Κ' οὐδὲν ἔλεξε (ΠΟΘΕΝ;) βοϊ γὰρ λόγον οὐ πόρε φύτλη
Οὐδὲ λάλον μόσχῳ "Απιδι στόμα· ἀλλὰ, κ. τ. λ.
Nam ita legit Henricus Stephanus.

« Sed in his omnibus locis πόθεν mihi videtur esse non οὐδαμῶς, sed, Unde hoc? Quidni? Cur ita hoc evenit?" S. Seyer. Resp. Si Latine reddere voluissem, in promtu erat, Qui potuere? sed nibil melius HESYCHII interpretatione, Пóbev; ΟΥΔΑΜΩΣ μεθ ̓ ὑποκρίσεως.

PROLOGUE

TO THE ANDRIA OF TERENCE;

PERFORMED AT WESTMINSTER SCHOOL, DEC. 1825.

DUNLOP.

Salvete! nobis benevoli et Terentio!
Quoscunque, Elizæ rite servantes fidem,
Juvat vetustis interesse lusibus.

Atqui (fatemur) nonnihil veriti sumus,
Ne, quod placere cæteris accepimus,
Et vos, scientioris alicujus gregem,
Alibi teneret forsitan Prælectio.

Nam crescit isthæc indies opinio,
Errasse totâ huc usque Majores viâ :
"Jam tempus adfert (clamitant) mores novos ;
Aliamque rerum postulat scientiam!"

Musæ videtis quam gravi in periculo
Versentur ut per vim atque contumeliam
Ubique notis exuuntur sedibus!

At nosmet istud erimus auctores mali?
Saltem hic, precamur, integrum cultum sui,
Normamque literata, non operaria,
Servaverit Minerva! Nos scientiam,
Haudquaquam omissis cæteris, unam tamen
Habuimus olim, et nunc habemus maxumam,
Se quisque ut ipsum noscat: isto scilicet
Pacto arbitrantes optume ac facillume
Institui ad omnia posse vitæ munia.

Hoc, usa Græcis semper exemplaribus,
Veri atque Honesti consecratis fontibus,

Consueta nobis præstat Institutio :
Hoc universis civibus prodest magis;
Auget, tuetur, servat hoc Rempublicam.
Quod restat, advortatis huc animos velim :
Hâc nocte saltem doctus attentis dabit
Prælectionem, si placet, Terentius.

EPILOGUE.

CRITO, solus.

Demiror nusquamne mihi caupona? columnæ
Herculeæ hâc steterant, si memini, plateâ ;

Ne plus ultra olim peregrino—

(Prodit DAVUS.) Oh! Dave! quid istuc

D. Urbana reperta

Ornati est ? D. Dî me denique respiciunt.
Quid tibi vero agitur? C. Cauponam quærito ubique.
D. Cauponam dixti, sordide? plaude tibi,
In me qui incideris. C. Qui tandem ?
Quippe a me disces: vilia vulgus amet;
Privata ingenuis hodie vivaria. C. Novi:
Sancti Jacobi qualia vicus habet;

Res ubi civiles agitant. D. Propria, obsecro, soli
Ista Senatores semper habere velint?

Nonne alios, vivunt quotcunque, domique suique
Pertæsum est? parilem hi jure merentur opem.
Ergo ausculta. Homines chartas consumere nati
Foedere communi mille coire solent:

Excipit hos grandis, vastæque innixa culinæ,
Atque instructa omni commoditate domus.
Delecti e numero, rerum quos et patinarum est,
Nullo permisso vindice, summa penès.

Est quoque Curator scitissimus-hoc ego fungor
Munere.-C. Curator tune vocaris?-D. Ita est.
Qui servus fueram, servis nunc impero : nullus
Segnitiæ locus hic: dux ego, quicquid agunt.
Solus et annonam, impensas, rescripta, tributum,
Procuro.-C. Qui sis, jam bene notus eris.
D. Qui grege de nullo fuerit, contemptus et exlex
(Prodit PAMPHILUS.)
Omnino.-C. Quisnam hic? Pamphile, tune foris ?
Tam cito quò properas?—P. Ad conciliabula nostra ;
Ut soleo.-C. Hui! nec te jam nova nupta tenet ?

P. A mensa atque toro possim divortia ferre ;

A mensâ et chartâ stat mihi nulla pati.

C. Dî magni atque Deæ! at, nuptis tam barbara passis,
Quid tandem innuptis fiet amabilibus?

D. Actum aiunt secum; et pejori lege queruntur
Conjungi Monachos in sua jura novos.

C. Inventum inventorum hoc est; hoc jam omnia vincit.
P. Immò; vivendi hæc unica causa venit.
Non hodie inservit miles, neque navita honori;
Mercatorve lucro: majus utrique bonum est.
Quis penitus Rerum Naturam exquirere vellet,
Ni data Athenæi festa, epulæque, forent?
Nemo Orientalis, nemo est Academicus, Alpes
Nemo peregrinans transit in Italiam,

Hanc qui non requiem poscat sibi. Commoda nescis,
Mille voluptates, deliciasque loci.

