I. COLLEGII S.S. TRINITATIS LAVDATIO POSTCENALIS, 1890, 1921. NOSTIS ubi murmurant arbores palumbo? nostis ubi pellibus fumigans recumbo? nostis Cantabrigiae decus, uoluptatem, lumen orbis totius? nostis Trinitatem. Vniuersitatium uniuersitatem summis effer laudibus nostram Trinitatem! Huc docendi coeunt iuuenes sescenti; hic doctrinam imbibunt studio dementi! pars scriptorum ueterum opera scrutatur: pars, uagans in gramine, stellas contemplatur! Vniuersitatium, etc. Meliores unde sunt uates, oratores? physici, philosophi difficiliores ? NEWTON ipse, speculans in immensitate, 'Nihil' inquit 'uideo maius Trinitate!' Vniuersitatium, etc. Nos inanes glorias uolumus refelli. BACON noster non eget laudibus Donnelli. Qui Baconem maximum credidit-poetam, is cum uacca lacteum comparet cometam! Vniuersitatium, etc. Audio Laurentium secum conquerentem: "Num feremus feminam ius uirum petentem? caelebs uiuat Trinitas: numquam hic uersetur tutrix cum infantibus nec 'perambulator'!" Vniuersitatium, etc. II. LIVERPVLIENSIVM CARMEN ACADEMICVM, 1921. Messes iactent alii aut aprica rura: bona mundi huc fluunt, mundo profutura. aquis loca colimus auris opportuna; alienis solibus nostra praestat luna. Liuerpuliensium Nos illustrat munerans architectos Roma, omne notum Tropicis febrium symptoma, mira semper machinans Fabrum officina, dentium curatio, mulomedicina. Liuerpuliensium Regnet hic Scientia, ars sequatur artem; tutans sese Pietas tristem pellat Martem. uirum laudes uirgines sane aemulentur, animisque mutuis ament, redamentur. tu si nescis, aduena, Athla ludi roborent mores membra mentes; 'Sphinx' iocosa iactitet griphos innocentes. Professores, uulgo 'Profs,' praelegant pudenter; cum Decanis Praesides imperent prudenter. Liuerpuliensium Vniuersitatem tu si nescis, aduena, nescis dignitatem. Iuniorum studia prouocent priores, claritate posteris nihilo minores: Rendall, Muir, Lodge, Sherrington, Herdman, Dale, Adami, arboris praediuitis eminentes rami. Liuerpuliensium Vniuersitatem ni iam laudas, aduena, nescis ueritatem. P. 99, 1, 1. 10. 'Seek thy gore' (not in the first draft) is no concession to rhyme, but an attempt to represent Horace's apparently playful frangere 'crunch' or 'scraunch.' P. 105, 5. The translation of the second couplet I owe in great part to my lamented friend and colleague, Dr A. W. Verrall. P. 123, 18 ad fin. 'marinum' may be taken as the genitive plural. P. 125, 20, l. 12. 'Ceres,' 'a field of Ceres' Milton, is printed with a small initial capital to indicate that in sense it is intermediate between a proper and a common name. Compare the remarks 'On 'Common' and 'Proper' Names in one' in my Preface to Bréal's Semantics (English edition), pp. xxxvii sq., Ovid Met. 14. 580 ARDEA there quoted, and Lucretius 2. 652 sqq. Other examples in nos. 43 (9), 44 (5), 52 (Camena), 54 (15), 57 (6), 58 (fin.). P. 128, 23. These lines are printed as they stand in Holden's Folia Silvulae (1870), p. 466. P. 145, 36, 1. 5. nimio' is from Lucretius (v. 564, 988). P. 155, 43, l. 5. 'uolucris' of an insect, Phaedrus v. 3. 3. Ib. 44, l. 4. Latin requires the transformation and expansion of the English to bring it into relation with actuality. For a still more striking example see no. 58, I, 2. P. 157, 46, 1. 10. Suggested by Propertius III. 18. 34 'et qua | Caesar ab humana cessit in astra uia' (MSS). P. 175, 63 (i). For the repeated cu-cu cp. Plautus Rud. 528 sqq. (Sonnenschein). P. 177, 64. This rendering of the National Anthem was made in 1902 for the coronation of his late Majesty King Edward VII. The English, which differs in some respects from the current version, was constructed by the late W. G. Headlam from the materials in Dr W. H. Cummings' book 'God Save the King.’ Pp. 199 foll. Latin Addresses. I. The second paragraph commemorates James Henry, M.D., the author of Aeneidea, who left a considerable sum for the free distribution of this work among classical scholars. II (p. 200). The proverb referred to is 'Col mondo tutto guerra | E pace con Inghilterra.' III (p. 202). The quotation is from Aeschylus Eumenides 919 sqq. IV (p. 203). The allusions are to Rudyard Kipling's 'Lest we forget' and Scott's Caledonia stern and wild,' to the 'Waters of Leith' (Edinburgh and Dunedin), the finds of gold in Otago, the patriotic response of the University in the War, its distinguished Medical School, and its Faculty of Home Science.' Ρ. 204, 1. 12. κἂν θανάτῳ originally καὶ θανάτῳ. Modern Latin Verse (pp. 205 sq.). In I the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy and Mr Donnelly's 'cryptogram' are alluded to. 'Laurentius' is Mr R. V. Laurence, a Fellow of Trinity and a protagonist in the recent struggle over the admission of women to the University. In the last stanza uersator' (imper.) may be read by those who prefer an eyerhyme or the unreformed pronunciation. In II are allusions to the successes of the School of Architecture in the competitions for the 'Prix de Rome,' the famous School of Tropical Medicine, to the Schools of Engineering, Dental and Veterinary Medicine. The 'Sphinx' is the Liverpool University Magazine. |