TRANSLATION AND TRANSLATIONS

QVAERENS parentem per freta litori

litus, diebus continuat dies ;

sed rostra quaesitamque proram

spumiferos superare fluctus

lux uidet ex hac nulla. ferentibus

uentis paternum classe supra caput

currebat, ignarus quid alte

mobilibus premeretur undis.

patrem ille sed nil, a, pietas ualet.

iam mitte fletus, fortibus edite ;

fluctus per insanos, ut olim,

per rapidas plus i procellas.

i natus, ibat qua genitor prius ;

recto paternae limite gloriae

cursus gubernentur ; ministrat

ille suos animos tuumque

praeclara suadens derigit impetum.

sic, iam tuorum murmura fulminum

ponto reformidante, patrem

reddideris patriae renatum.

54

IAM tandem tenuis sicine lux redis,

argutis auibus clara, bourn frequens

mugitu, referens, heu, mihi quo uirum

flos ille interiit diem ?

quae sublustre rubens lumine turbido

spumantem metuis stringere riuulum,

lucos qua memores prataque praefluit,

sanctorum loca manium ;

tectis frondiferis quae strepis, immemor

quid turbet ueniens cura, quid indicet

Autumnus uarium sollicitans nemus,

tactu sic uagus igneo;

II 2

164 PROSPECTIVE TRANSLATIONS

Who wakenest with thy balmy breath

To myriads on the genial earth,

Memories of bridal, or of birth,

And unto myriads more, of death.

O wheresoever those may be,

Betwixt the slumber of the poles,

To-day they count as kindred souls;

They know me not, but mourn with me.

55 CHARLES LAMB

WHEN maidens such as Hester die,

Their place ye may not well supply,

Though ye among a thousand try,

With vain endeavour.

A month or more hath she been dead,

Yet cannot I by force be led

To think upon the wormy bed

And her together.

A springy motion in her gait, A rising step, did indicate

Of pride and joy no common rate

That flush'd her spirit

I know not by what name beside

I shall it call : if 'twas not pride,

It was a joy to that allied

She did inherit.

Her parents held the Quaker rule

Which doth the human feeling cool;

But she was trained in Nature's school,

Nature had blest her.

A waking eye, a prying mind,

A heart that stirs, is hard to bind ; A hawk's keen sight ye cannot blind,

Ye could not Hester.

LATIN LYRIC VERSE 165

almo terricolae quae facis halitu

natos hoc referant lumine se, suos,

aut iunctos Veneris foedere plurimi ;

plures, ei mihi, mortuos :

his quocumque loco tristibus incidis,

mundi inter tacitos lux uaga cardines,

omnes ille mihi sint licet hospites

unus conciliat dolor.

55

Si quando similem Mors rapit Aeliae,

suppletura locum uix uenit altera;

quin per mille puellas

frustra quaesieris parem.

plus etsi spatiost mortua menstruo,

uis me nulla tamen tanta coegerit,

taetrum uerme cubile ut

sortitam rear Aeliam.

suspensus digitis pes leuibus, micans

adrectusque gradus signa dabat modos

uolgares superantis

laeto corde superbiae.

quo dicam potius nomine, nescio;

si non ilia aderat, laetitia tamen

elataque uigebat

uicinaque superbiae.

Chrysippi placuit norma parentibus,

quae sensus hominem dedocet: Aeliam

Natura ipsa docebat,

Natura ipsa beauerat.

uisu da uigili, sensibus acribus,

da menti uegetae uincula ; milui

scis qui fallere lumen,

scires fallere et Aeliam.

166 PROSPECTIVE TRANSLATIONS

My sprightly neighbour, gone before

To that unknown and silent shore,

Shall we not meet, as heretofore

Some summer morning,

When from thy cheerful eyes a ray

Hath struck a bliss upon the day,

A bliss that would not go away,

A sweet forewarning ?

56 THOMAS MOORE

COME, take thy harp; 'tis vain to muse

Upon the gathering ills we see;

Oh ! take thy harp and let me lose

All thoughts of ill in hearing thee.

Sing to me, love! Though death were near,

Thy song would make my soul forget

Nay, nay, in pity dry that tear,

All may be well, be happy yet.

Let me but see that snowy arm

Once more upon the dear harp lie,

And I will cease to dream of harm,

Will smile at fate, while thou art nigh.

Give me that strain of mournful touch

We used to love long, long ago,

Before our hearts had known as much

As now alas ! they bleed to know.

57 TENNYSON, The Eagle

HE clasps the crag with hooked hands,

Close to the sun in lonely lands,

Ringed with the azure world he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;

He watches from his mountain walls,

And like a thunderbolt he falls.

LATIN LYRIC VERSE 167

o uicina hilaris, me prior, a, loca

uisens caeca, plagis uasta silentibus,

ergo nullus, ut olim,

uernus me tibi Lucifer

iunget ? nulla tuis lux oculis uolans

exultare diem iusserit et iubar

gratum nee fugiturum

laeto sparserit omine?

56

PENDENTEM propera sumere barbiton:

frustra quot coeant tristia cogites ;

o, impelle fides, nosque tene tuis,

surdos ad mala, uocibus.

cantus, uita, cie, si canis, et necis

uicinae immemori. quis scit an omnia

in laetum (lacrimis parce precor, precor)

uersus restituat deus ?

rursus da niueis addita bracchiis

dilecta adspiciam fila, neque amplius

uoluam dura miser; nulla timebitur,

te praesente, necessitas.

illos redde modos, quos mihi, quos tibi

plectrum flebilius mouit amabiles,

olim quod cruciat pectora cognitum

uenturi bene nesciis.

57 Volucrum Regina, Martial V 55. I

SOLE qua terrae propiore fulgent

alta desertae, digitis reduncis

haeret ad rupem mediamque mundi

caerula cingunt.

conspicit rugas simulare tardum

Nereos lapsum, speculans ab arce

quid petat summa; ruit inde praeceps

fulminis instar.

1 68 PROSPECTIVE TRANSLATIONS

58* T. G. HAKE, Saba

As from the wonder of a trance

The bride looks out ; so cold,

The bridegroom, even, dares not advance

As in the time of old :

Her gaze such deadly warning gives,

The colour leaves his cheek;

He looks, still doubting if she lives

Until he hears her speak.

He lists to her in more alarm ;

His cheek grows paler still

As Saba lifts her sceptre-arm

And utters thus her will:

' At my return art thou afraid ?

Death is our common lot:

Our part was but the world of shade

So soon by us forgot.

* # * #

I am the queen of all the land,

And Saba hath her will

While these balm-bearing forests stand

Which frankincense distil;

While these myrrh-valleys drink the sun,

And while the spice-buds grow;

While clear the holy waters run

Whence deathless rivers flow.

Here floats the shadow of the palm

Wherein the pilgrims rest;

Here doth the loving air embalm

The bodies of the blest.

