STELLA mea, observans stellas. Dii me æthera | Blandam lanifici sociam sine fine loquacem, faxint Multis ut te oculis sim potis aspicere. CLARA Cheroneæ soboles, Plutarche, dicavit Hanc statuam ingenio, Roma benigna, tuo. Quam tenet hic, cunctas quæ manet,alta quies. DICITE, Causidici, gelido nunc marmore magni Mugitum tumulus comprimit Amphiloci. Das bene collatos, quos Roma et Græcia jactat, Si forsan tumulum quo conditur Eumarus au Ad Divos paribus passibus ire duces; Sed similem Ptutarche, tuæ describere vitam Non poteras, regio non tulit ulla parem. fers Nil lucri facies; ossa habet et cinerem. EPICETI. ME, rex deorum, tuque, duc, necessitas, E THEOCRITO. POETA, lector, hic quiescit Hipponax, EUR. MED. 193-203. NON immerito culpanda venit Τοῖος Αρης βροτολοιγὸς ἐνὶ πτολέμοισι μέμηνε The above is a Version of a Latin Epigram on the famous John Duke of Marlborough, by the Abbe Salvini, which is as follows: Haud alio vultu, fremuit Mars acer in armis : 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, Evocat Abramum dein tertia: quarta relinquit Pro-Egyptum; templo Solomonis quinta supersit; Cyrum sexta timet; lætatur septima Christo. ILLA triumphatrix Graiûm consueta procorum CRETHIDA fabellas dulces garrire peritam Prosequitur lacrymis filia mosta Sam b Myrias Egypto cessit bis septima pingui. Myriadas ter mille homini dat terram colendas. Ter sex centurias Hollandia' jactat opima. Survey of the Globe," and which professes to give an miles.-Arabia, at 700,000.-Persia at 800,000.-And Na accurate mensuration of all the empires, kingdoms, and ples, at 22,000.-e. Sicily, in Templeman, is put down at other divisions thereof, in the square miles that they 9,400.-f. The Pope's dominions, at 14,958.-g. Tuscany, respectively contain. On comparison of the several at 6,640.-h. Genoa, in Templeman, as in Johnson like. numbers in these verses with those set down by Temple-wise, is set down at 2.400.-i. Lucca, at 286.-k. The man, it appears that nearly half of them are precisely Russian empire, in the 29th plate of Templeman, is set the same; the rest are not quite so exactly done. For down at 3,303,495 sq. miles.-1. Sardinia, in Templeman, the convenience of the reader, it has been thought right as likewise in Johnson, 6,600.-m. The habitable world, to subjoin each number, as it stands in Templeman's in Templeman, is computed, in square miles, at 30,666,. works, to that in Dr. Johnson's verses which refers to it. 806.-n. Asia, at 10,257,487.-o. Africa, at 8,506,208.a. In this first article that is versified, there is an accup. Europe, at 2,749,349.-q. The British dominions, at rate conformity in Dr. Johnson's number to Temple- 105,634.-r. England, as likewise in Johnson's expres. man's; who sets down the square miles of Palestine at sion of the number, at 49,450.-s. Ireland, at 27,457.7,600.-b. The square miles of Egypt are, in Temple- t. In the three remaining instances, which make the man, 140,700.-c. The whole Turkish empire, in Temwhole that Dr. Johnson appears to have rendered into pleman, is computed at 960,057 square miles.-d. In the Latin verse, we find the numbers exactly agreeing with four following articles, the numbers in Templeman and those of Templeman; who makes the square miles of in Johnson's verses are alike We find, accordingly, the the United Provinces, 9,540; of the Province of Hol. Morea, in Templeman, to be set down at 7,220 square land, 1,800; and of Wales, 7,011. END OF VOL. 1. |