De indulgentiis Julii

Fraude capit totum mercator Julius orbem,

Vendit énim cœlos, non habet ipse tamen.

Vende mihi quod habes, nam quo pudor, ut mihi vendas, Ipsum te Juli cujus egere vides.

Quin fera centimanos emittat terra Gigantes,

Julius expulso vendat ut astra Jove.

Donec enim cœlos alius regit, et tonat inde,

Non ego tam magni muneris emptor ero.

In Leonem x. Ac. San.

Sumere maternis titulos cum posset ab ursis
Cæculus hic noster, maluit esse Leo.

Quid tibi cum magno commune est talpa leone?

Non cadit in turpes nobilis ira feras.

Ipse licet cupias animos simulare leonis:

Non lupus hoc genitor, non sinit Ursa parens

Ergo aliud tibi prorsus habendum est Cæcule nomen.
Nam cuncta ut possis, non potes esse Leo.

DE ROME PETULANTIA.

Marti olim complexa Venus poscebat amantem
Munus, quo nullum majus in orbe foret.
Ille Stygem jurat, danti quodcunque daturum,
Et Romam tota cum ditione dedit.

Martia Roma prius fuerat, Cithercia nunc est,

Cesserunt Aquila, signaque Passer habet.
Roma caput scelerum, nivei jactura pudoris,
Exitium fidei, luxuriæque parens.

Sola Venus dispensat opes, dispensat honores,
Sola facit, serva quicquid in urbe libet.
Extollit, magnosque facit sapientia turpis:
Sit procul, in tenero cui sedet ore decor.
Tartara sunt molli potius adeunda juventæ :
Si non est alius, sit tibi barba comes.

The

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The following is taken from the Epigrams of Andreas Marianus, "Ruinarum Romæ," lib. 2.

Ille ego Pasquillus, fama notissimus Orbi,
Sto lacer et laceris vatibus exitium;
Et quamvis videar formam variando quotannis
Ridiculum pueris, et sine mente caput,
Officium Censoris ago, morumque magister
Credor inurbanis ritibus excidium.

O curvæ in terris animæ, quid nova paratis
Vulnera, si tantum noxia lingua mihi est?
Quid vates ulterius? saltem si Roma revulsit
Brachia ne pugnem, crura det ut fugiam.

Upon this book Vogt has the following note in his Catalogus Librorum Rariorum.

Nuper etiam pro xxv nummis aureis Hungaricis coemptus fuit, teste Sam. Engel in Catalogo librorum rar. p. 122.

For the particulars, the reader may consult Maittaire Annal. Typog. T. 3. p. 217.

SUIDAS

SUIDAS.

DIALOGUM HUNC, A CÆTERIS EDITIONIBUS OMISSUM, HABET MEDIOLANENSIS,

ANNI 1499.

διάλογος σεφάνου τοῦ μελανος.

βιβλιοπώλης· καὶ φιλομαθής.

