At videt, mæstum tibi sæpe visum, in- This division of the word at the end of the line in the Sapphic stanza ought to be avoided. Horace has one instance in the first line, Od. VI. ii. 1. Pindarum quisquis studet æmulari, I- two instances in the second line. Od. II. ii. 18. Dissidens plebi, numero beato- and Od. IV. ii. 22. Plorat, et vires animumque moresque In the third line, the license is more common, as probably the last Sapphic line, and the Adonic were read as one continuously. See Od. lib. I. xxv. 11.—II. xvi. 7.-III. xxvii. 60. It may also be as well to remark, as some lines of this ode call for it, that Horace makes the division, or pause, after the fifth, sixth, or seventh foot, never after the third, as the moderns do. P. 145. "Alterutra alterutram quæritque et decipit;" and so p. 135, 193.—On this position of the enclitic after the third word in the sentence, see Burman's note on Virg. Æn. vi. 395. VINCENT BOURNE. xxxi (vol. i 205.) on Anthol. Lat. i. p. 607; on Ovid. Met. xiv. 30; but see Class. Journal, No. xxii. 22, and my note on Gray, vol. i. p. 176, and p. 206, ed. 1836. P. 149. "Stat tacitus multumque screans.' On the syllable being found short before sc. sp. &c. see Burman's note on the Poet. Lat. Minor. p. 571. P. 159. "Thraïca." Is there authority for this word, as for 'Thracius, Threicius, and Thracus?' or is it not meant to be Thracia? P. 169. "Academia." On the penultimate syllable in this word being shortened, see Burman, on Anthol. Lat. v. i. 340. and Claudian. p. 248. Wernsdorf Poet. Lat. Minor. vol. vi. p. 1376. p. P. 172. "In Tamisis tremulâ luce refulsit aquis." Vincent Bourne has used both the short and long quantity in the first syllable of Tamisis, v. p. 182, 207, 243. Milton used the long only. "Me tenet urbs refluâ quam Tamisis alluit undâ." P. 230. 66 "Po Popule Alme Virorum.” pulus statuarum," is used by Cassiodorus, Ep. vii. 13. "Martyrum Populus," by Cyprian. P. 241. "Omnia mirari præsens, crinemque, coloremque." See on this final "que," Burman on Virg. i. 452. CARMINA Comitialia Cantabrigiensia. Edidit V. B. Coll. Trin. Socius. Londini Typis T. Redmayne, 1721. We shall give the advertisement to this edition : "Poeticas hasce exercitationes tibi, Lector benevole, in manus tradimus; perpaucas quidem, atque olim editas, sed Chartulis sparsim mandatas et in Libellum jam demum congestas. Quod ad paucitatem spectat, qui in opusculis hujusmodi collegendis versantur, satis norunt quam arduum editoribus obeundum sit munus, quæ in aliis rogitandis fuerint solicitationes, quæ in aliis non rogitandis offensiones. Minus itaque, uti speramus, invidisse pauculas has Prolusiones in publicum de novo emittimus, quæ si quicquam tibi afferant voluptatis, optandum restat ut ea quæ desiderantur, Poemata, ad nos transmittantur, cum iis quæ nobis in manu sunt, in alterum hujusmodi fasciculum continuo colligenda. Hæc interim, amice Lector, benigne accipe et vale." This volume consists of 96 pages; at the 72nd, the Carmina Comitialia cease: and at p. 73 the title is Miscellanea among which, P. 77. Corydon Querens. Carmen Pastorale. P. 88. Amor Inermis. P. 95. Epitaphium in Canem. are known as V. Bourne's by their being inserted in the d editions of his Poems published by himself. On the other poems in this volume we shall speak hereafter. II. Thyrsis et Chloe; Votum Dr. G. Pope, et Corydon Querens. Tres Cantilenæ Anglica Celebratioris Nominis Latine redditæ, Londini, sumpt. B. Barker, Bibl. Westmonast. 1728. This edition also contained Epitaphium in Canem, iterum editum. These poems had separate title pages; and that of Corydon Querens was the third edition, and dated 1726, (part 3rd,) with the following dedication: "Honoratissimo Domino Gulielmo Domino Abergavenny Carmen hoc Pastorale Latine redditum, et quod adjicitur elegiacum, humillime offert, et dedicat, Vincentius Bourne." With these is the poem, In obitum Roussæi. Ed. altera, 1726. All these appear to have been printed and sold separately. III. Poematia Latinè partim reddita, partim scripta: a V. Bourne, Collegii Trinitatis apud Cantabrigiensis aliquando Socio. Londini, sumptibus Authoris. Typis J. Watts. Veneunt apud R. Barker, Bibliopolum Westmonaster. MDCXXXIV. 12mo, pp. 148. 1734. pp. 148. This volume is dedicated to the Duke of Newcastle; it is printed in Italics. IV. This edition was reprinted in 1735; the Latin poems are all printed in Italics, pp. 136. V. The third edition, 1743, " adjectis ad Calcem quibusdam novis." The new poems begin at p. 140, and extend to the end; p. 252. This was the last edition printed in the lifetime of the author: the whole pp. 252; printed in Italics. The Appendix was printed separately for the advantage of those that had the previous editions. It has many typographical errors. VI. The fourth edition was printed in 1750; and was a reprint of the last, printed in Roman characters. VII. The fifth edition was in 1764, and was a reprint of the two former in Roman type, and is printed with correctness. |