But he who hath forsworn the vows

Of love's most wondrous tie,

Now to the final forfeit bows :

It is his turn to die.'

LATIN LYRIC VERSE 169

58

VAGATA qualis mente de membris redux

in se sibist miraculo,

talis tuetur. ipse uir duros fugit

uisus et accessum pauet

insuetus; ipsi, sic minatast lumine,

sanguis ab ore fugerat.

reuixeritne, dubitat usque dum loqui

fides probauit aurium.

maior loquentis horror, auctior genas

pallor trementes inficit,

iam regie mouente dexteram Saba

uocesque plenas inperi.

' Nos tu reuersos num paues ? sors debita

stat una mors mortalibus.

orti tenebris quam tenebrarum cito

obliuionem ducimus !

totius hie regina telluris uocor

Sabe: Sabae parebitur,

dum stabit aegris lucus hie salutifer,

sudans odores tureos,

fetisque murra sol bibetur uallibus,

costique crescent germina ;

dum dius exundabit amnium liquor

nutritor immortalium.

his innat aruis umbra palmarum, uiae

sanctis leuamen aduenis.

amicus aer hie piorum corpora

tabi beata surripit.

ast ille sancti iura qui periurio

amans amoris polluit,

poenas supremas nunc dat inuicem suas,

et ipse Leto traditus.'

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59* T. G. HAKE, The Inscrutable

THAT night in dreams that sway

The soul to shedding blood,

One hears his own voice say

In sleep's half-weary mood,

Take down yourfather's sword, and quickly slide

The blade into his side.

Disguise the seeming guilt,

And bend his fingers round,

Andput them on the hilt,

And leave him to his wound.

In that strange dream until the break of day,

Asleep the lover lay.

He wakes, aghast ; he strives

To get the vision hence,

That into morning lives,

And fastens on his sense.

'Tis but a dream, but should her hand fulfil

His will within her will!

She comes up wild and pale,

She wrings her hands in pain,

She utters with a wail

'Who hath my father slain?

My anguished heart sobbed all night in its sleep;

I felt it sob and weep.

I saw you while I slept,

And to my dream you spoke;

All night the words I kept,

I heard them when I woke :

Take down your father's sword, and quickly slide

The blade into his side.

LATIN LYRIC VERSE 171

59

HAC ille nocte, dum tenent insomnia

mens unde caedes adpetat,

suas loquentis ipse uoces audiit

sopore semilanguidas.

Tu patris ensem deripe atque ipsi citus

mucro latus sine hauriat,

crimenque falle quod uidebitur tuum,

uncosque digitos copulans

impone capulo diligenter et suo

sic sic relinque itolneri.

hac totus in quiete tarn mira iacet

amator ad primum iubar.

somnum metus soluere ; nocturnam procul

uolt uolt fugare imaginem.

ast ilia lucem non fugit; sensus tenet,

dirum uigens, expergitos.

'Haec somnia ;' inquit 'sin mihi absentis manus

uolens uolenti pareat .'

en, ilia uoltus pallida amenti subit

dolore plangens pectora.

'Quis,' eiulat 'meum quis occidit patrem?

ut nocte cor tota mihi

lassauit aegris pectus in singultibus,

nostris gemens flens auribus !

quiete te deuincta, te uidi ; tuas

uoces loquentis audii.

uox ista tota nocte sopitam replet,

uox ista somno liberam.

Tu patris ensem deripe atque ipsi citus

mucro latus sine hauriat,

i;2 PROSPECTIVE TRANSLATIONS

Disguise the seeming guilt,

And bend his fingers round,

Andput them on the hilt,

And leave him to his wound.

the false voice, that it so true should seem

In that unthought-of dream !

1 hurried to the bed,

I saw that he was slain,

I saw the blood was shed,

I saw the deep, deep stain.

His sword was through his side, thrust, on the hilt

His fingers took the guilt.'

60 HENRY PHILLIPS, Junr., Magyar Folksongs

WRETCHED comrade, void of rest,

Always at the market guest,

Many a horse and cow I steal,

So I gain my daily meal.

Naught have I of any good,

But my body and young blood ;

Were I only by my dove,

Woe and pain would yield to love.

Naught care I if others weep,

Bread and butter let them keep ;

To the Tanya turn I free

Where my sweetheart waits for me.

Naught care I for treasure's store,

Jewels, diamonds, golden ore ;

Envy follows not my tread,

Danger threatens not my head.

When in earth I rest at last,

Fame and name forever past,

O'er my grave shall flowers spread,

Violets blue and roses red.

LATIN LYRIC VERSE 173

crimenquefalle quod uidebitur tuum,

uncosque digitos copulans

impone capulo diligenter et suo

sic sic relinque uolneri.

heu falsa uox, tarn uera quae uisa's meo

incogitata somnio !

uolo ad patris cubile. mortuus iacet,

fluens iacet cruoribus.

uidi omnia undique inquinantem sanguinem

latusque ferro saucium.

adactus ensis; insidens capulo manus

sibi ipsa crimen imputat.'

60

INFELIX comes, hospes inquietus,

notus per fora perque uolgus erro,

uaccas surripiens equosque, furtis

famem sic tolero cotidianam.

nil laetist mihi commodiue, dotes

ni sint corporis integerque sanguis.

quod si nostra columbula adfuisses,

angor curaque cederent amori.

nil, si flent alii, moror ; quid ad me ?

pane et caseolo, uelint, fruantur;

sed liber Tanaim meaeque uitae

paratas sequor osculationes.

thensauros ego nil moror, nee aurum ;

nil gemmas et iaspidum nitores.

huic nil inuidiae nocent sequaces

nee casus capiti minantur ulli.

et cum puluis ad ultimum quiescam

exsors nomine iam futurus omni,

obducent mihi floribus sepulcrum

ferrugo uiolae, rosae rubores.

174 PROSPECTIVE TRANSLATIONS

6l A. E. HOUSMAN, Epitaph on an Army of

Mercenaries

THESE, in the day when heaven was falling,

The hour when earth's foundations fled,

Followed their mercenary calling

And took their wages and are dead.

Their shoulders held the sky suspended ;

They stood, and earth's foundations stay ;

What God abandoned, these defended,

And saved the sum of things for pay.

62 R. HERRICK

SMOOTH was the sea and seem'd to call

Two prettie girles to play withall ;

Who padling there, the sea soone frown'd

And on a sudden both were drown'd.

What credit can we give to seas,

Who, kissing, kill such Saints as these ?

63* T. C. LEWIS (from the Persian)

YON fort once proudly towered into the blue;

Kings at its portals rendered homage due.

Now from its ruins sounds a dove's lone coo

And fondly asks who built it, who, who, who?

LATIN LYRIC VERSE 175

61

CAELVM cum rueret, labante terra,

hi, stipendia more dum merentur,

accepto pretio iacent perempti.

hi suis umeris polum ferebant

suspensum ; hi steterant stetitque tellus.

hi quae deseruere di tuentes

rerum probuerunt ob aes ruinam.

