Dedicat. Eneidos:

Corniger hos ariès humiles et maxima Taurus
Victima facrato tinget odore focos.

"Pliny, Lib. XXXIII. 3.

"Deorum vero honori in facris nihil aliud "excogitatum eft, quam ut auratis cornibus hoftia,

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majorės dumtaxat immolarentur.”

I leave it to the reader to determine.

EPIST. XVI. 229.

Sæpe mero volui flammam compefcere; at illa
Crevit, et ebrietas ignis in igne fuit.

So Plato, de Leg. II. "Αρ' 3 νομοθηθήσομεν, τες παῖδας τὸ παράπαν ἔινε μὴ γένεθαι, διδάσκονίες, ὡς & κρή πῦρ ἔπι πῦρ ὀχελεύειν.

Francius was a good Poet; and yet his emendations of Ovid are, for the most part, good for nothing.

PHÆDRUS.

PHEDRUS.

THIS writer now and then useth fuperfluous epithets, as diligens induftria-fcelefta malitia. This is worse than white milk and red blood.

LIB. V. 2.

Nunc conde ferrum, et linguam pariter futilem,
Ut poffis alios ignorantes fallere.

Ego, qui fum expertus quantis fugias verbis, Y
Scio quam virtuti non fit credendum tuæ.

I wonder how Bentley could let this punctuation ftand. There should be a full ftop after futilem. And then

Ut poffis alios ignorantes fallere,
Ego, qui, &c.

Ut poffis, is licet poffis.

PROPERTIUS.

Ut folet amoto labi cuftode puella

Perfida, communes nec meminiffe deos,

One MS. has metuiffe. So we find,

Terence, Hecyra, V. II. 6.

Nec pol ifta metuunt Deos: neque has refpicere deos

opinòr.

Catullus, Epith. Th. &c. v. 135, 148.

Siccinè difcedens, neglecto numine divum
Diela nihil metuere, nihil perjuria curant.

Virgil, Ecl. VIII. 35.

Nec curare Deum credis mortalia quenquam.

Yet I think meminiffe ought not to be ftruck out,

being as proper a word here as the other.

• Extracted from the Mifcellan. Obfervat. Vol. I. P. 250.

Ib. Eleg. XII. 17.

Aut fi defpe&us potuit mutare calores,

Sunt quoque tranflato gaudia fervitio.

Defpectos would be more poetical; and will, I dare fay, be approved of by thofe, who are acquainted with Propertius's ftyle.

Lib. II. IV. 27:

Scribam igitur tua quod nunquam deleverit ætas;
Cynthia forma potens, Cynthia forma levis.

Other books have,

Scribam igitur quod non unquam tua deleat atas; And out of both readings one might make the verse thus,

Scribam igitur quad non umquam deleverit atas. quod nulla umquam deleverit, would be a stronger expreffion; but it is more different from the other readings.

Ib. Eleg. XI. 5.

Nec fic Electre, falvum quum afpexit Orefien.

Broukhufius fays "Eletra: Ita nofter fecundus, et uterque Colbertinus. Groning. et Vaticap. "Livineji, cum Borrichiano,

Non

Non Electra fuum falvum cum vidit Oreftem.

"Illud fuum infarferunt, qui verfui metuebant. "Sed fcribendum eft Electre."

I fuppofe Propertius left it Elera. See Burman, on Ovid, Epift. XIV. 1.

Ib. Eleg. XX. 21.

Nunc admirentur, quod tam mihi pulchra puella
Serviat, et totâ dicar in urbe potens. &c.

Broukhufius fays" Videtur hic aliquid excidiffe ; "certè fequentia non fatis commode cohærent "cum præcedentibus.-Eft omnino lacuna."

That there is no connection here is very juftly obferved by our ingenious commentator; but I cannot fo readily agree with him that fome lines are loft. This elegy confifts of feventy four verfes: the first twenty are upon a different fubject from that of the remaining fifty-four. I would therefore make two Poems of it. In the Poems of Propertius there is, fometimes, no connection to be found; which I take to be owing partly to the Poet himfelf, who chose to write in that defultory manner; but, chiefly, to a corrupted text, to fome loft lincs, and to fome which are out of place.