Br. 126. 1 Br.219. Hujus palestræ qui vigil custos stetit, Clam nocte tollit Aulus, et ridens ait; Pr. 126. | Præstat magistro sæpe discipulus suo. Pauper eram, nummis diffuit iica senis; Br. 223. Qui jacet hic, servus vixit, nunc, lumine cassus, Br. 127. | Br. 297. Si Phæbo, victor nescit obire diem. Br. 152. Et morbus tegitur, dum premit ora pudor. Br. 241. Eveniat tantum mitior unda tibi ! Br. 155. Br. 256. Cur opulentus eges? tua cuncta in fænore ponis. ! Sic aliis dives, tu tibi pauper agis. Br. 269. Hirce, parem nitido tua barba facit. Br. 266. Sanguine Anastasii ; cuncta sepulta jacent ; Br. 162. Et pius, et recti cultor : non illa jacere aurum Br. 267. Br. 167. Lysigeni, fuerat non gravis ille tibi. Br. 285. Br. 168. | Idem orcus terræ, sic, pelagoque subest. Br. 301. sus; Exclamat; nunc uie cernere desinitis. Br. 394. Cerbere, te morsu ne, petat ille, cave. Br. 507. | VITAM a terdecimo sextus mihi finiet annus, | Astra mathematicos si modo vera docent. Sufficit hoc vocis, flos hic pulcherrimus æri est, Et senium triplex Nestoris urna capit. CE Br. 210. Deniophilu auscultans Nycticorax moritur. Br. 322. Curpore nunc etiam libera facta fuit, i Br. 326. J FORTUNE malim adversæ tolerare procellas, EXIGUUM en! Pr'ami monumentum; haud ille Quam domini ingentis ferre supercilium meretur Quale, sed hustiles, quale dedere manus. Ex, Sexto, Sexti meditatur imago, silente, Orator statua est, statuæque oralor imago. . Br. 326. Hector dat gladium Ajaci, dat Balteum et Ajax Hectori, et exitio munus utrique fuit. Pulchra est virginitas intacta, at vita periret, Omnes si vellent virginitate frui; Nequitiam fugiens, servatâ contrahe lege Conjugium, ut pro te des hominem patriæ. Ut vis, ponte minax; modo tres discesseris ul. nas, Ingemina fluctus, ingeminaque sonum. | Fert humeris, venerabile onus, Cythereius horos Per Trojæ fainmas, densaque tela, patrem. Clamat et Argivis, vetuli, ne tangite, vita Exiguum est Marti, sed mihi grande lucrum. Forma animos hominum capit, at, si gratia desit, Non tenet; esca natat pulchra, sed hamus Br. 398. abest. HERACLITUS ego; indoctæ ne lædite linguæ Subtile ingenium quæro, capaxque mei, Unus homo mihi pro sexcentis, turba popelli Cogitat aut loquitur nil vir, nil cogitat uxor, Pro nullo, clamo nunc tumulatus idem. Felici thalamo non, puto, rixa strepit. Br. 399. AMBRACIOTA, vale lux alma, Cleombrotus ipfit, | Buccina disjecit Thebarum mænia, struxit Et saltu e muro ditis opaca petit : Quæ lyra, quam sibi non concinit harmonia ! Triste nihil passus, animi at de sorte Platonis Scripta legens, solâ vivere mente cupit. Menrt senes olim jurenis, Faustine, premebas, Nunc juvenum terres robore corda senex. Br. 399. | Lævum at utrumque decus, juveni quod præbuit Servus, Epictetus, mutilato corpore, vixi, olim Pauperieque Irus, curaque suinma Deûm. Turba senum, juvenes nunc tribuere seni. Br. 445. {EXCEPTÆ hospitio musæ, tribuere libellos Unde hic Praxiteles ? nudam vidistis, Adoni, Herodoto hospitii præmia, quæque suum. Et Pari, et Anchisa, non alius, Venerem. STELLA mea, observans stellas, Dii me æthera Br. 451. faxint SUFPLATO accendis quisquis carbone lucernam, Multis ut te oculis sim potis aspicere. Corde meo accendans; ardeo totus ego. Clara Cheroneæ soboles, Plutarche, dicavit Br. 486. Hanc statuam ingenio, Roma benigna, tuo. Jupiter hoc templum, ut, siquando relinquit Das bene collatos, quos Roma et Græcia jactat, Olympum, Ad Divos paribus passibus ire duces; Atthide non alius desit Olympus, habet. Sed similem, Plutarche, tux describere vitam Non poteras, regio non tulit ulla parem. Br. 487. Civis et externus grati; domus hospita nescit Dat tibi Pythagoram pictor; quod ni ipse ta. Quærere, quis, cujus, quis pater, unde venis. cere Pythagoras mallet, vocem habuisset opus. POMPEII. Br. 487. Prolem Hippi et sua quâ meliorem secula nulCum fugere haud possit, fractis Victoria pennis, Jum Quam, regum sobolem, nuptam, matrem, atque Fecerunt nulli sors titulique gravem. LATRONES alibi locupletum quærite tecta, Assidet huic custos strenua pauperies. sororem CECROPIDIS gravis hic ponor, Martique dicatus, E THEOCRITO. Quo tua signantur gesta, l'hilippe, lapis. Poeta, lector, hic quiescit Hipponax, Spreta jacet