SAPPHIC ODE: TO MR. WEST. * [See Mason's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 42; on a version of Gray's Latin Odes by Green, in English, see H. Walpole's Letters to Cole, p. 116.] BARBARAS ædes aditure mecum *Mason considered this as the first original production of Gray's Muse; the two former poems being imposed as exercises by the College. V. 1. Comp. Hor. Od. ii. vi. 1: "Septimi, Gades aditure mecum," &c. Luke. V. 3. "Lis nunquam, toga rara," Martial. Ep. x. 47. "Quot æstuantes ancipiti gradu Furtiva carpent oscula Naïdes." V. 5. "Platanus patulis est diffusa ramis," Cic. de Oratore, Lib. I. cap. vii. "Hospita umbra," Ovid. Trist. III. iii. 64. Hor. Od. ii. iii. 9. V. 6. There is no authority for the last syllable of " temere " being made long. See Burmanni. Anth. Lat. vol. ii. 458, and Class. Journal, No. xviii. p. 340. Yet Casimir Sarbievus has erred in the quantity of this word, as well as Gray: "Te sibilantis lenior halitus Perflabit Euri; me juvet interim Collum reclinasse; et virenti And Cowley (Solitudo) "Hic jaciens vestris temere sub um bris." Lowth Ode ad orn. Puellam. sequentes." Carmin. Quadrig. ii. 81. Ad. Testudinem. "Ducit aquas temere "Defessus temere se.' See Woty's Poet. Calendar, Part xii. p. 34. In Horace, Vir Sic libris horas, tenuique inertes Fallere Musâ? Sæpe enim curis vagor expeditâ Mente; dum, blandam meditans Camænam, Vix malo rori, meminive seræ 11 Cedere nocti ; Et, pedes quò me rapiunt, in omni Risit et Ver me, facilesque Nymphæ 15 gil, and Ovid the final syllable of this word is always elided. - A friend observed, that the last syllable of temere is made long in the Gradus' on the authority of Tertullian : << Immemor ille Dei temere committere tale." It is hardly necessary to observe that the authority of Tertullian on a question of a doubtful quantity would not be esteemed sufficient. The last syllable of temere being always elided by Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, sufficiently shows their opinion to have been, that it was short; and therefore that it could not be used in Hexameter verse, without lengthening its final syllable by elision. See Menagiana, vol. iii. p. 418. (Hor. Od. ii. xi. 13, “ Pinu jacentes sic temere." Luke.) V. 7. "Tenui deducta poemata filo," Hor. Ep. II. i. 225. "Graciles Musas," Propert. Eleg. II. x. 3. Virg. Eclog. i. 2. Hor. S. ii. 6, 61, "Nunc veterum libris, nunc somno et inertibus horis." Luke. V. 9. -"ultra Terminum, curis vagor expeditis." Hor. Od. I. xxii. 10. nit decedere nocti." Virg. Eclog. viii. 88, "Nec seræ memi- Me reclinatum teneram per herbam; Nectit in omni. Hæ novo nostrum ferè pectus anno Purior hora: Otia et campos nec adhuc relinquo, Mollior æstas.) Namque, seu, lætos hominum labores 25 80 V. 13, 14. "I, pedes quo te rapiunt," Hor. Od. iii. xi. 49. "Videre magnos jam videor duces," Od. ii. i. 21. V. 17. "Sed faciles nymphæ risere," Virg. Eclog. iii. 9. V. 18. Virg. Georg. i. 376, "Patulis captavit naribus auras. دو V. 19. On the Cæsura post alterum pedem, see Fabricius on the Metres of Seneca. V. 21. Virg. Eclog. viii. 15, " Cum ros in tenera pecori gratissimus herba." Luke. V. 22. "Levis cursu," Virg. Æn. xii. 489. "Cursus ducebat," En. v. 667. V. 23. Hor. Od. iv. 37, "Dulcem quæ strepitum, Pieri, temperas." Luke. V. 26. Virg. Æn. viii. 528. "Cali in regione serenâ Per sudum rutilare vident." V. 30. See Ov. Metam. iv. 234. 264. V. 31. "Senescit ager," Ovid. Art. Am. iii. 82, ex Pont. I. iv. 14. "Molles anni," Ovid. Ep. iii. 3. Tristia, iv. 43. "Mollior æstas," Virg. Georg. i. 312. N Prataque et montes recreante curru, Purpurâ tractus oriens Eoos Vestit, et auro; Sedulus servo veneratus orbem 35 Sive dilectam meditatur igne Pingere Calpen; Usque dum, fulgore magis magis jam Scena recessit. O ego felix, vice si (nec unquam V. 34. V. Lucret. v. 402, 66 gubernans." Luke. Fallere Letho! 40 45 Solque ** recreavit cuncta V. 41. See Tate in the Class. Journ. No. ix. p. 120. “Horace makes the division after the 5th, 6th, or 7th foot, never after the 3rd, as the Moderns do." V. 45. The last syllable of ego is short, and so used by the best writers; nor will the example of Ausonius, or an instance or two of its being found long in Plautus and Catullus, authorize a modern poet in this license. See the note by Heinsius on Ovid. Ep. xiii. 135, vol. i. p. 180, and Burmann on Propertii Eleg. I. viii. 41. "Recte Heinsius, qui nunquam a Nasone, p. 93, 94, 733, hujus voculæ ultimam produci notat; et falsos esse illos qui ab ullo Augustei ævi poetâ id factum contendunt, dicit ad Albinov. Epiced. Drusi. x. 193." See also Vossius de Arte Grammaticâ, lib. ii. cap. 27. Drakenborch, in his note on Sil. Italicus xvii. 358, p. 865, (where the last syllable of ego is long), relies on the authorities produced by Vossius; and thinks that it may be lengthened, even without the power of the cæsura. Multa flagranti radiisque cincto Sentit Olympus. 50 ALCAIC FRAGMENT. [See Mason's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 43.] O LACRYMARUM fons,* tenero sacros V. 47. See Stewart's Moral Philosophy, vol. iii. p. 201. V. 48. "Natus moriensque fefellit," Hor. Ep. I. xvii. 10. V. 49. Mason has improperly accented this word, as if it were an adverb (multà). All the other editions have followed him. It is the "nomen pro adverbio," as Hor. Od. iv. ii. 25. V. 52. Virg. Æn. x. 206, "Phoebe medium pulsabat Olympum." Luke. *So Sophocles, Antigone, ver. 803: · ἴσχειν δ' οὐκ ἔτι πηγὰς δύναμαι δάκρυων. V. Chariton. ed. Dorville, p. 5, and Chrysostom in laud. Pauli ed. Hemsterh. p. xxvi. και πηγὰς δάκρυων ἡ φιει. |