Nam me Latinæ Naides uvidâ Dulcè canens Venusinus ales; 25 30 V. 23. In this, the following, and the last stanza, the third line of the Alcaic stanza ends with two dissyllables; which can be defended but by very few examples of Horace. See the fictitious ode, lib. i. 40. ad Librum suum, (published by Villoison in Long. Past.) v. 11. "Huic ara stabit, fama cantu." Another error in this verse is the absence of the accent on the fifth or sixth syllable. " Hor. V. 26. "Konvns iɛpòv póov," Apoll. Rhod. i. 1208. iv. 134. Theocr. Idyll. ii. 1. 69. "Ad aqua lene caput sacre, Od. i. i. 22. "Nec sacros pollue fontes," Ovid. Metam. ii. 464. "Fonte sacro," Virg. Æn. vii. 84. and Jortin's remarks on Spenser, vol. i. p. 63. V. 30. This is the only instance in this ode in which Gray has not conformed to the rule of the "divisio versûs post quintam syllabam." In the other Alcaic Ode on the Chartreuse, there is also one instance similar to this: "Per invias rupes, fera per juga.' The practice of Horace certainly seems to authorize this rule. Three exceptions are to be found: Od. lib. i. xxxvii. 5, i. xxxvii. 14, and Od. iv. xiv. 16. I do not know that there are any more; of course, the case of an elided syllable being excepted. V. 31. In Horace there are but nine instances of an amphibrachys, as "Amoena," beginning the third line of the Alcaic stanza. As the places where it occurs in that poet have not, I believe, been ever pointed out, I will set them down here, Hærent sub omni nam folio nigri 85 FRAGMENT OF A LATIN POEM* ON THE GAURUS. [See Mason's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 145.] NEC procul infelix se tollit in æthera Gaurus, Gaurus, pampineæque eheu jam nescius umbræ ; to save any trouble to those desirous of seeing them: i. xvii. 7, i. xxix. 7, i. xxxv. 15, i. xxxvii. 15, ii. iii. 3, ii. xvii. 3, ii. xx. 11, iii. iii. 71, iii. xxix. 11. V. 31, 32. There is no instance in Horace of a broken word ending the third line of the Alcaic stanza, or, indeed, of its being used at all; and therefore it must be considered as not defended by authority; though it may be found ending the third line of the Sapphic stanza, in Horace, i. xxv. 11. i. ii. 19, ii. xvi. 7, iii. xxvii. 60, but, I believe, that no example even of this can be found in the Sapphics of Seneca. It ends the first line, in Hor. Od. iv. ii. 1, and the second line in ii. ii. 18, and iv. ii. 22, in which latter passage it is to be observed, that the "divisio vocis" takes place in two successive lines. "Quam sedem Somnia vulgò Vana tenere ferunt, foliisque sub omnibus hærent." Virg. Æn. vi. 283. *Sent by Gray to his friend West, with a reference to Sandys's Travels, book iv. pag. 275, 277, and 278. A translation of this poem may be seen in the Gent. Mag. for July, 1775. V. 2. "Vitreo ponto," Hor. Od. iv. ii. 3. "Vitrea unda," V. 33. Virg. Æn. vii. 759. Georg. iv. 350. 99. V. 4. "Bacchei vineta madentia Gauri," Statii Silv. iii. v. "Icario nemorosus palmite Gaurus," Silv. iii. i. 147. Horrendi tam sæva premit vicinia montis, Attonitumque urget latus, exuritque ferentem. 5 10 Nam fama est olim, mediâ dum rura silebant Ah, miser! increpitans sæpè altâ voce per umbram V. 5. "Vicinia Persidis urget," Georg. iv. 290. neas invidit collibus umbras," Virg. Ec. vii. 58. V. 9. "Immania ponti æquora," Lucret. vi. 624. "Pampi V. 10. "Curvisque immugiit Etna cavernis." En. iii. 674. V. 11. "Tum sonitu Prochyta alta tremit." Virg. Æn. ix. 715. Luke. V 15. "Piceâ crassam caligine nubem," Virg. Georg. ii. 309. "Vorago, pestiferas aperit fauces," En. vii. 569. V. 17. "Terra tremit: fugere feræ," Virg. Georg. i. 330. V. 24. -"tum longo limite sulcus Dat lucem, et latè circùm loca sulphure fumant." Fumumque, flammasque, rotataque turbine saxa. And, "Sulphurei cum per juga consita Gauri," Ausonii Mosell. p. 387, ed. Tollii. "Anhelantem coelesti sulfure campum," v. Stat. Theb. xi. 17. V. 25. In the modern Latin poetry, this license of lengthening the "que " before the mute and liquid, even with the power of the cæsura, ought to be avoided, as it is supported by so few examples. See Virg. Æn. vii. 186. Georg. i. 164. And see also Æn. iii. 91. Ov. Met. v. 484, and Class. Journal, No. xxi. p. 174, xxii. 364. V. 26. This is not a common expression in Latin poetry. Val. Flaccus has, " Dum detonet ira:" iv. 294. See also Quintilian (Gesn. xii. ix. 4): “Cum illa dicendi vitiosa jactatio inter plausores sero detonuit." Petron. Sat. c. xvii. p. 37. Sid. Apollin. c. xiv. 24. V. 31. See Virg. Georg. i. 397: "Tenuia nec lanæ," &c.ii. 121 Depectant tenuia Seres." Lucret. iv. 747. And Terent. Maur. ver. 474. V. 31. "Solatia luctûs Exigua ingentis misero sed debita patri." En. xi. 62. V. 32. I should conceive the proper phrase to be "Colligere in unum," and not und. Virg. Ecl. vii. 2: "Compulerantque greges Corydon et Thyrsis in unum." Cicero de Inventione, i. 56: "Colligere et conferre in unum." Again, "Militibus in unum conductis." And Philip. ix.: "Si omnes juris consulti in unum conferantur." Ovidii Met. iii. 715. See the note on Ovid. Metam. xiii. 910. Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Thomson. Winter, 315. 41 (Spem miseram!) assuetosve Lares, aut rura vide- saxis: 49 Sed furor extinctus jamdudum, et flamma quievit, V. 41. "Res antiquæ laudis," Virg. Georg. ii. 174. 56 V. 43. "Matutini cantus," Æn. viii. 456. Par. Lost, v. 7. V. 45. "Longe saltus, lateque vacantes." Virg. Georg. iii. 476. Luke. V. 47. "Indice monstraret digito," Hor. Sat. ii. viii. 26. And Pers. i. 28 V. 56. "Sparsosque recolligit ignes," Lucan. i. 157. "Dum tacitas vires, et flammam colligit ignis," Sil. Ital. iv. 307; |