Marathon, jacet et Salaminia laurus, Si sis scelestus, præteri, procul, inarmor: Omnia dum Macedûm gloria et arma pre At te bonum si nôris, et bonis natum, mugt. Sint Demosthenicâ ut jurata cadavera voce, Tutum hic sedile, et si placet, sopor tutus. Stabo illis qui sunt, quique fuere, gravis. EUR. MED. 193–203. Non immerito culpanda venit FLORIBUS in pratis, legi quos ipse, coronam Proavûm vecors insipientia, Contextam variis, do, Rhodoclea, tibi: Qui convivia lautasque dapes Hic anemone humet, confert narcissus odores Hilarare suis jussere modis Cum violis; spirant lilia mista rosis. Cantum, vitæ dulce levamen. His redimita coinas, mores depone superbos, At nemo feras iras hominum, Domibus claris exitiales, Qucis tamen aptam ferre medelam Utile cunctis hoc opus esset ; Namque, ubi mensas onerant epulæ, Sat lætitiâ sine subsidiis, Copia cænæ. Quem fundit blando junetus amore dolor; Kai toios, llapine săžex équlo Decr. Heu quam dura preces sprevit, quam surda The above is a version of a Latin epigram on querelas the famous John duke of Marlborough by the Parca, juventutem non miserata tuam ! abbé Salvini, which is as follows: Haud alio, Cypriam percurit ore Deam. The duke was, it seems, remarkably handsome Gratia nulia hominum mentes tenet, ista Prome-1 me in his person, to which the second line has rethei ference. Munera muneribus, si retulere fabri. SEPTEM ÆTATES. Illa triumphatrix Grajûm consueta procorum | Prima parit terras ætas, siccatque secunda, Ante suas agmen Lais habere fores Evocat Abramum dein tertia : quarta relinquit Hoc Veneri speculum ; nolo me cernere qualis Ægyptum; templo Solomonis quinta supersit; Sum nunc, nec possum ceruere qualis erain. Cyrum sexta timet; lætatur septima Christo. | His Tempelmanni numeris deseripseris orbem, CRETHIDÀ fabellas dulces garrire peritam Cum sex centuriis Judæo millia septein Prosequitur lacrymis filia mesta Sami; Blandai lanifici sociam sine fine loquacem, 1 To the above Lines (which are unfinished, Quain tenet Lic, cunctas quæ manet, alta and can therefore be only offered as a fragment), quies. in the doctor's manuscript, are prefixed the words, Geographia Metrica. As we are re ferred, in the first of the verses, to Templeman, Dicrre, Causidici, gelido nunc marmore magni for having furnished the numerical computations Mugituin tumulus comprimit Amphiloci. that are the subject of them, his work has been accordingly consulted, the title of which is, A new Survey of the Globe, and which professes to Si forsan tumulum quo conditur Eumarus give an accurate mensuration of all the empires, aufers kingdoms, and other divisions thereof, in the Nil lucri facies; ossa habet et cinerem. miles that they respectively contain. On comparison of the several numbers in these verses with those set down by Templeman, it apo pears that nearly half of them are precisely the EPICTETT, same; the rest are not quite so exactly done.Me, rex deoruin, luque, duc, necessitas, For the convenience of the reader it has been Ono, lege vestrâ, vita me feret mea. thought right to subjoin each number, as it Sequar libenter, sin reluctari velim, stands in Templeman's works, to that in doctor Fiam scelestus, pec tamen minus sequar, Jolinson's verses which refers to it. * Ju this first article that is versified, there is squ Myrias 3 Ægypto cessit bis septima pingui. I Quingentis quadragenis socialis adaugetj. Millia Belga 20 novem. Undecies binas decadas et millia septem Undecimum Camber 20 vult septem millibus addi. Myriadas decies septem numerare jubebit EPITAPHS. 1. AT LICHFIELD. H. S. E. MICHAEL JOHNSON, Cum sexagenis, dum plura recluserit ætas, | lorum immemor, laborum patientissimus; fidu- Vult sibi vicenas millesima myrias addi, apprimè strenuus; bibliopola admodum peritus; Vicenis quinas, Asiam limetata celebrem. mente et libris et negotiis exculta; animo ita Se quinquagenis octingentesima jungit firmo, ut, rebus adversis diu conflictatus, nec Myrias, ui menti pateat tota Africa 15 doctæ. sibi nec suis defuerit: lingua sic temperata, ut Myriadas septem decies Europa 16 ducentis ei nihil quod aures, vel pias, vel castas læsisset, Et quadragenis quoque ter tria millia jungit. aut dolor, vel voluptas unquam expresserit. Myriadas denas dat, quinque et millia, sexque Natus Cubleiæ, in agro Derbiensi, anno Centurias, et tres decadas Europa Britannis". MDCLVI. obiit MDCCXXXI. Ter tria myriadi conjungit millia quartæ, Apposita est Sara, conjux, mentis acumine et judicii subtilitate præcellenan accurate conformity in Dr. Johnson's number tem; aliis multum, sibi parum indulgentem: to Templeman's; who sets down the square Æternitati semper attentain, omne fere virtutis miles of Palestine at 7,600. nomen commendavit. 