NOTES. V 



Trist. Lib. i. El. 3, 60, lib. iii. El. 4, 49, El. 12, 15. Ex Ponto, Lib. iii. 

 Ep. 7 9. Ross has remarked, as being one of the rarely occurring instances 

 of individual pictures relating to a determinate locality, the pleasing descrip- 

 tion of a fountain on Mount Hymettus, beginning, " Est prope purpureos 

 colles florentis Hymetti" (Ovid de Arte Am. iii. 687). The poet is describing 

 the fountain of Kallia, celebrated in antiquity, and consecrated to Aphrodite, 

 which issues forth on the western side of Hymettus, which is otherwise very 

 deficient in waters (see Ross, Letter to Professor Vuros, in the griech. 

 medicin. Zeitschrift, June 1837.) 



(31) p> 20. TibuUus, ed. Voss, 1811, Eleg. Lib. i 6, 2134; Lib. ii. 1, 

 3766. 



( 32 ) p. 20, Lucan, Phars. iii. 400452 (Vol. i. p. 374384, Weber.) 



(33) p> 20. Kosmos, Ed. i. S. 298 (English edit. Vol. i. p. 273). 



(?) p, 21, Idem. S. 455 (English edit. p. 436). The poem of Lucilius. 

 entitled ^Etna, is very probably part of a longer poem on the remarkable 

 natural objects of the island of Sicily, and is ascribed by Wernsdorf U 

 Cornelius Severus. I would refer to some passages deserving of particulai 

 attention : to the praises of general knowledge of nature considered as " the 

 fruits of the mind," v. 270280; the lava currents, v. 360370 and 

 474 515 ; the eruptions of water at the foot of the volcano (?) v. 395 ; the 

 formation of pumice, v. 425 (p. xvi. xx. 32, 42, 46, 50, and 55, ed. Jacob. 

 1826). 



(3 s ) p. 21. Decii Magni Ausonii Mosella, v. 189199 (p. 15 and 44, 

 Booking.) Consult also v. 85150 (p. 912), the notice of the fish of the 

 Moselle, which is not unimportant as regards natural history, and has been 

 made use of by Valenciennes , and a pendant to Oppian (Bernhardy, griech. 

 Litt. Th. ii. S. 1049). The Orthinogonia and Theriaca of ^Emilius Macer of 

 Verona, which were imitated from the works of the Colophonian Nicander, 

 and which have not come down to us, also belonged to the same dry didactic 

 class of poems treating of natural productions. A natural description ot the 

 south coast of Gaul, contained in a poem by Claudius Rutilius Numatianus, a 

 statesman under Honorius, is more attractive than the Mosella of Ausonius 

 Rutilius, driven from Rome by the irruption of the Barbarians, is returning to 

 his estates in Gaul. Unfortunately we possess only a fragment of the second 

 book of the poem which gives a narrative of his travels ; and this leaves off 

 at the quarries of Carrara. Vide Rutilii Claudii Numatiani de Reditu suo (e 

 Kama in Galliam Narbonensem) libri duo, rec. A.W. Zumpt, 1840. p. xv. 31, 