Βι. δεύρ' ἴθι φιλομαθές, εἰ τῆς ἑλληνικῆς ἐρᾶς τάχα φωνῆς, φιλ. τί ποιήσων. ειπέ μοι διὰ τάχους. ου γάρ μοι σχολή εστιν. βι. θεασόμενος τοιγαροῦν ταύτην τὴν βίβλον. τὴν νεωςὶ ὥσπερ ὅψει, τετυπωμένην, καὶ μετέπειτα ὠνησόμε νος. πολλῶν γάρ εστι ποικίλων καὶ παντοδαπῶν μεςή. ὁρᾶς δέ το πάχος αυτης καὶ τὸ μέγεθος. οὐδὲν γάρ ἐςιν οὔτε παρὰ ποιηταῖς οὔτε παρ' ἱςορικοῖς καὶ λογογράφοις ὅντω δύσκολον καὶ σκοτεινὸν, ὅπερ οὐκ εὐχερὲς καὶ σαφὲς ποιεῖ. ἑρμηνεύει γάρ ὡς πλεῖσα καὶ χρησιμώτατα. φιλ. οὐκ οἶσθα ὡς ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ τὸ πανταχη τεθρυλλημένον. ὁ πολλὰ λαλῶν πολλὰ καὶ σφάλλεται. βι. οἶδα πῶς γὰρ οὔ. ἀλ' ἥκισα ἡ τοῦ σουίδα πολυφωνία ἐνέχεται τη παροιμία. τὸν γὰρ περιπολλῶν και διαφόρων λέγοντα πολλὰ καὶ λέγειν ἀναγκαῖον. καὶ δὴ καὶ σουίδας πάμπολλα συντεμὼν ὀλίγοις περιείληφε· καὶ τὸ τῶν μελισσών μάλιστα ἐμιμήθη. ὥσπερ γὰρ ἐκεῖναι ἐφ ̓ ἅπαντα μὲν τὰ βλαστήματα καθιζάνουσιν ἀφ' ἑκάστου δὲ τὰ χρήσιμα λαμβάνουσιν, οὕτω καὶ σουίδας, καὶ ἁπλῶς οἱ σπουδαῖοι καὶ ἐλλόγιμοι των ἀνδρῶν πολλῶν μὲν ἀπόπειραν λαμβάνειν εἰώθασιν. ἐξ αὐτῶν δὲ τὰ χρήσιμα καὶ καλλίω συλλέγειν. φιλ. εὐγενὴ τὸν ἀπόλλω καὶ καλῶς ἔφης. καὶ σοί χάριν ὁμολογῶ. ἡ οὖν τῆς βίβλου τιμὴ πόση τίς ἐςι. βι. χρυσῶν τριῶν. φιλ. λάμβανε δὴ καὶ δὸς τὴν βίβλον.

EDITIONS

EDITIONS OF THE CLASSICS.

THE following curious editions of different Classic Authors were omitted by Harwood, and are not noticed in the subsequent republications of his book at Venice.

HOMER.

Homeri Opera Gr. Svo. Jo. Lonicero. Argent. apud Vuolf Cephal. 1542. 2 Vol.

Gr. Svo. Venice a Petro de

Sabio 1547. 2 Vol.

Eadem a Bernardino Feliciano.

Ilias ab Hadriano Turnebo. Gr. 8vo. With the edition of the Iliad, printed by Turnebus, the Cracherode Collection possesses the Batrachomyomachia & Hymns in the same character, but without date. The copy, as I have elsewhere mentioned, was formerly in the collection of Mr. Bridges, and is mentioned by Maittaire, Annal. Typog. tom. 3. p. 647. Count Revickzky had another copy with the same additional pieces: it is now in the possession of Lord Spencer.

Ilias, Gr. 4to. Paris ap. Guil. Morelium. 1562. et Odyssea, Gr. 4to. Lutet. apud Viduam Guil

Morelii, 1566. This is a very beautiful and rare edition.

Batrachomyomachia, Gr. Lat. absque ulla. nota, Sæc. xv. 4to. Editio Princeps.

Bibliotheca M. Pinellii, t. 2. p. 281.

See the

This was purchased at the Pinelli sale, together with the edition of 1486, by Count Revickzky, for 271. 16s. 6d. and is now in the library of Lord Spencer.

HESIOD.

Opera et Dies Gr. Lat. I. Spondanus recensuit et Commentariis illustravit, 12mo. Rupellæ ap. Hieronym. Haulten. 1592.

ESOP.

Fabula Electiores Gr. et Lat. 4to. Regii per Dionysium Bartochum, 1497.

Gr. et Lat. 4to. Basil. per Joann. Hervagium.

1544.

PINDAR.

Opera Gr. 8vo. et Lat. per N. Sudorium, 8vo. Paris. A. Morel. 1623.

ANACREON.

Græce cum Scholiis Græcis Joan. Armandi Buthillerii Abbatis, 12mo. Paris. Jac. Dugart,

1639.

A. Josepho