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 tantes 85 Tranavit Zephyros visens, nova regna, Columbus; V. 83. "Obtutu tacito stetit," Æn. xii. 666. V. 84. "Innumeræ comitantur aves, stipantque volantem," Claud. Phoenix, 76. V. 85. ". Campique natantes," Georg. iii. 198. V. 89. "Fœta armis," Æn. ii. 238. "Non imitabile fulmen," Æn. vi. 590. V. 90. " Geminoque facis commercia mundo." Claud. xxxiii. 90. V. 92. " Æquoreas habenas," Claud. viii. 422. Æn. i. 285. E SAPPHIC ODE: TO MR. WEST.* [See Mason's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 42; on a version of Gray's Latin Odes by Green, in English, see H. Walpole's Letters to Cole, p. 116.] BARBARAS ædes aditure mecum Estuat agmen ; Dulcius quanto, patulis sub ulmi 5 Mason considered this as the first original production of Gray's Muse; the two former poems being imposed as exercises, by the College. V. 1. Comp. Hor. Od. ii. vi. 1: "Septimi, Gades aditure mecum," &c. Luke. V. 3. 66 Lis nunquam, toga rara," Martial. Ep. x. 47. "Quot astuantes ancipiti gradu 66 V. 5. "6 Platanus patulis est diffusa ramis," Cic. de Oratore, Lib. I. cap. vii. Hospita umbra," Ovid. Trist. III, iii. 64. Hor. Od. ii. iii. 9. V. 6. There is no authority for the last syllable of “temere" being made long. See Burmanni. Anth. Lat. vol. ii. 458, and Class. Journal, No. xviii. p. 340. Yet Casimir Sarbievus has erred in the quantity of this word, as well as Gray: "Te sibilantis lenior halitus Ad Testudinem. And Cowley (Solitudo)" Hic jaciens vestris temere sub Sic libris horas, tenuique inertes Fallere Musâ? Sæpe enim curis vagor expeditâ Mente; dum, blandam meditans Camænam, Vix malo rori, meminive seræ Cedere nocti ; Et, pedes quò me rapiunt, in omni Fonte Aganippen. Risit et Ver me, facilesque Nymphæ Manè quicquid de violis eundo 11 15 66 Ducit aquas te umbris." Lowth Ode ad orn. Puellam. 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 Tertullian 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 lengthening 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. Me reclinatum teneram per herbam ; Nectit in omni. Hæ novo nostrum ferè pectus anno Purior hora: Otia et campos nec adhuc relinquo, Terminum, curis vagor expeditis." 25 30 Hor. Od. I. xxii. 10. Virg. Eclog. viii. 88, "Nec seræ meminit decedere nocti." Luke. 49. V. 13, 14. "I, pedes quo te rapiunt," Hor. Od. iii. xi. "Videre magnos jam videor duces," Od. ii. i. 21. V. 17. "Sed faciles nymphæ risere," Virg. Eclog. iii.9. V. 18. Virg. Georg. i. 376, "Patulis captavit naribus auras. V. 19. On the Cæsura post alterum pedem, see Fabricius on the Metres of Seneca. V. 21. Virg. Eclog. viii. 15, "Cum ros in tenera pecori gratissimus herba." Luke. V. 22. "Levis cursu," Virg. Æn. xii. 489. ducebat," En. v. 667. "Cursus V. 23. Hor. Od. iv. 37, “ Dulcem quæ strepitum, Pieri, temperas." Luke. V. 26. Per sudum rutilare vident." Virg. Æn. viii. 528. V. 30. See Ov. Metam. iv. 234. 264. V. 31. "Senescit ager," Ovid. Art. Am. iii. 82., ex Prataque et montes recreante curru, Vestit, et auro; Sedulus servo veneratus orbem 35 Scena recessit. ego felix, vice si (nec unquam Surgerem rursus) simili cadentem Parca me lenis sineret quieto 45 Fallere Letho! Pont. I. iv. 14. "6 '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. |