A LARGE VARIETY OF BOTANICAL, MYTHOLOGICAL, AND HISTORICAL

NOTES,

SELECTED AND ORIGINAL,

WITH A VIEW TO FACILITATE THE ACQUISITION OF THE MEANING, AND TO PROMOTE

A TASTE FOR THE BEAUTIES OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS AUTHOR,

BY WILLIAM STAUGHTON, D. D.

SECOND EDITION:

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BUCOLICA

ECLOGA I.

TITYRUS.

INTERPRETATIO.

MEL.

Melib@us, TITYRUS.
TITYRE, tu patulæ recubans sub tegmine fagi,

Mel, Tityre, tu jacent
Sylvestrem tenui Musam meditaris avenâ :

sub umbraculo fagi opaca, Nos patriæ fines, et dulcia linquimus arva;

mudalaris cantilenam pas. Nos patriam fugimus : Tu, Tityre, lentus in umbrâ toralem cum parva fistulå : Formosam resonare doces Amaryllida sylvas.

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nos deserimus terminos pa

triæ, et agros amanos; nos tit. O Melibee, Deus nobis hæc otia fecit.

eximus e patriá : tu, Tity. Namque erit ille mihi semper Deus : illius aram re, otiosus sub umbrâ, do

ces arbores referre nomen Sæpe tener nostris ab ovilibus imbuet

agnus.

pulchra Amaryllidis.--Tit. Ille meas errare boves, ut cernis, et ipsum

O Melibee, Deus nobis Ludere, quæ vellem, calamo permisit agresti. 10 dedit banc quierem. Nani MEL. Non equidem invideo : miror magis : undiq; totis habebo semper illum Dei

loco : sæpe tener agnus electus ex ovili nostro tinget illius aram sanguine. Ille permisit vaccas mens vagari, ut vides, e me ipsum canere fistulå rusticà quicquid vellein.-Mel. Ego quidem non invideo, imò admiror,

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NOTES. The occasion of the first pastoral was this: plainly distinguishes them. Metam. lib. x. When Augustus had settled himself in the v. 91, 92. Roman empire, that he might reward his 2. Silvestrem Musam, i. e. rusticum carveteran troops for their past service, he dis- men, Lucretius, lib. II. tributed among them all the lands that lay Fistula silvestrem ne cesset findere Muabout Mantua and Cremona, turning out

sam. the right owners for having sided with his 2. Meditaris, i. e. exerces, exercise your enemies. Virgil (or his father) was a suf- rural muse, as in Plautus, Stich. II 1. 34. ferer among the rest ; but be recovered his Ad cursum meditabor me. And Cic. 1. de estate by the intercession of Mæcenas, Pol. Orat. 62. Demosthenes perfecit meditando, lio, and Varus. Virgil, as an instance of his ut nemo planius eo locutus putaretur. gratitude, composed the following pastoral; 2. Avená. For fistula avenacea. The muwhere he sets out his father's good fortune sical instruments used by shepherds were in the person of Tityrus, and the calamities at first made of oat and wheat straw; then of his Mantuan neighbours in the character of reeds and hollow pipes of box, afterwards of Melibæus. To this piece of history Mar- of the leg bones of cranes, horns of animals, tial refers in the following lines:

metals, &c. Hence they are called, avena, Sint Mæcenates, non dcerunt, Flacce, Ma- stipula, calamus, arundo, fistula, buxus, tibia, rones ;

cornu, æs, &c. Virgiliumque tibi vel tua rura dabunt. 4. The primitive meaning of lentus is Jugera perdiderat miseræ vicina Cremo- slow: but here it implies being at resi, and

at leisure. Flebat et abductas Tityrus äger oves. 5. Amaryllida. By Amaryllis some unRisit Thuscus eques, paupertatemque derstand Rome, and Virgil's friends at malignam

Rome : but there is no occasion for such re. Reppulit, ut celeri jussit abire fuga. finement: the pastoral will appear more Accipe divitias, et vatum maximus esto, beautiful by considering Amaryllis simply Tu licet, et nostrum, dixit, Alexin as the shepherd's mistress, whose praises

he sings at his ease. See Theocritus, Idyll 1. Fagi. We commonly make the fagus II. the same tree 29 the esculus; but Oyid 9. Errare. To feed at large.

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