384 
and, amongft others he fpeaks thus of Cu- 
chullin: 
Nid av o’th blas, diveth blaid, 
Oni ranwyv a’r enaid. . 
Un vezwl 4 Cyewlyn, 
Dioer wyv, wyd benadur yn: 
Un urzas, 7th blas a’th blwyy j ; 
Un nod Cycwlyn ydwyv. 
I will not go from thy court of unfailing — 
protection, until I part with life. Witha 
mind like Cuchullin, certain I am, thqu art to 
be our chief: 
and fociety, the fame rank with Cuchulia I 
enjoy. 
Conceiving, Mr. Editor, that the above 
extracts may be evidence of confiderable 
importance to produce at the bar of the 
public, when a final decifion fhall be pro- 
nounced on the Poems of Offian, I tend 
them to be inferted in the Monthly Maga- 
zine, that they may obtain the confidera- 
tion which they merit. I remain, &c. 
Nov. 10) 1802. MEIRION, 
Fo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
T may amufe thofe of your readers 
_ who are. fond of critical learning, to 
fee what has been faid, and may be 
faid, upon a hemiftich of Virgil, which the 
ordinary {cholar pafles over “without em- 
barrafiment or obfervation : 
En. lib. ll. v. 619.—Eripe, rth Pima 
The fenfe is clear, but the expreflion du- 
bious. 
Heyne, aman in whom learning, judge- 
" ment, talte, and candour, are united in a 
very extraordinary degree, confiders eripe 
as a poetical fubftitute tor rape. Scioppius 
fervant; and this may perhaps be defend- 
ed by AZn. v. 741. 
/Eneas, quo deinde ruis? quo proripis 2 
inquit. 
Heinfius on Val. Flac. 1. ii. 247, de- 
fends eripe fugam trom iter eripere in 
Frontinus. Burmann reads arrzpe fugam, 
a phrafe, which, in the judgment of Heyne, 
requires confirmation as much as that for 
-which it is fubiituted. This confirma- 
tion, however, is at hand from Claud. 
Rutil. Iciner. lib. 1. v. 165. 
His ditis iter arripimus: comitantur-amici. 
Oudendorp agrees with Burmann. Jo. 
Schrader, with bis ufual acutenefs and ele- 
gance, reads Irape. Mr. Wakefield, the 
laft, but not the teat, in this honourable 
groupe, in one of his lectures on the fecond 
bcok of the Eneid, which I had the felici- 
ty of attending, propofed, with the fpirit 
which charaéteriled every thing he did, 
En! rap2, appealing te the well. known 
the fame honour in thy court - 
Ona Paffage of Virgil—Walks by the Fire-fide, N°. iy. { Dec. 1, 
paffage in the Georgics, £2, age, fegnes 
rumpe moras. \- 
Eligat Lector. Equidem cum Wakefieldio 
fentio, 
Che/bunt, Tam, Sir, ht $,\Re, 
Nov. 14, 1801. 
er 
Lo the Editor of the Monthly wid does 
SIR, 
AM much pleafed with the title Br a 
paper in your Magazine for O€tober, 
viz. WaLKs BY THE FIRE SIDE3 and 
"aS no part of your publication is ex- 
prefsly appropriated to fuch defultory dif- 
cuffions as WALKS BY THE FIRE-SIDE 
will very properly admit of,— —/mall-talk, 
if I may fo term it, of the pen, rather than 
elaborate details or minute relearches,— 
I fhall beg leave, occafionally, to join the 
author of the faid paper in ftretching 
acrofs his parlour: in the prefumption 
that,like his great, periodical predeceflors, 
thd wiitere ah the Speétator, Tatler, and 
Guardian, he can have no objeétion to, 
fuch my company; fecing my hints, if 
even they are bad, may ferve to draw 
forth fomething better from himfelf. 
‘From this he will eafily gather that my 
pretenfions are not lofty. Whatever of 
phi lological acumen or philofophical pre- 
cifion is neceffary, in our WALKS, I will 
leave to their original projeétor. A ran- 
dom-fhot in the way of commuon-/en/e is all 
‘I thall afpire to; and if, thus humbly 
gifted, I may not rank as the fpoufe and 
participator of his cares and honours, he 
will allow, I hope, that I fhall be ng 
defpicable handmaid, 
My-~exordium thus made, the reader 
conjectures fuga,. as did alfo your humble ° will pleafe to confider me as juft returned 
from my bookfeller’s fhop, where I had 
been turning over the moft celebrated’ 
publications oy the laft thirteen years, to 
THE FIRE-SIDE; and, after a few impe-. 
tuous ftrides, and, in the abfence of mind 
or nor perceptibility to ordinary. objeéts 
which intenfe thinking occafions, having 
run againft and overfet the maid and coal- 
pan, the vagrant cogitations labouring in 
my pericranium at length break forth as 
follows : 
What an immenfe advantage /e-authors 
-poffefs over /be-authors, in their title. 
pages! Had books formed any part of 
the enjoyments and pleafures of the prime- 
val Eden, it might prove a copious fub- 
jeét of refearch to the antiquary, whether 
Adam had not been the firft difpenfer of 
honorary titles; and, in his tyrannical — 
intentions efiectually to fubjugate ‘not 
only his own ‘¢better-half,” but the 
*« better-halfs” of all fucceeding potte- 
rities, had denied to. woman-kid every 
academic 
