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As thoic wast, breathing Ladas, jieeing from the wind swift 



Thymus, 07i the top of the breeze placing thy foot, 

 Such 3fyron cast thee in bronze, stamping upon all 



Thy body the expectation of the Piscean crown. 

 Full of hope is he, and on the tip of his lips the panting breath 



Shows itself from the hollow flanks within. 

 Soon the bronze shall leap for the crown, nor shall withhold it 



The pedestal ; art, swifter than the breeze ! 



" The commentators have found some difficulty in understanding the 

 words liT aKpoTUTco TTvev/xaTi 3e\s ovvxa, ' placing thy foot upon the top 

 of the breeze ' ; but they describe exactly the attitude of John of Bo- 

 logna's Mercury, a well-known work of art, which furnishes the best 

 commentary on the passage in question. 



" Among the Roman poets Ladas is alluded to once by Catullus, twice 

 by Martial, and once by Juvenal ; Pausanius, the Greek travellei:, 

 mentions him three times. In Lib. ii. 19. 7, he speaks of a statue of 

 Ladas in the temple of Lycian Apollo at Argos ; in Lib. iii. 21. 1, he 

 mentions the monument of Ladas on the bank of the Eurotas, a short 

 distance out of Sparta ; and in Lib. viii. 12. 3, he states that on the 

 road leading from Mantmea to Orchomenos, there was a place called the 

 stadiam of Ladas, because Ladas used to exercise himself thei'e as a 

 preparation for the Olympic games." 



Rev. N. L. Frothingham said : — 



" It is with great diffidence that I venture to add anything to 

 what my learned friend has just offered to the notice of the Acad- 

 emy. But I am very much struck with the coincidence of thought 

 between the fine passage which he has restored to Greek literature 

 and a verse in one of the Hebrew Psalms. That verse is rendered 

 so incorrectly in our received English translation, that the paral- 

 lelism does not appear. But it will be brought out, if we read the 

 whole context thus, as it ought to be read : ' Except the Lord build the 

 house, they labor in vain that build it; except the Lord keep the 

 city, the watchman waketh but in vain ; in vain for you to rise up early, 

 to sit up late, to eat the bread of anxiety, while he giveth to his beloved 

 •when they are asleep.' Now, if, instead of the word Fortune, — Tvxr] 

 I think it is m the Greek sentence, — we should substitute some such 

 expression as Divine Providence, the sentiment would correspond per- 



