æternam fati te condis in umbram! 5 t duro graviter concussa dolore alterius non unquam lenta dolorem ; e oculos vidi, et pallescere amantem o nunquam Pietas nisi rara, Fidesque, Veri, et purum spirabat Honestum. 10 tardi demùm inclementia morbi - reducemque iterum roseo ore Salutem que unà tecum, dilecte Favoni! eu longos, ut quondàm, fallere Soles : equicquam dulces, atque irrita vota! 15 Soles, sine te quos ducere flendo a, et questus jam cogor inanes! ncta anima, et nostri non indiga luctûs, mplo, sincerique ætheris igne,

es, fruere; atque ô si secura, nec ultra otos olìm miserata labores

tenuesque vacet cognoscere curas; si fortè altâ de sede procellam

ncorrupta fides, nudaque veritas,"

Hor. Od. i. xxiv. 7. apit inclementia mortis," Virg. Georg. iii. 68. Luke.

ecum etenim longos memini consumere soles," Pers. Sat. v. 41. Virg. Eclog. ix. 51. Questus ad nubila rumpit inanes," Claud. xxxv. stu volvebat inani," Ciris. v. 401. ancta ad vos anima," Virg. En. xii. 648. sque haud indiga nostræ," Georg. ii. 428. Oh! sola infandos Troja miserata labores!" Tenuisque piget cognoscere curas," Georg.

os at nemo credidet ignes: t omnes; dura sed illa negat, volumus cui posse probare; et visos improba dissimulat. nî, sed et, ah, pulcherrima rerum ! m in miserâ, Cynthia, fronte vides? a est; et, si non fata vetâssent, mentem flecteret ad lacrymas. acrymas, hunc tu, quem spreveris,

auctori non bene culta suo, m non ignorabit amantûm :

que erimus parvus uterque cinis, heu! oculorum, et frigida lingua, jacent, immemor illa loqui; Eernos spirabit amores, rnâ multa favilla meâ.

nt is evinced in the imitation of this sonpertian verse, and the substitution of the for the Laura of Petrarch, gives it an air he Latin language, and marks that pronguishes every composition of Mr. Gray.

MR. GRAY paid very particular attention to the Anthologia Græca, and he enriched an interleaved edition of it (by Henry Stephens in 1566) with copious notes, with parallel passages from various authors, and with some conjectural emendations of the text. He translated, or imitated, a few of the epigrams, and as the editor thinks that the reader may not be displeased with the terse, elegant, and animated manner in which Mr. Gray transfused their spirit into the Latin language, he is presented with a specimen.

Succenset, miseret Dum furor inqu Cernis adhuc dubia Colchidos, at n

IN

FECERAT e vivâ 1
Praxiteles viv

FROM THE ANTHOLOGIA GRÆCA.

EDIT. HEN. STEPH. 1566.

IN BACCHE FURENTIS STATUAM.1

CREDITE, non viva est Mænas; non spirat imago:
Artificis rabiem miscuit ære manus.

IN ALEXANDRUM, ÆRE EFFICTUM.2 QUANTUM audet, Lysippe, manus tua! surgit in ære Spiritus, atque oculis bellicus ignis adest: Spectate hos vultus, miserisque ignoscite Persis : Quid mirum, imbelles si leo sparsit oves?

IN MEDEÆ IMAGINEM, NOBILE TIMOMACHI OPUS.3
EN ubi Medeæ varius dolor æstuat ore,
Jamque animum nati, jamque maritus, habent!

A NYMPH OF

TE tibi, sancta, Cum tibi, qu

IN

DOCTE puer v Anne potes Laxi juxta ar Dormit et in Longè mater Verùm au Non ego; n Forsan et

• Anthol. 5 lb. p. 33

niseret, medio exardescit amore, inque oculo gutta minante tremit. dubiam; quid enim? licet impia matris at non sit dextera Timomachi.

IN NIOBES STATUAM.4

vâ lapidem me Jupiter; at me vivam reddidit e lapide.

OFFERING A STATUE OF HERSELF

TO VENUS.

a, fero nudam; formosius ipsa quod ferrem, te, Dea, nil habui.

AMOREM DORMIENTEM.5

giles mortalibus addere curas, t in te somnus habere locum? eus, et fax suspensa quiescit, pharetrâ clausa sagitta suâ ; best; longè Cythereïa turba : nt alii te prope ferre pedem, metui valdè, mihi, perfide, quiddam a somnis ne meditere mali.

15.

Catullianam illam spirat mollitiem. Gray.