3 The square miles in Ægypt are, in Temple Nata Nortoniæ Regis, in agro Varvicensi, man, 140,700. anno MDCLXIX; obiit MDCCI.IX. 4 The whole Turkish empire, in Templeman, Cum NATIANAEle illorum filio, qui natus is computed at 960,057 square miles. | MDCCXII, cum vires, et animi, et corporis s In the four following articles, the numbers, multa pollicerentur, anno MDCCXXXVII, viin Templeman and in Johnson's verses are alike lam brevem piâ morte sinivit. We find, accordingly, the Morea, in Templeman, to be set down at 7,220 square miles.--Arabia, at 700,000,-Persia, at 800,000.--and Naples, at 22,000. 2. AT BROMLEY, IN KENT. 6 Sicily, in Templeman, is put down at ! 9,400. Hic conduntur reliquiæ 7 The Pope's dominions, at 14,868. ELIZABETRÆ 8 Tuscany, at 6,640. Antiqua Jarvisiorum gente, 9 Genoa, ip Templeman, as in Johnson like Peatlingæ, apud Leicestrienses, ortæ; wise, is set down at 2,400. Formosa, cultæ, ingeniosæ, piæ; 1o Lucca, at 286. Uxoris, primis nuptiis, HENRYCI PORTER, "The Russian empire, in the 29th plate of Secundis, SAMUELIS JOHNSON; Templeman, is set down at 3,305,485 square Qui multum amatam, diuque defietam miles. Hoc lapide contexit. Obiit Londini, mense Mart. A. D. MDCCLIII. 20 In the three remaining instances, which miles. make the whole that Dr. Johnson appears to 11 Asia, at 10,257,487. have rendered into Latin. verse, we find the numAfrica, at 8,506,208. bers exactly agreeing with those of Templeman; 16 Europe, at 2,749,349. who makes the square miles of the United Pro. 17 The British dominons, at 104,634. 18 England, as likewise in Jobnson's expression; land of Wales, 7011. vinces, 9540—of the province of Holland, 1800 of the number, at 49,450. 19 Ireland, at 27,457. as 3. IN WATFORD CAURCA. Linguis, Artibusque ita exculia In the vault below are deposited the remains of Ut loquenti nunquam deessent Sermonis nitor, sententiarum flosculi, who, iu the fifty-third year of her age, Sapientiæ gravitas, leporum gratia. surrounded with many worldly blessings, Modum servandi adeo perita beard, with fortitude and composure truly great, Ut domestica inter negotia literis the horrible malady, which had for some time Oblectaretur, Et literarum inter delicias rem begun to afflict her, Familiarem sedulo curaret, pronounced incurable; Multis illi multos annos precantibus and for more than three years, Diri carcinomatis ' veneno contabuit, endured with patience and concealed with decency, the daily tortures of gradual death; Viribusque vitæ paulatim resolutis E terris meliora sperans emigravit. continued to divide the bours not allotted to devo Nata 1707, Nupta 1739, Obiit 1773. tion, between the cares of her family, and the con verse of her friends; rewarded the attendance of duty, 5. IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. and acknowledged the offices of affection; and while she endeavoured to alleviate by chear OLIVARI GOLDSMITH fulness, her husband's sufferings and sorrows, Poetæ. Physici. Historici. increased them by her gratitude for his care, Qui nulluin ferè scribendi genus and her solicitude for his quiet. Non tetigit. Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit more highly honoured as more familiarly known, Sive Risus essent movendi this monumentis erected by Sive Lacrymæ. Affectuum potens at lenis Dominator Oratione grandis nitidus Venustus 4. IN STREATHAM CAURCH Hoc Monumentum Memoriam coluit Sodalium Amor Amicorum Fides Lectorum Veneratio Natus Hibernia Forniæ Lonfordiensis In Luco cui Nomen Pallas Nov. XXIX. MDCCXXXI. Eblanæ Literis institutus. Obiit Londini April iv. MDCCLXXIV. , 'Cancer, "She died in the month of October, 1771.' END OF VOL. XVI. Printed by W. Flint, Old-Bailey. |