376 CANADA IN THE BODLEIAN. 



of the fair-flowing stream Canada, the oflfspriDs; of European men have 

 newly found an island of untold extent, a soil beloved of fishers, for 

 round it roars a sea especially abounding in fish." 



In the edition from which I have made the above extracts, the whole 

 of the Periegfsis, the continuation included, is accompanied by notes in 

 Latin, and also by a line-for-liae Latin version, after the manner of 

 Clarke's Homer, in former days. As in the case of the work just 

 named, the Latin verbatim rendering, especially of compound terms, 

 and stock epithets, is amusing. But with this the reader need not be 

 troubled^ Simply as a specimen which will recall the grotesque kind 

 of help that a few years back was considered necessary for students in 

 their acquisition of Greek, I transcribe four lines, in which the familiar 

 word Canada quaintly occurs : 



Deinceps Francia nova extenditur, 

 Utrinqne ad pnlcliriflui Canadse altum fluentum : 

 Quapropter ipsam etiam terram aliter vocant Canadam, 

 Ubi super fluvium Quebecise est oppidum. 1011-1014. 



The humorous parody of this kind of elucidation of a Greek test, in 

 one of Bishop Heber's youthful pieces, still preserved in his collected 

 works, will probably be remembered, in which he speaks of 



— KXeLVT^v AvKirjv rj BtAcrroya t] Jipefjil^a/Jiov, 

 XaXKOTToAiVj (piX-ov oiKOV ayavopos H</)a(.crTOto. 



P12-516. 



accompanying the same with a version in the usual harsh, corduroy 

 kind of Latin : 



— nobilem Lyciam, ant Bilstonem, ant Bremichamum 

 Jiris-civitatem, charam domum ob-vii'tutem-mirabilis Vulcani. 



and illustrating all by elaborate Latin notes, after the manner of Brunck, 

 Hermann and Dawes 5 showing, for example, that here it was impossible 

 the Asiatic Lycia could have been meant as some critics insanely con- 

 tended ; but that Wulverhampton, " civitas a lupis noman habeus," 

 was the place, inasmuch as the author is speaking of English towns, or 

 Bilston, and Bremicham (Birmingham), the latter a city, as the sup- 

 posed obscure Greek poet speaks, "devoted to the manufacture of brass, 

 and the home beloved of the very manly Hephaestus." 



We now proceed to give our excerpts from the volume in the Bod- 

 leian. The pieces contained in that folio are not, as will be seen, the 

 crude exercises of junior fledglings in the university. The occasion 



