dica, ut tuâ operâ, et meâ ex illius tumulo, förtunataque favilla nascantur viola. Vale. bath - 8 Calend. Maias 1644. Tui amantissimusi Alexander Ross. The following verses are also by Alexander Ross, and in his own hand-writing. da re 1 Magnus Alexander pluris faciebat Homerum, Quâ Macedûm resonas bellica gesta ducis? Doctor Davidi Eclino, Medico Regio, Alex-andri Rossæi Epigrama. Non mihi Persarum gaze, nec thura Sabeæ, Galterus vivit Munere jam Medici. The The following complimentary verses are addressed. to Alexander Ross, on his presumed intention to republish this poem of the Alexandreid. A In Alexandrum Rossæum super Galtero, ipsius operâ ab miseris revocato, vindicta a Davide Eclino retortą. Dux Macedum nullam potuit sub sole citare This was probably the first edition. This author was ranked among the classics of the time, indeed according to Warton, an anonymous Latin poet of the thirteenth century, calls Homer, Gualter, and Horace, the three great heroic poets. It is in this poet that the trite verse so often repeated is found, Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdin. In his seventh book the author alludes to the murder of Thomas a Becket. Flandria Robertum Cæsum dolet Anglia Thoman." The colophon, which is very singular, is as follows. They may interpret it that can, I confess my ignorance. Galteri Pocte Virgiliani carminis no infini scrutatoris ac bone Poesios amatoris et imitatoris: Alexandreis finit feliciter. Preteriti serie revoluta temporis annos The Bishop of Ely's copy has this title page in MS. with many marginal notes from Quintus Curtius and others, and is probably that which was intended for the press. Galteri Alexandriados, sive Gestorum Alexander Rossæus Aberdonensis Et marginalibus quibusdam notis Ex L. Cursio aliisque Extracts are given from this work by Warton, but as the work is far from being common, I subjoin a description of Alexander's armour and sword. Terea crure tenus serpens descendit ad imos Dira lues gladius: per quem Jovis atria nigri PHILODOXÍOS. The book which I am about to describe may truly be called "Libellus Rarissimus." Scaliger boasted that it was impossible for him to be deceived in regard to the style of the ancients; six verses were circulated as lately discovered, they were as follows: Here si querelis, ejulatu, fletibus Nunc hæc ad removenda mala non magis valent, These verses, which certainly are excellent, and have all the air of antiquity, deceived Scaliger so effectually, that he cited them in his commentary on Varro as a fragment from Trabea, not long since discovered in an ancient manuscript. Trabea was a comic poet, and lived in the year 600 of Rome. These verses were however made by Muretus, who played Scaliger, his rival and competitor, this trick. Rollin, from whom this is quoted, seems not to have known that the first S 3 |