ENEAS. I neither saw nor heard of any such. But what may I, fair virgin, call your name, For GREEK HEXAMETERS: There reassembling we shall see emerge Familiar, halls where we have supped of old; Our eyes with gazing, and rebuild with tears. And we shall tread once more the well-known plain Of Ida, and among the grass shall find The golden dice with which we played of yore; MATTHEW ARNOLD. TRANSLATE, adding a brief note wherever a word, a construction, or an allusion requires it: Beginning ΤΑΥΤΑ ἀκούσαντες οἱ Ἴωνες ἐπιτρέπουσι σφέας αὐτοὺς τῷ Ending ἐποιεῦντο περιποιῆσαι τά τε ἱρὰ τα σφέτερα καὶ τὰ ἴδια. HEROD. VI. 12. Beginning ΠΑΛΙΝ δὲ ἀναμιμνήσκου· οὐ γὰρ χεῖρον πολλάκις Ending Καὶ μάλα, ἔφη, σφόδρα, ὁ Κέβης. PLATO, Phed. 105. TRANSLATE, adding a brief note wherever a word, a construction, or an allusion requires it: Beginning Ending ΣΤΗ δὲ ταφών, ἔπιθεν δὲ σάκος βάλεν ἑπταβόειον, ΑΙ. αὐτοῦ μὲν οὖν, ἵνα σοὶ κατ ̓ ὀφθαλμοὺς λέγῃ. Into LATIN PROSE: BY MR WOLFE. I HAVE writ as my friends would have me, for I had much rather be governed than govern. But otherwise I have really so much esteem and kindness for him and have so much knowledge of the place you would have for him, that I have my apprehensions he will be very uneasy in it; and that, when it is too late, you will be of my opinion, that it would have been much happier if he had been employed in any other place of profit and honour. I have formerly said so much to you on this subject and to so little purpose, that I ought not now to have troubled you with all this, knowing very well that you rely on other people's judgment in this matter. I do not doubt but they wish him very well; but in this they have other considerations than his good, and I have none but that of a kind friend that would neither have him nor my daughter uneasy. Coxe's Life of Marlborough. THUS it is that while ignorance of a man's special business is instantly detected, ignorance of his great business as a man and a citizen is scarcely noticed, because there are so many that share in it. Thus we see every one ready to give an opinion about politics, or about religion, or about morals, because it is said these are every man's business. And so they are, and if people would learn them, as they do their own particular business, all would do well: but never was the proverb more fulfilled which says that every man's business is no man's. It is worse indeed than if it were no man's; for now it is every man's business to meddle in, but no man's to learn. And this general ignorance does not make itself felt directly,-if it did, it were more likely to be remedied; but the process is long and round about; false notions are entertained and acted upon; prejudices and passions multiply; abuses become manifold; difficulty and distress at last press on the whole community; whilst the same ignorance which produced the mischief now helps to confirm it or to aggravate it, because it hinders them from seeing where the root of the whole evil lay, and sets them upon some vain attempt to correct the consequences, while they never think of curing, because they do not suspect the cause. ARNOLD. TRANSLATE, adding a brief note wherever a word, a construction, or an allusion requires it: Beginning Itaque truncis arborum, aut admodum...... Ending quos stimulos nominabant. CESAR, Bell. Gall. vii. 73. Beginning Laodiceam veni pridie kal. Sext. Ex hoc die...... Ending scripturæ, et portus nostrarum diœcesium. Cic. Ep. ad Attic. v. 15. TRANSLATE, adding a brief note wherever a word, a construction, or an allusion requires it. Beginning Ending Enimvero, Dave, nihil loci est segnitiæ, neque socordiæ, Beginning Ending Fit quoque, ut a lapide hoc ferri natura recedat LUCRET. VI. 1041-1063. Beginning Si potes Archiacis conviva recumbere lectis, He sung what spirit thro' the whole mass is spread, How the kind Sun usefully comes and goes, When, Goddess! thou lift'st up thy waken'd head Thy quire of birds about thee play And all the joyful world salutes the rising day. A crimson garment in the rose thou wear'st The virgin lilies in their white Are clad but with the lawn of almost naked light. With flame condens'd thou dost thy jewels fix, Flora herself envies to see Flowers fairer than her own, and durable as she. Ah, Goddess! would thou could'st thy hand withhold And be less liberal to gold! Didst thou less value to it give Of how much care alas! might'st thou poor man relieve! COWLEY. Hymn to Light. |