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AROUND the Pyre of youthful Agathon,
All Abdera breath'd one univerfal Groan;

For

War deftroys not Cowards willingly, but the valiant. + All Abdera breath'd one univerfal Groan.] Abdera was a City of Thrace, and founded, as Herodotus tells

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us,

Οὔτινα ο τοιόνδε νέων ὁ φιλαίματΘ. Αρης Ἠνάρισε συγερῆς ἐν τροφάλι γι μάχης.

E Π Ι Γ Ρ. Γ ́.

Εἰς Κλεψορίδιο.

Και σε, Κλεωναρίδη, πόθο ὤλεσε πατρί δΘ αίης,

Θαρσήσαντα Νότε λαίλαπι χειμερίη. «Ωρη γδ σ ̓ ἐπέδησεν ανέγγυΘ. ὑγρὰ ἢ τίω στ Κύματ ̓ ἐφ ̓ ἱμερτω ἔκλυσεν ἡλικίων.

ΕΠΙΓΡ

us, by Timefius of Clazomene. The Teians, after their Expulfion from Ionia by Harpagus the General of Cyrus, fettled themselves there, and honour'd Timefius as a Heroe.

* This Clenorides, as Barnes obferves, feems to have been caft away in attempting a Voyage from Abdera to his Native Country Teos, in the Winter.

+ That

For never Mars amidst the Rage of War,
In Blood more noble dy'd his thirsty Spear.

EPIG R. III.

ON THE SON OF CLEANOR.

THEE, * Cleënorides! thy Country's Love
To rash Contempt of angry Notus drove :

+ That treach❜rous Seafon none should e'er confide, O'erwhelm'd thy Youth in the unpitying Tide.

EPIGR.

+ That treach' rous Seafon none should e'er confide.] Madam D'Acier remarks a peculiar Beauty in the Epithet dvify in the Original of this Line; Stephens has very well tranflated it, Nullo Sponfore cavenda. has expatiated upon the Thought,

Orta dies fuerat: tu define credere ventis ;

Ovid

Perdidit illius temporis aura fidem. Faftor. L. z..

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Ε Π Ι Γ Ρ. A'.

Εἰς τρεις Βάκχας.

Ἡ + θύρσον ἔχεσ ̓, Ελικωνιάς· ἡ ἢ παρ' αὐτὴν,
Ξανθίππη Γλαύκη δ', ἡ χεδὸν ἐρχομών.
Ἐξ ὄρεΘ χωρεῦσι, Διωνύσῳ ἢ φέρεσι
Κισσόν, η ταφυλίω, πίονα καὶ χίμαρον

Ε Π Ι Γ Ρ. Ε.

Εἰς των Μύρων βεν.

Βεκίλε, τὰν ἀγέλαν πόῤῥω νέμε· μὴ τὸ

Μύρων Θ.

Βοίδιον, ὡς ἔμπνεν, βεσὶ συνεξελάσης.

ΕΠΙΓΡ

This Epigram is a Poetical Explanation of a Picture representing three Bacche.

may

+ A Kid with Grapes and Ivy they convey.] Plutarch, defcribing one of the Feftivals of Bacchus, has a Paffage which ferve to illuftrate this of our Poet. ̓Αμφορος οἶνε καὶ κληματὶς, τα τράγον τις ἕλκεν· ἄλλο σ χάδων ἄῤῥιχον ἠκολέθει κομίζων. “ They carry'd Fla66 gons of Wine, with Fafces adorn'd with Fruits; one 6 led a He-Goat, and another follow'd with a Basket

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E PIG R. IV.

On a Picture reprefenting three Baccha.

THAT's Heliconias who the Thyrfis bears;
Next her Xanthippe, Glauca next appears.
See, o'er the Mountains, dancing all the way,
To Bacchus, ever young and ever gay,
+ A Kid with Grapes and Ivy they convey.

EPIG R..

* ON MYRON'S

V.

COW.

SWAIN with thy milky Care, these Meads forfake;

A diftant Pasture prove ::

Left Myron's for a living Cow you take,

And with the Herd remove...

EPIGR.

"of dry'd Figs." Madam D'Acier obferves, that the Grapes and Ivy mention'd by Anacreon, are exprefs'd by Plutarch in the Word κληματὶς, which was a Bundle of fmall Branches, wreath'd with Ivy, and garnish'd with all forts of Fruits. They fometimes carry'd a Horn instead of it, fill'd with all forts of Fruit, to represent the Horn of Plenty. Both of them were confecrated to Bacchus.

*

Myron was a Native of Eleutheris, and Difciple to
Agelades.

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