PROLEM Hippi et sua quâ meliorem secula nullum Quam, regum sobolem, nuptanı, matrem, atque sororem Fecerunt nulli sors titulique gravem. CECROPIDIS gravis hic ponor, Martique dicatus, FLORIBUS in pratis, legi quos ipse, coronam MUREM Asclepiades sub tecto ut vidit avarus, Mus blandum ridens, respondit, pelle timorem; SÆPE tuum in tumulum lacrymarum decidit imber Heu quam dura preces sprevit, quan surda querelas ARTI ignis lucem tribui, tamen artis et ignis. Gratia nulla hominum mentes tenet, ista Promethei ILLA triumphatrix Graiûm consueta procorum CRETHIDA fabellas dulces garrire peritam Quam tenet hic, cunctas quæ manet, alta quies. DICITE, Causidici, gelido nunc marmore magni Si forsan tumulum quo conditur Eumarus aufers EPICTETI ME, rex deorum, tuque, duc, necessitas, E THEOCRITO. POETA, lector, hic quiescit Hipponax, EUR. MED. 193-203. DD 2 Queis Queis tamen aptam ferre medelam Sat lætitiâ sine subsidiis, Pectora molli mulcet dubiæ Τοῖος Άρης βροτολοιγὸς ἐνὶ πολέμοισι μέμηνε · Και τοῖος, Παφίην πλῆξεν ἔρωτι Θεάν. The above is a Version of a Latin Epigram on the famous John Duke of Marlborough by the Abbé Salvini, which is as follows: Haud alio vultu, fremuit Mars acer in armis : Haud alio, Cypriam percurit ore Deam. The Duke was, it seems, remarkably handsome in his person, to which the second line has reference SEPTEM ÆTATES. PRIMA parit terras ætas, siccatque secunda, * HIS Tempelmanni numeris descripseris orbem, Cum sex centuriis Judæo millia septem. 2 Myrias Ægypto cessit bis septima pingui. Myrias adsciscit sibi nonagesima septem 4 Sortitur + Pelopis tellus quæ nomine gaudet. 4 4 Par *To the above Lines (which are unfinished, and can therefore be only offered as a fragment), in the Doctor's manuscript, are prefixed the words, "Geographia Metrica." As we are referred, in the first of the verses, to Templeman, for having furnished the numerical computations that are the subject of them, his work has been accordingly consulted, the title of which is, "A new Survey of the Globe," and which professes to give an accurate mensuration of all the empires, kingdoms, and other divisions thereof, in the square miles that they respectively contain. On comparison of the several numbers in these verses with those set down by Templeman, it appears that nearly half of them are precisely the same; the rest are not quite so exactly done.For the convenience of the Reader, it has been thought right to subjoin each number, as it stands in Templeman's works, to that in Dr. Johnson's verses which refers to it. In this first article that is versified, there is an accurate conformity in Dr. Johnson's number to Templeman's; who sets down the square miles of Palestine at 7,600. The square miles of Egypt are, in Templeman, 140,700. 3 The whole Turkish empire, in Templeman, is computed at 960,057 square miles. * In the four following articles, the numbers, in Templeman and |