Quin referam―ante focum lecti mollissima pluma,
Quali olim haud fultus Sardanapalus erat.
Membra reclinatus, cubitisque utrinque levatis,
Oscito, dormito--nam sibi quisque vacat.
Nunc hos, nunc illos leviter percurrere libros,
Fabellam, vitam, drama, poëmation,
Censurasve juvat; narrare, audire vicissim,
Contineant chartæ quicquid in urbe novi.
D. Tum vero patulam semper servare fenestram
Lecta cohors. P. Multum hinc plebis in ora jocor.

At notos-nutu-nictu-risuve saluto:

Reddere personæ congrua cuique meum est.

Lux hæc inter abit :-quinta dein scribitur hora
Passim unus labor hic sollicitat placidos.

"Nulla dies nobis sine litera." C. At, oro, paratus
Qualis sit cœnæ? P. Protinus ista peto.
Symposium en! lautum―tecti in penetralibus altis
Bis senos, ut par, mensa rotunda capit.

Rarius hoc conclave patens plerumque subimus;
Inspicit hic chartam quisque, legitque locum.
Tum præsto aut carnis solidæ repetita voluptas
Ad libitum; aut uni portio sufficiens.
Insuper et vini per sobria pôcla, triental

Ebiberit. C. Parce permodiceque tuus.
P. Sane-sed laquear, lychni, et pretiosa supellex
(Non sua, confiteor, non aliena tamen)

Vel Regem efficiunt-nulla et mercede ministri

Donandi. C. Laudo hoc-optima conditio est. Quin me duc; nam tecum hodie cœnare-D. Quid, audax,

Inceptas? umbris accubuisse nefas.

P. Quod licet, inspexisse dabo, et per singula ducam ;
Arcetur dapibus turba profana. C. Grave est.
D. Multa prius cura-ora-ambi-suffragia capta :
Qui te proponat, quique secundet, opus.
Fecerit arbitrium de te tandem urna; periclum
Magnum hoc-exsiliat calculus ater, abis!
C. Non Cereris, Bacchique mihi mysteria tanti.
P. Quin abeo-infelix, atque profane, vale-

[Exeunt PAM. et Dav.
C. Haud inventa tamen nostratibus ulla novabunt
Ingenium, hospitibus semper, ut ante, ferum.
Ad vos confugio-securus quippe repulsæ est,
Qui vestram implorat pauper et hospes open.

ORIGINES;

Or, Remarks on the Origin of several States, Empires, and Cities. BY SIR W. DRUMMOND. 8vo.

AFTER a careful perusal of this learned and elaborate work on Chronology and History, the following remarks occurred to me as perhaps calculated to be useful in the investigations which form the subject of Sir W. Drummond's researches.

Ancient Chronology is a subject from which the learned turn away with dread, and the unlearned, either with contempt, or with full satisfaction in whatever one book they have selected as their oracle. The number of those who, by having made themselves acquainted with the existing differences of opinion on this subject, and the hinges on which the controversies turn, are competent to form a judgment on Ancient Chronology, is exceedingly small. It has not fallen to my lot to meet with even one person acquainted with the principia of the subject; neither do I profess myself to have done more than reduce to short tables, and so bring before the eye, the systems of Usher, Newton, Jackson, Hales and Faber.

In the present age, the old maxim, Omne ignotum pro magnifico, no longer holds good; but, on the contrary, the levelling principle proclaims, to the great satisfaction of the oi Toddol, Omne ignotum pro inutili; and therefore, now if ever, the la

borious chronologist may expect that his labors will be misapprehended by ignorance and aspersed by envy and self-suffici

ency.

age

There is also another discouragement, which I am not aware has been clearly stated. The judgment of sensible men is like a pair of scales: it weighs the pros and cons and decides by their preponderation. Horace possessed this judgment when he pronounced, Non ego paucis offendar maculis; and Sir Isaac Newton, after having perused the commentators on the Prophecies, observed, "Amongst the interpreters of the last there is scarce one of note, who hath not made some discovery worth knowing; and thence I seem to gather that God is about opening these mysteries," (Observations on the Prophecies, p. 253.) And Mr. Waple exhibited this accurate and impartial judgment, when he observed, that "the many errors and divisions which sprung up with the reformation, plainly prove, that there were many tares mixed with it; but which God hath been pleased to make use of to many good ends; there being scarce any erroneous persuasion in religion, which hath not some truth mixed with it; and which was not occasioned by some neglect in the church, which God, by those extremes punishes them for, and calls on them to reform," (Waple on Revel. x. 6, 7.)

But perhaps the finest example of impartial and sound judgment is that displayed by Bishop Burnet in his exposition of the 17th Article of the Church. Sound judgment finds pearls in rubbish; unsound judgment finds rubbish in pearls; sound judgment discriminates and sums up; unsound judgment confounds and decides by ex-parte evidence. The views which are sometimes taken of such great works as this of Sir W. Drummond, frequently remind me of the fable of Momus and Venus.

But let this great investigator proceed: I observe much in his work of very great importance; and I offer the following remarks with diffidence, though not without hope that they may be useful.

The first thought then that struck me, was that a system of ancient chronology may be compared to the old woman's fagot, which she endeavored to break without advice and without assistance. It then occurred to me that if a stick could be taken out of the said fagot and your learned correspondents would favor the public with their joint exertions, this stick might be broken, and perhaps, in the end, the whole fagot surmounted.

Permit me then to select such a question as, if decided, may be of great importance not only in itself, but ultimately in relation to other questions. This question is one which I have