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face of the sea, as the same name, Matpa, expresses the sparkling dog-star 

 Sirius ? 



f 9 ) p. 8. Compare Jacobs, Leben und Kunst der Alten, i. Abth. i. S. vii. 



(W) p . 9. mas, viii. 5^5559; iv. 452455; xi. 115199. Com- 

 pare also the accumulated but animated descriptions taken from the animal 

 world which precede the review of the army, ii. 458475. 



() p. 10. Od. xk. 431445; vi. 290; ix. 115199. Compare the 

 "verdant overshadowing grove" near Calypso's cave, " where an immortal 

 might linger with admiration, and gaze with cordial delight," v. 55 73 ; the 

 breakers at the Pheacian Islands, v. 400 442 ; and the gardens of Alcinous, 

 vii 113 130. On the vernal dithyrambus of Pindar, see Bo'ckh, Pindari 

 Opera, T. ii. P. ii. p. 575-579. 



( 12 ) p. 11. (Ed. Kolon, v. 668 719. Amongst descriptions of scenery 

 disclosing a deep feeling for nature, I would instance those of Cithseron, 

 in the Bacchse of Euripides, v. 1045, when the messenger emerges from the 

 valley of Asopos (see Leake, Northern Greece, Vol. ii. p. 370) ; of the sunrise 

 in the Delphic valley, in the Ion of Euripides, v. 82 ; and the picture, in 

 gloomy colours, of the aspect of the sacred Delos, " surrounded by hovering 

 sea-gulls, and scourged by the stormy waves" in Callimachus, in the Hymn 

 on Delos, v. 11. 



( 13 ) p. 11. According to Strabo (Lib. viii. p. 366, Casaub.), where he 

 accuses the tragedian of giving to Elis a boundary geographically incorrect. 

 This fine passage of Euripides is from the Cresphontes. The description of 

 the excellence of the country of Messenia is closely connected with the expo- 

 lition of political circumstances (the division of the territory among the 

 Heraclides). Here, therefore, as Bockh has well remarked, the description of 

 nature is connected with human afiairs. 



( 14 ) p. 13. Meleagri Reliquiae, ed. Manso, p. 5. Compare Jacobs, Leben 

 und Kunst der Alten, Bd. i. Abth. i. S. xv. ; Abth. ii. S. 150190. Zeno- 

 betti, in the middle of the eighteenth century, supposed himself the first 

 discoverer of Meleager's poem on the Spring (Mel. Gadareni in Ver Idyllion, 

 1759, p. 5). See Brunckii Anal. T. iii. p. 105. There are two fine sylvan 

 poems by Marianos in the Anthol. Grseca, ii. 511 and 512. Meleager's 

 poetry is strongly contrasted with the praises of spring in the Eclogues of 

 Ilimerius, a sophist and teacher of rhetoric in Athens under Julian. Ths 

 etyle of Himerius is generally ornate and cold, but in particular parts, and 

 especially in his form of description, he sometimes comes very near the modern 

 manner of contemplating the universe. Himerii Sophistse Eclogse et Decla- 



