Perspiciet, vis quanta loci, quid polleat ordo,
Juncturæ quis honos, ut res accendere rebus
Lumina conjurant inter se, et mutua fulgent.

115

120

Nec minor in geminis viget auribus insita virtus,
Nec tantum in curvis quæ pervigil excubet antris
Hinc atque hinc (ubi Vox tremefecerit ostia pulsu
Aëriis invecta rotis) longèque recurset :
Scilicet Eloquio hæc sonitus, hæc fulminis alas,
Et mulcere dedit dictis et tollere corda,
Verbaque metiri numeris, versuque ligare
Repperit, et quicquid discant Libethrides undæ,
Calliope quotiès, quotiès Pater ipse canendi
Evolvat liquidum carmen, calamove loquenti 125
Inspiret dulces animas, digitisque figuret.

At medias fauces, et linguæ humentia templa
Gustus habet, quà se insinuet jucunda saporum
Luxuries, dona Autumni, Bacchique voluptas.

Naribus interea consedit odora hominum vis, 180
Docta leves captare auras,
Panchaïa quales

Poet. 242. 66 Ita res accendent lumina rebus," Lucret. i.
1110.

V. 115. On this use of the indicative, conjurant,' ' ful-
gent,' for the subjunctive mood, see Parr's Letter to Dr.
Gabell, in the Class. Journ. lxxix. Sept. 1829, p. 45, and
Parr's Correspond. vol. i. p. 476.

V. 119. "Puniceis invecta rotis," Virg. Æn. xii. 77.
V. 122. "Nec numeris nectere verba juvat," Ovid. Pont.
ii. 30.

V. 123. "Nymphæ, noster amor, Libethrides," Virg.
Eclog. vii. 21. Pomp. Mela, ii. 3.

V. 126. "Mobilibus digitis expergefacta figurant,"

Lucret. ii. 412.

V. 128. "Jucundos sapores," Tibull. i. vii. 35.
V. 130. "Odora canum vis," Lucret. vi. 778. Virg.
En. iv. 132.

Vere novo exhalat, Floræve quod oscula fragrant, Roscida, cum Zephyri furtìm sub vesperis horâ Respondet votis, mollemque aspirat amorem.

Tot portas altæ capitis circumdedit arci 135 Alma Parens, sensusque vias per membra reclusit; Haud solas namque intùs agit vivata facultas, Quâ sese explorat, contemplatusque repentè Ipse suas animus vires, momentaque cernit. Quid velit, aut possit, cupiat, fugiatve, vicissìm Percipit imperio gaudens; neque corpora fallunt Morigera ad celeres actus, ac numina mentis.

Qualis Hamadryadum quondam si fortè sororum Una, novos peragrans saltus, et devia rura; (Atque illam in viridi suadet procumbere ripâ Fontis pura quies, et opaci frigoris umbra) Dum prona in latices speculi de margine pendet, Mirata est subitam venienti occurrere Nympham: Mox eosdem, quos ipsa, artus, eadem ora gerentem Unà inferre gradus, unà succedere sylvæ Aspicit alludens; seseque agnoscit in undis. Sic sensu interno rerum simulacra suarum

150

V. 132. Compare Par. Lost, b. v. 16: "Then with voice, mild as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes." Virg. Georg. i. 43, "Vere novo gelidus canis cum montibus humor." Luke.

V. 134. Votis respondet avari," Georg. i. 47. vinum adspirat amorem," Virg. Æn. viii. 373.

"Di

V. 137. "Vivata potestas," Lucret. iii. 410. 557. 680. V. 139.

66 - Animus vario labefactus vulnere nutat

Huc levis, atque illùc; momentaque sumit utroque."
Ovid. Met. x. 375.

144. "

Mater virideis saltus orbata peragrans."
Lucret. ii. 355.

Luke

Mens ciet, et proprios observat conscia vultus.
Nec verò simplex ratio, aut jus omnibus unum
Constat imaginibus. Sunt quæ bina ostia nôrunt;
Hæ privos servant aditus; sine legibus illæ
Passim, quà data porta, ruunt, animoque propin-
quant.

Respice, cui à cunis tristes extinxit ocellos,
Sæva et in eternas mersit natura tenebras :
Illi ignota dies lucet, vernusque colorum
Offusus nitor est, et vivæ gratia formæ.
Corporis at filum, et motus, spatiumque, locique
Intervalla datur certo dignoscere tactu:

160

[plex, Quandoquidem his iter ambiguum est, et janua duExclusæque oculis species irrumpere tendunt

Per digitos.

Atqui solis concessa potestas Luminibus blandæ est radios immittere lucis. Undique proporrò sociis, quacunque patescit Notitia campus, mistæ lasciva feruntur Turba voluptatis comites, formæque dolorum Terribiles visu, et portâ glomerantur in omni. Nec vario minus introïtu magnum ingruit Illud,

165

170

V. 147. " Lympharum in speculo," Phædrus, i. iv. 3. V. 149. The same synæresis is found in Propert. iv. vii. 7.

And,

"Eosdem habuit secum, quibus est elata capillos."
"Eosdem oculos; lateri vestis adusta fuit."

