor a lock and a key, nor a dog and a jug.
Yet the title of poor-man thou fain would'ſt embrace,
And amid the low people aſpire to a place.
But
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But thy pride, ſo vain-glorious, muſt look for her fall:

* "Tis not poverty, Nestor, has nothing at all.
LXXXIV. To C O S M u S.
WH OM oft you ſee attempt our Pallas' fane,
And in the novel porch obſcure remain ;
With ſtaff and ſcrip, his putid hoar on end;
While viler briſtles from his breaſt depend;
Warm'd by his cloke, the conſort of his bed;
Snarling, at all he meets, for daily bread: -

A cynic you pronounce him, nor demur.

He is no cynic, Cosmus ; but a cur.

LXXXV. To C H E R E M O N.
THE ſtoic ſoul, that daily death defires,
Can e'er CHEREMON think my ſoul admires P
On what a baſe does ſuch high virtue ſtand
On a poor pitcher, who has loſt her hand:
On a deſponding hearth, that never glows ;
Yet ſometimes ſmoke, for ſatisfaction, ſhows :
On the fell moths, that have conſum’d a rug;
On a bare bedſted, odor'd by a bug:
On once a gown, tho’ now curtail'd a cloke :
Ah! night and day, one undiminiſht joke.
What fortitude is his, who can forgo
All he allows felicity below
The blackeſt cruſtlings e'er becruncht by grub ;
The dreg of vinwar, and couch of ſtub.
But, bolder ſtill, my ſage, invert thy plan:
Tempt other walks, no leſs indulg'd to man.
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With wool Leuconic, let thy pillow ſwell;

And, o'er thy down, let woven purple dwell.
Hail cv'ry ſweet, nor baniſh ev'ry ſour; - - -

Of food, of raiment, of the ſocial hour.

Nay, let the fair ſublime the joys of night,
Whom thy delighted gueſts confeſt ſo bright.
How ſhalt thou hug a thrice-told Neſtor's age,
Nor of the three vaſt volumes loſe a page 1
Then were it great, thy glories to reſign 5

And, to forſake the earth, were half-divine. s

But, ſhould'ſt thou prove the meaneſt of mankind;

Thou may'ſt create the bliſs, thou doſt not find.
The ſtorms of life who greatly would deſpiſe,
Muſt fink with ſpirit, and by patience riſe.
Conflićting ſcenes 'tis eaſy to deteſt:
Brave is the man, who brooks to be diſtreſt.

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MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL.

B O O K VI.

On the M A N N E R S of the R O M A N S.

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On L U X U R Y, B, E G G A R Y, T H E F T.

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I. To P A R T H E N O P E U S.

- THE dodor, to allay thy teaſing cough,

t And from thy chops to ſend the ſwelling off;
* , Bids honey, comfits, lozenges, and cakes ;
* . - Bids ev'ry ſweet, that happy children makes.
Yet nought the livelong day thy cough can muzzle.
Say not thy cough, my boy : it is thy guzzle.
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II. On T O N G I L I U.S.
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i O OR Toxo ILY burns ſemitertian.

I know the dog, and his diverſion.
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Whate'er the doćtors ſay or think,
The patient burns to eat and drink.
Not that he pines for vulgar cates :
Not they, hemitritean baits.
For fatteſt thruſh, the gin he lays:
The mullet, or the pike he plays. . , , ,
Be the Cecubian fine procur'd,
And what Opimius' year matur'd. .
Item, Falernian deep a glaſs,
If ſparing, may for med'cine paſs. .
All the phyſicians bid the bath.
How ſafe and ſound the beaten path !
Right-truſty wrongheads, ye are raw :
ToNGILIUs’ feaver is his maw.

III. To L E N T IN U.S.

W HY feaver ſticks by you, this many a dire day;

You whine, and you pine, and your wonder bewray.
She bathes in your bath, as ſhe rides in your chair :
Your faithfull companion in ev'ry repair.

She dotes on your dainties, nor cares from what ſhore: º

Shampinions, or oiſters; or udder, or boar.

In Setian, Falernian, full deep will ſhe go;
Nor quafs the Cecubian, unleſs thro' the ſnow.
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Surrounded with roſes, with eſſence beſpred,

She ſlumbers in down, on a rich purple bed.
With you if fell feaver ſo live, and ſo ly ;
Would'ſt have her the fool to poor Dama to fly

IV. On C E L I U S.
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THE various roam, and morning-bow,

Had worn his patience out.
To ſhun both, he bethought him how :
Shrewd CELIUs fein'd the gout.

He binds his foot, he ſlits his ſhoe;

And hardly limps about.
What indolence and art can do !
Poor CELIUs feins no gout.

V. On TU C C A's B A T H S.

N O ſtubborn flint, by cement bound:

Or that the queen could rear around
Her haughty town, made TuccA's bath:
But murder'd groves, and mortis'd pines,
Exalted TuccA’s grand deſigns;
That he might ſwim in cooling lath.

A hot-bath next he built, ſublime,

Of marble hewn in every clime;
Caryſtos, Symnas, Nomas ſend:
Or that the green Eurotas laves.
But wood was wanting to the waves:
Then to the hot the cold-bath lend. -

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VI. To T U C C A.

W HEN a car muſt convey fellows limber as lath,

And Libyan poſtilions muſt toil;
When your garniſht apartments ſurround not one bath,
And Thetis grows pale with your oil:
When your ſwellers Setinian the cryſtal would burſt,
Nor Venus more downy might ſleep
Ah! why Iy at the doors of a proſtitute curſt,
And waſh her deaf fill, as you weep? 1 ()
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Why ſuch ſobbings, and throbbings inceſſantly heave

The truth, my poor Tucca, ri tell º . .. .

Nor the myſt'ry to other deep conjurers leave:

Why art thou ſo ill; Thou art well. 1. i -- 4 -

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VII. To o L U.S.
& DEE P Eros’ hue, pale im. : ſhame and ſin l’
Are they not ſov'rains, Olus, of their ſkin? "
“Mad Matho plays two hundred thouſand pence:
Not thou, but Matho will be bankrupt thence.
* Sertorius bids his ſupper hail the light.' ' -

To thee what, Olus? Thou may’ſ ſhore all night.

“To Titus ſeventy thouſand Lupus ows.’
Lend Lupus nothing: there be thy repoſe.
Thou mind'ſt not, Olus, what to thee belongs;
Or what thy proper right, amid the wrongs.
A petty gown thou ow'ſt : this thy COIl CCIII.
A farthing none will truſt thee: alſo learn. Y
Thy mate's of dubious mold: this ſummons power.
Thy bouncing daughter haſtes to claim her dower.
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Twenty things could I name, that matter thee:
But, Olus, what thou doſt, nought matters me.
VIII. To the ſame.
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I HAT now I ſalute thee by name,

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Whom maſter and lord I did call;

Think not that my pride is to blame:
My cap I've redeem'd with my all.
That ſlave muſt have maſters and lords,
Who has not himſelf ; and deſires
What maſters and lords deem rewards,
The fewel of ſtill growing fires.

A ſervant if thou canſt forgo,

And ev'ry ſupporter of pride;
A maſter thou need never know,
Nor any moleſter befide.

IX. To M A X IM U S.

W OULD’ST thou indeed be free ? ſincerely ſay.

Take this receit: there is an onely way. .
Firſt, MAXIMUs, no midnight-revels make;
Then, let thy thirſt the grape Veientian ſlake.
Canſt wretched Cinna's brilliant cup deride
can our plain frock become thine humble pride 2
If a plebeian love can thee delight:
Thy home if thou canſt enter not upright :

This if thou canſt, with native ſtrength of mind;

More free than Parthia's king thyſelf thou'lt find.
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X. To the ſame.

ON Eſquiline, and on Diana's hill,

Thou haſt abodes thou not pretend'ſt to fill.
But city-ſites can ne'er ſuffice thy ſtate:

Thou far from town muſt tow'r among the great: -

Hence Cybele's, thence Veſta's fane behold;
Here the new Jupiter, and there the old.
Where ſhall I meet thee who thy manſion tells :
Who ev'rywhere inhabits, nowhere dwells.

XI. To A M E N U. S.

GRoves of laurel, of plane, and of cypreſs aſcend:

Gorgeous baths, not for one, but for numbers, extend.
A full hundred fair columns your portico bear,
Nay, the onyx beams brighter beneath your repair.
The wing'd hoof ſcatters duſt and delight o'er the courſe.
wanton waters will warble, and waſte, from each ſource.

Then the halls riſe ſo haughty, ſtretch ſo far and wide:

Yet thoſe halls prove too ſcanty to hold all your pride.
How can room be for ſtrangers to ſup or to fleep?
Ah! how pompous and piteous a palace you keep
XII. To the ſame.

TH E fair manſion, that coſt fifty thouſand twice told,

Thou for one fifty thouſand would'ſt gladly have ſold.
But, AMENUs, thy glare ſo bedazzles the buyer,
That the premiſes loſt make the ſeller a liar.

What illuſtrious couches beſpred the firſt floor.

What diſplays of rare citron advance to the door!
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. . Of pure filver and gold, not a light little lay

Crowns the Delphic; and round it what lads in array !
Then two hundred thou tun'ſt, nor wilt bate it an As.
Poor AMENUs, how low thy fine premiſes paſs.

XIII. To P A N N I C U S.

HAviNG purchas'd ſome clods near th’ abode of the dead,

And a cottage ſo propt, it prohibits all dread;
You abandon the frays, your ſweet farms of the town ;
And the certain, tho’ petty, rewards of the gown.
Late the beſt wheat, and beans, millet, barley, and ry,
The pračtitioner ſold : now the ploughman muſt buy.

XIV. On A PER, or B O A R.
A Drear abode, that not an owl would own,
Is Aper's obſolete, new-purchas'd cell.
!- Faſt by trim Maro's gardens brethe full-blown.
APER may ſweetly dine, tho’ ſourly dwell.

XV. On the ſame.

W HEN BoAR took the cloth from a bow-legged brat,

One eye had a hag, on his tatters that ſat.
Th’ anointer a drop of the rancid beſtow'd,
Elſe unction on APER could never have flow'd.

And now, of the ſokers what cenſor was here !

A Cato himſelf had not been ſo ſevere.

He cries: Break the cups, the Falernian effuſe,

A knight freſh from bathing adventures to uſe.

Three hundred at laſt an old uncle bequeath'd :

. His ſhafts he unpointed, his daggers he ſheath'd.
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But ah! from the date of the legacy-day,
The bath ne'er let APER go ſober away.

Then weigh we maturely the bleſſing of wealth,

How far ſhe outbalances wiſdom and health.

Chas'd cups five fair ſtriplings long-lockt may ſupply:

But APEK, while poor, APER never was dry.
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To aućtion a ſlave thou ſett'ſt yeſterday up,
That, once in thy life, thou might'ſt ſumptuouſly ſup.
Nor didſt thou that once: for a barbel, four pound,
The principal ſervice and luxury crown'd. -

Nay, one may proteſt, that it was not a fiſh;

No mullet, thou monſter: a man in the diſh.

XVII. On P O M P O S O.

WHoM there you ſee, with ſwaggring ſteps and ſlow,

Cleaving the croud, bid th' amethyſtine flow :
Whom not, in dreſs, my Publius dare provoke;
Not Codrus' ſelf, the Alpha of the cloke:
Whom the begown'd attend, and long-hair'd train;
With ſpan-new chair, of ſails and tackling vain :
For twelvepence pawn'd his ring, at Claudius' board,
That one more meal Pomposo might afford
XVIII. To co D R U S. -

TH AT Alpha I dubb'd thee, proud CodRus, of clokes;

When late I benicht thee a prince in my jokes:
My freedom perchance has attracted thy frowns.
If ſo, thou may'ſt dub me the BETA of gowns.
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XIX. To B A S S U. S.

-- * ~ * ..." IN the hue of fair nature plain BAssus was dreſt,

' ' ' ". While the ſtatutes theatric continu'd at reſt.
But, the moment the cenſor benign bade them wake,
And the knight aſcertain'd heard an OcEAN that ſpake:
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Onely ſcarlet and purple betinétur'd thy cloaths.
Thus thou fancieſt, ſhrewd BAssus, on fools to impoſe.
But no robes ever four hundred thouſand have coſt:

Elſe my Codrus a ſteed, before all, had emboſt.

XX. On B A S S U.S. R O B. E.

GAY BAssus, for ten thouſand, bought

A Tyrian robe of rich array :
And was a gainer. How Be taught:

. The prudent BAssus did not pay.

XXI. On C R IS PIN-U Sº CLO K.E.

Po OR CRISPIN had giv'n not to have, but to hold,

A cloke the moſt gorgeous from Tyre, we are told.
To whom he had lent it, he cannot expreſs ;
His gown while he put on, and ſhifted his dreſs.
Whoever now hold'ſt it, we pray thee, reſtore :
Not CRISPIN himſelf, 'tis the cloke does implore.
Not ev'ry one wears what the purple has di'd:
This color beſeems but the children of pride.
If filch, and foul lucre, alone will go down ;
The bam will be better to pilfer a gown.
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XXII. On P. H. A. S I S.

OUR ſov'rain lord's auguſt command, -

That bids the ſeats diſtinétive ſtand;

That bids the knightly rows be fixt,
Nor multitudes be longer mixt;
Hear PHAsis, mid the knights, atteſt, .
Refulgent in his purple veſt.
Swelling he hems: It is but fit,
At length we ſhould commodious ſit.
His dignity each knight regains,
The mob nor ſcrouges him, nor ſtains.
While more of ſuch equeſtrian ſtuff
Fond PHAsis pours, ſupinely gruff;
The purple robes, that brave the ſkies,
The awfull Lectus bids ariſe.

XXIII. On M A N N E I U. S.

MANNEIUs choſe the foremoſt row,

While chooſe he might, to ſee the ſhow.
But, ſummon'd thrice, he ſtruck his tent:
Behind two knights, a third he bent.
And here a cunning hole he dug,
Between the rows, to ſquat him ſnug.
Thence, muffled in a friendly cowl,
He peept with one eye of an owl.
Yet hence the wretch detected, dragg'd,
Half-propt on range the utmoſt lagg'd;
And, ill receiv'd by t'other knee,
Equivocal to each degree ;
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* I ſit,” he boaſts to knights at hand:

: Thouſe'ſt, good Lectius, that I ſtand.”

XXIV. To E Q U E S T E R.

THy birth, behavior, genius we allow ;

And taſte equeſtrian: elſe plebeian thou.
The twice ſeven ranges ne'er can ſo avail,
That Oce AN roaring ſhould make thee grow pale.

XXV. On E U C L ID: To F A B U L L U. S.

IN funds Patrenſian, purple EucLID boaſts

Two hundred thouſand; more from Corinth's coaſts.
While a long line from Leda down he buys,
And dares a LEcTIUs, who dare bid him riſe;
In the foul fray with the degrading wight,
From the proud, noble, controvertleſs knight,
Down dropt a huge charaćteriſtic key:
Opener more miſchievous could never be.

XXVI. On M A M U R R A.

IN venal maze MAMURRA wander'd long,

Where harraſt wealth collects the gaping throng.
His greedy eyes devour'd the ſtripling band :
Not obvious ranges that for auðtion ſtand:
Such as alone diſtinguiſht bidders ſee;
Nor ever blown upon, by mob like me.
Now cloy'd, the tables, and their orbs he ſcann'd :
Now the rich iv'ry props prov'd his demand.
An ample ſopha, that bade ſix recline,
With ſhining tortoiſe rais'd: a work divine !
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Four times he meaſur'd, and four times deplor'd

Her incapacious of his citron-board.
Of bronzes ſuch a judge admir'd no name:
His noſtrils told him what from Corinth came.

Thy ſtatues, Polycle TE, were ſtill unwrought:

Their attitude or air confeſt ſome fault.

At cryſtals daſht with glaſs his paſſion roſe ;

But markt ten vauſes of the myrrh he choſe.
Old jars he weighs, and gives to underſtand
The cups ennobled by a Mentor's hand. -

The verdant gems, that paint the golden ſphere;

The ſtones, that luſter from the ſnowy ear;
He keen explor'd : the ſardonyx he knew ;
And fixt the jaſper's price, as well as hue.
Tir'd before twelve, the man of deep diſplay
Bought two mugs for one As, and bore the prize away.

YXVII. To M I L I C H U S.

TH E hundredth ſeſterce thou hadſt juſt to pay,

Which bought thee LEDA, from the Sacred Way.
Of wealth in love luxuriant the diſburſe !
I'm in no love, cries MILIc. Ten times worſe.

XXVIII. To Q_U I N T U.S.

Fo R two cool hundreds thou'lt one ſlave obtain:

Thou quaffeſt wine expreſt in Numa's reign.
Plain furniture is for ten thouſand bought:
One pound of ſilver is to fifty wrought.
The price of an eſtate thy car has coſt:
More than a manſion deckt, thy mule emboſt,
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Such purchaces beſpeak a mighty ſoul |

Yes, QUINTus; ſuch as might inflate a mole.

XXIX. To his B O Y. '

- Away the gobblets, and the wond’rous ware,

That tepid Nile's enchanting arts prepare :
And miniſter, my Boy, with fearleſs hand,
The humble progeny of Latian land;
Smooth, as the lips of my forefathers wore ;
Pure, as thy cropling predeceſſors bore.
So be the glory and the grace reſtor'd,
That crown'd antiquity's uncoſtly board.
SARDANAPALUs, dar'ſt the gem to kiſs,
Who Mentor mak'ſt a ſlipper for thy Miſs

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FR OM Nilian ſhores tho' cryſtallines abound,

Accept the gobblets from Flaminius' Round.
Are theſe more bold, or they more bold that ſend ? -
A brace of benefits the cheap pretend. -

This homely ware invites no ſpoiler's hand :

Unvext by boiling wave, the veſſels ſtand.
Safe quafs the gueſt, nor owns the ſlave appall.
His trembling hands beſpeak no fatal fall.
Theſe grace a toaſt: nor proves their uſe a joke,
If e'er, my FLAC, the chalice muſt be broke.

XXXI. On C A L P E TI A N.
C ALPETIAN’s board the golden platters crown,
At home, abroad; in country, and in town :-
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In hovel or the field, alike they're ſhown.

He has none elſe : nay, he has not his own.

XXXII. On C A R IN U. S.

S IX on each finger lordly CARIN wears ;

Nor lays by night his rings aſide,
Nor bathing. But a friend the cauſe forbears:
He has not where to lodge his pride.

XXXIII. To R U F U. S.

You mark the minion in the foremoſt row,

Whoſe ſardonyx even hither ſends her glow :
Whoſe gorgeous robe has drunk up Tyre's delight,
Whoſe modeſt gown denies that ſnow is white.
Whoſe fum'd fat locks with all Marcelius ſmile,
Whoſe poliſht arms are proud they bear no pile.
No vulgar lingel can his creſcent ſuit:
No ſkin but ſcarlet, binds his plaintive foot.
Yet to his beaming brow are bands decreed:
Pull off the bandage, and the rogue aread.

XXXIV. To Z O I L U. S.

WHy has thy gem a pound of gold emboſt 2

Why ſhould ſo ſweet a ſardonyx be loſt?
That ring, which late might well thine ancle bind,
For thy fore-finger fit thou canſt not find.

XXXV. To the ſame.

W HAT odors balſam death, and grief beguile;

The burning incenſe, from amid the pile ;
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Sweet cinnamon, from off the Stygian bed;
Reſtore, felonious miſcreant, to the dead.
Thy feet had taught thy docil hands to ſtray:
A thief ſprings eaſy from a runaway.

XXXVI. To the ſame.

- Poor Zoilus is ſick: it is his bed.

Were he in health, why ſo much coſtly red

Why lawn perfum’d, and counterpanes from Nile?
He ails, to ſhow his wealth, and make us ſmile.
Diſmiſs the doćtors, and conſult the Nine.
Doſt want a healthfull bed 2 Make uſe of mine.

XXXVII. To the ſame.

A BOVE ten times you from one ſupper roſe:

Above ten times you chang'd your ſupping cloaths.
. Leſt perſpiration ſhould beſoke your veſt,
Or the keen air pervade your porous breaſt.
Ah! Zoilus, why do not I perſpire, . -

Who with you ſup? I have but one attire. -

XXXVIII. To A FE R.
As Irus, poor; Parthenopeus, young;
Strong as Artemidore, when foes he flung :
Thee, AFER, muſt ſix Cappadocians bear 2
Thou mak'ſt the folks ſo laugh, and talk, and ſtare:
Thou might'ſt as well ſtalk naked thro' the ſquare.
So pigmy-Atlas, with his pigmy-mule;
So Moor and monſter draw like ridicule.

Why ſo much odium ſhould thy litter fear

Not ſix ſupporters ſhall convey thy bier.
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XXXIX. To V A C E R R A.

VILE informer, ſlander's child !

Dealer, who haſt ſtill beguil'd
Shield of war, and ſoul of arms,
How haſt thou no golden charms ?

XL. On the ſame.

Behold vacerra, in ſequeſter'd cell,

Whole hours and days, with Cloacina dwell.
Not pious means he to perform her rite ;
But patient hopes ſome vot'ry may invite.

XLI. To the ſame.

OF Julian Calends thou diſgrace

I ſaw thy luggage leave the place;
Which, undetain'd for two years' rent,
Thy three fair friends remov’d content:
Thy conſort, with juſt ſeven red hairs,
Thy ſtately ſiſter, in her airs;
Thy hoary parent: awfull ſight !
I thought them loos'd from realms of night.
While thoſe three Graces mov’d before ;
Thyſelf with cold and hunger tore,
And wanner than unrecent box;
An Irus, who the ancient mocks,
Didſt give (particulars will prove)
The Aricinian mound to move.

A bed on three, a board on two,

A lamp, a cup of horn enſue.
A utenſil, of ſmaller pride,
Bewrays a crackt and ſhorten’d ſide. w

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. The veſſel next, that bore the fire,
Commanded ev'ry eye t'admire.
But much the noſe was fain to bear,
That ſnuft the pitcher pendant there.
Pilchards and cack’rels gave the ſent,
Much like the ſtaleſt ſea-pond's vent.
Nor wanted there the taſte to teaſe,
A ſquare of Toloſatian cheeſe;
Black puliol buncht, full four years old 5
And, no leſs joyous to behold,
Two potent ropes, tho' either bald;
Of garlic, and of onions, call’d.
Nor by the Muſe muſt be forgot,
Thy venerable parent's pot,
Of roſin for the righteous fair,
To clear away redundant hair:
So worthy a ſuburban wife,
Who chears a while, not plagues for life.
Then, why WAcERRA, ſeek a ſeat,
And laugh at louts in thy retreat
When thou, ſuperior to a cell,
Beneath a canopy may'ſt dwell;
May'ſt pay no rent, yet do no wrong :
Such pomp muſt to the bridge belong.

XLII. On L A U R U S.
WITH a new love was never ſtripling fir’d,
Like LAURus, by the luſt of ball inſpir’d.
But the prime player, while his vigor reign'd,
Deſiſting play, the primal ball remain'd.
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XLIII. To L I N U S.

I N rural ſcenes, has been thy ſole employ:

Nor knows the life of man ſincerer joy:
But on high holidays, thy gown was air'd :
Scarce ten long ſummers one ſhort jacket bar'd.
A boar the forreſt, and a hare the field;
The wood, well-beaten, did fat thruſhes yield.
Spontaneous ſprang the fiſh, to meet thy line :
Thy ruddy rundlet ran no forain wine.
No greekling miniſter'd in ſpruce attire;
But hoyden natives of thy homely fire:
Tho' to thy hind's fair paſtures thou might ſtray,
When raging wine had warr'd thy wits away.
By ſtorm thy houſe ne'er fell, thy farms ne'er fail'd.
No ſhip of thine has ſunk, or ever ſail'd. º

Gaming thou never knew'ſt, or low or high :

An humble nutling was thy harmleſs dy.
The million where, maternal av'rice brought 2
No-where: my boy, thou baffleſt human thought.

YLIV. On C I L I X.

C ILIX, the prince of thieving kind,

To rob a noble garden pin'd.
But, in the garden's ample bound,
The marble-god alone he found.
Not quite to quench his ardent ſoul,
!
Honeſt Priapus' ſelf he ſtole.

XLV. On
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XLV. On L U S C U S.

B E HOLD the blade with ſingle eye,

Whoſe other can do nought but cry:
Beneath his batter'd brow a 33P,
Not inconſiſtent with a ſap.
Yet do not hence deſpiſe the head:
A ſhrewder ne'er to theft was bred.
Autolycus, ſo fam'd we ſee,
Had not ſo keen a hand as he.
Cloſe eye your gueſt, or he'l ſurpriſe:
Your gueſt can ſee with both his eyes.
Your ſervants, anxious as they chooſe,
Your gobblets, or your ſpoons will loſe;
And, in his hoſpitable breaſt,
Full many a napkin find her neſt.
But ne'er can he reſiſt the joke,
To catch it, if you drop the cloke:
Nay, in the warmeſt wettiſh day,
He'l pant, with two great-coats, away.
'Tis joyous too, if not ſo brave,
For him to chouſe a ſleeping ſlave.
The wakefull lamp he cannot ſpurn;
Nor fear detection, tho’ ſhe burn.
Nought elſe to do, the boy he joins;
And his own ſlippers he purloins.

XLVI. On H E R M O G E N E S.

HERMogenes was of fair napkins a thief;

Than Maſſa of money, more paſſing belief.
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His right if you eye, and you hold faſt his left;
He'l make a hard ſhift, but the napkin is reft.

The ſtag, by his breth, ſo abſorbs the cool ſnake;

So Iris the waters, ſhe pours on the lake.
The ferret juſt ſo the poor lurcher can draw:
By magic of frićtion, ſo amber a ſtraw.
When late for maul’d Myrin a reſpit was ſought,
HERMogENEs raviſht four, quicker than thought.
The candid of cloths, when the pretor would ſend;
No cloth to the pretor would Nimblefiſt lend.

None now brought a napkin, for fear it were ſtole:

The cloth from the table whipt HERMogEN whole.
Had this too been wanting, the beds he'd uncaſe ;

Nor claws of the board would he grudge to unbrace. ,

Tho' ſpe&tacles own inſupportable ſun,

When HERMO approaches, each awning muſt run.
To furl ev'ry ſail, the pale mariner veers;
In port, the firſt moment fell HERMo appears.

The bald-pates in lawn, and the drones with the drums,

Quit worſhip the inſtant HERMogENEs comes. *

To ſupper a napkin he ne'er would convey;

But thence ſtill HERMogENEs bore one away.

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P . A R T II.

on the MANNER's of the MEN.

I. To C E C I L I A N.

O Times | O manners cri'd th’ indignant ſage,

At Catilina's ſacrilegious rage : - -

When ſon and fire, th' unnat'ral war maintain’d ;

When groan'd the ground, with civil gore diſtain'd.
O manners' now, O times | why doſt thou cry?
What can offend thy taſte, or ear, or eye *
No chief gleams fury, and no ſword annoy:
Eſtabliſht peace proclaims perennial joy.
The manners, not of others, taint the times:
But thine own manners, ſo profuſe of crimes.

II. To E FF R O N S, or B O L D - FA C E.

THy ſecond grandfire's mouth, thine uncle's noſe;

Tho' father's eyes, and mother's mien thou boaſt:
So like in theſe, and ſo preciſe in thoſe ;
Tell me whoſe modeſt front thou haſt engroſſt

III. To G A U R U S.
TH AT you delight to drown the night in wine ;
The joy was CATo's, and muſt be divine.
That you write verſe, nor Muſe nor Phebus know ;
This fame tranſcenda it you to Tully ow.
Vomit you've Antony's, Apicius' maw :
Confeſs, rank Gaurus, whoſe the breth you draw.
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IV. To C O R A C IN U. S.

B ECAUSE, with caſfia and each ſpice,

My CoRAcINE is fum'd ſo nice;
Becauſe thou'ſt robb'd the peerleſs neſt,
And bretheſt Nicerotian peſt;
Thou laugh'ſt at thoſe without perfume:
I'd rather none, than ſent the room.

V. To P O S T U M U. S.

Ho W ſtrong thou ſavor'ſt myrrh's perfume!

What forain odors round thee ſent l

They give us ſhrewdly to preſume,

That they are not for nothing lent.
VI. To the ſame.

TH' embrace thou dain'ſt with half-lip to beſtow,

I praiſe, tho' thou ſhould'ſ hence take half away.
Give me a nobler nameleſs boon to ow;
And take the whole of t'other half, I pray.
VII. On the ſame.

AvA NT, fell Phebus, and the nine !

My own gay Muſe, no friend of mine !
With half a lip did Post ſalute,
And now with both. Away, the brute 1

VIII. On the ſame,

Ask as you will, I ſhall not ſay,

Who is the Postume of my lay.
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Why ſhould I thoſe ſalutes provoke,
That can avenge beyond a joke *

IX. To the ſame.

OF yeſterday's moſt ſocial meal,

They tell a truth, that won't conceal ;
Which muſt the mirth or ſorrow move,
of all who cenſure or approve.
They ſay that, Post, thy mouth and noſe,
Were batter'd by ſo barb'rous blows,
As Latin's hand, with archeſt bound,
Ne'er bade from Panny's viſage ſound.
To make the Hot all ſublime,
They name the heroe of the crime:
That Cecil play'd this firſt of funs,
The rumor through the city runs.
Thou, Postume, ſwear'ſt the whole a ly;
And boldly canſt the fačt defy.
But all thy ſhams muſt prove refuſe:
Cecil atteſters can produce.

X. To the ſame.

W HEREVER you meet me, where'er you purſue;

Your firſt phraſe is always: My dear, how d'y' do?
Ten times in an hour, you the ſame thing will bawl:
You how, where, or what to do, have not at all.

XI. To the ſame.

To - MOR ROW ſtill to-morrow thou wilt live :

What time ſhall Post UMUs that morrow give *

How
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How far that morrow off? Whence to be ſought?
What is its price, and where may it be bought?
Do Parthians hold it, or Armenians hide
As old as Priam, it has never di'd.
To-morrow live to-day is late for man :
The wiſe is he, who yeſterday began.
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XII. On C H A R IN U.S.

CHARINUs nothing ſeems to ail,

But poor Charinus ſtill is pale.
Charinus drinks with due reflexion:
But paly is his beſt cornplexion.
Charinus cats, and can digeſt :
Yet wan is he, as with a peſt.
Charinus baſks him in the ſun :

Yet pale his hue, inſted of dun.

Charinus deeply dies his ſkin :
Still nought alive appears within.
Charinus hates the Muſe as hell:

Pure paleneſs will with CHARIN dwell.

XIII. To C H A R IN U. S.

THou haſt ev'ry plate amaſt,

Of the preſent age or paſt.
Myron's practice and deſign:
All Praxiteles is thine.
Maſter of Scopean ſchool,
Thine alone the Phidian tool.
Onely thou haſt Mentor's toils:
But for thee the Glanian boils.
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Oft thy filver, ſweetly tool’d, . .

Bluſhes with Callaic gold.
: Nor paternal vauſes loſt,
Ancient are thy ſets emboſt.
Yet, of all the plate thy joy,

Where is that without alloy

XIV. On the baths of CHAR IN US: To SEVER U.S.

IT paſſes my Severus' ken,
How CHARIN, vileſt much, of men,
Should e'er to praiſe or profit bring -

The greateſt or the ſmalleſt thing.

what's worſe than Nero Brief my terms.
“Or better what, than Nero's therms ? º

Lo! ſudden one of malice' tribe

Crokes from his putid mouth his gibe.
Preferr'ſt the baths of an abhorr'd,
To all the bounties of our lord P

I do prefer, and nothing fights;

A Nero's to a catamite's.

XV. On the baths of E T R U S C U S : To O PPI A N.

UNLES S Etruſcus’ baths you try,

Unwaſht, my OPPIAN, you will dy.
No ſtream ſo ſoothing ſhall you find,
Not Apon, to the maids unkind:
Not Sinueſſa's, or the wave
Hot Paſſer, or proud Anxur gave :
Not Phebus' floods ſuch ſolace bring :
None ſuch, th’ imperial Baian ſpring.
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Elſewhere expands no like ſerene:
Elſewhere ſo long no joy is ſeen.
For here, cries day, the clime's my own:
My ſiſter ſcarce erects her throne.
Here Tayget begreens his mines:
Here vy fair Nature's firſt deſigns,
That ſhrewdeſt Phrygian could explore,
Or Libyan in his deepeſt lore.
Here the fat onyx fond perſpires;
And here the ſerpent feels her fires.
If you prefer Laconian guiſe,
And ſeek the hardy plunger's prize;
Contented with the ſteams of air, *

You to the Martian may repair;

And modeſt woo the virgin cool,
Who here invites to ſuch a pool,
As bids you dream no water nigh,
And think the Lygdian gleaming dry.
But you receive with ear ſupine,
This fondly-flowing ſtream of mine.
Ah! if you ſleep to ſtream ſo high;
Unwaſht, tho’ not unwept, you dy.

XVI. To L A B I E N U.S.

WHEN late I ſaw the fitting

Alone, as well befitting;
I thought thee three in number:
On either ſide encumber,
A baldpate that would toy it;
such locks as ſtill would boy it.
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Prink e'er ſo long, or piddle ;
No pile outſprings the middle.
The error once avail'd thee,
When threefold meſſes hail'd thee;
The emp'ror doling dinners,
To Saturnalian ſinners.
By this diſtinčt criterion
Such muſt have ſeem'd old GERYon,
Thy wit by me imbued, -

Be Philip's porch eſchewed:

Should HERCULEs fall on, man,
Poor LABIEN were a gone man.

XVII. To M A R IN US.

Yo UR thin-ſown hairs on any ſide;

With dextrous care you cull;
And rob your temples of their pride,
To thatch your ſhining ſcull.
Repell'd by ev'ry puff of wind,
They take their former ſtand,
And then your deſart poll they bind,
With locks on either hand.

So, 'twixt two tuzzy youthfull pates,

One HALMyrotes ſees.
Throw ridicule no more ſuch baits:

The bare old-man will pleaſe.

But, that at length you may ſeem one,

The ſhaver quick be call'd ;
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And let him o'er the remnant run :

Belockt 1 oh ſhamel and bald !

XVIII. To P H E B U. S.

You R mimic locks with unguent you bely,

And your bald-pate with painted hair ſupply.
Your ſhallow ſcull no raſor need to ſkim:
That will a ſpunge, poor PHEBUs, better trim.

XIX. To the ſame.

S INCE thy temples and crown, 'of their honors berid,

Thou haſt cover'd all o'er with the ſkin of a kid ;
Do not think, honeſt PHEBUs, the fellow ſo odd,
Who pronounc'd that the ſeat of thy wiſdom was ſhod.

XX. To E S C U L A N U.S.
WHo lounges loweſt in the middle bed,
Rich unguent portioning his three-haird head 5

And, with the lentiſk in his mouth, looks big ;

But looks a ly: he has no teeth to dig.

XXI. To L E N T IN US.

W ITH tinctur'd locks the dotard youth puts on :

Behold a raven, from but now a ſwan
Thou cheat'ſt not all; not her, who rules the dead:
She ſoon ſhall pull the maſk from off thy head.

XXII. To G A R G I L I A N.
ON E lotion ſmugs thy face, and one thy crown.
Doſt dread the raſor, or doſt hope renown
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How treat thy tallons : Them corrode away,

Nor can fell roſin, nor Venetian clay.
Ceaſe then, and bluſh t'expoſe thy barren ſcull :
One daubs but where one may nor ſhave nor cull.

XXIII. To C A R M E N I O N.
IF thou thyſelf Corinthian boaſt,
Which nobody denies;
Why call me brother, from the coaſt,
Whence Celtiberians riſe 2

Do we appear alike in look?

Thy paſſive treſſes bend:
Stiff, like their lord, diſdaining crook,
My Spaniſh locks depend.
With daily lotion thou art ſmooth:
My cheeks and legs are rough.
Thy liſping tongue may feebly ſooth :
A girl beſpeaks more gruff.

More like the eagle is the dove,

The lion more the hind.
To brother me, thou ſhow'ſt thy love :
I’l ſiſter thee in kind.

XXIV. To C O TIL U. S.

Thou art a pretty fellow, many ſay.

“A pretty fellow ! what is that, I pray ?”
A pretty fellow firſt adjuſts his hair,
Then with each odor eſſences the air.
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He ſings ſhrewd ſongs ; and, what he ſings not, hums;

Yet, yawning, flings his arms at whoſo comes.
He in ſoft elbow-chairs all day is drown'd,
Or buzzing ſecrets in each ear around:
He billets reads, and writes, and ſends expreſs';
He contačt dreads, to diſcompoſe his dreſs:
He, who loves whom, flies ardent to diſcloſe ;
He the whole line of great HIRPINus knows.
What ſay'ſt, my friend? art mad or art thou mellow *
A gimcrac ſtrange muſt be the pretty fellow.

XXV. To C A N D ID U.S. “

TH AT lollard, night and day, in female chairs;

Nor noted onely in recluſe repairs ; - -

Sleek-hair’d, with ointment black, in purple gay;

Smooth-legg'd, broad-cheſted, yet of ſlender bay;
Who hangs familiar on thy ſpouſes arm ; -

Dear CANDID, dread him not : he means no harm.

XXVI. To M. A. R. I. A N U S.

WHo is that fibble, Marias, ſtill ſo mellow?

Ti’d to thy conſort, ſay, what is the fellow
Still whiſp'ring ſomewhat to the tender fair,
Or lolloping his elbow on her chair:
Whoſe ev'ry finger boaſts a brilliant ring,
Whoſe ſacred leg denies a hair to ſpring :
Your anſwer, pray. “He does my wifes affairs:
His aſpect ſhrewd the man of buſineſs wears.
A ſmarter genius you ſhall never ſee.
Aufidius' ſelf was ne'er ſo keen as he.'
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I wiſh Latinus, MARIAN, boxt thy face, -

And hope to ſee thee in poor Panny's place.

He do thy wifes affairs l that fribbling fool!
He may do thine: no other. Go to ſchool.

XXVII. To D ID Y M U. S.

Yo U, than emaſculate, ſtill leſs a man;

Soft, as the Celenean boy, we ſcan;
Whom the mad mother's maimlings mourn the moſt.
Of theaters, degrees, and laws you boaſt;
Of flowing robes, and brilliant broaches tell,
Of Ides renown'd, and valuations fell:
And for yon poor, your wealth to aſcertain,
Your pummic'd hand diſplays the due diſdain.
If, mid the knights, your ſeat we ſoon ſhall ſee ;
Mid huſbands, DIDYMUs, you cannot be.

YXVIII. To P A N N I C U S:

M E nor with frizzly ſhock, nor frouſy hair:

Thy ſkin nor ſleeky ſhine, nor ſordid ſcare.
Thy beard nor girliſh, nor as culprit's ſuch;
Be not a man too little, or too much.
Pile clothes thy legs, thy breaſt the briſtles ſuit;
But thy poor mind is pluckt up by the root.

XXIX. On H E D Y L U S.

THAN HEDYL's cloaths is nought more bare:

Not handles of Corinthian ware:

With ten years' chain the ſhining ſhin;

Of batter'd mule the cloſing ſkin:
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No rut of old Flaminius' way;

No pcbbles, on the ſhore that play:
No poliſht ſpade, the vinyards ſhow ;
No paly gown, that ſhrouds the low :
No ſluggiſh driver's ſhatter'd wheel;
No ſhaven flank, when biſons reel
Into th’ infidious pit, and roar:
No gleaming bolt of aged boar.
Yet one thing much more wor'n away;
A HEDYL's ſelf will not gainſay.
That wond’rous thing muſt doutleſs poſe:
His conſcience 1 triter than his cloaths.

XXX. To C. A. L L I S T R A T U S.

As if thy ſoul with mine knew no diſguiſe,

Thou'lt bluntly mouth to me ſome conſcious woe.
Thee no ſuch ſimpleton, poor CAL, I priſe:
The bad above announces worſe below.

XXXI. On C A L LIST R A T US and A FER.

BEARDED CALLISTRATUS, as pureſt maid,
To briſtling AFER bluſhing charms diſplay'd.
Bluſhes the vall o'erſpreds, while torches glare;
Nor are thy words, Thalaſus, wanting there.
The very dow'r told down and think'ſt, O Rome,
That ought ſhould iſſue from the wedded womb

XXXII. To D. E. C I A N.

B E HOLD the man, with careleſs hair;

Whoſe ſolemn ſupercilious air

Inſpires
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Inſpires a Declan's ſelf with aw,

And ſo may well give others law; -

Who talks a Curius too, and whom

A new Camillus worſhips Rome :
He, DeciaN (ſuch the faith of face')
Vail'd yeſterday, her new diſgrace.

XXXIII. . To the IA M B IC M US E.

My darling Muse, if 'tis no troublous taſk,

or painful toil, let me one labor aſk. 4. … / “3 &

Go, drop theſe few in our MATERNus' ear;
But ſo, that he, and onely he, ſhall hear.
Yon ſallow lover of the ſad array, +

Whom Betis ever clothes, or motley gray;

Who none, in ſcarlet, can eſteem as men ; -

. Who all, empurpled, would with females pen;

Who hugs the native hue, deteſts all dy;
Unleſs, perhaps, what ſaves from glare the eye:
Tho' offuſcation overcaſt his whole,
Galbanian manners tinge his inmoſt ſoul.
Enquiry, of the who, my courſe has ſtopt.
Enquirer, pardon: I the name have dropt.

XXXIV. To a H U S B A N D.

TH OU haſt deform'd the poor gallant;

Nor could thy juſtice mercy grant.
His noſe ſo ſlit and ear ſo tore,
Now ſeek in vain the grace they wore.
Now vengeance boaſts her ample due.
Fool mayn't the foe the charge renew :
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XXXV. To another.

OFFENDED lord, what could thee diſcompoſe,

So cruelly to lop th' offender's noſe 2
That ſuff'ring limb, as thine, was innocent:
Nor feels the paramour the puniſhment.
Ne'er canſt thou hope tº extinguiſh either fire,
While the incendiary remains entire.

XXXVI. To H Y L L U. S.

AUD Acious tipling, haſt no ſhame,

To tempt an armed tribunes dame *
And doſt thou, youngſter, barely fear
The chaſtiſement all boys revere 2
No more be thus thy boldneſs propt:
Thine all of manly will be lopt.
The law, thou ſay'ſt, will ne'er allow.
Does law, my lad, thy pranks avow

xxxvii. To the ſame.

W HY, how now, HYLLUs, child,
To yield make ſuch a ſputter
Who waſt before ſo mild,
Nor ventur'dſt once to mutter 2

Thy beard, thy briſtles, years,

Thou ſcrupleſt not atteſting:
How long one night appears,
That ſhoots a ſage clandeſtine !
But yeſterday a boy,
Why brave us with thy treaſon
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To-day thy pow'rs employ,

To prove the man of reaſon.

XXXVIII. To A U L U. S.

WH AT dire diſaſter gave, alas ! the knell

To DeLIA's joy, I will my Aulus tell.
Her playmate, and her darling, has ſhe loſt.
Far other curſe the lambent Les BIA croſt;
When of her charmer's killing rogueries reft,
Which juſt CATULLUs has immortal left.
Other my STELLA ſang IANThis fighs,
For the dear dove, that in Elyſium flies.
My minion ne'er was ſmit with ſhafts ſo mean:
No trivial loſſes could diſmay my queen.
Him, who told years twice ten, does DELIA mourn,
Whoſe down was never mow’d, or youthfull honors ſhor'n.

XXXIX. To A U C T U. S.

ARTEMI DORE his purchas'd fair may boaſt:

But ev'ry clod for balmy bliſ; he ſold.
Still-laughing lands have CALLIoDoRE engroſſt:
Of both the friends the wond’rous truth be told.

Say, Aucrºſs, whether made ſuperior choice

Or let the queens of land and love decide.
For ploughman CAL ſhall VENUs give her voice
Can am’rous ART remain DIANA's pride :

XL. To Q U I N T U.S.
IF nor Thais, nor one-ey'd, be, QUINTus, thy flame;
Could the diſtich on thee ſpatter ſorrow or ſhame?
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But a ſomewhat is like, as in Thais to Lais :
Of Hermione ſay, what her likeneſs to Thais ?
Still a Quintus thou art, and the name we'l exchange:
If no Quintus love Thais, let Sextus arrange.

XLI. On Q_U I R IN A L I S.

QUIRINAL thinks he needs no wife,

Tho' ſons he hold the pride of life.
Nor can I be in want of aids,
Quoth he, who keep ſo many maids.
He fills with knightlings his domain :
Not father of his houſe in vain.

XLII. To D E N T O.

J UST married, DENTo, doſt confeſs no ſhame,

To beg of princely pow'r a parent's name *
Thy lord to plague, with paltry pleas, forbear.
And homeward hence, however late, repair.
While far and long thou leav'ſt thy love behind,
To ſeek three children; thou a fourth may'ſt find.

XLIII. To F A B U L L U. S.

You've a wife, bleſt FABULLUs, fair, modeſt, and young;

And the honor of tripartite progeny aſk
What you crave of our lord, with ſo touching a tongue,
Is your own to beſtow: 'tis a natural taſk.

XLIV. To SC E V IN U.S.

AUF IDIA's now gallant, who waſt her lord

Her lord thy rival, once again abhorr'd 1
Why
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Why like another's, nor thine own endure ?
Canſt feel no fervor, where thou art ſecure ?

XLV. To C E C I L I A N.
* W HILE gratuitous all men thy fallow might poach,
In vain ſhe invited each fellow.

Thou haſt fenc'd her around, what invaders approach

A huſbandman thou art moſt mellow.

XLVI. To a married P AIR.

O peerleſs pair, ſo like in life, }
O vileſt huſband, vileſt wife
No wonder ye agree — in ſtrife.

XLVII. On F A BIU S and C H R E S T I L L A.

B OTH FABBY and CHRESTIL know well how to bury

A conſort, and with ſable torch to make merry.
Yoke, VENUs, the vićtors; and, mutually loath,
Let one LIBITINA lay hold of them both.

XLVIII. To G A L L U. S.

TH AT, GALLUs, thou waſt never ſon-in-law,

To her thy father's conſort late we ſaw.
The rumor roſe; but could not hope to thrive,
while he, by whom thou liv'ſt, was yet alive.
Now, where thine awfull fire no more is ſeen,
The ſtepdame revels an unrival’d queen.
For thee ſhould Tully break the Stygian laws,
And Regulus himſelf attempt thy cauſe ;
Thy cauſe were loſt. Who ceaſes not to be
Thy ſtepdame, GALLus, ne'er was ſuch to thee.
O o 2 XLIX. To
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XLIX. To A M M I A N U.S.

To thy mother, ah! how kind

Parent, ahl how kind to thee!
Brother thou, and ſiſter ſhe
Why to novel names inclin'd?

Than ye are, pray, why be other ?

Jeſt ye think it: vile the ſhame !
Mother, wiſhing ſiſter's name,
Would nor ſiſter be, nor mother.

L. To the ſame.

WHERE firſt Subura ſits to urge,

Where chaſtiſement diſplays the ſcourge ;
Where many a cordwainer once more
Dare honeſt Argus' death deplore;
Thy clipſter, AMMIAN, does not clip :
She tenders thee her ev'ry ſlip.
She does not clip, you ſay What's braver,
If not a clipſter, ſhe's a ſhaver.

On A M M I A N U S : To M A R O N I L L U. S.

Poo R AMMIAN's male-parent bequeath'd his male hope

What ſeem'd to befit him: a truſty old rope.
Is’t poſſible, MARONIL, AM ſhould not ſtrive,
To wiſh ſuch a father again were alive

LII. To F L A C C U S.

W HAT a fair, my dear FLAccus, I like or diſlike *

I approve not the dame, or too kind, or too coy.
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The ſweet medium be mine: no extremities ſtrike:

I'l have her, who knows neither to torture nor cloy.

LIII. To the ſame.

Would you know the plight I dread,

In the partner of my bed
Such a tiny ſlender thing
Finds a braſſlet in my ring.
Her uncover'd cuſhion cuts,
And her knee alarming buts.
"Twixt her loins the griding ſaw
Well may to a dagger draw.
Think not yet, you rogue, my rate
Riſes to a thouſand weight.
I'm not coarſe enough for that:
Give me fleſh, without the fat.

LIV. To the ſame.

THE birth that's ingenuous, is doutleſs the bleſt:

The rank of freed-woman is but the next beſt.

The handmaid poſſeſſes the ultimate place:

But ſhe'l beat them both, if ingenuous her face.

LV. To the ſame.

THou'RT made of iron, not of fleſh and blood 5

If the gay dalliance can or bloom or bud,
When the unbluſhing fair makes the demand,
Six pots of pickle, or two rounds of rand ;
Or paltry fiſh, whate'er the fize or ſhapes;
Northinks ſhe merits quite a bunch of grapes :
Whoſe
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Whoſe joyous maid in ruddy platter bears
A herring her mad miſtreſs rav'nous tears:
Or, having braz'd her brow, and baniſht ſhame
Five greaſy fleeces, for a cloke, may claim.
But oh! whoe'er would be a friend of mine,
Be her requeſt a pound of ſpikenard fine; *

Or verdant gems, that ev'ry rival dare:

Of genuine ſardonyx, a peerleſs pair.
Prime be her ſilks, from out the Tuſcan ſtreet:
A hundred bits of gold, as braſs, her treat.
Think'ſt now I mean to make theſe preſents all 2
No: I’l have one who makes theſe preſents ſmall.

LVI. To S A. L E T A N U. S.

- W HY ſee we poor SALETAN wailing his life?

“Too good is my cauſe: I have buried my wife.’
O barbarous fate 1 thy diſtreſs how I dread
The rich Secundilla, thy dear, is ſhe dead P
Who brought thee no more than a million of dower
I grieve thou ſhould'ſt ſuffer ſo heavy a ſhower.

LVII. To P R I s C U S.
A Dowried dame I ne'er ſhall take to wife;
Leſt ſhe take me to huſband, and to ſtrife.
Inferior, PRIscus, muſt the female be;
Elſe wedded parity we ſhould not ſee.

LVIII. To S I L A.
*-

M E SILA was willing to have and to hold.

My terms I might make 3 but I was not ſo bold.
Yet,
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Yet, when ſhe inſiſted, a million in gold,
My bride, thou muſt bring: for I will not befoord.

But, not the firſt night muſt thou fancy to ſee

Thy bridegroom, or hope a couch common with me.
My miſtreſs I'l meet; nor ſhall Madam prevent:
And, if I command it, thy maid ſhall be ſent,

In thy very preſence, with any I’l toy;

Nay, more to beſpite thee, beſlabber a boy
I care not my own, or if thine he may be :
My freedom I'l hug, to the thraldom of thee.
To table thou’lt come ; but ſo ſever'd recline,
Thy cloaths ſhall not dare once to mingle with mine.
No kiſs ſhalt thou give me, but aſkt, and with aw:
Nor that as a ſpouſe, but a mother-in-law.

If this thou canſt bear, and a hundred times more;

From thy haughty lord, and his more haughty whore:
Thou may’ſt perhaps find, in ſome odd time of life,
A fool to ſay, SILA, I take thee to wife.

P A R T III.

On the M A N N E R S of the W O M E. N.

I. On G E L L I A.

- SIRE-Reft, alone, poor GELLIA weeps no woe:

In company ſhe bids the torrent flow.
They
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They cannot grieve, who to be ſeen, can cry:
Theirs is the grief, who without witneſs ſigh.

II. To G E L L I A.

W HERE’ER thou mov'ſt, the god of eſſence hies;

And ev'ry fragrant fume around thee flies.
Let not thy mind on forain foo!'ries dwell:
So can I give my rankeſt dog to ſmell.

III. On G E L L I A.

W HILE a long line of ſires of fires ſhe'l ſhow,

And the mere knightly rank to hers is low ;
While nought beneath a peer can grace her bed,
Behold the noble dame a porter wed.

IV. To G E L L I A.
W HEN you ſend me a hare, your benignity ſays,
Honeſt MARK ſhall be handſom, full four and three days.
If your joke and the truth do not joſtle, my dear;
In your life you ne'er taſted a lev'ret, I fear.

V. On G E L L I A : To P A P Y RIA N.

NEITHER by Dindymene's rite,

Nor by the bulloc, Niles delight;
By gods nor goddeſſes ſhe'ſ ſwear:
But by the gems that deck her hair.
Them cloſe ſhe hugs, them fondly kiſſes;
Them, higheſt of her human bliſſes
They are her darlings and her doves,
Her charmers, lambkins, and her loves.
Her
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Her brothers, ſiſters; not her duns;
She loves them more than both her ſons.

Should e'er the wretch her fondlings loſe,

One half-hour's life ſhe could not uſe.

What chance her loves and life would ſtand,

Did ſly T try his hand

VI. To L IN U.S.
Gu ARDIAN of the curly train,
Under Poſtumilla's reign :
Lord of all ſhe holds her own,
Friend and confidant alone :
LINUs thou, on whoſe tuition,
Hang her hopelings and ambition;
Hang her gems, and gold, and wines;
Hang her very concubines :
So thine honor firm evince,
To thy potent female prince;
That ſhe thee prefer to all
Guardians, or of great or ſmall.
Do but thou relieve my rage,
And my piteous pangs aſſwage.
Sometimes bland forget to keep,
Who bid me forget to ſleep;
Who enflame my hapleſs heart,
As expreſſion can't impart;
Whom I wiſh, both night and day,
On my boſom to diſplay:
Beauteous, as no beauties glow !
Whiter than the whiteſt ſnow !
Pp Perfeót
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Perfeót match, the matchleſs pair I

Twinlings ape not twins ſo rare.
Sure thou think'ſt not of thy boys:
Jewels, LINUs, are my joys.

VII. On ce RELIA and GE LLIA:

f
CERELIA young, affe&ting age we ſee:
Old GELLIA (not in vain) a child would be.
Neither will e'er go down with Colin's ſenſe:
One wakens laughter, and one works offence.

VIII. To M A X I M I N A.

LAUGH, my pretty damſel, laugh ;

If thou'rt cunning, but by half;
Naſo not each damſel preſt:
Had he, he not thee, addreſt. •
Teeth thou haſt remaining, three;
Of the pitch or boxen tree.
If thy glaſs, or me thou hear,
Thou wilt ſo each titter fear,
As gay Spanius fears the wind,
Or ſpruce Priſcus hand unkind.
Chalkt Fabulla ſo the ſhower,
Cerus'd Sab the ſolar power.
Put on looks of ſtarch and ſhame,
As ne'er Priam's either dame.

Humor's ev'ry ſon eſchew,

And the laugh-compelling crew:
Nay, whatever might beguile
Sever'd lips into a ſmile.
Hant
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Hant thou rather ſcenes of woe,
That bid kind contagion flow.
See the tender conſort croſt;
Sire, or ſon, or brother loſt :
Each inferior lore refuſe, º

Soaring by the tragic Muſe.

Mine and thine own counſel keep :
Weep, wiſe MAXIMINA, weep.

º IX. To L E S B I. A.

UNDER Brutus the conſul, you ſwear you were born:

I ſwear you were born under Numa the king.
Øur evidence either, your centuries ſcorn:
Prometheus' own clay gave my LESBIA to ſpring,

X. To M A T R IN I A.

CAN’t I like an old woman 2 MATRINIA, you aſk.

Yes, an old; not a dead woman : that were a taſk.
I a Hecuba, Niobe, either might own ;
Ere the one were a dog, and the other a ſtone.
XI. To E L I A.

Thou, ELIA, hadſt of teeth twice twain:

Two coughs expell'd the four.
Cough on : whatever days remain,
The third can do no more.

XII. On G E M E L L U S and M A R O N IL L.A.

See fond GEMELLus MARoNILLA woo,

And praiſe, and pray, and preſs ; and ſigh and ſue,
Pp 2 {s
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Is ſhe ſo fair From fair the fartheſt off.

What then is her attraćtion ? What! Her cough.

XIII. On N E VIA : To B IT H Y NICU. S.

WHEN poor Nevi A ſo pants, and emits ſuch a cough ;

Nor can ſhake from her boſom the conſequence off;
Thou believ'ſt the thing done : and improv'ſt in thy ſighing.
She but flatters her flatt’rer, and dreams not of dying.
XIV. On P H I L E N I S.

TH AT Tyrian tinge, both night and day,

PHILENIs in her trappings uſes;
Nor pomp, nor pride, beſpeaks th’ array:
The odor, not the hue, ſhe chooſes. .

XV. On the ſame: To FA B U L L U.S.

How ſhocking glares PHILENIs' eye ||

, I'l tell thee, FAB, nor tell a ly.
It well may weep, as left behind:
Far fairer were PHILENIs blind.

XVI. To P H I L E N I S.

IN vain, fond PHILENIs, thou woo'ſt my embrace:

Bald, carrotty, one-ey'd, thy tripartite grace |
The wretch, poor PHILENIs, that would thee ſalute,
Can never aſpire to the buſs of a brute.

XVII. To the ſame.

W HY on my chin a plaſter clapt;

Beſalv'd my lips, that are not chapt:
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PHILENIs, why The cauſe is this:

PHILENIs, thee I will not kiſs.

XVIII. To L. Y. C. O'R I S.

W ITH thee, Lycoris, durſt no female vy:

With GlycERA dare none the conteſt try.
What thou, Lycoris, art, one day ſhall ſhe
What is my GLYcERA, thou canſt not be.

xix. on LY co R is.
TH AT an elephant's fang, duſk Lycoris had heard,
On the Tiburtine hills ev'ry ſallowneſs ſpurn'd.
To Alcides' fam'd hights her ambition transferr'd, -

Ev'ry gale blew in vain: ſhe all ſable return'd.

XX. To P O L L A.

W ITH lotion ſome wrinkles you labor to hide;

No policy, Polla, you ſhow ; but ſome pride.
A ſmall fault perhaps might more ſafely appear:
Whatever is hid, draws conſtruction ſevere.

XXI. To a L A D Y B A T H IN G.

THou ſhroud'ſt, in ſable vail, thy beauteous face ;

But, with no beauteous form, offend'ſt the wave.
Attend, with aw, the goddeſs of the place:
Diſcloſe thy look; or, in thy doublet lave.

XXII. To L Y D I A.

NOT a ly did he tell, who once ventur'd to ſwear,

That the ſkin, not the face, of a LYDIA was fair.
So
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So it is, my poor Lyddy, if mute you recline ;
As a veſtal in wax, or a nymph in a ſhrine.
But the moment you ſpeak, all your charms diſappear:
Never wag of a tongue coſt the wagſter ſo dear.
Then beware, leſt the Edile or hear you, or ſee:
A portent is an image, that talking will be.

XXIII. To L A. L. A. G. E.

A Wayward lock, to ſtray decreed, ,-

A faithleſs pin had bound. -

The mirror laid, that ſpake the deed, S

PLEcusA on the ground.

Trick, trick no more thy Gorgon-locks,

More guiltleſs blood to ſhed.
Let no raſh maid preſent the box,
Or touch thy madding head.
This let a ſalamander ſtain,
Or ruthleſs raſor bare:

That thy ſweet figure not in vain

May to the glaſs repair.

XXIV. To F E S C E N N I A,

N OT to exhale your yeſter wine,

You Coſmus' comfits eat.

The teeth upon the cates may dine :

The belch bewrays the cheat.

The bane, with the confedion mixt,

But doubly blaſts the punk:
- Then
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Then on perfume no hope be fixt:

Be ſage, and fimply drunk.
XXV. On MY R T A L E : To P A U L U.S.

MyRTALE, wont to ſmell of wine,

To cheat us, forms the deep deſign:
And, that her breth commit no ſlaughten.
With laurel mingles; not with water. l -

Whene'er you meet her ruby-face,

Her ſwelling veins, and reeling pace;
Shrewd Paul, you honeſtly may ſay,
Boon MYRTALE has had her bay.

XXVI. On B A S S A : To FA B U L L U.S.

I HY Bassa, FABullus, a child bears about;

On whom ſhe ſtrives ev'ry ſweet name to beſtow:
Before made ſhe never with children a rout :
Some 'ſcapes ſhe may bluſhleſs on innocence throw.
XXVII. On the ſame.

- Of a drying ditch, the pool;

Crudeſt cloud, when min'rals cool :
of a ſtagnant pond, the gale;
Of a goat, when ſpirits fail :
Weary vet'ran's frouſy veſt;
Fleece in purple twice bedreſt:
Flavor of the faſting Jew,
Panting of the culprit crew :
Lewdeſt Leda's dying lamp,
Unguent of the Sabine vamp :
Foxes
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Foxes flight, and vipers cell; -

BAssa, thou might'ſt better ſmell.

XXVIII. On T H A I S.

Poor THAIs ſo ſmells, as no ill-fated tray,

Of all-catching ſcourer, juſt broke in the way:
No-love-leaving goat, and no lion's mad maw ;
No ſkin from a dog the Tranſtiberines draw:
No pullet abortive, that rots in the ſhell: t

No caſk, where the brine of anchovy did dwell.

Yet all her contagion, the ſly would ſuppreſs,
Whene'er, at the bath, ſhe depoſits her dreſs.
She ſmugs in ſweet lotion, or ſculks in ſour chalk,
In mail of fat bean—meal ſhe wiſely will calk.
Thus ev'ry art conjur'd, th' offenſive to kill,
Alas! the poor Thais brethes poor THAIs ſtill.
YXIX. To D I A D U M E N A.

W HAT an apple reſpires, a ſweet virgin has bit;

What the gales, from the ſaffron of Coryc, emit:
What a vinyard we ſmell, when firſt cluſters we ſee;
What the herb brethes embalm'd by the brouſer or bee:
What the tree of fair Venus diffuſes moſt kind;
What the mower of Araby flings to the wind :
What the amber, by frićtion, diſpreds of regale,
What the fire ſheds of fragrance, by incenſe made pale:
What the mold, lightly ſprinkled by ſummerly ſhower;
What the garland, when ſpikenard has moiſten’d her flower:
That thy kiſſes, my dear DIADUMENA, give.
Then diſpenſe them profuſe, nor deny me to live,
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XXX. To the ſame.

CoME, give me my kiſſes. How many you ſay.

You bid me count up ev'ry wave in array:
; The ſhells, that the ſhore of th’ Egean can fill;
The bees, that embuz the Cecropian hill:
The voices and hands, that the theater chear,
When CesAR, long wiſht, dains at laſt to appear.
Not juſt what Catullus at length could obtain :

He aſks but a few, who his number can gain.

XXXI. To the ſame.

W HILE ev'ry joy I ſcorn, but that I ſnatch;

And me thy fury, more than features catch;
I often condeſcend to aſk conſent:

That thou nor fear'ſt nor lov'ſt me, proves th' event.

XXXII. On another.

FROM forain ſtem the burſting balm that flows,

The gale, that laſt from bending ſaffron blows:
The rip'ning fume hibernal apples yield,
The vernal tree in the luxuriant field :

What op'ning filk, from princely wardrobe ſends;

What amber, thaw'd by virgin-hand, extends :
Of black Falernian, what an aged jar
Emits, when broke; but broken, when afar:
The garden-what, that binds Sicilian bees;
What Coſmus lends, that alabaſter pleaſe:
What, from the gorgeous locks, the garland nods;
What eſſence iſſues from the fires of gods :
Q_q But,
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But, why detail? inadequate are all:

Amalgamate, and form Pandora's ball.
Hence a weak emblem, and without compare,
How brethe at morn th’ embraces of my fair.
• Her name * Explore no name. *Then why ſo touch º'
I've told enough, and thou would'ſt know too much.
º
XXXIII. To P. H. Y L L I S.

NOT an hour, but my PHYLL1s diſmantles my folly:

So ingenious at fetches, at fleecing ſo jolly!
Now a mirror, ne'er broke, gives her handmaid a tear:
Now a gem flies her finger, a jewel her ear.
Now a bargain of filks, full clandeſtine is bought:
Now a dry box, that once held coſmetics, is brought.
Of the deepeſt Falernian is crav'd an old caſk;
That to conjure thy dreams be the harridan's taſk. &
I muſt purchaſe a ſturgeon, or mullet two-pound:
With a rich female friend is thy meal to be crown'd.
Since my all centers thus in thy modeſt poſſeſſion,

Thy nice conſcience enſures methine ev'ry conceſſion.

XXXIV. To A TT IC I L L A. -

Much you aſkt me, more I gave

Than you ever thought to crave.
Still you do not ceaſe to aſk:
To deny is duty's taſk.

XXXV. To C H L O E. -

I Can do without thy face,

And thy ſeat of ev'ry grace:
Neck,
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Neck, and back, and ſide, and breaſt,

Heaving ſtill to be careſt:
Legs and arms, and hands and feet:
Do without the fair complete.
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XXXVI. To the ſame,

Thou on young LUPERcus, fool,

Dol'ſt the works of Spaniſh wool:
Tyrian robe, and ſcarlet veſt,
Gown, in warm Galeſus dreſt:
Sardonyx, from fartheſt Ind;
Em'rald of the Scythian kind :
Hundred lords, of novel coin :
And what elſe he can enjoin.
Woe to thee, ſelf-waſting fair!
º
: Thy LUPERK will ſtrip thee bare.

XXXVII. To P O N T I A,

W HEN you ſend me a thruſh, or a portion of cake,

Or the wing of a hare; and would have me partake:

You beg leave to preſent me ſome mouthfulls, you ſay.

Neither my mouth they fill, nor anothers to-day.
XXXVIII. To G A L L A.

WHEN, Galla, thy face, hands, and leg. I admire,

Thou ſay'ſt; I, when naked, more pleaſing ſhall be.
Yet, one common bath, I full vainly require :
Doſt fear that I ſhall not be pleaſing to thee *
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XXXIX. To the ſame.

AT home you prink, by ſhrewd Subura's aid :

Your very locks are in your abſence made.
You lay each night your teeth and gauſes by 3.
And, in a hundred boxes, boxt you ly.
With you your face herſelf diſdains repoſe :
Your eyes ſly arch you trickton, when you roſe.
In you the filver'd ſcalp no rev'rence moves,
Who, grandame-like, your gruff chaſtiſer proves.
Yet much you gloſe to Love, who ſtops his ear:
For half an eye ſurveys the lovely dear.
XL. To the ſame.

WITH your whole dow'r, when PHILERos you buy;

You let three hopefull ſons with hunger dy.
To hoary Love you ſuch indulgence ſhow,
As modeſt Venus hardly dains to know.
To PHILERos be doom'd th' eternal whore:
Mother more dire, than. PontiA was before.

XLI. To L E L I A.

WHEN thee nor Epheſus, nor Rhodes will own,

When Mitylene's name thou ſcarce haſt known;
Tho' Grecian main, orile, could ne'er complete
The upſtart native of Patrician-ſtreet:
Thy mother ting'd, but by Etruſcan brown;
Thy fire a ſtalker of Aricia's down:
Preſumeſt thou to liſp, without controll,
Zaš za Úuzº l for, My Life and Soul ?
Oh
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Oh ſhamel a daughter of Hersilia thou?

Thee ſhall EGERIA of her clan avow 2

Such ſtrains thy couch, nor ev'ry couch, ſhould hear:

Such wit keeps Lewdneſs for her lover's ear.
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Thou ſtudieſt ſtile that ſuits a matron's uſe:

More luſcious cannot burning luſt produce.

All Corinth ſhould ſhe con, and bid us ſee;
A LELIA ne'er will quite a LAIs be.
XLII. On L Y D I A.

LITTLE LYDIA, more looſe than a brazen horſe-tail;

Than the hoop, where each jingler bejoſtles the nail : -

Than the wheel, that untoucht the ſlim vaulter whips thro':
Than, beſoakt with foul water, the yielding old ſhoe :
Than the flimſieſt net, giddy thruſhes inhales;
Than the awning of Pompey, deni'd to the gales:
Than the braſſlet, from tiſical catamite dropt;
Than the bolſter, no more her Leuconic has propt:
Than the trouſers, that long the poor Briton has wor'n ;
Than the throat, that Ravenna's bird-brayer has tor'n:
Her I’m ſaid to have caught in a pond of the ſea:
The wide pond is the whole recolleåted by me.
XLIII. To L E S B I A.

WW ITH guardleſs and expanded doors,

Is LESBIA's rage reveal'd :
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But any crime conceal’d,

A fond ſpectator joys her more,

Than viſitant moſt vile;
When,
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When, with the vail and lock, the whore,

Each witneſs will beguile.
No chinks diſplays ſuburban ſtew,
Or foſters any flame:
Take Chione, and Helis too,
As paragons of ſhame.
The monuments of ancient wall,
A moral ſhade ſupply;
Inclining tho' on thoſe to fall,
The ſun diſdains to eye.
Northink the Muſe with rancor fraught,
Or quite a foe to fun :
She but forbids thee to be caught,
And not to be undone.

XLIV. To B A S S A.

I HAT with the males thou ne'er waſt known to mix,

Nor e'er gallant did envious ſlander fix;
That thine officious ſex thee homag’d round,
And not a man durſt taint the hallow'd ground:
What leſs than a Lucret IA could'ſt thou be 2

Ah l what was found Th’ adulterer in thee.

To make the mounts collide emerg'd thy plan,

And monſtrous Venus would bely the man.
Thou a new Theban torture could'ſt explore,
And bid adult'ry need a male no more.

XLV. To C A T U L L A.

O Faireſt, of that are, or were ;

Yet fouleſt, e'er that gave to err:

How
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How fondly I my wiſhes waſte,
Leſs fair to ſee thee, or more chaſtel

xlvi. To so PHR on IUs RUF Us.

LoNG have I ſercht, my Soph, the town;
To find a damſel, that would frown.
But, not a damſel will deny ;
As if a ſhame were to be ſhy :
As if a ſin, will no one dare:
I ſee not one denying fair.
* Then of the fair is no one chaſte º'
A thouſand, SoPH : you urge in haſte.
“What does the chaſte Enlarge my views."
She does not grant, nor yet refuſe.

XLVII. To F A B U L L A.

- WHEN FABULLA heard the ſtrain,

Where the poet dares to plain,
That no damſel will deny;
Once, nay twice or thrice, the figh
Of her lover ſhe deſpis'd :
Now FABULLA, be advis'd.
Yield a promiſe, and be clever:
Do, deny; but not for ever.

XLVIII. To the ſame;.

PRETTY thou art, we know ; a pretty maid!

A rich one too: it cannot be gainſay’d.
But when thy puffs we hear, thy pride we ſee ;
Thou neither rich, nor fair, nor maid canſt be.
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XLIX. To the ſame.

OLD women are thine onely friends;

or rivals, ſafe as they.
No other face thy face attends,
To table, porch, or play.

FABULLA, thus thou beauteous art,

And thus thou ſtill art young.
Oh! ſolace to my eyes impart ;
Or ſilence to my tongue.

L. To the ſame.

OF doćtor HEAlth thou wayward child,

For VAINLove haſt thy lord beguil'd.
While thus thou ſend'ſt thy ſmiles aſtray,
Nor HEALTH direéts, nor Hope the way.

LI. On the ſame.

H OW FAB might ſafe to her gallant,

Before, her conſort, ſpeak her pant;
She ponder'd well the methods many,
And thought ſhe would careſs a zany.
The paramour devour'd each ſmack,
And ſent it hot the lady back.
She ſplit her ſides at cully cool,
Who ſurely needed not a fool.

LII. On L E V IN A.

A Sever Sabine dame, LEv1NA pure,

Was, than her ſteddy ſpouſe, ſtill more demure:
Tilſ
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Till now in Lucrine, now Avernus' wave;

But in the Baian, ſhe'd ſupremely lave.
From floods ſhe fell, unwitting, into flames.
Ah! modeſt water, thou the ſource of ſhames'
She left her lord, a ſtripling to purſue:
Who came PENELoPE, an HELEN flew.

LIII. On C L E O P A T R A.

Fo RTH from the bridal bed my Cleo flew,

And into limpid arms herſelf ſhe threw.
The honeſt wave the fair deſerter ſhow'd,
While o'er her limbs pellucid ſhelter flow'd.
So thro' the cryſtal are the lillies told:
So does the gem the bluſhing roſe unfold.
I plung'd ; and caught the dear relučtant kiſs :
Ye, envious waves 1 indulg’d no more than this.

LIV. To E L O P E I A.

I N the new month of Janus, thou haſt flown

Thine ancient ſpouſe, and bid him have his own.
What had he done What was thy cauſe of woe
Thou mute, I'l ſpeak: He pretor was, we know.
The Megalenſian purple muſt have toſt
A hundred thouſand, at the ſtinted coſt.
A public feaſt had twice ten thouſand ſpent.
No parting, Elope1A: management. -

LV. To G A L L O P I N A.

Thou, wedding ſly thy paramour,

Mak'ſt in thy lord thy lover ſure,
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Leſt Julius' law ſhould bid thee whine,
Thou vow'ſt, not vall'ſt, good GALLoPINE.

LVI. On T H E L E S I N A.
v WANToN ING to Betic ſounds,
she in Gadiſh gambols bounds;
Who a Pelias might beguile,
Or the fire at Heótor's pile.
Now her former maſter dies :

Maid he ſold her, miſtreſs buys.

LVII. To T H E L E S I N A.

S INCE Julius' law bade modeſty return,

And gave each honeſt home with bliſs to burn;
Night leſs, not more, than thirty curtains ſpreds,
And her tenth conſort THELESINA weds.

Who ſo oft weds, weds not; by law is doom'd :

Adultery herſelf far leſs preſum'd.

LVIII. To P A U L A.
You R honeſt huſband now you cannot tell,
Whene'er with your gallant you wiſh to dwell;
On the high Alban I betimes muſt ſtand,
Or at Circeii: CesAR gives command.
Now, PAULA, fetch is o'er, device is vain:
PENELope beſeems a NERVA's reign.
But the dire itch forbids, I well muſt own :
Late quits the fleſh, the marrow of the bone.
What ſhall you do? A friend is fick, you'l ſay.
Your lord will ſtick the watcher of your way. *

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With you to brother, mother, fire, he'l go.

what tricks can you contrive, or high or low
Another faithleſs may hyſterics take,
And muſt be cur'd by Sinueſſa's lake.
Be water, PAULA, or your objećt fire;
In town to tarry, or from town retire ;
Your wiſdom you will find, howe'er uncouth,
To make your conſort conſcious of the truth.

LIX. To C A N D ID U.S.

A LONE thou haſt lands, haſt revenues alone:

The gobblets of gold, and of myrrh, are thine own.
The Maſſic for thee, and Opimian are ſhed:
The heart is all thine, and all thine is the head.
Alone thou haſt all things: pretend it not, cob.
A wife thou haſt, CANDID ; but haſt with the mob.

LX. To G A L L U. S.

THE Y brand thy wife in Lybian clime,

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'Tis all a ly, as I ſhall live;

She does not take: nay, ſhe will give.

LXI. On PH I L E N U S : To A W IT U.S.

H OW e'er, PHILENUs, could commence a ſire,

Unearn'd the claim, Avitus, you admire.
The Gaditanian wag the dout removes ;
Who nothing writes, and yet a poet proves.
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LXII. On M I L O’S W IF E.

M ILO abraud, one wonder all declare :

His lands ly fallow, yet his wife can bear.
The contraſt ſtrange ſome deep diviners ſcan :
She has, tho' they have not, a huſbandman.

LXIII. To M I L O.

OF incenſe and pepper, gems, ſilver and cloaths,

The buyers fair booty, thy trade thou didſt make.
Wiſe Milo, of one thou hadſt better diſpoſe;
Who robs not the ſeller, nor ſold will forſake.

LXIV. To C I N N A.

THy MARULLA, dear CINNA, has dubb'd thee a ſire ;

Who perennial preſerves the true conjugal fire.
Not of children, I own : for I well can divine,
That, of all the ſeven brats, not a bratling is thine.
Nor to one dare a neighbor or friend lay a claim:
Ev'ry chub's honeſt features bewray its own ſhame;
That a trucklebed, or ruſty rug gave it riſe;
And that its noble mother was not over nice.

He who bears, with black briſtles, the Moor in his look,

Moves confeſt the ſweet offspring of Santra the cook.
With flat noſe, and thick lips, the next prodigy mocks her:
The preciſe pretty pićture of Pannic the boxer.
That the third is the baker's, need no one be told,
Who did once, by good luck, blinking Dama behold :
But the fourth, with a fair, tho' an impudent face,
Was produc’d thee by Lygdus, thy former diſgrace.
Mark
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Mark the monſter, diſtinét by the head ſo acute,
And by ears that extend, like the ears of a brute ;
That an affes in motion ſo plainly imply:
Who'l the produce, of Cyrrha the zany, deny.
Two ſweet ſiſters, one black and one red-hair'd, we find:
By the ſires, the meek minſtrel, and Carpus the hind.
To its hight were the herd of thy mongrels arriv'd,
If Coreſus and Dindymus were not depriv'd.

LXV. To A N T I QUI L L A.
ALERT ANTIQUILLA, on thee
Kind conſuls three hundred have ſmil'd :
What beauties remain, let us ſee,
Of one but ſo lately a child.

Three hairs, and four teeth, are the dwindle,

Fell Chronus allows thy command:
Thy graſhopper-breaſt, on a ſpindle
As fine as an antling's, can ſtand.

Thy forhead more furrows has made,

Than any high dame in her ſtole:
Thy panters, unpropt, are decay'd
To nets of Arachne's controll.

Think not that I ſerch for thy flaws;

Too mean a purſuit to be mine !

But narrow the crocodile's jaws,
Compar'd, ANTIQUILLA, with thine.

Ravenna's briſk froglings becroke

Leſs hoarſe, my gruff crony, than thou;
And
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And Adria's high hornets invoke

A hum thou canſt hardly avow.

Thine eyes are as clear as thy notes:

Thou ſe’ſt as the owl in the morn.

Thou ſmell'ſt like the lord of the goats :

Compare of each kind is thy ſcorn.

But now, to deſcend to the ſtump :

What gives an old Cynic to rage,
Emaciated duck, is thy rump;
And bony the war he muſt wage.

The bather will blow out his lamp,

To thee ere he open his doors;
Then, careleſs of age, or of ſtamp,
Admit all the buſtuary whores.

Bland Auguſt thy winter we know :

Inſatiate muſt ſtill be thy maw
Ah! how can poor Hymen e'er glow,
Where peſtilence' ſelf cannot thaw
Thou onely two hundred haſt ſlain,
And would'ſt the third century wed;
Would'ſt have a man, madding in vain,
Attend thy cold aſhes to bed.

Yet, wiſht he to harrow a ſtone,

Who'd honor ſuch mate as a wife 2
Whom call'd Philomelus a crone,
Who'd e'er call the love of his life 2

But,
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But, ſcrap'd if thy carcaſe muſt be,

Coricles the clinic ſhall ſtrow

The couch : he alone can agree

With thy hymenean to go. |

The burner the torches ſhall bear,

Before the deſirable bride: *

A torch can alone enter there,

Where Pluto himſelf will preſide.
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LXVI. To a L A DY. º

THUs far the rimes, chaſte Lady, flow'd for thee.

For whom ſhall flow the reſt? My fair, for me.
The ſchool, the courſe, the baths are here: away.
To ogle naked men, thou canſt not ſtay.
After the roſy wine, all ſhame forgot,
The maudlin muſe expreſſion matters not:
Nor muffles metaphor that awfull name,
Which month the ſextile brings the loving dame:
The guardian, whom the clown implores to ſtand,
whom the meek maiden eyes behind her hand.
If well I ween, the paſt provok'd thy ſleep: " .. ... ;

Now of the whole thou'lt ſteal a patient peep."

Lxvii. To the ſame.
I Warn'd you, MADAM, not to read:
But I foretold, and you procede.
If you indulge to ſee ſome plays,
You ſafely may peruſe my lays.

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- B O O K VII.

On the CON VIVIAL MAN N E R S of the R O M A. N.S.

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I. To C A P IT O L IN U.S.

- H APLY remitted from th' Elyſian ſhore,

Should joyous GALBA glad his lord once more;
On jokes, now his, now thine, whoever hung,
Would cry, poor GALBA, hold thy clowniſh tongue.

II. To C E C I L I U. S.

CE CIL, thou a witty knavel

No: thou'rt but a ſaucy ſlave,
And might'ſt’yond the Tiber paſs,
y Trucking match with broken glaſs ;
Or diſpenſe the vetches drown'd,
To the gaping mob around:
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* Alvis cºvºsh ſurvipur-ºr-i-,-- ~~~~
Maſter of the hucſter's clack:
N ay, of croke full hoarſe to cry,
* Smoking ſauſage, who will buy *
Poet, for the city-ſcum ;
Showman, freſh from Gades come :
Mouth effuſing ſuch delights, t

As a doting catamites.
CECIL, then no more conceive,
What thou canſt alone believe.

Jokes thou may'ſt with GALBA ſpit,

SExTY STALLION may'ſt outwit. -

But, on this aſſur’d repoſe:

Ev'ry face has not a noſe.
Nor can ev'ry pert raſcallion
Be a SExTY, tho' a STALLION.

| III. To C A L L I O D OR U S.

Wo ND’ROUS witty CALLIoDoRE I

Salt has ſprinkled thee all o'er.
Tickling, with reſpective zeſt, -

Thou muſt be a pleaſant gueſt.

. . Yet the truth, if blunt, may be :
Not a ſoul will drink with thee.

IV. To PH I L O M U S U. S.

THEE the great may tear away

To the banquet, porch, or play ;
And with thee may make their pride,
Or to talk, or bathe, or ride. -

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→et thou may'ſt miſtake with eaſe.
Thou delight'ſt; but doſt not pleaſe.

W. To the ſame.

By ſuch rare arts, a ſupper you may gain : -

Aſſerting truths, whatever facts you fein.

What Pacorus delib'rates, you report;
Deep in the ſecrets of th' Arſacian court.
The force of ſtates you number, not divine:
Or what Sarmatia ſends, or what the Rhine.
You can diſcloſe the Dacian chief's command,

Ere yet a Cattian conj'rer underſtand.

The conſequence without a cauſe you ſhow:
You ſee the laurels, long before they grow.
You know how oft, on duſk Syene's plains,
The Pharian Jove may waft refreſhing rains.
You run th' extended range of Libya's ſhore;
And ev'ry ſail, that ſallies thence, explore:
Explore for whom the Julian olive twines,
Who muſt fulfil th' ethereal Sires deſigns.
Avant your arts ; and then, ſhrewd PHILoMUse,
You ſup with me: but not one word of news.

VI. To a PAI.R.
A

T HE ſmell-feaſt, who can on your table depend,

Loves neither of you, SIR or MADAM :
To boar, barbel, ſows-tet, and oiſters a friend,
Would be my friend too, if I had 'em.
VII. To
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VII. To S A B E L L U.S.
THREE hundred verſes bid excel,
The baths of Pontic ſupping well.
You want, if one the truth may tell;
To ſup, and not to bathe, SABEL.

VIII. To C A N T H A R U S.
CA NT HAR, thou abraud wilt ſup;
Yet thy tongue unrein'd will be.
Put thy noble ſpirit up :
Glutton never can be free.

IX. To RU F U S: On S E L I U. S.

WH AT has clouded SELIUs’ brow

Prithee, RUFUs, tell me now :
That he treads the porch ſo late:
Somewhat ſure of dolefull fate,
Which his haggard eye would hide
From th' unfeeling ken of pride.
Mark but his indecent noſe ! .

Almoſt to the ground it goes.

Hear him beat his boſom barel

See him rend his hapleſs hair I

Not a brother does he mourn:
Not a friend his heart has tor'n.

Both his ſons enjoy the day:

Long may both enjoy, I pray.
Safe the partner of his bed,
Safe his all: no ſlave is dead.
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Not a hind has fail'd in duty:

Not a bailif has play'd booty.
What is then the ſource of ſorrow *
SELIUs ſups at home to-morrow.

X. On the ſame: To P A U L IN U.S.

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Po OR SELIUs leaves nothing undone,

Home-ſupping when, ah! he foreſees.
To Europes how ſwift does he run
And there how my friend does he teaſe I
* Achilles might boaſt of his feet:

But ne'er had ſuch, PAULIN, as thine:’

And this will he ceaſeleſs repeat,
Till Europe expel him her ſhrine.

Hence then to the Hoards does he hy,

If Phillyra's ſon can do aught;
Or Eſon's, he thinks he will try :
But both bring his wiſhes to nought.

In Memphitic fane he adores;

Sad heifer, he ſoils thine alcoves :
The hundred hung columns explores;
Thence Pompey's own gifts and his groves.

Next Fortune's and Favor's fair baths,

Shrewd SELIUs abhors to diſdain:

Or Grylluſſes gloom, and the paths

Of Lupus’ Eolian domain.
When over and over he's ſtew’d,
In ev'ry ſweet parboiling place ;
And
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And then in the freezer imbu’d,

The god ſends him off with diſgrace.

Well-waſht, to Europa's cool ſhade,

He patient once more will repair;
If late, ſome occaſional aid,
He ſtill may inveſtigate there.

The ſcene of vagaries ſo full,

The vagrant needs cates and a cup :
I thee, and thy rider, briſk BULL,
Adjure; aſk poor Selius to ſup.
XI. On the ſame.

H EAR SELIUs, for a ſupper, ſhed applauſe;

Whether thou read a verſe, or plead a cauſe.
Matchleſs! cloſe! clever! arch I O brave! O bleſt!

I have my wiſh, thou thine: dear SELius, reſt.

XII. On the ſame.

A SELIus ſwears there is no god,

And thus atteſts an oath ſo odd.

Heaven has no habitant, quoth he ;

Elſe how could heaven ſo ſmile on me?

XIII. To C L A S S I C U S.

I Hate to ſup abraud; you proudly cry. >

Ne'er truſt me, if I don't believe you — ly.
Apicius' ſelf would oft a ſupping roam :
His ſpirits ſank, whene'er he ſupt at home.
But, CLAssicus, if ſo you hate, why go
I'm forc’d, you ſay: poor Selius ſtill is ſo.
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Nice Melior aſks you on the ſupping plan:

Where's your I-hate Deny him, if you can.

XIV. On MEN O G E N Es.

I N bath, or hot or cold, you cannot fly
MENogenes, whatever art you try.
With right and left, he'l catch the glowing ball;
To you that he may count his ſpankers all.
To fetch the football from the duſt he'l plod,
Altho' he be juſt newly waſht and ſhod.
A towel take: he'l ſwear it white as ſnow,
Tho' fouler than an infant's clout it flow.
Does the ſplit tooth your ſcanty tufts repair
He vows you combing Achillean hair.
The ſmoky flaſk's deep ſediment he'l bring :
The balmy humor from your brow he'l wring.
He'l praiſe each part, till ev'ry part he numb;
And leave you one laſt pow'r, to falter — CoME.

XV. To C H A R O P I N U S.

IF I e'er ſup at home, and not chance to invite ;

My poor CHAROPINE fills, not with food, but with ſpite.
Nay his rage draws the whiniard to whip my lungs thro,
When he learns that my hearth dar'd to heat without you.
Is my ev'ry ſuch theft an infringement of law
Surely nought is more impudent than ſuch a maw.
Ceaſe, I pray, to attend to my culinar chimes;
And let my cunning cook put upon you ſometimes.

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XVI. To D E N T O.

PR IT HEE, DENTo, what befel,

To my lawfull wonder tell;
When I aſkt thee thrice to-day,
That thou thrice could'ſt ſay me nay?
That thou would'ſt not look me nigh;
- But, when I would follow, fly
Me, for whom thou wont'ſt to ſeek
Bath, and ſtage, and ev'ry creek. -

But I need not now be taught:

Thee a fatter ſupper caught;
And the kitchen, that could draw,
Promis'd larger bones to gnaw.
Thee, the moment thou art known,
Will the wealthy board diſown:
Nor ſhalt thou thy joy conceal
To partake mine humble meal.

XVII. To P R O C I L L U. S.

YE STERNIGHT, it ſeems, I ſwore,

Fifty bumpers hardly o'er,
You ſhould ſup to-night with me;
Inſtant you devour'd the glee ;
And would bind the words of drink :

Dang'rous precedent, I think.

Wofull partner of the bowl,
Proves a reminiſcent ſoul.

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320 M A R T I A L’s E P I G R A M s. . .
XVIII. To S E x T. Us.
To celebrate thy natal feaſt,
Thou dain'd'ſt t' invite me once at leaſt;
Ere yet I ventur'd to pretend,
That Sextus was become my friend.
But, what has prov'd the cauſe, I pray
What have I done, dear Sextus, ſay;
That, after whatſoe'er endears,
The tokens of unnumber'd years,
An ancient intimate, as I,
Should now be paſt entirely by º
I know the cauſe: I have not fool'd
On thee a pound of Spaniſh gold.
No gown I give, of flimſy ſtuff;
No load I lay, of mantle rough.
It is no treat, (depend upon't)
That traffics gifts : no friend thy want.
But, now I hear thee: “ Dog, that ſkipt!'
Th’ inviter onely muſt be whipt. -

XIX. To G A L L U. S.

THo U comeſt, when aſkt; but ne'er aſkeſt again.

If none thou didſt aſk, thou would'ſt challenge no blame.
Both aſking, muſt both wail our weakneſs. How then P
Poor I, have no ſenſe ; poorer thou, haſt no ſhame.

XX. To L U P E R C U S.

TH AT my choice company ſo long you ſpurn,

I now can brethe the fire that bids me burn.
Send,
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Send, aſk, entreat : my kindled rage I'l ſum

In one ſhort ſyllable. Ah! what? I'l — come.

XXI. To F A B U L L U.S.
A Hundred and fifty odd fellows, twice told,
You aſk, each to me quite unknown.
Why I do not come too, you wonder, and ſcold:
I like not to ſup all alone.

XXII. To Z O I L U S.

M E by a ſupper thou believeſt bleſt:

Supremely bleſt, great Zoilus, by thine !
On the Arician cliff he muſt recline,
Whoſe oſtrich-maw thy ſupper can digeſt.

XXIII. To M A X I M U S.

I Hunt your poor ſupper, nor brook I to tell it;

While you hunt another, that ſoon may excel it.
So your ſail you may ſtrike:
For we now are alike.

To give a good morning, when I pierce the cold;

That you're gone to give it, I'm pierc'd to be told.
So your ſail you may ſtrike,
And allow us alike.

Of you, my proud king, I the harbinger prance;

And you, on a prouder, attendance can dance.
So your ſail you may ſtrike,
To a lower alike.
T t Methinks
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Methinks 'tis enough, to be ſlave to the free:

The ſlave of a ſlaver, I never ſhall be.
So your ſail you may ſtrike,
To one more than your like.
A ſov'rain, my friend, muſt no ſov'rain confeſs: .
He can be no greater, nor muſt he be leſs.
So your ſail you may ſtrike:
We at leaſt are alike.

XXIV. On E T H O N.

WHILE ETHoN on the ſacred floor,

Would capitolian Jove adore;

On tiptoe rear'd, and reſupine,

Intent alone on things divine;
Caſting all lower cares behind,
He gave a looſe to words and wind.
His fellow-vot’ries, fixt as he,
Could not repreſs a decent glee :
But the offended fire of gods,
His bolts commuted to his rods;
And doom'd the fumer of his dome, .

Three livelong nights to ſup at home.

Thus humbled for no venial ſin, -

Does EThon penitence begin.

But, when again, with ſtep ſublime,
The Capitol he means to climb ;
He firſt explores Patroclus' cells,
Where awfull Cloacina dwells ;.
And pays the mingled tribute there,
Of fire and watcr. earth, and air.
Tho’
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Tho' thus precaution he fulfil,

He wiſe continues watchfull ſtill ;
Nor deems the meaneſt care minute,

When Jove allows him to ſalute.

XXV. To L I G U R.I N U S.

TH AT happineſs and thee can no man meet,

Where'er thou rom'ſ, that one and all retreat;

That thee a ſolitude immenſe ſurrounds,

The why thy knowlege and thy wit confounds.
The why is this: thou art a very poet.
The fault is not, to be one ; but to ſhow it.
Not ſo, of whelps bereft a tigreſs dire;
Not ſo, a ſunburnt ſerpent in her ire ;
Us not the balefull ſcorpion ſo can ſcare:
What living man can conſtant murder bear 2
Standers thou readeſt down, and thoſe that fit;
And him that runs, and him that works his wit.
Flying into the bath, I waters limn :
Plunging into the pond, I may not ſwim.
I haſte to ſupper; thou detain'ſt in ſpite :
I lean at ſupper: thou enjoy'ſt my flight.
When ſleep would mercifully ſeal mine eyes,
Thou mercileſſly bidd'ſt the ſlumb'rer riſe.
Would'ſt comprehend what worlds thou work'ſt of woe:
The cauſe and conſequence one word ſhall ſhow.
A man for parts and probity rever'd,
Thou art by all, inſted of worſhipt, FEAR'D.
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XXVI. To the fime.

IF Phebus fled Thyeſtes' board,
Is not ſufficiently explor'd :
But I know, mortal or divine,
We all fly, LIGURINUs, thine.
What, tho' 'tis loaded with delight?
Nothing can pleaſe, if thou recite.
I ſcorn thy turbot and thy mullet;
And all elſe, that might gorge the gullet.
I lothe thy muſhrooms, if ſhampinions;
Thine oiſters, of whate'er dominions.
But, would'ſt regale the old and young 2
Give us an — unreciting tongue.