62

RlDEBAT facies maris duasque

ad lusus lepidas uocat puellas.

at mox, ludere dum iuuat per undas,

frontem sollicitat trahitque rugas,

atque ambas subito uorauit aestu.

quae, Neptune, fides tibi futurast,

tales qui perimis, sed osculando ?

63

(i) HAEC caerula olim prouocabat arx caeli ;

ad limina haec rex plurimus salutator.

e dirutis nunc sola uox palumborum

frustra gemitque quaeritatque cu-cuius?

idem Graece

(ii) TlvpywjjL iSea-Qe yeirovovv TTOT' alOepi,

iKeraLf rvpdwois irpocrKWOv^eva^

vvv 8" e epijfjiov rpvyovwv crrovo^

' KOV ; KOV ;' 0a/Miei, Kelv eiri^rirwv oirov.

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64* GOD SAVE THE KING

GOD save our Lord the King,

Long live our noble King,

God save the King.

Send him victorious,

Happy and glorious,

Long to reign over us,

God save the King.

O Lord our God, arise,

Scatter his enemies,

And make them fall :

Confound their Politicks,

Frustrate their knavish tricks,

On him our hopes we fix;

God save us all.

Thy choicest gifts in store

On him be pleased to pour;

Long may he reign.

May he defend our laws

And ever give us cause

To cry with loud applause

God save the King !

LATIN LYRIC VERSE 177

64

Di REX te bone sospitent ;

di te, ciuibus o tuis

lumen grande, superstitem,

rex, diu bene seruent.

di martem tibi prosperum ac

laetum dent decus, et tuo

praesis ut populo diu

di bonum bene seruent.

hostiles tibi luppiter

praesens dissipet impetus,

et graui faciat cadant

ingentique ruina.

pessum eat dolus impius,

pessum fraus mala, dique te

(spes in te sita publicast)

nobis, nos tibi seruent.

hinc large tibi defluat

quicquid muneris optimist;

hinc regnum tibi posterum

prorogetur in aeuom.

tu leges patriae pie

uindicans face ut omnium

clarus usque sonet fauor

' Di rex te bone seruent.' '

p. 12

i;8 PROSPECTIVE TRANSLATIONS

65 SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It, n iii

Orlando. WHY, what's the matter ?

Adam. O unhappy youth,

Come not within these doors : within this roof

The enemy of all your graces lives.

Your brother no, no brother; yet the son

Yet not the son, I will not call him son

Of him I was about to call his father

Hath heard your praises, and this night he means

To burn the lodging where you use to lie

And you within it. If he fail of that,

He will have other means to cut you off.

I overheard him and his practices.

This is no place ; this house is but a butchery.

Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it.

Orlando. Why, whither, Adam, would'st thou have

me go?

Adam. No matter whither, so you come not here.

66 SHAKESPEARE, Tempest v i 33-50

YE elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves ;

And ye that on the sands with printless foot

Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him,

When he comes back; you demi-puppets that

By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,

Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you whose pastime

Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice

GREEK VERSE 179

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To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid,

Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd

The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,

And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault

Set roaring war ; to the dread rattling thunder

Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak

With his own bolt ; the strong-based promontory

Have I made shake, and by the spurs plucked up

The pine and cedar; graves at my command

Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth

By my so potent art.

67 FLETCHER, The Two Noble Kinsmen, III vi 173-185

Pal. THOU shalt have pity of us both, O Theseus,

If unto neither thou shew mercy; stop,

As thou art just, thy noble ear against us,

As thou art valiant: for thy cousin's soul,

Whose twelve strong labours crown his memory,

Let's die together, at one instant, duke ;

Only a little let him fall before me,

That I may tell my soul he shall not have her.

Thes. I grant your wish ; for, to say true, your cousin

Has ten times more offended, for I gave him

More mercy than you found, sir, your offences

Being no more than his. None here speak for

'em;

For, ere the sun set, both shall sleep for ever.

GREEK VERSE 181

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182 PROSPECTIVE TRANSLATIONS

68 MASSINGER, Maid of Honour, Act I Sc. i

Ambassadors. THE injured Duchess

By reason taught and nature could not with

The reparation of her wrongs but aim at

A brave revenge ; and my lord feels too late

That innocence will find friends. The great Gonzaga

The honour of his order I must praise

Virtue tho' in an enemy he whose fights

And conquests hold one number, rallying up

Her scattered troops, before we could get time

To victual or to man the conquered city

Sat down before it ; and presuming that

'Tis not to be relieved admits no parley ;

Our flags of truce hung out in vain ; nor will he lend

An ear to composition, but exacts

With the rendering up of the town, the goods and lives

Of all within the walls and of all sexes

To be at his discretion.

Roberto. Since injustice

In your Duke meets this correction, can you possess us

With any seeming argument of reason

In foolish pity to decline his dangers

To draw them on ourself ? Shall we not be

Warned by his harms ? The league proclaimed between

us

Bound neither of us further than to aid

Each other if by foreign foe invaded,

And so far in my honour I was tied ;

But since without our counsel and allowance

He hath ta'en arms, with his good leave he must

Excuse us if we steer not on a rock

We see and may avoid.

GREEK VERSE 183

68

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<f>0d<ra<; TT/OOCT^TO rfj veaipera) TroXei.

KOL vvv Treiroidais /J,rj ftorjOrjcreiv TO crov

\6yovs dirmOel Trdvras ot'S' eTrecrTpd^r}

a TroXX' d<$> rm&v Tre/zTrerat Krjpv/cia,

KOV Several, TI ^u/i/Sacret?, aXX' atot

TTO\IV fjiev avrrjv \a^dveiv, etrena Se

oVou? crreyovcrL Trepi(3o\al 7rvpya>fjidT<ov,

dvbpas, yvvaiicas, %wTt ^p^fjudrcov evi,

avrto ^TTiTpe-^rai TrdvG

1 od av Soicfj iraOelv.

PO. Kpetoi/ 8' ertcrev el roaavd' wv r/Si/cei,

TIV av 7rpo6ei7)T alrLav er' eij\oyov

d<f) 779 7' av OIKTW vrjiriy /ce/cXe/i/ieVot

n-apeKTpeiroifjLev rySe TaiceWev icaicd

avroi T' eTra-KTOvs ^u/i<^>o/oa9 KTrjcraifJieda ;

ov rat? CKeivov <r(t)<]>povij<rofj.v /SXa/Sat?;

17 yap 81 opKtav dvaypa^ela-

1

o/zat^/i/a

dpiceiv, Ovpalos el rt? e'/i/SaXot ar/mro?,

TOUT', ouSey aXXo, z/o3i/ eTre&Kirfyev TeXo9'

d7&> rocrov /Se/Sato? eiiopicws re\elv.

avrb<f 8' eVel i/Oi/ /cat KeKivrjice arparov,

OVK et9 Ta8' rAoSv ovre

OUT ouv etovrcov, crrepyerw ")()[ui> <rr]V

%v<yyvoiav la")(eiv fir) OeXovcri TO cr/

et9 ep/i' o/cerXat TrpovTrrov etcffrvyeiv irapov.

