me, the white arm'd Juno, from whom strife and contention arise among the immortals." This plain answer is rendered by Pope, Abash'd, she names his own imperial spouse; And the pale crescent fades upon her brows." Now these lines are obviously deficient in not saying one word of the character of Juno, who is pointed out in the original as the cause of all these disputes; and they are redundant in using the word abashed, and in the whole of the second line, of which not one word or syllable, nor even the slightest allusion to the thought, is to be found in Homer. And it is a singular instance of bad taste to put a concetto into the mouth of the venerable Grecian, which would be a prettiness scarcely endurable in a modern Italian son net. Yet with all its faults, Pope's translation will be read and admired while its rivals either repose in quiet on their shelves, or jog on in vicum vendentem thus et odores. P. M. N° LXXI. Latin Translation of Gray's Elegy. The following Latin translation of GRAY'S ELEGY; being printed in the form of a fugitive pamphlet, and the name of the translator being unknown to me • If the epithet applied to Diana in the preceding line, eustepavor, be supposed to allude at all to her crescent, it must be in a sense precisely opposite to that which Pope has given it, and to point out its beauty, and not its fading. (the (the title page in which perhaps the name appeared being lost) my classical readers will not be displeased to have it here preserved. "Ad Poetam. "Nos quoque per tumulos, et amica Silentia dulcis "Audin' ut occiduæ signum Campana Diei Nune Nunc rerum species evanida cedit, et omnis Aut nisi sola sedens hederoso in culmine Turris Hic subterque rudes ulmos, Taxique sub umbrâ Non vox Aurora croceos spirantis odores, Non illis splendente foco renovabitur ignis, Nec vitam utilibus quæ incumbit provida curis, Sceptri grande decus, generosæ stirpis honores, Quicquid opes, aut forma dedit, commune sepulchrum Opprimit, et leti non evitabilis hora. Ducit Laudis iter tantùm ad nonfinia Mortis.. ΤΟΣ, Χ. Y Parcite Parcite sic tellure sitis (ita fata volebant) Inscriptæne valent Urnæ, spirantiaque æra, Quis scit, an hìc Animus neglectâ in sede quiescat Qui prius incaluit cœlestis semine flammæ ? Quis scit, an hìc sceptri Manus haud indigna recumbat, Quæve lyræ poterat magicum inspirâsse furorem? Annales sed nulla suos His Musa reclusit, Sæpe coruscantes puro fulgore sub antris Eloquio attenti moderarier ora Senatûs, Hos sua sors vetuit; tenuique in Limite clausit Conatus Conatus premere occultos, quos conscia Veri Mehs fovet, ingenuique extinguere signa pudoris, Luxuriæque focos cumulare, Ædemque superbam, Thure, quod in sacris Musarum adoleverat aris. Insanæ procul amotis certamine turbæ Sobria non illis didicerunt Vota vagari; Securum vitæ per iter, vallemque reductam, Servabant placidum, cursu fallente, tenorem. His tamen incautus tumulis ne fortè Viator Insultet, videas circum monimenta caduca, Quà numeris incompositis, rudibusque figuris Ossa tegit lapis, et suspiria poscit euntem. Pro mœstis Elegis, culto pro carmine, scribit Quicquid musa potest incondita, Nomen et Annos: Multaque queis animum moriens soletur Agrestis, Dogmata dispergit sacraï Scripturaï. Sollicita quis enim, quis amatæ dulcia Vitæ Tædia, sustinuit mutare silentibus unibris; Deseruitve almæ confinia læta diei, Nec desiderio cunctantia Lumina flexit? Projicit in gremium sese moriturus amicum, Deficiensque oculus lacrymas, pia munera, poscit; Quinetiam fida ex ipso Natura Sepulchro Exclamat, solitoque relucent igne favillæ. At te, cui curæ tumulo sine honore jacentes, Incomptoque memor qui pingis agrestia versu; Si quis erit, tua qui cognato pectore quondam Fata roget, solâ secum meditatus in umbrâ, Fortè aliquis memoret, canus jam Tempora Pastor, "Illum sæpe novo sub Lucis vidimus ortu "Verrentem propero matutinos pede Rores, "Nascenti super arva jugosa occurrere Soli. |