XXVII. To the ſame.

THE ſingle cauſe why you invite,

Is that your works you may recite.
I hardly had my ſlippers dropt,
Nor drempt the entertainment ſtopt;
When, mid the lettuces and ſallad,
Is uſher'd in a bloody ballad.
Then lo l another bunch of lays,
While yet the primal ſervice ſtays.
Another, ere the ſecond courſe !
A third, and fourth, and fifth you force.
The boar, beroaſted now to rags,
Appears in vain: the ſtomach flags.
The labors, that deſtroy each diſh,
Were uſefull coats for frying fiſh.
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Affirm, my BARD, this dire decree:

Elſe you ſhall ſup alone for me.

XXVIII. To P R IS C U S.

WH AT is the higheſt of convivial joys,

A PR1scus' eloquence employs.
In ſofteſt much, much in ſublimeſt ſtrain;
But all in depth will he explain.
Nor ſoft, ſublime, nor deep'ning note
Shall anſwer, if ye aſk my vote.
Reaſon's ſupreme convivial joy concenters,
Where a muſician never enters.

XXIX. To L I B E R.

L IBER, thou ſweeteſt care of friendly foes;

Worthy to live and dy beneath a roſe !
Let eſſence Indian ſtill thy locks o'erſpred,
Still the gay garland bind th' eſſential head.
Deep be thy cryſtals with Falernian flow :
So ſhall thy down with blandeſt dalliance glow.
Whoe'er ſo bleſt has breth'd out half his ſpan,
Has douteſ, far outliva the life of man.

XXX. To the ſame.

- O Thou, whoſe forhead boaſts Amycle's band,

Who deal'ſt the Grecian blows with Latian handl

My nooning why didſt bid the wicker bear,

Nor with the wattles bid the flaſk repair
Worthy thy name hadſt thou the boons beſtow'd,
My LIBER knows what on his friend had flow'd.
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XXXI. To a B O A. R.

D EVOURER of acorn, diſabled by maſt; -

O next to th’ Etolian in fame !

My Dexter's ſure point gave thee thy fatal caſt,

And thou fatal food for my flame.

The ſteam-ſwilling gods may grow fat, as they baſte;

My kitchen ſet mountains on blaze:
My dog of a cook loads of pepper would waſte,
His ſauce with Falernian would raiſe.

Return then, bland BoAR, to thy maſter the ſender :

My fire cannot thee entertain.
With me ne'er goes down ſuch a gueſt an expender:
My abſtinence thus proves my gain.

XXXII. To G A L L I C U S.

OF a fourth, that I, GALLIcus, ſhould be thine heir,

By thine all of ſublime, by thy head didſt thou ſwear.
I believ'd : for who e'er would aſſail his own ſcope P
And by many a fat preſent I foſter'd my hope.

Among theſe, a Laurentian, ſo ſignal in weight;

Calydonian the tuſker, the knowing would rate.
To partake thou the commons and peers didſt implore:
* Cunning Rome (craving pardon) ſtill belches my boar.

Nay myſelf (who'd believe it?) was not the laſt there :
But to me not a rib, nor a rump was to ſpare.
On thy fourth, my good GALLIc, how can I depend,
When an ounce of my boar thou diſdainedſt to ſend ?

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XXXIII. To an E N T E R T A IN E R.

SHAMPINIONs and a boar if you preſent,

As common things, and not my tids ; content.
But, if you fancy that my fortunes ſwell,
And, for five Lucrines, would be heir ; farwel.
Yet ſplendid, the repaſt; ſuperb, I own :
The tranſient joy muſt ſtill expreſs a groan.
To-morrow 'twill be nothing, nought to-day:
Nay, the next moment blows the bliſs away.
This knows the ſpunge, for modeſt office meet;
This know each dog and ciſtern in the ſtreet.
To this all mullet, hare, and tet, muſt tend :
Whence brimſtone-hue, and murd'ring feet deſcend.
No Alban feaſt is worth ſo much to me;
Or Capitolian, or Pontific glee.
The god's own nećtar, I would acid call ;

That, like the Vatican's worſt dreg, would pall.

Then, prince of entertainers, others ſeek,
On whom the vengeance, of your board, to wreak.
Me, to pot-luck, may any friend invite:
The treat, I can return, is my delight.

XXXIV. To M A N C I N. U. S.

THINE invited were yeſterday, MANcIN, threeſcore;

Nor was any thing ſerv'd to thy gueſts, but a boar.
Not the grapes, that the laſt from their parent depend;
Not the apples, that with the ſweet comb can contend :
Not the pears, that are bound by the limberly broom ;.
Or pomgranates, ſo like fleeting roſes in bloom:.
Not
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Not a cone of rich clots, from the country afar;

Not an olive Picenum had pent in a jar.
Naked APER, quite harmleſs, the company charm'd ;

And confeſt himſelf ſlain by a pigmy unarm'd.

But our eyes had the ſenſe, which alone he would feaſt:
On the ſand have we often admir'd ſuch a beaſt.

Hence to thee be a tuſker preſented no more :

But be thou, Charidemus-like, ſerv'd to a boar.

XXXV. To F A B U L L U. S.

LAs T night thou gav'ſt us charming oil ;

But nothing follow'd, roaſt or boil.
To fragrate and to ſtarve is fine:
'Tis more than human, quite divine.
Who does not ſup, with ointment ſpred;
To me appears completely dead.

XXXVI. To V A R U S.

ME to a ſupper friendly Varus bade:

A petty banquet, of profuſe parade.
The gold, not viands load : th’ attendants ſet
Much to be ſeen, and little to be et. -

My hoaſt, ſaid I, we own the vaſt we ow;

Northought to dy away upon a ſhow.
How nobly for our eyes didſt thou purvey !
But bring thy cates, or take thy wealth away.

XXXVII. On A N N I U. S.

Poor ANNIUs had but courſes few :

No more than mere two hundred

Had
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Had miniſters in meaſure too :

Nor ſaw a gueſt, that plund’red.

The diſhes and the plates flew round :

Enjoy, ye great, your ſwill.
But flying banquets us confound:
We wiſh them ſtanding ſtill.

XXXVIII. On C O TT A.
TH AThis ſandals he loſt, twice poor Cotta complain'd,
While a negligent ſlave at his feet he retain'd;
Who, remiſs as he was, made up Cott A's whole train:
So he ſhrewdly bethought, nor bethought him in vain.
That he might no more ſuffer a damage ſo odd,
He reſolvd to procede to his ſupper unſhod.

XXXIX. To G E R M A N U.S.
!
H E RE, GERMAN, flows the Martian, not the Rhine.
Would'ſt bar a native from th' ingenuous lake
Barbarian, ought, repell'd a ſlave of mine,
The ſtream vićtorious captive thirſt to ſlake

XL. To R O M A N U S.

L EST thy Cilician orchards feel the cold,

Leſt, for thy tender grove, the blaſt be bold;
Againſt the gales the cryſtallines convey
The ſuns untainted, and the dregleſs day:
While not a total caſement ſhuts my cell,
Where Boreas' ſelf would hardly dain to dwell:
Of ſuch a ſty thou mak'ſt thy friend poſſeſt
Thy very tree would better lodge his gueſt.
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XLI. To E N T E L L U. S.

WH OE’ER has ſeen renown'd Corcyra's groves,

Would prize the villa, where ENTeLLUs roves.
Leſt envious ſtorm ſhould blaſt the purple bow'r,

And cank’ring cold Iacchus' gifts devour;

The poliſht gem commands the vine to live,
Nor hides the grape, by what ſhe burns to give.
So thro’ the ſilken film will beauties beam :
So count we pebblings in the limpid ſtream.

What pow'rs has nature not made genius ſhare,

..Who bids the barren winter autumn bear 2

XLII. On PAULUs and ATIL i Us.

O UR PAUL, whene'er his languor reigns;
- Still, in his friends, himſelf will treat:
A headake when ATILIUs feins,
My ſportula extends her feet.

XLIII. To P O N T I C U S.
WHEN me, no more a hireling, you invite;
Why equal chear not you and me delight?
You ſwallow oiſters, that the Lucrine feeds :
I ſeek a limpet, till the ſeeker bleeds.
Nice muſhrooms you, plain toadſtools I may blab:
Your treat a turbot, and my diſh a dab.
A golden gorger crams you with his thighs: +
The py, that di'd in pen, my bird ſupplies.' .
Without you why, yet with you, muſt I ſup?
One be our fare : the ſervile baſket's up.
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XLIV. To C E C I L I A N.
WHy ſummon friends at thy convivial hour?
To ſee their hoaſt the muſhrooms dear devour
What ſhall I wiſh thee, worthy ſuch a belly? *

Such as an emp'ror et, a muſhroom-jelly.

ºf .
** XLV. To the ſame.

THE boy has not yet counted five;

And you, my gen'rous gueſt, arrive.
But juſt adjourn'd the roar of law :
Nor Flora bids her brutes withdraw.
Calliſtus, haſte ; and, to the hall, - - -

The miniſters unwaſht recall.

Let them ſuccinét the couches lay:

Be ſeated, good CECILIAN, pray.
Hot water aſk the cold's not come :

The naked kitchen ſtill looks glum.

Come next betimes: why ſtay till five 2

For breakfaſt you too late arrive.

XLVI. To the ſame.

W HATE’ER is ſerv'd, thou ſweepeſt thine:

The parent's udder, porket's chine ;
Heathcoc, for twain of ſocial ſoul;
The mullet half, the ſturgeon whole; "
The lamprey's flank, the pullet's thigh; -

The ringdove, dripping with her fry.

* *

when all within the napkin ſmoke,

Thy boy bears home the motley ſoke.
We ſtare reclin'd : an idle crew 1

For thou haſt left us nought to do. .

U u 2 Reſtore,
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Reſtore, if yet be ſhame or ſorrow :
I did not aſk thee for to-morrow.

XLVII. On S A N C T R A.

WHEN SANcTRA long had rioted in dreams,

And fed his waking mind with future ſteams;
To the ſtill panted, pray'd, purſu'd repaſt,
Him the dear invitation bleſt at laſt.

But oh I poor SANcTRA, waft thou bleſt or curſt,

When on the gorgeous board thine eyeballs burſt P*
The kernels of the boar he thrice demands:
The loin he four times hints he underſtands.

To the hare's either hip, his ſpirit ſprings;

And flutters now, to fly on both the wings.
His ſoul he perjures, for a glorious thruſh:
He beards the oiſters; but he will not cruſh.
With comfits next, behold his napkin grac'd :
In the ſame hoard, the potted grapes are plac'd.
Here a few grains of Punic apples ly;
And there a ſkin, juſt ſcoopt from out a ſty.
Nor is the blear-ey'd fig herſelf forgot;
Nor here forgets the muſhroom maſht to rot.
When the rackt cloth, by many a hundred rents,
Bewrays a thouſand thefts, a thouſand ſents;
The half-gnaw'd bones he foſters in his breaſt,
Where not the headleſs dove diſdains to reſt.
Nor does his dextrous hand abhor the theft,
Of the laſt offals, that the dogs have left.
But lo! he fills, ſuffic’d not thus to eat,
With mingled wine, the flagon at his feet.
When
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When all ten ſcore of ſtairs he home has rais'd;

And ev'ry pow'r, that lent him pow'r, has prais
His treaſure he unlocks; and, ſtrange to tell!
Next morn he condeſcends — the whole to ſell

XLVIII. To S A B I DI U.S.
A Tart around the ſecond ſervice flew,
And burnt whatever hand the neareſt drew.
More burn'd Sabidius' maw: his cheeks he ſwell'd,
And in repeated blaſts his breth repell’d.
The tart, relenting, could admit the touch
But ahl the tart relented now too much.

XLIX. - To B E T I C U S.

NOR mullet delights thee, nice Beric, nor thruſh;

The hare with the ſcut, nor the boar with the tuſh ;
No ſweet cakes or tablets: thy taſte ſo abſurd,
Nor Libya need ſend thee, nor Phaſis a bird.
But capers, and onions, beſoking in brine;
And brawn, of a gammon ſcarce doutfull, are thine.
Of garbage or flitch of hoar tunny thou'rt vain:
The roſin's thy joy, the Falernian thy bane.
I dread thy poor ſtomach hints ſome dark abuſe:
Elſe why, BET1c, reliſh alone the refuſe

L. To P A P J L U.S.
For thyſelf if the tail of a pilchard thou broil,
And on feſtivals ſwill a bean-ſoop without oil;
Tet, boar, hare, and ſhampinions, and oiſters, and mullet,
Thou beſtow'ſt : my poor PAP has nor palate nor gullet.
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LI. To C I N N A. . . .
A MITHRIDATEs, quaffing frequent bane,
Expell'd the fear to be by poiſon ſlain. -

Thou, CINNA, living low, haſt prov'd as ſly;

Enſur'd thou never ſhalt by hunger dy.

LII. To N E VI A,
WHILE thou nor cutt'ſt the fiſh, nor carv'ſt the hare;
And wilt the boar, beyond thy father, ſpare ;
Thou cutt'ſt and carv'ſt the cook, that he ſhould ſend
All crude: no crudity I apprehend.

LIII. To R U S T I C U S.

A Tyrant and glutton, more worthy rebuke,

You call me, kind RusTic, who chaſten my cook.
If ſpoiling a ſupper deſerve not the laſh,
On what juſt occaſion my cook ſhould I thraſh
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LIV. To T H E o Po M P U.S.
W HAT a ſavage, my THE, could ſo ſtupid o'erlook
All thy viſible worth, as to make thee a cook?
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Who that face could pollute with the culinar ſmoke;
Or ſuch hair, with the unétion of fire, could provoke

Who ſhall rather the gobblets and cryſtallines give

In what hand ſhall the blended F alernian ſo live
If ſuch fortune await ſo celeſtial an elf, *

Soon a cook may become Ganymedes himſelf,

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Lv. To P U B L I Us.
WHEN a looſer lad, forſooth,
Than was eer th’ Idean youth,
Miniſters Cecubian juce, - -

Than thy daughter's ſelf more ſpruce,

Than thy mate, or mother fine,
Or thy ſiſter can recline:
Muſt I more thy trappings twang,
Citron old, or Indian fang :
Yet, offenceleſs that I lean,
That I thee, like me, ſerene;
From the herd, or fordid Cot,
Let the homely train be got; • r

Cropt and briſtling, rude, and ſmall * -

- Rankeſt ſwineherd's children all.

Thus, my friend, beware undoing : .
Bluſhes may bewray thy ruin. . -

But thou canſt not thoſe I ſee, -

PUBLIUs, keep, and bluſhing be.

LVI. To A F E R.

H E gives your wine; we ſee the lad :

You glance us with a louring eye.
To view the youth, can that be bad tº
We view the ſun, and ſtars, and ſky.
But I will turn my eyes away,
As were a Gorgon round the cup.
My look I'l cover, leſt it ſtray; .
Until I gulp the gobblet up.
Alcides
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Alcides was a churliſh god ;
Yet, who would, might admire his boy:
And Hermes, brandiſhing his rod,
With Ganymede may ſafely toy.
If handſom ſervants 'tis a ſin,
For any gladded gueſt to ſee ;
Your Phineuſes you may bring in,
And Edipuſſes too, for me.

LVII. To QUINT US O V ID I Us.

TH E pure, my OvID, from Nomentan vines,
If all-improving age's ſmile ſhe boaſt;
Her nature and her name at once reſigns,
For th’ appellation that endears her moſt.

LVIII. To S E W E R U S.

S O ME conſular wine late I drank:

You aſk how ingenuous and old
The Conſul himſelf gave it rank:
My treater the Conſul, I'm told,

LIX. To A M M I A N U S.

- THE ſerpent, grav'd upon the cup,

By Myron's mighty arts;
Bids you the Vatican drink up,
And ſo the bane imparts.
LX. To T U C C A.

- W HY blend old Falernian, thou hunks, let me aſk,

With thy curſed muſt from the Vatican caſk *
What
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What good has thy balderdaſh ever yet done * -

What harm the beſt liquor e'er boil'd in the ſun ?

For us, ’tis no matter: but murder ſuch wine !
And taint the beſt blood of Campania's beſt vine!
Thy gueſts, on the ground, might all merit to ly:
A pipe of ſuch price could not merit to dy.

LXI. To P A M P H I L U.S.
TH oU Setian and Maſſic ſerviſt, PAMPHILUs, up:
But rumor thy wines has accurſt.
p A fourth time the widºwer thou'rt hail'd by the cup:
I neither believe it, nor — thirſt,

LXII. To M U N N A.

W HATE’ER Maffilian furnaces inſpire,

Whatever caſk acquires her age from fire;
. From thee, fell MUNNA, comes. To hapleſs friends,
- Thy love o'er weary waves thy poiſon ſends.
Yet at no eaſy rate: Falernian ſo, f
v2- **,” r

Or Setian, eyen at home, as high might go.

Why Rome ſo long thou ſhunn'ſt, I well divine: - tº
Leſt thou ſhould'ſ chance to taſte thy wretched wine. */ A v

LXIII. To PINA CAUSTUS, or DRINK WARM.

SETIAN nečtar, ſov’rain ſnow !

Circling, as attemper'd, bowlſ
When will ye your bliſs beſtow,
And no quack pretend controll 2
Senſeleſs to a boon ſo rare,
Fool, that would forgo the joy,
X x - To
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To be golden Midas' heir

His be Midas' full alloy.
For him let all Libya wave;
Hermus, Tagus roll their gold:
Burning may he quaff and lave,
Whoſo grudges me the cool’d.

LXIV. To L U P E R C U S.

AF TER a glaſs, unfit for ſtudy,

When ſpeech is thick, and thought is muddy ;
You fetch me, friend, a deed to ſign :
I've freed, you ſay, a ſlave of mine.
He was my father's : prithee ſeal.
To-morrow, LUPERK, freedom deal.
Nor me to-day with bus'neſs throttle:
My ring now ſignatures the bottle.

LXV. To S E XT I L I A N.

W HEN twice five copper coins to a knight are allotted,

With twice ten muſt SExTILIAN alone be beſotted P

Wave the tepid had fail'd the meek miniſters ſure;

If Sextilian's goodnature had ſcrupled the Pure.
LXVI. To the ſame.

I N thee, the wine of five is ſunk:

With as much water, thou wert drunk.

What for thy begging canſt alledge,
From neareſt knight, and fartheſt wedge 2
Nor owns thy grape Pelignian preſs;
Or vine, the hardy Tuſcan's dreſs.
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Thy palate old Opimian aſks;

From Maſſic cell the ſable caſks.

From tavern fetch Laletan dreg,

Above ten gobblets if thou beg.

LXVII. On S Y R IS C U S.

TEN millions late his patron gave,

Syriſcus ſwill'd, licentious ſlave
And enter'd ev'ry tippling door,
In purlews of the bannio's four.
Ten millions ſwallow 1 filthy ſwine!
And ſwallow them, nor once recline !

LXVIII. On A U L U. S.

ON CE ſok'd a noted Phrygian ſot,

Who ſtill a glimm'ring eye had got.
The doćtor bade him ceaſe to drink:

The glimm'rer elſe muſt ceaſe to blink.

: The toper ſneer'd : * Sweet eye, farwel !’
Then order'd forty bumpers fell.
The wine he quaft: nor aſk th’ event.
The eye imbib'd the bane content.

LXIX. On P A N A R E T U S.

WHE N PANARET, maudlin, with ſnap of the thumb,

At midnight commanded the needfull to come ;
A Spoletine came, which himſelf had juſt drain'd :
Nor had it ſuffic'd, that the flagon contain'd.
With utmoſt good-faith redecanting his ſtore,
He crown'd the vaſt veſſel as high as before,
X x 2 Capacious,
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Capacious, you wonder, the pot as the caſkſ

This pure had imbib'd : which accounts for the taſk.

LXX. To C O T T. A.

A METHYSTINE are your bowls,

Elſe the deep Opimian rolls.
With new Sabine I am fool'd :

* Will you quaff, my dear, in gold;"

What a lout would ledden wine,
Or in gold or gem, propine *

LXXI. To E U C T U. S.

TH' antiques of antic EucTUs who can bear

Give me the gobblets of Saguntum's ware.
When of his ſmoky plate he rears the line,
His vapid words beſtum the vapid wine.
* Laomedon's own board theſe cups bedeckt:
For theſe, could Phebus' lyre the walls erect.
With this bold charger Rhetus urg'd his might:
You ſee the weapon weaken'd with the fight.
Two bottoms fam'd from aged Neſtor come:
The poliſht pidgeon boaſts the Pylian thumb.
Here flows the bowl, with which a Peleus’ ſon
His friends could welcome, not himſelf be won.
He order'd there to blend a copious flood,
Of the grape's pureſt, moſt ingenuous, blood.
With this the beauteous queen gave Bytias joy,
When ſupper hail'd the wond’rous man of Troy.’
While ancient vauſes thus your glee have crown'd,
You quaff Aſtyanax in Priam's drown'd.
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LXXII. On the cF U M B.
I M call'd the CRUMB : a petty ſupping home,
From me thou kenneſt the Ceſarean dome.

Prepare the beds, the wines, the roſes, nard :

The god himſelf enjoins thee death's regard.
LXXIII. To his B O Y S.

Twice four Falernians, dear CALLIST Us, pour :

Diffuſe, my ALCIMUs, the ſnowy ſhow'r,
Bid my locks fatten with enormous oil:
With textur'd roſes make my temples toil.
We learn to live from Mauſoleums by,
Which teach us that the gods themſelves can dy.

LXXIV. To C A L A T H I S S U. S.

C ROWN the deathleſs Falernian, my boy;

Draw the quincunx from out the old caſk.
Of the gods who ſhall highten the joy
*Tis, for CESAR five ſwellers I aſk.

Let the garland ten times bind the hair,

To the heroe that planted the fane :
Twice five gobblets replete will declare
The kind god from th’ Odryſian domain.

LXXV. To H Y P N U.S.
HAIL, happy day ! my Julius, hail, reſtorár
Hail, gracious Heav'n, who heard'ſt when I implor'dº
Deſpair proves hope, the fatal ciſars near : -

The leſs they know of joy, who knew no fear.

HYPNUs,
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HyPNUsewhy loiter'ſt 2 pour Falernian wine: - w

Such bleſfings pour’d demand a caſk divine.

Five, ſix, and eight fair brimmers ſhall be crown'd,
And CAIU's JULIUS PRoculus go round.

LXXVI. To F L A C C U S.

My PRIscus loſ return'd from Etna's hight !

The gem, that marks this day, be pureſt white.
Flow, fining caſk, from out the deep receſs :
The hundredth conſul has juſt made it leſs.
When ſhall with ſuch a joy my table ſhine
When feel the fervors of ſo fair a wine *
When Cyprus thee, my FLAccus, ſhall reſtore,
Wiſe luxury again ſhall have her lore. -

LXXVII. To P A U L U. S.

THou bidd'ſt me write againſt the fair,

That ſhe may read, and bluſh, and glare.
The wicked hint is all thy own:
Thou thinkeſt, PAUL, t'enchant alone.

LXXVIII. On R U F U S and N E VI A.

WITH RUF Us, do whate'er he will,

'Tis NEv1A, NEv1A, NEv1A ſtill.
In joy or ſorrow, form or freaks,
His language, her his ſilence ſpeaks.
Eat, drink; or aſk, aſſent, deny;
Sweet Nevia is the ſingle figh :
The burden of the ſong or hum :
Without DEAR NEv1A, were he dumb:
When
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When yeſterday, on her intent,

His duty to his fire he ſent;
Hail, lumination of my eyes |
All hail, my deity he cries.
The father reads, and laughs — Beware:
Thy deity may prove thy ſnare.
The damſel, with the look demure,
Who wrought thy madneſs, work thy cure.
No more thy Nevia ſay or fing:
, Thy Nevia's not the fingle thing.

LXXIX. To R U F U. S.

RUFUs, I muſt plainly deal,

Since you will your water ſteal;
And, tho’ prompted by a friend,
Scarce a drop of wine will blend;
Naughty Nevia, in her ſpite,
Promiſt you a pleaſing night:
And you ſober will prefer
Jocund certainty with her.
Lo! you ſigh, look wiſe, and groan :
She denies my Rufus, own.
Therefore drink your ſorrow down,
And your ſhame in gobblets drown.
Neither wiſe it now, nor weep:
Hapleſs Rufus, you muſt ſleep.
LXXX. To S O M N U.S.

Just INA ſeven bumpers, ſly Pholoe have fix;

Five NEv1A, four LY DE, ſweet IDA but three,
Falernians
º
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Falernians by number the fair one ſhall fix;

And ſince no one comes, come thou, SoMNUs, to me;

LXXXI. To T U R A N I U S.

IF home-ſupping diſagree,
Come, my friend, and faſt with me.
Thou ſhalt have, if thou propine,
Each improver of thy wine:
Headed lettuces, and leeks;
And whateer reſentment ſpeaks.
Tunny ſquare, and ſquat, ſhall ly,
On ſplit eggs, as in a py;
And, to qualify the fiſh,
Sallad green in ſable diſh:
Sallad, freſh from out the ſoil,
That thy unétuous touch ſhall toil:
Sauſage, preſſing ſnowy bed,
Paly bean, and bacon red.
Now, the ſecond courſe begun,
Taſte the raiſins of the ſun;
Or, confeſs it not an air,
That the Syrians name the pear:
Nor diſdain the cheſnut's glow,
We to learned Naples ow.
Quaff, with glee, thy roſy wine:
Quaffing, thou ſhalt make it fine.
If the jolly god excite,
As he wont, the appetite ;
- Olives ſhall expreſs their juce,
Which Picenian boughs produce ;
- And
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And the fitch her fervent pool,

While the hop for thee ſhall cool.
Humble the repaſt, I own :
But accept what may atone.
Here will all be unconſtrain'd :

No one feining, nothing fein'd.

Here, at eaſe, we ſhall recline :
With our faces, thine and mine.
Nor, to mar the ſocial hour, -

Fear, that I a volume pour.

Not a wench, that Gadir coins,
There ſhall ſhake her wanton loins ;
or th’ aſtoniſht eyes ſhall cheat,
With her fairy twinkling feet.
Yet to blend the grave and gay,
Little Condylus ſhall play:
And, the crown of all, thou'lt ſee
One thou’d'ſt ſooner meet than me.

LXXXII. To L U P U. S.

TH E Pharian crew announces eight:

The bald-pates round the heifer wait.
This tempers down the bath's exceſs:
Two cooling hours had made it leſs.
At ſix dread Nero bids it glow,
When natures noonly fervors flow.
Great STELLA, Nepos, CANIUs dear;
My CEREALIs, FLAccus here :
Seven are, ſnug SIGMA, thy content:
Then Lupus makes our complement.
Yy Cathartic
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Cathartic rhallows, and each herb, - -

Or ſalutary or ſuperb; . . . . . 2 ... . .

Whate'er the garden can produce,

For pleaſure, ornament, or uſe,
My holden brought me from my cot:
In which could never be forgot
Stout cabbage-lettuce, chopping leek,
Fell mint, remembrance to beſpeak;
Keen rocket, and what elſe can ſerve,
Amid repaſt, to brace the nerve.
Slic'd eggs ſhall the anchovies crown,
And rue ſhall make the diſh go down.
A porket's udder, not the chine,
Shall ſwim in potted tunny's brine.
All this to bring the reliſh up :
Upon a kidling now we ſup;
Sav'd from the wolf's inhuman paw,
To gorge a feller monſter's maw.
With balls, that no nice carver need;
And beans, that ev'ry bean excede.
To theſe we add the primal ſhoots
Of coleworts green, the firſt of fruits.
But mark the ſcene improv'd, and lo!
The pullets prove the pleafing ſhow;
With the rare remnant of a ham,
Which bade three former ſuppers cram.
Nor ſhall the ſcene convivial cloy:
Nice mellow apples crown the joy.
Now drain the pure Nomentan flaſk:
Frontinus twice has markt the caſk.
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But rich tho' my regales be all,

The prime are jokes, that know no gall:
A liberty that cannot fear,
Tho' morn her harbinger ſhould hear;
And no indulgence e'er ſo gay,
That would a ſingle word unſay.
on politics of wit or ſtate,
My gueſts enjoy a free debate:
On parties purple, white, or blue,
Or of whatever happy hue ;
Their thoughts uncrampt, their language plain :
Our candid cups no ſoul arrain.

LXXXIII. To J U L I U S C E R E A L I S.
IF my JULIUS no happier engagement has made,
Let him come and partake my fine ſupper's parade.
Keep the good hour'of eight: we joint bathers may be.
Steven's baths are, you know, cloſe adjoiners to me.
. .. . . . -

Firſt, the lettuce and leek-ſtrings a whet ſhall afford,

For the ſeries of dainties prepar'd for the board.
Next, the ſpawn of the tunny, already ſo old,
That it larger than lizardling well may be told:
But with eggs well beſmother'd, and leaves of the rue,
Which preclude not the eggs ſlowly roaſted for you :
Or the paſte of Velabrum, rebak'd by the fire;
And the olives, that felt all the cold they deſire.

For the ſervice enough, that but ſets you in taſte :

'Tis no wonder that you for the next are in haſte.
Yy 2 I will
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I will cook you the reſt, to engage you to come :

For my Muſeling can cater and coddle — but mum.

Nor of great fiſh, nor ſmall fiſh, ſhall you be beguil'd:

You ſhall cram with becramm'd fowl, nor want for the wild.
Nay, a freſh-farrow'd dam ſhall extend you her tet:
You ſhall have ev'ry tid-bit, that STELLA ne'er ſet;
Even when friends ſelečt he was fond to invite.

Nay, to promiſe you more, I will nothing recite;

Should you read me your GIANTs again and again,
And reherſe me your RusTics next Maro's own pen.

LXXXIV. On C E C I L I U. S.

A Very Atreus, to the gourds

No quarter CECIL's rage affords:
He fritters, and he chops them down,
As if Thyeſtes' feaſt to crown.
They firſt ſhall hail you, as a whet;
Then firſt and ſecond courſe ſhall ſet.
In varied ſhape and varied hue,
Them ſervice ſhall the third renew.

Of gourd ſhall the deſſert ariſe:

Of gourd are puft the poinant pies. .
Of gourd the comfits, and the cakes;
Of gourd is all the artiſt bakes.
With gourd he can compoſe the dates,
The theater's diſtinguiſht cates.
The cunning cook bedecks the board,
With ev'ry mince and meat, of gourd.
A ſoop
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A ſoop of lentile, or of bean ;
Shampinion is, and ſauſage, ſeen.
With gourd he forms the tunny's tail:
By gourd the cack’rels cannot fail.
With this the butler tries his tricks,
With this can any flavor mix;
With gourd can as acutely brew,
As with the beſt Capellian rue.
Thus Cecil fills his various diſhes,
Thus makes his fleſhes and his fiſhes ;
Crowns plates, and porringers, and cups;
And thinks he moſt ſuperbly ſups:
When, with a penny, and a gourd,
He has ſo vaſt a table ſtor'd.

LXXXV. On Z O I L U.S.
WHoe'ER with a Zoilus' treat can put up,
As well at a proſtitutes table may ſup:
And e'en, while yet ſober, were far better off,

From Leda's lame porringer humbly to quaff. -

Behold him betrickt on the couch he has ſeiz'd,

On either ſide elb'wing that he may be eas'd ;
Supported on purple, and pillows of ſilk:
The catamite ſtanding, that nothing may bilk.
To Zoilus ſqueamiſh his miniſter lends
The ruddy provokers, and lentiſk extends:
And now in a ſwim while he's ſtewing, poor man E
A lolloping concubine flaps the green fan.
As thus ſhe reſtores him to regions of light,
A minion with myrtle puts inſects to flight.
Meantime
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Meantime the bold ſtroker his perſon muſt ſkim,

And ply her arch palm o'er his each lazy limb.

The fingers, now ſnapt, give the eunuc the ſign,

My lord has a mind to alembic his wine.
The latter unwearied perſiſting the filler,
The dextrous emaſculate guides the diſtiller.

The treater converts, the repaſt to complete,

His thoughts, and his eyes, on the crew at his feet.
He duly reflects what to ſervants he ows :
And ſo to the dogs the gooſe-gibblets he throws.

The kernels, and other nice bits of the boar,

He portions to thoſe who have toil'd on his floor:
And, ſleek to plump up his moſt favorite widgeon,
He deals the plump thighs of his beſt potted pidgeon.

To us while the rocks of Liguria preſent,

Or fumes of Maſſilia, their muſt and their tent;
The neétar Opimian he gives to refine,
In cryſtals and myrrhines, for zanies the wine !

Himſelf made eſſential, from coſmus' firſt flaſks,

His gueſts to accept a few droplings he aſks.
From out his gold ſhell ſcarce ſufficing to ſhed
The unguent upon an adultereſs' head.
O'erpow'r'd with deep gobblets, ſweet Zoil beſnores:
And, tho' we recline, none the muſic deplores. *
We ſmile, or we ſwet, or we ſwill, now by nods;
Nor can we revenge — ſuch a feaſt of the gods !

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MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL.

B O O K VIII.

On the R O M A N F E S T L V A L S.

P A R T I.

On the S A T U R N A L I A N S.

I. To R O M E : And D IN D Y MU S.

ON the ſage sit HE-BEARER's days,

When the dice-box rules the bays;
Thou allow'ſt the eaſy ſtrain,
RoME ; nor wear'ſt the cap in vain.
Sweet thou ſmil'ſt: we're not forbid.
I will take thee in the tid.

Hence, ye paly cares, away :

What comes foremoſt, let us ſay.
Nor
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Nor let muddy thought, moroſe,
Interrupt; far leſs engroſs.
Blend the bumpers, pretty ſlave,
Such as Pyth to Nero gave.
Fill them, DIND ; but fill them faſter:
Nothing can thy ſober maſter.
When I once begin to drink,
Fifteen bards will bid me think.

II. To V A R R. O.

VARRo, whom envy muſt allow

A ſoul of Sophoclean fire I
Whom coy Calabria dains tº avow
The lord of her exalted lyre

Defer each taſk: nor let the ſcene

Of magical Catullus ſtay
Thine eyes ; or elegy ſerene,
With treſſes ſoft, in trim array.

The produce of December's ſmoke,

Thou may'ſt (O ſtrange () ſuperior chooſe;
. Unleſs it ſeem the higher joke,
With SATURN's ſelf thy nuts to loſe.

III. To A TT I C U S.

O Atticus ! who doſt thy name atteſt,

Nor lett'ſt thy mighty houſe in filence reſt
Thee the Cecropian train muſt ſtill purſue;
Bland wiſdom love thee, and indulgence woo:
While
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º
While the rough rector batters either ear,
Of thine each brave, and each belov'd compeer;
Whom the mean dauber lubricates to learn,
And riches raviſhes, he ne'er could earn.
Thee neither ball, nor poſt, for bath prepares;
Nor the ſoft liniment for bruiſing bares.
But to the virgin-ſtream wilt thou retire,
Or, where the Bull confeſt Sidonian fire.
Of all the ſports, whate'er the ground or growth;
To play, when thou canſt run, is very ſlowth.

IV. On H. O. R A T I U. S.

1. HoRAce, mid the jovial crew,

Saw the ſhow in ſable hue.

Third, and next, and firſt eſtate,

With the chief all candid ſate.

Sudden burſt the flaky ſnow :

HoRACE ſaw, in white, the ſhow.

V. To a FR I E N D.

D ECO CTED ſnow, well fenc'd by wattling wicker,

I ſend in Saturn's ſeaſon for thy liquor.
If ſuch a gift excite December's frown,
Send me, in great revenge, a ſhaven gown.

VI. On the E N D R O M I S.

TH E frouſy foſter of a female hand;

Of name Laconian, from a barb'rous land;
Tho' rude, yet welcome to December's ſnow :
To thee we bid the homely ſtranger go.
Z z Whether
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Whether in limber liniment thou toil, . . .
Or in the Trigonal thy fibers boil;
Whether thy hand the duſty Harpaſt ſnatch,
Or the Wind-bomb thy flying foot ſhall catch:
Whether the nimble Ayas thou’d'ſt outrun; ſ/ ºw £6 & 4/48
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Or dare the braveſt feat, that braves the ſun :
That into glowing limbs no cold may glide,
That balefull Iris never drench thy pride; -

This fence ſhall bid thee ſcorn the winds and ſhowers.
The Tyrian lawn pretends no equal powers.

VII. To R U F U. S.

WH AT preſents you pour'd, when to catch me you ment?

But, when you had caught me, no more you have ſent.
The ſame winning methods your captive muſt ſtay:
The boar, that ſo battens, will elſe run away.
VIII. To F A U S T I N U. S.

- B EGLOOM'D AthenAgoras lately forbore

The preſents ſolſtitial, he wonted of yore.
I quickly ſhall know, if begloomed he be:
But gloomy, I do know, he conſtitutes me.

IX. To J U V E N A L.
O LD SATURN preſents, to the lord of the lay,
Some filberds to toſs, and to crack with his jokes.
The gay god of gardens gave all elſe away,
Laſt night in a treat to the maid of the oaks.
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x. To a FR I E N D.
NO ſnake of Maſſylia my orchards defends :
No ſoil of Alcinous my wiſhes attends.
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Secure my Nomentan : no robbers are here.
My crabs and my coddlings depend without fear.
Theſe pippins, in genial Subura that grew,
My autumn's beſt produce, have mellow'd for you.
XI. To S E XT I L I A N.

I N the days of old SATURN you dol'd me a diſh,

Which you now throw your damſel, like bait to a fiſh.
On the Calends of March, you enlarg'd my renown;
Now you buy the green weſt with the price of my gown.
The fair fav'rites, Sextilian, you render ſo gay,
Are, by my preſents onely, enroll'd in your pay.

XII. To U M B E R.

To thee, my dear UMBER, what bounties had flow'd,

In SATURN's five days, thou on me haſt beſtow'd.
Of tablets twice fix, and of teeth ſeven pickers;
A ſpunge, and a napkin, and gobblet for liquors :
Of beans, half a buſhel; Picenes, a whole baſket;
Of Laletan ferment, full gloomy a flaſket:
Small Coëtans, with hoary plums fetch'd from afar ;
Of fig, the true Libyan, a ponderous jar:
The value, ſcarce ſeſterces thirty in all;
Yet bor'n by eight Syrians, brown, luſty, and tall.
What neatneſs and eaſe might the preſent have crown'd,
Had one boy but brought me of ſilver four pound !
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XIII. To Post U M I A N.
Two pounds of fine filver you ſent,
To highten the ſolſtices glee.
The boon ten years ſince gave content,
And ſpoke you PostumiAN to me.

Next year I depended on more,

As bounties ſhould never grow leſs:
And what came to ſtrengthen my ſtore ?
Juſt half the four pounds, I profeſs.
The third and the fourth miniſht ſtill,
The fifth brought a pitifull pound:
A diſh of eight ounces to fill,
The ſixth generoſity crown'd.
And now half a pound in a cup ;
A ladle then, leſs than two ounces :
A ſpoonlet now gave me to ſup,
Tho' light as the fether that flounces.
Nought has the tenth twelvemonth to ſend;
To ſee her endevor I burn.
Postum1AN, my counſel attend:
To four honeſt pounders return.

XIV. To P A U L Us: On his vial.

RAPT from the pretor's crown, a leaf you ſend;
To which, fond PAUL, a via!'s name you lend.
With ſuch a cloud was late thy pageant ſwell'd,
Which ruddy crocus' paly wave diſpell’d.
Or
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Or was it pickt, as I ſhould ſhrewdly dread,
By ſlave's ſly tallon, from thy pompous bed
A gnatling's wind gives all its frame to ſigh :
It feels afar the balefull butterfly.
* A lampling's ſteam the flying vauſe ſuſtains:
The wine's moſt light infuſion burſts its veins.
Such foil upon his date the client flings,
At Janus' Calends, when his bribe he brings.
With leſs fine fibers ſleazy beans are ſpun :
Far ampler lillies flag before the ſun.
No toils ſo ſlim the vagrant cob extends:
From work ſo ſlight, no ſilken grub depends.
On old Fabulla's face, much thicker dwells
The white; more denſe.th' offended bubble ſwells:
More ſtrong the film, that binds the tortur'd hair :
More ſtrong the ly, that makes the Latian fair.
With ſkin like this a Leda's chick is clad :

Such band forbids the ſpleenfic to run mad.

Why mock me with your phial, pert buffoon,
When you could ſend a ladle or a ſpoon f
Nay leſs : could ſend a ſnail or cockle, PAUL *
In fine, when you could — nothing ſend at all
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xv. To INST A N S (or INST ANT) RUF Us: On his.

TH E wond’rous form could Mys' or Myron's art,
Or Mentor's thine, or Polyclete's impart
Thy ſpotleſs, cloudleſ, maſs muſt all admire:
From dreading far, thou dar'ſt the teſt of fire.
True amber radiates leſs a golden ſtream:
The poliſht elephant we rudeneſs deem. t

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The rich materials not the work abſorb,

Tho' thus the moon collečt her plenar orb.
Forth ſprings the goat, th’ Eolic fleece unſhor'n,
On whom poor Helle better had been born.
The dire Cinyphian ne'er had hurt his hair:
Nor, dear diſſolver of each mortal care,
Hadſt thou deni'd this goat to crop thy vine,
Or fanci’d him a foe to thee or thine.

With winged Love behold the beſtial crown'd :

Hear from his mouth the lote Palladian ſound.
Such joy Arion to the fiſh convey'd,
when thro' the ſtilly main the rider play'd.
The precious boon with the nećtareous dew,
No vulgar hand; but, Ceſtus, thine imbue.
Then with the blended Setian bid it burſt:

The boy and buck appear alike to thirt.

Who ſhould the num'ral of the gobblets name,
But he from whom the peerleſs gobblet came *
Freſh for th’ inſpirer, if ſhe do not ſwerve,
Thy trient, Rufy, ſhall thy friend preſerve.
If I muſt dout, a ſeptunx ſhall beguile;
And bid my ſoul alternate figh and ſmile.
But, if I find the faithleſs fob me off;
To kill my cares, I both thy names ſhall quaff.
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XVI. To LU PUS, or PIKE,
TH OU gav'ſt me, PIKE, near town a ſpot:
An ampler has my window got.
And call'ſt thou this a ſpot to rove?
A ſprig of rue, Diana's grove?
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The tunefull cigal's wing belours,

An emmet in a day devours;
A ſhut roſe-leaf can wreath her flow’rs.
In this no more an herb is found,
Than coſt or pepper, raw or round.
In this no coucumber can ly;
Nor ſafely ſlide the ſerpent ſly.
One palmer ſtarv'd, my garden feeds:
A gnat muſt dy, for want of weeds.
For me, the mole both digs and ploughs:
Shampinion here muſt make no mows.
The fatteſt fig can never laugh:
A villet opens, but by half.
The mouſe, that ranſacs my domain,
Is, like the boar Etolian, ſlain:
Dire Procne's pounce, a flying peſt
My crop depoſits in her neſt:
For, would he bill and plume forgo;
A Priap half I could not ſhow.
The cockle's cramm’d, if harveſt glut;
Our muſt we tun in pitched nut.
I’I tell thee, PIKE, what I prefer:

Thou didſt, but by one letter, err.

When thou preſentedſt me the soil,
I wiſh it had been roaſt or BoIL.

XVII. To a P. R. E. T E N DE R.

For the little boon that went,

You, regardleſs, nothing ſent:
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And, what hightens my amaze,
Five has SATURN ſeen his days.
Scruples none of Septy's name,
Nor a cloth from client came.

Not a jar ſo ſweetly red,

With the blood poor tunny ſhed:
Nor the texture of the twigs,
Fraught with tiny Coëtan figs ;
Nor the wiſely-wattled frail
With Picenian wrinkles pale:
That you ſhould prefer the plea,
You had once remember'd me.

Others then you may beguile

With your ſilken words and ſmile :
You to me have ſhown your plan;
So are half an honeſt man.

XVIII. To Q U I NT I A N U. S.

IF, in the month, when napkins fly;

When limber lingels love imply ;
When aw preſents the waxen taper;
And wit the pure, or blotted, paper;
When the trim pyramidic jar
Imports the damſons from afar;
I offer nought to entertain,
But homeſpun bantlings of my brain:
Perhaps a hunks I ſeem, ſcarce human ;
But ſhall, I hope, be found a true-man ;
When I aſſure you how I hate
The preſents onely clothing bait:
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For gifts are hooks, with wicked wiles,
As fly the greedy char beguiles.
Thus, when to any potent friend
(My QUINTIAN may on me depend.)
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The feeble friend will nothing dole,
The humble proves the noble ſoul.

XIX. On S A B E L L U.S.

OF Saturnian joys a Sahelius may tell,

And diſplay the new riches that give him to ſwell.
He may think, mid the pleaders, and ſafely declare,
That himſelf is moſt bleſſed beyond a compare.

Say, my Muse, what makes BELLY ſo proud and ſo vain?

of ſplit beans half a peck, half a buſheſ of grain.
Of frankincenſe and pepper, thrice half a pound ſtanch:
A Lucanian ſauſage, Faliſcian panch.
Or of deep muſt decočted a Syrian flaſk;
Superfine candi'd figs, a fair Libyan caſk:
With ſome ſcallions, perwinkles, ſome choiceſt of cheeſe;
And whatever a high-pamper'd palate can pleaſe.
Nor, amid Saturnalian boons, be forgot
Of old half-ſhrivel'd olives, no overgrown pot:
Nay, of crockery ſmooth'd with the potter's rough tool,
See a ſweet ſet of ſeven, ſays the Saguntine ſchool.
Tho' his plate burniſh neither the filver nor ſteel, :
'Tis the well-temper'd clay of a good Spaniſh wheel.
On a board ſo ſuppli’d univerſally ſpred,
With a cloth of braud border, white ſtriving with red.
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Now can envy unburſt eye the cloth, plate, or cates;
If but half be the truth, that SABELLUs relates ?
Can ſhe deem that SABELLUs, or lawyer alive,
Taſted richer Saturnians theſe twelvemonths twice five

XX. To G A L L A.

Now the ſad ſchoolboy crawls from play,

Call'd by his awfull lord away; *

And, now by his dear box betray'd,

Dragg'd from a tippling hole diſmay’d,
The gambler reeling on his legs,
The Ediles gracious pardon begs.
Our joys are o'er, thou muſt confeſs ;
Nor greater preſents thou, nor leſs,
Haſt ſent to chear the ſocial ember;
But ſo let drawl our dull December.

Thou, GALLA, know'ſt a feaſt a coming,

And doutleſs ev'ry hour art ſumming.
Nor do I, more than thou, abhor
The Calends of the god of war.
Then, GALLA, will I pay, with reaſon,
The love thou ſhow'dſt our feſtal ſeaſon.

XXI. To a K I N S M A. N.

D ID the olive Picene pale my thruſh,

Or the Sabine wood tenter my toils;
Did the friſker meet my growing ruſh,
And my rod glue the fluttering ſpoils: .
Thee the preſent ſhould ſpeedily find,
That beſeems a relation ſo dear.
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Not a brother, to my fondling mind,
Or a grandfire himſelf were more near.
Now the lands, all agape for the grain, - - - - -

with the plaints of the chaffinches ring :

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So they hear the poor ſtarling complain,

While the ſparrow bechirrups the ſpring.

Here the py bids the ploughman good-day,

- who enchanted gives Mag the reply:
There the kite ſoars not empty away, -

And his ſhelter explores in the ſky.

Then the produce of my little coop, .
Take inſted, my kind cousin, with glee :
If ſo far thy goodnature can ſtoop,
Thou ſhalt oft be ſo cozen’d by me.
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XXII. To F L A C C U.S.
ON the feaſt of loves children, when many a fine bird
Is preſented to cognates (no practice abſurd)
While ſome thruſhes for STELLA and thee I prepare,
O what crouds fill my fancy, each claiming his ſhare
To win two was my wiſh: but then, how do I chafe l
To offend all the reſt cannot be very ſafe.
My forgiveneſs I'l earn; and I care not a ruſh:
Nor to Stella II ſend, nor to Flaccus a thruſh.

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P A R T II.

On the NATAL and NUPTIAL CELEBRATIONS.

I. To D I O D O R U S.

THy natal the ſenate, great DIoDoRE, hails;

And many a knight dains to partake thy regales.
Three times the due largeſs thy baſket beſtows:
Yet, that thou hadſt e'er a birth, nobody knows.
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II. To J U S T IN U.S.
FULL fifty friends kind JustiN's call obey,
To the glad ſervice of his primal day.
Nor wont I, JustiN, to be rang'd the laſt,
Nor on my place a glare did envy caſt.
Mine, now the honors of the after mornſ
To fifty thou’rt to day, to me to-morrow born.

III. To C L Y T U S.

CLYTUs, to ſqueeze another boon,

Is born eight times a year:
Scarce four commencements of the moon,
But birthdays muſt appear.
Thy face than pebbles ſmoother be,
Where tunefull waters flow ;
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Thy blacker ringlets tho' we ſee,
Than e'er the dropping ſloe :

Thy
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Thy trembling ſoftneſs may excel
The plumage of the ſky;
Or, ſtill to bear a finer ſwell,
New-clotted milk bely:
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May bear the ſwell, that heaves the breaſt
Of the maturing maid;
Where modeſty empal'd her neſt,
Tho' youth and beauty play'd :
To us young Clytus muſt be old;
What wonder muſt it raiſe,
If Priam, or if Neſtor, told
So many natal days l - ~

Then, Clytus, bluſh; awake thy worth ;

And quell vile rapines call:
If not contented with one birth,
Thou ſhalt have none at all.

IV. To R E S T IT U T U S.

WITH feſtal rites, let pious Rome,

In guiſe, the antipode of gloom, -

Oćtober's Calends hail :

With ſolemn vows, and ſilent aw,
Approach to greet the man of law,
And ſoftly tread the vale.

Quieſcently judicial fray;

The orator was born to day:
Ye vot’ries, bring no traſh.
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Let tapers, tablets, toilets fine,

Their jokes to jocund days confign,
And tempt December's laſh.

Let all the heirs of thy ſucceſs,

To crown the heroe of redreſs,
In gratefull tokens vy.
To thee the ſwelling ſon of trade
Shall bid the robes be all diſplay'd,
That boaſt Cadmean dy.

Of riot and aſſault arrain'd,

The wight, ſo innocent maintain'd,
A revel-veſt may render:
The youthfull and the injur'd dame,
Who clear evinc'd her lord to blame,
True ſardonyx will tender.

A hoary peer, empow'rd by thee,

To carry up his pedigree,
Muſt burn to pay his det.
The mode alone he ſtudious ſeeks,
And, deeply verſant in anteeks,
Preſents a Phidian ſet.

The jolly hunter brings a hare,

The honeſt hind a kid will bear;
The fiſher robs the ſea:

If ev'ry client ſend his own,

Who know'ſt ſo much, haſt thou yet known,
What may be ſent by me?
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v. To v I R G I L I A N U.S.
GREAt Hermes graed the Ides of May,
Auguſtus' Ides were Dian's day;
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VI. To QUINT US O V ID I U.S.

NE’ER truſt me, if I do not love
(Thou deep deſerv'ſt, that I ſhould ſay)
Thine April-Calends, far above
The Martian of thy Martial's day.
Thrice happy either morn aroſe:
With brighteſt gems they both ſhall ſhine.
One, life; and one, a friend, beſtows: -

Thy Calends bring me more than mine.

VII. To the ſame.

ON thy feaſt, my QUINTus, I meant to beſtow
A few petty preſents: thou ſaid'ſt me, No, no.
So deal thou with me, as thy will I obey:
And pleas'd be we both, upon my natal day.

VIII. To the CAL END S of M A. R. C. H.

MARSEs Calends, ne'er outſhin'd. 1

Faireſt of the Calend-kind I
When to me the maids preſent
Fifty cakes for half a Cent: -

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With the fifty, truth requires
Cenſer ſeventh, upon your fires.
Still to theſe, if ſo be beſt,
Add twice nine, I meek obteſt ; - {
That, not yet quite ſpent with age, -

Tho' thrice trod the youthfull ſtage,

I may ſeek Elyſian groves :
Earthly wiſh no wider roves.

IX. To the ſame.

HAIL, holy lightſ who didſt to me diſplay

The roſy morn, before the god of day.
If ruſtic altars ſoil not thy renown,
Which erſt I hallow'd in the Latian town, .

Indulge the freedom thou didſt dain to give, -

And on my natal day, oh! let me live.

But ſudden, mid the genial feaſt, to pale,
Leſt the wave fervid ſhould Sabellus fail;
Or, leſt Alauda ſhould not quaff the fine, - -

To ſend, thro' anxious ſerce, Cecubian wine ;

And, 'twixt the courſes, ſtill to come and go ;
To hail ſome friends leſs ſwift, and ſome more ſlow : -

Thro' the repaſt, on foot, to be the fool -

To beat the marble, than the ice more cool

Why with ſuch pennance blend a joy ſo high -

Should thy lord paramount command, deny.

On the ninth to the CALEND S of NOVEMBER.

H AIL, bounteous day ! of more devoted joy,

Than that, when conſcious Ida own'd her boy.
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Protraćted come, beyond the Pylian year:
Still with this face, or brighter ſtill appear.
Oft to his goddeſs give he gold to glow:
Thro' hands Herculean many an oakling go.
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Hail he new ages with immenſe ſurvey,
And keep Terentus' own high holiday.
Great things, ye pow'rs, we aſk; but what ye ow:
Our vows avow no crime, but as too low.

XI. On the ſame.

H AIL, prime of days 1 all hail th’ imperial morn,

when Cybele had wiſht her Thund’rer born. -

This day my Rufus' pure Ceſonia blow'd.

To mother never more a daughter ow'd ;
Or man to both : he owns the various bliſs,
, Nor e'er could fear conflićting joy like this.

XII. To M A R C E L L IN US.
H AIL, happy third beyond the Ides of May
Twice, my dear MARCELLINE, thy holy day.
This brought thy parent to th' ethereal gales:
This of thy down the primal harveſt hails.
On this whatever joys have whilom flow'd,
More on a father never day beſtow'd. :

XIII. On C A N I U. S.

Say, my Muſe, what my CANIUs may now be a doing?

Is he haply the annals of Claudius purſuing 2.
Or aſſerting to falſifi'd Nero his due,
And tranſmitting the truth to poſterity's view
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Does he rival arch Phedrus in jeſt and in jeer

Is his elegy gay, or his epic ſevere
In a Sophocles' buſkin full dire does he ſtalk?
Or at eaſe in the ſchool of the bards does he walk 2

Does he there give his audience enraptur'd to glow,

With the ſalt which an Attic rejoices to ſtrow
Or the portico hence does he bruſh of the fane
Does he traverſe the ſpace of the Argonaut-train
He may now be indulging the ſolar delights,
Where Europa's cool boxwood ſo kindly invites;
May be fitting or ſant'ring in that bleſt repair,
Independant (ſo godlikel) of each carking care;
In a Tituſes therms or Agrippa's may lave,
Or in Tigelline's bath, that moſt impudent ſlave.
He a Tullus' and Lucan's retirement may ply,
Or, to Polio's ſweet ſeat at the fourth, he may fly;
Or, to Baian fam'd boilers advanc'd on his way,
In the Lucrines live mirror may ſluggiſhly play.
Would'ſt thou know what thy Canius is doing, thou calf?
He's enjoying, as thou may'ſt thy own, his dear laugh.
XIV. To C A S S I A N U. S.

O F mariners the gay annoy,

of death the ſweet, the ſour of joy;
Whom whoſo heard, could never quit,
Them left Ulyſſes, by his wit.
I ſtare not, CAssi AN ; but ſhould glory,
Had he left CAN1Us and his ſtory.
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XV. To C A N I U.S.

H AIL, happy CANIUs! hail th’ auſpicious hour,

That gave THEoPHILA, with Grecian dow'r?
Her might the ſages Attic garden claim :
. The ſtoic proud were proud t'enroll her name.
Thoſe ſtrains ſhall live, that paſs an ear ſo chaſte :
Nor hers is female, nor familiar taſte.
Not thy Pantenis dare diſdain her ſong,
Careſt herſelf by the Pierian throng.
Fond Sappho would confeſs a fiſters praiſe;
Her chaſter fame, nor leſs exalted lays.
XVI. To R U F U.S.

To Pubens ſee the beauteous Claudia vail:

Hail, charming torches l thrice, bleſt Hymen, hail!
So the rare cinnamon with ſpikenard blends:
So Maſſic blood Theſean combs diſtends.
Not more the elmlings on the vinelets dote ;
* On ſhores the myrtle, or on ſtreams the lote.
Fair Concord, o'er their conſtant couch preſide;
The dovelike yoke delighted Venus guide.
Him, ſpite of years, may ſhe ſtill lovely deem :
May ſhe to him in youth perennial ſeem.

XVII. On C L A U D I A.

FRoM ſky-blue Britons, while we CLAUDIA trace ;

How do we OWn her ſoul of Latian race

Of nations diverſe, nature joy'd to blend

A form, that Rome and Athens might contend.
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Ye pow'rs how bleſt muſt the poſſeſſor be

What progeny eſpous’d the girl may ſee I
Kind heaven give him one conſort to enjoy 5.

And may three ſons her conſtant thanks employ.

XVIII. To M E R C U R Y : For C A R U S and N OR B.A. N.A.

CYLLENE’s glory and Olympus' crown,

Melodious miniſter of men and gods
Whoſe golden wand, bright emblem of renown,
With blooming dragons ſtill connubial nods.

So thee no ſurreptitious fountain fail,

Whether the Paphian or the nymph endear:
So verdant ſtill thy parent's Ides prevail,
Nor e'er thy grandfire's load become ſevere.

Still, with NorBANA CARus hail the day,

This day, that ratifi'd the holy bands.
He Wiſdom's rites, her pious prieſt, ſhall pay:
Thine incenſe he, while true to Jove he ſtands.

XIX. On S U L P IT I A.

LET ev'ry dame SULPITIA read,

Who but one Iord would pleaſe :
SULPITIA's be each bridegroom's creed,
Who'd ſet one bride at eaſe.

She neither boaſts the Colchian's rage,

Nor bids Thyeſtes dine:
No Scylla's nonſenſe ſtrains her page, . .
Nor fabling Byblis, thine.
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The pureſt loves ſhe ſo diſplays,
The joys ſo known to few ;
That who her wit with candor weighs,
A chaſter never knew.
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Such oracles Egeria gave,

In her renown'd receſs;
That Numa held her oozy cave,
The hant of happineſs.

Ingenious SAPPHo! ah, how loſt ſº

Hadſt learnt, like them, to play;
Thou wert more knowing than thou waſt,
Tho' e'en as chaſte as they.

But were thy ruthleſs PHAoN here,

To ſee both thee and her 3
He ſtill, to break thy heart, I fear,
SULPITIA would prefer.

In vain: for not the pow'r of Jove,

Nor Bacchus’, Phebus' love,
Could tempt her widow’d heart to rove.
Or wander from her dove.

XX. To C A L E N U's.
FIFTEEN heavenly nuptial years,
Thou haſt with SULPITIA ſeen :

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Night and day alike ſerene.

Oh! what joys the couch could own,

As emparadis'd ye lay,
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She, tho' drunk, would ne'er betray.
Not an hour but has confeſt
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Luſters three have ſtood the teſt:

Thou need onely number them.

Atropos thou oft haſt aſkt,

Of thy book again a page:
Higher would'ſt thou prize that caſt,
Than four times the Pylian age.

XXI. To N I G R IN A.

O Bleſt, in temper 1 in a conſort bleſt I

Amid e'en Latian dames, perhaps the beſt ;
Thy grand domain thou glorieſt to divide,
With ſuch a partner, thy ſo juſt a pride.
On pile connubial riſe Evadne's end :
Nor leſs aloft AlcestE’s fame aſcend.

The living pledge exalts thy name above;

Nor makes the cloſe of life, the teſt of love.

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MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL.

B O O K IX.
On the FUNERAL CELEBRATIONS of the Romans.

I. On A NT IS TIUS and N I GR IN A.

FAR in a ſavage Cappadocian dell,

By thee, clime criminal Antistius fell.
His bones NIGRINA to her boſom preſt;
And, all ſhe had of comfort, ſtill careſt.
When, the rich remnant, home ſhe would convey;
Thro' the long taſk, ſhe mourn'd the ſhort'ning way:
And, when entomb'd the ſacred urn ſhe left,
Of her dear lord ſhe ſeem'd one direr time bereft.

II. To S E M P R O N I A.

W ITH wreath Pierian who his temples bound,

Of voice, to quaking culprits ſo renown'd ; *

SeMPRON1A,
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SEMPRONIA, here ; ah! here thy Rufus lies,
Whoſe flame for thee not in his aſhes dies.

At thy ſweet ſtory all Elyſium gaz'd,

And at thy rape figh’d Tyndaris amaz'd.
She owns her higher, who ſo well abhorr'd
The raviſher, and flew to find her lord.

She grieves that hers ſhe ſo diſdain'd, when ſought;

And ceaſeleſs wails the world of woe ſhe wrought.

Pleas'd Menelaus laughs the loves of Troy:
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Thy raviſhment abſolves th’ Idean boy.

When of the pious thou ſhalt glad th’ abodes,
No ſhade more known ſhall tempt the Stygian roads.
No ſtrangers, are the rapt, to Proſerpine :
Thy fam'd amour has won thee love divine.

III. To W A R U S.

IN Egypt's towns, by Latian vine renown'd,

With honors of a hundred heroes crown'd :

To thy Quirinus promis'd, ah! no more,

Thou walk'ſt, a ſtranger-ſhade, a Lagus' ſhore.
Why could not I thy cooling lips bedev
Why ſhed no incenſe on thy pile of yew
But, VARUs, thou in ſong ſhalt never dy.
Canſt thou, fallacious NILE, e'en this deny P

IV. On F U S C U S.

G UARD of the ſacred life, of primal pow'r,

Lord of th’ imperial camp, in luckleſs hour:
Here FUscus lies. Dread fortune this muſt own:

No hoſtile threats can agitate a ſtone.

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Nor vainly with fell Dacia vengeance ſtrove:

The vićtor-ſhade commands the vanquiſht grove.
V. On S A L ON IN US: To PRISC U.S.

D EPOSITED in fair Iberia's plains,

Sleep awfull SALONINUs’ bleſt remains:
Than who a holier never hence could go;
Or, happier, viſited the ſhades below.
But ſorrow ſins: for, who left thee alive,
Lives, PRIscus, where he panted to ſurvive.

VI. To L U C A N and T U L L U.S.

WERE LucAN's lot, or ſuch, my TULLUs, thine;

Like Leda's ſons', Laconian or Divine;
Keen would ariſe once more the pious ſtrife,
Who for his brother ſhould reſign his life.
He'd ſay, who ſooner to the ſhades had flown:
Live, BRoTHER, all my days, and all thine own.

VII. To L U C A N.

To wcary heaven, while gen’rous brothers vy,

Thou, LucAN, earlier haſt obtain'd to dy. -

Nor ſeek'ſt unenvi'd thou the ſhades below:

TULLUs, thy younger, glad would elder go.

Bleſt tenant of the bland Elyſian grove,
Now firſt would'ſt thou without thy brother rove.
2 Would CAstor leave the light, to pay thy love;
A Pollux thou would'ſt bid him ſtay above.
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VIII. On A QUINUs and FABRI c1 U.S.

By his FABRicius brave Aquinus lies,
Who glories that he ſooner ſoar'd the ſkies.
Their altar ſpeaks them of conjunct command,
But both by theſe thou'lt better underſtand:
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Rivals IN LAUDED LIFE, IN ARDUous END ;

EITHER, sounds wonD'RING FAME, was STILL A FRIEND.

IX. On V E S T L N. U S.

WoRN with diſeaſe, Vestinus verg'd his laſt,

And to the Stygian flood was poſting faſt:
The ſiſters twirling ſtill, he dain'd to pray,
They'd ſpin his ſable thred with ſome delay.
Dead to himſelf, while to his friends he lives;
The ſterneſt goddeſs beſt attention gives. -

His vaſt poſſeſſions ſhar'd, he quits the ſtage;

And hails departure in a ripen'd age.

X. On C U R I, A T I U. S.

To Ardea, Peſtum, roam, and e'er ſo far;

Or glow beneath the Cleonean ſtar:
While CURIATIus damns Tiburtian gales,
As down the healthfull ſtreams to Styx he ſails.
The Fates no place debars: if Death be there,
Alike is Tibur's and Sardinia's air.

XI. On P 1 c E N S.
THR EE teeth he had, and out they flew,
Himſelf as by his grave he found.
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He pickt them up, with pious view ; -

And, awfull, laid them in the ground.

Mine heir, thought Picens, when I dy, -

May not perhaps collečt each bone :

Myſelf ſuch failure ſhall ſupply,
And ſomewhat for my heir atone.

YII. On E T R U S C U S.

HeRE lies the courtier, in no early hour,

Who felt, unmov’d, contending ſhocks of pow'r,
Him, by his Love, united duty laid:
Th' Elyſian grove poſſeſſes either ſhade.
Soon ſummon'd, ſhe had hail'd great Natures law i
But he well nigh thrice ſix Olympiads ſaw.
Snatcht muſt imagine him in verdant years,
Whoe'er beheld the young ETRuscus' tears.

XIII. On R A B I R I U.S.

YE, who a late and an auſpicious end,

To parents pray, this marbles lore attend.
Both lays RABIRIus in the ſacred ſpot:
Sweet ſpouſes ne'er eſpous'd a fairer lot.
Twice ſix bleſt luſters one mild evening clos'd :
One love they liv'd, and on one pile repos'd.
Yet theſe he mourns, as rapt in richeſt prime :
Such filial floods ariſe a filial crime.

XIV. On S E V E R U S : To S I L I U.S.
TH EE, SILIus, not one way renown'd,
Thy rapt Severe in ſorrow drown'd :
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Each muſe, nay Phebus, mourn'd with me:

I wept my Linus too, ſaid he
Calliope then caught his eye:
‘Sweet fiſter, thou haſt had thy figh.
Palatine and Tarpeian Jove ;
'Gainſt both bold Lacheſis has ſtrove.

If fate with us can be at odds,

No more let envy load the gods.’

XV. On the pićture of CAM ONUS.

THIS piaure aves the ſemblance of the child:
And thus the infantine edition ſmil’d.

The blooming looks no pencil's art compos'd :

A father could not meet the lips for ever clos'd.

XVI. On the ſame.

Such were the features my CAMonus wore,

While yet th' enchantment of the child he bore.
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Stronger they grew, by twice ten manly years :
Th: aſpiring down, juſt unaſpiring, peers.
One beauteous glow of purple ſpred the cheeks;
Which the ſwift envy of one fate beſpeaks.
With haſten'd taſk ſhe nipt the vital thred,
And ſent the ſire the aſhes of the dead.

That not the babe alone the pencil give,

The adoleſcent in my lays ſhall live.

XVII. To R U F U S CAM ONUS.

- W ITHOUT thee, CAMonus, I've publiſht a book:

Nor dares it to hope, from thy fondneſs, a look.
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Fell land Cappadocian, thy fatal deſire,

Thine aſhes return'd, with the bones, to thy ſire.

In tears, poor Bono N1A bereft, be not drown'd :

Thy woes let the length of th’ Emilian reſound.
What piety, ahl and what puberty fell !
Alpheus had ſhown him five times who excel.

My playthings, my Rufus, all play'd in thy breaſt;

And ſtill of my jokes, thy ſweet ſoul was poſſeſt.
Accept a new lay, the lament of a friend;
Who abſent his incenſe commands to aſcend.

XVIII. On E R O TI O N.

FRo NTO, to thee, FLAccILLA mild,

to thee;
My darling I commend, your lovely child.
Oh! may no ſable ſhades make her more pale,
Nor the Tartarean dog the Love aſſail. -

Six times the rig'rous ſolſtice had ſhe run,

Had ſhe ſurvey'd fix times another ſun.
Mid her old patrons, may the prattler play;
And liſp my name, as in the realms of day.
To her ſoft bones no turf oppreſſive be :
O earth ly light on her, who lay ſo light on thee.

XIX. On the ſame.

Sweet ER than a ſwan to bleed,

Softer than Gafeſus' breed ;
2 Smoother than the Lucrine ſhell:

Not Erythraes ſtones excel.

Not new-poliſht iv'ry dare
Arrogate the fond compare:
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Primal ſnow to her is pale,

Wan the lilly of the vale.
Charming ERo's golden lock
Beat the fleece of Betic flock;
Bull'd the treſſes of the Rhine,
Or the mouſe that glows to ſhine.
ERo breath'd the Peſtan roſe;
Attic ſweet, the firſt that flows:
Nor, from amber, frićtion's kiſs
Could elicit aught like this.
When ſhe tript it on the green,
Juno's bird could not be ſeen ;
Or, when ERo would be gay,
Loveleſs was the ſquirrel's play:
Nay, to ERo (never ſcowl)
Phenix was a frequent fowl.
Tepid yet the charmer's pile,
Whom the foes to ev'ry ſmile
From my panting boſom tore,
Ere her winter ſixth was o'er:

Tore my love, and life, and joy ;

Ceaſe, cri'd Petus, ceaſe annoy.
Breaſt you beat, and locks you tear !
Who can mirth or mourning bear *
Are you not aſham'd to rave,
For an infant homeſpun ſlave
I but lately loſt my wife:
Yet you ſee me ſtill in life.
Well enkindled was my flame,
For a high and wealthy dame:
Dame
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Dame ſo perfect, and ſo proud;
And ſo learned, and ſo loud —
Petus had (what proweſs gives 1)
Twice ten millions — and yet lives 1

XX. On the ſame.

I N her ſixth ſpring, behold Erotion laid:

If heaven we might arrain, an early ſhade.
Bland ſucceſſor, whoe'er ſhall rule this field,
To my bleſt ſhadeling annual honors yield.
So, may thy verdant vine perennial ſtand: f

So may her teeming ſhoots o'erſpred the land.

Somay'ſt thou never feel a tendrel tor'n:
And may this ſingle ſtone in thy dominion mourn.

XXI. On C A N A C E.

H ERE CANAce, th’ Eolian, ſmiles on ſleep;

Whoſe ſeventh ſhort winter was, alas ! her laſt.
Kind paſſenger, make no ſuch haſte to weep :
Thou muſt not mourn a life, that fled ſo faſt.

Direr than death his form 1 a balefull pow'r,

Raviſht each feature, and beglar'd each ſmile;
The ſeat of ſweets delighting to devour:
Nor wholely kiſt the lovely lip the pile.

The grizzly king, in ačt ſo expedite,

Should have devis'd his way thro' other gates.
But well he knew to aim his ſhafts aright:
He ſmote the tongue, that would have ſmit the fates.
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XXII. On DE METRIU S.
TH AT hand, to all my labors once ſo true,
Which I ſo lov'd, and which the Ceſars knew ;
Forſook the dear DEMETRIUs’ blooming prime :
Three luſters, and four harveſts, all his time.
That not to Styx a ſlave he ſhould deſcend,
When fell contagion urg'd him to his end;
We cheard, with all our rights, the pining boy.
Oh! that the convaleſcent could enjoy.
He taſted his reward, his patron bleſt,
And went a freeman to eternal reſt.

XXIII. On PAN TA G AT HUS, or G O O D ALL.

CLoisterD in this cell ſo low,
lies his maſter's joy and woe:
Who could bid the ſkimming ſteel
Smooth the cheek it did not feel. • * , -

Ly thou canſt not, kindeſt land,

Light as little GooDALL's hand.

XXIV. To A L C I M U S. - |
R A PT from thy lord, O ALcIMus, a child !
Beneath a ſlender ſod now laid ſo low
To thee no nodding ſarcophage is pil'd,
Which vanity and coſt on love beſtow,

Bethine each weeping tree, and ſable ſhade,

With all the verdure tender tears can give:
To thee, this monumental verſe be paid ;
Which, to thy deathleſs honor, ſtill ſhall live.
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When Lacheſis has ſpun my longeſt day,
So may mine aſhes ly: ſuch be my fun'ral lay !
XXV. On G. L. A U C I A S.

BENE ATH this marble, GLAucIAs' clay

Adjoins, entomb'd, Flaminius' way:
Poor MELIOR's manumitted boy.
How ſhort, alas ! the patron's joy
So fam'd a darling never fell:
Each Roman heart partook the knell.
The little love, that made ſuch haſte, .
Of ſoul ingenuous, manners chaſte ;
Of pregnant parts, true beauty's child,
Had on a dozen autumns ſmil’d.
Him ſcarce another could deplore:
Who weep'ſt, O may'ſt thou weep no more.

XXVI. On the ſame.

OF no ignoble houſe, or venal tribe, -

Worthy his lord's moſt ſacred love was he.

Boon he might bleſs, which he could not deſcribe ;
Child, if not yet the man. that was made free.

On winning ways and form was it beſtow'd : ,

Who fonder; or who more, like Phebus, fair?
On wonders, rare ſenility has flow'd : -

Whate'er thou lov'ſt, ne'er wiſh beyond compare.

XXVII. On U R B I C US, or TO W NLY.

HERE BAssus' joy, I little Town LY ly,
Who birth and name to Town imperial ow.
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One month of months the ſiſters did ſupply,
And then broke off the texture of my woe,

What boots the beauty of the op'ning flow'r?

Ah! what the muſic of th’ enchanting tongue :
Onely to terminate, commenc'd mine hour:
And I was ſeen and heard, but to be ſung.

Kind reader, drop thy tributary tear;

But not for me : for thoſe I lov’d alive.

So be his portion the Neſtorean year,

Whoe'er thou wiſheſt may thyſelf ſurvive,

XXVIII. On E U T Y C H U S.

YE Naiads, with the Lucrine, weep your woe:

To Thetis' ears let your repentance flow.
Ye Baian waves, reſtore the raviſht boy:
Reſtore your CASTRIcus his primal joy.
Thy joy he was, my CASTR1c, and thine eaſe.
By him thy cares, divided, learnt to pleaſe.
Thee, Eutyc, has the nymph beheld below;
And, mid the cryſtal waves, let Hylas go.
Or does the goddeſs ſcorn Hermaphrodite,
When Eutychus' ſuperior charms invite 2
Whate'er the cauſe of ſuch a rapine be,
Light ly the land, or water light, on thee!

XXIX. On A N T U L L A : To F A U S T IN U. S.

Next, Faustis, thine, confeſs a FENIUs' ſway 5.

Whom modeſt lawns, and oozy meads obey.
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Here his ANTULLA's urn receives his moan :
Her name he hallow'd, mourning not his own.
The fire, as juſt, had woo'd the Stygian ſhade:
But ſad ſurvives, to ſee her honors paid.

XXX. On the ſame. *

TH AT much-lov'd aſhes ſtill may honor'd be;

This grove and ground, cri’d FENIus, I decree.
Ye tender, here my ſnatcht ANTULLA figh :
Here, with ANTULLA, ſhall each parently.
For theſe dread premiſes let no one groan:
They ne'er ſhall ſerve a maſter, but their own.

XXXI. On a M A T R O N.

THIS little marble bold defiance bids,

To Mauſoleums, and to Pyramids.
Twice on my life did Romes Terentum ſmile;
Nor loſt I aught of joy before the pile.
Juno to five of either ſex was kind,
Whoſe pious hands to cloſe my eyes combin'd :
And, what ſublimes my bed beyond compare,
A ſingle vićtim fell to virtue there.

XXXII. On P LO TI A.
Lol Pyrrha's daughter, Neſtor's ſtepdame bold,
Whom Niobe, yet young, reſpected old :
Whom grandame the Dulichian fire yelept,
But ſimple nurſe imperial Priam kept.
Mother Thyeſtes hail'd her, tho' in law :
By youth and age was Plot IA ey'd with aw.
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At length, when ſhe ſurviv'd each crow above,

She here explor'd the obječt of her love:
Nor had ſhe ſought the monumental cell,
But ſtill would gay with bald MELANTHIon dweli.

XXXIII. On P H I L E N I S.

PHIL ENIS, from a Neſtor's age,

So ſoon, alas ! thou’rt rapt below:

Nor equal to the Sibyl ſage:

. Thou hadſt at leaſt three months to go.

What tongue is mute a thouſand ſtalls

Of ſlavelings no ſuch ſound can raiſe:
The mob, that round Serapis bawls,
Could never ſo beroar his praiſe. *

No morning-maſter's curly crew.

Could modulate ſo ſhrill a ſong:
Not Strymon's echoes ever knew
A ſcream at once ſo loud and long.

Who now, ah! who ſhall now bring down

The moon with the Theſſalic reel P.

Or who, the magic art to crown,

In gainfull proſtitution deal P

On thee, oh 1 ly the lighteſt mold ; --

With ſofteſt ſand, oh! be thou clad :

That ſo the dogs be never told, -

Where bones and carrion may be had.

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XXXIV. On P A R I S.

WH oe'ER the fam'd Flaminian ply,

Paſs not this noble marble by.
The town's delight, the ſalt of Nile;
Each art and grace, each ſport and ſmile 3.
The glory of the comic ſtage, -

The grief of all theatric rage :

The paſſions tender, bold, or ſtaid,
Are in the tomb, with PARIs, laid.

XXXV. On L A T IN U S.

Soul of the ſcene, unrival’d in renown,

I was th’ applauſe, and darling of the town.

I could command a Cato to attend ;
A Curius, or Fabricius, to unbend.

But, from the ſtage, my life aſſum'd no part:

A player did I play, alone in art. -

With him th’ immoral can no favor find,

Who ſcans, intuitive, the inmoſt mind.
Me Phebus' paraſite let all record,
So Rome acclaim me ſervant of her lord.

XXXVI. On S C O R P U.S.
B OAST, Vićtory, no more Idume's land:
Beat, Favor, thy bare breaſt, with barb'rous hand.
Change, weeping Honor, change thy glad attire :-
Feed, groaning Glory, feed the fun ral fire;
With the rich honors, from thy temples, tor'n :
There be no more the wonted garlands wor'n.
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Of youth bereft, amid thy glorious deeds,

How ſoon thou, Scorpus, join'ſt thy ſable ſteeds !
Ah! why ſo rapid was thy car's career?
And why thy goal of vital courſe ſo near *

xxxvii. on the ſame. ,

EREw HILE I ſet the Circus in a roar;
O Rome, thy fav'rite and delight no more.
When envious Lacheſis my triumphs told,
Rapt in the cube of three, ſhe thought me old.

XXXVIII. On L. Y D I A.

THE amphitheater, my ſcene ;

A huntreſs, by the maſters bred:
At home, ingenuous, fond, ſerene;
Tho' of the forreſts fierce the dread.

The truſty Lydia was my name:

My faith ſo by my patron priz'd,
To me, he ſpurn'd each dog of fame;
And had Erigone's deſpis'd:

Had flouted him, renown'd of old,

For true, ſublime, Dićtean, breed;
who ſolac'd Cephalus, we're told; -

- Alike, among the ſtars, decreed.

Not waſtefull time, or uſeleſs age,

That laid the ſtanch Dulichian low,
Have ſwept fair Lydia from the ſtage;
Or fang of any common foe.
But,
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But, by the lightning of a boar,
Tremendous, Calydon, as thine ;
O Erymanthus, was I tore;
His equal, who had tor'n thy pine.

Nor can I then, tho' bold, complain,

That to the ſhades, ſo rapt, I fly.
No matchleſs merit could obtain,
A more exalted death, to dy.

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B O O K X.
The SAT U R N A L I A N H OS PITAL IT I E S.

I. To the M U S E S.

L EST tort’ring gown the embryo-tunny fail,

Leſt unbecloakt the ſtarveling olive wail ;
Left the fell tiny ſhould by famine pine;
Forbid it, MUSES : and the coſt be mine.
Doom the fair flag of Nile to pennance fit : -

The wanton winter claims her novel wit.

My tally battles not tremendous dy:-
- No fice-ace bids my batter'd iv'ry fly.
My dice, my box; my pleaſure, and my pain;
My little diſtic, ſums my loſs and gain.
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II. To the S N E E R E R.
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THy ſent be e'er ſo keen, be noſe thy ſhare,
Such as an Atlas might deny to bear: -

Tho' the profeſt buffoon thou could'ſt outſheer,

Thou canſt not on my traſh be more ſevere,
Than have been I. Why grinder grinder gnaw
Fleſh thou muſt find, ere thou ſuffice thy maw.
On thoſe who ſelf admire, thy rancor flow :
Our petty ſtrains, we very nothings know.
Yet not perhaps mere nought; give candor place,
And meet me fairly with no morning-face.

III. To the R E A DE R.

THE Hoſpitalians, here that tempt thy lore,

Of ſeſterces will ſtand thee in juſt four,
Are four too much For two thou may'ſt ſupply them ;
And honeſt Tryphon ſtill get ſomething by them.
Theſe diſtics to thy gueſts, as boons, conſign ;
If gold roll ſlender, in thy rill as mine.
Titles, reſpećtive, will thine optics ſtrike ;
That thou may leave whate'er thou may'ſt not fike.

IV. I N C E N S E.

TH AT juſt GERMAN1c long may rule the ball,

Shéd pious incenſe to the Lord of all.

V. S M O K E L E S S W o O D.
IF, near Nomentum, thou enjoy a ſeat;
Bring wood, wiſe ruſtic, to thy dear retreat.
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VI. W H E A T.

THREE hundred buſhels from rich Libya buy,

And thy ſuburban ſoil forbid to dy.
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VII. B A R L E Y.
W H AT, to the plaintleſs mules, their ſcourge denies;
This, to the hoſt humane, not thee, ſupplies.

VIII. The co ATE D B E A N.

IF foming bean in ruddy vauſe grow pale;
Thou may'ſt rejećt the moſt ſuperb regale.,

,, IX. The E G Y PT IAN B E A N.

AT Nilian pulſe, with plaſtic wool, you grin ;
When, tooth and nail, the plaguy threds you ſpin.

X. L. E N T I L E S.

Receive rare lentiles, rich Peluſium's bond :

Beneath our primal grain, our bean beyond.

XI. C. O L E W O R T S.
Lest paly ſhoots o'ercaſt thy ſoul with ſpleen,
Let nitrous water glad them with her green.
XII, L E T T U C E.

- L ETTUCE, which clos'd the ſuppers of our ſires,

Tell me, why our commencing feaſt admires 2

XIII. B E E T.
I NSIPID beet may bid a tradeſman dine;
But aſks of thee abundant ſpice and wine.
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XIV. A S P A R A G U.S.
THE ſwelling ſpire, mareen Ravenna's child,
Is not a ſweeter ſtalk, than ſprings the wild.

XV. Shred L. E. E. K. S.

D IDST riot on Tarentum’s fibrous leek 2

Or with lockt lips ſalute, or with the cheek.

- XVI. Headed L E E K S.

THE prime of leeks Aricia's groves beſtow:

See verdant treſſes crown a ſtem of ſnow.

XVII. S C A L L I O N S.
IF envious age relax the nuptial knot;
Thy food be ſcallions, and thy feaſt ſhalot.
XVIII. T. U R N I. P. S.

THESE turnips, that the cold ſolſticial love, -

Might yield repaſt to Romulus above.

xix. N A V E W S.
Us, Amiternum's happy gardens rear:
Fam'd Nurſia's balls, afford but ſecond chear.

XX. S H A M P I N I O N S.

SI LVER and gold, and gowns and clokes, to ſend,

Is eaſy: not ſhampinions all pretend.

XXI. T R U F F L E S.

WIT H tender top, we pierce the genial ſod:

And, to ſhampinions, ſecond applets nod.
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XXII. The hard G R A PE.

FOR crowning gobblets, or diſpelling care,
Alike unfit ; I ſtill my nećtar bear.

XXIII. O L I V E S.
THE olive, that eſchew'd Picenum's preſs,
Flew thence to open, and to crown, the meſs.

XXIV. A ſprig of D A T E.S.

A Golden date emblazons Janus' day: º

The boon, O ſtrangel the void of gold muſt pay.

xxv. co CT ANS or COT TAN S.

TH ESE fruits the ſpiral cone has brought from far,
Were very figs, if larger than they are.

XXVI. The C H I A N FIG.

THE Chian, like old wine rich Setia preſt;

Guſhes at once her racy, and her zeſt.

XXVII. The QUINC E.

IF, with Cecropian ſweet, the quince you tame;
The compoſt well you honey-apple name.

XXVIII. P E A C H E S.

CRABBED and wild, we clang to parent arms;

But, by adoption, have matur'd our charms.

XXIX. C IT R O N S.

TH ESE apples grew in fam'd Corcyra's fields;

Or are of thoſe, Maſſylia's dragon ſhields.
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XXX. PIN E - A P P L E S,

CYBELE's apples we ; fly, friend, in dread;

Leſt our ripe ruin cruſh thy guiltleſs head.

XXXI. DAM As C E N E S, or D A M ZEN S.

Accept theſe forain plums in rivel'd age:
Aſtringence moſt obdurate they'l aſſwage.

- XXXII. S. O. R. B. S.

. Us ſorbs, or ſerviceables, born to bind,

More ſuited to thy ſon, than ſelf, thou'lt find.

XXXIII. P. O M G R A N A T E S and PIPPINs.

N O pippins, or pomgranates, thee endow
From Libyan branch; but from Nomentan bough.
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XXXIV. The like.

PoMGRANATEs choice, from trees ſuburban, pring,

And native pippins : why from Libya bring 2

XXXV. The H A R E.

OF birds the thruſh, if I may douts declare;

Of quadrupeds, the glory is the hare,

XXXVI. The C O N E Y.

THE coney joys to mine his home below:

He lent the ſcience to th’ inſidious foe.

XXXVII. The B O A R.
S UCH briſtler glar'd in Diomede's domain,
Till the Etolian ſpear imbru'd the plain.
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XXXVIII. The P I G.

BE mine the nurſeling, from the dug of dam :

Let glutton-wealth with ſwine Etolian cram.

XXXIX. The S T A G.
TH IS he, thou, Cypariſſus, once didſt rein;
Or, Silvia, thine; the parent of thy pain

XL. The D. O. E.

THE boar, his tuſks ; his antlers guard the deer :

We, feeble does, can find no fence, but fear. -

XLI. The DO E - FAW N.

A Plaything for thy boy, this pretty doe:

The mob would ſend it, and their garments throw.

XLII. The R O E.

DEPE N D A N T from the cliff, the roe we ſee.

Thou think'ſt her faln: ſhe laughs at dogs and thee.
XLIII. The W I L D – G O AT.
O F morning-monſters, not the final prey,
Before I dy, how many dogs I ſlay !

XLIV. The K I D S.

LET the young wantons bleed at Bacchus' nod :

Already have they gall'd the verdant god.

XLV. L. A. L I S I O.
THo: mere Laliſio, while a ſuckling tame 3
Infant no more, the Wild-Aſs is my name.
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XLVI. The WIL D A S S.

Lo, the Wild Aſs! avant th' unwieldy play

Of Erythrean tooth : ye toils, away.

XLVII. The D OR M O U S E.

I Doſe the winter long : but plumper ſtill,

Sleep my ſole food, than when I wake and ſwill.

XLVIII. P. A N N O N I A N S.

PANN ONIAN wonders me no Umbria ſent:

Wiſe Pudens would his patron compliment.

XLIX. The T H R U S H.

THy crown, of roſes; or, of ſpicnard, be:

A crown, of thruſhes, is the crown for me.

L. The G O D W I T.

I N flavor, the glory that eſſences game,

Hail, godwit Ionian ; prime fav'rite of fame I

LI. The W IT T A L.

OF pipe and ſpringe, poor Wittal rues the ſpells;

When the rude grape, with juce unracy, ſwells,

LII. The F1 GPE CKE R.

THE fig I peck; but, on the grape, I feed:
Why, from the grape, did not my name procede

LIII. The ſame.

P ROVES ſhe, that pecks the fig, thy golden lot?
If thou have taſte, no pepper be forgot.
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LIV. The PO R P HYR I O N or R E D B I L.

A Giant's name is little Redbil's pride; -

Who, with Porphyrion, will the leek divide.

LV. The P H E N ICO P T E R.

M E names my ruddy quill; but, ah my tongue,

Prime palates prize: how had they, had it ſung

LVI. The P H E A S A N T.

E. RE yet, on Argo's winged keel, I flew ;

I, nothing liquid, but my Phaſis, knew.

LVII. The P A R T R I D G E.

S ELD OM proves partridge an Auſonian cate :

Yet oft will grace the tables of the great.
LVIII. The R A I L.

PA RTRIDGE or rail, what boots ; if like in flavor P

But price is there: then here can be no ſavor.

LIX. The T U R T L E - D OVE.

Lo, a plump pidgeon I Lettuces, avant;

And each ſhell-writher: but my ſtomac ſha'nt.

LX. The D O V E.

** Touch not, with impious tooth, the tender dove;

If thou'd'ſt adore the Cnidian queen of love.
LXI. The R IN G D OVE.

THE wreathed pidgeon, damps the genial pow'rs:

The wiſe forbear him, in connubial hours.
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LXII. The C R A N E S.

THE lines you'l break: nor will the letter fly,

Loſe Palamede one ranger in the ſky.
LXIII. The P E A C O C.

H IS gemmy wings he waves: you cry, Divine !

Him can you, caitif, to the cook conſign

LXIV. The S W A N.
W ITH falt'ring trill, the ſweetly-melting ſwan
Tunes his own dirge, and bids us mourn him gone.

LXV. The T U R K E Y.

The Roman bird for Annibal might bleed:

Ne'er did his own the fell barbarian feed.

LXVI. . The G O O S E.

S HE ſav'd the temples of Tarpeian ſkies.

You ſtare: no deity had bade them riſe.

LXVII. The D U C K.
THE duck decoys you? Pick the neck and breaſt;
And, to the worthy cook, return the reſt.

LXVIII. FE D F O W L.

PAMPERD with dulcet food, the gentle breed,

Feaſts darkling, that th' enlighten’d lord may feed.

LXIX. The C A P O N.

Lest, laviſh of his pow'rs, young Briſk ſhould be ;

He loſt them; and became the fowl for me.
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402.
LXX. The H E N.

IN vain poor Partlet mourns her heroe's wrongs s

She, like her lord, to Cybele belongs.

LXXI. The P U L L E T.

W ERE Libya's fowl, her very pheaſant, mine;

Thou ſhould'ſt receive: now younglings tame be thine.
LXXII. The MUL LET or B A R B E L.

JU ST brethes the barbel in imported ſea:

Allow him living main: he'l lively be.

LXXIII. The L A M P R E Y.

HUGE lamprey ſwam in the Sicilian wheel;

But ſwims no more, if ſolar pow'r he feel.

LXXIV. The BIRT or TURB ot.

TU RBOT glads the lordly diſh,
Still leſs ample than the fiſh.

LXXV. The S T U R G E O N.

-. LET kingly ſturgeon grace imperial boards:

Such wond’rous gifts ambroſial chear affords.

LXXVI. The R A V E N - FIS H.

BLAck prince of fiſh, thou glory of the Nile t

To thee, cries PELLA, ev'ry fiſh is vile.

LXXVII. The S E A - U R C H IN.

PINch thee, he may ; while pent within his walls:

But, once diſlodg’d, a ſoftling urchin ſprawls.
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LXXVIII. The PURPLE-FISH

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THy robes with our moſt beauteous blood imbu'd,

Suffice not, miſcreant: we muſt prove thy food. '
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W HEN the Venetians will with ſplendor eat,
A gudgeon gladly will commence the treat.

LXXX. The C H A R.
C HAR, from the main, that comes ſo plump and pure;
Is, in the bowels, rich; remainder, poor. * -

LXXXI. The PIK E.

B OLD pike aſſails the mouth of meek Timave ,
Temp'ring the briny with the dulcet wave. . .
LXXXII. The GI L T - H E A D.

THE gold reflects no glory, on my head;

Unleſs my chops the Lucrine ſhell has fed. . .

LXXXIII. The O I S T E R.

W ITH Lucrine liquor, late in ačt to burſt;

For Roman pickle, now I nobly thirſt.

LXXXIV. The S HR 1 M P.
By blue-ey'd Liris fondled, whom the grove
Of fam'd Marica crowns, we ſhrimplings rove.

LXXXV. S. O W S - U D D, E R.

It ſeems ſcarce ſever'd : with ſo rich a flow,

Of living milk, the luſcious paplings glow,
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LXXXVI. S O W S - W O M. B.

REF T from the virgin-porket, chooſeſt thou?

Be mine the matrix of the pregnant ſow.
LXXXVII. A LU CAN IA N S A U S A G E.
P ICENIAN porket's well-fed daughter ſee:
My ſnowy juces make you reliſh me.

LXXXVIII. A H A M.

T S ſucculent and ſweet; thy friends prepare.

No man alive, a ruſty ham, can bear.

LXXXIX. ' A G A M M O N.

I. With Cerretan, or Menapian, cram:

Let gorgeous gluttons riot on their ham.

XC, G O O S E S L IV E R.

O N gooſes liver wond'ring glance beſtow:

Larger than largeſt goofe, where could it grow f

XCI. F L O U R.

THE gifts and graces, who can count, of flour?

The cook, and baker, beſt proclaim her pow'r.

XCII. PIC E N T IN E L O A V E S.

IN ſnowy nećtar, bread Picentian ſwells;

Like the light ſpunge, when lymph diſtends her cells.

XCIII. C H E E S E L UN IA N.

O NE cheeſe, illumin'd by th’ Etruſcan moon,

Will yield thy boys a thouſand feaſts at noon,
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XCIV. CHE ESE VEST IN IAN.

I S frugal breakfaſt, without meat, preferr'd?
Thee hails this compoſt, from Veſtinum's herd.

XCV. C H E E S E V E L A B. R. I.A. N.

NO cheeſe impregn'd, with vulgar fire or ſmoke;

But with Velabrian, can the taſte provoke.

XCVI. C H E E S E T R E B U-L A. N.

B IRTH Trebula beſtow'd, and twofold fame;

Us whether gentle fire, or water tame.