1 84 PROSPECTIVE TRANSLATIONS

69 FLETCHER, The Bloody Brother, iv i

BAWL) of the State

No less than of thy master's lusts ! I now

See nothing can redeem thee. Dar'st thou mention

Affection, or a heart, that ne'er hadst any ?

Know'st not to love or hate, but by the state,

As thy prince does't before thee ? that dost never

Wear thine own face, but putt'st on his, and gather'st

Baits for his ears; liv'st wholly at his beck,

And ere thou dar'st utter a thought's thine own,

Must expect his; creep'st forth and wad'st into him

As if thou wert to pass a ford, there proving

Yet if thy tongue may step on safely or no;

Then sing'st his virtue asleep, and stay'st the wheels

Both of his reason and judgment that they move not;

Whit'st over all his vices; and at last

Dost draw a cloud of words before his eyes,

Till he can neither see thee nor himself!

Wretch, I dare give him honest counsels, I,

And love him while I tell him truth. Old Aubrey

Dares go the straightest way, which still 's the shortest,

Walk on the thorns thou scatter'st, parasite,

And tread 'em into nothing ; and if then

Thou let'st a look fall of the least dislike,

I'll rip thy crown up with my sword at height,

And pluck thy skin over thy face, in sight

Of him thou flatter'st : unto thee I speak it,

Slave, against whom all laws should now conspire,

And every creature that hath sense be arm'd,

As 'gainst the common Enemy of Mankind :

GREEK VERSE 185

69

<a ru> rvpdvvca raa^pd T' efjbiro\wv

77877 TO, cr elSov o>9 a

rj KaTrl <j>i\ia<>

coo" lire^epxei \6yovs

^5 ea-reprjaai Tra? aet <ri fcap&ias ;

09 7' cure fticretv our' eTriaracrai, (f>iX.eiv,

fj,rj SetrTTora? 0-01*9 t/crrepo? fMfi,ovfJ,evo<f,

ol/eeiov 09 TrpoGwrrov ouS' aTral;

ao-tcei 8' aet T roOSe, rcSSe

wrwv re 8e\eap ei ri Kal 0e\KTijpiov,

a,7ra<f Se rouS' et /cat TO rouSe

Trplv etc aeavrov yvtfcriov ftakeiv e?ro9

Treipa, TrpocrepTTcov, axrirep 49 pvrov? Tropovs,

rjv Try rrpoftavrt, ^Xwcrcr' e^y a-wrrjpiav.

rat9 trat9 8' eVeoSa^ aperrj rov tcoipdvov

evSet Karav\rjdLcra, Kal rwv jrplv Sp6fj,cov

ol

ra Kaica S' e/caXXu^a9 re

reXeurwi/ ofipaTcov eTrtarciov,

eavrov /J,IJT (r\ o<rrt9 et, ySXeT

dXX* GUI/ ra Xwo-r', cJ /Atcro9, e/c 7' e/ioi) K\vei,

ryXcacrcrrj

8' eyu,^ raX,7;^e9 ^ T' evvoi evi.

yepwv oS' T; r' evOela ^pa^vrdrr} (P a/j,a

6Bov Trarelv evro\,^o<f av

ot' d(j>avl<rai ra Ke

<TO{) S' 771* TOT' ofjifia Sfj\ov rj rcctTiyyopovv

to9 TwvS' d(f>av8dvei ri, ryviKavr' aicpov

prj^ai icdpa trot ^aayavw

o"%i(r(i) Te %/ocoTa /caTTt Ta9

avrwv opwvrcov 0^9 o~oz/ at/caX,Xei crro/Aa.

<rol ravTct (rol Srj, 0pe/j,/J,a 8ov\iov, \eyta,

<f>

ov 7' ^XP^I V v^v 7r^<Tt (TvarffvaL vofAOis

Kal rrjv (ppovovcrav Trdcrav a)7r\icr0ai <f>vcnv,

a>9 Setvov, a>9 ajracrtv e

186 PROSPECTIVE TRANSLATIONS

That sleep'st within thy master's ear, and whisper'st

Tis better for him to be fear'd than lov'd :

Bid'st him trust no man's friendship, spare no blood

That may secure him ;

'

'tis no cruelty

That hath a specious end; for sovereignty

Break all the laws of kind : if it succeed,

An honest, noble, and praiseworthy deed.'

70 THOMAS GRAY

Agrippina. THUS ever grave and undisturb'd reflection

Pours its cool dictates in the madding ear

Of rage, and thinks to quench the fire it feels not.

Say'st thou I must be cautious, must be silent,

And tremble at the phantom I have raised ?

Carry to him thy timid counsels. He

Perchance may heed 'em : tell him too, that one

Who had such liberal power to give, may still

With equal power resume that gift, and raise

A tempest that shall shake her own creation

To its original atoms tell me ! say

This mighty emperor, this dreaded hero,

Has he beheld the glittering front of war ?

Knows his soft ear the trumpet's thrilling voice,

And outcry of the battle? Have his limbs

Sweat under iron harness ? Is he not

The silken son of dalliance, nurs'd in ease

And pleasure's flow'ry lap ? Rubellius lives,

And Sylla has his friends, though school'd by fear

To bow the supple knee, and court the times

With shows of fair obeisance ; and a call

Like mine might serve belike to wake pretensions

Drowsier than theirs, who boast the genuine blood

Of our imperial house.

GREEK VERSE 187

09

69 <ara' '

fir) <f)L\o)}> TrtVreue TOT

fyo/Bovvr dfjieivov rj oY evvoias tcparelv,

<f)6vov Be (f)L&rj pr)8ev ei a-wrr/pio?'

OVK a)/*oT779 yap o<rrt9 evTrpeTrovs reXoi/9

ffTO%aTat rov irav 8e rovyyevef irarelv

Bitcat,o<; rj rvpavvis' rjv yap WTVjfy,

f K\veiv.'

70

roiavff" 6 cr(o<J>pwv 'xfio'V'^ ywpwv \6yo<f

i/ri/^pw? del Xvacnjuar' ejAfuivf] (jjpevoi,

&>9 8^ a-ftecrwv Trvp auro? ov irvpovpevos.

(TV criydv KOI </>uX,ao-<recr^at \eyets,

civ re 8eifi eiceiv' o KaKLvr)<rafiev ;

ivo) <rv ravra Trr^crcre ftov\evovcr

'

tato?

