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by this means fo reduce by famine a 
rebel Arab, and deprive him of all com- 
munication with Egypt, whence he might 
receive fubfiftence. 
The Memoir of Citizen Langles is ac- 
companied with geographical notes, the 
moft part of which are taken from the 
Oriental MSS. of the National Library. 
It fhould be read entirely by thofe who 
would gain an accurate idea of the au- 
thor’s refearches. 
The learned writings of which we have 
here fketched a notice, were fucceeded by 
fome pieces of poetry. The affembly has 
yet to hear the reading of a tale whichCiti-. 
zen ANDRIEUX has ‘communicated to us, 
intitled The Alchymift and his Children. 
Citizen DomerGuE has read two 
eclogues of Virgil, which he has tranflated 
into French verfe. The firft is ititled 
Alexis, and the fecond Gallus. A felec- 
tion from each of thefe pieces, the fubjeét 
of which requires no explanation, as being 
very well known, may fuffice to give the 
learned an idea of the labours of our col- 
league. 
Corydon, after having exhautfted all the 
means of perfuafion which might induce 
Alexis to become his difciple, addrefies 
him,’ at laft, in thefe words :— 
¢< Infenfe! pourquoi fuir nos bois et nos 
vergers {| 
Le fils de Dardanus, les Dieux furent bergers: 
Pallas, qui les batic, peut habiter les villes ; 
Nous préférons des bois les verdoyans afiles. 
Le lion fuit le loup, le loup fuit la brebis ; 
La brebis, le gazon ; Corydon, Alexis, 
Chaque éfre a fon plaifir, dont l’afcendant 
l’emporte. 
Vois ces fots renverfés que le taureau rem- 
porte, 
Les ombres s "alongeant 3 ala fuite du jour: 
I,’amour par tout me braéle—Ah! rien n’éteint 
amour. / 
Corydon! Corydon! quels tranfports te fat- 
fiffent ! 
Tes ceps demi-taillés fur les ormeaux lan- 
i oa 
Infenfé! prends ta ferpe—ou que le jonc, 
Vofier, 
Dociles fous ta main, fe treffent en panier, 
Ya; d'un autre Alexis moins dédaigné peut- 
étre, 
Il mettra fon orgueil 4 t’avouer pour maitre.” 
In the fecond eclogue, Gallus, in def- 
pair to fee himfelf torfaken by Lycoris, 
plaintively ftretched on a folitary rock, 
thus ‘gives vent to the different paffions 
which agirate his breaft, 
€* Vois ces bois fi touffus, aimable Lycoris ! : 
Vois ces rniffeaux § frais, vois ces prés fi 
ficuris! 
Proceedings of Learned Societies. 
143 
Ah! qu "avee toi j'y vivey et qu’avec tei j’y 
meure ! 
Que dis-je! dédaignant cette douce demeure, 
Un amour infenfé fous les tentes de Mars 
Te retient au milieu des piques et des dards. 
Quoi! cruelle, fans moi, loin du Tibre égarée, 
Tu vois le Rhin glacé, la mer hyperborée! 
Ahi! devant Lycoris, fuyez, triftes frimas! 
Durs glagons, moliffez fous fes pieds delicats ! 
Jirai, je chanterai fur le luth @Aréthufe, 
Les vers qu’Euphorionatranfmis a ma Mufc— 
Non, fuyons dans les bois, fous les rocs ca~ 
verneux 3 
Vivons parmi les ours, ences déferts ae. ig 
Citizen DomERGUE propofes to publifie 
his tranflation, in a work entitled, The 
Art of Grammatical Analyfs, with an Ap- 
plication of the New Theory to the Eclogues 
of Virgil, tranflated into French werfe. 
The laft reading was followed by a li- 
terary difcufhon ‘on an ancient piece of 
coin, found in the deblais of the place of 
the Mufeum, and prefented to the Clafs 
by one of its members, Citizen Ray- 
MOND, architeét of the National Palace of 
Sciences and Arts. Citizen Moncez has 
proved, that it is a teflon of Charles IX. 
{truck in the year 1564, which differs 
from the tefton deferibed by Citizen Le 
Blanc :* in that the year is engraved, on 
the firft, in Roman cyphers, and on the 
pile-fide; whilft on the fecond, the year 
is impreffed in Arabic cy phers, and on the 
head - fide. 
In the fame deblais has been found a 
counter (jetoz) which, according to the 
documents prefented to the Clafs by Citi- 
zen Mongez, was intended for the do- 
mefticg,belonging to the fables of Mon- 
fieur, uncle to Louis XIV. or of Monfieur,’ 
brother of that Monarch; wecannot carry 
it lower down, fays our colleague, as it 
bears the label of the Houfe of Ovleans, 
and hecaufe, fince the brother of Louis 
XIV. there has been no Orleans brether of 
the King. 
Asto the letter p which has been ftruck 
on it, it was, perhaps, adds Citizen 
Mongez, the particular mark ef-the fiables 
of Monhieur (des petites Ecuries de Mox- 
fieur.) 
The literary world is already acquainted, 
with a comedy which Citizen CattHava 
has prefented to us, and which is entitled 
Le Depit amoureux, retabl en cing ales, 
that is, The Amorous Quarrel, in five 
aéts. The literati will, likewile, read 
with intereft, a Memoir communicated to 
the clafs, by Citizen Cost AY, member 
’ * See the Trait/ Hiftorique\ des Monnojiss , 
plate 334, m.4to, Paris. 
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