XCVII. B E A S T IN G.

WHAT the ſwain ſteals, while yet no yeanlings tends

Of the dam's primal milk, we beaſting ſend.

XCVIII. E. G. G. S.
IF candid lymph ſuffuſe the ſaffron-ball,
Let brine Heſperian blend and temper all.

XCIX. A N C H O V Y - P I C K L E.

FROM primal blood of the yet panting fiſh,

Receive the gorgeous glory of your diſh.

C, TU N N Y - P I C K L E.

OF tunny Antipolitan, the child:

If mack’rel's, I on thee had never ſmil’d.

CI. A TTIC HON E Y.

TH' audacious plund’reſs of Theſean hill,

Bids thee, from Pallas' groves, her nećtar ſwill.
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CII. The SICILIAN HoNEYeoMB.

SICILIAN combs, from Hybla's hills among,
May, unelated, be Cecropian ſung.

CIII. V E N A F R A N O IL.

FOR thee the berry of Venafrum flows:

Anoint thee e'er ſo oft, the fragrance blows.

CIV. SEASONING PASTE.

W ITH Cluſian paſte, plebeian jars imbue:

That no ſatiety may quaff the new.

CV. J U C E of G RAIN.
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W E, liquid grain ; the rich, metheglin, ſend.

If not, thy money thou may'ſt worſe expend. . .

CVI. R A IS IN - WIN E.
THE Cnoſſian vintage of a Minos' ile,
Seem'd on the poor to bid metheglin ſmile.

cVII. PIT CH-w INE.

THE pitchy juce of vin'd Vienna ſee:
'Twas Romulus himſelf, that ſent it me. .

CVIII. M. ET H E G L IN.

YE Attic ſweets, Falernian why unfine P

Th'amalgamation aſks a hand divine. . .. ..

CIX. A L BAN. -

M ILD emanation of Ceſarean cell, - - -

Hail, on Iulus' mount who joy'ſt to dwell!

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CX. S U R R E N T IN E.

SURR ENTINE ſeeks no painted myrrh, or gold:

In her own cups, Surrentum's wine be cool’d.

CXI. M. A S S I C. '

FROM Sinueſian preſs did Maſſic run:

Under what conſul ? Conſul then was none.
CXII. S E T I A N.

FAIR Setia, who o'erhangs the Pontine fields, º,

From a ſmall town rich rev'rend rundlets yields. .

CXIII. F U N D A N. ×

THIS Fundan, bleſt Opimius' autumn trought:

The conſul ſqueez'd it, and the conſul quaft.

CXIV. T. R. IF O L IN E.

NOT the firſt fav'rite of the joyous god;

Yet, ſev’nth amid the vines, I vinelet nod. ,

CXV, c E c UB I A N.
C ECUBIAN joy Amycle's ſuns mature;
And verdant ſtill, the marſh-born vines endure.

CXVI. T ARENT IN E.
FAM’D for his wools, and vig'rous in his vines;
Thee Aulon fleeces yield, indulge me wines.

CXVII. M. A M E R T IN E.
IF Neſtor's age preſent thee Mamertine;
Name e'er ſo high, thou'lt not miſname the wine,
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CXVIII. N O M E NTA N.

M Y vintage calls thee to Nomentum's vale:

If Quintus love thee, richer thy regale.

CXIX. C E R E T A N.

THy friend's Ceretan, Setian proves to thee:

He quafs it, not with thirty, but with three.

cxx. T ARRA con IAN.

To none but kind Campania's god ſhe yields:
Yet Tarraco dare challenge Tuſcan fields.
CXXI. S P O L E T IN E.

SpoLETUM's flagons give the old to flow

A ſweet, Falernum's muſt muſt never know.

CXXII. P E L I G N IA N.

FOUL. Marſican Pelignian hinds may ſend;

But for thy freedman: not thyſelf or friend.

CXXIII. M. A S S I L I A N.

A Hundred ſlaves if thy poor ſportule win;

To ſet Maffilian ſmoke may ſeem no fin.

CXXIV. S I G N I A N.

Q UAFF Signia's pride againſt thy laxer plight :

Yet quell thy quaff, leſt fell aſtringence fright.

CXXV. E G Y PT I A N V IN E G A R.

TH E Nilian acid hold ſupremely nice:

When wine it was, it bore an humbler price.
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cxxvi, o IN T M E N T.
L EAVE not thine heir, thine unguent, or thy wine.
His be the pence: but thoſe to thee conſign.
CXXVII. The WINTER - WREATH.
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FOR thee, great CesAR, garlands haſte to grow :
The roſes, vernal erſt, hibernal blow.

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T H E

E P I G R A M S
. O F

MARCUS VAL ERIUS MARTIAL.

B O O K XI.

The S A T U R N A L I A N P R E S E N T S.

I. P R E F A T. O. R. Y.

WHEN now the knights, and ſenatorian train,

Aſſume the veſt, that fits the jocund reign ;
When our ſupreme aſpires, with gen'rous pride,
To freedom's crown, and throws the world's aſide;
When thraldom's nurſeling hails the days at hand,
That lock, with adamant, the lakes and land;
When ev'ry pow'r, and potentate, he mocks;
And, in the Edile's face, dare ſhake the box;
Let rich and poor, alternate, glad his gueſt:
Beſtow they both, reſpectively, the beſt.
Trump'ry and traſh I let ſons of ſourneſs cry:
What eyes not own it? or, what tongues deny
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Yet, better, sIRE of Jove, ſhall who employ
The ſeaſon ſolemn to convivial joy
The wond’rous days, but wanting two of ſeven;
Thy ſon vouchſaf’d thee, in exchange for heaven
Should I make Thebes, or Troy, my raſh renown;
Or, all the horrors of Mycene's town
Be nuts, thy paſtime ; harmleſs nuts thy play.
I will not fling the harmleſs nuts away.
Where'er thou wilt, thou may'ſt the budget cloſe:
Each full eſſay, in one dear diſtic, flows.

II. CARRIOFFABLES, or, movable preſents.

W HY, with a bill of fare, inſcribe the top .
That, as you like it, you procede or ſtop.

III. CIT R O N - TA B L E T S.

To ſlender ſlips, we ſmooth, the citron, down :

Elſe ſhould we prove of Libyan tooth the crown.

IV. I V O R Y - TA B L E T S.

LEST the dull wax bedim thy languid ſight;

The letter's lour contraſt the iv'ry's light.

v. F 1 v E F o L D S.
W ITH bulloc's gore, imperial altars glow ;
The arduous meed, if fivefold wax beſtow.

VI. T H R E E F O L D S.

TH OU wilt not glance, our petty treblets, glum ;

When there the charmer ſignifies ſhe'l come.
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VII. V. I T E L L I A N S.

E. RE yet the fair the tablets ope,

Intuitive ſhe reads their ſcope.

VIII. The like.

You count us ſmall, and for a female hand.

You much miſcount: 'tis money we demand.

IX. V E L L U M - T A B L E T S.

Suppose them wax, tho’ vellum be the name:

Alike thou may'ſt efface, and ſave thy fame.

X. PA P E R - P O C K E T B O O K.

NO vulgar boon, the bard muſt mean ;

When he preſents the paper clean.

XI. MISSIVE-paper, or Mess AGE-card.

To one long-lov'd, and one ſhe barely knows,
Hailing alike, DeAR FRIEND, ſhe ſhameleſs goes.

XII. B O O K - C A S E, or D E S K.
IF my books, you do not bind ;
I'l admit the tiny-kind.

XIII. MANUAL, or BOOK-BOARDS.

LEST gown, or caſſoc, books a beard ſhould give;
The fencing fir ſhall bid thy labors live.

XIV. P E N C A S E.

A Caſe you've got: be pens your ſecond pride :

The weightier, we ; the lighter, you provide.
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xv. w RITING-REEDs.
OF writing-reeds, the Memphian are the beſt:
Thatch, if you can, your cabbin with the reſt.

XVI. S T A N’D IS H.

FAIR Standiſh comes, accooter'd with her ſtile :

Boon her the boy, and innocence ſhall ſmile.

XVII. C H A M B E R - L. A. M. P.

PRIvy to nočturnal glee ;

Nought I ſay, of all I ſee.

XVIII. C. A N D L E.

TH INE the handmaid of the lamp,

Still of dark-diſpelling ſtamp.

XIX. Many-match L A M P.
O ’ER brighteſt banquets, I diffuſe my flame;
And beam with various eyes, tho' one my name.

XX. W A X - T A P E R.

TH IS taper, in the night, will yield a ray;

As thy lamp vaniſht, from thy lad, away.
XXI. CORIN THIAN (or braſen) CANDLESTIC.
FROM what I held, my name of old I drew :
No unctuous flame, our frugal fathers knew.

XXII, W O O DE N C A N D L E S T I C.

TI S wood, you ſee : unleſs you fix your eyes,

The candleſtic will to a lamp ariſe.
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XXIII. HO R N - L. A N T E R N.

TH O’ pent, the golden glory of the way:

Snug lies my lampling, while ſhe ſends her day.
XXIV. B L A D D, E R - L. A N T E R N.

H ORN if I be not, am I aught leſs bright?

Who'ſ dare to bladder me, that hails my light?
XXV. IV O R Y - C OF FE R.

THE yellow coin ſhould crown a box ſo rare:

Let paltry wood, the paltry ſilver, bear.

XXVI. W O O DE N C OF FE R.

IF yet my neſt a dreg conceal below,

A boon it be; if not, the neſt ſhall go.

XXVII. T A L L I E S, or CO C K AL L.
W HEN not a piece preſents an equal face,
You'l own my preſent bears no common grace.
…

XXVIII. D I C E. A. D. Y.

IN number, tally, I'l not vy with thee:

'Tis weight of objećt that ſuffices me.

XXIX. The D I C E - B O X.

THE guilty hand would cog the guiltleſs dy:

But the heart trembles, if I bid her fly.

XXX. P L A Y IN G - T A B L E S.

WIT H twice ſix points the cubelings ſhake our walls;

And here, 'twixt foes, th' opponent heroe falls.
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XXXI. D R A FTS or CHESS.

W ITH men of drafts, if thou to war wilt go ;
Gem are alike thy warrior, and the foe.

XXXII. N U T. S.

THo: nuts ſeem ſmall, and unpernicious play;

Oft the young gambler's funds of honor pay.

XXXIII. CO IT or Q U O IT.
W HEN Spartan diſks diſcharge, away each boy! -

Gleam as they may, enough was one annoy.

XXXIV. The H O O P.

TH E wheel to trundle, we accept with glee:

The boys the motion charms, the muſic me.

XXXV. The ſame.

IN the looſe orb, why jingling ringlets play ?

That the mob, meeting, may give trundlers way.

XXXVI. The TRIGONAL (or HAND-) BALL.

I F me, thy dext'rous left forbid to fall,
I'm thine: if not, reſign, thou cub, the ball.

XXXVII. The HARPAST or CATCH-BALL.

ANTEUs. minion, in the duſty plains,
This prize to ſeize, his brawny collar ſtrains.

XXXVIII. The BELLOWS, or WIND - BALL.

MILD age is mine: ſtrong youth be far away :
The wind-ball works the beardleſs, and the gray.
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xxxix. The PAGANIC, or ruſtic, BALL.

TH E rude paganic, that with plumage ſwells;
"Twixt bellows looſe, and ball becramm'd, excels.

XL. The B A T H - B E L L.

H A R K1 the bath ſounds, ſtop ball. Would'ſt toſs it on 2

And, waſht but by the virgin-wave, be gone *

XLI. The B A L L A N C E S.

THy manly arms, why childiſh ballance toil;

When, in the vinyard, thou ſo well might'ſt moil.

XLII. The O I L - H O R N.

LATE the grace of bulloc's brow :

A rinoceros you vow. *

XLIII. The R IN O C E R O S'- H OR N.

TH AT, in th' imperial pit, thou ſaw'ſt appall,

Be thine : to which a bull was but a ball.

XLIV. The L E T H E R - C A P.

Lest lab'ring liniment pollute thy pride,

Thine unétuous locks demand the ſhelt'ring hide.

XLV. The CURRY-COMB or FLESH-BRUSH.

LET Pergamuſſes gift thy perſon ſcrub :
Thy cloths, the ſcourer ſhall more rarely rub.

XLVI. An U M B R E L L A.

IMPATIENT of the beam, accept a ſhade:

Nay, face the blaſt, with ſuch an orb of aid,
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XLVII. A B R A U D.- B R IM M ER,

I N Pompey's ſcene, my braud-brim I'l diſplay:

For there, the wind will blow the vail away.

XLVIII. H U NT IN G – S P E A R S.

B OARS they will brave, gainſt lions make a ſtand:

They'l pierce a bear, ſo ſteddy be the hand.

XLIX. The H U NT IN G - TU C K.

IF the long muzzle ſhall the ſpear defy,

This ſymbol ſhort commands the boar to dy.

L. The CINCTURED SWORD.

G REAT warfare's glory, and fair honor's pride;

Hail, weapon, worthy of a tribune's ſide

LI. The D A G G E R. . -

THEE, dagger, hiſſing with thy veiny gleams,

Old Salo temper'd with his gelid ſtreams.

LII. A S W OR D, a S I C K L E.
M E, melting peace, to blandeſt uſes, bent :
The ſoldier's ſaber, to the ſwain's content.

LIII. A H A T C H E T, or B AT T L E - A X.
W HEN barb'rous auðtion ſet up all to pay;
Four hundred thouſand threw this blade away.

LIV. TRIMMING INSTRUMENTS.

THI Simplement begs leave to lop thy hair,
Thy pounces this ; and that the cheeks to bare.
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LW. A. T. O. O. T H P I C K E R.

Use lentiſk: but, if leafy clenſer fails; .

To clear thy teeth, a pliant quill avails.
LVI. An E A R PIC KER.
W HATEVER foe ſhall give thine ear to rage;
We furniſh arms, that will the war aſſwage.

LVII. A B A C K - S C R A T C H E R.

THIS claw ſhall ſave thy ſhoulder from the foe,

That ſeeks thy blood; or aught, if aught, more low.

LVIII. A G O L D E N PIN.
LEST filk and ſoking curls ſhould diſagree,
Of laſting peace, this pin be garantee.

LIX. A COMB, to a BAL D PATE.

W HAT boots the box, that beauteous teeth divide *

She can nor raviſh, nor reſtore thy pride.

* LX. S O P E.

THE cauſtic fome lights up Teutonic locks:

The vićtor thus the captive treſſes mocks.

LXI. MA TTIA C B A L L S.

FROM gray to black, has thy complexion, call'd

Uſe Mattiac pellets: why be wholely bald -

LXII. DENTIFR Ice.

For a pretty maid am I :
Not to furbiſh teeth you buy.
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LXIII. My RobALAN, or BeNzoin.

W HAT Virgil, nay, what Homer, ne'er could pen
Behold the wonder, that compoſes BEN -

LXIV. S. A. L T P E T E R.

THou, blockhead, canſt not ſcan my Grecian name:

From ſcum of niter, I, ſaltpeter, came.

LXV. B A L S A M or B A L M.

B A LM is for man, the balm beyond compare:

The joys of Ninus are your joys, ye fair.

LXVI. L. O. T I O N.
THE gratefull gift may humbling ſecrets hide;
If, into Steven's baths, by day thou glide.

LXVII. The S TO M A C H E R.

THy breaſts, a bull's capacious hide might bind;

Which ſcorn, in petty ſkin, to be confin'd.

LXVIII. B R E A S T - B A N D.

FRIEND of the fair, the riſing panters quell :

That a hand catch, or cover, as they ſwell.

LXIX. NEC KATE E or TU C K E R.

I Dread turgeſcence; but my lawn will go,

To wail young modeſty, and ſleep on ſnow.

LXX. BELT or GIRDLE.

I'M long enough: but, growing, if thou grone

With pleaſing load, I prove thy ſhorten’d zone.
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LXXI. An A P R O N.

THE rich may tunic thee: I gird before,

O ! were I wealthy, glad would I do more.
LXXII. A C A P.

I D clothe thee, if I could, from top to toe :

Now, on thy head alone, my bounty flow.

LXXIII. A M U F F L E R.

My book beſtowd, if I will ſtill recite,

This muffler ſhall maintain thine ears, their right.

LXXIV. C I L I C I A N S O C K S.
NO fleece of ſheep, but beard of goat are we :
Cheard, in Cinyphian bed, thy ſole may be.

LXXV. S L I P P E R S.
B OYLESS, would'ſt on or off thy ſlippers put
Thy moſt obſequious ſlave thou'lt find thy foot.

LXXVI. R. I N G S.

W E chains, once frequent, now are ſeldom thrown:

Happy the man, who ſees a knight his own!

LXXVII A R IN G-C As E.
A Heavy hoop may unétuous joints forſake:
For thy dear brilliant, mine enſurance take.

LXXVIII. The G O W N.

H Ebade the gowned race to earth aſpire,

Who gave high heaven to his immortal fire.
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LXXIX. The S P O R T U L E.

IF 'tis not hard, to quit the morning-down;

Thy pittance greets thee; but it coſts thy gown.

LXXX. The E N D R O M I S.
A Poor-man's preſent, not a poor-man's wear:
We, for a gownling, this rough mantlet ſpare.

LXXXI. PATAVINIAN TUNICS.

S O wattled wools the treble texture draws,
The grogram tunics may be ſhred with ſaws.

LXXXII. SUPPING-G ARMENTS, or EATING-VEST S.

N O bail we bring, no crouded courts we ply:
On painted couches, ’tis our joy to ly.

LXXXIII. The SYNTHESIS, or REVEL-VEST.

FULL five bleſt days, the gown demands to reſt:
On theſe aſſert thy right to wear the veſt.
LXXXIV. The HOOD E D MAN T L E.

S ANTONIC cloke-and-cowl beſeems thy ſhape:

It lately flow'd the mantle of an ape.

LXXXV. LIBUR NIAN CO W L S.

W ITH us, the robes thou knew'ſt not to combine:

Who putt'ſt on white, Callaic muſt reſign.

LXXXVI. FR IE Z E - C L O KE.

So fair my tinčture, and ſo light my ſhag ;

That in mid-autumn may my drapery wag. ~

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LXXXVII. The L E T H E R - C L O K E.

Yo UR way you take, with e'er ſo clear a ſky:

'Gainſt ſudden pours, the lethern coat be by.
LXXXVIII. The G A B A R D IN E.

IN rigor's reign ſmooth flimſies nought avail:

My ſhelt'ring ſhags afford your clokes a mail.

LXXXIX. White OVERALLS, or upper garments. /

H IGH amphitheatral, is our renown;

Whoſe mantling wings protećt the ſtarving gown.
XC. CRIMS ON OVERAL L S.

IF blue or green thou love, why crimſon take *

Beware leſt ſuch a trim a trimmer make.

XCI. BE TIC O V E R A L L.

My wool diſdains a ly, or caldron-hue.

Poor Tyre may take it: me my ſheep imbue.

XCII. AM ETHY STINE WOOL.

D R U NK with the blood of the Sidonian ſhell .

That I am ſober, can the ſober tell ?

XCIII. W H IT E W O O L S.

THE firſt, Apulia's ; next, is Parma's boaſt :

And the third fleece, Altintim has engroſst.

XCIV. TY RIAN woo Ls.

THE ſhepherd's gift to the Laconian dame:
Her mother's purple boaſted no ſuch name.
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XCV. POLLENTINE WOO L S.

No T wools alone, that wear the face of woe:

Her gobblets once did proud Pollentia ſhow.

XCVI. The ſame.

OUR ſable hue, to croplings may belong;

That tend the table : not of primal throng.

XCVII. CANU S I A N, dark.

Met HEGLIN, muddy, paints canuſian dy.
Embrace the boon: the color will not fly.

XCVIII. CAN U S I A N, red.

RoME, in the dull, delights; gay Gaul, in red :

This dazzles boys, and whoſe is blood to ſhed.

XCIX. P E A C O C - B E D.

I Take my name, from Juno's painted prize;

Whoſe beaming glories once were Argus’ eyes.

C. A SIG M A – C O U C H.,

SMILE on a Sigma, that a tortoiſe writes;

Which onely eight, but eight of friends, invites.

CI. LING ONIC (or LEUCONIC) FLOCKS.

THy plumage, much too near the ſwathing, ſwags:
Accept the ſhavings of Lingonic ſhags.

CII. CIR CENSIAN LOCKS.

THE ſhredded marſh beſpeaks Circenſian locks:

Here want repoſes, for Leuconic fiócks.
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CIII. D. O. W. N.

THy weary limbs confeſs Amycle's down :

The ſwan's interior flue diffus'd renown.

CIV. H. A. Y.

UNPLUM’D, ſtill bid thy plaſtic bolſter ſwell ;

On ſtubborn couch, no paly languors dwell.
CW. The P I L L O W.

E. S.SENCE thy head: the pillow ſoon will take,

What may the locks, but not the down, forſake.

CVI. A FRIE Z E - C O U N T E R P A N E.

THy ſhaggy counterpanes, with purple, pleaſe,

And preſs, in vain; if wedded winter freeze.

CVII. C. O V E R L E T S.

LE ST the counterpanes look bare,

Siſter-like we join our care.

CVIII. G R O G R AM FRIE ZE.

C ATULLUS’ land will coverlets extend :

From Helicaon’s clime I rough deſcend.

CIX. EMBROIDERED FURNITURE.

Zº -

CošFEss ſuperior, from Memphitic land,

The Nilian ſlay, to Babyloniſh hand.

CX. GUSTATORIES, or, SIDE-BOARDS.

DEEM not, of feminine, terreſtrial, vein;
Us, the male offspring of the lordly main.
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CXI. A C IT R O N - TA B L E.

THE happy groves, an Atlas could beſtow :

A golden gift diſplays inferior glow.
- CXII. M. A P L E - T A B L E.

NO criſped daughter of the Maurian wood:

Yet, rich repaſts I well have underſtood.

CXIII. E L E P HAN TS’ T E E T H.

A Bull's vaſt weight, who ſportive burden deem;

You aſk, if they can bear a Libyan beam

CXIV. A T A B L E - F RIE ZE.

- TH E friendly ſhag, thy noble citron, ſpred:

Nor ſquares, nor circles, does my table dred.

CXV. S P U N G E.

To clenſe thy board, be this thy lot careſt :

When juſt turgeſcent from the lymph expreſt.

CXVI. IN LA ID P L A T T. E. R. S.

No petty barbel daub the golden diſh:

A double pound, at leaſt, ſhould poiſe the fiſh.

CXVII. SHAMPINIONARY ; or, ſhampinion-diſh.

S HAMPINIONS gave me name, above all flouts:
And now I ſerve, oh ignominyl ſprouts.

CXVIII. A CUME AN PLATTER.

THE ruddy child of duſt, and fire, and wave;

Chaſte Sibyl ſends thee, from her hallow'd cave.
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CXIX. ARETINE (or ARETIAN) WARE.
. ARETIUM's vauſes to contemn forbear :
Pompous was Porſena, in Tuſcan ware.

CXX. B A S C A UD A ; or B A S K E T.
FROM painted Britains, I Baſcauda came :
Whom now imperial Rome would native claim.

CXXI. P. A N A CIA N W E S S E L.

FOR thee, if arch Catullus' clime thou know ;

Ajar, like me, has made the Rhetian flow,

CXXII. S N OW-C U L L A N DE R.

TH E Setian cups I bid pervade my ſnow:

Juce, leſs ingenuous, thro' the ſerce may go.

CXXIII. A S N O W. S E R C E. *
S NOWS may attenuate thro’ the ſlender lawn :
A cooler ſtream was ne'er from ſtrainer drawn.

CXXIV. A S N O W - F L A G O N.

If, from the Spoletine or Marſian cells,

Thou draw ; what title to decoèting wells

CXXV. S N O W S.

* N OT native ſnows; but, thro' the ſnow bechill'd,

The tortur'd wave; ingenious thirſt has ſwill’d.

- CXXVI. The ſame.

MAs SIL IA’s ſmoke, forbear with ſnow to blend:

Nor more on water, than on wine, expend.
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cxxvii. PIT c H E R L IN G s.
B E cold but thine, the warm will ſoon abound:
But thou beware, nor want and wealth confound.

CXXVIII. An E A R T H E N - PITC HE R.

THINE the red pitcher, bends her hand, to crave:

With this poor Fronto woo'd the gelid wave.

CXXIX. B E A K E R S.

Us Satyr, us the god, the tigreſs greet,

Nurtur'd to lick her ſoking maſter's feet.

CXXX. V AT IN I A N C UAP S.

Accept the cups, a cobbler could compoſe:

The vile Vatinius I His the longer noſe.

CXXXI, S A G U N T IN E C U P S.

W HAT ſlaves may miniſter without diſmay,

Uſe thou the compoſt of Saguntum's clay.

CXXXII. S U R R E N T IN E C U P S.

NO chalices of paltry duſt I deal:

But a ſmooth ſet of ſweet Surrentum's wheel.

CXXXIII. STUD DED, or GEMMED, CUPS.

WV ITH Scythian fires, that gemmy gold may glare;
How many fingers muſt one chalice bare :

CXXXIV. A N T E E K G O B B L E T S.

So lifts no modern ſtile her head aloft :

In theſe the maker firſt, a Mentor, quaft.
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CXXXV. V.I.A.L of ſculptured G O L D.

OF bluſhing metal, from Callaic coaſt :
A Myſſes labor is my nobler boaſt.

CXXXVI. A P E R F U M E D F L A S K.

I N this fair gem, that boaſts a Coſmus' name;

Thy thirſt may riot, if perfume enflame.
CXXXVII. A GLASS-cLou D; or, decanter.
J OVE's cloud will temper the nećtareous bowl:
This pours the neétar, which revives the ſoul.

CXXXVIII. G L A S S - G O B B L E T S.

HAIL, genius of the Nile] beyond all coſt.

To mend thee, how much labor muſt be loſt l

CXXXIX. G L A S S - CUPS.
PLE BEIAN vauſes, of audacious glaſs:
No boiling billow frights our gemmy maſs.

CXL, C R Y S T A L L IN E s.
FE ARING to break, you break the brittle ware:
Alike err ſlacker and intenſer care.

CXLI. M. Y. R. R. H I N E S.

IF hot thy bev'rage, let the myrrh imbue :

Myrrh gives a zeſt, Falernian never knew.

CXLII. Earthen SLIPPER or URINAL.

W HEN ſnaps the thumb, and drouſy ſlave delays;

How oft the bed blaſphemes me, while he ſtays 1
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CXLIII. Silver - LIG U L E.

TH O' me a ligule ſtile both knights and peers;

A lingule love pedantic garreteers.

CXLIV. CockLER or COCKLE-SPOON.

To cockles ſuited, yet to eggs no leſs;
Why rather cockler ſhould my name confeſs

CXLV. A M E DIC IN E - C H E S T.
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W ITH ſuch rare gifts, behold the iv'ry crown'd ;

As Pačtius' ſelf would glory to compound.
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CXLVI. The F1 v E-Foo T R O D.

THE punčtur'd holm, with taper ferrel bound,
Will oft the wily jobber's craft confound.

CXLVII. L. A S H.

PL AY on, but onely play, ye ſervile fry:

No more than five dear days I dormantly.

cxlviii. FERULA or Rod.

THE maſter's ſcepter, and the ſchool-boy's ſmart:

Our aw ſprings ſacred from Promethean art.

CXLIX. W H I. P.

IN vain, poor driver, ſhalt thou ſmack mythong,

On any courſer, of the purple throng.

CL. The 'CO W T A IL – S W IT CH.

IF griming duſt have made thy veſture gray,

This potent rod ſhall call the grime away.
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CLI. The P E A C O C-F L IF LA P.

W HAT, from thy food, repels profaning flies;
Strutted, a gorgeous train, with gemmy eyes.

CLII. The B E E S O M ; or B R O O M :
TI S true the beeſom bore the palm away;
But now the relics give the broom her bay.

CLIII. The S C R I P.

O F naked Long-beard, never meſs to bear;

Or ſleep with ſurly cur, be ſcripling's pray’r.

CLIV. The R A T T L E.

- S HOULD, round thy neck, the crying homeborn cling;

Its tunefull hand ſhall bid this timbrel ring.

CLV. The C Y M B A L.

OF braſs, that wails the mighty mother's woes,

Her ſtarveling prieſt will, for a ſong, diſpoſe.

CLVI. P I P E. ,

OF wax and reed, you laugh to ſee me made :

So was compos'd the primal pipe, that play'd.
CLVII. F L U T E.

WITH ſoking cheeks, the mellow minſtrel ſwells

Now twinling flutes; now on one fluteling dwells.

CLVIII. H A R P ; or, L YR E.
I Won his conſort, for the magic elf;
Whoſe love, impatient, loſt in her himſelf.
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CLIX. The ſame.

FROM the Pompeian ſtage, was oft expell'd,

Who led the forreſts, and their fierceſt held.

CLX. The BOW ; or, SWEEPER.

TH E batter'd thumb, leſt throbbing wheal ſhould fire;
The maſter-bow command the docil lyre.

CLXI. HOMER’s FROGMOUSE - FIGHT.

I O CRoKER's, in Meonian ſong, attend ;

And, to my mice, the knitted brow unbend.

CLXII. H. O. M. E. R, in vellum.
I HE HERoe, and the sapienT, Priam's foes ;
Alike enroll'd in many a ſkin repoſe.

CLXIII. VI R G IL’s GN A T.

To MARo's mighty GNAT, attune each ſtring;

Nor ARMs inſted, AND MEN, preſume to ſing.

CLXIV. V IR GIL, in vellum.

H OW brief a page, the bard immenſe may bear !

Eye the firſt tablet, and the features there.

cLxv. ovi D's MET AM o'RP Hos Es.

All theſe, while many a labor'd leaf beguiles,
In thrice five ſongs, a NAso's muſe compiles.

CLXVI. P R O P E R T I U. S.
THE youthfull theme, that bid PROPERTIUs glow,
Knew to acquire much fame, and much beſtow.
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CLXVII. T. I B U L L U. S.

THE wanton tyrant fond TIBullus fir’d,

Who, but to be a nought, at home, aſpir'd. ".

CLXVIII. C. A T U L L U. S.

To her CATULLUs, vaſt Verona ows

What, to mean Mantua, from her MARo, flows.

CLXIX. L. U C A N.

I HERE are, who, envious, me pronounce no poet:

Who ſells me, ſwears me one; and he muſt know it.

CLXX. M E N A N DE R’s T H A IS.

OF frolic youth, ſhe firſt expos'd the flame:

Not GLYcERA, but THAIs, was the dame.

CLXXI. CIC E R O, in vellum.

IF, timid, thou redout the lengthen'd way;

Think that a Tully dains to ſhare thy day.

CLXXII. TITUS LIVIUS, (or LIVY) in vellum.

IN ſcanty ſkins enormous Livy pent I
Not boaſts my library, his whole content.

CLXXIII. S A L L U S T.

CRISPUs, the critics boaſt, ſhall beam the glory,

Of primal magnitude, in Roman ſtory.

CLXXIV. V E R S E S, on waters.
I HE verſe, that dares the various ſtreams to limn,
Had better down her fav'rite waters ſwim.
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CLXXV. A figure of VICTORY.

** H IS lotleſs due, whoſe name is. Rhine's renown
. To him, my boy, the ten Falernians crown.

CLXXVI. P. A. L L A S, in ſilver.

SAY, gallant maid, of helm and ſpear poſſeſt, -

Where is thine Egis On my Ceſar's breaſt.

CLXXVII. H E R C U L E S, Corinthian.
VI CTORIOUS o'er the ſnakes, the infant ſtands.
E’en now might Hydra dred the tender hands.

CLXXVIII. H E R C U L E S, in clay.
I Own me child of earth, nor own it ſhame:
Alcides bluſhes not, to wear my name.

CLXXIX. S A U R O C T ON OS, Corinthian.

I NSIDIOUS boy, th' advancing lizard ſpare.
By thee ſhe begs to dy: canſt hear her pray'r?

CLXXX. B R U T US’ P I G MY.

N O vulgar glory gilds this petty ſhrine :

A Brutus' fancy ſtampt the work divine.
CLXXXI. HY A C IN TH, painted.
SEE, from the balefull diſk, his dying eyes
Th’ Ebalian turns : and hear how Phebus ſighs. .

CLXXXII. D A N A E, painted.
W HY, ruler of Olympus, Danae pay,
What Leda gave, gratuitous, away : - -

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BETTER, fige fire of gods, thou bull might'ſ be: . . . . . . . * -
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When the fair Io turn’d a cow to thee. + • ‘’’ - - -,

CLXXXIV. L E A N DE R, in marble.
A MID the waves could bold Leander burn : ,
Abſorb me, billows ; but, as I return.

CLXXXV. HE R M A PH R O DITE, in marble. -

H E enter'd one ; he iſſu'd one, and t'other:

One half, his father; and the reſt, his mother.

CLXXXVI. A G E R M A NIC MAS K.

A Red Batavian's phyz, the potter's fleer;
Fills you with merriment, the child with fear.

CLXXXVII. A deformed figure.

PROMETHE US muſt be drunk in this eſſay :
He too could ſport with Saturnalian clay.

CLXXXVIII. A D W A R F.

THE head alone beheld, a Hector rears : º

From top to toe, Aſtyanax appears.

CLXXXIX. The T A R G U E T.

THIS often foil'd, and ſeldom foiling, targe,

Be thine; or, to a ſhrimp, a ſhield at large.

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F OLLY is rarely fein’d ; nor fondly lies: *

Who is not wiſer than enough, is wiſe, -

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CXCI. The C E S T US,

BIND, my boy, round thy neck, the pure loves ;
Callow caught, from the queen of the doves.

CXCII. The ſame.

As SUME the zone, Cythera's nečtar dies ;

The zone, that fir'd the ſov'rain of the ſkies.

cxcIII. YoUNG comE DIANs.

OF theſe can none perform the odious part :
Yet each may play the charmer of the heart.
CXCIV. The C O N K.

Let the keen conk the bark Egyptian ply:

Each rub remov’d, the ready reed will fly. -

CXCV. The S E C R. E. T. A R Y.

THE words tho' wing'd, the fingers fly more faſt:

The tongue not come, the hand the goal has paſt,

cxcvi. The w R E S T L E R.
I Love not him who beats, but him who bends;
And the back-game, who better apprehends.

CXCVII, A P E.

TRAIND to elude the lances, hurl’d at me ;

I, with a tail, a marmoſet ſhould be.
CXCVIII. An ASTURIAN genet,
This tit, who meaſures his collećted ſpeed ;
Ambles, from golden climes, an Aſtur-ſteed,
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CXCIX, H O R S E - F U R N ITU R. E.

O N the trim hunter, be this pillion bound:

From the bare back infernal woes redound.

CC. PIG MY - M U L E S.

FROM mules like theſe, thou'lt apprehend no fall;

Who higher fitt'ſt, without a mule at all.

CCI. The G A L L I C A N L A P - D O G.

IF you would ſcan the beauties of a pup;

The page is out, and not the total up.
CCII. The TUMBLER ; or RANGER.
Not for himſelf he hunts, but for his lord:
He brings the hare unhurt, nor aſks reward.

CCIII. The H A W K.

: W HILOM his own, and now the fowler's thief:

To ſwoop, not for himſelf, is all his grief.

CCIV. P. A R R O T.

FOR other names, your leſſons may avail:

I taught myſelf to carol, CESAR, HAIL.

CCW. M. A. G. P. Y.

My lord I gratulate, with voice ſo clear;

No bird were fanci'd, did no bird appear.

CCVI. R A V E N.

S ALUTING raven, why a biller deem'd º

Into thy mouth, no parent pow'r has ſtream'd.

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CCVII. The NIGHT IN G A L E.

H EAR Philomela Tereus' crime bewail:

Lo! the mute maid, a warbling nightingale.

* CCVIII. A C- A G E.

IF ſuch be thine, as Leſbia wept in vain;

And Leſbia's bard: the rambler here may reign.

- CCIX. The PURVEY OR; or, CATE RER.

H OW much a head How many Say, if able;
And ſay no more : the ſupper's on the table.

CCX.. BIRD-CATCH ING REEDS, or T WIG S.

TH E tune and twig, what charmer can withſtand *

The ſly ſlip ſhooting, from the ſilent hand *

CCXI. A R HO D I A N C A K E.

OF finning ſlave, the teeth thou ſhalt not break:

Give him to crunch, a ſingle Rhodian cake.

CCXII. PRI AP US, in manchet,

D OES hunger call? Be not her call beguil'd.

Gulp up a filthy god : nor be defil’d.

CCXIII. The H O G...

THIS hog will ſwell thy Saturnalian ſtores ;.

With oak befatted, mid the foning boars.

CCXIV. The S A U S A G E.
THE ſauſage, that could glad a Saturn's heaven,
Had gladded me, ere yet commenc'd the ſeven.
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CCXV. The , R A M’s H E A D.

H AST pierc'd the neck, of the Phryxean lord 5

Who oft had ſhelter'd thine º O deed abhorr'd

CCXVI. The BU L L OC's HE ART,

P OOR ſtarving pleader, penning verſes cold ;
To ſtarve you twice Accept the heart you hold.

CCXVII. The CO O K.

A cook muſt know to boil, and bake, and baſe,

Nor onely know ; muſt have his maſter's taſte.

CCXVIII. The GRIDIRON, and the SPIT.

L ET collops criſp, on hurdled broiler, ſwet:
The fomer, on the ſpear, acquire fumet.

ccxx. The con FE cT I on E R.

A Thouſand ſhapes confeſs his plaſtic hand:
The frugal bee but moils at his command.

CCXX. B R E A K F A S T.

Up : the boon baker makes the children gay.

Hark! all around, the creſted birds of day.

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B O O K XII.

I. To C E S A. R.

-ON thee, may heaven, and thou, thy due beſtow :

On me, my little wiſh; if that ye ow.

II. To M. A R C U S.

I Give thee a ſea-fight, thou epigs to me:

Methinks thou and they, MARK, would both put to ſea.
III. To C E S A. R.

THE ſallying Muſe occurrent pardon ſees:

Nor trembles, conſcious, whom ſhe flies to pleaſe.

IV. To S T E L L A.

THy gueſt muſt verſes give: a piteous taſk

But thou art good, and doſt not good ones aſk.
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… v. To S A B I NU S.
N OT ev'ry page of ours invokes the night:
Some, ſweet SABINUs, meek-ey'd morn invite. *
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VI. To A V IT U S. . . •
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H E RE ſome good things, ſome middling, more bad, you will ſee: .
Elſe a book, my Avitus, it never could be.

YII. To L A U S U. S.

For thirty bad epigrams here you may look:

If as many good ones, it is a good book.
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VIII. On D IS T I C S.

W HO diſtics ſheds, by ſhortneſs would excel.

But where's the ſhortneſs, if a volume ſwell ?

IX. To a V O L U M E.
My ſtrains, that wont by Pyrgi's port to ſtray ;
Go, ſweep the Sacred ('tis no duſty) way.

IX. To P O N T I L I A N.

W HY I ſend thee, Pont ILIAN, not one of my writings

It is leſt thou, too gen’rous, return thine enditings.

XI. To T U C C A.

THou'D'st have me to dole thee my parcels indeed I

I ſhall not: for TuccA would ſell them, not read.

XII. To C L A S S I C U S.

A GALLUs, and LUPERCUs, ſell their ſongs.

Shrewdneſs then, CLAssicus, to bards belongs. -

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XIII. On P A U L U.S.
P AUL verſes buys ; and what he buys, recites.

Alike his own are what he buys and writes.

XIV. To F 1 D E N T IN U.S.
My living lays were thoſe that you diſpenſe:
But, when you murder them, they yours commence.

XV. To C E L E R, or QUICK.
C ANST bid me, Quick, to thee my ſtrains reherſe
Thou ſeekeſt not to hear, but ſpeak, my verſe.

XVI. To V E L O X, or S WIFT.

OF my long epigrams, you, Swift, complain;

And nothing write: I laud your ſhorter ſtrain.

XVII. To V A R U S. -

You countleſs verſes pen, each morn you riſe;

Yet none recite: how witty, and how wiſe !

XVIII. To M A M E R c U.S.
Nought you recite, and would be pris'd a poet
Be what you will, ſo no reciting blow it.

XIX. On P I C E N S.

HE turns the leaf, to eke th' inſcriptive lay:

And mourns the god has turn'd his face away.
XX. To L E L I U. S.

You carp at mine, and publiſh not your own.

Or publiſh yours, or let my lays alone.
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xxi. To a PE TT IF O G GE R.
A Brangler, I know not who, pecks at the poet: - ". . .
But, woe to thee, pecſter! if I come to know it. . . . . . .. . . -

XXII. To B I T H Y NICU. S.

I Ne'er wrote at thee; but thy ſuit depends,

And bids me ſwear. I'd rather make amends. - -

XXIII. On C I N N A.

CIN NA's verſe upon me, they ſay, keenly procedes.

He's beli'd : for he writes not, whom nobody reads.

XXIV. To N O S Y.

W ITH thy ſharp ſent, pray, make not ſuch a fuſs.

I love a noſe; but, not a polypus.
XXV. On T O N G I L I A N.

ToNGILIAN has a noſe, a noſe to ſneer:

But noſe is all Tong ILIAN has, I fear.

XXVI. On C A NIU S : To M. A X IM U.S.

H ER god Terentos ſhow'd in Pan:

In CANIus ſhe diſplays her man.

XXVII. To an O D D IT Y.

W HO knitt'ſt thy brow, and joy'ſt not theſe to ſee;

Thou well may'ſt envy all, and no one thee. w

XXVIII. To the MO R O SE.

YE ſtern inſpectors, cruſty SANcTRA con:

For me, not you, attunes my little ſwan.
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XXIX. On C H E A P N E S S.

A Rundlet for twenty, a buſhel for four !

Let ſwains ſwill and guttle: they cannot do more.
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XXX. To a V IN T N E R.

S O conſtant pours the harraſt vintage ſwell,

Thou canſt not, iſ thou would'ſt, unmingled ſell.

XXXI. On W A T E R at R A V E N N A.

AT Ravenna a ciſtern, not vinyard be mine ;

Since I there can vend water far dearer than wine.

XXXII. On the VINTNER of RAVENNA.

THE rogue of Ravenna, with look ſo demure,
Me aſking diluted, deluded with pure. º

XXXIII. On the COBBLER and FULLER: To the VINTNER.

THEE, Bonon1A, thy mender; thee, MUTINA, Scrub
Gave a boon : where ſhalt thou give one, grape-ſucking grub 2
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XXXIV. On E U T R A P E L U.S.

W HILE EUTRAP is circling the cheeks, chin, and noſe;

And picking off one beard, another beard grows.

XXXV. On a VARIO U S T R IMMER.

- C HOPS partly pluckt, part ſhav'd, and partly ſhor'n;

Who could e'er think that one wiſe head had wor'n?

XXXVI. To O L U. S. - --
THy beard is hoary ; but thy locks are black:
To tinge the beard, thou haſt not yet the knack.
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XXXVII. On D. I. A U L U. S.

A Surgeon once, the diſmal he began ;

And ſo becomes a clinic, as he can.

XXXVIII. On the ſame.

THE doćtor's late is now the diſmal’s lore: - º

What diſmal does, the doćtor did before.

XXXIX. On D. O C T OR T I L T E R.

FROM oculiſt ſmall change the tilter made:

The doćtor practis'd but the tilter's trade.

XL. On doćtor H E R O D.

TH E clinic from the bed, the ſlipper ſtole;

And, caught, repli’d: Why ſwill, thou fooliſh ſoul ?

XE...I. To C O T T A.

O F ev'ry pretor thou the bags wilt bear:

The very waxes prove the buſtler's ſhare.
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XLII. To the ſame.
FINIC and great would'ſt be Thou ſure art mellow.
A finic, CoTTA, is a puny fellow.

XLIII. To M A T H O.

THou finely would'ſt ſay all? Say ſomething well:

Nay, ſomething ill, if thou would'ſt bear the bell.
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XLIV. To H E L I U. S.

TH AT bawlers you outbawl, the buſy cruſh;

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XLV. To M A X IM U S.

Thou haſt got a dire cold: it is well underſtood:

Why elaborate on 2 The apology's good.

XLVI. On a HoARSE HARMONIST.

H E who recites, his chops with flannel bound;
Shows he can nor ſuppreſs, nor utter, ſound.

XLVII. To a MUFFLED SPEAKER.

W HY muffle thy jaws, when thou moutheſt thy wit?

The fleece of thy neck, would our ears better fit.

XLVIII. On A P O L L O D O TU S.

AN offhand performer my ſpeaker is bruited :

Calpurnius he wrote not, and yet he ſaluted.

XLIX. To P O N T I L I A N.

SALUTE D oft, thou'lt nor prevent nor pay.

Then take, PontiLIAN, one Farwel for ay.

L. To P R IS C U S.

- I Knew thee not : I hail'd thee lord and king.

I know thee; and plain PR1scus is the thing.

LI. To S O S I B I A N.

TH AT thou'rt ſon to a ſlave, thou doſt frankly record;

When, SosibiAN, thou titleſt thy father My-lord.

LII. To C I N N A.

IF, CIN, I fir thee; be nor great nor gay :

My ſlave I greet in like familiar way.
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LIII. To C H E R I L U.S.

TH OU’RT far too free ; ſtill, CHERILus, you ſpit.

He muſt be free, on you who doles his wit.

LIV. To M A TT U.S.
W HO denies he's at home, when his knocker you ply;
Onely ſays, Friend, to you or I ſleep, or Ily.

LW. To P O N T I C U S.

W HY ſo bely the ſlave, bereft of tongue?

Know'ſt not, what he can't ſay, by all is ſung

LVI. On the B R A N DED B O Y.

THE branded boy, that ſav'd his baniſht lord;

Would not his duty, but revenge, record.

LVII. To G A R G 1 L I A N.
For a fool twenty thouſand I gave, and am bit.
Give me back, GARG, my thouſands: the zany has wit.

LVIII. On a MU L E T E E R.

OF thouſands a ſcore ; for a driver a ſum

The fellow was def, and ſo you may be dumb.

* LIX. To C A T I A N.

SEE the blue driver, with what might he moils 1.

Nor gains an inch : for glory pure he toils.

LX, To L E V IN U S.

IN Pompey's theater, thou dar'ſt to ſnore;

And growl'ſt to ſtart up, if old Ocean roar;
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LXI. To D E D A L U.S.
S.O torn, O. Dedal, by Lucanian bear,
Thou well might'ſt wiſh thy wonted wings to wear.

LXII. On two GLADIATORS.

W HO owns his greater, ſecond glory ſhares:
Of weight the palm a minor heroe bears.
LXIII. On a little F. A. R. M. E. R.

B E tears o'er little Lout unburied ſhed :

On him the lighteſt mold were loaded led.

LXIV. On F A N N I U. S.

Poor FANNIUs ſlew himſelf, his foe to fly.

What mortal madneſs, left thou dy, to dy!

LXV. On AFRICAN U.S.

MILLIONs has AFRICAN : yet graſps at more:

Too much have many, none ſufficient ſtore.

LXVI. To E M I L I A N U.S.

IF thou art poor, thou ſtill ſhalt poor be known:

Now golden ſhow’rs refreſh the rich alone.

LXVII. To angry friends.

YoUR wrauth appears your ſcience, happy friends.
It ſerves not many graces, but ſome ends.

LXVIII. To A U C T U S.

FROM ire can gainmongers elicit ore.

Fell hate is frugal: love might laviſh more.
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LXIX. To P A U L U. S. -

T HY pićtures, PAUL, and cups thy friendſhip ſpeak. ... . .

Thine ev'ry friend becomes a pure anteek. - .."
LXX. To C E C I L I A N U. S. ..

W HERE keep thy fiſh in ſummer ? in what pool? -

In thine own Therms, Cecilian, ſweetly cool.

LXXI. To G A R R I c U.S.
You ſent a pound: a quarter you beſtow.
Pay me at leaſt the half-pound that you ow. *

LXXII. To S E XT U.S. )
A Pound of ſilver thou couldſt once ſupply;
Then half of pepper: pepper came too high.
LXXIII. On D I O D O R U S : To F L A C C U S.

S TILL Diodore litigates, tho' he can't ſtand.

His Counſel, unfeed, thinks the gout in his hand.

LXXIV. To S E X T U S. -

AT money, money, judge and pleader aim :

The creditor's I deem the primal claim. * -

LXXV. To the ſame.

Sextus, thou nothing ow'ſt; ow'ſt nought, I ſay.

He ows alone, who has the pow'r to pay.

* LXXVI. To C IN N A.
TIs a mere nothing, CINNA, ſtill you cry.
If nothing you demand, I nought deny.
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LXXVII. On the ſame.

A CINNA loves poverty's phyz:

And poverty's eſſence he is. .

LXXVIII. On C A S T O R.

CAstor buys all. I forete,

CAstor kindly all will ſell.

LXXIX. On O L L U.S.
N OBLE OLLus conſtručted the poor a retreat:
Tho' his lands all he ſold, he poſſeſſes a ſeat.

LXXX. On L IN U S.

W HY give poor LINUs half, not lend the whole

* I'd rather loſe one half.’ A prudent ſoul!

LXXXI. To a FRIEND.
I Aſkt twice fix thouſand; you ſent me but once:
Twice twelve had I aſkt, had I not been a dunce.

LXXXII. To M A T H O.

THy ſmall demands, thou gain'ſt not of the great.

Augment them, MATHo ; and thy bluſh abate.

LXXXIII. To the ſame.

THou, of our Tiburtine an inmate grown,

Doſt buy it. Thou art bit: I ſell thine own.

LXXXIV. To L I N U. S.

D OST aſk, what my Nomentan yields to me?

The rich revenue of ne'er ſeing thee.
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- LXXXV. To S E V E R U S.

W HAT boons, my friend, ſalute thee from my farm t

Egs will commence, and apples crown the charm.

LXXXVI. To F A U S T IN U.S.

ONE, to whom fineſt compliments flow in my lay >

Looks inſenſible, SIR, as if nothing to pay.

LXXXVII. To R E G U L U. S.

Ev'RY farthing is gone; and I know no ſupply,

But by ſelling thy preſents: dear friend, wilt thou buy?
LXXXVIII. To LU P U.S.
W HAT I ſad and ſuccesfull ! let Fortune not know.

Ingrate would ſhe brand thee, did ſhe ſee thee ſo.

LXXXIX. To M A. R. O.

TH OU giv'ſt me nought here ; but wilt give, when thou'rt gone.

Then, MARo, thou'rt ſure I ſhall ſadly take on.

XC. To G A U R U S.

- ON thee, both rich and old, who boons beſtow,

But bid thee dy; hadſt thou the ſenſe to know.
XCI. To S O S I BIA N.

To the rich heirleſs, free thy folders fly.

No man, SosibiAN, lets his houſe ſo high

XCII. To C A TU L L U.S.
C ATULLUS, me thine heir thou haſt decreed :
I ſhall not credit it, unleſs I read.
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XCIII. On L A B I E N U S.

S OLE heir, to a farthing, poor LABIEN ſwore,

So ſadly bemumpt, he had merited more. -

XCIV. On M A. R. I U. S.

FIVE pounds of fine filver was MARIus' bequeſt.

Tho' thou gav'ſt him nothing, he gave thee a jeſt.

XCV. On C R IS PU S : To F A U S T IN U.S.

To his wife, in his will, he left none of his pºlf.

: To whom elſe could he give it?' To whom? To himſelf.
XCVI. On E M I L I U. S.

IN the bath he the lettuce, egs, fiſh, gobbles up :

And EMILIUs proteſts he abraud cannot ſup.

XCVII. On P H I L O.

TH AT he ne'er ſups at home, proud Philo ſwears:

When uninvited, he to ſup forbears. -

XCVIII. To N A S I C A.
W HEN, NAsica, you know me engag’d, you invite:
Entertainment at home muſt deny me delight.
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XCIX. To S E XT U S.

TH OU bidd'ſt to a ſportule, and ſuppeſt in ſplendor.

Doſt mean me to ſup, or to ſtare a depender

C. To G A L L I C U S.

YoU bid to a boar, and you treat with a hog.

You make us both mongrels, if thus you're a dog.
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CI. To O L U. S.

You give us good diſhes, but all of them cover:

So I could give gueſts half a hundred to hover.

CII. To an entertainer.

ALL to the boys thou reacheſt o'er the ſhoulder.

Set them a table, that they may grow bolder.

CIII. To R U F U.S.

THE hare not done! you ſtorm ; and fly to flog:

Rather than cut the hare, you'l cut the dog. -

CIV. On A P E R.

FRUGAL and ſober, I commend,

In both, my ſervant; not my friend.

CV. On C A R IS I A N.

CARIs IAN's frolic, frolic ne'er can crown;

In Saturn's feaſt, he wears the ſober gown.

CVI. To C I N N A.

IN locks, one paſſing all ; in roſes, pure;

A cook he made. Fy, CINNA, epicure |

CVII. To T U C C A.

To be the thing, TuccA, is not worth a button :

But thou wilt be fam'd, and admir'd for a glutton.

CVIII. On C A N U. S.

THE ſportule, that laſt night poor CANUs ſought,

Has ſurely ſlain him : for but one he caught,
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CIX. On E T H O N.

Ascape, 'fore Jove's own ſtatue, to atone;

Jove bid the player pamper on his own.

CX. On C E C I L I A N : To TITU S.

W ITHOUT a Boar, CeciliaN cannot ſup:

A fine companion chears CeciliaN's cup.

CXI. To M A R U L L U.S.
IT has ſhrewdly been rumor'd, MARui, without fleer 5.

That thou bear'ſt about oil, to pop into the ear.

CXII. To P O M P O N I U. S. -

TH E peals, by gownlings, to the cicling ſent,

Proclaim, not thee; thy ſupper eloquent.
CXIII. On C A L L I S T R ATU.S.

Lest worth he praiſe, all mortals praiſes he.

To whom is no one bad, who good can be f

CXIV. To an entertainer.

Is mine the Veian, thine the Maffic cup 2.

I'd rather ſnuff, than ſwill, the gobblet up.

CXV. To P O N T I C U S.

IN glaſs I quaff; thou, Ponticus, in myrrh :

Leſt jarring wines ſhould in tranſlucence ſtir.

CXVI. To C I N N A.

I Drink one more than one; thou drink'ſt one leſs

Than twelve: yet think'ſt we ſhould one vintage preſs.
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• CXVII. On A C E R R.A.

AcERRA ſmells of laſt night's wine, you ſay.

Don't wrong AcERRA : he topes on till day.

CXVIII. To P O S T U M U.S.

AT night you're all promiſe, while liquor's adorning 5

At morn all oblivion: drink, Post, in the morning.

CXIX. On F A BULLUS: To A U L U.S.

TH AT friend FABULLus is ſo oft beguil'd,
You ſtarel An honeſt man is ſtill a child.

CXX. On C A S C E L L I U.S.
IN ſixtieth autumn, CAscEL's parts are mellow :
What ſeaſon made, or ſhall, the poinant fellow

OXXI. On M U N N A.

THE right of three diſciples MuNNA ſought :

For MUNNA, more than two, had never taught.

CXXII. To SOPH R O N I U. S.
THRo: thy fine frame, ſo beams the heavenly fire,
I marvel thou could'ſt prove an earthly fire.

CXXIII. On C O D R U S.

M ORE credit than CodRUs, gives none of mankind.

* More credit ! ſo poor º' He's in love, and is blind.

CXXIV. On A S P E R.
A beauteous form could eyeleſs Asper pleaſe;
Who fondly more can fancy, than he ſees.
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CXXV. To a FA V OR IT E.

Thou fli'ſt, I follow ; thou purſu'ſt, I fly.

Thy will I will not : but thy nill will I.

CXXVI. To another.
Such ſtifneſs, eaſe ; ſuch ſweets and ſours about thee!
I cannot live, or with thee, or without thee.

CXXVII. To P H E B U.S.

As thy legs mock the horns of a moon incomplete;

Thou might'ſt waſh, in a funnel, friend PHEBUs, thy feet.

CXXVIII. To the ſame.

TH AT for thee the fair burn, is the modeſteſt whim :
Under water thy viſage declares thee to ſwim.
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cxxix. To the ſame.

Use lettuce limp, emollient mallows gain:

Thy ſturdy ſtare beſpeaks a ſtubborn ſtrain.
*

CXXX. On PHILIP: To AV IT U.S.

ON eight PHIL, complaintleſs, is bor'n o'er the plain:

If ſound thou pronounce PHILIP, thou art inſane.

CXXXI. On OPPIAN : To CASTRICU.S.

WHEN Oppian prov'd of ſallow hue,

The verſe he keen would bake and brew.
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CXXXII. To the ſame.

TH OU once ſaw'ſt me with fickneſs dwell:

I wiſh I once could ſee thee well. -

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CXXXIII. To C H A R IN U. S.

THou wrapp'ſt thy head in what a ſheep's did wear:

'Tis not to help thy hearing, but thy hair.

CXXXIV. To P A P I L U. S.

W HAT eſſence alabaſter did contain, -

Till PApilus beſnuft it into bane !

CXXXV. To SEMP R O NIU S TU CCA.

A Prime perfumer thou’d'ſt be underſtood. -

Perfumes, SEMPRONIUS, are both bad and good.

CXXXVI. To- N E S T O. R.
. . THou marvel'ſ that Mariuſes ear ſhould ſmell ill.
Thyſelf art the cauſe, who art whiſpering ſtill.
CXXXVII. To S.A. BID I'Us.
SABB Y, I love thee not, nor can ſay why.
One thing I can ſay, SAB : thee love not I.

Cxxxviii. To Pos TU MUs.

To ſome thou the cheek, to ſome tender'ſt the hand:
Me either: the latter's my higheſt demand. .

CXXXIX. . . To H E R M U. S. .

TH AT thou preſent'ſt thy cup to none beſide,

Is thy humanity; and not thy pride.
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CXL. To M A C E R.

W HEN thy fine rings become each wenches ſhare,

No wonder if thou rings no longer wear.
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cxli. To z o.1 L U.S.

RED hair'd, black-hu'd ; ſplay-footed, and ſkew-ey'd :
If thou art good for much, thou'rt much beli'd.

CXLII. To the ſame.

W HO call'd thee vicious, Zoil, vicious he : -

Thou art not full of vice — but vice of thee.

CXLIII. To the ſame.

TH E ſacred cenſure of the ſov'rain chief

Prohibits whoredom: Zoil, thy relief.

CXLIV. To the ſame. .

A Brangler's breth, nay bard's, thou call'ſt a curſe:
But, Zoil, far is a polluter's worſe.

CXLV. To the ſame.

- V W HY in the tub thy parts poſterior lay ?
Thy head, immerg'd, would it and thee bewray.

CXLVI. To the ſame.

AT me thou fleer'ſt, in thy ſleek ſuit full blown.

This is thredbare indeed; but is my own.
CXLVII. To the ſame.

LET thy litter be larger, than e'er mov'd on ſix,

'Tis a bier, if upon it thy carcaſe they fix.

CXLVIII. To the ſame.

OF ſeven ſons, if thou rage, aſſume the right:

So none thy father or thy mother cite.
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CXLIX. On the ſame.

To thee, the god, whom freedom's ſons adore,

Glad Zoilus devotes, the rings, erewhile he wore.

CL. To F L A C C U S.

W HEN, with the polluted, you chins chance to rub ;

Methinks you dip, FL.Accus, your head in a tub.
CLI. To S E N I A.

THou, SENIA, ſay'ſt, by robbers thou waſt bound:

May lies, ſay they, the lying lips confound.

CLII. On N E VI A.
I Wrote, ſhe wrote not back; ſo won't fulfil.
Yet, what I wrote, ſhe red; and therefore will.

CLIII. To F A U S T U.S.

W HAT thou may'ſt write the fair, I cannot tell:

That no one writes to thee, l know full well.

CLIV. To C L A U D I A.

AT the Coloſs imperial, thou might'ſt laugh,

Fair CLAUDIA ; ſhorter, by a foot and half.

CLV. On S P A T A L E.

KEEN Dafius, counting all the dames to lave,

Aſkt breaſt-ſwoln SPATALE for three: ſhe gave.

CLVI. On T H A IS: To F L A C C U.S.

TH E eye, that could the tiny THAIs ſee, -

Could, what nor is, nor was, nor e'er ſhall be,
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CLVII. On Q_U IN T US and TH AIS.

To one-ey'd THAIs, ſee fond QUINTUs ſue:
One eye has THAIs not, and QUINTUs two.

CLVIII. To T H A I S.

To none thou deni'ſt, and thou car'ſt not a ruſh:

That nought thou deni'ſt, might enkindle a bluſh.
CLIX. To the ſame.

My age, you, THAIs, often ſpell :

One's ne'er too aged — to do well.

CLX. On THAIS and LEU CAN IA.

THAIs. teeth black, Leucasia's white are ſhown.

Theſe art accompliſht, thoſe are natures own.

CLXI. To L E L I A.

IN ſhop thy teeth and hair were, LELIA, ſought.

How ſhalt thou find an eye 2 That can't be bought.

CLXII. To L E S B I. A.

H AIR, from the clime, where golden treſſes grow,

I ſent, that LES BIA's locks might brighter glow.

CLXIII. On FA B U L L A : To PAUL U.S.

Loc KS FABBy purchas'd, and her own ſhe ſwore.

Who would not, PAUL, the perjury deplore ?

CLXIV. On L Y CO R I S.
ONE-EY D LYcoris likes the lad of Troy.
What wond’rous viſion one eye may enjoy.
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CLXV. On the ſame: To F A B I A N.

ALL friends, each to her grave, does Lyco tend.

Oh that Lycoris call'd my conſort friend

CLXVI. On the ſame.

To hights Herculean Lyco would repair,

Aſſur'd that ev'ry black was whiten'd there.

CLXVII. On P H I L E N I S.

W ITH one eye weeps PHILENIs, as undone.

You aſk the cauſe PHILENIS has but one.

CLXVIII. On L I G E I A.

IF years, as many, as her hairs, are told;

Belockt LIGEIA is juſt three years old.

CLXIX. On A F R A.

WHAT papa's and mama's does young AFRA poſſeſs t

Whom herſelf their great grandame might innocence gueſs.

CLXX. To another.

UNSEEN, to ev'ry ſenſe you charms diſplay: -

But envious fight drives ev'ry charm away.

CLXXI. To M A N N E I A.

ON thy lov'd lips, the whelpling lambent hung,

No wonder if a dog can feed on dung.

CLXXII. To B A S S A.

Thou mak'ſt thee fair, and young bidd'ſt us ſuppoſe.

To do and ſay, what is not, BAssa knows.
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CLXXIII. On BASSA : To CATULLUS.

THy BAssA water drinks: 'tis well and good.

But I muſt marvel BAssus' daughter ſhould.

CLXXIV. To B A S S A.

For nameleſs uſe, thou bluſhleſs uſeſt gold;

But quaff'ſt in glaſs: frugality befool'd

CLXXV. The R O BE of an AD ULTE RESS.

MUST ſcarlets and vi'lets a proſtitute crown

Preſent her her due: the formality-gown.

CLXXVI. On a G OW NED E U NU C.

THE eunuc THELIs, when begown'd he ſaw ;

Sage NUMA cri'd : A whore condemn'd by law 1

CLXXVII. On THEMIS ON : To FA BULL U.S.

WHY THEMIson has not a wife, nor e'er miſt her;

FABULLus, you aſk? Honeſt TheM has a ſiſter.

CLXXVIII. To P O L L A.

AN untoucht wreath why, Poll A, ſend to me?

The rumpled roſes ſweeter blow from thee.

CLXXIX. To the ſame,

GUARDLess, thou giva thy lord his guards of life.

Him thus to huſband takes th' unvailing wife.

CLXXX. On P A U L A.

PAULA would vail to Priſcus : no one wiſer;

But Priſcus' ſelf, who is not PAULA's priſer.
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CLXXXI. On the ſame.

M E would grave PAULA wed; but I am gruff.

She is too old, and is not old enough. - ,
CLXXXII. On the ſame: To LUPERCUs.
THRE E are the drama's perſons, PAULA's four.
Thy modeſt PAULA can the mute adore.
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CLXXXIII. To P A U L A. º

H E was thy fav'rite; thou might'ſt diſavow:

He is thy conſort: canſt thou, PAULA, now :

CLXXXIV. To Q-U IN T U.S.

W HO, to fulfil the law, and ſhun all ſtrife,
Has wedded thee, is ſure thy wedded wife.

CLXXXV. On G E L L I.A.
W HY thy GELLIA will onely her eunucs retain
Take it, PANNic: thy GELLIA loves pleaſure, not pain.

CLXXXVI. On the ſame. *

To one alone gallant will GE LLIA dain.

More ſcandal hers ; the conſort thus of twain.

GLXXXVII. To G A L L U. S. i

ALL OW me one gallant, my conſort cries.

I ſhall not, GALLUs, pluck out both his eyes.

CLXXXVIII. On G E L L I U.S.

CoNso RTED wealth and age has GELLIUS won :

Now GELLIUs earns, and eats, and is undone.
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CLXXXIX. On A FE R : To C E D IT I A N.

TH OU wonder'ſt, why AfER not haſtens to bed :

At table thouſe'ſt, what a wife he has wed.

CXC. To A L A UD A.
THy wife calls thee wencher, ye well may compare:
Herſelf hugs the fellows, that carry her chair.

CXCI. On A P E R.
WITH a fly ſhaft, he ſhot his dowried wife.
Arch APER knows the game, and plays for life.

CXCII. To G A L L A.

You never do, but always will, you cry.

If ſtill you diſappoint; my dear, deny.

CXCIII. On the ſame.

S HE will and will not; nor can reaſon ſay

What GALLA means, by conſtant yea and nay.

CXCIV. To the ſame.

A S for demands, I cannot anſwer thine.

More delicate in both, were to decline.

CXCV. To the ſame.

GALLA, deny; and render paſſion ſtrong:

But, prudent GALLA, not deny too long.

CXCVI. To the ſame.

THEE back the child thy lord and lover ſent:

Both claimleſs, GALLA, to thy kind intent.
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CXCVII. To the ſame.

THy huſband loſt, thou wail'ſt in gloom, I ween.

Thou bluſheſt, GALLA, to make ſorrow ſeen.

CXCVIII. To P I C E N T IN U.S.

A FTER ſeven ſpouſes, Galla ſpouſes thee,

Galla, good PiceNTINE, but eight’th would be. .

CXCIX. To P H I L E R O S.

THy ſeventh, ſweet PHILLY, has enricht thy field.

No mortal's land could more improvement yield.

CC. On C H L O E.

ON the tomb of ſeven lords, the fam'd lady to-day:

Chloe did it. What fimpler could any one ſay?
CCI. To L Y COR I. S.

THE performer, that painted thy goddeſs of love;

Has been brib'd by Minerva, to ſtifle the dove.

CCII. To A RT E M I Do RUS.
VENUs you paint, to Pallas homage pay;
And wonder that the graces were away.

CCIII. On the pićture of ME MOR.

W ITH oakling crown'd, the Roman buſkin's fame;
MEMOR, reviv'd, revives Apelles' name.

CCIV. On T U R N U S.

G RE AT TURNus ſatyr plid, nor would he other.

Why woo not Memor's muſe He was his brother.
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CCV. On the buſt of SOCRATE S.

THIS SocRATEs, had he a Roman been,
Were Julius Rufus, mid the Satyrs, ſeen.

CCVI. On P. H. A E TO N enamelled.

B EHOLD poor PHAETon again ſublime !

Ah! why burn PHAEToN a ſecond time *

CCVII. On ſculptured FIS HE S.

THE Phidian art the fiſh diſplay:
Bring water, and they'l ſwim away.

CCVIII. On a LI ZZ A R D engraved.
C ARV’D on the cup, by Mentor's magic hand,
The lizzard bids aghaſt the gazer ſtand.

CCIX. To a boaſter.

AN anteek of true Mys, thou may'ſt boaſt in thy plate:

Without thee an anteek made — more ſignally great 1

CCX. To C H I O N E, or SNO W.
W HY thou'rt worthy thy name, and unworthy, I'l ſhow.
Thou art cold, and art black: thus art not, and art, SNow.

CCXI. On C H I O N E: To R U F U.S.

LET not SNow, my dear friend, chill this bundle of ſpirt.

If ſhe thaw by my fire, in her turn ſhe may hurt.

CCXII. On PA U L IN U.S.

As the keel flew, PAULINUs ſwell'd the ſea.

Would he once more ? He'd Palinurus be.
Ooo CCXIII.
 M A R T 1 A L’s E P I G R A M s.
CCXIII. On : B A C C H U S" name, BIM at RR. - -

W HO BAcchus' mother could the Thund’rer name,

Might Semele as well his fire proclaim.

CCXIV. On A C H I L L A S.

THEE, Pollux, dubb'd Gabinia Caſtor : thus

Pyxagathos became Hippodamus.

CCXV. To E M I L I A N.

If a cook-boy, by thee, may Miſtyllus be hight ;

Taratalla to clep him, commences my right.

CCXVI. On D IS TI C S.

Lest, in air, the mere lightneſs my diſtics ſhould toſs;

! I had rather ſing Töv 3 &raussééuevo;. w

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CCXVII. To the R E A D E R.

- I F a thouſand arch epigrams, are not enough ;

Never wilt thou be ſated, KIND READER, with ſtuff.

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O MIT TE D,
 M A R T I A L’s E P I G R A M S. 467

O M I T T E D, - *

Book I. Part. II. Epigram VII, but inſerted duly in the Tables, the Com
ment, and the Latin Edition.

On the exhibition of MUCIU S S CEW OL A.

THE awfull games th’ imperial pit diſplays,

-

Revive the glory of a BRutus' days.

Mark how ſhe graſps the flames I the gallant hand
Hails the careſſes of the lambent brand:

Ereding, undiſmay’d, her penal Pyre;

And riſing ſov'rain, o'er the aſtoniſht fire. -

Spectator now behold, no mourner, - him,

Devour the honors of his vaniſht limb :
Nay, to the finking pile, were ſhe not reft,
See fly, with fiercer rage, the envious left.
Ah! ſay not what he did before the ſhow :
The hand I ſaw, ſuffices me to know.

O o o 2 * * The .
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The Reader may have correóted theſe errors, that eluded every care of the Preſs.
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Book. Part. Ep. Line. For

I. : i. 29. 2. contain, contain :

— ii. 31. 4. timely tamely

II. 29. pen. prevail: prevail?
- 31. 17. Salamis Salmacis

- — 36. cloy. cloy

— . 133. 17. th’ imperial the imperial
IV. i. 12. 1. to day: . to-day:
— — 16, pen. the wreck wreck
— ii. 22. z. At HE N A Go R.As dear AN DRAG or As
V. 62. 2. But a poor A poor
VI. ii. 33. 2. painful painfull
— iii. 9. 3. Our evidence All our evidence
— - 43. 3. ought aught
— — 6o. 1. Lybian Libyan
VII. 62. ant. even e'en
- 62. laſt. ſhouldſt ſhould
VIII. i. 6.. 9. Atlas Athas

It muſt alſo be owned, that

X. 1. 7. My tally battles not tremendous dy:

is an unneceſſary ſubſtitution for
Thee, noble tally, not provokes my dy:

and that in Book II. Epigrams 39, 36, 35, 37, 38, ſhould be ranged 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, as they are in
the Tables, Notes, and Latin Edition. -

