bounded with an indiftin&t and fwelling murmur. If we may. judge from OSSIAN, the Caledonians had a fimilar cuftom. • He humm'd a furly fong, like the noise of a falling stream.'

This, however, could not have been the cafe with TYRTEUS. We may infer, from the nature of these compofitions, that not a word was meant to be loft, amidst the murmur of a musical recitative.

LINE 48.

Creft to creft, and helm to helm.

Lance to lance, and horfe to horfe.

GRAY's Bard.

ELEGY the FOURTH.

LYCURGUS, after having paid the highest compliments to TYRTEUS, (in the oration already referred to) repeats the whole of this fourth Elegy.

Ελεγίνα ποιησας

-(fays he) ων ακενίες παιδεύονται πρα adge-And (in the fentence preceding his citation of the piece before us) χρησιμον δ' εςι καὶ τελων ακέσαι των ελεγείων να επιστ τησθε οιαποιωνίες ευδοκιμον παρ' εκείνοις.

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LINE 36.

His filver temples, and breathe out his foul.

The remainder is omitted in the translation, partly on account of its indelicacy; and partly, because the fame expreffions that conclude the piece have already occurred.

PRIAM'S fpeech to HECTOR, Iliad b. 22, contains fentiments not unlike the above:

Who dies in youth and vigor, dies the beft,

Struck thro' with wounds, all honeft on the breast.
But when the fates, in fullness of their rage,
Spurn the boar head of unrefifting age,
In duft the reverend lineaments deform,
And pour to dogs the life-blood fcarcely warm;
This, this is mifery! the laft, the worst
That man can feels man, fated to be curft!

FINIS