Tu quoque in his certè es; nam quò tua dulcis abiret Nec tibi conveniunt lacrymæ, nec flebimus ultra Ore sacro. Quin tu, cæli post jura recepta, 210 Jan. 23, 1646 AD JOANNEM ROUSIUM OXONIENSIS ACADEMIE BIBLIOTHECARIUM STROPHE I De libro Poematum amisso, quem ille sibi denuo mitti postulabat, ut cum aliis nostris in Bibliothecd Publica reponeret, Ode. Ode tribus constat Strophis, totidemque Antistrophis, unâ demum Epodo clausis; quas, tametsi omnes nec versuum numero nec certis ubique colis exactè respondeant, ita tamen secuimus, commodè legendi potius quam ad antiquos concinendi modos rationem spectantes. Alioquin hoc genus rectius fortasse dici monostrophicum debuerat. Metra partim sunt xarà exéow, partem ἀπολελυμένα. Phaleucia quæ sunt spondæum tertio loco bis admittunt, quod idem in secundo loco Catullus ad libitum fecit. GEMELLE cultu simplici gaudens liber, Munditieque nitens non operosâ, Quam manus attulit Juvenilis olim Sedula, tamen haud nimii poetæ; Dum vagus Ausonias nunc per umbras, Indulsit patrio, mox itidem pectine Daunio Vicinis, et humum vix tetigit pede: ANTISTROPHE Quis te, parve liber, quis te fratribus Cum tu missus ab urbe, Docto jugiter obsecrante amico, Illustre tendebas iter Thamesis ad incunabula Cærulei patris, Fontes ubi limpidi Aonidum, thyasusque sacer, Orbi notus per immensos Temporum lapsus redeunte cælo, STROPHE 2 Modò quis deus, aut editus deo, Jam penè totis finibus Angligenûm, Unguibus imminentes Figat Apollineâ pharetrâ, IC 30 30 Phineamque abigat pestem procul amne Pegaseo? ANTISTROPHE Quin tu, libelle, nuntii licet malâ Fide, vel oscitantiâ, Voluit reponi, quibus et ipse præsidet Clarus Erechtheides. Opulenta dei per templa parentis, Fulvosque tripodas, donaque Delphica, Ion Actæâ genitus Creusâ. ANTISTROPHE Ergo tu visere lucos Musarum ibis amœnos; Diamque Phœbi rursus ibis in domum Oxoniâ quam valle colit, Delo posthabita, Bifidoque Parnassi jugo; Ibis honestus, Postquam egregiam tu quoque sortem Nactus abis, dextri prece sollicitatus amici. Illic legeris inter alta nomina Authorum, Graiæ simul et Latinæ Antiqua gentis lumina et verum decus. 60 70 EPODOS Vos tandem haud vacui mei labores, Perfunctam invidia requiem, sedesque beatas Et tutela dabit solers Roüsî, Quò neque lingua procax vulgi penetrabit, atque longè Turba legentûm prava facesset; At ultimi nepotes Et cordatior ætas Judicia rebus æquiora forsitan Adhibebit integro sinu. Tum, livore sepulto, Si quid meremur sana posteritas sciet, 1 IN SALMASII HUNDREDAM QUIS expedivit Salmasio suam Hundredam, Centum, exulantis viscera marsupii regis. Ipse, Antichristi qui modò primatum Papæ Cantabit ultrò Cardinalitium melos. IN SALMASIUM GAUDETE, Scombri, et quicquid est piscium sale, 80 GLOSSARY P.L. Paradise Lost. C. Comus. P.R. Paradise Regained. When the page alone is given Poems. Abaddon, a name of hell. See | Africa, P.R. ü. 199; Scipio Prov. IV. II Abarim, a mountain range in Moab, of which Nebo was the highest peak Abassin, Abyssinian Abbana, a river flowing through Damascus abide, pay for, P.L. iv. 87 abortive, full of abortive or monstrous things, P.L. ii. 441 Academe, a garden near Athens, where Plato taught Accaron, Ekron, one of the five chief cities of the Philistines Acheron, River of Woe, one of the rivers of the infernal regions in Greek mythology Achilles, the great hero of the Grecian army before Troy, described in Homer's Iliad acquist, acquisition, S.A. 1755 Ades, or Hades, Greek name of the king of the infernal regions, or the place itself Adiabene, a district in Assyria admire, wonder, P.L. i. 690; P.R. i. 214 Adonis, a river rising in Lebanon, whose waters in flood were tinged with red. The name was applied to Aphrodite's lover, a beautiful youth, whose death was celebrated each year by a dramatic feast, when "Gardens of Adonis "were planted 66 in his honour Adramelech, mighty king," an idol worshipt in Samaria Adria, the Adriatic Sea adust, burnt. P.L. xii. 635 Emilian Road, a road made by M. Æmilius Lepidus through northern Italy Enon, of unknown position near Jordan, John iii. 23 Afer, the S.-W. wind Africanus, at the capture of New Carthage, when he was twenty-four years old, restored a noble captive lady of Spain to her lover African, Scipio Africanus agast, terrified, P.R. i. 43 Agonistes," the struggler " (Gr.) Ahab, 1 Kings xxii. 6 Ahaz, King of Judah, who persuaded the Assyrians to conquer Damascus. He made an altar in Jerusalem on the pattern of one he saw in Damascus Aialon (Ajalon), a valley near Jerusalem, where Joshua defeated the Canaanites Aladule, Armenia, SO called from its last king Aladules Albracca, the city of Gallaphrone, King of Cathay, in Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato. It is besieged by Agricane, King of Tartary, to win Angelica, Gallaphrone's daughter (Masson) Alcairo, Cairo, the modern city built near the ruins of Memphis Alcestis, wife of Admetus, brought back to him from the dead by Hercules alchymy, a composite metal, so called because made by the alchemists, P.L. ii. 517 Alcides, Hercules (Herakles), son of Jove, who received from his wife a robe dipt in venom, which burnt his flesh and killed him Alcinous, King of Scheria, a fabulous land of plenty described in Homer. His famous garden is described in Odyssey, Bk. vii. Alexander's tutor, Aristotle |