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 ( 469 )
C O M M
O N
E P I G R A M S
B O
P A
Epiſtle dedicatory, pa U RIFI E. D. Purifica
ragraph 2, line 5. cation, or refinement,
ſoon appeared neceſſary to metals, and to men. Eve
ry element, having more or leſs contributed to the
need, muſt more or leſs conduce to the remedy. Earth
and air, alike by groſsneſs and fineneſs, ſeeming in
nocent and unavailing; the great purifiers, as reſiſt
leſs pervaders, muſt be fire and water. Delicate has
reaſon ever been, in purification literal or figurative;
previous to entrance, whether of ſacred place, or on
auguſt performance. Before ſacrifice to the ſupernal
powers, (whoſe altar was white, or of a light color;)
natural votaries waſhed themſelves over and over: to
the infernal, (whoſe altar was black, or duſky;) aſ
perſion or ſprinkling ſufficed. No wonder if weak
as depraved man have, in various ages and nations,
even where he moſt boaſted, and where he moſt might
have enjoyed illumination; made barbarous abuſe of
both the obviouſly purifying elements: if infancy
have been made to paſs thro’ the fire, and inno
cence put to the teſt equally of fire and water.
Numberleſs, as the inſtances, are the alluſions: Gold
is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace
of adverſity. Draw near, ye candidates for holy ini
tiation; having your hearts ſprinkled from an evil
conſcience, and your bodies waſhed with pure water.
E N T
T H E
of M A R T I A L.
O K T.
R T I.
They waſhed therefore their hand, in innocence, and /?
did they compaſ, the altar; as the Romans not onely
waſhed their hands, but their whole bodies, before a
common meal. The firſt point however, of ancient
hoſpitality, was the waſhing of the ſtrangers' feet. Nor
could the ſtrangers, ſo refreſhed, be leſs attentive to
their generous entertainers. Cuſtoms will coincide,
where they could not be communicated. In all re
clining countries, the gueſts dropped their ſlippers
or ſandals, before they went to table. In Rome ſo
they did, in Magindano ſo they do; and ſo doutleſs
in ſimilar ſituations. Uncovering thus the feet on
entering ſacred places, was univerſally a mark of re
verential purity. Men failed not to put off their ſhoes,
the moment they were ſenſible, that the ground on
which they ſtood was holy: and there they walked
ſoftly, in reverence and humiliation. Defilement be
come natural to ſlumbering man, its counteračtion
became the object of his awakers. Hence the Jew
iſh purifications, the Roman luſtrations, the conſe
cration of places as well as of perſons, and the ſe
cluſion of the impure: hence whatever we anywhere
find conducive to the retrieval and improvement of
a being, who, gradually ungroſſening, becomes pro
portionably aware, that the perfection of probatio
nary nature muſt confiſt in purity.
* EP1c.
470 c o M M
Ep 1 G. I. Line i. Page 2. Laurel'd gods. That
laurel was the natural emblem and ſymbol of vic
tory, the terms become ſynonymous evince. With
laurel was adorned not onely the head of the vićtor;
but every place, perſon, and thing, that caught
glory by claiming relation.
The houſehold gods of the Romans, were Lares
and Penates : the latter a more vague, thence more
venerated, tho’ no other than a poſſeſſive appella
tion; the former, if ſometimes fabled a twin-pro
geny of Mercury and Lara or Larunda, the manifeſt
plurality of Lar, perhaps a deified heroe. Inter
changeable repreſentatives do we thus find them, in
the images, of the protecting powers; and ſo held
the ſubſtitutional guardians of habitation and cir
cumjacency. Incenſe, flowers, fruits, and a por
ket, became the joint or ſeparate ſacrifice.
– ii. 2. Muſe: THAL1A, the ſprightly, co-.
mic, and convivial; conſequently MART I Al's. Her
ſiſters: Eut E R p e, of variouſly harmonic power;
TER Psichore, who loves dance as well as ſong;
ERA to, the ennobler of love; Melpo MENE, the
miſtreſs of the mournfull; Clio, the guardian of
glory; CAll I ope, of heroic ſong; Poly HYMNIA
and UR AN1A, more various, but always elevating
inſpirers: theſe are, with Thal 1A, the daughters
of MNE Mos Y Ne, or Memory; and, obviouſly, as
their mother, of Greek origin ; each name, like
hers, exhibiting the reſpective character.
Beſide the peculiar titles, that every Muſe natu
rally draws; they prove, in that general harmony
which their very diverſity conſtitutes, occaſionally
ſtiled, Aonian, from Aonia, a mountainous part of
Beotia, where they delighted to range; Pegaſtan,
from their favorite ſpring Hippocrene, which the
poetic ſteed Pegaſus opened with his hoof; Pimplean,
from Pimpla, a hill and rill ſacred to them in Mace
don; Pierian, whether from another mountain and
fountain ; or from their hapleſs challengers, Pierus'
daughters, whom, more eaſily vanquiſhed than fi
lenced, they duly changed (ſays Ovid) into mag
pies; and Caſalian, from Caſtalia, who, to elude
Apollo, glided into a fountain (ſometimes named
Hyanteau) at the foot of mount Parnaſſus; as Daphne,
on like occaſion, flew into the laurel, thence dear to
the lovers of the Muſes, as to the god of wit (and
light) their patron.
E N T
Gentile were alſo ſometimes the titles of the Mu
ſes, who could not but honor the reſpective countries
of the bards they loved. Thus with Meonides or
Homer, Heſiod, Pindar, Sophocles, and Theocri
tus; were they Meonian, A/cream, Theban, Attic, and
Sicilian; with Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Juvenal, Mar
tial; Mantuan, Wenuſian, or Apulian, Pelignian, Aqui
nian, Celtiberian; in general, with the Greeks, Gre
cian or Athenian ; with the Latins, Latin or Romaw.
To them were many places, as well as perſons, ſa
cred: eſpecially the mountains, rivers, ſprings, where
they joyed to roam, lave, and quaf. Phocis, in
Achaia, poſſeſſed Parnaſus, truly the mount of divi
nation, with his double top Cyrrha and Nyſa, and the
Delphic Oracle at the bottom. Beotia, tho’ not fa
- med for univerſal fertility of genius, had her pecu
liar compenſations; particularly in the lofty Helicon,
with his flood Permeſſus. The vaſt Pindus, that di
vided Macedon from Etolia, and Epirus from Theſ
ſaly, was a favorite hant of the Nine. Nor could
Olympus, parting Theſſaly and Macedon, and ſup
poſed the higheſt mountain on earth, thence the a
bode of the Thunderer, be unreverenced or unfre
quented by the pious Maids.
As from Parnaſſus flowed the ſounding Caftalia, near
Helicon did Pegaſus ſtrike out Hippocrene; and into his
Perme/us glided the verdant ſpring, Enippe ; or the
cup of verdure, Agamippe: every one ſo beloved and
honored by the Muſes.
Hail, exhauſtleſs ſources of inveſtigation, inſ?ruc
tion, joy / whence whoſo duly draws, can never be un
quenched, tho’ never ſated; cannot remain un
cheared, or be long unfortunate.
II. i. 2. Palladian hills. Domitian celebrated
yearly, on mount Alban, the Quinquatrians, a feſtival
of five days, he had revived in honor of Pallas or
Minerva, the patroneſs of genius, learning, and
arts; conſequently of arms. He there excited the
emulation of orators and poets, himſelf crowning
each vićtor with an oaken wreath. On the firſt of
thoſe high days, which was the fifth to the Ides (our
eleventh) of March; the feſtivity was wholely in
telle&tual : the four following admitted, nay invited,
the various play of arms. The ſmaller or ſecondary
Quinquatrians were ſolemnized on the Ides (begin
ning therefore the ninth) of June.
– ii.
 O N M A R T 1 A L.
— ii. 2. Trivia: Diana, protećtreſs of inno
cence, health, and highways. Her temple at Ari
cia (now Rizza) was beheld on one hand from the
Alban mount; as was 7 hetis, or her domain the ſea,
on the other. *
Some hold the name Trivia of higher origin,
as interchanging, in various figure, Diana with Lu
ma (the Moon) and Proſerpina, the daughter of Ce
res, and conſort of Pluto, according to the celebra
ted correlation, which may thus be rendered:
Diana, Luna, Proſerpine;
Purſues, enlights, or aws;
The ſavage, ſky, or ſhade divine;
By ſhaft, or ſmile, or laws.
— iii. 2. The righteous ſºfters: figures of propi
tious and adverſe Fortune, the reigning deity of An
tium (now Anzo); of which Latian city, a hundred
and eighty-eight furlongs from Rome, the wave
waſhing the walls, made a ſort of ſuburb.
— v. 2. Eneas' nurſe : from whom, if we believe
(and who can dout :) Virgil, was named Caieta, (ſtill
Gaieta or Gaeta) a promontory and port of Campa
nia, now Terra di Lavoro. Servius however draws the
name, from the burning of the Trojan fleet, Strabo
from the hollowneſ of the harbor, and Diodorus from
Eeta or Eetes, king of the Colchians, ſon of the Sun,
by Perſa, daughter of the Ocean; but moſt renowned
as father to Medea, as poſſeſſed and diſpoſſeſſed of the
Golden Fleece, as dethroned and reſtored by his ſon
in-law.
— vi. z. The ſun’s potent daughter: Circe, from
whom Circeium (now Circello) and Circeii, a moun
tain and maritime town of Latium, are fond to de
duce their names. Hither the dire daughter of Sol
and Perſe (fifter conſequently to Eetes) is ſaid to have
been driven by the Sarmats; to whom, believed the
poiſoner of their king her huſband, her tyranny
proved no longer tolerable. Here falling in love
with Glaucus, a ſea-god, ſhe turned his favorite
Scylla into a monſter; as ſhe did Picus, king of the
Latins, for preferring his Camens, into a woodpecker;
and Ulyſſes’ companions, into cognate hogs; tho’
them ſhe reſtored, to oblige him, who made her pa
rent of his innocent parricide Telegonus. But Bo
chart, whoſe etymology often unravels the incredi
ble, ſhows that, in the Phenician tongue, Scylla and
Charybdis, the rock and whirlpool, are Scrl, deſtruc
tion, and Chor-obdan, the hole of perdition ; that
q aS
471
the enchantreſs found Latium ſo rich in poiſonous
herbs ; becauſe-Lat, with its plural-Latim or Latin,
denotes incantation or enchantment. Near the foot
of Circeium or Circeum, and the Pomptinian or
Pontinian marſh (firſt drained by the conſul Corne
lius Cethegus, and after by Theodoric, king of the
Goths) ly the ruins of Circeii, and ſtands the vil
lage of S. Felicita, twenty-five miles from Rome.
A hundred furlongs hence, near the mouth of the
Ufens (now Il Portatore), and half way between
Rome and Naples, ſtood Anxur, (now Tarracina, )
noted for white clifs and ſalutary waters.
- antepenult. 2. The love and gratitude of jove :
the former to mankind, in protećting its patron; the
latter to that patron, who had defended the Capitol
in his youth, and reſtored it in his maturity. No
wonder if our bard doubly honored the champion of
Jupiter and Minerva; or if, without a Gauliſ, untu
tored credulity, he ſhould pleaſe himſelf with depen
ding on ſuch a judges peruſal, and conſequent ap
probation. -
III. laſt. 3. Cecropian maid: Pallas. Cecrops,
an Egyptian, who brought (ſay they) a colony to
Attica, earned alliance and ſucceſſion to king Ac
teus, taught the uſe of the olive, and founded the
city, as well as the citadel of Athens; which king
Pandion rebuilt under the auſpices of Minerva, the
undouted tutelar. Pallas, as patroneſs of the olive,
claimed the preference, even to Neptune, who had
produced onely the horſe, of giving name to the ci
ty, which ſhe, by her Cecrops, had reared. -
V. ii. 3. Scipio and Metellus; ſurnames of perhaps
the two moſt illuſtrious families of Rome; the for
mer patrician, the latter plebeian. Publius Corne
lius, the ſtaff of a ſightleſs parent, became thence a
Scipio to his country. He proved not onely worthy
to encounter Annibal ; but, wounded, and almoſt
overwhelmed in battle, to find a reſcuer in a ſon of
ſeventeen. For his numberleſs vićtories, and mani
fold merits; offered ſtatues, conſulſhip, dićtature;
he as conſtantly declined every mark of honor, as he
perſevered in deſerving it.
That ſon, diſtinguiſhed firſt when a boy, for his
regularity in devotion at the temple of the Supreme;
after vanquiſhing (like his father) the Carthaginians
in Spain, and taking New Carthage, overthrew An
nibal in Afric, and rendered Carthage tributary.
This Scipio, ſurnamed duly the African ; crowning,
 472 C O M M
as crowned by, the friendſhip of Lelius; could not
be deemed unfortunate in a ſon; who, compenſating
in literary talents, his feebleneſs of perſon ; ſup
plied alſo this, in adopting the ſon of Lucius Emi
lius Paulus, or Paulus Emilius; a Scipio no leſs
properly named Emilian, than African the leſ; virtue
hereditary and adoptive having united to form the
overthrower of Carthage and Numantia.
It were injuſtice to omit Lucius Scipio, from his
ſucceſſes in Aſia, particularly againſt Antiochus, ſur
named the Aſiatic. By envy accuſed of extortion,
he appealed even to the Tribunes; among whom
Gracchus, his moſt avowed enemy, abſolved him
from the imputation. Balefull ſpirit of party that
could ever have raiſed an enemy to a Scipio, and ſuch
a Scipio, in a Gracchus, the grandſon of Scipio the
African ; much more that the ingenious ſon of a
Cornelia's care, ſhould have drawn his own death
upon him from the hands of his couſin and uncle, the
chief pontif, as ſuch ſtiled the protećtor of divine
and human things.
This Scipio, ſon-in-law to the African, put, when
cenſor, a negative on the ſtatues each new conſul
was rearing to himſelf in the forum; as, when con
ſul, after his conqueſts in Dalmatia, he refuſed every
title and triumph. Nor onely, like all the Scipio's,
great in arms, and ſelf denial; in genius, eloquence,
juriſprudence, wiſdom; Naſica was, by the ſenate,
pronounced the worthieſt ſenator; and the excellence
of his head and heart concentered in the appellation
of Corculum, or the Charmer.
Of the Metellian family, Lucius, the ſoverain
pontif, in ſaving the Palladium from the conflagra
tion of Veſta's temple, loſt his fight. That awfull
ſhrine, ſuppoſed the protećtion of its abode, was ra
viſhed, the Greeks aſſured themſelves, by Ulyſſes
and Diomede : a rape neceſſarily previous to the ta
king of Troy. This the Romans pronounced a pub
lic falſification, maintaining that the true Palladium
was brought to Italy by Eneas. No wonder if it was
lodged in the temple of Purity; where, with the
ever-living fire, and the virgins that guarded it, Mi
nerva's image became perhaps the firſt care of the
pontif. That goddeſs however was the tutel:r of war
too, when the indiſpenſable reſtorer of peace. The
pontif therefore, headed, when he muſt, the armies.
Thus had Metellus, in the firſt Punic war, obtained
E N T
a triumph; adorned with thirteen commanders ta
ken, and a hundred and twenty elephants.
Beſide our L. Metellus, from his conqueſt of Crete,
ſtiled Cretan, or Cretian; and the ſubduer of Ju
gurtha, thence named the Numidian ; the moſt fa
mous was Quintus (every one was Cecilius) from
Macedonia ſubdued, called the Macedonian. Ac
countable is his ſucceſs from an anecdote. One of
his officers aſking him a ſecret, he anſwered: Thought
I my tunic knew it, I would inſtantly throw her into
the fire. Well might he be held the happieſt of mor
tals, who, endowed with every quality of body and
mind; poſſeſſed of every honor, forain and domeſtic;
ſaw four ſons of cenſorial, conſular, or triumphal
dignity; three deſerving daughters, matched with
the moſt illuſtrious men, and mothers of the moſt
hopefull progeny; who, full of years, and all that
years could beſtow, fell, as it were, aſleep on the
pile. -
- penult. 3. The ſire and ſon: Veſpaſian and Ti
tus, jointly overthrew the Jews, named Idumeans,
from Idume or Edom, the ſouth-weſt part of Judea.
Domitian, yet a youth, fingly vanquiſhed the Catti
and Daci, whence the titles of Dacian and Germanic
devolved upon him. Dacia comprehended Tranſil
vania, Walachia, and Moldavia, on the Danube.
-
The Cattians are ſaid to have inhabited on the Rhine
and Weſer, the country now named Heſſe or Heffa.
VI. pen. 4. Nor cak, nor laurel. The laurel
wreath, to the vićtor, was, from the time of Auguſ
tus, placed at the imperial gate; the oaken to the
preſerver, under the ſupreme deity, to whom the
oak was ſacred; adorned the veſtible or porch : the
civic crown of ivy is here preſented to the head and
moſt honored member of the poetic commonwealth.
From the enthuſiaſm, however different, or however
fimilar, ivy has proved the common emblem of the
bard and bacchanal.
VII. iii. 4. Ribbaldi º triumphant ſoldiers will
naturally indulge a luxuriance of humor, which can
not be unpleaſing to their ſevereſt leader; ſhould their
merriment, in proſe or verſe, uſe freedom even with
himſelf. Certain it is, that Domitian loved wit, in
all its claſſes, as much as he abhorted every kind of
indecency. He, who thus could be diverted with
Latinus the droll, and his wife Thymele, the dancer;
might be Proud as well as pleaſed, to riſe in delight,
with
 on M A R T 1 A L.
with the gradation of his poet; and ſo to prove at
once his temper and his taſte.
— laſt. 4. My life is guarded, tho' my Muſe begay :
the inverſion of Ovid’s contraſt: My Muſe is modeſ?,
, tho' my life be gay. Our poet is apt to make need
leſs apology; and the other genius muſt indeed have
been looſe in life, if his Muſe was modeſt in com
pariſon. Not but, that in his Metamorphoſes, E
piſtles, and ſome other works, he is equally decent
and tender, elegant and ſublime; and, where his
Muſe is leſs edifying, her dreſs is comparatively
chaſte. -
VIII. iv. 4. Egis, or Egid: the ſhield of Jove,
which he gave to Pallas, who lent it to Perſeus, the
fon of Jupiter and Danae; as did Mercury his tala
ries and ſaber; and Orcus, or Pluto, his helmet:
that ſo armed he might fly to puniſh Meduſa, the
Gorgon-queen of the Dorcades, in the Ethiopic bay.
As her father Phorcus had received her monſtrous
mother Ceto, ſo had ſhe ſmiled on Neptune in the
very temple of Minerva, and thence produced the
monſter Pegaſus. Pallas therefore commanded her
brother to fetch Meduſa's head, which, flaming for
merly with locks of gold, now deſervedly hiſſed
with (perhaps tawny) ſerpents. Perſeus ſoon found
the ſweet ſiſters Meduſa, Stheno, or Sthenio, and Eu
ryale, all locked alike, with ſwelling wings, hooked
claws, tuſk-teeth, and a common eye, which they
ſiſterly twinkled by turns. Heroe as he was, he
took Meduſa, with her hiſſers, mapping; whipt off
her head ; and clapt it, as new armor, on the center
of his ſhield. With this he next viſited the inhoſpi
table Atlas, king of Mauritania, whom a moment
turned into a mountain; as ſoon after, in the Egean,
Seriphus into a rock. While at war with the Ethio
pians, he beheld the fair Andromeda, their king's
daughter; by the Nereids, whom her mother’s pride
had provoked, expoſed on a rock to a ſea-monſter.
Him the heroe ſlaying, reſcued the princeſs ; who,
with her hand, rewarded the vićtor. On his return
with every laurel to Argos, by a random-coit he kil
led Acriſius his grandfather. What gave him a
crown, took his peace away : nor ceaſed he to pine,
till himſelf, his Andromeda; nay with her both her
parents, Cepheus and Caſſiope; were conſtellated on
the back of the ſmaller Bear.
Can a fable ſo wild have any meaning The very
names Meduſa, Sthenio, and Euryale; Study, Power,
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and Expanſion; lead us into Meduſa's crime. By
Neptunes operation, under Minerva's auſpices, with
convenience of place, Egyptian wiſdom combined
to create and let fly the winged courſer, a ſhip. The
golden locks, hinting the finews of war, were no
bad auxiliaries; if even metamorphoſed to ropes:
nor could ſhe hope better friends than her ſiſters,
who had but one eye, as one view among them; and
exemplified the old truth, that a threefold cord is not
eaſily broken. The prince, jealous or curious, muſt
be excited by the new maritime power: Pallas ſeemed
aſhamed, becauſe proud, of Meduſa; and ſent her
unexperienced brother to bring her head to Argos.
Her ſhield, of true temper, rendered him undanted ;
Mercury’s wings and weapon made him ſwift and re
fiftleſs. Pluto's own helmet imparted to the youth
aw and ſecrecy: and what ſhall be too hard for ſo
much wit and wiſdom Not ſurely Atlas, or Seri
phus. One had been unkind, the other cruel. No
violence was offered to either, when they returned
to ſtone. The Seriphians might regret their obdu
racy to their young charge; and Atlas muſt ſee too
late his wood rotting or ſtunting, by his having
ſcorned a good merchant. But he, who proves ſo
naturally a ſtone, may in no leſs eaſy figure become
a god ; and he, who diſdained to be troubled about
cities or ſhips, will not grudge to bear the world on
his ſhoulders. -
The lady was now all the adventurer wanted : nor
could a lady offer more opportunely to a heroe. A
mother's falſe delicacy, or falſe dignity, may have
enſlaved a daughter; whoſe other friends may have,
with falſe indignation or imprudent ſympathy, ex
poſed her to ſome land-cub or ſea-calf, whoſe ad
dreſſes, at firſt intolerable, might have come to be
bor'n. From domeſtic thraldom and forain danger
ſeems Andromeda thus delivered; and, while ſhe
makes happy him who made her ſo, ſhe proves the
bleſt exalter of her family. Various are however
the modes of conſtellation. Some think that Per
ſeus became indeed the ſhepherd of his people; that he
opened ſchools, cheriſhed genius, promoted excel
lence; that thence he and his were duly elevated to
the ſkies.
— v. 4. Sarmatic : the appropriative of Sarmat,
or Sarmatia, European and Aſiatic; which compri -
ſed Poland, Ruſſia, Tartary; and is therefore ſome
times epitheted, comparatively with ſothern coun
tries,
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tries, hyperborean or northern. The Geter inhabited
the Eaſt part of Dacia towards the mouths of the
Danube. Pannonia (now Hungary) lay alſo north
ward. The Sarmatic is therefore ſometimes, by
poetic interchange, called the Pannonian war.
— viii. 4. Etolian ; of Etolia, part of Achaia,
now Artinia, where Meleager was born, and the
lance (many ſay) invented.
— laſt. 5. The robe, of palm; or palmed robe, uſed
in triumph : whether ſo named from the palms in
terwoven, or the bredth of the golden border.
IX. iii. 5. The gown Latian: the garb for the
wearer. The Romans inhabited Latium, and were
ſtiled the gowned race, from wearing gowns in dreſs.
x. iv. 5. Auſonian : Italian, from Auſon (ſay
they) or Auſonius, ſon of Ulyſſes and Calypſo.
The Auſºnes are thought to have been the Aurum
ci, Italy's firſt inhabitants; whoſe territory ex
tended onely from Lacinium (now Lacinio, J the pro
montory near the athletic Croton, in Great Greece
or Calabria, to the Salentine or Iapygian cape, now
Terra d'Otranto, in the ſouth-eaſt part of the king
dom of Naples. But poetry, who loves a part for
the whole, ſometimes the whole for a part, can as
eaſily extend Auſonia to Italy; as uſe Iſler for the
whole, tho' it be but the upper Danube.
— xiii. 6. Io : the voice of triumph, and ini
tials of jove, the obvious abbreviation (tho’ the Ro
mans knew it not) of jehovah.
XI. i. 6. Polar, on this fide the Line, as natu
rally pointing the Arètic or North pole, as Peucian,
Peuce, an iſland of lower Myſia or Meſia, at the
mouth of the Danube. It is not quite forain to hint
here, that the upper Myſia, now Boſnia and Servia ;
is divided from the lower, now Bulguria; by the
Ciabrus or Ciambrus, now the Morava or Morave.
— iii. 6. Rhine, with broken horn. Rivers are
horned, by ſounding, winding; copiouſneſs or pow
•r; but chiefly ſo figured from branching into va
rious channels, as particularly does the Rhine.
— antepenult. 6. The vaſſy Circus. Various were
the Circuſſes or circular (generally oblong) places of
exhibition in Rome. The greateſt was built by the
elder Tarquin: four furlongs in length, and in
bredth four acres; with a trench ten foot deep, as
many braud; and ſeats for a hundred and fifty thou
ſand ſpectators. Succeſſively improved by Julius,
Auguſtus, Caligula, Domitian, Trajan, and Helio
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gabalus (or Elagabalus) it came to arrange two hun
dred and fixty thouſand. The carceres, or ſtarting
poſt, ſtood at the entrance: there alſo one Meta or
Goal: at the oppoſite end, the other. The ſtar
ting-place was thus named the priſºns, of the fleeds
impatient to fly.
— laſt. 6. A Tigris or a Paſerine. The critical
being a yet ampler, than the Circenfian field; and the
poet not having called theſe rivals chariot-courſers;
ſome ſcholiaſts have found them, perhaps from very
ſwiftneſs, fellow-creatures.
XII. iii. 6. Odryſan (now Moldavian) of Odryſa,
a Thracian town near the Euxine. Some read, leſs
harmoniouſly, Othryſan; from Othrys, a mountain of
Thrace, the now Romania. December is here called
ever kind; alluding to the Saturnalian feſtival, cele
brated in that month.
XIII. i. 7. The watchfull parent of record: Janus,
the firſt king, and god, in Italy; hoſpitably received
Saturn flying from his ſon in Crete. The former
had prepared divine worſhip, by rearing temples and
altars. Wine had he alſo introduced, for the ſer
vice of gods and men. Saturn communicated va
rious improvement, particularly that of land. So
cordial became the friends, that they ſoon united
ſway. Each built a town ; Janus Janiculum, Sa
turn Saturnium ; both diffuſed the ſweets of piety
and peace. Some ſay they coined in conjunction:
tho' Servius Tullius firſt ſtamped at Rome, the As,
with the two faces of Janus on one ſide, and a
ſhip's beak on the other. The double face was a
ſignificant emblem, looking both back and forward.
To this the wiſe Numa, worthy to build the temple
of Janus, could not but have an eye, when he in
ſtituted its being, in peace, kept ſhut ; and, in war,
open. War, alas! has not a moment to look back:
peace improves the future, by reflecting on the paſt.
But war's beſt proſpect is its termination. The god
of peace was therefore to be conſulted, and his ſanc
tuary expanded during the exigence. So different
from theſe three ſoverains, were moſt of the follow
ing, that we find in a thouſand years this temple but
thrice ſhut: doutleſs under the builder, after the ſe
cond Punic war, and by the deciſive engagement at
Aétium, which enabled Auguſtus to enjoy the dif
fuſion of peace to mankind; nay to prepare, what
he underſtood no more than his bard in Pollio, the
reception of the Prince of Peace.
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At no loſ are we however to underſtand the key
in the hand of Janus, or his epithets of Cloſer and
Opener; more than the whitethorn-ſtaff, which ſpeaks
his pure if painfull tranſition from one year to ano
ther. Nor can we wonder if looks that ſo guarded
both ſides of time, came to be redoubled into four,
as tutelar of the ſeaſons. With as many tongues
therefore having promiſed the emperor a Neſtor's age,
he is here implored onely to add his own; that is,
immortality. Thus naturally the inſpector of time,
and reviver of ačtion, became introdućtor to the
other gods, as well as guardian of human regiſters;
the moſt ardent vows accompanied the revival of the
year, and every annual honor or high office com
menced with the month of January.
Febris or Feaver, ſuppoſed to reign at that period,
denominated February, the ſecond of the months
that Julius prefixed to the other ten. Mars lent his
name to the third (formerly the firſt) month; and to
our poet, born on its Calends, or firſt day. April
hints the opening ſeaſon; and May is as lawfull a
child, as Mercury, of Maia. June ſtill implied the
youth of the year, ripening into the Quintile and
Sextile, or fifth and fixth months; till Julius, equal
ly the ſcholar and ſoldier; the reformer of the Ca
lendar, and founder of the empire; honored the
former month with his name; as did his fortunate,
nor undeſerving, heir the latter, with that of Au
guſtus or Auguſt; his eaſy aſſumption, and that of
every ſoverain ſince. Our emperor wiſhed, with
leſs effect, to name September, Germanicus or Ger
manic; having conquered the Germans on its Ca
lends; and, for whatever reaſon, Odober, Domitia
mus, or Domitian. But theſe two months combined
with the two remaining, to diſpute even the power
of a Julius ; and nominally at leaſt to retain the or
der, he took ſuch pains to aboliſh.
As ancient perhaps is the diviſion of time into
weeks, tho’ leſs aſcertained the hiſtory of the ſeven
days’ reſpective devotion to the Sun, the Moon, Mars,
Mercury, Jupiter, Penus, and Saturn. But the Ca
dends, already mentioned, muſt have excited the cu
rioſity worthy a Roman ſcholar.
The Romans divided each month into Calendi,
Nonet, and Ides. The Calends, from the Greek pa
rent of our Call, were the firſt day: which ſome
times aſſembled the people, and always called im
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ments. On them peculiarly were money-matters
tranſacted; ſums lent, and intereſt paid. The Nones,
the nin'th day preceding the Ides, were the ſeventh of
March, May, july, and O.7ober; as were the Ides,
or dividers, the fifteenth of thoſe months. Of the
other eight, the Nones were the fifth, and the Ides
the thirteenth day. The numbers ran therefore down,
to each of the three monthly epocs; but included
them. Of the four juſt-named months, the ſecond
day was thus the ſixth to (but with) the Nones; the
third the fifth, the fourth the fourth, the fifth the
third, the fixth the ſecond, or the day before, the
ſeventh the Nones : the eighteth, the eighteth to (but
with) the Ides ; the nineth the ſeventh, the tenth
the ſixth, the eleventh the fifth, the twelfth the
fourth, the thirteenth the third, the fourteenth the
ſecond or day before the fifteenth, the Ides. The fix
teen remaining days were numbered to (but with) the
Calends following. Thus, the ſixteenth was the ſe
venteenth, the ſeventeenth the fixteenth, the eigh
teenth the fifteenth; and ſo on, to the thirtieth and .
firſt, the day before the Calends, of the month enſu
ing. Thence, the ſecond the fourth, the third the
third, the fourth the day before, the fifth the Nones :
whence the fixth the eighteth, the ſeventh the ſe.
venth, the eighteth the ſixth; and ſo, to the twelfth,
the day before the thirteenth, the Ides. January, Au
guſt, and December; having, as well as the four fix
noned months, thirty-one days; counted their eigh
teen following days with the next Calends thus:
the fourteenth the nineteenth, the fifteenth the eigh
teenth ; and ſo, down to the thirty-firſt, the day be
fore the Calends, of the next month. April, June,
September, November; having each but thirty days,
and ſo but ſeventeen after the Ides; muſt name the
fourteenth the eighteenth, the fifteenth the ſeven
teenth, ſucceſſively to the thirtieth, the day before the
Calends of the coming month. February intercala
ted, as now, every fourth year, a day: not howe
ver doubling the twenty-eighteth, but counting the
twenty-fourth twice; which became thus the fixth to
the Calends of March, and thence named Leap
year the Biſextile.
What artificial meaſures of time the Romans in
vented or employed, were an enquiry forain to this
work. One however, and that a principal; being,
by our author and by every Roman antiquary, men
tioned; muſt not be omitted here. It was, as for
merly
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merly our ſand-glaſs, of peculiar ſervice in public
recitals and orations: for wit and eloquence, no
ſtrið obſervers of time, ſeemed to require certain li
mits in ancient as in modern days. The Clepſydra,
often, not always, of glaſs; dropped water, as does
our veſſel ſand. Tho' inſtruments were probably
then, as now, of different ſizes, for different peri
ods; one repeated muſt have generally ſufficed. As
the half-hour ſand-glaſs was found the moſt commo
dious, ſome have given the water-dropper (literally
the water-thief) an hour, ſome half an hour; but
moſt agree on twenty minutes. Yet, as ſays a French
Genius, on preparatory quickneſs, Le temps ne fait
rien à l'affaire. A performances excellence or effect
depends no more on the time of delivery, than on
that of preparation. No wonder then if, as Reaſon
advanced, ſhe ſpurned ſuch meaſures, when ſhe found
them the couch of Procruſtes, dilating or compreſſing
to the ſize; if ſhe therefore aſſerted her right of ſetting
her own bounds: averſe alike to quench or inflate the
ſpirit; to omit any thing uſefull, or add aught ſu
perfluous.
XVI. iv. 8. The third boons. Over the Cattians
and Dacians, Domitian had formerly triumphed.
The third laurel, ſtill more glorious, as gained by
accommodation, he preſented to Capitolian Jove;
and then crowned each order of his loyal people,
with every adequate gratification: whence all three
eſtates proved as much more able, as more ardent, to
pay their vows. The private triumph, which ap
pears the more pleaſing to Domitian, took place on
victory over a citizen (that is, a compatriot) as on
Antony's over Catiline; or by bloodleſs ſtipulation,
like the preſent, ſo preferable to force of arms.
XVII. i. 9. Phoſphor: the Greek equivalent to
Lucifer, ſon of the morning : both however light-bring
ing names to the planet Penus ; whether before ſun
riſe, the morning-ſtar; or after ſunſet, the evening
ſtar, then named Heſperus or Peſper.
- v. 9. Bootes : the poetic driver of the conſtel
lation, called, from reſemblance, Charleſwain, or
the Plough. He is always epitheted ſluggiſh or ſlow;
having in his right-hand four ſtars, that never ſet.
Sometimes is he named Arétophylax, as guardian of
the Greater Bear. Both the Greater and the Leſs,
(from their ſhineſ, the poets ſay, to dip in the ocean, J
have been by different nations, regarded polar; the
latter by the Phenicians, the former by the Greeks.
E N T *
— vii. 9. The Ledean Star : Caſtor, would have
ſent his charger Cyllarus to expedite the march. Uni
verſally as Caſtor has been celebrated the horſeman;
ſome, even poets, have attempted to unhorſe him,
and give Cyllarus to the bruiſer Pollux. Not that
Caſtor would have denied his horſe or aught elſe to
that brother, who, as the ſon of Jove, born immor
tal, had begged and obtained leave to alternate mor
tality with Caſtor; who, but the ſon of Tyndarus,
had died; and thus revived, to ſhare with Pollux
immortality. Pindar however makes the alternation
more ſociable; by beaming them one day at the ta
ble of Jove, and burying them the next, no leſs
amicably, on earth. The fable, in any ſhape, ori
ginates from the obſervation, that the Twins, in the
Zodiac, riſe and ſet by turns. Inſeparable or inter
changeable as were thus the brothers, we hear of no"
ſuch attachment or mutuality, between the fiſters,
Helen and Clytemnºſºra. But, natural as it was for
the heroic twins to love each other; fo matural be
came it, for the very differently renowned ladies;
who knew neither duty, humanity, nor conſequent
ly love; to be found incapable of friendſhip.
— xv. 9. Memnon’s parent, Aurora; whoſe rape of
Tithonus is as much talked of, and perhaps as well
underſtood, as the horſes of the Sun ; or, as Sol and
Luna, the Sun and Moon, themſelves. Yet obſerve
we, by the way, without much wonder, that the
Sun muſt have kept a double ſet of horſes. Ovid
had ſeen one, Martial the other. Both indeed name
the high-blood Ethon; who, like our Hermes (IV. ii.
3. Io.) to himſelf ſuccedes ; nor, as one was never off
the ſtage, would the other be ever out of the harneſs.
Our bard had doutleſs heard at leaſt of the firy Py
roeir or Pyrois, and Phlegon; as well as of Eour,
ſwifter than the Eaſtern wind, or himſelf the ſwifteſt
ſon of the morning. But they had been acceſſary to
the fate of Phaeton; and ſo perhaps leſs favorites of
our feeling bard. With Ethon therefore he yoked
the glorious Titan, rival of the Sun himſelf; and
the golden Xanthus, his natural compeer: making
thus a matched, if matchleſs three. On high days,
like the Phaethontian, four ſteeds might ſpring a
breaſt; as was the ancient, however joſtling, man :
ner. From the pićture, one would be led to ima
gine; that, on leſs ſolemn occaſions, three, leſs
mutually embarraſſing, ſufficed.
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of retrograde motion will the critics arrain us,
returning to the Sun's fair harbinger; before whom
the duteous hours ſpoil the unfading roſe. Her and
them when we contemplate, we no more ſee Memnon,
good Priam's hapleſs auxiliary; than we hear his ſta
tue, that became ſo tunefull, the moment it firſt felt
the maternal ray. His parents had but to eye, to
captivate each other: nor can we be ſurpriſed at the
mutual captivation. Whether Tithonus might be
brother or ſon to Laomedon, Priam's father; is no
more aſcertained than important: nor is often the
important obſcure. We know that he was young,
and beautifull as young, and briſk as beautifull. An
early ardor pierced the bluſh on his brow, to take
Time by the foreloc, whom he had heard pronounced
Bald behind. This the youth interpreted a hint to
addreſs Time's ever blooming, tho' eldeſt, daughter:
a paragon celebrated by many, to whom ſhe remai
ned unſeen. Of her beauty the firſt beam finit Ti
- thonus with convićtion, that half neither had, nor
could have been told him. The queen of flowers,
who gave Aurora's dancing maidens to ſtrow her
way, tinged her whole complexion to the fingers’
ends; nay, adds Virgil, colored her very horſes;
tho' he can onely mean, with his maſter Theocritus;
ſuch hue the reflexion of the roſes, on the ſleeky
milk-white ſteeds. Of theſe our goddeſs, in ſo
lemnity, like the Sun, drove a double pair; but, in
common airings, held a brace preferable. Nay, Ly
cophron, one of the ſeven Stars," gazed by Ptolemy
Philadelphus, elucidates, that beauteous Morn ſome
times mounts Pegaſus, whoſe mettle ſpurns every
car. Her new votary, loſt in the growing ſplendor,
ſnuffed, keen as Pegaſus himſelf, the balmy fra
grance of the gale; and was ſoon overpowered with
the benignity, perhaps the chief glory of the god
deſs, who raviſhed him: whether into her car, or
on her palfrey, her confidants have left us to gueſs.
Certain it is, that ſhe gave him every proof of her
love : nor is the leaſt proof of attachment, the com
munication of friendſhip. She introduced him to
the acquaintance, and conſequent intimacy, of her
deareſt friends, the Muſes (I. 2.); with whom,
* The other ſix, Theocritus, Aratus, Nicander, Apol
lonius, Philicus, und the younger Homer; tho' affrono
merſ are not quite agreed, either about the names, or the
arrangement.
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by whatever introdućtion, we too have the happineſs
of being long or lately acquainted. Vigor thus,
intellečtual and corporeal, ſhe tempered for Titho
nus betimes. Between her (now his alſo) darlings
and herſelf, ſhe compromiſed his devotion. With
her ſhe made him range their moſt beloved moun
tains: with him ſhe dained to quaff their ſalutary
ſtreams. His body and mind ſhe braced by alternate
exerciſe; nor failed ſhe to blend temperance with his
beſt enjoyments. Such were the medications, that
gave perennial youth ; on ſuch nećtar and ambroſia
did ſhe feed her favorite: nor could ſurely he, who
boaſted ſuch bounties of the Morning, but enjoy a
lengthened and delightfull day. Such is the longe
vity in the right-hand of wiſdom, which can never
feel the decrepitude of age ; and ſuch the terreſtrial
immortality, by which the frame refines impercepti
bly away, leaving the ſpirit free.
XVIII. i. 9. Who ſpoils the wood: the tiguer
hunter in Hyrcania, now Bengall; where tiguers are
fierce as frequent, and the rape of a whelp dange
rous.
— v. Io. The Erythrean triumphs ; of Bacchus in
India; or on the Red-Sea, ſo called, tho’ properly
Erythream, from the coincident Greek name of the
color with the appropriative of Erythra, ſon to Per
ſeus and Andromeda (VIII. 4.); which ſon is ſaid
to have reigned on thoſe coaſts, and ſo may have laid
claim to the ſea that laved them. Under whatever
right or wrong name, that Arabic or Perſian gulf
(parting Aſia and Afric) always enriched, with pre
cious pebbles, its ſhores; or rather the collector, na
tive or ſtranger, indifferently exhibited to the Weſ.
tern world in the general idea of Indian. This de
nominative appropriates no leſs to Erythrae the name
of ſeveral cities; particularly, near Chios, one,
whence the Erythrean Sibyl. But, in Erythrean, as
Indian, triumph, is the god here drawn by his ti
guers, leſs tractable than his.elephants.
Among the ſeveral perſonages, under the name of
Bacchus ; one of extended ſway, as probably con
queſt, in Aſia, ſeems the archetype of our heroe.
But Mythology (or Fable) who ſeldom dreds the
dark, has occaſionally blended them all in the ſon of
Semele. To him, however, fairly belong the vari
ous epithets, or appellations, of the renowned god.
1. Dithyrambus, whether from the double-doorca cave
in Eubea (now Negropont) where Ariſtcus' daughter
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Macris, according to Apollonius, nurſed the infant;
or, like 2. Bimater, from his double birth ; if not
preferably, by the length of the firſt ſyllable, from
This glorious paſſage thro’ Jupiter's thigh, held his
ſecond mother; as having noriſhed the embryo, after
poor Semele's facing her fate in her Thunderer. 3.
Dionyſus, as the Greek; or Dionyſius, the Latin, al
ſo variouſly analyſed, may compound the name of
his tremendous fire, with that of Nyſa or Nyſa, the
Arabian or Egyptian (thence vaguely called Indian)
mountain; where the gratefull god reared a city, to
the Nymphs who had reared him. Diverſe were the
Nyſa’s, all ſacred to Bacchus : not to mention one,
with the other top of Parnaſſus. Some will make
Dionyſius, Joves lane or ſtaggering boy; others, on
the contrary, 4. Eubyus, his dutifull ſon, when play
ing a very lion againſt the Titans. But Eubyus aſ
pires eaſily into 5. Evius, a title of mere acclama
tion, like 6. Evan ; or the tumultuous, if honorary,
7. Bromius, 8. Iacchus, and 9. Bacchus himſelf. A
bawler too is Io. Baſareus, drawn from the Greek ;
a vintager, from the Hebrew ; a Thracian, in long
robe; or, a mere Bacchanal, in the female veſtment
of foxes” and fawns' ſkins. 11. Sabazius may come
from Sheba or Saba, in the mouth of the Arabian
gulf; or from a cognate oriental term, that ſignifies,
to lead captive. With as little as ſome former ſtrains,
may it be untwiſted from the Greek, into awfull.
Two others, of Greek origin, ſpeak Bacchuſſes beſt
known chara&er; in 12. Leneur, the patron of the
winepreſs; and 13. Lyeus, the diſſolver of care. One,
Latin, is not the leaſt expreſſive: 14. Liber: the free,
open, gencrous, joyous god; diffuſive alike of hap
pineſs and miſery to man, as his gifts are uſed with,
or without moderation.
Vićtor, benefactor, bleſſer; was Bacchus thus loved,
honored, adored. Univerſal became his worſhip,
frequent his temples, and paramount his feſtival of the
Dionyſians. Quinquennial were they, and previous, nay
preparatory, to the Olympics; as meaſuring time be
fore the commencement of the Olympiads. At Lim
nae, or the Lakes, in Attica, aroſe the god's favorite
fane; as there were his myſteries celebrated with pe
culiar veneration. The ſuperintendants, titled king
and queen, were choſen by the people, as ſupreme in
i. Natives muſt be both; that they might ſee
oly things adminiſtered in the native time, place,
and manner. All elſe equal, the chief magiſtrate
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was preferred; becauſe chief man was everywhere
the king of the Dionyſians. His proved the care of
the ſacrifices and ceremonies; his conſort's that of
the awfull and ineffable myſteries, inviſible as in
audible to man. She, having known no huſband
but his reigning majeſty, ſelected as aids or de
puties fourteen venerable ladies; each of whom took
an oath, tendered by the highprieſt in her preſence,
before the altar and offerings upon it, that “ſhe was
of unſullied virginity; and qualified as reſolved to
miniſter purely in the holy Dionyſians, according to
ancient uſage, in their appointed ſeaſons.” At this
high feſtival, the tribes being duly aſſembled, each
by its leader ; the allies paid their tribute to the A
thenians. It commenced on the twelfth of the month
Anthºfferion, thought coincident with our April: on
which ſingle day of the year was the Limnian tem
ple diſplayed; leſt the ſolemn enactions there graven
on a column of ſtone, ſhould be profaned by vulgar
inſpection. -
The other Dionyſians were well named Leſ; : leſs
venerable, as more frequent: whether annual, in the
Rural or Lenean, feaſts of corn and wine; biennial,
when the tops of Parnaſſus came every other year,
in honor of the god, to be climbed ; or triennial:
Citheron being aſcended every third year, in com.
memoration of the three years beſtowed by the he
roe on the Indian expedition. Of all the mountains
famed in antiquity, Citheron was the moſt devoted
to Dionyſian orgies. But now, alas! the great Dio
nyſians were no more. Pure and awfull as they had
been, proportionably grew the other ſucceſſive ſpe
cies daily more corrupt and more contemptible.
From Egypt had diverged the firſt human wiſdom:
to Egypt reſorted early from all other quarters, who
ever wiſhed for improvement or protection. Of theſe
Apis, obviouſly the ſame as Serapis, and certainly
the ſame as Oſiris, the ſon of Jupiter and Niobe,
leaving his kingdom of Achaia to his brother Egia
leus; paſſed, for whatever cauſe, into Egypt. Ina
chus’ daughter Io, no leſs famous in fable, fled Ju
no's perſecution into the ſame hoſpitable land. Both
carried thither as much benefit, as they reaped there.
Both poſſeſſed ſuch excellence as ſoon made them not
onely ſoverains of each other, but of the Egyptian
kingdom : he extending, where he muſt, the fame of
his conqueſts; and diffuſing, where he could, the
- bleſſings of peace. Aided by his fair conſort, he
variouſly
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variouſly improved the Egyptians, particularly in the
management of their lands, and culture of the vine.
The glory of Ofiris raiſed the envy of a brother, who
is ſaid to have tor’n him to pieces; and, tho’ meet
ing from Iſis the reward of his ambition, left her the
pain of collecting them. The ſage people, much be
yond others in allegory, expreſſed its gratefulf vene
ration for both ſpouſes, after their death; by wor
ſhipping its improvers, in the fignificant emblem of
an ox and a heifer. Oftris and Ift, ſometimes figu
red alſo by the Sun and Moon; in all ſhapes, coin
cide with Bacchus and Ceres; who, ſtript of their
figurative, have no other real charaćters. Alike
ſpoke the names the Powers of Wine and Corn: and
everywhere by man are moſt venerated thoſe powers,
by which man immediately ſubſiſts. If Bacchus and
Ofiris were ſo like in life, in death they ſurely were
not divided. One was dilacerated by a Typhon,
whoſe fate proved ſoon condign; the other by the
Titans, whom Jove duly fulminated.
The Greek worſhip of Bacchus, thus diſtantly tra
ditional, and almoſt wholely allegoric, could not long
continue in any degree of purity. The god of wine,
was ſo manifeſtly a god of ſenſe; that, far from dig
nifying or chearing any but the guarded few, he
ſoon took from the reſt every ſenſe away. The god
himſelf, no longer driving tiguers, is painted now
beſtriding one: but ſuddenly diſmounted, we find
him reeling with an infipid blouſy face, foaming lips,
bare breaſt, ſwelling panch, crown of gold, or
wreath of ivy, if not of vine-leaf; a canthar, or great
jug, dangling on the right-arm; on the left a thyr/e, or
ſpear with pineapple-point, verdant as his thought
leſs pate ; on which a pair of little horns, expreſ
fively buts thro’ the garland. This pretty vićtor (of
himſelf!) leads a very proper, horned and goat-footed
band: his worthy maſter Silenus, after a fall from
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his aſs, limping along with Pan, the paragon of
it,
ſhepherd: ; and attended by a troop of friſking Sa
it.
tyrs and Fauns, equivalent entities; tho’ Ovid plea
13.
ſes Jupiter, and Jupiter him, by multiplying the
ſweet gods of the minor nations.
jº
ºf:
‘The mob of Gods, Faunr, Satyrs, Lares, make:
lſº Each Demigod and Nymph, each Flood and Lake.
So Jove finds ſolace, if not pride, in the muſter of his
sº petty forces:
h tº:
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Half-ged, and Nymphs; and rural pow'rs are mine:
Faunt, Satyrs, mountain-Silvan, ; all divine.
With ſuch mongrel-deities moved the initiates in
lawn, like the prieſts of Ifis (for ſuch indeed they
were) wearing miters, and waving rods; entwining
themſelves with ſnakes, and devouring garbage raw;
mounting aſſes, dragging goats; or leading frantic
dances, and joſtling one another. The Bacchuſ’s
were now joined, and emulated by the Bacchaes ; ſtill,
tho’ not as of old, the principal performers; clad
in ſhawls, carrying thyrſes, and affecting peculiar
geſticulations, unworthy of either ſex: all adorned
with vine or ivy; all mad in motion, as the jarring
jumble of drums, fifes, pipes, and bells; all full of
the god, and wildly toſſing, with the head, they
had muddled, the hair they had noriſhed, in his ho
nor: all howling and hollowing, Io, Bacche / or the
like; as would our Bacchanalians, Bacchus for ever /
The myſtic fan remains the fingle myſtery. Indiſ
penſable as it was to every ſacrifice, no inveſtigation
ſeems to have aſcertained by whom, how, or why it
:
was boren. Of all emblems a fan ſeems moſt to teem
with meaning. It doutleſs typified the purgation re
quiſite for, or acquirable from the due celebration of
the myſteries. But the thyrſe, which no male ap
pears to claim, beſide the god himſelf; was certainly
carried by every female; nay, became ſo peculiar a
badge of effeminacy, that a Scythian people, ſaid
to have been rich without avarice, and emulous with
out envy; becauſe without paſſion but for decking
the perſon, or action but for painting it, eſpecially
the hair; may well have been named Agathyrſ; or
Agathyrſians, as highly worthy of the Thyrſ. Or, if
they muſt deſcend from Agathyrſus, a ſon of Hercu
les; that ſon muſt have been unworthy of his father,
and they had kept worthy of theirs.
But Hercules found comfort. Another ſon Gelonus;,
patient, ačtive, brave; became fit to found a people
hardy, dexterous, reſiſtleſs. He applied perſonal paint
to its onely poſſible uſe, that of rendering the ſubjećt
terrible. In this additional armor (which all unpoliſhed
nations wore) the Gelonians were neither encumbered
by its unwieldineſs, nor retarded by heavy baggage.
It was the enemy's buſineſs to ſupply proviſion. Why
carry, what waited but the earning If the march.
proved ſomewhat long, and nature brought de
mands; a Gelonian was at no loſs to anſwer them.
His
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His horſe might alſo be refreſhed, by ſparing a little
blood; and milk, of one animal or other, was not often
diſtant. Appetite whetted ingenuity; the meſs, ſoon
mingled, was ſoon enjoyed; and the march proceded.
This was a reſource of many ancient nations, and
is ſaid to be of ſome to this day; particularly of cer
tain Tartar tribes, the very ſucceſſors of the Gelo
nians. Thus nations, allied by blood and ſituation,
proved oppoſite as their founders. The humble Ge
lonians were feared, honored, admired. The gor
geous Agathyrfians, if they fell not a prey to the
firſt invader, were undoutedly protected by their
neighbors the Gelonians; who diſdained avarice, if
poſſible, more than injury; not knowing one to be
part of the other; and pitied vainglorious wealth,
that could but expoſe its poſſeſſors.
Plutarch ſays of the Greeks, as Livy of the Ro
mans, that riches introduced luxury, and luxury de
fire or diſtraćtion; that, without finery or frenzy,
gold or gambols, chariots or maſks; the decent com
pany was followed by the Dionyſians, in ſober feſ
tivity, thus: - -
1. A veſſel of fair water.
2. A pitcher of pure wine, ornamented with a
vine-branch.
3. A goat: the vićtim. - porter. And ſurely, any other than an Orpheus;
... 4. An oſier-baſket of vine-boughs.
The next article was a very pardonable innovation.
5. Noble virgins, bearing in golden baſkets, all
the firſt-fruits (as grapes and figs) ſacred to the God.
But the cloſing was a deplorable, rather than ridi
culous, exhibition; tho’ perhaps the moſt original
ſcene of the ſacrifice.
6. Perſons ſolemnly bearing on poles the repre
ſentation, in wood or other material, of certain parts
faid alone not to be found, of the diſmembered he
roe: the daily obječt of Iſis’ inveſtigation, and af
terwards of her prieſts.
Yet, while we deplore, as we often may, the weak
neſs of man; let us not forget, that the Dionyſians
came, in days of fimplicity, from Egypt; where
no emblem was held mean, that could be expreſſive.
If an ox could figure the father of improvement;
the type of any part loſt, might hint the whole loſs
to mankind: nor onely the importance of endeavor
to ſupply it; but that even the genial powers of na
ture lay dormant, till new improvers ſhould ariſe to
awake them.
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• In ſympathy with Iſis it muſt be, that the Baccha
malian prieſteſſes became ſo apt to dilacerate the ob
jećt of their reſentment. Of two inſtances immedi
ately occurring, one is far more known than the o
ther. . . .” * . -
Orpheus, was the celeſtial ſon of Apollo and Cal
liope; if the terreſtrial of Eagrus the Thracian, by
whatever mother; and coeval with Hercules, a hun
dred years before the war of Troy. Whether Apollo
or Mercury gave him the lyre, has never yet been
ſettled; but one is the conſent, how he ſwept it. That
cataraćts hung to hear him, and crags flew to follow
him ; that bears danced to his melody, and tiguers
licked his hand ; is as much allowed, as that, on his
viſit below, he touched the very ſoul of Pluto and
Proſerpine; who conditionally gave him back his
wife. Infernal condition, to the feelings of an Or
pheus! who could no more forbear to caſt an eye on
whom he led, than remember how dear the glance
muſt coſt him. When his better ſelf was gone, he
minded not the remainder; nor all the ladies, the
ſun continued to ſhine on. Himſelf had brought
into Greece (to Thebes indeed) the Dionyſians, tho’
Herodotus gives this glory to a Melampus : meaning
perhaps, in Blacfoot, but a ſarcaſm on the im
or he more than any other, by his indifference; de
ſerved, that the ladies of Thrace, as well as Beotia,
ſhould become very Bacchanals againſt him; and
make him firſt exemplify the ſcene, he had deemed
worthy propagation.
Admirable, amiable, and touching, as we too
muſt have found Orpheus; ſome deny him, as others
job, to have ever exiſted out of pićture. To both
pićtures however, be the painters who could, we ow
the moſt important inſtruction, conveyed in the ſub
limeſt manner. Noronely we : if Homer had not
the happineſs of knowing a Genius, whom he would
have been proud to own his greater; it is certain
that the father of merely human poetry was no more
aſhamed, than Virgil of his maſter, to ſpeak him
ſelf the diſciple of an Orpheus.
This philoſophic hymniſt had not long ſuffered,
for and from the Dionyſians; when Echion, for his
. -
aid in the building of Thebes, received Cadmus'
daughter Agave. Their ſon Pentheus, inheriting
more of his grandfather, than of his mother; a
vowed
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vowed himſelf an enemy to the myſteries of Bacchus.
Nor needs mature reaſon revelation to know, that all
myſteries of man's gratuitous making are unworthy a
rational mind. How peculiarly obvious, the Baccha
malian danger! how weak who could ever promote it!
What then was become Agave, who headed the
band of Menadians (that is, of thoſe who exemplify
that Mºine is a mocker, andfrong drink is raging) to
make an Oſiris or a Bacchus, of the young king her
fon If ſome poetic judges metamorphoſe him in
to a boar, a calf, a bull; or ſtrike him with light
ning ; it is a mortifying proof that the orgies of Bac
chus are ſometimes dearer even to Genius (were this
poſſible) than thoſe of Minerva; or rather evinces,
what one of thoſe very judges pronounced jocularly;
that, on ſome occaſions, honeſ? Homer bimſelf may dream.
On this fatal Citheron, where we too are mad
ding, did Cadmus, who ſowed ſuch men in his
Thebes, at the bottom, mourn another grandſon, by
another daughter. Ovid fables indeed Aéreon toren
by his own dogs; but Ovid, as above hinted, had
turned Pentheus into a boar, to ſave a little the cre
dit of the Bacchanalians. Here he makes hunting
fatal to a youth, who, the Commentator Apollo
nius aſſures us, underwent, on the ſame mountain,
the ſame fate with his couſin. From the fable, we
may doutleſs draw inſtruction; as few are the fables,
that contain none. Whether A&eon incurred ven
geance for indelicate or preſumptuous curioſity; was
eaten up, as have been many, by hounds, horſes, or
even a hobby-horſe; or devoured by monſters, whom
dogs diſdain, called paraſites : any one of the cauſes
*
much more than ſuffices, for much more miſchief;
without the ready, and moſt probable, aid of the
Dionyſians.
Againſt the temple of Limnae, did the Bacchanals
open a conventicle at Brauron, alſo in Attica. Tho’
ſo near, or becauſe ſo near, the Brauronian myſte
ries, far from coinciding, proved antipodes to the
Limnian. To paint their ſcandal by day, or their
infamy by night, would require the pen of an ini
tiate; who either could not uſe one, or would not
find believers. Such inveſtigation being forain to
the preſent plan, this article is already ſufficient, to
have improved (if nothing elſe) a virtue not onely
indiſpenſable to man; but, like every other virtue, Empedocles; whether a martyr to inveſtigation, as
by exerciſe alone ſuſceptible of improvement: a ſays candor; or to vanity, as ſay rival wags; in the
whim
grace, naturally accompanied by humiliation, that Q_q q
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the tyranny of a pageant, as big with abſurdity as
danger, however piouſly or patriotically begun;
ſhould ſo long have enſlaved illuminated Greece, and
thence doutleſs darkened her rival and ſucceſſor.
But Livy, who, tho’ no initiate, paints the Baccha
nalian myſteries in ſo lively, if ſo ſhocking, colors;
records with apparent ſatisfaction, that, at length,
Roman gravity, opening her eyes, bluſhed with in
dignation; and, by a decree of the Senate, expelled
the Dionyſians; firſt Rome, and then Italy.
XXI. laſt. 11. The ſportule, or pittance of provi
fion, firſt given at the gate in a little baſket (whence
the name) by patrons to clients, when theſe paid
their attendance; and commuted by Nero to a hun
dred farthings, or twenty-five Aſſes; about eighteen
pence, halfpenny, farthing, of our money; was a
boliſhed by Domitian, who appointed the right ſup
per, or adequate entertainment.
XXV. ii. 12. One bird: the Phenix, of whom
ſuch incomparabilities, if not incredibilities, are
gravely recorded by hiſtorians. They pronounce him,
an Arabian, about the fize of an eagle, of purple
plumage, his neck adorned with a golden circle, and
his cerulean tail blazoned with roſy feathers. His
age they variouſly compute, from three hundred to
fifteen hundred; but generally allow him five hun
dred years. When he finds himſelf (ſay they) near
the cloſe of his period, he builds his eyry in his own
country: there ſtoring all manner of aromatics, and
infuſing the genial virtue, whence his offspring muſt
ariſe. The firſt care of the adult progeny, is to
perform the obſequies of his parent. The body, as
ſoon as on trial he is able, he bears to the altar of
the Sun; where he offers, in combuſtion, the pre
cious remains, and dedicates himſelf the ſucceſſor.
Tacitus; who, among others, tells all this ; aſſures
us alſo that, in the conſulſhip of Fabius and Vitel
lius, the long deſired, and little expected, ſtranger
honored Egypt with a viſit. So Rome is here termed
novel; as raiſed, from her aſhes, by Domitian.
v. Vulcan; the god of fire, for fire itſelf:
from whom thoſe tremendous, but ſalutary unloaders
of nature, the vulcanoes. The moſt celebrated is
Etna, (now Gibel, or Mongibello) in Sicily, ſaid to be
eight miles high, and fixty round. By this devou
rer was ſwallowed Agrigentum's philoſophic poet
of trying if to be no longer man, was the way
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to commence a god. Under Etna lays Pindar, with
his followers, the fulminated giant Typhoeus; in
terchangeable (in poetry at leaſt) with Typhon the
fratricide. But, under Prochyta, or Prochyte, (now
Procita) an effuſion, as it ſpeaks, tho' a full mile
diſtant, of a burning mountain in the iland, which
Virgil, miſtaking or varying Homer, names Ina
'rime; known by another queſtioned appellation, Ena
ria (or Enari); but doutleſs what the Greeks cal
led Pithecuſa : ſo enabling arch Ovid firſt to make
the wicked inhabitants, (Cercopes, J and then to un
make them into apes; not forbidding any poſterior,
like Pliny, to draw the name from a tunnery, or
cooperage. Be all this as it importantly may, the
ſweet iland is now Iſchia, juſt two miles from Terra
di Lavoro, the old Campania; and from cape Mi
Jºno, the old Miſenum; ſo named from Miſenus,
trumpeter to He&tor, afterwards to Eneas; who,
mourning that his blaſter, had challenged a Triton,
and been drowned by him, buried the found body
there.
The next flaming mountain opens very near Na
ples: Weſervus, Weſvius ; or, as now known, Pºſu
vius. Its eruption, under Titus, coſt the world her
greateſt naturaliſt, Pliny; as his no leſs excellent
nephew tells Tacitus: and the city Herculaneum;
of which the ruins, after ſeventeen hundred years,
begin to adorn the Muſeums of Europe.
In Lemnos, (Stalimene) a great iland of the Egean
(Archipelago) not far from Thrace, the now Roma
nia; and, tho’ eighty-ſeven miles eaſt from the no
ted promontory Athos, (Monte Santo, or turkiſhly
*
Seididag) poetically ſhaded by it; in this ile had
likewiſe burned a mountain. Into Lemnos therefore
did the bards hurl honeſt Vulcan from heaven: but,
whatever lame pretence they might make for laming
him, and laying it on the gods; he ſurely here might
chooſe to erect his forge. If to vulgar eyes he was
no beauty, vulgar eyes could not ſee the beauty of a
blacſmith. What ſaid they then to Brontes, Stero
pes, and Pyracmon P thoſe ſouls of thunder, light
ning, and anvil what to their fellow-temperers of
the Egis, or forgers of the bolts of Jove Single
was their eye, in the middle of the forhead, ope
ning direct to the brain: which particularity gave
each, in Greek and Latin, the denomination of Cy
clops; but, in a modern tongue, Cyclope; whence the
Engliſh, Cyclop. One, no bad judge, ſaw Vulcan’s
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beauty; the goddeſs of beauty herſelf. The god of
war might indeed prove a formidable rival: but in
genuity ſoon eclipſed glare. The huſband (tho' Ve
nus, when ſhe could make, might then call Mars
ſuch) caught the hapleſs paramours, in an adaman
tine net, here named the Lemnian chains ; and there
exhibited them, naked as they were, to the high
glee of the gods. From theſe glorious lovers claimed
the Romans deſcent. Mars was ſurely as natural a
parent to Romulus, the warlike founder of Rome;
as Venus to the pious Eneas, the founder of the mo
narchy.
XXVI. i. 12. Egypt might better produce roſes
in winter, than in ſummer; if Peffum (or Peftus, now
Pºffi) once Poſidonia, as an appanage of Neptune; a
town in Lucania, (now the hither principality of Na
ples) famous for every flower, particularly violets;
could pretend to blow roſes in May, and in September.
Her level land, and equal ſky; her fertilizing Nile,
and Ofirical cultivation; could not but render her
the granary of the world. For this purpoſe, perhaps
more than for the ſepulture of her kings, or even
the worſhip of her gods; did majeſtic Memphis rear
her ſtupendous pyramids: which, if they have out
lived almoſt her very name, may eaſily ſurvive that
of Cairo. This named. Al-Cairo, or The Cairo, is
ſituate on the eaſt-fide of the Nile, juſt oppoſite the
ancient Memphis; and was long, under the name of
Babylon, the greateſt city in Egypt. It fell into Ma
hometan hands, but in 1517.
In upper Egypt, not far below Syene (now Aſia)
the tropical (or Ethiopic) boundary of the Roman,
as now of the Turkiſh domain ; ſtood the celebrated
Thebes. Of her, who could hyperbolically pour ten
thouſand, and really two hundred, warriors out of
each of her hundred gates; nothing remains, but ſome
ruins of Seſoſtris' grandeur, that have lately revived
his name.
The Greek Capital (A) ſhapes the lower Egypt,
two fides being the horns, or rather arms, of the be
nignant flood; and the hypotenuſe or baſe, the Me
diterranean. At the north-eaſt point ſtands Peluſium,
(now Belvais, or Belves) equivalent to the Hebrew,
Sin; both ſignifying originally mud, naturally col
lečted in the mouths of rivers. This city was built by
Iſis, as Memphis by Ofiris; parents in antiquity being
eaſily found. It lies near the Iſthmus of Suez, which
joins Afric and Aſia; ſo approaches mount Caſus,
better
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better known to us by the awfull name of Sinai : on
which Adrian reared a monument to Pompey, who
has ſtill a noble column at Alexandria. On Caſius
too had Jupiter a temple; and on that mountain was
the law delivered to Moſes. Up the next mouth
weſtward ſtood Tanis, and ſtands Tanes; where reigned
the Pharaoh, or Amenophis, whoſe daughter ſaved
from her father's unnatural order, among many inno
cents, one peculiar. Him training in all the wiſdom
of the Egyptians, ſhe formed the ſublimeſt comman
der, lawgiver, and hiſtorian; that ever led, ruled,
or enraptured mankind.
The Niles weſtern great iſſue boaſts Canopus, foun
ded by Menelaus, with Helen, in their eſcape from
- Troy; on the ſpot where he buried his pilot Cano
bus, bit by a venomous ſerpent. But Canopus,
growing in trade and in riches, was ſoon bit by a
thouſand more deadly ſerpents, called pleaſures; and
ſo incurred, if not improved, the chaſtiſement of
many; of none ſeverer than Juvenal. In this con
tagious, as inviting, neighborhood; did Alexander
found the City, Alexandria; celebrated alike for her
loves, her library, and her watchtower: the laſt,
erected on Pharos, an ilet in the Canopic gulf, ſeven”
furlongs from the main-land ; and rendered, by
bridges, a peninſula. Homer having, by whatever
cauſe, repreſented Pharos, a day's ſail diſtant; may
mean from Peluſium, but cannot from Alexandria.
The Phare, ſo named from its ſituation, and ſo wor
thy to name every other watchtower or light-houſe;
nay, to be ranked among the wonders, if of Egypt,
of the world; was the work indeed of Soſtratus, the
Cnidian; but, more properly, of the learned as inge
nious, the modeſt as benevolent, Ptolemy, well ſtiled
Philadelphus. The archite&t, who doutleſs deſerved
(nor probably declined) every honor, was permitted,
if not commanded, to inſcribe the tower; which, of
the fineſt white Memphian marble, exceded onely
by the ſtructure, if not this by the ſize; roſe (like all
Egyptian edifices, immortal) a guide to navigators,
at the diſtance of a hundred miles:
I, Sost R.A.T.us, T H E CN ID 1 AN, HAPPY Illu M1
nator : to the Gods, protectors of Those
THAT PLO U GH THE de e P.
The ſame Ptolemy colle&ed, and duly lodged,
even hundred thouſand volumes; of which four
ſevenths were deſtroyed in the conflagration of the |
firſt Alexandrine war with the Romans. Nor was
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the king's library a mere ſhow : he knew how to uſe,
and how to diffuſe it. He ſent into Syria, to Elea
zar the Highprieſt, for ſeventy-two interpreters of
the Hebrew Scriptures; and ſo became the bleſſed
inſtrument, of rendering their light general ; in the
then great living language. Eleazar was but the
third from Jaddus the Highprieſt, who had ſo ſo
lemnly and ſuccesfully gone to meet Alexander; and
Sirach, who wrote the books of Samuel, tranſlated
afterwards into Greek by his grandſon, called com
monly the ſon of Sirach, is thought to have been one
of Ptolemy's interpreters.
Lagus, a private ſoldier, was father to the firſt
Ptolemy; who, an officer in high as juſt favor with
Alexander, ſucceded him in the ſoverainty of E
gypt, Afric (one doutleſs part of the other) and
Arabia. He recorded the actions of his maſter; and
after forty years gloriouſly imitating ſuch as deſerved
imitation, he quitted the reins, before he quitted the
world, to his ſon Ptolemy Philadelphus. He reigned,
with growing luſter, thirty-eight years; leaving his
heir Ptolemy Euergetes : who, arduous as it was to
follow ſuch a leader; from his ſurname, may be pre
ſumed not quite unworthy. After twenty-ſix years
Philopator commenced an infamous reign of ſeven
teen. All after the third, ſays Strabo, were diſſo
lute; but the fourth the worſt. Epiphanes murdered
twenty-three years; Philometor thirty-five ; his bro
ther Euergetes II. ſtiled Phyſcon, twenty-nine. To
him ſucceded Lathyrus, to Lathyrus Auletes, Cleopa
tra's father: to him her brother Dionyſus, by whoſe
daſtardly conſent, Pompey, from Pharſalia, taking
refuge in Egypt, was aſſaſſinated by a ſlave; and he,
who had triumphed in every part of the then known
world, hardly found a hole to bury him. His ſons
Cneus and Sextus ſurvived him not long: the former
falling in the bloody battle of Munda in Spain, the
latter in a naval engagement off Sicily ; tho’ ſome
ſay he was cut off by the Antonians at Miletus. So
Antony and Cleopatra, flying from Aétium, to A
lexandria; and, thither purſued by Oétavian; he
fell on his own ſword, ſhe by aſps. Their tale is
notorious. Not onely had he repudiated the fiſter
of Octavian: his character was motley, of oppoſite
colors. Licentiouſneſs and ambition undid him. A
Tully's eloquence had provoked Antony: Antony's
reſentment wrought Tully's aſſaſſination.
XXVIII. iii. 13. The Parrhaftan hall; the impe
rial palace, ſuppoſed ſo epitheted from Parrhaſia;
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an Arcadian town, whence fled hither Evander, the
firſt builder on mount Palatine. Still more ſatisfact
tory is Parrhaſian to thoſe, who perceive it the bold
• expreſſive of a bold deſign. Such muſt be owned
the compare of any human ſtrućture with the Pyra
mids, (XXVI.i.) who ſmile at the competition even
of Oſa and Pelion, the Theſſalian mountains, by the
giants piled againſt heaven; and well may at that of
the Circean (II. vi.) promontory. This, probably
not the firſt maſterpiece of Rabirius, gave our poet,
ever ready, an opportunity of paying the double
compliment; that, if Piſa (XXXIII. iii.) ſcarce
more diſtinguiſhed by the Olympic games, than by
Phidiaſes ivory-ſtatue of Olympian Jove, wanted to
place it in an adequate manſion, the emperor muſt
lend the architect. - Saturn's conſort Cybele, mighty mother of the gods,
Domitian was doutleſs great in his public works :
firſt, in improving the Capital, by forbidding ob
ſtructions: whether of ſhops, booths, or any need
leſs prominence; of pots announcing wine, inſted of
the Pierian ſpring; which the lettered poſts or pil
lars ſhould have promiſed; of raſors drawn in dark
neſs, for whatever purpoſe; of every nuſance to the
inhabitant, or to the paſſenger: ſo equalizing all
within, and accommodating all without.
Nor could aught ſurpaſs his Palace, but his Tem
ples ; even that he reared in honor of his father and
family: where his laureat could not omit ſome notice
of Titus’ daughter Julia; (XXX. viii.) whom living
Domitian had loved, and dead he bid others wor
ſhip.
Next indeed to the Egyptian, were the Roman
ſtructures ; above all, thoſe Tarpeian ſummits (XXX.
v.) of the Capitol; now between two and three
thouſand years old, and ſtill ſo auguſt in remains.
From the faithleſs Veſtal Tarpeia, who, thinking to
betray them, betrayed herſelf, to the enemy; did
they commence Tarpeian : an appropriative, which,
inſted of the former Saturnian, denominated not
onely the mountain, but the quinquennial games
of wreſtling, horſemanſhip, and muſic, which Do
mitian here celebrated to Jupiter; himſelf beſtowing
the wreaths, whether of oak or laurel. That the ci
tadel, built by Romulus, might be worthy of its
name; and portend, as it well did, his city’s be
coming head of the world; a wondrous head muſt
be recorded, dug up in the foundation . The firſt
king had an unqueſtionable right to name the city he
founded; yet, whatever even the beſt hiſtorians or
E N T
poets, who are not always etymologiſts, may aſſure;
analogy, more perſwaſive than tradition, evinces,
that Rome took, as it were, from her origin, the
name of ſtrength or ſtability; and lent thence a di
minutive to her Romulus, inſted of receiving one
from him. If the mighty founder could not name,
but muſt be named by, his city; we need not won
der, that no monarch could name a month (XIII.
XXX.) after julius and Auguſtus. But Domitian
could rear, on the ſpot of his nativity, the imperial
fane (XXXII. ii.) to Jove, who had protećted him
early in the Capitol; as Rhodes had Neptune (XXXI.
vi.) and Crete Jupiter himſelf (ſaid fable) from Sa
turn or Time ; apt to devour the tenderneſs of in
fancy, no leſs than the feebleneſs of age.
was worſhipped under the occaſional names of Ops,
Rhea, Wºffa (Aid, Fluxion, Fire) of Dindymene,
Berecynthia, and Idea; from the Phrygian mountains
Dindymus, Berecynthus, and the Cretan Ida, now
Pſiloriti. Scarce had her prieſts fewer denomina
tions: Curetes, Acarnanes, Corybantes, Idaei Daºyli,
Galli, and the reſt; hinting reſpectively effeminate,
diſhevelled, topfiturvy-ramblers. One perhaps points
the mountebanks on Ida, and one a plurality of the
Gallus, doutleſs a pleaſing ſtream from the favorite ||
Beregynthus. To ally them with Gallus, a cock, were
ludicrous for emaſculates. Certain it is that, like
the twelve prieſts of Mars, who, with their embroi
dered veſtments, and braſen breaſtplates, were na
med Salii, from their ſolemn duty of dancing and
hymning, particularly in (March) the month of
their god; the ſages of Cybele, went about, at all
ſeaſons, ſwaggering, gambolling, cymballing, and
drumming : by which ſalutary clangor, they either
lulled young Jupiter, or drowned his cry from the
ear of the enemy. Yet this ſon of Saturn, and fa
ther of all ; this prime immortal, whoſe life was ſa
ved by ſuch inſtruments; this ſupreme of gods, who
proved ſo unworthy even to live among men; found,
it ſeems, a way to dy. The Cretans ſhowed the
Idean tomb (XXXII. i.) at Gnoſus or Cnoſus, a town,
near Ida, in Crete. That great iland, now, from
her capital, named Candia; having been ſeveral cen:
turies under the Venetian dominion; made a gallant
ſtand, of twenty-four years, againſt the Ottoman
power: to which, in 1669, ſhe was reduced to yield.
While however, to the mighty mother, Domitian
paid no adoration; magnificent, tho’ proportioned,
were
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were the temples he reared to Jupiter, Juno, Pallas, | latine Apollo; and there emulouſly formed a choral
Hercules, Apollo, the twin Lacons (XVII.vii. XXXIV.
xii.) or Ledean brothers, and the Flavian family.
XXXII. v. 15. Phebus, and his Siſter: Apollo
and Diana, the Delian offspring of Latona, are twins
indeed, in the variety of their ſeparate characters,
as well as in the union of their names. The ſiſter
we ſaw at leaſt tripartite (II. ii.); ſo may we ſee the
brother, in heaven, on earth, and under the earth;
Phebus, Bacchus, Apollo. Numberleſs muſt be ſup
poſed their reſpective ſacrifices and ſančtuaries. But,
not to enter on her orgies, which would often ſeem
ſevere; or to viſit her temples, even the unrivalled at
Epheſus; more than his at Delos, where natal honors
were paid ; or at Delphi, where the god of light was
conſulted, and his prieſteſs threw ſo induſtrious dark
neſs; ſome veneration is due to the memory of the Si
bylline Oracles, which ſeldom miſled their conſulters.
By thoſe wonderfull books were the Romans com
manded, as they tendered the preſervation and pro
ſperity of their ſtate, under the conſtant guidance of
wiſdom and virtue ; to inſtitute Secular games, in
honor of Apollo and Diana; or the moſt ſacred jubi
lee, that could be celebrated for three nights and
three days, at the expiration of each century. Grand
as was the period, awfull was the invitation. Come,
cried the Announcer, all people / and celebrate a Feſti
val, which no one alive hath ſeen, or again /hall ſee.
Previous were ſeveral days of purification, (Dedic.
xiii.) both in the Capitoline and Palatine temples:
nor was omitted, the preparatory offering, of Wheat,
Barley, and Beans; to Diana, in her temple on the
Aventine. On the firſt of the three nights, in the
field of Mars, were erected three altars; to be
ſprinkled, with the blood of three lambs. When the
burnt-offerings were made, and certain hymns ſung;
a place was marked out for the theater: and, amidſt
the moſt glorious illuminations, the ſports of every
kind were begun. The exerciſes at all public games
were five : running, leaping, wreſtling, boxing, ai
ming; coit, dart, or other projectile. At morn were
victims offered in the Capitol; and afternoon re
newed the feſtivities of the Brother and Siſter. Next
day the noble matrons moved to the Capitol, and
performed a concert in honor of Jove. On the third
and higheſt day of the feſtival, three times thrice
three, or the cube of three, was the number choſen,
of happy young ſongſters in either ſex; who, dout
leſs in decent threes, aſcended the temple of the Pa
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ſymphony, in Greek as well as Latin hymns, com--
poſed for the awfull purpoſe; to the united Powers
of Light and Purity, by the well-known names and
attributes of Apollo and Diana. The moſt celebra
ted performance, which has deſcended from that
day to this, is perhaps Horaces ſublimeſt Ode, en
titled The Secular Song. Here we learn, what in
deed the Sibylline verſes had enjoined, that the
Jubilee ſhould take place, not at the end of a hun
dred, but of a hundred and ten, years; the period
ſuppoſed to adjuſt the year, the luſter, and the ſun.
Gratitude and calamity dićtate devotion. Delive
rance, received or defired, confeſſes ſuperior power.
On the expulſion of the kings, that is, about the
245th year of Rome, were theſe games inſtituted by
Valerius Poplicola, or Publicola; who had thus an
opportunity of becoming more eminently popular;
little dreaming that patriotic eminence may endan
ger, even more than a houſe on a bill: for he ſo diſ
played himſelf, the volunteer aſſociate of the provoked
Brutus, and the glorious deliverer of the people.
Occaſional therefore, rather than periodical, pro
ved the return of the Secular Games. During the
conſular five hundred years, three were indeed the
celebrations; each perhaps within twenty years of
the appointed period. Auguſtus, who loved the
grand, enforced calculation by fear. The wrauth
of heaven was demonſtrative, in a thunder-ſtorm : a
wall and tower ſtruck, gave recourſe to the Sibyl.
Her volumes ſolemnly inſpected, by her miniſters
(whether ten or fifteen); pronounced the neceſſity,
no leſs than propriety, of celebrating, with uncom
mon reverence, the ſalutary Secular Games. Pluto.
and Proſerpine had, in the field of Mars, very pro
perly, a temple and ſubterraneous altar; not far from
the Capitol, and faſt by the Tiber. The ſpot was na
med Terentos or Terentus, as there the water wore the
bank : an etymology that hardly pleaſes, even where
a better is not found. But the origin of ſome words,
as of ſome ſpeakers, is too much the child of acci
dent or caprice, to come within the ken of rea
ſon. The gloomy Powers were now to be propitia
ted by a black bulloc, (Dedic. 13.) and a black
heifer. From the grizzly king and queen, the fatal.
fiſters were inſeparable. Latona was to be compli
mented, on the feſtival of her children. Diana, who-
had become, from the moment of her birth, her mo
ther's even obſtetric comfort; had there indeed venge
fully
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fully uſurped the Lucina-charaćter, of her mother's
perſecutreſs. Whether in compenſation, or as Juno
was alſo the female Power of the air, while Jupiter
wielded the tremendous bolts ; the imperial pair
muſt claim their tribute in the ſupplications: nor muſt
their ſiſter Ceres, Earth's frućtifying friend, be for
gotten. Efficacious then, as complete, muſt be the
Auguſtan celebration; where the celeſtial, terreſtri
al, and infernal Powers were propitiated in conjunc
tion.
The centeſimal ſucceſſors of Auguſtus, were each
as fond as he, to preſide at the returning Seculars.
Claudius, in a hurry, brought them forty years too
foon ; and rendered the Herald's annunciation ridi
culous. Domitian, in 841 of the Roman (or 87 of
| the Chriſtian) era; muſt be proud to rectify the er
ror. Severus, in 957, was venially without bounds;
and Philip, in the city’s thouſandth year, atoned,
for half the time, by double magnificence: there
exhibiting two thouſand fiſcal (or imperial) gladia
tors, fifty elephants, ten elks, ten tiguers, ten hy
ena's ; forty tame lions, thirty tame leopards; be
fide river-horſes of the Nile or Ganges, rinoceroſſes,
bear-lions, camelopards, wild aſſes, wild horſes, and
* ſo forth. -
The three days of the year, under conſuls, were
probably the three high natal days of the city: the
nin'th, tenth, and eleventh to (and with) the Ca
lends of May: and thoſe correſpond (XIII. i.) with
our 22, 23, and 24th of April. The emperors made
the Secular Games, at leaſt one anniverſary glory of
their reſpective acceſſion. -
The young performers of the higheſt days hymn
were above hinted happy, not onely for the honor, of
which they muſt be deeply ſenſible; but for the o
mens, which, in every age of dimſighted man, have
had more or leſs their influence. Wiſh and hope
ſpring ſpontaneous; often without viſible, may ſome
times without rational, cauſe or conſequence. The
leſs the unwary mind perceives either, the more it
implicitly ſuppoſes one, and graſps at every ſhadow
for the other. Boys, that hailed not, with their beſt
powers, Apollo; might, without ſuperſtition, be
pronounced hopeleſs; and ſo doomed alike to the
reverſe of Tithonuſes fate (XVII. xv.) and his cha
racter. The virgins, that duly celebrated Diana,
far from being in the line of perpetual virginity,
were held in the undouted road of honorable and
happy, as well as early, wedloc. If Diana aſſiſted
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even at the birth of her twin-brother, ſhe ſhowed ,
that the promotion of parentage was the firſt part of
purity.
Without needleſsly deſcending to the particular
games, annual or other, ſacred to either ſeparate
power; wherever, or however, adored; it is indiſ.
penſable to diſcriminate, as we did thoſe of Bacchus,
their various names and epithets. Onely ſo can we
underſtand the cauſe of ſuch variety; or the preci
fion, with which it varies and ſubdivides, in order
to complete, the charaćter. Named, for the three
worlds, have we perceived both brother and fiſ.
ter. As ſucceſſive, if not concomitant, beamers; are
Phebus and Phebe animated equivalents to the Sun and
Moon. From ſome near relations, is Apollo ſuppo
ſed to borrow ſeveral characters; which are all but
parts of his own: paramount ranger, Hyperion; fierce
expander, Titan ; whom we know both the Sun and
his horſe (XVII. xi.): unerring archer, Pean; whence
ring his Peans, like Bacchus' Dithyrambs: glorious
inſpector, (if not parent of the Hours,) Horus, or O
rus ; as wiſely named by the Egyptians. But, whe
ther Diana ſpeak the daughter of jove, or the ſiſter
of Day; whether in Apollo be conceived the matchleſ;
brandiſher, or reſiſtleſs deſtroyer of the old ſerpent Py
thon; as ſuch, juſtly celebrated in the Pythian games;
and ſo the diſpeller of every cloud or contagion, that
can involve, or endanger man: Apollo and Diana
remain, to the ear and the underſtanding, the titles
of muſic as of dignity. No wonder that, of every har.
mony, Apollo was the paragon; that, of every ele
gant ſcience, as of every Muſe, he was the fond pro
te&or; that he ſo manifeſtly ariſes the parent of
health, intellectual and corporeal; of Eſculapius
therefore, Hippocrates, and whoever elſe has proved
worthy to worſhip thoſe divine deſcendants: or,
ifin fine, Hoſner, as genuine as either; was ſo atten
tive a ſon, as, by uniting, to diſtinguiſh his two
principal names, in Phebus Apollo : an appoſition,
which deſcendant tongues have rather found unne
ceſſary than impoſſible. Frequent indeed was the ad
dreſs, Liber Pater, to Father Bacchus : but that either
joined to a proper an appellative, or to an adječtive its
ſubſtantive; as if jolly Sire. So jupiter and Diºſpiter
from idioms became compounds, of Father jove, and
Father of the Day. -
Of Apollo, as of a wiſe king, may it be ſaid, that
he ſcattereth away evil with his eyes. As he wiſhed
by every means to illuminate man, not onely did he
prove
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prove his benignity, where poſſible, by immediate
fmiles ; but ſometimes ſaw puniſhment, ſaw ven
geance herſelf, indiſpenſable. The preſumption of
Marſyas, or Marſya, the minſtrel, who challenged
his godſhip on the pipe, he ſo ſeverely ſcourged;
that it became mercy to metamorphoſe him into
- the river of Celene, a chief town of Phrygia. Mar
ſyas however had the compenſation of a ſtatue, in
the Roman Forum ; cloſe by a tribunal, where he
was honored with a wreath by the vićtorious.
The ſtatue one would ſuppoſe erected at the ex
pence of king Midas ; on whom, deciding honeſtly
in Marſya’s favor, Apollo, finding perhaps the
king not ſteel, but gold to the back, had onely be
flowed aſſes ears. For Bacchus, on his progreſs, had
rewarded Midas' hoſpitality, by doutleſs a Stygian
oath (which was irrevocable) to grant his any wiſh.
Midas, already rich, wiſhed all he touched might be
come gold. When Midas ſoon diſliked (as Swift ſays)
a golden pippin, as much as potable gold in golden cup ;
he, ſtarving, prayed to wiſh his wiſh away. The kind
god bid him waſh in Paciolus, that flows from mount
Tmolus or Timolus, in Phrygia; and thenceforth be
came Chryorrhoas, or a roller on golden ſand. But
the moſt current and not leaſt credible ſtory is, that
Pan, perhaps alſo thro' a fellow-feeling with Mar
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ſyas, tho' a fellow-god with his puniſher; and jea
lous of any muſical rival ; challenged Apollo to a
conteſt on the ſame pipe, of ſeven unequal reeds,
which Pan himſelf had invented. Mount Tmolus,
appointed judge, judged for Apollo. Midas, preſent,
begged leave to differ. The god metamorphoſed no
part of him; but, without much violation, his ears
into thoſe of an aſs. Some conſtrue Midas a jealous,
no leſs than avaricious, tyrant; that he firſt under
went all the pains and penalties of wealth; and that
then feeding mean ſuſpicions, by ſpies employed a
round; he diverged on his ſubjects that miſery, which
centered at laſt in himſelf.
The Cyclops, whom we ſaw (XXV. v.) ſo hot at
*
work with Vulcan; having by their very diligence
offended Apollo, who muſt be owned ſomewhat iraſ
cible; ſuffered, alas! for their duty; by his erring,
tho’ unerring, ſhafts. If his heat had not clouded
him more than their thunder, he had not been ba
niſhed heaven. Doomed to a nine years pennance
in Arcadia, the pleaſanteſt part of the earth; he
there became the patient ſwain on Amphryſus, and
faithfully fed the flocks of Admetus, king of the
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Phereans. His maſter ſhowed his ſenſibility of an
uncommon ſervant. The ſhepherd making thus out
his term, recommenced the god; but could not quit
Admetus, without acknowlegement. He obtained
of the Fates the peculiar indulgence, that, when Ad
metus’ thred ſhould draw near its termination, it
ſhould be renewed, if any one would give another in
its ſted. The awfull moment approached; no ex
changer came, but his Alceſte or Alceſtis: nor could
the beſt efforts of feeble Admetus prevent her depri
ving him of a life, meant his ranſom, which he ſo
juſtly priſed more than his own.
In a divine Claſſic, we learn to regard ſtrangers;
from a hint there well verified, that ſome have received
angeli. Infernals indeed muſt they be, on whom ge
neroſity or hoſpitality is expended in vain. Such
another gueſt proved Hercules at Cleone, in the Pelo
ponneſe; to his kind entertainer, the old ſhepherd
Molorchus : for whoſe ſake the heroe encountered and
flew, in the Nemean forreſt, the Lion that long had
ravaged the country. To the deliverer, ſolemn were
the games inſtituted; to Molorchus, ſacred com
menced annual honors; and tranſlated, was the Lion,
to the ſtars.
From our acquaintance with theſe gods, we ſhall
not wonder at a ſtory, which muſt not be omitted
here.
- Dardanus, the ſon of Jupiter, by Elečtra, the
daughter of Atlas, was father to Erichthonius, the
fourth king of Athens (III. laſt.) he to Tros, whence
QTroy ; he to Ilus, whence Ilium ; and to Aſaracus,
from whom ſucceſſively Capys, Anchiſes, Eneas. The
ſon of Ilus, was Laomedon; who wanted walls to
Troy. Neptune and Apollo, on a paction, under
took, and completed, the taſk. What ſhall foil the
Ocean, and Ingenuity ? Laomedon, impregnable,
laughed at demand. One builder poured an inunda
tion, the other fiercened a plague. The Oracle,
conſulted, doomed the faithleſs king and his king
dom, to atone yearly by the vićtim of a virgin. His
daughter Heſione lay in her turn, expecting the ſea
monſter, when Hercules came that way. He, not
knowing Laomedon, ſtipulated with him, for a hea
venly ſet of horſes; and, diſpatching the monſter,
ſaved the lady. The father treated her deliverer,
like his builders. The indignant heroe collected a
force, ſtormed Troy, ſlew her ſoverain; and be
ſtowed Heſione on his friend Telamon, who firſt
had ſcaled the wall. The Trojan heir, captive, was
ranſomed
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ranſomed by neighbors; and thence named Priam,
or the ranſomer. Be this as it may, he revived, re
paired, and reinvigorated Troy. He ſo every way
advanced and augmented his domain, that he began
to ſeem the king of Aſia. When Priam's ſon Paris
carried off Helen, the ſtates of Greece caught unani
mous fire. So opened the Iliad's expanſive ſcene,
in which Priam, having ſeen his fifty ſons cut off,
his city in flames, and his domain at an end; flying
for laſt refuge, to the altar of Jove; by the ſon of
him who had ſlain Hector, and been ſlain by Paris,
fell.
If Apoll, and Phebus be not always interchangeable,
Hercules and Alcides may even be parted; tho' Al
ceus be generally held his grandfire. But the Mace
donians ſtiled alſo Minerva, and the Lacedemonians,
every deity, Alcides ; whether as the parent, or child
of ſtrength. While Hercules, under whatever name,
bears, in every regard, as ſtriking a reſemblance to
his paragon Sampſon ; as Omphale to Dalilah, Eta to
Etam, and ſo on : Apollo, the Mileſian, from his
oracle at Miletus, ten furlongs from the mouth of
the Meander; the Sminthian, from the double ſtory
of the mice; or the Cynthian, from mount Cynthus,
his birthplace in Delos (formerly Ortygia, from the
quails); has almoſt as cloſe an affinity to
— vi. 15. The good Arcadian, or Cyllenian, from
Cyllene, his natal mountain in Arcadia, the moſt ce
lebrated as moſt charming portion of the Pelopon
neſe; the nobleſt peninſula in Europe, joining A
chaia (in Greece, now Turky) by the Corinthian
iſthmus, which parts the Ionian from the Egean ſea.
Obviouſly is it named from Tantalus' ſon Pelops,
who there raiſed a kingdom, of the colony, he had
brought from Phrygia.
No rival indeed has the Cynthian, but the Cylle
nian. Sons were they of the ſame fire of gods.
Mercury's mother Maia, was the daughter of Atlas,
king of Mauritania; by Pleione, one of the con
ſtellation Pleiades ; ſo named from its multitude,
tho’ vulgarly the ſeven ſtars. As brilliant then by
deſcent, may be the ſon of Maia; as the ſon of La
tona, the daughter of Ceus, the Titan. From ſuch
birth, indeed, much was to be expected on both
fides: for birth, if it be not intrinſic merit, gives at
leaſt the ſpur of promiſe ; which is ſurely a det of
honor: nor muſt a limpid ſource be ſullied by a
turbid ſtream. In whom then could the god of
wit fear an antagoniſt, if not in the god of elo
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quence In all the three regions, ſaw we Apollo
bright: in all the three, has Mercury very delicate
employment. Phebut affords a general and regular
illumination: Hermes proves not onely his, but the
interpreter of all the gods: winged it head and heel,
to accompliſh their commands; to guide men in
their condućt on earth, and to condućt their ſouls,
when ſeparated; in their awfull paſſage to the proper
manſions, ere they come before the great tribunal.
In exchange for the lyre, which Mercury gave Apol
lo; (for one makes the words, the other ſets them:)
Apollo preſented Mercury with the Caduceus, a rod,
which may well combine dragons, like the knotty
ſtaffentwining ſerpents, (ever an emblem of wiſdom;)
which he committed to his beloved Eſculapius. Be
fore the caduceus muſt doutleſs every oppoſition
fall; and, of truly ſacred origin, muſt be allowed
the wand; which, with a ſingle touch, lulls every
ſenſe aſleep; nay, with a fingle waive, can awake a
ſoul, not onely from ſleep, but from death.
Chione was the fair daughter of Deucalion, who
(with his wife Pyrrha, or Fire) ſaved from the De
luge, becomes a poetic ſubſtitute to the element of
Water. Her conſort was Peonius, of Epidaurus (in
the Peloponneſe) where his maſter or parent Eſcu
lapius had a renowned temple ; as well as afterwards
at Rome, when the god was brought thence thither.
With Chione's beauty was each beholder ſmitten;
above all, ſuch gods of taſte as the beauteous brothers.
Chione's nature partaking of her name (Snow), and her
duty to Peonius rendering her cold to every other;
Mercury impatient tried, in the morning, whether ſhe
were impregnable. The touch of his wand locked
her every power; and ſhe in due time produced
Autolycus, an arrant thief; a very wolf. Apollo
ſlily ſtaid till night; when, in the guiſe of an old
woman (originally, in the gloom of the gray) by the
aid of a Zephyr, he ſtole upon the obdurate, and
became parent to Philammon; who proved, by his
fondneſ; for the ſun, a genuine child of Phebus;
while another of that name, as fond of the ſand, was
probably ſon to Pollux. Poor Chione's charms, which
ſo enflamed the brother, as well as his rival, fired no
leſs the jealouſy than the indignation of Apollo's de
licate ſiſter; who, alſo aided by the Zephyr, with
her lunar ſhafts, made Chione tempt no more.
Was not Phebus as much a thief as Mercury Was
it more wonderfull, that the Snow ſhould bring a
Wolf out of his den, than that the Thaw ſhould
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produce a milder day ? Becauſe Hermes taught men
letters, and whets their underſtanding ; of which
their free-will may make any uſe; becauſe he directs
human feelings, and has too much benevolence to
think commerce beneath his care; does he thence
prove neceſſarily either thief or cheat? Is he leſs uſe
full or more blamable than Apollo, who may now
and then (and would oftener, if duly adored;) enable
genius to enlighten, perhaps to ſoar; while he ſuffers
ſo many, whom indeed he cannot help, and
Who, without rime or reaſon, rule or check;
Break Priſtian's head, and Pegaſuſes neck :
but whom Mercury, if applied to, would have made
reſiſtleſs orators, accurate hiſtorians, acute mer
chants, honeſt tradeſmen, or valuable as real patri
ots, in the culture of the ground; whether ſober
votaries of the jolly god, or redouted champions of
her who feeds mankind P. Poetry will exalt, but
eloquence muſt command; and a thouſand are the
inſtances to one, where dexterity or propriety is more
requiſite than elevation. Sculpture and Painting,
Muſic and Medicine, confeſs perhaps Apollo as
much now, as in any former period. But, of poe
try or oratory, which ſteal alike the hearts away;
how little is either god arrainable in this enlightened
age!
However deep a philoſopher may have been (and
deep doutleſs was) the Hermes Triſmegiſus, the thrice
greateſ Mercury of the Egyptians; or whatever be
the variety of renowned Mercuries; of all the ancient
gods, the moſt generally, as moſt juſtly celebra
ted among men, was unqueſtionably the ſon of Maia.
His ſocial ingenuity, deſcending almoſt into humor;
his ardor and alertneſs to explain, as well as execute,
the will of the gods; his zeal for the information of
reaſon, in whatever could do her ſervice or pleaſure:
theſe have rendered his worſhip more fervent, his
temples more frequent, his ſtatues far more numerous
than thoſe of any, or than of all the other heathen
deities. Nor could the number of the ſtatues be
exceded by any thing, except the materials; which
were themſelves ſometimes ſurpaſſed by the execu
tion. But wood, being the great material of ſtruc
ture; and, if not the moſt coſtly, the moſt accefli
ble; muſt have been, as within the reach of all, the
univerſal repreſentative. Hence the highly ſignifi
cant proverb, whether literally or figuratively taken:
Ex quovis ligno, non fit Mercurius. Not every wood
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will make a Mercury: or, in familiar figure : There
is no making a ſilk-purſe of a ſows-ear.
Yet, not alone for mythologic moral, did Mercu
ry ornament public places. The benignant guide
was to clear every difficulty, and even to do the mo
mentous kindneſs of pointing travellers their way.
Nay, that this was his original deſtination, appears
from the allegoric images having ſucceded to the
monitor, or monument, probably of the moſt ancient
kind : even of ſtones piled to mark a memorable
event, and ſo to diſtinguiſh the roads that there
might croſs or terminate. If Hermes himſelf, ſome,
paſſing the Greek, would fetch from the Hebrew ;
Mercury, alſo paſſing the midcourierſhip or merchan
diſe of the Latin, may without force, bring his ori
gin from Margemah ; the Hebrew heap of ſtones, to
which the paſſenger contributed his pious addition:
an antiquity illuſtrating as illuſtrated by
Prov. xxvi. 8. As he, that bindeth a ſtone in aJſſing,
ſo is he, that giveth honor to a fool.
better rendered in our Verſion’s margin:
As he that putteth a precious ſtone in a heap of ſtoner,
Jo is he that giveth honor to a fool.
or, even without the inſertive epithet, in primitive
fimplicity:
As he, who putteth a ſtone into a heap of ſtones; ſo is
he, who giveth honor to a fool.
He giveth the unneceſſary, to the inſenſible; and
the undeſerved, to the undeſiring.
B O O K I.
P A R T II.
I. ii. 17. B4A 1 LON: the capital of Chaldea;
founded by Nimrod or Belus, and
augmented by his ſon Ninus; was rendered by his
widow Semiramis, one of the world's earlieſt won
ders; not ſo much for the penſile gardens, as for
the brick-walls ſhe reared, two hundred foot high,
fifty thick, four hundred and eighty (ſome ſay a
hundred fewer) furlongs in compaſs ; each furlong
a hundred and twenty-five foot, about the eighteth
part of a mile. The Euphrates never overflowing,
like the Nile; canals were drawn from it thro’ the
country, that Chaldea might reap a ſimilar benefit
with
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with Egypt. To join the fides of the city, queen
Nitocris, the mother of Belſhazzar, called alſo La
bynithes and Nabonides, by turning the water into
an immenſe lake ſhe had dug, erected an enormous
bridge. By diverting the ſtream into that reſervoir,
did Cyrus enter Babylon, elſe impregnable ; cut off
the rioting and ſacrilegious king, and transfer the
Aſſyrian, or Babylonian ſway to the Medes and Per
fians; about the year of Rome 218, and 536 before
the Chriſtian era. Some centuries after, Seleucus
Nicanor built, about three hundred furlongs from
Babylon; on the Tigris, variouſly a rival to the
Euphrates ; the city Seleucia, tranſmuted into the
opulent Bagdad or Bagdat; fince 1640, from Perſian,
ſubječt to Turkiſh government. Babylon's ruins are
hardly more perceptible, than thoſe of Memphis.
Her manufactures of embroidery may revive at Bag
dat, more eaſily than her mathematical and aſtrono
mic fame. Egypt’s Babylon, now Cairo, we ſaw
I. xxvi. 1. 482.
The work next to the Pyramids of Egypt, and
walls of Babylon ; was Trivia's fane, or Diana's
temple at Epheſus; the glorious fabric of Cherſ
phron, and paragon of every magnificence: peculi
arly diſtinguiſhed by the vaſt chapiters or capitals,
on its wonderfull colonnades. Not onely was it the
boaſt of the ſoft Ionia; but, in its kind, the maſter
piece of the world.
Our poet, after the temple of Diana, hints the
celebrity of the born-altar, ſaid to have been reared
at Delos, (now Sailes) by Apollo, an archite&t
four years old. Both he and his ſiſter were early
geniuſes. His materials were the horns of the roes,
her ſhafts had already flain.
The fifth miracle o archite&ture, here celebrated
is, in the fifth line : the ſtupendous monument erec
ted to Mauſolus, king of Caria, by Artemifia his
inconſolable relićt; who was reſolved to work almoſt
impoſſibilities in his honor. On columns was it
hoiſted a hundred and forty foot high ; and crowned
by a car drawn by ſteeds, who ſeemed indeed to fly
in the air. From Rhodes was it viſible; but now
remains onely, among the incredibilities of truth;
atteſted by the name it has lent to every ſuperb ſe
pulcral monument, that poſſeſſes not an atom of
the object. -
Theſe five glories of archite&ture, all become the
baſeleſ; fabric of a viſion, except the Pyramids, co
eval with their baſe ; have indeed yielded, as our
M E N T
bard prognoſticates, to the Amphitheater begun by
Veſpaſian, and finiſhed by Titus, with eighty-ſeven
thouſand ſeats, for the three ranks of ſpectators ;
when entire, the firſt ſtructure on earth ; and, in
ruins, the admiration of mankind.
II. i. 17. The colo/al ſtar: a coloſs, which Nero
had erected of himſelf, a hundred and twenty foot
high. Veſpaſian ordered the head to be ſtruck off,
and to be replaced by a figure of the Sun. Enormous,
as unnatural, were the idea's of Nero; among whoſe
ſmalleſt cruelties, were his ſeizing ſo vaſt a portion
of the city, for his expanſive palace: where he diſ
played no more taſte than humanity, in
His pond an ocean, his parterre a down.
Romulus divided Rome, into three regions or wards;
Servius Tullius, into four ; named, from ſituation,
the Palatine, Collatine, Eſquiline, and Suburan. Four
teen regions numbered Auguſtus; who gloried, by
every poſſible augmentation and embelliſhment, to
render the head worthy of his empire: nor could
he but enjoy the conſciouſneſs, that he had found
Rome, of brick; and was likely to leave her, of mar
ble.
Claudia's portico is thought, not aſcertained, that
of Livia Druſilla, this emperor's ſecond conſort.
The Claudian was a Samnite noble family; the fa
vorite names Nero and Druſus ; the former, ſpeaking
a man of nerve ; the latter ſurname adopted by a
Claudius, who, having in ſingle combat ſlain Druſus,
a chief of the Gauls, ſhowed thus his reſpect for the
vanquiſhed, by wearing ſome part of the ſpoil. The
porticoes, introdućtory to temple, palace, or other
edifice, were often of like beauty and benefit: af.
fording in themſelves real objects of taſte; and in
viting, by their cool receſs, ſweet converſe or con
templation.
But, neither palace, nor theater, could be com
plete, without baths belonging, or at hand. The
Amphitheater therefore was hardly finiſhed, when
baths became the ſudden boons, of a Titus; who, by
every beneficence, was impatient to be more the delight
of mankind. Nay, ſuch a Pythagorean pračtiſed, as
well as praiſed, the Golden Perſes. When, on the
evening's review, he recollected no particular good
he had done, either to others or himſelf, ſince the
morning ; he would ſay with a figh: My friend, I
have loft a day / and endeavor to make himſelf,
what amends he could, by a double improvement of
the morrow.
As
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As for the riſing machinations, they were vaſt
frames, or ſtages; that roſe, ſank, dilated and con
verged; or variouſly appeared and vaniſhed, to a
maze and amuſe the people.
III. i. 18. What ſcene ſequeſter'd? None indeed was
ſo remote, as to withhold ſpectators. From North,
South, Eaſt, and Weſt, they came : the Sarmats (I.
x, laſt.) like (as near) the Gelonians (XVIII, 5.
479.) the Sicambrians, from the now Guelderland and
Zutphen : from Niles ſources, of which we know the
inhabitants, almoſt as well as the geography: from
Saba, or Sabea, and poſſibly other parts of Arabia
the Happy; from the Deſart, or the Rocky, perhaps
fewer were expectable. Tethys, the daughter of
Heaven and Earth, and conſort of the Ocean, muſt
bring from Spain, or the Britiſh iles, as the bounda
ries of the Weſt, ſome no leſs acceptable ſtrangers.
Hemus (or Emus.) and Rhodope, Thracian mountains,
that ſeem toren aſunder, were a mighty king and
queen ; for arrogating divine honors, doomed to pe
trefaction. Orpheus knew this, full as well as
did Ovid (Met. VI.); but national attachment (lit
tle dreaming of danger (480) where they were,) made
him ſhier of communication.
The Cilician or Corycian, ſometimes called the
ruddy, dew ; ſprang from Corycus, a mountain fertile
of ſaffron, in Cilicia, a region of Afia the Leſs, now
Affatic Turkey. Of that fragrant commodity, dilu
ted with ſweet wine, aſperſions were ſent by fine
tubes, over the Amphitheater.
IV. iii. 18. The dire delating crew : the infidious
informers, and falſe accuſers, encouraged under Ne
ro; were, by Titus and Domitian, expoſed to con
dign chaſtiſement: and, after variouſly ſuffering,
what they had wantonly occaſioned to others; were
glad to embrace that baniſhment or relegation, into
which they had ſo often driven the innocent.
V. i. 18. The Scythian rock was Caucaſus; and
Caledon or Caledonia, the north part of Britain;
fince the extirpation of the Pićts, by king Ken
neth II. about the year 838, named Scotland. Bears
were thence brought in thoſe days; particularly from
the forreſts of Roſs and Athol: but they have been
(like the Engliſh wolves by king Edgar) extermina
ted too.
The puniſhment of malefactors was deemed a po
litical exhibition: however aggravatedly ſhocking
ſuch puniſhment muſt be, which realiſed or repre
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ſented in the Amphitheater the tragic fables or ſtories
of antiquity: thoſe of Prometheus, Orpheus, Dedalus,
Scevola, and the reſt.
VI, iv. 19. The whole Hºſperian grove: the gar
den of the Heſperides, Egle, Arethuſa, and Heſpe
rethaſa ; the daughters of Heſperus (the Evening,
thence the Weſt) the brother of Atlas (ſome ſay the
daughters of Atlas himſelf) king of Mauritania,
whom we have already ſeen in various ſhapes. This
(now the Barbary-) coaſt might well produce golden
apples ; whether oranges, lemons, or citrons : but
as the guardian-dragon, Hercules ſlew, has been by
ſome critics interpreted a winding bay; ſo the golden
apples have been metamorphoſed into ruddy ſheep; a
produce of no leſs value: the Greek term being one
for an apple and a ſheep. -
VIII. v. 19. But, were he bid. Martial is no
friend to violence, much leſs to ſelf-violence; nor
ambitious to think with the ſages of Abdera: that
Thracian city, whoſe very air was thought to teem
with ſtupidity or madneſs. He therefore pronounces
it leſs bold ſpontaneouſly to burn a limb, than to
refuſe one, where the torturing tunic, lined with
every combuſtible, proves the immediate conſequence.
Some have here imagined a Chriſtian the criminal :
admired even by enemies, for denying to offerincenſe
to the heathen deities: which the laſt word, of the
Latin epigram, may idiomatically, as elliptically,
imply.
IX. i. zo. The Praſnian, from the Greek word,
that fignifies a leek; was one of four liveries, or
fačtions ; into which the Amphitheatral charioteers
were divided: the Praſinian or green, ſacred to
Spring and Flora; the Venetan, cerulean, or blue, to
Sky and Sea; the Ruffet, or red, in all its ſhades, to
Vulcan and Mars, or Fire and Fury. White, not
unmixed with green, arrayed the fourth party. To
theſe Domitian added the Silver, and the Gold.
High ſometimes ran the tide of thoſe factions; nor
were the emperors themſelves unconcerned. Nero
ſeems to have favored the Praſinian, and Domitian
to have inherited the partiality.
XI. i. zo. Meleagrian had been the model of Car
pophoric fame. Carpophorus handled the Doric
ſpears, as Meleager had done the Etolian. The im
perial heroe ſtands confeſt. Of his predeceſſor-rivals,
ſome anecdotes may be acceptable.
- Althea,
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Althea, daughter of Theſtius, and conſort of
Eneus king of Calydon, the capital of Calydonia in
Etolia, in Achaia ; after the birth of their ſon, Me
leager, had a viſion of the Fates by the fire; and
was by them warned, that, ſo long as one particular
billet pointed to, ſhould remain unconſumed; ſo
long ſhould the fondling live. The mother ſnatched
the brand, extinguiſhed and preſerved it. Eneus,
one day, doing ſacrifice to the gods, neglected the
rites of Diana. The jealous queen of the forreſt,
ſent a tremendous boar, to ravage Calydonia. Me
leager flew, with other youth, to the aid of his coun
try; ſlew the boar, and preſented the head, as due;
to Atalanta, who had given the firſt wound. Plex
ippus and Toxeus would raviſh the prize. Meleager
cut off both uncles. The candid huntreſs gave him
her heart and hand. Althea, enraged at the loſs of
her brothers, threw the fatal ſtick into the flames;
or, as Homer ſays, engaged, againſt the paricide,
Pluto and Proſerpine: one way or other, ſo enſuring
her incantations, that Meleager pined away. Whe- .
ther Althea hanged or ſtabbed herſelf, as the an
cients ſomewhat differ; the moderns will decide by a
wager, or a duel. But, that her parental fondneſs,
emblemed in the brand, and its objećt ſhould be co
eval; can no more ſurpriſe, than that his paſſion for
the injured fair, ſhould repel, at every riſk, any vio
lence offered her; or that the ſame ſpirit ſhould is e
coverably pine, which, on whatever provocation,
had bereft at a hunt, two uncles of life; and their
fiſler, his mother, of reaſon. Nor ſeems it abſo
lutely clear, whether Meleager was Milanion, long
Atalanta's hopeleſs lover; or his ſuccesfull rival.
But, his or their, Atalanta was, from the Arcadian
mountain Nonacris, titled Nonacria; as well as Ia
/ſ, being the daughter of Iaſus, Iaſon, or Iaſion,
king of the Argives; and mother, by Meleager, to
Parthenopeus, the youthfull beauty of the Theban
war; and there immortaliſed by Statius (Theb. IV.)
The other Atalanta (likewiſe a nonſuch, ſhy) was
daughter to Scheneus, king of Scyros; the Egean
ile where Achilles, educated with king Lycomedes'
daughters, became by Deidamia, father to Pyrrhus.
This Atalanta, as diſtinguiſhed for ſwiftneſs, as the
other for ſpirit, filenced many wooers by engaging
to marry him, who unarmed ſhould outſtrip her in run
ning; but denouncing death with her ſpear, to the an
tagoniſt ſhe ſhould overtake. Hippomenes, the great
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grandſon of Neptune, having received from Venus
three golden apples, challenged Atalanta; and
threw them, as ſhe came up, before her; but wide
ly out of the courſe. She, purſuing the bait, loſt
the race and her liberty. He, as fond to ſeize the
latter, forgot at once what he owed to the goddeſs
of love, and to the mother of the gods. In Cy
bele's very temple therefore, which his headlong paſ
fion had profaned, they both (declares Ovid) were
turned into lions: a no unnatural metamorphoſis,
where union had commenced without love on one
hand, and without delicacy on the other. Very dif
ferent was this Hippomenes, from the Athenian Ar
chon, or Chief Magiſtrate, who, having caught his
daughter Limone in adultery, expoſed her to a wild
horſe.
XII. i. zo. Had thy champion. The matchleſs
beſtiary, vićtor not onely of ſteer and ſtag, even ſo
wild as the buffalo and biſon ; but of a pard, the
male-panther; of boars, bears, and lions; here
challenges the moſt renowned monſter-maulers of an
tiquity: nor alone Bellerophon and jaſon; but Per
/ºus, (473.) Theſeus, and Hercules himſelf.
Hipponomus, ſon to Glaucus king of Ephyra, ha
ving early ſlain Bellerus, a captain of Corinthians,
was thence named Bellerophon, or Bellerophontes. On
a viſit to Pretus, king of the Argives, his beauty had
the misfortune to ſmite queen Sthenobea. Like Jo
ſeph, repelling diſhonorable ſollicitation; like him
too, he was accuſed of attempting a crime, which
his ſoul abhorred. The king, not queſtioning, in
any ſenſe, the honor of his conſort; would not,
however, violate the laws of hoſpitality; even in
the puniſhment of their complicated violation. Yet,
not wholely to overlook either juſtice or his family,
much leſs their rights combined; he reſolved to ef
fećt every proper purpoſe, by ſending the young ſtran
ger, with a ſealed letter of recommendation, to the
queen's father Iobates, king of the Lycians. This
monarch, reading Bellerophon's own introdućtion in
his countenance and converſe, as well as that which
he had brought in writing; determined to be at leaſt
as delicate as his ſon-in-law, who was ſtill more
nearly concerned; nor could the father be leſs
ſhocked at the thoughts of polluting his hands or
houſe, with the blood of ſo fine a fellow. Tho' his
daughter's honor, and ſon's commendation had their
weight; this generous king would do Bellerophon the
compliment

