Ο δ ̓ Ἔρως, ἔχων μόλυβδον

Περὶ τοῖς καλοῖς ποδίσκοις,
Ἐδίωκε και κίχανε

Τί θέλει γ ̓ ὄναρ τόδ ̓ εἶναι;
Δοκέω δ' έγωγε πολλοῖς
Ἐν ἔρωσί με πλακένα,
Διολιπάνειν ἐν ἄλλοις,

Ενὶ τῷδε συνδεθῆναι.

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Εἰς τὰ Ερωτα βέλη.

Ο Ανῆς ὁ τι Κυθήρης,

Παρά Λημνίαις καμίνοις,

Τα

VER. 3 & 4. When Love, altho' his beauteous Feet

Were cumber'd with a Leaden Weight.] Eubulus the Comick Poet would have been delighted with this Defcription of Love, it being entirely conformable to his Sentiments, as he himself delivers them, Τις του ο γράψας πρῶτα ἀνθρώπων ρα Η κηροπλασήσας Ερωθ' υπόπτερον ;

Ως

When Love, altho' his beauteous Feet
Were cumber'd' with a leaden Weight,
Purfu'd, and overtook my Flight.
What means this vifionary Fright?
But ah, too vifible appears

The Riddle of my flumb'ring Fears!
And I who wing'd with Joy erewhile,
Eluded ev'ry am'rous Toil,

Am now involv'd in fuch a Chain,

That I fhall ne'er be free again.

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XLV.

ON CUPID's DARTS.

S once the Lord of Beauty's Queen,

At Lemnos' Forge, with bufy Mien,

Ως ἐδὲν δεν πλω χελιδόνας γράφειν,
Αλλ' μὗ ἀπειρθ τῶν τρόπων ἢ τὸ θεῖ. 1

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Βαρὺς ἢ κομιδῆ· πῶς ἂν ἐν ἔχων πέρα;

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VER. 1. As once the Lord of Beauty's Queen.] Thoas,

a Cretan

Τα βέλη τα ? Ερώτων
Ἐποίει λαβὼν σίδηρον.
Ακίδας δ ̓ ἔβαπτε Κύπρις,
Μέλι το γλυκύ λαβᾶσα,
Ὁ δ ̓ Ἔρως χολω ἔμισγε.
Ὁ δ' Αρης ποτ' ἐξ αὐτῆς,
Στιβαρόν δόρυ κραδαίνων,
ΒέλΘ. ἠυτέλιζ. ἜρωτΘ.

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a Cretan Worker in Metals, being made King of Lemnos by Rhadamanthus the Brother of Minos, marry'd Venus or Calycopis, the Daughter of Otreus King of Phrygia. Having furnish'd the Egyptians with Armour, after his Death they deify'd him by the Name of BaalCanaan, or Vulcan, and a magnificent Temple was built to his Honour at Memphis, by Menes the Succeffor of Orus.

Bacchus being caught in Bed with his Wife, appeas'd him by making him King of Byblus and Cyprus, and gave Occafion to the Fable of his taking Mars and Venus in a Net. The Story of his being thrown from Heaven, alludes to his falling from the Heaven of the Cretan Gods, when he went from Crete to Lemnos to work in Metals. From Venus' failing from Phrygia to the Ifland Cythera, and from thence to be Queen of Cyprus, fhe was said by the Cyprians to be born of the Froth of the Sea, and was painted failing upon a Shell.

VER. 2. At Lemnos' Forge with bufy Mien.] Lemnos is an Ife of the Agean Sea Homer makes Vulcan

Employ'd his Steel-fubduing Arts,
T'equip the little Loves with Darts;

In Honey Venus dipt them all,

But wanton Cupid mingled Gall.

When, brandishing a mighty Spear,

From Fight return'd, great Mars drew near;
And looking round, with fcornful Eyes,

On Cupid's Arrows, call'd them Toys.

give the following Description of Jupiter's throwing him from Heaven, and his Fall into it.

Once in your Cause I felt his matchless Might,

Hurl'd headlong downward from th' etherial Height;
Toft all the Day in rapid Circles round;

Nor till the Sun defcended touch'd the Ground;

Breathlefs I fell, in giddy Motion loft;

The Sinthians rais'd me on the Lemnian Coast.

Pope. VER. 5. In Honey Venus dipt them all.] Horace calls it the Nectar of Venus.

VER. 6. But wanton Cupid mingled Gall.] Namque è Caftor Amor & melle & felle eft fœcundiffi

mus,

Plautus.

VER. 15.

Ὁ δ ̓ Ἔρως, Τόδ' έξιν, είπε,
Βαρύ πειράσας νοήσεις.

Ἔλαβεν βέλεμνον Άρης
Ὑπεμειδίασε Κύπρις
Ὁ δ' Αρης αναστενάξας,
Βαρύ, φησὶν, ορον αὐτό.
Ὁ δ ̓ Ἔρως, Ἔχ ̓ αὐτὸ, φησί.

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ΩΔΗ

Εἰς Ἔρωτα.

Με.

X Αλεπὸν τὸ μὴ φιλήσει,

Χαλεπὸν ἢ καὶ φιλῆσαι·

Χαλεπώτερον ἢ πάντων
Αποτυχάνειν φιλονα.

Γένο

VE R. 15. But Mars, deep-fighing with the Smart.] The Darts of Love are fo dangerous, that one can't fo much as touch them with Safety. Mofcbus intimates the fame,

Ἂν δὲ λέγη, λάβε ταῦτα, χαρίζομαι ὅσσά μοι

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