Δ'.

Τῆς αὐτῆς.

Ερως δ' αυτέ μ' ὁ λυσιμελὴς 'δονες
Γλυκύπικρον ἀμάχανον ὄρπετον.
Ατθὶς σοὶ δ ̓ ἐμέθεν μὴ απήχθετο,
Φροντὶς δ ̓ ἐν ὅπὶ δ' Ανδρομέδαν ποτέ.

Εἰ τοῖς ἄνθεσιν ἤθελεν ὁ Ζεὺς ἔλθεῖναι βασιλέα, τὸ ῥόδον ἂν * ανθέων ἐβασίλευε.

او

Γῆς

* This Ode was written by Sappho upon two favouFite Maids, of whom she was jealous.

VER. 1. Dire Love, fweet-bitter Bird of Prey.] See the Remarks on the 3 3d Ode of Anacreon.

+ We

IV.

*BY THE SAME.

DIRE Love, fweet-bitter Bird of Prey!

Whom nothing can controul,

Ah me! diffolves my Life away,
And melts my inmoft Soul.

The charming Atthis, who fo late
To Sappho vow'd her Care;
Now makes Andromeda her Fate,
And leaves me to despair.

V.

ON THE ROSE.

WOULD Jove a Queen of Flow'rs ordain,
The Rofe the Queen of Flow'rs fhould reign.

The

+ We are oblig'd to Achilles Tatius for the Preferva-
tion of this Elogy on the Rofe. Clitophon (in that Ro-
mancer) tells us it was fung by his Mistress at an Enter-
tainment.

VIR. 5.

Τῆς ἔξι κόσμΘ, φυτῶν ἀγλάϊσμα, ὀφθαλ μὸς ἀνθέων, λειμῶνΘ. ἐρύθημα, κάλλο ἀτράπτον. ΕρωτΘ. πνέει, Αφροδίτίω προ ξενε, οειδέσι φύλλοις κομᾷ, οὐκινήτοις πε τάλοις τρυφᾷ τὸ πέταλον τῷ Ζεφύρῳ γε λα..

Της αυτης.

Ελθε, Κύπρο, χρυσείαισιν ἐν κυλίκεσ σιν ἁβροῖς συμμεμιγμλύον θαλίαισε· νέκ

τας.

V.ER. 5. Her Sweets the Breath of Love disclose.] Philoftratus, in his Firft Epiftle, has the following Paffage. Οπως τα ρόδα ΕρωτΘ φυτὰ· κὶ γ νέα ὡς ἐκεῖνΘ, καὶ ὑγρὰ ὡς αὐτὸς ὁ Ἔρως, καὶ χρυσοκομέσιν άμφω.. αὶ τ' ἀλλ ̓ αὐτοῖς ὅμοια· τὰ ῥόδα ἢ ἀκανθαν ἀντὶ βελῶν ἔχει τὸ πυρὶν ἀντὶ δάδων· τοῖς φύλλοις ἐπε τέρωται· χρόνον ἢ ἔτε Ἔρως, ἔτε ῥόδα οἶδεν. ἐχθρὸς Σὲ ὁ Θεὸς καὶ τῇ κάλλος ὀπώρᾳ καὶ τῇ ῥόδων ἐπιδημία.

σε The

The Grace of Plants! the Pride of Bow'rs!
The Blush of Meads! the Eye of Flow'rs!
Her Sweets the Breath of Love disclose,

Cythera's fav'rite Bloom the glows!

: What Flow'r is half fo lovely found,
As when with full-blown Beauties crown'd,
The Rofe each ravish'd Senfe beguiles,
And on foft am'rous Zephyr fmiles?

VI.

BY THE SAM E.

BEAUTY's Goddefs, Oh defcend!

And our Social Joys attend.

Let

"The Rofe is properly Love's Flower, youthful and "delicate like him; they are both Golden-hair'd: The "Refemblance alfo holds in other Particulars; her "Prickles answer his Arrows, her Colour his Flame, " and her Leaves his Wings, &c.

See the Remarks on the 5th and 53d Odes of Ana

ταρ οἰνοχοῦσα τέτοισι τοῖς ἑταίροις ἐμοῖς γι

καὶ σοῖς.

As Sappho in this Fragment defires Venus to be her Cup-bearer, fo Anacreon propofes the fame Office for Cupid. See his Fourth Ode.

ΤΗΣ