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compliment of a ſlight command, againſt the Solymi,
or Piſidians; with whom he chanced to be at war,
and whom he knew both able and willing to ſend a
force fit to ſwallow the ſlender foe. The young
prince returning unexpectedly vićtorious, over the
enemy and every danger; was now entruſted with a
commiſſion, of deciſive honor; onely to clear the
country of a monſter, that had long given general
conſternation. For in that neighborhood ſeemed to
have eſtabliſhed its abode, a ſtupendous being; who
vomited fire, had a lion's head and breaſt, the belly of
a goat, and the tail of a dragon. Bellerophon
bluſhed and bowed; unwilling to expreſs and ſcarce
able to conceal, the triumph; which, by anticipa
tion, ſparkled, in ſpite of him, from his eyes.
Three elements joined him, againſt the formidable
fourth. Againſt fire, however, Neptune was always
ready. That benign god lent the champion his own
Pegaſus (I. viii. 4.473). Thus mounted, he flew to
the crowning glory; and returned with laurels, be
yond all preceding. Iobates, now learning, as is
uſual, by ſucceſs to appraiſe merit; beſtowed, with
a large portion of his kingdom, his other daughter,
on the heroe. By this princeſs Bellerophon became
(Homer aſſures us, Il. VI.) father to Iſander, Hip
polochus; and to Laodamia, who proved mother of
Sarpedon; not widow of Proteſilaus (Ovid. Epiſt.
13). Enormous grief cut off the latter lady: other
grief (not remorſe) urged the ſuicide of Sthenobea.
Bellerophon, in all his glory, grew tired too of
earthly things. But, as he had always ſcorned what
was daſtardly, nor ever much followed the beaten
path; and now perhaps elated, beyond all bounds;
by the conſtant favor, nay friendſhip, of the gods;
he chanced one day to catch his beloved auxiliary
Pegaſus, drinking at Pirene, the ſteed's and the
Muſes’ favorite fountain; at the foot of Acrocorinthus,
or Corinth-crown, the mountain and citadel that
command Corinth. Bellerophon, ſprings upon the
ſteed; and away they fly, by the ſhort road, for hea
ven. The heroe ſoaring, like Phaeton, loſt his way
and himſelf. Planet-ſtruck, he alſo dropt; and left
Pegaſus to explore, as he ſoon did, his own place
among the ſtars. -
Hence it is inferred (hint Pliny, I. 7. and others)
that Bellerophon was the firſt maſter of the riding
art. The Chimera, as may likewiſe be gueſſed, was
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a Lycian volcano ; the hant of lions, (for who elſe
dare be) at the top; of goats, on the middle; and,
if not of ſerpents below, a ſerpenting ſtream may
make as good a dragon. But, in all countries and
ages, numberieſ, have been the Chimeraes, the moſt
formidable monſters to mankind. Happy, who can
preclude their entrance; or, Bellerophon-like, over
come them 1
— ix. 21. The flame-fºoted bulls. Jaſºn, or
Iaſon, was left by his father Eſon, with the kingdom
of Theſſaly, to the care of Pelias, Eſon's brother
by the mother's fide. His mother Alcimede (by ſome
named Polymela) thought proper to transfer the youth
to the tuition of Chiron, who, being the ſon of Saturn
and Phillyra, had a hereditary title to wiſdom and
harmony: both of which he improved to ſuch a de
gree, as to be regarded (in days of ignorance 1) the
world’s firſt friend, in the firſt inſtrućtor of the ri
ſing generation. While, to the endowments of the
mind, he added the exerciſes of the body; his be
coming the beſt horſeman of the Theſſalians, who
were then the beſt horſemen of mankind; gave him
and them, the fabulous appellation of Centaurs, or
Hippocentaurs : Bull-goaders, or Horſe-bullgoaders.
Nor could any thing be more natural for barbarians,
who firſt ſaw a good rider; than to ſuppoſe man and
horſe, an individual. In thoſe days, a Chiron was ex
plored to form an Achilles; to teach even a Hercules
aſtrology; nay, was employed by Apollo himſelf,
who had previouſly enlightened him, to initiate his
ſon Eſculapius, in the myſteries of the healing art.
To ſuch a maſter was young Jaſon committed; whom
nature had rendered worthy the higheſt inſtitution.
Reared in due time to every ability, Jaſon came,
and demanded his kingdom. Pelias, not forward
to anſwer a demand, which he knew not how to de
ny; ſeized the juncture of throwing a bait to a
ſharp-ſet genius:
“ Undouted as is your title, my dear Nephew, to
your kingdom; an opportunity now offers of impro
ving that, or any kingdom; which onely a prince.
of your ſpirit and powers, perhaps yourſelf alone
can embrace. You have doutleſs heard that, on
Nephele’s Bacchanalian frenzy of flying into the
woods, your great-uncle Athamas, king of Thebes,
wedded Cadmus' daughter Ino, who had been Bac
chus' nurſe. She ſo played the ſtepmother, or they
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fo the ſtepchildren; that Phrixus and Helle obtained
from their father his golden Ram, on which they ſet
out for Colchis. As they were entering the Pontic
ſtrait, Helle took fright, and dropt into the ſea.
Phrixus continued his flight to Colchis, where he
was ſo well received, that king Eetes has already
given him one of his daughters. Athamas, on the
loſs of his children and ram, became madder than
ever Nephele. Taking Ino for a lioneſs, her elder
infant Learchus, as one of her whelps, he daſhed
againſt a rock. Ino, in the wildneſs of deſpair,
threw herſelf with the other, into the bay.
All this as well as I, knows my accompliſhed Ne
phew; but youth plagues not itſelf with every con
ſequence. That the Ram was poor Athamaſſes briſkeſt
fly-boat, you are not now to learn: but I may perhaps
firſt furniſh you with an anecdote concerning The Gol
den Flece. You are, I ſee, conſidering what the Golden
Flece may be; and may conſider long before you find
out, that it is no other than a very fine parchment
volume, containing a Syſtem of ſuch chymical know
lege, as may enable the poſſeſſor to analyſe all na
ture, and turn whole kingdoms into gold.”
Jaſon’s eyes ſparkling aſked, ſooner than his
tongue, if there ſeemed no poſſibility of recovering
to Europe, and to Grece, the ineſtimable volume.
* The choice ſpirits, which are everywhere the chief
powers, (ſaid Pelias,) muſt unite, and that ſoon for
ſuch purpoſe.” The matter was inſtantly concerted.
The firſt veſſel, that deſerved the name of ſhip, was,
wherever or by whomever modelled, conſtructed with
all poſſible diſpatch, and lanched at Pagaſa, or Pa
gaſae, in Theſſaly. Various parts might require
various material: the principal was brought from
Dodona, a town of Epirus, renowned for her for
reſt of oak, and thence for the oracle of Jove. The
ſail, ſailyards, tackling and rigging; were prepa
red and adjuſted by Dedalus, the greateſt mechanic
of that, or perhaps any other time.
The name Argo, variouſly ſcanned, muſt be Greek
or Hebrew. As the former, it ſignifies active or
alert ; nor the leſs properly, that it chances (by the
prepoſition's oppoſite powers) to be capable of im
plying the contrary idea. As Phenician, allied to
Hebrew, and ſo to Noah's ark; it proves a ſtruc
ture of length, or a long galley; in contradiſtinétion
to the petty roundiſh tub-like barks, before clampt
up in Grece and elſewhere.
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Jaſon could be at no loſs for a crew. His birth,
education, vigor, grace; commanded, and endeared.
The deſign had ſcarce taken air, when fifty heroes
and demigods, (ſome ſay two, four, or ſix more)
ſollicited each a berth on either fide the Argo. The
former were proud to accompany, and obey, him:
the latter received as much joy, in partaking the ex
pedition; as they contributed, in promoting its ſuc
ceſs. Hercules was a powerfull friend, by land
and by water. The brothers Telamon (I. xxxii. 5.
487.) king of Salamis, and Peleus, worthy fire
of Achilles, knew the advantage as well as honor
of keeping good company, and joining heroic deeds.
Caſtor and Pollux (I. xvii. 7. 476.) inſeparable from
high enterpriſe, as from each other; were luminous
aids at ſea. There the winged ſons of Boreas, ca
lais and Zethes (or Zetes), became attached to the
Argo, perhaps for the ſake of her able navigator
Wiphys; while Chiron, to the captain, more than a
father ; was the friend, that ſticketh cloſer than a bro
ther. But, as Orpheus (II. vi. 480) could charm
down even the rage of the elements, and gloried to
chear this hopefull voyage; he acquired, in all re
ſpects, ſo excluſive a title to fing the Argonauts; that
bold might ſeem Apollonius, Valerius Flaccus, or
any other, who brought not, like them, his own
apology. r
If the captain was happy, in the confidence of
ſuch a crew; no leſs was he everywhere, the idol of
the ladies. The Lemnian women had conſpired a
gainſt the men. Hypſºpyle, their queen, had alone
ſaved her father. No wonder ſhe ſhould welcome
the Argo, and be even enormouſly hoſpitable to the
commander. By him ſhe had twins, ere expelled
for her piety. Taken by pirates, ſhe was ſold to
Lycurgus, king of Nemea; who availed himſelf of
a royal nurſe, for his ſon Archemorus. The Ar
gives, paſſing to the war of Thebes, enquired of
the nurſe the way to Langia; which runs, thro’ the
forreſt, into the Corinthian bay. Haſting to one
duty, ſhe forgot another; and, a novice to a nurſe
child, left the infant on the graſs. Before her
quickeſt return, her charge was mortally bit by a
ſerpent. In diſtraćtion, ſhe flies. The father, no
leſs diſtraćted, thunders execution. She, who had
ſaved her father, was ſaved by Adraftus, who proved
afterwards the fingle remnant of the Theban war
riors. Some date the Nemean games, from the
death
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death of Archemorus: for games celebrated ſorrow
as well as joy. But the Nemeans are generally
yielded to the Herculean (I. xxxii. 6. 487.) lion,
who has had higher honors paid him.
A viſit made the Argo to a different charaćter.
Phineus was king of Arcadia, or Thracia, or Paph
lagonia: no matter which. He was blind, and had
deſerved it. Poor ſtepmothers do every evil. One
had prompted him to put out the eyes of both his
ſons. Heaven put out his, and ſent upon him the
Harpies; whoſe rapacious name ſpeaks them terrors
to the ſeing, and torments to the blind. Daughters
of Sea and Land, they were happily but three: Ody
pete, Aello, and Celeno; who obviouſly ſhow their com
plexion, temper, and agility. A fair compound was
each of a virgin's face, a vulture's body, bears ears,
and hooked hands. What companions of an enter
tainment! The Argonauts went no-whither in
vain. Calais and Zethes bore to Phineus a relation,
which, with Argonauts, might encreaſe attachment.
Brothers, tho’ but in law, they drove the Harpies to
the Strophades (formerly Plotae) Eolian iles in the
Ionian ſea, weſt of the Peloponneſe: but there, alas!
the Boreans could neither deſtroy nor confine them.
Hercules however, who enjoyed, like his friends,
the deliverance of their entertainer; learning after
wards the cauſe, which he or they little ſuſpected, of
Phineus' blindneſs; met him in a deſart, and put
him to death.
The Argo got ſpeedily to Colchis, and Jaſon to
the heart of Medea: the ingenious, no leſs than beau
tifull daughter of Eetes, or Eeta. The ladies indeed
of that country (now Mingrelia) have ever been fa
med for beauty, as attractive as a Golden Flece.
But Medea, more than commonly knowing, was
(and is) commonly believed, like Circe (I. ii. 6.471)
and Aurora (I. xvii. 15.476) too much ſo. She
could eaſily teach, an apt enough ſcholar, to mitigate
the ſame-footed bulls, that guarded the Golden Flece.
Still more eaſily might he learn to lull the watchfull
dragon, her father; whom, one way or other, he
bereft of dominion, tho’ this he reſtored; of the
Golden Flece, whatever he made of it; and of Me
dea, whoſe ardor to preſerve every one of the voya
gers, from the dangers of ina&ion or climate, had
enjoined, as main articles of regimen, gymnaſtic
exerciſes, and hot-baths: whence obtained ſhe her
caldron for the boiling of men, and her preterna | himſelf gathered all his bones in Colchis: for he
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tural powers of medicating them into youth peren
nial. The ſame paſſion, which had ſo early en
forced, ſo widely extended, and ſo cordially conti
nued, her hoſpitality; made her leave her parent
and country, in order to follow the fortunes of an
adventurer: whoſe qualities (many, and great, as
they were;) had not fleddineſs among them, or even
the capacity of acquiring it. Hypſipyle had perhaps
no taſte for the Colchian expedition, which Jaſon
could not abandon. Medea, for every reaſon, could
not ſtay at home. Jaſon, fer every reaſon, muſt
welcome the fair inſtrument of his higheſt ſucceſs,
and now indeed his conſort; to the beſt accommo
dation on-board the Argo: whoſe timely return
completed the firſt, and happieſt voyage, by man,
ever undertaken.
But Jaſon, in Grece, remembered not the Me
dea of Colchis: the Medea, who had crowned all
his wiſhes ; and had divided, where ſhe could not
prevent, his dangers: that Medea, amiable as ad
mirable, and fond as either; for a Creuſa, daugh
ter to Creon, the tyrant of Corinth ; a Jaſon could
forſake, may repudiate. Juſtice muſt kindle with
Medea : who ſent, by her own ſons, a preſent, to
the rival ſhe held an adultereſs. She ordered how
ever her dear boys to fly, the moment they had de
livered the curious caſket. With difficulty, not leſ.
ſened by eaguerneſs, Creuſa unlocked a wild-fire;
which, dilating by air, and flying into her face, re
duced her, the palace, and all its contents to aſhes.
This renders not incredible, what ſome authors af-.
firm; that, after the death of Egeus, who eſpouſed
her during the repudiation, Jaſon and Medea were
reſtored to union, and to happineſs. But candor
believes not, that the powerfull, as often provoked,
Colchian could render Pelias’ daughters, even in
the plauſible idea of reyouthening him, accomplices.
in deſtroying the man, whom ſhe was too generous
to ſuſpect of any finiſter view, in ſending her heroe.
ſo gloriouſly to Colchis. Shall ſhe be ſaid (and ſaid
by ſcholars!) to have toren her brother to pieces;.
becauſe his name was Abſyrtus, which fignifies toren.
aſunder P But, as ſhe (potent lady!) could do any
thing, ſhe dilacerated her poor brother; that their
father might be too buſy in colle&ting his bones, ac
cording to pious praćtice, to purſue her and her huſ
band. Now Abſyrtus, who fled with them, had
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was confeſſedly ſeen paſſing with them into Illyria,
(now Dalmatia and Sclavonia) as far as the river
that chanced to bear his name. But neither he, nor
Pelias, nor even her own children, could dy; if Me
dea had not ſlain them
Her charaćter and name ſpeak her the fiſter of Me
duſa (I. viii. 4.473), a like promoter of navigation
and polity; fimilarly therefore mentioned with as
much abhorrence, as ſhe has merited veneration.
Both ſiſters were indeed inſtruments of vengeance,
as well as of beneficence. But juſtice had perhaps
not elſe employed them. One could ſet the worth
leſs on fire, the other could turn them into ſtone.
The petrefaction was plainly allegoric: might not
the conflagration be ſo Medea kindled con
ſcience, as Meduſa confounded guilt. But Envy
has imputation ready for Genius, much more for the
Genius of Benevolence: and, ſo contagious is the
breth of Prejudice, not to ſay, of Calumny (yet
Prejudice is Calumny undeſigned), that, by blowing
on one unelucidated, tho’ unempeachable, fact or
individual ; it ſhall blaſt a whole charaćter or coun
try. Medea is thus made black all over; and Col
chis declared for her ſake, as Latium for Circe's (I.
ii. 6. 471) full of poiſonous herbs. But Medea a
lone uſed them in her own country; and the herbs
ſhe wanted, ſhe found in Grece. The poets may
indeed be cited againſt both ſiſters. But poets are
profeſſed dealers in fiction; and naturally love ma
gic, as being magicians themſelves. They build in
air as eaſily as on earth, alembic folly into wit, and
even elicit truth from falſehood. Genuine charac
ter, like genuine gold, emerges beſt from trial.
Then Purity beams, undimmed by Ignorance; and
Excellence, unſoiled by Calumny.
Fabulous as the Golden Flete, and its heroes are
thus ſcandalouſly made; no piece of profane hiſtory,
ſo ancient, is perhaps ſo well atteſted. Tho' My
thology have allegoriſed ſome of the characters; they
are every one, more or leſs, authenticated. That
they were coeval with Priam's father, is as certain,
as that we have ſeen Laomedon (I. xxxii. 5. 487.)
and Hercules together. Nor is the epoc of the
Golden Flece leſs fixed in Chronology, than that of the
laſt taking of Troy; which happened about the year
of the world 2820; from the deluge 1164, from the
Iſraelites’ quitting Egypt, 308; 430 years before the
foundation of Roine, and 1 184 antecedent to the
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birth of Jesus Christ. So aſcertained an event
had never ſo much the air of fable: nor ever were
ſo grand preparations, ſo auguſt a company, ſo ſuc
cesſull an enterpriſe, more celebrated or leſs under
ſtood ; more important, or leſs inveſtigated, in re
gard either to object or conſequence. Yet inveſti
gation darkens obvious truth. This expedition's
object and conſequence are too great and too mani
feſt, not to enlighten and enrapture; not to make
the examiner apply to the mythologiſt: Doth he not
Jpeak parables P
Nephele, a cloud, that darkened Beotia, was at
tracted by the Bacchanalians: for Bacchus (I.
xviii. 5.477. xxxii. 5.485.) the very Sun, draws
clouds, but to diſpel them. No ſucceſſor could ſo
promote improvement, as ſhe who had nurſed the
improver; and known the god, in his benigneſt pu
rity. But, who was entitled to ſuch intimacy, like
Ino, the daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia / that
Cadmus, who, from the Eaſt, had brought letters,
the foundation of human culture; as Bacchus, un
der whatever name, had, from the ſame quarter, im
ported the art of cultivating the ground. The
children of Nephele or Darkneſs, Phrixus and Hell.
Horror, that is, Barbarity, and Grece; were of.
fended at the light, which their new ſuperintendant
could not forbear to diſplay. Peculiarly as was Ino
qualified to cultivate mind and body, the genius and
the land; every improvement was, to Phrixus, in
novation ; and every ſuch advance he held encroach
ment. Unable to continue, where Lerning and Po
lity muſt take place; away he will fly, and carry his
ſiſter with him. He will alienate Grece, from all
taſte of refinement; and transfer her very effence to
the ſoft ſoil of Afia. From the fimple Athamas,
to whom he makes his reaſons good, he obtains a
veſſel, called the Golden Ram ; and puts on board
a few of the beſt ſheep in Beotia. But Helle, what
ever be her affection for Phrixus, cannot go out of
Grece. Having accompanied him to the entrance of
the Seſtian ſtrait; ſhe, one way or other, claims poſ
ſeſſion of that channel; with which, to fix her pro
perty, ſhe compounds her name, in Helleſpont. How
Phrixus brooked the loſs of his ſiſter, we are not
informed. But, a briſtling barbarian ; who could,
on ſuch pretence, quit his father's happy family;
with a view, not onely to deſert, but to betray his
country; to diſcloſe her ſecrets, and eſtrange her
ſtaple ;
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ſtaple, was not likely long to deplore a fiſter; who
had left him, the moment ſhe underſtood the in
famy of his enterpriſe. He procedes however to
Colchis, where he offers the Ram to Jupiter or to
Mars, we know not whether; and hangs up the Gol
den Flece, in the reſpective temple. He evidently,
makes a preſent of the barge to king Eetes; with
the far higher preſent, of the Chymical Volume, which
is no implauſible interpretation; eſpecially as the
Latin term for fece may imply the flake, or leaf, of
a book.
But, without figure, unleſs of extenſion,
may not Phrixus have carried a fine breed of ſheep;
and thence improved, if not inſtituted the woollen
manufacture, in the Colchian territory Nor was
it for nothing that the king beſtowed his daughter.
Chalciope (or Braſen-face) on a fugitive, of whom he
could know nothing, but barbariſm and trechery.
Can any earthly object be equal in value Is not
the woollen indeed the principal manufacture of the
world nay, the model and foundation of all other
texture ?' Well might the flece be diſplayed, in the
ſančtuary ; as that which founds and figures the clo
thing of human-kind. While thus it muſt be golden,
in all its conſequences; the epithet proves natural,
in every ſtile; from the tawny, or almoſt golden co
lor, obſervable on many kinds of ſheep. In every
manufacture-country is therefore The Golden Flece the
moſt pleaſing, as moſt natural, of all ſigns or ſym
bols: intimating, more forcibly than any other,
warmth and wealth, peace and plenty ; the Golden
Age.
The recovery then, and promotion of wool, and
woollen trade; of all manufactures and all commerce;
Twas the undouted, as the grandeſt poſſible, object ; of
ſhip-building, truly commenced in the Argo; and
of voyaging, truly begun by the Argonauts.
Now may we more eaſily aſcertain the ſame-ſooted
(or, as Ovid calls them, Braſs-footed) bulls - nor
ſhall we ſuppoſe them mere braſs-locks, diſplay
ing little bulls, with burniſhed feet, in high re
lief. Guards they were doutleſs; but probably in
tereſted guards: even members of the manufacture,
eſtabliſhed or enhanced by Phrixus in the Colchid.
Whether with burning, or braſen, feet; and, whether
manufacturers, or guardians of manufacture; Bulls
they were, as ſons of Mount-Taurus, or Mount
Bull: that immenſe ridge, or ſucceſſion of ridges,
º: that overſpreds Aſia: nor the rival merely of Grecian
his
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mountains (I. i. 2, 47.o. xviii.478) where we have often
ranged; of the Alps or Apennines, the glories of Italy.
and her neighbors; but of Atlas (I. viii. 4.473.) the
heaven-bearer, whom we have regarded in all his
aſpects ; nay, of the Andes, who, in their very name,
expand idea: admitting compariſon or analogy onely
to the floods, lakes, and ſyſtems; of their own old,
and our New World. Hold, ſent the Bull a roar, .
from ſide to ſide of Aſia. Compliment not ſo faſt
your New World, at the expence of the Old. I am
perhaps leſs known in Chriſtian Europe, than the
Alps or Apennines; or even than Atlas, or the An
des; and, for that fingle reaſon, may be deemed in
ferior, to any of thoſe reſpectable elevations. But,
were my various ranges from North to South, from
Eaſt to Weſt, of Aſia, either examined with preci
ſion, or glimpſed, like them, at a diſtance; on me,
I may without ſwelling preſume, idea might as fairly
expand. If I generate no fingle river equal to that of
the Amazons, (nor am I quite ſure that I do not;)
I muſt be confeſſed parent to a number of ſtupendous
floods. No drizzling rivulets are my Euphrates and
Tigris ; which, the former riſing in Colchis, the lat
ter in Armenia, waſh Babylon, that was ; and Bag
dad, that is ; as they roll ſouthward to the Perſian
gulf: my Arabius, and Indus, the very father of In.
dia; moving in like direétion to the Indian, or Ery
threan; vulgarly the Red, Sea: my Oxus and Iaxartes;
which, from the Eaſt, try to augment the Caſpian or
Hyrcanian: call I it ſea or lake a piece of water four
hundred miles by three hundred; abſorbing from the
North, the Ruſſian Rha, or Wolga, or Wolga; who
has probably his ſource, as well as mouth with me.
But mine is beyond peradventure, the glorious Gan
ges ; who, enriching and adorning unnumbered re
gions; deſcends, not unacknowleged, into the In
dian ocean. Beneath my notice, are ſecondary
ſtreams; that, in many parts, at leaſt of the good old
world, would be ſtiled noble rivers. Secondary I,
name them, when feeding the primary; as does Hy
daſpes Indus; tho’ the former ſufficed to bound the
vagaries of an Alexander; whoſe bridge, and every
yoke, Araxes ſpurned; yet hailed Auguſtus’ arches;
ever proud to rollinto the Caſpian; that drinks up tor
rents immenſe and numberleſs, unſwelled. Yet, ſixteen
years revolved, they ſtand, and ſee him ſpontaneous
paſs each mound. Othou, my Caſpian! What genius
ſhall contemplate thine expanſion, and not expand
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with thee To thee, Ontario," becomes a Ladoga,t
or Leman-lake.f Hail, hoſpitable top, ſerene, ſub
lime! who, to retiring waters, ſaideſt: From me
ſtill Oxus flow. Thou, chaſer of diſmay f O light,
beyond the Phare of Philadelphus ! Thou arduous
Ararat, art mine: thee bleſt the far-deſcrying eye of
Jeſus’ type; high harbinger of Jaſon. Thee the
Ark her haven hail'd: fair archetype of Arge. If
ſuch the glory of mine orient ſkirts, higher my noonly,
and my ſetting honors. Eden herſelf is mine, O Pa
radiſe ! No model thou to Babylon or Bagdat. O
ſon of Amram what a fatal fall, from the dred Law
that bade a Sinai ſhake, to the fell Arab's Coran'
Araby! e'en Araby the Bleſt, I claim not thee. Yet
be the Stony mine, where Moſes led: mine Tabor,
where his greater ſhon confeſt: mine Calvary, thou
crown of Love Divine !
My weſtern boundaries were thus the Mediterra
nean and the Egean. I compaſſed the Axene (ſince
Euxine) as well as my own Caſpian. While I thus
covered Aſia; over Afric too, and even once glo
rious Grece, I poured my ſons, like Attila, who
owned himſelf the ſcourge of God; as Titus (what a
contraſt !) in deſtroying Jeruſalem, perceived himſelf
the mere inſtrument of chaſtiſing the once choſen
people. Tho' my deſcendants ſeldom ſee ſo far, they
will meaſure ſyſtems too, according to their original
plan, which they are proud to find adopted in Chriſ
tendom ; by the length of ſaber. Since 1453, that
they poſſeſſed themſelves of the Eaſtern Capital, as
well as Empire; they have left the Weſtern States to
worry one another, and waſte their reſpective ſtrength
in the Old World, by battling for ſupremacy in the
New. After this ſketch, not onely of my own ex
tent and poſſeſſions; but of the dominion and policy
of my ſons; tho’ I cannot always vindicate either
their principles or pračtices, I muſt approve the turn
they have ſhown, ever fince the Argonautic age, for
woollen manufacture ; nor can wonder that, in cer
tain branches, they have yet no rivals.
To gratify the curioſity I may have excited, I muſt
add one particular. I pervade many nations, and
thence take many names. Of at leaſt four and twen
* The greateſ lake in North-America.
+ The greateſ lake in Ruſſia.
1 The lake of Geneva.
|| King of the Huns, a Scythian nation, that overran
Europe in the fifth Century.
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ty, I ſhall name half a dozen: in Cilicia and elſe
where, my great name Taurus; in the Leſs Arme
nia, its oppoſite, Antitaurus : in Iberia and Al
bania, my next redouted title, Caucaſus; whence
the preſent Ottomans. In Scythia, I am Imaus; on
the confines of Meſopotamia and Armenia, Niphates;
in the Colchian, Corax, or the Raven, from my ſa
ble hue: yet is Jaſonian, or Iaſonian, my appropria
tive in the farther Aſſyria: not to mention particular
diſtinétives, or to appropriate the general Ceraunian,
applicable to many mountains, who have not their
neck ſo clothed as mine with thander. That I have
fire at top and bottom is as certain, as that out of my
bowel; thou mayeff dig braſ, : which vindicates whoe
ver may figuratively render my very feet tremendous,
whether by braſs or fire.”
So far the Bull. Yet is not the allegory complete,
or the hiſtory unmingled, without our obſerving,
that Athamas, weak or mad, as well as every mem
ber, young or old, of his family, became ačtive,
tho' unwitting, inſtruments of promoting the Argo
nautic expedition, and the conſequent improvements
of Grece; nay, that Ino and her infant, when they
could live no longer on earth ; had no ſooner left it,
than they commenced inviſible guardians of the voy
age. She roſe Leucothoe, or Leucothea, a water-deity,
to glide along with the Argo; and her ſon Melicertes
or Melicerta, inſtantaneouſly a Palemon or Portunus,
imbibed at once the inclination with the ability of
attending the galley, and doing her every good of.
fice; particularly that of ſeing her ſafe in and out of
harbor. To him were inſtituted Iſthmian games, lit
tle inferior to thoſe of Neptune : the vićtors crowned
with pine and parſley. |
By ſuch aids, to ſuch Argonauts; with ſuch cauſe,
and ſuch conſequence; was formed and executed the
glorious plan of commencing navigation, retrieving
trade, extending commerce; opening the friendly in
tercourſe of nations, interchanging every poſſible be
nefit, and reuniting the members of mankind.
The name of Helle, having poſſibly drawn ſome at
tention to her ſea; a few anecdotes upon it may not
be improper here. The Helleſpont, has gained, by
the aid of Muſeus, ſtill higher celebrity from another
lady's fall: perhaps leſs figurative than that of her,
s
whoſe melodious name it retains. Over this chan
nel, ſcarce a mile; and but half from Byzantium, (the
predeceſſor of Conſtantinople,) to the oppoſite Chalce
don; which was the Thracian Boſphorus, or Boſporus ;
whether
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whether oxen ſwam or were carried: from Abydus
could Leander ſwim, to his Hero at Seftus. One hap
leſs night a ſtorm caſt in his coarſe : from a tower,
toppled poor Hero, into Helle's ſea.
As Darius had covered the plains of Marathon, ſo
wonderfully cleared by Miltiades; over the Leandrian
channel, Xerxes and his myriads, threw a floting
iſthmus, joining Europe to Aſia; ere yet Themiſtocles.
had ſcattered them at Salamis, (an ile in the Saronic
bay, that waſhes on the Eaſt the iſthmus of Corinth;)
and made the monarch, whoſe arrows darkened the
air, and veſſels covered the water; fain to fly alone
in a ſkif. The vićtorious Greek, baniſhed by the
Athenians he had ſaved, ſought refuge with the
routed Perſian. Xerxes received, with open arms,
his viſitor; and immediately poſſeſſed him of Lamp
ſacus (or Lampſacum,J a town flowing with wine;
and, like Abydus, with wantonneſs; conſtituting
with Callipolis, the ſtrait now of Gallipoli; while Seſ
tus and Abydus are ſhrunk, or ſwelled, into the
caſtles of the Dardaneller.
The king, with ſuch ſančtuary, offering his gueſt
any command, overthrew Themiſtocles in his turn.
Diſtraćted between a generous protećtor, enemy to
Grece; and an unnatural enemy, ſtill his country;
the heroe, of Salamis, deſerted the ſervice of man
kind ; and ſwallowed bulls blood. Wild in his youth,
he had never tamed into principle ; tho' one of his
ſayings was : Mettled colts, well trained, become the
nobleſt ſeeds. But he had never been trained: his
heroiſm proved therefore little elſe than ſally. Na
ture having amply played her part; he claimed the
more regret, the leſs he was entitled to compaſſion.
Whatever were the oddities of his charaćter, Plu
tarch vied with Nepos to retrace it; and, however
varied might be his condućt; uniformly were his ſay
ings, as ſentiments, ſuch ; that Tully, Quintilian,
Elian, and others, have been as fond, as his biogra
phers, to cite them. When Simonides, the Cean
poet, offered to teach Themiſtocles his new-invented
art of Memory: I had rather learn to forget, ſaid the
latter. I remember whether I will or no: but I can
not forget, when I pleaſe. Themiſtocles may have
been wronged, in the matter of muſic. No human
heart, not paſt feeling, has diſtaſted it. But ſound,
being in all ages, more catching, and ſo more careſ
ſed, than ſenſe ; Martial would as readily ſay as The
miſtocles: Give me a man without muſic ; rather than
muſic, without a man. A ſentiment of a piece with
the reaſon he alledged, for giving his daughter to a
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worthy man rather than to a rich. A man had better
/*ek money, than money a man. Take Themiſtocles
therefore all in all, ſays the Latin hiſtorian, reſolved to
make out his heroe: No one of the Greeks can be deemed
his ſuperior, and few allowed his equali.
Andromeda we ſaw (I. viii. 4.473.) the reward of
her deliverer; and Heſione, (I. xxxii. 5. 487.) of her
deliverer's friend. The direſt monſter perhaps of the
groop, is (II.xii. 3.) The bull, that low'd terror on Ma
rathon's plains. Hither the bull dragged, ſay ſome,
by Hercules; tho’ more affirm, by his friend and fel
low-Argonaut Theſeus ; was indeed ſlain in Crete.
Minos' queen, Paſiphae, caſt an eye on his ſecre
tary ; whoſe name was Taurus, or Bull. Chancing
to bring forth one ſon like Minos, another like Tau
rus; ſhe gave riſe, firſt to the ſtory (exhibited in the
Amphitheater) of her interview by Dedalean art,
with a bull; and then, to that of producing the
Minotaur: a monſter, half-man, half-bull; who muſt
have a peculiar abode, and feed on human fleſh. For
the former, was conſtructed the Labyrinth, by De
dalus, the matchleſs mechanic; who, from Athens,
had taken refuge in Crete. The Athenians and Me
garenſians; envious of the ſuperiority, young Andro
geos, the ſon of Minos and Paſiphae, already ſhowed
in arms; had conſpired and compaſſed the death of
that promiſing prince. Minos made war upon both
nations; but Scylla, daughter to Niſus, king of Me
gara, wiſhed to make peace with Minos. She made
a rape of her father's purple lock, on which ſhe ſup
poſed the fate of his kingdom to depend. Minos no
more needed, than brooked the trechery. He de
moliſhed Megara, cut off her king, and ducked the
wheedling traitreſs into an egret. The Athenians
he reduced to the yearly tribute of ſeven young men,
and as many virgins, to be yearly devoured by the
Minotaur. On the third year, of this inhuman con
tribution; with ſix other noble vićtims, was ſent
the devoted Theſeus. The heroe ſoon deſtroyed the
deſtroyer; and, aided by Ariadne, who lent him a
clue, explored the iſſue of the Labyrinth. Not onely
ſhe, but Minos' other daughter, Phedra; fled Crete
with him. Ariadne he left at Naxos, where ſhe
married Bacchus; who honored her with the Cno
fian crown of ſeven ſtars, when Diana ſent at her
a ſhower of arrows. Minos, finding Dedalus had
impoſed on him, the fable of the Minotaur; ſhut
him up in his own Labyrinth ; and, with him, I
carus, his ſon. The artiſt contrived wings for both.
Himſelf got to Cumae, where he built a temple to
Apollo;
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Apollo; but Icarus dropt into the Egean, of which
that part was named after him the Icarian ſea. Some
interpret the flight to have been by water; but that
Icarus' bark had ſplit againſt a rock. Others again
hold both air and water figurative: alledging that
Icarus, unequal to his father, ſupplied in conceit,
what he wanted in ingenuity; and ſo, eafily beyond
his hight or depth, could not but be quickly loſt.
The Amazon Hippolyte, whom Theſeus had either
won by ſubduing, or received from Hercules; lived
not long Theſeus' conſort: but quitted not the
world, without leaving him Hippolytus. This beau
teous youth, ſoon attracting the eyes of his mother
in-law Phedra, turned away his own from her. A
Phedra could become a Sthenobea (II. xii. 8. 492):
Theſeus, ſeverer than Pretus, determined the death
of his ſon. Hippolytus flew by the ſea-fide: The
baſking ſea-calves ſtartled, by the trample of his
horſes, ſtartled them in their turn. The innocent
driver, thrown over the rocks, was daſhed to pieces.
They do ſay that Diana was ſtartled to : her ſpotleſs
companion ſhe knew not how to loſe. She applied
to Eſculapius, who repieced the dilacerated. Pluto
complained to Jove ; who ſmote, with his bolts, the
Phyſician.
The heroes loved Juſtice, tho’ they ſometimes loſt
fight of her. Creon, king of Thebes, would not
ſuffer the Argives, after the fatal Theban war, ei
ther to burn or to bury their dead. Argia and An
tigone, widow and fiſter to his own great-nephew
Polynices; for doing him the funeral honors, he
ordered to be buried alive. Theſeus ſtormed Thebes,
and cut off the monſter. He could not ſave Creon’s
ſon, Antigone's Hemon; who had not the fortitude
to ſurvive her.
To every robber denounced Theſeus fulmination.
This felt, in their own way, probably many more
than Scinis, Sciron, Cercyon, and Procruſtes. The
friendſhip of the heroes was inviolable, if not ſo
always their love. But, if impulſe proved ſometimes
too ſtrong for duty; friendſhip became often the foe
of juſtice. The Centaurs and Lapiths, two Theſ
ſalian tribes, were long at mutual variance, which
occaſionally burſt into war: thoſe boaſting themſelves
the firſt horſemen, theſe the inventors of accoo
terments. It is true that Chiron called himſelf a
Centaur; but Theſeus' friend, Pirithous, was king
of the Lapiths. His Lapithian majeſty had therefore
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at leaſt one tremendous, as aſſured, auxiliary. By his
Theſeus' aid, he defeated the Centaurs; and ſaved
his Hippodame, whom they would wickedly raviſh
from him on his wedding-day. She, alas ! lived
not long : nor did the grief of Pirithous. The he
roes, both widowers, and both kings, would have
no new conſort beneath a celeſtial. They knew but
of two ; nor theſe quite acceſſible. The king of
Athens however carried off Helen, a young and
beauteous virgin. Caſtor and Pollux were too for
midable, as well as too heroic, brothers; not to re
demand and recover her. The beauty ſoon wedded
to Menelaus, the Trojan prince Paris came a viſi
tant. In defiance of every law, he ſtole his fair en
tertainer away. Grece took fire: the ſtates combined.
The Trojan war commenced. Many heroes were
ſlain, and ſome not heroes. Paris however fell, and
Helen accepted his brother Deiphobus. The fiege
continued doutfull. A traitreſs, to her huſband
and country ; will hardly be true, to another place
or perſon. The beſiegers ſhe began to aid by fig
nals : the city at length was taken, and ſhe very
readily returned into her generous huſband’s arms.
After Helen's firſt rape, Pirithous, more deter
mined on adventure than marriage, tells Theſeus,
they muſt make a viſit below ; and pay their com
pliments to Proſerpine. Down they went. Piri
thous hardly entered, when Cerberus devoured him.
Theſeus was kept in chains, till Hercules came, and
by a firſt-rate labor releaſed him. It was indeed
not far from Acheron, in Epirus, that Aidoneus, king
of the Moloſſians, impriſoned Theſeus; for aiding
this audacious attempt, on his daughter Proſerpine.
So mixed a character muſt turn the ſcale by domeſ.
tic polity. The twelve ſtates, or tribes, of Attica,
he combined into one people of Athens. Erichtho
nius, the ſon of Vulcan, had long before inſtituted
the grand games in honor of Minerva, called Athe
nara, or Minervalia : Atheneans, or Minervalians.
Theſeus, on the joyfull occaſion of uniting Athens,
revived them under the extended title of Panathe
maea: Panatheneans, or, Univerſal Atheneans. This
glorious feſtival, which Domitian (I. ii. 1. 470) ſo
fondly reinſtituted to his Goddeſs; was, in all re
ſpects, worthy its objećt: innocent, as joyous; and
edifying as innocent. Each city ſent an ox: pro
i
portionable the wine. In the expanſion of cordiality,
and abundance; riot, or abuſe did not dare to ens
ter.
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ter. Amidſt every ſocial indulgence, the feaſt con
tinued intelle&tual. Awfull and ſignificant was the
proceſſion. Certain ſages, in maturity of life, car
ried olive-boughs. With olive were the athlets.
crowned; and their reward was a veſſel of oil. That
the proprietors of oliveyards might duly contribute,
their poſſeſſions were named portions. But the crown
ing pageant was the robe of Minerva: a piece of the
fineſt texture, and embroidery performed by virgin
hands. There was exquiſitely wrought the glory of
arl the gods, in the war againſt the giants; particu
larly the vićtory of Pallas, over their chief Encela
dus. There alſo were woven, in the brighteſt, and
moſt pleaſing colors; the actions of all, who, ani
mated by divine example, had endevored to de
ſerve well of their country. This diſplay was onely
at the great Quinquennials. The minor Minerva
lians were, it is diſputed whether, annual or trien
nial. But unexampled was the appearance, of even
a ſpectator, in any other hue than white; the color
probably thence adopted in the Roman Amphitheater.
The Menalian Boar, the Nemean Lion, and the
Hydra are diſtinguiſhed among the labors of Hercu
les; which we now come in their order to confider.
Elſewhere ſcattered, they are conſtellated, Epigram
XXVII. Part III. of this Book.
—ix. 45. Menalippe: by ſome held a queen of
the Amazons. Many were the queens of thoſe he
roines, as kings among the heroes. She is ſome
times however interchanged with Hippolyte, or Hip
polyta (II. xii. 3. 500), whom, vanquiſhed and ta
ken, Hercules gave to his friend Theſeus ; whom,
ſay others, Theſeus vanquiſhed and took for him
ſelf. Still profounder (as are always the laſt) explo
rers make her the fiſter of Antiope; and that queen,
the beſtower of her own arms and belt on the heroe,
for generouſly reſtoring Menalippe. Thus, and much
more than thus, teems the Amazonian ſtory with con
fuſion : occaſioned by the vague title Amazon, given
queſtionleſs to diverſe vagrant nations, and abſorbing
their particular names.
On a ſubjećt, that has ſo long mocked human un
derſtanding; and on which the ingenious with the
learned ſeem rather to have ſociably ſhut their own
eyes, than kindly dreamed of opening any other; it
is eaſy, as it is fair, to concenter the few glimmerings,
which have already appeared: that ſo antiquity, al
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moſt everywhere elſe alike ſagacious and communi
cative, may for once fink to the level of modern
time; yet, that vulgar error, the child of vulgar in
attention, may not, even in one inſtance, boaſt un
-
exceptioned univerſality; that the exceptions howe
ver may claim no more than the oddity of a laugh, a
dout, or a diſbelief: that great names be no longer
quoted to ſančtion abſurdity; and that Candor's
exertions may be allowed never too late to pierce
the thickeſt cloud of Prejudice. -
Hippocrates ſays of the Amazons, not that they are
a female nation, but that their women ride, ſhoot, hurl
the javelin, and fight the enemy, while virgins ; nor
ceaſe to be ſuch, till they have each ſlain her three men.
All poſſible, of warlike barbarians. But he adds.
They have no right breaft for this, while they yet are
infants, the mothers ſtar with a red-hot plate of braſ.
Hear we next Plato: I know that, about Pontus, are un
numbered myriad of women, called Sauromatians (or
Sarmatians), who manage not onely horſes, but bows,
and other weapons ; nay, rank and exerciſe equally with
men. From men ſtill he ſevers not their community.
Diodorus and Curtius repeat the burning operation;
the latter adding the reaſon: that they may draw the
bow, and ſend the darts, more powerfully. Diodoros
and juſtin give their whole hiſtory, poſſible and im
poſſible. The latter was but an epitomiſt of 7 rogus
Pompeius : the former ſays he travelled into the coun
tries he deſcribes. As he throws ſo little light on
the Amazonian charaćter, he either has not viſited
the Amazons, or brought back the hearſays he car
ried. Juſtin's ideas were narrow, as his credulity
extenſive. He fancied the Amazons confined to
a ſpot, where hiſtorians have doutleſs agreed to
place ſome : on the Pool of Meotis, now the White
Sea; and in Tanais, the now Azof, at the mouth of
Tanai, the now Don; which runs into the Meotis,
after dividing the European and Aſiatic Sarmatia,
now Ruſſia and Tartary. Diodorus finds Amazons in -
Libya, or the North-Eaſt of Afric; and Curtius, with
no leſs propriety, others in Hyrcania, on the South
of the Caſpian ſea ; as Plato knew of multitudes on
the Axeme, now the Black Sea; and Arrian had heard
of thoſe on the Thermodon, who pours himſelf into
it. There Stephen the Byzantine ſituates Amazons,
a female race. Palephatus, who writes incredibilities,
thinks the Amazons deſerve a place in at leaſt one of
his five volumes; as men, who ſhaved their beard,
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eapped their hair, and went begowned like women; juſtly
thereforeſ, called by their enemies. Sextus Empiricus ſup
poſes the poſſibility of male children among the Ama
22ns, who take care therefore to lame and enfeeble them
betimes ; that they may never be fit for manly ačtion.
Pliny and juſtin concur in aſſuring us, that Epheſus
was built by Amazons. Heraclides adds, that Hercu
les, who hence appears their employer, rewarded
them with a grant of all the lands around: which
grant (or phºſis) gave name to Epheſus. This capi
tal, overwhelmed by an inundation, was, by Alex
ander's renowned captain Lyſimachus, when gover
nor of Pergamus, rebuilt in the higher and preſent
fituation. Some hints have we thus, from the an
cients, of the actions, as well as abode, of the 4
mazons : none intelligible concerning their charaćter;
but that it was ſpirited, martial, and ready for pub
lic ſervice. Strabo however, that oracle of geogra
phy treats the whole Amazonian tale as a fable;
and Euſtathius, ſo many ages remoter from it, might
be forgiven for coinciding with him, were not the
latter ſo able a commentator. Well may both ex
claim : Who could believe that an army, a city, a na
rion, of women, ſhould ſub/ft without men P. The
Archbiſhop turns indeed his indignation into ſome
ſmall commencement of enquiry. On decompoun
ding the word Amazon, he ſaw it might imply with
out bread, as well as living together. But, preferring
the former, as not conceiving the latter ; he left
things much as he had found them.
Amazon admits of a fourfold analyſis. It may o
pen the natural ſource of emigration ; that which,
the French ſay, makes the wolf ſally from the ſorreſ -
want of bread. Connected with this idea, tho’ not
with the etymology, is another as fair; that of living
in clans, as all infant or emigrant nations muſt:
no more without men, than without women: elſe, as
Livy ſays of the Romans, before the rape of the Sa
bines, the people could laſt but onelife. A third ſenſe,
no leſs natural, and variouſly allied to both the for
mer, is that of being tied and bound with the emble
matic belt ; which ſtrengthens and adorns the whole
body. The Scythian knot, in the diſtic before us, in
timates the dreſs, the country, and the union of
the wonderfull myriads we ſeek. The dreſs was un
queſtionably a tunic or jacket, under a commodious
garment, bound by the belt, or in ačtion thrown a
way. The buckler, ſhield, or targuet, Pliny pro
nounces of the bredth and ſhape of an Indian fig-leaf.
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Like Indians too, they took up the hatchet, as well
as handled the bow and javelin. The fourth inter
pretation, of meaning impoſſible, as of compoſi
tion forced ; is that which, not onely poets have
fondly embraced; but which neither philoſopher,
hiſtorian, nor critic, pagan or chriſtian, has hitherto
had power to explode : the dear idea of breaſileſ.
Fićtion, in her caſtle, created at once ſoverains and
ſubjects ; and pićture of every kind could eſſence
impoſſibility. Amputation however muſt prefer the
leſs of evils, if not of oddities. Scevola and Cocles
loſt but one eye and hand; Arimaſpians," like Cy
clops (482), being out of the queſtion. One breaſt
therefore (but that the right) ſuffices to be lopt; that,
with greater dexterity, they may uſe their warlike
arms.
The conſtitution of the Amazons inveſtigated, we
are aided by thoſe who knew them not, to point their
original regions, and thoſe they in time overſpred.
With the ſothern half of the globe was the nor
thern unacquainted. Five Zonest were ſevered by
analogy. The north Pole being Arctic (476), the
ſouth muſt be Antaráic. A mild latitude ſucceding
a ſevere, on this ſide, muſt on that ; and tempera
ture advancing into heat, made a middle region that
ſcarce required the warmth of poetic fancy to be pro
nounced uninhabitable. From frigid clime howe
ver, and ſtubborn ſoil; needy nature will move, with
all convenient ſpeed, into the gentle and genial.
Hence all the inundations of barbarians, under
whatever name: Huns, Goths, Wandals, Franks, Scy
thians, Tartars: all variouſly Normans, from the
North.
We cannot now wonder to find ſo vigorous aſſoci
ations, as thoſe of the Amazons, from Sarmatia or
Scythia, ſettled on either fide the Phaſis, the Col
chian river and port, condućting to Ea or Eapolis,
now
* The Arimaſhi, a Sarmatian or Scythian, (now Moſ:
covite) tribe, on a river of their own name, rolling gol
den ſands; always at war with the Griffins, very Har
pies (495) for gold; had but one Cyclopic eye for Ari
maſpi, or Arimaſhu, compounds one eye. The natives,
dextrous archers, ſhut one eye when they ſhot ; and ſo
became Arima/pians.
+ Alſo Belts, or equal ſegments, as if girding the la
titude or Bredth of the globe: not equal, tho’ proporti
oned, to each other; but equable in themſelves.
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now Lipopotamo: which, fifteen miles up, and pro
bably the parent of Eetes, was doutleſs his reſidence,
and capital of a people that traced itſelf from E
gypt; but ſurely not the leaſt diſtinguiſhed of the
ſeventy cities, children of Miletus, the prolific head
of Caria; ſituate near the mouth of the Meander,
with his fix hundred windings, in nine hundred
ninety-ſeven miles. Caria therefore, rather than
Beotia, having transferred her celebrated wools, and
woollen manufacture, to Colchis, gave riſe to the
fable of Phrixus analyſed in a late article, and to
the real expedition (493) of Jaſon for the Golden
Flece. Another of the ſeventy ſiſters, is the Gau
liſh Mafflia, now Marſeilles; who roſe by ingenuity,
and ſank, like her parent, in ſoftneſs. In the Ar
gonautic age, Ea was not ſo loſt: her poliſh not leſ
ſening her hoſpitality, ſhe attracted equally Ama
zons and Argonauts. As we have ſeen the former
on the Meotis and Tanais, ſo muſt we ſee them in the
Tauric Cher/oneſe, now Crimea, or the Crim, by the
iſthmus of Precop, joining little Tartary. Here
reigned a Thoas, promoter of ſacrifice to Diana,
when the goddeſs having, in Aulis, ſubſtituted a
hind to Iphigenia, tranſported the princeſs to this
Tauric Cherſoneſe, to be there her highprieſteſs.
Agamemnon's daughter proved thus ſuch a vićtim
as Jephthah's ; who was the archetype of Iphigenia,
as Moſes’ Creation of Ovid’s. Human vićtims were
indeed demanded by Diana; who meant rather to
chaſtiſe than to ſlay. His faithfull couſin Pylades
carries mad Oreſtes thither; to make expiation, for
the vengeance he has wreaked on his mother Cly
temneſtra, and on Pyrrhus, who had carried off his
Hermione. The prieſteſs, knowing her brother,
ſaves him ; who, to deliver alſo his ſiſter, is forced
to put Thoas to death. With the friends, Iphige
nia brings off Diana’s altar; and thence is called
the Faſcelian, or the Bundler, ere yet ſhe erect it in
the Arician grove (I. i. 2.47 1.). Amazons then, as
Bulls, or Taurics, meet us on either ſide the Cimme
rian Boſphorus, now ſtrait of Caffa ; and compoſe,
perhaps the whole, of the Cimmerians between Col
chis and Iberia, now Georgia; which comprehends.
great Part of the ancient Armenia.
Cimmerian, in Afia or Europe, has one origin and
idea, from the Phenician camar or kimmer, to lour or
blacken. The Tauric Cimmerium (now Capo di S.
Croce) Pliny ſays, was once Cerberium; tho’ Strabo
name it Cimbrium, as Odin thence coloniſed the Cim
brian Cherſoneſe (now jutland)of Scandinavia. What
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ever elſe the Tauric Cimmerium have been right or
wrong called, it is no leſs ſurely a capital of dark
neſs, than, near the famous Baths of Baiae, in Cam
pania, the Cimmerium, where the inhabitants were
truly Cimmerian ; as miners, or other ſubterraneans;
who, for good or evil purpoſe, never faced the ſun.
There was dred Sibyl’s cave. There Ovid reared Sleep's
palace. There Avernus’ dire abyſs durſt challenge
Acheruſa's joyleſs ſource of chilling Acheron, Epirus’
peſt; who braves Arcadia's; nine times winding
Styx, with all her horrors, may with both her ſons:
Orcus, the clammy ſtream that aws the gods, and
bids them heed their oath, or be a century ungod
ded : dull Cocytus ſhe diſdains, whether the Lucrine
claim him, or her rival adopt him. Lethe, who on
Libya's ſhore, was ſwallowed and emerged, acquired
the name of the oblivious flood. Another entrance,
alike tremendous, of the climes unſeen, is Tena
rus, Peloponnefian point; whoſe, mines of ſtone
gape a wide mouth of Tartarus, from the Chaldaic
dardar dropt, to Erebus, the ſon of Chaos and of
Gloom ; the fire, by ſtarleſs Night, of him who tugs
the oar : Charon, that faithfull, tho’ no flattering
friend! who wafts thee, as the unerring judge, ſhall
doom, or to the gulf of unimagined woe, or to the
raptures of Elyſium's joy.
Of the Cimmerian rivers, lakes, and caves, ſuch
was the ſketch our heroe brought from the banks of
Acheron : whence, tho’ he feared not for himſelf,
he rejoiced that the Moloſſian king Aidoneus (the
poetic Pluto) allowed him to bring the quaking The
ſeus, (II. xii. 3. 500) who had as much deſerved
the ſalutation of the maſtifs, (peculiarly flanch in that
country,) as Pirithous, whom he had abetted in the
attempt on that king's daughter. The meritorious
guardian of the lady, Hercules might obtain, as the
nobleſt preſent, next to his friend; from Aidoneus,
who had many more as truſty guards; and ſo be
hailed (III. xxvii. 16) returning anquitted, but na
worried by the dog; as dragging Cerberus from ſhades
below.
After tracing the Amazons into the land of credi
bility, we have ſeen them naturally quit their na
tive ſeats, and fall down the Tanais on Mount Tau
rus. (II. xii. 9. 497). His range being infinite, it
ſeems impoſſible to aſcertain, how far they may have
paſſed Hyrcania, eaſt or ſouth. They may have pe
netrated (for aught we can now know) as far as the
Golden Cher/oneſe, or the peninſula of Malacca ; and
weſtward we can follow them, from the Meotis, into
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the Axene or inhoſpitable, which to them became
the Euxine or hoſpitable ſea. Along its whole ſo
thern ſhore of eight hundred miles, do we find them:
in the vaſt extent therefore of Pontus, which Mithri
dates drew Pompey to deſolate, and deſolation called
Amazons to fill. Neither Thermedon nor Halys, was
their boundary. Thro' Cappadocia, Paphlagonia,
Galatia, (or Gallogrecia,) nay Phrygia; and, as we
ſaw them build Epheſus, may we with moral cer
tainty believe round the coaſt of the Leſs Aſia did
they extend. That, in Chriſtian times, they mingled
with Chriſtians, we cannot queſtion; whether in
the already-named or other regions, in the ſeven
Churches of the Leſs Aſia, or the diſtinguiſhed cities
of Coloſſe, Philippi, Theſſalonica, Corinth, and the reſt.
Nor can we dout, who know their active and mar
tial, rather than intelle&tual turn; their having been
quite as ready to join the Tauric, or Turks; of whom
they muſt have made no ſmall portion, when, in pro
ceſs of time, the Eaſtern empire was deluged by thoſe
mountaineers. In Aſia therefore and Afric, as we
have ſo fatally ſeen them; with parity of reaſon may
we be ſure that they have contributed to darken
Grece. Nor is their name (if their nature be) un
known in the New World. However it may have
penetrated, or whatever particular names it may co
ver; they ſeem, in South America, to have got the
range of the Andes; and what is held the greateſt
river, deſcending from the greateſt mountains (if
Taurus allow this) on earth.
Anteus, called, in one Epigram, (III. xxvii. 7.)
the Lybian ; in another, (II. xlvii. 5.) paraphraſed
or periphraſed, The chaffen'd plaſter of the Libyan
ſchool; was the gigantic founder of Tingi or Tingis,
now Tangier, in Mauritania, now Morocco; and the
truly formidable dragon, that guarded the golden ap
ples, which we admired (491) in the garden of the
Heſperides. The plaſter, for the wearer, alludes to
the liniment of wax and oil, mixed up with a kind
of powder; by which the wreſtler was ſuppoſed to
prepare at once ſtrength and agility. Son of Ocean
and of Earth, he doutleſs gained new force by ac
ceſs to either, eſpecially to his mother: Neptune
being uncle to one, if father to the other champion.
Hercules is therefore painted ſuſtaining, from the
ground, his antagoniſt; that ſo, precluding every
earthborn, or earth-boren, aid; (keeping aloof all
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adventitious auxiliaries) he might, with leſs diffi
culty, overthrow the barbarian.
The next taſk is to ſettle the abode of the Geryons
(II. xlvii.14). Whether theſe were three brothers, that,
like the Gorgans (473) were ſuch monſters, as to have
but one eye among them; or three plumes on one
helmet, inſted of one head under it; the three Ba
leares (or Slinger-ilands) on the Eaſt of Spain; of old,
little ſeparately known; tho' Majorica (with her ca
pital Palma) Minorica, and Aebuſa, may have be
come Majorca, (at home Malorca,J Minorca, and
Ivica; or the three Spains, the Betic, the Tarraconian,
and the Luſitanian, now Portugal: the treble head,
or triple-crown, may have dwelt, as many would have
him, on an ilet between Gades (or Gadir ; now Cadiz,
the mercantile Cales; ) and the continent of Spain;
probably Carteia, otherwiſe Carpeſſur or Tarteſus, a
Phenician name, ſpeaking her enormous conks, and
purple-ſhells; at the mouth of the Betis, now Gua
dalquivir; and at the bottom of Gibel-Tarift,
Mount-Tarif, now Gibraltar; a ſublime and almoſt
impregnable mountain, rearing his head like a co
lumn; and under the name of Calpe, (which ſig
nifies a concave vauſe,) correſponding with a fimilar
on the Mauritanian point, called Abyla or Abila, the
woody mountain: they conſtituting the Pillars of
Hercules, as if planted to guard the ſtrait. Good his
title to name the Pillars; who had in ſome ſort erec
ted them. The ſame heroe, that mauled Anteus on
one fide, cut off Geryon, on the other; as an equal
enemy to the improvement of mankind; which the
philanthrophiſt had fingly in view. Carteia or Tar
teſus was indeed built by Hercules, and thence na
med Heraclea ; tho’, by the Phenicians, Melcarthur
or Milcartha ; of Melee Cartha, King-town or King
ſton.
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Eryx (II. xlvii. 6.) was grandſon to Amycus, king
of Bebrycia, in Pontus. The grandfather had not
onely bruiſed his ſubječts; but been, if not inventor,
improver of the Ceffus: a gantlet, fencing with ſtiff
thongs the hand, at length the arm; and addi
tionally enforced with led or iron. Challenging
every ſtranger, and doing for every accepter, he
ſcrupled not to offer the hoſpitable compliment to
Pollux, the Twin-Argonaut. Pollux was ready to
give the king ſatisfaction, and gave mankind more.
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No Argonautic bard omits the battle. Theocritus
by this (Id. 30.) teaches a favorite hand to paint
(En. V.) that of Dares and Entellus. The Bebry
cians delivered, made the heir a fugitive. Sicily
received Butes at Drepanum, (now Trapani,) on
Mount-Eryx; where Venus is as devoutly adored,
as in Cythera or Cyprus; and which mountain
gave name to his ſon by the fair Lycaſte. Eryx in
herited the manhood, if not the kingdom, of his
grandfire. He bid like defiance to Hercules, who
bid him defy no more.
Every heroe proves a terror to evil-doers: not
Hercules, leſs than Theſeus. When the former had
taken the trouble of bringing his fine cattle from
Spain into Italy, Cacus, (a raſcal in his name,) the
forrºſis pannic (xlvii. 7.) on Mount-Alban, dragged
into his den, ſome of the cows backward, to prevent
diſcovery from the print of their ſteps. In the mor
ning, Hercules, ſurveying his herd, found it defi
cient. Some time at a ſtand, he began to hear the ,
captives within, lowing after their friends without:
for horned cattle have, of all inſtinétive animals,
perhaps the kindeſt feelings. Guided by the friend
ly voice, he haſted to the ſcene of captivity. Cacus
himſelf redoutable, (a villain may for a time,) thought
he might at leaſt make a bold defence, who had ne
ver before been reſiſted. With the three-knotted
club, Hercules put an end at once to reſiſtance and
rapine; nor made his cattle leſs happy than himſelf.
Safe as ſocial brought he all into the bay of Ambra
cia, the capital of Epirus, and afterwards the ſeat
of Pyrrhus; at the mouth of the Achelous : a bay,
that opening in leſs than one mile, makes a baſon
of thirty-eight by twelve.
. As any conſpicuous mountain was a figurative Ida,
any copious flood became an Achelous; without rob
bing either Crete or Epirus. Achelous is allowed the
offspring of Sun and Earth, and immediate deſcen
dant of Pindus (470). He is ſaid to have fought
Hercules for Deianira, the daughter of Eneus and
ſiſter of Meleager (II. xi. 491); whoſe country was
laid waſte, by a more formidable enemy than a boar.
Achelous could, againſt ſuch an antagoniſt, turn
himſelf into a bull, or a dragon; tho’, when unpro
voked by hoſtility or overfeeding, he could be
thumane, if not human. To the humane ſtate it is
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certain that Hercules reduced him ; but not till ha
ving broke off one of his horns; which he preſen
ted to Deianira, as full of plenty, as was ever Amal
thea's, that favorite nurſe of Jove. That a torrent
ſhould roar as a bull, is no more ſurpriſing, than
that, by a flood in due channels, a land ſhould be
fertiliſed, which had been often deſolated by it,
when ruſhing but by two mouths into the Ionian.
Ravagers and bravoes were alike the heroes game.
Figurative might be even a Nemea's terror (487), and
Arcadia’s boar (III. xxvii. 12.). The latter, whe
ther of Menalus or Erymanthus, Hercules carried
alive on his ſhoulder, to Mycene ; where reigned Eu
ryſtheus, and pleaſed the envious ſtepdame (II. xlvii.
1.) Juno ; (bold figure for benignant Providence :)
by engaging Hercules in labors, that ſeemed ſuperior
to man. The brazen-footed hind (13) with golden
horns, as conſecrated to Diana; and feet ſo fenced,
by ſpirited ſwiftneſs; ſhould mean ſomewhat more
than a mere transference from Menalus, in Arcadia;
to Taygetus, that overhung Lacedemon. Might
not the heroe be truly heroic, in ſo guarding a fine
young Lady?
The birds (14) Stymphalian, of enormous ſize, and
tremendous tallons; eclipſing the Sun, and diſmay
ing Arcadia; apparently from Symphalus, moun
tain or lake; or Symphalis, lake, river, or merely
(Symphalian) appropriative to the other; ſpring not
neceſſarily from either origin: or figuratively, if --
they muſt paſs thro’ this channel; they come along
with it, from certain Greek verbs, that ſignify to
bind, ſtifle, annoy, ſhock, abhor; and ſo are the pa
rents, not onely of Stymphalus, but of Styx. Evi
dently were they annoyers and devourers, by land or
by water; nor unaccountably diſperſed or diſpelled
by the brazen rattle, or cymbal, of a Hercules ; whoſe
very name was a wall of braſ, to mankind, as his
conſcience was to himſelf.
The Hydra (III. xxvii. 17) or water-ſnake, with
eight mortal heads, and one immortal; the peſt of
the whole Argive, and terror of all Grece; was per
haps the heroes moſt arduous taſk. By the lake Ler
na, he found the foe. Firy darts, from a car, a
vailed nothing;... and, when he deſcended, every
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lopped head gave two to ſprout. He ſummons Io
laus, his friend and driver; who, fearing every neck
(like the breaſt of a young Amazon) with a hot
iron, prevented regrowth; and fo lent the need
full aid even to a Hercules: but lent not to an inſenſi
ble. The enraptured heroe thought he could no way
ſo well ſpeak at once his acknowlegement to Heaven,
and benevolence to Earth, as in praying down the
renewal of youth on Iolaus. No comment needs the
Hydra, whom, tho’ not confined to Lerna, nay
everywhere alarming, ſuch a Hercules as every one
may be, will always be as able to quell.
Nor muſt be omitted Hercules’ contraćt with Au
geas, king of Elis, to clenſe a ſtall, that contained
three thouſand oxen, of thirty years dung. The un
dertaker introduced the Alpheus, who carried all be
fore him. Payment, denied, was referred to the
king’s ſon. Phyleus, pronouncing for juſtice, fled
to (Ulyſſes’ iland) Dulichium. Hercules, indig
nant, ſtormed Elis, ſlew Augeas, and placed Phy
leus on the throne. Whatever may have become of
Augeaſſes integrity, ſome allow, tho’ others deny,
him the firſt manurer of ground.
Such are the principal labors of antiquity's higheſt
heroe: whom we find travelling the world, with an
, to overwhelm thoſe, who thought to overwhelm
equal ardor and capacity of improving it; alike rea
dy to embark in the generous deſigns of others, and
to lead others, (the more frequent opportunity!) in
to generous executions. Roughneſs removed, muſt
prepare Poliſh: Barbariſm ſubdued, muſt pave the
way to Humanity. Of all barbarians the moſt in
veterate and moſt numerous, were probably the Scy
thians ; who, in their various neceſſary migrations,
were ſufficiently diſtinguiſhed, many ages, by the
focial name of Amazons. To this, as the heroes firſt
public objećt, has here primary attention been paid.
On like plan we ſaw Perſeus (473) diſpatched by
Minerva to fetch Meduſa's head; with which he
brought into Grece, ſome ſkill in navigation; as,
from the bearer of the heavens, the ſcience of Aſ
tronomy. To all ſcience, and all commerce, was
Anteus as much an enemy, as Hercules was a friend.
The latter wiſhed to bring from the Libyan ſhore,
a fine breed of ſheep ; called, by poetic pun, golden
apples. Anteus would rather dy, and that mankind
ſhould dy, than ſuffer it on any terms: nor ment
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Hercules any purchace, but on the nobleſt. Meaning
however thus to purchaſe the beſt produce of every
country, he thought Spain's horned cattle an obječt in
his way; and in Spain he found Geryon a threefold
Anteus. Eryx, like his grandfather, a Pontic Ama
zon, had his manhood, inſted of virtue, for its own
reward. As Cacus in Italy, ſo the Lion, Boar,
Stymphalians, and Hydra, in Grece, were robbers,
ravagers, or peſts of whatever kind. Hercules, and
Meleager (492) had fraternal ſouls: double motives
felt both to public duty in Etolia. Atalanta and
Deianira were there. The former we honored (if
poſſible) more than her lover; the latter, being fiſter
to Meleager, proved naturally worthy to wound, not
unwounded, the ſenſible ſoul of Hercules. Calydon
was annoyed by no boar: Achelous challenged the
Traveller. Soon however became Achelous humble
as Alpheus; and gave up the Lady, as Acheron the
(Moloſſian) dog.
Not merely then is Hercules the echo of Samſºn.
Coincident were indeed the great features of thoſe
Heroes: invincible ſtrength, courage, ačtivity, be
nevolence, integrity. Alike unaware of deceit, a
like were they ready to chaſtiſe it. Equal inſtruments
of Providence, in the ſervice of mankind ; equally
provoked to atchieve things deemed impoſſible ; and
them. Lions and Bears were but playthings to ei
ther: and monſters called men, even banded, as
feeble in their hands. By the trechery of Dalilah,
Samſon loſt his eyes; and his life, not unavenged:
by the jealouſy of Deianira, did Hercules, whoſe
laſt action was in her effectual defence, loſe
his mental eyes, and, in conſequence, his life.
The Centaur Neſſus, pretending to carry Deianira
over the Evenus, began, on the other fide, to offer
her violence. Hercules ſaw, and ſhot him ; with a
hydra-ſhaft ſo poiſoned, that, dying, he told Deia
mira, he had but one way to make her atonement:
to put into her hands his tunic, which, whenever ſhe
ſuſpected the conſtancy of Hercules, if ſhe ſent it
him, would operate in her favor. This ſhe fimply
did : he as fimply put it on, became inſtantly fran
tic, threw the bringer over a rock into the ſea, and
himſelf into the fire of the altar on Mount-kta,
where he was about to ſacrifice. Deianira, diſtº.
ted in her turn, knocked out her own brains with
the club. Hercules, everywhere beneficent, had
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made improvements in Lydia, and reſided a little atthe
court of (III.xxvi. 16) queen Omphale: whence the
joke. As for Iole, the heroe gave her to his ſon Hyllus.
Himſelf was thankfull for the well-earned Hebe, (pen.)
the goddeſs of youth, whom Juno (Providence) had
beſtowed on him. Hylas, a favorite boy, ſent for
water, in the Argonautic expedition, by the weight
of a pitcher, was drowned. º
By motives, not events, are ačtions to be weighed.
Euryſtheus, king of Mycene, had no more merit
in the labors of Hercules, than Pelias in the ſucceſs
of Jaſon. Both ment onely to involve the heroes,
who ſtill emerged to diſappoint them. Heathen
Mythology, often ingeniouſly juſt, is ſcarce ever ſo
to Juno. That queen of gods, at the head of ſtep
dames, is ſuppoſed as much gratified by the tyrant
ſhe employs to harraſs Hercules, as by the god ſhe
bribes to ſcatter the Trojan fleet: Greeks and Tro
jans being alike to her reſentment. No compliment
is paid to her knowlege of great conſequences, far
leſs to her approbation of them. Thus is Providence
arrained, as if approving evil; inſted of adored, for
educing good. The inſtruments may be nothing
the leſs criminal. Soon after the death of Hercules,
his nephew, and more than nephew, (his friend)
Iolaus, leading the Heracleans or Herculeans, met
Euryſtheus on the plain of Marathon; ſlew him in
battle, and cut off his head, with perhaps as much
ſatisfaction, as his uncle had done thoſe of the hy
dra.
The labors of Hercules would indeed forfeit their
name, were they not every one more ſhocking than
another; unleſs perhaps Diana’s hind, whoſe velo
city, giddineſs, or protection, may have, one way
or other, ſwetted the heroe. Yet can it not be ſaid,
that he preferred Virtue to Pleaſure ; for he knew
no Pleaſure, but in Virtue; and in her he knew un
ſated joy. He, whoſe life was one ſcene, of un
wearied as unimaginable ačts, in the ſervice of man
kind; might well be pronounced to drag Cerberus
from the ſhades; and not onely to take away all ter
ror from futurity, but to ſecure a ſeat among the
gods. Of a ſtill ſtronger than Samſon, nay of a
wiſer than Solomon, was Hercules a type: of H 1 M,
who came into the world to ſave it : 'who went about
doing good, working every wonder of beneficence, to
the ſouls and the bodies of men; who ſublimed Vir
tue beyond the idea of heroe or philoſopher; who,
by his life, new-modelled mans; and by his death
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dºffroyed death; ſo opening the gates of an Immor
tality, groſsly ſhadowed in Elyſium.
The glory of Domitian, is therefore his model:
nor will Candor be ſevere on the hyperbolic challenge.
The Uſarpation (III. xxvii. 23) was that of Vitellius,
ſlain by Mucian, Veſpaſian's general, ačting in con
junction with young Domitian; who, not onely de
fended the Capitol, but reſtored empire to his father
and brother. With them he duly ſhared it : or ra
ther, to them he gladly left it for the company of the
Muſes. I. vi. 4. 472. His breaking the horns of Iſ:
ter thrice (27) refers to his ſubdual of the Cat
tians, Dacians, and Sarmatians. I. xvi. 4. 476.
Tho' he declined public triumph, over the laſt; he
uſed all his influence, but in vain, to be ſent by his
father, as auxiliary to ſome of the Eaſtern princes.
Therefore is he declared (29) To conquer ardent,
and to triumph ſhy. Nor have we forgot why he was
named (30) Germanicus. I. v. 4. Fanes to the Gods.
I. xxxiv. 484. To men he manners gave. III. ii. 6.
Stars to his own : father, brother, conſort, deified:
And wreaths refreſhing to immortal jave. I. xvi. 6.
As the emperor would have no other attitude, than
that of Hercules, for the imperial ſtatue to be placed
in the temple he had erected on the Appian (III.xxv)
to his heroe; ſo the ingenious, whom Domitian was
fond on all occaſions to crown, had private ſtatues
of their patron, which their gratitude was proud to
adorn. Thus ſaw we Carus (III. xxiii.) who had been
honored at the Quinquatrians (470) with the golden
olive-wreath, placing it at home on the head of the
donor.
Of the Grecian Games.
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The Olympic Games are too ancient and too illuſ
trious, not to be claimed by a variety of parents.
They have been fancied worthy even a Jupiter, on
his vićtory over the Titans. When the Olympics had
ſo natively ſoared to Olympus, who could be the com
batants but gods Mars became the natural bruiſer;
and, for running, Apollo could find no rival, unleſs
in his brother Mercury (488). Yet one, who car
ried the games to their ſummit, the poet who eter
niſed them, brought the Olympians back to Elis;
and there yielded their origin to the heroe of the
Augean conqueſt. No prize did their author offer
to others, but ſuch as he invariably propoſed to him
ſelf: the conſciouſneſs of endevoring well. Of
this he made the ſymbol a golden crown or wreath,
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mixed with wild-olive, or figured by it. But they,
who ſtrove for the maſtery, were not onely temperate
in all things: no candidate could appear for the O
lympic prize, without having plied ten uninterrupted
months, peculiarly the laſt, at the Gymnaſium, or
exerciſe-ſchool, of Elis. In all the (485) exerciſes,
cver numberleſs competitors, incomparably qualified,
Hercules remained the undouted vićtor; till, for
wreſtling, a more than mortal advanced: Jupiter
himſelf. Nor is this either blaſphemy or nonſenſe:
were it the former, it muſt indeed be the quinteſ
ſence of the latter. We have red, without the im
becillity of ſcofing, that another heroe wreſtled with
an angel. He, who wreſtles not with ſuperior power,
will never reach the hights of humanity. Hercules
fank not beneath his antagoniſt; and ſo proved more
than a conqueror. Whether he thus inſtituted or
revived the Olympics, they were certainly the moſt
renowned of human games. The number of direc
tors, or of correótors, is of no more moment, than
the mode of ballot. Olympus (470) ſevered, ſays
fable, by our heroe, from Oſa, the Centaurs’ (493)
ſtable, and Giants’ ſtep; where Peneus loves to lave
the Theſſalian Tempe; lent doutleſs his auſpicious
name, to Olympia, between Piſa and Elis, where
Alpheus was no leſs charmed to behold in Arcadia
the Olympics, than he had been proud to obey the
contraćtor for the Augean ſtall. Olympia therefore,
by Pindar ſtiled the mother of the gold-crowned conflić’s,
communicated her lofty name to the games, where
vićtory was held higher, than at Rome a triumph;
and whence the vićtors were, by their reſpective ci
ties, received in a triumphal car and four ; not thro'
the gates, but over the demoliſhed walls: the poſ
ſeſſors of ſuch ſons, ſcorning any fence of ſtone;
and ſecuring their ſecurity, by endowing their he
roes, with a noble annuity for life. The games
however, little celebrated, for almoſt five barbarous
centuries; were revived in honor of Hercules and
mankind; by Iphitus, 408 years after the war of
Troy, and 776 before the date of Chriſtianity. From
this revival, were computed the Olympiads: each
compriſing a term of four years. The Olympics are
ſaid to have been celebrated every fiftieth month.
Put the months ſeem lunar: for the games, which
began on the eleventh, were completed on the fif
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teenth, when the moon was full. The Dionyſians
(478) had ſet the model to the Olympiads; as they
doutleſs did of pageantry, to the feſtival, which, with
peculiar abſurdity, mimicked, at Eleuſís in Attica,
in honor of the goddeſs of corn, the myſteries ap
propriated, at Limnae, to the god of wine. The
firſt Olympiad's vićtor was Chorebus; but never was
a more ſplendid, or more crowned Olympionic, than
Alcibiades. Yet, pupil as he was of Socrates, and
by nature worthy ſuch a maſter; becoming a ſlave
to falſe pleaſure, he advanced not to know, or re
ceded from knowing, that Olympics, exerciſing
onely the body, were more emblems than aids of
thoſe exertions, that muſt diſtinguiſh mind.
Secondary are the other Greek games: if not alſo
primary in a Pindar. Primary are they all in their
objećts. Nothing will not be diſputed to merit.
Hercules has been denied his Nemeans (487): in bet
ter claim of whom An Opheltes or Archemorus (494):
known onely in his names, which tell us, that he
was bit by a ſerpent, and died betimes. The Ne
means, like the Olympics, produced (II. xii. 6.)
an era. Green parſley crowned thoſe triennials.
The Pythians, commemorating (486) the exter
mination of Python (whom Strabo realiſes into a miſ
creant, named Draco or Dragon;) were firſt cele
brated by Argonauts (494); ſay ſome, by Harmo
niſts, in dance as well as ſong; crowned equally by
Apollo, who ſublimed the firſt rewards of filver or
gold, into laurel; whether this brought onely her
own cherries, or were, as others affirm, adorned
with ſacred applets from Apollo's temple: tho’
Ovid makes beech-garlands prior to either. Noven
nial were inſtituted thoſe games, in honor of the
Charmers (470), who brought the prizes from Par
naſſus. But afterwards the honor was held as great,
if it came leſs ſeldom, and took the quinquennial
round.
The Iſthmian games, originally ſacred to Nep
tune; and exhibited, whether quinquennially, or
triennially, on the Iſthmus (or neck), that joins the
Peloponneſe to the Continent of Grece; were re
newed in honor of the young (alſo ſea-) deity (498)
Palemon. The vićtors were crowned with pine and
dry parſley.
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of the Greek and other Philoſºphers.
Cauſe was hinted, in the inveſtigation of the A
mazons, for the mind’s being leſs cultivated than the
body, among the Scythians. Scythia did however
produce one, and but one, philoſopher: Anacharff.
Whence the proverb: Anacharff, among the Scythi
an: / like Saul among the prophets / He floriſhed,
with Solon, in an age contagious for wiſdom : of
which the Roman Orator allows Anacharſis an un
common portion. Temperance and hard living, he
preſcribed, and pračtiſed. But, for a Scythian to
go barefoot, to ly on the naked ground, and to
make hunger the beft ſauce, will ſeem no mighty won
der. An abſolute command of ſenſual appetite, of
paſſion, pride, and the tongue; he exampled as well
as enjoined. Natures demands, in ſuch ſubječtion,
could be but few: he ſcarce knew the uſe of money.
* Pray, Anacharfis, how ſhall one learn to be ſo
ber º’ By beholding the drunk. Are any minſtrels
in thy country f' Not ſo much as vines.” “Are any
gods there * Ay, and they underſ and human language.
Fond as are the Greeks of their ſuperiority, in eloquence,
to the Scythians; they cannot be fools enough to fancy, that
the gods prefer the ſounds of bone or wood, to the human
voice. Laws, he ſaid, are cobwebs: but, attempting
to introduce at home thoſe of the Athenians, he loſt
his life by an arrow from his brother, who was king
of the country. If philoſophers could not be multi
plied in Scythia, let us glimpſe their progreſſion elſe
where.
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Solom, of Salamis, coeval with the elder Tarquin,
gave laws to Athens, and regulated the Greek year.
From the tyranny of Pifiſtratus, he fled into Egypt;
and thence paſſed into Lydia to Creſus, in all his
glory. That monarch, whoſe opulence prevented
his every wiſh ; after a diſplay of his grandeur, aſked
Solon, whom he took to be the happieſt man alive.
Tellus, Sir, faid Solon; an honeſ? Athenian, who
has grown old within the limits of his own petty farm.
Thou mayeft alſo in time be numbered with the happy :
but no man can be deemed happy, till he dy. This ſur
priſed, if not provoked, the king of Lydia. Fea
ring no man, he made war on Cyrus. Overthrown
and taken, he was about to be made a ſacrifice.
Laid on the pile, he cried out: Solon! Solon 1 Cyrus,
* So his friend Cicero: Scarce any one dance, ſºber.
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hearing, enquired what god the unfortunate invoked.
Learning the truth, he was ſtruck in his turn, with
the contemplation of human viciſſitude. He or
dered the captive to be unbound, and entertained
him thenceforth as a brother.
Analogous to Creſus, was Polycrates the tyrant of
Samos; ere yet tyrant implied an undue ſtretch of pow
er. Other men fled Misfortune, who ſeemed to fly from
him. Impatient of being on Oddity, he would have
a glance of her. He threw a precious ring into the
ſea. His cook, from the mouth of a fiſh, returned
it him next morning. The monarch had now nei
ther hope nor fear. Speedily ſurpriſed by a Perſian
Satrap (or Governor), Polycrates underwent cruci
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Theſe anecdotes, like Scripture, are written for
our learning: a third the writer cannot withhold,
which fell within his own experience. Some years
ago, the Proprietor of one or more of the Orcades ;
(ilands, tho' in a more northern latitude, equal
perhaps to the Cyclades, were even the barren rock
Samos included) expreſſed himſelf deſirous of im
parting to his then young kinſman, an uncommon
ſecret: “ Peculiar, (ſaid he,) is my ground of gra
titude to Heaven, that, in a long courſe of tranſac
tion forain and domeſtic; of dangerous voyages, and
precarious journeys; my fortune has continued un
interruptedly proſperous; nor do I recollect a fingle
loſs, or material diſappointment.” A heart, ſince
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pierced with many ſorrows, hopes never quite to
loſe the trembling ſenſibility, with which, rather
than gratulation, it received the candid acknow
legement. A ſhort while after, the proſperous gen
tleman, with a promiſing ſon, ſcarce arrived at ma
turity, and the whole crew (but one boy) of a Pent
land-packet; were ſeen, in a ſea ſtormy as the E
gean, unable to make the Caithneſs-coaſt, which
could ſend them no aid; and were ſeen no more.
Miletus was not onely famed for wool, and all that
wool can make: ſhe teemed with every ingenuity. . .
If Scythia could in any age produce an Anacharſi,
the Leſs Afia, eſpecially Caria's capital, might in
any, as well as in Solon's, preſent the world a 7%aleſ,
at the head of Natural Philoſophers, as Solon of (un
inſpired) Legiſlators. Philoſophy aſcertained not
whence the world aroſe; but ſhe came to calculate
the motion of the planets: as did therefore Thale"
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the firſt eclipſe." The ſame city boaſted Thaleſes
ſcholar and ſucceſſor Anaximander, the firſt coſmo
grapher, and inventor of the ſphere; nor was per
haps leſs proud of her harmoniſt Timotheus, ſo diſ
tinguiſhed by Philip and Alexander: tho’, for ad
ding a tenth ſtring to the lyre, he was expelled La
cedemon.
Anaximander’s diſciple and ſucceſſor, was Anaxi
memes; who died the day Sardis was taken by Cyrus;
206 years after Romes foundation, 548 before the
Chriſtian era.
Of Anaximenes an illuſtrious ſcholar was Anaxago
ras: who, for the ſtudy of the heavens, forgot the
earth. At Lampſacus on his deathbed, (ſays Cicero)
his friends delicately hinted a deſire of knowing whe
ther, if any thing ſhould happen, he choſe to be
removed to his native Clazomenae. Needleſ; : re
turned the philoſopher. From every place to the next
world, the way is one. Aſked if he wiſhed aught
elſe, One thing, ſays he that the boys may be yearly
allowed to play the month, in which Nicia/es army was
terrified by an eclipſ.
Coeval with Servius Tullius, who was cut off in
the 221 year of Rome, the world was enlightened
by Pherecydes, the glory of Syros or Syria, one of
the Cyclades, or iles circling Delos in the Egean.
Not onely was he inventor of proſe; as all writing
had, till his time, been, for elevation and memory,
in verſe: he was the firſt natural inveſtigator of the
Soul’s immortality.
Under this maſter ſtudied Pythagoras, the Samian:
who brought, from Egypt, his oddity of tranſmigra
tion. Tho' he is thought to have left no writing,
his Golden Perſes contain his theory and pračtice :
no matter, if penned by his diſciples. Galen, of
Pergamus, who had all the medical ſkill that Grece,
Italy, and Egypt could give, found thoſe verſes ca
thartics of the ſoul; on whoſe health that of the
body, muſt ſo much depend. Among vulgar errors
ſhows A. Gellius (iv. 11.) the notion of Pythagoraſ.
ſes abſtaining from animal food, and from beans.
* For three things Thales declared himſelf thankfull:
that he was a man, not a beaft; a male, not a female;
a Greek, not a barbarian. 7 he other ſix, who made
up the ſeven coeval ſages of Grece, were Solon, the
Athenian ; Chilo, the Lacedemonian ; Cleobulus, the
Lindian ; Pittacus, the Mitylenean ; Bias, prince of
Priene; and Periander, King of Corinth.
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The former had been poetically deduced from the
metempſychoff, or tranſmigration ; the latter miſun
derſtood from the very various figurative, nay affec
tedly myſterious, application, both in Greek and
Latin, of the bean. Pythagoras beſtowed his matu
rer years on Great Grece (South Italy); particular
ly Croton, an Achean colony; where he continued
to edify numerous as reſpectable audiences; winning
every claſs of either ſex, as much by life as le&ture,
to philoſophy and virtue. Hence he moved to Me
tapontum, a Pylian colony; where, finiſhing his glo
rious courſe, he left his houſe a temple, and became
reverenced as a god.
This prince of Italian Philoſophy, had been the
ſon of a lapidary. The founder of Greek Moral
Philoſophy, was the ſon of a ſtatuary. Ingenious
probably both the fathers; both, better than others,
knew what the fineſt ſtone ows to carve and poliſh:
nor the leſs meritorious in beſtowing the education.
which ſo bleſt them and mankind. Socrates firſt at
tended Anaxagoras; but quitted Phyſics, for the ſtudy
of Ethics, or Morals; which he ardently imbibed
from Archelaus, the hearer and ſucceſſor of the mag
nanimous Clazomenian. Archelaus however brought
Natural, and Socrates, Moral Philoſophy, from Io
nia to Athens; where Ethics, that could engroſs a
Socrates, abſorbed all other ſcience. His life was
one continued leſſon: his whole example was in
ſtruction. His converſation had the wiſdom, the
wit, the communicative beneficence, that charmed,
while it edified; and aided whoever enjoyed it. The
extent of his knowlege made him often declare he
knew nothing: his modeſty would never allow him
to write.
Happy, thrice happy, who approached ſuch an
oracle! How bleſt, whoſe attention dwelled on his
lips! Unavoidable was their excellence, as then en
tertainment. Of this favored number, were Xenopéen
and Plato. The former muſt become the Attic Muſe,
the latter the Divine Philoſopher. Of them however
it has been remarked, that, in their numerous wri
tings, they never name each other. Xenophon, ha
ving glanced a little of Plato's Republic, wrote the
oppoſite Inſtitution of Cyrus. Plato owns Cyrus a
ſpirited Prince; but regrets the wrong plan of his
education. Plato extols Socrateſes ſkill in Phyſics,
Harmonics, and Geometry. Xenophon, who trea
ſures with the moſt pious care, every thought and
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word memorable of his maſter, pronounces any one
a falſifier, who ſhall pretend that Socrates ever
touched on Mathematics, or any ſubject forain to
Moral Philoſophy. Captain and Commentator, Xe
nophon had no rival, for above three centuries, till
Julius came.
Ariſtocles, well beſpeaking the glory of his father
Ariffo, received the nicname of Plato from his braud
ſhoulders. After devouring and digeſting Socrates,
he paſſed to Great Grece for the Pythagorean philo
ſophy. There he purchaſed with one hundred Minae
or Minaes (three hundred pound ſterling) a ſum he
could ill ſpare, tho’ Dion had ſupplied it; the Cro
tonian Philolaus' Pythagoric ſyſtem. With a cargo
of oil he went over to Egypt, where he is thought
to have met with Moſes and the Prophets; and, from
ſo copious a fountain, to have drawn, what placed
him at the head of the heathen. As philoſophy had
taught Socrates to ſublime his own temper, Plato
learned by patience to poſſeſ; his ſoul. Wherever he
could be uſefull, thither he flew. Once he croſſed
to ſee Etna, once to deliver Sicily; and once at the
requeſt of Archytas, to reconcile Dion and Dionyſus.
Taken by pirates and ſold, he was ſpeedily ran
ſomed. Everywhere ſafe, ſerene, honored, he o
pened in a grove near Athens, the firſt Academy - a
term, whether implying diſtance from the world, a
laboratory for the people, as a library of ancient E
gypt had been titled An infirmary for the Soul; or
the once poſſeſſion of an Academus, Ecademus, or
Cadmas. Founder however of the Academics, he
glided thence at eighty-one, ſome ſay eighty-two:
leaving numberleſs valuable ſucceſſors; in his ſchool
his nephew Speuſippus, to whom ſucceded the ſlow,
but ſure Xenocrates, whoſe word (as ſhould every
mans) was as good as any mans oath: the other
Xenocrates, who returned Alexander’s preſent of
thirty talents, with a hint, that kings, not philºſº
phers, bave uſe for money; and ſo reformed the giddy
Polemon (for what will not culture ?) as to render
him ſucceſſor to his reformer: but, above all, Ariſ:
totle, who from ſeventeen to thirty-ſeven, imbibed
Plato, became tutor ten years to Alexander, obtained
from him the rebuilding of Stagira his native city,
and eighty talents towards the Hiſtory of Animals.
After the death of his gratefull pupil, he taught,
near Athens, thirteen years, in the Lyceum : a ſchool
everlaſtingly reſpectable for the Maſter, who, neither
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myſtical, nor ſymbolical, reduced Philoſophy to a
ſcience, and became head of the Peripatetics, from
walking abour, as he lettured. Like Socrates, by a
ſycophant arrained of impiety, he fled to Chalcis
in Eubea; and, at fixty-three, died, not unſuc
ceded. Theophraſtus, the Leſbian, was originally
Tyrtamus : a ſound too harſh for the ear of an Ariſ
totle, who could ſo eaſily beſtow, what nature and
art had done, divine elocution, upon him. Theo
phraſtus had ſoon two thouſand diſciples. But he
had the dignity of independance: it being his well
founded doćtrine, that no man is leſ, a forainer a
braud, or more everywhere at home, than a ſcholar;
that no man ſtand, ſo little in need offriends.
Having ſeen the heads of Natural and Moral Phi
loſophy; of the Academics and Peripatetics; a mo
mentary glance will ſuffice us of the Stoics, Cynics.
and Epicureams. -
The firſt Stoir, ſo called from the painted Portico,
where he taught, was Zeno, the Cittian; who told
a talkative youth : We have two ears, and but one
mouth ; that we may hear much, and ſpeak little. Tul
ly ſeems not diſpleaſed at his compariſon of Logic
to a fiſt clenched; Eloquence, to its expanſion.
Athens ſo held him her guardian, as to preſent him
with her keys; adorning his waxen image with a
golden coronet. The Stoic doćtrine was little elſe
than the rigor of Socraticiſm: compriſed in two pre
cepts. Bear and Forbear: Patience, and Abſtinence;
ſublimed by Chriſtianity. The Stoic fortitude more
approached ſturdy pride, than humble reſignation.
To the mere lights of Nature however, the Stoic
ſect, no leſs than the other ſchools we have ſeen,
did abundant honor: no wonder it made converts of
the higheſt charaćters. By the emperor M. Antoni
nus, and the ſlave Epiéfetus, is the world ſtill edified.
The latter, like Pythagoras and Socrates, wrote by the
hand of his diſciple Arrian; raiſed, for his merit, by
Adrian and Antonine, even to conſular honors.
Another ornament of Stoiciſm, and inſtructor of
mankind, is L. Anneus Seneca, ſon to the equeſtrian
and eloquent Marcus. The Tragic poet was a third.
By the ſame Nero, was his philoſophic maſter Sene
ca, and Seneca’s nephew Lucan, commanded to dy.
One was too good, the other too great, for the
monſter. With as much fortitude did they bleed,
as Socrates ſwallowed the hemloc, when arrained by
Arytus, of impiety, for deſpiſing the Eleuſinian
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Myſteries (508). The Athenians too late ſaw their
madneſs, and made Anytus feel his guilt.
: Antifthemes, from the Pireeus or Pireus, the capa
cious port of Athens, went daily forty furlongs (five
miles) to hear Socrates. He ſoon ſold all, but a
ſhort cloke, a ſcrip, and a ſtaff; ſo equipt to be
head of the Cynics. They profeſſed poverty, abſti
nence, and hardſhip. Some of his anſwers are re
corded. Nowice: What ſhall I bring? A little book,
Iittle notebook and pencil. Ah! Maſter, I have loſt my
notebook. Thou ſhouldeſt have noted in thy mind. What
am I firſt to learn? To unlearn evil. Who are the
well born ? They that well behave. Who is the
happy man He who dieth happily. Should one med
dle with public affairs The public is a fire: come not
too near, left it burn thee; keep not too far, left thou
ſtarve.
His much-attached ſcholar, Diogenes, was more
truly the Cynic: a ſnarler, a cur. He ſaid to A
lexander: Take not away, what thou canſ? not give
me. Get out, from between me and the Sun. He ſlept
in porches and porticoes ; and rolled, till ninety, in
a tub.
Alike were the Natural Philoſophers bewildered
in their enquiries into the world's origin and iſſue.
Each laid hold of an element, while one of the four
remained. Thales choſe Water for the ſource of all;
Anaximander, Air. Fire is the principle, cried He
raclitus, who conſtantly wept the follies of mankind.
His antipode Democritus, who as conſtantly laughed
at them, had nothing left for his Great Cauſe, but
Earth: which, by deep inveſtigation, he found to
conſiſt, as of ſmalls all greats, of infinitely little,
next to indiviſible particles, called (in Greek) Atoms.
Of theſe he reſolved to rear an infinitely grand ſyſ
tem; which made them very naturally, as capable
of doing every thing, as anything. His travels in
to Egypt availed him little. His element was at
leaſt ſo dark, that neither Egypt nor he could make
it darker. He could however put out his own eyes,
as ſome ſay he literally did; while he queſtionleſs
did ſo in figure, and loſt the very glory he had floun
dered to acquire, of even giving name to a ſect. This
glory, without the trouble or merit of invention,
reaped the Athenian Epicurus; who finding no fifth
element, modeſtly contented himſelf with the bright
diſcovery of his predeceſſor. But, as this dear diſ
covery rendered everything happily palpable; no
wonder, that he became, tho’ not the prince of the
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power ºf the air, yet the god of this world; by pro
claiming univerſal indulgence, and placing felicity
in ſenſual pleaſure. Himſelf is not ſaid to have gone
much farther than theory; but he opened the door
to every practice. All principle, except Panity, be
came an idle load on the votaries of Epicurean philo
ſophy. He therefore ſet the example, ſo much more
potent than precept, of overthrowing principle, by
boldly violating Truth; and boaſting himſelf, in all
his profundity, ſelf-taught ; totally unendetted to
any maſter. Nor can it be denied that he improved
almoſt as much on his atomic model, as the new phi
loſophers of the gloomy ſyſtem have brightened upon
him. Yet another oracle ſays: If the light, that is in
thee, be darkneſ; ; how great is that darkneſ; 1 Thus the
ſum of Epicurean doctrine and duty is, Let us eat,
and drink; and take our fill of pleaſure: fºr we
have ſtanding pleaſure, if not pride, in the thought
that to-morrow we dy. He left no writing: for he
could not write. Not having letters, he pronounced
them uſeleſs: and wiſely. To Epicureamiſºn, or Epi
curiſm, letters are not onely uſeleſs, but oppoſite.
Yet propagators of the ſhort and eaſy faith, which
is merely ſhutting the eyes to all faith and practice,
did he leave in verſe and proſe; more ardent than
ever the diſciples of Pythagoras, Socrates, or Epic
tetus.
A contemporary, and confeſſor of faithleſſneſs,
was Pyrrho, the ſuſpicious philoſºpher, and father (for
why need he own father or brother ?) of a new ſea,
or ſet, of philoſophers, called Skeptics, not from
their inclination, more than ability, to ſpeculate;
but from their like ability and inclination to lean,
on the whatever prop of their own underſtanding ; to
dout, and confider, and query, and ſuſpend, the
very belief of their own, or any other exiſtence: a
like ready to ſwallow as undouted and unqueſtio
nable, whatever neither did, nor could exiſt. All
this became philoſophy; freedom of thought, and
ſtretch of ſpirit: till philoſophy, in various ſects
and ſenſes, came to ſignify, not the love, but the
hate of wiſdom: not the improvement of faculty or
feeling ; but abſurdity or inſenſibility.
Yet talk we not of confeſſors, when martyrs are
at hand : for zeal is not always according to godlineſ.
To mention but one great Roman maſter; Apicius,
who will hardly yield to any other Epicurean : his
ardent benevolence not onely practiſed the climb of
the hights of pleaſure, above all, in culinary joys;
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but publiſhed, for the edification, even of after ages,
the ſyſtem by which in a very few years he had ſpent
a hundred million of ſeſterces, and, having no more
than a poor ten million left, he thought (and who
will not think?) he made a good apology to the
world, for depriving her at once of his farther com
munication, and taking a final ſwing.
Of the Roman money.
But we cannot deal with any people, unleſs we
underſtand its money. The firſt Roman coin was (I.
xiii. 1. 474). As, ſeemingly from AE, (braſs,) its
metal, originally of a pound-weight: whence its
parts, in weight or equivalence, became twelve equal
portions, named unciae, ounces. War may amplify
(or mutilate) warriors; but contraćts one finew.
From twelve, Ar dwindled to two ounces, to one, to
half an ounce-weight; retaining value. The ſixth
of As, or two ounces, was ſextans, the ſextant; the
fourth or three, quadrant, the quadrant; the third,
or four, triens, the trient; the half, or ſix, ſemit or
ſemiſſis ; two thirds, or eight ounces, bes; three
fourths, or nine, dodrant, the dodrant; five ounces,
quincunx ; ſeven, ſeptunx: ; ten (leſs vouched) decunx: ;
eleven, deunx ; one ounce, uncia. Liquid meaſures,
coinciding, adopted the terms, except the firſt and
laſt ; at and uncia. Cyathur, the cyath or cup, ſup
plied the latter; ſextarius, the ſextary, the former;
being twelve cyaths, the fixth of the Congius : this
between a gallon and nine pints Engliſh. The half
ſextary was hemina, cotyla or cotyle, originally the
hollow of a large joint, as the huckle-bone. In
braſs were alſo coined decuffs, ten aſſes, or denarius,
the denary; viceſis, twenty, and ſo to centuſii, a
hundred ; equal to our ſix ſhillings, and threepence.
In her 484th year, Rome began the coinage of
filver. The loweſt, ſo moſt common ſilver-piece,
was ſºffertius, the ſeſterce, nummus (coin) underſtood;
being two aſſes and a half, equivalent to three half
pence, three half-farthings, Britiſh. A thouſand
Jeffertii, or ſeſtertiuſſes, made one ſºffertium. A car
dinal, or colle&tive, numeral adjećtive may there
fore agree with the latter, or govern (by millia, thou
ſands, underſtood) ſºffertiňm, the contraćtion of ſºfter
tiorum, or its ſubſtitute nummim, for mummorum. Thus
decem ſºffertia, and decem ſºftertiàm, are alike ten
thouſand feſterces: our ſeventy-eight pound, two ſhil
kings and fixpence. But a numeral adverb, being
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colleaive onely of times or repetitions, prefixed to
Jeffertiňm; or, more naturally, underſtanding it;
renders even the thouſand a hundred times as much.
Thus decies ſºftertiám, or rather ſimply decies, im
plies ten hundred thouſand (a thouſand thouſand) or
a million of ſeſterces: making ſeven thouſand eight
hundred and twelve pound, ten ſhillings ſterling.
A double ſeſterce made (no frequent coin) vide
riatus, the vićtoriate, threepence halfpenny farthing;
a double vićtoriate, or four ſeſterces, a denarius or
denary; in conſular times, a ſeventh more ; but,
early in the empire, reduced to equivalence with an
Attic dram: our ſevenpence halfpenny. The tenth
of the denarius was libella, the little pound, ſuppoſed
(tho’ but worth our three farthings) equal to a pound.
of braſs: its half ſºmbella, from ſemilibella ; and e
ven teruncius, the fourth of our three farthings.
Of gold coin, which Rome firſt formed in her
546th year; the Aureus, Golden or Golding, weighed
two ſilver denarii, denariuſſes, or denaries : equal to
no leſs than ſeventeen ſhillings and ſixpence ſterling.
Like the other denary, and about the ſame time, it
ſhrank a ſeventh; and, weighing two drams, re
mained worth our fifteen ſhillings. Under a Nero
began all weight, not before miniſhed, to dwindle.
Domitian, the friend of juſtice, reſtored it to twe
drams; as did again Aurelian.
The very marks and ſtamps muſt be known. As,
abbreviated L. for Libra, a pound; for the double
and half (Semir) L. L. S. The H. S. then for Seſ
terce, ſeems a corruption; whether by neglect, or a
helleniſtic affectation. Quinarius or Wićtoriatus, the
quinary or vićtoriate, the double-ſeſterce, or five-As
piece, was as properly diſtinguiſhed by a V. whether
for Vidoriatus, or half an X; as Denarius, the dena
ry, by a whole X. How rational the marks of other
nations ! And can we continue to mark pounds,
ſhillings, pence and farthings, by 1. s. d. 4. P Feels
not Common-ſenſe
norance aghaſt? indignation, and ſtands not Ig
a -
The firſt Roman coin, A., was ſtamped with pecus,
cattle, ſmall, ſometimes great: whence pecunia, mo
ney. Trace we not thus our ſterling, from /*eerling?
Will not primitive Coinage juſtify Analogy, rather
than follow Legend to Striviling or Stirling P whence
England derived her coin, when the Scots took their
name from Scota, Pharaoh's daughter!
U u u * To
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• To the beaſt ſucceded janus (474), the reverſe a
ſhips beak. The trient, quadrant, and ſextant had,
with due diminution, a boat. Of ſilver, the ſeſ
terce boaſted the twin-Lacons (Caſtor and Pollux);
on the reverſe, Rome with a headpiece or helmet:
who, on the Victoriate, was proud to ſtand behind
a figure of Vićtory. Auguſtus modeſtly, or merri
ly, choſe Capricorn: poor Pan, in Egypt, pan
nicked, by Typhon, into the mongrel of a goat a
bove, and fiſh below; and, by Jove's admiration of
his ingenuity, exalted to a conſtellation : whence
Horace calls him, Fell tyrant of th’ Heſperian wave.
The following emperors joined not even Jove in ad
miration; but placed with propriety their own image
on their coin. The ſilver lent ſtamp to the gold.
Sums roſe by ſºftertium, libra, talentum ; the thou
fand ſeſterces, (p. 7. 16.3); the pound, the talent;
Near relations were Athens and Rome; no wonder
exchange proved at par. The Latin libra, or pound
of filver, was equal to the Greek mina, or mine;
twelve ounces: three pound ſterling. The talent
contained twenty-four, thouſand ſeſterces, or ſix
thouſand latter denaries: one hundred eighty-ſeven
pound, ten ſhillings ſterling. - rus), or the Cyclad Paros, for white; Caryſos (in
XIV. i. 21. A Cretan queen, XII. 3. 499.
XVI. laſt. 22. The balls were bundles, or figures
clad in purple, and ſtuffed ſometimes like the hu
man: thrown to rouſe the rage of the animals, that
were to entertain the public.
-XVIII. i. — Imperial Dian, I. xxxii. 5. 485.
pen. - Bacchus, I. xviii. 5.477.
XXII. iii. 23. Europa, daughter to Agenor, king
of Phenicia, was fiſter, not onely to Cadmus ; but
to Phenix and Cilix, from whom Phenicia and Cili
tia deſcend; as, from herſelf, the greateſt, tho’
ſmalleſt, of the four Continents. Wafted on a Bull
(in a veſſel named the Bull) from Phenicia to Crete,
thro' Neptunes domain, by his brother jupiter; ſhe
proved one of the many vićtims to the violence of
the moſt daring invader, that has profaned man
kind, and diſgraced Mythology. Where was her
ſhrewdneſs, when ſhe choſe a ſoverain of gods and
men, with the ſingle attribute power P Leſs abſurd
ly had ſhe made him exchange departments with
Pluto; who, bating his rape, is a tolerably conſiſ
tent character. Supreme at leaſt in misfortune was
Juno, both ſiſter and conſort; the modeſt and ma
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jeſtic goddeſs of wedloc ; and benign Lucina, or
bringer to light, of honorable progeny. Becauſe
ſhe cannot hold diſhonorable on the ſame level, or
promiſcuouſly ſmile on vice and virtue; nay, per
haps becauſe ſhe will not as much prefer, as ſhe diſ
dains, the former ; fable has pleaſed folly in pain
ting the queen generally as odious, as her infamous
conſort, reſpectable.
XXXIII. viii. 27. Martian: ſacred to Mars, the
imputed father of Romulus and Remus ; who, ex
poſed by their maternal grandfather Amulius, were
taken up by the ſhepherd Fauſtulus, as lucky at leaſt
in his name, as his wife was the reverſe in hers of
Lupa ; which, from a ſhe-wolf, came to ſignify an
excreſcence, an outcaſt, and a proſtitute. Hence
Romuluſſes nurſe, the wolf; like Jupiter's, the
goat.
XXXV. i. 28. Maſylian: of Maſºla, part of the
Numidian, (once Nomadian, from the paſture-tribes;
now Barbary-) coaſt, tremendous for lions; yet fa
med for horſes, which the Maſſylians (or Maſyleans)
rode without bridle or ſaddle. Nor was Numidia leſs
noted for her ſpeckled marble, than Lygdos (in Tau
Eubea) for wavy, and an unburnable texture thence
extracted; than Synnada (in Phrygia) for purple,
or than Taygetus (in Laconia) for his green marble.
XL. x. 30. The ſhow'r Corycian, III. x. 491.
– xii. — The Theatric vails, were awnings uſed
according to the weather.
XLI. iii. — Enyo; the Greek name of Bellona, the
ſiſter, ſome have ſaid the conſort, of Mars: but they
perhaps have not known the family. His better ſelf
was Nerio, or Neriene: his very nerve and mover.
To her, under the name indeed of Neria, (when
Tarpeia had betrayed the Capitol, about 25oo years
ago) does Romuluſſes Herfilia apply for peace with
Tatius; and conciliates even a union with the Sa
bines. Very different was the temper of Bellona,
once Duellona, the inſpirer of duel, the firſt ſort of
battle ; and as ſuch ſtill adored by ſome profound
politicians, who pronounce her the guardian of or
der; more than Bellona or Enyo, who renders whole
nations frantic and furious as herſelf. Soberer and
leſs terrible is indeed a Bacchanalian (479): yet are
they very ſiſters. One carries a thyrſe, the other a
ſcourge. The votaries of Bacchus feared not blood,
and often drew it: the prieſts of Bellona, like thoſe
of
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ef Baal, ſhed their own in daily ſacrifice; pecu
liarly from their ſhoulders and hands.
— laſt. 31. Here water flow'd. From the lakes
in the third region, where ſtood the Amphitheater;
and whence the Martian aqueducts had been made
by Ancus Martius, was water by pipes conveyed in
to the pit, or ſand, for the ſea-fight; and as eaſily
withdrawn, to admit the gladiators, whoſe exhibi
tion followed.
XLII. i. - Leander, diſtreſſed us, xii. 9.498;
but entertains us here.
XLIII. laſt. —. Tethys, the conſort of Ocean;
proves in figure almoſt interchangeable with Thetis,
the Nereid, daughter, as was alſo Galatea, of Nereus,
and Doris, water-deities. Tethys ſeems here as re
ºnce
quiſite to Engliſh harmony, as Thetis is indiſpenſa
ble to the Latin correſpondent. Their near rela
tion
iſ th:
XLIV. vii. 32. Triton, the ſon of Neptune and
ºbes;
Salacia, is the paragon of performers on the Conk,
etſ: or ſea-trumpet, with which he is ſaid to make ſea,
can.) earth, and heaven reſound. Much more was he de
a leſs lighted with the duff (x) of ſpray, than he could
Tau
have been by the duſt of bridges; which ſome, ſure
ºf in ly not water-wiſe, would throw over the glowing
herſ: axel.
cº, — xv. — The Fucine lake, in the territory of the
rºle. Marſians, a brave people near the Apennines, bor
dering on the Samnites, and the Equians. There
uſed Claudius had exhibited his Naumachy or ſea-fight:
as had doutleſs Nero, in thoſe pools (490) duly ſtill ;
ſtagnant and corrupt as his chara&ter.
XLV. i. 32. Myrinus, Triumphus. The Gla
diators were trained, as their name imports, to every
uſe of the ſword; nay, of every deadly weapon, to
which the idea may extend. Not onely, tho' gene
rally, did they fight on foot. They ſometimes re
preſented the Gauls (as Eſedarii) in chariots: and
tho' the cloſeſt attention of the quickeſt eye ſeemed
indiſpenſable to any ſcene where dextrous death was
the mutual object; that no variety might be pre
cluded, and no fear find place ; on certain occaſions
did they play the Andabatae, Andabates, or Gro
pers; and, pulling the helmet over their eyes, fought,
ſtill on equal terms, blindfold. Formed as they
et aſt were to duty, and matched with preciſion; they pro
ther 4 ceded not to buſineſs, till, by a play of arms, or
lºci, foils, toſſing targuets (II. xl.) and the like, well
U u u 2
thck
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named ventilation, they had brought themſelves into
wind. - -
One favorite exerciſe" was that of the Retiarius or
Netman, and Secutor (whom hair-ſplitters would diſ
criminate from the Mirmillo) or Purſuer. The for
mer with a tunic and hat tied, wielded a net to
catch the fiſh painted on the others helmet, and in
his left a trident or three-pronged fork to diſpatch .
him. The fiſh, mailed with a buckler, and armed
with a fauchion, eluding the caſt, became the pur
ſuer; in act to return the compliment. The victor
was rewarded with money, flung or given. When
the ſatisfaction was ample, the (pilus) pile or jave
lin beſtowed, made the gladiator free; the (rudis)
rod, wand, or foil, diſcharged him from farther public
exhibition ; he then turning laniſła, or trainer, of o
thers; but to a freeman gave an abſolute diſcharge
from gladiatorial duty. He hung therefore up his
arms in the temple of Hercules. But the kingly
people had the power of life and death. The vićtor,
durſt not grant the former, if the inverſion of a
leading ſpectator's thumb pronounced it not to be
due. - -
The exhibition of gladiators was firſt a funeral ſa
crifice: blood was ſuppoſed pleaſing, or honorable
to the dead. Captives, or ſtubborn ſlaves, were
the vićtims. M. and D. Brutus, honored their de
ceaſed father with the commencement of gladiato
rial exhibition at Rome, in her 490th year. An-en
tertainment, ſo ſuited to a ferocious people, kindled
into a rage. Every, or no, occaſion, joyous or grie
vous, demanded gladiators: Conſuls and Emperors
muſt keep and produce them. Numberleſs pairs
ſufficed not: companies battled. The Thracians
(true Amazons, with their little round targuets) were
the moſt renowned champions: Spartacus headed a
ſchool, and ſhook the empire. The free became en
ſlaved by licentiouſneſs; debauchee knights and
ſenators would become gladiators. Cicero and Ju
lius began to reſtrain ſo ſhocking an abuſe: Auguſ.
tus made an edićt, prohibiting more than two exhi
bitions in the year; or more than fixty pair at ei
ther. Knights and Fathers he commanded to de
baſe
* Borrowed from a device of Pittacus, the Mityle
mean ſage and captain ; who, in ſingle combat, ſº en
tangled Phryno, his Athenian adverſary.
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baſe themſelves ſo no more; but Nero exhibited
Not women or dwarfs for
numbers of both names.
bid he in the charaćter. Domitian, we ſee thanked
(III. i.) for renewing the prohibition of equeſtrian
debaſement, as well as for commanding buffoons no
more to debaſe the ſtage. Chriſtianity and Conſtan
tine quelled a horror of fix hundred years ſtanding;
and Honorius quaſhed the revival.
B O O K I.
P A R T III.
Of the Roman Senate, and Dignitariet.
HE Roman, like every other people, conſiſted,
from its beginning, of high and low. Ro
mulus, who founded Rome 754 years before the co
ming of a Savior, inſtituted a Senate, or aſſembly
of a hundred; from age and dignity titled Fathers
or Patricians. The union of the Romans and Sa
bines doubled the number. The fifth king, and
elder Tarquin added a century from the plebeians:
Sylla, when dićtator, another. Julius more than
doubled the four hundred. Auguſtus, finding above
a thouſand, reformed the Senate on the plan of an
tiquity. Senators were choſen, by the kings, then
by conſuls, with popular conſent; till the Cenſors
claimed the nomination. The firſt in their roll, was
foremoſt in the Senate; yet ſubordinate to the tem
porary chief magiſtrate : nor could any one attain
the dignity of ſenator, who had not enjoyed ſome
high office. The acceſſional were named Conſcript
(or aſſociated) Fathers : a title that became general
as ſenatorian. The Senate was aſſembled by the
Dićtator, Conſuls, Pretors, Tribunes, Interrex (va
cancy-ruler) Decemvir, or occaſional magiſtrate. A
crier convoked, till an edićt was neceſſary. Forain
ambaſſadors, or provincial magiſtrates, had their
audience without the walls, in the temple of Bello
na; and prodigies demanded the canopy of heaven.
The Senate elſe convened within the city, in a place
conſecrated by the Augurs. The days of meeting
were the Calends, Nones, and Ides (I. xiii. 1.474).
Auguſtus, who wiſhed to eaſe, made Nones no
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meeting-day and, in two Autumnal months (sep
tember and Oétober) diſpenſed with the attendance
of any, beyond the needfull number, for diſpatch of
buſineſs. On the paricidial day, the Ides of March,
that cut off Julius; no ſenate could be held. A
Conſult, or decree, of the Senate, paſſed by majo
rity. Any magiſtrate, tho’ not ſenatorian, might
enter; not vote, and ſo was titled Pedarian ; as
might ſenators’ ſons, when at ſeventeen they had
laid aſide the praetexta; the purple-bordered, for
the white gown; and hung up, to the houſehold gods,
the golden bull or emblematic heart-like ornament
they had till then woren at their breaſt.
One indiſpenſable to a ſenator was a fortune of
8ooooo ſeſterces; which, when money became of
leſs value, and more requeſt, Auguſtus changed to
12ooooo. To the former ſum, making 6250 pound
ſterling; its half added, 3125 (the knightly for
tune) rendered the ſenatorial ſum 93.75.
From the Senate were elected the five great officers
of ſtate : Conſul, Diélator, Pretor, Cenſor, Queſtor.
Rome having expelled the kings in her 245th year,
the chief power devolved on two annual Conſuls;
who ſhould ſupport and check each other, ſhould
know no ſeparate authority, nor joint authority
long; and ſhould have no temptation, but to conſult
the public good.
Eight or ten years after, when the Romans feared a
combination of ſoverains to reſtore the Tarquins; one
abſolute magiſtrate was created for fix months; above
all other authority, and from whom ſhould be no
appeal. Yet on him laid jealouſy two reſtrićtions:
he was not to quit Italy, and was to march on foot.
Either conſul, in his alternate month, was preceded
by twelve Liétors; bearing twelve bundles of Rods,
and an Ax: the Dićtator, by double the number."
The Dićtator, primitively named maſter of the people,
choſe immediately his own lieutenant-general, de
nominated mafter of the horſe. When Rome muſt
again have a continued maſter, Julius became per
petual Dićtator; and, at the expence of his life,
founded the Empire.
Patricians were both Conſuls, till 387, when one |
was admitted from the people. In 389, the Con
ſuls, engroſſed by forain wars, needed aid for the
adminiſtration of domeſtic juſtice: and the Nobility,
deprived of one chief ruler, ſupplied the loſs by a
Pretor. A century paſſed, ere another was added,
for the department of forain affairs. As the Empire
grew,
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grew, Pretors multiplied; and decreaſed with its
decline.
Servius Tullius, the fixth (or laſt but one) king of
Rome, inſtituted the Cenſus, or fiveyearly ſurvey
and valuation of people and property. Kings and
Conſuls did the duty, till 311, that, cares growing
with dominion, two Cenſors ſeemed indiſpenſable.
Their office; quinquennial, as its objećt; was too
permanent, not to alarm. In 420, the former was
reduced to a year and half. Property and condućt
were to be examined and regulated. Revenue was
to riſe on decorum. The new magiſtrates were in
ſpectors of all public works and ways: in reality as
name, the Lords of Polity. Miſdemeanor they pu
niſhed in all ranks, by expulfion, degradation, or
fine : a ſenator they expelled or excluded by omit
ting his name in the roll: they degraded a knight, by
withdrawing his public horſe, if not ring. A plebeian
they could move to a lower claſs or tribe, deprive of
his vote, or ſubjećt to a fine. The double taſk per
formed, anciently in the Forum; after, in the pub
lic Villa, an erection in the field of Mars; the Cen
ſors made an expiatory offering of a ſow, a ſheep, and
a bull, compounded in the name of the ſwovetaurilian
facrifice. From the luſtration, or purifying ſurvey,
aroſe the luftrum, or luſter, a quinquennial period.
An office, that had been long in the hands of ſu
preme power, reverted to it under Julius and his
ſucceſſors: nor did any more defire, or more deſerve,
than we have already ſeen Domitian, the firſt of
imperial cares, in the ſuperintendance of polity.
Subordinate to the Cenſors were the Queſtors : the
Colle&tors and Treaſurers of the revenues, the for
mer had ſettled. About 269, two young men were
choſen. With occaſion, the number augmented.
Queſtors muſt attend Conſuls and Pretors; nay their
ſubſtitutes, Proconſuls, and Propretors. City-Pretors
and forain Pretors claimed City-Queſtors, and fo–
rain Queſtors. Theirs was the care of accommoda
ting Ambaſſadors; and theirs became, under Au
guſtus, the honor of treaſuring the Senates decrees.
Hence aroſe the titles, Queſtor to the Emperor, and
2ueſtor of the Palace ; the latter appointed by Con
ſtantine.
But the people would have its own protećtors. Re
volting in 26o, they were allowed two Tribunes. In
297, the tribes poſſeſſed ten guardians. Redreſſers
augmented grievances; and the bounders of power
uſurped it boundleſs. They had but to forbid and
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command: nor met themſelves final check, but in
imperial authority. -
The people would have magiſtrates ſubordinate to
the Tribunes; to judge inferior cauſes, as well as
to inſpect ſtrućtures, meaſures, weights; and games.
This was indeed demanding hands for the Cenſors,
whoſe heads could not a moment deny them. In
389, two Curule Ediles were added; or ſuch as ſhould
ſenatorially claim an ivory-chair of ſtate, named Cu
rule, as Romulus Quirinus, and the Romans Quiri
tians, from Cures the Sabine city, where Tatius had
reigned, ere he united his people with the Romans:
ſome ſay from Curis, or Quirit, a Sabine ſpear; and
this from an oriental root, implying to dig, break,
bruiſe, or tear. Julius, in 710, named a third pair.
Cereal Ediles: intendants of corn and commerce.
About 292, the Tribunes demanded written laws.
Years elapſed before an embaſſy ſaluted Athens and
other Greek cities; to cull thence every requiſite for
the Roman conſtitution. On the return, it was a
greed that ten principal ſenators ſhould be inveſted
for a year with the enſigns of ſoverain power; but,
one at once, in alternation. A code, from Grece
and Cuſtom, was formed in ten tables; and ratified,
before the Augurs. One year expired made another
expedient. The continued Decemvirs added two ta
bles. Juſtice, far from fenced, was invaded. A third
year beginning without apology, the Decemvirate
proceded, till Appius’ attempt on Wirginia. Her fa
ther thought her death the leſs of evils. The Con
ſuls and Order returned.
Such were the civil dignities of Rome; the ſacred
were the following: Augur, Aruſpex, Pontifex, Fla
men, Salii, Feciales, Epulones, Sodales, Weſtales, Si
byllini.
It is as natural for hope or fear to wiſh weakly
the knowlege, as for reaſon to acquieſce thankfully
in the ignorance, of futurity. Man always knew
enough of moral, may of phyſical conſequence. But,
taſteleſs for what he ſhould know, and thirſting for
what he ſhould not; he often will know what he
cannot. Folly excites impoſture; and impoſture,
duly puniſhed, comes to delude herſelf. Soothſay
ing thus, or divination, ever the recourſe of feeble
minds, deſcended, in various ſhapes and names,
thro’ the Chaldeans, Greeks, and Etrurians, or Tuſ
cans, to the Latins and Romans; with whom it reſ
ted many ages in the venerable ſcience of Augury, or
divination,
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divination, chiefly by bird. This interpreted
Dreams, Oracles, Omens, Portents, from natural
Agents, as Thunder and Lightning; anything heard
or ſeen : the voice or flight of birds, whence auſpi
ce: ; their picking with good or bad appetite; the
appearance of certain beaſts in particular manner:
heifers, aſſes, rams, goats, hares; pregnant bitches,
wolves, foxes, weaſels, mice; and equally all o
thers: little accidents; ſneezing, ſtumbling, ſpilling
ſalt, wine, and ſo forth. Greeks and Romans, no
leſs than Perſians, (perhaps all men) paid the firſt
regard to the quarter of the riſing ſun. The Greeks
looking to the North, held the right the lucky hand;
the Romans to the South, the left. Any Augur
with lituus, that is, crook-headed ſtaff, and mantle,
could take an augury: but the maſter, or eldeſt, a
lone could divine from the awfull ſcenes of nature.
The deciſion lay with the college, which Romulus
compoſed of three, Servius Tullius of four; the Tri
bunes, in 454, of nine ; and Sylla, the Dićtator, in
671, of no fewer than fifteen.
Another college, more peculiarly Tuſcan, was that
of the Aruſpice: ; Engliſhly, Aruſpexes: Altar-ga
zers. Theſe were to ſpell events from the appearance
of the ſacrifices : of the beaſts, bowels, flame, flour
(whence immolation) ſalt, incenſe, wine, water ;
motion, color, ſhape, ſufficience; endleſs. Often
were theſe ſages conſulted, as the former.
A college, more auguſt than either, was that of
the Pontiff, or chief Sacrificers, by Numa inſtituted
four: after augmented, like the augurs, to at leaſt
an equal number. They ſo ſuperintended holy things
(472) that the Emperors claimed the title of Pontifax
Maximus, or Chief Pontif, till Gratian declined
it.
By Numa were alſo appointed the other ſacred col
leges: the Flamines or Flamens; whoſe name hints
inſpiration. Every deity had a Flamen or prieſt; but
the three principal were, the Dial, Martial, and Quiri
mal: thoſe of Jupiter, Mars, and Romulus. Supe
rior ſtill, tho' inferior to the High Pontif, was Rex
Sacrificulus, or Rex Saerorum, the Maſter of the Sa
crifice, or king of holy things.
Numa, Romes ſecond ſoverain, peacefull as his
predeceſſor had been warlike : laid the foundations
of peace by (his idea's of) piety. He wiſhed there
fore to temper where he durſt not diſregard, the moſt
oftenſible parent of the infant ſtate. That ſtate he
kncw muſt follow the marvellous. To cure a plague
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therefore, a little oval buckler dropt from heaven. To
ſecure it, he had on earth eleven made undiſtinguiſh
ably like it: one for each of twelve prieſts, who might,
in red tunic, braud belt, and copper headpiece, very
edifyingly dance (484) in the month of the god; or
oftener, if war muſt be ; to a Jaliar ſong, the king
himſelf had compoſed for the purpoſe. His ſucceſſor
Tullus Hoſtilius, who partook more of Romulus,
paid a martial vow, by doubling the number of the
Salians; who could not be too numerous, every
where as they met more ample than pontifical enter
talnments.
But, if war muſt be made, the Heralds ſhall de
nounce it; from that court of honor and public faith,
named Feciales, Fecials: twenty equitable negocia
tors of peace, and reluctant, tho’ reſolute promulgers
of indiſpenſable war. Pater-patratiºs, the very father
of execution, ſhall in ſtrongeſt form, and apteſt fi
gure, proclaim it on the hoſtile borders.
Very different was the duty of the Epulonel, Epu
loes, Entertainers ; who on critical occaſions, invi
ted the gods themſelves, and brought their images
on beds of ſtate, to ſumptuous feaſts in the reſpective
temples. Theſe inviters, originally three, were a
ſeptemvirate in the time of our bard; and of his
friend the younger Pliny, who in an elegant little
letter ſtill extant, begs Trajan, to make him either
Augur, or Epulo; that ſo he might be entitled to
addreſs the gods for the Emperor, with like public
-
and private fervor. -
Members of every community are Sodales or Com
panions, Fellows: but Sodalis became the title of an
officer, who ſhould ſee the vowed honors duly paid,
to a departed Emperor. Thus Sodales Auguſales,
the Auguſtan fellows, were, a college appointed by
Tiberius, to watch over the returning ſolemnities of
Auguſtus, and of the Julian family.
Nor leſs watchfull muſt Numa’s four Veſtals be, of
the ſacred fire; of the Palladium, Eneas brought
from Troy ; and of their thirty years virginity.
Picked by the High Pontif between the years of fix
and ten, they continued his peculiar care. Novices
the firſt ten years, they officiated the next ten as
prieſteſſes to Veſta, or the holy fire of purity: in the
third decad, they initiated and inſtructed others.
They then regained their liberty, which they natu
rally employed in perſeverance. A Veſtal, that broke
her vow, was buried alive: the contraſt of the ho
nors paid, while ſhe deſerved them. The enſigns
of
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effower were boren before her; a Conſul or a Pretor
gave way to Purity incarnate. A criminal, on the
road to whatever puniſhment; if met accidentally by
a Veſtal, caught innocence and ſafety.
One other ſacred college was that of firſt two, then
ten, then fifteen commiſſioners, for the preſervation
of the Sibylline Oracles. Neglecting nine Sibyls,
take we the tenth, the Cumean or Erythrean, ſtiled
alſo Euboic or Eubean, as traceable from the Italian
Cuma to Chalcis or Cuma in Eubea; and thence to
her native city in Etolia or Meonia. Of her longe
vity Ovid tells us (Met. XIV.), that Apollo, in teſ
timony of his favor to ſo faithfull a votary, and con
ſequently to mankind, granted her wiſh of as many
years, as ſhe could graſp particles of ſand. Of her
Books, the time of their introduction to Rome is diſ
puted by the two Tarquins. The elder, and fifth
king, ſeems the character ſhe would rather chooſe to
deal with. Yet A. Gellius ſays: “ To Tarquin the
proud (and laſt king) came a venerable female, of.
fering nine volumes for three hundred pieces of gold.
The king thought the price too high. She burned
three ; and, for the fix remaining, demanded the
ſame ſum. Tarquin, provoked, again denied it.
She threw three more into the flames. Three, ſays
ſhe, remain; now of threefold value. For them I
make onely the original demand, of three hundred
pieces. The king aſtoniſhed and abaſhed, thankfully
paid the money. The ſeller vaniſhing, he ordered
the three wonderfull volumes to be depoſited in a
ſtone-cheſt, and treaſured as the Oracles of the Ro
man people, in the temple of Capitolian Jove:”
where, with that temple, ſome pronounce them bur
ned the year before Sylla’s dićtature. Suetonius de
clares them preſerved entire, under the baſe of the
Palatine Apollo, in the time of Auguſtus; who
cauſed the genuine to be ſevered from the ſpurious.
Theſe may have been onely copies, as ſome ſay, of
extraćts, collected in Grece, by order of the Senate.
But they retained their veneration, till the days of
Theodoſius; when moſt of the Senate began to own
the light of better-vouched Oracles, with which
however the Sibylline amazingly chimed. Becoming
at leaſt unneceſſary under Honorius, Stilico thought
it pious, or plauſible, to burn the whole remnant of
ſo auguſt an antiquity. No wonder if the poet
Rutilius ; who was prefect of Rome, but a pagan ;
in his Itinerary, doomed Stilico, however panegy
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ricked by Claudian, to all the woes that overtook
him. *
Nor, but with Getic arms, the traitor-foe
Eſſay’d in vain to lay the empire low :
The miſcreant bade audacious flame devour
The fatefull volumes of ſupernal pow'r. -
Deep with the brand Althea's f heart was tor'n:
Poor Niſus’t hair the very warblers mourn.
The ruthleſs parent, and the impious child,
At all unparicide combuſtion ſmil’d.
Yet artleſs them, will juſt mankind explode;
In aw of him, who dar'd th” eternal code.
Mean burners all! cries Stilico the great:
I fir’d the diſtaf, in the hands of fate.
IX. i. 37. Support of things, I. ii. 9.
—— v.–. Command to ſeem, and ſo on ; the form
of the petition. From the combat of the Horatians
and Curiatians, three brothers againſt three brothers;
on which, to ſave both armies, the ſuperiority, of
Rome or Alba, was to turn ; and which eſtabliſhed
Rome, in her 83 year, under her third king Tullus
Hoſtilius; on the demolition of the rival city: from
that great event, great in its very hiſtorians, eſpe
cially Livy; whoever poſſeſſed three ſons, was
in honor with the Romans. To ſuch poſſeſſion were
privileges annexed; transferable even to imputed pa
ternity: an imperial indulgence, that took occa
fional place, from the death of Druſus, the ſon of
Livia Druſilla; to whom Pedo's Threnody is yet
extant.
XII. xviii. 38. Attended by a knight his own: the
happy purchace of friendſhip. Knights, a middle
order, between Patricians and Plebeians, were alſo
| of three ſorts: by birth, and a fortune of four hun
dred thouſand ſeſterces: 3125 p.ſ. (pound ſterling):
by the right of ſerving on horſebac, a horſe and a
ring being allowed the knight, from the public: by
imperial favor, as in the caſe of our poet; entitling
to a place in one of the fourteen equeſtrian (or knight
ly) rows of the Amphitheater. -
-— xx. —. The Saturnalian founces: the humors
of the high feſtival, celebrated in the eighteth book.
XIII.
* General to Theodoſius, he acquired glory. Under
Honorius, he aſpired to empire; andfell, with all hit,
a ſacrifice to ambition, in 408.
t II, xi. 1. 491. 1 II. xii. 3, 409.
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XIII. viii. 39. The Capitols purlews, I. xvi. 4.
476.
— pen. —. Her Gorgon, I. viii. 4.473.
XIV. laſt. —. Caſtalian, I. i. z. 47.o.
XV. pen. 40. The double boon. Etruſcus, in re
legation, was attended by his ſon; whoſe piety and
prayer, obtained the wiſhed recall.
XVI. pen. —. This envoy of Sardaan ſkies. The
dove (ſweet meſſenger of grace!) promiſed thus to
Aretulla; from our poet's ingenuity, and the empe
ror's clemency; her brother's return from Sardinia,
held then a rigorous ſcene of baniſhment.
XVII. ii. —. This bird a Welius vow’d. Vows
were the contraćts of ardor with heaven. As the ob
jećt appeared, to the votary, important; the vićtim,
or ranſom, was to be adapted. Nor ſeemed any
more meritorious than the bird, who, having (by
happy alarm) ſaved the Capitol, was not onely pro
nounced (by Virgil) more ſagacious than the dog; but
was venerated as a guardian of the empire. The
Sarmatic war (I. xvi. 476.) being completed in eight
months, the loyal Velius Priſcus cauſed eight em
blematic coins to drop from the bowels (a part ſacred
in augury) of a filver-gooſe, ſaid to have been ſuſ.
pended at the ſtatue of Mars.
XVIII. vi. 41. Hail their lord: Domitian. That
fiſhes can be tamed, is known, to naturaliſts ancient
and modern. Elian, Oppian, Atheneus, Varro,
diſpenſe their various light. The miracle is a poetic
apologue.
– pen. —. A ſimple diſk. An innocent, as
unhooking, entertainment.
XX. ii. 42. Offspring; by Domitia. The em
peror's niece Julia, gone to the ſhades, is here ſup
poſed to borrow the diſtaf, in order to ſpin the golden
(or happy) threds for the babe from Phrixus' flece.
II. xii. 9. 493. But long ſhe did not ſpin : poets
are not always prophets.
XXI. v. --. Bootes: the ploughman of the ſky.
Helice, the Greater Bear, I. xvii. 5. 476.
XXII. iii. —. Lygdos, II. xxxv. 1.
– v. 43. The Acidalian knot. The Ceſtus, or
belt, of Venus ; which her lover had well placed in
the hand of Julia: whoever was ſmitten with it,
became enamored of the ſmiter. Venus loves the
title of Acidalian, from Acidalus, a Beotian fountain,
at Orchomenus or Orchomenum; where the Graces had
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a celebrated temple, and whither the Thebans had the
honor of bringing tribute. Some have thought them
daughters of Bacchus and Venus. Two oracles of
divine genealogy, pronounce them the offspring of
Jove; and Heſiod ſays, of Eurynome, daughter of
Ocean; but Orpheus, of Autonoe, the daughter to
Cadmus and Harmonia. Antimachus, the Colo
phonian bard, who proves, to Plutarch's ſatisfaction,
that Homer was his townſman, declares them daugh
ters of the Sun and Egle, whom we admired (491)
with the two other Heſperides. Variouſly are them
ſelves alſo named. Heſiod and Orpheus, their ar
dent votaries, become (no modern) duelliſts for the
ſmiles of Aglaia, the ſweets of Euphroſyne, the ſpi
rit of our (470) Thalia. Aglaia, called away, ſends
her friend Paſthea; more perhaps a heavenly, but
leſs an earthly Grace. Yet ſay we not with the
Greek ſatyriſt:
Nor Faith, great goddeſs! now, nor Wiſdom ſtand:
The Charities, my friend, have left the land.
For naked Grace, however, we may ſay; that ſhe,
like Truth and Lavinia,
Needs not the forain aid of ornament ;
But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the moſº.
Their very number, nay, their names, have been
almoſt as much diſputed as their parentage. But,
as genealogy is not every one's talent; ſo many talk
of the Graces, who have never ſeen them, never in
deed heard their names. Nor can it be denied, that
the Siſters are ſhy to all, who do not ſacrifice at the
altar of Orobomenus.
Three is Mythology's, and perhaps mankind's fa
vorite odd number: as the ſmalleſt, that can conſtitute
plurality, variety, or gradation. Three are therefore
alſo the Antipodes of the Graces: the daughters of
Acheron and Night; jarring ſiſters, who ſtill agree
in envy, hatred, and malice, and in all uncharitable
neſ. The Greeks name them well Erinnyes, or i
ronically Eumenides ; the Wranglers, or the well-in
clined — to wrangle and to rage. Oft, alas! are
ſeen and felt, Megera, Tiftphone, and Aleão; well
marked by their ſnakes, ſcourges, and torches of
yew: a tree to them, for every reaſon ſacred. Not,
that they need its aid, to ſhoot, whether privily or
openly, at him who is true ºf heart; or its eſſence,
to cnvenom their communication. Their words are
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ſpears and arrows, and their tongue a ſharp ſword: the
poiſºn of aſps is under their lips, and the way of truth
have they not known.
Other three ſiſters however are awfully at hand.
Inexorable as they are, with reluctance do they ſend
back the three celeſtials, who never indeed hurry,
out of a world that ſo much needs them. Nay, with
ſome reluctance do they congratulate that poor world,
when the three infernals precipitate themſelves (as
they always more or leſs do) into the ſtate they have
ſo long enjoyed by anticipation. The progeny of
Jupiter and Themis, of Power and Order, are Clotho,
Lacheſs, and Atropos, grooped by the Latins, in the
word Parcae; as portioning (rather than ſºaring) hu
man life, according to the old comprehenſive line:
Clotho colum retinet, Lacheſs met, et Atropos occat.:
Holds Clotho, ſpins Lacheſis, Atropos cuts.
Or in a diſtic:
Sage Clotho holds, juſt Lacheſis extends :
Dred Atropos the ſtamination ends.
With the three ſiſters laſt mentioned, are three bro
thers cloſely connected: Minos, Rhadamanthus, and
Eacus, ſons of Jupiter by Europa. Some call the
mother of the laſt, Egina : a name, ſays Ovid, he
gave his kingdom, before Enopia. When a plague
had deſolated Fgina, the ſame poet tells us, ſuch
weight had the juſt king's prayers with Jove; that
ants ſtarted into an induſtrious people, whom Eacus
thence named Myrmidons. The ſecond was king of
Lycia. The firſt we already know a little (II. xii. 3.
499); nor are quite ſtrangers to his juſtice, were it
but in the inſtance of his keel-haling Scylla; who,
from pure love to Minos, had betrayed to him her
father and his kingdom. Juſt lawgivers were all
three, on earth. No leſs juſt Mythology made them
judges of the after ſtate. Minos was incomparably
chief. Eacus, according to Plato, became judge of
the Europeans; Rhadamanthus, of the Aſiatics.
Of the ſame parents with the Fates, is another
groop of fiſters, whom we have ſeen (477) atten
ding Aurora: even Eunomia, Dice, and Irene; Or
der, Juſtice, and Peace. They were born, ſays Or
pheus, in the ſpring; and fail not to bring good
fruits to thoſe, but thoſe onely, who cultivate, while
they may, ſo momentous as momentary viſitants.
The Heſperides (491) have charmed us with a higher
charmer: II. vi. 4. ,The Gorgon; (473), and Harpies
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(495); Cerberus and Geryon (503, 504), we know. We
have not forgot the threefold nature either of Apoll,
(485) or of his Siffer; much leſs, the peculiar regard to
the trinal number, in the celebration of the Secular
Games; and ſtill leſs, the thrice three(470) our glory and
joy. No need is then to ſwell ſo obvious recollection, e
ven by Neſtor's hyperbolic three centuries, which rea
ſonable computation brings down to thrice three tens.
The cauſe of ſuch preference has been already glimp
ſed: nor can anything be more natural, than to com
bine extremes by a middle; without which neither ex
tremes nor middle could have meaning; and without
which nothing could begin, continue, and end. But,
tho' Fools will ruſh, where Angel, fear to trea’; let not
our juſt reverence deny us the ſublimation of the
ſubječt, in the Trinal Union, which, without be
ginning or end, conſtitutes continuance. While the
rational and the learned find happineſs as well as
honor in the humility of adoration; knowing them
ſelves empowered to vindicate, at once the doćtrine
and its vehicles; they muſt pity, where they cannot
prevent, the modern Democritans; who dazzle out
their own dim eyes, or thoſe of each other; and
bark with as much ſhrewdneſs at myſtery, as does a
poor dog at the moon. Yet had that half-reaſoning
animal half the powers, that ſeem much too ſcanty
for partition; he would be much too wiſe to attack
either Context or Manuſcript, that pronounces:
There are TH RE E, who bear record in Heaven, the
Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghoſt; and theſe Three
are ONE. And there are Three, that bear witneſ; on
Earth; the Spirit, the Water, and the Blood: and theſe
Three agree in One.
That other odd numbers are as generally choſen,
as the cauſe is generally unknown; whoever thinks,
will perceive. Whether the five Senſes ſought their
objects or not, quinquennial have we ſeen all the
great feſtivals and games, with the very exerciſes em
ployed in their celebration. The ſmaller were tri
ennial or annual; but the number, fike the neceſſi
ty, odd. The ſame has been obſerved of the five or
three acts of dramatic compoſition: for which ſome
writers have feebly attempted to account. But va
rious reaſon may be traced, beſide the adjuſting of
cycles, for the hebdomadal number; or for ſevens
being in the natural, as well as Jewiſh, and Chriſtian
world, the preferable collečtive of days. Life can thus
count but a few weeks of years; and, by weeks of
Ar years,
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years, was Daniel’s prophecy fulfilled. Seven be
came the indefinite for ſtars, and forgiveneſſes brigh
ter than ſtars; ſo ſweetly and ſublimely multiplied, in
Jeventy times ſeven.
Anticipation has long ago hinted, that even num
bers are as much founded in nature, as odd. Two
make ſymmetry, without variety: and every even
number but repeats two; as all numbers one, or
wholes parts. Three, and thence any ſmall odd
number, make ſymmetry and variety, without con
fuſion. The eye has but to open on a fine ſtrućture; *
and the fineſt of all ſtructures, the frame of man. º
The dual was before the plural, as the ſingular be
fore the dual number. Like attention to all three
therefore, have ſome languages; particularly the
Greek. Much attention indeed has every language,
and ours more than ſome of her ſiſters, to dual as
well as plural propriety. Whether, with its two an
ſwers, is peculiarly dual; which, interrogative or
indefinite, belongs to the plural number: nor does
common-ſenſe fail, which ſhould induce common puri
ty, (if theſe be not claſhing terms,) to allow the com
parative its duality, the ſuperlative its plurality, of
cbjećts. Examples ſtart: Whether of the two P
Which of the three? Whether is better? Which is
beft P. To return however from no forain ſpeculation:
in every ſenſe antecedent to the ſmalleſt variety, is a
pair, an alternative, a contraſt; and thence the com
pariſon already ſettled: former and latter, firſt or laſt;
both, not all. Next to a brace is a ſquare ; in right
lines, what a circle is in curve: phalanx-like, the
ſtrong and perfect figure. No figures being ſo near,
becauſe none ſo oppoſite, we inſtantaneouſly taſte the
eaſy ſtrength of Horaces,
He now demoliſhes, and now he rears:
The vami/ht ſquare a circling form appearſ.
Nor are we leſs qualified to admire his friend Virgil
pronouncing, Alternation glad the Nine ; Th’ unequal
number gives the God a joy. If the ſquare and circle be
thus allied, much cloſer is their connexion with cog
nate figures. What has been ſaid therefore of either,
derogates no more from the triangle, than from the
conic fe&tions. Lines and numbers ſpeak reaſon to
the ſenſes: their harmony, as variety, is conſtant
and interchangeable. Tho' we can colle&t at will,
in odd or even numbers, in twos or threes, ſixes and
ſevens, and ſo forth ; ſets, even indefinite, are na
turally even. Thus the Greek myriad, the Latin
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fix hundred, the French peculiar thouſand milliaſº,
the Engliſh twenty, forty, fifty, a hundred, a thouſand,
ten thouſand, a million ; as in twenty caſes, a million
of examples. So we count by dozens and ſcores, ra
ther than by elevens or nineteens. After the brace or
alternative, Nature ſeems, for ſets, to love the ſquare
next to the dozen. Thus the cardinal points and
cardinal virtues, the ſeaſons, the elements; the
four monarchies, the four laſt things, which the
French call the four ends of man; thus the twelve
months and the twelve ſigns; the twelve tribes, the
Fºlº the twelve Ceſars (of whom Domi
tian is the laſt), the twelve" Judges of England, the
laws of the twelve tables, the twelve labors of Her
cules, the twelve books of the Eneid, the twice twelve
-
of the Iliad: in regard probably to which models,
Milton altered the diviſion of his maſterpiece, from
ten books, to twelve. But ſufficience determines
reaſon. One, two, three, four, or five, may be
preferable, to more ; as is, all elſe alike, the ſmal
ler, eſpecially in books, to the greater number. Pro
priety therefore ſettled the five books of Moſes, no
leſs than the ten Commandments; as it fixed the
bleſſed brace of the Old and New Teſtaments.
Our language indeed prefers, as do few others,
the general colle&tive dozen to ten, unleſs in money
matters; as in all preciſe caſes, the decadal or deci
mal is Natures diviſion of number, or rather her re
newer of collection and calculation. Nor is it quit
ting Nature, to glance at Arithmetic; the teſt of Rea
ſon, and guard of Juſtice: that wonderous as fami
liar Power, who has her combinations and progreſ
ſions, of odd and even numbers, like the right line
and the curve, light and ſhade, reſt and motion, ſo
beautifully blended; or, like the viciſſitudes and va
rieties of immortal friends ; ſo ſupporting and re
lieving each other; that theſe without thoſe could not
be made perfect. -
Scarce therefore to hint how much that ſcience
depends on binals, decimals, ſquares, and cubes :
this article were almoſt as defective without the Py
thagoric Tetrađys, or Quaternion; as were Trigo
nometry, without the Pythagoric Theorem. To o
mit either would deſerve, rather than ſpeak, a five
years filence. All things, ſaid the Samian, depend
on number and proportion. The principles or ele
* Fifteen guard and open the Laws of Caledonia; as
did the Fifteen Sages, thoſe of the Sibyl.
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ments of all are, one and two: in that, the power
of form; in this, of matter. Of univerſal number,
the power is ten: ſo far fimple, thence recommen
cing. Often the eſſence lies in four: for the ſum
of the firſt four digits (1, 2, 3, 4) is ten. By pro
greſſion therefore from unit, all number lies in ten :
by power, in four.
Plutarch, on Plato's Timeus, demonſtrates the qua
ternion to be four nines; thirty-ſix compriſing the
four firſt, both odd and even numbers; or the eight
firſt numbers, in their alternation:
1 3 5 7
2 4 6 8
3 7 11 15 = 36.
But the Pythagoreans ſwore by the Tetrađys -
Na; ex rº, äuirie: Jux; ratzºrra Tiréantúr.
an awfull (nor undiſputed) adjuration, in the be
ginning of the Golden Verſes. An unknown hand
has paraphraſed thus:
Firſt, the great Gods thine humble rev'rence claim:
Uſe, with religious aw, their ſacred Name.
Aſſur'd they view thy ways, let nought controul
The oath thou once haſt bound upon thy ſoul.
By the Quaternion, ſays Ariſtotle, the Pythago
reans ſwore, four being the inſtruments of judge
ment; or, as another ſtiles them, the critical pow
ers: underſtanding, knowlege, opinion, ſenſe. Hie
rocles however apprehends, that Pythagoras ment by
the holy Word, the Deity, a quaternion; which Sel
den finds it, in the four letters mn jehovah.
—sammº ºm
B O O K. I.
A P P E N D I X.
II. iii. 46. HE Peſan, I. xxvi. 1. 482. -
III.iii. 47. Permeſis: the colle&tive of Permºſus,
H. i. 2, 47.o.
IV. i. 47. Cato, the Cenſor, might here be ſup
poſed; did not the epithet ſuit onely Cato the Stoic.
The former, inviting in himſelf, was invited by honors.
Superlative ſenator, conſul, commander; having ſub
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dued Sardinia, he there, at an advanced age, ſubdu
ed, by the aid of Ennius, alſo the Greek language.
He repented not long, what he could amend; but
did repent, ſhorter or longer, that he had paſſed an
idle day; that he had gone by water, when he could have
walked; and that he had diſcloſed a ſecret, even to the
partner of his boſom. His two ſons proved worthy of
their father.
Marcus, if not Porcius, emulated the virtues, not
the temper, of his great grandfather. The conſul
ſhip denied his ſollicitation. The rigor of his cha
raēter, however extolled, made an oddity of his not
diſliking wine. He envied, therefore hated, Ceſar.
The Pompeian remnant, from Pharſalia, he led,
thro’ the deſarts, to Juba, king of Numidia. In
defence of Utica, beaten by C. Scipio, he fell a mar
tyr to the meanneſs of pride.
- ii. - Fabricius, at the tail of the plough,
when not at the head of the army; gave Pyrrhus, for
the offer of the ſecond place in Epirus, a modeſt
hint: Were I to join thee, thou wouldſ ſuffer with my
country. Thy people would make me king. When Pyr
rhus' phyſician came, with the propoſal of poiſoning
his maſter; the Roman returned him in chains, to
the king; who did the conſul alſo this juſtice: Sooner
will the ſun quit his courſe, than Fabricius his integrity 2
VI. iii. 48. Thy late abode, built (I. xiii. 1. 474.)
by Numa. The new temple, begun by Domitian,
was completed by Nerva; and farther adorned by
Trajan. In the Forum, or market-place, were the
people aſſembled, the courts held, harangues deli
vered from the Roſºrum, or beaked pulpit; and all
public buſineſs was tranſačted. Julius made a ſecond,
Auguſtus a third, and Nerva a fourth, named the
tranſitory Forum, to humor the tranſitions or paſſa
ges of Janus.
VIII. iv. 49. Iw /ēreme repoſe: untrampled, as un
frozen.
-
IX. iv. — Exiles: patrons ſo ſeemed, when de
prived of certain ſucceſſional or paramount rights, o
vertheir freedmen; or expoſed to the malice of thoſe,
who owed them liberty and wealth.
XI. iii. 50. Laomedontian ſtore: 487. v. Siffer,
Juno: vi. Daughter, Pallas; ſolely from the head of
Jove: vii. And thou, Janus; who ſaweſt Nerva, a
third time Conſul, eleēted Emperor.
XII. iv. 51. Creſus we ſaw (509) with Solon. Numa,
Camillus, Fabricius, Brutus, Sylla, Craſſus, Cato,
Pompey,

