Horrendi tam sæva premit vicinia montis, Attonitumque urget latus, exuritque ferentem. 5 10 Nam fama est olim, mediâ dum rura silebant Ah, miser! increpitans sæpè altâ voce per umbram V. 5. "Vicinia Persidis urget," Georg. iv. 290. "Pampineas invidit collibus umbras," Virg. Ec. vii. 58. V. 9. "Immania ponti æquora," Lucret. vi. 624. V. 10. " Curvisque immugiit Ætna cavernis." Æn. iii. 674. V. 11. "Tum sonitu Prochyta alta tremit." Virg. Æn. ix. 715. Luke. V. 15. "Piceâ crassam caligine nubem," Virg. Georg. ii. 309. "Vorago, pestiferas aperit fauces," Æn. vii. 569. V. 17. V. 24. Terra tremit: fugere feræ," Virg. Georg. i. 330. "tum longo limite sulcus Dat lucem, et latè circùm loca sulphure fumant." Fumumque, flammasque, rotataque turbine saxa. And, "Sulphurei cum per juga consita Gauri," Ausonii Mosell. p. 387, ed. Tollii. "Anhelantem coelesti sulfure campum," v. Stat. Theb. xi. 17. V. 25. In the modern Latin poetry, this license of lengthening the " que "before the mute and liquid, even with the power of the cæsura, ought to be avoided, as it is supported by so few examples. See Virg. Æn. vii. 186. Georg. i. 164. And see also Æn. iii. 91. Ov. Met. v. 484, and Class. Journal, No. xxi. p. 174, xxii. 364. V. 26. This is not a common expression in Latin poetry. Val. Flaccus has, "Dum detonet ira: " iv. 294. See also Quintilian (Gesn. xii. ix. 4): "Cum illa dicendi vitiosa jactatio inter plausores sero detonuit." Petron. Sat. c. xvii. p. 37. Sid. Apollin. c. xiv. 24. And V. 31. See Virg. Georg. i. 397: "Tenuia nec lanæ," &c.— ii. 121 "Depectant tenuia Seres." Lucret. iv. 747. Terent. Maur. ver. 474. V. 31. "Solatia luctûs Exigua ingentis misero sed debita patri." Æn. xi. 62. V. 32. I should conceive the proper phrase to be "Colligere in unum," and not und. Virg. Ecl. vii. 2: "Compulerantque greges Corydon et Thyrsis in unum. Cicero de Inventione, i. 56: "Colligere et conferre in unum." Again, "Militibus in unum conductis." And Philip. ix.: "Si omnes juris consulti in unum conferantur.' Ovidii Met. iii. 715. See the note on Ovid. Metam. xiii. 910. Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Thomson. Winter, 315. 41 (Spem miseram!) assuetosve Lares, aut rura vide- saxis: 49 Sed furor extinctus jamdudum, et flamma quievit, 56 V. 41. "Res antiquæ laudis," Virg. Georg. ii. 174. Virg. Georg. iii. 476. Luke. V. 47. "Indice monstraret digito," Hor. Sat. ii. viii. 26. And Pers. i. 28. V. 56. "Sparsosque recolligit ignes," Lucan. i. 157. "Dum tacitas vires, et flammam colligit ignis," Sil. Ital. iv. 307; Raro per clivos haud secius ordine vidi Canescentem oleam: longum post tempus amicti Vite virent tumuli; patriamque revisere gaudens Bacchus in assuetis tenerum caput exerit arvis 60 Vix tandem, infidoque audet se credere cœlo. A FAREWELL TO FLORENCE. [See Mason's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 157.] ** Он Fæsulæ amœna 5 Frigoribus juga, nec nimiùm spirantibus auris! [sus and Virg. Georg. i. 427. The position of "que" is wrong. See note to Burm. Ovid. Metam. xiv. 30; but also consult Class. Journal. No. xxii. p. 22. V. 58. "Foetum canentis olivæ," Ov. Met. vi. 81. V. 60. "Jam modò coeruleo nitidum caput exsere ponto," Ov. Met. xiii. 838. And Fast. i. 458. V. 61. "Pennis ausus se credere cœlo," Virg. Æn. vi. 15. V. 1. In Sil. Ital. Pun. viii. 478, the second syllable of this word is short: "Fæsula, et antiquus Romanis moenibus horror." Polybius also (lib. ii. cap. 9,) writes Paicoλa. In other authors, as Appian. Civ. Bell. ii. c. 2. Dion. xxxvii. it IMITATION OF AN ITALIAN SONNET OF SIGNIOR ABBATE BUONDELMONTE. [See Mason's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 158.] SPESSO Amor sotto la forma LUSIT amicitiæ interdum velatus amictu, 1 is written poovai, which appears to be the more ancient orthography. See Cluver. Ital. Antiq. vol. i. p. 509. V. 5. "Non ego vos posthac, viridi projectus in antro, Virg. Ecl. i. 76. Ausonii Mosell. ver. 283. And, "Culmina villarum pendentibus edita ripis." v. 20. Ovid. Ar. Am. i. 720. "Ut mihi prætextæ pudor exvelatus amictu." Propert. iii. xxiii. 3. V. 2. "At me compositâ pace fefellit amor," Propert. El. ii. ii. 6. "Cum bene compositis," Manil. iv. 58. |