Charus enim cunctis, tanquam, dum vita manebat, Cuique esses natus, cuique sodalis, eras. Heu quam dura preces sprevit, quam surda querelas Parca, juventutem non miserata tuam ! ARTI ignis lucem tribui, tamen artis et ignis ILLA triumphatrix Graiûm consueta procorum CRETHIDA fabellas dulces garrire peritam Quam tenet hic, cunctas quæ manet, alta quies. DICITE, Causidici, gelido nunc Marmore magni Si forsan tumulum quo conditur Eumarus aufers Nil lucri facies; ossa habet et cinerem. EPICTETEI. ME, rex deorum, tuque, duc, necessitas, Fiam scelestus, nec tamen minus sequar. E. THEOCRITO. POETA, lector, hic quiescit Hipponax, EUR. MED. 193-203, NON immerito culpanda venit Voce aut fidibus pellere docuit Utile cunctis hoc opus esset ; Sat lætitiâ sine subsidiis, Pectora molli mulcet dubiæ Copia cœnæ. * Τοιος Άρης βροτολιογος ενι πολεμοισι μέμηνε SEPTEM ÆTATES. PRIMA parit terras ætas, siccatque secunda, *The above is a version of a Latin Epigram on the famous John Duke of Marlborough, by the Abbé Salvini, which is as follows; Haud alio vultu, fremuit Mars acer in armis ; Haud alio, Cypriam percurit ore Deam. The Duke was, it seems, remarkably handsome in his person, to which the second line has reference: * Hrs Tempelmanni numeris descripseris orbem, 4 Sortitur Pelopis tellus quæ nomine gaudet. Myriadas decies septem numerare jubebit 4 Pastor Arabs; decies octo sibi Persa 4 requirit. Myriades sibi pulchra duas, duo millia poscit *To the above lines, which are unfinished, and can therefore be only offered as a fragment, in the doctor's manuscript, are prefixed the words, "Geographia Metrica." As we are referred, in the first of the verses, to Templeman, for having furnished the numerical computations that are the subject of them, his work has been accordingly consulted, the title of which is, "A new Survey of the Globe," and which professes to give an accurate mensuration of all the empires, kingdoms, and other divisions thereof, in the square miles that they respectively contain. On comparison of the several numbers in these verses with those set down by Templeman, it appears that nearly half of them are precisely the same; the rest are not quite so exactly done.....For the convenience of the reader, it has been thought right to subjoin each number, as it stands in Templeman's works, to that in Dr. Johnson's verses which refers to it. 1 In this first article that is versified, there is an accurate conformity in Dr. Johnson's number to Templeman's; who sets down the square miles of Palestine at 7,600. 2 The square miles of Egypt are, in Templeman, 140,700. 3 The whole Turkish empire, in Templeman is computed at 960,057 square miles. 4 In the four following articles, the numbers, in Templeman and in Johnson's verses are alike. We find, accordingly, the Morea, in Templeman, to be set down at 7,220 square miles. Arabia, at 700,000..... Persia, at 800,000,....and Naples, at 22,000. Parthenope. 5 Novies vult tellus mille Sicana. 6 Papa suo regit imperio ter millia quinque. Se quinquagenis octingentesima jungit Myriadas septem decies Europa 15 ducentis 4 Ibid. 5 Sicily, in Templeman, is put down at 9,400. 6 The Pope's dominions, at 14,868. 7 Tuscany, at 6,640. 8 Genoa, in Templeman, as in Johnson likewise, is set down at 2,400. 9 Lucca, at 286. 10 The Russian empire, in the 29th. plate of Templeman, is set down at 3,303,485 square miles. 11 Sardinia, in Templeman, as likewise in Johnson, 6,600. 12 The habitable world, in Templeman, is computed, in square miles, at 30,666,806 square miles. 13 Asia, at 10,257,487. 14 Africa, at 8,506,208. 15 Europe, at 2,749,349. 16 The British dominions, at 105,634. |