LUSUS PILE (AMATORIUS) EX NIVE СОАСТӔ. *PETRONII AFRANII EPIGRAMMA. M E nive candenti petiit modo Julia; rebar Igne carere nivem, fed tamen ignis erat. Quis locus infidiis dabitur mihi tutus amoris, * The only account that could be found, after a diligent fearch, of the author of this neat and elegant performance, is in Fabricius's Bibliotheca Latina; where Petronius Afranius is placed, amongst many others, as a writer of Epigrams, without any notice taken of what country he was, at what time he lived, without any one circumstance to mark who or what he was. This Epigram is inferted in the appendix to the 11th edition of Epigrammatum Delectus, in ufum Scholæ Etonenfis, printed at London 1740, accompanied by the following note: "Elegans et acutum Epigramma! me judice, ut ut, in tenui materiâ, et affabre undequaque concinnatum et omnibus numeris abfolutum.” E. THE W HITE as her hand fair JULIA threw The frozen globe fir'd as it flew, My bofom felt it glow. Strange pow'r of love! whofe great command When fent, fair JULIA, from thine hand, How fhould we then fecure our hearts? Who thus can, by strange magic arts, 'Tis thou alone, fair JULIA, know, Canft quench my fierce defire, But not with water, ice, or fnow, But with an equal fire. H Εἰς βάθυλλον. Ταντάλος ποτ' ἔτη Λίθος Φρυγῶν ἐν ὄχθαις. Καὶ παῖς πότ ̓ ὄρνις ἔπλη ΠανδίονΘ- χελιδών. Εγώ δ' ἔσοπῖρον εἴην, Οπως ἀεὶ βλέπης με. Εγὼ χιτὼν γενοίμην, Όπως ἀεὶ φορῆς με. Υδωρ θέλω γενέσθαι, Όπως σὲ χειρα λέσω. Απαλὸν μύρον γενόιμην Ως σε κόμας ἀλείφω Καὶ ταινίη μετώπῳ. Καὶ μάργαρον τραχήλῳ. Καὶ σάνδαλον γενοίμην, Μόνον ποσὶν πατεῖν με. ANACREON, ANACREON, ODE XX. A Rock on Phrygian plains we see That once was beauteous NIOBE: Be chang❜d to stays, that straitly lac'd, I might embrace thy flender waist ; A filver ftream I'd bathe thee, Fair, Or fhine pomatum on thy hair; In a foft fable's tippet's form A TRANSLATION OF SOME LATIN VERSES ON THE CAMERA OBSCURA. T HE various pow'rs of blended shade, and light, The skilful ZEUXIS of the dusky night; Divine APOLLO! let thy facred fire But now the mufe's useful precepts view, And with just care the pleasing work pursue. |