Quo cernes longo excursu, primosque colonos
Migrare in lunam, et notos mutare Penates:
Dum stupet obtutu tacito vetus incola, longèque
Insolitas explorat aves, classemque volantem.

Ut quondam ignotum marmor, camposque na

Tranavit Zephyros visens, nova regna, Columbus;
Litora mirantur circùm, mirantur et undæ
Inclusas acies ferro, turmasque biformes,
Monstraque fœta armis, et non imitabile fulmen.
Fœdera mox icta, et gemini commercia mundi, 90
Agminaque assueto glomerata sub æthere cerno.
Anglia, quæ pelagi jamdudum torquet habenas,
Exercetque frequens ventos, atque imperat undæ ;
Aëris attollet fasces, veteresque triumphos
Hùc etiam feret, et victis dominabitur auris.

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V. 83. "Obtutu tacito stetit," Æn. xii. 666.
V. 84. 66
Innumeræ comitantur aves, stipantque volan-
tem," Claud. Phoenix, 76.

V. 85. ". Campique natantes," Georg. iii. 198.
V. 89. "Fota armis," Æn. ii. 238. "Non imitabile
fulmen," Æn. vi. 590.

V. 90. "" xxxiii. 90.

Geminoque facis commercia mundo." Claud.

V. 92. "Equoreas habenas," Claud. viii. 422.
V. 95. “Servitio premet, ac victis dominabitur Argis,"

Æn. i. 285.

IC ODE: TO MR. WEST.*

emoirs, vol. ii. p. 42; on a version of Gray's by Green, in English, see H. Walpole's le, p. 116.]

As ædes aditure mecum is semper fovet inquieta,

atè sonat, et togatum

Estuat agmen ;

quanto, patulis sub ulmi

ramis temerè jacentem

sidered this as the first original production ; the two former poems being imposed as e College.

Hor. Od. ii. vi. 1: " Septimi, Gades adic. Luke.

unquam, toga rara," Martial. Ep. x. 47. udian, xi. 24:

Quot astuantes ancipiti gradu rtiva carpent oscula Naïdes."

...

nus patulis est diffusa ramis," Cic. de cap. vii. Hospita umbra," Ovid. Trist. or. Od. ii. iii. 9.

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is no authority for the last syllable of " tede long. See Burmanni. Anth. Lat. vol. ii. Journal, No. xviii. p. 340. Yet Casimir Sard in the quantity of this word, as well as

e sibilantis lenior halitus flabit Euri; me juvet interim lum reclinasse; et virenti

temere jacuisse ripa."

Ad Testudinem.

Solitudo) "Hic jaciens vestris temere sub

V.9.

Manè quicquid de violis eundo

umbris." Lowth Ode ad orn. Puellam. "Ducit aquas te-
mere sequentes." Carmin. Quadrig. ii. 81. "Defessus
temere se." See Woty's Poet. Calendar, Part xii. p. 34. In
Horace, Virgil, and Ovid the final syllable of this word is
always elided. A friend observed, that the last syllable
of temere is made long in the Gradus' on the authority of
Tertullian: "Immemor ille Dei temere committere tale."
It is hardly necessary to observe that the authority of Ter-
tullian on a question of a doubtful quantity would not be
esteemed sufficient. The last syllable of temere being always
elided by Virgil, Horace, and Ŏvid, sufficiently shows their
opinion to have been, that it was short; and therefore that
it could not be used in Hexameter verse, without length-
ening its final syllable by elision. See Menagiana, vol. iii.
p. 418. (Hor. Od. ii. xi. 13, “Pinu jacentes sic temere."
Luke.)
V. 7. "Tenui deducta poemata filo," Hor. Ep. II. i. 225.
"Graciles Musas," Propert, Eleg. II. x. 3. Virg. Eclog.
i. 2. Hor. S. ii. 6, 61, Nunc veterum libris, nunc somno
et inertibus horis." Luke.

inatum teneram per herbam ; es cursus aqua cunque ducit, s dulci strepitu lapillo

Nectit in omni.

o nostrum ferè pectus anno
es curæ tenuere, cœlum
à sudum explicuit Favonî

Purior hora:

campos nec adhuc relinquo,
gis Phobo Clytie fidelis ;
nt venti licet, et senescat

Mollior æstas.)

=, seu, lætos hominum labores

6611 ultra

minum, curis vagor expeditis."

ii. 10. Virg. Eclog. viii. 88, "Nec seræ -re nocti." Luke.

I, pedes quo te rapiunt," Hor. Od. iii. xi. magnos jam videor duces," Od. ii. i. 21.

1 faciles nymphæ risere," Virg. Eclog. iii. 9. - Georg. i. 376, Patulis captavit naribus

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e Cæsura post alterum pedem, see Fabricius of Seneca.

. Eclog. viii. 15, "Cum ros in tenera pecori ba."

Luke.

vis cursu," Virg. En. xii. 489.

v. 667.

"Cursus

Od. iv. 37, "Dulcem quæ strepitum, Pieri,

uke.

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Cali in regione serena

udum rutilare vident." Virg. Æn. viii. 528. Ov. Metam. iv. 234. 264.

mescit ager," Ovid. Art. Am. iii. 82., ex

Pont. I. iv. 14. "Molles anni," Ovid. Ep. iii. 3. Tristia, iv. 43. "Mollior æstas," Virg. Georg. i. 312.

V. 34. V. Lucret. v. 402, "Solque * * recreavit cuncta gubernans."

Luke.

V. 41. See Tate in the Class. Journ. No. ix. p. 120, "Horace makes the division after the 5th, 6th, or 7th foot, never after the 3rd, as the Moderns do."

V. 45. The last syllable of ego is short, and so used by the best writers; nor will the example of Ausonius, or an instance or two of its being found long in Plautus and Catullus, authorize a modern poet in this license. See the note by Heinsius on Ovid. Ep. xiii. 135, vol. i. p. 180, and Burmann on Propertii Eleg. I. viii. 41. "Recte Heinsius, qui nunquam a Nasone, p. 93, 94, 733, hujus voculæ ultimam produci notat; et falsos esse illos qui ab ullo Augustei ævi poetâ id factum contendunt, dicit ad Albinov. Epiced. Drusi. x. 193." See also Vossius de Arte Grammaticâ, lib.

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iv. ii. 25.

V. 52. Virg.
Olympum."
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