135 Roscida, cum Zephyri furtìm sub vesperis horâ Qualis Hamadryadum quondam si fortè sororum 150 V. 134. "Votis respondet avari,” Georg. i. 47. “Divinum adspirat amorem," Virg. Æn. viii. 373. V. 137. "Vivata potestas," Lucret. iii. 410. 557. 680. V. 144. "Mater virideis saltus orbata peragrans.' Lucret. ii. 355. Luke. V. 147. "Lympharum in speculo," Phædrus, i. iv. 3. V. 149. The same synæresis is found in Propert. iv. vii. 7: "Eosdem habuit secum, quibus est elata capillos." And, "Eosdem oculos; lateri vestis adusta fuit." Nec verò simplex ratio, aut jus omnibus unum Constat imaginibus. Sunt quæ bina ostia nôrunt; Hæ privos servant aditus; sine legibus illæ Passim, quà data porta, ruunt, animoque propinquant. 157 160 Respice, cui à cunis tristes extinxit ocellos, "Con V. 154. "Nec ratio solis simplex," Lucret. v. 613. stat imago," iv. 108. "Privas aures," iv. 570. V. 157. Virg. Æn. i. 83. "Qua data porta ruunt." Luke. V. 161. "Ea gratia formæ," Ovid. Met. vii. 44. V. 167. "Radios inter quasi rumpere lucis," Lucret. v. 288. "Radiis ardentem lucis," Virg. Æn. vii. 142. V. 171. "Terribiles visu formæ," Æn. vi. 277. V. 173. "At facere, et fungi sine corpore nulla potestas." Lucret. i. 444. 175 Ordine, perpetuoque per ævum flumine labi. Nunc age quo valeat pacto, quâ sensilis arte Affectare viam, atque animi tentare latebras Materies (dictis aures adverte faventes) Exsequar. Imprimis spatii quam multa per æquor 180 Millia multigenis pandant se corpora seclis, Expende. Haud unum invenies, quod mente licebit 185 Amplecti, nedum propriùs deprendere sensu, Inde potestatum enasci densissima proles: V. 175. "Perpetuo possint ævi labentia tractu.” Lucret. v. 1215. V. 177. "Viamque adfectat Olympo," Georg. iv. 562. "Tentare latebras," Æn. ii. 38. V. 185. "Extima membrorum circumcæsura coercet." V. 189. Audeat." Lucret. iv. 651. "Solem quis dicere falsum Virg. Georg. i. 463. V. 190. "At si tantula pars oculi media illa peresa est, Incolumis quamvis alioqui splendidus orbis." Lucret. iii. 415. V. 191. "Densior hinc soboles," Virg. Georg. iii. 308. V. 192. "Quæ feriunt oculorum acies, visumque lacessant," Lucret. iv. 329. Quicquid nare bibis, vel concava concipit auris, Quicquid lingua sapit, credas hoc omne, necesse est Ponderibus, textu, discursu, mole, figurâ 195 Particulas præstare leves, et semina rerum. Nunc oculos igitur pascunt, et luce ministrâ Fulgere cuncta vides, spargique coloribus orbem, Dum de sole trahunt alias, aliasque supernè Detorquent, retròque docent se vertere flammas. V. 193. "Nare bibis." Is this expression warranted by the authority of any of the Latin poets? Horace has " Bibit aure," Od. ii. xiii. 32; and Statius, in Ach. ii. 120, "Aure bibentem." "Naso videt," Plautius. See Martini. Var. Lect. p. 10. Shakespeare transfers the same word to sight: "And with mine eyes I'll drink the words you send," Cymbel. act i. sc. 2. And Thomson. Spring, 106: "Or taste the smell of dairy." "Elapsusque cavâ fingitur aure lapis," Ov. Art. Am. i. 432. V. 196. "Multorum semina rerum," Lucret. ii. 676. Luke. V. 197. "Oculos qui pascere possunt," Lucret. ii. 419. "Consulit ardentes radios, et luce magistra." Luke. Claud. Cons. Honor. vi. 7. V. 198. "Grammatici veteres notaverunt à Virgilio et antiquioribus poetis, stridere in tertià conjugatione cum aliis verbis, ut fervere, fulgere esse usitatum; à Lucano autem, et Statio, et ejus ætatis poetis in secundà." Vide Priscian. Col. 837. 866. 893. Dousam. ad Lucil. lib. ix. p. 119. N. Marcell. voce "fulgere," ed. Mercer. Coripp. Laud. Justini, iii. 257. Virg. Georg. iv. 262. Æn. iv. 689. vii. 334. xii. 691. Lucan. ii. 250. vi. 179. ed. Oudendorp. Gesner, in a note to Claudian de Cons. Stilich. iii. 142, "Siculas obsident urbes," says, "Obsidere tertiâ conjugatione, nec optimos refugisse docent Thesauri nostri." It was on the authority of the use of these verbs in the third conjugation, that Vossius, in his treatise "De Arte Grammatica," (lib. ii. p. 90), attempted to defend responděre in the well-known passage of Manilius, lib. v. 753, and that Scaliger and Bronkhusius read "Jam canis ætas mea canaret annis." v. Propert. El. ii. 14. 7. V. 200. 66 Faciunt ignem se vertere in auras." Lucret. i. 783. Nunc trepido inter se fervent corpuscula pulsu, 205 LIBER QUARTUS. HACTENUS haud segnis Naturæ arcana retexi Musarum interpres, primusque Britanna per arva Romano liquidum deduxi flumine rivum. Cum Tu opere in medio, spes tanti et causa laboris, Linquis, et æternam fati te condis in umbram! 5 Vidi egomet duro graviter concussa dolore Pectora, in alterius non unquam lenta dolorem ; V. 207. "Sensiferos motus quæ dedit prima per artus," Lucret. ii. 246, and iii. 937. "Longe ab sensiferis primordia motibus errant." V. 2. See Lucret. i. 95; iv. 5. And Columella de Cult. Hort. 435: "Qui primus veteres ausus recludere fontes, Ascræum cecinit Romana per oppida carmen." Virg. Georg. ii. 175. And iii. 12: "Aonio rediens deducam vertice Musas." And see note to Ennius, ed. Hesselii. p. 10. V. 8. "Languescent lumina morte," Catull. Ixiv. 188. "Vultus amatos," Ov. Fast. vi. 579. |