Works; from the text of Heyne and Wagner

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lise. The beauties sali 00eritus, heresere, ere deepi fel b him; the Istam IXth elogues, in hieli he attempte to c0nve thei spirit in his native longue have been at ready notieed Martyn, h0Wever, conjectures that the Alexis an Palaemon ere the earli est in p0int of compositi0n, r0m the lass0Wing passage in the Daphnis:

Hae nos te ragili donablinus antli cicuta: Haec nos: Formosum Corydon ardebat Alexin : Haec eadem docuit: Crium pecus an Meliboei γ'

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-- si Virgilio puer et tolerabile deesset Hospitium, caderent omnes h crinibus hydri,Surda nihil gemeret grave bucciri R.

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Primus Idumaeas reseram tibi, Mantua, palmas;

Comp. Id. viii. 30, illi eant. i. 9.

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xx DIOGRAPHICA MEMOIR F VIRGIL. the genera expectationis sueti a Pers0n then prevalent in the Last. It is algorem arkable that Elian menti0n the JEWISI SIBYL t0gether illi the Cumaean fher oracles, there re, Whieli,ere pr0babi in SubStance the Same a the prophetieat writings, were lihelyn be in the 0llecti0n Dionysius os Halicarnassus, o the authorit os Varro, asseri that sueti os the prophecies a Were n0t genuine vere Metilien in aerosticlis.' Lusebius has preserve a pretended aer0stieli oraele

ωγίων συλλογω, 4ive a very elab0rate interpretati0n os the Pollio, illi a Gree translati0n of the greater par onit, and asseris that the oracle, hene it Was ahen, a translated by Cicero int Latin verse, and annexedri his poems. V have n0wm trace of this translation is it ver existed ut it is a curio circumstance, that Cicero informis us that the Sibylline orael es did prodiet a Ling, and were ritiei in aer0sticlis. Is an name ere menti0ned in them, it musthave been 0rnelius the pretende hicli Lentulus adduce se his e0nnection

Ipso sed in pratis Aries jam suave rubenti Murice, jam croceo mutabit vellera luto. Txv lines besere ecur the verse Robustus quoque iam Nium juga solvet artitor;

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DIOGRAPHICA L ME IOIR OF VIRGIL. XXI

Macer of Verona, li Wr0te a p0etica histor os serpents planis, and bird8, in imitationis Nieander, and a supplementat the Iliad called Antehomerica and Postumeri a Berialiardy Bilhr, and thers, aster ernsd0rs, attribute, 0WeVer, the epi an didaeti poenis' disserent riters of the fame ame.' Is Daphnisi a personification, Julius Caesar is the oni person Wh0m the characterea p0urtray, a H ne justi observes although e belleves the poem to emeret a commemorati0n os the celebrate Sicilian hepherd. Servius and Donatus malle Daphnis the p0et' brother Flaccus An uncertain epigrammatiSt

Tristia sata tui dum fles in Saphnido Flacci,

Docte Maro, Datrem Dis immortalibu aequas.

Virgil c0neluded his Bucolies, illi an elegant compliment i Cornelius Gallu8, a celebrate contempora 0et bor at Forum ulli, in Gaul, ab0ut Virgirso vi age, an his sell0W-pupit unde Syron, cons0lin him 1 r the os os iis Lycoris, hom the old commentator assertat have been an aetre88, Wh0Se realnamae vas Cytheris. hemas the reddWomanis Volumnius Eutrapelus, and 00kthemanteis Volumnia Asrahe was familia vitii Antony the old commentators have supposed that he deserte Gallus to aed0mpan Antony n his Gallic expedition. eyne, hoWever, in his argument of the Galli/s, has sh0Wn, romchronol0gical e0nsiderati0ns that this could notae the case. The genuine poenasos Gallus, illi the exception os a se stagments are lost. The consiste oss0ur books os elegies, called Amores o Lycoris, and a translati0nis Euphorion, as e learn rom Servius A pretended editionis the w0Asis Gallus as pub-tished by Pomponi Gaurico, at the eginning of the fixistentii centu ; ut thes raud was 00n detected in Italy, and Tirab0schi attributes these poenas, accord-

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xxii BIOGRAPHICA MEMOIR O VIRGIL. iii t0 0mmon repori, tu a certain Maximinian, lio si0urished in the time os Boetius. As an elegia poet, Gallus ranked ver hi gli in public opini0n Ovidspealis os his fame a universat Propertius and IIartia liave b0me testimonyt his excellende; and Virgil, in his beauti sui and extra0rdina 'Ith elogue, has panegyriae his Euphorion in the obtest train os mythological ul0gy. Virgil ad also aceordinito Servius, celebrate his pratSes in the conclusion ostiis Georgies Gallus a nocles distinguishexas a Warrior than a a poet he vasis great Servideri Augustus in the Egypti an ar, an assiste in securing the pers0n os Cleopatra H Was, in consequenee, 0nstitute the sirs presectosagypt Here e appears t have conduete himself, illi arrogane an insoletice. He a aster vard condemne to anishment by the command of Augustus, on suspiei0nis havin conSpired against hinari a sentenee hieli, hoWever, the poet anti ei pate by a voluntat death U. C. 728 aud Virgil, at the instanee s the emperor, substitute sor his ul0gyin Gallus the ableis Aris

Ubi a versa atque nefas tot bella per orbe in , Tam multa scelerum saetos non ullius aratro Dignus honos squalent abductis arva colonis, Et curvae rigidum sulces conflantur in ensem.

Put e mus no suppos the statesman to have conoeived that the militarysettier eouldae moved by an exquisite poeni t ille culti vation os thei estates.

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Quum canerem reges et proelia, Cynthius aurem Vellit, et admoliuit,

an his ambition to produce s0m W0r o distinguishe excellene is attested by the ardent exclamation in theipeningis the IIId Georgic :Tentanda via est, qua me quoque POSSim Tollere humo, victorque virum Olitare per OTI.

Posterius graviore sono tibi Musa loquetur Nostra dabunt quimi securos mihi tempora fruetus Ut tibi digna tuo poliantur carmina SeUSU.

Donat in Vit. Virg. ix. Quinet. Lib. X. 3 Aul Ged. xvii. 0.

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Cedite, Romani scriptores cedite, Graiil NeScio quid majus nascitur Iliadet

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Hinc genus Ausonio mixtum quod sanguine Surget, Supra homines, supra ire Deos pietate videbis; Nec gens ulla tuos seque celebrabit honores. Annuit his Juno, et mentem laetata retorSit. Eneta xii. 811.

V e portio bractete is talcen, With flicti alterations Domine artici meid, formerlyprinted in the lexi cographicta part of the Encyclopaestia Metropolitana The uilior is uisnoMnto the present,riter.

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Sic fratres Helenae, lucula sidera, Ventorumque regat Pater,

Obstrictis aliis, prieter Iapyga, Navis, quae tibi creditum Debes Virgili uita, finibus Atticis

Leddas incolumem Precor, Et serves anima dimidium mesel

Lectures onilaetorio vol. iii a Lili. i. d. iii. In alis os Virgil, relixe to ilio Veneti an edition os 1472 attribute to Ser ius it is staditi ut ii die ut Tarentiaui, On liis Wayrio Metapontum.