7TlCTTpe<f)OI,T' O.V KCLVO^' V Se KOI ToSe,

a>9 TO?? rocravra 8ovcriv dtyffovw %ept

\af3elv iraXiv ra Swpa tevpiov fjuevei,

d\r]v T' 7raipeiv fj ra8' 6i9 etceiv o6ev

TO Trpii' vvcrTr) /cal 7rd\iv 8ta<TKe8a.

a\\' etTre poi 8rj rovSe rbv /j.eyacrdevf)

rov e^t(o/3oz/ (rrpari/iyov, tf TTOT' et8' O7ra>9

fjid^ijv Kopv<r<ri 70/3709 dcrrpaTTTtov "Ap?;9;

^ yvtord crdkiriyj; rolcnv atcrl rot9 a/

AcXa^et Biaropos <f)6vid r

17 TTOU CT

ov viv rpv(pf/<; yevvrj/j,a

:oX7ro<9 rjSovai r dv6ea-<f)6poi;

ecrr/

cralveiv SiBdaicei yowTrerfj

tcaipol<Ti Bov\ev

K\ijaei 8' ai^ ourot r^ 7' e/i^ jreidoia'ro

teal fieiov av Trveovres olcri 7' eyyevr)<;

wv 08' ot/co9

1 88 PROSPECTIVE TRANSLATIONS

71 TENNYSON, Guinevere

YET must I leave thee, woman, to thy shame.

I hold that man the worst of public foes

Who either for his own or children's sake,

To save his blood from scandal, lets the wife

Whom he knows false, abide and rule the house:

For being thro' his cowardice allowed

Her station, taken everywhere for pure,

She like a new disease, unknown to men,

Creeps, no precaution used, among the crowd,

Makes wicked lightnings of her eyes, and saps

The fealty of our friends, and stirs the pulse

With devil's leaps, and poisons half the young.

Worst of the worst were that man he that reigns !

Better the king's waste hearth and aching heart

Than thou reseated in thy place of light,

The mockery of my people, and their bane.

72 BROWNING, Paracelsus

Miclial. VEX him no further, Festus ; it is so !

Festus. Just thus you help me ever. {Addressing

This would hold Paracelsus^}

Were it the trackless air, and not a path

Inviting you, distinct with footprints yet

Of many a mighty marcher gone that way.

You may have purer views than theirs, perhaps,

But they were famous in their day the proofs

Remain. At least accept the light they lend.

Paracelsus. Their light ! the sum of all is briefly this;

They laboured and grew famous, and the fruits

Are best seen in a dark and groaning earth

GREEK VERSE 189

71

o/z&>9 8' iv dla"xpv<; el cr eareov, yvvat.

Keivov yap dvSp' e%0icrTov rjyov^at, jroXet,

09 Toy0' eavrbv rj TO ruv reicvwv <TKOTT<av,

Sv<T0povv 6Va>9 oveiSos e^e\rj Sopcov,

et'Sa)9 aTTKnov, elra rrjv BdfjLapr' ea

/j-i/Aveiv TO \onrov Sajf^drcav eT

rj yap roiavrij, T/}? irplv

Tt/i^9 aTrao-i ToCS' dvavSpiav Sid,

Soicovcrd ff 171/77, fj,T)Sevb$ tfrpovpov/jLevov

f9 a>9 d<yva)<7TO<; di>0pci)ir(i)v \dOpa

KK\TTTI

oiarpoia'i T' drijpoicri, tcapBiav TTToei

xal T&V vewv vve(m \v/j.avTijpio<>.

Se TrayfcaKia-TOS 6 %6ovbs Kparw

jap ou/i09 ecrri 'fflpadels

re #17*09 ^ Opovois d fjcrdai,

y Trticpbv <ye\a>Ta /col ^caftTjv Tro\ei.

72

M. fir) Bij <T$> dvia TrX-etoi/' eo-T4 yap rd8e.

^>. TOiavr del poi <ri//i^a%o{)cr

(ri> 8' op6

J av 67^0)9, dep el rbv d

Kal fMrj Ke\ev6ov eiTrov e/j,<f>avrj

dvSpwv Trepiaa-wv ravr 1^1/09

Kelvwv tcrci)9 o"u Kav (frpovois ra

a\X' eu/cXeet9 y rj&dv 7rod\ ov

fjievef 8e%ov yovv Kal crv 77/309 Kelvwv TO

II. irolov TO </>w9; Ta Tra^Ta avvre^wv Xey

eijK\eiav eKTi]ffavro \nrapel TTOVW,

epyatv 8* apt(7T09 pdprvs dv6p(i)ir(av cno

190 PROSPECTIVE TRANSLATIONS

Given over to a blind and endless strife

With evils, what of all their lore abates ?

No : I reject and spurn them utterly

And all they teach. Shall I sit still beside

Their dry wells with a white lip and filmed eye,

While in the distance heaven is blue above

Mountains where sleep the unsunned tarns ?

73 PEEL

AIR freshens, earth revives, the rock is cloven,

And lo ! a gush of vivifying power

To spread perennial verdure flower-inwoven !

While birds, more radiant than the glowing hour,

Their plumage dip in the descending shower,

Or from the cherry pluck the tempting fruit,

Or track the honey bee from flower to flower,

Or on the voice melodious hanging mute,

Enjoy the mingled flow of fountain and of flute.

74 DIOGENES LAERTIUS, Anth. Gr. vn 92

ftiovv rjOe<riv 'Ei\\.aSi/coi<i.

rov 8' en /Jivdov atcpavrov evl cnojJLdrecra'iv

e? dOavdrovs rjpiracrev cotca S6va.

75 DORAN, Life of Edward Young, LL.D.

HE was once walking in his garden at Welwyn, with

Lady Betty and another lady on either side of him,

when a servant summoned him into the house where

a gentleman was waiting to see him. The poet showed

little inclination to go: whereon the ladies insisted

and led him, each taking a hand, to his garden gate

GREEK VERSE 191

TU<Xo>9 69 del 7rpocnra\at,6vra)v tca/cois,

a TWV <ro(j)(ov rt fivpLotv y Kov<f>i<re ;

ovtc- dXX' etceivov? 7ravTeX&>9 djra^ifa,

vs re Kal BiBdy/Mar' e^arifjido'af.

lcri 7rpo9 <f)peafftv ap eBpaios oo,

a>%p6v re ^et\o? o^t/u-' e^atv r eirdpyefiov,

6 o dfj,<f>Trei 7rp68rj\o<} aldepos 76X0)9

\ij3d8cov opeicov evBiav

73

\a/i7rporepo$ p,k

<yala 8' dvyfia, Bfya Be

prjyvvTai e'/c S' erexvcoo'ev

evffev dei&v cap av^dverat

'X\a>pd r dv6ea<f>6po<; %j

\ayu,7T/oa9 S' wpa? TTO\V \afnrporeptov

76^09 opviOwv, ol fjkev \tj3dScov

peWpois Trrepa

/ca/oTToi'9 aS6Xot9, ol Be

Trrrjvas av0r) perafAeiftofAevas

alel fteOeTTova-', ol 8' UTT' doiSf)s

avavBov KT)\r)8evTe<i

j\vtcv <rvf4/j.{<r<yovTc

icprjvaicn, crvvav\oi.

