179^* tytier's callimachus^ a"! 



To the Editor of the Bee. 



SIR, 

 Frankly acknowledging the decided fuperioiity of the Englifli 

 nation over the iicots ever fince the age of Buchanan, in erudi- 

 tion, in claffical tafte, and in all the departments of laborious 

 inveftigation, I beg leave, through the medium of your refpec- 

 table Mifcellany, to recommend to the attention of that furpaf- 

 fing and generous nation, the undertaking of Dr Tytler, of 

 Brechin, to put the works of Callimachus in an Englifli 

 drefs, with the tafte and Ipirit of the original, and to exhibit 

 the firft fpecimen of fo great a claffical work attempted in 

 Scotland, of which 1 take the liberty of communicating two of 

 the Epigrams, which have been handed to me by the author. 

 J am, Sir, &c. 



Albanicus. 



epigram xxii. being callimachus's own epitaph. 



Whoe'er with hallow'd feet approaches near, 

 Behold Callimachus lies buried here, 

 I drew my birth from fam'd Gyrene's fliore. 

 And the fame name my fon and father bore. 

 My warlike fire, in arms, much glory won. 

 But brighter trophies gracM his favour'd fon ; 

 Lov'd by the tuneful nine he fweetly fung, 

 x\nd flopt the venom of th' invidious tongue : 

 For whom the Mufe beholds, with fav'ring eyes. 

 In early youth, ihall ne'er in age defpife. 



EPIGRAJM XXIV. 



Cleombrotus, high on a rock 



Above Ambracia flood, 

 Bade Sol adieu, and as he fpoke 



Plung'd headlong in the flood. 

 From no mifchance the leap he took, 



But fought the realms beneath ; 

 Becaufe he read in Plato's book 



That fouls live sfter death. 