524. C O M M
Pompey, and julius, we occaſionally meet : nor are
they ſtrangers, to whoever has converſed with Hero
dotus, Juſtin, Salluſt, Livy, Valerius Maximus,
Plutarch; or with ſome leſs diſtinguiſhed hiſtorians.
XIII. ix. 52. Serian. The Seres were Scythians
of Cathaia (now Eaſt Tartary) north from the Sinen
fian (now the Chineſe) empire; and perhaps the firſt
cultivators of the filkworm.
XIV. iii. — Perdant gold : tinged with the glow
of Scythian emeralds.
x. — The Phrygian youth: Ganymede, Joves
cupbearer; carried from Mount Ida, or its neigh
borhood, in Phrygia, by Jupiter in the form of an
eagle; and occaſionally changed into one, in order
to bear (II. xxi.) Jove in his turn. No emblem
could Mythology have found in animal nature, ſo pro
per as the king or queen of birds, to exhibit ſtrength,
pervaſion, intuition, dignity; whether in the ſource
of their perfection, or in the untainted vigor of its
C O M M E N T on M A R T I A L.
B O
Ep 1s. 1. 8. p. 53. A Trident : 515.
EP I G. I.I. i. 54. Thraſea, or Thraſeas, a
Stoic philoſopher; who, by Nero, doomed to dy,
repreſſed the tears of his friends; ſtretched his arm
for inciſion, and, ſprinkling the blood around, ſaid:
A libation to jove the deliverer / His firmneſs was
founded on public and private virtue.
No reſemblance bore he, but in name, to Thra
ſeas or Thraſius, the ſoothſayer; who, when Egypt
was periſhing with thirſt, thought to gratify her ſo
verain, with the prognoſtic, that Heaven could be
melted, onely by the ſacrifice of a ſtranger. Buſiris,
aſking his country, found him one ; and pronoun
ced: Thou ſhall give rain to Egypt. The king met
juſtice in his turn. Hercules, paſſing thro’ his land,
was likewiſe devoted to the altar. The heroe de
ſtroyed the tyrant, his ſon, and his ſacrificers.
VI.ii. 55. Anio, or Anien, now Teverone, was epi
theted heary; from the whitening of the caſcade, whe
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emanation; the human ſoul. Neither violence there
fore, nor violation is offered ; when reaſon draws
the needfull increaſe of light, from the very fountain.
Truft ye, in the Lord, for ever; for, in the Lord je
hovah, is everlaſting * ſtrength: and everlaſting be
nignity. Thee, too, if thou walk upright before him,
he will make young and luffy, as an eagle. Bleſſed are
the pure in heart : for they ſhall ſee God. With an
eagles eye, by mere Natures light, Tully deſcried
Ganymede, the perennial youth, who crowns the
cup of gladneſs, as of innocence; and the virtuous
ſoul, the ceaſeleſs obječt of her Father's love: a
beam of that Wiſdom, who was with Him from the
beginning ; and who can never be at home, but with
Him: for in His preſence is the fullneſs of joy, and at
His right-hand are pleaſures for evermore.
* Or, the rock of ages.
O K II.
ther literally or figuratively ſulfureous: which, ador
ning Tibur (now Tivoli), at the fixteenth or ſeven
teenth ſtone, where Hercules had a temple; carries
three lakes into the Tiber, called alſo for ſome ſuch
reaſon Albula. For whatever reaſon, the air of Tibur
was ſaid to whiten ivory. A Greek city ſhe was,
having been founded by Tiburtus, with his brothers
Catillus and Corus; ſons of the hapleſs Amphia
raus and mercenary Eriphyle. Fatal necklace! not
onely to them ; but to their ſon Alcmeon, and to
Alpheſibea’s two brothers; nor leſs to the peace of
Achelous' (505) daughter, Callirrhoe.
Between the third and fourth ſtone from Auguſta,
the noble appellation of any capital, yet peculiar to
the miſtreſs of the world; ſtood the villa of Regu
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lus, an eminent pleader before Centumviri, or the
Hundred Judges; who were indeed five more: three
for each of the thirty five diſtrićts. In the temple
of Julius, were held the four Courts, of which the
younger
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younger Pliny (Epiſt. v. 21. vi. 33.) continues an
ornament. The eſcape of Regulus, had deeply
ſtruck his friend; who ſpeaks his double gratitude,
in the double celebration. The preſent therefore of
Epig. VIII. however pleafing, muſt be ſtill leſs ac
ceptable than the two preceding, or than that which
follows.
Subura (490) a noted market (like London's Co
vent-garden) leading from the Forum to the Preneſ
time Way, produced the particulars. Chios (now
Scio, turkiſhly Saches) was not more famous for
maſtic, and clay, that vied with the Samian or Leſ
bian; than for figs and wine, of a pleaſant poinan
cy. This iland, one of the nobleſt in the Egean,
fituate off Ionia, enjoyed the neighborhood of Ery
thrae and Cuma, both ſacred (519) to the Sibyl :
the latter the head of the thirty Eolian cities. South
from Cuma lay (and lies) Smyrna, about this time,
conſecrated one of the ſeven Churches; nor leſs re
nowned in paganiſm ſeveral centuries before the Si
byl, for the birth of Homer, ſtiled from the Smyr
nean river Meles, Meleſ genes: an honor however,
as claimed by Antimachus, allowed by Plutarch, to
Colophon; who cannot be denied at leaſt her vici
nity to Cayſter, majeſtic in his ſwans. Wherever
Homer was born, his mother’s birthplace was the
rocky Ios, an Egean Sporad (or fraggler) where the
bard, on his way from Samos to Athens, ſuddenly
taken, died. Oppoſite Chios, ſtood Clazomenae
proud (510) of her Anaxagoras; as, between Ery
thrae and Colophon, Teos or Teios, the Ionian port,
and undouted parent of Sappho’s poetic friend E
rinna; while Anacreon is diſputed by the Paphla
gonian Teium.
X. i. 57. Lev’rets . I. ii. 26.
XIII. i. 58. Phlegrean triumphs were thoſe of
Hercules, near Phlegra or Pallene in Macedon;
where he ſubdued poetic giants, barbarians. Mines
of ſulfur, occaſionally ſhocking that country, e
mitted eaſy bolts for fulmination. Lyeus’ pomp (477)
we ſaw. Stella need fear no rival, unleſs our bard,
in the magnificence or delicacy of compliment.
With Hermus, who rolls his gold, thro’ Meonia or
Lydia, to Smyrna; we are almoſt as well acquainted,
as with his neighbor (487) Pađolus; or with Tagus,
the glory of Spain, who boaſted Luſitania, (now
Portugal) her weſtern region. -
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— xiv. — The large token was a little globular
box, containing the name of the prize, to which the
catcher was entitled: a ſtag, horſe, houſe, or what
ever. Safe was thus the moſt delicate bird, or aught
elſe, from ſcramble.
XIV. i. — The ſeeds mareen : ſea-horſes or dol
phins; tho’ the original admit various reading. Sa
cred are they to Apollo, who gave them better ears,
than to Midas. Herodotus, the father of hiſtory,
treats us with the following. Periander, king of
Corinth, and one of the ſeven coeval ſages of
Grece, about 600 years before the Savior of man
kind; held in peculiar favor Arion of Methymna,
the city next to Mitylene, the capital of Leſbos, the
ſecond ile of the Egean, and ſeventh of the Mediter
ranean; once miſtreſs of the Troad, and parent of
Sappho ; as ever famed for corn, wine, and women.
Arion, maſter of the lyre, and of lyric poetry, ob
tained his patron’s permiſſion to carry his talents to
Italy. There his fame ſoon made his fortune, which
he had now reſolved to bring home. For every rea
ſon he choſe a Corinthian bottom, with Corinthian
navigators. Theſe no ſooner ſaw their prize, than
they were unanimous to make it good. “My all
(ſaid Arion) is at your ſervice: ye ſurely will ſpare my
life.’ ‘For thy life we have no more occaſion, than
for thy company: thou muſt onely ſtep over into the
ſea.” He begged leave to play one farwel-tune: a
grace they indulged to their own curioſity. Arion
tuned his loudeſt and moſt plaintive Orthian: an ap
peal perhaps to Diana, the patroneſs of integrity.
This performed; in his uſual ſuccinét attire, he
ſprang into the ocean. Poor Gellius had not heard
of Jonah; and ſo might well cry out: O miracle of
piety / A dolphin offered his back to the melodiſt,
and carried him ſafe to Tenarus,” in Laconia. A
rion, ſending every gratefull ſtrain with his deliverer;
proceded, thro’ the Peloponneſe, to Periander. The
king diſbelieved his ſenſes; but commanded his a
mazement, till the ſhip arrived at Corinth. Per
haps without diſſimulation, he enquired anxiouſly of
the crew, what they had heard of Arion. One was
the anſwer, that Italy reſounded with his name, and
- had.
* To this kind (503) port, Mythology ſends, unar
rained, the unfortunate voyager.
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‘had crowned his wiſhes. Arion appeared. His ſhip
mates loſt color and ſpeech; and ſoon probably all
other animation. No wonder if the tale have ſet by
the ears hiſtorians, naturaliſts, and poets; the cre
dulous, incredulous, jocular, and grave. Poſſibility
may have the uſual recourſe, to a paſſing ſhip named
Dolphin ; but ſhe can no more annihilate Arion than
Periander; his expedition and return, than himſelf.
Tenarus might retain her brazen ſtatues, of the dol
phin and his rider; without affording, perhaps with
out poſſeſſing, the means of ſevering truth from fic
tion, or the poſſible from improbability.
The ſong of dying ſwans may be left with mytho
logy: but the grace, attending thoſe majeſtic fowls,
muſt conſecrate them to the god of harmony. Stel
la', pidgeon (XV. i.) not having flown down, cannot
now be compared with Catullus’ ſparrow; and, for
the poet's powers, we muſt take the word of his con
temporaries.
XVIII. ant. 60. Thwackt: I. iii. 22: 8.520.
XX. iii. 61. Tirynthian: Hercules. Well may
Tiryns (near Argi, in the Peloponneſe) be fond to
appropriate ſuch a ſon; who is alſo ſometimes cal
led Theban, from the city of his father Amphitryo.
whether Numa or (XXI. iii.) his goddeſs Egeria, who
ſpeaks a friend in need, and to whom therefore he
reſorted, as to his Minerva and Oracle, were hap
pier in the other, muſt be a hard conjecture. We
know that Herfilia (514) ſaved Rome, as well as
Romulus; and by her ſpirited prudence, effected
with the Sabines that union, which bleſt Rome with
a Numa. We know, more than we own, what all
ſtates, no leſs than individuals, have owed to the
laſt and beft of all God’s works ; who has ever been
the refuge, and refiner, of man ; nor has ever be
come unworthy; but when neglected, or depraved,
by him. Obvious is the excellence of Violantilla
or Ianthis, that Wiolet, who inſpired our poet with
her own ; and refle&ted on her Stella double luſter,
while ſhe improved the felicity of his friends.
XXII. iii. 62. Parthenius : lord of the bed
chamber, ſay ſome; but ſurely privy-counſellor,
to Domitian ; and, like his maſter, a favorite, as
favorer, of the Muſes. Theſe Ladies (470), far
from obſtructing, promote the Charities (520),
who prove the reverſe of ungratefull: nor, while
his ear kept open to the petitions of the diſ
treſſed, was he likely to return any work of Mar
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tial's, ne'er unroll’d. A book was rolled on a pin,
chiefly of cedar, box, or cypreſs; and thence drew
the name of roll, ſcroll, or volume. The extremi
ties of the roller, to which one end of the ſkin or
paper was paſted, were termed, from appearance,
navels. Appended ornamental handles of horn,
wood, or ivory, ſometimes tipped with filver or gold,
were denominated horns. The title was diſtinguiſhed
by rubrics, or red letters. Pummice ſmoothed the
edges, or frontlets, of the ſcroll; and purple often
clothed it. Noronely was the roller, preferably, of
cedar: the oil, of that fragrant wood, was ſometimes
poured on the volume, to preſerve it from worms,
or decay; and ſo became an emblem of immortality.
Porticoes (490) of peculiar repair were thoſe of
(517) Romulus' temple, Pompey's theater; of what
ever erections to Jaſon (493) and Europa (514);
whoſe ſtories were pićtured in the porticoes. Olym
piads (XXV. iv. 508.) and Luffers (517) we can
well diſcriminate. Tho' the former were periods of
four, the latter of five years; Poetry, untied to the
preciſe, ſcruples not to render them interchangeable.
Well might Ovid, of his exile, ſay:
Th’ Olympiad, ſwelling to quinquennial ſpace;
In Scythian wilds, uſurpt the Luffer's place.
The tree (v), the ſºfter, (vi), and Bromius (viii.)
we ſaw 470, 485, 478.
XXVI. 64. The Parthenian gown is not the leſs
pleaſing, that her beauties beam ſo obvious. Jupi
ter could as eaſily be a Spartan ſwan (XI. clxxxii.
2.) as a Cretan (514) bull. Leda we know, almoſt
as well as her ſons (476, 494); and the (viii.) war
rior-borſe, as his rider. To give even the former to
drink, was no ſmall glory for Timavus ; as he poured,
by ſo many channels, thro’ the Forojulian (now Fri
ulian) territory into Adria or the Adriatic, now Gulf
of Penice. The Paphian doves are familiar as their
(520) miſtreſs; or as Paphos, where Cyprus boaſts
her goddeſſes peculiar adoration. Benign had ſhe
fignally been to Pygmalion, whoſe very name im
ports complacence from on high ; and who obtained the
fingle requiſite, animation, for the marble-beauty
he had formed, ſo ſuperior to all others on the iland.
Their offspring Paphus (tunes Ovid) well might name
the ile. Still more noted than Timavus, is the Ca
labrian Galeſus, the wool-ſtapler of Tarentum (now
Taranto) tho' founded by Tharos (or Taros) ſon of
Neptune, refounded by Phalanthus, at the head of
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the Lacedemonian colony, named Parthenias, from
the uncertainty of parentage. Tarteffan (504) Betis,
and the Erythrean (477) ſhore are not more known to
us, than Babylon (489) and Semiramis; Athamas
(496), Phrixus ; Miletus (503, 509), or Tibur.
Amycle (ix), or Amyclae, famed for a purple, next
to that of Tyre; and fituate on the Eurotas, near
Lacedemon, in the South-Eaſt of the Peloponneſe;
was the birthplace of the Twin-Lacons, and one of
the hundred Laconian cities, religiouſly united, un
der the name (from the number) Hecatomb. The
rapnae or Therapne, Theramnae or Theramne, was
another; as early and as ſervent in the worſhip of
Diana, as all Laconia in that of Apollo, whoſe tem
ple ſtood in the richeſt and moſt verdant Amyclean
grove. Lacedemon or Sparta, (now, if any thing,
Miſtra) whoſe glory ſwallowed that of all the other
Peloponneſian cities, derived her ſtrength, as well
as luſter, from the laws of Lycurgus. Faithfull guar
dian to his nephew the young king, he wiſhed to
make Sparta govern. For this purpoſe, he traverſed
not onely Grece, but India and Egypt; to compile
and digeſt that code, which ſhould render Lacedemon
the rival of Athens. From the Athenian lawgivers,
he borrowed ſome inſtitutions; from Minos, more.
When, in Crete, he was digeſting his Code; he con
fidered that nothing could make it go down, but the
pleaſantneſs of the vehicle. He therefore perſwaded
Thaletal, a ſublime civilian, and lyric poet, to ac
company him to Laconia; and, by ſuch aid, con
veying his ſtatutes in lyric melody, (for he gave
none in writing ;) he wrote them on the hearts of a
people, by nature half-trained to war. To inſtil be
times inviolable obedience, and invincible patience;
he commanded parents, not as did afterwards in
Rome a Caligula, to attend their children to arbi
trary execution ; but to bring, as both ſexes did,
their ſons to public chaſtiſement: which he would
neither have enjoined, nor they obeyed, unleſs in
caſes, where violation of duty had made it ſeem indiſ
penſable to aw the general condućt, by particular
example. To render the women inviolable as vigo
rous, he enjoined them alſo exerciſes; that muſt be
confeſſed beyond female ſtrength or delicacy. Many
ages however did Lacedemon diſpute with Athens,
the ſupremacy of Grece; but Athens, gradually re
fining, even from the time of Theſeus (5oo); not till
two centuries after Lycurgus, by the wiſdom of So
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lon, aboliſhing the promiſcuous rigor of Draco, be
came at once intelle&tual and invincible. Mount
Taygetus, which overlooked the whole Peloponneſe,
as well as overhung Lacedemon; in an earthquake,
demoliſhed great part of this city, with Amycle and
her environs. Nor could the pious Twins interpoſe.
Simonides (499) ſupping with Scopas, a rich noble
man of Theſſaly; in the entertainer's panegyric,
for which a ſtipulation had been made, introduced
ſome ornamental compliments to the Brothers. The
patron, provoked, told the bard; the heroes he
praiſed, ſhould pay him. A ſervant whiſpered the
harmoniſt, that two young men waited him without.
Simonides was juſt got out alſo, when the houſe fell,
and cruſhed all in it. On this event Simonides foun
ded his art of Memory, and ſtorehouſe of underſtan
ding. A colony from the Laconian, was the Italian
Amycle; between Caieta (471) and Anxur. The
coloniſts, like many bigots, miſtaking Pythagoras,
or following onely his oddity, for fear of killing ſer
pents, were half-devoured by them; and, as if their
own tranſmigration had left their wits behind, ha
ving received ſeveral falſe alarms, they prohibited
all alarm. Speech may be as bad as filence. It may
be worſe (if aught can be worſe) than idle, to add;
that Amyclae fell a quiet prey.
Parthenius did not long ſurvive his maſter. Other
eminent charaćiers have enjoyed this pretty name;
particularly an elegiac poet of Nice in Bithynia;
by ſome called maſter to Virgil : whom Macrobius
ſhows ſuch ſcholar at leaſt to Parthenius, as to The
ocritus and Homer; in tranſlating literally from him.
So Ovid, who makes what he borrows, more fairly
his own, may have deſerved obligation to the Me
tamorphoſes, nay to the amorous compoſitions of Par
thenius. But theſe, to his Arete; like thoſe of Swl
pitia to Calenus (VIII. ii. 19.) ſublimely conjugal;
have eluded a world, that could not taſte them.
XXVIII. ii. 65. Apollinaris, in his name, ſpeaks
more than Attic (or Athenian) ears ; open as they
doutleſs were to Attic ſalt. Nor could this ly but on.
one ſide (xii.) of the leaf: the ancients left the other
pure. Attic was thus oppoſed to Beotian and Batavian
Yet Cadmus founded Thebes, Amphion turned her
ſtones into harmony, and the Theban Eagle (Pin
dar) hovered over them. Ears, head, heart, hand,
alike, had Epaminondas the Theban. He told not
a ly, even in jeſt: how oppoſite to thoſe, who ſcarce
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tell truth in earneſt! His ſon Stefimbrotus fought
contrary to orders: even vićtory could not ſave
him. Often did the father conſole himſelf by ſay
ing: Think not, I ſhall dy childleſ ; who leave the
battle of Leuctra. There he had completely cruſhed
the Lacedemonian power, in the ſecond year of the
1oz Olympiad; or 383 year of Rome. At Manti
nea, in Arcadia; finding the enemy routed, and
his ſhield ſafe; Pluck out the javelin : I dy joyfully.
From the Batavian predeceſſors of the Belgic Cir
cle (the Dutch and Flemiſh); Auguſtus is ſaid to
have choſen his life-guards: too redouted ſons of
Mars (as fince of Commerce), to worſhip, with e
qual zeal, Minerva.
XXXI. 66. The Formian ſhore: where Formia, or
Formiae, once Hormiae, the ſeat of Antiphates, king
of the Leftrigons, a Campanian port (now Mola)
near Caieta, was founded by Lamus, a Laconian.
— xii. — Preneſe and Tuſculum (now Paleſ.
trina and Fraſcati), Latian towns; the latter twelve,
the former twenty-four miles, Eaſt from Rome; both
claim their founder in Telegonus ; the ſon of U
lyſes and Circe. Hard by Tuſculum, hung Algi
dam (now Rocca del Papa). Tibur (VI. ii.) is now
no more new, than Circe or the Dardan Nurſe (471).
To Marica, by ſome held another name for Circe ;
as conſort to king Faunus, and mother to Latinus;
a grove was ſacred near the Liris (now Garigliano or
Gariglia), which laved Minturnae; and, near For
miae, emptied itſelf into the Tyrrhene or Tuſcan
ſea. Its mouth was ſaid to teen with ſhrimps or
ſquills; one Latin name implying both. Etruria, or
Tuſcany, had alſo the name of Tyrrhenia; from a de
ſcendant, as is ſaid, of Hercules and Omphale : one
Tyrrhenus, whoſe father Atys ſent him, in a time of
ſcarcity, with a colony of Lydians. Theſe, after
hovering long on the Italian coaſt; poſſeſſed them
ſelves of all the country between the Macra (now Ma
gra) and the Tiber. Thuſcia or Tuſcany is ſuppo
fed to have her name, from the ſacrifices and religious
rites, which ſhe diſpenſed to Italy. South-Eaſt, near
Naples, Puteoli, Cumae, and (503) Baiae; cloſe
by the lake Avernus, ſlept the celebrated Lucrine;
now almoſt filled by a mountain three miles round,
that the earthquake of September 19, 1738, threw
into it. Near this, mourn we Herculaneum (482)
ſimilarly loſt. Salmacis (xvii.) was a fountain of
Halicarnaſſus in Caria, ſuppoſed to effeminate the
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bather. Yet impaired it not that city's fourfold
glory; Herodotus and Dionyſius, Heraclitus and
Callimachus: nor probably carried off Mauſolus,
(490) more than Mauſoleum.
XXXIII. v. 69. Spunge Punic, tho' peculiarly ex
cellent, might hint at an anecdote Macrobius (Sat.
II. 4.) has preſerved. Auguſtus had written the
tragedy of Ajax, and on reviſal deſtroyed it. Some
time after, Lucius, a profeſſed tragedy-writer, uſed
the freedom to aſk the emperor, what was become of
his Ajax: He has faln on the point, alas ! ſays the au
thor, of the ſpunge.
XXXIV. iii. — Pandion's towers: 471.
XXXV. ii. — His Phrixean partner. (XI. ccxv.)
The great circle, which obliquely cuts the Equator,
on the two equinoëtial days; and, at the two oppo
fite ſolſtices, touches the Tropics; is named the Zodi
ac, from the animals, whoſe names aſtronomers ow to
the poets, in the duodecimal partition of that line.
At the vernal equinox, on the 22 (if neither the 21
nor 23) of March, the earth enters, tho' the ſun
ſeems to enter, the firſt degree of 1. the Ram (493)
that bore the Golden Flece ; on the like day of April,
2. the Bull (; 14) that carried Europa from Tyre to
Crete: of May, 3. the Twins (476), whom we never
meet without pleaſure: of June, 4. the Crab, or
latinly, Cancer; ſent by Juno, ſays Mythology, to
annoy Hercules, ſlaying the Hydra (505, 507). One
wounded the heel, the other bruiſed the head. The ſun,
from the ſolſticial day; or the day, having reached
its length, ſeems, crab-like, to turn (whence tropic)
and recede into declining, as it roſe; into ſhortening,
as it lengthened. On the 22 then of July, the ſun
enters 5. the Lion (487) ſlain at Cleone of Auguſt,
6. the Wirgin, Erigone, a new acquaintance. Her
father, Icarius, had from Bacchus received a ſkin
bottle of wine; to give the taſte in Attica. Mee
ting peaſants hot with toil or the weather; he opened
his bottle, and drank to them. They greedily did
him more than reaſon; and preſently fell aſleep.
Waking, they drempt their entertainer a poiſoner;
put him, as ſuch, to death ; and caſt the body into
a pit. His faithfull dog, Mera, flew to Erigone ;
and pulled her to the place. The daughter, deli
rious, hung; Mera pined away. Bacchus, the inno
cent cauſe of all, ſqueezed the lady into a grape :
Joves juſtice tranſlated the family. Icarius became
Booles, or the driver of the plough; Erigone, the
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rºti, or ſixth ſign of the Zodiac; and Mera,
deſervedly, the dog-ſtar." The poets make ſome
times the imprudent ſon of Ebalus, coincide in
name too with (Icarus) the ſon of Dedalus; as ano
ther Icarius was father of Penelope. The murderers
fled into Cea, Ceos, or Cos; near the Egean's grea
teſt iland Eubea. In the former reigned Ariſteus,
ſon-in-law to Cadmus. The Ceans received kindly
the ſtrangers. Heaven beamed indignation, in the
rage of the Dogſtar. Fields and fruits parched, and
the living died. The king prayed to his father (A-
pollo), who enjoined atonement by the due vićtims;
and ſupplication to Jupiter for a gale in the dog
days. Duty touched heaven; and, with the dog
ſtar, came the breeze.
September brings the autumnal Equinox, with the
firſt degree of,7. the Ballance: which, diſpenſing light
and darkneſs, equally to mankind; as did the riſing
Ram; better exhibits the propriety of its name, than
perhaps any other of the conſtellations. This re
minds us, that the Ballance is no daughter of My
thology; nor was a fign at all, in the days of Au
guſtus: when that ingenious diſpenſer of terreſtrial
equity received, from the poet he patroniſed, an in
vitation afar to fill the vacant ſpace. The Ballance
could indeed, onely in a Ballancer, or Ballance-hol
der, become a member of the Circle, which profeſ.
ſedly admitted no other than living creatures.
Orion, no matter whoſe ſon, was, as every one
muſt be, his own parent. Tall, as the torrid Zone
is braud, (forty-ſeven degrees'); and deep in the
ſtars, as Atlas his maſter; ſtrong as a tempered com
panion of Diana, and weak as an accompliſhed young
man; he could not but violate the delicacy of the
goddeſs, and provoke every power ſupernal or ſubor
dinate, when he challenged Earth to produce, what
he could not ſubdue. In Chios (525) where we
lately ranged, did Earth, at Diana’s inſtance, ſtart
a little Scorpion, that with his ſting brought the gi
ant to the ground. From Orion thus ſet, riſes, about
the 22 of O&tober, 8. the Scorpion, a fign, like
* Canicula is thus diffinguiſhed from Procyon or An
tecanis, the forerunner of the Dog, and the poetic Le
dapt ; as well as from a ſtar, in the mouth, or on the
Head of the dog. That ſtar is named Sirius, who, ren
aering the heat peculiarly intenſe, is not onely ſubſtituted
for the Dogſfar, but for the Sun himſelf.
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the Ballance, whoſe place he guarded till ſhe came ;
no leſs important to man, nor leſs bounteous of light
to the happy gazer. November brings no new, tho’
no common, friend, in 9. the Sagittary, Archer, or Cen
taur (493) who, teaching Earth to rear the offspring
of Heaven, could not but form a conſtelſation of the
firſt magnitude. December returns, Io. Capricorn ;
whoſe merit we may not have (479, 514) ſufficiently
admired. By Ciceronian light did we dete&t (524)
the beauty of the Wine-pourer, who is judged alike
qualified for, 11. the Water-pourer; commencing with
the fourth week of January. When with, 12. the
Fiſhes, (in February and March,) we ſhall roam the
Equator and Parallels, the Colures and Meridians,
every Zone and either Pole: each night will enrap
ture, with the worlds around us; each day will, in
our own, give us to behold, not onely on the land, the
works of the Lord ; but his wonders in the deep.
C. Manilius addreſſes to Auguſtus, an aſtronomic
poem; in which he mythologically hints the tutelars
of the figns.
The wond’rous Bearer of the Golden Flece,
Points Pallas ſmiling on the arts of Grece.
The Bull owns Paphian, Twins Phebean power:
The Crab, Cyllenian, in ſolſticial hour.
To Jove and Cybele, the Lion yields;
And Ceres calls the Virgin, from the fields.
From Vulcan's art the poliſht Ballance ſprings:
To War's own God the fighting Scorpion clings.
The Hunter and the Horſe Diana own,
While Capricorn a Veſta's care is known.
Joves antipode, a Juno's Wat’rer ſay:
Bland Neptune laughs, as round the fiſhes play.
That Sun, who centers our planetary # ſyſtem; and
demonſtrates many ſimilar ſyſtems in every conſtel
lation; is himſelf the great objećt of reference in
them all, according to the aſtronomic diviſion and
mythologic denomination. Each ſign indeed, as
Macrobius ſhows (Sat. I. xxi.), does but ſymbol, in
its own way, the reſpe&tive powers of the Sun: the
butting Ram, his darting rays; the Bull, his ge
+ Mercury, Panu, the Earth, with the Moon, re
volving alſo round her; Mars ; Jupiter, with his fºur
Satellites; and Saturn, with his five no leſ, needfull At
tendants, beſide his peculiar ring: each moving round
its axis, as well as round the Sun.
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nial energy; the Twins, his alternations of day and
night, ſummer and winter; the Crab, his ſeemingly
retrograde declination ; the Lion, his fervor ; the
Pirgin, with her gleanings, the plenty he produces:
the Ballance, his equal diſpenſations to the globe ;
the Scorpion, his abating and returning vigor; with
his unimagined ſpirit of puniſhing pride: the Sagit
tary, ſhooting upward; his continuing operation,
tho' ſunk, as if beneath himſelf: Capricorn, the
mongrel of a goat and fiſh; his tendency, if ever
fo low, to reaſcend; as well as his influence on land
and water: the Water-pourer, his power of exha
lation, in order to reimpregnate the earth; the
Fiſhes, his equable velocity and ſilent pervaſion of
As the Polar Circles, at
earth, air, and water.
twenty-three degrees and a half from the Poles, bound
the Frigid Zones; ſo do the Tropics, at double the
diſtance from each other, twenty-three and a half on
either ſide the Line, the Torrid Zone. That of the
Crab, whence the Sun appears to deſcend, has been
poetically named the Gate of Men ; that of Capri
corn, for like reaſon, the Gate of the Gods.
The Sun thus, in his ſucceſſive ſeaſons, the ſtri
kingly energetic agent; Mythology ſcarce knew any
other power in the gods of every nation: in Saturn,
Jupiter, Janus, as well as Apollo, Mercury, Bac
chus; in the Egyptian, Orus or Horus ; with Oſi
ris, Apis, Serapis, the ſignificant ox; and Anubis,
the ſagacious dog ; in the Perſian Mithra; the Li
byan Ammon; in Venus' Adonis, or even Cybele's
Attis, and ſo forth. Nor had the goddeſſes any o
ther archetype than the Moon: Cybele, Ops, Juno,
Minerva, Diana, Proſerpina, Ceres; the Egyptian
Iſis, the Syrian and Sidonian Aſtarte or Aſhtaroth;
or, in general, the Queen of Heaven.
In ſuch variety did the ſenſes addreſs Sun and
Moon; being the deities that ſpoke moſt forcibly to
the ſenſes. The other three elements were the next
obječts of adoration. Neptune and Amphitrite,
Ocean and Tethys, Nereus and Doris, and their
families, ruled the waters. Eolus commanded the
winds; and Pluto the ſhades unſeen. Abſtraction
deified the Virtues and Vices: Veneration the He
roes and Heroines. Whatever was loved, or feared,
became worſhipped; and every thing was adored,
(ſays Baſilet) but the true God.
Philoſophy inveſ.
tigating one Author and Ruler of all, ſhowed ſome
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times how much ſhe deſerved, far oftener how much
ſhe needed, Revelation. This alone diſplayed, to
darkling man, the Creator and Governor of the U
niverſe; the inſcrutable and ineffable Source of
Light, Love, and Immortality.
XXXV. viii. — Ity; ; ſon to Tereus, king of
Thrace, and Progne, daughter to Pandion king of
Athens. Ovid gives the horror (Met. VI.) ſtill
mourned by Progne's fiſter, the Attic maid, Philo
mela.
- x. — What a Ravenna / Not the Adri
atic city, but Fauſtinus’ villa, twenty miles from
Rome; and near the Argive (524) Tibur.
XXXVI. i. 7o. 7rebula, thought the ſame with
Mutuſcae: a Sabine town noted for fine air, and fine
cheeſe. Some bring alſo a cone of cheeſe, rather
than a mug of milk (XXXVIII. xl.) from Sarfina,
ſtill more famed for her Plautus, than for her paſ
tures.
XXXVIII. xv — Whoſe ruddy wings her name
have propt: the Phenicopter. The Numidian (xvi.)
was the Turkey: the Phºſant, from Phaſis, the ri
ver of the Colchians; here called impious, perhaps
to ridicule the vulgar motion of Medea (495).
XXXIX. i. 72. The Capenian gate, opening pro
bably towards Capena, a town near Cluſium, in E
truria; alſo named Triumphal, as the receiver of
triumphs; and Fontinal, from its fountains, or aque
dućt, ſhaded with planes, and adorned with ſtatues;
is now the gate of S. Sebaſtian. Alno, now Dachia,
or the river of Appius; flowing, from the Appian
Way, into the Tiber, was ſacred to Cybele, and fre
quented by Cybelians. Near the Capenian gate,
ſtood the Vipſanian portico, (or Hundred Columns)
built by M. Vipſanius Agrippa, ſon-in-law to Au
guſtus.
XLII. xi. 75. Seven giants : the Palatine, Capi
toline, Quirinal, Celian, Eſquiline, Viminal, A
ventine; hills, on which aſcends majeſtic Rome.
From the Aventine and Vatican (two miles) to the
Milvian (or Mulvian) Bridge, deſcended Mount
Janiculus, ſometimes named among the ſeven. F#-
denae was a city prior to Rome; and rival to the up
ſtart ; who roſe to bear her, and all other rivals,
down. Diana's (469, 503) orgies had obječts male
and female.
She ſpared Ariadne (499), no more
than Orion (529); a Veſtal, far leſs than a Helen
(488,
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(488, 5oo). But, knowing by whether ſex the offence
cometh; ſhe is here, and elſewhere, hinted by your
author, ſay his commentators, to have enjoined ſuch
chaſiening of youth at her altar, as did Lycurgus
(527) at Lacedemon : that others might ſee and fear,
and do no more ſo wickedly. Another obječt of com
memorative juſtice, was Anna Peranna or Perenna,
who, after the death of her ſiſter Dido, having fled
to Eneas; fled alſo from Lavinia's jealouſy, into the
Numician fountain; where the pious Eneas could do
no leſs, than commit his perſon to the new Nymph,
in whoſe cuſtody it was found. Others, unſatisfied
with ſo edifying an anecdote, make Anna an old wo
man of Bovillae, a hamlet nigh Rome; at which
hamlet, having bountifully fed the free people in a
ſeceſſion; perhaps that, whence Menenius Agrippa
brought them back by the apologue of The ſtomac and
the members ; Anna was adored at Diana's altar, by
the votaries of perennial life; while Menenius, un
forgiven, was forgot.
-— xvii. — Flaminius’ and Salters’ fam'd way.
In highways the Romans are yet unrivalled : their
Conſuls gloried in the care. Hence not onely the Sal
ters', by which the Sabines brought ſalt to (or from)
Rome; but the Flaminian, Emilian, Appian (I. iii.
27). The firſt went from Rome, thro' Narnia,
(LXVIII. now Narni), on the Nar (now Nera);
over which was thrown, by Pontifex Maximus
(497), an Auguſt bridge-builder, an arch one hun
dred and fifty foot high, and two hundred wide,
joining two tops of Apennine. This was a neigh
bor, worthy of Nomentum ; which Sabine village,
twelve miles from town, boaſted other two tops
(470), when our poet and his retreat enjoyed each o
ther. Thro’ many towns ſtretched the Flaminian,
beſide Spoletum (now Spoleto), and Peruſia (now Pe
rugia); near the lake Thraſymenus, fatal to the great
man, who had continued the road to Ariminum
(now Rimini), on the Rubicon, the ancient boun
dary of Gaul; ſtiled Ciſpadan or Ciſalpine, on this
ſide (towards Rome), as oppoſed to the Tranſpadan
or Tranſalpine, on the other fide the Padu, or Alpf.
If the Roman Gown (LXXVI. ii.) gave name to
both Ciſpadan and Tranſpadan (now Lombardy and
Romagna); Braccae or Bracchae; Looſe Breeches,
trouſers, galligaſkins, or other ſhaggy lower gar
ment; might diſcriminate the Narbonenfian pro
vince, (now Provence) ; as did long hair, the reſt of
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Gaul (now France). The differing vowel of Comum
(now Como) denies her the parent of Gallia Comata ;
tho' that city cannot be denied her younger Pliny,
her lake Larius, or her Gauliſh origin. Much of
the Gowned Gaul (including Ravenna, Mutina, *
now Modena, and other cities) became Flaminian ;
as far probably as Bononia, now Bologna, two hun
dred miles north-weſt of Rome.
The Emilian was condućted, by L. Emilius Le
pidus, thro’ the Ciſpadan: from Ariminum to A
quileia or Aquilegia, twelve miles up the Timave,
(XXVI. viii.) near the maritime Altinum; to which
a traveller of taſte (LXXVII. LXXVIII.) pays pe
culiar compliment; as well as a kind viſit to Cor-.
nelii Forum, on the Vatrenus, whence the Emilian
extended to Bononia. It proceded alſo from Piſae,
(a colony of the Peloponneſian Piſa), thro’ Etruria,
(now Tuſcany); to Dertona, (now Tortona, ) and
Placentia (now Piacenza); on Padus or Eridanus,
now the Po. When this flood received poor Phae
ton; his ſiſters, particularly Phaethuſa and Lampe
tie ; even after becoming alders, or poplars; ceaſed
not their tears of amber.
Of all the Roman Ways, the nobleſt was the Ap
pian ; drawn, by Appius Claudius, thro' Capua, in
Campania, and Cannae, in Apulia, to Brundu/ſum
or Brundiſium (now Brindiſ), in Calabria: three
hundred and fifty miles. Procopius, ſecretary to
Beliſarius, hiſtoriographer to Juſtinian, and digeſter
of the Roman Law, cannot but (Goth. I.) be re
garded. ' The Appian is a five days quick jour
º
ney : braud enough for two carriages to paſs each
other. Of all Ways, it is the moſt worth ſeing.
Every flag, fit for a milſtone, and hard as a flint,
has Appius brought from a diſtance: for the adja
cencies afford no ſuch material. Yet ſo finely has he
hewn, and ſo admirably compačted, without metal
or cement, the parts; that they ſeem one continued
native, of their preſent bed. Neither the trample
of animals, nor the cruſh of carriages, has in ſuch
a ſeries of ages, been able to impair, in the ſmal
leſt degree, the union, the ſurface, or the ſplen
dor.”
Forum, being the general term for market, court,
place of public buſineſs, and thence extended to the
idea of town or borough ; various were the Forums
on each of the three Ways: one always proud to
bear the name of the Pavior. Flaminii (Flaminiuſ
ſes)
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ſes) Forum, on the Nar in Umbria; Lepiduſſes (Re
gium) in the Gowned Gaul; the Forum of Appius,
not far from Naples; in the territory fo famed for
Falermian, and the other richeſt wines of Italy.
— xxix. — Alcinous, king of the Pheacians
in Corcyra (now Corfu) near Epirus, is more de
fervedly celebrated for his hoſpitality to the ſhip
wrecked Ulyſſes, who was indeed, every way his
neighbor”; than for the beauty or profuſion of his
gardens. The old ſwain (487) was not onely re
warded by his gueſt; but honored by Domitian with
a ſacrary near the temple, which that emperor had
ſo devoutly reared to Hercules.
XLVI. v. 78. Pieces: gems, pebbles, or what
ever, black and white; marked, after the Scythian
or Thracian manner, the lucky and unlucky days.
XLIX. ix. 8o. Young Tityrus : Virgil, of An
des, near Mantua, adjoining Cremona, which had
favored Brutus and Caſſius; finding his little farm
the prey of the vićtors, repaired to court, was in
troduced to Mecenas, by him to Auguſtus, repoſſeſ
ſed of his property, and crowned with every honor,
that genius could deſerve or beſtow.
L. ii. 81. Antenor, a Trojan chief, having re
ceived hoſpitably the ambaſſadors that came to de
mand Helen, and in vain labored her reſtitution,
for the love of juſtice, peace, and his country; fled
from the flaming city, he had not been able to ſave;
and, with a few adherents, arrived on the Hene
tian, afterwards Venetian coaſt; where he founded
Patavium, now Padua. Her neighbor became A
teſte, now Effe ; and his ſon, Helicaon.
LII. xvii. 82. Marſes Calends: celebrated as Ve
nus’ birthday: on which were peculiar preſents, and
compliments made to the ladies. The ſame Calends
gave birth to our poet (VIII. ii. 6.); as did the Ca
lends following, to his friend Q. Ovidius. Birth
days have, from the birth of the world, been obſer
ved with pious feſtivity. The righteous ſhall be had
in everlaſting remembrance. Their anniverſary in this
world muſt continue precious; but the Church ce
lebrates their birth into a better. Nature taught
the ancients to commemorate worth predeceſſor, as
well as contemporary.
* Ithaca and Dulichium lying, but a little South from
Cercyra.
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LIII. i. — Silius: Italicus, born in or ſprung
from Italica, a Spaniſh town (now Old Seville); not
therefore of the Pelignian Italica, named alſo Cor
finium; was proconſul in Aſia, and conſul at Rome
(LIV. ant.) the year of Nero's ſuicide. On his re
tirement, his ſecond ſon became conſul: an honor
his friend wiſhes (LV. xvi.) to the third, as Auguſ
tus (xviii.) raiſed his daughter Julia's conſort, M.
Vipſanius Agrippa, thrice to the conſulſhip. But
in Silius, the conſul was eclipſed by the genius and
the ſcholar. Emulous of Cicero, no leſs than of
Virgil, he purchaſed the villa of the one, and the
ſepulture of the other. The former was Pompeia
num, near Nola in Campania, twelve miles from
Naples; the latter is thought to have lain within
two of that city. Whatever was the ſpot, Pliny aſ
ſures us (VII. iii.) that Silius repaired to it, as to
a temple; and that he ſolemniſed Virgil’s birthday,
more religiouſly than his own. No place, of birth
or burial, could have been of any value to Silius;
had he not, like his paragons, reared his own mo
nument, beyond the power of age or oblivion. Had
not our poet, and the ſame Pliny, done ſo each for
himſelf; the following Epiſtle (III. laſt.) and the
Epigram there cited, would have eterniſed each o
ther.
“ CE c1 L I Us SE cu N D'Us to Co RN ELI Us PR is cus ::
HEALT H.
I hear, that Valerius Martial is dead; and con
ſequently grieve. He was an acute genius; who
blended his ſalt and ſpleen, with copiouſneſs of
goodnature. I had uſed the freedom to beſtow an
honorary on his departure. This I owed to his
friendſhip, as well as to the verſes, with which he
had honored me. It was the old way, when any had
celebrated either individual or community, to crown
ſuch celebration with honor or emolument. But;
in our days, like other admirable and exemplary
things, this has faln into peculiar deſuetude. Af
ter giving over commendable pračtice, we are too
honeſt to admit inadequate praiſe. Thou demandeſt
the verſes, that provoked my gratitude. To the vo
lume I would remit thee, if I had not ſome of them
by heart. Should theſe chance to pleaſe thee too,
thou knoweſt where to find the reſt. Addreſſing the
Muſe, he dire&s her to my houſe on the Eſqui
line,
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line, and warns her to approach me properly (LIX.
But, my dear giddy Muſeling, take heed,
– To the end.
One who ſo expreſſed himſelf of me, could I diſ
miſs in any other, than the moſt friendly manner;
or, can I forbear to mourn, as an invaluable friend ?
To me he gave all he had, and would have given
more, if he could. Yet to man what can be given
greater, than glory, praiſe, eternity But eternal
will not be, what he wrote: perhaps not. He wrote
however, as if it would. Farwel.”
LXIX. i. 9o. Ceſonius had accompanied L. A.
Seneca (511), baniſhed by Claudius, into Corſica.
So Q. Ovidius; who had refuſed to attend Ceſo
nius proconſul, into Afric; voluntarily accompa
nied him, thro’ the Sicilian (471, 491) ſtrait, and
every danger; into exile, in Sardinia.
LXXII. ii. 91. Parrhaftan ; northern : from Par
rhaſia, the Arcadian city, whence Calliſto Lycaon’s
daughter, and Jupiter's (514) favorite, had been
worthily exalted into Helice, or the Greater (476)
Bear; as had his nurſe Cynoſºra, into the Leſs.
LXXIV. v. 92. Prometheus, ſon of Japetus or
Japheth, and ſo grandſon to Deucalion or Noah,
was doutleſs one of the firſt formers of poſtdiluvian
man. Not barely to recite a fable, too often fruit
leſsly repeated; man not being born merely, tho’
it be one of his prerogatives, to laugh: wild as My
thology has exhibited an anceſtor, from whom indi
viduals or nations may glory to deſcend; if we ven
ture to ſteal a ſpark from ſo daring a thief, we may
chance to find Allegory even here leſs ridiculous,
than at firſt ſhe appears. Prometheus, defiring to
mold a creature after the image of the Gods (as
Ovid fings after Moſes); blended the quinteſſence
of the elements, with the various qualities of in
ſtinétive life. But finding neither elečtric nor ani
mal fire, likely to kindle intellečtual; he was ſo
bold as to take the kingdom of heaven by ingenious
violence, and to bring the needed flame from above.
When now he had every requiſite for the completion
of his paragon, the ſame ſort of conjurers that pro
nounced not onely Circe (471), Meduſa (473) and
Medea (495); but Aurora (477) herſelf, a witch;
neceſſarily declared the man-maker ſuch a monſter,
as they muſt not let dy, if they could but contrive
to make him live in ſtill-renewing torture; nor
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drempt they of a double ſolace, they could not take
away: his power to pity, moving bodies, to whom
he could give no ſouls; and his conſcious ſatisfac
tion, alike from endevor and regret. While now
we taſte the dignity of feeling with Prometheus, we
rejoice ſtill more than he, that a deliverer is at hand.
The ſufferer was indeed the prince or leader of the
firſt Scythian (or Amazon, 498, 5o;) tribe, that
came to inhabit Caucaſus ; where he made bold with
ethereal fire in a literal manner, by turning the fire
and braſs he found in Taurus, into uſes before known
onely to 7 ubal-Cain. The river Aquila (or Eagle,
by Mythology made a Vulture, and by Diodorus
made the Nile) overflowing the country, diſtreſſed.
Prometheus with his people. Hercules arrived: who
knew (505) to humble rivers; better than the ſage,
who knew to elevate man. Prometheus was therefore
the long ſought Magºg; which, ſignifying anguiſh,
ſpoke every way his fituation; as the Greek name.
Prometheus, painted his ſagacity.
If Mythology have thus been found but too con
ſiſtent; her joke proves ſtill more barefaced, or rather
more provoking ; when ſhe tells us, that Jove in
wrauth ordered Vulcan, his maſter-artiſt, to execute
for man, the maſterpiece called Woman. Prometheus
had compoſed his male creature, of terreſtrial ele
ments and inferior animals; had given him the fear
of the hare, the cunning of the fox, the pride of
the peacoc, the fierceneſs of the tiguer, the rage of
the lion; but magnanimity from his maker. To the
formation of woman, every divinity contributed :
Juno majeſty, Venus beauty, Minerva wiſdom, A
pollo harmony, Mercury eloquence. By number
leſs Bacchuſſes, Herculeſes, Sibyls, ſome of the
Learned, (Cicero not excepted) have been induſ.
trious to perplex themſelves and Mythology. Pro
metheus, and his conſiderate brother Epimetheus, joſ
tle in like manner; as if rivals, for the new Creature.
The former needed no aid, but Herculean: the lat.
ter was but loſt, in his brother's company. For at
tempting alſo to patch up a man of clay, without
wicked thought of ſupernal fire; Jove patched him
down into an ape. Before this fatal metamorphoſis,
Earth had hailed the heavenly ſtranger, with a
dowry, dangerous as the learned Paraphernalia: a
box teeming with good, unleſs improperly expoſed.
Epimetheus, with all his caution, hurried to open
it. The precious contents, by raſh expoſure, un
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derwent inſtantaneous tranſmutation. Out flew, or
were feined to fly,
Hate, fear, and grief; the family of pain.
One remnant however of the bleſſings brought down,
kept unimpaired, as unexpoſed, at the bottom; and,
when modeſtly beheld, appeared ſo benign, as to
promiſe the return of the reſt: Hope, the changeleſs
friend of man; even when his indiſcretion may have
driven others from him.
LXXX. v. 94. Toloſa : a city of note in the Nar
bonenfian Gaul; now Toulouſe, the capital of Lan
guedoc. -
LXXXIV. iv. 96. Narbo (now Narbonne), the
capital of the Narbonenſian Gaul, was a Roman co
lony, adminiſtered on the model of Rome. Auguſt
are ſtill the remains.
LXXXV. i. — Pienna, in Gaul; now Kienne,
in Dauphiny; coincides thus with the Auſtrian ca
pital, Wienna, that anciently was Pindobona. Lau
ſis (laſt) makes an affirmation, XII. vii. 1. which is
here peculiarly allowed.
LXXXVII. i. 97. Diana, – Pallas, – Bac
chus, – ; for their obječts, the forreſt, the olive
yard, the vinyard : Tartºſus, 504. Palms decked
the doors of vićtors at the bar, as in the field. Mid
December brought the Saturnalian holidays.
LXXXVIII. ii. — Cheſ. What analogy, tho’
conſiderable, the ancient cheſ and drafts bear to the
modern ; may be as hard to aſcertain, as the manner,
in which the calcules, or counters, were employed.
LXXXIX. iv. 98. Proper way: LXVI, laſt.
XCI. viii. 99. Batavian ear: XXVIII. i. 527.
XCIII. i. — 7 wice my neighbor: both in town
and country; near Flora’s temple at Rome; and the
Sabine village Ficeliae, not far from Nomentum,
(LXVIII. v.). The infant caſt (ant.) filled on the
birthday, and kept for the anniverſary.
XCVI. pen. 101. Capitolian ſºrains: celebrating
Domitian's defence of the Capitol (471).
XCVII. i. —- The firſ'; ſeven in the morning.
Oil’d Olympus (v.) 504, 507.
XCVIII. ii. -— Memphis. Criſpinus was an
Egyptian, in favor with the emperor; ſo probably
of merit: nor leſs probably abuſed as a forainer, by
certain jealous wits, particularly Juvenal. The lat
ter ſwolen with praiſe, which he was conſcious of
often deſerving, ſank ſometimes his dignity with his
candor, in all the indelicacy of ſpleen. Having, per
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haps deſervedly, laſhed Paris; the player complai
-
ned. The ſatyriſt was by Domitian ingeniouſly de
legated (ſome might diſpute the propriety of relega
ted) into Egypt, at fourſcore ; with a cohort, more
forcible than a ſatyr; to reform thoſe Egyptian man
ners, on which his Muſe had been ſo ſevere. Juve-.
nal however getting back, lived to ſee Paris, for
encroaching on imperial indulgence, put to death.
On Melphes' banks, where Juvenal was born, he
could indeed imbibe no urbanity; but muſt early
underſtand, that, Aquinum being a Roman colony,
he was a Roman ; and every one, not a Roman, a
Barbarian. Had he cultivated the friendſhip of ſome
forainers ; for inſtance of one, who like himſelf, be-,
ſtowed on Rome the better part of his life; and
could no more be deterred from celebrating merit,
in a Paris than in a Juvenal (CXXXVII. viii. i. 9...
IX. xxxiv.); had he, by command of temper, given
his powers their play ; and graced his love of virtue,
with humility ; he would have learned better, than
even by a voluntary viſit, with a jandiced eye; that,
Egypt was the ſchool of wiſdom, a thouſand years
before Grece had any light, or Rome any being ;
that the punctual ſpot, called the world, was Ro
man ; that every part of it was therefore the coun
try of its citizen : he would ſo have done double ho
nor to the petty object, of his juſt as natural attach
ment; would have diffuſed his benevolence with
boundleſs effect, as unleſſened luſter; and, by ſur
mounting the meanneſs of national Prepoſſeſſion,
ſupplied the peculiar deficience of ſo great a cha
racter. - - -
XCIX. vi. Ioz., 7% Avengers porch : that of the
temple, which Auguſtus had, in payment of a vow,
erected to Mars, after the Parthian, if not the Phi
lippic, vićtory.
- vii. —- Deep in law. Some humoriſis
would rather ſoke poor Pompey in foop; the Latin
tongue happily admitting law, to be the eſſence of
juſtice. -
CI. Io9. To Avitus. Some manuſcripts prefix,
more ſubjoin, and many omit,
Hail, my deareſ? brother, 7 uranius. This epigram,
which is out of the order of pages, I wrote to Stertinius;
a perſon of eminence, who deſired to place my buff in his
library. This ſeemed a proper notice, that thou migh
tºft not be at a loſs, to know who Avitus were. Far
wel.
CVIII.
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CVIII. x. 106. The goddeſ; crown'd with light :
Diana Lucina (471, 485) diſtinguiſhed by her Creſ
cent, lent her temple to Juſtice, for the ſigning and
ſealing of deeds.
— ant. — Hundred Farthings: 481.
CIX. ii. 107. Splendid gods: 470.
— v. — The awfull hill: the Palatine.
— viii. — The Rhodian pile; the Coloſſus of
Rhodes, reared by Chares (or Laches) the Lindian,
feventy (if not eighty) cubits high : a proper coin
panion, juſt oppoſite the Mauſoleum, (490).
—ix. -— Father: Bacchus’ temple: Mother,
(x.) Cybele's.
CX. v.--— Maurian orbs: Mauritanian tables,
vi. Teeth of Libya: their ivory-feet or claws.
CXII. i. 109. The ſacrilegious rage : of L. An
tonius Saturninus, who, governor of Germany, had
rebelled againſt Germanicus (472).
— v. —— Windelician: near the Rhetians, now
Griſons; between the Brigantine Lake (that of Con
ſtance), and the AEnus or OEnus, now the In.
CXIII. ant. 1 Io. Pofferity: As M. Antony the
Prime (LXXXI.) enjoyed the preſent and the paſt;
Licinius Sura is fairly complimented with the viſion
of the future. Of this very orator, ſaid the ſurviving
Pliny (II. i.): “ Thirty years did he ſurvive his pub
lic charaćter. He had the pleaſure of reading po
ems in his honor, and hiſtories to his fame; ſo of
becoming preſent to his own poſterity.”
CXVIII. xxiv. 113. Petilian reign : whether, on
Janicle, the once abode of a Petilius, and burial
place of Numa; or the city Petilia, built by Phi
loétetes, on the Lucanian border of Great Grece.
CXXII. i. 115. Salona: a port of Dalmatia,
(part of Illyricum, ſouth-eaſt from Liburnia, the
preſent Croatia) about to be bleſt, as Spain had been,
with the prefecture of a Macer.
CXXIII. ant. 116. The Pelignian : Ovid, of Sul
mo, near the Samnian.
CXXVI. iv. 117. Arpi : an Apulian town, near
Venuſium, the birthplace of Horace.
xv. —- Chalybs : on the Thermodon,
in Pontus; Noricians, now Bavarians, Platea (xvii.),
a Spaniſh town, alike famous for the forge.
CXXVII.x. 119. Botrodus, or Bothrodus, or Bo
terdus : a Celtiberian town, near Segobriga. Po
berta (xx.) or Woberca, another; now Bobierca or Bu
Bierca.
R T I : A L. - 535
xlix. 1zo. Mooned ſhoe; ſuppoſed to take
the name from an ornamental Creſcent or C, diſ
tinguiſhing (ſay ſome) the Patrician ſhoe, in the
number of Senators appointed by Romulus. It was
bound, as were the ſhoes of all Patricians and
Knights; with four ſtraps, elegantly croſſed, to
mid-leg.
li. -— The dire Liburnian. The Criers
of the Courts were often from Liburnia, a province
on the north-eaſt of the Adriatic.
CXXVIII. i. 121. Werona, the ſecond Venetian
city, boaſts Catullus; Patavium Stella and Flaccus (X.
XLVIII.), as well as Livy. Apollodorus, of Alexandria,
was rival to Menander, the Athenian: the latter remai
ning in fragments; both in the high encomiums of
thoſe, who knew them entire. Emerita (now Merida)
gave birth to Decian (I.). Beſide him, Licinian, Lu
cius, and Canius (VIII.ii. 13. a droll, that could
not laſt); Spain counted in thoſe days, her Senecaes,
and Lucan; Quintilian, Silius, and Martial.
CXXIX. ii. —- Parent of the precious ore: Spain,
particularly in Gallecia, now Gallicia, once Cal
laica ; and in Aſturia. But her European mines
ſhe has negle&ted, for thoſe of Peru. Getulian (ix.)
Libyan. Laurentian (CXXX. viii.) of Laurentum, ſe
venteen miles from Rome. Pelorian (xii.) from
Pelorus: one of the three promontories of Sicily.
CXXXI. ii. 123. Atina, the name of ſeveral ci
*
ties, is here thought that of Campania; once dili
gent as Tibur, in fabricating arms, for Turnus a
gainſt Eneas. -
CXXXIII. xvi. 125. Primal ſtore: primitial, or
firſtfruit-cakes, of milk, honey, and ſeſame.
CXXXIV. iv. 126. Tarraconian tow’rs. After
landing at Tarraco (now Tarragona), the meſſenger
was, in a diligence, on the fifth day, to crown the **
º
feſtal journey, with ſeing Bilbilis, and hearing Salo.
CXXXV. viii. 127. Remus’ bouſe - Rome, foun
ded by Remus and Romulus.
— ix. -- The ſame: built by Auguſtus, in
his Palace, to Apollo and the Muſes; and repaired.
by Nerva. There were duly ranged the works and
image, or pićture, of every genius. Ptolemy Phila
delphus had, at Alexandria, ſet the example.
cxxxvii.º. — Dian's hill; the Aventine.
— vii. 128. Celius, formerly, for whatever
oakiſh reaſon, Querquetulanus ; took the Celian name
from Celes Vibenna, an Etrurian chief. On the
greater
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greater roſe the leſs, named naturally Celiolus or Ce
Jicolus.
— ant. 129. Commands : XXXVIII. xxxv.
CXLI. viii. 131. Embarraſ, fate: VI. VII.
CXLII. iv. —- Pale record: the ink grown pale
with age.
CXLIII. iv. 132. What lion 2 Various are the
effects of wealth: one is power. From power, (ſays
Balzac) to tyranny, is but a ſtep: from the ſtrength
of a lion, to his fury. Both fides of the figure
ſhows a higher genius: The wicked fly, when no man
purſueth; but the righteous is bold as a lion. Be not
frantic in thy houſe, nor a lion among thy ſervants.
CXLIV. i. —- Great ruler of the ancient Ay:
that ſtate of innocence and happineſs, known by the
figurative name, of the golden age ; the favorite
theme of every poet. The light of nature ſufficed
to ſhow integrity, previous to depravation; and fe
C O M M E N T
B O
Ep 1s. l. iii. HAT reverence: which often cele
p. 134. brates, never ſatyriſes, individu
als. Martials objećts therefore of ſatyr, are general
characters, whether adopted or adapted: as Zoilus,
Caecilianus ; Pannicus, Poſtumus, Antiochus, Hermo
genes : or, as Lalage, Leſbia, Ligeia, Levina, Thele
ſina, Matrinia: ſo Fabullur and Fabulla, Baſus and
Baſa, with the reſt; which bear the criminal in the
name, not the name of the criminal. Perſonal had
been the invečtive of predeceſſor-ſatyriſts: of Luci
lius, as of Archilochus. And ſo (x.) write Catullus,
Marſus, Pedo, Getulicus. Had Catullus onely ſo
written, he would no more have made his way to
our age, than his three companions. Pedo has con
veyed us nothing, unleſs a conſolatory addreſs to
Livia, Odavian's ſecond conſort; or, a threnody
on the death of Druſus. Getulicus vegetated, if not
floriſhed, under Tiberius and Claudius. That Mar
ſus deſerved honor, we muſt allow to the taſte of our
M E N T
licity conſequent to the one, as miſery to the other.
Saturn, however, coeval, and even coincident with
Time; was ſaid to devour his children; as Time
abſorbs (or with his ſithe mows down) not onely
days and years; but all earthly things. For this,
or whatever weightier cauſe ; apparently his temper,
ſo diffuſive of bliſs; Mythology traditions him, de
throned by his ſon Jupiter; whom the poets have
vied to fing ſupreme in power; but ſupreme rather
in the promotion, than puniſhment of crimes.
xxiii. 133. The father and the frugal;
Priſcus : who, after fix years abſence, reviſits his
country in December; and celebrates at home the
Saturnalians, with a ſplendor worthy that prime of
feſtivals: but more eaſily afforded at Bilbilis, than
at Rome (CXXXII. xiii.); conſequently, perhaps,
leſs grudged, by a father and an economiſt.
ON M A R T I A L.
O K III.
poet; tho’ the excellences of no author will ſe
cure to the world their uſefullneſs; if overboren with
ſpleen or indelicacy; and one part proves well loſt,
if inſeparable from the other.
— ant. 135. The Floralians were ſcandalous games,
permitted to celebrate a ſcandalous charaćter, who
had aſſumed the name of Flora. Cato, the Stoic,
drawn, by whatever motive; finding his preſence diſ
appoint, both the company and himſelf; in puſillani
mous indulgence, withdrew.
Epic. III. iv. — Brutian, no leſs celebrated
for probity and valor, than for epigrams and elegies,
was contemporary to our poet; who, on a Romans
Greek, beſtows an Attic compliment.
IV. pen. 136. Laconic ſtile pointed thought, (as
every ſtile ſhould ;) by avoiding ſuperfluity of ex
preſſion.
VI. v. 137. Snorting noſes: (XII.xxiv.) Apology were
due, were the indignity known, to the animals that
ſnort;
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ſhort; for debaſing them into emblems of thoſe that
fneer. Wit’s loweſt ſpecies is humor; and humor's,
mimicry or grin. This, without diſparagement to
inſtinét, is the wit of an ape; who has in all ages
appropriated that ſymbol, or ſubſtitute of criticiſm,
the ſneer. And who ſhall diſpute with ſo formidable
a rival, what coſts neither the humiliation of dout,
the reproach of favor, the trouble of enquiry, nor
the teſt of diſcrimination But, if this it do not coſt;
it does coſt the poſſibility of reprobating the reſpec
table, of queſtioning the indubitable, and of reſting
on the ſurface, for want of weight or ſkill to go to
the bottom. And indeed, as all critics, right and
wrong-headed, have the ſame tendencies of judge
ment, tho' with oppoſite objects; they that laugh,
where they ſhould admire; will admire, where they
ſhould laugh: they that ſpurn the demonſtrative,
will ſwallow the impoſſible; and they who will not,
perhaps cannot, ſee merit, or, dive into truth; e
qually can and will ſcatter filth, while they flounder
in abſurdity. X. XVI. and following.
IX. xiv. 138. Argus-death ; a ſpot as noted for
ſhops, eſpecially of bookſellers; as for Argus,
an Argive captain, ſlain by the jealous Arcadians.
Evander, who had received him into hoſpitality,
could not but erect his monument. The place was
thus either named from the deed, or from the Latin
names coincidence with that of a claypit. The Rea
der would ſmile to ſee it added, that one Argus was
not another; not the Argus, appointed by Juno to
guard Io, and ſlain by Mercury: who, being the
Sun, cut off Argus ; the ſtarry Heaven, inſpecting
Io the Earth ; and gave juno the opportunity of
fixing the vaniſhed eyes in her ſtrutters tail.
XV. laſt. 14o. In poor Pallaſes ſpite. As excel
lence of thought or expreſſion owned the aid of Mi
nerva, the reverſe ſeemed to bid her defiance. Hence
the Horatian precept:
Nor ſay, nor do ; unleſ, Minerva ſaile.
XVII. laſt. 141. The ſeed: Andremon, renow
ned in the Circus. Some take this for the buffoon,
Sextius Andremon Caballus; the ſurname ſignifying O
riginally a ſtallion.
XXI. xi. 142. Both the Ceſars: Titus and Do
mitian.
XXII. ant. 143. Parma, in the Ciſalpine Gaul;
rich in every produce, particularly flocks.
Z z z
R T I A L. 537
XXIII. xvi. 144. Ocean. Oceanus and Leóius
were inſpectors of the Amphitheater; appointed to
take care, that the three orders ſhould not ſhift their
reſpective places.
XXVII. laſt. 145. Cecropian: 471. Sophocles
was thus ſtiled the Athenian bee.
XXVIII. pen. 146. Brutus' boy: a little image
ſo exquiſitely wrought by Strongilon or Apollodo
rus, that the Philippian Brutus is ſaid to have called
it his boy. Lagon was a like maſterpiece by Lyciſ
cus, tho’ made of the marchpanes or ſweet cakes
ſcattered in the Saturnalians.
XXXIII. i. 148. Fabians: the nobleſt clan of
Rome, confiſting of three hundred: every one, ſays
Livy, fit to command an army; yet all ſurpriſed and
cut off in one black day (as it was well called) at
Cremera, now Warca, an Etrurian or Tuſcan river,
by the Veientians; who thus earned the chaſtiſe
ment, that Camillus gave them. From a remnant
of this glorious family, deſcended, in proceſs of time,
that Q. Fabius Maximus, who ſaved his country,
even from Annibal, by giving the enemy play, and
avoiding battle.
— iii. -— The heroe-ſire: M. Curius Denta
tus, ſung by Horace and others; after triumphing
over the Samnites, the Sabines, and Pyrrhus, re
turned to the enjoyment of private life; as L. Q.
Cincinnatus was, at the plough, ſaluted Dićtator.
Curius told the Samnite ambaſſadors, he had no
occaſion for their gold; he wiſhed onely to com
mand its poſſeſſors. Of lands infinite, decreed
him by the Senate, he would accept no more than
the ſhare of his humbleſt fellow-vićtor: four acres,
ſays one ancient; ſeven, another: holding the citi
zen pernicious, whom ſeven could not ſatisfy ; and
him unneceſſary, who needed more than a fingle
portion.
vii. — Adverſe: contraſted thou, fribble
ſon of a fribble; and of a proſtitute, clad by law,
with a gown of infamy. -
— xix. 149. Sura : not Licinius, II. cxiii. but
Palfurius or Palphurius, the orator, II. cxxvii. 62.
xxxix. -- Inſcriptions: which another Wit,
in like idea, ſtiles epigrams. Cinnamus, barber-ſur
geon: a union formerly univerſal.
XXXVII. ant. 15 1. Sent to freedom: manumit
ted. Three were the ways of conferring liberty: by
- will,
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will, whence the freed became Orcinus, Orcine;
the maſter being gone to Orcus, or the Shades: by
enrollment, of the Cenſor: and by manumiſſion, be
fore the Conſul or Pretor. The maſter, laying his
hand on the ſervant's head, ſaid: I mean this perſºn
to be free, to ſend him forth from my hand. The ma
giſtrate, placing a rod, called P'indicta, (Reclaim)
on the ſame part : After the manner of the Quiri
tians, I pronounce him free. Then was the Cap of
Liberty put on the ſhaven crown; and the name, with
the cauſe, entered in the Roll of Freemen. A fourth
was the friendly manumiſſion; that required the fign
and ſeal of five witneſſes.
XXXVIII. v. 152. Lingonic, the now Langreſ?,
in Champagne ; as Aretian from Aretium, (new Arez
zo) a Tuſcan city, famous for pottery. The 7 y
rian here means purple-violet.
XL. xvi. 153. Upolº II. xxii. 526.
XLI. pen. 154. Ladas: a famous runner.
XLII. i. —— Corduba, now Cordova, famed for
oil, as Jºnaſrum in Campania; and Iftria, the north
eaſtern (now Auſtrian) part of Italy.
XLIII. laſt. 155. Anchialus, a Hebrew aſſevera
tion : As the Lord liveth.
XLIV. ix. 156. Sicilian brothers: Amphinomus
and Anapias, who carried off their parents from Ca
tana (now Catania) in flames, by an eruption of
Etna ; were as happy (if poſible) in fraternal, as in
filial, piety.
-- x. --- Atrean: Agamemnon and Mene
laus, ſons (ſays Heſiod) of Pliſthenes; who, dying
young, left their tuition to his brother Atreus,
thence their reputed father. Pious as he proved in
the diſcharge of this duty, inhuman became his rage
againſt the adulterous iſſue of his brother Thyeſtes,
who had ſeduced his Frope. Such were the three
ſons of Pelops, by Hippodamia. Tantaſis (XLVI.
xix.) (ſay the poets) had ſet the cxample of horror.
Håving received travelling gods, and (Lycaon-like)
wanting to try them, he ſerved them up his ſon Pe
lops. All abſtained, but Ceres; who, bereft of
every power by the loſs of her daughter, unwarily
picked a bit of the ſhoulder. Jove ſupplied this with
ivory, and recompleted the lad; who, when mature,
paſſed into Elis, married the king's daughter Hip
Polania, and gave his name to the Cherſoneſe;
which, ſo ſprung, became, in viciſſitude, the Mo
* The father, Tantalus, babbling, was doomed
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to everlaſting hunger and thirſt, the moſt inviting
food and liquor ſtill flying before him; or a ſtone
impending, when he approached them: like the
ſword, which Dionyſius the Sicilian tyrant, ordered
to be hung by a horſehair over the head of his flat
terer Damocles, who had pretended to admire the
ſweets of grandeur; but became fincere for once, in
begging leave to withdraw.
LIX. v. 16o. 7%e U/pian breed': a German rebel
lious people.
LXIII. xi. 162. 7 halaſus : or Thalaſius, the god
of marriage; named alſo Hymen or Hymeneus, the
ſon of Bacchus and Penus ; tho’ ſome better name his
mother Urania : 470.
LXVI. ix. 164. Archilochus, the Parian, diſap
pointed of his Neobule, by Lycambes, the Theban,
who beſtowed her on another; pointed at the faithleſs
father ſo keen Iambics, that the latter is ſaid to have
hanged himſelf.
LXVIII. ix. 165. Fives. Whence England gave
this name to the hand-ball, is now perhaps not eaſy
to ſay; nor indeed whether the trigon or Aarpaſſ, or
either, be analogous to that manly exerciſe. Both
probably were bounders ; both warm, both duſty.
The trigon were rather threes, employing three tri
angularly placed. Luxury indulged ſoftlings with
the racket; and this introduced, in darkening ages,
tennis, which ſeems as happily antiquating in Eu
rope, as the paganic game of cricket in England.
The Roman paganic reſembled the latter; but, as
leſs hard, leſs dangerous. The Scottiſh gof-ball,
crammed with like materials, is hard as the Engliſh
cricket-ball; and innocent, as the Roman paganic:
ſmaller than either; and ſpringing, not acciden
tally ; but deliberately: not from a dead Herculean
bat; but from a leg, delicately tapering, to a
foot not clumſy; which, backed with led, and fa
ced with horn, ſends the milk-white ball, like an
arrow, thro’ the air, with the parabolic union of
ſtrength and elaſticity.
The fourth Roman ball, largeſt and lighteſt, was
the bellows, or wind-bomb; charged with air, as
our foot-ball; and like it, toſſed with every other
limb, as well as with the foot.
LXXI. v. 166. The dred Sithebearer; ſame : the
temple of Time or Saturn, near the Forum; and
conſequently, near the courts.
LXXIII. ix. 167. Mºſala, Corvinus: a celebra
ted orator in the time of Auguſtus, to whom Licinus
(LXXIV.
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(LXXIV. vi.) was but a freedman; enriched by his
government of Gaul. So their monuments perhaps
were equal. Whether Criſpus (ant.) was Paffenus,
Nero's father in law; Wibius, the philoſopher; or
Salluff, the hiſtorian; ſeems not aſcertained. Ho
race complimented the laſt, as knowing the uſe (tho’
he knew the abuſe too) of riches; and our poet ſets
him, for Laconic terſeneſs, at the head of Roman
hiſtorians: XI. clxxiii. But the moldering monument
is not grudged to the firſt : II. cxiv. 9.
LXXV. i. 168. Edipuſes tale. Laius, king of
Thebes, alarmed by an oracle, doomed his ſon to a
deſtruction the infant eſcaped. Edipus, grown up,
went in queſt of his father; whom, in a tumult, he
unwittingly ſlew. Creon, now adminiſtrator of
Thebes, found the adjacency infeſted by Sphinx,
a female monſter, (ſays fable,) with the head of a
girl, the wings of a bird, and the body of a dog;
C O M M E N T
B. O.
P A
I. ii. HE hallow'd fame: that of the ſacrifice,
171. * which Porſena, king of Cluſium, in Etru
ria, was celebrating for Rome, the ſecond year af.
ter the expulſion of her kings, reduced (he thought)
to admit their reſtoration. Mucius, or Mutius, from
burning his right-hand, ſurnamed Scevola (or Lefty),
alarming the invader; not onely by the aëtion, but
by the aſſeveration, that Rome poſſeſſed many ſuch
reſolutes; made him leave with good grace, to the
Romans, that liberty, which they knew ſo well how
to defend.
Horatius Cocles (Horace Single-eye) had alone
ſtopt the ſame Porſena's paſſing the Sublician Bridge;
till it was broke down behind him. Wounded, he
ſwom the river to his friends ; but, halting ever
after, he uſed to ſay, that every ſtep gave him joy
of his triumph. - he could to the impotent, by ſome pronounced, the
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a tractable ſhaggy monkey, ſays Diodorus; a female
robber, ſwears romance; or Cadmus' Amazonian
wife, who left him on his wedding alſo his fiſter
Harmonia. Creon, learning from the oracle that
the woes could not terminate, but in the ſolution of
the Sphingian riddle: What animal walks on four, in
the morning ; on two, at noon ; and on three, at night?
announced his ſiſter, the young widow Jocaſta, the
reward of the choice ſpirit, who ſhould outwit the
Sphinx. Edipus ſolved the riddle, ſwept the coun
try, and innocently married his mother ; by whom
he had the hapleſs (soo) Eteocles and Polynices.
Coming afterwards to underſtand both his parricide
he tore out his own eyes; and was
and his inceſt,
hindered onely by his daughter Antigone, from
tearing out his heart. Jocaſta, repudiated, put her
ſelf to death; and Edipus ſubſtituted Aſtymeduſa.
ON M A R T I A L.
O. K. IV.
R T I.
II. i. — Percia: daughter of the Utican Cato,
and relićt to that Brutus, who had, by pure princi
ple, joined the great Pompey, the aſſaſſin (by Ge
minius) of Brutus' great father; and, by like pure
principle, had been a principal aſſaſſin of that Ju
lius, who, after Pharſalia, had ſaved, cheriſhed,.
and crowned him with honors. Brutus and Caſſius,.
alike worthy ſons in-law to Cato, overthrown toge
ther at Philippi, by Antony and Oétavian; having
conſpired Ceſar's aſſaſſination, conſpired the juſ.
tice of ſuicide. Porcia could do no leſs than follow.
her family.
IV. ii. 172. Otho : betrayed to Vitellius, at Be
briacum, or Bedriacum, a village between Cremo
na and Verona ; when little loſs had been ſuſtained,
and all might have been retrieved ; gave what grace
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raſh adion. For many, better one, (ſays Dio in Otho's
name); than, for one, many to periſh. Rather had I
therefore be a Mucius, or a Curtius ; than a Marius, or
a Sylla.
This M. Curtius, a young nobleman (ſays Plu
tarch) ſaw the earth open in the middle of the Fo
rum; and heard the Oracle aſſure, it would not cloſe;
till a youth of the firſt hopes, ſhould fill the gap.
Curtius confidered that the life he had received from
his country, was ever due to her ſervice; nor douted
his being the very obječt of the oracle. He mounted
therefore his horſe, and flew in.
Parallel is indeed the ſame author's ſtory of Midas'
ſon Anchurus. At Celene, in Phrygia, Earth had
opened in like manner; and demanded, by the ſame
voice, the moſt precious property. Midas in vain
threw gold and filver. His modeſt ſon refle&ted, that
nothing was more precious than life; nor any life
more ſo, than his own. Embracing his father, and
his ſpouſe Timothea, he alſo ſpurred his horſe into
the hole; which could not but immediately cloſe.
Nor could the pious Midas, who knew the value of
the metal (487), deny Jupiter his golden altar.
Orators and Poets vy to celebrate Codrus, the laſt
king of the Athenians. The Lacedemonians bea
ring hard on his people, what recourſe had he but to
heaven and by what channel, beſide that of the Py
thian (485): The people, whoſe king ſhall be ſlain, ſhall
ariſe ſuperior. Codrus, throwing off the king, puts
on the peaſant, gets into the enemy’s camp, picks
eaſily a quarrel ; and, ſince he cannot live, dies for
his country.
Diabolically ſimilar were all the oracles, and fa
tally ſimilar were their conſulters. To the Thebans,
cloſely purſued by the Argives, the reſponſe was,
that nothing could ſave Thebes, unleſs the laſt of
the Cadmean race would ſpontaneouſly devote his
life in her ited. Young Memeceus knew no other
could be ment than himſelf; and that he could de
vote his life in no manner ſo patriotic, or conſe
quently ſo heroic, as ſuicide. This he therefore, as
in duty bound, without heſitation, accompliſhed.
V. 172. Apicius: 512. VI. 173. Pompey : 483.
IX. i. 174. Gaudy name: 483. II. cxii.
X. i. —— Petus: doomed by Claudius, as a Scri
bonian, to dy; Arria ſeized the dagger, before
him; and, having made the trial, preſented it to
her huſband, with the celebrated, No pain!
E N T
XI. ii. -— Lucan (511) ordered by Nero to ſup
preſs his poems, engaged in the Piſonian faction. To
bleed, was the next command of his invidious maſ
ter; who, after many murders, uſed to ſay that ex
periment alone ſhowed, how far power could go.
XIII.iv. 175. And may he feel thy fire. That
virtuous union, commenced on earth, ceaſes not by
temporary ſeparation; is a ſolace natural (therefore
rational) to man; as his unbroken love, and aſſurance
of immortality.
XV. i. --- Baulian. In the ſmall diſtance be
tween Bauli and Baiae, a mother had been caſt a
way. The waters are here reproached for ſwallow
ing Cerelia (or Cerellia) and for having refuſed to
ſwallow Agrippina, whom Nero had there expoſed
for that purpoſe. Suet. Ner. 34. Tac. Ann. XIV.
XVII. i. 176. Sinue/a: a Campanian town, cal
led, by Greek coloniſts, Sinope; and, now by Ita
lians, Rocca di Mondragone; boaſted the virtue of her
waters, to remove ſterility in one ſex, and inſanity
in the other.
— v. —- Elpenor: one of Ulyſſes’ compa
nions, who, tho’ by Circe (471) reſtored from the
hog to the human, retained enough of the ſwiller;
to afford Philoſºratus a model, for the breaking of
his neck.
XX. i. 177. Hundred Columns : II. xxxix. 1. 530.
XXI. i. —— The ſuns daughters: II. xlii. 17. 531.
— pen. —- Proud queen : Cleopatra. 483.
XXV. i. 178. The Athenian birds: II. xxxv. 8. 53o.
XXVII. pen. 180. A wondrous hind: 503.
XXVIII. ix. —- Deep-letter'd drudges: inſcri
bed, for crimes, with letters on the forhead.
XXIX. ii. 181. Hygeia: (for Hygieia) Health.
XXX. iv. —- Theta. The Romans uſed in deci
ſion, not onely the Latin initials: as A, for Abſolvo";
C, for Condemnof; N. L. Non liquet f : but, fond of
parent Greek; as we, of French or Latin; they adop
ted (or retained) Q, for €4,aro; ||. Here ſound be
came the ſymbol.
XXXIII. i. 183. Weſvius: Veſuvius. 482.
XXXVI, iv. 184. The chear: the nautic chime
or ſong. II. xlii. 22.
XL. v. 186. Cere: once Agylla, an Etrurian city;
when the Gauls had taken Rome, peculiarly hoſpi
table to the Romans. Theſe have been branded
* I al/ºlve. I condemn. I It is not clear.
| Thanatos: Death.
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with ſuch ingratitude, as afterwards to deny the Ce
rites citizenſhip: whence the Cerite wax implied the
record of oblivion. Gellius conſtrues more candid
ly. The Cerites were made honorary citizens; but,
on account of their hoſpitality, were kept free from
every burden; neither corrupted, nor embarraſſed
with ſuffrage.
XLI. i. —- Polycletus: a ſtatuary, in braſs; un
rivalled, as Phidias, in ivory. Lyſippus was the glo
ry of Sicyon (in the Peloponneſe); and Coos, the
Egean iland near Rhodes, is perhaps as vain of 4
pelles, as of Hippocrates. By no other ſtatuary or
painter, than the two laſt-named, would the Pellean
(XLII. ix. Alexander) be repreſented. When Juno
Minerva, and Venus, conteſted beauty; the judge
ment of Paris, in favor of the laſt, is as well known
as young Annibal (XLII. xi.) carried by his father
Amilcar, to ſwear enmity to the Romans; or as, to
us, honeſt Molorchus (487).
XLIII. pen. 188. Lyſºppus Lyſippuſes, or Lyſip
pus’; of (or by) Lyſippus.
XLIV. iv. -– Ianthis’ dove : II. xv.
B O O K IV.
P A R T II.
I. v. B4tº, anvil: ; in making the equeſtrian
189. ſtatue, for the barriſter to place in his
court-yard, as a blazoner of his fame.
II. v. 190. Counters, for arithmetic; the flying
band, ſtenography, or ſhort-hand. Marſyas (xiv.)
487.
IX. laſt. 192. The glaſs of old Cronus : 475.
XVII. ant. 195. Ave — Chaire: Hail.
XVIII. vi. 196. The cropling. The perſon ac
quitted, or ſuccesfull; with his hair trimmed, at
tended the heroe of the cauſe to the Capitol, to give
thanks. Fuſticulene (pen.) and Faventine, ſome think
uſurers ; others, farms pawned or ſold, to defray.
XIX. i. —- Santonic rod; wormwood: from San
tonia, now Saintonge ; from Pontus, on the Euxine ;
or Seriphus, in the Egean. Ellebore was applied to
inſanity
XXXI. iv. 200. Heaven-ſtruck mobs: 484.
— xiii. 201. Pentheus: 48o.
R T I A L. 54. I
XXXVII. iv. 203. Tyndaris (476) Helen, daugh
ter to Leda, the conſort of Tyndarus, king of E
balia or Laconia. Another Ebalia was in Italy, wa
tered by Galeſus, the river of Tarentum, alſo (II.
XXVI. 4.) Laconian.
XLII. i. zo;. To thee, Apollo. Boys, in thoſe
days, as in theſe, indulged long locks; and, grown
up, devoted thoſe honors to Phebus, Eſculapius, or
even water-deities; the ſuperintendants or promoters
of vigor. All characters thus acknowleged and a
dored benign Omnipotence, as each wiſhed or ex
perienced its exertion. Thus the votaries of inge
nuity, ſacrificed to Apollo, Mercury, and Minerva;
the ſoldier to Mars, the ſailor to Neptune; the cul
tivator of the ſoil, to Bacchus or Ceres; the ſhep
herd and hind to Pan, and Pales, male or female;
the miner or metal-worker to Vulcan, and ſo forth.
When, after a certain period, labors appeared com
plete ; either thoſe labors, if works of wit; or the in
ſtruments, by which they had been accompliſhed;
were depoſited, or hung up, in the reſpective temple:
as arms, in that of Mars; or the votive tablet, pain
ting the danger and deliverance, in the temple of
Neptune. Venus, attired by the Graces, is ever
laſtingly adorable; as Diana or Veſta, thoſe goddeſſes
of purity. All, being ſo obvious emanations of ſo
verain power, wiſdom, goodneſs, and beauty, be
come ſo many remembrancers of mans various de
pendance; and of his ceaſeleſs as manifold obligation
to fear, love, obey, and adore that conſtellation of
Deity, whence he has his being, his protection, his
happineſs, and his hope.
iv. —- The primipilar rank was that of the
firſt centurion (or captain) of the firſt cohort; equal,
in honor and income, to the equeſtrian. A centurion
commanded firſt a hundred, afterwards fixty men.
A double century, (or double company) made a
maniple ; three maniples a cohort; ten cohorts a
legion, containing, from three thouſand to fix thou
ſand, generally four thouſand men. -
XLIV. xvi. 206. And who Ares, Ares, can re
ſound: alluding to Homer's (Il. E.)
"Ages, "Ages, 8;oroºoºyi, Pizºpón, ruxtrºra.
Mars, Mars, thou man-deſtroyer, ſlaughter-ſtain'd!
O balefull Pow'r, to batter walls ordain’d
The Greeks hold doutleſs the a, and two other
vowels, common: but, that the Latins have alſo
- their
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- their liberties, our poet himſelf has exampled; as
the different o in obe: III. lxxix.
Ohel jam ſatis eff: ohe, little.
Oh! enough, my Muſeling, oh!
XLV. i. --- Oporinos : autumnal,
-— ii. —- Cheimerinos: hibernal.
— iii. — Therinos: eſtival, ſummerly.
— iv. —- 7 he ſtripling : Earinos, latinly Ea
rinus, vernal, was a favorite eunuc of Domitian's.
XLVI. iii. 207. Acidalian: 520. Erythra; 477.
Heliads: Suns daughters: II. xlii. 17. 531.
!
C O M M E N T
B O
X. iii. ſ.4/ſellius extirpates a tooth, or ſupplies : no
217. leſs dextrous, probably, than his bro
ther-operators. Length of time, or change of man
ners, has loſt ſome arts, and found others : among
the latter, not fingly the ſupplemental eye (XII.
clxi.); but, doutleſs, the tranſplantation of a living
tooth. That a rational, conſequently ſocial, being
could, by any means, deprive a fellow-creature of
a member, ſtrong as eſſential, and beautifull as
ſtrong; in order to fill, yet warm, a vacancy in his
own precious conformation; that living limbs, as if
human manufacture, could become branches of hu
man commerce; that one perſon might thus acquire
improvement, to the proportionable mutilation of
any other; was a poſſibility, of which mere Nature
could form no idea; till refined, by the experience
of near ſix thouſand years; and darkened onely by
the exceſſive bright of her own ingenuity, ſo viſibly
independant of Revelation. Antiquity glimpſed in
deed, ere expreſsly aſſured, that, in all unequal
contračts, as with the offerer, it ſhould be with the
accepter; as with the buyer, ſo with the ſeller: equal
ly criminal, in proportion to the advantage on one
hand, and the injury on the other.
XVIII. xxiii. 222. Reed. Papyrus was a taper
flaggy reed, cften ten foot high, peculiarly noriſhed
M E N T
-- pen. — That cranes exalt: the Greek ºr :
whence the Latin V, the initial of Wer, the ſpring.
XLVII, iv. -- Pergamus, a Phrygian city, pa
rent not onely of Earine (and ſome ſay of parchment)
but of Galen, the ſon of Eſculapius ; who, having
himſelf honored her with his preſence and practice,
was now honored by her with a temple.
LII. xx. 21 1. The rank Cinyphian lord: the goat,
!
from Cinyps, a river of Libya; fertiliſing the Gara
mantian plains, famed for the brouſe of goats.
ON M A R T I A L.
O K v.
by the Nile. Numberleſs were its uſes: for mats,
ſails, ropes, paper, fire. It furniſhed veſture to the
living, and ſtuffed the pile of the dead.
XXX. pen. 228. Th’ imperial grape; preferred
to all others by Auguſtus.
XLII. iii. 232. Syka merize: divide the figs —
the inheritance, ever ſo ſmall.
XLV. vi. 233. Terentian: governor of Syene.
LXXI. i. 241. Libitina; as a diſappointer, no
forced appellation of Venus. Plutarch, with his
wonted ſagacity, finds the ſame the proper patroneſs
of natal and funeral rites ; the entrance and iſſue of
human life, being alike precarious and near. In
the ſame temple therefore, where the votaries of joy
petitioned aid, did the ſons of ſorrow purchaſe the
funereal requiſites.
LXXIII. pen. 242. Beggar baſed: Irus (Arneus)
of Ithaca. Hom. Od. XVIII. -
LXXV. ii. —- Strike hands : be ſurety. No
maxim have moraliſts, ſacred and profane, more in
culcated, than : He, who hateth ſarcti/ip, is ſure.
Yet danger itſelf is ſometimes duty; and ſuch it
muſt be known, ere incurred.
LXXXI. i. 244. Dreams : never wholely regar
ded, or wholely negle&ted, muſt have everywhere
proved ſometimes the ſource of attention, and always
the
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the food of impoſture. Solemn were the ceremo
nies for averting ſuppoſed omens, or for ſpelling fu
turity; and female were in former, as in latter days,
frequently the performers. Enormous were the de
mands of the conjurers or conjureſſes; firſt for the
indiſpenſable ſalted cake, which the Greeks made
C O M M E N T
B O
P A
II. x. Opiniº'yºrs Romes 632, in which L. O
248. pimius Nepos was conſul, with Q. Fa
bius Maximus, afterwards alſo Allobrogicus: a year
producing wine fit to keep two hundred years. Wine
feems thus to have marked Opimius, no leſs than
Opimius wine. Nepos indeed compounding (like
impos, tho' with oppoſite crement) powerleſ, infan
time; came to ſignify not onely a grandſon, but a
debauchee; yet, from either, to conſtitute an inno
cent ſurname. So Maximus, ſuperlatively great,
ſoon ceaſed to imply more than family-merit, pecu
liarly however diſtinétive of the Fabians, III. xxxiii.
V. ix. 249. Caryſos : 514.
VIII. iv. 251. Cap, of liberty : III. xxxvii. ant.
537.
XII. ant. 253. 7%e Delphic : marble-buffet.
XIX. i. 255. The hue of fair nature: green.
— laſt. —- Afteed; knightly. 519.
XXI. i. — Criſpin : II. xcviii. 534.
XXII. x. 256. Scrouges. Whatever may have been
in Pythagoras' article, (5 io) ſuggeſted againſt the
doćtrine of 7 ranſmigration ; ſome ſuſpect the ſug
geſter a very Pythagorean : no other indeed than
Martial himſelf, animating ſuch an alien to London,
as he was to Rome; and not onely preſenting his
own improved works, both in Latin and Engliſh;
but writing his own Comment upon them. One, ſay
they, will appear on collation; the other by the
R. T I A L. 543
of barley, the Latins of wheat; then for wine, in
cenſe, and whatever elſe, impudence could extort
from ſuperſtition. On piacular luſtrations, Alexander
ab Alexandro (V. 27.) is copious; nor is Macrobius
leſs worthy peruſal, On the Dream of Scipio.
ON M A R T I A L.
O K VI.
R T I.
communication, which the tranſmigrant alone could
make of Epig. XXII. at large, with Phaſis' genuine
harangue; which, tho' as identical as tongues can
tranſmigrate, neither Rome nor London could ad
mit in the Text; but which either muſt admire, as
an antiquity exhibiting, when both languages had
attained their ſtandard, the vernacular ſtile of both
times. The Latin original is no more neceſſary,
(perhaps leſs,) than it was ſeventeen hundred years
ago. Then it may have appeared in the original
comment ; and thence vaniſhed, when it had an
ſwered its end. But the Engliſh, giving a ſpeci
men of what we ſometimes admire from venerated
pens; and always accept from numberleſs tongues, of
the Capital; may have its uſe, as well as its enter
tainment.
XXII. On P. H. A. S I S.
Our ſov’rain lord’s auguſt command,
That bids the ſeats diſtinétive ſtand;
That bids the knightly rows be fixt,
Nor multitudes be longer mixt;
Hear Phaſis, mid the knights, atteſt;
Refulgent, in his purple veſt;
His wiſdom fluſhing in his face :
* Pe have at length reſoom'd our place,
And can, with doo diſtinčtion, set ;
Nor ve, the great, and wulgar met.
Pºe
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We dooly can behould the play,
Sence ve in no confuſion LAY.
Of ruination vonc't afear'd,
P'en ve was " N E IT H E R ſeen, or hear'd ;
Tell this day, wite as alablaſter,
Bew RAys me of myſelf no maſter.
...ONE can't ſcarce recolle&t the tithe,
Of all that hove th' equeſºr'an ſigh.
'Tis now ſome comfort, for to think,
That we was on ly on the brink.
A H U M B le; no, A N H 1 GH delight
Pricks us for to aſſart our right.
Cur'affy need never acs,
Nor need no wits be on the racks.
Childern can, as the larn'd, atteſt, -
Of bond AND free, which is the Best.
Ef You but look, AM on G mankind,
2 ou’ll ſee that T H E Y are not ſo blind,
As for to call them things in doubt,
Or on Those so RT of themes to ſpout.
Then let’s not wine; but, on the whing
Of cHIE fest exultation, ſing,
AN univorſal jubilee;
And ſuch AN one, we never ſee.
We ne'er was bleſt with bounty bigger:
So ſhall us cut a tearing F1 GURE ;
Nay, cut a flash, with much f AcILITY,
In this here LINE of troo G ENT I LITY.
* All nations and ages have been liable to corruption
of language, no leſs than of manners ; of one indeed, with
the other. Groſineſ, and affediation, walking hand in
hand, have ever been apt to ſuppreſ; liquefaction and
aſpiration, where either was reſpectively indiſpenſable;
and to ſupply them, where intolerable; to tranſpoſe, in
'terchange, or otherwiſe alter, with ſtreſs, at once quan
tity and ſºund ; conſequently to make ſound and ſymbol,
tho’ no models of each other, perhaps too faithfull pic
tures of the ſenſe. The interchange therefore of the de
prºffve labial aſpirate, and the braud liquºffer; or ºf
v and w, however repreſented; has been general, where
ºver the above fatal ſºfters have reigned. But, while
they uniformly animated the organs of a Phaſis; many, that
continued to join him in other beauties, begged leave to
diſºnt in this. To exhibit a juſt verſion of ſo curious
an antiquity, it ſeemed proper to mark the ſtile of the
elder ſºfter, or the obſolete, Italic; of the younger, or
the Auguſtan, ca PITAL.
M M E N T
Util 1 TY and lust Re shi Ne
Their cor Usc AT 1 on s o'er our LIN E :
No rif-raf rubbing in vicinity ;
Nor none, but of our cons A N GUINITY.
'Tis with avi D1ty and chear,
Tog ET H E R we're Ass E M B led here,
No inſolence APP Roach 1 N G NEAR.
Go in the countery or town,
A knight is know'd from e'er a clown;
And quite as ſoon purceiv'd his knowled GE,
In AN half-hour, as in AN whole age.
Yet 'wat was all MAN K1 N D, but fools;
Ef they was not train'd up in ſchools?
There all my com PANY were high,
* Who thought the M selves as good as I:
THE PUB L 1 c k Now, if here I LY E.
I bother'd them, in pride of purſes:
But it was ME, that made the worſes.
So a'n't us, as we was of old,
We are got 1 N the age of Gold.
From we Nce, high Sirs, 'twixt you and I,
You was a wa N D’RING cert A1 NLY ;
As how you thought that 'wat was wrong,
Would laſting, or, in short, be Lon G.
1 ou muſt allow, that was but I there,
7 ou had No room to tremble N E IT H E R ;
And wen you ſee me that there day,
I dar'd, as now I dares, to ſay,
Wat now You need not I to tell Ye,
Do but pro-wide for back and belly;
Be this with watſomever crown'd,
And that with toonic, or with gownd;
Your rank is safe as mine, AND sure ;
Let thunder G Rowl, or tempeſt Pou R.
Our dignity we knights regains :
The mob N or ſcrouges us, or ſtains.
Wat, though our terrour on ce was G REAT,
Leaft we ſhould loſe our ancient ſeat
Whoe'er H at H more or lºſer fear,
May bold, like ME MY self, come HERE.
Whoe'er's aftar'd, I a'n't, nor w’an't
Not never that myſelf I v A UN tº;
Nor nought my manly mind can D Au Nt.
Nor yet let none ſuſpect me saucy,
Like a low feller of the cauſey.
Yet I’ll the matter w Hole D1scuss,
Ef cur’ous you, or covetyous.
For, immater’al though it be,
Preſumptious i'n't it not in me;
Who
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Who never play'd no Anti Qy AR1 an ;
Yet still a Roman, no barbarian;
To give your hopes an high IN cent a rive,
Nor lºſer, to your fears, PREvent at Ive.
As I sat out then, and B E G UN,
Before the horſe of Moon or sun ;
And, ºf I had not yet Be GAN,
7%u all confeſt I were the man,
From who your conſolation spru N G,
On who your ſorrows all You flu No :
Who no induſtry ne'er could vary,
Watever might be ly’d contrary.
Than whom a more Accept ABLE,
Could neither debt or doubt diſpel.
You can’t ALLEGE, that now I dream,
Or wander for el GN from my theme:
A worſe from ſtrouging with the ſcum,
How glad I was, when HERE I come *
And ſooner here we ſhould have came ;
But othergueſ, folks was to blame.
Of woes the cloſe, of joys the soorce ;
As Caled on 1ANs ſhape their coorſe.
But, oh! I feel a ſudden woon d’—
Nor more : the paly Phaſis ſwoon'd.
The purple robes, that brav'd the ſkies,
Heard awfull Leótius roar: Ariſe. -
XXVI. i. 257. Wenal maze; a public encloſure,
where the people aſſembled to vote, and where auc
tions were held. It is therefore named, VII. x.9.
the Hoard: ; as from likeneſs, and original deſtina
tion, it was commonly called the Fences or Folds.
XXX. ii. 259. Flaminius’ round: the Flami
nian Circus, or crockery-market; for pottery and
glaſs-ware.
XLI. i. 262. Julian Calend, Term. day. 475.
— xiv. -- The Aricinian mound: near Aricia,
a hill, the reſort of beggars; like the Bridge in the
laſt line. III. xlvi. 3.
XLII. iv. 263. Ball: I. ii. 16. laſt. 514.
XLV. vii. 265. Autolycus : 488.
XLVI. ix. 266. Myrin : I. ii. 45. 1. 515.
xi. —- The candid or fair napkin, the fig
nal of ſtarting (474), vaniſhed.
- xxi. -- The bald-pates in lawn: the prieſts
of Iſis, with their fiſtrums, like kettle-drums.
A a a a
R T I A L. 545
B O O. K. VI.
P A R T II.
I. i. H” indignant ſage: Cicero, to whom Rome
267. owed the detection of the conſpiracy. To
him, and ſtill more to Salluſt, we ow the maſterly
account of it. Julius and Pompey were mutual fa
thers and ſons in law.
III.iv. —- Tully: ridiculed by Juvenal for the
unfortunate line, which Dryden not unfortunately
rendered:
Fortune foretun’d the fatal fall of Rome;
When I, her conſul, ſole conſol’d her doom.
IX. vii. 269. Latin; Latinus, a comic player,
Panniculus his but: like Harlequin and Scaramouch.
XIII. iii. 27o. Myron, an eminent ſtatuary in
ſilver and braſs; famed for a heifer: Praxiteles, for
many maſterpieces, particularly two Venuſſes, in
marble: Scopas, for his hand in the Mauſoleum.
Mentar and Mys were the moſt renowned carvers of
plate.
XV. iv. 271. Apon. Aponus, a village and foun
tain, near Patavium. Various were ſaid to be the,
qualities of the waters: ſome ſuppoſe here a com
pliment to Patavian modeſty. Plin. Epiſ. I. 14.
XVI. ant. 273. Philips porch ; of Hercules' tem
ple, reſtored by Auguſtus’ father-in-law.
XVII. x. —- Halmyrotes: Marinus.
XX. i. 274. Middle beds of three, each holding
three. The middle bed and place, counted the moſt
honorable: yet the loweſt of the middle bed ſeems ſuch
here. Thoſe tricliniar couches, when the citron
orbs, (round tables,) came into uſe, gave way to the
lofty Creſcent, which ſhaped C, and named Sig
ma, contained fix, ſeven, or eight. Servants en
tered at the opening.
XXIII. i. 275. Corinthian; voluptuous: (XXXIII.
ant.) Galbanian, gay.
XXIV. ant. 276. Hirpinus ; a heroe-horſe. A
pretty fellow muſt therefore be a knowing one.
XXVII.ii. 277. Celenean: Cybele's Attis.
vi. -- Ides, of July ; when the knights, in
purple robes, with olive-wreaths, commemorated,
in
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in proceſſion from Marſes temple, a vićlory obtained
over the Latins, under the auſpices of Caſtor and
Pollux. But Ides were always high holidays.
XXXIX. i. 281. Artemidore and Calliodore: the
gifts (or votaries) of Diana, and of Beauty's Queen.
XL. ii. —- The diffic: XII. clvii.
L. iv. 284. Argus’ death: III. ix. 14.
-m-m-
B O O K VI.
P A R T III.
IV. ii. Four and three days: a term of aſſured beau
288. ty, after eating hare. Plin. XXVIII. 19.
VIII. xvi. 290. Laugh-compelling. Philiſtion, a
comic poet of Nice, in Bithynia, and contemporary
to Socrates, died of laughter: as did Sophron, a
i mimographer of Syracuſe : with whoſe writings
Plato is ſaid to have been ſo entertained, that on his
death-bed he kept them under his pillow. With the
Mimes of Publius, the Syrian, was Julius Ceſar ſo
pleaſed, that he preferred them to thoſe of the
knight Laberius; which, tho' inferior, were not
contemptible,
C O M -M E N T
B o
II. xviii. 313. Sºº : III. xvii. laſt. 537.
V. iii. 314. Pacorus: king of the Parthians.
Parthia, ſouth from Hyrcania (which lies ſouth from
the Caſpian) eaſt from Ariana, the now Corazan ;
weſt from Media, Servan; north from Carmania,
Chirman, which parts it from Perſia; names (and
venerates) all her kings, Arſacians, from Arſaces,
the founder of the monarchy.
— xii. —- The Pharian Jove: The Egyptian
gale.
M E N T
XXIII. ix. 294. A ſalamander: whether the ani
mal, whoſe juce or gore was ſuppoſed fatal to hair;
or an inſtrument contrived for ſuch purpoſe.
XXIX. ii. 296. Coryc: I. ii. 3. Io. 491.
XLI. viii. 3oo. Zoe cai pſyche : Life and ſoul.
XLII. ant. 3ol. The bird-brayer: onocrotalus, (E-
lian, XVI. Pliny, X.) is by ſome taken for the
bittern.
XLIII. xiii. 3oz. 7 he monuments, without the
walls; near which plied the thence-named Summe
nian or Buſ?uary proſtitutes.
LIV. ii. 205. Have his own: the form of divorce
being, Have, to thyſelf, thine own.
v. – The Megalenſian purple; the Pretor's
robe, when he celebrated the games in honor of the
Mighty Mother: 484.
LV. pen. 306. julius’ law, reenforced by Do
mitian: againſt adultery.
— laſt. —— Thou vow’ſ, not wail'ſ : thou a
voweſt and ſecureſt (by wedloc) no new connexion.
The vail being aſſumed by the bride; when a wo
man married, ſhe was ſaid to vail.
LXV. xii. 309. Arachne, having challenged Mi
nerva to weave, and been outdone ; was turned by
her antagoniſt (Ovid, Met. VI.) into a ſpider. Pliny
(VII. 57.) allows her the invention of flax, her ſon
Cloſter that of the diſtaf.
on M A R T I A L.
O K VII.
— xv. —- The julian olive: with which the
heir of Julius, the imputed deſcendant of Iulus,
crowned the Minervalian vićtor: 47.o.
X. v. 316. Achilles has from Homer ſwiftfooted,
as the principal epithet of the heroe. So Priam had
been named Podarces, till he became the ranſomer :
488.
— ix. —- The Hoard: ; VI. i. 26. 1. near
which ſtood Neptunes temple, with a portico, ex
hibiting the Argonauts: 494. 545.
- xiv.

