Quo facere et fungi, quo res existere circùm Quamque sibi proprio cum corpore scimus, et ire Ordine, perpetuoque per ævum flumine labi. 175 180 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 Millia multigenis pandant se corpora seclis, Expende. Haud unum invenies, quod mente licebit Amplecti, nedum propriùs deprendere sensu, Molis egens certæ, aut solido sine robore, cujus Denique mobilitas linquit, texturave partes, Ulla nec orarum circumcæsura coërcet. 18 V. 173. "At facere, et fungi sine corpore nulla potestas, Lucret. i. 444. 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. 66 Lucret. iv. 651. Solem quis dicere falsum Audeat." 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. V. 193. "Nare bibis." Is this expression warranted by the authority of any of the Latin poets? Horace has "Bibit aure," Ód. 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 cavá fingitur aure lapis," Ov. Art. Am. i. 432. Hæc conjuncta adeò totâ compage fatetur V. 196. "Multorum semina rerum," Lucret. ii. 676. Luke. 195 V. 197." Oculos qui pascere possunt," Lucr. ii. 419. Luke. "Consulit ardentes radios, et luce magistra," Claud. Cons. Honor. vi. 7. V. 198. "Grammatici veteres notaverunt à Virgilio et antiquioribus poetis, stridere in tertiâ conjugatione cum aliis verbis, ut fervere, fulgere esse usitatum; à Lucano autem, et Statio, et ejus ætatis poetis in secundâ." 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. 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 respondĕre in the well-known passage of Manilius, lib. v. 753, and that Scaliger and Bronkhusius read "Jam canis ætas mea caneret annis." v. Propert. El. ii. 14. 7. It Dum de sole trahunt alias, aliasque supernè 205 LIBER QUARTUS HACTENUS haud segnis Naturæ arcana retexi V. 200. "Faciunt ignem se vertere in auras," Lucret. i. 783. V. 27. "Sensiferos motus quæ dedit prima per artus," Lucre 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. lxiv. 188. "Vultus amatos," Ov. Fast. vi. 579. Linquis, et æternam fati te condis in umbram! 5 Pectora, in alterius non unquam lenta dolorem ; At Tu, sancta anima, et noștri non indiga luctûs, Respectes, tenuesque vacet cognoscere curas; Incorrupta fides, nudaque veritas," V. 9. 66 Luke. V. 14. "Tecum etenim longos memini consumere soles," Pers. Sat. v. 41. Virg. Eclog. ix. 51. V. 17. "Questus ad nubila rumpit inanes," Claud. xxxv. Questu volvebat inani," Ciris. v. 401. 249. 66 V. 18. "Sancta ad vos anima," Virg. Æn. xii. 648. V. 21, 66 Contemplêre, metus, stimulosque cupidinis acres, Gaudiaque et gemitus, parvoque in corde tumultum Irarum ingentem, et sævos sub pectore fluctus; Respice et has lacrymas, memori quas ictus amore Fundo; quod possum, juxtà lugere sepulchrum Dum juvat, et mutæ vana hæc jactare favillæ. 29 GREEK ΕPIGRAM. [See Mason's Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 45.] Αζόμενος πολυθηρον ἐκηβόλου ἄλσος ἀνάσσας, V. 24. "Et stimulos acres sub pectore vertit," Æn. ix. 718. V. 29. “ Taliaque illacrymans muta jace verba faville," Propert. Eleg. ii. i. 77. |