HENRY FROWDE, M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD DOM MINA ILLV MEA LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK NOVA ANTHOLOGIA OXONIENSIS TRANSLATIONS INTO GREEK AND LATIN VERSE EDITED BY ROBINSON ELLIS, M.A. CORPUS PROFESSOR OF LATIN; FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE AND A. D. GODLEY, M.A. FELLOW AND TUTOR OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS M D CCCXCIX G7 E451899 MAN PREFACE As the intention of the editors has been to produce a collection of Latin and Greek versions which may fairly be regarded as representative of contemporary Oxonian scholarship, their first thanks are due to the various contributors who have furthered this aim by allowing the publication (in a few cases, the republication) of their compositions in the present volume. Acknowledgement must also be made to Mr. A. Lang and Mr. A. C. Swinburne for permission to reprint passages from their works; to Mr. C. Baxter, acting as literary executor for R. L. Stevenson; to Mr. Cockerell and Mr. F. S. Ellis, acting in the same capacity for William Morris; and to Mr. W. M. Meredith, as representing George Meredith. The editors wish to thank Mr. George Allen for permission to reprint lines by W. Johnson; Messrs. Blackwood, passages from 'Phaethon,' by P. S. Worsley; the Cambridge Press, a passage from |