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— xiv. —- Sad heifer: Iſis: 479.
-xvii. —- Fortunes and Favors. Public baths
were kept by Fortunatur, Fauſtus; Lupus, Gryllus.
The laſt was low and gloomy; that of Lupus, high
and airy; thence Eolian.
—xxiv. 317. The god; Mars: from whoſe field
he is, one way or other, driven.
— pen. —- Bull; Jupiter bearing Europa:
514. ' wild animals; exhibited by the Ediles, in the Flora
— laſt. -- To ſup; according to the idiom,
with which Leonidas cheared his four hundred he
roes at Thermopylae: On, my Lacedemonians. We
may perhaps ſup in the Shades. Thermopylae, or,
ſimply Pylae, was the paſs of Mount Eta from the
Phthian (Achilles' country) into Theſſaly. There
they ſacrificed thouſands upon thouſands of Xerxes'
myriads, and at laſt their own lives; that their
country might gain a little time, to make a more
effectual ſtand.
XXIX. ii. 325. Beneath a roſe. From the cuſ.
tom of the ancients, when they indulged convivial
..joys, to wreath the head with roſes, and ſoke the
hair with eſſence, has deſcended the ſignificant hint
of ſecrecy: Under the roſe.
— laſt. —- Has doutleſ, far out-liv'd the life
of man. Here, and wherever elſe our bard pretends
to enforce ſenſual indulgence, irony points but the
keener ſatyr; his ſyſtem being indeed that of him,
who had ſaid: One day, ſpent according to thy
precepts, O Philoſophy, is to be preferred to a cri
minal immortality (5 Tuſc. Queſt.). How happily
Cicero ſoars into coincidence with his greater. One
day in thy courts, is better than a thouſand.
XXX. i. -- Amycle's band: the wreath of Pollux
there born: 476, 504.
— iii. - Nooning; the Roman prandium, per
haps a ſportule of fruits. That cheeſe was often the
luncheon of ſervants, we learn X. xciii. 7entacu
tum, breakfaſt; uſed of old, chiefly by childhood,
age, weakneſs, or indulgence; conſiſted merely of
bread, ſays Plutarch, (Symp. VIII.); joined by
our author, XI. ccxx. Apuleius (Met. I.) adds
cheeſe; which he may borrow from the nooning.
Coena, ſupper, correſpondent to our dinner, was the
great common ſocial meal. II. xcvii. VII. v. and
following.
XXXIV. viii. 328. Picenum; a fertile region of
Italy on the Adriatic, now the March ºf Ancona, was
A a a a 2
º
º
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peculiar for olives. Its capital was Picentia, now
Picenza. Oil eſſenced the living and the dead.
XL. iii. 329. Cryſtallines: tranſparent pebbles;
ſplit and poliſhed; which the ancients uſed in their
windows, as we do glaſs.
XLIV. laſt. 331. Emperor: Claudius, poiſoned
by a muſhroom.
XLV. iv. -- Her brutes: hares, roes, and other
lians. (III. Epiſtle.)
XLVII. xv. 332. Punic apples: Pomgranates.
XLIX. ant. 333. The roſin: Pitch-wine.
LVI. pen. 336. Phineus: 495. Edipus : 539.
LXII. i. 337. Maffilian furnaces, or fumaries,
prematured the wine. But Maffilian laws, letters,
manners, were early famed. Maffilia (now Mar
Jeilles) one of the moſt noted cities of the Narbo
nenfian Gaul, (503) was founded (or refounded) by
the Ionian Phocians flying before Cyrus grandſon
i
of Cyaxares (Ahaſuerus) king of the Medes and
Perſians; while Zedekiah was king of Judah, the
elder Tarquin of Rome, and Solon gave laws to
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LXV. i. 338. Twice five, ſeſterces (18 p. h. f. f
or 1 s. 6 p. h. f.); allowed each knight for his re
freſhment during the exhibition. Ten cyaths were
ſeldom, a ſextary (513) never exceded. Luxury oc
-
caſioned many ſumptuary laws. The Fannian, of
588, confined a Senators expence, to a hundred Aſſes,
on a public day.
LXVIII. v. 339. Sweet eye, farwel! So cried
a Frenchman, to his fingle eye, gone in a fencing
ſchool: Adieu, mon euil; et, bonne nuit, Meſſieurs:
and ſo had cried, in like circumſtance, a Greek:
Anthol. Lucil. XI. xaſ;’ intº ps;1 with which coin
cides, at leaſt, Miltons, Hail, holy light !
LXIX. i. —- Snap of the thumb, called a flave.
LXXI.ii. 34o. Saguntum, or Saguntus (now Mor
ºvedre, near Walencia) a Tarraconenfian colony; from
Zacynthus (now Zante) in the Egean. Pottery
might diſtinguiſh her in our poets days; but her fi
delity to Rome had been her ancient glory. Beſieged
by Annibal, ſhe choſe rather to periſh by fire, than
fall into his hands.
-vii. - Rhetus: a Centaur, in the convivial war
with the Lapiths, encountered, Ovid ſays, (Met.
XII.) with a brand, Theſeus, who had the gob
blet.
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blet. The other alluſions point noted charaćters of
the Iliad and Eneid.
LXXII. i. 341. The Crumb : an exquiſite cenatory,
or ſupping-room, which Domitian had conſtructed,
and ſo named for its diminutive beauty. Thence
appeared a Mauſoleum, ſuppoſed of Auguſtus. By
the Romans, the ſame articles were employed in life,
and at its termination. Nard itſelf, Pliny (XIII. i.)
tells us, confiſted of verjuce, ben, ruſh, coſt, ſpic
nard, amomum, myrrh, and balm.
LXXIV. ii. — The Quincunx: (513) five cy
aths, for Ceſar; according to the ancient cuſtom of
drinking a bumper for every letter of what is now
called the Toaſt, or of the name commemorated.
julius, (LXXV.) II. ciz. Flaccus, (LXXVI.) II. lii.
Rufus (LXXVIII.) II. lxxxviii. Turanius (LXXXI.)
II. ci. 534. IV. ii. 35.
LXXX. laſt. 344. Somnus ; alluding perhaps to
the three cups, with which the Greeks cloſed their
entertainments: To jove, the Savior; to the good De
*
C O M M E N T o N M A R T I A L.
B O O K
P A
I. i. Ithebearer: Saturn, or Time, mowing all
351. things, in order to make them riſe; ſpeaks
here, as everywhere, his beneficence. He mowed
indeed down the labors, and diſtinétions, of the
year; into a well-earned enjoyment, and unemu
lous equality. During the five days (no wonder if
protracted to ſeven, XI. ccxiv.) of this higheſt as
happieſt feſtival, which began on the fourteenth to
the Calends of January (our nineteenth of Decem
ber); a perfect vacation took place. Every allowa
ble indulgence ſucceded. Buſineſs, corporeal and in
telle&ual, was ſuſpended. Inſtructor and pupil were
diſcriminated, by age and attainment; maſter and
ſervant, by interchange. To the ſolemnity of the
gown was ſubſtituted the caſe of the tunic, or re
E N T
mon, or guardian genius ; and to Mercury, the com:
mander (488) of ſleep.
LXXXII. xxix. 346. Ball: ; XI. ccxviii. 1.
— xl. — Frontinus twice, Conſul; the
double date of the caſk.
xlix. 347. Parties: I. ii. 9. 1. 491.
LXXXIII. xi. —- Velabrum : a diſtrićt of Rome,
near the Aventine; where ſmoked cheeſe, oil, and
other articles were ſold.
LXXXIV. i. 348. Atreus: III. xliv, Io. 538.
LXXXV. x. 349. The ruddy provokers : quills
of the Phenicopter: II. xxxviii. 15. 530.
xv. 350. The bold ſtroker: male or female,
eſpecially the latter, exerciſed the delicate art of
gratifying every limb, at the proper pauſes of the
entertainment.
xxix. —- Liguria: the now Genoeſe,
xxxii. -- Myrrhines: a ſpeckled and pel
lucid Porcelain.
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VIII.
R T 1.
vel-veſt; and all the family of pain, fled before that
of pleaſure. Expanding benevolence had no object
but expanſion of joy; and this feſtivity, beyond o
thers, muſt be diffuſive of generous tokens. Nor
could ſuch union of innocence, liberty, and love;
but excite the idea of a ſtate naturally mans, ere
he had abuſed it; and hopably his, when atone
ment ſhould be attended by duty, the parent of ex
pećtation.
II. i. 352. Parro: a name, however high in va
rious chara&er; ſo celebrated by ſuch a judge, leaves
us onely to regret our being denied farther acquain
tance ; of which our deſert can beſt appear, from our
improvement of his paragons. Sophocles has never
been, at leaſt by poſterity, envied the unequivocal
honors
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honors paid him. But the lord of the Calabrian lyre,
muſt have been another Horace; who, by conſtella
ting the Greek Lyrics, reduced them all into frag
ments.
III. i. 352. Atticus: ſtill more honored by re
ſemblance, than by relation, to T. Pomponius At
ticus; whom Cicero, Nepos, and Plutarch, have
taught us ſo highly to honor. While his own wri
tings, in Greek as well as Latin, we have to regret;
we taſte their and their authors refle&ted value in the
writings of his correſpondent, and hiſtorians. But
his works (as every mans) are thoſe of his virtues;
which, were they leſs enſured of terreſtrial luſter,
muſt everlaſtingly follow him.
— ix. 353. Poff : a ſtake, againſt which young
fencers floriſhed, as if againſt an enemy.
VI. ii. — Of name Laconian: the Endromis, o
riginally Peloponnefian, was a freze ſent to Rome,
from Sequania; that part of the banks of Sequana
(the Seine), now La Franche Comté.
XII. vii. 355. Coãans: ſmall figs from Syria;
whence ſlaves were choſen, as (Amazonic) porters
from Cappadocia
XIV. i. 356. The pretor’s crown: a wreath of
gold or filver, by him preſented to the vićtor.
— xi. 357. Date: the gilded compliment to
the patron, as to Janus an 4, on his Calends.
- xiii. — Beans: Egyptian; large, when
boiled. -
- xx. — The ly: Batavian. II. xxviii. 1. 527.
XV. xi. 358. Cinyphian: IV. ii. 52. zo. 542.
— xvi. — The lote: cheriſhed by Pallas; for
loving the Triton, her beloved lake in Libya.
– xvii. -- Arion: II. xiv. 1. 525.
XVIII. ii. 360. Lingelº: various implements, like
a tongue: particularly a ſpoon or meaſure of three
drams and a ſcruple, or the fourth of a cyath : in
terchangeable with the cockler, which had at firſt
been a ſhell, or ſo ſhaped.
XIX. viii. 361. Lucanian ; of Lucania (now
Baſilicata) joining Apulia, as Horace hints; his
Venuſium lying between them. The Faliſtian was
a rich territory, of Etruria; ſurrounding Faliſea, be
fieged by M. Furius Camillus, about the year of
Rome 359. During the ſiege, a ſchoolmaſter con
dućted out of the city, for an airing, the flower of
the Faliſcian youth : which flower he preſented to
Camillus. The latter, full of indignation, ordered
the preſenter to be ſtripped, and ſtriped back into
R T I A L. 549
the city, by the innocents he ment to betray. The
Faliſcians could not hold out, againſt ſuch an at
tack, a city impregnable to arms. After a ten
years fiege, he ſapped Veii. Accuſed of triumphing
with white horſes, and of miſdividing the ſpoil, he
is by Tribunician envy, relegated to Ardea, a town
of Latium. The Senonian Gauls, then as formi
dable to Rome, as their ſucceſſors may now be to
London, ſeized the junčture, ſacked the city, be
ſieged the Capitol, and were weighing its ranſom;
when the exile, named Dićtator, rallied the Ro
mans, ſurpriſed the Gauls, and reſtored the liberty
of his country. The Gauls again invading, were by
Camillus, a fifth time dictator, routed on the Anio.
Having oft ſaved the Romans from forain foes, and
oft from their worſt enemies, themſelves; ſecuring
their peace, as extending their power; the ſecond
founder of Rome was, at fourſcore, carried off by
the plague.
XX. ant. 362. The Calend of the god of war; (II.
lii. 17.) the day of our poets birth, and perhaps the
parent of his name ; was alſo the high female feſ
tival, celebrating the birth of Venus. This, as the
Saturnalian, expanded freedom ; and with freedom.
ſuch reciprocation of benefits, as amounted to com
munity of poſſeſſion. Ranks were not confounded,
but interchanged. Miſtreſſes attended their maids
in the one, as maſters their men in the other. This
momentary golden age revived the golden rule: the
high learned to command with moderation, the low
to obey with attachment. Mutual duty received
new charms from the new light, and humanity re
fiſtleſs improvement from the alternation.
XXI. iii. —- My growing ruſh: XI. ccx. 2.
v. -- Thee the preſent ſhould ſpeedily find.
Preſents were love-tokens in every feſtival: in none
more than in that of conſanguinity or kindred. Nor
could any feſtival be more natural, or more impor
tant, to the ſocial creature man; than that which.
riveted or reſtored union, his all of happineſs be
low. No other then were the Love-ſtaffs of the
primitive Chriſtians, (Chriſtianity ſublimating love,)
than the continuation and improvement of the Con
ſanguineal feſtivity, or the Feaſt of Relations, ſyno
nymous of old to the Feaſt of Friends: ſolemnity of
/ocial joy, well named Chariffia...! ſo near the Eucha
riſtia, or Euchariſt, that unites friends below and
above. Ovid and Martial, with congenial ſouls,
panted ſimilarly after higher inſpiration and enjoy
ments.
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ment, than Providence was pleaſed to vouchſafe
them. Faſº. II. 617.
Hail, happy feaſt! that cordial kindred knew;
Where diſcord di’d, and newborn union grew :
Where all conglob'd, whom Nature render'd near,
Beheld, if aw’d, the ſocial gods more dear.
* This firſt feſtival of Humanity, Walerius Maximus
(II. I.) in one ſentence diſplays: “ Another anni
verſary entertainment our anceſtors inſtituted; and,
from its nature, called it Chariffia; to which, be
fide relations and allies, no one was admitted : that
ſo, if between friends any umbrage had ariſen; a
mid the ſolemnities of the table, and the expanſion
of ſouls, by peacemakers mutually invited, it might
be done away.” It was celebrated on the eleventh
to the Calends of March, ſay ſome ; ſay others, on
the Eve to the Ides of February. 474.
—-m-
B O O K viii.
P A R T II.
I. i. Iodore: a muſician, in favor with Veſpa
364. fian, and now with his ſon.
C O M M E N T o N M A R T I A L.
B o
I. iii. IS bones, Nigrina. With wine the pile
375. extinguiſhed, the departed ſoul was ſo
lemnly invoked. With well-waſhed hands the bones
now colle&ted, were ſprinkled with wine and milk,
and expoſed to dry. Dry, they were mingled with
aromatics; and, with what aſhes could be delicate
ly ſaved, depoſited in the urn; where all was anew
refreſhed by the pious ſhower.
Various have been the hues of mourning. Na
ture, deeply touched, muſt prefer the ſable. The
E N T
V. i. 367. The Ides (the 15) of May, in the year
259, dedicated a temple to Mercury, near the great
Circus. The feaſt of the dedication became the
birthday. Wirgil: II. lvi. lvii.
X. ii. 368. Her boy: Jupiter.
— iii. 369. Pylian : 475. 521. Terentus'; 485.
XII. ant. — Thy down. The beard-day was
anniverſary, as the birthday: one commenced, the
other matured, the man.
XIII. xi. 370. The fame: of Iſis.
— xix. — Tullus : IX. vi. vii.
XVII. i. 371. Sky-blue Britons: whether from
Ceſar's ſaying, that they tinged themſelves (479)
with woad; or, from diſtance, blending them with
the ſky.
XVIII. i. 372. Cyllene's glory : Mercury. 488.
XIX. i. — Sulpitia : remains but in one ſatyr.
— viii. — Byblis, for love of her brother,
who fled; ſays Ovid, wept a fountain.
XX. viii. 374. Drunk: with ſented oil.
XXI. v. —- Evadne: Capaneus' conſort, who,
unable to ſurvive him, threw herſelf frantic on his
pile. Alcºffe: 487.
o K IX.
very name here given the mourner, intimates her
guiſe. Tibullus (III.) throws light on the ſubjećt.
The ſole remainder of my looſen’d frame,
Be awfull gather'd by the pious dame;
Who, when my ſoul ſhall have explor’d her reſt,
Shall hug, my whiten’d bones, in ſable veſt.
III. i. 376. Wine: the centurions ſymbol, and in
ſtrument, of authority.
IV, iii. -- Here Fuſtus lies: II. lxxxvi.
* aft.
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- ant. -- Aftone, erečted in Dacia to his
memory, by Julian, who avenged him.
VI. i. 377. Tullus (Domitius) mentioned by the
younger Pliny, VIII. 18. as well as by Tacitus,
III. So Aquinus and Fabricius (VIII.) by Polybius.
X. ii. 378. The Cleonean ſtar: 487.
XII. i. 379. The courtier: I. iii. 15.520.
XIV. ii. — Severe: Severus, Silius' younger
ſon (Pliny, Ep. III. 7.). Linus, the maſter of Or
pheus (48o) ſon to Calliope. Palatine jove: Domi
tian: 520. Tarpeian joves ſon, Sarpedon (493); ſlain
by Patroclus. En. X.
XVIII. i. 381. Fronto and Flaccilla have been
variouſly, in various punétuation, taken: by ſome,
for the poet’s; by more for Erotion’s, parents, gone
before her. A third party holds Flaccilla the mo
ther alive, recommending the child to Fronto, the
father, in the ſhades.
XX. iv. 383. Annual honors, to the worthy, were
paid at their ſepultures. Pythagoras enjoins it. He
rodotus records it. Various were the rites and in
vocations. Wine, metheglin, or other liquor, was
poured; and certain repaſts were conſumed on the
hallowed place.
XXI. i. —- Canace: alluding to another tender
tale, ſung by Ovid, of Macareus and Canace; chil
dren of Eolus, the hoſpitable king of the Vulca
nian, from their Volcanoes; or, from himſelf, the
Eolian iſlands; now named thoſe of Lipari, between
Italy and Sicily. Lipara, the principal, ſhone by
night. By the ſmoke of Strongyle (now Stromboli)
where he reigned, or (ſay others) by the tides, Eolus
foretold the winds; and thence was, by Mythology,
made their king. But the very name ſpeaks at once
blowing and variety.
XXV. i. 385. Glaucias: the freed boy of Me
lior Atedius (II. cxi.) no leſs celebrated by Statius:
Silv. II.
XXVIII. iv. 386. Caſtricus : II. civ.
• ix. -- The goddeſs: Salmacis, II. xxxi.
17. III. lxxv. Io. 528.
R' T I A L. 55 I
XXIX. iv. 387. Her name he hallºw'd. The mo
nument was conſecrated, with the inſcription, D.
M. S. Diis Manibus Sacrum. Sacred to the awfull
Soul. And ſo ſacred were the premiſes, that they
did not always deſcend with the eſtate. If lineally
reſtrićted, the inſcription was, H. EXT. N. S. He
redes externos (or exteros) ne ſequatur. Let this not
go to aliens: This field ſhall be inalienable. Thus
Horace, Sat. I. viii. 10.
For carcaſes refuſe, this common ground,
Of vile buffoons, or debauchees, was found.
One thouſand foot in front, this ſtone aſſign'd;
To bare three hundred was the flank confin’d:
That, with the hallow'd, nought profane might
blend,
Nor theſe dred mounds to alien heirs deſcend.
XXXVIII. ix. — Him, of Diffean breed: from Dićfe,
(now Laſti) a mountain of Crete. To Ovid, and
his friend C. Julius Hyginus (whether Spaniard or
Egyptian, freedman to Auguſtus, and Librarian to
the Palatine Apolle); are we endetted (Poetics II.
189.) for our acquaintance with Cephalus and Pro
cris. Aurora, leſs ſuccesfull with Cephalus than
with Tithonus (477), could excite the jealouſy of
Procris. After a little quarrel, the reenforcer of
union, the lady, aſſures her lover by two tokens:
her unerring ſhaft and faithfull Lelaps. Cephalus
would next morning prove both. Procris ſtole after
him into the forreſt. Hot with the chace, he cried:
Sweet Aura", come. Procris, full of Aurora, ruſ.
tled behind the buſh. Certain of prey, he ſent
the arrow. The unfortunate was arrained on Areo
pagus, or Mars-hill; where his acquittal proved the
ſecond deciſion of that awfull Athenian tribunal.
The twelve judges, who ſat by night, that they
might ſee, onely the cauſe ; unanimous in the clea
rance of Cephalus, could no more hinder his tur
ning into a ſtone, than Lelaps' into a ſtar. II.
xxxv. 2. 528.
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C O M M E N T
B O
HIS, and the following book, contain the Sa
turnalian preſents: everything eatable, drink
able; uſefull or entertaining. The convivial were
doutleſs the principal hoſpitalities, for which the
Romans retained the Greek name Xenia; as they
did Apophoreta, for the Saturnalian tokens uncom
priſed in the immediate entertainments; and lite
rally Carrioſables. This was as natural, but as
needleſs, a compliment to the parent-country,whence
thoſe feſtivities were imported; as are our police and
belles lettres, to that principal parent, not onely of
our Polity and Polite Learning ; but of Britons an
cient and modern, of the Gaulic and Engliſh Lan
guages.
On the firſt day, ſays Vitruvius (VI. 10.) Stran
gers were invited ; entertainments and accommoda
tions, for day and night, were reddy. Stores, cel
lars, poſſeſſions; houſe, heart and hand were open.
On the laſt of the five (or of the two ſupernumeraries),
as if the day of ſupplement or deſert; every rural
produce ; fowls, egs, vegetables, eſpecially fruits,
were ſent round to thoſe, whoſe modeſty had been
ſhy of acceptance. Painters or poets, unable to
proffer the realities, ſubſtituted the pićtures or po
fies ; which enriched the entertainments with luxu
ries, that affluence cannot always beſtow.
XXVIII. i. 396. Parent-arms: in Perſia.
XXX. i. 397. Cybele's apples: from her favorite
Atys, Attys, or Attis, turned into a pine. Met. X.
XXXIX. i. 398. Cypariſis : another beautifull
unfortunate ; who, having chanced to kill his favo
rite ſtag, wept himſelf into a fountain. Silvia's :
the cauſe of the war. En. VII.
XL. ii. —- No fence: Anacreon, II.
XLII. i. — Dependant from the clif: alluding
(perhaps) to Melibeus: Wirg. Ec. I.
ON M A R T I A L.
O K X.
Go, my once happy goatlings; charmers, go.
No more ſhall I, in verdant cell below,
Behold you bid the lofty branches bend;
And fearleſs ſee you, on the rock depend.
XLVI. ii. 399. Erythrean: (477) elephantine.
LIV. ii. 4oo. Porphyrion: not onely one of the
rebellious giants; but the Greek name of Purpurio,
Nero's driver (491) of the Green.
LXII. i. 4ol. The letter: Y, or the Greek A ;
which, from the flight of cranes, Palamedes is ſaid
to have invented, (IV. ii. 46. pen. 542.) as well as the
arrangement of armies. But what might he not in
vent, if Plato allow him the father of arithmetic *
Of calculation he ſeems indeed the founder in Grece;
thence of games, weights, meaſures, and celeſtial
motions. During the Trojan war, he is thought
to have added the Greek aſpirates b, e, x, and the
compound articulation 3. This laſt, as uſeleſs,
the Attics long oppoſed; the Eolians always, with
juſt reluctance therefore, did the Romans receive the
(X) nexure ; which, certainly unneceſſary, muſt pro
duce embarraſsment ; for it involved either power
cy or gº (really gº.); as in pix and ſtrix, inſted of
pics and frigs. -
LXXIII. i. 4oz. The Sicilian wheel: 471.
LXXVI. ii. —- Pella, in Macedon; for Alex
andria: the former the birthplace of the latters founder.
LXXX. i. 493. Char, ſays Pliny (IX. 17.) alone
of the finny race, chaws the cud; and Sturgeon, by
inverted fins, ſwims againſt the ſtream.
LXXXII. -- The gilt-head: perhaps the now
Jean-Doré, and our john Dory ; lent his name O
rata (or Aurata) ſays Macrobius, (III, 15.) to one
Sergius, who loved him dearly.
LXXXIV. The Shrimp. II. xxxi. 16. III. lxxv.
Io. 528.
LXXXIX.
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LXXXIX. i. 404. Cerretan: a Spaniſh nation,
near the Pyrenees, diſputed hams with Cantabria,
now Biſcay: as did Menapia (containing the now
Juliers, Clever, and part of Guelderland) anticipate
diſpute with the whole modern Weſtphalia.
XC. —- Gooſes liver, ſwelled as large as gooſes
ſelf ; by the injection of metheglin, milk, figs wet
and dry.
XCIII. i. —- Th’ Etruſcan Moon: Luna, (now
Porto Wenere) an Etrurian port, abounding in white
marble; and enormous cheeſe, fit for Servants Lun
cheon. Weftinum was a territory, bordering on the
Sabine and Picentine ; therefore not far from Tre
bula; II. xxxvi. Pelabrum; VII. lxxxiii. 11.
XCVIII. ii. 405. Hºſperian: Spaniſh. From
Spain came the beſt Anchovy-pickle, or Caviar.
Antipolitans of Antipolis, now Antiles. The The
ſtan hill: Hymettus. Penafrum (III. xiii. 2.) in oil
beats Italy, ſays Pliny (XV. 2.), as Italy the world.
CV. i. 406. Liquid grain ; ale: metheglin, honey
wine.
.. . . .
C O M M E N T
B O O K
I. xvii. 27°Hebe: ; the war of Edipus' ſons, Eteocles
4 II. and Polynices, ſung by Antimachus
and others, too heavy to come down. Papinius Sta
tius, no more loaded like them, than light as mo
dern abortioners; beſtowed twelve years on the The
baid, which has therefore lived already ſeventeen
hundred. Some have marvelled that our poet and
he, both ſo intimate with Stella, ſhould ſpeak no
intimacy with each other. But the ſource, of the
wonder, might ſpring to diſpel it. Statius, if not a
Roman, was a Neapolitan. He too may have held
Martial a forainer: nor would he, without peculiar
cauſe, have been overlooked by a genius, who ce
lebrated, with the ardor of friendſhip, perhaps every :
other eminent contemporary. They were but like
(; 10) the Attic Muſe, and the Divine Philoſopher.
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CIX. ii. — Iulus, the founder of Alba, 519;
whence Mount-Alban, 47.o.
-
- -
-- * * *
CXP. i. 407. Maffe and Falernian differed lit
tle ; the Surrentine inferior. The mountains run,
ſays Pliny (III. 5.) Falernian, Calenian, Maſſic,
Gauran, Surrentine. Near Naples was Mount
Trifoline. Along Campania ranged the copious
towns, Sinuºſa, Setia, Fundi, Cecubum, Anycle. Au
lon (now Caſºri vetere) was a Calabrian mountain, op
poſite Tarentum. The Mamertimes, a Samian co
lony, incorporated name and nation with the people
of Meſſana (now Me/ina), in Sicily. Julius uſed
Mamertine, at entertainments. belonged to
Ceretan
Cere, in Etruria; Marſcan to the Marſi, neighbors
to the Peligni in Aprutium, now Abruzzo ; as theſe
to the Spoletines in Umbria. Signia (now Segni)
was a town of Latium. Tarraco, Maſlia, and
Wienna (Wienne) in Gaul, we know ſtill better than
Cnoſus or Cnoſus (484) in Crete.
oN M A R T I A L.
XI.
II. i. —- A bill of fare proves the titles, of the
Hoſpitalities and Carrioſables, to have been Martial's.
Thoſe of the other books, muſt have often, if not
always, been adapted by his Editors.
III. —- Tablets were waxed over, of various co
lor; and inſcribed with a ſtile or pencil, like our
pocketbook. Similar was their ſervice : one prin
cipal however, the conveyance of notes, addreſſes,
or epiſtles. Fivefolds, ſpeaking the number of leaves,
were employed to announce a triumph, or other
public honor decreed to the emperor: in whoſe courts
ſacrifice was performed. I. i. 2. 16. 20. Pitellians,
of diſputed origin, were the inſtruments of amorous
correſpondence. Pellum, a ſpecies of parchment, in
vented by Attalus, or Eumenes, at Pergamus ; when
paſted or pargeted over, anſwered the ſame purpoſe,
as
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as the wax, Word (XI.) of tourſe have not been
invented in this age, nor were always practiſed in
any. Compliments delight with equal reaſon,
the giver and receiver; when adequate, and fin
cere: II. lxxx. lxxxiii. Without propriety, they
abuſe the objećt; without fincerity, they proſtitute
-- ſpeech.
XV. i. 413. The Memphian reeds, ſays Pliny,
xVI. 36, ſuited beſt their cognate Papyrus, the B
gyptian flag (V. xviii. 23.); whence, by tranſmuta
tion, our paper. Still preferable, adds he, are the
Cnidian; alſo thoſe, that grow about the Amaitic
lake. That lake (of Armenia) had its name from
an infamous as unſeemly goddeſs, called Anaiti; ; in
whoſe temple was celebrated a Bacchanalian feſtival,
commemorating Cyrus’ vićtory, rather vengeance,
over the Sacae, or Sacians; a Scythian People, by
whom he had been defeated : whom therefore, by
leaving his camp full of ſtores, he decoyed into riot
and deſtruction.
XX. ii. —- Paniſht : VI. i. 45. 21.
XXVII. 414. Tallies were larger than dice. Four
were uſed of the former; one, two, or three of the
latter. The tally, originally, an ancle-bone, of
ſome little animal, had but four ſides dotted: ha
ving no two or five. The moſt fortunate throw of
the tallies, was, where they were all different: one,
three, four, fix. Such throw was named Venus.
The ace was called the Dog.
XXXIII. ii. 415. One annoy ; Hyacinth killed,
by the Zephyr-blown diſk of Apollo.
XXXIV. ii. — The muſic of the jinglers. If
canthus, not cantus, be (as ſome think.) the true
reading ; the ſecond line becomes,
To boys it runs a hoop, a ſtrake to me.
XXXVI. —- Hand-ball: III. lxviii. 9. 538.
XLIV. i. 416. Liniment: 504. Hide: VI.ii. 19.
L. ii. 417. Hail, weapon l a compliment to Su
ra, ſo inveſted by Trajan.
LII. ii. -- Saber. So Pope (aged ſeventeen)
from ſtill ſublimer ſources:
Then uſeleſs lances into ſithes ſhall bend,
And the braud fauchion in a ploughſhare end.
LVIII. i. 418. Silk and ſking curls: battling in
the original; and the learned being doubtfull, whe
ther to ſecond; the engliſh pin has attempted a
E N T
compromiſe, and to bind both down to good be
havior.
LXI. -- Martiar: from the now Baden, if not
Marpurg.
LXIII. 419. Myrobalanum, having four ſucceſ.
five ſhort ſyllables, could not enter Greek or Latin
heroics. Pliny (XII. 21.) finds it among the Tro
glodytes (Ethiopians that live in caves) in the The
baid, and in the Arabia parting Judea from Egypt :
a common fruit, like the filberd; teeming with oil,
as its name implies ; intimating it alſo the acorn of
the Heliotrope, or Turnſol.
LXV. ii. —- Ninus; the firſt king (489) for his
domain. He founded, at Nineveh, the firſt empire
of Aſſyria; 514 years, before Rome began.
LXXIV. ii. 420. Cinyphian: IV. ii. 52. zo. 542.
LXXV. —- Slippers, were of various kinds.
Theſe are ſuppoſed to have been woollen, for the bed
chamber. Covering onely the ſole and heel, they
were laced over the naked foot.
LXXVI. ii. — A knight his own: I.iii. 12. 18.
LXXVII. ii. —- Enſurance: VI. i. 32.4.
LXXIX. 421. The Sportule: V. i xix. 481.
LXXX. — Endromis: VIII. i. 6. 549.
LXXXIII. —- Syntheſis: VI. i. 37.2. VIII. ii.
4, 21. /
LXXXIV.i. — Santonic: III.xxxviii. 5. IV.ii. 19.
LXXXV. ii. -- Callair: gold-color: II. cxxix. 2.
LXXXVI. -— The frieze-cloke: V. xxxiv.
LXXXVIII. 422. -- The Gabardine: V. xxvi. 1.
XC. i. —— Green: I. ii. 8. VII. lxxxii. ant.
XCII. -— Amethyſłine: literally, unmuddled.
The Sidonians, from Sidon, the grandſon of Ham ;
when expelled their city, by the king of Aſcalon; 68.
years before the taking of Troy, and 240 before the
building of Solomons temple; founded (whether a
firſt or ſecond time) on an iland two hundred fur
longs (twenty-five miles) from Sidon, Sarra, after
wards named Tyre; who ſoon became, and long con
tinued, the capital, not onely of Phenicia, but of
Commerce.
XCIV. i. — The ſhepherd: Paris, to Helen.
XCV. 423. Pollentine : of Pollentia, on the Ta
narus, in Liguria; now Polenza, on the Tanaro, in
the Genoeſe.
XCVII. -- Canuftan: of Canufium, on the Au
fidus; (now Canoſa, on the Oſanto; ) in the Daunian
Apulia,
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Apaña, twenty-five furlongs from Cannae, now
Cannº
XCIX. -- Peacoc-bed: made of citron, veined
or painted like peacocs-feathers; if not indeed co
wered with them. Pliny, XIII. 15. Ov. Met. I.
C. i. — Sigma: VI. ii. zo. 545.
CI.ii. -- Lingonie: or Leuconic. The Lingones
and Leuci inhabited, where are now the cities Langres
and Toul ; adjacent, and of fimilar produce. Hence
the interchange of Lingonic and Leuconic: the former
prevailing (III. xxxviii. 5) for the manufacture of
ſhaggy or coarſe cloths; the latter alone, for flocks,
VI.iii. 42.8. for either, V. lxxxv. 17. and the Epi
gram following this. Some bring Leucomic from Leu
conium, an Eolian town; or, by Greek origin, from
the whiteneſ of the wool. The Circenſian locks were
ſuch ſhreddings of reed or ſtraw, as are ſaid to have
been ſtrown (or ſtuffed) under the ſpectators of the
Circenſian games.
CIII. i. 424. Anycle: II. xxvi. 9, 527.
CVIII. i. —- Catullus’ land, the Veronenſian:
II. cxxviii. 1. Helicaons, the Patavinian, II. I. 2.
CX. —- Guſtatories, holding the whet, were of.
ten covered with tortoiſeſhell : an invention of Cor
bilius Pollio, whom Pliny (IX. 11.) calls a prodigy
of luxurious power. The ſea-tortoiſe was obviouſly
preferred.
CXI. 425. A Citron-table : V. xxiii. 9. VI.i.
12. 6. -
CXII. i. -- No-daughter — but next. Pliny,
XVI. 5.
CXIII. i. — A bull's vaſt weight: I. ii. 23.
CXV. Spunge: X. xcii. 2, 528.
CXVI. i. —- Barbel: V. XXIII. 11. VI. iii.
33- 9. -
CXVII. ii. — Sprout, VII. lxxxii. 31.
CXVIIſ. ii — Chaffe Sibyl: 519.
CXIX. i. 426. Aretiums vauſes: III. xxxviii. 7.
CXX. i. – Painted Britains, or Britons: VIII.
ii. 17. I. 55o. Baſcauda, proviſion-baſket, or veſſel,
invented in Britain, came to be made at Rome.
CXXI. ii. -— Rhetian: Griſon, perhaps Rheniſh.
CXXIII. -- Serce : VIII. ii 9. 10. VI. i. z. 9.
CXXIV. i. -- Spoletine: X. cxxi. cxxii. VII.
lxxiii. 2.
CXXV. ii. — Ingenious thirſ. Pliny XXXI. 3.)
gives the ingenuity to Nero.
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CXXVI. i. -- Maffilia's ſmoke: VII. lxii. X.
cxxiii. - t
CXXVII. i. 427. Cold water, in the pitcher;
warm, in the pitcherling. The latter line bids li- .
terally, Forbear to wanton with capricious thirſ'.
CXXVIII. ii. —- Fronto: perhaps he, II. cxvi.
CXXXI. — Beakers. Calathus, the Calath,
originally an oſier-baſket; came to fignify a beaker,
or flaſk for wine ; peculiar to the orgies (48o) of
Bacchus. The tiguer and tigreſs are ſaid thence to
ſuck the wine, that tamed them for drawing his car.
I. i. 18. pen. I. ii. 25.
CXXX. i. -- Cups (III. lxix. 5. VII. ii. 4.) of
four noſels. The author (a Beneventan) comme-,
morated alſo by Juvenal (V), was alike deformed in
body and mind: ſo a natural favorite of Nero (Tac.
XV); in the double capacity, of calumnious arrai
ner, and ſcurrilous jeſter.
CXXXI. i. -— Slaves: VI. i. 3o. 7.
ii. — Saguntums clay : VIII. i. 19. 16.
CXXXII. ii. -- Surrentums wheel: X. cx. 2.
CXXXIII. i. -- Scythian fires : I. Ap. xiv. 3.
VI. iii. 36. 6. With our poet agree Juvenal (V.42.)
and Pliny (XXXVII. z.) that many transferred the
gems, from their fingers to their cups. Mentor and
Mys: VI.ii. 13.7. VIII. i. 15. 1. Callaic : II.
cxxix. z. cxxx. 6. V. xxxii. 3.
CXXXVI. i. 428. Coſinus and Niceros are our
choice perfumers; forain plainly both, and ſo more,
fragrant : VI. iii. 33. 6. VII. lxxxv. 33. VI.ii.
24. 4. VIII.ii. zo.7. With Marcelius (VI.i.33. 5.)
have we occaſionally delt. Numberleſs were they
doutleſs, for the living and the dead (VII, XXXV.
pen. lxxii. 3.); and not a few compoſed the eſſence
of the gentlemen and ladies, whom we commemorate
in the fixth book. Every thing, as well as every
perſon, was perfumed : every eatable, drinkable,
wearable. -
CXXXVIII. i. -— Genius of the Nile / Egypt,
as in all arts, ſhon in glaſs of all colors: ſhe blew,
turned, carved it. Sidon, her neighbor, had alſo
a noted glaſſary; and Rome roſe a rival to both.
Her glaſs became audacious (CXXXIX. i VI, i 30.
6.) as cryſtal; which, ſays Pliny, (XXXVII. 2.) is
but ice petrefied. The material of the Myrrhine he
thinks a ſubterraneous humor condenſed: Joſeph
Scaliger holds it preciſely porcelain.
CXLII.
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CXLII. i. -- When ſnaps the thumb: VII. lxix.
1. lxxxv. 17. 547.
CXLIII, i.-429. A ligule, ladle or ſpoon, (T. iii.
12. 19. VIII. i. 14. ant. 18.2.) as well as poniard,
ſwordgraſs, latchet, or other petty thing, in a lin
gual, or tongue-like form ; was originally lingula,
a lingule or tonguelet; and ſuch continued the literal
diminutive. Ages after diſtinction had dropped the
liquid in the figurative ſenſes, was that dental reve
rentially preſerved alſo in ligula, the ligule; by ſuch
etymologiſts, as deemed it equally eſſential, where
no part of the eſſence; that is, of the ſound. If our
critic pronounced thoſe grammarians ignorant, who
thought themſelves more than commonly knowing,
and more than mortally brave, for maintaining an
exiſtence that was paſt, and denying an exiſtence
that was preſent; for thus flying in the face of that
Analogy, or harmonious Pračtice, which Martial
knew as well as ever did Horace, to be the unerring
potentate of ſpeech: what would he have thought
of thoſe, who either brought into a language, or
kept in it, letters not onely ineffective and uſeleſs,
but often unetymological, and always embarraſſing;
who labored to explode or exclude original and in
diſpenſable repreſentatives or ſupporters of invaria
ble ſound; or, who were fond to employ certain
ſymbols, announcing one reality, where another muſt
be expected To the firſt of the three claſſes be
longed lingula, where become ligula. Yet both re
mained, tho’ the literal rare, in their reſpective de
partments. In ancient days was not ſeen, what in
no days has been heard, the n of the Cumbrian Pen
rith. Modern learning holds antiquity ignorance,
who knew no better than to ſay the truth, or to
draw pićtures after realities. But in Engliſh, never
could be effective the n of government, however eſ
ſential to its parent gouvernement : yet Analogy ſuf
fers little from that radical. In Engliſh never was
& a conſtituent of det or dout, more than p of receit.
Receipt is now indeed as antiquated, as debt or doubt
muſt become, when Reaſon guides equally the pen.
Some centuries ago were they imported from recepte,
debte and doubre ; which viſual forms deformed and
belied the French language, almoſt to the beginning
of the laſt century, that ſhe began to ſeek and find
Analogy. This produced Orthography, and with
her, the juſt pićtures, as well of the triſyllable re
cette, as of the diſyllable dette, doute. Our receit is
:E N T
as happy a picture: for it adopted the expedient ſer
vile, when it ſpurned, like its parent, the imprac
ticable. Det and dout no more admit than require
any ſervile; elſe truly ſervile would they continue
to that Rote, which diſdains the dominion of Reaſon.
The s of inſula and iſºla pretended uſe in the iſle
of France; and thence, without pretence or oppo
fition, invaded the iſle of Britain. Befide prolon
ging the vowel, it begged to proxy the z of vex,
with the ce of vicecomes, in viſcomte ; and was re
ceived with open arms by a Britiſh Viſcount. French
Orthography ſubſtituted a circumflex, in ile and v1.
conte, even to the plauſible radical; which, defying
at once Engliſh Analogy and Utterance, muſt quit,
with better cauſe, our ile and vicount.
But, if one tongue were, as no tongue can be, de
pendant on another ; no plea, either of parentage or
intrinſic power, have foreign and ſovereign, to uſurp
the place of forain (if not ſorrain) and ſeverain; the
obvious children of forain and ſouverain; the latter
of ſovrano, as the former of foraneus. The French
parents were, poſſibly between three and four centu
ries ago, written foraing, ſouveraing; when the
French un was ung, as the naſal ſeemed to require.
Dignari and fingere, daigner, and dédaigner (once
deſdaigner); frignant, not feindre (tho' once per
haps feingdre); campagna; campagne, with Cham
pagne, tho’ not Campania ; have an indiſpenſable li
quefier. So, undoutedly and indubitably, is b an
eſſential as effective articulation of debere and dubi
tare, debitum, and debitor; débiter and débit, of da
bius and dubious; dubietas, dubiété, and dubiety. No
pretence, either of eſſence or uſe, claims the there
fore embarraſſing as unnatural figures of deign, ſeign,
campaign, champaign; more than thoſe of diſaeign,
feignt; of pleign and atteign (from plaindre, and
plangere, attrindre and attingere) or than thoſe of the
intolerable as impracticable debt and debtor, doubt
and doubter; with their families: for dain, fein,
campain, ſharpain ; with diſłain, fºnt; plain and
attain; det, dettor; dout, douter; and the reſt. If
reign be indulged, on the petty plea of eye-ſervice,
with the liquefier of regne, as well as the native ſer
‘vile; no law, forain or domeſtic, can vindicate ar
raign for arrain; more than arragat, for arrant.
While ſuch intruders have been hugged; indiſpen .
fable both effectives and quieſcents, have been by
many dropt with like zeal and knowledge. The laſt
word
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word in the feeble ſyllable, requires no more d than
college; but the latter of alledge, being the enforced
fyllable, cannot drop the inſertive (d), without
changing the vowel it muſt guard ; more than ledge,
Iodge, or judge: etymology being abſolutely forain
to the purpoſe; and the Engliſh ſound of alledge and
its family, totally unconnected with all-gare, all
guer, allegatio; nay with allegiance, as much as with al
legation; or with alléger, allege, loge, or juge, as with
legere, locare, or judex.
They that diſmiſs proper ſervants, are apt to re
tain the pernicious. The ſame pen writes blackſmith
and horſeback; uſeful and recal; for blacſmith and horſe
bac; which, being ſufficient, are more defenſible than
their fimples, back and black; where bac and blac
might ſuffice. On the other hand, if full, and call,
be juſt ; uſefull, and recall, are indiſpenſable.
The feeble final our, is at length. dropping
idle u from authour, labour, inferiour; now author,
labor, inferior, with their fellows. But other mutes,
more deſtructive, remain: the a, in many beſide
read the paſt of read, lead the metal, dealt, meant
and cleanſe; e, the former ſervile of fleece and Greece,
and falſe ſervile of vineyard or farewel; the i of
juice, and nuiſance; the o of leopard, and jeopardy; the
u of guard; for red, led, delt, ment, clenſe; fece, Grece;
vinyard, farwel; juce, nu/ance; gard, as regard. Mean
time have vaniſhed, ſoon to return, the neceſſary a
of boaſt, e of onely, u of wrauth; and the like.
Leſs numerous is the third claſs: the ſymbols, that
miſrepreſent ſound. Of this however is the 4 (for ty
in ſubtle, as well as the o (for a) in thought, and its
companions; duly painted by (a no-blind) Milton,
and many before him; ſuttle, thaught, and ſo
forth. But too numerous are all three claſſes, for
Preſent diſcuſſion ; and too important, not to claim
a ſeparate treatiſe, which they have not claimed in
Waln.
CXLIV. ii. -— Why? From primal ſhape.
CXLVI. i. -- Holm: meaſure, or rule, divided
into feet and inches. - -
CXLVIII.ii. –– Prometàean. IF. lxxiv. 5 : 533.
CXLIX. ii. —— Purple throng: I. ii. 9. 49 I.
CLIT. i. 430. Whe beeſºm, formerly made of palm
branches; grew in value, as in need, with the growth
of luxury. The teſſelated pavements, were often to ,
be picked, rather than ſwept, after entertainments,
- *
R T I A L. 557
(VII. xlvii. 24.). In this idea, one reading of the
latter line might be rendered:
But now the relics leave the broom to play.
CLIII. i. —- Long-beard: V. lxxxiv. lxxxv.
— ii. —- Sleep : whether as pouch or pillow.
CLIV. ii. — Timbrel: VI. i. 46. 21. 545.
CLV. i. —- The mighty mother: 484.
CLVI. ii. —- The primal pipe : 487.
CLVII. ii. —- 7 winling flutes. The flute diffe
red from the pipe ; in make, rather than material;
which was reed, box, horn, bone, or braſs;
tongued, or tongueleſs; fingle or double; on the
right and left. -
CLVIII. i. — 7%e magic eff: I. ii. 6. 480.
CLXI. i. 431. Crokers : diſputed. III. lxii. 8.
CLXII. i. —- The Heroe, and the Sapient : A
chilles and Ulyſſes.
the CLXIV. ii. —- The firſt tablet : the fronti
ſpice. III. IX.
CLXVI. i. —- The youthfull theme; Cynthia,
really Hoffilia; as ſaid Propertius, of Achilles :
His theme ow'd the Meonian Muſe no more,
Than the Meonian Muſe her theme before.
CLXVII. i. 432. Tyrant : Delia (Tib. I. 5), by
Martial named figuratively Nemeſis.
CLXIX. i. -- There are who—Quintilian: X. i.
Not Martial : IV. i. 11, and following.
CLXXI. i. —- The lengthen’d way. III. vii. 2.
CLXXII. ii. —- Enormous Livy. Of 14o books, a
bove 1 ooloſt, leave one of the largeſt works of antiquity.
CLXXIII. i. —- Criſpus : Salluſt, the contraſt
of Livy; and ſo the favorite, not onely of Mar
tial, but of Quintilian. II. 6. IV. 2. Seneca, De
clam. III. Controv. V. 25. Tacitus, Hiſt. III.
Velleius Paterculus, Hiſt. II. and others.
CLXXIV. i. --- The verſe: II. lxvi. laſt. Ano
ther reading would run :
The verſe, that bids the ſervent waters flow,
Will, better than themſelves, their virtue /how.
CLXXV. 433. Piétory : winged; a laurel, in
the right; in the left, a palm.
-
1. -- Rhines renown. I. i. 5. 3.
ii. —- Ten Falernians : VII. lxxiii.
lxxiv. lxxx. 548.
CLXXVI. ii. —- Egis : I. i. 8. 4. 473.
CLXXVII. — Corinthian: of Corinthian
braſs, deſcribed by Pliny, XXXV. 9. and ſung by
Theocritus, XXV.
CH,XXVIII.
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CLXXVIII. —- Hercules, in clay : by the ſame
[Turianus], ſays Pliny, XXXV. 12.
CLXXIX. —- Sauroãonor, the lizzard-ſlayer; a
youth with an arrow, laying wait for a lizzard ; by
Praxiteles: Pliny, XXXIV. 8.
CLXXX. —- Brutus' pigmy • III. xxviii. xxix.
CLXXXI. ii. --- Th’Ebalian ; Hyacinth (X.
xxxiii. 2) ſon of Amyclas, founder of the Laconian
Amyclae ; who is called the ſon of Lacedemon, the
ſon of Semele ; and, in Moſes’ time, founder of La
cedemon. Ebalia, * Peloponneſian, and Taren
tine, was named from Ebalus, ſon of Argulus,
king of Laconia. The Hyacinth, painted by Nicias
the Athenian (Pliny,XXXV. 11.) ſo caught Auguſ
tus, when he took Alexandria, that he brought
the pićture with him; and Tiberius afterwards
conſecrated it, in Auguſtus' temple. So Julius, on
the death of Phryne, the favorite of Praxiteles,
bought of the Theſpians, for 8oominaes of gold,
(2400 p.ſ.) the Cupid that artiſt had held his maſ.
terpiece. Every genius, peculiarly Martial, has
glowed with Ovid's ſentiment:
The arts ingenuous touch a ſoul divine;
Forbid all fierceneſs, and each grace refine.
CLXXXII. i. —- Danae, ſhut up, for whatever
cauſe, by her father Acriſius, could not exclude
Jove deſcending thro’ the roof, in a golden ſhower.
The iſſue was Perſeus ; who, with his mother, caſt
into the ſea in a box, (that is, a bark,) were wafted
from the Argive to the Daunian (Neapolitan) coaſt.
Brought by a fiſher (by the captain) to Pilum
nus, the princeſs caught the king ; who ſent her
ſon for education, to Polyde&tes, the hard-hearted
king of Seriphus (473).
CLXXXIII. 434. Europa 514.
CLXXXIV. —- Leander: I. ii. 42. 499.
CLXXXV. i. -- He, the ſon of Mercury and
Venus, entered the fountain of Salmacis: II. xxxi.
17. III. lxxv. 10,528.
CLXXXVI. i. —- A red Batavian : LX.
CLXXXVII. i. —- Prometheus (II. lxxiv.) revi
ved, had molded this figure of the deformed fuller
Clefippus ; whom (Pliny, XXXIV, 3) Gegania
bought with the candleſtic, for which ſhe paid fifty
thouſand (513) ſeſterces. She made him her huſ
* Some bring Ebalia from Ebalus, ſon of Cynortar,
Hyacinth's brother, who reigned at Amyclae.
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band, and left him her heir: no wonder he wor
ſhipped the candleſtic.
CLXXXVIII. i. —- The heads like that of the
lady, whom Juvenal celebrates (Sat. VI.) prophe
tically of theſe days:
Andromache aſcends, if front you mind:
Who's leſs, than the Pygmean laſt, behind P
ii. —- Aftyanax : VII. lxxi. laſt.
CLXXXIX. —- The targuet, ſmaller, and ſo
leſs fenfible, than the ſhield, ſufficed however (502)
the Amazonian and Thracian ; who were the beſt
gladiators, and ſo forain to the preſent epigram.
CXC. —- The Fool: VI. iii. 51. 4. lxiv. 17.
CXCI. 435. The Ceſius : I. iii. 22. laſt. II.
xviii. laſt.
CXCII. i. —- Cythera’s ne&#ar: Hor. Od. I.
xiii. 15.
CXCIV. i. —- The keen conf: one of the
chief inſtruments of ſmoothing the Papyrus (XV.)
called the Mareotic bark, as abounding on the lake
Mareotis, that waſhes Alexandria on the South.
Another Mareotis, named likewiſe Marmarica, was
that part of Libya, now Barca.
CXCV. -- The Secretary: painted by Auſo
nius, in his 138 Epigram:
Beloved boy, whoſe fingers fly,
My cunning artiſt, hither hy.
The fineſt feelings of my breaſt,
Scarce utter'd, has the wax poſſeſt.
--
From natures grace, thy talent flow'd ;
A bounteous God the boon beſtow'd :
The words unſpoke, that thou divine;
And that thy ſentiments be mine.
CXCVII. ii. —- A marmoſet : leſs like man. So
Ennius, of the female :
How like, alas ! to human ſhape,
The vileſt earthly brute, the ape
To this ſpecies belongs the Ooran-ootang, or ba
boon ; called by the ancients Cynocephalus or Dog
head, having a head ſomewhat reſembling a dog's:
Pliny XI. Ioo.
CXCVIII. ii. —- Golden climes: V. xxxii. 3.
CXCIX. i. 436. The trim hunter: II. cxli.
CCI. i. —- A pup : IV. i. 44.
CCV. i. — I gratulate: IV. ii. 36. 6. VIII.
i. 21. 13.
CCVI.
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©CVI. i. - Saluting raven. Auguſtus, retur
ning from the viðory of Aëtium, was met, amid
the multitude, by a man holding a raven, that diſ
tinétly articulated, Hail, Ceſar, vićtoriok, ! The
viàor gave for the bird, zo,ooo feſterces (513). His
partner in the device, ſharing none of the money,
aſſured Ceſar, that the ſame man had another bird e
qually marvellous; and begged leave to fetch it.
The new-comer croked : Hail, Antony, vićtorious !
Auguſtus ordered the confederates to divide the
ſum. Saluted, in like manner, by a Parrot, the
emperor wondered leſs ; but bought him. Admiring
a fimilar phraſe from a magpy, he could not but
purchaſe her. Apoor cobbler thought he had better
rear a raven. Whether the maſter or ſcholar proved
leſs apt; the former often, after a toil beyond that
of ſhoe-mending, would cry out: Alas ! I have lºft
my labort At length however (ſuch thy power, Q
Perſeverance 1) Auguſtus, paſſing one day, heard
this bird alſo ſqueeze out the compliment. Oh re
turns the ſmiling emperor, I have ſaluters enough at
COMMENT oN
B O O.
1.li. i.i. 439.
—-
ONº AP. . 1.
4 ſea-fight : I. ii. 41. II. lxvi.
pen. lxxxix. laſt. III. 1. pen. XI. lxxiv. 2.
III. i. —- Pardon : I.iii. 13
IV. i. — Why gueſ?: II. x. and fol.
W. ii. 442. Sabinus : II. lxv. and fol.
VI.ii. — 4vitus: II. ci. 534.
VII. i. —- Thirty bad: II. lxxxv, laſt.
IX. i. —- Pyrgi (or Pyrgum) an Etrurian port,
near Antium; whence Martial's works diverged to
mankind. By the Sacred Way, a ſtreet, thro' which
the triumphant aſcended the Capitol, and where the
league was ſtruck between Romulus and Tatius (514);
they now were to enter Rome. II. cxxxv.
X. i. — Why I ſend : III. xlviii.
XI. i. —- To dele the III. x, xxxiv. xxxv. VI.
i. 5.6.
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home; nor had ſo completely ſaid, when the bird
ſubjoined: Alas ! I have loft my labor. Ceſar, bur
fling into a laugh, ordered home the deſpondent ;
and paid a higher price than any before.
One other ſaluter, it is impoſſible to ſuppreſs. As
the emperor deſcended often from his palace, a
Greekling uſed to ply him with honorary epigrams
Auguſtus' patience could not hold out: he penned a
Greek epigram; and, feing the poet, as uſual, a
coming ; ſent his own poetry, to ſtop the advance
of any other. The bard began to read, to praiſe, to
admire, to extol, with voice and geſticulation. AP
proaching Ceſar's litter, he put his hand into a
very light purſe ; and, pulling out a few pence,
preſented them to the imperial Author, with theſe
words: By thine all of happy, Q Auguſtus ; if I had
more, I would give more. Ceſar quaſhed the riſing
laugh, by calling his Purſe-bearer; and ordered (ſays,
Macrobius, Sat. II. 4) 100,ood,ooo of ſeſterces to
the ingenious and ingenuous Greek.
M A R T I A L.
K. XII.
XII. ii. -- Shrewdneſs, as well as ſoundneſs,
which Democritus denied the ſons of Helicon ; to
bards belongs, excluſive of their buyers.
XIII. i. 441. Paul verſes buys : III. xxxvi. New
verſes were recited by their author or owner, in the
temple of the Palatine Apollo ; in every temple,
theater, garden; all public and private places.
XVI. i. —- Long epigrams : III. xxix.
XIX. i. —- He turns the leaf; which the an
cients, eſpecially on ſhort ſubjećts, avoided : II.
xxviii. 12. both becauſe the paper and the reader
could not bear it; eaſily perceiving that the god had"
turn'd his face away. VI.ii. 3. 3. So Horace:
Thou nought ſhalt ſay or do, in Pallas' ſpite.
Of the ſame, or another, Picens; IX. xi.
XXIII.ii. 442. Nobody: III. xxxiii. 33.
XXIV.
 XXIV. i. —- Sent : X. ii. 1. III. vi. 5. Cel
ſus, VI. 8. " . . .
*
. . .
xxv. i. —- A noſ. VII. ii. ant. V. lix. 536.
XXVI. i. — Terentos : 479. 485. *
ii. — Canius : II. cxxviii. 9. VIII, ii.
13. I4. 15.
XXVIII. i. —- "Sahára : who rendered his phi
loſophy lifeleſs, and ſhocking, as his numbers. He is
ſaid to have worſhipped the very images of certain
philoſophers, as his nameſake (vii. xlvii.) did the
diſhes at certain feaſts. The latter might probably
be a relation of Santra (or Sanāra) the cook. VI.
*
iii. 64. Io. - -
XXIX. i. 443. Twenty Aſſes (513.) the rundlet
or firkin, an earthen veſſel, containing about nine
gallons; the buſhel, 26 pound, 8 ounces, at four
Aſſes: corn and wine being ſo cheap, the farmer
feaſted and ſtarved. - -*
XXX. i. —- Pours : IV. ii. 28.
XXXI. i. —- Ravenna : a city of the Gowned or
Emilian Gaul; in ſo ſwampy a ſituation on the A
driatic, that, while her wine abounded, her freſh
water was often uncomatable.
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XXXIII. i. —- Thee, Bononia, thy mender; thee,
Mutina, Scrub – Thee, Bologna, thy cobbler (IV.
ii, 33.); thee, Modena, thy fuller, treated with
gladiators (515). So low became exhibitions, till
the Senate paſt a decree, prohibiting any, under
knightly fortune (516) to offer ſuch entertainment.
XXXIV. i. —— Eutrap : IV. ii. 29.
XXXV. i. —- Pluckt, in a female; clipped, in a
a youthful! ; and ſhaved, in a manly manner.
XXXVI. —- Olus : VI. i. 7. -
XXXVII. ii. 444. A clinic : from bed to bier.
XLI. ii. —- Waxes : tablets, minutes for liti
gation.
XLII. i. — Finic : IV. ii. 5. VI. i. 28. ii. 24.
XLIV. ii. — ?ºur huſh: IV. ii. 7.8.
XLVIII. i. 445. Offhand : IV. ii. 16.
XLIX. i. —- Saluted : IV. ii. 17. . V. xvii.
lxx.
L. i. --- Lord and king : VI. i. 8, 9.
Ll. i. —- Son to a ſlave : VI.ii. 41. (III. li.)
LII. i. — 1/, Cin, Iſr thee: IV. ii. 8.
LIV. i. 446. J/ho denies he's at home ; performs a
ſelf-denial, if not peculiar to ours, almoſt equally
meritorious in any days. This practice, alike be
yond Nature and Revelation, ſpeaks not onely the
abſence of the really preſent; but the real abſence
of the moſt valuable brace, that can inhabit any
houſe: Confiderationand Prihelple;
Were they preſent,
* * they would maintain a doarine, antiquated, we ſee,
almoſt two thouſand years ago: Honºfty is the beft Poli
- - - - -
cy. This, neither Chriſtian nor Pagan, Self-denial;
tho' devoutly (or devotely) denied to the acquain
tance of the two oldfaſhioned friends; without the aid
of their optics, cannot ſee far. She therefore founds
her plan in convenience and accompaniment. By the
two above Oddities, ſhe would have been peſtered
with proverbs. The next would have been ; Two
blacks make not a white : and then, Thou ſhalt not
follow the multitude to do evil. Thou ſhalt not do evil,
that good may come. She might have been provoked
to retort on the ſages, in their own ſtile : In the mul.
titude of counſellers, is ſafety. Prove all things, and
-
hold to that which is good. Now, that evil, would
ſhe ſay, by the grand art, may be ſublimated into
good; is as ſure, as that a certain number (not per:
haps two) of blacks, may be converted into a white ;
and that, by the new philoſophy, it is happily
found impoſſible to follow a multitude into evil: for
—the very multitude tranſmutes it into good. Howe
ver Alchymy may be ſhy, to communicate the pro
-
e
ceſ, wicked Labor, whom Virgil pronounces all.
wiáorious ; can trace it thro' every ſtage. Prudent
as polite Self-denial firſt bids defiance to heaven, by
violating Truth. She then offers the higheſt indig
nity to man, in contempt at once of his converſe,
and of his underſtanding. War thus declared againſt
both worlds, ſhe has onely to extract the conve
nience or expediency; from the precluſion of all
good company, every important communication,
or ſocial joy; of the eaſe, which Candor would give,
in owning engagement; of the power, which Liber
ty muſt preſerve, of admitting ſome, and excluding
others. This extracted convenience, refined as it
muſt be, is neither eaſy in the operation, nor plea
fing in the effect. When therefore poor Self-denial,
fick of ſolitude, or perhaps of the worſt company
ſhe could have ſmuggled, next to her own ; reſolves
to ſhift the ſcene, into the oddity of Truth; the
convenience of her known character is much enlar
ged; by that diſbelief or diſregard, which all liars
meet, on an occaſional variation. Nobody credits
the abſence, if ever ſo real; and no one comes in,
if admitted; of thoſe (and thoſe now the chief cal
lers)
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lers) who ment the viſit to the knocker. But ſelf LXV. i. — Millions, indefinite : literally, a
denial's convenience is not yet complete, more than thouſand times a hundred thouſand, a hundred mil
her benevolence. That her benefit may the better lion of ſeſterces (513. 522). V. lxvi.
catch the community, it begins with peculiar cha LXVI. ii. — Golden ſhow’rs : V. xiv. xxvii.
rity, at home. From the head or heads of the houſe, XI. clxxxii. -