74 The Fate of the Social Reformer

(written during the Boer War).

MONSEIGNEUR toiled to Afric's shore

To preach French culture to the Boer.

But ere his theme was fairly stated

A Mauser bullet him translated.

75

FORTE quondam in Tusculano in hortulis suis obambulabat,

lateri iunctis hinc Elissa sua, hinc altera

muliere, cum intro a seruulo nescio quo uocatus est;

adesse enim qui copiam eius uellet. parere cum ipse

cunctaretur, instate illae manuque eum haec dextra

ilia sinistra adprehensa usque ad hortorum exitum

192 PROSPECTIVE TRANSLATIONS

As he turned from them, he is said to have made the

following impromptu :

' Thus Adam looked, when from the garden driven ;

And thus disputed orders sent from Heaven.

Like him I go, and yet to go am loath ;

Like him I go, for angels drove us both.

Hard was his fate, but mine still more unkind :

His Eve went with him ; but mine stays behind.'

76 CHARLOTTE BRONTE, The Professor

THE place was large enough to afford half an

hour's strolling without the monotony of treading

continually the same path ; and for those who love to

peruse the annals of graveyards, here was variety of

inscription enough to occupy the attention for double

or treble that space of time. Hither people of many

kindreds, tongues and nations had brought their dead

for interment ; and here on pages of stone, of marble,

and of brass were written names, dates, last tributes

of pomp or love in English, in French, in German,

and Latin Every tribe and kindred mourned after

its own fashion ; and how soundless was the mourning

of all ! My own tread, though slow and upon smoothrolled

paths, seemed to startle, because it formed the

sole break to a silence otherwise total. Not only the

winds, but the very fitful, wandering airs were that

afternoon, as by common consent, all fallen asleep in

their various quarters ; the north was hushed, the south

silent, the east sobbed not nor did the west whisper.

The clouds in heaven were condensed and dull, but

apparently quite motionless. Under the trees of this

cemetery nestled a warm breathless gloom, out of

which the cypresses stood up straight and mute, above

which the willows hung low and still, where the flowers,

as languid as fair, waited listless for night dew or

thunder-shower ; where the tombs and those they hid

lay impassible to sun or shadow, to rain or drought.

LATIN PROSE 193

deducere, quas cum maxime dimitteret hos dicitur

profudisse uersus :

Hoc Adamus uoltu Felicibus actus ab hortis

de caelo missos aequa iubere negat.

par et nostra fugast. inuiti cedimus ambo ;

ambo caelestum cogit abire manus.

illud erat durum ; multo hoc sed iniquius. ibat

ille suam comitans ; ast ego solus eo.

76

LOCVS in tantum patebat ut semihoram ibi obambulare

posses nee tuis semper insistendo uestigiis

taedio adfici : quod si cui esset rerum gestarum

memoriam qualem sepulcra praeberent pernoscendi,

tanta inerat ibi elogiorum uarietas ut duplex quoque

uel triplex temporis spatium posset haec legendo

traduci. illuc enim genere natione lingua diuersi alii

aliunde suos ad sepulturam conuexerant, et nomina

annosque cum supremis quoque amoris uel ambitionis

testimoniis Anglice Gallice Germanice atque etiam

Latine scripta in tabulas aereas marmoreas lapideas

incidenda curauerant. mortuos sibi quaeque gens,

cognatio quaeque more suo lugebant, quanto omnes

in illo luctu silentio ! enimuero ad meos ipse ingressus,

quamuis tarde in aequata manu glarea incedentis,

paene expaueram, cum altissimum silentium sonus

ille unus interrumperet. nam illo die non uentos

modo ipsos sed uagas quoque et incertas auras, uelut

consensu quodam obdormissent, sua quamque sedes

tenuerat. conticuerat Aquilo, Auster silebat, ne Eurus

quidem singultus ullos dabat nee Fauonius suos

spiritus. spissae per caelum nullo candore nubes speciem

praebebant prorsus immotam. sepulcralis luci

tamquam in sinu cubansateporequaedam,utuidebatur,

anhelans caligo cupressuum erigebat taciturnam proceritatem,

salicum sustinebat humilitatem quietam,

florum integebat flaccescentium pulchritudinem (languorem

crederes aestiuos imbris uel nocturnes rores expectantium),

sepulcra uero et sepultos iam solisumbraeque,

iam pluuiarum et siccitatium securos operuerat

p. 13

194 PROSPECTIVE TRANSLATIONS

77 DAVID HUME

THE king of Scots hearing of this disaster was

astonished: and being naturally of a melancholic

disposition as well as endowed with a high spirit he

lost all command of his temper on this dismal

occasion. Rage against his nobility who he believed

had betrayed him ; shame for a defeat by such unequal

numbers ; regret for the past, fear of the future ;

all these passions so wrought upon him that he would

admit of no consolation, but abandoned himself wholly

to despair. His body was wasted by sympathy with

his anxious mind ; and even his life began to be

thought in danger. He had no issue living; and

hearing that his queen was safely delivered he asked

whether she had brought him a male or female child?

Being told the latter, he turned himself in his bed :

' The crown came with a woman,' said he,

' and it will

go with one: many miseries await this poor kingdom:

Henry will make it his own either by force of arms

or by marriage.'

LATIN AND GREEK PROSE 195

77

(i) AD nuntium huius cladis rex Scotorumobstipuit;

et cum tristiore ipse esset ingenio et praeferoci animo

praeditus, in tempore tarn funesto impotens sui ferebatur.

irascebatur in proceres qui sese prodidissent;

detrimenti pudebat a copiis tanto minoribus inlati ;

factorum paenitebat, futura terrebant. totque perturbationibus

confecto res eo redierat ut omnia respueret

solacia, iam totus ad desperationem uersus. ab aegri

animi contagione corpus et ipsum tabescebat ut uitae

quoque in discrimen uenisse iam uideretur. nulli ei

liberi uiuebant acceptoque nuntio uxorem suam peperisse,

marem an feminam percontato cum feminam

respondissent, in lecto se uersans ' Femina '

ait

' regnum nobis attulit eademque auferet. infelicem

hanc gentem quam multae manent miseriae ! quam

Henricus aut marte aut nuptiis sui iuris facturus est'

(ii) idem Graece.

