Hero and Leander. A tale of love / Translated from ... Musaeus. With other poems [by the translator] By Francis Adam [i.e. Adams].

  • Musaeus, Grammaticus
Date:
1821
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Credit: Hero and Leander. A tale of love / Translated from ... Musaeus. With other poems [by the translator] By Francis Adam [i.e. Adams]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    presided over the moon. He was destined, by the fates, to lie asleep, for ages, on the top of mount Latmos, whither the chaste Cynthe descended every evening, to visit him in his lonely bower. His tale is briefly re¬ lated by Theocritus. t/j ijvj I oiiyi 'ZiXctvei B&'xoAsovTflt (PiXctiriv utt* OvXvf^Tro) (AoXctcrct ayvuTTOs s?yS'£, x-xi «5 svx xciBiv^s •X_THE REWARD OF GENIUS. I thinh it but fair to acknowledge, that this piece is not altogether original, but was suggested by the lines which I am about to quote from the Satiricon of the gay, the plaintive, the learned, the profligate Petronius, whose dissolute life and magnanimous death are so ad¬ mirably delineated by Tacitus. Let not my morals be suspected, if I recommend this singular performance to the attention of every classical scholar; who will find that what is good in it is so exquisite, that it will alFord him the highest gratification, and that what is bad is so abominable, that it cannot corrupt him. Qui pelago credit, magno se foenere tollit, Qiii pugnas et castra petit praecingitur auro; Vilis adulator picto jacet ebrius ostro, Et qui solicitat npptas ad premia peccat: Sola pruinosis liorret facundia pannis, Atque inopi lingu^ desertas invocat artes.