it neceſſarily deſcends to the children and the ſer LXVII. i. — 1%ur wrauth : VII. xviii.
vants. The former learn to ly, before they can LXIX. ii. 448. Anteek: VII. lxxi. VIII. i. 14.
ſpeak; the latter, trained to violate principle in one LXX. ii. —- Therms : VI. i. 5.7.
(and that a fundamental) inſtance ; will not long LXXI. i. —- A pound: VIII. i. 13.
regard it in any other. Law pronouncing, what one LXXIII. i. —- Diodore litigates : V. vi. xxxvii.
LXXV. ii. —- He ows alone : V. l.
docth by another, one docth by one’s ſºf; is the reverſe
LXXVI. i. —- Cinna : V. liii. and fo!.
of rigorous. He, who does good by another, does
at leaſt double ſervice ; he, who does evil by ano LXXVII. i. 449. Poverty : V. lxxxiii. VII. li.
X. cvi.
ther, is more than doubly criminal : he contracts
much more than double guilt, without imparting LXXIX. i. —- 7 he poor a retreat. The rich u
ſingle innocence. By countenance, or by command, ſed, among other ſtructures, to rear a cell for the
he involves, not onely the inſtrument, but the imi poor : for receiving either the needy, or ſuch lower
tator; proportionably, all who ſee and approve, gueſts, as they choſe not to admit into higher apart
ments. V. xxxix.
or not oppoſe : while he is, like a man of honor,
modeſtly reddy, to ſend his beſt friend; if not go LXXX. i. —- Linus : V. xlvii. li. VI. i. 43.
without, or along with him; before the Author and LXXXI. ii. — 7 wice : V. xxxvii. I. iii. 13. 4.
LXXXII. ii. — Matho : IV. ii. Io.
Arbiter of Truth, for the moſt diſtant imputation of
LXXXIV. i. —— Nomentan : II. cxviii. V. i. xliii.
a ly. II. i. 5. V. xii. 12. -

LV. 446. Ponticus : IV. ii. 12.
— ii. —- What he can't ſay, by all is ſang; by
Juvenal at leaſt (IX) : *.
Doſt dream the rich can any ſecret keep
Were ev'ry ſlave or tongueleſs, or aſleep;
* The truth the nags would neigh, the dogs would bark:
The poſts would paint it, or the marbles mark.
LVI. i. —- The branded boy (VI. i. 33), that
ſav'd his baniſht lord, named by Macrobius (Sat. I.
11) and others, Antius Reſºio ; thus branded by his
deliverer, whoſe marks are eraſed by his revenge.
LVII. i. —- A fool : XI. cxc. V. v. lxxx.
LIX. i. —- Blue driver : I. ii. 9. 491.
LX. ii. — Ocean : III. xxiii. 16. VI. i. 19.4.
LXI. i. 447. Dedal: 491, 499. Lucanian, VIII.
i. 19.8. 549.
LXII. i. — His greater : I. ii. 46. 6. 515.
LXIII. ii. —- Lighteſt mold : IX. xviii. laſt.
xxiv. 2. - - -
LXIV. i. —- Fannius Cepio, proſcribed for con
ſpiracy againſt Auguſtus, left he ſhould be put, put
himſelf, to death. Leſs contemptible perhaps, tho’
no leſs criminal; the condemned, who execute them
'clves. II. ii. laſt. 524.
C c c c
LXXXV. ii. 450. Egs will commence. This ſeems
more conſonant, than the vulgar interpretation, to
our poet’s idea; as well as to the Roman (very na
tural) manner of beginning with egs, and ending
with apples: whence Horaces proverbial, From eg
to apple.
LXXXVI. ii. -- Inſºnſible : VIII. i. 17.
LXXXVII. ii. —- Selling : II. iv. III. lxii.
LXXXVIII. i. —- Sad : VIII. i. 8.
LXXXIX. ii. —- Take on : V. lxxvi.
XC. i. —- On thee : III. xxviii.
XCI. ii. —- Softbian ; li.
XCII.ii. — Unleſ; I read—thy will, unaltera
ble. V. lxx. and following.
XCIII. ii. 451. He had merited more—diſappoint
ment: for, tho’ the legatee had beſtowed much more
than he inherited ; the bequeather had, in ſquande
ring his fortune, done juſtice, at leaſt, to the bai
ter. V. lxxvi. VI. ii. 16.
XCVI. i. —- In the bath, the rich treated their
fellow-bathers.
XCVII. i. —- Ne'er ſips : VII. vii. xiii. xiv.
XCVIII. i. —- 1%u invite : VII. xviii. and fol.
XCIX. i. —- 7hou bidſ . V. iv. VII. xliii.
C. ii. —- Mongrels : VI.iii. 64, pen.
- CI,
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CI. i. 452. 7'ou give: VI. i. 7.8.
CII. i. —- To the boys ; who ſtood at the feet.
CIII.i. —- The hare not done º VII. lii.
CIV. i. -- Frugal and ſober: VI. i. 14. 15.
CV. ii. -- The ſober gown: having no other.
VI. i. 32. XI. i.
CVI. ii. — A cook he made : VII. liv.
CVII. i. — Tucca : III. xxxiv. xxxv.
CVIII. i. —- The ſportule : V. i. and fol.
CX. i. 453. Without a Boar: VII. xxxi. VI. i.
14. I5.
CXI. i. -- Marul or Marullus : perhaps brother
to Marulla : VI. iii. 64.
CXII. i. —- The peals : II. cxxvii. 58. III. vi.
7.
CXIII. i. —- Left worth he praiſe : III. xxii.
VI. ii. 3o.
CXIV. i. — The Keian: VI. i. 9. 4. X. cxi.
CXV. i. —- In glaſ; - V. xliv. 3. VII. lxx.
CXVI. —- Cinna: lii. lxxvi. lxxvii.
CXVIII. i. 454. All promiſe: VII. lxiv.
CXIX. i. — Fabullus : VI. i. 25. ii. 43. iii.
15. 26.44. VII. 21. 35.
CXXI. i. —- The right of three : I. iii. 9. Io.
CXXIV. i. —- Eyeleſ, Aſper, like Juvenal’s
(IV. 1 14.) Catullus Meſſalinus:
Who inly burn'd, for her he never ſaw.
CXXV. i. 455. Thou ft/?: VI.iii. 31.
CXXVI. ii. —- I cannot live : as Ov. Eleg. Am.
III. Io.
Thy morals I abhor, their miſtreſs love.
So nor without, nor with thee can I live—
CXXVII. ii. — A funnel : Atheneus, X. 13.
XI. I. 5. 26.
CXXIX. i. —- Lettuce — Mallows: VII. lxxxii.
T 1. 17.
CXXX. i. —- On eight : VI. i. 38. So Perſius,
III.
The man were mad, would mad Oreſtes ſwear.
CXXXI. i. —- Oppian (VI. ii. 15.) would lay
paleneſs on ſtudy. So Perfius V. as Horace, Epiſt. I.
xix. 17.
Thus folly bears the wretched mimics off:
Did I look pale, they’d bloodleſs cummin quaff.
M E N T
CXXXII. i. —- Thou once ſaw'ſ me: II. xxi.
ant.
CXXXIII. i. 456. Thou wrapp'ſ : VI.ii. 12, 19.
CXXXIV. ii. — Beſhaft - VII. xlviii. 1.
CXXXV. i. —- Perfumer. The Greek word
may intimate, not onely a minion of Coſmus, but a
man of the world; and ſo the diſtic would be:
A member of mankind thou’rt underſtood :
Yet, Semp, the members may be bad or good.
or Coſmetic might preſerve the pun.
Thou a Coſmetic would'ſt be underſtood :
Coſmetics, Tucca, may be bad and good.
CXXXVII. i. —- I love thee not : VII. xlviii.
CXXXVIII. i. —- The cheek: VI.ii. 5. and fol.
CXXXIX. i. -- Preſent’ſ in the original, pro
pin'ſ. To propine was literally to ſp befºre preſen
ting: a freedom the higher ſometimes vouchſafed to
take.
CXL. i. -- Rings : A knight (519) who had
ſquandered his fortune, was obliged to lay down his
ring. Laſt of all, goes the ring — ſays Juvenal : not
ſurely of our Macer, II. cxxi. cxxii. but of a name
adapted to the ſhrivelled charaćter.
CXLI. i. 457. Redhair’d. Pulius happily implies,
what an ingenuous countenance more or leſs muſt,
the meaning. But looks may be miſinterpreted; nor
can features aſcertain, tho’ they may announce, the
charaćter.
CXLIII. i. —- Cenſure : I. iii. 2. and fol.
CXLVII. i. —- Thy litter: cxxx.
CXLVIII. i. —- Seven ſons : I.iii. 9. Io.
CXLIX, i. 458. The god: Saturn. VIII. i. 1,
ii. -- The rings - from a ſlave, a
knight. VI. i. 34. VII. lxxxv.
Zoilus, a ſophiſt of Amphipolis, near Philippi,
on the confines of Thrace and Macedon, was not af
fraid to criticiſe either Homer or Plato. Their ob
vious, and univerſally allowed, merit, kindled that
indignation, which has ſhown as little candor, as
ever could his criticiſms. Unconſcious probably
of malevolence, as of miſconſtruction; Zoilus repai
red to Alexandria, with his Homeric ſtričtures:
which he red, or recited, to Ptolemy Philadelphus.
The king was too knowing, not to honor Homer;
and too much maſter of himſelf, to make the critic
}
any anſwer. The latter had patience, as well as re
ſolution: but neceſſity preferred, at length, a plea
to
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to Philadelphus. His majeſty now fignified, that,
Homer having many centuries ſupported many thou
ſands; Homer's greater could be at no loſs to ſup
port himſelf, and all his partiſans. This muſt be
from Ptolemy (and perhaps to him, 483.) ſufficient
crucifixion. Other croſs therefore, ſtones, or fire,
have been inflićted onely by ſuch commentators, as
make Jephthah's daughter a literal burnt-offering.
CLI. i. —— Thou, Senia, ſay’ſ VI, ii. 30.
CLIV. i. —- At the Coloſ; , I. ii. 2. 1.
CLVI. i. —- The tiny 7 hais : VI. ii. 53.
CLVII. i. 459. The one-ey’d Thais : VI.ii. 40.
CLX. i. —- Leucania’s ‘white : III. xxxix. 3.
CLXI. i. —- Teeth and hair : VI. iii. 39. 41.
CLXII. i. —- The clime, where golden trº/rs
grow ; the North : here Germany. This color was
affected at Rome, by the looſe ; black, by the la
dies. VI. 3. 9. 43.
CLXIII. i. —- Fabby : III. xxxvi. VI, iii. 8.
11. 47. and fol. xiii. xiv.
CLXIV. i. —- One-ey’d Lycori; ; VI.iii. 18. 19.
'likes the lad of Troy: I. Ap. xiv. 10. 524 clvii, above.
CLXV. ii. 460. O that ; in the ſtile of Dioge
nes,
CLXVII. i. -- Philenis : VI. iii. 16. 17. IX.
xxxiii.
CLXVIII. i. - ?ears,—as hairs : VI. ii. 20.
CLXIX. i. — What papa’s and mama's Z Ridi
culous, as infancy in age, is age in infancy. Na
ture, who has her ſtile for every period, muſt not
be ſtifled, in the birth of innocence ; in that uni
verſal as untaught voice, which coming from the
heart goes ſo ſweetly to it; and which is (alas!) in
ino danger of too long continuance, in a world of art.
That theſe are the ſentiments of our tender bard,
the ſteddy foe of affectation ; whoever has ears to
hear, and heart to feel, muſt perceive in every ſtan
za, as well as in I. iii. 3. 4. 5. VI. iii. 7. IX. xxi.
CLXXI. ii. —- No wonder—the ſentiment had
been as much more juſt, as leſs ſevere—if thy lips re
fle& the dung. But this, nearer truth, might have
been more offenſive. Safety lay therefore in the hy
perbole. However the poet did expreſs, or ought to
have expreſſed himſelf; he will at leaſt be forgiven
for hinting, that the vouchſafement of the lips, to
certain favorite animals, is no proof of humanity:
as it cannot encreaſe their happineſs; and may pol
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lute the balm, where its purity is due. IV.i. 44. ii.
36. 3.
CLXXII. i. — Mak'ſ’s VI. iii. 26. 27. 44.
CLXXIV. i. 461. Gold: VI. i. 29. laſt. .
CLXXV. ii. -- Gown : III. xxxiii. 9. 537.
CLXXVII. ii. —- Fabullus ; czix. Them has a
After; ſo had Am : VI. ii. 49. Themiſon was, in
Pompeys time, the head of a ſe&t in medicine : here
he is a leader in morality.
CLXXVIII. i. —- Polla ; not Lucan's : IV. i.
I I. w /
CLXXIX. ii, -— 7% huſband : VI.ii. 57. iii. 55.
CLXXXII. ii. 462. Mute: ſo Horace:
—nor toil; the fourth to talk.
CLXXXIII. i. —- He was . VI. iii. 55.
CLXXXIV. i. — The law: VI.iii. 57. revi.
ved.
CLXXXV. i. —- Eunucs : VI.iii. 64. laſt.
CXCI. ii. 463. Arch Aper: VI. i. 14. Many
are the ways of ſhooting, unarrained; as ſome have
died for murder, of which they were never guilty.
CXCII. i. -- ??u never do : VI.iii. 38.
CXCV. i. —- Deny: VI.iii. 47.
-
CXCVII. ii. 464, Bluſheſ? - VI. iii. 1. a com.
traſt.
CXCVIII. i. —- Seven : VI. ii. xlvii.
CXCIX. i. — Enricht : IX. xxix. xxx.
CCI. ii. —- Brib'd : clxiv.
CCII. i. —- Wenus : VI. ii. 39.
CCIII. i. —– Oakling: II. cxiv. 2. No Roman
tragedy has come down. Apelles : II. lviii, laſt.
CCIV. i. — Turnus : II. lxv. 1 o. ciii.
CCV. ii. 465. julius Rufus : whether the Socra
tic ſatyriſt mentioned by Pliny (Epiſt. V. 21. VII.
25,); or another among Satyrs, of whom are many
figurative, in all cities: and, of whoſe ſtatues, was
a groop, in the eighteth region of Rome.
CCVI. ii. —- Burn Phaeton : Met. II. Pliny, :
XXXV. I 1.
CCVII. i. -- Art ; of high relief, invented by
Phidias.
CCVIII, i. -- Mentor: VI.i.26. zo.
CCIX. i. — Antee; ; VII. lxxi.
CCX. i. -- Why name : VI.iii. 43. 11.
CCXI. i. — My dear friend: II. lxxxviii.
CCXII. ii. —- Palinurus is as well known, as
the (V) Eneid. But a little acquaintance with
the Greek throws additional light on this, the two
former;
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former; and a few ", beſide the four following diſ
tics.
CCXIII. i. 466. Bacchus was, we know (478),
named Bimater, as Apººrwe, Double-mother, from
Semele, and the thigh of jove; which is one of My
thology's groteſk figures for the womb of Providence.
She is always however civiller to Jupiter, than to Ju
no : 507. 514.
CCXIV. i. —- Thee, Pollux : a verſe, which
Homer repeats (Il. III) from Orpheus:
f
Káorogó. Sºrèzuoy, was ºrºž 37.2%, IIoxv?idx=z.
Caſor, alert, to tame the ſoming ſteed ;
And Pollux, ſtrong, to deal the manly deed.
So aroſe Pyxagathus and Hippodamus : IV. i. 27.37.
476. 504. The lady, beſtowing on her champion,
the fortune (516), raiſed him to the dignity, of a
knight; and, from the bruiſer, turned Achillas, to
the heroe on horſebac. - -
CCXV. i. —- Miſtyllus, obviouſly formed from
Homer’s line, both of the Iliad (I. 465) and Odyſ
ſey; which could not therefore avoid the tranſlation
of Virgil:
Mſarvaxá ràea, t'ºxa, x2, &pſpºixoſaw frigay.
So various things they ſlic'd, in beauteous bits ;
Transfixing all, with well-adapted ſpits.
If, however, from pºorvaxo, (they ſliced or minced),
Emilian ſo naturally named his cook Miſyllus;
* IV. i. 43. pen. V. xlii. 3. VI. iii. 41.8, and
orig. V. xxiii, firſt, laſt.
E N T, &c.
prompted by the coincidence of call and command,
in pſarvaxi, Miſtylle; it was no leſs jocularly poſſible to
make of the four following petty words, Páez +&xxx
(and ſo the reſt) the tetraſyllable Taratalla : a
name as ſignificant, in Latin, as the other.
CCXVI. ii. — Tºy 3 &rapsiC3p.svos, 7 on d'apamei
bomenos ; Him anſwering, or To him replying: a
- frequent recurrence in the native fimplicity of Ho
mer; and which Virgil, as familiarly renders, Quem
contra : To whom again. If repetition, as employed,
may be beautifull or abominable; why may not I
too, argues our bard, repeat a favorite theme, to
which I always give a new dreſs?
CCXVII. i. —- A thouſand : indefinite, as the
Latin hundred, three hundred (III. iv. i. rendered leſs
definite, VII. 21. 1.) or ſix hundred, in which the
Romans couched any unmeaſured (522) number.
ii. -- Stuff: literally evil; whether
glancing at the fixth and ſeventh of this book; or,
as the couplet originally runs,
Who epigrams, more than a hundred, would ſwill,
Will never be ſated, Cecilian (VII. xliv.), with ill.
contraſting the apophthegm of Callimachus : A
great book is a great evil, to the deciſion of our
poet's friend Pliny (Epiſt. I. zo): Like other good
things, a good book is ; the greater, the better. Now a
good book, and every good character, muſt ſet its
bounds, in that ſufficience, where nothing can be
added or abated; as its perfection, in the approach
to that ſtate, where propriety can make no change.
I N D E X
 Ocean 515. i. 12 Tethys 515. i. 12
I. AN c1ENT M Y T H o Lo G Y. 491. i. 15 491. i. 14
Nereus 53o. i. 49 Doris 53o. i. 4o
Go D. s and Go D. D. E S S E s. 515. i. 14 515. i. 15
pa. Col. Triton -— i. 19 Thetis ––– 13
pa. col. li. 1.
ANUS 474, ii. 18 Veſta 472. i. 34 471. 1.4
518. ii. 44 Galatea 515. 1. 14
523. ii. 27 Palemon 498. ii. 28 Leucothoe 498. ii. 26
Saturn 474. ii. 20 Cybele 484. ii. 16
Portunus -- - - Leucothea -- - -

536. i. 14 471. i. 9 Proſerpine 471. i. 8

Pluto
548. i. 21 5oo. ii. 27
484, ii. 36 Juno 505. ii. 15 503. ii. 31
Jupiter
514. i. 38 597; 1, 5 514. i. ant.
536. ii. 8 514. i. laſt 53o. i. 42
Thalaſus 538. ii. 11 Durina 514. ii. I 2. Po ET 1 c As T R o No M. Y.
Hebe 597. 1.4
Ganymede 524. i. 11 SUN 479. i. 11 Moon 479, i. 11
Vulcan 481. ii. 41 Venus 482. ii. I
482. i. 35 53o. i. 23 Syſtem 529. ii. note.
Mars -- 11. I 532. i. 33
S T A R s.
484. ii. 29
518. ii. 5 Perſeus 473. i. 44 Andromeda 473. i. 44
534. 11. 33 Libitina Cepheus - - - 45 Caſſiope -— - 45
485. ii. 35 542, ii. 19 Orion 529. i. 29 Ariadne 499. ii. 45
Enyo 514. ii. 31
Bellona '...}
Bootes
528. ii. pen.
476. i. 39 Erigone 528. ii. 35
Pallas 47.o. ii. 36 Lelaps 551. ii. pen. Mera 529. i. 1
Minerva 471. ii. 28 Sirius 529. i. note. Cynoſura 533. i. 23
473. 1. 14 Sun's horſes 476. ii. 26 Helice -- - 22
Diana 485. i. 5
Apollo 485. i. 4 Trivia 471. 1. I Pegaſus 473. i. 22 476. i. 45
486. ii. 8 —-ii. 4 Amalthea 505. ii. 3
Lucina 485. ii. ant.
488. i. 21
535. 1. I 493. i. 19
493. 1. 43
Mercury —-- 27 Ceres 486. i. 6. Phoſphor 476. i. 35
Bacchus 477. 11. 41
538. i. 41 Heſperus -- - 39
479. 1. I 2
479. i. 12 Po Le s. Zo N E s.
Pan —— - 38 Pales 541. ii. 16
487. i. 26 Arétic 474. i. 31 5oz. ii. 21
514. i. 8 5oz. ii. 22
Fauns 479. 1.39 Nymphs 479. i. ant. Antarétic -- – 23
Lares 47.o. 1. 7
8 C 1 R c L E s.
Penates
Eolus Polar 53o. i. 15
Amphitrite 53o. i. 39 Tropics —- - 17
Neptune 49 Zodiac - 528. ii. 17
Occan Tethys ---
Ram
566 I N D E X T o
Ram 494. i. 2 Ballance 529. i. 17 Hercules * 5ol. i. 23 Deianira so;. i. 40
528. ii. 22 -- 25 - Omphale 488. i. 20
Bull 514. i. 36 Scorpion -— - 41 507. i. 2
528. ii. 24 53o. i. 6 Samſon 488. i. 18 Dalilah 506. ii. 3o
Twins 476, ii. 15 Sagittary 493. ii. 14 506. ii. 20
528. ii. 25 529, 11.4 Tithonus 476. ii. 25 Aurora 476. ii. 24
Crab — — — 26 Capricorn 514. i. 8 Memnon 477. i. 4
507. i. 15 529. 11. 7 Cephalus 551. ii. 21 Procris 551. ii. 21
Lion 487. ii. 20 Waterpourer 524. i. 11 Hippomenes 492. i. laſt Atalanta 492. i. 49
528. ii. 34 529. ii. 11 Hippomenes —— ii. 13
Virgin -— — .35 - Fiſhes —— – 13 - Limone -— ii. 15
—— — laſt 530. i. 14 Prometheus 533. i. 24 Pandora 533. ii. 25
Summary 529. ii. 22 Agendr 514. i. 32
Europa 14. i. 32

3. Other Agents of M x t Ho Lo G Y.
Cadmus -— i. 33 fºi, ... ii. §
- -- Semele 477. ii. 45
18
Echion 48o. ii. 44 Agave 48o. ii. pen.
Cyclops 482. i. 4o Muſes 470. i. Pentheus — — pen.
Centaurs 493. 1ſ. 23 Graces 520. ii. 14. Aćteon 481. i. 20
5oo. 1. 42 Gorgons 26
473, 1. Acriſius 473. i. 42
Lapiths -- - - Hours 52 I. 1. 4o
Pilumnus 8. i. 31 Danae . i. 1
Giants. Heſperides
Enceladus 501. i. 12 Fates
491. ii • 5
52 I. 1. 4.
Polydeğtes
Eetes
55* - ;
471. i. 26
473 5
Typhoeus 482. i. 2 Fortunes 471. i. I5
Typhon -— - 3 Harpies 495... I3 494. i. 6
479. i. 18 Furies
Egeus 495.11. 32 Medea 495. ii. 33
52O. 11. 35
Athamas 493. ii. ant. Nephele 493. ii. 44
roºtion #3 496. ii. 35 Ino — — pen.
phy %.”
orphyrion 2 - 11.
- 498. ii. 19 Helle 494. i. i
Phrixus 494. i. 1 Chalciope 497. i. 16
Cerberus 5oo. ii. 28 Pirithous 5oo. i. pen. Hippodame 5oo. ii. 3
503. ii. 35 Aidoneus 5oo. ii. 31
507. 1. 40
- 503. ii. 3o. Proſerpine 50o. ii. 33
Griffin 5oz. ii. note 1 Alcinous 532. i. 5
Phenix 481. ii. 19 *
- - Nauſicae 532. i. 7
Python 486. ii. 25 Icarius 529. 1, 5
Ulyſſes 47 i. i. 42 Penelope 529. i. 5
Inſtruments. Circe 471. i. 31
Caduceus 488. ii. 12 Egis 473. i. 13 Telegonus 471. i. 44
Thyrſe 479. i. 32 Palladium 472.1. 33 528. i. 22
Ceſtus 52O. 1. 42 518. ii. 39 Calypſo 474. i. 16
Auſon 474. i. 15
ºu. 538. i. 37
II. H E R of s and H E Ro IN E s. elops
Pliſthenes —- -
--
- -
31 Hippodamia
pp 53
& 38. i. 37

Atreus -- - 32 Erope -- - 36
Perſeus 473. i. 14 Andromeda 473. i. 36 Thyeſtes — — 35
Erythra 477. ii. 26 Tereus 53o. ii. 6 Progne 53o. ii. 7
Althea 492. i. 1 Tyndarus 541. ii. 2 Leda 541. ii. 2
Meleager 491. ii. ant. Atalanta 492. i. 14 476. ii. 9
Parthenopeus 492. i. 38 Caſtor -- - i.
Bellerophon 492. ii. 26 jobates’ dau. 493. i. 23 Pollux —— – 5
Laodamia - - -
26
494. ii. 14
Sarpedon 493. i. 27 504. 11. Pen.
Medea
Jaſon 493. 11, 9 495. i. 31
Hypſipyle 494. 11. 31 * His Labors :
Creuſa 2I
495. 11.
Orpheus 48o. ii. 6 Eurydice 48o. ii. 17 Amazon 5ol. i. 27 Arcad. Bear 565. ii. 11
538. i. 42 Anteus 504. i. 31 Diana's Hind 563. i. 24
Telamon 487. ii. pen. Heſione 487. ii. 41 Geryon —- 11. 3 505. ii. 17
494. ii. Io Eryx —- - 37 507. i. 33
Peleus —- - II Thetis 515. i. 13 Cacus SoS. 1. 15 Stymph. Bird, 5o;. ii. 24
Theſeus 499. ii. 39 Hippolyte 501. 1. 3o Achelous —— — 36 Hydra --

- - 39
Ariadne 499. ii. 4o Nemean Lion 487. ii. 20 Angean Stall 506. i. 14
Phedra 42 505. ii. Io Recapitulation -- - 24
Pollux,
-
 T H E C O M M E N T. 567
Pollux 527. ii. 6 2. The ſeven Kings of Rome.
547. 1. 34 - * * * - -

Agamemnon 503. i. 26 Clytemneſtra 476. ii. 19 Romulus 482. ii. Io | Ancus Martius 515. i. 6
Oreſtes 503. i. 31 Iphigenia 503. i. 32
-- - 24 NumaPom-l514,
474.ii. Io || Tarquin
ii. 33 I. 519.
Servius Tullius 510. i.i. 23
17 |
º

Pylades -— – 3o pilius 518. i. 44 Tarquin II. 519.1. 19 ;

Menelaus 5oo. ii. 13 Helen 541. ii. I Tullus Hoſ-l-- ii. 8 516. ii. 22
5oo. ii. 9 tilius 519. 11.21
Priam 546. ii. 32 476. ii. 19 3. The twelve Ceſars. |
Paris *:::::: 16 Julius 475. i. 24 Claudius 540, i.45
co. ii. º 511. i. 6 547, ii. 6
Deiphobus sco. – 18 558. i. 17 | Nero 511. 11, ant.
Hećtor 488; i. 11 Andromache 558. ii. 6 ; #. ; sº
fºi. ..". Auguſtus 475, i. 28 (Galba Prºf. viii. 31)
Achilles -- - - Deidamia 492. i. 43 3. * * Vºi. 539. * 32
Pyrrhus -— - 43 Hermione 503. i. 34 558. i f oz. ii ,
Eneas 531. i. 9 Lavinia 531. i. 9 559: 1. Veſpaſ. 507. §
Anna Perenna -— – 7 497. 11 43 #. lan ––.-
- - - 53 I. 1. 29 1tus 490. 11. 4o
Sºlº
Petus
3-6 i. :
54o. i. 45
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Arria
sº t :
54o. i. ant.
Tiberius
Caligula
518. ii. :
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498. i. 23
4. "; 23
Capaneus 55o. ii. 21 Evadne 55o. ii. 21 8 527. 1, 3 597. 11. 3
Admetus 487. i. laſt Alceſte 487. ii. 9 Other Emperors
Edipus 539. i. 11 Jocaſta 539. ii. 8 4- perors.

Eteocles
-

- 11. I 2
Aſtymeduſa -- - 17
- -
Nerya
Trajan
B.'**P.
I A 5*3 || Conſtantine
Theodoſius 516.i.i.416
519.
Polynices —- - - Argia 5oo. 1. 29 Adrian 511. ii. 39 || Honorius 516. i. 8
5oo. 1. 31 Antonine -— — — - 19. i.
Hemon —- - 34 Antigone —- - - 519. 1, 44
Creon —- - 27 - 5. The Ptolemies of Egypt.
Pretus 492. 11. 27 Sthenobea 492. ii. 28 483. ii. 14

Miſcellaneous, yet not unallied, charaders. 6. Other Heroes,

Jobates 492. ii. 39 Cyrus 547. ii. 19 Greek:
Pelias 493. ii. 1 1 || Creſus 509. i. 33 Miltiades 499. i. 6 || Epaminondas 527.ii.pen.
Euryſtheus 507. i. io | Polycrates —— ii. 6 Themiſtocles — – 8 || Alcibiades 508. ii. 9
Iolaus 506. i. 1 || Niſus 499 ii. 28 Leonidas 547. i. 1 1 || Philip 5 Io. i. 5.
507. i. 25 | Lycurgus 494 ii. 36
Phyleus 506. i. 18 Archemorus -— – 37 7. Roman.
Calais 494. ii. 16 || Otho 539. ii. 3o - -- :--! ~ * --

Zethes -— – 17 | Curtius 54o. i. 5 Horatians 519. ii. 17 | Scipio's 471. 11. 32.
Amphinomus 538. i. 25 | Anchurus -- - 14 Fabians 537. 11. I 3 - 523. ii. 16
Anapias -— – 26 || Codrus -— – 24 Camillus -— - 19 Metellians 472. 1. 32
Agathyrſus 479. ii. 34 || Memeceus — — 38 - 549.i.44 | Catoes 523. i. 34
Gelonus — - 37 Marſyas 487.i.4 Curius 537. ii. 24 | Pompey 539. 11. zo
Androgeos 499. ii. 24 || Midas -- - 12 Fabricius 523. ii. 18 483. ii. 32.
Hippolytus 590. i. 12 54o. i. 13 Cincinnatus 537..ii. 27
Phalanthus 526. ii laſt || Thoas 503. i. 22 - -

Porſena 539. i. 2O Amycus 504, ii. 37 8. Lawgivers.

. 546. º : . gº; Moses 483. i. 3 Hºnºu. 521. i. 38 -

Cyaxares
"...
547. ii. 20
-- -
Minos 5 i I. ii.
499. 1. 31
I || ycurgus
Solon 527. —1. laſt
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III. HIs To RI ca L G Roo Ps. E aClls
521. i. 36
-- - 37
| 509. i. 3o -->
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-
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1. The Founders of the fºur Monarchies. 9. Philoſºphers, contemporary and ſºcceſſive. -

BE LUs 489. ii. 31 || CY Rus

- 5
Io. i.
9
Anacharſis o9. i. 4 || Anaximander
509
; io. i. 2
5
-

CY RUS 499 it 6 || Alex AND ER 483. i. 21 Thales -- ii. 43 | Anaximenes -— – 8

509, i, ant. | ENE As 487. ii. 32 7%e 7.ſºge: 519. i. note | Anaxagoras -— – 12
Archelaus
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Archelaus 51c. ii. 23 Arrian --- - 38 Acheruſia 503. ii. 9 Triton 549, i. 34
Pherecydes — — i. 25 Seneca — — — 41 Lerna 595. ii. ant. Mareotis 558. ii. 21
Pythagoras -— - 31 Thraſea 524. i. 21
Philolaus 5 i I. i. 14 Antiſthenes 5 12. i. 3 3. S T R A 1 r s.
Empedocles 481. ii. ant. Diogenes -- - 18
Sicilian 533. i. 17 Cimmerian 503. i. 40
Socrates 5 Io. ii. 20 Heraclitus -— - 28
5 i I. ii. pen. Democritus -— – 30 7%racian 498. ii. ant. Hercules'Pillars504.ii.29
Xenophon 5 Io. ii. 38 Epicurus -- - 45
Plato —— - 39 Pyrrho — ii. 29 4. Fo UN t A 1 N s.
Speuſippus 511. i. 34 Apicius -— - 46 Apon 545. ii. 19 Aganippe 47.o. ii. 28
Xenocrates I. -— – 35 whence
Academics 5 II. i. 31 Caſtalia 47.o. ii. 25 Pirene 493. i. 36
Xenocrates II. -— – 37 Hippocrene -— – 26 Acidalus 520. i. pen.
Polemon —— - 4o Peripatetics —— ii. 2
Ariſtotle -— - 41 Stoics -- - 19 Enippe -— - 27 Salmacis 528. i. pen.
Theophraſtus —— ii. 6 Cynics 512 i. 7 5. R 1 v E R s.
Zeno -- - 20 Epicureans —— ii. 6
M. Antoninus -— – 35 Skeptics -- - 31 Italian.
Epićtetus —— - 36 Tiber 524. ii. 20 | Padus — - 19
Anio -— i. pen. Tanarus 554, ii. 43
1o. Phyſicians. Almo 53o. ii. 3o Liris 528. i. 28
Eſculapius 542. ii. 5 Galen 542. ii. 5 Nar 531. i. 27 | Melphes 534, ii. 9
Hippocrates 541. i. 12 5 Io. i. 35 Rubicon -— - 39 || Ufens 47 I. ii. Io
Cremera 537. ii. 17 || Aufidus 554. ii. pen.
i 1. Poets, or Harmoniſłs. Timavus 526. ii. 34 || Cocytus 503. ii. 14
527. i. 29 531. ii. 1 1 || Galeſus 526. ii. ant.
Thaletas Parthenius 527. ii. 27 Vatrenus -— - 15 541. ii. 4
Arion 525. ii. 13 Pedo 536. i. 32
Simonides 527. ii. 7 Brutian —— ii. 28 Gallic.
Varro 548, ii. 29
499.1. 39
- -

Archilochus 538. ii. 15 Philiſtion 546. i. Io

-- - 12
*}
Rhod 4.
534. 1. 17 Sequana
equan o, i.
549. 1, 19
Menander 535. ii. 14 Sophron
Lycophron 477. i. 29 Linus 551. 1, 9
Antimachus 520. ii. 7 Amphion 527. 11.44 Spaniſh.
553. 1. 23 Timotheus 5 Io. 1. 4
Tagus 525. i. ant. (Iberus Pref. viii. 22)
12. Other Geniuſes.
Betis 504. ii. 20 | Salo 535. ii. 37
Dedalus 494-, i. 38 Apelles -— - 11 German.
499. ii. 21 Myron 545. 11. I 3
Soſtratus 483. i. 32 Praxiteles —— – 14 Rhenus, Rhine 474. i. 37 || Ciabrus —— — .36
Polycletus 541. i. 8 Scopas 16 lſter -— – 25 | Oenus 535 i. 21
Phidias -- - 9 Mentor —— - 17
Lyſippus -- w -
Mys Sarmatian.

Rha 497. ii. 32 | Tanais 5ol. ii. 37

A N C I E N T G E og R A PHY.
Grecian.

IV. WATER, Eurotas 527. i. 7 | Evenus 506. ii. 36

Alpheus 506. i. 16 || Achelous 595. i. 32
1. S E A s. 508. i. 26 || Acheron 503. ii. 9
Langia 494. ii. 39 || Orcus -- - 12
Mediterranean 482.ii. 41 || Fgean 498. i. 19 Permeſſus 47.o. ii. 18 || Peneus 5oS. i. 23
498. i. 18 Axene
Adriatic 526. ii. 36 | Euxine 5c4. i. 1 Aftatic.
Tyrrhene Meotis
Tuſcan } -

528. i. 3o Caſpian 5ol. ii. 35

497. 11, 29
Meander 503. i. 6 Iaxartes 497. ii. 28
Ionian 488. i. 32 Erythrean -— – 27
Cayſter 525. i. 25 | Araxes -— – 43
Meles -— – 22 Euphrates 489. ii. ant.
Egean —— — — | Perſian -— — 25 Hermus -- - 43 497. ii. 22
2. L. A K E s.
Pačtolus ––– ant. | Tigris -— – 23
- 487. i. 22 490. i. 12
Pomptinian 47 l. ii. 4 Thraſymenus 531. i. 37 Aquila 533. ii. 12 || Arabius 497. ii. 26
Fucine 515. i. 27 Larius -— 11. 4 Thermodon 504. i. 6 || Indus -- - -

Lucrine 528. i. 43 Leman 498. i. 2 Halys -— — — . Hydaſpes -— – 4o

Avernus -- - -
Brigantine 535. i. 20 Phaſis 5oz. ii. pen. Ganges -— - 34
503. ii. 8 Styx 503. ii. 11 Oxus 497. ii. 28
African.
 ſile ... ii. *9
482. | Lethe
4/rica. 593. ii. 1; * I a Nos
4°9. ii. pen. Cinyps 542, ii. 9
P N* Aria/4.
T. 569

V. °ontines re.
**I tars 491. i. 39 | Orcadº, 5°9. ii. 19
3: It A ty
*at Grece
R v19 R or
#74; ii.
5 ſo. ii. 6
Pannonia
E.

yſia
474. i. 3
... - 34
É;
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594. ii. 17 | 3a/
4/earer -- - 7

Şalabria 531. ii. 2; 5. GR ecs 488. i. 3 I 3:2. Italian.

%ani/%.
Apulia
u cania
> - 26
549. i. 4o
534. ii 23
37. ii. 2; Sorsic i. 14 I Li ara 1. i. 3o
-

9ampania #71. i. 22 Thrace 8o. H. 28 arº, $33 - # ãº. 55: - 31

fatium 474. i. 13 acedon 479. ii. 19 52O. i. 11 Inarimé 482. i.”
Signia 553; ii. 16 heſſaly T.-- Sicily 81. ii Prochyta -- - 4
Picenum $47; i. pen. Pharſalá $39, ii. 23
Veſtinum 553. i. 12 Plrus 5.º. i. 31 4. Greek.
Etruria 53; ii. 17 4-4aia 488. i. 3
Liguria 548. ii. 17 492. i. 3 Crers 474. ii. 20 Naxos 499. ii. 43
'enetia 532. i. 36 Etolia T - - 499. ii. 12 OS 5.5. i. 2;
2. GAUL 53*.i. to Şalydonia -- - 2 Qxprus 595. i. 7 Delos 485. i. I4.
3: SPAIN 594. ii. 12 Phocis 47.o. ii. 12 Sythera T- - - - 5*o. i. 26
Callaica 535. ii. 22 Beotia -- - 1 Hodes 535. i Øcladº, T- - -
antabria 553. i. 2 Attica 529; ii. 3; Coos 541. i. 16 Syros -- - 2
4. *Proviz.:$53.i.3
enapia
”yc.;;
499. i. Io
3I Eube a
Ča
529. i. 7
-- - 6 Şeriphus
aros 54, ii. 2;
#73. i. 3;
Iſtria 538. i. 2; 528. ii. 4, Scyros 492. i. 41 %rºad, 495. i. 22.
4%rican 535. 1: 3; *% 538. i. anº. BM Nos 482. i. 29 *CYNTH Us 547. ii. 4o
Liburnia -- i. 9 rcadia 88. i. 23 BS Bos 5*5. ii. 14 9R cy. RA 532. i. 6
almatia -- i. 598. i. 26 H Ios -- i. 13 Ithaca TT - note
acia 472, ii. 2 #Aconia, * 527. i. 14 3InoS 509. ii ºlichium T * --

Sarmatia 73. ii. ant. Ebalia 541. ii. 2 5*5. i. 28 alamis 499. i. 9

A s 1 a. 5. Pacian.
482. ii. laſt | 497, ii. 9 Peuce 474. i. 32
Cilicia 491. i. 27 Cythia 498. i. note 4. 6. *kwetian.
ia *I. i. 36 ii -- -

§. #. i. ; so. i. ; Delta 482. ii. 39 l Pharos 483. i. 24

Ionia - 27 ~ ii. peſſ. ->

Meonia India 497, ii. 26 Pen I **ass, º iſer. * -

*/ºrwara, Sarman 46. i. 24 £ºloponneſe 488. 1: 29 imbrian 5°3.i. pen.

Lydia 5og. I arthia T- - 22 auric Sherºi: Golden TT li. pen.
Eolia 519. i. II Wrcania 59; ii. 41 *ian 4932; ant.
road 5°5. ii. 16 edia 546, i. 24
Phrygia 504. i. 8 Perſia - - 2

*Phlagonia
...; 495. i
*- - 3. Chaldea T-, -ii.laſt
489. ; VII. M
* O*a/ax.
UN T A INS -

Sălatia 594. i. 8 *::ſopotamia 498. ii. 6

“appadocia *- - Aſſyria T. - 9 (Sicilia, Alban 479. ii. 35
Armenia $49. }ºia .
498. i.ii. 23 *hemicia 549. i.i. 34
54: 2; #,
Eryx §
oS. -i. 96 pºinines 49.. .*
ii. :
$olchis
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95; i. 3o Arabia
498, ii. 3 49;, i. 12
498. i. 14 Etna
406. -
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irceiu
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$23. i. 32
-

Albania " - - Esu writy 482. i. 23 iſenu 482. i. 17

Wºme, ºf Suez 482. ii pen ”-range 553. ii. Pelorus 535. ii. 2;

Egypt 482. ii.A 1F R Maſſyla

c A• 514. ii. 18 Parnaſſus 47o. ii. *1 3 Greciaz.
|| Pindus 47o. ii. 18
Libya 591. ii. 45 Getulia 535. ii. 24 5o8. ii. 35 Qlympus T - 21
Marmarica 558. ii. 22 auritani 473. i. 33 Helicon 479. ii. 1; Oſia 484. i.,
umidia. 5*4. ii. 22 504, i. % Sitheron 78. ii. 26 Pelion *- - -

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57o I N D E X T O

Eta 547. i. 14 || Menalus 505. ii. 12 Chalcedon 498. ii. pen. Tanais 5ol. ii. 36
Thermopylae -— - 13 || Erymanthus - - - Ea 5oz. ii. laſt || Cimmerium 503. i. 47
Hemus 491. i. 18 || Taygetus -- - 21
Rhodope 527. ii. 3 5. Greek.
Othrys 474. ii. 14 | Tenarus 503. ii. 18
Hymettus 553. i. 18 Diéte 551. ii. 16 Byzantium 498. ii. ant. || Athens 471. ii. 26
Areopagus 551. ii. 31 || Ida 484. ii. 2O Conſtantinople—-pen. 527. i. ant.
Acrocorinthus 493. i. 37 505. i. 35 —— i. 3o || Marathon 499. i. 5
Nonacris 492. 1. 35 524. i. 12 Callipolis 499. i. 19 || Megara —— ii. 28
Seſtus -- - 2 | Eleuſis 508. ii. 4
3. Aftatic. Odryſa 474. ii. 12 || Corinth 499. i. Io
Abdera 491. ii. 19 || (in the Peloponne/e)
TAU R Us 497. i. ant. | Corax 498. ii. 7 Philippi 504. i. 15 | Elis 508. i. 25
498. ii. 2 | Ararat i.
-- 1. 6 539. ii. 26 || Olympia -- - -

Antitaurus -— — 3 || Tabor —— - 15 -Theſſalonica 504. i. 15 || Piſa -- * -

Caucaſus --- – 4 || Calvary -— – 16 Phlegra 525. i. 37 || Mantinea 528. i. 7

Imaus -— – 5 || Caſius 482. ii. laſt Pella 552. ii. 26 || Cleone 487; ii. 17
Niphates -— – 6 Stagira 511. i. 44 || Tiryns 526. i. 22
Pagaſa 494. i. 32 || Argi -- - -

4. Spaniſh. Dodona —— - 35 | Mycene 505. ii. 13

Calpe 5oz. ii. 24 (Salona 535. i. 34) || Sicyon 541. i. Io
Ambracia 505. i. 3o | Amycle 527. i. 6
Aćtium 559. i. 2 || Lacedemon 558, i. 10
5. African. Calydon 492. i. 2 | (in the ilands.)
Abyla 491. ii. 7 Thebes 48o. ii. ant. || Candia 484. ii. 44
504. ii. 26 || Atlas
ATLAs 473. 1, 33 497. ii. 12 527. ii. 44 || Cnoſus -— - 42
Delphi 485. i. 15 || Mitylene 525. ii. 14
VIII. CIT I e s and Tow Ns. Orchomenus 520. i. laſt || Methymna -- - 13
Leuétra 528. i. 5 | Paphos 526. ii. 38
1. Gaulic. 6. Italian.
Maſſilia 503. i. 14 | Narbo 534. i. 13 (in Sicily.) Formia 528. i. 15
547. ii. 16 || Toloſa -- - IO Drepanum 505. i. 5 || Caieta 471. i. 21
Vienna 534. i. 17 | Antipolis 553. i. 17 Agrigentum 481. ii. 46 || Circeii —— - 32
Catana 538. i. 26 || Anxur —— ii. 11
2. Spaniſh. Meſſana 553. ii. 12 || Antium — i. 16
(on the Continent.) Aricia -- - 2
Tarraco 535. ii. 35 | Emerita 535. ii. 16 Croton 51o. ii. 7 || Ardea 549. ii. 6
Bilbilis -— - 37 || Munda 483. ii. 37 Metapontum — - io || Alba 519 ii. 20
Saguntum 547. ii. 38 || Gades 504. 11. I5
Tarentum 526. ii. ant, Fidenae 53o. ii. 42
Corduba 538. i. zo | Carteia -— - 18
Italica 532, ii. 2 Brunduſium 531. ii. 26 || Veii 549. ii. 4
Cannae -- - - || Laurentum 535. ii. 2;
3. African. Canufium 554. ii. pen. | Preneſte 528. i. 19
Arpi 535. i. 4o | Tuſculum -- - -

Utica 523. ii. 16 || Peluſium Venuſium -— - 41 || Algidum -— – 23

482. ii. 42 Faliſca 549. - 43 || Tibur 524 ii. 18
Carthage 471. ii. pen. Memphis Peſtum 482. ii. 14 | Narnia 53 I. i. 26
Alexandria 483. i. 22 | Babylon —— – 29
Canopus -— – 13 || Thebes -— – 34 Beneventum 555. ii. 14 || Nomentum —— - 32
Tanis - - Syene -— - 31 Herculaneum 482. i. 26 Flaminii Forum 532. i. 1
Naples 532. i. 3 Sarſina o. ii. 1
4. Aftatic.
Baiae 5og. ii. 3 Trebula 539. - #
Nineveh 554. ii. 14 | Clazomenae
Cumae 519. i. Io
oletum
§.517. ii. 11
1. i. 36
525. i. 29 503. ii. 7
Babylon 489. ii. 3o | Teos —— – 31 Nola 532, ii. 14 #. 53' 3° -

498. i. 1 1 || Teium -- - 34 Appii Forum —— i. 2 Ariminum -— - 38

Seleucia 490. i. 13 | Colophon -- - 24 Capua 531. ii. 25 Ravenna -— ii. 5
Sidon 554. ii. 38 || Smyrna — - 18 Atina 535. ii. 28 Bononia -— – 7
Tyre * -- * Cuma 519. 1. Io Venafrum 538. i. 21 560. i. 24
Halicarnaſſus 528. i. laſt || 525. i. 16 Surrentum 555. ii 2.1 Mutina -— - 25
Cnidus 483. i. 33 Erythrae -— - 15 Sinueſſa 54o. ii. 17 I , 11.
Miletus 503. i. 5 | Pergamus 5oz. i. 13 Wine-range 553. ii. 8 Cornelii Forum 53. - º:
509. ii. 39 542, ii. 3 Aquinum 534. ii. 11 Patavium 532. i. 31
Fpheſus 5oz. i. 6 | Troy 496. i. 45 Sulmo 535. i. 38 Ateſte -- - -

Coloſſe 504. i. 15 || Abydus 499. i. 18 Corfinium Altinum

-- 531. ii. 12
Sardis 51o. i. 9 Lampſacus -- - I Italica }
532, 11. 3 Aquileia •-- - I O
Verona
 T H E
Verona 535. ii. 11 Zepia, *orum 2. i. 1 XI. FE s T I v A L S.
antua 532. i. 18 jium 53 º
Cremona -- - - Follentia 554. ii. 4 Quinquatrians 47o.Nii. 35 T.Saturnalians $48. i.5728I
arma . 537. i. pen. 531:... ii. ió ii. 43 Femalefsini; };
Quinquennials5oo.
Piſae
Placentia 531. ii. 19 Cere 549; ii. ant. 484. i. 43 532, i. 33
ertona -- - 18 Qluſium 539. i. zo 501. i. i2. £ºſinguineal; ii. 43
Comum 531. ii. I §retium 538. i. 1; Atheneans 5°o. ii. 39 || 7. -- - 36

Pyrgi 559. i. 36 £ºnatheneans -- - 42 Hoſpitalities 552. i. 4

IX. Roºm E. ionyſians 478. i. 39 Carrioffables - - 8

516. 1. 11 | 490. ii. 15

; Hill; .. 7 539.
Diawa’, 535. ii. 37 5.
ii. 4; §. &radare.
Gate 530. ii. 2; -- emean
Iſthmian XII. G Poſt
A M E. S.
487. ii. 2;
498. ii. 32 | Ball
549. i. i ;
538. ii. 26
Zarpeian 484. i. 33 Milvian Bridge --- 41
-- 91ympic 537. ii.
598. ii. 39
33 Ceſtus 504,
514. ii. 4o
i. 26
*arrhaftan -- - 2 Bridge 545. i. 37 Pythian s: iſ ºf | Napkin 545. i. 42
2. Way, 531. i. 22 Porticoes, 499. ii. 32 486. ii. 26 *reats 549. i. 24
Flaminian ** T. 35 536. ii. I Secular 485. i. 22 || 6′. 472. ii. 23
milian - 11.9 Claudia', 492, ii. 2 T- ii. 15 || I - -, 37.
śiºn
alters T
-- -- 23 */anian
2 || Pā’īā. 539.ii.
483. ji, laſt Floralian 536.
547.ii.ii. 229Laurel
|| Paim 47.o.
557. ii.,i.412
3- Streets. -- Crumb $48. i. 3 Circenſian $74, ii. 8 || Oſſ. 5o I. i.
Sacred wa 559. ii. 32 Temples 484..i. 26 555. i. 1 546. ii. 2;
#rgus-death $37; i. 22 ; : 537. ii. 19 Liveries 49*. ii. 36 || Pine 598. ii. pen.
elabrum 548. ii. 7 Diana’, .” 485. 1. 32 Gladiators 515. i. 33 Beech *- -

4. Place, -- 535. i. 1 - ii. 2 Cedar 526. ii. i*

orum 523. ii. 30 Mauſoleum 548. i. 6 $pectators 5ol. i. 26 Parſley:
lamin. Circus 545. i. 32 Onuments 539. i. 2 nſpectors 537. ii. 2 T greer 508. ii. 23.
enal-maze -- - 27 Coloſs 490. ii. 6 Plaſter 5oA. i. 38 || – dy -- - laſt
Hoara, TT - 30 || Baths ---. 38 Exerciſes 485. i. 39
Aence, - - 31 547. i. 2
Terentus 485. ii. 33 Circus 474. i., 41

X. Rom AN
- *Phitheater ...
°ºnstiturios. I' XHH, Ds
#: e
Endromis
S-8.
549. i. 17
Gown 74. i. 12 Tunic 491. ii. 23
* - Civil Robe -
£4.ii.i.169 || Shoe
516. - r 469. ºl. 14
§35.ii.
Senate 516. i. 12 | Queſtors 517. i. 32
atricians ºf | Proconſils
- -- - 37 Tunic 5oz. i. 46 Slippers 554, ii. 1;
*ſtript
edarian
Father, T-26 | Pro stors
-- ii. 8 #.
-- ~ */
---, 46
XIV.513. Mo
i. 9
N E Y.
Conſuls II - 23 J Edie, -— ii. 8
ićtator -- - 36 ºnvirs - 2I Weight 513. i. 11 Meaſure 5:3. i. 23
#.ofthehor:
retor-- - pen.}; nights 519.ii.ii.ant
°ntumvirs 5*4. 31 56o. i. I+.
I7. i.
ſ
can Tºº XV. TrM e.
* Religiour. 474. ii. 18
Augur 518. i. 18 Sali; 518. ii. 3 Hour, 534: i. 40 *arted days 532.i. #
4ruſpex -- - 23 *eciale, -- - 1; 477; i. 3 **. 11. I
Pontifex -- - 3o *Aatraz, -- - 17 521. i. 43 - 516. ii. 4
Flamen 472. i.i. 37
518. zo ƺulone,
Sodale, - - -- 31
-- 20 é.
Salen s 475. i. 44 Birthdays
- 532.
-- i. i. 18
37
'arificula 484,
• -

Salii
2" ii. 31 -- 42 | Veſtals
;1...1 ! •
Sibylines
-- - 38
519. i. 5 - #.
ar/?
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2. 1.;hy #. i. #
i. 3;
; ii. ; %. f/x f 55o.
75. i.ii.1 7

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Primipile
- • Military.
54" ii.3.33Military
I Vine 550. ii. ant. Tºy
Ides
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475.
of 7.6 st;”.
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;2 *64.
Lºffer *...",
526.
517. ii.i. 26
13
4.

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3. VI.
572 I N D E X, &c.

XVI. R. E L I G 1 o N. XIX. M A N N E R s.

Purification 469. i. 1 || Vows 503. i. 26 Waſhing 469. ii. 3 Caſk, Opimian 543. i. 7.
:
Altar -- - I 2 541. ii. 6 Shoe-dropping –— – 9 Toaſting 548. i. 11
Sacrifice 506. ii. ant. Vail 546. ii. 21 Meals 547. i. 36 Roſe 547. i. 20
539. i. 19 | Bones 55o. i. zo Couches 545. ii. 29 Perfumer 555. ii. 28
Suavetaurilian 517. i. 24 Honors 551. i. 19 Sigma -— - 31 Stroker 548. ii. P3
Vows 520. i. 13 || Dreams 542. ii. ant. Tables -— – 30 Fool 558. ii. 13
534. ii. 34 Guſtatories 555. i. 23 Humor 472. ii. 4o
Caſk 534. i. 36 Chear . 54o. ii. 42.
548. ii. 5
XVII. L. A w.
XX. Le T T E R S.
Oracles: Three Sons 519. ii. 24
496. ii. 20 552. 11, 9
Sibylline 519. i. 7 || Deciſive ini-l 540.ii.35 542. ii. 1
Pythian 540, i. 7 | tials, or ſymboli ſ 515:ii.21
12 Tables 517. ii. 26 || Surety 542, ii. 29 Inſcriptions 537. ii. 43
}. law
ivorce
|
546. ii. 17 Compliment 549. i. 26
—— – 12 | Thanks 541 - 1, 31
54o. ii. 32
551. ii. 2
Orthography
Reeds
Papyrus
556. i. 3.
554. i. 8.
-— - 9.
Manumiſſion 537. ii. pen. I Statue -- - 23 Quantity 54i. ii. 41 Tablets 553. ii. 24
478. i. 3 Leaf 559. ii. 29.
531. 11. I Volume 526. ii. 3
XVIII. C U S T o M s. Number 520. ii. 32 Library 483. i...ant.
Stile :
535. 11. 4o
— vernacular 543. ii. 12 559; 11. 24
Compliments 554. i. 3 || Self-denial 560. i. ant. — Laconic 536. ii. 32 | 534. 11. ant.
Criticiſm 537. i. 5 || Tranſplantation 542.i.17 —ſufficient 476. i. zo
564. ii. laſt

In the Comment, the great numerals mark the Epigram; the ſmall the line. . In the references to the other
books, the great numerals mark the book ; the ſmall the Epigram; and the digits (or figures) the line.
Book I. being in three parts, with an Appendix; IV. in two, VI in three, and VIII. in two; the ſmall mu
merals ſpeak the parts; the figures the Epigrams, previous to their lines.
The Index to the Comment, in the three numerary columns, points the page, column, and line. Nor
muſt it be omitted, that pen, abbreviates penult or penultimate, the laſt but one ; ant. antepenult or antepenulti
mate, the laſt but two. While Perſpicuity requires every aid, the knowing will be the firſt to forgive every not
negligent, if minute, ſuperfluity.

As
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º

As one had better be ones own Critic, or even Hypercritic, than leave the ungratefull taſk to others: and,
as human accuracy is ; often, when moſt keen ; always, when moſt ſure, moſt fallible : Candor, being that
Charity, who thinketh no evil; nay, covereth the multitude of ſºns ; will conſtrue into no other cauſe than unre
mitted, or never unavailing endevor, the following liſt of amendments, and read;
In the Text:
page. book. part. epig. line.
5o I. Ap. Io 6 pageant things pageant-things
61 II. 2r 7 virgin porket virgin-porket
257 VI. i 26 8 iv'ry props iv’ry-props
64 II. 26 3 Phalantus Phalanthus * -

35o VII. 85 34 aſks. aſks ;

431 XI. 161 1 croker’s crokers
372 VIII. ii. 19 7 ſtrains ſtains
19 I. 11. 7 6 the aſtoniſht th’aſtoniſht
21 — - 12 7 every ev'ry
66 II. 31 I temperate temp'rate sº

173 IV. i. 8 4 Cataline Catiline

241 V. 71 To On
33 VII. 48 To On
# —— 68 W. Title On To
34o –– 71 To On
428 XI. 136 perfumed Coſmetic
341 VII. 73 I Twice four Four bold:
445 XIſ. 5i I frankly fondly
63 II. 24. I Muſes, Charmers,
224 V. 24 pen. thou then
346 VII. 82 33 the ſcene improv’d, the grand relief.
In the Comment :
page. col. line.
472 i. 27 ſelf denial ſelf-denial
475 ii. 28 ſix ſix
48o r Baccha Baccha
545 23 º
tem tem
548 27 ex ex

5o3 - 9 Acheruſa’s Acheruſa’s ;

504 1. Io. believe believe,
5oo 2I ſtartled to : ſtartled too:
483 ant. even ſeven
488 i. 2O Sampſon Samſon
519 . I. I. Etolia Eolia
527 11. 44. turned tuned
529 - 24 wer ow’r
474 - 1. 32 É. #.
551 - 29 iſlands ilands
474 :- 35. Bulguria Bulgaria
504. *: 32 Lybian Libyan
477 ll. 2O
Bengall' Tabariffan
482 i. 4. But, under Others, under
486 28 nin'th, tenth, and eleventh eleventh, tenth, and nineth.
3o, 22, 23, and 24th 21, 22, and 23
487 i. 25 the moſt current, and not leaſt the more current, nor leſs credi
credible ble,
490 .. 4.1. by a car with a car
11. I
were his ſeizing was his ſeizing
538
498
. . 25. 3.e greateff
trigon were The trigon was
52 I
1... note
I2
I 3:. lake
ºft One of the great lakes
--
Diſpenſation
541 11. 34. firſt cohort firſt company
528 ll. 4. Mauſoleum. the Mauſoleum
504 17. Carteia, Erythea or Erythia, oppoſite the
city Carteia,
53o i. 42. winds; winds, Veſta the earth,
532 7 his daughter's and his own -

534
 line.
( 574 )
page. col.
534 i. 17 Wienna, in Gaul; now Wienne, Vienna, on Rhodanus, in Gaul; now
in Dauphiny Pienne, on the Rhone, in Dau
phiny;
551 ii. 16 Omitted XXXIII. xi. 388. Strymon's ecchoes:
thoſe of the cranes, which flocked
to that Orphean flood, the boun
dary of Thrace and Macedon.
556 ii. 25 Dignari and fingere, Dignari and fingere have the g of
dignity, and finger, duly finguer:
557 i. 27 gard, leppard and jeppardy; gard,
Nor can it be denied that the Tranſlator (whoever) of the Golden Verſes, muſt have red, as many do,
523 i. 16 &Patriţa tuitiga.
more than that ſome queſtion may ariſe concerning
119. II. cxxvii. Io. 13. Bland Botrodus – Here Congedus –
which may be red, Botrodus bland – Congedus here -
Preciſion will tranſpoſe,
493 . ii. 4o an opportunity now offers of of improving that, or any king
improving that, or any king dom, offers now an opportunity
dom; which (or, an opportunity now offers);
which
as Propriety muſt change,
55o ii. 8 one commenced, the other ma one commencing the child; the o l
tured, the man. ther, the man,

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