o Se Kd\,r)Sovia)v /BacriXevs ayye\6evros rov TrdOovs

^7r\dyrj, ical are (pvcret fiev fteya (ppovwv dfjua Se

8v<re\7ris <*>v TOV? rpo-rrovs a>? eVt

opyrj ov pea-p e^pfJTO. rot? /j,ev yap

6v/j,ov/jLvo<i o>9 ra eavrov 8r) irpo

v6fj,evos Se rrjv i]a~(rav on VTTO Tocrovrw e\acrcr6v(av

eyevero, teal ra [lev rj8rj /j,erayvovs ra Se teal Trpofyoftov-

IMvo<j, iraa-fl I8ea ra\anra>pia<; ovrw Siexeiro wcrre

fAqSeva dve%ecr0at 7rapa/j,vdovpevov et? Se TO dve\7ricrrov

a7ra<? rpeirecrdat. rapacrcro^kv'i]^ Se r^? tyvxf)? /cat TO

crwfAa o~vv7r6vei, &crre el Kal Trepiyevijcrerat ev dorj\w

r}8r) (ftalvecrdat. Trvdopevos Se rrjv yvvaixa evroKrj<racrav

TratSe? yap ov/ceri avrq> irepir/a'av' eirrfpero Trorepov

apcrev 17 dfj\v TO TraiSiov etij' rovro S' diroicpivoi*.evQ)v,

ev Tot? crrpca^acrLv a/ia crTpe^o/iei/o?, e' yvvaifcos jj,ev,

e<f>r), i]p%aro rj /3aai\eta ev Se yvvaiKi re\vrrj<Tei. ica/cci

vroXXa rf/8e rfj tcaKo8aL/j,ovi vroXet eTTtfcpefjuarai rjv

rj ftla Kparij(ra<? 17 yd/j,ois oiKeioxrerai.

132

196 PROSPECTIVE TRANSLATIONS

78 EDMUND BURKE

I tremble for the cause of liberty, from such an

example to kings. I tremble for the cause of humanity,

in the unpunished outrages of the most wicked of

mankind. But there are some people of that low and

degenerate fashion of mind, that they look up with a

sort of complacent awe and admiration to kings, who

know how to keep firm in their seat, to hold a strict

hand over their subjects, to assert their prerogative,

and by the awakened vigilance of a severe despotism

to guard against the very first approaches of freedom.

Against such as these they never elevate their voice.

Deserters from principle, listed with fortune, they

never see any good in suffering virtue, nor any crime

in prosperous usurpation.

GREEK PROSE 197

78

eya> fjuev, to dvSpes 'Adrjvaioi, irepl r*)? e\evdeplas

el rot? ySacrtXeucrt TO roiovrov virdp^ei irapdoppcoSw

8e Kal irepl rrjs KOivrfs avdpw

el irdvTtov ol TrovrjpoTaroi ravra

v/3piov<riv. aXX' etVt yap rti/e? OUTW? cvyevveis Kal

Bi(j>dap/jievot rr)v tyv%r)v ware avrol aurot? dpe<rtciv

ovTe<f /cat crefto/jLevot TWV ^a(n\iwv TOI? eTria-racr<

f>d<i /j,ev avroits ev fiefiatovaOqi rd 8e rwv

ws Scd %etpo? e%eiv real rd jj,ev eavrwv

yepa ^Seirore dvievat rpa^elav 8e egeyeipavras rrjv

TupavviSa rrjv e\ev6eplav evQvs (fraveiaav <j>v\dTTe<rdai.

Kara r<2v TOIOVTCOV ovSev ovSefrore <J>0ey<yovTai. a\V

(j,ev, a>9 elirelv, a?ro rij? aperf)? TJJ Se

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APPENDIX

LATIN ADDRESSES

I. From UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON to TRINITY

COLLEGE DUBLIN. Tercentenary 1892.

DVBLINENSEM VNIVERSITATEM SIMVL ET COLLEGIVM

LONDINIENSIVM VNIVERSITAS OLIM,

NVNC SVB EODEM NOMINE COLLEGIVM, SALVERE

JVBET.

IN tanta gratulantium multitudine nos quid proprii

adferemus? reputantibus quidem quanti Vos in

omnibus artibus et doctrinis per tot saecula fueritis,

ut studiosorum semper omnium, etiam absentium,

rationem habeatis, has denique aedes et tantam doctorum

ex omnibus terris frequentiam circumspectantibus

Vergilii illud potissimum succurrit: 'Cuncti

adsint, meritaeque expectent praemia palmae/ a nobis

titulo quidem ac nomine iactatum, re atque usu a

Vobis occupatum. certe quae duo sunt in hominibus

erudiendis maxima, Vniuersitatis et Collegii officia,

nos, sicut ille 'iuuenis quondam, nunc femina Caeneus,'

utrumque experti, quam egregii Vos in utroque sitis

Tiresia grauius testabimur.

Alumnorum tot clarissimorum nutrici quern primum,

quern ultimum laudabimus? Marone illo commemorate

Tu certe nobis non praetereundus es qui,

insigne ipse documentum litteras et medicinam nullo

modo inter se diuersa esse, Apollinem utrumque et

Paeana et Musagetam nactus propitium, et studiorum

Tuorum fructus Hibernica (qua quid est illustrius?)

LATIN ADDRESSES 199

liberalitate mortuus etiam posteritati largitus, Vergilianae

illius coronae splendor! iam altera stella

accessisti.

Sed, ne longiore oratione Vestras aures oneremus,

scitote nos hodie Vestris feriis gaudioque ut qui

maxime laetantes interesse, fausta omnia Vobis et

praeteritis consimilia precari atque etiam uaticinari,

in futurum denique, siue ilia uoluntatis atque animorum,

quam dicunt, societas placebit, seu potius

Britanniae legibus, institutis, consiliis communibus,

ut antea, utemini, hoc saltern nos et Vobis et toti

Hiberniae posse spondere, Londinium a Dublino numquam

sua sponte desciturum.

ID. IVL. A.S. MDCCCLXXXXII.

II. From the CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION to the

ITALIAN SOCIETY FOR THE EXTENSION AND

ENCOURAGEMENT OF CLASSICAL STUDIES, 1907.

ITALORVM LITTERARVM GRAECARVM ET LATINARVMFA

VTORVMET VINDICVMSOCIETA TEM

BR1TANNORVM QVIBVS IDEM PROPOSITVM

SOCIETAS SALVERE IVBET.

Raro certe atque opportuno Fortunae utimur

beneficio quod eo ipso tempore quo Vos alterum iam

conuentum acturi estis paucis de nostro numero

uellemus quidem plures : sed plures ne essent incommoda

negotiosis hoc anno ratio temporum prohibuit

Romam uestram illam urbium omnium dominam

pulcherrimam inuisere contigit ut non solum animo

atque cogitatione absentes sed praesentes quoque

nonnulli inceptis Vestris faueamus.

