Make hafte ---But pray, my Friends, give o'er This War of Tongue, or talk no more. Why all this Torture of the Ear? I hope we have no Scythians here. VER. 11. Let Difcord with Barbarians ftay.] Natis in ufum Lætitiæ Scyphis Pugnare, Thracum eft: tollite barbarum Morem, Swift Hor. L. 1. Od. 27. Amidft our Cups for Mirth defign'd, To Fight and Quarrel fuits Rough Thracian Brutes; But not the fober Temper of a Friend. Creech. The Anthologia attributes this Ode to one Julian an Καὶ π πτερών καταχών Λαβὼν δ ̓ ἔπινον αὐτόν. Καὶ νιῶ ἔσω μελῶν με 5 Ω Δ Η ΝΘ'. Πρὸς αὐθάδη παρθένον. Πῶλε Θρηκίη, τί δή με Λοξὸν ὄμμασι βλέπεσα, Νηλεῶς φεύγεις, δοκέεις an Egyptian ; and indeed, except the Beauty of it, we have no Reason to imagine it wrote by Anacreon; but as it has long fince obtain'd a Place in most of the Editions of our Poet, I could not refufe it that Rank in a Tranflation, which it defervedly holds in the Original. Swift I feiz'd his Pinions faft, * O D E LIX. TO A SCORNFUL BEAUTY. W HY with Scorn-reverting Eye, Pretty Thracian Filley, Why Me as skill-lefs and unwise, Fly you, Cruel! and defpife? Scorner! could I once attain O'er thy Neck to throw the Rein; 5 Swift *This Ode was preferv'd us by Heraclides Ponticus. Madam D' Acier thinks it writ on a young favourite Mare of Polycrates'; but as Mr. Longepierre remarks, the av Bλéπ8σa, and the Scorn which the Poet complains of, feem not at all to favour that Sentiment. VER. 9 & 10. Ἡνίας δ ̓ ἔχων τρέφοιμι 10 Ω Δ. Η Ξ Ἐπιθαλάμια, ὕμνω. * Εάων άνασσα, Κύπρο, Γάμε, βιότοιο φύλαξ, Ὑμέας λόγοις λιγαίνω, Ὑμέας VER. 9 & 10. O'er the Daify-painted Mead, Qua, velut latis equa trima campis, Cruda marito. Hor. L. 3. Od. nr. She, like a Colt, frisks o'er the Plain, Swift with raptur'd Speed would I Skill'd thy ftubborn Pride to bend. An EPITHALAMIUM on the Marriage of STRATOCLES and MYRILLA. EAV'N-enchanting Child of Jove! HE Golden Venus, Queen of Love! Cupid, God of blissful Strife! Hymen, Guard and Pride of Life! You *We are oblig'd for this Epithalamium to Theodorus Prodromus, the Romancer, who wrote the Amours of Doficles and Rhodanthe. Henry Stephens receiv'd it in his Edition; but because it contains almoft as many kinds of Verse as Lines, Barnes thinks it fpurious. It must be own'd, it rather seems an Imitation of Anacreon, than compos'd by him. VER. 4. Hymen, Guard and Pride of Life.] Diony fius Halicarnafenfis calls Marriage, Σωτήριον το γένος. VER. 9 |