Subjectum, stragemque suam, mæsta arva, minaci Hinc infame loci nomen, multosque per annos 40 45 Montis adhuc facies manet hirta atque aspera saxis: Sed furor extinctus jamdudum, et flamma quievit, 50 Quæ nascenti aderat; seu fortè bituminis atri Defluxere olìm rivi, atque effœta lacuna Raro per clivos haud secius ordine vidi 55 NOTES. - Ver. 41. Antiqua] "Res antiquæ laudis," Virg. Georg. ii. 174. Ver. 43. Carmine] "Matutini cantus," n. viii. 456. Milton's Par. Lost, v. 7. i. 28. Ver. 56. Sparsos] "Sparsosque recolligit ignes," Lucan. i. 157. et flammam colligit ignis," Sil. Ital. iv. 307. Ver. 58. Canescentem] "Foetum canentis olivæ," Ov. Met. vi. 81. "Dum tacitas vires, Bacchus in assuetis tenerum caput exerit arvis 60 NOTES. Ver. 60. Caput] "Jam modò cœruleo nitidum caput exsere ponto," Ov. Met. xiii. 838. And Fast, i. 458. Ver. 61. Audet] "Pennis ausus se credere cœlo," Virg. Æn. vi. 15. VOL. 1. 2 F A FAREWELL TO FLORENCE. (See Mason's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 157.) **Он Fæsulæ amœna Frigoribus juga, nec nimiùm spirantibus auris! NOTES. Ver. 1. Fasula] In Sil. Italicus, Pun. viii. 478, the second syllable of this word is short: “Fæsula, et antiquus Romanis mœnibus horror." Polybius also (lib. ii. cap. 9,) writes Paicona. In other authors, as Appian. Civ. Bell. ii. c. 2. Dion. xxxvii. it is written ouλał, which appears to be the more ancient orthography. See Cluver. Ital. Antiq. vol. i. p. 509. Ver. 5. Non ego] "Non ego vos posthac, viridi projectus in antro, Dumosâ pendere procul de rupe videbo." Virg. Ecl. i. 76. Ver. 7. Villarum] "Conspicitur nitidis fundata pecunia villis," Hor. Ep. I. xv. 46. "Superni villa candens Tusculi," Epod. i. 29. "Candida qua geminas ostendunt culmina turres," Propert. Eleg. iii. xvi. 3. Antiquamve Ædem, et veteres præferre Cupressus NOTES. Ver. 8. Præferre] " Præferimus manibus vittas," Æn. vii. 237. "Talia despectant longo per cœrula tractu Pendentes saxis instanti culmine, villa." Ausonii Mosell. ver. 283. IMITATION OF AN ITALIAN SONNET OF SIGNIOR ABBATE BUONDELMONTE. (See Mason's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 158.) SPESSO Amor sotto la forma LUSIT amicitiæ interdum velatus amictu, NOTES. Ver. 1. Velatus] "Ut mihi prætextæ pudor exvelatus amictu," Propert. III. xxiii. 3. Ver. 2. Compositá] "At me compositâ pace fefellit amor," Propert. El. II. ii. 6. "Cum bene compositis," Manil. iv. 58. Ver. 1. Amicitia] "Intrat amicitiæ nomine, tectus Amor," Ovid. Ar. Am. i. 720. |