200 APPENDIX

Vt de factis primum Vobis gratulemur, ut in futurum

prospera ac felicia omnia exoptemus, suadet ilia iam

omnibus nota Britannorum Italorumque amicitia.

cuius ecquod insignius testimonium adferri poterit

quam illud Vestratium aetate atque usu comprobatum

ac firmatum prouerbium

bella ubiuis gerenda :

cum Britannis pax tenenda.

suadent communia nobiscum studia, communis

ueterum monumentorum cum amor turn reuerentia,

commune denique non aliena auertendi sed nostra

atque adeo totius orbis terrarum bona conseruandi

pium ac legitimum consilium. in fine rem illam

nolumus praeterire quae, si non maximi momenti,

tamen ne minimi quidem est cum nostra Vobiscum

commercia proxime attingat, prauum istum morem

uerba Latina pronuntiandi

qui penitus toto diuiserat orbe Britannos

iam in eo esse ut effluat atque obsolescat. quod,

Societatis nostrae opera maximam partem effectum,

Vobis quoque placiturum satis confidimus ut nihil

iam uerendum sit, quod Platonicus ille Socrates uereri

se dicit, ne uideamur VTTO </>tA,oXo7ta<? dypot,Ki%<r6ai,

TrpodvfjiovfAevoi ;/u,a9 7roifj(rai Sid\,ey(T0ai KOI </>t\oi/9

re KOI Trpoaijyopovs aX\.ij\oi<; yiyveo-dat.

Valete atque in studia uniuerso hominum generi

profutura feliciter, sicut coepistis, incumbitote.

LONDINIO DATVM MENSE MARTIO EXEVNTE

A. S. MDCCCCVII.

LATIN ADDRESSES 201

III. From the UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL to the

UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, 1912.

ATHENIENSIVM ACADEMIAM LIVERPVLIENSIVM

ACADEMIA SALVERE IVBET.

Non nihil, Athenienses, hoc tempore ueremur ne

uix satis scite et pro nostra Liuerpuliensium mercaturae

peritia tamquam y\avKa 'AOrfva^e ayayelv

Vobis uideamur qui in ATHENAS hoc praesertim

saeculo instituimus laudes conferre. cui tamen uerecundiae

ipsa Veritas, qua quidem nee diuinius quicquam

nouimus nee mehercules humanius, obstare ac

refragari uidetur, dum huic conuentui et terapori

monet omni modo esse satis faciendum, in quo illud

primum memoriae subicit, non iam quod cecinit poeta

illeNostratium de doctissimis 'ocellum' modo quendam

Athenas esse ' Graeciae ' sed totius paene corporis

nunc instar obtinere, dum Corinthum, dum Thebas,

dum ipsam etiam Spartam (quod uiuo utinam uidisse

contigissetlsocrati!)ciuitatis hospitii caritatis artissimis

uinculis coniunctas sibi atque adeo deuinctas teneat.

deinde quod secundo loco urbem Vestram idem Milton

us ' matrem artium '

nuncupauit, quid hoc potest

dici uerius, quid ad has quidem Ferias accommodatius?

consentit certe ipsa humani generis uniuersitas quae,

cumdoctrinae sedibusnon hisuelillis sedomnibus aeque

aptissimum nomen requireret, hoc potissimum elegit

quod Platonis Vestri memoriam immortalem excitaret,

inter Siluas Academi de uero de recto deque honestate

auro ipso pretiosiora, suauiora melle disserentis? nee

tamen artium solum exempla sed libertatis et patriae

202 APPENDIX

amoris cum maxima turn sanctissima hominibus prodidistis.

testis sit ex ueteribus clarissimus ille Vester

hanc illam esse urbem rav KCU Zey<? o

Apqs re (frpovpiov ve^et, pva-L^w^ov

fEX-

, dya\/j,a Saifjiovwv, ex recentioribus Nostrorum

ille historicorum facundissimus in Atticarum litterarum

laudatione splendidissima : 'All the triumphs of truth

and genius in every country and every age have been

the triumphs of Athens.'

In tantis autem Vestris Graeciaeque Vestrae meritis

Nostrae quoque operae atque officio partem aliquam

fuisse haud mediocriter gaudemus. iam ilia uetera

nee tamen, quod speramus, obsoleta cum Vos rem

publicam et sibi et Vobis ipsis reciperantes Nos cum

fauore turn armis quoque adiuuimus ; mox temporibus

in melius mutatis communi Vobiscum labore antiquitatis

Vestrae monumenta eruimus resarcimus inlustramus,

cuius insigne fuerit documentum Aristoteli

sua Atheniensium res publica iam tandem reddita ac

restituta. nunc festis Academiae Vestrae natalibus

pauci quidem fauore praesenti, animo ac uoluntate

plurimi, licet absentes, laeti ut qui maxime intersumus,

atque in futurum omnia fausta ac felicia et praeteritis

(quo quid maius optabimus ?) consimilia Vobis precamur

atque etiam auguramur. ualete.

IDIBVS MARTIIS A. s. MDCCCCXII.

LATIN ADDRESSES 203

IV. From the UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL to the

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO, DUNEDIN, N.Z., 1919.

VNIVERSITAS LIVERPVLIANA VNIVERSITATEM

OTAGENSEMMVLTVM IVBEMVS SAL VERE.

Quod nimium per pacem securis amantissimus

patriae scriptor carmine insigni non semel nobis

praeceperat ne immemores aliquando reperiremur,

Vos certe nullo modo fuistis admonendi: qui sedum

ueterum atque illius Caledoniae, duri quidem generis

sed constantis strenuique nutricis, imaginem animis

Vestris fouentes, nouis in tern's alterum condere

Edinum nee Lethaeas quasdam sed Leithianas bibere

aquas instituistis; quorum insitam atque infixam

pietatem

nee spatia annorum aut longa interualla profundi

nee ipsa quos insedistis locorum summa amoenitas et

dulcedo imminuere ualuerunt ; quos cum circumfluerent

diuitiaequaePactoli harenas referre uiderentur,

aurum ad uirtutem rati esse uilissimum, Cordubensis

poetae graui dicto adsensi mortalitati

datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses,

ferrum ipsi praeoptauistis ; quos denique, ne Vestrarum

scholarum laudes proprias taceamus, non fugit,

Homericus ille Mars cum minas iactaret uim intentaret,

turn Mineruam et ipsam contra prodire armatam.

Verum haec prius, quod speramus, fuerunt ; nunc

ad pacem pacisque munia denuo conuersi, felicioribus,

ut optamus, etiam quam antea usi auspiciis, cum

cetera turn et corporum curandorum qua insignis estis

scientiam, et illam uictus cultusque domesticam curam,

204 APPENDIX

a Vobis primis, nisi forte fallimur, ratione et uia tractatam

qua humani generis pars maior (mulieres sunt)

non uirilia tantum officia contrectare sed sua quoque

excolere discant, ornare atque amplificare memineritis.

DATVM LIVERPVLIA ID. NOVEMBRIBVS

A. s. MDCCCCXIX.

IN MEMORIAM

VICTORIAE

REGINAE IMPERATRICIS

MDCCCXXXVII MDCCCCI