PROLEM Hippi et sua quâ meliorem secula nullum Videre, Archidicen hæc tumulavit humus; Quam, regum sobolem, nuptam, matrem, atque sororem Fecerunt nulli sors titulique gravem. CECROPIDIS gravis hic ponor, Martique dicatus, FLORIBUS in pratis, legi quos ipse, coronam MUREM Asclepiades sub tecto ut vidit avarus, SÆPE tuum in tumulum lacrymarum decidit imber Heu quam dura preces sprevit, quam surda querclas ARTI ignis lucem tribui, tamen artis et ignis Gratia nulla hominum mentes tenet, ista Promethei Munera muneribus, si retulere fabri. ILLA triumphatrix Graiûm consueta procorum Hoc Veneri speculum; nolo me cernere qualis CRETHIDA fabellas dulces garrire peritam Quam tenet hic, cunctas quæ manet, alta quies. DICITE, Causidici, gelido nunc marmore magni Mugitum tumulus comprimit Amphiloci. Si forsan tumulum quo conditur Eumarus aufers Nil lucri facies; ossa habet et cinerem. EPICTETI. Mɛ, rex deorum, tuque, duc, necessitas, E. THEOCRITO. POETA, lector, hic quiescit Hipponax, EUR. MED. 193-203. NON immerito culpanda venit Voce aut fidibus pellere docuit Pectora molli mulcet dubiæ Τοῖος "Αρης βροτολοιγὸς ἑνὶ πολέμοισι μέμηνε Και τοῖος, Παφίην πλῆξιν ἔρωτι Θεάν. The above is a Version of á Latin Epigram on the famous John Duke of Marlborough, by the Abbé Salvini, which is as follows: Haud alio vultu, fremuit Mars acer in armis: Haud alio, Cypriam percurit ore Deam. The Duke was, it seems, remarkably handsome in his person, to which the second line has reference. SEPTEM ÆTATES. PRIMA parit terras ætas, siccatque secunda, *HIS Tempelmanni numeris descripseris orbem, To the above Lines (which, are unfinished, and can therefore be only offered as a fragment), in the Doctor's manuscript, are prefixed the words, "Geographia Metrica." As we are referred, in the first of the verses, to Templeman, for having furnished the numerical computations 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 give an accuratè mensuration of all the empires, kingdoms, and other divisions thereof, in the square miles that they respectively contain. On comparison of the several numbers in these verses with those set down by Templeman, it appears that nearly half of them are precisely the same; the rest are not quite so exactly done.-For the convenience of the Reader, it has been thought right to subjoin each number, as it stands in Templeman's works, to that in Dr. Johnson's verses which refers to it. 1 In this first article that is versified, there is an accurate conformity in Dr. Johnson's number to Templeman's; who sets down the square miles of Palestine at 7,600. The square miles of Egypt are, in Templeman, 140,700. s The whole Turkish empire, in Templeman, is computed at 960,057 square miles. VOL. I. Ff 8 Undecies binas decadas et millia septem, Sortitur Pelopis tellus quæ nomine gaudet. Myriadas decies septem numerare jubebit Pastor 4 Arabs : decies octo sibi Persa 4 requirit, Myriades sibi pulchra duas, duo millia poscit Parthenope 4, 5 Novies vult tellus mille Sicana, Papa suo regit imperio ter millia quinque. Cum sex centuriis numerat sex millia Tuscus 7. Centuria Ligures augent duo millia quartâ. Centuria octavam decadem addit Lucca 9 secundæ. Ut dicas, spatiis quam latis imperet orbi 10 Russia, myriadas ter denas adde trecentis : "Sardiniam cum sexcentis sex millia complent. Cum sexagenis, dum plura recluserit ætas, Myriadas ter mille homini dat terra 12 colendas. Vult sibi vicenas millesima myrias addi, Vicenis quinas, Asiam 13 metata celebrem. Se quinquagenis octingentesima jungit Myrias, ut menti pateat tota Africa 14 docta. Myriadas septem decies Europa 5 ducentis Et quadragenis quoque ter tria millia jungit. 4 In the four following articles, the numbers, in Templeman and in Johnson's verses are alike. 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. 5 Sicily, in Templeman, is put down at 9,400. 6 The Pope's dominions, at 14,868. 7 Tuscany, at 6,640. Genoa, in Templeman, as in Johnson likewise, is set down at 2,400. 9 Lucca, at 286. 10 The Russian empire, in the 29th plate of Templeman, is set down at 3,303,485 square miles. 11 Sardinia, în Templeman, as likewise in Johnson, 6,600. 12 The habitable world, in Templeman, is computed, in square miles, at 30,666,806 square miles. 18 Asia, at 10,257,487. 14 Africa, at 8,506,208. |