A

POETICAL TRANSLATION

OF THE

ELEGIES

O F

TIBULLUS;

AND OF THE

POEMS of SULPICIA.

WITH

The ORIGINAL TEXT, and NOTES
Critical and Explanatory.

IN TWO VOLUME S.

BY

JAMES GRAINGER, M. D.

Μάσας Ερως καλεοι, Μοίσαι τον Ερωτα φέροιεν,
Μολπαν τα Μοισαι μοι αει ποθεον δίδοιεν
Τάν γλυκεραν μολπαν, τας φάρμακον άδιον εδεν.

BION.

LONDON:

Printed for A. MILLAR, in the Strand.
MDCC LIX,

ΤΟ

John Bourryau, Efq.

SIR,

WHE

HEN I firft thought of prefixing your Name to this Tranflation of Tibullus, I found myself confiderably embarraffed; as I would chufe to avoid the Strain of Adulation, fo common in Addreffes of this Kind, on the one Hand, without fuppreffing the juft Senfe I have of your rifing Merit, on the other. I fhall not however, I flatter myself, incur the Imputation of the first, by declaring, even in this public Manner, my Satisfaction at the Progrefs you have made in every Branch of ufeful and Polite Literature; and this too, at a Time. of Life, when young Men of Fashion are generally engroffed by the idle Amufernents