The classical beauty of these lines induced me, in 

 the year 1828, to have them in graved in golden let- 

 ters upon black marble, and placed upon one of our 

 bath-houses (the Muhlbrunn). In order to illustrate 

 that simple and honourable monument, erected at 

 public expenses, I published the Life of the poet, a 

 commentary and numerous translations of the Ode, 

 runder the title : Ode latine sur Carlsbad, composee, 

 vers la fin du quinxieme siecle, par le baron Bohuslas 

 Hassenstein ( 3 ) de Lobkowitx , avec une polyglotte, 

 une notice biographique stir ce poete, des observa- 

 tions sur I' Ode, el sur I'antiquite de ces thermes. 

 Prague, 1829. 



Those versions increasing annually, their collec- 

 tion has acquired some philological worth, and inte- 

 rested the innumerable scholars of all nations, who 

 render Carlsbad a living polyglot. For the present 

 work I shall only select an english version, written 

 last year by a Noble Peer, whose poetical talent was 

 animated by his high opinion of the 'salutary effects 

 of our springs; a gaelic one, particularly admired by 

 several good judges of Ossian's tongue , and a tur- 

 kish one, composed by a student (since 1835 doctor) 

 of medecine, son of a citizen of Carlsbad, a real 

 (XWodidaxTog , whose two versions (I publish only 

 one here) have deserved the full approbation and 

 admiration of the first orientalist of the Austrian 

 dominions f 4 ). 