V. 154. "Nec ratio solis simplex," Lucret. v. 613. "Constat imago," iv. 108. "Privas aures," iv. 570.

V. 157. Virg. Æn. i. 83. “ Qua data porta ruunt."

Luke.

V. 161. "Ea gratia forma," Ovid. Met. vii. 44. V. 167. "Radios inter quasi rumpere lucis," Lucret. v 288. "Radiis ardentem lucis," Virg. Æn. vii. 142. V. 171. "Terribiles visu forma," Æn. vi. 277.

Quo facere et fungi, quo res existere circùm Quamque sibi proprio cum corpore scimus, et ire Ordine, perpetuoque per ævum flumine labi.

175

180

Nunc age quo valeat pacto, quâ sensilis arte Affectare viam, atque animi tentare latebras Materies (dictis aures adverte faventes) Exsequar. Imprimis spatii quam multa per æquor Millia multigenis pandant se corpora seclis, Expende. Haud unum invenies, quod mente licebit Amplecti, nedum propriùs deprendere sensu, Molis egens certæ, aut solido sine robore, cujus Denique mobilitas linquit, texturave partes, Ulla nec orarum circumcæsura coërcet.

V. 173. "At facere, et fungi sine corpore nulla potestas,"

Lucret. i. 444.

V. 175. " Perpetuo possint ævi labentia tractu,"

Lucret. v. 1215.

V. 177. " Viamque adfectat Olympo," Georg. iv. 562. "Tentare latebras," Æn. ii. 38.

V. 185. "Extima membrorum circumcasura coercet,"

Solem quis dicere falsum

Audeat."

Virg. Georg. i. 463. V. 190." At si tantula pars oculi media illa peresa est, Incolumis quamvis alioqui splendidus orbis." Lucret. iii. 415. V. 191. "Densior hinc soboles," Virg. Georg. iii. 308. V. 192. "Quæ feriunt oculorum acies, visumque lacessant," Lucret. iv. 329.

V. 193. "Nare bibis." Is this expression warranted by the authority of any of the Latin poets? Horace has "Bibit aure," Ód. ii. xiii. 32.; and Statius, in Ach. ii. 120, "Aure bibentem." "Naso videt," Plautius. See Martini. Var. Lect. p. 10. Shakespeare transfers the same word to sight: "And with mine eyes I'll drink the words you send," Cymbel. act i. sc. 2. And Thomson. Spring, 106: Or taste the smell of dairy." Elapsusque cavá fingitur aure lapis," Ov. Art. Am. i. 432.

190

Hæc conjuncta adeò totâ compage fatetur
Mundus, et extremo clamant in limine rerum,
(Si rebus datur extremum) primordia. Firmat
Hæc eadem tactus (tactum quis dicere falsum
Audeat ?) hæc oculi nec lucidus arguit orbis.
Inde potestatum enasci densissima proles;
Nam quodcunque ferit visum, tangive laborat,
Quicquid nare bibis, vel concava concipit auris,
Quicquid lingua sapit, credas hoc omne, necesse est
Ponderibus, textu, discursu, mole, figurà
Particulas præstare leves, et semina rerum.
Nunc oculos igitur pascunt, et luce ministrâ
Fulgere cuncta vides, spargique coloribus orbem,

V. 196. "Multorum semina rerum," Lucret. ii. 676.

Luke.

195

V. 197. "Oculos qui pascere possunt," Lucr. ii. 419. Luke.

"Consulit ardentes radios, et luce magistra," Claud. Cons. Honor. vi. 7.

V. 198. "Grammatici veteres notaverunt à Virgilio et antiquioribus poetis, stridere in tertiâ conjugatione cum aliis verbis, ut fervere, fulgere esse usitatum; à Lucano autem, et Statio, et ejus ætatis poetis in secundâ." Vide Priscian. Col. 837. 866. 893. Dousam. ad Lucil. lib. ix. p. 119. N. Marcell. voce " fulgere," ed Mercer. Coripp. Laud. Justini, iii. 257. Virg. Georg. iv. 262. Æn. iv. 689. vii. 334. xii. 691. Lucan. ii. 250. vi. 179. ed. Oudendorp. Gesner, in a note to Claudian de Cons. Stilich. iii. 142, "Siculas obsident urbes," says, "Obsidere tertiâ conjugatione, nec optimos refugisse docent Thesauri nostri." was on the authority of the use of these verbs in the third conjugation, that Vossius in his treatise De Arte Grammatica," (lib. ii. p. 90), attempted to defend respondĕre in the well-known passage of Manilius, lib. v. 753, and that Scaliger and Bronkhusius read 66 Jam canis ætas mea caneret annis." v. Propert. El. ii. 14. 7.

It