SEPE tuum in tumulum lacrymarum decidit imber Quem fundit blando junctus amore dolor; 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 Graium consueta procorum CRETHIDA fabellas dulces garrire peritam DICITE, Causidici, gelido nunc marmore magni Si forsan tumulum quo conditur Eumarus aufers Nil lucri facies; ossa habet et cinerem. EPICTETI. ME, rex deorum, tuque, duc, necessitas, Sequar libenter, sin reluctari velim, E. THEOCRITO. POETA, lector, hic quiescit Hipponax, EUR. MED. 193-203. NON immerito culpanda venit * Τοῖος Άρης βροτολοιγὸς ἐνὶ πτολέμοισι μέμηνε Και τοῖος, Παφίην πλῆξιν ἔρωτι Θεάν. *The above is a version of a Latin Epigram on the famous John Duke of Marlborough, by the Abbe 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. SEPTEM ÆTATES. PRIMA parit terras ætas, siccatque secunda, * HIS Tempelmanni numeris descripseris orbem *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 ap pears 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. 5 Sicily, in Templeman, is put down at 9,400. 6 The Pope's dominions, at 14,868. 7 Tuscany, at 6,640. VOL. I. P Centuria Ligures 8 augent duo millia quarta. Millia Belga 19 novem. Ter sex centurias Hollandia 19 jactat opima Undecimum Camber 19 vult septem millibus addi. 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. 17 England, as likewise in Johnson's expression of the number, at 49,450. 18 Ireland, at 27,457. 19 In the three remaining instances, which make the whole that Dr. Johnson appears to have rendered into Latin verse, we find the numbers exactly agreeing with those of Templeman; who makes the square miles of the United Provinces, 9540-of the province of Holland, 1800-and of Wales, 7011. |