Jo. Gagnierii Ecloga in laudem Principis Walliæ. Oratio in solemni Inauguratione Emulæ 'Latina Societatis Critique on Dan's Temora, sh owing its great resemblance to the Poems of Homer, Virgil, and Milton. Part 1.. On the Clouds of Aristophanes. By Professor Voss of Heidelberg 276 among the Ruins of Cyretiæ Remarks on the Oriental MSS. in the Royal Library in Mu- nich, by Professor Franck. Part 1. Account of Particular Books, with the Prices affixed, sold by auction from the collection of the late Mr. Lunn, July, 1816, 343 .... 346 349 .. 350 ADVERSARIA LITERARIA, No. x.-Julii Phædri Fabulæ Novæ, Pars I.-Greek Ode by G. Downes.-Words in the Greek Testament formed from the Latin language.-Lines THE CLASSICAL JOURNAL. NO. XXVII. SEPTEMBER, 1816. CASSANDRA, Translated from the original Greek of Lycophron, and illustrated with Notes, by VISCOUNT ROYSTON. [Concluded from No. XXV. p. 32.] No more shall florish in his fostering hand 495 And quenched in night his ineffectual orbs. Three shall the woods of Cercaphus entomb Near Hales' stream; there shall the tuneful Swan Sing, falsely sing, what farrow shall produce 500 Death to the vanquished!-thus ordained the God. 495. Tymphrestus is a mountain of Trachis. 498. These three are, Calchas the prophet, Idomeneus, and Sthenelus, who were buried in the forests of Cercaphus, a mountain of Colophon, near the river Hales. Calchas was doomed by the oracles to die whenever he found one more skilful than himself in divination: he was surpassed in a contest with Mopsus the son of Apollo, who foretold the number of young with which a sow was pregnant, which problem Calchas was unable to resolve. 504. Minos, the son of Jupiter, begot Deucalion, the father of Idomeneus, who on his return to Crete, after the destruction of Troy, was driven from the island by Leucus, to whom he had entrusted the guardianship of his family. (See verse 1422.) The Scholiast is mistaken when he supposes NO. XXVII. VOL. XIV. Cl. JI. A Shall sleep inurned, whom fabling Ethon feigned The third, whose sire with more than mortal arm 505, 510 515 Two near the streams of Pyramus shall fall The sacred fillet shall be dyed in gore: I hear, beneath those towers where reigned the Queen, Daughter of Pamphylus, I hear the twain 520 Raise the last shout of battailous delight: I see Megarsus rising to the air Between their tombs, that in the jaws of Death, Purpled with blood, upon their hateful eyes * 525 Five to Sphecéa, to Cerastia's heights, Lycophron to say that Idomeneus wandered from Troy with Calchas; he merely asserts them to have both been buried upon the same mountain. 505. Ulysses, on his return to Ithaca, assumed the name of Ethon, and gave himself out as the son of Deucalion and brother of Idomeneus. Δεν καλίων δέ μ ̓ ἔτικτε, καὶ Ἰδομενῆς ἄνακτα, ̓Αλλ ̓ ὁ μὲν ἐν νήεσσι κορωνίσιν Ιλιον εἴσω Ὤιχετ ̓ ἅμ ̓ Ατρείδησιν, ἐμοὶ δ ̓ ὄνομα κλυτὸν Αἴθων. Hoм. Оd. T. 181. 507. Capaneus, the father of Sthenelus, was one of the seven chiefs who fought against Thebes; and while he boasted that he would take the city, even though the Gods should oppose him, he was blasted by the lightnings of Jupiter. Ἤδη δ ̓ ὑπερβαίνοντα γεῖσσα τειχέων EURIP. Phoeniss. 513. Eteocles, and Polynices, the sons of Edipus by his incestuous marriage with Jocasta. In the same manner Sophocles has called Edipus ἀδελφὸς αὐτὸς καὶ πατήρ. 516. Mopsus, and Amphilochus, both priests of Apollo, died of mutual wounds on the banks of Pyramus, a river of Cilicia, according to Hesychius. 522. Megarsus is a town of Cilicia, according to Pliny, (others make it a mountain); so called from Megarsus the daughter of Pamphylus, who gave his name to Pamphylia. The sepulchres in which the prophets were buried were situated on opposite sides of the city. 526. Teucer, Agapenor, Acamas, Praxander, and Cepheus took refuge in Cyprus, which was formerly called Sphecéa, or Cerastia, which latter name is by some derived from xépara, "horns," in allusion to the mountainous nature of the island: but according to others, Venus changed the To Satrachus shall steer, to Hyle's grove, There burn the incense, there with supple knees Adore Zerinthian Morpho, graceful queen. One, through whose veins my kindred blood shall flow, Ah, bitter kinsman! from Cychréan caves, 531 From streams of Bocarus shall fly; for Fame Shall style him Murderer of the maddening king, Shall pour his erring rage; whose sinewy strength 535 His brother, who on flocks and herded kine Circling enwraps; whom nought of keen can pierce The Scythian quiver, like an ample shield, Guards from the war: So prayed the chief, nor prayed 540 He poured the blood of victims on the earth, 545 inhabitants into bulls, in order to punish their inhumanity towards stran gers: Atque illos, gemino quondam quibus aspera cornu OVID. Metam. X. 222. 527. Satrachus was a city, and also a river, of Cyprus. Hyle took its name from a grove where Apollo was worshipped under the name of Trárns, or" sylvan." 529. Venus was called Morpho from her being the Goddess of Form and Beauty; and Zerinthian, from Zerinthus a cavern of Thrace, and which, according to Stephanus, is also the name of a town near Enus. Ovid places the Zerinthian shores by Samothrace: Venimus ad portus, Imbria terra, tuos ; OVID. Trist. I. 9. 530. Teucer was son of Telamon, and Hesione the sister of Priam, and consequently cousin to Cassandra. On his return from Troy to Salamis, he was driven into exile by his father, who imagined him to have betrayed the cause of his brother Ajax. (See Hor. Od. I. 7.) Salamis was formerly called Cychréa, according to Strabo: it contained a city of the same name, near to which flowed the river Bocarus, called afterwards Bocalias. 534. Ajax, in a fit of madness, destroyed a flock of sheep, thinking he revenged his wrongs upon the Atrida. When he regained his reason, he committed suicide. (See Sophocles, Ajax Flagell.) 540. Hercules visited the palace of Telamon while the latter was offering sacrifice, and presented the infant Ajax with the lion's skin, and prayed to Jupiter to make him invulnerable. 546. Ajax, whom Telamon never shall believe to have committed suicide. |